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The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
AMERICANS TOO BRAVE"
REPROACH OF FRENCH
Commissioner Tardieu's Com
.pliment Replied to by Ambas-
sador Sharp.
ASSOCIATED Press.)

Paris. July 30.-American soldiers in
the fighting on the Marne salient
showed themselves equal to the best
French troops, declared Andre Ter
dieu, French high commissioner to the
United States. at n dinner in his honor
last night at the American university
union. Prof, George Nettle'on. Of
Yale university. presided. and repre-
sentatives of many American univer-
stiles and colleges were pr' sent.
The first great battle in which your
own troops have participated extern
sively has been great victory" Capt.
Tardieu said. THE part taken by
your soldiers is well known to Franc =.
The soldiers of the American divisions
which. on the morning Of Tul IS.
gained six kilometers have shown
themselves to be the eqLal Of the best
French troops. Your rank and file. Of
ficers. and STATS are deserving Of the
same praise
Every one at the front, including
the enemy. knows well what the
American army is worth and what new
power will be let loose in the course Of
the next few weeks under the folds Of
the Star -Spangled Banner.
Hard Months Ahead.
THE war is not vet over. Hard
months are ahead Of us. but we ave
already taken the initiative. As far rs
numbers go. the critical times. are
over with u.s. Under the strong lead
ership OF chief who is worthy Of
France - Premier Clemenceau - we
have greeted the first success. In com
mon with you Americans. we and our
gallant allies are standing ready ''r
the supreme effort The 1aith which
is inspiring us will not falter"
William G. Sharp the American am
bassador In response said:
American soldiers could not hclp
being brave after such examples OF
magnificent courage as displayed by
the French troops. The first million is
here Another million will follow. and
as manv millions as are necessary to
bring the cause Of democracy 20 VIC
torious peace. Only the other dav
Premier Clemenceau. the grand old
man Of France. said to me:
"T have Teproach to make YOU.
Your soldiers are too brave too ~eck-
less with their lives
IT replied that this was the hest re-
proach could expect to hear. had
much rather that Americans sinncd on
The side Of bravery reckI ,ssness and
determination than on the side OF
Iimidity."
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
WIFE U, s. ARMY OFFICER
CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE
Mrs. Elsie v. Sires to Face
Trial in Federal Court at
Greenville, s. G.

Greenville, S. c., July 30.-Mrs.
Elsie V. Sires, wife of Capt. Edward
B. Sires of the 306th sanitary train,
S1st division, formerly stationed at
Camp Sewer, must face trial In fed
eral court at Greenville at it's term on
the charge OF violation of the espion-
age act passed by the United States
congress. Mrs. Sires, who was born
and reared in Germany, and married
Capt. Sires while he was sergeant
in the American army stationed IN
the Philippines, was given prelimi-
nary hearing before United States Com
missioner Blythe today. She was
bound over to district court for trial
and released on $1,000 bond which she
justified in cash from Her own posses,
sion. Witnesses testified that they had
heard Mrs. S!res say that 1T was not
true that the Germans cut or tne
hands of children and that they OUT,
ragged women; that the Germans nau
a right to sink the Lusitania, that the
accounts of the German atrocities are
lies and the defendant is also accused
of making other declarations OF SINH
lar nature.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
AMERICANS LOSE TOWN
EAST FERE-EN- N-TARDEN0IS
German Thrusts Along Entire Aisne- Marne
Front Fall Heaviest Against Sectors Held
By United States Troops : Gerges
Entered By the Huns.
ASSOCIATED Press.)


London, July 3O.-The Germans have been counter
attacking very heavily along virtually the entire battle
front according to which reached London shortly
after today Their attack especially heavy
in the American sector and resulted in driving the
Americans of the village of Cierges about five and
one-haf miles southeast of Fere-en-Tardenois.
Another German thrust drove the Americans back
from Beugneux Grand Rozoy northwest of Fereen
Tardenois.
Some advance has been effected by the allies in Ardre
valley along the eastey side of the 'front.' towards the
village of Aubily certain amount of ground likewise
has been gained in the center in the neghborhood of Vii
lers Agron Aiguzy.
The main advance on the westerly side of the front
seems to- have been at Grand Rozoy, about five miles
northwest of Fere Tardenos. The French here are
progressing the crest of the plateau between the Vesle
and the Ourcq.
There has been heavy fighting Buzancy, five
miles south of Sossons and also in the Plessier wood
about five miles further south In this latter locality
forty five prisoners taken belonging to three dlvl
sions of the enemy engaged in the Marine salient
There are seventyone such divisions, of which ten belong
to the northern army of Crown Prince Rupprecht OF Ba
varia
The enemys withdrawal is reported still orderly, and
military opinion in London discounts the possibility OF
any rounding up of Germans in the salient
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
TURK TO HANDLE
own AFFAIRS
Report of Break With Germany
ArouSes Intense Interest
in Washington.
COMMENT is WITHHELD
knowledge Of Increasing Eric.
tion Factor Preventing U. s..
Declaration Of War. /

