Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 30, 1918, Page 1

- Bulletin .lr#loc “Flag VOL. LIX—NO. 260 . g, POI’ULATION 29,919 NCRW ICH, CONN., WEDNESD OCTOBER 30, 1918 12 PAGES—84 COLUMNS PRICE -TWO CENTS ALLIES CONDUCTING BIG DRIVE:ON ITALIAN FRONT | Over a Front of Nearly Forty Miles the Aua!ro-Hupgariam. Are Being Driven From the Austrian Frontier—American Reserves Are Behind the Lines Prepared to Aid When the Opportune Moment Arrives—Large Numbers of Prisoners and Many Guns Have Been Taken on the Italian Front—On All the/ Other Battle Fronts the Success. (By The Associated- Press.) of el 1k Beevts |all calibre, including gas projectiles, to " the ' midad Piave | With the Americans: answering them e i ‘ shot for shot. The mew big Euns of &) }, 3 tlie Americans are wviolently ehelling i',",‘ffl,‘"f_fm‘:l"l'fw A arre - ungar. | German positions far behind the lines, B e oo hennEAr | taking under their fire towns of stra- o om | tegic importance from the standpoint across in northern arc ‘H=hira V the lines. prepared to aid when the cppor- Tune On allied moment arrives. while encienne: lh. incthe regior engagements @ has been, haoweler, | Heiz's mdn hava retained ihe wand and tak r prisoners additional .auns war siores. Farther ¥q! the “French are con- the of betwezn the old = east of s neen troops istance along the hine guns o re- f the. Frenchmen t lines of rail v Debena who all ¢ rction to the east. On some s the Germans are slowly re- t but nowhese are the French 3 permitting the encmy to get o of contact with them. ‘side from -artiliery and “Pachine n activity there has been little f.'hting on the part of the-frent-held 1 the Americans from the Meuse river to the vicinity of Grainapre. The a gromlthe American positions with shelis -of the Mountain Passes Toward Allied Arms Are Meetmg With Germans have been heavily bomhing of communications and troop forma- tions preparing to be seat as rein- forcements to salient points of the crambling h ttle line. Conflans, lving to the west of Metz end the principal junction point of communication with the hig foriress on the Moselle and Spincourt and Dommary-Baroncourt, also important reilroad junctions, all were under a particularly heavy fire from the Amer- ican guns throughout Tuesday. In adition American aviators continual- are lending their aid te the big in the process ‘of blasting ene- ide the German lines. 1In latest operations by the aviators | hine German machines were sent crashing. iarge numbers of prisoners and numh= s of guns have heen taken by the allied troops in the big battle that 1is in progress on the Italian front. The allies, particularly the British, are well across the Piave river from where the battle lin2 in the mountains carves and bends southwa toward the Adriatic. The latest Britisn om- cial communication annources that the opposition-of the Austro-Hungar- ians anpears to be weakening in the face of the attacks of the British tenth armv which. is suceessfuily driv- ing northeastwargt,~ *~ Reports are to-the -effect that an r.dependent state has been formed in Hungary. There also are reports that Turkey hass made an independent peace proposal. NUMEROUS BEQUESTS IN WILL OF JAMES STOKES Ridgefield. Conn,, Oct. 2).~Numer- cus socielies and benevolences benefit b the will of James Stoges, millioa- aire philanth st of New ‘.U:k heve tudy Octoher 4 ¥ aw lmrenceuuh okes, and the Farmers Loun and Trust Compuny of New -Fork$ made executors To his wmwufi‘ m.c ail s personal belongings, furniture and au- One-third of the popuiaiion. of Leb- temobilest the town house at 68 Park | anon has di-d of starvation and di: Tlace, New York ard all - previousyease, due io lack of nourishment. ifts to her ure-confimed.' She also | many villages are depopulated and in mede trastee of ‘a $930,000 -fund to be used for the, hgn_ofil of his brothers,|in the diress need as ‘(he result of Thomas and William and his sister, | epigemics, prohibitive nrices of food Clivia. The sum of §30900 s Set|and inability to get work, Dr. Finley : for use by the widow for .rela- | gaiq, tives, friends and former sarvants. A Conditions in many of the hospitals ke sum is named, the income of|are gaplorable. because of the short- yWwaleh is to go to his brother Thomas | oe-of physicians. More than 10,000 :-dlcach bmh;:er ani v;‘:;ern:fi:&:-‘s; sick civilians have been cared for by 0 0 purc e som L t H fllr t, . the cabl Mr. Stokes. To each miece and. ne- | Lo osauran district,, the, cablegram iphew 31,000 is left for the same pur- pose. To cousins ‘are-left *equests of $10,- |0C0 and $15,000: to John R 'ranklin Gaylord, - who jcharitable work: - for: - ) Stokes abroad, $10,008:and- $15,000, respetcive- 1v. 310,000 - to his secretury, S. Woodruff: $10,000 to Dr, Boudinot 4t iterby; $15,000 to Mrs. Melis: Messy ‘tiese latter two being ~ousins, Among the gifts to institutions e $120,000 to New York. University. to ircrease salarieg and for a course of lectures dealing with -political sub- jeots: $5,000"to Newt York Soclety for the Prevention of Crueln to_Childrer 25000 to Y, Wi C,UA of New-York 357,000 Y. M. C.'A. of-New Yerk 000 for a special ‘fund to ail g the New York Y. Wi'C.