The evening world. Newspaper, November 9, 1918, Page 1

c \, lands of the ey ‘ mated the American troops in their — PRICE TWO CENTS. Copyeiat 1, 1018, by | [* Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | ail The Press Publisaing York World), — ___NEW YORK, SATURDA LIGGETT’S AMERICAN i DRIVES NEARLY FOUR MILES; TAKES HILLS EAST OF Pershing Reports _ Scene of Great Battle of Verdun| in 1916— Takes Several Towns) ” * and Villages. WASHINGTON, Nov. communique sent last evening. American aviators carried’ out behind the German lines. were destroyed. One Following is the text of Gen. shing’s communique: “This afternoon (Friday) and@ American units operating under the command of the Ist Amerlean | Army, wrested from the enemy his last hold on the heights east of the Meuse, memorable as tac the great battle of Verdun and drove him back into th Woevre. Per French scene of n 1916, low “On a front of 14 kilometres (near- ny nine amties), we advanced to a| depth of six kilometres (nearly four| miles), taking Lissey, Brehe vulle, Peuvillers, Damvillers, Flabas and other towns and villages, Eeurey, | “Along the line of the Meuse, from Villefranche to Wadelincourt, lively artillery and machine gun combats have taken place during the day. additional guns many more machine rifles and a large airplane workshop, captured during our advance west of the Meuse, have been reported. “In the Woevre, on the front of the Becond American Army, our pa- | active, Six of heavy calib guns, 42,000 trols were very capturing pfivoners in the of several wuceessful enterprises near Lake La- chausse, “Despite adverse condi- tions, our aviators, flying at a height | of 100 metres, carried out a number et reconnaissance missions, ‘They bombed and machine-zunned con centrations of enemy troops in the Baalon and Remoiville and blew up| an ammunition dump at Four enemy balloons were and three enemy airplan down during the day Planes is missing. nen NO LET-UP IN DASH OF AMERICAN ADVANCE; course weather Gibercy. | destroyed were shot One of our MAKE MORE GAINS 10 DAY us New York's perishable food supply. hs Marine superintendents of the va aa rious railroads pleaded with the Stars and Stripes Have Replaced | Workers to return, at a late meeting last night, and warned them that German Flag Over Dun—City unless the tie-up is broken Navy Sacked Before Evacuation. men will be called upon operate ple, s -|the tugs and lighters, This failed WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY] ,0°pring them back, z > SED. "| N ) 9 } ON THE WERAN FRONT. Noy Although the railroads and thelr (Associated Press).—The fact that|frejgnt lighter equipment are| Germany had sent armistice dele inder Government control and the gates within the Allied lines has not| Naval Reserves are available for the slowed up the American operations.| work, the local administrator is re- From the heights east of Dun-sur Meuse to Sedan the same dash that} has” character! heir work sinc the beginning of the offensive ani, day, operations yesterday and t The Americans east of the Meuse continued their advance to-day @ontinued on Second Page.) | with ext Victory on the 9.—Wresting from the enemy his last hold on the heights east of the Meuse is reported by Gen. Pershing in the Large captures of munitions are noted bombing and machine gum attacks Four enemy balloons and three airplanes American machine is missing. FREIGHT EMBARGO ORDERED IF HARBOR ~ STRIKE CONTINUES Overseas pad Sacaiies andl Food for City Tied Up— Appeal to Workers, An emburgo ts to be placed against all freight bound for Manhattan Is!- ght as a result of the strike Railroad Port and Terminal Workers’ Union, which and to-nig of 700 members of the; has stopped the movement of freight by barges and lighters ‘th Railroad Administration nounced that one more effort would an be made to induce the men to return to work before the emburgo goes into full effect. be at 7 o'clock This will to-night, when the night crews are due to report for work. At the strikers’ headquarters in White Eagle Hall, Jersey City, it was declared that the men will not return to their jobs under any circumstances unless a ruling on their demands is obtained direct from W. :hington. Announcement by railroad officials that Director McAdoo has ruled against them has been ig- nored by the men, ‘They say the ruling must come direct, but that they will abide by whatever decision is made On the ruling, or whatever other means may be found of ending the ie-up, depends the transportation of vast quantities of overseas supplies pur Army and the Alli local Gen. as well luctant to involve any labor dispute, uniformed men in regardless of the | issues involved, The t-hour day, present men are demanding with payment for the working day of twelve hours, them avt. MEUSE a basic | "GERMAN WOMEN TO GET VOTE | WITH MEN BY SUFFRAGE PLAN | AGREED ON IN THE REICHSTAG Majority Groups to Present Proposal for Equal, Direct, Secret Ballot for All 24 Years Old. ERNE, Switzerland, Nov. 9.The Groups forming the majority B of the German Reichstag, says a Berlin message, have agreed to present at the approaching session of that body a plan for elections to the Reichstag and to the Lower House of the Confed erated German States by equal, direct, secret ballot, following the principles of proportionate representation, and aii without distinction of sex. | The voting age is to be set at twenty-four years. Proportionate representation in the Reichstag would give the Social Democratic Party, on the basis of the last Reichstag elections, a large increase in membership in the legislative body. MAUBEUGE TAKEN ®sS7socown canes, BY HAIG; FRENCH See and Vaga and People Have She Kerosene or Candles. 