re & PAGES 18 USNC CAVALRY AS RESERVES Foch Employs New Tactics Sins He hs Samed Sepreme Coir, GIE GREATER MOBILITY VIEW OF SWIFT HORSEMEN 18 A DASHING SIGHT Foch Is Insuring for Them a Glori- ous Chance When the Pressure of the Allies Becomes Extensive. Washington, July 27.--8killful use of French cavalry has marked Gen- eral Foch's tactics ever since he took over control of the allied armies as supreme commander, according to in- formation reaching military circles here. The horsemen have played an important role in the whole battle of 1918, as the struggle which be- gan March 21st with the first Ger- man drive has come to be known. The employment of the swift- moving mounted columns in the present counter-stroke from the Alsne-Marne line has been noted in the dispatches. Again, General Foch took advantage of the great mobility of the mounted men to throw them in wherever his advancing infantry units were in danger of losing touch with one another in the heat and confusion of the contest. No gaps have been left where the enemy might strike back, for always the horsemen' came up to fill the .hole until the infantry line could be rec- tified and connected in a solid front The same tacties marked the first use of French cavalry in the battle of Picardy, when the French took over eighty-eight kilometers of front from the British to permit the latter to mass reserves it seriously threat- ened points of the line further north. A French cavalry corps, complete with Hght artilléry, armored cars, . and cyclists, arrived first ou the scene in Picardy and relieved the British. The cavalrymen fought it out afoot until the heavy French infantry ar- rived and took over the task. Three days later the horsemen ware. on the move again, this time hurrying to the front where the en- emy was hitting hard at the Lys linei They rode hatd as the advance guard of the French infantry col- umns marching toward St. Omar. In the first twenty-four hours, despite the long strain of fighting in Picardy, they covered 125 kilometers without loging a man of a horse on the way. In sixty-six Hours they had transfer- red their whole corps over 200 kilo-| meters and arrived east of Mont Cas- "It was a wonderful sight," wrote the Chief of Staff of a division. "The horses were in fin ondition, the men were cheerful and 'went in 200,000 GERMANS Americans Have Inflicted 50,~ 000 Casuaities--Prisoners ' American Army on the July 27.-- With With the Aisne-Marne Front, the sides of the Soissons-Rheims sack coming steadily © closer to- gether, the German Crown Prince's generals are driving their men mercilessly in an effort to hold the Allies off long enough to extricate the armies threatened at the bot tom, north of the Marne. . The [American and French are never far behind the retreating forces, and the vicious rear-guard actions are not sufficiently resist- ant to enable the (Germans to pro- ceed in the jprderly amanner plan- ned. ' It is estimated unofficially that the enemy losses are more than 200,000. The prisoners alone num- ber over 26000, and the losses in dead and wounded are appalling War Tidings. The British brought down seventy-six enemy planes and fit- teen was put out of commission 'during the past week. The Siberian government (pro- bably that set up by General Hor- vath) has resigned, says a Vliadivo- stock despatch to the London Times. There are overseas On Saturday morning Franco-Am- erican troops moved ahead, bringing them nearer to the road junction of Fere eu Tardenois. Germans stub- bornly fighting as they retire. British casualties for the week, 12,893. 1,250,000 Americans - past SUB GOT "BIG SHIP" OFF NOVA SCOTIA Commander Told Nonchalant- ly of 8ending 6-Year-0ld Child Adrift With Crew Gloucester, Mass., July 27.--The German U-boat that sank the Glouges- ter fishing schooner Robert and Rich- ard off the Maine coast last Monday had attacked and destrbyed "a big ship" a few nights before, according to a remark made to Captain Robert Wharton, of the fishing schooner by the German officer who boarded the vessel, It was not until to-day that Captain Wharton recalled the remark. While 'the U-boat - officer was searching the cabin of the schooner he picked up a phdtagraph of Capt Whartoti's young sons, Robert and Richard, for whom the boat was named. Commenting on the sturdy appearance of the boys, he added: "We got a big ship a few nights ago and turned the crew adrift. Among them was a boy six years old. It was pretty* rough that night, and | doubt if they got ashore." Captain Wharton said that when he first sighted the submarine it was coming from the north, a course which might indicate that the "bgi ship" was sunk off the Nova Scotia coast. 