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WOODEN MEN PUT
N FOE TRENCHES
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Extremity Of German Man.
Power Shown by New.
est Ruse
y~zs !, -, p; {.
Lax BAssEE~MERE RUIN
British Capture Two Villages
Before Wreckers Could Do
Their Work
LAg BAsSEE~MERE Ruin
By PHILIP GIBBS
Special Gable 10 Erening Public Ledger
ccpprfohts 1sis- By Nc'c rork Times Co.
win .ti,e British Armies, oct. I.


with tire British Armies, oct. I.
The hews that Germany. Austria
and Turkey have asked for an armis
t,ce TO discuss terms of peace reached
our armies through the French papers
and there was visible excitement in
the towns behind the lines. !
M Al midday. when the PAPERS ar
rived in one such town where there
are srievous relics of ruins from Ger
man bombardments I saw crowd OF
French. Australian, italian and Eng
lish soldiers, gathered around the news
vendoj sasna s,scassihsifng ,scashing tire big hfaa
lines 2Esf de the truth Of Che rhat
ter in ane ,n,tAhiaiqt language 80.
whaisSst Insy come of the German
ofrtr III, at least to all the British
soldiers. fS,ia. sign that their eeemS
realizes the rneanige Of the military
situation after SO; many. defeats in the
neld. and knows.as. tins goes on. that
the German afInfss Gair suffer more
hideoss 1,esses from che power We
have ncw aathsred aga nlst them with
or withda al ssarmistiee it is certain
that tHsyAitlE haye,o Withdraw even
tuaily front thtis present position in
France and Belsisim. 4 AZ g..
Douak full. Of pld: and historic build,
inss which en- ,trtrte many great memo
ries ofy1he, ,dnaAtlectiai glory Of France.
is now slitrhihe as canhtrai,-is burn.
Ing. a1xbsmaAy, Villages whose smoke
saw lqehisibshind the enemyi Hines,
That Is s @aptdpness OF DESTRUCTION
which can hardly be justified by the
laws Of Varfare which Are very cruel
and win not make France more ready
to listene to peaee proposals. It AZ
indeed Wicked folN of the .enemy to
do these things at such aitime when
they are in need Of mercy ~
British TakeoTwo Villages
Saturday the enemy had further evi-
dence that our pressure has not slacken-
ed about them, and that their resistance
brave as IL is cannot prevent our men
taking what they want We wanted the
two viliagess of Beaurevoir and Mont
Brehain. where the enemy had been
counter~attackfng fiercely With the
help of the tank corps. whose pilots and
crews were inspired by sudacious
courage, our troops took these villages
and 500 prisoners. out of them.
The Australians came around Mont
Br6hain from the north. and had fierce
nghtine' around the cemetery, where
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taken their turn here. and once, after
Neuve Chapelle. the Indians held the
line at la Bassee and shivered in its
wet trenches.
so with all these memories in ones
mind, It was a thrilling thing to pass
beyond the old front line, upheaved
BY years of shellfre, past those SCARED
brick stacks, among mine craters In
which many men were blown sky-high,
and into the town of La Bassee. which
was German run few days ago II
was big town, much more than a VII
lase. and even now 1t covers a lot Of
ground; so that Ets high street Is "A long
way to walk, but II Is nothing now
but a wild ruin, and the high street Is
no more than a brick-strewn track be-
tween ruined houses blown down to
fantastic shapes.
The only sign Of the decent human
life that once was there Is the sign
board Of a tavern still hanging over
the gaping walls. "Estamina Tenu Par
Gustavc Cappe."
Since he left few days ago. the enc
my blew up the bridge over the canal
mere and made huge craters in the
roads and arranged no doubt devilish
devices called booby traps to blow the
British to bits should they trip over
N'uu'" wire VI SIT u"WH III cohe'e'e
dug-out on harmless looking rubbish.
ne engineers nave eNatn'neu Inese
sne't'rs ou'it uhder the ruins vi IL,
basseo--the Germans seem 10 nave nau
great stores ot concrete tor their "orh-
ana nave marNed some ol 'heh' VIII"
the word Danger" in red.
'o"'' way out9'"c u, =" w.
-, ,,,, ,,. ta atos,i,,
skeleton of "A house in which many Ger
mans must have died as they crouched
fhcre under our gunflre Many Ger
man soldiers have died hereabouts in the
four years of the war.
when | walked through the village
Of Salomo. which we entered two days
ago. and then beyond il toward the viii
lagc Of TIatnay. which was our furthest
outpost. | came to cemetery standing
among the trees. II was a French
graveyard, with its old stone monuments
knocked out by shelliire here and
there, but next to 1t was a German
burial place in which lay many dead.
1t was easy enough to count them
roughly. for their graves were in regu-
lar rows, and ! counted them ana iound
1910.
The earlier graves OF men Killed IN
l9l5-lb had eldborately carved tomb
stones and the later ones OF l?l' ana
1918 were marked WIN wooden crosses
grew between an the lolO graves ana
everywhere pehlhd the 'et'la" 'i'es
from the sea 10 oNlt"e' i"iu ."t'c a.
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positions which had forced a retirement
OF our advance Elements to q point be-
tween Fays wood and the Meuse River.
Following the withdrawal of those
elements, beca,ise the terrain they were
holding was not worth the price that
was being exacted, we have started to
clear out the menacing machine gun
positions. ~
The German artillery activity contin-
ues intense, both high explosives and gas
being used on the area from the front
line to points six or seven kilomet ers
back. Septarges and Septarges wood
seemed to be their favorite targets.
Beat Kaiser's Favsrites
The German game is to, hold on to the
machine-gun nests In the woods until our
advance gets by into open spaces and
then open up. This forced a slight re-
tirement of one small portion Of our line
in the vicinity of Cunel until the woods
could be cleared up. In this vicinity the
Americans have encountered n division
known as the Kaiser's favorite division.
which had Aopposed our troops on the
Marne salient In July. '"',r ret~'
The mist makes observation difficult
today From the hills one can see shells
from both sides dropping on the front
lines and hear the rattllng machine guns
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BOCHES SHELL U. S. HOSPITAL
Bombardment Occurs After
Planes Fly Over Institution

