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AMERICAN FORCES
, CLEAN UP ARGONNE
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Repulse Countcr'-Attueks ami
Gather Booty While Etigi-
nccrs Restore Roads
i , fly fic Associated 'rem
TTIIb tliei Alnerlcnii Army Nortline-nt if
Verdun, Oct. 2,
German efforts to ponrtintf or bcml
the Jlno between the Mtuic and the
Alsne dwindled rapidly yesterday. One
minor counfer-attack, soino outpost
scrlmbiaslnc and a halMieartcd bom
bardment characterized the enemy's ac-
K tivlty,
The Americans repulsed a countcr-at-lack,
north of Aprcniont and then ac
cepted the Bltuatlon. lloth the front
line and the back nreas held by the
.Germans were shelled vigorously from
early morning until night. In the nrtcr
noon tho cloudsdlsappeared and nvln-
rM?? ,vero "bIc lo resume their obesrva
lion
patrols and
pursue enemy planes
and balloons.
W'lth tho clearing weather the engi
neers havo cancrted the areas back of
the American front Into an orderly
place one more. Itoads untouched for
years and made worse by the move
ment of truck trains and nrtlllcry were
once mor mude passable1.
On tho left flank of the Americans
the French pressed their lines slightly
forward, bringing near the time when
the Germans must fight with less hope
fulness to maintain their line west of
the Meuse.
American detachments In the Argnnnc
forest continue to clean up that wilder
ness, sendlntr back scores of machine
runs, trench mortars and other captured
material. On the salvage list there ap
peared today three observation balloons.
They had been left In their shed at the
eastern edge of Kxcrmnnt wood.
Many positions abandoned by tin- Her
mans had been elaborately equipped
with mines, but, as also was the case
north of the Manic, almost every mine
was sprung by the engineers, who traced
the wires to a. trap left nearby. There
was a formidable! outlay of mines In
the town of Vauquols, which had been
used as u. German headquarters.
Below the level of the town hundreds
of yards of subterranenn passages had
been turned into comfortnble, even lux
urious, quarters. Information reaching
American headquarters continues to In
dicate confusion behind the German
lines.. It Is known tho enemy is using
units as small as platoons to rc-enforco
those In the fighting line.
View Wilson as
3d Term Candidate
Continued from race (ino
industries of the country Into Federal
Government hands. They .will bo best
qualified, so It Is urged, to carry on In
telligently the process of decentraliza
tion as fast as it can safely go on with
duo regard to the interests of le.s well
off partners abroad In the league of na
tions. Moreover, theie Is the social problem
Mr. Wilson has visions of a new Inter
national order. He has, equally, visions.
of a new social oriler. Ills visit to Buf
falo to honor the labor leader Samuel
Gomperi1 signalized the new social
order. Jf ho Is interested in new inter- '
national Justice, he Is equally interested
In new social Justice, a larger oppor
tunity for the common man, more or
ganization In the ranks of labor; more )
Government control over Industries. All ;
this Is a part of reconstruction. It en- '.
(ages Mr. Wilton's heart.
Acute Serine of (IrtutncitH i
It engages his egoism. A man can-
not play the great role Mr. Wilson plays
without having an acute sense of his I
greatness. It In dltllcult to think of lay- ,
lng It down, of gMng'tip tho immense
task at Its Very Inception almost for I
reconstruction and the Inauguration of
the league of nations is virtually Its in
'ccption of giving it up to another man
who has.' different sympathies and n dif
ferent imagination. Mr. lloosevelt found
it hard to see another man in his place,
and, the place was smaller than Mr.
Wilson's place will be when the war is t
o.vcr and the problems of peace press I
upon the. world.
Mr. Wilson unconsciously' gave a view
of his view of himself , In his speech
llonday in behalf of suffrage when he
tsld, near the end, that "speaking as
jfcommander-ln-chlcf of tho army and
navy," "as present spokesman of this
people," "as responsible head of a great
Government," "as the guide and director
of forces caught in the grip of war,"
"I,"' etc. It took a paragraph lo com
plete the catalogue and the sentence. Jt
is not easy to lay all that down.
