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AUTOCRACY MUST GO BEFORE PEACE; NO ARMISTICE WITHOUT GUARANTEES EXTRA ‘PRICE Two CENTS. Coprrignt, Che “Circulation Books Open to All.” by The Press Publishing New York World). NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1918. GET $52,000,000 FORLOAN ALLIES WILL NOT TALK PEACE; NN HOUR AT SH Schwab and va Hurley Stir Mem- bers at Luncheon of Fifth Avenue Association. NEED $192,000,000 A DAY. New York Must Raise $1,150,- 779,550 to Fill Quota Before End of Drive This Week. e hour and In one room at Hotel to-day In a singl the Waldorf-Astoria $2,000,000 was pledged for the Fourth | Liberty Loan. Individual subserip-} tions ranged from $10,000,000 down, : | and many of them reached or ex-| $1,000,000 mark subser ns can ( these rluded 10 preliminary 10 p in the n madi not yet ber on the official ist in a And they indicate that g Germany's day been ifth Avenue Associa e dip pacntatives ations associated with the It was matic repre of all the United Stat yp s ghe most memorable si meqting in the history ‘ excepting those Congress ns when money by bill:o on voted for wat purposes. At the speakers’ table Charles M ind Edward N Chairman of the Shipping Board, were the chief figures. There was a miniature shipway and a miniature ship representing the Emergency Fleet. It cost $1,000,000 to launch thie ship once, and it was launched fifty-two times—ten times on behalf of the Central Trust Company alone, whose subscription was $10,000,000. Schwab himself launched it once and will have to produce his million, The Corn Exchange Bank, which has been making “additional” subscriptions every fow days, made another addi- tional one of $5,000,000 and launched the ship five times, The ship was launched also on half of Altman ¢ the . the Columbla Trust olitan Life In- 6 Liggett Drug es in the war. finan the war al re ha Behwab be- ‘Trust ¢ Company, t at Wash- that ring n $500.0 from now "0 a day must atl Saturda tnaure i } i ~ LUNCHEON OF FINANCIERS Hurley, | Bankers’ fBrazitian yrow and the Lincoln Trust Com-| PLAUNCHING” SENATORS DEMAND FULL SURRENDER’ AS PEACE TERMS Lodge Resolution Would Stop All Communication Except Demand Enemy Yield. WASITINGTON, Oct. 14,—-Gor- many’s unconditional surrender was demanded tn tho Senate to-day a the only peace terms that would pe cceptable by the American peop ranking 1 claring it to b th Senate that no mimun tlon be had with the German Gove ernment except to demand uncondi- | Uonal surrender, Senator Ge . Oklahoma, introduced ly wit a resolution ““adyi to meet at the peace t the elected for that pur le i representatives Austrian people pose." “Nothing short of plete and arrying ¥ amage wro be tolerated, ci an an: absolute unconditional th it con. surrend full reparation will be a non a New, "It (Continued on sec ond Page.) | BRAZILIAN SHIP TORPEDOED; | U BOAT SUNK BY DESTROYER Captain of Steamer, Taken Captive, Loses Life When British War- ship Sends Submarine Down, AN ATLANT! steamship wo daya 0 Oct, 4.—The tubs a French PORT, G was ying, @ British prding to », of the | destroyer aank th | advices, and Capt navy, commander of — the |ateamship, who waa a prisoner on the |submarine, lost his life whem she was blo | Fr was only the reacued ~ LUDENDORFF rn" A RAGE OFFERS HIS RESIGNATION Aroused When He Find Demand Evacuation Bet NT WITH Gur, | Chee Cal pe, ba, 4 pareele ven day and na Mewiptne an “Bina | might, Money ors travelienn’ shacks ‘tor fo" slowhal— - = ee _ | armistice arrangement and the military advisers would be & responsible for its arrangement. ; Government, dated the twelfth instant, which you handed | "| advisers of the Government of the United States and the Al- > will consent te ATROCITIES MUST STOP FIRST: SIRKES IN FLANDERS WITH |The President Feels That No Ruoesetnasi Can Be Aocerted| Which Does Not Provide Absolutely Satisfactory Safe- guards and Guarantees of the Present Military Supremacy of the U. Ss. and Allies. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Autocracy must go be- fore a peace can be arranged with Germany. misunderstanding, that the President should very solemnly call the at tention of the Government of Germany to the language and plain intent of This condi- | | one of the terms of peace which the Government has now accepted. It ts ‘ ‘ ‘ i contained in the address of the President tion was laid down by President Wilson to-day in a note to) (704... Tub leah 1b hae tOliowh he destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that rately, secretly, and of its single choice, disturb the peace of the world; that no armistice could be considered while Germany con-| or jf \¢ cannot bo presently destroyed, at least {ts reduction to virtual | tinued her illegal inhumane practices on land and sea. Impotency,’ \ ae “The power which has hitherto controlled the German nation 1 of the | The note to Germany was a “decision;” it did not per-| sort here described, It is within the choice of the German nation to mit of discussion as such. pleb ie ; “The President's word ie os " ‘Satisfactory safeguards and guarantees of the main- precedent to peace, If p tenance of the present military supremacy,” of the Amer- delivered at Mount Vernon on the German Government, which also bore the plain notice | can sepa just quoted naturally constitute a condition er is ta come by the action of th German people bound to say that the whole process of depend upon the definiteness and the satisfac \ican- Allied armies must be given as a preliminary to any | (ry character of the gua en in this fundamental |matter, It ts indispensable that the Governments associated against Ger many should know beyond preadventure with whom they are dealing. “The President will make separate reply to the Royal and Imperial Government of Austria-Hungary.” themselves. The Pres feels » will, in his judgme aniees which can be | The note announced by Secretary Lansing late to-day ' and submitted to the Swiss Minister said: WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—This statement was “Sir—lIn reply to the communication of the German made at the White House at 5.30 this afternoon: “The Government will continue to send over 250,000 me to-day, I have the honor to request you to transmit the men with their supplies every month and there will be no following