attack and threw the en emy back to the western bank of the ailette after having captured pierremande and folembray enemy columns retreating from bichancourt along the oise were attacked on the flank by our machine gun ere from the northern bank of the river and were shot down with the heaviest losses our troops advancing on the eastern border of coucy wood and by way of barisis stormed a hillock northeast of folembray and advanced as far as vereuil the num ber of prisoners has increased to over 2,000 captain von richthofen achieved his seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth aerial victories u s judge baker ill condition is serious judge francis e baker of the united states circuit court of ap peals is seriously ill at french lick springsind physicians pronounced his illness pneumonia judge baker will be unable to sit with the court to-day and judge ferdinand a geiger of milwaukee has been called to fill the vacancy rosenwald to have high u.s.post report washingt9on april b lt is re ported that julius rosenwald of chi cago is to receive an important post in the course of a shake-up in the war department nald to be impend ing the duties of purchaser of war supplies are mentioned in connection with his name mother of samuel insull dies in london samuel insull chairman of the state council of defense received a cablegram yesterday stating that his mother mrs emma insull died last friday at her home in london eng land another message received by mr insull