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Bring Shirkers to Time.
Tonopah, Nev., Oct.
Forty miners refused to
down the shaft of the Victor
mine here last night until three of
their fellow workers who had de
clined to buy Liberty bonds gave
their pledges to purchase some of
the securities. The mine workers
have purchased $19,000 worth of
bonds.
Daughters to Be Mothers.
Atlantic City, Oct. 2. Two hun
dred delegates to the annual conven
tion of the Daughters of America
today voted to adopt Belgian and
French orphans as one of the patri
otic war efforts of the organization.
Diaz Inaugurated.
Panama, Oct. 2. General Pedro
A. Diaz was inaugurated as second
vice president today. In his in
augural address he spoke of the
friendly relations existing between
Panama and the United States.
To Adjourn for Politics.
Washington, Oct. 2. A recess
over the November elections was
given serious consideration by lead
ers in congress today with a defi
nite suspension of a month of both
senate and house, beginning about
the middle of October, proposed.
Two Hanged Together.
Winnipeg, Man., Oct. J. Frank
Sullivan and Phillip Johnston, con
victed of murdering Constable Ber
nard Snowden April S, 1918, were
hanged here today at sunrise. The
men went to the gallows without
a tremor.
Von Hertling Decorated.
NAmsterdam, Oct. 2. The German
emperor has conferred the order of
. the Black Eagle on Count Von
Hertling, who recently resigned
from the office of imperial chancellor.
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ANSWER Of ALLIES
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Allegorical Parade Reveals in Blaze of Light What
Forces of Liberty Have Prepared for War-Lord of
Terrorism Who Would Place Military fc
Shackles Upon World of Democracy.
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Sterling Makes Record Jump.
Amsterdam, Oct. 2. Extensive
buying continued on the stock ex
change here today. All foreign cur
rency rales again moved up rapidly.
The pound sterling made a record
jump for one dav. The dollar ad
vanced from $2.12 to $2.20.
G FEATUR
OF 6IG LIBERTY
LOAN PARADES
Band of One Hundred Pieces
to Lead Procession. With
Whippet War Tanks
Following.
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A band of more than 100 pieces,
drafted from the ranks of the musi
cian's union, will appear on the
streets Jtoday noon, in the interest
of the Liberty loan. It will be the
largest band ever seen in Omaha.
All members of the union have
been ordered out and they have been
told that they will be considered
slackers if they do not obey.
The band will assemble at Six
teenth street and Capitol avenue at
11:45 o'clock and will march to the
Woodmen of the World building to
serenade the Chamber of Commerce
in honor if its war activities. Then
the three daily papers of Omaha
will be given a concert.
The parade will end at Sixteenth
and Farnam streets where speeches
will be made by Francls-A. Brogan
aijd Francis Gaines.
Baby Tanks in Parade.
The baby tanks or whippets con
structed by Gus Renze for the Advertising-Selling
league, will make
their first appearance in this pa
rade. According to a program worked
out by Dr. G. B. Shipherd, the
tanks rr. ike their next appearance
in Florencif, Saturday afternoon and
in Benson Saturday night at 8
o'clock.
Monday morning the tanks will
operate on Tenth and Thirteenth
v$treets;' Monday afternoon, in( the
downtown streets; Tuesday morn
ing, West Farnam district; Tuesday
afternoon, West Leavenworth;
Wednesday morning, on the north
side of town,
Tanks at Tower of Liberty.
During the noon hour, commenc
ing Monday, October 7, the tanks
will' be used in connection with the
ceremonies at the Tower of Liberty.
Monday noon the tanks will assist
the Woodmen of the World and the
Woodmen Circle in their cere
monies. "
The Tuesday noon program will
' be devoted to the railroads. The
parade will start from the Union
Pacific building witlf 1,500 Union
Pacific employes in line. It will
move east to Tenth, south to Far
nam, where the Burlington and
other other railroad employes will
fall in and then go west to the
Tower of Liberty.
