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It Covers the World Business-Getters T-0 Neics Servicc Kcacfojl ?Ve/t/ Pari of (he GlobV \* T'D Classified Ads Make More Customers ppin? TUP T?T? PT7MTQ PAIR RICHMOND, VA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918. ?TWELVE PAC.KS VOLt'MK ?* I NVMItKll -ibl G8TH YEAR, GERMANS MAY FLEE ACROSS DUTCH LINE 10 ESCAPE CAPTORE Bruges All But Taken, While Allied Troops Ap proach Ghent. O.VER SCORE VILLAGES LIBERATED BY ALLIES British and Americans Deliver Strong Attack Southeast of Cambrai. nti;\Cll TRY TO TAKE R1STH1SL '.'aptuie of I^illc and Douai .An nounced by Field Mar shal llaig. ' By 'AiHOclttteii l'r?' '? I- w as reported that British out posts last night were oast of Lille. The Germans liave given way under the Belgian pressure 0,1 entire front i;i Flanders, according to a Belgian ofilclal statement given out In London lat>t night. Belgian forces have entered Oatcnd and reached the lint* ? .ludcnburg-Zcdelghem- l.uddcrvoordo. Over a front of forty miles, from the North Sea In Belgium to Mile in Northern France, the Germans are in general retreat before the Belgian. French iind British armies. MUcwl.ic, the enemy being forced to concede defeat by retrograde movements be fore the British and Americans south east of Cainbral: littler the attacks of 1 he French in the. poeket between tnu o^c and fcVrrc Blvr- north of laon, bv reason ol continued strona at tacUr. "by (he French and Americans in 1 'ha nii>a*Kne and alott : tor Meuse Blver. No >? however. 1 tin- (,nf,liiy in riaordf In ISelgian Klandcrs hiM steps .,,f l,. i.? hastci'f-d i.a-011 of the , ^ irt drive: Into his 11 it" by the Britlsn ? t I.'lie. just south of the ?.??Igtan order. an?i by the Kret...U a"'1 B'-r-ian-j further north, which threaten to eom ;ir| h r? to enter l?ut? .i territory *nl tane internment unices ?e s enough to withdraw out ot the entire pockft between tbe Scheldt I v' T H" ;b<? sea and rceonstitut" iiia line uit.i it- right wing resting on Antwerp. Bruges is a.I but captured, while to the .-outh from the rtglon east of . Bottlers the allied force? are fast driv - toward Ghent n an endeavoi to st a I the Western 1-landers sac* and -'?tain In it lt?rge elements of tnc enemy's forccH. .Strong opposition is being" offered on the t.ouriral .-eetor >> prevent the allies from carrying out . hcir m&ncuver to the More than a acore of iicJ^lJonalU Uses have been liberated by the iil.hd ir-?ops. and numeroue guns and ?tU?viU tie* of -tores have been captured In their withdrawal from \N est K'ander* the < .ernians are carrying out I .Sett al movement which doubt 1..^ ...mi j in :? general (alUiiGT hack ?. ? their l;ne in Northern France and per mit them materially to strengthen t.tel. riwlstknoe on a new and shorter front. This probably will he from A nt\\ erp ?M Namur and Metz. and thence to th borcJ? r. \*hich #A'OUld st;U lea ^ the German? eighty miles from tneir own bor ler line both at Antw erp and ?-imur At present the center of tne KUnders tighGng is nearThcltwhch i? about ISO miles troin AiN-la-C.iapcu.. ""southeast1 oVVatnbral. over a jror.lof 'l^riTish'1 Knd Americans are delivering a violent attack against the ? S.rm?S. ?*? ?? ??> "'T,',5, with success, although tn tiermaiiH were savagely rrtsidt.ujr .???% maJhhle guns and infantry amT u ltd artillery behind their line. uoitP (i MVS MA 1)K KllKM Il NORTH OK I.AON v0rih of Laott. in the sack between the Oiae and Serre Rivers, the French ur?: endeavoring to drive out the '-'er or capture them before they can ,? ??. .heir way eastward to Hlrson. Here alr-o the enemy is using his ma lfma eunners and artillery to .mpede U e Progress of the French but fu? #r rains have been recorded. The greatest resistance of all. how ,ver 13 still being Imposed against the Sffor'ts of the French and Americans in Champagne and along the v ,VS^ niver where the holding of the line i<? essential to stave off a general re treat by the Germans all the way from p/vWiiim to the bwlss frontier. T?ie French in Champagne are still lighting i..ird to eapttiie Ketliel, but the nans thus far have been able to hold hi" important position in their own hands North of Grand I're both the French and the Americans have made 'nr'iier progress over the difiicuit i>irtne r.-.riecinlly severe have been fhf lm'-t^??hlj? suffertd by the Amerl " cans in encompassing the natural tor tfficattons and the attacks by bordes of rneniv machine gunners. Before tin Americans the Germans are giving ground only ipch by. inch. pnfi.vcii rnxscv t|:y Assoolated Prens. 1 r'.vnis. October IJ ??Frcnch .o-operating with tne A r.glo-Belgian forces in Klandcrs captured Fittbam. Moulcbcke and Winghem tn spitc of '. -r.n" resistance, according to the Krench official statement to-nignt. Notabla gains also were made I'1 the OuV region with the capture of T'et.t Vcrly and Marchavemtc. un the left ban ; of the Oise the French took Mont ..rifnv Twelve hundred prisoners al ready have been counted. Iti-I.(;(AN OKPH IAI' ACCOUNT TKLI.S OK SLtt'KSSKS I ONDOX. October 17.?The text of the iv-lglan official statement su>s. '?The attack begun on October 14 has been completely succeesful. On the who!