New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1918, Page 1

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mm(mnrnun ¥ X x ¥ X ¥ ¥ X x ¥ ¥ x TO THE SERVICE. NE\Y/ BRITAIN CONNECTICU'I M()N DAY URKS ABOUT Tt RTER MILLION UBSCRIPTION T0 LOANDRIVE HERE Between $200 000 and $250,000 | Reported Invested in Bonds Up to Noon Today TALIAN GRENADIER BAND MAY VISIT US| War Heroes Speak at North & Judd Rally—Big Turnout For Tomorrow Night _at Center Congregational Church—War hibits at Commercial Street —Interest Over Week-end. 3 Incomplete returns in the hands of J indicated Chairman A Sloper this afternoon at between New Bri- Liberty M o'clock that $200,000 and $250,000 of tain’s the Iourth ) O Sloper, quota of n had been subscribe who has the charg ha of cam- paign in this city, has not yet re- ceived tabulated of a and accurate re- the definite tomorrow. Riccio of Harirord tain this morning not it wil be rangements Italian Gr port subscriptions, but wi have a announcementf Italian Consul was in New Bri to whether or possible make to bring the nadier Band to this city the interest of the Iourth Liberty Loan. This famous band, which the royal band of Italy, is in this country giving concerts to b the Liberty J.oa and if rangements can e it will come here late October 14 This whieh is of about musicians, have under fire the front in the battle ainst is accompanied by @ company rom - the 8lst Bersaglieri members of the ized the of the Ttalian vho are visiting all seen actual War The with train make see to famous 4in is n made on after band, 70 whom Ttaliz Austria, of men Regiment. Bersaglieri are picked fighting army and tho: this country have service at the Relics on Exhibition. d all of heen on n as units campaign excellent ring a I tme of and urived this morning and was shunted off onto the Commercial siding where will ght at 10:30 there v A the this progress it i toc special war relics souvenirs, street remain until This Loan rally at will he another S o'clock. Several cceived there expected. A ompanying plpin to the each of the weére picked o'clock Liberty there noon train evening riptions at subsc this noon and more detail of me this T army n train and they visitors the nz exhibits, wll ¢ up the battle This exhibit ex- of which fields turc of France Rally At 8 p another First is free Night. there will rally at church Tomorrow m. tomorrow Liberty Loan Congregational be the (Continued on Ninth Page) WEAR A MUSLIN MASK TO BALK INFLUENZA. Haven, against health today had a and it is expected that recom- mendations will made that cvery person attending a gath- ering, theatrical performance or who in course of duties is brought into close speaking contact with others, wear a muslin mask over their moth In furtherance of this, all members of the le military naval unit being » Provided with mut piece A simple device' for a has been evolved n he made in @ tew and it whs stated the thou- sand of the by the voluntecs short time, The influenza marked iner effort being New Sept. 30 the As a of measure spread wnthorities rence, influer here confer be and wer slin m which ¢ winute tens of be produced workers in a is showing in the city spared to keep the infection from the 2,500 men at Yale who marking time until the federal govern ment takes over the university tomorrow and sets the students at work B a se No is are i Anticipated Ex- | Siding | to | some | composed | front. } s | emergency and wre ! The | iEPI[]EMII] 15 STILL - ONINCREASE HERE L Upto 302—0ne Death Col. Frothingham Expresses Thanks to Mayor Quigley for Sending Nur- ses to the Cantonment—Disease spreads in City. influenza in its shows mno The | that | grasp | sign epidemic of Spanish has held New I for the past week of immediately abating and at 1 o'clock this afternoon the health department officials had been in- of 64 additional cases. Y four cases were reported, m aturday afternoon. there was a total and placed under o that this afternoon the | total number of cases reported is 302. While the doctors of the city are co- operating in every day with health department to combat epidemic, it is Dbelieved that are more cases in the city than been actually reported. This in many instances it has that a person, feeling ill, to resort to home than call a doctor until the develops to alarming state, health dep on people to sritain | formed terday K- | ing On 6% since aturday cases reported quarantine, the there have be- heen is cause | founa