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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
1880 900 Men Are Overseas.

Neutrality-suspicious.. Peyton G, March,
chief OF staff, at his conference with
members Of the Senate military affairs
committee. announced that the United
States had 1,450,O00 men under arms
overseas and 1,55O.00O under arms in
camps in the United States.
Eighty American divisions of $4,000
men each, Gen. March told the house
military committee, Should be able to
bring the war to "a successful cOnclu-
sion In 1919" That is tho number tho
war department plans to have In
France by next June 30.
Casualties in the United States over
seas forces, announced by tho war and
navy departments during the week
ending August Is, numbered 1856,
compared with 4,91G for tho previous
week. Total casualties announced to
date number 21,467, including 37G IN
army list. The total army casualties
number 1907; marine corps, 2,760
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
BIG GUNS COMMAND
VALLEY Of THE O|SE
FRENCH LEADERS, BRILLIANT 10.
CAL THRUsTs WREsr GROUND
FROM THE ENEMY.
FRENCH TAKE 1900 GERMANS
Latest Success Gives Gen. MangIn's
Forces Command Of the Valley Of
Olse AZ Far AZ Mont Renaud.
Many Prisoners Taken.

With the French Army in France
In brilliant local operations carried
out by Gen. Mangin's troops, from the
Oise river near Ribecourt southeast
ward to Morsain, northwest OF Sofs-
sons. important positions we're wrsJt.
cd from the Germans, who left 1900
prisoners In the hands Of the French.
Gen. Mangin's forces advanced three
miles at the greatest depth of the
front.
The first German line of defense was
crossed over nearly the whole front
though the resistance was most Wig
orous at many places.
Gen. Mangin holds the line running
from Morsain along the southern edge
Of the ravine of Audignicourt to Fo-
settle heights, dominating the plain Of
C%arlepoint, and thence on to Pimrez,
across the Disc. This success gives
the French command OF the valley Of
the Disc as far as Mont Remand.
With these routes commanded by
Gen, Mangin's artillery, the only free
route for exit from the region Of Noy.
on and Lassigny Is the narrow gauge
line running north to Ham by way Of
Guiscard. and the high road running
In the same direction.
Unless the German general, Won
Hutier, Is able to stop Mangin's ad-
vance he will have only this narrow
outlet for his troops and material, as
the triangle between the Noyon-
Chauny road and the road from Noyon
to Guiscard, while a good position FOR
defense, is not favorable for an intense
movement OF troops and transport.
The Germans consequently are fight
ing desperately to hold the present.
lines. while seeking a chance to shake
off the grip Of the allies, break contact
with them and slip away. The result
Of operations, while not spectacular,
were entirely satisfactory, the French
overcoming the resistance of the Ger
mans In the region Of Lassigny and
pressing on toward Plessier.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
More Than 80 Are Killed.

Tyler, Minn,-Between 80 and IS
persons were killed and more than
100 were injured by the tornado which
struck Tyler and tore the town 10
pieces in a twinkling,
The tornado tore through the heart
OF the town, sparing only one building,
o motion picture theater, In which
300 persons were sheltered. The
greatest loss Of life was in a restau.
rant Eighteen persons were In the
place when the brick walls collapsed
Sixteen were killed and the other tive
were s~ertouslE injured.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
British Make Steady Proovess.

With the British Army In France
Having smashed into Gen. Won Bellows
Seventeenth army during a heavy fog
on a front Of more than 10 miles, ex.
tending from the Ancre River to Moy-
enville, the British have made steady
progress forward, capturing villages,
taking prisoners and guns and inflict-
ing heavy casualties on the surprised
army.
Coming directly on the heels Of the
battle south Of the Somme, the scene
of which virtually adjoins the field of
the new operations, this blow exploits
to the limit the confusion created
among the German forces by their re.
cent defeats.
Heavy fighting has occurred along
the embankment of the Albert-Arras
railroad, which seemed to have been
easily reached by the storming British
in~fantrymen, who were assisted in this
task by tanks.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
stenoqraphers to Go to France.

