k i- IV Kirp n iftf ARE CONFLICTING :' - ' ttrS . Ldndon Hears Condition Is s ., V a"".. "" 1 Krjjl yvravve viopeonagcu J." . , 'Announces Death W H ' Mtt'A EA.TTER, UNCONFIRMED a. ' " V Details ofShooting Lacking. 'v, jLuspaicnes-anaicaie internal p't Hemorrhages Developed M ' By the Vnittd Press le-r Copenhagen. Sent. 2. :, Nikolai Lenlne. Bolshevik Premier Ij.t,' of Russia, In dead, according to Vita- n.mra iiuiii rcitUKrml louay. , Dora Kaplan, who has been In. olved In revolutionary activities dur. Ing 'recent, years, has been arrested. cnargea vvun snooting Lenlne. She was born InKiev and In her early years began to operate With the Ter rorists In"1 their campaign against the czar. In 1907 she was arrested In connec tonwlth this activity and during her tnai nttemntjxi to kill fhn rhier nr ih IJ'ltcaars secret police with a Jacknlfe. ILv3,The trial resulted In her conviction Usnd she Hontpnrpd tn thirteen yyars' Imprisonment. : a.'t'Detalls of the shooting of Lenlne i,ntxve, not been received. One report H'that' hi. nrnn nnnrniinbed In Mnqfnnr r ... r - . . -'- by two girls Just arter no had left a .- Hn11ivik TnpMlnir. nnn nf whnm shot 'ft .him. He was wounded twice, and last ruiByaiciivB inuicuieu mui stuuus 111 tK ternal hemorrhages nad developed. iliondon, Sept. z. Nikolai Lenlne is not dead, but his condition is very grave, a message here today stated. The reDort of Lenlne's death received It, from Copenhagen has not ooen con- nrmed irons any oiner source. 1$ Amsterdam, Sept. Z. The condition orNIKsiai ienine, ine Russian uoi. " tA..ltr CimIbh nfrAtniit mlinan ltj. n . RiraTWilCilHCIt MfeCtiOfc niiuoc 1I4C Alt -atUpipt was made Friday night. Is re. I sported by a Russian newspaper, Prav I. VKmij IV u3 Dcuuua uniiit, lu iiucnittl tJfanorrhngcs. according to a telegram rirom jnoscow. 12 "Ph Prnvrl.i ftnvs the Premier wnn hot by a girl belonging to the Intel- lllectual class. She was arrested. IS The .attack on Lenlne was made 7ljuay ccniih " i6cuii(; ui lADOrerS ai luw imcimeiMUll wurKB, "where Lenlne spoke. As the Premier was leavlrT two men stopped him and I "'discussed the recent decrees regarding Mifc' Imnortatlon of foodstUITs to Mos- eov! In the course of the Interview iKth'ree shots were fired. IiJS'A. "Moscow telegram by way of liyienna says tne attack on me uussian tiler was made by two women be- llMnarlmcr tn th Social TlPVOlUtlnnarV rl- An official RuRslan Government dls- P$$the Bolshevik Premier says that one M tullet penetrated a little above Le- le-'Slnes shoulder blade, entering the p' chest and touching the upper part of R tho lung. This caused great loss of blood. The bullet stopped on the right ilde of the neck over the shoulder . bone. Drocourt-Quearit v Switch Penetrated CaBtlnurd from Tare One tf e line between Bapaume and Pe- ti ronne where the Germans have been fcaMlnir tiihHm-nlv. 1 rnnslriprpri hv W tlM British today as virtually In their BffJS fcmds. They have captured the vll- T-jqt of vlllers au-i los, to mo nortn, fjui Le Trnnsloy now is outflanked Between 3000 and 4000 prisoners W wtn taken by .the Australians In the f '.T&ilty of'Peronne yesterday. British troops last night captured t Urn villages of Satlllsel and Sallly S Etilllsel, on the line north of I'eronne. 't)n the, Flanders front the British have advanced as tar as the Lys River east of Estalres, while further northeast In the direction of Tpres the village of Neuve-Egllse has been ' captured. f The French met with a slight set- j, bade to the east of Nesle, losing the ! crest of Hill 77, which they had cap- tured during last night. By the Associated Press L Paris, Sept. 2. Entente Allied air plane observers report that German convoys are moving eastward In the region of Roisel and beyond mat town. Rolsel Is about seven, miles east of Peronne. The Germans are said to be rapidly removing their stores or blow. Ing them up. - By the Associated fyess .With the British Armies In France, Sept. 2. a j uuilecourt ana iienaecouri uguin re. tn uriusn lianas anu ine ceuars, 'ducoiit. and aiding places are being Svlhopped up. Similar nghtlng has-been -tLf . .L -.1.1 . .