Wednesday noon's program will
probably be given over to the re
tailers. C. E. Black, president of
the Associated Retailers, has that in
charge. Thurs4aof may be manu
. facturers and jobbers' day.
Children Welcome Today
At Ak-Sar-Ben Carnival
Attendance at the Ak-Sar-Ben
carnival last night was less than a
year ago. Rain came at a time when
. crowds were gathering and inter-fered-lightly
with the fun.
The'record for attendance so far
is as follows:
- . 1917. 1918.
Wednesday ...f 4,102 5.884
Thursday 7,790 7.567
Friday 8,696 ,8,016
Saturday 24,214 20,501
Monday ..T 10,336 3,'654
Tuesday 15.064 8.787
Wednesday . 25,354 15,840
Today will be children's day again
between the hours of 10 a. tn. and 6
p. m.
If the kaiser and the crown quince (may their tribe de
crease and vanish) could have stood on the streets of Oma
ha last night and viewed the parade of 16 magnificent electrically-illuminated
floats, they would have seen some of
their sins of the last four years depicted and their final sure
end in the hot regions foretold.
Never within the memory of the oldest subject of the
gracious King Ak-Sar-Ben has there been an electrical pa
rade that evoked such continuous and tumultuous enthu
siasm as this one.
Of course, its "timeliness" was largely responsible for
this. But there seemed also to have been a special inspira
tion in th hearts of the designers and an extraordinary skill
in the hands of those wh'o built the floats. They were gorgeous.
Allegory, mythology, history and".
piesent actuality were drawn upon
to make this splendid, gleaming
electrical panorama, which moved
majestically along the streets be
tween the jammed human walls of
cheering tens of thousands.
No Doubt of Meaning.
"The Allies' Answer" was the title
of the . parade. The above-mentioned
pair of imperial 'madmen, of
course, could not have been here.
They believe in "safety first" and
the vast crowd on Omaha's streets
lact night would have been a mighty
unsafe place for Bloody Bill and
his jinx offspring.
But if they had Ix-en here they
wouk' not have needed an under
standing iof the English language
to understand what the parade was
about.
It gave a broad, comprehensive
idea of the far-flung battleline of
freedom, now in deadly struggle
with the sinister powers of autocra
cy. It showed the spirit of mighty
democracy, united in the one cause,
whether working in trench, agricul
tural field or munitions factory.
Floats honored heroic France,
martyred Belgium, bulldog Britain
nnd determined Italy. Mars, the
god of war, was seen, torging a
chain of allied nations around the
central empires. America's inex
haustible stores of food, metals and
supplies of all kinds were repre
sented. Cheer Fate of U-boat.'
The Czecho-Slovaks were hon
ored in a float and the Red Cross
were represented by its most popular
symbol. The submarine struggling
in the tearing talons of the Ameri
can cgle, was one of the floats that
called forth extradordinary enthusi
asm. So did also a float bearing
pictures of the presidents who ruled
this republic during all our victori
ous wars for freedom.
And the final float, showing the
Huns in an endless stream, denied
admission at the "pearly gates" and
going on their dejected way to the
other place, filled the measure of
the crowd's satisfaction to the
bCim.
"But the king! Where is the
king?" everybody asked.
Where was that benign monarch
with the white beard who has ruled
the realm of Quivera, now, these 23
years?
Well, people, the king has abdi-
(Continnrd on Tage Two, rolumn OnO
CZECHS REFUSE
OFFER OF PLACES
T
IN GOVERNMEN
Austro - Hungarian Coalition
Cabinet Scheme Blocked;
Premier Tells House
Situation Is Grave.
Amsterdam, Oct. 2. Czecho-Slo-vak
leaders have sharply rejected
an offer made to them to enter an
Austrian coalition cabinet, accord
ing to a Vienna dispatch printed in
the Frankfort Gazette.
House Has Stormy Session.
Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 2. The
Bulgarian armistice undoubtedly has
created a grave situation for Austria-Hungary,
the Austrian premier
yesterday told the lower house, but
suitable military measures will be
taken immediately, in accord with
Germany.
