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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-30
Hun, Ma..ed For Attack.

[By the Associated Press.l
With the American Army i'm France
May 29-The enemy was reported late
yesterday to be massins troops behind
his lines in the sector Of the Amer
lean attack which resulted in the cap
ture of Cantigny.
The German efforts tlfes far to hurl
back the Americans have been rather
feeble. They made several attempts
to advance but were unable to with
stand the American artillery fire.
Many stories of individual heroism
on the part OF the Americans who par
ticipated in the attack are being re-
lated. The number Of prisoners has
been increased to 21S.
Great Activity in Toui Sector.
After o. period of almost unprece-
dented quiet the American sector
northwest OF Toul suddenly has be-
come very active. Last night and to-
day the Germans threw over hundreds
of shells of I'LL sizes. The American
guns have been just as busy and are
giving the enemy more than he sends.
The rtillery duel continues strong
tonight,
1t is not improbable that the Ger
mans have some plans III which they
may employ their infantry.
German airplanes also were active
today but as American aviators were
constantly on the alert few enemy
machines ventured beyo6d the lines.
German Attacks Repulsed.
The purpose Of the German attack
today against the American positions
near Bremenil. east Of Luneville. was
to capture Americans. The deter
mined American resistance, however,
repulsed the enemy with heavy losses
and no Americans were taken prisoner.
The Germans attacked at three
points and at one place a group Of
fourteen got into the American
trenches It never went back. Nine OF
the fourteen Germans were killed,
four are prisoners and one Is dead Of
wounds.
The prisoners said they were ordered
to capture Americans at any cost, their
superiors being anxious to determine
where American troops are stationed
and their present fighting strength.
Hot Reception For eoehes.
Near Bremenil. after heavy barrage.
-fft$ German soldiers attempted to
reach. the American line. They were
-
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thus Is prevented from reaping tull
benefit Of his rapid advance.
Allied Reserves Massing.
Meanwhile the allied reserves are
massing at certain points without any
Of the confusion that attended the sim
liar movement in March. So well per-
fected, are the arrangements that an
entire division can be moved by motor
trucks from the Sonlme to Rheims In
forty eight hours.
The Germans made repeated attempts
to break thru the defense in the Sois-
sons region but were each time held up
by the determined French resistance.
In the center Of the German advance
fighting is, taking place in the neigh
borhood Of Veziuy approximately
eighteeen miles south Of the Chemin
Des Danes, where the German attack
was launched on Monday.
Enemy's Purpose TwofoId.
As the battle proceeds the enemy's
purpose becomes plain. It Is twofold.
First of all. eighteen miles south Of
the Vesle flows the Marine, which forms
with the Disc one OF the great avenues
otapproach to Paris. Across It's course
runs the Chalons railway, the main
eastern artery. TO gain a footing in
the Marne valley or to even approach
within artillery range of it would be an
appreciable result That is sufficient to
show why the Germans continue to
push southwark so vigorously. Their
advance there yesterday, however,
amounted to only three and one-half
miles. against five and a half on the
first day Of the attack and seven on the
second. This indicates the growing
force Of opposition the enemy is en-
countering. =.
The second object Is to broaden the
salient to the westward. BY enlarging
the action there the German crown
prince intends to approach nearer to
Paris on the direct route. The French
command is fully aware of the impor-
tance OF this movement Alt1o Sois-
sons was evacuated to prevent needless
sacrifice of men. the French hold all the
roads leading out Of the town.
( Heavy fighting still lies ahead Of the
allies but those most competent to ex-
press an opinion are now satisfied that
the German drive will be stopped in the
near future.
French Official Statement.
The statement follows:
The battle continued with undimin-
ished violence during the night. French
troops energetically maintained the
western outlets of Sofasons and the
enemy, Notwithstanding repeated ef-
fort, was not able to debouch from the
town. ~;
e uftner EaSeLteIltS OF extreme
violence developed On the road between
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-30
American Hospitals Bombed.

With the American Forces on the
French Front May ga German air
attack on hospitals behind the Amer
lean lines has been carried ont with
deliberation. The airlnen turned their
machine guns on flremen fighting
flames started by their bombs and on
ambulance drivers. Flying glass slight
ly injured number OF Americans.
Patients in one ward were hurled from
their beds by the shock of a bomb ex-
plcSlOn.
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cLEMENcEAU NEAR CAPTURE.

