Cape May County Times, 2 August 1918 IIIF issue link — Page 2

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UA.PE MAY nnrraTY TIMES SEA ISI.E C'TV V. •<-

fflEsmuF- |di DEIiOCH HEAL

Wilson Appeals to Nation to Curb Mob Rule

He Wasn’t Even Registered

AMD SAMMIES HP

flooKi son:

HE POINTS OUT DANGERS

Emulate* Lawless PaMlon Of Osr many. Which Ha* Made Lyncher* Of Army-All Citlaens Must Aid.

Jaws of the Pincer Are Steadily Closing

CRM PRINCE TRE RAMANS

Pershing's Sen Resist Fierce Counter-Attack

HAMMERING AT THE TEUTONS HELD LIKE STONE WALL

Eastern Edge Of The Pocket From Soissons To Rheims Pulled Eight e* To The Westward—Mouth Of The Pocket Only 21 Miles Wide.

Waal: I nylon.—Forcefully denmint :nr an apparent yroalh of "mob spirit a* •multtiny itr "lawleas parMor." Germany which ha* "dUrcyarded sacred obityations of law and made lyocheia of her annie*." Prealtlenl W Uaon appealed to the country “to make

am end of tbl* dUyraceful evil

Lynchtnyp. he raid, commute blow at the hearts of law and human. Justice." and contribute "to German j lie* about the railed State* what her j mo*; yifted liar* cannot lmpro\e upon

by the way of calumny."

The .ext of the President 1 # procla-

mation follows: |

•My fellow countrymen Franco-American Troops Press Big Justicla Falls Victim After

French Army In France.—Up to the present 70 German division* bare

Whole Fourth Dlwleion Of Bavarian Guards Thrown In The Desperate Counter-Attack Against Th* Americans.

A LIFE COMPANIOl

By HELEN A. ROBERT^]

Indy. Most he well edumt.-i, beet of refermcna. Apply tt

pi* sveLue. tltyT

"There" styfadd OUee. .. . the above admrtlsemi-i.i. get a position, «nd I mlyht start and look tor on.talnly have h'd n food eduotj Lnwrmce win give me a good

refer

. London —The American* i many'* finest rrytznrnU

been Identified In the present flyntlny | ^j M th of Sergy Sunday night, where

been Identified In the present fighting tone, and the battle therefore may be

GERMANS RETREAT GIANT LINER ALLIES IN PURSUIT SUNN 8T WAT

t,-yarded a* the biggest *lnce the be-

ginning of the war.

The prisoner* taken number over !S.W0. and more than 500 cannon and thousands of machine gun* hare been

aptur

Hard on Foe’s Heels

•i take the liberty of addrewiny •you upon a subject which *o vitally affecu- the honor of the nation and the very character and integrity of our institution* that 1 trust you will think me Justified in speaking very

plainly about It.

"1 allude to the mob spirit which has recently here and there very fre- j quently shown :ta head among

not in any single region, hut In B.— , . , .nnnnn c.w. reneral and widely separated part* of th. I" Ju'y *00.000. Says General

Game Fight

NO LESSENING OF ATTACK 10 TORPEDOES FiRED AT HER

Of the prisoner*. 14 per cent, belong to the 1*18 cla**, showing that nearly all these boy* already have been incorporated In fighting units. If all of them hare been utilised they mould form from 17 to 18 per cenL

of the Germar strength.

Information received proves that ie mo class. Which It was Intended , be incorporated in the army of October. has b ordered Into the units In Sept... r. Most of these

this dasa are t IS years old.

Two New U. 6. Army Corps Are Formed—U. 6. Troop Movement

country. There have been many lynching*, and every one of them have been a blow at the heart of order,

taw and humane justice.

Germany Outlawed Herself.

March.