-. , aoing on in me vinaKcs ui jiAjuusi, ou iMeln and Longatte and these places 1 1 hso are in tne possession oi me uru ." "tab. .The ground In front of the British lMs throughout this region Is piled wHh dead Germans, for the British hue not hesitated to temporarily re tire slightly in the face of strong mmy attacas. wnen it appearea mat aw own atrengtn coum mercoy oe nerved ana at tne same time securo n.ftnnnrtiinltv to mow down masses f Germans. These tactics have had a lost disastrous-result for the foe. and hat' the British have not lost any- rag U shown by the lact that their sualtlf continue extremely light, blle'all positions are finally retained. Half Repels Attack I ';At Mont St. Quentln the Germans i'f hiive counterattacked again and k-aaain at i-rpat cost, but the line there m ,' remains, intact. SB' -tub enemv seems to nave removea : , virtually,, everything' he had In Pe- i ronne, tor ne re'u umi "io iun 'surelv mu.t come Into British hanas uoaa. but nevertheless there was fight- in(t tnert)- ooiore iuo v'-" " vaj- , 'VZaU yesterday the fnemy delivered Ls powerful counter-attacks east of fresueourt ton tne 43apauuie-.ui(iuru t road,i.'tbe infantry being assisted, ac- SordInT to reports, by a few tanks. The '---OermsJH succeeded In penetrating a iabortdhfance. but the British Imme- ; omueiyreaiiacKea anu mo biwui sib.h ti Germans had occupied aulcklvjlbecame.a shambles'. In this j.-tB-ithe-lUh captured many CTtVeAPVapsj' tne uiiuuui u U slntlw5 battalion -com Ballkk-IMM- sdao count er-ai- iji tli' Oai- si Timiriimniiuitu t inmx' mmmm " BnpiKmr nur sv xfrW'V.Y V" : -' 'A ?rv C 2 i A . fl . 4t" "..T'i. A- : S- Ji.VL. ' :tMv CV" Mi 'J ' WOttNDED AT MARNE Edward , Vincent Fitzgerald, 5636 Heisklll street, Ccrmantown, who fell in action on July 21 It for a time, only to be drhen off. South of the Arrns-Cambral road the advance continues. During the night It was held up by a stiong fire, from n lone tiench lust south of tho road. The Germans appeared determined to hold on heic nntl fought desperately. Finally the IJiltHh "kicked bff" from their positions and charged the enemy. Wlpo Out Garrison During the fight that followed the llrltlsh either killed oi captured every man of tho enemy garrison and In addition bagged fifteen machine guns. This was accomplished with casualties' so light as to sound Incredble. In fact the number was so small that It was not made Known. In the, north the Germans steadily continue their re tieat. The British have retired only when hordes of Germans appeared, but their retirement usually has been to the positions where they could pour machine gun bullets Into the enemy. Heavy losses were Inflicted upon the Geimans. In the Ls salient the British are on the heels of the Germans. Beyond Vleistratt and Vooremezcele the enemy has fallen back east of the YprevComlncs Canal. The British have jeached Doullf and La Creche. Ravelsburg ridge has been captured after some opposition from the Ger man rear guards, who put up a fierce though brief fight. Llndenhouk and Kemmel Village have been captured. NAMELESS TERROR SEIZES FOE'S TROOPS liy the Associated Press Iomlon, Sept. 2. Ths utrallans who captured Mont St Cjuenui. wltn 1500 prisoners and thereby made the fall of Peronne Inevitable, accomplished the feat within nn hour and with a loss to themselves of only twenty-five men. ac cording to ilie Dally Mall's correspondent at British headquarters In France. The correspondent says that the better part of three German divisions crumbled to pieces before one Australian unit. The Germans appeared to have felt some son oi ncmciess terror similar lo tnat wnicn sometimes takes possession of troops nghtlng against Indians In their native naunts The canture of I'eronne-accordlmr to the correspondent, should turn the enemy's present line and hasten his re treat, lie now nas in una soutnern quarter only one good position to hold before he reaches the .'llndcnburg line from St. Quentfn northward. The core of the whole battle now Is between the Scarpe River and Uapaume and it Is hero that the Hermans are really nghtlng, the Dally Mall's corre spondent nunB. in mis sector tne Her mans are nghtlng well to keep the Allies on tnetr great nun or ueicnse tnat vinas along the most favorable ridges from St quentln to Drocourt. London, Man chester and Liverpool troops are operat ing here, while to the south the Cana dians are fighting a fierce battle against stubborn resistance. BATTLE EMBRACES FRONT OF 120 MILES By the Associated Press rrl, Sept. 2 The Allies arc keep ing up the battle In the face of Increas ing resistance by the enemy and more than that they have extended the fight ing until it now embraces a front of some 120 miles from Ypres to Solssons. This Is more than many well Informed observers had hoped for. Peronne has fallen and with It the enemy's last I chance of holding on to a strong defen- I .,1. ....ll.. t.M .1.- c..