Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 15, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOI.. LIX—NO. 247 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, TEN PAGES-—70 COLUMNS ABOLITION OF AUTOCRACY AND THE DISCONTINUANCE OF ATROCITIES MUST PRECEDE SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES President Wilson Informs German Government That Armis- tice Cannot Be Considered Unless It is Fully Dictated by the Allied Commanders in the Field, in Such Terms as Absoluely Provide Safeguards and Guarantees That Germany’s Part Will Not Be a Scrap of Paper—Senate Chamber Rang With Applause as President Wilson’s Answer Was Read—Opinion at the Capitol and Throughout Official Washington Was Unanimous in Approval. Washington, Oct. 14,—President Wilson has answered Germany’s peace proposal with a decision which not only fulfills the expectations o supporters of his diplomacy, but also dippels the fears of those who pre- dicted he would substitute victeries at arms with defeats at diplomacy. No peace with kaiserism, autocracy must go; @0 armistice can even be thought of while Germany contin- ues her atrocities on land and sea, ope cannot be considered unless it fully is by the allied com- manders in field in such -terms as absolutely de safeguards and gharantees that Germany's part wiil not be a scrap of paper. This in a few words is the presi- dent's answer. If it does met bring a capitulation which may be more than an uncon- ditional surrender, allged diplomats and American officials belicve it may sause a revolution in Germany. Beyond ?ue-uon it speaks for the Kntente allies as well as the United States. The dispatch of the president's re- ply was followed by the 1ssue of th formal statement at the White House by Secretary Tumuity: “The government will continue to sand over 250,000 men with their sup- plies every month and there will be me_relaxation of any kind." Quite outside of the formal phrases of a diplomatic document that was President Wilson's word to the world that he had no thought of stopping the fighting at this stage. The senate chamber rang with the applause of senators as the phesi- dent's anSwer was read a few min- utes after it had been announced at the state department. Senator Lodge. the president's chief critic in his course until today, issued a state- ment expressing his gratification at the president's decision. Opinion at the capitol and throughout official Washington was unanimously in ap- moval. The oMcial ncte which will convey the president’s decision to the Ger- man government, and more impor- tant, to the German people, was de- livered today by Secretary Lansing g the charge of the Swiss legation who has been acting as the interme- diary. It was given out publicly by Mr. Lansing at the state department at 6 o'clock this evening. In full it foliows: Yext of President Wilson's Answer. “Sir: In reply to the communica- tion of the German government dated the 12t hinstant which you handed me today. I have the honor to request you to transmit the following an- wer: Ter “The unqualified acceptance by th= present German government and by a large majority of the reichstag of the terms laid down by the president of the United ‘Stdtes of America in his address to the congress of the *Inited S on _the Sth of January, %918, and in his Subsequent addresees, fustifies the president in maxing a trank and direct statement of his de- eision with regard to the communica- ficns 6f thé German government of the 8th and 12th of October, 1918, “It must be clearly understood thit the process of evacuation and the ponditions of an armistice are mut- *érs which must be left to the judg- ment and advice of the mulitary ad- wisers of the government of the Unit- ed States and the allied governments, and the president feels it his duty to pay that no arrangement can be ac- cepted by the government of the United States” which does not provide absolutely satisfactory safeguards amd guarantees of the maintenance of the present military supremacv of the armies of the United States an the allies in the field. He feeis con- fdent that he can safely assume that nothing but this will also be the juds- ment and decision of the allied gov- ernments. “The pre!Mefl! feels that it is also his duty to add that neither tne gov- ernment of the United States, nor, he is quite sure, the governments with which the government of the United States is associated & a belligerent will consent to consider wn armistice 89 long as the armed forces of Ger- many continue the illegal and inhu- mane practices which they still per- sist in. “At the very time that the German government approaches the govern- ment of the United States with pro- posals of peace its