Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 10, 1918, Page 1

the THE DAILY: TRIBUNE LEADS VOLUME 2 WILD REPOR Pope Benedict to Appeal for Acceptance of America’s Terms in Plea To Be Made __| November 2, All Saints Day [By United Press} | WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Pope Benedict will appeal to the world to accept President Wilson’s 14 principles as a basis for peace, say reports to Secretary Lansing. November’2, has been selected for the Pope’s move. Dispatches further disclose that Austria’s plight is serious. Whatever Germany answers to the President’s inquiry, Austria adopted the whole of President Wilson’s conditions pat alec aa i as aah Gate ata as Die ae) mabe Tale i% and Turkey cannot long survive the growing demands within for an end to the struggie. Peace with Germany ‘s not so near as it appears. It*is a long road to the end the president seeks. It can be hastened, officials declare, by speeding up war work. . : MILITARY REASONS TO SWAY DECISION. BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 10.— “Only military reasons could compel us to accept President Wilson’s con- ditions,” says the Cologne’ Gazette, in\commenting upon the American reply. may require counter guarantees, for example the evacuation of colonies occupied by the Allies.” TURKS SEEKING TERMS TO GET “It is possible that Germany | ~ TA Casper A ‘Crthune CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 1918 ASSOCIATED and | UNITED PRESS | Principles Laid D | that the kaiser has abdicated. All Saints day, | Reports of the overthrow BOND SUBSCRIPTIONS IN NATRONA COUNTY 10 GROSS MILLION: MARK BEFORE LIBERTY DRIVE 15 ENDED Whistles Shriek News of Campaign Success for Ten Minutes at Six Last Evening; Reports Pour in Today of Additions to Big Loan No’the kaiser isn’t dead, neither has he abdicated, so far as reli- able reports can show, but the zero hour was passed in Casper with ‘all the success that a patriotic public could muster, and it was this fact that the whistles shrieked for ten minutes or more last evening while a great majority of the populace stood by and’wondered whether it Wilson, Says Stockholm Dispatch (By United Press) STOCKHOLM, Oct. 10.—It is persistently | lieved to be a part of the neace offensive. 4 ‘As a result. of the war situation, the reichstag malo asa did not.take part in’ the deliberations, OUT OF STRIFE {By Unitea Press] WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Repre- sentatives of the new pro-Ally Tur- kish grand viger are negotiating with the Allies “ regarding whereupon Turkey may withdraw from the war, the United Press learned authorita- tively today. BEIRUT FOUND EVACUATED BY ALLIED FLEET LONDON, Oct. 10.—French and British warships which entered Bei- rut, chief seaport of Syria, Sunday found the town evacuated by the Turks. Beirut was occupied by Brit- ish and Indian infantry. collapse of the dual monarchy or the success of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign was being celebrated. The celebration played ‘a part in all of those in that the success of the loan will bring the others a step nearer realization, | Today belated returns are pouring | in at headquarters and with the $816,- 000 total announced last evening| steadily mounting indications are that the millionmark will be passed be- fore another day has passed. Active campaigning is at an end-insofar as soliciting is concerned, but the war chest is still receiving subscriptions and the belief is expressed at head- quarters that the grand total for Na- trona county will be written in seven figures, a magnificent resporise-to the country’s call for loans. In reply to a message wired. the Tenth Federal Reserve headquarters by Chairman C, E, Winter of the Na- trona County committee last evening, telling of Casper’s answer to ‘the kaiser's ‘peace camouflage,” the fol-! (Contiued on Page Eight) was the surrender of Turkey, the downfall of the Hohenzollerris, the FRENCH DRIVE | NEARS BORDER MONTENEGRO LONDON, Oct, 10.—French oper- ating in Serbia are pushing towafls the Montenegrian frontier, says a Central News dispatch. AMERICAN SHIP SUNK BY HUNS; 20 SURVIVORS --AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 10.