Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 301, 31 October 1918 — Page 1

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UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER CONTAINED IN PEACE NOTE SUBMITTED TO ENGLAND

Allied Terms Insist That

Dardanelles and Adequate Force be Landed on Turkish Soil Turkey Must Also Deliver Up Persons Found Guilty of Atrocities -Armistice on Allied Terms Became Effective Today Austria Asks Lansing to Intervene With Wilson for Favorable

; Answer. SECOND OF THE CENTRAL

. (By Associated PresO ' ' PARIS. Oct. 31 An armistice between the allies and Turkey

was signed today at' Minos, it is istice took effect at noon today. '"' LONDON. Oct. 31 Reuter's

Great Britain has officially received definite peace proposals from Turkey which are regarded as tantamount to unconditional surrender.

The actual terms of Turkey's peace proposals had not yet

reached London in the early afternoon. It is understood the allies insisted that Turkey permit the fleet to pass the Dardan

elles and an adequate force to be landed on Turkish soil. Turkey also must deliver up certain persons accused of disregarding the rules of civilized warfare, it was stated. These individuals will be tried and if found guilty, will be 'punished.

ASK . LANSING TO INTERVENE WASHINGTON. Oct. 31 Minister Ekengren of Sweden delivered to Sec retary Lansing today the note of Count Andrassy, new Austro-Hungarian foretan minister, asking the secretary to intervene with President Wilson for Oavorable action on the Austrian re quest for American and awed armistice terms. The note was in Swedish text. The translation shows no material difference from the version already published In press dispatches. fkAISER APPROVES CHANGE. COPENHAGEN. Oct. 31 Request was made by the socialist members of the lower house of the German reichstag on Tuesday that the ministry obtain the emperor's consent to a change in the article of the constitution which gives him the right to make war and peace. One of "the secretaries announced in the house on Wednesday that he had -been authorized to declare that the emperor In no. wise opposed the change. i A Copenhagen dispatch announced on Oct. 17, that Germany's federal council had accepted a proposed amendment Jo the constitution making it impefatrve that the consent of the federal council and the reichstag be given before, a declaration of war to be made In the empire's name, except in cases of invasion or attacks on the coast. Another amendment to the constitution placed the power of making of treaties of peace and treaties with foreign states on the federal council and the reichstag. Prince Maximilian, the Imperial Oct. 22. that a bill had been preYred making the reichstag responsfii; for war and peace, the measure To become effective when the project for a league of nations should become operative. It is probable that the foregoing dispatch refers to some new develop

Allen Says Democrats Have Good Chance to Carry Wayne County

v Excellent prospects for the election of Jack W. Harper, Democratic nominee for county treasurer, and W. O. Scaney, nominee for commissioner from the eastern district, as well as hr avy inroads into the Republican vote for other county officials was predicted today by Joshua Allen, Democratic county chairman. Harry Strickland. Democratic nominee for representative, is making a strong race and is receiving excellent support not only in Wayne county but all over the district, and the full Democratic strength, without a faction of any kind, is behind his candidacy, according to Allen. The Democrats say they are gaining a large labor following in Richmond and Wayne county and that a strong sentiment favoring the party is noticeable all over the county. Demrciata say this has been one of the moat encouraging phases of the campliAnti eo far. recent appeal of President Wilson for a Democratic congress has become a distinct asset for the party, According to Allen. "The spirit of fair play, uppermost in the mind of overv American." Allen said, "has convinced many men that they owe it