- While the principal feats now are be ing performed on the British part of the battle line. General Mangln con tinues to forge ahead, adding every day to the enemy's losses nnd to his danger. General Mangln's success Is due not only to the valor of his Franco-American troops but to tho skill in maneuver ing .that he has shown. Not contenting himself with attacking frontally the heights between Crecy-Au-Mont and JuvlRny. he maneuvered at the same time by the south and Altered through successively the long ravine running through Vaux-Itegls, Chavlgny, .luvlgny, Leury, and passing by Pasly. Cuffis and Croucy he Is forcing the Ger mans to retire on their left as far as Bucy-Le-Long, and thus giving com pleteness and solidity to the movement. CRECY-AU-MONT WON BY FRENPH TROOPS Parls, Sept, 2. French troops have captured Crecy-au-Mont, south of the Allette. North of tho Allette thej have gained a footing in the wood west of Coucy-le-Chateau. the War Of fice announced last night. Nearer Sols sons, according to this afternoon's official report, they last night stormed the village of Leury and several strongly held centers of resistance, capturing 1000 prisoners. French troops have crossed the Somme Canal at Epenancourt. seven miles south of Peronne. Rouy-je-Petlt, two miles northeast of Nesle, has been captured by the French. Two hundred and fifty prisoners were taken In these engagements, , CHINESE MINISTER SLAIN i' Cabinet Officer Assassinated by Barber at Victoria, B. C. By the Associated Press Victoria, It. ., &ept, 2. Tangbui Lung, Minister of Education for China, brother of 'Admiral Ting Flu Ah Ming, of the War Department, Pekln. was assassi nated here last nlght-by a Chinese bar ber, of this cjty, who then committed suicide, Steamship Burni at Washington Wellington. Sept. 2. The steel steamship Newport News, a vessel of 163S tons, belonging to the Washington and Norfolk Steamboat Company, was destroyed by Are early today, and the wharves and sheds of the company's 'terminal here were badly damaged., .I i ' , Made premier of Holland fAftMt4im Sept. 2. Jonkheer Ruljs de!BesbTOvkk,""the.:0ovrnorbf JJffl- ! neen- spfKHiusa Jj-remiroei TSSr1 l Ew'ULa 8 ""t-" CAPTIVES GREATER THAN LOSSES Br PHILIP GIBBS Continued from Pare One some of their patrols had entered Rlencourt, while on tho right, of this line of attack some Liverpool and other English troops had entered Ecoust, Dongatte and Vracourt. That was tho situation on Thursday and Friday, but under a fierce counter-attack this part of our line was hard pressed, and not nil the ground we had made could be kept. It threat ened tho enemy's main line of defense In the Drocourt-Queant line, of which this Is a switch, nnd ho sent up a fresh division the Fifty-eighth to strengthen mixed units of tho Thirty sixth nnd Twelfth reserve divisions, which had been badly shattered and demoralized. German Cavalry in Line For the first time also our men came up against dismounted German cavalry. Including the Fifteenth Dra goons nnd men of the Seventh Cav alry Division, whoso piesenco shows tho enemy Is In desperate need of re serves. They fought hard and .reso lutely, and by desperate assaults gained back part of Bullecourt, Ecoust and other ground. Around Bullecourt there are two strong earthworks Into which the enemy hnd crowded machine-gun teams, one called the factory redoubt and the other the station redoubt, by a lnllwuy embankment, and It was these places which gave the London icglmcnts and others their hardest hours From the factory redoubt the enemy swept tho troops on our right with machtne-gune flro nnd the Londoners, who failed for the time to clear It out In spite of repeated efforts, were or dered to draw, back some hundreds of jnrds from Bullecourt to avoid the severe Are which was being poured upon them and to prepare for a new assault. Whippets Hunt Machine Guns On Friday night the enemy, who brought up many new batteries In this direction, suspected this Intention nnd put down a very heavy barrage of Are In depth in order to prevent our new nssaults, but yesterday morning tho Condon troops, with Liverpool men on their right and other Lancashire men on their left, gave battle again. They had the support of a number of tanks which advanced with them and made direct attacks upon the German redoubts, while our light whippets hunted around to destroy machine gun and sniping posts. The Mlddlesexmen took the factory redoubt, with some prisoners, and other Londoners were successful In storming the station redoubt on the south without heavy loss. Here the whippets were of great service, work ing close up and keeping the redoubt under' fire of their light guns. -Four hundred prisoners of the German Dra goons were