Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 29, 1918, Page 1

VOL. LIX—NO. 259 POPULATION 29,919 H COP;N., TU_ESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1918 TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS ALLIES ARE MERGILESS IN ~ DRIVE ON RETREATING FO | In France and Flanders the Germans Are Offering Stubborn Resistance, But Are Giving Away Steadily Before the Attacks of the Allied Troops—American Troops Are Using Their Long Range Guns—In Albania the Italians Are Driving the Austrians Toward the Montenegro Frontier—The Turks Are Under Heavy Pressure Mesopotamia and Syria. (By The Associated Press.) While both Germany and Austria“are seeking to secure a cessation of hostili- ties and Turkey also is reported to be favorably disposed toward peace, the entente allied troops on all the battle fronts are giving no heed to peace pro- posals, but are continuing without mercy to drive their foes before them. And in all the battle zones the allies are meeting with marked success. In France the German battle line is slow- ly disintegrating under the violence of the allied offensive; in northern Italy the Austro-Hungarians are being forced back by the British, French and Italians with heavy losses in men killed, wounded or made prisoner; near the shores of the Adriatic in Al- bania the Italians are driving the Aus- trians toward the Montenegro frontie while in Asiatic Turkey, both in Syria and Mesopotamia, the British are fast clearing the Turks from their former strongholds, Although the Germans in France and Flanders still are strenuously resisting the allied attempts to break their line, they are giving way steadily under the force of the attacks. In the otber the- atres there apparently is not the same disposition to offer stubborn denial of the right of way. except possibly in the mountain region of Ita where an attampt is being made by the allied forces to open the back door into Austria. South of Valenciennes in France Field Marshal Haig's forces, notwith- standing suff opposition, have ad- vanced their line in the general opera- tion which has in view the capture of Valenciennes and pressing on toward Mons and Maubeuge in the general converging movement that is going on between Belgium and the region north of Verdun. Farther south, from the Oise river to the region of Rethel, the French have gained a signal victory by fore- ing a retreat of the enemy in the big salient north of Laon and are threat- ening to cause the collapse of the en- tire German line eastward through a ——— CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY OF PRIVATE THOMAS DINESEN Montreal, Oect. 28—Private Thomas Dipesen, a member of a Montreal reg- iment and son of a former member of the Danish parijiment, has - been awarded the Victoria Croes for con- spicuous bravery cn the western front, according to advices received here to- day. During a ten hour hand-to-hand battle, which resulted in the capture of more than a mile af enemy trenches, Private Dinesen rushed for- ward alone on five occasions, putting out of action hostile machine guns and accounting for twelve of the ememy with bombs and bayonet. His citation states that his sustained valor “in- #pired his comrades at a very eriti- cal stage of the action and was an example to all” ) Private Dinesen, whose father had gerved in the Danish-German and th» I'ranco-Prussian wars, enlisted through the British recruiting mission in New York, after having been re- fused admittance to England because cf his nationalit AMERICAN PLANE CRASHED INTO A GERMAN MACHINE ‘With the American Forces North- west of Verdun, Oct. 28 (By the A. P.). ~—Lieut. Wilbur T. White of New York, in trying to aid his American comrade during a fight with a German pilot, crashed head-on into the German ma- chine. The collision was so severe and the fight was so intense that each of the ecolliding aircraft lost a wing and fell behind the German lines in the neizhborhood of Dunlsur-Meuse, Lieutenant White was one of twenty- four pursuit aviators on a raid over the German lines when six Germans were brought down. One of the enemy was directly on the tail of another American when Lieutenant White went to hie rescue. The American plane struck the German machine full on be- fors either could swerv CARRIER PIEGONS FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT Boston, Oct. 28.