Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - September 29, 1918, Washington, District Of Columbia OF THE ASSOCIATED U entitled tr the tue for the publication of all news to it or not otherwise in tills paper and the local The Washington Poit is the only newspaper in that is a number of 1 The Associated the complete serrice of the world's greatest cloudy tomorrow little change in Temperature 71; 48. NO. AND ENTERED AS D. O. SEPTEMBER 29, 1918.-SEVENTY 1SU. BT WASHINGTON CO. FIVE BELGIANS GAIN NEARLY 4 TAKE FORT MALMAISON FALLS TO BRITISH AT GA TES OF YANKS ADVANCE Warships Bombard German Official War Reports Bases in Albert Leads Men in the Capture of Houthulst Forest and Allies Drive Germans Back in Four Great Line Now East of and East of Seize and Gen. Pershing's communique j for Friday I of Verdun the First j army continued its attacks begun j The towns of and were hostile counter at- tacks on Maj. Gen. corps were thrown back by troops from New Maryland and Virginia and from Wyoming and captured material includes over 100 guns of which 12 are of heavy many trench Good Progress Shown by New American ENEMY HEAVILY SHELLED Huns Fight Stubbornly to Delay Advance of Pershing's FRENCH TAKE tars and hundreds of machine doners Enter s Troops Cross the The number of prisoners has risen to over including 125 de Advance Made From Highland and Welsh Ridges Being Canadians Resume Canadian Army Headquarters in I Canadian Sept. crossed the Canal du and successfully stormed the the Canadian I ion ol drive between Douai and The Canadians j esterday performed brilliantly in then iv ay the canal and in ins wood The Canadians attacked on a line a south of i The first impediment u as a of of i diy Thin tin Canadians to i tiench the Associated Sept. Mangin has captured Fort one of the strongholds southwest of according to the war office announcement He now holds this position Sept. their attack today between Ypres and the Belgians made an advance of more than three and a taking Belgians and British Start British and Belgians nave taken the town of and have ml on the whole front for a distance of from 2 to 3 The Dallied forces have outflanked ridge on the north and are toward Roulers Belgian forces in their attack today at Houthulst northeast of pres. made considerable The Belgians captured a portion m the Belgian and British troops launched their attack from the region of to a point east of Many prisoners were British Take Many Heavy enemy counter attacks around on the Cambrai wore repulsed last night by the This morning the British ad- 2 miles beyond this occupying the Highland and Welsh The British have captured Gailly and as well as and German Naval Bases Ostend and German naval bases on the Belgian were heavily bombarded by entente warships between and 4 o'clock this according to a dispatch from Amsterdam to the Central News The German batteries on the Belgian coast replied before the enemy had completed the withdrawal of his rear guard from the eastern Converging tactics worked and in several places strong bodies of Germans were reported on today in a j the which that 1he British had worked around behind them unnoticed I Germans Clearing i i airmen observed a j otis stream of transport ward and various explosions and fires behind the German front were I was to tell j how far these may have been caused i the British I Last night masses of British I troops were resting in the spacious i of the Hindenburg system 1 pretty secure against enemy bombing and the comparatively few Most of the outs had cleaned j It was quite clear that he i had made up heir minds hat th Ui it- not only meant to attack their Siegfried but that I i 111 on would carry it when they I did Surprised by I Tho appearance of American i trv in the southern part of the Held have boon an unwelcome i i j surprise to the who less expected to encounter any of these overseas troops so far from the The British captures of guns are likely to make a considerable notwithstanding the fact that the enemy has been the ar- tillery without much regard for the protection of his ly the officers in charge of the man batteries did not always ber to look over their shoulders from time to time to see what was close behind Severe Fighting Goes on in Argonne Where Germans Seem Determined to Hold Fast With Backs to the Brun hilde Battle Desperately Pershing's Front Extends From Outskirts of to Edge Sept. Marshal Haig's report tonight operations on the Cambrai battle front have progressed The right divisions engaged in heavy fighting last night about i the Associated Beancamp ridge where the enemy j the American Army on counter attacked This I morning they overcame the ance of the German infantry pressed forward two miles beyond capturing the highly organized defensive positions known as land and Welsh in the day our success ex- tended to the and court was the the Yorkshire division captured coing and progressed to the east of it. Before midday the Duke of Wellington regiment forced a crossing of the Canal de at and established itself in the defenses on the east of this post the this morning cleared the west bank of the canal as far north as La Folio wood and captured and are making progress east of Dame and are operating in