“No man who love* America, no man who really care* for her fame and honor and character, or who I* truly loyal to her InstitnU. n*. can Jnstify mob action while the courts ©f Jurtlce are open and th* government* of the state* and the nation are ready and able lo do their duly We are at tbi* very moment fighting lawless passion. Germany has out-

lawed hersett among the

Passengers Safe; 10 Of Crew Killed —Giant Steamer Took Over 10ir 000 U. S. Troop On Last Trip.

London.—The giant White Star liner Justicla ha* been torpedoed and sunk. Four hundred of the crew have been landed at an lri*h port. They report that the liner waa *unk after n 24-

hour fight with submarine*.

No passenger* were lost and only

ien of the crew were killed.

The first torpedo struck the engine room and Ihe ship then Hopped. Sev-

ered but

>n!y two cf the missile* wei. . Hective. doff : The »tory of the fight between the

Washington —Harried on the flank* by Allied Infantry and with advanced position directly north ul tbi- Marne swept by Allied artillery the German Army in the Sol**onf-Hhetm* salient hu* retreated to a new line of ivelstance. where another attempt will be made to meet thr work of the French. American. British and Italian troop*. Thu* wa* the German withdrawal.

.. joriMl ID .dvi... i™ r»rl. n.*.d I son

by nillltnry olBeUl. b.r*

j iwaa. u II con- 1 11 cohld he told, would make one of n*ion <h * RWrte* in :be annals of anti-

*re not submarine warfare.

Pari*. — Franco • Amerlci made an advance ol nearly two miles at certain point* on the Alsne-Marne front, notably in the Dormans region. *a«s the War Office announcement. Additional gains xre recorded, showthat the progrets of the Alllea In this salient is steadily going on. On the Ourcq front the fighting met with the same success

preceding day*

'North of the nver we occupy Oulcy-U-VIlle. South of the river Franco-American troop* "made an ad-

the enemy threw in the whole Fourth division of Bavarian Guard* In a desperate counter-attack. Advice* reaching London show that the Americans stood like a stone wall; brought the German* to a clean stop abd inflicted

ie heaviest losses upon them. The di*patches praise the work of

the Americans highly, but give no details beyond insisting upon the heavy losses which the Bavarian* fullered, particularly from the American ma-

chine gunners.

The fact that Ihe German* picked the American# as opponent* lor the choicest battalions in the German Arm* indicated that they have leamrd to respect the men from the United Bute* In the fighting of the last fortnight. The heaviest fighting of the last 24 hours occurred In this sector last night against the French and the American*. Sergy after having been taken and lost four time*, was In Al-

lied hands today

M

American Army on the Alsne-Marne Front —Reinforced by two crack division* of Bavarian Guards, the Teutons settled down to the hardest resistance they have yet displayed against the American force* north of the River

Ourcg.

Although heavily hammered, the Americans replied In like along the

H h erf three kilo me ter? | river, and the fighting shifted bLck which reached three kilometer* Crev three miles

Nothing which ha* occurred in

, nection with the sinking of the former

White Star Liner give* Nary men any cause tor misgiving* over the sub-

cause she ha* disregarded the sarr.d ’ cia! circle* that the enemy still obligation* of law and has made template* fighting It out in the

lyncherr of her armle* Lyncher* etc- . north of the Marnt Officials were not

ulati her disgraceful example. 1. for prepared to venture an opinion as

my part, am anxious to *e« every com- the loextion of this line Several rearxnunily In America rise above that guard actions, it »a* ***um«d. had

level, with prld* ana a fixed resolution been carried on by the enemy to cov«r . . ..

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tiring enemy rear guard

Military wisdom, it was pointed dictated complete withdrawal f

the aall.ni between Sot-on* and ^ * roor ot thf •PPreacbtng

Itheim*. The internal *ituaLon in Germany and Austria, it wa* *ug. ated may have forced 'he German General Staff to make only a partitl retirement and to accept again the challenge of

battle.

