Show NEWS w REVIEW O 0 OAme THE E GREAT WAR WR tRA TWi Ame American Fi First Army Wipes Out ut the St Mihiel Salient East bf of f Verdun BAGS ABOUT HUNS Fr French Aid In In Attack That Threat ns the Briey Iron ron Fields Fields In Trying to Retreat Retreat Re Re- treat on Line I By EDWARD W W. PICKARD IThe I The Americas Americas' First army General PershIng commanding started the first great wholly American offensive Thursday Thursday attacking attacking on both both sides sided of the fit Mihiel salient southeast I of V The F French ench assisted by iatt lat lat- t tit t ng on the the point of the salient butti but hut huttU ti tM tU operation was planned by the theA A American staff and exe executed by AmerIcan American Amer Amer- Amerlean ican lean officers and troops By lly Friday night the operation so far far- faras as the salient was conc concerned seemed practically completed for the big wedge had been flattened out and I Ithe the new line established by the the Am Ameri Americans rI- rI cans ran from Pont Pont-a Pont Pont-a-Mousson Mousson down the Moselle to Pagay thence across the plain to Hattonville and along the heights of the Meuse to the old line in front of Verdun The fact that fully prisoners were taken and that the towns and railways abandoned aban- aban abandoned abandoned aban aban- by the enem enemy had not been destroyed de- de destroyed de destroyed made ridiculous the German official statement that the retirement which had bad been under under- consideration for some years was vas completed without Interference This American drive threatens the German possession of the great Iron fields of the Briey basin west and northwest of Metz After a terrific preparation artillery which for four hours smothered the entire region within the German lines with shells the Yanks' Yanks went over the top exactly at five oclo o'clock lC following a ft rolling barrage timed for an nn adv advance ad- ad v vance nce of meters every 40 minutes Gr Great at numbers of- of tanks supported them and cleared the way by crushing numerous concrete mac machine lne gun shelters shel shel- shelters and breaking down the elaborate wire defenses American aviators In to flocks quickly drove away the few Hun TIun airmen In sight and md thereafter del- del aged th the enemy supply centers mu mu- dumps' dumps and hangars with bombs while the time observation planes directed the work of the artillery Everything moved like clockwork and the troops speedily gained their objEctIves objectives objectives ob ob- ob- ob and went on to the next ones Village after vl village lage was taken and by Friday the tIe cavalry had advanced ed far tar Into the center of th the salle salient t and occupied strong positions h Haying given up all the all the ground they on son In their great grent spring drive and finding themselves back on the old Hindenburg dine IlIne and in f some ome places well behind It the Germans decided to stop their retreat for a while Marshal Foch did not fully assent to t this ls decision decision deci deci- lelon l- l sion elon but powerful concentrations of Hun artillery and reserves In strong stron positions coupled with torrential rains throughout brought the allied d offensive almost to a temporary standstill Not that the fighting b by any means ceased for the French and British Batish kept pressing forward though more slowly and und the Germans delivered delivered deily ered erect desperate counter attacks which In 1 almost almo t every e Instance resulted only In severe losses for them It Is the opinion of I pe t observers observers' that the halt haU of the Huns approximately approximate approximate- ly on the time will be only temporary Indeed It Is s believed they cannot stay there long If they would For many weeks they have been hastily building new lines of defense defense de de- de- de tense farther east cast and Marcel Hutin In the Echo de Paris Parl sn says s 's they are now constructing a supreme I line from Antwerp Antwerp Antwerp Ant Ant- to Metz and are putting th the Antwerp Antwerp Ant Ant- forts In defensive condition Their pres present nt line depends on Douai I St St. Quentin and Laon and andI farther to tI tic tle southeast on the ChemIn I Its Irs s Dames Danes Douai already was be- be ing evacuated last week and the airdrome airdrome air air- Ir- Ir drome moles east of It were ere being dis mantled The British fighting fiercely fiercely fiercely fierce fierce- ly and repulsing heavy counter counter- counter attacks were advancing steadily through ugh H Hav- Hav v- v and Gouzeaucourt and forced a crossing of the Canal du Nord thus taking the main defense of on the southwest St St. Quentin Quentin Quentin Quen- Quen tin was the goal of a race between the he British and the French the former winning Vermand Attilly and Vendelles Vendel- Vendel les ies es and closing In hi on the important Ity from the northwest while the French French southwest of the objective