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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
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military reviews to 1.-The New York
World Describing the first three or
four days of the Franco-American often
sive between the Aisne and the Marine, he
wrote: THE American troops We'd with
their French comrades
A British official judgment is,that of
J. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of
State for India. At the banquet given
last week by the Lord Mayor of London
to Mr.. Hoover, the Secretary said:
"The German higher command in this
campaign has experienced one deception as
to the military value of the British army.
1t seems as if they are beginning to have
another deception as TO the extent of the
value of the United States forces. Great
Britain is proud to call such men brothers
in-arms and to renew ara cement or the
field of battle the old ties which have
bound together them and US"
Finally, a neutral European opinion
may be quoted. This is from Hjalmar
Branting, the Swedish Socialist leader,
which was cabled to "The New York
Times" of Wednesday, by its London
correspondent. Branting. who had just
returned from a. visit to the front in
France, felt impeled to say that "the
American troops are splendid" He found
that they were distinguished by spirit
of organization" which secured both
simplicity and coordination" Then he
summarized as follows:
Generally they possess, in one word, the
spirit of efficiency. l am under the i'm
preston that the Germans row know some
thing Of American initiative. Do you recol-
lect how they Knocked at American inter
vention in the beginning am sure the
German people are Of a different opinion
now"
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become known to them within twenty
four hours. Yet so recently as July 23
a dispatch was given out at Washing
ton which had just been received from
Basic, Switzerland, quoting the Munich
"Neueste Nachrichten" as saying that
"the German General Headquarters
Staff considers that America has more
than 100000 soldiers in France"
The "Franfurter Zeitung" appears
to have been the first German newspa-
lean troops in France has already
reached serious proportions. Already
several days after Foch began his
counter offensive that paper was quoted
by Cyril Brown, The New York
Worlds" Amsterdam correspondent, as
;.smtting that "Fcch has succeeded in
forming an important attacking army"
and thus creating new factor in the
strategic situation The paper went
on to explain this by saying that lone
must bear in mind that Foch in this
offensive has for the first time employed
American troops in great masses"
The efforts of the German General
Staff and the press to minimize the
strength of our forces in France APP
pear to have had no great success with
the German soldiers, if the report can
be trusted that was given by a German
prisoner taken several days after Foch
began his great offensive He was
quoted in Paris dispatch as saying
that the German troops believe the re-
port that there were 100000 Ameri-
cans at the front to be false; that there
were rumors circulating in the German
army placing the number at 10000 900.
The testimony of that one man may
be esteemed valuable, though wholly i'm
pressionstic; it seems to reflect the
feeling of his comrades after having
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German soldier to show himself within
their range.
But it is precisely the quality of the
fighting of our troops that has been
most maliciously deprecated by the Ger
man General Staff and the gladly re-
echoing German press-though that is
apparently growing more and more diff
f'cult in proportion as the Americans
contribute their part toward evening up
the Scissors Rheims salient This ma
levolent effort to make light of the fight
ing of our men is shown. in particular,
in connection with the capture of Belleau
Forest, which occurred during the days
Of June to 10.
The capture of the forest was an
nounced in dispatches of The Associated
Press of June II from Paris, but on
the same day the German official bulle-
tin claimed that German troops re-
pulsed American marines and French
troops northwest of Chateau Thierry."
That the German General Staff pur
sued a systematic effort to ignore or
deny the successes of the French and
American troops in their victorious ad-
vance from July II to 90 was effectively
exposed by The Tribune on Wednesday
by printing in parallel columns the bull
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
What Our Allies
Are Saying
About Us

