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German Losses Unusually Heavy,

The German loss both in killed and
prisoners was unusually heavy, some
companies at the end of the first DAVIS
lighting having only ten or twelve
men left out Of q total Of sixty or
seventy rifles In one cavern the
French. having reached the entrance
within q few minutes after beginning
the attack, captured q colonel, major
and the entire fegimental stan. Still
other Germans found themselves In
the same situation. One detachment
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pay argely for the complete rehabili-
tation of the nation. but must forever
guarantee Belgium's independence
without any entangling German in
fuences whatever. And to rebuild
Belgium Germany must spend for a
long period more money than the OPP
GRAFTON of her entire government cost
before the war started. Yes, Ger
many truly desires to avoid this ISSUE
Germany has not yet guaranteed
the nationalistic aspirations and in
tegrity of the Polish peoples to the
east. except under camouflaged good
intentions subject to breaking at the
within of Berlin. Poland must be free
in every respect and her government
once more given representation in
the councils of nations. BY this CEN
tra1ization of Poles and Polish inter-
ests large territories must be taken
from Austria. Germany and Austria
do not speak of this in their peace
tenders.
Germany must completely unfa stem
the tentac.es which she has placed
about Esthonia. Livonia. Courland and
other frontier sections of Russia, and
possibly pay them indemnities for
the devastation German armies have
wrought.
Germany must step out of finland.
This country will be permitted. with
out Teutonic intrigue, to establish
such government as will be TYPICAL
ly representative of the people.
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will confirm this beyond all peradven-

will confirm this beyond all peradven-
ture of doubt.
The Austrian move followed close
upon the heels of peacelike utterances
of Baron Burian. Austro-Hungarian
foreign minister; the German colonial
secretary, Herr Solf, and the kaiser.
AS was to be expected. the offer was
received with scorn in every world
capital. The cryptic reply of Presi-
dent Wilson everywhere was hailed
with rejoicing, principally because of
it's brevity which was declared in
keeping with the worthiness of the
enemy endeavor. The American Presi-
dent lost no time in making it plain
that this country If no other. would
have nothing to do with negotiations
or parleys. which might tend to sap
the allied strength, rather than help
the cause of peace. just at a time
when the undermining of entente en-
ergies is vital to the cause of the
militaristic regime in charge of the
destinies of enemy nations. The Presi-
dent, through Secretary Lansing. said !:
THE government of the United
States feels that there is only one re-
ply which it can make to the sugges-
ton of the imperial Austro-Hungarian
government. 1t has repeatedly and
with entire candor stated the terms
upon which the United States would
consider peace. and can and will en-
tertain no proposal for conference
upon a matter concerning which it
has made it's position and purpose so
plain
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while waiting in a dugout with ma
for it to emerge and take part in the
defense suddenly heard French voices
yelling to them to come out. But the
Germans. catching sight of the dark
faces Of French colonials. hesitated.
One German from Lorraine spoke
to go first. He started cautiously
toward the exit when a rifle bullet
grazed his cheek. All the Germans
shrank back at the same time. while
we will throw incendiary grenades
at you" A German sergeant in de-
spair started to lead the detachment
out. 1t was several minutes before
the remaining Germans managed to
surrender in safety.
When the Lorraine man tried to ex-
plain in French an old corporal ex-
claimed: What! are you French? ~
YES from Metz II am also a Lor-
|rainer from st. Mihiel" responded the
corporal, and the two men shook
hands.
Make Desperate Resistance.
Generally speaking. except in cases
where they were completely surprised.
the Germans resisted desperately, but
once their officers and commits
stoned officers were killed or wounded
the men surrendered. The men cap
|tured with the regimental staff say
that they obliged their officers to
surrender by refusing to resist in the
faction when they arrived safely in
the prison camp. German officers
walking behind. them and overhear-
ing their EXPLANATIONS of contentment
were heard to mutter disgustedly
"Schwein" (pigs). good number of
the non-commissioned officers who
were taken complained that the men
left them to resist alone, but having
orders to hold to the death they con-
iInued their resistance until they were
absolutely obliged to surrender.
The number of German prisoners
captured was greater than the entire
French loss, not to mention the Ger
ton. therefore, was profitable from
every point of view.
Gets View Of Gruesome Object.
! I enjoyed the privilege of lunching
with Gen. Mangin and his staff. over
the coffee an officer asked, Have you
ever seen a German paper shroud %
Upon my replying in the negative he
sent an orderly to fetch one of the
laid eyes on. which was found in a
captured ambulance. 1t was a gar
ment made of tough crepelike white
paper, but the pattern was exactly
that of woman's nightdress with a
long v Of paper lace down the bosom
and coquettish bow of paper lace
at the throat.
The idea of dressing a dead German
soldier in this ridiculously effeminate
garment, knotting a paper sash about
the waist and tying on the sleeves
with bows of paper ribbon sent q
shudder down my spine. The officer
uttered an accurate word, "danse
macabre" dance Of death). 1t GER
tainly was.
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NEUTRALS SHOW LESS
REGARD FOR U-B0ATS
Inability to Make War on Them
May Be Germany's Excuse
for Failure.
By A. H. DECKER.
CableEram to The Sunday Star mn
Chicago DailyNewe. Copyright, 1918.

Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago DailyNewr. Copyright. 1918.
AT A FRENCH SEAPORT. septem-
Der 2o.-Apparently the lack Of sue
cess of German submarines is having
it's effect on German naval leaders.
Their attitude toward the ne,.tfais
presages a change of policy. Perhaps
it has been decided that it is more
profitable to sell or charter ships than
to risk their loss by confiscation be-
tories the neutrals are beginning to
show less fear of the central powers
Get Line on Germans.
The neutrals have thoroughly learn
ed to distrust the Germans. All neu-
trail ship owners realize that their YES
sells, being unarmed and helpless, in
cur greater risks than do the allied
ships. 1t Is curious to notice the de-
velopment of the attitude of the neu-
trail countries.
At first when Germany defined the
danger zones the neutrals remained in
port. Then they gradually ventured
upon short runs and next entered the
conveys Of the allies. believing in the
German promise to spare neutral ship
ping. Soon the neutrals learned the
lack Of value in German promises and
realized that the submarine campaign
was directed against all ships
Gradually the neutrals omitted to
paint huge distinguishing flags on the
sides Of their vessels and now they do
not even hoist their colors. I saw one
neutral ship with a covering on the
poop which might have concealed a gun.
in imitation Of the allied armed ships.
Earns Their Suspicion.
Certainly the German submarine war
fare has earned the suspicion Of all
neutrals. Over six months ago learn
ed from a good source that Germany. in
case Of the failure of the U-boat warfare.
expected to excuse it on the ground that
it could not make war against neutraIs.
Perhaps this excuse will soon be forth
coming.
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Moral Value Incalculable.

The moral value of the success.
then, is incalculabie. To have failed.
on the military side. would have been
of little consequence; even failure
would have exerted pressure in =
new field and partially accomplished
Foch's purpose, but on the moral side
failure would have brought dis
couragement to war-weary peoples
in Europe, who are continuing to bear
q strain, almost intolerable, because
Of their faith in what We are to DO.
But when, instead Of falling. We did
our part briefly, utterly, brilliantly.
began our war with q victory uft-
surpassed in completeness In -
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What Enemy
Must Yield in End.

concrete ideas acceptable to the al
lies.
The kaiser never yet has mentioned
the complete restoration of Alsace
and Lorraine to the French republic.
one of the chief demands which the
allies will impose.
Germany continues to ignore the
question of indemnitfes to France for
the wanton devastation she has Gre
ated in the northern regions of the
MISREPRESENTATION absolutely in vio-
lation of international laws of war
fare.
Germany never yet has spoken Of
return of the millions Of dollars
worth Of personal property which has
been removed from France into Ger
many as loot
Such offers as have been made to
Belgium possibly are in realization
of the fact that, unless some early
settlement is reached before Germany
is vanquished. Germany must not only
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And the kaiser
didn't. \
Mr.. Wilson Nips
Foe. Peace Moves.

