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NATION SIZES
 MORE ENEMY
 CORPORATIONS
Alien Enemy Property Custo- dian Takes in Four German Companies With Two Mil lion Capitalization
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NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Seizure Of four more enemy-owned corporations with a total capitalization in excess of S2,000,OOO was announced here today by A. Mitchell Palmer. alien property custodian, after a conference with the Washington advisory committee of the selling branch of his department. The companies, which will be sold at pub lie auction are: The Berger & Wirth company of Brooklyn. manufacturers of printers and lithographers' inks; owned by Emil Worlitzer of 'Leipsig, Germany; the G. Seigle company of .Rosebank, s. l.. manufacturers and im- porters of colors and chemicals. owned by G. Siegle company of Stuttgart. Germany; A. w Faber. of Newark, N. J.. manufacturer of lead pencils and .stationers' supplies, owned by Alex ander, count of Faber-Castell, and his wife. Otillie. countess of Faber-Casteil. residents of Stein, Bavaria George Benda, of Boonton, N. J.. manufactur- CTS of bronze powers, a branch of the concern of the same name in Fuerth, Bavaria.
 The advisory committee of the alien property custodians office is now also considering the sale. 1t was announced. of the enemy interest of 20 per cent in the H. Koppers company of Pitts burgh. a s1.5OO.O0O concern. The com pany does a large business in design ing, building and operating by-prod"ct coke ovens.
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PERSHING SENDS COPY OF LETTER
 FOUND ON HUN
Lieutenant Says Germany Has Under-estimated Foch and His Reserve, Especially the Americans
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.-In a com munique received late today. General Pershing reports the situation along the Vesle as unchanged
 The communique quotes from a let ter found written by a German lieu tenant, later killed, to his father. 1t gives the writer's experience in the Chateau Thierry sector.
 The Americans were attacking the entire line. Never have I seen such a thing. Nobody could have withstOOd them." the lieutenant wrote.
 In closing, the letter said:
 Summing it all up I think We have under estimated his force and his re- serves. especially the Americans. have a prsentiment I shall lose my skin also. I wish it were tomorrow. |"
 The lieutenant was killed.
 The text of the cOmmunique fol- lows:
 Section A.-Along the Vesle the situation is unchanged.
 Section B.-A letter written by German lieutenant to his father has been found in the BOis De La Tournal, southwest of Fere-En-T -Tardenois. This wood was the scene of sharp fighting from July 24 to 26 in the course of which the officer was killed. The
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NEW RULES OF CLASSIFYING
 RECISTRANTS
Secretary Baker Not Satisfied With Present System and Intimates Another May Come Soon
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-New draft regulations under which the govern ment would do the selecting rather than leaving it to the registrant, are under consideration by the war de- partment. This was disclosed today by Secretary Baker after he had ap- peared before the senate committee to urge prompt enactment of the new se- lective service act extending the age limits to include all men between the ages of IS and 45.
 The war secretary made it plain that he is not satisfied with the presen. system which the registrant must claim deferred classification, as many men with dependents hesitate for pa triotic reasons to make such a claim. In this connection Mir Baker said he was inclined to the opinion that the marriage relation will in itself constr ute deferred classification.
 What Mir Baker has in mind is to lay down a set of questions which the registrants would answer and then have rules which would take care of the classification. He is understood to regard this as the fair and equitable system.
 The discussion on the draft ages be- fore the senate committee. Mir Baker said followed much the lines taken by General March, chief of staff, and Pro- vost Marshal General Crowder. The committee, he added, did not indicate any disposition to question the neces. sity for the change
 There was some discussion" Mir. Baker said, "as to whether it was the intention of the department to extend the work or fight order to include classes of persons in various profes- siOnal occupations. I told them there was no present change of the work or fight order in contemplation. l said that when I decided the baseball case thought perhaps other forms Of amusement and entertainment might require an extension of the order to be on parity with the baseball situation. but that was not in their mind
 They had heard from outside sources that the department was con- sidering bringing professional classes. like lawyers, newspapermen and per sons who were not actually engaged in producing war supplies under the or der"
 The committed" Mir Baker con- tinued. was especially interested in the effect of the extension of the draft
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ARMORED CARS ACTIVE
ONE RUNS INTO TOWN, ATTACK ING STAFF OFFICERS SEATED AT TABLE HOUSE; ANOTHER ENGAGES SUPPLY COLUMN AND KILLS ITS OFFICERS

