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New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Herve Says Foch
Is Withholding
British Offensive

PARIS, June 13.-Gustave Herve, in
his newspaper LA Vlctoirc," under
takes to answer the question. which he
says reaches him from many readers:
Why should the remainder of the West
ern front be inactive while the Ger
mans are making the greatest efforts,
and why should not the British make a
strong attack which would relieve the
pressure on the French.
The editor points out that General
Foch, as generalissimo. disposes of all
the Allied armies, British, American,
French. Italian, Belgian and Portu-
guese. If he does not move the British
forces, it is contended, it may be be-
cause there are still heavy concentra-
tions of German reserves before the
British front and that the front must
be held solidly. General Foch may also
feel able with the French reserves to
defeat the menace toward Paris.
"Our generalissimo," M. Herve con-
cludes, "knows too we'll the vital i'm
portance, strategically and economi-
cally, of the capital to leave it to the
mercy Of any unfortunate chance"
Commenting on the battle situation
to-day, the military critic of thu
"Temps" concludes his article, which
is in an optimistic vein, as follows:
ave have done and are doing all that
is possible. To-day we are holding the
German attack until the entry into tn,
line Of all the American troops in
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Allies i'm Balkans
Gain Over 9 Miles:
Capture II Towns

LONDON, June 13.-Following uu
their gains of previous days west of
Lake Ochrda, on the Macedonian front
the Allied armies have pushed north
ward to the source of the Skumbi
River, extending their advance to a
depth of nine and a half miles on a
front of twelve miles, the French War
office announced tonight.
Extensive Bulgarian food and ammu-
milton supplies and 80 prisoners have
been captured in the advance.
The official announcement. dated
Wednesday, SAID:
The operations on Mount Kaza and
Lenia were continued with success. On
the right our advanced forces pro.
gressed on Crete and Coratop as fa,
as the source of the Skumbi river
and on Kukti. In the centre, we have
penetrated Sinaprente and captured
extensive food and ammunition SUP.
plies. We have organized the ground
taken. The advance made is along
an extent Of eighteen kilometres
twelve miles) to depth of fifteen kilo-
metres (9A miles). We have occupied
eleven villages and the number OF
prisoners taken is 310."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Italian Scouts Dodged Through
Destroyers to Sink Battleship

struck her just aft the second funnel
AS the torpedoes exploded | saw the
mighty ship tremble, two great foun.
talns of water rose high in the air and
black smoke wclled up from the rents
in her side
Then l ran for it, escaping between
tn ihe destroyers. One gave chase firing
but dropped depth charge bomb and
1t exploded under the destroyer. | saw
her leap into the air, turn sharply and
then stop"
ROME, Wednesday, June 12.-"Thc
splendid exploit on the Dalmatian
coast is equivalent to great naval
battle won," says the idea Nazionale. y
commenting on the achievement of
Commander Rizzo. The newspaper be-
lieves that the two Austrian battle
ships torpedood by the two torpedo
boats under his command were lost.
Commander Rizzo is the same officer
who entered the port of Triest and
torpedocd the Austrian battlcship
Wien on December 8, 1917.
This time says the newspaper
"some of the largest ships of the Aus,
trian feet left Pola from which thev
had never issued since the beginning
of the war, but which is now consid-
cred unsafe after the audacious exploit
of Commander Pellegrin, who sue
ceeded in entering that harbor and tor
pedoing q dreadnoupht."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Italy tIonors First
Two Americans Slain

WAsHINGTON, June l3.-Decora-
tions awarded hy the Italian govern
ment to Richard Cults Fairfield, OF
New York and Boston, and William
Davenport Platt, Of Baltimore, the first
two Americans to meet death while as
sisting Italy in the war, have been sent
to the embassy here to be forwarded
to their families.
The young mcn-Fairheld was only
eighteen. while Platt was twenty six
were killed by bomb explosion in
the court of hospital at Mestre, where
they went on January 26 to remove
wounded, being made the objects of a
German air raid. They were ambu-
lance drivers in Red Cross unit, and
were buried with military honors in
the town where they were killed.
Fairfield ran away from home when
his mother, Mrs. James Cummings
Barr, said he was too young to serve
on the fighting fronts. Rodman Wana-
maker Cd, a grandson of John Wanna
maker. formerly Postmaster General,
provided him with money. On the ship
going over he fell in with william
Davenport Platt. The decoration is
the Italian medal for military valor.
Fairfield had entered Harvard for his
first year when he ran away. Both the
young men belonged to families of
wealth and social position.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
N. Y. Flying Cadet
Killed In Texas
p. II. Long Dashed to Ground
When His plane Becomes
Unmanageable

