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New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Moroccan Troops
With u. S. Fighters
Celebrate July A
Present. u. S. Commander
With Arab Headdress az
Token of Friendship
By Wilbur Forrest

Especial Gable to The Tribune)
Copyright, 1918. by Tho Tribune Association)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES, July
GA group of Moroccan soldiers cele-
brated the Fourth in their own way
in an isolated camp in Eveque Wood
where Americans and Moroccans are
under fire side by side. News of their
celebration has just filtered back in
the French army report.
A delegation presented the American
commander, Colonel Ficke, with q
"chechia''-a Moroccan Arab headdress
And the spokesman gravely and cere-
moniously spoke as follows:
ITO the noble, magnificent, very
honored and powerful colonel com
manding the American troops! May
God accompany you and accord you
His benediction and His favors!
"Following the custom of our coun-
try, where an exchange of turbans is
a sign of eternal alliance, ask you to
accept this chechia in memory of the
hours passed since the coming of the
American battalion, and in recognition
of our devotion and pride in fighting
beside the great American republic for
the great cause of humanity and to as
sure the liberty of the world.
"a salute of those who kiss your
hands!"
The group kissed the colonel's hands
He responded with much emotion
placed the chechia on his head, and
wore it all day long.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

c,w,shk 1slS-The Tribune Association tThs New
York Tribunc)
r<HE lull through which the main
operations on the Western
l. front are now passing is an
Indication of the weight of the blow
which the enemy received when Cen
eral Margin counter attacked upon
the Matt on June II. The enemy
did not Immediately break off the
battle, as perhaps he logically should
have done. His losses were conse-
ouently all the heavier, but by the
18th he could do no more than stop.
About three weeks, therefore, have
passed since the last German often
sye was brought to q halt on the
Matz.
The delay has puzzled people a
good deal, for it is obvious that the
enemy not only has worked quickly.
but that he had planned from the be-
ginning of the year to work quickly.
1t is important to understand why
these halts (every one of which is to
cur advantage in proportion to it's
length on account of the rapidly in
reasing American reinforcement)
are imposed upon the enemy, and
how they in some measure are the
tests of the success of the defensive.
The enemy's new tactics in attack,
which he designed and perfected af-
ter the collapse of Russia, had very
great results, as we know to our cost
Caporetto was the first example of
its successful use, ST Quentin was
the second, the Battle of the Lys the
third and the breaking Of the front
between scissors and Rheims the
fourth. From first to last it has
given to the enemy in these great
actions alone not far short of q half
million prisoners and something like
1000 guns. That is tremendous re-
suit
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Two Sources Left
for Recruitment

Now losses Of this kind must be
.epiaesd, and the only two sources
l.om = which they can be replaced by
Sefnany are from lads just incor-
p0rated with the army, and from
hospital returns. Further, the inter-
nai organization Of the units en-
S"yed Is certainly disturbed by such
. 1sses, and thorough reorganization
required In proportion, therefore.
" uae severity Of the loss after each
80 ssack must be the delay required to
ai the gaps, for hospital returns
Us4nand time and 80 doey the in
"Doration into the units Of the
'0angsr recruitment.
apart from this there is a second
ssAi' 70 special and intensive train
s 1he divisions chosen for deliv-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Germans Have
Still Three Months

The enemy hopes that at least one
of these efforts will give him a true
decision, break the line for good and
permit him to roll up one section of it,
putting whole group of armies out
OF action. Hitherto not even the
great successes he has attained have
given him any such result. He has
still three months in hand, however,
for the continuation of his expert
ment, and his military chiefs believe
that within that limit of time he can
defeat us.
Of those three months two will be
months of increasing strain upon the
civilian population, for it will hardly
be before September that this strain
will be relieved by the beginning of
the harvest.
The present delay is the effect of
the Matz battle. The delay of the
month after April 20 was the effect
Of the great action in front Of Ken-
mel. We will probably see a cor
responding delay, perhaps one OF
even greater duration, in the case of
the Austrians.
It is quite futile to discuss upon
which point the enemy will renew his
attack, and I cannot understand why
any one should waste his energies in
a vain effort Of this sort. My readers
will remember that before the great
attack Of May 81 I summarized for
them various sectors upon which the
expected great offensive might be de-
livered, analyzing the advantages
and disadvantages of each and
pointing out that the most favorable
upon the whole for the enemy was
the region in front of Cambria and
St Quentin. In point of fact the
attack took place there. This was
no case of prophecy; it was merely
that the balance of conditions was
presented for the reader himself to
judge.
We are in the same situation TO-
day. We know the general lines
Of things and can show what advan-
tages and disadvantages there are on
either side, but cannot pretend to
prophesy without open and confessed
folly.
The. general situatiea IL thast AAe
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Mohammed WI Is
Proclaimed Sultan
Follows Predecessor to Grave
After He Is Made
Turks Ruler

