The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 21, 1918, Image 8
WILSON SPEAKS FOB ALLIES.
LAXSENG ISSUES STATEMENT
IMMEDIATELY ON RECEIPT
C> DOCUMENT.
Siaoe Central Powers Have Been
Definitely Told How They May End
"War Only One Reply Could be
Made to Last Communication?No
Lack of Understanding.
t Washington, Sept 16.?The United
States, as was fully expected, has un
conditionally rejected Germany's
' peace feeler. In doing- so the gov
* eminent has ,spoken for all the co
bcihgerents.
Almost immediately after receiving
the Austrian, government's note from
the minister from Sweden, Mr. Eken
' gren, Secretary , Lansing tonight is
sued this formal statement:
"I am authorized by the president
to state that the following will be the
reply of this government to the Aus
tro-Hungarian note proposing an un
official conference of belligerents:
".The government of the United
States feels that there is only one re
ply which it can make to the sugges
tion Of the . imperial Austro-Hungar
ian government. It has repeatedly
and with entire candor stated the
terms which the United States would
consider and can and will entertain
'? no proposal for a conference upon
a matter concerning which it has
made its position and purpose so
plain.'"
Mr. Lansing's statement was given
out within half an hour after he had
received the Austrian proposal. It
would have been forthcoming almost
immediately upon the delivery of the
1 Austrian note had it not been found
'necessary in order to avoid the pos
sibility of grave error to make a care
- ful comparison between the official
' text and that which was received in
" press dispatches last night from Am
. sterdam.
-Thus emphasis was added to the
decimation, if any were needed; the
quickness of the reply, indicating the
existence of no shadow of doubt in
the mind of the administration as to
what It should be. As soon as Mr.
Lansing's reply can be put into form
it will be handed to the Swedish min
ister for transmission to Austria,
The Swedish legation notified N the
State department early in the after
noon that it had received the note
and that it would be presented as
soon as it could be decoded and
translated from French. This con
sumed several hours and it was not
until 6.20 o'clock that Mr. Ekengren
appeared. He remained with the
. secretary only two minutes.
? - --There is some reason to believe
that the secretary acted with this un
precedented promptness in a matter
j of such great import with the design,
. not only to indicate clearly the po
sition of the United States govern
ment but perhaps to . anticipate and
prevent as far as possible newspaper
discussion of the Austrian proposition
which might convey to the enemy a
misleading impression that there was
any. considerable element in the Unit
ed :Statea willmjg to consider a nego
tiated i peace, such as the "non-bind
ing" discussions proposed by Ausiria.
might develop. '
/:aiso, < it is understood there was a
purpose to sound the note which en
tente powers might repeat in making
their own answers. All these powers
had gone on record formally as ac
cepting, the conditions of peace laid
down by President Wilson as- their
own.
While no reference to it was made
in the reply which the United States
government Is making to Austria, it
is" known that one of the most ob
jectionable features of Baron Bu
rian's proposition was *he secrecy
suggested for the non-binding con
ferences. It was realizing by officials
, here that the purpose was to' barter
away the rights of various nationali
ties in star chamber proceedings that
the victims would have no knowledge
of .their fate until it was beyond re
caH. This system of barter was par
ticularly denounced by President Wil
son in one of his speeches.
That the German people them
selves were to be kept in the dark by
the' military masters and prevented
from having a voice in the peace
which was to be imposed upon them
was regarded as an assured fact
There has been some apprehension
in administration circles of a com
bination of great financial interests,
that know no nationality, and fear
the destruction of all wealth and bus
iness by the spread of Bolshevik idea?
might in some way be behind this
movement to bring about a peace
and terminate the war bet ore it had
been* fought to a clear decision.
There is no such 'apprehension of
the part of the administration of a
cataclysm which will bring down all
civilized institutions and instead the
general staff has given every assur
ance that the war is proceeding to
a reasonably early and complete vic
tory which will involve the accept
ance by the central powers of the
only possible terms of peace?name
ly, those laid down by President Wil
son.
"Those terms, referred to in the re
ply dictated today to the Austrian
note, were clearly set out in Presi
dent Wilson's Fourth of July speech
at Mount Vernon, as follows:
"1. The destruction of every ar
bitrary^ power anywhere that can sep
arately secretly and of its single
chance disturb the peace of the
world; or, if it can "not be presently
destroyed, at least its reduction to
virtual impotence.