submarines are engaged In sinking passenger ships &t sea and not the ships alone but the very boats in which their passengers apd crews seek to make their way to safety; and in their present enforced withdrawal from Flanders and France the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruction which has always been regarded as In di- m\dohuon of the rules and prac- : of civilized warfare. Cities and villages, if not destroyed, are being gtripped of all they contain not only, often of their very inhabitants. nations associated against Ger- many cannot be expected to agree to @ cessation of arms while acts of in- humanity, 'spoliation and desolation are being continued which they Just- ly look upon with horror and with burning hearts, “It is necessary. also, in order that there may be no possibility of mis- understinding that the ~president should very eolemnly call the atten- tion of the government of Germany to the language and plain intent of cne of the terms of peace which the German government has now accept- “ed. 1t is contained in the uddress of the président d\ivered at Mount Ver- non on the fourth of July last “It {s ag follows ‘The destruction of every arbitrary powsr anywhere that can separately, secretly and of its single choice disturb the pedce of the world; or, if it cannot be pres- eutly destroved, at least its redutcion €6 virtual impotency.’ The power whkich has hitherto controlled the German nation is of the sort here de- scribed. It is within the choice of the German nation to alter it. The president's words® just quoted nat- urally constitute a condition precedent to peace, if peace is to come by the action of the German people them- selves. The president feals bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judgment, depend upon definiteness and the satisfactory caar- acter of the guarantees which can be given in this fundamental matter. It is indispensable that the governments associated against Germany should know beyond a peradventure with whom they are dealing. “The president will make a sepa- rate reply to the Royal and Imperial government of Austria-Hungary. “Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration. (Signed} “ROBERT LANSING. “Mr. Frederick Oederlin, “Charge D'Affaires, ad interim, charge of German interests in United States.” One outstanding point which does not appear in the president’s note— a point on which the world has been asking questions can be answered to- right. When the president declared that the wrong done to Irance when Ger- many took Alsace-Lorraine should be righted,- he meant that Alsace Lor- raine should be returned to France. Those who contend the president’s decision arranges the sitwyation for something more than an uncondi- tional surrender base it on the argu- ment that he has now passed the stage where he might have accepted a surrender of the German military and naval forces and left the Hohen- zollern autocracy on its throne. Mr, Wilson, according to this view, now has finally informed the Ger- man people that if they' want peace thep can attain it only by getting rid of the kaiser and his system. An armistice, it is thought, might come first and the details of the downfall of the German autocratic "o\ernmenl might be arranged later. But this is what an armistice would entail: Iirst, a stop to the atrocitles on land and sea and the systematic de- struction and devastation in the wake of the retreating German ar- mies. Then, the disarmament of all the German forces and the deposit of their arms and munitions at points to be chosen by the allied military commanders. Then, the occupation by allied forces of certain German cities or strongholds of strategic im- portance. Probably also the occu- pation of all the suomarine bases, and turning over of the German fleet, In short. it would entail a taking from Germany of everything with which she might break her word to an armistice, From that point the United Stiates and the allies might proceed to dis- pose of what remained of kaiserism i the German people have not donr it before, as President Wilson in his note plainly invites them to do. ‘While nowhere in the note does the president openly join with the En- tente Atesmen in the demand that the “chief criminals” must be deliv- ered up for trial, the president's con- fidants point out that he plainly sub- scribes to the doctrine that the guilt of bringing on the world war is per- sonal. It will be noted that the president in the completely rejects the German sug- gestion for a mixed commission to arrange an evacuation and reminds the militari: that they will accept the terms laid down by Marshal Foch and the associuted commanders in that they will have no part in fram- ing them. He