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VOL. 21, NO. 118.
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with Germany trying to con-
FUSE PEACE ISSUE BY TALK OF
ARMISTICE AND AUSTRIA AND
TURKEY SEEKING PEACE, SOL
DIERS WIN ON
JEsl
IN ALL BATTLE ZONES
EVERYWHERE ALLIES CONTINUE
TO MAKE GAINS DESPITE STUB
BORN DEFENSE MADE BY GER
MANY'S SOLDIERS IN ATTEMPT
TO HOLD THEM
UNDATED WAR LEAD. (By
the Associated Press.) While
both Germany . and Austria are
seeking to secure a cessation of
hostilities and Turkey also is re
ported to be favorably disposed j
toward peace, the entente allied j
troops on all the battle fronts are V
giving no heed to peace proposals,
but are contiuuing without mercy
to drive their foes before them. ;
And In all the battle zones the allies
are meeting with marked success. In
France, the German, battle line) is
slowly disintegrating under the vio-1
lence of the allied offensive; in
northern Italy the Austro-Hungarians
are being forced back by the British,
French and Italians with heavy
losses in men killed, wounded or made
prisoner; near the shores.' of the
A.lrlattc in Albania the Italians are
driving the Austrians toward the !
Montenegro frontier, while in Asiatic
Turkey, both in Syria and Mesopo
tamia, the British are fast clearing
the Turks from their former strong
holds. Although the Germans in France
and Flanders still are strenuously re
sisting the allied attempts to break
their line, they are giving way stead
ily under the force of the attacks. In
the other theaters there apparently
Is not the same disposition to offer
stubborn denial of the right of way,
except possibly in the mountain re
gion of Italy, where an attempt s
being made by the allied forces to
open the back door into Austria.
South of Valenciennes in France,
Field Marshal Haig's forces, notwith-
standing stiff opposition, have ad-
vanced thair line in the general oper-
ation which has in view the capture
(Continued on Pace Three)
SENATORS DEBATE
Hi
Republicans Criticise and
Democrats Defend Him for
Notes and Recent Political
Statements
CBv RpiMpw Leased Wire)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. Peace ne
gotiations and President Wilson's
statement asking his fellow country-:
men to return a democratic congress ;
in the November elections were the
vehicles of & partisan debate in the
senate today which continued through-,
out the session and blocked plans for ;
adjournment of congress tomorrow
over the elections.
The discussion which wag opened
by Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, re
publican and former secretary of
state, with an attack on the presi
dent's appeal to the electorate, be
came general among the dozen sen
ators present. Republicans sharply
criticised the president for carrying
on peace discussions with the central
powers and for enunciating termg and
princlpleg of peace.
Senator Knox said that the presi
dent's appeal raised the question
whether the w-ill of the president or
the will of the American neople is to
determine the policy of this country
in ending the war. while Senator
Polndexter of Washington, republican,
said the president assumed more au-
WILSON'S ACTIONS
LONG
SESSION
(Continued on Pag Four)'
PRESIDENT
TELLS WHAT
HE INTENDS
Wilson in Personal Letter to
Senator Simmons, Declares
Trade Discrimination Is the
Easiest' Way to Bitterness
(By Review Lessen Wire)
WASHINGTON. Oct. 28. President
Wilson replied today to republican
contentions that the third of his 14
peace terms is a free trade plank, by
explaining that in demanding the re
moval of economic barriers he meant
to suggest no restriction upon interna
policies but only that whatever tariff
high or low, any nation might deem
necessary it should apply equally to
all foreign nations.
The president's letter addressed to
Senator Simmons follows:
"Dear Senator: I am glad to re
spond to the question addressed" to
me by your letter of October 26. The
words I used in my address to the
congress of January 8, 1918, were,
The removal, so far as possible, of all
economic barriers and the establish
ment of an equality of trade condi
tions among all the nations consenting
to the peace and associating them-!
selves for its maintenance.-
"I, of course, meant to suggest no
restrictions upon the free determina
tion by any nation of its own economic
policy, but only that, whatever tariff
any nation might deem necessary for
jts own economic service, be that tar
iff high or low. it should apply equally
to all foreign nations; in other words I
that there should be no discrimina-l
tions against some nations that did
not apply to others.
