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The Washington herald., 1918-09-15
YANKS PRAISED
BY REP. BLAND
Hoosier Senator Tells How
Americans Won Heart
of France.

The American soldier is the hero
and idol of France today. since July
IS, when the Americans saved Paris,
said Representative Oscar e. Bland.
Of Indiana. last night at the Y. w.
C. A. Country Club in a talk to SOL
diers and girl war workers, which
concluded the joint play day aedvi-
ties of the Y. NJ. c. A. and the Y.
w. C A. Representative Bland e1-
planned that the French people did
not think very highly OF the Ameri-
can soldiers before they cleared the
pocket which saved Paris with 70 per
cent Of casualties in the Marines
alone
Now that the French have seen
what the Americans can do and have
done, although. as l heard the French
women say. they didn't have to do
it, the French have recovered from
their former encouragement. They
are elated at the sight OF 10000 Amer
leans a month pouring into France" :"
Praises War Activities.
Representative Bland praised the
work Of the Y. NJ c. A, the Y. W. c.
l.. the knights Of Columbus and the
sSIsa-icr s-my In France. quoting a
ssiE whfgr he ~ with Gen. Pershing,
vhC ssfr tszt lnoss organizations had
r4-~ea 'udizr-nsable to the welfare
q the array
Repz-srnIauve Bland told Of the
great need o. nurses in France. He
saw one nurse who was caring for
I69 men. She sent back word to the
women of the United States to train
as nurses and come over to France.
Games in the afternoon were fol-
lowed by choral singing lead by Capt.
WyIie Stewart. OF the Quartermaster
Corps. formerly music director OF
Camp Logan. under the Commission
on Training Camp Activities Capt.
Stewart sang several selections.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-15
CONGRATULATES DANIELS.
>!des Sends Message on Com
pletion of Radio Station.

2 Secretary Daniels has received the
following message from Sir Eric Ged-
des. first lord of the British admiralty,
in reply to the Secretary's message
sent at the opening of the new high
power radio station at Annapolis:
II congratulate you warmly on the
completion OF the Annapolis wireless
station, which forms another valuable
1ink between the allied countries in
Europe. 1t Is symbolic of our close
sunion and will be invaluable as a re-
enforcement Of present cables in event
- . breakdown"
The Washington herald., 1918-09-15
le purpose of organizing a joint

the purpose Of organizing a joint
State society.
All war workers and others FROM
the far Northwest are invited. On,
Of the objects OF the organization ". 4
be TO meet and make comfortable
soldiers from Alaska who pa
through the city or are transferred q
nearby camps.
Many girls from the Northwest arC
doing war work in this city.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-15
STUFF LEADERS
TO ASK ACTION
Women Come from Every
State in Union to I'm
press Senate.

Suffrage "old home week" is on
with a vengeance now in Washington.
Suffrage leaders from all the States
in the Union are gathering to explain
to the Senate and House that what
ever the view in Washington may be
the people out in the states want suf-
frage settled.
Twenty-six war workers are housed
In the beautiful residence on Rhode
Island avenue in addition TO the regu-
lar staff of suffrage officers. Natur-
ally these war workers cannot be
turned out, and with every incoming
train bringing additional suffrage
forces Suffrage House will soon put
out a Standing room only" sign.
Even the room OF DR. Anna Howard
Shaw has heen invaded by an extra
cot and beds are being made up on
all sleeping porches. The air is
charged with rumors OF suffrage ac-
tivity in the Senate. From the States
comes an insistent demand for imme-
date acton.
Among recent arrivals are many
Southern and Western Democratic
women here for the special interview
with President Wilson. which has
been arranged by the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association for
Monday afternoon. Mrs. Guilford
Dudley. OF Tennessee. vice-president
of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association. Just completing
a successful tour of the far South, is
here especially to report the temper
of that section. Mrs. Charles S. Tif-
fany. OF New York. is here TO present
the difficulties OF the new woman
voter. She is actively interested in
the success of the Democratic party
in the coming election and was re-
Gently invited to be permanent chair
man OF the New York State Demo-
cratic convention.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-15
Letters Declared Seditous.

