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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
Big NAVY BATTLE
IS UP TO KAISER
Franklin ID. Roosevelt Says
Allies Are Ready if He
Decides OH Fight
SUBMARINES OVERCOME
U.Boat Sinkings Now in Cate
gorv of Accidents of War,
Official Ayers
Special Gable to Evening Public Ledger


Copyright. 1918. BY the Nctc rork Times Co.
Paris. Aug. 20.
That Is matter entirely In the
hands of the Kaiser" replied Franklin
y. Roosevelt, American Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy, yesterday when 1
asked him If there was any chance OF
Allied nav!es having real fight De-
fore the end of the war.
at may be-" he continued, that the
Germans will make one last, desperate
for.orn-hopr effort at sea. on the other
hand, the Kaiser may decide to keep his
battle fleet intact so a. - have his SHIPS
to use as pawns in any attempted dicker-
ing at the peace table. Nobody among
the Allies can do anything more than
guess on that question.
Needless to say. we are more than
ready for the enemy should he attempt
to use his fleet. The German fleet Is
not relatively any stronger today than in
1914. 1t has been physically impossible
for the Germans materially to increase
their warships while devoting all their
| industrial energies to providing NUM-
tions for their land forces and building
submarines The Kaiser had to decide at
the outset whether to devote everything
| to land fighting and try to win the war
in two years with his armies or to use
the army defensively for two years until
he could use his navy in an effort to win
III.
but his decision to win on land has come
to nothing but disaster.
"As everybody now knows. the sub
marine has ceased to be a menace and
it has dropped down into the category
| of accidents so far as the marine trans
| portation of the Allies is concerned. The
| loss of a ship by submarine now Is like
an accidental explosion in a munition
| factory or the hit of an enemy shell on
| an ammunition dump ten miles back of
our lines. Such accidents will happen
but they are not a menace.
That is a true appraisal of the SUBJ
marine danger now For three years the
submarine was a real menace. 1t has
ceased to be such because Of the change
in Allied methods. In the beginning the
policy was to avoid the submarines, tc
| follow nothing but preventive and de.
fensive methods. That has all beer
| changed in the last year by the intro.
duction of new factors in. the situation
One of these factors, of course, is the
American navy.
Now instead of trying to avoid tn.
submarine, the Allies are all the time ir
pursuit of it, destroying II by effectiv,
devices. Because Of this change in meth
DDS the submarines are forced to on
crate only far out at sea In the At
lantic and the Mediterranean. They cal
no longer wait at harbor mouths to taxi
their pick OF the many outgoing or in
coming ships. The coasts and ports ar,
virtually clear of them"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger

Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Copvrfoht. 1918. bp the Ne,o York Times Co.
With the French Armies. Aug. 90.
Ou August the armies Of Generals
Rawlinson and Debeny on either side Of
the Somme were unleashed against
those of Won Marwitz and Hutier Two
days later the movement was extended
on the right by General Humbert, and
within a week 1t had reached close to
Chaulnes, Roye and Lassigny, vitality de-
ranging the line of communication in the
west and was fixed on the Disc at Ribe-
court.
Up to this time it seemed possible. II
not probable, that the German COM
mand had expected the defeat and re-
treat. because It was bent, by shortening
its lines. on saving men for the consti-
tuition of It's mass CT movement Will,
which to attempt to again seize the initi-
ative. It Is now doubted In French
military circles whether any such hope
can remain. In any case. Foch still
holds the reins. 1t was inevitable that
when the enemy reached his old trench
line, Debeny and Humbert should find
greater difficulties A new action was
therefore opened.
The field shrewdly chosen--the sector
between the Disc and Ribecourt and the
Aisne a little west of Soissons-lies be-
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Let's Backbone
of Soviet POUer

