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The Washington herald., 1918-09-16
.Nothlng Doing, Here.

The Austro- Hungarian proposal for
a peace parley with all bclligerents
had not reached the State Depart
ment last night. Secretary Lansing
said yesterday the move was not un-
expected. as the department has been
aware for some time OF Austria's in
tentions in this direction.
But when peace proposals come
they will find but one answer in the
United States. and it will be:
Nothing doing"
This is Official Washington's view
OF the peace report today. The
United States, it is said, will neither
talk nor consider peace until it feels
that its task on the other side has
been accomplished. This means that
the time for peace will come when
German armies have been driven out
OF France and Belgium. and Ger
many's military leaders have thrown
up the sponge
whine Encourages America.
For the present. Austria's move win
only reafirm Americas will to win.
officials consider it a reassurfng sign
OF victory as they think It indicates
the beginning Of the disintegratfon
OF the weaSsr Of the Central Powers.
tor the final sstsnpt of the Kaiser to
obtain a negotiated peace while Ger
many maintains pretense of invul-
nerability.
Either way however, the allies
The Washington herald., 1918-09-16
TWO MORE TOWNS TAKEN BY YANKS.

The following official communque from Gen Pershns made
public last night by the War Department through the Committee
Public Information:
Headquarters American ExpedOnay Forces France Sept IS,
1918.
Section Ain the ST. Mhie sector there increased srt-
ery and aviation activity.
"A attack launched by the daybak St
laire easily epulsed and number Of prisoners taken.
On tie left bank of the Mole lines have been advanced
miles and include the Of Ncy and MOroy
The normal of line beyond Jauny resulted the
bringing of sevnyo additional abandoned by the
in hi. hastily retreat This brings the total number of guns captured
to date than hundred"
BRITISH TAKE MAISSEMY.
London Sept 1s-The village Massemy with
system captured by the British today
Field Haig his communique tonight This
brings British line within less than FIVE miles northwest Of ST.
Quentin hundred prisoners number Of machine
captured.
The artillery has been active south of the ArrasCambra
road
The Washington herald., 1918-09-16
London Expects Rejection.

London. Sept. .15.-While official
comment upon the reported Austro-
Hungarian peace offer is withheld
until the full text of the Invitation
has been received and studied by the
government, it is a safe guess, based
upon the present temperature of the
British and allied peoples and upon
the unquestionable ascendancy Of al
lied military power, that the offer
will be fatty rejected
Upon one point all officials and
well-infoTmed observers whom it had
been possible up to early tonight to
sound privately are unanimous: That
the Vienna proposal is made in Ger
many" Austria Hungary merely act
ing as Berlin's cats paw. The Ger
man government, it Is agreed. fully
realizes that any offers emanating
from itself would fall upon deaf ears
and has resolved to try its partner
as a peddler Of the olive branch.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-16
Amsterdam Reports Expectancy.

Amsterdam, Sept. 15. - Details of
Austria Hungary's peace offer, Off
cially reported from Vienna late last
night. are looked for with great inter-
est here, but up to an early hour this
evening the full text or a summary
OF the Austro- Hungarian note had not
come through.
Vienna's proposal. according to pre-
liminaTy dispatches. is for all bel
Hgerents to meet AZ some neutral
place and enter into a discussion OF
peace, such discussion to be nom
binding.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-16
Americans Capture $4,000 Men
and 90 Guns in Lorraine Drive.
Liberate | 50 Square Miles.
METZ UNDER u. S. SHELL FIRE
Germans Hurl Six Divisions Into Battle
Around St. Mihiel Against Per-
shing--One-fourth Taken.

Amsterdam, Sept. l5.-Germany has
made definite peace offer to Belgium.
Germany offers restoration of Bel
GUMS political and economic independ-
ence, providing the commercial treaties in
force before the war are to be resumed and
continued in operation. Germany also
seeks Belgium's aid at the peace table for
the restoration of the German colonies.
No offer of reparation is contained in
Germany's peace bid.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-16