French Premier Narrowly ESCAPES Fall
ing Into German Hands.
Paris, May 3O.-Premier Clemenceau
had the narrowest possible escape from
falling into German hands yesterday,
according to the Petit Journal. He
left a certain point on the front only
a few moments before the arrival Of
forty Uhlans.
When the Germans entered the little
town the premier had just left. They
cornered few Of the French who had
remained, one a general who was
examining the positions with a field
glass, the newspaper adds. The gen
eral was killed in the encounter.
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front his main operation hardly arises.
Yesterday the situation seemed to be
mere hopeful from the fact that the
two wings Of the allied line were hold
ing firmly. but the enemy has de-
veloped attacks of such strength on
both the right and left that this - no
longer the case.
Considerable comment has been
caused by the fact that Field Marshal
Haig, who in the opening phases of
the Aisne operations reported their
progress, has ceased since yesterday
evenings announcement to make any
reference to them.
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7hirty.five American Casualties.

Washington. May 30.-The army
casualty list today contained thirty
five names. divided as followes:
Killed in action. 5; died OF wounds,
!: died Of accident, 4 died Of disease.
II; wounded severely. 9; wounded
slightly 2; missing in action, 3.
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HUN ATTACK
At CANT|CNY
THROWN BACK
Strong Enemy Counter
Blow Successfully Met by
American Troops.
GERMANS MASSING
MEN FOR NEW DRIVE

Resting Places Of Heroes Near Front
Lines Decorated in Early Hours to
Avoid Drawing Fire Of Hun Gums
Day Takes on New Significance In
America Because Of Participation in
World War-United in Tributes.
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No Infantry Action in Flanders.

With the British Army in France,
May 3O.-Last night produced no big
infantry action along the British front
in Flanders. In a minor operation west
of Merris the British advanced a sec
ton of their line about 200 yards. Be
yond this there was little to report.
A German attack on strong allied
position in Flanders northwest OF
Festubert has been repulsed complete
ly, it is announced officially.
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British Cease Raids One Day.

Paris May 30.-A1tho the British
government has promised not to carry
out air raids today-the feast of
Corpus Christ-on German cities
which are not in the vicinity Of the
front, the German long range gun re-
sumed the bombardment Of Paris this
morning. The firing began at an
earlier hour than usual.
1.-THE British promise was given
upon receipt thru the vatican Of a re-
quest recently recently made ~ Cardinal yo.,
Hartmann, the archbishop of Cologne,
that there should be no bombing In
Cologne during the time Of the Corpus
Christi procession in that city, which
recently had been seriously damaged
by air raids.]
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TO DAM TIDE,
HOPE OF ALLIES

and Infcting Losses Suffering Great Casualties
s Also-Germans Use Large Part of Reserves and
., Must Win or Lose War in Present Offensive
Extreme Advance of Fifteen Miles Made
Rheims May Fall With Scissors
Allies Still Hold Highways.
of allied armies reported today to meet the
renewed attempts to sash the line of democracy
in France"
Paris is confident that the onslaught will be stopped
declaring that the German ood would soon be
damned"
Sweeping the Germans have advanced fifteen
miles the of the line between sossons and Rheims
On the allied Scissors fallen while Rheims the
right great danger The have retired to
within less than two miles of the famous city.
Desperate the resistance of the French and British
especially the the left Tho heavy losses have been
German advance has net been halted
greatly.
Despite their enforced retirement allied troops have held
together remarkably we'll
fell to the Germans after fierce fight in
of the city hours and the French last reported
holding tenaciously to the suburbs.
advance has not affected greatly the French line
eastward to Montdder.
The curve in the battle northwest of Rheims has been
wiped out eastward the line southeast and
then east into Champagne
In the center Of the fotyve mile front where the German
has greatest the enemy Lou
peqne miles Ourcq and twelve miles north
Of the Malne The fighting almost entirely territory
touched by 1914 Berlin its latest report claims
the number of prisoners has increased to 25,OOO
Apparently the Germans have used large part Of their
in the the Asne they have not taken
advantage of the here to strike elsewhere the north
ern front The course of the fighting Wednesday
possibility that the prince will try to strike westward along
Asne instead attempting to force his the Mare
Except sharp fighting at Cangny where Americans
repued German counter attacks against their positions
there little fighting the line north of Soissons
attack the French north Of Mont KENNEL
was repused completely. =
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LONDON is WORRIED.
News From Front Regarded With Ut,
most Gravity,

London, May 29.-The news from
the front tonight is regarded here with
the utmost gravity. With SCISSORS in
the hands Of the enemy and Rheims
closely threatened, the question
whether the enemys orig inai intention
was to make the thrust on the Aisnei
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-30
Another Raid on Pari. From All.

