Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 274, 30 September 1918 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXAMUM Do It Now , Do It Liberally Do It Cheerfully Do It Now ' Do It Liberally . Do It Cheerfully VOL, XLUL. NO. 274-,.V,,,rtAmn Telegram RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1918 23 SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS 6) o) mm ro)QH 7S UUUUL 2

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HEAVIEST FIGHTING OF WAR UNDER WAY Of WEST FRONT; ALLIES GAIN IN ALL SECTORS From North Sea to Meuse ADied Armies Press Through Main German Defenses -Suburbs of Cambrai Entered German Forces Fight Desperately to Check Forward Drive of ADied Armies Over 100-mile Front Important Gains Made by Belgian Forces in Flanders Fortress of LiDe Approached.

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(By Associated Press) On the western front from the North sea to the Meuse the allied armies are pressing vigorously and successfully through the main German defenses. The suburbs of Cambrai have been entered and the allies are closing in on Lille, St. Quentin and Laon. while the French and American drive northward west of the Meuse against the German communication line continues. Germany's hard pressed armies are fighting desperately to

stay the allies' onslaught but the French, British, Americans and Belgiansare fighting their way steadily into the German defense system, the overthrow of which probably will result in a German retirement to the French border if not to the Rhine. The heaviest fighting of the war on the western front now is in progress and the allies on all sectors are moving ahead. - .

In Flanders the Germans have been driven from the hills around Ypres and from formidable Messlnes Wytschaete position. Attempts to defend the approaches to the Lys failed before the attacks of the Belgians and British troops who are driving a wedge between the Belgian coast and the great fortress of Lille threatening both Lille and the submarine bases of Ostend and Zeebrugge. More than 9,000 Germans have been captured In , the Flanders operation-,, - ,. : From south of .the Scarp to the Olse north of Laon the British, French and Americans are crushing the German defenses with -mighty, hammer blows. The outskirts of Cambrai have been entered in the north and west and the fall of this important center ' seems to be only a matter of hours. North of St. Quentin the allies are forging ahead in the region of Le Catelet despite strong German counter attacks. Here the allies are within the Hlndenburg line having smashed through for two miles, on an eight mile front and are outflanking St Quentin on the nort. Between St. Quentin and Laon the French are holding their gains against heavy German efforts made necessary because the French are in position to outflank both St.-Quentin and Laon. Renew Drive In Champagne. In Champagne, General Gouraud has resumed his drive northward toward Important German railway center between Laon and Metx. Most of the hill positions are In his hands and the German communications are in great danger. East of the Argonne the Americans continue their pressure. Before the signing of the Bulgarian armistice the allied troops in MacedoTAe Weather For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Cooler tonight. Probably . frost In north and central portions. Tuesday fair. Today's Temneratura. Noon 67 Yesterday. Maximum 64 Minimum 40 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Unsettled weather this morning: fair and colder tonight with frost. Tuesday fair. General Conditions A storm of small dimensions is crossing Lake Michigan with unsettled weather over the central states but with very little rains. Fair weather is following the storms and the weather will clear during the next twelve hours over this section with frost tonight north of the Ohio river.

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AMERICAN MEXDQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Sunday, Sept 29. Fighting along the new front northwest of Verdun has settled down to the dreary business to which the machine gun hat reduced modern warfare. Progress is being measured by the laborious reduction of small points which are held by small groups of men, but able to paralyse force out of all proportion to the fighting value. From a ' dramatic viewpoint the greatest lighting has taken place in , the Argone forest where it has rer eembled a duel fought to the finish In i a dark room. The density of the forest Is complicated by the strangeness of the ground which resembles nothing so much as the backbone and ribs of a flat fish, with the ribs on one side shortened to half their length and the backbone running north and south. ,

nia had made further substantial progress toward the invasion of Bulgaria, and the Jiberation of Serbia. British and Greek troops are approaching Petrich, near the Struma, while on the north the Serbs are pressing toward Uskub. East of Veles the Serbians are within 6 miles of the Bulgarian border. . Atack Over 100 Miles. As a result of terrific attacks by the allies over five sectors, the aggregate jength PfvWjjlch, Is more tha one rundrear nines, the German positions In France appear to be in imminent peril. From the North sea as far south at the St Quentin region, a tremendous battle is now flaming up with the Belgians on the extreme north, cut- ( (Continued en Page Eight)

