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0-' '' ? . ' ~ - ' 7 . "' - ? . \ ^ l*<\ . '.. -V-. ! .'. : , t -> *,v .;jv. - - ; t Established in 1891. i. ' ;> ^ . ' MANY APPLICANTS ' SEGURETOSITIONS GOOD WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY U. 8. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE DURING PAST MONTH. I DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of South Carolina People, Gathered Around the State Capital.* Columlila. Some idea of the excellent work -which the local office of the United Stages Employment Service is rendering persons seeking work can be secured from the report of the office for the Qionth of September. During September. 1,541 appllca t tons were made at the office for positions. Of that number 1,443 were referred to openings, and 1.371 accept?ed the positions offered them. Of th4? number of applications, 286 wera made by. women. John L. Davie, superintendent of the local office at Qolumbia. said that these figures show what the office is dojng In placing men and women who are seeking work. Tlia report speaks for itsejf. Two facts are evident from It. The first Is that the office in Columbia is rendering valu% abls service to men and women seeking positions. The other is that the office is rendering aid to men wanting employees. Patrick Salmon, examiner in the office of the United Stales Employment Service in Oklahoma City, Okie., arrived in Columbia, with 143 laborer* who will be employed at Camp Jack on. A number of Indians are among the men brought to Columbia by Mr. Salmon. The others are white men. Another shipment df laborers from Oklahoma Is expected within the next few days. Continued Economy Necoosary. The food administration announces In a pamphlet issued from Washingtoa and distributed through the state administrators that for the allies the danger of privation is passed, but the need of rigid economy is still presont. For the people of the United States, says the food administration, the ne. cesslty of voluntary sacrifice, of willing devotion is as great as ever. Con aervaffon Is Imperative to provide against the lean years. "Going without wheat by the American people in the bust six months saved the allies from actual defeat." say* the food administration. "We had lees than 20.000.000 bushels to! spare, we sent- 141,000.000 bushels. We did It by going without it. If the American people had failed In th^s, | the second battle of the Marne. the | victory in which our American troops had so great a share, would never have been fought. Influenza Increasing. Spanish influenza is reaching an epidemic stage among the civilian j ? population of South Carolina, accord-1 tng to reports received by TV. James Adams Hayne, state health ofTcer, I who estimates that there in fully 5,000 ,cases In various parts of the stale. The worst epidemic in the state, according: to reports, hi in Newberry, where 1,600 cases are reported. The town is under rigid quarantine, and the three mills there have closed down. Dr. Hayne has appealed to the physicians and the nuraes of the state <o help stay the epidemic. Because of the war, there is a dearth of phy-j siclans and nurses in some localities,! and assistance will be sent by the' state board of health at once. There i? a strong probability that extensive quarantine meaaures will be adopted by mdny towns and cities Throughout the state to prevent or stay the progress .of the disease. The scarcity of physicians and nurses as mentioned above would seem to make such step absolutely necessary unless a favorable change In the situation is soon noted. Automobile Lieenaea. The regular monthly meeting of the state highway commission was held receatly and the report of F. H. Murray, acting state highway engineer. showed that work is progressing satisfactorily. Receipts of 930.1.192.36 for licenses W for the current year were s^own. The total number of owners' licenses Issued to date was 53.500; dealers' licenses. 