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The Weather
For Florida: Generally fair Sunday and
Monday, moderate southeast winds.
Highest temperature yesterday; 80.de-
Let the work you do for the Liberty
Loan be dedicated to the white-haired
women of Belgium and France, who hav
aeen honest men dig- their own graves
that the white-haired of your own
country may not suffer a' like agony.
grees
lovvest, 7 degrees.
VOL. XXI. NO. 293.
THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL, SUNDAY- MORNING, OCTOBER: 20,-1918.
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Reports Say All Germans Have
Ucen Driven from Belgian
Territory
6,000 CAUGHT IN
FOCH'S PINCER
ALlis? Are Closely Pressing Re
treating Foe on 120
Mile Front
With Allied Armies in France
and Belgium, Oct. 19. (Associated
Press) Bruges was reported late
this evening as being cleared of
lite enemy. The Belgians are press
ing on beyond the city, closing the
jieck or the bottle reaching to the
orlh Sea, but the bulk of the
Germans undoubtedly hae es
caped. (By Associated Press)
Allied troops on a front of more than
120 miles' from the North Sea to the
ii'i river are pressing closely the re
tiring Germans.
The enemy, given no rest, may hope
i) have no difficulty In holding sup
posedly prepared lines when reached on
the north.
The allies are approaching Ghent in
the center. The British are marching
no . Tournai while. British, Americans,
and French north of the Oise -are
threatening important railway lines
south-of Valenciennes.
In the Argonne the Americans have j
unproved their positions near Banthe-
ville.
Unofficial reports are that Belgium is
completed cleared of enemy forces and
that 6,000 Germans were caught by the
advancing allies between the Dutch
border and the North Sea.
Allied troops are reported near Eec-
iuo, j j maes east of Bruges and the
s;imo distance northwest of Ghent, and
approaching the Dutch frontier near
jiuis.
Allied troops in Flanders have re
guind 800 square miles of Terrain in
the last four days.
German Retreat Continues
Herman forces in Belgium still are
retiring eastward toward a new de
fense line while the British, French
an i .Americans south of Cambrai are
driving a wedge in the German de
fense north of the Oise.
Chent, 31 miles northwest of Brus
sels, the Belgian capital, is reported
to have been reached by French cav
alry. Reports reported in Holland are
tiiHt the Germans have begun to re
move their troops from Brussels, evi
dence that the new defense line may
te east of that city.
All along the front in Belgium, from
the coast to east of Courtrai, the al
lied troops are pushing forward but
somewhat more slowly than earlier
h (he week, except along the coast.
Herman units are reported to be hold
in? out in the port of Zeebrugge with
le;jr;an troops on the canal running
squill from Zeebrugge to Bruges It
V'Hild seem these troops were cut off
'Ha either forced to surrender or flee
t' Holland
' j l ijiiic auu tins X 1 I i I o 1 1
moving eastward toward Turnai
nn.l Valcennes and already have . ad
""t'u more tnan six miles along a
f'nt. of more than thirty ' miles in
'n;s region.
The British are approaching Cher
3eS?i tVtan toi miloe wr.cf fP
' umai. Several scores of
here have been liberated.
villages
southeast of Cambrat the allies have
ittade a wide breach in the German
ines along the lower Selle and the
Sambre canal and continue to fight
e;r way eastward. -
Score of Villages Taken
i he British and French war offices
"e;H)i L the capture of more than 4.200
T-soners in the fighting here and a
'or of villages, including Bazuel.
''ennappes, and Tupigny, have been
en. on the north the British are
iiiin two miles of the Sambre canal
f; Chatillon. The French have taken
ynd;gny forest and have reached the
m:iHi on a front of nearly nine miles
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1NFLLEZ ON WANE
IN MILITARY CAMPS
SPREADS AMONG CIVILIANS
Jvashington, Oct. 15. The Spanish
'n 'i?ua ePldeml i rapidly subsiding
;. tary camps, but among the civ
h'H " population, generally, the peak
yet been reached. Conditions
eastern states, where the dis-
pf l.iOU and there
r fewer deaths.
7 appeared, showed improve
.1,.; , reP0rt3 from the south, mld
t ,.. V:1 a"J Pacific coast arc not op
m.'1' N?vv Ca8e in ormy camps
. --el a ueeren-
PROPOSAL IS
HOT ACCEPTED
President Makes Clear Condi
tions Which Central Powers
Must Meet to End War
MERE AUTONOMY
NOT ACCEPTABLE
Czecho-Slovaks and Other Na
tionalities Must Be Granted
Complete Freedom
Washington, Oct. 19. On the eve of
the coming of the new peace note from
Germany. President Wilson has re
jected the plea of Austria-Hungary
for an armistice and made clearer Che
conditions which the central povrars
must meet to end the war.
