New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1918, Page 1

!Allied Forces Southeast of P'R(‘\( m YWR%ID X ¥ % x ¥ x ¥ % ¥ ¥ x ¥x TO '1Hi< SERVIC MRBREE, Why not buy that Liberty Bond today? An excellent investment and a patriotic duty ES YAL ,ISHID 1876. ATL QDF\Y OCT )BER —’]‘FN pAGFb. PRICE THREE CENTS. = EN SISTS ON FOL T MJ QUITS BRUSSELS; ALLIES LEA YANKEES IN TANKS LEAB SELLE ATTACK German Marine Divisions Unable to Withstand U. §. Joy Riders ENG hms"éémf RIVER Catcaun Take 1,200 Prisoners and 120 Guns —Maig Reports Capture of Was- signy—Big Advance During Day. With Cambr d ot of (By the Associated anks manned by Ameri trained in Engiand led the ageinst th n forces ent on the e the Oc Arn faced ns which put up hard fight. According to latest re. ports, Allies stil are gainin, ground against the desperate resis- tance of the enem At one point the Germans delivered o counter-attack momentarily gained ground but the tanks passed over and beyond th high ground where the Germans wer making their stand ar ; drove the enemy of I American engin heavy machine gun fire, placed bridg cross the river and then the Ameri- can and British infantry swepl across. The tanks helped to k down the enemy fire until engineers had finished their work and then went ov with the infantr nd British Take Allied Armies. in, ¥rance Oct. 18 10 p. m. (By Press)—British and American troops utheast of Le Cateau captured 1.200 prisoners and ) guns today and have advanced bout four miles since the attack yesterday mornin The Brit- now are more than three miles southeast of Lille. On the Belgian c ships are st mans, Haig Reports Capture of Wa London, Oct. 18.—In continu of the offensive south of LeCateau, Field Marshal Haig’s troops have captured the village of Wassigny, the Rritish commander reported toni The viilage of Ribeauxville, north of Wassigny, also has been taken and itish troops have entered Bazuel, 11 farther north. than 1,200 prisoners and a few guns were taken in the d. fighting. Advance Six Mile London, Oct continuing their advance in th of the Sensee canal, larshal Haig announced today. Southeast of La Cateau, where Brit- ind American troops are operat Bazut and Mazinghien have been were the and out ers, working under the Americans With the and Belgium, the Associated 1.200. t British war- elling the retreating Ger- More From 19.—The B Pouai. h are anders Field ¥l nor red The British have advanced more than six miles east of Douai and they re in coniact with the Germans of Bazuel and Catelet in that ¥rench Reach Sambre ris, Oct. 19.—The tinued successfully their advance south of W igny and east of Guise, according to the war office statement today. They have reached the Sambre canal on a front miles south H s Along the Canal. P French con- of ne: e nnappes. canal the French the towns of Hannappes, Tupigny and No Since October 17 in this region the French first army has taken mor 3,000 prisoners 20 gu of hold and BRITISH RUDTLY BREAT UP HUN GAVALRY BALL, Allied Ar (By the been learned from that Germar ving a b return of y was talen, With the Oct. 18, It has of Courtrai . were ting the ht the of tI miecs in Belgi ssociate peace At on the mid- ¢ British infant ch had broken through the d s to the west stormed into the and the German cavalry dandles to run for their livés. DUTCH PREPARING FOR BELGIAN REFUGEES. Amsterdam, Oct. 19.—~The Dutch 5 rament prepared tc feed, clothe and care for fugitives entering Tolland from Belgium_ according to statement made by Premier Riujs de Beerenbrouk, in the chamber yes- Aerday. is - BRITI H REPORTED ON DUTCH LINE AND FRENCH IN SUBURB; Of GHENT; FOE BEGINS TO EVACUATE BRUSSELS Dags at Rosendaal, on the frontier, who says the deputy hin | has arrived al Br els. The cv: tion reports, it is declared, refer the German troops and nrot to civilian population of the city. Dutch sef Oect, 1 British ting in the Allicd m are reported have reached the Holland frontier posite Bruges, Gen. March was formed in today's early dispatches. Washington, trols 1 vance pa- ad- to op- in- in to the French in Ghent Envivons. With the Allied Forces in Flanders, Oct. 18, 10 p. m. (By the Associated Press)—TFrench cavalry were reported tonight to have rcached the outskirts at Ghent, There is no official confir- mation. The infantry the mounted force: The reports indic of the rapid Allied advance Belgian coast scctor. The British are meeting with little opposition in the Lille salient WAt to the northward. In most places dif- ficulty is found in keeping contact with the enemy’s main forces, to the rapidity of the retreat. British Reported Near Sluis, Amsterdam, Oct. 19.