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their heavy guns, some o? which are of nearly 15-inch calibre, with an effective range of ten miles. This probably is the bloodiest battle so far of the war. The French and British armies are well supplied with reinforcements ami arc in aplendid health and spirits. The Germans seem resolved to die in the last ditch. Many German prisoners are working under the orders of French non-c?..mmissioned officers, burying the bodies of men aml^horses. The Germans have just made two vicient attacks t?> recapture Rhcinis, but ha\c been driven back by the French at fearful loss. The relative poiitiooi of the ?opposing armies have been unchanged sihee Thursday night, except that the Allies have gained slight ground north of the Aisnc. A description of the fighting of the Allies' left, near Noyon. given to me by a Trench infantry captain, disabled by a rifle bullet in the shoulder Thursday, who reached Paris tins afternoon, leaves no doubl that this is the m?>st important battle of the war. The captain says the German counter attacks arc made with the desperation of a forlorn hope, utterly regardless of life. At one point ten of these attacks wore made at brief intervals. One after another was repulsed until they ?eased from sheer exhaustion. Nowhere have the Allies flinched or given way before these death spasms of Teuton ?lespair. The German intretuhmcnts all alun? the iine arc most formidable. They arc in three parallel rows over a metre deep, communicating by underground passages. Intersecting them spacious places for repose, at intervals of twenty metres, a.e roofed With solid doors of houses, covered with earth. The German machine guns at every twelve metres arc buried in the ground in compartments made of doors of iron or wooden shutters cov? ered with earth. Behind these arc rifle intrenchments still more formi? dable. The ones on the heights arc for field artillery, and again behind the latter are massive earthworks, with revetments for heavy j and 1<> inch guns. ALLIES^DVANCE ON LEFT OF LINE (ont In tied from pace I by an Anglo-French force operating on the border as well as by a Belgian army. INVADERS STRONGLY PLACED. However, the Germans are reported to be prepared to offer tremendous resistance to such a move. They are not only in strong positions, where reinforcements of men, munitions and provisions can reach them easily, but they have defended positions to.fall back upon if necessary. Furthermore, they are said to be strength? ening their positions along the River Sambre from Maubeuge to Namur and along the Meuse from Givet to Namur, so that nothing evidently is being left to chance. It is even reported that the Germans are concentrating trans? port trains on the Luxemburg frontier, so as to enable them to move troops eastward should they so desire. This leads some of the military observers to believe that the Germans have decided to remain on the defensive in the west, while they are sending their main army east to confront the Russians. Apparently they are concentrating their western .armies, for, with the exception of occa? sional Uhlan troops, Northwestern France seems nearly clear of Germans. The Calais and Boulogne routes to Paris have been re? opened. One of these Uhlan patrols was caught by a British armored motor car in command of Commander Samson at Doutions, on the main road north of Amiens, a few days ago and four out of its live men were killed. The other Uhlan was wounded and captured. London, Sept. 19.?Referring to an official announcement of Commander Samson's armored motor car exploit at Doutions, "The Daily Chronicle" points out that, although it is a small inci? dent, it is of considerable importance, for Doutions, twenty miles north of Amiens and thirty miles inland from the Channel coast, is a great deal to the north of the position on the Oise occupied by General von Kluck. If the British are in any force in the neigh? borhood of Amiens, Doutions and Arras, it is evident that the German right wing is in a position of very great danger. Generally, the behavior of Von Kluck's force has implied the existence of a strong body of Allies in the region between the Channel and the German flank. An announcement issued by the Official Press Bureau last evening says: "According to a report received this afternoon, there is no particular change in the situation. "There has been some activity on the part of the allied cav? alry, but without at the present time any definite result." The Central News Copenhagen correspondent has forwarded the following dispatch received from Berlin: "The situation of the German troops in the great battle on the western frontier is good, especially in the centre, where the Germans have received substantial reinforcements. The end of the battle is expected soon." INTRENCH LINE FURTHER BACK. An agency dispatch from Ostend says: "The Germans are intrenching themselves strongly on the River Sambre from Maubeuge to Namur. I