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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-04

FREDERICKSBURG. VA. August 3.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Odendohl. OF
Eagement Of their daughter. Miss Ur-
su!a Agnes. to Alfred Jones Faulkner,
of SDotsylvania
LfNCiiBCRG. VA. August 3.-Mr.
! and Mrs. f. ii. Martin announce the
Martin. TO Lieutenant John j. Moriety,
or the sixty seventh Infantry, the cere-
mon? linking place at MONTGOMERY,
Ala. Wednesday,
HARRISO%BURG. VA. August g.
William II. Zirklc. OF New Market.
were married Saturday in Washington.
FREDERICKSBURG, VA. August g..
Key James Il. Graft. pastor Of the
BAPTIST Church at Gate City. and Miss
the brides home.
LYNCHBURG, VA. August 3.-Miss
Marie II. Pryor and Max A. Temple
ton were married Sunday at the coun-
try home OF MIR. and Mrs. 0. j. Tenn
plcton. in Bedford County
WINCHESTER. Va. August a
Friends here have been advised of III.
marriage at Atlanta, Ca, on July IL.
OF Miss Ruth Forsyth and Thomas
| Hyndman.
LYNCHnTRG. VA. August 3.-Mr.
and Mrs. w. r. Gates, OF Rice. an
hounce the engagement OF their daugh-
YER MISS Mabel Gates. 10 Edgar f.
Massey, OF this city The wedding
takes place on August 10.
PULASKI. VA. August "a mar
rage which took place at Bristol last
December has just been announced.
Miss Agnes A. Hines became the bride
OK howard c. Jackson on December s.
CHARLOTTESVILLE. VA. August ,.
r. II. Miller and Miss Thelma Brown
ing Woodson were united in marriage
Saturday. the ceremony being per-
formed in Washington. The groom
is employed on the Chesa pcakc and
Ohio Railroad.
LYNCHBURG. VA. August 3-Niss
LESSEE Lee Floyd and Oscar W. Martin
were united in marriage last Sunday
The groom, is from Chicago. where the
newly welded couple Will reside.
PULASKI VA August 3.-Mr. and
Mrs. George c. Moomaw announce the
engagement Of their daughter. Miss
Cecil. 10 j Donald Wysor, a lieutenant
in the reserve service The wedd ng
VII! take place IN september.
CHARLOTTESNILLE VA. August 2
Lawrence Gooch and Miss Bertha
Alice Jameson were married here Tues
day evening.
HEWLETT VA. August 3.-Corporal
Wexford W. Landram, OF Noel. and
Mss Grlc" " Underwood. Of Amelia,
ONO ""r" united in marriage here
on July %
,tARipT TESNlLLE. VA. August 2
Thomas Barker Eehrendt. teller at
local bank. and Miss Lille Lee
Michi". were quietly married Friday
evening nj The home OF the brides
sister. Mrs. Il +. Sinclair
C'HaRr or.rEc,.,, 7, ~. .
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-04

FREDERICKSBURG, VA. August g..
-Rcv James T. Graft. pastor Of the
baptist Church at Gate CITY. and Miss
Louise Ford were married Saturday at
the brides home
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-04

WINCHESTER. VA. August 8
Friends here have been advised Of the
marriage at Atlanta, Ca, on July IL
OF MISS ruth Forsyth and Thomas
Hyndman.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
''Bravo, Americans!
We Expected It,"
Londor, Comment

LONDON, May S0.-Oommenting on
the capture Of Cantigny by the Ameri-
cans, "The Evening News" says:
bravo, the young Americans! Moth
ing in to-day's battle narrative from
the front Is more exhilarating than
the account of their fight at Cantigny.
1t was clean-cut from beginning to
end, like one of their countrymen's
short stories, and the short story Of
Cantigny is going to expand into q
full length novel, which will write the
doom of the Kaiser and Kaiserism.
1--WE expected it. We have seen those
young Americans in London, and mere
ly to glance at them was to know that
they are conquerers and brothers in
that great Latin compact
which will bring down the diaboiical
Prussian idol, with it's poisons and
calculated infamies, to enthrone chival-
rous humanity again.
"They do not swagger; and they have
no war illusions. They have done their
first JOB with swift precision. char
acteristic of the United States, and
Cantigny will one day be repeated q
thousandfold. On that day the Kaiser's
crown will go to the Allied museum"
Alluding to the smashing by the
Americans of the German attacks west
of Montdidier, "The Times" adds:
"Our allies know the significance Of
that as we'll as we do. So, too, do the
German generals and the German
statesmen. 1t means that the last great
factor between autocracy and freedom
is coming into effective play on the
battlefield. It means that they have
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
Casualties Among Our
Fighting Men Abroad
Told to Get Americans