WILSON DRAWS FIRST NUMBER IN NEW DRAFT Martin Crosgrove Is Richmond Man Holding First Number Drawn in Service Lottery. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. President Wilson personally today opened the ceremony of drawing; numbers for the 13 million men registered in the new draft He drew the first capsule which contained the number 322. The first hundred numbers drawn follow: 7277, 6708. 1027, 16169, 8366, 6366, 1697, 7123. 2781, 9283, 6147; 10086. 438. 904, 12368. 1523, 7612, 6360, 3748, 6540, 3S08. 1240; 16846. 1907,12521, 6593, 5941, 3073, 13728. 206857, 1255. 14122; 11101, 2132, 10762. 3235, 739, 16657, 6809. 4948, 8772. 7034, 635; 8691, 11060, 8858. 219, 16518, 4287. 12839, 625, 72. 11338. 832, 10491. 14023. 14043, 964, 8637, 2897. 7834. 4723. 10656; 4327. 3505. 348. 7234, 4, 12842. 4482, 9022. 1961. 4886. 16009; 12930. 134, 14319, 12210. 8317. 395, 5240, 12284. 11255, 657, 12618, 3531: ! 14361. 13754. 11464. 13841, 8055. 6777, 7952, 11191. 15760. 13359, 12184, 11232. Martin Crosgrove, 1216 Sheridan street, has the first number that was drawn today by President Wilson. Crosgrove is 41 years old and is married. He is a laborer at Holzapfel's. These ribs represent series of ridges and ravines which are almost perilously steep on the eastern side, but less abrupt and longer farteher west. The ravines follow each other in ceaseless succession along the backbone for about twenty-five miles. To force such a position would be sufficiently difficult if it bad been In the enemy hands only a short time, but much harder since he has been In possession of it for years. - -w,-. ,..-., When the enemy had built a series of stone mansions beneath the hllsldes and constructed approaches of stone-lined trenches, the formidable cahartec of. the task may be understood. But even more formidable than the dugouts and trenches la. the wire woven endlessly among the trees. Hundred .upon hundreds of miles of wire have been strung there since

COUNTY'S CRISIS NOW AT HAND. Wayne county's Liberty Loan campaign has slowed up, due to the fact that the city and several townships have reached their quotas. The obligation, however, of selling $2,400,000 in Liberty Bonds is on the county as a whole ; no unit thereof that sells an amount equal to figures that were fixed as a working basis only, can sit by and decline to be further interested. The Indiana State committee sent the following to the Wayne county committee today: "Wayne county is keeping up with past traditions and the state feels that your quota will be safely in hand by tonight or tomorrow at the furthest. Please dismiss all thought of township and town units. It is well that township and town pride keep various organizations at high pitch, but the State committee can recognize but one unit the county. It remains as much the obligation and patriotic duty of every man and woman in Wayne county to, buy their limit in bonds as it was at the beginning. The duty of the hour is to raise the quota of your county." The county committee wishes again to ask organisations in every township and in the city of Richmond to strive to get Wayne county as a whole over the top. That is what counts. It is to' ALL the citizens that the government is looking and Wayne county cannot be classed among the counties that are at the top, if the pace is allowed to slacken. The lists of nonsubscribers, now being compiled, show that many persons, in both city and out-townships, who are financially able to buy bonds, either declined or could not be seen. The same lists also show that hundreds of persons who did buy, did not do their full duty. They were able to buy more than they did buy. The burden, if they call an investment a burden, they desire to pass to some other citizen who realizes the duty of the hour. Wayne county either must raise its quota NOW or be classed as one of the slow counties of the state. It is up to the people. Go to your bank tomorrow and BUY MORE BONDS. Don't wait to be urged. 1 WAYNE COUNTY LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE.

