New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1918, Page 1

P‘RO\I THE HTR\IU TO THE SERVIC L. HERALD “ADS" MEAN § BETTER BUSINESS § — ESTABLIS HI‘D 1876. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 101¢ —SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTSZ ALLIED FLOOD RUSHING STEADILY EASTWARD; ENEMY FORCED BACK FROM DOUAI TO VERDUN; AMERICANS SHATTER FAMOUS KRIEMHILD LINE 600 BUTCHERED IN LEINSTER ATTAGK NG WARNING GIVEN Kaiser Resumes Pastime of Mur- | dering Innocent Women and Children Helpless at Sea SHIP BLOWN T0 BITS 'KAISER REPORTED IN OPPOSITION TO MAXIMILIAN’S PEACE MESSAGE T imil 1o cor Iy P day | S i k2 | fere | this A eigns of all .ondon Wilson ding to a may Oct. 11.—Chancellor Max- peace proposal to President as made in direct opposition ws of Jimperor William, ac- a report brought to London neutral who left Germany a few It su ted that this be the reason for the summoning he G m: soverei for a con- once. No official confirmation of can be obtained here. jan’ he is mster Tam am, h Oct. 11.—Emperor summoned the sover- the German federal states to Berlin for a consultation answering President Wilso! note, according to a Cologne dispatch. Such a conference is unique in the history | of Germany. beiore | London, Oect. 11.—Germany's an- swers to President Wilson’s questions are awaited with great anxiety in Germany, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Central News. The official North German Gazette say “We have reas to believe the peace step which s been com- menced will be continued.” | | }’\\n | | [ CHARLES TO ISSUE PROCLAMATION BY TWO TORPEDOES Rscue of Majority on Board Possible Had Not Second Missile Been Sent From U-Boat—Scores Picked After Clinging to Wreckage and Rafts for an Hour—Lifcboats stroyed. Dublin, lives 11 in —Tt is the Leinster Oct believed 600 | lost steamer were sinking of the madil by a sea yesterday, it the office of he 1590 saved, in the Tris ed today at Only about added After by the ibled sub Thi shiips, caused BrE, here was some passengers tried to enter the be many were thrown into the soon information regardin Leinster's plight reached Kingstown was stat- it been hr r the Lein first tory ondition fired stru d. edo wi a in an easy sccond Itrvyndn sile stru the ve 1 amid- enteved tl engine room dnd an explosion of the ship's l»u.l- wrine eonfusion 2 | the Up | owner. | was | ABOPT RESOLUTIONS - ON LIEUT. J. A. GLOVER as um{ la(lm sed. ’ ! B ON AUTONOMY IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 2], Oct. 10.-—Emperor Charles of Austria soon will issue a proclama- tion ’; fers | cide De- | Vienna advices { tung. | Hungary | ven | sure th torpedo | i sett cure OUr) dealing with the right of the dif- snt nations of the empire to de- their own future: to the Fr according to ankfort Zei- Pesti-Hirlap cekir Austria tegrity of of Budapest says naticnal life inde- and desires to in- ner territory, se- seaport and have the right to le her own internal affairs. That nal cloims the right for Hungary dent to be represented at the peace con- ference by a special delegate and sug- gests Count Albert Apponyi. Amsterdam, Oct. 10.—Count Ap- ponyi, the opposition leader in the Hungarian parliament, has approved of the peace proposals of the Central cupires, according to a Frankfort | dispaten to the Nieuwe Courant of | Rotterdam. i “It is not we who bring about the fall of the Dual monarchy’ he is quoted as saying. “It has collapsed of itselt Col and destroyers hastened to the | submarine without about 150 and saved I ptain wvivors say the he two torpedoes from a warnin range of vards. Det of the not vet heen obtained he Leinster's comm hose lost. It is kn stewarde were drowned. Second Torpedo Dealt Death, a lost. was ! two Fourth engineer scond torpedo all on Jones d not s board excent ere killed the first tor probably would have been saved, enty time to xplosion of ver, match himself s that uc those by 18 there he mnd the was | of boat to ship the sc Ao, up id, blew li vood. jmy hour when by ing the and to ver. water one was linging v a destr The Leir at sunl The = ships picked up of persons from water were clinging to upturned b ind broken fimbers. The s brought ta, Kingstown. e in a desperate state as a re their exposure in the dead bodies sened the rman fifth channel b submarines., G the whe ats, we hour's A land Many A member p16%on of the the els to iie WrecH 1 n the several A the fc rough sea. number of =0 were Blown Tnto Sca, of 1 rew S ton Some deck 1 the ond edo