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GERMAN ASSAULTS ~ NOT EFFECTIVE 12PAGES ' YEAR 85: NO. 165 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1918. The Daily British Whig ' PAGES 14 - v LAST 8DITION They Penetrated Allied Lines At One Point Bourdonnerie But At Many Other Places Their Efforts Were Not At All Successful. : (Canadian Press Despatch.) Paris, July 17.--The Germans last night threw new forces into the hattle on the front south of the Marne and attacked the Allied lines north of St. Agnan. The enemy succeeded in pehe- trating into Bourdonnerie. The battle is continuing in the woods immediately to the south of this point. On the front fur- ther to the east the French held the enemy in the southern out- skirts of the Bouguiénv Wood and al the village of Nesles. ; A powerful attack likewise was made by Germans in the di- rection of Moeaveisin but they were driven from this localily by. a French counter-attack. Rheims fighting developed violently in Courton Wood. On the front between the Marne and The Germans attacked in the Veigny region on-this front but their assault here broke down completely. Along the line to the east of Rheims the Germans delivered local attacks notably in Prunay region. There efforts by the enemy were fruitless. mopt the enemy suffered a sanguinary repulse, In the renewed assaults upon Beau- The French positions throughout fhe region lo the east of Rheims were maintained intact. | Crucial Test of German Tactics. London, July 17.---The present offensive will be the crucial . test of the value of the German scheme of relying mainly on shock troops, consisting of battalions formed by extracting all the best men from their infantry and constituting them into a species of military aristocracy. rmany's ordinary infantry is unable to retain the gains made by her shoek troops, which intensifies the strain on the latter and othe German war organization. The fighting of her shock troops is admittedly fine but at the ex the quality of her other troops. ndon, July 17.-- The position of the Allies at the present stage of the German offensive in France is said to be distinctly satisfactory. The French losses are stated to have been very small. They have lost no guns, reports declare. The casualties sustained by the German troops in the offensive up to the pres- ent are estimated to number a hundred thousand according to news received in London to-day from the battle front in France. i Germans In Perilous Position. : (Canadian Press Despatch.) ; : On French Front in France, July 18.-- Forty-eight hours have sufficed for holding of the German masses launched in the CGrewn Prince's great offensive on Monday. The enemy units which were turned back from the direction of Paris and are en- deavoring to ascend the Marne are being¥held in clieek by the French troops. The position of the German columns which had, gained a footing on the seuth bank of Marne has heeome peril- | 98téd July 13th, hasexpressed a will- ous, while to the east of Rheims the German efforts fo advance have each Lime been foiled. It has been found lately that pense of the fighting on - TWO BRIDGES FILLED WITH GERMANS DESTROYED BY FRENCH AIR SQUADRON Paris, July 17. An official statement on the work of the aviators in the / present operations, says: "From the opening of the battle our aviators took an active part; espe- cially on the Marne. Despite the thick curtain of smoke which concealed the bridges th¥own over by the enemy, our squadrons discovered and attacked them, flying at a low altitude. They destroyed two bridges filled with troops who were precipitated into the river." } Attacks by machine guns and bombs were carried out on convoys and columns debouching on the north bank of the Marne. Our escadrilles engaged enemy aviators during the" battle with good results: Forty-one airplanes were | were set afire, , SEER PIREFI PER P PPR BE RPE E a i %s CANADIAN PRISONERS * MAY OOME HOME. %* Londo, July 17.---The new # prisoners war agreement will, % if confirmed + ments, mean the return home by the Govern- # ~r * * * * * + pe +* brought down or put oui-of action and nine captive balloons rm TO RECOVER SHIPS =~, SUNK BY U-BOATS Electrically-Driven Diving Ma- chine Cli With Mag- nets tens, Ps New York, July 17.