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GREAT BATTLE IS
RAGING ON SCHELDT
LONDON,—The British and French
continue to make excellent progress
in the new attack inaugurated on
Friday between the Loos and Scheldt
rivers. The British driving forward
have cut the Valenciennes-Quesnoy
railroad, the most important German
communication in the whole of north
ern France. The Germans are be
wildered by the mobility of the Brit
itsh and French troops which con
trasts so strangely with the tactics
earlier in the war. The new attack
lifted the Germans off their feet be
fore reinforcements could be brot
from other sections which had been!
threatened the day before and which
were expecting a renewal of the at
tack. The constant plunge forward
of troops in different sectors is trying
the enemy command to the limit of
endurance.
PARIS,—The Germans are con
cerned for the safety of their force in
Valenciennes say captured prisoners.
The enemy is now afraid that to evac
uate would mean the loss of practi
cally the entire force, while the effort
to hold the Allies there is likely to
enable the Germans to strengthen
their positions further back and to
enable those who have been held at
Valenciennes to beat a retreat before
entirely surrounded.
PARIS,—The first month of the
American fighting between the Ar
gonne and the Meuse was completed
today, Saturday. During/that time
the Americans have advanced consid
erably and taken twenty thousand
prisoners. This is better than the
average Allied captures.
The fighting on this sector is grow
ing in bitterness and intensity, but
the Germans, notwithstandig the rug
ged nature of the country, are yielding^
steadily to the American pressure.
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COPENHAGEN,—It is officiaally
announced in Vienna that the Aus
trotro-llungarian armies would be de
mobilized. Following a conference
with Hungarian offi<ials it was de
cided to ask for immediate peace.
The German Alliance was formally,
denounced.
ROME,—Austrian resistance along
the Piave is stiffening. The Italians
took three hundred prisoners.
LONDON,—The British made big
advances on a wide front north and
south of Valciennes which is now
isolated. * ^
PARIS,—The Americans progress
ed in the region of Dormont wood.
northwest of Verdun.
LONDON,—A Daily Express dispatch
from Berne says that the Turkish
minister to Switzerland has handed
the British and French minister the
peace offer of his government ami
that this offer practically amounts to
a surrender.
At Downing street nothing could be
learned, the Foreign Office refusing
to admit or deny any knowledge of the
offer.
It is however admitted that it will
be impossible for Turkey to hold out
much longer.
LONDON,—While nothing is given
out, there is a general expectancy of
news from Mesopotamia where it is
believed with this month there will
I be a revival of the offensive so bril
I liantly carried on by General Maude
i last autumn and winter. While the;
summer months are .very trying_jfh
Mesopotamia, and the rainy season is,
not very conducive to the health of
the troops, with the arrival pf Novem
ber the climate is better and opera
tions can be successfully carried out.
The announcement that the Turks
have retired from Tabriz, Persia, in
dicates that already British activities
! are causing them anxiety in the east.
Important developments ate expect
| ed from this section and it would not
j occasion any surprise if connection
! was made with the force of General
Allenby by way of Mosul and Aleppo.
ITALY GIVES THEM
VERY HEAVY DEFEAT
WASHINGTON,—Military experts
say that Italy has taken up the task
of eliminating the Austrians from the
-war in their new drive. The Italians
have been preparing for some time
for the offensive that broke out on
Friday and have made considerable
headway.
LONDON,—The Italians hurled
forward their armies in very bad
weather against the Austrian lines
on Thursday, attacking the strong
hold at Monte Grappe, scene of al
ready bloody and freeiuent fighting.
The Austrians at first met the attack
lirmly and even attempted to counter
attack, but they were finally compell
ed to give way and were driven across
the Piave in a battle that resulted in
the wholesale slaughter of the retir
ing units as they crossed the stream
under the terrific fire from the Ital
ian artillery^ The Italians captured
not less than three thousand prison
ers. The fighting is continuing.
LONDON,—The attack in Italy is
being aided by French and British
troops. The offensive was undertak
en after several weeks of preparation
under the direct orders of General
Foch who has charge of all operations
under the Allied nations.
The drive forward at this time has
a very important bearing upon the
political unreadiness of Austria.