The report adds that the Americans
gave proof of the finest military Writ
ues" in all this fighting, and went on to
these general conclusions:
"All their communications were carried
out with perfect regularity on the right
and left, as well as in the interior of the
division itself. Discipline which filled the
Germans with surprise and admiration AMI
mated the attacking sections. They
marched with officers at the side and with
closed ranks, exactly like French units.
The enemy prisoners could not get over
it. We scarcely see those who are COM
handing, they declared TO the Americans
You are lucky. You are like the French
who have always got their officers in front
of them to lead them in battle"
THE first great battle in which your own
troops have participated extensively has
been great victory. The part taken by
your soldiers is well known in France. The
soldiers of the American divisions, which
on the morning of July 10 gained ak
kilometres, have shown themselves to be
the equal of the best French troops. Your
rank and file, officers and stats, are de
serving of the same praise
Every one at the front, including tn.
enemy, knows well what the American
army is WORTH
Another French opinion comes from
General Malleterre, who cables critical
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seemed an emanation from the pit. Every
American uniform sign of dawn after
a black and dreadful night
THAT the laudation should continue
when the first American troops appeared on
the line was also natural. Americas aid
was still more hope than an actually. 1t
is altogether probable that many deficien-
cies due to lack of experience were over
looked. We have common sense enough to
realize that soldiers do not emerge full
panoplied at the fiat of the American Jove
and reveal themselves at once as supremacy
sfcient and supremely heroic
But the eulogies continue to come, not
merely from American correspondents, but
from London and Paris, after no inconsid
cradle test on the fighting line.
The conclusion seems unacceptable that our
boys have not only done well, but excep-
tonally we'll"
A French official report given out at
Washington on Monday reviewed in con-
siderable detail the operations of one
American division, apparently the Goth
National Guard Division, from New Eng
land, and lauded it's work on the battle
field in remarkably generous terms.
Speaking of fanking movement made
by this division on July 20 in order to
relieve the French on their left, this re-
port said:
with magnificent audacity they rushed
forward with single bound up to the
level of EtrepilIy the Gonetrl Farm, and
Laval Mardier. 1t was a most sudden at
tack, which disclosed all the American fear
lessness."
After describing the hard conditions
under which this attack was made and
the results achieved by it, the report
goes on;
81 could not have done better under the
same circumstances with the best troops,
declared the French General Degoutte on
hearing of the fine success of the Ameri-
cans.
The Germans found themselves in such
a precarious position at Monthieres that
they had to retreat"
Next narrating the capture of Trugny
Forest on July %, the report continues:
"The Germans fiercely opposed this at
tempt, and counter attacked with great
energy, but they learned to their cost the
meaning of American tenacity. Tmpeded at
first in their manpuvre, the Americans
took the outskirts of the wood on the cath,
went straight into it, and seized a whole
company of German prisoners and con-
tinued their advance with such fury that
toward 3 p. m. they had reached thc out
skirts of the forest Of Fere, ard the same
evening they had gained the Fere-en-
Tardenois- -Jaulgonne Road
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barkation that are at the disposal of
the Americans from the north of Scot
land to the Mediterranean, the irregu-
larity of the coming of the transports
and the strong destroyer guards which
accompany them, making it incxpedient
for the U-boats to Turk off all these har-
bors on the chance of getting shot
at them
Confronted with such difficulties, the
admiral adopts line of talk which
beautifully disposes of all the fine Ger
man predictions about the U-boats pre-
venting the American troops from get
ting to France; he now asserts that the
real objective of the U-boats is not to
sink our transports but merely "to re-
duce enemy cargo capacity"
Of course, it is now perfectly we'll
known to the German authorities that
there are considerably more than 1,0O0,-
600 American troops in France, but,
judging from reports in the German pa
pers, it suits them to ignore and even
try to conceal the fact, although Sec
rotary Bakers announcement of July 2
that the first million had been shipped
by the end of June must certainly have
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confronted American guns. But his tes-
timony is not wholly unsupported. There
are other utterances from German SOL
diers, quotations from letters written
home, but taken from their dead bodies
before they could post them. These
speak of the remarkable effectiveness of
the American rife and machine gun fire,
which made it wellnigh impossible for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

reports published in the Kaiser's press,
has been carried on for weeks and
months past. Assurances that all was
going we'll and that the German arms
were everywhere either triumphant or
holding their own have daily greeted the
eyes of the deluded people of the Father
land. But at length, though, it appears,
with acute reluctance, something Of the
true state of affairs is being published.
The fact that Hindenburg has suffered a
defeat can no longer be hidden, though
even now, so far as possible, the real
extent of Americas responsibility for
this sharp reverse is shrouded in camou-
fage.
George F. Stewart, in a special cable
to The Tribune, states that
"the German press generally has evidently
received orders to regard General Foch's
whole offensive as great attempt to break
through which has failed. His whole
scheme has been, according to the Ham
burger Fremdenblatt,' to create public
opinion, and his strategy is treated as a
small minded attempt to gain land, an OBJ
iect which cannot affect Hindenburg's
greater ideas for final success By crushing
the enemy forces"
On the other hand Mr.. Stewart points
out
the German public has gradually become
more accustomed to the idea that Hinden-
burg has really suffered defeat Head
quarters correspondents have been allowed
to give something like description of
the terrible nature of Foch's onslaught on
the surprised German troops, and it is be-
coming increasingly clear that the Ger
mans suffered enormous losses. The fact
IS now openly admitted in the description
which their headquarters correspondent
has communicated to the 'Preussische lei
tung'"
Regarding the breakdown Of the u
boat campaign, "The New York Sun"
writes
The confessions and admissions now
made by the German authorities indicate
popular feeling of disquiet, incredulty
and doubt in Germany that may prove
troublesome to the government; and the
disclosure Of the deceits that have been
practised on the public should have a pro-
found effect on the progress of the internal
diSagreements now so plain in Germany"
Indeed, this paper continues
the reckless and lavish living of the Prus-
sian authorities is thing to amaze the
merely unveracious They have consist
emily falsifed for home consumption the
actual history Of the war. They have in
mated the prospects and they have dis
'or'ed or denied the facts. They said that
Tue United States was invaded from the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
The Lie Factory
Runs Overtime,
Then C0llapses

