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New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
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Kills Two Germans
And Captures Nine
Pershing Awards Crosses
to al Officers and Men
for Bravery

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Graphic
stories of the individual heroism and
daring of forty-one American officers
and men fighting in France are told in
citations by General Pershing in
awarding them distinguished service
crosses made public here tonight.
One of the men decorated was Wal
ter A. Shaminsky, a private of infan-
try, and who was attacked by eleven
Germans when he entered cellar at
VauX, July /, to install telephone.
He killed two Of the enemy and took
the other nine prisoner.
Corporal John j. Mclaughlin, infan-
try. cleared out farmhouse near
Villers- sur-Fere July 2S, single hand
ed, killing four Germans, capturing
one and holding the house by himself
until support arrived.
fantry, after rushing ahead of his line
near Sergy, July 2S, was so badly
wounded that he could not stand. Ten
Germans of the Prussian Guard at
tackled him. He arose to his knees,
shot five Of them and the others fled
In another case private of infantry
on July 28, near Villers-sur Fere, saw
six Germans about to take prisoner his
corporal who had been severely
wounded. He called comrade, ad-
Vanced on the Germans, killed two Of
them, took the other four prisoner and
carried the corporal to the American
lines.
Sergeant Frank Gardellom, jr., a ma
chine gunner in the infantry, brought
down two German airplanes which
were sweeping an American trench
with machine gun fire. Despite the rain
of enemy bullets, the sergeant turned
his own machine gun on the planes
and riddled the upper one until it col
lapsed. In falling it struck the other
one causing it also to crash to earth
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Rolsheviki Reported to
Have Moved Against
Official Residence
London Aroused by
Capt. Cronie's Staying
Demands Reparation for
Death of Army Officer
in Petrograd

LONDON. Sept b.-Thc British Con-
.r,ate at Moscow has been attacked,
s,cording to the Central News to-day.
The attack on the British Embassy
=. petrograd last Saturday, involving
.be sackug of the embassy and the
}ill;nc Of Captain Crone, the British
o+.ache. has aroused intense indigna-
.;o, here. The London morning news
,srers in their editorials denouncc the
az in the strongest terms and indorse
me British governments action in the
asmsnd upon the Bolshevik government
for repara,ion and the threat of out
lawry for the members of the Soviet
government should it fail to give COM
n,a.e satisfaction or should further
arts Of violence be committed against
British subjects.
"The Times" says that the account
~ the affair given by the Bolshevik
,ewspaper "Pravda" shows that it was
considered act of the Bolshevik gov
.rnment and not mere outbreak of
srigandage. 1t calls for the exemplary
nunishment of the murderers and their
sccomplices.
Captain Francis Cromie. who had re-
ceiyed the Distinguished Service Order,
was one OF the first officers to COM
mand submarine. At the outbreak of
the war he commanded the Hongkong
submarine fotila.
According to The Evening News" to-
day, Maxim Litvinotf. BolsheviA rep
sresentative in London; his secretary
and another member Of the Bolshevik
faction now in London have been taken
to BriXton prison.
The British government announced
last night that NJ. Litvinoff and his
staff had been placed under preventive
arrest until all the British representa-
tives in Bolshevik Russia had been set
8: liberty and allowed to proceed to the
Finnish frontier unmolested.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Russian Newspaper
Says First Shots
Came From Embassy

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 5.-Details of
the search" of the British Embassy
in Petrograd last Saturday are given
in dispatch from Moscow, quoting the
newspaper "Pravda." Forty persons,
for the most part British subjects,
were arreGed, the newspaper states.
One of the Bolshevik commissioners,
it is added, was instructed to investi-
gate report that the counter revolu-
tionists Savinkoff and Filonenko were
hiding in the embassy Accompanied
by detachment Of scouts, the account
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06

continues, this commissioner, NJ. Hill
lier, went to the embassy and proceed
ing to the first floor was met by shots
which killed one of the scouts and
wounded another. A fight ensued in
the corridor and the scouts we're
obliged to fire, it is declared, and
Attache Cromie was killed.
The police then entered the embassy
and arrested forty persons, including
Prince Schaschowskv.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06

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with the highest priced
custom made.
This Fall finds an un-
usual situation.
We have been lucky
enough to land our usual
quota of fine foreign fabrics.
Together with good stufs
made in America our variety
is ample.
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ing.
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at Warren at 4lst St.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Gen. Kornilof Is Again
Reported Dead in Battle

LONDON, Sept. 5.--General Korn-
loft, formerly Russian commander-in-
chief, has been killed by she'll in
Yekaterinovar, according to an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Copen-
hagen quoting from the "Politiken."
The death of General Korniloff has
been reported many times since the
Last May it was announced that he had
been killed in battle with the Soviet
troops.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Britain Names
Captains of $50
U-Boats Sunk
Government Gives Proof of
Lloyd Georges Conten-
ton in Parliament