The .president, in effect, says there
can be no talk of peace with the
Austro-llungarian government except
on a basis of complete liberty for the
Czecho-Slovaks and other subject na
tionalisties as free members of the
family of nations.
The justice of the national aspira
tions of the Jugo-Slavs has also been
recognized and mere autonomy is no
longer to be accepted. ,
Though not mentioned, the Poles,
Rumanians and members of other
races under Austrian domination,
come within the protection principle
of self-determination to wrhich Am
erica is committed -
President ..Wilson declared that the
Austro-Hungarian government must
satisfy the national aspiratioag ; ofits
people and that they, the people, shall
be the judges of their rights and des
tinies.
The reply was made by Secretary
Lansing yesterday through the Swe
dish minister in Washington. It calls
attention to the tenth condition of
peace enunciated by President Wilson
on January S, which says the people
of Austria-Hungary should be accord
ed the freest opportunity of autono
mous development.
LEON' COUNTY OVER
SUBSCRIBES LOAN $23,000
Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 19 John W.
Henderson, chairman of the- Fourth
Liberty yLoan for Leon county tonight
sent the following telegram to the sixth
district headquarters in Atlanta. "Leon
county, goes over with total subscrip
tion amounting to 348,000, excluding
raliroad portion to this county which
I arn advised is 516,000." The amount
subscribed in. this county represents a
total of between 1.C0O and 1,700 indi
vidual subscribers, as against 6Q0 in
the third loan. The splendid showing
made by Leon is due in a large measure
to the untiring and patriotic efforts of
chairman Henderson, ably assisted by
a corps of indefatigable workers. The
quota assigned this county was $322,
700. The oversubscription amounting
to over 25,000.
OKALOOSA COUNTY EXCEEDS
ITS LIBERTY LOAN QUOTA
Okaloosa goes over the top in spite
of the Spanish influenza which has
held its way in our county for the
past few weeks. The people have ral
lied to the cause of Uncle Sam with an
unceasing effort. The quota was 22,
000 and the total as reported tonight
was $3i,200.
Durinar the illness of County chair
man J. D. Cobb. Messrs Moore. Lone.
Clary and Richbourg never stopped
until they saw that the county had
gone over the top in the Fourth Lib
erty Loan as it has clone in all pre
vious drives.
GERMANY TO FILE PROTEST
, AGAINST CHARGES OF CRUELTY
Amsterdam. Oct. 19. According fo a
Berlin dispatch Germany :reply to Pre
sident Wilson will most strongly pro
test against the accusation of cruelty
and suggest investigation ' of those
cruelties.
- The reply, the newspaper adds, will
further justify U-boat warfare as a
reprisal against the enemy starvation
blockade.
DOUBTFUL WHETHER GERMANS
CAN STOP TIDE OF RETREAT
Washington, Oct. 19. The German
retreat in Belgium today continued at
a rate that indicated early arrival of
the allied forces before the first of the
enemy's prepared defense lines. r If
the German commanders are success
ful In bringing the great retreat to a
halt on the expected defensive line,
officers here believe the enemy can
not long remain in that position.
There la much speculation here as to
whether the enemy will be able to
ston the tldo o? retreat wh-cll he ha
stalled. The whole line from the Oisepame as ugnung men is problenienli-
rlver north is In a fluid state.
icai.
PENSACOLA DID ITS PART
GOOD PROGRESS
IS BEING MADE
ON BAYOU ROAD
GRADING IS WELL UNDER WAY
AND WORK IS BEING PUSHED
AS RAPIDLY ASLABOR CONDI
TIONS WILL PERMIT,
Work on the county road between
Pensacola ,and the government reser
vation is progressing as fast as .-the
scarcity of labor and the recent bad
weather will permit. County Com
missioner Soderlind made this an-
V. ...
nouncement yesterday after, the meet
ing of the commissioners, when the
payroll for the week's road work was
allowed.
Considerable work has been done
in the way of grading the road pre
paratory to laying the concrete and
workmen are now laboring on a five
foot cut at one place, to bring a por
tion of the road into grade. It is ex
pected that several months time will
be consumed before the road work is
completed, the commissioner said.