GoWAN. CO AZ Andrew H.. Belmont. Mich.
HARVEY. Robert, Rustburg. Va.
JOHNSON. Victor Earl Weyerhauser.
Wis.
MURRAY. Richard. Round. S. c.
NELSON. Lester H.. 1913 West Seventh
Street. Mankato. MINI.
THRoMER. William. Eagle Mills. Ark.
Died of Wounds
Better, Charlie, Alexandria,, Egypt.
Severely Wounded
gibson. Henry. 70S North Eighth Street,
Philadelphia.
GUEST, William. scottdale. Penn.
HALLY, George F., Roxbury, Mass.
KNIBERG. Abraham, Roxbury, Mass
MCANN. Harry F.. r. F. D. No. s.
NAGLE, Edward c.. Cambridge. Mass.
NELSON. William H.. Oxford. Wis.
RICHARDSON, George F.. jr., Is Elm
Street, Manchester. N. H.
VAN NESS. Byron w.. 723 Pillow Street.
Minneapolis.
Slightly Wounded
BALo. Roc A., 769 Doyle Street, Colum.
LEWIS. Earl L.. Tryonville. Penn.
Missing in Action
KOENEE, Edward A., lieutenant, 225
Pennsylvania Avenue. Rochester. N. Y.
WILLIAMS. George N. corporal. $40
South Green Street. Henderson. Ky.
BROWN. Joseph H., 1749 Richmond Ter
race. West New Brighton. Staten Island. NY
Prisoner previously Reported
Missing)
CRAWFORD. James F.. lieutenant, War
saw. N. Y.
COOK. Harry l., East Hampton. Conn.
previously reported missing. is now reported
slightly wounded.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
2 Million Men Abroad
Soon, Says Daniels
Ten Millions To Be Sent If
Needed to Win the War,
He Declares

WILKES S-BARRE, Penn, May 30
Declaring that the navy is doing noble
work in keeping open the road to
France for the hundreds of thousands
of American soldiers already there,
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels de-
clared here to-day that the troop move
ment will reach the million mark in
a few weeks, that in a few months
the two million mark will have been
reached, and that ten million or more
men will be sent if need be to win
the war.
Secretary Daniels's speech was un-
expected, as he stopped here only for
breakfast en- route to Scranton. He
was informed that the G. A. r. was
holding ceremonies in honor of sailors
who fell in the Civil War and was
quick to respond to an invitation to
speak.
The Secretary expressed unlimited
confidence in the navy's ability to wipe
out the submarine evil. ave are build
ing destroyers by the score. and we
will build them by the hundreds" he
declared. 1--WE will equip them with
able men such as you have sent from
Wilkesbarre until it will not be pos
sible for submarine to exist in the
ocean. In this war the navys busi-
ness has been to hunt submarines. We
have hunted them and will continue to
hunt them until they shall not Iare
to appear as assassins of the sea-"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

WASHINGTON, May 30.-The army
FIVE names. divided as follows: Killed
in action, 5; died of wounds, 1; died of
accident, a; died of disease, IL; wound
ed severely, 8; wounded slightly, 2, and
missing in action, 3.
Officers named were: Lieutenant
George Squiers, ST. Paul, Mimi, died Of
accident; Lieutenant Edward A. Koen-
ne, Rochester, N. Y, missing in action;
Lieutenant James F. Crawford, War
saw, N. Y, prisoner, previously re-
ported missing.
The list follows:
tau names not otherwise marked are those
OF pripates.)
Killed in Action
CARTLAND. William H.. sergeant, Wake
MILLER. Raymond p. corporal. Wash
ington Heights. Battle Creek. Mich.
FOREsMAN. Fleming Meg. Sardolph,
MILLER, Clark G.. Bovina Centre. N. Y.
WEST. Joe Ruby. Minnekah. Okla.
Died of Accident
SQUIRES. George. lieutenant, 69S Oak
1and Avenue. ST. Paul.
JACKSON, Johnnie. Lansar. Miss.
WASHINGTON, Willie. New Orleans
WELLS. Ralph p. Woodstock. III.
Died Of Disease
HEBB. Harris NJ. sergeant. Lakeland. Fla.
DOUGLASS. Earl j.. corporal. Clinton,
Mo.
ANDERSON. Dave, Plaauemine, La.
BERLIN. Clay, 547 West Twenty-seventh
Street, New York City.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
Enemy Fliers Tried
Hard to Blolu Up
American, Hospitals
by The Associated Press)


WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
ON THE FRENCH FRONT, Wednes.
day, May 29.-The German air attack
of Tuesday night on American hos
pitals in town many miles behind the
front was carried out with the utmost
apparent deliberation. The enemy air
men used umbrella flares to aid them
in picking out their targets. Their
bombs also started fire in a garage
which lighted up the neighborhood in
which is located one of the four finest
cathedrals in France, built in the
twelfth century. The airmen. also
turned their machine guns on the fire.
men engaged in fighting the flames and
upon ambulance drivers.
Besides the killing of one French
nurse and the probable mortal injury
OF another, while flying glass slightly
injured number of Americans. the pa
tients in one American wardlHere in
some cases hurled out of thefIDbeds by
the shock of a bomb explosion. In
some of the hospitals it was necessary
to remove the patients, including some
Americans, to the cellars for safety
Nearly every window in one of the
largest of the hospitals was shattered
as were the windows in the historic
church adjoining, now also used az
hospital. Scores of American patients
and hundreds of sick and wounded
French soldiers were in the various
hospitals attacked
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
American, Dash on
Cantigny Highly
Praised BY French
(Special Dispatch to The Trihune !

Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, May 30-An official
French dispatch on the success of the
American expeditionary troops at Can
tigny received here to-day says:
The Americans won a real success at
Cantigny, in the region of the Avre.
After an artillery preparation which
lasted about one hour, an American
regiment sprang forth to storm the
enemy points which defended the viii
lage of Cantigny. The Americans, with
the help of the tanks, went toward the
enemy organizations in a beautiful
rush. In less than ten minutes, in spite
of the difficulty offered by the ground,
they had run over the five or six hun
dred yards which separated their start
ing point from the village.
"The Germans, completely taken by
surprise, had hardly enough time to put
some machine guns in position before
they were attacked with grenades. Fol-
lowing the plan determined upon, the
tanks attacked the village on the north
and destroyed the machine gun nests
which were defending the approaches
to Cantigny.
"At the centre the Americans pur-
sued the Germans from cellar to cellar.
Every group was attacked by grenade
throwers. The tunnel where the enemy
continued to resist was surrounded
and liquid fire engines were left to
finish the job.
"Once the main streets in the village
were cleaned, the Americans 'attacked
the chateaus the cellars of which had
been organized as centres Of resistance.
The defenders were soon obliged to
surrender.
"The Americans went beyond the
east and northeast borders of the vii
lage and took the enemy second posi-
tions, where they established them
selves The operation had lasted less
than three quarters of an hour in all
The number of prisoners taken is ITO,
among whom are two officers belonging
to two different regiments, the 271st
and the 272nd reserves. They are from
Bandbourg and Silesia. At the same
time, a great deal of material fell into
the hands of the Americans"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

danced by his command in Windsor
Castle. She always insisted that her
Interpretation was that Of the Biblical
Salome, and not of Oscar Wilde's crea-
tion.
Noel Pemberton- Billing was known
as "the air candidate for Parliament"
when he was elected to that body in
March, 1916. He was an aviator and a
caustic critic of the defence plans
originated against Zeppelin raids,
making his platform a demand for an
air ministry and an overhauling of the
air defences of London.
Parliament with a speech charging
that laundering construction policy
as to aircraft had resulted in the
murder" of British officers. He
prophesied that in few years nations
would number their aircraft by the
hundreds of thousands and send forth
fleets of them that would darken the
sky. He demanded that all existing
aircraft be modified for raids over
Germany.
Viscount Haldane, former Minister
of war and former Lord High Chan
cellor, was under fire in 1915, shortly
as friend of Germany. His enemies
recollected that he had caused the dis
banding of several battalions of the
British army during his incumbency of
the former Office and accused him of
discharging from British munition
plants, prior to the war, skilled work
men whose services were snapped up
by the Krupps.
1t was recollected that he had enter
tanned the Kaiser at his home and as
serted that Ramsay Macdonald, the
British labor radical, was introduced to
the Kaiser. His foes found and pub
lished to the world after the war broke
out utterances of pro- German charac-
ter which Lord Haldane was said to
have made prior to the war. One of
them was reference to the North Sea
as the German ocean,"
Lord Haldane has been generally rec
ognized throughout his career in pub
lie life as the foremost authority on
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
German, Trapped
By 4 u. S. Fliers,
Fought to the End
by The Associated Press)