--An elec ti jeally-driven diving machine, de- Asignod to make p@ssible the recovery at steel vessels sunk by German submarines, iwas given a successful private test in Long Island "Sound to-day. ' The machine, which carries. a craw of two men, is equipped with propellers capable of driving it di- rectly to the side of a submerged rge and transmitted by cable. 'A riveting attachment is in- " | tgnded to ifasten pontoons to th vessel. - : . In the test 'the machine went ¢ldown in 98 feet of water and the surface a heavy brought to steel plate. ---- ITALIANS IN ADVANCE CAPTURE TOWN OF BERAT - who have cleared the Albanian coast - CZECHS T0 TRY FOR ISKUTSH The Dictator of Siberia Wil Facilitate the Transport. 0 CROSS. MANCHA PERMISSION WILL ' BE ASKED FROM CHINA. The Bolshevik Leaders Have Taken Alarm' Over the Situation And Will Likely Flee to Mangolia~A Town In the Trans-Batkal Region, - London, July 17.--Gen. Horvath, recently proclaimed ruler of Siberia, says a Pekin despatch to the Times, ingness to facilitate the movement of Czecho-Siovak troops toward the trans-Baikal region over the Chinese Eastérn Railroad. The (Czechs pro- pose to immediately attempt to reach Irkutsk with a view to resuming com- munication with their compatriots in Western Siberia, and will - formally ask the Chinese Government for per- mission to traverse Manchuria. There are indications, the despatch adds, that some of the Austrian prisoners in Siberia are anxious to join the ranks of the Czechs. Prepdring To Flee, (Canadian Press Despatch) London July 17.--Reports receiv- ed in Tokio state that the Bolshevik leaders in Irkutsk region have taken alarm at the coup executed by the anti-Bolshevik elements at Vladivos- tok and are preparing to flee towards Mongolia, Paken Another Town, | Pekin, July 17.--The town of Klu- tshevek, in the southwestern extrem- ity of .the Trans-Baikal region, has bee: en ge cupied by the Czecho-Slovak for i following the capture of Irku- tsk. The Bolsheévikl are reported concentrating at Verhenudinsk. Supreme Court to Sie. (Canadian Press De ch) Ottawa, July 18.---The extraordinary" hot weather of the Supreme Court of. opens to-morrow to hear argument sitting Canada y Edward Grey, Nipissing, which 1s' in the nature of a case affecting the famous order-in- council under whieh - Sxefuptions 'were {a v Leading lawyers of Canada will be 'and the issue affects the entire machinery of the MSA. . A i ip i -- BER AT Berat, next to Elbasan, the most im operation by shelling the routea Austrians, time French troops, operating in the valley of the Timorica, that river and the Devoli, with the exception of a sm A in the habeag corpus case of Private' George > portant town in Southern Albania, as for as the Sem nl River, oas been captured by the Italians, British cod Italian war ships alded in this who are rapidiy retreating toward Durazzo and Elbasan, At the same have cleared the enemy from the all mountain area east of their confluence. quatry between HORVATH IS STRONG MAN. Men Associated With Him Are Pro- minent, London, July 1%.--'The claims of two rival Siberian Governments Horvath's and Derber's--are dis- cussed in a series of despatches from the Harbin correspondent of the Daily Mail, who strongly sup- ports Lieut.-General Horvath and urges the Allies to give him recog- nition and aid. * The Horvath Government, he says, includes the most prominent figures in the commercial, industrial and agricultural life of the Siberian continent, and must not be confused with the autonomous Government of Siberia, otherwise known as Der- ber's Government, from the name of its leader. The Derber Government lived in a railway 'car, at Harbin, plaintively seéking recoknftion from the Allies. On the other hand, the Horvath Government promises to be acceptable to nine-tenths of the population of Siberia. The corres- pondent says that General Horvath is a man of action, and, though not immune to criticism, may be eon- fidently recommended to the offices of the Allies. LEFT BRIDE IN BELGIUM. Soldier Husband Wants to Bring Her to Canada. Chatham, July 17.---Alphonse von de Viere, of Raleigh Township, is asking Mayor Clemens to Help se- cure passage for his intended 8% who is now in Belgium. The sel- dier went back to Belgium when the war began. He was through seve- ral engagements, and was wounded three times. The joint of his right elbow is entirely gone as a result of one wound. While in hospital he met with the lady who won his heart, and now he wants to bring her to Canada. The soldier has the Belgian War Cross for saving the life of an offi- cer, atid also the medal of the Order of Leopold II, for bravery in assist- ing eleven other men in capturing two enemy dugouts. : good "TO SOMETHING DECENT." Bismarck, N.D., Wants Its Name Bismarck, N.D., July 17.