The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1918, Page 2

Germans and the French flag was floating on the Laon Cathedral. Con- tinuing their advance, the French troops debouched from the Laon Forest at Samoussy, which was taken. Marchais was also occupied. Toward 2 o'clock Sunday the enemy machine gun reaction became most severe. At 2.30 o'clock an Italian brigade had passed the town of Montaigu. At about 3 o'clock the advance continued. There was heavy fighting with rearguards, which fired principally from Vivaise, Couvron- troops then passed into Samoussy Forest and continued the pursuit. HAIG GAINS ON BOTH SIDES OF DOUAI. Changes in the Battle Front Due to Capture of Laon and the THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 191 BRITAIN TO DEMAND FULL GUARANTEES BEFORE ARMISTICE French-U. S. Champagne Gains BELGIAN PEOPLE Tinted spaces on the map Indicate gains up to Sunday morning. Black | et-Aumencourt and dropped shells on the roads and the railroad. French, spaces show the advance yesterday, notably the taking of Laon, La Fere and | other towns, and the cleaning out of tho St. Gobian Forest and the bend in| the Aisne River further east, LONDON, Oct. 14.—The British are pressing in on both sides of $¢¢¢4¢4444#4464-4-444460060044044-0046446604 00eer Douai. Field Marsnal Haig’s official statement to-day reports gains of ground both north and south of the city. German counter-attacks east of the Selle River, near Solesmes, were repulsed. These attacks were delivered in force on a wide front north of Le Cateau, following a heavy bombardment. Other enemy attacks, supported by tanks, were also broken up. Northeast of Solesmes British patrols pushed forward to Haspres, seven miles southwest of Valenciennes, PERSHING REPORTS REPULSE OF STRONG GERMAN ATTACKS ON BOTH SIDES OF MEUSE American Bayonets Break Up Repeated Ase! saults, and Artillery Silences Heavy Barrage —Machine Gun Nests Cleaned Out. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Repulse of strong and repeated enemy counter-attacks upon the newly won American positions on both sides of the Meuse and continued participation by American divisions in successful operations by the British south of Le Cateau and the French in Cham- pagne is reported by Gen. Pershing in his communique for Sunday. WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST ARMY, Oct. 14 (United Press).— Heavy German attacks east of the Argonne carly to-day were broken up, { by American counter-attacks. The Americans met the Boches midway | e én Gsrena BRUGES between the two lines, wielding the bayonet and tearing the enemy waves | 2 to shreds. The German attack ‘nad been preceded by a heavy barrage, but the American artillery silenced the enemy guns, leaving their infantry with-| out protection. Later the American infantry went forward and began clearing out) + machine gun nests in the regions of Romagne, Cunel and Sommerance. WILSON CONFERS ON GERMAN NOTE; FULL SURRENDER, PROBABLE DEMAND (Continued from First Page.) ready to sheathe the sword but is absolutely powerless to resume hoas- tilties, Lerd Haldane, formerly Lord Chancellor and Secretary of War, | the world from a repetition of her commenting on the exchange of notes! crimes against it, and an armistico between Germany and President /snoud not be allowed which would Wilson, said: convert a disastrous defeat and per- “t think President Wilson can be hans a wholesale surrender of the trusted to do nothing rash. It would | German armies on the battlefeld into not be safe to acept any undertaking | 4 jeisurely and safe guaranteed re- without a substantial guarantee for) treat, for that would enable the ncw its performance.” race of militarists to claim that they | General approval is expressed Of | had led Germany, not to defeat, but the reserved manner in which the) to victory, reply has been received by the public! “There should be reparation for tho at large, among which the news Of| devastation Germany hag caused in the proposed armistice evoked feel-|4o many lands,” sald Mr, O'Connor, ings hot of rejoicing but of anxicty| and I cannot help hoping that the Jost anything be done which would | chief criminals will not escape retri- jeopardize a just recompense for the! hution, and I cannot help fearing that terrible sacrifices made, owhere |the same gang of miscreants may be has their been any flying of flags nor jeft another chance of recoverin has there been any ringing of bells. power to deluge the earth with blood. Public feeling on the subject has| “The Allies will take nothing less been especially affected by the sink-|than unconditional surrender in the ing of the Leinster, Thus T. P.