—British troops re approaching Sluis, on the Dutch ontier ten wmiles northeast of Bruges. y< advices from Breskens. Tho Germans continue retire toward Ghent. to pushing fast after Fnemy Army Passing Shuis. 19, 1:50 p. m.—Many with numerous travelling a (u\\n on the northez te a continuation London, Oct. L in the man column utomobil ng Sluis, fronticr, ten German senti doned their posts on the 6,000 Germans in Trap, itish troops ' sian town of canal at Sluis. Amsterdam, Oct. have entered the Be Eeclso, according to a dispatch from Sluis to the Tel aaf. Six thousand Germans have been shut nst the Duich frontier. rmans Still Near Zeebrugge. London, Oct. 19. 1 p. m. (By Associated Press)—The still were holding the outskirts of Zechrugge this morning, although the Belgian forces in their eastward ad- vanece 1 reached the Zeebrugge- Bruges canal. the Evacuation of Brussels Begun. Amsterdam, Oct. 19 (By the As- sociated DPress)—The evacuation of Brussels by the Germans already has begun, according to M. Heinrich, an activist Belgian deputy Oostrooscheke The deputy is quoted thus by the correspondent of the Nreuws Van Den 140 AMERICAN PLANES BOMB ENEMY POSTS NEAR VERDUN ROUBATX CAPTURED <ot ¥ BY BRITISH F[]REES Artillery G ncentrates on Gap Between Bruges and Dutch Border GERMAN CASUALTIES HEAVY Liberated Civil Bel, Havre, Oct. ns Capture 500 18.—1In the capture of today Belgian troops (Continued on Ninth Page) Account For Machines and All Return Safely to Own Lines After Thrilling Experience. \\ ith the Ame n Army North- dun, Oct. 19, 11 a. m. (By All the avia- tors who took part in the all-Ameri- can bombing cxpedition behind the German lines northwest of Verdun | vesterday have been ounted for. , One of the 140 airplanes taking part {in the raid had been reported missing Celebrate Free-~ | Put it returned during the night. Latest rej from the different squadrons show that the scout planes in protecting the bombers brough down 12 enemy machine Observers report that e sults we > at the various | points cd by the expedition. While the hombing squadrons attacked the towns and vill two squadrons of pursuit airplanes, flying at low altitudes enemy troops along the roadways with small bombs and machine gun fir Counter-Attacks Wealk, the American Army North- Verdun, Oct. 18, (By the As- ac ns dom From German Yoke——Hinden- burg Desperately Attempting to Extricate Armics From Pincers, cellent re- With the Oct. Allied 18, (By sociated Pr Lille is fast being left behind advancing Fifth British arm spite of German posts establishe north of Roubaix and Turcoing, these rich manufacturing cities have been taken. The Germans blew up the bridges leading into Bruges and left strong rear rds there, but thes o L were ed by the enem -.vhnr-,' the main body of his troops moved castward from the cf and thosc near the coast hastened to escap Belglan airmen have worked great havoc among the enemy forces floe- ing through the gap between B and the Dutch frontier More cannan have been brou and all last night and today they have been pumping Is into the bottie neck through the Germans' are retir number of Ger- mans k area since yoste day are be tremendous. Armies in Be the ses, Enemy With st of ociated | tacks were made by the Germans this :mnrmn east of the Meuse river, but { they were easily repulsed. There were lively artillery duels during the morning, but little infantry fighting American patrols have establishea outpost lines north of Cote de Chatil- lon. They have partially cleaned out T.oges Wood and penetrated farther into Bantheville Wood. In captured dugoufs tory recently taken by hes T in the herr rerated the terri- Amerieans a mercury The 1 this elieved to in Copiu reports :d docunients which into the hands of die They treat o one and all they of despair. Count von reserve infant he knew his re attacked and warned his men the attack must be broken down. In- cidentally the assault referred to re- sulted in the smashing of that regi- ment. In many of the towns and locali- ties