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Line Pierced on Wide Front.

Line Pierced on Wide Front.
From Laon to Cambria the Hinden-
burg line, stood all last year in the
way Of the allied armies seeking to
drive back the enemy from northern
France and Flanders. Little impress
sion was made in that line except
temporarily III Gen. BynB's drive be-
low Cambrai last fall. Already in this
summers campaign. however, the line
has been pierced on a wide front
along its northerly stretches by the
British, and within the past few hours
it has been penetrated in its southerly
reaches by the French.
It appears that Marshal Foch's plan
may prove to involve the turning OF
the line: on both Its fianks-at Cam
brai and Laon. In the north the Brit
ish have been for several days in a
position to deliver what might easily
prove a vital stroke to the west of
Cambria, where they have halted at
toward driving home the blow which
the logic of the situation points to as
inevitable.
Feel Effect Of Pounding.
In. the south the armies of Gen.
Petain have now fought their way
to positions where the left flank Of
the line is under their guns and the
edges OF the defensive positions are
beginning to feel the effects of the
pounding.
On the western outskirts Of the
tastion of st. Gobain, defending Laon,
the French already at Barisis are in
advance Of the line they occupied in
1917, and farther south, below the
main bastion, are standing on ground
which had not been in allied hands
since 1914. Farther north they are
before La Fere, whence an eastward
drive would carry them north Of the
st. Gobain massif.
The French drive seems clearly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-08
STRIKE IS DECLARED
:. BY BRITISH SPINNERS

LONDON. September THE ANAL
gamated Association of Cotton Spin
ners, with a membership Of 10000,
has decided to strike Saturday next
for abolition Of the rota system.
Indirectly the strike will affect
500, 900 operatives in tho Lancashire
cotton industry.
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French PassSt. Quentin Canal;
More TOlU11S FdUBefOre Them

ever, that makeshift combination be-
came impossible, for the range of hilA
on the Oise-Somme front was turneS
on the side Of Chauny and Tergnief
Enemy Loses No Time.
Then the enemy was obliged to re4
turn Immediately to the solution of
similar problem adopted by Won Hin.
denburg in the winter Of 1917-a re.
tirement to the half-flnished canal on
the front from St Quentin to Cam.
brai and the line of the Canal do
Nord, and he lost no time in executing
his plan.
The French progress yesterday in
following up the enemy was rapid, al
may be seen from the fact that the,
troops engaged on the Disc at Bo.
pilly. more than six miles southeast Of
Viry-Noureuil. the extreme point
reached on the Disc yesterday by tho
allies. which accounted for the ad.
vance Of ten kilometers mentioned il
last nights French communique.
General Retreat Inevitable.
The enemy also was obliged ta
hasten his retreat in the sector OF
the the, soTms ns ,t,vs between Ham and Pc.
ward along the Peronne-Ham road
toward Athies. At the Same time
Gen. Debeney's troops. which had
crossed the river at Epehancourt
obtained a footing on the high.
way and finally captured the
heights Of voyennes and Oney. break.
ing the line. A general retreat In the
direction Of varmand and st. Quen-
tin became inevitable for the enemy,
az did the abandonment Of Ham.
which was outfanked on the north
and south. the latter by Gen. Hum.
berts advance north Of the Disc.
Tho progress realised in the ST
Gobain region south of the river BY
Gen. Mangin's left had the same con-
sequences for Chauny.
The giving UP without q blow OF
such places as Ham and Chauny must
have been q bitter pill for the Ger.
man stan. for 1t Is considered unlikely
that their methodical retreat called
for Nthe complete abandonment OF
these two positions, the one Of which
constituted q bridgehead on the re:
verse side Of the st. Gobain range d
hills ana the other stood ~ an outoe
defense Of u Quentin.
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aimed at this massif, which. apparent.
ly safe from capture by a frontal at.
tack, seems not unlikely to prove the
objective of an encircling movement.
This, however, may have to await the
further retirement Of the Germans
Such q retirement is regarded as in-
evitable because Of the allied posi-.
tion on the German left flank. from
the Aisne at Conde to Vauxaillon. and
there are not wanting military critics
who argue that the Germans here
will not be permitted to halt even AZ
the Chemin des Danes position. bud
that the enemy will be forced to rec
treat still farther north, thus addi-
tionally exposing Laon on the east.
Drives viii Be Co-ordinated.
The allied unified command makes il
certain that the expected drives at the
vital points on both the north, in ths
Cambria sector. and in the south, around
the Laon positions. will be SO co-ordi-
mated as to insure the maximum result
The process Of closing in toward the
Hindenburg line at the points where II
rapidly yesterday by both the French
and the British. The British moved
forward at an accelerated pace below
the Cambrai-Peronne front, and on that
front itself they already are close to the
line. South Of the Somme the French
pressed on beyond Tergnier and moved
up speedily along all the line opposite
the front between La Fere and St Quen-
tin.
On the Aisne there was little change
towards the western part of the front,
where the Americans and French are
on the river facing the Germans en-.
trenched along the canal which paral.
lels the stream. Farther east the Ger
mans are giving up grucgingly thS
angle formed by the line trfnding OF
southeastward towards Rheims. offer.
ing particularly stiff opposition to the
Franco-American forces near Roman.
between Revillon and Montigny-Sur.
XeSle.
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ers it. may be accepted as a moral
certainly that formidable U-boat con-
centration against the conveys is
being planned at this moment, If not
actually in operation.
OF course, also, the protection the
British and American navies are able
to afford as conveys is being in
creased, as their output Of destroy
ers and other anti-submarine craft is
rapidly growing.
Driven to Make Attempt.
Devices for the. detection andf de-
Atruction Of, U-boats are being per-
fected all the time, and their e{fec.
tiveneSs IL being daily demonstrated
on the ocean and In the narrow seas,
but If the Germans are convinced that
the moral effect in Germany Of a more
or less successful attack on an Inn
portant convoy would more than COM
pensate for the heavy loss in U-boats
in the operation it cannot be doubted
they will be driven to make the at
tempt.
The loss in man power resulting to
the allies from such an attack could
not be greater than that incurred al
most any day in big battle on the
western front, but, as their prime
object at present is to stay the moral
rot in the central empires, Of which
such absolute evidence now is being
afforded, the German high command
may well believe nothing within their
power so useful for that purpose as
to break even once the almost invul-
nerable defense afforded by the Brit
ish and American navies to American
troop transports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-08
Reds Destroy Section
of Transsiberian Road;
Also Poisoning Wells