Fleet be Permitted to Pass

POWERS DROPS OUT officially announced The armagency has been informed that ment In, the effort being made to deprive the emperor of powers which he has held hitherto. ' " CARS LOADED WITH GAS ARE WRECKED By Associated Press) POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Oct. 31. Nine cars loaded , with chloride gas were wrecked on the New York Central railroad near Chelsea-on-Hudson this morning, according to telephone advices from that hamlet. A call was received at a factory here for gas masks. It was said the gas had spread over a wide area. Electricians Oat on Strike in Virginia (By Associated Press) NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 31 Several hundred electricians and operators of the Chesapeake & Potomac telephone company, which serves the entire Tidewater section of Virginia, Including Norfolk,, Portsmouth and Newport News, and all fifth naval district exchanges failed to report for work today, having voted last night to tender their resignations, effective at seven o'clock this morning. Union leaders declared last night that 400 employes had resigned. The employes claim to have asked an increase in pay in September and that they were told that their request would be referred to president for federal officials. They said since that time they have been unable to obtain satisfaction with company officials. Fred L. Bonney, general manager of the company, declared that the demands had been referred to Postmaster-General Burleson and that the company officials could do nothing. to President Wilson to elect a congress that will enable him to complete the work he began without being hindered or hampered by a hostile congress. They believe it is Wilson's Job to finish the work which he has begun in such an excellent manner, and the way people are rallying to this senti- j ment indicates that they will accede to his wish of having a Democratic congress." This feeling, Allen believes, will be reflected in the vote cast for the Democratic county nominees. Mr. Strickland before leaving Richmond today said: "There is no question that the drift of political sentiment is favorable to the Democrats in Wayne county. I am not predicting that we will carry the county by a big majority, but I have never met so much encouragement as I have in Richmond. The laboring men and railroaders especially have been very friendly to my candidacy. I believe that this support cannot be shaken. Business men and manufacturers also have been very kind to me. I find this holds true all over the district. In Fayette county. me. I believe that we have also gain- i ed among the farmers."

JOY IN ARRAS WHEN FAMILIES LONG SEPARATED ARE REUNITED

This picture illustrates a touching incident of the war. Three pollus entering Arras with the allied forces found their wives, whom they had not seen or heard of for more than four years, waiting forthem.happy and in health. The ubiquitous camera man was present and took a picture of the affecting scene.

VIENNA-BERLIN COMMUNICATION CUT BY CZECHS Action Eliminates Power of German Continental Policy Vote Independent. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Oct. 31. Communications between Agram and Fiume and Budapest and Vienna has ben totally interrupted. The Czecho-Slovaks have cut the railroad betwen Berlin and Vienna, near Bodenbach and German trains can go only as far as Schnadau, according to a Zurich dispatch to the Journal. Fiume is the principal seaport of Hungary. Agram is the capital of y-H a. J I j 1 - sj. uroaua ana ciavonm, auu s . biiuawu near the Save river, 75 miles inland. Bodenbach, where the railroad betwen Berlin and Vienna has been cut, is a town in Bohemia near the Sazo frontier and is "situated on the Elbe river. BASEL, OOct.' 31. "The continental policy of the German empire has collapsed," says the Vorwaerts of Berlin. "The Hamburg-Bagdad line has been reduced to the Hamburg-Boden-bach road." PARIS, Oct. 31. The Croatian parliament at Agram has voted for a to tal separation of Croatia, Slavonia, j and Dalmatia from Hungary, accord-) ing to a Geneva dispatch to the Matin. The dispatch says that Agram is decked in national colors and .that the people are celebrating the passage of the resolution. TOBACCO USED AS BAIT FOR GERMANS (By Associated Press) WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Oct. 31. American count among their prisoners fifty-one members of the second German landwehr. The Germans for several days had been coming unarmed from their trenches, creeping to a point between the two lines where they received brad and tobacco from the Americans. The other day when they came over they were told that the next time each man would receive five sacks of tobacco instead of one. The opportunity was too good to be lost, and instead of groups of three, four and five as heretofore, fifty-one men came in a group eager for the tobacco and food The Germans were hospitably received at the customary rendezvous, split into small groups and invited to come to another spot where the distribution would take place. The spot proved to be the intelligence office of the American division wheie the landwehrs were informed that they were prisoners. KHEDIVE'S HEIR DEAD BARCELONA, Oct. 31. Announcement is made here that Ezrabln Abbas, heir apparent of Ahmed Fuad Pasha, khedive of Egypt, died of influenza on Monday. - JAPANESE MISSION . HERE. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31. Japanese industrial and economic mission has arrived here, beginning a tour of l the United States and South America.

