The evening world. Newspaper, October 15, 1918, Page 1

mec pn ceri gC CAA LEELA TAA ai Rt eres GERMANS REPORTED EVACUATING OSTEND Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ Vad ddd) Copyright, 1916, by Co. (The New __ PRICE TWO CENTS. $1,095,639,000 FOR LOAN NEEDED HERE IN FIVE DAYS: NATION AT HALF-WAY MARK U.S. TROOP SHIP FILLS WITH WATER New York District Must Aver- age $219,127,800 Daily to Complete Its Quota. BIG PLEDGES COMING. | The Press Publishing York World), NEW HINDENBURG SOUGHT TRUCE; ARMY NEAR FINAL DISASTER. (GRUMBLING GERMAN DEFENSE CAN'T QUTLAST 3 MONTHS, WASHINGTON IS INFORMED Empire Reported on Verge of Revo- lution to End Fighting—Chancel- lor Overruled by Military Leader Many Persons Holding Sub- scriptions to Last to Have Use of Their Money. ATHOBOKENPIER Inspectiott “and ~ De- Five days left. Faulty in Opposing Armistice Plea. YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, WEATHER—Fair to-night; fair and warmer Wednesday. rio, [ “Circulation Books Open to An” | 18. 18 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. _ 19 'FOCH’S ARMIES IN FLANDERS" DRIVING TOWARD COURTRAI ——__- ¢ > Fall of Kaiser and Crown Prince Ten Thousand Prisoners and Many Demanded by German Socialists Towns Occupied on the First Day - of New Offensive—Germans Keep Abdication Is Favored Unanimously in Reso-) ee . on Burning Villages in Their lution Adopted by Party Congress. : Z. H, Oct, 15,—The Soctalist congress at Munich has unani- Flight Near Coast. Kalser Nachrichten mously adopted a resolution favoring the abdication of the ani MS. 7 the Crown Prince, according to the Munich LONDON, Oct. 15- on the outskirts of Menin and are within two miles of Courtrai. | Belgian troops and The Allies also are in effective artillery range of the railway WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—It was Field Marshal von Hindeaburg himself, and not the supposedly pacifist Premier, Prince Maximilian, Wil peace terms and seek an armistice, according to advices which re Washington to-day through official sources by way | According to this version, who caused the German Government to accept President of a neutral oo knowing the desperate condition of the In that period the New York dis-| fective Fittings on America trict must raise $1,095,639,000 for the) Hinted at—Arrests Probable. Fourth Liberty Loan. zm: = ‘The country as a wh n the re The Catt maining five days must raise $3,201-] 4 merica f $80,050. {udson River off Pier No. 3 at Ho The necessary dally average fort ken, She filled with water country is $640 000 and for th Kk t morning and New Yort 19,127,800: within half an hour. The upper dé The Li ad nd superstructure of the vessel are 120 Broadway offi ly unced # above water 10 o'clock this mornin t “ A Navy Department announcemsnt hus f ed in/at Washington sald a muster null pumseriphons: yaks ’ n had been lost Tais pale Ainnrices ws sellicee ent rumors in Ho: same hour yes he m IN ween thirty and forty $649,220,450. The gain in twenty-four | ft the America's crew had hours was only $55,140, The over n tr n the boiler room and Jrowned A Board of Inquiry whost night gain was $2 Thus the official fi composed of es continue to show only a & progress, There) wit an investigation. iy encouragement owever, in al< ged faulty . fittings statement Aiver at issued to-day by i holding large subserip' upon which the many jal payments ha ini T 4 learned to- not been made, steam pipe on The reason the initial pay j t the lives of two withheld is that the sut 8 ers wore injured, No not waa to lose interest oh ba 7 accompanied to-day’s money betwe at subscrip-| na tion and t whioh the bonds | © other theor put forward so far When bogin to Lsbaee bE M 1 seg was opened initial p n to come IM] i onally authorities is the next few] tention: of e America, according to ts have sailed for France uy : f 8,000 troops. t od between 