The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-08-01
COMPANY H IS AT
FERE-TARDEN0Is.
oskALoosA BOYS ARE ON THE
PRESENT BATTLE LINE.
new DIVISIONS BEING FORMED
VIII be Numbered From Fifteen ia
Twenty, One Of Which viii be
Made Up at Camp Dodge
Huns Loss In Battle,

| 'Sus EVSo w p6Wes
Washington, July 31.-The Rainbow
division is helping to hold the lines
near Fere en- Tardenois General March
chief of the staff announced today.
This division includes the old Third
Iowa, of which Company H, oskaloosa
is part
This division which in the early
days of the German drive around the
region OF Rheims helped to Withstand
the enemy attacks and arrived at its
new position within the last two days
to REINFORCE other American units
and divisions there.
Third Division at Cierues.
The third division March said is now
at Cierges another point of violent
fighting.
Formation of six divisions to mum.
Der from fifteen to twenty is under
way one of which will be at Camp
Dodge, Iowa.
Hun Losses Are Enormous.
Geneva, July 31.-German losses
since March 81, when the great Ger.
man offensive was launched total near.
ly one million according to a high Of
fetal who has just arrived from Berlin.
He said that the German casualties
in the last two sections of the offensive
we're estimated at three hundred and
fifty thousand
viii Not Take Paris Now.
Paris, July 31.-The newspaper
Echo De Paris said today that semi
official note minimizing from Field
Marshal Won Hindsnburg and General
Ludendorff declared that the German
command had been compelled to post
pone for sometime, its decisive blow
against the French and British forces
owing to the new developments.
All Attacks RspuIsed.
Paris, July Sherman attacks
against the new allied positions along
the lines eastward from oulchy LIE
Chateau have been repulsed the
French war Office statement announced
today
Gloom In Germany.
Rome, July 31.--The west front
disaster caused depression in Ger
many similar to that the Piaye de.
bacle did in Austria. Hungary, said
Bernie dispatch received here today.
South Germans accuse the German
general staff OF deliberately sacrifc.
ing the troops of the southern German
states.
Destroys All Material"
Amsterdam, July 31.--"Arl material
was destroyed before we retired to
prepared positions near Fere-En-Tard.
enois and Ville-En.T ardenois," a semi
official dispatch from Berlin stated to-
day.
Americans Holding the Line.
London, July S1.-Heavy fighting
at various points in the Scissor
Rheims salient with the Americans
east of Fere en- Tardenois holding the
heights behind Sergies and Sergy
was reported in dispatches received
here early today.
The night statements of the Paris
war office announced that the allies
were gaining and that their gains at
Sergy north of Seringes were being
maintained against the heavy enemy
assaults. swf
An advance on the right bank of the
Ourcq northeast of Fere en- Tardenois
was also reported in operation.
"KilI as Many as Possible.
Washington, July 31.--Both sides
having changed their original obiec.
tives the allies and the Germans bat.
Ting in the bloody Rheims-Soissons
sa lent are now ben solely upon trying
TO destroy each other
In his regular conference with the
correspondents today, chief, of STAFF
March declared that the lone object
remaining now is to kill as many men
as possible.
Strife is Increasing
London, July 31.-Strife among the
Central Powers apparently is increas-
ing. Rigid censored German dispatches
and statements heard through neutral
sources show that the Austrians and
he Germans have found II impossible
to agree on the Polish question. This
IL Of extreme interest following as 1t
does the report that Turkey and Ger
Inany have Eeverai relations.