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BELIEVED ARMISTICE HAS BEEN
PRESIDENT'S An TO
CENTRAL POWERS WILL BE
ON CABLES BEFORE NIGHT
A WILL THEN BE KNOWN
BERLIN WILL
REJECT TWO
OF PRESIDENT'S
PEACE POINTS
WILL NOT AGREE TO SEPARA.
TION OF ALSACE LORRAINE AND
INCORPORATION AS INDEPEND.
ENT POLAND ;
4 p. m Washington, D. C, Oct. 8.
(Special to the Telegram) The
President today Informed the German
government that before the United
Slates can discuss an armistice, Ger-
man troops mnst be withdrawn from
all Invaded territory.
He aslued the Chancellor, Prince
Maxmlllian whether he represented
(he German people or the authorities
, of the Empire who are conducting the
war. ...
He asked If the Imperial gorern.
ment accepts the terms laid down by
him in his address to Congress on
January 8th and In his subsequent ad
dresses.
These are the outstanding features
of the President's reply sent to the
Central Powers and made public to
the American people at 4 o'clock this
afternoon.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 8. The Ameri
can reply to Germany's lateBt peace
proposals Is being formulated by the
President today in accordance with
the views expressed by the premiers
or the Allied nations. The despatch
of his reply, which, it Is believe
speaks for all nations opposed to the
Central powers, may be expected
within forty-eight hours, it was Indl-
ated.
The President's reply to the Ger
man-Austrian request for an armls-
ice and peace negotiations will prob-
ble be dsipatched before night if tt
pa not already on the cables. After
eing called into a conference by the
resident with Colonel Houso and
ecretary Lansing, Secretary Tumu!-
7 announced that Secretary Lansing
ould see newspaper correspondents
ft 4 o'clock and would "probably
ave something tor them." The Pres
ent spent the entire morning in his
ptudy where he was believed to be
rutting into final shape the document
f n which he worked nearly all of yes-
erday. None in the President's con
fidence would give an intimation of
pis decision, but there is no change
n the confident belief that' an armls-
ice will be flatlv refused and the
pntral Powers will be informed that
0 Uneauivopal flooantana nf th inr.-
Jitions laid down by the United States
id the Allies must precede any meet-
ng of peace plenipotentiaries.
talians Agree There Must Be Abso
lute Victory
(By Associated Press.)
Rome, Monday, Oct. 7. (Delayed)
""We must have absolute victory;
nT kind of negotiations now are
ore than ever inrtmia!hle." were
he words of President "Wilson .iff
ediately after his rejection of the
istrian peace nronosal is reported
the Epoca in large type as sum
ming the attitude of the Italians
f ward the new peace movement.
To Reject Two PInt8
By Associated Press.)
Copenhagen.- Oct. 8. The Lokal
netger, of Berlin, says that two of
rsident Wilson's points must be
FLATLY
7r
FREED SON FROM CARE
BY COMMITTING SUICIDE
(By Associated ress.)
Tokio, Oct. 8 So that his soldier
Bon, who had been ordered to Vladi
vostok, might be freed of worry on
his behalf and able to devote all his
attention to his duties, an aged Jap
anese, 111 and dependent upon the lad
for support, recently committed sui
cide, according to an announcement
today by the war office.
918,920,000 Bu.
Is Wheat Estimated;
Corn Crop Will Be
2,715,775,000 Bu.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 8. The wheat
crop will be 918,920,000 bushels, the
Department of Agriculture announced
today in Its preliminary estimate of
production. The corn production
will be 2,717,775,000 bushels a3 fore
cast on the condition Oct. 1.
WHAT BECOMES OF
! THE MONEY RAISED FROM
LIBERTY BONDS?
Washington, Oct. 8. Why does it
cost the United States so much more
to make war than it cost any of its
co-belligerents?
What is being done with the tens
of billions being raised from Liberty
Bonds and taxation? One often
hears these questions.
The answer Is not difficult.
:t is, simply, that it costs an Amer
ican more to do anything than U
costs anyone else In the world. That
is the best reason why Americans
th ould buy Liberty Bonds.
The American army Is composed of
workingmen. The American working
roan demands a higher standard of
everything than any other working
man in the world. When he becomes
a soldier he carries that standard
with him, and, comparatively, gets it.