"Pensacolians should not become
impatient because we are not making
great speed," said '. Mr. Soderlind.
"The contract under which the work
Is being done does not require its
completion before the end of several
months, and there is a great quantity
of dirt to be moved, to bring all parts
of the road to the required level, ' as
surveyed by the engineers.
"The concrete will be the least of
the work done, from the standpoint
of time," he continued. "The entire
concrete laying will require , only
about 40 days time when all the grad
ing, filling and other construction
work is completed," he said.
Those who have visited the seen
of operations where the concrete piers
for the SOO foot bridge are being put
In have witnessed th Installation of
concrete work unlike anything else in
Kscambia county. There is to be a 90
foot movable span of the bridge.
nnivii wm require me installation or
cpnsidei-able concrete and iron work
also.
Many of the employees on the road
work have been kept at home from
illness in-their families, and this has
delaj-ed , the work considerably, the
commissioners report. -
GERMAN ARMY STRENGTHENED
BY CALLING 1920 CLASS
(By Newspaper Enterprise -Ass'ii.)
Paris. Oct. 19. Calling of 1 he 1920
class to the German army adds con
siderably to the strength of the army,
but as a quarter of the soldiers thus
added are undr 1S-veas nld their
NATION HAS
OVER-SUBSCRIBED
FOURTH LOAN
i Washiuton, Oct. ,19. Oversugb
scription of the Fourth Liberty,,
Loan seemed , assured .. tonight, .7'
when the three .weeks campaign. ;
closed. - ' "' j V -.' . ' ';- - V -; ; '.
While off icial reports ,,are Mack-.-,
ing, it appeared that" theT Apieri-eV
can people, have .again given Hhe
government 'more than , was masked
' . in order that . 'the . war. against
Germany ; and her- allies -may ' be
, carried 'to, a . successful ' conclu
sion. "V;" ::' '". .' :':'; ; :
: How far ihe total will -run, above the
six billion goal, officials would not at
tempt to estimate tonight. ';
New subscriptions entered" the last
day and those -made effective by the
payment of the ten per" cent. install
ment plan probably, amount, to a bil
lion and a half in the entire , nation.
It was said before business opened this
morning that 4,600,000,000 ; had been
reported. The final report will be made
as soon as approximately accurate fig
ures are available, which will possibly
be ten days. "
Indications are that individual sub
scribers far exceed twenty millions, T
and break all records in distribution
of war bonds for this nation or any
other.
GOVERNMENT SEEKS INSURANCE
AND ALLOTMENT PROFITEERS
Washington, Oct. 19. The public
was asked by the war department to
day to bring to its attention any in
stance of persons seeking fees for col
lecting insurance or allotments of sol
diers who have died: in the service.
Renewed assurance was given that the
government will make settlements in
, such cases without outside interven
tion and that' beneficiaries, who want
legal advice may obtain- it without
charge from draft district . legal adr
visory boards.
GERMANY'S REPLY MAY
BE MADE THIS AFTERNOON
Basel, Switzerland. Oct. 19. The
answer of Germany to President Wil
son's last note will probably be pub
lished Sunday afternoon. ; ;
SIXTH DISTRICT
MAKES FULL QUOTA
Atlanta, ' Oct.- 1?- Landslide reports
from local committees reaching . head
quarters tonight almost swamped the
force of clerks and practically every
one of them announced oversubscrip
tion. -- :1 -. : ' - - ' .
It is assured the entire district sub
scription will reach 200,000,000. ?3,
000,000 over the quota. Practically ev
ery city in the district oversubscribed
and ninetv per cent, of .the counties.
Nashville has S3.00Q.OOO over." Atlanta
and Birminaham more than" f-2.000.00rt.
Chat tanooira.. M.0iXV0, New Orleans and
Jacksonville each. - v I
SHOPPING
TO BE LIMITED
BY AGREEMENT
MERCHANTS SUBSCRIBE TO DE
FENSE COUNCIL PLAN , WHICH
CONFINES BUYING TO USEFUL
ARTICLES EARLY. CLOSING
Most, retail stores in "Pensacola and
throughout the "United States have
subscribed to an agreement not to
lengthen normal working hours. or to
increase their Christmas season forces
above the average during the year,
according to announcement made by
Bryan Dunwoody, chairman of the
Council of National Defense. The
agreement was reached between the
council of national defense and the
retailers' and manufacturers' associa
tion of America.
