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Channel ports, but primarily renewing the
drive upon Paris.
Hence, in the last days of September
begins the concentration of German armies
for the final thrust. But before this can
be made the danger of Antwerp must be
abolished and the Belgian army, which has
been threatening German communications
and disturbing German plans, must be
abolished. AS these plans are laid the
Western campaign enters its final stage,
for the first phase of the war. But it is
well to bear in mind that this last German
operation was only one more effort to regain
the initiative, the offensive, lost at the
Marine. Germany is now going to try once
more, as she has tried from the Aisne, to
restore the situation existing when the
Marine opened.
The Race to the Sea.
Literally, the Battle of the Aisne is only
the brief combat between the Anglo-French
armies and Kluck, north of scissors, be
fore both came to standstill. Afterward
there are the battles about Rheims and in
Champagne and Lorraine, in all Of which
the Germans were seeking to advance
again. Finally comes that operation which
the French name picturesquely the Grace
to the Sea-" in which Joffre tried to turn
the flank of the German position behind
the Aisne and east of the Disc. AS the
Germans met this thrust the line mounted
until it approached the sea, and as it moved
the trench line extended, until moment
was in sight when there would be COM
plete deadlock from the North Sea to the
Swiss frontier.
When the Germans at last recognized
this possibility they undertook their final
effort, eliminating in the deadly battles of
the User and Ypres, which were far more
bloody defeats for them than the Marine,
and were not counterbalanced by the
taking of Antwerp. These battles were
the last effort of Germany to reopen the
decision of the Marine, and they are the
logical consequence of what had taken
place about Paris, at La Fere-Champenoise
and in Lorraine a month earlier.
Ending Belgian Resistance.
Already Belgian resistance had contrib
uted seriously to impeding German plans
In the days when every German soldier
was needed in France an army corps had
to be kept before Belgium to protect the
| German lines of communication and con-
tain the Belgian field army in Antwerp.
At the moment of the Battle of Char
leroi the Belgian army had made sortie
/ in the course of which it had almost
reached Louvain. The destruction of this
city followed this fighting and was an act
of reprisal by the Germans, who ruthlessly
executed many men and women. This
deed promptly filled the civilized world
with horror and awakened protest in all
lands. Again, at the Battle of the Marine
second Belgian sortie had detained troops
which were starting south and held them
until the critical days of the retreat to the
Aisne were passed.
To rid themselves of this annoyance, to
/ clear their tanks, to prepare the way for
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of Hamburg. Underlying all these mag
nificent details, too, was the dominant de-
termination to regain the offensive, to take
up again the road to France.
Once Antwerp fell the army corps re-
leased from this operation drove south
upon the heels of the retreating Belgians.
From every corner Of the German Empire
garrisons and artillery were gathered up
for supreme thrust--a thrust through
France, but in part aimed at England
the nation now become the object Of the
concentrated hatred and wrath of all Ger
many.
Not less rapid was the concentration OF
the Allies. Coming north across the
French frontier, French regular troops
British forces withdrawn from the Aisns
in early October, Sikhs, Ghurkas-all the
Indian contingent; now to have their bap
tism of fire; Senegalese and Moroccan rifle.
men, Turcos and Legionaries-finally the
retreating remnant Of the Belgians rein
forced by French and British divisions
gathered around the sleepy little Flemish
town of Ypres, on the shores Of the North
Sea at Newport and behind the User
River and the canal that joined it to the
Lys, to meet the storm.
Battling in q Maze.
A more admirable country for defence
than the User front it is difficult to :mag.
inc. Eastward from the dunes stretched
an intricate maze of river, canal and ditch,
much of the land liable to inundation once
the sluices were open-all Of 1t certain II
become a swamp when the first storms OF
winter began. On this front dozen large
and small villages and hundreds Of little
stone farmhouses offered cover. Trenches
dug to-day might be flooded tomorrow
artillery dragged within range over Level
fields might be submerged and bemired to-
morrow.
Such was the country between the User
and the sea. Here and about Ypres fol
more than a month there continued with
slight interruption one of the most ittri
cate. confused and indescribable conflict.
in all the history of war, fought by mer
of more races, religions, colors and ma
tionalties than any battlefield in Western
Europe had known since the onrush Of the
soldiers of Islam was halted on the field OF
Tours. Asia, Africa and even Americs
and Australia shared in the glory and the
slaughter.
The Death Crspple at Ypres.
The first blow fell along the seacoas'
south of Ostend, fell upon the remnant Of
Belgian forces, led by their intrepid King
standing behind the User River at Nieu
port, where it enters the sea. Here fol
days the Belgians maintained an unequa
combat. At the critical moment British
feet took station beyond the dunes anc
with its heavy artillery beat down thu
German advance, after a slaughter which
was terrible.
Halted here, the Germans moved inlanC
and came on again about Dixmude, hall
way between Ypres and Newport. Here
once more they made progress until mt
Belgisns. in their despair, opened the sluicsl
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final attack to the south, the Germans
now resolved to have done with King AL
bert and his gallant little army. The clos
ing days of September, therefore, saw Bel
GUM approaching her final agony.
Before the German artillery Antwerp's
defences crumbled with incredible rapidity.
What the 42-centimetre gun and the
Austrian "305's" had accomplished at
Liege, at Namur, at Maubeuge, but hitherto
behind veil, they now did in the full
sight Of the whole world. In less than a
week those forts which had been pro-
nounced impregnabe were heaps Of dust
and ashes and German troops had forced
the river defences and the field trenches
driving the Belgians before them. By o.
tober the Krupp shells were falling about
the noble tower of the Antwerp Cathedral
The city and suburbs were breaking out ir
flames. The end was in sight.
The next day the field army Of Belgium
commanded by its still undaunted King
crossed the Scheldt on pontoons, moved
west along the Dutch frontier, accom-
panied by a British contingent, made good
its escape to join the Allied armies, still
moving up from the south, but all too late
Only few thousand troops forced across
the Dutch frontier were disarmed and in
termed. Meanwhile by every ship, train
road, thousands of refugees, fleeing from
the shells that were falling in Antwerp
flowed out to Holland, to England, t.
France. A new migration of people hac
begun.
The end came on October 9, when thu
city surrendered, the remaining Belgian
forces escaping to Holland and there lay
ing down the arms they had welded SC
valiantly.
The Fight for Calais.
In late October there opened between La
Bassee and the sea the most deadly cam
paign the war had yet seen. For the mex
six weeks, on a front of barely forty miles
some hundreds of thousands of men strug
gled by day and by night for the posses
sion of score of villages lying straight
across the pathway of the new German
advance, between the Lys and the mouth
of the User. When it had ended, in par
through the exhaustion of both comba
tants, the Germans had gained few par
cells of territory, few wrecked villages
but in the main the line stood as it hac
stood in the opening hours of the conflict
despite the fact that the German Emperor
had come himself to spur on his brave but
beaten soldiers and the whole German ma
ton had set its heart upon Calais.
The purpose of the German strategy wa:
plain. Antwerp taken, Ostend captured
there was an apparent opportunity II
sweep down the coast past Calais anc
Boulogne; to seize Dunkirk, the last French
fortress in the north; to take root on thu
eastern shore of the Strait Of Dover; Il
bring by canal and river the submarines
already so fatal to British warships, tc
threaten England as Napoleon had threat
ened it with invasion; to menace London
by Zeppelin fleets; by heavy artillery an
mines to close the Strait Of Dover, ant
leave the port Of London as dead as that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-08
By FRANK H. SIMONDS,
Author of "The Great War"


