Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 8, 1918, Page 1

AISNE MAY PROVE. FORCES NOW STR BELGIANS PUT TO LABOR FOR DEFEATED HUN [By Ansoeinted Prenn] HAVRE, Oct. 8—The Belgian government has issued a statement that from the eoast’to beyond the city of Bruges, the male population between 15 and 45. years have been brtually torn from their homes and forced to labor on German military work. EVACUATION OF BELGIAN COAST IS CONTINUING [By Anaocinted Preas] AMSTERDAM, Oct. 84—Evacua- tion by the Germans of the Belgian coast region is continuing, the cor- respondent of the Telegraaf reports, Telephone lines between the frontier and the coast are being taken down. TEUTONS STILL BALK AT LOSING [By Aasociated Press] . AMSTERDAM, Oct. . 8. — Ger- many’s new ministry is one of na- is prepared for a stand to the end against a humiliating peace, Dr, Bernhard Dernburg, former German minister of the colonies, declared in a statement, according to Berlin advices, ——————>———— | over half the quota set for Natrona TO RECOVERY, IS RECENT VERDICT By Uni WASHINGTON, Oct. S—Russia’s| convalescence from Bolshevism is Proceeding rapidly, Excepting chol- era-stricken and- terrorized Moscow, and Petrograd, there is virtually no place under Bolshevick power. However, the Caucasus and Uk- raine regions, occupied by German troops, have as yet had no~ oppor- tunity to offer allegiance to the new pro-ally Russian government form- ed at Uffa. The principal differ- ences between the yarious political factions and districts elsewhere are again united in the cause of building anew Russa. HUDSON SUPER IS STOLEN BY UNKNOWN HERE The theft of a Hudson super-six rfom the parking on Wolcott street at 10 o'clock last night has been re- ported to the sheriff's office and ‘et- forts are under way to apprehend the thief. The car ecartied license number 15348, while the engine number is given as 62282. Of- ficers of other Wyoming towns have been notified to be on. the lookout pee, ee nena han Nanhai HALF WAY’ POLICY OF - CITY CLOSING SCORED Cabarets, Saloo | i | | | | 1 THE DAILY SOLD BY WOMEN Success Boosts Hopes Members of the women’s c ‘ Loan reported subscriptions to the amount of $210,000 for their tional defense, as well as peace, and | first day’s work and while the today there is reason to believ at the Iris meeting outstandin: will boost the total materially. For this reason it is impossible to arrive at accurate figures regarding the the close of the first day it was well county. Midwest refinery employes set a record for other industrial plants when they subscribed $78,350, or an average of $165.64. paigning are shown in the following returns made by the various com- mittees, the figures for each includ- ing subscriptions solicited and vol- untary ones: Mesdames John Beal, M. Weber, W. H, Leavitt, P. Bachellor, (Wyom- ing National), $40,100. Miss Mary Campbell, Mrs. Frank Campbell, Mrs. J. Mahoney, Mrs, M. P. Wheeler, Miss Edna Smith, Miss Eunice Smith, Mrs. Wyland, (Casper National), $37,200. Mesdames P. C. Nicolaysen, L. A. Reed, Lee Townsend, Pit Covert, (Stockmen’s National), $34,500. Mesdames Leeper, Tolhurst, Stir- rett, Swartz, Hanway, (Citizens State Bank), $7,100. Mesdames McMahon, Sullivan, Me- Grath, (Oil Exchange), $51, 650. Mesdames Parker, Van Sant, Mar- tin, (Midwest Hotel), $1,550. Mesdames Mitchell, Weaver, Rob- erts, (Henning Hotel), $3,500. Mrs. J. G. Stanley, $700. Mesdames Ferguson and Fee (0-S Building), $2,300, Lena Brooks, $11,500. Mrs. C. E, Winter, $12,650, Mesdames C. T. Boone, Scherck, Sloans, $900. Mesdames E. R. Collier, Sam vice, $550. Mesdames 0. G. Johnson, L. G. Ser- Murphy, Tom Burke (Merchant’s Committee), $11,450, ns, Poolhalls and Kindred Centers Flourish under Protection, with Theaters Closed _ Much indignation is manifest in the city over the orders of the city administration closing the theatres and public dances and yet con- tinue to permit the saloons, pool halls and other public coraregating places to run as usual, to say nothing of David street and Sandbar re- sorts and the cabarets. “Tf we are going to stamp out this epidemic, why not close them all up and do it as it should be done, instead of discriminating,” is an ex-|be accomplished by closing up one/fluenza. Pression 6f a number of citizens of|place and yet permit another place| held as usual in Captain Handbury’s TRIBUNE LEADS OVER $200,000 WORTH OF BONDS OF FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE ‘Today’s Results Unchecked but Report of Monday’s PEACE, REPORT Midwest Employes Buy $78,350 in Bonds achieved. At the present time there are many pledges made ‘mount: tentatively promised but at} The results of the first day’s cam- | ~— CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, OCT. 8, 1918 Che Casper Daily Crihuner ON OPENING DAY. at Local Headquarters; | ommittees of the Fourth Liberty campaign is proceeding slower e that flattering results will be g and the redemption of these Midwest, $78,350, capita average. “+ ¢ Must Liquiddtée Pledges It should be borne in mind that the voluntary pledges of subscriptions | do not actually count until they are }reduced to actual signed subscrip- | tions