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New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Germans |.Pocketed" on South Marne;
Must Fight Hard or Face Utter Rout

LONDON, July 19.-French troops
IN their counter offensive on the bat
tie zone between the Aisne and the
Marne, captured 10000 prisoners yes
terday, according to news reaching
London this afternoon.
Forty-eight guns were captured by
the French on the first day of the at
tack. The maximum distance of the
advance was six miles and the mini
mum two.
According to advices received here to-
day, the French are again advancing
and it is probable the Germans will
have to make big readjustnicnt in
their line unless they can Immediately
throw back the French.
On the left wing, which includes the
Soissons sector, the Allied troops have
cut or have under fire the highroad
from Scissors to Chateau Thierry, says
Reuter- dispatch from the French
front, dated / o'clock Thursday. The
railway from scissors 10 Villers- Cot
terets also has been cut
At several points intiltration move
ments have been carried out by cav
airy They advanced through gaps in
the retreating enemy line and estab-
hshed themselves in villages further
ahead
American troops have been reported
unotTicially as having reached Buzan
cy, an advance of six miles, which
would bring them across both the road
and the railway mentioned.
The success of the Franco-Amercan
counter offensive has altered the en-
The whole German line from Chateau
Thierry to Rheims, the dispatches
from the battlefront point ont, is de-
pendent on the railroads which the
French now dominate. Supplies for
the German forces around Chateau
Thierry now must be carried twenty
to thirty miles by road.
1t will be very serious business
for the Germans to remain in this
salient, according to all accounts. They
will not only have to discontinue all
their plans for the offensive here. but
will probably be forced to fall back
a considerable distance to new line
where the problem of supplies can be
handled easier.
Big German Repulse
The German offensive thus has been
turned into repulse, the advices from
the front say, and may now be turned
definitely into German defeat.
The initiative now is in the hands
of the French The tables have been
completely turned by General Foch S
brilliant stroke and the whole Ger
man situation between scissors and
Rheims is endangered.
fhe Germans, it is contended, will
have to fight hard to stave off rout
and to extricate themselves This
means that the Entente Allies def
nitely have settled with the Grown
Prince and have completely neutral
lied his group. of armies. 1t is stated
that he will have all he can do to ex-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
BRITISH

LONDON (NIGHT) BY success
tul minor operation carried out by
US this morning in the BailIcul sec
tor Scottish troops captured the vii
lage of Meteren, gaining all their Oh
lectives and taking over 300 prison
ers, with number of machine guns.
Under cover of this operation Aus
tralian troops pushed their line for
ward short distance south Of Me-
teren and captured over eighty
prisoners and ten machine guns.
We also secured a few prisoners
during the day in raids and natroI
encounters in the Nieppe Forest sec
tor
LONDON (DAY).-Hostile raids
were driven off during the night in
the Villers Bretonneux and Morlan-
court sectors. We carried out sue
cessful raids in the neighborhood
of Bucquoy, Willerval and Locra and
captured a few prisoners.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
rench General
Smiles at Victory
Gen. Mangin Called "World' 8
Happiest Man" by
CIemenceau

PARIS, July 19.-"Last night when
he saw his troops on the heights dom
mating scissors on the southwest, Cen
eral Mangn smiled" says the CORE
spondent of the "Liberte" premier
Clemenceau was there and warmly
shook the generals hand. Was it the
presence of Americans in the neighbor
hood which gave his handshake espe-
cial strength, evincing emotion and
confidence ?"
On his return from the front Premier
Clemenceau said to his friends:
II have shaken the hand of the hap
piest man in the world"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Hlaire BelLoc's s
Vf'e1U of Battle
By Hilaire Belloc
Dy IIItiIC bOIIOC
Copyright, 1918. by The Tribune Association
Especial Cable to The Tribune