makes it plain that he does not accept the new German ®overnment headed by Chancellor Maximilian as anything less auto- cratic, anything less a creature of German militarism, than its prece- cessors, and warns the German peo- ple that unless they destroy it the allied armies will do so. Here, then, follow the words which ‘oclaim with finality that the auto- cratic government of Germany must 80, and plainly invite ‘the German people to make the change which will bring them ce. “The power which has hitherlo controlled the German nation,” says the president's reply, is of the sort here described. It is within the choice of the German -people to al- ter it.” The president's words just quoted naturally constitute a condi- tion precedent to peace, if peace is to come by the action of the German people themselves. The president feels bound to say that the whole prrocess of peace will, in his judg- ment. depend upon tha definiteness and the satisfactory character of the guarantees which can be given in this fundamental matter. I# is indis- pensable that the governments asso- ciated against Germany should. know Leyond peradventure with whom they are dealing. \ This pronouncement, friends say, fulfiils the predictions of those who declared that when he asked Prince Maximilian if he merely represented the military leaders: who d been conducting the war, he was ing the foundations to show that the new government of Germany is no.less autocratic than the othersand for .a final statement to the German people themselves that nothing but their autocratic government stands between them and the peace which they so fervently desire. .This, the president’s friends say, has been the whole theory of his diplomacy. Although Germany is informed that a separate reply will be made to the peace note of the Austro-Hungarian government, it is known that for the present no communication will be sent either to Austria-Hungary or to Turkey, whose belated plea similar to that of her allies reached the -state dcpartment today. Replies to Ger- the president's Condensed Telegrams Japan agreed to remit the indemnity against China Ten thousand harbor workers Box 1 are i i 5 in | Detween long lines of bodies in the eparing to ask i % S g}’aé’e& 11 sic for v increases § in ;mprlovnsgd morgufis here, searching Thastrea chilcches and!: pic ¢ | for loved ones who have not been" Dhor ol J‘ngs o Babylon b 5 [heard from since the forest fires laid -tk e phkilen waste to this section of Minnesota and Gerral Pershing ... reporfed ' the |2 portion of northern Wisconsin four awarding of the Distinguished Service Cross to 44 officers and enlisted men. announced that the names of 73 additional Amer- The War " Department ican prisoners had been German camps. Vaseil Radoslav, who resigned located Bulgarian Fremier last June, fled from Bulgaria disguised as a German offi- cer. H. W Belnap, chief of the bureau of safety of the Interstate Commerce Commission, ‘Washington. died of influenza Shortage of petroleum has :rlppled- the Danish fishery industry. On 3 one-half of the 1917 September catch was made last month. The Waubesa, a 9,000-ton cargo carrier, was launched at Merchant Shipbuilding plant on Delawere near Philadelphia. Agricultural advisers to help dit trict boards in New YOrs adjusttarin labor needs were named by the De- partment of Agriculture. Postmaster General Tordi, of Italy, sent. to President Wilson a book n “The Life of Christopher Columbus,” written by Fernandez in 1571. The Amerisan Red Cross announced | the arrival in Archangel, Russia, of a relief ship with a cargo of 4600 tons of food, drugs and other supplies. Prince Georges Lvoff, first Premier of the Russian provisional govern- ment, who arrived in Japan, will stay there for a week before leaving for | America Revised rules governing the sale of sugar to consumers, while permitting ! the issue of two pounds a month for each person, restrict the sale to one pound at a time. Colonel Bishop of the Pubiic; vice Commission show that 102! 055 962 passengers travelled on the! subway and elevated lines of New York city for the year ended June 30, 1918. Honorably discharged soldiers sailors, who possess the educatio qualifications, may acquire a college ; education at- the University of Coto- rado at the expense of the Govern- ment. Commenting on the election by the steel | the the | Deal™oll of Forest: s Nearly 1,000 Bodles of : 300 Victmu Have Been und — of Them Clnrred Beyond Identification. Moose Lake. Minn;, Oct. 14.