have seen important defensive works at Thuin, Farciennes and Floreffe. Many in? habitants of these places had been forced by threats to perform labor on the works. "I have been told that the same kind of fortifications are be? ing erected on the Meuse from Givet to Namur, but it is impossible to cross the Sambre to see for myself. I believe, however, my in? formation is accurate." The various official and unofficial dispatches yesterday indi? cate the efforts of the Allies have been divided into three supreme struggles: First, to dislodge the Germans from the heights of the Aisne; second, to break through the fourth and fifth German armies at the centre, and, third, to outflank the German right un? der General von Kluck. The position of the fourth and fifth Ger? man armies is considered not so strong as the remainder of the line while if the flanking movement is successful the railroad lines on "hieb the Germans depend so greatlv would be cut. Figures have been compiled here, according to which the German losses are estimated at 3,200 daily for the last fortnight. Thia totals more than 44,000 since September 4. The losses of the Allies are known to have been tremendous. The Rome cot respondent of The Daily Telegraph" says he learn-, from an authentic source that eight German army corps liavc left France and Belgium for the Russian frontier. -a?-_____-. ALLIES' FORCE FAILING, SAYS BERLIN REPORT Berlin, Sept. 18 (via wireless telegraph by way of Sayvillc, Long Island)?The following official statement has been given out by the head quarters of the German General Staff: "The battle between the Oise and the Ideuse rivers -till is continu? ing, but there are sure indications that the enemy's force is failing. "The French attempt to cut through the German right wing was broken down without notable exertion ?>u the German side. "The German army is advancing slowly, but surely. A sortie from Verdun on the right bank of the Meuse wa> most easily repulsed." Another official statement issued by the German General Staff says that ail the"German airships came up to expectations after undergoing long and dangerous flight?. Some of tht* aircraft were damaged, but now all of them have been repaired. None has been destroyed or capt? ured by the enemy. Berlin, Sept. 18 (via London).?The following official announcement was made at the headquarters of the General Staff the evening of Sep? tember 17: "No decision yet has resulted in the battle between the Oise and the Meuse, bet certain signs indicate that the power of resistance of the I enemy is relaxing. "Ihr endeavor of the French troops to break through the German j right wing c?dlapsed without any gfeat efforts on the part of our troops. "The centre of the German army is gaining ground slowly, but surely. "On the right bank of the Meuse the AMies from Verdun have been easily repulsed." HALF-SAW BA YONET IN GERMAN TRENCH < ontlnnaj- from par? 1 the war it is satisfied. But this saw bayonet so tears the flesh that it cannot heal, and splinters the hone. The Made is eighteen inches long and the Upper halt of the back is a saw with nine inches of teeth a quar? ter of an inch wide. I have had it photographed and measured and showed ? it'to our military attach??, Colonel Cosby. It was a facsimile of one he I already had in his possession. Two assistant military attaches of our Embassy, Lieutenant Colonel H. T. Allen and Captain Frank Parker, both of the 11 th Cavalry, have just returned from an automobile trip over the battlefield where, from the 8th of September until the night of the 11th of September, the French and Germans were fiercely engaged. This battle was the one which assured the safety of Paris. It will be remembered that during the week preced? ing the English and French Steadily withdrew in what then was consid? ered a retreat, made necessary by superior numbers. It is now known to have been splendid strategy. On the 1st of September the German left and centre were separated, but, hke the lettct V. were approaching each other, with Paris as their oh? jective. Had the Allies attacked at that time they would have had to ?li? vide their forces in half and so weakened give battle to two armies. By retreating they drew after them the two converging lines of the V, and on the 8th, when the Germans were in wedge shape formation, they attacked them on the flank and centre at Meaux and made a direct attack at Sez? anne. I saw the finish of the four days' battle at Meaux, which emled with the Germans crossing the River Aisne and retreating to the bills north and west of Soissons. Allen ;? J Parker saw the end of the battle north of Sezanne, which resulted in the retreat of the Germans to Rheims, from which point they are still falling back. The battles, as Allen and Parker describe them, were as follows: On I the 8th the Germans advanced from a line stretching from Epernay and' Chalons, a distance if twenty-live kilometres. In this front, counting from the German right, were