— News of the sinking by a submarine of a large American steamship with |Reichstag Majority Approves Fourteen |ly one Entente plane was lost. own by President | Sumored here There is no confi'mation. ‘of the Hohenzollerns are be- for peace. Prince Maximilian will dddress the reichstag Saturday. “Foreign Minister Solf will soon ap- point a committeesto formulate a|' German plan for a Jeague of nations, a AUTONOMY FOR AUSTRIA EN ih LONDON, Oct. '19;—It-is reported: from Vienna today that the Austro- Hungarian iministerial council has de- cided to introduce national antonomy “in order to make President Wilson’s | stipulation an accomplished fact,” says an Exchange: Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen: :The Czech party The movement favoring a procla- mation separating Hungary and Aus- tria. is: making extremely rapid prog- ress{a@mong the public in the dual Monarehy: according to Zurich ad- vices, NO HAGGLING OVER PEACE | WITH BOCHE (By United Press} WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—There will be no extended note writing be- tween President Wilson and Ger- many. Prime Minster Maximilian must answer the inquity frankly and to the point or the discussion will stop. Mere acceptance of the demand for evacuation of occupied. territory for the purpose of obtaining an arm- istice will be insufficient because the president left another stumbling block in Germany’s path by his in- direct. note that he would not bar- gain with the Hohenzollerns. a the probable loss of many of her crew was brot here today by a Brit-| ish freighter, with 20 survivors on board, ’ FLEET OFBRITISH SURGE 50 YANKS palp nuns FHRU GAP TORN |NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Oct.| E L - TS OF KAISER'S — es American bombing ex-| ABDICATION DISCOUNTED AS | PART OF PEACE OFFENSIVE pedition of 350 machines dropped| 32 tons of expiosives on German’ cantonments between Wavrille| and Damvillers. This is a high) spot in airfleet operations in the| war. | In the expedition 200 bombing, | 100 pursuit and 50 triplanes. A| battle followed in which 12 ene-| my. machines were destroyed. On-| Cambrai Drive Demoralizing Huns, Now Fleeing in Disorder before the Allied Army within Two Miles of Le Cateau; Last of Lateral Rail Lines May Be Cut [By Associated Press] Vigorously pressing the advantage gained by breaking the Ger- |man line between Cambrai and St. Quentin, the British, French and 7iseiiea i ome | Americans today widened the great wedge to such an extent that the |entire German front from Rheims northward seems to be collapsing. The disintegration of this line is being hastened bv vigorous strokes delivered by the French along the Aisne, while further east the TO EQUAL VICTORIES WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—! Secretary McAdoo today ap- citizen to pealed to every double his loan subscription to “Thi e lianti victories -of the British, American and French forces yesterday should impel every patriotic Ameri- can immediately to double his subscription to the Liberty bonds,” he said. German left flank in the active battle area is being hammered hard by other French forces and the American first army in Champagne, Ar- gonne and Verdun. The taking of Le Cateau, which is imminent, will cut the last of the lateral railway lines connecting the German northern front with the great salient at Laon and apparently make inevitable the evacuation of the entire Laon area. Before Le Cateau the British are on a line fully ten miles in ad- vance of a longitudinal line running between Cambrai and St. Quen- tin, having swept thru a great part of this area in great strides, driving before them the disorganized enemy. The resistance of the Germans was reported to be stiffening during the night, however, indicating that a ‘stand might be made in an effort to save the railway junction from capture as long as possible WITH THE ANGLO-AMERICANS, SOUTHEAST ‘OF CAMBRAI, Oct. :10,—(Morning. Associated Press.) —The British and Ameri- cans continued to advance rapidly today and are driving the demora- lized: Germans before them, according to all available reports on this front. The whole battle is on a field that was aflame thruout the night. Many fires completely destroyed towns and farm-houses. Germans Stagger under Impact of Combined Allied Blow and Abandon Supplies in Wild Retreat Eastward By LOWELL MELLET g (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE BRITISH AFIELD, Oct. 10.