"2. The settlement of every ques
tion, whether of territory, of sover
eignty or economic arrangement, of
political relationship, upon the basis
of the free acceptance of that set
tlement by the people immediately
concerned and not upon the basis of
the material interest or advantage of
any other nation or people which may
desire a different settlement for the
sake of its own exterior influence or
mastery.
"3. The consent of all nations to
be governed in their conduct towards
each other by the same principles of
honor and of respect for the common
law of civilized society that govern
the individual citizens of all modern
states in the relations with one an
REPLY TO HUNS.
ANSWER TO PEACE SUGGESTION
MADE ON BATTLEFIELD.
Point of Attack Made Subject of Wide
Speculation by Officers?Believed
That Several Simultaneous Drives
May be Launched Along Extended
Front.
The United States has turned its
back on the Austro-Hungarian peace
proposal. Secretary Lansing, by au
thorization of President Wilson, an
nounces that the United State? ''can
and will entertain no proposal for a
conference upon a matter concerning
which it has made its position and
purpose so plain." The British secre
tary of foreign affairs, Mr. Balfour,
has also stated, though unofficially,
that he was utterly unaN,e to see
that such a conference as proposed
by Austria could have the desired
end, adding: "It is incredible that
anything can come of this proposal."
While the German newspapers
comment on the proposal as if Ger
many had no part in it, the Vienna
newspap* .s declare emphatically that
all of Austria's allies had been in
formed of Austria's intention though
the action itself was Austro-Hun
gary's own.
Meanwhile, in the various theatres
I of the war the fighting is going on
steadily and with added impetus in
Macedonia, where the reconstituted
Serbian army, coperating with the
I French forces, have stormed three
[strongly fortified positions and oecu
l pied Vetrenik, Dobropolkje and Se
kal, considered the most important
of the Macedonian front.
Farther east on the Doiran-Vardar
from the first and second line Bulga
rian positions have been captured by
the allies ever a ten mile section. This
successful operation, according to Mr.
Balfour, who announced it at a re
ception of the Greek delegation in
London, as the prelude to an import
ant offensive bringing greater tri
umph in which the British and
Greek troops would take an equal
and glorious part.
French troops, in their advance to
ward the Chemin-des-Dames have
gained two-thirds of a mile on a two
and half mile front, where they cap
tured an additional 600 prisoners.
American and German patrols arc
doing the major part of the work or?
the Lorraine front, but there are re
ports ?f a possible great attack by
one side or the other in the Vosges.
In that mountainous territory the ar
tillery fire has deevloped great in
tensity and hostile airplanes have
been unusually active.
All reports indicate a marked in
crease in the work of the airplanes
along all the fronts. The German?
who quite recently appeared to lack
adequate air forces, have now sent
augmented forces into the air and
there have been numerous engage
ments. As an illustration of the se
verity of the fighting the British air
men on Sunday accounted for 37
German planes, while they themselves
reported 16 missing.
While the 'Czecho-Slovaks have
been courageously and successfully
carrying on their war against the
Bolsheviki, steps have been taken
looking to the organization of a Pol
ish division under Polish officers, to
wage the fight in Siberia westward
to their fatherland as integral units
in the American army. It is estimat
ed that 100,000 trained men can be
made available at once in tlie region
of Harbin, Nikolsk and Vladivostok.
SPANISH INFLUENZA.
Epidemic Breaks Out: in Aviation
Camp of Training Station.
Great Lakes, 111., Sept. 17.?Ap
proximately four thousand men are
in quarantine as a result of Spanish
influenza breaking out in the avia
tion camp of the naval training sta
tion here.
$3,000,000,000 From War Excess Tax
Profits.
Washington, Sept. 18.?With les
sened hours of discussion and without
amendment the house today adopted
a general plan and rates in the war
revenue bill for taxation. War ex
cess tax profits, it is estimated will
yield more than three billion dollars
revenue.
Enlarged Military Program for Next
Year.
Washington, Sept. 17.?Congress
was asked by the war department to
day to provide $7,347,727,000 in ad
dition to previous estimates for en
largement of the American military
program for the coming year.
other; to the end that all promises
and! covenants may be sacredly ob
served, no private plots or conspiracy
hatched, no selfish injuries wrought
with impunity, and a mutual trust
established upon the handsome foun
dation of a mutual respect for right
"4. The establishment of an organ
ization of a peace which shall make
it certain that the combined power
of free nations will check every inva
sion of right and serve to make peace
and justice the more secure by afford
ing a definite tribunal of opinion to
which all must submit and by whicli
every international readjustment that
can not be amicably agreed upon by
the peoples directly concerncl shall
be sanctioned."
