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1 1 1 1 .1111 I * ' • A Along,"Baket's f '■ -A. HARRISBURG" TELEGRAPH • \ sljc otar-#nfcepcn&cn\ ' ■r • - . vr A„ „A l ,rn . , IN -|U ONLY EVENING ASHOCIATKU Pit ESS SINGLE COPIES WAD FYTPA <.XXXVTT- No. 228 12 PAGES -"ASH?iMfe gSMM,?"* HARRISBURG. PA.. MONDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 14, 1918. ■ """ TWOC ECT3 WAK LAIKA NO PEACE WITH GERMANY AS MILITARY AUTOCRACY, SAYS WILSON; NO ARMISTICE Allied Army Wins Ground In Launching Surprise Attack In Flanders j Hy Associated Press WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FLANDERS, Oct. 14.—British, Belgian and French forces attacked at dawn to-day on a wide front in Flanders. The Allied troops are driving in the general direction of Ghent and Courtrai. The blow in Flanders by Marshal Foch was a j master stroke. If the Allied progress is continued, the i Germans throughout a wide stretch of territory, taking in the most important part of the Belgian coast, including possibly the important German submarine bases, as well as the forces in the entire Lille salient, will either have i to get out or face a second Sedan. GERMAN forces have abandoned T.aon and the whole St.! Gobain region. The Erencji, after rcoccupying Laon, have; pressed on until their line, now runs from the Oise river j ibove La Fere to the eastern end of Chcmin des Dames. The French war office statement reads— "lursiiing the enemy, our troops resumed the advance this (Sunday) morning; over cut-up roads, vvliicli the •enemy evacu ated in hot haste, leaving; quantities of material, shells, barbed ; wire and railroads intact. At 10.15 o'clock our advancing guards reached the I .non-La Fere railroad, where CSioy were met by a vio- j lent machine gun lire coming from Bcsny-ct-Lolsy and I,a Mon- j tagitc. which were occupied by enemy rear guards. "At It o'clock all the St. Gobain forest was clear of Germans i and the French flag was flouting 011 the Laon cathedral. Our soldiers found over 0,500 civilians, who welcomed them with joy. j '•Continuing their advance, our troops debouched front the Laon forest at Samoussy which was taken. Mnrchais also was i occupied." Caught by Allied Advance When the Germans began to fall back out of the bag into; which they were being slowly caught by the rapid advance of [Continued on Page 12.] I UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ONLY MEANS TO PEACE Statesmen and Newspapers Join in Demanding That No Armistice Be Granted UNITED STATES SENATOR BORAH, in a special article 011 f the German peace proposal, J published by the New Yortt Times, | says: "Fifty years ago, about, France | lay bleeding and dismembered at' the feet of this [Hohenzollern] j dynasty. The same cruel and fright- j ful methods had characterized that | war. I quote a single paragraph | from an article written at the time : by a citizen of a neutral country: " 'Every city has been practically sack'ed, ransacked on system; its civilians plundered, its civil ot'lictals terrorized, imprisoned, outraged or killed. The civil population has. been, contrary to the usage of mod- ( ern warfare, forced to serve the in- j ending armies, brutally put to death, | reduced to wholesale starvation and | desolation. Vast tracts of the rich est and most industrious districts ( of Europe have been deliberately i stripped and plunged into famine, j solely in order that the invaders j might make war cheaply. Irregular j (■Continued 011 Page H.] Berlin Denies Story of Intended Abdication; Kaiser to Hold On; Borne, Switzerland, Oct. 14.—The Wolff News Agency of Berlin to-day issued an official denial of the re port which had becoe current in Germany that Emperor William in tended to abdicate. 'VOICE OF PROTEST RAISED AGAINST FOE Council of National Defense Warns Against Pacifists Who Will Be Satisfied With Patched Up Treaty With the Barbarian Kaiser Spencer C. Gilbert, of the execu-| tive committee of the State Council > of National Defense, received early I this afternoon a telegram from George Wharton Pepper, of Phila- I delphia, chairman of the Pennsyl- j vania Council of National Defense, ! Identical with others sent every slm- | liar council in the United States, j .inert which ho asked the approval | GRIP EPIDEMIC IS ! EXACTING HEAVY ! TOLL OF DEATH Drastic Action May Be Taken to Keep Funerals Private Thirteen deaths and 260 more ; cases of influenza have been report- 1 led until noon to-day to the city ' j health bureau offices. According to 1 1 Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health j I officer, the disease is spreading rap ' idly throughout the city. The toll i |of deaths to-day from pneumonia I I equals that of Saturday and yesterday ! 