Racine Journal-News (Newspaper) - July 24, 1918, Racine, Wisconsin THE JOU 174. DAT JULT 24, 1918. PRICE THREE HURRICANES OF SKELLS SENT INTO FOE'S RANKS FROM GUNS French War Office Reports the Repulse of a German in Region of Resistance of Enemy CONDITIONS NOW INDICATE GREAT GERMAN RETREAT GERMAN RESISTANCE PROVES NO BARRIER TO Foch's Genins Has Turned the Tables on the Kaiser's Yankees French Continue Their mering Process. FOK NOW HAS ABOUT MEN IN ZONK NORTH OF the Associated In spite of the desperate efforts of the Germans to bring up reserves and stabilize the lines on each side of the salient Soissons to the appear to bo pressing forward In vital sectors on the front south of Soissons and near The French war office reports heavy around the and the repulse of a German counter- attack in the region of five miles southwest of Nothing Is said as to progress the in- creased German resistance north of the nor Is there mention of the situation north of on Tuesday the French took dominating long reaches of tho Avre From unofficial sources it is re- ported the rainy weather of the last few days has slowed up tho fighting between Soissons and and probably also has retarded the German retirement from the bag in crown prince's forces were caught by General thrust western side of the Allied airmen report conditions back of the German lines as tive of a German retreat to the Yeslo The line of the has been virtually rendered untenable by tho advance the neighborhood of and north of the of nnd Americans are known to have reached bank of the Crise Should crossing In force and In gaining the plateau to the of that German occupation of Soissons would probably be short Such an ad- vance also would make the line of the Vesle of slight advantage to the Germans probably compel their eventual retirement to the Aisne For this reason tho allied forts to forge eastward of may be expected to be redoubled and the German resistance at this point probably will be ot the sternest Allied pressure on on Page 5.) July day's op- bring further proof of the with which the of Gen. has turned the tables on the Instead of slowing down to a condition of what lias been called as the eral public from experience tho allies continue to push forward In the of determined and skilful resistance by the The according to now has 35 divisions in the battle men of which are in the region north of the In the opinion of military observers the violent resistance Is. due to political for it is to the Immediate of Gen. Ludendorff from a military point to straighten out hie linea without Gen. Foch holds the on all tho battle it is be- it will take the Germans at British Liner Blasted by OFF IRISH JUSTICIA IS SOW SON'S CRY OF MOTHER STARTLES RED CROSS NURSE IN ARMY CAMP New York Paris Volunteers Services to Assist Jn Caring for- Wounded from Front and Finds Her Boy Among TO TURN THE TO KAISER'S IT WAS HER WAS IN THE BIG STRUGGLE New woman attached to tho American Red Cross happened to be in Paris today volunteered to help In taking care of the ded coming in from tho She was working busily when startled by a loud cry of she her own a young lieutenant in the He had been in shrapnel in on She obtained sion to accompany her son to a After seeing that was attended she weni back the station to as she the boys who had no hope of finding a mother to welcome The mother is a prominent social worker in New York and lias been doing Red Cross relief work among th e refugees in 'The first news that she had had that Tier son was engaged in was she heard his STRIKE OF SEAMEN IS NOT CONFIRMED July another full dress American continue tu three io Set-up inquiry by 'a local newspaper has failed here the statement given out by A. T. treasurer of the International that Lakes vessel workers will strike next Strike talk seems in the No preparations are reported being made here workers to Vessel owners and agents declare that their men are working conditions and new men being signed that the men and that strike would -a small employed from this port. July galas were Tuesday by the particularly by the French troops that are1 bearing 70 per cent oE the effort in which thoy vie in bravery with the British and The Havas correspondent at tils front says tho French are steadily fighting toward nn advance of kilometers li the allies took fortified farms and Barbillon The ho surpasses in violence that of the and May offensives and the Germans are Idly being worn The wild talk of the German official he proves more than anything else confusion in Germany resulting from tho allied The Germans may delay their retreat by paying a costly but the necessity of re- construction of reserves will soon oblige them to straighten their front between Soissons and It Was One of the Largest Ships on For- merly Taken Over by England and Used 400 MEMBERS OF CREW LANDED IN AN IRISH PORT AN IRISH PORT. July Four hundred of the crew of the torpedoed liner Justicia have been landed They report that the liner was sunk after a twenty-four hour fight with sub- July White liner says a Belfast dispatch was sunk off the north Irish coast on Saturday Ing The news sinking of the Justicia was announced by the fast Evening The liner was the newspaper One of the crew of Justicia is quoted by tne newspaper aa ing that ten torpedoes were dis- charged at the Four of tho approaching he SWEEP COAST WATERS IN HUNT MEMBERS OF CREW July M. of patrol submarine chasers and private craft were Ing up and down the coast in this vicinity today searching eight of the crew of the Gloucester