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Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1918-05-17

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Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1918-05-17
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DR.. " illiam Saretski
James f. Murray
Alphonse Brassard
Robert Johnson
Ray Fl. Morse
Elzeard Legase
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TWO STEAMERS SUNK
 IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO MEN MISSING FROM SHIP
 LOADED WITH TROOPS.

Paris, Aug. 13.-Four hundred and iorty-two men are missing as a result of the torpedoing of the French steamer Diemah in the Mediterranean the night of July 14-15 while bouna from Bizerta to Alexandria with troops on board. according to an off cial announcement tonight. Four days later the French steamer Australian also was torpedoed ill the Mediter- ranean.
 Still another steamer was torpedoed but remained afloat. The text of the communication follows:
 "The steamer Djemah, belonging to the Messageries Maritimes proceed ing from Bizaerta to Alexandria, with military passengers, was torpedoe and sunk the night of July 14-i5. Fout hundred and forty-two are missing
 "On July 19 the Mediterranean steamer Australian, belonging to the same company, was torpedoed anu sunk. Seventeen sailors were killed.
 Passengers to the number of 94S were saved. Three are missing,
 "1n the same convoy anothher which was torpedoed was kept afoat
 Numerous bombs were thrown at the submerged submarine.'
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AMERICANS INDULGE IN
 LONG RANGE FIGHTING
BOTH SIDES EXCHANGE ALL KINDS OF SHELLS BETWEEN
 SOlSSoNs AND RHEIMS.

With the American Army on the
 Nesle Front, Aug 13.-The exchange Iof high explosive shells, shrapnel aud
 gas projectes on the front held by
 the Americans between Soissons and Rheims is taking place. Another in
 effectual stab has been made at Fis-
 mette by the Germans. This occurred
 last night. Today has been compara- lively quiet, The front and back areas of both sides along the Vesle are being reached by shell fire, bu,
 there has been no alteration on the line. The Germans are digging in, ut in snch a manner as to indicate
 an intention not to stay permanently where they are. The reports of ot- servers continue to show there is a probability that it is only their in- tention to fight off the Frafco- Americans until they can consolidate
 yaorc completely their scattered or
 ganizai ions and make a Withdrawal over the Aisne in orderly fashion.
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BERlIN'S VERSION OF
 THE PICARDY BATTLES
OF THE SEMl-OFFIcIAL NEWS AGENCY THE GERMANS
 WERE THE VlcroRs.

Amsterdam, Aug. 13.-The German semi-official news agency. in a dis patch to Berlin forwarded here. pre- sents the following account of the British operations during the third day of the offensive in Picardy:
 On the third day of the offensive during a British attack north of the Somme on both sides of the Roman highway, Brisith attacks were caught from the north in a flanking fire of shrapnel, from German batteries. sit uated on the heights east of Albert, while from the south of this position our machine guns. hidden in the woods on the steep banks of the Som me river tore wide gaps in the at tacking ranks and finally forced them to retire.
 The English fared no better south of the river. On both sides of the Roman road advancing British infan- try were again taken under the flank ing fire of weak German attachments which were behind the steep banks of the Somme, where they could not be reached by the British artillery fire The attackers astride of Proyart en- countered the defenders who had al- ready found cover in advanced saps of the old French defense system,
 while the English attacking waves were caught without protection on the bare plateau by the German fire. l In the rectilinear Roman road en- ] emy cavalry detachments ready for pursuit, intuition columns, rear guard
 infantry reserves and machine gun ! formations were crowded together Among this compact mass of men end
 horses, the German shells worked ter rible havoc while our low flying air | planes pelted the road with machine
 gun bullets. In the fearful confusion
 English reserl es who had been con fident of speedy further progress, and
 had pushed forward too far, were forced to retire.
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KARLSRUHE FORWARDED.

