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1,, By WALTER DUKANTY
rSptciat Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Cvvvrloht, tttt. Dv .Vcio York Ttmi Co
fJWltli tlii- French Armlea. Oct. 5.
h. t Tl tea nnw nnaalKIa In ntinll'o f h
tE'. ; .-.... , -
,- mrBieKic conception 01 ino name 'i
-. ;-W France, which continues with un-
nA'dlmlnlsherl fury. The map allows tha
f J , thy, ..whole battle front forms h salient
(; OTiwwn rtifujitiri nnu vt-iiiuii it nunc
ro of a circle, where n line drawn
through Courtnl. Valcnelennee, Heir.
On and Mezlere.a Ii the cord.
Aa might be expected, these four towns
re Junction points through which the
principal enemy communications paps.
Foch Is reducing the salient, In logical
fashion by pressure on the sVle, which
accounts for he violence of the flghtlnt;
between Camliral, St. Quentln and the
Champagne and the Meue.
Protecta Itnth I'ltiiika
To assure himself against Interfer
nee from the flanks, the Allied leader
first obliterated the pocket of St Mihiel,
which gave Verdun and the Meuse as
perfect cover for his right. Then he
launched the army of llelglum on the
xtremc left, to protect the flank of the
rnaln British operation". The mrlklng
success of this blow, delivered with un
expected strength In an unexpected
quarter, opened further possibilities of
enormous Importance nothing leu than
ft threat to the enemy communications
from the whole riglon between the sea
nd St. Quentln, which, generally speak
ing, are directed toward a triangle
formed by Brussels, N'amur and Liege.
True to th principles of strategy,
Foph Is exploiting the success to the
utmost. Already part of the communica
tions between the Oernian positions on
the Belglan'coast nnd the Interior have
been Interrupted and accentuation of
the. threat to the Hruges-Hhent-Urussels
line will force abandonment of the lit
toral. Hitter Hlow tn llnrmy
Such an event would be one of the
bitterest blows Germany could receive;
first, as greatly diminishing the already
waning submarine campaign nnd, sec
ondly, as wresting from the Invaders a
coveted position on the sho-os of the
English channel that undoubtedly was
lone of their principal objectives of the
f, -whole war.
"tl In previous dispatches I have emphn-
jf sized the danger of Franco-American
, pressure on the right against the com
v. munlcatlons from the eastern half of the
!-SL battle rront, wnicn ionows mi iuhi
f -Jii:.i. iino. irirKf. from I.aon throuah
liSteitleres to Stenay ; second, from north
OI linCllltH IU .MCtitttL, .im it,,,,., ,...-(,..
ethel and Vouzlers to Mezieres.
The latest news indicates that, con-
Hs Yulslvely as the Oerman3 are (.truggllng,
R ,. t7nn.h nllil A nifr(r;t ns H TC adVallC-
PJ''ilnir Irresistibly. Thursday these troops
ftVi wrested from a crack Jaeger division a
i".V whole mountain pesition hat had defied
previous attacks.
Here, particularly, are found concrete
rhachlnP-gun shelters nrrnngert In tiers,
according to tho newest method. Be
fore each individual position of defense,
an absolutely bare space, which the
.French call a glacis, has been prepared,
oyer which asrallan's must pass. Switch
trenches on the Hanks and rows of wire
ten, twenty and even thirty yards deep,
bar turning movements and divide tho
it' defense Into "compartments," each or
UT ' which must be stormed separately.
Vfr Advance Two and One-hulf ,Mlle
" . keverthelesa the troops fought their
ii r-,-nA tn. i Hrnth tt fVH Htlfl nill!-
., . n i- v. -lwH thn nnprntlnn
CjjL continues against a strong crrM In the
W$ -Y" Wf Ion of Orfeull. I.lry and Monlhols and,
I1UIL Illlll'B. wu mw itrs- -
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further east, the rencn nac passcu
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r vuuziem.
rn th whole battlefront. the defense
ia 1h gradually being overcome by a series
IH&L& of thrusts forward, whereof each creates
', x a small saueiu wneiuuy ucienuv,,..,,,
'.?.fli nosltiona can be outflanked and carried
-,WJth panic at home, disaster abroad,
and exhaustion and demoralization
Jw spreading In the army, Oermany 's
fr.it. fnrowl to make a supreme effort In con-
KMT!-dltlons daily more unfavorable.
