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GAINS BY ALLIES HELD SMALL
FOR so GREAT A PREPARATION

Beaurains. south of Arras, and at one
or two points further south. Beau
rains. which was utterly destroyed. is
still part of the German lines.
Along this entire front, as in Cham
payne. the attack was preceded by a
terrible artillery fire, which began Sep
TENDER 20, and increased steadily in
intensity until the morning of the 25th
when the attack commenced.
Before attacking the British sent al
ternate waves of asphyxiating gas and
dense smoke across the field, first re-
leasing the gas for about ten minutes
and then the smoke for a slightly
shorter time. and repeating this pro-
cedure several times. 1t was impossible
to see tree twenty feet distant
through the smoke clouds.
New Troops Under Fire.
Many old British line regiments took
park in the attack, but there were a
great many regiments of the new
Kitchener army. Some of the British
who were taken prisoner came under
fire for the first time In carrying out
the main attack.
The German troops in places recap
tured thu lost ground. This was espe-
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for existence and has enough foreign
enemies. To demand that it shall. also
nourish an internal enemy on it's
bosom. because that would suit the
British and Americans, is to demand a
great deal.
THE Turkish empire has long had to
endure that all the great powers who
pleased and who wished to destroy,
plumber or rob the Turks, mixed in
their affairs. Now we should think
these times are finally passed. And
they will, indeed, be passed as soon as
the German empire determinedly takes
the standpoint that what its Turkish
ally does with his revolutionary, Ar
menians is an internal affair which
concerns him alone"
Voices Indignation.
The writer expresses indignation at a
report published by the Frankfurter
Zeutunne to the effect that German
consuls have endeavored to mollify the
hardships. and declares that this stand
point is incomprehensibl to him and
that he considers it politically false.
I'VE Germans have to give an .ac-
count neither to enemies nor neutrals
of what the Turks do with their Ar
menians or what the German consuls
say about it," he declares. The place
of the German empire and of every in
dividual German is at the side of our
Turkish ally. and that without criti-
cism."
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CRIES AGAINST SIR EDWARD GREY
FOR BALKAN SITUATION SCORED

The Pail Mall Gazette takes the view
that personal attacks on Foreign Sec
rotary Grey will prove of assistance to
him in rallying public support
''If Germany has trepanned Bulgaria
and stultified Greece, it constitutes no
proof that Downing street has failed
where an apprentice from Fleet street
would have come off with flying colors,"
says the Pail Mall Gazette. ITO contend
that the foreign Office could have pre-
vented the turn affairs have taken is
mere ink singing.
Real Test of Policy.
1.-THE real test of British policy is to be
found, not in the failure to make the
Balkan balance incline In the right di-
rection. but in the readiness or unreadi-
ness which reveals itself for the con-
sequences of what has not occurred.
Are military measures adequate to the
new situation which has arisen, with a
modified nation in our rear, under
control of an obscure policy and ruled
by Emperor Williams brother-in-lawe
The answers to these questions will
constitute the only valid Judgment upon
Sir Edward Grey's administration"
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Germans in 6igh Spirits.

