Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 298, 28 October 1918 — Page 1

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AGREES TO TERMS OF WILSON'S NOTE OF OCTOBER 19; WILLING TO STOP FIGHTING AT ONCE

3rms Set by Wilson Provide for Liberation of Captive Nationalities Held by Austrian Empire German Reply Arrives at Washington Considered Ac- : knowledgment of President's Note and Expression of Anxiety for Peace No Rejoinder from Wilson Expected Armistice Terms to Be Announced by Allies Soon.

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LUDENDORF AND IIINDENBURG HAVE RESIGNED (By Associated Press) .

" WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 heels of Germany's request fo

President Wilson's note of October 19 and declares her readiness to negotiate a peace and an immediate armistice, on all the Austrian fighting fronts. The Austrian government also says it accepts all the views expressed by the president. Thus would indicate that Austria is willing to have the Czecho Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs determine the measure of independence they desire from the Hapsburg monarchy but with the text of the reply not yet received this point is not cleaf. An allied reply to Germany concerning armistice terms has not yet been announced.

" The German government's reply to President Wilson's last note, asserting that negotiations Jor peace are being conducted by the people'sgovern.ment with' actual constitutional powers, and that terms, of the allied governments for an Immediate armistice are being awaited, reached the Swiss legation by cable this morning. . - No Reply Expected. This communication . Is , regarded hero merely 'as' an acknowledgement of' the President's note, with "an lndir cation of. the anxious desire of those now in power at Berlin to hasten the coming of a definite statement of the Jerma upon which' their' enemies will permit hostilities to cease. The President is expected to make no rejoinder. His personal exchanges with the German authorities, officials said today, ended when he transmitted the correspondence to the allies. The text 'step must be cm the part of the co-belligerents acting In concert. Press dispatches to the Hague transmitted to the state department today Fays General Ludendorff resigned his post as first quartermaster general and real leader of the German army as the result of a complete disagreement with Prince Maximilian, the chancellor. There was no possibility of a reconciliation, according to these advices, and the emperor was compelled to accept Ludendorff's resigtion. Situation Unchanged. The diplomatic situation Is just where it was when President Wilson informed the German government that its request for an armistice and peace had been transmitted to the allied governments. The next step expected was the submission of terms of an armistice to Germany. Announcement from London that Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Balfour had left for Fratice with naval and military advisers foreshadowed an early meeting of the supreme war council at Versailles. While the military and raval members of the council are drawing terms of an armistice which will be tantamount to surrender by Germany, the Apolitical representatives of the en"fente powers ar -expected to discuss th individual peace views of their governments with a view to formulating a complete program to be presented If Germany accepts the terms of the armistice. TEXT OF NOTE BASLE, Oct. 28 Austro-Hungary In notifying President Wilson that it Is ready to open peace negotiations and arrange an armistice, asks President Wilson in its reply to begin overtures on the subject. The Austro-Hungar-lan minister Instructed the AustroHungarian minister at Stockholm yesterday to ask the Swedish government to send the following note to Washington: "In reply to note of President Wilson of the 18th (19th) of this month, addressed to the Austro-Hungarian government, and giving decisions of the president to speak directly with the Austro-Hungarian government on the question of an armistice and peace, the Austro-Hungarian government has the honor to declare that equally with the preceding proclamation of the president, it adheres also to the same point of view contained in the last note upon the right of the Austro-Hungarian people, especially those of tha Czecho-Slavs and the Jugo-Slavs. "Consequently Austro-Hungary accepts all the conditions the president has laid down for the entry into the negotiations for an armistice and peace. No obstacle exists, acording ,o the Judgment of the Austro-Hungar-fan government to the beginning of the negotiations. "The Austro-Hungarian government declares itself ready in consequence without awaiting the results of other negotiations to enter Into negotiations "upon peace between Austro-Hungary and the states In the opposing group ,