A ftpeecli of Announcement
This speech the Senators Inteipret as
a. political speech made in support of
the PresldcntV ambition to succeed him
self in 1320. Mr. Wilson knew he was
not Hkely to change a vote In the Sen
ate, but he wanted to get himself une-
U equivocally right with the women. There
can ue no uuiiiuig 01 uia worus now uy
the militants.
The Itspubllcan Senators' caucus vote
asking early action on the Weeks recon
struction resolution for tlio uppolntment
Of a congressional comirlttcq on recon
struction is the flrf.t formal step in tho
ereat fight to come. With the war out
of the way tho wholo country will dl
,vlde on reconstruction. Wilson sees It.
Congress sees it. It Is the big Issue of
It tho, future which will decide the fato of
.men umKUJrs, kiiu, iu uu cmciu, Ol
,the com
ivesinol
surely did relieve
tnat eczema! ;
Pacii-up some Resinol Ointment in
6liis "old kit Bajr." Nothing is too good ,
f.jr him, and he will need it "over
tStere" where exposure, verrtiin, con-
tgions, and the exigencies ol a soldier s
life cause all sorts ot skin irritation,
iHhine.'sorj'feet and suffering,
Rwl404a'tiMUtORiitchuiriliioif Intuntlr.
It hat'i liul sms' bterthtir cas ,(ecei .bts1
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Continued from I'itt One.
supply lines, prisoners taken liaUng
been without food for three dus.
I. like llnmi, Mvtrenlli Hntloon
A note dtopped nt nn observation
post by Lieutenant I.tikc, of Arizona,
asked that a lookout be kept for burning
Herman balloons. Within n few mo
ments observers saw three tome down
In flames. This makes sixteen for Luke
within three week.
One good reason for the stubborn and
expansive game which the Germans uro
playing In front of the Fltst American
Army, and. Indeed, all along the west
ern front, may be stated In the words
of tho German command, ns shown In
the following order:
"Thn troops are reminded that our
present position Is our winter position.
There will be lectures and conferences
for all reserves at the earliest possible
moment, with the object of pointing out
how Important It is that tho troops
should now hold their ground more than
ccr nnd that there can be no question of
going back u single step further.
"Wc want to show the British and
French nnd Americans that another
attack of theirs on the Siegfried lino
will be completely broken and that thl
line Is n Impregnable rampart with
the result that the Hntcnte Towers will
condescend to .consider thp peaco terms,
which ate absolutely' necessary to us,
beforo we can cud this war. In other
.words, each step backward now means
the lengthening of the war. A succcess
fill stand, on the other hands, will give
us tlm prospect of early peace.
"Kvery man must be dourly convinced
of these facts and company offleers must
be constantly telling their men this. I
wish all commanding ofliccts to tnke
similar steps."
This order was issued September 1G
to a battalion stationed Just below Cam
bral. Undoubtedly similar order were
Issued to troops all along tho western
front. The Siegfried lino Is the lat
series of tho Illndenburg ilcfinses. The
same line Is called Wotnn further north
and Albiecht further smith. In Cham
pagne and the Argonnc It has no desig
nation by name, but corresponds to the
last lino of trenches, four kilometers
deep, of tho tllndetibiirK line, which Is
entirely in our hands on the front of
our attack.
The sentiment in this order corre
sponds with what I haw gotten from a
number of German prisoners In tho last
week, who say that the Germans Intend
henceforth to light only a dcfenslc
war, which will make it so costly and
tiresome for tho Allies that wc will come
to terms. It may be noticed that be
tween the lines of this order one may
read that tho Germans will mako a
place drive tills winter.
(rally ii I. not Mund
Bitter back-and-forth fighting con.
tlnues on the Argonne-Meusc front. The
Germans are expending regiments lavish
ly to prevent our further advance. In
the last twenty-four hours we have
pushed our line somewhat ahead In the
Argonne forest, but In the main have
devoted our energies to consolidating
our positions and rectifying our line,
which, because of the success of some
German counter-attacks, became rather
of n saw-tooth s-hape.
Against this work the foe Is doing
"Carry
,rpHE fighting slogan in France, gathering inspiration and signifi
cance as the conflict grows more violent and more desperate, is
"Carry On." On land, on sea, in the air, it rings sharp and clear.
Into the front line trenches comes thc signal to charge. The
company commander swings "over thc top." At his heels, plishing
and stumbling through the hell of "No Man's Land," come thc boys.