The premier, Baron von Hussa
rek, made a long speech on the
situation. He was interrupted con
stantly by the Czech deputies.
Baron von Hussarek said he was
sure the hour was coming when the
proposition of Baron Burian, the
Austro-Hungarian foreign minister,
would be acted on.
John Norberg, Aged District
. Court Bailiff, Is Dead
John Norberg, oldest court bailiff
in point of service in Douglas
county, and court bailiff in Judge
Day's district court for a number
of years, died last night at his home
at the age of 61 years. Norberg was
born in Sweden and came to this
country with his parents when but
a little -boy. He has been a bailiff
here for the last 30 years and had a
host of friends. He was active in
civic affairs and was very well
known and well liked.
Mr. Norberg is survived by his
wife. They have no children. The
Norberg home was at Twenty
seventh and Poppleton avenue.
Leaders in Congress Plan
Recess Prior to Elections
Washingotn, D. C, Oct. 2. Flans ! passage of the bill by both houses
for suspension of congress over the seemed assured and it was expected
November elections were revived to- th1 by 0ctober 20;. congretls cuId
. . , , . adjourn for a month over the elec-
day by congressional leaders alter a, tions. in the meantime, the senate
survey of the senate and house legis- was expected to pass the power bill
lative calendars
The seven billion dollar army
emergency appropriation bill, now
before the house military committee
the emergency power bill, passed
yesterday by the house, the confer-'
ence report on the emergency agri
cultural bill with its war time prohi
bition rider,'pending before both
houses and formalities in the senate
of laying aside the woman suffrage
resolution were listed for prefer
ential consideration:
Democratic and republican leaders
in the house reached a tentative
agreement today to suspend the
house next Friday and begin a series
of three day recesses until October
14, when it is planned to take up the
army appropriation measure. Prompt
and both houses act on the agricul
tural measure.
The woman suffrage resolution
will come before the senate tomor
row on the motion of Chairman
Jones of the woman suffrage com
mittee for re-consideration of the 53
tp 31 vote by which it was lost yes
terday. Themotio n, however, prob
ably will not be pressed to a vote
until after the elections.
Although leaders are certain that
both senate and house virtually can
suspend work by the three-day re
cess plah, the new proposal for a
month's recess from about October
20 to November 20 is dependent on
the progress made by the senate fi
nance eommittee in revising the war
revenue bill.
HUN
S IN HASTE
TAKE ARCHIVES
T 0 BRUSSELS
Secret Orders Sent Hurriedly
to Governors of Provinces
to Gather Papers at
Central Point.
Paris, Oct. 2. (Havas.) A dis
patch from the Dutch border as
serts that the German governor gen
eral of Belgium has biven secret in
structions to the governors of the
provinces to send hastily all German
archives to Brussels.
Allied aviators have flown over
Brussels dropping thousands of
pamphlets telling the public to have
a little more patience that their
hour of liberation is near.
Motor Car Accident
In Farnam Street
Fatal to Woman
An unidentified woman, about 60
years of age, was killed in an auto
mobile accident at 36th and Farnam
streets last night. The driver of the
car did not stop after the accident.
He was found to be William Cole,
employed by the Murphy-O'Brien
company.
The woman was taken into a Serv
ice garage at the corner of Thirty
sixth and Farnam streets, and later
brought to the Bircknoll hospital,
where it was found she had sus
tained fractures of the skull and six
ribs.
20 Patients Killed '
When uerman Shell
Strikes U. S. Hospital
With the American Army North
west of Verdun, Oct. 2. (By Asso
ciated Press.) Twenty patients,
many of them already suffering
from wounds received in battle,
were killed when a German shell
struck the American hospital sev
eral nights ago. The hospital was
only a short distance behind the
fighting line.
It is possible that it wss a stray
shell, but it appears probable that
a deliberate attempt was made to
attack the hospital. V
Large Quantity of
Material Captured
By American Troops
Washington, Oct. 2. General
Pershing's communique today says
that a partial count of the material
captured during the last week by
the American troops advancing be
tween the Meuse and the Argonne
shows 120 guns of all calibers, 750
trench mortars, 300 machine guns,
100 heavy tank guns, thousands of
artillery shells and hundreds of
thousands of rounds of small arm
ammunition.