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Jf,.i5t a period wnich tne acienacrs army i
& l'Ki VeserveTa can come Into action. That
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-that Incessant and violent counter-at
tacks have been supplied. But If. as
In' trie case In the present battle, or
rather, a series of battles for there
are, at fewest, four distinct co-ordinated
mAJor operations and two minor
ofces by Slangln and Berthelot the sup-
ply of reserves has failed to cnecK tne
assailant, then appeal must be made to
XrH VetrateBlc reserve for final succor.
The. jiext few days will show what
?'- .ttie diminished strategic reserve of Ger-
.'( '-'many can accomplish. In the mean-
'. time., it la In the hunds of the assailant
'r to reply with a Blmllar introduction or
'' .1 hi own strategic, reserve In a smashing
i6' Mow which may bring a decisive vlc-
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FRANCE DISCOUNTS MAX
.Confidence That New Chancel
leans a Reformed Germany
J, Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Hoht. ll, lu .Vrio 1'ork Time Co.
Oct. S. France looks upon the
kitment of Prince Max, of Ifaden,
erman chancellor as an entirely
rible matter, l,ls remembered
he used to denounce militarism
fttuQermanlsm at the Hague uou-
, but this counts nothing now.
lusi wuai d luia uuiid eiuiu urn
Ine of the war.
m last speecn, ne sam mat man
I, erman recline was tne uesi
mental lystem In the world. He
otnuig or peace before tne ne-
or tne uerman nereat in Juiy.
s been selected to succeed llert-
(o doubt, because he Is u bit of a
mer ana iree minner nna on
"of his former renutatlon.
tne In the way of a change of
ment can arouse anv confidence
(the French people In Uermany,
i It. lh BiamA nlri pnnftlfitrtn tA
'the conflicting desires In Derlln
continue military control and keep
a IkAV, hi(A irnt nn nna hnnri nnA on
Her tn appear to ine ouieiae
ax a regenerated and reformed
it is toKen ior srantea uutt
en (union and canincf wii,
ib in irui,riu wti
FIGHTING U. S. SOLDIERS DEFEAT
TWO CRACK PRUSSIAN DIVISIONS
ronllmird from re One
yesterday's battle gave us Rnlr.h nil
nlong the army front, from the
vicinity of ninnrvlllers to tho Mouse
Itlvcr, tho gains boInK In some cases
as much us live kilometers.
l'le tn l'iie War
Yesterday's attack Is iV, continuation
of the drive westward on September 1!6.
Modern warfare Js largely a matter of
engineering, and It has taken live days
to rebuild the roads and fill up the
enemy mine holes, so ns to get up the
artillery nnd make sure that supplies
would reach nur advance menus an eten
greater tnk for our engineers.
Now that the (lei mans under the pres
sure of the llrst American army are hack
on the Krlemhllde line between tho
Alsne nnd the Mouse, 1 am permitted to
discuss the slcnlficanee of tho opera
tion which begun on the morning of Sep
tember -C, when the first American army
and the fourth French army attacked
on the Chnmpagne-Argonnc-Meuse front.
This successful attempt, made mi a field
already staltud with the blood of hun
dreds of thousands of brne men In the
last four yenrs, was perhaps spectacular,
but was also otio of the hardest of all
the operations In Marshal Koch's gen
eral campaign against the Herman front.
Oertnnn I'rVnt a t'allent
To understand this fait one must pic
ture the Herman front as a salient,
stretch'ng from tho sea on the west to
the Moselle Itlvcr on the east, and pic
ture the Allies us engaged In reducing
this salient. The wings of this salient,
stretching across northern Franco, rest
In the west In the fortified position of
I.llle nnd on the east fortified as the
position of Metz.
Foch's plan of attacking the great
allent war. as every ono knows, to
stilke tho two wings. It Is manifest
with what fury the Hermans defended
the western wing, where stupendous, ef
forts of the British and French aro
needed to break the positions around
Cambrai and SI. Quentln.
Ainerleiin Blow ('minted
To the first American army and the
fourth French army was assigned the
task of striking the east wing In the
Champagne, the Argonno and the MeUse
Valley.
To state that the (ffort of those two
armies was successful, one has only to
say that the Hermans no longer hold the
Hlndfiiburg line In the eastern Cham
pagne, In the Argnr.ne, or between the
Argonne and the Meuse. They have IokI
Montfaueon. they have lost tlielr hold
on the Argonno fastnesses and, Instead
of standing behind I lie strongest
fortifications which modern war lias been
able to produce, hae only the thin
Krlemhllde 'Ine between them and the
vast stretch of county to the north, in
which they hae no organized position
this side of the French border,
Hut perhaps as Important as this Is
the fart that Hencral Hourand nnd Oen
eial 1'en.hlng have kept occupied forty
Herman divisions, at least twenty-two of
which were rusln d from other parts of
the line and from tho Kalssr's rapidly
diminishing rescives.