stand to profit by II. they believe,
for if Austria's proposals, presumably
instisated by Germany, are unnU-
ticed by the allies. the dual empire
will soon make other proposals on
her own behalf because of the des-
perate internal conditions she faces
The State Department for some
time has been in receipt of informa-
tion showing the woeful state of af-
fairs in Austria. The disposition
here, however, has been to place Aus
tria in the same category with Ger
many. Should she make a bid for
separate peace, though. President
Wilson would be the person to decide
what manner of reception would be
accorded the proposal.
When Foch counter attacked at the
Marne there came the first rustlins
OF the olive branch in Germany
When the British smashed through at
the north the old, familiar Let's sit
down and talk this thing over" signs
reappeared, and now that the Ameri-
cans have taken their regular turn
on the Western front and are achiev-
ing more than ordinary successes
there comes the Austrian proposal.
Casting aside all diplomatic rea-
sons for parley, and whatever ex-
planation Austria may attach to her
bid. officials here say that the real
| reason for the space maneuver at this
tlme Is because of the military
achievements of the allies on the
Western front. And it was only yes
terday that Gen. March. the highest
military official in the country, said
in discussing the war:
a T11erira is poipC .
Another American general today
summed up the proposal for a parley
| in these words:
TITS proof that they're licked"
Fear Increased Forces.
This belief was voiced by practically
all military leaders here. both allied
and American. They think that fear,
fear Of the irresistible force that is
forming on the West front. actuates
this peace proposal. They believe
that il 1t is rejected that the next
peace proposals will come from the
allies, and that they will be terms
from the victors to the vanquished.
One Of the highest authorities in
the Capital explained the move IN this
manner: .--
NO one who has read what the
Kaiser said to the people at Essen,
could but see the lack of confidence
IN MS tax. He was really whistling
10 keep up his courage when he talked
or tne war. This is one indication of
the peace move, but there are many
Others"
austria Is expected to transmit her
note proposing parley. to the United
states wa sweden. The latter gov-
erhment Is IN charge Of Austro-Hun-
garian affairs in this country Tha
Swedish legation here. though. had
not received word Of the note Iast
night
The Washington herald., 1918-09-16
Germanys peace bid.

Eighteen thousand prisoners, 100 guns Of all caibers.
hundreds of machine guns and trench have been taken
y the Americans and $50 square miles of territory have been
liberated from the enemy according to Gen. Pershnss
munique received last night.
Cen. Pershns also reports that the British and Italians
assisted materially bombing the enemy Great quantities Of
ammunition and equipment and railroad abandoned
oy the enemy.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-16
THE WEATHER

Today-I creasing eloudiness:
probably showers at night. Tomor-
row-Coolcr; gentle winds. Highest.
temperature yesterday. 30; lowest, so.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-16

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and help save paper.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15

The great secret of Red Cross effect
iceness is organization. Millions of peo-
pie are working together through the
medium of an organized machinery which
co-ordinates the work of each with tlAe
work of ALL and transmits the vast quail
ity of finished products to the people
who need them. Thus benevolent emo
ton is turned into practical aid.
The organization co-reates and di-
reefs the work of the chapters, cooper
ates with the army and navy in relief
measures, supports relief work abroad,
recruits the personnel for overseas sery-
ice and forwards to it's agents in for
eign lands the relief supplies produced
by the chapter workers or purchased in
the market.
Red Cross administration in the Unit
ed States is decentralized. Red Cross
is too vast to be completely admins
tered from one spot. 1t would disinte-
crate under it's own weight.
So the country is partitioned into thir-
teen divisions. and there is fourteenth
division for the territorial, insular and
foreign chapters, with national head
quarters as the co-ordinating force. In
each division there is a manager and his
staff, to whom the chapter officials are
responsible, and the chapter workers deal
directly with the chapter officers. The
organization is military in its we'll ord
cred effort. but quite non military in its
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15

The story of Red Cross accomplishment
and its uplans for the future will be told
in more detail in other statements. Here
are some of it's principal activities,
which suggest the Importance and scope
of its work:
Organization of base hospitals nd am
bulance companies.
Recruiting and training of nursing per-
sonnet for service in the army and navy
medical corps.
Production of surgical dressings, hos
pital garments, refugee clothing, knitted
goods emergency supply service for our
army and navy at home and abroad,
sanitary service around environments,
Care of dependent families of soldiers
and sailors,
Canteen service for troops en- route,
Feeding Of American prisoners in enemy
countries,
Casualty information,
Service to convalescents,
Disaster relief,
And relief of our Allies, including can
teen work. tubercular work, hospital sup
plv service, ambulance and hospital SER
vice, dispensaries, recreation centers, re-
construction of homes and villages, ma
ternity work, repatriation of refugees,
rehabilitation of mutilated men and
many other forms of service.
The Red Cross supplements the work
of the army and navy. The Red Cross
War Council is endeavoring in every way
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15
CAMP HANCOCK is
RATED AS FOURTH
With Only Two Ordinary Cases
Augusta Camp Falls Below
First Place, But High Stand
ing Unquestioned.