the 10th, the Guards, the 9th and the 12th army corps. The presence of the Guards, the corps d'?lite of the German army, suggests that this was intended to he the main attack on Parti, and that the army at Meaux was to walk in the centre with bands playing. The four combined corps numbered over 200.000. The French met them, they claim, with 190,000. The Germans advanced until then left was at Vitry-le-Francois and theii right rested at Sezanne, making a column fifteen miles long headed west toward Pari-. Th. French butted the line six miles east of Sezanne, in the forests ol 1?re Champenoise. It was here the greater part of the fight occurred. It was lighting at lorn; distance with artillery and from trench to trench with the bayonet. During liie four day- in which fortune rested first on one Rag and then on another, .lO.OUO men of both armies were killed and village-.not yet counted were entirely wiped off the map by the artillery of both armies Two miles from Sezanne a ?French regiment was destroyed by an am? bush. The Germans had thrown tip conspicuous trenches and sparsely filled them with decoys. From the forest in the rear a mitrailleuse was trained on the French. The French infantry charged this trench and the decoys fled toward the flanks, and as the French poured over the trenches the hidden guns swept them. In another trench our attaches counted the bodies of over 900 Ger? man Guards, not one of whom had attempted to retreat. They had stood fast with their shoulders against the parapet and taken the cold steel. Everywhere the los-- ?.f life was appalling. In places the dead lay across each other three and four deep. The fiercest fighting of all seem-, to have been waged by the Turcos and Senegalese. In trenches taken by then; from the Guard- and the famous Death's Head Hussars the Ger? mans ?howed no bullet wounds. In almost every attack the men from ; the de-ert had thing themselves upon the enemy, u-ing only the butt of thiir ritle.s or their bayonet.-. Man for man, no white man drugged for years with meat and alcohol is physical match for these Turcos, who eat dates and drink water. They; are as lean as starved wolves. They move like panthers. They arc muscle and nerves, and they have the comforting belief that to die killing a Chris-1 tian -ends them straight to the seventh heaven. As Kipling says, a man: who has a sneaking desire to live has* poor chance against one who ?i in? different whether he kills you or you kill him. The French are almost in? variably using these black men to lead the charges. Some think this shows they do not value their black brothers. On the contrary, they so use him | because they know that in help-your.self-fighting few white men care to 1 face htm. m (Copyright, t?ll. *t tlie Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.) ASQ?ITH POURS SCORN ON KAISER Says Germany Is Having ? Rude Awakening from Fantastic Dream. London, Sept. 18.?One of the roots ( of the present war was the grave anil \ serious miscalculation regarding the i ; British Empire that German culture ' i and German spirit lad Emperor Will- ! | iam and the German people into, said ' i Premier Asquith, in addressing a re ! cruiting meeting at Edinburgh, Scot ! land, to-night. i "The Germans were led into the mis- j calculation," he said, "that the British 1 colonies wanted to cut connections with 1 the mother country and that India was in revolt. What a fantastic dream and i what a rude awakening! " exclaimed the ' Premier. "It has been proved that Germany I I by her own deliberate act made the war," Mr. Asquith continued, adding that Germany has made no attempt to controvert that fact except by the cir? culation of wanton falsehoods. "It is to the interest not only of the British Empire but of civilization," the speaker declared, "that the arro? gant claim of a single power to dom? inate the destinies and development of Europe should be resisted." POLANDGERMANS CALLED TO ARMS London, Sept. 18.?German military 1 authorities occupying the territory 1 around Kalisz, Rusian Poland, have ! called to the colors all the German in? habitants there between the ages of sixteen and forty-five, according to s i Reuter dispatch from Petrograd. Many German subjects fled. Some were caught and twenty were hanged. SOUTlTAFR?CAN POST TAKEN BY GERMANS Caps Town. Sept. 18. A force of _.r>0 Germans, with three Maxim guns, at? tacked the Britirh post at Nakob yes? terday. The garrison consisted of seven po? licemen, who fought until their ?m- \ munition was exhausted. Those who i I were not killed were taken prisoner. ' PLAN OF GERMANS PUZZLE TO ALLIES Difficult to Say Whether Right Is to Retreat or Make Stand. I F!y Wireless from nnulngnr] London, Sept. 18.?The position of the contending armies was stationary to-day. The forcing* of the Germans out of their strong defensive position is a question of time and endurance. The French and British have the ad? vantage of an excellent position from the point of view of