Another Raid on Paris From Air.
Paris. May 3O.-An enemy airplane
was brought down Siby French anti
aircraft guns during an attempted
raid on Paris last night. None Of the
German machines was able 20 fly over
the city. A few bombs were dropped
in the suburbs.
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In three groups and the two larger
ones were held UP and dispersed by
American machine gun and rife fire.
The third group, Of fourteen men.
managed by terrain conditions. to
reach the American trenches. Under
the leadership Of a lanky youth, who
was q farmer before he enlisted, a
group OF Americans gave the Huns a
hot reception. The bayonets Of the
Americans flashed white. then red, al
most as soon as it takes to tell At
During the engagement a big Ger
man commissioned officer. who
directed the enemy party, stood on the
parapet. He raised his arm to hurl
grenade but no never threw 1t. An
gas attack last Monday. reached the
German with his bayonet. The grenade
fell from the Germans hand and ex-
ploded harmlessly> on the parapet.
The gas bombardment that preceded
the infantry advance by the enemy be-
gan at 10: 40 o'clock this morning. The
Germans had brought up additional
eight-inch projectors to replace those
that had been destroyed by the Ameri-
can guns Monday night, and mustard
and chlorine shells fell by the hun
dreds on the American positions. In
one small area alone 300 Of these ar
rived. Many of the Americans as a
result began to show the effects of
slight gassing and we're harboring a
large grudge against the enemy on this
account.
Hun Raiding Party Defeated.
Washington. May 30.-The second
section Of General Pershing's COM
munique for May 30 tells Of the failure
Of the enemy to break thru the Amer
ican lines. A ratding party Of about
fifty men. it says, was repulsed with
a loss Of ten dead and four wounded.
American casualties were light.
On May 81 the communique said
Lieutenants Fisher, Curtis. Buford and
McLanahan, on patrol duty In the st.
Mihiel region, encountered enemy ma
chimes at 1000 meters. One Of these
was downed.
Defeat Of an enemy airplane re-
ported in the communique for May 2S
is credited to Lieutenant Rickenbacher
and Lieutenant Campbell, as previous
lv reported
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NEWS OF THE DAY
T.-R. BULLETIN
The Weather.

Tho Weather.
Sun rises May 81 at 5:2f. sets at s:2s.
Iowa-,Partly cloudy tonight and
Friday probably local thunder
showers; warmer tonight in east por-
tion.
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Helping Handicapped Fighter
ny JULIAN w. MACK,
Jurist and Authority on Pnblie Welfare.
ny JULIAN w.

sense en aH 60 are erh not hs tsa
injury that possesses thela., The real source or
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neg 5ff sh i hfS% 's
i simply i1strument whereby the govern S,;l
dependent dep. or Others while they are away
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eeuy and nsnsay stTongeF f han r' When en'f he
s m a5 Ts sn9 a
r omndad to gTe syery aid and comfort the
Sisal ana eeononis eond,ion' RI" "F Eed Rn raj
Husea Tn9 Wns h 9nsh new osaons TIE
act the ameresn f He'd fu Cross ess
On an as the ams a.
parts Of the Unitsd states Constitute a buiwar r
Of &heS eannot cur Eatfs
tf ns oa Ct f o 2st e the HAS qnspsq
Congress in eracting the bin. exercised great
' t Of man %hs
N na put wa n nnG of
.ation So e;iIoseiy knit is the relationship be
for m ,ha the former
a 70 Sisfqs in de
ap s'% %f like ss
Conpensation Will be paid to the disabled
soldier and sailor irrespective Of his earning ca
i the man nnTseason,eebly refuses 70 ii, himself
opportunities that the government will provide.
The purpose OF these measures is to stimulate
level Of the government compensa tion to the
to create a healthy uiscontent with life that
TOO many injured mnn. sure Of the bare needs
il is interesting 70 note with what rapidity
ing in Anerica The press is, preaching the
gospel Of Not charity'-bMt chance" and the
inent compensation and vocational training will
give our nen--a chance with running START
Copyright, 1918.
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Books and Authors

,, TnnS & a, Wa AIT. compHny has ,us.
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FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS
National Problems Discussed Readers
Authoritative Writers-A Daily Editorial Feature.
CHANCE TO USE NEGRO BRAINS.
ny ALFRED b. WILLIAMS.