2,883; motorcycle licenses, 3.213; the receipts iw these being $232.651 63. $11,760 and $1,757.42 respectively. Charters and Commissions. W. Ranks Dove, secretary of state, loaned a commission te Powell & Freeman of Columbia, with a proposed capital stock of $10.00 for wholesale and retail clothing business. Talor-Bethea-Renner Lumber Co., of lAtta, was chartered with a capl' tal stock of $10,000. The Piedmont Mining Company of Gaffney was chartered with A capital stock of $V000. William Guest la president; F, M. Boykln, vice president and SL L. Settlelheyer, secretary end treasurer. K . . v x. V -i '; v~ * "OT-w ' * / * ; . ' ' - ' % } .-.j?'' , ? ' x r * V THE I Impressive Figures Given. Dispatches from Washington say: "Congressman W. F. Stevenson addressed the house on the subject of fixing a price on cotton. His address, in part, follows: "There is general talk of cotton price fixing, said to be necessary because the price has advanced to an extravagant figure. The Washington Post last week asserted editorially that it was far beyond its worth. Let us see if this statement is justified. The four years before the war began the South made 59,687.538 bales; in the years 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918 it made 45.343.125, a reduction of 14,-344,413 bales, or more than a year's average crop. The world, outside of the United States, has made for the last four years an average of 6,513.000 I bales. Or for the four ?f! (l"i? ftoo 1 bales of cotton, and add to this the number of bales raised in the United States for the last four years and we have 71.395,125 bales, all that !ihs been produced in the world in the last four years. Consumption has been at a rate of 20,000.000 hales a year average, or for the four years 80.000,000 bales, which shows that it has exceeded the production by 9.604,875 bales. "Can we expect the world to get cotton as cheap when consumption exceeds production by 2,500.000 bales a year four years? Again, fertilixers j and labor and supplies and stock and : machinery have increased in price 100 to 300 per cent. The price of goods mad* front cotton hag^jtlso-increased on an average of 300 per cent, and shall cotton be held down to bare cost of production ar.d less? The price of cotton v/hen the war broke out i<o 1914 was 14 oems per pound. It is now 33 cents, and there ia a proposition to tlx it at 25 cents per pound. Certainly it would be unfair to cut the price of cotton down and enable the manufacturer to Increase his handsome profit. The plea for fixing price of wheat was to fix such a price as j would guarantee a cafe return and stimulate production. The fixing of any price under 85 i.ei.ts will have the opposite tendency in cotton. "Let supply and demand regulate it. That was what we were told in 1914. South Carolina Casualties. ..Casualties among South Carolina iiuu|?, uversnm, ma mown dj recent reports from the front, are a* follows: Killed in Action?Private! Wade Thompson. Sellars; J. X. Murray, Blaekville; Jacob Prioleau, Charleston. Died of Wounda?Lieut. K. V Walsh, B.?ckville; Privates H. S. Archer Anderson; F. D. Strlbiing, Columbia. Died of Disease?Privates Humbert Hook. North; Eugene Davis. Florence; Preston Robinson. Anderson. Prisoners, or Missing?Sergt. P. N. Gunter. Samaria; Privates C. S. Bagwell. Belton; G. L. Howard, Greenville; H. L. Waters. Liberty; Luxe Robletter. Battle Creek; W. A. Douglass. Hartsville; I. C. Quinn, Pacolei. Severely Wounded?Lieut. L. A. Freeman. Spartanburg; Private Robert Jacobs. Pelion; Eddie Saunders, Orangeburg; P. J. Hfl Ross, Pelzer. Strenuous Labor Situation. Figures assembled by H. L. TUghman. federal labor director in South Carolina, indicate an unsurpassed labor shortage in this State. Mr. Tlghman has an iminediute call for 12 500 workmen on government contracts alone. The men needed include 3.300 carpenters and nearly 10,000 common laborers. The following is the number of men needed by various government construction companies in the state as reported by Mr. Tilghman: Mason & Hangar Contracting Company, Charleston port terminal. 