LONDON, Sept. 5.-Although the
British government does not intend t.
adopt the practice of giving proof OF
official utterances made by its min
listers, it has been thought desirable
to print in to-morrow's newspapers thu
names of the commanding officers Of
$50 German submarines which have
been disposed of in order to sub
stantiate the statement of Premier
Lloyd George in the House of Com
mons that "at least $50 Of these ocear
pests have been destroyed" The state
ment to be published tomorrow doe!
manding Austrian submarines put ou
of action.
A majority of the $50 officers men
toned are dead. Some of them ar
prisoners of war and a few are in
termed in neutral countries where the,
took refuge. Among the officers name
are:
Kapitan Lieutenant Schweiger,
who, while in command of the U-20,
torpedoed the Lusitania in May, 1915.
The U-2O wss lost on the Danish
coast in 1916, but Schweiger sur
U-80, which was lost with all hands
in September, 1917.
Kapitan Lieutenant Paul Wagon
fukr, who sank the steamer Belgian
Prince, July 81, 1917, and drowned
forty Of The crew, whom he had or
dcred to line up on the submarine s
deck when the U-boat was about to
submerge. His submarine, the U-44
was sunk with all hands about fort
night later.
Kapitan Lieutenant Rudolph
Schneider, who torpedoed the
steamer Arabic in August, 1915.
The statement says it is signticar
that the authors of particular
atrocous crimes have expiated thel
speedily after their commission.
says the names of such men are care
fully noted by the British Admiralt,
and that special endeavors are made
bring their active careers swiftly t
an end Several commanders, it
added, have escaped retribution by fine
ing refuge in shore appointments.
Prominent among those named 6
having escaped retribution, but who1
the British navy has on its list, ar
according to the statement, Korvettel
Kapitan Max Falentiener, who was r,
sponsible for many sinkings of vessel
among them the Norwegian steamt
Magda, the Spanish steamer Pena Ca
tillo, the Italian steamer Ancona ar
the British steamer Persia; Kapital
Lieutenant Wilhelm Werner, for tt
sinking of hospital ships, and Korve
ten Kapitan Freiherr Won Forstne
who, when in command of the U-2
sank the British steamers Falaba ar
Aguila.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06

AMSTERDAM Sept 5-Apparenly possible hide
the German
military authorities
strategic strongholds of Ypres
The
was effected with heavy heart
rounding the Withdrawal that
tactical the whole
not hesitate at sacrificing attained
More outspoen military
completely
surrendered This purpose
this
lie American
which had been cevery frustrated
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Water Power Bill
Is Passed by House

WASHINGTON, Sept 5.-The Ad-
ministratiofi water power leasing bill
was passed late to-day by the House,
after leaders had failed in second at
tempt to amend it SO as to carry out
the wishes of President Wilson that a
"fair value" instead of the amount of
the met investment" should be paid by
the Federal or municipal governments
in taking over power plants at the end
Of the fifty-year lease periods.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Military Comment
By William l.. Mcpherson
Copyright, 1915 By The Tribune Associution-N

Ludendorff has not yet found a
way to check German retreat
which has stretched over seven
weeks. His armies are still losing
ground monotonously. They drifted
north yesterday out of the strip be-
tween the Vesle and the Aisne, the
Allies at their heels. 1t is clear that
they cannot hope to stop-even
temporarily-until they get back to
the Chemin des Danes. And the
Chemin des Danes, and the old La
Fere-Laon line behind it, are al
ready threatened by the advance of
the French north of Scissors and
northeast up the valley of the Disc.
In the Somme River district the
beaten German armies are rapidly
receding toward St. Quentin. Ham
is being enveloped. The French
crossed the Somme yesterday at
Epanancourt, eight miles northwest
of Ham, and are now approaching
this city from the north and west
They have also crossed the Somme
Canal at Voyennes and Affy. The
latter only three miles northwest Of
Ham. At Hambleux and Esmery7
| Hallon they are three miles and two
miles to the west. At Flavy-Mel
deux they are four miles to the
southwest and at Berlancourt five
miles to the south.
Ham must fall shortly. Chauny
on the Disc, southeast of Ham, will
probably also be abandoned within
a few days. The French were two
miles southwest of it yesterday
Then there will be practically nc
German troops left in the territory
lost in the Amiens drive, except
here and there on the western
fringes Of the old Hindenburg line
The French night bulletin reported
extremely important gains yesterday
in the region north Of scissors ane
: southeast of La Fere. General Man
gins forces have taken Coucy-le
| Chateau, all of the lower Forest o1
Coucy and pushed close up to the
Forest of St. Gobain, the barrier tt
, Laon. They now outfank the Chemir
, des Danes line, to which the Ger
mans are retreating. They are in E
| position to envelop La Fere and tt
operate directly against the La Fere
7 Laon line. General Mangin's success:
cannot but accelerate the German re
: treat now in progress across thu
, Aisne. 1t threatens the whole Hin
/ denburg line in this sector.
5 The British advanced about tw'
miles yesterday on an extended from
5 north and south of Peronne to higl
t ground stretching from Athies nortl
= to Nurlu. On the middle of thi
5 front they are approaching Roisel
l Further north there was lull in tn
: fighting, pending preparations for
4 new stroke toward Cambria.
2 1t is remarkable feature of Foch'
f present offensive that it can b
/ slowed down on one sector while it i
e being accelerated on another. Tha
. has enabled it to run uninterrupted
!. ly for seven weeks. And by virtu
r of the same qualities Of breadth an,
y f1exibility it may easily be extende
a and varied so as to run seven week
more.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Belvidere Brooks, IT.,
Is Killed on the Vesle
(By The Associated Press

