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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED NFYJ FOUR O'CLOCK. Volam 78 o. 259 NEW YORK CITY. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18.

1918. 20 PAGES. THREE CESTfi flAG LAUNCHES NEW DRIVE AGAINST ST. QUENTIN; CAPTURES DOMINATING POSITION NORTH OF CITY; ALLIES MAKE FURTHER GAINS IN MACEDONIA BJCSITTIJ5D. BAIN TONIGHT AND THURSDAY.

EAST WINDS BECOMINO SOI'TH TO WEST. Today'" 12 SJ. iMt ear, 71. Complete report pass 1 I 4 AMOUNTS TO NOTHING GERMANS FAIL IN No Talk of Peace Now, Clemenceau Declares; 'Day of Glory Has Come NIGHT ATTACK British Begin Closer Investment of Bas tion of Hindenburg Line Germans Are Ordered to Hold Their Ground at All Costs FrancoSerbian Forces in Solo niki Zone Advance Nearly 42 Miles on Wide Front-Prisoners Total Guns and Other Booty Captured. wreck the consciousness of right and our indefeasible claims to independence." Ho pointed out how, without the slightest pretext, Germany hurled herself upon French' territory, devastated the fields of France, burned and pillaged her towns and villages and enslaved her men, women and children.

"The enemy thought that victory would cause all this to be pardoned." continued the Premier. "But fortune has changed. The day of glory has come. Our sons are completing the formidable task of their fathers, and with brotherly nations are securing a supreme victory. All right minded humanity is with our troops who are liberating the nations from the furor of evil force." The Paris newspapers treat Premier Clemenceau's speech as in effect a reply to the Austro-Hungarian peace note, coupling it with that of Arthur J.

Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary. They declare that the response which President Wilson, Sectary Balfour and Premier Clemenceau have made show them In agreement on tho question and as unwilling to permit a discussion of peace which St Quentin, On the southern end the attack is directed against ground dominating the old Hindenburg line. Germans Ordered to Hold Fast. British Headquarters in France, Tuesday, September 17 (via Montreal Keuter's) Tho Germans are in their defensive positions near St. Quentin, and the 14th Reserve Corps has been ordered not to give uj ono foot more of ground.

A captured document by General von Morgen, dated September 10 and addressed to the 14th Corps, says: 1 "Hitherto, owing to military reasons, we have allowed the British to occupy desolate enemy country. Now, however, you have taken up strong defensive positions. Not one foot more of ground is to be given up." After exhorting the men to defend their homes, their families and the Fatherland, the document adds: "You are more than a match for the enemy, who only attacks with dash when accompanied by tanks. These we will destroy. I expect every man from general to junior private to do his duty in the immenent decisive battles." General Von Morgen was reported to have fled hastily in an automobile early in the British attack north of the Ancre.

Zone of New Drive Important With the British armies in France, September 18 Field Marshal Haig's forces this morning attacked the German positions on a considerable front northwest of St. Quentin. Simultaneously French troops carried out an operation on the right. Successful progress was made on both fronts. The attack was begun -it 5:20 o'clock after a brief bombardment.

Coupled with the news of the success of the ATMe-d forces" in the early stages of the operations came reports that heavy fighting had developed at many points, particularly about Fres-noy, Ronssoy and Kpehy, iu the British zone, and about Savy Wood, where the French were attacking. The towns named in the foregoing indicate that the France-British attack is on a front of at least fourteen miles. The section along which the assault is being made is a most important one. The British prior to today had worked forward until they had established themselves in the old support line between Kpehy and Verguier. "In front of them the Germans were sitting on a dominating ridge in positions which represented the British front line before tho Germans launched their offensive last March.

In addition the Germans held tho former second support line of tho British. The crest of this ridne dom would dissipate the storm drivin I against the Central Powers. JOHN W. DAVIS IS NAMED AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN Solicitor General of United States, Now in Switzerland, to Succeed Walter H. Page.

Washington, September 18 John W. Davis of West Virginia, now Solicitor General of the United Slates, has been selected by President Wilson to succeed Walter Hines Page as Ambassador to Great Britain. The announcement of Mr. Davis' selection today disclosed that he had arrived safely in Switzerland, where he Is to head the American delegation-at tho Berne conference, between American and German missions, on the treatment and exchange of prisoners I of ar. Since he came to Washington seven years su, as iiieiuoer or i uiiuit-sH from the 1st West Virginia District, Mr.