schooner Robert and which was sunk by a German submarine Monday off Cape Other members of the in- Capt. Robert ar- rived here and at Portland last night after at sea for 36 hours with scant water The sea calm and the missing men were not in except from July of the First naval district made every effort today to locate the enemy submarines operating oft the New England Following word of the sinking of the Robert and Richard on submarine chasers and other craft were ordered out to ment the regular coast patrol and protect As the U-boat was headed south it would not surprise naval men to hoar that it had bobbed up somewhere along the Massachusetts coast or farther Naval and marine men were inclined to the opinion that only one submersible has been in. New England waters but descriptions on by the crews of the sunken craft would Indicate that there were were exploded gun from had a troop carrying capacity of between and Her crew numbered about 500. Eleven members of the crew are WILSON COMPLETES RUSSIAN POLICIES D. July President Wilson has completed his pronouncement as to the plans of. the United States for participation In expedition to give military aid to sia and It will be made public as soon as Japan's reply to the proposals has been GERMANY MAKES BID FOR PEACE THROUGH MADRID GOVERNMENT Submits Six Propositions on Conference Is Says Tt Docs Not Want Annexations Nor in the of Great Britain and of recorded themselves definitely that conference will be entered into until there has been an acceptance by the Central powers of the exact terms upon which tho conference Is to be conducted and of the broad principles to govern ths Officials here point out that many is quite well aware of these PEACE TALK TABLE i conditions and consequently they view this reported j at peace negotiations as another Germany j peal to the pacifist elements in the en- WOULD PUT BELGIUM'S FATE UP TO PARLEYERS July 24. has made suggestions for a conference to 'the Spanish The was formerly the Dutch which was over by the British government on stocks at Belfast she was She was a vessel of The in the sions of the now the service of the American government and used for a carrier of American troops to She was designed as a modern passenger liner for the trade between New and NEW July reported apparently where of the coast of was to .an American port after a large of erican it was learned GERMANS DELIVER COUNTER BLOW ON LINES July Germans last night delivered a on the allied lines in the vicinity of five miles southwest of The war office announced day that the attack had been re- There was great activity by the ar- tillery during the along the the Aisne and tho and northeast The text of the statement night marked by great artillery activity between Marne and the Aisne and in the Courton and Roi In the At o'clock lost night the Germans AGENT MAKES FALSE CLAIM TO BOLSTER UP HIS WANING CAUSE Advance of the Americans Around the Salient Has Been j Steady for Last Two Says Gen. j Chief of GERMANS FIGHT TO HOLD RAILWAY LINE AS THEY FROM THE ALLIES D. July 24.- The advance of the allied and erican forces around the salient has practically steady for the last two Gen. chief of said despite the fact that fifteen divisions of fresh German troops have been thrown in- to the fighting at Soissons and on line south of The Germans are fighting ately to retain the single railway lino in their hands over which heavy material can De removed as they Gen. March If that running from mes to is ed by the allied Gen. March German forces remaining in the salient be On the Rheims side of the official reports show the enemy has been thrown back an average distance of a mile a half on a ten mile despite heavily ed country and ground to aid his The lost by the Germans during last the about equals that ed by them on the Flanders front in The chief of staff announced that he had ordered six new infantry divisions organized in this country stationed respectively at Camps and Wash. regular infantry regiments will form the nucleus of each new Home guards have ed regulars at interior guard posts for this and the are now moving to the camps de- General March Aside from the two regiments of the divisions will be com- posed of national army The chief of staff said American divisions he mentioned lost as In the still constantly He added additional American units already known to be on the line in this NO LIVES LOST ON SUNKEN SCHOONER AK those on the Gloucester ing schoner Robert by a German submarine off the Maine coast had been accounted for There 23 persons on the Three men were landed at eleven at port last Four more brought in here and four men and a boy were picked up at sea and to July A report reached here today that five more members of the crew of the schooner and victim of a German been picked up at sea by a tug The who arrived here were picked up by 0 naval patrol The four men and the boy taken into Boston were rescued at by a tug and transferred to a BOCHE PUSHED BACK ALLIES AKE STILL HAMMERING THE FLANKS OV THE HUNS BRING UF FRESH RE- SERVE JITNEY DRIVER'S SURPRISE POLICE OPERATORS SERVE AL ORDER ON KENOSHA j EVIDENCE AGAINST JITNEY IS j sov I tente and also as intended to launched a the uneasy Socialistic elements within I in the rag says the Socialist of The suggestions Germany wants no tions or Indemnities in the The peace treaties with Russia and may not be The of termination of peoples not been but may bo settled at the peace where tho fate of Belgium also is to be The Balkan question is to be settled around