s ces of the Kkilled majority of the ard declo ording some nger on were rown into the s aid shed others cdy ze of the one of ths . high the p: torped ck the shir : the he side and siid do u ro a boat > the life boat was to ship the second pedo wa Two Torpedoes Found Mar Oct. 10, (By the o torpedocs One Associat- were fired near the within 15 struck sank including may number carried a yme hoat clldren, crew of il 5 wreek- to stop British rs counted the water board the outright by coming steamer passed throngh the wasg not permitted il of eng order pas floating i mail clerks illed the He bodies 21 ¥, 20 nee with the niiralty 1d the of on Leinste (Continued on Fifteenth Page edo, | al fired | Ha Cou | fall i tion | Al | Killed it ll\P‘ con associates of L. Dritain | we Jaunch ! Kirkha - | Prose | ] I w died lead ¥ New I sch | the mit corr Nev blew | nership with the n to the | sent to the the | receiving lieu F | at cou bec (o] Am |t in ren { hor i | o pat of | of of life. Glover mans. Jeutenant worl uated field jve rsity, ult of { iy the cla was graduated | After war ance wor had T splendid world. and i : i unty and City Bar Asso- ciations Pay Respect To Hero. (Special to the Herald.) artford, 11.—The H:n'lfordi Bar association, in first meecting resolu- Joseph who oct. nty its today, adopted of Lieut. Britain, the death of New France s on was in while leading his in a char; against the Ger- addresses were made by ut. Glover in the olutions, by Judge n, Judge B, F. ruting Attorney George W. follows: b Joseph Andrew Glover, of the Hartford county bar, ance, July 20, 1918 while 1ing his company in action, in the 1d war for democracy. was born November 20, Britain, Conn. sone of Mary Glover. He was from the New Britain 0ol and thereupon entered She Scientific school of Yale Uni- from which he was graduated of 1913. fle then entered w school, from which he in 1916. He was ad- the bar and immediately the practice of law t Conn., forming a part- Henry P. Roche, under Roche & Glover. the United States entered the was among the first to enlist United States army and was Plattsburg Training camp, commission second itenant on August 1 1917. A weeks later he was assigned to rd Infantry at Camp Devens, M being transferred to Camp Westfield, Ma and shortly s was ordered on over- rvice. He was appointed Court Officer while in and early in the winter was a British Training camp in that ntry, specializing in bhavonet k. He then went to the front and ame second lieutenant of Company 02rd Infantry, and although he the opportunity of returning to erica as an instructor in the can- me he declined, and continued {he service until he Kept his dezvous with death on the fleld of 10T, hough 1pany Brief New which John H. and Klett, e pr 1ember d in Fr 1892, at W Nicholas and grad- High ale ted to nmenced v Britain, name o he the a lawyer of of gener- and of instinet of declaration young he a of lofty ideal thetic impul pur His riotism flamed at the and hastened at the call his country to enlist in the cause democracy for the freedom of the Casting aside his earlier plans ambitions he zealously, in a war, he oy 'TURKEY TO DISMISS complished more for the (Continued an Fifteenth Page.) BULGARIAN MINISTER Constantinople ILearns Military Attack By Former Ally. | of | London, Oct. 10.—The Porte has been advised that Bulgaria is expect. cd to send troops against Turkey in in_expedition planaed by the Entente Allies, according to a dispatch to the hange Telegraph Co. from Am- sterdam, quoting advices from Con- stantinople. The dispatch adds it thought probable the Bulgarian min- ister to Tur will be handed his passports within 24 hours. { Turk Defection. 11—Writing from the appointment s grand viziér and Izzet Pasha war minister of Tur- key, the Berlin correspondent of the Rhenish Westphalian . Gazette says the new Turkish cabinet proclaims the general desire of peace on the 't of the people of that country. “W certainly do not stray for from the truth when we assume that im- pending eveats in Turkey will result in a change of poli the newspa- per Germany Feavs Amsterdam, Oct. Constantinople upon of Tewfik Pasha ECOND DISTRICT CALLS ITS QUOTA Men Will be Inducted Into the Service and Sent South on October 23, The names of ing to 27 men who are go- ss Monroe, Va., on Octo- ber, 23, with the additional names of four alter: , were given out by the second district exemption hoard toda Among those selected to 20 with this quota is Harold Sjolander, organist at the Swedish Lutheran