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bulletin Service VOL. LIX—NO. 246 " POPULATION 29,919 GERMANS ARE AN OROERLY RE NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1918 EIGHT PAGES—56 COLS, PRICE TWO CENTS REAT French Have Captured Laon—The Battle Line in France Continues to Bend Under the Attacks of the Entente Allies—Since the Offensive Began. 21,567 Germans Have Been Made Prisoners and 600 of Their Guns Captured—The Austro-Hungarians Are Slowly But Surely Being Driven Northward in Albania. (By The Associated Press.) The German battle line in France continues to bend under the attacks of the Entente allies. But nowhere has it been broken. The enemy almost ev- erywhere is in retreat toward new | positions. But his retreat is orderly, und the British, French and Ameri- cans are being compelled to fight their way forward slowly in the face of enemy machine sun detachments acting as rear guards. Highly important strategic positions have been wrested from the enemy by the Eritish and French, while on their sector of the front the Americans have further advanced their line on Doth sides of the Meuse, obtaining the objectives they sought. The British advance after days of hard fighting has brought them at last to the gates of Douai, which long has held back the British from clos- ing in upon the great bend in the line which has Lille as its center and which has been considered by the military experts as the keystone to the German _defence system through northern Belgium to the sea. To the south the French have blot- ted out both La Fere and Laon and the greater portion of the St. Gobain massif standing in the elbow where the line runs eastward toward _the ! Swiss frontier. Here also the Ger- mans for weeks had stood fighting desperately, realizing that a success- | ful advance by their foes wouid shal | ter all their military plans in the ‘ south, and probably compel a swifter retirement ‘than now is being carried out and possibly make untenable the entire Meuse line, to which it is be- lieved they gradually are makiug th way. By the successes of the British and the French the entire German line from Rheims to the Belgian frontler is made decidedly more unstable, and with the new advances of the lrench and the Americans in_Champagnc and along both sides of the Meuse north- ward, seemingly the'enemy, for a few days at least, will have to hasten his steps eastward and northward to pre- vent. the great converging manoeuvre from capturing large numbers of pris- oners, especially in the pocket from the region northwest of Rheims to La Fere. Here, however. the enemy, see- ing the ultimate fall of Laon, may have used the great metwork of rail ways there and successfully wi drawn a majority of his forces toward Mezieres, - Along the Aisne in Champagne the French have forced thewr way across the Aisné at various places and are almost upon the important reilway town of Rethel, whence it is only a step to Mezieres, while north of Vou- ziers they are continuing to battle their way forward toward Sedan. In the bend of the Aisne more than thir- ty-six localities have ‘been 'liberated by the French and several thousand civilians freed from bondage. Since tire offensive began 21,567 Germans have been made prisoner and (I¢ of their guns captured. ‘With the situation in France and ‘Belgium highly satisfactory to the allies, the operations in Serl and Albania likewise daily are being car- ried forward successfully. Nish, the capital of the little:kingdom alter the invasion by the Austro-Hungarians, has been recaptured and the ensmy driven to the -hills nmorth of it. The Austro-Hungarians ‘are slowly but surely being driven northward in Al- bania and now are being engazed in the region of Ipek, thirty miles south- west of Novipazar. 1,330 NAMES IN THREE ARMY CASUALTY LISTS Washington, Oct. 12 —The follow- ing casualties are reported by the Commanding General of the Ameri- can Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action 186; missing in ac- tion 30; died from wounds 73; died from accident and other causes 9; died of disease 56; wounded slightly §: wounded, degree undetermined 27; total 676, New England men are: Killed in Action. James - Clarke rgeaat Ipswich, rivates—Josi 1 eph Blake, East Tem- pleton - s&.; John Dictarook, ford, Mass.; Ralph E. Willlar Swampscott. Mass ; Michael Cesturir, burn, Mass.; Charles McBeth, South Boston, Mass, Died from Wounds. Corporal James 8. Patterson Arctic, R Privates—Harold C. Davis Spring- field, Mass.; Thomas A Tobin, Fail River, Ma: ' Died of Disease. Corporal Maurice A. Landers, New