19 (Corre RCHANGEL, Oct torre- spondence of the Associated British nae Last of Great Press).—Abject terror that ees Dhedag oy | the Bolsheviks are coming back to French Fortresses on | Kill and rob reigns among the Northern Front. | Peasants along the Dvina and Vaga Riverr, back of the Allied LONDON, Nov. 9—In his report} les: In many places they have already n their friends shot and bayonetted or brutally killed by slow torturing methods when suspected of aiding the Allies un 4 Marshal Haig of the fortress} to-day I nounced the capture yards and 624) by the G of Maubeuge Divisions: Hellish: (roops have made| one village, it was related to good progress south of that town and] 2 CoFFespondent, — Bolsheviks ae eee ae eit he AvescecMay-| compelled three peasants to dig steals their own graves and jump into North of Tournal the British aro] ‘hem to “try them out.” The established on the east bank of the| Peasants were shot a moment |Scheldt, about Herinnes and Her-| /ater. This was done, the people chem. These two towns are about| ‘Maree, by White Guards a Meanwhile poverty is increasing. limaksidkonnw wae been 1 on a! There is wo kerosene or candles, and the peojfle have gone back wide front Mouth of Maud he British are| three centuries, using a primitive pushing eastward and are well be-| ron, lantern in which to burn \ birch faggots for light yond the Avesnes-Maubeuge road, (Maubeuge was the last im- | portant French fortress in the hands of the Germans, Before the war it was considered a fort uarded ALLIES IN SARAJEVO, WHERE WAR WAS BORN sand & ress of the first cla | the Namur-Charlerot route into | m | vrance by the way of the Stubre | Troops Enter City of Bosnia in | River, The town ituated on | Which Austrian Archduke | both banks of the Sambre and | Was Slain | was founded in the Seventh Cen- | oer {tury Several famous battlefields | SALONICA, Nov. 9.—Allied troop : have entered Sarajevo, in Bosnlu, a+ of French wars prior to 1800 aro | cording to » off 1 statement issued in close proximity to Maubeuge. |to-day by the nch Headquarter Maubeuge was taken by the Ger- |here. it was at Sarajevo that Arch | mans after heavy fighting with |duke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was |} the British and French late in assassinated just prior to the outbreak | August, 1914, The town is within |f the great war, | a few miles of the Belgian border 7 — ‘d | south of Mons, which is thirteen | Wealthy Women Provide for sol- | dier miles northward by rail } 1 OSSINING, N. Y., Twenty five prominent We County |} |Mrench Advance Along the Entire | ' PARIS, Nov women have assumed the task of pro: viding comforts for 1,690 soldiers doing French armies : neh armies! auty along the Catskill water supply and the ged sing and Ambassador Jusserand. _ to-day by Secretary Lan- 'BERLIN IN REBELS’ HANDS, SAYS UNCONFIRMED RUMOR Suicide Charge. Tannenbaum, No, 306 Hast 100th Street, who has been in Belle Hospital since Nov. 7, with attempting suicide by drinking fodine, was set free by Magistrate McQuade to-day, Tannenbaum de clartd that he gargled the me for @ toothache. sate =: Racing Results and Entri Frank C. Hall Have City vue and Post-Office Said to Been Set Afire by Insurgents, THE HAGUE, Nov. 9. firmed report was r o-day that insurgents have seized Berlin, set- nw fire to the post office and city hall, charged aa leine incon- Poge 4 jthis morning re ye torward| Aorsee these ane MPA, Pitley J. dean |march alon ent ny the Watlart Sirs Jamel caver, Ute. 3. 1 Office announced to-day Harriman, Mrs, I. M. Splegelberg and ‘There was artillery and machine gun| Mrs. F. C. Bishop. artivity at several points on the front] é during the night French ad Draft Treaty vanced twely niles sterday and| Noy, 9.—Ratificn ou f Mezieres. tlons of the draft treaty between | United States were, ¥, NOVEMBER 9, 1918, CROWN PRINCE af OUT "TOO; GERMANY UNDER REGENCY REVOLUTION GRIPS HANOVER ~ GREAT RAILWAY STRIKE ON; NEW RIOTING IN HAMBURG iRebels Seize didenbure and Other Cities Throughout Northwestern ——— —___ —______—_- Socialist Pressure Exerted on Em- peror, Who Was Ordered to Yield by Noon To-day — First Reply Was Refusal — William Ruled Since 1888. PARIS, Nov. 9—6.15 P. M. (Associated Press) — The abdication of Emperor William is officially announced from Berlin, according to a Havas despatch from Basle. . (United Press ) LONDON, Nov. 9.