Davis has been an active figure in the capital. He was elected to succeed hlmslf in the House, but had hardly begun his second term when President Wilson appointed him Solicitor General in August, 1913. In addition to the duties of his oflice he has found time for various activities, including the work of counselor of the American P.ed Cross. His name hardly had been mentioned in connection with the ambassadorship, although it was known that he had the complete confidence of the President, and was a close friend of Secretary Lansing. The decision of Ambassador Page to resign on account of ill health was announced three weeks ago.

John William Davis, Solicitor General of the United Slates, was born in Clarksburg, W. April 13, 1873. lie is the son of John J. and Anna Kennedy Davis. He received the degree of A.B.

at Washington and Lee University in 1 892. He received his L.L.H. in 1895 and his LL.D in ISIS. His first wife. Julia T.

McDonald. whom he married Juno 20, 1899. died August 17, 1910. He was married to his second wife, Ellen G. Basscl, January 2, 1912.

Mr. Davis was admitted to the liar in 1 895 and was assistant professor of law at Washington and Lee University in 1896-7. He was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1899, was a candidate for presidential elector-at-large in 1800; a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1904. He was elected to the C2d and 63d Congresses, 1911-15, from tho first West Virginia district.

He resigned from Congress, August 30, 1913, to become Solicitor General. Mr. Davis, who was a member of the law firm of Davis and Davis, of Clarksburg, was president of the West Virginia Bar Association in 1900. He is a member of Phi Kappa Psl and Ph. Betta Kappa, a thirty-second degree Mason and an Elk.

He belongs to the Metropolitan University, National Press, Chevy Chase, and Lawyers Club of Washington. He is also a counsellor of tho American Red Cross. U-BOAT VICTIMS ARRIVE An Atlantic Port, September 18- The second officer and eight men of -1 HEALTH DEPT. SEES REAL EPIDEMIC NOW OF INFLUENZA HERE Dr. Copeland Says New York "Must Reconcile Itself to Visitation of Disease." The epidemic of "Spanish" influenza which made its appearance at Camp Upton a few days ago and has led to the quarantining of that cantonment has spread itself to five Army camps.

In addition to 350 cases at Upton there are 1,500 cases at Camp Dcvens, and 1,000 at Camp Lee, according to official announcement made today by Surgeon General Gorges. Several hundred cases and one death hav also been reported, unofficially, from Camp Dix, N. as well as a widespread outbreak nt Camp Gordon, Ga. There have been three deaths at Camp Devens, Health Commlssione Copeland stated frankly today that the people of this city might as well reconcile themselves to a visitation from the This was the first indication which has been given that the depart ment regards the situation with concern. All utterances heretofore indi cated that they made light of it "We have taken every precaution to guara against it ana alive been not-ably successful so far," declared Dr.

Copeland, "but I am afraid we're going to have a lot of cases reported be. fore long. Since the first of July we've had about 190 in this city, but they've oeen practically all seafaring men on ships arriving in the harbor and we have immediately isolated them and followed them up In such a way as to insure against the spread of the com plaint. Had other ports eben as care ful as ours I do not think the disease would have gained entrance into the country at all. "The fact, however, that it is so prevalent around us makes me feel that we cannot preserve our immunity much longer.

We cannot guard ourselves from a flank attack from persons carrying Ihe disease who Will come here by train from other cities. "The Board of Health yesterday adopted an order directing physicians to immediately report all cases of influenza and pneumonia. Not more than half a dozen cases have been reported throughout the entire city among the civilian population so far. which in a population of 6,500.000 li much less than in to be expected even under normal conditions at this time of the year. "Nothing ot Be Alarmed Over." "There is nothing to be alarmed over, however, and if the people will only preserve ordinary precautions they will suffer very little inconvenience.

They should be particularly careful to avoid catching the influenza germs from anyone who by his loud sneezing or other symptoms gives indication that he may be a victim of it. If they will do this and observe the ordinary rules regarding plenty of freth air and sunlight and personal hygiene they will ward off any contagion. "Persons attacked by the disease should go to bed and summon a physician. The purpose of going to bed Is two-fold. First they will avoid walking around and spreading the germs where others are liable to catch it, and second, they will render themselves less liable to pneumonia and heart trouble, which are Ihe real clangers of the attack when they occur as after-effects.

