New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1918, Page 1

FROM THIL HERA ¥ ¥ % x x x X ¥ X x ¥ x Why not buy that Liberty Bond today? An excellent investment and a patriotic duty FERAL NEW BRITAIN — 5 — 1 o) ESTABLISHED 1876. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, OCT! OBER 1918. —TEN PAGES. T3 PRICE THREE CEN = — GERMANY AT BREAKING POINT, LANSING SAYS: - ABDICATION AND CAPITULATION UNCONFIRMED; LILLE CAPTURED; BELGIA S MARCH ON LILLE CAPTURED BY TH No Damage Caused by Germans, in Hurry to ‘Leave; King Albert Marching on Ostend London, Oct. 17, via Montreal.—The ity of Lille has been captured by the !British. G Leave Lille Intact. British Headquarters in Flanders, Oct. 17, (Reuters.)-—The Germans on Jeaving Lille, which was captured to- day by British forces, did not set fire to the buildings in the city cause any explosions. rmans Belgians March on Ostend. ;London, Oct. 17, (By the Associated ¥rees.)—Belgian forces under com- mand of King Albert, which crossed the Yser river marching on Ostend, a seaport the English Channel. The Belgians also made progress in the region north of Thourot and vanced in the direction of Thielt. Germans Must Leave North Belgium. Paris, Oct. 17.—The te of the German defenses along the coast and in the great area has been sealed by the continued ivance of the Allied armies under King Albert on the 30 mile front in Flanders. The™ sigiiificance 8t the evacuation of the Belgian cos far greater than the gain of Flanders territory with many airdromes and submarine bases. The extreme ri on zht wing of the Ger- man defenses in the west has been wrenched away from the protecting| Henceforth, the immense line which has been buttressed by the sea one end and by the Swiss frontier the other, forcing the Allies al- to attack frontally, can be out- nked The Allies' rush has been so quick that the hope is expressed here that Lille, Tourcoing and Roubaix will be found almost intact. The operations in Flanders bound to have a vital effect on whole western line. General Ludendorff will be obliged to seek to re-establish his fast crumb- ling front far in the rear of the pre: ent operations. He must preserve at all costs the Ardenne pivot, failure of which would mean disaster. That is why the Germans are offering such de- termined re tance to the French north of Vouz and to tl» Ameri- cans on both sides of the Meu PORTO RICO SEEK UNITED STATES AID on on wa are the More Than 100 Dead, Thousands Homeless, After Earthqualkes That Shook Isiand. New York, Oct. 1 100 persons dead and theusands with- shelter, food or clothing, earthe which and last Friday, the gov- Porto Rico today appealed to the American Red Cross for assistance in a cablegram re- ceived here and forwarded to Waish- _viagton Property out pult of the entire ernment of to congress and a re- the vk shook un 1 three cities and particularly along sgregaies $4,000,000, which id Antor e M Rican was sent president of e. to Cordova ident commissioner in this country. Mr. Davila is about to sail " for home with the body of his wife, a victim of influenz “BABY DOLL” NOT GUILTY Bridg by elo, 1 the Dz Porto vila, res sportiest Negro in ort, With Jake Hankins Acquitted of ,\lunll-r; ——Jury Out About Four Hours. 17, and Bridgeport, Oct. William, (Baby Deoll) Thomas Jake (Texas) Hankins were today acquitted of the murder of Norris Pannell. The returncd at 3 p. m., after than four hours jury out less RALLY SUNDAY. public democratic rally in K. of C. hall at 3 o’clock Sun- ay afternoon. The candidates for overnor and congressman, as well as the on local tieket, will speak. DEMOCRATIC There will be men the YANKEES PROGRESSING ad- | { north | east Belgian | Lille industrial | st line is | | Loges With more than | E BRITISH IMAN ARMY ROUTED FROM NORTH SEA TO THE REGION OF IILLE whole of the German army of Gen. von Arnim is in retreat from the North sea to the region of Lille, ng been beaten back and over the ground by the Allied at- tacks today. The retirement is assuming the proportion of a rout. Seventecn divisions comprise the arn of Von Arnim. 