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ALLIED ONSET
DISMAYS ENEMY
Steady Pressure Brings Big
Gains on All Sides of
Marnc Salient.
LAST % HOURS CRITICAL
Attacking Armies Fortify
Ground Taken to Prevent
Its Recapturc.
LAST q HOURS CRITICAL
Nv GERALD CAMPBELL.

Special cable Despatch 10 THE Sun from the
London Times.
Copyright. l9ls: all ri0hfs reserred.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY, Aug. a.
Once more the enemy is falling back and
at the same time burning villages be-
hind his present line. a practice which
is virtually always a prelude TO re-
treat of magnitude.
Gen. Mangins attack yesterday in
which French. British ard Americans
cooperated, resulted in good gains which
are being extended to-day. In the
angle north of Oulchy We are now four
miles from that village, avng taken
Hartennes and Taux on the north and
Raperle, north of Saponay, close to Fere-
en-Tardenois. Generally speaking, We
have made some advance between these
points. The advance also was continued
south of the river OurcQ, where the
woods north of the road from Goussan-
court to CoulanTes has fallen into our
hands, 10 the south. past Nezilly Wood,
seven miles east of Fere, we have made
gains.
On the east approaching the Rheims
sector OF the battlefield. the Allies are
near Villers Hagron and rave taken the
wood north and northeast OF Romingy
French scouts have advanced nearly
a mile north OF Nille-en-Tardenois.
That is only n hasty survey OF the ad-
vance on front OF more than twenty
miles. in the course of which our SOL
diers have received the impression that
the enemy, while still resisting on our
left north OF the Ourcq. is definitely on
the move there as well as further south.
1t looks as II decided change had
taken place in the general outlook of the
battle in the last twenty -four hours. At
last We are beginning to feel that the
steady pressure exerted on the enemy's
lines is proving too much for his powers
OF resistance and he is beginning TO give
way.
There is difficult ground at some places
still TO be crossed before we gain a Sc
cure footing on the high plateaus imme-
diately south. of the Vesle, but good
beginning has been made and further
retreat is virtually assured.
The allied advance northward has
been made with caution. and every bit
of ground won has been fortified against
recapture. Looking forward it is safe to
say We soon will have nunihcd all that
the enemy accomplished after his Of
fensve of May 25. to say nothing OF the
conolete reversal of all his accomplish
ments since his drive OF July l5.
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CECIL FORESEES
GERMAN REVOLT
Believes FOch'S Success Will
Create a Civilian POpula-
tion in Empire.


LONDON Arg. lord Robert Cecil.
Affairs and Spokesman OF the Forcigu
Minister in the House of Commons. de
Clared to a representative of TIE Sun
to-day that the effect of the successful
advance OF Gen. Foch' would he tremeu-
dous upon the German public. lie said
that it would create a civilian popula-
ton in Germany. thing which has been
considered impossible. Gen. l.udendorff
has failed in stimulating the popular
Imagination. he declared
''Ie SIN has something up his sleeve"
Lord Ce2il said. 1T VIII probably take
weeks and perhaps months for Germany
q realize the Significance Of the defeat
she has suffered 4"
Lord Cecil insisted that now is the
time for the allied Governments to make
up their minds as to the terms to be
sought at peace conference, lie de-
clared that all aims must be definitely
settled and "A unified effort made to
carry them into effect He declared
his opposition 10 a league OF nations
for tec hnical reasons ana also oppose |
the creation Of separate military force
composed of troops OF the allied nations.
He said:
at is now time for the Allies to
abandon gencralities. There are diff
cultes facing the formation of a league
OF nations. although | believe Govern
ment officers OF all the Allies are work
ing strenuously In this direction.
Two Of the greatest difficulties to be
faced arel the possible diminultion of
sovereignty in any State pledged to the
league o: nations, and the difficulty OF
enforcing necessary pressure upon re-
bellious nations.
IAN the Allies ought to MAKE up their
minds what IL to be accomplished be-
fore peace is declared with regard to
the proposition to create a separate mill
tary force composed of troops OF all ma
tions under the direction OF Il single
commander chosen by the league of
nations, Great Britain has not given her
consent.
- personally strongly oppose any
such step at tins time, 1t Is too early,
although ! believe that ultimately the
strong spirit OF nationality existing to-
day will wane In its place there will
develop greater spirit OF humanity and
a spiritual union of all nations"
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FLANDERS TROOPS CALLED
TO COVER GERMAN RETREAT
Teutons Rush Men From KENNEL Hill in Attempt to
Hold Lre-Soldiers Also Taken
From Rumania

