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AMERICANS IN NEW DRIVE!
Good Progress in Cambrai-St. Quentin Attack
Whole Country Wants
German Plea Denied
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By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—The na
tional capital waited patiently today
for President Wilson's reply to the
Hlun peace proposals. Officialdom
"Ind the diplomatic corps kaving ac
cepted the belief that the reply must
be an unqualified rejection of an
armistice and a discussion of terms
based on the President's public ut
erances, confined itself to speculat
ing whethier the reply would make
viain to the Central Powers exactly
what guarantees are necessary be
fore the United States and its Allies
will talk peace. Unofficial Washing
ton, the man and woman in the street,
was content to leave the whole af
fair in the hands of the President
ind not speculate, being perfectly
satisfied that the reply would uphold
the honor and dignfty of the nation.
The President has been in consul
tation with Leondon, Paris and Reome,
The general outline of what he plans
has been communicated to the Gov
ernments there.” They~ have been
asked for statements of their posi
tions.
Officials today were silent as to
when the reply might be expected.
International etiquette makes it nec
essary that the copies of the reply be
it Jeast started on their way to Ber
n and Vienna before the text is pub
hed here
President Wilson again denied
himself his early morning exercise
n the golf links today and remained
lose to his study in the White House
alone He had before him all of the
confidential information gathered by
the State Department dealing with
the German and Austrian situation
Officials in commenting on the great
task which the President has in pre
varing a reply to the Austrian and
German communications said:
No Doubt About Reply,
There is no doubt of what the
President will say, but he must be
immusually careful in just how he
ays it in the present instance, This
time. for the first time in the war,
the President will be addressing the
entire peoples of the world. His re
ply will be published in Germany
ind in Austria complete, It also
will be published in all Entente and
neutral covntries
“The United States has always
taken the lead in any movement for
good that comes out of this war. The
['nited States today stands firmly for
neace--hut it must he a real peace, a
peace which will assure to all of the
peoples of the world that there never
agaln can be another war started
through the whim of outrageous au
toeracies Therefore, the President
is carefully weighing his words.
“Far more depends on this reply
than most people realize. There must
be no ‘made-in-Germany peace, of
eourse, But the President may be de
pended on not to shut the door
against the lasting peace that must
follow this war.”
Officials also commented on the
apparent effort of the Austro-Hunga
rian leade's to make It appear that
the present peace move was not
forced by military necessity The
Vicnna version that the peace offer
was “the Tast UUnk of the 1916 poliey”
aused much amusement here when
it was contrasted with the address of
Count Tisza at the reform congress
at Budapest, when he boldly declared
that “Bulgaria's treachery and the
situation on the western front led us
to decide, together with Germany, to
inde~take the peace step.” Officlals
ointed out that this indicated rather
onclugively that the Austrian lead
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Spread of the Flu,
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the schools Tuesday morning and ¢
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Many meetings, particularly ¢
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{ improvement movement, scheduled |
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7 for this week are called off. {
{ Decision made that the Colum
i bus Day pageant at the Southeast- .
' ern Fair opening Saturday and the |
| fair itself next week need not be
%abandoned since they are open- |
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{ air gatherings. s
?, All theaters and moving picture /
i houses close promptly when noti- |
fied of the Board of Health’s order. |
Hugh Cardoza, president of the |
Theater Managers’ Association, ‘|
! pledges to the city the heartiest %‘
co-operation of the theater men in 8
every way. &'
Poolrooms close following action |
by City Council in ratifying the |
¢ Board of Health order and amend- )
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) ing it to specify poolrooms and the |
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| Atlantans ride to work Tuesday ¢
3 morning in “wide-open” street cars
i( since Board of Health order pro
| vides that cars be operated with
all windows down except in case of
’ rain. Fresh-air fiends happy for
2 the first time in their chilly but
‘( healthful existence.
