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Evening star., 1918-08-04
GERMAN.

BERLIN, via London, August g.
The text of today's war Office state
ment reads:
Southwest of Ypres we beat of a
strong British partial attack yester-
day morning.
The great successes of the army
of Gen. Won Boehm in the battle of
August l contributed TO the COM
plete success of the movement car
ried out yesterday.
THE enemy's artillery fire was d.
rected on our old fighting zone till
early morning. and at isolated points
even up to IL am. His infantry and
cavalry detachments only followed
hesitatingly and cautiously our fore
field troop. who were slowly with
drawing.
I'VE inflicted considerable losses on
the enemy in minor engagements.
I'm Champagne we captured about
100 prisoners in successful combats
northwest of Souain."
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END OF BOLSHEVIK RULE
COMING, GERMANS TOLD
Propaganda Is Intended to Prepare
South Germans for Action
In Russia.
CableEram to The Sunday Star and
the New York World.

the New York World.
LONDON. August 3-The Morning
Post correspondent at Zurich, writing
Thursday. says:
''The authorities at Berlin have now
requested correspondents of south
German newspapers to disseminate a
statement that the end of the boil
shevik regime in Russia is in sight.
The public is informed, through the
medium of these correspondents, that
all of Trotzky's efforts to raise an
army, with which he hoped to oppose
the Czecho-Slovaks and uphold his
own and Lenine's power. are vain,
that the Czecho-Slovaks have at their
disposal 10000 well disciplined troops,
which have been Joined by $1,000 Ural
Cossacks. and that even Moscow is
seriously menaced.
THE public is also made acquainted
with the successful operations of the
allies in north Russia It Is told
of the situation in the
Ukraine and the Crimea, of the dan
ger threatened from Japan. of the
critical position OF the ma1imalists in
Siberia and of the spread of British
influence in Turkestan. Conclusions
to be drawn and opinions to be formed
will no doubt be communicated to the
public in subsequent kilograms"
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By the Associated Press.


= LONDON. August 3. via Ottawa
y The immediate cause of the German
retreat now in progress. says Reuters,
Limited. in its review OF the situation
today. was the brilliant success OF
the armies of Gen. Mangin and Gen.
Degoutte. north Of the OurcQ, which
effected a junction at right angle
making possible the beginning on
Thursday of the process of clearing
the important ridge dividing the Crise
and the Ourcq.
:. The British division in Cen Man
gins army started the operation from
/ Grand RoZoy. The French, co-operat-
ing, carried not merely the summit
but the reserve slope of the ridge Sc
curing the observation behind the
;Hartennes plateau. where the enemy
. was still clinging to the Soissons-
Chateau Thierry road
I Meanwhile in the center bastion. in
Evening star., 1918-08-04
Germans navs-evidently given up the

EEermans have-evidently given mp the
odea of makinsra stand there.
i The Germans are retreating north
Dbf the Vesle with great precipitation.
Great fires arc raging In the terri
t5ory evacuated by the enemy. The
EGerman right wing on the north bank
etof the Aisne 30tn q dangerous situ-
tation and itisaxpected that they will
he unahlarto-hold their present posi-
2ionA
= The latest news from the soissons-
Rheims front shows that the entente
tartjllary t1yrowing swiftly in magni-
knde. It significant that Paris re-
1rains from exultation. but watches
with feverish interest for every scrap
nof news, having learned that the prog
!; russ Of events is always ahead of the
Opens Great Possibilities.
4 Particular significance is attributed
= by commentators to the crumbling of
: the right pivot of the German posi-
tons In the region of Scissors. which
"opens up great possibilities and pro-
.vokes speculation as to where the
sGernans will be able to reorganize
their defenses.
j The comment generally dwells on
r. the fact that this is a real entente
Trvictory with French and Scottish
sforces under Gen. Mangin, with
s-Americans under Gen. Degoutte and
swith English and French troops un-
ssder Gen. Berthelot.
5, Military critics now look for the
y retirement of the German crown
''Ss!prince to the Chemin des Danes,
,,.-where he probably will endeavor to
II ,sre-establish his line.
= From the American Front.
by the Associated Press.
=. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE A1SNE-MARNE FRONT, Au-
:.gust 3, 10 p.m.-American troops en-
:,tered the southern part of Fismes to-
...day, while other forces of the allies
..s:hold the southern banks of the Aisne
:::and Vesle rivers from Soissions to
::.Fismes.
:. Eastward it is almost a straight
:..,1ine through Courville. Branscourt,
t.Courcelles and Champigny.
The advance of the whole army was
along a front Of almost forty-flve
miles.
!: To the east of Scissors the extension
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Experts Think Hun Retreat
=, Must Continue Across Aisne