One Death on Transport of 5,090 Americans Arriving Overseas (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 31 A transport, carrying 6,000 American soldiers has arrived at a British port. During the trip there were only fifty cases of influenza j. recorded.- One death was caused by the disease.. The success achieved In : combatting the malady was due in. JhsJpln ian, of jh&icjans to the fact that every man wore a cloth mask during the voyage.

CHINA WANTS BACK TSING TAO LAND (By Associated Press) Return of Tsing Tao taken from Germany by Japan early in the war will be one of the things China will ask when the allies discuss general peace terms, according to Dr. C. Tsur, newly appointed consul in New York for the re public of China, who is here today ,,fQ t hla en route to his -post "When the allies'discuss the general peace terms and the new 'modus Vivendi' of the world," Dr. Tsur said, "China will submit the question of return of the port and province of Tsing Tao to the sense of right and justice j of her allies. China will point out that Tsing Tao was originally held by the Germans under a lease. ' By the capture of the province and also through the declaration of war, by China on Germany, the lease of this territory and port becomes null and void." URGES LABOR TO SUPPORT WILSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. Secretary Wilson- in a statement today advocating the return of a democratic majority in congress in the elections next Tuesday, said: "The real reason for the partisan activity of the reactionary republican element is that more legislation bene-!

fic:al to the great mass of the com-i "5tu f uui .ulu, uu mon people has been placed upon tbeie 4Tyrolfa" trnt' ,B!lwen the

statute books and a more sympathetic understanding of the rights and responsibilities of labor has obtained during the administration of President Wilson than in all of the preceding administrations since the close of the civil war. I feel sure the workers of the country will respond to the president's appeal for a democratic congress that will give him the benefit of the judgment of constructive rathr than obstructive criticism in conducting the affairs of state." German Empress Urges Abdication, Fearing Fate of Former Czar PARIS, Oct. 31 The German empress is very ill and weak, according to aTBerne dispatch to the Petit Journal. It is said that she is haunted by the memory of the Russian revolution and insists upon the abdication of the emperor. TkeVeather . For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair and continued eooL tonight. . Friday,, fair.. . Today's Temperature. Noovi 45 Yesterday. Maximum , 58 Minimum 3S,