--Agita- tion to change the name of Bismarck received added impetus to-day when it was found that in the night un- identified persons had obliterated the name on the Northern Pacific Railroad station sign board with A six-foot sign, erect ed nearby read: 'To hell 'with this block-headed Hun.' What did he ever do Jot 87" Several downtown buildings to-Gay displayed signs which read: "Change the name of the city to something decent." ¢ 4 X lasted only one Sax, dissolved by the Bolshevik? s a - LOOKS AS IF FOE 5 UTTERLY LOST Taking Immense Hazard And Playing Last Stakes in Cane. THE BRITISH ARE READY » RUPPRECHT EXPECTED TO AT- TACK TO KEEP ARMIES wh wa -- RS Ema On' the Northern Front--He Has Enough Men to Strike a Number of Short Hammer Rlows--Heart of Bleeding France is Still Beating Steadily. 5 By Philip Gibbs, War Correspondents' 'Headquart- ers, July 15.--The new phase of the German offensive that opened on a wide front -against - the French was not unexpected by them.. For some little' time there have been signs pointing to this liklihood. The long delay of the enemy in beginning the new battles, when to win & big sue- cess on the old ground of attack de- manded extreme rapidity of action in order to get in advance of the new defénsive power of the Frefich, Bri- tish and American armies, 'was obvi- ous warning that the German High Command was massing elséwhere. Direct and absolute evidence of this was procured recently, and it Is good to know that our Allies have not been surprised and had made preparations to Meta the new onslaught. It is possible that after waiting a few days to watch the effect of thelr fierce at- tack on both sides of Rheims, Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria will be ordered to make a number of holding attacks against us. : He has enough men to do so, at least to strike a number of short hammer blows, with the object of but it seems probable, now that the main German thrust has been diroct- od against the French in the Cham- {pagne, there will be no German diy- keeping our troops heavily engaged, | tack of a local kind is of small in- terest compared with the battle in] to, ing along the forty-mile front in Cay Champagne, but it is good as a sign that our soldiers are strong and ready and a match for Rupprecht's men, when the odds are fair. Yesterday being Sunday, the na- tional fete of the Fourteenth of July by law, was kept as a public holiday in France, to-day, though in the war zone there was no holiday, nor any truce, banquet below ground--in Amiens which has been under fire from Ger- man guns so long that the life one one knew in its streets has gone and the old world eauty of its houses has been scarr and stricken with many wounds by innumerable shells flung into the city since the last days of March by an enemy made angry at being kept beyond its walls. That little banquet where I hap- pened to be one of the guests, was spiritualized by a sense of romance and emotion stirring those who sat at the table in the cellar, men who love old Amiens because they were its citigens and ghardians in peace as well as in war, who have in their hearts its thousand years of history and to whom every stone of the Cathedral ,and every old carved beam in its sixteenth century houses is a part of the treasure which has made Amiens one of the glories of France. 80 yesterday these men, the prefect of Somme, and the Mayor of Amiens, and the senator and deputy who re- present it, gave orders for the tri- color to be hoisted above the public buildings of the city, or above their ruins, and when we drove through the silent streets they were hung with banners, as though on a day of triumph. It was a gueer thing to gee those flags and trophies in the city where no crowds had gathered and where only a sentry or two and here and there a lonely figure looked out from some old doorway. It was a romance of history stranger than any éther episode that has happened in Ameins through all the history of France passed in pageant through its streets in times of victory and de- feat, In cellars banquet tables were spread and strewn with roses gather- ed from the '"Hortililons,"" or market gardens along the banks of the Somme or from little private gardens behind the walled manions inside the city. On one side the Australian géh- eral who defends it on the north, and on either side of the commandant who guards the order of the city were British, American and French offi- cers. GAIETY OF WAR IN HARBIN AREA! - Chance of Reconstructing . Eastern Front. London, July 17.