When one member of the family is taken down with tho, influenza he should be put in a room by himself where he will get plenty of fresh air and sunlight. The germ cannot live in fresh air and sunlight, and it is not necessary for the other members of the family to get the disease also." Dr. Louis I. Harris, head of the Bureau of Communicable Diseases of the Board of Health, has begun a campaign to nip the anticipated outbreak in the bud. if possible.

Trained nurses of the department will be sent to tho neighborhoods of those reported stricken with the disease to wage a campaign of education as to the best means of prevention and cure. If the proper step3 are taken the Influenza will generally run its course In three or four days. All of the cases reported so far have been in Manhattan. Emphasis was again placed by the Board of Health upon the fact that undue alarm Is being manifested throughout the city because the disease is being referred to as "Spanish" influenza, leading many to believe that it is a new and strange complaint endowed with peculiar complications. There is absolutely no foundation for such a belief, it was stated.

So far as "Spanish" influenza Is concerned, "there ain't no such animal." The ailment is just plain, ordinary influenza. The name Spanish was atuicnea simpiy oecauso the cases of influenza which first came to note recently made their initial bow in that country. At the present time. Com missioner copeland pointed out today the ailment is pandemic being re ported from all parts of the world. (Special to The Eagle.) One Death at Camp Dix.

Camp Dix, N. September 18 One death has been reported and several hundred cases of Spanish Influ enza navn maae tneir anneaninoe nt Camp Dix and the medical officers are taking every precaution lest the disease spread, and as soon as a case is discovered the man is taken to the hospital and the company are quarantined. The first cases made their appearance Monoay afternoon, and Pvt Oscar L. Keith, a member of the 34th Infantry, died yesterday as tne result, or pneumonia, which follows in a number of cases. This is the only danger from the disease, and precautions are being taken to see that men take proper care of themselves by washing out their throat and nostrils twice a day with a strong solution.

(Special to The Kagle.) Camp Gordon, September 18 That an entire regiment at Camp Gordon is now under strict quarantine for Spanish Influenza, or "Spanish flu," as it is commonly known, was announced by officials at headquarters on Tuesday. This regiment Is tho Socond Inf. Replacement Regt, which developed several cases of what appears to be tho new and dreaded disease, and medical authorities Immediately placed a a strict ban about the entire unit while they maintain a survcllance of tho developed cases. "SL Driven Back by American Gunfire Big German Gun Smashed by Yankee Artillerymen. tllBy the Associated Press.) With the American Army in Lorraine, September 18, 2:30 p.m.

German infantry attempted to attack the American lines west of the Mosselle Tuesday evening, but the enemy troops were driven back by the fire of the American artillery. When observers reported that a light line of German infantrymen was approaching, the American big guns threw a terrific barrage into that area. There were no further movements by the enemy. Observers reported this morning that there were no living Germans in th region where they were sighted last night. Quite a number of dead, however, were- seen.

German Gun Smashed by Yankees. American aviators report that on Tuesday American gunners scored a direct hit on a big German gun in the region of Lachaussee, destroying the gun. Other hits nearby destroyed a number of gun emplacements and one shell struck the dugouts where the German gunners had taken cover. German aviation machine gunners and bombers attacked what they supposed to be the American positions in the iregion to the west of Vandieres last night. The mist and low clouds, however, prevented the Germans from finding their targets.

The Germans themselves were located and driven back by anti-aircraft fire. The flying machine gunners dropped near the ground at several places in their determination to find the American troops, but the weather conditions were toq much for them. The bombers flew at higher altitudes, but they, too, were hampered by the weather and possibly by misinformation us to the" American positions, and wasted numbers of bombs. Owing to the effectiveness of the American and French anti-aircraft fire a number of the German ma chines were hit, the observers reported. When last seen the crippled planes were returning hastily to their own lines.