Geneva, Aug. 13.-Details received here concerning the British aerial aora bardment of Karlsruhe says that tha northern part of the station was ssrl- ously damaged as also was the arsenal where there was a heavy explosion. One bomb exploded on the wing of the palace of the Grand Duchess sorhie, killing or injuring several visitors and servants. A second bomb fell near a cannon factory, which, however, es- caned injury. A third bomb smash sd inc windows of the principal church of the city. At the time the church was filled with worshippers who lied fin panic. Many persons were injured. The Germans admit that eleven per- sons were killed and 26 injured. Up to the present no train from Karlsruhe has arrived at Basel since the air raid.
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EDUCATION OF YOUTHS AFTER PEACE HAS COME
About 13,ooo,ooo Men Win Be Regis. tered and Two and a Quarter Mill lion Men Will Be Ready for I'm mediate Service for the Government as Soon as Wanted.

Washington. Aug 13.-With 2 broad to prevent strikes and new proyis- ion for education at government ex. pense after the war of youths under 21 serving in the military or naval CT oill extending draft ages so as b include all men between IS and 45 years of age was ordered favorably reported today by the senate mili- tary committee. Chairman Chamber lain plans to report the abiii iiext Thursday and to take up it's eopsid- eration in the senate next Monday. cutting short the senate vacation re- cess period by week.
 The bill, which was prepared under the direction of Secretary Baker. ls framed to enable the nation Go n- crease it's war program in accord ance with an understanding reached with the allies About 13, 3,000, e0a men would be registered under the new law and Provost Marshal General Crowaar estimates it wilt make available at once for military serv- ice, 2,239,000 men between the ages of IS and 20 and 32 and 45.
 Action by the committee followed about a weeks consideration Dur ing that time Secretary Baker, Cen eral March and General Crowder ap- peared to explain the imperative ne- cessity for extending the draft ages and to urge prompt action.
 The work or fight amendment. ac- cepted, was offered by Senator Reed. of Missouri as a substitute for one presented by Senator Thomas Of Colorado. It provides that "whea any person shall have been placed in deferred or exempted class he shall mot be entitled to remain therein unless he shall in good faith continue while physically able to do so. .1 work and follow such occupation" Should he fail to do this, he would become subject to immediate draft.
 While the bill was before the com mittee Senator Kirby of Arkansas attempted to amend 1t so as 10 mako 2f the minimum age. He failed. but announced he would renew the figh. when the Dill reached the senate.
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HUNS FIGHT DESPERATELY TO HOLD CHAUlNES

southwest of Noyon from June on ward.
 The order is frank in explaining that because of the reducing of the German strength il finally will be impossible to hold continuous trench lines and recommends instead the creation of centers of resistance.
 The document warns commanders that should the enemy obtain a foot hould within the German lines they must consider carefully where q counter attack Is necessary or worth risking a large number of lives.
 Another captured order informs the German regiments that they must provide their own defense against low flying allied aeroplanes as the Ger man aircraft resources are so low that they cannot be expected to fight off the enemy while they are being engaged on reconnaissance work"
 This order adds that complaints from units harassed by low flying al- lied planes will not be forwarded
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CREW OF SCHOONER
 IS TWICE SUBMkRlNED
AFTER THEIR VESSEL HAD BEEN SUNK THEY WE'RE PICKED UP AND AGAIN WERE VIC
 TlMs OF SUBMARINE

