St Johns Daily Star_GS (Newspaper) - July 25, 1918, St Johns, Newfoundland I i ll I per Annum JULY PROBS FOR Intense Re But Are Unable i to Stop I AMERICANS I CAVALRY WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON V THE luly Along the line of Chateau Thierry the ca have driven the Germans out of nearly all of the Chatelet The allied advance was made in a considerable jump in this line Germans continuing their rear guard fighting and depending much en Further northwest the Americans sained the ascendancy over the Ger mans and drove through beyond town of American cavalry used in Chateau The most intense resistance was of along the extended German light flank but the reports are that allies have made gains and that Germans have been unable to halt the movement towards line el supply 1 Bishop arrived by last with four defaulters the Military Service They are from various points in Concep ts Foe Losses Since Middle o f Month Very Allied AMERICAN ARMY IN Julf the was another successful day for the allies the entire active of prisoners captured by the French northwest of Mont Didier numbered more than The vic was gained with very slight Further on the north ern side of the Frenchand troops met several strong feelman which they re with vigorous as a result of which the allied line was again The Americans made gains in the On the eastern side of the salient the British and French advanced an average of one The British increased the number of prisoners taken in three days to 1 1 00 by capturing Approximately wounded and prisoners have been lost by the Germans since The enemy continues to bum stores and munitions within the evi dently being fearful that the future sec Him driven back much fur HUNS Germans Want War On Basis of Victorious Teuton discussed but may be settled at the peace conference where the fate of Belgium will be settled Balkan question is to be settled around conference table freedom of the ling of Gibraltar July has made suggestions for a peace conference to the Spanish govern says the socialist Vor of The suggestions are no an or indemnities in the west peace treaties with Rus sia and Roumania may not be ques principle of self determination of peoples has not been r is H Particularly lu ll to a than H Possess Show Figure This can be essiH ly Obtained with no or comfort by jj ing a pair of our Perfect Fitting 1 the right for use colonial is settled on the basis of the status The considers this is a very reasonable peace ALBANIA SCENE OF ALLIED GAIN Forces to Win Suc cesses From s Many Different j Styles to choose j 1 Prices I I 1 and Prove for Yourself 1 Our VALUE in CORSETS HARD TO ss July 25 the eastern en the west bank of a Serbian assault detach ment penetrated enemy in heavy In Albania our operations termin ated in the the whole mountain region dominating the right side of the Devoli above the con fluence of the On the left we villages of fegu ba and We repulsed several The number of prisoners taken by our troops on July 21st abd 22nd has reached including six On the other our losses been Our operations which have been completely successful in Albania for two were conducted with effectives very inferior those of the Our attacks have suc by reason of perfect ation bravery of bur troops in the course of carried out in snow storms and sometimes an un bearable sun hi a very difficult coun haveby their skill and resolution taken an indisputable ascendancy over their GOES TO MOSCOW Will Take Two Battalions of Troops To Guard Embassy tiie possibility of the enten te forces operating in the j salient surrounding and capturing a portion iof the crown The American forces are striking at the Germans from the Soissons and Rheims sides of the salient and altho their drive has slowed somewhat they are still faster than the Huns can with draw their troops from the trap sprung by General The large map shows the made by the Germans in the offen sive conducted before the allies struck and of which have been TURKS Signal Success Attends British Operations in the Euphrates and Kirkuk Regions Mesopotamia TAKE THIRTY GUNS AND WAR MATERIAL f July the house of commons last night Lord secretary of state for foreign replying to a ques said the operations the Eu in March and the subsequent operations in the neighborhood of Kirkuk in April had resulted in in on the Turks casualties amounting to about ten thousand men are prisoners of guns and much other war ma terial were GIANT LINER Be longing to White Star Is Torpedoed Off Irish HAD JUST LANDED AMERICAN TROOPS fiN IRISH July giant White Star liner Justicia has been torpedoed and The Justicia was formerly the Dutch steamer which was taken over by the British government on the stocks Belfast when she was Hearing vessel of tons Four hundred of the torpedoed liner Justicia They report that the liner was sunk after a She was a crew of the twentyfour hour fight with Ten of the Crew Killed anly leri of the crew were The first torpedo struck the engine and the ship then stopped several other torpedoes were fired but only two of the missiles were effec The story of the fight between the German submarine and licia if it could be would make one of the finest stories in the annals of antisubmarine Was Splendid Transport New July Justicia had a capacity of be tween and Her crew numbered liner a Belfast despatch was sunk off the coast of Ireland on Saturday morning She carried and crew are Allied Steadily Pressing Offensive lii Have Big Portion of Crown Princes Striving Desperately To Extricate His Forces From Sprung By Foch BRITISH STRIKE S BLOW AT FOE LINES SOUT OF July the counterattacks and rearguard actions in great strength still fail to serve the German high command as barriers to the allied the True they have succeeded somewhat n slowing down the fast pace set by the allies at commencement of the but nevertheless on the three sides of the new front important gains have been Driving slowly but surely south of the French and American troops have pushed their fronts fur ther east toward that part of the Thierry railway line that is still in the hands of the en further south both the river leading to Ger manys great storehouse for the sup ply of her troops to the Im portant penetrations into ground have been until the maximum points where the allies are fighting near Coincy is about 10 12 miles from their point of last In the Marne region of ChaJ eau the French and Amer have met with the kind of for here enemy ma chine gunners and infantrymen are trying hard to stay their progress in an endeavor to extricate a large number of German which are in danger of capture and save part of GUNNER Good Work of Was Attacked I By Eight Jury Karl Helf former German imperial vice been