The review., 1918-09-19

can drive is the most strongly fortified
city in Germany. The tOrtlicatlons
extend along the Moselle and Seille
and were begun by the French in 1870
and finished later by the Germans.
European .+.
Metz, the center of the present
American drive, is the capital OF Lor-
raine, and is about eleven miles east
OF the French frontier.
The American first army has car
ried out the initial task assigned to
1.-THE leveling of the famous st. MI
hiel salient in Lorraine.
More than 1880 prisoners have
been taken from the Germans by the
Americans, together with many guns
and great quantities of ammunition
and other war stores.
From Hattonville, on the north,
across the salient eastward to Pagny.
the Americans debouched from OH
the big sack that extended southwark
to ST. Mihiel, trapping within it by
their fast advance all the enemy forces
who failed to take refuge in flight when
the great bOmbardment heralded the
approach of the offensive.
| Beginning in the northwest and
crossing the salient eastward, Fresnes-
les-Eparges, Hattonville, Preny and
Pagny and all the ground lying be-
| tween them are in American hands.
First returns to Provost Marshal
General Crowder from the second
great mobilization of the nations man
power for the war on Germany indi-,
Gates that at least fourteen million
men have been added to the army res
ervoir The estimated number of men
between Is and 21 and 80 and 46 years
of age, was thirteen million.
A supreme line of defense, to be call
ed the Parsifal line, is being constr uct-
ed by the Germans from Antwerp to
Metz
An article in the Echo de Paris says
the Germans are putting the Antwerp
| forts in a defensive condition.
Nothing but heart failure on the
part of the British nation can prevent
our achieving real victory" said Pre-
mier Lloyd-George, speaking lat Man
chester, recently.
ITO end all wars we must impose
a durable peace from our enemies.
The Prussian military power must not
only be beaten, but Germany herself
must know, and the German people
! must know, the rulers have outraged
| the law of humanity and that Prussian
| strength cannot protect them from
punishment" says Lloyd-George.
"A league of nations with the Prus-
sian military power triumphant would
be a league of fox and gees-one fox
and many geese. The geese would
greatly diminish in numbers says an
| English statesman.
Emperor William declares that ev-
cry one in the remotest corner of the
| fatherland knows that he has left
no stone unturned to shorten the war
as far as possible for the people and
for the entire civilized European
! world"
The emperor of Germany says it
takes two to make peace-One cannot
do it unless he can overcome the other.
Emperor William says Germany has
made it plain on more than one oc-
casion that she is willing to make
peace, which, he says, is plain enough
for any sensible people" to compre-
hend.
twenty-five British prisoners are
confined like birds in cage near the
| flying sheds at Evers, a suburb Of
| Brussels.
Fleeing deserters from the German
army recently have been repeatedly
! fired at in the busy streets of Co.
logne. This is what member of the
reichstag says in a message to the
German imperial chancellor.
A troop ship with $500 American
soldiers on board has been torpedoed.
| All hands were saved. The troop ship
was beached. The transfer of the
| American soldiers from the stricken
vessel to escorting British and Amer
lean torpedo boat destroyers was made
quickly without injury to any one. All
escaped injury when the torpedo ex-
| p1oded and they were soon on their
way to British port. There was no
sign of panic on board. The admira-
| BILE behavior of the men was crafty
| ing to the officers. Many of the
troops were from Chicago and Cleve-
| land.
The submarine which torpedoed an
| American troop ship off the English
coast was lifted clear out of the wa
| ter after one of the depth bombs ex-
ploded and then entirely disappeared.
| American troops of all units have
been instructed to kill on the spot
any one who in time of battle urges
| surrender or attempts to persuade
them that further resistance is use
| less.
The statement is made that Ger
man soldier was recentlV found NOR
tally wounded far inside the Ameri-
can lines at Fismette. He had lived
for long time in America and spoke