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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1918.
VICTORY
USTRA-iflSI
OF FIRE FOR
m AMERICAN SOLDIERS
lVp,,.-.V!)KNCK »AY VIC1
„„■ iMERICASSAKD AU8T
, |\vS AGAINST ENEMY.
, o, July 6.—The Australian
;vaneed their line northeast
x .-iSretonneux last night on
2,000 yards, according to
;1 Haig's report from
. adquarters in France.
look their stand beside
and fought
vioii
u- , e British Army in France.
I.. 5. -All the traditions of the
: res army for valor were
-\i-t.lined yesterday in the
jgful .mack made against the
Genaan* south of the river Somme
wnea for the first time American in-fant
■
:1,,: Bri lab cousins
shonlder to shoulder.
It was -I baptism of fire for the
janiee soldiers on this front staged
on independence Day and they came
tire si with flying colors—fitting
i B.ades for the famous Australian
rarriors whom they were assisting.
Fought Like Fiends.
••Tie Americans fought like
Besis." declared one British staff
iffi.:'. "They did all of that. They
Nt magnificent and folks at home
may ae proud of the part their bojs
took in this unique Fourth of July
•ele ration in the shell-torn valley
i; : e winding Somme. They were
lighting over ground which had al-
-.-.:'. been stained with the blood of
r •• soldiers but no braver troops
•!<—1 this ground than those
Americans.
"Virtually the entire body of
Anit ins came through unscathed.
' - probably due to the weak
resistance s-hich the Germans offer-ed
to ■:• Anglo-American on-il.
:. it.
Australia! Soldiers.
soldiers from the Antipodes
W GERMAN TROOPS
FLEE FROM AMERICANS
HAND TO HAND FIGHTING—
-WAXY GERMAN' PRISONERS
CAPTURED AT VAUX.
VOL. 97-NO. 54
THE BRITISH CAPTURE JNTI GERMAN 0-B8ATS ifiEI. PERSHING'S REPORT
" " SOHK BT AMERIGAHS; TELLS OF ACTIVITIES
Washington. July 6.—The Ger-mans
fled in -disorder from the Bois
le la Roche to ■...- Bois des Rochets
before the charging American infan-try
during the operations in the vi-cinity
of Vaux last Monday and Tues-day.
General Penning reported in
his communique for yesterday, re-ceived
today at the war department.
The hand-to-hand fighting, the gen-eral
said, was of short duration.
Artiliery fire in support of the
American infantry was so effective,
the statement said, that communica-tion
between German battalion and
regimental headquarters could be
maintained only by a single messen-ger
dog.
This description of the lighting
around Vaux was given in fie course
of a narrative of events in the Vaux
section, along the Marne. in Pieardy.
'n Lorraine, and in the Colmar sec-tor
during the early part of this
week. Artillery, machine gun and
aerial activity was noted in nearly
■>( the sectors with an unusual
movement behind the ?nemy lines
along the Marne. There also was
heavy artillery fighting there and
near Vaux in the Marne tector. Ene-bjr
ammunition dumps were destroy-ed
by American artillery.
The statement on operations yes-terday
told of the capture of Ger-mans
by American patrols in the
Chateau Thierry region and the re-pulse
of a hostile raiding party and
two enemy patrols in the Voeges.
THE VILLAGE OF HAMEL
ADVANCE THEIR LINES MORE
THAN A MILE—AUSTRALIANS
GO OVER TOP.
London. July 4.—.British troops
this morning delivered an attack ii.
the region east of Amiens, capturing
the village of Hamel. northeast of
Villers-Bretonneux and advancing
their line in this region to a depth
of more than a mile.
The statement reads:
"This morning we carried out a
successful opera'ion between Villers-
Bretonneux and the Somme and the
village of Hamel has been advanced
to an average depth of 2.000 yards.
"The hostile artillery has been ac-tive
in the Robecq and St. Jans Cap
pel sectors."
TRANSPORT CARRYING OUR SOL- ' ASJIJ
AMERICAN TROOPS ACTIVE
IN THE TOIL SECTOR.
With the American Army in
Franca. July 5.—After the quiet
Fourth, there was greater activity
s ana did a correspond- ! I"*'*' "L?- T°Ul front' T!le *»«-
* .-:noii:u labor, i L* ,f "T *d tne enemy
i leavlly with gas projectiles this
(morning while the Germans carried
.cut their usual bombardment of the
'■ front line and back areas. Along
the line there was considerable rifle
ai atnumbered those from the |
'■'■■■'■ '■ States ana did a correspond-ing
amount of the sanguinary labor.