con- junction with Canadian troops north the Here the enemy resisted strongly and suffered heavy losses in killed and of the road Canadian and English talions pushed forward to the east and At strong hostile counter attacks launched by I the enemy yesterday evening were I beaten back with the Canadians gained possession of this village and the adjoining village of with the trench system running through these Farther the Londoners entered number of prisoners and guns captured continues to in- the Champagne Sept American line extends to the outskirts of and Ad prisoners have been In three days more than 60 enemy airplanes have been brought The American loss in that period was less than 20. Troop Trains With the American Army North west of Sept. 28 the Associated trains load ed with German troops were by the fire of American batteries as they were entering this The artillerists fire soon after the trains were first sighted by When the shell smoke cleared away only a few of the Germans were in No German tanks were tered following the bombardment of the although pre the enemy had a number these machines in German Towns With the American Forces west of Sept. 28 the Associated explosive shells from the American big guns are now reaching far beyond the German Fires at and at other points are attributed to the work of the American Shells are reported to be falling I on and j on other towns far in the rear of the Sept. official The bridges over the then the v 11 o and thoy if of il foMo Another con- I n w turning ihc r 111 t h i t li i on I tho canal northeast and then taking in 111' Hank ill along thr bank 01 tho canal Thus the position which tho believed imp i c by a attack tin nod and cap- at a small to the Canadians in the operation and and gunners tho by a ban ago The righting of the Canadians was featured the excellent of now who had been brought up during tho patt of thorn were oar but they taught the spirit of the Canadian corps and their com- mander was loud in their The of the battles of Amiens and Vi also were at Take Headquarters in pt 2S Marshal a forces today captured the town miles of Tlie it o-f j battle today to be greater than they appeared last both in H and tactical This communication from Belgian quarters tonight attacked this morning be- tween and north of Ypres after violent artillery in cooperation with French and British Meuse also are being bombarded thus choking the exits of the mans Engineers Aid American engineers are busy close British fleet bombarded i behind the advanced line repairing the coastal defenses and roads and bridges and preparing a joints of The way for the movement of artillery and gian and British infantry then ad- truck Tno congested and attacked the seemed to be characteristic of the British successes From the moment when the front line at n yesterday the forward movement began to ex- lenU miles in It was not to hear that all the objectives of the day which meant that the Hi itish had gone forward to an ex- ireme depth about 5 miles through most formidable and intricate American Gains I via Sept. vances by the toward Bourlon and on the Cambria front are announced in today's army quarters The official statement declared that the American attacks to the east of the Argone were brought to a still south of the it is was evacuated under the threat of a rounding Both the French and Americans con- their strong and a little ground was gained by the I French in the Champagne between the Suippe River and the Between Epehy and We captured all the organized lines of defense in the first Crossing we carried the ond which was strongly resistance and vain counter attacks against the Staden we captured the whole forest of captured territory to the line of Baillie and advance amounted to jnore than six and prisoners were taken by the The which has not yet been includes a com- plete battery of 150 other heavy caliber guns and im- portant The number of dead bodies on the field shows the extent of the enemy via Sept. West of in the pagne and west of the heavy enemy attacks says the man war office statement issued Anglo-Belgian attacks are under way between and the Lys in it is of defences So remarkable the British progress that not only field batteries but heavy brought up to the western fringe of Bourlon wood and were it i American torces were 10.OOO Prisoners Taken Sept. to the number of have been captured by the British in their offensive in the Cambria Field Marshal Haig announced in his official ment Two hundred sunn were taken by the British The British pressed their attack yesterday without let up until a late and in the evening accentuated notably their progress in the ern The British have captured the towns of and Canadian troops pushed through and have reached the King Albert in 28 Universal whole of the famous ridge was overran by the j British and Belgians in their ful assault on the Flanders front this which carried twelve miles forward on- a twenty mile Capture of the range along its whole length from the south of daele toward and Ypres and to Messines has just been announced Albert of the Belgians Immediate British -are cast A semicircular bulge driven the German tions necessarily incident to a rapid advance have been relieved