Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-08-23
British and French Give Enemy
Another Smashing Blow in
West Flanders.
CANADIANS STORM HILL 70
Peace Proposals From the Pope Are
coIdly Received by the Allies
Hoover Takes Control Of
American Wheat-Traln-
ing Camp Men Get
Commissions.
BY EDWNRp w. PIckARD.

Another smashing blow at the Ger
mans In Flanders was given last week
By z t1s ssts British alP aRa French Gs2iIaI
: nag "a .s,ar WI li7ls7''v
Sdian troops .ssssvsne - defenses Lens
and In an irrestfbld charge they
quickly captured Hill 10, the eminence
that dominates that center of the coal
region and the Loos salient and Which
the allied forces had been aiming ut
for two years. The men from the Do
minlon pushed on into Lens itself, but
q this is written the Germans are still
clinglng 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 series of c0unter-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 Halg directed another
great attack on nine-mlle 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
lsh took the village, of LangemarclI
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
M0ldavia toward southern Russia, but
the advance of the enemy continued
nevertheless. Won Mackensens most
important victory of the week was the
capture of Panclu, a 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 llberate the
ex-czar, the government had Nicholas
and his family removed secretly ant
swiftly from Tsarkoe-Selo and SEN
them to Tobolsk, Siberian town thai
isn't even on railroad.
Peace Proposals From the Pope.
Pope Benedict last week submitted
to the warning nations n definite pro
posal for peace. In all the capitals 4
was received with the serious consid
Grafton due II because of its lmpres
slveness and its distinguished source
but the general trend of opinion anon,
diplomats was that II would result il
nothing. Despite the evident slncerlt.
Of the popes' plan, the peace he pro
poses Is too much of German peace
to suit Great Britain, FRANCE and Italy
and II Is not conceivable that Presl
dent Wilson and the United State
would accept II as stated, German
and her allies doubtless would be onl
too pleased to end the war on tn
terms suggested indeed, the pope's ul
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 colonies, and the peace
full settlement of the questions of Al
sace-Lorraine and Italia Inidenta lei
to the future ne thinks there must b
no reparation for losses sustained, an
no continuation of the war by an ect
nomlc struggle thereafter ~ and ia
the avoidance of future wars he IL
dorses President Wilson'S plan Of ii
ternntlonal agreement to reduce arm,
ments enforce peifce and obtain re,
ognltlon of the national aspirations &
the smaller peoples.
Do Not Seem Reasonable.
Unless the utterances OF their leu,