FOCH PERFORMS FEAT UNIQUE IN HISTORY OF WAR Fights Five Successful Battles at Same Time, All Inter-Related. (By Associated Press) . PARIS,, SepU30Marshal Foch is fighting five battles simultaneously and successfully a feat unparalleled in the history of war. Each battle is bo timed and placed that each army supports another, all forming an indispensable part of the whole effort , General Grant's Idea of a continuous concurrent attack by a 1 multiplicity of forces on many fronts is being realized by the allied generalissimo. There are five battles today; there may be more tomorrow, all interrelated and working as smoothly as the cylinders of a well adjusted automobile engine. All are directed to the same end to wear down the enemy's strength. Marshal Foch alone knows when the allies will strike the decisive blow. The enemy is still fighting well. He is still offering splendid resistance west of the Argonne, but how long can he keep it up? Expert commentators agree that the enemy's withdrawal to a shorte: line, probably that of Antwerp, Brussels, Mezleres and Metz, is imminent Some believe he has hung on too long and that he will have great difficulty In preventing his retreat from degenerating Into a rout. "For Foch, as for Napoleon," says Major de Civrieux, in the Matin, "to conquer Is not to push back the enemy behind the lines previously fixed upon, but gripping him everywhere, to break the integrity of his forces and then hurl him disjointed and destroyed on the road to irreparable defeat. Like all great dramas which have changed the face of the world, the one which Is being played during these fateful hours will bring triumph. Victory is in eight." 15,000 GERMANS IN RUSSIA DISARMED (By Associated Press.) TOKIO, Sept. 30. Fifteen thousand armed Austro-German prisoners from Blagovestchensk, reached Heimo on Sept. 18 and were disarmed, according to a statement Issued at the war office. The statement says that Japanese and Chinese who have been moving along the Amur river entered Blogovestchensk with the main force of Japanese cavalry when that city was taken by the allied forces. ,

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two year ago. Through it have grown weeds and grasses more than three feet high, making the obstacle more serious by concealment ; " Through such a country the Americans have been fighting their way foot by foot Young In years, young in experience and in depressing darkness where death may be ambushed behind any of the-myriad trunks of trees and where the rattle of machine guns Is multiplied and magnified by the forest into a -deafening snarl of thunder, every man knows how small his chances are of being seen by any friendly eyes if he should fall.. Even when the ' Indefatigable stretcher bearers find him, the task of getting htm out. from these malign surroundings Is one of daunting magnitude. How the wounded are being rescued even their saviors scarcely know, but

SPANISH PRESS PRAISES VIEWS OFPRESIDENT Call Wilson s New York Speech, Noblest Thing Since War Began . (By Associated Press) y MAfBsimda Se.AHie newspapers here publish the address of President Wilson at New York In full. In commenting on the speech, the Liberal says:

"The address is the noblest thing that has been thought or said since the beginning of the war. It is the epitome of the general, spirit of humanity and of those Aspirations which dwell in the depth of every conscience and every thought that is free from covetous egotism. Perhaps President Wilson's program may be too idealistic. We may, perhaps, think it not possible to sacrifice all material interests to the moral progress of the world, but we might forget ihat this doctrine, so noble and so human, will be guaranteed in return by the mighty power of the United States and that any imperfections which may be found in practice will be gradually corrected by this ideal. "In any case, the most important fact is that the United States, by President ' Wilson, has just said its last word. ., To it the allies will assuredly be willing to subscribe. President WilBon declares the central powers must be vanquished by force of arms and possibly by the convictions of the (Continued on Page Three) WILSON MAKES PLEA TO SENATE TO VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE BILL (By Associated Pross 'WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. President Wilson today stepped into the breach of the senate fight over the woman j suffrage resolution and in a personal address in the senate chamber asked for its passage as a war measure. - He said in part: ; .. . ' "I regard the concurrence of the senate in the constitutional amendment proposing the extension of suffrage to women as vitally essential to the successful prosecution of the great war for humanity in which we are engaged. I have come to urge upon you the considerations which have lead me to that conclusion." - ; (Continued on Page Eight) their , work although exhausting, is be ing magnificently performed .and Is winning fervent tributes. Stop at Nothing. Notwithstanding everything, ihe troops have gone, through the forest almost as steadily as their comrades outside. Even the Germans are not completely at home in the bewildering complication ; of ravines and ; ridges; Some Americans have actually been captured ; twice and each time have been retaken with their captors. The headway the Americans have been making Is evidently a disagreeable shock to the enemy. During yesterday men belonging to a reserve division were captured after being-rushed back at top speed to meet the expected British attack. .Among . the other troops captured. yesterday were men from the fifth guards division.