1 together. Six died 011 Saturday and j ' seven yesterday. Because of the steady increase in , ! the number of eases physicians oi j I the eity are considering a plan to i establish zones so that all of the ! victims can .be treated. At present ; some of the doctors have more than i sixty calls a day listed at their of- I lice, taking them to all parts of thp I city. It has been suggested that |by establishing zones the visits to ' homes of victims of the disease ! could lie made more quickly, thus | giving treatment to everyone in the shortest possible time. 79 Deaths in Week IxTPt week there were seventy fContinued 011 Page 10.] BRITISH OPPOSED TO PEACE lIY BICKERING Condon, Oct. 14.—While certain developments are taking place, the {'Central News Agency says it learns, ! it can be said that the British gov | ernment will resolutely oppose the j fronting of any armistice to Ger -1 many unless absolute guarantees, both military and naval, are forth coming. No temporary armistice, nor any armistice at all. unless accompanied by Gerany's unconditional surren der, is the dominent note in most of the comment on the peace situa tion in this morning's newspapers. |of the local council. The telegram j lollows: "Desperate anxiety to substitute armistice for allied victory is the Inspiration of the two German notes. iThe President, 51s interpreted by Secretary McAdoo, may be counted ji.pon sternly to oppose the German ■will and to commend to our Allies Ijiothing but the unconditional sur- I [Continued on Page 10.] HUNS MUST SURRENDER COMPLETELY President Says Only Condition For Armis tice Is End of Atrocities and Then Matter Will Be Up to Generals in ' Field; "No Military Advantage of Armies to Be Lost; War to Go On, U. S. Aunounces WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. —President Wil son to-day answered Germany's peace proffer with a note declaring anew that there can be no peace with a German government controlled by a military autocracy and no thought of an armistice while German atrocities continue on land and sea. The text of the President's answer follows: "The unqualified acceptance by the present German government and by a large majority of the Reichstag of the terms laid down by the Presi-j dent of the United States of America in his ad-! dress to the Congress of the United States on the Bth of January, 1918, and in his subsequent ad dresses, justifies the President in making a frank and direct statement of his decision with regard to the communications of the Germarf govern ment of the Bth and 12th of October, 1918. ARMISTICE UP TO FOCH AND ALLIES "It must be clearly understood that the process of evacua tion and the conditions of an armistice are matters which must be left to the judgment and advice of the military advisers • of the governments of the United States and the Allied Govern ments and the President feels it his duty to say that no arrange ment can be accepted by the government of the Unitd States which does not provide absolutely satisfactory safeguards and , guarantees of maintenance of the present military supremacy of the armies of the United States and the Allies in the field. "lie reels conlldent tliat lie can safely assume tliat nothing but ! this will also lie the judgment and deeision of the allied governments. RECITES ATROCITIES "The ITesident feels that it is also his duty to add that neither the j Government of the United States, nor. he is quite sure, the governments ; with which tlie Government of the United States is associated as a bellig- I erent. will consent to consider an armistice so long as the armed forces of Germany continue the illegal and inhumane practices which they still pen. j sist in. .... "At the very time that the German government approaches tlie Gov | eminent of tlie United .States with proposals of peace its submarines are 'engaged in sinking passenger ships at sea: and, not tlie ships alone, but | the very boats in which their passengers and crews seek to make their i way to safety: and In their present enforced withdrawal from Flanders am ' France the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton ilestruetlon j which has always been regarded as In direct violation of the rules and I practices of civilized warfare. Cities and