,v- EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILAkELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, iois P m .' WAX DRIVE FOE UPON fXTAL TRIANGLE . 5V Cminating Battle of War sMay BcFouglit on Meusc $ REACTION IS WEAK Germans Virtually Without Reserves as Foch Rains Relentless Blows By WALTER DURA.NTY Hy G. II. PKRIUS Special Cable to Evening Public LedgcrSpecial Cable to Evening Public Ledger Covtrrlaht, lit, tv S'tu) York Ttmts Co. Cowrloht, mif. by .Vrir York 7imr, re. With the I'renrli Armlr, Oct t. "Sambre nnd Mouse" the title of a famous French marching- ennir In the watchword of the Allied effort today. The' Irresistible pressure of Koch's armies Is forclnir the Hermans back upon the fatal triangle where the culmlnatliiR battle of the war may take place. On the extreme left the drlw of tho British, French and HclKlans Is aimed direct at Mons. On the rlRht the Ameri can and French, pushing toward Sedan and tlxleres. are. steadily drllne the boches before them toward the ron'on between the Sambre and .Meine The future Is biff with promise, for as the battle progresses the Incrrailns weak ness1 .of the German reaction becomes apparent. Germany Is now suffering from the Inherent taults of I.udendorff's strattuy In the spnnff nnd early summer, and the superiority of Koch's methods of at tack subsequently. l.udendorft had promised victory by the use of shock divisions formed by emasculation of the rest of the army Attacks after attack Tras pushed home to the point of ex haustion, but always the Allies weto ablq to bar the road ere It was too late. Yoch fllies No Respite Finally Foch Judged the Germat. army to be sufficiently exhausted and struck In turn. Since then the enemy has ljad no respite. Instead of Intermittent j onenaive. ium.-ni-u .tin-, iuiik prep.ua- ouis anu oiiservaiones, uunips ami uress tlon, the Allied attacks have -been con-1 Ing stations Children of the tropic tfnuous. The dispirited Germans in , with black or vellnw faces and gleaming hom a victorious end of the war has , beeri promised before August, have b.'on i hammered Incessantly Salient after , salient created has bitten holes In their -.,! .! ta.na. rf Ifitnf M.mni.11,.1 ...l.l- VUIIO nilU owv.tv. u 1 ....I.. V Wit, LTIII.I .11,11' sna-costly retirement. Kvcn now. after the 'Laon pocket has been reduced, there ' .. h..n n Hntt-a In fh .laam... It.... I.. the region between the Olse and Serro j and another equally dangerous north of I Ll" , While the Allies have been ndviinelrn? viciously In'the T north, te pressure of ' the Krench In the center and the Amen. ! Cans on the right prevents the enemy from transferring troops to the point most; threatened. . Already on October 10 It was known that- the Germans had at the outside twelve fresh divisions as a total stra tegic reserve. Perhaps as many more were Being' refitted behind the lines. tiUt thesA will he Inrv-itvitila fn n - three-Weeks to take an active part In the battle. In the last five days the demand fop supports must have been tremendous Mil 1 1 iM hflPfl.np.alall ttarmnn n....... ...l ..,,. .. ,...-.,,. ........... ,.,,,, ,m roaay mere can be but dregs In the I ; bottom of the reserve bucke' I V Ko less serious Is the shortage of ma- 3rlal. Numerous canture.i nni.r. i, I ,'?Sltness to the lack of munitions. The I ofds "strictest economy" recur ith : nlnoug frequency. Though manv nr. .1 ,. ... fcl ba"ery5rom """ hr-c In many . cases. In three months the Allies haw ! destroyed or captured more than 5000 I cannon a full nuarter of the intii ,.. iiiery unus nave tieen actually sun- ..". -...... . .- Teased, It hna. nevertheless, been niso'11"" tlmt wlth cloudci1 e'es and har- ecessary to reduce the number of cima I rowed memory. unery lorce or Germany. At the same i""0"" '""-. " ""' t-'-' " time the forced "combing out" of work- that "ny ho"taK'a K"e ,aken nway ' men from the factories has serlouslv ln ,1,e f!frm"n "font. Twenty-four n lowered production, and this wenkne-n , habitants, twelve being men nnd twelve ' ., - . " " K,u ,,ronound ""1 da"- i ' w ttt , ., i "" ,ne Pretext that France had slmllar Jiardly less Important are the ennso. ! lv taken Alsatian hostages. Ilv nn ar- L nutrtf rf U. ..l.l..t.n...n I - ... i Lj ,i ,.! . """u'"" m uie uon A. S Hitherto the enemy position In -France gave him "inside' llnu nt rAm.U,tv..tPiniA,i wnn.. t-mi Anrit monlcatton. The Allies, attacking con-I The Mayor. Senator Ilermant. was re oefatrlcally, could be met by n displace-' moved on Saturday, not as a hostage, ment of troops over an Infinitely smaller but on the pretext that he must give area. Now the lammim- n .v. i , . .