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The Weather Report
AXMAJTAC FOR TODAY
For New Haven and vicin
ity: Unsettled, probably
showers tonight. Friday,
fair, cooler.
VOL. 54 NO. 228 EST. 1790
In (Macedonia Along 130
Bulgarian First Army On Left Has Been Placed in Dan
gerous Position By Cutting of Prilep
Veles Road at Izvor.
ON NORTHEAST OF LAKE DOIRAN
BRITISH TROOPS CROSS FRONTIER
I lemy Territory Invaded at Kosturnio Few Miles South
of Strumnitsa Which is Bulgarian Base
In Region.
(By the Associated Press)
On the Macedonia front British troops have invaded Bul
garia as the Serbian and other allied armies pursue the hard
pressed Germans and Bulgarians east and west of the Vardar.
In Macedonia the Allies are advancing all along the 130
mile, V-shaped front between Monastir and Lake Doiran. ' The
Bulgarian first army on the Allied left has been placed in a
dangerous position by the cutting of thePrelip-Veles road at
Izvor, while the Serbians are in the outskirts of Ishtib 18 miles
east, and one of the bases of the Bulgarian second army. Ap
parently the Villes line, the most formidable for the enemy
south of Uskub, will prove untenable.
v Northeast of Lake Doiran British troops have crossed the
frontier into Bulgarian Macedonia threatening the extreme
enemy left flank. Enemy territory was invaded at Kosturnio,
a few miles south of Strumitsa the Bulgarian base in the re
gion north of Lake Doiran.
Kosturnio is at the headwaters of the Trekanya river which
flows through virtually level country to Strumitsa. Mean
while the French and Greeks are pushing eastward from the
Vardar river in the direction of Strumitsa which is situated in
a valley between two high mountain ranges.
London, Sept. 26 Serbian
Ishtib an important Bulgarian
official statement dated Wednesday. Elsewhere the Serbians
have made important gains.
The statement reads:
"On Sept. 24, Serbian troops achieved a very important
success on the left bank (east) of the Vardar. We reached
Krivolak and the outskirts of Ishtib (18 miles east of Veles on
the Vardar and 38 miles northeast of Prelip.)
In this region we captufed a colonel commanding a Bul
garian regiment and a considerable number of prisoners as
well as four howitzers, three mountain guns, one hundred
horse wagons with teams and other material.
(Continued on Page Two)
DISCUSS PLANS
TO STOP SPREAD
OF INFLUENZ
Places of Public Assembly
- May Be Closed As Result
of Boston Meeting.
Boston, Sept. 26 A public meeting
,to discuss plans for effectively com
baitting the epidemic of influenza in
New England was held at. city hall
here today. The closing of theatres,
motion picture houses and other pub
lllc gathering places in this city, were
discussed.
An urgent appeal for volunteer
physicians and nurses sent out from
the State House resulted in many of
fers of assistance ana tne omciais
i. y6ntinued their efforts with renewed
y vigor regardless of the unfavorable
vweamer conaiuons. jviore iimn
purses have enrolled with the Red
Cross for emergency service.
In experiments with a new influenza
Vaccine produced at the Tufts College
laboratories are being made nurses at
the Boston City Hospital and students
in the Tufts Medical school have been
lnnocmated and officials said that a
day or two wouls show definitely
whether the product would be ef
fectual as a preventative.
The New England division of the
American Red Cross has responded to
the emergency created by the preval-
. nce of the disease.
A fund of $100,000 provided by the
executive council was made available
today for the work of the emergency,
publlo health committee.
Entered as second class matter at the post office
at BriflKeport, Conn., under the act of 1879
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troops reached the outskirts of
base, Tuesday, says a Serbian
BRIDGEPORT IS
OF SPANISH INFLUENZA
Board of Health Has Received Reports of 18 New Cases,
Making Total of 66 in City Only One Death
Reported Up to Date.
In the past twenty-four
cases of Spanish influenza reported to the Board of Health bv
physicians in the city. This makes a total of sixtv-six known
cases.