With tho American Army Northwest
81 Nerdun, oct. 7.-tBy |. y. SD-A
hospital near Cheppy has been shelled
by the Germans. Some casualties were
sustained.
. The shelline occurred immedia telv
after boche planes flew over the hospital.
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Soul.Trying Fighting With
out HerOics, as Germans
Battle Desperately
POCKET ARCONNE WOOD
French and Americans Ad-
vancing on Each Side, as
Foe Holds On
BY EDWIN L. JAMES
.;,J T,bI, IN Erpning Public Ledger


vii, the American Army In France
oct :.
The nghtius since yesterday morning.
IS characterized as perhaps the p'''er-
es, the Americans have yet seen. II Is
grueling and soul-trying fighting win
the horoica and 'sensationalism taken
out.
The host troops Germany has nave
beon hurled without success against our
lines. These shock troops are "'rN
ing Independently Of the oth"r uoop'
that are blocking our advance win tne
heaviest concentration of machine guns
the war has seen,
An official report says that on one
stretch of the front the Germans nave
n machine gun for every hve Fards Oh
the line. The German conceh'ra''o''
Of artillery also is ponderous, the guns
being grouped in masses in zone TWO
and a half miles deep. The snort front
hetween the Argonne and the Meuse Is
tho one most vital to the whole hhe'
An advance by the Americans TO any
great depth would imperil the whole east
wing Of the German salient, stretch-
ing from the sea to the Mosele l'iver'
The nature Of the infantry hshtlhg
in this sector is marked by advances
bv our troops until the line becomes
dented by being held up by German
machine guns in sheltered places. AS
our advance troops move ahead these
spitefuI weapons open up, and then en-
sues bloody contest for the rediction
of tho nests, This occurs and reoccurs
from hour to hour.
Heavy German movements were re-
ported yesterday in the region Of SOM
mcrance and also toward Romsgne wood,
but il has not developed whether the
Germans intend a Counter-attack on
large scale The stubborn and repeated
counter-attacks by the Germans cause
ejaculation as to the reason for large
fires seen at Grand-Pre and Dun, which
were not set by our artillery. Brieulles,
which is held by the Germans, was burn
ing all day yesterday.
Seesaw Fighting
The nature of the seesaw fighting is
well told by the fact that after being
driven from portions of Ogons wood and
Cunel wood we subjected those regions
to a four hours heavy bombardment and
went in only to he forced out again by
the attacks Of superior numbers of Ger
mans. Later we reoccupied these
woods.
In the fighting in this sector the Ger
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-10-12
RELIGION IN THE CAMPS.