| Amsterdam, July 3O-Turkey is GO
I ing 10 handle the situation in the eau.
casus according to her own ideas
Ihis is indicated in telegram from
Constantinople dated July 2S. which
quotes an article in the newspa per
Nasfiri Ekfiar presenting the Turk .
ish viewpoint.
we have nothing to say against
me principles laid down in the Brost :
Litovsk treaty" says the article. hut
when the Caucasus. newly reorga nized
turned toward us. and, master of its
own destinies refused to be bound bv
the treaty, what was more natural
than for us to take into consideration
,he necessities of this new situation
created on our important eastern
'front.'? Could we close our ears to
tne appeal OF the government of a peo
pie largely of the same race and same
creed as ourselves?
We are aware of the action and its
present progress, to place under Ger
man control Tiflis and Baku. That
Is logical consequence of the appli-
cation of the Brest Ltovsk treaty.
How could this treaty be taken into
consideration in the affairs of the
Caucasus, seeing that the bolsheviki
government has not even been able
to return to us in accordance with
the treaty, our eastern frontier and
that in the Caucasus influences en-
tirely independent of the bolshevili
government have arisen?"
Increasing War Weariness.
Washington, July 30.-Official ex-
planation of the report sent via Lon
don from Copenhagen by the CORE
spondent Of the Exchange Telegraph
company asserting that relations be-
tween Turkey and Germany have been
severed" had reached Washington to-
day. officials admitted their intense
interest in this report They could not
explain 1t, however. While accepting
that there has been constantly increas-
ing friction between Turkey and Ger
many growing out of the Rumanian
situation and the increasing war
WEAKNESS in Turkey where the Young
party is now in disfavor, officials did
not believe it sufficient to warrant any
break at this time. However. they
were endeavoring to get something Of
fetal on the subject. Pending such
word, however, all comment was with
held.
Some officials we're inclined to look
with suspicion on the reported friction
and break. Admitting that anti
Germanism was growing in Turkey
they insisted that the German influen-
ces in the court of the new sultan still
were strong enough to retain control. |
It also was pointed out that on many
occasions when Germany desired to |
distract attention from the military |
she had fathered near dplo-
matte discussions" through neutral |
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
CAPT. HUPP, OF IOWA,
LED men OVER OURC0
Westerners Had Chief Part in
Brilliant Action-Huns
Raise White Flag.
ASSOCIATED PressD

With the American Army on the
Aisne Marne Front, Monday, July 90
The crossing of the Ourcq river was
effected by the Americans on Sunday
in brilliant style in the face OF great
difficulties, the Germans having de-
stroyed the bridges and placed their
artillery and machine guns in advan-
tageous positions to resist the attempts
at passage.
The Franco American forces had
planned to cross the Ourcq before day
light on Sunday, but the German heavy
artillery held the slopes leading to the
river under fire, which continued all
night. The Americans repeatedly start
ed to advance during the night, but as
often were held back by the fire of the
enemy machine guns and heavier artil-
lcry. During one of the lulls in the
German ring Capt. Allen Hupp, Of
Corning, Ia, worked his men up to
center Of the field, the slopes of which
led to the Ourcq. Just then the Ger
mans resumed their attack in full
force. Immediately Hupp and his men
dug in and held on where they were
until daylight.
Counter Battery Work.
Meanwhile the German artillery had
been quieted somewhat by the heavier
artillery of the allies carrying out
counter battery work. Choosing an
opportune moment Hupp's men dashed
to the river jumped in with splash,
and waded across, cheering as they
went.
Corporal Chris Bertgelsen. of Sioux
City, was among those of the first
wave to cross the river. They immedl-
atcly went after the machine guns on
q hill on the north bank of the OurcQ.
The fire which they opened on the
enemy nest at this point was so in
tense that the Germans raised white
flag. Anticipating a nice bag of pris-
oners the Americans rushed up, only to
be opened upon again by the enemy
machine guns as they approached.
Then the Americans let loose with the
full weight of their fire against the
Germans, who again raised the white
flag. Twelve Germans were killed and
nine captured in this operation.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
CADSDEN BOY WOUNDED
In BATTLE NEAR RHEIMS
Name of Lieut.. Allen Mathis, Of
Second Training Camp, in
Casualty List.
Especial to The News.)

