Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 291, 19 October 1918 — Page 1

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Deny that German Forces Have Caused Greater Devastation than Vas Required by Military NecessityNo Comrr Made by German Press Acceptance Based on jurteen Points Enunciated by Wilson Before Congress on January 8 Austrians Told People Must Decide Own Rights and Destinies.

PRESIDENT WILSON REJECTS PLEA OF AUSTRIA

V.y Asso-i;ito1 Pr"ss) Geneva, Oct. 19 Germany's reply to President Wilson nvill be dispatched this evening, according to information here today from a diplomatic source. Although the German press is prohibited from discussing the matter, it is understood that Germany accepts President Wilson's conditions generally with one evception. She declared that submarine warfare must continue until the war ends. She denies having inflicted cruelties or carried out devastating measures beyond the scope of military necessity.

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AMSTERDAM, Oct.'lO The official text of President Wilson's note to Germany has been received and an agreement ha3 been reached in principal regarding the reply, the Frankfurt Gazette states. The foreign affairs committee, the newspaper adds, has been made acquainted with the definite terms of the reply which it is understood will be handed to the Swiss ministers at Berlin Saturday afternoon or evening. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 President Wilson has rejected the Au t ro-H unarian offer to t conclude r an armistice, and negotiate, peace on principles enunciated by him and has given notice that mere autonomy for Austria's subject nationalities is no longer acceptable; that they must have liberty. ' The president said that the Aus'tro-IIungarian government must satisfy the national aspirations of its own people and that they, the people, shall be the judges of their rights and destinies.

The reply wa3 made by Secretary Lansing yesterday through the Swedish minister In Washington. It calls attention to the tenth condition of pence enunciated by President Wilson on January 8, which says the people cf Austria-Hungary should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonimlst development. The note calls attention to the recognition by the United States ofHhe Czecho-Slovaks national council as a de facto belligerent government and states that this country has also reccgnized the justice of the nationalistic aspirations cf the Jugo-Slavs for freedom MINISTRY IS BLAMED AMSTERDAM. Oct. IS. Before Baron Burian, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, delivered his speech to the Hungarian delegation, Oft. 15, Tourit Michael

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cosed the Austro-Hungarian ministry i with his father. t and the drlegcflon of "being the sole II was unmarried. His parents, muse vt the monarchy's collapse and j Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Spangler, surth pitiable plight in which Hungary j vive. flndK herself," according' tr the Berlin

".elding am Mittag. Premier Wekerle, In reply, declared: i "We have done ro much to bring about peace that we have finally made curFflvcs a laughing stock."

WILL DENY CHARGES. tonight. Sunday, fair and warmer. COPENHAGEN. Oct. 19 Germany's i reply to President Wilson, it is ,a'd by! Today's Temperature. the Poll tikep. v ill deny the prerident' j Noon 60 recusation of German cruelty and do- j Yesterday. clare the Kiibmnrine warfare cannot ; Maximum 59 be ftoppd as long as there is no. Minimum 44 agreement to :m armistice. ! The reply, the newspaper declares. I For Wayne County by W. E. Moore, v lil net reject the president's do-i Proballe showers this afternoon rounds, but v, ill make further nego-jand tonight. Monday partly cloudy Uatlons possible. and wanner.

Unified Allied Diplomatic Action

Cy ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. (!n the Chicago Tribune.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 10 ( Special The term on which Germany will be granted the armistice and eventually the peace for which she has sued will be determined at a grand council of the United States and the allies. Allied diplomatic action, in dealing with the central powers, is to be unified henceforth, like allied military operations. Thi4 conference of representatives of all the nations fighting Germany will be held in Paris or London, probtblv within tbe next fortnight. The allied nations will be ready to ptate their terms concretely as a result of the deliberations of the grand conference, the participants in whitrh will bo advised by Marshal Fcch and v othr military chiefs.