villages, if not destroyed, are 'being stripped or all tliey contain not only, but often or llielr very Inhab itants. Tlie nations associated- against Germany cannot be expected to agree to a cessation or arms while acts of inhumanity, spoliation and desolation are being continued, whleli they justly look upon with horror and with burning hearts. KAISER MUST GO * "It Is necessary, also, in order that there may be no possibility of misunderstanding that the I'reshlent should very solemnly call the atten tion of tlie government of Germany to the language antl plain intent of one of the terms of peace which the German government lias now accepted. It Is contained in tlie address of tlie President delivered at Mount Vernon on the Fourth of July last. "It is as follows: 'The destruction of every arbitrary power any- FOCH'S PEACE PLAN UyMAMKK M. TLOIIV (Staff Correspondent of the N. Y. World) Copyright, 1918, The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). London, Get., 1 i.—Although Germany's appeal for an armistice tins not been officially communicated to the Allies. The World learns that the whole subject was exhaustively discussed last week at the Versailles conference, at which were present the Premieis of Great Britain, France and Italy and the military represetatives of the Allied nations. Marshal Foch presented to the conference a minute in which he detailed the military guarantees he considered essential as 11 condi tion precedent to any armistice. These involve the occupation of Metz, Strasslmrg and Coblcnz, the strategic key to Germany. The minute was Idorscd by the conference. Marshal Foch also presented for future consideration of the con ference a complete scheme for securing and Insuring German mil itary impotence for- the future. It Is said to include the surrender of the 'German fleet of all dcx-riptious and its distribution pro rata among the Allies according to their naval losses. The destruction of the Krupp and Skoda armament works in Germany and Austria was also considered, hut their employment, with the other great industrial plants of these nations, to make good the material and machinery losses of France and Belgium, seemed a better scheme all around. V . | where that enn sepaartdy, secretly and of its single choice disturb the I peace or the world; or, if it cannot bo pesently destroyed, at least its ! reduction to virtual impotency.' "The power which has hitherto controlled the German nation is ol t the sort here descriltcd. It is within the choice of the German nation ito alter it. The President's words Just quoted naturally constitute a condi tion precedent to peace, ir peace is to come by the action of the German ! people themselves. The President feels bound to say that the whole ; process of peace will, in his judgment, depend U|M>II the dclinitciicss and i the satisfactory character of the guarantees which can lie given in this fundamental matter. It is Indispensable that the governments associated against Germany should know beyond a pcradventurc with whom they are j dealing. "The President will make a sepaarte reply to the Royal and Im perial government of Austria- Hungary. '• \ecent sir the renewed assurances of my high consideration (Signed) ROBKIt TLANSING. "Mr. Frederick Ocdcrlin, "Charge D'Aflaires, ad interim, in charge ol German interests in the United States." AUTOCRACY MUST GO The official interpretation of the note as openly eyprcssed was; "Autocracy must go." Washington, Oct. 14. --- This statement was made at the White House: ' * The government will contfnue to send over 250,000 men j with their supplies every month and there will be no relaxation of any kind.'' MOTHER OF DEAD SOLDIER ASKS FOR: SUPPORTOFLOAN Home Folks Can Make No Sacrifice fiqual to That of Boys in France Mrs. Sullivan is the mother of Sylvester P. Sullivan, one of the first Harrisburg boys killed in France She lives at 526 North street and is a Liberty Bond owner. Mrs. Elizabeth K. Sullivan, moth er of Sylvester P. Sullivan, one of the first Harrisburg boys to die in France, to-day Issued the following appeal: "To the People of Harrisburg: "My boy gave his life for Amer ica. Thousands of .other American boys have done the same. Millions more are ready to go to France to drive the linn back. They are go ing to make it sure that he will nev [Continued 011 Page 8;] President Greeted By Throngs As Note Is Prepared For Public Washington, Oct. 14—While Pres ident Wilson's decision on Germ any's note was being