RESERVED
SHUSHl
LONDON—Sir Douglas Haig’s ac
count of the fighting on the British
front on the Somme, deals with the
period between Sept. 15 and Oct. 3.
That advance, says the British com
mander-in-chief, which won up Cour
celette, Martinpuich, High Wood,
Flers, and Bouleaux Wood, had
created sevearl minor salients in our
front, and it was necessary to ad
vance the line between them. This
was the task of the succeeding week.
On Sept. 18, we carried the work
called the Quadrilateral, between
Ginchey and Bouleax Wood. This
redoubt, which was of considerable
strength and tactical importance, had
successfully resisted our attack of
Sept. 15, thereby limiting the extent
From Sept. 19 to Sept. 21 owing to the
weather, nothing beyond minor opera
tions were undertaken by us, but
numerous German counter-attacks
were repulsed. On Sept. 22 we ad
vanced our front between Flers and
Martinpuich by the capture of two
lines of German trenches, and on the
following day we gained ground east
of Courselette. By the evening of
Sept. 24 we had completed the pre
Monday, Sept. 25, there was a gen
eral advance on our whole front from
Combles to Martinpuich.
The topography of the ground over
which these operations took place de
serves study. The general nature of
the country itself is gently undulating.
The main backbone of the ridge runs
from above Thiepval, just south of
Martinpuich, through High Wood, and
Ginchy to Morval, then crossing a
slight dip, rises again to Sailly Sailli
sel. Between Morval and Sailly Sailli
sel a valley in which lies Combles,
runs southwest, joining the Somme.
From the ridge the ground slopes
gently towards the north and north
east. The villages in this area are
surrounded by trees and are natural
stronghoulds, fortified by every re
source of modern engineering.
On Sept. 25 Lesboeufs and Morval
were carried, and our line in this sec
tion was advanced for more than a
mile. The capture of Morval combined
with the French pressure on the south,
virtually isolated Combles. The next
day we reaped in full the fruits of
these successes. Comples fell to a
combined movement of British and
French troops. In the center we car
ried Gueudecourt, and on the left, at
tacking up the ridge from the south,
we stormed Thiepval and won the Zol
lem Redoubt to the east of it.
These victories brought our front
at more than one point within a mile
of the German fourth position west
of the Bapaume-le Transloy Road.
Several thousand prisoners and a
large amount of war material fell
| into our hands. Our casualties were
1 singularly small. The past few days
I have been occupied in clearing the
Thiepval Ridge, where the strong
fortress called the Stuff Redoubt has
been reduced, and almost the whole
of the Schwaben Redoubt is in our
hands. We have also pushed forward
in the direction of Eaucourt l’Abbaye
and le Sars.
The enemy has fought stubbornly
to check our advance, and since Sept
15 seven new divisions have been
brought agaiVist us and five against
the French. The severe and pro
longed struggle has demanded on the
part of our troops very great deter
mination and courage. At the end
of September the situation may be
summarized as follows: (1) Since
the opening of the battle on July 1
we have taken 26,735 prisoners. (2)
We have engaged 38 German divi
sions, of which 29 have been with
drawn in an exhausted or broken
state. (3) We hold the half-moon
of upland south of the Ancre, occupy
ing every height of importance, and
so have direct observation of the
ground to the east and northeast.
(4) The enemy has fallen back upon
a fourth line behind the low ridge
just west of the Bapaume-le Trans
loy Road.
The importance of the three months’
offensive is not to be judged by the
distance advanced or the number of
enemy trench lines taken. It must
be looked for in the effect upon the
enemy’s strength in numbers, ma
terial and morale. The enemy has
used up his reserves in repeated and
costly unsuccessful counter-attacks
without causing our allies or our
selves to relax our steady and
methodical pressure. In this action
troops from every part of the Brit
ish Empire and British Islands have
been engaged. All have- behaved
with the discipline and resolution of
veterans.
Our aircraft have shown in the
highest degree the enthusiasm of the
offensive. They have patrolled reg
ularity far behind the enemy’s lines,
and have fought many battles in the
air with hostile machines and many
with' enemy troops on the ground.
For every enemy machine that suc
ceeds in crossing our front it is safe
to say that 200 British machines
cross the enemy’s front. A captured
corps report described our aero
planes as “surprisingly bold” and
their work has been as conspicuous
for its skill and judgment as for its
daring.
STEPS TO SET
WORLD PEACE
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Theodore
Marburg, who was United States
minister to Belgium in 1912-13, and
who is now a vice-chairman of the ex
ecutive committee and chairman of
the committee on foreign organization
of the League to Enforce Peace, de
livered a notable address at Mount
Morris Baptist church in this city
last evening.
Mr. Marburg’s remarks dealt with
a constructive scheme of world-states
manship to be put into effect imme
diately after the close of the war.
For one thing he proposed that Ex
President Taft, who is the president
of the League to Enforce Peoce,
should be sent to Europe at once to i
negotiate what President Wilson has j
called “some sort of a joint guarantee i
of peace.”
Immediate action is essential in
Mr. Marburg’s opinion, because of the
fear that men will forget the horrors
of war as soon as the fighting ends
and the world be disappointed as it i
was by the congress of Vienna a cen- 1
turv ago. Mr. Marburg said in part:
“The brief program of the League
to Enforce Peace has met with wide
acceptance, not only by private citi-!
zens but by many men in public life
and in positions of power in America
and Europe.”