Napoleon said, and everybody ever
since has repeated, that an army trav
els on its stomach. So naturally the
subsistence of the American soldier
comes first in the long bill which is
rapidly running to $50,000,000 a day.
The regular ration list of the Am
erican army calls for forty-nine dif
ferent items of foods. It includes
many things which are luxuries to
the soldiers of the foreign armies.
At that, it only costs 32 cents a day
to feed a soldier. The figure Is low
because the government has the ad
vantage of dealing in billions and
tons where the individual deals In
dollars and pounds. Even so, the
army has felt the increased cost of
living because it cost only 12.81 cents
a day to feed a soldier during the
Spanish war.
Take into account the almost stag
goring sums the government has
spent for food alone since the war
began $37,000,000 worth of flour;
$14,000,000 worth of sugar $43,000,000
worth of bacon; $12,000,000 wortn oi
beans; $9,000,000 worth of canned to
matoes; $3,000,000 worth of rice. It
sounds almost like a food bill for a
nation.
Without any disparagement what
ever of the rationing system of the
co-belligerents if may be said that
while the food of the British soldier
considered rejected-the separatior
of Alsace Lorraine,from Germany and
the incorporation of independent Po
land of Prussian Polan d
LAKELAND, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCT. 8, 1918
REFUSED
SENATOR JONES
FILES CHARGES
AGAINST BREWERS
(By AiMOMted Press.)
Washington, Oct. 8. Charges that
the United States, Brewers' Associa
tion and individual members had se
cretly financed newspapers in the in
terest of the liquor traffic and had
contributed to the National German
American Alliance and had improper
ly influenced State and National leg
islation was renewed in the memo
randum filed today by Senator Jones.
Republican, with the Senate Judiciary
sub-committee Investigating the loans
by Brewers to Arthur Brisbane in
connection with the latter's purchase
of the Washington Times. Jones con
tended the inquiry is unlimited iu
scope and not confined alone to the
Times.
KAISER AND HINDENBURG;
QUARREL LATTER FIRED
London, Oct. 8. Field Marshall
Von Hlndenburg has resigned as
chief of the German general staff af
ter a heated interview with the em
peror in which the field marshal de
clared that a retreat on a large scale
was Impossible to avoid, according to
a Central News dispatch from Amer
sterdam today. The correspondent
based his dispatch on reports from
$82,334,050 Subscribed
To Liberty Loan
Since Yesterday
(By Associated Press.)
'Washington, Oct. 8. Over-night
Increase of Liberty loan subscriptions
whicn have reached the treasury
amounted to $82,334,050, making a to
tal of $1,406,051,000.
compares favorably with that of his
American cousin, the French ration
is less acceptable to the ' American
and that of the Italians would get
a very cold reception.
The equipment of the American
soldier is no less up to standard than
his food. Since the beginning of the
war the government has spent $126,-
000,000 for shoes. Only recently a
contract was let which is Intended to
keep every soldier with two pairs
one ror marenmg ana ane ior Tokio, and number about 100,000 con
general wear. The price in servative socialists, democrats and
quantity of millions was well over army officers of the former regime
5 a pair. Old soldiers of the regular
army can remember when the govern'
ment issued "brogans" far removed
in quality from the army shoe of to
day. The American soldier's clothing so
far has cost a round $500,000,000. For
his blankets the government has
spent $150,000,000. Every thing else
is in proportion for in every partic
ular of his equipment the govern
ment has supplied the soldier with
the same relative high standard he
was accustomed to at home in civil
life. The extra cost of maintaining
an army on foreign soil has entered
into the huge blH because it has been 'Jolshevikin and order and tranquil
found that it costs $423.27 to equip ty restored by the Allies,
and .maintain a soldier a year abroad Contrary to inspired German re
as against $327.78 at home. Of this j uorts, Mr. Petroff stated, there is only
sum $251.83 goes for food. The ra-ior.e government in Siberia the Pro
tionlng expenses at home is $189.80. j visional Government for Autonomous
The high standard has been carried Siberia. This government he said, is
to the soldier's pay. For all practical supported, by the "cooperative un
purposes of estimate the American . ions," which have organized self-de-soldier
is the highest paid fighting terminate governments in various
man in the world. He actually gets ; parts of the country and these are
more than the average German offl-,now coordinated.
cer,
To the $33 a month a private
receives from the government Is add
ed a sum for his dependents, depend
ing upon their condition and num
ber. Canada and the other British
colonies more nearly approximate the , Oct 8. Two million bushels of
pay of the American soldier than any i wheat, which the German army in
other of the co-belligerents: ) tended to send across the Rhine, is
Taking Into consideration all these being garnered along the battlefront
Items it is not strange that America's , bv the harvesting battalions of the
war bill is greatest j
BOOST REMEMBER THAT SATAN
BY.