Austria Hungary, close upon the allied armistice terms, replies to

and for an immediate armistice upon all Austro-Hungarian fronts. "It asks President Wilson to be so kind as to begin overtures on thl3 subject." . The note was dated October 28 at Vienna and was signed by Count Julius AndrassyK the new foreign minister. HINDENBURG OUT ZURICH, Oct. 28. Reports that Field Marshal von Hlndenburg has resigned are printed in Germana newspapers. The Nepeste Nachrichten of Dresden says the field marshal has tendered his resignation, but that the emperor. has not yet decided whether to accept or not. PRINTED IN BERLIN. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 28 President Wilson's note to Germany was printed textually in the German newspapers Thursday evening and Friday morning. The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin printed the English text alongside the note in German. Aside from the junker organs, which proclaimed the necessity of every man coming to the front for the emperor and the empire, many papers apparently contemplate without excessive lament the prospective disappearance of the Hohenzollern dynasty. The emperor's abdication is again strongly rumored to be impending. It is noteworthy that the Frankfort Gazette hints at a coming "sacrifice" with comparative equanimity, and both the Berlin and Frankfort Stock Exchanges showed an improved tendency as a result of President Wilson's note. Fears are not concealed that the entente conference at .Paris will put forward demands "incompatible with German honor" but the anxiety to! know the exact terms of the associated governments puts everything else In the background. "Anger and shame are bad counsellors," says the Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin, which is content to leave the decision to the army leaders. It Is a significant sign of the times that Prince Charles Max Lichnowsky's pamphlet, blaming the German government for starting the world war and saying that Great Britain did everything to avert it, has been permitted to reappear In Germany. JAPAN TO AID IN CHINESE AFFAIRS (By Associated Press) TOKIO, Oct. 28. It is believed the Japanese government has decided to take the initiative toward effecting a reconciliation between north and south China by giving friendly advice to the president and leading politicians of each side separately. Tang Shao Yi, foreign prlmier of China, now is In Tokio and met Viscount Uohida, foreign minister, by Invitation on Friday, i It is probable that the advice given each faction in China will be couched in purely friendly terms with the utmost care being taken to avoid formal Intervention. Economic loans to the north Chinese government concluded during the Terauchl regime had the effect of helping the northern government, but the excited suspicion and distrust among southerners. The present government is believed to be In a position to undertake a new policy toward China. Epidemic Rapidly on Decrease in County "The Influenza epidemic is seemingly very rapidly on the decrease," Dr. J. M. Bulla, county health officer said today. No cases have been reported from the county, he said. Dr. T. Henry Davis, city health officer said that only four new cases have been reported to him in the last two days and only one new case today. ,

. These Men Will Arrange Details of German Evacuation 1 '

Germany has given up the idea of

tories. The allied peoples are a unit in the determination that the only men are Generalissimo Foch, Marshal Haig and General Pershing. If these men rest assured that it will be satisfactorily carried out.

GERMAN FORCES HAVE STARTED NEipEEMENT First French Army- Pushes Back Foe in Face of Desperate Resistance. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Oct 2S.-r-Germany's armies have begun a new retreat, this time between the Oise and the Aisne. General Debeney's first army, in the teeth of stubborn resistance and repeated counter prttacks, has succeeded in swinging its right flank so that it faces east. It has reached Guise and the Guise-Marie road, driving the enemy before it. General Debeney is now In position to push rapidly along the upper Oise j valley toward Hirson and Vervins I through a level country devoid ofj streams. The first result of his pro-, gress is to force the enemy opposing! the tenth and fifth French armies, ex- j hausted by fruitless counter attacks, I to begin a backward movement which is eventually bound to extend to the front before Rethel. This will open to the fourth army a double passage of the Aisne and Ardenne3 canal. General Debeney's success was won by sheer hard fighting. The import- j ance the enemy attached to stopping j this progress up the Oise may be gathered from the fact that the Germans i yesterday threw in three fresh divis-j ions, .which, however, were knocked; out. REPORT INTERNAL TROUBLE IN AUSTRIA (By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM, Oct. 28 Austria has handed over entire control of food supply and distribution- to the Czech authorities in Bohemia, a Vienno dis patch to the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin, says, with the result that one hun dred carloads of potatoes are on their way to the famishing Austrian capital. A dispatch from Prague to the same newspaper, dated Oct 24, says that in compliance with a demand made by American bankers the Czech leaders have given an undertaking that the prospective Czech government will make every effort , to have the new regime in Bohemia come into operation without excesses. The correspondent adds that this is borne out by the entirely calm behavior of the .Czechs in Prague who are entitled to credit, at least for the present, for keeping perfect discipline. PARIS, Oct. 28 Grave troubles have broken out at Budapest as the result of the appointment of Count Julius Andrassy, who is suspected of ,Ger manophile fendencles, J.o be AustrcK Hungarian foreign minister, - says a Zurich dispatch to the Matin. . A, committee of workmen and soldiers' ha3 been forced to represent the extremist party In impending events. PARIS, Oct. 28 German , newspapers maintain that mutinou' Croatian troops are still masters of the city of Flume, in spite of official statements that they were under control, according to the Zurich correspondent of the Journal, who says that the Croatlons have driven the Hungarians from the city. '

