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AUSTIN, TEXAS WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 24,1918.
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MAKE FRESH GAIN
WIRE SYSTEMS MEN TO FRANCE
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TELEGRAPH DICTATOR
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keeping the enemy's mind occupied
and preventing him from ending
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pering the movement of their enormous supplies.
ADDITIONALGAINS
PLENTY OF FOOD
:e
MADE BY ALLIES
GEM. H.
E. GOURAD.
IN MME REGION
(Continued on Paze Two )
ked.
FISHING SMACK
a pris-
reassuring
review of the food sttua-
OFFMAINECOAST
pretty
"ghting
nr
captured
definitely He.d Up.
With
Le Plessier-Hulen
in
Ry Associated Press te The Austin American.
WITH THE
some-
July 23.—The American and French
get It
(Continued on P’age Two.)
Cape Porpoise at 10.30 o’clock
yes-
min-
ubma-
(Continued on Page Two.)
The submarine.
screaming over their bow
I had
the
Plolsy. southwest of Soissons
nest
ch!
Then the raider
sent a boat abroad
fective coats.
the schooner.
(Continued on Pag© Two )
"These defective coats, it was said.
.LED
(Continued on Page Three.)
accounted for, said
an announcement
navy
to Mr Thompson.
(Continued on Page Two.)
WASHINGTON, July 23
tion points
numbers
pave-
Secretary Danieis announced today.
tther
perhaps, to wrest
Foch.
vee-
Every Day
n
RAINCOAT FRAUDS YANKEES-DISABLE
FURTHER DARED BY AND CAPTURE FODR
FEDERAL AGENTS HUN BATTLE TANKS
FOR ALL, HOOVER
ASSURES ENGLAND
Present Force Before This
Summer’s Campaign is
Brought to a Close.
War Department Officials Ex-
pect Battle* on Even Larger
Scale Before Kaiser's Power
Can Be Broken.
Maj. Roosevelt
Wounded While
Leading Charge
GOOD MORNING
AND GOOD LUCK
ONLY EIGHT MEN
OF SAN DIEGO'S CREW
NOT ACCOUNTED FOR
Lensed Wie Bervica Up Te
Clsing at Eurgean Cables
LATEST AUS
CITY EDIT!
Ptiiehez
. Tama
So Far as Allied Nations Are
Concerned Crisis Has Been
Definitely Passed.
he
of
BRILLIANT FRENCH
GENERAL WHO SMASHED
GERMANS IN CHAMPAGNE
for ua."
fight-
istration of the wire communications
and will be aasisted by a committee
of three composed of John L Koons,
rejection
had not
control
July 31
137 HUN AIRPLANES
DESTROYED TUESDAY
BY ALLIED FLYERS
very well executed a
minor operation. and
j
E
erlean
uten-
istein,
quad-
Lokal
dn--
nd—-
lion
"We can say emphatically that all
anxiety as to the great essentials of
Advance. Only to Meet
With Disaster.
I some-
ika that
twen-
with
hundred
a shell
ADVANCE SLOWS UP
ON MARNE BATTLE FIELDS
con-
on
sub-committee
production.
According
prayer
Ha Amer-
the
sys-
-The na-
603,792
This announcement is made in the
official communication issued by the
war office tonight.
Pirates Blow Up Victim
Bomb—Crew Escapes
Small Boats.
e road,
lera
By Arsociated Press to The Aastin American
KENNEBUNKPORT, Me . July 23.
ENEMY BEING HARD
PRESSED ON BOTH
SIDES OF RHEIMS
Bag of Prisoners Increased
Tuesday by More Than
Eighteen Hundred.
NO RADICAL CHANGES
NOW IN CONTEMPLATION
seaa."
a bit
keep-
fallow
CHINA FAVORS ALLIED
INTERVENTION IN SIBERIA
that.
nd his
d.
whp-
In a
ARMY FIVE MILLION
STRONG TO BE CREATED
GERMAN DEFENSE STIFFENS;
COUNTER ATTACKS MADE
AUSTIN AMERICAN
ELECTION RETURNS
poke to
Ap, per
erseant
i when
saluted
»n while
i ready
$
i
Shadow of Def eat
Spreads Over Germany;
Newspapers Voice Alarm
was a
raincoat
AMERICA ALWAYS”
Will be shown by stereopti-
con on large screen in front
of the Austin American office
Saturday, evening — complete
returns from every county in
Texas.