Foe. Peace Moves. American sol
dier at the front expressively. though
ineIegantly predicted the attitude of
President Wilson toward any the Aus
tro-Hungarian, German-fostered peace
move he not only reflected his con-
fidence in the American President but
designated the course of ali powers
arrayed against Germany. Austria
Hungary. Turkey and Bulgaria, in this
great struggle for the emancipation
of righteous principles. international
pressed mankind
With the tides of war flowing swift
ly against them, with Inducements
Juggling firmly, the junker elements
the allied world with offers to as
semble about council boards, there to
unbindingiy and freely discuss grounds
upon which belligerent nations might
bring the present world struggle to
an end
Austria insists that the move was
made strictly at the instigation of the
Austro-Hungarian government, but it
has been pretty well established that
the peace offensive, Of which the latest
stroke is the browning move. was
thoroughly gone over at the August
conference of Teutonic rulers and
their advisers at the German general
headquarters.
Germany. 1t is believed. asked Aus
tria to instigate the move in view of
the fact that owing to the reverses of
German armies on the western front
the making Of such offer by Wilhelm
strasse might be interpreted among
German peoples themselves as show
ing faltering spirit. something which
the German government does not want
10 do at the present moment if 1t does
not wish to precipitate an immediate
and ER-eeAchtng crisis behind the
Noting lines That Germany ac-
103anoed. II she did not instigate the
offeY to discuss peace, therefore is ad-
mitted. Future events undoubtedly
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Pershing's Purposes in Attack.

Accordingly Pershing was asked to
reduce the st. Mihiel salient with
these. purposes in view: First, to
make the enemy trouble in q new
area and compel him to occupy re.
serves Of men and guns in covering
Metz and the adjoining Briey iron
mines. from which Germany derived
the larger part of her iron ore used in
her manufactures. thus preventing
him from using the same men and
guns further west, where the main
masses Of the allies were preparing
further attacks; second. to abolish
the German hold upon the heights Of
the Meuse. which made impossible a
later allied push out from verdun to
The all-important Briey iron district;
third, to eliminate German hold upon
the terdun.Toul railway. which al
ways carried with 1t a certain threat
to vefdun ana the German position
upon the flank Of any later allied Of
fensive east Of the Moselle toward
the Rhine, between Metz and Stress
burg.
We shall see next year . great
American offensive into Alsace-Lor.
rAine, and such an offensive would be
II the Germans still COM
manded the shortest and most direct
lire Of communications between Paris
and Nancy. and also were in a posi-
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Germany Must
Bend Before Allies.


that the allies. though ready to con-
slider a peace behind which there are
no skulking. Interior motives, must
insist. nevertheless. on the complete
capitulation of Germanic military
power and atlmittance Of the fact that
Germany can war no longer. In other
words, Germany must bend completely
beneath allied will: The nefarious
early in the struggle and which have
dominated the German government
for decades, must forever be wiped
out for the safety and future welfare
of the entire world.
Germany approached Belgium with
an offer of separate peace, promising
commercial independence of Bel
GUM, pre-war treaties and recogni-
ton of Belgium as a neutral state.
These things are but evidences Of
Germanic hypocrisy. inasmuch as Bel
GUM has had a bitter experience, and
will. in all time to come, shun or at
least discount treaties that may be
drafted and signed with the kaiser's
government. Certainly such offers
carry with them no weight in Bel
GUM.
Germany could well afford to agree
to the economic independence of Sd
GUM. Germany has so Sapped Bel
gium financial and commercial power
that the little nation must go through
decades of struggle before she will
be able to restore herself to her for
mer Independent commercial status
and on competing basis with Ger.
many. If this work is to be accom-
plished in the next decade it must not
only be with the aid of allied nations.
but with the aid of the billions of
dollars indemnity which will be
wrung from Germany at peace coun-
ellis But Germany in tenders to Bel
GUM says nothing of repaying even
in a small measure for the foul crimes
which she has committed against the
little nation.
1t was to be expected that the Teu-
tonic offer would meet the fate it did
firm rejection by the Belgian gov
eminent.
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The replies of other belligerent
powers may be made individually or
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Geography Of Salient.