where the Allled troops have swept past celebrations over their deliverance from the Germans w carried on all day toda v the T ple. In Lilie there were crowds the streets, singing, cheering and throwing v everywhere. in the ne horhood of scover- the hombs temyerat To explodin i en the Nons of urrent German zasol'ne the 59th wrote tha ee, of ment, W G ” Fathe S ol Paria, Ot Fact Gt mans 18 driven from been driven from the tween the Ardenves and the Alsne west of Attlgnv. The town of Ambly-Haut has been captured in ad- dition to prisoners been tory ory bo- terr be- QUAKE TREMORS FELT AT in St. Louis, quake tremors seismograph at the st night from 10: 1. The distance was 1,800 miles almosi due south, orded on the Louis univer- Turcoi 28 to 11: (Continued on Ninth Page) Germans | 12 German | owing | | | Press)—Teeble counter-af- | 115,000 of the inhabitants of BLLION DOLLARS NEEDED Washington put the Fourth Liber: midnight tonight Only one of the federal re tained its quota and only (hrec have ps ma Atlan the lowest wilh only a Most ba over the country will remain open late tonight to receive last minute subscriptions bui there is no probability of the complete amount of the loan being known until late next week. This very fact has caused o 1s to impress upon the people that they must no. hold back subscriptions in the belict that the loan will be oversybscribed, Iivery dollar is needed to put the loan over the top they declare. More needed to ends at than 2 billion dollars is the top. The camp: Oect. 1 y loan over ign cts—St. Louis—has at- od the three quarters ittle more than half erve dist OVER 2 fiGfl 000 AMERICANS SENT ABRUGAD, MARCH SAYS SAILOR RE PORTED LOST IS LOCAL BOY 29th. Division Now Engaged in Smashing Path Through Germans Northwest of John J. Valentine Iived at 151 Kelsey Verdun. Street and Enlisted Almost Two Years Ago. = reported by Ad- having been 10 while doing Washington, Oect. 19. 2,000,000 American soldier gone overs: March™ told the members of e military com- mittee today war department conferenee While t conference was is pro- gress, Gen. March was notified that the Germans had evacuated the entire B st up to the Holland boun- ary that it is now in possession ¢ the More than now have John J. Valentine, miral Sims yesterda a on October an American flotilla ce, lived at No. 154 He w the son of Mr. Valentine of the , Gen. the sens at their on Kel and above the pD ering s employed in the ment at the Russell Erwin Co. He was about 22 years of and enlisted shortly after break of the war. He had been on foreign servic a greater part of his enlistment period and had written home fequently r of his letters comin 1ly a few d ago friends letters from him in which was in excellent health and joying the strenuous work over floet. Valentine also leaves a sister, Mi alentine, employed at the local clephone exchange a toll line opcrator. ALLIES RETIRE ON Ge ind Allies. The German Bel. ast added, speedN The the out- retirement from district, Geh. nereasing in breadth and movement to the rear, on the whole, he added, is extremely rapid, as illustrated the fact that the territory evacuated in four days to more than 800 square miles. Hindenburg defense system now is entirely behind the Allied advance | and Marshal Foch continuing his | )H'\"\\uv‘l\ without givin the enemy the opportunity for a rest. | did not attempt to an-' th(‘ militar tuatioa on the western front as a whole or to point out vjectives of the various attacks He called attention to the fact that the German rotirement starting last week on a 60 mile sector between the Oise and the Argonne, had spread dnuring the Argonne, had affected all except 15 miles of the 250 mile front from the coast to the Meuse. While t retirement was in pro- gress, he said, the American army northwest of Verdun was fighting it: way forward against stiff resistance. The 29th division (New Jersey, Dele- ware, V i, Marvland and District rein. ©f Columbia troops) was identified neing @S one of those operati st of the Meuse. The 84th ( an east Wisconsin) now is acting as a depot division on the line of communication while the Sith (Kentuc Indiaaa d Southern Illinois) eported as ving just ed in France.The 38th division (Indiana, Kentuc and We has not yet arrived over- “UhSINI\ABL " SHIP SUNK quipped the \ for 1c mar eland