There is some speculation in official
circles as to what will be the next
step in what is recognized as the
irreat Germanic peace offensive. Gen
erally it is believed that the German
and Austrian military leaders will
point to the American reply as an evi
dence that they have done everyhins,'
possible to bring about peace and
thus try to strengthen their people
for another winter campaign. But
another view is that owing to the in
tolerable conditions in Austria-Hun
gary, there is more than a possibility
of a breaking up of the quadruple
alliance; that Austria having gone |
through the form of making a peace
proposal, which was promptly re
jected, has thus cleared the way for
her next step, an unconditional sur
render on the terms laid down by
President Wilson. ?
PLOTS A6AINST RUSSIANS. I
?
GERMAN TRICKERY EXPOSED
IN DOCUMENTS.
Sale of Bolshevik!?So-called Govern
ment Was Fully Informed of Work
of Huns in Ukraine.
Washington, Sept. 17.?German!
trickery in breaking the Ukraine j
away from the bought-and-paid-for
Bolshevik government, plots against j
loyal Russian soldiers and their lead-j
ers to insure complete German sway
after che false peace conference : at |
Brest-Litovsk and further evidence I
of the precautions of the Tutons
against Bolshevik preaching in their
own ranks are shown in today's in
stallment of secret documents from
Russia made public by the United
States government.
Communications written in January
disclose that the Bolsheviki were:ful
ly informed of what the Germans
were doing in the Ukraine, and knew
that peace treaties with the Ukraine
and Roumania were coming. They
also learned, quickly enough that Ger
many was disposing of their hopes
to see their revolutionary propaganda
took on German soil.
Notes from the German intelli
gence service to Trotzky, the commis
sar of foreign affairs, showed first
that a Turk with a Russian passport
was sent to Petrograd to keep watch
over the Russian commander in chief
and that a month afterward, late in
February, removal of the commander
in chief, General Bonch-Brueyick,
was demanded. Brunevick, whose
continuance in the position was "par
ticularly no longer desirable" to the
German intelligence service, was ap
pointed to command the Petrograd
district.
Another note from the intelligence
service complains that "the agents
sent to kill Kaledin, Bokaevsky and
Alexieff were cowardly, non-enterpris
ing people." This same document
shows as long ago as December,
1917, former German prisoners of
war were being dressed in Russian
uniforms to fight loyal Russian sol
diers.
The significance of the documents
is discussed in notes by Edgar Sis
son, who brought the documents out
of Russia for the committee on pub
lic information.
Crermany made its Russian peace
with its own puppet government, the
misnamed council of people*^ commis
sars, the president of which is Vladi
mir Ulinaov (Lenin) the foreign
minister of which was Leon Trotzky,
and the ambassador of which to.Ger
many is A. Joffe. Germnay made this
peace harder upon the Russian people
as punishment to the ambition of its
tools in seeking to become too power
ful and in hoping for .a iittle~..wh#e
not only that Russia would be1 deliv
ered over to them, but that they could
double-cross their masters by .turning
a simulated \German revolution into a
real one.: ,
But their craftiness was a. toy in
the hands of rough German. foree;
Germany was actually doijble?cros?
ing them- by negotiating with ^^R*
Ukrainian' Rada at the moment thev
dreamed they were tricking Ger
many. ' c
Germany, however, did not discard
the Bolshevik leaders, recognizing
their further use in the German world
campaign for internal disorganization
in the nations with which it wars
but confined them to the limited in
land province which Great Russia
proper has now become.
Lenin, according to statements made
public as soon as Trotzky's spectacu?
lar device of "No Peace?No WairV
failed, always was for peace on any
German terms. He dominated the
situation' thereafter and conceded ev
erything that Germany asked. Nor
did Trotzky cease to continue to obey
the German orders delivered to him
both by General Hoffman, at Brest
Litovsk and at Petrograd, directly by
the Russian division of the German
general staff, which was seated in
Petrograd itself from November, and
which was still there in full opera
tion when I left, Monday, March 4.
the day that Petrograd received noti
fication that peace had been signed
at Brest-Litovsk by the Russian and
German delegations.