crossed the the Crozat canal and too tool a umber lumber of villages A little farther farther- south oath the French forces captured 1 Travecy on the OIse Olse Just north of La Laere Laere ere re and from Its heights were able o 0 dominate the latter town which was wasI I to have been burned by the This operation t together with the French advance eastward from le Coucy-le-Chateau threatened to toI I flank ank on both sides the forest and masI mas mas- sif of St. St c chief lef defense of ot I Laon Withdrawal of the enemy f from rod that tor forest st which is full fuU of guns In strong defensive positions might thus be be compelled without direct attack which would be expensive and cult At the western the western end of the C des Dames the Germans were fighting furiously in the region of Laffaux where they were trying to regain possessIon possession possession pos po's pos pos- i session of ot the dominating ridge which the French and Americans had taken from them M Many ny fresh troops were used in these attacks but their efforts were all In vain A ta Although the stupendous Genn German n retreat retreat retreat re re- re- re treat of the past past eight eight weeks has hns been conducted conduct d skillfully and the enemy line has not not been broken through his armies armies ar nr- ar- ar mies maintaining contact with one an another another an- an nother n- n other it has been h In every way way a most expensive operation for the Huns In addition to the loss of great numbers and Immense quantities of material material material ma ma- captured or destroyed destroyed- they have lost more than men the fhe e majority of whom fortunately were k killed lIed The morale of of the army I Is is being gradually broken by relentless continuous and successful blows delivered delivered de de- ll livered ered by the allies the supply of ot fighting effectives is getting low tow arid amid tie the people peole nt t home are becoming daily dally more dissatisfied and restless Captured Cap Cap- Cap Cap- hired orders reveal that the wounded wound d men men nien are put back in the ranks before they are cured and prisoners relea released ed edby by Russia are not given time to recover recover recover re re- re- re cover their strength Austria Aus Aus- tria has reluctantly responded to the cal call calf for aid and in the quieter sectors Austrian divisions are placed between German divisions or Austrian sold soldiers rs are are used to fill out depleted German r regiments This is taken to mean that there will be no renewal of the Teu Teutonic Teutonic Teutonic tonic offensive in do Italy this ye rl If ever lQ A AThe id The war department announced that Americans have haye been landed at Archa Archangel Arch Arch- a angel gel to tn take part art with th the Bother other other- 1 al II lied d forces there In fighting the viki and re establishing order In norther north north- er erh Russia These troops troops troops' are re from front from some of our northern states and many many of j them speak Russian Hitherto the only Americans there were marines marInes' and sailors In Petrograd Moscow and acid other dries cities of of Russia Russin proper r the the bolshevik government is struggling desperately against the evet Increasing ever ln creasing counterrevolutionaries counterrevolutionaries counter counter- r revolutionaries slaughtering the e later lajter mercilessly whenever they fall Into their hands Petrograd d is io to iobe be given over to massacres and flames and to have been captured by revoltIng revoltIng revolt- revolt Ing lag peasants i Yaroslav and Vol a. a have hav rave been burned b by tf time the e sovI soviet troops Rs and Moscow Is threatened with the same saints same fate fa fate te by Trotsky Two n attempts were made on on- the life of Doctor Dotor Helf- Helf Helfferich ferich the new German ambassador to io Moscow b but t he fled back to Berlin The soviet rulers persistent shouters shouters shout shout- ers for peace without annexations and Indemnities have Just paid to Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many rubles the first Installment Installment In ln of the Indemnity exacted from the unhappy country by the time Huns In Siberia the allies aUles with the Slovaks Czecho-Slovaks Cossacks and loyal Russians have been making satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory progress but the German Austro-German ex- ex prisoners ex-prisoners and the are putting up so obstinate a resistance that Japan is contemplating sending a much stronger force In order to Insure Insure insure In In- sure the safety of the expedition and Its allies before the winter sets In The ls' ls v that the American government will abandon its opposition to su such a course 14 The London Express says It has unquestionable unquestionable un un- questionable information that the former former for tor- mer empress of Russia and all her children have been murdered by hy bol bol- iki