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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07
death when we captured him next
day.
ArgylIs Take Heavy Toll of Enemy.

death when we captured him next
day.
ArgyIIs Take Heavy Toll of Enemy.
How the tide of battle rolled I'D
towards Arras is described by a, non
commissioned officer of the Argylls,
who was wounded in the second
days fighting in that region.
Guns began to thunder in the early
morning, he explained and the ground
in which we were entrenched appear
ed to be shaking and swaying like
a great liner in a rough sea. At
times it was almost impossible to keep
upright in the dugouts so great was
the concussion of the laundering
shells. Nearly two days the bonn
bardment lasted.
Then came the attack, and it also
was in keeping with the grand scale
of the bombardment, for the enemy
seemed to have more men than they
knew what to do with. They push
ed them on in droves up against our
lnie, and we gave them hell many
times over.
They were shot down by the hun
dred I stood for two hours watch
ing a certain point in front of our line
against which our machine gun fire
was directed. All the time German
infantry were being marched up to
that point. Not a single one passed
it, and their losses must have been
terrible, for our fire was terribly &C
curate.
A Counter-Attack in the Moonlight
Towards night the Huns succeeded
in entering a section of trench next
to us where a Welsh battalion had
been forced out. We got orders to
counter attack at eleven o'clock, and
this we did, another Highland bat
talon moving into the line to hold
our trenches while we were on this
job. We left our own trenches and
marched along towards the point OF
attack in the full light of the moon
We did not encounter opposition
until we were within eighty yards OF
so of the parapet of the captured
trench. We were challenged then
and answered with few inches OF
bayonet in the throat of the man who
| challenged, and then we were over the
parapet like a whirlwind.
From all points the Huns came
rushing to the assistance of their men
but we rained bombs on them, bayo-
neted where we could, and fired vol.
| 1eys of rifle fire into the blighters al
every turn. In less than ten minutes
after entering we had captured po-
sition that it took the Germans five
hours to seize after two days inces
SAINT bombardment. Two-thirds Of
the Huns holding the trench were kill
ed or wounded land the rest put tt
| flight.
| Counter-attacks were delivered soor
| afterwards, and continued with grea
fierceness all through the next day
We beat them all back. and smashed
one by an attack with the bayone
when the enemy was still in the open
In that fight we put to rout a bat
talon of the Kaiser's own Guards
and captured the Colonel and most o
the officers, besides inflicting heav,
losses on the enemy.
Two Heroes of the Gordons.
I do not think, said an officer of tn
Fifty-FTrst Divisional Staff to me, tina
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07

The publicity committee of the
Connecticut State Council of Defense
has endorsed the plan of the Council
of National Defense and the United
States Bureau of Education for Flag
Day exercises in industrial plants on
June IA.
A Fag Day program for exercises
during the noon hour in industrial
plants, particularly those which are
operating on government contracts,
has been prepared and distributed by
the United States Bureau of Educa-
ton. Special attention is also be-
ing paid to those plants employing
men and women of foreign birth. 1t
is contemplated that the exercises
shall be brief.
In urging the special observance of
Flag, Day, it is pointed out that this
year, for the first time in the his
tory of America, the Stars and
Stripes is being carried in European
countries by 1egions of fighting
Americans, and that there are many
thousands Of workers helping win
the war in American industrial plants
who have those near and dear to them
women, it is believed, will welcome
the opportunity to join with older
Americans in paying tribute to the
flag and in pledging loyalty to the ma
tons cause at this time.
The Division of Four Minute Mer
of the Federal Committee on Public
Information is cooperating with the
Bureau of Education in providing
speakers for these exercises. Morris
E. Alling, state chairman of the
Four Minute Men, has sent to all his
local chairmen throughout Connec-
ticut bulletin requesting their CO.
operation with industrial plants ir
this state in this matter. In addition
to this, local agencies of the Connec
ticut State Council of Defense will bt
at the service of managers of indus
trial plants for this purpose, and re.
quests to local chairmen. of the coun
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07