Trotzky, - therefore, rests rightly un
der the accusation of having staged
his theatrical scene as a climax to the
Russian disorganization desired by
Germany. The actual order he gave
was for the -immediate demobilization
of the Russian army, leaving the Ger
man army unopposed.
The actual effect of the work of tbe
Bolshevik leaders, moreover, was to
enable Germany to combine its form
er army of the Russian front with its
western army for the launching of its
March offensive in France. Such has
been the fruition of Russia's German
directed Bolshevikism. ?
(The documents showing the de
tails of the story of Russia's betrayal
are omitted f#r lack of space today.)
BEHIND THE PRESIDENT.
Labor Delegates Propose to Stand by
President Wilson's Fourteen Points-.
London. Sept. 18.?The American
delegates to the inter-allied labor
and socialist conference today pre
sented proposals that the conference
endorse the fourteen points laid down
by President Wilson as conditions on
which peace may be established.
Sick and Wounded Soldiers Returned.
Washington. Sept. IS.?It has been
announced that during the week end
ing September 13th 3.8X4 siek and
wounded soldiers returned to the
Fluted States.
American Casualty List.
The Army Casualty list for today
contains 273 names divided as fol
lows: Killed in action, 74: missing in
action, 19; wounded severely, 145;
died of wounds, 27; wounded, degree
undetermined. 0; died of disease, 1:
wounded slightly, 1.
George F. Blackman. Heath Springs.
S. C. is reported severely wounded.
The marine corps easualties num
ber 22. Killed in aetion. 3; died of
wounds, 3; wounded in action (se
verely), 6; missing in action, 10.
Building' M
(
LIME,
LATH,
BRICK,
CEMENT,
SIDINb',
CEILING.
PLASTER,
SHINGLES,
FLOORING,
MOULDINGS,
FIRE CLAY,
FIRE BRICK,
ROUGH LUMBE
ROOFING PAf
Booth 6 Mi
t
GERMAN STRENGTH "REDUCED
AFTER ST. MIHIEL OPER
ATION.
Foe Still Aetive?No Greater Mistake
_ Could be Made Than to Consider
Enemy Done With.
American Headquarters in Lor
raine, Sept. 16 (Reuter's)?It prob
ably is not an over estimate to as
sume that the Americans in obliter
ating: the St. Mihiel salient reduced
the enemy's strength by the equiva
lent of four divisions. The victory of
the Americans was due to German
inferiority in numbers and a greater
inferority in morale.
The enemy was so busily occupied
in getting out of the salient that he
did not have time to remove his dead.
The statement coming from the
German high command that it is glad
to be rid of the salient may be be
lieved, but it may be doubted if the
command also is glad to have lost
15,000 men, more than 100 guns, an
innumerable quantity of machine
guns, trench mortars, tons of am
munition and telegraph material, as
well as railroad equipment, rolling
stock, clothing and supplies which
either were burned or captured by the
Americans.
False conclusions must not be
'drawn from the results of the oper
ations. To put it briefly, the Ger
mans did not fight, and the triflin?
damage they did to the French anc
Americans proves it.
The Germans may have done the
wisest thing, since if they had tried
to stand their losses would have been
increased enormously. The allies
had the means to insure, such a re
sult and the fact that trie operation
required on:y 57 per cent, of the
time allotted to it is proof that mucl:
more strenuous resistance was ex
pected from the enemy.
The Germans already have begun
to react. The number of enemy air
planes has increased greatly and th<
allies are striving to drive them off
At night the Germans attempt t<
bomb the Americans. These thing.1
do not suggest a beaten foe, and it
would be the gra\*est mistake U
imagine that the Germans are done
with.
f AMERICANS CONQUER MANY
OBSTACLES.
Attackers Had to Pass Forest, Thick
et and Wire as Well as Men.
With the American Army in Lor
raine, Sunday, Sept. 15 (By the As
sociated Press).?Difficulties almosi
unbelievable were overcome by the
Franco-American troops who attack
ed the Germans on the western flank
of the St. Mihiel salient. The heav
iest fighting occurred on this flank,
as elsewhere along the line of last
week's offensive, the Germans re
treated with little opposition. Th^
attackers had to storm and pass for
ests and thickets which were almost
a solid mass of barbed wire. They
had to traverse roads cut by many
trenches and were opposed not only
by men and all the machinery of
war but by nature as well. However,
they accomplished the almost incred
ible feat of breaking through. Be
hind them they left torn masses or'
wire, ruined roadways and wooded
hills belted with concrete forts.
