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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-03

Quarter General Italiano reca1o { 49,
austro-ungheresi continuano a ~
sare truppe lungo II fronte italtas{ ~
Gil osservatori aerei hanno fappc -
che larghi movimenti di truppe 81 ----4l4
ficano, durante la notte. dietro 10
nemiche.
La situazione interna dell'AustfS4 e
divenuta talmente critica 81 g convtlS.I
che qualora l'esercito austro-unGati1
subisse una disfatta. 10 sfacelo deiPinap~
ro austriaco sarebbe inevitabile.
II Presidente del Consiglo del Mini6ttt
onorevole Orlando, ha visitato II froAs4
di battaglia incoraggiando sollevanoQ'
fentusiasmo ira | soldati, in vista 81
limminente offensiva austriaca.
II giornale Idea Nazionale" -.
serisce che IL nemico, nei soil attactA
nella regione del Tonale, ha perduto
oltre tremila uomini
Una grande sensazione ha csusst1
larresto di Giacinto Serrati, diretsof~
dell "Avanti," l'organo del partito 90
cialista contro la guerra II sue of.'
resto fu ordinate dal Tribunals Mill
| tare di Torino in cornerstone del pro-
| cesso per disordini che 81 verificaroro
in quella citta' nellagosto dello scorso
ammo. Dall'istruttoria del detto pro-
cesso sembra sia risultato provato n
fatto che II Serrati sarebbe state un0
degli istigatori del movimento SOW.
versivo e vi sarebbero contro di lui ele-
menti per l'accusa di tradimento.
II Serrati e. uno del piu' olenti soci-
alisti rivoluzionari per p-recchi ami
, vsse in America da dov>>. mel 1892, ando'
in Svizzera fece poscia ritorno IN
Italia.
II Generate Corsi. uno del piu' apprez-
zati critici militari, cor1nentando is
situazione al fronte occidentale. &C &
scrive sui giornale La Tribuna" =
| Roma
/ La resistenza delle due ali del
| lesercito anglo-francese ha logorato II
nemico ed ha dato tempo allie riserve
arrivare.
II bollettino e. notevole dove afferma
che lesercito anglo-francese sta rip,e-
| gando in ordinc fernnanente compatto.
! La esiguita delle sue perdite indica
chiarmente che gil Alleati ripiegano
secondo un piano prestabilito Q non per
| gil attacchi del nenico. Come in altre
! crisi dobbiamo attendere con calrna Q
hducia. ricordando soprattutto che ora,
fnalmente, un solo capo dirige tutta Ia
! lotta della difensiva." "
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German Drives
Will Continue
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
known to the Allies. They acknowledge.
too, that under pressure the sending of
Americans to France may still be
speeded up, and that thus the balance
may be restored sooner than now seems
probable and that 1919 may be some
thing better for the Allies than a year
of waiting and deadlock. These are
the incalculable elements.
The calculable elements lead to the
conclusion which I have already stated.
namely, that June, July, August. Sep
tember and October of this year will be
repetitions of April and May. with the
Allies fighting desperately to hold off
the superior weight of Germany; that
November. December, January and Feb
ruary will be months of rest. during
which this country will have an oppor-
tunity at least to make the defense of
the Allies irresistible, and that there
after the advantage will slowly swing
to the Allies so as to make victory pos
sible in 1920.
It is only fair TO say that the re-
sponsble heads of the Allies are con-
fdent that if Germany can repeat all
this summer so they too can repeat
they will be able to stop each
| German thrust as it comes, probably
after loss of ground, but always shor,
of yielding essential positions TO the foe
1t is believed here in Washington that
the morale of England France and
| Italy will stand up under all this pound.
| ing that Is coming and that Germany
will gain no unclean peace out of hel
exhausted foes
But plainly such a situation as this /.
| full Of dramatic possibilities. Open war
| fare is back again. II is we'll to forget
| the trenches and all our ideas gained
in the last three years of the relative
strength of the offensive and defensive
An offensive of today sweeps ovel
trenches and obstacles as if they did no
exist The defensive line goes back OF
a big front often in haste that almos
amounts to confusion Breaks occu,
on great scale. In a series of smashe:
like those at Amiers, between Rheim.
and Scissors, an accident may occur
and a situation may develop which viii
make the Germans harder to stop thar
they have been in those two drives. Sc
dangerous possibilities are ahead.
The real hope of the Allies lies in thi.
country. 1t is the prospect of big armies
of Americans reaching Europe which
will sustain the sorely tried morale q
England, France and Italy. 1t Is thi.
arrival, and that alone, which can finally
stem the tide of battle back toward the
Rhine. The obligations that rest upor
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ATTIVITA' AVIATORIA
AL FRONTE ITALIANO
Cinque Tonnellate di Bombe
sui Campi di Aviazione
Nemici
DR REDARA ATINI AIrSTRIA
PREPARATIVI AUSTRIACI
Published and Distributed Under
PERMIT No. AL
Authorized by the act Of October O.
1917, on file at the Postoffce Of Phla-
delnhia, Pa
By order OF the President.
A. s. BURLESON.
Postmaster General