* Flanders front the beaten enemy ," , ~'Vfcii wnv to our pressure. To the Vft overcoming the difficulty of ff-ound flooded for four years, we have crossed the Vser in pursuit of the C,,**\Vc'have entered Ostend arid reached t?ir line Oudenburg-Zcdelghem-Bud '^??Ourr<ea'>'8liy hat< reached the out skirts of Bruges. Wc havejrhelled the rrcmv r??treating towards Kecleo. The Vrcnch have captured Wynghenc and reached the outskirts of Thielt. 1 illCHATlilU RKlfifANM WKCKIVK ' \L,.1VS WITH ENTHUSIASM ? The Belgi??R have reached the con fluence of the Canal la Mandel and the "va and have lined the river as far bm llarlebeke. where they Jotned the Rritish. Liberated Belgians received the allies with indescribable enthusl H3Rfltlsh troops entered the town of Doual to-day, after overcoming the enemy's resistance 011 , the line of the jUuTo Deule. CanaJ. accordW to the nffitilal utfttemeht (ront the W ar Office t?S?ht The Fifth British Army en T-lrcled captured JLlUo, the state- j ;(Continue4-Q9 ^ygntlTPage.) *SSS. Bombing Is Made Exact by Use of Bomb-Sights ll i* now no lonitrr nn-ennry to rlyk destruction or iht I'ottnsfn of the norkcru 1 \ru or tlirw tulles ii vt n j from munition plant* In air mid* nlmeil nl the Icgltltnute prey of nerinl narfarr. Sheer bad bonib tnK li dm frrqufntlr renultexA In nhut appeared to be nantnn destruction of r?uch private property. 'I'lic uir of accurate bomb-nlchta now enulile the narrlom of the air to Klrlkr with rri)?onulilc prrcUion. Three HrltlnU nlrmcn In thin morn inc'i 'I'liuea-IJlapalch not only rto ?icrlli* the ImprovemrDl* nhlvli hnve been niude In the ulr work, but nug KMt that nftfr the nor tli*r men and tlie met'ltlnri of the nlr will be found of nrent value in msipplng tbOMt* pnrtv of tlie earth which arc jet terra Incognito. NO EXTENSION OF'TIME ' FOR THE BOND BUYERS Secretary McAdoo Declares the Cam paign Will F.nd 011 Satur day .Night. TWO IJ.WS STILL IU2MAIN Reported and Unreport ed Pledges Actually Tabulated at Headquar ter- Places Tothl Securities Sold at Something Like .S3,007,5D7.:J."?0. IUy A'foclated /'r<-sf. j WASHINGTON'. October 17.? Fourth Liberty loan subscription!;, reported : ami unreported, probably amount to >1.000.000.000. although tho^e actually > tubulated by headquarters here aggre I pate Sr.,??UT.31'T.350, the Treasury an n-juneed to-night. Two days remain fur the raising ot 5 000,0C 0.000. j <-?'> Sat .ire) ay night, subscription 1 bowks ull! ??io?e absolutely. Secretary MtAdoo liectnrc'j to-day. thus selling ; ai r*-st persistent reports that owins j i'j tlie retarding inlliieni'v of t'nc influ ! fi/.a epidemic, the government contem ? i'iatc'1 pivins th?- nation another week 1 in \\ liicli to enf r pledge!'. iibiii-f.piioii reports to-da.i added J ."'J4.Oti0.000 to > cJitvrday's loan total, and although this represents tlie big 1 f.e-it single day's rontribui ion, it. is fbort ot" the pro rata amount sought to bring the total to $0.fl00.000,t>0o by Saiti-day '"night. "Germany is bending, .'''ore pres.-ure 3 n*i sh<* will break." ??aid Secretary Lansing in a statement to-day warning i the nation that ihe war is not over and ih?t the fourth Liberty loan must be a success at a lime when every dollar well a>- every man and every gun couf>ls tnore than ever before. Mr. Lansing's statement follows: "uur men in Fringe ar<i driving for ward. Oor government is redoubling I its effort to send man- and munitions ovetfas The battles e.ro point well, but they must go better. T'.ir war is ? not over. Thin ir? no time to s'.u'-ken effort or to fail to do our pari here j at home. To keep up and to increase [ the pressure on the retreating Germans . i-? the onl> certain way to win. To do j this ihe government must have all the money It need*. Wo are asked to loan i J;. and we are asked to loan it now. "The fourth l.iberty loan will put new firm'cs tn France: it will supply . our men with munitions: it will destroy every hope of the Imperial German government, its troops and Its follow ers: i; will make victory sure. "'Germany is betiding. More pressure and *-iie will break. Every man counts, every gun counts, and every dollar counts more to-day than ever before. The government must have the rronev it needs. Loan it to your country. Do your part to win the war." i GERMANY PROTESTS SEIZURE OF GERMAN-OWNED PROPERTY A^nrrti That Policy In Directed Toward l.n?tinp Injury to Economic I'lxUtence. 1 liy A;-:.soci:it*d PrvK:.'.! WASHINGTON, Octobcr 17.?Protest against the Americanizing of German owned business concerns, ships and ' other property by Alien Property , Custodian Palmer has been made by ! the German government to the State i Department. The note, transmitted through the Swiss legation and made | public to-night, declares the sale of German-owned property in this coun try is "consciously aimed to do last ing injury to German economic ex istence." Referring specifically to the pro posed sale of the property in New Jer sey of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American steamship lines, the note says it is an endeavor "to shackle through measures of force the opportunities of German shipping in terests to develop in the future." The total value of enemy-owned property taken over by the alien prop erty custodian to date is between S700, 000.000 and $800,000,000. Unofficial re ports received here place the value of American-owned property taken over by the German government at 514,000,000. SOVIET CHIEFS SLAY GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS 1 I.eailrr of Hnailan Army In Early I)hj? of War Reported Executed. tBv Associated Fra?a.l PARIS, October 17.?A Russian wiro less nicssago in English, dated Tsarsnoo 1 Selo, 8:25 P. M? October 16, received i here, reports the following information as having been received from Ekater inburg: "According to the ofliclal declarations of <be Soviet chiefs, Nicholas" Romanol! has been tried and condemned to death, lie will be shot during the night of the 10th." The Nicholas Romanoff referred to j js supposed to be Grand Luke Nicholas, ?tho former comniandor-ln-chiof of the ! Russian army. latest reports on Grand Duke Nich olas said he was living in the Crimea. WOULD SPLlTMONARCHY Vienna Hlapntchcn Claim Three Prov ince* Have lleclnred Their -Independence. A.MSTURTJAM. October 17.?Hungary, Bohemia and the Crontians to-day de clared their Independence, according to Vienna dispatches to-night. Haron Hussarek. the Austrian Pre mier, lias summoned .the Austro-Hun garian political leaders, the dispatches * add, and has submitted to thorn a plan for splitting the dual monarchy. The plan l.< said to be to form sepa rate urates for the Germans in Austria, for tho Ozecho-Slovaks, as well/as fgr. Ihe tllyrian and Ruthenian elements of tho empire's population. Autriaa Note Jtot Answered. WASHINGTON, October 17.? Presi dent Wilson's reply to AustriR-Hun gary's peace proffer has not yet been dispatched. It wua ... *ald ? to-night offi cially. There was no > expectation tti?t tlie reply would "bo .fcont until-'Ger many . has definitely ,an?w?f*a. lreaiden^u not*.of lf?t onda>, GRIPPE FIGHTERS Think Climax of Situation Has Been Passed ami Danger Will Lessen. TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS IN DAY * Budd's Serum Proves Efficacious as Cure for Pneumonia in Several Cases. I Although the plague continues to U-.m as hie:4 us twenty-live victims ?t du> in this ftty tkc oonfl<,ence Qf the medical profession that the epi demic has readied its climax a?d the act tuat doctors have ample time to make their reports have lessened the panic felt hero for several days. Once more the public breathes almost freely, j and institutions of religion and educa , * 0,5 are clamoring to reopen their doors. From this time on the policy of the City Health Department will be t/u . i ?.rC:KLMa,r hospitals and wards cmert^n^ patl?nl8 rather than have ?/T TM1"\ w",,ls continue to hold the ;i? / hJv the only method by which pa V?n ^'arshall High School couid '? ' nr i rcco.:'Y*rtcd from a hospital. ' - not possible, however, that schools l,r r? vru-fte?-,w!U oppn- according to r,, K,",l' ^"nauaii. Richmond cits ? hi<f Health Officer, hc-foro November i. ana maybe not 5*0 soon Tl.ere were r.oa additional eases re. Ported yesterday, but of this number ,v'?ro reported by a single doctor. Doubtless most of thesf> cases arc now ! well. There are several hundred other | cases nown to be ready to be reported oy ot.ier physicians now in a position to liiI out blank records. OPKICIAI. UIW'OHTS SHOW ("ASUS IN < IT1 The total reported to date is S.253. i if thirty-five deaths in TMchmoml yes j terday, twenty-five resultejl from pneu monia. l.ntest statistics iShow that tJic I crreatest number of deaths on an*- one day occurred on October 1Statistic? ycntcrday Indicated that this happened ! on October 1". I.ater statistics may change t^<c impression again. i'*?e i'x;? ?; cause of this epidemic re m.-iinu in ihe inlnd.s of many, if not' most, pcopb; unknown. In fact, there nas been difference of op.nion respect - perm t.laf caused either the infiu'ns.a or the frequently subsequent pneumonia. L'p- to the time of the announcement ' or ih? findin'gs from the use of anli streptococeus serum in the -pen union ia ? cases on which it ha.H been used bv Dr. Samuel Budd, of the Uichmond in fiuenza. emergency hospital, the State ) Board o. Health had not felt that it ; could make any recommendations as to a usiioi'.e method of treatment for these cases. The indications," however, now ar.i definite that many of the-cases of i pneumonia complicating iijtluenza are | one to the streptococcus perm Instead o. to the usual serm of pneumonia. In various parts of the State reports show that about one-half of the casas of pneumonia have been fatal. I?n. HLIJD'S Sl;HI'll BKI.IEVKD TO 1IAVK Cl'RED MAW Dr. Budd had anti-streptococcus s-e riim administered to twentv uatlents, ; tvo or whom were practically In a d\> ; Inc condition when this treatment wal i e ven. Ot this group only these two . have died. The results in the other cases are declared by prominent rtmj j conservat.v? physicians to be little I ? snort or miraculous. 1 ? s^rum is not used as a preven- ! i ttve. but as a cure for the so-called . streptococcus pneumonia, so frequently I I complicating or following influenza. It ! ? [s not :v new serum, hut one which has ! been in use ior streptococcus infections! o. the throat and other parts of the1 : bony for several years. | I>r. Budd has a'.so prepared for tils- I r but.on, 'hro :ch *he State Boa-.! of! Health ?.nd otherwise, a vaccine to be I used in the e^rly stapes of Influenza. t<; prevent the development of pneumo nia. It is al--o believed that this will I nr. ve of definite value and will be :' -? * * i s ? 1 eniciiclouin preventing* nunv ? ? > ?.