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, June 3d.
Percy II. Long. of Locust Valley, L. l.,
flying cadet at Kelly Field, was killed
to-day when his plane became un-
manageable. when struck by gust of
wind, and fell four miles from the field.
His mother is Mrs. Annie Long, of
Locust Valley.
The parents of Percy l.. Long, who
was killed near Kelly Field, San An
tonic, Tex, yesterday was unaware of
his death until late last night. His
father, Edward F. Long, who is super
intendent of the Tully estate at Locust
Valley, Long Island, received a cheer.
full letter from his son several hours
before the news of the boys death
reached him.
Long was twenty-five years old and
was born in Brooklyn. Before his
transfer to the aviation corps, he was
a member of Troop c, 1st Cavalry,
Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Craving for Peace
Sho.Ur1 in Many
German Letters

LONDON, June 13 British Admi-
rally. per Wireless Press) ).-Private
letters from Germany which have come
into Allied hands indicate the heavy
weight which the war has imposed upon
the poor in that country Anxiety for
peace finds frequent expression, as
we'll as anger with the militarist ele-
ment in the nation.
1--WE hope that peace will come
soon" writes man from Berlin, "for
il the war lasts much longer, then the
people here will make peace. Twice
already there have been small riots,
but when the third comes it won't 90
we'll vita the rich people. For the poor
there is so little food that they can
hardly live, while the rich people have
stores laid up for years. Poor peo.
pie are only 6t to be shot. The men
in the field suffer for the rich and we
have to 60 hungry"
Along the same lines a man from
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Pope 'Deplores
False Views of
His Peace Efforts
Letter to Episcopacy of
Lombardy Declares His
Position Misrepresented
World in Sad Period
Laments 'Insidious Campaign
of Calumny and Hatred
Against Vatican"

ROME, June 13.-The "Osservatore
Romano" the Vatican organ. publishes
n papal autographed letter sent in an
swer to an address received by the
Pontiff from the episcopacy of Lom-
hardy.
The Pope complains of the sad
period the world is going through and
also of attacks from "the enemies of
religion to the supremest authority,
Jesus Christ" He adds that he is
greatly afflicted mot only by the inde-
scribable horrors of this war, which,
without parallel in the history of the
world, threatens to drag poor Europe
TO the bottom of an abyss, but also by
an insldious and skilful campaign of
caiumnies and hatred against the per
son Of the Pontiff and his work"
The Pope, in recapitulation of his
action since the beginning of the war,
says his efforts to bring about peace
have been misjudged and misinter-
preted, even his silence about this or
that crime being calumniously inter
preted. his critics not admitting that
.'in the present uncertainty Of this
blaze Of passions it is impossible to in
flct condemnation for each crime while
all are included in a condemnation pro-
nounced according to the general prin-
ciplc.''
The Pontiff regrets that such a cam
palgn has been conducted also against
the clergy and Catholics, thus spread
ing the seeds of discord among various
classes. The Autograph ends with a
protest denouncing the campaign, not
only to the faithful, but all honest peo-
pie, wherever they happen to be, and
a reaffirmation that it is the Pope's
duty to defend the sanctity and honor
of the Church.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
British Newspapers
Say Germans Fear
OfU. s. Force Gro.us

LONDON, June 13.-"The westmin-
ster Gazette" says in its leading. edi-
torial to-day:
One anxiety of the enemy we can
perceive clearly in Won STEMS labored
efort to prove that the American rein
iorcements are negligible. Let him be-
Iieve IT. and the more the German Cen
eral Staff believes it, the better in the
long run for the Allies.
10 make great army, to create
oattallons, brigades and divisions out
o. ra" human material and provide
'nem with equipment, transport and
STATS, is a very formidable business.
requiring long and jealous prepare
uon, the results of which will not an
pear quickly in the fighting line. But
when they do appear they will increase
rapidly and formidably until they cor
respond to the power and resources of
the nation behind them.
Won Stein knows that as we'll as
we do. He knows that the gallant and
serviceable American force now fight
ing IN France is only the pledge and
forerunner of the great force now rap
idly preparing
There are no armies which can
overcome the spirit which finds express
SION IN Secretary Lansing's speech re-
ported in this mornings papers
mere ls no sharp sword which will
cut through the firm resolve of the
American people to have done with the
conditions which make for war; and
until that object is accomplished to
make no peace with the nation which
has plunged the world into conflict"
The Daily Mail" notes particularly
that General Won Stein was certain
that Germany was approaching her
goal 1t continues:
"The fact is that at every turn since
1914 the German military party has
been able to produce precise calcula-
tions proving that victory was just
within the German grasp, but at every
turn there has been some fatal flaw
in those calculations which has con-
futed their predictions. The German
staff overlooks, every time, the truth
that moral forces still count in this
world. 1t forgets the uncomfortable
spirit. of Great Britain, France and
America
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
British Air Squads
Bomb Four Towns
I'm Rhine District
Also Engage in Heavy
Fighting ON Front of
German Offensive

