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YORK, Oct. 26.—The Ameri-

fcan progress, north of Verdun toward Vhe Luxemburg gateway out of France, V^has been the most important result of this week's .fighting along..*west 'tfront.

By capturing Bourgogne wood, which lis the northern continuation of the Ar«onne masaif, the Americans have itnade a pocket pf the German front west of the Meuse. The salient is ^smaller in size, but similar In formation to the St. Mihlel salient. i€ Qeneral Pershing's immediate objective is thus to duplicate, west of the Meuse. the tactics he so successfully employed at St. Mihlel. When this operation is concluded, the Amerleans "will be in possession of Buzancy, jfthe only large village remaining west of the Meuse and south of the great communication center of Stenay, opposite the Luxemburg border. ,1

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The difficulties encountered by £he Americans in this week's fighting have been severely felt, but they hfive not ^deterred General Pershing from pushing the combat along his entire front, which has now been extended 30 miles. '/The Americans have but little further to go before the 'fet. Knaiy high road

into Luxemburg and the Metz-Luxem-burg railway are made useless to the Germans by long range bombardment.

On the rest of the west front. Von Hindenburg's resistance is again stiffening, pre-umably because Berlin bev lievea peace negotiations may be assisted by a demonstration that some .defensive power still remains in the

Gorman army. This, is a dangerouse policy to play, however, in view of the progress by 4b* Americana toward Luxemburg.

Catastrophe la Probably,

If the Germans remain clinging to any considerable area in France and western Belgium, when the Americans get to St. Enay, a catastrophe is certain to overtake Hindenburg's efforts to get his army back home throi|gh the sole remaining gateway across the Meuse via Liege and Namur. Von Hindenburg's reluctance to hasten his retirement to the German border, therefore, contains & greater hop* lor the allies than for the kaiser.

The sudden development of an allied attack this week along the Italian front has been followed by reports from various sources that AustroHungary is preparing to demobilize her armies. This can only mean unconditional surrender on the ^art of the Hapsburgers. The abandonment of hostilities by Germany's chief ally would make Berlin vulnerable to attack by an allied force operating through Austro-Hungary, with the Bohemian frontier as a base. Bohemia is the national center of the CzchoSlovaks, whose independence has been recognized by the allies. A movement against Berlin via Bohemia, therefore, could count upon the enthusiastic assistance of the Czechs, and would have

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MAN AGENTS Mf CAMPAIGN FOB TRADE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—German agents, inspired by the recent prospects of an early peace, have resumed operations on the South American west coast, it was learned through Latin-American diplomatic channels today.

The Germans are assuring the South Americans that German manufacturers soon will be able to supply them with various wares at before the war prtcos, and are urging importers of the various republics to buy lightlv in the United States and allied countries. The Germans are declared to be intimating that native firms that have supported the enemy trading list of the United States, and the British backlist will be discriminated against by the German commercial and financial interests.

Puzzling cancellation of orders for cotton piece goods placed in the United States by Brazilian buyers have been traced to German propaganda.

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AMERICANS IN ADVANCE GAIN VANTAGE POINT

fkn. Per«hing'» Progress Uforth. of Verdun Most Important Develop' meat of the Week.

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TETtnn "HAUTSS—Unsettled today cooler tonight. INDIANA—Probably rain today unsettled tonight and cooler Monday fair.

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Out of It All There Is Nothing Definite to Indicate "Beal Condition of Empire.

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 26 Reports of preparation for demobilization of the Austrian army of German newspapers openly discussing the possible abdication of the kaiser and of the reichstag being informed that Germany really intends to carry out President Wilson's 14 peace principles, came out of the central empires today together with advices indicating the kaiser's government is fearful of committing itself further by answering Wilson's latest note before the allies state their armistice terms.

German newspaper# are editorially debating whether it is necessary for the kaiser to abdicate to insure peace, according to information received here. An official dispatch from Vienna also reached this city in which it was asserted that preparations were being made to demobilise EmperOr Karl's armies.

Messages from Berlin quoted Foreign Secretary golf as having informed the reichstag that Germany repudiates the suggestion that it has no intention of honestly carrying out Wilson*» principles.

Germany, s&i^ Solf, intends with loyalty, justice and complete fairness, to fulfill Wilson's program. A republic was openly demanded in the roiolistag by Herr Dittman in the first speech made by him since his release from jail, said a dispatch to the Hague. Meetings have been held by independent socialists all over Germany to agitate for a republic. /.

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WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Oct. 26.—Clear weather has opened a netv menace for the Germans defending the Valenciennes positions.

Great numbers of British airmen, practically immune because of the inadequacy of the enemy's aerial protection. today showered enormous quantities of high explosives on the Germans in that region.