(In this article our Special Cores
pondent with the Allied Army in
France gives narratives of the great
battle. as told by men of the High
land and Lowland Scottish regiments
taking part in it,
(By Special Correspondent.)
One of the first things that strikes
an onlooker in the wake Of the great
battle is the cheerful mien of the
men who have been in it, and the
grim, determined look on the faces Of
the men going up the line to go in it.
Men back from leave are unusually
punctual in reporting, and some are
even ahead of their time, simply be-
cause they feel that it would be dis
loyalty to their comrades up in the
line if they were enticed from duty
by the pleasures of Blighty.
To-day 1 talked with man in the
Royal Scots. He had been fighting
and marching and starving by turns
for five days and five nights, yet his
spirit was good in spite of his three
wounds.
ga Wee Bit Getting"
1t was just a wee bit exciting, miss,
he said to me, and wi a wheen mair
men the Germans might have made it
hot for us when they drove against
our line. Where we were they at
tackled with between four and five
thousand men. Three companies of
our regiment were in the line. One
was in reserve behind, and was
thrown back with other troops when
the Germans attacked our flank and
rear.
The three companies had to bear
the brunt of the fighting for as many
days. In that time we had thou
sands .of the enemy thrown against
our line but for two whole days we
never budged by as much as an inch.
They attacked US with the fury of
wild beasts, and their Generals didn't
care a button what losses the men
endured.
One whole battalion was wiped out
in front of our position, dead being
piled on dead until there rose in front
a great wall of corpses, behind which
the surviving infantry were shelter
ing until they were assailed flank
and rear by our machine gunners and
wiped out.
1 am certain that not a man of that
battalion escaped death or wounds
and other battalions also suffered se=
verely. -.
We could have held on indefinitely
but with our line being forced back
to. right and left and our rear being
menaced it became necessary to with
draw. That we did on the third day,
but we did it at our leasire Every
time Fritz tried to hurry us he found
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07

any battle or series of battles has pro-
duced such a fine series Of acts OF
individual heroism as this one. +
Two men of the Gordons were the
last of a rearguard cut off in Mametz
village. When their comrades were
all killed these two.sought refuge in a
shell-hole, where they held on
through the night, defying all enemy
attempts to rush them.
In the course of the fight one of
them, named M'Ewan, was badly
wounded just as they had made up
their minds to make run for safe
ty. He insisted that his companion
should go without him but Patterson
would have nothing to do with such
advice. He declared that whatever
fate befell his comrade he would
share, and before dawn the two set
out on their weary trudge to the Brit
ish lines, after four days of fighting
and marching.
1t was a hopeless task, for MEwan
was badly hit and had to be carried
most of the way, but Patterson re-
peatedly refused to desert his COM
rade.
Morning found them still several
miles behind our Withdrawing lines,
and the ground over which they had
to trudge was being swept by shell
frie from both sides, in addition to
| the rifle fire of the snipers.
The two men who had been with
out food for nearly three days, except
for two biscuits, were forced to shell
ter in a shell hole once more, but it
was only shelter in name, for shells
were bursting over it, and three or
four times shells actually burst in the
hole itself.
Crawled Over ShelI-Swept Ground to
Get Food.
| Despite the danger to himself Pat
terson craWled out across the she'll
swept ground to see if he could OBJ
| tain rations from the haversacks Of
some of our dead lying in the neigh
borhood. In doing so he was wound
ed by a shell splinter, but managed
to crawl back to the place where he
had left his comrade with water and
food.
When night fell the two men made
another attempt to reach our lines
and after great suffering they sue
ceeded in doing so. The last stage Of
their trudge took place under heav,
rifle fire from snipers, who coule
make out the two slowly moving fig
ures in the grey dawn, and both mer
were hit again. Nevertheless they
got into our lines, and are now in hos
pital.
That the enemy were not able t.
make, in the Albert region, as much
E'headway as they had counted on wa.
due to the fact that sergeant of thu
Gordons carried from Mametz villag,
to Albert at the risk of his life mes
sage that enabled our troops to stem
the enemy advance at that point
Almost all the way this brave mai
was under fire, and part of the wa.
was pursued by an enemy patrol, be
ing wounded in the right leg. H,
went on in spite of the pain from hi
wound, and finally delivered his mes
sage. While-he was taking it a bat
talon of the Gordons were holding a
bay enemy forces five times stronger
} and when the Gordons were FINAL,
forced to fall back through Mamet
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07
SICK AND WOUNDED RETURN