captured In that hornets' nest. Meanwhile on the right the Liver pool men advanced again upon Don gatte and Ecoust nnd stormed some trenches which previously had been taken by eastern county troops In the earlier fighting and took p'rlsoners well east of Ecoust. But all this ground was still hotly contested and the enemy renewed his counter attacks In great strength, so there Is fighting In nnd out of thcwlllages, and from one hour to another there is no certainty as to their possession on either side. Close-range fighting by bombing down trenches nnd struggling for yards of ground was resumed, but It seems that Sunday morning the Lon doners again took full possession of Bullecourt and other Ehglish bat talions gained Hendecourt and Rlen court. XVonl Form of Fighting It was the worst form of fighting, and our men much prefer the free, sweeping movements ofi the wide ad vances. But here they were right up against tho enemy's main division po sitions, for which he will fight with all his powers of resistance, knowing that If he Is beaten there his HInden burg 'line will bo In dire Jeopardy. So the boys of old London London, which on Sunday evening was In Its best clothes, with the church bells ringing and all Its pretty girls In the parks, where no shell fire slashes through the trees were In the thick of It. Under abominable bombardment in ditches which they had taken by bloody fighting and with machine-gun bullets flying like swarmps of wasps on all sides of them, they had fought gloriously through the rough miles of enemy ground since the 23d of Augupst, when they went through the line of Boyelles and Becquerelles and broke the Hlndenburg line as be fore In April of last year. , Every day since they had fought the battle, and all the pluck and pride that live In London streets In peace as In war, God knows, have been revealed on this field of ruin, in which each track between that litter and wreckage of war Is a highway of heroes. Bulle court belongs to London. Further nortn the Canadians have been having hard fighting after their first triumphant march with hundreds of prisoners in their wake. South of the Scarpe by Guemappe and Vls-en-Artols German resistance has stiffened for the'same reason as It did at Bulle court, because our progress here Im perils their whole line of defense. So they have flung up what reserves they can gather and some of the best troops that remain to them, and they are counter-attacking and firing every bat tery they can bring to bear" on this ground with ferocious Intent French Canadlatis In Fierce Fight French Canadians lately havo taken part In some very fierce assaults and have been through perilous adven tures, but with that great courage which is always theirs When they have to bo through hell fire. as. at Courcel- leUe,'on'the Somme, In, their old first bttW.'ahd nwny'times around Lens-1 Our Australian and Canadian trees ' WfrjJklMWniirfV tojhe u6rth.weVevrWhStMiVuur!a1ia;ii '.rw. vain they pay high tribute, grateful for that strong flank on their left, held by the kilted men through days of ceaseless Are. We have not been making further headway there and our men have only been asked to hold the ground they 'won! though that Is not a light and joyous thing to do. Meanwhile on our northern front our battlellne Is moving again and our men are following up the enemy rear guards, who nre covering another program of retirement forced upon the enemy by his enormous losses, which compel him against his pride and will to shorten his line even nt tho cost of positions of Immense Importance to him. His withdrawal from Ballleul has been followed by retirement from Kemmel Hill and positions on the west side of the Tpres-Comlnes Canal, so that our patrols nre reported to bo at Vlerstraat and Voormezcele and Lin 'denhoek. His rear guards arc fighting stubbornly to hold us back Until he has gained the time he needed for his defensive plans, but apparently our troops have hustled him off Ravels burg ridge on the east of Ballleul nnd are driving him through Neuve-ngllsc. n.ick Again in Old Flanders So, nfter the strange vicissitudes of this year's warfare, we nre getting back again Into that old ground of Flanders, the loss of which for a time was a hard thing to bear because of all the sacrifice of our men through years of Aghting and their desperate conAIct of the Flanders ridges. As I have been on the southern end of the line from Bapaume downward to Devil's woods nnd to tho outskirts of Peronne, I haven't yet been up Into Flanders to see this new phase, but a warm after-thrill comes to us to know