ived from 1 by vs reec o | was el h of the as Gen. DVINA. Numbers Makes With- drawal Advisable. Archangel, Oct. 17, (By ciated Press)—Allied forces Dvina have been withdrawn more th miles in the f attack by greatly superior wh 1 had been reinforced from Pet- rograd and apparently commanded by competent officers. The withdraw- al w ul under a severe bom- ba A storen forcen nd the il of Superiority of Asso- the the on ce o forces, DBolshevilk ents were iv Allied battery The woul positions es were hel atly superior operating rivers have fall of the struck on sandbar: gress by gunbdats abandoned st for a week foree i the Dvina and handicapped lelt rred times. been water which and at critical by bos b pro RUSSIANS SHOT. | PROMINENT | Steamer Tucia, ] American With Buoyancy Boxes, Lost at Sea— | Kokovsoff and Prince Shakovskoy e Fate Condemned by People’s Court. of Crew Not Known. New York can steamship buoyancy boxes unsinkable, Oct. 19.—The Ameri- Lucia, equipped with and supposed to be has been sunk, according received here today in ship- sles. She was torpedoed by a in the Atlantic, but detalls te of the sinking and the JI PES' S Y uarro- il Viadimir n hakovs Amsterdam, Oc 19.- Kokovsoff, former Ru of finance, and Princ mer minister of trade and commerce, have been summarily shot according to word to a Moscow dispatch to the Lo ping cir Anzeiger of Berlin., They ad be subur 2 1demned to death by the People as to ;.1[&\ ds minister Koy, fo | fate A BARG fu ter Has De- ‘ost in Cabinet, Lroi the nister, Vienna Buri n to for ' according mans toolk captivity ; NEW BULGARIAN CABINET. the city. = Reconstructed By Malinoff, Who Ad- mits Opposition Members, ris, Oct. 19 (Havas)—The Rul- garian cabinet has been reconstruct by Premerc Malinoff, acec to dis- patel Sofia. Mer of op- been admitted to further strengthening cal position, Hartf Oct 19.—Fore- for New Britain and vi- Cinity: Fair, continued cool tonight and Sunday. | rd, rair cuk from ber position parties have the minis its poli 5 Maren™ 3 SCHOOL SYSTEM IS E; 9 FOR PEAC FULL FREEDOM FOR SUBJECT RACES; AT DUTCH BORDER Note to Vienna Explains Czecho-Slovaks have Been Recognized as Associate Beligerents and Desire for Liberty of Jugo-Slavs Has Iso Received Official Approval Washington, Oct. 19.—President \\'Hmn has rejected the Austro-Hungarian government’s offer to conclude an armistice and negotiate peace on principles enunciated by him and has given notice that mere autonomy for Austria's subject nationalities is no longer acceptable, that they must have liberty. The reply was made by r nsing yesterday through the Swedish minister in W ashington. Itic ention to the tenth condition -of peace enunc ated by President Wilsen on January 8, which says the people of Austria-Hungary should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development The note calls attention to the recognition by the United States of the Czecho-Slovaks National Co de facto belligerent government and states that this count also . has recognized the justice of the nationalistic aspirations of the Jugo- Slavs for freedom. a Note to Austria- Hungary. The text of the note handed to the Swedish minister follows: Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the seventh instant in which you transmit a communication of the Imperial and Royal government of Austria-Hungary to the president. I am now instructed by the president to reauest you to be good enough through & your government to convey to (he lmperial and Royal government the following reply: ! The president deems it his duty to say to the Austro-Hungarian gov- ernment that he cannot entertain the present suggestions of that govern- ment because of certain events of utmost importance, which, occurring since the delivery of his address of the cighth of January last, have neces- ily altered the attitude and responsibiiity of the government of the ited States. Among the fourtcen terms of peace which the president formulated at that time, occurred the following: “The people of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest op= portunity of autonomous development. ) Since that sentence was written and Unitea States, the government of the Unit state of belligerency exists between the Czecho-Sloval Austro-Hungarian empires and that the C S National Counefl is a de facto belligerent