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Prince Adalbert's Chief
Distinction Duration of
' Drinking Bouts
N
DROWN FEAR IN BOOZE
U-Boar Officers Held Wild
Revels at Infamous Rnlhs-
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fiv WALTER UURANTY
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Copvriabl. Ill, hv Sew Votfc Tlmr- Co.
Br o era, Oct. 24 (by Courier to f)un
kirk). Oct. 29.
1 The U-boat mm were Hip spoiled dar-
tlntrs r.f the Herman forces In Belgium.
Bruges, ns the central bane of the whole
submarine rninpalKii afcalnit llritlsh
ships, was flooded with no3tets entitled
"England's I'crll," showing a fantastic
number of dots around the British Isles,
each of which represented n cssol tor
'pedoed, While on shore the I'-boal men were
kiiowch virtually unlimited license.
Their pay. already hlgh-the ovveH
grade officer received 800 murks monthly
was almost doubled by supplementary
allowances for the period of active serv
ice. Promotion for those who survived
was exceedingly rapid, and decora
tlo'ns were rained upon them. Huge
Awards of prize money were given for
Allied warships sunk, and on u sliding
scale according to tonnage for merchant
hips. Thus the destruction of a hos
pital ship or transport of 10,000 tons
would be worth 1000 marks to a new
Joined midshipman, and upward or
downward from B0O0 for a lieutenant
commander to. 250 for an ordinary sea
man. The finest houses In Bruges were at
their disposal as quarters, and the cream
of famous Belgian wine cellars was
"requisitioned" by the Invaders. The fa-.
vorlte amusement of the U-boat officers
ashore was an orgy of champagne, ter-
mlnated by the demo.ltlon of every piece
of crockery and furniture In the house,
Several fine old mansions were set on
fire as a result of huch bouts, but In-
stead of being punished the officers had a
rresn dwelling immediately offered them.
Merchant's Home a Club
t visited one such house belonging to
a millionaire grain merchant named
Catulle. near the port, which had been
the headquarters and officers' club for
U-boat men at Bruges. The basement
had been transformed into a palatial
rathskeller, whore walls bore well-exe-
cuted cartoon frescoes, with rhyming
mottoes, and were decked with colored now, when our army Is fighting as skill
brass lamps and flags taken from Al-'fullv nnd as gallantly as troops have
lied vessels. Here Prince Adalbert, the ever fought In war. we are too much
Kaiser's son, spent a plentiful leisure ) occupied to nttend to them. I wonder
while at Bruges last ear. Nominally i how many people, there .are in Hngland
the commander of a corvette, he dls i toaaj. whn rf,aize that on October 8 our
""JPiffJ'L'r Third and Fourth Armies accomplished
and extent of his drinking bouts. With
..., pnmnanlnn. rt tho nrlolnrm!' I10
would start drinking at 7 In the eve- r ,var'
nlng, and the orgy would end toward Brake Hlndenbarr Une
dawn, only when the entile company --,., ,., ,i,.,,., -. .i. .m
.- . ...I- i.... , ..-.a... .I.- ,nMM vvnen in the darkness of the wild au-
ws lying besetted under the tables. I ,,,, ..,, .v.... ,..,.,., ..,..