| field, and there must be no armistice O'Connor, speaking at Whitfields| until defeat in the field ts acknowl- Tudernacle yesterday, declared it was | edged by the enemy,” saya the Post, impossible to approach the subject | "Otherwise the war has been fought of peace with a cool mind in view of | In vain," the horror and rage excited in every} The Chronicle believes that Wilson Irishman’s and every Englishman's My Wish some or all of Germany's mind by the wholesale murder of |answers to be made more gpecific,|the Laon-La Fere Ratlw A. M., and a quarter of an hour late the IMrench tri-color was floating from the tower of the Laon Cathe- dral, About at the same hour the}@!i descriptions and its distribution last Germans had been chased from the Forest of St. Gobain, which for women and children and other in-|¢specially that regarding the author- nogent civilians in the sinking of the|!ty of Prince Maximilian'’s govern- Lanater, ment. Assuming that he will be sat- The Allies, he declared, must apply | 8fled as to this point, the paper con- to Germany that force and those | sible’ without «Anal ‘eesntoe se terms which alone would guarantee | fighting. ees FRANCE UNANIMOUS IN DEMAND GERMANY BE MADE HARMLESS PARIS, Oct. 14—France is unanimously determined not to negotiate | with Germany until the latter's power to do harm is corupletely ended, it Was semi~officially announced to-day Rene Viviani, former French Premier and Minister of Foreign Affaira, writing in the Excelsior s: "The tone of day after ¥ was received significanc tos in great part yres German press the @ - t Wilson Berlin wa ing time we shall soon find it out, One may supp it ig on reading the passag! v rman Government leaves it to the President to bring rin that cou k, the Government itse Press, therefore, is Gove phous a me of @ mixed commis- barometer. This ter what the German note, ep the commisston be yesterday mo , will it meet? Begide hission is possible only \ belligerents ask for un| armistice, In this case it is Germany fully a it was nesesary for gain time. To avoid im Parlers, Germany ever Me tevice at“an arrlsiion to ax “it 1 for the Alllen through their | geseptar € Tiresident: Wi de. | Governments to answer and through | mands, whi SManAR & thug r military organizations to de fe, What ‘He (nana? a Abs awe t she prs | iver invaded \tory from occupa- ei Joub i on? In that there is no ground for ? neiples an 1 ln usslon rmany knows that perfectly, She summoned no mixed commission in 1871 when Jules Favre le for an armistice and the right to revictual Paris, ‘The latter right hed refused ‘him, poses On appointment ™m to consider the If this pro- ct of etal GREAT JOY INLAGN FOCH DEMANDS THE LAON AREA, Oct. 14 (Associ- uted Prees).—With a literal trar of Joy the 6900 inhabitants remainin in Laon rushed to the gates of the| city yesterday afternoon to greot Gon, Mangin, who made his entry | four years had been one strongest bastions of the ene line, + Purming thelr advance — wit? heightened ardor in t ing delivered Laon, troops went on several miles north of the clty, Nberating a number of UKRAINE MAY PROTEST. villages and arriving before the 2s LAL A enemy's secondary position, At Marchais town & Joyfuine ple of Laon, tinued its forward movement, ibe Jating the Villages of Sterme, ‘Outre- | fringing jram Court and Montaigu and reac ng the enemy's line before Sissonn BULGAR ATROCITIES PROVED... s"."" Jews and Mo hammedan G Macedonia suffered tert tem try, it haa bee Most of the Jews ported and many a. during the stay of a Turkish regiment. | gwite @ ¢ which garrisoned the town five months, f Buffered worse treatment after its de: bet bllsey SHows ALLIES VANCE FAstT op MINDEN BORG LINE. tic All Ordinary T Is Blocked. Relgium as masses of people are beir |driven along the roads by the Ger- | mans, according to the Rosendaal cor. respondent of the Rotterdam M. bode. | The roads around Brussels and Ant werp, he says, are so crowded with refugees that ordinary traffic is en GERMANS DRIVING "TURKEY'S APPEA se FORAN ARMISTICE ABQUTTORESN, ~ ALONG THE ROADS | Army of sary Se So Great Tha! REACHES LANSING, REPORT IN SERN oct lune Note, P Phi Germany’s, d Like! Kaiser Cris. 2 hint to} 20 all that this Government. ha Transmitted WASHINGTON, ed note asking, Turkey’s| LONDON, Oct, 14.—The resigna- like Ge President as Inperial Chancellor ts nd in order to toration prot , according to reports from 7 ; was received to-day at the Holland to-day, They quote the Ber- | forth earry lin National Zeitung as saying the ibe hat pro} hat stops be taken |Ciancellor’s retirement. ts regarded | of this countr our Allies wi i differing 1 certain circles as inevitable, Vandi ee ikteal owara; was AMSTERDAM, Oct. 13.—Serious ti Phage desolated Bele his of the United nen and chi!