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?OTR S?MTER WATCHMAN, JErtaVi Ctousoiidated Aus. 3,1 ^?????????aiii^^ VKSX)l?EOTJS ARMY CONTINIJES TO PRESS FLEEING EXEMIES. Tfee City and Fortr<;ss of Yeies and Varctar {^jrtuied'^-Garrison of City Taken PTison?rs---Advance Con tinued North" of Isfctih. London, Sept .2 S.?The Serbian troops cbntizrued. during Thursday to press the retreating' Bulgarians and scored important gains and ground, the Serbian war official reports under Friday's date. The city and fortress of. vVeles, one of the most; important bases of the " Bulgarian forces in Southern Serbia, on the Vaxdar, has been captured by the Serbians. The Serbs are,pushing oh from Vales to ward Uskub. The troops defending Veles were taken prisoners. The. Serbs have also reached Ratavista, 15 miles north of Ishtic, and -have 'ad vanced a considerable distance beyond Koehana, towards the Bulgarian bor If the terms, laid down which have been- despatched to Sofia are not. ac ceptable, the allied powers, it is add-^ ed, have no further conditions to pro -pdse. :->"r^.vV.-; ?' v'.?' ? . - BRITISH NEAR BOUAI. Another Him Stronghold in France} Cader Allied Guns. 3r^>h":Keadquart'ers, France, Sept 28 (ReutersX ?Gen.- Haig's forces to day;japturedtne town of Arleux, five miles southeastof Douai. HT3N CBLASCELLOR:RESIGNED. Dr. Von Hertltog Said to Have Qui* the CaMioet. London, Sept 28.?The German ehancelor, Count von Hertling, has resigned, says ? message from The Hague to the Central News Agency. FOOD ADMINISTRATION NOTES. Sumter Red Cross Receives Fine Paid by Violator of Rules. "County Food Administrator G. A.. Lemmon has turned over to Chair man L. D. Jennings thirty dollars for ' the Bed Cross, fund, an: amount that has been paid by a business estab lishment to the. Food Administrator *or violation of the food adininistra * ^fon rules and regulations!' It is Understood that some mer t^oants are selling sugar for twelve cents per pound. The. maximum amount sugar may be sold at is li.4u cents per pound, and the county^ food administration is now looking out for rsome more -ready money for the Red Cross Associa tion. - FenalMngr for violations of food ^^adtmSxtiarrafton laws is now the rule and not the exception. The food ad ministration is "^u^anized and has lljgjplenty of inspectors, and the persons who are violating Its rules are going to be caught sooner or later, and the Red Cross is going to profit just exact ly v in proportion to tho enormity of| the violations. I v. Sugar prices as arranged by the Sumter Price Interpreting Board of the Food Administration <and these prices have to be complied with or persOns exceeding same will be pen alized beyond any doubt) are as fol-| ipws: ~ filial Wholesale.price, 8.40 to 10.40. Re prC&iV price 9.40. to 11.40. Only one *^ent a pound profit can be made on sugar, above the wholesale price. pinoles for Retail Sales of Standard Wheat Flour. The "50-50" substitute rule is su perseded by these regulations. Every sale of standard wheat ?ow. must be accompanied by the sale of] at least one pound of approved sub stitutes for every four pounds of wheat flour. ^ Every retail dealer^ selling wheat fiber must have in stock either bar ley flour, corn flour or corn meal; he shall sell one pound of the substitutes with every four pounds of wheat flour; he shall not force the sale of any other substitute. ? The following substitutes in the /-same proportion are permissible if the purchaser asks for them: Feterita flours and meals, rice flour, oat flour, kaffir flour, milo flour, bean flour potato flour, sweet potato flour, and buckwheat flour. ? Pure rye flour may be sold as a sub stitute but must be sold in the pro portion of at least two pounds of ryo to three of wheat BELGIANS DEFEAT GERMANS. Victory Won Sunday in The Messine: Ridge Sector. Havre, Sunday, Sept. 29.?The Bel gian and British armies defeated the Cermans today in heavy fighting on the Flanders ridige in the Messines Wytschaete position, according to the official Belgian statement issued to night One Out of Eighteen. In the last Liberty Loan campaign seven cities of South Carolina, with a j combined population of 152,000 pro duced 35,541 subscribers, and sun scribed $8,797,000. The rest of th State, with a population of 1,443,000. furnished 52,364 subscribers, ant1 subscribed $10,629,000. Only about one person out of ev ery eighteen in South Carolina sub scribed to the last Liberty Loan. Th State, it is true, oversubscribed it? quota; but no share of the credit i > due to a large part of its population. The $32,825,000 which South Caro lina has now been called on to rais ? is a lot of money, but if every ma and every woman would buy bonds t*" the limit of his or her obligation and ability it would be more than dou tied.?News and Courier. afeed April, i860. "R? Jtaaft m 88L ST