War Department Has Made Publit Nearly One Thousand Names "HOLD FAST" IS KEYNOTE OF OCCUPY NORTH BANK OF THE STIRRING ARTICLE FROM in Two Days. RIVER IN THE REGION OF PEN OF THE PREMIER. SOISSONS. Washington, Aug. 6.—American casualties ,from the great FrancoAmerican offensive have begun to poui LLOYD GEORGE IS CONFJDENT VESLE CLEARED OF GERMANS and Profits into the war department. The names of 407 have just been made public. In addition 299 will be ready later in English Statesman Says, "We Cannot the day. Many more names, it was Enemy Resistance Growing Stronger War said, have reached the war department, Seek to Escape Horrors of From Fismes East to Rheims, but their publication is awaiting for Ourselves by Laying Them Probably Due to ^Floods the customary 15 hours notice to relatives. How much do you think Up for Our Children." Hampering Retreat. With a total of 706 names an it costs— London, Aug. 6.—The Germans London, Aug. 6.—"Hold fast" was nounced or ready for announcement, I are imposing strong opposition to the keynote of a message to the British the last casualty list showed that the the further advance of the Allied empire issued by Premier David country must steel itself for the troops along the Vesle river from Lloyd George aud promulgated in a greatest losses suffered thus far in I drastic way through the kingdom. the east of Soissons to the region 1. To dress beef, cure hides, and the war. i1 west of Rheims. The message was read to audiences The day before 283 names were an prepare all the numerous byproducts in all theaters, concert halls and other Meantime, however, the main nounced, a total of 989 casualties places where people were assembled, bodies of the enemy army continue made public in two days. including moving picture houses. to make their way toward Men from 45 states were named iii the Aisne, to the north of which Sealed copies of the message had the lists, with no predominating number 2. To cool the meat for two or been distributed to the managers of stream they hope somewhere to from any one state. This was three days before shipment? reach a haven of* safety from the all these places, with the request that taken to indicate that the casualties persistent onslaught of the American, they open and read it! The message were scattered through many units. follows: French, British and Italian The states not represented in the lists 3. To freight it to all parts of troops, who in less than three "The message which I send to the were Arizona, Delaware and Nev the country in special refrigerator weeks have all but blotted out the people of the British empire on the Hampshire. cars, iced daily Soissons-Rheims salient. fourth anniversary of tlie entry into Northwest names appear on the lists v. the war is: 'Hold fast.' Notwithstanding the bringing received as follows: Corp. B. Smith, Russell T. Edwards, publicity man into play by the enemy of large "We are in this war for no selfish Spring Valley, Minn. Corp. B. M, for the national war garden commission, 4. To carry it in hundreds of numbers of machine guns and artillery ends. We are in it to recover freedom Campbell, Piatt, S. D. Wagoner H. is the only male honorary member branch houses, each -with its of heavier caliber, the employment for the nations which have been brutally Levy, Menasha, Wis. Private W. G. of the Women's Association of attacked and despoiled, and to of large number of Brown, Shiocton, Wis. Private J. Dahlen, refrigerating plant? Commerce of the United States. He picked troops, including the welltried prove that no people, however powerful, Nekoma, N. D. Sergt. M. J. Murphy, earned this distinction by urging the Prussian guards and the Bavarians, can surrender itself to the lawless Sioux Falls, S. Private W. D. V. association in Cincinnati to conduct 5. And to deliver it to the retailer and in spite of the fact ambitions of militarism without meeting Pedersen, Moose Lake, Minn. Private a campaign of silence toward German that the rains have sent the Vesle retribution, swift, certain and disastrous. B. J. Shoffner, Minneapolis Private sweet and fresh —in less propaganda. out of bounds and turned the lowlands !ij at the hands of the free nat?" Eugene J. Bigelow, St. Paul, killed in than two weeks after dressing? SsM ii YANKEES into quagmires, the Americans J" lie world. To stop short of action. Sergt. Grant R. Jacobs, Minneapolis and other Allied droops have v:-. .j-:j ror this cause would be to compromise Private Harold A. Hastings, forced crossings of the river at the future of mankind. Minneapolis Private Paul S. Nelson, Swift & Company did all this a number of new points and on Minneapolis Private Edward Worthen, Victory Prospects Bright. the north side of the stream are St. Paul, severely wounded. for ypu in 1917 at an expense of "I say 'Hold fast,' because our prcfe iJiii engaging the enemy. r:! ARE GREETED ENTHUSIASTICALLY pects of victory have never been io HE GENERAL LUDEND0RF.F SAYS less than cents per pound of 2V2 BY THE RUSSIANS. bright as they are today. Six months .J? London, Aug. 6.