Gloucester. Mass, Aug. 13.-Captain James A. Nickerson, and his crew of five men from the fishing schooner Reliance, sunk by a German subina- riIe off George Banks on Saturday morning went through the unusual experience of being submarined twice. They told their story when they ar rived home here tonight
 When the Reliance was sent to the bottom they got away in a dory aLd early in the afternoon were picked mp by the fishing schooner Kate Pal mer. That evening the submarine sunk the Kate Palmer and Captain Nickerson and his crew again took to their dory. They rowed until Mon day morning when they were picked up by third schooner.
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ace 10 Amiens; the freeing Of the i'm
 portant eastern railroad line from
 Paris to Chaions and the equally i'm
 portant northern line from Paris to Amiens, restoring to the allies means Of communication which give them enormously greater ease in future
 movement of troops
 The successes render Impossible 'any rupture of the line which would
 separate the French armies of the
 center from those to the east. or a
 rupture of the junction between the
 French and British The most dis
 astrous consequence to the Germans. |aside from the heavy losses they sus-
 tained in men and material, is the collapse of their plan to drive wedges into the allied lines and the subse- quent widening and joining which would have threatened general dis location.
 Marshal Foch's strategy in reducing the salient wedges wrested the ini- tiative in operations from the Ger
 mans. at once obliging them either to order a general retreat to a strong 1 line such as the Somme, or to engage reserves Tho enemy adopted the second alternative which. having failed. makes eventual retirement i'm Intensely core difficult.
 The first phase of the battle of the Avre finds the French with a footing upon Thiescourt Plateau, west o. : Noyon which has vital importance fin 1 future operations. The Germans
 must capture at high cost. if he can or abandon Noyon, which means the
 fall of Rove and I assieny which al- ready are under imminent menace ol capture.
 l The disaster which menaced Gen Won Hutier's army has been averted 1 for the moment. The few narrow passages which now are open for the 1 withdrawal jf his stores are so har- I rassed by the bombs of aviators anc ! the fire of heavy artillery that prompt escape is impossible, rendering prob ,ale a desperate effort by the Germans
 tc cling to their 1914 line.
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Fresh Achievements and Large Number of Guns Have Been Brought Up| By the Germans.
Germans Fearing Capture in the Pocket Between Rove and the Disc Are Re- treating Toward Noyon--The Entire German Battle Line to the North May Give Way.

forts, however, Chaulnes is revolving a mighty visitation of shells from the allied guns, and Rove has been SO enCroached upon that II is now under q heavy cross fire from both the north and sonth and seemingly bolh towns ultimately must be evacuated An added danger 10 Rove is the fact that the French in their operations are knoeking at the door of l-assigny, about seven miles to the south and also are pressing forward eastward toward NOyon in wedge driving manehyer which not only is out tlanking Rove, but bringing Noyon daily nearer the range of the biz guns
 Unofficial reports are to the ef- feet that the Germans fearing can ture in the pocket between Rove ani the Disc already are retreating along the Disc valley toward Noyon and ii the statements should prove true it is not unlikely that the entire Ger man battle line to the north will give way in unison and that even there may be a readju tment of the enemy front from Soissons to Rheims.
 Far to the north from Ypres to Albert there has been considerable activity on the part of the British and French, The German communi- cation asserts that all the attacks were repulsed
 On the Nesle river the Germans in attacks against Fismette, which Is held by the Americans and French gre declared to have driven the al lies to the southern bank of the river A counter attack, however, resulted ir the re- occupation of Fismette.
 The C2echo- Slovahs, in Russia. who are opposing the Bolsheviki ele- ment, have been formally recognized by Great Brtian as an ellied nation and their armies as an allied force wasing war against the Teutonic al lies.
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FRENCH TAKE TWO MORE
 IMPORTANT POSITIONS
GERMANS FILL HAYNES ABOUT THlEsCOURT PLATEAU WITH GAS TO RETARD ADVANCE
 OF FRENCH

With the French Army in France. Aug. 13.--The French army continued today it's vigorous assaults on the Thiescourt plateau and took two more important positions which are keys to the plateau-the Ecuvillon and St. Claude farms. This success makes the defense of the plateau a difficult one for the Germans, who are fillius all the numerous ravines and woods with mustard gas and keeping up d heavy machine gun fire in trying to cling to the parts of the heights they still hold.
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lBy the Associated Pressl