FIVE NEGROES HANGED.
Five Negroes Hanged at Daybreak at
Fort Sam Houston for Participat
ing in Riots Last Year.
San Antonio, Sept. 17.?Five ne
groes, sentenced to death by a court
martial for participating in the
Houston i'ots of August last year,
j were hanged at Fort Sam Houston
at daybreak this morning. No civil
ians were pHowed to witness the ex
ecutions.
French Maintain Their Gains.
Paris. Sept. is.?The Germans last
night launched a violent counter at-!
tack against the French on the plat
eau northeast of Sancy. seven miles1
northeast of Soissons. The war of- j
fice statement says that the attack)
was unsuccessful. The French main-I
tained their gains.
Viscount Mot??no Dead.
_ j
i
Washington. Sept. 18.?Viscount
Motono. who resigned the ministry of,
foreign affairs of Japan four months?
ago died a1 Tokio yesterday from
stomach trouble.
iterial
hay,
corn,
oats,
hulls,
tank*
PrtlDDL
rice
whi
su
iv
:r
3er
deed, Inc., Si
wmmmwmmmmmwmmwmmmmmwmmmMmwmmmwmzmvwa
ALLIED SUCCESS IN RUSSIA.
AMERICAN, BRITISH AND
! FRENCH IN BATTLE WITH
BOLSHEVIKI.
Bolshevik Troops Repulsed on Arch
angel Front Fled in Panic.
Petrograd, Saturday, Sept. 16 (via
Amsterdam)?American, British and
? French detachments reported by
! Pravda have met the ?olsheviki
i forces in battle on the Archangel
I front. Bolshevik troops after initial
I success were repulsed bv the British
j reinforcements and lied in panic.
SERBIANS AND FRENCH ADVANCE
Progress Five Miles and Take Many
Important Positions and a Number
of Prisoners and Guns.
London, Sept. 17.?The Serbian
and French troops continued the of
fensive in Macedonia. They have
progressed five miles, according to
a Serbian official statement received
here. Advancing troops of the al
| lies have occupied an important se
! ries of ridges and captured more than
three thousand prisoners and 24
guns. Their casualties have been
slight. The allies are moving for
ward on a front of twelve miles and
have taken the village of Grade
shnitza, twenty miles east of Mon
astic The Jugo-Slav division fight
ing with the Serbians and French,
has reached Koziak, the most im
portant position in the region of the
offensive.
BRITISH LINES TIGHTEN.
Progress Made in St. Quentin Dis
j trict.
London, Sept. 17.?Last night wit
nessed a further closing in of the
British lines northwest of St. Quentin
it is officially reported today. Ic is
said that the British made progress
in this area in the direction of Lever
guir.
QUIET ON AMERICAN FRONT.
Little Fighting- Today?Germans Dig
ging in Again.
With Americans, Lorraine, Mon
day Night, Sept. IG.?Today is the
quietest on this front since the begin
ning of che offensive last Thursday.
There is little infantry and only mod
erate artillery action. The Germans
are apparently digging in behind the
Hindenburg lines.
HUN AIRPLANES DESTROYED.
Two Planes Fall in Forest of Com
piegne.
Paris, Monday, Sept. f6.?The two
German airplanes which participat
ed in the raid on the Paris region,
Sunday night, and were shot down by
anti-aircraft guns, f< 1 in the forest
of Compeigne.
BULGARS ASSIST GERMANS.
Bulgarian Regiments Have Arrived
on West Front.
Amsterdam. Sept. 17.?Bulgarian
regiments have arrived at Maubeuge
to cooperate with the Germans on
the West front, according to L'Echo
Beige.
A GERMAN REPORT.
Claims Recapture of Heights.
Berlin, Sept. 17.?Artillery duel in
region of Havrincourt yesterday in
creased to great intensity, it is offi
cially stated. The Germans recap
tured eastern Friend Heights, east of
Vauxillon. northwest of Scissons.
American Casualty List.
The army casualty list given out
by the war department today num
bers 34 3, divided as follows: Killed
in action, 28; missing in action. 1GG:
wounded severely, 109; died of
wounds. 9; Died from accident and
other causes, 7; wounded, degree un
determined, 17: wounded slightly. 3.
j Prisoners, ?!. Lee I,. Bowman, of
I Greenville. S. C. is reported missing
in action.
