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By EDWIN L. JAMFS
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
CopvrtolK, ttlH. 'V .Vein Vorfc riwf Co,
With Hie American Arm In France,
Oct. 3.
The last -twenty-four hours has been
marked on the fiont of the First
American Army between the Alsne
nd the Meuse by cry heavy German
artillery Are. both on our front l.nes
nd back areas.
There hao been no counter-attacks,
and this fart, coupled with Increased
aerial ucthlty by the Germans m.d
the heavier shelling, may have been
meant to cover a vvltndrawai niong
our center and left to the Krlcm
fallde line. Theie has been no Infantry
Action today except clashes between
patrols.
Our troops contlnuo to consolidate
their positions between the .Argont e
forest ana the .Meuse. in me Argonne
our lines have been pushed slightly
ahead without great opposition In the
last twenty-four hours
Between the Jteuso nnd the Moselle
the Germans are also gllng signs of
withdrawing. Tatrols esterday found
Pagj-y-sur-Moselle unoccupied by Ger
mans. Resistance. Weakens
The First American Armv Is ex
erting renewed pressure ugalnst the
German lines on the Alsne-Meuse sec
tor and Is making progicss in pusmng
th-ard the Krlemhllde line. Our ad
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resistance Is weakening In the Ac
goi.ne forest and the Aire alley.
Further east along the Meune the
German resistance remains firm. This
la easy to explain. Our troops on tho
rjght have pushed up the .Meuse Valley
to Brleulles, which Is only a mile from
wHere the Krlemhllde trench line
crosses the river. Oier to the west
ward In the Aire Valley we are about
fve kilometers from the line and In
the Argonne r.e are perhaps eight
kilometers from where the Krlemhllde
positions runs Just north of Grand-
pro.
What the boche evidently Is doing,
after being worn down by our unremit
ting pressure since Friday, Is to get back
to the Krlemhllde line, and to hold this
plan he must stand firm on his right
while yielding on his left. The Ameri
can advance north of Kxermont and the
French advance west of the Aigonne
forest have placed the Germans In the
woods In a pocket, out of which they
are now trying to get.
After three days of ioIent counter
attacks the Germans have essayed only
on mediocre attempt north or 1-xer
which was eally broken up.
This may have been to cover a with
drawal. The German artlller of smal
ler caliber Is less active now, although
they continue to send a large number
of shells from big rifles stuck In be
hind the Krlemhllde line.
Moit Complete l'olltlont
The prediction made In these dis
patches two das ago that the German
XMlstanco In the region of Montfaaucon
and Aprcmont was due to a desire to
put the Krlemhllde position In better
shape, seems to hold good Captured
orders show that the troops have been
commanded to hold this region until
the Grandpre positions are ready.
Captured documents show also the
Importance the higher command lays
on holding his Krlemhllde line, for be
hind this line there Is no organized Ger
man position this side of the French
border, and if they lose It the Ger
mans must face a fight In the open with
'our troops, who like and excel at that
uort of warfare, where strong backs
and stout hearts play the biggest role
Good weather did wonders for uh In
repairing tho roads and reports are that
traffic conditions have Improved 100 per
cent over two das ago, when. It may De
t.led our service of supply was
In a sorry plight through no fault of
tta own. Determination and shovels
have dug us out of a hole
Htm What Me Ahead
On hill 31C. lvlnc lust east of Mont-
faucon. Is the observatory from which
the German Crown Prince watched the
fateful battle of Verdun Turning about
face one gets a most excellent iew of
what lies ahead of the first American
army. A matter of ten kilometers to
the right winds the Meuse Itlvtr, the val
ley of which one cannot see for the
woods. About two or three kilometers
to the north lies Nantillers, which we
hold, and down the road one may see
the church steeple of llriuellcs, which
also Is In our hands To the north one
Makes out Hill 300, the key position to
Vri.mMM. iin Vp.im Montfaueon
the Krlemhllde line Jrum Monuaueon
hill one sees plainly to tne nortnwesi
the vlllare of Clerges Over beyond
Hill 217 lies Itomagne, which Is one kilo.
meter this side of the German trenches
To the west from the hill south of
Exermont one may look up the Aire
valley and see the stream turn west at
St. Juvan, hiding itself In the Argonpe
forest, where It runs to Grandpre about
a mile south of the Krlemhllde line
The terrain hereabouts is ery hilly
forming strong positions for our use In
repulsing German counter-attacks West
of Kxermont hill rise the dignified Blopes
of the Argonne forest, the fastness of
wnicn moe so many laies oi nero m.
not only or ivn, out ot jaia ana ji
as well.