rapidly in the past twelve The determination of the Germans to hold the forest and the region to the cast of lias caused the enemy to reinforce the front op- posing the One German division brought up in the same unit that was used to reinforce the line when the Americans fought for session of Bolleau wood northwest of Chateau Enemy Fights Desperately There has been much fighting in the dense forest but its character has been largely that of a clearing a great number of isolated chine gun nests being met These and ordinary snipers have been troublesome although unimportant in view of the general One detachment of engineers south of being in their work dropped their tools long enough to clean out one German chine gun The gunners who were not killed were captured by the Somme Py With the American Army of Sept. 28, 9 a. m. Associated their backs to the outer edge of the the today were fighting desperately in an endeavor to bring the American advance to a definite The Germans were increasing the volume of their fire and ing anew their determination to re- sist to the The line fought for through the northern Argonne woods and eastward along a line paralleling the road to point near and thence The Germans are massed in the ges woods and in the Ement Ally the drive which is under hie Americana are using their lery freely to break up the enemy The Germans are upon machine gun fire1 at advanced point in their effort ftp check the 5 Mile Sept. the successful continuation the offensive west of the Argonne the French hare cap- tured the village of an advance of about four Bays the war office statement The heights north of also have been The French have taken additional The fighting Pressing on between the Ailette and the Aisne last night the French the ravine between and and captured those two Further north the French gained ground northeast of Sanchy cap- tured 150 German ter attack north of Allemant was re- With the French Army on the Champagne Sept. 28, 2 p. m. the Associated forces are continuing their op- in the Champagne with the regularity of a finely adjusted where the enemy's defensive works comprised a system of trench and labyrinths five miles in was taken this morning after sharp fighting in the streets and with grenades and The whole fell into the hands of the and the line ad- now running half a mile of the Enemy Mastic g Farther to the east a desperate struggle is going on over most cult ground north of and The Germans are defending the valleys the greatest drawing up their re- serves and making profuse use of chine guns in a determined effort to stem the tide that is throwing them Steadily Perfect order reigns in the French the difficulties of the ground In the complicated net works of trenches the operation goes on as it does above ground in the The implacable advance reflects in every detail the absolute confidence FUDGED Business Men at Liberty Hat Start Fourth Loan LEWIS STIRS ENTHUSIASM Senator Says Subscriptions Here Are to ROUMANIAN THRONE the have in themselves and their Germans Lose Their The situation is quite different in the ranks of the The ness that has been so apparent during the past month has developed into The methodical Germans are losing their the officers are nervous haste and sometimes what is considered questionable judgment in their drafts on their At one single point the French took prisoners from four different German reinforcements brought up are immediately thrown into counter attacks that develop fierce fighting at close often hand to with no other result than to decimate the fresh units be- fore they have been utilized to strengthen the line of Every counter attack has been re- pulsed with severe the mans and has been followed almost Immediately by a further advance of Using The Nervousness shows also in the use of the artillery which are being down by the Germans without conceivable and great masses of tion are being as at through bad at Positions which the Germans have held through enormous sacrifices are afterward abandoned without any apparent immediate reason or The Germans are now withdrawing from the after ing used up some of their best sions to hold the plateau to the west of it. Gen. troops are today ad- where they were held up a week ago by most determined Further in the region of Pinon to the east of fires are numerous Best Known ot City Get on List at Big Yard Employes Take Worth Great Patriotism as Washington Starts Drive to Go Over Top of BURIAN PREPARING NEW PEACE NOTE Huns Talk of Sept. 28 persist in Vienna political circles that Barou foreign will send to the belligerents a second peace according to the This it is ill be along the same lines as the but will contain more precise which he is said to be- lieve vi ill modify the terms of the There also are reports in land that the central powers are pre- pared to intervene energetically in which is of taking part in intrigues contrary to the ter and spirit of the treaty of Demonstrations Against Bulgarian King in Sofia Sept. against the king in favor of Premier Malinoff are place In Sofia according to dispatches from he Bulgarian Berlin dispatches indicate Sing Ferdinand may resort military that to a More than toward the Dis- of quota of the fourth liberty loan was