(Central Nevs Cable.) Paris, September 18 Vandieres Village, on the Moselle River, south of Metz, was captured by the Americans in a brilliant attack Sunday after noon, the censor now permits to be announced. American artillery put down a devastating fire, silencing most of the German machine guns that were I sweeping the American flank. After losing the town the German bombarded it with gas shells, compelling the Americans to evacuate it, but on Monday the Americans advanced again, and they not only occupied the village, but passed beyond it, establishing their lines to the north of the place. GERMANS PLANNED LONG STAY IN ST. MIHIEL HAD LUXURIOUS QUARTERS With the American Army on the Lorraine Front, Tuesday, September 17 (by the Associated Press) The Germans apparently never expected to be ousted from the St.

Mihiol salient. They had done much work in building shelters and beer gardens, and about the Soulcvoio farm the country had been made to look like a prosperous German neighborhood, with resorts where townspeople might spend their holidays. Little club houses were built and equipped not wholly in keeping with front lino operations. The dugouts and shelters of the officers were fitted almost luxuriously, some of the larger ones being fitted with bathtubs and running water and lighted by electricity. Outside of many of them were little summer houses where the occupants were accustomed to sit and drink beer.

When the Americans advanced they captured a German mess sergeant who had been instructed to pack up and leave, who had underestimated the speed of the American progress. He was carrying a quantity of beer and cheese, and when he saw the Americans approaching he did not run, but busied himself like a bartender and received them standing behind a table on which the beer and cheese were ready for consumption. CANADIAN AVIATOR IS BURNED TO DEATH 10,000 FET UP IN AIR Toronto, September 18 When his machine caught fire while flying more than 10,000 feet in the air near Seasode Camp late yesterday Cadet Henry C. Saunders was burned to death. BROOKLYN MEN IN CRASH (Special to Tho Kagle.) Binghamton, N.

Septcmhcr 18 Three persons were injured, one perhaps fatally, in an auto collision which occurred yesterday near Bcrk-inan Manor, a short distance from Harrimun. In an auto were were William linko of Ilarriman, Pvt. Arthur Daily of the Ithaca. Aviation School and Irving Woodruff. Ke-turning from Ncwburg in another car were George D.

Jones of 310 Fifth Brooklyn; Frank Furman of 4 34 Willoughby Hrooklvn. Tho cars camo together with a crash Daily suffered a fracture of the skull and grave internal injuries, AVoodruff a fractured collarbone and Furman painful injuries. They were taken tr tho Goshen Emergency Hospital. The latter car was owned by ono Geldy of Maspcth, L. but a card w-as found in the machine, giving the address of Walter and Rose liowden of 23 Lenox Maspcth, PERSHING IN ES (By the Associated Press.) Paris, September 18 (Havas) "We will fight until the hour when the enemy comes to understand that bargaining between crime and right is no longer possible," declared Premier Clemenceau in an eloquent address In the Senate last evening.

"We want a Just and a strong peace, protecting the future against the abominations of the past. The Premier, who was enthusiastically greeted as he took the tribune, was given an ovation as he concluded, and the. Senate voted that his address should be posted throughout the countrj. In beginning, M. Clemenceau spoke of the gratitude the people of the Allied nations' feel "towards those marvellous soldiers of the Entente," by whom those nations would at last be liberated from the barbarian menace.

He recalled tho threatening attitude of Germany toward pacific France, which had endured for a half century, "the infamous wounds, brutalities and I tyrannies of an enemy who would not forgive us for having saved from the BERLIN'S HAND SEEN IN PEACE PAMPHLET FROM DUTCH SOURCE Pamphlet Put Out by Holland Parliamentarians Radically Pro-German Pure Propaganda. By Tlionins S. Illce. Was it by accident or design that two days after Austria made the tentative peace propositions which were promptly and flatly rejected by President Wilson and all other Entente mails began delivering in this country a radical pro-German peace document originating in Holland. This move in the German peace campaign masquerading as the voluntary effort of three members of tho Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament is postmarked The Hague, Holland, July 15, 1918, but was delayed in transmission and did not reach The Eagle office uhtil September 17.

