Show JEWS REViEW OF THE GREAT WARI WAR WAIl I Reorganized Serbian Army Starts an Important Offensive anthe on an the Front BULGARIANS ARE I HI IN 1 FLIGHT Franco-British Franco Forces Closing Down on St. St Quentin Despite Strong Resistance Re Re- Americans Americans Shell Shelling ng Metz Metz-Austria's Metz Austria's Peace Suggestion Suggestion Suggestion Sug Sug- Promptly Re Re- 1 By EDWARD EDWAR W. W PICKARD PICKARD With a regenerated and reorganized I army Serbia took the lead last week weel in n smashing the Hun and hi his allies IlI s. s At Aided ed by French and Greek Greek- contingents contingents contin contin- gents the the hard fighting Serbians struck at the front held by the BulgarIans Bulgarians Bulgarians Bul Bul- and certain German units They struck hard too and within three days daj's s 's had advanced 12 miles on a 20 mile front taking CO GO towns Including the strongest of the enemy positions At first the resistance was stubborn but by Thursday the the- Bulgarians were reported In full retreat and the Ser- Ser pursuing them day and night The enemy threw In fresh divisions but in vain aIn for they too were completely completely com com- defeated So swift were vere the flight and the pursuit that the Serbians had not had time to co count nt the great number of prisoners taken or to estimate estimate esti estI- lU mate te the quantities of material that fell into their hands This Serbian advance by the end of the thc week was seriously menacing the city of one of the hIef bases of the central powers In Macedonia Itis ItIs It if is not pot beyond the bounds of possibility ity that it ma may later be connected up with the operations o of the allies in Albania Albania Al Al- bania lumIa of which little has haR been heard lately A good many authorities long have bane held the opinion that can cat catbe be brought to a successful end soonest by a great offensive in the Balkan regIon region re re- re- re gion glen cutting of off Tur Turkey and Bulgaria ft from om their allies and threatening ng A Austria Austria Aus Aus- tria from the south h 1 With the Franco British pincers slowly but s surely rely closing down im on St. St Quentin the French and Americans In possession of the western end of the des Chemin and steadily pushing toward Laon and the Yankees firmly e established on their new lines In n Lorraine shelling Metz Met and threatening threat threat- ening the great Iron and coal fields felds of the BrIe Briey the basin basin the German high command command com cOm- mand last week was as still sUIl clinging to th the tho line through most of ot Its length The Huns Hung had ml massed sed vast ast numbers of range long e guns a and abd d were resisting rf desperately but their increasing In Its ing dearth of man power was becomIng becoming becoming becom becom- ing more evident daily dally and the prisoners prisoners pris- pris taken though well fed and clothed were despondent and und tI tired After several days of preparatory operations Field Marshal Uni on Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- attacked on a mile 10 front northwest of St. St Quentin from Gouzeaucourt Gou- Gou SOUI south of Holnon Wood Before Before Be Be- e- e fore nightfall the British had smashed ahead to n a depth of three miles taking La lions lions- FO soy Villeret and other towns and bagging bagging bag bag- ging more moro than prisoners The primary object of the drive which was wade made In a hard rainstorm was to gain possession of the old h trench system of or last March running along an on important rId ridge Many t of f the best t fighting units In the German army were ere opposed to men but the latter at- at tamed their object In the main and at some me points went further than had been expected The artillery work worle of th the Germans especially with high velocity velocity velocity ve ve- guns gun massed behind the St. St Quentin canal was was more severe than for a 11 long time tImo before Simultaneously with Halg's Haigs attack the French hit the Boches Bodies on a n tenmile tenmile tenmile ten- ten mile front south south south-of of St St. Quentin advancIng advancing advancing ing more than a n mile and taking four villages and hundreds of prisoners Military critics express no doubt of th the tho ultimate fall of ot St St. Quentin but butIn butth In th Ilan enemy Is sure to put up a long hard fight before he evacuates e that ke keystone stone stol position Stubbornly hanging on to the west westend westend westend end of the des Dames and ImprovIng Improving improving Im Im- im- im proving their positions there tho the French repulsed many fierce attacks lust last week and advanced toward Laon along the southern edge of the St. St St St. Cobain forest The entire plateau southwest of Laon