- ..t.. .... i..i,in ... i. i. v 1- i iiucnes -xck upon virtually the sole two good Sv , " ,' communication that remain . Trill Mlronn nvwl v.,l..n. ., - , .tici iciiuers ag- rcBsive reactions upon anything but u local scale. Impossible. Add to all this the Inevitable dismay .spreading; throughout the army In con sequence of the total discredit of the 'militarist party. The last ray of hone on i, r . horizon was an attemnt to divM. n,. Allles by an appeal for an armistice ' v.i """on ha nullified It utterly i ,U!1 famine. That most of them nre othlng remains to save the enemy from ! "I've Is duo to no mercy or ndmlnis dtsaster or complete surrender. In the ' trntlv capacity of the German army, opinion of many military experts. lUt to the committee and to It alone . and this should be never forgotten. nrwniT tt miminm... ' The Invaders have simply used this phll- KfcVULT IN CHEMN1T7 I nnthroplc work, together with their sys- V,","",J' tern of requisition, taxation and tines, to ni-mnn T:.. r .. ,r. i, - produce hand labor without cr.st to Oermani'riBOIier 8 Letter Tells of ! themselves while they were sucking out Trouble in Soxntiv I all the natural or accumulated wealth Special Cable to Evening Public Ledgerl Copvriaht. isjs, bv ,Vru Vorfc Time. fn. With the. Amerlran Army In t'runre, Oct, 17, A letter dated October 9. taken from a Oerman prisoner, contains the following: ,'I'aul wrote me that he was on his way to Macedonia. He wrote from TtMaah ...V.A.A L. ..... ,. , . t; ji 'l:'c e nan ueen ueiayeu no uiu pot Know wneiner on account of pay In municipal notes. Then, under the peace rumors or on account of thelpietense of continuing the French taxa revolution which has broken out In ! tlon and on tho old scale, the whole wnemmu. i WOULD OCCUPY BERLIN Ki Mr A. L.onan Uoylc bavs It Is M ., Absolutely Necessary & Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger I r : ,W,,'M "'" b Vru' Vork Timet Co. .'London. Oct, 17. Sir Arthur Conan Hr.ally, the people have been com Bedde writes to your corresjiondent: Pelled to sell to the Germans, always . -yjn answer to your question, the oc- for nearly worthless paper, their cush CUtftatlon of Berlin Is an absolute neces- Ions, copper utensils and other articles ty, as otherwise the legend of German i particularly wanted, and they have been KilllUry Invincibility will persist and the "" ubole qoestlon will come up again, Wo not weaken at the last moment," IfORTHERN RUMANIANS RISE JrNisiinuta in Several Districts jCtiwh With Austro-Gcrmans t My tht Aisociated Prets Oct, 17 Outbreaks against the have occurred In northern Itu 'the province of Moldavia, says to me journal from Zurich. sis tlon suddenly assumed an lite atiuuae to ine German secerdlng to the advices, i kir' wjr of Bucharest. 1 jtonBts. tjwe have been 9.mmf t Hwwantan WAR ROLLS PAST HALLOWED FIELD Laon. Region Memorial to Heroic Dead of Other Battles YOUTH FILLS ROADS Stream of Soldiers Pours On ward Through Old Trenches, hy Old Dugouts With the Kfenrh Armln, Oct 17, Ktery man Rolnir up by I.aon on the Kronen front on the Ferre must pass over tho Alsne helfthts nnd then down across the Allettc nnd the cannl and through that wooded alley beside the black buttress of the St. Gnhaln mnsslf. This countrjslde, for four years the cornerstone of the German fortifications In France, can now be seen as n whole, and I doubt whether In any of the thea tres of war there Is a landscape In which i yn much of horror Is held In a settlnR so . brilliant. Seen from a distance on eh her side from the south bank of the Marne or the north bank of the Allette, the two valleys nnd