The Evening Current, 1917-09-20

man positions at 5:40 o'clock thia morning east of Ypres. Field Mar Marshal - shal Marshal limit reports that satisfactory progress was made and that the British already have captured some valuable positions. The British offi official - cial official statement announcing Field Mar Marshal - shal Marshal Haig had taken the ogensivc, aaid: "We attacked at five forty this morninir on a wide front east of Ypres. Satisfactory progress is re reported - ported reported Our troops already have cap captured - tured captured Home valuable positions." General Hair's selection of the bat battle - tle battle front east of Ypres as his latest offensive movement against the Ger Germans, - mans, Germans, indicates his continuance of the expressed purpose of the British commander in charge to force the

FIRST AMERICANS TO HE HE-CEIVE - CEIVE HE-CEIVE WAR CROSSES IN FRENCH AWARDS GROW GROW-ING - ING GROW-ING OUT OF OFFENSIVE. By Associated Press. American Headquarters in Kran.'c, Sept. l!Hh. By Associated Press cor cor-respondent. - respondent. cor-respondent. -Brigadier General Geo B. Duncan and Major Campbell King are the first American officers to re receive - ceive receive war crosses in the French it it-wards - wards it-wards growing out of American par tieipation in the recent Verdun of offensive - fensive offensive when they acted as observa observation - tion observation officers in a forward artillery post.

ll Superintendent T. II Sears, W. 'v Devcny mechanical luparinttndenl and Division Engineer Gillia. all of Xmnrilln, I, T BvaiU superintendent Of Clovls, i, A. Klnsner superintend superintendent - ent superintendent of buildings and bridges of Clovis and w. A Keen roadntaittr of Carta- bad, passed through to Pecos this morning on a special train nt two i. nt, aiMl returned nt eleven thia forenoon, looking over the track and on official business.

British guns. Bitter fighting is in progress in the neighborhood of In Inverness, - verness, Inverness, Copse, Nuns Wood and Glen Glen-corse - corse Glen-corse wood. If the attackers maintain the positions to which they have ad advanced - vanced advanced already they have accomplish accomplished - ed accomplished one of the most remarkable and important achievements in recent months. The offensive is to he know i as the battle of Menin Road.

l, . , luted Press. B"i iah lleadquarteis in France and p 'Itfium, Sept. 20. Field Marshal liar'- offensive, which wns begun nt dawn this morning, on the Belgian battle-front, is proceeding with mark marked - ed marked success, especially in the rrucical sector between the Ypres-Roulcrs railway and Hollebcke. The German infantry is mnking a determined re resistance - sistance resistance and the Teuton artillery is

By Associated Press. Washington, Sept. 20 - A reduction in the price of sugar of about one per cent per pound was apparently assured today when the best suirar producers agreed with the food ad administration - ministration administration to sell to wholesalers at seaboard reliining points for seven and I (uarter cent per pound maxi mum price instead of the prevailing price of eight and four-tenths cents.

By Associated Press. New York, Sept. 20. Mayor Mit Mitchell - chell Mitchell won the republican mayoralty nomination in yesterday's primary election in New York City by a plur plurality - ality plurality of approximately eleven hundred votes over William M. Bennett, with only two districts missing. Mitchell's vote was 36,646 and Ben Bennett's - nett's Bennett's 36,627.

armies of Crown Prince Ilupprech, of Havana, from t he western coast Ol Belgium which will cut off all Ger man submarine and ah plane bases on the North Seu from Zcehrugge Id Nieuport, including Ostend. The British drive apparently is being made in the direction of Roulcrs and Courtrai from which Belgian towns the Germans have be n evacuating nil civilian population.