is under the fire fire of their artillery and though they were vere moving forward with with duo due caution they showed no intentions of stopping h hOn On the new American front In InI I French Lorraine the infantry activity during the week was confined mostly to to operations for the solidifying of posItIons po- po though the Yankees did push forward along the Meuse for a considerable con COIl gain This brought Metz under under under un un- der the fire of their artillery and the bombardment of that great fortress I city began at on once e and vigorously It seems that the tho allies are now in a posItion position position po po- po- po to keep up the shelling of Metz during the fall and winter If necessary necessary necessary sary and thus Its r reduction virtually impossible by direct attack may be be accomplished shed The Germans now admIt admit admit ad ad- mit the importance of the American drive on the St. St Mihiel salient but the deception of their people through the fhe reports co continues as err fled Ced by the statement one one day last week weck that American attacks on Haumont Hau- Hau mont had been repulsed and the Yankees Yankees Yan Yan- l kees ees also had been beaten at mont At that time Haumont had been safely held beld by the Americans for three days drys and Thiaumont was already five fire miles behind Pershing's lines Fresnes an important city also was taken by bythe bythe bythe the Yankees last week and the line built huilt by br them now runs parallel with willi the line at an average distance dIstance distance dis dIs- tance of ofa a mile and a half Every day the German artillery has b been en deluging the the old old salient with explosive and gas shells and the American gunners have i replied most effectively battering the towns held by the Huns and several tunes times breaking up attempted infantry attacks s With severe seere loss to the enemy Ih The Tho airmen on both sides were extraordinarily extraordinarily extra extra- ordinarily active and the Uie Americans carried out a number of highly successful suc sue c bombing expeditions over enem enemy enemy en en- em emy territory In one one of these however how- how ev ever eYer er a superior force w was as encountered and five live of our planes were lost Incidentally Incidentally Inci IncI- dentally the British reported that In inthe tho the St. St Quentin sector the Germans were using a new type of plane that carries elg eight t men and bombs 13 feet long and weighing 2000 pounds lot B All ll along th the west front the the all air fighting was most mORt Intense In one tiny day the the British British brought down CG enemy armies and lost 10 which Indicates the fierceness of the struggle for the mastery mastory mas mas- tery tory of the air Th The i Independent British British Brit It ish air nIl squadrons kept up their fine work In the bombing of German cities notably Mannheim l MeU Metz Treves and Frankfort Till J brings howls from the Huns which are music to the allied ear ri 14 The bolshevik forces in Russia for which some victories were claimed early eaily In the week wEel later Inter were reported to be retreating on both the noi northErn thorn and southern fronts The Czecho CzechoSlovaks Czechoslovaks Czecho Czecho- slovaks along the Volga continued heir advance and the fact that they captured Perm capital of the government government government govern govern- ment Of that name indicated tl they ey were I j In a fair way to effect the junction of the till forces which are fighting in western western west- west ern em with those which have been engaged In southeastern Russia As Ag was predicted the Japanese censors do donot donot donot not permit much news to come from the allied expedition In Siberia but what does come Is satisfactory In Russia th the reign of terror Instituted Instituted instituted b by the bolshevik to suppress the counter revolution continues and unknown unknown unknown un un- un- un known numbers of the opponents opponent of Lenine and md have been mas mas- sacred The American government last week weel issued a series of articles exposIng exposIng expos- expos Ing lag those two precious rascals as the paid agents of Germany giving the text of many many- secret ecret documents obtained obtained ob oh- tamed by an nn agent of the committee on public Information All AH tl this s made Intensely Interesting reading rending but no noon noon noone on one in America except a few hl highbrow Intellectuals Is surprised by the facts revealed re and arid there doesn't seem any anyway anyway anyway way to get those facts before the RussIan Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian people whom LenIne and and their crew have tricked and be be- All the allied ministers who formerly former former- ly