Roma. 3 giugno.
Dale nctizie giunte, ieri. dalla fronte
di battaglia 81 rileva che lungo lutte le
linee 81 sono verifcati scontri ira pat.
tuglie e ira riparti di incursione. dando
luoso a brew e local. combattimenti.
Un riparto italiano ha con successo
compute una incursicne contro lie posi-.
zioni nemiche a Cavazuccherina eli
aviatori alleati hanno spiegato una
gtande attivita bombardando lie posi-.
zioni le retrovie dell'avversario ed alb
battendo machine aeree teutoniche.
Ecco IL testo del communicate ufficiale
pubblicato, Teri, dal Ministero della
Guerra in Roma:
Una moderate attivita da parte
dell artielieria 81 e verificata lungo
tutto il fronte.
l nostri posti avanzati respinsero
pattugle nemiche nella Val Arsa.
Croca San Francesca. ad occidente
della Vale Frenzela e lungo ii fronte
di San Dona' di Piave
Una incursione d Cavazuocferina ci
frutto' parecch prigionieri
Una grande attivita fu spiegata dai
squadroni aerei italiani cd Alleati
Essi gettarono cinque tonnellata di
hombe sui campi di aviazione nem!ci
Clnque aeroplani avversari furono ad-
battuti durante combattimenti aerei,
la nostra artiglieria ne dIStrusse un
aitro sulla riva sinistra del fume
PiaVe.
II communicate ufficiale. di ieri l'altro
recava quanto appresso:
Ira il Lago di Garda, IAdige e TAlto.
piano di Asiago. ed attraverso il Brenta
duelli di artiglisria presentemente sonc
intensi.
II fuoco delle batterie inglesi hs
cagionato larga confagrazione, mirandc
distruggere / deposti nemici a Tezze
e Selva.
"A Baito, Monticello e Monte Cornc
distaccamenti nemici furono dispersi da
nostro fuoco Quattro aeroplani aver
sar furono abbattuti'
. Informazioni giunte stamare da
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FRENCH SUCCESS
INSPIRES BRITISH
Haig's Men Quick to Learn
of Strong Counter
Attack
HOPE FOR PART in FIGHT
By PHILIP GIBBS

Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Copyright. 1918. by Ne,o York Times Co.
War Correspondents Headquarters OIL
the Western Front, June 3.
Along the main British front from
the Somme to Flanders the troops
still wait. ready for any German at.
tack that may be delivered against
them
While the scene Of battle on the
Marne is for the present beyond their
sphere, the news of the French coun-
ter.attack on the wings there and it's
preliminary success reached here
quickly, and every British soldier S
heart is gladdened by the hope that
the enemy's advance has been checked
and that he will suffer another defeat
on those old battlef1elds where nearly
four years ago he was turned off the
road to Paris.
1t was a glorious first of June, as
far as the weather went, and yester-
day again the sky was intensely blue
over the fields and the sun hot on
roads, so white with dust that the
British and French were powdered
thickly with 1t and almost grotesque,
uhc iS Cdl NSu OuJ VI Slldih
Luck Favors Germans
The enemy, who once more has the
luck Of weather, is using 1t a good
deal for aerial reconnaissance, and
some Of his scouts came over at mid
day, followed all the way by shrapnel
from the British. His airmen do not
drop many bombs in daylight. but
keep them for nights. and hardly a
night passes without raids over vii
lagos in the back areas where the
poor women and children go down
into the cellars with the noise Of gun.
fire above them and the crashes OF
bombs in the little streets about them
Once again the British hospitals
have suffered from this work in the
night. and they are the same group
Of hospitals where the great tragedy
happened a week or so ago. On Fri
day night last, or. rather, during the
small hours of Saturday morning
German raiders reached this place
and continued their work of destruc
tion. The huts of one Of the hospi
tails were almost destroyed and once
again there was martyrdom of wom
en- and wounded men and hospital
attendants.
In this hospital nurses were among
the killed and wounded. and there
were casualties among the patients
and orderlies; in other hospitals round
about nursing sisters were severely
wounded, and the list of victims is
not light, although by good fortune
the wards were not filled. as after the
days OF battle, and there were many
marvellous escapes.
This killing and manning of non
combatants and wounded men pro
tected by the Red Cross after thei,
ordeal Of battle is most tragic ant
sickening to the soul. One wishe!
the enemy would at least have showr
some touch of chivalry on one day II
the year, the day of Corpus Christi
when we agreed not to bomb Cologne
because of the religious professions
but on that very day the raiders came
over Paris and dropped bombs. There
has also been much German bombing
over the British lines.
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the United States are more stupendous