'The German did not say weheacthér the ship was a steamer or sailing vessel, to STRAINING AT LEASH. in Flanders are Eager British Attack. Paris, July 27. --The Journal's corre- Spondent at the front telegraphs as H "Poel fi iastér of the situa- singing in ~of the ings and privations they had to endure." The cavalry corps stood in support 'of the British for ten days in April after the enemy had forced the line held by the Portuguese division. It maintained commupication between two British armies and organized the ground from Mont Cassel to Mont Kemme! while the French Army moved up behind it. Later, at the battle of Locre, the cavalry blocked gaps in the line, and the final definite occupation of the town was accomplished by a cavalry battalion. A few days afterward the same cavalry, after another long ride, met the enemy advance against Villers- Cotterets Woods, in the Aisne sector, where the fighting today is waging fiercely and where the Germans drove forward in their eNort to get around the forest to Compiegne, the en blocked the road between the. wooded region and the River Oureq: In view of this record for swift 'movement and dashing attack afoot, IY appears to have estab a new place for itself in mod- | warfare. The troopers are the | reserves, who are always hurl- ed first a point of danger to until slow-moving infantry ves géneral Foch is making use im in & way, it is believed, that ¢ hem a glorious chance @ day comes for the Allies to drive back all along the line. I ------ee 3 Playfair 'iron mines have closed down temporarily. Difficulty in get- ting labor is given as the reason. as Reserves: Sol. {Ma Lett of Land. Incidents of Twilight; Father of tion, and ifthe British. troops are not attacking now. in order to relieve the pressure on the French it is in ae- cordance with the commander-in- chief's orders, "The last has not yet been heard of the German reserves and the possibili- ties along the Flanders coast. The three years I have passed among our Allies enables me to know how they are straining at the leash, awaiting' the order to advance. Let us be pa- tient. A great. time is in store for the armies of the British Empire." RAF, CADETS KILLED, Tragedies at Deseronto and Beams- ville. * Deseronto, July 27.--S8econd Lieut. E. 1. Morley was killed and Cadets H. F. Allardice was seriously injured in a flying accident at 11.30 a.m. yesterday near Camp Rathbun. Morley was a son of Ed- ward Morley, Londo, Ont. Allar- dice is married, d. his wife lives at 52 Gloucester street, Toronto. Hamilten, July 27.---While mak- ing a solo flight at Beamsville aero- drome this morning Cadet T. C. Dunbar, Haileybury, was killed. The machine crashed to the ground ablaze and he was burned beyond recognition. Perth Boy | Prom. oted. Perth, 27 --W._ E. Burris, a for- mer P@ Pa has been, promoted to the position of manager of the Victo- ria, B.C, plant of the Foundation Company, who are building warships for the United States navy. Their plant at Tacoma, Wash., is the larg- est shipbuilding plant in the United State as: ten runways, and em- ploys 5.000 men, with a weekly payroll 0 » \ Bought Mine. Perth. July 27.--A Cleveland, Ohio, firm has made a purchase from T. B. Caldwell of the iron pyrites at Clyde Forks. and will take out ure for he manufacture of chemicals. The firm wants electric gower from Cala to which end it is making surveys a power line to Barryvale. } ARE LOST IN SACK KINGSTON, oNTARIO, SATURDAY. J U LY mrerr--------o------------------------ oy 27, 1918. i | { BAD SOLDIERS STEAL THE PROG General's Order Couched in Curiously Mild Language Without thout Ady Threats. SUPPLY TRAINS LOOTED OTHER ORDERS REVEAL ALMOST INCREDIBLE EXCESSES pc Considering the Iron Nature of Ger. man: Discipline the Soldiers Will Not Feel Marmed at Orders. With the British Army in France, Tuesday, July 27.-0Of peculiar sig- nificance, as indicating the shortage of rations and the deteriorating mor- are.of the German troops, is an order, written over a month #go, by Gen. von Boehm, commander of the Sev- enth Army. The Seventh Army has borne the full weight of the Foch counter-offensive on the west, and its divisions around Soissons suffered heavily at the hands of the Ameri- cans, while those east. of Chateau Thierry were thrown back across the Marne by the pressure of the French Gen. von Boehm, in his order, de- plores. the lack of discipline which resulted in the pillaging of stores in the back areas during'the advances in May, when all edible booty found in the wake of the retiring French speedily vanished, instead of being distributed among the hungry troops in due proportions. The pillaging of the back areas, of which von Boehm complains, appears to have become