, 1918-08-08
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o c 8, ACHIEVE
MENTS, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR

'ai casualties IepOl ltu III june Va -
147.
Eight hundred and forty-four enemy
aeroplanes were brought down by the
allies during July, while 1926 allied ma,
chimes were lost during the same pc
riod.
In the Rheims region, in addition to
Thillois, the village of V~ille-en-Tarde-
nois Friday was in allied hands and
the French on the heels of the Ger
mans, two and a half miles north of
the Dormans-Rheims high road, over
a front of nearly four miles.
Friday nights official report from
Paris carried the most startling mes,
sage in several days. Scissors, the
key of the German right flank in the
whole Aisne-Marne position. was again
in French hands. At the same time
the brief announcement that Thillois,
west of Rheims, had been taken.
shows that the jaws of the great trap
created by General Foch had begun
to close.
German losses since the start of the
war have reached 4,760. 900, according
" eStlllidle5 puDllShtu III IlOLiihC
Libre, Premier Clemenceau's Paris
newspaper. The Germans now have
$780, 900 men, It is stated, of which
1000, 900 are engaged on the west
front. The paper estimates that since
March the German losses lave been
1,500, 900, of which LOCO, 900, it is said.
have been put out of action.
Numerous towns and hamlets have
been captured by the allied troops
during last weeks fighting, and at
some points they advanced from two
to three miles. South of scissors the
entire Crise river has been forded by
the allied troops; northeast of Fere-
en-Tardenois the allied line has been
pushed well to the west of the region
of Grand Rozoy and the town of Sa-
ponay has been taken. In the center
the Nesles wood is being swept clean
of Germans by the French cavalry,
and American and French troops are
pressing the Germans hard north of
Sergy and the hamlet of Nesles.
The crisis in the allied offensive on
the Soissons-Rheims salient apparent
ly has been reached. French troops
have entered the town of Scissors, the
western anchor point of what remains
of the famous salient, and all along
The thirty-six miles of curving battle
line from Scissors to Thillois, which
lies about three miles west of Rheims,
French, American and British troops
have pushed in the entire enemy
front and sent the Germans backward
everywhere in retreat. All behind the
battle lines the smoke of burning
towns is visible, which seemingly
would give weight to the prevailing
belief in the allied capitals that the
Germans at present are nowhere near
the end of their retreat.
WESTERN
Miss Anne Martin, former president
of the National Woman's party, filed
her petition as an independent candi-
date for United States senator from
Nevada with the secretary of state at
Reno.
William j. Schwartz, president of
the National Association of Yardmas-
ters, was jailed at Milwaukee, charged
with having embezzled S33,720 of the
associations funds.
At a meeting Of a joint committee
representing employees of the Old
Dominion, Inspiration Consolidated
and Miami Copper companies, held at
Miami, Ariz., Federal Labor Admin
istrator Joseph F. Myers announced
that a wage increase of 25 cents per
day. effective Aug. 1, had e granted
employees of copper companies of the
Globe-Miami district.
WASHINGTON
Notice was served on ticket scalpers
by the railroad administration to quit
business at once, under penalty OF
prosecution, through charges of con
spiracy.
The theory of the submarine as a
determining factor in the war has
been exploded, Secretary Daniels de
German emperor that German subma
rines are 'tenaciously attacking anc
fighting the vital forces which are
steaming overseas" Mr.. Daniels
pointed out that not a single Ameri
can transport carrying troops to Eu
rope had been sunk.
LOSS of 1.7Oe, 900 bales in the pros
pective cotton crop, due principally t.
droughty conditions in the western
part of the cotton belt, especially II
Texas, was shown in the Department
of Agriculture's August production
forecast, placing the estimated crol
at 1~3,61s,0O0 equivalent 50o-poun'
bales, compared with 15.325.000 bale
forecast in July.
More than 10000 aviators and 800
observers and bombers are traine'
and ready to man the American all
craft fleet when the nation succeed
IN producing the planes.