1,200 carpenters; 2.500 laborers. Subcontractors of Mason A Hangar also at work on port terminal construction work. 600 men iminedia'?ly and 200 additional men weekly. Charleston navy yard. 200. Parris Island marine barracks, 200. Cantonment construction, Columbia, 2.000 carpenters and 3.000- laborers. Electrical workers and other skilled workmen are called for to the number of 2,300. Dam construction contractors at Lugoff are calling fot 500 men. The number of men needed for tha $3,000,000 government contract at Camp Sevier. Greenville, has not been reported to Mr. Tilghman. Neither Is the number designated for Camu Wadsworth. Appointments by Governor. Governor Manntinif made the following appointments: K. C. Allen, magistrate at Datta, Dillon county. W. M. Dillard. magistrate at Westmlntser, Oconee county, vice John D. Sheldon, declined to serve. T. A. Irwin. Spartanburg .commit* j sioner of federal elections. Walter M. Dunlap. Rock IH11. commissioner federal elections. Game wardens: K. I*. Grim ball, John's Island; A. S. Perry. Summerrille; Kdw. M. Bailey, Kdisto Island. To Try Camden Routa. Postofflce authorities contmplate an Immediate change in the present motor mail route between Columbia and Charleston. Trucks which have been hitherto utilized between Columbia and Orangeburg are to be diverted to a new motor mail line to be established between Columbia and Camden. The new arrangement is to be effected within the next week or ten days. It was emphasized that the motor mail plan had ngt been ao successful as had been anticipated. ' o FOR' wJLHik? FORT MIL LADY WILLIN6D0N ? i , m m * llSl HHN^^^BS^P^^H|^?2^nhm I?E^MIWMfcWMif W??m?>r fnHM Tk. w__.TVl.?--? i - j - -- - i no uciuinui Liay wmingaon, daughter of Lord Brasssy, and wife of Lord Freeman Thomas Willingdon, who j has been governor of Bombay since 1913, and is first lord in waiting to hie majesty, George V. ENEMY'S VJUN RESISTANCE FULL RETREAT NORTHWARD OF i AUSTRO-HUNGARIANS UPON THEIR OWN BORDERS. Allies Closing in on All Sides of Groat Battle Area Despite the Strongest Opposition. I.ens tho heaft of the crest 'coal region in northern France and Arinentieres, almost equally important as a manufacturing center, have been evacuated by ttve Germans; the German fortified positions between Camhrai and St Quentin have been definitely smashed, and the Austro-llunKarhfiS in Albania, forsaken by their for*ner allies, the Bulgarians, are in j full retreat northward toward their, border from the Adriatic sea to l^ake ! Ochrida. Of the reconquering of invaded Bel-1 gium and the progress of the French ' and Franco-American forces respectively north- of Rheims and eastward' in f Ml II til no crnri tn 11. ? I* ? ?* ,r ' iv tiiv v u iuii/ ui v er- j dun. the tale remains the same?the j Germans slowly but surely are being i forced everywhere to give ground and ; their vital defenses daily continue to j he eaten into, notwithstanding the | strong resistance that the enemy is imposing to make null the efforts of the allies to close in on all sides of the great battle area from the North sea to the Swiss border and compel the German command to reconstruct its fighting line. In Belgian Flanders the Belgian. French and British troops are keeping up their eastward progress in their endeavors to compel the Germans to give up Ostend and Zeebrugge. their naval bases on the j North sea. I PRICE OF WEARING APPAREL TO BE FIXED BY GOVERNMENT Washington.? Prices and dHtribu-j Hon of practically all articles of wear-' itig apparel are to be controlled by I the war industries board. Regulations issued prescribing certain fixed prices for shoes constituted only the first step In a general policy for price control of clothing. This was disclosed by Chairman Barucli, of the board, at a special' meeting of the National Retail^ Dry . Goods Association. Referring to the putting into efTect of the agreement between the board and the shoe in-, duary. Mr. Harueh said: "After that will have to coma the regulation and distribution of most all of the things which you gentlemen | have to deai with; i don't want von to say it can't be done, because it j must he done. It is unthinkable that ' only the man with the longest pocket- I book can get the things that he r.eeds." INFANTRY AND TANKS MAKE muai sutUbSSFUL ATTACK I^ondon.? The attack by British Infantry and tanks along an eight-mile front from Sequeheart to the canal ! north of Bony, in the rft. Quenltn see- j tor. wan completely successful, according to Field Marshal Haig's report from British headquarters. British troops have reached the outskirts of Monlgrehaiti (about five milos east of Bellicourt | and further j north have captured Gouy and LeC'atelet. NAVY PATROL BOAT TAMPA LOST WITH ALL ON BOARD Washington.?I>oss of the naval pa- j trol boat Tampa, formerly the coast-J guard cutter Miami, with all on board : ?118 nine?was announced. The ves-1 sel was sunk on tile night of Septem- , ber 2?