the Meuniers wood. two square miles
in extent. was carried. Thus the enc
my's hopes Of stabilizing the line dis
appeared. Indeed. he had suffered a
strategic disaster owing to the re-
versal Of the strategic position
brought about by Gen. Foch's coun-
ter stroke, and his hasty retirement
or the Vesle. the writer of the re-
view considers. cannot be an easy
matter for him, as the only good road
available passes through Coulognes.
which the allies captured yesterday.
The allied guns, the review points
out. are now within range Of Bazo-
chez, where the only railway connec-
tion from the north crosses the Vesle
into the salient They also command
Fismes, which was the main store
house for the German offensive. while
Braine, between Bazoches and Sois-
sons. through which the main road
out Of the salient passes. is also ex-
POSED to gunf1re. Hence the experts
are now prophesying that the with
drawal will continue over the Aisne.
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Vesle Bridges Destroyed.
=Germans in Desperate. Haste
.Leaue R:R. Equipment Behind

farewell shells of the Germans.
A large sign in German at the en-
trance of the church reads: Remove
hats upon entering" Down the street
a German sign, stretched across the
roadway. reads: Captured arms and
bears a hand pointing to where a
house once stood. This building now
is a mass of ruins. the result of dyna-
mite or some other explosive used by
the retreating Germans.
From Fere-en-Tardenois a valley
stretches northwest to Saponay and
beyond. and this valley on Friday
was a great battlefield. At one place
near Saponay, at a cross roads. lay
five saddled horses, apparently killed
by the same shell. Beside two of the
horses lay dead Germans. just as they
fell from their saddles.
Dead Horses in the Roads.
The roadways are Uttered with am
munition, wagons and dead horses,
some of them with their drivers, as
they fell when struck by the big shells
of the Franco-American allies. Many
of the wheat fields are partly harvest
ed with the wheat stacked, the Ger
mans having reaped what the French
peasants had planted. Here and there
dots can be seen from the roadway,
ihoASotih6 SOIIe IeFINdn Drop
ped. AT one place German killed by
shrapnef had fallen head first into a
shell hole filled by downpour of rain.
1t was into this valley of death that
the French infantry came Friday
morning, as the Germans Withdrew
through the valley north of Saponay.
The French and American shells fol-
lowed the Germans as they went.
From the hill to the west and north
west of Saponay, the French came
from woods in a rainstorm from clouds
so low that the treetops and clouds
seemed to meet, and under their bar
rage the French marched into Sa-
ponay.
To the northeast the Americans are
advancing virtually under the same
conditions. to the woods east of the
forest of Nesles and to the valley run
ming north of Saponay. 1t was here
that the French and Americans met
and. side by side, continued their
progress northward
Evening star., 1918-08-04
Lieut.. Jacomini's Fall Fatal.

SAN DIEGO. Cal. August 3.-Lieut.
Clement R. Jacomini, a flying instruc-
tor at Rockwell Field. died today as
the result of injuries received yester-
day. when plane in which he and
another officer were flying fell about
$50 feet in a nose dive. His compan-
ion was unhurt. Lieut. Jacominfs
home was in Pasadena Cal
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.Hx the Associated Press.