—Men and women of the Moose Lake- dis- trict of Minnesota, driven, by fire from their homes, penniless, many of them wearing clolhlng furnished by charitable relief workers tonight took up the search for their dead. Barred by the military. authorities from leaving the city, they wanuaered er days ago. (frequent intervals brought in more ! bodies, and the sad vigil of the watch- ers continued throughout the night. During the past twenty-four hours the bodies of 300 victims have been found in the charred No Man’s Land, which before the fire formed the smil- ing shores of Moose Lake and Kettle River. The majority of the bodies some of which were taken to Duluth, were so badly charred that indentfica- tions will be difficult Searchers have been on duty for ten hours, but there in at has been as yet no slackening of the ly |pace or shortening of intervals at which the bddies are brought in. Adjutant General Rhinow tonight es- Motor trucks arriving at ! timated that the number of dead the Moose in Lake and Kettle River regions alone might reach 500. These, with the other dead from regions will. T adjoining it is believed. swell the list of dead to nedr the 1,000 mark. Improvised hospitals here, and permanent the institutions at Duluth are |President Says That Loan Must Succeed Its Failure Would Mean Years of ‘War Instead of Early 'll’_’eace Upon Our erms. ‘Washington, Oct. 14.—President Wilson today issued this statement on the fourth Liberty loan: “The reply of the German govern- ment to my note of inquiry dated Oc- tober 8 gives occasion for me to say to my fellow countrymen that neither that reply nor any recent events Lave in any way diminished the vital im- be in sight; would mean years of war instead of peace upon our own terms. | American to leave to the govern- ments of the United States the allies the momentous discussions initiated by Germany and to remem- ber that for each man his duty is to swrengthen the hands of these gov- nments and to do it in the most important way now immediately pre- sented by subscribing to the utmost cf his ability for bonds of the fourth Liber oan. That loan must be suc- cessful. I am sure that the ~mert- ean people will not fail duty and make - it successrur~ SCHWAB CONDUCTED A LIBERTY BOND RALLY New York, Oct. 14—Cheered" high officials of the United Shipping Board, diplomatic represen- tatives of the 22 allied nations and ducted by Charles M. Schwab. direc- glory. Americans. way. When You Fight--Fight Fight as the American soldiers have fought and are fighting. They are carrying themselves with They are showing themselves to be It is a pretty good way to fight—the American It wins battles over lhere, but right here at home it should and will win in the Liberty Loan Campnlgn if we buy Bonds to our utmost. Fight by buying ! GET YOUR BONDS AT ANY BANK TODAY' Own “I earnestly request every patriotic and of to see their by States From the‘United Stat: portance of the Liberty loan. Re- 4 Jaxation now, hesitation now, woud (By The Associated Press. mean defeat. when victory seems to| Peace talk pervades the air, but it is falling on deaf ears as far as the armies in the field are concerned. In- stead of a relaxation in the intensity of the fighting, new hostilities on what seemingly is a major scale are being carried out by the British, Irench and ‘Belgians’in Belgian Flan- ders. Having cleared out the old Laon salient and made advances northward in Champagne which ar: menacing the retirement of the Germans east- ward toward the Valenciennes-Me- zieres-Metz Y¥ne, General Foch has ordered a drive in the Lys River re- gion of Flanders toward Ghent which threatens to break entirely the grip of the Germans in Belgium all the way from the frontier to the coast and likewise to eliminate the big bulge in the line with Lille as its “hile the latest official communi- cation from Field Marshal Haig an- rounces that only local actions have several hundred citizens who had |1aken piace in the pew theater and just subscribed $52,000,000 in Liberty | ot prisoners have been taken in bonds at a sensational “auction”_ con- g e Lo 5 quarters assert that Roulers has been captured and that Courtrai, the junc- tion point on the railway leading to Ghent, has been outflanked. The French troops alone are said to have tadken 2,000 prisoners, while the Bel- gians have captured several complete batteries and guns and numerous prisoners. Just w wide the new front of attack is has not become ap- parent. It is stated that the new ad- vance has brought the allied troops within range of the enemy coast de- fences but that the guns from them have offered no opposition. Meantime to the south the Germans are offering stiff opposition to the Pritish southwest of Valenciennes and on the Solesmes sector in an en- I T ORRE AT NIIral N FLANDERS TOWARD Gre New Move Threatens to Break Entirely theAGrip of the Ger- mans in Belgium—The New Drive Has Brought the Allied Troops Within Range of the