-A.. *espec during lunch hours™: $25009 (or W. C. A coufltry rest house: to Y. M. A. at Ansonia: $5,000 each to New Ym orphan asylum, Natlon- a! Y. M. il ‘board-'sod!(v for the Improvement of the Poor. ¥, M. C. at Wesleyan University and the Bible 2nd Tryth Mission of New York. No estimate of the valuc of the cs- tates has yet been made. AN EXCITING SESSION OF THE SPANISH CORTES Paris, Oet. 20.—(Havas): An ex- citing sitting took place in the Span- ish Cortes’ yesterday, according to' a despatch from Madrid to the Petit Parisien. Count Romames, the minister of pub- Nic instruction, condemned. the nnre- «stricted neutral policy of the Spanish @overnment, and other orators spoke ‘in a similar vein. Count Romanenes asserted that Spam should adopt a pro-ally policy. He added that if Snain wanted to emjoy a lasting peace she must declare her position without hesitation. Premier Maura, according to -the despatch, declared his intention of re- tizning. He declared the political crisis would then become acute and that the entire nation would he com- pelled to intervene in order to hring ahout a solution. PRESIDENT CAPITOL LUNCH CORPORATION SUICIDES New York, Oct. 23.—John O. Phillips, president of the Capitol Lunch cor- poration, which operates a chain of restanrants in New York and in Hart- ford, Springfleld, W and other New England cities, committed suicide in a park here today, cutting his throat with a razor while his chauffeur wait- ed for him to “fake a stroll.” Mr. Phillips, who was 53 vears old, had been working fifteen hours a day making out fol administration re- ports, according to his wife, who said that despondency due to overwork may haye caused him to take his life. MASSACHUSETTS IS 7O HAVE A GAS MASK DAY Boston, Oct. 29.—Governor MeCall in a proclamation today aside No- |vember 9 as Gas Mask sHe urged that fruit pits, -u:: and shefls, from i RELIEF_WORX BY AMER!CAN RED CROSS IN HOLY LAND ‘Washington, Oect. 29.— Relief work on a far greater scale than now is being administered by th: American Red Cross among the civilian popu- lations of the Holy Land is immedi- .. if ately, necessn jpands of men, women. and ed, sa‘d 3 cal ame vecei Red Cross Beadguarters -today from BDy. John H. vmmg Reéd Cross com- missioner for Palestine. riine and thousands of persons are stated. Dr. Finley said the Red Cross work- ers have besn doing everything to re- lieve the distress,.but addeq greatly increased heln must once. His Red Cross pitals to the Holy Land as snon as possible has been approved by General Alenby, at whose request the British war office has taken th: matter up with the Red Cross. that | DOCUMENTS WHICH MAY PROVE OF GREAT INTEREST i New York, Oct. 29.—Jokn Madrasz, a naturalized Austro-Huagarian, 1so known as John Sketty, was under ar- rest here today, charged with keeping in his possession without authority documents which were the property of the Trans-Atlantic Trust Company, of this city. an i nstitution recently taken over by the alien property cus- todian. According to Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Rvttenberg, the action was taken azainst Madrasz at the in- stance of th= federal authorities, who !XIrlel‘t important ' disclosures to re- sult. The documents he is accused of keeping consist of lists of Austro-Hun- garians in this country, it was said,| totalliig 20000 names. Virtually all of those listed are said to be un- naturalized. Madrasz, or Skoetthy, wafil sald at the district attorney’s office 101 be one of ih» most widely known Hun- | garians ‘in this country. After his ar- rest he informed the authorities, it was stated, that he had been for fif- teen years a confidential adviser of the Austro-Hungarian embassy at Wash- ington. COURT BEGINS TRIAL OF EX-PREMIER CAILLAUX | Paris, Oct. 29.