BERLIN RECEIVES TERMS OF ALLIES FOR ARMISTICE

Important Discussions Follow Preliminary Details at War Council in France. LONDON, Oct. 31 Marshal Foch's armistice terms arrived in Berlin Thursday night, the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin says it learns, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. LONDON, Oct. 31 The preliminary conversations which lately have occupied the allied representatives in Paris have been concluded and more important discussions now are beginning, according to reports reaching official quarters here. To take part in the discussions, Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, went to France yesterday crossing the channel in an aeroplane as he had done on a previous occasion. The scope of the deliberations of the allied representatives has not been announced, and although it is stated from a reliable source some official declaration of armistice terms possibly may be made before the end of the present week, nothing definitely is known about them. - - " ir.i' .-r NO INFORMATION HERE WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. No information had reached Washington today through either official or diplomatic channels to indicate that the American and allied military representatives in France had completed their work of framing terms upon which Germany might be granted an armistice. It was assumed that the report of the arrival of Marshal Foch's terms at Berlin Tuesday, referred to in a Copenhagen dispatch quoting the Berlin Vossische Zeitung, was based upon press dispatches of Tuesday from London purporting to outline what would be demanded of Germany. ' SUGGESTS CONDITIONS 1 PARIS, OcU-51- rj-aa editorial discussing ; armistic terms. L'Information suggests the following conditions: "Internationalization of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. "The occupation of enemy ports on the Adriatic. "The surrender of Austrian warships. "The right to use Austro-Hungarian railway lines. "The evacuation of Alsace-Lorraine and territories wrongly occupied in the east and west. "The surrender of arms, munitions and submarines. "The occupation of fortresses and bridges along the Rhine and of Luxembourg and Essen. "The occupation of Kiel and Hamburg. "The removal of mines; from ,territcrial waters. "The delivery, as a preliminary compensation for damages, of part of the enemy merchant marine. The cessation of manufacturing for war purposes." AUSTRIAN FORGES TO BE WITHDRAWN (By Associated Press) VIENNA, Oct. 31. Austrian troops, drawn, according to an cmciai siaie-! ment issued by the war office tonight. I The statement reads: j "Taking into account the resolve so ! cften expressed to bring about a con-j elusion of an armistice and peace,) rutting an end to the struggle of na-j tions, our troops fighting on Italian soil, will evacuate occupied region. "In the Italian theater, there has perior enemy forces attacked Monte Asolone and Monte' Pertica. Our troops, with unexampled and soldierly faithfulness brought all the enemy's efforts to naught." HUGHES REPORT DUE TOMORROW (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct 31. AttorneyGeneral Gregory announced today that the report of Charles Hughes on air craft production, which he had just transmitted to -President Wilson, would be given out for publication in the newspapers tomorrow morning. While no outline of the report has been announced, it is understood the plans of the government for the production of airplanes and in general, the cooperation of manufacturers is commended. At the same time, the report is said to disclose evidence of inefficiency in manufacturing plants and waste of time and money in get ting the aircraft program under way. j Garfield Gives Miners $1 a Day Wage Increase WASHINGTON, Ost. 31. An average wage increase of $1.00 per day was granted anthracite coal miners! by Fuel Administrator Garfield today, 7 effective November 1. J

FIFTEEN AUSTRIAN DIVISIONS TRAPPED BY ALLIES IN ITALY; FOE RETREATS THROUGH ALPS Austrian Troops Flee Across Plain to Old Line of 191 7 -40,000 Are Taken Prisoner by Advancing Allies Enemy Force Along Piave Separated From Remainder of Army by Wedge Driven by Allied Soldiers Activity on Western Front is at Virtual Standstill With Only Local Action. 2 I ' C ALLIES GAIN FROM LAKE GARDA TO ADRIATIC (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 31 The Austrian commander on the Italian

front has applied to General Diaz, the Italian commander in chief, for an armistice, the Exchange Telegraph company states.

The application, the news to the Versailles conference.

: LONDONOctr StfhisrXrre Turkish force which has been

opposing the British on the Tigris has been captured, it was officially announced today.

Disaster threatens the Austro-Hungarian armies from the Stelvio to the Adriatic, as they retreat from Italian territory. All the Italian armies now have entered the great offensive against the Austrians and the allied troops are advancing rapidly along the entire front from Lake Garda to the Adriatic. Fighting activity on the western front remains at a virtual standstill. There has been only isolated action at several points. Shattered by the irresistible advance of the Italians, British and French across the" Piave, the Austrians are fleeing rapidly across the plains of eastern Venita toward the line of. the Isonzo from which they advanced one year ago.