Admiral von Schroder, brute as he , tumn night they attacked on a twenty
was, had too keen a sense of discipline , ''llIe front "" broke through thelast
not to chafe against sucn conduct. For j defenses of the Hlndenburg system It
U-boat men who risked their Hves In
cessantly he could wink at excesses, but
that loafing young princes should set
such an example was ioo much. Finally j ' - ' " "
Adalbert obtained unmerited decorations i honorable member asks in the House of
tbr all the officers of his corvette. ST."'-.0"." w,,c,1,r " '? "all-v ,rue, that
Schroder seized the opportunity. He , British troops were the firt to break
sent a caustic report of the whole case through the Hlndenburg system,
and the disgraceful banquet that fol- I " following up that victory we
lowed to the Berlin Admiralty, addmg I reached th. old battlefield of August 26,
that unless the Prince was transferred !. " which Smlth-Dorrlen's Second
elsewhere he himself would resign. ' Corps withstood almost the" whole of
Adalbert left Bruges unregretted three Vo Kluck's army and arrived at Sellc
days later, ' between Le Catcau and Solesmes. Here
' The frescoes In that rathskeller are the enemy meant to stand If he could, at
exceedingly curious. In one room they hast until he had completed the read
are' mostly directed against Kngland. .lustments of hfs f'ont In the north and
Thus, one represents John Bull being ' In the south : and today our mep who
blown up from the sea by a torpedo, havo been fighting continuously on one
while in the fprcground an Immense of the two most vital .sections of the
champagne bottle fired fiom a sub. whole front have driven him eight miles
marine hits John Bull, standing over beyond ihe Si-lie and captured 3000 pri
the cliffs at Dover, on tho seat of his ' boners nnd 150 guns,
trousers. Another shows the anguished Bv this ndvance we have outflanked
head of John Bull peering over the bows j a great part of Mormal forest, which
of a steamer named the Butterdampfer, in tne retreat from Mons separated Sir
which is being towed Into Zeebiugge Douglas Ilalg's corps from Sir Horace
by a submarine. , Smlth-Dorrlen's. nnd have also oul-
. Vulanr Tone to Ilrnulngs fianked the upper Scheldt.
Though the draftsmanship is clever, i tr A,on? the whole batllefront. f.om
the vulgarity of tone Is typically Oer. rm'nial on the .Scheldt to Landrccles on
man. No less characteristic nre the mot. 1 tl,e fnmbre. our men are on historic
toes under the drawings. "A gay life Is Bru'1 ""r right flank is In the area
the best principle," runs one, and an-
other: "Enjoy wine and women whllo
you can. You live but once, and will be
a long time dead." In un nlcovo over
which Is the carved he.id of Mephls
topheles there Is the inscription: "Sun,
thou gavest life to the earth and' its
color and flavor to champagne. 'We
children of earth drink champagne, thy
rift, as wa bask In thy rays."
Tn a second room there Is n series of .
drawings representing naval officers ana ,
aoldlers and civilians dressed up as float-
Ing mines on the main square of Bruges ,
before the belfry tower, Women
masquerade as long naval shells. Tho
legend underneath runs, "Have a good .
time, while you can, because ou don't
know what awaits you tomorrow."
Further on is a picture of naval officers
atll) dressed as mints playing cards In
a rathskeller with the legend; "Drink
deep of wine, e heroes. It will com-pet-sate
and make ou forget the dark
-ys or narasnip.
In an adjoining alcove Is this In-
rlptlon under a picture of the latest'
nrlotlo
types of U-boats: "Here you repose
from fatigues. O Captains of B and C
-boats." On the walls of the staircase
leadlnp upstairs there is an Illuminated
Crtvll, 'The U-boat fleet Is here.")
The whole house had been -.tripped
of furniture and pictures and the wine
In the cejlor containing more than 10,
tOO bottles drunk to the lust diop.
" Story of Boy" Irdslon
I obtained from a source It Is un
aajcesaary to particularize a biuij muo-trtln-
the mad life of the U-boat ofll
Mr even more thun the morbid tone
?a of 'these drawings and inscriptions. The
"- hero was a boyfef twenty, Y - w,,'
I' though poor, had been attached to ,111s
. 1....I .mrr t Ghent through family
' Influence eighteen months ago. Tjmiptcd,
by the rewards ana me rupiu -iruiiivuuii
?ran'.fer to "a "u-bokt" and" came
ti Bruges In July, 117. He was then u
f alean-cut good-looking youngster.
! f, "After three successful voyages he wbb
1 promoted ttfc the commanci or a- suu
4 Marina In October. The person who told
. tht story remarkea tne neierioraiiun in
.Ills cnaracier anu uvw-"'- -
fparlod. His dress became slovenly, he
14 not bother to shave and Indulged In
-Jicsant bursta of drunkenness. His
Pi Umpranient. formerly gay and sunny,
turned to gloomy and morose. Karly
' UlU- year he started taking, first ether,
ibeB morphine to which he became a
ZanMrmed slave very rapidly and de-
- kUrfd that alcohol had lost power over
Cn it was Impossible for him to find
t'i. desired forgetfulneee in anything
Cv drugs.