An important group of British
Statesmen—and Great Britain’s atti
tude will carry far with the allies in
such a matter-—has indorsed the idea,
he said. The group includes the
prime minister, the secretary of state
for foreign affairs, as well as Mr. Bal
four and Lord Bryce.
“The French premier and the Ger
man chancellor have both declared for
it.. The outlook is hopeful. '
“But the measure is a radical one.
It involves a complete departure from
old practices. It means a surrender
of license on the part of nations, the
license to make war at will.
“To prevent failure the nations
should declare now in favor of ‘some
sort of joint guarantee of peace’
(President Wilson’s words) to be set
up after the war. The best way to
secure this declaration from the pow
ers now is to ask no less a personage
than a former president of the Unit
ed States, Mr. Taft, to accept the mis
sion, and go abroad for this purpose.”
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TORCHLIGHT
PROCESS!
IS OF POST
(Christian Science Monitor.)
In the days when the people of the
United States used to n.old real presi
dential elections every four years,
that is to say, at any time between
1860 and 1896, or from the time of the
Log Cabin to the time of the Full Din
ner Pail, no self-respecting political
party would omit torchlight proces
sions in making up its campaign pro
gram. Ask anyone who was a boy
in the period named and he will tell
you that the torchlight processions
used to be, as he recalls it, far more
important than the platforms, or the
issues, or anything of that kind. In
the estimation of youths of -nearly all
ages, in those happy days, the party
that deserved the most votes on elec
tion day was the party that distribut
ed the best uniforms and torches, and
had the largest number of marchers
in each procession.
There were fellows, lots of them,
who would march in a democratic
torchlight procession tonight and in a
republican torchlight procession to
morrow night, and enjoy the experi
ence in both. What difference did it
make anyhow, if the -captain of the
company called for cheers for Lin
coln and Hamlin, or Douglas and
Johnson, or Breckenridge and Lane, 1
or Bell and Everett ? None at all. It
was the same afterward, when it was
Lincoln and Johnson against McClel
lan and Pendleton, or Grant and Wil
son against Seymour and Blair, . or
when Horace Greeley was running, or
Tilden, or Hayes, or Garfield, or Han
cock, or Cleveland, or McKinley; one
didn’t have to vote the way one shout
ed.
Marching in a torchlight procession
was real polities for you. When a
fellow joined the “Wideawakes” or
the “Tanners,” or became a “Canal
Boy,” or carried a “Full Dinner Pail”
below his torch, he was somebody in
his town, ward and precinct. All the
candidates knew him and invited him
to everything. It wasn’t, merely get
ting out with the torchlight procession,
with the right resting on Jones street
and the left on Smith avenue, and tak
ing so many hours to pass a given
point, and maintaining constant and
vocifersous enthusiasm for the whole
ticket; it wasn’t only that; it was
more. It was being asked to fetch
water for the speakers, to form one of
a committee of prominent citizens, to
meet the candidates at their homes
and enjoy refreshments with their
families, to peddle tickets at the polls
and eventually to get a job in the de
partment of streets and alleys south,
or on the fire or police force. Many
a man who eventually became boss of
his ward started by carrying a coal
oil torch, wearing a 50-cent uniform,
keeping step and “hollerin’.”
Of course, when elections were elec
tions, and politics were politics, and
getting out and shouting for either
side was worth while, not only the
torchbearers but everybody else in
town took part in the enthusiasm.
Maybe there would be hardly a pane
of glass in a window along the entire
route of march that would not have a
candle burning behind it! Those were
what the literary fellows called Vene
tian Nights! When the procession
wheeled from Smith avenue into
Brown street, just as far as the eye
could see there was nothing but illu
minations. There would be thousands
upon thousands of Chinese lanterns
festooned along the fronts of the
houses, and every now and tuen the
strings of lanterns woa d converge in
the center of the roadway and form
Japanese pagodas! It was grand!
And music! A full brass band tc
every ton companies, playing the airs
the plain people love to hear. And
banners! And mottoes! And port
raits of the candidates! And a wagon
bearing young ladies in white, repre
senting each state of the Union, with
the Goddess of Liberty in the center,
supported by two stout posts and a
barrel hoop.
And don’t forget the red, white and
blue lights all along the curbing, and
the roman candles and skyrockets, and
the big set pieces in the public square!
And, above all things, don’t forget
the ladies in the front rows along the
curbing, waving their handkerchiefs
and telling us to stand bravely for
“Honest Abe,” or the “Little Giant,”
or the “Hero of Appomattox,” or
"Horatio at the Bridge,” or “Jim"
Garfield, or for “Pour, Pour, Four
Years More for Grover,” or for "Mc
Kinley and Prosperity,” or for “Bryan
and Sixteen-to-One.”
Things are tame and colorless now
compared with what they were in
those grand old times. Even when
they do attempt a torchlight proces
sion now there are so many of those
electric street lamps and electric
signs, and automobile headlights, and
street-car searchlights, that the torch
es are paled in the general effulgence.
Instead of spreading light the torch
bearers diffuse shadow along the
thoroughfares, and if a bhnd strikes
up a tune beloved to the plain people,
it will probably be drowned by the
tooting of motor horns. The torch
light procession cannot return, simply
because the past to which it belonged
cannot come back.
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