BATE
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 8. The Ameri
can steamer West Gate of the Naval
Overseas Transportation service, has
been sunk at sea with the loss of six
of the crew. The ship went down
when it collided with the steamer
American.
the frontier.
Field Marshal von Hinderbuigr has
been chief of staff of the German
army since August 80, 1916. In the
last six months there have been var
ious reports of a sensational nature
centering about the field marshal.
During June there were reports he
had died and in July it was said that
General Von Ludendorff had been
made chief of staff. These reports,
however, were denied.
German deserters were quoted as
saying that a Bavarian prince had
tried to shoot the field marshal, but
that Von Hlndenburg was not wound
ed. In commenting on tha American
and French replies to Austria's peace
proposal late in September, the field
marshal told the German people to
"be hard."
The field marshal celebrated his
seventy-second birthday Oct. 2.
CO-OPERATIVE UNIONS OPPOSE
BOLSHEVIKISM IN SIBERIA
Tokio, Oct. 8. Failure of the Bol
shevikl to control Siberia was partly
due to the fact that the leaders of the
Provisional Siberian Government
have organized "cooperative unions"
throughout the country which have
welded the people into one great
family, hostile alike to the blandish
ments of radicalism and of the Ger
mans. Twenty-nine of these bodies were
formed in villages and countlos
shortly after the beginning of the
revolution, according to Arcady Pe
troff, deputy Minister of Foreign Af
fairs of Autonomous Siberia, now in
HVing in the region between Ural and
Irkutsk. These organizations are se
cret and, while each Is -separate and
Independent entity, all are united tor
mutual benefit for the maintenance of
the Provisional Government, financ
ing and the transaction of business.
Mr. Petroff declared it was owing
to the( assistance of these socletlaa
In providing arms, ammunitions, food,
and clothing that the Czechoslavaks
have been so successful against the
Lenine-Trotzky troops. The people
of Siberia, he said, were anxious
when he left Siberia to see the coun-
ry along the railway cleared of the
HARVESTING WHEAT
ALONG THE BATTLEFRONT
With the French Army in France,
French army. From the land wrest
STEAMER
GOES
DOWN
COLLISION
STAYED IN HEAVEN UNTIL HE BEGAN TO KNOCK HI8 HOME TOWN
PRESIDENT.
CAN AND BRITISH
LAN
BETWEEN
JAPANESENE WSPAPERS NOW
UNDER VOLUNTARY CENSORSHIP
(By Associated Press.)
Tokio, Oct. 8. Newspapers of Ja
pan, forbidden during the recent rice
riots to publish anything about the
disorders, won a decided Concession
from the government which now has
placed the press under the same kind
of voluntary censorship as exists In
the United States.
FARMERS ARE BACKING
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
Atlanta, Ga Oct. 8. The Ameri
can farmer will put over the Fourth
Liberty Loan and bring about a
righteous and lasting world peace, de
clares David F. Houston, Secretary
of Agriculture, in a statement Issued
in Washington. Secretary Houston
says:
"The Fourth Liberty Loan will not
fall for lack of support of American
farmers. That is the answer I am
giving to those who ask me what the
response of the American farmer will
be. I am making thia confident as
sertion in the face of the fact that the
American people are now being asked
to make a collossal contribution to
the Liberty, six billion dollars.
"The American farmers have dem
onstrated their patriotic support of
the nation's great war loans. One of
the most striking features of the third
Liberty loan was the support given it
by the farming and rural people. Not
enly did farmers purchase liberally
of the bonds, but the rural communi
ties as a rule were more prompt in
completing their quotas of the loan
than were the larger cities. More
than 20,000 communities in the United
States over-subscribed their quotas,
many of them on the first day of the
campaign .