Many good citizens of Louisiana
do a good deal of worrying about
their boys in camps or over the
seas, imagining that they viii
lose in those new and grim as
sOciations all the benefit of what
religious training they have had
during childhood and youth. But
if they will look over the last an
nual report Of the supervisor,
Hugh Cork, who is well known to
many Louisianians, they will find
that 3O0,359 copies Of the New
Testament were distributed to the
soldiers during last year, the y.
M. G. A. secretaries doing the dis
tributing. 1t was their RESPONSE
bility to see that no soldier went
to France without a copy of the
new Testament in his pocket. 1t
will be seen, therefore, that not
only is the boy who has been
given religious training at home
held firm to his faith. but that
other boy who has "jest growed,'
like Topsy. is given an opportun-
ity Ito learn better things.
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GOVERNOR LEADS BOYS.

Governor Pleasant has accepted
leadership of Louisiana Victory
Boys organization, purpose of
which is to enlist lads of every
Parish in support Of soldier wei
fare work conducted by the seven,
organizations which will prose-
cute one-week drive November II
to Is to obtain funds for aiding
soldiers and sailors. With the
slogan GA boy behind every
fighter the youngsters are to be
organized in an learn and give"
campaign, encouraging thrift and
generosity, and giving the boys an
active part in crushing the bar
barOus Prussians.
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w. y.
THE BOYS FROM HOME.

Out of the twenty-three men
drafted from one small town. it
was found that seventeen had
never spent a night away from
home. Louisiana's contingent
has many of like kind. Fancy
these poor, home-loving and home
sick boys in the training camps
and across the seas-if it were
not for the Y. men or the well
fare men or the representatives
of all the seven organizations
which have joined hands for just
such work as this! The boy from
home cannot 60 so far nor fight
so hard that he will not find one
of these near him, with the
friendly hand on his shoulder and
the splendid word Of cheer to life
him out of the depths. 1T is be-
cause of work like this that the
seven organizations are to receive
the outpouring Of money during
one momentous week, beginning
November 18th; and after that
week the war work will go for
ward as it has never gone be-
fore.
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she wants to negotiate about one !;
she must say whether the appeal
for peace comes from the beaten
milistarists who began a war for
world domination, or from a war
ridden people ready to make
peace lasting. A reading of the
fourteen points Of the President s
speech before Congress January
s, 1918, makes clear the terms on
which peace can be made.
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Carlessness Results in Failure.

