The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1918, Page 1

“CITY OF DAMASCUS CAPTURED BY BRITISH — — as _ - Che v18, by The Press Publishing he New York World), WEATHER—Unsettied to-night; fair Thursday. “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ f “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ NEW YORK, _WEDNESDAY, OOTOBER 2, 1918. 20 PAGES _ PRICE. TWO CENTS. _ CAMBRAI PARTLY OCCUPIED: ‘AMERICANS CLEAR ARGONNE CaP OF THE COAL BARONS FIELD COMMANDER LOAN SUCCEEDING IN EW YORKERS A i D IN VICTORY; ATMITCHELKILLED ALL OVER NATION; HAIG MAKES NEW ADVANCE | p VANTRACHTE FELD MAKES au AEN NED SPEDHERE sass goouy pawl; een \French Troops Drive Beyond St. Quentin, Capture Four Towns Whitten East Dis) New York Lags Behind as Op- TAKING OVER BY U. 5. EASY. Action Would Be Se-|GERMAN-BORN AMERICAN curity Against Ex- tortion Due to Un-| TAKES TOWN’S FULL QUOTA TO BAGK HIS BOY AT FRONT d Ma — r R. B, Cousins Is In- | timistic Reports Come From jured hen Car Overturns. Many Other Centres, Ma Whit tast, ( emmander ld, at was 1 Aviation F The nation has responded to the cali Island, City, Long instantly | utomo. | the Treasury Department at Wash- killed early to-day when bis necessary Shortage. , jee is-pane-e-094-00 | MBtOn to-day repurts camo Indicating ered WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VER. pdt el inate | ; | cuaes tna igen wad gbalsealnig VAG: to Central Powers’ Alliance. ; K M Who P. Bi South Dakota Farmer Wants to} $ CS arpa Mae: Gaatiguniilin/ teeta Penta e fe cnaies DUN, Tuesday, Oct. 1 (Associated Press).—The Argonne Forest | rove { nin the Ar hat | 3 AES, ORY, SOR a, OR c0eK h IN, Oct. 2—Damascus, the Capital of Syria, was o¢ : ‘ fs N P; Fi Th Lanark Pr i ai ii ine a That | ¢ their quotas.‘ Several States, in addl- L cupied by Gen. Silenby’s pins on Tuesday morning, ace |'* being cleared of enemy troops by American soldiers from New ‘| - He Is o the Linut. * . db) diy Z, ac tess | j 4 To its roug é 1 | ith mn to th ? | : ) | tion to Lowa and South Dakota, which cording tu ai official statement issued to-day by the British |] York and Hlinois, One of the American negro units also has par- ] ficial Famine Tight- ASHINGTON, Oct ; passed their quotas yesterday, are] War Optice. ( m received at L! erty Loan headqua from Minneapolis tells the teles nearing (heir minimum mark. en Hold on on Public. By Sophie Iret Irene Loeb. | The Evening World in t * | Tho figures for the New York dis $j trict are not yet what they ought to be, but this fact did not appear to worry the managers of the loan, for it day by t as New York committee brief the was| saree oe the Fourth Liberty Loan, From {Fall of City May Mean End of All Resistance TT TMi INRA TRESS Ay Near Rheims — Haig Smashes | German Defenses on 20- Mile Front—Belgians Also Gain. to English Forces—Turks to Adhere ticipated in the operation. The capture of Dansascus marks an advance of 130 miles by Gen. Allenby’s forces since Sept. 20, the day he launched his victori- ous attack north of Jerusalem. fn that tine the British have cap- tured more than 50,000 prisoners, destroyed at least three armies and driven the eaemy from Palestine a great part ot It is reported that the Americans have moved forward over one of the most hotly contested sectors of their advance—the lurkisl! ground north and west of Montfaucon. Syria. ws is known that New York always re-| LOND . 2.—Cambrai i i i ce colved its biggest subscriptions at the|~ Damascus is the Turkish base in Syria and Pales und its | ; : ON, Oct * brai was partially occupied this B end of the cainpaign | teported full probably means the end of all Turkish resistance (y | Merning, it was stated in despatches from the battlefront received : Rare The only official total given out to-] Gen, Allenby in Palestine and Syria The city, which dates back | this afternoon. The city is now believed to have fallen. to the dawn of history, is the junction point of railroads leading to ; Between thee Vesle and the Aisne, where the French are pushing northe 10 « this morning, the figure the port of Bierut and Alleppo, 180 miles