widespread. Recent orders issued by the commanders of the Eighteenth and Second Armies, opposite the British, have revealed excesses which seem almost {pered- ible, nsidering that the German military machine had been notorious for its iron discipline. Trains have been held up and the guards killed and provisions carried away by gangs of desperate soldiers intent upon sat- _|isfying their hunger even if they are shot for it. y As a rule the troops in the front line are well fed, and prisoners re- cently taken corroborate this, but in order to supply them with adequate provisions, the rations of the divis- fons resting or training in the back areas are cut down to a minimum, and the amount doled out to each man today is not sufficient to satisfy his normal needs. All the orders issued on the de- cadence of discipline have been couched in euriously mild language, being in effect more of an appeal than d threat, as though the Higher Command realized that the men were in a dadgerous mood and disinclined to submit to severe punishment. BATTALION OF GERMANS w¥ Were With the German Ambassador Ta Moscow. The expeditious manner in which the troops of the allied forces handled the transportation of ammunie tion was largely responsible for os anving the Huns back. This is indeed a busy scene. 4 i AUTO COLLIDED WITH HOESE. Motor Car Was Uonsider- ably Smashed (From Our Own Correspondent.) Napanee, July One of the oldest and most respected residents of 'Adolphustown in the person of Rickerson H. Hawley died at his home on July 18th 'in his seventy- third year. . Deceased leaves, be- sides hig wife, two children, George Melville, Sask., famd Miss Ethel trained nurse, Toronto. While returning from a picnic at Varty Lake on Wednesday evening about ten o'clock one of the autos collided with a horse and buggy. in front of Maddle's Bardware = store. The auto was considerably smashed and the horse weceived a couple of nasty cuts about the head; caused by..the wind shigll of the car breaking avhen "ie twe came to- gether. $ J.B, Linte Current, And the 27. Wallace and daughter, is visiting his moth- er, whois quite ill Harf§ B. Scott, Cardston, Alta,' who: has been spending a month with hid parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. E. Stott, leaves Monday for his home in the west The heat for thé past two or days has beem intense, the ther- mometer registering $0 degrees Mrs. 'Dr. Edwards has returnad from Bancroft for the spmmer months. y ESCAPED FROM THE AUSTRIANS. Italians Tramped Through Siberia --Reached Japan and States. Dennison, Ohio, July. 27 ---Jscap- ing from the Austrians and making their way through Siberia to Japan, 500 Italian soldiers passed through here last night en route to an At- lantic port, where they will sail 'for Italy by way of the Mediterranean. The men were captuied by the Aus- trians while fighting on the Piave front and were impressed into ser- vice in the Austrian army operating in Russia. Several months ago they rebelled and marched afool to Siberia and thence to Japan, where they were put on a ship and trans- ported to an American Pacific port. . The Italians told of their éxperi- ences when the train stopped here. Many ef their nomber died from exposure while travelling through Siberia. They said altogether 1,- 000 Italians escaped from the Aus- trians, some of their number hav ing passed through here several days ago. bound for an port. . They declared that 7,000 Italians have been forced to fight in the Austrian armies in Russia. Motor trucks and passenger cars for use in the army have been stand- ardized, the United States war de- partment" announced, and orders have been placed for 75,000 of all types. . ' Construction of the bridge over the Mississippi river near. Cross Roads Farm, on the Carleton-Lanark road, is proceeding rapidly. three | Atlantic] MANY STAYED IN THE TOWN After the Germans: Came Into Posstssion of Chateau Thier. WERE NOT BADLY TREATED 200 INHABITANTS LIVED IN THE CELLARS. SOME The Night. Before the Reéfrést They Were Sent to the Church--Old Wo- man Said in Return For Consider ation Shown She Attended Wound- ed Huns, Herbert Bailey With the American Army France, July 26. --A week ago a Ger- man long range gun. in the early morning startled the inhabitants of towns far behind the lnes and im- mediately there was a closing of shops, packing of bags apd assem- bling of refugees which once more told of a German offensive. The roads which that week had been strangely quiet sprang by night into a bustling thoroughfare. For several days the issue hung 'In the balance, Then one morning last week we were told American troops had gone over the top near Soissons, We knew Foch's great counter-stroke