They gain a' yard, five, ten, and the machine guns speak. The com
mander falls, but over his shoulder, above thc din of battle, he shouts,
"Carry pn, Lieutenant!" So on and on, till every officer falls, and
the grizzled old Sergeant sets his teeth and takes what's left oi
them on to victory.
yCarry On" must be our slogan hero at home.
We muit "Carry On" to the utmost limit our '
ability, to the last dollar of our resources, till , ' -v
' Vt'cforv' is won. Let us stand shoulder to i
f shoulder buy all the Liberty Bonds we can.
Let us fceep our Bonds and save to buy more.
"Carry On!" Buy Liberty Bonds!
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,Etife :iBiil4LiMBMlADELPHfiU 'WfiDNESDAY
YANKEES,
heavy counter-work and concentrated connection a recent order issued by Gen
shelling with both high explosives and crn t.udendorn is Interesting. This says!
gas. Yesterday afternoon ho sept a "An Increase has recently taken place
largo number of gas shells into v.lljgcs n ulr number .of complaints receled
well behind our front. from home, that our men on leave from
ery heavy and costly lighting liasit,c front create a ery unfavorable
taken place In the vicinity of Kxcr
mont and north of Mnntfaucon. In both
vicinities the Germans have the best ter- .
rain. These counter-attacks nre made I
with force. As a rule they result only
In casualties for. after the Germans .
have pushed tho Americans back, our I
men Invariably call for te-rnforeeinents I
and put tho Germans back where they
stattcd from.
rnuglit In Own Trap .
Testerday, the Germans ran Into the
tort of trap so often set for the Ameri
cans. In tho Aire valley, near Mver
mont, they made a counter-attack with
elements of four dlvMons against weary
American troops. They succeeded nt
first, nnd came on regardless nf con
sequence, but In the woods off to their
leti inerc Happened to i,e a company or 1 0crnm ct,nCcntratlon
AmcrHan machine gunners, who got theltho information and
Hermans on ine nam; nnu lorceu mem to j
fall back, with cry heavy losses i
Tho Germans have some escellent
fighters In this rector men with Iron ,
nerve. Monday morning n com nan v of
nbntit a hundred men found nn un
guarded path through the woods and
actually went through the American
line and attacked our advanced troops
from behind. About the same lime, ad
vancing Hoops came up behind the Ger
mans, trapping them. As n result of
the tight wc brought back sixty of the
hundred us prisoners, most of tlie others
being killed.
The nghllng in the Aigonne forest con-
tlnues to be the mint wearying and ex-ion
acting sort of effort. Added to the
difficulties of the natural Jungle are
wire and ttnps set by the foe. Tlvn
there Is mud und tain.
I spent four hours ycsterda in the
big woods and saw some things nur
boys nro facing, ('liked with mud, wet
to the skin and cold thpy had disposi
tions vvlilch were .- tittle ragged In
places, but generally they boio up well.
One big lad suld:
"Well 1 guess be (the encm.i Is as
wet as I am, and that helps tome."
Snipplles Are Ills: Problem
Getting up supplies Is a heartrending
problem hen and much has tn be car-
rled on the backs
rause tho supply
of tho
trains
soldiers be-
cannot got
through the German-infested Jungle. 1
I,atc today, eighteen Ger;uans walked
to n certain Amirlcan headquarters In
the southern pal t of tlm forest and asked
permission to surrender. They had been
lighting alone, a company of them, for
live days in the tanglo and the eighteen
who weie left wet, weary, and worn
hud had enough.
While they fight well, some prisouets
complain of being called on to do 100
. -.I. ("ia nnmliiillll loiil K.iaii ee 1 1 1 , w1
niuiii. -v,..- ...., ,,,.,.,, ., un-i. ,UU..,U 1
to three men In the fighting before ,
tlio Krcucli nortli of Holssons. but these 1
h.td been throw 11 .back Into the light in I
Hie Argonne after live (lays of lest. 1
The German privates appear to be
very much afraid to show discontent
becauso of fear of their otllcers. In this
usy
FOE YIELDS
Impression by Making statements usu
ally bordering on high tteason. in-j
stances such as these drug the honor
and respect of the Individual, as well (
as of the whole army. Into the mud. and i
have a disastrous effect on the morale '
of the people lit home,
ObserteM do tlood Work
While the rainy weather of the last
two Hays has greatly hampered nerlal
work, our observers lmo been doing
yeoman service. To make observations
nnd photographs they havo had to fly
very low, subjecting themselves to Are
from all sorts of enemy weapons.