+ us and finally fense of the m d of human rights, ince d nt ution of the had the sup- cal parti ple to a degr i a President Large Number of Political Offenders. - tlon of Prince Maximilian of Baden rmany sees the CONSERVE aon | repeal of objection to the acceptance of the | 4}, @ ‘conditions Inid down in President a On © | Wildon's reply 16 the Gams Kol was communicated to Imperial, “An unfortunate impression ts be- Chancellor Prince Mazximitian un|pronidece intenie torantee one atte Thursday by, the Conservative fac-|{em of parey and necctiations and that at 1 Germany is to got tion of the Reichstag, according to/ oft, wns the Lokal Angeiger of Berlin, is absolutely nothing that COPENHAGEN, Oct. 14 me) ah Bresident new ae { to indicate he has any such intention, Kaiser has granted amnesty to a| - a reat number, of persons who have | GOmners's Daughter Dies ie Bas been under arrest charged ‘with litical and military offenses, it was ned here to-day in reports from |t Berlin, The German Federal Council has accepted the measure calling for the sis in Bu to return until CASH PAID— DIAMONDS it | | the semt-oMcinl Wolff Bureau of! || id Gold, Silver, Jewelry, Bta | | _ further partlamentari n of Ger- many, say advi 8 received here from Berl Hishes’ Cosh Value Paid. eal of Artisie 21, Paragr Jach’s Guilssity Shop Artic! Paragraph ution, which pri a Reichstag member shall lose his seat if he acc or state offi ra 8 a salaried imperial ers no longer will be required to be members of the Fed- OVER LIBERATION OF 6,000 CIVILIANS GERMAN CITIES AS GUARANTEES": Gen, Mangin Almost Carried Sahielbaice Wet Would Also Dis- to City Hall—Mayor and | tribute German Fleet Among 600 Made Captives. Allied ‘Nations. WITH THE FRE) TH ARMY (N] Copyright, 1918, by The Prew Pubtisiing Ce, The New York Kvening Worit.) LONDON, Oct. M.—Although Ger- |many's appeal for an armistice has por! |not been officia the A , It is learned that the whole subject was exhaustively discussed last week at the Versailles conference, into the city at 3.30 o'clock. Men, /at which were present the Premiers women and children, with running down their cheeks and wav and the military representatives ot! ing their tricolor flags, cried “Long |the Allied nations, live Gen. Mangin! Ly 1 army! Long live our libe tears|of Great Britain, France and Italy Marshal b's Presented to the con- erence a minute in which he de- ed the military guarantees he con- ed essential as a condition pre ent to any armi hese In. ion of Mets, Strass-| the strategic key | Tho minute was in-| y the conference, 1 Foch also presented for nsideration of tt The people crowded around the general, almost carrying him in triumph to the City Hall, where he was received by the Deputy Mayor. The Mayor himself and 600 young men had been carried into captivity by the Germans be fore the French troops arrived. Gen, Mangin's forces had react y at 104 | future ¢ © conference: scheme for securing and snsuring German military impotence} future. It is sald to include vender of the German fleet of a comple pro rata among the Allies according o their naval losses, g destruction of the Krupp and koda unent works tn ( and Austrfa was also considered their employment, with the great industrial plants of these iake good the mater ry losses of France wemed bet the y's but ner » joy of hay 1 Mangin's & iround. ae mn Programm fen Rights.” nd, Oct. M.—It te Ukrainian cireles that the the Ukraine is about to wfringe Switzer ,000 inhabitants of that ted their deliverance with 83 equal to that of the peo They produced a notice left by | drawing his « the Germans on retiring to the | quences to effect that the French authorities catlo would have until Oct. 14 at 6 » t P. M, to remove the population, | after which the town would be bombarded. if The French Fifth Army has con- | ¢ tention to the cons Ukraine of the appl of his programme with regard evacuation of occupled terri @ramme regard ing this question (would risk the in rights, ‘ondary defense! Y, §, EDITORS MEI MEET KING, a ween Mary an Mother LONDON, Oct. 1f—King Goorge, Queen Mary and Queen Mother Alex- andra yesterday received @ party of jects of Terrible tre saste of Tove! bg twenty-five American editors at San- SALONIKI, Oct, 4.