5 ¢ ritis RIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, IS. man Army O. 184 i | MAXIMUM ADVANCE |" "2 "Shur avo wavy [5 558 mer 10,000 HONS, 100 GUNS ENON ELVEN i jmmacr a. CAPIURED BY THE ALLIES Germans Brought to Paris by American Chaplain. ; a John 3. | & tl : snd: Veto Tomita" rouge. | In Their Big Offensive Between Albert and Mont- chalice, such as are found in every | didier-- Haig In Command --The Canadians Are Engaged in the Drive--Foch Con. Roman Catholic church in France, | { the former containing cigarette ashes | : s ceals His Intentions. yesterday is regarded, not as an at- | { Paris, Aug. 9.--Father ---- 1 The Allies Are Still Pressing on---14.000 Pri- soners And Hundreds of Guns Taken-- Germans Evacuating Lys Valley Positions on Flanders Front. (Canadian Press Despatch.) | London, Aug. 9.-- Fourteen thousand prisoners and guns | too numerons to mention have been laken in the British drive | on the front south of the Somme. The cavalry is still pursuing| i and the latter some dregs of i-| i "ysmeiling beer. These were placed on| | the desk of Monsignor Connolly,! (Canadian Press Despatch) | " { ritiah yo > " . ny > | head of the Roman Catholic ohap-| British Army Headquarters, Aug. tempt to break through, but as part | i 4 Sia: A § | lains with the Knights of Columbus, | 9.--The British heavily attacked | of a4 great strategic plan which Mar- | ] y 2 | on photographed as evidence of the | yesterday morning the enemy from 'shal Foch is carrying out, now that | 1 outrages committed against Frenc Fs ' {omic Ry © has the initiative, for the pur- { churches by the German invaders. | south of the Ancre lo where the pose of releving Amiens and for | | Father O'Leary said that Sergt. [right wing rests on the French, a recovering perfect freedom of | Hawkins, of Alabama, when he led a distance of twelve miles The | manoeuvre. { platoon into a captured dugout,found | French also took up battle and ex- | Marshal Foch by an offensive altars, vestments, statues, candel- : i | pressure on the Germans, not meve- { abras, paintings, a chalice and te ded the Sighting several miles {lv embarrasses them in the desper- peiborium, the latter having been | Hundreds of tanks moved with the | ate delaying battle they are fighting | ; : | used as a beer can, All about were| infantry. Al the first line object- | n the Vesle, in order to secure thew the-enemy. From Lihons the line now runs southward to Me- | 4 ; ; | unmistakable signs of the most cruel | ives were reached before eight | retreat across the Afsne, but threa- harigourt, southeast of Rosieres. This represents a total maxi- | b { : : { desecration. Many churches Wwill|yaio0k fa the morning. Ten thou- | tens their general position, for = if P 7 i i n + (lap is ¢ this hth . oy . tore 3 ' Ming i mum advance of eleven miles" It will be impossible for the Lie r- jes i SXHThi as evidence of, Ger | sand prisoners have been taken and | muy rive 12 pushed nougt it mans to hold their Montdidier positions, it is believed here. The . wal | the drive is pushed far enough it 3 { over one hundred guns. {apex of the Montdidier salient, Allied progress is continuing. The French have taken F resnoy- |JEWITT PLEADS GUILTY | | which threatens both Paris and en-Ghaussee, while the British have reached a point east of Le- i TO CHARGE OF BIGAMY | Amiens pouch A development, How- quesel and Caix, : | -- | Lor Sanadian Press Despatch) | ter. Is pu specul t The Germans are evacuating their positions in the Lys Val- p | Asks Immediate Sentence, But] _ "CC". Aug. 3---Tne troops oe The results gained already are ley on the Flanders front. On the Lys front British now hold Judge Remands Him For a | Bate Festentay Se . he Dritish | guttictently remarkable in them- Loeon, Le Cornet Malo Quentin, Le Petit Pacaut and Le Sart. | { Week. front was the British fourth army, selves In view of the water-logged Above the Lys region on the front north of Kemmel, the British | | { which carried out focal operation last night in which their line was advanced somewhat on a front of more than a thousand yards. | n ty RH N i Cannot Over-estimate Allied Success. (Canadian Press Despatch.) { ATE A London, Aug 9.-- The general feeling-here is that the im- ZR ORTRAR potfance of the suecessful new battle cannot be over-estimat- Miss Divi Ble a yeoman in the U.S. Navel Reserve. ed. It is regarded as the turning point of the year's campaign, services, since her recruiting feat, are in demand at Washington. and perhaps even the turning point of the whole war.. It was! a graduate of the University of Chicago, writes books, does only a month ago that all the talk of British military critics was| work, and is a lawyer, ready for the Rar. whether the Allies eould hold on in face of a great German of- ---- Canadians Engaged. included the Canadians and | ground and the fact that the enemy French first | was completely surprised in a sec- . | tor which he thought it hardest to On & conquer and which, as his. recent | counter-attack on the Ancre showed, Brockville, Aug. 9.