PARIS,—Simultaneously with the
announcement of the Italian offensive
comes the statement in the evening
J papers that the Austrian Foreign Min
j ister von Burian and Premier
| Wekerle have resigned office. The
| Austrian situation from a domestic
I point of view is very precarious.
LONDON,—Two slav regiments at
Karlova, Hungary have mutinied and
now control the city.
AMSTERDAM,—The Crown Coun
cil at Vienna is now considering the
revolt of the Croatian soldiers at
Fiume which city they have seized.
Fiume and Trieste are the two leading
harbors in the Adriatic upder Aus
tria and the seizure of this place is
an awkward thing for the Central
Powers.
There is charged in Vienna papers
an indisposition upon the part of the
government to handle firmly the
mutinous spirit among the Slovak
and Croatian peoples.
CLOCKS GO BACK
WASHINGTON,—The clocks go
back one hour tonight restoring the
time again to standard time.
GOVERNOR STANDS FIRM
FOR THE QUARANTINE
SEATTLE,—Steamship companies
are now considering the possibility of
abandoning all Alaska sailings be
cause Governor Riggs has given or
ders to the medical authorities at all
ports that no suspected cases of in
fluenza will be allowed to land.*
Many passengers who arrived at
Alaskan ports have been refused per
mission to leave the steamers because
jthe medical authorities considered
that they were afflicted with signs of
the disease. These were taken back
to Seattle where nothing worse, the
steamship men claim, than a cold de
veloped and the companies have been
put to great additional expense on
this account. Riggs however stands
firni, and declares that while mis
takes may occur in refusing to let
suspectB ashore, he is determined to
enforce a rigorous quarantine every
where to prevent the ravaging epi
demic obtaining a foothold in the
country. One statement is made that
the epidemic did sweep St Lawrencj
Island last winter and practically
decimated the natives. Even the mis
sionaries there are said to have suf
fered.
AT ANY COST
AMSTERDAM,—Trade papers de
voted to the iron trade in Germany
urge that the army must hold the
Langwy-BreijUron fields at any cost.
These were conquered in the first
year of the war.
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UEBKNECHT IS NOW
!OUT OF HIS PRISON
WASHINGTON,—Diplomatic dis
patches tell of processions of women
in certaain German cities demanding
peace from the German government.
In some cases the demonstrators took
cofctrol of the city and the police
were for a considerable time power
less.
Dr Karl Liebknecbt the great soc
ialist leader has been released from
prison where he has been in confine
ment since 1916.
The very first act of the socialist
leader was to summon socialists to a
national conference for the purpose
of demanding that peace negotia
tions be opened up.
The attitude of the authorities to
the activities of Liebknecht is not
stated, but the general unofficial view
here is that owing to the unsettled,
state of German sentiment, it would
be dangerous now to take any drastic
steps to prevent him carrying on his
peace propaganda. It is certain that
Liebknecht carries with him now the
overwhelming working class senti
ment thruout Germany.
PARIS,—Unofficial, but rather
semi-official dispatches have been re
ceived from Germany thru Switzer
land that the German war cabinet
after considering Wilson's* reply de
cided not to answer until some notion
of the terms of the Allies armistice
conditions would be received.
Newspapers receive the Wilson re
ply in Germany with every sign of
satisfaction altho it is evident that
being so hard pressed it is impossible
to wholly ignore it.
The demand for peace is quite gen
eral in German circles, the poorer
and middle classes seemingly anx
ious that peace at any price be con
cluded. It is not impossible that the
Kaiser may make a final appeal to
the people to support the army and
the government in a last desperate
war of defense.
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FRENCH CROSS THE
HOANUBE IN RUMANIA
PARIS,—The French troops have
crossed the- river $a.nube, invading
floumania near Lomplanka. The Aus
rians so far, have not presents^ any
very serious opposition.
It is believed that the Roumanian
army7 which still exists will unite
with the Allied forces against the
Teutons.
PARIS,—Vienna papers publish ar
ticles relative to the demobilization
of the armies. The Italian offensive
is regarded with apprehension as
likely to cause another useless
slaughter in a war where defeat for
Austria is simply certain.
Th« capture of Karlowitz by the
mutinous regiments is regarded with
great misgivings. The papers contend
that peace and immediate demobiliza
tion Is necessary if revolution is not
to plunge the nation into chaos.