vast hat ihe antite oulndt.d : ra This included over- Aleppo is the most important ‘Turkish base in this region of | Oorthward in the encircling movement against the St. Gobain massif, cite coal js controlled by t 1 if ght subscript £ $18, s Asia Minor, as it is a junction point of the railroads from Palestine 2,000 additional German prisoners were taken to-day. panies—the P! a en od06 many other subs jens not yet! and Mesopotamia . nec hee ae Pp Fils 5 ; G6 F WITH THE BRITISH ARM N FRANCE ict, 2 ing Coal 4 the 1 OT THT SINK |. MAJOR WHITTEN J. EAST. eee een Howovor, Now ¥ i iy Damascus has a population of about 150,000. It is one of the bP The € \ ey ft : BP ANGE Oct: 2: salam ab Sonia in which he was retusning to tue) Sect UP to a daily averaue a $A) boy cities of the Mohammedans, and the Arabs regard it as one of | PT¢SS)—The Canadians had a hard day yesterday north of Cambrai, the and ; ; hes- Barr | bis: Bema wt WoetlUr ye ee ie caintne dave of (he Gale the four paradises on eurtl Germans making a determined stand around the burning city. The qr ‘i t R | FRI BAGGED : Cou h | Pala 5 TURKEY TO REMAIN WITH CENTRAL POWERS. British rd and Fourth Armies took 1,700 additional prisoners yese et wl two days ago wa SEI UBER BEES BEEDHER AEA AMSTERDAM, Oct. >.—Tie Turkish Cabinet, according to a | torday nat control the railroads which y ae vi bine committee's headquarters before 2] telegram published by the Cologne Gazette, has decided “in afl cite | -¢- — ie coal, F Piola: Iniured o'clock this afternoon. Among the nces to adhere to the alliance wit! tral Powers.” Vhilade phia an : ’ : ve ea 1 Ww ans vings Dank (addi. he United States, | R ' aviation MaAld Tho accident orn Products Relining Company, y the United State |Report of Battle in “ghee 4 | $1,000,000 ’ That the rama f thie ects ‘ ps : | wae discovered by Lieut, Bontley of) Tis inonn' Savings Bank, $500,000 FOR BEL I M V ! pany's act Waters Aug. 7 Received by |tne Medical Corps Federal Sugar Refining npany, G U E ACUATION! © coal fa Just how 1 urred has not yet Steamship Ci company Here, TAKE SIX TOWNS NEAR RHEIMS gel 1 | been determined. Lieut, Gans, Adju- | $309,000 ‘ . "cede bnerae|Steastin Co Seen EEAY BE oo oF ome) WHEL DEFEND OWN FRONTIER rede ilaeralateteing g_ the : rman macin whieh tor-| voutgation, eae: < eee er ferences boi: Germans Make a Hard Fight in St. Quentin, utter befo Supreme Co Of) nedoce and sank the French cruiser ic lag and the flags | rie ¢ United States: valley Goal | Pi Petit Thouars in Huropean waters /iner ylation ile on Jong Island | Grenwich Savings tank (addi-| Military Secretary to Governor General Tells of but Are Driven Across the Canal in Sales Company, which markets was in turo ed by BUN-| word of the accident was received, —_ | tonal), $150,000. Preparations as All Archives Are Removed | the Eastern Suburbs. the entire output of the Lehigh | om an American freight steam-| Major Kust was thirty-three years| Jeremiah Milbank, $150,000 i ; ; i peaeiehipaRr Nhe ’ Coal Company, has been able to | ship, ono of the convoy of twenty-four | old and married, He had been in ser Dunlevy Milbank, $160,000, —Holland to Guard Its Neutrality. PARIS, Oct. 2 (United Press).—Violent fighting is continuing north declare annual dividends as high aie the French warship | Vite overseas and at Washington and South Brooklyn Savings Bank (ad and an additional in the ser- | ditional), $125,000. as 10 per cent. was one of stock dividend of 25 per cent, My ¥ ‘ a vals tan |vieo, Me h ands with| We tL vireinie Pulp and Paper Com-! Germans are preparing to evacuate Be! It quotes its Amsterdam hing fit a ger zor urned to-day hin daring pany, $100,04 ee i § - ay nein cr epare ey perdi fT faci tia gil ne i de United States Fintshing Company, | Cfrespondent as follows: French troops have passed above the canal tunnel at Le Tronquoy along the line from he 1 sank the sub-| Last | i sive ergrae Rite : Baa! io é 7 cite fields to New York City, a | yarine | n, and a re-|the fleld $100,000. ar Hee T understand that the Military Secretary co Gen, Barc n Falken! ang are progress 1 An attack is developing