---Joseph Er-}Australians, and the nest Jewett, the returned soldier|army. The offensive Nhe was taken inte Sustcdy Monday twenty-six mile front. ollowing the sensational suicide of| The British hav } ok the | he regarded ¢ ti tit oy ; 4 } | } $ e pushed back the | he regarded as most impor pit. | Stella Morgan, his bride of a few | . aeh gratifics 1 Sorsan, bef. 3 0 ve Rey-| German centre from five to six| Much gratification is expressed in aours, appeared before Judge Rey-| { London and Paris at the entrusting nolds, and, after pleading guilty to miles. / {bf Field Marshal Haig with the eom- the charge of bigamy, requested that! No time'is given the enemy now {mand of the operations, which he be given sentence at once. This i { shows a new development in the ine judge refused we 40, Femanding «4 : , | principle of unity of command. 0 or a week. Jew | | having a wife and child in Bristol, | ; wy The Battle Resumed. England, He is a Canadian and a . ! 2 (Canadian Press Despatch) member of the First Contingent. The |" Paris, .Aug. 9.--The battle on the was fensive which the German people had been told was to finish the war. The initiative has now been taken from the enemy and WARNED AGAINST yet been recovered from the St. Law- rence, although diligent search has been continued from a few minutes body of the young woman has not! front south Of the Somme was resum- ed early this mofning and the. Franco-British forces made favorable progress from the start, reaching within a month the Allies have engaged in two important bat- ties with conspicuous success. - Drogress from the start, reaching ful cavalry forces are in action. 'Within Mile Of Chasilnes, (Canadian Press Despateh) n, Aug, 9.~Advices from the ront south 'of the Somme to- day report the British cavalry, arm- ored cars and tanks in advance of the infantry, to have reached within a mile of 'Chaulnes raflway junction. after she was seen to disappear from her canoe, DRIED FRUITS MAY BE IMPORTED AGAIN Restrictions on Export of Prunes and Peaches From U. 8. Removed. 8 {at Chaulnes this morning. When last heard from directly they, to- gether with armored cars, were operating back of Framerville, and have now progressed many kilos metres . beyond, continuing the cleatiing up of the country and 'cap- turing villages. s Germans Preparing to Retreat. (Canadan Press Despatch) With the British Army in France, Aug. 9.---~The Germans are blowing up their amgpunition dumps in the battlesarea.. VThis is.considered an preparing | { BULCAR MOVES Bia i Sus ick Saltsnan. TORKEY 15. IN A BAD WAY POPULACE . HATES GERMANS, BUT LATTER HAVE HOLD. "indication that they are to retreat. : British ¢asualties since the be- ginning of the present drive are but three-fifthg of the number of pri- soners. counted up to three o'clock this afternoon, 3 Allied airmen have lown up many of the bridges over the Somme river, and thé enemy's retreat is seriously embarmissed. The British cavalry has rounded up many pri- soners, But the largér pant of the fourteen thousand so far taken were captured by Amstralians and Can- adians. This - probably indicates that' the Canadians are heavily in the present fighting. Canddian troopers co-operating with French cavalry out off a large force of the enemy in to-day's opera- tions on the Somme front. Cavalry patrols accompanied by swift "whippel" tanks are reported by the airmen far out ahead of the infan- which runs southward from Chaul- iry advancs.. The et ty | nes and forms the chlef artery of places was AD en vy ty px ush | Supplies for the Geiman troops De eal inability pus: fighting in the Montdidier sector of oder al the front. The results of this at- This afternoon the Shem 8 transe tack loosed against the Germans on port lorries have been oO ey ong the Amiens «front Thursday morning \ Lhe. few joad Jouds Horded ex. ]APDears to have eclipsed those ob- Somme valley, They ho | t¢ined by the Germans on the first cNlent targets for airmen, who l,,, 'Gr any of their terrific offen. played havoc with the escaping con- sives of the past spring and' Sum. voys and the speedily littered roads mer. 'So far as reports Show, the 80. that they were imapssable. + progres of the fighting south of the British cavalry and some infantry Somme, the Allies are going forward S---- German Major-General Take.n (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 9.