—Sitting as a high| court, the French senate today began its sittings for the trial of ex-Premier Caillaux. Deputy Louis Loustalot and Paul Comby. The accused persons were not present, as the proceedings are only preliminary. The address of Theodvre Lescouve, the prosecutor, tonight takes up eight closely printed columns in the Temps. | The prosecutor coneluded his address by charging the accused men of hav- ing comspired against the external safety. of France by manoeuvers and machinations with the enemy and by aiding enemy enterprises. HUGE DEMONSTRATION BY HUNGARIAN SOCIALISTS Berne, Switzerland, Monday, Oct. 28. —Hungzaria® socialists to the number of, 100,000 held a huge ' demonstration Sunday in the strsets of Budapest. Count Michael Karolyi and his fol- lowers addressed the crowds on behall ef a democratic Hungaty. - There were no_disturbances. The new Austrian government has abolished cengorship “of the press, a report from Vienna says. Japanese M'rister to China Resigns. Tokio, Oct. 20.—(By The A. Po— Baron Gonsuke Hayashi, minister to China, has ry He will be suc- ceeded by . Yul i Obata, former charge d'affaires of l‘n lezation at kaln!. positions and. troop concentration | reported a number of hits. About forty *| small notes, | seeing the war factories closed down, American Big Guns Proving Effective. Shelled a Large Enemy Troop! Concentration and Impor-' tant Railroad Junctions Yesterday. With the American Amy North- west of Verdun, Oct. 28, ¢ p. m.—(By The A. P.)-—The American big suns! cracked down on the main line of the! railroad in the region of Conflans to- day and also' shelled ‘a large enemy troo conceniration in the neighbor- hood of Mangiennes. The Conflans line is important be- cause it extends from Germany’s prin-| cipal communication line to Metz. The} firing in the cirection of Conflans con- tinued ~intermittently thrcughout the day. When a troop concentration was re- ported in the region of Bois de Villers and Mangiennes the guns were turn- ed in that direction, hurling projec- tiles weighing approximately 1,500 pounds each. At intervals also the big guns in- side the American lines shelled the territory around Spincourt and. Dom- mary-Baroncourt, both imuortant rail- road junctions. American aviators successfully bombed two roints today where Ger- man troeps were being ‘assembled. In the morning a squardon of bombers, accompanied by protecting machines, dropped projectiles on Montigny. The troops scattered and an ammunition dump was set on fire; the railroad vards also vrere damagoed In the afternoon about Afty bombers attacked Dancillers, where ather troosp were concentrating: observers pursuit planes accobinanied the hombers and engaged in many com- bats. Nine German machines were brought down. Three American ma- chines are missing. !‘ Condensed Telegrams Czech authorities took over jcontrol of food in Bohemia. British casuaities for the wnk e edBO::t 28 numbered 32,249. el remove to Belgium this week. Production of bituminous coal i the week ended Oct. 1 000 tons. Poperty damage at the earthqu: in Porto Rico is estimated at than $1,000,000. Count’ Michy, chief of the civil cab- | Austria, It was decided by the Senate that $50,000,000 will be ‘available for car- inet of Emperor committed suicide. Karl of ing for power subjects. Eighteen vessels of na-rly 100, deadweight tons were delivered to Shipping Board last week . Congress completed work on Army Deficiency bill. the President for his signature. Application of the order building Board. : Exports of pulp and paper, inclt and Labor ing pulpwood, were increased $2,557,- 129 in August over the same month a year ago. An American soldier in France leased hand and foot controls on airplane and let it fly 20 mues before n cabinet, now at Havre, will 19 was 11,500,- more [ It now goes to the nd- on Armistice Terms Versailles Conference Has ake! Agreed Upon Main Points —Military Commanders to Decide. London, Oct. 29.—The Versailles con- ference, according to reports. current in London this afternoon, has agreed on the main points of the armistice terms, which now will be considered by the ‘military commanders, The final peace terms, it is said, will be submitted to Germany simultane- ously with the armistice terms. for 000 'the the barring | 3 women conductors in Cleveland was REPORTS FAR-REACHING postponed from Nov. 1 until Dec. 1. An increase in wages of Shipyard workers was announced by the Ship- Adjustment TERMS OF ARMISTICE London, Oct. 29, 6.30 p. m.—As part of the terms of an armistice the Even- ing News says it understands the al- lied nations will insist upon the sur- render of the German fleet, including all the German submarines, and upon the occupation by allied forces of- all the fortified towns on the Rhine. ud- re- an | DANIELS SAYS REPUBLICANS 1 landed. HAVE RAISED FALSE CRIES President Shonts, in hu annual re-| Providence, R. I, Oct. 29.