A unit Of 25 expert women stenog-
rapkers, who will wear a distinctive
uniform, Is now being recruited In
the United States for overseas serv-
ice. This group will be assigned to
the Quartermaster's corps Of the
American expeditionary forces and
to the headquarters Of the staff Of
General Pershing. Each applicant for
service must be an experienced
stenographer. She will be required to
OWL In her OWL equipment four uni
forms 1.-TWO for winter and two for
summer service). She must pass q
physical examination, and will be en-
gagged for the period Of the war. The
salary o stated is $1,000 q year
with the additional allowance Of 81
a day for the first month and 50 a day
Tor the remainder Of the time.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
SHORTEN BATTLE
FRONT FIFTY MILES
ALLIES MAINTAIN POSSESSION
OF INITIATIVE BY MAKING
LIMITED ATTACKS.
THE TANKS DO GREAT WORK
British Make Steady Progress For.
ward, Capturing Villages, Taking
Prisoners and Guns From
Surprised Army.

Washington.-Allied successes on
the Marine, In Picardy and In Flanders
in recent operations have resulted in
a contraction Of the western battle
front by more than 50 miles, General
March, chief Of staff, announced. The
allies in engagements conducted the
past week. he added, have maintained
their possession Of the initiative by
making attacks on limited fronts and
at widely separated points.
At the beginning of the German Of
fensive in March the battle front in
France measured ESQ miles. Now 1t
is less than 200 miles In length and
the latest British gains are reducing
1t further. General March said he
was without official confirmation of
the results of the British advance to
the north Of the Scarpe.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
THE ALLIES CAPTURE
100000 IN s WEEKS
DAMAGE SIX GERMAN ARMIES
SINCE JULY 15-BRlTlSH
EATING INTO SEVENTH.
DESIGNS OF FOCH UNKNOWN
Believed Generally That Foch's Ain
Is to Strike Blows Causing En-
emy lrreparabIe Losses In
Men and Material.

Paris-The allied armies have
taken more than 100000 prisoners
since July IS, says Marcel Hutin In
the Echo de Paris.
The allies have damaged six Ger.
nan armies since July 10 and the Brit.
ish arc now eating into the seventh
with the spread OF the battle north.
ward and over a front OF 10 miles.
Whether tho enemy Is prepared CT
u%nprepared. allied efforts have had the
same results and the Germans have
been ou~tgeneraled and o~utfought, The
past six weeks have been those Of
Gems. Won Even, Won Hutier and Won
Boehn, Won Even, von Hutier and Won
der Marwitz.
The full designs OF Marshal Foch
arc known only to himself and per.
haps one or two others, but 1t is be.
lieved generally that his aim is not.
as the Germans claim, to pierce their
line, but TO strike a succession OF
blows to cause tho enemy irreplacea.
BILE losses in mon and material and
TO force him to make more or less dis.
astrous retreats.
II that be the marshal's plan, he Is
pursuing It with skill and u%nvarying
success. Con. Ludendorff is being
forced TO expend his effectives out Of
all proportion to his resources on a
given sector OF the front, after which
another blow Ia struck home on an.
sector. At no place have the
Germans apparently been strong
enough to check the attack entirely.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
SET WITS WORK
Woman Proved Herself Heroine
in Emergency.
With Husband Disabled by Broken
Leg She Employed Unique Signal
70 Bring Help That Might
Save Him