Copyright, 1918. by The Tribune Association
Especial Cable to The Tribune
LONDON, July Icy esterday's
counter attack has its principal in
terest in showing graphically the
gradual restoration of balance in
numbers. Quite short time ago it
would have been impossible because
all the available strength of the
Allies would have been gradually
drawn into the arrest Of the enemy's
pressure all the way from Massiges
to Chateau Thierry, and particularly
at the danger point, Montvoisin, on
the Epernay road, where the enemy
threatened to turn the obstacle of
the forest of Rheims Mountain only
as late as last Wednesday.
AS it is the rapid increase in the
American contingent which has al
ready so nearly redressed the bal
ance, there was a margin in hand
for yesterdays blow against sois-
sons, despite the heavy calls upon
the defensive forces south of the
Marne.
The geographical value of the at
tack is clear from the simplest map
The Germans after their great sue
cess of May 27 occupied the deep
pocket of which Scissors and
Rheims were the two main points
TO the west and east of the mouth,
while Chateau Thierry marked the
extreme point of its depth to the
south
The enemy's great offensive last
Monday was facing the eastern side
of this pocket between Rheims and
Chateau Thierry. There he threw
the whole weight of his men in this
region.
The Allied command consequent
ly struck on the opposite side, when
was more denuded of men, and their
attack, which had the complete el-
feet of a surprise, enabled them IN
the first blow, j. e., in the first SIX
hours before noon Thursday, to re-
duce the width of the mouth OF the
pocket by nearly eight miles and, all
along the western side OF 1he
pocket, to push it in and narrow II
The immediate effect of such mar
rowing is to increase very greatly
the difficulties of the enemy forces
within the bend. He has been at
tackled directly behind where ne Is
making his main effort, and his room
for maneuvring, already restricted
before the Allied attack, has no"
been very seriously reduced.
1t is worthy Of remark that the
effect of the surprise with tanks anu
without artillery preparation was
repetition of the tactics so success
fully first used by General byns
against Cambria last year.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20

men went over the top to meet them
and killed the entire party with the
bayonet without loss to themselves.
zone of our regiments in this same
region reports that party of Germans
with French helmets. and coats at
tempted to penetrate one of our
trenches. The leader succeeded in ap-
preaching our machine gunner posted
at this point, saying that he was
French. When within a short distance
OF the gun the German threw gre
made, which wounded our gunner
The gunner's teammate seized the gun
turned it on the Germans and put
them to flight.
"Another of our regiments in the
same locality reports that an officer in
French helmet and coat approached an
outpost guard, saying that he was
bringing back a detachment of French
from further front and requested the
guard not to fire. The detachment
proved to be Germans in French he'll
NETS and coats"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20

COpDT1DHt, 1910, ~ ne lTlOuHe n
Mt IS now Foch's offensive. The
Ludendorff offensive has "gone
A West" as they say in the Brit
ish trenches 1t is dead. 1t was
Ludendortf's fifth effort-the most
pretentious, most confident and most
venturesome Of them all And his
tory may be preparing to write it
down as his last offensive.
The chief military vice Of the
German strategists is arrogance.
They put too low value on the en-
envy At the beginning of the war
the German General Staff was
swollen up with a sense Of it's own
infallibility and invincibility 1t
made two grave mistakes in the
opening campaign. 1t underrated
Russia and also greatly underesti-
mated the efficiency Of the French
armies, The Russians upset Ger
man calculations by breaking into
East Prussia, smashing the Austro-
Hungarian offensive in Poland and
invading and occupying Eastern and
Middle Galicia. In France Won
Moltke heedlessly sent the German
armies into the trap at the Marne.
Thereafter, for three years, the
Germans fought warily in France.
But the glittering German successes
of the spring Of 1913 finally OBJ
scured the lesson of the Marne Lu-
dendorff evidently became as puffed
up as Moltke. He began to believe
that he had broken the spirit Of the
enemy and that the French and
British would accept for the rest of
the year the strict defensive which
the logic Of the situation seemed to
have thrust on them.
Probably they would have if unity
of command had not been achieved
under Foch and large masses Of
American troops had not become
available for use in July and Au-
gust. Ludendorff overlooked these
two factors in the equation, just as
Won MOltke overlooked the possibil-
ity of French army coming out of
Paris in September, 1914, and fall
ing on Won Kluck's flank and rear.
In the last German drive masses
of troops were rushed down into the
apex Of a dangerously prolonged
salient without sufficient provision
against an attack from the inactive
west side of that salient. The at
tack came like a thunderbolt. In
twenty-four hours it had wholly
transformed the strategic situation
Ludendorff lost the offensive. He
had to drop it and turn his attention
to securing his right and extricating
his armies from the bottom of
sack whose mouth Foch was trying
to close.
Ludendorff sneered at Boroevic
when the latter's offensive went
wrong a couple of weeks ago in
Northern Italy. He sent German
general south to replace Boroevic.
But he has now got himself into
worse fix than the Austro-Hun-
garians were in on the west bank
of the Piave They had no Allied
armies on their flank. Their retire
ment was unhindered, except by
river in freshet.
Ludendorff' retreat is threatened
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20

