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■' . (By The Asssociated Press.)
With the French Army in France, July 26.—The entire German po
sition on the Marne salient is such' that it may fall any instant.
(By The Asssociated Press.)
/ Paris, July 26.—The Germans have reinforced their right flank of
»
the Soissons-Rheims pocket, says La Liberte, with a new army command
ed by General Von Eben.
(Associated Press War Summary.)
The allies are relentlessly pressing back the armies of the crown
prince within the pocket between Soi ssons and Rheims. Ville Montoire,
live miles south of Soissons, has been captured by the Franco-Americans,
marking a new step in closing the mouth bag in which the Germans are
struggling. Oulchy-Le-Chateau, the pivot upon which the German retire
ment southward is swinging, was also taken, while between the Ourcq
and the Marne, the Americans have advanced within four miles of the
vital town of Fere-En-Tardenois. Nothing is known relative to British
progress west of Rheims today, but previously the allies were reported
to have made a two mile advance.
More than 25,000 prisoners have been taken by the allies and also
live hundred guns. Enemy losses Vire estimated at 200,000. There is
only artillery activity in other sectors of France and Italy.
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(By The Asssociated Press.)
With the American Army on the Marne Front, July 26.—The
Franco-American push northeast of Chateau-Thierry has resolved into a
battle of the woods, which abound in this region. The Germans, fight
ing in rear guard actions with artillery and machine guns are retiring
gradually. The enemy is struggling to hold the northern half of the
Forests of Fere and Ris, but the allies are making progress with the
work of ousting him. There was indication early today that the Germans
were preparing for a further withdrawal. The allies are moving up
heavy artillery, throwing shells into the German lines as far as Sa
ponay and beyond Fere En Tardenois.
(By The Asssociated Press.)
London, July 26.—The allies are reported today to be making
progress on all sides of the German salient except on the heights be
hind Soissons. German resistance of the French in the latter sector is
very determined.' Advances reported elsewhere in most cases have beer
slight.
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(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, July 26.—The capture of the
| towns of Ville Montoire and Oulchy
L»e-Chateau is officially announced.
The French took four cannon and
many hundreds of prisoners in this
j fighting.
| (By The Associated Press.)
London, July 26.—German local
► attacks against positions recently
taken by the British in the Meterei
sector on the Flanders front were re
pulsed this morning after sharp
fighting, the war office announces.
■ Last night the Germans attacked
new British positions in the Hebu
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►} terne sector, between Albret and Ar
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*! ras, and the enemy was driven off
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> with severe losses.
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y (By The Associated Press.)
, Washington, July 26.— American
forces between the Marne and the
Ourcq, continue to press back the
enemy, Pershing reported in his
communique for yesterday.
MORE EPIDEMICS
ARE PREVALENT
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(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, July 26.—Several ep
j idemics in addition to influenza are
! sweeping Germany, according to an
| official despatch from Switzerland.
i Typhus is said to have appeared in
Berlin in epidemic form. Marlaria
is reported in the Grand Duchy of
i Baden.
JAPAN ACCEPTS
U.S. PROPOSAL
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(By The Associated Press.)
London, July 26.— It is officially
1 announced here that Japan has de
i cided to accept the American propos
al to assist the Czecho Slovak armies
' in Siberia.
SITS REPUBLIC
POSITION ACUTE
(By The Associated Press.)
Amsterdam, July 26.—Premier Le
nine in a speech at Moscow says the
position of the Soviet Republic has
become extremely acute in view of
international complications, counu
■ ter revolutionary conspiracies, and
I the food crisis, according to a Moscow
dispatch received by way of Berlin. .
PEASANTS FIGHT
THE GERMANS
, V __
(By The Associated Press.)
London, July 26.—A peasant rebel
' lion has broken out in the Ukraine
on a formidable scale, according to
information received today. Seven
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ty-five thousand well armed peas
ants are reported advancing against
the Germans, detachments of whom
are retreating to Kiev.
SAFE ARRIVAL
IS ANNOUNCED
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, July 26.—The navy
! department announces the safe ar
rival in England of Chairman Pad
gett and fourteen members of the
-house naval committee.
LESSER-COLDIUIAN
MIKES REPORT
Writing to their friends and pa
trons on Wednesday of this week, the
Lesser-Goldman Cotton Company,
makes the following report of the
condition of cotton:
Arkansas and Southeast Missouri:
With the exception of the Southern
part of Arkansas, this entire terri
tory has received light to heavy
rains and these will prove cf mate
ial benefit. We have complaints
from Southern Arkansas of continued
dry weather and this is causing cot
tton to bloom in the top. Reports of
boll weevil activity amount to practi
cally nothing.
Oklahoma: This section has also
had good rains and crop prospects
were never better. There are very
few reports of weevil and very few
complaints of any kind.