Generals Haig, Foch and Pershing , a mixed commission to arrange the details of her evacuation of occupied terri

LIGHTLESS NIGHTS ORDER IS ISSUED The Fuel ' Administrator has announced that a vigorous campaign will now be put on for the enforcement of the lightless nights order of the United StateFuel "AdminisJ. tration. . :. Under this order all outside lights, ornamental and advertising lights and municipal lights, except those necessary for public safety, must be turned off on Monday and Tuesday nights. The use of light for illumination or display in shop windows, store windows or in signs in show windows must be discontinued entirely on the lightless nights. To the end that violators may be dealt with with uniform severity, the United States Fuel Administration has called upon the State Administrators to . report to Washington all cases of violation. This conservation campaign is so essential that H. A. Garfield, the United States Fuel Administrator recently announced that no exceptions should be made. f GUY S. ROBIE, Fuel Admr. for Wayne Co. Wilhelm Won't Abdicate Bat He Is Willing to Make Some Changes (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 23 Emperor William has no intention of abdicating but is willing, If it is for the good of the people, to ordain that his rights shall be re-framed, according to a statement attributed to German court circles. The emperor is said to have remarked: , "I will not abandon my sorely tried people, but if necessary, I am ready to become something like .hereditary president of a German republic like the kings of England, Belgium and France." Civilians in Evacuated France Face Hardship ' Daring Coming Winter , WASHINGTON,; Oct. 28. Food supplies for the civilian population of the Lille region of V.ffrance recently evacuated bythe Germans, are at an extremely low jtagft. and only energetic measures &y he ommisslon for relief In Belgium will prevent much distress during the coming winter. Dispatches received today at the offices of the commission here said the present supply of food in the region cannot possibly last more than two weeks. All communication systems were destroyed by the retreating Germans and motor lorries must be deuended upon to bring up the needed supplies. Much sickness also is reported In the Lille region and conditions there were described as even worse than in the adjacent Belgian territory.

they care to see on such a commission arrange the evacuation Americans may

FREE TRADE IS NOT PEACE TERM llgKJIiSON Charges G. 0. P. Leaders Are Using Peace Conditions for Partisan Purposes. (By Associated Press) WASHIGTON, Oct. 28. President Wilson replied today to Republican contention that the third of the fourteen peace terms is a free trade plank by explaining that in demanding the removal of economic barriers he meant to suggest no restrictions upon internal economic policies, but only that whatever tariff, high or low, any nation might deem necessary it should apply equally to all foreign nations. The president made the explanation in a letter to Senator Simmons of North Carolina chaiarman of the senate finance committee who had written him, asking for a statement "because certain Republican leaders are attempting to make partisan use" of the paragraph. Weapons of economic discipline and punishment," the president wrote "should be left to the joint action of all nations for the purpose of punishing those who will not x submit to a general program of justice and equality." He, added that to inject the bogy of free trade which is not involved at all was to attempt to divert the mind of the nation from a broad principal of a durable peaces and that it was , lamentable that momentous issues of this solemn hour should be seized upon in an effort to bend them to partisan service. SENATORS WANT TO HELP FORM PEACE (By "Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. A protest against any peace terras iictated by President Wilson alone ai'U representative of American public opinion, through senate consideration, cf the peace treaty was made in tI:o senate today by Senator Knox of l-cnsylva-nia, republican and former secretary of war, in an address charging the President with political partisanship. Democratic senators prepared to reply to Senator Knox forecasting a general discussion of peace and war combined with the partisan political questions. Congrsss today completed the $6,345,000,000 war dificlency bill and sent it to the . president. The senate accepted without discussion the conference report previously approved by the house. 32,249 Listed in British Casualties . (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 28 British casualties reported for the week ending to day numbered 32,249, compared with 37,150 for the previous week. They are divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds, officers, 436; men, 5,307; wounded or missing officers, 1,141; men, 25, 365.