Germans Will Utilize All

Forces to Win War, Kaiser Tells People (By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept 30. Emperor William, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam, has sent the following telegram to the Westphalian patriotic society: "Germany is decided to utilize all force to fight this enforced defensive war until a victorious end is secured and the fatherland protected for all time against foreign oppression." COUNTY LOAN QUOTA LACKS $350,000 OF FINAL GOAL Co-operation of Every Township Is Required to Put County on the National Honor Roll. RICHMOND GETS QUOTA Wayne county's quota of $2,400,000 is still a long way from being reached, the estimate at noon today showing the shortage to be approximately $350,000. While Richmond announced its quota reached Saturday night, and while two or three other townships are over thejine, the county as a whole is the one and only unit that can receive official recognition with the government. Official bank figures on Saturday night showed that Perry, New Garden and Jackson townships were the only three that had reached their quotas. Subscription blanks that reached the banks in all parts of the county late Saturday, Sunday and today, but which have not been officially reported, show that Boston, HarrJspAWnslon.. Center ;.id; ,Qren townships, also have reached their quotas. It is possible that one of these will be a few thousand dollars behind tonight when official returns are in, but the deficit will be cared for before tomorrow night. The state committee, as stated elsewhere, has cautioned Wayne county citizens to forget for the moment all township and city lines. The quotas of these amount to nothing if the county as an entirety, does not reach the goal. The state committee is disappointed that Wayne county, always among the first six to report "over" is not yet counted there this time. The county organization expects heavy volunteer subscriptions at all banks in the county, particularly in Richmond, today and tomorrow. In no other way members of the committee say can the goal be reached. The fact that a township or the city has subscribed its quota does not mean that a citizen who has not subscribed is excused from doing his part, and according to those in charge of the campaign the list of non-subscribers is to be thoroughly canvassed. j Railroad Men Subscribe. Sunday was a profitable day for the Liberty loan campaign In Wayne county. In practically every township committees kept at their work with good results, and ninety Richmond business men went into the out-townships on invitations of chairmen in five townships and did valient service. These volunteer parties of Richmond 'not only did excellent work during, the day, but they also stimulated new interest in two townships where , the work was far behind schedule. Railroad employes are subscribing for Liberty loan bonds in liberal sums, and all subscriptions from railroad men in .Richmond and other towns will go to the credit of Wayne county. Superintendent Stimson of the Pennsylvania said today that the campaign among the employes ' was well under way and that a large sum would go to the county's credit. During the last Liberty loan campaign the railroad subscriptions in the county amounted to $50,000. The railroad employes are trying to make even a higher record this time. Notice to Land Owners and Farmers. The City of Richmond has again demonstrated its patriotism by going (Continued on Page Three) im This organization had a taste of American fighting capacity at Belleau wood and recently fought in Flanders. Men of another reserve division which had been rushed hither from Mulhausen also were taken. . . Enemy Withdraws. Not only was yesterday's fighting extremely cheering, but there were indications of considerable withdrawals by the enemy, showing his intention to shorten his line. Romagne, where it was expected the Germans would stand, was reported in flames. Later it became known that the enemy had evacuated Vilosnes, after having blown up the buildingB with mines. The bridge across the Meuse at that pointnas been destroyed. AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. Sept 30. (Morning Reuters)

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allies and the first break in the alliance of the central powers has come. Terms laid down by the allies were accepted by Bulgaria and hostilities between that nation and the allied powers will cease. The allied terms, as reported from semi-official sources included the demobilization of the Bulgarian army and Bulgarian withdrawal from allied territory. Far reaching results probably will ensue from the signing of the armistice, the first step toward peace negotiations between Bulgaria and the allies. With Bulgaria under allied control the position of the remaining central powers in the Balkans and the near east will be most serious. The main communication line between Berlin and Constantinople will be cut and Austria Hungary .mm m m t m Al T 1-