church. Follow- i s the list: Salvatore Squillace, 189 Oak Charles Hadfield, 41 Clark St.; Hubert Reynolds, 10 Center St.; John . Buttner, 27 Lee St.; Harold T. Martin, Stanley St.; George Alepo, 127 John Schroeder, 202 Hart- Harold Sjolander, Christopher Ra Pearl Ct.; Louis V. Curran, William Jurgen, Judd Ave, Zenk, Berlin Construction Co. 98 Commercial St.; mmons, 30 Union Rollins, Pleasant Krech, 107 Ann St, Merider Carlson, 76 Prospect St.; Fred John- son, 41 State St.; Watertown, N. Y.; ward Reinholdt, 49 Belden St.; Clarence Banner, 166 Park St.; Walter Woj Union Richard Holleran hael Butler, cderick Moor Perondini, 454 So. Wilbur, 17 A% B 134 Hartford Ave. Harold Sieed, 127 rivle Perkins, 605 East ‘e Balincki, 91 Church 312 Church St. Church St. an, Milford; Georg Harold George Claus k, Nor- Main ain St; wich: Albert St William Tlarry Cronin, Alternates: Cherry $t.; C Main St. 8t Frank te Vorkum, CONNECTICUT MEN DID BiT IN ST, MIHIEL Gen, March Reveals !fienti-‘ ty of Troops that Smashed Salient: Now Aimost Two Million Sent Overseas Washington, troops sent 1,900,000 mark, nounced today, coupling his ment with an urgent appeal to country to support the Fourth erty Loan. The present is no time to hang back, Gen, March said, for the maxi- mun resources of the nation and men and money must be “hurled at the Hun" to m victory certain, and Oct. overseas have passed the Gen. March an- the Lib- while the movement of soldiers across | the water partment million m million. The department has for eight billion doll its am he added support of that program not he withheld by the nation Taking up the battle situation on the west front, Gen. March said with the captlure of Le Cateau by the Brit- ish the Allied forces were within miles of the railway junction of Aul- noye which is a vital strategical point for the enemy. The Liege-Mauberge railway and the lateral road through Sedan at which the American army is striking on the Meuse meet each oth- er at Aulnoye, and these two lines are the main arteries for German supplies and troop movements in France. In St. Mihiel Battie. Gen. March announced the can divisions which cleaned St. Mihiel salient in the fight prepared the way for the operations north of Verdun. de- two the war another the first is continuing preparing to follow ked congress to carry out and the finan- prog Ameri- up the which present Pointing from left Lo right on the map he said | 1s follow (New B the divisions were in line Fourth (regular), 26th land National Guard); First, (regu- lar); 42nd, (Rainbow); 89th (Kan- sas, Missouri, South Dakota, Nebras- ka, Colorado, New Mexico and Ari- zona National Army): Second, (regu- lar). This information made constitution of the which Gen. Pershing brilliant and swift victo American effort. divisions in Gen. March first the is the publ as to army with achieved a in his first wholly Locating jous sponse to questions the 91st, (Alaska, Washington, Ore- gon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Mon- tana, Wyoming and Utah National Army), still was in the American training areas; the 78th (Western New Yor y and Delaware jonal Army is on the line with the First corps, but its position is not specifically stated. The 29th, (New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, Mar land, and District of Columbia Na- tional Guard) on the line in the Vosges, as is the 37th (Ohio National Guard); the 90th (Texas, and Okla- homa National Army) the St. Mihiel front; the 82nd bama and Tennessee) Argonne and the 42nd in the Woevre. The first courier from Gen. ing carrying the hospital the expeditionary forces wounded men vived, Gen. March said the including ap- proximately 16,000 names. This num- ber, he said, was the accumulation 1 the period up to the time it was decided to bring the lis by re- said i is (Georgia, Ala- is east of the (Rainbow), is on Persh- records of for slightly SUNDAYS. The g modified Washington, Sunday order time to permit October 13 but officia re hopeful Oct. will nc use of motor Fuel Admi that be in on ration will cars be day CATHER. w Hartford cast for oct. 1t.—Fore- Britain and vi- tonight and Now air rturda 11.