getting reinforce? ments by rail. It still Is difficult to nay whether the German right, as it lies, is lighting a stubborn rear-guard action on the re? treat, or if it intends to hold its pres? ent lines. The region north of the German lines is the region of vague -.kirmishing, somewhat similar to that existing in northern Flanders. The Germans are occupying the town? anl villages near the front with small pa? trols or armored cars. The Germans, on the whole, are-con? tracting their web. Lille is free, and either army may use it. The Gambrai neighborhood is, of course, still Ger? man. On the line of their communica? tions the country is absolutely peaceful for the moment, and there is nothing to do but await the issue of a long strug? gle on the Aisne. Of the greatest vai le would be the success of the French in penetrating the line on the east against the German centre or-left Another success on the allies' left, valuable as it would be, would only force back Generals von Kluck and von Duelow, ace lerating their retreat upon a new position on the frontier without seriously defeating the combined arm? ies. A success on the allies' right would imperil the Germans' whole line and cut off their right wing. TURKS REFUSE TO SAY "PETROGRAD" Paris, Sept. 18.?A Havas Agency dispatch from Odessa saya the gov? ernment press bureau at Constanti? nople has forbidden the use of the word "Petrograd" and orders Turkish newspapers to call the Russian capi? tal "SU Pete^burg." ANGLO-GERMAN SOCIETY DISBANDS; London, Sept. 18.?The Brltlah i German Friendship Society, organ | lied a few years ago to promote better relation* between the two countries, wound up It? affaira to | day. The funda of the society were divided equally between the Amer? ican Ambassador to Great Britain for the relief nf distressed Germana in England and the American Am? bassador In n-rlln for English citi? zens who are in need in Germany. COLLIER CAPTURED BY FRENCH CRUISER Sir Courtenay Walter Bennett, Brit? ish Consul General, at th. consulate, 17 State st., yesterday announced that the Hamb.rg-American liner Heina had been captured by a French cruiser and taken into Martinique. In -inswcr to a question. Sir Courtenay said the liner was coaling when captured. "Was she coaling the German cruiser ! Karlsruhe?" he was asked. "Well, you've made an intelligent : pi" s," the consul general told re? porters. The Heina is listed in the Maritime , Register as a Norwegian steamship, ' commanded by Captain Olsen. She is ; of l,"y7 tent?. Sit? left Philadelphia on August 7 with a cargo of coal bound : for La Guayra. It has not been learned I whether the ship flew the Norwegian | or the German flag at the time of h>>r ? cupture. BRUSSELS MINED FOR DESTRUCTION Germans Prepare to Blow Up City if Forced to Evacuate It. [B; Cabla t<> Th.- Tiii"in? I London, Sept. 1H. A courier just ar? rived from Brussels bringing important dispatches conlirm the rep t that the Belgians expect to see Brussels treated as Loi vain was bef >re the Germans evacuate the city He says all the im? portant public buildings, including the Palais de Jus'ice and the largest and m?-?t imposing private restdei.ces, al-. ready bava been mined by the Germans in preparation for blowinn up, while .-c'.ioolhousi-s and i any othe . uildincs at tilled with straw rea<?y for the torch. The courier atajrs the Germans mined all the roads leading into B? '.sels, but the Bclgu.ns think the Germans intend to make .bel ? principul stand on the line between Namr.r and Liege, as the forts and other defences are being re? constructed, work going on night and day. The Gcmans al o seem to be pre? paring for a strong ilet'enc?' on the Valeneienn.l line, as a s'.rong system of earthworks and intrene' ments and many gun em pi ate nie tils ;? re being con? structed there. According to the courtier, the Ger mans seem now to he using Luxemburg tor the principal line of comniunica- j tioi for the -rmies in Frar-c, as the I Belgian linas are not carrying more than half the quantity ?t? supplies for- : merly sent through Belgium to the in trading army. The courier says an im? mense number of stragglers aro in the I ear of the German armies between the firing line and Namur, these being all practically unarmed and seeking an op? portunity to sui. ender. Berlin, Sept. IS.--The "Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" publishes official dispatches from the German adminis? tration of Louvain stating that though from a fifth to a sixth part of the city is in ruiiiH most of the public buildings have been preserved. The dispatches say that the damage' to St. Peter's Cathedral was such that the building can be restored easily, and the art work? were protected by Ger? man soldiers. UKRANIAN WOUNDS COUNT BOBRINSRI Vienna, Sept. 18.?According to a; dispatch received here, the assassina- i tion of Count Georges Bobrinski, Ru3- j sian Governor of Galicia, who was ! formerly at Kiev, was attempted by an . Ukranian, who is said to have been ir? ritated by the count's remark that anti-Russian agitation existed there. Three revolver shots were tired, one bullet hitting the count in the shoul der. The assailant was arested and all the houses of the Ukranians were , searched. ? ? ? CRUISER CAPTURES GERMAN RESERVISTS The Dutch steamship Commewijne, in tne service of ine Trinidad Line, ? was stopped off Sandy Hook yesterday . by the British cruiser Luncaster, and j twenty-five vGerman reservists were taken off. When the merchantman was about ! .