Show U. U US U.'S S. S IGNORANT OF I I LENS ENGAGEMENT I I By United Press I fI WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Sept 12 The Tho Tho war wari warr i r and 1 d' d navy natty departments de declared lared officially om- om p today t they hey have ave no rte reports con confirming confirming con con- I firming statements contained in letI letters let let- I tera terl printed in New York papers today let let-I ns as to an engagement with a German destroyer as to a a- a battle between submarines submarines sub sub- sUb sUb-I marines and a transport sport convoy convoy or as asto asto asto to a division of American troops de defeating do- do I doI I i i German troops near Lens In the latter it was explained that General Pershing s 's expeditionary m. forces forces have not yet gone to to the front and that if any Americans were fight fight- in ins around Lens they must have been of the tho foreign legion I |