—Breeders of high grade carrier pigeons in New England today began an inventory of their stock preparatory to turning over sev- eral hundred pairs to the war depart- ment. New England stock, according to Major Frank C. Griffin, who came here from Washington to make ar- rangements for the purchase of the birds, have proven their worth on the western front. Major Griffin in an ap- peal to breeders said that 1,900 pairs are wanted’ for immediate shipment overseas. Breeders are expected to make a report tomorrow as to how many pigeons they can turn over to the departmen! BERGER PLEADED NOT GUILTY; RELEASED ON $10,000 BOND Milwaukee, Wis,, Oct, 28—Victor L. Berger, former congressman, and three other prominent socialists, who were indicted last week by the federal grand jury on charges of violating the esplonage act, pleaded not guiity today when arraigned before Judge F. A. Gelger. Berger was released on bonds of $10,000 and the others on bonds of $5.000 each. Berger was indicted on 36 counts. Tt is expected the me nwill be brought to trial next month. Berger is a can- didate for congress in the Fifth dis- irict against Congressman William H. Stafford. SPANISH STEAMER TORPEDOED OFF NEW JERSEY COAST Manahawken, N. J, Oct. 28. — A Spanish steamship Joaded with sugar was torpedoed ten miles of Barnegat, N. J., at 10 o'clock last night and 23 men of the créw of 29 reached the shore early today. according to infor- mation received here by coast guards. Eleven of the survivors were picked up near the lighthouse at Barnegat and 12 others at Forked River. They were scantily clad and had suffered from exposure throughout the night. It was eaid that the vessel went down within five minutes. Persons on said they heard an explosion at ». m. - fast turning movement. American troops have been thrown into the line near Rethel and have advanced nearly a mile and taken numerous prisoners. The German war office admits the between the Oise and Serre rivers, aying that the German lines were withdrawn Sunday night to a front west of Guise and east of Crecy. In connection with this general movement the Americans northwest of begun an operation may have . important results. r the first time since the Americans reached the war they have opened fire against the back lines of the enemy with their new long range guns and are heavily bombarding Longuyon, some fifteen miles distant from the American first line positions. It is over the territory through which the American guns are throwing their shells that the Germans have been re- inforcing their lines eastward, and should the blasting process prove ef- ! fective in blazing a trail along the Meuse for a quick advance by the Americans, it is not improbable that a German retreat from the region east of St. Quentin northeastward toward Luxemburg will be necessitated. On the northern Italian’ front hard fighting is in progress between Brenta and Piave rivers. Along the Piave the allied troops have been suc- cessful in crossing the river, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy and taking more than 9,000 prisoners. In Albania the Austrians have been driven by the Italians in the region of Alessio, which lies twenty miles southeast of Scutari, just south of the i Montenegro border. In Serbia the Austrians have evacuated Kraguievatz, fifty-five miles southeast of Belgrade, and are still in retirement toward the Danube. | The Turks are fast being driven out of Mesopotamia, having reached a po- sition more than 155 miles north of Bagdad, while in Syria General Allen- by's troops are keeping in close con- tact with the Ottoman forces north of Aleppo. THREE BRITISH TRAWLERS FOUGHT FOUR U-BOATS London, Oct. 28 (British Wireless Service).—Three British trawlers, al- though outranged by the enemy guns, recently fought four Germdn subma- rines until put out of action by ‘the U-boats. According to an account of the engazement made in the Times, the armed trawlers Onward, Era and Nellie Nutten were patrolling near the North sea fishing ground, when a sub- marine came into sight. The trawlers opened fire on the submarine and the submarine replied. Soon three more submarines appeared out of the haze #nd all joined in the attack on the trawlers, who kept up the unequal fight despite the fact that the Ger- mans excelled them in gun power and speed. The captain of the Nellie Nutten, finding his ship helpless from a shot through the stern, steered towards a Dutch lugger and abandoned his own vessel, which soon went down. The captain saw the Era in flames and the Onward out of control and when he looked for them again soon afterward they were gone. WILL BE NO COAL FAMINE DURING COMING WINTER Washington, Oct. 28.—There will be no coal famine the coming winter, nor even an approach to the hardships of last winter, Fuel Administrator Gar- fleld announces but the public must continue to co-operate with the fuel administration in conservation meas- ures as far more coal is needed now than in normal times. Dr. Garfield in a statement review- ing the present coal outlouk, says the nation's fuel supplies, assembled in preparation for an unusually severe winter, are adequate and well dis- tributed; that coal stocks on hand | are greater than ever before and that more domestic coal is row in the hands of consumers and decalers than at the corresponding period in normal years, FRENCH NEWSPAPERS CALL FOR A SEPARATE PEACE Paris, Oct. 28.—Commenting on the Austrian note, the Paris newspapers this afternoon demand that Austria- Hungary conclude a separate peace. It is generaily peinted out that Count Andrassy, the new Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, represents nothing but a nomination by the Austrian em- peror. “If,” says the Journal Des Debats, “Secretary lansirg replies, which is not certain, it will be easy for him to say: ‘There is no occasion to pursue the subject, as neither Austria-Hun- gary nor a common minister of foreign affairs exists.'” STRIKE OF STREET CAR MEN IN BALTIMORE Baltimore, Md., Oct. 28.