with the first payment of. ten |'per cent paid. Pledges and announce- ments have been given amounting to nearly $300,000, the actual subsecrip- | tios for the first day were $256,150. Many of those who signed pledge {cards have not completed their sub- seriptions. This should now be done | @s soon as possible. Women Set Pace Again Mrs. Charles E. Winter, chairman of the National Women’s Liberty Loan committée of Natrona county, jis proud to announce that the first | day’s subseription taken by the wom, jen totaled $204,700. This demon- | strates that the women off Natrona lcounty do not intend to lose their laurels which were received on the | Third Liberty Loan drive. Should Volunteer Subscriptions | It is hoped that all the people will |understand that it will saye the va-/ jrious Liberty Loan committees and} workers a great deal of time and en-| ergy if subscribers will take the |trouble to go to one of the banks, | hotels, the post office, or headquar- |ters in the O. S. Building, and there make out their subscriptions. | Each and every one connected with} the Liberty Loan work is giving his) jor her time and labor free. The| | stenographer and accountant are the | only workers who will be paid. } prams ia Sy $165.64 per | The late czar of Russia, before! | his deposition, possessed a single es-| tate covering over 100 000,000 acres | —that is, about three miles of the en-| ‘tire area of England. crowd barred from one place will seek entertainment in another, ac-| cording to these critics. | It is a certainty that one place will |convey the same effects as another land the proper course to take is to either closé up all places where either |men or women congregate or not all, as the present orders do not blanket \the community sufficiently to exjb- (dite matters as they should, Oo ae NO DRILL TONIGHT There will ‘be no drill ‘of the) | Guards tonight at the Empress be-| j cause of the order of the Board of | Health regarding the epidemic of in- | The officers school will be} “lderice tending -to- FRENCH CROSSING OF asocraTey aa/AISNE PUTS TEUTONS UNITED PRESS IN PERILOUS PLACE "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER’ NOT TO BE INCLUDED IN ANSWER TO HUNS, BUT MEANING | Definite Information Held Up Pending an Interview with Correspondents at 4 O’'tlock; Tone Is Revealed (By Associated Press] WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—President Wilson’s reply to the German and A requests already on the After being ENEMY AGENTS TO BLAME FOR PLANT BLASTS WASHINGTON, Det. 8.— Evi-| that the ex} plosion at the T. A. Gillespie steel loading plant; was the work of ene- my agents, was. discovered today by | government operatives in a letter! predicting the explosion on Friday night signed “Heine” and addressed to a man in Sonora, Mexico. AMNESTY HELD OUT TO BOCHE WAR CRITICS [By Assodiated Press] | LONDON, Oct. 8.—The German government, according to an Amster- dam dispatch to the Exchange Tele- graph, intends to grant pardons to; a number of politicians imprisoned} since the war began, including the Socialist, Dr. Karl -Liebknect and Wil- helm Dittman. General Amnesty, the dispatch adds, probably will be! granted to political offenders. SINKS STEAMER [By Associated Preas.} WASHINGTON, Oct. 8,— The! American steamer Westgate of the! naval overseas transportation serv- ice. was sunk at sea with a loss of} six of the crew in a collision with} the steamer American, 500 miles off the Atlantic coast, $1,406,051,000 IS TOTAL LOAN: SALE, OFFICIAL [By Associatea 5) WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. — The over-night increase in Liberty Loan subscriptions as reported by the treasury. was $82,334,050, raising the total to $1,406,051,000. . Boho t bok Pad FULL PRICE FOR GRAIN ASSURED THE FARMERS —_— [By Associated Press.) NEW, YORK, Oct. 8.—Warning to farmers not to -sell, their wheat at less. than .the, government's price is IS IMPILED gotiations probally will be dispatched, before night, if it is not called into conference by the president with | Colonel House and Secretary Lansing, Secretary Tumulty an- r ° |mounced that Lansing would see sectors in France. \QUIET FUNERAL SEA COLLISION | | Propp, the 6-year-old child who was = Objective of Germans in Present Retire- ment to Afford no Refuge from Sweep- ing Allied Advance; Americans and the British Launch Fresh Attacks Today | Renewing their major operations on a center line from the Meuse |to the North sea, the British and Americans today are smashing into jthe rear defenses of the Hindenburg line between St. Quentin and |Cambrai. While Haig is attacking on a 20-mile frent north of St. | Quentin, the French, along the Suippe, continue their progress north- | ward toward the German communicaticn line, despite strong enemy resistance. The French have reached the juncture of the Suippe and |the Aisne rivers and forced their way into two large towns on the middle Suippe. for an armistice and peace ne- [By Assoctated Press} Crossing the Aisne river at Berry au Bac, the French have brot near peril to the whole German line in the Laonnais and Champagne This advance by General Berthelot’s men seems newspaper