prepared for announcement at the White House and the State Department the Pres ident went down town,on a shop ping trip. He drove to a jewelry store in one of the White House motors but walked back up Penn sylvania avenue to the White House. Pennsylvania avenue was black at- the time with crowds of war workers just out of office. A great crowd surrounded the shop in which the President was and when he ap peared he was greeted with roars of cheers. Acknowledging the greetings, Mr. Wilson abandoned ' the motor ami strode off up the avenue walking alone und with se -1 crct service men to the side and behind. i Washington has gotten pretty used to seeing the President on the streets hut hitl appearance today, when the world has its eyes focused upon him lent a touch of the dra mutiy to the incident. The President wore a brown bus- I mess suit, a brown soft hat ana I nrrled a walking stick. Ho was ! eut continually smiling and ack | -owledging greetings as he went i along, enrrying a small package, levidently the contents of his pur | chase. I Prince Maximilian to Retire as Hun Chancellor I.onilon. Oct. 14.—The resignation of Prince Maximilian of Baden as German Imperial chancellor is prob able. according to reports from Hol land to-day. They quote the Berlin National Zeitung as saying the chan- I cellor's retirement Is regarded in | certain circles as Inevitable. BOND BUYERS IN CHORUS DENOUNCE CITY'S SLACKERS IN FOURTH DRIVE Wage-Earner Thinks It Out rage Steps Are Not Taken to Compel Those Who Hold Back to Aid Nation in War The one outstanding feature of to day at Liberty Loan headquarters was the extraordinarily large num ber of reports of "bond slackers," and the increasing large number of complaints from bond owners who declare that while they do not object to "doubling the third" they think it absolutely ridiculous they "double the third" while thousands of Harris burg men and women have not bought bonds at all. Reports of these "bond slackfers" 'ranged all the way from families I very well to do, to individuals not | well to do, but able to afford at least jone $5O bond. | One man reported to headquarters I to-day is a high-salaried tradesman I whose wife owns a valuable property i within two minutes of Third and [Market streets. t This man was asked why he didn't I buy a bond. j "When we invest our money," he said, "we want something stand ard." I And then he added: | "If I were keeping photographs iof all the presidents of the United ; States I would never include that of this man Wilson, who got us into a war we had no business in." Attention of Liberty Loan head quarters was called to a Green street family in which there are six wage and salary earners. Not one of the six has bought a bond. Wuge-Karncr Complains A wage-earner to-day went to Liberty lx>an headquarters and de livered himself of the following: "I tliink it is an outrage that something is net done to make all j the people of Harrisburg hold up | their end of this war. I earn about i $3O a week, I have a total of $7OO worth of bonds in all the loans, not ]all of them paid for yet. 1 think 1 am holding up my end. But when 1 hear of prominent people who are buying $2,500 worth of bonds, and men making fine salaries who aren't buying any bonds, and farmers} who haven't bought a bond in all fdur is sues, but charge 65 cents a dozen for eggs, then 1 get boiling mad. "I want to know what your execu tive committee is doing. I want to know if there isn't some way you can make these false alarm Ameri cans come through?" I If there was one complaint of that i sort at Liberty Loan headquarters Ito-day, there were a hundred. | Secretary Clyde Myton has a long I list of "bond sla'ckers," their street (numbers and occupations, furnished him by amateur sleuths who are dc | termined that the city will get over (the top on the h'ourth Loan. All the various teams and commit [Continued on Page H.J KOULKRS CAPTURED BY UMLCJIAN ARMY I .oiu lon. Oct. 14., 5:30 P. M.— The British. French and Belgian forces in their new drive against the German positions In Belgium have captured Uoulers, the Even ling News says it understands. ' LATE NEWS ] 1 Y 1 P ' ' i | after a short TnVc*. Miss filler v.nr. a Wellesley grad- ,J®| L uate .an i en'ga; -r- TT "rr:.- T" ,: I . I ncunced. - i "1 i J I P burring tbe ! • f s'vuoture. ' ; r • 10 | % | , < , I ) * ; I ' €i ! 1 I > I''; ' ' t ' I f it *. f > I • V I | > I' I I a 1 ' i 1 ' | ■ <! 1 II 1 ! 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