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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The Associated Press latest summary or tne war situation on the western front is as follows Forced from Camhrai one of the strong pillars of the Hin dcnburg system the Germans today are being driven back toward the French frontier under the heavy onslaughts of the Third and Fourth British armies aided by American troops Apparently the Germans now have lost the Hindenburg line on the front from Cambrai to St Quentin Field Marshal Haig resumed his attack again this morning and reports that rapid progress is being made on a front of more than thirty miles from northeast of Cambrai to east of St Qnentin As the German defense sys ¬ tem in the center falls to the British and Americans the French and Americans on the southern wall from Rheims to east of the Meuse are smashing their way northward threatening the important junctions of the railways running eastward from the broken St JticiitinCainbral line lineBy By an adroit diplomatic move President Wilson has laid a Iran for the German governmental heads if the peace proposal made by Chancellor Maxi ¬ milian was in the least insincere This was the view of officials at AVashington as they studied the communication addressed by Pi Piday day to tin German chancellor Confronted by the strategy of German diplomacy the President in the view of officials has countered with strategy just as Marshal Foeh has met the military tactics of Ilindenhurg and Lndendofff with superior strat ¬ egy And yet in his communication the President has left open the way to peace peaceFrom From Paris comes the news that the Germans during the lust few days have been using in their air work a new tvne of inflammable bomb com ¬ bining great effectiveness with light weight A single airplane it is said can carry 200 of these bombs The only way of fighting the fire caused by tiiis new form of destructive weapon appears to be the isolation of the blaze as nouring water on it is literally adding fuel to the flames on account of the chemicals of which the bomb is composed composedNearly Nearly 10000 Germans were taken prisoner Tues ¬ day by the allies forces in the fighting along the various fronts of the battlefield says Marcel Hutln in the Echo de Paris The Germans he adds are hurriedly evacuating the Argonne forest Ameri ¬ can front The battle is continuing continuingThe The indicated wheat crop is 918920000 bushels the Department of Agriculture estimated yesterday The total as given in the final figure for 1917 was 65082S000 bushels The indicated corn crop is 2717775000 bushels compared with 3lu9494000 as the final figure for 1917 1917The The surrender of Turkey within the next forty eight hours would not be a surprise says the Lon ¬ don Evening standard under date of yesterday British authorities are in jtossession of information showing the disintegration of the government it is declared declaredThe The legal battle over the election of the Chicago school iMKird was ended in the Illinois Supreme court at Springfield yesterday when the mandate was ordered to issue The court at the June term held that the new board was not legally elected electedFrench French and American troops in their attack east of the Jituse have advanced six kilometers more than three miles and a half in some places says a dispatch of yesterday from the American head ¬ quarters in France The commercial i le eron of this country for the current year is 24401 000 barrels the Department of Agriculture has estimated Last years crop was 2251 o 0 barrels In diplomatic circles in London President AVil sons reply to the peace proposals of Prince Max ¬ imilian the imperial German chancellor is regarded as clever and logical logicalThe The City of Cambrai has been captured by the British Eight thousand prisoners were taken in Tuesdays fighting
