A USTRIAN ARMIES ARE FLEEING IN PANIC 1
ON FRONT OF MORE THAN HUNDRED MILES
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Ifc- *.y^eOUNTLESS NUMBERS OF PRIS
ONERS ARE TAKEN.
The Teutonia Alliance Is Tumbling To
Pieces—Austria Is Begging For
Peace And Germany Awaits
Allied Terms.
AMERICAN AIRMEN ARE ACTIVE
" (Associated Press Summary.)
Austria’s armies, shattered by the
blows of the Italians, British and
French, are fleeing pell mell on a
front of more than one hundred
miles from the Brenta east and south
tthe Adriatic. The formidable ene
y defense in the baston around
Monte Grappa has been broken, while
east of the Pihve river all the allied
.armies are marching toward Taglia
mento in pursuit of the Austrians.
Countless numbers of prisoners have
been taken.
The British this morning resumed
their offensive south of Valenciennes.
On the French front and in American
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only artillery is active.
Meanwhile the Teutonic alliance is
tumbling to pieces. Bugaria and
Turkey have surrendered, and Aus
tria, with anarchy reigning through
out the kingdom, is begging for peace,
and Germany is anxiously awaiting
allied terms.
Itome dispatches to Washington
describing the victorious sweep of the
liU- Italian and allied armies, say the
lines are moving forward so fast that
it is impossible to identify the towns
retaken or to count the prisoners.
Sixty thousand Italians held by the
Austrians to work on defenses have
been liberated.
Pershing’s report today says the
Americans yesterday drove the Ger
mans out of the village of Brieulles
~V<m the Meuse. Seven enemy air
i?planes were shot down by American
airmen. I
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(By The Associated Press.)
Rome, Nov. 1.—In the offensive
against the Austrians on the Monte
Grappa front the Italians have press
I ed the enemy so strongly that his
It front has collapsed, the war office an
nounces. The Italians have passed
beyond several objectives and are now
advancing in the Piave valley.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Nov. 1.—The British re
I sumed their offensive south of Valen
| ciennes this morning. Haig’s report
says good progress is being made.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Nov. 1.—Haig reports the
British in minor enterprises neat
Lequesnoy Thursday captured a num
i ber of prisoners.
KAISERIN is WORRIED.
Paris, Nov. l.-The German em
press is very ill and weak, according
to a Berne dispatch to the Petit Jour
nal It is said she is haunted by th<
| . memory of the Russian revolution
and insists upon the abdication of th<
emperor.
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COUNT TIZRA IS
SHOT B SOLDIER
Former Hungarian Premier Is Re
ported To Have Been Killed In
Telegram From Budapest.
(By The Associated Press.)
Copenhagen, Nov. 1.—Count Tizra,
former Hungarian premier, has been
shot annd killed by a soldier, accord
ing to a Budapest telegram.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Nov. 1.—The armistice terms
to be submitted to Germany will be
confined strictly to military require
ments, except that it will be brought
out clearly that they be conditioned
generally upon President Wilson’s
principles with some definiteness.
(By The Associated Press.)
Copenhagen, No. 1.—A successful
revolution has taken place in Buda
pest and the Hungarian national
council has taken over the govern
ment, according to a message from
Count Karolyi to the Berlin Tageblatt.
(By the Associated Press.)
With the American Army North
west of Verdun, Nov. 1.—Greatly in
creased artillery fire by American
heavy and light artillery began this
morning all along the front of the
American first army.
(By Tha Associated Proas.)
London, Nov. 1.— British troops
on the Italian front have occupied the
town of Sacile, on the Livenza fifteen
miles east of the Piave, the war office
announces. The enemy is falling
i back rapidly in the Grappa sector.
(By The Associated Press.)
Copenhagen, Nov. 1.—A message
from Berlin says Emperor William
has gone to the German grand head
quarters.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Nov. 1.—Violent artillery
battles were in progress during the
night on the French front along the
Oise, near Guise, and in the Aisne re
gion near St. Fergeux, northwest of
Chateau Porcein, says the war of
fice announcement.
JACOWAY HAS IMPLICIT
CONFIDENCE IN WILSON.
Special to the Independent.
Little Rock, Nov. 1.—Congressman
H. M. Jacoway of this district, was in
the city this week on private business.
