El Paso Herald from El Paso, Texas • Page 1

HOME EDITION bank notes, start bills, 91Sc; pesos, 77c; -Ucittar gold, 5858c; nacionales, bar iher, H. qnotatioo, 99Sc; copper, $26; grains, higher; livestock, irregular, stocks, irregular. El Paso and West Texas, generally fair; New Mexico, showers in east; Arizona, fair. (Food forecast for Tnea-day One wheatless rceaL) VTESTNEWS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. DELIVERED ANYWHERE 6- MONTH.

EL PASO. TEXAS. MONDAY EVENING. JULY 29. 1918.

10 PAGES TODAY SINGLE COPY mi CENTS TODAY'S PRICES WILL LEND $50,000,000 FOR DEFENSE By Terms of Agreement, American Bankers Will Repre-sent Different Parts of Country; Treasury Department Hopes TJ. S. Bankres Will Be Associated With Those of England, Japan and France; Negotiations Pending. 11 WASHINGTON, C. July IS.

Tne VV -ew policy of approving loans erican bankc-s to China, eo that ght be Letter able to defend against enemy forces approach-us borders, was announced today state derartment. No specific of the was announced, understood that $50,000,000 a a need. tc-ms of the agreement, the -t II represent different parts i ontr: They will cooperate ernmMil and wilt cnhmlr UDSPETH HE Cobb's Friends at San Angelo Willing to Back Him in a Contest; Ysleta Precinct-, Among Others, May Be Attacked; Dr. E. S.

White Says the Vote There Can Be Thrown Out in a Contest. received at noon Monday nd cated the nomination of Claude Hdpeth over Zach Lamar Cobb corress the 16th congressional 5r.ct. ust hat the majority would be v.2.z not indicated, although at Hudspeth headquarters it was claimed he would bo elected by a majority cf I'OC'O oes. This was not generally belie1, ed. although his ma-yruv in El Paso courty wus 1282.

ac--to retrn.s re e.ed by The we-c that the outside me would cut this duvn to some ex- Ciacde 1214 River noon said: "I ani winning ty 2000 majority in 5-" Wrtlre 1-tlt congressJonsl district. ,3 all care to say at present." M- Hudspeth made this claim Sun-' wren queried He said then ha aid Cobb bv 670 in the dls-f- outs'de of El Paso, city and -um. and would have 1450 majority El Pnso counti. Including this city. Mr.

Cobb said he was not yet readv maVe a statement on Monday afternoon. Thpre ias some discussion of a cutest because of alleged irregu-'aruies at certain El Paso boxes, par-t nularly that of Yet eta and some in the louver sections of El Paso. San Aaselo Hints a Ceatesr. That the people in the eastern end rf the district, where Cobb received i i tajorlty most places, are deeply nerested in the outcome and are oping for a contest, is indicated in telegram from San Angelo to Mr. fzr.

Mr. Cobb his largest majority. me of the surprises of the election the majority given to Mr. Coob Brewster county, the former home TT Turney and the present home brother, A M. Turner, county of the The teleeram frsa San Angelo tu Mr.

Cobb MMdar saM tfae Titers there were prepared le er- rure a rreoaat er have the ballot throvro nt wherever Mr. obb and Mm sffrprtcrs WHerei Mexican atl Brroei baa been cted illrpraUx. Tie trletrram Midi do wot propose to permit your nomlBatia to be affected by Improper or Illegal Mexican and r-rpro votes. If the facts warrant we contemplate perfeeHrjr an organization feere ta s-e that isstfe-prenlls. Kep ns fally advised." Noys Box (an Be Tfcrexm Oat.

if a contest is made, the Ysleta ta 11 bo thrown out." said Dr. E. mte, who wa defeated by George I jt'i for countv commissioner. ie I am informed that illiterates U' -e oted. I shail make no contest ci If.

any ejections that arp v. -11 ba to from other possible taat the Ysleta pre-: ma affect the general result on, as ilr. Cobb believes majorities from out of town are ff, -nt to equal the- mtjority Huds pa.ned in El Paso outside of Yleii box. l' oclock Monday the returns Pool To Put In Bill Giving Texas Women A an FOOL, says that every ai in El Paso familiar with amendment to the constitution of elections in El Paso, regard-' 7 fU" in "all elections in Texas, unless some- is opinion heretofore on body else introduces the bill before i iot. tig.