—Jowish and Mo-|druigham, the estate of the royal fame ek subjects in Mastern| iy in Norfolk. a DIVIDENDS DECLARED, " orary Bulg proved by Investigation. Tate Cryek W nt Mohammedansa who were un of Beef in New yore i, 6 Hiding Saturday, a “as ‘Pi dT Skate ver wound: ea a ——$_$—$_$ $$$ y communicated to| rmany | send a telegram to President Wilson | tirely blocked, while between Brusse!: and Antwerp there Is one slowly mov- | Its pear | with the knowle tne that ing oe, of misery, ‘ocessions of tens of thousands cf pecate, with their goods, who Bavel 9 ravelled afoot from Northern France| rise to the aba pale Turcoing and other|come and being driven forward by he afer In addition there are! ull the male inhabitants of wianders| the communte veo the corneas are likewise r ing. Ex lee ere. The headquarters of Crown Prince Rupprecht have been transferred frow | Thielt to Brussels, the correspondent adds, while the neighborhood Brussels and Malines bh. been under the jurisdiction of the ¢ Field cud LATEST OFFICIAL REPORTS ©" AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, Oct, 14.—The fol lowing communique from Gen, Per |shing, dated yesterday, was received, (CLOSING stock QUOTATIONS rene ota ae eee to-day: “HEADQUARTERS AMERICAN | EXPEDITIONARY Fore }13.—-On both sides of the Meuse our troops to-day broke up stror repeated attempts of the enemy to dislodge them from their recently won position “Americ: divisions continued to participate in successful of nder command of the British south of La Cateau and of the French in Champagne, At other points held b our troops there is nothing of impor- tance to repo BRITISH. rations LONDON, Oct. 14.—Following ts the | | statement issued to-day by the War Office: “Yesterday afternoon the enemy opened a heavy bombardment on a wide front north of Le Cateau. Under } }’% | cover of this artillery fire strong in- fantr; our positions east of the Selle River in the neighborhood of Sole |These attacks were successfully re | Pulsed after stiff fighting, “Other attacks, in which tanks were jemployed to support infa were delivered by the er day without success against our posi (southwest of Valenciennes), point gained ground and took prigoners.” PARIS, Oct, 14 report dssued to-day by the War O fice French troops last n to keep in close contact with the en emy infantry on the entire front elements offering resistance, RMAN, follows: Domes) oes} 5 livered by the § Ambassador, have the right to ek c the pro-Ge nstantinop would not that these change make a different sort of ably offering unconditional surrender, | “that the Germ: as it reach: ment is unsigne sive misery exists was would ree of Sept. 30, tn| - al, prob. Which he declared his will to be ‘ DIED. people ull henec- | BRYANT—Oct. 12, WILLIAM J. BRY forth more ¢ ively co-operate ANT. deciding the Fatherland’s dest Services at THE FUNERAL CTIURCH pbaw cane Tho Election Commission of Brondway, 66t% st. ( ampbell Prussian House of Lords, in its rec! tion received by the Minister of I naa him Saturday evening. Army Headquarter . deration of she fran: measure e RE SH t eliminated the clause gra n ex- the . X-) puesday, 3 P.M y in tf vote to men over forty years of , 1 LEVENSON—suddenty, Oct. 12 ge. The period of residence require Ambassador | a parlod of residen auired | ham Ha Al Station, MEYER n an election district was re 1 oLeve ‘ from one year to six months, aud 1 1 p 8 were mad | a ms ut nal franchise was wpenMorr A tricts containing large cit KHAL CHURCH, 1 ee Conservatiy f of the jorman mission. at d from vo ; cording t Wolff Bureau. Vorwaerts, the Socialist batt peal ¢ majority for the measures any ee House of Lords in the form ac M ’ by the Commission, ! camp 1‘ we H 5 acks were launched against my yester- tions opposite the Village of Haspres “Our patrols pushed forward tn the course of the night at a number vf south and north of Doual, We) ‘ollowing ts the| ght continued South of Chateau-Porcien the French || repulsed on tho north hank of the canal last night the remaining enemy BERLIN, Oct. 4 (via London).— North of Laon and on the River Aisne the German forces have withdrawn to | Sapte itty intueaae. Morles's ‘« Dew positions, says the official state- alucct digeetible,— Adri, eral Council, but shali at ail times e heard by the } Council, ‘They shall also have t a right to demand to be heard by th Sale Mon. @ Tues, Reichstag, HOLDEN’S {iit given _ It ie explained by the Wolff Bureau Fith Ave. cor. ittst st. sare in accord with the Emperor's de FLORES,—£DGAR ¥ nunie DEMANDED INSENATE, (Wontinued trom Firet Pass) HELP WANTED MALE, +1 pSsteenhae CURRKS, belief that anything that even has | wor \. we’ l appearance of willingness to « \ pt anything less will be taken as a | Mis » to carry out the purpe which we entered the war and wi + resented with a unanimity and an | ian’ West side Dispevaary all togp tte, * 3 emphasis that will permit of no min. |S 8. 424" . understandi iio t “West Stde D. ary and i GERMANY TRYING TO TURN © i ‘ ‘ TIDE TO SAVE HERSELF. H i yg PENNY A A va. Ly) RE Trade Mark LIBERTY BONDS Furnish the ‘Steam’ which keep our boys going toward Berlin. 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