—Secretary port of the New York'Rallways, says|of the Navy Daniels in an address receivership is inevitable unless fares here tonight urging the return of a are raised. democratic congress in the elections Holland postmen have. requested |riext Tuesday, said republican poli- permission. to wear wooden shoes!ticians in their desire to get control when_delivering letters because of the |[of the senate and house have forgot- scarcity of leather. ten their duty as Americans. They War Industries Board announced |have raised false cries, he asserted, present price of 26 cents a pound for|in the hope of getting the people to copper will remain in effect for No- vember and December. War Industries Board in_Washingto that Premier consult President Wilson. Railroad Administration authorized the operating of short lines of announced Venizelos will make a trip to this country' te forget the one dominatinz issue. Never during the prosecution of a war, said Mr. Daniels, have the people denied to their president the co-opera- e aid of a congress in harmony with the policy in which the republie is solemnly committed and never until this year was “the Pecksniffian cry the GERMANS IN PANIC WHEN BOMBS STRUCK COLOGNE London, Oct. 20 (British Wireless!| Service).—Civilian departures from the lower Rhineland and part of West-| phalia, which were begun on a small, scale when the first allied bombs hit Cologne have developed into a panic flight, according to The Hague corre- spondent of the Daily Mail. All. the banks are being stormed by deposit- | ors who are withdrawing their savings | in German bank notes of as high a value as are obtainable, the 100 mark g an appreciable market value over lower currency. But even of one mark, are being taken eagerl Not on + some of the banks at their wits’ end for legal currency to pay out deposits, but in places, espe- cially Cologne and Dusseldorf, all ex- cept loeal, and therefore valueless, currency has disappeared as if by magic. Everybody who possibly can afford it is trying to make his or her way eastward. Scores of houses stand empty. Fven in Berlin financial panic has scized the people and the ordinar: paper currency of the empire has van- ished. The municipality has been com-. pelled to issue emergency currency to the value of about fifty mililion marks, } valid until Feb. 1 next within the con- fines of Greater Berlin. Tradesmen may refuse to accept this currency, or at least decline to change the notes, except when compelled to take them | in payment for goods already deliv- ered. The big German banks have publi: ed flaming appeals to “eur fellow citi- zens” noi to withdraw deposits and not to hoard currency notes. But the rush on the banks has grown worse than ever. The working population of Cologne, big houses evacuated and trains crowded 1w eastbound h weli-to-do fugi- tiv are demanding immediate peace more insistently than ever. Demon- strations have been increasingly vio- lent.” A manifesto which has been i sued by a section of the social demo- | crats declares that if the emperor does not voluntarily abdicate he will be re- moved. ‘It savs: “If the necessity arises and the hour comes, the organ- ized masses of labor, with strong mid- dle class support, will remove every hindrance to peace which does not voluntarily yield to the will of the] huge majority of the people.” WOULD HAVE SOUND S DOCK New York, EAMEF!S IN THE EAST RIVER Oct. —A letter from Secretary of Commerce Redfield fa- voring the transfer of the terminal piers of Long Island Sound steamers between New England points and New York from their' present North River location to the East River was made public here today by Murray Hulbert, commigsioner of Redfield estimated 2,500 ation” through ! the most congested part of New York tharbor would be saved by the trans- fer, and that many collisions prob- ably would be averted. having the shallow-draft Sound vesseis dock at East River piers instead of continuing on around the tip of Manhatian Isl- and to the North river, the secretary added, the North River piers now used by these lines could he made availa- ble for ocean-zoing deep draft steam- ships, which cannot make use of the East River piers because of tlie pres- ence of rocky shoals ‘in. this stream. U. 8. HAS ENTERED STALLION IN NATIONAL HORSE SHOW New York, Oct. 20.—The United States government has cntered the tnoroughbred stallion Adams Express in the annual exhibition of the Na- tional Horse Show_Association, to be, held in. Madison Square Garden the week of ‘November 11, it was an- nounced tonight. So far as is known, this is the first time the government ever appeared in the horse show ex- hibitor. Adams Express, which is regarded by experts as the most perfect speci- men of horseflesh in the army wili: be exhibited to show the type of horse suitable for improving the nation's cavalry stock, FLOODS CUT OFF SUPPLIES { OF 2,000 COLORED SOLDIERS Asheville, N. C,, Oct. 20.