Enemy Coast De- fenses—The Greatest Resistance of the Teutons on the Western Front is Now Being Delivered Against the Men deavor to prevent the closing in of the Lille sack and the capture of this important town and also Valen- ciennes, which are in precarious posi tions if a pincer. movement gets w under way. At last reports the Germans sfill were falling back from e region of Laon. that town and-the entire St iobain massif bLeing in the hands of the French. in Champsagne the French have leen enabled to. make further crossings of the Aisne and to materially better their front east- ward, notwithstanding the stoic de- fence of the enemy, who realizes .it is of the greatest importance to hold back the French and Americans driv- ing northward, as a breach in the southern line and a swilt advanee would imperil the entire German force inside the sack from the Olse river west of [lavigny to Sissonne, east af Laon. Probably the greatest resistance of all js faced by the Americans on hoth sides of the Meuse river. Vic- ious counter-attacks are being deliv- ered against the men from the Unit- ed States, the fierceness of the as- saults indicating that fresh forces have been into the fray to hait their co efforts to pro- ceed up the river valleys and thereby compel the Germans in case of a re- treat ® wend their way obliquely rortheastward instead of eastward, toward the German border. Concen- trations of artillery are being used against the American positions at various places. Gas shelis are not being spared by the enemy in his efforts to hold the Americans. in check. All the counter-attacks of the Ger- mans thus far have heen successfully withstood by General Liggett's men, and the American artiliery is answer- ing the German guns shot for shot. NATIONAL CAMPAIGN Z AGAINST INFLUENZA ‘Washington, Oct. 14. — The public health service announced tonight that it now is mobilized for a national campaign against the epidemic of Spanish influenza which has swept the country. Additional headquarters for statewide efforts to control the dis east will be established in co-opera- tion with state and local health au- Finnish Landtag of Prince Fr/ierick thorities at Baltimore, Md, I“olum\g_xs! ]Ch:lrles of Hesse to be King of Fin-} o < 3 (;lhxg Richmond, Va., and Columbia, and, the Frankfort Gazette says: “ . E s an opportune moment for such ] While the epidemic continues una- \ opp uch an|caring for thousands of more or less|tor general of the emergency fleet || tions of the coun- election.” 5 injured refugees many of whom are | corporation, the fabricated carso ves- | ated in most sections of the coun ‘t(lxr"tg‘ V:icta: (Emmln:lel, ’°fp .g:l{, in a critical condition. seln “Allies” "-and “Consort” were | L%, the number of-new cases Bt 220y entertained at dinner Henry P. Davi-| The force of rescue workers will be ! liunched today at ti i camp% & z son, chairman of the American Red | ¥ .at the - Submarins Cross War Council; Dr. Stockton Ax- son. member of the War Council and ! Major Robert Perkins permanant | head of the Red Cross in Italy. many’s vassal allies will await ngxt move in Berlin, unless that move is anticipated by a new plea-and sur- render from Vienna or Constantino- ple, or both. EDITORIAL COMMENT ON PRESIDENT’S ANSWER Worcester (Mass.), Telegram: Take all the German fiendish and mechan- ical agencies of atrocity off the lands and scas, and the Entente allies will consider such form of armistice as may be advised by their m ry com- manders. That is the substance of the reply of President Wilson. It is the order for fhe kaiser and his kind to come down out of the trees if they desire to escape being shot. New Haven Journal-Courier: The promptness with which the president has replied to the German note gives gratifying assurance to the country that he is in harmony with the pop- uklar verdict. '; * * The whole subject is now set back to where it was on September 27 and where we are compelled t osay it should have been left undisturbed. Hartford Courant: The public would have welcomed a brief, direct, uncon- ditional surrender. That is the senti- ment of the civilized world today. here is a growing impatience of let- ter writing. Springfield Union: The president’s reply to the German government lacks two words that have an important place in American history and are at present very much in the vocabulary of the American people. The absence of these two words, in all probability, further correspondence which will ended only when the president blunt- 1y and curtly says “Our terms are ‘un- conditional surrender.” i Fort Worth (Texas), Record: It is safe to trust the president. Potsdam has its answer. Salt Lake City Tribune: thing at the right time. Rocky Mountain News