-even miles southeast of Scotland | Lightship the Lancaster sent un a sig? nal aski-ig her to stop. Meanwhile the cruiser steamed up closer and sent out ? a small boat with officers and men. ? When the boat got alongside the seniot officer greeted the Dutch skipper, ex? pressed his regrets for stopping him. ( and asked to have all aboard brought , up on deck for examination. After asking the crew and passen? gers of the Commewijne a variety of ? questions the British officer arrested ? twenty-live Germans. Six other Ger ' ans. who showed their first United I Mates citizenship paper?, were per- ! mitted to remain on the vessel and ! come into port. Then on signal from ' the merchantman another small boat | came out from the Lancaster and took | the Germans awry. They will perhaps | be transfert to some outboun?! Brit- ? ish steamship or landed in Halifax or Bermuda. Practically all the prisoners were , employes from the steamships Al bingia, Mecklenberg and Virginia, of j the Hamburg-American Line, now tied up in neutral ports in the Caribbean. 'Ihey had booked passage on the Com n.ewijne in the hope of getting back to Germany from New York. ? LAW LETS MOTHERS SEND SONS TO WAR Bordeaux, Sept. 18.?A decree issued ; by the French government to-day per? mits the mother or guardian of a youth [ under twenty years to act as a substi- ! tute for the absent father in authoriz- i ing the you ,g man to volunteer for the ' war. In the case of the death of the ' mother or the guardian the local magis- '? ttate may authorise the enlistment. This is designed to make it possible i for a very large number of ardent ' volunteers to enlist. Physcially they are tit, but are under the legal age to join the army. GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OF TERMONDE But Not Before They Had Gutted Famous Old Hotel de Vflle. BELGIANS EXPECT THEM TO RETURN Correspondent Says Kaiser's Men Carry Sticks to Set Buildings on Fire. London. Sept 19.-"The Daily Chron? icle" to-day prints the following din patch from its correspondent at Ghent: The German at'/ick on Termonde has been repulsed, bst the enemy received reinforcements of infantry and artil? lery, and so hapless Termonde is in danger of suffering the horrors of fresh bombardment. "I made a tour of the ruined city to? day, after the Germans had been driv? en out. The bombardment of the last, few days has completed the terrible work of destruction which the incena diary torch of the invader Degan a fortnight ago. "The magnificent Hotel De Ville, dat? ing from the fifteenth century, has now shared the common fate. The belfry tower of the Hotel de Ville has col? lapsed, and four of the bells, which foi centuries have been the heralds of glad or sad tidings for the good citi? zens of the quaint old town on the banks of the Scheldt, have sounded their last note. The Hotel de Ville is gutted inside and out. Everything of artistic and historic value has been ?wallowed up nin the general ruin. The Gothic chur?h, with its tapering spire, a landmark for miles around, has also suffered. The enemy dragged ma? chine guns on to the wide platforms of the church tower and opened a brisk lire ot. the Belgians, who were in? trenched on the right bank of the river. The Belgians brought field guns to bear on the church tower, which was repeatedly struck by shells. The Ger? man guns were put out of action. The destruction of the Hotel de Ville .-???ems to be another of the many wan? ton outrages committed by the uni? formed soldiers of the Kaiser. It could hardly have been more thorough. A number of inhabitants and soldii-rs whom I questioned affirmed that one of the last acts of the beaten enemy, previous to retirement, was to set fire to the Hotel de Ville. Kvery soldier, as Napoleon metaphor? ically said, carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack. The knapsack equip? ment of the soldiers of the potentate who loved to be called the modern Na? poleon includes bundles of fire sticks for igniting dwelling houses and public buildings on the line of march through Belgium. Termonde to-day is an ob? ject lesson of the horrors of war when waged by barbarian hands. ms-i-rSs" NO PEACE PATH ( ontiuued from page 1 ealled, was followed by indications by Frunce and Russia of a similar and un eompromising attitude in the matter. [By Cable to The Tribune.] London, Sept. 18.