HUN RETREAT CALLED MASTERLY ACHIEVEMENT London. Aug 4.-Telegraphing it 1 o'clock Hunday afternoon, RwUn rorraapondent at Amarican head qaartera an the A tana-Ma rna front aaya: "Tha aalient la gone. Tha allied troops, Franch British and Americana •Ireard arc holding tha sovth hank of Um Vaala near, Pieman la In flamac. "Tha wifmi of tha retreating Car man rolumnc ran ba aaan toiling la baroualy ovar tha muddy upland rnada leading from tha rtrer toward ttla Alana. fhir cavalry patrol* hava found nothing to report bat raar guard arraana "To hava tkua driver tha cnamy hack aa ha waa driven hack four yaara ago ia no Manna achiavamant, hut wa muat not ovaraatimata tha poaaihill tiaa It may dlarloaa. Hint tha enemy haa haan forrad to ratira bitterly a gain at hia will ia quite ohvioua. Nav arthalaaa, I am prepared to accept General Ludam'oHf'a atatamant that tha ratiraaaant waa daridad on IA day* ago aftar Ganaral Petatn'a Mow agatnat tha waat aida of tha aaiiant, and tha German* can pride thamaalvaa on having rematnad to uaa Ludan dorfTa phraaa, "ns.-rtani of the situa tion.' That is to aay, thay hava haan ah la to avert the doom they feared, which waa the rollapaa of tha aida* of the aalient, the ronaerjuent capture by the allien of all tha troop* within it and they have haan able to withdraw I in an orderly manner without *eriou*| loaa in men or gun*, hut at a conaid-, areola sacrifice of ammunition. "To that extant they are maeterg of the lituation—aa the bankrupt may ba *o described who ju*t ear aped ba-' inir Kent to prison. "The Amrnran communication to day describes the enemy as having been dr ven in confuation beyond the1 Vesle, and one la extremely glad to hear it, ainee no far a* t have been able to witness or to learn, in the en emy's retirement menu of confusion hitherto have been conspx-iously ab sent. Indeed, I have never followed ( any army'a retirement which left soj VHte r»Ml'nca sf lieiiig foread ex* j rept in this one matter of amnrawi- i twm. "The enemy's dead are certainly un buned. But who should have buried them? He left men behind him with \ orders to die. And died they have.: They lie in groups about their guns,I doaens here, dosens there—everyone with an American bullet through his brain or breast, or with the equally decisive tramp at the American bayon-l «C "These groups are close together in' vital posttiot.s and amount to a total i of from two to three hundred men. They give evidence of fine discipline 1 and determination and not of that sort of thing one is accustomed to And be hind defeated armies. "So far as I can see, the enemy1 counted exactly the coot of his retire-' ment, and paid not a man nor a gun' above hia margin. As a soldierly achievement it moved one to admira tion, and, cheered an one must he by the confession of weakness which the retirement implies, there is nothing in the retirement >y the success of the attack on the «-ast of it. That attack failed, and, although von Roehn tried for a couple, of day* to cln«k thefailure, the mo ment General Petain struck from the' went the Germans had nr option, with' the force at their diaponnl, but to re tire. And they evidently are pro foundly thankful that they have made sui h a good job of it. "Ludendorff call* the operation a j strategical success. No, it U not that It i« a great stratefficrl failure, re lived by various tactical successes. [ and it may not I* too soon to nay that the failure, even retrived n;< it has been probably spell* ruin to the German offensive, for this season at least, against Pari?.. "True they have an attack they may deliver in Flanders almost any mo-1 ment they please, if Crown Prince Ruppreeht's reserves hove not l*en drawn upon too largely in the Ger man crown prince's interest. Rut October is likely to be the earlie-t date for any vital operations hen-, •nd October means some half million more of these excellent Americans in the line. •The extreme weakness of I.uden dorff's strategical success was exhi bited yea tarda y. If • (iwt general with • itntaghtl mihiii an Ma handa had an opportunity /«t«rH»y for a big tact teal blow It auraly would have tempted him had no* «oaae aenoua rearon intervened. The r,aiaian re tirement waa rapid and I ha alliad pur ault, ia anWr to Waap paca with it waa forced to outrun tha pnurtlan of ita haavy ran*. "Tha road«, which had baan ankla daap in duet, war* rhurnad by tha paa> aage of tha troop* into mud. whirh •lowed tha profraaa of everything on. wheel« Tha day with ita haavy elnuda and thunderrhowera waa difficult for airrraft ohaervatlon and our cavalry patrol* waro far from numer.