.;,By the Associated Press
80 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE AISNE- FRONT, August
% (morningp.-Before evacuating Sa-
ponay the Germans desperately en-
deavored to remove several locomo-
...tives and railway cars, which, finally.
:.they were compelled to leave behind.
The French and American heavy guns
spreviously had severed the railway
running north from Saponay. and the
.:Germans were unable to make repairs
lowing to the continued shelling.
y Saponay and the district extending
Ito Fere-en-Tardenois form an i'm
;:portant railway center, of which the
::Germans made much use until the al
French entered Saponay Friday they
..found two locomotives which the Ger
t.-mans had attempted to destroy when
they discovered that the railroad had
..been severed, and the railroad yards
::also had been damaged by German ex-
.plosives.
:. Friday was the first day Fere-en-
..:.Tardenois was not under the German
1.-THE village. The French and Americans
ALREADY have started to restore the she'll
swept village. group Of American en-
i igineers under a lieutenant from North
.Saronnd touay worked Slde py sioe with
French engineers repairing the roads
land streets, and other detachments were
ebusy burying the German dead.
a..
Huns Destroy Everything.
T. Previous to evacuating Fere-en-Tar-
Ndenois the Germans destroyed virtually
m8Verything which could be made use Of,
EEncluding mirrors, beds and furniture.
MMhere was not single house which had
HItpt been Shelled or dynamited Most
.HtAf the stone houses are mere shells, with
holes in the roofs and sides
MSpme houses were totally demolished,
HiAnd the church stands with many large
niholes in the roof and sides Virtually
1.-THE only things in Fere-en-Tardenois
Hthat are nearly intact are the weather.
Ecock on the church steeple and the cob
bile stones of the streets.
The trees in the village square were
! twisted as IL by a cyclone by the
Evening star., 1918-08-04

Of the line northward along the Aisne,
as we'll as the extension OF the gen
eral line. makes 1t probable. In the
opinion Of military experts. that the
trating themselves for stand along
the plateau to the east between the
Aisne and the Vesle. as the oranch
railroad from Sermoise to the north
now Is dominated by the allied guns.
The broad field covered by the ad-
vance today includes at least hfty
small towns and villages.
Information reaching the American
Army commanders indicates that the
Germans are engaged in removing as
large a part of their supplies from
Fismes as possible. Smoke clouds and
detonations confirm information gained
Friday that large quantities OF am
munitiop are being destroyed. AT DIFF
the effects of the destruction of am
munition could be seen today.
Allies Reach the Aisne.
By the Associated Press.
ON THE FRENCH FRONT IN
FRANCE, August 8. II a.m.--The al
lied advance along the SoiSsons-
Rheims front continued throughout
last night and this morning. The
along the front from Pommiers. west
of Soissons. to Venizel on the east of
that town. Further east the allies
have reached the district of Serches,
Couvrelies and Cerseu!l.
Cavalry patrols have arrived Mt the
River Vesle in the vicinity of Cham
pigny and Jonchery, finding all the
bridges cut or burned by the Germans.
Just west OF Rheims the allies have
reached or are approaching TinGueuN.
Thillois. Gueux and Rosnay, all lying
In the neighborhood of the main road
from Rouen to Rhe>ms. Fires are il
enemy burning everyth as he re-
treats. More than forty coutla.rations
were counted during tne night.
Enemy in Full Retreat.
WITH THE FRENCH FORCES.
AISNE-VESLE FRONT. August
tHavas Agency).-The army of the Ger
man crown prince continues in full re-
treat.
The Germans have no heavy artil-
lery in action. They evidently fore
saw that their positions were unten-
able.
The German losses have been very
heavy.
Vesle Bridges Destroyed.
LONDON. August 3.-French cav
airy are on the Vesle river between
Champigny and Jonchery, north and
northwest of Rheims. Up until IL
o'clock this morning the allies had
not crossed the river at any point All
the bridges over the Vesle have been
destroyed.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
CHINESE FOR vLADIvosroK.
$100, 600 Voted to Finance Regi
ment of Troops.