Continued from PAGE Ono ~ -
,y.tchdogs, which remained swinging az
the last relics of law and order until tho
s,hseuuent re-establishment Of the
Soviet when the normal life of the town
was resumed and the hoollgans sup
"The Let's who in Petrograd prevents
ed such a substitution of anarchy for
the Soviets. have earned the hatred OF
all the anti.Soviet parties by the loyalty
and discipline which they preserved
throughout the revolution. Counter
revolutionary agitators now invariably
ioin the Let's to the Jews in urging
pogroms, and the Let's know that the
fall of the Soviets means heir own ruin.
This, however, is not the only reason
WHY they are the most dependable
troops now at Russia's command. The
let's, more deeply than any other part
of the Russian population, were im-
nregnated with revolutionary ideas boz,
fore the revolution. During the six
months before the war there were no
fewer than four general strikes in Cour-
land. and IN Riga alone as many a.
sO 600 strikers. These were always in
closest competition with the revolutionary
movement in Riga and Petrograd After
The revolution they more consciously
than any other Russian troops became
revolutionary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
POLISH QUESTION STILL
OPEN, SAYS RADZIWILL
Leader Declares Conference of
Kaiser's Failed to Come to
Any Agreement

Speciql Cable 10 Ercrirg Public Ledger
,,oprright. IgIs, Jy IA" No" No"h Times co.
London. Aug. %.
The Daily Express learns from AM
sterdam that news Is slowly leaking out
that the recent German headquarters
conference over the Polish question has
merely shown the impossible chasm be-
tween Germauys and Austrla's views,
leaving Poland's views out Of the ques-
tion Not only did the two kaisers reach
no agreement, but the Polish leaders
p.dziwlu and Rouikier. who were POM
o,,s1, summoned to headquarters TO ex-
rrose the opinion of the Polish people,
,ro-o not even received by the Austrian
r,aror and were forced 10 return to
Hrnreayr before the Polish question was
80, discussed by the two kaisers
Ths truth about the headquarters pan
mime is diyulged by Radziwill himself
S,,hl, has told the FranNurter. HeitunG
I that the conference did nnt oea4 win
! concrete questions. lie salu'
W. were only allowed TO express our
20 the German statesmen. That
w. oil Nothing can be done before
| 80, and Vienna agree. Whether the
'sIanr,eut will be reached or not l &c
aot know. as we were told to leave mead
l',ar,ars the day before the arrival oI
| Kaiser Karl. , 49,.
I've told the German Kaiser thai
,.d is in favor of the so-called Aus
o'Poiish solution. The Kaiser listened
t,. rntbing more was said. l also ex'
pul J to the Kaiser that Poland con
pised the king question of secondary
rtance, and that we were more in
noo,sd irpd in the question of our frontiers
ga our army. But we heard nothint
Srnn, the German side that permitted Vi
tl, arrive at a conclusion one way o.
,ha ether"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
FLIERS' TRAINING SPEEDED UP
Rapid Advance Reported by Cen
cral kenlcv. Division Director

Washington. Aug. 23.-Rapid advance
in the training of aviators in this country
by the division of military aeronautics
was desCrihed today by Major General
w J.. kenlcy., director of the division
who returned from Il trip to the Pacific
coast.
The division is speeding up the
training OF fiiers and the schools are re-
ready made" said General Kenlev "and
i is the intention OF the division to pro-
duGe whatever number of aviators Is
called for" 10
Squadrons and brigades of Ajers wi,,
be formed here as the classes graduate
70 be sent overseas to take the air al
the front in the formation in which thev
have been trained.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
BY the Associated Press
with the French Army on the Disc

AuBs
General Mangin now has driven the
Germans across the valley of the
,Ailette on a front of several miles.
The enemy's forces on the right wing
OF the battle lire are on the plateau
between the Ailette and scissors and
between the Ailette and the Disc.
To the left of Bretiny the Ger.
mans are north of the Disc, except
those that are hiding in fields and
thickets, dead or prisoner. 1t is i'm.
possible to estimate the number OF
captives being sent to the camps In
the rear and army headquarters itself
does not have more than approximate
count. Only a partial count has been
made of the booty which includes al
least 200 guns, many Of them OF large
caliber.
The Germans are still resisting the
First French Army around Roye
fseneral Debeney's men. however
<orxed ahead again yesterday both
oorth and south OF that town.
~ fheir retreat across the Oise the
r1lano "a net heye ti1ae TO destroy
~ ~ 1or1k 1I@Fe <ound intact
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
TELL THRILLING TALES
OF AMERICAN VALOR
Many Stories Bordering on the
Incredible Eagerly Re.
peated in Paris
By CHARLES H. CRASTY
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger

opectdL LdOte 10 Evening PubHc LedgeT
Copyright. 1918, by the Ne,o York Times Co.
,.-,. Al, q,
'e -'
ihere are many stories bordering on
the incredible afloat in Paris about tho
daring of the Americans. A marine
colonel who lunched with me yesterday
brought one which may have been al
ready cabled by the eagle-eyed young
men VINO serve you at the front.
second Lieutenant Chamberlain. OF the
marine AVIATION corps. arrived in Lon
don IRON america and reported to Ad-
miral Slnss headduarters. He was told
10 proceed TO france and lock about
lor c,iah.e 10 ,i'ahe hhi,seit use1ui' lie
stopped at Brltlsh station and re-
quested chance TO hy by the way of
testing ms nerve out ana his American
training ! Ihey tod MN SIX machines
were just leaving for trip over the Ger
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
BRITISH FLIERS BOMB
FIVE GERMAN TOWNS
Enemy Airdromes and Mill.
tary Objectives at Frankfort
and Cologne Attacked
London, Aug. 23.

r,,re ,unortant towns in Germany ana
CO., hosti,e airdromes were heavily bonn
barded by British aerial squadrons Oh
tho night of August 21-22, according 10
ON ofhcial statement issued today Dy the
British Air Ministry
Military objectives at Frankfort ana
co,orne. the statement adds, were heaV-
uv attacked and good results were oo-
served.
r,o ,ext of the statement reads:
,, ,,,,a of n large number of anti
aircraft guns between the hours OF
y m on the 2lst, 10 a. m, on the 2zo'
Ave- important towns in Germany were
,,,,,v attacked as we'll as five hostile
airdromes. ,,. o,-oo the
athsr conditions were exceptionally
rood and a large amount OF the WORK
e. =. rried out by our squadron.
.NIiIitary objectives at Frankford and
co,oans were heavily attacked, very
GOA results were observed ana poihps
wera sent all around the stations aho
barracks. rrrepes alsc
WAS successfully attacked. All our ma
chimes returned safely.
.E,opr hostile airdromes were heaVliS
horbed and many hangers hit Machln'
grns were freely used on alrdromes
trains and searchlights, as well as anu
aeriaI batteries. One OF our machines
| is missing. 49,. 90 ono y
our souadrons attacked the chemical rae
tories at Mannheim During the heaV!
sahtipg on the outward journey tw'
~ our machines were brought oowi
The remainder reached and successiuil'
hnn,hed their objective. Very nero
sehting again took place on the returl
iamrney as a result of which hve NOR
~ nnr machines are missing Three hos
a. airnlanes were destroyed TWO
.hssa .e seemed to crash and one wen
| down in flames .,., a,
1.-TWO other squadrons attacked tn
..,,yav sidings at Coblenz at about T'a
asn,oor ON the morning Of August 22. an
hos,,le airdrome at Hagenau wa
nahed with very good results. Al
.nase machiues returned safely Durin
~ night ls4 tons OF bombs We're drop
.sS ~ ana as tons Of pro5eotilee wer
kksc,,oe6 dnsing tbs Az.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
SAYS U.BOAT SANK STEAMER
Triumph's Grew Told German
Captain Knows American Coast
By the Associated Press

A Canadian Atlantic Port. Aug. Ga
CaDtain Myhre. who commanded the
trawler Triumph before the boat was
seized by the crew of a German sub
marine and converted into a raider, said
last night that one of the officers of the
submarine who came aboard the Tri-
umph on Tuesday afternoon told him
that on Monday last the submersible
had sunk 5000-ton steamer. Accord
ing to Captain Myhre, the officer volun-
teer"ed the information he had sailed out
of New York for fifteen years. and was
thoroughly familiar with the North At
lautic coast.
Captain Myhre said that one of the
guns placed aboard the trawler was
eighteen feet long.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
with the American Army on the Asnc-
Nesle Ernnf AuP 22--(Rv I n G l
SHOCKING SCENES AT ZOPPOT
German Crown Princess Recalled
From Popular Bathing Resort
Special Gable to Ercning PubHc Ledger