Viewed by Kestitts
Tho Importance of the advance of the
First American Army against the ter
rific resistance should be emphasized In
order that the American people may not
measure Its advance by miles, but by Its
slgnlflcanco and Its potentialities.
One may direct attention to the Im
portance of our canture of Montfaueon.
which not only deprived the Hermans of
a valuable obfe-vatlon point from which
they could watch the Meuso valley
south of the city of Verdun and as
far north as Hrand-l're, but with this
point In our hands, wo have an ad
vantage such as the boche enjoyed from
Montsec In the late St. Mihiel salient.
In company with an American gen
eral, I was standing atop of I.c Moi.t
Homme, or dead man's hill, yesterday
afternoon, looking out over thn scrag
gy piles of stone that once were French
villages, over hilltops from which shells
were stripping stumps of what once
were forests, over u land honeycombed
with dugouts and bearing nil tho million
marks which modern war can make,
when the general said:
"How many men do you suppose have
died In the last four years on the
hattleflelds you can now see?"
Where Million .Men I'ell
He said the number was easlly n
million. Far ott to tho left we could
sec the forest of tho Argonne, where
so many bravo Frcnchnun died to save
France. A bit 'nearer was the Hols do
Montfnucon, tho charnel house 'of 1916.
To the right were the heights across tho
Mouse on which died countless Germans
trying to carry out the Crown Princes
desire to take' Verdun
VANDALS MUST PAY,
FRENCH PRESS URGES
Demands That Germany Re
pair or Replace Destruc
tion After the War
Sr.eaat Cuble to Evening Public Ledger
Cot'urtoht. lOtt. hi .Veie York TOiifs Co.
Purls Oct. 6.
The feeling of anger against the Her
mans for their deliberate and systematic
destruction of every town and village
from which they have been driven is
growing dally throughout France. Al
most without exception the French press
Is now perslsltntly calling on the Allies
to decide to make a Joint pronouncement
that they will take reprisals, town for
town, village for village, chateau for
chateau, church for church, property for
property.
Georges ncrthoulat. In the I.iberte this
evening, which Is only one of, many nows
papers urging this form of reprisals, ex
plains that tho policy he Is advocating
does not mean the destruction of n given
Herman town to atone for the destruc
tion of a given French town, but shall
be made to pay In money and labor the
ccst of rt constructing some given French
or Belgian town.
"France Is not going to carry out In
Oermany such devastations of the six
teenth century ns modern Germany Is
Inflicting In the twentieth," ho declared.
"Iltit she will oblige the destroyers and
burglars to repair, to restea-e or to re
place even stolen or destraMI art treas
ures. J
"The museums of Munich, Dresden and
Berlin are being considered as reservoirs
upon which we may draw. Such works
ns the l.aneret pastels at Sans Koucl,
for Instance, may be taken In replace
ment for the pastels of Fantjn la Tour
stolen from St. Quentln. The same pro
gram Is to be followed In regard to
furniture and In the manufacturing
plants.
"German labor, of course, will also
have lo contribute toward the Indemnity
to be paid by the State. The miners
of Uochum wilt be compelled to recon
struct I-ens and also Ortey, If that town
suffers the same fate, These thing'
must be said now, to save (hose of our
"are still under tbe boot of
Within our range of vision surely
history had been made, for there the
story of Verdun was written. Tho bat
Hi field between the forest of tho
Argonne nnd tho Mcuso limy bo en
titled, oerhaps, to rank ns tho most
vital battlefield of all' It lias not been
the scene of the sensational and spec
tacular ndvatieen In which ono side or
the other has swept forward In a day.
It has not been n field of maneuver,
hut rather the pivot upon which many
great battles of tho world have hung
or hinged
00 buck to 1014, when the Herman
hordes which were pouring down from
"the north faced the line on which Jorfro
fought the battle of tho Manic. In
that dlstnnt dny tho pivot of tho line
was the fortress of Verdun, which wns
surrounded on three t.lde", hut resisted
all Herman "ftorts to reduce It. In that
buttle French soldleri. some of them
lighting along the heights with their
backs to Henna nc, had tho most Im
portant part In turning the tide, al
though not so spectacular and perilous
as further west In front of Paris. But.
