Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-10
.M|CKlEL|S SOON
TO GIVE: OUT Draft
OF PEACE: TERMS
Committee Expected to Meet
To-Day to Consider
POpe's Proposals.
GERMAN DEAD COVER
GROUND NEAR VERDUN
Petain's Forces Hold Back Teu-
tons Who Try to Recoup Re-
cent Heavy Losses.
HAIG ALSO IS SUCCESSFUL
Russians Make Stand at Several
Points and Considerably Slacken
Enemy Advance.
HAIG ALSO IS SUCCESSFUL
IBy Associated Pr.sa.1

| OnoNClal reports arc TO the erect
that the new imperia: German Chan
cellor has informed tho Reichstag main
committee that Germany soon will be
able to make known her peace terms.
The committee OF fourt =. members OF
the Reichstag and Bundesrath. APP
pointed recently 20 confer with the
government in matters Of state. is ex
pected TO meet Monday to draft Ger
many's reply to tho Pope's peace pro-
posals
Again the French and tho Germans
are engaged in extremely heavy fight
Ing In the Verdun sector. with the Ger
mans trying to recoup their losses OF
the end o. last week on the right bank
| of the Meuse. but with General Petal in 8
forces holding them back almost every
where ant covering the ground with
their dead.
Over a front OF nearly two miles tho
Germans on SundaJ morning follow
Ing Unsuccessful attacks SatuIday night
in the sector Of the Bois-des- Fo sses
and the Bots des -Caurieres. returned to
tho fray with renewed vigor. espe-
cially around Hill "a. Al some points
Germans. but they liter were driven
out and the French line was entirely
re-cstablished. In the nghting around
tho Bois -des- Fosses Saturday night the
Germans left nearly 1000 dead on the
ground before the FreLch positions.
BRITISH GUNS ROARING
IN MIGHTY tBOM8ARDMEST
At various points on the front held
A.v >la1I Iat. -
troops have delivered successful at
tacks. especially northwest of st.
Quentin. where German positions on n
front of several hundred yards were
captured and prisoners taken In
Flanders the British guns still
roaring in the might: ombardinent
that has been in progress more than a
fortnight, but vet the infan has
not been loosed for the impending da sh
into the enemy territory. The Berlin
War Office reports that northeast OF
St Julien the British delivered an at
tack Saturday night hut met with re-
pulse. Likewise sa"s Berlin. strong
British "Reminiscences ,outh of La
'Bassee Canal and 'onE the Scarpe
River without eucccss. The
British official communication makes
no mention of the orays.
There has been n considerable slack
ening in the German advance in North
ern Russia. due In a large measure to
the Russians making stands at several
points. particularly on the front Of the
Pskofr Railroad line. leading eastward
from Riga. Here the vanguards OF
the Germans and Russian cavalry are
Engaged in fighting, the result being
that the invaders are held back, while
the Russians are preparing defenses in
which to make a stand. On the upper
reaches Of the Aa River. the Germans
have thrown pontoon bridges across
the waterway, and are gathering their
forces for another onslaught. Concen-
trations OF Germans have been discov-
cred in the regions of Jacobstadt and
Dvinsk. probably indicating that Prince
Leopold. of Bavaria. purposes an ex-
tensive operation against the Russians
In this region.
AUsTRIASs AND GERMANS
STILL HELD FOR NO GAINS
On the lower end OF the line in Rou-
mania the Russians and Roumanians
continue to hold the Austrians and Ger
mans for no gains. Notwithstanding
violent attacks. which have been pre-
ceded by heavy artillery fire.
Although terrific storms have broken
over the Austro-Italian front. causing
the rivers to overflow their banks and
turning the plains into quagmires. the
heavy battle for Monte San Gabrielle
continues undated. with the Italians
Violently attacking, but with the Aus
4trians still maintaining the position.
On the Carso Plateau, the battle has
again lessened in violence. only artil-
lery duels and patrol actions taking
y>~n.