Secretary Baker aaid that the

which.no i to despise

“We proudly claim to he the champions of democracy If we really are in deed and in truth, let u* *«« to It that we to not diirr*-d;t our own. 1 say plainly, that * very American who take* part in the acMon of . a mob or givae !• any sort of countenance is not tine *on ot this great damoernry hut it* betrayer, and do»* more to discredit her by that single disloyalty ’o her standard* of law and of right than the woids of her statesmen or the sa-rlfice-s of bet

One ot the ciew ot the Justin

u , i quoted by the newspaper at a*»*rtmg

that 10 toipedue* were discharged at

• exploded by

that

• believe

Hot

mlsallea. h • added, v gunfire from the ship

The Bclf'est Telegraph ai '.and had just been lost tight

a terrific explosion shook the Juatlcia

The crew wa* speedily mustered

rc wa* 1 deck, but it was *oon ascertained that

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Further attempt* were made by the submarine to torsM-do the Justicla Fn-

bb talk drew at day night, hut all failed and it wa*

not until Saturday morning and aft-*

wa* being pressed and harassed by !n-

<rearing forces v Genera: March

tention to the inner pocke

I British ad- .

•'1. therefore, very earnestly and solemnly beg that the governor* of all the state*, the law offiier* of every community, and. shore all. the men

be »ubmarine had expended numerous

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troop* south of thi* advance, between the British and the Marne, ar. in jeopardy, and the French, official

at certain pctnU. derpile stern retancr. especially in the region of

Dormana.

Southeast of AnnenUeres we ocpy Hill 141 and have crossed the Kanteull auaam. Further to the south we captured Ihe village of Coincy and th* greater part of Tournelle Wood. We extended our prog In the Forest of Fere as far as general line of Beauvardea-le-

Cbarmel.

“Our advance continued under favorable condition# In the Rls Forest and north ot Dormay**. '-Southwest of Rheims the enemy continued hi* violent attacks against our position* between Vrlgny and St. EnphraiM and succeeded in gaining n foothold on Hill 240. Our troops toon reconquered this height, taking about too prisoners.” So heavy wa* the artillery fire on the main hattlefront that Paris again could hear .be boom of the cannon. The roar cw»e from the region of Dormant on the Marne. 4! miles dls,ant. where the enemy was making a deaperaG attempt to enlarge the area h, the salient he is occupying and from which a steady pressure of the Allies Is driving him. The territory the enemy hold* within the Sotstons-Marne-Rhelm* triangle Is favorable to hi* defense, but difficult lu which to maintain communica-

and forth through Sergy. three miles southeast of Fere-en-Tardenol*. From Rheims the line now extends almost straight southwest to Olixy-et-Vlolalne. The forest of Ris I* now behind the Alllea and they are holding Champvolay. to the northeast of the forest. In this region the Germans have the higher ground and have some advantage in the artillery duel.

TURKS BREAK WITH GERMANY.

Th* New Su'tan Is Declared To Be

Anti-German.

ie- not passively and watchfullyt disgraceful t vil

tempt was made at 8 o'clock Saturday morning when two torpedoes fait the ship. One struck the engine room,

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and ahe did not sink until two o clock in ihe afternoon There was plenty

..u the Aisne-Mame bat j «■< «‘me to transfer the crew to re.cu-

. _ . . eneral March aald. al j * n « * h, l w

hough he announced the formation

if two add:t.i-na! American army Took Over U. 8. Troop*. ■i.rp*. th. Fourth snd Fifth The chief New York —The Justicla. reported '* *'*fl explained, however, that the >U |ik apparently tomewben ofi th< tselgmnen: of the 20 division* which I roast of Ireland, was returning to an

e just below Chatillon.

No additional American forces have

hien thro

lerican Army on the Aisne-Marne Front-—With the aides of thi SolssonsRhelmt sack coming steadily closer together, the German Crown Prince's general are driving their men mere! laaaly in an efiort to hold them off long enough to extricate the armies

t the five

that its laws are ■ me untarnished.

c corp* now

o their respective higher unit* lot mean that the eorp* had I krtually drawn together fe; y\ ion* Many of thi d:vin-.n* are «::h French or Brltifh tc.xe* for

[raining.