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The announcement that the South
eastern Fair and its big pageant Sat
urday night will not be included in the
quarantine order closing theaters and
other amusement houses, resulted Tues
day in renewed activities at the fair
grounds, where the Spanish influenza*
sftuation had been causing some appre
hension It was the opinion of the
health authorities that open-air gath
erings would not add to the danger of
an epidemic, and the public should rath
er be encouraged to enjoy the fresh air
at l.akewood. It iz seldom that the
spacious buildings are crowded, and the
fair management will see that there s
no congestion indoors,
A glimpse of the fair grounds at Lake
wood Tuesday showed that prepara
tions are far ahead of past schedules,
when most of the exhibits came in on
the last day before the opening The
track was dotted with running horses,
pacerg and trotters, shipped to lLake
wood in advance of the race meeting
which opens next Monday, and was
found to be in excellent condition after
the long stretch of dry weather. Racing
men predicted fast time in this scason's
events.
The hig Agricultural building's main
floor is being given over entirely to the
Automoblile Show this season. Its con
erete floor was being given a new dress
ing of glossy paint, and its celling and
walls were completely hidden unfiur a
mass of decorations, designed and plac
ed by Virgil W, Shepard, who has been
at work for more than a week,
. "The Automobile Show this year is
a remarkable expression of business op
‘llmism." sald one of the fair officlals
““The auto dealers are paying $9,000 for
space to exhibit cars when they have
hardly a car to sell.”
‘ The former Automobile Bhow bullding
has been given over to the Government
exhibit of war materials and relies from
European battle fronts, the first show
ing made by the Government at the
Southeastern Fair. Some of the exhib
its were arriving Tuesday,
Blooded cattle and hogs from the big
exhibitors of the Kast and West were
arriving and being placed in the barns
A new temporary bullding was being
completed for the poultry and pigeon
’ show,
The fair officlals were bending most
Inf thelr efforts toward breaking an at
tendance record on Monday, Liberty
' Day. The Girlse’ Patriotic League s
selling tickets for this day, and a part
of the proceeds will go to their funds
for war work.
[BUBs wink FoR LiBEnTY BONDA
Mgrines’ Pack
(By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON, Oet, 8. —~Christmas
packages sent overseas to members of
the marine corps must conform to army
and not naval regulations, the marine
headquarters announced today
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The breeze blew chill through open
windows of Atlanta street cars Tues
day morning, and workers bound
downtown shivered in the realization
‘that heroic methods are necessary to
| beat the Spanish influenza.
| But open windows constituted only
one, and perhaps the mildest, of the
preventive means put in force. With
schools closed indefinitely, movies,
theaters and poolrooms closed, with
numerous social events postponed, |
the city was in the midst of the most
rigorous quarantine ever adopted for
brecaution mgainst disease here
| The ordinance adopted by Cound
Monday afternoon, designed to en
force the quarantine, stipuiated two
months as the maximum term for
which the methods would be effec
tive, but physicians and school offi- |
cials stated their opinion Tuesday
that the necessity of such rigid meas
ures would not last so long, and that
danger of the disease would be over
| come shortly.
| The orders will not apply to the
i.\'omhv:mn’--n Fair ‘at Lakewood nor
|l'm- Liberty pageant to be given there
Saturday. Both these attractions are
ln;wn»:lir affairs, and the quarantine
tordinance was designed to prevent
lz:l!hvrmg of people in poorly venti
lated places
l Couneil did not procrastinate when
the matter was placed before it by
the Board of Health, but passed the
ordinance as soon as it was drafted
by a special committee, At a meet
ing of the Board of Health, held ear
lier, Dr. J. P. Kennedy, city health
officer, declared a telegram had
come from Rupert Blue, surgeon gen
eral] of the 1/nited States Publie
Health Service, urging that all places
of publie gathering be closed.
| “The plague is on the ‘nerease in
Atlanta,” sald Dr. Kennedy “and it
looks like we are in for a serious epi
| dernic, There are fifteen to twenty
| cases to each physician, and the
shortage of doctors and hurses in
Atlanta because of the war is well
known."”