PARIS, October 9.-This letter, dated
September rs. was found on the body
of German officer, who was killed in
Champagne:
"One o'clock in the morning. At Z 1t
will have been seventytwo hours
since. without interruption. we have
been frightfully bombarded-seventy
two hours of endless, deafening uproar.
which even the steadiest nerves can
hardly endure.
II was ordered into the trenches as
an observer at am. Naturally, tele-
phone lines were broken. I reached
the position of the reserves without
much trouble, their trenches being de-
stroyed only here and here, but there
the difficulties began. Mines and
bombs were exploding at brief inter-
walls, interspersed with bullets from
machine guns. From that point on the
trenches were so damaged that we
were obliged to crawl on all fours.
Trench Repaired IS Times.
"I left my telephone operator and
went ahead, amid uninterrupted crac-
kings, the bursting of grenades, the
explosion of shells, the whistltng OF
bullets, the bowling Of shell fragments
and fogs of smoke.
By holding my breath behind my res
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PRISONERS OF WAR
LIKE SCARECROWS
British Commissioner So Holds
in Discussing German Treat:
ment Of Russians.
-;orresnondeuce OF the Associated Press.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
PETROGRAD. September 20.-British
Red Cross Commissioner Ernest Hart.
in a report to Prince Gutenberg, patron
of all sanitary work in Russia. con-
trasts the good appearance and general
healthfulness of German prisoners OF
war with the distressful condition OF
Russian war prisoners returning from
Germany at the time of their ex-
change at 'Torneo on the Swedish
frontier Commissioner Hart visited
Torneo at the special request of Prince
Gutenberg to witness the transfer
toward the end of August. His report
follows:
..In the large new school house at
Torneo 1 found 247 invalid or disabled
men austrian and Germany most eX-
cellently accommodated, the wards
being large, airy and scrupulously
clean, the beds very comfortable. with
ample room between each. and the
food consisting Of nourishing. soup,
with meat, another dish of meat and
wholesome bread in good quantity.
Prisoners Well Nourished.
II spoke to several prisoners. who
were grateful for the treatment 'theS
had received. both on the journey from
Petrograd and. at the hospital They
were cleanly. and physically in as good
condition as the injuries they had re-
ceived in battle permitted. That is to
say, they were we'll nourished. Where
their own clothing was deficient or
worn out they had received fresh
clothing. including a warm overceat'
a cap, and often boots.
81 saw these men sent away across
the border the same evening, and the
arrangements for. removing them by
wagons. stretchers and boats fur
nished with necessary conveniences
and protected from the weather. left
nothing to be desired on the score of
humanity. / also crossed into Hapa-
randa and inspected the arrangements
of the Swedish Red Cross under DR..
Nauchkof, who spoke very highly of
the completeness. and humanity of the
treatment of the injured prisoners of
war by the Russian authorities. 1t was
very clear that the Swedish authori-
ties did not hold the same favorable
opinion of the treatment of Russian
prisoners by the Germans, and l was
informed at Haparanda that they were
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LILLE, France. october 2. by courier
via London.-IH view Of the tremen-
dous preparations. the amount OF am
munition used and the number OF
troops employed in the great attack
along a front of less than twenty
miles. from La Bassee to a point south
of Arras, the Anglo-French gains are
not considered to have been important
The most important British gain was
to the south of La Bassee canal, in an
easterly and southeasterly direction.
where the Germans were thrown back
from two-thirds of a mile to nearly
two miles along a front between mile
and a half to two miles and a haif IN
extent.
| This was the main British attack.
and is declared to have been carried
out oy 1--WE divisions against four in
| fantry regiments and one battalion of
sharpshooters.
Ground Taken by French.
/ In addition to their principal gains.
the French succeeded in taking some
ground to the northeast Of Arras, near
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Thinks Strategy Waivers.

| BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
| FRANCE, October 3.-The scene Of the
British attacks in the Lens region is a
| fiat mining country-slag heaps. mine pits
ruined buildings, splintered and felled
trees and earthworks churned by ex-
blossoms. with slightly rising ground
toward Loos and Lens.
| Nothing is visible except the soft
puffs of shrapnel bursting and volumes
of black smoke from British and Ger
man high explosive shells. marking
positions where the British troops are
organizing their gains and the Ger
mans are preparing a new defensive
i line.
| 1t is with infinite satisfaction to the
British, who had long looked at the
eyesore twin towers of the mining works
at Loos. that they now have in their
nossession this German position. The
church at Loos. which had been useo de
an observation post. is heap OF stones
as the result of the bombardment pre-
ceding the attack.
In Cellars During Battle.
| The normal population Of Loos Is
| I O 900 poor miners and their famlhes
Three hundred of these remained our-
ling the battle. taking shelter IN tne
cellars of their wrecked. miserable
homes.
| One old woman who cooked for the
Germans is now cooking Tor the BTU
| AS the skirmish line approached the
town II saw six. women and a chlio
| coming toward 1t in the mldse Oh tne
battle. Some Of the British soioi err
turned from the fierce business OF .s .ns
| charge to rescue them. but before the!
could get the women under some sor'
of shelter two of them were wounded
| The elaborateness and permanecy OF
| the German trenches indicated the ap
parent conviction of the Germans n
the security of their line. Dugouts
often thirty feet deep were cementet
and contained electric lights and arm
chairs. Some of them were impene
trable even to high explosive sheiis
of big caliber. e.,
wire in front of the German trenches
to bits and battered the firing trencnes
land trayerses into irregular pies OF
earth Under such failing OF sneii,
il was suicidal for the Germans Z
Iattempt to remain outside the dugouti
or to try to man their machine guns
or use their rifles.
Charge Of British Infantry.
When the artillery work was per
fected the British infantry sprans
over the parapets at a given moment
Sprinting toward the German trench
they arrived almost without opposition
Then the German trench was theirs
with the Germans who were alive hud
died in their caves. Some OF the dug
outs had been demolished and had IL
them fragments of German bodies
mixed with the debris. Other dugout
had their openings blown in by shell
explosions, and their occupants wer'
either buried or suffocated.
When a dugout had been unharmet
1.-The British soldiers. with bayonets fxe'
OF bombs in hand. appeared at the en-
trance to find the Germans still insid
or perhaps Just starting out. All in tn
dugout might surrender. or. on tn
other hand. if a British soldier starte'
to enter or even showed himself n
was received with fusillade. In cas-
of refusal to surrender bombs wer
thrown into the dugout without tn
: thrower Of them exposing himself. Tn
Germans surviving the explosion usu
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GERMANS MORE CONFIDENT
SINCE OFFENSIVE in WEST
Now Convinced That Allies Never Will
Be Able to Cut a Way
Through Line.

were unsuccessful, and therefore have
returned to their original plan OF
breaking through in the west, wnere
an attack has been made with 1ouf-
fold superiority in numbers.
The writer says this latest offensive
was obviously begun with the ponti7
cal motive of affecting the Balkan neu-
trails, but that the diplomatic result
evidently will be as slight as the mill
tary result.
The Taegliche Rundscau. discussing the
offensive in the west, says: we are not
so premature as the French in blowing
our fanfares of victory. after a new and
largely miscarried movement Whlch Win
respondent feeling of the people and
arouse the hope of "a great change
Says Germans Are Confident.
Our people retain in these days their
quiet determination, their confidence that
our wall in the west is unbreakable, and
that victory is to be ours because it must
be ours. We use the artificial methods
with which our opponents inspire public
opinion just as little as we use alcohol
to stimulate our troops and make them
capable of resistance. We do not send
our troops drunk into battle, as the
French have done. and we do not intoxi-
cate those at home by high-sounding talk
fcials congratulating each other. We
even venture to present to our public
daily the lengthy, exaggerated and often
untruthful reports Of the general stats
Of our opponents.
1.-THE German government can depend
on the people. The British. French, Rus
slams and Italians obviously have given
their governments cause for mistrust.
since the latter feed them with lies and
with promises which inevita bly, prove i'm
possible to carry out.
Further Offensive Expected.
1.-The effort to break through will con-
tinue, with waste Of ammunition and
life, but the first effort has miscarried
and the first conflict has been decided.
THE Anglo-French ram has damaged
the German wall in only two places.
Farther than that the offensive has ac-
complished nothing. After a quarter of
a years preparation. during which our
army defeated huge Russian armies;
after a month-long accumulat ton of am
munitiop from half the world. especially
from America, the French and British
victory reports have had to contain
that bitter sentence: We did not get
through Their efforts cost US heavy
losses. but they lost more heavily"
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Represents City at Exposition.