"This leaves every nation free to de
termine for itself its own internal poli-;
cies and limits oniy us ngni io com-
Dound these policies of hostile dis
criminations between one nation and
another. Weapons of economic of dis
cipline and punishment should be left
to the joint action of all nations for
the purpose of punishing those who
will not submit to a general program
of Justice and equality.
"The experiences of the past among
nations have taught us that the at
tempt by one nation to punish another
by exclusive and discriminatory trade
agreement has been a prolific breeder
of that kind of antagonism which
often times results in war, and that
if a permanent peace is to be estab
lished among nations every obstacle
that hag .tood in the way of interna-
onal friendship should be cast aside,
It wag witn tnat fundamental purpose
in mlnd tnat i announced this princi-
Die in my address of January 8. To
prevent this great principle for parti
san purposes, and to inject the bogey
j of free trade, which is not involved
1 at all, is to attempt to divert the mind
of the nation from the broad and hu
mane principle of a durable peace by
introducing an internal question of
quite another kind. American business
has in the past been unaffected by a
policy of the kind suggested and it has
nothing to fear now from a policy of
simDle international Justice. It is in-
deed, lamentable that the momentous
issues of this solemn hour should be
! seized upon in an effort to bend them
J to partisan service. To the initiated
I and discerning, the motive is trans
parent and the attempt fails.
"Sincerely yours,
"WOODROW WILSON."
Following is the letter of Senator
Simmons:
"Dear Mr. President: Certain repub
lican leaders are attempting to make
a partisan use of paragraph three of
your peace terms found in your ad
dress to congress January 8. 1918. No
one hag authority to reply to a miscon
struction of any part of your address
exCDtine vourself. but I. as chairman
of the finance committee of the sen-!
ate wish you would make reply to !
these statements and Insinuations ;
which are being industriously circulat-
ed by the opposition to embarrass you
in the handling of these delicate mat-1
matters.
Sincerely yours. j
F. M. SIMMONS."
Hindenburg Urges
Armistice
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
NORTHWEST OF VERDUN. 8
p. m., Oct. 28 (By the Associated
Press.) "Hold fast; an armistice
has not been concluded," is the
word sent to the German troops
by Mleld Marshal Von Hinden
burg, chief of the general staffs
according to a captured docu
ment in the hands or the Ameri
cans. The German commander's
appeal reads:
"German Soldiers: Be vigilant
Baker Declines j
Appointment By !
Governor Hunt
(RpeH.il to The Review)
PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 2S.
JmUe A. C. Baker today declined
apcintment by Gov. G. W. P. Hunt
as judge of the supreme court to
succeed Alfred Franklin, re
signed, saying lie could not con
sistently serve under Hunt after
the fight he had made against
him in the primaries and in view
of bis outspoken opposition to the
governor. Judge Baker does not
bcli?ve lliat the appointment was
tendered out of any personal con
sideration for him.
HUNS PREPARE TO
Great Reserve Zones Made
.
Ready in Alsace and Lor -
rame WiUCh Are Very
Which Are
Heavily Fortified
RESIST
OUR
HEN
QUITE
STRONGLY
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY &n Part'e8 "PPed. As the election
NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Oct. j approaches, are we to repudiate Amer
28. (By the Associated Press.) - ltan leadership, turn our backs upon
The Germans have created a great 0Ur I,rofe,ss'ons' ud ,int,roduce dl"er;
reserve zone in Lorraine, through
which civilians, unless they have
authorization, may not pass. They
also have transformed a part of
Alsace into a great entrenched
camp, in which carefully prepared
defensive positions will, make up
for their lack in human material.