Dr. P. 1.. Moon and Dr. Etheridge
added their testimony to that of
Dr. Kennedy that the epidemic was
becoming seridus
! The ordinance as adopted by Coun
ecil sets a penalty of S2OO fine or Im
prisonment for violations
] Moving picture houses and theaters
were closed immediately upon
passage of the ordinance, A number
of theater managers attended the
meeting of the Board of Health and
informed their houses to close im
mediately they heard of the board's
| recommendation,
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Meeting Postponed
" By Soread of ‘Flu’
Various meetings of parents of school
children, scheduled to take place this
week to select suitable nominees for
laces on the new school board. have
‘,.m“ postponed on account of the order
against publie gatherings, due to the
spread of the “‘Spanish Flu.'”
The patrons of the Tenth Street
School held their meeting Monday night
and appointed A committes of five, con
sisting of Frank E Callaway, Fdgar
Dunlap, Wilmer [.. Moore, Mrs. Green
field and Mrs. Joel Hunter, to confer
with similar committees from other
schools in the same district as to the
best man for nomination
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Camp Jesup Lifted
| The “flu quarantine” was lifted from
Camp Jesup Monday at noon, only a
few gcattering cases of the malady hav
| ing been found about the camp
t The happy mechanics promptly madrs
arrangements to come to Atianta for an
evening of celebration, only to be dis
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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918
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Directors and credit men represent- !
ing every Atlanta bank and trnstl
company were in conference Tuesday
with Chairman Forrest Adair, golnxl
over the list of well-to-do men and
setting down opposite their names the |
amount of Liberty bonds they shou}dl
be able to buy without difficulty, 't‘h»-‘
city committee, with, the influence of
the bankers behind them, wag deter
mined that the wealthy men of At
lanta must do their share in this eam
paign or put up a mighty good alibi, |
The publication of the names of all
subscribers was expected to have
some influence on this. The total At
rlnmzl subscriptions up to Tuesday
were approximately $6,500,000, while
the quota is $14,000,000.
| “You'd be surprised to see the list
of really wealthy men who have sub
scribed to one SIOO bond through
Some woman committee worker.” gaid
Mr. Adair Tuesday. “Look at this
list. Here's a SI,OOO bond taken by
a Greek owner of a bootblack stand
Here's another SI.OOO next to it
bought by a man who should have
taken SIO,OOO at least.”
Mr. Adair Monday night addressed
a meeting of bank directors represent
ing every financial Institution in the
city, called to discuss the situation
'He told them the exact facts and
urged them to see that the men who
are abie to invest large amounts are
prevailed upon te do so. He pointed
1"'” that it is to the banks that the
Treasury Department looks for re
‘Ls:nlm: that it will reflect upon the
| banks if the loan fails
Bankers Drafted.
| A. P. Coles, of the Central Bank
and Trust Company, presided. On a
irosnmri-m by John E Murphy and Asa
.‘i, Candelr it was voted unanimous!y
that each bank president should n«
tify the directors that they are sub
’va to eall by Chairman Adair at any
l?'nw A 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
| the bankers will meet to make pians
lfnr direct calls on the men with
money. The bankers, of course, know
| the financial condition of practically
\'-\'-r\' well-to-do man in Atlanta and
are in a position to wield consider
able influence over them.