--The correspon- dent of the Daily Mail at Harbin, under date of July 12th, says: "General Semenoff, when inter- viewed by me at his Trans-Baikal headqgarters, said: '"'I"have just heard the news that the Czechs have captured Via- divostok. With the Czechs holding the railway" from ChalyBinsk to Irkutsk a glorious opportunity is offered for the Allies to recomstiuct e eastern. front. Alternately, de- y is dangerous. The Russian people, despairing of help from the Allies, will turn towards Germany.' "Excessive modesty is not c¢on- spleuous "on either side of the Semenoff front. At regular inter- vals the Bolsheviks and Semenoff politely invite one another to sur- render, with the remark that fur ther fighting is useless. Quite a ceremony is associated with these amenities which, while leading to nothing, do serve the purpose of preventing ennui during the months when outposts are not scrapping. For instance, when Semenoff receiv- ed a telegram announcing the fall of Viadivostok to the Czechs he im- mediately ordered his outposts to deliver a fac simile of the telegram to the Bolsheviks with his compli- ments, accompanied by a delicately- worded note inquiring what time would be convenient for them to lay down their arms." Hn HOPED TO TURN FRENCH FROM CATHEDRAL CITY Grown Prince did Not Attack In Vicinity of Rheims Be- se On the French Front in France, July 17.--The reason the German infantry did not attack In the vicin- ; But it was yesterday that iti was celebrated at Amiens by a little FOR SOME TIE. Ths is te View Gen. Nawis Takes of th Staion, GRANS HAE FALE IN MAKING ANY MATERIAL AD VANCE IN THEIR OFFENSIVE The Foe Over the Marne at Varjous Points And Control a Number of Miles of the Southern Banke German Losses Have Been Appaii- ing. London July 17General Mas- rice's statement says that the Allles* outlook is brighter thay since the March offensive. The Germans failed to make any material progress. Are Over the Marne, vi French Front in France July 17. The Gérmans have crossed the Marne at several points giving them control of twelve miles of the south- érn bank between Gland and Mareuil le Port. He has suffered appalling losses, The Germans captured Bligny mountain, two miles northwest of Marfaux, but were repulsed elge- where without difficulty. French aviators destroyed two bridges crowded with Germans south of Jaul- gonne (on the Marne). The Germans apparently have from sixty to seventy divisions in position for the present offensive, of which some forty have already been engaged. (This would mean a tial force of approximately 950,000, with 540,000 engaged.) Wiil It Lead to Something ? London, July 17.---In ne gure? ters the weight of the German blow Is regarded as inadequate for an ad- venture on which so much dépends, and "consequently it is essumed' in these quarters that the blow may be feint or partial of 5 enltiinn: doit " Lomrdon, July 17.--To the east of Rbefms many German tanks have . been knocked out of action by French wrecks strew the gyound. san v Bertefit By War Material, a Paris, July 17. Germans are striking at the Aled line with the advantage of a great superiority in war material caused by the capture of 'enormofis supplies of ' guns 'and munitions in Russia. Their lor ity, however, will prove to but temporary for the supplies cannut last many months. LA It is possible that the Allies may launch 'a surprise attack of hats : own. The outlook for the Allies cdrtainly brighter than it has bee at any previous ms Shia pr summer. The Am profited by the six weeks of delay launching the German offensive are in excellent condition to with stand the German onslaagh right back, $ War 'The French on Tuesday afternoon entrenched at Prungay, two miles De Goeers Para ais e deepest pene has effected east of Rheims. Paris military circles, qualified. .to uneasiness over