The official health report on the
army camps Of the country just issued
in the Official Bulletin places Camp
Hancock fourth in the list, the camps
leading being Wadsworth, Cody. Sher-
idan and Hancock. in the order named
An interesting feature is that Camp
Hancock is rated as having only two
ordinary cases-one of pneumonia and
one of measles-the large list being
venereal and therefore running up the
total. All the other camps have
much larger number of ordinary dis
eases, consequently the rating OF Camp
Hancock Is really top notch.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15

Stretching forth her hands to all in
need; to Jew and Gentle. Black and
White; knowing no favorite, yet favoring
all.
Ready and eager to comfort at a time
when comfort is most needed. Helping
the little home that's crushed beneath
an iron hand by showing mercy in a
healthy, human way; rebuilding it, in
fact with stone or stone; replenishing
empty bins and empty cupboards
bringing warmth to hearts and hearths
too long neglected.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15

Seeing all things with a mothers sixth
sense that's blind to jealousy and mean
ness; seeing men in their true light, as
naughty chiidren-snatching, biting. Bit
ter-but with hidden side that's quick
est touched by mercy.
Reaching out her hands across the sea
to No Mans Land; to cheer with warmer
comforts thousands who must stand and
wait in stenched and crawling holes and
water-soaked entertainments where cold
and wet bite deeper 50 they write. than
Boche steel or lead.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15
CHAPLAIN H. P. BASSLER
PRESENTED WITH GOLD
WATCH BY 1O3RD AMIR,

At the conclusion Of the review Of the
103rd Ammunition Train on last Thurs
day afternoon, hollow square was form
ed, and Chaplain Harry P. Bassler was
called TO the center. In a neat address
Brig. Gen VIM G. Price. on behalf Of
milton Train. presented Chaplain Bassler
with a solid gold watch and a purse con-
tanning $500 The gift was made TO show
the appreciation for the ehaPleips excel
lent work and the high esteem in which
ne is held.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15
GEN. PERSHING'S NEPHEW
AT CAMP HANCOCK

Lieut.. Frank Pershing, nephew Of
General John J, Pershing, commander
of the American EXpeditionary Forces
in France, is a recent arrived at Camp
Hancock, having been detailed here
with the Ordnance Training Camp.
His unit is the First Provisional Ord
nance Regiment
Lieut.. Pershing has been in the SER
vice a little over a year He is IS
years of age. and enlisted in Chicago.
He is now a second lieutenant, how
ever, and is held in tn highest of re-
gard by officers and men with whom
he comes in contact.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15

She's warming thousands, feeding
thousands. healing thousands from her
store; the Greatest Mother in the World
the Red Cross.
The American Red Cross will again
appeal to the generous American public
for $500 900, 900 to continue its work of
mercy. in it's second nationwide war
fund campaign. May goth to 9th, inclus-
i've.
Every dollar of Red Cross War Fund
goes to War Relief.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15

THE RED CROSS BLoKE

TIE nEU OnUOO DLOAE
with Red Cross on his sleeve.
It'll we get to the front, on the stand to
stunt
An farewell bomb when we leave.
Midst that flying death you hold your
An life seems suddenly dear.
While the Red Cross chap is out of the
In the safest part of the rear.
1t doesn't seem fair for him to be there.
While we face the powder and smoke,
An check the Huns with red hot uns.
An cheer and cuss and choke.
But many lad feels laundering glad,
When the light lends sheltering cloak.
To be overhauled by a chap that's called
The blooming Red Cross blolIe.
My own turn came-it's part of the
game
In scrap we had before Loos;
When the bIinkin Huns tried to pinch our
guns
OF the 15th-neyer mind whose.
They tried and tried, and you bet they
While we lost many chum
When the message came through now
lads stand to"
And the next was here they come"
we charged and yelled. an the line we
But l don't remember the rest;
For the earth spun round. and / hit the
ground,
With daylight Inside my chest.
When next 4 woke a Red Cross bloke
Was crossing that zone of death:
An l watched him come through the
scrapnel hum,
Just watched and held my breath.
He reached my side with a crawl and
An blest his cri.-son crest.
When he'd made me snug with cumfy
plug
In the painful hole in my chest.
Then away he crept. and must have
slept
But when I awoke with pain.
was down at the base as a hopeful case,
An booked for Blighty again,
We landed all right on a stormy night.
But what did we care for the rain,
For a Red Cross bloke fixed me up with
a smoke,
In this clinklng Red Cross bed.
With a Red Cross nurse, when I'm feel
ing worse,
To lay cool things on my head.
An crib on a Red Cross train.
So that's why I'm here. feeling shalSy ana
queer
An tho it all seems to be part of my
dreams
Yet / know it is not all hoax
There are thousands today who are ready
to say
THANK God for the Red Cross bloxe"
The above poem was found among the .
effects of a badly wounded British sol
der The author has not been identi-
fled
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15
What The Red Cross Does