SUetIHt tdDte 10 ErcHiNg FNONc LedgPT
Copyri0It. 1918, bv the Ncic York Times Co.
London, Aug. 23.-The Daily Express
reports from Amsterdam that such
scandalous scenes have taken place at
Ioppot. a fashionable Prussian bathing
resort near Dantzig. that the police
We're ordered by the military authorities
to take drastic action. This popular
watering place has hitherto been under
the direct patronage of the Crown Prin-
cess of Germany, but mixed bathing in
what Is known as the family bath" has
been accompanied by such ilagrant in
decency that the Crown Princess has
been hurriedly summoned back to Pots
dam as "Zoppot is no longer a possible
place for her Imperial Htghness." and
the police have taken possession of this
part lcular area and put stop TO the
bathing.
Meanwhile number of men and
women belonging to good German
families have been arrested for mishe.
havior of so shameless n character that
the newspapers have been prohibite ed
from publishing the details of the
charges, beyond the fact that they refer
to "nagrant and open immortality"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
PATROL SINKS U-BOAT
Among 65 Survivors One Says His
Craft Torpedoed Lusitania
By the Associated Press

Paris, Aug. 2S.-(Havas) .-Escorting
patrol boats recently attacked an enemy
submarine which they succeeded IN
sinking with siNty-fi..' me-. OF ...i crew
One officer and five men were rescued
The officer, who attempted suicide. de-
clared it was his submarine which sank
the Lusitania and numbers OF other
Allied ships.
1t was reported in a London dispatch
August 10 that Lieutenant Commander
Schwieger. who commanded the sub,
marine which sank the Lusitania, had
been killed when an underwater boat OF
which he was In command struck a mine
In the North Sea. 1t is possible thai
the German naval officer referred to N
Subordinate Sffr - o" the U-boat that
torpedoed the Lusitania.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
BELGIAN BOYS STILL
ENSLAVED BY TEUTONS
Neutral Diplomat Says They
Are Forced to Work Be.
hind the Front

special Cable to Euening Public JeJa,.
'''' ''"'' 1'4o' oD 'ho Neio York Times Co
The Hague. Aug. "a
a neutral diplomat who was recently
IN Belgium, talking to your corresnona
ent, said:
Inc Germans continue to denort n,o-o
boys from Belgium for work be,,,, ~, =
front and the conditions under u,h,o,, -
work are worse than slavery. Anv e,-
cuse Is good enough. One day some car
mans appeared at cinema performa nao
ardionao dno,ed upoFted the whole mole
employed ' were un-
was sitting recently outsiao
AT Mons when friend bowed % ie eaie
VINO seemed TO be workman In ma q, y
carrying a log on his shouIdsr U,eraiis U,
looked in surprise, my friend a, nhen
taat the man In overalls was ,'
WI rom i-lege: who had been obIiged -
work on the railroad all dav" ised te
| Prices in Belgium contIn,a ..
| diplomat said, and the peonIe 70 rise thu
" exist without American reiis, nara
| Everything IL still procnrah,
money ne continued, "and vo,, VIII
the hnest dinner Imaginable In p ah se
II you can pay the price. which, a. Issei'
ever terrific. tuberculosis is q ,s now
1t Is now estimated that 20 ner seourse
the population are consumptive % cent
quick consumption. 'eiop int
Ihe Germans are gradually ,.,,..
everything from the population ahint
nave even taken the clothes frnn, ah'
people in the army zone. TrayeIin th'
appalling. as nearly everything has tm ~
removed from the carriages, SO that ,s
seats are almost on the ground. u"
.,.ol lhe Germans are obviously depresss,
since the recent Allied Offensive ,',ss use,
changed their plans. They had 49,. mh,c'
TO attack around Ypres and MOS
had massed large numbers of troons an !,
these sections of the front" u
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
NICHOLAS SENDING ENVOY HERE
Jugo.Slavs Believe Exiled King
Wants Independent Montenegro
BY the United Press