Quiet Sector Greatly Im-
proves Allied Positions and
Nets a Thousand Prisoners.
President Issues Proclamation
Taking Over Telegraph and
Telephone Systems, Effective
Wednesday; July 31.
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By Associnted Preas to The Austn Amertcan.
WASHINGTON, ’
i(A Minstrel
By Assocleted Pre to Tha Austin Amerlcan
.WITH THEMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE-MARNE
r RONT, July 23.— Information reaching the intelligence depart-
ment of the American army tonight indicated that the Ger-
mans were continuing their retreat.
Farbehind their lines they are being subjected to a heavy
large reinforcements to the south.
At the same time it also effected
an important local improvement in
the line at a sector wher every ad-
Gen. H. J. E. Gourad, French com*
mander who barred advance of the
German crown prince in the Cham-
pagne.
It was he who on the east or
Rheims. in one day, brought host of
Germans to a standstilI.
Thia was done with comparatively
insignificant losses among his own
men in conseguence of his admirable
defensive preparations.
As a Result Many Big Army Eight of These Huge Monsters
Contracts Have Been In-
The schooner had just stocked up
with halibut for the Boston market
The men stated the schooner had
been destroyed by a bomb
-
out of
yards
bundles packed
turers.
In connection
was not actually
and went beyond
“TRUE TO TEXAS
ran food administrator, gave a most
TEXAN IS GIVEN AMERICA 10 KUSH
CHARGEOFALL ANOTHER MILLION
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Br Ameclated p™“ to The Ausein Amertcan
The entente allied troops on the Soissons-Rheims salient con- ■
tinue to gain ground both on the western side of the battle front I
and on the south along the Mame and toward Rheims, notwith- .
standing the increasing resistance of the Germans and the bad
weather that is prevailing on the southern part of the line.
While the latest gains recorded are not as great on the 2
whole as those of previous days, they nevertheless have added 4
positions of strategic value to the allied line for the further prose- ■
cution of the efforts to clear the territory of the enemy.
More Prisoners and Guns Captured.
In the fighting more prisoners, guns and war stores have '
the inittative
l ment,
expected to
from General
WZ FRANCO-AMERICANS
CENTRAL TEXAS WKATH£E TODAY.
e Wednesday and Thursday. gener-
In fair.
include many bearing
coming in be
they stated, came
tonight by the
were mixed with
The Koelntsche Volks Zeitung
says the fact must no longer be
hidden that German deserters
have made use of their know]-
edge of the plans of operattons
to betray their country.
apparently took
11U
Additional Prisoners, Guns and Great Quantities
of Other War Materials Taken by General
Fochs Victorious Troops on Aisne-Mame
Front.
He* te Subseribe for The Austin American.
If you lire in Auntin you may telephone your
suhscription to 114’ nr send sobscription in
writing or cell at the AUSTIN AMERICAN
office 65c e month, vayable to carrier.
If you live outside of Austin, a«nd your sub-
North of the river
AMERICAN ARMY
with virtually a million others either 1 dispatches received this afternoon
in Trance or hastening across the from the battlefront was presumably
Foch has ‘tn "Abid“torth Eoneraijdesiened u a diverslon aimn5 »I
Further reports
from him this statement or our point
of view in all our food negotiations
'That the American people will
gladly and willingly make any sacrt-
wdl fire in consumption and in the pro-
duction of foodstuffs that will main.
marks and others which
even been inspected.
July 23—An
today from
the German
on Friday
it was while at the head of his
val personnel now
officers and men
the water
hope that the only casualties will be
the three men killed by the explo.
alon
The men still nnacconnte for are:
Clyde Baine, lomieka. Cal.
George W Farin. Akron. Iowa
Ioen Goodnow, Fairport. N V
Wilfrid Larsen, Mammoth. Utah.
Henry F laaw. White Plains, N T
Andrew Munson, Kt. Patil, Minn.
Silas Watters. Gainesville. (In
James 1 Compton. San Jose. Cal
Sooth of Soissons the drive of the
F.ranco-American forces toward Fere-
Fen-Tardenois has pushed further i
back the Germans on both sides of
the Ouro river. .
Allies Nearing Fere-En-Tardenois.