Having had now three good hot meals
since their supplies have gotten up, and
having had some semblance ot rest and
with the rain halted and dry blankets
distributed, our soldiers feel like new
n and are ready for any sort of fight
ing. If their spirits become a bit damp
ened, it must be remembered that It
talned on Wednesday, tho day before
the attack: rained on Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, and has been dls-
,ii,-s mally cold. Their chief consolation U
ii ttutt no matter how disagreeable It has
. 'V "been for them. It has been Just as bad
r;' Her ths Germans.
- Ww Yorkera Heroi
,5'. 'Despite the bad weather, our air ser-
4a reports more than 100 enemy planes
liiisught down since the attack started
'a- tT7enty?one balloons.
'V 'w York city will be nroud to learn
It was the boys the metropolis sent
Camp Upton last year who have been
ting a battle against the Germans
the natural obstacles In the Argonne
and breaking up positions that the
tans believed could not be broktn.
the lot of these youngsters fell per-
me tougnesi sues ot tne toughest
the American troops In France have
tackled. They have gone through
;t and steel and wood defenses and
unted tines of barbed wire, strung
many thousand of trees. In the
two mile son of these defenses which
Germans thought could never be cut.
YMlr ad vanes has ben simply one of
It was a case or cutting
me fane and then throiurt
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them and the enemy's 77s peppering
them from afar Despite all this, these
Ud from Manhattan. Brooklyn. The
Ilroni, Queens, Ixng Island and West
chester hate done well their bit In the
great battle now stretching from the
sea to the Meuse Itlter.
To appreciate In full the tnsk anslgncd
to these bo)s oil a six-kilometer front
through the Argonne, one must reallie
that the two main pUots of the whole.
Herman western front are Mile and
Mela. Of the positions defending Met!
the stroncest was that In front of Ver
dun, and the malnBtay of this position
was the Argonne forest, where the Ger
mans had for so Ijng held baik the
best preUous Allied efforts The Ger
mans took pains to held baeX thee bos,
but they did not have what one stould
call success.
Kagrr to HM Ail
There are many of these bojs In
hospitals now, but not one of them be
moans his fate nnd alt take their suf
fering stoically. With ery few ex
ceptions they want to get batk Into It
I spent three hours In a big evacuation
hospital where then" rases were being
handled, and I never saw belter proof
of how little the Individual soldier knows
about a battle I iiMeed about u dozen
of them to till mo about It and the
reply In each case was about the same
they were up there In the woods In the
dark while It was raining, thoy were cut
tin barbed wire when a bullet or a
piece of shrapnel stopped It t had
een enough of th's woods to rcnllie
tnat tbl was all one tould expect them
to know
One jouthful lieutenant, it Plattsburic
' man regretted that he "id n Ions rest
ahead hfore he could Ret back A bul
let had p.i-.-ed through his lung He
had Just had his platoon cut a path
through a series of twenty wire fences
when the Germans vept the platoon
with machine-gun Are hitting him He
said that while lie was In the fight
there was no hand-to-hand combats. Put
i just a cae of etruggllng ahead through
the wire and underbrush with the Ger
mans shooting from shelter In the dark
at the noises tho Americans made.
I ran Into a. captain whom 1 used to
know in New Vork. He had seven bul
lets through him, but was In good
shape,
"It wasut an Pickett a charge up
there In the woods, he said "It was
Just plain hell t hope I can see the
day when 1 can get my company out
Into an open field with the same number
i to nay them back for what they cooked
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In the Mine hospital were a number of
woundi (I Germans, members of n good
German unit The surgeon said they
were game men nnd never squealed.