pledged at a big meeting of Washington business men held at Liberty Hut last night under the auspices of the liberty loan com- of the Senator James Hamilton who made the principal reminded the audience that the German people are watching Washington today with the same keen interest that we America are watching actions of the people of Berlin are re- garded by us as indicative of the spirit of the whole German said the actions of the people of the Capital of the United States watched by the people of many and as a reflection of the spirit of It is doubly the senator that the people of Washington send Germany a through their subscription to the fourth liberty that would leave no doubt as to their determination to fight the war to a Treated Germans as Senator Lewis additionally reminded the audience that America opened her doors wide and welcomed the German emigrants when all other tions had barred them from their took them in and comed them as he now this very same nation has forced us to declare war on Prussia for the salvation of America and the liberty of the It is the tenance of that war for which you are summoned here It Is for the support of all those who have given all to maintain the honor and glory of this Pledge pards were passed among the and John man of the liberty loan committee of p District announced some of the subscriptions the These included the Masonic Insurance Com- Kann Sons Com- two subscriptions of one for their Washington and the other their Baltimore M. Goldenberg National Hydraulic Pressed Brick stone Tire Rubber From Insurance Guardin Life Insurance Cohen Inc. Hood Tire Armour Massachusetts tual Life Insurance New England Life Insurance Com- New York Life ance Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance 000; George A. Fuller American Ice Life Metropolitan Life Insurance Equitable Life Assurance Mutual Life Insurance Com- of New Buick Motor Perpetual Building ning National Electric Supply Eli W. F. Roberts Theodore W. D. J. A. Charles J. There were also hundreds of other subscriptions ranging from and denominations up into the which had not been counted last William F. chairman of the liberty loan subcommittee on McAdoo at Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo made a four-minute speech at a erty loan rally held at Keith's ter last He was loudly cheered when he have the Prince Says Will Stand by Morganatic Sept. Prince Charles who dered by King Ferdinand to 75 solitary confinement because recently went to Odessa and ried the of army is reported to have renounced his succession to the KAISER LOSES TONS Shipping Shrinks More Than Half of Figures of 1914 has lost tons her shipping during the according to information made Kere Germany had net of shipping 1, according to the She has constructed 000 tons the There are FAILED BUM Collapse Due to Foch's Holding Germany's Forces in UNABLE TO SEND ASSISTANCE Isolation of Turkey and of Roumania SWEEP ON IN BULGARIA Anglo-Greek Army Nearly 20 Miles Inside the RETREAT IN Austria Withdrawing Her Forces Advance Along the Make 8-Mile Taking Serbs Still Press Huns on the run For Post Readers In this issue of The Post dramatic pages appear in Editorial and Society and the fashion pages and The Post's Club pages in the Fiction toward and we want to keep the prick of American bayonets In their backs until we march in a tri- procession down Unter den A part of the proceeds of those three Liberty loans has enabled our grail ant army to inscribe our glorious banner the words That great recently won by Gen. and his wiped out that salient which was thrust into the French and which for so long a time threatened the security 6w fourth liberty loan is another push we must put of the ican As a result of that loan are going in the cred blood of America's heroes tivo other names upon that and At liberty loan rally held at the Gayety last night a. total of worth of bonds was ed by tha audience. Clark manager of the Washington Baseball and Morris manager of tha company playing at the theater this made the Vienna Sept. Austrian troops to the sistance of the according to the war office statement tonight which records the enemy attacks west of Lage a defensive sector which we have taken over from the Bulgars Call for Sept. Cologne Gazette today declares that the solidation of the Bulgarian military and political is making The Bulgarian Gen. it asserts is acting in with the supreme command of the central from whom he has asked 28 p. ad- vance of the entente allied forces in Macedonia says an official statement issued this evening by the British war Greek troops are pushing to the eastward along the British and Greek forces also are moving on is about 20 rhiles In- side the Bulgarian Several guns of various caliber have been cap- Austria her troops .to reports re- from informed the Central News correspondent at September Greek forces continue to aid in the allied in a ment from the Greek war office today and are operating in the regions of east of the Vardar and north of The statement units operating with the allied troops now are in the Prilep region and aiding in driving the en- emy Greek unifs have crossed the Vardar in the region of and are the enemy on the Mountain range help of French Greeks