200 ' ; 00 w aboard, in addition to vested mone x : about 800 men row of 1,200 interost nother encoura pointed ou the la is the fac at at 5 of the banks and « of (tin receiving subscriptions a g iene them 1 grou Y t ss which . poured 1 p 5 the Amertea the « qu J ady Derricks Subserip| $29,170 the scene r An the ven Aled ' w 1 A Cent ae aid hay Unie ) ' In, Norfolk and W pa Freeport (Tex.) Sulphur Co r merican Agricultural Chem to the American Agrivutt ta service, and is 22, merly was one of th: payi..of the (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) —————— ten dg thane "ahs rant Advied IBERTY "BONDS i Ke who ois nett their Don’t. t aell—Go to Sway—Advt, tt) German Army himself better than any “| stocks of munitions of war, von Hindenburg insi: }in the light of a true names were) ,| full agreement that in| civilian, of raw material and especially the replenis that there is now no supply exh { fe applica- sted u tion for an armistice Prince Maximilian is said to have resisted strongly, di conservative { autocrat, only | by the majority of the War Council which were pre | of the German This is pointed to as the explanation of why the German note in | response to President Wilson’s inquiries was { by Dr. Sol | Minister for Foreign Affairs, althe | respondence. From the same source is cabled a prediction that the German defensive cannot be continued without a debacle for more than three months at the outside. This statement, from a well informed neutral source regarded as semi-official, is based upon belief that a great revolution is impending in Ger- ug 1¢ Prince had initiate, | atGhambers: A t Direct Fe AN arORs RIBSE| 6 ee the majority of the people being determined to have Distribution of the Is in iy ancestry was) Peace at any price. district, He pointed out the fact ne offices of | President Wilson will let his decision regarding the Germa great financial institutions is afternoon) manoeuvres sink into the minds of the Austro-Hungarian people before us under| sending his answer to their ¢ It was indicated to-day that it would be some d | ident replied to the Austrian throne. By th | the people of that country would have time | the fact that they are now fighting primaril autocracy—and it is vonfidently believed | vail the though nt. Practically vernment’s appeal over lern t relish tuation © CHIFFON VEILS URGED » Turkey [ip erae bash ate rat ee ee tnt BY OORELAND. 10) SLOP eae ‘ INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC are constantly growing ¥ 1 ; litieal eondit partie vik i | Uneonditiona ne to Wea many was nter d military o 4 plute surrender, they said, can the enemy now prevent the termin ng evidence of his defeat—inyvasior | g erman | | Military opinion appeared to be in in enunciating| afeguards ent om sand Al olute agencies to b nistica condi-| up only| Ma The question of the a | employed in traming 4 tions naturally will when Germany has complied with the les Van come t We n W (Continued on aaa Page.) a sporking class dens tof lL 2 Misiafh nates ; Best— t Racing Entries on Page 2 Min ihe er |ELECT DUCHESS IN LONDON. | J cal boards out of 4,343 im the Lindioih col inion pody-bulluias—agre PERSHING SENDS TANKS — TO BREAK THROUGH GERMAN DEFENSES IN MEUSE SECTOR ; Ge wc it Satisfactory Progress Made in the Attacks To- ing a stormy night, according to a Dutch frontier message to the Day Following Gains in Battle Lasting All Day Yesterday. | from Lille to Thourout by way of Courtrai. This means that the Allies dominate the connecting link between the German troops around Lille and those in the Ostend sector. Several of Germany’s largest torpedo boats recently left Zee- | Central News Agency. The German warships were filled to their capacity with sol- diers and proceeded for Germany. The Germans also are re- N. ! MERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, ; WELT EE AN ae . ported to be