air; they said first that the Americans
had not come, then that they were negliei
BILE as lighting force.
"And these lies are but a few of the
most credible. Every day others are re-
ported, wild that one can hardly mag
inc fools great enough to tell them or to
believe them"
1t seemed piece Of refined cruelty
when Hugo Haase, leader of the Minor
ity Socialists, reminded the German gov
eminent in the midst of the "Kuhl-
mann crisis" debate on June 25 of it's
false estimate at the time when the un-
restricted U-boat campaign began of
Americas role in the war. He said
"On February 1, 1917, when the U-boat
warfare began, Secretary of the Interior
Helferich said in the Budget Committee
that America would no longer take active
part in the war; and Secretary of the Navy
Won Capelle said that the effect of Amer
ica's entrance into the war would be equiv
alent to zero"
1t has been apparently hard strug-
gle for those confident makers of Ger
many's submarine policy to give up their
erroneous view. But they are gradually
giving it up-forced thereto by hard
facts. Thus it had been from the start
one of their basic dogmas that the
United States would never be able to get
any considerable army into France ow-
ing to the Gordon of U-boats that the
German navy would throw around the
French coasts; but now Admiral Won
Holtzendorff, chief of the German Ad-
miralty staff, feels it necessary to ex-
plain to the disappointed German peo-
pie why the U-boats have failed to sink
American transports.
According to a dispatch of Monday
from Amsterdam, he has been telling
the "Kolnische Zeitung" why the Amer
leans got through safely; he attributes
it, in fact, "to the many points of de-
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st was natural to
receive with some
reserve the words
of praise given our
soldiers. 1t must
be borne in mind
that
"our intervention in
the war, unconven-
tionally altruistic,
seemed as much a
gift from Heaven as
the Russian betrayal
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and generally dis
paraging and at
tempting to mini
mize Americas
participation in the
counter offensive
which has derang-
ed all of linden
burg's plans, APP
pears to be at least
temporarily bank
rupt. A system
attic effort to hood
wink the German
public, Judging by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

THE great German "lie factory"
which has been SO busy killing
l. Americans with typewriters'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

THE early stages of Amer
ica's participation in the war
writes The New York Globe
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-02-15
Friday, February, Is, 1918

The most adroit state document so
far issued by the president was that
delivered to the two houses OF congress
Monday. 1t ought, and probably will,
have the effect in Austria OF widening
a very small crack made between her
and Germany by Premier Czernin two
weeks ago in his announcement OF the
war aims OF Austria. The president
drove a wedge in that crack Monday.
Once the presidents speech soaks into
the Austrian hide there is likely to be
another announcement from that
country that may furnish the basis for
preliminary peace negotiations.
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DID YOU PAY $500 TO ANYBODY
.f LAST YEAR


Somebody is going to tell on you if
you don't pay your income tax.
Congress has fixed it so that somebody
must tell. whether he wants to or not.
One section OF the war income tax
law, extensively comprehensive in
scope, requires every person. without
exception, and every corporation,
partnership. association, and insurance
company, in whatever capacity acting.
who paid $500 or more to, another per
son, corportion, partnership. association,
or insurance company. as interest. rent,
salaries, wages, premiums. annuities,
m nsation, remun cratic n,
emoluments, or other fixed or deter
minable gains. profits, and income, to
report the name and address Of the
person, corporation, etc., to whom the
payment was made, together with the
amount OF the payment, to the COM
missioner OF internal revenue at Wash
ington, using form prescribed for the
purpose-iorm 1909, now to be had
from all collectors Offices.
The forms must be filled out and re-
turned on or before March l, 1918,
accompanied by form 1896, which is a
letter OF transmittal and affidavit certify
inn the ACCURACY of form 1000.
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ARMY FACTS


There is so much misunderstanding
and lack Of general knowledge among
the public at large concerning army
terms tina, the state council Of defense
in number OF states has asked that
the following matter be given general
publicity. 1t is a brief summary Of the
different factors that 60 to make up
our army:
An infantry corps is $4,000 men.
An infantry division is 10000 men.
An infantry brigade is $500 men.
A battalion is 1000 men.
A company is ESQ men.
A platoon is so men.
A corporaPs squad is II men.
A major general heads the field
army and also each army corps.
A brigadier general heads the in
fantrY brigade.
A colonel heads. each regiment.
A major heads battalion.
A captain heads company.
A lieutenant heads platoon.
A corporal is squad officer.
A sergeant is next below second
lieutenant.
A lieutenant colonel is next below a
colonel. rs.s...
A field artillery brigade is 300 men.
A field battery has 1o5 men.
A firing squad has 30 men.
A supply train is 283 men.
A machine gun battalion has 2o6
men.
An engineers regiment has 1923
men.
An ambulance company has Sc men.
. A field hospital has S. men.
A medicine attachment has IS men.
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STATE WILL NOT RELAX ON
WOMEN'S S-HOUR LAW