essayed rather disease The urge « has, a m tment continues to the part of all and keep away from where the ge is apt to found. People are use . handkerchief sneeze. Nurses Enough New Britain now teer murses ing the {at Camp Devens. The { who left Friday evening rdiately their James Kitson, Mrs, nu)m\ Wy Miss Claffey, who left late - afternoon, began their dut his morning Mayor G received the Col. Frothingham, medical department aution rdvise crowds be to m again when they cough or at Camp. five volun- government two nurse went to \\rn)\ arrival imme« Mrs and urday upon vesterday | A. Quigley | telegram from of the amp Devens: “Thank you | now have | Devens, in { charge at i c We for interest sufticient your \nother Private Peter i drafted fro Soldier Dies. H. Alexian, who was Hartford but who in his records mentioned Peter of this ecity his closest died today at Camp Devens influenza. The body will be { brought to this city tonight, according to present plans, and will be taken ‘to the Greek Orthodox church from whence funeral ices will held tome Interment will in cemetery, ery Aid Given | W. R Fletcher, who Stanley Works, returned this city | today after attending the funeral | his brother, Chester 1. Fletcher, of {Wilton, Maine, who died at Camp ‘Ihmnn of influenza In order to Porfiros as friend of the be be ser oW, airview 1 Soldiers, is with the to of counteract any impression that the | ®oldiers are not being properly cared ‘for to the limit of the facilities at hand in camp, Mr. Fletcher stated this afternoon that he was at Camp Devens for three days and sick sol- were receiving every care zo00d they would home in This icularly attendance T diers pos- sible, at 15 as receive is by Ty scourge. Despite through a sorrow, Mr. Fletche own mind that brother was not neglected in slightest detail and that the conditions obtained for other ill with influenza ATTEMPTS SUIGIDE Mitchell many true of who are minute ght the the fact he § period of intense in his present ey ssed his the same soldiers satistied is I(' rles of Arch Street Throat in a Fit of Dispondcncy on Account of 11 Health, fit of of ill health, Arch treet morning ® TAZOr. He afterward and New Britain yound in his a0t sufficient] Jugular vein for his recov Mitehell, been de Charles attempted cutt his wa In o spondency onaccount Mitcehell of sucide th throat with found immediately hurried to the ral hospital throat was severe, to sever entertained by ng s but deep Hopes i are who is about in ill health ast has been unable wound in his throat was worried a great deal over tion 37 vears old, for to soe work sever,e hi= hut condi- 4 68 Addiitonal Cases Brings Total| | NURSES ENOUGH AT CAMP of | the remedies urged | u.n.mm;:'j nurses at Camp | Cuts The the time He A | MEASURE FOR PEACE CONFERENCE TRODUCED IN AUSTRIAN Amsterdam, Sept. 30.—A proposition that the presi- dents and vice-presidents of the parliaments of belliger- ent and neutral states shall be invited to meet for an unbinding discussion of the basis of peace has been in- troduced in the lower house of the Austrian parliament. The motion, says a Vienna message, was introduced by Herr Neumann, a liberal deputy. It would empower the president of the chamber of deputies to convey the i invitation to the parliaments of the belligerents and of neutral states. The meeting would be held at a place | agreed upon. FIRST HUNDRED NUMBERS IN DRAFT LOTTERY ARE DRAWN BY PRESIDENT HOUS i W i Wilson ceremony 3,000,000 draft. He drew the first capsule, { contained the number | The others were drawn s iy 5 oo H 1697, 3 Number 10,086; 43 Sept. 30.—President Number <hington, & o s Numbe personally today opened the of drawing numbers for men registered in the new which umber 60 is 964 s follows 10,6563 Number 1961; 4886; 9 umber 10 70 is 10 is 16,009 904; 1 Number 20 240; 16,846; | 5941: 307 Number is 1907; 152 1 Number 359; 100 is ALLIES REDUCE SPACE BETWEEN GERMANS AND BELGIAN BORDER; THOUSANDS OF CAPTIVES TnKEN 1 i | AMERIGANS CHEER AS [rvench. mercrs, i THE NOW HONS DOWN,| & BeiansGain Ground i | With Smashing losses | Blows From North Sea to Verdun Irresistibles Impetus Carries Them Past Hindenburg Line I\ear St. Quentin Loudon, Sept. 30.