-. of ^"euiv.p'u. th>-? y> v'.r.rr manv lives. This vaccine will be sent out rapidly hs possible to various parts' ?>: th.: state wliarj needed. rh? (.'ajholii- Women's Auxiliary of '.he lted i ross Society continues to con tribute !\s part in fighting the epi demic*. yesterday, under the direction I ot Mrs. Cl'.nton Bondar. it supplied the J John Marshall II igh School emergency! I hospital with twenty-five bed spreads. ' eighty-five pads, twelve towels, eighty six face towels. three double sheets: twelve wash-rags, two gowns, twelve face raps, thnee night shirts, twenty one baby napkins, forty-eight handker chiefs, eipht new blankets and seven , new gowns. It donated to the Instruc- , | tive Visiting Nurses' Association twelve i dozen face towels and donate.! 1 ! GERMANY REVERSES POLICY OF GENERAL DEVASTATION i Army Cominnnd Ssy, >llll4nr> Mra.mre<i Are In A.ccnrd V? ith Pence StepN. j AMSTMnr.' A.M. October 17.?Accord i inp to the <'otirant, the German news- ; ! napers this evening were to publish I the following communication: j "The German army 1 command has ? . brought military measures into accord { with the steps taken for Ihe conclusion of peace. The Gorman armies have received orders to cease all devasta tion of places, unless thev arc abso I lutclv forced to follow this course by | tiie military situation for defensive rea i sons. j "Nevertheless, it is to be expected ! that In the gradual retreat property will be list which is irreplaceable l)^? ' money? that is to say, in so far as such I devastation iv; inherent !:i the conduct | of the war itself, and especially in the j i bombardment of tlerman positions by 1 I enemy artillery." J hunTrapsTn cambrai Uritisi OlDcer lln* lliind lllonn Olf | Wkrn I'r Touvhen 1'iUMO. I Assoclkte^ I'rthj'. I j PARIS. October 17.'?An Knglish ? ofiicer at. ("'ninliral had his hand torn : | off yesterday by one of the enemy's I infernal trnps, sh>s a special dispatch , I to the Temps. ,v Seeing n piano abandoned In the mid dif'of thf street., he .struck a chord; and mi explosion followed.'which rinpe'd ! ' off ? his hand. A grenade hs?d been | placed in connection with tho keys. Tiie Temps correspondent warns re I turning inhabitants pf Gamhrai to he carfful In correcting any lack of sym I metry they may find in their houaes,! I Such action, he says, may explodo an ! Infernal inachino. I ' . 'Clout V|? GiirRKO, 1 PHTGAGO. October 17.?All public i gatharlngu throughout Illinois not ab- | I uolotoly eaisfnilal to the war were pro-t hlbited in' a prdclamAtlon" Issued by the. State Influenea oommlKsfop, with the approval of Goverhor Krank O. Low- i dep. late to?day. 1HK BEST VKKVr^NTlOX .AGAINNT | 1 FI/VKjfEA ivnd pneutnonia It, a wcll nouvlnh?ii : Imperil % rood ,yt jff-?A<lv. RICHMOND OVERJOP FOR LIBERTY LOAN First Fc4eral Reserve City in Union to Attain Bond Goal. WANT $25,000,000 HERE NOW Next Two Days Will Be Spent in Increasing Sales to Maximum. Richmond is the first Federal re serve city in the Unit?*) Stales to sur* | pats its quota for the fourth Liberty loun, figures given out by headquarters | la?t night showing a total <.f $21,025, i -00. an excess 01" $1.7SS.15o over the | allotment of $19,S3C,S00. LiTorts tiuring the next two days will bo concentrated with a view of Increasing Richmond's subscriptions to J25.000.000. in compliance with Presi de*. Wilson's request that this loan bo liberally oversubscribed. Richmond Had passed i'^ quota at 10 o'oloc't yesterday morning and the ; jbsci'lv*;lens for the day s?t a rcc ! urd for the onraign, a total of $2, | 'j'.'S.OOO having been brought in before the cIobc of business last night. i .Mor, than S100.000.000 must be raised ! In the- Fifth District before iis allot ment can be attained. aeiroi-ini to t!sr fissures t;i out from headquarters j votl~rday evening. Thus far but 51S6, ai' ! i.)0 has b^tn reported by the ban Us ' liwoughou; I he district, although hut two da>s remain in which to complete i!.. qcota ot iiSt',000.000. < .MOTH Kit SACIUKICKS IIKit l?OV AM) IIORHONN .< I'OH IIOM> One of the Richmond banks received the following letter yesterday from a woman in Virginia who is eignty years old: I "Nothing matters but Ho win the war', j I Iiun e had one splendid won killed in France. Another is with the Scventy ' seventh Division and in the thickest of the lighting on the western front. No } facrllico Is loo great to make the men 1 there f?.et that the country 1? behind I them. 1 can lake another $1.00<J bond ! it your bank will carry it tor inc. I j may have to ask extension of the time. ! but 1 can meet these obligations to the I country by giving up other things'. As j ilie time limit i3 almost.' up. buy the I bond and send me note to sign." A telegram from the Liberty loan i headquarters for .Maryland stated that I the total subscriptions received by j ! them up to yesterday morning were j j $57,39G.uOO. which Is 5i0,0u0.00u more | . than the figures given in the accom- 1 ' panying table, based upon the post-card I Irt ports. similarly, South '-Jxrolina j headquarters reported total 'tfubscrrjS- | lions of $19.091.650. which are $1,71:0.