Show TJ TI T I I J 1 p 1 ii i I 1 L J 1 Jr n y wl 1 9 y V J br c 3 j r 1 Old I-Old Old Glory implanted on German soil for the first time at a review of American troops in Alsace 2 Wounded 2 Arab soldiers of the army of being removed after a battle with the Turks 3 3 Funnel of American bearing the star that is awarded each of these vessels that has met and destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de a submarine NEWS REVIEW OF THE TOE GREAT WAR Allies Continue Their Advance in Steadily but butMore butMore butMore More Slowly ROYE AND NOYON IN DANGER First American Field Army Is Formed Situation In Austria and Russia Improved Power Man Power Man Bill Introduced Introduced Introduced In In- in the Senate By EDWARD W. W PICKARD Moving more slowly but steadily and with determination the allies last week pushed the the Germans further back In General von Boehm the Hun retreat specialist having been placed in command on the Somme front put up an Increasingly strong resistance to protect his withdrawal and the fighting became rather local local- The fiercest struggle was toward the south end of ot the battle line where the French were forcing their way toward toward to to- ward Noyon Overcoming tremendous resistance they drove the Germans from most of ot the massif or heights of Lassigny early In n the week and also moved forward in the Olse Oise valley Then they gained a secure footing on the Thiescourt plateau and thus dominated dominated dom dom- most of ot the country northeast of them for miles This movement and the unceasing pressure of the British from the northward Imperiled the enemy's enemy's enemy's en en- emy's position in Roye although he clung with desperation to that city and to Chaulnes further north Along much of ot the line he was holding he had the advantage of the old trenches and wire entanglements built by him prior to July 1916 Whether Von Boehm would elect to try to make a prolonged stand there or fall back on the much stronger Peronne-Noyon Peronne line was not revealed b but t observers believed he would choose the latter course and the fact that he was withdrawing his troops troops north north of Albert strengthened this view He evacuated e the towns of of Beaumont Hamel Serre au Mont and Bucquoy taking up positions on heights more easily defended Along the Somme on both banks the British with the able assistance of ot some American troops have been advancing slowly taking Bray and p Sa Sain in the advance on Roye Itoye and Noyon from the southwest the French have been fighting over extremely difficult ground with numerous ravines that furnish cover for forthe the Innumerable machine machine ma ma- chine guns the Germans have been us us- ing But the French kept bringing up their artillery and cleaning out these nests and long before the end of the week they had taken on the Oise and had Noyon under continual continual continual con con- fire rendering it almost un unten unten- ten able On the Soissons-Reims Soissons Reims front the fighting was mostly confined to repeated repeat repeat- ed but futile attacks on the Americans at Fismes and thE neighborIng neighbor neighbor- Ing region Artillery of ot both sides shies was v very rya active along th the Vesle river Jl A P Although the PI cardy offensive was slowed lowed up somewhat army officers see no of a letting down on the part of Marshal Foch On the contrary contrary contrary con con- they predict that another great drive will come soon either in Flanders Flan ders or between the Oise Olse and Soissons and expect movements of ot far faX greater scope in the near future The G German German Ger Ger- r. r man high command seems to have accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac defeat and to be trying to get gt out of its difficulties as best it may The effect of this on the morale of tho the soldiery is quite evident In the prIsoners prisoners prisoners pris prIs- taken and Its effect In Germany Germany- Is reflected In the press wl which ch admits failure on the west front as else else- where Early in the week It was anno d that the First American n field army anny of If five corps had been constituted with General Pershing as commander ItIs It ItIs Its Is s understood that this army will by Itself hold the eastern part of the line to o Alsace and some officers believe an iII American dive 0 east of Verdun may mayome mayome ome soon SOOl Geneva Geue dispatches said the Austria Austria- SWiM frontier was closed for some days das and all nil trains were were full of ot Austrian Austrian Aus Aus- trian troops going to the Italian front which was taken to mean another coming comIng coming com com- ing offensive there However the ItalIans Italians