—A walk out of motormen and conductors, which started on the. Cary Street line of the United Railways early today I/ spread to men'on the Orieans Street and Curtis Bay line. The affected line leads to the sec- tion of the city where mest of the shipbuilding and other war work is being done. Thousands of wafkers were delayed several hours in reach- ing their places of emp!osment. General Manager Pratt of the rail- way company stated that ihe trouble was due to the action of the company in prosecuting several of its conduc- tors for alleged theft of fares. SEARCHING SHORES NEAR WRECK OF PRINCESS SOPHIA | Juneau, Alaska, Oct.”28. — Shores near the wreck of the Canadian Pa- cific steamship Frincess Sophia are strewn with bodies, whil: 180 bodies have been recovered, according to wireless messages received here from boats searching the waters of the Lynn canal, whege the vessel went down with more than 200 persons aboard. Although more than 25 vessels are on the scene it was impossible yester- day, owing to the heavy seas, to make landings to pick up ths.dead. success of the thrust of the French | the | Austria Abject in Its Armistice Plea Accepts All Conditions Laid Down by President Wilson| and Asks Him “to Be so Kind as to Begin Givertures” Basel, Oct. 28 (By the A. P.).—Aus- tria-Hungary in' notifying President Wilson that it is ready to enter upon peace negotiations and arrange an armistice, asks President Wilson, in its reply to him, to begin overtures on the subject. The Austro-Hungarian foreign min- ister instructed the Austro-Hungarian minister at Stockholm yes{erday to ask the Swedish government to send the following note to Washington gov- ernment: “In reply to the note of President Wilson‘of the 18 (13?) of this month, addressed to the Austro-Hungarian government and giving the decision of the president to speak directly with the Austro-Hungarian government on the question of an armistice and of peace, the Austro-Hungarian govern- ment has the honor to declare that equally with the preceding proclama- tions of the president, it adheres also to the same point of view contained in the last note upon the rights of the Austro-Hungarian peoples, especially those of the Czecho-Slovaks and the Jugoslavs. “Consequently, Austria-Hungary, ac- cepting all the conditions the presi- dent has laid down for the entry into negotiations for an armistice and peace, no obstacle exists according to the judgment of the Austro-Hungarian government, to the beginning of these negotiations. “The Austro-Hungarian government declares itself ready, in consequence, without awaiting the result of other negotiations, to enter into negotiations upon peace between Austro-Hungary and the states in the opposing groun and for an immediate armistice upon all Austro-Hungarian fronts. “It asks President Wilson to be so kind as to begin overtures on this sub- Ject.” The Austrian note is dated Oct. 28 at Vienna and is signed by Count Julius Andrassy, the new foreign min- ister. PARIS TEMPS DEMANDS x MILITARY GUARANTEES Paris, Oct. —Referring to the phrase in the Austrian reply “without awaiting the resuit of other negotia- tions," the Temps says: “In these words the son of the min- ister who concluded the Austro-Ger- man alliance gives official notification that the alliance has been torn up.” “With a government that flatters itself it still exists in Vienna, with that in Berlin nad with that in Con- stantinople,” the newspaper continues, “the only question at the present mo- ment can be to take military guaran- tees and not negotiate territorial or political stipulations.” HIDDEN EXPLOSIVES {N CHATEL CHEHREY With the American Artay Northwest of Verdun, Oct. 28.—(By The A. P.)— The American troops still are finding mines and hidden explosives in Chatel Chehery. The latest trap of this kind was an innocent appearin: walking stock, suspended at the entrance of a dugout, as if it had been Jeft by its hurriedly departing owner. Investiga- tion showed that a fine wir® ran from the cane to a point in some nearby rocks where it was connected with a iwenty-five pound charge of high explosives. NEW YORK TO STOP AUTOMOSILE SPEEDERS New York, Oct. 28.—A rigorous cam- paign against automobile speeders, be- gun here today by the motorcycle po- lice, resulted in the arraiznment '\i:r'fl he rersons, who were fined heavily magistrate asserted that speeding increased fifty per cent. in this and that he intended to “help the po- lice slow up the town a bit.” Among those fined were sevesal undertakers, who claimed as an excuse for speeding the number of cases awaiting their at- tention because of the Spanish influen- za epidemic COL, ROOSEVELT PRESENTED PORTION OF QUENTIN'S PLANE New York, Oct. 28—Col. Theodore Roosevelt was presented today with a portion of the seal of the airplane in which his son, Lieut. Quentin Roose- veit, was killed while flying in France. The gift was made by Arthur E. Hun- gerford, a returned Y. M. C. A. offi- cial. Parts of the plane were discov- ered on the flyer's grave after the Germans had' been driven from that sector. TWO PERSONS KILLED IN EXPLOSION AT =DDYSTONE Philadelphia, Oct. 28—A man and a woman were killed and about a doz- en other persons were injured, some of them seriously, in an explosion today in the assembling room of the Eddy- stone Ammunition Company's plant at Eddystone, P. The property loss was great. The accident was caused by an elec- tric fuse blowing out and igniting a quantity of high explosive: KILLED HIMSELF AT HIS WIFE’S GRAVE East Rutherford, N. -J., Oct. 28.