Wkm tne kiikiisii ourrwi ,eetiruaae
. ili.t- An -n-.lnnf.hnlv. hilt nB thn
I imv M-;' t..-.. --,. -- ----
paaaed ano. tne vete was suu
M Mvamr mora enwrtui av
Sriu'kS lUe aitar tka' war.
VJZ.
wm,rtW.fBMI- (twt's... MHMi--M-i
havlnable' st tilth tMe, But the act
CUrSed rtrltlah h-J -,M,ul & V,n- .1at.-n.vA
as their bomb .planes attacked un
ceasingly submarines engaged In their
slow and difficult exit. He became very
bitter ngalnst the British and boasted
of having sunk e. horpltnt ship with
wounded aboard In the Kngtlsh Channel.
Dui ting tho summer' he became subject
to hallucinations, of which the worst
wns that the submarine was nothing but
a liuge floating colflnrThls "coffin fear,"
ns the I'-lioat men call It, seems to have
been a common feature In their lives
ft form of nerve trouble akin to what
the doctors call claustrophobia, the fear
of a shut loom.
In August my Informant was await
ing Von H.'s return from a cruise. He
was alrendy nine dajs overdue when
a brother iilllcer l-.m.s to collect his be
longings. Asked- ubout Von B he u
piled with the well-known phrase,
"Alles toden" CAM Is over). I ,
MAURICELAUDS
BRITISH PROWESS
Declares Sufficient Credit
Has Not Been Given to,
Haig's Men
EARLY LOSSES MADE UP
-. it i r
l'encra,8h,P a"d Valor of
Troops Deserve Praises of
Nation, He Declares
By MAJOR GEN. SIR V. B. MAURICE
Formrr Dirt do- nf nnomtlun-; of the
n-ltt-.h Aimy
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Copurlahl, !!, bv .Vrie Vorfc Times Co.
Imilnn. Out 2!.
It Is very natural, but noije the less
unfortunate, that public. Interest for
some time past should have befn almost
certainly concentrated on the corres
pondence between Berlin and Washing
ton. We have never given ourseles cicdlt
for what we have done. In the war. In
the earlv years this." was mslnly due to
, m A.irqnl.B on.4 o itnigltii rf I.I...I I n
f depreciation designed to spur us on to
neater efforts. Then there was a pe-
roil. nfl.r the new armies had gone to
France, In which high hopes were formed
before each of our many offensives
began. and when these hopes had all
been disappointed the inevltnblc reaction
followed, and we became very shy of
hailing any achievement of our arms av
a success.
This year, when thlrfgs began to go
well, there was a tendency-to ascribe
our change of fortune entirely to Mar
shal Foch, to the unity of command and
to the arrival of the Americans, and
one of the greatest featt' of this or any
. .
was a fitting climax to a fortnight of
Intense, bitter, but ever-victorious tight'
lnG through that lab-rlnth of fortltlca-
"' ".--.i r umi n-ur divisions conccn
tratetl under shelter of the fortress of
M.iubeuge for thp advance to Mons. It
is on tho outskirts of Londiecles, where
Sir Douglas Haig's Tvvcnty.flrst Ouaids
Brigade on tho night of the 25th uf
August, 1914, repulsed thj leading troops
of Von Kluck's Ninth Corps, who tried
to enter the place dlsgu'sed In French
uniforms, und answered our challenges
l.-mnM,
W-..-..4' ,n . ,
, "' HWorlr Une
In tho center we have reached the
Valenqlennes-Le Quesnoy railway, which
has long served the enemy In his main
lateral of communications. On August
25, 1911, trains were waiting on this
line near I.e Quesnoy station to take
back such of our Infantry who fought
lit Mons as were too exhausted to march
any longer.