---It is reported that a prominent German divisional major-general has been captured in to-day's drive by the British forces in France, Ottawa, Aug. 9---Arrangements| have been completed by the Canada Food Board by which the restrictions recently placed on the exportation | of dried 'prunes and dried peaches by the United States for the War Trade Board have been removed in 80 far as Canada is foncerned. Al- though there is no exportable surplus of these products, the policy has been adopted of allowing the Dominion a [lO reconstruct. mis forces. reasonable percentage. Importation! keeping them on the move. into Canada will be allowed only un- der permits issued by the Canada Food Board, THE BIGGEST SALMON SEASON IN 20 YEARS Some Canneries Have Already Put up More Than Entire Pack of 1917. Prince Rupert, B.C., Aug. 9.-- Fishermen and cannerymen agreed | that the indications are that the big- gest salmon season in twenty years is before them. The sockeye and "humpback al- ready have appeared in the Skeens, and - some canners have put up more than their entire pack last sea- Splendid British Aerial Work, (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 9.--In aerial fighting Wednesday, preceding the offensive in Picardy, British accounted for twenty-two German machines, fifteen of which were destroyed. Eighteen 3 tons of bombs were dropped during FIELD MARSHAL HAIG | fino day and night. One British mas chine is missing, \ - Developing Victoriously. (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, Aug. 9 (noon) --Reports re- ceived to this hour of fighting on the Franco-British front indicate that it GerMan Lines Badly Broken. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Aug. 9.~The Associated Press war summary says: German lines on the Picardy front south of the Somme have been badly broken by the savage thrust of the British and French armies. A wedge has been driven into the enemy terri- tory to the depth of eleven miles along the Amiens-ChauMpes-La Fere railway and early to«day the British were only one "mile away from the [Chaulnes-Roye railway, The Young Turk Party Governs (With an Iron Hand--Expect Ger- ans Will be Able to Gain at Ppace Conference. hens, Aug. 9.--Bulgaria is en- gaged in a peace offensive synehron- izing with the German movement in the same direction, according to Alexander Oarapanos, former minis- ter of foreign affairs. She is play- ing particularly upon the friendly sentiment existent, at least in pari of Great Britain, and the United States, hé asserts. "The rumors of a possible about- face on 'the pavt of Bulgaria have been confirmed by M Michalakoupou los, our minister of agriculture, who has. returned from London whither he went on a special missfon," de- Foch is Haig in Command. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig is in direet command of the opera- tiong between Albert and Mont- | 18 developing most victoriously for didigr, having as his lientenant Sir [the Allies. Julian Byng, that brilliant expert of - tank warfare. War Tidings. Hundreds of light British "whip- The Bolsheviki and Germans have Det" tanks paved the way for the agreed that the Germans shall ad- assaulting infantrymen 'who went | vance no further into Russia, and the over the top after a British bom- | Bolsheviki will fight the Allles and bardment lasting only three min- Szecho-Slovaak. utes, and a French artillery pre Late on Thursday afternoon the paration of forty minutes. De- | despatches indicated continued pro- spatches emphasize the fact that the | gress by the British and French in enemy whs taken completely by | the new drive, surprise. He had expected an at-| tack on.that front, and had already + partially earried out retirements in | order to evade the threatened blow. The offensive, however, was launch- MARSHAL FOCH PANIO IN RHINELAND, Germans Extremely Nervous of Al- lied Air Attacks. i Washington, Aug. 9.~--Documents captured My British airmen betray the state of excitement which pre- vails along Germany's Rhineland be- cause of the persistent bombing by English aviators, They alse show that in one case where the Germans reported having successfully bombed certain objectives behind the Allies' lines they did not come within fif- PENS THE BOLSHEVIKY, Démoralized Troops Hold Only One were signalled in the neighborhood AA AN - A FOCH Foch, Field Marshal of France, was bori Oétober 2, 1851. He saw war first at the siege of Paris in 1871. When he was appointed to the come mand of the Allied armies, chard Barry wrote of him in eo 'New York Times, as fol- ows: xy . : "He has arrived; a Pyrenean with the aquiline nobe of a con- queror; five feet six inches in height, 165 pounds in weight, 66g possessing tal qualifications that Machiav- -ellt declared essential to amy tionalist 1ouR 1" 83 A panther, Government's Irish policy, almost without serious opposition. On the north bank of the stream the Germans have held thelr lines strongly, but have lost Morlancourt, their stronghold 'there, after hard fighting. 17,000 Prisoners Taken. London, Aug. . 9. More an seventeen thousand prisoners %ad been captured by the Allies in the Somme drive up to noon to-day, ac cording to advices this afternoon. More than 200 guns have beén tak- en. New Home Rule Bill. 