S9OcHt10n (Ihe Ne1D I OTh l710nhc)
I by loss of communications in the
upper half of the Aisne- Marne sa-
lient and by violent enemy pressure
on both sides of the opening of the
bag into whose depths his armies
have been pushed.
He is a better soldier than Boroe-
vic and he may extricate himself at
q moderate cost But if things
break badly for him he may have
good cause to envy Boro evic's COM
paratively unembarrassed retreat.
The Foch offensive developed
steadily Thursday night and yester-
day. There was a strong push east
along the SCISSORS Chateau Thierry
! line, in the face Of German counter
attacks, and a cooperative push
westward from the Rheims Marnc
side Of the salient. The French
progressed on Thursday evening
down the Marne Valley, on the south
bank of the river, as far as Oeuilly.
lost by them on Tuesday night or
Wednesday. North of the river they
recovered part of Courton Woo d
and a part of the Bois du Roi. A
gain of two-thirds of a mile was
Tmade above Pourcy, and along the
Ardre River the Italian forces took
Ardre Mill and advanced near
Bo ouilly.
On the Soissons-Chateau Thierry
front the fall of Scissors was un-
officially reported The French
night communique did not claim the
capture of Scissors. But this city
has become more or less untenable
since the heights dominating it from
the west and southwest were seized
on Thursday by American troops.
On the plateau below scissors
German assaults held up the Allied
advance for time yesterday. They
all broke down without gain. Fur
! ther south the Allies pushed their
lines forward to depth of nearly
two miles. A late unofficial dispatch
said that further average gain Of
mile and a quarter was made late
yesterday afternoon. Paris reports
officially the capture of 1900 pris-
oners and $50 guns.
All the way down the west leg Of
the German salient the Allies are
driving resistlessly toward the high
road connecting Chateau Thierry
with Scissors, which has already
been crossed and cut southeast of
Soissons
Ludendorff's western line was
broken to flinders by the first shock
Of the Franco-American attack. He
has already reinforced and counter
attacked on this side. But it is not
easy to halt a movement which has
acquired as much momentum as
that achieved Thursday and yester-
day by the Franco American drive.
Allied morale and hopes are now
very high. Without being exuber-
ant, it is permissible to think that
we are at the turning point of the
campaign on the West front. The
initiative has been suddenly wrest-
ed from the Germans. And the inl-
tiative is of priceless advantage to
armies eager to use it and entitled
to do so by their numerical strength.
morale and leadership.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
The Official Statements

taken Moulin d'Ardre and conquered
ground in the region of Boully.
In the course of these actions the
French have captured four cannon,
thirty machine guns and 400 pris-
oners.
Between Montdidier and Noyon,
and also in the Woevre region, in
raids against the German lines we
CAPTURED 100 prisoners
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Ctemenceau Outlines Plan
For Aisne Drive {ror,;r,

PARIS, July 19.-Premier Clemen-
ceau to-day laid before a Cabinet meet
ing, presided over by President Poin-
care, an outline of the disciplinary
measures that have already been taken
IN connection with the military opera.
tions of May 81. when the Germans he
gan their big offensive on the Aisne
sector, and the means by which he pur-
poses to carry out complete investi-
CATION.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20

the north but the had
early hour this afternoon continue to hold the
their first fell
the American heavy artillery into action.
This with
1t resulted the finally falling back
the heavy O the
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Zeppelin Falls in Flames

AMSTERDAM. July ia Zeppelin
fell in flames at the German fronsisa,
near Dalheim, on Monday evening, w
"Rotterdamsche Courant" annouhes'
to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Prince Relies on
Rupprecht to Free
Him ofAUied Trap

Continued from page 1
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
The Great War-1445th Day
Military Comment
By William l.. Mcpherson

Cpyght 1918 By The Tribune Association The N York Tbunc
Fochs offensive The by loss Of communications in tn
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-10
Correspondence
MILFORD.

Mr.. and Mrs. August Helm of Lake
Mills visited the latter's parents here
Sunday evening.
Miss Winifred Wegner and brother
Frederick of South Bend, Ind. are
spending the week at the home OF
Leonard Wegner.
Ed. Strasburg has been canvassing
the village soliciting aid in extending
the electric light line from Lake
Mills.
Mrs. Laura Wendt spent several
days with her daughter, Mrs. William
Krause, near Watertown.
Miss Violet Schroeder is visiting
relatives in Fort Atkinson.
Mrs. William Veith was a visitor at
the home of Bert Warner
Byron Mason and family entertain
ed relatives from Lake Mills July A.
Mrs. Leonard Wegner received the
announcement of the marriage of her
brother, Jacob Eiffler, to Miss Gene
We've DOugherty of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Brown and chill
dren called at the Radtke home Sat
urday eevning.
Max Halfmann of Camp Grant spent
Sunday here with his parents.
Rev. Perry Miller Of GAINESVILLE
preached at the M. e. church last
Sunday.
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Social Doings