That is why we say Feed B.
A. Thomas Hog Powder accord
ing to directions" Do not feed
it sloppy. but mix it with ground
feed and moisten with just enough
water to make crumbly mass.
Then each hog gets a beneficial
dose. See full directions OH
package. Your money back if
you are not satisfed.-O. Rem
oudet.
(Adyertisement)
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tons:
From the charge d'affaires al
interim of Switzerland, in charge
of German interests in the United
States:
Legation of Switzerland,
Washington, ID. c., Oct. 6, is.
Department of German interests.
Mr.. President have the
honor to transmit herewith, upon
instructions from my government,
the original text of a communica-
ton from the German government,
received by this legation late this
afternoon, from the Swiss foreign
office.
An English translation Of this
communication is also enclosed.
The German original text. how
ever, is alone to be considered as
authoritative.
Please accept. Mr.. President,
the assurances Of my highest con-
sideration.
(Signed) F. OEDERLN,
Charge d'affaires A. l. Of Swift
erland.
In charge of German interests
III the United States.
Mr.. Woodrow Wilson, Presi-
dent of the United States, Wash
ington.
fEnclosure.)
Translation Of communication
from German government to the
President of the United States, as
transmitted by the charge DAT
flares A. I. of Switzerland, ON
October 6, 1918:
The German government re-
quests the President of the Uni
ted States Of America to take
steps for the restoration Of peace,
to notify all belligerents Of this
request, and to invite them to del
egate plenipotentiaries for the
purpose Of taking up negotiations.
The German government accepts,
as basis for the peace negotia-
tons, the program laid down by
the President Of the United
States in his message to Congress
Of January s, 1918, and in his
subsequent announcements. par
in his address of Sept
ember q, 1918. In order to avoid
further bloodshed the German
requests to bring
about the immediate conclusion
of a general armistice on land,
on water and in the air.
(Signed) MAX. !
Prince Of Baden. Imperial Chan
cellor.
From the secretary Of state Of |
the charge d'affaires Of Switz-
erland.
Department Of State, Oct. 8, '1S.
Sir:-I have the honor to ack-
nowledge, on behalf Of the Pres
ident, your note of October 6,
the communication from
the German government to the
President; and I am instructed
by the President to request you
to make the following communi-
cation to the imperial German
chancellor:
Before making reply to the |
request of the imperial German
government, and that in order
that reply shall be as candid
and straightforward as the
interests Involved
REQUIRE, the President of the |
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London, Oct. S.-The Turkish
cabinet has resigned, according to
a dispatch from Berne to the
Evening Star. The message says
that great excitement pervalls at
Constantinople.
Washington, Oct. S.-President
Wilson has met Germany's peace
note with a move which will, at
one stroke, develop whether her
proposal is sincere or merely a
pretension, and, if pretension it
be, fully justify for all time before
the world the prolonging of the
war with force to the utmost,
force without stint or limit. AT
the same time the President has
left wide open the door to peace.
Declining to propose an armls-
tice while the armies of the Cen
trail Powers remain on invaded
soil, the President today called on
the German chancellor to state,
as an absolute necessary prelim-
mary to a reply from the Entente
Allies and the United States,
whether Germany accepts the
principles of peace as repeatedly
laid down, or merely proposes to
accept them as the basis Of ne
collation." and whether the
chancellor merely speaks for the
German military masters conduct
ing the war, or the whole German
people.
As the full significance of the
Presidents diplomacy is disclosed
it becomes evident that he has
left open the way to peace, and,
at the same time, has left the mil
itarist leaders of the Central Pow
ers with question they must
necessarily answer in a way that
will lead to peace or confront
them with an embarrassing situa-
ton in their own countries.
Among diplomats here the
Presidents proclamation is re-
garded as one Of his master
strokes. It is pointed out that
upon cursory examination it may
not show such strong terms as
some may have desired. All the
Presidents advisers. however, are
confident that as a close considera-
ton reveals it's full import, it will
be apparent that it is a long step
forward if Germany really means
peace, and that if she does not it
will strip bare another hypocrisy
of German diplomacy so complete
that the responsibility for pro-
longing the war never can be
charged to the Allies, even by
the German people themselves.
The text of the President 5 COM
munication was made public today
by Secretary Lansing together
with the official text of Prince
Maximilian's note now published
in America for the first time.
At the same time officials let
it be known that there would be
no reply at present to the Aus.
trian note, similar to that of the
German chancellor. It is not
considered necessary to deal with
Austria until the time comes for
a reply to her dominating ally.
Correspondence in Case.
In announcing the Presidents
action, Secretary Lansing issued
the following:
Department of State, Oct. s, 10.
The secretary of state makes
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must be considered in connection

must be considered in connection
with a portion Of his speech IF
September ~ in New York, when
he declared: eve are all agree
that there can be no peace OBJ
tanned by any kind Of bargain or
compromise with the governments
Of the central empires, because we
have dealt with them already and
have seen them deal with other
governments that were parties to
this struggle, at Brest-Litovsk and
Bucharest. They have convinced
us that they are without honor
and do not intend justice. They
observe no covenants, accept no
principle, but force and their own
interest. We cannot come to
terms with them. They have
made it impossible. The German
people must by this time be fully
aware that we cannot accept the
word of those who have forced
this war on us. We do not think
the same thoughts or speak the
same language of agreement.
1t can be authoritatively stated
that this announcement will be
the answer to Prince Macmillan
if he replies that he speaks for the
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Hoped For Curt Answer.