> In the Bristol channel off the rnaat of Bngiand. and Vice Admiral 31ms' report indicated that she was torpedoed while escorting a convoy. Through the sinking of the Tampa the navy suffered ita greatest single blow of the war. r Mi L, S. C., THURSDAY. OCTOB! 1 PEACE OFFER MADE > j BY GERMAN RULER PROPOSITION MUST SIGNIFY UNQUALIFIED ACCEPTANCE OF WILSON'S TERMS. NO COMPROMISE IS POSSIBLE I ' -? Great Principle Is "Reign of Law, ! Based Upon the Consent of THE GOVERNED. 1 Emperor William issued a proclamation to the German army and navy t I in which, after announcing that the J ; Macedonian front had crumbled, he J declared that he had decided In accord with his allies to ugain offer peace to the enemy. The t??x| of the note forwarded by | i it., i??i-1 ?? - -- ...<r. iui|icii?i uerman cnanceilor, | Prince Maximilian, to President Wilson, through the Swiss government follows: "The German government requests the President of the United State to take in hand the restoration of peace, acquaint all the belligerent states of this request and invite them to send plenipotentiaries for flfe purpose of opening negotiations. "I| accepts the program set forth by the President of the United States in his message to Congress on Janu- : arv 8 and In his later pronouncements. | especially his speech of September 27, as a basis for peace negotiations. "With a view to avoiding further bloodshed, the German government requests the immediate conclusion of an armistk-e on land and water and ; In the air." NEW PEACE MOVE IS NOT AT { ALL POPULAK IN WASHINGTON i Washington.?The new peace move is not popular here. It is believed ] that the President will give it a quick and decisive answer. Leaders of Congress are unwilling to 1 negotiate with Germany for peace, j Here and there a member of the ' house or senate who hesitated about entering the light against German autocracy thinks that It would be well to discuss terms with the Berlin government. but the more sturdy congressmen believe that the President should turn the proposition down fiat. There is very little sympathy here , for Germany. Austria or Turkey, and a majority of the senators and repre- | sentatives hope that the president will j give a quick sliort answer to the German chancellor. STRONG LANGUAGE EXUDES FROM GERMAN NEWSPAPER Amsterdam.?-Germany is beginning to realize and admit that it is a na tion of scoundrels. Press comment, always the best key to the public opinion of a nation, is veering around to the point where it is confessing Germany'* faults. Frankly the German papers are beginning to admit that they must abandon the! idea that their armlee are fighting for conquest, and realize that what they are fighting for is bare existence. "It is a matter of damnable import-l ance," says The Cologne Gazette, al-j ways regarded as a semi-official Jour-| nal. "whether we are or are not re-1 garded throughout tha world as a na-j tion of blackguards. Indeed we are | being so regarded." DESPERATE FIGHTING GOES ON ON AMERICAN FRONT1 ? | With the American Army Northwest of Verdun?T^ie American troops on the line stretching westward from the Meuse who are opposed by rein- j forced units of the German army were biisv straightening out the kinks left in their long front. It was a day lacking spectacular operations, but a sum- ' mary of the reports reaching headquarters indicated the desperate ehdtg, arier of the fighting. The general line was not materially altered, but such changes as were made were to the advantage of the Americans. TERSE COMMENT ON GERMAN OFFER AND AS APT AS TERSE Washington.?It hardly Is taking a ! position I tl adv?nno nt ? ' . ... ? . ... ..it- .Miirrican government to say that if the present proposition signifies Germany's unqualified acceptance of the four prln- | ciples laid down by President Wilson i It will be considered. If It doesn't; If' It Is an acceptance "In principle" with saving diplomatic language paving the i way for quibbling around a council ta- i ble, ! will not he considered. 