The following would be. almost IN,
bellevable If the facts were not the
talk Of the community and If it were
not substantiated by the various par.
ucipants. In Penobscot bay, three
miles from Islesboro, is a little island
Known as Mark island, owned by Pres.
ton Player, a State street broker of
Boston, and he there maintains a big
summer place. The keeper is Ralph
Collamore of Lincolnville, who In the
winter, with his wife and two children.
makes his home on the island In a lit.
tie cottage.
On Wednesday, January @, he took
h boat and started for Islesboro.
Three hours were taken in making
the trip Of three miles by water. He
came back and upon landing and pull
Ing the boat up onto the shore on
Mark island he pulled the boat over
onto him, pinning him down and break
ing his leg. His wife kept looking for
her husbands return and finally. at
tracted by his groans, found him
pinned under the boat. She is a frail
woman but with him hanging onto his
injured limb, she managed to drag him
up to the cottage. There with the aid
of a leather wallet and sticks she set
the leg the best she could. There they
were practically isolated and help was
needed badly.
Mrs. Collamore, full Of pluck and de-
termination to get help, went to the
Player summer home. There she man.
aged to set agoing the electric dyna.
mo by which the place is lighted. She
turned on every light in that big house
and put on also a red light. The
lights were run all day Thursday and
not until 5:45 Thursday afternoon
was the light noticed at Dark Harbor.
Telephone calls were sent to the naval
station and the tug Zizania started to
Dark Harbor to see what was the
trouble. Dark Harbor was reached
about $50 Thursday night. There no
one knew what was the trouble at
Mark island. The Zizania cut her way
through the ice, in some places 8 and
10 inches thick, for three miles to the
island. Captain Sherman and nine
men went ashore. They made their
way to the lighted house and there
found no one. Cropping along in the
darkness they were frightened by the
sudden uprising Of a flock of turkeys
from a tree. Then they came upon
the cottage in total darkness with the
door open but no signs Of life about.
Going in they found the courageous
little woman asleep, the injured man
half asleep and both children slumber-
ing. The tug went back to Dark Har-
Dor and there found a doctor who was
brought back to Mark island. The
Zizania remained at Mark island I'M
til four o'clock Friday morning when
the injured man was attended to-
Bangor Commercial.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
BOMB ZEEBRUGoE AGAIN,
The British Also Drop Explosives On
tho Docks At Ostend.

Notwithstanding their 81.
forts on Z%eebrugge, the German sub
marine base in Belgium, British avla
tors, working with the navy, dropped
SO tons of bombs on enemy positions
during the period from Aug. S. In al.
dition to operations against Zeebruggs
bombs were also dropped on the Os.
tend docks and the airdome at varsee-
nae, where fires were observed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
Dry Dock At New Orleans.

New Orleans,-At the local offices
Of the United States shippings board
of the emergency fleet corporation, It
is said that a 10,O0o-ton dry dock and
a large ship repair plant win be con.
structed at New Orleans. Work on
the dock and plant will begin immedi
ately, and II is expected to have them
in operation by the first of next year.
The plant and dock will cost about
s1,260,O00 and will be sufficiently large
to accommodate the largest steamships
that enter this port, the announce.
ment says
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
NEWSPAPER Is HALTED.
May Not Publish Daily Without War
Boards Authority.

Helena, Mont.-The Butte Weekly
Bulletin has been advised by the pulp
and paper division OF tho war indus
tries board that 1t can not proceed
with its plans for the publication OF a
daily newspaper in Butte without au.
thority OF the war industries board.
Tho Montana council of defense is
sued an order Aug. IL prohibiting the
establishment in Montana OF new pa.
pers or the conversion of weeklies or
monthlies into dailies during the war.
Tho Butte Bulletin announced It
would pay no attention to tho order
OF the state council. which took tho
matter up with the pulp and paper di.
vision Of the Val industries board. ,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
TO HALT INVASION Of
GERMAN PRISONERS
CHINESE GOVERNMENT SENDS
TROOPS TO SIBERIAN BORDER
TO PROTECT PROPERTY.
1885, 900 MEN OVERSEAS
Gen. Peyton c. March Announces the
Number Of Men Now Overseas
and Under Arms In the
United States.

Washington.-The Chinese govern
nent has sent a large force Of troops
to the Siberian border to prevent a
threatened invasion OF Chinese terri
tory by German and Hungarian pris-
oners OF war who joined with the red
guard and other elements Of the Boil.
Bheviki against the Czecho- Slovaks in
the Trans Baikal region.
The sending Of the Chinese forces
wa taken to mean that every means
OF extending relief to the CzeCho-
Slovaks. The active participation OF
the Chinese army on the Siberian Dor
der may have an important bearing on
developments there within q few days,
according to officials hero.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
IMP FROM AN AIRPLANE.
ship Caught Fire and Johnson Leapa
Out to HE Death.

Belleville, lll.-Allan B. Johnson Of
Fort Allegheny, Pa, was killed at
Scott Field, near here, when an air.
plane in which he was flying 5000
feet from the ground, caught fire and
fell to the earth.
Johnson, who was rs years of age,
had gone up in the machine alone. OF,
ficers at the field attributed the acct,
dent to a leak in the oil tank, oil hav,
ing dripped on the exhaust pipe. When
the machine caught fire Johnson I'm.
strapped himself from the plane and
jumped. His body was mangled be-
yond recognition.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
Give Salvation Army 100000.