—Weakened by the IS CONSERVING MEN. beef sold, including an average ago the rulers of Germany deliberately defeat suffered on thte SoissonsRheims rejected the just and reasonable -settlement front, the Germaiis apparently profit of of cent a pound. lA a General March Will Issue in Near proposed by the Allies. Throwing are preparing to assume! the! deleusivc German Commander Maintains Gen- aside the last mask of moderation,' on the front from Ypres to Rheims. Future Statement of Amer­ era they partitioned Russia, enslaved fttfamania I Foch's Plans Were Southeast of Amiens on the old yourself how ican Plans. and attempted to sieze suftrem# Montdidier sector the Germans'have .-v-.. Frustrated. power by overthrowing the Allies in a fallen back across the Avf& river over Kandalaska, Aug. 6. American final and desperate attack. a "wide front, while northeast of Amsterdam, Aug. 5—"The enemj Zroops participated in the landing ol "Thanks to the invincible bravery Amiens, in the region of 'Albert, a evaded us on July 15, and* we thereupon, the Allied forces at Archangel. The of all: the Allied armies, it Is now "evident similar retrograde movement has been as early as the evening of the first detachment of the international to all that this dream of universal made across the Ancre. The German sixteenth, broke off operations. forces included members of the Russian conquest for the sake of which flflky official communication in admitting the Swift & Company "It is always our endeavor tp stop officers' league. wantonly prolonged the War can never withdrawal near Albert, declares the an undertaking as soon as the stake The participation of the Americans be fulfilled. maneuver was carried out without interference is not worth the cost. I consider it in the landing has been greeted enthusiastically "But the battle is not yet won. The by the British. one of my principal duties to spare the in Northern Russia. great autocracy of Prussia will still e% Yanks Take Fismes by' Storm. blood and strength of our soldiers." The people look upon the Americans deavor, by violence or guile, lo avoid Between Soissons and Rheims the General Ludendorff, first quartermaster as a guarantee of the friendliness of defeat and so give militarism a new Vesle virtually has been cleared of general of the German army, the Allies toward Russia. lease of life. We cannot seek to escape enemy troops and Fismes is iii the made this statement to an assemblage The population of Archangel received of for the horrors war ourselve9 Dy hands of the Americans, having been "We with of German newspaper correspondents, recKSirecF an attack on the troops with cheeripg. The laying ihfem up for our .children, gating His plan was undoubtedly to cut carried by storm. -Fismes ^was Germany's who were received by' Field Marshal July 18 and were prepared for it. The men debarked and advanced toward set our hands to the ta^k, we. mi^sj the entire arc of our front south ot great ammunition and supply yon Hindenburg and himself, according •J I enemy experienced very heavy losses, Archangel, where already an antiBolsheviki see it through till a just and lasting the Aisne by a break-through on the depot, midway on the railway between to dispatches received here. and the Americans and African auxiary revolution had taken place. settlement is achieved. wl' flank. But with the proved leadership Soissons and Rheims. we The leaders in this movement invited Declare Foch Failed. troops, which do not underestimate, "In no other way can we endura a of our Seventh and Ninth armies that French Cross Aisne. General Referring to General Foch, the protection of the Allied troops. suffered severely." world set free from war. 'Hold fast.* ,*! wag QLulte imjDOBsibls. West of Rheims the French have Lmlgndorff continued: March to Disclose Plans. made important gains and in the' region Washington, Aug. 6.—Plans for the UNCLE SAM'S PARTNER of Soissons the French are north TANK STEAMER SUNK organization and dispatch of the American of the Aisne. The enemy resistance AFTER THRILLINS FIGHT military contingent to Russia to apparently has been growing stronger co-operate with the forces of the Allied from Fismes east to Rheims. However, German Submarine Then Shells Lifeboat nations in support of the Czecho* tbe Vesle is in flood and as large in Which Crew Takes Slovaks at Vladivostok are being swamps line its course west of Rheims Refuge. worked oat by the army general staff. it is possible the resistance may be No intimation as to the size of the due to the inability of the Germans Halifax, N. 5., Aug. 6.