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XCEPTING IN B.WARFA EARL SPAN6LER AT PORT Lieut. Earl Spangler. of Richmond, a pursuit pilot In aviation, died at a hospital in a port of embarkation overseas of Spanish influenza on Oct. 1. His death occurred two days after the transport on which he had made the trip across had reached port. He was taken 11 Ion the boat, and at first it wa'5 though: he would recover. On arrival overseas his condition became worse, and his tfeath followed. Lieutenant Spangler was 2S years oM. He had been in service for a year, attending the aviation schools at Rantoil, 111., and Fort Worth, Tex. He was a graduate of the Richmond The Weather For Indiana by The United States Went her Bureau Fair, continued cool President Wilson -said in his reply to Germany last Monday that guarantees must bo given by the central powers of their acceptance of the allied terms, and that an armstice can be granted orlv under conditions assuring the maintenance cf the military supremacy of the allies. Ho said that such guaiantees and conditions would be determined upon the advice of the allied military commanders. It is in pursuance of this policy that the allies have arranged for the conference, r.t which the views of all the nations fiahting Germany, concerning the . pnishment to be imposed upon the central powers for their crimes, the measure of the satisfaction to be exacted, the guarantees to be required, and the bteps to be taken to I rovent a recurrence cf the world war,

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The text of the note answering Austria-Hungary's request for an armistice, handed to the Swedish minister, is as follows: "Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the seventh instant, in which you trans mit a communication of the imperial.; and royal government of Austria-Hungary to the President. I am now instructed by the President to request you' to be good enough through your government to convey to the imperial and royal government the following reply: "The President deems it his duty to say to the Austro-Hungarian government that he -cannot , entertain the present suggestion of that government because of certain events of utmost importance .which, cccuring since the delivery of hi address of the eighth of January list, have necessarily altered the attitude and' responsibility .of the government of the United StatPS. Among the fourteen terms of peace which the President formulated at that time occurred the following:' " 'X The peoples of Austro-IIun-gary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development.' County Holds Place as One of Top Counties Billion to be Raised in U. S. Two. weeks ago today Wayne county's Liberty Loan quota of $2,400,000 was fully subscribed, the county being the seventeenth in Indiana to "go over the top." Today, the closing of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, found Wayne county still "going over" with a total subscription of approximately $2,160,000, or $60,000 in excess of the required amount. .'-' There were indications that the county's total on the final compilation of bank returns may give an oversubscription of $75,000 or more. The rush at all Richmond banks today was highly encouraging for this result. Tonight Richmond banks will be open and will receive Liberty Loan subscriptions up to the closing hour. There are numerous citizens today who increased subscriptions formerly made, believing that it not only was the need of the hour, but a good and timely business stroke at the same time. There were numerous other citizens who until today were not numbered on the list of purchasers and this list will be increased tonight. One of First Over. Wayne county maintained its place among the top counties of Indiana, being one of the first five of the larger counties in the state to reach its quota and achieving its goal many days ahead of several counties of equal population. Wayne county's total was reached with no large subscriptions, comparatively speaking. The largest single individual subscription was for $30,000. There were two for $25,000 each, several ranging from $15,000 to $5,000 .-aid the great bulk ranged from $50 to $1,000 In Delaware county, of which Muncie is the county seat, there was a subscription of $350,000 from one corporation. Delaware county's quota was not as large as Wayne county's by $50,000, yet Wayne reached its goal with small subscriptions as compared with Delaware. The total subscribers in the county will approximate 9,000 or a trifle less than 20 per cent of the population as based on the census of 1910 which is required by the National Liberty loan organization. The per capita subscription for the county in this loan was about $51, a higher average than that attained in past loans. The average subscription for the 9,000 citizens who bought bonds was over $270. The record that Wayne county made in this loan will compare t'avoiably with any in the state,' a result that reflects the patriotic spirit of the citizenship as a whole. There were many "slackers" in most townships and in the city of Richmond, but their iailure to do their bit did not compromise the country. (Continued on Page Eight) j The terms -then granted to Germany will represent, it is believed, the undivided decision and determination of all the nations arraigned against the central powers. May Take-Away Navy. What the terms will be is of course unknown. Among the allies there is strong support of the proposition to require Germany to surrender her navy, and the supreme war council is in favor of exacting the surrender of Metz, Strassburg and Coblentz,, the strategic beys to Germany, as one of the guarantees. This is further indication of the determination of the allies to enforce the retrocession of Alsace-Lorraine to France and the incorporation of Prussian Poland in an independent Polish state. .-"' The deliberations of the grand council will continue rrf'l Germany sur