Britain. Conn. Privates Charles ¥ McKenna Waltham, Mass.: Louis E. Otte, Map.ewood, R 1. Wounded Severely. Sergeants—Manuel C. Reis Jr. Fall River, Mass.; Louis Illis Bridge- port, Conn. Corporals — Mike Clarke, Brookline, M George sagan, Springfield, Mass.; Francis L. Furlon, Charles- town, Mass. Privates—Charles E. Betz, North Westchester, Conn.; Arthur A. Gates, Springfield, Mass ; Joseph Hmura, Ware, Mass.; Robert C. Weingartner, South Norwalk, Conn.; BEdward J. Jitzgerald, Winsted, Conn.; Joseph Mayeysky, Worcester, Cass ; William A. Hummell Springfield, Mass.; Ed- ward F. O'Neill, Adams, Mass.; Joseph Barone, Palmer, Mass.; Thom- as E. Conwell, Lewiston, Mains; Thomas J. Shea, Holyoke, Mass Wounded (Degree Undetermined) Privates—Thomas A. Bowen. Walt- ham, Mass.; Manuel J. Freitus Hart- ford, Conn SUNDAY’S LIST. in action 13; missing in ac- wounded severely 206; died wounds 20; died from accident other causes 7; died of disease died from aeroplane accident 1; from and 13; total 325 New England. men are: Killed in Action Private Frank J. Maffa, town, Mas: Died of Disease. Private Henry J. Cognac Mass. Charles- Lowell, Wounded Severely. Sergeants—Arthur O. Fiset fie Mass.; James F. Charlestown, Mass. Corporals—Frank C. Howard, Man- chester. N. H ; Genrge Martin Moore, W. Springfield, Mass. Green- Mahoney, Bugler — Wallace Harper Payne, Jewett City, Conn. Privates—Frank J. Bowe, Holyoke, Mass.; John Chagnon, Ware, Mass.; James E. Cohen, Lowell, Mass ; Joseph J. Ravgiala, Haverhill, Mass.: John Millard, Bolton, Mass.; Philip Milos: Chelsea Mass.; Henry 3. Parker, Worcester, Mass.; Barl Henri Picard, Waltham, Mass.; Alex- ander M Ward, Southwest Harbor, Maine: Charles V. Weaver, Hillsboro, N. H. Carl Westberg. Worcester, Alass. Missing in Action. Privates—Brnest Canuel, Fall River, Mass.; Marsulis Matthew, Waterbury, Conn. MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES. The following casualties are report- »d by the Commanding General of the American Kxpeditionary Forces (in- sluded in above total): Killed in action 14; died of wounds received in action wounded in ac- tion (sevarely) 27; wounded in action {slightly 1; missing in action 12; in s:nds of enemy 1; total 59 New England men arve: Killed in Action. Trivate Samucl Warren, Dorchester, 1 se Wounded in Action (Severcly). Private Martin &'Neill, New Brita'n, = 2 NO LET-UP IN FIGHTING ON THE VERDUN FRONT With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Oct. 13, 7 p. m.—(Ry The Assoctated Press.)—The synchronised crash of the big guns and the crackles of rifles and automatics on the ‘greater part of the American front today reflected the attitude of the army as regards Germany’s an- nouncement that she is willing to ac- cept Fresident Wilson's peace terms. It was obvious that the forces of Ger- many .and the allies, particularly the allies, regarded that their part in the great drama still is to fight. Whether the news of their govern- ment's announcement of willingness to concele President Wilson's tértns has’ reachad the Germans is not known, | but the areater part of the American: army was given as early as possible all | { informaiion in possission of general i headquarters, rom corps headquar- | ters the news was sent to division | headquarters and from there to the | men in reserve positions and on the fighting line. The effect produced was what might { have been expected. There were rare nstances of outbursts of enthusiastic oheering. but for every man who so | d'splayed his emotion there were a | hundred whose onlv comment was an evpressien of douht as to th2 honesty | of Germany’s intention. There was nothing in the day's op- rations to convince the Americans that the war was over. Before daylight | the Germans displayed more _than <ual activicy in shelling certain po- | E: brought counter-attacked. down before the Americans. and west of the Meuse! ap fresh forces and All of them hrnke‘ violent firing of ””L ons. ¥ | i | As he day wore on the fighting de- { veloped greater intensity along the ! western part of the line, but it wa ; confined almost wholly to the artilier: | wings, the American fire finally at- | taining the proportions of barrage, al- though it was not followed up by in- fantry attack. An increased percentage of defec- tive ammunition appears to have been nsed today by the Germans. Mont- faucon was shelled rather heavily, but a check late today showed that nine- ty per cent. of the missiles were “duds.” ENTENTE FORCES OCCUPY NISH, CAPITAL OF SERBIA Berlin, via London, Oct. 13.