"■ Australians, who fear neither
I ■ devil, fought with the cus-
■-"••■ which has
a error to the enemy. The
■'- rare specifically planned ' £!'"•
- F' > of Julj celebration! "TIL*.
<»!d bring the Americans ' *" ,T a""men SUCCeeded in
: li Uttla line tar the reeonnolterin* and photo-grapning
expeditions and drove oft-hostile
machines which attacked him
One reconnoiter'ng plan- encounter-ed
and gave battle to two German
machines, one o.' which was seen to
dive to earth. The American re-turned
safely.
••w'l. 1vP
A
G,erma"s heeame •"*" today
m -No Man's Land, but their efforts
■ere to no purpose. The enemy pa-trols
we:? put to flight and a raiding
party was driven off before it could
reach the American line.
i' an tn.ops who were to
in this memorable event
Igaded with their Australian
' took the deepest interest
icoming welding of the
'hood. The plans were
knew bis P0ie as we„ as
eterans from his majes-
Few people along the
'I the forthcoming event
rftish staff officers were
very move with the keen-
'ion. Tliose officers today
'spokeiriy delighted with
liad seen. The Americans
'• top with the Austra-lia
big tanks, as though
■" 'toing the same thing
Then came the clash
nemy infantry among the
'efences and trenches
light of the early
Fleet of Tanks Led.
With the British Army in France.
July 4.—The British have taker,
more than 1,500 prisoners in the'r
attack on Hamel.
The Australians went over the top
in the early morning behind a fleet
of tanks which led the way into the
hostile territory. It was a difficult
task which they had before them f-r
the Germans were holding the vil-lage
of Hamel and Vaire and Hame.
woods with strong forces. The Ham
let and the little forests, all of which
lie on comparatively high groiinc'.
were choked with machine guns,
while a large concentration of Ger-man
artillery was trained along thU
sector.
The Australians pushed forward
quickly and jammed their way
through the grey coats in the fae?
of a bitter deluge of fire.
The news at present indicates that
the' Australians pushed beyond both
Vaire and Hamel Woods and scored
altogether, an important success, al-though
the battle still is raging.
The assaulting forces in their at-tack
against the German position;
along the four-mile front between
Villers-Bretonneux and the river
Somme appea- to have stormed their
way through approximately one mile
and a half into enemy territory. As
a tribute to America the Austra-lians
had designated their drive as a
Fourth of July attack and today was
set as the time for the operation be-cause
it was the American anniver-
DIERS TO FRANCE PUTS SUBS.
OUT OF BUSINESS.
An Atlantic Port. July 5.—De-struction
in European waters of five
German submarines by British trans-ports
and by American and British
destroyers convoying them was de-scribed
by passengers who arrived
h«fe today on an English liner The
transports, one of which was carry-ing
7.000 American soldiers to Eu-rope,
accounted for three of the U-boats.
and the destroyers sank the
other two. according to the voyagers
Officers of the liner confirmed their
stories.
The passengers witnessed the tor-pedo.
ng of the M36 ton Brit;sh
freighter Orissa. which was part of
their convoy, when the fleet was ap-proximately
a day out. steaming west
from the British Isles. The Orissa.
bound m ballast for the United
States, was seut to the bottom by an
unseen submarine. A moment la'er
however, an American destroyer in
the Protecting fleet detected the un-dersea
boat beiow the surface and
dropped a depth bomb, making a di-
££r K aCcordin2 « the story re-lated
here. The same evening a
vveZ.sSe, "w?l!06seig!Uguednabe>.' sth^e ^P^enger
snell fire.
OBJECTIVES GAINED BY
AMERICAN TROOPS
SHORT TIME.
IN A
The other three submarines were
dee; oyed.-according to the returned
travelers, on the eastward trip 0f
another convoy. They declared tha
■* large British transport, with 7.000
-^m
nK-tr°°PS ab°a:-d- ra-"'ed a
STwmb w» «"**" with
eavv ;:: :" "I6 SUddCn "*M * -
with th *H- m°St simul^eously with the d1Sappearance of the first
bow. the b.g ship-s gunners account"-
ed Tor another of the German craf
-.-^British destroyer disposed of
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'••' Hesitation.