'London, Aug. 9.--Replying to an inquiry by Johm Dillon, the Na- leader, concerning the Edward Shortt, the Secretary for Ireland, announced in the House of Com- mons yesterday that he would be en- gaged during the recess in helping to draft a Home Rule Bill which would be likely to pass the House, " Aug. 9.--iieut-Col. who raised the Toronto, John A. , "198th (Buffs) Battalion in Toronto, and took. them overseas, and ' who 'was formerly editor of the Canadian Courier, has issued a writ at Os- teen miles of the targets they sought. The state of nervousness along the Rhine 1s shown by - evidence that when the Allied bombers were over Coblenz alarms were rung in Co- logne, many miles away, and work stopped. - 1,300,000 Frenchmen Killed. Ne: York, Aor. 9.-Marcel Knec member of the French High Commission. to the United States, in an address at the annual convention of the Knights of Columbus here, said 1,300,000 French soldiers had been killed, and 1,200,000 wounded in the war. : _ Spain Protests To Germany, {Canadian Press Despateh) Madrid, Aug. 9.--Afor a. long Cabinet session; Spain has addresséd another serious grotest to Germany concerning the submarining of Span- ish ships. ¥ 3 claves M. Carapanos in an interview printed in the- Messenger, of this eity. i . "Bulgaria is employing her old method of blackmailing her Allies in order to obtain the largest poss- ible sections of the territories of her neigfhbor and is exploiting the eternal philo-Bulgar Hlusion in Am- erican and England, a proceeding which has been employed; particul- arly of jate." ! -- Bulgar-Turkish Quarrel. Zurich, Aug. 9.-- The strained re- lations which exist between Turkey and Bulgaria are causing anxiety at erlin. . How profound is Tarkey's j nt misery may be gathered from the following report received from a highly placed neutral, who arrived here after a long residence at Constantinople. "The hatred of the Germans," he 4 t masses of the population. Yet Tur- key was never more effectively un- said, "is wery bitter among der control and domination than she to-day. son. Many fishermen are cleaning up Naden Harbor one seine took in a thousand salmpn at one haul. In one night a six-man crew landed 3,- 000 fish, -------------- LOBSTERS NEED PROTECTION. Fisheries Convention Told Drastic Methods Are Needed. sion of the Canadian Fisheries Con- vention was held yesterday. Two pa- pers were read, one on "Lobster Pro- tection," by Dr. A. P, Knight, of Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., the other on "Standards in Market- ing," by T. W. C. Binns, of Montreal. Lengthy discussion fol¥wed on each paper. Dr. Knight advocated drastic methods of proteeting the lobster catch. Mr. Binns accused retailers of apathy, : from forty to fifty dollars a day, In| Halifax, Aug. 9.--The fourth ses-| ed before the foe had completed ar- rangements to meet it, and at the moment when at least one of his di- visions was being reHeved. Foch Concauls Thtentions. The extension of the fighting front toward Montdidier by the French strongly suggests that Mar- shal Foch is using the present drive to threaten a break through at this dangerous corner, uniess Von Hin- denburg immediately brings up strong' supporting units. To find fresh reinforcements would gravely disorganize Von Hin- denburgh's disposition of his re- serves for the retention of the Che- min des Dames against Franco-Am- erican assaults north of the Vesle and the Aisne. Until it is seen how Von Hindenburg meets his threat Marshal Foch will doubtless refuse to reveal his future intentions. They may consist of a continuance of the Present offensive east of Amiens, or a new drive led by the Americans north of the Vesle may be ordered. Virtually all the. ground before the Allies is of an open .nature, es- pecially suitable for the operation of tanks and for a rapid advance. What reserves the Germans have at the rear are uncertain, Large Place Now, Amsterdam, Aug. = 9.---Geheral Denikine, former chief of staff of the Russian army, who is now opposing the Sovet Government, has penned the Bolsheviki forces in the narrow space between Taman, Cis-Caucasia, and Yekaterinodar, capital of the Territory of the Kuban, according to despatches received here from Kiev, Novorossysk on the east coast of the Black sea, is now the only large place in the hands of the Bolsheviki, whose Hops are reported tg be demoral- zed, ens 2 ORDERED TO SIGN TREATY, : -- No Camouflage; Told Mast Do What Germany Says, 7 Patis, Aug. 9.--A Finland and representatives of sian Bolsheviki are now fn Berlin arranging a t ¥ of peace between those countries, The treaty was already made for them by the German Foreign Officg when they ar- rived, and they have been told to sign it rather than discuss it. 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