—Nish, the capital df Serbia, has been occu- pied by entente forces, the war office announced today. . Conn. Previously Reperted Missing. Private Leon Brown, Wasren. R. L SATURDAY AFTERNOON'S LIST Killed in action 81; missing in ac- tion 18; wounded geverely 124; died from wounds 47; died from accident and other causes 36; died of disease 53: total 329. New England men are: Killed in. Action. Privates — Michael Pessolano, Springfield, Mass.; Albert E. Wetzler, Roslindale, Mass.; George Emerv, South Boston. Mass.; Ernest J. Call, Manchester, N. H ; Fred C. Lincoln, North Dana. Mass.; Hiram O. Taylor, Sterling Junction, Mass. Died of Wounds. Sergeant Thomas' L. Whelan, Nat- ick, Mass. Corporal Hermogene Joya, Shirley, Mass., | . | Private Nicholas Malooly, Holden, | Mass Died of D Corporal John J. Campbell, Brook- line, Mass. Private Davis Mass. \ Wounded Severely in Action Sergeants—Wilfred Berard. Woon- socket, R. L; William L. Daly, South Boston, Mass Corporal—Viotor A. Emery, Brock- ton, Mass.; Arthur E. Gaumond, Wor- cester, Mass. | Elroy F. Gerrior, Somerville, Mass.; Calix ‘AT Gullbert, W. Newbury, Mass ; Hessie Superior, Revere, Mass.;Henry A. ‘Brown. Holyoke, Mass.; Albert Tur- A. Gaby, Milford, cotte,: Low=1l. jass. | Missing in Action. | Privates— ur.es Hi. Pratt, . East Weyvmouth Mass ; Harold L. stood, Greenwich, Conn. ~ Well- Condensed Telegrams Cholera is reported sprea g slowly 150 Lives Lost in 'Five Fearful Forest A in Berlin o . . 3 an Earthquake |-:zzezeseee = | Firgs in Minnesota Almost Every Town on the Island of Porto Rico Re- ports Fatalities. San Juan, P. R, Saturday, Oct. 12. —(By The Associatel Press). One hundred and firty lives were lost in yesterday’s earthquake in Porto Rico, it was estimated by Governor Yager loday. Almost every town in the is- lund reports damaged property and scattering fatalities. There are unconfirmed reports here of great damage in Santo Domingo from the earthquake. . Reports trom the interior are com- ing in slowly because of broken com- munication. A slight additional shock was felt at four o'clock this morning and the people are fearful of a repetition of the experiences of 1869. when a series of earthquakes extended over a period of several weeks. The greatest loss of life from yes- terday’s shock was at Mayaguez and Aguadilla, west coast cities, and in the intervening territory. The known dead at Mayaguez are given as forty Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, is dead. Eighty members of Paris Conserva- tory Orchestra arrived in New York, An epidemic of Spanish influenza is reported spreading rapidly over South Africa, ¥ Lord Shaughnessy retired from More Than Five Hundred Persons Are Dead or Miss- the ing—12,000 Homeless. presidency of the Canadian- Pacific Rt 5 Duluth, Minn. Oct. 13—With prob- festdones ‘:1‘ Enland to return to their | with property damage mounting far native land. . Tions i o T s into millions of dollars, whole sections Tt tates of War Savings andlof orthern Wisconsin' and Minnesota amouits to $1E434.300 © | timberland tonight are smouldering, [ Chicago elevated”railroads are ask- R S e el e ?mdl towns to accentuate the general et o e: tion. wArehb'qhsn Chollett, of Cambria, | ““The hodies of 75 victims lie in Du- W:::ncz:;x:; e:‘::?xfatel:iy lhthe - Germans | jyth morgues. Hundreds more along United States. weol con “for the | the roads’ leading to Duluth and Su- g he crop for the| orior lay where they fell when over- year amounts to 290,000,000 | {sken by the fire. po::g:,m\ir::?‘ed ::"sli;lo ovofiqoo. 5 Twelve thousand homeless and pen- e e AT o [Sitpmen niless refugees. all in need, more or el e LR less, of medical attention, are quarter- o L e 4 ,ocg', ed in hospitals, churches, schools, pri- Bis Uk des % 'f"x'l";l o ieago | yate homes and in the armory here, sridl il lslm; German air- | while doctors and nurses sent from PR o to him. .| surrounding communities attend them, eport was circulated on the Paris |and nearly every able-bodied man in Bourse that Constantinople had been of | corn and at Aguadilla thirty, with the|declared under martial law. the gllali‘rlle:aswgiecelx\‘ r?g:?ar;'lglfgm;?teillg?; numbers rapidly increasing. When the Belgian troops approach- | he dying away. At Mayaguez 70 per cent. of the|ed. the famous forests of Houthulst it Reports that the holocaust resulted from the work of enemy agents were circulated here tonight. Definite con- firmation was not available but incen- diaries were driven away from a local shipyard when the fires jn Duluth and houses of brick and cement construc- tion are reported either destroyed or damaged beyond repair. The greatest loss of life there