1 MAY BE SHAEWD MOVE TO HINDER SALE OF BONDS Washington.?Ohe thought concern- < Ing the German peace ofTer that found J | expression in many quarters was that i the Germans. In launching their effort i Juat at this time, probably hope to affect the fourth T-iberty loan by ereaf- 1 Ing the idea that the end of the war la 1 at hand. It Is believed, however, that 1 their effort will have the directly op- 1 poslte effect. Officials -were confident 1 that the American people will mora 1 generously over-subscribe the loan. 4' LL T BR 10.1918 COL HERBERT A. BRUCE v Col. Herbert A. Bruce, consulting surgeon of the British army. SEES THE APPROACH OF DAWN i THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE HAS I BEEN DEFINITELY BROKEN; ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS. One of Darkest Nights in Human History is Coming to a Close; Vic- j tory No Matter of Doubt. j The German offensive has been bro- j ken. Germany's conquered prov-1 lures and cities are slipping rapidly : from her grasp. Allied troops in Bel- : giurn. in French Flanders, in Artois, ' in Champagne and In Lorraine, are advancing in country which has been , German for forty-seven long months and all chance of a German return to the offensive is gone. The march to Berlin has begun.1 Cambrai. St. Quentln and Lille are only the starting places, but after four years no one can fail to see that . the grand inarch has started. If the 1 road is loug the rate of our advance ! is increasing. One of the darkest nights in all human history is coming to a close, j Victory is no longer even a matter of ^ debate. From the North Sea to the j banks of the Moaelle the tlnal advance is going forward. GERMANS STILL IN RETREAT ON WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE j Again tli* Q?rm?nn are in retreat j on an important sartor of the western , battle front in France. The scene of ' the new retrograde movement is nj wide front north and south of La-| Rassee canal. The cmitinuation by the entente al- 1 lied forces of their brilliant achieve- ; nienta in restoring Belgium, Flanders ! and the expulsion of the enemy from j further territory in France from the: region of Otwubrai to Verdun evident-1 ly has brought the Germans to the realization that the great bend in the line from Menin to the east of Arras is likely to prove aonther such trap ( as was the St. Mihiel salient unless they are fast enough of foot to move J eastward, giving up Lille. Lens and j Denial, and straighten their line from the vicinity of C-ambral to Belgium. On all the other six battle fronts from Belgium to Verdun the entente j forces are keeping up their success- i ful advances. IMPERILLED AMERICAN FORCE 18 RESCUED BY BRITISH British Headquarters in France..?! The contiaigent of Americans, who had been holding out since Sunday in a far advanced position between Cam- j brat and St. Quentln against greatly superior enemy numbers, have been , rescued. In our attacks around Vendhuile we were able to fight through and relieve this party, numbering some hundreds, who having taken up their position Sunday night were surrounded by the Germans. j Notwithstanding that they were opposed by such superior numbers and only possessed the ammunition and rations which they themselves were carrying, the Americans made a i magnificent resistance and the ground was strewn with German dead. LARGE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL ' IS CAPTURED BY AMPBirawe Washington. ? General Pershing's communique says that a partial count of the material captured during the past week by the American troops advancing between the Meuse and Argonne shows 120 guns.of all calibers, Toft trench mortars. 300 machine guns. 1 100 heavy tank guns, thousands of artillery shells and hundreds of thousands of rounds of small arm ammunition. Only artillery and machine ^un lire was reported on the front. BRITISH ARE FORCED BACK AT ONE POINT BY GERMAN8 I^ondon.?The. Germans have lost further ground to the British In the intskirts of C'amhrai and northwest of that city, but northeast of St. Quenin the British under a violent counter-attack have been forced from the village of Sequeliart. The enemy attacked itrongly northeast of St. Quentin and mcceeded in pressing back our troops from the village of Sequehart when lis progress was stopped. ^ . "t " " . ' " * IMGS -A. ? " MEIOFMS MAKE STEADY GAIN I NO REST IS GIVEN TO WEARY HUNS IN RETREAT