If the Hermans hnd got Verdun. If tho
Hermans had battered their path down
the Moselle Valley, would .Toffru hnvo
been able to win the battlo of the
Mnrne?
Verdun Trance's Harrier
1 he Hermans did not make another at
tempt on Verdun until 1U10, but the
world remembers the IDlii story of the
forest of tho Argonne and the valiant
though vain efforts of the French tn
throw the Hermans back In thnt Jungle
of death. It was In the Hols de Hiuerle
nnd about Vntinuols that tho bitterest
fighting took place. Names like Vnu
nuols. I.e Hurazoe, T.o Four do Palls,
and I.a Flllo Morle aro memories in
the breasts of all French fighting men,
and there Is Immense seiitlmentnl slgnl.
flennce to them In the American success
In the northern Alsno and tho Meuse.
Some of the bloodiest fighting of the
war occurred In lOlfi. In tho French cf
fort to drive tho Hermans from Vau
miols. which now Is In the doughboys'
hands.
It was the French purpose then to win
back the Important point of Montfaueon.
In the same year, the Hermans tried
vainly tn force their way on to tho
heights of St. Menehould nnd for n sal
lent to the west of Verdun similar to
the St Mihiel salient to the east. This
probably would have won Verdun for
them.
It will be remembered that the Crown
Prince started his attempts on Verdun
on February 2V. on the right hank of
the Meuse, nnd after terilflc fighting and
enormous losses, got to Forts Pouaumont
mid Vatix. and penetrated as far south
as Hie village of Floury, tho extreme
point of the Herman advance. On the
left bank of the Meuse Herman opera
tions did not begin until the month of
May. The object hero was to advance
the lines south to Join with Floury, then
capturing Dead Man's Hill and Hill 301.
The Crown Prince gained these two
strategic points, but got no further.
J.lne Htiitlmniry 1'nnr Years
it will be recalled In the fall of that
year the French began a counter-campaign
to free Verdun. In October Hen
era! Mnngln, now commander of tho
famed Tenth French army then n corps
commander, succeeded In retaking Forts
Douaumont and Vaux, then two battered
mounds of torlured earth. In December
an attack on a larger scale forced the
(lermatio back to about where they start
ed from In February, except on the left
tmnk of the Mcusc. Hill 301 and Dcnil
Man's Hill were retaken by the French
on August, 20, 1017, and the boche put
back on the Avocourt-Forges line, which
he held until the Americans hit him on
September 2C, 1018. That part of tho
Herman line running from Avocourt to
tho Argonne had been stationary vir
tually for four years until Uencral Per
shing went at It-
Defenvr System on Height
This line, ns It extends from the val
ley of the Aire to the Meuse. has been
reached by the Americans in tho vi
cinity of Hrieullcs. This system Is part
of tho general Herman derenso series
extending from Poual south to I.a Fere,
and thence east to tho Mouse. Across
tho Mouee It extends by way of Ktnln
to the vicinity of Pngny-sur-Moselle.
Reducing the St. Mihiel salient, the
Americans put the Hermans behind this
,inc between the Meuse and Moselle,
and now between tho Alsno and the
Meuse either on It or directly In front
of it. Between the Argonno and the
Meuso the enemy's main combat zone
wns bounded on the south by the lower
edge of the Hlndiiihurg line and on tho
north by the Kolkrr Stellung. running
thiough Hoiry. Kplnomllle and Mont
fnucon to the Mouse
NEW BATTLEFRONT
DRAWN ON DANUBE
Germans Will Have to With
draw Forces From Russia
to Hold Tt
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
CovurfaM, 10IK. by .Vrie Yorlt TImm Co.
I.undon, Oct fj.
The new Bulgarian fri.nt Is expected
by experts to be drawn along tho Dan
ube. At the moment neither tho Allies
nor tho,Central Powers have more than
enough forces available to establish such
a position, but there may be develop
ments at any time which will materially
modify the situation. Germany can only
defend the new line by tho withdrawal
of forces now In Ilussla. These consist
of thirty-three German and thirteen
Austrian divisions, and a large propor
tion of them in e understoojl to be of
anything hut first-class material. On
tho other hand, besides holding the new
line, the Allies will havo to clear up
Bulgaria and police It, and must keep
watch on the Turkish frontier,- unless
Constantinople decides to throw up tho
sponge.