- It is stated posi? tively in authoritative quarters that Great Britain has had no suggestion of mediation from America. It is also declared that the Foreign Office has no official knowledge of anv American suggestion to Germany auch as has been reported in the press. In all quarters it is declared that this is no time to discuss peace, the Allies being perfectly confident of ulti? mate victory and thoroui?hly believing it to be necessary to crush Germany. An almost complete lack of news for four days following a period of con? stant successes has brought the public back to a normal view of things anJ serves to indicate to them that this war will last months. Some day? ago there was hope in some quarters that the war might end shortly, but this hope is disappearing and the country is becoming reconciled to tight many months more. The authorities, includ? ing Earl Kitchener, make no secret of their belief that the tight will be a lung one. The Allies await with keenest inter? est the trend of events in Italy, where it appears that public opinion is drift? ing in favor of the war on the Allies' side. In official quarters here it is stated that Great Britain is not urg? ing Italy to participate, leaving it for the Italians to decide. But official ad? vices coincide with press reports that the sentiment favoring war is growing. Bordeaux, Sept. 18.-?The reported project of mediation by the United States among the warring nations has elicited much public and newspaper comment here. Referring to a dijpatch emanating from Beilin, according to which a con? ference to fix the basis tf peace al? ready has been summoned to meet in Washington, "Le Temps" says: "Germans, who are numerous in America, perhaps thought to render a service to their empire by stirring jp opinion, but American opinion, like that of the English or the opinion of any impartial country, sees through this game and has already given its verdict. "There is a disaster greater than war. A hasty, deceptive peace would give only a breathing spell which would enable GermAic militarism to prepare its revenge aTO a war worse than the present." "As long as they talk of crushing and dismembering Germany," said Count von Bernstorff, the German Am? bassador, at the Riti-Carlton yester? day, "there is absolutely no possi? bility of peace. I am quoting Premier Asquith and other Englishmen. I have no idea that Germany could be crushed or dismembered. No lasting peace would be possible if a square inch of German territory had to be given up. That applies to the colonies, as well as the German Empire itself. It is perfectly clear that if any terri? tory was taken Germany would arm again to the teeth." Count von Bernstorff entered into a long discussion of the possibility of peace, in connection with the report of Ambassador Gerard, embodied in a cable dispatch to President Wilson, which recounted a conversation be? tween the American Ambassador and the German Chancellor, which was published in yesterday's papers. Count von Bernstorff made it clear that he spoke from a personal, and not an official, point of view. He empha? sized the point that the peace move-' ment had been started by the United ' States, and argued vehem.ntly that there was no reason, from a military pr :r.t of view, why Germany should ask for peace. The whole matter, he held, rested with the Allies. "Lasting peace," he said, "can be brought about when the Allies reco_ nize the policy of humanity-'live and let live.' " Germany had never wasted war, he added, and would always be ready for ' peace under honorable conditions The ambassador said he considered the dispatch embodying Mr. Gerard's conversation with the German Chan? cellor ?s undoubtedly expressing the Kaiser'? views, as th? Kaiser ind the Chancellor were constantly together, and that he was certain the Chancellor would not discuss the question with? out tha Emperor's knowledge. "Tho peace movement," said Count von Bernstorff, "??"? started by the ?government and people of thl United States. In view of Germany's response the continuation of the peace move? ment depends ?-imply upon the Allies." "Is it your .dea, then," he wa? asked, "if the Allies now refuse to di?cti?s l peace, that they .ire lighting tecaus? i they wish to crush Germany?" "Wo have said .1 along," he an? swered, "that they brought about the i war by attacking us. "I think no one ?ill for an instant | question my reference to the strong i I peace movement started by the United ' ! States government and by the people of the United States. I cannot dis- ; cuss the affairs of your government. I ? cannot tell you of any part played bv ' your citizena. I can only refer you to them. "Among the things to which I refer when I speak of the peace movement are the fact that your President has I proclaimed a day of prayer for peace, continual offers of mediation by the United States from the first day of the war on, mass meetings, discussions in the newspapers and the arguments ; for peace among your citizens. There ; has been a continual wave of peace agi ! tation going up anJ down. There