—American | state- | two must | 14 | cour- | less | ' PREPARE F0OD FOR STRICKEN FAMILIES | Home Service Department of Red Cross Takes Action { MORE GHURGHES T0 CLOSE Supt. Moore Hears of Only 194 New Cases—Schools May Remain Idle Tor Another Week—Need of More Nurses. of the to open an this city and Abel Kronholm of Linden street this work. Food will be prepared for any families where all members are sick and unable to are for themselves and the Red Cross automobile service will deliver | the food at the various homes. W. W. Leland of the Red Cross requests any- one knowing of a needy case where the family is sick and unable to pre- pare food to notify the Home Service department in the City Building. Only 194 New Cases Dr. H. F, Moore, superintendent of health, said this afternoon that if his | department has been furnished with a complete and accurate list of new cases of Spanish influenza he is in- clined to be of the opinion that the height of the epidernic has been reach- ed and from now on the disease will show a gradual decline. Dr. Moore based this statement on the fact that {up to 2 p. m., only 194 new cases had been reported today, and of these 164 [were by one physicion who explained that he had made no report in three There are now 3,341 cases in Already several of the Pro- churches have decided to sus- pend their services on Sunday Judge B. F. Gaffney, chairman of the school hoard, said that at the monthly meeting this afternoon he will recom- mend that the city schools remain closed for one more weel. The Home Service Section ‘Red Cross has decided emergency Mrs. canteen in is chairman of | testant May Kceep Schools Closed. When the board met last Saturday it was voted to close the schools for | this week only with the hope that the next week would find conditions about the city so much better that the schools could reopen on the 14th. While no official statement has been given out by the school board chair- man or any of members binding them to such aciion, individual opin- ions expressed by eral of the com- mittee would indicate that they are seriously considering keeping the chools closed. It it was necessary thag the schools be closed this weelk it would seem mno 1 essential that they be closed next week as well in view of the increased epidemic, is the statement made by several members of tho school board who have been seen. its More Churches Closed. First Congregational church, vote of its standing committee 1t has decided to suspend all until further notice. This not only to the Sunday morn- ing ces, but also to the Sunday school and other servic Yesterday the South church announced a cessa- tion of services until further notice, and the Beth I21 Jewish Synagogue did likewise. The Methodist church is closed until further notice and it was stated at St. Mark’s Episcopal church rectory this morning that it { had been decided to postpone further servic The Baptist likewise s decided to discontinue its Sunday service and the same action has been taken at the German Baptist church. Many Pathetic Cases. The Tealth department phys n, charity department workers and the war bureau investigators are daily discovering new cases of want, and many of these cases are tragically pathetic. Last evening a man from Wilson street visited the health de- | partment and begged piteously for a doctor. Dr. Blackledge was out on a call and it was Impossible to secure another physician., While impatiently | waiting, the man put in a telephone Ul to his own house then almost collapsed in his chair. No doctor then nceded for the little child had died while efforts to get a physi- cian were being made. The war bureau investigators are finding many homes, where all are ill, and already there have been a num- ber of women who have volunteered to into these homes and render | such assistance as possible. TIn one house it was found that because all | the inmates were sick the patients { had not had the services of a doctor or nurse in two days and In addition ervices applie | { | | First was| (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) and | | No Attempt Made to Stop Advance at Cam brai; Germans Withdrawing from Chemi des Dames and Must Give up St. Gobai Forest at Once; Pershmg Makes Big Jum ARTILLERY BATTLE ON MEUSE FRONT ‘With the American Forces Northwest of Verdun, Oct. 11, (By the Associated Press, Noon.)—Heavy artillery firing in the region west of the Meuse began early today. The Ameri- cans started the action before daylight and the Germans re- sponded. Fires are reported in the region of many towns behind the lines and it is believed these were started by the American shells. With the Anglo-American Forces Southeast of Cambrai, Oct 11, (By the Associated Press.)