hills beyond are masses of arled color, for the woods hne put on their brlshtest autumn dress. Across them from tho south to the north flows the torrent of the French advance, a double line of trnlllo which constantly Kets tied up In little knots that are un raveled with wonderful speed. Field (runs on motor lorries and heavier pieces with their caissons Jolt Ins over the broken roads, columns of marching Infantry, nmhulance cars, wagons full of provisions, not only for the army hut for the liberated' popula tions all Is like the Immense trek of a host advancing Into dessert. Urine stories i:ndeil The stream (lows slowly through Ml Inir.s smashed to chalky rubble, through old trenches and wire fields, by old dug- eyes, watch It. Old territorials watch I it. In Intervals "f their roan menillng. losts left behind to clear up tho litter of the battlefield watch the youngsters .ntni, ti.t liru.al,. In llPlftPI' n Oil A n I tl U1. Ul, ..(...v,., .w ,..--., ...... ......... The story of the Chemin-dcs-Mames. "f l-i Faux nnd Mnlmajson. of the vast Vnnl lnrn:IK I'MVprn. where t MlPUt a momentous day last Christmas, of the ! slopes where we were chased by boche n'rnien. the sttr of ('raonne and llurte- b se, It closed It and its deeds of valor i "d humble, silent sacrifices ate things J of the past, a part of history that will shine in the records For the moment It Is eclipsed, but I think that when this bright sun sets the neighborhood woods lose their colors nnd traits of the war fall dim nnd cold, then the ghosts of the dead will walk en wire will not hinder, nor poisonous odors disturb I'acm. There Is no longer i even a sign pot to show where, among me cieep craiers, iniue tan in- ..,.,. o Way. but they will know. Let us leave It to them tnls Golgotha between two ..,. ., ..,.... I, I, """"":. V"",V "ll , , , ., ln " ls for me Indescribable foul- nesa nn1 oi'l'ression. to ho for all time le-on to mankind. And some day. for tno'0 whn cannot come so far to l,ilrn' " "Fw "''me may nim i' I ,0 l,ut ,nto """rtny words tno pic- ! tures from which I turn away for the , .,Mna ft...... .I'l.lnl. T iM.n llWilV fnf thA J "a" ". " ' " '"J1 ?Z ml I '1,at tno cood f,lk of ' n '. I ft,,out ,helr four yenTS martryilom. These things should be told with scru- I ....at....!.. T lD ..n. nv,.., r I anj the German7lmerncd the Vnen in , T1......I,. .i tu inin llnltviiilmlon ' 4fcU-TiV HIIU me wiiicti i uuimimmivii. ..... ., rniwratnt signed tiy iierne, inese ex-i lies were either returned to I.aon or I . .ill Hceouill Ol tun niuaiusini n, m.- Amirlcan relief committee As he could l do that as well as at Paris, It Is evl- 1....... . . ueni mat tne real reason was 10 pre vent him from speaking to his country men. Three hundred mobllliable men were also taken, and presumably arc now working for their captors, or are In prison camps. Had It not been for the noble work of tho American relief committee, the people of Laon. as of all the Invaded re- glons, would long ago have suffered ac nroadrythi' system was this- First. the population was. as far as possible. compelled by petty persecution to change It" French coin or notes Into German Paper money; but there Is still gold In, Ijion, and even a little German gold. I I Next the able-bodied were called, under j , pressure of flues, to labor at a pittance ...... , . . vvnicn tno municipality was required to community was subjected to levy, os- tentibly to pay the costs of the Ger man administration, though In a civil ser.rc, there wns no administration, no public service, no social organization and no protection. The municipality has had to Issue several millions of francs of paper money on Its own credit tor ,hee ,url". Fined Without Cuue . subject to various punitive Impositions, For Instance, the town was twice fined 123,000 because aviators had thrown Ixjiubs on it, Why have houses, shops and even large cavalry barracks not been destroyed, while many neighbor ing farm buildings have been fired or blown up partly Travelers by the Calais route to Switzerland will remember that Laon Is kltunted on a lonely hill, It fell simply by threat of