—Two thou- sand negro soldiers and a number of white officers employed in tne Pisgan forest have been cut off from all sup- plies by floods caused by heavy Reports today from Brevard said the railroad running into the forest had! been washed out for a distance of 22 | miles and wagon roads have been de- stroyed. Although many houses in the district have been hed away it is not believed any lives have been Jost. After a man runs into debt he either w«ukg gut or stays m e e e e BT S AR AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IS SUPPLIANT IN ENTREATY FOR IMMEDIATE ARMISTICE HAS SENT NOTE 'BEGGING THE FRENCH, ERNMENTS. BRITISH, THE APPROVAL AND SUPPORT OF JAPANESE AND ITALIAN GOV-* Vienna, Via Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 23.—Austria-Hungary, through her new foreign minister, Count Andrassy, has sent a note to Secretary of State Lansing requesting tl dent Wilson for an immediate he secretary’s intervention with Presi- armstice on all fronts and for the com- mencement of peace negotiations. 7 3 The Austro-Hungarian government has communicated its latest note to the French, British, Japaaese and Italian governments begging “Immediately after having of Oct. 18, 1918, by which you ever this is the desire of the the approval and support of these nations. measures, in order that Austrian; : cording to their own desire and without being in any way hindered, to make a decision as to their future organization and to rule it. “Since the accession to ppwer of Emperor King Charles his im- movable purpose has been to bring an end to the war. The note says: taken direction of the ministry of for- eign affairs and after the despatch of the official answer to your note were able to see that we accept all the points and principles laid down by President Wilson in his various declarations and - are in complete accord with the efforts of President ' Wilson to prevent future wars and to create a league of nations, we have taken preparatory and Hungarians may be able, ac- More than sovereign of all the Austro-Hungarian peoples, who acknowledge that their future destiny can only be ac- complished in a pacific world, privations and sorrows of war. “This is why | address you by. being freed from all disturbances, directly, Mr. Secretary of State, pray- ing that you will have the goodness to intervene with the president of the United States in order that in the interest of humanity, as in the igterest of all those who live in Austria-Hungary, an immediate armis- tice may be concluded on all fronts, and for an overture that imme- diate negotiations for peace wi 1l follow.” | e country on parity to unify the tion transportation system. Exportation of binoculars, sexta compasses, instruments for the navigation equipment of ships, was prohibite Fourteen Germans were Jersey City. violating the zone act. enemy alien On the basis of incomplete reports regarding the registration on Satur- Adjutant- {day of men 18 to years. General Wilson estimated that 115 persons registered in the island Porto Rico. chronometers - and similar arrested while loading munitions on floats at They were charged with barred na- | raised by any part a republican congress to uphold the hands of a democratic president.'” “Daring the months that the presi- 'and | dent and leaders of his party have d. been busy with policies. to win the war, continued the secretary, “repub- lican politicians and actionary would-be profiteers have been think- ing of nothing but capturing congress. Such would-be profiteers have called upon their fellow reaction: “pu up more money to year than we spent in 1916.” 000 lhe\ try to camouflage the people by of |5aying they do not like the brand of notes cominz freih Wilsen's 1ype- You must elect nts, Federal Judge Waddili at Norfolk,|¥¥iter. No more does the kaiser or ‘a., dismissed an indictment recently |the Junkers. iut Gr Britain, returned asainst Colgate and Com- |France, Ita and «ll democratic na- pany for alleged violatior. of the|tions in Europe endorse them and Sherman law. The number of new cases of influ- enza and pnevmonia - contiaue to show camps over a slight increase in army the country. Massachusetts men . stationed Camp Devens will cast their votes in the coming state election today stead of election day, Capt. Paul West, whose bhody found in ' the Seine riven, was cl of the editorjal and historical bureaus of the American Red Cross in Paris. GERMAN MILITARY PARTY CIRCULATING FALSE STORY The German is putting out a story that a Bolshevik uprising is theaten- ed in Germany, according to reports Washington, Oct. 29 military. party reaching. the state day from Switzerland. are being circnlated in and Holland by German agents newspapers. The evident intent of reports, it