12 PAGES be Daily is YEAR 85: 'NO. 205 Cdn EINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1918. LAST EDITION itish an E COULD NOT STAND THE CANADIAN ATTACK And Gave Up the Drocourt-Queant Line--Enemy Got Out Just in Time as Canadian Artill- ery Was Waiting to Lay Down a Ter- rific Barrage. (Canadian Press Despatch) With the Canadian Forces, Sept. 4.--The Boohe has gone back across Canal Dunord, surrendering to us without further struggle the Dro- court"Queant line. He got out just in time. ' The Canadian corps was driving in his front and Canadian artillery was only waiting the hour to lay down such a barrage along the canal as must have destroyed all its bridges and make evacuatiop im- possible. This is not official, #but there is small doubt of its truth. It is the logic of the situation. Yesterday thé enemy fought like a wild cat to save his guns and transport. Monday night our line was absolutely quiet. An airman yestarday morning reported that af- ter flying all across the enemy line he Is convinced that there is not a 'Boohe west of the Canal Du Nord. He scouted the idea that he might be hiding in dugouts. If this great news is confirmed, it must Jift a load off the minds of our command- ers. No troops can fight many days together on a scale of yesterday without sufféring such losses as must in time impair their efficiency. The price paid for the first breach of the Queant<Droeourt witch is re- { latively cheap, doubtless less than the total prisomers, but if' the corps had had to fight forward to ths canal on the same scale, it must have proved terribly expemsive., To gain the line of Canal du Nord with no further Blow is a triumph indeed and an unwilling tribute by a beat- én enemy to the prowess of Can- adian arms. In this triumph Bri- tish troops worthily participated. The enemy enclosed in a cul-de- sack with the Scarpe on his right and the canal behind him, was in a deSperate plight and desperately did he fight to escape it. He threw in no less than eight divisions. Tae fury of his counter-attacks equalled anything hitherto experienced by veteran Canadian troops. For miles behind the Canal du Nord he lacks such a great system of fortifica- tion as the Canadian corps stormed early yesterday morning. On the 'Canadian front alone the weight of metal wag greater than that of Amiens, Passchendale or of Vimy, but in addition was the converging fire of British armies to the right and as the barrage crept forward ahead of the infantry, lifting one hundred yards at a time, there could be made out amid the thund- er and lightning, bulked masses of slow moving ranks. Hardly had the show opened than field batteries galloped over the ground where but a few minutes before infantry had stood at attention waiting the word to go in. he Enemy Rear Cut ici Chek (he BHOSh: Roi. THE BATIERIES GALLOP UP AND FIRE POINT BLANK INTO ' RETRBATING MASSES. Stiff Fighting Expected at Moeuvres, But It Should Not be Difficult to Tarn the Redoubt There. {Canadian Press Despatch) 'British Hondaun rion, Sept. 4 -- The great pursuit of the retiring Germans continies., The German rear. guards are quite unable to check our batteries, which gallop up behind them and fire point blank into the masses moving eastward. Stiff fighting is probable at Moeuvres, as this is the village connecting the net switch line with the main Hindenburg line. It fs linked to it by a redoubt covering a square mile. As, however, we ocr y Buissy' Inehy, it should not be difficult to turn the Moeuvres re- doubt by eoming down on the rear of it. Yester: We were reported to be entering: 'We establish- ed posts along the western bank of the Noral canal. The opposite side does not appear to be held in strength, but is simply bristling with machine guns. -- GOVERNMENT ARES, CONTROL. --e [r-- The Allies Close To Winning Post (Canadian Press Despatch Londen, Sept. b--Paris papers print the following semi-official statement: "The hour seems close at hand when the super- efforts of the Allies will begin to bear fruit,"' one of our great chiefs said vesterday. "We are on the last lap and close to the winning post." Nat ceemeeni------------ SUBMARINE SINKS SUBMARINE British Boat Fires Two Torpedoes Which Takes Effect. (Canadian Press Desoateh) f.ondon, Sept. 4.--The sinking of a German submarine by a British sub- marine on patrol is reported by the Central' News. The British craft sighted the German and made for her at full speed, firing two torpedoes both of which took effect. The Ger- man U-boat sank within fifteen sec- ends, « Lenine's Condition Critical, (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Sept. 4.--The condition of Nikolai Lenine, Bolshevik premier, against whose life an attempt was made™iast Friday, has become highly critical. The crisis is expected with- in three days. Surgeons have 're- moved a bullet from Lenine's body. Governor Whitman Renominated. New York, Sept. 4.