was in the cigar fac- tory of Infanzon and Rodriguez, a three story, modern, concrete build- they found not a single tree remain- ing. The Federal Reserve Bank of Phila- delphia - showed total resources of 5379,146.434 for the week ending Oct ing, where several hundred persons were at work at the time of the dis- aster. The front of virtually every building on the Mayaguez plaza crum- bled into the street, killing and in- Juring people who had rushed out of the buildings into the plaza ‘or safe- " At Aguadilla the loss of hfe was due chiefly to the tidal wave which SWypt over a section of the town af- War Industries Board announced curtailment of watches to 70 per cent. of the first six months of 1917 duction. pro- A bill making subscriptions to the Australian war loans compuloy pased the first reading in the House. The names of 38 Americans contained in the Canadian were casualty Superior were burning at their height, according to F. J. Longren, fire mar- shal, and other city and state officials. Reports reaching here by courier told of widespread destruction, but it was evident that in most cases the fury of the flames was spent. Duluth and Superior are in no further danger. Virginia is safe and Braiverd was un- touched. However, peat bog fires now ter the shock. At Ponce, on the south coast, the known dead are reported to be seven and the injured eleven. Governor Yager, the Red Cross and the military authorities are working together for relief, with Colonel Tip- itt, of the army medica! cerps, in charge at Mayaguez. In response to a call from him, an army truck load- ed with hospital and medical supplies started for Mayaguez this afternoon Churches, hospitals, schools and public Dbuildings everywhers suffered the greatest damage. San Juan was the least damaged of the large towns. At Mayaguez, the new science huild- ing of the college of agriculture was cestroyed by a chemical explosion und fire caused by the earthquake. The Red Cross and the i far gov- ernment have author; use of all the funds that ma; DO IT TODAY! Six more days and the Liberty loan job must be finished and the goal must be reached. Don't be satisfied with looking on. “Get into the game!” The nation is calling upon you to do . your share and it is time to do it. Enter your name as a fighting American before sundown. EDITORIAL CPINION | DISTRUSTS GERMANY Providence Journal: The al any proposal for an .armistice must come from military commanders, sword in hand. s Philadelphia North American: We| do not pretend to deny that Germany':| S 3 3 i answer to President Wilson's queries|list. Four New Yorkers were in- swer to GET YOUR LIBERTY BONDS AT ANY BANK TODAY are said to menace the latter city. makes an early peace possible. * *+ = |cluded on the list. | Bermidji reported only a small loss, But if there is any sanctity in the| Deputy Turati, leader of the Italian| Greatest loss of life and property i world-wide demand for a peace of jus- | Socialist group, opposed to war ac- | daamge is believed to have odcurred in tice and permanency, it there is an: |Cepted an invitation to come to the|the Cloquet region, where a number need for the final overthrow of au- tocracy and the destruction of its mil- United States. Chairman Baruch of the War Indus of towns have been destroyed and all semi-rural settlements virtually wiped itary power, tl tien tries Board urged the Senate Com- {out. never nearer to -{merce Committec to pass the Emer-| A special train of twenty coaches than it is at th gency Power Plant bill brought 1,500 refugees from Cloquet Meriden Mornina Record: We doub: | Karl Hauss, a member of theiand Carleton. The nfirmed reports not that our president will meet the | Reichstag and president of the Center that many persons lost their lives in situation in full accord with our al. |PArty in the Prussian Diet, was chosen | those towns. lies, and there's only one way to meet | Governor of Alsace-Lorraine. | Albert Michaud, a special pokiceman, it. With a plain. unequivacal demand | Investigation by Canadian police re- | told a tragic story of the burning of for “unconditionil surrender.” Civil-|Vealed the fact that revolutionary as-|Cloguet and of the mad rush of its ization’s high court of justice is in no | SoCiations were formed in at least 20 |r : mood for “smezestions” from the |industrial centers of Canada. | last night a forest a criminal at the bar, Application of Canadian publishers ranger gave warning tr Louisville Courier-Journal: The man for advancing price of mewsprint pa- | wind died down the townspeople w the I the White Hones e dras: "the |per from July 1 to Oct. 1 was denied | have to flee” said Michaud. “A th m H:m\\h' i i;‘ar*m“\‘{“\,.