Wit IS AT CAW

Private C. Bert Compton died at Camp Jackson. Columbia, S. C., at 9:45 o'clock Saturday evening from pneumonia, following an attack of Spanish influenza, according to a telegram received by his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Shipman, 612 South Third street. His wife, Mrs. Lora. N. Shipman, was called to Camp Jackson several davs ago.

Private Compton was sent to Camp Taylor on July 22 and was later transferred to the camp at Columbia, where he was placed in Battery F, 112th re'giment of the motor corps. Besides his wife he is survived by a father, Dudley Compton. of Terre Haute. The body will be brought here for burial.

WILL END ALL WAR

NEW YORK, Oct 26.-"This "war will end in doing away with all war forever, and in that respect it is not an unmixed evil," Major General J. Franklin Bell, commander of the department of the east, declared in an address today when he opened a "drive" for the collection of used phonograph record* £or the soldiers in France. "Nothing in the .way of liberty has ever been won except at the point of the sword the masses have never wrested anything from the classes ex* cept with the bayonet. "Under the command of the Moiloch of atrocities, the kaiser, the German army has acted on the principle that anything it did was right, nothing it did was wrong. But the holocaust is now approaching its end, and with it the end of autocracy. 'Our people will be united by their purpose, and our boys now at the front will come home with a livelier sympathy for the sufferings Of the people of other couaUiea.*'

COLDER WEATHER

TEMPERATURE RECORD, OCT. 2T. 6 a. 5.6 3 p. 71 9 a. m. „...... 59 8 p. m.66

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VOTE FRAUDS WILL HAVE BUT SHALL CHANCE THIS TIKE

Clean Election Decided On By thf people, and They Have the Maehinery to Get It—Stata

Political Gossipt

By 8taff Correspondent.

INDIANAPOLIS Ind^ Oct. 26.— PresiSent Wilson's appeal to tfie voten of Indiana to give him a congress of his own political faith, is sweeping over the state, and political heads here look for the biggest democratic victory ever registered in Indiana.

It is pointed out that Mr. Roosevelt and ex-President Benjamin Harrison called on the people for such a scrvice for President McKinley, and the people responded. It is not doubted that the voters one week from Tuesday will respond to President Wilson and give him a democratic congress for the successful prosecution of the war.

The president's appeal especially finds response among all who have boys in the army. Too, it will strike & responsive chord in the heart of everyone wno has so far upheld his hands iff Winning the war.

Watch fpr Frauda.

.In the coming election the men who attempt to buy votes will run counter to the federal authorities. Congress passed a law last week giving the federal court* absolute, authority in punishing vote buyers with a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars and Imprisonment not to exceed one year. This law applies to me who buy votes for candidates for federal offices. However, it will be impossible for vote buyers to excuse themselves before the federal authorities on the ground that they were merely trying to Influence the voter for or against some local candidate .,

The new Taw wTTT give the wSvernment a strong hold over such party workers as those who were indicted at Evansville after the election in 1916. It was shown in the federal courts that the republican leaders at Evansville used forty-five hundred dollars on election day in paying the colored voters who had been organized in what were known as "rallying committees." The new law will absolutely knock out ,the plans of the republicans at Evansville to form "rallying committees" if they should decide to attempt to repeat their trick of 1916. It is more than likely that it would reach the county committees that have been in the habit of employing hundreds of alleged messengers to work on election day. More than three thousand messengers were employed at three dollars a head by the republicans liere in 1916.

It is likely that the politicians who attempt such rough work this year will find themselves face to face with government prosecution.

Chairman VanNuys has appointed a committee of prominent lawyers, headed by Frank C. Daily, formerly United States district attorney, to investigate all charges of election frauds and to help in the prosecution of such. This committee has -gone over .the situation very thoroughly, and will be prepared to act. The democrats under the lead-

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COMING WEEK MAY BE WAITS TURNING POINT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 86.—Th. following week will be written large in history as th* turning point in the war.

Out of the council at Versailles is expected to issue a statement of war purposes—allied war purposes, squaring with the terms of peace President Wilson promulgated in his plans and peace utterances. And, from such a statement of unity, it is assumed that the further important thing will develop—agreement for framing an armistice by the military advisers.

The view here is that the seesien at Versailles will find the allies and the United States in accord, with only minor matters to untangle.

Cables today carried the impression that there may be a slight hitch in the program—that the allies will say no more talk with Germany. If Germany has any hope of clinging to Alsace-Lorraine by dickering at the peace table, she is destined to disappointment.

The United States believes the "righting of the wrong"' done Alsace in 1870 can be remedied only by returning trtat territory to France, and will* maintain that stand.

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XLVII.—No. 149. TERRE HAUTE, IND., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27,1918. TWO SECTIONS—20 PAGES.

