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1t for a time, only to be driven off.
South of the Arras.Cambrai road the
advance continues. During the night
1t was held up by a strong fire from
a lone trench Just south of the road.
The Germans appeared determined to
hold on here and fought desperately.
Finally the British kicked OFF, from
their positions and charged the enemy.
Wipe Out Garrison
During the fight that followed the
British either killed Or captured every
nan of the enemy garrison and In
addition bagged fifteen machine guns.
This was accomplished with casualties
so light as to sound incredible. In fact
the number was so small that it was
not made known. In the north the
Germans steadily continue their re-
treat.
The British have retired only when
hordes of Germans appeared, but
their retirement usually has been to
the positions where they could pour
machine gun bullets into the enemy.
Heavy losses were inflicted upon the
Germans.
In the Lys salient the British are
on the heels of the Germans. Beyond
Vierstratt and Nooremezeele the
enemy has fallen back east of the
Ypres-Comines Canal. The British
have reached Doulif and La Creche.
Ravelsburg ridge has been captured
after some opposition from the Ger
mar rear guards, who put W a fierce
though brief fight. Lindenhouk and
KENNEL Village have been captured.
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NAMELESS TERROR
SEXES FOES 0 O
BY the Associated Press

London. Sept. 2.-Tha Australians who
captured Mont st. Quentin win 1900
prisoners and thereby made the fall of
Peronne inevitable, accomplished the
feat within an hour and with a loss to
themselves of only twenty-five men, ac-
cording to the Daily Mails correspondent
at British headquarters In France.
The correspondent says that the better
part Of three German divisions crumbled
to pieces before one Australian unit. The
Germans appeared to have felt some sor,
of nameless terror similar TO that which
sometimes possession of troops
fighting against Indians in their native
haunts.
The capture of Peronne.r according to
the correspondent. should turn The
enemy's present line and hasten his re-
treat. He now has in this southern
quarter only one good position to hold
before he reaches the ,1indenburg line
from st. Quentin northward.
The core Of the whole battle now is
between the Scarpe River and Bapaumt
and 1t Is here that the Germans are
really fighting, the Daily Mails CORE
spondent adds. In this sector the Ger.
mans are fighting we'll TO keep the Allies
of their great line of defense that winds
along the most favorable ridges from
st. Quentin to Drocourt. London, Man
chester and Liverpool troops are operat'
| ing here, while to the south the Cana.
| dians are fighting a fierce battle against
stubborn resistance.
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BATTLE EMBRACES
FRONT OF I2O MILES
By the Associated Press

Paris. Sept. 2.-The Allies are keep
ing up the battle in the face of increas-
ing resistance by the enemy and more
than that they have extended the fight
ing until it now embraces a front Of
some 100 miles from Ypres to scissors.
This Is more than man. we'll informed
observers had hoped for. Peronne has
fallen and with 1t the enemy's last
chance of holding on to a strong defen-
sive position along the Somme.
= While the principal feats now are be-
ing performed on the British part of
the battle line, General Mangin con-
tinues to forge ahead. adding every day
to the enemy's losses and to his danger.
General Mang!n's success is due not
only to the valor OF his Franco-Amerl-
can troops but to the skill in maneuver-
ing that he has shown.
Not ccntenting himself with attacking
frontally the heights between Crecy-Au-
Mont II Juvigny. he Unanswered at
the same time by the south and filtered
through successfully the long ravine
running through Vaux-Regis, Chavigny
.Juvigny, Leury, and passing by Pasly.
Cuffs n Croucy he is forcing the Ger
mans to retire or their left as far as
Bucy-Le-Long. and thus giving com
pleteness and solidity to the movement.
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BRITISH SHIP SUNK
OFF FRENCH COAST
Thirteen Survivors of Crew of
81 Landed-Remainde
May Be Safe