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Sept. 5.-Captain Belvidere
Brooks, son of the former general
manager of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, was killed August %
by shell during a German attack
vest of tismes.
Captain Brooks was standing at the
entrance of a cave south of the Vesle,
formerly occupied by the Germans,
and was watching the effect of shells
in other localities when struck.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Kerensky's Relatives
Placed Under Arrest
By Bolshevik Chiefs

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 5.-All the rela-
tives OF Alexander Kerensky, the for
mer Provisional Premier of Russia,
have been arrested by order of The
Bolshevik Extraordinary Commission,
according to the "Izvcst;a" of Moscow.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06

F PRINCE BISMARCK were
alive he would recommend an
infusion of "blood and iron" into
the German armies. But who is to
administer such a solution?
Chancellor Won Hertling is report
ed to have mentioned Won Hutier as
the coming man. Won Hutier, how
ever, was badly defeated only a
couple of weeks ago in the Mont
didier salient. Won Mackensen is
now the only conspicuous German
military leader who has a clean rec
ord of victory. Yet for some reason
unknown outside Germany he has
been kept entirely in the back
ground since Ludendorff has been
exercising supreme control.
A new chief is needed. Luden-
dorff has failed. Yet his failure
was, in the final reduction, failure
of the German General Staff's sys-
tenn. That system is a rigid in
heritance. 1t came down from the
elder Won Moltke. His chief con-
ception has dominated all German
strategy in this war. And that con-
ception is that armies acting on the
offensive can always impose their
plan of operation on the enemy.
The corollary of this is that you
need not bother about the enemys
plan. He will be kept too busy
conforming his activities to yours.
1t is beautiful and simple
scheme. But it will not work with g
keen and resourceful opponent. II
leads to an differentiation of the
enemy which is often fatal. The
elder Won Moltke made a grievous
error in 1870 in the campaign tt
envelop Metz. He would have beer
defeated at Vionville if the French
had been led there by Joffre or {
Foch instead of by a Bazaine. The
younger Won Moltke fell into the
same blunder in the drive to and be
low the Marine in 1914. He grossly
underestimated the power and lead
ership of the French armies. Wher
he came out of his dream his cam
paign Vas a wreck.
Ludendorff has done the same
thing. He refused to recognize tina
Foch had a strategical reserve an(
was preparing to use it. He put al
Allied counter offensive beyond al
possibilities. So he went blindl.
into the trap in the Marne salient
Since then he has been doing moth
ing but extricating himself from tn
various salients which he had beer
driving since March 81 toward Pari
and toward the Channel ports.
1t is noteworthy that Ludendorff'
retirement from the Marne salien
has been completed last of all
after all the other German salient
had been broken, squeezed an
cmptied. There was a certain oh
stinacy in this-an obstinacy whic
pride Of opinion has inbred in tn
German high command. Ludendor1
has taken defeat in an embittere
, personal spirit, and that fact alon
stamps him as a second class soldier
~ !, =
So we may assume that Chancello
Won Hertling spoke propheticall
the other day when he limited at
change in the German command.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Trotzky Heads Soviet
Supreme War Council

COPENHAGEN, Sept 5.-Leon Trotz-
Ky. the Bolshevik Minister of War
las been elected president of the Rus
sian Supreme War Council, at a meet
ing Of the Soviet Executive Committee
according to Berlin Wolff Bureau
dispatch from Moscow The Lettish
leader, Wazzcttes, has been elected
commander in chief of all the Russian
fronts.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Dutch Protest Attack
On Trawler by U-Boat
Minister in Berlin Is Instruct
ed to Demand Com
pensation