read in official bulletins and utterly con-
fusing to the public at the time they took
place, become perfectly simple if the main
purposes are kept in mind. You have first
the French and British pursuit, begun on
September 10. You have next the COM
plete check Of this pursuit, after Septem-
Der 10, when Kluck stands behind the
Aisne, digs himself in and, reinforced by
the troops and guns which are freed by
the capture of Maubeuge on September Z,
stops Field Marshal French, Maunoury
and D'Esperey. By September Is Kluck
is able to take the offensive and drive the
British and French out of some Of the
ground they have taken north of the
Aisne.
Meantime to the east BUlow, Einem,
who succeeds Hansen, Wurttemberg and
the Crown Prince have retired slowly, save
for the Saxons, who disappear soon as an
army. The German line curves around
Rheims and through the Argonne. By the
third week in September Bulow, who has
held up Foch just outside of Rheims, at
tacks, takes the forts of Brimont and
Nogent pAbesse, bombards the cathedral
at Rheims, but is checked. The Crown
Prince makes a considerable advance back
toward Verdun east Of the Argonne, but
is stopped in turn. Troops from Metz
made sudden and successful attack upon
the barrier forts south of Verdun, and
take st. Mihiel.
Rheims and St. Mihiel.
No one of these three attacks had i'm
mediately important military consequences,
vet all three are of permanent interest
That Of Bulow, because Of the lombard
ment of Rheims Cathedral, which had a
greater moral effect upon the French ma
ton than anything but the victory of the
Marine. That of the Crown Prince because
taken together with the operation about
St. Mihiel, it had very great value In
later phase of the war, when the Germans
attacked Verdun.
The Crown Prince was checked, after a
few days. But he got forward sufficiently
on the road along which he had recently re-
treated to occupy the town Of Varennes
and from this and other points was abe
with his heavy artillery TO cut the Paris'
Verdun railroad by indirect fire. Even
more complete was the success to the soutn
where the Germans, by taking Fort lamp
des Romans and occupying the west bank
of the Meuse, facing st. Mihiel, were able
to cut the Commercy-Verdun line. There
was a moment when it seemed possible
that they might actually penetrate through
the breach they had opened in the French
barrier and join back with the Crown
Prince. This danger passed, Verdun was
not enveloped, but it was left practically
without rail communication with the resi-
of France, a circumstance which contrib
uted gravely to its danger when the Ger
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Costisssd % pass 9.
The sun., 1916-12-05
KoHLER ESTATE IS $3.50, 5a7.
Piano Manufacturers Trustees File
Accounting With Surrogate.