New York. Sept. l4.-Mary Irves
Iodds. Of COney Island, a writer,
was today held for disorderly con-
duct in the COney Island Police
Court. Her alleged Offense con-
sisted OF writing letters to Presi-
dent Wilson and many persons of
prominence. which upon perusal
were declared fla grantly sedi-
tious.' The letters were not made
public.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-15
Gotham Pays Tribute to Anthem

New York. Sept 14-Draped in the
American colors. Miss Anna Fitziu,
the prima donna. first sang as a solo
and then led a mighty chorus in rem
derinc the Star Spangled Banner at
the outdoor exercises of Anthem Day
at City Hall today. The singing was
accompanied by the military band of
the Pelham Bay naval training sta
tiOn
The Washington herald., 1918-09-15
TWENTY THOUSAND
CAPTURED AS u. S.
FORCES PUSH ON
CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE

the Disc. Somme and St. Quentin
Canal.
The whole German plan is to try
to put up such a stubborn defensive
as to dishearten the allies.
Foch's plan is to show Hinden-
burg that no defense is able to
Withstand the allied pressure and
strategy. thus undermining still
further the German morale.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-15
NORTHWESTERNERS MEET.
Washington and Alaska Residents
Will Organize Here.

Former residents OF Alaska and
Washington State now in this city
will hold a meeting Wednesday even
ing in the Board OF Trade rooms for
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Red Cross Ready
ToCare for u. s.
Wounded Troops
Three Thousand Beds Pro-
vided in Paris District;
More Available Soon

PARIS, June 2-Major Robert P.
Perkins, head Of the American Red
Cross work in Europe, expressed sat
istaction tonight with the measures
taken by the Red Cross to care for the
American wounded and refugees
Hospitals have been established where
they were most needed and supplies
have been sent forward to supplement
the provision made by the army. In
the Paris district three thousand hos
pltai beds have been provided for
American soldiers, and thousand
more soon will be ready.
IN the drive now going on, said
Major Perkins, the members Of the
Hed Cross were often in great danger,
but only one had been wounded. All
now worked in places Of comparative
safety. There had been no serious
loss of supplies. Even the wheelbar-
rows stored in Soissons had been uti-
llzed by refugees to carry their effects.
In Paris the Red Cross, at the re-
quest of the authorities, lad now as
sumed full responsibility for receiv-
ing and feeding thousands of refugees
who are arriving here, and dispatch
ing them to their various destinations.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Germans Pour Neu
Divisions Into Mighty
Effort on the Marine

PARIS, June 2.--The battle is con.
tlnuing with undiminished violence at
the end of the first week Of the re-
sumption Of the offensive by the Ger
2 mans. With the best troops at their
command the German commanders are
employing every strategy and the bat
tie on the left wing is being contested
with bitterness hitherto unknown.
On the wing between Rheims and
Chateau-Thierry the enemy is held.
while between Soissons and the Marne
the French resistance is becoming vic
torious.
The Germans continue to pour new
divisions into the battle. No doubt
now remains that they intended to
make their supreme effort on the
Marne, rather than in the offensive
towards Amiens, which was started in
March. There are forty-five divisions
on the Scissors Rheims battle area.
among them are the best trained troops
IN the German army, attired in special
uniforms and following new offensive
methods. Fifteen of these divisions
were among General Won Hutier's
twenty-three divisions in the March
drive toward Amiens.
The Germans made desperate effort
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Hot Fighting, but No
Material Change in
Aisne Front Status

LONDON, June . British Admiralty,
per Wireless Press ).-The military
respondent of the Wireless Service
writes as follows concerning the opera
tlons on the Western front:
"Although the fighting has been Sc
we're on the Aisne front, particularly
between the Disc and the Marne. there
has been no very pronounced change
in the situation. The main pressure
of the enemy is still directed west
ward, where he is still trying to widen
his flank in the direction of the forest
OF Villers Cotterets.
Yesterday ne made advances here
on a front between Vaurezil, west Of
scissors, and Beuresches, west Of
Chateau Thierry. BY the end Of the
day his front ran from Vaurezis
through Saconin- ct Breuil, Chaudin
Longpont Corey and Faverolles to a
point near Chezy. and then bent east
ward through Licy to Bouresches
Thence the line runs to the Marne,
passing north of Chateau Thierry,
which the French hold. (Chateau
Thierry has since been lost)
Heavy fighting has taken place on
the ground west of Scissors, won back
by the French in their successful coun-
ter attacks. In spite Of the enemy's
efforts the Allied gains have been
maintained"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Photos Show Wrecked
Warships at Zeebrugee

