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Show ment part and won the warm praise ot the French and British by their gallantry gal-lantry and valor as well as by their excellent ex-cellent marksmanship. The Americans were called on to hold a nriuge head near Chateau Thierry immediately on their arrival after thirty hours on (he road in motortrucks. They took up their positions quickly and slaughtered the Huns who tried to cross. Under cover of this fire Yankee engineers successfully dynamited the bridges, and the machine gunners have since held the south bank and repulsed all attempts of the Germans to build new bridges. It is reported the Americans killed about 1,000 Germans at the bridge head, having themselves only one man killed and a few wounded. In the Neuilly wood, northwest of Chateau Thierry, the American infantry infan-try had their chance, and three times they drove back desperate attacks of the Huns, their rille tire being deadly. On the third assault they met the Germans Ger-mans in the open and put them to rout with the bayonet. , In what, may be called their own sector, in the Luneville region, the Americans carried out some highly successful operations. The allies frankly admit that they are counting on the United States troops to save the day, and the tests to which The Yankees have been submitted sub-mitted show the trust of tlie British and French is not misplaced. fa-Falling fa-Falling to make further progress southward, the Germans turned tlie main force of their attacks on the western front of their salient, between the Aisne and the Marne. Here they found any advance still more difheult, and indeed at many points they were driven back some distance by the impetuous im-petuous attacks of General Foch's troops. In that region the dense forests for-ests of Yilliers-Cotterets and Neuilly offer the best of defensive positions for the allies, enabling them to move and concentrate their forces unseen by the enemy aviators. The allied artillery, too, lias been brought up with remarkable remark-able speed and is pouring a devastating devastat-ing tire into the Germans from well selected positions day and night. Along the line from tlie Marne northeastward to Reims the allied line was holding strongly, and the ancient cathedral city-was city-was still, rather unexpectedly, In the possession of the British. The Germans made no claims to definite defi-nite advances during the week, and their losses were growing so appalling that government officials, in Berlin felt it necessary to speak of them apologetically, apolo-getically, asking the people to consider the magnitude of the operations and of the stake. Toward the end of the week there were signs that Von Ilindenburg was preparing for a renewal of the drive on another part of the. line, possibly in the Amiens sector, but the allied military authorities expressed satisfaction satisfac-tion with the situation and confidence in their ability to meet any new attacks. at-tacks. The German press was almost a unit last week in its calls for a peace offensive, but the papers and the factions fac-tions they represent were as far apart as ever on the question of what Germany Ger-many should state as her peace aims. Tlie radical press still insists on the no annexation and no indemnity program, pro-gram, while the organs of the pan-German pan-German party blatantly Insist that the ment is contemplating the extending of. Assistance to Russia in the wav of assembling lood supplies in Siberia and distributing them In- Europeau Russia. In equally parlous state is Turkey, where famine is widespread and many of the poorest people are subsisting on chestnuts and pumpkin seeds. In some districts the troops have destroyed de-stroyed the crops though they themselves them-selves are on mighty short rations. Only the officers are well fed. With 1 these food conditions, the steady advance ad-vance of the British in Palestine and Mesopotamia and the growing strength of tlie Arab forces, there, are evidences of the approaching break up of the Turkish empire. It has got nothing yet for all its efforts except certain oil districts ceded by Russia under compulsion, com-pulsion, and tlie possesesion of these is threatened by the northward movements move-ments of the British expeditions. Us The Italians kept on hitting hard at the Austro-Hungarian forces along the l'iave line, and they heard undisturbed of tlie massing of thirty enemy divisions di-visions at three points on that front for a resumption of the drive toward the plains. The Italian army is now in better condition than ever before and. with the help of the Americans, British and French, can be relied on to stop the expected offensive. PS The supreme war conference of the allies at Versailles expressed its complete com-plete confidence in the ultimate defeat of the. central powers and declared the allied people are "resolute not to sacrifice sac-rifice a single one of the free nations of the world to the despotism of Berlin." Ber-lin." The premiers of Great Britain, France and Italy agreed on the creation crea-tion of a united independent Polish state with free access to the sea as one of the conditions of a just peace, and adhered to the declaration of Secretary Secre-tary Lansing expressing sympathy with the national aspirations of the Czechs and Jugo-SIavs. This means, if it means anything, that Emperor Charles has lost his last chance to retain his empire entire by breaking away from Germany. It foretells the dismemberment dismember-ment of Austria-Hungary when peace Is made, If not at an earlier date. fe-In fe-In the United States the U-boat raid served to impress the people with the pressing need of the conservation of wheat and sugar, especially. The former must be sent ncross the ocean in increasing quantities as our forces there grow rapidly greater; and sugar cannot be bought from Cuba because we must use all available shipping for the transportation of troops and munitions mu-nitions to Europe. Pa The fuel administration devoted its energies last week to urging the people to order their next winter's supplies of coal at once. There has been widespread wide-spread complaint that the retailers canot till orders, but Doctor Garfield says that orders now, whether or not they are filled soon, will do much to stimulate production. There Is plemy of coal if only it can be got out of the ground and if the railroad administration admin-istration will hnd some way of 'supplying 'sup-plying enough cars. The shortage of cars really is at the bottom of the whole trouble and will be to blame it the predicted coal famine materializes next winter. t NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK German Submarine Raid in Our Waters Fails to Terrorize American Nation. WAR SPIRIT IS STIMULATED Splendid Work of Yankee Troops in Halting Hun Drive at the Marne Enemy's Losses are Appalling Renewal of Offensive Is Expected. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Germany's utter inability to understand under-stand the spirit of tlie nations that oppose her was never better shown than in the raids made on American shipping in American waters by, submarines. sub-marines. Their purpose could only be to terrorize the United States and thus .heck the flow of men and munitions to France. Their result, if Germany but knew it, could- only be to inspire the nation to continue the sending of its armies across with uninterrupted speed and In every other way to do what is necessary to win the war. The net. loss to America is the sinking of a dozen sailing vessels and two or three steamships; the net gain is a renewed determination to whip the Hun, and a large increase in tlie number of enlistments enlist-ments for the navy. Germany attempted to terrorize England Eng-land by Zeppelin raids on London, and the Englishmen merely turned out their lights and rushed by thousands to tlie recruiting olhces. She tried to terrorize France by bombarding 1'aris with the "miracle gun," and the Frenchmen gritted their teeth and swore to fight to. tlie finish. Now she lias tried to intimidate the Americans, and again she has failed miserably. In truth, the German policy of frightful-ness frightful-ness has been a failure everywhere and from the beginning. Even mutilated muti-lated and ravished Belgium still stands unafraid and steadfast to the cause of decency and righteousness. P The appearance of the submarine or submarines their number is not known off the New Jersey coast, naturally nat-urally revived the talk of the existence of U-boat bases on the Mexican coast. This Is ofllclally discredited by our navy department, though there Is little doubt I hat Carranza and his crew would so assist Germany if they could. Their behavior and known predilections pre-dilections are not such as to delude anyone Into belief In their neutrality. However, there was evidence that the raiding submarines had come direct from Germany, and as they have been out some time, they probably will soon return. Pa New York city indulged Itself In a small scare over the chance that it might, be bombed by an airplane carried car-ried by tlie U-boats. There was little danger of tills, for a plane would take up too much space on the submarine, and moreover after a raid would be compelled to return to I he vessel, thus revealing its location to the naval craft that have been swarming the Atlantic coast waters looking for If. The submarine sub-marine is driven by Diesel engines that give it a wide radius, and carries guns with which it might shell coast cities. Probably there will be more of these raids in the near future, but they must be accepted as Incidents of the great war in which we are engaged really small incidents that can have no in-llnenco in-llnenco on the outcome of the si niggle. Some of them are likely to be directed against our troop transports, but this need cause little alarm because of the perfection of the convoy syslem. To guard the coast against al tacks Secretary Secre-tary Baker has asked congress for ? 10,000,000 for establishing balloon and seaplane stations, thirteen on Hit! Atlantic At-lantic and three on the gulf. r-i Over 111 France Hie kaiser's third pretentious drive of the year came to a halt, at least for the lime being, at Hie Marne, the Ourcq valley and the (Use. Early In the week several attempts at-tempts to cross Hit! Marne were repulsed re-pulsed with seven; losses. In these actions ac-tions American machine gunners supported sup-ported by French Infantry took a proni- central powers are now In a position to make demands and to enforce them, and that though Germany entered the war In l!)1-t with no predatory purposes, pur-poses, it is now entitled to take what it desires to make up for Its losses and to insure its future safety. r-a There Is no longer any pretensions on Germany's part of treating the ltussian provinces as any other than conquered territory, the treaty of Bresl-Litovsk being now ignored. Neither Nei-ther is there any evidence that Germany Ger-many is getting any benellt from those lands, for Ihe food question is still driving the civilian population to distraction; dis-traction; anil in Austria-Hungary the situation is far worse. Greater Hussia Is actually starving, for the soviet government can procure pro-cure no mure foot I from the Ukraine, and in the Kuban ami Don regions I here are coiinler-revolnt lonary bunds that keep things in a turmoil. The counter-revolution plot, the government govern-ment says, spreads throughout the country ami In consequence 'Moscow has been declared In a state of siege. It is reported the American govern- IH The senate's attempt to stop the manufacture of beer ami wine by means of an amendment to the emergency emer-gency agricultural bill was blocked by the administration last week. Food Administrator Ad-ministrator Hoover opposed it because he believed it would put the nation on a "whisky, brandy anil gin" basis with attendant evils far outweighing the small food savings that would result. President Wilson had told Senator Sheppartl be would not forbid Ihe use of foodstuffs In beer ami wine unless Mr. Hoover regarded such a step necessary. nec-essary. The senate therefore receded from its position. fi The week saw the registering of about a million young Americans who have become twenty-one years of age since last spring; and this registration registra-tion probably will be repeated about once in three months. Provost Marshal Mar-shal General Crowtler sent to the governors gov-ernors of nil Hie states except Arl.ona orders for the mobilization of 200, (MK) more registrants between June 21 and 2S, and -to, 000 negrokia were called from twenty stales. |