, was 8,ncere, ami w , impeacu Atner
The Germans have expected a lia- ica's good faith. On land and sea
son attack by American and French : American and allied leaders have
troops against the German left wing j sho 'vn a sPirjl of, co-operation that it
. . . . , it it .... is necessary for victory. It is as neces-
and have been tearful that the allied tor us to 8tand firm for America's
troops would break through, as they demands a8 it is to fignt Draveiy ana
have done in other at acks during the j in concert wilh olher lree peoples,
last few months The anxiety was . ..Tne attack America's declara
shown in the following declaration tinn nrm,A hv PVervhmiv for nine
printed by the Frankfort Gazette in a
recent issue.
"The situation has become notice
ably difficult. It is most tense on our
left wing from the strategic as well
as the tactical point of view. One
must regard with all seriousness the
increasing gravity of the situation in
the region of Vouziers, because the en
tente has succeeded in obtaining con
siderable advantages in the center be
tween the Scheldt and the Cambrai
canal in their formidable attempts to
pierce our line."
Early today American patrols estab-
lished that the Bellejoyeuse farm,
nonneasi oi uranu ire uau oeen ae- soldiers early sent to France was mea
sertcd by the enemy but that it waaBUred oniy by the tonnage. In the
well protected by a heavy flanklns light of the gigantic achievements of
machine fire. It therefore remains No j the shipping board who will say that
Man's Land. jf Senator Weeks and his formidable
The Americans in the Bourgogne arrav of republican senators had not
wool control the ridge extending from j blocked the way for nearly two years.
Talma east to the southern part of the j the victory which is now in sight
wood. The Germans today infilterai- j would not have long since been
ed through the American line at hill j achieved."
204. heavily armed with machine guns j Declaring that other war measures
and rifles. The enemy was soon dis- have been opposed by the repuolirans
covered, and pounded with artillery i congress. Secretary Daniels assert
and machine guns and driven off. The j ed "all the world will know America's
Americans captured several of the en- j position if a congress pledged to stand
emy machine guns and turned them
on the Germans. '
German patrols which sought to
penetrate the American lines north or
the Ravine-Aux-Pierre were repulsed
by an unusually heavy fire.
The infantry activity was slight in
the center and on the right of the see
tor, but the enemy's artillery resist-
ance grew constantly in power during joined other deserters who are hiding
the last 24 hours. A harassing fire i In forests and swamps. German troops
was carried out against the American I are declared to have been defeated in
front lines and back areas all along ; several fifihts with the peasants, caus
the line today. j ing the governor to ask for reinforce-
A new German aviation squadron !
made its appearance over the Amer-
lean lines in the vicinity or St. Juvin.
Some of the machines were painted
bright vermillion and others dark gray
with a plain black cross on them.
Some of the machines had flaming red
noses. Many of them dropped propa-
Hun to Hold Fast As No
Has Yet Been Completed With Allies
The word 'armistice' is current in
the trenches and camps, but we
have not yet reached that point.
To some the word represents a
certainty; to others it is even a
synonym or the peace so long de
sired. They believe that events
no longer depend upon them.
Their vigilance Is relaxed; their
courage and their endurance, as
well as their spirit or defiance
toward the enemy are diminished.
"We have not reached our aim.
DANIELS IN
TALK SCORES
REPUBLICANS
Says Only Purpose Is to Try
to Drive Wedge Between
Allied Nations and Chang
ing Now Disastrous
(I?y Review I-nsed Wire)
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 28 "Let
nobody mistake the purpose of those
who are suddenly opposing the presi
dent's 14 demands," Secretary Daniels
said tonight in an address here urg
ing the return of a democratic con-
I greas. "It is to try to drive a wedge
! between the allies, create differences
and make one allied nation suspicious
of the good faith of its associates. For
nine months all America has stood for
Wilson's declarations in his great
i speech of January 8. Now that the
' time has come when American leader-
1 ship is to prevail for the good of all
i the world there are those who wish
j to destroy their country's proud place.
I We have professed that we went into
this war tor unselfish aims and that
I we wanted nothing for ourselves. That
is what Wilson declared, and men of
the allied nations?