Gadsden, Ala, July 30.-Lieut Allen
Mathis, Company f, 10Sd infantry, was
wounded in action in France. accord
ing to message received by his ia
ther. G. II. Mathis n Birmingham man,
who Is in Gadsden today. Lieut. Mathis
is a graduate of the alabama univer-
sity and the second officers training
camp.
shortly after the close of the second
camp Lieut. Mathis was sent east
leaving soon afterwards for France.
He Is one of the best known young
men of this city. His mother. Mrs.
G. II. Mathis. is a well-known woman.
formerly of Gadsden, now on the chau-
tauoua platform in Ohio. Lieut., Mathis
made his home with his mother mere.
No details of his wounds are availanie.
hut IL is understood he was in the
fighting near Rheims when shot down
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
GIGANTIC EFFORT OF HUNS MAKES BUT DENT OR TWO ALLIED LINES
Huns will Make Stand
Indications That German
Retreat Has Reached
Limit.

Paris, July So.-The fierceness Of
the hshting Monday. 1t is believed
here. is a sign that the German re-
treat has reached its limit. and that
the enemy. will make stand with
his right wing on the plateau south
of the Crise and with his left on
the hill south of the Ardre. For
the defense of this line 1, is held.
the Germans will devote all of Gen.
Won Boehn's army and the reserve
divisions taken from Crown Prince
Rupprecht OF Bavaria.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
700,0 ,00n nm POUNDS TO RE
ASKED OF HOUSE COMMONS

London, July 3o.-The largest np-
preparation demanded since the be-
ginning Of the war will be submitted
to the house of commons Thursday,
says the Daily Telegraph. The vote
Of credit to be asked will be for 70o.-
100000 pounds. The previous highest
was 570,00o.o0o pounds voted year
ago. The new appropriation is re-
duired TO finance the war until the
end OF October.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
kERENSkY ARRIVES IN
THIS COUNTRY lNCOGNlTO

Chicago, July 30.-Alexander
j. kerensky. former premier of
Russia. is in the United States,
having arrived incognito on a
recent steamer. according to
telegraphic word received here
from John A. Haggerty, ma
val gunner, who says he was
a fellow passenger of the Rus
sian statesman. The telegram,
addressed 70 William II. Bur-
quest, associate editor of Do
mestic Engineering, and pub
lished in the Chicago Herald
and Examiner, reads in part;
Passenger with Kerensky
on -, attacked off Irish
coast afternoon 18th. Great
liner Justicia torpedoed. At
tackled again at midnight same
day. No casualties. Kerensky
calm. Travelling incognito."
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
STATE DEPARTMENT
HAS NO CONF lRMATlON

Washington, July 30.-The
state department today was
without the slightest confirma-
ton from anywhere of the
Copenhagen report that the
relations between Germany
and Turkey have been severed"
Officials very frankly expressed
the belief that the story was
without foundation. One high
official. after explaining that
not a single confirmatory word
had been received. added sig
nificantly:
Even Turkey can be ex-
pected to concede that it would
be wisest for her to. get new
friends before she overthrows
the old ones"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
FRENCH RETAKE
TOWN BEUCREUX
After Being Driven Out by New
German Thrust-No Ces-
sation Battle.
AMERICANS HOLD FIRM
Against Heaviest Enemy Ef-
forts to Dislodge Them North
of Curcq.
AMERICANS HOLD FIRM