a diary and had copied all the love let
ters he had written to his sweetheart in
the fatherland.
Determined nghting OF varying inten-
sity was still proceeding yesterday on
the Seringes-Cierges front, where the
Americans we're opposing the Bavarian
and Prussian Guards and the Jaeger
troops. The Americans have made some
progress. but the proces SIS OF rounding up
the ma chine gun nests Is naturally slow,
involving as it does patrols and artillery
fire and then outnanking nan9uvres by
small parties of sharpshooters.
The Americans entered the village Of
Clergy on Wednesday at one point, but
the Germans quickly filled it with gas.
and the Americans evacuated with what
they had obtained and went around the
heights beyond. Here they met the en-
tmy machine gunners in strength and the
fight for the ground proceeded all night
and throughout part of yesterday.
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Strategical Points Won and Allies
Now Dominate All That Re-
mains of the Marine Salient.
LINE ENTIRELY ACROSS THE CRISE;
DRIVE SHAKES HOLD ON THE VESLE
Enemy in Grave Danger of Being Terribly
Punished Before He Can Withdraw From
Fast Narrowing Shell Swept Area
By the Associated Press.

By
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 2,
80 M-Soissons has been retaen and the valley of the
Crise has been crossed
The pied line this evening from Pommiers to So
thence Beleu the valley of the Crse Chacrise and
ArcyS Resue through the of the of Nesles
the village of the and through the of tho
forest of Rheims, to Lagery, Luery and Tramery
North of the last named three places French cavalry has
advanced about another mile the Bos lie None Treson
Broule still in the enemys hands, in hames and further
east, Rheims, Thillois has been retaken.
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SHRIMP" BEsTs BIG GERMAN.
slips Grenade In Pocket of Enemy
Who sought His Life.

LONDON, Aug. "A little American,
"a shrimp of a man" outwitted a huge
German in a deadly grapple on the
Marne battlefield, says Reuters corre-
spondent at American headquarters.
The German was about TO finish the
American with his bayonet, The Ameri-
can grabbed grenade from his belt.
fumbled with his fingers till he loosened
the safety catch and then thrust the
grenade into the Germans pocket. With
sudden terror the German realized the
Americsn's intention. but before he could
counter II was too late.
There was not enough left of his
equipment, the correspondent adds, to
provide the quick thinking little Ameri-
can with a souvenir.
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Special cab,e Desparch TO The sr>.


LONDON, Aug. AT the end of what may be termed
perfect day from the Allies viewpoint the French Amer
and British fighting shoulder to shoulder in the finest
harmony had forced their into raegca positions of the
highest Importance from which they dominate the whole
interior of what is left to the Germans of the Marine salient
They have entered Sossons the pivotal point that side
of the German hee have advanced between two and three
miles along the whole ne and the east have placed them
selves where they deliver deadly fire the of
Germans streaming out of the pocket in which they fingered
little long. For the first time the French official
men tonight refers to the German retreat precptae
it bids fair to become disorderly
The entry into scissors and the crossing of the Crise
River throughout its length by the French American and Brit
sh troops after days of desperate fighting
the German right flank and mperiled the German
position south of the Vese River threatened both
from the flank and rear.
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Smokes Breed Smiles
That Won't Come of

"DEAR, kind friend" writes
Private P. NJ. Norton,
Company d, Seventeenth En-
gineers (railway), to a SUN To-
bacco Fund contributor, II have
a pleasant smile just now and I
assure you i certainly appreciate
your gift of cigarettes as they
are very hard to get over here.
l will ever remember you and oil
those who think Of the soldiers SO
far from the States" See
page 4.
WARMING! THE SUN To-
BACCO FUND has no connection
with any other fund, organiza-
tion or publication, 1t employs
no agents or solicitors.
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BY HERBERT BAILEY.
Special Cable Dsspdtch TO The Sun from the
London Times.