HALT SMOKER TO
PREVENT SPREAD
OF INFLUENZ
Owing to the fear that the epidemic
of Spanish influenza might spread or
ders were issued today by the Health
Department forbidding the fifth
monthly smoker, which was scheduled
to be held tomorrow night at the
Remington Arms Co. barracks.
The order came as a great surprise
to the officials of the Arms Company
who were looking forward to making
this the banner event of the cleverest
boxers in the city were in the pink
of condition to put on an exhibiUon
such as the lovers of the manly art
have seldom seen in this neighbor
hood. The Railroad Administration re
jected suggestions made by short lines
for modification of the contract offer-
ed by the government."
MISS WILSON TO
ARRIVE HERE ON
THE 557 TRAIN
Unexpected Duties Causes
Change of the Original
Plan and Train.
DINNER AT THE
COUNTRY CLUB
Only Residents of Maple -wood
District Can Be Ac
commodated at Meeting.
A telegram has been received by
the Community committee in the city,
that Miss Margaret Wilson will not
arrive until the 5:57 train, instead of
on the 3:S6 as formerly expected. Ow
ing to matters which were unexpect
ed, Miss Wilson was cblige'3. to change
her plans, and was obliged to post
pone her arrival a couple ot hours.
The program for the afternoon and
evening will not be changed, except
that less time will be allpwed for vis
iting the school buildings to be used
in the Community work. The com
mittee will entertain Miss AVilson at
dinner at the Brooklawn Country club
as announced, and the exercises will
open at the Maplewood school at 8
o'clock.
Considerable misunderstanding has
arisen about the city regarding the
nature of the exercises at Maplewood
school this evening. They are to be
for the residents cf the Maplewood
district only, as the other residents of
the city will have the same oppor
tunity to organize and inaugurate en
tertainments in their respective dis
tricts. Therefore only those having
tickets with their name and address
will be admitted, but no charge is to
be made. Much to the regret of the
committee, it is necessary to limit the
attendance, as any other arrangement
is contrary to the Community idea,
and the hall at the school has a ca
pacity of 4 50 people only.
At 8 oclock sharp the program will
open with selections by the Maple
wood school orchestra. P. V. Gahan,
as deputy of the Board of Education,
will then call the meeting to order
and the first business will be the
choosing of a chairman. Singing by
the entire gathering will then take
place, and "Make Wide the Doorway
of the School, a song the words of
which were written by Justice Wen
dell Phillips Stafford of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia. The
music was written by Arnold Dres
den, a well known educator, who is
new in service in France. This will
be followed by the singing of popular
songs, and others which have been
written by E. ,T. Ward, who repre
sents the TJ. S. Board of Education
In this city.
MISS' WILSON 8 Pa.ec 1
Miss Wilson will then be asked to
speak or sing, and while no ar
rangements have been made, it is ex
pected that she will consent to fur-
(Continued on Page Two)
IN GRAS
hours, there were eighteen new
According to those who are in a
position to understand the matter th'is
is very promising for a city the size
of Bridgeport, as it is reported that
other cties are reporting cases into
the thousands, in fact it was rumored
this morning that Hartford had up
wards of 2,000 cases. It is believel
to be undoubtedly due to the prompt
action of the Health .Department in
making all information public as soon
as possible, and to the sincere co
operation of the people that Bridge
port has so long escaped a dangerous
epidemic.
The Health officials . stated this
morning the greatest danger is in the
cases where the patients do not call in
the services of a physician, as the
patient while not necessarily in a dan
gerous condition becomes a carrier
r.nd spreads the "disease among others
by a lack of trained supervision of the
case.
Only one death from influenza has
been reported to date, that of Dr.
William Duclos, who contracted the
malady while on a visit to Camp Dev
ns, and who died in the Bridgeport
bvspita! yesterday afternoon.