It bears such clear internal evidenco of being designed to smooth tho way for the Austrian feeler that there is every reason to believe the Austrian Government presumed the Dutch pamphlet had already been distributed in the United States. President Wilson's reply to Austria indicates that he was probably familiar with the selfsame Dutch document when he answered Austria. Attached to the pamphlet is a blue paster reading- as follows, and indicating that Ihe authors expected it to prepare the minds of the readers for something definite, which something was almost certainly the rejected Austrian suggestion for a nonblnding conference of belligerents: "The document annexed was published in the Dutch press Saturday. June 8, and wil' spread grerit numbers abroad, in the belligerent countries as well as among neutrals. The sigritories.

who are desirous to know your opinion on the paper's contents, will be much obliged if you will let them know your view at their address (Second Chamber, The Hague) at your earliest convenience." Thinly Disguised Propngnnda. "The document annexed" is thinly disguised, unmitigated pro-German propaganda, designed to make it ap pear that the Entente Allies have all along been willing to conclude a peace by negotiation and conciliation, and therefore should be eager to enter into discussions tending to that end as soon as the Middle Europe governments intimate a willingness to be parties thereto. Professing to be the output of dispassionate and altruistic neutrals, and covering the German (racks by quoting Entente arguments against Germany, it is in reality nothing but a repetition of the old argument that the Entente is really whipped, and should be ready to quit on Germany's terms whenever the two Kaisers go so far ns 1o concede that the original plan of winning the war in a walk cannot succeed. This specious and disingenuous German plea is entitled, "Meditation by Continued on Page 13. PARIS BUREAU ARRIVALS Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon.

(Special Cable to Tho Eagle.) Paris, September 18 The following Brooklynltes have registered at the Bureau: Robert Stewart, 569 Jefferson ave. Louis Morse, 1173 Flatbush ave. Charles Person, 95S Eastern Parkway. Charles Czark, 719 Eighth ave. Margaret Ainslle, 62 Pierrepont St.

C. Power, 265 Quincy st. C. Laldlaw, Quincy st. Alice Hamilton, 163 Joralemon st Ella MaeKenzle, 139 Seventh ave.

Dora Hardenburgh, 96 Lefferts pi. Fred Nutchey, 126 Marlon st. John Kuhn, 63 South Oxford st. Herbert Pearson. 997 Sterling pi.

Charles Crane, Brooklyn State Hos pital. Herneri Arnold, ZI34 wast I7tn St. Lloyd Burlier. 1170 66fh st William Wardell, 776 Lincoln pi. John Gchwciler, 442 16th st.

William Menshon, 126 Weldon st. Henry Nuhel. 127 2 Decatur st. Raphael Wolfe, 468 12th at. Prescott Wilson, 656 Rugby road.

Wendell Lee, 82 Madison st, Harry Krett, 28T Division ave. Boris Loret, 24 Manhattan ave. A conciliatory speech by" a Pan-German statesman is merely a flash in the Pan. HAVE YOU A COLD? "SPANISH" OR "GRIPPY" The symptoms of "Spanish" influenza: Chilly feeling. High temperature.

Feeling of prostration. Pains in the joints. Symptoms of coryza or ordinary cold, running nose, cough, etc. How to treat it: Go to bed. Stick faithfully to bed.

Call in your family physician. Get plenty of fresh air and sunshine. How to avoid it: Avoid contact with those already ill. Avoid crowds as much as possible. Avoid tho common drinking cup and the common towel.

Maintain thorough ventilation In oflice and home. Observe ordinary rules of hygiene. NAVY AND MARINES AGAIN OPENED TO MEN OF DRAFT AGE Washington, September 18 Provost Marshal General Crowder today announced orders ta local draft boards which will permit the voluntary induction of draft registrants Into the navy and marine corps and provide for drafts of men to be assigned to those services if voluntary inductions do not suffice to fill the demand. Calls for men for the navy will go out before the end of this month and marine corps contingents will bo called within a few weeks. The order, quoting sections of the man-poweiNlaw which make the term military service include the Navy and Marine Corps, announces that separate calls hereafter will be issued to secure men for all divisions of the Hervice.

State quotas will be allotted to fill the Marine and Naval requirements. After a call has been Issued, Marine and Navy recruiting officers may ask for the voluntary induction of men to fill the rail. If the total is not secured by that method, the boards will order sufficient men forward to make up the quota. The men will be mobilized and transported in the same manner as arc those of the National Army. Men responding cither to the induction or call method will be counted upon the State's quota as having been furnished for the nation's military needs.

