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Show :5:.; g .' "' Newspaper L'nlOTn;;.,vX : ; '.:: ' .r? : . .'. :- :- j'-:'-' ' .y.e.sU'.ri,,N.e.v'B:i3P:r -. n ,nn M 1 IiemarUnhle iili'itograph of lh" big Oerman U-boat whicli altacked and stopped the steamship New Amsterdam Am-sterdam off the Norway coast. 2 American military bands passing in review at the ceremones of the renaming of the Avenue du Trocadero. I'aris. the Avenue du President Wilson. British soldiers from India repairing New street, one of the principal thoroughfares of Bagdad. NEWS REVIEW OF THE GREAT Willi Germany's Strongest Bases in Picardy Are Occupied by the Allied Armies. NOYON TAKEN BY FRENCH British, Advancing Along the Scarpe, Cross Hlndenburg Line Desperate Resistance of the Huns Is Unavailing Un-availing American Man-Power Man-Power Bill Passed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. f'niisilles. Btlllecourt, Bray, llebe-:'iurt, llebe-:'iurt, Chaulnes. lommiecourt, Nesle. Itove. Noyon, Chavlgny one after another an-other the flcrman strongholds in Picardy, Pic-ardy, all down the 1 i tic fpnii Anas to Soissons, fell into the hands of the allies al-lies last week. The redoubtable Hin-denburg Hin-denburg line was broken through at various points, nnd so menaced at others that it was in a fair way to he-come he-come unti'iiable, even before the retreating re-treating linns could reach it. Kast of Arras the Pi'ltKh bad turned its right Hunk, and the I'renrh. passing through Nesle, threatened it further south. Astride the Scarpe and the Sonime. Field Marshal I bug's armies moved steadily If slowly toward the east, never nev-er giving the enemy an Instant's rest, relentlessly pushing him back In the direction of Camhi'ai. Pennine anil St. IJitentin. In the midst of furious rainstorms rain-storms the British fought uneensitig-ly uneensitig-ly and tirelessly to overcome the desperate des-perate resistance put up by the Hermans. Her-mans. The battle developed and spread day by day until It became one of the greatest eonllirts of the war. In these regions, as elsewhere, the (lermans sought to stem the advance mainly by Innumerable machine guns. The crews of these, left to light while the main bodies of the troops continued contin-ued iheir retirement, did light, and to the death. The Hull Infantry in many cases showed the greatest reluctance to attack, sometimes llatlv refusing to obey the orders of their commanders. By the end of the week the British had Pennine under their guns and the I Inns were falling back to the river crossings there anil at Brie. Farther north. Baiiaume was taken on Thursday Thurs-day and llalg's forces bad pushed far beyond It on tlx north. Having crossed the Illuilenhiiig line, they were threatening threat-ening the (liieiint 1 irocouit support lino. Perhaps the most important effect ef-fect of llieir advance along the Scarpe was that It menaced the group of converging con-verging railway lines that are vital to the enemy In handling men from (lie Belgian and northwestern French fronts. Muring the week the British tool; something H'"' IIO.OHO prisoners and more limn HH) guns. - ri - The severest blow to the Oennans was the capture of Noyon on Thursday Thurs-day by the French troops of (iencral Humbert. The city, which had been praiilcally enveloped for a week or more, was powerfully del'iidcd by the Cermaiis, who had counted on making II the pivot of their Hue to lie- north, lis soul hern ami west orn oi't -Kills were full of sl-nngly entrenched iiim-chllle-gllll positions. The I'l'elieli were not to be denied, however. Noyon is a grcal highway center and its lal-lng opens the w ay fur the I n neii to ilrh e tin- Coriuans back to 111" St. ih.haiii forest. Fa Fen I maybe SI. linen II,, The intervening narain N such Mini II iieniy ciuili1 scarcely hope in inal, i' a stand there. 