London. July 30.-Another German
thrust drove the French out OF Beug-
neux. near Grand Rozoy, northwest OF
Fere- -en- Tardenois. This town. how
ever, was recaptured from the enemy.
London, July 30-(4:41 p. ND
Americans troops in the Scissors
Rheims sector have been fighting Hir-
tually without cessation along their
whole line for the last twenty-four
hours. The German defense had stiff
fened, and the Aemricans had made
very little fresh progress up to noon
today. according to dispatches this
afternoon.
ASSOCIATED Press)
With the American Army on the
Aisne- Marine Front. July 30.-N p.m)
Under a fire from the enemy only
slightly less than that Of yesterday,
the Americans on the front north. of
the Ourcq held on to their positions
this forenoon, and even advanced a
little toward the road from Seringes 10
Sergy. taS
Repeated efforts by the enemy 10
dislodge the Americans were futile.
On the Americans left the French
are moving forward. To the right the
lines are holding steadily. -
The guards that were~brought up
by the Germans TO attack the Ameri-
cans yesterday appeared today to have
been withdrawn by the German COM
mand
The fighting Is the heaviest the
Americans have experienced. Their
conduct is winning the praise of the
French observers.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30

the plateau between the Ourcq ana
Vesie rivers. NtS~ G
A heavy struggle II raging around
Buzancy and Plessiere wood where
four hundred prisoners were taken
from three different German divisions
The enemy. It is estimated. has put
II divisions into the battle so far ten
of them being withdrawn from Prince
Rupprechts's army In Flanders.
(Sevcnty-one divisions is s52.Ooo
men)
Strong German counter-a assaults
were delivered northeast of Oulchy-
le- Chateau and southeast of Fere-en-
Tardcnois. H
The German counter assaults wrcst-
cd Cierges from the Americans ana
Beugneux from the French.
(Cierges is lightly less than hve
miles from Fere- -Tardenois and
Beugneux is about three miles from
Oulchy -le- Chaeau)
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
No Change During Night.

NO VHahgc UuTIUg N'gV'
Paris. July 30.-There was no change
in the situation north of the Marnc
last night, says the statement from the
French war offfce today.
The statement reads:
During the night no event of i'm
portance was reported from the front
north of the Marne." D.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
Showers, Says Billy 'Possum

| never knew I
had SO many
friends. MY hand
Is weary shak-
ing. It's difficult
to comprehend
the trends That
local things are
taking; Three
good cigars, two
drinks I've had
today, # h a {
never cost q
cent. One chap
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30
n German Divisions

international News Service.)
London, July 30.--G p. m.)-Violent
fighting is In progress along the whole
Aisne- Marne front, especially between
Vile en- -Tardenois and Buzancy.
The French have advanced farther
in the sector of the Ardre towards
Aubilly and also in the neighborhood
of Villers Agron and Grand Rozoy.
where they are progressing towards
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-30

SAID ne was nXlng things today, l
wonder what he meant?
The weather? Probable showers and
continued cool tonight and Wcdnes-
day.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14

are approximately 100 men and women
who are giving their time, in whole or
in part, to war service.
Herbert C. Hoover perhaps is, at
the present time, the best known of
the Stanford men occupying positions
of high responsibility. Assisting Mr.
Hoover as United States food admin
istrator are President Ray Lyon Will
bur and Professor Vernon L. kellogg.
DR.. William F. Durand as chairman
of the National committee of aeronau.
tics and Professor David M. Folsom,
fuel administrator for the Pacific
coast states, also occupy posts Of
great responsibility.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14
FOOD RATIONS IMPROVE
ALLIED PEOPLES Heal TIL

WASHINGTON, March 14.-While
epilepsy and insanity will follow in
the wake of the starvation that is
slowly strangling Germany, food ra.
tioning is building sturdy and
healthy people in England, France and
America.
This was the opinion today of Prof.
Hadlicks, noted Russian scientist,
head of the division of physical an
thropology of the Smithsonian Insti-
tute here, who is conducting a study
of the effects of the world food short
age
"Malnutrition has so weakened the
resistance of the German people, -
Prof Hadlicks said, that it may take
a century before the undernourished
and disease-stricken people can be re-
stored to their former soundess of
health.
he IdCLo are Dc1hS nAuuSn AAOl1 INC
world; but alarming reports by Ger
man scientists are known to be in the
hands of the Imperial government"
"The continued malnutrition has
brought widespread gastrointestinal
disorders and increased infant mortal
ity to an alarming point.
"Only the soldiers in the trenches,
government officials and the more ad-
fluent classes are receiving sufficient
4 food The bulk of the people are ex-
posed to complication of diseases
which will leave their traces for gen
erations to come.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14