DECIDE CONTROL OF U. S. MONEY MARKET AT MEETING TODAY A meeting of Government representatives and bankers from several of the larger cities is being held in Washington today for the purpose of settling the whole question of control of the money market of the United States for the duration of the war. The Government representatives include the members of, the Capital Issues Committee and men from the Treasury Department. The New York delegation In headed by Pierre Jay, Federal Reserve Agent for the New York district and local agent of the Capital Issues Committee; James Alexander, president of the Bank of Commerce; A.

11. Wlggin, chairman of the board of the Chase National Bank; Charles H. Sabin, president of the Guaranty Trust Company, and Charles V. Rich, vice president of the National city Hank, Bankers trom Chicago, St. Louis, and probably some from Boston, also attended.

Tho question of chief moment Is that having to do with the Capital Issues Committee's desire to supervise bank lonns of or more, made for capital purposes. Some weeks ago tho committee expressed a desire to have banks submit such loans to It. for approval before consummation, and It is understood ninny banks have complied. However, bankers, as a rlass, want some definite understand, ing, which will make the practice uniform or cause its abandonment altogether. The law creating the Capital Issues Committee does not specify that the organization shall have authority to review bank loans, but it is felt that the spirit of tho law justifies the committee in tho stand it has taken Another point likely to be settied at today's meeting is whether or not capital issues of less than $100,000 shall be submitted to the committee.

It is understood that the committee recently notified bankers in St. Louis that it rontomplntcd exercising supervision over all capitnl issues, the explanation for this attitude, which goes beyond the law, being that evasions have been discovered. In at least ono case, a corporation was formed with a capital of $90,000, which, under the word of tho law, placed it beyond the commltteo's jurisdiction. In order to prevent such occurrences as this, which the committee is Raid to hold are palpable evasions, a general supervision over all new Issues of secur ities is desired. (By the Associated Press.) Field Marshal Halg.

two months from the day of the allied offensive on the Marne, has begun a closer Investment of St. Quentin. His troops are attacking northwest of the city, with the evident intention of outflanking it on the north. The new operation against this bastion of the Hindenburg line follows the British capture of Holnon village, on high ground, three miles northwest of St. Quentin, Tuesday night.

Holnon is on a hill, as is Maissemy, captured late Saturday. These hill positions dominate the terrain north of St. Quentin and the road connecting the city with Cambrai. From these favorable "jumping off" points the British are moving in toward the, city. Full details of the operation still are lacking, but undoubtedly the British will meet with stiff opposition.

The Germans here are on or near the Hindenburg positions and captured documents show the enemy troops have been ordered to maintain their positions. To the north the Germans are using their big guns actively against the British lines. Tuesday evening the Germans attacked Moeuvres, west of Cambrai, and pressed the British back to the western outskirts. Ap parently the enemy is determined to hold-his ground on tne line between the Scarps and the Oise. Germans Vail in Iorralne Attack.

Southwest of Metz the Germans have attempted to strike back at the Americans west of the Moselle P.iver. The American artillerymen, however, smothered the enemy effort and the Germans were driven back with losses. The attempt to attack was made Tuesday evening and the enemy did not follow up the repulse with any further movements toward the American line. In Macedonia the Allied drive Is progressing. Serbian and French troops, after taking the important Sokol Ridge, have pressed on nearly Ave miles on a' front of more than fifteen miles.

The prisoners taken have reached 4,000 and 30 guns also have been captured. The early success of the Allied troops may lead to a general offensive in this area with the purpose of cutting off Turkey. A movement of this character, carried to completion, would crush Bulgaria nnd free Serbia and a large part of the oppressed nationalities of the Bal bans. The British Report. London.

September 18 British forces attacked this morning north- -pst nf St. Quentin. according to an official report from Field Marshal Haig. received at tne war urnce mis fnrpnnnn. The village of Holnon, three miles northwest of St.

Quenun, nas oeen captured by the British, the Field Alnrsbal reuorted. A German attack last evening at Moeuvres under heavy artillery protection resulted in the British being pushed back to the western outskirts of the village. The text of the state-ment reads; "As a result of our operations yesterday on the southern portion of the battlefront we gained possession of Holnon Village, with several prisoners. "This morning our troops attacked northwest of St. Quentin.