TROOPS TRAINED IN CAMP SE VEIER IN BIG DRIVE. Southerners Help to Smash German Line on French Front in the Ad vance on Cambrai anil Donai. ________ ? ? .American /troops?boys from New York, Tennessee, North Carolina and ?South Carolina?were in the thick of the fray Sunday which badly smash ed the German positions over a front of .more than. 50 miles from the region;of Arras to La Fere. On a three mile front the Ameri cans stormed the:. Hindenburg- line and captured, the towns of Bellicourt and N&uroy, crossing the Cambrai Canal in the operations. - Meanwhile to the south, the Brit ish stormed the main Hindenburg defenses on the Scheldt Canal, cross ed the waterway and gained the hills beyond, taking many prisonera To the north the British have their hands on^ Cambrai, the important German /base, over which recently there has been so much fighting. . The Cana dians are in the northwests outskirts of the. city, while a naval division has reached ? the southern environs. South of St. 'Quentin to La Fere the French have pressed forward their line and taken some 500 prisoners. Along the Chemin-des-Dames the Frenchvhave advanced their line for a distance of two miles, capturing the- highest point on the. famous ridge. In Belgium, the .Belgians and Brit ish hltve driven forward and taken DLcmude, 10 miles from the North Sea southeast of Nieuport^ bringing their line into closer union'with that in the Region of Ypres. The capture of Bixmude, if pressed for further gains eastward, /will seriously affect the German submarine bases on the North Sea. The entente allied troops every where are continuing to make pro gress against the forces of the Teu tonic alliance. ?|gH In Belgium, Flanders and France material advance have been made on all the fighting fronts; in Serbia the territory of the overrun kingdom is fast being reclaimed, while in Pales tine the, Turkish armies under the attacks of General Allenby and the tribesmen of the King of the Hedjas have virtually ceased to exist as fight ing units. Additional large numbers of the enemy have been made prisoner and j large quantities of stores have been captured. . . Keeping up relentlessly their vio lent attacks from near the sea in Belgium to the region of Verdun, the Belgian, British, American and French troops are fast driving wedges into the ' enemy line, forcing him to retreat or defeating him in san- j guinary battles. No rest is being ac-! corded the Germans and apparently their front is fast going to pieces un der the impetus of the allied blows, j In Belgium, between Dixmude and Ypres, King Albert's men have press-i ed back the German front from four to five miles and taken six thou sand prisoners. Ground that the en emy had held since the invasion of Belgium in 1914 has been restored to Belgian ownership through thf efforts of the mixed Belgian and Brit ish forces, and at last, accounts the allied forces were well on their way to the important junction town of Roulers. To the south from the region east of Arras to St. Quentin the British with the Americans fighting on their right everywhere have penetrate'' the Genman defenses over the 3" mile front. Desperate resistance was offered by the Germans but the allies troops refused to be denied and cwept through the remaining positic < of the Hindenburg line and are Svand ing, according to the latest reports, virtually on the doorsteps of Cam brai. More than 10,000 prisoners have been taken in this region since Friday. Under the efforts of the British Americans and French, the Germans have been cleared out of the entire department of the Somme and part of the department of the Ardennes j now is in French hands for the first j time since 1914; In unison with the attacks to the { J north, the French along the battle; rront north and northeast of Soissons have delivered fresh attacks, undei which the Germans are in re treat north of the Aisne towards the.; Ailette, indicating that the enemy j line soon must be readjusted eastward at least as far as Rheims, if not far | ther. The French now are on the banks of the Ailette River at the j western end of the Chemin-des j Dames, making it apparent that this: ] strong defense line soon must be pass- i j ed by in retreat northward, j ? In Champagne and northwest of j i Verdun the Germans have sensed toj the full the seriousness of the situa- j ?ion facinar them?where further ad-j yances by the French and the: Americans of necessity will compel! the readjustment of the line from the north to the Swiss frontier. L^rge numbers of reinforcements have been' thrown into the battle in Champagns to halt the advance of the French to ward the important junction town of Vouzieres, but nevertheless General Gouraud's men have pressed forward northward from the region east of Rheims to the northern fringes of the Argonne forest, taking many po sitions of