By tie Associated Press.
HARDIN. Manchuria, Saturday, Au-
gust s1.-Bolshevik forces have de-
stroyed the transsiberian railway in
the region west Of Dauria. . town
twenty miles from the point whore
the railroad crosses the Manchurian
border.
The water problem In that district
10 acute, rs the water service stations
1Continued On Eighth Pago.)
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Received With Sympathy.

Secretary Lansing received the dele.
cation sympathetically and requested
that all data supporting the request
for recognition as g. stase be prepares
and presented.
The Czecho-Slovaks already recog-
nized are the northern -Slavs, while
the Jugo- -Slavs are the southern Slavs.
The two groups, both largely In Aus
tria-Hungary, are separated by terri
tory inhabited by Germans and Mag
vars. This is stated as the main rea-
son that they are appealing for recog-
rition as two. rather than one, ma
ton. The territory Of the northern
Sloyaks consists Of Bohemia, Nora
via, Silesia. and Slovakia, comprising
$4,000 square miles. and with g. popu-
lation Of 100000 Czechs and Slo-
vaks and 100000 Germans and Mag
vars.
The southern Slavs are Of three
main groups-the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes. Territory which they now
seek to form into q single state, with
a constitutional, democratic and par
Iiamentary monarchy, under the
dynasty, the pres
ent ruling house of Serbia. is made up
of Serbia, Montenegro, separate states
and Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Herze-
eovina, Istria and part Of Dalmatia,
the latter six provinces now under
Austro- o-Hungarian dominion.
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SUGAR Refinery BURNS:
Three MILLIONS LOSS

HAVANA, September THE
Areohavala Sugar Refinery at Car
dena was totally destroyed by hre
today. Tho loss IL estimated to ex-
ceed $4,000, 900.
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BRITISH GAIN ON l7-MlLE LINE
AND FRENCH PENETRATE FOE
/. POSITIONS MORE 7IHAN4 MILES
GERMAN WARSHLP
SUNK BYA MINE
OR FOE TORPEDO

By the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. September t.
One Of 4 squadron Of German
warshIps cruising on the eoast
Of the Island Of Aheland Fri.
day evening ran ON q mine OF
was t0rpedOed. according to re-
Ports received here. The ship
was seen suddenly to heel over
and disappear.
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AMERICANS BATTLE.
V|c|OUS[Y IN DRIVE
Graphic Story Is Told Of Ger
man Retreat From the
VesIe.
CAPT.. BLAGDEN, A HERO
BY JuNIUs b. WOOD.

BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.
Cablerrsm to The Sunday Star and
ChicaEo Daily News. CODyHiShts 1913.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY AT
THE FRONT. September 7.-Capt. p.
Crawford Blagden Of New York, for
mer Harvard and All-American tac-
kle, shone forth today as the hero who
sounded the alarm which started the
Americans pellmell across the. esle
in pursuit of the retreating Germans.
It was a touch Of the old, foot ball
spirit which came into play in the
Duo to his alertness. our, troops are
close on the heels Of the Germans.
who are desperately trying to hold
back our men by means OF machine
gun nests and forlorn-hope attacks.
They are. fighting for every inch of
the ground, and the bodies of the
Germans strewn over the fields show
the desperation Of this resistance.
Capt. Hayden started the !hsll roll.
o'clock "Wednesday nnornfng5+ Tor. the
purpose Of attacking. . certain Ger
man strong point. Orders had been
given by the colonel that II the re-
sistance was slight the patrol was to
continue pressing forward Sounds Of
fighting were heard. showing that the
attack was progressing, though no
word came from; Blagden before
8 o'clock in the morning, when q run
on the back of an envelope that he
had fought his way to the top of, the
hill beyond the chateau overlooking
Fismette,
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His Last Letter Home.

A letter from young Barrack was
received by his mother on August S,
written two days before he died. In
advantages and pleasures of Army
life and told that he was well and
happy.
He attended the public schools here
and was for few years employed by
the Curtis Publishing Company. Be-
sides his mother. he is survived by
three sisters. Misses Caroline and Ber-
nice Barrack Of this city and Mrs. Ber-
nard Buscher Of Norfolk, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-08
In Harmony With Italy.

One objection to recognition Of the
Jugo-Slavs has been the fact that
their claims conflicted with those OF
nationals in 1stria and Dalmatia. It
is stated now that differences be-
tween the Slavs and Italians have
teen harmonized and Italy Is likely
to lead, as she did In the case Of the
Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and
An oficial dispatch from switzer-
land says tho Czecho-Slovak national
council will shortly establish head
quarters in Prague, where the social
list deuty Soukoup will be in
charge Of all local councils in Czech
towns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-08
BARRACk
SUCCUMBS IN FRANCE
Mother in Washington Informed
Soldier Son Died Of Wounds
Received in Battle.

Private Frederick Barrack. for ten
years a resident Of Washington. died
on July from wounds received in
action in France. News OF his death
has reached his mother. Mrs Catherine
Barrack. S1S New Jersey avenue north
west.
Young Barrack enlisted in 1914 in
the District National Guard and
served on the Mexican border when
the local boys were modified in
1916. Retaining his membership in
that organization when his first en-
listment expired. he was sent over
seas with the local contingent. ..
Before entraining for the border he
was wounded by a bullet from an un-
known source while lying in his tent
at Camp Ordway. He was treated at
the Fort Myer hospital and later re-
turned to his command.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-08
JAPANESE OCCUPY
TOWNS IN SIBERIA
Khabarovsk and Imam Taken.
CONSERVATION in Ranks
of BoIsheviki.
REDS WAR UPON CHINA

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, September 7.-Japanese
forces have occupied the town OF Kha-
barovsk, Siberia, according to advices
received here from vladivostok.
Imam Also Occupied.
yLAD1vosToK. Sunday. September
(by the Associated Press).-on the
Ussuri front Japanese cavalry has oe-
cupied Imam, at the junction Of the
Imam and Ussuri rivers. Prisoners re-
port CONSERVATION In the ranks OF the
bolsheviki forces on the discovery Of
the presence Of entente allied troops.
which they did not suspect until they
were in actual contact with them.
On the Manchurian front Gen. Sem
enoff's Cossacks have reached the
fortifications Of Borgia. southeast OF
Tchitau, the capital of Transbaikalia.
A detachment Of japanese cavalry
covering the right wing took Ching
yang after a sharp fight and captured
100 prisoners and a baggage rain. The
enemy is retiring toward the Onon
river. eighty miles northeast of
Borgia.
The Russian bo1shevik council at
observation-disclosures, capital OF the
Amur province Of Asiatic Russia. has
declared war on China because the
Chinese government is sending troops
to the northern Manchurian front:
The Siberian frontier has been closed
and the bolsheviki are confiscattng
Chinese property.
The Japanese are issuing gold yen
notes in an effort to improve the
desperate currency situation.
ican Red Cross is preparing Rod
Cross hospital base at Bonhaidon.
The French commander has accepted
the tender of Red Cross services for
his troops.
Krasnoyarsh Is Taken.
TOXIC. Friday. August 80 (by the
Associated Press).-Japanese cavalry
on August 20 occupied Krasnoyarski,
on the Ussuri river front in Siberia,
sixty miles northeast of Lake Khanka,
according to an official statement
issued today by the Japanese war
office.
obozerskaya Occupied.
LONDON. September "a British
the operations Of the allied forces in
the region around Archangel. Russia,
says:
'.After further severe hand-to-hand
fighting with an enemy force led by
the Germans the allied troops have
the number Of $50 were captured and
heavy losses were inflicted on the
enemy. e..
'The allied casualties were slight !"
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Explosion In Ruins.