WAYNE COUNTY $75,608 OVER ITS LOAN QUOTA

"Since that sentence was written and uttered to the congress of the United States the government of the United States has recognized that a state of belligerency exists between the Czecho-Slovaks and the German and Austro-Hungarian empires and that the Czecho slovak national council is a de facto belligerent government clothed with proper authority to direct the military and political affairs of the Czecho-Slovaks. It has. also recognized in the fullest manner the justice of the nationalistic aspirations of the Jugo Slavs for freedom. "The president is, therefore, no longer at liberty to accept the mere 'autonomy' of these peoples as a basis .of peace, but is obliged to insist that they, and not he, shall be the judges of what action on the part of the Austro-Hungarian government will satisfy their aspirations and their conception cf their rights and destiny as members of the family of nations. "Accept, sir, the renewed assurance of my highest consideration. (Signed) "ROBERT LANSING." In announcing his reply, Secretary Lansing also made public the official text of the Austro-Hungarian note. It follows: (Translation) "Legation of Sweden. "Washington, D. C, Oct. 7, 191S.

German Guns Enter ParisBut Drawn by French Horses PARIS, Friday. Oct. 18 German artillery and German airplanes entered Paris this morning, but they were drawn by French horses or piloted by French aviators. In the Place de la Concorde these tangible proofs of Marshal Foch's victorious offensive are now to be seen. More than fifty cannon, with the mud of the Yser or the Chalk of Chalk of Champagne still clinging to their wheels, are being exhibited to enthusiastic Barisians, Gothas, nearly a score of which proudly flew over Paris a month ago, are now humbly housed around Cleopatra's needle. 'In one of them subscriptions for the Liberation loan are being accepted and sometimes refused momentarily owing to pressure of investors. These I death dealing machines which a few weeks ago sowed desolation ana rum on Paris, now with crumbled wings. I mutely appeal for mercy, like a syni1 bol of Germany's broken power. GASKET PLANTS HAKE APPEALS FOB U. S. Asks Patriotic Men and Women to Help Make Caskets. . Men and women with experience in the manufacture of caskets are needed at once by the three casket factories. The government has ordered the local manufacturers to turn out within forty-eight hours an unprecedented large number of caskets. The government today appealed to the patriotism of men and women, who have worked in casket factories to offer their services at once. One factory alone has to turn out 400 caskets by Monday. The other factories abo are trying to cope -with large orders for immediate delivery. Machine and bench hands, trimmers and coverers are needed at once. Mechanics, male and female, with experience in those lines, are asked to communicate with the factories at once. If they cannot remain permanently, they are asked to help out temporarily. A large number Ofimen! and women will be welcomed tomorrow especially, to help rush the government work demanded by Monday. The ravages of influenza in many parts of the country have brought about a shortage of caskets. The government has taken charge of the j situation and is demanding from the j casket factories that they turn cut j (askets in quick order so that the dead may be buried. Some of the casket companies will work Saturday night: This appeal for workers is a patriotic one. The government has notified local casket companies that nothing but simple coffins can be constructed.

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renders, and thereafter will be merged into the proceedings of the peace conference. ' .. How soon the allies may be called upon to 'present their terms is a matter cf speculation in official circles. Some think Germany cannot possibly hold out another two months, while others believe the fighting will continue well into next year. Result of Allies' Appeals. The decision to hold the conference is the result of the anxiety of the British and French governments concerning the processes of dealing with the Teutonic overtures. The uncertainty as to the replies President Wilson wculd make to Berlin agitated allied countries as well as. the United State3. British and - French statesmen expressed the opinion that it would be well for the aliies'to establish a unified

"Excellency By order of my government, I have the hoifor confidentially to transmit herewith to you the following communication of the imperial and royal government of AustriaHungary to the president of the United States of America: " 'The Austro-Hungarian monarchy which has waged war always and sole ly as a defensive war and repeatedly given documentary evidence of .its readiness to stop the shedding of blood and to arrive at a just and honorable peace, hereby addresses itself to his lordship, the president of the United States of America and offers