He said that official Washington is
proceeding with all of its war prepar
ations irrespective of the peace pro
gram, so that the country may be
fully prepared for anything. He
says that he in common with all loy
al Americans has implicit confidence
in the wisdom and the firmness of
President Wilson to handle the situ
ation to the credit of American honor
and allied arms.
GOVERNOR BROUGH
AGAIN HONORED.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Nov. 1.—Governor
Brough yesterday received a tele
gram inviting him to deliver the
principal address at the presentation
of the Pontotoc County Honor Flag,
at Pontotoc, Miss., in honor of the
400 boys in the service from that
county. He has not yet accepted the
invitation.
HARRY LEE WILLIAMS
ELECTED TO SUCCEED
VIRGIL C. PETTIE.
i Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Nov. 1.—Virgil C. Pet
tie of Jonesboro, resigned as a mem
ber of the Board of Election Commis
• sinners for Craighead county, and
the State Board yest erday afternoon
t (elected Harry William?, editor of the
Uonsboro Tribune, to succeed him.
“STANDING ROOM ONLY”
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This is simply an overflow crowd at a concert given at a Y. M. C. A. building in Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas.
There is plenty of standing room—outside the building. Apparently good singers and entertainers do not need to
fear a slim crowd at their performances before the soldiers. Some of the best musical, dramatic and athletb
talent of the country is at the disposal of the army Y. M. C. A. for the benefit of the soldiers. Entertainers who
volunteer their services are “booked” by the “Y” secretaries for “circuits” throughout the different camps and sev
eral buildings of each. A week’s program of an average “Y” building in camp provides at least one of these enter
tainments, as well as moving pictures, boxing and wrestling contests, an illustrated lecture on a topic of interest to
soldiers, and a midweek religious service.
Boys and Girls to Have
Partin War Fund Drive
Earn and Give Organizations will
be perfected in every county for the '■
young people. The first United j
War Work Drive embraces in its or
ganization a special feature which at
tempts to appeal to the future citi
zens of our country—the boys and
girls. This division is a regular part
of the campaign and will be called
“Earn and Give” division. It is
hoped that every boy and girl in Ar
kansas will have an opportunity to
assist the seven combined agencies at
work in the Camps to bring to the
boys in uniform something of com
forts and homelike atmosphere.
The boys and girls are not asked
only to give, but to earn and then
give; to pledge an amount which it
is reasonable to believe that they can
earn by dint of effort at the expira
tion of a specific time. Money which
represents individual sacrificeson the
part of the boys and girls, sacrifices
for their older brother at the front
is the money which this particular
division is attempting to raise. Last
year when the Y. M. C. A. conducted
a campaign for $35,000,000, the boys
of the country were asked to give $10
each. Over one hundred thousand
boys responded. This year in the
United; War Work Campaign, the
“Earn and Give” idea is not limited
to boys, but every boy and girl is
placed on an equal footing. This
year they are not asked to give $10,
but as much as they can give, by
sacrificing for this cause.
Throughout our country, our boys
and girls are asked to remain in
school as long as possible, but while
they are still in school, they can by
their ingenuity earn money and get
it during the campaign in November.
This special effort will accomplish
two things: First, it will produce
money to carry on the war; and se
cond, it will manifestly assist the
I seven organizations in the Camps to
carry on the worth while work dur
ing the war. If the men and women
of the seven organizations of the
United War Work Campaign will re
spond to the opportunity of bringing
home to our boys and girls the lessor
of doing something which is both pa
thriotic and industrious, they will ir
turn respond to the call for sacri
fice, and take a leading part in the
campaign of November 11th to 18th.
An “Earn and Give” organizatioi
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is being perfected in each county in
Arkansas, definite plans and methods
have already been made and are De
ing sent to every county chairman
and district chairman of the boys and
girls “Earn and Give” division. One
of the attractive and educative feat
ures preliminary to the campaign it
self, is a conference in each of the
nineteen districts of Arkansas, which
will be held) and attended if quaran
tine is raised, by the representative
boys and girls from every county in
the respective districts. Immediately
, following the district conference a
! county conference will be held in
each county similar in purpose and
program to those held in the dis
tricts. Finally the idea will be car
ried into the several communities by
means of community rallies,
j The boys and girls themselves will
be asked to do the work of soliciting
for pledges and funds.
■ This district conference of the
United War Work Campaign was
held at Batesville on Thursday,
October 31st, for the purpose of dis
I cussing plans for the coming drive.