—The Standard contingent has been given. fo move to the north bank. Oil company's tank steamer L6tfis At the war department it was said AlHed troops, having flattened out Blanchet was torpedoed and sunk 40 that by next Wednesday General the Marne pocket, have not advanced miles west of this port after a thrilling March, chief of staff, would be able to so rapidly during the last 48 hours. three hours' battle with a German give out a statement of as much of The leading units keep in close touch submarine. the plans as safely may be disclosed with the Germans, but it is probable The crew took to their small boats, then. There is good reason to believe that heavy artillery will have to be where they were shelled by the submarine General March's statement will disclose brought up if the Germans persist in but escaped vHthout being that it follows rather than precedes trying to hold at various points along hit. The chief cook and the chief the jiction which has been determined tbe ^esle. steward of the tanker, however, were upon, at least in some of Further German Retreat Seen. killed when the explosion of the Germans' its leading features. There is little doubt in Allied capitals torpedo smashed the steamer's that the German crown prince stern. will retire to the north of the Aisne. GERMAN SOLDIERS Kis resistance to French pressure in WEARY OF FIGHTING HEAVY GUNS ROARING the Rheims region not unlikely is for ALONG VESLE RIVER tin purpose of holding the Allies from With the British Army in FrancAug. breaking through and also to prevent 6.—Documents of the most sife ithem from getting between the Vesle General Pershing Reports American nificant character indicating that re'cent rand the Aisne before he can get his Aviators Downed Four German events have brought about an .at oops to the northern stream. Airplanes. extremely marked state of depression in the German army have fallen into Washington, Aug. 6.—"On the line SIBERIAN POLITICAL the hands of the British. of the Vesle biisk artillery fighting is FACTIONS ARE UNITING Most significant of all, perhaps, is in progress," General Pershing reported an extract from a German officer's in his communique covering With -.Opponents of Soviet Government, diary in which he relates he had been Monday's fighting, received by the war the Allied /kid, Reorganizing anked by the divisional headquarters department. Russian Army. whether the troops in the line favored "On Aug. 3 our aviators shot down Washington, Aug. 6.—Consolidation peace or a continuation of the war, four hostile airplanes," he statement 'of the political factions in Siberia opposed his answer being: "Immediate peace adds. to the soviet government and the or an immediate decisive battle." liberation of six additional Siberian GENERAL MARGIN TAKES towns from the Bolsheviki through the THAN MORE 500 GUNS CRUISER SAN DIEGO combined efforts of the Czecho-Slovaks and the military organizations of the WAS SUNK BY MINE Siberian government, were announced French Army Has Captured an Equal in dispatches received by the Russian Number of Trench Mortars Washington, Aug. 6.—Investigation iP embassy from Omsk. Since July 18. 1 has disclosed that the armored, cruiser Organization of a people's army to San Diego, sunk several weeks ago off Paris, Aug. 6.—More than 500 guns re establish, with the help of-the Allies, the American coast, struck a mine, have been captured by one French the battle front against Germany, Secretary Daniels announced. army alone, that of General Mangin, is proceeding successfully, the dispatch This is the finding of a naval court since the beginning ol the Allied offensive said* and everywhere the population of inquiry, which holds that the loss of on July 18. The army also belonging to different political groups the ship was due in no way to negligence took ah equal number of trench mortars are manifesting "vivid interest and or inefficiency on the part of sympathy with the movement." in the same period. the captain or crew. Harvester Trust Case Settled. Abandon 1,500,000 Shells. ik-- Allied Casualties Decreasing. Washington, Aug. 6. Under an agreement between the government Paris, Aug. 6.—Allied troops have With the American Army on the. and the International Harvester company, established two strong bridgeheads on Aisne-Marne Front, Aug. 6.—The hurried federal court decrees declaring the north bank of the Vesle—at retreat of the Germans has served the so-called harvester trust to be an Pazoehes, three miles west of Fismes, to relieve conditions in the hospitals unlawful combination and ordering its and at Jouchery, six miles east of there since has been a marked falling dissolution, are to be carried into effect Fismes. The German losses in the LIFE 1918 in off the number of wounded. Dressing s. at once. The company's appeal Fismes region have been as severe as stations have been able to send at any point in the retreat, it is reported. pending In the supreme court since' the to bases all the cases on hand if a ha a a so 1916 is to be dismissed and an toijder Included iiv the material captured. and move forward to be in a position leaded providing for the sale of certain Planting home gardens, producing more food, and saving food are all war-time efforts of by the Ali/es are 1,500,000 for new to care ones when brought machinery lines controlled by the company, shelte of 7? millimeter caliber. Since this government in which the^ women of America^have co-operated loyally. We are all in the As a in. matter of fact, most of those I" futy 15 Von Hindenburg has engaged together with its plants in now asking home army the home army here must help the fighting forces and home armies over there: aid are. men who have Springfield. Ohio, and Auburn. If. Y. 17 divisions (1,044,000 men). 120 million Allies must eat. dropped out because of exhaustion. 2^0?:* ,T ~!£-J J, gwrjliw 1