One observer came back yesterday
with fourteen wounds, but mado his
report before, going to n hospital. An
other Pilot who went nut in n single-
seated mnchlnc to report on a suspected
came back with
l bullet through
,s ,p,
ivihaps tho nerviest of all the deedi
of our aviators was that of an observe!
In n two-sentcd Do Hnvllixnd four who
was wounded when two lol.kers at
I li.rl'Ail l.lu .., lil, r.M.1 ,nn( n ,1 Itwn.llli.
nry'bullet Into Ills gasoline tank. De
spite Ills plight, the wounded pilot held
his machine on n, glide to the giound.
wlille the observer, to escape the tlames
from the tank, crawled out on one of
the wings. When the machine hit the
ground Just buck of our
une,, ine on-
server tumbled out nnd under heavy
rifle fire went to the assistance of the
V.II,1 tt-l,,,- liAnn.Ht. IVin W'iSM1.nil nit.
plane, Ho freed the pilot, who died
the way to a hospital.
1 Sutely fighters with such spirit can
J not be conquered,
The spirit of our doughboys Is no 1
less glorious. A certain colonel was try-
Ing to untangle I rattle Jam, when a
doughboy with a bandaged nose, where
u bullet had taken off pait of it. tumbled
out of a truck load of slightly wounded j
men, saluted, and said: ' ,
"Pay, captain (a captain wan the .
highest otllcer with whom be had tela-,
tlons), did the boches get through?" ;
"So." responded the colonel.
I "Ny, captain,'; tho soldier asked
I again, "did we push 'em back?'"
I "Ves," leplled the colonel.
"Then I guess it's all tight foi me to
K.,, back. This scratch ain't nothing.'
j ,i,i the lad .with blood all over his face
and clothes. "I didn't feel right about
going back while the buche was coming
ahead. Hut If tho bojs drove 'cm north ,
again t guess It's all right If I go back ,
don't you think so, captain?"
I "Ves." replied the colonel again
I Through u certain American evacua
tion hospital on tho Alsnc-Mcusc front
! there have passed in the last Ave days a
I large number of German wounded. This
1 hospital Is in charge of .Major J. .1.
Moorchead, ,1 former New lork surgeon.
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.',., i,m ( i,axe ontatneu tite following
statement of facts:
' Thc physical condition of the German
goI(lers i,' excellent. As a class theli
tinelllv stamina Is such nn can m.i
more suffering than otir American sol
diers. This means that under our tare
of American and German soldiers with
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the Mini wounds the German has a bet-'
ter chance of recovering.
This is due largely t0 the fact that
the Germane', having gone through four
years of war under sttcnuous conditions,
arc tougher than our men, It, applies to
old soldiers. As for the younger sol
diers: their condition ns tn resistance
to JtfOdlly Injury Is about the same One
men have found no evidence of debllltn
tlon because of lack of food in the last
our years. The German soldiers have
no fat on -them but hav.e' had enough
food to keep lit condition.
flrrinnn la iounlirr
There Ii one factor In the comparison
which N favorable to our men they
are cleaner. Not only are they habitu
ally more cleanly, but as the Germans
have been In the war so long many of
them have germs from Infected earth
forced Into their pores, which results
in relatively epilcker infection of wounds.
Taking the Americans and Germans
as two general classes experience Iiiih
gone to fhow that the German soldier
Is tougher physically. He shows no de
preciation In vitality Hint inn lie noticed
and Is up to tho standard physical speci
men. The German soldier stands suffer
ing well, although, of course, no better
than our men, than vvhoih no gamer men
live.
