Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1918, Page 1

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All Fronts Over the Week End THE DAILY TRIBUNE LEADS ALAS h care SHORE GENERAL ISDUE {iS STREWN WITH TO NEW RULING ‘Reichstag Subordinates Military Power \Eighteen of Over 300 Who Perished and Ludendorff Quits His Command; | Disaster Found Floating in Water; More Proof Demanded, However Storm Holds up Relief Vessels [By Asscciated Preas] JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 28.—Shores near the scene of the Bitter Counters against Yankees | LONDON, Oct., 28.— The| ish have captured Aleppo} Asia Minor. The Allies in| first the Italian offensive advanced | were placed “LONDON, Oct. 28.—General Ludendorff has resigned a: use the military authorities | py tae retiring eek So Ex: | wreck of the three miles on a ten mile front. The French have advanced be- tween the Serre and Oise riv-} ers five miles om a 15-mile! front. They captured Crecy| ENEMY PROPAGANDA and reached Guise. These are SEEN IN WITHDRAWAL the most imporant develop-| PARIS, Oct. 2h o1Canetion 3 Dis-| ments on the fighting fronts i from Bevin) ree Bewe.2| the Last a bos. Paris aye that Luden = ane ot e Germans launch | because he sees ‘the impossibility “3 ter counters against the ‘Seria | 200 continuing war. The Matin says that | cans along the Meuse. How-| Germany © weer bid Pate Lam ever, American pr¢ssure ee ee ee the mii tinues to threaten the SEE Gee this, will dens communications ona front on both sides . of the} Meuse river. ive no one. Ludendorff, who four months one! | made the and the German | people believe that the fall of Paris Is and the surrender of France was im-/| 4,000 Prisoners on Piave Front WITH THE ITALIAN ARMIES, Oct. 28.—The slopes} of four mountains wrested! from the Austrians in new Al-| is faced swith eases en. SE 11 HUN PLANES KAISER FL HERO, vULOAR PLAY ? > MAXIMILIAN HARDEN RORY Ale Cre akg Annoctated Pease} Sr aurea quotes Maximilian Sec heee editor of Die Zukunge ‘6f Berlin, ac say- ing im an interview with the Berlinske Tidene of Copen*iagen: “We started the war with a dirty trick and/all our subsequent. vie- tories have been the results of dishonesty. Emperor William is a film hero and Germany is a vulgar cinematograph show: We sit today on the ruins of 30 years of Hohenzollern politics.” ‘SAXONY REVISES |RULING fEsauetics of the reorganization of the {Eprernmeny Me the bomb of Sax- ony, two of} ie ministers have re- POWERS (iighea, the Saxon Gazette “fas an- nounced, according to advices from) Jast night from vessels | boat went down. A bres VICTORIA, B. C,, Oct. 28,—Eigh- | teen bodies, 17 men and a boy from the wreck of the Princess Sophia, | \the approval of the Versailles eon- have been taken to Juneau, Alaska, | according to a wireless dispatch from | the U. 8. 8: Cedar. The 4 ire were | found floating near the spo’ the Sophia went down. cation is Even. ONE HUNDRED FIFTY BODIES RECOVERED VANCOUVER, Oct, 28.— One hundred and fifty bodies, unidenti-| fied, so far have been recovered from Alaskan waters near the scene of the| wreck of the Canadian Pacific steam- ship Princess Sophia Thursday with 343 aboard. Four women were found lashed to a mast. This indicated that “women first” was in the minds of the pas- sengers and crew when the gales and | rere drove the ship on the rocks. | DEAD OF OF WRECK a Sophia are strewn with dead bodies, ace | | t where ({C/-RMAN ANSSWER IS No e identifi.| SURPRISE IN WASHINGTON | WASHINGTON, Oct, “/ ben's ‘last note was rather” tinexpect> Ces * .|BOCHE AWAITS TERMS \Unexpected Reply to, Mut: to Last Note Will Be Ignored by Presi-| dent, Is Belief LONDON, Oct. 28. sihebaibina | jhas been ended in Germany, For- | jeign Minister Solf claims in a re-|" in |ply to the last Wilson note. He} jstated that military power had been placed under the Reichstag’s | control in new constitutional re- forms. He also stated that the Ger- man government now awaits the Ai lies’ armistice proposals. |Mutiny and Revolts Foree Austria to Accept Views of President Wilson | BASEL, Oct. 28.