1t is regarded as possible, if
not indeed likely. that the Ger
man militarists leaders hoped for
a. curt and defiant answer which
they could rally their people to
give their last drops of blood "for
the protection Of the fatherland, -
and with other rolling phrases in
which the German official pro-
nouncements abound.
The unanimous opinion among
diplomats is that the President
by carefully studied, most skill
full reply has robbed them of that
opportunity, if they desired it,
and has sent to the German peo-
pie themselves that the United
States and the Allies desire moth
ing more than "a reign of law,
based upon the consent Of the gov
erned and sustained by the opin-
ion Of mankind. p"
1t was freely conceded that
hasty reading of the President s
answer might not at first satisfy
some who hoped for a fiat rejec-
ton of any terms but an uncon-
ditional surrender. But the gov
eminent is confident that as the
President s communication is care
fully digested it's almost evitabie
effect realized, and it's possibili-
ties for weakening the German
military party ON its home
grounds compromised, it will be
seen that the President chose a.
very deep but correct method Of
developing an answer for all
times to the question, edo the
German people want peace?"
An armistice while the invad-
ers remain on Allied soil is out Of
the question. Germany must
now state whether she accepts a
reign of law based on the con-
sent of the governed" or whether
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ROBERT LANSING.
German Trap Avoided.

Associated FfeSS dlSpdtcneS last
night announced that the Presi-
dent would make a curt and pre-
emptory rejection of the offer, nor
bluntly demand an unconditional
surrender now because the Amer
lean government did not propose
to fall into the trap Of supplying
the German militarists with a
means Of bolstering up their argu-
ment that the Germans are fight
ing a defensive" war and that
the announced objects of the AL
lies are only to "destroy" them.
That is precisely what President
Wilson has avoided. He has met
what the Allied diplomats regard
as trick with move which will
expose it, if trick it be. He has
called upon the German govern
ment for an evidence Of it's good
faith, and should it not be forth
coming he has left with the Ger
man leaders the problem of ex-
planning to their own people al
ready clamoring for peace why
they are not willing to accept it.
From that point, the President
passes to another which will de-
yelop, as the exchange proceeds,
whether the United States and the
Allies will deal except on the bae-I
tlefeld with the German govern
ment as at present constituted.
The President tells the chancellor
that he feels he is justified in
asking whether the imperial
chancellor is speaking merely
for the constituted authorities Of
the empire who have, so far, con-
Quoted the war; This will de-
velop whether Macmillan speaks
for the German militarsits whom
the President has denounced rs
unworthy of any trust, and who
regarded treaties as scraps Of
or whether he speaks
with the force of the people of a |
nation.
Will Awaken People.
This is regarded as probably |
the most important part of the |
P resi- dent 3 communication, |
fraught with potent possibilities |
If the most far-reaching effect in
Germany, where an active Allied
propaganda has been making
'apid Roadway in awakening the
German people to the necessity of
the responsibilities Of
heir own government and making
heir own peace.
To appreciate its meaning, this /
,art Of the President answer
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NO ARMISTICE WHILE
GERMANS ARE INVADERS.

London, Oct. 8.-The Turkish
cabinet has resigned, according to
a dispatch from Berne to the
Evening Star. The message says
that great excitement pervails at
Constantinople.
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United States deems it neces-
sary to assure himslf of the exact
meaning of the note Of the I'M
! perial chancellor. Does the im-
perial chancellor mean that the
imperial German government ac-
cepts the terms laid down by the
President in his address to the
Congress Of the United States on
the 9Th of January last, and in
subsequent addresses, and that
it's object in entering into discus
sions would be only to agree upon
the practical detail of their ap-
plication?
Armistice Declined.
"The President feels bound 70
say with regard to the suggestion
Of an armistice that he would not
feel at liberty to propose a cessa-
ton Of arms. to the governments
with which the government of the
United States is associated against
the Central Powers so long as the
armies Of those powers are upon
their soil. The good faith Of any
discussion would manifestly de-
pend upon the consent of the
Central Powers Immediately to
withdraw their forces everywhere
from invaded territory.
"The President also feels that
he is justified in asking whether
the imperial chancellor is speak
ing merely for the constituted au-
thorities Of the empire who have
so far conducted the war. He
deems the answer to these ques-
tions vital from every point Of
view. Accept, sir, the renewed as
surances of my high considera-
ton.