South of the river notwithstanding
fierce resistance, allied forces reached
the railroad line between Armen,
tieres and Coincy running southward
to Chateau Thierry, and has pressed 1
on beyond it.
This advance brings the French
and American troops relatively to
within seven miles of Fere-En-Tarde-
nois and also gives them a dominate |
ing position for big gun play over
the eastern section or the railway
line running from Armentieres to
Fere-En-Tardenois.
On the northern part of the Marne ’
to the east of Chateau Thierry the
town of Jaulgonne, from which the
Americans retreated during the Ger-
man offensive, has been recaptured
and left in the rear by the advanc-
ing troops.
with the arrest to-
KEEP FOR THE BAT
DON’T THEW AWAY
terday morning
Other dories were
hind them, they snid.
vell fed
if very
seription direct or through any nostmaster—.
payable in Advance.
One yenr 17.00 Three montha
Six months .... 3.75 One month ...
By Associated r rens to The Austin Amarican
WASHINGTON. July 23—All but
eight of the fifty-nine men reported
missing after the sinking of the ar-
mored 'ruined San Diego off Hre
Island. N. Y . last Friday have been
By Associated Press to The Austin American
PARIS, July 23—One hundred and
thirty-seven German airplanes were
SUBMARINE SINKS
the north bank of the Marne and
l clung to their newly won positions,
notwithstanding the violence of the
German counter moves and the state-
ment of the German war office that
they were driven out.
British Also Advance.
Likewise, southwest of Rheims,
where the British are fighting with
the French, strong enemy positons
have been captured and the allied
line advanced nearly a mile.
The reinforced German front here
stubbornly contested the advance but
the French and British gained the
advantage and in addition to inflict,
ing heavy casualties, took prisoners
and five guns.
The British captured 300 Germans.
The counter attacks of the Ger-
mans continue to be delivered with
great violence and with heavy gun
and machine gun fire behind them.
W here they are forced to give
grounq. the Germans are leaving nu-
merous machine gun nests in the
open to harass their enemies and aid
in making secure the retirements.
British Nibbling Worries Boches.
.The Germans apparently are fear-
tu that the constant nibbling at their
lines east of Amiens by the British
foreshadow an early attack and they
are 8endins a rain of gas shells over
the Villers-Bretonneux sector as a
precaution
..The British on various sectors of
the front in France and Flanders
continue daily to make slight gains
against the enemy and take prisoners
and machine guns.
In Albanta both the French and
Italian troops are keeping up their
pressure against the Austrians.
. the. latest reports from Rome
and Paris considerable gains are
credited to the allied troops ana also
the capture of important positions
and prisoners and guns.
number and officials
Renlty transfers of Travis county in full
In tha AUSTIN AMERICAN every morning
■ ■ -W — I-----
Aastin Amertenn Mall Bnbseribers.
Tha AUSTIN AMERICAN is malled rego.
arty every morning If you mlu it. It is the
fault of some post office Notify the AUSTIN
AMERICAN at once, and missing papers will
be forwarded.
reduce this
sunk by a German submarine on
Cashe Bank. 60 miles southeast of
member of a committee
By Associated Press to The Austin American.
PARIS, July 23 -French. Ameri-
can and British troops made consid-
erable advances during the day on
the Alsne-Mame front, according to
the war office announcement tonight.
In addition to occupying several
villages, they captured 1800 prison-
era or more.
'The text reads:
"On both sides of the Ourcq at-
tacks by our troops during the day
obtained satisfactory results notwith-
standing the tenacious resistance of-
fered by the enemy who brought up
fresh reserves.
Austin American Chy Subserier,.
If z95 AUSTIN AMERTCAN le nos dehe.
Fun day, telephon, the AUSTiN'AMAcma
114 at onehand your eopy wli immedintaiy
ba aunt by bieyele messenger Miaing
papers are not dellvered after 10 :M a m.
ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT.
American port.
Sentiment In China is overwhelm-
inglv in favor of joint allied inter-
vention in Siberia, Mr lteinsch as-
serted.
He said China is split by politi-
cal trouble between the southern
and northern sections and factions,
and as a result of the turmoil, the
nation is handicapped in participat-
ing actively in the war
By Anociated Press to Tha Austia Amerlean
LONDON. July 23.—The French
attack near Montdidier today was a
and successful
East of Jaulgonne, the French
' likewise have advanced their line on
manufacturers who
supervising raincoat
sistent with the interests and needs
of the government.