- j OuO m'ore thaji the official post-card ro- j ports received by the Federal reserve ! i hank show. Through October 11 members of the army located in camps and stations ! I within the Fifih District had sub- ] scribed $ 1O.500.00U. of which $3.000.000 | ! has been allotted to the Secretary of | 1 the Treasury, according to an official j telegram received from Washington yesterday morning. The same telegram ! terday morning. The same telegram slated tljat tin- army Is buying bonds at a rale equal to double iheir sub scriptions to the third" Liberty loan. j .MAW BANKS IIAVK KAII.I..I) TO SK\n Til Kilt HKPOUTS < Two hundred and fifty-six banks out j of the 2.&4G banks in the Fifth District ! have not yet tnadc a -single post-card i report of subscriptions. The records of j the Federal reserve bank show that | fully half of the banks in the district are not making regular daily post-card j reports. The need for these reporls is I essential, especially in the remaining ! days of the campaign. Otherwise no I accurate idea of the progress of the ! loun io possible. Millington. Kent County. Md? with a quota of $34,S00, reports subscriptions of $52,200. 52 per cent over quota! Chairman Houston, of Klizabeth City County. Va., wired yesterday: "Kliza- , beth City, next to smallest county in Virginia, has oversubscribed her quota j of $otf2,400 by flS.'OO. Three morel daxvs. Will greatly increase this sur- j plus. Ask other counties to follow." Chairman Doan, of South Boston. Va.. reported: "Boston National Bank here' passed Federal reserve quota of $160,- j 000. passed my quota of $187,000. has now reached $202,000 and still climb ing." McICenny and Carson, Dinwiildie County. Va., are "over the top." Salt ville, Smyth County. Va.. with a quota of $33,200, reports $75,000 subscribed. Chairman Vest of Newport News, whoso quota is $1,454,000. wires: "New port News total $1,290,000. Should reach allotment to-night, leaving two ; days for oversubscription." Chairman Kerr, of Norfolk, whose quota is $S. 415.200, writes that, subscriptions ob- : tained up to luncheon on October 16 total $$, 142.900. and that he feels rea- i sonabl.v safe in counting upon total j showing for Norfolk of not less than 1 $9,500,000. PKTKRSIfURC. BANK PASSIM QUOTA BV UOOl) MARGIN The American Hank and Trust C.'onxr pany, of Petersburg, yesterday rcporteiV?. subscriptions through them totaling . $231,590, which is 140 per cent of their quota. Parkersburg and "Wood County. \V*. Va., with a quota of $2,395,000, have gone "over the ton." Chairman Strother. of McDowell County. W. Va.. whose quota is $1,025,700, wired. "You can ; count on Sl.SOO.OOO from this county; ! probably $2,000,000." Chairman Robin- ?' son, of Clarksburg, W. Va.. wired. ; ".Most industrial concerns have doubted 1 subscriptions over the third loan." Mount Oiive, Wayne County, N. C., j with a quota of $137,000, has gone "over 1 the top." Caldwell County, N. C.. whose ! quota Is $100,000, reports subscriptions; amounting to $238,000. which is over j 20 per cent of the banking resources 1 of the county. Rowan County, N. C.. 1 reports subscriptions of $3fK>,000 toward j their quota of $S0C.000. The Rank of Lexington. N. C.. reports subscriptions through It amounting to $238.<00. The. allotment for this county, Davidson, is <.1500.OOC. Ther.V a re six other banks in the county. One of the flneater.>?cords yet reported In the d'rtrict co:rie.s from Creat Fulls. K. C.. a town of .'5.000. with a quota of $14,30<V Thev report $105,000 plremly subscribed "and still going." The p.ink of Columbia. S. with n quota .?>f wire?. "Our quota^oversuh- I scribed." STATU O.OSK TO TOTA I.J itrt.oOD.nnrt to uk iiaisiid "v h'Klniu la believed to he within ap proximately $1 l.ft00.0f>0 of itn goal. 1 Cbnirfyian *jj. l.v Bemiss last night re pone.d official bPink figures tit $40.L'?5.-, 50.). " whil' ' additional subscription*, amounting tt. $11,914,350 were renorfed i hv cbalrmep, waiting a total of $52,- | sr.??.?: 0. , ?fin nlH( in) report <r.\cn out by Uov ?rno* Ooorjse J. SYay. of tho Fifth: (Continued on Seventh Page.! ? The Mwhnnt Tlinl AtvertU+s Consistently must well gdods of uti questioned qualHy reaoonsblo pricet or his advertlHfng expemlitur?. would put him out of bVBlneaa. The live merchant-us?? advertisiorf? a short cut to sales. Merchants* have found Tlme*?Dlip?tch advertislUK prof\u6le. I Unqualified Indorsement of Every Move Made by President Sought by Senator WAMIl.MiTU.V, October 17 l-'n nunllUoil imlurKrmrnl hy the Senate of every move that ike President hus innde or may mnkr in the future In the pence nrpil in t ion* with the ventral power* Is n>kcil hy Senator James Hamilton I.ewis, of Illinois, the IJemnernt ic whip, in the rcsoiu tion In trod need In tlie Senate to dny. The resolution Is broad enoujsli to enrry with It nn ImSorseiueiiI of tlie vnrlotlM notes Kent lo (?erinnny, ? Anstria-llunprury uml Tnrkrj. ntnl ut the name time would he. If adopt ed, mi eiprennh>n of the Senate's eomplete confidence In the ability of the President to handle the ileli ente question* Involved. Senator l.ewls, after Int roduclnjc (lie resolution, asked that it he al lowed to ko over for future eon - itidevntion. He said he Itml not de termined upon :i date f6r enltioK It U|i for consideration hy the Senate. When It In enlleri U|i he intends to speak at length on the subject. The i'?'