\ the ;sprint Commissioner. i pall of smoke hung over the town and | Bomimae with e deapotter: (hat he | Officials of railroads operating east- 'at 1 o'clock the special trains were aiings 1 the *despoiler: | w0 fram Chicago and St. Louis re- called and his colieagues of the allied gov 5 4 r i enmaeits il Sert: the Hu‘" Ny rothe Dot that while the traffic is heavy, the The the station was in- There RN Coroitabic. L the entire Colonel Winsten Churchill, Minister | wind an of Munitions of Ene<land speaking a(‘fidmés The trains pulled out with the a Leeds plant, said that a greater out- | forest blazing closely behind them. put of shells must be made in 1919. |Women wept and clung to their chil- The Senate passed the House res- | dren while others cried frantically for o to his bioody lair still a belligerent is | unthinkable. * * * The arms of Ger- many and Austria must be stacked on the battle line. * * Wait for him (thepresident) before you talk or even | think peace. came rush of town was in a _lolution permitting aliens who have ' their missing ones. The flames licked Portland (Me.) Press: If America|fought in the army re-admission to|at the cars. Windows in the coaches keeps her high purposes in mind the!the United States without reference|were broken by the heat. The en- reply cannot end the war at this time. | to jmmiration law. gineers and firemen alternately stoked, : Officers of a Braxilian steamer ar- |10 give the boilers all the fuel they (Continud on Page Three. Col. 4) | iving at an Atlantic -port report an|could stand. e |encounter with a German submarine.| “Other train hurriedly made MILL CITIES PRINCIPAL Membe of the n crew believe the!of flat cars, box c nd anything that 3 Submersiblo was’ aumic { would roll. But even then all did not CENTERS. OF INFLUENZA| T 0 te wiitary Affairs Com-)get ‘away. There are many dead in Boston, Oct. 13—The mill cities | mitice wareed to repert favorably . ai Cloquet. now appear to be the principal centers|piil ‘making it necessary to ghtain the | Cloquet was a town with_about of the influenza epidemic in Massa- | consent of the Senate to all P e00iopithuiion: Moreithan 4500 per- chusetts. In Boston and its suburbs|navy apoointments made by the Pres. | sons were brought ot Duluth and Su- there has been a marked improve-|jgent. i perior from there alone. ment and there is a decrea new s R Information brought in by rescue cases in the western part of (he state.| EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA i parties here tonight indicated that ‘a River has 688 o the 032 cas- % early 00 bodi ave bed es reported to the state health de- 15 SUBSIDING IN THE EAST |Peary 100 bodie h e oo o et roads leading to Duluth. Several burn bt ed automobiles filled with bodies were partment as having deveioped in the shington, Oect. 13.—The epidemic | last 24 h New Bedford, Taunton. of influenza has subsided somewhat in | P s N1 passed by the rescuers. Other bodies Lowell and Fitchburg also are hard|the castern, but continues to spread in|pre being brousht from every village hit. Jn the 85 cities and towns wn-|the middle and Far West. On the bas-|and hamlet stricken by the gale-driven porting 1o the department toiay there!iS of meagre reports received today | g, were 184 deaths in the 24 hour pe-officials of the public health The list of dead will not be definite- -1y compiled for days, perhaps weeks. riod. bur ent au were optimistic that the measures taken, such S LER! i S | Hundreds of panic-stricken people PARIS DRESSMAIKERS schools, churches, theatres, and for-ipave gathered about the numerous WIN THEIR STRIKE |bidding public gatherings generally|jakes in the burned areas, and those paris, Oct. 13—After a three wesks | 120 bezun to show a heneficial effect. | reporfed missing may be among them. Paris. Oct. 13.-—After a three weeks'| * ‘poaith authorities of California to-| The town of Twiz, on the Miller strike the uorl\n‘\r"”_ s of ’vvhr' "Hs ¥ reported the malady to be spread- { 1€ (O O TEE 00 diessapliing [ esablishntents | Baretliing fnbehiat st te ot Gtahstameua | T T0M0, WeAUHID 3 Other towns reported as being en- tirely destroyed include Rice Lake, Brookston, Brevator, Corona, Adolph, Thompson, Arnold, Moose Lake and Wright. There is no community within a radius of thirty miles which has not sustained more or less damage and each has its quota of dead and in- jured. Both fire fighting and relief work is being carried on under the direction of the Minnesota Home guard and state officials. The