LONDON, June 2.-The Admiralty
announced tonight that photographs
taken by British airmen at Zeezbruqce
show submarine or other vessel living
on its bilge close to the mole. THIS
vessel, the Admiralty statement saws.
probably was sunk by torpedo fred
from the destroyer North Star on
April 90.
Other photographs show DESTROYER
with decks nearly awash at low water
about three hundred yards from the
mole. This probably is destroyer
sunk by bombs from an airplane en-
May 20.
During the British aerial attacks on
Zeebrugge on May 80 the De Jaegher
Works. employed in repairing guns
and sorting ammunition, were partly
destroyed, according to dispatch from
Amsterdam.
Many soldiers and few civilians
have been killed in the frequent Allied
air raids, which have greatly DELAYED
the work of repairing the Zecbrugge
sluices, which are still out of commits
sion
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Military Comment
By William l.. Mcpherson

emily massed on that front. Some
of the hardest fighting Of the last
few days has taken place between
Noyon and Scissors. Here, after
the first necessary retirements to
the Crecy-Chavigny line, and then
to the Epagny-Blerancourtl line, the
French have lost little ground. On
Friday and early Saturday they
were pushed back few miles north
west Of Soissons as far as Fontenoy.
But yesterday afternoons COM
munique from Paris reported the re-
pulse Of many violent German at
tacks Saturday evening in that re-
gion - north Of Moulin -sous-Tou-
vent, as we'll as further up. above
the Bos de Carlepont, on the south
hank of the Disc. If the Allies hold
fast here they can still afford to
yield ground at the south.
Saturdays bulletins recorded
sweeping German advance in the
Ourcq River region, between Sois-
sons and Chateau Thierry. The
Germans drove west for maximum
gain Of five miles. They captured
Neuilly-St. Front. Their line ran on
Saturday south from Villers-Helon
through Noroy- -Ourcq, Priez and
Etrepilly to Montluers.
Subsequently they pushed from
q mile and a half to two miles fur
ther west, reaching Longpont and
Corey, in the district north Of the
Ourcq, and Faverolles and Troesnes,
lower down. The first two villages
are, respectively, one and a half
miles west Of Villers-Helon and two
miles southwest of it. The last two
villages are about two miles north
west of Noroy- sur -Ourcq. Troesnes
is also on the Ourcq. But strong
counter attacks yesterday by the
French recovered all these villages.
They also retook Hill 1853 and other
ground west of Neuilly-St. Front.
The increasing vigor of the French
counter action along this part of the
battle line is highly encouraging
sign.
On the Marnc there has been little
except outpost fighting. The Ger
mans apparently are in no hurry to
cross the river.
On the Rheims side of the salient
the French afternoon communique
confirmed the earlier statement
from Berlin that German forces had
penetrated east of the Dormans-
Rheims high road at Ville-en-Tarde-
nois, and also, further south, at
Olizy-Volaine. The French regained
some ground at Ville-en- -Tardenois.
Here the German effort appears to
be a secondary one. The fate of the
Rheims sector hinges on the result
of the fighting in the direction of
Paris.
On the whole, the battle south of
the Aisne seems to be taking a more
clearly defined form, in which the
strategy of the two high commands
is coming to the surface. Foch
could not begin to show his hand
until Ludendorff's had been partially
exposed.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Foes Population Drops;
Entente Holds Its Own
Germany, in Another Year of War Will Have Lost 0 Per
Cent of Her Numbers-Peope OF Britain In
crease Despite Battle Losses