By the Associated Press.
PEKING, China, Tuesday. July 30
The Chinese government today ap-
propriated 100000 to finance the
sending Of a Chinese regiment to
Vladivostok.
The date of the departure Of the
regiment has not been fixed
Evening star., 1918-08-04
CONTROL THE KUBAN REGION.
Czecho-Slovaks in Undisputed Pos
session-Cossack General Wounded

AMSTERDAM. August 3.-The en-
tire Kuban region is in the undisputed
possession Of the Czecho- -Slovales, ac-
cording to Moscow dispatch to the
Rhenish westphalian Gazette, and the
Cossack general. Denikine. has been &C.
verely wounded in the fighting against
the bolsheviki. =
Gen Orion has taken commas.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
MARINES FIGHT OFF CAPTURE

Training in self-defense received
by nnambers of the Marine Corps is
showing IN the fighting in which the
retary Daniels said yesterday, in
pointing out the small number Of
members of that branch that have
been captured by the enemy.
Out of sixty casualties among Of
,ficefs only one has been reported as
missing. and out of more than 1000
casualties among enlisted men only
sive are known to have been captured
an4 classified as missing.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
EIGHT HURT IN SHELL BLAST
Explosion at Ivington Result Of
Official Fuse Test.

NEWARK, N. J., August 3.-Five
women and three men were injured
today when an eight-inch shell ex-
ploded while government inspectors
were making a test of the fuse in the
testing room of the Ferdinando c.
Mesa shell loading plant at Irving
ton.
Fire did not follow the explosion
and the injuries were confined to
powder burns. Russell Williams of
iryineton and A. D. Charles Harbury
of Newark, government inspectors,
were removed to a hospital
Evening star., 1918-08-04
ALLIES IN ARCHANGEL
SEIZE RAILWAY STATION
insignificant Resistance and No
Losses; Revolution Starts in
Their Favor.

KANDALAsKA. Russian Lapland,
August 3.-A revolution against the
bolsheviki and in favor Of the allies
has occurred at Archangel
The soviet troops have fed from the
city.
After the revolution had been
brought about, an allied detachment
was handed at Archangel, occupying
the railway station and the telegraph
ONCE with Insignificant resistance.
Apparently there were no losses to
the allied forces in their movement.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
German Powder Defective.

AMSTERDAM. August "a number
Of German powder stores have recent
ly blown up. owing to the defective
quality Of the explosives, according to
the Echo Beige In one explosion at
Mons nifty Germans were killed, and
100 were killed when munition train
blew u2.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
Q. S. Casualties in Canadian List.

OTTAWA. August S.-The follow
ing American names appear in to-
days overseas casualty list: Killed in
action, E. c. McEvers. Redmond.
Wash; died. v. Saxma, Chicago;
gassed. A ]. Tew. address given as
San Salito. Cal
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Shot and Robbed Of 81. 700.

CHICAGO. August 3-George Ney-
bert, assistant secretary Of the Gott-
fried Brewing Company, was prob
ably fatally shot and robbed Of s., 700
the FIRMS payroll today. by two nm
identified men,
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5000 Stars on Flag.

The national associations service
flag. bearing 5000 stars, will be un-
furled the opening day.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills and Lieut..
Vasille Stoion of the Rumanian army
will be the chief speakers at a big
patriotic meeting August Z, over
which Col. William II. G. Logan, Chi
cago, president of the national asso-
citation. will preside.
( Important Changes in the Medical
Department of the Army will be the
subject of an address by Maj Gen.
William c. Gorgas, surgeon general
of the Army. at another session. Lieut..
Col. Horace D. Arnold will outline the
surgeon generals plans for maintain
ing the health of the soldier
Col. Logan and Maj. Robert H. Ivy
and Joseph D. Eby of the Army will
discuss and illustrate the wonders of
modern plastic surgery, and Col. Guy
Hume, returning from active service
with the Canadian army in France,
will tell of his observations.
A bronze statue of the late DR..
Greene Vardiman Black of Chicago,
one Of the great pioneers of dental
research. which is life size and stands
IN Lincoln Park. will be unveiled
August 8. Thousands of American
dentists contributed to the fund with
which the monument was constructed
Evening star., 1918-08-04
FRENCH.
lives In democracy's cause.