New York.-ln recognition OF the as
sistance rendered the wounded in
France by the workers Of the Saliva.
ton Army on duty there, the United
States Steel Corporation sent 800, 900
to the Army's war work committee.
Accompanying the donation was a let
ter OF congratulation to Commander
Evangellne Booth from Ebert II.
Gary, chairman OF the steel corpora.
ton.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
SEND DOWN Il AlRPLANEs,
Fifteen and a Half Tons Of Explosives
Dropped by British Flyers.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS German air.
planes were brought down by British
flyers August 20 and four balloons
were sent down In flames, the war of.
flee communique on aviation states.
Seven British machines are missing.
Fifteen and a half tons of bombs were
dropped by British bombing planes on
various German targets, including the
docks at Brugges and an aerdome at
Phalempim.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
Seven Burned In Homo.

Binghamton, N. Y.-The charred
bodies OF Philip Roth. his wife and
five children were found in the ruins
Of their home, IL miles east Of VIII,
SEVILLE. Tioga county. The house had
been burned during the night
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
Convicted Of ESPIONAGE

Madison, Wis.-Louis e. Nagler, for.
fner assistant secretary OF state. was
sentenced to 80 months in the peniten.
tiary at Fort Leavenworth In federal
court here. Nagler had been convict.
cd for violating the espionage act.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
The Upper Glass

$50 you wish to marry my daugh-
terri said the proud parent.
ayes, sir" replied the young man.
"How much money are you makingT'
asked the governor.
Forty dollars a week." was the re
ply.
"Forty dollars a week! Why my
daughter can make that in a mum.
tons plant and not work overtime"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
REAP CROPS UNDER FIRE.
Italians Harvest Grain While Aus-
TRAN Guns Roar.

Observation-Disclosures soldiers and
civilians have succeeded in harvesting
the grain on the right bank Of the
Pfave River under fire of the enemy
according to official reports received
from Rome. The entire district was
swept, while the harvesters worked.
BY the enemy's artillery.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
SHIPPED SIX GERMANS,
American Corporal In Front Trench
Makes New Record.

Makes New Record.
With the American Army in France.
A corporal In an American front line
regiment, to which he was assigned as
a sniper, has made a record by &C.
counting for six men within three days.
Among them was a German sniper who
had given the Americans much trou-
BILE. The corporal brought him down
by daringly crawling out toward a tree
in which he was located.
Three Of the other Germans killed
by the corporal were picked off as
they incautiously showed themselves
at a trench junction 500 yards from
where he was stationed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
Prisoner, Conference Put OF

Paris.-At the request Of the Ger
man government the German-American
conference regarding war prisoners
has been postponed, according to a
Geneve dispatch published in the Echo
de Paris.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
Two Submarines Are Sunk.

Brest, France.-Two German sub.
marines have Just been sunk by Amer.
ican and French naval patrols. This
news was communicated to President
Poincare while he wa visiting the
Anckr hare.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30

Vladiyostok.-A second transport
carrying American troops arrived at
V~ladiyostok. The transport bearing
che first contingent OF American sol
diers entered the harbor after a voy.
age OF seven days from Manila.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
$4,000 BILL.
Senate Passes Measure TO Recoup
Greek Sufferers In Omaha Riots,

Washington.-A senate bill provid.
Ing $4,000 to indemnify Greece, as re-
quested by President Wilson in a re-
cent message to Congress, for dam
ages suffered by Greeks in South
Omaha, Neb., riots In 1909, was passed
by the House and now goes to the pres,
ident
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-30
WILL INCREASE WAGES.

