Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
NEWS review OF
The PAST week
British and French Give Enemy
Another Smashing Blow in
West Flanders.
CANADIANS STORM HILL 10
Peace Proposals From the Pope Are
coIdIy Received by the Allies
Hoover Takes Control OF
American Wheat-Train-
ing Camp Men Get
Commissions.
BY EDWARD W. PlckARp.

Another smashing blow at the Ger
mans In Flanders was given last week
by the British and French. General
Halg first sent his hard-fighting Cana
dian troops after the defenses of Lens
and In an irrestible charge they
quickly captured Hill 20, the emlnence
that dominates that center of the coal
region and the LoOs salient and which
the allied forces had been aiming at
for two years. The men from the Do
mlnlon pushed on into Lens itself, but
as this Is written the Germans are still
clinging desperately to the center OF
the city. though every movement of
the troops there is covered by the guns
Of the British. AS usual, the Germans
at once began a series of counter-at-
tacks on Hill 20. but these were re-
pulsed in every instance by the Cana
dlans, with severe losses to Prince
Ruprecht's forces.
Meanwhile Haig directed another
great attack on a nine-mile front east
and north of Ypres, with the efficient
cooperation Of the French on their
left. The latter occupied Dreigrachten
and showed their positions forward to
the edge Of the flooded area, and then
forced the crossing of the Steenbeke
and took German positions to an ex-
treme depth of 1000 yards. The Brit
ish took the village of Langemarck
and occupied much territory there and
about st. Julien.
Increasing resistance by the Rus
SLAMS and hard fighting by the Rouma-
mans slowed up somewhat the prog
ress Of the Teutonic forces through
Moldavia toward southern Russia, but
the advance of the enemy continued,
nevertheless. Won Mackensen's most
important victory Of the week was the
capture of Panciu, big railway juno
ton. Unless there should be another
collapse, the further east the Germans
go, the harder they will find the going
Fearing that enemies of the new re
public would attempt to liberate the
ex-czar, the government had Nicholas
and his family removed secretly anC
swiftly from Tsarkoe-Selo and SEN
them to Tobolsk, a Siberian town tha
isn't even on a railroad.
Peace Proposals From the Pope.
Pope Benedict last week submitted
to the warning nations a definite pro
posal for peace. In all the capitals 1
was received with the serious consid
GRAFTON due 1t because of its impress
slveness and its distinguished source
but the general trend of opinion amonI
diplomats was that 1t would result II
nothing. Despite the evident sincerit.
of the popes' pan, the peace he pro
poses is too much of German peace
to suit Great Britain, France and Italy
and 1t Is not conceivable that PresI
dent Wilson and the United State
would accept 1t as stated. German
and her allies doubtless would be onl
too pleased to end the war on tn
terms suggested; indeed. the pope's az
peal at this time is considered by man
to have been inspired by Austria.
Briefly, his holiness would have al
conquered territories restored, includ
ing Germany's cOloniesg and the peace
full settlement of the questions of Al
sace-Lorralne and Italia Irriderta lef
to the future he thinks there must
no reparation for losses sustained, an
no continuation of the war by an ecC
nomic struggle thereafter; and 70
the avoidance Of future wars he IL
dorses President Wilson's plan of IL
ternational agreement to reduce arm,
ments, enforce peace and obtain re,
ognition of the national aspirations {
the smaller peoples.
Do Not Seem Reasonable.
Unless the utterances of their Leaf