An accounting Of the estate OF Charles
Kohler. piano manufacturer. who died
June 4. 1913, was filed in the Surrogates'
Court yesterday. 1t showed there is a
balance In charge Of the trustees amount
Ing to S5.3S3.537.
Mrs. Olga kohler Florman. wife OF
Nils Florman of III Madison avenue and
eldest daughter OF the %testator. whose
share In the estate Is about 81. 200, 900. re-
Gently asked the Surrogate for an allow
ance Of $780, 00. stating she was unable
to live on an allowance Of $4,000 a
month. Mrs. Fiorman Ii the mother OF
a two-year-old boy. Nils Kohler Flor
man. who will receive the principal OF her
legacy upon her death.
The sun., 1916-12-05
ORGANIZATION OF SENATE.
Ponerene and s~aulshury Lead 10
President Pro TEN.

WASHINGTON, Dec. "A party con-
ference Of Democratic Senators will be
called soon principally to elect a Presi-
dent pro tempore to NIL a vacancy
created by the death Of Senator James
p. Clarke Of Arkansas.
The choice appears TO lie between
Senator Pomeren$o Ohio and Senator
Salisbury Of Delaware. Neither sena-
tor seems interested in the outcome. II
was the opinion to-day that after a few
complimentary votes Senator Pomerene
would be elected.
Senator Ollie James. whose name has
been mentioned frequently for the ONCE.
has let II be known to-day that nc IL
not a candidate and prefers to remain
active on the floor.
There II a feeling that when the ma
! jority leadership becomes vacant by the
retirement OF Senator Kern the South
will assert It's claim upon that place and
probably elect Senator Martin OF Vir-
einia for whom an active canvass is
! under way. Senator Kern has not been
in very good health. There 10 some
| talk that he will resign o and no.
await the expiration Of his term. but his
| friends in the Senate said to-day that
an effort would be made to dtssuade him
| from any such purpose.
Senator ]. Ham Lewis will emain az
"whip." That was conceded on all
hands.
The sun., 1916-12-05
HUGHES TAKES APARTMENT.
Former Governor viii Make His
Home In 10 East sixty-foarth 81.