I'erhaps losing sight for a moment
of the fact that the Job had to be done,
nearly all of the boys who were in the
fight expressed disgust nt that sort of
warfare, siylng there was no fairness
In it I talked with one black-haired
lad who had lost his hjphen, Philip
fhegln, Drookln He said "Next time
I want to get where I can see the boche
so I can go after him All I could see
In the for.st during the fight was trees
and bushes and trenches and wire This
crowd haB got a lot In store for the
boche if we ever catch him In the open."
John I Klerman, Bronx, had a simi
lar way of looking at It. Croporal Fred
fipahr, Manhattan, wan another who
hoped for a fight where he could get
It hand-to-hand with a German
One llttlo Incident Imp'ressed me with
the spirit of these men of a short term
of military training toward their offi
cers. It was raining ana coin, uown
the road came three lads caked with
'mud and wet to skin They asked to
be told where hospital No. was. One
of them explained'
"Our lieutenant was wounded up
there In the woods eterday and we
brought him back to a dressing station.
He got out this morning They told us
he was In that hospital and we want
to find out how he Is. We have Hot
had any sleep for two nights, but we are
not going to sleep until we find out how
the lieutenant Is "
When I met them they had hiked
seven mile in their quest and had three
more to go Their lieutenant was seri
ously wounded, and if he had not been
taken quickly to a first-aid station he
would have died
This division has made a name for
Itself in the Argonne. It took over a
rector In Lorraine last June and saw
heavy fighting south of the Vesle.
CAMBRA1 NOT FIRED
Flames Believed Caused by Burn
ing Munitions
By the Associated Press
nrltlnh Army Headquarters. Oct 3
The enemy for some time past nas been
employing liquid till- as a substitute for
high explosives which Is an Indication
that he Is beginning to feel the heavy
losses he has sustained In nnr material.
The report that the Germans have set
fire to Cambral does not appear to be
confirmed. It Is belfevei that the fire
was caused by the burning of ammuni
tion dumps
CAPTURED 123,036 IN MONTH
Allies' September Catcb on West
Front Buns High
By the United Press
Paris, Oct 3
The Allies tnnk 13.(136 (lermun nrla-
i oners in France and Belgium during Sep.
' tember. It was officially announced to-
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T1,e captives Included 120 19J men
d ;,.. offlcerH nurinit tn am(, ,.
rU,d the A11, captured 1600 cannon and
more than 10.000 machine guns
' From July IB to September 30 the
Miles took prisoner 248 414 men and
551 8 ofTWrs and captured 36CS cannon
and 23,000 machine guns
BOLSHEVIKI CHARGE SPY PLOT
Friends of Former U. S. Consul
at .Moscow Arrested
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dlKpatch to the nerlln laikal Anzelger
from Moscow, the Izvestia, the Bolshevik
organ, announces the arrest of a num
b-.r of Derions accused of snvlnir on h..
naif of De Witt C Poole, the former
American consul general at
Moscow
Those arrested, sajs the dispatch. In
clude M, Kolmatlamoff, who Is said to
he a naturalized American citizen and
chief qf the American espionage agency
In HubsIs.
The dispatch adds that a large quan
tity of documents was seized.
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UNITE TO BREAK
TEUTONIC YOKE
Oppressed Peoples of Eu
rope Discuss Organization
for Political Freedom
WILL AID ALLIES' CAUSE
Eight
Nationalities
Repre
sented in Conference Pur
pose of League Outlined
iy the United Press
Washington, Oct 3.
Ileprefentntlves of oppressed nation
alities met here today to form a mid
Kuropean federation, to Include subject
peoples now living under the shadow of
Teutonic domination
Those repieented Included fiecho-
Slovaks, Pole", Ukrainians, Jugn-Hlavs,
Lithuanians, ritine Ilumanlans and
Italian Irredentist 65,000.000 people,
now largely without self-government
and political freedom
Resolutions demanding the dissolution
of the Austro-Hungarlan Kmplre and
formation of n mld-lluropean federation
were to be adopt d 'I he representatives
also plan to offer the tntlre moral and
phskal resources uf their i-ountrjmen
In Kurope to the cause of the Allies
Krectton of a harrier across the heart
of CumpH to Krrve as a wall against
German nggtfslon Is th Immediate nlm
of the mid-nuropcan federation. It will
seek to organize n political, mllltnr
and economic w.ill along the eastern
frontier of German Forces In America
and Kurope are to be co-ordinated to
this end it Is declared
"Hit purpose of the federation was out
lined nt the opining of the conference
by Prof H A Miller, delegated by
the American Government to undertake
Its nrganlzitlon
"Never before In history have the na
tional leaders of the elgftt nationalities
here represented been gathered together
for the unanimous purpose of working
out a constructive political program for
65,000,000 people living In territory ex
tending from the Arctic Ocean to the
Utack nnd Adrlatlo Seas," Professor
Miller t-nld.