LONDON, June 2.-The drain of
man power, the fall in the number of
births and the loss Of the population
through sickness and undcrfcedng are
'eit more severely by the Central
Powers than by the people Of the
Entente. Whereas the annual gain of
population in Germany, in Austria and
in Hungary has given place to a
serious loss, the peoples of the En-
tente have suffered very small
dimlnutlon in comparison.
Great Britain's total population has
so far remained at about the same
figure, gains balancing losses The
rate of increase in the United States
has not been affected at all. AS the
war goes on this growing disparity IN
the losses of population between the
Central Powers and the peoples fight
ing them is likely to increase
ii the war goes on into next year
the population Of the German empire,
on which reliance was placed for the
enlargement Of Germany's prosperity
and industry and for repairing the in
jury to trade and commerce after the
war, will have lost 10 per cent Of it's
numbers and still greater proportion
OF its industrial strength. The Ger
man empire, which in June, 1919,
should have had 100000 people, will
have no more than 64,5OO.00O
Flower of Nation Killed
Of those that have been killed the
greater number have been men in the
prime of life and energy, whom Ger
many could least spare. By deaths in
the battle zone the German empire has
lost at least three million men. The
birth rate has sunk to such figure
that by next year the number of births
will have fallen short of what they
would have been had there been no
war, by three and a third million.
In the same period the annual num-
ber Of deaths among the German
civilian population has, owing to the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Naval Airman Lost at Sea
Rescued by Cuban Steame,

AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 2.-Lost
IN heavy sea fog and forced to de-
scend when his oil supply ran short,
Lieutenant Myers, an aviator from a
naval reserve station near here, was
picked up with his craft thirty miles
outside this harbor by steamship
which arrived tonight from a Cuban
port.
Myers said he had been afloat with
his hydro-airplane less than a hour
when the vessel hove in sight.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

low as possible as we crawlcd along
to a wooded vantage point.
Allied Fliers Active
Here we found the French artil-
lery observers watching the fire
from the batteries in the immediate
rear when the enemy appeared to be
punching for an attempt to cross the
river. The guns were constantly
forced to change their directions and
range in order to cope with the stu
alton.
Salvos internationally from the
guns required twenty-five seconds
before the shells burst focklike on
the wrinkled hills on the opposite
bank. The enemy's field gray uni
form was most difficult to see against
the neutral colors over there.
The French airplanes which were
doing observing work at low alti
tudes, despite the constant machine
gun IRE from the ground, were con-
stantly wirelessing to the artillery,
which responded promptly, now here
and now there. The airplane occa-
sionally swooped low for a better
look at them and then mounted into
the sky.
A moment later the batteries be-
hind US sent roaring shells scream
ing overhead, and then great clouds
of dust and smoke would rise where
the airplanes swooped. The enemv
artillery which did not exist on the
north bank Of the Marine yesterday.
to-day was shelling the F'rench-held
village to the right of our observa-
tion point on the left bank.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

sued tonight at the War Department
A second section of yesterdays com
munique, delayed in TRANSMISSION.
gives the official story of how Lieuten.
ant Douglas Campbell brought down a
lows:
j., "A later report concerning bringing
down hostile machine by Lieutenant
Douglas Campbell, May 81, reported in
Yesterdays cable. is as follows:
Lieutenant Campbell flew over the
enemys lines. and while there saw a
German two scatter about to take off
from an airdrome. He waited until the
German machine got over our lines.
then closed in, but remained at fairly
safe distance and allowed the German
70 nre at him until he observed that
the German had no more ammunition
He then closed in and brought the ma
chine down. The machine fell inside
our lines. but very near the front line.s
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
The Great War-14OOth Day
TIME effect of Foch's waiting

strategy is beginning to be-
come apparent. The Allied
general-in-chief was not tempted
into opposing serious resistance to
the German drive south to the Vesle
and thence to the Marne.
There was no imminent danger in
the German push straight ahead. 1t
made very rapid progress because it
had in front Of it only a thin cur
tain Of French troops. Foch clearly
could not afford to mass reserves
north Of the Marnc to meet the point
of the German wedge and bend it
back, if by SO doing he would be
compelled to weaken his line on the
west side of the newly created Ger
man salient, from Noyon to scissors
and from scissors down to Chateau
Thierry.
1t became evident couple of
days ago that the true direction of
the German offensive was not south,
but southwest. Since Wednesday
the Germans have been fighting only
a holding battle on the east, or
Rheims, side of the salient. Had it
been as important to them to take
Rheims as it was to take Scissors,
they would have stormed the de-
fences of the ancient cathedral city
four or five days ago. 1t is prob
able that German designs on the
east side of the Aisne-M Marne salient
do not involve anything further at
present than establishing firm
position from Rheims to the Marne,
on line running to the east Of
Ville-en- and to the west
Of the Forest Of the Mountain Of
Rheims. From that position they
could secure the flank of their
forces facing south along the course
of the Marne from Verneuil on the
east to Chateau Thierry on the west,
and at the same time insure a free
field for the operations of their
main forces, now turning west and
southwest toward Paris.
Foch guessed right when he
massed his forces so as to meet an
attack in force, shifted from the
south to the west. No sooner had
SCISSORS fallen than Won Hutier's
armies became active on the Ailette
River sector from Anizy west to
Noyon. This attack was linked up
directly with the push west on the
new line below scissors. Both these
operations were developments of the
same idea, which was to clear a
route toward Paris, either by the
way of the Disc River or by the way
of the Ourcq and the Marne. If the
Disc route could be pursued for any
distance, the Noyon- Montdidier
salient would be automatically elm
mated and the Allied line would be
forced back so as to run nearly due
south from Amiens to the eastern
suburbs Of Paris, as it did in the
days just before the first Battle of
the Marine.
Foch has now to make his main
defence between Noyon and Chateau
Thierry. His reserves are appar-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