The use of the Bulgarian army against
Its hereditary foe by the Allies, which
was hinted at In ofllclal announcements
.regarding tho armistice, has, the Kve.n
ino I'uiimc LEtann Is Infoimed, met
with criticism here on twa grounds:
first, that It would give Bulgaria a cer
tain claim for special consideration at
the peace conference, which tho Allies,
In view of her conduct of the last Tour
years, would be unwilling to recognize;
secondly, the feelings of the Greeks and
Serbs toward the Bulgarians are natur
ally greatly embittered, and they nre
unlikely to agree to fight side by side
with their traditional enemies. Con
sequently, whatever cperations the
Turkish situation demand must be un
dertaken by the British, French or Ital
ians now ln Macedonia. One of the
chief questions that would In that case
have to be considered would be; Can
Germany send re-enforcements cf any
kind to the Turks? She still has mentis
of communication with Constantinople
by way of Odessa and the Black Pea,
but It Is very doubtful whether t,ho has
any- troops she can bptte from Fritnce
DEEP IMPRESSION
MADEBYWIISON
Silence in Europe 01) Presi
dent's Speech Declared
Eloquent
UTTERANCES TIMELY
Such n
Keep
Leader
Motives
Needed
of Allies
to
Pure in Victory
Ity CHARI.KS II. OKASTY
Special Cable to livening Public Ledger
Comrtaht. tOIR. by .Vnu Vol k Time Co.
I'urK Oct. 5.
It Is Important tint the silence of
the Kuroprnn pi ess on the President')
New York address of last week should
not be misunderstood In America. It
doesn't mean that tho sentiments ho
expressed have passed unnoticed. On
the contrary, nothing could be .moro
eloquent Hum silence under the circum
stances. in the last few days I have, encoun
teteil many evidences of the deep Im
pression, both favorable and unfavor
able, made by the President. Many of
the soberest thinkers legard the pro
nouncement ns one of the most signifi
cant and potent ever made by Mr. Wll
lon. It was. accnidliig to these opinions,
ijot only the asserting of a gfeat ab
stract principle, but the President saw
how conditions wire shaping themselves,
and made tlnn ly and practical applica
tion of principle.
The President has expressed and
heartened the deep widespread feeling
thnt exists In Kiirnpc. But that la not
fully voiced by the press.
A man well Known In Kuropcitn public
life for his whilom and conservation,
said to me today:
"Piospentv lias lis dangers UK well ns
ndvert'lty. The world H fortunate In
having such a bailer as Wilson In stand
tip against I hose dangers from within
by which e shall be l'set lu the hour
of victory. Wilson has tho mighty
power of America behind him. He has
tho opportunity growing out of Europe's
need of that power against Herniany'8
iissnrlt He lias the detachment am!
perspective to limbic hlin to see Die sit
uation as a whole. And ho has the lin
di islanding to p, mtiato the vitals of the
Munition, and the cool courage to make
full use of all these advantages,
"Thoughtful elenicntB In Kurope wel
come the I'lcsidiiit's latest utterance as
showing thai he is not only n statesman
who can ptcuch, hut one who i-aii and
will in" when the time comes for action.
We want an end of militarism and Junk
erdom everywhere. Without dial result
our victory would bo an empty one.
"The Piesldent has raised the Issue at
the light lime and In tho right way.
He has n stated his peace conditions In
absolutely plain terms and Invited
Kurnpcan statesmen to an open discus
sion of them. With full publicity, F.U
ropenn opinion will support tho Piesl
dent's contentions, and they will pre
vail. "Meanwhile, the lines on which ho has
proceeded make for a completo defeat
of Herman militarism, as well us a bet-
ter understanding and unity among tho
Allies. There must be u thorough ping
ing to get ;uiilty of motive for the
great dav of Judgment, and the painful
ncss of that proems Is the measure of Its
need."
BRITISH FLIERS AID OURS
Pour Itiiinlis on Kiieiny Rail Lines
in Lorraine
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Cov-jrxaM. 191H. hv .Vfie York Tonrl Co.
T.ondon, Oct, 5.
British airmen have taktn part dur
ing the last week In the American oper
ations in Lorraine They made n spe
cial point of ntfarltlng vital enemy rail
way communications south of Luxem
burg. Thus in the twenty-four hours
ending at dawn, September 27, fifteen
separate inlds were carried out upon
the railway triangle at Metz-Sablon,
two upon the junction at Thlonvillc, two
upon the railway at Mczlercs, ono upon
Audi'.n-le-Iloinan, one upon Ars and two
tilioii the airdromes at Frcscatl, Flap
penviHo, near Metz.