?nlnt ion provides as follows: ??That the I nlted States Seante approves whatever course may be tnkeii liy the President of the t'nlted Mntcs in the matter of Ills replies and his dealings with the German Imperlul government and the Aus trian Imperial government and the allle* of either or both In response to tlie demand of either for peuce or armistice. " I'hnt the Senate, linvliiR complete and full coiilldencc In the discretion, Judgment and patriotism of the President, indorses and approves ivhnlevrr methods he maj employ to achieve the result of victorious peace and the establishment of the principles for which the L nlted Stutes of America entered the war, and indorses such determination as he shnll reach as to the manner best calculated to preserve the dljr nlty of the nntinii and Its complete vindication in the content between the t.'nitcd Stnles and Its associates lit the- war between these and the Imperial licrinnn empire and Its iillles." Senator tiorr. of Oklahoma. In troduced n resolution to advise the President that the Senate Is ready to ratify any treaty for the con clusion of a Ji^st pence with mnny and Austria, based upon the rlfrht of deteruiinat Ion of the peo ples of those countries to settle their future ROvcrninent. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE FIGHTING INFLUENZA Physicians and Nurses Arc Being Hurried to A filleted Districts ."is Kapidly ns Possible. Kl'IDKMIC IN TIIIUTV STATUS Continued Improvement Shown m Army C'ainps. but Anions Civilians Disease Is Spreading at Alarm ing lt.'.te. 1 Rv A -.si.-latrii pre.---. I WA.SIHXOTON. Ucobcr 17.?The Pub lic Health Service now in actively di recting the light against Spanish in fluenza in thirty States, in addition to the whole of N^w Kn gland and the Dis trict or Columbia. Particular attention is being given 10 providing nurses for the stffk :U)d supplying physicians for those e.omm'dnlties v, here" the doctors are OnaffleTo 'meet all calls made on them. In spite of these and other measures taken by the Pub'le Health Service, in co-operation with State and local authorities, the epidemic continues to spread in many sections. Continued Improvement in conditions n army camps was shown by reports reaching the ofllce 01' the pui'KcOii-ri'm eial up to noon*to-ciay. New cases of Influenza in all camp* during the twenty-four-hour neriod up to t Hn t tune totaled 1,15-i, as against ,"i.6GS the dnv b?-t'ore. 1'neutnonla cases decreased Irorn I.S95 to 1.S00 and deaths were r,&4. a decrease from yesterday's total. lii discussing the Improved condition in army camps to-day, Secretary LJak?-r said no" time had been decided upon for resuming the Induction of registrants Into the camps. The military authori se-- ^ow have the matter under consid eration. he said, but they probably will rix r.o date until the cpldcmie has fur tlier subsided. Reports on the Infiuensa situation were received by the Public Health Service to-day from thirty-three Slates. Most of these dealt with conditions as they existed several days ago and add ed little to news dispatches previously sent out. from the state* affected. To provide additional funds :or light ing the- epidemic. Henu'tor Lewis, of Il linois. to-day introduce da bill in the j Senate to appropriate $10,000,000 in ad dition to the $1.000.e00 already provided | by Congress. The money would he ex - i p'tnded through the Health Depart- . meats of States and municipalities. Because of ihe Increased seriousness of the influenza epidemic in Washing- j ton. the Supreme Court to-day an- ? nounced that its recess, which was to j have terminated next Monday, will be extended until Octobcr "S. J E W R Y'sTrEC 0 NST RUCTION TO BE ON GREAT SCALE | American Ilehreiv* t<? Itnisr Vimrt of ! SI,?IM?.(MM?.000 for Wnr .suflerfiK" Hellef. I H}- Associated I're.-i.;. 1 , MOW YOIIK. October 17.?A fund., which may reach 51.000,000,000, to be! used to finance, the reconstruction of ihe Jewry of the world, will be sought j by the joint distribution committee of j the American Funds for Jewish War j Sufferers, which, it was -announced here to-night, will undertake what it j describes as "the la . jst purely hu manitarian project in history to be at - j tempted by individual effort." The nlaii is based on reports received from cverv l onniry where .lews have, suf."fed during the war. Commissions ? of American Jews?experts in phllan thropy. social service, education and. business:?will lie sent to Russia, itou munia. Poland. fMlesiiue, Serbia. Greece and other lands as soon as the inter national situation permits. FAIRBANKS SELLS BONDS Will Itelurn 10 t'i?|?Unl l?y I'ntilnl I'laue Willi Jitl.tMMI.OtHI In Sub Ki'i'llillonsi. 1 Uy A1.40vlii.tcd i'rws.t WASIIINOTON*. October ? Douglas; Fairbanks. motion picture actor, who I ilew from Washington to New York; veMterday to se.l Liberty bonds, ar ranged oy telephone to-night to re turn to Washington to-morrow by pos tal a'rplane and deliver his $6,000,000 In subscriptions to Secretary McAdoo. j Two German seventy-seven mllli meter guns, which recently were ?ap lured by United Slates troops in France. 1 w'll b" on exhibition at the Treasury step- when Fairbanks arrives. These , j,r,? ?he ill s' captured. CJernian gun" brought 10 Washington, and arrange menis 11"' bcinc made to haul Hicm . to titc Wii'f flonac so President Wilson fci?