In the second place we have to ex.
anime the history ana geo tapn .p Se
Meuse and the Moselle rivers in the
I'D French province Of Lorraine and
nnrtl, Of the city of Toul lies broad
piain, the plain Of the Woevre, reia-
lively fat, marshy and strewn with
forests and with frnm tR RenMdo os ol xsi
lev. from Metz to verdun, for ex-
annie. you cross this plain and ar
rive. half q dozen miles east or the
Mense. at the foot of an escarpment.
a ridge wholly like the san a, dunes I,es
Il ahrupt-5o0 feet in places-and
standinE on this escafpment and
LOOKING out upon the plain At sun.
rise YOU have the impression OF look
ing out upon the sea.
This ridge is known on the maps az
the Heights of the Meuse (the Cotes
de Meuse Of French geography. 1t
il obviously Of real military value be.
cause it is the first natural obstacle
to an invader coming east out Of Metz
and intending for the plains Of Morth-
books describe it as the 'Dike of the
North" and it fairly resembles a dixie.
stretched from the forts of Verdun to
those of Toul. Along this dixie the
French had constructed various forts.
and the entrance to the little valleys
BY which passage from the Woevre
to the Meuse valley was easiest. Vaux
and DouAumont, the famous Verdun
forts, are among those commanding
the routes from the Wosvre to the
Meuse.
In the Marne campaign the Germans
did not attack this dixie. because they
came south out Of Belgium anad Lux.
emburg and thus got behind IT. almost
'enveloping all the French troops from
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The nefarious Rrest-Litovsk treaty.
which placed millions of Russian peo-
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In all the peace discussions and Of
fers Of the central powers never yet
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in C o n c g r t,
but in such
reply it will
be made plain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28
WEEKLY PROVISION
AND GRAIN REVIEW

Chicago, Sept. 28.-Armistice
proposals by Bulgaria, together
with steps by Washington authOri-
ties to restrict grain dealers prof
its, have done much this week to
send the corn market swiftly down
grade Compared with a week ago
prices this morning showed a fall
of 7c to 81ac, oats were unchanged
to &c lower, and provisions irreg-
ular, ranging from 15c decline to a
rise OF soc
By far the biggest setback in
the value of corn resulted from the
apparent collapse OF Bulgaria as a
war factor. InCreduity of traders
regarding the drastic nature of the
peace move by that country pre-
vented a more sudden break in
prices than at first ensued, but grad
uaIly weakness became pronounced
especially as the day before the
market had undergone a jar owing
10 the food administration an
nouncement Of a schedule to which
Grain dealers profits would be con-
fined. Previously the action Of the
market had hinged chiefly on the
prospect of renewed liberal receipts
here-an outlook, however, that
was temporarily eclipsed by com
plete stoppage of permits for ship
ments from country points.
Sustained demand from the gov
eminent and from exporters upheld
oats, despite the weakness of corn.
Provisions were steadled by like
IihOOd of the establishment of a
permanent minimum price on hogs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28
CUSTER SPRINGS
FROM SAND LAND

Battle Creek, Mich.-A year ago
a group of workmen stepped out
on a field of swirline sand and be
gan construction of plain wooden
shacks that shortly dotted the vast
stretch of land,
A city for soldiers soon rose and
spread out over training grounds
where an army division now fight
ing in France, and other divisions
that are to follow, were schooled
for overseas service.
Camp Custer today IS character
lied by experts as a modern city,
with all the conveniences to be
found in Chicago, Detroit or San
Francisco. There are paved streets
and electric lights, and sanitation
that far surpasses that of the av-
erage city.
Every week greater progress IS
being made in the huge task Of
training the thousands of young
Americans stationed here. And
every week sees improvements in
the methods of accomplishing the
task that mark epochs in Ameri-
can military history.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28
MONDAY TO END
CLOTHES DRIVE
People of City Have But Two Days
in Which to Tender COntribu-
tons to Red Cross.