Other British alnnen In the courso of
air fighting over northern France nnd
Belgium last week destroyed 11M enemy
machines, drove down foity-slx out of
control and shot down thirty-four Ger
man klte ballot ns In flames. Ninety
British inaclilnes vvim reported missing
last week.
HOPES FOR BULGAR SPLIT
German Paper Says Troops in
Sofia May Change Situation
Special Cable to livening Public Ledger
Coiwriu'it. 111. Ini Xtw 1 orfc rimes (79.
Tbe Hague. Oct. ",. Thu Cologne
Hnzette. ommenting on the Bulgarian
situation, says- "It remains to bo seen
Lhow the ICntente 'negotiations1 will bo
trcateu in nona, aim neriw urn iv.
sibillty of a split among the people.
The Local Arzelgrr says that the facts
must be confronted, as It Is evident
that tho Bulgarians havo deserted the
Central Powers although it Is not yet
easy to foretell how far a deflnlto situa
tion Is created for those powers and
Tnrkev. All the same, the paper con-
llmioM. Ibp lesult nf lhls act will havo
Important Influences on Balkan politics
(mil mllwt be F.erlnllslv ennslderod. Bul
garia, It pioeeeds. no longer has n right
to consldeiatlon, and H.i Teuton troops
must be slowly withdrawn.
The paper asserts that military events
may still change in spite of the political
decisions, and that the last word Is not
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Little news has been given lately by
the ofllclal communiques ni- to what la
really going on upon the American front
east and west of Verdun, but this may
be regarded lu tho unturc of things.
Tho situation of the American troops
In thii' region Is looked upon here as
distinctly paradoxical. From Pont-n-Mousson
to the outskirts of Verdun thcli
front faces almost directly northeast lo.
ward Ktnln, tho Ilrley ore llelds and
Metz. Abovo Verdun they occupy a sub
stantial stretch of the left bank of the
Meuse as far as the nnith of Ilriullles
nniMool; due cast across the river to tho
enemy, who holds? the opposite bank of
tho stream. Westward fioin this point
tho American front faces, roughly speak
ing, duo north, to where It Joins up with
General Hourarn's fiout on the left.
But for tho rampart afforded by the
Mcusc this situation might be regarded
ns somewhat risky. The experts here
are delighted to see that after their mag
nificent bound forwnid of twelve to thir
teen miles nlong the western bank of
tho Meuse, tno American (loops havo
been satisfied to restrain their ardor and
settle down steadily to consolidate their
new positions despite counter-attacks on
their own side of the liver and heavy
bombanimentn, Including i substantial
proportion of gas shells, from the Her
man batteries c't the opposite bank.
The hardest nut the Americans have
lo crack nt present Is on their front
between Verdun nnd Ponl-n-Mnusson.
Here they nro facing a complex and
powerful mats of formications by which
tho Germans have protecttd their most
valuable frontier foi tress of Metz and
even more valuable Iron field from
which comes a MiHt proportion of tbe
oro that nlono enables them to continue
to carry on the war.
The first of these defenses, apart
from a labyrinth of advanced trenches
and hundreds of acies of hat hod wire,
consist of n lone continuous lino of for
tified works of great strength, starting
from Aznitncs to the noith of Bezon
vaux on the outskirts of Verdun, and
running by Rtan. Ilarvllle, I nehausso.
Charey, Itcmboi court, and Preney to
Vaudlercs, where. It hooks shaiply
round to tho westward till It ends at
Vlllers.
The object of this hook at the end
Is to flank the positions at Vlttonvlllc
ind Chninprey on tho opposite bank of
tho Moello Just north of Pont-a-Mnus-son.
It is before this powerful lino
that the Americans are at present mark
ing tlmo before they succeed In forcing
It; as the Hlndenbuig line has been
forced further north, they will be faced
with what Is virtually thrco other lines
of strongly fortified irasltlons on which
the Germans have been expending nn
enormous amount of care and labor
during the last four years.
They nro virtually three lines, be
cause these positions are not entirely
continuous They begin with tho forest
of Mnuglentio, north of Azannes, which
has hfcn converted Into n fortress re
sembling lloutholst wood, which the
Kngllsli and Belgians carried a few
days ago.