correspondents at 4 p. m. to be the first step in a final operation designed to hurl the Germans and “probably would have something | out of positions held so long from the Ailette river to the Meuse. If for them.” __\the French are able to debouche from Berry au Bac and obtain a President Wilson spent the entire ‘bridgehead on the north side of the Aisne, the Germans still clinging morning in his study and was be- +4 Chemin Des Dames and along the ridge north of the Aisne west, leved to be putting into final shape will be compelled to fall back rapidly the document upon which he worked | The ine. bol : General: F a’ pe nearly all of yesterday. None of those | Germans retreating ore ourauds army, tur in the president’s conference woulil| ther east, will find that the Aisne, their apparent objective in the give an intimation of his decision but ' present retirement, is not a refuge. It may be but a trap for the scat- berrebetirg cst 4 = ee Delete tered forces now streaming back from the Epy Arnes and the upper? }be flatly.’ refused. and~ the central; Aisne rivers. powers informed that unequivocal | Genera ? 7 S acceptance of conditions as laid! I Berthelot’s wedge has penetrated faster tham was ex : pected by lay world. It wrested. the hills northwest of Rheims from Sites ehrag ise oe ee ‘the efiemy, swiftly swept the enemy back to the Suippe river and then, peace plenipotentiaries. | |seemingly at a single bound, reached the Aisne river and crossed. it i | piney on arty egppemee a vital point. It seems to be the most successful blow struck at reply by asking Premiers Lloyd |the enemy during the past week’s fighting. George, Clemenceau and Oriando to! ch 2k Tea reat eadl advise him of their answer, or by submitting to the premiers a draft of Satisfactory Progress Made in his reply for their approval. The form of the reply has not bea | French Attack at Dawn Today revealed in any seep a ag nature | LONDON, Oct. 8.—English ay ~ attacked this s “ gaat siebtsy uinosostitional | een St. Quentin and Cambrai, Marshal Haig announced. Satisfac- The words’ “unconditional surren-| der” may not appear in the answer. ‘tory progress was made. The attack was launched just before day- Hikelse will not detract from its force. |Hreak, during a heavy rain which began last night. fulness. | Nothing less than conditions al-| meade web colt paitaratadsity i: | Germans Prevare Retirement of eetoaan sat aioe ates be | Twenty to Forty Miles, Belief cepted unequivocally and not merely asa basis for negotiations. | Colonel E. M. House, ponte (By United Press) PARIS, Oct. 8.—The French advanced a mile north of Rheims yesterday, capturing Bazancourt, penetrating Isles-Sur- Ruippe, and reaching Conde village. The German high command is definitely preparing to retire from 20 to 40 miles as the result of the shattering of the | Hindenburg line and continued Allied pressure from the North |sea to Verdun. They are delaying retirement as long as pos- | sible awaiting the completion of new defenses. But the Allied adviser of the President, spent last night at the White House. HELD AT PROPP. HOME THIS P.M.) The funeral services of Elizabeth (Contiued on Page Eight} HUN ARMY IN ALBANIA AND wae, SERBIA DONE WAY TO FRONT ™“@jor Disaster Threatens Austro-German Forces; Belgrade Women Helv Drive Enemy from City; Cavture Looms killed in an automobile accident Sun- day evening, were held privately this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Propp, at Fifth and Lewis streets. The Rev. J. H. Gockel, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church, officiated at thé services, interment being made in the Casper cemetery. The services were private because of thé quarantine existing in Casper due to the epidemic of Spanish in- fluenza. [By Ansociated Preas.) SEATTLE, WASH,, Oct. 8.—"I’ll| take a thousand dollar bond and pay | my own way to the front; I’ve read| that a bond of that size will go a long} way towards outfitting and trans-| porting one American,” declared a Seattle draft registrant who appear- ed at the Liberty Loan campaign | headquarters here. | The registrant said he had just come from his draft board where he| {By United Press) SALONIKA, Oct 8.—The Austrian Armies in Albania, face a major disaster as a result of Allied-Serbian successes. Simultaneously the Austro-Germans in Serbia apparently are im a serious situation. This is indicated by successive defeats, the reported evac- mare Hg won ore and the baa grcomingg of General Macken- sen has hurri ere to save them. te Serbian ulation er Fite te as ibm Soe ary ga Belecain including the women, are helping dvive the Aus- = ians ou SURE, seeneremnenn, | The Allies are pursuing the Austro-Germans toward the contained in a message reesived from town, who declare that nothing can|next door to run as usual. The | office at 7:30 o'clock. Herbert Hoover, fedéra-tood sdmin- istrator. : Cast-iron cannon was not made| 3 a 1 until the latter part of the 15th cen-| Damube river after capturing Vranje. The Allies who cap- tury. Previously they were always! tured Debra may attack the Austrians on the flank and throw made of bronze. them into confusion. } ; { fi ;