cities of Duluth and Superior were not definitely out of danger until today. As it was, property damage wrought yesterday will total more than a million dollars. The fire also destroyed one approach to the interstate bridge which con- nects Duluth and Superior, the Wis- consin city across the St. Louis river from here. Automobile parties dashed through a wall of flame to rescue 200 tuberculosis patients at the Nopeming sanatorium, similar report while numbers of new cases were reported in Arkansas, Jowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Minnesota, New Mexico and Souta Dakota. In forma- tion that the disease was abating came from Massachusetts, Ohio and Mary land. The office of the surgeon general of the army made no statement today as to the situation in the army camps, but reports to the public health ser- vice told of subsidenceat Chillicothe, Ohio, the site of Camp Sherman, and at louisville, Ky., where Camp Tay- lor is located. day. Their demand for an extra daily war alldwance was granted. Their fu ther demand for an eizht Hour dav will he decided by a conference between the employers and working girls’ or- ganization later. 414,760 WOMEN MADE VOTERS IN EMPIRE STATE New York, Oct. 13.—With the ex tension of suffrage to women in this state, registration fizures in this city have passed the million mark, it was announced tonight when the totals were compiled. Of the 1,014,789 per- soris who enrolled last week for the coming general election 414,160 were women. SECRETARY BAKER HAS RETURNED FROM FRANCE Washington, Oct. 13. Secretary Baker, after a trip to the front in France and a visit to the allied capi- tals, arriveq today at an Atlantic port and reached Washington tonight. John D. Ryan, director of aircraft pro- duction who went abroad with the sec- retary, also returned. Surgeon General AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT CONVOKED Amsterdam, Oct. 13.—The Austro- Hungarian delegation have been con- voked for plenary sitting on Oc- tober 15, a Vienna telegram announc- = Gorgas, another member of the party,|which was partially destroyed. The —_— remained in France. patients were taken ou('wit‘?{ greatest . T P BN N i having pattially cut off Lieut. Walter S, Rheno Dead. dimenTtys ave Ay ! S t, but it was said Daris, | Obt 13 - Walter ©'8: PRESIDENT WILSON HAS the rescuers’ retrea ut i s sai Rheno of Martha's Vineyard, Ma RETURNED TO WASHINGTON | {9pight none probably would suffer ill 3 frena aviator in the Lafavette escadrille, MWashington, Oct. 13—President Wil oo 2 o today at the = American hospilal in|son returned to ashington tonight Neuilly, Death was due to pneumonia, | after a iwo days’ visit to New York, | 00 LIVES LOST IN The funeral will be held tomorrow.|Colonel F. M. House, the president's VICINITY OF MOOSE LAKE Lieutenant Rheno had to h credit | clese friend and adviser, accompamied Moose Lake, Minn.. Oct. 13.—Adjut- severa! Gierman airplanes and had been | the presidential party, which included | ant General-W. I°. Rhinow of St. Paul, decorated with the French war cross | Mrs, "WV Isou, Miss Margaret Wilson ccretary Tutmulty. here to supervise devastated north relief work in the country, estimated with palms. 2 and 8 INDIGATIONS ARE THERE WILL BC NO ARMISTICE German Official Reply Has Not Reached Washington—Goy- ernment Asks the American People to Withhold Their Judgment on Germany’s Has Received the Official Note Until President Wilson Communication and Has Had an Opportunity to Consider it. Washington. Oct. 13.—The govern- ment asks - the American people to withhold their judgment on Germany’s note until President Wilson has re- ceived the official communication, and has had opportunity to consider it. The official document had not been received in Washington tonight when the president returned from New York. It probably will be here to- morrow when the president confers with his advisers, among them Secre- tary Baker, who returned today from the western battle front, undoubtedly prepared to give him some inside in- formation on the broken condition of the German military power of which the world necessarily does not know at this time. Tonight, as last night, no official of the government felt justified in speak ing to guide public opinion in the di- rection of the views which are being formed. The Associated Press is en- Chancellor Maximilian warrants him in presenting Fermany's original pro- rosal to the Entente allies. It should be borne in mind that the president’s inquiry merely was a move ad interim, in which he proposed nothing, bound himself to nothing and merely asked some