that Ballleul, which I have known for years as tho capital of our northern nrmles nnd saw In April last on Are from hostile shelling. Is no longer In enemy hands, and that once ngaln our men nre walking over Kemmel Hill, from which we used to watch the enemy's lines and see the sweep of the battle In the salient. Kemmel Hill will not bo a pleasant place for a walk for some tlmo to come. The enemy doubtless has ar ranged many devilish devices there, such as trick wires nnd touclroff high explosives. He has been busy with those Althy tricks along many parts of the front, which blow men to death If they touch Innocent-looking objects. One of these things had the appear ance of a book lying on a shelf, but when moved It set off a bomb to carry a man's hand away. But our engineers were quick to see the trick of the wire, and by this time perhaps have searched Kemmel for Its secret. Before going the enemy blew up his ammunition dump and material too heavy to move. I know some Frenchmen who will be glad that Kemmel Is in our hands again, for when we were hardest pressed in April last It was French troops who defended this hill and lost It after tragic Aghting. I met those French troops who held the' outer defenses holding their line at Locro with most self-sacrificing courage under a dreadful Are which they told me was far worse than any thing they had seen at Fleury, by Verdun. Sweet Vengeance for Colonel Perhaps some of my readers will re member what I wrote about that-old French colonel who was there, that gallant old man who was so proud of his children, as he called them. It will be sweet vengeance to him to know that the Germans have had to creep away from Kemmel again. The enemy's object Is easy to guess, and indeed he has revealed It beyond much doubt. To save his man-power, thinned out by frightful losses In .this year of his devil's gamble with fate, he Is, I believe, retiring to a line north and south of Armentleres, hop ing perhaps to hold the line of ridges from Wytschaete and Messlnes, as in the old days when we were In the low country of the Ypres salient. Looking at the general situation as it exists after our successes at Per onne, it seems to me we have virtually reached the object of the British of fensive which began August S and has had the result of flinging back the enemy from the ground which he traversed after March 21, when he hurled the full weight of his available forces upon the British front with odds of three to one In the hope of de stroying us forever. In less than four weeks we have al most completely reversed the table of fortune, so that he has been smashed back twenty miles and more, and all the country between Amiens and Ba paume and Amiens and Peronne Is cleared of his men, except those who lie dead In the ditches and craters, while north of the Scarpe we have gone further than ever before this war, and further north still the Ger mans are forced to withdraw from po sitions which they gained by enormous sacrifices without our being troubled to fight them. Armies Return to Victory That is a wonderful chapter of his tory, and the triumph of it, the marvel of It is that these victories have been gained very largely by those very troops who sustained the full brunt of the German offensive tn March and again in April, when'the enemy made his attack in Flanders, and once again were engaged some of them like the Highland divisions In the French as saults near Rhelms. No troops in the world or in history have been more tried by fire, and, never, as far as my knowledge of his tory goes, have any masses of men struck such a succession of rapid and victorious blows after battling bo long In rear-guard and holding actions witji heavy losses, enormous fatigue and the mental strain Pf Intense acjlvlty U ana nevcr-ciiuius imiibvi, 77?gPi w! E32ZS vlous battles more than the English, and since then they have done win ders, and we could not havo achieved these results without them. But the greatest glory of human endurance goes to the English and Scottish and Irish battalions who fought In the retreat of March, who fought again In Flanders, who suf fered losses which wouMhave broken the spirit of weaker men, and who now In these recent weeks have beaten tho enemy fairly and squarely back over the same ground. During the last day or two the enemv has recovered somewhat, It seems, from the demoralization which overtook his men, and has brought up divisions who nro fighting hard to save the reputation of the German army, but that army, as a whole, will never recover Its prestige or Its power, however long