appointed Ger manys diplomatic representative at according to a Renter des from A despatch the wireless preis says HelfFerich with him two battalions of German to German at I Warrior With the American army in France July the George former German imperial by a be now commanding a brigade on the Four or five cargoes of salt are to eight submarines to have been concerned in the attack on the according toThe which says began at 3 lasted intermittently until Saturday The ship sank about 1 after nine torpedoes bad been When the liner was first the torpedo boat destroyers which accompanied her raced to attack the dropped many depth while patrol boats stood by he ship and a nig took her into The second torpedoes were fired about 5 Both missed their marks one going the steam er and the other Two hours another torpedo was seen but when it got near a onthe ex hit it and it ex quiet until 8 when another torpedo was The gunners on the Justicia placed their shots near it that the torpedo was deflected and missed its Most of the crew by this time had been transferred to other which had remained near the ship all Justicia was well on her way to port Saturday morning near 8 the gunners again were hard at as the sixth and seventh torpedoes went Two hours later a submarine fired the eighth and ninth One of forward and the other EXECUTE 200 RUSSIANS V TO AVENGE a crew of Eleven members of the Ten Torpedoes Launched July of the was announced By The i Bel fast Evening The liner was the papers l of the crew the by the newspaper as asserting that ten torpedoes were discharged at the of the approaching he were exploded by which gun fire from the The Belfast Telegraph says that iand had just been lost sight of when a terrific explosion shook the The crew muster ed on deck but it was Isoon that the damage was so vital the only remain afloat for a sufficient period to enable her to be towed to j j A tug pulled alongside the liner for this purpose when two more torpe does were fired by a J submarine which hadnot been These missiles missed the passing between the liner and the i f Got Her Further attempts were made by the submarine to torpedo the Justicia during Friday and not until Saturday morn and after the submarine had ex pended numerous that the destruction was The final attack was made at eight oclock on mohring when Order Wholesale Shooting On Account of jury to more than two hundred social revolutionists of had beenshot by the Bolsheviki for par in the of am Von the German charge has been informed by foreign minister says a Among those it is added of the committee which directed plot against the German An additional hundred persons are under StiB Puisne Teutons July pursuit of the retreating enemy south of the river is reported in Gen eral communication for today at of positions north of the Maine is pnd were recaptured on Wednesday in a counterattack by the on the alBes have driven their front which lies about 6 12 miles north east Thierry along the At many the regi on of and further at allies have put the north bank of the Marne further behind them in ad vances and captured a large number of cannon and machine guns and con war In the between the Marne and where the German prince has brought forward lorge of picked to the British and Ital is hard Following up the advances of the French and Italians of the British immediately to the of Rheims apparently have begun a movement which portends good the British have overcome a strong and a violent bombardment and struck enemy line at for a good ly This if pressed to further advantage will menace the railway a scant three miles to the and will also tend materially to lessen J the the mouth of pocket through which the Germans are en to retreat from the Sois two torpedoes hit the jOne struck the causing the enormous numbers or guns and material which it is impossible to get cut except by the high roads over the undulating wooded advantage in the how has been with the amalgamated allied forces who have pushed on passed the village of and ousted the Germans from the greater part ofthe Chatlet In this region the allies now hold the villages of which were captured by the by the war the ne of the allied troops into ti German held territory necessarily ac to the extreme gravity of tl situation of the Germans inside tl huge pocket and with the long ran on both of the u hea ily shelling them far behind the ac ual fighting with airmen bom them assiduously and the infan attacking them on all sides wi rifle and their seen is a hazardous j THE WAR cables give further evidence of the German armys dangerous south of where they are hardest and in the most difficult As stated in the United States official they are now entirely dependent upon one railway to move put of the salient their material and heavy That railway at best can not avail them very As mentioned in these notes a couple of days reliance for a successful retreat Ties in their ability to throw back the forces from die Thierry which they evidently have failed to despite the enormous reinforcements from Soissons to Rive The other road which remains their hands is mentioned i Tuesdays notes traverses th salient from Breny on the t Fismes on and which practically at right angles to the Ge man west and too far t materially them in the portio of their front where they mo hardly that is Hoi tennes and and south of th to Chateau The attack by the British betwee Montaigne de Rheims and the which constitutes a front of abot seven miles to the c is a serions at th Germans left and if the Bril ish are in sufficient force to mak lent oi through the The liner was in tow md as she did not her hurried at the time until oclock in the afternoon there lots of time to transfer the crew to the rescuing i Had Landed Troops New July reported sunk apparently somewhere off the coast was return ing to an American port after large consignment of Ameri can 1 Drover of Greens is in on that sector between Soissons and in that sector wul place them the in a position to threaten the rear An advance of two miles on that jhe German forces which have teen section of the battle line was record holding between and i ed for the yester the retreat It although fifteen fresh German will the of envisions have been brought into the Rheims end of the Rhems to stop the allies advance in Marne now parallels that The advance mentioned the of the German toe place the allies across the Rheims and on L C il Thierry railway al would most along its whole length north of place the German eastern the except a short dis hazardous tance the road swings caster to of ry heights west of The are thatt But to railway to any the chief object of the British wo advantage enemy must retain of the whole of