AMSTERDAM, July 6-Mohammed
vi vas proclaimed Sultan of Turkey in
the throne room of the Top Kapu Pal
ace yesterday morning, according to a
Constantinople dispatch received here
The burial of Mohammed V occurred
later, the coffin being transported from
the palace Of the Mosque Of Ejub by
motor boat. The new Sultan followed d
the burial party in his steam yacht.
The new Sultan probably Is Yusseff
lzzedine, eldest son Of the late Sultan
Abdul Aziz. The latter was deposed
IN 1875 and soon afterward committed d
suicide. Yusseff is a first cousin of
Ala Eddine. Mohammed's eldest son.
=, The fact that the cousin rather than
tne son succeeds to the throne is due
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Losses in New Tactics
Four Times as Great

But there are necessary conditions
attaching to the new tactic which
are productive of these long pauses
between its blows and which are,
therefore, a handicap to its final
success. The first of these conditions
is very high expense in men and
the second is the necessity for special
Intensive training of the troops to be
used.
In the use of this method the enc
my is compelled to budget for very
high loss Of men in a very short time,
because, though he may cut his losses
after breaking the line, he is nearly
always compelled in delivering his
first blow to a normal rate of ex-
penditure, which is far beyond any
thing hitherto known even in this
war. In one case fortune favored
him SO that he broke the line cheaply
r this was the attack of May 27
between Scissors and Rheims. But
IN every other case he has had to pay
as the price of his success in a week
or ten days as much as he paid dur
ng period Of four or five times as
long under the older method Of at
tack AS proof of this witness his
tremendous losses during the whole
Of March p and up to the time a
breach in the line was effected at st.
Quentin on March %; his very
heavy losses in the check he received
In front Of Arras and the action of
April in the attempt to turn
Amlens; his losses at Givenchy and
the appalling expense in men on
April %.
Upon the Matz it was the same
story, the only difference being that
there he did not effect his purpose at
al We have seen in Italy how these
new tactics, in which the Austrians
aad been carefully instructed by the
1ermans, and which were copied from
NE German methods, broke down in
rae hands of the Austrians because
9e nsses exhausted the effort.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Soldier Escorts Forbidden

HUNTINGTON, l. l., July s.-The
Board of Health passed an ordinance
to-day, making it misdemeanor pun
ishable by fine OF $50 or imprison-
ment for six months or both, for a
woman to appear on the streets of
huntington between p. m. and $3.50
a. m. with a soldier or sailor, unless
he is q member of her immediate
family or is known to the woman's
parents and they have given the
couple their permission to be together.
This is similar in effect to ordinances
recently passed by adjacent Long
Island towns. Many soldiers from the
aviation camp at Commack and. from
Camps Upton and Mills have been in
the habit of visiting Huntington fire.
quently.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