they maintain their war fare and It will be long yet. Boys to Fill Gaps This 'autumn some 400,000 boys of the 1920 class may All up gaps in their ranks, nnd they will be trained , ,, , , ..!, .. oung soldiers capanie, no uuuui, ui hard Aghting. But Germany has lost In three weeks so many prisoners nnd wounded that those new drafts will hot give her back the Initiative. Every thing that follows must be a further decline In her strength and Aghting quality, and the knowledge of doom is upon her. Them hum lipon vnrlons factors inl?cp1, 2 There has been especially mere nave oeen various iaciors in ),-.,, fiht hi rti th .i,ihi r ,,, our success, never to be separated battle nround Bullecourt nnd Hcndc from the courage of men to whom ?". erejhj British are holding po- victory Is due, nnd undoubtedly tho , , . --.. . . t iiuiks nave neipea mosi to secure sur-i. , . . . . prise and terror. We have many proofs that .the German command recognizes them as a terrible menace. A captured German order reads: "The enemy only attacks with tanks. If we shoot the tanks to piece's ... "na we shall have won the battle.1 then It bribes the men to destroy ...,,. , . , j.(inn. tanks by offers of decorations. .Many oiner capturea documents leveal decline In discipline of the Ger man troops, owing to their frightful losses nnd the weariness of war as well as real demoralization in the fighting line. In Germany there Is reason for that sense' of despair and fear which seems to prevail there. Now that Peronne and Bullecourt have fallen, the enemy has the Hlndenburg line as his next refuge, and there he will hope to stand. But even that is brol;en In. the .. ' , . , ' , ,. . I north, and his Drocourt-Queant switch line is severely threatened. We may rest content with this re sult of our renewed offensive. What ever may follow will beglh a new chapter of the war, which promises further victory, helping us to the last victory which will end all this fright ful strife. U.S. AIRMEN SAVES COMRADE J. H. Hammond Fights Off Five Austrian Machines Italian Army Headquarter!, Sept. 2. One of the finest exploits of the American hjdro-alrplane pilots trained In Italy I uas that of J. H. Hammond, of Baltl- I more, who Baved Lieutenant Ludlow during a raid on the Austrian naval base at l'oia. wnue LUdlow was drop ping bombs his machine was riddled by Austrian fire and he was compelled to alight on the Adriatic, three miles from Pola. When Hammond saw Ludlow's plight he swooped to his rescue, braving the concentrated Austrian Are and tho attacks of five enemy airplanes. Hammond hit the water near Ludlow's machine, ran alongside, took Ludlow aboard and stowed him under the motor of his own one-seater plane. He then set Ludlow's machine afire. Meanwhile the enemy aviators were keeping up a steady fire. Hammond with his own gun, kept the Austrlans off and got away safely, although pur sued half way across the Adriatic, Finally, his machine gave out while near the Italian coast and the Americans were forced to swim ashore. Official War Reports nRITIMt London, Sept. 2, Testerday Welsh and eastern county troops captured Sallly-Sallltsel and Sallllsel after heavy Aghting. The English have drawn nearer Le Transloy and Noreull, where they took a number of prisoners. Rlencourt-Les-Sagnlcourt and the German positions south of the village were captured during the night by English and Scot tish troops, together with some hun dreds of prisoners. In the sector south cf the Scarpe Canadian and English troops attacked at 6 o'clock this morning. They are reported to be making good progress. In the Lys Bector we have reached the Lys Itlver east of Estalres and have faptured Ncuve Egllse, FltKNCH Paris, Sept. 2. In the region of the Canal du Xord the artillery activity was violent. The French repulsed two counter-attacks by the eqemy upon the village of Campagne, maintaining their posi tions. In the region of the Allette the French made fresh progress in the wood west of Coucy-le-Chateau and east of Pont-St. Mard. One hundred prisoners remained In the hands of the French. In the Champagne an enemy raid In the region of Auberlve was without result. GERMAN Herlln.'Sept. 2. Fighting Is proceeding between the Scarpe and the Somme. British at tacks here. In the main, failed. At Isolated places they pressed back our lines toward the east. Between the Olse and the Alsno French partial attacks were repulsed. Rest Assured SINCBI Pajamas and Nightshirts k mean tne ongauury of everything in ma terial, ttyle and manu facture that is worthy, at a price which gives maxi mum value to the