The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-10-25

President Wilson has answered Ger
many's latest note regarding peace.
In brief, he informs Germany that the
only armistice he would feel justified
in submitting for consideration to the
allied governments would be one which
would leave the United States and the
allied powers in position to enforce
any arrangements that may be enter
ed into, and to make renewal OF hos
tilities on the part of Germany impos-
sible.
To this end the president has trans
mitted his correspondence with the
present German authorities to the al
lied powers.
4sNot peace by negotiations, but
surrender" will be the demand, if the
United States has to deal with the mil
itary masters, and the monarchial au-
4horities in Germany.
The allied armies in France and Bel
gium are still driving the Germans
toward their own border, but the pro-
cess is now comparatively slow.
On the sectors that are requisite to
the stability of the entire German line
where crash through probably
would mean the immediate collapse of
the whole defensive systematic most
stubborn resistance is being offered
by the enemy, and what gains are be-
ing made by the allies are virtually
foot by foot, in the face of the hornets
of the battle line--the machine guns.
Particularly vicious fighting is in
progress west Of the Meuse River,
where the Americans, in their endeav-
ors to overcome the natural obstacles
barring the way northward to Sedan,
are faced by picked troops with orders
to hold them back at all costs-in the
region from LeCateau to the north Of
yalenciennes, where the British and
some Americans are gradually tearing
their way through the enemy's front
between Toufnai and Audenards, where
the British are also hard after the en-
emy.
Notwithstanding the frantic endea-
yors Of the enemy to maintain their
positions on all three of these sectors
material progress has been made.
Likewise, northeast of Laon the French
on an eight mile front have delivered
a thrust that carried them forward
from two to three miles. Into the
hands of the British have fallen 1000
more German prisoners, while the
Americans west of the Meuse also have
gathered in numbers of the enemy and
a considerable quantity of his ma
chine guns.
Veritable nests of machine guns are
being encountered by the Americans
as they attempt to press forward
along the front fromthe Meuse to the
town of Grand Pre-, situated north OF
the Argonne forest, but in spite Of
these obstacles, they have taken fur
ther ground and, at last accounts,
were steadily keeping up their pres
sure against the enemy. Extremely
heavy counter-attacks have been sue
cessfully sustained north Of Grand
Pre-, and on this sector particularly
strong concentrations of artillery fire
have gone for almost naught. On the
western bank Of the Meuse the town of
Breuilles has been taken, the enemy
having burned and evacuated it and
retreated in the general direction of
Dun.
The British are in the western out
skirts of Valenciennes, where hard
fighting in progress. The Germans
having posted machine guns innumer-
able on the western bank of the canal,
which runs to the center Of the city.
In northern Belgium the Germans
are still retiring. Unofficial reports
are to the effect that Ghent is being
evacuated.