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to Give.”—Vice-President Marshall 5,300 CAPTURED BY ALBERT'S MEN;' THE NEW GERMAN REVELATION FOE QUITTING CHEMINDES DAMES; AMERICANS WIN TOWN IN ARGONNE Buy a Bond Today Pershing's Men Capture Cierges, Three Miles Beyond Montfau* con, Where Big U. S, Drive West ot Meuse Was Held Up; Fall of St, Quentin, Stronghold of Hindenhurg Line, Imminent. ! Buy a Bond Today BELGIANS FORGE ON 7 MILES IN FLANDERS; BERLIN ADMITS SERIOUS REVERSES IN WEST. Buy a Bond Today Allies Victors in Aerial Combats in Many Sectors—Americans Have Brought Down 33 Enemy Planes in Few Days, While British Fliers on Northern Fronts Blow Up Trains and Drop Explosives on Targets Behind Hun Lines t- Brief Reports from the Palestine Front Tell of Late Count of 58,000 'Turk- ish Prisoners by General Allenby—Captured Guns in This Theatre Total 325 Americans Fighting With Haig’s Forces Before Cambrai. / ——Buy a Bond Today , London, Sept. 29.—British troops today were reported fight- ing in the suburbs of Cambrai. Canadian 'troops have entered the outskirts, of Cambrai, Field Marshal Haig announced tonight. In the last three days more than 22,000 prisoners and 300 guns have been taken on the Cambrai-St. Quentin battle front, the statement says. he I important town of Dixmude, 10 miles from the North Sea I coast, was captured by the Belgians today, the Belgian war office announced tonight. The Belgians are within less than two miles of Roulers an important German base 12 miles northeast of Ypres, con- nected by direct rail with Ostend, 22 and a half miles to the north- " est. Ihe capture of Roulers will make the German LLboat bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge untenable. Many heavy guns and machine guns and much booty has been taken by the Belgians. The official count of prisoners up to tonight is 5,500. Many more are filing to the Belgian rear. Americans attacked north of the Scheldt canal on a front of 5,000 yards today and captured Bellicourt and Nauroy, Field Marshal Haig announced tonight. Fighting continues in the neighborhood of Bony. By this operation Le Catelet appears, therefore, to have been virtually outflanked from the south by the Americans. 3 ;;;; The fall of the Hindenhurg stronghold of St. Quentin is believed to be imminent. It is learned the British and north of the Americans city have made substantial gains on the east side of the underground canal near Bellicourt. The Germans are reported to have begun a retirement from the Chemin des Dames. Six thousand prisoners have been taken by the British and Belgians in their new Flanders drive, according to latest des-. patches from the northern front. The Americans have captured Cierges, nearly three miles northwest of Montfaucon, where the American centre met such stubborn resistance on the first and second days of the drive. In the Champaign Gouraud has taken heights which domi- nate the important German railroad junction at Challerange. A little further on is Grand-Pre, which commands the outlet of the gap of Stenay, and is vital to the whole German line in the Champaign. West of the Meuse Pershing’s troops have again fought for- ward and have broken the Kreimhilde line—chief defense of the Meuse crossings up to Stenay. The French today made an advance of tw< kilometers on either side of the Chemin des Dames, capturing Pargny, Flain and Ostel. American aviators now claim thirty-three German airplanes shot down yesterday. We' suffered no aerial losses. Co-operating yvith the Anglo-Belgian offensive in Flanders, OUR THIRD DRAFT. British bombing | planes yesterday dropped thirteen tons of bombs The machinery of our drafts has and set two German trains on fire. Eight worked so smoothly that many of ns German machines were brought down. The British BULGARIA’S TRICKY PEACE OFFER/W fail to realize the effect or the signifi- lost thirteen planes, tonight’s war office statement on aviation Bulgaria has asked General Franchet com- cance of the seemingly simple cere- admits. or than the fine account those men art Allied forces in Macedonia, for fen aimis- mony which was repeated when Presi- mander-in-chief of the giving of themselves they react Loss of the canal positions on both sides of Marquion (six Bulgarian government is dent Wilson drew the first of 17,000 cap- as tice, but no assurance is given that the the battle front. and a half miles west of Cambrai) and subsequent German re- sules from the glass bowl in the Senate in faith. Berlin reports state that Premier Malinoff, What the draft means at home is tirement to the region immediately west of Cambrai was ad- acting good Office Building this That num- is not supported by the Czai oi noon.. shown in the news pages of