to forest obstacles. Both were unon
much the same scale: both were the
same complete local success, based in
each case upon surprise, and in both
cases the local cause of the attack
probably was the discovery that the
enemy was preparing to use the sec
tor IN question for further attack
on his own part.
Inc British action was undertaken
IN front of Hazebrouck junction. Mt
the northeastern corner of the
Nleppe, which covers that important
point. 1t was delivered on front of
about 5000 yards, held by two d.
visions-the 32d Saxon, think, upon
the right, and the 42d Reserve. which
is Prussian division, upon the left.
The attack was delivered early Fri
day morning and completely defeated
the force opposed to it, occupying to
the depth of mile all posts that the
enemy had established. 1t had the
advantage of surprise and was ef-
fected with comparatively small loss,
and though the number of prisoners
taken was not large in proportion to
the sector attacked the losses in
f1icted were heavy and, what is of
more Importance, there was evidence
that high disorganization of the enc
my forces had been caused. Just over
400 prisoners, two field guns and
numerous machine guns were taken.
and it is estimated that about 1000
OF the enemy were put out of action
in addition to the prisoners.
10 the north Of the main sector
attack Australians supported the
movement on the flank, the main ac
ton being for the most part the work
OF British country troops. The enc
my had not constructed any regular
trench system, but had only linked
up crater holes and he also depended
further back upon strong points or
ganized in the ruins Of farmsteads.
The French attack was delivered
on the northeast corner of the Forest
Of Villers-Cotterets all along the
rather deep valley of Lastersines-
C@uvres. This is a region where,
after the battle of Matz, the enemy
made a strong local effort with no
less than six divisions to outfank
the forest positions. Had he sue.
ceeded he would have got into the
open country which lies west of the
forest and between it and the Forest
of Compiegne, and this would have
begun to turn the great obstacle
which the Forest of Villers- Cotterets
presents. He so far succeeded that
he pushed the French back beyond
the ravine of which l have spoken.
and apparently he was preparing an
other stroke in this region when the
French surprise attack of Friday,
June %, was delivered at the same
hour as the British effort in the
north.
We have not yet been given any
details as to the numbers and de-
scription of the German troops on
this front of over six thousand yards,
but we may presume that, as in the
British case, some two or three di-
visions were engaged. The number
of prisoners taken was large-1 200
in all.
The belt of strong points seized by
the French covered, as in the case of
the English attack, about a mile, or
little more.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Austria to Persecute
Jugo-Slav Leaders
Blacklists Are Prepared in
Campaign to Suppress
Movement
(special Dispatch to The Tribune)

(Spccidl Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, July 6.-The Aus
trian government has issued secret
circular containing instructions to the
auth critics as to how to proceed in
order to put down the Jugo-Slav move
ment, according to information re-
ceived by the Serbian News Bureau
here.
The police have prepared blacklist
secuted "according to we'll known
methods" the advices state. Pressure
is to be used against the Jugo-Slav
clergy and state functionaries, and the
circular orders their intimidation.
Austria, in seeking to minimize the
Importance of the Jugo-Slav movement
and to discredit it in foreign coun-
tries, has falsified the census, official
being cited. There villages with no
German population at all are inscribed
in the official statistics as German.
For that reason the Slovenes have
taken their own census privately in
Carinthia, and the following shows the
number Of Slovenes found by the Of
fetal and private census:
Official. Private.
CeIovec ..,,..,.. 1,779 S,185
Snital ......,... &c 2,427
ST. Vid. id............. 385 5,249
Volsperl ......... 1902 4,497
Totals .. 4.032 &c. .403
In these four places $1,000 Slovenes
were not represented in the official
census, Notwithstanding that Carinthia
is the centre of the Slovene nation.
In some of the towns, including Cello
vec (Klagenfurth), the people elected
their own officials, who took the oath
in the Slovene language:
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Has Three Main
Possibilities Left

Many publicists suggest that the
attack will come in the north. They
have no evidence upon which to go
and l do not propose to follow them.
All we can say is that the enemy has
three main possibilities before him
the northern, central and southern
avenues of attack. But he has ex-
hausted about half of the total mar
gin of men in sight for him between
March and September, and if he tries
anything less than complete break
ing of the line it will prove that he
has been reduced more than we
thought, or that the original failure
of his plan to separate the French
and English armies on March % led
him to dissipate his campaign and
trust to the chances of following up
that one of several blows which may
prove the more successful.
The minor actions which alone dis
tinguish the last week in June-one
British and the other French-are
not things to exaggerate in view of
the tremendous struggle which the
enemy will renew at the earliest pos
sible moment: that is, after he has
fully recruited, reorganized and re-
covered from the heavy check which
he suffered rather less than three
weeks ago on the Matz. But they
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

are interesting from several points
of view.
In the first place they show the
similarity of design which springs
from the present united command.
although they took place on sectors
a hundred miles apart. Both the
actions of the British in the north
and the French in the south were
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