—By ed Press)—picld forces tod the Marshal y smashed the line on a front of cight maximum depth of two British attack was made St. Quentin. The British Belgian tacking in Flanders © for an average depth of five miles a a maximum depth of cight miles, Roulers is in peril and the whole of the 'my’s Communications in Bel- gium and Flandc particul. on the Belgian coast, is threat \ssociat- Haig Hindenburg miles o a miles. The just north of With the North of St Associated American Quentin, Sept. 29, Press.) Army Forces (By the d front American md armics at- sions brilliantly attacked e of considerable with the night fall they gained their on length in «conjuction At were reported to have British this mornir objectives. Inemy were heavy. i Between St. Quentin and the portant gains were made today British, Belgians and Ameri An American unit is reported have passed through Le Catalet and tc have reached Gouy. Other units which captured Nauroy, have passed through Le Caberet Wod arly in the fore- noen 36 German officers and 1,000 of other ranks had reached the American collecting cage: It was at 6 o'clock this when the Americans with the British Paris, ¢ on their right and left finaks, “shoved | Gouraud's army aft off”” from the Hindenburg outpost line, | ing on the norther: about 2,000 vards west of St. hts, Mont Cu Quentin canal which was captured on | Ville Friday, After a short barrage [ Alin | the infantry preceded lage num- | toward Chaillers | ber of tanks started advancing | 2nd heigh | through the haze. Manre After hard fighting the troops reach- | Lesn ed the canal and scrambled the barrage swept on ahead The attacks seem to the Americans through Hindenburg line west of the canal The Germans resisted to the utmost everywhere. Heavy fighting continues in the locality where the Americans attacked, but last reports indicate the Americans, having reached certain points were “leap-frogged” by Austra- lian troops who continued to advance | rhe Australiar and Ameri | halted momentarily and cheered other places where the fighting tinued furiously the Am ing their machine guns cheered as they The ground man dead and other section progr ‘wherc se London, Sept the Associated Germans hard he Aisne, the reached the Oi om the battle yrogressing Chemin de Dame toward the ea 1 the enemy is retreating hehir p. m Pushing the the front north of Irench today havc Aisne canal, reports wow. They arc : (By by the Bidy Y on s, - along m rs Gen Gourand Delivers h (Havas.) sl morning Fre Blow. pt 30, G this Bellevue Boucon morn- pes of the and “‘crash brook, which flows northeast heen crossed the villa > of the by a the taken w brook have across of them carried main as French Resume Cham, At troops in attack office ack. have . Paris, the the C {at daybr nounces. The Germans violently counter-at- tacked last night south of St. Quentin, in the Urvillers region, in an to recapture Hill $8. All were broken the nch imed their the war today, an- these up by Erench de fense On the British and st of Douai the from Arleux front have wit Aubencheul and rifles, tritish in Suburbs of Cambrai worked littered ame the wis with Ger the was true of of front Deep reported virtually every- London, sept (Continued ress Was SW JAPANESE Washington. Sent one of the leaders Kai party has appointed premi- er of the new Japanese cabinet, ceeding the Terauchi administration PREMIER. 0 lara. of the gre: in K 1 New with frost cast for nity: pai Tuesday heen ton e attempt | efforts | | method { | | | | | | | | } | ( | our Sent to G lflvasnon Paris, Sept. 30. —An Allies and Bulgaria on the Allieg This announcement was made BULGAKIA GIVES UF " London, Sept. 30.—Speaking at the Law, the chancellor of the exchequer, Jaid a g been signed by which hostilities ended today af nof Bulgaria by the terms fixed, gives up conpletéiy the control of the railways, the chancellor stated. —— PEACE PLEA FROM TURKEY IMMINENT ‘ London, Sept. 30.—Strong belief Exists here this afternoon that _peace offer from Turkey is imminent. 30.—1 into the the Washington, Wilson of the suffr Sept resident | today stepped breach | senate over woman resolution and personal the \ge in a address in senate chamber asked its s a war measure, for The follows Gentlemen of “The unusual circumstances the world war in which and and are judged in the view only of people and our con- but the all and people will, 1 hope, in thought, the have vou. pass president addressed the senate a the senate: we not own view own science also in of nations justify mine, bring as it does in to your message I come, the amend- of the essential cution of the which we urge which conclusion. It it 1lso my every circum- in th seems regard the concurrence of senate astitutional