There is no auestlon that i,
enemy has fought his best. Sir Douglas'
Haigs reports nave frequently borne
tC8tlmonv to the fierceness of hi
gigtance and if the average quality o
resistance, and if the average quality of
his troops is deteriorating and in some
places is low there Is no question
that his machine gunners are, still fight
ing with much of their old skill and
valor, and his artillery, If weakened by
the large number of guns which we have
captured or aeBiroyeu, is sun very eirec
tlve.
The first results of our vlcU-ry will
he that we shall gain Valenciennes
1 and Mormal forest, and so open the road
to Maubeuge, Mons und the valley of
the Sambre. But his heavy losses and
lepeated defeats since July 15 have all
but 'exhausted the enemy's fresh re
serves, and he will be put to it to find
re-enforcements to fill even the ten-mile
son ciulckly. while our airmen are
bombarding the ralhay Junctions of
Aulnoye and Hlreon so assiduously that
the movements of his troops by rail must
! Kreatiy hampered
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DOOMS GERMANY
Capitulation of IDual Mon
archy Will Harden Terms,
London Believes
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MUST "GO TO FOCH NEXT
Kaiser Cannot Hold Out Long
Alone, -and Complete. Sur
render Must Follow
SpcclafCable to Evening Public Ledger
rnpvrinhl. 19 is, tiV Sew York Tlmr rv.
I.nndnn, Oct. 29.
Suspicion, with which every Herman
move, rightly or wrongly. Is regarded
here. Is absent from the view taken of
the Austrian position. While Ocrmany
wavers on the brink of surrender. It Is
said, AustrlaHungary has taken the
plunge.'
The Brit Mi Oovernment has lecelveo
n communication of Count Andrassy's
unconditional acceptance of all tho con
ditions tfpon which President Wilson
made the entry Into negotiations regard
ing armistice nnd peace dependent. Com
parisons to the disadvantage or rjer
many and to the advantage of Austria
Hungary nrp made between the plain
wbnle-lieartedncs of the Austro-Hun-garlan
acceptance and the verbal trick,
erles which possibly exist In the guarded
language of the Oerman notes.
Complete-, fiermnnj ' Isolation
Austria-Hungary has followed Bul
garia In complete Vui render, a fact
vvh'ch, It Is polrleil out, is very Im
portant, because It completes the Iso
lation of ocrmany. (termanys re
luctance to tread the same- path Is
comprehensible, but that she will In
evitably be forced to walk this via Do
lorosa Is beyond doubt.
Although the terms of armistice to
Austria-Hungary may not repeat In all
respects the terms to Bulgaria, it Is
assumed that, In one case, as In the
other, provision will be made for the
Allies to use the territory and railways
of the surrendering country against
liny assoc'nte who continues the war
Thus the Germans, if they decide on
a war of defense, must be prepared to
inept invasion of Germany from the
Austrian side. They will find the
whole Italian armv free to operate
against them, while they themselves
will Ine the co-operation of the Aus
trian divisions on the west front. At
the ame time they will be cut In on
from llumani-i. and to a. large extent
from the Ukraine, and their supply
problems will become insoluble. It is
obvious that, without Austria-Hungary,
Germany can only hold out for a
strictly limited period, that all possi
bility of her improving her situation
disappears, and that the only effect of
fuither resistance on her part will be
to render her still weaker after the
war.
Beginning of the F.nd
The action of Vienna In throwing up
the spohg- seems therefore the begin
ning of the end. The inevitable de
duction Is that Germany's claims to
treat a purely military question, like
the conditions of an armistice, on the
basis of equality merit even less con
sideration than was the caso when the
President- clearly indicated his view
that an armistice must bo determined
on the basis of Allied supremacy,
Tho news of the Austro-Hungarlan
surrender can only strengthen the de
termination of the military and nav.il
chiefs of the Allies to exact adequate
guarantees that Germany, If granted
an armistice, will be In no position to
renew hostilities in caso the terms of
peaco ultimately to be put before her
do not meet her views as to what con
stitute a peace of Justice.