LONDON, Jan. 12-"Do you drink"
asked the Irish lawyer,
That's my business" responded the
angry witness.
"Aa-any other business?" asked the
lawyer.
It's an old story, but, according to
Col Buchan, l met that Irish lawyer
today. Col Buchan AYERS it was Sir
Edward Carson, no less, the most,
abused person in present day politics.
We had an enjoyable interview with
Carson today. He explained what he
really thinks about the League of Ma
tions, taking pains to remove the i'm
preston that he is opposed to the
idea; and he made it clear that he
knows that the western border of Ger
many is we'll on this side of the Rhine
and has no desire to continue the war
ulJll JH6 KAISER > IOSl ldS DSCh ulINCA
all the way back to the river He
didn't talk about Ireland-whose arch
fiend or savior he is, according to
whether your sympathies are with the
Green or the Orange-but said per-
haps he would next time.
No. Whitehall Gardens, where
members of the war cabinet have their
offices, is one of the same row of an
cient mansions wherein Nell Gwynne
had her residence in her days of high
favor. In a big barren looking room,
only maps and half-filIed bookshelves
on the walls and little furniture save
dozen chairs and a wide flat desk,
we found the ex-attorney general and
ex-first lord OF the admiralty. He sat
leaning forward across the desk, sizing
us up as we came in after the manner
of lawyer preparing to pick his jury
If everybody had learned his Hoos-
Ter history from the same book that
did it would be easy to describe Car
son. He looks like that books picture
of Black Hawk, the Indian chief
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14

Other pictures of Black Hawk show
him magnificently attired in feathers.
but in this one ne is featherless, just
like Carson. There is the same glossy
black hair pulled straight from the
low widows peak to his crown, the
same long face and heavy features
with deeply grooved lines about the
mouth. Everything about his face be-
speaks force.
Looking at him it was not hard to
understand how he was able to con-
vince the British government that the
Ulster rebellion was a fight-to-the-fin-
ish affair and not a bluff, as the Irish
Home Rulers maintained. Nor was
it hard to understand that he was ac-
counted one of the most ruthless cross
examiners that ever tortured an I'M
willing witness.
His manner was all that of the law
yer as he talked. He fiddled with the
papers on his desk in a thoughtful
way, as though preparing to PROFOUND
a dreadful question rather than to
answer such a one Matter of fact,
| don't think he dreaded the question
about the League of Nations. The
liberal newspapers have bounded him
ever since his startlingly ironicaI eX-
clamation, Talk to me about League
of Nations!" and | think he was glad
to hear Joe Grigg's hesitant query on
the subject.
At any rate he was ready for it. He
talked for twenty minutes in a slow,
easy, reasonable way, outlining almost
every conceivable difficulty that will
confront the organizers of the pro
posed league, but always getting back
to a declaration that something must
be evolved from the war that will
make future wars imspossible and that
the League of Nations may be that
thing.
l hope to be present when he talks
about Ireland.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
IS WELL REPRESENTED

PALO ALTO, Cal, March 13.-That
graduates, undergraduates, and mem
bers of the Stanford University fac
ulty are distributed in practically
every field of war endeavor is shown
in statistics just made public by mem
bers of the faculty.
A service flag with 1,130 stars was
unfurled at the celebration of Found.
eEs. Day, March TO- In addition there
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14

Food rationing among the allies and
in America, on the other hand. will
only prevent overeating and build
healthy and sturdy race"
German newspapers reaching the
outside world, Prof. Hadlicks said, in
dictate the German internal condition.
Reading of the Berlin Vossiche
Zeitung gives the impression one per-
son of every three in the empire is
suffering from dysentary.
"An alarming increase in deaths
from phthisis in Berlin, is shown by
reports of the Berlin statistical bureau.
Pneumonia deaths also have increased
as haVeahose from pleurisy. Official
German reports reaching here have
placed the figures for these increases
at: phthisis, 56 per cent; pneumonia,
81 per cent; other lung diseases, II
per cent.
AS to infant mortality states the
Vorwaerts, the rate is unusually high
this year in Berlin. 1t is true that the
actual number of deaths is below that
of recent years. but this is explained
by the extraordinary decline in births.
Proportionately, the number of infant
deaths is considerably more unfavor,
able this year than last"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14

Madame Lydia, the palrAlst, VIII be
found in the Currier & Nicholson
Nuilding on C. street. left
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14

Bargain Notice-For sale one four
foot fireproof safe, three National cash
registers. ADDRESS Prospector. Valdez.