Washington. Aug. 23.-King Nicholas
OF Montenegro is sending a diplomatic
representative TO the United States, it
was learned officially today. He is Anita
uVozdenovic, protege of the King.
Objections that the move is an At
.empt by King Nicholas. who is now in
france, to re-establish Montenegro as
an independent republic after the war.
are made by advocates of a Jugo-s -slav
State here, who want to see Montenegro
part of that State.
GVozdenovic. It is learned, will be re-
ceived by. Secretary of State Lansing
and President Wilson. This is not to lie
taken as In any way representing the
oincial position of the United States
toward Jugo-Slav aspirations for a ma
tional State, 1t is said
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
DEATHS

BRIDGER, Aug, %; RoBEH1
pprtSserI at 6I21 Locust st. DUO notice
Of the funeral will be given.
CARMICHAEL.-Aug. ~, MARY CAN
NfCHAEI widow OF Isaac Carmicnack
sRed si. Relatives and friends invited e
funeral services. Sat. 3 p. m. az the rssss
N -sEEhXlhT6S EhXlhT S.IAug. as. MARY BROWN SEN
TON. OF Philadelphia. formsrl Of New Jst
Aug. 2a:. ERWIN. soI
felter, aged Ca Remains may be Viewed
al i7a6 Spring Garden ST.. SUM-. between \
and p; m. Int Easto& Pa. Easto1
BRowN.--At CrnT Lyn; p. ASg;. q
and friends invited TO attend the servlce g
s,'n;, a. a., from Z. h,s !. ~ sons s. sss'd1.
sslssrassn- xS,o fsssfsi &
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
MINISTER TO SWEDEN RETURNS
Goes to Washington to Report
Conditions as He Saw Them
By the Associated Press

New York. Aug. 23.-Ira Nelson Nor
ris. American Minister to Sweden. ar
rived from abroad today on his way to
Washington to report to the state De-
partment.
He recently visited the American front
in France where he saw General Per-
shing and the American troops In action
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
GASOLINE BARGE IN FLAMES
Intermittent Explosions Mark
Fire on American Boat at Paris
BY the Associated Press

Paris. Aug. 23. Fire started last
night on barge containing $40 tons of
gasoline belonging to the American ex-
peditionary forces. The confagration has
burned continuously fourteen hours. in
termittent explosions being followed by
clouds Of smoke
The fire has attracted the attention of
large crowds OF Parisians
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
ClJN-CARRIAGE PLANTS BUILT
Nineteen Completed and Remain-
ing Seven Nearly Ready
R,, the 1ssocinfed Press

w.sh,nrton, Aug. 23-Completion OF
,;neteen out of twenty-six proposed
,,ants for the production of gun car-
risees and recoil mechanisms was an
no,Inced today by the Ordnance Bureau
~ the War Department. OF the seven
ot,er OF plants four are % per cent COM
Oiate and the others are more than 50
per p cent complete. All Of the plants are
in operation. .u,.,. .,,us,.
"a nachinery-for the production on .
anu aarse scale of carriages and recoiI
,,aaessshanisms Ia for artillery of all caliberu
n total of $24,s37,336 has been ex-
nended
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
CARDINAL FARLEY BETTER
Physicians Note Slight Improve.
ment in Prelate's Condition
By the Associated Press

Mamaroneck, n. =, Aug. 23.-At-
tending physicians reported a slight
change for the better in the condition
of New York. in bulletin issued this
morning.
They stated. however, that the pre-.
late's illness of hypostatic pneumonis
keeps him still in very critical state
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS
BRITISH

Fighting is taking place along vir-
tually the whole front between Lihons,
south Of the Somme, and the Cojeul
River. Our troops are reported maxi
ing progress at number Of points.
During the night the enemy twice
attacked our positions in the neigh
borhood of Baillescourt farm. east Of
Beaucourt. He was repulsed.
On the Lys front our line has been
advanced slightly east of lie Touret,
northwest of Neuf-Berquin and east Of
Outtersteen.
A hostile attack northwest Of Ball
leul broke down before our positions.