—The official Berlin wireless Germany—General Tie-Up Of states that the Kaiser has decided to abdicate and the Crown Transportation Threatened. » LONDON, Nov. 9 (British Wireless Service)i-=( Keesttstial Press). —It is rexorted from Amsterdam that a revolution is now | spreading all over wegtern Germany. It is reported to have | reached Cologne. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 9 (Associated Press).—The uprising in | Northwestern Germany, according to the only direct news from Germany, J early to-day, is reported to have General! not attended by serious disturbances. from the Danish border town of Vamdrup say that all is but that further disturbances are reported to have | cities the revolt i | Report | quiet in Schleswig, | occurred in Hamburg sand men atteinpted to overthrow the military authorities from Hamburg, but the city now is quiet. The der have been ordered by the Soldiers’ in Altona, across the Elk German guards at the Danish L Councils to remain at their posts Traveller jently is confined te temporal arriving fr ) the Oth Army Corps, which was recruited in Schles- »m Germany report thal the disaffection appar- vig-Holstein : LONDON, t Noy. 8 (A —A general railway strike has begun in Germany, according to a Copenhagen despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company, quoting Berlin advices to the Social riday, vciated Press Demokraten of Copenhager AMSTERDAM, Novy. 9.—Cases of insubordination occurred on Wed- nesday among the troops of a German naval division quartered at Lok eren, twelve miles northeast of Ghent, according to a report from Sas-Vane | Gent. — a ‘SOVIET UNDER KURT EISNER "RULES NEW BAVARIAN REPUBLIC German Empire Crumbling With Wittelsbach Dynasty Overthrown. PARIS, Noy. 9.—Kurt Eisner, a Munich newspaper man and prom. jinent in Soctulist circles, is the leader of the revolution which has broken out in the Bavarian capital, it appears from information received here, | | Some reports designate him as President of the Bavarian Republic which has been proclaimed. | Eisner, the advices add is organized a cemmittee consi ting of |w rkmen, soldiers and 7 1 in many respects similar to a Russian | soviet. LONDON, Noy. 9.—Germany’ | eae than her war front | “home front” is crumbling even Even the German Empire, formed by a cone (Continued on ond Page.) WOMEN’S VOICE AT PEACE. Javciares it iw not only desirable. ut né for Hepres| inicluded in ference nent at m 5 yut will Every Government to be represented at the peace confe 4 entAtlOn lio empower women to sit at the ses- in the coming peace commission, She! gions, ~y that th Agreements worked Mrs, Car un Catt ba Pw Bee Nat h sued | an appeal*urging organizations to demand repres women's | ence will pe ap pread to Hanover, Oldenburg and other} 18 for another war, | | Prince to renounce the throne, |The German Official Wirelese is the accepted means of the Ger. man Government for broadcasting news to the world, This matter ie | usually sent from the wireless station at Nauen.] | [The above United Press despatch was received in the Evening | World office thirty-five minutes ahead of the Associated Press despatch carrying the oficial communication that the Kaiser had abdicated.) LONDON, Nov. 9 (British Admiralty Wireless),— |A German wireless message received in London the after- {noon of Nov. 9 states: “The German Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, has issued the following decree: “The Kaiser and King has decided to renounce the throne. “The Imperial Chancellor will remain in office until the questions connected with the abdication of the Kaiser, the renouncing by the Crown Prince of the throne of the German empire and of Prussia and the setting up of a regency have been settled. E “*‘For the regency he intends to appoint Deputy Ebert as Imperial Chancellor, and he proposes that a bill shall be brought in for the establishment of a law for the immediate promulgation of general suffrage and for a constitutional German national assembly, which will settle finally the future form of government of the German nation and of those peoples which might be desirous of coming within the empire. “Berlin, Nov. 9, 1918. “*The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden.’ It is reported from Amsterdam that owing to a rush on the banks in Berlin the banks in Berlin have stopped payment. LONDON, Nov. 9.—(British Wireless Service.) | (Asosciated v 3s)—A telegram received from Copen- |hagen from Brunswick by way of Berlin asserts that Em- |peror William’s son-in-law, the Duke of Brunswick and his | successor, have abdicated. The Kai: born 1859, wa Jan. 27, He was the ninth monarch of the House of Hohenzollern, He was the third of that family to guide the |destinies of the German Empire. He married Princess Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Augustenburg, in #881. He was crowned King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany June 5, 1888, | In 1871 Germany had no navy or merchant marine worthy the name. It was through the Kaiser’s demands that both were ralsed ty \ » ty = STE samen \