Germany Only Vulgar "Movie" and Kaiser U jtiii Its Hero, Says Harden wrr (By Associated Press) . LONDON, Oct. 28 A Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company quotes Maximilian Harden, the editor of Die Zukunft of Berlin, as saying In an interview with the Berlingske Tidende of Copenhagen: "We started the war with a dirty trick and all our subsequent victories have been the results of dishonesty. William II is a film hero and Germany a vulgar cinematograph show. We sit today on the ruins of thirty years of Hohenzollern politics." ' 1

FOCH IS MAN TO ANNOUNCE TERMS LONDON URGES Brevity of German Reply Shows Desperate Need of Peace, Says Press. (By Associated Press) LONDON. Oct. 28. "The brevity of the reply to President Wilson's last note Is a measure of Its signllcance," says the Dally News. "President Wilson's note put an end to further argument. It is due to Dr. Solf, the German foreign secretary, to say that his note is precisely what the occasion demanded." "If peace, as the new posture of Germany wants us in believing, Is coming within reach," the newspaper continues, "there must be no delay In taking steps to end hostilities. There is no justification in fighting on for what can be had for the asking. The terms for an armistice must be rlgororous, but must not be needlessly so, The Express, enumerating the latest occurrences In Germany, including the reply to President Wilson, exclaims "The signs portend enough, pointing to a speedy end of the nightmare and indicating an acceptance of the terms soon to be dictated." The Chronicle says: "The German reply Is, in effect, an unqualified acceptance. Nothing remains but tor the associated powers , to announce without delay the program of naval and military measures which the armistice necessitates. It is unlikely that Germany will object to the details after agreeing to the principle. If her situation were not desperate she would never have gone as far as she has. If any confirmation were needed as to the significance of Dr. Solf's reply, it would be found In Gen eral Ludendorff's resignation." Still Unsatisfactory. The Daily Mail hopes and believes the allies "will not do anything so foolish' 'as to immediately disclose the terms upon which they are willing to grant an armistice. The paper says the German reply does not meet President Wilson's questions, and, after summarizing the most recent happenings in Germany, declared in effect, that nothing is altered there. "The sword is still In the hand of autocracy," the paper says. "It will be time enough for Marshal Foch to state the terms when that sword has been broken or surrendered." . "The promptitude of the reply may be accepted as convincing evidence at least of Germany's desire and need of an armstice," says the Post. "Dr. Solfs assurances regarding far-reaching changes are not very satisfying, however. Nothing has happened as yet to suggest that anything fundamental has been changed in Germany except the expectation of victory The first condition of any armistice is that Germany shall be unable to break It or refuse the conditions the allies distate. If the German government means "business it will send plenipotentiaries to Marshal Foch, but from present. Indication Germany's rulers are intent only on gaining time. The Times says: "There is no new viewpoint in the German reply except that it seeks rather crudely to impose upon President Wilson and the allies the initiation of proposals for an armistice. It is for the Germans to approach the naval and military commanders with their formal petition for a cessation of war." The Weather For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair and much cooler tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. Today's Temperature. Noon 51 Yesterday. Maximum 7S Minimum 56 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair and continued cool tonight, temperature near freezing. Increasing coludiness and rising temperature, Tuesday. General Conditions The general storm of the past thirty-six hours caused general and heavy rains throughout its path. Snow is reported as far south as northern Texas, and heavy snows over parts of the middle west It is considerable warmer in western Canada, 70 at Calgary, Alb. Severe cold weather prevails over central Alaska, 24 below zero at Eagle. Another storm is making its appearance over the northwest and promises a return to unsettled weather within a day or so.