Send your old clothing to warm
those who have not even rags"
This is the slogan which the local
Red Cross committee for Belgian
and French relief announces to-
day. With but one day Monday,
left in which Rock Island can join
in the nationwide effort to send
5000 tons of garments to those who
are hemmed in behind the German
wall, hundreds OF men, women and
children are bringing thousands of
garments to the station at 310-312
Twentieth street, or are sending
them via Red Cross motor corps.
Clothing for all ages is needed;
everything from infants shirts to
overcoatS and dresses for adults
Underwear, stockings and shoes in
condition to give service are in
great demand. Flannel and wooden
piece goods are also wanted.
When the Rock Island chapter
agreed to undertake to raise its
quota in spite of the fact that the
city had just been canyassed, it
based its faith on the patriotism of
local citizens, which has never fail
ed when the Red Cross appealed
Rural branches were also expected
to do a large share towards max
ing up the allotment, and from all
indications they will more than
make good.
Is your old clothing among the
tons which will go to clOthe babies
and old women, children and old
men in France and Belgium?
If not, don't delay; the drive
ends Monday.
A well-to-do lady of Brussels
writes the following letter, which
shows exactly how great the need
is, which you can meet: Perhaps
you will laugh when you hear that
wear a cloak from my husbands
gard civique overcoat, a waist made
from a football shirt, and a skirt
made of a dyed bed sheet. Mother
has q suit made of the tableclOth,
J. and NJ. have coats made of wool
en- blankets, and s. a dress made Of
burlap. But all this is only anus
ing in comparison with the wretch
edness of the population. After all,
we remain calm and confident of
victory"
They are calling us to clothe
their nakedness out of our plenty.
We must answer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28
Son Wounded but
Father Reported
Also in Battles

With the announcement today
from Washington by the war de-
paTtmeut that Sergeant Clifford
Bradley, son Of Charles Bradley.
1913 Fourth avenue. had been
wounded severely while serving in
action pathetic situation arises.
Investigation at the address Civ
en- by the war department resulted
in the discovery that Charles
Bradley. the wounded lads father,
Ifs also in France, possibly near
his own son. but knows nothing of
his sons injuries unless he has
met him i'm one OF the hospitals
since the war department made the
announcement
A telegram from the war depart
meut 10 Charles Bradley was TAX
en- TO the address mentioned in the
foregoing. but was returned bear
ing the marks. No such party
Not. relative of Sergeant Brad
ley could be found in the city. nor
anyone who might lie the source of
learning as 10 the wheTea bouts Of
the lad father. The report that
the father is in France came in
directly 10 an Argus representative
but Is said 10 be authoritative.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-28
ROCK ISLAND GETS
$500 LOAN SHARE

Miss Clara Hampton. finance rec.
ord keeper OF the local revicf
Women's Benefit association Of the
Maccabees, has been advised by
telegram and other communities
tons of a unique plan which has
been adopted by the association fin
the placing of its contribution OF
$125,00O in the Fourth Liberty loan
which is 10 be apportioned among
it's progressive states, according
to membership.
Rock Islands share Of this
amount is $500 and the state lead
err, Mrs. Emma b. Wilkinson, was
advised Of this in time 10 place 10
here on victory day as a vOluu-
tary contribution of the assocla-
tion from this state. This associ-
alton has also founded a patriots
fund now amounting 20 $4,000 90
aid its members who will be az
fected by the war. OF this amount
S12 900 has already been used to
purchase yarn which has been
knit to the last thread into gar
ments for relatives Of its mem
bers in the service.
Local Queen Bee review, 100,
and the Red Cross unit has made
and given several sets TO the boys
in the service as we'll as assisted
boys who have no one 10 do Tor
them. 1t also has formed a night
class for surgical work. The mem
bers are very much pleased that
Rock Island was honored with a
portion Of the Fourth Liberty loan
subscribed for by the organization.