the highes* strategic value. Meantime the Americans have also advanced thr-ir front. capturing Brieulles-sur-Meuse and Romagne and at last accounts were progressing favorably northward along the Meuse valley and to _he east of the \ Argonne forest, the turning of which ; by the combined forces of General Gouraud and General Liggett seems od Fear not?pet ?n the en da Thon Ali JMTER, S. C WBBNMi Ililfili 1G6EPIS TERMS. H?N ALLY LAYS DOWN ARMS ON <X>Nl>ITEONS OF ALLIES. - The War in the Balkans Virtually Ends With Surrender of Bulgarians and Back Door of Austria is Open to Allies. Paris, Sept. 30.?An armistice has been concluded between the . Allies and Bulgaria on the Allies' own terms, according to announcement made officially today. TURKS; SUFFER HEAVY, LOSS. ' Official British Note Announces Capt ture of Fifty Thousand With Many Guns. London, Sept 29,?Prisoners to the number of 50,000 and 325 guns had been counted by the British in Palestine Friday night, according to an official commutation issued to night. Notwithsta .jg Turkish re sistance in the region of Tiberias, the. British forced further passage of the' Jordan. .To- the south the British j cayalry ^drove the enemy northward through Mezerib and joined hands' ; with the forces of the king of the Hedjas. BRITISH SUFFES JEVEBSE. TEMPORARILY CHECKED IN THE VICINITY OF DOUAI. At Other Points Allied Forces Push Forward in Face of Severest Re sistance. London, Sept. 30.?British, Ameri can and Australian forces pushed forward last night on the front oe-_ tween Bellicourt and Gonnelieu in the face of the severest opposition, Geh^ Haig announced today. ? On the front northwest of La Cate - let desperate German attacks pressed the British-back to the outskirts o: * Viilers-Guislain, while southwest of \Le Catelet similar pressure sent Gen. Kaig's troops back to the edge of the village of Beny. Oh the front southeast of Doual the British have withdrawn from Ableux and Aubencheul-Au-Bae. FRENCH PUSH FORWARD. Advance in Champagne Region Re sumed at Daybreak. Paris, Sept. 30'.?The French forces in the Champagne resumed their attack at daybreak today7~ tnV war office announces. The Germans violently counterat tacked last night south of St. Quen tin in the Urvillers region in an at tempt to recapture Hill 88. All of their offensive efforts were broken up by the French. HUN HOLD BROKEN. French Soil Being Redeemed From Hands of Invader. Paris, Sept. 30.?Progress in break ing the hold of the German invader .on French soil is shown by the fact that no longer is any French depart ments wholly occupied by the Ger mans. This situation was established by the recapture of four communes o' the department of Ardennes las: week. GERMAN MINISTERS RESIGN. Chancellor von Hertling and Foreign Minister von Hintze Both Tender Resignations. Amsterdam, Sept. 30.?Chancello von Hertling and Foreign Secretary von Hintze have tendered their res ignations to the Emperor, the Ber lin Vossiehe Zeitung says it under stands. KILLS WIFE AND SELF. Greenville Negro, Ready to Enter Army, Commits Double Crime. Greenville, Sept. 27.?On the eve of the day set for his departure for a training camp, Cleve Puckett a ne gro, last night shot and killed his wife. Carrie Puckett, and then turn ed the gun on himself and took his own life. A shotgun was the weapon used. Miss Mary F. Lathrop, a w known practicing lawyer of Denver, has the distinction of being the first woman elected to membership in the Ameri can Bar Association. probable within a short time. The Bulgarian delegates who are endeavoring to arrive at terms with the allied forces under which Bul gr.na will quit the war have arrived in Saloniki but the Italian, French Greek, Serbian and British armies are1 keeping up their drive across south ern Serbia and into Bulgaria. Krushe vo, the Bulgarian base 20 miles north of Monastir, has been captured by the Italians in front of whom the Bulgarians are in rapid retreat. The Serbians have won the important j mountain range of Plachkovitza. south of Kochana, while to the east, j the British and Greek forces' have taken further territory from the en emy in the region of Lake Doiran and across the border in Bulgaria. In Palestine the victory over th" Turks is all but complete. FridayS night General Allenby had counte 1 50.000 prisoners and 300 guns. The losses of the Teutonic albe ? on the Western front since the allied offensive began July 18 have been 200.000 me made prisoner and 3.000 j guns. 20,000 machine guns and enon- j mous quantities of material capturt ed. tuft's* be thy Country's. Thy God's m JDAY, OCTOBER 2; 1?1 SERBS GAPT?BE GHAREVQ. RETREAT OF BULGARIANS CUT OFF BY TAKING OF STRONG HOLD. Offensive in Macedonia. Has Not Been ; KiOted by Bulgars' Plea for an Armistice. London, Sept 30.?Charevo, east of Veles and six miles from the Bul garian border has been