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Wednesday, May 29.-Con-
firmation has been received that the
German airplane brought down in flames
on Monday near ST. Mihiel was VIC
tim of four American airmen working
together as flying circus"
The American "circus" was COM
posed of Lieutenants George F. Fisher,
of Chicago; Edward Curtis. of Roches-
ter; Edward Buford, of Nashville. and
Alexander McLanahan, of Philadelphia.
Because of the nature of the fight it
is impossible to credit any one aviator
with the victory. Lieutenant Fisher,
however, got in the finishing stroke,
firing the last shots at the German be-
fore his machine broke into flames and
following down the flaming plane for as
long time as was possible.
The game observer in the German
machine, although plunging to certain
death, kept his gun working amid the
flaming swirl as he fell, training it
first at one American machine and then
at another.
Lieutenant Douglas Campbell, of
California, rescued a crippled British
bombing machine from, two German air.
Planes, which attacked it near the Toul
sector to-day. Two patrols of Ameri-
can pursuit airplanes had gone out to
protect a large squadron of British
bombing machines returning from a
raid into Germany.
Just before they all crossed behind
the American line, one of the British
machines became separated from the
party and was attacked by two Ger
man Albatross machines. The British
observer had been wounded by the
machine gun fire of the Germans, who
were about to finish the British, when
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

the new American positions near Can
tigny is announced in General Per-
shing's evening communique issued
tonight at the War Department.
Fighting continued active around
Cantigny and in Lorraine.
The dispatch follows:
"The enemy has been again COM
pletely repulsed by artillery fire and
action in attack against our new po-
sitions near Cantigny. Artillery fight
ing continues active there and in Lor-
gas shells. There is nothing else of
Importance to report"
The second section of the COM
munique for May 20 announces the
failure of the enemy to break through
the American lines. A raiding party of
about fifty men, it says, was repulsed
with a loss of ten dead and four
wounded. American casualties were
light.
On May 27, the communique said
Lieutenants Fisher, Curtis, Buford and
McLanahan, on patrol duty in the St.
Mihiel region, encountered enemy ma
chimes at 1000 metres. One of these
was downed.
The text follows:
Section Blast night in Lorraine
! Cue cuSNy were again very ACC1Vc
against our troops. There was again
considerable shelling with gas, but
the results obtained were very small.
Protected by an artillery barrage, a
raiding party of about fifty men at
tempted to surround one of our ad-
vanced posts. The attempt was a
complete failure, the enemy losing
ten dead and four wounded. Of these
some were killed in bayonet fighting.
In this case also our casualties were
very light. During The night two
other attacks on our lines were pre-
vented by our barrage and machine
gun fire, the enemy failing to pene-
trate our wires.
"In the late afternoon of May 81
Lieutenants Fisher, Curtis, Buford
and McLanahan, flying at 1000 metres
on patrol duty, encountered hostile
planes in the region of St. Mihiel.
In the fighting which ensue6 one of
the hostile planes broke into flames
and fell.
Credit for bringing down the air.
plane reported in yesterdays COM
munique is given to Lieutenant
Rickenbacher and Lieutenant Ham
bleton, and not to Lieutenant Rick
enbacher and Lieutenant Campbell,
as reported
This morning an English aviator
returning from a bombing cxpedi-
tion was wounded in the arm. He
was chased by two enemy machines.
Lieutenant Campbell drove the hos
tile airplanes off, enabling the Eng
lish aviator to return to his airdrome
safely"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
He Is Covered by German
Rifemen and Forced
Into Enemy's Lines
Two of Foe Downed
Five u. S. Machines Fight
German Squadron After
British Raid

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, May 30.-An American avi-
ator was captured by the Germans to-
day after his machine had fallen into
No Mans Land. The fight in which the
Americans machine was damaged took
place when five American pursuit ma
chimes engaged with German aerial
squadron while protecting a party of
British bombers who were returning
from raid early this morning. Two
of the enemy machines were shot down
and another was forced to land out of
control.
The Americans airplane came down
between the lines. He was immedi-
ately covered by German rifemen and
ordered to walk into the enemy
trenches, which he did with his hands
above his head.
From daybreak on there has been
q continuous series of aerial battles on
the front northwest OF Toul.
There arc uncontirmed reports that
some German planes have been shot
down, but at the moment of filing this
dispatch (9:3o a. n.y. nearly all the
American aviators are either answer
ing alarms or fighting, and accurate
details are unavailable.
The sun had hardly reached the
horizon, on this cloudless, MINDLESS
day, when large numbers of enemy
planes made their appearance. The
American aviators took the air, one
after another, as the Germans came
into sight.
Within fifteen minutes four battles
were fought over No Mans Land.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