Washington, June THE War De-
partment yesterday authorized the
statement that 200 sick and wounded
soldiers landed in the United States
from the expeditionary forces during
the last two weeks, of which Is came
from the week ended May "a and 1874
the week ended May 81.
These men are sent to the various
army hospitals, where treatment and
facilities for physical reconstruction
have been provided
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07

The Mayor of New Haven, Conn,
has asked the governments permits
sion to set up anti-aircraft guns.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07

A Norwegian vessel carrying food
to Norway under German safe con-
duct was captured by a Hun U-boat.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07

village the counter-measures suggest
ed in the message taken by the SER
geant at the risk of his life had been
carried out, so the day was saved.
That same battalion of Gordons held
at bay a brigade Of German infantry
subsequently, and drove them back
three times from important positions
fnenacing our line of retreat in the
Albert region.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07

TOMATO. LETTUCE AND
CABBAGE PLAINS.
JOHN RECK & SON.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-08
FATAL AIRPLANE ACCIDENT
 AT HAzELHURsT FIELD
Sergeant Gianfelice Gino. of the Royal
 Flying Corps, Killed.

Mineola, N. r, July Sergeant Gianfelice Gino, of the Royal Italian Flying Corps, was killed in an air plane accident at Hazelhurst Field to- day while making nose dive for the benefit of the Italian mission to the United States and Major General Will liam L. Kenly. director of military ae- rcnautics.
 Sergeant Gino. who had been in structing American aviators here for some time, was the tutor Of Captain Antonio Silvio Resnati. the Italian air man who fell to his death here last May.
 Although it was stated tonight that an official inquiry might be made in to the cause of today's accident. Gui- scope Bevione. chief of the Italian military mission for aeronautics. is- sued a statement in which he said that the fall was due to the low altitude at which Sergeant Gino attempted his dangerous feat probably through 8 mistake in Judgment"
 IL was Gino's custom to spend Sun day afternoons performing in the air Today's accident followed a successful flight which he had made in a larger machine when, with General Kenly a. one of his passengers, he circled ovel the field with 2 other planes in bat tie formation. This was the thirC trial flight of the first American- bull Caproni plane, on whieh he also car Fed Captain Ugo d'Annnnzio anC Lieutenant Testoni of the Royal ItaI ian Flying Corps.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-08
GERMAN AMBASSADOR
 AT MOSCOW AssAssTNArED
It is Now Certain the Germans Will
 Go to Moscow.

Paris, July 7.-Alfred F. Kerensky, former premier of Russia, when in- formed by The Associated Press of the assassination of General Count Won Mirbach, German ambassador. at Moscow, declared that while he could hot feel elated at the death of a hu- man being" he could not help saying ''It is a good thing for Russia"
 This may be the beginning of the renaissance of Russia" he said. But now the Germans will surely go to Moscow" he added, sadly
 It was only few days ago that Kerensky, in a talk with the core. spondent, expressed his opinion that the only reason German troops had not yet appeared in Moscow was be- cause Won Mirbach had not required their presence there.
 Should circumstances demand tho appearance fo German troops" sait the former premier on this occasion 'VOn Mirbach, the real ruler of Rus i sia, will surely call upon them. Hi. , ability to govern without the help O 1 German bayonets has alone prevented ' the appearance of German spiked hel mets in the ancient capital of the Mus covite empire.f
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-08
Americans Killed in
 Action Total 1,574
INCLUDING 2e1 MEN WHO WERE
 LOST AT SEA
CASUALTIES NOW 11,O86
Yesterdays Casualty List Contained 117 Names, Number of Them Being Men From Connecticut.