srd who watched this I can do so. and if this is done I i will have to admit that a eoiPg to work for this and when the amendment is submitted to -is women lolmg in election- people of Texas for a Aote I am held Saturday was the froing to organise west Texas to put managed election eer held amendment through just as I ho aid todaj "and organized it to helD elect Hohbv mv. fo. this dje to J. Kaster pood nr-icn that he selected th ele- on Tiie man who ic anoiij polling F-tu'-da-.

and saw the good holding 'otions at every n'aco ann" io'jM not s-e that --p exert "is i pood influence i pnlit in El Paso must hf- a m- ii a soul. po'og to introduce a bill In -t lpgislat'0r I thank the of K' Paso for pivirp Now We'll Ail Hope Hudspeth Cm Do tor Us What We Knew Cobb Could Do NS START NEW BATTLE NEAR REIM TO CMMHUNS DESTROY PRICELESS TREASUERS i DfTDEi for approval the names of the banks ccn.uosinK the groun to make loans and also the terms and conditions of any loans. For its part, the department gives assurance mat 11 tne terms and con ditions of the loan are accepted the United States and China "the government will take everv possible step to insure the execution "of equitable contracts made in good faith by i. The department also announced that it is hoped that the American hsnlr- ers will be associated with bankers of Great Britain. Japan and France and negotiations lookinc to snrh paahsm.

inn nun Uf JiUfilC3B. tt iS WON NOMINATION. from Ysleta had not yet been officially made. J. D.

Ponder, who was associate judge there, was in El Paso ana saia the counting was completed about 6 oc rock Sunday evening and presiding judge George Huffman car- nea tne boxes and returns to bis home, to deliver them to countv chair man J. Raster Monday, and that he could be expected to arrive moment arily. Too Many Ytea Cast. Cobb headquarters announced Monday mornins; that reports received from Ysleta claimed that Hudspeth's majority there nas 143. out of 057 ballots cast, the vote being- Hudspeth.

522; Cobb, 179. This headquarters also said that Ysleta precinct had only 418 adult persons, men and women. Tel eta renort to The Herald the final ballots were cotxht oclocK Sunday eveninx. The judge of election at Yslet George Huffman. He was assisted by J.

D. Ponder. Boone Cathey. J. If.

Duran and lfesdames Lucy Peterman, Nora Boothe, Anna. Vinyard. M. Mc-Daniels and MrnnS. W.

Mitchell It Is there has been no general rejofcing among the Hudspeth followers over his election. Although claiming It from early' Saturday evening, his followers hare not given vent to any great outbursts of public enthusiasm. Cobb Carries American Vote. The analysis of the vote was inter esting. Cobb carried the majority of the American polling places, while Hudspeth received majorities In all the precincts where the negro and Mexican vote was cast.

Hudspeth and Cobb each carried their own precincts In Joe Dunne's precinct, the East El Paso fire station. Cobb received but 56 votes, while Hudspeth received 212. It was said Saturday nbxht that Dunne apologised for the votes Cobb received there and said they were cast while be went to lunch. Cobb carried IS city predacta and two in the eoanty, a total of 14 oat of 3S In tfae ceatity. Tfae Cobb precincts in the county were Canntilio and Pa bens.

The city precincts that went for Cobb were 12, IS, 15, 18, -1. 24, 25, 27, 2S and 29, all of them American preciaets. Fryer la Defeated. The entire county ticket was reelected with the exception of W. H.

Fryer, who was defeated by Will H. Pelphrey. who had the solid backing of the union labor element and is said to have received the support of most of the friends of Hudspeth. Many Cobb supporters who were supporting Fryer, scratched him after he reaffirmed allegiance on Thursday to Hudspeth and then, it is claimed, the Hudspeth men scratched him in favor of Pelphrey. Adrian Pool, who was believed at one tme Sau rday to be ha vln a close race for the legislature, defeated his opponent, judge L.

A. Dale, by a good ma jori ty. A Close Race. J. E.

Anderson ran W. D. Greet a close race for county clerk, but Greet won. Eon Garner, present constable, ran closest to I. N.

Davis, the county ring candidate, but Dais won. W'm. C. Davis ran close to A. J.