If If this is true the entire Immediate immediate immediate im Im- mediate family of Nicholas has has' now been exterminated The dowager empress empress empress em em- press and her daughter daught r and son-in-law son were attacked by y at Yalta but w were re saved by risen men men from the Blacksea Black Blacksea sea fleet after atter two weeks of fighting ms The progress of the Slovaks Czecho-Slovaks of Hungary Austria-Hungary toward the independence independence inde Inde- pend recognized by Great Britain and America is encouraging The existence ex- ex existence exIstence ex ex- of the Slovak Czecho-Slovak state was declared by all the Czech deputies In thep the Austrian Austrian parliament and has now nov be been n indorsed by all of the clergy of a athe the Bohemian diocese dioceses 1 fa- fa Baron Burian Hungarian Austro foreign foreign foreign for for- eign minister who still is at outs with Berlin because on an anAus Austrian Aus Austrian AustrIan trian solution of the Polish problem nevertheless was employed once more last Meek to start start a Teutonic peace w offensive This aimed directly at President President ti dent Wilson was a suggestion that the central powers and the entente get together to- to together gether ford fot foran an exchange of ot views views and and to consider all nIl the things which are keepIng keepin keeping keep keep- in ing the belligerents apart He Intimated Intimated intimated Inti Inti- mated this might make further fightIng fighting fighting fight fight- ing unnecessary Though President Wilson Is not quoted in reply WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington dispatches make it clear that he holds unwaveringly the position that the tM only tolerable peace will be not negotiated but dictated to the central powers by the allies and that that Is the kind of peace which the allies will achieve In this It is needless to say he Is backed up by the entire nation NO 10 one in a position to predict presumes presumes presumes pre pre- to believe that such a peace can be attained this year but bu but no one Intends Intends intends In In- tends that any other t er kind of peace peace 4 r shall be accepted by America We h have v gone gone into the war war to the finish i and we propose that propose that the finish shall be beIn 5 In accordance with with our high alms aims for forthe ft the future safety of civilization and ft 4 freedom no matter what the cost J ct x e b 11 bAt t At a most opportune time came the registration day for all Americans between between be be- tween the ages of eighteen and ty-one ty and thirty one and forty-five forty years Gladly with patriotic exaltation exalta exalta- tion some youths and and anci older m men n enrolled themselves for military ti duty and from their number more trained soldiers will soon be j 3 ready to move forward to the battle i t lines Millions of others not so fit in r one way or another for actual fighting r will be listed for other work directly S connected with the carrying on of the war In a few weeks the relative k standing of the will have l been determined According to Provost Provost Pro Pro- J Marshal General Crowder the first to be selected fo for the cantonments and camps will be those bet between een nineteen nIneteen nineteen nine nIne- teen and twenty-one twenty and between thir one ty-one and thirty The matter of granting deferment t fo to r registrants beca because se of the work In which they are engaged d is of utmost Importance and the aid of all employers employ employ- ers era In this has been enlisted The gov government eminent Is especially y desirous us that dint no ho i essential Industries shall be disturbed a aby by the draft but enough men must be lie r. i. i selected selected to maintain a steady flow of 1 registrants to the training camps 7 R Q m WAs W- W f As had been foreseen here and abroad the Germans have begun an Intensified U-boat U campaign dl directed especially against the transports curry carry M ing lag American troops and supplies Up to date this has res resulted In the tot torpedoing torpe tOl-PC- pe- pe doing of the Mount Vernon formerly the CecelIe which was was bringing home wounded and sick soldIers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers and of the carrying 2800 American troops to Europe In the- the former case the time casualties were confined confined confined con con- fined to men In the engine rooms and the vessel put b back ck to a French port t under her own steam All the men on f the were safely transferred to the convoying con vessels after which the steamship was beached benched on th the English coast The submarine which attacked It was destroyed destroy d by depth charges In both Instances the time utmost brav bravery ry and J 1 coolness were exhibited by the crews and amI th the soldiers aboard The Time z British steamship also was torpedoed while on her way to America for troops and supplies k a fOI i n |