WITH THE BRITISH AhM IN FRANCE, Aug. 9, (By the Associated Press 3-The British and French divi- sions have gained more ground in the great battle raging in the Amiens- SOmme district. The latest reports ap- pear to show that the Germans are re- tiring in great haste.
 The scenes on the battle ground over which the allies already have passed give evidence of this haste m abandoned guns, stores, and even regi- mental and artillery maps and papers.
 Aerial observers report largs streams of transports and men hurry ing eastward in full retreat.
 Beaucourt fell to the allied forces this morning and Le Quesnel also was taken after hot all-night fighting.
 The cavalry is working far back to- ward the SOmme and is still rounding uD villages, while tanks and armored cars are running over the country clearing way for the troops or killing horses drawing enemy supplies. The drivers of motor trucks and lorries are chasing parties of Germans here and there, scattering them or running them to earth.
 One of these armored cars ran into a town yesterday while a German corps was having lunch. It turned its guns through the corps quarter windows, killed some of the staff and then chased others who escaped from the house. At Rosieres another car set an enemy train on fire
 A group of cars met, far inside the enemy lines, a German supply column and halted it. Four mounted German officers came up to see what the trou- ble was and were shot from the cars which then proceeded to make quick work of the column.
 At Framerville the cars engaged a train loaded with the enemy and final ly set it afire. Tanks entered this town soon afterwards, helped the arm ored cars clean it up and then hoisted flags on the roof of the building which had been German corps headquarters. One car met a high German officer riding in an automobile along the road The officer was killed and his machine captured.
 All along the line this afternoon snipers and isolated machine gun bull lets were extremely busy, but these were being silepced one by one as the advance proceeded
 It is reported that two regimental commanders have been captured in one sector.
 Since daybreak the Germans have been making an extraordinary effort to blow up with field gun fire ammuni- tion and other dumps which they had to leave so hastily yesterday.
 Their aim was exceedingly poor
 The scene at Bayonyillers today is typical of the rest of the battle area. Broad fields of crops or brown grass fringe the town and spread for miles over the flat surrounding country. Abandoned German field guns are here with little piles of empty shell cases and the bodies of Germans are lying here and there, telling :he story of what happened. Lying off on the side
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AMERICANS COOPERATE
FRENCH AND BRITISH GO AHEAD so RAPIDLY THAT GERMAN RE- TREAT HAS REACHED PRoPoR- TONS OF RoUT IN SOME PARTS OF NEW SECTOR OF ATTACK
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fAf1 ANNf l1M AardcFNl MlItN
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.The
 startling rapidity of the British.
 French advance in Picardy. coup
 led with new success in Flanders
 and on the Vesle. produced an i'm
 prcssion among some army off
 cers that a decisive moment. per
 haps the final battle. was ar
 preaching.
 The German high command seemed to stand face to face with a vital de- eision. Either his reserves must be rushed in and pitched battle risked. or all he has gained at staggering cost abandoned and a withdrawal begun without delay.
 While no American troops are known to be involved in the Picardy thrust. the capture of Fismette. the suburb across the river from Fismes. on the Vesle, apparently is a part O. the great general scheme of attack
 Coupled with developments in Pic many officers that Marshal FOch is evidently challenging the enemy to fight it out now or to withdraw.
 The French and British have gone ahead with such rapidity in Picardy that the German retreat must have reached the proportions of a route in places. The whole bottom of the great Picardy salient has been flattened out in two days. If he is forced to with draw the last menace to Paris will be removed.
 The sudden stroke on the Lys line in Flanders which General Haig coup led with the Picardy drive today. ap- pears to make it clear that the enemy is rushing support from the north to block the holes in his line torn by the British-French thrust. The Elan ders front was found to be lightly held and good results were obtained
 The failure of the German drive on both sides of Rheims and the defeat Of the armies Of the German crown prince drew heavily on the reserves in the north. It is regarded as certain now that the mass of Prince Rup- prechts reserves must be rushed 10 the Picardy salient. even if the Elan ders bulge is surrendered.
 It appears the impending German drive in Flanders has been completely oheckmated before it started. The en- emy's whole line from Rheims north has been placed in jeopardy and the hammering on the Vesle where the capture of Fismette has paved the way for a crossing in force in a renewal of the drive to the Aisne line.
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ADOPT LUXURY TAX SCHEDULE
 FOR COUNTRY
House Ways and Means Com mittee Agrees to Place Tax on Many Articles and Fixes Maximum Prices
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 T WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.-A luxury tax schedule was adopted. an official tax advisory board for the treasury created, the tax on corporation capital stock doubled to produce an additional $30,O00,000, and a provision accepted making Liberty bonds security for all government contracts by the house ways and means committee today in framing the $S,OO0,0OO. 900 revenue bill
 The luxury proposal levies 10 per cent tax on all jewelry, to be paid by the manufacturers, producers and i'm pcrters. Covering approximately 1900 items of jewelry it supplants the pres ent law tax of per cent. The 10 per cent tax is also believed on art ob- jects, pianos and pipe organs. furs. cash registers, typewriters, photo graphs, tapestries, etc.
 In view of the wide public demand for a tax on the price paid for cer- tain other articles above a certain price. the committee accepted a linn
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ON WITNESS CHAIR DENIES THAT HE ADVOCATED VIOLENCE IN BRINGING ABOUT POLITICAL, IN- DUsTRIAL OR SOCIAL REFORMS IN HIS PAST CAREER
TO REFORM INDUSTRY
AS CHIEF WITNESS FOR DEFENCE MAN ALLEGED TO BE SWIVEL CHAIR KING OF WoB5LY ANTI WAR CONSPIRACY, OUTLINES WHAT HE SAYS HIS POLICIES
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CHICAGO, Aug. Civilian D.
 Haywood, characterized by gov ernment counsel as the swivel
 chair king" of a conspiracy to up- set Americas military program. | stoutly denied on the witness stand late today that ne had ever
 advocated violence and reasserted
 his views that essential social re-
 forms must be brought about by
 industrial rather than political methods
 The general secretary-treasurer of the Industrial Workers of the World struck a comparison between the wage slave of today and the chattel slave of the period before the Civil war"
 "The black man of the south before the war was better off," ne asserted. This slave had but one master who owned his body But this master fed him well. He was well housed and given substantial clothes. Do the work ers of the present age spend their idle hours crooning songs like the Swanee River?
 Now these black men have been brought to east St. Louis, or the Chi cago packing plants, and neither life nor happiness is secure"
 As chief witness for the defense Haywood reviewed the stormy career of the l. W. W. from it's organization in 1905 by members of the western federation of miners, the American labor union, the Social Trade and La bor Alliance and similar organizations up to the industrial strife of 1909. He reaffirmed his belief in the I. W. w. preamble to the declaration of prin- ciples which says there can be noth- ing in common between employer and worker and then pointed to what he termed the small political power of the working people.
 "The employing class is wholly con .cerned in profit making. and this con- dition brought about such tragedies as occurred at Ludlow and Bisbee," he said. Then he pointed to the long political battles for an eight hour day
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ALLIES PRESS
 ADVANTAGE IN
 STEADY MANNER
German Movement Indicates Insecurity of Ground or the Lack of Reserves Due to Other Allied Move