Full Suf frage me thia onoortunitr) submitting- error of Texa. "I in egine there will be little onnv. sftion to this amendment, especially in west Texas, and I cannot imagine any man voting against such i.n amendment who had an opportunity on Saturday to observe the whole-! some influence that vv omen were ertfng in Texas politics. The women I of El Paso are to be congratulated 1 the work they did in Saturday's primaries and the vote that they cast for better government in WHEN THEY LEAVE IHLBTPK BONDS USED TO GI LIBERTY F. J.

Godsol, Accused Of Profiteering By French, Released From Jail. appealIs 'taken by the french Is Senl To Uniled Stales to Contract For Motors; Made Millions. TT7ASHIXGTOX. D. July Frank J.

Godsol, a French citizen, held on charges of the French gov ernment that he profited several millions, of dollars on motor track contracts, was released today by Justice Gould, of the district supreme court. on a writ of habeas corpus. The French government noted an appeal, and Godsol was released on $50,000 bonds, which he furnished in Ubertv bonds. Repsted to Be Wealthy. New York.

July 2. Godsol is 45 years of age, a man of wealth and seried as a private in the French army, coming to this country as an attache of one of the French war missions to negotiate motor track contracts. He was arrested March I on a warrant sworn out by the French embassy. Hall for justice of the peace, but Ball was elected. H.

Y. Ellis ran Joe Page a close race for county chairman, but Page v. as elected. Seth Orndorff led Percy McGhee by a cond majority for sheriff. Mrs.

May Had lock Carlisle, although polling a lare vote, did not run close enough to encanger the chances of C. M. McKinney at any time. George Pendell defeated nts op- T-t a T.lr,. county commissioner, by a vote of xoi to I the features of was that James Harper candidate tor reelection as ttief Justice of the eighth court of civil appears, without opposition, was scratched by a number of voters.

The vote was heavy and In some of the precincts in EI Paso county, the count waa not completed until Sunday morning. jVt Ysleta It waa not fln-mshed untlrt eclock Sunday evaatng. The women voted heavily Saturday morning, but did not ote heavily in the afternoon. Contrary to expectations, the afternoon vote was lighter than had bees expected. Women Serve Faithfully.

Women served as clerks and judges at all the polls, being in the majority in many places, and they were commended for their zeal by the men who worked with them. The women disappointed their friends by their votes for Hudspeth, who had always opposed suffrage in their behalf. Where 75 percent of the vote of the women in Bl Paso county had been expected to be cast for Cobb, not over half the vote was cast that way. The Officers Elected. County and district officers elected are: R.

M. Dudley, senator ISth distdict. Adrlai district. Pool, representative llgth R. E- Thomason, representative of 119th district.

W. D. Howe. Judge S4th district. Leigh Clark, district attorney Jtth district.

Will P. Brady, judge county court at law. E. McClintock. county judge.

Will H. Pelphrey, county attorney. Seth B. Orndorlf. sheriff.

John T. Cain, rounty tax collector. C. 11. JJcKinney.

clerk district court. W. Greet, county clerk. A. R.

Webb, county treasurer. R. D. Richey, county tax collector. Myra Winkler, county superintendent of public instruction.

J. W. Carter, county surveyor. W. C.

Roberts, hide and animal inspector. Robert E. Lyons, county commissioner precinct No. I. Ueorg-e Pendell, county commissioner precinct Xo.

2. Henry Herring, county commissioner precinct No. 3. J. r.

Williams, county commissioner precinct Xo. 4. .1 Dearer, justice of peace precinct Xo. 1. pla-e 1.

A. J. Hall, justice peace precinct Ko. 1, place 2 1. Pavis.

constable precinct No. 1. Joseph Page, county i-tuirman. For executive committeeman, precinct Xo. 1.

place 1. Fred Woodworth. For executive committeeman, precinct Xo. H. E.

Bowden. For executive committeeman, precinct Xo 3. Miss Margnerite Moon. For executive committeeman, precinct Xo. 4 Andres Salasar.

For executive committeeman, pre-finct Xo. 5. M. H. Webb.

For executive committeeman, precinct Xo. 6. M. R. Hemley.

For executive committeeman, precinct Xo. Sam W. Carr. Tor executive committeeman, precinct Xo. S.

G. A. HammeL Vote at Y.leta. The vote for justice of the peace at (Cffattniiee on mcc Z. relumn 1.1 Two Denver Men Close-Store and Goto War Denver.