is believed hers, suade the a’ department These rep settlement. FRANCE PROTESTS THE KIDNAPPING OF CIVILIANS (Havas). | to protest- ed o Germany concerning the carry- ing away by force of civilian residents Parig, Monday, Oct. 2 The French government ha of Laon and has informad Germ: that the repatriation of German civil- ans from Irance will be stopped less the Laon civilians are retur immediately to the keeping of French government. RIOTING HAS BROKEN OUT AT CONSTANTINOPLE AND SMYRNA Athens, Oct. 29 Mytilene, Island of Lesbos, to Patris. At both cities, adds, Germans were attacked. BRITISH DESTROY 32 next Tuesday. Switzerland is to per- s not to make too dras- tic terms with Germany in the peace (Havas) —Rioting has broken out at Constantinople and Smyrna, according to a despatch from the despatch make them their own. “Let the people know the secret of the big money the reactionists are putting up to elect a repullican con- gr These men from Piunderbund at |are not thinking about patriotism but raytriotism. They are not thinking in-|about securinz permanent peace, or cven about war. They are thinkind was |about after the war and they are hief | Straining every nerve to secure a con- gress that will repeal or destror the wholesome legislation and progri steps which have markel Wilson's administration, “It is not the plain voter of any party, his heart aflame with patrtotic zeal, who has for weeks been playing politics with the gravest consequences that ever confronted mankind. It is the republican politician, who some- times poses as a statesman, who has busied himself with raising false is- sues in order to try to get control of congress. He is not pro-German. He simply has forgotten his duty as an American- and dropped Jdown to his lower plane as a partisan. Forgetting the weizhtiest matters, he beats the party tom toms und raises ancient po- litical catch-nhrases in the hope that the people can be made to forget the onc dominating issue: “Is America to bring the war lords their knees and lead in securing permanent peace ' “That is the onlv issue. Woodrow Wilson is the chosen leader of Ameri- ca. His fourteen demands in his ad- dress of January 8 have been endorsed to- orts and the any un- | hy eve nterested statesman in ned | the world. s the greatest utter- the jance of the war. The wt il not end until those fourteen principl:s are secured.” RUMANIAN INFANTRY ORGANIZED IN SIBERIA Washington. Oct. 2! A brigade of Rumanian irfantry has been organ- ized in Siberia to fight with Entente troops, said a cablegram veceived to- day by Professor T. G. Ma . pres- ident of the Czecho-Slovik National Council. The unit is composed of Ru- the manians of Austria-Hungary who, the ENEMY PLANES TUESDAY | message. said, were taken prisoner by London, Oct. 29.—“Thiriy-two en-|the Russians in the earlv days of the emy machines were destroved yester-|war and sent to Siberia as prison- day and ten were driven down out of fers. contrel,” = says the British . official Rumanians of Austria-llungary al- communication 'dealing with aerial] so are fightiag under tl operations Assued tonigh, mand in France and Tealy. i the It is Regarded in Military Circles in Washington as an Offer Allied Envoys at Work | ANALYSIS GF AUSTRIA'S PEACE to Capitulate as Completely as Did. Bulgaria—Officials Believe the Elimination of Austria-Hugary as a Bel]l.u- erent Would Bring the War Within Sight of the End, as Germany Would Capitulate Rather Than Face an Invasion. Washington, Oct. 20.—In the absence of any official announcement. there was a Somewhat widespread impres- sion here tonight that Austria's re- newed appeal to President Wilson for an immediate armistice and peace would be transmitted governments before which Germany's request has been placed. the allied The official text of the Austrian note, was delivered to Secretary Lansing' today by the Swedish minister soon after the regular Tuesday meetinz of tHe cabinet, at which it was under- stood the unofficial version as trans- mitted by The Associated Press from Basel, eration. reached, Switzerland, was given conmsid- If any definite conclusion was the fact was not - revealed, officials stating' that they could not lindicate what disposition would be made of the note in advance of a care- ful study of the official version. The text received at the Swedish legation. was in French and it has not yet been translated at the state de- partment. After a preliminary exam- ination it was said there that it did not differ essentially from the unoffi- cial as received from Switzerland. In some quarters there was a dis- position to accord different treatment to the Austrian request was given the plea of the German govern- ment. In this