were at nt Jassy Including Charles of America have haye been arrested In Petrograd according to it a report reaching The fhe Hague 1 Pa- Pa Austria's suggestion of a ing conference of all the belligerents to make clear their war aims alms and peace demands met with the promptest kind of rejection by br the allies alUes President Wilson taking the lead lend in refusing to consider the Idea In two sentences he replied that Americas America's terms had been repeatedly stated and therefore no proposal for such a conference conference conference con con- ference would be entertained by it In Inthis Inthis Inthis this Mr Wilson was heartily supported by the entire nation and his position was also thoroughly approved by the allies of the United States Austria's suggestion made with the consent of Berlin admittedly was merely a peace flyer and there was little lIttIe expectation expectation expectation ex ex- ex- ex in that It would receive receive re re- re- re favorable consideration No better reception was accorded the German offer of peace to Belgium With unblushing effrontery Berlin asked the nation the Huns have ravished ravished ravished to drop out of the conflict not even e suggesting that they would make reparation for the horrible crimes they have committed there and ind making the Insidious proposal that the Flemish question should be considered and the Flemish minority that aided the German German German Ger Ger- man invaders should not be penalized Belgium of course said No to all nIl this claptrap I ps to The political situation In Hungary Is becoming extremely critical and the opposition to the government Is s growing growing growing grow grow- ing bolder Its leader Count Karol Karolyi i Is quoted In dispatches as declaring that the central powers should accept President WIl Wilsons Wilson's ons on's 14 peace points as asa asa asa a basis for negotiations and that the treaties of Brest and Bucharest Bucharest Bucharest Bucha Bucha- rest should be abrogated The pope seems to have scented chances of peace once again for It was stated at atthe atthe the tine Vatican that if a diplomatic representation representation should be received by him from one of the parties he would ask the other party if it desired to receIve receive receive re re- re- re such a re representation l Substantial support for President I Wilsons Wilson's peace plans was received from the labor conference of the allied nations In London when the International international international relations committee recommended recommend recommend- ed 1 that the conference subscribe to the 14 points formulated Wilson thus by t 1 s adopting a policy of clearness and ami moderation as opposed to a policy dictated dic dictated dk- dk exclusively by changes on the war map map Iru te According to figures received up to date the total re registration of the country country country coun coun- try under the new draft law was at least eat or above the estimated total Of these the government government government govern govern- ment proposes to call to the colors colors' 2 to be added to the men already under arms It Is planned to have SO dIvIsIons In France before next summer RUmmel a and d to finance so great an undertaking the war department has asked congress to provide It Immediately Im Im- mediately with an additional In cash Granting this the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration and congress has the choice of Increasing the amount of taxes provided by the tho revenue bill from to or raising all till the additional from the sale of bonds and abandoning abandoning aban aban- the plan of raIsIn raising third one-third of ot the cost of ot the war by taxation The Th various features of the revenue bill were swiftly approved by th the house home of representatives one one after another Representative Moore of or PEnn Pennsylvania proposed a n tax tux of 3 a hale bale on cotton but hut the Southern mem members mem- mem bers rose In a n body borly to th the defense of the main crop of their part of the country A te That t there Is no abatement In the stream of AmerI American an soldiers being sent over over to France I Is shown by hy the statement stare stare- ment that embarked for Europe En- En rope last month Of these were ere carried on British ships One big success by the boats U-boats boats U from the viewpoInt viewpoint viewpoint view view- point of the chivalrous Hun was nun was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported last week The British steamer Castle carrying disabled soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers returning to South Africa and aid many women women and children was t tor tor r- r One hundred and nine eighty-nine persons were lost of whom were civilian passengers |