envelopment, There was no fighting In the town, where only a hundred Oerman soldiers remained, and It was not bombarded by either army. There could b, therefore, no m'lltary excuse for Its destruction. It may be also that the threat of reprisals has had some effect. The Oerman mind li, a ctuter thing-, and I do not pretend a aoli!n It. 4 L. i no r SINKING 4he KAISER U. S. ADVANCE MENACES FOE'S LINE OF RETREAT Germans Ordered to Hold Argonnc Line at All Costs. Safety of Main Forces at Stake Hy KDWIN Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Cawrtoht. lOir, by .Vetr York Tlmm fa. With the American Arm) In 1'runce, net. IT In consideration of the German re cUet for an nrmlstlee one may consider on r. large scale the slttialion of the Ger- mini military forces nnd the present mlli- .rv .tuntlon w'th r.i-ard to their with- drawal. umnoWted or otherwise, from the great salient, cr, 111 other words, that part of the western front from the sea to the Meuse ltlver, which means troops which nre now occupying Helglum and northern France. One may well look lln(.s wh,ch urB ' ... ,.i more or .ess necessarily correlated with withdrawal facilities. First, one must r cognize that In the withdrawal of supply the railroads pln a primary role. The German army as an army cannot be withdrawn from France aud llclglum, nor can It be sup- plied where It Is. except by the use of railroads. If the Germans had twice th(1 mllnl),ra ot toi,it.rs and trucks they now have they could ot withdraw with. out railroads. The German front from the Meue to the sea may be divided from the stand point of commun'cntlons Into three sec tors. The first extends from tho sea to the south of Mile. This sector is served by railroads clearing through Brussels. The second stctlon reaches from foutu r i,Ie to I.aon. nnd this - vl by railroads through Xnmur. , . , . . , ,i The third sector, from I.aon to the jIt.uk naM communications clearing through Mezicres. Hut .Seek of ll.it t lr- I.ooklng at the camp one Mes that the Holland bounuary makes a big sweep .iniithn-ninl tnrnlnn nnrili frnm T.lff) nuuui"mu( tuiiiinb it in Bv. Looking south from the Holland bound ary one finds that about seventy-live - .., . miles brings one within .gun range of the Allied artillery. Oureforo one has something of a bottle, with a large mouth, but nevertheless, a bottle. Through this wide mouth pass the Ger man supply communications nnd al-o lines by which the rorces must .vlth draw whether In compliance with terms of an armistice or before Koch's troop. Look at the transportation map and you will see that there Is In thh mouth two great arteries of communication. Ono runs along the northern rim of the mouth through Llego. The other runs through Luxemburg. The lines of com munication through Ilrussels and through Namur. nerving the German front from the sea to Laon. jas through Mege. The lines of communi cation serving the German front from Laon to the Meuse pass through Lux emburg. Hetween Luxemburg and Liege there are no Important railway lines, and the Germans must get out of Del glum and France by these gateways, looking closer at tho German coin- Nursing Mothers There Is nourishment for two In ITordtn's Malted Milk. It builds up your own vitality and in creases Nature's food supply for tho litUe one. Easy to digest In fact, already, partially pred Ijrested. Pure, pal- atable, Invigorating, m!f on Jlordtn'i, n iquart packagct only. MALTED MILK 1 I MET ''"Vl 1 I 'Sdzurl llfeggggsa i "H"' i 'i riB sg mi I nni SCf tusTOUAurr j o X. I lauoti'atsebM M Ij j J Jf'li'JHIL. THE WAR AS SEEN BY SOLDIERS ' L. JAMES munlcatlon system us Involved In the uesent military operations one sees that if the railroad lines through Luxem burg, the main line sweep south from the capital of the duchy passing to branches; one through Stenay and the ither through Montmedy. only n few kiioinetirs apart, to Mezleres. from which branches there are roads to vari ous points. It Is true the Germans have a good line from Mezleres to Xnmur. but this In turn loads all trnlllo that way on to the Liege gateway. That this Is 1111 Important factor Is slyivvn by the fact