—The Germans in the St. Quentin-Cambrai region are staggering under the impact of combined British, French and American blows and appear to be on the verge of rout. The Allies burst thru the last of the organized defenses along a 20-mile front and poured into the open country beyond. The are reported in wild retreat eastward, abandoning evervthing retarding their flight. Allied cavalry is cutting and slashing at the enemy’s heels while the infantry is advancing in column. formation, having made six miles, additional advance along a 50-mile front since yesterday’s renewed attack. It is reported that Bohain, Busigny, Clary, Caudry, Fonsomme, Caurier, Carnieres, Montaine No- tre Dame, Marcy and Mezieres have fallen. British-Americans are on the outskirts of Le Cateau, approaching Solesmes. The French are bearing down on Ribemont. Allied progress has extended northward to the Scarpe. Detachments have entered. Vitry-en-Artois and Arleux, heading for Douai. Tanks and whippets first discovered the break in the enemy's line. The number of captured and slain Germans is staggering. Natural Defenses only Intervene between Yankees and Belgian Line as-Result of Breach opened Today. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, Oct. 10.—The Americans are thru the Kriemhilde line on a four-mile front. They smashed the last organized German defenses west of the Meuse, and are advanc- ing northward with only natural defenses between them and Belgium. They wiped out the Argonne pocket by a junction with the French at Lacon. The Americans are moving up thru the forest with engineers blazing the way thru the woods and tangled masses of wire. * (Continued on Page 8.) TEUTON ROUT FOLLOWS CAPTURE CAMBRAI British‘ Third and Fourth Armies Surge Forward South of City While Canadians and English Meet them Half Way in Center ot Base WITH THE BRITISH“AT CAMBRAL-ST. .QUENTIN FRONT,, Oct, 10.—- By last night the British and Americans had reached a point where certain Ger- man lines, with probably one hard blow, could be cracked. As a matter of fact cavalry must have gone thru the German lities last night, in considerable num- bers, 4 After a night of heavy again attacked this morning from Cambrai south to the front held by the French. d English, “after a “crash” barrage, launched At the same time the Canadians 8 powerful attack extending for firing from British guns, the third and fourth armies For miles the front suddenly sprang into action. The Canadians had hard going south of Cambrai but with great gallantry swept on after annihilating the Germans who tried to bar their way.. From there on, resistance weakened and the Canadians, with the English, hurried eastward, ‘smothering the usual screen of German machine-gunners. : The. Canadians and British met in the center of Cambrai, which was enter- ed from the north and south and quickly mopped up. Hundreds of Germans, held there to launch 9 counter, were either killed or captured.’ Altho many fires were y the Germans, the town was found not badly damaged. South of.the city. the third.and fourth armies rapidly: overcame the opposi- tion. The front-line f a, 20'miles began moving vapidly eastward. Reports from airplanes, with which the sky is literally crowded, was that Wabaix was taken, and soon the capture of Harcourt was reported. Froin then on tidings were rapid of villages falling before the Alliés. Selvigny, Caullery, Ligny, Mon- tigny and Maretz were quickly reached and passed. Soon the Allies were clos- . ing in on Caudry and Bertry. Cavalry Pours thru Breach in Shattered Hinden- burg Line and Streams into Oven Country; Retreat on Larger Scale Is Predicted At the same time from the north it was reported that Escaudoeuvres, east of Cambrai, was taken and Inchy was being approached. The Cambrai-Le Ca- teau road was crossed and the railway between St. Quentin and Bertry cut. About that time the cavalry, which had been poured thru the wide breach in the shattered Hindenburg system, streamed into the open country and came into action. They smashed down strong points held by the rear guards. The Allies, having thus broken thru, the Germans north and south for many miles are endangered, for their lines are being turned. Retreats on an even lar- ger scale are expected.