There are three other items in the
' agreement, all affecting the. Christmas
i shopping. ,The items of the agreement
are as follows:
1. Retail interests are not to in
crease their working forces by reason
of the holiday business over the aver
age forces employed during the year.
3. Normal. working hours will' not
be lengthened during the Christmas
season. ,. ;.
3. Retailers will use their utmost
efforts to confine Christmas - giving,
except for young children, to useful
articles. ' 1
4. Every effort- will be made to
spread the period for holiday pur
chasing over - the months of October,
November and December.
5. Deliveries will be restricted and
customers will be asked to carry their
own package whenever possible.
Under the agreement which was
made by the retailers and manufac-
turers' . association, anf.ouncements or
the new, policy , will be made by re
tailers in their newspaper advertise
ments. Local' retailers have read with in
terest the words of Edward : A.-T'ilene
of Boston, , head of a great retail firm
and a member of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United Stales, who
said: "The manner in which we ob
serve the restrictions laid down will
govern the attitude of the government
toward us in the future. If our part
of the compact is carried through, it
will further strengthen our record as
patriotic men. Nothing will help us
like the loyal performance - of our
duty.' - - f
TAMPA MAKES QUOTA
IN LOAN DRIVE
Tanipa, Oct. 19 Tampa and fourteen
counties in the Tampa -zone exceeded
their 171101a for the Fourth Liberty
Loan. Tampa raised more than three
and a half million dollars.
XMAS
CAMPAIGN ENDS IN VERITABLE SHOWER
OF BOND SUBSCRIPTIONS WHICH
CARRY CITY OYER THE TOP
Hundreds of Volunteers Respond for Closing Day
and Help Pensacola Make Its Quota
UNOFFICIAL FIGURES TOTAL $1,500,000.00
Overcoming Great Obstacles, City and County
Answer Government's Call With' Pledges
TO CONTINUE
Health Service Decides Epidemic
Conditions Still Demand
Great Caution.
CHECKED BUT
NOT SUPPRESSED
Several Hundred Cases Are Un
der Treatment and There
. Is StilI Danger. - v
Statement by Committee.
: . While, the influenza situation in
'Pensacola has greatly improved,
it has by no means reached a
point where we should relax, for
' a moment, our efforts to relieve
those , already - sick or our ener
gies in stamping out the infection
or preventing its further spread.
And in view of the fact that
there Is no immunity from the
disease because of having had it,
and the strong possibilities of re
infection, it is deemed advisable
to continue to suppress public
gatherings and crowded conditions
of. every character until It ap
pears absolutely safe in permit
ting reopening of the various or
ganizations, public amusements
and other places so affected.
Dr. W. D. NOBLES,
City Health Officer.
' PAUL D. MOBSMAN,
Public Health Service.
In conference with the Emer
gency Relief Committee of the
American Red Cross.
Need for Precaution.
It was stated at. the Emergency Re
lief headquarters yesterday afternoon
that, while conditions in Pensacola are
rapidly improving, there is greater
need of precautionary measures than
ever before.
There are still several hundred
cases of influenza In this city.
A physician who has been closely
associated with the relief committee
and who has visited hundreds of cases
in the city, said that the great dan
ger lies in the ronvalescent stage of
the disease. He declared that a
greater number of deaths had oc
curred when the patient had suf
fered a relapse than at any other time.
"The effect of the disease is m great
ly -weaken the pystem, and it is when
the patient is on the road to recovery
that there is the greatest danger.
"Pensacola has the epidemic under
control. It will continue to decrease
as long as efforts to stamp it out are
not relaxed."
More Volunteers Needed.
Those who can offer their services
aa volunteer nurses are asked to tele
phone Emergency, Headquarters, 116.
The committee is also in need of a
KTealer number of automobiles, and
thoe who 'will -place their cars at its
disposal are asked to phone headquar
ters today.
The work of the men of the navy
has been unfailing, and but fr the'.r
efforts, Jhe disease could not possibly
have been checked.
As an ' instance of the devotion of
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THREE FLORIDIANS
ON CASUALTY LIST
Three Floridians were named in the
day's casualty list issued by the War
Department, none of whom were from
Pensacola. They are:
Private Dow a. Walder, next of kin.
I. Walden, Plant City, Fla., wounded,
degree undetermined.
Private Phillip B. De Mandell. next
of kin. .Mrs. Edna De Mandell, Tampa.
Fla.; wounded, severely.