The Clearing House Association at
itse meeting Tuesday afternoon will
discuss a proposal to accept 90-day
notes at 4 1-4 per cent interest in pay
ment of bonds in amounts of SI,OOO
I"'”" upward, with the privilege of
’vhr--v 80-day rencwals at the same
| rate, which is that paid on the honds
- Purchasers would thus be able to car
‘ry bonds for some time without ac
lum) interest expense
‘ “Wealthy Atlantans must trable
and gnadruple their subscriptions in
the third loan,” declared Mr. Ada'r at
the conference., “It is up to you gen
tlemen, who have the information and
' the influence, to see that they do it
Tt is merely a question of passing on
the credit of the United Stateg, of as
suring your customers that bonas ure
‘.n good investment and an A-No, 1!
risk
. “We have met many difflculties in
l‘nt.u campalign The cotton price
fixing, under discussion at the open
ing, delayed us. The high tax rate
proved an obstacle, and the draft of
older men had serlous effect But 1
‘«h) not feel discouraged
Hun “Peace Offer.”
| “The most insidious bit of propa
ganda we have met is the German
‘peace offer,’ which I verily believe
was launched for no other purpose
than to encourage among Americans
the feeling that the war will soon be
over and cause them to relax their -
terest in bonds.”
At the district headquarters W, C
I\\';,rrll:qw, executive chairman, an
nounced that about half the county
I"hairrnun of the 427 in the distriet
had made reports His estimate of
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Germans Soon to Regret
Delay of Great Retreat‘
By JOHN McHUGH STUART, {
Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. :
ARIS, Oct. B.—The fruits of Marshal Foch's masterly !
P strategy are accumulating. §
French military experts today expressed the opinion |
that the Germans will regret that they did not retreat on a larger |
scale when the strategical situation was opportune. :
The Allies are cutting into the flanks of the German army
and are menacing vital lines of communication.
Swift advances of the Allies are imperiling various groups ?
of the Germany army. There was an example of this on the |
Champagne front within the past few days when General von E
Mudra’s army was nearly surrounded before it eould retire so?
safety. }
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America Has Delivered
Goods, Says Wri '
oods, Says Writer with
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U. S. Forces from Outset
By ERNEST P. ORR, r
Staff Sorrugnndont of the I. N. S,
(Mr. Orr, who since 1916 has been
manager of the International News
Service in Paris, who has been on
every fighting front in France and
Belgiu? and who has seen every an
gle of the Hun from his hour of vic
tory to his present hour ot’ menacing
defeat, has just arrived from Paris.)
NEW YORK, Oct. B.—America
has delivered the goods and the
whole world now recognizes it
Kaiser Bill and Carl included. In
Paris, London and Rome it is freely
admitted the Yanks saved Paris.
That's a real compliment. The
“advance” of the German army in
Berlin and the peace wails of both
Kaiser Bill and Carl is even a bet
ter one.
And with it all there has returned |
to the American soldier in France
the great popularity that was his
upon our first arrival there—there
after slightly dimmed by a too
strenuous press campalign in which
it was rashly stated our dough
boys would immediately take their
places in the fighting line, rellev
ing some¢ of the older French
classes. | The French were led to
expect too much from their own
press.
At a time when General Pershing
frankly confided to the correspond
ents he thought we would be doing
well if we had 100,000 men in
France by January 1, 1918, France
—that is, the French public—were
looking forward to the immediate
advent of a huge American army.
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Head Nurse at Bowie
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Held as Alien Enemy
(By International News Service,)
FORT wORTH, TEXAS, Oct. B.—
Three courses are open to the Govern
ment in the case of Miss Gertrude Lus
tig, chief nurse at Camp Bowie, under
arrest on a presidential warrant on a
charge cf being pro-German and with
failing to register as an allen eneiny
She will either he interned for the po
riod of the war, released on parole to
secme responsibla party, or else froed
outright. The decision will be up teo
Attorney General ‘sregory
Miss Lustig’s plac: of confinemen: is
sill' a secret., Department of Justice
ofticials say she had never revealed to
any one that she was German horn un
til a short time ago, ‘hough she allowed
German born nurses under her to sing
their favorite songs in the camp hos
pital here.
Sunscnine ißi\‘nFivv'Tdi‘ufi
Six Months in Pen
Bix months in the penitentiary was the
sentence of Ed Thomas, a negro boy,
driver for the Atlantic lce and Coal Cor
poration, who was convicted in the Fed.
eral Distriet Court of selling a ton of
coal without a statement from the purs
chaser, contrary to the fuel administra«
tion ruling.