The Eagle mitted by the war office in its statement today reporting yester- who requested the meeting, ber. 322, named the first man to be his cabinet. This gives the proposal the today, where we print the name of day’s operations in front of the Hindenburg line. the other members of called in each of the 4,557 draft dis 4 scheme to assure a temporary suspen- every man in Brooklyn or Long Island The total of prisoners taken by General Sir Edmund Al- appearance of a German tricts of the country. The 100 numbers Balkans which will enable the Central drawn in the first hundred numbers. lenby’s army in Palestine is now 58,000. The number of cap- sion of hostilities in the given out today will provide some 450.- their forces on the western front. The The names of the other men drawn tured guns has risen to 325, according to Cairo despatches late Empires to concentrate 000 recruits for our Army, subject to refused, lhe terms here will published day today. request has therefore very properly been the exemptions physical disability be from to unconditional surrender. day as the key numbers are given out An official despatch received by the war from for Bulgaria, as for her allies, are and the other adequate reasons. The office General by offering to withdraw and de- at‘Washington. The, of Sir Edmund Allenby relates that Australian troops have Bulgaria can secure peace • drawing, which will be completed to- satisfaction forced give the Allied forces control of th(: the public with this method of pub- a crossing of the upper Jordan, capturing strong mobilize her army, and to morrow, will add some 13,000,000 to our Turkish that supply communications betweei l lishing the names of drafted men, in- positions. Danube and the railroads forces from which the mili- force Turke;y available stead of merely the Teutonic Powers and Turkey. That would tary their numbers, was Southeast of Lake Tiberius, around Irbid El Remte, and the industrial armies can be abundantly and to for peace at once and leave Austria-Hungary open t o demonstrated ip the first Turkish resistance was broken and the Ottomans were driven sue recruited. invasion, in which event the war would probably end wher e draft, when The Eagle invented it. The through the British | Not less significant than the addi- Mezerib, commander announces. A junction in the Balkans. Eagle's practice then was widely was effected between the it began, namely, tion to our Army is the fact that it is British and Arabs. The latter have which would leave these lines of communication praised by papers all over the country, captured the Ezra, Gazalie, An armistice made so quietly and simply. That is important railway stations of Dera, Empires and Turkey, and leave Bulgaria free but, so far as we are aware, no other and Shek Said. In that region Kpen to the Central Possible because the heart of the coun- 1,500 prisoners were taken. them, would be of greater benefit to Germany paper is following that example today, British cavalry is to trade with try is in the war. If there were any approaching Mezerib. In the Amman dis- the Bulgarians can do. Bulgaria could employ the obstacles of labor and cost appar- trict 5,700 prisoners 28 jthan any fighting fiicli spirit as existed in this city at and guns" had been taken up to Friday. her population in supplying food for the Central ently deterring them. The publication Allenby’s forces in her soldiers and tie time of the draft riots in the Civil are contact with the Turkish rear guards they need more than her half-hearted troops. of names in the first, draft provM near El Empires, which the headquarters of the local Kastal. Bulgaria from the war, if complete, would be news of the first moment to Brooklyn. The elimination of draft boards for this week would have Buy a Bond Today . Buv a Rond Today but an armistice leaving her free to feed the The names drawn today will include a o-reat victory; toVbe guarded by the police and we ■ Austria-Hungary from invasion ..would those of many men widely Huns and to protect might even need soldiers to preserve known in Unconditional surrender, and not i tricky the community and will be even more be a German triumph. order at home, as well as to send to road to peace*/ interesting for that Eagle truce “made in Germany” is Bulgaria’s France and Russia. The approval by reason. The regards the opportunity convey 100,000,000 people of an act which takes to vital news to Brooklyn and Long Island, of their men between eighteen and which their people will get nowhere fortyVsix who may be needed for the else, abundant justification for the la- Army is a triumph of democracy hard- bor involved in the process, which is ly significant than the speed with less necessarily great.