- no hesitation. For a
th« British experts had
<-' mto the ears of the
:'P words, "kill, kill,
cardinal slogan of
" '" ;"'d while it is not
"veil up0n, ,.et tl)at js
tans had learned their
Tl"e British officers
■«« the affair was
} '"aster even got bet-
'."' "is talks than the
"«* Americans this
';"»- Agreatnum-i.
aid
Going After Second Million.
Washington. July 6.—Germany is
preparing for a renewal of the offen-sive
on the west front which may
come at any moment and with ter-rific
force. This is the conclusion
reached by General March, chief of
staff, as indicated today in his week-ly
conference with newspaper corre-spondents.
No other construction is
to be put upon the present lull, he
said, and at the same time he sound-ed
this new American slogan:
"We have embarked a million men
and we are now going after the sec-ond
million."
erday
Slates exacted a very
:.;;■*
" "ver the success of
which they had
Part, and the
•' no 'ess pleased
' -"und pals.
Italians Drive Enemy Back.
Rome. July 6.—"After five days of
uninterrupted struggle." says a" late
official communication today, "the
enemy was completely driven onto
the left bank of the new Piave Sat-urday
afternoon."
The Italians have succeeded in
clearing the Austrians out of a very
the supreme i considerable part of the terrain the
an« the men from 'enemy had Deen clinging to near to
Slatn, .. the month nt t!<n D;„... i .w .,
were naturally
■ in
the mouth of the Piave. between the
new and old beds of the river
table
Germans to Make Belgians Pay
More.
Amsterdam. July 5—The war con-tribution
which Belgium has to pay
to Germany says Les Nouvelles, has
.,■ .„ s ~~~ [been raised from 50,000.000 francs
l.'.Tlan and daugh- to 60.000.000 francs monthly. This
'r|;i<> t'al Sranddauehter, 'is equivalent to 750 francs per head.
White Sninb'' !UVe gone t0 The Germans have convoked the
: ., k 'Piiur springs to provincial councils to discuss the
('
.method of payment by the Belgians.
Upon the Belgian front a celebra-tion
of a more quiet kind was being
conducted this morning in honor of
'he American anniversary day, the
Belgians having arranged e special
ceremony of tribute to the Stars and
Stripes.
At another place in the British
area American engineers, who have
done gallant work for many months
for the British, were receiving deco-rations
for valor.
By a great surprise attack on the
German lines, planned especially as
a celebration of American Independ-ence
Day. Australian troops have
wrested from the Germans the vil-lage
of Hamel. east of Amiens, oc-cupied
Vaire and Hamel woods south
of the village, and captured more
than 1.500 prisoners. The Austra-lians
advanced under the cover of a
smoke barrage and were led by tanks
in the breaking of the enemy's line
over a front of more than four milei.
The attack penetrated a mile and a
half into the German positions.
U. S. Troops in the Fight.
The British war office has an-nounced
that American troops partic-ipated
in the attack. This is the first
time they have appeared in this part
of the battle area.
The French also have struck sav-agely
against the German lines, this
time cutting through the enemy
ranks near the town of Autreches.
south of Moulin-Sous-Touvent, where
on Tuesday night they won a local
success and captured prisoners. Here
the Germans lost 1.066 prisoners.
In both operations the allies have
improved their positions, gaining
rather high ground which can be
readily defended if the Germans
launch their expected offensive.
On the Italian Front.
At the same time, British. French
and Americans were attacking the
enemy, the Italians continued to ad-vance
in the area near the m^ '
the Piave. Scattered machine gun
emplacements have been cleaned
out, while light boats from the Ital-ian
navy have entered the lagoons
Heath Claims a Good Ma„.
Winstor.-Salem. July 5.—George
Mfcaw, one of Winjton-SalenT's
oldest and most highly -steemed cit-izens,
died at his home today, aged
'1- He had been in declining health
for several months and while his
condition for several weeks had been
considered serious his death at 'his
•imo was not expected by the imme-diate
family and friends
on the left flank of the Austrian arm-ies
and given valuable assistance to
tue land forces. The Italians also
have won ground in the San Loren-zo
valley, east of the Brenta river.
Americans Hold Positions.