to increase the effectiveness of the whole
program of relief by the utmost co-opera-
ton with the Commission on Training
Camp Activities. the Y NJ. C. A. knights
of Columbus. Y. w c. A, Y. NJ. H. A
and other great patriotic agencies.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15
EVERY DOLLAR OF THE WAR
FUND GOES TO WAR RELIEF.

Red Cross affairs are economically adj
ministered. Every penny has been spent
under an appropriation by the War
Council after careful study. Membership
dues pay the entire cost of operation,
with a large balance for the handling OF
disaster relief and other work
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-15
How Red Cross is Organized

democratic equalities, for the chapter
worker quite as important as the ma
tional headquarters for efficiency. not for
display of authority.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-03
Want Airship Builders.

The Navy Recruiting Office, Room 4
Law Building. has received the following
instructions from the main Office at
Philadelphia
The Bureau desires as many carpenters
mates for the aviation branch a. possible
10 Obtain at once The qualifications
Of men who will be employed in the as
sembling and requiring of the iusl lage,
pontoons. struts and propellers of sea
planes and alTplanrs are ~ follows:
skilled. experienced wood propeller
makers and repaiTers. capable OF building
or glulng up lamlnated wood stock,
machining. finishing, balancing and fitting
hubs and parts for propellers and able
20 do dovetAihng inlaylng sections OF
wood. thoroughly familiar with all JOINER
and cabinet makers hand tools, and
necessary woodworking machine tools,
should be expert III the making and
assembling of fusllage including shaping
and finishing struts and wing supports.
The men may be recruited from the ioi-
loving trades Woodworking factory
mechanics, skilled pattern makers, calumet
makers. piano sounding huaFd builders.
air propeller builders. lourneymen car
ucuters star builders boat carpenters
door and sash nj" foremen wood mil
workers. millmen, factory carpenters
tank Or station pIpe factory workers
cooper. barrel maker
!. Men who have registered can be accepted
/ provided they can obtain letters Of re-
/ Tease from their local boards
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-03
THE MARKET STORY.
Lots of Farm Produce on the Cub, But
Prices Ruled High.

There was no excuse III the weather to-
dav to keep either vendors or vendces
AWAY from the street market and tho
result was tho usual thrung on Madison
and King streets. and about the usual
assortment Of vegetables and fruits Only
A few boxes Of berries wcrc shown the
novelty being cldcrberrles winch old
fashioned folk made into vine. and are
preserved also bv some modcrnst and a
fcw grapes. for doing up. # YOU can get
tho sugar II not, try honey, % and 30
cents the comb Tor this season = crop.
Lama beans. one of the delicaclcs OF
th,s cline, if only people realized the
fact, were more plentiful than for several
wears. and sold for - cents pint or -
n quart shelled By doing your own
shucking. you get them a bit cheaper, II
YOU don't count your labor.
Tomatoes are getting more plentiful
and better in quality, and ranged from a
dollar To a dollar and IA quarter for -
basket ten to fifteen cents a berry-baskct
A few yellow egg tomatoes and one
offering Of the Italian variety were noted
Seeing at ten and fifteen cents the berry
basket respectively.
Eggs ruled lower. at 30 cents dozen
Butter, unchanged at 55 and 80 cents
No peaches to amount to anything from
nearby orchards, and prices still pretty
well up. 20 and 25 cents the quarter peck
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-03
GERMAN ARMY ON RUN
Continued from page !