questions, which, he declared, required an answer before he could go further. If he puts the proposition before the Entente it undoubtedly will draw a Guick reply. Despatches last night from London quoting the London Ex- bress as announcing that the British, French and Italian governments had reached a unanimcus decision for a line of common action, were regarded as_being deeply significant. Lacking official guidance on which to base a prediction, observers are forced to record indicatjons. The in- dications are that there will be no armistice, and that if the Entente al- abled to say, howe that the views rapidly are c tall: g and the next step will be taken promptly, probably sooner than may be expected. President Wilson is expected to first decide if Foreign Secretary Solf's reply to the inquiries addressed to S FRENCH COMMENT ON lies were disposed to agree to one they probably would demand as guar- antees of good faith that such places as Metz, Strasburg, Trieste and possi- ly Essen be placed in the nands of Entente forces to guarantee fulfill- ment of Germ: words. COALITION OF OMSK AND GERMAN PEACE PLEA Paris, Oct. 13.—The repuy of the German government to President Wil son’s questions is considered here to indicate that Germany's diplomatic front is as flexible as her military front. Some of the commentators find the reply so worded as to show the hope of the Germans that it will result in cleavage between the allies. General La Croix in the Temps says: “Ger- many’s acceptance of President Wil- son's conditions is an avowal of de- feat. Foch is the sole judge from the military point of view and will know how to exact the necessary guarantees from the enemy and what territorial occupations must be imposed.” Almost all similar views. In addition to recalling Bismarck's ruthless methods in the 1871 armistice, it is pointed out by some of the news- papers that when the Germans in 1914 sought to secure France's enutrality Germany was not willing to accept France’s word, hut demanded to be permitted to occupy Toul and Verdun as a guarantee. “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” CLUB HAS BEEN ORGANIZED Bristol, Conn., Oct. 13,.—Citizens of this city today organized an “Uncon- ditional Surrender Club” and nearly 400 members of the platform to whick the mem- bers signed their names, was tele- graphed to President ,Wilson tonight. It follows: “The undersigned citizens of Bris- tol hereby enroll as members of the Unconditional Surrenger club of Br tol, urging our president and our gov ernment to accent no other terms than ‘unconditional surrender,’ and as evi- dence of our good faith we pledge our- selves to take additional bonds of the Fighting irth Liberty Loan.” “IMPERIAL” MISSING FROM GERMAN NOTE London, Oct. 13.-—One of the most significant points in Germany’s reply to President Wilson is that it is the first important German diplomatic commun on since the German em- pire was proclaimed at Versailles im 1871 which has not spoken .in the name of the imperial German govern- ment. “The German government” is an ab- solutely new phrase, and the on ion of the word “imperial’ is unprecedent »d. Whether that means catering to Fresident Wilson’s views or whether t my S "hange in Germany re- en. COLUMBUS DAY LIBERTY PARADE IN PANAMA Panama, Saturday, Oct. 12. — The Columbus Day Liberty day procession here this afternoon was participated in by the representatives.of 23 national- includine all of the Latin- and all of the and Asiatic allies. A fea- parade th a Chinese band. Following ion came Burmese in natice % > and other divisions of Sikhs and Svan American vaqueros from the plantations near the city. A tor- rential rain prevented the formal ad- dress which was to have been made after the parade. PRESIDENT POINCARE HONORS PREMIER OF AUSTRALIA Paris, Oct. 13. (Havas.)—President Poincare today received liam Mor- ris Hughes, premier of Australia, and presented to him the insignia of a grand officer of the Legion of Honor, in appreciation of the friendly rela- tions between France and Australia. Eliptherios Venizelos, the Greek premier and minister of war, also vis- ited President Foincare today, with whom he conversed at length on the eastern situation. M. Venizelos ex- pressed the thanks of Greece for France's aid in the Balkans. TONE OF THE GERMAN PRESS IS OPTIMISTIC Geneva, Oct. 13.—The tone of the German press is quite optimistic, as compared with the Austrian, which considers that Germany is working for her own salvation and seeking a sep- arate peace through the United States in order to protect her own interests, Turkey not being officially at war with América. PASSENGERS REMOVED FROM GROUNDED STEAMER ' ‘A Canadian Pacific Port, Oct. 13.