The nation will feel immensely relie od that it has been freed for the time being of any association with the bar- barian. New York Tribune: Why in o growing corrspondence with Germany is the word surrender taboo? Why it that we cannot talk fight? * * We are negotiating with Germany to- toward peace. Does the American government know the heart of the American people, and how it sinks as each further expec- ward an armistice tatién is so vaguely disappointed? New London Telegraph: The answer is one that cannot be misunderstood. There will be no armistice until the Hun armies are out of all occupi territory, and not then until the mil tary fangs of Germany have be drawn to the satisfaction of Marshal Foch. Germany, will not be readmitted to the family of nations until the Ger- man people have taken the control their country out of the 'hands of t Hohenzollerns. Waterbury ReDuhllGln' Let the al- lied answer be that we are ready grant Germany, an armistice on t safety plan that Foch may draw up, opening a quick entrance into Berlin for the allies, if the peace terms that lay down are not accept- we then ed. COMMENT OF BERLIN PRESS ON GERMAN NOTE Copenhagen,” Sunday, - Oct. 13.—The consensus of the comment of the Be: doubled tomorrow, said. roads hav been fira “and impossible to search the that General Rhinow Up to this time only the main i e been explored. It has gearch is exmeeted to result in the finding of hundreds more oS UL larfudnd i the | victims_ in the ruins of their desiroy- ed homes. Many persons alsg are be- lieved to have been drowned in lakes in which they took refuge from the terrific heat, thinking the fire might passed here, in a posure, said they stood for hours them by. Many = refugees serious condition from ex- in ice cold water while the flames raged aboye them, Rural residents, refugees say, given but were a moment's warning before the fiery hurricane swept down upon them. A pall of smoke had hung over, the countryside for hours, and a ma- Jjority believed the holocaust to e merely the “fall fires” which are an- nual occurrences. became apparent, cellars or a slight depression seemed to families h: their bodies burned to a crisp. majority of cases ‘When the danger they rushed into huddled together wherever in the ground promise protection. Whole ave been found suffocated In a physicians say, death was caused by suffocation, and was mercifully preceded by uncon- sciousness. Officials in charge of relief work still are unable to make an accurate esti mate of the material damage ing from the fire. ever, that result- It was said, how- in this district alone, fifty square miles has been stripped clean of timber, habitation crops, livestock and human No furtler danger is anticipate, al- though the conflagration continues in isolated areas. Fires south and south- west of Cass Lake driven by a high wind were said to be gaining tonight with the .. €| the flames, dirzetly in th path of s but it was believed cfforts of the fire fighters would prevent the fire from tions. auamm, serious propor- great | The Pres- ident has once more done the right (Denver): lin press on the German note to Pres- ident Wilson is that it is a clear, un- ambiguous, straightforward They declare the cnly thing that could prevent peace coming would be chau- vinistic opposition to Fresident Wil- son’s programme on the part of the alies. The Lokal Anzeiger says: contains no word that can be misun- derstood. President Wilson has now no reason for rejecting the German re- quest of October 5. We are firmly con- vinced he will now put himseli in com- munication with the allies in order to bring about a truce and the sending| of plenipotentiaries for peace, nego- tiations.” The Vossische Zeitung Ve ur is . of Berlin does the Tageblatt, which adds: “Tt goes without saying that the accept- ance by the whole Enterite of Pres- ident Wilson’s leading principles is a condition precedent for fruitful nego- tiations.” The Vorwaerts says: “The German government's answer shows that no further efforts on the German side ‘are required to show a will for peace. The answer of the German government is the answer of the German people.” The Boersen Courier says Germany has accepted President Wilson's prin- ciples without reservation. The news- raper finds some comfort in the fact that these principles “prune down the war aims of all chauvinists no matter ugder which banner they march,’ and adds: “Thére can no longer be a question of the unmeasured demands set up in the propaganda ;peec_h_ep of the .en- ed li- en of he to he r- answer. “The note prints comment, in a similar strain as of the *. Liberty the Fifth | which Mr. ale” of “The war Avenue Schwab unbuilt cargo ships. Assoc.ation. ing. fought. per subport. They have shown halt them. spirit _of the tuke the heart Only the failure of péople at out of them.” IMPETUS IN NEW ENGLAND Boston, Oct. thirty. 