hat been no doubt that th.? United States stands for peace. "Certainly I see no reason why Ger- ! many should want peace more now than at any other time during the war. I Everybody wants peace in principle i There is no one who v _nts war. Upon ? principle Germany wants peace, but from a milita./ point of view she is ' not more anxious for peace now than sho has been." moto?plFbig part in the war Russian Red Cross Man Tells of Their Use in East Prussia. Iity Cab!? to Tii? Trtl Petrograd, Sept. 18. - Motors have al ? ready played their conspicuous part in ; this war, notably in recent lighting on I the East Prussian frontier. A Red ; Cross man has just described a sig i nificant incident of the battle of Chor? 1 shele, saying: "I was walking beside one of our ; tarts. We could hear heavy artillery fire as we went along, when ,.':uu*s from our people behind warned us to get off the road. We pulled on to th? ?i.-_ss, and there came thundering pa;t, humping from one rou^h place to an : other on the poor road and going a', a sickening pace, a string of huge lorries ? crowded with infantrymen. They looked ? like vehicles of the army establish? ment! a" apparently alike in size and luttera, and each carried about thirty i i.'> n packed like cigars in a box. "The lorries were travelling like r<> motor wagon that I ever saw certainly I at not less than forty miles an hour - ? and they seemed endless. 1 didn't rount them, but there wer? not less than a I hundred, and perhaps a good many mute. "That, was Reimenkampf reinforcing ; his threatened ilar.k." A new order has been is.ued here ? for the requisition of motor ears and motor wagons, which extends also to o'.her districts. It is estimated that it Will produce for the service o? the ? \ army over a thousand powerful vehi ? cies of various makes. The agent for French aeroplanes here who has tilled un enortr.ous govern? ment order says tha* while private aviators in Russia are not numerous her military aviators trained within the last couple of years outnumber those of any other country. He adds I that since the war began aerodromes have been turning out the machines by i the half hundred. NO PEACE EXCEPT ON GERMAN TERMS! [By (Table to Th? Tribune , Rome, Sept. 19. The German Am? bassador denied that General von der , Goltz asked at Antwerp tor pones w,rh I Belgium, and that the Gorman gov ; ernment begged fer mediation at Washington or elsewhere. Germany, he says, will not lay down ; arms till she obtains the necessary I guarantees for the future. AUSTRIA DENIES MOVE FOR PEACE Rome, Sept. IS.-An official denial) from Vienna that any initiative toward ? peace has been taken by Austria is , i causing much comment here, because I j it contains no assurance that peace ' ! would he concluded together with Ger* many. The Austro-German treaty originally contained a clause specif;, ing that the two countries should act reciprocally. -? DUKE OF CONNAVGHT EX-SECRETARY SHOT London, Sept. 18.--The War /Dftee has received from headquarters at the front, under date of September l"), the names of twelve officers who were killed, thirty-four who are wound.;! and seven who are missing. Among those kille<l was Lieutenant Colonel I?. II. Montressor. of the Sussex Regi? ment Lieutenant Colonel H. ('. Low* ther, of the Scots Guards, formerly secretary to the Duke of Connaught, is among the wounded. BOYS FIGHTING IN GERMAN RANKS London, Sept. 18.-A dispatch to the ? Exchange Telegraph Company from Bordeaux .?ays that boys less than six? teen years old are fighting in the Ger? man ranks. The correspondent d? - clares he suw one wounded In the Bor dea?! Hospital whose ug" was 15 year? and 9 months, and two told him that i all students at school more then riftec;. years old had been mobilized and placed in different regiments. SIX NUNS NURSE 1,000 WOUNDED Bordeaux, Sept 18.-Six nuns in the Convent of St. Charles, at Nanc>, are mentioned in army orders for the splendid devotion they displayed in nursing more than a thousand wounded i soldiers in their establishment, despite j the incessant and murderous bombard? ment which has continued liece Au? gust 24. The sisters stuck to their post while th?* civil population completely abandoned the town. Those mentioned are Sisters Itigarel, Collet, Keray, Mtl laird, Rickler and Gartener. TRAIL OF R?fi^f IN GERMANS' WA? Correspondent Describa, Scene of Destruction Around Meaux. NOTHING SPARED TO INHABITANTS Houses Wrecked and Evei Furniture, Crockery and Pictures Broken. I Hy CMM? to T?.? Tribun-..) London, Sept. 18. The follow.* #, patch was received to-night froa *Th Chronicle's" correspondent at Fat? roles under date of September 15. "I left Meaux this morning in tfc rain and wir.o and found th? tee? muddy and in bad condition ta th northeast. I hoped to get near ta St* sons before night, but had littl? n pectation of reaching the tcwn ita*li Within two or three miles of Mean came on the recent battlefield ?