^aa. "It waa a moat tempting momant for a counter atroka which would hava baan rartain to inflict haavy laaaaa and put a pratty political Aniah to th-it atrategical ratiramant, which haa aa dapraaaad Barlin. "Yat I.undend/>rtf rafrainad. Why wall, two reaaona auggeat thrmaelvea. Kither ha had navar tha needful force at hla diapoaal, or a dafenaiva atti tude to tha north of tha Aiana having been decided on tha troop* required to cover ha retirement had been rut down to the loweat poaaibla number*, and every available diviaion waa be ing turned around to Flandera for the long deferred attack on tha Brituh front, for which all thing* had been in readineaa since the end of June. A aucc«-> there Wuald have impoiUuil eonaequnrea and would cover up the failure here. And once hack on the ("hemin Dea Daman, von Boahn't de feated army would have time to ra nt oup itaelf. "The k«y of yesterday a interest «a«, of course, Soissona; and flois aona presented a sorry spectacle when the alii** entered it. Ttia Germans' haegun so gloriously by Frnnco-American troops on July 18 were reaped today when, the enemy who met hi - >-ecnnd rrreat defeat on the Marne was driven in. confusion beyond the line of the Ve le. "The enemy in spite of suffering the severest losses, has proved inca-i pablc of stemming the onslaught of our troop* fiphung for lil>erty side by aide with French, B-iti h and It-j alian veteran*. In the course of the| operations, 8,400 prisoners and 133 guns have beencaptured by our men. alone. "Section B.—There is nothing to re port in this section." Feelhig in Ruaaia Very Bitter Againat Germany. Amsterdam Auk. 1.—"Feelings in Kuscia in everywhere very bitter n'gaifat Germany," is ti>e Hurpriaing frank -tfttemcnt made b> Hans Vara',, special commissioner of the Tageblatt' of Berlin, who readied Moscow after, a tf.ru: and tedious rai.way journey re^'cr tly ami report* (nm thnt city on the conversation* he had with l.usi- j net.* men, official* and peasant* re garding International condtion.s in Rqsria. Business men, the cftrrespo-nlent finds, are without exception strongly anti B< 1-heviki, blaming the "ciaay ty-onny" of economic ruin. They be lieved another war against Germany wj» coming, but were not clear under whose direction, there being much di vergence of opinion on ti.i* point. PROVING CAOtlND AT AIUDUN, MD , WORK BEYOND IMAGINATION Million* Imi Spmtf Om FUmt to Tad Gmm mmI A——*► tioN far tk* War Valwa Will Mmm into BilltoM of Mlm. Ab rdaan, Md., J una 14.— Napoleon, whoa* reputation M the wprMM mili tary ftnnn of modern una* paraiaU, notwi Jiatanillng Ik* encroachmonta < It wa* whan ha laid it down. Up Kara, at tha United Mtataa Army Praainir ' » round la tka rtiihla and aud it)!* evidence of th* faith which thraa (Treat irmwi have in it. Up Kara, ovar a "f-oat" of eight milaa, ara Vranch and Brttiah and A marie mi gone, with thair rarrinren ammunition and itoraa all daaigned with th* Napoleonic idaa of moving them from point ta point with tha graateat poenibie awiftnaaa and working th* greatest poaaihl -i de nt ruction up< r a »urpri*ed enemy New Type* of (inn There. Tn*r* are large numbara of lhaa* gum and tl.cy include pi actually eve ry type of mobile artillery empi.iyad by th* French and Britian and Ameri can nrmiaa on th* We*tarn front. They include, alao certain type* not employ ed on th* Western front—that ia, not y«t Our American force* in the field may never have heard of Aberdeen; nevertheless, many of their hopes are centered here, for the better the can non we product and the greater the numler, the batter the ammunition and the greater the quality, then the better will be our artillery prepara tion in battle, and the greater will be the Having of America"! liven. But hardly a cannon and not one ahcll ia ■hipped from the United Stetea to Franca until Aberdeen ha* given the word. ad to turn the tide of battle in France and Flanders to an Allied victory. But men without gone—big guna, I mean, —and guna without anamaaitton, can not go forth to war. Shalt we have the guna 7 And the ammunition for thoee guna? Will Foch and Haig and Perahmg. with the addition to the Allied artillery of the material being tented and developed here at Aber deen, be able, in th Napoleonic tactica to bring up, unknown to the enemy, an unexpected force of artillery thrft will be certain, to win the day when the All tea take the offensive ? Presents A Warlike Scene. It ia evident that a m. re newspaper man cannot answer questions of this nature. They are propounded not be cause they are answerable—for in this war even the mathematical certain ties of one day are the uncertainties of the next—but because th*> are per tinent in conveying to the reader a notion of what the ultimate purpose of the United States Army Proving Ground is in the war. The people o'f Maryland outside of Harford county, and especially the people of Baltimore are living almost within sound of the booming cannon of Alierdeen yet