FRENCH FORCE WES STRONG GAINS ALONG AISNE SECTOR

Activity Dies Down on Greater Part of Belgian FrontFrench on Outskirts . of Guise. RENEW drive in italy (By Associated Press) In the fighting front In France activity has died down greatly except on the front of the French armies between the Oise and the Aisne. There has been no change in Belgium and the British on the vital sectors about Valenciennes have halted their, strong attack for the moment. Field Marshal Haig's men have repulsed a German attempt to drive them from Flanders, south of Valenciennes where the British have outflanked that town. Farther south the British have pushed closer to the Mormal forest North of Valenciennes toward Tournal the British have gained further again north of the Raismes forest Take 5,600 Prisoners. General Debeny's first French army continues to press the Germans back between the Oise and the Serre. Unofficially thy are reported in the outskirts of Guise and along the road between Guise and the important railway point of Marlem toward which General Man gin is advancing east or the Serre. Farther east toward the Aisne the Germans are reported to be retiring before the continued French pressure. Fighting continues in the Italian theatre with the British extending their line east of the Plave in the region of Montello where they have advanced more than two miles from the river. The British have captured more than 6.600 prisoners, and have taken 29 guns including 6 nine-inch howitzers. . . The British advancing in Mesopotamia have cut the road from Sherghet to Mosul, one of the principal Turkish lines of communication. This probably will force the Turks to fall back to Mosul. American units have entered the fighting east of Rethel and have carried out a local operation in which they made an advance of one kilometer east of Attlgny caDturina 172 prisoners, the French war office an nounces. The American advance was made in the region of the forest farm south of the Aisne between Attlgny and Voncq. Belleu wood east of the Meuse. 1 finally and completely in American nands arter strenuous fighting for several days. The wood was taken in a successful local attack late Sunday. Fighting is still taking place in the eastern portion of Ormont wood, in the same region. Driven From Oise. Germany asks the allies to name the terms for an armistice. A note to this effect is now on its way to Washington from Berlin, it is reported. The note is understood to call attention to the "far-reaching changes" made in the German constitutional strcture and Is said to aver that a, people's government, which is in control of the military powers of Germany, is carrying on the negotiations. It Is understood that the allies have decided upon the terms to be exacted before hostilities are suspended, but that these terms will not be announced until the German note is officially made public. Austria, too, has replied to President Wilson. It is understood that her note is couched in the "most con ciliatory terms," but no intimation of its text has as yet been made public. General Ludendorff, who led the German armies in the big offensives of the past spring and summer, has resigned. German forces holding the sharp salient between the Serre and Oise rivers in France have been compelled to abandon their positions, which they have obstinately held for the past twelve days. The French armies on either side of this salient launched a blow on Saturday which flattened out the angle in the enemy's front and which may have a very definite effect on the German line eastward through Rethel and the Argonne forest to the Meuse river. It may be that the Germans have prepared lines farther east to which they are now retiring along the SerreOlse front but they are not apparent on the map. They are few, if any, natural positions which will lend themselves to defensive operations west of Vervins, south of which there is broken country. To the north of Vervins there are extensive forests, which might be utilized as cover by tne enemy. - Hunding Line Broken.' It is reported that the Hunding line Is broken near Guise. If this Is a fact, the whole German line south and north of that city is in danger. Col- . lapse of the enemy's front there would weaken the lines along the Aisne near Rethel, where the French bare been virtually held up for some time. If the line of the Aisne gives way, the Germans farther east around the Argonne forest and nearer the Meuse must readjust their lines, It would seem. (Continued on Page Ten.)