To Improve the Service.
Press wire service, Mr. Burleson
Mid. would be interfered with only
•o improve its facilities, and farmers’
telephones would be intefered with
only to facilitate their connection
with the larger ‘ines
No general policy has been decid-
ed upon, the postmaster general an
nounced and public notice will be
given of any plane to change present
arrangements
Pledging to the public his best ef-
forts for the most efficient service
at the least cost, the postmaster gen-
eral declared he welcomed the sug-
Tor Time Being, at Least,
Present Methods of Opera-
tions Will Be Continued Un-
n IANS MAKING PROGRESS.
ThAvm/he--
continuing their advance in Albania
The war office announced today
that Italian troops pushing along ths
crest of Malisilovea captured Hill 00
Further to the east French parties
occupied the heights of the left bank
of the River Holla
bles on the enemy and strike a blow
that has changed the whole trend of
the war.
Officials here, while fully recog-
nising the fact that the Americana
are today only a comparatively small
part of the vast forces the supreme
commander is using in working out
his strategic designs, realise the fact
that the American army, going for-
ward in a constant'y increasing
stream, is the governing factor in
restoring the initiative to the allied
forces.
Plans are therefore taking shape
rapidly at the war department to
accelerate and enlarge the American
military program
Forh to Have 2,000.000 Americans.
It is now virtually certain that
General Foch will have at least two
million American troops to supple-
ment his allied armies before the
present fighting season closes.
Secretary Baker announced today
the war department’s new program
embraces enlarged army Appropria-
tions. modifications of the draft ges
to Increase the reservoir of fighting
men and plans for a larger mobili-
sation of the army than any yet un-
ferred with the sub-committee
questions of production
lain the health, comfort and the
Germans fighting Stubbornly
for Every foot of Ground and
Delivering frequent and
Desperate Counter Attacks.
In all branches.
gestions and co-ope sat I on of
men who have built up the
tems.
C »perat ing < ommittce.
Postmaster General Hurleson
personally lake < barge of the a4
member of its
troops fighting south of Soissons
have captured four German tanks,
which were operating against them
in conjunction with the German in-
fantry.
The allied artillery immediately
spotted the tanks as they came into
action and quickly put four of them
out of commission
Four other retreated.
distant and sent
brought down or put out of action
jby French and British airmen yes-
Br Asaocinted Press to The Austin American terday: four captive balloons were
A CANADIAN PACIFIC l'ORT. burned and nany tons o, bombs
July 23.— Paul 8. Fleinsch, United were dropped on German Encentra.
>tal<5 minister to cihina, was aboard “— —---
an which tonched here today
on its way from the Orient to an
General Burieson announced to the <
country that his policy would be one ‘ r
©f the least interference with the
wire communication systems con-
Br Associrted Press to The Austin American
PARIS. July 23 —Major Theodore
Roosevelt Jr. received the wound
from which he is suffering while
leading an attack on a machine gun
By Aasocjated Press to The Austin Ameriean,
WASHINGTON. July 23—Acting
under the authority recently con-
ferred by congress, Presdeat Wil-
son today iamued a proclamation
taking all telephone and telegraph
lines under government operation and
only battalion that Major Roosevelt re-
ceived a machine gun bullet behind
•the left knee.
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN AUSTIN AND CENTRAL TEXAS AND ONLY MORNING NEWSPAPER AT THE STATE CAPITAL
official dispatch
Nwitzerland says
ton great hopes to the German
main offensive at Rheims and
asks
From where do these troops
come that the Americans trans-
ports have really brought more
quickly than they were ex.
pee ted T"
The Munchener Nuestena-
chrichten says France is still
very strong; that America has
more than half a million soldiers
in Fiance, and that tho English
army has been reconstructed and
put into a perfect state
it adds that it will take weeks
The crew promptly swung .....
schooner up into the wind and took
to their boats.
Read Harry Lauderfs New Book
and reached the western outskirts of
Oulchy-La Ville.
We occupied the village of Mont,
gou
"South of the Ourcq Franco-
American troops crossed the C'hateau
Thierry road. carrying their line
more than a kilometer to the east.
The village of Rocourt is in our
Br Associated Pcess to The Austin Amerlcan
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT.
July 23.— (Fvening)—The fighting
continued throughout today north
and northeast of Chateau Thierry.