London Times.
Copyri0ht 1873; all rights reserved.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE.
Aug. 2.-Prisoners who have been taken
in the recent retreat of the Germans say
that they were told that they were fight
ing rear guard actions. but must hold
the lines. Many of them report that
they have come down from Flanders.
particularly from KENNEL Hill. and
others say that they fought in Rumania.
They are mostly young men Of good
physique. and some have been fg,ting
only few months. having passed the
year in garrlsons since they were called
up ct the age Of IS years.
One boy 10 years old was taken on his
finst day in battle. He was in tears
when examined and exclaimed that he
did not wish for any more war. An
other lad. also taken prisoner. had kept
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-03
May Retreat Across Aisne.

In fact The probability now is that
The Germans will not he able to make
Il stand south Of the AiSne for more
than II few days nj most 1t is more
likely that after the severe maulng
they hay" shnd and will have in the
lmmcdiates future, especially in ef
forts TO get ont of the pocket. they
will keep on going until they reach
the hills north Of the Aisne, in the
famous Chcmin dies Danes region,
the strongest position IN that part of
France.
FiSmcS, which next to Fere.en-
Tnrdcnois was the great German
supply depot for the campaign ON
the Marine, is very seriously imper-
illcd by the advance of the Allies
to-day, not only from the west. where
the French artillery postel on the
hills south of Soissons can make It
untenable, hut also from the south,
where the French and American push
to the north from -en-Tardenols
and that vicinity has brought them
within eight ar nine miles Of the
place, In plain sight Of the Allies
suhlief> over an open country, ami
also from the eastern side of the
salient, whore the Allies have sd.
vanced out If the wooded country
and command a fine view Qer the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-03
FRENCH TROOPS BA TILE WAYL INTO SOLSSONS;
ALLIES GAIN 2 TO MILES ON ENTIRE LINE;
ENEMY MA Y TAKE REFUGE OVER THE ALSNE
AMERICANS PURSUE RETREA TING GERMAN
German Admiralty Chief
Is Retired From Office

COPENHAGEN, Aug. g.
Admiral Won Holtzendorff,
chief of the German Admiralty
staff, has been retired for rea-
sons of health, according to an
announcement by the semi-of-
fetal Wolff Bureau of Berlin.
Admiral Reinhardt Scheer,
commander of the battle fleet,
has been designated to succeed
Admiral Won Holtzendorff.
Admiral Won Holtzendorff was
recalled from retirement and ap-
pointed head of the German
Admiralty staff in July, 1915. In
a statement to the Cologne
Gazette July 20. Admiral Won
Holtzendorff explained the rea-
son why German U-boats were
not sinking American transports.
He said that owing to the many
points of debarkation at the dis
posal Of the Americans from the
north of Scotland to the Mediter-
ranean,, the irregular passage of
the transports and the strength
of the destroyer guards which
accompanied them, it was mex
pedient for the U-boats to lurk
off these harbors on the chance
Of getting shot at them.
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PLANE D0WNED
BY MACHINEGUN
Former Chicago Reporters
Shooting Results in Ger
man AviatOrs' Capture.
BARRAGE IN 50 SECONDS
rss s4s -. ae,,.e,s,s,
Quick Work Halts Foes At
tack-Corporal Martz a
Prodigy of Nalor.
BARRAGE IN 80 SECONDS
by RAYMOND G. CARROLL.


SpeciaisCaoIe Despath TO Tar STU and Pub
lie Ledger
Copyright. 1915; all rights reserred.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMYIN FRANCE,
Aug. 2.-Airplanes bcing the eyes OF the
army, their destruction during the prog
rees OF the battle is an achievement o:
much Importance, On Wednesday after
noon a flock of German planes appeared
over the American lines between Fere-
en-Tardenois and Cierges, evidently to
locate our artillery batteries and to OBJ
serve the movement OF our attacking
units 10 as TO direct the enemy fire upon
them. They were flying rather low.
Il believe we can reach them with the
machine guns. Try it, corporal" said
Capt. Howard +. Stone OF Champaign.
ILL.,, commanding one of our hight bat
teries OF artillery. Almost Immediately
the air was filled with rain of bullets
from the machine guns. Before the
planes could rise out OF range one began
to limp badly. its pilot having been hit.
Circling wildly 1t came to the ground.
Former Reporter the Riflemnn.
! I
down was Private Charles Macarthur,
formerly reporter for Chicago news
paper. He had broken up the enemy
sky party and our prison pen was fuller
by two German aviators. On the same
afternoon. when the Germans had
massed for a counter attack and were
advancing out OF the woods. Lieut..
Cornelius f, Lombardy in an advance
artillery post, got the information back
to our artillery so quickly that our
barrage began to fall in thirty seconds,
completely breaking up the attack.
The commanding officer congratula ted
Lieut. Dwight F. Heath. formerly pro-
fessor of mathematics in the University
Of Illinois and now a signal officer for
having laid telephone line to within
500 yards Of the German line. making
possible this blow to the German plans
for recovering some OF the ground they
had lost.
Again on Thursday when the Germans
were discovered massing armored tanks
behind their lines. there came another
flock Of enemy planes, which made a
drive for the Franco-American chain OF
observation balloons. They had forced
several of the balloons to descend when
from above n daring French aviator
dropped down on them and attacked
without hesitation. driving one OF the
enemy machines TO the ground after
winging the German pilot with the fire
of his machine gun.
Not satisfied with his partial triumph.
the French aviator came to the earth.
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PERSHING TELLS
WHY LISTS WAIT
Difficulties Encountered in
Compiling Names of U. s.
Dead and Wounded.
BIG LOSSES EXPECTED
Troops Are Widely Separated
and Telegraph Service Is
. Inadequate.
BIG LOSSES EXPECTED
Special Despatch 10 THs suS.

WARRINGTON. Aug. o.-Collection Of
casualties in the first great battle in
which our troops have been engaged in
large numbers has involved a difficult
problem due to the disposition OF the
American forces and other new condi-
tons
This was made clear by Cen, Pershing
to-day in explaining why casualties had
not been forwarded.
The despatch which threw the first
light upon the difficulties the headquar-
ters stan Is laboring under was In an
swer to several requests which have
gone from Secretary Baker and Gen.
March that every effort be made to send
over the casualties as fast as they were
received.
Until the present battle wounded
Americans have been taken in most
cases to their own hospitals. and the
task of recording the casualties has been
3 comparatively easy one. But since the
present tremendous struggle began, in
volving nearly 900 American troops
the Americans wounded have been taken
tc British and French hospitals as we'll
Our own regimental headquarters have
not kept up with the fighting. and tele-
graph facilities have been meagre.
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Pershing's Explanation.

In explaining the situation as reported
by Gen. Pershing Secretary Baker said :
II have received a cablegram from
Gen. Pershing with regard to reports Of
casualties. He points out that our troops
are still widely separated. serving In
many places, causing great difficulty and
complications in getting accurate infor-
nation.
"In addition to this the troops are
separated from their records while in
tine area of conflict, and must depend
upon inadequate telegraph lines, which
are subject to frequent interruption and
must for the most part be devoted en-
tirely to the urgent business of the bat
tie itself Gen. Pershing assures me
that he is making every effort to collect
casualty lists. have them confirmed and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-03
Enemy Retiring Hastily.

The rapid advance of the Ameri-
cans and their allies in the centre of
the pocket on both sides of the Muze
River, where they have penetrated
three or -four miles north Of Fere-en-
TarlrnolS, indicates Ihat the Ger
mans, realizing The danger of being
cut off, are retiring hastily in the
direction of The Ncsle. Their retreat
is nccenuated by the advance of the
Allies southwest of Rheims and down
The valley Of the Arire River, con.
verging thruStS which are making
any German position south of the
NeSlC untpnabla.
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Reports were current here this eve
ming that SoiS>Ons had been occupied
by the French, but there does not
'ppPar 10 he ANY justification for
diem. The situation there is OBJ
Scurc; 50 far us can he made out
from the latest reports received from
The front The main positions taken
by IN" Allies were the heights i'm
m"dlatcIy south of the city. Doubt
less II was from this side that the
French effected an entrance.
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Same Causes at Work Again.