Mimbei* of the Senate Ml. fomminee learned from Oei

that

July

i u|Hin foreign fie:

j Fn

loyalty t-. t they wish where ae . to the peop

American port after diuvering a large routlngent of American troops, il wi I. anted here Tbe Justicla had troop carrying capacity of between •>Wi and i.WO men On her last trip from an Allani tort the Justicla was commanded ! Captain A. K S. Hamhletoc and u 1 ried nearly 10.«*0 troops, cun*id# 1*4 In excess of her rated capacity and If.,'.>00 ton cargo Rhe was a tri| screw turbine- driven veaae-l rapal «f 15 knots snd had s double bed'.

London.— The relations between Germany and Turkey have been severed, according to direct Informa-

tion from Constantinople.

This announcement 1* made by the Copenhagen correspondent of the Ex-

change Telegraph Company.

The excitement against Germany, the advices further say. has been growing, particularly after last wen-k's events. The- German* recently demanded the cruiser Hamidleh. the only

large ship then In possession of Tur- 1D(3 }t . ( tll4 . y •gated her to ►»!" key. as compensation for the Breslau tbwa< M ju,,) got t,. Ilk. l..t*J

abort time that ahe bad

About six month* jire. time. Olive'* father bad died. her alone except for hi* .4d chum Ted Lawrenae. He hsd will ond Olive, always supp^ij have been wealthy, had t- find means of aupportlng hefx-ij. of the town goaalp* had said tU “Ted" Lawrence had BBftlilag with It. but nothing further *„ When OUve had abown T-d fence the advertlaemeot. he tb,, s a fair place for a girl of hi-r i so advised her to try for the After a short talk with her OUve started foe the bouv on avenue. In anawer to her nut i door, a maid appeared 01..I In to the lady of tbe bon*.. ah Ml** Madison. OUve Intrednod self, aud after a few minute* of versa lion with . M**s Madlfin.

hired.

Ouring the next six month*, and her mlstrens traveled a cm! i Tien, suddenly, they packed leave for home. Olive's employ*. plained that her brother who training ramp, was comlt.r Ik a short furlough, nnd that *!,► ing to give n dinner in his OUve was somewhat happy, ss would be able to visit many ti old friends, and most of *11 h«r friend. Ted Lawrence. During the time that Mi«: X brother Ralph waa hoc , very little to do. as Mis* Mad quite busy entertaining her !• Tbe night of tbe dinner. Oliw at walking on the targe Uax surrounded tbe Madison bnow.^ she chanced to meet Mi-- V ‘ and her brother. Of cour- . it; Introduced, nnd Ralph U|wn that OUve sms hta sister * oe (whom he had heard much <'f). ed that ahe Join them st d:W*.J A few minutes Inter, a* *!■•• Ing down the stairs to g» Into tl lug room, tbe maid handed hers grain. Looking first at u>e *itw idle saw that tt waa from Ted rence. “Come to my office tt earliest convenience," It read quite anxious to know what tb* gram meant, she excuse'- l -"~ l tbe hoetess and left nt « office. When ahe arrive-! lb**, quietly asked her to sit down - had some good new* for tier. “OUve. It_w-a* n year ac t™^ ! your father died, leaving a *m » possession, not to be opened usm year after hta death, it le»'e* W tire estate to you. Sow. yo - course, give up your poaUlot. >

Madison s.”

OUve waa happy and yet *i« *»* . She was glad that ahe dldn t ■ support he reelf any more, and ytt*

didn't want to leave the Tbe next day ahe Infom. -d l^ _

ployer of what had taken l**^ evening before. They vrrr. • ■

former German cruiser, which waa destroyed In the Dardanelles while under th* Turkish flag. Despite Turkey's protest, the ILu~.ldieh ha* departed for Sebastopol with the German flag fly-

U. 6. FORCE GIGANTIC.

Amsterdam Correspondent Says Cant Be Beaten.