•TO'ttTf HALL AN'1 MARKET PLACE IN BRUSSELS.

fleer tit reports from the front etate that the milttary evacuation of Brussels, Belgian capital, by the Germans is under way as they flee from Belgium. The Huns are evacuating Antwerp, according to the dispatches. .Brussells

General March Makes Significant Statement on War Progress In Weekly Review.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Four fcundred square miles of territory, long held by the-Teuton'" in th« west, were grabbed from his hands the past week, making a total of seven thousand square miles he has had to relinquish since the tide turned against him July 18.

General March, chief of staff, pointed out this significant fact today in a review of the week's military" operations, addeding that the big coal belt of

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orthern France had been rescued exfor a tract of five miles square lying east of the Escault.

At the same time, he revealed that, following out its policy of relieving older officers and assigning them to useful tasks in this country, the war department has approved the return of Generals Bundy, Edwards, Cameron, McMahon and Buck—all of whom have made enviable records abroad. They had done "splendidly," he said. And. further inquiry about1* the department indicated that their return to important training posts in this country was no sense a reflection on their records, but rather a recognition of the fact that they were strained by the grind of the A. E. F. work and would probably be more serviceable here now than abroad.

General Duncan, hitherto slated for return, is now out of a hospital and ready for active duty wjth the American expeditionary forcqfc General Edward's health is known to have been affected a long time and officers have been surprised that the added strain did not bring on{ a serious throat trouble.

General Buck recently received the D. S. C. for gallantry in action. Bundy distinguished himself while the others, too, have proven their worth in active fighting service.

MAY ALL WEAR MASKS

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. ?«.—The Indianapolis health authorities are discussing the question of ordering everybody, outside their homes, to wear a gauze mask as a preventive measure against the spreading of influenza. This was suggested by Dr. Herman G. Morgan before the order against public gatherings was issued. It is noted that San Francisco has ordered everybody to wear masks and in other cities masks are being used to a more limited extent.

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States public health service, said the epidemic is by far the most dreadful calamity that has ever befallen the state of Indiana.

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400SQUAffi MILES LOST NEW-BORN DEMOCRACY BY HUNS IN ONE WEEK PROCLAIMED BY SLAVS

Sixty-Five Million of OppressW People of Middle Europe Declare, Freedom,

PHILADELPHIA,' Oct. 86.-A newborn democracy was proclaimed liere today for the 65,000,000 people of the oppressed nations of middle Europe. Assembled 7Jn Independence kail, America's cradle of liberty, the accredited representatives of these states, rang out defiance to autocracy, aristocracy and imperialism, and promulgated a declaration of independence in the very chamber in which the declaration of 1776 was made ready by the colonists.

To fittingly proclaim that the eighteen Slav- states of the German emperor's once subservient Mittle-Europa house united under a banner of their own, the mid-European Uni^n had a new liberty bell cast, as well as a new national flag, which was unfurled, alongside the Stars* and Stripes on the roof of Independence hall.

As the new bell pealed forth its chimes of liberty for the Slav nations. Professor Masaryk, president of the mid-Kuropean Union, read the declaration from the steps of America's birthplace of freedom. Previously the document had been signed by the representatives of the pew federation composed of Czecho-Slovak. Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Jugo-Slavs. "Liberty for all the world and all the inhabitants thereof," is prominently inscribed on the new liberty bell, which Is a replica of the bell which rang out Attftrica':, declaration.

NEW STREET CARS TO BE AGAIN DELAYED

The first lot of the new street cars for use in this city will not be ready for shipment from sk Louis before Nov. 15, according to axommunication received by General' Manager E. M. Walker, of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company, Saturday, from F. A. Richards, salesmanager of the, American Car company. ..

Mr. Richards explains that the production in their Philadelphia mills is being held up by the influenza epidemic, and that in one shop they have as many as 1,600 men out at one time. Ten of the trucks for use in the Terre Haute cars will be shipped from Philadelphia on Oct.

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quire ten or fifteen days for these to reach St. Louis. This will make Nov. 15 the earliest possible date at which the completed cars can be shipped from St. Ltoui*

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Brutal Huns Are Fleeing From the Belgian Cities They Have Occupied Four Years—Day of Reckoning at Hand

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MIAN CAR HITS TRUCK ON CROSSING

Highlander, a Limited Car From Indianapolis, In Wreck Saturday. At Seelyypy,

Th« fafgfttander, the Halted Interurban car from Indianapolis to Terre Haute, due to arrive here at 5:30 p. m. Saturday afternoon, was wrecked at Seelevville, when the car crashed into a heavy automobile truck which had driven onto the track. The driver of the truck was the only person injured.

According to an eye witness of the wreck, the interurban car came down Miller's hill and into Seelyville at a terrific rate of speed, and at the same instant the truck from the cross road leading south and drove onto the track. The truck was hit with such force that it was turned completely arounu, but the driver struck to his seat, and thus probably prevented himself from being seriously injured.