German attempts to drive Ameri-can
forces from their positions at
Vaux, west of Chateau Thierry, seem
to have failed utterly. There have
been no further reports of desperate
German efforts to regain the line
from which they were unceremoni-ously
ousted by the Americans Tues-day
night.
<tprr.-ition Was Complete Success.
With the British Army in France.
July 4.—Complete success crowned
the splendid surprise attack made by
the Australians at dawn today
against the Germans between Vi'.lers-
Bretonneaux and the Somme—an at-tack
which had been specially set to
coincide with Independence Day.
The enemy was taken entirely un-awares
and the big framed fighters
from Australia stormed their way-through
the bewildered grey coats
with little opposition—a veritable
liuma ntornado which left a wave of
death behind it.
Hamel village was rushed and
taken in short order. Vaire and
Hamel woods, with their nests of
crackling machine guns, were passed
through as if the Australians were
doing a practice charge for their
commander, and a line of enemy
trenches east of these stronghold!
was cleaned out and annexed.
About 1,500 prisoners were in the
British cages this afternoon whMe
out on the battlefield great numbers
of the German emperor's men lay
silent under the brilliant sunshine
which could bring them no cheer.
Washington. July 5.—In a contin-uation
of Tuesday's communique.
General Pershing today reported in
graphic detail on the successful op-erations
near Chateau Thierry Mon-day
and described activities along
the various £-onts held by Ameri-cans
during several preceding days.
The dispatch follows:
"Section B (continued): The suc-cessful
attack made by our troops in
the Chateau Thierry region on the
evening of July 1 w^s carried out by-two
battalions of United States in-fantry.
The attack was preceded by
a finely executed artillery prepara-tion
which was executed by Ameri-can
batteries and lasted twelve
hours. The infantry action com-menced
at 6 o'clock in the evening.
All objectives were gained and our
positions consolidated inside of one
and a half hours. The enemy's loss-es
were extremely heavy, one of his
regiments being practically annihi-lated.
The enemy's positions were
taken at the point of the bayonet.
The amount of material captured
was very large, and included consid-erable
quantities of ammunition.
German Counter Attack.
At 3.45 o'clock in the morning the
Germans counter attacked. Thanks
o the thorough consolidations of
the positiqns which had been made,
the attack was repulsed with heavy-losses
to the enemy in killed and
wounded. It also resulted in the
taking by us of additional prisoners.
The number cf praoners „o far
counted is over 500 and includes six
officers. Our casualties v.ere light,
considering.the success obtained.
"In the Chateau Thierry region
between noon June 29 and 30 there
was considerable activity of various
sorts, although no important devel-opments
took place. The German
artillery was again aggressive, deliv-ering
much harassing fire during the
morning hours. This was directed in
part on our advance positions along
the L'.lleau. Clerembauts and Maret-te
woods, ar.d was especially heavy
on ;h<? .-igiu of our positions. Num-erous
points in our rear areas was
also shelled. The fire was continu-ous
rather than heavy. High explo-sives,
shrapnel and a small amount
of gas were all employed. Besides
delivering harassing fire the Ger-man
batteries were obviously at-tempting
to register on some of the
roads in our rear.
Aerial Attacks.
'"Our own batteries vigorously- re-turned
the fire and at one point reg-stered
directly upon a detachment
of the enemy. The activity- of the
German airplanes like that of the
German artillery was notable in be-ing
continuous rather than concen-trated
at any one time or place.
More than the usual number of bal-loons
were in evidence. One of the
hostile planes was brought down by-anti-
aircraft fire opposite the right
TRANSPORT G0VIN6T0H
TORPEDOED AND SUNK
THERE WERE NO AMERICAX
SOLDIERS ABOARD; CREW
LANDED.
Washington. Juiy 5.—The Ameri-can
army transport Covington,
homeward bound after landing sev-eral
thousand soldiers in France,
was torpedoed and sunk in the war
zone last Monday night. Six mem-bers
of the crew are missing, but
all the other men. with the ship's of-ficers,
have been landed at a French
port. No arm; personnel or passen-gers
were aboard.
The men missing are:
Ernest C. Anderson fireman,
Lynn, Mass.: J.'seph P. Bowden. sea-man.
Mountain Lake. X. J.; Ambrose
'". Ford firemai. Somerrllle, Matt.;
William Henry Lynch, jr.. fireman,
Manchester. H, H.: Albert S. Pa.ae.
seaman. Staten Island. N. Y.; Lloy.l
H. Silvarmaa. s°aman. Bafnblidm
-V. Y.