cooperating the British have reached the range and lave ward from Doiran France Thanks 27 Premier Clemenceau today addressed following telegram u to Gen. Franchet the commander of the allied troops in by the armies in the ern theater take the proportions of a great This brilliant tion has reopened to the Serbians access to their fatherland and given Gen. Reviewing Conditions on Finds Satisfaction in Trend of ot German Commander in Palestine Conspicuous Troops in 20-Mile Front honor .to the commander planned the attacks the troops which undertook I address you my By ALBERT W. 1918, by Post 1 The strategy of Marshal Foch In the bulk of Germany's ing forces on the western front and forcing the enemy to accept ous battle there is primarily ble for the collapse of the first of Germany's Gen. Peyton C. chief of mada this plain yesterday and at the same time emphasized the military tance of this defection of its desire for a separate said Gen. not only important In the conduct of the from the point of and its general effect upon the grand strategy of the but it also illustrates to a striking degree the results of the present concentration of on the western Means Isolation of to this time whenever any part of the central front was it was possible for many to divert German divisions with German commanders to the threatened front while the western front was held with a relatively smaller That day has concentrating the entire can on the western that together with the British and French armies under Gen. holds the German army there and we see the result in Bulgaria's demanding a separate obvious importance of this move which would if it goes the isolation of Turkey and probable reentrance of into the needs only be It is perfectly clear to End of Teutonic Prior to Gen. March's conference with the newspaper correspondents yesterday it was learned on excellent authority that the United States regarded the Bulgarian col- lapse as forced by military necessity and in this sense Stephan the Bulgarian wha has been quietly living as his country's official sentative and lias shown rare tact in difficult position he has believes Bulgaria is determined abandon the Germany and He is understood to be- ieve that the Bulgarian troops have offered far more stubborn ance had they not lost all enthusiasm for the Teutonic cause Bulgar Troops Glad to It is even suggested that they intimation from Sofia that UIP day had dawned when German nation was to be declared at an end and that consequently many of them welcomed the decisive entente even though they did not relish process of executing it. Gen. March had a map of tlic kan front which he the cor- A huge gap in the my lino was marked off with a col- ored representing the allied ad- The line looKed as if it had personal congratulations and beg that you transmit the admiration gratitude 'the French government to the allied and French troops under your Italians Take Sept. 28, p. m. troops operating in Macedonia have captured it was learned been blown up from below by a i glance at the positions marked on the map of the Balkan Gen. March the tion there so clearly that I do not need to add anything to it. It is a tremendous drive carried out by a This success represents an advance of about 8 miles from the Italian line as last t is 18 miles west of Serbs Rearing The communique for received here at the legation advance continues with ex- Our troops have taken the of ate far east of town of On the 26th of September at noon our troops entered capturing many prisoners and dispersing the enemy who defended the advance on the town of is Our troops have taken mountain many machine guns and an enormous quantify of different war also a great number of among them many Italian Warriors Coming With Grenadier Band to Help Loan Drive Here small Serbs Captured distance measured to the apex of the salient north of shows that In this quick advance the Serbs crossed the the Czerna and the and captured the railroads which follow the valleys of the rivers and wbich have been the main lines of supply for the Bulgarians on either as well as their chief lines of result has been a general organization of the retreating particularly those caught between the Vardar River and the mountains of who sought too late to get out to Veles and British and Greek forces are East of the Vardar they have crossed the mountains leading into Bulgaria and have captured the chief town of that re- Palestine Feature of movement of the British in Gen. March con- also been a feature of Two companies Italian the resulting in a picked from crack infantry regiments and a famous of Grenadier which have been sent to America to help stimulate in- terest in Liberty are to arrive in within a few this announcement was made by the News which stated that the soldiers are expected to reach New Tork The liberty loan committee of the District is planning an elaborate re- ception for the Italian a of which be spectacular street capture of and tlie being conspicuous by flight of the German who apparently got out in ad- Commenting on the situation on western Gen. March to the western since I spoke to you the first part of the week the fighting was limited to local attacks b'y the allies for objectives along the