While all the world waits on tne
decisions to be rendered in Paris, It is
epected here that the essential feat
ure of the reply which will be made
to Germany will be that the German
high command shall send emissaries.
under a white flag, to learn from Mar
shal Foch what are his terms of
armistice, as Generalissimo of all tho
Allied armies on the western front.
Next More en Ilattlefleld
In other words, the next conversa
tlon must be on the field of battle be
tween Koch nnd Hlndenburg.
It is felt that only by procedure of
this kind can the German people be
clearly shown that the Initiation of
the armistice proposals did not come
from the Allies, and that Germany's
commanders nre suppliants and the At
lies victors. Being n military people the
Germans will understand such action.
Thete would, it Is believed in the
click's fiom which this Information Is
derived, bo manifold dangers In con
fusing the military situation) with po
litical considerations.
The terms of a military armistice are
one thing: the conditions of peace nre
another. Germany s latest note clearly
seeks to make her acceptance of
armistice terms dependent upon an
Allied statement of conditions of peace,
It is the confident belief here that no
'opportunity will be given the Junkers of
Germany to obtain a cry to rally their
countrymen for a las.t tight.
SERBS OCCUPY DESPOTOVAC
Coal Mines at Scnje and Ravna
reka scitpa
By the Associated Press
i. ft 'tn Thu fnllnu'lnv inm
-arm, un., -. ---" -
piunique has been issued concerning jhe
nallrnn front !
Kastern Theatre, Oct, 27. The Ai
led forces, continuing their advance to
tne norm, nuc uv.uincu ..: ....i-, fnM
towns of Kragujerata and Jogodlna, as
well as the coal mines at Senje and Tluv-
nareaa. eerumu cu-aiu ii wiwu
pespotovae."
mwjinwwa
PURE
riuMiinvniH
gezcKgirci
If the
armor plate on a battle
ship needs painting ever
o often, how much more
should a frail house be
painted regularly?
Ct our a$ftmatn
obligation
Kuehnle
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DESPEltytE
.IN REGION
American Army Pushing
Resistance of Foe
Men Hardest Task
y KDW1N
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Covuriohl, lilt, by Sew York Times Co.
Verdun, Oct. 2D.
Big German guns nre worrying the
weary itones of this torn city, rent and
tortured by four years nnd more of war.
Here one screams Into a moss-covered
stone pile marking what once was' some
one's handsome home, and because the
ruin Is nlicady complete It does no more
harm
Another bumps lis way through Ihe
rusty skeleton of what was once a pretty
railroad station and for the thourandth
time wracks the battered wreck. An
other sticks Its nose against the noble
rampart of the ancient wall nnd tumbles
Into the mont, as if recognizing the use
lessness nf spending Its message of hate
against the utones the Germans have
trl"d sii bnrd to reach In times gone by.
What could he mole weird than to
stnnd In this -silent city, the historic
corpse of the world's greatest slaughter,
the grnvcjArd, too, of the Germans'
fondest hope, nnd bear the oppiess'lve
quiet broken hy the ugly whining of the
enemy's 2 IPs coming fiom over the hills
to the northeast?
Over these hills, whose seal red rims
are torn mi that the skvllnc looks much
like a misused saw, the Amei loans are
tearing I heir way Into the viuls of the
German army. It Is the toughest job
that they ever undertook. It is one ot
the toughest that ever soldiers.' tiled. The
let rain Is Just one hill after another, one
ledge llslng above the next, with tattered
woods giving the enemy the best of shel
ter for his machine guns.
Faith of Amerlrsns nest Weapon
Notlh ,of Oouaumont. the grave ot
armies, and to the cast and west for
three days we have been biting Into the
cnemj's line, which he holds yrj heavily,
protecting the main artery of hi" armies
on the western front. I.vory tool ot war
the Kaiser has Is pitted tigalnst the
jouths from across the yea; against this
array our strongest weapon Is the Innate
belief of our fighters that they can nat
urally stand the grueling affair longer
than Heinle can.
It Is a hammer and tongs milltnry
show up tht re where we have Just come
from. We get the Bols Bellcu. for in
stance, and then tha enemy dilves us
out. We drive him out, .and then he
gasscs We get out, and when the ga3
Is gone start back to find new machino
guna lii-ought up.