PARIS. August 3.-The text of to-
nights statement reads:
During the course of the day our
troops, driving back the enemy rear
guards, continued their victorious
march on a front Of about fifty kilo-
river.
"On our left our line extends along
the southern banks of the Aisne and
the Vesle. from scissors as far as
Fismes. the outskirts of which the
Americans hold.
East of Fismes we have reached a
general line north Of Courville. Brans-
court, Courcelles and Champigny.
Our cavalry patrols are operating
along the railroad between scissors
and Rheims.
"Our progress at certain points since
yesterday exceeds ten kilometers.
More than fifty villages have been de-
livered on this day alone"
BRITISH.
LONDON, August 3.-The official
statement issued tonight says:
THE progress made by our patrols
in the Abbey sector has been contin-
ued, and the greater part of the
ground previously held by the enemy
west of the Ancre river now is in our
possession. Our troops followed
closely upon the enemy in his with
drawal. Indications of which had pre-
viously been observed. and a num-
Der of his dead have been found in
his abandoned trenches.
EARLY this morning strong hostile
raiding parties, after an artillegy and
trench mortar bombardment. attacked
our line southeast of Hebuterne, but
were completely repulsed. Another
hostile raiding party was dispersed
by machine gunfire this morning east
of Robecq.
The hostile artillery has shown in
crease activity in the KENNEL sector"
Evening star., 1918-08-04
OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS.

observed for the artillery fire when
ever the weather permitted.
Thirteen tons of bombs were
dropped during the day, three tons of
which fell on the Bruges docks. Very
few enemy aircraft were encountered.
but two hostile machines were
brought down. One enemy balloon was
shot down in flames. All our machines
returned safely. AT night no flying
was possible"
Evening star., 1918-08-04
AUSTRIAN.

VIENNA, August 3. via London,
August 3-The official communica-
tion issued by the war Office today
says:
"On the Venetian mountain front
lively fighting activity continues
''In Albania we gained ground on
both sides OF the upper Devloi.''
Evening star., 1918-08-04

The first banking Institution with
foreign capital to be established In
Ecuador has been organized at Quito.
It has a capitalization of 100000
lsucres, equal to approximately $780,
900 in American -money.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
BRITISH AVIATION.

LONDON. August 3-The Official
statement on aerial operations istued
tonight says:
Low clouds and rain prevailed on
August 2. and work in the air was
carried on with great difficulty. Our
machines. nevertheless. executed a
large number of "Reminiscences and
Evening star., 1918-08-04
WIN THE WAR DENTISTS
GATHERING AT CHICAGO
National Association Convention to
Hear Speeches and See Monu-
ment Unveiled.

CHICAGO. August Six thousand
of the $4,000 dentists in America are
in active military service and 10000
of those remaining at home are men,
bers of the Preparedness League and
have performed more than 100000
dental operations free of charge to
permit young men to pass strict mill
itary examinations. Members of the
National Dental Association from all
parts Of the country are gathering
here for big win the war" conven-
tion, August 5 to 10, at which results
already obtained will be reviewed and
plans discussed for extending further
aid to the government. Ten thousand
delegates are expected to attend.
The Psi Omega, leading dental fra
ternity, has pledged every one of its
10.050 members to extend free services
to aid prospective soldiers in getting
into uniforms. DR.. D. U. Cameron, has
arranged for a big loyalty banquet
on the opening day, at which a Psi
Omega service flag bearing 1.0o7 stars
will be unfurled.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
ITALIAN.

ROME, August 3.-The official state
ment from army headquarters today
says:
The enemy fighting activity yes
terday moderated. Our own and our
allies artillery effectively fred upon
enemy lines of communication at
Asiago. Along the whole front our
,, patrols carried out harassing opera
tions."
Evening star., 1918-08-04
Great Developments Foreseen.

Great developments will take place
when we have smashed the German
machine in France. but to proceed
with them before the event, except
with forces which cannot conven-
iently be used in France. would be to
renew the errors of the past
Very likely the strategic horizon
may broaden out later on and offer
plenty of opportunities for imagina-
tive adventures. but the time is not
yet and the first thing to be done is
to compel the Germans to admit their
inferiority and admit their insolence.
This can only be done by smashing
their military machine, and conse-
quently deprfving them of all hope
Of victory. With implacable deter
mination W must relentlessly Npur-
sue this cardinal plan.