"it Is the birth of the federation of
Ktatcs, without which there can be no
permanent peace For many centuries
the problems for the solution of which
this organizitlon was established have
been dealt with bj methods In which
Justice plaved no part, and In recent
Jears It has been the definite purpose
of Austrla-Hunparj to stimulate dlssen
tlon among them
' Todiy the union has been begun
and the strength generated by these cen
turies of oppression Is turning with Its
full force to Its own defense It Is
based on the democratic principles which
President Mlson has so often pro
claimed The strategic position Is an absolute
check against German aggression In the
east This federation makes the Aus
trian Empire not only unnecessary, but
Impossible It means revolutions against
German domination."
French Ambassador Jusserand, una
ble to attend, wrote
"I need not say that I sincerely share
jour sentiment for the nations still In
bondage and whose day of liberation Is
at hand There Is no son of France that
does not think as you do "
Buy rotitoes Now, Says Food Board
Order potatoes now and store them
for winter, advises the State food ad
ministration Farmers at curb markets
are now taking orders for potatoes which
will be delivered within a reasonable dis
tance of the markets within the next
few weeks. Householders were warned
not to keep their potatoes too warm or
too cold, for they will either sprout or
freeie.
Altar Vases for Washington Memorial
In memorial to the first President,
the National Society of United States
Daughters of 1813 todav dedicated a set
of altar vases at the Washington Me
morial Chapel, Valley Torge, Pa.
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Is yours In condition to
stand the tense mental and
physical strain of the com
in winter?
If you are not sure, make
sure. Take a little recre
ation to smooth out and
oil up its rough bearings.
Forced effort weakens the
heart jour "human" en
gine slows down. Give
yourself an Intelligent rest
and have this most Im
portant "Human Machine"
of yours set right.
It Is your par n'of ic duty to
keep supremely fit now.
and, in this connection
the Glen SpniRGQ
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Foe Stronghold
Centlntied from Pass One
became an active factor In the war. It
was strengthened from time to time,
trenches being laid out and dugouts
finally added to the work. Mo far as
known, no new wire has been placed
recently along this line, but certain
stratcglo, sections have been strength
ened. The sjstem Is not no strong ss the
famous Hlndcnburg line, but neverthe
less has extremely strong positions.
Violent artillery firing developed
along the center of the American line
between the Meuse and the Aline yes
terday. The Germans also bombarded
the American positions on the right,
near the Meuse, to a limited extent, but
on the ezlreme lift there was a signifi
cant silence for the greater part of
the day.
Along this sector of the front, the
positions held bv the Americans follow
a zigzag line. The number of Germans
near the Argonne forest Is less than that
fighting on the eastern side General
Gouraud's drive west of the forest, to.
aether with the advance of the Amerl
cans to the east of It. threatens to cut
off the enemy units still clinging to the
wooded hills south of nrandore.
Patrol Artlnn Only
No general offensive was undertaken
by the Americans jesterdiy All along
the line, fighting was restricted to patrol
actions It has been learned that the
enemy expected a heavy attack yester
day and to that fact Is nttrlbuted his
heavy artillerv fire This fire was
particularly heavv gas and high ex
plosives and shrapnel shells being used.
They were fired both from In front of
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the Americans and front across the
Meuse. Not only wefe the forward
positions bombarded, but many shells
fell on Drlllancourt, Harcourt and the
country between Jure wood and the
river. .