Mayor Hathaway of New Bedford,
Mass. has announced that he has Sc
lected Medical Director George F.
Winslow, U. S. N, retired, to represent
the city of New Bedford at the Panama
Pacific exposition. at San Francisco on
the day set apart by the directors of
the exposition as New Bedford day,
which occurs Monday. October Is.
Medical Director Winslow 10 a native of
New Bedford.
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Fights for France at Seventy-Two.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 25.-The honor OF
being the oldest "poilu" can be claim
ed, it appears. by Alcide Verd. seventy
two years of age. Having seen service
at. Sedan, Verd was again anxious TO
serve his country and demanded I'M
mediately that he be sent to the rronl.
His request was granted and he now
is serving with the 47th Territorial
Regiment in the first-line trenches.
surprising his comrades by his high
spirits and good humor.
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Deprecates Criticisms.
SAYS RUSSIAN PATROLS
WEAR GERMAN HELMETS

BERLIN, October 9. by wireless to
Tuckerton, N. 1.-THE ohcial state
ment from German army headquarters.
under date Of October s. contains the
following:
Russian patrols are wearing German
helmets in order to deceive German
troops. 1t is evident that such Rus
slams, when they fall into German
hands, will be treated in accordance
with the laws of war;"
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Heavy Motor Imports to London.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press
LONDON. September 80. During
June. July and August there were i'm
ported from America more than $500
motor cars complete. valued at over
100000. while in addition there were
over 500 chassis. valued at 100000,
and tires, tubes and other parts, VAL
ued at over $500. 900 These figures were
given In the commons, where there Is
a growing disposition to put some tax
on such importations, and many news.
papers are urging such action
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LONDON. October 9.-"Clearly 1t was
quite impossible to outbid the German
offer" says the Westminster Gazette
in commenting on the alignment OF
Bulgaria with the central powers
with their habitual cynicism the Ger
mans were prepared to offer anything.
and since the greater part of their Of
ferings were at the expense OF their
enemies the operation on paper was
ridicuIously easy. We, on the contrary.
could only offer the possessions OF our
friends"
Deprecates Criticisms.
In such circumstances the Gazette
deprecates the outburst against the
foreign office, which has been criticised
severely by some newspapers. 1t says:
1--WE cannot conceive of any moment
less opportune for quarreiing about
what we might have done. The situa,
ton we face requires US. above al
things. to show that we accept with
composure the failure to conciiiate
King Ferdinand, and are ready TO go
ahead without wavering on the alter
native line"
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BERLIN, October 9.-Eugen thinner
man. general director Of the Lokal An
zeiger. discussing the Anglo-French Of
fensive in his newspaper. declares that
the maneuver was a most carefully pre-
pared COPY of the German offensive on
the Dunajec river, during the drive Of
the Russians from the Carpathian
mountains, but that it failed to show
the effects of the original movement
1.-THE offensive" says Herr thinner
man, was very thoroughly thought out
and prepared. but whereas the Ger
mans and Austrians initiated their Of
fensive with a four-hour artillery at
tack, the British and French consumed
seventy hours. This would show the
strength of the nerves of the Germans
to be eighteen fold greater than that
of the Russians. which amounts to high
praise for the German troops.
Holds Results Meager.
yet the results of the Anglo-French
efforts were meager in comparison to
the Dunajec gains. The German front
line was pushed back into its second
position for a distance of fifteen miles,
which means withdrawal of from
one to two miles. But there was no
breach in the lines. On the other hand
the Dunajec breach was made on a
front of twenty-five miles for a depth
of twelve miles.
when the German and Austrian IN
fantry attacks began they proceeded
without interruption until all the sew
en- Russian lines had been taken and
Gorlice was captured"
Herr Zimmerman assumes that the
allies will continue their efforts to
break through the German lines until
they are convinced of the impossibility
of so doing. The German leaders. he
says, all along had contemplated the
possibility of massed efforts to break
through being partially successful To-
cally, but he declared that a breach
of the whole of the position will not
take place.
Thinks Strategy Waivers.
wavering in the strategic policy in
the Anglo-French conduct of the war
is seen by Herr Zimmerman. The al
lies, he says. first tried vainly to break
the German lines in the west, and hav-
ing failed they turned their attention
to the Dardanelles, where they also
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Cannot Dispatch Troops.