LONDON, June 13.--The official state
ment on aerial operations issued to-
night describes the bombing Of four
towns in Western Germany. 1t says:
Our flying squadrons on the French
battlefront Wednesday were chiefly en-
gagged in offensive patrol work, seeking
German machines and fighting them
wherever found. They destroyed fifteen
enemy airplares, some of which went
down in flames, while others broke in
the air. One of our machines on this
sector is missing.
"On the British front a good deal OF
aerial reconnaissance, photography and
artillery observation were carried out
We lost two machines and destroyed
five German machines. Two other hos
tile machines were driven down out OF
control, while q German observation
balloon was brought down in flames.
"Twenty-two tons of bombs were
dropped by US during the day, the prin.
cipal targets attacked being the Dor
Junction, railways at Courtrai, Ar
mentieres and Chaulnes. dump al
Bapaume and the Bruges docks. The
WcdtHer at HlSnC was unSultaDle 1or ny
ing.
yesterday two successful raids were
carried out by our squadrons against
the Metz-Sablons railway station ane
sidings. Many heavy bombs were
dropped. On Thursday one squadron
of our airplanes attacked the station
of Treves; another dropped a ton Of
bombs on factories and the station a,
Dillingen. At the same time factories
and the station at Hagendangen were
subjected to an attack. At Dillinger
direct hits were observed on two fur.
naccs.
"Successful long distance Photographic
rcconnoissances were carried out BY
other machines.
"1n the course of attacks made by the
enemy on our bombing machines, one
hostile airplane was destroyed and two
others were driven down. One Of ou,
machines is missing"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Allies Now Hold !.
The Upper Hand
I'm Gas Warfare
Have More of the Poison
and Apply 1t More
Effectively

WASHINGTON, June 13.-The Allies
now excel the Germans in gas warfare
Carl L. Alsberg, chief of the Bureau of
Chemistry, told the Senate Agriculture
Committee to-day. They not only have
more gas at their disposal and are ap-
plying it more effectively than the Ger
mans, he said, but in defensive war
fare they have more improved gas
masks.
The Senate Military Committee at
the same time was questioning officers
of the gas service and of the Bureau
of Mines concerning the progress the
United States has made in gas warfare
DR.. Alsberg said the Allies had made
wonderful progress in the development
of gas since the war began. He pre-
dicted that a preventive against mus
tard gas soon would be found.
"We believe we are on the right
track, but we haven't yet got it," he
declared, referring to experiments now
being conducted by his department in
conjunction with the Bureau of Mines.
The United States, he said, itself soon
will begin producing mustard gas.
Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the
subcommittee, said the testimony
showed that extensive experiments are
being conducted by the War Depart
ment in the development of gas for
military purposes and that it would be
produced on quantity basis within a
short time.
The recent German offensive demon
strated to the War Department, it was
said, the increasing Importance of the
use Of gas and spurred the department
to renewed activity in developing that
branch of the service. Practically all
the testimony was Of a highly confden-
tial nature and was given to the sub
committee behind closed doors.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14

Central Germany writes the following:
"If the rich had nothing to eat, as
we poor people have, the war would
soon come to an end"
Many of the letters return again and
again to attacks on the militarists and
the Junkers of Germany, who are held
responsible for the continuation Of the
war and the consequent misery of the
people.
GAS long as the militarists insist
The Fatlerland must be greater
there will be no peace" writes a
woman from Stettin.
Disgust with the methods of the
Pan Germans is strong note in letters
from all parts of the country.
In recent memorandum issued by
the Austrian Mems Democratic League,
"the immediate opening of peace nego-
tiations in neutral country" is de-
manded Other demands voiced in this
memorandum are: "The democrati-
zation OF the Austrian constitution
and immediate consideration of the
laws proposed by various lesser nation
alities in Austria Hungary"
These last demands apparently refer
to the unrest among the Czecho-
Slovaks and Jugo- o-Savs, who are striv-
ing for complete liberation from Aus
trian rule.
The document concludes: "An early
peace can be attained for the benefit
of our beloved country"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
lBy The Associated pre.,l