Washington July 7.-Casualties in the army and marine corps in the American expeditionary forces in creased by 103 during the week. com pared with 497 the previous week, and aggregate Il 0S6 with the inclusion of today's army list giving IF names and the marine corps list giving 5 names. Total deaths, including 291 men lost at sea, men killed in action, dead of wounds, disease, accident and other causes, number 4,414-army men 3,917, marines 497. The wounded aggregate 6,169-army men 5.2oO, marines 969. Those missing in action, including prisoners, total 503-army men 452, marines 51.
 Killed in Action.
 Of the weeks increase, 43S were army men and 265 marines. Killed in action and other deaths numbered 2S5 those wounded totalled 303, and the missing and prisoners 115.
 The army casualties summary as of ficially announced today follows:
 Killed in action (ncluding 291 lost al seal, 1,574; died of wounds, 532: died of disease, 1922; died of accident ant other causes, 489; wounded in action 5,200; missing in action Gncluding prisoners), 452. Total, 9,569.
 The marine corps casualties sum. mary follows:
 Deaths, 497; wounded. S6s: in hands of enemy, ?; missing ,49. Total, 1,517 Officers included in the marine corp! summary were: Deaths, 21; wounded | 2S; missing. ?. The army summar! ! does not note the number of officer: | included.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-08
7e|egraphers' Strike
 Has Been Deferred
HAD BEEN SCHEDULED TO BEGIN
 TODAY
ASSURANCE IS GIVEN
Indefinite Postponement of Strike Was Announced Last Night By Secretary of Labor Wilson.
 

Washingtons July 7.-Indefnite post ponement of the strike of telegraphers employed by the Western Union Tele- graph Company, called to begin tomor- row, was announced tonight by Sec retary of Labor Wilson after he had conferred over the long distance tele- phone with S. J. Konenkamp, presi- dent of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union.
 Indefinitely Postponed.
 Secretary Wilson said that Mir. Ko- nenkamp, who is in Chicago, had giv- en him every assurance that the strike order would not be put into effect to morrow and that any walkout would he postponed indefinitely. It was un- derstood that the union president agreed to this course because con- gress no wis considering a resolution authorizing the president to take over and operate during the war all tele- graph, telephone, cable and radio sys- tens.
 In final effort to avert the strike, MT. Wilson sent MT. Konenkamp a telegram today urging delay and later called in Samuel Gompers. president of | the American Federation of Labor who also sent a telegram to the union president urging postponement of the 1 strike. Later Mr. Wilson got into communication with MT. Konenkamp on the telephone
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-08
FORMER MAYOR MITCHELL
 OF NEW YORK KILLED
Fell GOO Feet From AirpIane at Lake
 Charles, La.
| .aka Cha rlnS 1 a I1l

Lake Charles. La, July 7-An ex- animation of the wrecked airplane from which Major John Purroy Nit chel. former mayor of New York. and an officer in the aviation section of the signal corps, fell to his death at Gerstner aviation field early yester- day, revealed that the afety belt was unfastened at the time of the accident cousing Major Mitchell to fall when the plane went into a nose dive at a height of about 500 feet Major Kirby commanding officer at the field. de- clined tonight to speculate as to the cause for the belt being unfastened. It is a rule. he said. that all flyers fas- ten themselves in the plant with the belt before ascending. The investiga- tion has not been completed, Major Kirby stated.
 Major Mitchell, in excellent spirits. went out to the field early this morn ing with his instructor, Lieutenant | John McCaffery, also of New York. l The officers were discussing politics | up until the time the former mayor took the air. The instructor remained on the ground to obsedve the students climbing operations. When about 500
 feet up Major Mitchell fell from his
 seat and his body struck almost at the
 feet of Lieutenant McCaffery The air plane, a single scatter scout machine
 went skirmishing on without a pilot i for half a mile and then fell 800 feet completely demolished,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-08

Mass.
 Leo H. Buyanoslli, Terryville, Conn. Lonard Colburn, SIS Orchard street. New Haven.
 Raymond E. Ely, Haverhill, Mass. James l. Goodwin, Everett Mass. Angelo Basso, 52 South Elm street Bristol, Conn.
 Battiste Cuzzipoli. Springdale, Ohio.
 Fred Hager, Prospect, Conn.
 William P. LemieuX, Middletown, Conn.
 Hugh Marron, S5 Smith street, Nor walk, Conn.
 Charles Munson, 2S4 Orange street, New Haven.
 Ernest D. Moquin. Bristol, Conn.
 William c. Nelson, Wenatchee, Washn
 Anthony L. Penda, Bristol, Conn,
 Paul A. Peterson, South Farms, Middletown, Conn.
 Walter H. Pierce. Haverhill. Mass.
 William L. Quinn, Swampscott, Mass. Dascomb P. Rowe. Barnet, Vermont
 John Sachs, 43 Hallock street, New Haven
 Dennis F. Sweeney, 255 Congress av- enue New Haven. Stephen Torol, Darien, Conn. Howard A. Webb, Ansonia, Conn. l Previously reported missing, not re- turned to duty: Private Albert L. Hall Hartford. Conn.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-08
cBy The Associated Press.)