Suddenly. while looking st the ruins.
there came q terrific explosion which
ing it was merely One Of the enemy shells
arriving, made my way leisurely to-
ward the eQuasG Cof1. EdNax1 aA.
Continued On Sixth Pase.)
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Gets Command Of Battalion.

IT cannot find anybody to the right
or left of me, and am rather remoted
from everybody" was the terse COM
plant. -. -. 50. - :
Reinforcements were sent out and
the advance was fairly under way be-
fore noon; all Of Capt. Blagden's off,
GERS were incapacitated. Two shells
exploded at his feet, but did not In
jure him. Sergt. John A. Grimes Of
Fort Wadsworth, Ky, acted aa second
in command. Capt. Blagden on account
of his efforts in this affair has been
given the command of a battalion. J.
Today I rode out on the Fismette
road far toward the Aisne, which It
was possible to do without being di-
rectly observed by the enemy on the
opposite hill. Then I climbed the hill
which the troops had reached the day
before. Along the ridge. cut in solid
chalk rock, were trenches which it Is
a marvel that anybody was ever able
to take. From any point in the zay
line in which the Germans seem to
have expected to stay through. the
winter they were able to look down
upon Fismes, across the esle, and the
slopes leading down to it, where for
the past two weeks they had been abie
to see every move of the Americans
just as q. gallery spectator sees a
stage. =
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Would Be Free Kingdoms.

"The state of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes, who are also known as the
southern Slavs or Jugo-Slavs. will be
a free and Independent kingdom. with
indivisible territory and unity OF al
legiance. It will be a constitutional.
democratic and parliamentary mon
archy under the karageorEsvitcaa Itch
the ideas and the feelings OF the ma
ton, placing liberty and the national
will above all else.
.The state will be named The King
dom Of the Serbs. Croats and Slo-
venes.' and the style Of the sover-
eign will be King Of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes.'
"The territory Of the kingdom will
include all Of the territory inhabited
compactly and in territorial con-
tinuity by our nation Of the three
names It cannot be mutilated with
out detriment to the vital interests
Of the community.
I'm the interest Of freedom and Of Of
Adriatic shall be free and open to
each and ALL"
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Burrow Under Rocks.

the Germans had burrowed deep un-
der the rocks and the dugouts occu-
pied by the officers had been fitted
from neighboring villages. Plain Ger
man soldiers Jared less suMptously.
sleeping on pallets Of straw In inches
hewed in the side OF the trench. Some
are still sleeping there-the sleep which
knows no awakening.
Several objects in the dugouts were
souvenirs, but the Ameri-
cans refrained from touching them.
as a couple Of hours earlier there had
been a striking demonstration Of the
devilment which the retreating enemy
leaves behind.
I had circled down the winding
road south Of the Vesle through
st. Thibaut, crawling past trains Of ar
til1ery and rolling kitchens and
marching troops until my ~ turn came ann
neers were still throwing. across the
river. Then came q long detcur
through swamps plentifully sprinkled
with the dead bodies Of Germans and
occasionally the still form OF one of
our. men, until I reached Bazoches.
Bazoches- in Ruins.
This place was q tumble Of stone
and masonry, with few walls not lew
0ko0 Iho 0lFS0ts <AAA OAS<Ops s1VA "0S
a medieval castle, the walls Of which,
six feet thick. held back the warriors
in other ages. Even some Of these
Eeon which held secrets in the past
had been rent open. Only one Of the
solid round towers was standing at
the corner. AS I made my way over
the debris 1t was easy to see. that the
enemy hid not been able. to live even
in that walled fort under tho inferno
Of steel which our artillery poured
upon it. !. walked through tho vii
laEe, across what was once the vii
laSe square, whore . French omcer
stood sadly recalling the time few
months before-when he had listened to
q band concert on the same spot. Not q
single tree was standing. All had been
felIed and torn apart, az IL by the
monster hands Of big shells. In the
shade Of one side Of the building lay
one Of our soldiers. In the middle Of
the side street water from q broken
well was trfckling over.
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About 100000 Affected.