they are in danger of allowing to pass un noticed in their very midst the pro gress of the greatest army proving ground project that the world ha-, ever known. The object of this article, is not to make a study of the ordnance situa tion in the United States Army; It is to tell about what has been going on, and what is going on today, in this ob scure corner of the world, where though it tie as peaceful in ~ome re spects as a Quaker colony, it is in others as warlike as a sector on the western front. The thunder of the big buns, firing incessantly day in and day out. makes these Mar) land hills ami fields and marshes tremble; and the uteris of Chesapeake and iti. tri butaries hereabout. All T«'*ted «t Aberdeen. The movement of ordnance from the United Stale* to France may he lik ened to the pawing of sand through an hour glass. At the upper extreme uf the glass are the great industrial plant* man-jfaclui ing cannon and am munition; at the lower extreme are the receiving porta abroad. In the center, at the union of the apices of the two pci.i nhupvJ containers, fa the Aberdeen Proving Ground. >Be fore the product* of the factories can go from on* extreme to the other they must negotiate the difficult passage in the enter. To go through that aper ture, th« products must he of a Mr IMn MMte rhararter, juit H tha ■ami* of mm hour giaaa muat ba of a rartain MnHa fmin. Whoa tka Aberdeen Proving Ground la roaipleted and working at ita full rapacity tha estimated valua of the ammunition which it will releaae for ahipmant la Franca la 9*o,OM.OOO a day. In ordar to ralaasa this a tagger inf amount of malarial for attach and riafsnaa M will hava to blow up In amake or aink in tha bottom of tha rherapeake Bay earn pica from tha shipments to tha valua of (MO,(MO a day. .That will moan firing from all tha rtnfH on tha proving ground— lha heavy artlllary battary, tha aaa coaat battary. tha .railway mount*, tha mobila artlllary hittery. tha anti aircraft mount a. tha aviation drop liomb fteld and tha tranch warfare battary—a total of lft,000 rounds a day. Including everything from a ha.id granade to tha haavlaat projactila known. Hhaoting awny 1(1,000 rnunda of r.m mtinlMon worth $.1(10.000 avary day might aaam at Aral glsnra Ilka a crim inal wnata of tha public monay. Com pared with tha raaulta achieved how ever, It la insignificant. It means, ra ducad to simple tarma that tha army spamlg three rants to And out whether 95 wgrth of ammunition la worth 98. If It hi not worth $6, than it la ra jectad and withheld from shipment to Franca. Tha Jnh of t#ie proving ground is to -aa that tha War Depart ment gats the cannon and the ammu nition that it pays for. Flaat to Caat 917.*M.M« The estimated earnt of establishing the proving ground and putting it on • war-time basis, no that it can han dle the tasting and development •- of gun* and ammunition for an army of .1,000,000 men—that is the basis for which the original plan* of the pro- j jeet have Seen revised—in $17,000,000,1 a bagatelle compared with the figures I have just quoted. The annual cost of operating and maintaining the re-. nervation, exciaaive of the value of the ammunition fired and of the wear and tear on the cannon uaed. will ba $«. 500,0M a year. The Trine of thai far the aaeiiaa af and for makiag experiment* af var ious kinda will ba 91M,MO,000 a year. That will releaaa for shipment in the| course of a year, a* I figured K. am munition cloee to the value of SISt-i 000,000,000. Here I stop talking in terms of money. The thing not only gets beyond my imagination, it geta almost beyond credibility. But I have' set the figures down aa they were' given to me. However, those figures are matters for tve future. The present state of affairs at the proving ground >a with-! in my comprehension. I have spent several days here and I have travel-1 ed practically from one end to the oth er of the 36.000 acres that constitute the Government reservation. I have seen a tract of land more than twice the size of Uie c'ty of Baltimore that was familiar to me until eight months ago as one of the most fertile and prosperous agricultural sections of my home State transformed into a gi gantic industrial and military terri tory that is almost wholly unrecogni zable as the place I had known since boyhood. Whole Section Trimformnl. TVe old roajs that I knew have been obliterated. In their pluce are great wide thrnughfares over which motor truck trains going in opposite direc tion.