VENICE, June 1S. Commando,
Rizzo, whose remarkable exploit in
sinking the Austrian battleship Seen;
lstvan in the Adriatic has thrilled
Italy. tells graphic story of the en-
counter:
II was on patrol scout duty when
discovered great cloud of smoke, which
thought WAS from some boat giving
chase. | determined the safest course
was to turn back and get it before it
got me. as it is no fun to be chased
After turning back | said to my two
crews Of ten men to each boat: Eel
lows. the Italian scout boats have been
waiting for two years and the whole
Italian navy has been trying to destroy
Austrian ships for three years. Are
you willing to risk all on a chance of
obtaining glory and the country's graft
tude?'
ITO man they answered yes
"To my amazement l discovered two
battleships surrounded by few de-
stroyers. ! assigned the second bat
tleship to the other motor boat, while
took the first.
IL slipped inside the line of de-
stroyers unnoticed in the light fog. My
first torpedo, with a 50O-pound charge,
struck the first dreadnought between
the two tunnels, while the second
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
War Prisoners Unfed
On Return to GERMANY

AMSTERDAM. June 13.-After the
speech by General Won Stein in the
Reichstag, Herr Wirth, Deputy of
the Centre section, asserted that better
provision must be made for returning
prisoners of war. He said that on an
eighty hours journey prisoners had
hardly anything to eat and were COM
rletely exhausted
Herr Wirth added that there were
still soldiers who had received no leave
Tor two years, and that it must have an
exasperating effect that subscribers to
the war loan should receive favored
treatment in the matter of leaves OF
absence. Herr Wirth demanded that
the 1870 class be sent home as soon as
possible.
The Socialist Deputy, Herr Schoep-
fin, said that Iron Crosses had lost
much in esteem
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Spain to Take Over
All Its Ships in u. S

MADRID, June 12.-The commissary
general of supplies announced tonight
that the Spanish Ambassador at Wash
ington, Riano y Gayangos, had been in
ping in ports of the United States to
convey goods to Spain.
This decision was reached as the re-
suit Of dispatch from Washington de-
claring that the delay in the arrival of
goods needed in Spain was due to ship
owners who preferred to carry other
goods for which they obtained higher
freight rates.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Bureau in Berlin on
An Alliance Mission

AMSTERDAM, June 13.--An official
statement issued to-day by the Ger
man government referring to the visit
to Berlin Of Baron burian, the Austro-
Hungarian Foreign Minister, says that
he had an opportunity of having de-
tailed discussions with the leading
statesmen of Germany on all the prob
lens at present prominent. The off,
cial message adds:
"The spirit of mutual friendly con-
fidence which characterized the nego-
tiations justifies the expectation that
when, as agreed upon, further nego-
tiations shortly take place the ques-
tions under discussion will be further
elucidated and will finally be solved
in q manner satisfactory to all"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Columbia Man Honored

Lieutenant Sidney Ierne Howell, sec
retary and member OF the track team
Of the class Of 1917, Science, Columbia,
has received the Croix de Guerre, ac-
cordng to a letter received by the
columbia Alumni News" yesterday.
Lieutenant Howell is attached to a
French balloon company. His balloon
was attacked and set atire by German
aeroplanes. Lieutenant Howell and
his observer took to their parachutes
and descended amid volleys of machine
gun fire. The Americans first act on
reaching the ground was to send a
message to a French air station, giving
information as to where the French
fliers could find the raiding planes
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Deputies Discuss
Evacuation of Paris

PARIS, June 1a-The Deputies repre-
senting Paris and contiguous depart
ments continued to-day their examina-
tion into the measures of defence of
the entrenched camp of Paris, its pro-
visions and the security Of it's popula-
ton. The Minister Of the Interior.
Jules Pames, and Albert Claveille, Min
lister of Public Works, were heard par
tlcularly with regard to the evacuation
OF the population if it became neces-
sary.
Deputy Louis Jean Puech's report,
population, was discussed, and Minister
sC;laveille furnished information as to
the means Of transport at his disposal
which could insure the exodus of tho
population should the occasion arise.
The Minister of Education described
measures already taken to safeguard
artistic treasures.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
So Nurses Enroll in Dav