Then there is the final main lino of
defense coming from Verny, duo south
of Metz, crossing the .Moselle just below
Noveant nnd running duo north outside
the belt of twenty-five forts which pro
tect Metz and away up lu front of
Thlonville and beyond other supplemen
tary fortified positions cover Longwy,
tho French Pittsburgh, and Longuyon,
which has been In German hands slnco
the beginning of the whr.
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lien to them at lindlzeelle, northwest of
Mi'tiin. a few days ago.
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It with a whlilwind bombardment. They
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managed to get away safely
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Yesterday morning, when t vvot.t
up from llelleligllseund llllllcouit and
nlong tho great tiinncl, where tho
Scheldt goes underground for several
miles, there was heavy gunning or.
the left by Gouy nnd Lo Cntelot uml
In the direction- of Mont lirchaln nnd
llctturcvolr, where there vvus fierce
fighting Wednesday, cot.tlnulng
throughout the night and resumed to
day, A famous Kngllsli division added to
their record by capturing 2000 moro
prisoners at Wlancourt nnd In the
outskirts of Mont Urchatn, whore they
lmd heavy fighting. It wns probably
some of these men I saw marching
back yesterday morning, shortly after
dawn, whet, the mists were white on
tho field nnd trees on tho skyline
above tho canal were faintly penciled
fn it gray tiky, llko masts of ships
In u sea fog.
The Marks of Defeat
Thiough this grayuess and high
Uilstlcs that grow between shell crat
ers nnd trenches, came n long column
of Germans, guarded by n few men
with fixed bayonets. I watched them
as they passed from the b.ittlclliic In
their long, gniy overcoats ami field
raps. Only a few wore their camou
flaged shrnpnel helmets, and tiere and
there was a man without any kind
of headgear. Later In the day I saw
another column of nbout COO. without
overcoats, having left their lino It a
grout hurry. An ofllcer with mo said:
"It looks llko defeat. Kvcry day ono
sees such numbers of piisoncis com
ing buck. Truly. It looks like the
break-up of nn army,"
Vet Hip enemy Is lighting hard now
for his ISc-uircvnlr line, lomvvlng that
if ho loses he loses ever.vlliluK that
can lie called a line uiilll he goes much
farther back. It was no easy lighting
for our men Thursday, i.or any easlet
yesterday. Kngllsli and Scots of the
Thirty-second Division, who retook be
ittiehart, which had nlrcutly been In
our hunds twice, were violently cntin-tcr-nttlicked,
but succeeded In 1 outing
off these nttiicks. It was the Second
Australian Division which broke the
Hoaurcvolr line west nnd southwest
of that village, working forward with
the nld of tanks, which were handl
caiipod bv bad ground ur.d water, to
the outskirts of Mont Urobilin.
Fight Ahead Willi Masks
On the eastern sldo of the vlllago
of Kstrees, tho enemy had pill-box
fortresses, from which thero came
sl.ishlnu- machine-gun lire, nnd tho
Australians wero checked there for
six hours until, by dogged efforts,
thev overpowered the place and cap
tured 1100 men In a concrete shelter.
AVhilo they wero outside it they were
bombarded by gas shells, which la a.
horrible method of fighting, and they
had to wear their masks, but would
not go back because of that. They man
aged to get to tho cast of Wluncoutt
ai.d to the west oi ueauiuvoir unu
held their ground during tho night,
while Kngllsh troops wero thrusting
back a cpuntcr-blovv, which made
them withdraw from Mont Urobilin,
Into which they had penetrated during
tho day.
This village was mined nnd there
wero two explosions while our men wero
lu the streets and fighting different bat
talions of no fewer than nine differ
ent divisions. Thfl enemy was on hghcr
ground than the Kngllsh and Australian
troops and was able to get an enfilade
llro from ono position to another, so
that for a 'time the situation at Mont
Brehaln, vvhero our men were fighting
from 10 o'clock In the morning until
G In the ctenlng, became untenable,
On tho left of them, arobnd Le Catc
let and Gouy. some Kngllsh battalions
who had taken these places by most
desperate endeavors wero having nag
ging fighting In the trenches and ruins
which form part of tho old Illndenburg
lino beyond the canal, and yesterday
morning this continued without much
progress, although somewhat to their
l Ight other comrades of theirs were able
to make ground, toward Ponchaux and
Beaurevolr.
Foe Mlr!lnneoii Crowd
Against them wero a miscellaneous
crowd of Germans, Including Guards,
Grenadier nnd reserve regiments and
tablo service.