Italians Ital Ital- ians were ready for it and daily dally Improved improved Im im- im proved their positions especially inthe Inthe in inthe the mountains In A Albania the Austrians evacuated all points held by them south of the Semen river An amazing development is the seizure seizure seiz selz ure of Baku center of ot the Caspian sea oil district by bya a a British force which made Its way up through Mesopotamia and Persia ma JQ maThe ta The parlous condition of ot the central powers resulted in a kaiser conference conference conference confer confer- ence at German main headquarters which was attended by the rulers of ot Germany and Austria and their chief advisers and by hy representatives of ot the Turks Bulgarians and Russian viki The internal n In Aus Aus- tria Hungary especially Is growing worse worse worse-or or rather better better dally dally an explosion explosion ex ex- ex- ex there almost any day would not ot greatly surprise anyone Bulgaria Bulgara shows signs of breaking aw away y fr from m mIts its confederates and as for Turkey the general public knows nothing of what Is going on there or what Is expected The situation in Russia including Siberia also is improving for the forces opposed to the and the Germans are arc growing stronger and amalgamating The possibility of ot establishing establishing es es- an eastern front that will serl seriously worry the Huns is being considered considered considered con con- especially since the supreme government of the northern territory embracing half hal a dozen districts has declared Itself Itsel opposed to the G Germans and ready to fight them Possession of the port of ot Archangel and the Murman Murman Mur Mur- man coast gives the allies an inlet for troops to help this movement That Germany recognizes the menace is evident evident evi evl dent from the facts that she Is sending more soldiers from the west front to Russia and has ordered Finland t to prepare to make war on the people of and the allies there Dispatches Dispatches Dis Dis- patches from Hel declared the Germans Intend to occupy Petrograd though what they would gain b by possession possession possession pos pos- session of of that stricken hunger-stricken city Is not apparent Levine and Trotsky and their soviet government were reported reported reported re re- ported to have fled fied from Moscow to Kronstadt the great fortress near Petrograd and to have haye pla placed ed the he execution execution execution exe- exe exe exe- cution of po poyer yer in the hands hand's of a triumvirate trl tri composed of ot Lennie Lenh Trotsky and Lenine also Issued a manifesto urging the pitiless annIhilation annihilation tion of nil all counter Moscow being admittedly in the control control control con con- o of the rev counter revolutionists counter the German embassy also fled fied from that city to which greatly perturbed the German press The Tb diplomats of all the allied powers pow ers ens now living on warships at Arch Archangel Archangel Arch Arch- Archangel angel have demanded of ot Trotsky an explanation of his threat that Russia would declare war against Anglo- Anglo French Imperialism r i fe The first American regiment sent to Siberia the Twenty-seventh Twenty regular Infantry infantry infantry in In- fantry from rom Manila landed at Vladivostok Vladivostok Vladivostok Thursday and other Yankees are on the way The Slovaks Czecho in eastern SIberIa SIberia Siberia Si SI- beria have the the of ot now assistance British Brit ish and French forces which landed at I Vladivostok and Joined them in the Usuri river valley Those In western Siberia were last reported as engaged In a desperate battle with a large bolshevik bolshevik bolshevik bol bol- army A long step forward In the moral support of these theses these fighting Czechs and of their fellow nationals who are arc In rebellion against Hungary Austria was the formal recognition by Great Britain Brit Brit- aln ain of the Slovaks Czecho as an al allied allied allied al- al lied nation and of ot their armies as an allied force regularly waging warfare against the central powers It Is hoped a and d believed America and other allied nations will follow the example of Great Britain Last weeks week's dispatches told-of told furl Yurii ous and bloody riots against the the the-Ger- Ger Germans mans In several se Russian cities c led caused b by the attempts of ot the Huns to seize foodstuffs 1 fe The activities of ot German U-boats U off the Atlantic coast Mare have grown so annoying annoying an nn that the cabinet Is said to have devoted a long meeting to discussing N I them and the ways way of ot combating them The submarines in addition to sinking a number of steamers and attacking