had come. Our feelings were at once changed into peculiar satisfaction whieh swept away in a few minutes all the forebodings associated with pretreat as the psychological move of Foch's effort certainly succeeded Faces that had been grim were transformed into smiling happiness, To-day one can pass through vil- lages, or what remains "of them, which a week ago were starting points of an offéensive. Cavalry, ar- mored cars and troops are pushing hurriedly toward the retreating foe. Far away in the distance last night I could see star shells-and the Am- ericans were searching for the re- treating enemy. The Germans evacuated Chateau Thierry at four o'clock in the morn- ing. The last four telephonists were subsequently captured at 8.20. Two hours later I was talking with in- habitants who remained in the town and spent an hour-and a halt wan- dering about the place, si It is difficult to interpret in mere words the emotions ' of these people. A poor old lady of 87, with tears in her eyes, grasped my hand fervently to bid welcome. She told me that By in not paying for what they had taken, treated her well and she in return looked after their wounded whole period of some day the soldiers of France oad once more enter Chateau h other inh i about inabitante a iby the shoulders and in a quivering ting hands how they had the Germans, except for a habit of She lived in a cellar during the ocen pation, having little to eat, but living in hope that | | Che Daily British Whig a LAST 'EDITION ep elie erirten The Germans had left, taking everything, and leaving behind a derelict town. It seemed | {88 if an earthquake had visited it. An old man grashed me od it | to the church. voice told me how pleased he was to see some one froin the other side again. He shook me in his emotion and, forgelling 'everything, kissed me warmly on the cheek. Others told me aftér hearty shake lived in their cellars. Among them were young children gnd a number of pretty misses. I asked one of three girls why she did not leave before the Germans entered. "I could net leave mother," she said, "and, be-; sdes, why should I retreat from the! Germans?" She seemed proud she had refused to leave the town and had certainly faced more perils than the majority her fellow- prisoners. When I told them the fews from the fronts they were overjoyed. A woman who had a little girl told me her husband was a French pri- soner and had been a prisomer in Germany for three years. All the time shells were ling overhead We saw French cavalry and armored cars giving chase to the enemy, who then were not far outside the town. There is nothing so exhilarating ag seeing bright-eyed men advsacing all round. The roads were all torn up by shellfire and at every interval barbed wire defences made of boxes filled with earth barred our pro- gress, while on the height which dominates the town from the north trees were strewn acrosg the road Several shells had fallen through the roof of the fine churah in tue centre of the town. The hotel de ville is a complete wreck and houses have gaping sides with beds flung in all kinds of positions, floors holding nothing but masonry and broken furniture is every- where. One road in the direct line of whist- n e a 4 0 e @ K There are notices on the doors in German signifying where superior officers, including the commander, lived, always emiling with the for- midable "verboten" {no way here). In these places loaves of bread, uni- forms, coat hats, bayonets and rifles were cast about. The enemy in the hurry of his departure, flung everything aside looking for the right thing. Empty wine bottles lying about the cellars. told of carousals. One thing the enemy did with customary thoroughness was _de- struction of everything he could not take away. 1 visited the heights outside over which the enemy re-|' treated, and met the last four Ger- mans who left the town being tak- en to the rear in charge of French] cavalrymen. The artillery was fir] ing att"round and 'American troops were' moving through the town with happy-looking French soldiers, and pressing on. a a h € 8 8 f d e am ------ t NOT ONE TRAIN LEFT SOISSONS Germans Unable | to Use Main Artery of Retreat For Days. 8 - 4 Paris, July 27.