to conclude with him and his allies an armistice or! every front on land, at sea and ir the air, and to enter immediately upon negotiations for a peace for which the fourteen points in the message of President Wilson to congress of January 8, 1918, and the four points contained in President Wilson's address of February 12, 1918, should serve as a foundation and in which the viewpoints declared by President Wilson in his address1 of Sept. 27, 1918, will also be taken into account." "Be pleased to accept, etc. (Signed) "W. A. F. EKENGREN, "His Excellency, Mr. Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States, Washington." 2,000,000 tm ARE NOW ACRO SENATE IS TOL Indiana Divisions Arrive Overseas Foe Evacuates 800 Square Miles in Four . Days. 'Rv Associated Press?.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. More than 2,000,000 soldiers now have gone overseas, General March told the members of the senate military committee today at their war department conference. While the conference was in prog ress General- March was notified that the Germans had evacuated the entire Belgian coast tip to the Holland boundary and that it is now in possession of the allies. - The German retirement from the Belgian coast district, General March added, is increasing in breadth and speed. The movement to the rear on the whole he added, is extremely rapid as illustrated by the fact that the territory evacuated in four days totaled more than 800 square miles. To the south in France, the general said, renewed attacks by Anglo-American forces opposite Douai . have carried the allied line up to the hastily constructed German defense system, which follows In a general way the Sensee canal and marshes. No attempt to cross this barrier has yet been reported. General March did not attempt to analyze the military situation on the western front as a whole or to point out objectives of the various attacks. He called attention to the fact that the German retirement starting last week on a 60 mile sector between the Oise and the Argonne, had spread during the week until it affected all except 15 miles of the 250 mile front from the coast to the Meuse. The 84th division, Kentucky, Indiana and southern Illinois, is reported as having just arrived in France. The 38th division. Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia, has not yet arrived overseas. WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES OF EAST OF CAMBRAI, Oct. 18. Tanks manned by Americans trained in England led the assault against the German forces entrenched on the eastern side of the Selle river yesterday. They were faced by German marine divisions which put up a hard fight. According to latest reports the allies are still gaining ground against the desperate resistance of the enemy. At one point the Germans delivered a counter-attack and momentarily gained ground but the tanks passed over and beyond the high ground where the Germans were making their stand and quickly put the enemy out of the trenches. ."' American engineers, working under heavy machine gun fire, placed bridges across the river and then the American and British infantry swept across. The tanks helped to keep the enemy down until the engineers had finished i their work and then went over with the infantry. . direction of diplomatic action as they had created a unified control of milii tary operations. President Wilson has acquiesced in the suggestion. : The "state, department was without 1 any information today indicating when . the expected rejoiner'to President Wilson by the German government will be received. Delay Note to Austria. The note to Austria-Hungary has been written., but its dispatch delayed for reasons, not explained. It was intimated at the state department today ; that the governmen was waiting to see the effect produced by the note to t Germany. The circumstances surrounding the preparation cf the note to Vienna suggeet that President Wilson..; has expected an immediate reply from Germany to the implied questioning in his

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Allied Troops Continue Forward Push on Belgian Front-British, French and Americans Southwest of Cambrai Drive Wedge Into Enemy Defenses North of Oise British Forces Are Advancing Six Miles on 30-Mile Front Toward Valenciennes 4,200 Prisoners Taken at Cambrai.

GERMANS ARE EVACUATING BELGIAN CAPITAL (By Associated Press) German forces in Belgium still are retiring eastward toward a new defense line while the British, French and Americans southeast of Cambrai are driving a wedge into the German defenses north of the Oise. Ghent, 31 miles northwest. of Brussels, the Belgian capital, is reported to have been reached by French cavalry. Reports rer ceived in Holland are that the Germans have begun to remove their troops from Brussels, evidence that the new defense line may be east of that city. Allied forces have captured the whole of the Belgian coast; according to information received by the London Evening News. The allied line now extends from a position on the Dutch coast tc the east of Bruges and to the south of Courtrai.