17, ‘he BATTLEPLANES WRECKED IN CROMWELL FOG; In making a forced landing on ac- count of the dense fog two ships of a battleplane fleet flying over Connecti- cut for the Liberty Loan were badly wrecked in Cromwell, just over the Berlin town line, this morning. The pilots escaped injury. A third ma- chine made a safe landing at Col. | Charles M. Jarvis’ farm on the turn- | pike. A fourth machine was wrecked in collision with a tree near Goodwin park, Hartford. There w a fifth | machine in the fleet, but that had not been heard from. The original plan was to have six ships in the fleet, but l | one of the officers assigned for the flight over Connecticut today returned to the field. The fleet came to Connecticut today from Brendley Field, Comstock, .. I., | in accordance with arrangements to promote the sale of Liberty Bond The flyers took to the air about 8:15. There was a fog hanging over the field, but the fiyers thought that whe attained a height they would | ape it. They were partly correct in their surmise. On the way Long Island Sound they encountered heavy banks of fog, but they climbéd over ALONG MEUSE VALLEY Pershing’s Soldiers Chew Up Forces Sent to Stop Advance. North- the As- ul ad- forest | army | With the Amer: west of Verdun, Oct. ated P can Army 16, (B )—1In its succe: vance north of the Argonne 1w the American First hed Champigneulle, one mile | of St. Juvin. A little farther toward the Meuse they gained sion of the Cote de Chatillon. of the Meuse the Americans moved forward in the Bois de Grande Montagne, the summit which they hold now. After having captured Grand Pre, the Americans today advanced iheir lines to the eastward and occupied Moulin-les- P They surged for- ward until they had taken control of Wood, one and a half miles of Cheviere The American | 1 i La { of north idvance was every- | whera desperately contested, especiai- ly during the cre-sing of the river Aire, but the Americans pressed on. A part of today's work consisted in | the consolidation positions on Hill | just north of St. Juvin. The Am- n artillery w active all 1¢ the German guns 1esponded free- | Infantry fighting, how-ver, was | limited to the left flank of this sec- tor. Additional evidence has been re- ceived from prisoners that the Ger- mans are putting in the best divisions they have in the effort to check the American advance. i | | FARL L. HYDE DEAD mbs to Pncumonia After an Til- 10 Da Under Nurse's Care, arl LeRoy Hyde manager of the Mohican market, died last evening at Miss Nagle's sanatorium of pneumonia. He had been ill for ten days. It was thought that Mr, Hyde was improving | and the sudden turn’for the wors Jast evening, with the fatal result, was a shock to his friends. Mr. Hyde ! was highly esteemed by those who knew him and he was recognized as a keen business man. Mr. Hyde was born at Livérmore, Me., April 23, 1891 and was the son | lof John M. and Emma J. Hyde. He | !attended the schools of his native | town, graduating from the High i school and subsequently he attended | Abbott Academy at Farmington, Me. At the conclusion of his schooling he ness ‘of ys—Mother is Now | beiug | went to New London and worked in the Mohican syndicate store there. Subsequently he became manager of the In 1914 he came to New Brita take charge of the local ore. Eesides brothers, Frank M. ore. i n to his parents he leaves two Fred G. of Waterbury and of Portland, Me., and a sister Mrs. J. A. McNaught. His mother, who is a sister of Frank A. Munsey, the publisher, became while at the bedside of her son and is now under a nurse’s care at the Hotel zeloin, Mr. Hyde was a member of New London lodge of Elks The body will be Me., for burial. taken to Lew ton, LIFT NEWS BAN ON | PACIFIC SHIP NEWS, i Washington, Oc 17 The volun- tary censorship ban upon information of shipping movements on the Pacific coast was withdrawn today with the pproval of the navy department. ixcept in the case of transports and munitions carriers, the navy with- draws its request that newspapers re- 1 BLASTS WIPE OUT il | HAIG ATTACKS ON SELLE RIVER, ALONG BOHAIN-LE CATEAU FRONT: | flyers higher. L he signalle ieut. ed tc - GREWS UNINJURED; CRASH AT GODDWIN PARK Reid was leading and the rest of the craft from time to time and they kept to- Occasionally they gether fair account of wer collide. Some rtford sions formed on o ke e ¢ ¥ d the well. became confused in their po fog and some fearful ai ti that they the pilots had the r ro they “the road b ute vere on well ons on of the might een to former in- They arrived safely over the Capital city and then 1 » (Continued on Ninth Page) BRITISH FORCES ENTER COURTRAI London, Oct. 17.—Tield Marshal Haig’s forces this morning began an | attack on the Bohain-Le Cateau front along the Selle river southwest of Cambrai. Satisfactory progress was reported by the British commander in his official statement. The Germans have been counter: attacking to the north of here and in a strong local thrust at Haussy, in the region south of Valenciennes, pressed the British back in the west- ern edge of the village. During the night the British, gained ground soithwest of Lille, cabturing a few prisoner British Enter Courtrai. British forces entered Courtrai dur- ing yesterday's fighting according to a statement issued at the war office today. Over 20 villages were captured by the Allied forces in Belgium dur- ing the day. Germans Leaving Belgian Coast. With the Allied Armies in Belgium, Oct 16, 8 p. m. (By the Associated Press.)