that a great proportion of the German supplies has been passing the western wing front through the Stenay line V. . Menaeei Stenny The American First Army Is at llrl- Uilles. about twelve miles from Stenay, ind Is going ahead slowly but none the 'ess surely. This ,of Itself, threatens the cutting of the main line to Mezleres. lint, more Important, the French In the Champagne are some twenty-five miles fiom Mezleres. the capture or even eff'ctlve long-range bombardment of which would absolutely paralyze the German supply communication by rail to the front from the Laon region to Ihe Mouse. To take away rail I'om- munlcatlons from this sector would mean that the Germans would have to re llie between Laon and the Mouse. Put this Is not nil. A glance at the map shows that retirement from this sec tor would leave a dangerous sharpened allent from tho sea to the Laon vicin ity, and In the opinion of experts this could not bold. In other wonK It Is not nn over optlmlstlo statement that the taking or control by fire of Mezlen s would put the Germans out of France. In this connection It must be borne In mind that the advance of the First American Army Is considered essential to the reaching of Mezleres. Taking Into consideration the question of German withdrawal one army with supplies nnd equipment would have but one gateway, Liege, by which to go home. Captured German documents and other vldenco make It iTfcctly plain that the German commands look at the sit uation ln Its teal gravity. An order Issued October 1 calls on the German troops In front of the Americans to hold ut all costs, because of the danger to the Longuyon-Stenny-Sedan-Mezleres railway, "the most lmiortnnt artery of the western army." Hecause of a reali zation of the gravity of the situation tho Germans have thrown the firmest possi ble resistance against the First Ameri can Army, making the task assigned to Pershing's men the toughest ono on the whole western front. Future of Germany ut Stnke If the Americans should try to rrach and should succeed In tnklng .Stenay nnd A personal offer to those who fear Spanish Influenza M AS PER. WILHELM'6 REVISED COMMANDMENTS Montmedy, or In getting them under full gun range, or If the French should try to and succeed In taking Mezleres, the Germans would Utetnlly be In a bottle, with Llego as the mouth. Would hat gateway be capable of supplying the millions of men Germany has ln Kranco or Hclgluni, or would It bo npilblc of handling a fotced withdraw il? German actions would Indlcnto they believe It would not. 1 have, said that the French nre twenty-llvo miles from Mezleres nnd the Americans some twelve miles from Stenay. which means nbnut fifteen miles from Montmedy. On the front In this direction nre arrayed the Fourth French rmy and tho First American Army. The Klist American Army Is nstrlde the last organized defense system the boche has between It nnd a Hue running di rectly before the Mezleres-Montincdy po dlton. We are either beyond ni on the Krlemhlld-Stellung on the entire front of the Klrst American Army. The Vmerlcaus nre up against this line on the positions to which the Germans rc Ired nfler our reduction of the St. Mihlel Fiillent. The German reserves nre about exhausted, whllo American re serves nre fnr from exhausted. The First. Fifth nnd Third German armies nre before the First Amerlcaln army, n'gnlnst which General von Per Marwltz, according to a captured order. demands successful resistance on which "the future, of Germany perhaps de pends." The stnte of mind shown In tho on Per Marwltz order explains the frantic resistance of the Germans opposing our advance. As nfl Instance of this fnct, the enemy has used four or five Prussian Guard divisions, the flower of the Ger man army, ngalna the First American Army. It has been explained that our advance llueatens the railroad which Is the feeding point for the German front from the vicinity of Laon eastward be yond the Meuse. Crippling of the trans portation In this great sector would Im peril the whole German front. Will Fight All the Way When we attacked on September 26 we hit the Hlndenburg line. In