Thomas sold a ton of ecoal which he
was on his way to deliver to the home of
Mrs. F. M. Inman Another negro, John
Collough, purchased it Thomas already
has served 30 days in the stockade for
the offense, sentenced under a’city regu
lation.
:P 1 'ulll'iliin‘-"iuhn"'ioi"illA
' Welded Into Army
(By International News Service,)
PARIB, Oct. §.--The Polish legions on
the French battle front have heen formed
'mm A national army under command of
General Haller, who fought with the Rus
slang on the ecantern front
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As month after month rolled By
and nothing happened, as far as the
actual entry of Amerfcan troops
into the line, doubts began to be
expressed. Skeptics were inclined
to believe our promised army was
Just a little bit of American “bluft.”
Their skepticlsm really had quite
some Justification. They had
been told to expect so much and
they saw so little, understood so lit
tle of the tremendous preliminary
work that must be accomplished
before an army of any magnitude
could be landed.
The first troops landed in June
and it was November before they
entered the trenches, and then only
for additional training. It was Jan
uary before the first division went
into the trenches for good, but it
was a long period of waiting for
tired, nerve-racked France, partic
ularly after what the papers had
stated.
But that's all chaTed now. KEv
erywhere the doughboy is acclaimed
as a hero and a deliverer. People
on the boulevards of sophisticated,
war-hardened Paris will stop and
cheer a bunch of the boys passing
in an automobile truck. The indi
viduaTsoldier receives a cheery nod
or bright smile from the ordinary
passerby, with a not infrequent
“Vive L’Amerique.” It is the same
in the smaller cities and the coun
try districts. Nothing is too good
for the Yank. He is the darling
of the populace, and as for the
French poflu he is the idol of his
eye,
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Auto Early Tuesday
Thomas P. Watts, No. 395 Whitehall
ostreet, was at the Grady Hospital Tues
day morning recovering from the effects
of being run down about 3:45 o'cleck
Tuesday morning by an automeobile near
HBrookwood His right leg was broken
and his head badly brutsed
The police as yet have not ascertained
what Watts was doing on the road at
that hour or who the motorist was who
hit him
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{ LONDON, Oct. 8 (11:12 a. m.).—A new drive was launched on
the Cambrai-St. Quentin front by American and British forces this
morning, the War Office announced. Good progress is being made,
The attack was carried out in a heavy rainstorm.
Two hundred and thirty German prisoners were taken in othes
‘ operations.
The text of the War Office report says:
' “In operations in the region of Mont Brehain and north of
‘Beaurevoir English and Americans captured 230 prisoners.
- ‘‘British and Americans attacked between Cambrii and St
| Quentin this morning. Despite heavy rain the attack is continuing,
i’Sa.tisfactory progress is being made."’ "
l3Amencans, Cut Off, Rescued
g By NEWTON C. PARKE,
; Staff Correspondent of the International News Service.
' WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VER
DUN, Oct. 8 (9 a. m.).—An American battalion that had been cul
off and surrounded in the Argonne forest last Friday, was relieved
last night when their comrades broke through the stiffest Germay
fresistance and rescued them.
| In the advance last Friday the Americans had to go forward
|through dense undergrowth. The men of the battalion noticed
| Germans slipping to the rear, but believed that they would be
!“mopped up’’ by the second American line. The enemy group:
succeeded in holding up the assault of the second American col.
’umn with the result that the battalion was cut off.
‘When the advanced elements
were sent batk to maintain con
tact with the main body they en
countered the enemy in then
rear,
The Germans took shelter in an
evacuated trench system that the
Americans had passed over, using it
as a base of resistance. The boches
brought up machine guns from dug
outs, while airplanes carried them
food, ammunition and medical sup
plies.; Carirer pigeons were used for
communiecation purposes.