-—Bruges, Turcoing and Rou- baix have been emptied of all civi- lians and the Germans have removed , their artillery i being moved or are being made ready {the German ablishments from those cities. All submarines have been hastily removed from the U-boat base at Ostend and it would appear, from in- formation that German naval bases all along the Belgian cogst are eithe for r of orth removal, probably in the re: mine fields in the sea. Four new, but tired, German divi- sions have appeared in the Klanders battle. All the prisone gaptured complain bitterly that they are being compellel! to-continue fightingygteadily without rest. Many of th have been continuously retreating or fight- ing since August 8. A large number recently captured admitted that they had packed their kits ready to surrender when they be- lieved they were to be attuclked. nemy Forced Back North of Laon. Paris, Oct. 17——On the entire front of the Oise and the Serre, where the Germans are being driven from the pocket north-of Laon, the French last night maintained contact with the enemy, according to today's war office reporf LYONS WAR FACTORY Magazines Blow TUp At Midnight Completing Destructive Results of Earlier Explosion. Lyons, France, Oct. 17.—Fire fol- lowed by an explosion in a munitions factory at 11 o’clock last night caused important material damage. Another and more violent explosion occurred at midnight when the magazines blew still were burning were lost. A few persons. “luding 1 firemen, were injured. T0M WILBOR WOUNDED sev Local Y. M. C. A, Worker With Amer- ican Forces in France Slightly Tn- jured in Action. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilbor of Franklin Square are in receipt of a cablegram informing them that their | son, Thomas Wilbor, has been slight- | Iy wounded in action. Mr. Wilbor is with the American Y. M. C. A. and has been attached to a unit operating in the front line. Be- fore going overseas Mr. Wilbor was | employed at the Stanley Works, GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS CONDEMNED TO DEATH. , Oct. 17.—A Russian wireless ge in English, dated Tsarskoe 8:25 p. m., October 15, receivefl the following informa- been received from Pa, mess Selo, here reports tion as having Ekaterinburg: ‘““‘According to the official tions of the Soviet chiefs Romanoft heen tricd and con- demned to death. He will be ot during the night of the 16th.” The Nicholas Romanoff referred to is supposed to be Grand Duke Nichol- as, the former commander in chief of the Russian army declara- Nicholas has frain from publishing the movement of merchant shi in and out of Pa- sific ports, | st on Grand Duke living in t!!sl Late Nichol: Crimea. reports 114 he 1 Fuel CUBAN DETECTIVES ARREST 8 GERMANS Taken Custody by Secret Service and Prominent Merchants Into Promptly Interned. Havana, Oct. 17.—Cuban secret service officials have arrested eight of Havan: most prominent German merchants who were promptly intern- ed with other alien enemie The prisoners are Maximilian Paetzold, forme stro-Hungarian consui at Havana; KEnrique Helbut, Charles E. Berndes, J. H. Kolbert, Paul Octken, Robert Kaiser, Louis Classing and Paul Shoen A “GASLESS” SUNDAYS END Administrator Announces | e strictions Tmposed to Save Gasoline ave Been Rescinded, Effective at at Once. Washington, Oct. 17.—Fuel Admin- istrator Garficld today lifted the ban on gasolineless Sundays, effective =t once. Should gasoline stocks again fall dangerously low, it was stated at the | fuel administration, the request will | be renewed. It i probable that priority orders will begin for ship- | ment of gasoline overse: BRITAIN'S “BIT” 1,000,000 teuter’s Tid. Ias | I 1 Fstimates Empire Sacrificed Nearly That Many Tives Since Beginning of War. L.ondon, Oct. 16.—Up to the pr nearly 1,000,000 British lives have acrificed m the war, according received by Reuter's ent been to information WEATHER. | Hartford, Oct. 17.