captured by.the Serbians, and. retreat of the Bulgarians cut off,' says the Serbian official * statement of Sunday. More than seven hundred ; prisoners and twenty guns were captured. HUN PEACE OFFENSIVE. Austria Makes Another Proposition ; for Peace Conference. Amsterdam, Sept. 30.?A proposi-j tion that the presidents and vice presidents of the parliaments of bel ligerent and neutral sttaes be invited to meet for an unbinding discussion of the basis of peace has been in troduced in the lower house of the Austrian parliament, a Vienna mes sage says. The meeting would be held at a place to be agreed upon. I WEEK Of Mf VICTORY FOR ALLIES ON ALL WAR FRONTS. Prisoners Taken During Last Week in Excess of Hundred Thonsand? Americans, French, British and Belgians Continue to Smash Ene - my?Bulgarians Routed in Serbia ?Turks in Palestine Crushed. London, Sept 29 (British Wireless Service).?The past week has been the most amazing of the war. The allies are advancing victoriously on practically every front. During the week they have taken prisoners far in excess of 100,000, of whom nearly 40, uGo were captured in the last three days on the Western front and 50, 000 in Palestine. They also have tak en more than 900 guns. Sir Douglas Haig reports further successes. The town of Cambrai is, now under British guns. Here the main Hindenburg line has been pierc ed and the allied troops are shelter ed in commodious German dugouts. I The battle is continuing in favor c:' the allie.-. ?nd the Germans are in the midst of confused retirements. Gou jzeaucourt and Marcoing are in allied hands. A new offensive was com menced Saturday in Flanders, where Belgians, in conjunction with the Sec ond British army, attacked" on the front between i'pres and Dixmude Pcelcapelle has been captured a well as most of the forest of Kou thulst. Sunday morning the Brit ish and American troops launched a new attack northwest of St. Quentin and the battle is proceeding fierce^ on the whole front from St. Quentir to the Scarpe. Further progress is reported on points included in the previous attacks and the number di prisoners taken by the British sincf Friday morning exceeds 16,000. I North of the Aisne the French pur suit continues. On the Champagne front they have taken possession oil 'the heights of Bellevue. ' ? The Serbia the rout of the Bulgar ians is complete. The Serbians ar? racing-for Uskub to cut off the ene my's communication, while on thr "flanks, British, French, Greek anc Italian troops are advancing as las', as possible. The number of prisoners taken and war booty are enormous. - In Siberia the Japanese have mad great progres in capturing points o. vantage on the railway system north of Blagovieshtchensk. In Palestine the Turkish armiei have ceased to exist as fighting forces The result of the allied successes in Macedonia already are becoming apparent According to a . dispatch from Geneva information has reach ed Switzerland to the effect that the Germans have already begun to with draw occupation troops from Rou mania. CITADEL ACADEMY CLOSES. Exercises Set for Tomorrow Definite ly Postponed. Charleston. Sept. 20.?Official an nouncement was made last night thai the Citadel has closed until furthei notice and that the cadets will ai: be furloughed. The action is taken on the advice of medical authorities as a precautionary measure aga.iiii>; Spanish influenza. Exercises in celebration of the es ! tablishment of student army training ! corps units at the Citadel, the College I of Charleston and the Medical College ! of the State of South Carolina have I been postponed until a dalte to be an 1 nounced later. These exercises were to be held tomorrow at noon at the j Citadel. The Citadel has just opened with the largest enrollment in its long anc useful history. A total of 375 cadets has matriculated. The routine of this military college was to begin this morning. Official entrance of cadets into the S. A. T. C. was scheduled for tomorrow and the exercises here were to he identical in character and syn chronous with exercises at 500 col leges over the length and breadth o. the United States. Col. O. J. Bond, superintendent o1' ti^c Citadel, said iast night that then n&s no occasion for alarm, as th ac*Uon was taken as a precautionary nnfisuro after advice by medical au thorities. As soon as it is felt thm al' reasonable danger is past the cadets will DS^recalled from their furlough and the^Uoltege routine at once fol i A M ftrtrtL" THE TRUE 8, WILSON Iii? HUN. ONT- AGAIN PRESIDENT EX-!] PLAINS CONDITIONS ON WHICH PEACE WILL BE >" MADE. Strong Nations Shall Not Be Free to Work Their Will on Weak Nations and Make Them Snbject to Their Purpose. New York, Sept. 27.?The price of peace' will be impartial justice to all nations, the instrumentality indis pensable to secure it is a league of natior formed not before