July 19. A service flag bearing two stars hangs in the window of a local store. The doors to the shop are locked. Within the plate glass window is a r.lacard reading: "Store eloped for duration of war Propiietors enlisted in United States navy." VERrVENGEflNCETHAl LAV iNTHEIfl EtfIL POWER Costly Tapestries Cut With Knives; Magnificent Furniture Destroyed; Ink Pots Trovra at Silken Walls; Leather Coverings Slit; Costly Carpets Soiled and Eent; Nurseries and Doll Houses Are Ruined. O.VDON.

July 29. Evidence l-i accumulates that during their brief stay in the Marae salient, the Germans have been indulging again In wholesale acts of vandalism. In a message sent from French headquarters. Renter's correspondent gives details of their conduct while in possession of Shateau Thierry. The Germans had been in the town some time.

When they found they would have to give It up, they determined to take the only vengeance in their power. The injuries which have been inflicted on the town are such as could not be the result ol shelling, the correspondent points out. as those houses which fjffered most were entirely uninjured by shell fire, shrapnel or bullet. "These houses." he says, "were Swiss Workmen Threaten Strike; British Munition Workers Return To ASEL. Switzerland.

July 29. The i-J Internal situation in Switzerland, is assuming a grave aspect aa the result of a conflict between federal au thorities and the labor organisations. Matters came to a head yesterday at a meeting of the Swiss Workmen's congress, organized by a socialist committee headed by Robert Grimm, which voted by a large majority that the federal council's reply to the workmen's claims was unsatisfactory, and that If further prompt negotiations failed In obtaining concessions, a general strike will be called. In official circles the situation is re- iljeb Sf'fsrtsi's 'Resrtttne Warfc Coventry. July 29.

At a man meeting today the strikers in the munition plants decided to resume work immediately. The meeting adopted a resolution accepting the government's offer of a committee inquiry, and agreeing to resume work forthwith on the understanding that the committee will sit at once and Include local representatives of tbelr unions: also that the government will withhold its txeMatened action regarding calling up notices and that no victimization of Individuals takes place. Investigation la Promised. Birmlnghom. July 29.

The strikers In munitions works here re turned to their employment this morning. Although their hostility to 1 S.P.H1IES SEi $193,971,490 Gross Receipts for 1917, Is Official -Statement. New Tork. July 29 Gross income of the Southern Pacific company, and subsidiaries, for 1917, amounted to 1193.971.490, an increase of tI0.S44.0C7. or 18.69 percent, exceeding all previous records, according to the detailed report issued today.

This gain was partly offset by operating expenses, wbich Increased 16.99 percent to $10.601. 823. Net revenue increased 12.60 percent to $73,369,667 and total operating income Increased 25.1: percent to Net income, after the usual deductions from gross, amounted to an increase of $13,706,903. or 38.70 percent. Current assets.

Including $11,733,163 cash, and time drafta and deposits of $15,200,000, aggregated an Increase of and total aasets of were larger by 278.099.614. while current liabilities showed the nominal Increase of $6,672,532. Krnttseknltt Ihiwi Statement. In a genera statement to the stockholders, chairman Julius Kruttschnltt said: "The continued suspension of steamship service through the Panama canal by the diversion of ships to trans-Atlantic service, and the impetus to the country's Industries wl-lch has resulted from the war. have enabled your rail lines to obtain an extraordinary volume o.

traffic which has employed your facilities to an unusual extent and permitted such economy of operation as to offset the great increases in the cost of labor, material and supplies." RECEIVER IS APPOINTED FOR GOODWIN'S PROPERTY Xew York. July 29. A receiver for the property of Nat C. Goodwin, actor, was appointed In the city court here today. The receivership is the outcome of a judgment for $1696 recently recovered against Goodwin in sits based upon -notes given In payment.

fr land near Hemet. where the actor has a ranch HOW CHATEAU magnificently furnished, the walls hun with costly tapestries and admirable pictures. "Today there Is nothing that has not been destroyed. The tapestries have been hacked to pieces. The pictures slit from corner to corner.

The leather and other chair coverings have been ripped, and all the irreplaceable examples of craftmanshlp of past centuries have been smashed. "There Is not a mirror which has not been broken, and the glass and china flung at them lie in fragments before them. "The costly carpets have been soiled and rent in every possible way. and ink spots flung at the silken papers on the walls. This vengeance has been carried even to the extent of smashing nurseries and doll houses.