tha conference The freedom of the the dismantling of Gibraltar and the Suez canal and the right for many to use coaling The colonial question is to be settled on the basis of the status The considers this a very reasonable peace west of of Central powers who are believed I French troops broke assaults and poor Tne term applied in LIFL I OOL to German colonial Raymond Smith saved Robert has been rather loosely Toilet from almost certain drowning I Hfd 'the In connection afternoon at the tne solution of various peace who resides 13IC ln it has been em- ployed as an abbreviation of term quo ante Germany's position tile indicated by her leading has been rone of insistence the return of her and there 3ias ton is as one of the best swimmers in Tho accident when fell over tho 70-foot embankment on the west side It is that tho lad dressed and the must havs I been in the recent stunned him us he hit tho ances of the German leaders tending Icy went under twice before Smith I to show that this attitude had been was able to rescue j It was even indicated that tne held by Germany in CAT shape of Belgium was Intended to be used to secure the back of her former colonial D. July Xot D. July In to be In a dangerous Acting Secretary of State Polk said the new terms seemed more favorable Germany any that had been made Trick Won't Germany's renunciation any western territory in ation of the retention of the spoils she has wrung from Russia and Rumania the it Is also pointed is di- at variance President son's seconded Great of his firm intention to stand behind as a evidence these new peace suggestions are officials call attention to President Wilson's declaration that the wrong done to through the seizure of by In tho enforced occupation must be officials hold that these great issues can not be to round table Socialistic It is also noted that is not representative of government in any it is Socialistic mouthpiece that it ba the last the great papers to be to out 'the purposes of the In ordinary AMERICAN RED CROSS WILL FIGHT EPIDEMIC held their positions There are no events of importance to report from the GERMAN LOSSES IN LAST NINE DAYS MAY WITH ARMY IN July 23 Approximately and prisoners have been lost by the Germans since July Kenosha jitney drivers sprung a surprise on the Kenosha city yesterday afternoon when an tional secured in Judge court in was served upon Shortly after the service of the order the jitneys began .to pear on the taking whatever route they chose ns they were safe from interference by the The stationed officers at street securing accumulative evidence which will be used against jitney men as soon as the in- junctional order has been disposed of by Judge Turner on Kenosha city officials say the ney men failed to keep with following the ed a lew days ago in which it was promised that the jitneys would be kept off the streets until such time as the question of the of the com- mission to regulate such had been by the circuit It is expected that Turner will go to Kenosha on Saturday to dispose of the in the court in that city in place of Judge Belden who is at Camp THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE July a. tho British and Americans arc still hammering the Hanks of ihe crown prince's The Germans are known to have brought up fresh port forces at some but the allies report the situation as More favorable weather conditions brought out droves of aircraft this The clay was an excellent one for observation and this Is ex- to change the character of the lighting especially with regard the The change for the better In the weather conditions took place during the night when the clouds ed and the wind died Scarcely a dust cloud could bo seen this ing on any of the battlefield with the exception of the spurts from the thousands of craters made by the guns on both Dr. George the former Gorman is by a prisoner to be now commanding a German army brigade on the western WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE July armies of Petain and Pershing have forced their way through rain-soaked woods and fields further into the German The strategy of General Foch apparently called for the delivery of smashing blows today and at numerous points crack divisions of the German army were forced to give ground before the French and The day closed with the Germans having been pushed well back at many points by tha Franco-American attacks which lowed a night of heavy artillery POLICE ABE READY FOR PICKPOCKETS Asserts Allied Losses in Bigj Drive Run High Into Later Picture Was Overdrawn by REFERS TO YANKEES AS CANNON FODDER FOR GERMAN FORCES July graphing from the battle front under date of Tuesday the correspondent the Wolff the German news their attack the Aisne the Marne the for the first employed cannon fodder in comparatively large numbers as an addition to their galese masses of blacks and were hurled against the German They paid for it in some dreds of thousands of killed negroes nnd In soime places advanced to attack sixteen waves One wave after the other broke down in tho artillery and machine gun day they renewed their sault seven miles with gradually sening the third day the American in- fantry began to halt at the first throwing themselves down as soon as the German artillery When the firing continued they re- rapidly so that times their attack became a hurried many occasions the German in- fantry stood up in the trenches and while standing there received the Americans with salvos of line the attack on July 21. can battalions of the Second