The population Of the. proposed new
state is probably in the neighb6rhood
of 100000. Not less than 1.0OO.00o
Serbs and an equal number OF Croa-
tions and Slovenes are reported to
have died since the war began, either
killed in battle or victims Of typhus
and the other scourges which have
swept over their land.
One thing that has heretofore pre-
vented union of the Jugo-Slavs Is ex-
planned to be the differences in reli-
gion. The Serbs and Montenegrins are
Greek Catholics, while the Croatians
and Slovenes are Roman Catholic.
This difference was bridged In. the
declaration Of Corfu, signed July Z,
1917,
This declaration, entered into by
Nikola P. Pashitch, prime minister OF
Serbia, and DR.. Ante Trubic, president
of the Jugo-S1av committee OF Lon
don, laid the groundwork for the
Jugo-Slav kingdom. It declared In
part:
''The authorized representatives of
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in de-
claring that it Is the desire of our
people to free itself from every for
eign yoke and to constitute itself a
free, national and Independent state,
are agreed that this state should be
founded on the following modern and
democratic principles:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-08

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. September 7.-Japanese
forces have occupied the town Of Kha-
barovsk, Siberia, according to advtces
received here from V1adivostok.
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WEATHER.

Fair and slightly warmer today and
tomorrow: gentle shifting winda.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
sndinE 10 pm. last night: Highest,
u; lowest, Sc.
Fun report oo paGo Z.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-08

That is one Of the cardinal facts Of
the present plight Of the central pow
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-09

c., This Empire Dress of excellent
quality Bingham in charming shades OF
maize, pink. green and blue, has the
short waist and skirt finished with three
deep tucks, while the collar and cuffs
of white pique are run with long and
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-09

ed people by the Penn Undertaking
Co. at 1915 r. Marion at.
Aaron Savage, 81. was arrested
and charged with stibtly removing
SIS and two $50 Liberty Bonds from
T. -. Garrison's pocket Wednesday
afternoon. Garrison IL president Of
the Pacific Coast Pipe Co.
}. y. Niehnius. 1913 Wcstiakc ave.
missed SOS and n $500 diamond pin
Wednesday. He suspects robbers.
Albert A. Guettei. 81. night watch.
man at the Seattle Electric Co. e
Georgetown plant. was arrested
Wednesday afternoon. charged with
stealing and selling company sup.
plies.
Touching n match TO percussion
caps he found "Wednesday evening.
Joe Shay. age 0. ana Brandon st.
had the ends Of four fingers blown
off. and suffered the embediture OF
a piece OF metal from one OF the caps
In his stomach. While serious. the
boys condition had improved Thurs.
day.
Examinations for scalers and ma
chinists In the department of agrl.
culture will he held ut 303 Federal
building.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-09
Far and Near
News by Telegraph
and Telephone
The courts have given Moses Mon.

The courts have given Moses Mon.
tefIore Caracas. the comedian known
az Monte Carter. permission to adopt
his stage name for keeps.
Marion Tuite. young Seattle toe
dancer. will perform NJ an entertain
ment given by George ri. Fortaon
Camp OF United Spanish War Vet
Grams at Veterans hall Thursday at
y. m.
The funeral services Of Mrs. Helen
Major Estey. 1853 Eighth ave. n. H.,
will be held at the Church OF the
Blessed Sacrament Friday morning.
DIR. lisa Tanimura. commissioner
TACOMA.-final Liberty Loan
figures for Tacoma total t5,7i6,000.
Exhibition drills TO boost recruit
ing will be given by the Third Wash
ington regiment at Woodland park
from 10 a. m. until 8 p. m. next Sun
day. =.
On the last lap ~ 10,O00mile
tour Of Canada and the United
states. ceIestine Sullivan, emissary
~ the president. will speak at the
chamber Of Commerce luncheon FRI
day. NJ
Frederick 1Bsstrup, Northern "a
clfic office trainmaster. will leave al