evacuating Ostend. Oct. 15 (A: iated Press). —Tanks were brought into action by ¢t tier a ; ais ; a A tok vay through the enemy wire entang OFFENSIVE DIRECTED BY BELGIAN KING. bith . | In the Flanders offensive, which began yesterday under the direction “t of the g of Belg ¢ 5, icked 01 tan ) he of the Americans was. satisfactoi The Germans| f King of Belgium, the Germans, attacked on land and from the sea, ready to contest th und as stubbornly as they did] Were thrown back more than six miles on a front of about thirty-tive rda enemy artillery was being used freely to hold the Aieri- mile Belgians, Britisn and French participated in an assault between ¢ ut the Yankee gunners were doing much to break down the Ger- Dixmude and Wervicy, More than 10,000 prisoners already have been nan resistance. taken Units of the Second American Army, which began operations on} Roulers was captured early in the fighting, and the Belgians pushed Oet. 12 under command Mf Major Gen, Robert 1. Bullard, to-day te) four mites to the eastward, occupying Iseghem. At the same time, the pullsed a German rald-on thelr posttiog | British reached the northern outskirts of Menin, less than four miles ALL DAY BATTLE YESTERDAY. ee ss - 7 ees i‘: From east of the Meuse to the vicinity of Grand Pre, American] MOT OE COUFEONE Ff af . , 7 3 A British monitor entered Ostend harbor and bombarded the de- es yesterday chopped a seriés of fre hes in the German ii ‘ ‘ their swinging Mows at the enemy from early morning fenses of that enemy submarine base. It is rumored the warship was afternoon feeling out ca mike po: eee ee to ‘ ante ne - " ‘ Sart a ' datneay ‘ | against Ostend and Zeebrugge. ne liberation of the villages o! and. IRs Srna est ics ee determination, tei Gestion ee Cortemarck, Cite St. Joseph, Hooglede, Beveren, Rumbeke, Bey- (Continued on Second Page.) them, Quekene and Winkel St. Elio was announced, The French took Roulers by assault, The Belgians then advanced | 1 classified 8 1 total depth of ten kilometres—more than six miles~reaching ihe out- ALL 18 10 4h MEN eo si slice aa pl eevee kiris of Lendelede and capturing Iseghem, A great number of civiliasis s aed oneral) Were released. o continue the fofinite The Germans se ¢ to Roulers, Cortemarcn, Hooglede and Gils. | SOON 10 RECEIVE: of the Getober draft culls) Numerous explosion irred in Roulers. | pili ts ee vicar na special n the attack th 1 War Office announced : \the capture of Capelle, Le nd Moorselle, British | troops reached outskirts of Men STONES MORGAN LINER ON FIRE. | [seems Reported Vintering an At- waa et meicvazsc’ * FRENCH WIN NORTH OF LAON; tion AN ATLANTIC T 1 | tranis Rapit—tnthuenza Sil Jose senmer vs vive we} CROSS AISNE IN CHAMPAGNE = | | Holds Up October Call z i k | ] | WASHINGTON, Oct, 15 fi Bot ie Haig Reports That American Troops Co- : : ee operating With the British Cross the Selle ; : ‘ River and Bring Back Prisoners. | ' t PARIS, Oct. 15.—French troops have taken Barenton Cel, six i t ' 500 GIRLS FLEE E niles north of Laon, and have crossed the Aisne River west of Grandpre, FIRE. in the Champagne, sei the towns of Olizy and Termes, the War | ts Uacape Prom Sisth Bloor, ()ilice a ced fa i f and None Ie Inigers Marshal Foch in new stroke in Flanders is driving a formidable : between the German bases of Bruges and Ghent in Belgium and ‘ t ¢. The effective mar ich King Albert carried out q ‘ iiiack Monday ha r widened the xe. a sine re ae hi | irmy of Gen, Plumer on the right wing of the allied Maret Crowder a la pat noke,| advange is now or hree miles from the important railway junction of ) Y | fleatio ne United Statets” will be ) Courtrai, The French capture of Roulers, the important railway june- | cotmplete, ee wwewn tion east of Ypres, is a serious loss to the Germans, | LQNDON, Oct, 15.—American troops orgpawol crossea (as Seiic er Heports to-day snowea nas ove 60 years