— ‘With one hard holding his violin in its accustomed place, under his chin, and the other clasping a revoiver, Adam Bombagh was found dead today, seat- ed at his wife's .grave. He had gone there to play his wife's favorite tune, “Ave Maria” as he explained in a note found beside him because that brought him ‘nearer her.” APPOINTED TEMPORARY LIEUTENANT GENERALS ‘Washington, Oct. 28. — The senate today confirmed the nom:nations of Major Generals Hunter Liggett and ‘Robert L. Bullard to be temporary lieutenant generals. They command the First and Second American armies in France. CONGRESSMAN JONES IS NO DRAFT DODGER Gainesville, Tex.,, Oct. 28.—Marvin Jones, member of congress from this district, today waived his exemption as a memiber of congress and has been placed in Class 1-A of the draft. Jones, who is one of the youngest members of congress, has just return- ed from the war zone. Poincare Received House. Paris, ‘Oct. 28.—President Poincare this afternoon received Crlonel Edward M. House, who presented Lis creden- tials. as “special represenmtative of the United States governmcnt to the European governments.” i Condensed Telegrams A winter of starvation is predicted in Russia. was heavy. duced 900000 acres this year. barrels of flour were purchased. Buffalo street car strike is at end. Operations of the cars begin immediately. the manufacture of pianos. Trancit Co. was_announced. about sugar cards are false. Poduction of linters from Au Sept. 30 was placed at 95,7 pound bales by the Census Bureau. Total earning assets of the delphia Reserve Bank for the ending Oct. 25 was $145.790,413. “Admiral Dot,” famous midget the Barnum-. ‘White Plains, pleted. War Department reports deaths in aviation training in United States for the week Oct. 19. Congress yesterday sent it to the president. | deadweight toms, ing Oct. 25. Campaign expense accounts with the house ments of $395,4 Rev. Dr. William P. ity school at Middietown. counties in Pennsylvania yesterd: gene Hale, who Sunda lat E worth, Me., tomorrow. tobacco was made to France by Chicago packers and of hogs fixed by tration. ice in France. Spread of the influenza in Mexico has been rap | few the south are not affected. Only toria, B. C., was awarded to build two 8100-ton ships by Canadian Minister of Marine. in England by successful. tween 19 and 46. pedo boat destroyer. Former Supreme Court Charles E. Hughes. who arrived aircraft production. While ‘Secretary Baker was in England he carried pack, weighing 70 pounds, “it was heavy. all right.” and port corps will wear g a purple cod and insignia consisting of he is a super-imposed winged hat. Major-General William' C. has just returned from Fance. lic_on the health of soldiers there. American Chain Company, port and treasurer of the Pratt Cady Company | at his home there of pneumonia. WILL VON HINDENBURG Amsterdam, Oct. in the footst Rhenish W eps of next sacrifice to the new :egime. cessor to Ludendoff. Ge eral devastation,” nipotent brought about his doom. SUGAR REG!STRICTION & of the told food a lang states sibly longer. Mr. Germans added to the o% the United States to furri al foodstuff to the liberated people. BRITISH HAVE TAKEN London, Oct. wag 28. 416 enemy combatant cluding 264,242 German: risoners, Kingdom at the present time. OBITUARY. William Tysoe. Tysoe, 75 years old, battles and 1§ skirmishes 124th New York Infantry. Movement of grain during the week Argentina’s wheat acreage was re- For army use in Oct.-Nov. 239,796 an will New express rate increases averag- Extension of the “skip stop” sys- tem to all lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Federal Food Board announced that all reports circulated in New : York 1 to 500~ Phila- week of ley circus, is dead at .Y., from pneumonia. Recrganization .of .the . American Red Cross in France from two div- isions to nine was announced com- five the ended completed the $6,345,000,000 war deficiency bill and Eighteen new ships, of 93,900 total were added to the American fleet during the week end- led included that of the democratic national committee, show- ing receipts of $412,138 and disburse- Ladd was in- augurated as dean of Berkeley Divin- A total of 5886 new cases of influ- «nza were reperted from 33 of the 67 The funeral of former Senator Lu- died at Washington night, will be held at his home A shipment of 1,152,000 pounds of the Knights of Columbus for the soldiers. representa- tives of hog raisers accepted the price the Food Adminis- { The New York County Chapter of the Red Cross announced a class for! the training of nurses’ aides for serve epidemic states on the