10 Pommiers. At no place are the troops
OF Gen Mangln, Gen. he Goutte ano
Cen Bertheiot more than seven miles
from the railway line paralleiIng the
Vesle and allied gums are hammerlng II
hard on he ends and probably IN the
center
In the first battle Of the Msrne, the
Germans found tenabie position be
tween the Alsnc add the heights Of the
Chemin Des DANES. From present
Indications II Is not unlikely General
Foch cap drive them back at lcast that
lar tins time The elimination Of the
fianks apparently does away with any
hope of capturing any great portion OF
the German force as seemed likely two
weeks ago The Marne salient probably
viii be blotted out and the German de
fence in the west seriously weakened
Most important has been tie DumbeE oi
German divisions used up in the Sighting
and which has not ended
DsnULroRY FIGaTING. kAIsER RsPORTs.
'Ilse ultory fighting, Is me way IN
which Berlin officially descnbes the pres-
en-. situation. The German war office de
clarvs that in the fighting Of Thursday
which paved the way for the present ad-
vance, the Allies were repulsed
Elsewhere on the western front and in
Italy and Macedonia there has been no
- ha
Aerial activity on the British iruns
continues intense.
Admiral Won EoitEendoTf who several
DAYS ago apologzed for the failure Of the
submarines to stop the fow Of American
troops 10 France, has heen retired as
chief of the German admiralty His
place Is taken by Admiral Scheer, com
Inander of the battle feet
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-03
COMPLETE VICTORY
Continued from par. I

Continued from parr !
,ster dispatches. however, have lndi-
Gated the Veqle-Ar1re llne may have
been turned already.
poE RETREATS iG s7Lgs.
The objective of The American and
allied armies still s the destruction t,f
the enernys army, Cen March SAID.
The maximum retreat of the enemy up
~ August 2 measured SIXTEEN miles the
total length n the Aizne-Marne salient
having bern reduced from "a nnile-s 70 -
miles
The French and British pounding at
both tanks ~ the salient Gen. narrh
sa,d had resaIlte.d in the COLLAPSE Of the
German resistance ON Auv1Ist 1, and TIE
French had walked into Sois~pna-
The advance IN the center has svcfasrd
threc miles on a front of 20 nales- the
chief Of staff sa,d- while on the ssHA flank
west Of Rhelrns, An ahvance ri four miles
on a forrr-mile front already md be'n
made
The message added that the Germans
had heen driven back v1tbnnt time 70
bury their dead and the German h<1les
Law 50 thickiy IL was impossible To sn-
vance without walking over -hem-
Cen. March said the War Department
still ras without any information ~ 10 the
n,rrnt.er If American casualties m the
fighting since the pr--~nt battle o>xnn
The selection Of MaiorL,ensRni lose
Mel Carter. nov srrvYng as cnief of the
-ollltia bureau and COMMANDER of tae
United States z7lar,1, 70 hes4n ore OF the
new divisions to be formed IN thn cosln-
try, was announced
AMERICAN GENERALS EZcAIL.ED.
General March announced aso the
names Of Brlga0ler-FeneraLs Sno ma
been recalled from France ior duty m tnls
country. They are James J. hoiDronk,
who goes 70 the southern oepH<trnert'
Charles W kutA, 20 COMMAND she engln-
peennx camp at Camp hurnp1rrys'
Douglas Macarthur, 70 camnnoo the
Dist Bnssae OF the Ilth DIVISION az Camp
Meade MaryAnd; Howard r. HIckok,
70 command brigade Of the 10Th L1vl-
son at Camp Funston, has-, and Cor
Delnx Vanderbilt, 70 commana origade
at Camp Lewis, Washington.
NO MAs-POxE;a SHORTAGE.
There IS no present danger OF a short
age IN uan-poxer 70 keep the Anencin
armies filled up, members OF the Senate
military commlttee were told tocAy
during their weekly conference With Gen.
March. chef Of staff, at the War re-
partment.
ALLIES SUCCESS COMPLETE.
The complete succsss Of the Allies IS
Indicated by 3 confidential message reach
ing the chlef Of staff from an officer who
az the time of writing bad Just rsturned
from Fere- en- -TardeGos> This OHicer
reported 1t was seemingly impossible
for any army 70 gather ihe number Of
guns and shells that were sbeodoooc by
the Germans In their retlremsnt.