answer: “The unqualified acceptance by the present German, ;| Government and by a large majority of the Reichstag of the| d 1 G lL | terms laid down by the President of the United States of, ent s reply to: Germany s peace propose "| Asneticn | in his address to the Congress of the United States President Wilson, just before noon, received the official text of the Ger- on the 8th of January, 1918, and in his subsequent ad-| | dresses, justifies the President in making a frank and direct and Col. E. M. House, his personal friend and confidant. | Statement of his decision with regard to the communication | Later, and just about the time the Associated Press despatch from Lon of the German Government of the 8th and 12th of October, | 10" reported Great Britain inclined to demand satisfying guarantees, in- | 1918. jcluding both military and “It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation and the conditions of an armistice are matters) x5 announ which must be left to the judgment and advice of the military | his visit {relaxation of any kind.” The Senate remained in session to await the Presi- man reply to his inquiries to Chancellor Maximilian, He already had been in conference with Secretary Lansing, Secretary Baker, Secretary Daniels naval provision as the prerequisite to an armistice, if there should be one, Counsellor Polk of the State Department Britisa Embass ent of the purpose of but likely that if he did not go to ac- hurried to the @ made, ot seemed wit | set up son's intended quick « onference wi answer, it was ‘to al means Embassy with President | of « th Loy quaint the BRITAIN WILL DEMAND FULLEST | GUARANTEES BEFORE ARMISTICE lied Governments, and the President feels it his duty to say that no arrangement can be accepted by the Government of | the United States which does not provide absolutely satisfac-| tory safeguards and guarantees of the maintenance of the present military supremacy of the armies of the United! States and of the Allies in the field. “He feels confident that he can safely assume that this| will also be the judgment and decision of the Allied Govern- | ments, Government Reported Insistent on Both Mili- tary and Naval Safeguards. LONDON, Oct. 14.—While certain developments are taking place, the “The President feels that it is also his d uty to add that neither the Government of the United States nor is he quite sure the Governments with | Central News Agency says it learns, it can be sald that the British which the Government of the United nt| Government will resolutely oppose the granting of any armistice to Ger- nsider an armis { ™ | many unless absolute guarantees, both military and naval, are forthcoming continue the ill At the very time th in Government ¢ | The London newspapers are publishing numerous interviews with nt of the United 8 h proposals of peace marines re! teaging mon of all classes of public life on the German reply to President inking al cea, and not the ships alone but the Wilson. is distrust « to make thelr way to good faith, with @ belief that The dominant note throughou c of Germany » Whi and she is intent only on saving her from » mF landers and Franec | inevitable destruction and robbing the Allies of the fruit SOUP i Reuter’s, Limited, says it joarned in auth = that there is no prospect of an early armistice as the re troyed tripped of all they heir ver The nations asso Further, it tated, wien the time is ripe for consider expected to agree to @ cessation of arms | tion an armistice will not be granted or even considered without th 1 and destruction are being continued, ea companying naval and military guarantees that Germany ts not which they justly look oan with horror and with burning hearts, “'It 19 necessary also, in order that there may be no possibility of (Continued on Second Page.) b ! * } = [“Cirentation Books Open to All.” 18 PAGES |troops, and the forces of the French were of famous fighting a a eenereencenesee cement to-night. Fair, cooler to-night and Tuesday; fro: FOCH SHETS HS avs, THREE ALLIED ARMIES $< ______. British, Belgian and French Forces, Ignoring Peace Talk, Attack on Wide Front, Taking Enemy by Surprise—Pershing Reports Halt- ing Attacks on Both Sides of Meuse WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FLANDERS, Oct. 14 (Associated Press).—British, Belgian and French forces attacked at dawn this morning on a wide front in Flanders. The Allied troops are driving in the general direction of Ghent and Courtrai. The attack seems to be generally from Comines to the north- ward. The troops of the three nations went over the top after a “crash” bombardment only. There was no preliminary bombard- ment. It undoubtedly tactically surprised the enemy. In the British formations were some of Great Britain's best tions. orga The Germans appear prepared to retire to the Ghent line. By the fury with which the attack was launched it is evident that the fighting armies are not paying the slightest attention to the “peace talk.” They smashed forward with all the dash characterizing the recent operations, : The blow in Flanders may prove to be Marshal Foch’s master stroke. If the allied progress is continued the Germans throughout a wide stretch of territory, taking in the most important part of the Belgian coast, in- cluding possibly the important German submarine bases, as well as the forces in the entire Lille will either ond Sedan ilient, have to get out or face a see. —=+—— FRENCH DRIVE ON FROM LAON; CAPTURE A DOZEN VILLAGES; CROSS THE GUISE RAILWAY Capture of Great Quantities of Shells and Other War Material Follow the Clearing of the St. Gobain Forest. PARIS, Oct. 14.—Overcoming the resistance of strong machine gun defenses on the Besn. the French have crossed the Guise- at Bare! niles north of Laon, e battl Laon Railway according to reports from t In the of Reth whole | Cham men have reached the i) outer outskirts ed ado 1 of the St. Gobain massif, ional villages. The nells and en add J great masses of st ling, the French swept t miles on the front 000 civilians were delivered nated to have taken y morning over cut up , leaving quantities of mas At 10.45 o'clock French re they were met Loisy and La Mon- whe y a vi g ming fr i; tagne, which were occupied by enemy rearguards, At 14 o'clock Sunday morning all the St. Gobain forest was clear or % ae n I