upon Omissy, 2 " rn | foott ail ga Colgate Hoyt & Co mH, OF hausen, German Governo! eral of Belgiun J erday | e ; d chman at The Hague, sai eae lared dividends as high as 25 ah Btatives of t Homans & Co. alr > F Jemolition o} > ny’s ed defenses seems to be ight. feat arcane last year. c "99 WOUNDED AMERICANS Aimonge (he crip! “*Plans are ready for the early evacuation of Belgium | Jemolition of Germany’s fixed defenses seems to be in sigh GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF] Accordin por attack | KILLED IN HOSPITAL, | Promised by corporations and ot if it should be found necessary. The German Army in Bel- Jenburg system has become a sieve, soon to be a memory. Open MINES AN EASY MATTER to-day, but not y aded in the A il : i : 7 ‘ tad That in view of this “strangle : , ne WS HIT BY A GERMAN SHELL af ; following: | 84m will return to the German frontier in order to show the 1s similar to the days when the Germans first reached hat in vi is “stran cial * bula lowing: | Pps held” on the coal upon which the 1 r 1 a f Tire Company, | wore that we really want to defend our country. France has been made possible. New York people are so depend: | var e cony os ny 100,600; J, 8; Bache & Co., $500,000 he correspondent adds that Holland, taking is doubly ARIS > ad Pres xe . ' » ti ent the coal could be readily | ine an ier ee eee It Is Bel Pre a able That a De-| Oil Corporation, $500,000; In-| guarding her frontiers to prevent any viola F Holland bu ctlesin PARIS, Oct. 2 (Associated Press.) —Gen. Berthelot sammy to-day is taken over by the Gevernment anata atl i oahwe th 1 cit empt Was Made $500,000; | 6 seman. he making good progress between the Vesle River and the Aisne Canal west and security assured from high ‘ ae te Aliack Company, rie ; ; f Rhein The French troops have captured five or six villages, and profits and unnecessary shortage. t Insure here are ations the evacuation alrea nd ¢ beg Every ei C encl »ps have captured five ¢ illages, anks of cou w WITH THE AMPRICAN ARMY] oP | correspondent at the front predicts a great G ut, but indicat idvance a a depth of from five to six kilo- at could f ne ut | NORTHWEST OF VERDUN nd | it f ‘Pir 10 to 4 arine| day, Oct, 1 (Assoclated Pre ete and to no me esire to e work!) ve a The entire massif of St, Thierry admits is ‘5 Tw fi many ¢ n n ks ago it wa ; 1 when wa: Jon w it i i anh creene n il An Min we rl of Gen, Gouraud east of Rheims continued to advance nto mount " 1 n t the marke ; ; , ve tsa it ata pond ig the Germans, who appeared to be falling back more hure price, The he wa t aH { the pr in ata since Sept. 2¢ That the | nave en- | AM oXE wed 1 behind fl ! 4 G ] aay a : - joyed privi have tey nt dow f 1! possible t . 1 HH The French ave now passed beyond St. Quentin. North. ed coul every instead of rals . . 5 i i ‘ : f ( i : ine tt : ne X My id d than the t c g to the Havas Agency, ihey qi a Shae goer bent 4 rhe } : (Continued Page.) \\ along the $ 1¢ from Tronquoy to Rouvroy and ; i = e to t wen t ye ¢ St, Quentin-La Fere road to the River Oise at Vendeuil, pany est one, has enjoyed as | found nta fou h Jue road e se at Vendeuil : aing: ne others js the low wount | e wh THE WORLD TRAVE! BURRA’ 1 i 1 1 1 . Seat, against the thi the / amount |crew of the crul ome of whom A | N G Arete, Puliteor (Werle) Butiaing, 8, ¢ ‘ SFOp} Bt Heavy fighting took place in St, Quentin last night. Resisting stub. a pT ey pave pai on thle hice’ pial thbioah!' Cinan. anlaad ESULTS, Page 2 | sit ic 1 cw. of proc i nations, saying: “Have patience. the he if in he C d baek to: tt + bankioeithi bs ormous holdings in Schuyiki , ‘Telento an , the Germans were driven back to the ¢ast bani Hi peels RA.) tha. Franch crew. were picked ENTRIES, Page 10 | ee vg ta for baggnen Sad Sestrad t sight,” : fs ‘ i hie fast bank of the camal, ac (Continued on Bighth Page.) by destroyers, ‘ The. Germans t-turn -antl-aiveraft-suns on these aviators to the French War Office statement today, ale, Aer, LONDON, Oct. 2 ay declares the |" { south of St. Quentin, say this afternoon's reports from the battle —The London Daily Express SL