--Governor Charles 8. Whitman, according to the primary returns received up to this morning, has been renominated as the Republican candidate for Gov- ernor. His lead over Attornéy-Gen- eral Lewis on the early returns Is about three to one. Suis Postpones Game. (Canadian Préss Despat Chicago, Sept. owing to heavy rain this morning - the first game of the world's basebalk series Shamplonship between Boston Am- ericans 'and Is was Postponed till to-morrow. In Macedonia. London, Sept. §.TThe Tame of the Central Powers attacked the Allied troops in Macedonia but were back by SRUTIar attacks, Kill id 1 lain Costuaitle ed in ac AE Barrie, WF. C. Kearns, Fenelon Falls. Wounded--J, L. Devin, a, pity assed---Lleut, AL Cameron, Park- driven |B; ee ------ or oe ---- i, Sr aoe d French Continue Smashing the Germans oi WHERE THE WOZFAN LINE IS SMASHED Si a The greatest victory of the present.difensive is indicated by the arrow showing the breach in the famous Drocourt- ~Queant switch line built as a stonewall defence back of the Hindenburg line, and called by the Germans the Wotan line. tlefront to-day. and Monday's front. Monday's and Tuesday's. The black line to the right shows approximately the bat- The captured Wotan switch line is shawn between that The shaded area shows Sunday's gals compared with CANAL DU NORD LINE REACHED: British Occupy Ecourt-SL. Quentin North of Aras-Cambral Read. THE FRENCH ARE PUSHING THE ENEMY TO THE EAST OF CANAL DU NORD. One the Aisne the French Captured - the Town of Bucy de Long, To- gether With a Number of Prison- ors. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Sept. 4.--In their push beyond the Drocourt-Queant line. British troops have reached the line of Canal du Nord. North of the ArrasdCambrai road they have oc- cupied the town of Ecourt<St. Quen- tin. North of Peronne the advance has carried: .the British 'through Vaux woods, 'above Moislans. Slight advances have been scored at other points. "The text of the statemen' reads: i : "On the battle front minor ac- tions are reported in different lo- calities., We have reached the easl side of Vaux woods north of Mois- lans, dnd have advanced slightly at other points. Generally our troops have reached the line of Canal Du Nord, and north of the ArrassCam- brai road have occupied Ecourt-St Quentin. "In he Lys sector fur ther progress was 'made by us" yes- terday, and last night both south and north of the river. Our troops o fare approaching Neuve Chapelle. \ French Push Germans Back. (Canad Freas Despatch Paris, 4. French Yroops last night continued to push back the (iermans to the east of Canal du Nord and between the Ailette and the Aisne. They have taken Cha- pitre wood and have roached Croiselles, Juvéncourt, Clumecy, and rave. the Aisne river the town 'of Bucy di 500 sonore the They have crossed esle river at many points. The text of the statement foaqet "Yesterday date, during ihe fay | aie te French continaed to 5 | Chapitre wood British have secured a hold on the west bank of the Canal do Nord by taking Rumacourt to the north of Sains-le-Marquion, according to -ad- vices from the battle front today. Further south along the canal they are reported to hav apy d Inchy- en-Artoes, | cant of Dolgnies, an on a miles northeast of Bertincourt. Near the Somme the British, advices state, have crossed the canal of Hout Al- lains slightly more than two miles north of Peronne, From Hermies sputhward, the British line is indica- ted running to the west of Ruvaul- court, a mile and a half east of Bert- incourt. Midway between Nieppe and Sailty in the Lys salient, The British 'have éaptured the Village of Craly- do-Bac. The Germans are in full flight in the region of Canal du Nord, and many brigades are badly disorganiz- ed. HUN IDEA OF VICTORY, "To Hold Our Own And Not Be Vanquished. (Canadian Press Despatch) , Amsterdam, Sept. 4 --The German idea of victory as defined by the Ger- man Crown Prince, in an interview published in a Budapest newspaper is the "intention to hold our own and not let ourselves be vanquished." The Crown Prince is quoted as saying that this was clear to him the moment England entered the war. RUSSIAN PEASANTS RISE, And Make thé Position of Soviet ft (Canadian Press Despatch) Amsterdam, Sept. 4, -- Soviet troops, advancing in the direetion of Ufa, Perm and Saratov are in a diffi- cult position owing to a sudden rising! of peasants, according to a Moscow despatch to the Berlin Kreuz Zeitung The peasants are threatening the Soviet forces from the rear. eas- ures are being taken it is stated to suppress the revolt, Germans Waking Up. Paris, Sept, 4A despatch from Berne, Switzerland, to Le Martin quotes a prominent Swiss citizen com- ing from Germany as declaring that in the past six weeks a formidable disillusion has swept over Germany. If the German military situation does not improve the informant