14.—Four onza New - Enzla townns had over-sub: tourth Liberty loan quot: according to reports received by district Liberty urday’s subscriptions, $17,044,000, | district 1o | Boston {o which puts the y well over per cent. of its quota. Renewed ‘hope for the success the camy in tiroughout because hundred their amounting b ou'—'nt the total 1or ales the day the di The regular weekl SLOW IMPROVEMENT IN The department and the health energy now towarl preventin currence of the dise: B. Endicott chamnnn ot the emcrg en- oy committee, said tonight that sanction would he agers to re-open their houses next week at the earliest. Major Roger Wolcott, resumption of meetings of with the legal advisory boards of the state. tente ministe! The Kreuz Zeitung paper says, territory or her honor.” | Boat Corporation’s Newark shipyard. The launching of the vessels, named 1 by Mrs. Woodrow Wiison, was a part ‘Allies Day” programme of the loan campaign, and followed a luncheon tendered the diplomats by at: conducted his i “No one can count upon its be- ing won until the last battle has been “There is no danger that the brave 0 the world that German troops cannot the home could IN LIBERTY BOND SALES and and tonight, the loan committee. Sat- w0 the in 8 000, fifty of evidence re- ports on the influenza-pneumonia epi- auction of the INFLUENZA SITUATION cmergency: committes are devoting much o no given theater man- | hefore | in charge of | the draft in Massachusetts, tonight is- | ued general orders providing for the draftees in eight counties, all in the eastern part warns against the assumption that the German peo- ple would accept peace at any price or that their resources are exhausted. “There can be no question,” the news- “of cacrificing Germany’s day and today, the total for the 48 hour perior ending at noon today be- ing 15152, New cases of. pneumonia also decreased as did the number of deaths. Pneumonia cases for the two days were 4,780 and the deaths 1,- 642, Since the beginning of the epidemic in army camps, the total cases of in- fiuenza reported is 250,02 pneumo- is rot yet won,” said Chairman Hurley of the Shipping |72 33465 and deaths 10,741 Poard, in an address at the launch- | In announcing today that it has mo- 4d for a rational campaign among civilians, the public health service said General Blue had telegraphed all state health authorities, suggesting soldiers fighting for democracy in | that they organize in as effective man- nce will slacken their speed at|Rer as Ro: b_‘o‘locall\ available rk;- the eleventh hour. They will push on |SOUrces, especiallv nursing personnel. tc the end if you sive them the pro- | Dr: Blue also suggested that all pos- sible'use be made of women who have rot had regular training in order to diminish to some extent the demands made upon the doctors and nurses of the country “ho are badly overwork- ed. PRESIDET\l‘T WAL VER RACK FROM SHOPPING TRIP ‘While Presideud. .vilson’s uecisivil on Germany’s note was being pre- parad for announcement at the White House and the state department the ping trip. He drove to a Jjewelry stcre in one of the White House mot Avenue to the White House. Pennsylvania Avenue was black at the time with crowds of war work- ers just out of office. A greatcrows a surrounded the shop in which president was and when he a])])eared he was greeted with roars of gheers.| (e} demic led the workers to believe tnat | Acknowledging the greetings, Mr. by the middle of the week the ban|Wilson abandoned the motor and on public gatherings in the open air|walked up theavenue with secret serv- would be lifted. Cities and towns|ice men to the side and behind. He'! throughout the district have arranged |was kept continually smiling and ac- | outdoor mass meetings for the ‘latter | knowledging greetings as he went part of the week and expect that|along, carrying a small package, e\ these gatherings if the health au-|ijdently the contents of his purchase. thoriti will allow them, will aia — materially on boostinz the loan, GERMAN PEOULE OVERJOYED fruit trade in this City was turned AT: PROSPECTS: OF(PEACE into a Liberty loan rally today; at| Geneva, Oct. 14—(By The A. P)y— which more than $200.00 in sub-|Travelers from Berlin arriving at scriptions. was taken. The largest) Basel sav the German people are over- individual subscription in Boston was | joved at the progpects of pedce. It is for- $1.000,000 subseribed by R. 1. |asserted that Kne President Wilson Day and Company. The, American|anc Chancelior @Maximilian are being Sugar Refining Company took $339,- | eulogized by