— Fassengers were removed tonight from a Canadian steamer which grounded near here today. A report from the wreck says the steamer has several feet of water in her hold. tonight that more than 30 lives were lost in the Moose Lake and its imme- diate viein: Between 300 and 400 the newspapers express |- were secured. The text| HORVATH GOVERNMENTS Viadivostol, Monday, Oct. 7.—(By The A. P.)—A coalition of ihe Omsi and Hovath governments is announc- ed. In this coaiition Lieutenant Gen- eral Hovath will have charge of al- lied dealings in the Far Bast, M. Us- tragoff will be head of the railways, while General Pleshkoff, chief of the Russian forces in Sirberia and Man- churia, will become assistant assistant manager of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way. General Horvath will retain his nominal position as vice president and general manager of the railroad. The Omsk cabinet remains as it was be- fore the coalition with the exception of these appointments. Ustragoff and Pleshkoff are Horvath leaders. It is rumored that General Horvath's new political position is a step to- ward the transfer of the management of the railways to the allies. B VARIOUS TRANSLATIONS OF GERMANY’S REPLY P: Oct. 13.—Various transla- tions into French of the German text of the reply to PFeStaent wfi‘i’w have Leen telegraphed from Switzerland: They are substantially the same ex- cept thatthe first phrase is read in some cases, “The German govern- ment makes 1its own the principles laid down by I'resident Wilson, etc.” It will be noted that the phraseology is reached through a translation from the Getman into the French and from the lattef into English. Such vari- ations hayve frequently occurred in the translations of important official doc- uments, and this known fact, if no v_governments concern- ng the official text be- fore accepting as'certain bevond doubt the meaning of documents in question. FRENCH TAKE LAON WITHOUT A FIGHT With the French Army in France, Oct. 13.—(Reuters). Laon. the largest of the group of natural obstacles forming the keystone of the German defence in France, has been taken without a fight. The town of 1. tous on t1nds on precipi- 50 feet above nsuinary bat- ween Napo- troops umder Napoleon made great ef- ts to dislodge Blucher, but the po- tion proved too 2. The cathe- dral of Laon ‘is considered one of the most important creations of art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, DECIDED DECREASE IN DEATH RATE IN BOSTON . Boston, Oct. 13—The health author- ities of this city were greatly encour- aged by the decided decrease in mor- tality today. In the 24 hours ended at 10 'o'clock tonight there were 72 deaths from influenza and 13 from pneumonia, the total of 85 being 36 less than vesterday. It was announced that there were now enough doctors and nurses available to handle the sit- uation here and that there were empty beds in every hospital. KAISER TO RENOUNCE THE RIGHT TO DECLARE WAR Berne, Switzerland, Oct. 13. — The Frankfort Zeitung states that among the reforms the German emperor in- tendsto renounce is the right to de- clare war. Austrian newspapers received -here state that Germany and Austria-Hun- gary are in complete accord concern- ing the evacuation of conquered terri- tory and hence Germany's note in re- ply to President Wilson will stand as the answer for the Central Powers. PORROS PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC OF PANAMA Panama, Saturday, Oct. 12.—Bel- cario Porros. first vice president of the republic, today assumed *the office of president for the epriod of six months. He recently returned from Washing- ton, where he served as minister from Panama. In his inaugural address the new president referred to the friend- ship of the'United States toward Pan- ama "and expressed his gratitude for the assisiance recently remdered in th settlement of the electoral: deputies. BULGARIA LIBERATES GREEKS AND SERBS Sofla, Oct. 13—(Via Base.)—The Bulgarian minister of the interfor has issued a decree liberating the Greek and Serbian subjects interned in con- centration camps in Bulgaria and al- lowink them to return to their own country. FINLAND ‘ASKS GERMANY TO WITHDRAW TROOPS Stockholm, Oct. 13.—The Finnish government has asked Germany, to withdraw her troops from Fifiland. The caskets have been ordered shipped | request was recently delivered to Gen- here *by the adjutant general for dis- tribution here. .. eral Von Der Goltz, the commander on Finnish t!mqry,