at at- attacking I tacking others In some cases only afew a afew afew few miles from the harbor of ot New NewYork NewYork NewYork York also destroyed a considerable number of fishing vessels off New Eng Eng- land Several fights with these U-boats U were reported and it was believed that at av least one of them was sunk What was believed to be a gas attack on the coast guard station station and lighthouse on Smiths Smith's Island South Carolina in which several men were were overcome has not yet been explained though the theory that the poison polson gas came from froma a submarine was discarded Presumably Presumably ably the fact that our naval vessels ls are pretty busy on convoy duty accounts for the comparative immunity of ot these boats U-boats along the Atlantic coast The steady decline of ot the German Getman submarine campaign is emphasized by bythe bythe bythe the official reports on and shipbuilding for J July ly The allied and neutral shipping sunk during the month amounted to tons compared with tons sunk in fa July 1917 During the month the allied nations constructed a tonnage in excess of to that destroyed by enemy op op- era ons 0 Sa The administrations administration's power man-power bill bm extending the draft age to eighteen and forty five years was reported to the senate senat Thursday and that body prepared to take it up and acton action act on it speedily Chairman Chamberlain in reporting the measure said General General March told the military affairs committee com com- committee that he believed AmerIcans Americans Amer Amer- leans under one commander could go through the German lines whenever they pleased and that f If the ages are fixed as asked the voluntary enlistment enlist enlist- enlistment ment system automatically ends He also said all the men called for active service under the amended a act t would be In France by next June The new newA A American war program It was revealed revealed revealed re re- calls for 80 divisions or about men in France and 18 more divisions in training In America by June 30 1919 Mr 1 Chamberlain told the senate that President Wilsons Wilson's program called for concentration of ot American forces on the western fr front nt Including Italy and that the theory of ot the fighting Inthe in inthe inthe the future is that we must force the issue and win on the western front The bill as reported contains a work or fight provision to which organized labor through Samuel Gompers has filed emphatic objection The Immediate need for more fighting fightIng fighting fight fight- ing men Induced the president to issue issue on Wednesday a proclamation calling for the registration on August 24 of all young men who shall have become twenty-one twenty years of ot age between June 5 last and that day This extra enrollment enrollment enroll enroll- ment It Is believed will include ab about ut men one-half one of ot whom are fit for military duty JI A to Chairman Kitchin and other members mem bers of the house ways and means committee being wedded to the idea that the best way to raise more revenue rev rey- revenue is to increase the excess profits tax rather than to Impose a war profIts profits profits prof prof- its tax Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo McAdoo McAdoo Mc- Mc Adoo was compelled to go before the committee with a mass of figures to sustain his contention that the war profits tax method is the best and only fair one In reply t tf tt Kitchins Kitchin's assertion assertion assertion asser- asser asser asser- tion that a war profits tax was only camouflage to let out the big fellows the secretary produced figures to show that in a great majority of cases the war profits tax would fall more heavily heavily ily lIy on the large concerns than would the excess profits tax which f if fixed at 80 SO per pr cent as the committee proposed pro pro- proposed posed he said would touch not more more than one of the large corporations He favors the continuance of the tile existing excess profits tax with corrections but without Increase He Hc also urged heavier heavier ier ler levies leles on unearned incomes than on earned Incomes and anal the imposition of a tax upon servants as ns luxuries The secretary secretary Impressed on the committee the necessity of ot passing the new revenue bill before September 28 the date set for launching the fourth Liberty Libert loan campaign saying that further delay would Jeopardize the tho ability of the treasury to sell sufficient treasury I certificates to finance it inthe Inthe in inthe the intervals between the Liberty loans In Wn Wa hington most of the deJay delay de de- lay Jay in passing the measure is expected expect ed to develop In the senate |