! Mr. Geo. Lewis, state executive sec
! retary of the Boys’ Division of the
1 U. W. W. C., was there to help the
district chairman and the county
chairman realize in a very enthusias
i.:- _ volim rvf enlistimr the
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i boys and girls in this service. There
will possibly be another meeting of
, all the chairmen of the United War
Work Campaign of this district at
which time all the county and local
chairmen of the Victory Boys’ and
j Girls’ Division of Jackson County, are
i urged to be present. At this meeting
there will be an explanation of how
this Division “hooks up” with the
Adult Division and is simply a pari
of the great whole. Prof. Sidnej
Pickens of Batesville is the distric
chairman of the Victory Boys’ Divis
ion and Miss Dove Erwin is distrid
chairman of the Victory Girls’ Divis
ion of the United War Work Cam
paign, comprising four counties: In
dependence, Stone, Lawrence ane
Jackson. Prof. Edgar Williams ha*
been appointed chairman of the Vic
tory Boys’ Division of Jackson coun
ty and Miss Elizabeth Irby is chair
man of the Victory Girls’ Division o
Jackson county .
WOMEN WILL NOT VOTE.
In response to an inquiry from S
A. McHenry, one of the election com
missioners of Faulkner county, Johi
D. Arbuckle, attorney general, yes
terday informed him that women can
not vote in the general election o
Tuesday next. Mr. Arbuckle quote
the law of 1917, which simply per
mits women to vote in the primariei
Subscribe for the Independent.
TO AIM THE
Allied Expedition Into The North
Sea Will Now Follow The Sur
render of Turkey. 4 .
Washington, Oct. 31.—Announce
ment from London that an armiatka
with Turkey which permits passage ' J
of allied warships through the Eae^***
danelles already is in operationyTed '
naval officers here to believe -that am :
allied fleet, if it has not already
started, soon will pass through to
the Black sea and attack the German
naval forces there. These forces in
clude ships of the Riisian Black Sea
fleet taken over by the Teutons after |
the collapse of the provisional gov
ernment in Russia. Official British J|
reports revealed by Sir Eric Geddes,
first lord of the Admiralty during
his recent visit here, show that th**"
Germans obtained one superdread- ^
nought, several battleships 6f the pre
dreadnought type and a score of fast |
destroyers.
The German battle cruiser Goeben > ^
also is in the Black sea. This vessel
was in the Meditteranean when the
war began and escaped to tho Bos
phorus, where is was reported to
have been “sold” to Turkey before
that country entered the war. The*
cruiser was badly damaged several
times, but recent reports said it had. p||l;
been repaired a^ain, taken over by
the Germans and withdrawn to the,
Black sea.
The terms of the Turkish armistice
which are now in operation include-—^||
the free passage of the Dardanelka
to the allied fleet, Sir George Cave,
the home secretary announced in ro£|||
House of Commons today.
Other terms comprise the, occupa- Jfmm
tion of the f ts of the Dardanelle* .
and Bospror necessary to secur*
the passage 1 the allied warship* v *
through the Bosphorus to the Bl*«h^$||||
Another condition is the immediate
reparation of all war prisoner*.
Turkey’s proposals of peace follow
ed the defeats sustained by he* **r";
mies in Palestine and Mesopotamia -*
and the collapse of Bulgaria, which
left her open to attack on another
frontier, and thus were not unexpect- ‘
ed, although the Turk in making *
bargain is in the habit of waiting for
the other side to make an offer. ’**1111
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All Federal Districts Went Over Th# ,
Top In Fourth Liberty Loan Drive
.—Nation $866,000,000. |
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 1.—The Fourth
Liberty Loan was oversubscribed by |
more than $866,000,000. All federal ; |
reserve districts were oversubscribed*
! Casualty List
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The following casualties are re
ported by the commanding general of
! the American Expeditionary Force*:
Died of wounds-,-*- ■
Died of airplane accident- 1
Died of disease •.———--W ■
Wounded severely - H®
Wounded slightly - 16®
• Missing in action-81
1 * Total_——318
ARKANSANS IN LIST. \ |
Killed in action, Lieut. Herbert A.
1 Baldwin, Roseville.
* Wounded in action, degree unde
' termined, Robert A. Foster of Hoh
1 and David Dodson of Cave Creek.
| Wounded severely, Charles T. Hall
of Powhatan.
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