UNDATED WAR LEAD, BY
 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 Over a curving front of more than
 twenty miles the British and
 French troops are continuing to
 sweep back the Germans east
 ward across the plains of Picardy
 from the region north of the Som-
 me east of Morlancourt to the
 eastern bank of the Avre north west of Montdidier.
 As on the first day of the of- fensive material progress was
 made Friday over the entire battle front. Many villages were cap
 tured; the bag of prisoners was largely increased; numerous guns and great quantities of war stores were taken and heavy casualties were inflicted. The losses of the Anglo-French forces are relatively small
 To the allied forces there have fall en 17,000 German prisoners and be tween 200 and 300 guns, many of them of heavy calibre, and innumerable machine guns, trench mortafs and kin dred small weapons
 To the north of the Picardy theateI the Germans also have given ground on two important sectors-on the Lys salient, northwest of La Bassee and in the region southwest of Ypres, north of Kennel. On the Lys sector ter ritOry over a front of more than sev en miles was evacuated by the enemy while to the north of Kemmel the Bri tish advanced their line over a front exceeding 1000 yards.
 These maneuvers seemingly in- dicate the Germans either con sidered their ground insecure or that Crown Prince Rupprecht's army has been materially de- creased in strength to rush rein forcements to the battle zones where the German armies in the south are being sorely harrassed After the British had penetrated the Picardy salient to a depth of nearly thirteen miles in the center toward the important railroad of Chaulnes the northern and southern Hanks oi the battle front gave way before the pressure respectively of the British and French.
 On the north the British captured Morlancourt and pressed on eastward while on the south, northwest oi Montdidier, Pierrepont, Contoire and Arvillers were taken by the French who drove in their wedge to a distance of more than eight and a half miles.
 The tanks, armored cars and cavalry are still working through out the entire region, while air planes are soaring far behind the lines, bombing transport and troop movements and also paying par ticular attention to the bridges over the Somme by which the en- emy is endeavoring to escape. All
 behind the line the Germans are destroying ammunition depots as
 they quit their positions.
 With the new turn of events Mont
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other way, the letter stated, could they be assured of the continuance of their industry or the preservation of their organizations.
 The letter was in response 10 pro posa made yesterday by Hugh chal- mers on the part of the manufacturers to curtaiI the passenger car industry 50 per cent. The war industries board declared that the present situation re-
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Inspection ShOWs That
 28,OOO RGin Coats Were
 Faulty m Their Texture