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During the crowded hours all that
aVeited actual panic was the presence
anu resourcefuiness of the police. There
we're sixty reserves at Grand Central
commanded by Inspector Morris, and
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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-02-22
FRANCE DECLARES FOR JEWISH STATE
IN PALESTINE
Foreign Minister
England Plan To Establish Jewish

Sokolow was recently received in
gracious audience by Pope Bene-
dict, having been commissioned by
the British Government to explain
to His Holiness the project which
it later endorsed. At the end of this
audience, Mr. Sokolow announced
that His Holiness had listened with
great interest, and terminated the
meeting with the assurance, 1--WE
shall be good neighbors.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-02-22
WARS AND ANTI-SEMITISM.
CONTINUED from page 411)

Continued from page 411)
side it's Russian mate, the Zemsh tchina.
Diplomacy moved too slowly for it
and this could be the fault of the Jews
only. There was the Jew Ballin, the
head of the largest German navigation
company His interests were bound up
with international commerce, and,
therefore, he did not want war. Anti
Semites of a different brand, represent
ing the bourgeois and small wage earn
err, declared in the Hammer a few
weeks later, that all the war talk was
due to Jewish trouble makers (Hetzer)
in Germany, and to the violent hatred
of Germany by the Russian Jews, who
control the press in the land of the
Gar
We are now assured that the Jews
hate Germany and therefore wanted a
war in order to see her defeated An
English writer LeQueux, Informed us
in a novel, entitled "Black and White
1900, that Germany is the "pro patria
of all Jews" This view was repeated
by the Catholic Herald at the outbreak
of the present war in 1914, and was al
ready preached in London Times, Sept.
28, 1912, at the outbreak of the Bal
kan war, when it was convenient, from
the point of view of the Northcliffe
press, to charge the Jews with the pro-
German propaganda work under dis
guise. The expulsion of numerous col
onists as enemy aliens after the dec
laration of war by Turkey, did not re-
suit in the revision of the attitude TAX
en- by the "Times."
Nationa1ism and internationalism
may be said to be the main principles
underlying the controversy between
free-traders and protectionists. The
"Reichsbote," a junker organ, declared
in 1898 the Jews responsible for the
Mckinley tariff. We know that the
number of Jews in the congress of the
United States was always insignificant
and if the pressure of public opinion is
taken into consideration, the Jews be-
ing largely represented in the merchant
class, a negligible quantity among the
captains of industry, and twenty-five
years ago even not very numerous in
the rank of industrial worker, where
even today they figure only in the
garment industry as decisive factor,
would rather be free-traders than pro-
tectionists. The "Ostdeutsche Rund-
schau," representing a different specie
of anti-semitism, declared in 1901 that
per, the "Egerer Nachrichten," ex-
planned the opposite opinion that Jews
are believers in protection from the
Jewish character, which is fundamen-
tally selfish.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-02-22

made an official declaration in favor
of a Jewish State in Palestine in &C
cord with the British declaration to
the same effect, made by the Brit
ish Cabinet on November End last.
This information is contained in
a series of cable and radio messages
from the French Minister of For
eign Affairs, M. Stephen Pichon to
NJ Tardieu, the French High Com
missioner to the United States.
The Provisional Executive Com
mittee For General Zionist Affairs
has been authorized by NJ Tardieu
TO make public the following mes
sages bearing on this subject:
(From M. Pichon to M. Tardieu).
Feb. II, 1918.
Having seen M. Sokolow, I
authorized him to state that, as re-
CARDS the question, our views were
essentially the same as the views
entertained by the British Govern
ment 1t was agreed upon that a
Zionist delegation should be sent
to Palestine"
(From M. Pichon to M. Tardieu)
Same date,
81 beg you to notice the state
ment which | gave to the news
papers regarding the Zionist ques-
ton"
(Naval Radio, From the Press Blu
reau of The Ministry of For
eign Affairs).
I'M. Sokolow, representing the
Zionist organizations, was received
to-day by M. Stephen Pichon NJ
Pichon was happy to reaffirm that
the understanding is complete be-
tween the French and the British
Governments, concerning the ques-
ton of the Jewish establishment in
Palestine"
The NJ Sokolow referred to in the
French official communicates is
Nahum Sokolow, member of the
Zionist International Actions Com
mittee, who with DR.. Chain Weitz-
man, President of the British Zion
ist Federation, has carried on the
political negotiations which thus far
have resulted in the formal approval
by two great Entente Powers in
favor of the Zionist movement and
its aspirations in Palestine. Mr..
Sokolow's negotiations have also
resulted in a statement by Premier
Sonino of Italy, expressing his un-
qualified endorsement of the pro-
iected Jewish State and his assur-
.ance that if the other Entente Pow
ers did not do so, his own govern