I "No matter what the motive, the re
I suit is that if we do not stand united
i for the 14 principles . . . which
' our allies have accepted, the agitation
for a repudiation will make our allies
! think we are not to be trusted, will
j make them querry, whether America
,nn.ha u na (nnProlla ag it would I
be for Pershing and Sims to refuse
to fight with the allied forces and
demand a debating society to deter
mine whether they will stick to their
solemn pledge."
"The shipping bill, the first yreat
preparedness measure," Secretary
Daniels said, "was held in congress
for two years by republican opposi
tion having been introduced in 1914
and not passed until 1916.
"From the day the United States
entered the war until this hour," said
Mr. Daniels, "the neck of the bottle
na8 Deen and is shjp. The number of
by Wilson is elected."
REVOLT IN LITHUANIA
(Bv Review Lvased Wire)
WASHINGTON. Oct. 28. Diplo
matic advices from Amsterdam say
i that the peasants in Lithuania have
! revolted and thousands of them have
ments. It is said the revolts are
j spreading through the whole country.
FORMER SENATOR DEAD
fT!v TWIew l.enjwd Wlret
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2S. Former
Senator Eugene Hale of Maine, died
Sunday night.
The armistice has not been con
cluded. The war is still on the
s:ime as ever
"Now. more than ever, yon must
he vi;lant and hold fant. You are
upon the enemy's soil and upon,
the soil of Alsace-Lorraine, the
bulwarks of our country. In this
grave hour the fMherland relies
on you ror its prosperity Hiid for
its safety."
PRESIDENT APPROVES OF
CONTINUANCE OF COPPER
AT 26 CENTS TILL JANUARY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S. Presi
dent Wilson today approed a
continuance of the present price of
copp?r at 2(J cens a pound until
January 1. The normal period for
which the price would be tixed is
tUree months, but the present price
is continued for two months with
out a meeting of the industry be
cause of the influenza epidemic.
REICHSTAG SEES
WILD SCENES IN
DEBATE'S COURSE
Socialist Member Suggests
Criminal Proceedings and
Jailing for der All Highest
Vilhelm
AMSTERDAM. Oct. 28. tHy the
Associted Preass.) Exciting seen?3
occurred in the German reichstag
during the proceedings of the house
on Friday and Saturday. Outspoken
speeches wera indulged in.
In the course of the discussion the
Polish deputy, Korfantz, hotly at
tacked the Polish policy of the gov
ernment. He declared that ia Chem
nitz alone the war raw materials de
partment sold 8.000,000 narks worth
of carpets and other goods taken from
Poland. Seven hundred thousand poor
Polish people were carried off to
Germany, where they led the life of
slaves while Hrig. Gen. Pilsndskl (of
the Polish legion), whom the Polish
nation fegarded highly, was still held
in ths fortress at Magdeburg, despite
all appeals. The deputy concluded:
"We are not blaming the German
people for these persecutions, but Ger
man militarism. We extend the hand
of reconciliation to the German
people for the commonwealth."
The independent socialist. Dr. Cohu,
who declared that the war was lost
after the first battle of the Marne.
said that Gen. Ludendorff, at the end
of September, proposed the formation
of a government empowered to nego
tiate an armistice with President Wil
son, as it was impossible to guarantee
the maintenance of the war much
longer.
"The question cannot longer be
evaded," said Dr. Conn, "war with the
Hohenzollernt r peace without the
Hohenzollerns. World revolution will
follow on world imperialism and world
militarism, and we will overcome
them. We extend our hand to our
friends beyond the frontier in this
struggle."
The speech was received with such
commotion as cries of "shame." and
applause, that the vice-president
threatened to have the chamber
cleared.
Another socialist. Otto Ruehl, was
called to order for declaring that the
emperor must abdicate. He retorted:
"A call to order won't save him from
the criminal court." a
The house debated the bill amend
ing the constitution which was passed
Saturday. Several speakers displayed
anxiety to show that the reforms were
not dictated by the enemy, but had
been advocated since the spring of
1917.