THE HAGUE. Sept. Sit is official
ly announced that the Dutch Minister
in Berlin has been instructed to pro-
test vigorously against "the merciless
action" of a German submarine in
shellng a Dutch trawler off Krom-
menie, North Holland, August 7, in
which fishermen were killed, and to
demand compensation.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
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involved. beg you Monsieur lie Prefet,
to excuse me If ! do o feel called
upon to sign my name To this letter"
So. Pcrenna had seen rightly
and events Were iustifying his
forecast. Some n was putting
i'm AN appearance within the per-
iod Indicated. The claim was
made in good time. And the very
way in which things were happen
ing at the exact moment was cur
lonsly suggestive of the mechani-
cal cXactness that had governed
the whole business.
The last question still re-
manned: who was this unknown
person, the possible heir, and
therefore the five or six fold
murderer He was waiting in the
next room. There was nothing
but a wall between him and the
others. He was coming i'm. They
would see him. They would know
who he was.
The Project suddenly rang the
bell.
A few seconds elapsed. Oddly
enough, M. Desmalions did not
remove his eyes from Perenna.
Don Luis remained quite master
OF himself, but restless and UNI
easy at heart.
The door opened. The mes
scnger showed some one in.
1t was Florence Levasseur.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-09-19
tcon,inueo Next Week.,
Ticket offices Under Strain.

Some $685., 55S troops were moved on
orders from the war and navy depart
rnents between May I. 1917. and June 30.
l31S. OF this number 3.204. $50, or near
" 90 per cent. We're carried between
January 1 and June 30, 1918. These fig
ures do not include soldiers, sailors and
officers travelling at their own expense.
or the army of mothers. father, wives
and sweethearts who have been visiting
them at the various camps throughout
the country. Added to this there has
been an enormous increase in the num-
Der Of worknaen who have been at
tracted from one place to another by the
advance in wages paid at the munition
plants. the shipyards, and the other in
~dustrial centers where government work
is being done. :.
At a small. town in West Virginia which
before the war had n population of only
900 or 400 people u munition plant has
been established which employs some 12-
900 men. Very high wages are being paid.
The work is considered hazardous. and
the floating b that is attracted from
the larger cities remains. upon an aver
age, only 80 days, the result being that
the entire personnel of, the plant lis
changed once a month and a passenpe,
traffic of 2ss.o0o people annually has to
be handled at a station at which prob-
ably not more than five OF 10 passenger
tickets a day were sold before the war
Approximately the same conditions
exist at many other points. Meantime the
ranks OF the ticket sellers. who were
chiefly young men, have been serionsl,.
depleted by CONSUMPTION, and those still
available for duty have been overworked.
1t has not been easy to get new men
Expert training is required in a ticket
seller. He must know routes, rates ana
time tables. be able to hin Quickly
make change accurately, and maintai1,
an imperturbable good hrmor.
The United States railroad administra-
ton has for some time recognized the
exigencies Of the situation, and in an CT
fort to meet them it has established
schools for women ticket sellers in many
large cities. Until the girls are avail
able more or less congestion and DELAY
are to be expected at the larger ticket
offices of the country: but vigorous ef-
forts are being made to minimize the
unavoidable friction, and those who have
occasion to travel will promote their own
convenience and that of the public by
purchasing their tickets as far i'm adj
vance as possible.
Another measure that has peer decided
upon with the same object in view ia the
sale of a universal mileage book at the
rate of 3 cents a mile now generally
established. This mileage book will be
good in the hands of the bearer over any
railway under control of the government.
and a passenger holding it will be ahle
to board his train and ride to his destina-
ton without being delayed In the mr.
chase of a ticket. II these mileage hooks
come into general use, the pressure on
the ticket offices and the waste of time
entailed in buying railway tickets will
be very much reduced.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-09-19
mered Florence.

The mention of IL father whom
she haze, SO to speak, never known.
left her unmoved. But she be-
gan to weep at the recollection of
CASTOR Sauvcrand, whom she
loved so fondly and to whom she
found herself linked by such a
close relationship.
Were her tears sincere? Or
were they the tears OF an actress
able to play her part down to the
slightest details? Were those facts
really revealed to her for the first
time? Or was she acting the emo
tions which the revelation of
those facts would produce in her
under natural conditions?
Don Luis observed nj. Desmal-
ions even more narrowly than he
did the girl, and tried to read the
secret thoughts of the man with
whom the decision lay. And sud
denly he became certain that
Florence S arrest was a matter re-
solved upon as definitely as the
arrest of the most m%onstrous Grim
inal. Then he Went up to her and
said:
"Florencc."
She looked a him with her an
dimmcd eyes and made no reply.
Slowly, he said:
ITO defend yourself, Florence
for, though l am sure you do
not know it, you are under that
obi gation--you must understand
the terrible position in which
events have placed you.