'I'll,, three Flench armies under Humbert, I leheiiey and Man:. in gave a splendid display "I teamwork In Iheir advances on both sides of the (Use, 'Mnnjdn's men crossed the river and think Moi'lincoiiil while Humbert was mil Hanking Ninon from the west and south, and the tlnns hail the choice of retreating or nelng captured. n the lell die First army occupied (bicsnoy wood, a sirougly fortified pos'llon which lie enemy tiled hard to hold because m a dominating polnl. no T -day the French had cii- tui cil Itoyc, 1 1 1 i i ' of I bo Important lor- man bases, but as the enemy in departing de-parting left it full of mustard gas it could not be utilized by the French. However, they didn't need it. for they pushed ahead so relentlessly that the next day they passed through Nesle. ami on Thursday they were near Hani, only VI miles from S. Quentin. In their retreat there the Huns lost three complete munition trains, which proved they were In sotneiliing of a hurry. This drive on Ham made a big salient in the Oerman lines and rendered ren-dered the enemy's situation along rhe entire front more desperate than ever. to-South to-South of the Oise General Mair-'in made use of some American units in his attacks on the salient north of Soissons. He was aiming at llie heights at t lie western end of (lie Chemin des Mames, and the decided progress he made imperiled the German Ger-man positions both to the east nn.l to the west. At .luvigny on the Aih-tte, too, the Americans came into action, helping the French to repulse heavy attacks. Along the Yosle 'he Americans had some severe lighting during the week. I They attacked Bar.oches, gained n I foothold there and clung to it; hut at the same time the Huns attacked Fis-mette Fis-mette In force and compelled the Yankees to fall hack. The enemy, however, was not permitted to cross the river. This little reverse was not considered by General Pershing to lie of especial importance. ri Over in Germany the effects of Marshal Mar-shal Koch's successes became more apparent daily. The press and certain I emissaries of I litulenhurg and I.uden-dorff I.uden-dorff endeavored to explain away the German defeats or to minimize them, but the murmurs of the people grew louder. Their confidence in final victory vic-tory Is walling rapidly, despite the pan-German organs, which violent')-i violent')-i prod the faint-hearted. Mispatches from neutral sources indicate that Bor-, Bor-, lin will soon launch another peace of-j of-j fensive. offering to give up Belgium and northern France. It is against 1 just such an illusory proposition that ! the wise men of the ulhcs are warn-( warn-( lug the people. Nothing would suit Germany belter Just now than a peace on such a basis; but nothing should or will suit the allied nations except a peace dictated by themselves after the military power of the Hun has been utterly broken. The p-'.".oo of compromise, leaving Germany lb" power pow-er to make a new and more 'err ' !e war In future. Is sure to receive 'he support of the Influences in the country that are controlled by the insidious German propaganda, and it is against this that America must especially guard Itself. I r- Spain's threat to seb'.e Interned Gcr-I Gcr-I man shipping to compensate for I Spanish losses by submarine warfare I hail Its effect In Berlin, for though j the German government did not yield I entirely, it made It plain that it want-I want-I ed no more countrhs added to the list I of Its enemies. While the discussion was going on. however, number Spanish Span-ish vessel was torpedoed, and the situation sit-uation became yet more critical. r-. - - Indirect advices from Austria-Hungary cinphasl.e the desperate internal inter-nal condition of that empire. The Bohemians Bo-hemians appear to be on Ihe edge of nrgani;-.ei revolt, and lh" would receive re-ceive the Mipnoi-I of the Slovak-. Austria Aus-tria and Hungary are In a perpetual ipia n el. Tin' form, r has now forbid-il.-u the oMioi i of ph.'irmaceui ical -g'p-p!les to Hungary, and Ihe latter h"s n'lall'ilcil 'l.v ..!. 5iif Ihst its f ! -"PI , h's 'hall go only In 1 1 inc.i ry and the army. P" Al'ler a -lj -ill - el bad . lie . -so f I he allies in Siberia and Km- -in r "- I or made 1 pro: ress dur'ng I li" week. At tint the holshovlkl forced I he allies on I he I 'ssnrl front to ret ire. but re en forccineii t s came up. Including Includ-ing .Japanese and Aim riean I rooos. and Ihe satisfactory coudltloiei were reestablished In iiilek order. The hold a 1 1 em pi of leneral Hon a I h sel f sty led ihcialor of Siberia to execute a coup d'el a I and gain colli rol of all I he lliissian military forces In the far Fasl was blocked by the allies, w hose represent a 1 1 ves at Vladivostok informed in-formed General I'leshkoll', Ib'ivalh's emissary, that the allied nations would countenance no government not in accord ac-cord Willi Ihe wishes of tin