ments issued to thousands of his troops. already have been rein spected. Of these more than 51 per cent were rejected. Approxi- mately 19,O0O coats in possession of the war department at this port remain to be examined.
 Details of the reinspection. which involves thus far seventeen manufacturer were made public by authority of the quartermas- ter's corps and Assistant United States Attorney Huston ThOmp- son. The inquiry has resulted in the indictment of more than score of individuals and corpora tions.
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KILLED IN FALL
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 COLON. Aug 9.-First Lieutenant Thomas R. Evans of Santa Cruz, Cal, and Corporal George D. Sensey of Ridgefield Park. N. J., were killed to- day in an airplane accident. The plane in which they were flying dropped into Colon bay in forty feet of water. and the men. strapped in the machine. were drowned
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Hun Sub Sinks Another UnGrmed American Crdft
 100 Miles From Coast

and then put off in a gasoline launch. The members of the sub marine crew footed the ship be- fore sinking it with a bomb. Cap tain McAlOney and his crew spent three days in the launch in the gulf stream before they were picked up.
 The submarine was described by Captain McAloney as the U-l32 three hundred and fifty feet long and mounting four guns, two six inch fore and aft coming towers with a small gun on either side. The captain said the Germans spoke English we'll and were cOure teOus.
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BRITISH AND FRENCH CONTINUE VICTORIOUS ADVANCES
AUTO INDUSTRY. UNCERTAIN

gsrdine steel and other materials need ed for war work gave little assurance of material required for the nanufac- ture of passenger automobiles even af- ter providing for war requirements.
 Pending receipt by the hoard of sworn inventories of materials on hand requested last July 16, no materials will be permitted passenger car man. ufacturers.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. e.-Manufae- turers of passenger automobiles were
 advised by the war industries board
 today to convert their plants to 100 per cent War work as rapidly as pos sible and to place them on that basis
 not later than January i, 1919, in a
 letter addressed to the National Auto mobile Chamber of Commerce. Tn no
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MARSHAL FOcH LOOKS
 TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER
 AND GREATLY RELIEVED