the United States are more stupendous
than ever before.
The opinion that Germany can keep
IN the offensive at the present rate
rests upon what is known of her present
superiority of man-power and upon what
is believed regarding the possibility Of
increasing it. Austria has now become
virtually a vassal of Germany. That Is
what the recent agreement means It
also means a more effective use of Aus
tria's man-power than in the past and
especially it's application on the west
front, And there still remains the
quest on what use Germany may make
% the man-power of the States she has
recently carved out of Russia. That is
largely a diplomatic question and de-
pends upon whether Germany or the
Allies handles Russia herself the more
skillfully.
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LET BOCHE WASTE SHOTS
Then Campbell Closed in and Downed
German Airman

Washington, June 3.-The official story
Of how Lieutenant Douglass Campbell
brought down a German airplane last
Friday is told in a second section of
General Pershing's communique which
was delayed in transmission. 1t fol-
lows:
Lieutenant Campbell flew over the
enemys lines and while there saw a
German two-seater about to take off
from an airdrotte. He waited until the
German machine got over our lines. then
closed in, but remained at fairly safe
distance and allowed the German to fire
at him until he observed that the Ger
man had no more ammunition. He then
down. The machine fell inside our lines,
but very near the front line"
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TEUTONS MASS MEN
ON ITALIAN FRONT
Foe Reinforcing Whole Line,
Dispatches to Rome
Indicate

Austro- -Hungarians are again massing
re-enforcements along the whole Italian
front, according to information received
here today. Aerial observers have re-
ported troop movements taking place at
night behind the Austro- -Hungarian n
lines.
The internal situation in Austria has
become so chaotic that a defeat of the
Austro-Hungaran armies would prob
ably result in debacle say travellers.
The Idea Nazionle asserts that the
Austrians lost three thousand men in
their recent attacks in the Monte
Tonale sector of the Trentino front.
Premier Orlando is visiting the Italian
front and in,parting cheer to the SOL
diers. In view of the impending Austrian
offensive
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BIG TANNERY BURNS

willxes-Barre. Pa, June 3.-The J. f
Mosser Tanning Company plant control
led by Armour & Co, at Noxen, twenty
five miles from here has been destroyed
bv fire, entailing a loss estimated by
the owners at nearly 100000.
Crossed wires in the hair-drying room
re believed to have caused the fire Two
carloads of, hides from Chicago and one
car of finished leather awaiting trans
n,;rtation were destroyed on railroad
sidinEs
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British Report