Advance Slowed Up. All along the front in Belgium from the coast to east of Courtrai the allied troops are pushing forward but somewhat more slowly than earlier in the week except along the coast. East of Lille and Douai the British are moving eastward toward Tournai and Valenciennes and already have advanced more than six miles along a front of more than 30 miles in this region. Several scores of villages here have been liberated. Southeast of Cambrai the allies have made a wide breach in the German lines along the lower Selle and the Sambre canal and continue to fight their way eastward. The British and French war offices report the capture of more than 4,200 prisoners in the fighting here and a score of villages have been taken. Reach Dutch Frontier. On the north the British are within two miles of the Sambre canal at Chatillon. The French have taken Angigny forest and have reached the canal on a front of nearly nine miles south of the forest. The Germans were still holding the outskirts of Zeebrugge this morning, although the Belgian forces in their eastward advance had reached the Zeebrugge-Eruges canal. British patrols participating in the allied advance in Belgium are reported to have reached the Holland frontier opposite Bruges, General March was informed in today's early dispatches. Penetrate Hunding Line. British and American troops, fighting their way into the Hunding line, southeast of LeCateau, are advancing quite rapidly in spite cf the desperate resistance of the enemy. It is reported that 1,200 prisoners and 120 guns were captured by the allies yesterday. Since the fighting began on Thursday morning the Germans have been forced back more than four miles. British warships have come to the assistance of the allied land forces in Belgium and are shelling the Germans who are trying to escape through the narrow neck of land between Brugesand the Dutch frontier. Relentless pursuit of the retreating Germans in Belgium and down along the battle front as far as the area to the west of Valenciennes continues. Virtually all of the coast has been cleared of the enemy and allied patrols are east of Bruges. There Is probability that the Germans by flooding the country east of Bruges will be able to delay the advancing Belgians for a time, but it would seem that their line is so bent. by the furious onslaughts of the allies in Flanders that it must be readjusted for a long distance down into France. Extricate Forces. German engineers have been working on their line of defense running through Ghent and along the Scheldt river and it is probable that the British, French and Belgians will be forced to fight very hard before they of German answer to the Berlin proposal concerning Germany's competency and readiness to provide the guarantees prescribed by him. Germany has communicated the president's reply to Vienna, and the declarations made by Foreign Minister Burian before the Hungarian delegation indicate that Berlin and Vienna have exchanged views on the situation and that Vienna at least has concluded that President Wilson's propositions afford a basis for the corarnenceiaent of peace negotiations. Count on Czecho-Slovaks.: The declaration of independence ot the Czecho-Slovaks. communicated today to the state department and to the allied governments, Is counted upon to have a reverberation throughout Austria-Hungary, inspiring with fresh hope the nationalistic aspira

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. can make much impression on this poI sition. Although the Germans have lost a large number of men and gun?, (they appear to have extricated the ! bulk of their forces from the threat ening position in which they were left by the collapse of the line north of the Lys river. French and Americans' along the Oise river have forged ahead slightly during the past day, but they find the task of advancing a difficult one. Here the Germans are holding their line stubbornly while the force3 and material in the Laon salient can be moved back in safety. The advance here, however, seems to be gaining in 1 .1. .11 it . Y T - one of the principal railroad junctions behind the German lines. Along the Aisne, . Gen. Berthelot seems to be held up by the enemy. No progress on this portion of the line has been reported recently. . Further east, however, Gen. Gcurauds's men have advanced west of the Argonne forest and have taken quite i a long step to the north of Vcuziers. This advance will tend to render unstable the German positions in the forest and may assist the Americans fighting east of the Argonne. American Front Active. The American front has been the scene of constant patrol fighting, while Gen. Pershings men moving ahead slightly in Loges and Eantheville woods. There has been concerted attack in this region since the assault on Thursday, the Americans moved up to Grandpre and took valuable ground to the east of that village. Emperor Charles of Austria has made announcement of the plan of federalizing the Austrian states and has made an appeal to the Austrian army and navy for united action in a time of peril. His troubles, however, appear to gather as time goes on. Baron Burian, the Austrian premier, is said to have resigned. The German war cabinet, it is reported from Copenhagen, held a meeting on Friday night to decide on the (Continued on Page Eight.) Dr. J. M. Bulla, county health com missioner, today received the follow ing order from Dr. J. N. Hurty, secre tary of the State Board of Health: "The epidemic influenza conditions have been eliminated in most parts of j the state. The state board of health i orders- that the first order of October j 9 is extended to midnight, October 26. Notify the public and all your city and town health officials." Armistice tions of the subject peoples of ths dual monarchy and in a sense preparing the way for the president's note to Vienna. -1 - Official confirmation of the Berlin dispatch announcing the proclamation by the Hungarian parliament of Hungary's independence was lacking to-" day, but diplomatic authorities read the dispatch with avidity, declaring that if it is correct It will Lave the most far reaching effect upon the future cf eastern Europe ail upon Euro-.; pean policies. Such a decision by the Budapest legislature, it was asserted, would put an end to the Ausgleich, or dual agreement, the origin of Austro-Hungarian dualism, and even If there should be retained a personal union, that would be only an expedient, probably neces(Continued on Page Thre) ,

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