+ WOmENS 0-hOUh LAW
Almost every day Labor Com
missioner Younger is appealed to BY
employers Of one industry or another
to permit the women to work for more
than eight hours day, the limit fixed
by law. declaring an emergency Of
some kind exists.
The latest plea is to permit women
to work nine hours instead OF the fixed
by law so they can invest the earnings
from the extra hour in thrift stamps.
but the government has declared there
is no occasion for any letting down Of
the bars around women and child
workers and the state refuses to permit
any relaxation.
Commissioner Younger says at the
present time there is no shortage Of
women workers or OF common laborers.
There are plenty OF men and women
to work but there is a shortage Of skill
ed labor in certain lines.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-02-15

A million and a half German
prisoners are coming back from Russia.
say the Geographic news of this week.
Some OF them have been in Russia
long enough to become innoculated
with Bolsheyism. Anyhow, they were
underfed and underclothed while
Russian prisoners, and will not become
effective as soldiers for some months.
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Business Paragraphs.

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EASTERN WASHINGTON CALLS
FOR FARM LABOR

A steady call for farm laborers is
coming in from various points in
- ..s:... Wilmington It is claimed
that there are plenty Of men in the
towns Of the farming districts, but that
they won't 90 to work on the farm.
1t will not be long now before the
call for workers is stronger than ever,
for 1t will soon be time to start the
spring work. Efforts are being made
by the federal departments to meet
this demand for labor and in this work
the state forces are cooperating.
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WAR SAVING STAMPS

The machinery by which the pur-
chase Of Thrift Stamp or War Savings
Stamp is to be as easy and convenient
as the purchase Of a spool Of thread OF
a pound of nails, in every community
in the United States. is rapidly being
established. Already $4,000 War
Savings Stamp Agencies have bee n
established and by the close OF January
this number will have been increased
by $4,000.
In addition to these agencies there
will be 100000 sales stations"
which do not receive direct authorization
to make the sales from the Secretary of
the Treasury, but obtain their stamps
from authorized agents and sell them
over their counters at their cashiers
windows, and other places.a
Fifty thousand post Offices now have
War Savings Stamps on sale and $4,000
banks and 5000 individual firms and
corporations have been appointed
agents. Nine thousand interstate
corporations having places Of business
:: ------i -.-tAs mill constitute lis,
900 additional agencies.
An intensive campaign is now on for
the establishing OF War Savings societies
which can be organized by 10 or more
persons in any community, school, club
church, factory or Office and can be
affiliated with the National War Savings
Committee at Washington upon applica-
~tion.
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LUTHERAN CHURCH

There will be Lentan services every
Wednesday evening at 7;45 p. m.
beginning Wednesday evening Feb.
goth. Sunday March Sd there will be
services at IL a. m. .of8
Services at 10:45. Sunday school
at 9:45. Preaching in the evening at
7:30. Js REV. HAASE.
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900 additional agencies.
HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS

Secretary OF the Treasury McAdoo
urges the purchasers of Liberty Loan
Bonds OF both the first and second issues
to hold fast to their bonds. They are
the best investment in the world.
The Secretary's statement was called
forth by the fact that Liberty Bond
holders are being approached from
time to time by agents seeking to in
duce them to part with their Liberty
Loan Bonds and take in exchange Sc
curities which in a number Of cases
are OF very questionable value, and
was prompted by the desire to protect
the bondholders against ill-advised dis
position OF their bonds.
The Secretary expresses the hope
that every purchaser Of Liberty Bond
will realize that the only genuine help
that he gives his Government is keep
ing his bond as an investment so long
as it is possible for him to do so. He
states, however, that no just objection
lies to the sale Of a Liberty Bond
where real necessity exists for its sale.
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SPECIAL AUTO NO. COSTS IS

SPECIAL AUTO NO. COSTS S.
Automobile owners who want the
same number on their new licenses as
on their old must pay IS for the
privilege in addition to the regular
license fee. Secretary Of State Howell
announces. following receipt of an
opinion Of Attorney General Tanner on
provision Of the auto code covering
this point. The general opinion in
statehouse circles seems to be that this
provision was slipped into the law by
some legislator as a "jokor." but it's
there and will have to be obeyed.
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ESTRAY

Two black mares with white fore
heads. Have been grazing on my
fields for the past two months.
Owner must prove property, pay
for feed and damage done and other
expenses incurred. Address Email
Frank, Leavenworth, Wash. 3tf