Fifty-eight nurses enrolled for war
service yesterday in New York, making
the total for this week 1873. Twenty
five thousand nurses are sought.
Thirty enrolled yesterday at the head
quarters of the New York County Chap
ter of the American Red Cross. at 389
Fifth Avenue, and twenty-one at the
division Office, "a East Twenty
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14

attacking German heavy gun batteries
in action and silencing them by killing
or scattering the gunners.
In the Picardy offensive the Allied
fighting planes repeatedly attacked field
gun batteries with machine guns, but
silencing heavy batteries by bomb at
tacks from the air is new achieve
ment in the war
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14

France makes up for the lack Of cf-
fectives. The enemy's communiquess
recognize that he is engaged in hard
combats' He must have decisive VIC
tory rapidly. The vaor of our soldiers
will prevent him from obtaining it, and
if our army, facing numerically su-
perior forces, must still Withdraw, II
will be step by step only"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Allied Airmen i'm
New Achievement
Silence Big Guns

FRENCH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, June 13 (via Ottawa) THE
Importance Of the role of the Allied
air service in the fighting is daily in
creasing. During yesterdays opera
tions light bombardment squadrons
performed the unprecedented feat of
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Lieutenant Baer Still Missing

PARIS. June 13. - Lieutenant Paul
Frank Baer, the American aviator who
had been missing since May %, has not
been accounted for as yet. 1t is not
known whether ne was killed or made
prisoner by the Germans.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
shird Street. Seven enlisted in Brook.

Eighty-one nurses were equipped for
foreign service here in the course of
the day and sent to mobilization points
to await sailing dates. A recruiting
rally will be held tonight in Carnegie
Hall. The graduating classes of every
hospital in the city will attend.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Junker Press
NoW Offers a
Modest Peace
Continued from page 1

peace which will be blessing and not
curse to them and their children for
generations TO come.
Until that goal is reached we must
go on with the war"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Seven Missing After U-Boat
Sends Down British Vessel

LONDON, June ia British board
ing vessel was sunk by Teuton SUBJ
marine on June 5, according to an Off
cial statement issued tonight by the
Admiralty.
Seven British sailors are missing.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-14
Enemy Mines Found
OF New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, June
13.-Two enemy mines have been de-
stroyed off North Cape, the northern
an announcement made here.
1t is most likely the mines found
floating off the north coast of New
Zealand were laid by German COM
merce raider They probably were
sowed by the raider Seeadler, formerly
the American ship Pass of Balmaha,
which, after roaming the Pacific for
seven months, preying ON American and
Allied shipping, was stranded on one
of the Society Islands.
Washington telegraph., 1918-09-13
COUPLEiCOME TO TOWN
AND fYED WEDNESDAY

Mr.. G.. w. Boyd of Frost,
Texas, aged 4S, and Miss Ella
Whitfield of Hope, Route 4,
30, were married at the court
house in this city shortly af-
ter noon Wednesday, Rev. Geo.
b. Hardy of the Baptist church
performing the ceremony.
Mr.. Boyd and his soon-to-be
bride came in town in a buggy
and repaired to the courthouse,
where he asked for a pair of IL
cense." When the license was
issued Mr. Boyd was disap-
pointed that the clerk could
not perform the ceremony, but
a minister was summoned and
the two hearts were soon made
to beat as one.
Washington telegraph., 1918-09-13
COUNTY HAS
Many BRIDGES
NUMBER NOW TOTALS Il
BOUT 100.
4W0 NEW NEW ONES 66iHG IN
Judge ByerS Has Nine More
Steel Bridges raid For
To BE Put In.

County Judge Robt. l.. Byers
is having two thirty-foot steel
bridges erected in Red Land
township this week, and one fiji
ty and one sixty foot bridge
will be erected in Mine Greek
township at an early date
This will Increase the number
of steel bridges in use in the
county to about 100.
Nine other steel bridges,
boug"Jin March, 1917, when
steiex%1as much lower than at
pnssent, have been received by
the county and these will be
erected in various parts of the
county as soon as possible. By
his foresight in placing orders
for these bridges when he did
Judge Byers has saved the
county a considerable amount
in their purchase. All these
bridges have been paid for.