Summary: With the exception of
, Southern Arkansas, our entire terri
tory reports good progress, labor is
1 sufficient for present needs, insect
reports are fewer than we have
known in several years, the crop is
now from ten days to two weeks ear
lier than usual, and generally speak
ing the outlook is very favorable.
Possibilities of a peace offensive
were discussed in the senate Thurs
day. All senators who spoke declar
ed the crushing defeat of Germany
was necessary before peace negotia
tions could be considered.
Because they annoyed her while
she attempted to work, Bernice Jan
nings, a 17-year-old girl night tele
graph operator at Eureka, Mo., fired
her revolver at two men, killing one
and seriously wounding another.
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(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, July 25.—President
Wilson today (n a personal statement
addressed to his fellow countrymen,
denounced mob spirit and mob action,
called upon the nation to show the
world that while it fights for dem
ocracy on foreign fields it is not de
stroying democracy at home.
The president referred not alone
to mob action against the suspected
enemy aliens or enemy sympathiz
ers; he denounced most emphati
cally mob action of all sorts, espec
ially lynchings, and while he did not
refer specifically to lynchings of ne
1 groes in the south, it is known that
'he included them in his characteriza
tion of mob spirit as “a blow at the
heart of ordered law and humane
justice.”
it is known that the lynchings of
negroes, as well as attacks upon
those suspected of being enemies or
sympathizers, have been used by
| German propaganda throughout
Central and South America as well
as Europe, to contend that the pre
tensions of the United States as a
champion of democracy are a sham.
Deeply concerned by the situation,
the president decided to address his
fellow countrymen and to declare
that every mob contributes to
German lies about the United States
| what her most gifted liars cannot
j1 improve upon by way of calumny.”
' The president’s statement in full is
as follows:
| “My Fellow Countrymen:
j “I take the liberty of addressing
you upon a subject which so vitally
affects the honor of the nation and
the very character and integrity of
our institutions and I trust you will
think me justified in speaking very
! plainly about.
| “I allude to the mob spirit which
has recently here and there very fre
quently shown its head amongst us,
not in any single region, but in many
and widely separated parts ot the
country. There have been many
I lynchings, and every one of them has
| been a blow at the heart of ordered
law and humane justice. No man
who loves America, no man who
really cares for her fame and honor
and character, or who is truly loyal
to her institutions, can justify mob
action while the courts of justice are
open and the government of the
state and the nation are ready and
able to do their duty. We are at this
very moment fighting lawless pas
sion. Germany has outlawed herself
among the nations because she has
disregarded the sacred obligation of
law and has njade lynchers of her ar
mies. Lynchers emulate her dis
graceful example. I, for my part, am
anxious to see every community in
America rise above that level with
pride and a fixed resolution which no
man or set of men can afford to de
spise.
| “We proudly claim to be the cham
! pions of democracy. If we really are
| in deed and in truth, let us see to it
! that we do not discredit our own. I
i say plainly that every American who
: takes part in the action of a mob or
! gives it any sort of countenance is
no true son of this great democracy,
but its betrayer, and does more to
| discredit her by that single disloy
alty to her standards of law and of
f right that the words of her states
f men or the sacrifices of heroic boys
| in the trenches can do to make si/
fering peoples believe her to be tj>
i savtor. How shall we comm
f democracy to the acceptance of ot
i peoples, if we disgrace our own V
proving that it is, after all, no pro
tection to the weak? Every mob
; contributes to German lies about the
United States what her most-gifted
i i
liars cannot improve upon by
way of calumny. They can at
' say that such things cannot
in Germany except in times of
lution, when law is swept away.
“I therefore very earn4ftp|i|
solemnly beg that the govern
all the states, the law officers
ery commuunity, and,
men and women of every
in the United States, all
America and wish to keep hi
without stain and reproach,
operate, not passively
actively and watchfully, to
end of this disgraceful’
not live where the
not countenance it.
"I have called
'put its great energy
and it has
with a spirit
tion that has
now call upon it, upon its
women everywhere, to itt to
its laws are kept inviolate, 4t
untarnished. Let us shiny
'ter contempt for the things
’made this war hideous ai
wars of history by
those who love liberty and
justice and are willing to
their lives for them upi
fields stand ready also to
to all mankind their loyalty-,
things at home which they
see established everywhere
blessing and protection to 1
pies who have never known
lieges of liberty and self
“I can never accept
the champion of liberty
ourselves or for the
not reverence and obey
our own beloved land, wh
ourselves have made. He has
the ’Standards of the
country, whom he affects to
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CANNOT E
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, July 26.—Local
boards are instructed to refuse
release registrants in
enlistment in the navy and
corps or emergency fleet until
determined that there are s
registrants to fill the August
calls promptly.
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