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Ue nirriP nntlllt inn m liirrir ,
, . S. FLIERS DOWN 100 IN WEEK
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One I'm mil (.roup Wins Sctciitv
ictoricf" in Mouth
Willi the American Army In I'mme,
aenaf force Is' demonstrated hi- .1 total
nag sti.e September
s-'tne September -ft. of 10(1 hostile
planes and twenty-one balloons
Dining the month of September the
Mist American pursuit gtoup nf uliplnnetf
won nmre than seventy victories, av
eraging iio bodies for e-ieiv three
pilots In the squadron. Onl four pilots
wete lost. This Is a wot Id lecord.
1 .leiitonfit.t -l-ilill,." lllflf.nl.ifll.H r
r0lumbii, uhlo. who recently became an
"ace." 1 landing the American filets.
with tin lie destroyed Geimati machines
tn lis redn. Hdgar Tnhin. of Wan
Antonm Te.is. n second, with eleven.
while I: if i.andls, son of Judge Ketie
saw Mnnn.a 11 I .:i lid In, of I'hlcagn. (s
third with ion victories Lambs, how
evci. 1" t' tig with the llrttish
Hell Phone
'&CTOBER 1018
AMERICANS PRESSING
FORWARD IN ARGONNE
Steady
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Four I'ciiiimImi
aiiian L.iii
line 7."t Cii'i-nums
Hi ihr I nitrd r.
Mltli the American tel of teriliin,
Oct. :
While uetiwtj in the lemaindtr of the
une is tonnned to lepulsing hitter cotin-1
tcr-attnrks nnd consolidating newly won
positions, the Americans in the deptu of
tho Argonne forest ale shoving forward
toiiM-vvhal today.
The Americans are. continuing In beal
up German reserves. Tho fact that they
have mil made any great strides for
ward In the pjNt few days docs not hull
cate Hint the Ainelic.ins ale thiougli.
On the lontr.ir.v. they have Just begun,
ami from now- on the Flisi Aroi.v i.an be
counted to make ,t steady, though 'not
spectacular ndvnmr llvldences ine in1-
cumulating Ihut the Germans an--pie
t,:,ri"P '" withdraw from their advanced
""'"' .opposite the Ame.l.a...
"uiiiru wnn inn itrncn advance on
our left, this will bring tho plmhlng out
or ine ramnu forest that much neater
American patrols already have pene
trated Montrebcau wood.
Overcoming almost Insurmountable'
obsliiiies. they are rerllfjliig their lines
The dent'tty of the forest rendeis lin.Min
most dtnkult, emit group goes forwatd
as rapidly as possible, maintaining com
munication with Hie aid nf runner"
Cuhtlnuous counter-attacks In the le
gi' n of Aprcniont uulted In certain
terriint.v hanging bands four or (lie
times .VI the end of the whirlwind
fighting the Americans had won a slight
advantage. The boche, 11 is established
sufletrd heavy los5es. pi Isoncrs sailing
that some companies bst fully SO pci
cent of their effcitives.
Wire bridges, upon which An ericun
soldieis walked er tho tlcepes' tic '
works o barbed wire In the ignne
"ores' aie aim ng unique fcamres nf
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the .recent fighting. In eottie places the'
boche wires were Interwoven In the un
derbrush to the depth of a hundred
yards. They were virtually Impassable
I und held tip nur advance more than the
; enemy resistance until (Vitonel Kherrlll.
or the engineers, already famous as the
iiinhor of sevtral ti.xthooks on engineer
,ng devised n schema to oicitome them
The inking of Montfnm 111 il.pilKtl
1I10 enein.v nf .1 posit nn iloniiiia'iiig
rii-iihltig fiont south nf the old line tn
norilt of Vour.iers. So long hk the met
ienns tliiraieti a further advance, ttii
1 iermtini' ultimate retirement tn the
Vntizlets line is inevitable'. The Kriem.
hlldr-Stelliitig line Is understood to tic
onl partly completed.
New Yoik 1 1 oops me operating In 'he
Argonne At the other exlieme of the
line Illinois nulls are advancing along
the left billlk of the Meuse Hlld have
re.uhed the outskirts of Bileulle Negio
tioopt am iHi'tli'lKillng In the French
ailvaiii'e nit the west side of the Argonne
The 111e1 leans, nt Hols tl Mont, cap
lined a balloon shed and three balloons.
Four rennsj human- mptured priett.
l-f!ve tii-iinnns iihniit any uuislde
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and cigarettes on tho front line wM'
tho troops are without rations. l, r "
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