advancing through the were caught in the lire oC German machine guns which covered tho ravine the sugar works at casualties on July 19 and 20. especially were ally Prisoners say some ments were Admits Story July the Wolff bureau ed a correction to the above report relative to the losses in the Instead of hundreds of sands of killed negroes and 'the bureau says that the cor- respondent reports some ot thousands DIES EXPOSURE July Ro- the former heir apparent to the Russian died from ure his the former was says a Moscow .to the Berlin Lokal DRAFT WILL GALL IN AUGUST additional men will be colled from the state of during This practically exhaust all Class 1 men in the including those who June 5. the information which we liave ihc August calls on July 10 more than 200 Social ists of the been shot by the Bolsheviki participation in the of Ambassador von boch and the counter the German charge at has boon informed by Foreign Minister says a dispatch from Among those it is was vice president of the committee which directed the plot against the Gorman additional 100 persons aro ar- The attention of the local police has been called to the fact that be- sides taking care of the throng at tho Northwestern freight station on day when the boys they will have to protect the crowd against possible attacks from It has been learned that the light gered gentry Chicago operated during the time the boys Kenosha entrained for a southern A. Pearl street saloonkeeper in that city see the boys entrain and was In the midst of the vast When the Star Spangled Banner was his attention riveted on the rendition and paying the proper respect on the occasion and failed a slight tugging at his pocket wherein in After he had worked his way to the the he thought of his roll and noted that it was While there may be no occasion for fear that the crooks will operate in Racine's crowd the local police use the utmost tions to see that the people are v2 4. The American Cross given Despite tho efforts conserve capital tor necessary war en- i the peace suggestions which the Spanish influenza in dollars of declares the securities arc on the market for government is to oil minins the entente and America through tho and it reported Spanish officials here de- at a- conference between tho I the German embodied in capital issues various some shape In almost every one of the and commercial peace proposals have emanated from or to leave to a I round-table conference the actual to assist in fighting epidemic of SIGNS CUBAN ESPIONAGE BELL The espionage signed Menocal A. Fitzpatrick i will take all of Class 1 men and probably most of I those who recently Fitzpatrick today that he had that no men under the draft are to into navy or placed in emergency fleet building work un- til further July and and In: west portion cooler Thursday Yesterday's Maximum Minimum assortment money SAmmy at of peace Sixth I Ranee -j Precipitation cream Social of postponed Star Phone 240 and Lloyd SS 63 19 RUSSIAN SAYS MOSCOW July eral mobilization the Russian army on 7. according advices THREATENED DESTROY LARGE HANGAR July afternoon in at the base to the Help was from SHIPMENT OF DOGS FROM HERE STOPPED our 3 special sale Friday and 26 dept. Read our ad -on page July of the death of three people In two children and a also hundreds sheep and it has been sary for the Wisconsin department of agriculture to place a ban on the ment of dogs out of Columbia and Ozaukee State Eliason said today that dogs could I Into this community but could not be shipped TWO i WITH THE ARMY IN death was announced on of K. who was killed in an aerial tle on 16 Hirth as. ob server a pilot was wounded while Read Model's ad on pace 2. D. July j The bureau dispatch I ing to picture tremendous sacrifices I among the American troops in the great offensive and containing I fully phrased reference to pushed forward with black is characterized by of- j here as same sort of an j attempt to create a depression In the i United Slates as German official and I channels have i ly turned upon the French and Brit- Any reference to the American troops as cannon fodder is ly It is well known that they have been brigaded with Brit- ish and French troops as well as op- by divisions Any that any cular class of troops has been picked for sacrifice is said by almost unworthy of Everyone here concedes that tha i forces have probably i heavy How heavy I has begun to appear In tha J official Losses Than When the American casualty list to come In officials are con- i it be inconsistent i the results with the sacrifices or I the It appears likely that the Franco- American losses rush the battle were less heavy than was to have been was a surprise and German positions that could not have been taken except at fell be- fore the enemy knew that the battle was Skilful employment of French tanks also undoubtedly re- If the of ot dead pictured in the dis- patches meant to refer to its pears for there not more Americans engaged ail in all That the erican force is still much is shown by the that still ing ahead and taking towna ers and guns from the enemy German Losses ore now suffering under the to their own for they are Their dead and wounded fall allied allied casualties are all the allied 'The German statement js regarded wholly as circulated to stimulate spirits of the German troops and LIBERTY LOAN MAY BEGIN SEPT. 28 D Tuly 24 The treasury department decided to nold the Fourth loan campaign m the three period Sept. 28 and Oct. 18 Tomorrow night cue Mission w will speak Miss Scatter