will be opened to invasion across SMASHES GERMAN DREAM. LONDON, Sept 30. Speaking at the Guild Hall today Andrew Bonar Law. the chancellor of the exchequer, said a Bulgarian convention had been signed by which hostilities ended today at noon. Bulgaria, by the terms fixed, gives up completely the control of the railways,-the chanceUor stated. - "This convention means,! said the chancellor, "that communications between Germany and Tin4 esiTln tHat direction has been cut off and that the Germans' dream of a German middle eastern empire has gone forever." Control of the Bulgarian railways, the chancellor pointed out, gives control of Bulgaria. Alluding to the Palestine campaign Mr. Bonar Law said: "The magnificent success of our armies in Palestine has resulted in the extinction of the greater part of the Turkish army, but something more is going to follow." . PARDONS POLITICAL PRISONERS AMSTERDAM, Sept. 30. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, at the suggestion of the cabinet, has Issued an ukase pardoning M. Stambouliwsky, leader of the Bulgarian agrarian party, and former minister Cbenadieff, leader of the Stambeoffist party, says a dispatch from Sofia. All their political friends who were sent to prison with the leaders, when Bulgaria entered the war, also have been pardoned. The ukase restores all civil and political right and particularly the mandates of those whe were deputies in the Bulgarian parliament. In October, 1915, M. Stambuliwsky was sentenced to imprisonment for life after conviction on a charge of anti-militarism. Is Still Loyal to Allies. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has telegraphed to Emperor Charles of Austria, assuring him of his loyalty to the quadruple allience, according to the Neue Freie Presse, which is quoted in dispatches reaching here. In War-Three Years. Bulgarian representatives agreed to an armistice probably the first step in Bulgaria's withdrawal from the alliance with the central powers a few days less than three years after she entered the war on the side of Ger many. It was on Oct. 8, 1915, that Bulgaria issued a manifesto announcing her decision to cast her lot against the entente alliance. - She had been fifteen months in deciding her course. In the manifesto issued at the time of her entrance into the ranks of the belligerents, the Bulgarian government declared that her trade interests and economic rights "were inseparably bound up with Turkey, Germany and Austria." It was added that Germany had offered Bulgaria in re turn for her neutrality the whole of The outstanding achievement of the American army in the latest offensive undoubtedly was that of its aviators, who have done all that was expected of them and much more ; I Their" commander. Col. Mitchell proudly claims there is" nothing to beat them in the world and It will be ! long before their record of Saturday; is surpassed, with sixty machines downed and .twelve balloons burned without a single casualty.' General Pershing's report on Saturday's operations stated that the Amer icans had "brought down twelve bal loons and more than ' sixty enemy i planes, while less than a third of that number of our planes -are missing.!

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me uanuDe. Macedonia including Uskub, Monastir and Ochrida. , A still greater territorial expansion at the expense of Serbia was said to have been offered as a condition of active military assistance. During the period of Bulgarian neutrality both the entente alliance and the central powers bad made offers to Bulgaria; and Russia, who for years had protected Bulgarian interests, sent an ultimatum to Bulgaria 'early ia-OCtoNSf. TfJlB-S BnlgAriaJreiuaea me ttussian. aemanas. Wanted to be With Victor. - 1 The Bulgarian manifesto said that Bulgaria did not believe in the promises of the entente and that "Bulgaria must fight at the victor's side." It was reported at that time and never denied authoritatively that a secret treaty had been signed between Bulgaria and Germany concerning Bulgarian participation in the war on July 17, 1915. Bulgarian troops invaded Serbia, October 13, 1915. Her entrance into the war led to the overrunning of Serbia, Montenegro and Albania, , by the armies of the central powers. Bulgaria's joining the central powers was one of the reasons that led Rumania to enter the war on the side of the entente late in August, 1916. , The population of Bulgaria was not unanimously in favor of Bulgaria joining the Teutonic alliance. The government took harsh measures against those opposed to the war and those who were friendly to the entente. Late In 1917 reports were current that the military party in Bulgaria was being forced by increasing opposition. Before the allied troops can take over the occupation of Bulgaria It is not unlikely that the Bulgarian military party and Germany and Austria will make determined efforts to keep Bulgaria in the Teutonic alliance, because the secession of Bulgaria, would mean the collapse of German aims in Turkey and the near east, the probable elimination of Turkey from the war and the reconstruction of the eastern front with Rumania taking a leading part. '. ' ; ' ' L ' Blamed Germany. .. - It has been reported that Bulgaria, blamed Germany for her defeat in Macedonia because the Germans bad not sent reinforcements promptly. Since the announcement that Bulgaria bad proposed an armistice, reports have come out of Germany that Teatonic troops were being hurried to Bulgaria. Through Switzerland it was reported Sunday that German troops were being withdrawn from Rumania. Their destination was not given but it is probable they were being moved across the frontier into Bulgaria. Germany not unlikely will make a strong attempt to keep control of the railroad from Berlin to Constantinople, which (Continued on Page Eight) MOVE AGAINST ST.. Quentin. Americans Push Forward " Despite ? . - Hun Opposition. - WITH THE AMERICAN. FORCES NORTH OF ST. QUENTIN", Sunday. September. ' 29. American divisions brilliantly attacked on a front of considerable length in conjunction with the British this morning. ' At nightfall they-were reported to have gained their objectives only by sheer might and after killing large numbers of the enemy who tried to halt them. ' Elsewhere along the front between St Quentin and the sea Important gains were made today and tonight Is Seemed that the German resistance at least for the moment was slackened off." British.' Belgians and America a bad the German on the go all dart. :

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