—The greatest battle now being fouqln in this region on a front of nearly 30 miles today, havin; been extended to “the north. The British are gaining everywherel There is virtually no enemy infantry opposition. The only resistance worth mentioning is coming from thd enemy machine gunners. The bulk of the enemy artillery seemg to have fled to far east of the battle ground so as to be out e range. he high ground on the eight mile front beetween St. Hilair and Le Cateau to the southeast was found to be alive wit machine guns when the British approached and the cavalry pa: trols were held up for some time. North of the Le Cateau-St. Hilaire line the Germans are i headlong flight, according to the last reports from airplane obt servers. The Douai salient has been made still deeper, and th news that the Germans are beginning to evacuate that city may be expected at any time No Indication of Stand. Cambrai is being rapidly left behind in the battle area. A the armies push forward there are nowhere any'signs that th Germans intend making”a determined stand, but the British ar going a little slower now, as it is impossible for the vast organiza tions in the rear of the three armies to keep pace with the advaned Up to a late hour last night the British Third army had withi 18 hours made an average advance of more than four miles, and th Fourth army from one to three miles, while the First army north| east of Cambrai had made general progress of three miles. All thi armies were continuing to move eastward. East of Bonain the British are approaching Mennevret and th) Andigny forest, while east of Vaux-Andigny they are drawing closer to Wassigny From Le Cateau, which was taken after struggle, the troops are striking in the direction of Bazuel, 2 1- miles southeast of Le Cateau. American Infantry Sweeps Forward. With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Oct. 10 (By the Associated Press, 9 a. m.)—American forces struck’ th German lines east of the Argonne forest today. They capture the villages of Sommerance, Chevieres and Marcq. The ridge of Dame Marie was stormed after hard fighting More than 1,000 prisoners were taken during the day. These i clude one colonel and two battalion staffs. p Fighting opened this morning with the infantry sweepi through the northern portion of the Argonne forest for a maximu distance of nearly five miles. Little opposition was encountered. As the Americans advanced they found the Germans hag blocked and destroyed the roads. At 2.0o’clock this afternocon the were in Marcq and Chevieres having taken the La Foile farm and the Richard farm and advancing on the Negremont woods, the onl piece of forest land between them and Gmnd Pre. Half an hour later they had captured Sommerance and had ad vanced north of that village. By this attack the Americans havg taken a firmer grip on the territory north of the broken Kriemhiid line. Although there were detachments of German machine gunner and infantry to be met, the Americans found that the German ar tillery fire was very light. They had little difficulty in advancing Fires were caused by enemy shells at Fleville and Chevieres. ¢ Enemy Evacuating Chemin Des Dames. London, Oct. 11, 1 p. m., (By the Associated Press.)—Taday advices from the battlefront indicate it 1s virtually certain thd Germans will have to evacuate the St. Gobain forest almos lmmulnlcl\ he Germans are evacuating the Chemin des Dames under thq ure of the converging attacks west and south of it. The Hunding line behind Laon, between the rivers Serre and} Sissonne, has been turned, making the German situation in the Laon area most difficult. In the Shampagne the French and Americans, joining hand north of the Argonne in the Grand Pre gap ,have occupied th Grand Pre station, while patrols are said to have entered that town itself. , On the river Meuse, northwest of Verdun, the Americans havd cleared out a little pocket in the direction of Sivry, which ha held them up a long time. pres DOUBLE FUNERAD FROM HOME OF PASTOR COOK A double funeral will be REPUBLICAN The PRIMARIES, republican primaries for ti held from 42 nomination of candidates for senat the home of Rev. Warren F. Cook, nd representatives will be eld th Cedar when services street, at 2 tomorrow o’clock are held for Mrs. and their infant daughter, both of whom succumbed to pneu monia. The services will be of a pri- vate nature and interment will be in Fairview cemetery. evening from 4 to 8 o’clock in LeWi block tion of George W Cook Main sireet The noming Klett for senali nd Bdward will on Katherine, Covert and Richard Hall for represntative be mad without contest.