* ran pass earh other with as lit tle trouble n* they do on the troad inter-city highways. They are the subxtr&tum of wJ**t clover lawn* on which little children danced and fro licked in the nun, across orchard lands on which cherries were falling and pe.iches were still green, across mar shes in which the frog croaked their wierd love-songs at nightfall—across all this vast country-side a military railroad wind* its tracks. Every day a hundred carloads or more of freight pass in and out. The crews in a short time will be 30 miles of the fine t con rrete roads ki.own to American cijil engineering. Across Acids in which this time last year the green wheat was bowig in the wind and the corn was juat knee high. across meadows where large dairy heads grazed anil d&tsie* and buttercups and of the fain* are uni formed National Army men who were firemen and eigmeers before the draft •nd who are now attached to the Ordnance Department. Farm house* that hail been the homes of some families for genera tions have been usei * target* for the heavy gun* and mowed down by shell* and iKxnb*, or burned to nave the labor that would have been re quired to raxe them. A few of the totter nnee hr-ve bM pat aa wfeeela and moved lone dletanee away U Mrva M quartan far eewe oiwn and (hair ha. Me. The building. that have raplaead them at* raw apan raw a* rf^ulaltnn rantanmanta harracbe far tha raaMant civilian amp4i»yaa and tha enllatad Man, tha long Una of frame atrvrturea for oArera rjuartera, tha maaa hail a, tha big mar Kin* ha pad front that awinga around from < Mulberry Point to Michaaaville eon-| ver|re» into a danger tone that run* from Um outer egde of the horse*hoc down over Romney creek and then over Buah river and then over Gun powder Neck and Gunpowder river, j At ita lower extremity it takee in part of Middle Biver Neck, on the one hand and the wfeoie of Poeie'a Ulan 1 on the other. That ia 17 milea in aa air line. It ia gain? atill farther on, all the way on down the bay paat the line of Baltimore, until it reachea Kent lalasd—Kent Ialand. which the Or dnance Department a year ago want ed for ita proving ground. How dis tant that squabble over Kent Ulvid now »eema! And how it mall Kent Is lam! itaelf ia baaide thia vaat proving ground in Harford eour.ty, ao large that the Ordnance f>epa>tment. in the early daya of the war, had not even dared to hope for it, let alone to amach and causa* nau sea, vomiting and a terrible head ache. Take three of Chamberlain'* Tablets. Ttiey wilt tone up your liv er. clean out your stomach and you will soon be as well a* ever. Trey only cost a quarter. • fmmrnd. With the Amrtru Army am Ihe A mm- Mama Front, July 30.—Tito treaaendous ilorM at (••rmsn am— niUon found by the franco-Ameri can troop* In ttto fnreeta of Farm and Rta, I—rf■ iiinn to believe that the alltod affnicivt nipped in tlto bod. piaaa for a momentous drive TTto foraetr. and tha "Orroandlng rountry north nt tha Mama were Tlr tually ana great arwnnl for 'IrriMn ammunition of ail kind*. lug gun*, ■hells being particularly numerous. At piare* on tha adga* of tha woods thara wara large shell* stacked Ilka cordwood ovar large area*. Thousands of these sheila war* m tendad for tha Carman 110 milliate tar gun*, only a few at which hava baan captured. Tha American* a» luma that tha fierman* withdraw many of than* gun* and that othara intended for tha great drive had not yet arrived whan the allied offensive began. All through tha forest* the Aatori cans came upon ammunition ilepota, at noma places mora than an acre of ground being covered with sheila at all caliber*, flnme at the xmailer shells ware labelled "for immediate uaa." Along the roads everywhere, and even in the open place*, tha sheila were camouflaged with limba of trees. From tha roadway* skirting tha foreet in every patch of wood sheila ware visible. Every clump «f trees or shrubbery sheltered sheila of var ious caliber*. Some of the depot* were devoted entirely to big sheila and other* extensively to projectile* of smaller siaer including gas 'hells, high explosive projectile* and cart ridge* for machine gun* and rifle*. From the roadway* near the for est's edge*, mile after wile of caaea of rille cartridge* were seen, winding in and out and following the trea liner, like fence*. Sacramento, Cat., July SI.—A sea of wheat, replacing • Mm of water, twenty thousand acre* ia on* tract brinfnir forth the meal of which Uncle 9am and her,allien in the world war are in iiirk great need, ia a transfo-matinn accomplished on what wan overflowed land, near 8ac raMMo. The huge tract formerly covered with the flcodwateni of the Sacra mento and the American river liea in a fertile he inn of some sixty-odd thousand acrea, moat of which has been reclaimed and tamed to agri culture through the efforts of the federal and rtate governments at the coat of millions of dollar:. The reclamation of this land in permanent frahton was made possi ble by the progresa of the Sacramen to riven flood control project, which after enrior.emeni oy « onfrew ami the California legislature ia being steadily pu