Mrs. H. A. Sommers entertained a
number of little folks this afternoon
at her home in North Washington
street in honor of the birth anniver-
sary Of her daughter Bernice. Games
and music were enjoyed after which
a dainty luncheon was served.
A number of friends pleasantly sur
prised Mrs. Leonard Oestreich Thurs
day evening at her home in North
Warren street in honor of her birth
anniversary. Dancing and music was
enjoyed and a bounteous luncheon
was served
Mrs. Otto Winkenwerder enter
tanned the Active club at her home in
Eighth street this afternoon in honor
OF her birth anniversary.
The Card club of this city will be en-
tertained Thursday by Mrs. George
kunert at her home in OcOnmowoc
Mrs. j. S. Kings entertained friends
at her home in North WASHINGTON
street Tuesday afternoon.
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HUBBLETON.

Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Weber and chill
dren spent Sunday with relatives al
Hebron.
Mrs. A. E. Cunningham was a Wa
tertown caller Saturday.
Mrs. Clarence Weber and Miss
Lydia Weber were over Sunday visit
ors at Fall River
Miss Bessie Weber spent Saturday
at Watertown.
Misses Hazel and Odah McKeigue
were callers at Watertown Saturday
Miss Laura Blaske of Sun Prairie
spent Sunday with Miss Erna Weber
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Detert and daugh-
ter and Mrs. F. Bittner of Watertown
Mrs. R. Hodgson of South Dakota and
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Peggler of Sun
Prairie were guests at the home of r
]. Amborn and family Sunday.
Mrs. F. J. Amborn, Mrs. Clarence
Weber and the Misses Lydia Amborn
and Lizzie Henningsen attended the
funeral of Miss Mabel Giese at Wa
terloo Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. Radke and daughter
and Miss Polly Weber of Beaver Dam
and Mr.. and Mrs. Gust .Strassbure
and daughter of Elba spent Sunday at
the home of G. H. Weber.
F. ]. AmbOrn transacted business in
Watertown Tuesday.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-10
TRACTOR AIDS ROAD MAKING
Successfully Used in New Hampshire
In Conjunction With Regulation
Road Machine.

In Atkinson, N. H., the farm tractor
has been successfully used in making
and preparing roads, doing away with
horses.
A 2O-horse-power tractor, as shown
In the picture, was used in cOniunc-
ton with the regulation road machine
for rounding off the surface of the
road and cleaning out cutters. 1t was
found that the tractor not only easily
does the work Of six or eight horses,
but better and in less time. Two men
only are required as compared with
four required with the former system.
Besides, double the ground is covered.
When the tractor Is used with the
road drag, one man, driving the trac
tor, can round up and smooth as much
state road In half day as one man
with pair Of horses in one day and
half. The tractor hauls four to six
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-10
CAMPBELL'S SHOWS
OPENED HERE With
FIRST CLASS ACTS
Carry Many People and Put On Some
Big Features Which Attract PeO-
ple-ShOw In Washington
Park.

Campbell's United Shows opened a
weeks engagement in Washington
Park Tuesday evening. They came
from Green Bay and certainly carry a
large number of amusements. The
show is said to be all that is claimed
for it and then some. and is deserving
of patronage.
There ARE sixteen different amuse-
ments on the grounds and riding de-
vices, whole circus in fact, with wild
animals, a southern plantation with
darkies, the Ferris wheel, the Whip,
and many more attractions. There are
included the monkey speedway, dog
and pony circus, athletic show, Moulin
Rouge cabaret, silOdrOme, South Am
erican kids wild west, merry go-round,
and other riding devices.
Jake Fem, who is with the shows as
"office" man, is we'll known to manv
WatertOwn people. He pilOted the Nat
Reiss shows here two seasons and has
always been booster for the big Wa
tertown fair Mr. Fem met many old
acquaintance when the shows struck
COWh vi uCSudy says tIdJ IL pOS-
sible he will be here when the big fair
opens on September 3.
The animal shows should be partic-
ularly noted as they are the cleanest
and largest travelling. The whip, mer-
ry go round and Ferris wheel offer
some real fun. No one should miss
going on the whip-the newest and
latest riding device among carnivals.
The word itself expresses the fun
don't mind the jars. The ten-in-One
show contains some interesting sights,
among them being the human fire
eater, who lights your cigarette within
eight or ten feet by inhaling the fire
of lighted torch. The cigarette fiend
is in connection with this show also.
He started to smoke at the age of 8
and now consumes about fifteen pack
ages a day. The half-monkey and man
shakes his head from morning till
night. He was captured by c. C. Carter
in old Mexico and is claimed to be over
100 years old. These are only few
features in the ten-and-one show. The
mOtOrdrOme needs no mention. Tues
day night driver gave a dip of
death exhibition. Submarine. Who is it ?
Colonial Girls dog and pony show are
but a few of the sixteen attractions
on the grounds.
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Beware Gasoline.