or after, but at tne peace conference; and Ger many, as a member, "will have to re deem her character not by what hap pens at the peace table,- but by what follows." This was President Wilson's an swer given tonight before ah aud ience of fourth Liberty Loan workers here, to the recent peace talk from jthe Central Powers, although he did not refer specifically to the utter ances of enemy leaders. Peace was not a question, declared the president, of "coming to terms," for "we cannot come to terms with them," as "they have made it impos sible." Peace must be guaranteed, for "there will be parties to the peace whose promises have proved untrustworthy and means must be found in connection with the peace settlement to remove that source of insecurity." v "It would be( folly to- leave the guarantee to the subsequent volun tary action of the, governments we have seen destroy Russia and deceive Rumania," continued the president. 'The president emphasized that the justice to be obtained by the league must/involve no discrimination toA ward any people. This he sets forth explicitly in a set of five principles which he''enumerated as 'the prac tical program" of America's peace ?terms, arid for the maintenance of which "the United Sttaes is prepar ed to assume its fulj share of re sponsibility." These principles were, he said: "First, the impartial justice meted our. must involve no discrimination between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just. It must be a justice that plays no favorites, and knows no standard but the equal rights of the several peoples concerned. Second, no special or separate inter est of any single nation or any group of nations can be made the basis of any part of the settlement which is not consistent with the common in terests of alL > ' Third, there can be no league or alliance or special covenants ano understandings within the general and common family of the league of nations. "Fourth, and more specifically, there' can be no special, selfish eco nomic combinations within this league and no employment of any form of economic boycott or excursion except as the power of economic penalty by exclusion from the markets of the world may be vested in the league of nations itself as a means of discipline and control. "Fifth, all international agree ments and treaties of every kind must be made known in their entire to the rest of the world." "Shall the military power^JJ nation or any grou^-^f-"nations be suffered to determine- the fortunes of Iteonles over jyhom they have no right ruUK except the right o force? * Shah stroWg nations be free to wrong weak nations and make th*m .subject to their purpose and inter ests ? "Shall peoples be ruled and domi nated even in their own internal af j fairs by arbitrary and irresponsible ?'oree or by their own will and choice? "Shall there be a common stand ard of right and privileges for all peoples and nations, or shall the strong do as they will and the weak suffer without redress? . "Shall the assertion of right be haphazard and by casual alliance or shall there be a common concert to oblige the observance of common rights'" He added. "No man, no group of men. chose these to be issues of the struggle. They are the issues of it." Shortly before the president started speaking news of the further success es of American. British and French offensives on the western front reach ! ed the meeting at the Metropolitan Opera House, and this gave dramatic point to Mr, Wilson's peroration? that "peace drives" can be effectively neutralized and silenced only by showing that every victory of the na tions associated against Germany I bring.-: the nations nearer the sort of J peace which will bring security and j j reassurance to all peoples and make! the recurrence of another such stru^- J ! gle of pitiless force and bloodshed i I fon er impossible, and that nothing j eb.r can." j "OfMinany is constartiy intimating! j the 'term-.*' she will accept, and al-' I ways rinds that the world does not ; i want 'terms.' " declared the president, i : "It wishes the final triumph of jus- j 1 tice and fair dealing." Five thousand persons who filled: the Metropolitan Opera House to ca-j pacity, heard the president speak. iFve minutes before his arrival a guard of soldiers, sailors-and marines 1 seated at the rear of the platform i were suddenly ordered to attention. ? They arose with a smart click of titles, the national colors were ad vanced and the great audience be came silent. This dramatic qu-.et was' maintained without interruption until: the president, without other warning; , of his coming, walked on the stage. 1 escorted by Benjamin Strong, govern-| 1 or of the Federal Reserve Bank of ? 