Baron Kato. talked very plainly as
to why Japan would not send troops to
the European theater of war. such
thing" he said. sis an impossibility, to
say nothing of the complete absence OF
a proper causus belli.' He continued:
According to experts q large num-
Der of troops would be needed. but we
have no ships to transport large num-
bers. This difficulty might be over
come by a special agreement with the
allied powers for the supply Of their
own transports. but another and stu
more serious difficulty is the financing
of such a step. The expenditure would
amount to thousands of millions of yen
per annum. How could such an enor-
nous sum be raised? National honor
prevents us from fighting at the ex-
pense of others. Assuming that Japan
resorts to loans for the purpose. how
could she raise or redeem such loans!'
The general feeling in the various
walks of japanese life is that it would
be unwise for Japan to risk its prestige
in two victorious wars. by a question
able military adventure in Europe.
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or even uneasiness. about the situation.
On the contrary, the feeling appears
almost one of citation.
British prisoners. with whom the
correspondent conversed, were also in
excellent condition mentally and physi-
cally, and their equipment was of a
nature which was commented on fire.
quently by German officers as "luxuri-
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British Superior Physically.

The British prisoners appear to be
far superior physically. and are better
equipped, than the French. A great
number of the latter were wearing
their new steel helmets. many OF
which showed marks Of shrapnel bull
lets. and, in some instances. rifle bull
let's, which would have been fatal with
out the headgear.
The German commanders, while ex-
Meeting further Anglo-Frenc efforts
profess to believe that their antago-
nists have played their last big
trump" They declare that the losses
Of the British reached so per cent OF
the forces engaged.
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from Berlin by way of London. appar-
entity having been eliminated by the
British censor.
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death struggle in which the nation has
been plunged" This state of things,
the baron observed. was in sharp con-
trast to conditions in Japan. where the
people in general have played the
main and decisive part in two great
wars. He believed the present war to
be one Of exhaustion. and expressed his
unwavering conviction that the allies
would win.
He was impatient. he said. with jap
anese alarmfsts who. were obsessed
with the absurd idea that Germany
will become mistress of the world In
the long run, and eventually descend
upon the far east. seeking retaliation
from Japan.
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II had the opportunity of verifying
these reports the next morning. when
about $50 Russian prisoners arrived
from Germany. Several of the men
were wearing the same cotton cloth
ing given out to them in the hospital,
with wornout list slippers on their
feet and no socks. and they had trav-
eled in, this condition from Koenigs-
berg in Germany through Sweden and
INTO Russian territory at Torneo.
Many of the men were like scarecrows.
so ragged and filthy was their condi-
ton. and one was clothed in the uni
form of a dead French prisoner OF
war They were thin and weak and
said that they had been half starved
during the Imprisonment. They pro-
duced samples of the bread that was
given them. it being extremely hard
and moldy and mixed with potatoes
ana even particles of straw. They
salo little or no meat was given them
in the thin soup served out to them
daiiy In addition they had been SUBJ
Jected to severe punishment for al
legged breaches of discipline, despite
their manned and disabled condition
the punishment including their being
compelled to stand on barrels for hours
at time or being tied to posts with
their arms above their heads They
were also frequently struck by their
German guards with the butts of their
tuberculosis Prevalent.
One of the worst features of the con-
dition of the returned Russian prison.
ers was the number of cases of tuber-
culosis. These numbered some sixty
out of the $50 men returned. and 1 was
told that the usual number was about
20 per cent. The cases of tuberculosis
among German and Austrian prisoners.
on the other hand. were only to s per
cent out of the total of 1850 already
exchanged. Some of the returned Rus
sion prisoners had lost their feet while
In prison in Germany from frost bites,
due to exposure. There have been no
such cases among the German and Aus
trian prisoners in Russia. and I have
had the opportunity of seeing and con-
versing with these prisoners in MOSCOW
and other parts of Russia, which | have
VISITED during my journeys in Poland.
Galicia, mid-Russian and the Cau-
casus
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Many Like Scarecrows.

sent out Of Germany in q painfully
dirty and neglected condition, OFTEN
half-naked and half-starved.