"Yesterday evening the enemy attacked at Maeuvres under cover of a heavy artillery barrage and pressed our troops back to the western outskirts of tho village. "By successful local operations carried out during the night we advanced our line slightly Immediately south of the LaBasse Canal." (By the Central News Cable.) With the British Army on the Flan- ders Battlefront, September 18 The morning uvn a num i The zone of the new thrust extends Jouzeaucourt to from just south of Gouzeaucourt to Holnon Wood, 3 miles northwest of which has brought Germany to her knees In submarine warfare and will keep her there." Ships now are operating across the English Channel wHh about the same ease and security as before the war, Senator Thompson snld, He suggested that the menace of the Atlantic would be lessened by placing German prisoners on returning transports. Senator Thompson told of visiting the British grand fleet "Sailing In single file," he snld, "without counting the numerous destroyers, submarines, submarine chasers and other smaller craft. It la Bald to be about eight miles in length and requires hours going nt ordinary speed to pass in review. With such a fleet no ont ever need worry about the German navy doing any great damage." inates the Hindenburg line, which lies to the east.

Hence the value of the possession of this ridge to either side is obvious. For days the Germans, who un doubtedly had expected a drive here. had been feverishly fortifying themselves along the ridge, whose loss would be a serious menace to the Hindenburg line in the rear. Stiff fighting seemed probable. The British army which is making the attack is employing veteran troops who have worked wonders in the past few months.

The Germans In a local attack on Moeuvres last night forced the British to withdraw from that village. German Countcr-Attacks. Paris, September 18 German troops last night launched violent counter-attacks against the French positions on the plateau northeast of Sancy, seven miles northeast of Sois-sons. The French War Office statement issued today says that the Ger- 1 man attacks were unsuccessful and that the French troops maintained their gains. The text of the statement reads: outn oi me juver uise mere was artillery activity throughout the night.

"Violent counter-attacks by the enemy in the region of the plateau northeast of Sancy obtained no result. I to do his duty in the imminent deci-gains. 1 "In the Champagne and In Lorraine we executed a number of raids on the German positions and made BOLSHEVIK SUCCESSES REPORTED-KAZAN TAKEN IS NEWS FROM PEKING Amsterdam, September 17 Bolshevik successes In tho valley of the Volga River and along tho Kuban coast of the Black Sea reported in a Kiev dispatch to tho Nord-deutsche Allgemeino Zeltung. The Bolshevik troops are said to be advancing west of Tzaritzin and to have occupied the town of Taupse, In the same region. Further west, there has been successful fighting by the Bolshevikl in the neighborhood of Stavropol, It is reported that Maikop, In Kuban, about 100 miles east of No- voroBsysk, has been captured by the Bolshevikl.

(Central New Cable. Feking. September 18 Bolshevikl forces In Russia have captured Kazan, capital of the Russinn Province of Kazan, from the Czechs, according to Information received here today. Kazan was recently taken from tho Bolshevikl by the Czech troops. Amsterdam, September 18 Gen, Alexleff has taken tho offensive against the Bolshevikl, near Hlaga-vestchensk.

His forces consisted of a number of Cossacks and strong detachments of White Guards. How to Pronounce Places Named in Today's News Vaudleres Voad-yare. Moeuvres Moy-vr, Holnon Hull-nong. Frcsnoy Fren-wah. Epeliy Eh-pay-eo.

the Portuguese steam l.exixoes. wfilch tirnisn launcneu anumer urive against was torpedoed near Pablo Island on the Germans on the Picardy front to-Thursday of last week, arrived here day. The assault began at 5:20 this tnrinv. Thev were picked up on tnis nnt.ni hnnt Annthpr hnnf i nivn with ten men. is I still missing.

Half of Germany's Fleet Of Submarines SunH or Destroyed, Senate Is Told (By tho Associated Press.) Washington, September 1 8 While still an annoyance and a hindrance, the submarine Is no longer a serious menace, the Senate was told today by Senator Thompson of Kansas, recently returned from a trip abroad. There, the senator said. Is positive knowledge that one-half of Germany's submarine fleet, which has never been more than 320 boats, has bee- jestroyed or captured by the J' "It is to navy that this credit for tho di action of these outlaw seagoing i Is due." he declared. "The naw is and hns been the backbone of this war, the same as it has been of almost every great war In history. The destroyer is the ship.