The Americans fought continually
to prevent capture. A half dozen
times the main American foree tried
to .hack its way through to relieve
‘the surrounded battalion. v
The occupation of Hill No, 244 yes
terday permitted direct machine gun
fire against the Germans. The Amer
ican advance northward then l‘(“fl&fih’d.
the battallon. The Americans, who
had been surrounded for over three
days, then turned upon the boches
who had formerly been besieging
them and captured many of them,
2 More Villages
Taken by French
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Oct. 8 (noon).—Two more
vilages have been taken by the
FF'rench in their drive north and
northeast of Rheims, the War Offics
stated today. Conde-sur-Swippe, at
the junction of the Aisne and Suippe
Rivers, is in I'rench hands,
(The capture of Conde-sur-Suippe
represents an advanece of a mile and
A uvarter northward from Agullcourt,
across the Alsne River.)
Northeast of Rheims the French
have captured Bazancourt and pene
trated Isles-sur-Suippe, near bhy.
Rescued Rheims Is
By HENRY G. WALES,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N, 8.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
ON THE CHAMPAGNE FRONT, Oct.
6 (delayed).—~Rheims was liberated
from the enemy artillery yesterday
by thHe Americans’ capture of the
Mont Blanc heights. The city has
teen nux-mundn& on three sides since
July by the Germans., -
Rheims has been evacuated by the
civilan population since May" 27,
when the incessant bombardment be
gan. Even the French have not been
keeping troops Anside the city,
The cathedral was badly battered,
as were most of the other buildings
in the city. The north. end suffered
most severely, as at that point the
cathedral was exposed to artillery
fire on two sides. Shell holes ate
visible everywhere except in the front
facade, and the windows have 21l been
shattered,
The Joan of Arc statue pedestal in
front of the cathedral was struck, but
the statue Itself had been removed,
The Grand Hotel. Municipal Theator
and all other bulldirfgs In the viein-
Ity of the cathedral have been bat:
tered to pieces,
The German retirement places
Rheims outside of normal artillery
range,
Americans Put Down
Heavy Boche Attacks
(By International News Service.)
By HENRY G, WALES,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N, §.
WITH THE AMERICAN _ARMY
ON THE CHAMPAGNE FRONT, Oct
7 (night).--Heavy (ierman countes
attacks were delivered by thé Ger
mans against the Americans south
east of St. Ktienne today, but all were
quickly repulsed,
The counter strokes against the
Amerjeans fighting with General Gou
raud's army developed during the
Jnorning and were aimed at high
ground which the Americans had cap
tured hetween St Ktienne and the
Somme-Py-Attigny highway.
Boches Withdrawin
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Fast of the Meuse
By NEWTON C. PARKE,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S,
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Oct. 1
(night).—American forces advancing
up the Meuse Valley have reached the
Southwestern outskirts of Brieulles,
13 miles north of Verdun
The town f{s honeycombed with
machine guns. Observers counted sixe
teen machine guns in a single bullde
ing. American artillery is bombard«
ing the town and the buildings are
crumbling to pleces under our bige
gun fire,
East of the Meuse River the Geme
man artillery fire is slackening and
alr observers reported that the ene
emy has been withdarawing his heavy
guns gince September 26,
American batteries poured hundreds
of tons of gas shells into the Harae
mont region east of the Meuse, where
German artillery was stationed. The
German gunners had to work thefs
guns wearing masks,
Our artiilery is inflicting heavy
losses,
Important Gains by
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British and French
NEW YORK, Oct. B.—(Summary
of early cables to the International
News Service.)--Important gains
marked the overnight war develope
ments, Briefly they were:
The British advanced on Dousil
front, capturing Vaast and Oppy, exe
tending their lines ‘within six mileg
of Doual.
The French drove forward on thé
Alsne River, capturing Berry-ayd.
Bae, where the old German fronf§
crossed from the southern to the
northern bank of the stream,
The Americans broke up' vie!
German counter attacks and ext i
ed their gains between the Argol
forest and the Meuse River.