Americans in Action. American troops are participating in the advance of the Italian tenth army which already has reached the outskirt of Sacile, 15 miles east of the Piave. The total of Austrian prisoners is approximately 40,000. Apparently the Austrian forces which were along the Piave will have great difficulty in reaching the hill east of the Isonzo. They have been separated from the armies in the mountains west of the Piave and the allies already threaten their rear from the region of Vittorio. Along the lower Piave the Italian third army has crossed the river and taken up the pursuit. In the center the Italians have taken OderzxK while further north they have advanced beymid Vittorio in the direction of Belluno. Use Pincer Movement. In retreating across the plains over the 55 miles between the Piave and the Isonzo the Austrians rushed back as through a narrow hallway walled in on the north by the Carnic A'.ps and on the south by the Adriatic. From the manner in which the allies have driven In their wedge east of the Piave it apparently is the intention to outflank the Austrians on the north in the foothills of the Alps and crush them from both the north and the west. The situation of the Austrians guarding the Trentino along the front from Lake Garda to the Piave also is becoming serious. . Between the Brenta and the Piave the 15 Austrian divisions operating there have been cut off by the capture of Vadal pas. Elsewhere on this front the Austrians must retreat northward through the Alps with the Italians, British and French pressing hard at their heels. If, as reported, the Italians are attacking from Stelvio southward to Lake Garda as well as eastward from the lake, the allies have begun the familiar pincer movement in the Trenth.o. AUSTRIAN STATEMENT Austrian troops also are retiring from Serbia and the left wing already has crossed the Danube, Vienna announced. The Serbs have reached the Danube near Sememdria, and the fall of Belgrade and the complete liberation of Serbia would seem but a matter of a few days if not hours. In western Serbia the Austrians also are marching north toward the Danube. " There has been little change in the situation on the western front. British patrols have been active on the important sector between Valencien

Germans Left North Sea Shore of

Belgium Mass of Fortifications

By Associated Pres." BELGIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FLANDERS, Sunday. Oct. 27. When the Germans withdrew hastily from the North sea shore of Belgium they left behind a series of fortifications all the way from Zeebrugge to Nieuport. ' The entire shore is one continuous line of redoubts, reinforced 1 concrete dugouts, trenches and barbed wire entanglements, with gun pits about

agency adds, has been forwarded

nes and LeQuesnoy and have made progress north of Valenciennes. In Champagne, the French have repulsed a German counter attack northwest of Chateau Torcien. The fifth French army fighting in this region has taken nearly 1,500 prisoners in the last two days. "Because of our desire for peace, our troops in Italy will evacuate occupied regions," says an official statement at Vienna late last night. As regards the front of more than sixty miles from the Adriatic to the mountain front west of the Piave river, It would appear that this statement seeks to make a virtue of a necessity, so far as the withdrawal of Austrian forces is concerned. Italian, British and American forces are sweeping eastward from the Piave and the apex of the wedge driven into the enemy's lines has reached Vittorio. Further south the advance beyond the Montlcano river has driven the Austrians far to the east of Conegliano. The line crosses the Monticano river at Fontanelle, bends to the west slightly and then turns south until it reached the Piave below San Dona. The capture of Vittorio appears to be a heavy blow to the whole Austrian position in the Belluno sector. The city was a principal supply point and gives the allies a base for an attack against the left flank of the Austrian armies holding the mountain sectors running west of the, Piave. - Owing to the character of this country, it is not probable, however, that a flank attack will be made. It seems that the advance will be continued, forcing the Austrians nearer the Adriatic to retreat and increasing the peril of the enemy . forces to the northward. Take 33,000 Austrians. Nearly 33,000. prisoners have been captured by the allies -during the past week. " .- ' ' ; American divisions engaged in the terrific straggle between the Meuse river and the Argonne forest have pushed ahead until they have Aincreville in their possession. This village is about 22 miles west of the Meuse and is situated on a ridge which dominates the country to the north and east. From it the Americans can direct their artillery fire cn the Important town of Stenay. to the north, and the railroad running from Metz to Lille, to the northeast. Nearer the Argonne forest, the Americans have the Bellejoyeuse farm safely within their lines. This success seems to make imperative a Continued On Page Fourteen. The Germans carried off most of the guns,, but they retired so hastily that they had to leave a large number behind. r" ' . ' . v '. The German abandonment of th Belgium North sea shore was thorough and deliberate in the vicinity' of Ostend, where they left behind little or no material. The haste of their move-, ment increased, however, from Blankenberghe northward. Zeebrugge is a city of barbed wire, concrete, steel and ruins.

every fifty yards. "