to the religious and civil laws which
for hundreds Of years have determined
the succession of the reigning house Of
Osman.
Yussef Is extremely short of stature
and will enjoy the distinction of being
the smallest ruler in Europe He is
more than fifty eight years old.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

enemy has the initiative through his
now greatly superior numbers; he
can strike where he will until that
advantage is lost to him, until the
rapid growth of the American re-
cruitment. He cannot strike when he
will, because we have seen each check
compels him to pause, and in pTopor-
tion to the severity of the check is
the length of that pause. We're he
free of this disability he would have
made the battle continuous. His sue
cessive losses after each partial fail
ure have rendered continued action
impossible.
He had, roughly speaking, six
months in which to win or lose.
Throughout that period the handicap
in his favor will get less and less.
The first and most favorable half of
that period has already been con-
sumed. He must now finally break
the line and get upon a new Allied
flank in the remaining three months
or expect defeat.
The opportunity he now possesses
resides principally in the fact that
he has already gravely limited the
power of the Allies to manmuvre.
Any considerable retirement in the
northern sector will imperil the ports
through which the British army is
supplied. Any considerable retire
ment in the central sector will un-
cover Amiens, and imperil commu-
nications between the northern and
southern portions Of the Allied ar
mics. Any considerable retirement
III the southern sector will imperil
Paris, with all the political conse-
quences involved.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

o Command rthe
b impending !"
he army supled
central
DANCE to Paris sin ebakgr
where the Allied
)byh hin front Of
b eForet VMersC NS
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

AND WHAT OF HIS CHILDREN7
DEAD IN mo MANS LAND"
He does not ask our words of praise.
Who lies out there before:
He asks that we shall save his child,
AS our 'bit" toward the War.
He asks that we shall give It bread
And clothes and shelter, too;
He asks it for the life he gave
To square the debt that's due.
To square the debt that's due to him,
Who gave his all that we
Might live in peace through years to come,
lnvincible and free
The cold, grey dusk, the silent night
Look down upon his face:
His little one is fatherless--
Unless we take his place.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
New German Tactics Produce
Great Results, but at a
Frightful Cost
Foe Has Three Months
To Try for Decision
Possesses Advantage IL
Allies Limited Power to
Manoeuvre Troops
By Hilaire Belloc

r,wrisht. 1slS-The Tribune Association tThs New
York Trtbunc)
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
The Immediate Relief
To Italy Fund

No Delays No Red Tape. Contributions Cabed Weekly.
he Money Yoa Give This Week Will Be Doing Its Work Next Week
HE DID HIS "BIT"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

Brooklyn, New Jersey and Long Island Customers
Direct to GIMBES via Tubes and Subway.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-01
From Sally's Diary.