said, trou- ble that may surpass the acts of the Bolsheviki in Russia menaces the German Empire, Toronto Presbytery will memorial- e Long was taken with 1,-| oR TANKS CRUSH ENEMY MASSES Cems Fe From Blind Cove But Are Charged Io. CANADIANS ON SWITCH-EN HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN VERY ! © HEAVY FIGHTING. | British Guns Are Deluging the Ger- |- man Rear at Arras With Shells-- | British Mopping Up Woods. | With the British Armies | France, Sept. | began their attack Monday morning {along the Drocourt-Queant line, the Germans have not been given an instant in which to collect themselves. They hesitate for a moment, 'and the British troops are on top of them, pushing beyond. In thé towns through which the British advanced the fighting has| been most severe, the Germans fir- ing from behind cover and the Bri- tish swarming around them. in many instances the tanks charged into masses of Germans who were! holding out stubbornly, and crushed thém to pieces. Reports from the! fighting on the lower end 'of the switch line indicated that the adians were engaged in fighting of the heaviest character, while eclean-| neighborhood of Buissy, 'While the opposition in southern area of the principal Bri- tish attack seems to be diminishing but slightly, the village of Etaing, north of the Arras<Cambrai road, has been completely cleared of tie enemy, and the British are fighting well to the eastward of this town To overcome the opposition, the Bri- tish cannon have been moved up to guns are now deluging the German rear at Arrag with, shells: Germans Rely on Machine Guns. Everywhere the Germans seem to be relying on machine guns, anil the ground is covered with them, grouped in pockets and scattered about. singly. {Between Peronne and Bapaume, the woods of St. Pierre-Vaast and Vaux, after being captured, are bhe- dng mopped up by British forces. Haut+Allaines and additional high ground astride the Canal dn Nord were captured and held against several vicious counter-attacks. Dur- ing the 'intervals between counter- attacks the Australians made pro- gresg in the area east of Peronne, advancing steadily. None of the counter-attacks the slightest success, except for the Australians, who mowed down mass- es of the enemy with mrachine-gun fire. CHANGED TONE SEEN "IN. THE . GERMAN PRESS Appreciate Foch as a Great Leader.----QCannot Fathom. His Strategy. 'Washington, Sept. 4.--Germany's growing realization of 'what the Al-| lied victories in France and Flanders | mean continues to be reflected in the changed tone of the German press.' An official despatch yesterday quotes the following from the Cologne Ga-| zette: "The struggle going on on the southern front becomes every day greater and more formidable. The greatest German offensive cannot even be compared to the present fights, We must not let the relative calm reigning in some sections de- ceive. tred there, Are these troops in need of rest, or are they designed for fresh fights, ready to attack on the first op- portunity?" This paper concedes that it does not understand Foch's strategy and adds: "Our staff must take the Aeceasary dispositions to meet any painfu Sven. tualities." Other despatches yes! day comment upon he evoludion ot the in neutral since in| 4.--Since the British | switea | Can- | ing up portions of the line in the | the | correspond with the advance of the bad | Formidable forces are gath-| IN KAISER'S REALM n and Bavarian | Proposed Legations Are Described as Nonsensical. { London, Sept. 4.--The Times Ha. {gue correspondent telegraphs that ithe German Kaiser's visit ti the | King of Bulgaria at Bad Nauheim {excites curiosity there, since aec- | cording to a telegram to the Vos | sische Zeitung from Munich, Herr Dandia, the Bavarian Premier, who goes to Berlin for the sitting of Jie Federal Council's Foreign Af- airs Committee, which takes piace [a Monday. 'will thereafter go to {| Cheim to accompany the King of Bavaria on his journey to Bulgaria | The King of Bavaria proposes {vo re- j main five days at Sofia. The Berlin correspondent of th. | Frankfurter Zeitung states tha the | Bavarian and Saxon governments have decided to establish their own' ju IS NOT HARMONY | Proposed legations at Sofia. The creation of this diplomatic representation will {be announced next week by a special decree. Bavaria will accredit its | Vienna representative to Sofia, The Berlin rrespondent - of the Frank- | furter Zeitung says: "The German Empire, according the constitution, is only repre- {sented abroad through the Kalser, to BRITISH MOVING GUNS EASTWARD Nt Le of Gar Re Oe Bolind Coal uot. THE SHATTERED CONDITION OF SOME OF THE ENEMY ons IS NOTED. The Hung Have No Doubt Decided Upon a Drastic Shortening of Their' Whole Line. . fan : With the British Aries, Sept. + | --Near Queant, it is reported that | the British are moving their suns | eastward. The next line of German | resistance wil probably be behind the Canal Du Nord, before which the enemy has laid out & network of wires, although there are few trenches. ? | and, consequently, to have repre- |stntatives of the federal states in | addition to those of the Empire, is! {nonsense. At best they are a iar {thing for useless taxing of the na- i tional budget. Abroad, however, {they can also arouse and strengthen | ithe belief that the German Empire | {is In reality not the firm and unified | State it represents itself to be be- {fore the world." THE HUNS ORGANIZING ANTI-TANK CRUSADE | | Orders Issued to Men Instruct- ing Them How to Repel Monitors. With the American Forces in France, Sept. 3.