It is the' same sort of thing in tho
Bols Wavrllle, Bols ntrae, and numer
ous other woods that crown the battered
hills rising east of the Meuse valley
seeming to frown disapproval of the ter
rific lighting for the privilege of retting
on' their heights.
Xo longer do Americans take an
stock In the tall: of low German morale
I bcl'eve an American Information olll
cer summed it up this morning In a
report which said of our prisoners:
"They talk much of lessened morale,
of which state of mind they gave no
evidence on the battlefield, "
Gun riatforms In Trees
Illurtratlng the fighting ablllt'ts of the
Germans, ns well as the nature of the
warfare our bojs are up agaln-t, take
the case of a trap Into which our men
ran In the Bols Belleu After I'ersh
Ing'.'i men hatf swept through the hill.!,
the Germans came up from deep dug
outs, the mouths of which were cam
ouflaged, and climbed to platforms eoj
eealed between trees and fired nrichlw
guns upon the Americans who had
passed. Til's, of course, meant death,
or at least capture, for the Germans
but no fewer than twenty-four of these
platforms were found In this wood.
The Germans have often used ma
chine guns from trees, but this Is the
first time buch an elaborate method has
been used. Some stout platforms had
crews of seven men each manning three
large machine guns.
The Germans know every Inch of
ground over which we are fighting, and
are enabled to make their artillery fire
very accurate. In addition It Is heavy
and tho enemy Is expending an enor
mous amount of ammunition against our
men fighting northeast of Verdun.
I give thi.-i instance to depict the
violence ot the shell lire: .Behind the at
tacking troops run telephone lines, and
the wireless lias been set up. Sunday
during one attack lasting two and a
half hours, the telephone, line was cut
twent.v -three timea by shells, and nlne
teen.s'lgnal coipi men were killed In ie
pairlng it. One wireless appaiatus was
downed seven times In two hours
Hliock Troop Driven llark
Alarmed by the pressure of our
troops, the Germans put in 800 1MU3
slan shock troops, who gained only u
tempoiury success, being driven back
within nii hour. On this front the Ger
man lalo Sunday put In a fresh division
ac.ilnst the Americans.
The fighting Is no less Bevere west of
the Meuse, where the Germans are
contesting bitterly every foot of ground
we gain and burling frequent attacks
against us. For the last twenty-four
hours there has been almost constant
fighting for possession of Belle Joyeuse
farm, which we have captured twice,
and as ninny times have lost.
We have had Grand Pre free from
Germans three times. Twice they have
come back, but now they are out and
we hold a handsome margin north of
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FIGHTING
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Ahead Despite Determined,
Foch Gave Pershing's
I,. JAMES
the ruins of this once pretty A'lia vul.
ley town,
Kastwaid we have dug notthward
inin the Bols des l.oges, making the
enemy position at Belle Jo.veu.e farm in
nrffi
GerrVreTulVdVna'new Cri'in
nlng through Brlquenay east In Dun
surMeuse. five to seven kilometers north
of the Treva line. It will be recalled
that since, we sinnen our Rnvance e
our advance we
the Hlndenburg
Hung and bitten
nnr runnrn ii.mum "-
ii.,- ,i i ii Volkcr Sfcllunc
il-miicl- Hip Klietnnim imp Him up in
"" '" . ...t. i-t. .. . .
the Krey.a
WteilUnK. wmi; ii v iiitM-
reached at Grand-Carre fnim
north ot
Banthevllle.
it has been explained vvhv the (
mans nre fighting so hard tn hold back
the American First army, hnw the nil
vance of l'ershlng's men threatens
.. .. l..l-.i.a.?nla t PfliM flllo
I Iip itioM Imnortanl line of mtnniutilon
tlon of Hip Oerman army, ami hnw thi ColonW Hou-p'h anlal him hren fa
'XZXVZ ;-'" -elvcd. as nrroid-ng . ,,-.
