, 1916-09-20

German formations. The statement says
that Two battalions we're almost annihilated
by the French artillery.
Washington, Sept. lSth.-A conference
between the British Embassy officials and
representatives, of important American firms,
which have suffered from the British mail
censorship is being arranged by the Embas-
sy with q view to working out some plan 10
expedite the handling of commercial mail
through the Censcr's Office. The conference
will be held soon III New York with SIR
Richard Crawford, commercial adviser Of the
Embassy. as chief representative of the Bri-
fish Government.
Elp0so, Texas, Sept. 18th.-Two columns
of Government cavalry under General Ma
tias Ramso and Colonel Marrero to day were
pursuing Villa and his main band in the
rugged Santa Clara canyon district. The
bandits are well mounted and apparently
leading the defacto forces over the rugged
rocks into the canyon.
London, Sept. 18th.-Mr. Hall Game, in
an article to-day, asks: "Will the war it.
self, which hitherto has resisted the eff
forts of twenty millions of men on all
fronts to bring to m end which Las with
stood all the physical forces Of meal
culable masses of ammunitions us we'll as
the economic strain of unparaIlel national
debts and the mighty pressure of the
normal sense of the world be terminated
at last by its own terrors. After telling of
the secrecy which has prevailed over the
new British armoured machine. gun, he says
the whispers were that it was a gigantic
car with a colossal Juggernaut, a moving
arsenal Of unimaginable driving forces.
Nothing could stand before it. It would
pass over trenches like fat ground, climb
out of a bed Of u river and walk over houses
as over anthilIs. Ia the inferno of its
interior, the men who worked 1t we'll
wodld be safe from almost any force known
to military science, except that OF the neon
querable monitor they controlled. The re-
suit is now out, and he says: 81 am told the
power of this iuggernau' is that II It rolled
up Broadway and was directed ut the Flat
Iron Building, it would bring it down and
rolled out at the other side almost rs rapidly
as [ told The tale. | am also told that ii Wa
had 5000 iuggernauts they would end the
war in a month. ii sounds like a dream.
Some will surely say it ounds like madness,
but few or none can be so skeptical OF this
tremendous story as not at least to hope for
the sake Of humanity aud future world peace
that please God it may be tue"
Paris, Sept. 17th.-The French artillery
has been active along the Sommo front,
says the official statement this afternoon,
but no operations of notable Importance
are chronIcled. Numerous Dir raids have
been carried out by French aviators. says
the official statement which is as follows.
With the exception of fairly lively artll-
lery duels on The Somme trent in the
sectors of Berry and Vermand Ovillers
no important event is reported on the front
as q whole. Yesterday an enemy aeropiane
was brought down within our lines ut Bel
10y. 1t is confirmed that the enemy, mach
inc which was attacked by Warrant Officer
Lecoir, came crashing to the ground north
of Douaumont. being the eight to be
brought down by his pilot. 1t is also
confirmed that Warrant Officer Dorme de-
feated his tenth enemy machine, which
fell near Brie on Sept. 18th. On Friday
night two of our machines dropped 15
bombs of 100 millimetres each on the air.
shed at Hatzheim. Last night $50 bombs
were dropped on the railway station and
aviation buildings ut Tergnier, aud $50
bombs on the railway station at Abbecourt
On the same might our bombing squadron
carried out the following operations. u
bombs of 100 miilimetres were dropped on
the railway stations as Roisel, Esphy and
Athies aud on the railway line between st.
Quentin and Ham"
london Sent. 12th-A further advance