constitutional law. Premier Asquith' s
Cabinet left to him to point out to
England the necessity of conscription,
and credit for the passage of the con-
scription act is given to Lord Haldane.
Later, when Lord Haldane and Asquith
became joint critics of the Lloyd
George Cabinet, the Northcliffe papers
asserted that they had formed an al
lance to get back into power:
Mrs. George Keppel, said by one of
the witnesses at the hearing in London
to have conveyed messages between
English conspirators and Berlin, was
counted the most astute woman in the
court of the late King Edward VII,
both socially and financially. Upon
the death of King Edward she went
into retirement, from which she sud
denly emerged in the spring of 1912
with a series of lavish entertainments
and gay dinners.
At a dinner which she gave in Febru-
ary, 1912, she and most of her titled
guests not only wore vari-colored and
bizarre costumes, but dyed their hair
and, in the case of such men as were
properly accoutred. their whiskers
as we'll to match. Mrs. Keppel's hair
was tinged with shades of light mauve
and heliotrope and her husband wore
pale eau de Nil whiskers.
Spencer an American
Captain Spencer ultimately passed
out Of the flying corps as physically
unfit. Under discrimination he said
he had never been in the secret service.
He was born in America and had never
been naturalizcd in England.
In the German book to which ne had
referred there was a note after each
name indicating the particular way in
which the person could best be ap-
preached.
Captain Spencer described how he
was detained in a cabin in France
being told by doctors that he was suf-
fering from most unusual hallucina-
tions. and that he ought to be locked
up. Eventually an air officer carried
certain documents to Downing Street
which procured his release.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

po'hts ana at one point group of
fourteen got into the American
trenches. 1t never went back. Nine
of the fourteen Germans were killed.
four are prisoners and one is dead of
wounds.
Told to Get Americans
The prisoners reported that they
were ordered to capture Americans at
any cost, their superiors being anxious
to determine where American troops
are stationed and their present fight
ing strength.
At point west of Bremenil, after a
heavy barrage, fifty German soldiers
attempted to reach the American line.
They were in three groups and the two
larger ones were held up and then dis
persed by the American machine gun
and rife fire.
The third group, consisting of four
rain conditions to reach the American
trenches and jump into them.
Under the leadership of a lanky
youth who was farmer until he en-
listed a group of Americans gave the
Germans hot reception. Bayonets on
the end of American rifles flashed
white and then red almost as quickly
as it takes to tell it and the enemy
party was soon overpowered.
During the engagement a big Ger
man non-commissioned officer, who di-
rected the enemy party, stood on o
parapet. He. raised his arm to hurl
grenade at an American soldier. but
he never threw it. Another American,
who had come through severe gas
attack last Monday morning, reached
the German with his bayonet. The
grenade fell from the dying Germans
hand and exploded harmlessly on the
parapet.
The gas bcmbardment that preceded
the infantry advance by the enemy
began at 12:40 o'clock this morning.
The Germans had brought up addi-
tional S-inch projectors to replace
American guns Monday night, and
mustard, phosgene and chlorine shells
fell by the hundreds on the American
positions. In one small area alone
800 of these arrived. Many of the
Americans, as result, began to show
the effects of slight gassing, and we're
harboring a large grudge against the
enemy on this account.
When the gas shells began to fall
there was hardly any wind, making it
certain that the fumes would remain
IN Cne lOcallCleS Wnere tne Germans
placed them, and the men in the
would follow up the shelling with an
infantry attack.
The hopes of the resentful defenders
were fully realized, and the result
completely satisfied the Americans, for
in one trench at daybreak this morn
ing lay the nine dead Germans who
perished in the bayonet attack, while
to the east, where the men in the
trenches had gone to work with their
machine guns, the ground was dotted
with gray-clad bodies.
Many Of the machine gunners, still
wearing their gas masks, stuck to their
guns throughout the preliminary bonn
bardment, and when they saw the ad-
vancing forms of the Germans just
outside the American wire they cut
loose with their fire.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-31

Lieutenant Campbell dashed in. He
emptied his machine gun at The Ger
man machines and the enemy replied,
but Campbell's fire became so hot for
the Germans that they withdrew. Lieu
tenant Campbell then escorted the Brit
ish machine to safety behind the Ameri-
can lines.
After seeing the crippled British
bomber alight safely Lieutenant Camp
bell circled around once, waved his hand
over the side of his airplane, and then
scared into the clouds and disappeared
The pilot was helped out Of his ma
chine and his wound was dressed. Then
he went to the telephone and called uu
the American aviation field. He got
Lieutenant Campbell on the wire and
saving his life