"The progress of the disease will be
governed by the people themselves,"
1 (Continued on Page Two). ' -
and Evening Farmer
BRIDGEPORT, CONK, THURSDAY,
CHAPIN PLEADS
NOT GUILTY TO
MURDER CHARGE
New Tork, Sept. 26 A plea of
not guilty on the ground of in
sanity was accepted by the court
today in the case of Charles K.
Ohapin, former city editor of the
New York Kvenlng World, who
confessed to killing his wife- in
their apartments in a local hotel.
The prisoner's attorney, who
offered the plea as a substitute
for one of not guilty, announced
that his next move would be an
application for appointment of a
commission to determine the men
tal state of the former editor
at the time he shot his wife, and
since then. The district attorney
did not oppose the change of
pleading.
LIBERTY LOA
COiiTTEE IS
SIZING
Men Who Will Have Direc
tion of Campaign to Raise
Nearly $9,000,000 Here.
The general committee of the Lib
erty Loan campaign were planning
their methods of procedure this morn
ing, and getting ready to put into
motion the machinery which will land
Bridgeport where the city has always
been in all war undertaking 5, "over
the top."
Nothing definite has been made
publio so far, and no method of cam
paign has been arranged- as yet, but
it can easily be seen by a perusal of
he names of the men on the com
mittee that it is representative of
every branch of industry, every race
and creed, and should result in a won
derful organization Dor the success of
the Fourth Liberty Loan.
The names follow:
O. G. Sanford, chairman.
E. P. Bullard, Bullard Machine Tool
Co.
. N. Benham, First-Bridgeport (Na
tional Bank.
. S. Catlin, Machanlcs' & Farmers'
Savings Bank.
R. W. Cogswell, Citv Savings Bank.
E. H. Dillon, Harral Building.
Carl Foster, 1.115 Main stre?t.
R. Goddard, Bridgeport Trust Co.
W. E. Goddam, Ftratford Trust Co.
W. H. Griffith, T. L. Watson ffc Co.
S. M. Hawley, Bpt. Savings Bank.
R. S. Hincks. Hincks Bros. & Co.
E. H. Havens, Hunter & Havens.
J. A. Leonard, Crane Co.
W. II. Lyon, People's Sav. Bank.
Frank Miller, City National Bank.
G. P. Miller, Bridgeport Brass Co.
B. D. Pierce, Jr., Chamber of
Commerce.
L. B. Powe, Connecticut Nat. Bank
Dutro Plumb, Hincks Bros.' Co.
C. B. Seeley, Bpt. Trust.
H. S. Shelton, Conn. Nat. Bank.
Howard Speer, Hincks Bros.' & Co.
J. C. Stanley, Amer. & Brit.
F. T. Staples, Jas. Staples "i Co.
W. G. Taylor, Howland Dry Goods
Co.
A. W. Tremain, Amer. Bank &
Trust Co.
E. F. Von Wettberg, Newfleld
building.
D. F. Wheeler, Bpt. Land & Title
Co.
Hon. C. B. Wilson, City Hall,
Sumner Simpson, Raybestos Co.
E. M. Jennings, 277 Fairfield Ave.
Rev. M. A. Pankoski, 433 Park Ave.
Lucius Jordon, First-Bpt. National
Bank. "
Dr. B. L. Smykovski, 405 Barnum
Ave.
A. S. Ambrose, 1416 Fairfield Ave.
Rev, J. B. Nihill, Washington Ave.
J. B. Klein, DeForest & Klein.
(Continued on Page Two)
"MUST CONQUER
OR PERISH" SAYS
RAL KOESTER
Amsterdam, Sept. 26 "We must
be victorious if we are not to perieh
politically and economically," Grand
Admiral von Koester, former com
mander in chief of the German fleet,
declared in a speech to the German
navy league at Dortmund, a Berlin
message reports.
"After the war," continued the
Admiral," our ships in large num
bers, must traverse the ocean and
we must have colonies, with strong
points of support. We want free
trade on the seas and we will only get
that under the protection of the Ger
man fleet."