The fashion in which beds and rooms have been defiled is difficult of description. It would seem the- work of lunatics." Coos Kiss the Kitchen GoodbyeEffect of War Macon. Ga, July 29. Cooks and servants are becoming almost obsolete in Macon as a result of the war. Many housewives are doing their own cooking for the first time.

Many have rigged up clothes lines and Installed tubs for the family washing. Xegro women whose husbands are in the army receive monthly allotments from the government. With tha first instalment of government money the eook xfenerallv rkisea the the etobarge noon skilled labor una Bated, the promise of an inaairy into the situation has reconciled the strikers. Some of them had a hostile reception irom the men and women who had remained at work. Lynn Strikers Return.

Lynn. Miss, July 29. Several thousand employes of the General Electric company, who had been on strike here two weeks, went back to work today. When strike pickets tried to persuade the men not to return, several encounters resulted. The police were obllgd to use clubs in several instances and one man was taken to a hospital.

The strike has seriously ciitntled important war work. if IS KILLED BY LIGHT Surr McLaws Killed Near St. Joseph; Two Others Struck and Injured. Flagstaff. Ariz.

July 29. Burr McLaws. aged 17. while on top of a load of hay. near St.

Joseph, was killed by lightning. A similar fate nearly came to Alonzo Wells, son of U. S. labor examiner Wells of the northern (Continued on page column 8.) THE WAR AT A GLANCE (By The Associated Press). NORTH 6f the Xarne the tide of German Invasion is fast ebbing.

The fact that a general retreat in thia region Is going on Is not Questioned, and the only point of moment to be cleared up ia the location of tbe position at which the enemy will turn at bay. Since Saturday morning there have been Important changes in the battle line between Soissons and Raima Today It runs almost directly eaat from Oulchy Le Chateau to Fere en Tardenois, then crosses the Ourcq and continues eastward until It reaches the Dormans-Reims road, northwest of Reims mountains. The only defensive position seemingly possible for the Germans is the one that follows the Aisne' and Vesle and Soissona to Fismes. and from that point follows the course of the Ardre river toward Reims. Burning of villages along tbe Alsne and Vesle from Soissons to Basoches.

tend to confirm the impression that the Germans do not contemplate organized resistance south of that line. Germans Escape From Trap. There is every Indication that the German high command has succeeded In extricating Its forces from the trap sprung bv Ocn. Foch. The resistance of the Germans for a week after the beginning of the allied counter offensive probably gave them time to withdraw their heavier guns, and a large proportion of their supplies from the salient.

The advance of the allies of Oulehv Le Chateau must soon compel the enemy to evaluate the l.ne from the Ourcq river toward Soissons for a considerable dis tance. Nearer Reims, however. THIERRY 75J00PEAS1TS ARE MARGHiNG ON KIEFF Serious Unrest Reported in The Ukraine and lis Immediate Country. PEACE DELEGATES UNABLE TO AGREE Expel Relatives Of Those Connected With Murder German Ambassador. WASHINGTON.

D. C. July 29. Seventy-five thousand armed peasants are marching on Kleff. capital of Ukralnia.

according to information received at the state department today from Stockholm. Very serious unrest in the Ukraine and surrounding country was re ported. It also was said that the Russian and Ukranlnlan peace delegates have been unable to upon details of the settlement between the two nations. The soviet government at Moscow, also was reported in the advices to have expelled from' the capital 2.11 relatives, of the persons Implicated in the murder of count von Mirbach, German aabassador at U-Boal Submerges Under Prisoners On Deck, and Shipper and Son Drown London. July 29.

The survivors of two sailing trawlers, respectively British and Belgian, brought into a Britsh pet tell a terrible tale of German cruelty. The Britsh trawler waa aunk before dawn on Friday by a bomb, and the crew taken later the Belgian trawler was sighted and sank, and the crew, consisting of a father and son, also taken aboard. All were kept an the submarine's deck near the conning tower and when a patrol boat appeared the submarine submerged without warning le -ring the fishermen to drown. The Belgian akipper and his son. and three Englishmen perished and only two of the English crew were saved.

Bomb Destroys Italian Steamer 200 Miles Out At Sea; 6 Men Killed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 29. The Italian steamer Ghisppe Garibaldi, 4000 tons, has been destroyed by an explosion 200 miles off the Brazilian coast. Six members of the crew were killed. The officers of the vessel have re ported to the Italian consul here that the explosion waa caused by a dynamite bomb, which is believed to have been placed on board the ahlo by the uermans.