people. j Moanv.'Iu'e the allied expedition was I strengthened by the arrival of more Americans, and Italy .announced it I would send a regiment there. Tlifr Japanese forces took control of the Mancburian border. China having with-I with-I drawn her objections. The Japanese I engaged the bolslieviki near Dauria. i and General Semenoft. anti-bolshevik i leader of Cossacks, crossed the Siberi- an border and captured Matsievskt ! station. In the "Country of the North" the ! fighting of late bar been in favor of I the Iiusso-nllied troops. The holshe-j holshe-j viki river flotilla, which caused them : some trouble, has been dispersed and the Bed guards have surrendered the town of Shenkursk, south of Archangel, Archan-gel, the last place of any size held by them in the region. News from the far East is likely J to be rather scanty in the future, for its dissemination lias been taken in I charge by the Japanese, and they are t notoriously c'ose-mouthed concerning I military operations. ! ' -ss- I Reports from Albania have not been: j very satisfactory lat 'ly. The Austri-j Austri-j nns "came back" hard at the Franco-Italian Franco-Italian forces and compelled them tore! to-re! ire somewhat, retaking the town of Bf rat. Later in the week the allies defeated de-feated the Austrians in two battles. I On the Italian front there was not j a great deal doing, but the allies made j several successful raids nnd repulsed j ail enemy attacks. American airmen : in Italy raided 1 he big Austrian naval base at Pola. on the Adriatic, i -S3- Both house and senate passed the j man-power bill making the liraft age 1 limits eighteen to forty-five inclusive. Each body inserted its own nmend-j nmend-j ments, but most of these went by the " I board In the conference. The most j important of these was the senate i anti-strike dause. The house con-l con-l ferces. led by Mont, absolutely refused-1 refused-1 to accept this, ami rather than risk j delay, the senate conferees consented ! to sacrifice the amendment. One now j provision in the measure which will be welcomed by all otlicers is that the I government sha.'l furnish uniforms and j equipment to otlicers ai cost. r"3 Continuing its efforts to clear up the muddled aircraft production -situation, i and at the same time evading the de I niand for the creation of a separate I department of aeronautics, the ad-! ad-! ministration made John M. Uynn an J assistant secretary of war and director of the air service. In starting on his ! new work. Mr. Kyan made no boasts j or promises of what he would aecom-I aecom-I piish. but said he hoped order would soon he established in the airplane-branch airplane-branch and that quantity product tort of military planes wou'd be accomplished. accom-plished. The Me Ibivikind -l's im-' im-' proved to meet all objections, he said, i are now being turned out rapidly and orders for Ihe Liberty 12 motor have been increased from J'.!.r,tV) to r0.(XHl. Our allies like these engines so welt that we cannot keep up with their demands de-mands for them. First Assistant Secretary of War Item-diet Crowell has been made di-j di-j rector of munitions and given the pow- er to keep our forces supplied with alt t the munitions they require. i The long-expected shortage of gnso-j gnso-j line is developing, and consequently I the fuel administration last week ro-j ro-j quested that for the present all auto- mobiles, motoi'boals and motorcycles, i a-. -si for p'casure, be not 1'sed on Sun-i Sun-i ,.;v. in all s'ales cast of the Missls-' Missls-' dim river. s ihe gasoline is needed , for var pu'-poses all pal-ioiie owners ef cms accepted the request as a cone i maud. - I"'- " M ember-' of congress w h i have been p-n-llb I s and ami w ar ohd nmiionisi s ha v c been having a hard time, to I he ereal sa t i c: ion of all tree patriots. T. list of iho-.e tuned dew n hv Iheir constituents already in. hides Senator Vanlamau of M'ssissipd and KdC'o-scntallves KdC'o-scntallves I imdeeii of Minnesota. Mil-Ion Mil-Ion of South Makota. Woods ef Iowa. Mel.cmoi'c of Texas, Grosser and Gordon Gor-don of Ohio. Shackelford and Hamlin of Missouri. Keho of Florida and Sloan of Nebraska. Fast wed; Cole IVcase. paclllst candidate for the senate liv South Carolina, was defeated, and Henry Ford tailed to : et the Kd'Ub llenn nemlnallou In Mo'hb'.an. though the Memocral-s did accept him. |