"The majority of these were not
cities but country districts; Iowa, a
typical agricultural State, was the
first to subscribe its quota. But w
now have a 'greater effort to make
Our largest war loan has been
launched. It will tax our determina
tlon to defend our liberty and our re
public at all costs.
ed from the Teutons since the mid'
die of July 1,500,000 bushels already
have been gathered, and half a mil
lion more remain to be cut. Further
more, each backward step by the In
vaders adds to the wheat acreage
which will feed the fighters of France
this winter.
As the tanks and the infantry bat
ter their way toward the artillery
comes up behind them, and with the
guns come the reapers. Alongside
positions where the French cannon
were hurling death into the enemy's
ranks in the battles of the Ayre,
Aalsne, and Oise, American harvest
ers were hard at work.
Around Montdidier where grain
fields were part of the battleground,
self-binders were gathering a rich
harvest. Where the big machines
'ould not reach the grain because of
wire entanglements, shell-holes, and1
'.renches, soldiers armed with scythes
and sickles cut the stalks and recov
ered every kernel that could be
saved.
North of the Aisne the advancing
French found acres where the Ger
mans had worked hard to reap the
wheat they had sown, but had found
the time too short. East of the
Avre, near Moreuil, the pollus found
a threshing machine almost Intact
evidence that the harvesting had
been carried on almost up to the last
minute. All the other farm imple
ments had been taken away or destroyed.
ST. (WIN WITH SUCCESS
i
fIFW ATTACK
CAMAI AND
TO
BELGIAN COAST
TELEPHONE LINES BEING TAKEN
DOWN, STORES BURNED AND
FACTORIES DESTROYED
(By Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 8. The English and
American troops attacked this morn
ing on the front between Cambrai and
St. Quentin, Gen. Haig announced.
Satisfactory progress is being made it.
was stated.
Today's attack was launched just
before daybreak during a heavy rain
which began last night. In success
ful local operations near Mom Bre
hain Beaurevoir more than 230 pris
oners were taken by the Americans
and English.
Advance Continues
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, Oct. 8. Northeast and north
of Itheims the French continued their
successful advance, the war office an
nouncement today says. The French
have reached the outskirts of Conde-Sur-Suippe
at the Junction of the
Suippe and the Aisne northeast of
Berry Aubac. Along the Suippe the
French penetrated into Isles-Sur-Suippe
to the west and captured Ba
zancourt. '
Germans Evacuating Belgian Coast
(By Associated Press.)
Amsterdam, Oct. 8.- The evacua
tion of the Belgian coast region by
the Germans is continuing, accord
ing to the frontier correspondent of
the Telegraaf. Telephone lines be
tween the frontier and the coast were
being taken down yesterday and to
day, and stores of material at Knokke
near the coast, five miles from the
Dutch border, are being Bet afire The
report states that many factories have
been under-mined preparatory to
their quick destruction. .
TERRIBLE CONDITIONS
REPORTED IN GERMAN
PRISON CAMPS
The Hague, Oct 8. Thousands ot
Russians and Finnish Red Guards
imprisoned in a secret camp at Fried-
enort, near Konlgsberg. Germany, ara
living and dying amid terrible con
ditions, according to a neutral who
has Just arrived here after a lone
visit In Germany. Many o them, he
said, are virtually naked, and the re
mainder are clad In rags. Deaths are
common, and he predicted that with
the coming of winter most of these
still alive would perish from expos
ure.
Food conditions in West Prussia.
this informant said, are by no means
as good as In East Prussia, the home
of the Junkers. Ample food was ob
tainable at fairly reasonable prices in
the east, in consequence of which the
population was comparatively, cheer
ful. To this situation he ascribed
the continued resistance of the Junk
ers to the desire for 'a quick peace,
which, he stated, was growing rapid- '
ly in other parts of the country.
The wreckage caused by the Rus
sian invasion of 1914 was still evi
dent, accosting to the traveler, who
found the streets of Gublnnen in a
ruined condition. Reconstruction of
military works, however, was going
forward steadily by the forced labor
of many Russian and Italian pris
oners, who were being worked on
railways, bridges, barracks, and fortifications.
GERMANS
CONTINUE
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