The Giuseppe Garibaldi was for merly the steamer Cleveland Range. She was built in 1898. and waa 340 feet long, and 4a feet beam. Sbe was owned in Genoa, Italy. WAR AVIATORS ACTIVE.

London. Eng. July 29. The offi cial statement on aerial operations is- sueu toaay saya: un tne Z(tn and 27th instant, low clouds and rain pro-vented flying by day. During the night bombs were dropped on hostile billets and hutments in the vidnltv of Bapaume." i the Germans seem to hold nosi- tlons that will provide a pivot for their retreat toward the Vesle river.

In this region the allies this morning were getting very close to the Ardre river which forms a protection to the right flank of the enemy positions near Reims. AustraHaas Take 10S Prisoners. While the enemy losses In killed, may not be great, the allies will probably capture many guns and machine guns in addition to supplies and munitions which the Germans have been unable to destroy or move away. Allied losses have been kept at a minimum by tbe moat extensive use of tanks. Cavalry again has taken a hand In the pursuit and low flying airplanes have been harassing the retreating Germans unceasingly.

Stntement From ncrlln. Berlin speaks of "new positions," but does not indicate where they are In its official statement. Berlin makes no admission of allied advances either Saturdav or Sunday. Reporting on Sunday's operations It says that the dav was quiet, except for fighting on the Ourcq. There has been heavy local fighting In the height region between Reims and Soualn.

east of the Marne battlefield, but Gen. Gouraud has held to his recent gains nnd smashed German attacks. Prisoners captured here by the French are reported unoffl-clIlv to total 1500. Other sectors of the western battle quiet, and neither side xivex Indications of any movement intended to affect the situation north of the Marne. RaHs have taken place on the British front, the British being tne successim aggressors.

TRAINED PRUSSIANS AGAINST AMERICANS STAND LIKE STONE ILL; HURL ENEMy BACK WITH LOSSES Actions of German Officers Taken to Indicate They Have Learned to Eespect the Fighting Capabilities of U. French Win Important Position Near Soissons; Enemy Reported Contemplating Retirement. LONDON, Eng. July 29. The Germans started a new battle this morning in a quiet sector east of Reims by launching a heavy attack against French positions on hill Xo.

181, near Mont Sans Nom. When the latest dispatches were filed, the fighting was proceeding without much advantage on either side. Yankees Defeat Picked Prussians. Lon-lon. July 29.

The Americans met Germany's first regiments in battle south of Sergy last night, where the enemy threw in the whole fourth division of Prussian guards in a desperate counter attack. Advices reaching London this afternoon shew that the Americans stood like a stone vrall. brought the Germans to a clean top and Inflicted tbe heaviest losses npon them. The dispatches praise the work of the Americans highly, but give no details beyond insisting upon the heavy losses which the Prussiana Buffered, particularly from the American machine gunners. The fact that the Germans picked the Americans as opponents for the choicest battalions in the German army indicated th.

they have learned to resoect the men from the United States the fighting of the last fortnight. French Win Here Ground. The French -won ground on the Im portant front between Soissons and the Ourcq, on the German right flank, today. Launching a new attack this morning near Grand Roxoy. they ad vanced a hau- fighting was still Sesjceediag at latest reports leceiveot fa fcondon late this afternoon.

StlH further north, towards Soissons. the Frencn surrounded the villas it RimMv tnnlr -Oft nWAn- ens hut later lost the villasre Prom various Parts of the line the news is From the line reported this morning, that the Germans are continuing theiri very important change in the retirement, but are resisting strongly i found to be west of Fere en Tarde-at several points, especially on theinois- where the former line ran along easterly wing along tbe line of Cham-1 (Continued on page 8, column 3.) HETHFJTK HU HOTLf PRESSED Americans Take Fere en Tardenois, Enemy Supply Base Allies Pass Beyond Ris Forest; Line Extends Straight From Reims to Olizy et Violaine; Germans Expected to Retreat Beyond Veele; Take Many Prisoners. LONDON. July 29. The Ger man retreat ia continuing along the whole line, the allies closely in pursuit, according to news from the fighting area in the Soissons-Reims up to noon.