German opposition against the al lied troops from immediately north of the Somme river to just below Rove. apparently has checked for the moment their march eastward in the process of clearing the Amiens- Montdider sector Of the enemy
 It has not, however, prevented the French on the extreme southern end of the line from winning additional points of great strategic value in the hill and forest region between the Disc and the Matz, where I4assigny and Noyon are the ultimate oDjec- tives, and the capture of which not alone would result in the forced Noyon, Rove, Chaulnes line, but also would have a marked effect on the battle line running southeastward past Soissons and thence along the Vesle river.
 The battle line in the north and on the center remains virtually as it stood Monday, although all the allied  troops nave pettered slightly their positions and taken additional pris oners. The Americans and French still were ill the enYirons of Bray, north of the river while south of tha river the Germans continued in pos session of Chaulnes and Rove, which seemingly they intend to defend at all hazards Fresh endorsements and large numbers of guns have been brought up by the enemy to aid in his endeavors to hold the line, which is essential to the safety of the German armies now ;n the pocket described by Somme on the north and east and the Disc on the south.
 The Germans are not merely on the defensive. At salient points here and there they are delivering violent counter attacks against the allies and are also bombarding fiercely the rear areas.
 Notwithstanding the enemy's ef-
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With the French Army in France, Aug. 13.-After the battle of the Arre the situation of the belligerents pre- sents a change which for rapidity and extent has rarely been approached in military history.
 Marshal Foch's strategy and the masterly tactics of the generals com manding the armes and groups -oi armies under him have in three weeks wrested from the Germans what required months for them to oo- tain at a cost variously estimated al from TOO coo to 100000 men.
 The immediate result of the coun- ter offensives which will have the greatest bearing on subsequent op- erations are the clearing of the cha teau Thierry pocket, ending the men
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WILL BE COMPOSED OF FIVE ARMY CORPS
Will Take Over That Part of the Line Below Verdun to the Swiss Border - Will Name Complete Equipment independent of the British and French.

Washington, Aug. 13.-Secretary Baker was formally advised today by General Pershing that the First American field army had been creat- ed.
 General Pershing, retaining com mand of the army, as well as of the entire American expeditory force at the present.
 The dispatch added nothing to the details of the organization already made known from Paris, however, MT. Baker said. The announcement is regarded at the war department as having deep significance, mainly be- cause it places the American army in France on the same footing as French and British forces there.
 Formation of the army here is talk en to mean that the Americanization of definite portion of the front has heen completed. Supply lines, rail- ways. bases, storage facilities, de- barkation ports and the like created and operated by Americans stand be- hind the first army. The only state ment of the location of this Ameri- can front is that 'it is south of the Marne" Presumable this means part at least of the long line from St Mihiel to the Swiss border where American troops have been put in at intervals during the last few months.
 The extent of that front has not been disclosed nor has the strength of the army been given. The ad- vises that are that 1t comprises five army corps, approximately 1.25O,- GOO men.
 "The effect Of the taking over of the line is to make a definite be- ginning at portioning of the long front. The British hold the left flank aided by the Belgians. from the North Sea to the juncture of the British fourth army and the French first army in Picardy and stand between the enemy and the channel ports which would be his only road to Eng land while the British fleet exists.
 The French armies presumably are concentrated wholly between the Picardy juncture with the British and the American left beyond Verdun. They block the road to Paris.
 To the American will fall the re- mainder of the front to the Swiss border, where the other American armies shall have been formed.
 The first army undoubtedly now holds the bulk of that line with such French help as is necessary. Tho whole line is probably under General Pershings direct command. >
 As direct commander of the army in the field General Pershing will be well situated to weigh the qualities of the men he has assigned tempor- arily as corps commanders. From these five officers he probably will select the commander of the first army later and opinion here leans to- ward Major General Hunter Liggett, now commanding the first corps on the Vesle front, ais his choice. It is expected that General Pershing will soon name his permanent corps com- manders, the appointment carrying with it the rank of lieutenant general. General Liggett's corps probably is regarded as the mobile reserve of the first army as such is being employed on the French front.
 The American sector includes what always has been considered the
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AMERICAN STEAMER
 OUTDiSTANCES SUBMARINE

An Atlantic Port, Aug. 13.-Run- ming at top speed an American fruit steamer outdistanced Q German IT. boat off Fire Island yesterday morn ing and escaped the fate of the NOT wegsan steamer Sommerstad which was sunk off that point about fou' hours later. Officers of the steamer which reached this port tonight saiu the underseas craft was coming to- wards them vixen she was sighted. The steamers engines were pusheu to the limit, they said, and after a short while the U-boat gave up tne chase.
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STEAMER TORPED,oED
 OFF NEW ERSEY COAST.