ment proposing the suffrage to the great in the cc extension to women as vitally nccessful of humanity 1. I have the me to t pnm« vou prose war in are ¢ e come to upon y considerations have led is not only duty to stance my is apprise ' ind element m\unmy mome me tc outcome. obstacle 1tous ffect its very It is my to a ou which processes struggle to and its the duty to to in win remove the war Kk that stands it. way of winning “I had would cause sumed concur the no disputablc but by that the senate amendment principle question the suffr in he in- the | to volved method be extended “There is only a which to women ind cz sue involved in it. of is be no oth of are ple to equality the women of the party, therefore, it Justify of obtaining to substitute party our gr ed, of country. to | to the ttully | initia- earl is- it national gi ] plicitly frage for Neither me, c: parties pledged su seems n hesitation it, can 1 he federal tive initiative, if the to ssful war anc tion of 1 tatc nece th prosecution of the method of party able, with time, it practical proposed ¢ ti \ble length of And cleur patform if i n o my vy to the rdoption judgr s of the wnd fought which ization for iy ment e tr h 1 the liberty hall n vo earn reasons whic tate ontinued on Ninth TFage) »robab) wij s to an from armistice—f the allian three vears afte that Bulgaria issu her lot against t deciding h Bulgarian the fir the Central entered the war. It a manifesto announcing Entente alliance. She course. In the representatives in Bulgaria ithdray Powers—a few less step than 1915 ys was on October 8, her had decision to been 15 months into ti declared th ly bout 1y had offer lacedonia, i territor ofter time of her yvernment at the Bulgarian rhts issued entrance the economic 1 and Austria.” Gern neutrality the whole and Orchrida. A still g Serbia was said ssistar manifesto ranks of the belligerents, her trade interests and up with Turkey, Germany Bulgaria in return for her cluding Uskub, Monastir the ex active ere insepa reater expansion at pense of to have been as a condition of military a ce During the period the allance and the Cent Bul Russia, who for years had protected DBulgarian intere ultimatum to Bulgaria in Gctober, 1915. Bu the Russian demands The Bulgarian manifesto said Bu promises of the Entente and that “Dulgaria victor’'s side.” It was reported at that timc thoritatively that treaty had garia and Germany concerning Bul war on July 17, 1915 Bulgaria was invaded Saloniki and on September 27 Allied mo, announced Bulgarian proposal that 1 suspended tiations for armi [ rian proposal by the Al I'rench he not 1 epresentatives of the tativ Saloniki Sunday. both offers Enter a of rian necutrality raria sent refus made to carly ia lgaria did not believe nust and never denied been s between B rian | ned ticipation A Secret in 4 north Esperey, British troops at I'ranchet had ilitary by int P Gieneral that general 1C rece 1 government a operatior pendir an stice I’ending cussion of the Bulg aeneral said would stop Bulgarian army reached Saturday and gotia Allies May Occupy Bul arra garia. armistice | heen the A is pr garia by tre I Bulgaria prol with the armies from Serbia, (7 Allied troops can cly obable tha vith the ass v will Central Powe 1ania and other ernment. b communici eece, R take over the Bu the not Before it ois unlik that the \ustria garia (Germany iria in the would East, construction part. It nined the aims in and will make deter: Teutonic alliance, because seces n Tw with ion of front mean the probable elimin the key from the v of eastern Rumania taking n Bu blamec Germans 1ent that because Since the has been reported defeat “Macedonia ments promptly. proposed an had th out the innouncet have in come hurried to Sunday that Rumania nistice, reports i‘eutonic troops being Bulg Switzerland it was withdrawn fre but it is probable they nto Bulgaria to keep control of thc vhich were reporte being ni aiv are beir Germany not unlikely railroad from runs through M withdray kes Advance on Austria Possible val m the Teut in a Julgaria’s ould Iurkey and thc could economic situation has been causing the government mt From the Allied standpc uptaion of Bulgaria soldiers probably would than the defection has meant nic iance but not free Sef \llied trg place perilous position uld Danube, from which Hungary, southern bank of the advance into Austria where the nt the occ mean more

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