London, July p. l7-One Of those
low days Muggy and gray without
moody and gray within | find | am
very ordinary young woman, weak
and wabbly ! fee suspended between
earth and heaven ailoat IN space, un
able 10 grasp anything firmly II is
this horrible inaction. A host Of mem
ories lcerlng al me across an ocean
and half \ continent from a man VINO
does not need me A host OF prayers
lcaplng to me from across this li,.,e
strip OF English channel from wound
ed men who do need me And | Alorc
IN this great, strange city, my hands
IDLE my heart prey 20 remembrance
of what was and yearning Tor what Is
TO be
But I shouldn't say am alone. Dr.
Rolf is here. and other adorable
friends But somehow their pleasant
company Is like a sip OF milk when
what You really want is something TO
set your teeth into and tear ! must
have loving work TO rll my empty
heart or ! shall 60 mad
Oh, 10 drench myscli in work To
lose my thoughts in thoughts of OBJ
crS To weary by body IN scryircl
am like a driukcr deprived of his g'as..
Love was my drink, and when that was
Snltchcd aw,y ! slipped at this and
that Substl'@ a draught OF acton. 4
draught OF Or WILL" a draught oi
Roger Landis-uniil now have n1'n-
ing but an insirid dose OF London
Sights which leaves my thirst I'M
slakcd
London gives me a strange rcnsa-
ton OF baftlcmcnt Our language IS
supposed to be the same. Yet here IS
something so different about the Eng
li,h speech. English manners -",,l
the English traffic custom OF turning
to lett instead Of to right-that | miss
the comfortable kinship | expected.
July OAFeeling better. "Dr. VIII"
took me for a series Of bus rides today
which criss-CroSscd pretty much the
whole city My heart went ont to this
nation OF bcreaycd women who are
working at mems occupations with such
inspired zeal Dear "Dr. Willw Ec
protests so little at my rloomiacss Vet
his unspokcn word is, "See these flou-
sands upon thousands of woes so brave
ly borne How infinitely greater ncy
are than yours !"
When | am with him my ewes see
the broader horizon When I am Alone
again my vision narrows TO my petty
self
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July 3l.-"Dr wiz has had me
placed upon his staff. | am to taxc
orders from him, work with him and
under his direct supervision.
Has he read in my heart the need
OF his Guiding strength Or what?
"Dr. WIZ is, believe. the most 3pcn-
did man have hnown, except my
father.
August lSt.-Thank God we are to
leave for Paris immediately-word has
come at last! My spirit rises like a
soaring bird
August 2nd-On the channel boat
could not sleep in that hideoui. s,uiiy
cabin. ! am writing by .he light OF
tiny shaded lamp in a corner a. the
saloon The steamer pitches fright
fully and II ] were not OF cist,rln |
should be as i'll as those joor souls be-
lot There is no moon. The dccE,
show no lights. have stang, feel
ing OF crossing from one world 10 an
other, wrapped IN mystery.
August jrd.-France Or is /. rust
a dream2
The events Of the past twelve hours
leave me feeling like parrot in 4 cage
which some one has whrlcd round and
round. | could glimpse nothing clearly
nor get my breath. A lightning ike
transfer from the channel port 10 Paris
Arrival at the great station in the early
dawn. Crowds Of uniformed men IN a
weller OF guns and blankets and boxes
and canvas blps filled with tIatr rr,r
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-01

Dy NNbA kN hMiNhs
Copyright 1915. by the New York Times.
the Chicago Tribune and the oklahoma
AMSTERDAM, June 3O.-Vcry good
ground exists for the belief that Won
huchlmann IN making his first speech
was following the chanccllor's ins,ruc-
touS and that the chancellor in his at
ttudc was supported by all the import
ant members oi the government II was
decided the time had come to endclyor
to make the German people aware OF
the seriousness of the situation gen
orally and 20 prepare them for a long
struggle. The foreign minister. there.
fore, was put mp to speak on the Fines
on which he spoke As, however, a
change OF government at this particular
moment would have the most serious
consequences the foreign minister was
given to understand if his speech en-
dangercd the life Of the government his
uttcrance would be explained away
disowncd in fact Won Kucflmann
knew the plan might cost himShis Of
flee but he fell in with the scheme
because, time server though he be. what
he was to say was what he really al
the bottom Of his hear, believed
The reception to the speech immc-
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Hearing in Green
Case Is Postponed

Further hearing on application Of Re
ccWcr b. G. Housed Of the Great West
crn Guarantee Investment company to
Iud funds alleged TO have been hidden
bv Ellsworth !. Green and i. II. Green.
scheduled before Judge Edward y.
Oldiicld this morning, was continued
until . o'clock Tuesday
The receiver and his attorneys have
been trying for some time to find r.
l. Cochran, formerly OF Norman, and
have him tell what he did with several
thousand dollars that was turned over
TO him by Mrs. Green, Immediately fol
lowing the arrest of her husband and
son Attorneys for the Greens, it was
stated today, have promised to have
Cochran here and testify tomorrow
-W.Ga
No pleasure is comparable 10 the
standing upon the vantage ground Of
truth.-Bacon
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-01
Huns Minimize Prowess of
Americans, But Yankees Keep
"Mopping Up" Just the Same

America has half a million more men
in France OF those here he says.
Mobile warfare will show the worth
OF these American troops, and TIE in
SufficienCy OF their tactical preparation
will soon be proved.
These critics may now have to ex-
plain how the American units which
the Germans almost destroyed on
June g are now holding the positions
back OF which the critics claimed they
had been driven almost three week,
ago, and also that before the same
American units seven German divisions
have been used mp 10 date.