Pacific coast and Victoria Machinery Depot, of Vic- contracts the Passengers arriving from England | said that national restaurants opened the government to supply meals at moderate prices were Four hundred and fifty-four . local | drafi boards throughgut the country have completed the physical exami- nation of 80 per cent. of the men be- | “Passengers arriving at an Atlantic port from Europe on two fast British steamers report the sinking of a Ger- man submarine by an American tor- Justice in New York from Washington. said he had completed his investigation of the in- specting an American training camp a soldier’s d Members of the army motor trans- hat bronze motor car wheel upon which Gorgas, former surgeon-general of the army, He will prepare a report to be made pub- Bishop White, vice-president of the Bridge- & in this city. died at his home in Hartford, of pneumonia. Dr, Erastus E. Case, for 44 years a practicing physician in Hartford, died influenza and FOLLOW LUDENDORFF? 28.—The question heard upon ull sides is whether Field Marshal Von Hindenburs will follow Ludendorff. The tphalian Zeitang of Es- sen claims to know that he will be the The Essen Allgemeine Zeitung men- tions Generals Von Lossberg, chief of staff of the Sixth Army, as the suc- Von Lossherg is credited with being the inventor of rhe “movable defence sys- tem.” George DBernhard, writing in the Berlin Vossische Zeiturg, while ac- claiming Ludendoff as one of the sa- viours of the fatherland from ‘“enemy says the fact that he conceived himself omniseient and om- TO REMAIN IN FORCE Boston, Oct. 28.—William A. Dupee, naticnal food administration, ninistrators of New Eng- day that the present al- lotment of two pounds of sugar per person per month would prevail until the termination of the war and pos- Dupes said the T'nited States is many thousands of tous short on its shipments abroad and that every added foot of ground wrest~d from the ligation of h addition- 324,416 ENEMY PRISONERS Announcement made in the house of commons today that since the beginning of the war British troops had taken 827.- | in- There are 97,000 German prisoners in the United Waterbury, Conn., Oct. 28 —William veteran of 32 n the Civil war, and past senior vice commander of the Connecticut departinent of G. A. R., died ' tonight. Mr. Tysoe was at Appomattox when Lee surrendered. He served with the Nineteenth and Caillaux Invoived With Von Luxburg Duplicity of Former Premier of France Exposed by | Count James Minotto, an ing 10. per cent. were approved by erned En 4 Director-General McAdoo, Interned ey Alien. The War Industries Board has New York, Oct. 28.—sStartling dis- placed a ban on the use of felt . in closures regarding the alleged nego- tiations of Joseph Caillaux, one-time premier of France, and Count Von Luxburg, former German minister to Argentina, intended to re-establish Caillaux in power in Paris in 1915 and bring about a Seperate peace with Germany, have been made to Deputy State Attorney General Becker by Count James Minotto, an interned en- emy alien, the state official announced here late today. The deposition of Minotto, who is a son-in-law of Louis Swift of Chicago, has been forwarded to the French ambassador at Washington, Mr. Beck- er said, and a summary of it has been cabled to France for use in the trial of Caillaux for high treason, which opens tomorrow. The fuil text also is ok’:' its way to Paris by a fast steam- ship. Minotto was brought here last week from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., by special agents of the department of justice, acting upon the request of the deputy attorney general, who was commis- sioned by the French government to investigate various phases of German intrigue in this country azainst France. He talked freely, Mr. Becker said, and gave information which the fficial declared would be “important” in the prosecution of Caillaux. Minotto, who comes of an oid Ital- ian family, but who was born in Beriin, went to Buenos Aires in 1315 and took part in extended conferences between Caillaus, then on a special rission to Argentina for Fran and Luxburg, according to Mino sworn statement. The count, Mr. Decker szid, was reluctant at first to reveal Lis knowledge of Cail- laux consp but finally con A his entire connection with the lsuenos Aires negotiations. The detaiis ¢t his testimony, the official said, would not Le made public until they have heen offered in evidence in the Caillaux trial. Count Minotto, tha deputy attorney- general stated, exhibited dec:ced anti- German sentiments during fhair long interview, and appeard anxious 10 give a:l th information in his possession to the authorities. His testimony was corroborated by means of inierviews with other persons, Mr. Becker d and the collateral depositions, as well as that of Minotto, were delivered to the French embas: Minotto, the official stated, tlLougn apparently not commissioned for that purpose by the German government, served as a go-between in the Cai Luxburg conferences. Caillaux is charged with “intriguc tending to shake the solidar:iy of the allies and to bring about a premature 2nd