brltlSn NepOrb
The text of the official report fol-
lows:
Local operations. carried out dur
ing the night in the neighborhood
of Vieux Berequin and Merris, ad-
vanced our line Slightly at these
points
One hundred and ninety.three
prisoners and a number of machine
guns and trench mortars were cap
tured in these operations. Our casu.
alties were slight.
Successful raids, which resulted in
the capture Of twenty prisoners,
three machine guns and a trench
mortar. were carried out by US
southeast of Arras. northwest of
Lens and west of Merville.
A hostile raiding party tried to
enter our lines south of Villers-
Brettonneux, but was repulsed.
(Vieux Berequin and Merris lie in the
zone Immediately north of the Lys River
on the Flanders front. They are about
a mile and a half apart Villers.
Brettonneux is on the Picardy front due
east of Amiens)
The arrival of reserves is strengthen,
ing the entire line and rendering infiltra.
tion constantly more difficult. This is
particularly noticeable at Chaudun
where the Germans sought to filter
through the agp between the forests OF
Compiegne and Villers-Cotterets.
with their efforts to reach the Oist
thus checked and their advance west
ward along the Marne meeting with
determined resistance the boches natur.
ally are throwing the bulk of their ef
forts into the valley of the Ourcq
Seventy Mile BattIeline
The entire battlefront now measure!
120 kilometers T4.52 miles) divided into
three sectors-Noyon to Scissors. thirt,
kilometers Cs.63 miles) scissors &c
Chateau-Thierry, forty-fve kilometer
(27.s45 miles). and Chateau-Thierry tc
Rheims, forty-hve Kilometers (27.94'
mles).
The Germans to date have engaged
fifty divisions 100000 men).
The first week OF the German drive
on Paris, between Scissors and Rheim!
ended last night with the armies Of th'
Crown Prince checked at the Marne.
The strength of Foch's reserves nov
largely in action has been felt for I
couple of days by the Germans. Yester
day they made the smallest advance
since the launching of the great Aisn
offensive which has developed into
new battle of the Marne.
Foes Gain slighter
While the Germans have scored fur
ther slight gains-the most important o
which is the capture of that part o
Chateau Thierry which lies on the nortl
bank of the Marne-the French hav
made greater gains in smashing counter
attacks.
On the Allied left flank the French
by splendid hand-to-hand fighting. hav
recaptured four towns. Three of thes
-Longpont, Corey and Troesnes-lie i
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PERSHING NAILS GERMAN lie
Reported Capture of Franco.
American Depots" Untrue

Washington, June 3.-General Per-
shing's communique of June 2. made
public today. denies the German official
report that Franco-American depots
were captured by the enemy.
The German official communique," "
Pershing said, says 'FranCo-American
depots of numerous extent entered into
our possession at Fereen-Tardenois.'
This statement is absolutely untrue.
there being no American depots in that
region"
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Allied Right Gains Also

On the Allied right also progress has
been made by the French. particularly
in the neighborhood Of Ville-en-Tar-
denois where the village Of Champlat
making a total of five places regained
in one day
All reports from the front today are,
happily, different from those Of the last
six days.
The Allies are holding firm all along
the Marine salient from Noyon to
Rheims, a new battlefront. linking the
Picardy and Champagne campaigns,
while the gains they have made in
counter-assaults are of the first i'm
portance.
German Claims
The German report Of Sunday claims
progress between Noyon and Scissors
asserting that the heights east of Moul-
Iins-sous-Touvent were won, and that
gains were scored west of Nouvron.
The Crown Princes move toward
Paris has progressed only a mile down
the Valley Of the Ourcq. The enemy's
main pressure is still directed west
ward.
Occupation of Chateau Thierry by the
enemy has been expected at any mo-
ment for the last three days.
| In the most crucial sector of the line
between Noyon and scissors the Allies
have more than held their own, despite
the repeated and furious assaults the
Crown Prince has directed there with
the hope Of breaking down the defense
so that the German armies on the
Marne and on the Ourcq may dash west
| ward for Paris.
! Military men here believe that If the
Germans succeed in breaking down the
defense around scissors the next blow
for Paris will be made on the line
from Chateau Thierry northwestward tc
Cantigny on the end of the MontdidieI
salient in Picardy.
| Americans on Line
This would mean that American
troops would hold the northern pivot
of the line assailed-that is at Cantigny
and the French the southern pivot or
the north bank Of the Marine.
The German efforts to get in behind
Rheims and then to crush the Cathedra
City with simultaneous assaults from
the front, the north and the rear, have
all been frustrated.
| Ihey nave optalneu even less succes
in their attempts to press forward anc
sever the Chalons-Paris railway. which
feeds the Allied line between Rheims ant
Verdun.
With the best troops at their com
mand, the German officers are employ
ing every strategy and the battle or
the left wing is being contested with
biturness hitherto unknown.
TH Germans continue to pour new
divisions into the battle No doubt nov
remains, in the mind of many militar!
critics, that they intended TO make thei
supreme effort on the Marne, rather thar
In the offensive toward Amiens. which
was started in March.
Nearly 100000 refugees, mostl!
women and children, have arrived from
the Marne districts and have been sen
into Normandy and Brittany, a Pari
dispatch says:
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sion of his front that will prove far
beyond the means Of the German army
to support when Americas major often
sive starts for the Rhine,
The front between scissors and Cha-
teau-Thierry, which is the nearest line
to Paris, has begun to bulge at its mid
die line the stomach Of glutton; Won
Hindenburg's own blood gluttony Is now
being forced TO feed itself only at this
one sector of the front The other areas
are held secondary to the deep necessity
for reaching the environs of Paris
E Each mile by which Won Hindenburg
means the German General Staff must
find 5000 more men for its protection.
Each mile. therefore. of Won Hinden-
burgs new advance means 5000 men
serves and placed permanently along
the battlefront where they can no longer
serve for surprise attacks such as were
used in the Picardy. Flanders and the
Aisne offensives. The German front
miles since the beginning Of the Aisne
attack. This means 10000 Germans
have been permanently transferred from
the reserves to the trenches, II the
German casualties last week be PLACED
at 100000, the total depletion OF Won
Hindenburgs reserves must be placed
at 2S0,000.
with this number removed from par
ticipating in future surprise operations,
Won Hindenburg's power for developing
new offensives by sudden shock opera
tions has been seriously impaired. A few
more miles of German advance toward
Paris, therefore, contains no. element OF
alarm for General Foch. As long as
Won Hindenburg is permanently halted
at a reasonable distance from the
French capital, it is he and not General
Foch who should do the worrying about
the future.
The strong resistance now being de-
veloped by the French is not to be re-
garded as a major counter-attack, but
as normal defensive fighting. Only as a
desperate resort to save vital positions
would an Allied counter-attack be Justi-
fed while America is unable fully TO
participate. When that time comes
counter attack" will be too meager
u,ara % daScriha the lies ODeratiOnS
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AMERICAN KILLS FOUR FOES
Wounds Two Others Attacking
Trench Before He Falls
By EDWIN L. JAMES
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger

opeCEuI IuUIe 70 EUeHIHy FUDILC LedgeT
Copyright. 1918. by NetC York Times Co
With the American Army in France,
June 3.-Sergeant Cunningham. OF Grand
Rapids, Mich, was al a post of observa-
ton in a trench CT the American lines
when a hand grenade fell upon his para
pet He picked it up and threw it back
into No Mans Land. and by the light of
the explosion saw boches coming his
way The next minute six Huns tum-
bled into the trench a few feet from him
Cunningham shot the first through the
head. killing him. He killed the second
third and fourth. Then he wounded the
fifth, and had a bayonet through the last
one when Nc. shot him through To-
day a French general visited the hos
pital and pinned the CroX DE Guerre on
the breast of the wounded American.
Cunningham will live
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and carry out a concentric movement
westward over the Calepont plateau to-
ward Paris
General Ardenne writes that the theory
of the battle is the same as penetrating
armor plate-many hits close together.
tending to weaken the power of resist
ance
Major Schreibershofen. in the Ham
burg NachriChten, declares that develop
ments VII be influenced by the French
reserve force which Foch has brought
up from great distances. and which he
hesitates to throw into the battle
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Genera. June

Swiss troops on the eastern frontier
report constantly increasing movement
of Austrian infantry and artillery from
Bozen and Trent southwark toward the
Italian front
At st. Elvie Pass. where the Austrian,
Italian and Swiss frontiers meet. the
Austrian garrison has been greatly
strengthened
Emperor Karl is going to the Italian
front this week, according to a dispatch
from Vienna
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Presbyterian Fail to Discuss Unity

The Presbyterian Ministerial Associa-
tion today met in Westminster Hall to
hear reports of the commissioners who
attended the Presbyterian General As
sembly in Columbus, o. 1t was expected
that the matter of church unity, brought
before the General Assembly. would be
discussed at this mornings meeting, but
the commissioners did not make a re-
port.
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Set Vanderbilt Wedding

IAnox. Mass, June 3.-Mrs. Alfred q.
Vanderbilt and Ray 7. Baker are to be
MARRIED at Homewood on June IT. The
6cf1I)e viii 90 to Mrs. vanderbilt's lodge
81 16o6fto Lake. In tia Adirondaetn
>pR3tbe eeriy psFt of the honsyneeR,
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TAKE UKRAINE TROOPS
Germany Will Use Them to Add Power
= to Drive M

stockholm. June Germany is sof
confident of her success in Urkainia as
result of progress made so far that
she will withdraw two-thirds of her
troops in the east. They will be used on
the western front and replaced in the
ast with Austrians
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GERMAN EXPERTS SEE
NEW STRATEGIC Plan

- :. Amsterdain. June 8.
Htndsnsurf plans 70 halt g shs Asrne
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FRENCH COUNTERS WIN GROUND:
FIERCE ENEMY THRUST CHECKED

the River Ourcq sector, west of Fere-
en-Tardenois. The Germans also were
driven from Hill 163. The fourth town,
Mont de Choisy. is between Scissors and
Moron.