While there have been local encoun t,rs of more or less local importance along the battle line in France, there has been little activity of significance in it's bearing on the general tense sit uation from the North sea to Switzer- land.
 pn the British front east of Amiens, Australian attachments. with which . serican troops are brigaded. have
 ,rd further east from the little
 .--c 0i iIamei south Of the Somme
 The Australians carried their
 .r-vavi over front Of almost
 Hes at that point last Thurs
 -ncir last aSsa ult they have
 ahcad at the center of the new
 which they created last week.
 craiion was successful, in that
 .' -0S ver> reached and the posi-
 - taken are being held by the men thn Autipodes.
 rrthev north. along the southern ut the Lys salient there has been 7uite heavy artillery firing, especially in the HinsoS sector. During the fighting in April, when the Germans had pushed far ahead in the Flanders area, the battle north and east of Hinges was one of the most desperate character. the village of Locon being the scene Of repeated Combats in which German attacks were crushed by the British defense.
 in the French sectors in the Oise. Soissons and Rheims sectors nnly pa : trol encounters have been reported. The Americans and French have been quite active near Chateau Thierry where the French have made some ad vance in the neighborhood of Hill 204 on the north side of which the Ameri cans attacked and captured the village of Vsux last week. The French re- port some measure of success in this fighting, while the Germans claim tha' the French and American assaults were repulsed with heavy losses.
 Austrian troops have been pushed back across the Piave river along tn, lower reaches of that stream nurins the offensive last fall they crossed tn, new channel of the river and pushed
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-08
SENDING PROPAGANDA
 OVER GERMAN LINES.
Specially Devised Rifles Are Being
 Used by the Allies.

Paris, July 7.-Thousands of special ly devised rifles for sending propa- ganda over the enemy lines are now in use in the allied armies, according to James Kerney, director of the Franco American committee of public information. From these rifles gre nades are discharged, by means of which tracts and pamphlets may be scattered along enemy trenches with considerable eXactitude at range of more than 200 yards.
 For greater distances, small balloons made of cloth are used. Each of these lifts 20 pounds of propaganda litera- ture and by means of a mechanical device drops a quarter pound of these documents at 15-minute intervals The
 radius of action of these balloons in a
 25-nile wind would be Hamburg. Ber-
 lin, Vienna and Triest. The balloons
 travel at a height of from 5000 to i. 600 sect
 Paper balloons capable of lifting four pounds are also used by the Ameri- can army for the purpose of distribut- ing literature in trenches and enemy billets for distances up to 100 miles 1 from the starting point, the director
 said. These balloons drop half pound of material at five minute inter vals. They use a fuse release, con- sisting of slow burning match which is consumed at the rate of one inch every five minutes. The first release is effected five minutes after starting
 to make sure of compensating the bal i loon for the loss of gas.
 i Recent distributions over the lines | have included the disclosures of Prince | Lichnowsky, the German ambassador l at London at the outbreak of the war: | the letters of Dr. Eon Muehlon the l former Krupp director; figures show l ing the German losses and facts about 1 food conditions in the interior of Ger | many
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-08
DETAILS OF ASSASSINATION
 OF COUNT VON MIRBACH,
German Ambassador at Moscow-'Two Unknown Men Threw Bomb,

Basel, July 7,-Nikolai Lenine, Bol- shevik premier, has sent the following message to NJ. Joffe. Russian minister at Berlin, regarding the assassination of Count Von Mirbach, the German ambassador, at Moscow:
 Two unknown men entered the German embassy at , o'clock this (Sat- urday) morning, having documents from a special committee. They threw a bomb in Count Non AIirbach's office, wounding him so severely that he died
 Representative of the government immediately visited the embassy and expressed indignation at the act, which they considered as political manoeu- vre to provoke trouble. The govern ment is taking every measure to dis cover the murderers and bring them before a special revolutionary tribunal
 Extra measures have been taken tC protect the German embassy and citi- zens The government requests you tc express to the German government the Russian governments indignation anC convey it's sympathy to the family O. the late count"