—(Associa- ted Press) — Austro-Hungary, in /notifying President Wilson that it is ready to enter upon peace ne- gotiations and arrange an armis- tice, asks President Wilson, in its | reply, to begin overtures on the |subject. | The text of the Austrian reply \to the President reads: “Austro-Hungary, accepting all | WASHINGTON, Oct, 28, — The| conditions President Wilson has |German reply reached the Swiss le- i laid down for entry into negotia- ;gation today. It was authoritatively | tions for an armistice and peace, stated that President Wilson would| no obstacles exists, according to {not reply as the whole armistice ouvs- | the _ judgment of the Austro- Hunz- ey is now up'to the American-Al-} jlied army Rs che drat subject to ifn ? pgm Tee a 24 | Austro-Hungarian government de- |\clares itself ready, in consequence, without awaiting the result of oth- jer negotiations to enter into nego- tiations upon a peace between Anstvia-Hungary and. the United /States and for an immediate armis- tice upon all Austro-Hungarian fronts. .It asks President Wilson to be so kind as to begin over- ‘ures on the subject.” AMSTERDAM, Oct. 28—(As- sociated Press) —Austria in her re- ply to President Wilson accepts all the views expressed by President ference which meets tomorrow, 26. —- Ger- |many’s rejoinder to President Wil- ed, and pending the reveipt the offi-| vial. text comment is withheid, Gen- erally the note is not regarded as one re qulring an answer. he diplomatic situation is just Unt. it was when President Wilson informed Germany that its request | for an armistice and peace had been transmitted to the Allied govern- |ments. The néxt step expected was |aubmission to the terms of the ar- | mistice to Germany. RIA CAPITULATES | ONS SEND ANSWER IMMEDIATE PEACE, 1S CRY IN DUAL EMPIRE; lied attacks on the Brenta-Pave | Drenden. The Ee 7p th eget beset Announcement from’ London that front were found strewn with| enemy dead. The Allies re-| tained the heights in face of} DOWNED, NINE ministry ovrrs the most. determined enemy’ BRITISH LOST counters. The Italians captured, over 4,000 prisoners. | LONDON, Oct. 28.—The enemy's was busy Saturday in the | | j aircraft was TERS, Oct B HEADQUAR- | north battefield, =o = ms etieal) Oct. 27.—A Canadian | statement on aerial ope! dispatch from Reuter’s| énemy airplanes were gr ee res spondent cables: “This| three disabled in fighting: Two enemy) ng General Debeney’s' balloons were shot down. ny, after three oe cut Nine British machines are missing hts of incessant lodged the enemy sais ‘the | rmann line, and is froarane ~| o the next line a few thru a sector Fie o| er reams and here and there) eat patches of thick woods,| rably adapted to the pur-| bose of defensive warfare. / “Getting LONDON, Oct. Oct. 28.—(1: 10) one of them in alive.” )—The British advancing! from Sherghet to Mosul, ' of the principal Turkish | “of communication. _This| ably will force the Turks: > fall back on on ewes th the Riggins, 'son of J. R. Riggins of 162 e H THE AMERICANS} THWEST OF VERDUN, | (3 p. m.j)—(By Asso-| ‘ated Press.) American long} € guns this afternoon be-| iring on Longuyon. LONDON, Oet. Oct. 28—The -" 5,600 prisoners, says an/ ial statement. They also) ed 29 guns, including six inch howitzers. AMSTERDAM, Oct: Oct. 28.—As a con- * STRIKES BALANCE WITH HUN TRIO along o. k. Have four hurts lav Four, kavtd ee got three Germans—brot | The above postscript attached to a letter written by a nurse in a Mesopotamia have cut the’ base hospital tells the story of one Casper fighter, Sergeant Arthur R. South Center street. Riggins does not say what happened to the other two Huns he “got” but an ordinary imagination will discount this failure. The nurse says that Riggins is able to be out on crutches and that he is suffering from three wounds in the head and one above the knee. KNOX OPPOSES WILSON PEACE Former Secretary of State Asks Senate, |aecepted th resignations of the pre- | mier and the minister of financ2, it is ' stated. is reported ashore 15 miles off Crescent City. known here. ae Frederich August za WHERE OIO-HOUX GET 81 HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLLS? SECTION 16 MATTER ALSO RIDDLE TO THE VOTERS FOUR WOUNDS FOR CASPER “YANK’ losbly- RubthedGsectaubtances Include Canceling of | Mortgage by Mrs. Houx After Attempted Barter of Valuable Oil Lease in the Middy In the spring of 1917 the matter of a lease on Section Sixteen in ithe Big Muddy Oil Field came up for hearing before the land board. | For three weeks prior to this period Frank L. Houx, then secre- jtary of state, vehemently insisted that a Jease upon