wearer. r Over 10,000 dealm "' recofwrneet -" j.m7 i v 'TfcflaPP'" Faultless IPTj? ttnrtUi'tiiinn' oiTnVitf ' f . OrTHiENCn COAST Thirteen Survivors of Crew of 37 Landed Remainder May Be Safe ' A Canadian Atlantic Fort, Sept. 2. rne uritisn steamsnip isscricK, ibi tons, bound from Bordeaux to Montreal. was torpedoed on the night of August' i wnen cou miles on tne trench coast. Thirteen survivors of the crew of thirty-seven have arrived here on an oil tanker, which Dlcked them ur An engineer and two-firemen are be lieved to havo been killed when the tor pedo struck the engine room. Two life, boats containing the renialnder of the crew, Including the captain, nre missing, but the survivors liellnpthpv hurt a good chance of being picked up by an- oiner vessel.- . The survivors were afloat In their ilienoat ror three days before tho oil tanker camo along. Chief Ofilcer Llewellyn, In command of the survivors, said today the Kecrlck sank In twenty minutes. He remnlned on the scene until daylight In the hope of joining the other boats, but saw no sign of them. He made for the land nnd covered 200 miles before being rescued. " "Just a few minutes nfter the Es crlck sank," .ho added, "the submarine camo alongside tis nnd nRkcrl for mtr ; captain f Ufilrl Ihaf tiA if a u nnl In All at. They then Inquired for the wire- o nsw er. w......o WMIU hUllllClil. & UIU 1IUI and the U-boat then dlsap- pea red" 'DOGFIGHT' AT BULLECOURT English Hold Positions Resting on Wotnn Line By the Associated Press Willi tho llrltfeh Arinv In Vmh. court - Queant, or Woton. line. It lt hol1ni,1 Ihnt TIiiIIa,..,,. 1toAl --,,--.-: -;-- - -"'. "?"" has thrice been lost and won in tho last two days First tho British were In the I1;vnBan,? tnen tne Hermans. The Br t isn nnatlv rnnmiprorl fh tntt'n Whll, While ono side had the control thR tnnchlnn gunners and bombers from the other would filter In nnd get the position and then the place would become most ac tive. From ruin to ruin, thrnueh pilars nnil through old nnd new trenches the fltrhtlntp hiln r-nntltillorl anA oil nf tho t:." " -.. ..- -...., ...,u .... w. ...w time almost the same tactics were being loiioweu in the country surround ng. In tnn ,nnffUaBC of tno British soldiers. It nas Deen a uogngni nere tor two days, BRITISH PRAISED BY SIMS Admiral Also Pays Tribute to Men of His Command London, Sept. 2. Vice Admiral Wil liam S. Sims, commander of the Ameri can naval forces In the war zone, de livered an address to American soldiers and sailors who were entertained In London by E H. Sothern and Mary Anderson In Macbeth. The commander declared the Germsns had discovered that American ' soldiers were not Just men thrua, lnto un,orm. anrt .-, men thrust into uniforms and sCnt off In ships, but were fighting propositions Ho added: "But don't you chaps get sticking out your chests and going around thinking America Is dclng It all. I want to tell you here and now that what Is being done by this tiny little Island Is won derful. The British fleet Is protecting us and supporting us and getting us to the front." German Steamship Beaches Russia -Htorkliolm, Sept. 2. The German Steamship Annie Stlner arrived at Pet rograd Saturday. She Is the flrst mer chantman flying the German flag to ar rive at Petrograd In four years. Founded 1865 THE Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia You cannot proper ly say that you have sufficient Life Insurance unless you are willing to , say that there is a limit to what you will do to assure the continued com fort of your fam ily. kf i Fourth and Chestnut Streets Member of Federal Keierve System UjImlHMbMlwlludlMilw Great Days of Busl In Our H UNDREDS of aualirv are . . . ciotn in it. A! I THIS WF.F.sf fT " ' a aaT 1 . aa We will sell $22.50 Men's All- WqoI Suits foffl We will sell $30.00 Men's All-Wool Suits foi; We will sell $8.50 & 10 Palm Beach SujisT We will sell $16.50 & $18 Mohair Suit$;fpr We will sell Odd Coats for $3.50, $5.00 nrr ! --i-i ai t? it n j. we win sen quo.vv naincuuis iurtt ., . ;vy WahamakeE&BKOwnllS "-"" ''-'- mmami 'A Hi 'k.OlAMJU' 'Va. . Ortndino Aheap. Continued from Pste One ( tlon of what' the 'French had to suffer before those fortresses were carried last year. We must face' soberly the jpossl bIUty,of having to returnsfor a- time to what is called warfare of .positions, compared with, which the brushing up of a retrpat Is child's play. There Is another governing considera tion that may .encourage If we don't exaggerate It A numerous army holding formidable positions ls',stlll chiefly to be Valued according to lis average morale. There