Influential and we'll Informed Eng
llsh newspapers say Great Britain ana
FRANCE would BIO delighted to have
the United states take over the Ger
| man colonies In Africa. The sugges-
iion should cause wide and serious
thinking In this country along some
what unusual lines.
One OF the obvious problems with us
! Is the euucated and cultured negro
with ability and ambition. He has no
real place or adequate hope here. To
"niggcr," regardless OF his qualities and
equipment. TO the more thought fui
he is a puzzle. and so far with no
can be Mt OF comfortable or have a
fair opportunity to show what there
is In him while he has impressed on
possibility win for himself equality
or recognition or the association OF
the most desirable people. Self-de-
s AND the insinet of
or even affectionately they may feel
toward the negro generally and indi-
siduals OF the race especially, to hold
themselves definite and impossible
distance. Those are the facts OF the
situation Naturally. all OF us dislike
them. but they are here md before
us. and cannot he changed by ignoring
them or refusing to face them frank Is
German East Africa is partly civil
far advanced an the Philippines were
when We took them, and the Filipinos
had 10 be untaught more than the
africans would have to be taught. The
German African colonies arc nearly
ole third as large as the continental
United states, and have populat lon
or more than 100000. We could take
thenl under our protection and entrusr
10 the ablest and best negroes we have
North ana South. the great construc-
tive work of carrying Christianity and
civilization among them and creating
government. Germany made a crue!
botchN there while We were making
a success in the Philippines. Under our
worlds greatest colonizers and civil
lizers. and with strong colonies OF
their own adjoining those TO ue taken
reason for confidence that our negroes
would achieve great results The Ger
man colonies owe S326oooOo and their
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What WIN the Answer Rep

4 t last Germany knows, or will within a
4 few hours, what the allied governments
demand OF 1t rs u preliminary to peace. 1t
knows now beyond all possibility of doubt
! that 1t must stack its arms upon the field IL
the allied might which is crushing it to the
ground is to be withdrawn. There is no
mistaking the terms of an armistice upon
which the Versailles conference unanimously
agreed and Marshal Foch has handed to the
German commander-in-chief. AS was true in
the cases Of Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria
Hungary, its defeated allies, there is no mid
die ground upon which Germany may stand.
There is no opening for contemporaries.
There is no court Of appeal. The judgment
OF Germany's enemies has been pronounced.
1t calls inexorably for what amounts to sur
render without debate and without stipula-
tion Germany knows where it stands be-
fore the bar OF civilization and what it must
do before atonement can begin.
The question that now transcends all others
in world Importance, therefore, is Germany's
answer. How will that nation meet the issue
which is squarely put before it? Will it plead
for mercy, will it accept the allied terms
will 1t defy it's enemies and force them to
pay the heaviest possible price for the victory
which the allies have assumed and all but
achieved?
great deal must depend in this matter
upon the state of that Germany behind the
peace, and wants it above all else; in other
words, if it feels that it must have peace at
any price, then it may be expected to yield
even as tho allies have said that it must
yield. 1t may make play for less unfavor-
able terms through IL show of turbulence, it
may seek to match adroitness with cunning
and 1T may undertake to beguile it's enemies
into q more lenient attitude, but hopes such
as these are worse than useless, and if con-
ditions within the empire are such as press
dispatches lead the world TO believe, it will
lay down its arms without conditions and quit
the war.
1t is likely, however, that the militarists
OF the empire will seize upon the allied armi-
stce terms as an opportunity to rally the
nation once more to the standard of force.
They probably will turn to the people and
to the army with the statement that ii is
not the purpose Of the allies to make L
peace of Justice" but one OF humiliation,
and they will point to the rigor of the armi-
stce terms in proof Of their arguments. In
such Il situation they will say that there is
only one course left to the empire, and that
is defense to the very death. If the Ger
man nation is moved by the appeal of the
militariss, then the war must go on to the
very end. II Germany prefers suicide to SUCH
a surrender as the allies have told it is the
only way leading toward peace. it must make
the choice. 1t may elect one or the other.
1t will invite annihation if it persists i'll
making war to the end and it remains to
be seen If there are enough far-sighted men
left in Germany who will prefer Il peace as
ii is now offered Or virtual destruction of
the empire by force OF arms such as its
enemies now are in position to infict.
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should be noted and remembered. Only two
members Of the board approved the opening
and had the courage Of their convictions, one
vigorously opposing it and one refusing to
go on record. Many physicians opposed 1t
on the ground that the danger has not passed.
DR.. Flanagan, on whose recommendation
the board acted. said that. while he favored
reopening the city would not be per
fectly safe" all winter and he prophesed
an average of twenty-five deaths from pnou-
mona each month during the winter. On
tho day that the board lifted the ban there
were eighty-seyen new cases Of influenza and
seven deaths. These facts speak for them
selves. In the face OF them it bchoovcs the
people of Richmond to relnx none Of their
vigilance in combating and warding off the
mysterious disease which has caused so many
hundreds of deaths here. Let them redouble,
rather than relax, their measure of precau-
tion Other cities have had occurrences OF
the epidemic, and just now Roanoke is suf-
fering fresh spread OF tho scourge, pre-
sumably from too early lifting OF the ban,
and it may be forced to restore it. That must
be avoided in Richmond if 1t DO possible The
danger has not passed, despite wonderfully
improved conditions, and many lives still may
depend on the care which citizens exercise
in the coming weeks