The conservative. Herr Von Graefe,
complained that the proposed reforms
would destroy all the crown Influence
and declared that the conservative
party would refuse to co-operate in
such a break with the past.
State Secretary Groeber and War
Minister Major General Schuech both
declared that there was nothing in
the reforms which could endanger the
firm structure or the army or the per
sonal relationship between the Prus
sian king and the officers.
GERMANY DUMBFOUNDED.
AMSTERDAM. Oct. 28 (By the
Associated Press.) Nothing except
the abdication or the German em
peror or the retirement or Field Mar
shal Von Hindenburg could have
struck the German public's imagina
tion more rorcibly than the resigna
tion of the popular idol in Germany.
Gen. I.udendorrf. As the Vorwaerts
of Berlin, the German socialist orean.
put it. the resiKnation of Ludendorff
means thnt the military element In
Germany henceforth is divested or
political influence.
The Vorwaerts. which has no regret
for the departing armv leader, says.
"What has happened was hound to
happen, even if Germany had won.
The German social democracy wag de
termined not to permit a German vic
tory being turned Into a victory under
t'l'e old system."
The newspaper hints darkly "that
much more In the jime direction yet
remains to he done."
Theodore Wolrf. in the Tagcblatt.
relate at length the' history of the
(Ontlmieu on Ffcgr Two)
PROOSEVELT
I; CRITICISES
S PRESIDENT
Former President Takes Issue
With Wilson on His Return
to Partisian Politics and
Urges Republican Majority
(By Review Leased Wire)
NEW YORK, Oct. 2S Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt, answering President
Wilson's appeal for return of a demo
cratic majority in congress, urged
voters of the nation, in an address
here tonight, to transfer control to
republican leadership. Such an out
come of the election, he declared,
would assure "our allies that America
is determined to speed up the war
and insist on unconditional surrender"
of the enemy, and would serve notice
on Germany "and her" vassal states"
that they would have to deal hence
forth "with the resolute and straight- i
forward soul of the American peo- j
pie and not merely with the dbscure
purposes and wavering will of Mr.
Wilson." I
Declaring that "half the leaders of! 5
the president's own party opposed him !)
ii ii i. r; uau uuuiuiiiru uiupcii m i :
war measures" Mr. Roosevelt asserted ,
that heads of the republican organiza-
tion in congress supported the admin
istration when a declaration or war
was needed, when there was a demand
Tor a draft, when the army was sent
overseas and when money was re
quired by taxation or by loans.
The former president spoke at a
meeting under the auspices of the re
publican club at Carnegie hall to ad
vocate "the election of the republican
state ticket hero in New York anc of
!he republican congressional ticke
throughout the union."
Rebuking what he termed the "ser
vility" of democratic leadership, the
colonel said it was small wonder that
in the cloak rooms of the house the
bitter jest circulates: 'Here's to our
czar, last in war, tirst to-ward peace,
long may lie waver." "
Mr. Roosevelt criticised the general
course of the administration through
out the war, declaring:
"If Mr. Wilson had really meant
to disregard politics, he would at once
constructed a coalition, non-partisian
cabinet, calling the best men of the
nation to the highest and most im
portant offices under him, without re
gard to politics. He did nothing of the
kind. In the positions most vital to
the conduct of the war. and in the po
sitions now most important in con
nection with negotiating peace, he re
tains or appoints men without the
slightest fitness for the performance
nf Ihe tasks, whose Bnle reco Timen-!
dation was a supple eagerness to serv
Mr. WiUon personally and to serve
Mr. Wilson's party insofar as such
service benefitted Mr. Wilson."
Contrasting the president's appeal
with Lincoln's "outright refusal, even
in the darkest days of the Civil war,
to apply any party test to fitness for
office," the colonel said that Lincoln
"appealed to all loyal men of all par
ties and asked that candidates for
congress he judged, not by the stand
ard of adherence to his personal ad
ministration, but by their uncondition
al support of the war."
Election of a republican congress,
the colonel continued, "would be un
derstood abroad as meaning that the
pro-Germans and pacifists and Bolshe
vikl and Germanized socialists could
no longer be counted upon as effici
ent and torturous tools, that the fight
ing men and not the rhetoricians were
uppermost."