The Germans by no means were
lack in accepting the allied chal-
lenges and struck back with great
vigor.
The fighting immediately north of
Chateau Thierry was so fierce as
almost to rob it of the suggestion
that it was a rear guard action
Nevertheless it was known that
while the- intense struggle was
front.
"In seeking President Wilson’s Four men .landed in a dory at Cape
corneel as to the conference of food Porpoise today reporting that theit
officials now in progress. I received fishing schooner, the Robert and
Richard, of Gloucester, had been
midnight. Wednesday
other coats in
by the manufac-
day of Harry E Lazarus, a wealthy
clothing manufacturer, charged with
attempting to bribe a government in-
spector. Mr Thompson explained
that while "co operating" with the
council of national defense, Lazarus
day. Herbert C. Hoover, the Ameri-
in France”
n the Austin Ameri
food is now past," Mr. Hoover de-
clared
"Tnking a broad view." Mr. Hoover
continued. "one outstanding and
dominating fact is perceived within
the enemy lines namely, hunger
"The conqured people already hun-
gry. are being slowly but surely
starved and their loss of life through
starvation during the period, before
the next harvest will be far larger
than all the casualties on the western
newspapers not only admit that
the German offensive has failed,
but express fear that General
Foch has built up an army of re-
serves that will enable him to
wrest, the offensive from tho
German' high command.
The Frankfurter Zeitung says:
"General Foch has been able
to form an important army of
resorves.
"Fochs attack aims to deal a
blow in the back of Boehm’s
army and should it be success,
fill. It might compel this army to
retreat under most unfavorable
conditions.
"Foch’s attack threatens the
whole of Hindenburg’s plans “
The Strassburger Pont nays the
public had in general attached
first assistant postmaster general in
subjects of organization and admin-
istration; David J Lewis, former
congressman from Maryland, now a
member of the tariff commission on
subjects of operation, and William
H Lamar, solicitor for the postoffice
department on matters o. finance.
May Retain Opera tin. Forces, ,
The president s proclamation pro-
video that the postmaster general,
if he elects, may administer the lines
through the owners, managers, boards
of directors or receivers.
It provides further that until the
postmaster general directs otherwise,
the present managements shall con-
tinue.
Regular dividends previously de-
clared and interest in maturing obli-
gations shall continue to be paid
until th® postamaster general directs
otherwise, and subject to his ap-
proval. the companies may arrange
renewal and extension of maturing
obligations .
The postmaster general, in his dis-
cretion. may hereafter relinquish in
whole or in part, to the owners any
telegraph or telephone system over
which he has assume control
Mr. Burleson also said that oper-
ation and control of farmers’ tele-
Although congress empowered him
to do so, the president did not in-
clude w. dess synema, because the
navy already is in control of them:
and he did not include ocean cables
presumably because of contracts the
cable companies have with foreign
governments which raised involved
questions
The navy already is In practical
control of the cables through its
censorship
Burieson Given Charge.
The president’s proclamation ha*
placed administration Of the wire
systems vwi th Postmaster General
Burleson and provided that until
otherwise decided, the present man-
agement and employee will continue
Present financial arrangements
also will continue with the approval
of the postmaster general.
In a statement accompanying the
presient’s proclamation Postmaster
By Associated Press to The Austia American.
WASHINGTON. July 23.—With
probably not much more than a
Quarter of a million American troops
engaged in the present battle, but
Plans Are to Double Pershing’s Sudden Attack on Hitherto
By Associated Press to Thu Austin American.
NEW YORK, July 23.—Officers of
the army quartermaster s department
tonight notified concerns named by
the department of justice in its ex-
pose of an alleged nation-wide con-
spiracy of bribery and graft in the
manufacture of soldiers’ raincoats,
that no more deliveries would be ac-
cepted until further notice and that
payment would be suspended on
large quantities of goods already de-
livered.
This action was taken by Captain
F. C. Weightman. U. S. k, in
charge of raincoat’ inspection, an 1
Major Thomas McGrath, in charge of
the inspection of all war materials in
this district.
It followed the arrested yesterday
of 17 raincoat men and the discovery
of thousands of defective raincoats,
ready for shipment to France, at tho
quartermaster’s depot here
According to the investigators
working under Assistant Attorney
General Huston Thompson, these de-
nzarxmun. ao2m21z
gam- :
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