The car was thrown from the track and ran across the sidewalk and into a yard on the north side of the street. It was crowded with passengers and it is regarded as miraculous that it remained right side up, thus preventing injury to a large number of persons.

The truck driver was Carl F. Allen, of Greencastle. He was brought to the city in the Hickman ambulance and an examination showed that his shoulder had been painfully wrenched and that he Was suffering from a cut in his scalp. The injuries are not serious. The interurban car was in charge of Motorman Earl Runyan and Conductor E. R. Duncan.

SUICIDES WHEN TOLD OE BROTHER'S DEATH

Grief ov£r the death "of his brother caused Joseph Brad'-haw, colored years old, of 2010 nftn avenue, to shoot himself in the right temple with a 44-calibre revolver shortly after dark Saturday evening, causing instant death. A telegram delivered to Bi»adshaw a few moments before the shooting telling of the death of a brother in Clinton, Ind., is said to have been the cause of the suicide. Brad-, shaw is survived by a wife and twochildren The body was removed to the Green morgue and Coroner Garrigus notified. The funeral arrangements have not been made.

PAPERS CUT DOWN

The Tribune today is reduced in size at the request of the government. All papers are under the control of the federal paper and pulp board for the duration of the war, and a stipulated amount is alloted on the basis of paper used the first,halt of the year. The Tribune is required td cut its size for today to meet this condition.

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WITH fHTfe AMERICAN IN FRANCE, Oct. 26.—The total Oerman casualties inflicted by the Amer* ican first army in the past month wer« estimated tonight at mora than seventy thousand.

The Americans fcavt'elijjrgei thirty divisions and have decisively beatsn three of the existing guard divisions.

NEW YORK, Oct 26—The little band of Amerioans that attacked whea ordered to fall back, that July oav on the Marne, not onlj changed the whole tide of the war, but started a train of events that have crowded a- year of history into a few months.

Since that time Bulgaria has been' forced to quit. Turkey's military power Jhas |cett broken in Asia Minor, Germany has undertaken the greatest retreat in history and both these countries and Austria-Hungary fctid Turkey liav* sued for peace.

The more localized advantage* won are legion. The allies have taken 40,000 prisoners. They have aemroyed 100 balloons. They have recovered approximately seven thousand square miles of territory in J'rance and BcW guim twenty thousand square miles in, Serbia, Albania and Montenrgro, and 15,000 square miles in Asia Mittor. •.

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In France the important cities of Lille, Tourcolnp. 'Roubaix, Douai, Lefts,: St. Quentin, Cambrai, Peronne, Laon, Soissons, Nay on, 1a Basse, Bapaume, St. Mihlel, Chateau-Thierry, Grand Pre, Sissone, Vouziers, r^a rere, L» Cateau, Juniville, Craonne, and Ma*/ chault, have been re-occupled. Valenciennes is practically in the hands of the British. Kheims and Verdun have been freed ffom lour years' Artillery domination.

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The St. Mihiel salient has been wiped out, the great St. Gobain massif recov* ered, the Hindenberg line and lesser defensive systems shattered, and the Argonae massif won. -I |j|

Belgian Coast Cleared. 'Ij.

The Belgian coast has been entirelv^*£ cleared of the enemy and the Belg^fC-**!* cities of Bruges, Ostend, Zeecrusse^ Roulers and Courtrai recaptured.

Ghent and Tournai are within the 'f allied grasp. "*c In Belgium they have progressed about fprty miles eastward from NieuPort.v

Three-fourths of Serbia, four-fiftha of Albania and a large slice of Monte-* negro have been repatriated. The im- li. portant Serbian cities recovered ar«

Nish, Uskub. Veles. Prilep, Krushevo,'' Debra, Ishtip, Kochana, Kratovo, Tl

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HOONEY APPEALS CASE *1 TO HIGHEST COURT

t. 26.—The life of

WASHINGTON, Oct Thomas J. Mooney was placed In the hands of the United States supreme court through Mooney's petition review of his case.

It is the first murder case of

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wide interest since the Leo Frank peal three years ago. Mooney, San Francisco labor was found guilty in connection with the San Francisco dynamiting on i morial day, 1916. n'

After the trial it was contended tha* one of the principal stafe witnesses, had perjured himself and Mooney's attorneys claimed to have uncovered new evidence which ,wpq.Id .insure Moonfjf his liberty.

The CallfBrnTa supreme" cburt. however, refused Moonev a new trial, holding that even though there were fra in the first court the supreme coo. could not go behind the record of the^n^ case sent up from lower courti.

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COPENHAGEN, Oct. 26.—The Lokal Anzieger declares It learns that Germany intends to reply to President Wilson's last not*.

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