bloody fighting we have driven the enemy back to the second line of defense, the Krlem blld line, which Is now pierced In , num ber of places. The third line of defense In this sector runs from Stenay to Sedan nnd thence south to Mezleres. When the Prltlsh broke through the German sec ond line In the west the enemy at once fell back toward another line. Hut to fall back to the Stenay-Sednn-Mezleres lino before our armv would place Mezl ores under easy fire of our artillery. Knowing the vital Importance the Ger man command attaches to the Argonne Meuso sector, it Is believed the boche In tends to fight desperately nit the way back to his third line of defense. It Is Interesting to make certain com parisons between the German resistance In the Cambral sector nnd In the Ar-gonne-Meuso sector. When we nttnckod on September 20. between the Alsne and the Meuse, the Germans had four divi sions In line on this batttlefront. Since then they have had thirteen whole divi sions nnd equipment ot two more divi sions, making a tota'l of fifteen extra divisions, of which eight were fresh nnd two were rushed from the Champagne front, despite Important progress being made there by Ihe French Fourth Army. On the Cambral front the enemy had In line twenty-six divisions when the Prltlsh and French started their attnek, which the boche expected, Since then the enemy has thrown In thlrty-four dl visions, nine of which were fresh. ANY doctors are urging the use of a soothing antiseptic like Kondon's for inside the nose and head. I want to make it easy for folks to get this relief. HEREFORE, I hereby au thorize any druggist to let you have a 30c tube of "Kondon's" on the under standing that if you don't think it is worth many time3 that to you, you may re turn your tube to the druggist and get your money back the druggist to collect said refund from me. Signed Thomas N. Kenyan, Owner KONDON'S jcearhal MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA ,iy . 1 1 MAURICE SEESNO NEW SEDAN NEAR General Believes There Is No Likelihood of Im mediate Collapse TEUTON DEFEAT SURE Expert Points Out Difficulty in Cutting Off Large Force on Wide Front Ily MAJ. GEN. SIR FREDF.niCK B. , MAURICE Termer Director of Operation of the Ilrltlsh Army Special Cable to Evening Public. Ledger Covurloht, uis, ly AVtc l'orfc Time Co, London, Oct. 17. The excitement fit the last few days has led not unnaturally to some exag gerated views of the military position On the western front. That position Is ex traordinary favorable, but we do not Improve It by overestimating the chancen In our favor. Tho Germans havo given us a lesson In tho dangers of exaggeration, which It behooves us nit only to remember, but to mark nnd learn. There has been talk of cutting oiY whole German nrmles, of nnother nnd greater Sedan, but I confess that I cannot see any Immediate likelihood of n military cataclysm overtaking the German armlci In the west. As a result of Sir Douglas Hnlg's vic tory of October 8, the Germans have been compelled to withdraw to the Humllng nnd Krlemhlld lines, just as by his victory of August 8, they were compelled to retreat to the Hlndenburg line This second retreat has not yet been qulto completed and already the Americans north of Verdun nre break ing tho Krlemhlld line. The French at Solssnns are breaking Into tho Hund Ing line, while at Le Cateau nnd Solmes they are menacing the northern exten sion of the Hundlng scystem. It Is ex tremely doubtful then, whether the Ger mans will be able to remain long In this new refuge. Hut, on the whole, their withdrawal has been well carried out. They have been counter-attacking fiercely on the Selle, and there Is no sign that their fighting spirit has been broken though It certainly has been sensibly weakened. Plflleult to Cut On" Large Force It Is n very difficult problem to cut off any considerable portion of forces numbering 4,000,(100 men who are de ployed on n continuous front presenting no flanks open to attack, when the enemy finds that owing to the great Allied drive forward part of his troops are left In an awkward salient, he can, by making uso of tho great