government clothed with proper authority . to direct the military and political affairs of the Czecho-Slova It has also recognized in the fullest manner the justice of the nationalistic aspirations of the Jugo-Slavs for freedom. The president is therefore, no longer at liberty accept the mere “autonomy” of these people as a basis of peace, but is obliged to insist that they, and not he, shall be the judges of what action on the part of the Austro-Hungarian government will satisfy their aspirations and their con= ception of their rights and destiny as members of the family of nations, Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. (Signed) to the congress of the zed that a and the German and tered States has recogn! to ROBERT Austro-Hungarian Note. | In announcing his reply, Secretary Lansing aiso made publie the official text of the Austro-Hungarian note. It follows Legation of Sweden, Washington, D. C., Oct. 7, 1918. (Translation.) Excellency: By order of my government I have the honor confiden- tially to (ransmit herewith to you the following communication of the Imi- perial and Royal government of Austria-Hungary to the president of the United States of America: “The Austro-Hungarian monarchy, which has waged war always and solely as a defensive war and repeatedly given documentary evidence of its readiness to stop the shedding of bloo# wrd to arrive at a just and honer- able peace, hereby addresses itself to his lordship, the president of the United States of America, and offers o conclude with him and his allies an armistice on every front on lam, at seae and in the air and to enter immediately upon negotiations for & peace for which the fourteen points in the message of President Wilnin to congress of January 8, 1918, and the four points contained in Prssident Wilson's address of February 12, 1918, should serve as a foundation and in which the viewpoints declared by President Wilson in his address of September 1l be taken into account.” Be pleased to accept etc. (Signed) LANSING. . Mr. Robert Lansing, ate of the United Stales, Washingtc His Excellenc: Secretary of German Reply Not Completed. Berne, Switzerland, Oct. 18.—The | German reply to President Wilson will not he completed and dispatched fox several d according to the latest Berlin advices. It is expected that the Reichstag will be summoned to meet | { on Tues { i BEING DEMORALIZED 11 of the fleet and al aff have ars consultation over and admir the chief of the na rived in Berlin for the answer. It is believed the reply will be neither a full acceptance nor a refusal so that the door will be further negotiations. reports the hold- demonstrations by thous men. hand, Long Vacation, Enforced By Epidem- | o ic, Scriously Interferes With ducation Dopartment, The necessity of closing the schools for another week Is thoroughly de- moralizing to the school system and it is extremely unfortunate, from an educational point of view, that con- ditlor ha tated such tie on, to Superintend- 1.udey H. Holme schools but worded left open for The Berlin ing of peace sands of worl On the othe ecomnomic assc great German tion, have 1y the sanization the patriotic and nec aci aced ent of Schols Already closed assed resc of a S the have seen for two weclks and the [fact that they uiust « mo wiek is at . rep. and n orc = den and ot be stopped long as there is no agreemenut as to an a The reply, th enewspaper declares; will not reject the president’s de- mands, but will make further nego= tiations possible. aeclare the e it is schools utterly upset, and w again possible t¢ recpen ihe the daily rcutine will have to be completely reorganized, as will the prescribed schedule of lessons. The state educational department prescribes that there must be 36 weeks of school. While the school au- thorities are unsble to state what ef- fect this enforced vacation will have the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Faster vacation periods, it is feared that any longer period of inactivity might result in the curtailment of some of these recesses, or the exten- sion of the spring i(orid. Panic on Berlin Bourse. Paris, Oct. 19.—There was another panic on the Berlin Bourse on Thurs- | day, according to advices from Zuric Maritime sccurities are repo: have dropped 25 per cen cal products issues from 10 to 20 peq