is no doubt of the decline of the morale of the German apny; but despite the weakening of lts'effectives, the poverty of many kinds of material, the growing hopelessness echoed In the German press and six weeks of un ceasing reverses, there are still divisions that fight unbendingly. Clearlnr Up Battlefields Among the abandoned trenches and wire fields, the new are easily distin guished from the old by tfielr slighter extent and depth. There has been this time no such opportunity as last year for the systematic destruction of farm steads and villages, and, 'grievous as the aspect of the landscape Just swept by the blast of war was, with Its shapeless heaps of brick, stone, lath and plaster. Its torn fields and ravaged woodlands, we receive this time no such bitter Im pression as when last year we came sud denly upon tho first orchards deliber ately cut down and the first graveyards deliberately outraged. The most, serious problem Is that of the destroyed towns. There Is nothing but ruins In Montdldldr, and the mere clearing of the site will be a prodigious work. Roye and Nesle, and perhaps Koyon, Solssons and Flslnes, are tn slightly less extreme -case. Complegne nadty Damaged With Its palace of Napoleonic and other memories. Its Renaissance town hall, Its substantial villas and forest rides, Complegne was one of the most. delightfully characteristic of French' country towns of the richer kind gracious, dignified, sleepy' and happy. About one house In Ave seems to have been destroyed; one In two to have been damaged, The palace has received sev eral shells; the general Hospital has one wing shattered. I visited the front of the army of General Mangln and found iiteady, though grimly slow, progress being made. The capture on Friday morning of Pasly village, a mile and a half north west of Solssons, led later In the day to the occupation of Cuffles, a rrlle east of Pasly, by a push from the west, and Saturday morning of Cruoy, neatly three miles east of Solssons, by the junction of American units with the French com ing north from SoIssojs. All the base of the long, foot-like plateau Extending from Terny-Sory to the Alsnc, which Is an outwork of the Laffaux corner of tho Hlndenburg line, was thus In Allied hands. Front Lines Strengthened When Pasly fell tho German garrison oi t,navigny I may properly call It a garrison, for this was a siege of a real fortress was Jn danger, and when It Ci A in m J "Ma jiuic uueiis iv: uuses kjv 5 I 5 I An Important Sale Women's & Misses' Medium-Weight Fall CoatS ' Actually Worth $19.75 to $25M, at Just the kind of coat you will need until the extreme cold sets In. Choice of wool velours, poplins. serges, velours. Some lined, others half-lined. Women's l 9 and misses' sizes. A Special Pricing on Newest Fall Press '$ 15 Woel Serges Crepe de Chines Oeorgette Crepes Rlch Satins The newest models, reflecting style touches so. different ly new;. Alt new colorings. $1.25 and 51-50 Waists 98c N'. eat tailored sports and trtm; ' med models en 1 1 r e"l y different from the usual run -M of styles. friir.iif Jt HOME OF STYLE &ECON( i awHiara,5raMiiiw. wiffl Rummage items which include clothing "of established 'ttAPm heme Bald at nncea wnicn do not cover tne coat siil .,' tf? . , . "' ' Ti., ' :-" V n , t .iffiBi wa rlittt.Mtoss i the toes. were made In General' von H enedhls zWriil reserves. V? vV, Meanwhile.' on the vlllaa-eJoP Ju eral times ehangeit riiahA hv that ARM! the Allies were sole I the hamlet of Vary. plateau. ,, $; At 4 o'clock -V Sand two blockhouses hav Leury wsaBoirair, remained from 'the t effort no fewer thaa. oners. There k4now north end of Mil "I mlnates In Hill Vt as Laon and the. Ward beyond Tetny-i shall be rla-ht un"aM fled lines ofVauaail Marglval.,, s ' It Is noteworthy eighteen German, oil Germany would nay Lorraine. Two ,of them two Bavarians and one 1 1 rrs? iriaiffv. How AHrf Mv- - Sleepirig-Pji Or maybe it is'a:g5 are going to "tfriilf tions in the., fronts or the problemqi lighting. Whatevd want advice aDOurs ing a new house'.of an old one, Rayr can tell you, and,i write to himAcare Delineator; ThistJ of the service, TheJ renders its readers 2&yflSS r "itt, Del ine . rtjf Z -i 3 -jm STORE ORDERS ACCEPTED SU":i, f M 923 MARKET STREElSl . . i j' - 25.-i $4 0.75' 13 SB Clearan Yomei Sd.00 Dr m 'The i and newvvo glnxhi frocks in tPM o o 1 ors, strip a n d. . nhfeck Sizes UR,tol44j Girls', Nte SCHOOI DRESSI Ginghams. brays. .Slieal "iiV ;xi i rm -w UlrfV- 7 J .Ij .- ur .T.. f n a safe '' 'j u.-.. v . t . WW P ,Sii -
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