Mr. Roosevelt interpreted the presi
dent's reference to the ''anti-administration"
attitude of republican mem
bers of congress, as based on "their
demand that inefficiency, waste and
extravagance be remedied" in the war
conducting department.
ACTIVITY GROWS INTENSE
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY I
NORTHWEST OF VEKl'N.Oct. 28.1
(S:10 p. m.. by the Associates Presd.) j
There has been intense activity
along the entire rront late today. The
Germans have been nervously shelling j
the back areas, firing two shells I
where one was dropped during the
last two days.
In retaliation ror the riring by the
American long range guns upon vital
German lines or communication in the
rear, the Germans today shelled Ver
dun and places in that region with a
gun or large caliber.
The Bols De Belleu again is In the
hands or the Americans. Fierce richt
Ins has continued east or the Mense
where the Germans are clinging des
perately to hill 3fi0 southwest ot C re
gion using machine guns and artillery
lavishly. The hill commands the en
tire district.
PEACE NOTES
MULTIPLY AT
GREAT RATE
i
GERMANY SENDS NEW MISSIVE
APPARENTLY ACCEPTING AL
LIED RIGHT TO DICTATE TERMS
OF ARMISTICE, WHILE AUSTRIA
ASK FOR TERMS
OFFICIAL TEXT ARRIVES
SWISS CHARGE D AFFAIRES
HANDED IT TO SECRETARY.
LANSING EARLY LAST EVENING ;
WITH CAREFUL TRANSLATION
OF ITS VERSAIGE
my Review Leased Wirel
WASHINGTON. Oct. 28 While
Germany's latest note to President
Wilson was delivered to the state
department today through the
Swiss legation, cable dispatches
from Europe brought information
that the Austro-Hungarian govern
ment has caused another communi
cation to be dispatch to the presi
dent asking that immediate nego
tiations for peace and an armistice
be entered into without awaiting
the results of the exchanges with
Germany.
The Vienna government asserted
that it adhered to the same point of
view expressed by the president in his
last communication upon the rights or
the Aastro-Hungarian peoples, espe
cially those of the Czecbo-Slovaks and
Jugo-Slavg and requested that he be
gin overtures with the allied govern
ments with a view to ending immedi
ately hostilities on all Austro-Hungarian
fronts. .
The official text of the German note'
did not differ materially from the un
official version as received by cable.
No official comment was forthcoming
but it is known that no response will
be made at present to the communica
tion which is believed to be dispatch
ed with the primary intention of satis
fying the German people that the Ger
man is not omitting any opportunity
to forward the negotiations for an
armistice and peace. Regarding the
renewed assurance in the German
note that the constitutional structure
of the German government has been
and is being changed to democratic
lines, it is pointed out that the truth
of this statement arid the scope or the
changes already made or projected
(Continued on Pa (re Sti)
Arizona' Bold Aviator Has
Been Absent Since October
20, When He Left
Bombing Expedition
on
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
NORTHWEST OF VERDI'S. Oct.
27 (By the Associated Press).
Lt. Fnk Luke of rhoenlx, Ariz.,
one of the mast daring of the
American aviators, has been miss
ing since the night of October 20.
On that night he started out on a
bombing expedition, and so far has
Tailed to return.
WITH THE FIRST AMERICAS
ARMY. Oct. 2S. "The Nut" is what
his comrades called Lieut. Frank
Luke. jr.. or Phoenix. Ariz., who de
stroyed more German aircraft within
t?n days than any other aviator has
ever done.
Luke specialized In balloons and Is
officially credited with having sot
(ire and burned IS or these captive
gasbags and his comrades assert that
the actual number he destroyed sur
passes 25. Beside the drarhen, as the
enemy calls his balloons. Luk
brought down three German airplanes
which have been officially confirmed
and two others which were seen to
ISlGlOf Iff
WESTERN FRONT
(Continued on Par Three)