dishonorable peace with Ger- many.” His case is linked with those of Dolo Pasha, convicted..of treason j2nd executed, and Louis J. Malvy, for- wmer minister of the interior, who alleged to have been the former pre- mier's tool in the government. The Caillaux conspiracy, it is alleged, pro- posed an alliance between France, Germany, Italy and Spain against En- and and Russia. Caillaux, it is charged, made tri to Italy and Argentina in the inter of the plot. He is mentioned in the cablegrams of Count Von Luxburg to Berlin, which caused the Argentine government to dismiss the Geimian v late last vear. otto was fhterned in May on a sidential warrant based on a sec- ticn of the law which permits intern- ment for the duration of the wx “eremy aliel persons, who prov public nuisance or who are In way opposed to the government's war programme.” Minotto fought the or- der in the courts, declaring that he wag “a true lover of the United States.” TUpon completion of testimony Mi- notto was taken to a southern intern- ment camp. Becau of his revela- tions .in the Caillaux case it was de- cided not to send him back to Fort Cglethorpe, The 'United States sunreme court again recessed yesterday until next Monday owing to the influenza epi- demic. With the approval of the emperor the Japanese Red Cross hac awarded Colonel Theodore Roosevelt a medal of honor. = One thousand dollars has been paid for the “Cherry Bob,” famous Durroc held boar, weight 800 pounds, in Ma- rion. O. Lieut, Walter Krug of the American expeditionary forces is dead in Paris from self-inflicted wounds. His bod was handed over to the colonel command of an American base burial. a| a SHORTAGE OR CLERICAL HELP DELAYING LOAN REPORTS Washington, Oct. 28. Due to a sortage of clerical help, caused by the influenza, scores of baniss have not completed tabulations of their fourth Liberty loan subscriptions, reports on which were due last Thursday. Con- sequently federal reserve kanks have been forced to await belated reports and none of the twelve reserve banks has submifted to the treasury figures on its district’s achievement. Officials said today they hoped to be able to announce the nation’s toial subserip- tions to the loan late this week, but indicated this may be postponed until next week. WAITERS ON STRIKE IN THREE NEW YORK HOTELS New York Oct. 28.—When waiters at the MeAlpin, Waldorf Astoria and Claridge hotels went on strike hers today, youns women stencgraphers. clerks and ‘bookkeepers were drafted to serve gucsis. The ma omen‘s of th= hitels iriimated, th:t inasmuch as male faiters have been pluced by the government on the non-essential em- plovment list. and inasmuch as even untrained women had scrved meals successfully, it probably would make Jittie effort to negotiate with the | strikers, who are demanding wagze increases characterized “‘extorbit- ant.” KAISER WILLING TO BECOME A HEREDITARY PRESIDENT London, Oct. 28.—Emperor William has no intention of abdicating, but is willing, if it is for the good of the people, to ordain that his rights shall be reframed, according to a statement attributed to German court circles. The emperor is said to have remarked: “I will not abandon my sorely tried people, but, if necessary. I am ready to become something like hereditary president. of a German republic, - liks the kings of England, Belgium an Ttaly.” | ROOSEVELT FINDS “FLAWS” IN WILSON Answers President’s Appeal For Return of a Democratic Ma- . jority in Congress, in Address to the Republican Club at Carnegie Hall, New York—Contends That the Heads of the Republican Organization in Congress Have Sup- ported the President in His War Measures. New York, Oct. 28.—Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt, answering President |iaonths, is as dangeros ration, accepted by everybody for nine 5 as it would Wilson’s appeal for return of a demo- {be for Pershing and Sims to refuse cratic majority in congress urged voters of the nation, in an address here tonight, to transfer control to republican leadership. Such an out- come of the election, he declared, would assure “our allies that America is determined to speed up the war and insist on unconditional surrender” of the enemy, and would serve notice on Germany “and her vassal states” that they would have to deal henceforth “with the resolute and straightforward soul of the American people and not merely with the obscure purposes and wavering will of Mr. Wilscn.” ‘ Declaring that “half the leaders of the president’s own party opposed him when he had committed himself to war measures,” Mr. Roosevelt asseried that heads of the republican orgaffiza- tion in congress supported the admin- istration when a declaration of war was needed. when there was a demand for the draft, when the army was sent overseas and when money was fe- quired by taxation or by loans. The former president spoke at a meeting under the auspices of 319 Re- publican club at Carnegie hall to ad- vocate the election of “the republican state ticket here in New York and of the republican congressional ticket throughout the union.” Rebuking what he termed the “ser- vility” of democratic leadership, the