the people the name of 000 worth, while Parkinson and Burr | Emperior William is not mertioned. bought $259,000, The: south German newspapers, the travelers say, are very sober in their comment on the situation, saying that | Tresident Wikon rd with the 5 London, and_ Pars sovernments, may Posjen, O — A contnued, | jon.0q conditiohs which the Central "hwgh slew "mm ement 4 e Poy will be unable to accept fluenza situation wus repoctel today | CwerS 3 by. the state department of health, = -— HALF OF LIBERTY LOAN REMAINS TO BE SUBSCRIBED Washington, Oct. 1L—Coineident with the president's Liberty loan statement, the treasury department announced that with Lut five days left jin the fourth ia: apaign, half of the six bill.on do total remains to be subscribed. Thai means that the country must ins invest nearly one billion. dollars a day in bonds from now until Saturday midnight, when ithe three weeks drive ends. NEARLY 100 LIVES LOST IN EXPLOSION NEAR TORONTO Toronto, ‘Ont.. Oct., 14.—Nearly 100 lives are reported to have been lost tonight in an explosion at an explos- ive plant at Trenton near here. The- first explosion, said to have or- iginated in the chemical plant, was followed by sevcral other explosions, which iset fire to some buildings of the plant. ‘Large stores of T. N. T. were endangered by the fire. president went down town on a shop- | ors, but walked back up Pennsylvania | AIRPLANE IN TARGET PRACTICE KILLED SOLDIER New York, Oct. 14—Bullets from a machine gun presumer to have heen inadvertently fired from an army air- plane in flight killed one soldier and woundgd three others as the men were drilling -in rmation today at Camp Mills, Long Isiand. William H.. Hall, private, McLeans- boro, llis., died from a wound in the head. Samuel Tiotrry; teutenant,” Stim- mit, Pa., was shot in the arm. William H. Bivens, private, 1lls., was shot in the back. Lewis J. Sommons, private, Danville, Ills.. was wounded by a bullet. The army and aviation authorities had not succeaded late today in iden- ifying the airplane which at the time of the accident was not seen at the camp. Observers elsewhere reported seeing an airplane in the. neighbor- hood flving very high and which had come from the ocean side of the island, It was the theory of the aviation of- ficers that the airplane, while engaged in target practice, suddenly dipped, thus unintentionally directing a stream of bullets earthward. Avon, NOTED MEN AUTOGRAPH LIBERTY LOAN POSTER New York, Oct. 14—A Liberty loan poster containing sixty-two auto- graphs of noted men will be auction- ed to the highest bidder of Liberty loan bonds here on the final day of the loan mpaign, it was announced here tonight. The poster includes the signatures of President Wilson, Colonel Edward M. House, Rear Ad- y T. Grayson, Albert ~Gleaves, director-general Fleet Corporation; and 3 hwab. I.mnoenm zel, Mar- ant secretary of the Count Di Cellere, the Ital- assador, and Governor Whit- It was the original ide: of Rosenauer, of this city, & of the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica, who in his scout uniform per- scrally yisited all e \ames are on i natures of the p (liouse and Admiral obtained during the hrr‘“ dent's {10 New York on Saturday | aay. man. Morrig B. member visit and Sun- GREAT CELEBRATION OF | COLUMBUS DAY IN ROME Rome, Sunday, Oct. 13.—There was a great popu demonstration here Saturday in celebration of Columbus . A vast crowd marched to the American where it acclaimed " the | United S!’lloi l’r@sl(lenv. “llkul\ and | the [ on ret An address in declared that the vie- tory of the allies would give the world ipeace and liberty was presented to Mr. Page on behalf of the citizens of Rome. In a short speech Ambassadcr Pafe said that the arms of the Entente al- lies should not be laid down “until the | enemy arms are in our power. WESTERLY MAN FIGURES IN CANADIAN CASUALTY LIST Ottawa, Ont. ‘Oct. 14 —The names of the following New Jand men appeared i the Canadian _ casualty list issued last night | Died. T. Elsmore, Beidgeport. Conn.; | Wounded, C. P Pelletier. = Taunton J. B. Broadfoot Westerly, R. i1; S B Bubhant Cancoth, N { Harrison. Peabody, Hia merson . New Bedford, Mass. garthNew Bedford, Jas Leod,. Manchester, i | Framingham Mnsm, | Fairfield, Maine. i GENERAL ALLENBY HAS COMMENDED ARMENIANS Boston, Oct. 1i—A copy blegram from General the Jritish commander in Palestine, to Doghos Hubar, president of the -Ar- menian national delegation at Pa commending the work of Armen; rs in his command. was received by the Armenian Natlonal Union of America here today. “I am proud that your Armenian compatriots have taken an active part in hard fouzht battlesand rarticipated in our victery,” General Allenby cabled.