Washington, Aug. 13.--The steamer Henry s. Kellogg has bseen torpedoed by a German submarine off the New Jersey coast according to- report re- ceived late by the navy department No details were received but It Was presumed that the vessel was sun afioat.
 The navy department stat e ment fol- lows.
 "The steamer Henry S. Kedlogg, fe-
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IcREW OF FISHING SCHOONER
 ROWS 1eo MILES

Nantucket, Mass, Aug. 1S.--The crew of six men Of the sword hsH1nr schooner Cruiser. who were thought to have lost their lives when their craft was sunk by a German supma- rine in Georgia Banks Saturday were brought in here today. They rowed 1S0 miles in their dories before peiug rescued off New Great Round Shoal Lightship.
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With the British Army in France. Aug. l3.--Strong enemy concentra- tions have been reported between Rove and Fouquescourt put SO far they have doD- nothing. if really they are there Tor all offensive. In the northern battle area es- peeially in the Braye regiou. new enc my defense barbed w.re has been round. while earthworks are being constructed at several places behind the German lines. Probably the enc my has removed much Of his material and has sent in nearly all the rein lorcements he cares to risk at the present time
 Morlancoun is being heavily shellcd while the enemy. with aerial bombs has apparently attempted to how up the ammunition dumps he leii in his hurry to get away
 British and French suns have been busy today pounding German rear areas and the crossings over the Som me.
 Enemy shells that are increasing in number are heinz fired at an ex- treme range probably from well on the other side of the Somme. This is especially true of shells aimed at the districts south Of the Amiens- Vese road
 Between the Ancre and the Somme the operations of the British which resulted in a small material advance and the capture Of enemy positions provoked only a scattered shelling from field guns.
 British airplanes continue to drop tons of shells on the enemy especially i'll the neghborhood of Peronne Enemy transports are also suffering from the British bombers one of them secured direct nit on transport in Ham-Nesle road II is now estab- lised that giant GOtha with five en- zines which was brought down few nights ago near Talmas, carried a crew of nine, ail of whom were killed.
 A captured enemy secret order signed Ludendorlt' lays stress upon the necessity of economizing men. The essential to the future conduct of the war are to maintain everywhere our fighting strength and the spirit of of | fensive"
 The captured war document was is sued late in June since which time the German forces have been materi- ally whittled down by the allies ar mics, but If the spirit of offensive" still exists it certainly is not among the troops that have been fighting q, | the Somme and the Marne rivers.
 "It is essential" says the order ut beginning, that all commanders of whatever rank, as we'll as all troops should be imbued with the idea that the war cannot be won by stubborn defense, bu; only by a further success sion of vigorous attacks. These attacks 1 however, cannot lead to victory un- less we adhere to and improve on the methods of warfare adopted in the recent offensives.
 The order then goes on to say that everywhere under the well tried pri.i- ciplase of the manual of infantry training in war and the additions made by the high command, namely von Hindenburg and Ludendorff, sue cess had been gained at small cost. IL ] cites as an example the operations
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scHwAg CALLS MEETING.

Washington. Aug. 13.-With the view of speeding up ship construction in the east Director Schwab today is : sued a call to eastern shipbullders to meet him in conference at Philadel- phia next Tuesday.
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logical road to Berlin for French forces. It was across lines now held by the Americans that the French struck in 1914 before the plunging army through Belgium localized the war in northern France.
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ported at eight o'clock tonight that she had been torpedoed off the New Jersey coast. Whether any of her crew were killed, injured. or lost. 3r the extent of injury done, is nos
 known at this late hour"
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IN THE BRAVE REGION BARRE 9 WIRE HAS BEEN FOUND WITH EARTHWoRkS BEING CON.
 STRUCTED
LUDENDORFF URGES
 ECONOMlzING OF MEN

Secret Order by the German Com mander is Captured-British Air planes Continue to Drop Tons or explosives on the Enemy's Positions Giant Gotha Machine is Brouaht Down.
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Forecast for Arkansas: Wednesday and Thursday unsettled, probably showers and thunderstorms in north portion.