colonel said it was “‘small wonder that in the cloakrooms of the house the bitter jest circulates: ‘Here's to our czar, last in war, first toward peace, leng may he waver Mr. Roosevelt criticized the general course of the administration through- out the war, declarin: “If Mr. Wilson really had meant to disregard politics he would at once kave constructed a coalition, non-par- tisan cabinet, calling the best men of the nation to the highest and most important offices under him, without regard to politics. He did nothing of the kind. In the positions most vital to the conduct of the war, and in the positions now most important in con- nection with negotiating peace, he re- tained or appointed men without the slightest fitness for the performance of the tasks, whose sole recommenda- tion was a supple eagerness to serve Mr, Wilson person: and Mr. Wilson's par: insofar as such service benefited Mr. Wilson.” Contrasting the president’s appeal with Lincoln's “outright refusal. even in the darkest days of the Civil war, to apply any party test to fitness for office,” the colonel said that Lincoln “appealed to all loyal men of all par- ties and asked that condidates for con- gress be judged, not by the standard of adherence to his personal adminis- tration, but by their unconditional sup- port of the war.” Election of a republican congress, the colonel continued, “would be un- derstood abroad as meaning that he pro-Germans and pacifists and Bolshe- vists and Germanized socialists could no longer be counted upon as efficient and tortorous tools, that the fighting men and not the rhetoricians were up- permost.” g Mr. Roosevelt interpreted the pres dent’s reference to the “anti-adminis- tration” attitude of republican mem- bers of congress as based on their “demand that inefficiency, waste and extravagante be remedied” in the war- conducting departments. DANIELS’ REASONS FOR A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS Hartford, (onn., Oct. 26—“Let no- Lody mistake the purpose of those who are suddenly opposing the pres: dent’'s fourteen demands,” Secreta: Laniels said tonight in an address Lere urging the return of o democratic majority in congress. “It is to try to drive a wedge between the allies, to create differences, and to make one allied nation suspicious of tne good faith of its -.associates. For nine months all America has stood for Wilson’s declarations in his great speech of January 8. Now that the time has come when American leader- <hip is to prevail for the sood of all the world there are those who wish to destroy their country’s proud place. We have professed that we went into this war for unselfish aims and that we wanted nothing for ourselves. That is what Wilson declared, and men’ of all parties applauded. As the election approaches, are we ‘to repudiate American leadership, turn our backs upon our professions, and introduce difference and iscordance 1 the council of the aitied nations No matter what the motive” saidl the secretary, “the resuit is that if we do not stand united for the four- teen principles, which our allies have accepted, the agitation for a repudia- tion will make our allies thinkK we are not to be trusted, will ke them query whether America was sincere, and will impeach America’s good faith. On land and sea American and aiiied leaders have shown a spirit of co-operation that is necessary for vic- tory. It is as necessarv for us to stand firm for America’s demands as it is to fight bravely and:in concert with other free peoples. “The attack upon America’s decla- GREEKS WERE TREATED CRUELLY BY BULGARIANS Saloniki, Saturday, Oct. 26. — The Bulgarians, during their oceupation of Eastern Macedonia, attempted to force the Greeks of that province to become Bulgarians and tireated the Greeks cruelly, declarcd r. Pazis, vice president of the Greei chamber of deputies and deputy fo:- Seres. “There were wholesale deportations and the people were abandoned to famine, outrage and murder.” said Dr. Pazis, who has returned from a trip through eastern Macedonia. “The des- truction of villages far from the war zone was a measure to which the Bul- garians wouid not have recourse had eastern Macedonia been Tulgaria in- stead of Gresk. The Bulgarians gath- ered together a large number of Greek children and sent them . into Bulgaria: without the parerts of the children knowing thie purposes of the Bulgarians.” In a hospital in Saloniki is a four- teen year old Greek girl. Agalia Nouli. who. was cruelly treated by the Bul- garians who murdered he- father and mother. The father, th: mayor of Bourgade, died at the hands of the Bulgarians with these words on his lips: “I was born in Greece and T will die a Greek.” The girls' mother died as a result of nihuman treatment at the hands of Bulgarian officers. to serve! longer to fight with the allied forces and demand a debating society to @e- termine whether they will stick tc their solemn pledge.” Quoting extracts from speeches made in 1898 by Colonel Theodors Koosevelt and Former President Hai tison urging the return of a republi- can consress to support President Mc- Kinley in the peace negotiauons with Spain, Mr. Daniels saia: plea of such distinguished republican leaders was_ valid twenty years ago, why is it not vaiid today? If it does not hold good, is it pecause the war with Sp; was a more gi- ntic undertaking and the conduct f it, including the eémbalmed bLee: and typhoil scandals, characterized by more efficiency than characterizes the. conduct of the present war under a Ademocratic administration? ‘The shipping bill, “the nrst great preparcdness — measure,” Secretary Daniels said, was held up in congress for two years by republican opposition having been introduced in 1914 and not sed until 1914. “From the day the United States en- tered the war unto thi hour,~ said Mr. Daniels, “the neck of the bottle has been and is ships. 