the East half of jsaid section should be given to J. T. Hurst. It was represented that ‘an oil lease upon this particular land was worth’much more and that \a higher price would be paid for the same and that the money realized |would go into the public school fund. Propositions were submitted iby W. H. Taylor, Clarence Richardson, John D. Clark, and many oth- ers for a lease on this section, with a good bonus and higher royalties.; When the board met in February with still insisting that jthe lease be given to-Hurst, John B. Kendrick, the severnor, refused \sacdidlanktie tha jcopedilenamd tt was knaby agreed by the board in the presence of those seeking = lease upon the section that it would be’ sold at auction to those who were present, but that none of the |parties who were seeking the lease could communicate with their asso- ciates on the outside, either personally or by phone, and the doors iwere locked, gene any of the parties prema from. communi- \cating with the outside. No details are| Premier Lloyd George and Foreign ;Secretary Balfour had left for France with their naval and mili- tary advisers foreshadowed an early meeting of the supreme war council at Versailles. While military mem- bers. of the council are drawing up terms of an armistice which will be tantamount to surrender by Ger- many, political representatives from the entente are expected to discuss individual peace views of the govern- ments with a view to formulating a complete program to be presented if Germany accepts the terms-of the at- mistice. LONDON, Oct, 28.—-Emperor Wil- }liam has no intention of abdicating, but is willing, if it is for the good of the people, to ordain that his rights | shall be reframed, according to a} statement attributed to German court officials. >. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 28 ——Emperor| William has again given his personal| approval to plans of the German League for combatting foreign ways and customs in Germany, according to German papers, Wilson in his note of Octeber 18. Austria says she is willing and ready, without awaiting the result of other negotiations, to negotiate a peace and an immediate armistice on all Austro-Hungarian fronts, PARIS, Oct. 28,-—Grave troubles have broken out at Budapest as a result of the appointment of Count Julius Andrassy, who is suspected of Germanophile tendencies, to be Aus- trian Foreign Minister, says a Zurich dispatch to the Matin: A committee of workmen and soldiers has been |formed to represent the extermist | party in impeding events. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—There ‘is no official confirmation to rumors |regarding developments in Austria- |Hungary and Turkey. An offer of surrender from ConstantinopR has beage expected for days but no notice f the new proposal has reached the | State Department. | PARIS, Oct. 28.——German news: |papers maintain that the mutinous | (Continued on page 8) REVOLUTION IN HUNGARY PUTS END HUN RULE Governor Kendrick notified Houx up to this time that he would! ——< Consideration. of Any Pact Reached iderve out his term as governor, he then having been ‘elected to the National Council Siezes Reins of Gow ij B |United States Senate, before he would see the | his se 4 ee RITISH PRESS | __ by President in Speech Today lnrmed over to Mr. Hearst as inited upon by Hour, for the wm] ernment and Dictates Course New i AHEAD ALONG | PIAVE FRONT . {By Associa , Gaiden | opinion peace treaty,| ¥ho were: i along the Piave aon gc made in the Senate by Plilander P. Knox, of Pounds Wi with thele asvecates's0 an to meet the Hurst bid, have tyes oe A national council was formed to take © ‘ cy have taken over 700 and iYormes, socretasy, of aoe inan address charging the| =» n Febtuary2Ath, 1917, the lease on Section Sixteen was award-| "Immediate orn the complete independence of Hungary and over 71 Pris. |p have prepared aed to Hurst. jseverance of the alliance Wahi Chraiay | is demanded. ‘Count Karolyi to Knox. WSHINGTON, Oct. 28.—A protest against ‘ ‘tated President Wilson alone and not'by representatives of ‘Ameri- ¢ . rs scat ot thi fee Press} any peace’ terms dic- EN the lof $100.00. . ‘The lease was then sold to J. T. Hurst, the friend of Houx,, who| (Continued on Page 8.) pera: ig" Oct. 28.—A headed the revolution. Regime Will Pursue in Future peaceful revolution is. believed to