BEFORE RELENTLESS FOE. AMERICANS HOLDING LINES Italians Attacking and Defeating Enemies in Mountain Regions of Northern Italy. Nowhere are the armies of the Teutonic allies belli* permitted to rent. On the fronts in Flanders. France. Italy. Albania and Turkey the enemy still continues to lose ground, or is being compelled to throw strong reinforcements into his battle line to hold back his aggressors. In Belgian Flanders, the Belgians. British and French troops are still driving forward, although their speed had been somewhat lessened by reason of the bad condition of the ground. .ic ciiniij is swiiuy rvacum iiK the salient between Armentieres and Lena and the British now ate standing only a scant six miles southwest of Lille over a front of about four miles between Wavrin and Kqlnghem. at the former place having gained a position astride the Lens-Lilte railroad. In the mountain region in northern , Italy the Italians on several sectors have attacked and defeated the Au?- i triana, while in Albania the AustroMungarians are in fast retreat before j the Italian armies. Italian cavalry is working far in advance of the infantry. harassing the enemy. The j Semeni river in western Albania has been crossed, and the enemy supply center invaded. In Palestine the Turks have been driven far hevond Damascus with the British still on their heels harrying them. OUR AVIATORS AGAIN COVER THEMSELVES WITH GLORY With the American Army North west of Verdun. The American avia- | tors again covered themselves with glory and performed .almost the im- J possible. Dawn broke with mists heavy over the trenches and the coun- | try across which the Americans were to go. and it was hours before the weather cleared sufficiently to permit of any observation to speak of. Th?? splendid laison that marked the day's operations was due In great part to the work of the aviators, who | countless times risked their lives in reconnoiteritig. attacking the retreat- j ing Germans and bringing back re- j ports. German tliers during the emirs morning swooped over the beads of | the American infantry only a few hundred meters above the earth, using machine guns with telling effect until ; driven off. AMERICAN TROOPS ARE DOING GOOD WORK ALONG THE MEUSE With the American Army Northwest of Verdun?The Americans resumed the attack west of the Meuse , and advanced their lines front two j to live kilometers. They captured, Hill 240. north of Kxermont. and the , villages of Gesnes, Fleville, Oheherjr and La Forges. In the face of heavy artillery and machine gun Are Illinois. Wisconsin, western Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia troos have forced the aneniy back in tl.e Krietnhilde position, south of Foret wood. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO LIBERTY LOAN TOO MUCH BELATED Washington.?The nation is marching toward its six-billion dollar Liberty loan goal at just u little more than half the speed required to main- i tain a daily subscription rate of $315,- ! 000.000. Bond sales officially tabulated were announced by the treasury as $855,132,900 or an Incresae of $229.000,000 in the last 24 hours. At the j standard rate of $315,000,000 a day. 1 the record by this time should have been $1,575,000,000. AMERICAN CASUALTIES ARE SAID TO BE MODERATE Tendon.?British and French forces continued to advance north of St. Quentin. They reached the outskirts of Bontbrehain after severe fighting. The American casualties in the Argonne region are described as moderate. The Germans have been unable to maintain their imual artillery Are and undoubtedly beginning seriously to feel the loss of the large number of guns captured from them recently, i TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION' IN JERSEY MUNITIONS PLANT Perth Am boy, N. J.?Many men ' were killed and scores of others injured in a tremendous explosion at the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Shellloading Company, at Morgan, near here. The number of dead and Injured cannot he determined until employe* of the plant answer a roll call in tha morning. Estimates placed the number of killed and hurt at from 50 to more than 100. ,1 , Vt. - - y r *^Vi ' r v :* ' . .' ' 'V '. .. ? c' fr $1.29 Per Tear. i HEW. \ FDREIGNPREMIERS} NO HASTE TO BE MADE IN Rfc. PLYING TO PROPOSAL OF GERMAN KAISER. ARMISTICE NOT CONSIDERED ??? I President Has Probably Already Fo?