Private Edmond C. Jochanen, next
of kin. Mrs. M. A. Duffle, Tampa, Fla.;
wounded severely.
With approximately 11,500.000.00 xt
ported last night, Escambia county
went over the top at least $475,000 above
its quota.
Zone chairman R. F. Mitchell re-
ported most encouraging returns from
every county in the zone, which indi
cated that each would exceed ifs al
lotment, and the Woman's Committer
exceeded Us quota by more than one
hundred thousand dollars, according to
incomplete returns.
The Kscambia County Liberty Loan
Committee last night gave out the fol
lowing statement:
"It is with te deepest sense of prid?
and gratitude that the Escambia Coun
ty Liberly Loan Committee extends its
thanks to the people of thl? county,
and to the men who have worked with
them to make this splendid achieve
ment possible. ,
"We feel that there are not word
enough to say what ve think of the
spirit back of the drive. At any time
we would have- thought, with a full
J, month In hieh to, work and every
thing auspicious, that the sum which
J Pensacola has subscribed to the Fourth
I Liberly Loan was record-breaking.
' "But in -the' face of present condl
I ttons. with the loan put over the top
; in four days instead of four weeks, we
can only say to you that there are no
other peonje. like you, we love and.
honor. you, and we are proud to belong
to you. and t o have had- the- hirh pri
vilege to work; with you. helping to
make history. In the greatest hour of
your triimiph over difficulty.
e,wianK every man, woman ana
child in the county, who elpd by buy
ing a bond, or by getting other people
to buy bonds, In order that te grav
of despotism might be dug and auto
cracy buried forever, and that Ameri-
ran mn mto-ftf haca mnnat --. m
munitions with which to whin the
Nun."
Escambia County Liberty
Loan Committee.
Stirriiifl Scenes Close Drive' .
From the first moment when the
work started yesterday morning, the
air was electrical witli the premoni
tion of victory. There was a quicken
ing nf effort, a tenseness of Interest,
an enthusiasm which found its outlet,
at last in the bursts of muslo of th ?
band from the Naval Air Station, 'which
paraded the streets all day, and there
"as inspiration In the ringing word-!
of the speakers from every street cor
ner in the city and from the automo
bile truck, decorated with pat,r)otii
colors 8nd Liberty Loan posters, which
following in the wake of a great ship
from the Pensacola Ship Building Co.,
going from one end of the city to the
other, singers voicing the songs of
Liberty under the direction of Song
Leader KIda A. Hover. From thin
truck Col. John L. Hughes of Fort
Barrancas spoke at the corner of In
tndencia and Palafox early at six
n"clock in the evening, followed by J.
J. Davis. Y. M. C. A. secretary at Fort
Barrancas. John S. Beard. J. B. Perkins
W. If. Watson. William Fisher, C. W.
Girdlestone. and others, who spoke at
various street intersections.
From the platforms on cither side of
the street, committees of women sold
bonds, assisted byy Company D.. under
the direction of Lieutenant Theodora
Martin. Captain Thomas W. Bulfln. and
Lieutenant Bobert Coates. and other.
and at headquarters the women carried
on an active campaign.
Navy Men Buy Liherallr
One of ttie finest reports sent Into
Escambia County headquarters yester
day was from the Naval Air Station,
where every officer and "gob," yeo
manette and civilian employe helpci
to put the loan over the ton. Th of
ficers and men subscribing KAS.XjO.W.
The civilian employes ?51,200.00, and
the complement of 57 men on the four
patrol boats contributing $3,150.00
Lieutenant Samuel B. Young, Chair
man of the Lilerty Loan Committer,
made a wonderful success of th work.
Honor Roll Is Feature
One of the great features of the day
was the Boll r.f Honor, the total, whet
last reports were made, havinar reached
HO.ROO.00.
Reports From County Pistrlets
Vice-chairman, J. Frank Taylor, re
ceived the following reports from tbo
county districts last night:
Millview, 17,000, C. M. Larkin. chair
man; Muscogee, 15,000, H. Whittaker.
chairman; Cantonment, .3,050.00, J. O.
Grlce, chairman; Gonzales. J700, A. J.
Mackey. chairman; Century, 130,000. .T.
W. Taylor, chairman: Gull Point, 8.
riTiO.00, E. P. Wilson, chairman; Walnut
IIHI, S7.000.00, R. Leon J&nes, chair
man. Warrington made a splendid showlno
under chairman H.iyniond W!!kiPf.go-' "'.
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