stress and anxiety of the war, and
owing to sickness and disease. which
have been aggravated by hardships
and food troubles. increased by one
million over the normal. But this is
perhaps TO be regarded merely as
wedding and no great biological loss.
Food Supply Mismanagcd
Much of the mortality among chill
dren and among the civilian popula-
ton as a whole has been caused by
the way in which the food supply of
Germany has been mismanaged in the
interests of the landholders and Of the
farming class and TO the dctrimcnt of
the poor. The landh olders and farmers
have prospered, while the poor in the
towns have gone short Of bread and
potatoes.
On the other hand, because of the
liberal separation allowances and the
high wages, the vital conditions Of the
working classes in Great Britain have
been better since the war than when
the war began.
BY next year the German empire
will be 7,025.0O0 lower in populate n
than it would have been had the war
not taken place. The vitality of the
peoples Of Austria and of Hungary has
suffered even more. This, perhaps, was
to be expected.
Austria Loses Heavily
The peoples of Austria will be II
per cent poorer in numbers next year
than if the war had never taken place.
They will be s per cent lower in num-
bers than they were in 1914. Hungary
will be still worse off. 1t will have a
population per cent lower than be-
fore the war and Is per cent lower
than if there had been no war AS
the war continues so will these losses
increase.
Meanwhile, despite the losses which
England has suffered in the war zone,
the British population has been grow
ing. BY the middle of 1919 this popu-
lation will be only 8 per cent lower
than it would have been without war.
Great Britain in 1919 will have a
larger population than in 1914.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

pelle, on the railroad southeast of
Rheims.
The weight Of numbers, again this
time, charging behind tanks. told
rnomentarily, until daring French
counter attack with cold steel retook
the fort, four tanks and more than
two hundred prisoners.
simultaneously the Germans as
saulted to the north and northwest
Of Rheims, throwing, however, more
weight to the southeast in an effor.
to encircle the city. All his attempts
failed.
While the main attack on the lert
wing was progressing heavy fight
ing was taking place southwestward
toward the Marne, where the enemy
met solid opposition again with the
heaviest losses.
Open Fighting in Centre
While the greatest activity has
been on the fanks, the extreme CEN
tre, where the enemy line is damned
against the snakelike course of the
Marine, is not inactive. Here onlv
the hundred-yard wide river is the
No mans Land of open warfare.
A French officer and myself in an
automobile with a poilu chauffeur
went speeding down the road through
the woods toward the river this
afternoon and suddenly emerged in
full vie wof the enemy holding the
hills across the stream. 1t was one
OF the many little accidents in this
new puzzling open warfare. We
had gone too far and knew it we'll
enough. The quick-witted chauffeur
did not attempt to waste time turn
ing around, but quickly reversed the
gears and backed at top speed into
the sheltered wooded road again
A short distance ahead would have
put us on the dynamited bridge
where the French machine guns are
doggedly holding the bridgehead. We
then detoured afoot through the
wood and then onto the open hilltop.
where it was necessary to crouch as
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

to capture Rheims by an encircling
movement. They temporarily occupied
Fort Pompclle, but were Immediately
dislodged by the valiant troops led by
General Gourand.
A stabilization of the front seems to
sum up Saturdays fghting
While the Germans, have engaged
forty-fve divisions they still have an
equal nNmber ready to strike.