The navy department's announce-ment
tonight of 'he torpedoing of the
Covington said none of the officers
and men landed was "certainly in-jured."
Apparently some of them
were hurt but the number probably
was not given in Vice Admiral SimV
dispatch.
Americans Helped Win.
London, July 4.—Detachments of
American infantry assisted the Aus-tralians
in capturing Hamel. This
announcement was made officially to-night.
ur sector and forced to land b.
hind its own lines. Numerous groups
of men passed frequently along the
roads running between Givry. Epaux,
Belleau, Bonnes, Grisolles. Etrepillv,
Le Tartre and Plaisance. Wagons
and trucks moved along the same
routes singly- and in Urge groups.
Infantry- activity- on both sides was
normal.
Along the Marne.
"Along the Marne on the 28th and
-'9th of June the German artillery
continued to deliver the scattered
but fairly vigorous fire of the days
preceding. On this day, however,
the heaviest fire was on the left
rather than on the right of our sec-tor.
On the other hand, our left sec-tor
still continued to draw most of
the shrapnel. The shelling was con-fined
mostly to the afternoon and
evening, and on objectives identical
with those previously reported. Ger-man
machine guns were particularly-quiet
and there was little rifle fire.
Hostile air planes were also less fre-quently-
observed than has been
usual during the past fortnight. Be'-
hind the German lines men were
seen strolling about in the usual
fashion.
"In the Colmar sector the day of
June 29 passed quietly. The Ger-mans
were engaged mainly in re-connaissance
work but made some
attempt to regulate the artillery fire.
Behind the German lines the hay-
The Covington former.y was the
Hamburg-American liner Cincinnati,
which was laid up at Boston and
taken over when the United State.-,
entered the war. She was 608 feei
long, of 16,339 gross tonnage and
had a speed of 15 1-2 knots an hour.
The Covington is the second of the
?reat German linen seized at the
outbreak of the war to be sent down
by Germany's sea wolves and s the
third American troop ship to be de-stroyed
in the war zone. All were
homeward bound. The former Ham-burg-
American liner Pretident Lin-coln
was sunk last May 31, and the
Antilles, formerly- a Morgan line.-,
was sent down last October 17.
Submarine Not Seen.
The Covington was struck at 9.17
o'clock Monday night while proceed-ing
with a flee* -,f other transports,
convoyed by destroyers. The onema-rine
was not sighted. The transport
reniilned afloat until Tuesdav whan
efforts were made by another vessel
«d two tugs to tow her to port, but
she was too badly damaged to ke9 ,
afloat.
"The torpedo struc!; just forward
Of the engine room bulkhead." sa,s
the navy department's announce-ment,
"and the engine room and Are
room were rapidly flooded. With It*
notive power gone, the vessel wai
helpless and. facing the possibility of
the torpedoing of another ship ;-i
the convoy the Covington was tem-porarily
abandoned. This was done
n excellent 0rd-r and the 0ffl--1
and crew were taken jn board a J -
stroyer.
"At daybreak the captain, several
officers and a number of members of
the crew, returned to supervise sal-vaging
operations. Another vests'
«nd two tugs took the Covington to
tow in the effort to get her to port
but she was too badly- damaged to
keep afloat and sunk. Vessels have
heen reaching for the missing men
and the navy- departm-nt awaited
the report of the names of those
nissing which w?.s not retailed uotll
today, before announcing the sinking
of the vessel."
There was no explanation by the
rartment as to whether the ilx
''were missing after the transfer
of the crew from the troop ship to
'he destroyer or after the transport
actually went down. It was fear»J
nowever, that they either were kill-
" by ,he force of the explosion or
were caught by the inruch of water
Into the engine and fire rooms
making, in which women play an i7-
creasingly large part, continued, but
neither in the matter of circulation
nor in the construction of works did
anything of note occur.
Mulhouse Sector.
"In the Mulhouse sector there wai
no unusual occurrence on June 29
apart from the increased activity on
the part of the German air forces.
Late in the afternoon an air comba'
occurred and one of the German ma-chine*
was seen to descend in an ap-parently
crippled condition. Ligit
artillery- fire, the throwing of a few-grenades
on our wire, with normal
rifle fire and the ordinary- circula-tion
in the German rear areas com-prised
the other activities of the
day."