*-*? [which the Germans first advanced tu th? n retired. "A tine avenue of troca on the Mean and La Fert?-Million road htd tan much knocked about by shelly ??_ branches and whole trees lying' ?u? ; the road. Telegraph wires wtrttt : cut to the ground, and for many ?1? the road was littered with ?trw broken cart?, ammunition ?ann empty shell-, cases of tioth.ng. awto letters. knap>?.cks and dead htrsK ; The boaiies had been mostly buri?4 I saw only two ur.buned German aal ?lier 1. Near the road in one pitee ?ta ?several hundred live shells which ?aj been abandone?! by the enemy. Trw 1 trunks along the road were ?corad h bullets. ^ i "Following the Soiaaon? road to U Fert?-Million I passe?! through scvenl villages which had been occupied h Germana. All the empty hou*4? ati been wrecked. The furn-.tur? ?* broken, pictures, ornaments and erect, ery smashed, clocks ano beditea? wantonly demolished. I-. appears te h the German system to wreck til met cipied houses as a matter of prit?' pic. Food Receipts Cseleis. "Peasants or others in this dirtrid who remained in their home? were a? molested beyond being r?quisition f<>r t'o?>?i and other supplies. In Ha? M'?-pipt> were given by Genau rrfieer.? for the supposed ?alue of th? thing taken, but the*?' natu:ally trt ?I no me to the holder-, "At Meaux I haar.I ?-orne grueiota? ? German atrocities, the endear? r'-tr which, however, was not convincing 1 he village of N'eueheiles suffered ?*? verely. Moat of the inhabitanti had Red, leaving their houses closed is?. the-e rere wrecked and looted, not 1 whole thing being left m them. Far and every kind of houteheU good? were carried out and broken it The houses themselves were defiled u every way. "Few people had yet returned ti N'eueheiles. Most of them htve loti their all. Vines even in many tsm were torn off hou-.- ?valla. Why Cer? n?an officers should allow their men M indulge in wanton crueltitt to pt?f ? people ?a more than on? eu understand. It is impossible that see wholesale and universal destntetin could have been carried out withewt their knowledge and approval. Troops Begin Looting. "At La Fert?-Millon the wif? ti 1 French officer who is one of th? gal? laut defenders ol Maubeuge told el happenings there. 1.1 "t? htd tee German visitations, . ne British and one French \ .omtnhsd several German officers quartered rt her house who behaved well on th?ln? arrival of the Germans in La Frrt?. ? -oops also behaved fairly wtl!. Most of the notables in the to?ra had fled or were hidden. The Mayor wt? eventually found 111 a cellar, tnd l* and he cure were walked through ft? town by the Germans as hostage? tet the good behavior of the inhabitant?. "A contribution in money ?nd good? was levied on th?' town and paid. Bt fore the troops tii ally left, how?-?*, they got out of '-and and lo??ted freely. I was told in La Forte that French ?It port for the British troopi fightingit Mona arrived too Ijtc to be of any ??? sistance to our troops, who had ? ta* rible tive days ar..l behaved m?g?H cently. . "I spent the night of the 14th 11 ? smalt auberge in the hamlet et Un relies, tuteen miles south of Soi????, ami was very glad to lind some P?? where I could get a ro-al and couch ? sleep on. Favorelles ! a? not suffer?. The population remained m tww nouses a:id there was no aWW-g int- near to them. Food, wine and oti? things wore requisitioned, and ner?,?* In all other villagi -, no payment? wer? made for anything fi. '?I left Favorelles this morninf w Soisaons. Favorelles, ?""?>;i?ndiJ*2. port, village? "'' n?7,"j tributary of the I. ver "f !? s?^ little at the hat-.is of the G??J The people r? mained on their 1? an ' in their houses and were rot tw ???tad. , t-_ u. -A< I neared Foissons bl?f/0",, seending the Aisne Valley I loess French battery on the roa?i it??.'-' three days now this ?r,,,''r?J??? bad been proceeding around ?f^TT the Germans having ceded nwj ground. It is probable that they ?? only coven n g the r.tirement ot bulk of troops o?' the extreme W-? right."_ AMERICANS AWAIT BAGGAGE IN FRAN? Instructions Expected Jl Washington as to Disposi? tion of the Tennessee London. Sept. Iv Nelson O^hjjJ tiled on American A?"^^ day. He expects to ???" rf Tuesday for Vienna, going by ?w Berlin. . , i-,?ru>" Captain Decker, ot th? A?|*J armored cruiser Tennessee; ?" ?, Preckinridge. the American A??^, Secretary of War, and Mr vtK ??p conference to-day. ?Vndinf ',??? ,110ns from Washington. |io ?^^0, 'to the disposition of th? " ^jiji which is now at WeymouU), ?^ leached. Captain Uec?r "1*. a many Americans in Franc? ***.?? 1,-ave until they had recover*? baggage._, a Wilson to Vote. Washington, Sept. i6~%$H* \\ tlson will go to Princeton n?v g, day to vote at the pnman?* ? ? * is expected to cast his ballot ?s rencmmation of ReP?*?B""7f-. \S?.lsh, the pre.-entjtepr?^**11 Money Orders in ^*^\^ Washington. Sept. IS.-?*?|fl branches of the postoffices ?&<??|a?*?V. J will be established^Yw?M Secretary Kamels ?nn"unf[llg3 that arrangem-nls for ^'JzTmM been made with the Poatoawj