—Fore- ast for New Britain and vi- i Unsettled tonight and warmer tonight. | were | Monten i *own of TURKEY TO WITHDRAY, LATEST DEVELOPMENT German Press Reported Pre- paring Public For News of Defection. Amsterdam, newspapers lic for an fect that ar Oct. e 1 6 German preparing the pub. announcement of Turke; withdrawal from the war. On Tuesday the Frankfort Gazette printed a. dis- pateh from Constantinople to the ef- impending there. The dispatch s vilayet of Smyrua, American ests have nor, Rahm: e and B Bey. far-reaching id events that in were the representatives of h “the business inter- maintained throughout the { war cordial relations with the gover- uncrowned: king of Smyra,” with whom Constan- Bosphorus, universit, cational tinople never The rupture ‘many brid stantinople of ge: to as has newspapers diplomatic led still dared to ay that, despite the relations, int. from erfere. Con- ‘Washington,” Robert college, and the Girls’ college on the s the American at Beirut and other edu- institutions, were permitted to continue work during the war. They garia a many supplied with food from students in these stitutions come from Bulgarian ilies of thi through the news first overtures were looking to the withdrawal ot ington e upper these channels, per’s correspondents, made to Wash- | class. Bulgaria from the war. POLISH REGENCY IN COl It according to | that Bul- in- fam- was TPLETE CONTROL | General Von Beseler “Unconditionally Surrender “Undesirable Amsterda dence betw When Threatened With am, een Oct. the 1 Polish Graay R Consequences.” orrespan- egency council 1heeting at Warsaw, with Gen. { Hans H. von ernor ia, is printed in shows that Gazette, threatenad if the adr inistrative red to and Beseler, encral of occupied territory In Frankfort “‘undesirabl were not trar tionally. promised o In his fi Ge nly nal er von letts er the German the conses depart it Beseler c the go gov- Aol council quenc- tments uncondi- | bacle. had a limited transfer. vernor general, in terms of abject politeness, the abaadonment former standpoint and granted the de- announced mands of Cut New Point—Serbs Capture 32 Guns | the council. Constaitinople in Fighting Beyond Nish. of his 'FRENCH ENTER PIROT, SERBIA Railroad to at Paris, Oct. 16.—French forces have entered the city to ing at Pirot and Bulgar Sofia an London, contin for driving captured thetown of Alexinatz, on the | miles L Serbian offic Marava Nish, says received he were {ukex riv western O D ne statement tonight th is on the r: and W 1 frontier. Oct thei out er, re te ero and kov frontier from o th 15 bday beyond 16.~ ha ha of Pirot, o office -Serbian energetic A 5tro-Gi orthw in Serbia, | an official statement is<] tonight | ilroad between Nish | miles from the troops campaign | erman | forces remaining on Serbian soil, have | est of 1] statement | Thirty-twoe guns Nis Gerr Ve e on the & h man retired evacuat in | into ed the o-Monte- according to an official the Fre ch war office OSTEND Enemy Bending, Further PTessure Will Bring Disaster; Crash Inevitable Eventually, Wash- ington Believes; Doubt Concerning Dispatch of Reply to Wilson; Washington, Oct. 17.—“Germany is bending. sure and she will break,” says S Upheaval in Progress More pres- ecretary Lansing in a statement today warning the nation that the war is nct over and that the Fourth Liberty loan must be a success at a time when every dollar as well as every man and every gun counts more than ever before. Great events are impending in Germany That they will come within a day, week or a month, officials will not' hazard a guess; that they are inevitable no one in Washington doub Unofficial reports coming from Holland and Switzerland that Germany immediatel, Germany'’s reply has been drawn. the Reichstag will meet tomorro will accept President Wilson's are without confirmation here; nor is there any peace terms information that In fact, Swiss dispatches saying w to discuss President Wilson's note would indicate no reply has yet been drafted. Internal conditions as well as the military situation are ex- pected to dictate both the form: and promptness answer. of Germany’s One was regarded as only a little less serious than the other; and there always was the possibility that - combined they had forced the German leaders to a conclusion even before the first note asking for an armistice From behind the veil of secrecy within the empire rumblings discontent long have been reaching the outside extent of the upheaval cannot yet be accurately gauged. was dispatched. of the The world, but fact that radical changes are being made in the German constitu- tion and un-official reports that the Kaiser has relinquished his power to declare martial law were but further indications that the power of the junkers rapidly is waning. Expect Abdication of Kaiser. London, Oct. 17.