delaying powers of modern weapons, protect the flanks of tho snllcnt long enough to enable him to get his troops out of It with more or less loss ln men nnd ma terial. His nrmles, being strung out on a very wide front, can use for re treat every road nnd every railway be hind them, nnd there arc many rail ways not shown on tho ordinary maps which he has made since the beginning of tho war. Jn these circumstances Sedans are hard to come by. None tho less, the military sltuntlon ls one of great prom ise, because the foe's power of meeting attnek everywhere along his front has gone, nnd Foch s power of attacking everywhere Is Increasing almost dally. We havo evidence of this In the recent changes which have been made In the grouping of the Allied forces. The First American Army, which Crisp Fall Days Turn Thoughts to the Pressing Need for New (and good) Winter Clothing M sbbbWCZJ V of f $35 And Wanamaker & Brown's Woman's Shop is Ready With the Supply COATS, suits, dresses and furs at lower figures than they can be found elsewhere in order to increase our ever growing circle of good friends and customers who make it a point to visit Sixth and Market Streets because they can save money. THE SUIT SHOWN IN CUT NO. 1 AT $35.00 is of Delhi doth. A tailored model with back plaited and belted. - The skirt is plain, being1 very handsome in its severity and simplicity. Buttons to match, inlaid velvet collar. Browns, taupes, navys and plums, a very handsome suit at a very moderate price. THE DRESS SHOWN IN CUT NO. 2 AT $29.75 is-richly embroidered and fringe trimmed. It has a panel back and can be worn with or without belt. It is of navy blue serge and is in very strong demand. IN CUT NO. 3 THE SUIT SHOWN AT $37.75 is of striped burella. It has an inlaid velvet collar and a double belt across the back. The coat is a full plaited model and it is to be had in greens, navys, taupes and browns. Stitching on pockets, on the back of the coat and sleeves. Wanamaker & Brown Woman'$ Shop earned fame at St, Mihlel and has, lines that victory was won, been pressing the Germans back Into nnd through the Krlemhlld' line, Is hardly two months old ! and now the Second American Army Is In tho field. From Information which has been given to Us as to tho number of American troops In France, we mny rainy nssume thnt It will not be long before the Third American Anv makes Its npprarance, and In the mean time there will be no cessation In the Inflow of American troops Into France, Fighting s, Itrpelltlon The growth of the American forces In France has enabled General Foch to withdraw the French army from his center nnd send It north to Flanders, where, In conjunction with tho Pclglan army nnd Sir II, I'lumcr's second nrmy, It forms a grqup of nrmles under tho supremo command of King Albert. vvnat is now tnklng place In Flanders Is a repetition of what occurred at the end of September. The enemv has to do his utmost to hold Sir Douglas Hnlg on tho Selle, Just as ho had to do his utmost to hold him on the Cambral St. quentln front, because. If wo break through again and advance up the val ley of Sambre, we enforce further nnd hurried retreat of the enemy on the rest of the front. Slmllnrly, he ls forced for like reasons to oppose tlie Americans strenuously ott the Meuse. This means a heavy tax on his dwindling reserves, which he can only replenish by drawing upon fronts which nre for the moment less vital, Foch'n resources enabled him to strike at these fronts without reducing his pressure against tho others, Today, ho strikes In Flanders, tomorrow It mHy bo somewhere else, nnd this Is a process which ho can continue until the Germans know enough to adopt a tone acceptable to the Allies. Victory Is Certain We have, therefore, to bear In mind, thnt even If a complete break-up of the military forces of the enemy In the west Is net In sight, the military sltUa- tlon Ir Nn fnvnrnltln nd in i-i,tA If ... ' "" .-"".. .... ... ,,, (,,u a. ,.,.-, - tain that the enemy enn be compelled to ncceoc sooner or later to such terms as the Allies decide to demand. 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