The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-25
German Request For
Armistice Sent to .
Allies.
WILSON SOUNDS
NOTE OF WARNING
Declares That if Autocracy is to Be
Dealt With Now or Later Only
Surrender Will Be Effective and
Cessation of Fighting Must
Be Safeguarded.

President Wilson has answered
Germany's latest note regarding
peace. In brief, he informs Germany
that the only armistice he would
feel justified in submitting for con-
sideration to the allied governments
would be one which would put the
United States and the allied powers
in position to enforce any arrange
! ments that may be entered into and
to make a renewal of hostilities on
the part of Germany impossible.
To this end the president has
transmitted his correspondence with
the present German authorities ts
the allied powers.
"Not peace negotiations, but sur
render" will be the demand, if the
United States has to deal with the
military masters and the monarch
cal authorities of Germany.
The allied armies in France and
Belgium are still driving the Ger
mans toward their border but the
process is now comparatively slow.
On the sectors that are requisite
to the stability of the entire German
line-where a crash through prob
ably would mean the Immediate Col
lapse of the whole of the defensive
systematic most stubborn resist
ance is being offered by the enemy
and what gains are being made by
the allies are virtually foot by foot
in the face of the hornets of the
battle line-the machine guns.
Americans Face Picked Men.
Particularly vicious fighting is in
progress west of the Meuse River,
where the Americans in their en-
deavor to overcome the natural OBJ
stacles barring the way northward
to Sedan, are faced by picked troops
with orders to hold them back at all
costs; in the region from lie Cateau
to the north of Valenciennes where
the British and some Americans
gradually are tearing their way
through the enemy front between
Journal and Audenarde, where the
British also are hard after the ene-
my.
Notwithstanding the frantic en-
deavors 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 thrust that carried
them forward from two to three
miles. Into the hands of the Brit-
ish have fallen 1000 more Germans
while the Americans west of the
Meuse also have gathered in num-
bers of the enemy and a consider
able quantity of his guns.
Nests of machine guns are being
encountered by the Americans as
they attempt to press forward along
the front from the Meuse to the
town of Grand-Pre situated north of
Grand Pre- situated north of the Ar
gonne forest, but in spite of these
obsticables they hare taken further
ground and at last accounts were
steadily keeping up their pressure
against the enemy. Extremely hea-
w counter-attacks have been sue
cessfully sustained north of Grand
Pre-, and on this sector particular
trong concentrations of enemy artil-
lery fire have gone almost for
nought. 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.