Former Governor viii Make His
Home d. 10 East sixty-foarth st.
Charles E. Hughes Is the iates, notable
to fall a victim to the comforts and IN
v%eniences Of New York's splendid apart.
menn Mr.. Hughes leases yesterday
through Pease 4 Gilman a fourteen
room suite In the Verona. 30 East Sixty
fourth street. southeast corner of Mad!-
son avenue. where he will live for at
least the e few years. His rental In
the Verona will be about $1,000 a year.
for he has one OF the finest apartments
in the house.
Among the former Justices neishbors
are Harrison d.. Kerr. Samuel McRob-
erts. Charles A. DANA Mrs. John l.. Con-
nable. Henry r. Cook and +. l.. Judkins.
There are only two apartments on each
fioor In the Verona. and the nat tn"
Hughes family will occupy Is one on the
corner. with northern m western ex-
posture.
Mr.. Hughes already has announced
his intention Of rejoining his Old law
Arm OF Hughes. Rounds. Sherman 4
Dwight. Before he moved to the Execu-
tive Mansion in Albany Mr.. Hughes made
his home in a comfortable little dwelling
In West End avenue.
The sun., 1916-12-05
COOPERATIVE PAPER BUYING.
Nine Kentucky Daily Newspaper
Will Try to Reduce Cost.

LOUISVILLE. Ky, Dec. "A coopera.
tive purchasing agency. through which
they will endeavor to solve the problem
OF increased white paper costs. waA
formed here to-day at a meeting Of rep.
resentatives OF nine OF the larger Ken.
lucky daily newspapers published out
side of Louisville. %
The a~dvisability of increasing adver.
Using and circulation rates was also dis
cussed. but no action in this direction
was taken.
The sun., 1916-12-05

away from hat situation the better for
the trade and the consumer. The matter
OF quoting prices ought to be I'm the
hands of the Government and ought to
be a State function"
Mr.. Dillon testified extensively regard
Ing milk production and distribution.
When asked what he thought Of a pri.
waite distributing monopoly for the city
he replied that this would be an unfor.
tunate arrangement. He criticised tho
city milk distributors and their methods
Of handling milk.
h inquiry will go on to-day.
The sun., 1916-12-05

Mrs, Anna B~loomberg OF 995 IntervaIe
venue, The Bronx, who bad been held
because her automobile killed Mrs. Tes-
sic Imonone at Canal and Elizabeth
streets on September II. was discharged
by Magistrate McQuade In the Tombs
police court yesterday. Deacon Murphy,
Assistant District Attorney. said Mrs
B%loomberg had not been criminally neg.
ligent.
The sun., 1916-12-05
strike Vote Thursday.

The Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America called thirty meetings OF
clothing workers yesterday. They Will
be held In this city on Thursday. when
a general strike vote will be ana
the reports received Of the committees
Negotiating with The manufacturers who
made applications for conferences con-
corning the eight hour demand and the
demand for a general increase OF " a
week.
The sun., 1916-12-05
JEWS OPEN CHARITY CAMPAIGN
3s7 Men and Women start to Raise,
$500 900.

The campaign OF the Federation for
the Support OF Jewish Philanthrop.c
Societies to raise $500, 900 to bring the
fund which has been collected up TO
1000, 900 began yesterday.
During the day 3s7 men and women
went to the campaign headquarters at
the Biltmore and each promised to can
vass ten men on the list OF 10000 Jews
who have not yet been asked to donate.
The sun., 1916-12-05
POULTRY INDICTMENTS NEAR.
Six Members of Alleged "Trust's
Face Grand Jury Action.

The Grand Jury which has been In
v~estigating the operations Of the alleged
poultry trust" for more than a week
will make a report to-day. The indict-'
ment of six men is believed to be prob.
able. Particular interest was taken in;
the case yesterday by the publication by
Jewish newspapers of a charge that per-
IONS closely connected with the Kehillah.
or Jewish community. had Interested
themselves in behalf Of one or more men
said to belong to the so-called trust"
DR.. Judah l.. Magnes. president Of the
kehillah Judge Otto Rosalsky and Louie
Marshall called on District Attorney,
Swami last week n told him the or
ganization would be put in an unfav ,r-
able light II any of its members were
accused Of violations Of the antitrust
law. i
The alleged trust" In accused of maH.,
ing more than 5000 900 by extortion from
the East Side poor. .
The sun., 1916-12-05
ASSAILS FOOD SYSTEM
Com m issiOner Dillon Says one
Dealers Are Handicapped.