ROME,—There is a rumor current
in Vatican circles, always very close
to steps by the Austrian royal family,
that the emperor and family were
leaving Vienna preparatory to ab
dicating the imperial throne.
LONDON,—The attack of the Ital
ians on the Piave and the invasion of
Roitmania by the Entente forces
across the Danube is, according to
Zurich advices striking terror in
Budapesth and Vienna circles, where
| a most panicky condition, prevails.
The French are doubtless moving to
cut the main Austro-Roumanian rail
road running into Hungary at Iron
Gate.
It is likely that this will force the
issue.
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TURKS DRAW IN THEIR
TROOPS FROM PERSIA
WASHINGTON,—The Turks are
now manifesting concern over the
military situation following the Brit
ish ultimatum for an unconditional
surrender as the price of any armis
tice.
A dispatch to the state department
announces that the Turks are prepar
ing to evacuate Tabriz, Persia, with
aut doubt for the purpose of protect
ing their lines in Asiatic Turkey clos
3r to Turkey in Europe, or what there
Is left of it.
Information has also been received
that when the British forces evacuat
sd Baku, the Turks who took posses
sion of the city proceeded to indulge
in a carnival of blood and massacred
thirty thousand Armenians.
The British offered to arm and
equip the Armenians to defend the
town with them against the Turks
who were threatening to attack i^ but
the Armenians refused to fight
whereupon the British withdrew. The
horrible penalty of their failure to de
fend themselves was the wholesale
slaughter.
WASHINGTON—Turkey is now in
the throes of a peace agitation and the
Grand Vizer in a statement to the
i Turkish parliament declared that
I they would willingly enter into nego
tiations wth the enemy for a just a
lasting and an equitable peace. It
should be founded upon right and
justice.
As the Entente has refused to listen
10 any other peace overtures other
than unconditional surrender the
statement of Twefik Pasha may be
regarded as a temporary postpone
ment of the inevitable policy which
they will be compelled to adopt. Open
ly the Turks admit that they fear the
worst. Very better feeling exists be
tween Turkey and Bulgaria. The
Constantinople papers openly charge
Bulgria with betraying the Central
Allies.
FRENCH NORTH OF AISNE
INFLICT STUNNING RLOW
PARIS,—The French north o£ the
\isne on Friday continued their ham
nering blows on the German defenses
ilong a seven mile front, capturing
he important road junction of Nizy
e Comte and several smaller towns,
The movement is obviously direct
id towards the southern boundry ol
3elgium and the Germans early it
he attack savagely resisted.
Overborne by the French pressure
hey began to give way about noon
md are still moving back. The blt
erness with which this position is be
ng defended is due to the fact that
he thrust of the French troops gives
hem an opportunity to bite into the
'tanks of the Germans north of the
twmer Argonne positions. Very
itrong divisions of the Crown Prince’s
irmy were held here to prevent the
French advance.
In the sector below Valenclennei
where the dramatic push of the Brit
ish on Thursday made such a phe
nomenal advance, the battling was re
suuied with unvarying success.
The German tenacity around Va
lenciennes is clearly with a recogni
tion that when R falls it opens th<
road to Brussels and may compel ai
extensive retirement and realign
ment of the German forces.
North and south however this city
is now beleagured by the Allied troop:
The fact which is being held explana
tory of the German resistance is noi
to be overlooked, namely that if the
present western line is not held unti
the winter compels a lull, the Ger
mans will bfe driven to open out frorr
Belgium to Alsace and give themsel
ves a much longer line to hold witt
an ever decreasing man power. This
I
danger is uppermost in the German
commanders and troops at the front
are urged and implored and com
manded to make a much more stren
uous resistance to the Allied forces.
“M TTI V 8T1KK1N. ”
WASHINGTON,—Republicans re
fuse to admit the right of Wilson to
appeal to the people to return a demo
cratic congress to support his admin
istration. He has received more r.on
sistant support in his war policy from
the republicans they claim than from
his own democrats.
NEEDN’T FIGHT
WASHINGTON,—Baker says no
more congressmen will be enisled or
drafted. His idea is that legislation
is a war essential Industry.