nue of withdrawal through the l.legc 'unlt.v Tor establishing a solid undei
gateway. standing among the lluropean Allies
Our First Major Operation, I t,cm,e. and between them -ind
It was Just one month ago that the , . c" Inrm ano
American army begnn this npet.it Inn ""cnc.t.
between the Alsne and the .Meue. the The Premier and Ministers will ex-
fighting easi or trie .-i-u-- ""' k
liter ns part of this oper.il Ion This
inav b called the first major opei.itlon,
for'lhe rrductlcu of the SI. Mlhlel t-nli-
ent might be regatded as n ioc.il oporn
tion on n iirne v...i, - - ..
lied objective,
It has been n haul four weeks foi the
Amei lean army. It has been one of the
hauleit fought and most bitterly con-
tested Intllcs of the four .vears of war
We have duiwn more than Ibltty (kr -
man divisions from other parts of the
western front, nnd bv that have helped
the advance of Ihe British nnd French
and Belgians. It Is the least sensational
"part of the big battle of nations. It Is
the toughest job that Marlial Focli had'
to assign, and ho atslgned it to Pershing
The German command lias shown in Its
orders that It will withdraw elsewheie
If tteic'saty before It will withdraw from
before the American troor-s.
The American people should under
'land this battle, fir It undeistnnds
baseball, and therefore knows what is
meant by a sacrifice hit. Carrying out
the analogy. Americans know that It 1 2
not alvas the harda-1-fought game that
has the biggest scores.
Downed -30 r-ne Planes
Since September 2fi we have brought
down 230 airplanes. In addition twenty
three enemy observation balloons have
been shot down In flames. This record is
icmarkably good, in view of tho fact
that the weather has been adverse with
but three really Rood flying days.
Our alr-bomblng service has made
many successful sallies behind the
enemy lines hv day and night, dropping
more than 50,000 pounds of high ex
plosive bombs On one of these expedi
tions more than 200 airplanes were used,
making the largest airplane concentra
tion on a single mission ever known.
Our engineern have done yeoman work
In remaking roads ruined by four years
of shelling and German mines. Over a
five kilometer zone ahead of our start
ing off point no roads e-iisted and the
Americans-faced a formidable task to
keep supplies, food and ammunition mov
ing steadily, as has to yt done to run
a great army.
Foity thousand engineers wv-klng day
and night rebuilt the needed roads',
using stone from destro.ved villages for
the greater part, and incldentallv wip
ing off the map villages which for four
years had existed only in dismal and
scattered piles of moss-blanketed stones.
The noteworthy feats which the en
gineers accomplished In the Argonne
foiest included the cro-slng of Forges
brook, which finds Its way Into the Meuse
i.iver 1101 tn of Verdun. In the Argonne
many hundieds of .vauls of barbed wire
entaglcments had lo be bridged because
they could not bo cut.
i'nrry llnrltK nn Barks
There the toads, sunk inlo obliteration
through four years' neglect, became im
passable for two days after wo first
startfd uing them, because the black
soil would not stand un Thev hid '
to be lepalrcd with the greatest labor,
the engineer force In many cases carry
ing rocks on their backs becausctrucks
could not be got Up.
The road over' Forges swamp was
built under fire and made by la.vlng fag.
gots and sticks, corduroy stIe, In muddy
awamp land.
At one point, where ammunition was
sorely needed and no mateilals 'were nt
hand to make a road, several thousand
shells left behind by the Germans were
laid end on end, coveted with dirt and
liucks passed over 'them until the Im
promptu road was teplaccd by a better
and safer one.
And the battle goes on. The Germans
seem somehow to find fresh divisions
to throw in nlmon every day. They
urn fighting bravely and well
TJjelr deep Interest In the Central I
Powers' move for peace hasnot affecter '
their fighting morale as et and they
arc being driven on with promises of
early peace If they make a last stand
for the futherland,
Despite considerable losses and their
suffering fiom cold and the terrific strain
of combat, the American soldiers are
lull of fight and vlnt nnd no word of
complaint can be heard from one end
ot the line to the other.
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on the: principles of President Wllson'a
fourteen points. Such an acceptance by
Germany would, according to the view
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New Captain Boosts Official
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