---Germany's antl- tank crusade has reached a stage where every michine gaancr in a sector where the Entente Allies are using tanks has been suppiied with armor-piercing bullets to reinforce the anti-tank guns. x In @ recently captured troops communication, a German expert the anti-tank warfars 4s a kind of large-scale cavalry: The orders go'into detail regurding the German plang te overcome ths tanks of the Allies, | The tanks } ! A © says the along tle were great The doculnent says that whenever commanders be- lieve the Allies will use tanks ,ord- | ers should be issued to outiery rom- {manders to have outposts of anti- tank guns day and night to protect the light.artillery at all costs Machine gunners are Instructed how te co-operate with anfti-tanl: { gunners. The orders reiteratn that tanks must be considered cavalry o | a large plan, and that machine | gunners with armour-glercing bHil- lets must take a prominent part in carrying out the scheme of the Jer- mans to overcome the tanks. GAS WOMEN NEXT; . THEY READ METERS The First Female Inspectors Have Appeared in New Jersey Cities. | Philadelphia, Sept, 4.--Exit gas | man.. Enter "gaswoman." Yep, it's | true. The gasman is going---going to | shipyards, munitions mills, and other { war plants for higher wages, { And the "gaswoman™ is coming. 'She has already made her debut In She cellars of many homes in Camden | and Gloucester, N.J., and it is hinted | the shortage of mere man--not in | length, but in numbers--will.goon | bring the "gaswoman" to Philadel- The "gaswomen" of Camden and Gloucester are meter readers, They] the ranks of the men employed by the Public Service Gas and Electric Com- | pany, 'WANTED TO UNITE ON PEACE. N---- Socjalists Sought Agreement With English Pacifists. Stockholm, Sept. 4.--Nyadagligt Allenhanda quotes Pieter ' Jelles Troelstra, the Dutch Socialist leader, that an attempt was made last Janu- LY BY Sis leaders of the thse constituting the have been employed because the high' wages in war plants have depleted od A significant sign of the. weakeDs. {ed German defence is the shattered condition of some of the enemy units | who were compelled to continue | fighting. One prisoner from the cecond guards reserves sald this whole division had been reduced to 4 thousand men. His own battaliog, | ne said, had been reduced to one | ofticer and 35 men. & Huns May Shorten Line. London, Sept. 4.--The evacu of Lens tends to confirm the th that the Germans have decided a drasti¢ shortening of their w ne. Lens was powerfully' defend the lines in front of its resting iabyrinth of coal pits and h mining debris. They were tegra! part of the German Ph on the western nhogt, g al ed- to the northward wih the - + Bassee positions and ridge, and to the southward the Hindenburg defences: Fere, i The enemy : fresh divisions pu f Ang although some of German 'Prince's divisions - p 'have partially "soon 1 the mauling they received uring. the Marne fighting. A A------ 3 ' HUNS DO NOT AGREE, Crown Prince and Ludendorft Are at Odds, Washington, Sept.' 4. Despatches from Switzerland say Crown Prine Rupprechit of Bavaria 18 in col disagreement with Gen, he Grout Prince, it is said, o the st German offensive, that the Germans neither had means nor the stra be successful. He wished to retire, but the German command feared the discontent that this step would awake in Bavaria, It is suggested that this situation may explain why the Crown Prince has gone home on a long Jocation, Sudden Death at Brockville, Sept. es denly iI} Monday $5 30 with paralysis while on the stairs leading to his factory ot he Merrit block, King street, L. native, well known . Na semis resident of 'Brockville, passed way shortly before 12 en ined. at St. Vin- cent de Paul Hospital three after he had met friends, con' in a friendly manner and was to il appearances in his usual health, y The British now hold the outskir of Neuve Chapelle, while it 1s bel It now seems that the report. capture of Lens was pi official announcement Mi made of the taking of It is believed in bi is preparing for a the Rhine in the eastern the Americans. Canadtan troops eapt five and six frousand as saying in an interview at Lucerne day.