> view them. j WILL TURN CLOCKS BACK I.nit- Cnllimr tor Itenuwplloii of Sim Time October 27 VV'.ill SlnitA. IRv A*"oc!ut<*d Pre^s.l W \HI1IXOTON. October IT.?No fur- - ther effort will be made by Congress to continue the existing dayllght-suving Uw and the hands of tho clocks will j lie turned back an hour on October l'7, : a* or'.gh ally planned. This decision 1 wsj; reached to-day at a conference be tween congressional lettdors ami Chair- I man Baruch. of tho War industries | Board, who hart recommondctl that tho law remain In force for the period of J the war. DUAL EMPIRE IS FACING HE POLITIGRL CRISIS ){c|iot'tcd Kuiperor Will Issue* Mani festo to People Grunting More liberal Government. CillMlli.M, STItl KM SI'llMADS Revolutionary Meotlns- Arc Ueini; field Throughout Czech Lands. at Which rictlj;^ Is Taken in Cause of ImlrjieiifJencc. WAS1IIXUTO.V. October IT. ? Indica ! tiuns of the serious stale of affairs in I Austria-Hungary continued to reach the I State Department to-day In dlspatchos | from Bern, which said the dual empire j Is facing a decisive political crisis. it ] Is reported that the Kmperor will, at I a meeting of the Austrian and llunga I rlan delegations, take occnslc n to Issue | a manifesto to the people granting a I more liberal system of government, i Supplementing the reports rouvived by tho State Department, Professor | Thomas G. Masaryk, president of the I Czecho-Slovak national council, . re ceived a cablegram to-day stating that I the great demonstrations and general I strike proclaimed in Prague have i spread all over Bohemia, and .Moravia. ( Revolutionary meetings were held | throughout the Czech lands at which] I the now famous oath of April 13. 1918. | was repeated pledging everything to , tho cause of Czecho-Slovak lndcpen i dence. c The message also said that Stannic, 1 the Czech deputy, declared In Parlia ment on October 2, that the Czeclio* | Slovaks have not voluntarily shed a ! single drop of blood for the central ' powers, but have shown their stand by ; forming legions that now arc lighting on the side of the entente. Following is a detailed table snow ing the various races and nationalities in the Hapsburg empire, and the terri tories they inhabit. Hungary, proper?Magyars, 3.000.000; Germans. 2.000,000; Slovaks, 2,000,000; Iluthenians, 400.000. Bohemia?Czechs, 1.95u,000; Germans, 1.050,000. Tyrol?Italians. 150,000: Germans, 350.oou; Lad I ns. 50.000. Fpper Austria?Germans. 1,000.000. Lower Austria?Germans, J. 000,000; Czechs, K,0,000. i Styrla?Germans, 1.000.000; Slovenes, GOO.OOO. Corhithia?Germans, 300; Slovenes. | 60.000. North Adriatic coast land?Slovenes. 500,000; Italians. 30,004; Germans. 10. ooo. Salsburg?Germans. 195,000. MoravJn?Moravians and Slovaks. 2. 500.000; Germans. 300,000. Austrian Silesia?Germans, 3,000,000; Poles. 20.000; Czechs. 1 JO,000. GaliHu.?Poles, 3,500,000; Kuthcnlans, I 3.000,000. Bukowlna?Roumanians. 250,000; liu- | thenians, 450,000. Transylvania?Roumanians. 2.000,000; ! Magyars, 1.000.000. Croatia and Slavonia?Serbians, 500,-| 000; Croatian:*, l.OOO.uOO; Germans. CO,- i 000; Magyars, 50,000. Dalnvtla?Serbs and Croatians. 600,-j 000; Italiami. 75.000. Population of Austria, 28,324,940; I population of Tlumrury, 20.SSC.4S7; j grand total, 43.21],427. Following Is a summary of the vari- j ons nationalities and#races inhabiting Austria-Hungary. GeVmans. 12.?0o.000; Magyars, 10,050.000; Slovaks, 4.,"0?MU)0: Rulnonians. 3.S50.000; Poles, 3.700.000; Czechs. 2,230.000; Slovenes. 1,060.000; Roumanians. 2,250,000; Italians, 553.000; Lndins, 50.000. The totals of Moravians. Serbs and Cr-.atians are not included in the above table. congress" plans "recess OVER ELECTION PERIOD; Senate Committer Kliiniiiate* War! lte\euue ItU! I'rovlxloii Taxing Ofllcliiln' Salnrlen. I liy Associated Press. I WASHINGTON. October 17.?Con-t sresslonal leaders, at a conference late) to-day, agreed upon a plan whereby Congress will recess on October 29 over! :be election!, reconvening on Novem ber 1'. A j hit resolution to carry that plan into effect will be introduced In! Ito'h houses within a few days. The Senate Finance Committee. In revising the war revenue bill to-day. struck out House provisions taxing the salaries of the President, members of the Supreme Court and superior cpurts itnd State officials. The committee also rejected House nrovlslons 'axing State and municipal bonds. The committee held that such Imposts would he unconstitutional. Senator Simmons announced. WANTS SANITY TESTED Lawyer for Man hi? Killed Wife Will Mnhe Application |n ? C'onrl, NTAV YOflK. October 17.?Charges K. Chapln. former city editor of the liven ing World, who murdered his wife. Nellie, September 10 In the Cumberland ! Hotel, will innko an application 'o morrow. through his attornA>. Abe Levy, for a commission In lunacy to examine the prisoner's mentul condi tion. It was announced to-day by Levy. Assistant District Attorney Alfred J. Tulley will oppose the motion. TlnieM-DUpBtch tMnvalfled AdvertUIng Is the connecting link between buyer and eeller. You will find'tho classified ads In this paper produce results in quantity and quality. i U-BOATS ARE CALLED Prince Max to Represent Military and Civil Fap- ,v tions, Is Report. GENERAL VON HINDENBURG CALLED TO CONFERENCE Air at American Capital Is Sur charged With Fever of Expectancy. RIOTS OCCUR IX MANY CITIES Turkey Is Reported to Have Agreed to Trims, and Austrian Eni?. pcror .Makes Concessions. WASHINGTON. October IT.?Im , portant events are