'The number of soldiers early sent to France was measured only by the tonnage. n the lizht of the gigantic achievements of the shinping board, who will sav that if Senator Weeks and his for- midable array of republican senators :ad not blocked the wav for nearly two vears, the victory which 15 now in sight would not have long since Leen achieved.” Declaring that other war measures have been opposed by the republicans in congress, Secretary Daniels assert- cd “ail the world will know America’s position if a congress pledged to stand by Wilson is elected.” HINDENBURG CALLS UPON TROOPS TO “HOLD FAST" With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Qct. 28, 8 p. m. (By the A. P.).—"Hold fast, an armistice has not yet been concluded,” is the word sent to the German troops by Field Mar- shal Von Hindenburg, chief of the general staff, according to a captured document now in the hands of the Americans. The German commander’s appeal reads: “German soldiers, be vigilantt The word ‘armistice’ is current in the trenches and camps, but we have not yet reached that point. To some the word represent sa certainty; to others it is even a synonym of the peace so long desired. They believe that events no longer depend upon them. Their vigilance is.relaseds -their.courage and their endurance, as well as their spirit of defiance toward the enemy, are diminished. “We have not yet reached our aim. The armistice has not been. concluged. The war is still on—the same war as ever. “Now, more than ever, you must b& vigilant and hold fast. You are upon the enemy’s soil and on the soil of Alsace Lorraine, the bulwark of our country. In this grave hour, the fa- therland relies on you for its pros- perity and for its safety.” FOOD SCARCE IN THE LILLE REGION OF FRANCE Washington, Oct. 28.—Food supplies for the civilian population of the Lille region of France, recently evacuated by the Germans, are at an extremely low stage and only energetic measures by the commission for relief in Bel- gium will prevent much distress dur- ing the winter. Despatches received tdday at the of- fices of the commission here said the present supply of food in the region could not possibly last more than two weeks. All communication systems were destroyed by the retreating Ger> mans and motor lorries must be de-- pended upon to bring up the needed supplies. Much sickness also is re- ported in the Lille region and condi- tions there were described as even worse than in the adjacent Belgian territory. THREE AMERICAN PRISONERS ESCAPED FROM GERMANY The Hague, Oct, 28.—Three Ameri- can prisoners of war have efcaped from Germany into Holland. They are Flight Lieutenants T. E. Tillinghast of Westerly, R. I, John O. Donaldson of Washington, D. €., and Robert Ander- son of Honolulu. They were captured during the period from Sept. 3 to Sept, 27 and they fled from Valenciennes on Sept. 21, reaching the Dutch border after many narrow escapes. LUDENDORFF RESENTED CIVILIAN CONTROL London, Oct. 28.—(General Luden- dorg resigned as first quartermaster general because the military authori= ties were placed under civilian cons trol. The retiring general, an Ex- change Telegraph despatch from Copenhagen adds, has returned to great headquarters to take leave of the army and Field Marshal Von Hinden- who remains as chief of the GRAVE TROUBLES HAVE BROKEN OUT AT BUDAPEST Paris, Oct. 28,.—Grave troubles have broken out at Budapest the result of the appointment of Count Julius Andrassy, who is suspected of Ger- manophile tendencies, to be Aus- tro-Hungarian foreign nunister, says a Zurich dispatch to the Matin. A commiee of workmen and soldiers has been formed to represent the extremist party in impending events. STRIKE OF FREIGHT HANDLERS ON BROOKLYN WATERFRONT New York, Oct. 28.—The movement of war supplies here wae thregtenad with delay today by a strike of about 300 freight handlers emploved on the docks of the Bush Terminal company and other concerns along the Brook- lyn waterfront. Police were called to guard the properties. althouzh there were no disturbancas. Italians Take 9,000 Austrian Prisoners Rome, Oct. 28.—More than 9,000 Aus- trians were taken prisoner in the op- crations on the Italian front yesterday. according to the war office announve- ment today. Fifty-one guns were also captured. Many a man makes a fool of himselt’ because he Lasn't the courage to do otherwise,