A Canadian Atlantic Port, Sept. A.
The British steamship Escrick, 4151
tons, bound from Bordeaux to Montreal.
was torpedoed on the night Of August
16 when 500 miles of the French coast.
Thirteen survivors Of the crew of thir-
ty-seven have arrived here on ar oil
tanker. which picked them up.
An engineer and W. .fremen are be-
lieved to have been killed when the tor
pedo struck the engine room. Two life
boats containing the remainder Of the
crew. including the captain, are missing,
but the survivors believe they had a
good chance of being picked up by an
other vessel.
The survivors were afioat in their
lifeboat for three days before the oil
tanker came along. Chief officer
Llewellyn, in command Of the survivors,
said today the Escrlck sank in twenty
minutes He remained on the scene
until daylight in the hope of joining the
other boats. hut saw no sign of them.
He made for the land and covered 200
miles before being rescued.
Just a few minutes after the Es-
crick sank" he added, "the submarine
came alongside US and asked for our
captain. | said that he was not in our
boat. They then inquired for the wire
less operators ss,d gunners. l did not
answer. and the U-boat then disap-
Deared'
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U.S. AIRMEN SAVES COMRADE
J. H. Hammond Fights of Five
Austrian Machines

Italian Army H~eadqusrters. Sept. 3
One of the finest exploits Of the American
hydro-airplane pilots trained in Italy
was that of j. H. Hammond, Of Balti.
more, who saved Lieutenant Ludlow
during a raid on the Austrian naval
base at Pola. While Ludlow was drop-
ping bombs his machine was riddled by
Austrian fire n he was compelled to
alight on the Adriatic, three miles from
Pola. When Hammond saw Ludlow's
plight he swoopec to his rescue, Drawing
the concentrated Austrian fire and the
attacks of five enemy airplanes.
Hammond hit the water near Ludlow,s
machine. ran alongside, took LudIow
aboard and slowed him under the motor
of his W one-seater plane. He then
set Ludlow's machine afire.
Meanwhile the enemy aviators were
keeping up a steady fire. Hammond
with his own gun, kept the Austrians
off and got away safely. although bur.
sued half way across the Adriatic.
Finally, his machine gave out while near
the Italian coast and the Americana
were forced to swim ashore.
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GREATER THAN LOSSES

vious battles more than the English,
and since then they have done won
ders, and we could not have achieved
these results without them.
But the greatest glory of human
endurance goes to the English and
Scottish and Irish battalions who
fought in the retreat Of March, who
fought again in Flanders. who sur
fered losses which would have broken
the spirit Of weaker men. and who
now in these recent weeks nave beaten
h enemy fairly and squarely pacK
over the same ground.
During the last day or two the
enemy has recovered somewhat, II
seems, from the decentralization which
overlook his men, and has brought up
divisions who are fighting hard to
save the reputation Of the German
army, but that army, as a whole, Will
ever recover It's prestige or its power
however long they maintain their war
fare-and 1t will b. long yet.
Boys to Fill Gaps
This autumn some 400 900 boys OF
the 1920 class may fill up gaps In
their ranks, and they will be trained
young soldiers capable, no doubt. OF
hard fighting. But Germany has lost
in three weeks so many prisoners and
wounded that those new drafts will
not give her back the initiative. Every
thing that follows must be a further
decline in her strength and fighting
quality, and the knowledge of doom
Is upon her.
There have been various factors In
our success, never to be separated
from the courage of men to whom
victory is due, and undoubtedly the
tanks have helped most to secure sur
prise and terror. We have many
proofs that the German command
recognizes them as a terrible n
A captured German order reads:
THE enemy only attacks with
tanks. If we shoot the tanks to pieces
we shall have won the battle" And
then it brides the men to destroy
tanks by offers Of decorations.
Many other captured documents
reveal decline in discipline of the Ger
man troops, owing to their f~rightfu'
losses and the WEAKNESS Of war az
we'll as real Generalization in the
fighting line.
In Germany there is reason for thai
sense Of despair and fear which seems
to prevail there. Now that Peronnt
and Bullecourt have fallen, the enem,
has the Hlndenburg line as his mex
refuge, and there he will hope t.
stand. But even hat is brolen in tn,
north, and his Drocourt.Queant switch
line is severely threatened.
We may rest content with this re
suit Of our renewed offensive. What
eve may follow will begin a new
chapter Of the war. which promises
further victory, helping us to the las
victory which will end all this fright
full strife.
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DrOcOurt-Q uednt
SUitch Penetrated
Csntinued from Pare One

Continued from Pego One
NE line between Bapaume and Pc.
rome where the Germans have been
hoIding stubbornly. is considered by
the British today as virtually in their
hands. They have captured the vii
re of Villers.au-Flos, to the north.
~ LIE Transloy now is outflanked
on both sides.
Between 5000 and 1000 prisoners
we taken by the Australians in the
vicinity of Peronne yesterday.
British troops last night captured
the villages Of Saillisel and Sally
Eairisel, on the line north of Peronne,
On the Flanders front the British
have advanced as far as the Lys
River EAST of Estaires, while further
northeast In the direction Of Ypres
the village of Neuve-Eglise has beer
captured.
The French me with a slight set
back to the east of Nesle. losing the
crest of Hill II, which they had cap.
tured during las night.
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Official War Reports
BRITISH

London, Sept. 2.
Yesterday Welsh and eastern county
troops captured Sailly-Saillisel and
Saillisel after heavy fighting.
The English have drawn nearer lie
Transloy and Noreuil, where they took
a number Of prisoners. Riencourt-Les-
S~agnicourt and the German positions
south of the village were captured
during the night by English and Scot
fish troops. together with some hum
dreds of prisoners.
In the sector south Of the Scarpe
Canadian and English troops attacked
at 5 o'clock this morning. They are
reported to be making good progress.
In the Lys sector we have reached
the Lys River east of Estaires and
have faptured Neuve Eglise.
Paris, Sept. 2.
In the region of the Canal du Nord
the artillery activity was violent.
The French repulsed two counter-at-
lacks by the enemy upon the village
OF Champagne, maintaining their posi-
lions.
In the region of the Ailette the
French made fresh progress in the
wood west of Coucy-le-C Chateau and
east of Pont-St. Mard. One hundred
prisoners remained In the hands of
the French.
In the Champagne IN enemy raid In
the region of Auberive was without
result.
GERMAN
Berlin, Sept. 2.
Fighting is proceeding between the
Scarpe and the Somme. British at
tacks here, In the main, failed. At
isolated places they pressed back our
lines toward the east.
Between the Disc and the Aisne
French partial attacks were repuised.
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BRITISH PRAISED BY Sims
Admiral Also Pays Tribute to
Men of His Command

London, Sept. 2.-Vice Admiral vii.
liam s. Sims, commander of the Ameri-
can naval forces in the war zone, de-
livered an address to American soldiers
n sailors who were entertained in
London by f. H. Sothern and Mary
Anderson in Macbeth. The commander
declared the Germans had discovered
that American soldiers were not just
men thrust into uniforms and sent of
in ships. but were fighting propositions
He added:
But don't you chaps get sticking out
your chests and going around thinking
America is doing it all. 1 want to tell
you here and now that what is being
done by this tiny little island Is won.
derful. The British fleet Is protecting
us and supporting us and getting us
to the front"
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UklS
ARE CONFLICTING
London Hears Condition Is
d Grave Copenhagen
Announces Death
LATTER UNCoNFIRMED
Details of Shooting Lacking.
Dispatches Indicate Internal
Hemorrhages Developed
BY the United Press

Copenhagen. Sent. Q.
Nikolai Lenine. Bolshevik Premier
Of Russia, Is dead, according to DIS
patches from Petrograd today.
Dora Kaplan, who has been In.
volved In revolutionary activities dur.
ing recent years, has been arrested.
charged with shooting Lenine. She
was born in Kiev and in her early
years began to operate with the Ter-
rorists In their campaign against the
Gear.
In 1907 she was arrested in connec-
tion with this activity and during her
trial attempted to kill the chief Of the
C1ar's secret police with a jacknife.
Tho trial resulted in her conviction
years Imprisonment.
Details of the shooting of Lenine
have not been received. One report
ID that he was approached in Moscow
by two girls just after he had left a
Bolshevik meeting, one of whom shot
him. He was wounded twice. and last
dispatches indicated that serious in
ternal hemorrhages had developed.
London, Sept. 2.-Nikolai Lenine is
not dead, but his condition is very
grave, a message here today stated.
The report Of Lenine's death received
from Copenhagen has not been con.
firmed from any other source.
Amsterdam, Sept. 2.-The condition
Of NikClai Lenine, the Russian Boil.
slrevik Premier, against whose life an
attempt was made Friday night, is re-
ported by a Russian newspaper. PRAY.
d, to be serious owing to internal
Me1norrhages. according to a telegram
from Moscow.
The Pravda says the Premier was
shot by a girl belonging to the intel
lectual class. She was arrested.
The attack on Lenine was made
Friday evening after a meeting of
laborers at the Michaelson works,
where Lenine spoke. AS the Premier
was leavirsy two men stopped him and
discussed the recent DEGREES regarding
the Importation Of foodstuffs to Mos
cow. In the course of the interview
three shots were fired.
Moscow telegram by way of
Vienna says the attack on the Russian
spremier was made by two women be-
1onxinR to the Social Revolutionary
party.
q An official Russian Government dis
patch received by wireless concerning
the Bolshevik Premier a that n
bullet penetrated a little above Le-
hines shoulder blade. entering the
chest and touching the upper part of
the lung. This caused great loss of
blood. The bullet stopped on the right
ode of the nee owe the shoulder
hone,
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'DOCFICHT' AT BULLECOURT
English Hold Positions Resting
on Wotan Line
BY the Associnfed Pres.
the Associated Press

with the British Army in France.
Sept. 2.--There. has been especially
heavy fighting In the whirlpool OF the
battle around Bullecourt and Hcnde-
court. where the British are holding po-
sitions almost resting against the Dro-
court-Queant. or Wotan. line.
1t Is believed that Bullecourt itself
has thrice been lost and won in the last
two days. First the British were in the
town n then the Germans. The Brit
ish finally conquered the town. While
one side had the control the machine
gunners and bombers from the other
would filter in and get the position and
then the place would become most ac-
tive. From ruin to ruin, through cellars
and through old and new trenches the
fighting has continued, and all of the
time almost the same tactics were being
followed in the country surrounding. In
has been "a dogfght" here for two DAYS.
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~CRECY-AU-MONT Won
BY FRENCH O O

Paris, Sept. 2.-French troops have
captured Crecy-au-Mont, south of the
Ailette. North Of the Ailette they
nave gained a footing in the wood
west Of Coucy-le-C Chateau. the War OF.
ice announced last night. Nearer Sois-
sons, according to this afternoons
official report, they last night stormed
the village Of Leury and several
strongly held centers of resistance,
capturing 1000 prisoners.
French troops have crossed the
Somme Canal at Epenancourt. seven
miles south Of Peronne. Rouy-Ie.Petit
two miles northeast Of Nesle, has been
captured by the French. Two hundred
and fifty prisoners were taken In these
ENGAGEMENTS.
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are SlOwJV
Grtndin0 Ahead
Continued from Psse one

Continued from Pass One
ton Of what the French had to suffer
before those fortrcsses were carried last
year. We must face soberly the possi-
bility of having to return for a time
to what Is called warfare Of positions.
compared with which the brushing up Of
a retreat Is child's play.
There is another governing consldera-
tion that may encourage II we don't
exaggerate 1t. A numerous army holding
formidable positions 10 still chiefly to
be valued according to Its average
morale. There is no doubt of the decline
Of the morale Of the German army; but
despite the weakening Of itg electives.
the poverty Of many kinds of material,
the growing hopelessness echoed in the
German press and six weeks Of I'M
ceasing reverse5, there are still divisions
that fight unbenGingly.
Clearing Up BattleAeids
Among the abandoned trenches and
wire fields, the new are easily distin-
guished from the old by their slighter
extent n depth. There has been this
time no such opportunity as last year
for the systematic destruction of farm.
steads and villages. and. erievous as the
aspect of the landscape just swept by
the blast of war was, with It's shapeless
heaps of brick, stone. lath and plaster,
its torn fields and ravaged woodlands.
we receive this time no such bitter i'm
preston as when last year we came sud
denly upon the first orchards deliber-
ately cut down n the first graveyards
deliberately outraged.
The most serious problem is that of
the destroyed towns. There is nothing
but ruins in Montdidier. and the mere
clearing Of the site will be a p~rodigious
work. Roye and Nesle. and perhaps
Noyon, Scissors and Fishes, are In
slightly less extreme case.
Compiegne Badly Damaged
With its palace of Napoleonic and
other memories, it's Renaissance town
hall. its substantial villas and forest
rides. Compiegne was one Of the most
delightfully."- characteristic of French
country own of the richer kind
gracious, dignifed, sleepy and happy.
| About one house in Ave seems to rave
been destroyed one in two to have beer
damaged The palace has received sew.
eral shells the general hospital has one
wing shattered.
I visited the front of the army OF
General Mangin and found steady,
though grimly slow, progress being
made. The capture on Friday morning OF
Pasly village, a mile and a half north
west Of Scissors, led later in the day
to the occupation of Cuffies, a mile east
of Pasly, by a push from the west, and
Saturday morning Of Cruoy. nearly three
miles east of Scissors, by the junction
Of American units with the French com.
ing north from Scissors. All the base
of the long, foot-like plateau extending
from Terny-Sory to the Aisne, which
is an outwork of the Laffaux corner Of
the Hindenburg line, was thus in Allied
hands.
Front Lines strengthened.
When Pasly fell the German garriso,
of Chavigny-I may properly call 1t 6
garrison, for this was a siege of a rea
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right acfbds
the toes u
we're made IN
General Won
ened his ffouf
reserves.
Meanwhile. On m
the village or Juvi
eral times chanG1d
rushed BY the Anne
the Allies were aba
the hamlet Of Lurys g.
plateau.
Al 4 o'clock SdnG
two blockhousee havlr
Leury was so1idly VI
remained from the
effort no fewer than
oners. There u now
north end of this M>oo1
inmates In Hill
as Laon and the ~
ward beyond Tefny4
shall be right up akai4
fed lines OF vauxaiIl
| Marginal.
1t is noteworthy tit1
eighteen German oficefo,
Germany would hAvsstoe
Lorraine. Two OF theme1
two Bavarians and one N
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CHINESE MINISTER SLAIN
Cabinet Officer Assassinated by
Barber at Victoria, B.. C.
By the Associated Press

victoria, b. G., Sept. 2.-Tanghui Lung,
Minister of Education for China brother
Of Admiral Ting Fiji All Ming. OF the
War Department, Pekin, was assassi-
mated here last night by a Chinese bar
Der. Of this city. who then committed
suicide.
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s.e.mship Burns At Washins.on

wsshinEten. Sept. 2.-The steel
steamship Newport News. a vessel of
1895 tons. belonging to the Washington
and Norfolk Steamboat Company. was
destroyed by fire early today. and the
wharves and sheds Of the company's
terminal here were badly damaged.
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By the Associated Press

Paris, Sept. 2.-Entente Allied air
plane observers report that German
conveys are moving eastward In the
region Of Roisel and beyond that
Roisel is about seven miles east OF
Peronne. The Germans are said to be
rapidly removing their stores or blow.
ing them up.
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German Steamship Reaches Russia

Stockholm, Sept. 1.-The German
steamship Annie Stiner arrived at Pet.
rograd Saturday. She is the first mer.
chairman flying the German flag to ar
rive at Petrograd In four years.
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By the Associated Press
With the British Armies In France,

With the British Armies In France,
Sept. 2.
B~ullecourt and Hendecourt again
are In British hands and the cellars,
dugouts and hiding places are being
nopped UP. Similar nghting has been
going on in the villages of Ecoust. st.
'1ein and Longatte and these places
ebo are in the possession OF the Brit
The ground In front of the British
Ines throughout this region Is piled
With dead Germans, for the British
haye not hesitated to temporarily re-
tire slightly in the a of strong
Aensmy attacks when 1t appeared that
ther W strength could thereby be
Conserved and at the same time secure
n opportunity to NOV down masses
3bf Germans. These tactics have had a
&moat disastrous result for the foe, and
0that the British have not lost any
1hing In shown by the fact that their
casualties continue extremely light,
rhile ali positions are finally retained.
Hsig Repels Attack
AT Mont 81. Quentin the Germans
hGve eounterattacked again and
anain at great cost, but the line there
remains intact.
The enemy seems to have removed
virtually everything he had in Pc
rome, for he realized that the town
surely must come into British hands
soon, but neyertheless there was fight
ing there before the place was cap
sture.
Late yesterday the enemy delivered
powerful counter-attacks east OF
FremieOurt on the Bapaume-Cambra
road; the infantry being assisted. &C
ocrding 10 reports. by a few tanks. The
0ermsus succeeded In penetrating a
short distance. but the British imme.
diatsly r~eattacked and the ground
Whtch the Germans had occupied
enickly became q shambles. In this
t0pofation the British captured many
o11a0QSrn Among the Germans dead
~ fhis point Was battalion com
nrtflsh swers s1so counterat-
a. Yauk f-Nr0ucourt. the Ger
1ajplag kep<ef % y noE(2
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Front Lines strengthened.

When Pasly fell the German garrison
of C~havigny-I may properly cali 1t a
garrison, for this was a siege of a real
fortress-was in danger, and when 1t