The salient, received up to noon. Germans have succeeded in checking to a certain extent, but not in stopping the French advance. The xreneh are cm tHe north bank of the Oarcq. and to the east they have secured tbe whole road between Reims and Dormaas. The Germans are stubbornly resisting and are burning villages.

Heavy figb ing la still in progress to the south of Soissons. in tbe neighborhood of Buxancy. So far the French have made no progress there. lllajses between fotsseas and Baxaehe. about 14 miles to the east, howeveit are on fire, leading ta the belief that tne Germans taay Intend a farther retreat.

Since yesterday the allies have ad vanced between two and three miles on a JO mile front, Germans Abandon Unrest Line. The enemy has definitely abandoned the lin- of the turcq, and there is little doubt now that no will go back beyond the Vesle, to the line 30 miles long between Soissons and Reims. which probablv is entrenched and has good lines of comunication. The German retirerrent has been quite orderly and deliberate. So far the taking of only four guns has been reported.

The Americans, particularly tn the Fere en Tardenels sector, are pressing the Germans very sfgstr-analy. Two lines of German trenches on two and a half mile iront astride the' Bray Corbier road, east of Amiens. nave been captured bv Australian troops, the war office announced to- day. In carrying out this oDeraiinn th-. Australians took 100 prisoners London Heperts Enemy Beaten.

I What seems the most valuable strategic result to the allies from the i German retreat Is the restoration of i the great Paris-Chateau Thierry-Cha-1 Ions railwa. by means of which the! Champagne front Is best victuallzed I and which will be an Important factor' in future military developments. The action now mav even become) stabilized between Soissons and. Reims, where the Germans apparentlvj are concentrating great forces, but I the fact remains that the enemy is I oani yoeaten He not only does not hold a single (Contlntml on page column bercy. Viile en Tardenols and Salni Gem-me.

Amcrlccns Are Praised. High tribute to the "magnificent audacity" of an American division, probably the 26th (New Is paid in an official report from the commander of the French army to which the Americana are attached. "On July 20." the report in order to free Month leres and the Pe-tret wood, severe combats were delivered by the French troops on the left. On order to relieve them, the Americans in the evening delivered a. flanking movement which fully euc-t cteded.

"With magnificent audacity they rushed forvranl with a sin-(rle bound, np to the level of Klrepeily. the Gonetrie farm and Laval-Mardler. It vras a most sadden attack. "In spite of the severe barrage and! machine gun emplacements, in which the enemy were sheltering, two kilometers in depth were sained. They also captured three cannon, a large type minenwerfer and machine gnns.

Besides. 200 prisoners fell into the hands the Americans. I ceuld not have dene better nnder the clrenmstnneea with the best troops. declared the French jteaeral tie Gentte on hearing of ihe fine sHcecKs of oar allies. "The Germans found themselves in.

such a precarious position at Mon-thleres that they had to begin to retreat." Hair New Line Runs. The allied line in the Reims-Sois- sons pocket, according to advices re ceived nere, runs today approximately as follows: Bligny. Cbambrery, vllle en Tar- Wl vueacs AgFn. Algtrnrr. Saint Gemmr.

La. Brillerie. Roacheres, Cierges. Sergy. Meuroy farm.

Fere en Tardenois. GIvray, wa-lee and Grand Rozoy. where It Joins the line running south from Soissons. At Fere Tardenois the line runs through the centra! railway station. i Tin' VV TH the American Army on th4 Ma-ne-Aisne Front, July 29.

(By Associated Press). The French and American troops were slashing vigor- I ously at the stiffening German rear I guard early today, some prospect that before night the advancing line would be close to river, Ardre. vhich. is now only a few kilometers away. The German base at Fere en Tardenels has been occupied.

I From Reims the line sow extends I almost straight southwest to Olizy ec Vollaine. Tbe forest of Ris Is now i behind the allies and they are hold ing tnamp oissy to tne norm east oc the forest. In thia regioa the Germans have the highest ground and have some advantage in the artillery duels. Counter Attack Falls. Reinforced by two crack divisions of Bavarian guards, tbe Teutons today settled down to the hardest resistance they have yet displayed against the American forces north of the river Ourcq.

Although the enemy hammered the Americans, they replied in like along the river, and the fighting shifted back and forth through Sergy. three miles southeast of Fere en Tardenois. Up to midday the Germans had been unable to force a reerosslng of the Ourcq. Yanks Capture Three Towns. Washington.

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