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oinns
tho Forty-sixth. Sixty-sixth, Klghty-sev-euth
nnd Ninety-sixth Itescrvo Infantry
regiments, while south of them the Thirty-fourth
Herman Dlviskui, with scrnp
Ings from depots nnd ofllces. cook houses
and camps, wero hurried up to counter-attack
our men when they were
exhausted nfter long fighting.
So, for some hours, the Herman re
sistance has been stiffened and they
havo been nble to keep us in check,
Tt cannot be for long, I Imagine, be
rouse there Is no doubt the enemy Is
In depenile inlriills for reserve strong
enough to make n firm stand, nnd what
I vnw lodiiy Is renl proof (hut there nre
no linen abend of. us now which our
men cannot break If they have the fresh
nps and niinibern nnd lire not toed Sip
by tno long n period of fighting, foV
men who ruptured (be further bunk of
the Si hehlt Ctinnl enn take ntij thing
and hrratiftc' the Hermann eould not hold
tliU line, the' enn hold no line.
1 went nlong a great length of It to
day, nnd was astonished thnt our men
could get across with such llttlo loss.
It has steep banks 9nto 100 feet high
on each tide of the canal, cutting high
and dry by Belllngllse, but with five
or six feet or moro of water twenty
yards wide between that village and
Ilclllcnurt. Somo miles away, when It
goes Into the tunnel, It Is perfectly pre
pared for defense with communication
trenched leading from tho lower ground
beyond to high banks, where machine
gun and field-gun emplacements were
having n perfect Held of fire should any
men ho rash enough to iidviinco over
tho rldgo to the western bank. Our
men were rash enough, and ovef the
canal aro bridges of planks on which
they passed and, In the water, rafts on
which thej' floated.
"The old bocho ought to have defended
n position llko this to tho crack of
doom," said ono of our olllcers this morn
ing, and, Indeed, It was only the mar
velous courage of our men, favored by
tho dense while fog, which achieved this
crossing of the Scheldt Canal. In tlmo
of pence It must have been a pleasant
place, with steep banks clothed with
undergrowth and by a long straight vista
of watir, which goes suddenly into the
hillside.
None of Yser's Horror
Kvcn now It has none of that grim
horror which haunts the Yser Canal,
and bomo of the Australians there to
day hauling buckets of water to tho
crest of the high banks seemed to be In
x picnic mood and sang as they worked,
though there was bloody fighting just
up on 'tho left by Houy, and German
shells were crumpling the neighboring
ground, and there was a bald sky, more
prolonged and moro intense than any
thing I have seen slncu tho fighting in
Flanders last year.
Geiman airmen wero audacious .and
somo nf their best lighting scouts were
out above tho Sheldt Cnnnl watching
our activities and prcpailng for any new
menace preparing against them. Our nlr
patrol challenged them tn slnplo fights
and tourneys, or "dog flghtsr' as our
flying men call them without romance,
and there was a constant chatter of
machine guns overhead and tho noise
of many engines, and nur squadrons
camo sailing up and more hostile air
craft nppeared from tho clouds.
From behind the British lines, many
thousands of men stared up at this
sky battlo and thero was furious work
by our antiaircraft guns. One after an
other. In less than two minutes, two air
planes' camo crashing to earth poor,
broken things. Out of one a body fell,
swaying so lightly that I think It must
havo been fustcned. to a parachute, but
ho other fell like a rocket.
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So, In the sunlight which had now
broken through th mist, thero was
Bivlft tragedy llko a stab at the heart,
but that way of death was better thin
another way which I saw when I went
Into the tunnel where tho water goes
under tho hill. This tunnel Is flv miles
long, but I wnlked only ft little way
through It. It was pitch dark, without
tho tiniest glimmer nf light, so that Its
blackness was like velvet on one's eyes.
By a pocket torch I could see a y"
ahead, .and flashed It over tho black
water of the canal, vvhero thero were
many big, old, wooden barges.
Hero many Germnn's were hidden ,
until they were routed out, and, after
thnt, when a pnrty of Australians ad
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they had discovered the ghoulish work
of boiling down German bodies for their
grense, and because It Is likely to spread
to tradition I must tell tho truth of It.
"Kailaver AnMndt" Unreal
III a cavern, oft the main tunnel were
two hollers and around nbout them I
saw tho bodies of German soldiers and
Inside the hollers were bits of bodies.
What moro was wanted as evidence of
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tale, because I don't think nny men In
tho world would bo vile enough ,to do
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