--Overcoming the resistance which every day Wecomes firmer; the French, American -and British troops, fighting the Ger- mans in the pocket which pushed the French line toward the Marne, is slowly but resolutely advancing. Guns have been brought up and hoth groups of --belligérents are fighting now; not only with infantry but also artillery. The Allied heavy guns, together with the light Am- erican guns, placed upon armored lorries are continually pounding the roads and railroads behind the en- emy's lines and disturbing all traf- fic. So efficient has this bombard- ment been for more than a week that not a single train has been able to leave Soissons in any direction. The same condition applies to road traffic--automobiles; lorries, troops and guns---on the national Chateau Thierry4Soissons road. This road is Ludendorft's main artery for an eventual retreat. For several days he has had to give up using the thoroughfare and troops, con- stantly being rushed forward to stem the 'Allied advance, have to use a small and badly-built road running through a hilly, wooded region. ¢ t v d t t "HOW MANY SONS : HAVE YOU LOST?" Question Wired to Kaiser By Swiss Editor t Answered. Geneva, July. 27.-- "How many sons has 'Your Majesty lost? How many have been wounded or mautl- lated?" \ These questions, incorporkted in a telegram, were sent to the i § man Emperor by Pastor Dryand. founder of the new Liberal Garman- American paper, Friednsruf (Peace Cally, of Zurich. "In the event that there hye been no casualties in the Imperial family," whe telegram continues, "we demand an tmmediate expla- na TOF William has not replied. t t f when of fire has all roofless houses E with German bodies, in La Fere forest. keeping up a heavy fire, but thelr ed. The poinis occup Friday, the Daily Mail. ing space has arrived, and both approximately French took 200 prisoners In* ils operation, says, els of wheat this year. more, by grazing -eattle b from othef parts of Alberta it make up to a considerable pre i NOTHING LEFT OF LAND TAKEN By (he Germans in the Great Attack on wn ARE NEARING THE SUMMIT ¢ OF THE PLATEAU OVERLOOKING PERE EN TARDENIS, S---- > Gen. Gouraud Has Recovered Terris Taken On July 14th--The Giround Covered With German .Dead--The . Crown Prince's Re- serves Have Been Exhausted. ' (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, July 27.--News from the tory Adsne-Marne battle front still con- tinues favorable The enemy retains othing of the ground they conquer- d in the great attack of July 16th long the Marne" The Allies have ade important advances southwest t Rieims and, yesterday, took eigh- teen hundred prisoners, With the capture of Oulchy le Cha- teau the Allies are nearing the sum- mit of the pleateau overlooking Pére n Tardenis. To the east of Rheims, General Gouraud has recovered virtually the * ntire line abandoned by the French the Germans made the on- laught on the night of July 14th. verywhere the ground Is covered Theré is Mitle change in the oper- tions south of Solssons. The French nd Amerieans are advancing further The Germans are fforts are ineffectual. The Gérmans, according to' de- patches from the front, have used ixty-five divisions on the Champagne ront and the whole of the Crown Prince's reserves have been exhaust- d 'Allfed offensive has slowed own but has not been checked, The French and Americans still continue to advance in La Fere forest. Germans since last evening attack- d in considerable strength at two places along the British lines but ae- complished nothing, K cae or Breathing London jo iy 9. 1 Deroy by the Amer roops slackened considerably - on says the correspondent of Time for a breath- recovering from ides are the ex- haustion of their first efforts. Some 30,000 Prisoners. (Canadian Press Despateh) Paris, July 27.--The number of German _prisopers captured by the Allieg since the beginning of : the ounter-offensive is placed at thirty housand by the Havas Agency. The American troops have dis- covered al Brecy, north of Chateau- Thierry, man _super-cannon which bombard- ed the towns behind the front and perhaps Paris emplacements of the Ger- Moving Steadily Onward. (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, July 27>-Further ad- ances were scored by the French last night in the region immediate I y to the north of the Marne In the istrict where the Germans 'have been clinging to the river, the War Office F north of Pont-a-Binsch. Champagne front the French cds ried out a local operation in the re- glon south out a' name, as 4 result of which announced to-day. The rench lines were advanced to the On the of the mountain with- heir lines were advanced nearly wo-thirds of a mile on a front of two miles, Peace River Crops. Ottawa, July .27.--J. D. MeAr- hur, the railway contractor, has arrived in Otfawa from the Peace - River distriet. He speaks with en- husiasm of the cro hat section of the v "The Peace River distriet," 'he "will produce 5,000,000 or the shortage in the bay crop n rovines. arid sections of the prov Bailt Ww. Washington, world's record &truction has been establish the Mare Island -( yard, in the o Ward. seventy days alter eo keel was laid, the Navy nounced to-day.