due to happen in I Germany within the next twenty-four hours. according to various messages , reaching ofllcials here front Amswddm and l.ondon .sources. Tho air is'sur ? V f - charged with expectancy. Shortly before midnight a cablegram wh.i received that CSerrnany had aopt out a wifeless order to all subrnit rinca to return to their base Immedi ately. Soon iit'tcr followed another message that General von Hindcnbjtji*^' had been called tu Merlin for \ im portant confcrcnce with the military leader*. It is understood he has-been called to headquarters to con/ec pn ! tho note of President Wilson. Central ] Ludemlorft' is also said to have again | tendered h.a resignation. ' . i From Bern lato to-night camo'thc I announcement that Germany's reply to t President Wilson's latest communica tion was expected to be drawn, up and 'dispatched "to Washington to-night, &c-_. ^cording to latest advices received tlVerc> ? ,'rom Berlin. Tho seinioflfelal nowp , papers of Germany Indicate that .St is " : certain that Germany in the nofe \ylll seek to continue the conversation.. , . The message contained tho further , announcement that Baron von->Hw | Kircl:. the Austrian Premier, has piadc the announcement that Austria in I about to bo transformed into federal ! states. t .. Another message that found ft,"Wel come reception contained the announce ment from the. Amsterdam correspond i en? of die London Daily Kx press that Frldaw Prince Maximilian of Baden wIII address the Kulchtftag, accepting," jn the name of the government and^of | the Gorman army. President WtVooh's : terms. The Information, the pprcp spondent Informs the Dally toxpre3s.*:is | credited direct to advices received frqm ! Berlin. The correspondent further adds- that Germany will surrender, 'to General Koch's armistice conditions. . It > is further assorted that such a sur j render is a question of days, perhaps I of hours. . . I Peace riots among .the workingmen I and Socialist demonstrations continup i in many German cities. t""* I A Paris message says that fpet}ce I demonstrations eontlnuo In Germany. Groups of soldiers go throughthe stree'.s of Berlin singing pacinst qjtd revolutionary songs. Pan-Germans, jvho attempted to hold a meeting be t\.ro tho Hindenburg statue, were obliged to disperse by hooting crowds whieli attempted to set tire to the statue. The police had great dtmcrtNty ir preventing them from carrying "Tout their- purpose. According to reports by GeneraltUu (Uiulorff, some divisions have refused i to obey orders, and soldiers hold ffftfflt ings to discuss political questicfoC ? i STHONt; AXTI-WILSON Y > ' SIJSTIMB.VT UKPOltlfctJ Another Amsterdam correspondep? tells of a strong anti-Wilson tepd^flqy, not only in military quarters, but also in those v. liich have favored peace. \ l?'or example, llerr Gothein. a -lhem.' ber of the Ueichstag. writing in--the Keitung an: Mittag, declares President Wilson has given a deathblow to the Idea of a league of nations." His' rftMf. tion. the writer asserts, is one of brute force rather than equal rights, and Germany would enter a league under such conditions with Toelings of '"in describable bitterness." Goethln assorts that the idea of sur rendering at the discretion of the allies makes the blood of even the mostjCon-. ilrmeii pacifists boil, and adds thu4 .al though he always has opposed unre stricted submarine Warfare, its relin quishment means sn extraordinary weakening of the German military position. , The Cologne Gazette publishes a manifesto of the Conservative payty, signed by Count Freldrlch von flfCSj tarp and other members of the party, declaring that after President Wil son's reply the contest of arms must be fought out to a tlnlsh. it palnca.a terrible picture, of the fate that woUlU befall an invaded Fatherland. . A dispatch to the Cologne Voik^ Zei tung from Berlin states that there will be exhaustive deliberations between the l.'eichstag. the Federal Council and the supreme command, as well as the lead ers of all parties, before a decision. is reached concerning a Keply to Mr. Wil suit's note. II is said to be probable the Keichstag will not reassemble u?* til next week. It is announced that Chancellor Maxi milian has appointed State Secretary Groober as his representative In con nection with the civil administration o? martial law. * Advices received to-night from Ber lin. via Bern sources, tell of great.ac tivity in political circles. In view.or. the, German reply to President Wilson's Pt.ie. It Is understood the note alr^Ady has been drafted, and that It isi not! a complete refusal of President Wilson's demands. . ) . Berlin dispatches to-day reiterated tho report that Turkey has made pekcO overture* both to the United States And Great Britain. The dispatches r?pre? s<nt Germany as convinced that Ttfr/ Key will surrender unconditionally. HM'.IIV HASTKSiS TO . 'c.r? IIKARRAKOH IXTKUNAL AITAJra signs multiplied to-day that Germany and Austria are hastening to refttmnir thel." Internal political affaire and.the) methods of warfare in the hops e mealing the requirements Ipld b, President Wilson In his .rdply tcjOff many's peace proffer. Theirc indication to-day when the German At Kwer would come, but that Ofl.d..Wfa be dUpatched was made morey by the statements 6f BaVoirHuW Austrian Forftisn Minister, be* t .i.fet .SMS viV-iS.