*> mulated His Reply, Subject to Approval of Allies. Washington.?President Wilson 1? conferring with the premiers of the entente nations over the foihn of an- > swer to be made to Germany's latest peace propos lis. The indications are that it will not be dispatched for a lay or two. While there may be some question as to form of the reply, there is no question whatever as to its < nature. It may not use the shnrf anil fnn.nful I NEW KING OF BULGARIA ISSUES HIS MANIFESTO Amsterdam In his manifesto to the Bulgarian people announcing his accession to the throne. King Boris, according to a dispatch from Sofia, referred to the fact that his father, in renouncing the throne, sacrificed himself in the supreme national intercut. In taking the name of Boris III, the new king solemnly declared he would resepct the constitution and work faithfully for the prosperity of the country where he was l?orn. IMPORTANT SUCCCESSES ARE ATTAINED BY AMERICANS With the American Forces Northwest of Verdun. ? The Americana achieved another Important though local success hv forcing the Germans out of Chuel rheherv. northwes# of Apremont. Pushing forward, they overcame the ?subhoru resistance of the enemy and set.t'ed themselves on 'he commanding heights west of the -Ivor Aire. Nothing of importance occurred on the other portions of tho American front. later disastrous consequences to the militaristic hierarchy if the army suf- <1 fer.s wholly decisive defeat. Germany warts peace, yes. but ah? a wants peace on her own terms, having 'f failed to impose victorious peace on S her own terms. She is not in the least convinced that she will have to accept our terms. Her statesmen are now * maneuvering to disrupt our alliance and at the same time to get the sentiment of the German people behind .-i them again by establishing the fact & that the enemy demands that Germany shall pay the price of her crimes and meet the demand for restoration. restitution, reparation. These w demands are just as unwelcome to I he peasant as the junker and neither is yet ready to accept them. FIFTEEN HUNDRED AMERICANS ARE PRISONERS IN GERMANY Washington Members of the American expeditionary forces who liav? been identified as prisoners of war in Germany numbered 1.480 on October f>. said an announcement from the office of the adjutant general of th? army. In addition. 220 civilians Interned in Germany have been Identified as have t'.l sailors held in Constant inoplefi term "unconditional surrender," which would reflect the sentiment which has come from the spokesmen of the nation. but it is sure to convey to the German government clearly the fact that nothiug less than the terms already laid down can be accepted. By this time. Prince Maximilian's note and that of Baron Burian, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, in official form, undoubtedly are in the foreign offices in London. Paris and Home, forwarded by President Wilson. as requested by the central pow- A, |. Obviously the American govern- * ntent would not proceed to speak for ? the other belligerents on a jnatter of such importance without consultation * among them. and. it is purposed to 2 avoid the mistake of making a curt * and peremptory rejection which could be used by the central powers, before their own people, to bolster up the argument that they are waging a "de- ^ Tensive" war and that the objects of ej the co-belligerents are to "destroy " them." Lacking official announcements of ^1 what the President has done It is J highly probable that he had taken one I r?f tllOCP i ML*i\ OAlll'^AO. Either ho has asked Premiers I.loyd George. Clemencean and Orlando to advise him of their replies, or. mors * likely still, the President already has * formulated a reply and asked the pre- 71 miers for their acquiescence. _4| tf PEACE OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED FOR MILITARY PURPOSES ' New York.?Once more it is esse^- ,\| tial for the American people to recognize that they are in the presence 4 of a peace offensive launched for mil- 3 itarv purposes. This offensive is de- ^1. signed to benefit the military situation jfc of the German by saving the German ^ army from the Immediately grave rer>t in