connection reference was made to cable despaches today re- porting the establishment of the inde- pendent state of Hungary, of the rec- ognition by that state of the inde- pendence of the Czecho-Slovak and Jugo-Slav provinces and also of Ger- man-Austria as suggesting the intro- duction of complex factors into the problem of settling with the dual em- Dire. Even if each of the many na- tionalities that make up that empire becomes independent before peace is arranged, it was said that they stifl must bear their individual shares of the responsibility for the acts commit- ted by the empire. Logically, each might have to sue for a separate peace. However, it is believed that , the American government will not_be di- verted from the pursuit of its. main object by the consideration of these individual uprisings in Austria-Hun- gary. It probably will follow consist- ently the course pursued .in dealing with Germany and insist on treating first the proposition for an armistice, which it regards as a purely military question, leaving to the final peace conference the adjustment of . the dlaims to independent existences of the various oppressed nationalities in Austria-Hungary. Vienna’s plea for an armistice , is interpreted quite generally in military circles here as an offer to capitulats as completely as did Bulgaria. Mili- tary officials, both allied and Ameri- can, believe that the complete elimi- nation of Austria-Hungary as a belitg, erent would bring the world war with- in sight of an end. The greatest fear the Germans have, they say, is of in- vasion of German sail, and in the end, they believe, Germany will capitulate raxmr than face that contingency: ssessing the probable results’ of Austrian surrender, officers pointed out that it would release the Italian armies for operations elsewhere. TUnless Tur- key also has dropped out of the fight by that time, it would sem logical, it was said, to- expect that these forces would be furned at once to pressing the campaign against Constantinople. With Turkey also out, the two Italian div¢tions now in France coulg de quickly supplemented and another great army erected on that front to crush the wavering German lines. . U. 8. STEEL New York, Oct. 2! United States Ste their quarterly meeting to: ‘extra’ tive since to two The fog war ed by count ous yvuarter by $11,000,000. dollars. The resul: tions of 1 1-4 per mon stock and 1 2-4 D(‘" preferred were voted as reduction in dend was impelled by the ormous appropriation of federal excess profits tax the quarterly ceeds the appropria REDUCES DIVIDEND ON COMMON SHARES ctors of the oration at ¢ reduced dividend on the common ra\e effec- 19 r distribu- on the com- nt. on the divi- further en- $101,987,347 income and disclos- t. Shi tion of the previ- slightly ex- than In the three quarters-of the calendar 1-year the-stee] corpordtion to this item ed off 824,288,7 these charg- sum_of ranging from $31,535,198 in th" first ouarter to de today, r cent.- of the he slightly in e the quartes Total earning: come ’invl day &ho\:\s a by nths, under July further decrease, Net 399,483 in dends. months ago. ARMISTICE MUST PRECEDE | REORGANIZATION OF AUSTRIA rland, Oct issued at Vienna today to Fresident Wil-| Basel, Swit: official note on Auflrus reply appropriation cess of T s total earni""~‘ dor‘ldpfl‘ and September showing a income for the third auarter stands at $32,060,392. as azainst $52 . while the surplus for | the quarter, after payment of aivi- is reduced to the rominal sum of $3,840,561, against $19,017375 three! —A semi- “Austria_was obliged to conform to the methods of President Wilson, had successively members of not apart from her archy. whi President of However, tion of Austria out after an enter into ne the Triple h has formally Wilson's s his opinion, ror's manifesto to in proclaiming the monarch federali- exceeded o the comple can on armistice. Hungary has declared he- otiations fc who replied to the three Alliance, an The mon- adopted JIf ready to armis- tice and for peace, without awaitinz the result of other states, that Iy signify peace. It me: act separately negotiations with does not necessari- | ‘separate is ready to in the intercsts of the re-establishment of peace.’ offer that sho the MANUFACTURERS TO MEET iN NEW YORK TODAY New York, Oct. manufacturers he city today vention of turers’ open a two day the Waldorf Astoria from every union to aterd the r the American Expo:t "Associaticr: Prominent in this in the annual con- Tanufac- which will session tomorrow at| convention will be given over to the discussion of after-war plans of foreisn . Sir Henry Babinzsen Smith, K. issioner for Redfield, Bd- Frank A. Vanderlip are among teres C. R, acting Great Britain: ward N. Hurley, and Martin W. the speakers. trade high Secretary Littleton in- Financing of foreign trade. foreign credit, foreign adve: commercial trademarks, agrecments and our ing will be cealt ties: and ter-war shipp- TO MAKE GREATER USE' OF LOWER GRADES OF COTTON Wa on, Oct. line with the government’s Anqmm«“el policy to farce a greater use ol er grades Gt ofie ihoreby ' eeabilisiug e price, manufactu cotton fab- cs for the army hereafter ontinie ¢ grades tn instead ades be The cotton dis! announced today was made at a tat dustries board of Cotton Manu Goods man coptracts will ihe manufacture. meeti es of the army and na d cotton This will goods made for the public, imption of more of Tepresen- REP. NATIONAL COMMITTEE PRE-ELECTION EXPENSES ‘Washington, Oct. 29.—The republi- can national committee's detailed re- port on pre-election expenses filed to- night with the clerk of the house of representatives showed total receipts of $492,345 and expenditures of $469,- 096, most of which was sent to aid in the various state campaigns. The senatorial and congressional national campaign committees received 335,000 each. The largest contributions were $5.000 each by J. Ogden Armour and J. H. Taylor of Chicago and Alfred J. Sweet of Auburn, Me. The other contribu- tions ranged down to $50. James A. Patten, cago, gave $3;500:¥Vill ‘H. an Francisco, $3,000, James of Baltimore, $3,000, Ethel, Crocker, San Francisco, $1,000. Among the many contributers .of $1,000 were John D. Rockefeller, Sr., John D. Rockefeller, Jr, Larz 'Ander- son, Mortimer Schic. Coleman Dupont; James Deering, Charles Deering, Rob- ert H. McCormick, John D. Spreckles; Dan R. Hanna, R. T. Crane nad George W, Per ns, foney sent into the states was de- noted in the report as “cash advance” and included: A. J. Sweet, Maine, 000; Senator William M. Calder, New York, $19,000, and Maurice Mc- Kenzie, New York, $15,000. DANIELS PRAYS FOR PEACE WITHIN 20 DAYS R. I, Oct. 29.—Plenty of after the war was promised mu- workers at the naval torpedo ation here by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who made an unexpected visit to this city today. The secretary ad- dressed officers, enlisted men, yeo- women and many men and women Newport I munitions workers in front of the ccmmandant’s house at the station and then went to the naval training station, where he reviewed a brigade |of apprentice seamen and later ad- dressed the men. The secretary was enthusiastic in his praise for the munitions workers and declared that without their ef- | forts it would have been impossible Ifor the American destroyer flotilla te have made its splendid showing against the U-boats. “When German autocracy is destroy- ed” he said, “as I pray God it will be within the next thirty days, and as it sure to be by the prowess of our arms, there is going to be a big job for the navy. So the great esti= | mate which we have begun here is but |the foundation upon which we will build a naval establishment.” CHARLES E. HUGHES CALLS FOR NATIONAL UNITY New York, Oct. 28.—Calling for na- tional unity “after the methods of a republic and not an autocracy,” and d'“lorm[z President Wilson’s assump- tion that only the returne of a demo-’ cratic majority would uphold his na- tional leadership, Charles E. Hughes declared in an address here tonight that bi-partisan support alone “would save the president from the lesser dignity and influence of mere party leadership.” . “Must we republicans,” he asked; “patriotically toil and give without secking a voice in the natipnal assems bly, vielding our representation : to democrats, not as more worthy or more loyal. not as more sacrificing. of more intelligent, but to democrats as such, simply because they are demo- crat 100 MOTORISTS ARRESTED IN NEW YORK CITY Oct. -29.—Although han- pped by wornout motorcvcles, the police mana:ed to arrest more than 100 motorists here today in the seeond day of their campaign against speed- Ability of many motorists to dis- tance the aged motorcycles has resul ed an “enidemic” of speeding, ae- cording. to the police. Becuuse.of the war, the department has been unable to delivery of 40 new ma- ch the others, deteriorating through almest constant use, are said to be incapahle of overtaking high powered automobiles and motorcy-+ cles. Some of the police machines has been “scrapped” tc supply parts for others. " COTTON AND GRAIN EXCHANGE HAS BEEN OPENED IN NEW YORK' Oct. New York, Cotton and branches in 29.—The Americard Ex-henge, with s and 21 member- ship of 5,000 opened for trading here today. It was announced ihat minj-. mum transactions in cotton would be in ten bale lots and it was estimated. that today’s sales amounted to' 7500 bales”