—Rumors relative | to the course Germany may take | toward replying to the note from President Wilson form the main fea- | ture of this morning’s papers. Some are convinced that Germany's uncon- | ditional surrender is coming. | Although the statement issued at! the foreign office last night shows that yesterday’s rumors were prema- | ture, extraordinary reports concern- | ing internal conditions in Germany are printed. Some newspapers take it for granted that Emperor William will abdicate. The Express says that for some time he has been sending his valuables to Holland. Some editorials express the view that the disappearance of the emperor | is immaterial. “He is a mere symbol and a figure- head of what we pledged to destroy,” says the Telegraph. “It is what will | be substituted for his insane and dis- astrous rule that matters.” Alteration of the German constitu- | tion by which civilian power would be admitted to a share in the control of matters pertaining to the war, is a subject of utmost importance. BY this alteration the emperor would cease to be the supreme wan lord. “This step”, says the Daily News, “means broadly that the Kaiser has surrendered to President Wilson and equivalent to an admission that all is lost.” Political Situation Called Desperate. The Express claims to have trust- worthy information to the effect that Germany’s surrender is imminent, adding: “Semi-official information of an as tonishing kind has reached England indicating a desperate political posi- tion in Germany. This is even more serious than the military situation and is responsible for the coming de A great civil upheaval is be- gining. The socialists of Germany, fearing anarch; re about to set in and desiring to save the country from Russia’s experience with the Bolshe- viki, have prepared a scheme of gov- ernment to take the reins if, or when, the Kaiser abdicates in order that it | may exercise an immediate steadying influence.” | Fatherland Party Supports Max. Amsterdar, Oct. 16.—Admiral Al- fred von Tirpitz, former secretary of the German navy, has sent a telegram to Prince Maximilian, the imperail chancellor, in the name of the Father- land party, recognizing and appr ciating the government's heavy re- sponsibility and romising Prince Maximilian the party's support, ac- acording to the Tageblatt of Berlin. i Vorwaerts Bemoans Amsterdam, Oct. 16 coming to and' end, and in such manner as no man in Germany de- | sires,” said the Vorwaertz of Berlin oh Monday “Iwet us say it ca continues, le four year and sacrifices an end.’ d of War, —‘“The is war haidly,” th “During a the aim of v to news- these our ef- prevent | paper terrt forts such Led to An Abyss. Zurich. Switzerland, Oct. 1 “The counts declared war, but the repre sentatives of the people will conclude peacs,” the socialist newspeper Ar- Hapsburzs | { him. beiter Zeitung of Vienna says in current article on the situation crea ted by the Teutonic peace proposald and the replies to them. “Count Berchthold, 2 and Count von Hoetzendort,” ~ con tinues the newspaper, “decided upon) a punitive expedition against Serbia, little thinking they were conducting the ancient empire of the Hapsburg: to an abyss.” Count Berchthold was the Austrod Hungarian foreign minister at thd outbreak of the war in 1914 and| Count Tisza was the Hungaria premier. Field Marshal Baron Conrad von Hoetzendorf was the chief of the Austro-Hungaria general staff up to last July when | he resigned. Praise For Wilson. Rome, Oct. 16.—President Wilson'd decision té send a separate angmer Austria-Hungary's peace proposal treated in a semi-official note issued here as follows: “President Wilson will give a sep arate answer to Austria-Hungary, it is evidently necessary to - g special consideration to the pecul ethnical and internal conditions of the Central empires in order that Presk dent Wilson’s high aims of liberty and justice may be attained.” RUMANIANS REVOLT to Has Rumanian Peasants Said Clashes With Austro-German Forced Following Defiance of Military. Paris, Oct. the Germans 17.—Outbreaks agains have occurred in north: ern Rumania, in the province of Moldavia, a dispatch to the Jour. nal from Zurich. The population sud: denly assumed an openly hostile attl: tude to the German authorities, as cording to the advices, which come b way of Bucharest. In several districts there have be clashes between bands of Rumaniaf peasants and Austro-German forces. SICK MAN DRAWS GUN Escapes From House in Delirium an Police Have to Take Him i Charge. In a delirium morning Albert mour street obtained po: two revolvers and brandished then] threateningly. Fortunately the. revoll vers were unloaded and the police g0 possession of them without any har being done Heinzman ds and despite ceeded in last nig The police they ar and got ceeded fater th of fever early thil Heinzman of 54 Sey sion o en ill watchful from for a fe care suc the hous: v dressed) beford returned to the housd 1 The police sue him into bed, bu Lad another call to attend time the sick man wad posses: with the idea that ‘W8 wa$ the object of aftac and demande police protection. He was taken to police station for safe keeping later was removed to the homtfl.( v Lo~ s escaping He t wis ligh notified and t ) in 1 he