The speaker eulogized the sword
as a means to victory, declaring:
"As nature needs storms, as God
has given beasts teeth and claws, man
also needs the sword.
In referring to the proposed league
of nations. Admiral von Koester de
clared Germany would only have the
role'of a Cinderella in it.
SEPT. 26, 1918
GARDNER TELLS
RAMBLING TALE
OF BADBEAT1NG
Editor of Labor Leader
Found Unconscious at
Hollister Avenue.
CLAIMS ASSAULT BY
PARTIES UNKNOWN
Gave Ride to Men and Wo
men and Was Severely
Beaten By Party.
Beaten almost to a pulp, with both
eyes closed and his nose broken, the
unconscious form of Louis Gardner,
of 337 John street, editor of the La
bor Leader, was found in his auto
mobile at the corner of Hollister and
Connecticut avenues at 7:45 o'clock
this morning.
A hurry call was sent to the Emer
gency hospital and after the man's
injuries had been treated temporarily
he was taken to the Bridgeport hos
pital, where he is slowly recovering
from the effects of the beating he re
ceived at the hands of unknown per
sons. The matter was immediately re
ported to Captain E. O. Cronan, chief
of the detective bureau and Detective
Sergeant George F. Simon was de
tailed to make an investigation 0 the
affair. When seen at the hospital
Gardner told the detective he did not
want the affair to reach the newspa
pers and gave an account of the oc
currence which appeared to the po
lice as being somewhat rambling.
Gardner said that as he Was go
ing home about 11 o'clock last night
(Continued on Page Two)
PALESTINE TO BE
ADMINISTERED BY
ALLY AGREEMENT
Paris, Sept. 26 Liberated territory
in Palestine will be administered un
der the agreement reached between
the British, French and Russian gov
ernments in 1916 it is learned here.
England and France will carry out
the agreement under which France is
cnargea wltn tne preparation of
scheme of self-government for the
people of Palestine.
When the Bolshevik authorities
took control in Russia they published
a number of secret diplomatic docu
ments found in the archives in Petro
grad. Among them was a convention
negotiated between Russia, France
and Great Britain under which Alex
andretta, in Asiatic Turkey, was to be
a free port and Palestine was to be a
protectorate under the three govern
ments.
IAND0N PLAN
ON SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
Sudden Change of Tactics In United States Senate Today
Debate Started, When Senator Jones Makes
Announcement Crowd Disappointed.
Washington, Sept. 26 Plans for a vote by the Senate to
day on the Federal woman suffrage amendment virtually were
abandoned in the midst of debate.
WANT MACKENSEN
FOR BULGARIA
Paris, Sept. 26 Macedonia
"Fresh dispositions made by General
Franchet d'Esperey, who has passed
through Prelip justified the belief
that there will be an energetic ex
ploitation of the great inter-allied
victory in Macedonia," says Marcel
Tiitin, editor of the Echo de Paris.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has
asked Field Marshal von Mackensen
who now is in Bucharest, to take the
command of his armies so as to block
the advance of the Allies in Old Ser
bia and preserve Bulgaria from inva
sion, according to information receiv
ed here from Switzerland.
DENT MIDSHIPMEN
ARE QUARANTINED
Annapolis, Md., Sept. 26 Denying
that the midshipmen at the Naval
Academy have been placed under
quarantine because of an outbreak
of influenza at the institution afi has
been reported, officials said today
that there were 160 suspected case
in the academv hospital. These have
been isolated and said to be of a mild I
character.
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Great Possibilities Might Result From Allied Advance
Thrust on Front Not Active
. Since July. '
LENGTH OF ATTACKING FRONT IS
NOT KNOWN, GOES EAST OF METZi
An
Allied Break Through
Forces in West Into
Outflank
(By The Associated Press)
.French and American troops today are storming the Ger
man positions in Ghampaigne and farther east in what appar
ently is another major stroke by Marshal Foch. The new of
fensive is progressing favorably according to early reports.