At times thin fire took on the char
acter of a barrage, but It was concen
trated for the most part in the lighting
line. It was shifted during the day to
the center of the line and later moved
far to the right, Forges being heavily
shelled until counter. battery work de
creased the volume of fire. The Ameri
can guns have responded with a vigor
ous fire, which punished the enemy
severely. At various points, minor- In
fantry clashes occurred, both sides us
ing machine guns,
Rnglnrer battalions have done good
work on the road. Commissary trains
are moving forward smoothly and ra
tions are reaching the men In the most
advanced trenches.
Anticipating sharp fait weather the
staff ordered sleeveless leather coats
Issued to the greater part of the men
at the front. These coats are lined with
felt and are worn over the uniforms
They keep out the wind and turn the
rain. They have proved In be one of
the roost popular articles of wear with
tho men
AUSTRALIANS GET 1500 TURKS
Also Capture 40 Machino Guns
Near Daiuusctin
By the Associated Prrs
limdm. Oct. 3 (2 1 M.l Atistrn.
llan mounted troops operating In the
region northwest of Camnscus, In hrla.
on Wednesday charged and captured a
Turkish column.
Fifteen hundred prisoners were taken
and two guns and forty machine guns
were captured, according to an ofllclal
statement Issued today by the War
Office.
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BULGARIA PROCLAIMS
HOPE OF EARLY PEACE
Populace Urged to Maintain
Order Ferdinand Changed
Attitude Over Night
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By the Associated Press
Amsterdam, Oct. 3,
Dispatches from Sofia state that the
Bulgarian Government, In announcing
officially that an nrmlstlce had been
signed and orders given to suspend mili
tary operations, declared that It will be
only a short time until peace Is made.
The official statement says:
"At this moment the Uulgorlan na
tion and nrmy are asked, once hostilities
have been suspended, to maintain calm
and order so that the Government may
be able to complete the work of peace.
Only a short time sepal tes us from the
day. of definite peace. The nation must
allow Itself to be guided only bv senti
ments of ardent love for Bulgaria."
After representing the Bulgarian army
as In a state of mutiny and confusion,
a Vienna telegram "to the Kotterdim
Nleuwe Courant concludes:
"This state of affairs has forced the
Central Powers to lenvc In the capital
(Kotla) sufficient rorcea to preserve or
der, nnd especially to guard the lega
tions. and the stores of food and war
material."
The Bulgarian peace delegates who
went to Salonlca and signed the armis
tice agreement with the Allies have re
turned to Sofia,
King Ferdinand and Crown Trince
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the way they fight !
Boris of Bulgaria were at Veles a week
ago to exhort the Bulgarian troops to
fight, telegraphs Professor miss, the
ftalonlca correspondent .f the l.auaanne
(Switzerland) Gatette. Tneir ercons
were of no avail, the Aulgarla soldiers
throwing away their arms and retiring.
Bulgaria has not betrayed her allies,
who were Informed of every step she
took through many Kuropean press
channels, a Sofia dispatch to the Neue
Zeltung of Zurich declares It asserts
also that, on the contrary, on September
Zt, for Instance, King Ferdinand sent
an urgent appeal to aerman headquar
ters for military aid, giving notice that
he otherwise would be forced to open
negotiations with the enemy. Germany,
however, replied that It was Impossible
to' comply.
The news of Bulgaria's unconditional
surrender now Is being published In the
German press. H was admittedly with
held Intentionally from publla knowledge
for a time because the German ofllclal
world refused to credit It until the last
moment.
"We are betraed," Is a sentence that
frequently appears In the newspaper
articles Tho Frankfort Gazette la the
first to admit that the surrender la a
direct consequence of the development
on the western front, and It described
King Ferdinand's reported messages of
loyalty to the German and Austrian
Kmperors and constituting 'a psycho
logical riddle."
The Cologne Volks Zeltung Is deeply
pessimistic regarding the future. It
would be unwise. It says, to place any
hopes on a counter-movement,
Chicago ftuyi $30,000,000
rhleago, Oct. 3. Thirty million dol
lars worth of the fourth Liberty Bonds
had been bought In Chicago last night
out of a quota ot 1:62,300,000. It Is
entlmated that subscriptions In Michigan
so far aggregate 170,000,000.
Indiana reported steady progress
toward the quota goal.
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