4 SOUTHRON. _?b?sbea tan, I Vol. XLVII. No. 14, 1 PLEA FOB PEACE. JULGARIA ASKS WCTORIOIJS AL MES FOR AST ARMISTICE. Jcneral d'Esperey, Commanding Al lied Armies in Macedonia, Answers Request by Saying That Fighting Will go on Bat Discussion of Peace May be Started. Paris,' Sept 27.?Gen. Frenchett . 1'Esperey, commanding the allied ar nies in Macedonia, has telegraphed to the French-government that a High Bulgarian officer has presented himself in behalf of General Toro dow, commanding the Bulgarian' army, asking the suspension of arms for 48 hours to permit the arrival of two authorized delegates from the Bulgarian government The minister of finance, Liaptcheff, and General Loukoff, commanding the Bulgarian second army, are on their; way to the French headquarters with the assent of King Fernidand to ar range the- conditions of the armistice and eventually the terms of peace. The French commander reports that the Bulgarian request' reached him through an intermediary, the general commanding the British army in the east, forming a part of the al lied command. General d'Esperey's reply, therefore, asked the Bulgar ian delegates to present themselves to the British lines. General d'Esperey says that as the Bulgarian request might be a mili tary ruse to allow the regrouping of forces and the arrival* of reinforce ments, he made a reply declining to grant an armistice, but promising'to receive duly qualified government delegates. The text of the French command er's reply to a letter brought by the Bulgarian officer said: "My response, that I send through the Bulgarian officer bearing the let ter in question, can not be, by reason of the military, situation, other than the following: I can accord neither an armistice nor a suspension of hos tilities tending to. interrupt the op erations in course. On the other hand, I will receive with all due courtesy the delegates, duly qualified; , of the royal Bulgarian 'government j to which your excellency alludes in the letter. These delegates to pre sent themselves in the British, hues, accompanied by a parliamefltaire. (Signed) "Frencjiett d'Esperey." v -.-.- ? - j-? HUNS FEAR SHOTGUNS. Berlin Threatens Reprisals on Amer icans?To Kill Prisoners. Amsterdam.'' Sept' 29.-^eiyc&nyf through the Swiss legation, has; sent an ultimatum to the government of the United States that if no satisfac tory answer is forthcoming on Octo ber 1 to the German protest about the use of shotguns by American sol diers "reprisals will be taken." A semi-official telegram fr?m Ber-, lin gives the following additional de tails of the note: "From prisoners captured during a skirmish between patrols on July 27. a repeating shotgun was *oLyfl^ frK^ prisoners, who belonged U infajlp* regiment Thre^undred -seventh Divi their patrol possessed guns, each loaded with six and each cartridge coh tainecPhine shots of size .00. Anoth er shot gun was captured on Septem ber 11 from the^ Third Infantry Regi ment of the Fifth American Division. "The use of such weapons is for bidden by The Hague convention as causing unnecessary suffering. The German government protests ener getically and expects from the United States government that s*eps will be taken immediately to discontinue the employment of shotgunst" It is pointed out to the government of the United States that a prisoner on whom a shotgun or shotgun am munition is found forfeits his life. ONLY USE SHOTGUNS AS RULES PROVIDE. Washington, Sept. 29.?The Ger man protest against the use of shot ! guns by American troops has been j received at the state department and I an answer soon will be dispatched. , Shotguns are used by American troops, it was said today, only as au thorized by the accepted rules of war. They are employed in general police work and '.v. guarding prison ers, being more desirable for such work than the high powered army rifle, because the firing of.the latter might result in the death or injury of persons it was not intended to hit. Germany's threat of reprisals is not oausing any anxiety among American officials. The Americans hold one thousand prisoners for ev ery ten Americans in enemy prison camps. Xew York. Then a tremendous burst of cheering bro?e loose, which caus ed the president, taking his seat to rise three times in acknowledgment. A sailor band played "America.'" The president joined with the aud- ' ience^in singing it. Mr*. Strong read to the audience a summary of late reports showing American troops' advances during the day in France. '"Our hoys in France do not learn readily when to stop fighting." he added. "That is the spirit in which, we must raise the liberty loan." Cheers greeted the news of the American successes, particularly When: Mr. Strong said the Yankee troops in . their drive had reclaimed 100 square miles of territory for France. Patriotic fever seemed to reach its climax when the president arose to begin his address, the audience rising and again cheering for several min utes. Mr. Wilson read from printed text