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Show I : oo Gen. Connor Answers Sheribourae's Charge OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 9. Replying to tho reported assertion of Brigadier General John H. Sherbourne, a national nation-al guard officer of Boston, before a house war investigating committee that "responsibility for the loss of (American lives through attacks order- uu iuu:iiiuu uay suuuiu ue ciuirgeu I to American headquarters," Brigadier j General Fox Conner, member of Gen-j oral Pershing's staff and chief of op-' orations In the American expeditionary expedition-ary forces, said that General Sher-bourne's Sher-bourne's idea of the war appeared to coincide with that held by many other persons, namely, that "the war ended before it ended." s "Marshal Foch had issued orders tha: all attacks nlready begun should be pressed on that day. The allies could not afford to take any chances. We wore placing our armies in the bes: possible position In the event Germany failed to sign. "As for the nttack in which General I Sherbourne and the Ninety-second di-J vision, to which he was attached, par-.ticlpated, par-.ticlpated, that attack wasi launched at 5 a. m. November 11, just one hour; before American general headquarters had been Informed that the armistice was signed. The signing took place at tho exact moment of .the Ninety-second's attack." i no |