Amstedam—Returning here from a visit to France, a correspondent of the Handrlshlati writes a long article of

threatened at thr bottom, north of the J admiration for American achievement#

Marne

The American and French troops

ding up t

are never far behind thr rrtrea'Jnt force* and the vicious rear-guard actions are not sufficiently resistant '.o enable tbe Germans to proceed In the orderly manner planned At Dormans, north o4 the Marne and east of Cha-tenn-Thierry the Germans counterattacked. taking the position, hut were promptly driven out. They occupied Treloup. west of Dormans, and have

held It

Minor advance* have been made by the Alliea in thi woods In that part of the sector, while further to th* east, •ouib of Rheims. there were additional Allied surceases. The American* have occupied Courpoll, on thr toad to Frre-en-Tardunol* and the French posi'ions have been advanced untU Oulrh-leChati j dominat'd by the guns.

and continues: •From America Issues a force against which no European nation ran stand It Is a gigantic force, which Is developing calmly and scientifically. •Tbe German people are told that the I’dmata will be able to ronqui tbe American danger, but the German people have not seen what 1 have

them. OUve thought It ®v" thi-m that ahe would *t*J » f ^ ^ longer. ( i

U was some six month* w cau-e home again nnd all' 1 "‘‘’l. In tbe employ of Ml** * l * d **‘f _ and Olive had become ‘ friction and had b*eo ■ ^ with each other Mnce !!«' ' . Ralph wni bom*. This ’ came borne tt wa* OR' * , entertaining aim. On* be waa bo'ue be fceked 0 a abort walk out In th* r*’* ^ lust before they turned t" ^

KING GEORGE IN U. 8. LAWSUIT.

he looked happier, and tun* “f N . r * aroubu. faced OUve and been looking for • comp*" 1 ' ‘ J and you're the one I want. 1 " OUve bid her fare In h>“ nobody hut Ralph beard wh*i

U. 8. RIFLES FOR HOME GUARD

PRISONERS IN RHINE CITIES

sneane Cheer Allied All

UarmMadt. Rarli

Allied airmen «

British Ruler Plaintiff Against American Railroad. Newark. N. J -King George of England 1* plaintiff in a suit filed In the Btate Supreme Court here asking 8i - 022.000 damage* against the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company la connection with the destruction of British owned munitions tn thr disastrous Black Tom laland explosion at Jersey City in July, me

C»n Be Transferred When Not Needed

By National Guard Unit*,

aahiagton —Government rifles i*. surd to stales ran he transferred to e gusrd orgsalxstlons whm nut required by Kstlunal Gusrd units already formed, according to a iuIIbi of tbe War Depsrtmrat At prevent, step*

are beiss taken to ascertain

CONVOY SYSTEM A SUCCESS.

'Only On* Ship Out Of Nearly Two Hundred la Loet.

Ixondon —A* sn wvldeaire of the oeory of the convoy syetrm since tt was cstahlishtd by the Admiralty

Ie pointed out

I that the proportion of ships lost

what future crafts wD take. Lrare It “•‘M' '■••«*«*»*d during fhst period has ie impossible to say when rifls# will) been 5> par cent. In oUw-r word*, only be available for borne guards uaea r t on* ship out of nrarly 2W) ha.

Wnntad—*f**« nu ; • There ts n factory **^ r ' ' ■e used In B*aembljr.g U»' Formerly these acre* * »• with a small pulr of pfo'screw driver* there 1* ■ screw* are Insert'^ preaaing them through « *“ , Then they ran be put In poaltlon. and M* r ‘ away. Tlieee are only e*nmP"“ of Ingenuity *o hadlf o iwoplc out of tb* rut of ,n *; n

The Stappinfl Pl * c ' , “I don't mind lending J my ax. my Uwn lo . ,

t’dnge about the P'*** , (Slipping, 'ffiut I II •»« Ing. Gadapur." “Eh 7 Wbaf* th* tw, ^ 1 ,. “If you evre coow to borrow our t< irUh ' going to nay ’J 8 ®-'"