The new allied thrust in the west comes on a front which
has not been very active since the Germans failed to advance
in Champaigne in the defeated offensive of July 15 east and
west .of Rheims. French soldiers are attacking in Champaigne,
which runs from Rheims eastward to the Argonne, west" of"
Vei-dun. The Americans are moving forward east of the
Champaigne simultaneously with General Petains men.
Great possibilities might result from a successful allied
advance on the front east of Rheims, as the German communi
cations would be severed and the. formidable enemy position,
from Arras to Laon endangered with the important southern
end outflanked. The length of the attacking front is not dis
closed but it may possibly be from Rheims eastward past Ver
dun to southwest of Metz.
The Franco-American attack on the Champaigne front is
the first allied thrust made on that sector since Marshal Foch
assumed the initiative in July and is the logical result of the
Allied success in Picardy in driving the Germans back to the
Hindenburg line from Arras to Laon.
A drive northward in Champaigne threatens the communi
cation lines in the rear of the Hindenburg defense system,
where the Germans are struggling to keep the British and ,
French from breaking through. While the length of the front:
of attack is not disclosed, it is probable it extends a great part
of the distance from Rheims to Verdun and probably beyond.
An advance of some distance east of Rheims would out
flank Laon and possibly St. Quentin. The communication lines
eastward from Laon, the pivot of the German defenses be
tween Rheims and Ypres would be severed. An Allied break
through might seperate the German forces in the west into two
groups. "
(Continued on Page Two)
FOR VOTE
Chairman Jones of the Woman Suf-
frage committee, Majority Leader
Martin and other leaders of both fac
tions joined in private statements that
the resolution would go over until
Saturday.
While the Senate debate was under
way with crowded galleries awaiting
the final test, Chairman Jones made
the following statement to a represen
tative of the Associated Press:
"It now appears likely that no vote
will be taken today and that the res
olution will go until next Saturday,
when Senator LaFollette of Vssconsin
is due to "arrive." -
When the Senate convened today
with members mustered and with
crowded galleries, the House resolu
tions proposing submission of the
Susan B. Anthony Woman Suffrage
amendment to the Federal constitu
tion, was called .up ,by" Senator Jones
Woman Suffrage- committee.
A two-thirds majority is, necessary
to pass the resolution.
Supporters said they had from one
to three votes to spare, but opposition
leaders expressed confidence that the
resolution would fail and thus auto
matically go over until the 66th Con
gress convenes in December, 1919.
' Both sides expressed hope for a vote
. Kefore adjournment :this- evening,
, 6:44 a. m.
6:45 p. m. -.
4:10 a. m.
11:20 p. m.
10:50 a. m.
PRICE TWO CENTS
Fav
With
Would Separate German
Two Groups May
Laon.
ULGARIA FACES
BINET CRISIS
REPORTS SAY
Complete Change in Foreign
Policy Forecasted-Sofia
Under Martial Law.
Paris, Sept. 28 In well Informed
circles there are reports that a new
ministerial crisis and a complete
change in Bulgaria's foreign policy
is impending.
Martial law hag been proclaimed in
Sofia, according to reliable news,
printed in the German press, says
the Journal of Zurich. It is said
that the Bulgarian cabinet is in con-1
tinuous session and King Ferdinand
had a long consultation with Pre
mier Malinoff yesterday.
Pacifist meetings were held in So
fia Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,, it
is reported. The German govern
ment, according to adavices tp the
Havas Agency from Zurich, is very
uneasy over the pacifist demonstra
tions in Bulgaria and the German
minister has conferred with King
Ferdinand.
In some Bulgarian political circles
it is believed Crown Prince Broris
will become Regent in the present
crisis.
FIXED FOR MAYHEM.
Guerriera Imagio of 124 Lexington
avenue was before Judge Wilder -in
the city court today charged with
mayhem and fined J50. Imagio had
an argument with Herbert Butcher of
Pole 716, Walnut Beach, at the Rem
ington Arma Co. plant yesterday and
J becoming enraged sunk his teeth Into .
the arm of the complainant.'
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