PARIS, Aug 8 (Havas Agency). Those who have met Marshal Foch in the last few days are unaui- mcus in declaring that he is in great good humor. according to La Liberte.
 Premier Clemenceau who dined with the marshal yesterday said he found him radiant, and looking twenty years younger than when he had last seen him.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-More than 2S,000 army raincoats, simi- lar in poor material and workman ship to a large number of sup posedly waterproof garments de- livered 10 American soldiers over seas have been found defective by inspectors who tonight reported progress of an examination of gov ernment stores at Brooklyn ware houses.
 Federal officials announced fir ty-fiVe thousand raincoats with held from shipment when General Pershing forwarded from France complaints of leaky storm gar
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NEWPORT NEWS. Va. Aug. 9. The American schooner Stanley L. Seaman. bound from Newport News to a foreign port, was sunk last Monday. 11O miles east of Cape Hatteras by a German sub marine. Captain W. C. McAloney and crew of eight men arrived only today at this port, having been picked up by a British vessel
 The Seaman. Captain McAloney said, was fired on without warn ing while becalmed about noon Monday. The crew took to their small boats, but were later per mitted to return for provisions,
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CALIFORNIA REGISTRATION
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 SACRAMENTO. Cal. Aug. 9.-A total of 1.151 .065 voters registered in California between January and July 27. Of this number l26,4S3 declined to state any party utilization.
 Registration parties follow:
 Republican. 621.772; Democrats, 326. .567: Progressive. 1S.645; Socialists. 27, ,S99: Prohibition. 2S.791; union labor, S4; miscellaneous, SS.
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ITALIAN PLANES DROP
 MANIFESTO IN VIENNA
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 ROME. Aug. 9.-A squadron of Ital- ian airplones, commanded by Captain Gabriel D. Annunzio. has flown over Vienna and dropped manifestoes. The planes were not mOlested.
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GERMAN HIGH COMMAND IS
 FACING END

WASHINGTON BELIEVES eENER- ERALS OF HUN ARMY MUST DE- cIoE EITHER GIVE GROUND GAINED IN YEAR OR STAND AND TRY ISSUE IN BATTLE
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ON CURVING 70 MILES OF
 FRONTAGE

ALLIED FORCES CAPTURE MORE THAN 17,ooo PRISONERS AND BE- TWEEN 200 AND 900 GUNS WHILE GERMANS FALL BACK PREcIPfTATELY
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WEATHER.

Arizona: Saturday un- settled and somewhat warmer. possibly rain.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-12

Smashing the German line on the left wing, the French have advanced a mile on a front of seven and one half miles and threaten the German gains on the center and along the right bank of the Disc. At the apex of their advance the Germans are within seven miles of Compiegne on the northwest. On the French right center the Germans have gained four miles along the Disc to Bethancourt, but apparently have not budged the Allied lines on the left bank.
 The furious fighting which has marked the present German attempt since it's inception on Sunday con- tinues unabated from south of Mont didier to the Disc. Regardless of heavy losses, the Germans are throw ing in divisions of fresh troops.
 In driving back the Germans on their left the French menace all the enemy gains in the center and right center of the battle line. If the French advance continues the enemy is in fair way to be caught in a pocket in the hills between the Met and the Disc.
 Belloy, Genlis wood, to the south and the heights between Courcelles and Mortemer were retaken by the French. The Germans battled stub- ,bornly and suffered heavy losses. The French also took 1000 prisoners anC several guns. Heavy fighting is talk ing place around Chevrincourt anc Antheuil This is the center of the German advance and the French holt heights to the east, south and north west
 Berlin in it's statement of Tuesda! night reported the repulse of Frencl attacks southwest of Noyon anC claimed no progress. The earlie German statement told. of the captur of more than 10000 prisoners, bring ing the captures since Sunday to 1S,OO and since May 2 to 75,000.
 Paris remains confident in the out come while military observers in Lon don view the latest enemy attempt a