John J. Dillon. COMMISSIONS of the
State Department of Foods and Markets,
has a poor opinion of some OF the men
engaged In the food business in this city.
according to his testimony at the Wicks
legislative committee inquiry yesterday.
There are any square men in the
business, he said, but there Is a system"
The sun., 1916-12-05

w. +. Howser OF Armour q Co. ad-
mitted yesterday 1t Is true that the So
called egg boycott has had "A tendency
TO cut the price Of eggs in so far a. It
has reduced the demand. As long as
the boycott continues. he added. 1t will
continue to have It's effect.
He said that when the boycott is de-
clared OF the demand will then increase
and prices naturally will increase. Mr..
Howser explained that egg prices here
are lower than anywhere abroad ard
declared that there Is a real shortage
in his country. He cited the case of
one firm OF which he knew that had
$4,000 cases OF Eggs on hand at this
time last year and now has but 10000
cases.
Mr.. Howser said Commissioner Dl.
Ions order compelling the branding Of
col storage eggs will add to their cost
by reason of the labor necessary to
stamp them m the numbers that will
I've broken In the stamping process.
Commissioner Hartigan said last eve
ming hat IL looks as II II may be ad-
visable to extend the esg boycott from
the proposed two weeks to ,,r,a weeks
and link II up with the butter boycott
that will be called in the meantime.
The sun., 1916-12-05

Do You Want
a Dress Suit
in a Hurry?
g We do not advo-
cate having a dress
suit made to order
in a h~urry-better
miss that banquet
and give your tailor
his customary two
weeks.
g But it is perfectly
safe to buy a dress
suit at Saks' in a
hurry, because it is
all ready for wear
and Hurry cannot
harm it.
q But you can just
make up your mind
that no Hurry en-
tered into its making
we took our line
about that-we cut
it just as accurately,
tailored it just as
finely, and finished
it just as immacu-
lately as any dress
garment made by a
merchant tailor on
the the
only difference at
Saks' is-you can at
tend that banquet
tonight!
Dress Coat & TrCus.
ers $50 10 SIS
Tuxedo Coat & TrOus.
ers .......... $27 to $43
Dress Vests,
$3.50 to $l2.5O
sab Company
Broadway At 34th Street
The sun., 1916-12-05
Goxrrnm-nt shouId Fix PrIce..

THE exchanges enable dealers to
carry on the business Of establishing
prices through the agency of wash
sales and particularly through their
ability to control a price publication. and
the sooner this state and country gets
The sun., 1916-12-05
Honest Men Are HandIca pied.

you take a man who comes into the
business without connections" the Com
missioner said. and II he undertakes to
play themarket on the uar he Is
likely to find 1t difficult to get space In
the cold storage warehouses and he finds
1t difficult II not impossible to get n loan
or his goods.
"A man who makes himself unpopular
with a large element OF the trade through
fantastic notions OF honesty will be put
out Of business or will be made exceed
ingly uncomfortable"
Mr.. Dillon alleged that certain men In
the butter business The didn't name any
body who have been fined for breaking
the law are back In the business conduct
Ing II as before, all Of which he consid-
cred wrong. Just 80 long AZ the law per-
lits men who nave been fined to continue
In the trade. he said. just 80 long the law
will be broken. The profits. he said. will
warrant them in paying an occasional
fine.
The sun., 1916-12-05
Condemn Food Spectators.

Very few members OF the House re-
garded embargo legislation as the proper
way Of dealing with the matter, Repre-
The sun., 1916-12-05
A Few Men FIX Prices.

The Commissioned repeated hts recent
assertion that only a few men trading
In butter and eggs on exchanges fix by
their sales the market price for not only
New York city but the entire country.
Some Of these sales he described as
wash sales" wherein dealers sell butter
and Eggs to one another without actually
delivering the goods. In order to push
the price up or dow as they wish.
Mr.. Dillon testified that he favors a
state law prohibiting egg dealers from
acting az commission men at the same
time. He said attempts by legislative
enactment to separate the two functions
have been beaten repeatedly through the
influence of food dealers.
Al the exchanges In food products"
| he said, "are a menace to and
/ producers of foods wherever they are
operated. They are close corporations
dealing only among themselves and. for
the most part. have for their purpose the
establishment Of prices favoring them
selves n at loss to producers and con-
sumers,
The sun., 1916-12-05
STORAGE EGG
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Results Of the Boycott.

Cold storage wholesale egg prices yes
terday. as compared viii wholesale
prices on Tuesday last. when the egg
boycott VAS inaugurated officially in
this city. were as follows: