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BRITISH

August 23.-Fighting Is taking
place along virtually the whole front
between Lihons, south Of the Somme.
and the Cojeul river. Our troops are
reported making progress at a num-
ber of points.
During the night the enemy twice
attacked our positions in the neigh
borhood of Baillescourt farm, east of
Beaucourt. He was repulsed.
On the Lys front our line has been
advanced slightly east of LIE Touret,
northwest of Neuf Berquin and east
of Outtersteen.
A hostile attack northwest of Bail
leul broke down before our positions.
August 20 (night).-At 4:45 o'clock
this morning English east country
and London and Australian troops
holding the sector between the Somms
and the Ancre, attacked with the OBJ
feet of carrying the enemy's positions
on the high ground traversed BY M the
Bray ay-Sur-Somme-Albert road. In this
attack they were completely success.
full, capturing their objectives at ar
early hour and advancing q distance
of two miles on front OF over st1
miles.
Our troops have retaken Albert
Considerable resistance was met with
at certain points. particularly on the
slopes north of Bray, the town itsel1
not forming part of our objective.
In this latter sector hostile coun.
ter attack later in the day pressed
hack our troops for a distance OF
about 500 yards. Fighting continued
for some time, and also in Albert, un-
iii the town was finally cleared by
our troops. In those successful opera
fions we captured some 1.400 prisoners
and a few guns.
"our troops have made further
nrorress on the left bank of the Anere
south of Beaucourt. North OF the
Ancre the enemy has counter attacked
heavily during the day at a number
After the repulse of one hostile as
sanit early this morning in the Mirau.
mont sector the enemy again at
tackled in this locality later in the
day and entered our positions. He
was at once counter attacked ane
driven out by our troops.
Northeast of Achiet-le-Grand also
the enemy succeeded during the morn.
ing in pressing back our forward
posts, but once more our counter at.
tack re-established our position anc
we took 200 prisoners. Other hostile
attacks east of Courcelles and cas-,
Of Moyenneville were in each case re-
The number Of prisoners captured
! hy, AlA -todAy-a .ye9terdAHs41- ou1
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Meat Control in Buenos Aires.

BUENoS AIRES. August 23.-The
municipal authorities OF Buenos Aires
have taken over the supervision of the
sale of meat to the public. This step
was ordered by President Irigoyen in
an effort to combat the high price Of
meat Anarican and British packing
houses in the Argentine have agreed to
es!iyer e cost 70 the goysEnnsnt NEST
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More Pay for Woman Workers.

LONDON. August 2s.-The ministry
Of munitions has ordered that the wages
of woman munition workers be increased
Girls under eighteen in munition plants
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Sweep Backward and Forward.

To the south from Achiet-le-Grand
to the Ancre the armies in battle have
been sweeping backward and forward,
attacks and counter attacks being re-
peated again and again British pa
trolls have been in Miraumont, but at
the moment it appears that the British
lines are actually few hundred yards
west of that town, in the neighbor-
hood of Beauregard and Dovecote, on
the road between Miraumont and
Puisieux-au-Mont-
Word has Just been received that
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By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 22.-The town OF
Albert, eighteen miles northeast oil
Amiens on the Ancre river, has been
recaptured by the British, who also
have obtained all their objectives in
the fighting today between Bray
Sur-Somme and Albert, according to
, the official communication from Field
Marshal Haig tonight Over the SIX
: mile front the British advanced two
miles.
Scene of Desperate Fighting.
, IAlbert is a town in the depart
ment of Somme, eighteen miles north
, east of Amiens. 1t is situated on the
Ancre river and is a railroad center:
, Before the war it had population OF
J more than 1000. Albert has been
the scene of some desperate nshl.hs
and in the recent British drive the
, town was surrounded on three sides
by the armies of Field Marshal Hang,
! the village of Aveluy on the north
+. and Meaulte on the solth having been zen
!! reached by them. 1t was vnn, at ,,aas AL
! Years the famous leaning vir-
! GIN hung from the top of the ca.
| thedral The base of the statue OF
! the Virgin which surmounted the
4
, while the town was under heavy
Ibombardment in August, 1914. and
/ the image toppled over. 1t DID NOT
| fall from the pedestal, however, pue
; hung in a horizontal position until
April of the present year, when
: German shell again struck the statue
and sent it crashing to the ground-I
British Drive Steadily Ahead.
BY the Associated Press. .........
/ WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, August %, 2:30 p.m--There
has been fierce fighting today along
large section of the British front. to
kthe south of Arras, virtually through
Nto the River Somme. Again the Brit
ltsh have been victorious The battle
north of the Ancre ragged all day long
Iwhile 10000 yards to the south an
bother British force, which crossed the
! Ancre during the night and opened an
. tack at dayb-eak, was driving stead
! lily into the enemy positions on the
high ground between Bray-sur-Somme
land Albert and had already captured
a thousand prisoners.
Iniict Terrible Losses.
On the northern half of the battle
,front the British stormed the enemy
ipositions and captured them. inflicting
terrible losses on the enemy. They
then pushed eastward at various
, points. They occupied Hamelincourt
trench, well to the east of the en-
bankment, and were reaching out sim
ilarly at other points. at the same
time beating down desperate attacks
launched by the enemy in an effort to
regain his valuable lost positions.
A counter attack this afternoon
north of Courcelles was completely
broken down by the British before the
boche gained a single foot of ground.
despite his evident determination to
do So The value of the position along
the embankment can readily be seen.
The country is fat, and the railroad
runs along the top of high made-to-
! order ridge, which overlooks and
Acontrols Considerable she1l-cleaned
ground on either side Of it
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FRENCH.

August 23.-During the night there
was a violent bombardment between
the region of Beuvraignes (south Of
Roye) and the Oise notably at PIE
mont. Passel and Chiry-Ourscamp.
We hold the southern banks of the
Disc and the Ailette from Sempigny to
the railroad at Coucy-le-Chateau.
East of Selens French troops car
ried their lines as far as the outskirts
of Guny and Font st. Mard.
The night was calm on the rest Of
the front.
August 90 (nfghD.-O troops
continue TO advance along the whole
front We have reached the Divette
river from its mouth as far as Evri-
court We have carried our lines to
the outskirts OF Quierzy.
We have occupied Staubin, Selene,
Begneux. Epagny. Bieuxy. Vauxrezis
and Pommiers. The material aban-
doned by the enemy between the
Aisne and the Disc is considerable.
More than 200 cannon have been
counted since August 20.
Eastern theater, August 21.-There
was feeble artillery activity. British
aviators bombed the region west Of
Demir-Hissar.
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BROKEN POUND BAG
END OF SUGAR TRAIL
Inspector Follows Thread
Long distance to Find Sus-
picions Not Justified.

One Of Washington's food admins
tration inspectors for a time this
morning thought he had discovered
another fragrant case OF sugar hoard
ing.
Inspector Callahan OF the local food
administration was walking briskly
to work this morning when his prog
ress was blocked in front of a hotel
on 14th street by two draymen lug
ging two large trunks into the hotel
From one of the trunks the alert in
spector saw little sparkling grains OF
sugar dropping to the pavement. His
suspicion was aroused Immediately.
recalling that trunks are often used
by sugar hoarders as hiding places
and for Transporting that precious
commodity
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By the Associated Press.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY ON
THE OISE, Thursday, August %, IL
p.m.-Gen. Mangin now has driven
the Germans across the valley of the
Ailette on a front of several miles
The enemys forces on the right wing
of the battle line are on the plateau
between the Ailette and scissors and
between the Ailette and the Disc.
To the left of the Bretigny the Ger
mans are north of the Disc except
those that are hiding in fields and
thickets, dead or prisoner. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate the number OF
captives being sent to the camps in
the rear and army headquarters it.
self does not have more than an ap-
proximate count Only a partial count
has been made of the booty, which in
cludes at least 200 guns. many OF
them of large caliber. The Germans
still are stoutly resisting the 1st
French Army around Roye. Gen. De-
beney's men, however. forged ahead
again today, both north and south Of
that town. -
Bridges Not Destroyed.
In their retreat across the Disc the
Germans did not have time to destroy
the bridges. Some were found intact
while others were damaged. -
Cavalry is rendering marked service
in the pursuit of the enemy, Not only
are there cavalry advance guards but
other troopers are following the in
santry to take care of the machine
gun nests left behind by the Germans
10 be sacrificed in attempting to check
the French advance. Aviators pre-
ceded the cavalry. They are dispers-
ing enemy rear guards who attempt
to make stand and are breaking up
and scattering conveys on the crowd
ed roads with machine gun fne.
Batteries of guns and ammunition
Wagons. Wjtb the horses At thessalkoo,
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ONLY WAR BUILDING
IS WANTED IN D. c,

Continued from First Page.)
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Then He Apologies.

When Callahan recovered from his
surprise he apologized to the woman
for troubling her. explaining that il
is necessary to keep a sharp eye to
sugar boarding. He afterward said he
never before realized how much sugar
is in a pound.
Il wish a pound Of sugar would go
as far in my home as that pound
seemed to go, according to the long
steady trail it made" Callahan said
later. relating his adventure to the
food administrator
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AMERICAN.

August 22.-Section A: North OF the
Vesle a successful raiding party brought
in eleven prisoners. Hostile raids in
Lorraine and Alsace were repulsed
Northwest of Toul one of our aviators
shot down a hostile machine. On Au-
gust 81 and % our aviators successfully
bombed the railroad yard at Longuyon
Audun-le- Roman and Contains. Three
and one-half tons of bombs were drop
ped and many direct hits were observed.
All our machines returned.
August 21.+Section A-Small hos
tile attacks in the Vosges northwest
of TouJ broke down before reaching
our lines
Yesterday our aviators successfully
bombed the railways of F1abeQville.
All our machines returned.
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Inspector Investigates.

Losing no time. the inspector fol-
lowed the little white shining trail
into the hotel. through the halls and
to room on an upper floor. In re-
sponse to his knock a distinguished
looking middle-aged woman opened the
door, and to his questioning, replied that
the trunks were hers and that she
had no objection to him opening
contents.
Like the good inspector that he is.
Inspector Callahan assured her he
did not doubt her word, but he would,
at the same time. like a peep inside
the trunks. When the trunks were
opened the inspector found. with many
other things, what remained of pound
bag of sugar.
The owner of the trunks said she
had bought the sugar in New York.
and that the jostling of the trunk in
transit evidently caused the bag to
break and the grains of sugar to drop
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Hope to Complete Bill This Week

Debate in the Senate yesterday pro-
ceeded rapidly and the hope of COM
pleting the bill before the end of the
week grew stronger. =.
An amendment proposing to make
the minimum draft age twenty in
stead of eighteen was introduced by
Senator Kirby of Arkansas. Senator
wadsworth Of New York offered an
amendment extending the draft to the
Navy, while Senator Cummins of Iowa
offered provisions to postpone calling
youths and older men and also to
modify the "work-or-fight" plan. SEN
ator France of Maryland sponsored an
amendment prohibiting military serv-
ice abroad for youths under twenty
one, but providing for their draft for
military or other training.
A vigorous speech in behalf of the
bill was made by Senator Reed of
Missouri, who urged an army of 500.-
900 Americans in Russia at once, and
predicted this country ultimately must
furnish 100000 or 100000 and un-
dergo severe hardships of long war.
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ITALIAN.

August 22-In the Riofredo valley
enemy retiring in disorder. Our pa
trolls drove back enemy reconnois-
sance parties south of Mori.
! Five hostile airplanes were brought
| down.
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/. May Mako Him Leader.

Senator Lodge's speech was heard
with much interest by the senator's
II was his first since the death Of
musician leader, making Senator
Lodge, II predictions are true, the rspub-
lican leader of the Senate.
Senator Lodge paid q high tribute
to the American soldiers and marines
in France. who have put to rout the
flower Of the German army, and de-
clared that the two reasons for the
recant victories of the allies have
been the appearance of the American
troops and the unity of command un-
der Marshal Foch.
''Nothing could be more inspiritins,
nothing could give greater confidsnos
to our allies and to the country than
the earnest desire and cosmplete rsaAi-
ness Of Congress to paA this new
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
German Activity
Sure to Continue

Whether the Germans intend a
big spring offensive on the Western
front or not no one but themselves
can possibly tell yet. The strictly
military considerations of the stu
alton are against such an offensive !;
the political reasons are strongly in
its favor. But whether the Ger
mans do or do not make such an at
tack they will certainly continue to
give all the preliminary signs of
one, for such operations are neces-
sary as a prelude if they do mean
to attack and are useful as a bluff
if they do not. There is no sign
made public yet of any special point
of concentration for German troops
which must be made before an at
tack is launched.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Half the Army
Cannot Fight

To appreciate the large proper
ton of men who cannot actually be
used in the fighting is less urgent
for the writer and talker, but has
its Importance. One of the most
frequent (and. to those who know
their subject, most exasperating)
pieces of press criticism on the
army in a certain phase of this war
was the complaint that so many
men were drawing rations and vet
were not present in The fighting
zone. 1t took all sorts of forms:
complaints that the honor of fight
ing had been withheld, or that the
danger of it was being shirked, or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Allies Rarely
Mention Units

Another difference, one of policy,
is that the Allies rarely mention
the names of units which have per-
formed some particular achieve
ment, contrasting somewhat
strongly with the German policy Of
naming them frequently, both for
the sake of emulation inside the
army and to cultivate enthusiasm
among the civilians at home. But
the supreme thing to remember is
that the degree of secrecy and the
manner of it are things that can be
judged by the military command
alone, and that to grow weary of it
or to grumble against it is to court
defeat. -.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Amateur Strategists
Usually Ignorant

The third rule, although the most
obvious, is the one most frequently
broken. Napoleon said wisely that
any fool could see strategical ad
vantage and draw up a strategical
plan, but that the test of talent was
to see what in practice was the best
plan and to carry it out on the spot.
Any one could see, for instance, in
this campaign that the Dardanelles
was one of the keypoints on the
map; any one could see in the OAR
danelles operations that the neck of
the Gallipoli peninsula carried the
communications on which the prin-
cipal forts that defended the OAR
danelles were absolutely dependent.
Why was not the neck occupied?
Because of hundreds Of practical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Industrial Output
the Biggest Factor

The present great campaign has
turned the belligerents of nations
not only into two warning 4
Init, s Us II ssefe, INTO L orr
peting industrial firms, and by the
output of these industrial firms the
action in the fields is being more
and more decided. On this will de-
pend the victory in the air which
will perhaps be the decisive factor
in 1918-the subjugation of the
submarine depends upon it; and
the putting into use of the derelict
or wasted land-the prevention of
famine conditions in Europe de-
ponds upon it.
Why has the Russian state gone
to pieces? Because the Russian
lines were broken in Galicia thirty
four months ago solely through the
immense preponderance of metal
upon the Austro-German side. For
the whole fighting season that fol-
lowed the Russian armies were
sacrificed in masses to the increas-
ing difference in munitionment.
The Germans and Austrians capt
ured droves of prisoners who did
not have even rifles, and the Rus
sian artillery could not deliver one
shell to the enemy's twenty. Even
the calibre of all its weapons above
field guns was not upon the average
half that of its opponents. The air
power, already hopelessly INSULT
cient, fell from less to less until Il
was insignificant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Victory or Defeat
Depends on Workshop.

Victory or defeat in 1918 de-
ponds now upon the workshops.
Every dispute should be forgotten
until the event has been decided
There will be time enough to settle
social questions after the decision
OF the war. That is hard saying
to men whose whole lives have been
given up to the settlement of social
theories and the modern economic
struggle, but it is true one. A
family does not continue it's quarrel
when the house is on fire.
To the man who asks YOU
whether social justice is not the
same in time of war as in time of
peace there is no answer. We must
admit that it is, but if the war is
lost the opportunities for obtaining
social justice will never be what
they were in the past. That again
IS a hard saying for the man who
sees wildly wrong conditions at
home. But for him, as for all
others, the result of the fighting
abroad will determine his own
economic future far more than will
the immediate local result of eco
nOn1ic ntlarroIc
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that an administration which
needed so many men behind the
lines must be inefficient.
All that sort of talk comes from
sheer ignorance. The civilian
should make up his mind that, espe-
cially in the present war, he is deal
ing with lines of communications
and conditions of transport which
will at least divide in half his total
apparent effective force. Of a hun
dred men drawing rations for
which the nation pays it is lucky if
fifty are at any given time actually
using their arms. The proportion
OF nOn-combatant to actual COM
Blatant numbers is often much
larger than this.
Another thing the civilian will
do we'll to remember is that the
whole effort of the able, trained
and patriotic men who have con-
troll of the job and understand it is
to cut down the proportion of nom
combatant troops as low as ever
they can.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

1'ios1 Distinguished Military Critic
American forces holding first line
positions not only in the neighbour
mood OF Toul, but also along the
Alsne, and in whatever other Sec
tors are held by your troops, is to
be expected from this time on. In
cldentally these raids also give an
opportunity for testing on larger
scale than hitherto the comparative
lighting value of the two kinds of
infantry engaged in the encoun-
tiers.
The brief dispatch describing
this encounter near Toul gives in
dlcatlons strongly in favor of the
new American contingents which
have just come onto the field as
being superior to the veteran Ger
man troops with whom they were
engaged.
We further heard this week-on
day unnamed-of what was really
the first attack on American troops
other than raids. It was not ap-
parently on a very large scale. The
Germans, as all soldiers do, but
more than any others, depend upon
exact calculations. Now, the Amer
lean army is a big and growing and
unknown factor in these German
calculations, and you should be pre-
pared to find that fully half of the
German effort on the Western
front in the immediate future will
be concerned with finding out all it
can about this factor-its numbers.
its disposition, it's fighting quality,
its supplies of material and NUM-
lions and stage of it's training.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Teutons Can Do AS
They Wish in Russia

Meanwhile in the East we must
clearly grasp two things. First,
that the Austro-Germans can do
what they like; second, that the
forces that they require there arc
quite small. The international gang
that has captured Petrograd has
destroyed the Russian army. It no
longer exists at all as an army.
When the invaders stop in their
police work (for it is only police
work that they are doing) will be
entirely their own affair, and the
stop will come Of their own free
will.
When they do stop we shall hear
plenty of nonsense from whatever
crowd may happen to be on top
i'm Northern Russia. We shall be
told that there has been "a counter
offensive" or that the Germans
have been checked. We need pay
no attention whatever to this talk
when it does come. The small but
disciplined forces which, as write,
are already in possession OF klev,
the capital of Southern Russia, and
of Pskofr and Nieusk, in the north
and centre, car 90 where they
choose and do what they like. They
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

TIME intelligence which COM
handing officer can obtain
L of the enemy's numbers and
# the disposition of his forces Tin
fornation which is essential for
He commanders success and
Witch it is the principal business of
tie enemy to conceaD is arrived at
m~Earious ways: through spies,
through the piecing together of i'm
rudently published news and
through observation, especially
from the air. But one of the most
important ways Though which
this information is obtained is by
raids such as both sides have un-
aertaken vigorously for the past
month on the Western front and
which are usually preliminary to
actions on a much greater scale.
These trench raids fulfil two
purposes: They discover the state
Of the enemy's defences and the
lighting trim of the men who are
holding them, and they generally
bring back prisoners. 1t is the in
terrogation of the prisoners which
furnishes the fullest information.
The questions asked may not seem
mportant-they are often dis
gHised and conceal their purpose.
I Ihe answers given are often mis-
hading or falsa, more often igno-
rant, and sometimes they have been
Dictated to the prisoners long be-
fore they were captured by the
prisoners former superior officers.
But the total result of interro-
eating very large numbers of pris-
oners from many sectors of the
line is considerable. All the an
sSers are carefully collected by a
central bureau, where they are in
deSed and digested, and most Of the
emciuslons reached by the intel
1gence department about the arri-
sa OF enemy units at their front,
a0cut their strength, equipment,
&C., depend on this sort of evil
knce.