Senator Lodge Endorses the Presi
dent's Refusal of Peace Offer.
Washington. Sept. 17.?Unqualified
endorsement of the president's re
jection of Austria's peace proposal
was given in the senate today by
Senator Lodge, Republican ranking
minority member of the foreign re
lations committee. Senator Lodge
said that the president's prompt and
curt refusal was right and wise. :in<l
he was sure that it met universal ap
proval.
Stuffs
AE,
.INGS,
FLOUR,
EAT BRAN,
GAR FEED,
IEAT SCRAP,
CHICKEN FEED,
OYSTER SHELL,
SEED OATS AND RYE,
COTTON SEED MEAL
unter, S. C.
POLISH ARMY ORGANIZED.
WILL JOIN FIGHT IX RUSSIA.
j More Tlian One Hundred Thousand ^
j Trained Militarists Available for i
j Important Tasks. *
Harbin, Saturday, Sept. 14 (By the
j Associated Press).?A movement ex
l ceeding perhaps that of the Czecho- ,
j Slovaks is being organized to form
; a Polish division to fight in Siberia
j westward to their oppressed father
j land as integral units in the American
army. According to conservative es
I timates an army of more than 100,000
j trained militarists is immediately
available in the regions of Harbin,
Xikolsk and Vladivostok. Large
corps of railway men also can be
utilized if necessary to take over the
Chinese Eastern Railroad. The funds
to be used in creating the Polish
army are to be considered a loan to
the Polish people or their govern
1 ment.
I It is believed that if the Polish or
| ganization is successful the Ukrain
ians will begin a similar movement
and because of the close relation
ship between the Maygars and the
Poles it is considered possible that
many of the Magyars may be won
over to the entente.
The Poles declare emphatically
they do not intend to participtae in
politics and their only desire is .to
fight for their own country.
The Poles have asked that they be
promptly granted recognition by the
United States government so that
they may aid in opposing the spread
of German aggression as well as win
their own freedom. Entente allied
officials here see three benefits to be
derived from the encouragement of.
the 'Poles. First, they say it would
obviate the necessity of moving ad
ditional trops across the Pacific; sec
ond, the allied forces now in Siberia
could be moved westward to strength
en the Murman coast expedition ul
timately bringing pressure to bear on
the Western front; and third, an
army composed of Czecho-Slavs,
Poles and Ukrar.ians. would galvanize,
ihe Russians in action.
ENGLISH AND FRENCH DRIVE*
Gen. Haig on Northwest of St. Quen
tin 3Iade Successful Operation, and
French Simultaneously Attack on
the Right. ;
With British' Armies in France,
Sept. 18.?Gen. Haig's forces this
morning attacked the Germans on a
considerable front northwest of St. .
Quentin. Simultaneously the French ;ji
carried ^ut an operation on the right.r?
Successful prograss was made on both v
fronts.
British Advance Two and a-Hali
Miles on Fifteen Mile Front.
London, Sept. IS, 4.30 P. M.?In
an attack northwest of St. Quentin to
day the British advanced two and a
half to three miles on a fifteen mile
front. They have crosed the Hinden
burg line at two points, Villorete and
Gouzeacourt, and the town of Hargi
court has been captured and fifteen
hundred prisoners have been taken.
FROM LORRAINE FRONT.
Germans Will Get Behind Hiudeu
burg Line?Entire Artillery of a
Division Was Captured.
American Army Headquarters in
Lorraine, Monday Evening, Sept. 16
(Reuters)?Evidence is accumulat
ing that the enemy intends with
drawing behind the Hindenburg line
in Lorraine if pressed any further. He
is burning towns along the Moselle.
Prisoners taken report that the en
tire artillery of the Thirty-first Di
vision was captured in the American
operation on this front.
Americans Bag Officers.
With Americans in Lorraine, 3 P.
M. Sept. 17.?The American patrol
in a raid early this morn"ng in gen
eral movement in region of Hau
inont, northwest of Thiascourt. cap
tured live non-commissioned officers
and killed seven other non-ccmniis
sioned olficers.
French and Serbian Success in Mac
edonia.
Sofia. Sunday, Sept. 15?French
and Serbian troops in an attack on
Bulgarian lines in Macedonia early
Sunday morning succeeded after a
desperate struggle in occpying Sokol,
Dopropolje and Vertrenik positions,
It is officially announced.