How many persons know what is
liable to happen when a pint of gasO-
line is left open in a ROOM If the tenn
perature is normal the liquid will en-
tirely evaporate in twenty-four hours
The vapor is heavier than air and
therefore sinks to the floor Unless
distributed, it will remain for hours
and by mixing with the air, forms an
explosive compound seven times as
powerful as powder. One pint of gas
oline will make two hundred cubic
feet of this compound. It is not neces-
sary that lighted match come in con-
tact with it. A spark struck by nail
in shoe will explode it, or a gas jet
or even the enclosed fire of a kitchen
stove.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-10
WANT AUTO OWNERS
TO ASSIST IN WAR WORK

The Jefferson County COun-
Gil of Defense is anxious that
all auto owners should enlist in
the war service at home and Or
ganize with that end in view. A
chairman should be appointed
to enlist membership of men
who are willing to drive their
cars occasionally in the service
Of Uncle Sam and the local
Council of Defense.
Every car owner who be-
comes q member will receive a
banner which may be pasted on
the windshield of the car in
scribed II Drive for Uncle
SAM" Auto owners should get
busy and confer with Chairman
Wondreyka at once and start
the ball rolling.
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City, BriefetS

John C. Cruel was a cream city Wis
itor today.
Frank Smith of indianapolis, Ind. is
a visitor here
Drink Red Wing pure apple cider
for your health. 15tt
e. Stremmer of Waterloo was a
caller here Tuesday
Mrs. Marie Neitzel and Mrs. George
Bach were Milwaukee visitors Tues
day.
Miss Gretchen Neitzel has returned
from a weeks visit with friends in
Portage.
John Kings and Robert Kerstell en-
joyed the fishing at Lake Ripley on
Tuesday.
Mrs. George Zoelle and children are
spending the week with relatives in
Beaver Dam.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Stangler, route
them Sunday.
Girl wanted at WatertOwn
Laundry, No. 800 Third street.
Phone 33S-W.
Miss Julia Miller of East Bristol is
the guest of Miss Lydia Schneider
North Warren street.
Theodore A. Fendt and Miss Mag
1a1in Fondf ore vicitino op1
friends in Milwaukee.
Joseph Pimpl of Milwaukee is
spending few days at the home of
his parents in Center street.
Mr. and Mrs. William Zuege and son
William Of Milwaukee are visiting at
the home of Mrs. Marie Neitzel
Wanted-This week only
1000 old dry batteries. Will pay
1c each. VIM. G.. Pritzlaff Co. st
Mr.. and Mrs William Kohls and Mr..
and Mrs. Otto Winkenwerder and chill
dren motored to Milwaukee Monday
Mayor Charles Mulberger, Postmast-
er j. W. Moore, Alderman Charles W.
Harte and Emil Tanck attended the
democratic state convention in Mil
waukee today.
Last spring the farmers of Con-
necticut shipped the farmers of Wis
consin and North Dakota six carloads
OF seed corn and received close to
$4,000 for the shipments.
A registered dairy cow placed in a
wisconsin herd % years ago cost
1890 She was sold 13 years later for
500. Out of her 1913 descendants owned
by her original buyer, 80 were sold for
$11 ,O29. Those he retained in the herd
brought the total up to at least
$4,000
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BENEFIT OF IMPROVED ROADS
Establish Graded Shoots In Ru-
raj Districts.
prepared by the United States Depart
ment of A griculturel

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agricultural
That improved roads would benefit
our cOuntry-schOOl system there would
seem to be no doubt. Good roads make
1t possible to consolidate or centralize
the schools and to establish graded
schools in the rural districts. Such
schools centrally located will accom-.
mOdate all of the children within q
radius of four or five miles, In many
communities having the advantage OF
improved roads cOmmOdiOus buildings
have been provided, more competent
teachers employed, and modern facili-
ties for teaching supplied at a mini,
mum cost