New Orleans Street Railway to In
crease Wages 711a Per Cent.
New Orleans.-Drectors OF the New
Orleans Railway & Light Company de-
cided to pay employees OF the company
the increase of approximately 7lh per
cent awarded by the war labor board.
The increase, effective as OF July /.
means a total Of S275,0O0 to be- dis.
tributed among the employees,
New-York tribune., 1918-08-05
Austria Calls Serbs
Of IL to SIS for Service
Violation of Hague Treaty Is
Explained by Excuse of
military Need"

LONDON, Aug. At is learned from
a trustworthy Serbian source that q
notice calling up all the Serbian male
population between the ages of seven
teen and tifty-ive has been published
III the Belgrade newspapers This new
outrage upon the unprotected Serbian
population appears TO mean the col
lective forced recruiting of Serbians
for the purpose of reaping the harvest
for .he Austro- Hungarian military
stores
In order to justify this new violation
of the law of nations, it is learned by
Reuters, the Austro- Hungarian gov
ernment has published the following
declaration:
This measure is justified by virtue
of Article So of The Hague convention.
AS the result Of experience it has been
found absolutely necessary to prepare
exact and complete lists of all males
capable of doing work, especially mer-
chants and those who have q legitimate
standing. Those found capable will in
due time be called to suitable work,
and will, naturally, be remuneratedr
Under the Bulgarian regime the
treatment of Serbians who have been
recruited has been even more ruthless.
Exhausted. half starved and ill-clothed.
the people were compelled to travel
several hundred miles to the places
where they were put to work in the
harvest. Announcement was made on
July % that all persons of both sexes
between the ages of eleven and sixty
would be considered as liable to be
called to work
New-York tribune., 1918-08-05
German Soldiers Sent
Wheat From France
To Their Relatives
tBy The associated Press)

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE SOISSSONS- RHEIMS FRONT.
Aug. 3. Thousand of bushels Of
French wheat have been shipped home
by German soldiers. The FRENCH and
Americans during their advance of the
last few days have discovered that
systematic plans had been laid by the
Germans for reaping the harvest in the
country from which they have been
driven.
The territory stretching northward
from the Marne is virtually one great
wheatfeld broken by forests here and
there. The wheat was sown by peas
ants before the Germans advanced from
the Aisne late in May and carly in
June, and began ripening carly in
July.
Everywhere in the German camps
the Allies nave found large stacks Of
canvas bags for distribution among
soldiers to be filled with wheat. These
bags have b capacity of nearly two
pounds. In many places the Allies
found them filled and addesscd to sol
dicrs' families The Germans were
compcller TO leave them behind owing
10 their hurried retreat.
Prisoners cay that these sacks were
supplied 10 the soldiers by the army
New-York tribune., 1918-08-05
BRITISH

strongly pushed, with no respite. After
the occupation Of Brachos, Hill 81.
northeast of Mcsnil st. Georges, came
INTO the possession of the French. and
then Hills SO and 99, in the same
nclghborhood. The French also occu-
pied the Filescamps farm, south of
Breaches, and the village of Malpars
and tho Framicourt Wood The south
ward limit of the retirement reaches
fontaincs- Sous -Montddicr
Everywhere the enemy is falling
back, from one fortified point to the
next one. meanwhile guarding his
TANKS from the possibility Of rush.
Indications of the new German re-
treat in the vicinity of the Avrc have
been observed for some time. Since
the French attacks on Castcl several
weeks ago the Germans had been in
an extremely unfavorablc position in
the valley Of the Avre, where they suf-
fercd day and night from an cntilading
fire. Recent Allied victories between
the Alsne and the Marne, which re-
suited in the scverest Of losses to the
German armies, evidently decided the
high command to shorten the German
line opposite Amicns in order TO
strengthen the enemy reserves for
manOcuVrlnr DurrOSrS
New-York tribune., 1918-08-05

tire to the Aisne they will be obliged
west, and the French position there
would be no worse than before the May
offensive"
"1he capture OF Mont Bc,lcu. which
says the correspondent in an earlier
dispatch gave US footing on the
plateau which fills the angle between
the Aisne and the Veslc and forced the
Germans, with their line echeloned
facing southwest in the angle between
tho rivers, were driven from Mont
Belleu and scissors On their extreme
turned each successive centre had to
be abandoned as far as Fismcs.
eve are again in open warfare. A
screen of cavalry is spread across the
fields to precede the advance of the
infantry along the roads. Horsemen
who come in contact with German
machine gun posts dismount and either
destroy them or force them to retire.
"'Thc enemy artillery distributed its
fire over special points on roads,
bridges and other places where our
troops were bound to pass, with the
object of retardng our progress as
much as possible.
CAS- the Germans retired they con-
tinued to burn villages, including those
behind the Ncsle, and cornfelds, which
now arc overripe for harvest. They
blow up their muniton dumps as they
go"