Only heavy artillery and machine
gun fire was reported on the front.
Prussian Upper House
Despotic Rule Weakens
In Middle Europe; Rulers
Yield to Growing Demands
Washington, Oct. 2. Signs are multiplying in reports reachinr
the State department from various agencies in neutral European
countries of the rapid weakening of the despotic control which the
military elements in Germany and Austria have imposed upon the
civilian population. American officiils lire becoming convinced that
the imperial rulers have been forced, however reluctantly, to the con
viction that if they are to preserve their dynasties from destruction
they must yield to the growing demands of the civilian elements for
the right of participation in the government during this crisis.
The military parties have retained control only because of their
asserted ability to secure military decision that would confirm Ger
man supremacy over continental Europe and the British Isles as well.
Now that the German armies are being defeated and driven back into
Germany and the nation is confronted with the painful certainty of
an invasion and the exaction of justice ior the wrongs inflicted upon
the French and Belgians, the influence of the Pan-Germans and mili
tary parties is waning. It is believed that the two emperors have
decided that if they are to retain the support of the people, they must
turn to the civilian parties that have been demanding a voice in affairs.
MEET WILSON'S REQUIREMENTS.
It was pointed out today that President Wilson has repeatedly
declared that with the military rulers of the central powers convicted
of broken faith and deceit, there can be no discussion of the peace for
which the Germanic people apparently are clamoring. Hence the be
lated attempts of the emperors to erect a structure of real democratic
government through the creation of cabinets answerable to the parlia
(Contlnurd on Page Two, Column Five.)
REVOLTS BREAK
OUT IN SERBIA
AS BULGARS GO
Austria Inciting Inhabitants
So as to Confiscate Their
Property and Imprison
Them Is Belief.
London, Oct 2. News has reach
ed the Serbian army in Macedonia
that revolts have broken out
in Serbia and other regions where
there are Serbians Croatians
and Slovenes, This announcement
is made in a Serbian semi-official
note, which says that the reports
should be received with great re
serve. It is feared, the note says, that
the Austro-Hungarian government
purposely is arranging with the po
lice authorities to excite the peace
ful inhabitants, and then, on the
basis of such acts, confiscate their
property and imprison them in
camps. It is declared the camps
are in a terrible state because of in
fectious diseases and dirt.
Forty Greek prisoners who have
been held in eastern Macedonia by
the Bulgarians have arrived at
Saloniki, according to a Havas dis
patch. Famine and torture hacr
decimated the ranks of the prison
ers. Bulgarians Retiring.
Amsterdam, Oct. 2. A Sofia dis
patch dated Monday and received
through Vienna says:
"The deserters who were advanc
ing on Sofia have been driven back
to Vladaja and Vitoz Defile by gov
ernment troops. There is no danger
for the capital."
From the fact that the above dis
patch comes through Austria, it
would appear that the Austrian au
thorities are attempting to make it
look as if a part of the Bulgarian
army has deserted, whereas it is
probable the "deserters" mentioned
ate the troops who are retiring from
I Serbia under conditions of the Bul-
VoteS Direct Suf f rage ; garian armistice. There have been
no otner reports oi cissension in ine
Bulgarian army.
Mont Baba Taken by Storm.
Paris, Oct. 2. Fighting continued
on the Macedonian front up to noon
Monday when the Bulgarian armis
tice became effective.
In the region north of Monastir
Italian forces took Mont Baba, a
Amsteidam, Oct. 2. Berlin ad
vices received here say that the
Prussian upper house has rejected
the motion to introduce suffrage
based on vocations and passed an
equal direct suffrage measure in ac
cordance with the government bill
with the addition of an extra vote for
persons over 50 years of age.
MAY DEVASTATE
CITIES ON RHINE
IN RETALIATION
Reprisal for Destruction of
Property in France and
Belgium Considered by
Entente Nations.'
Washington, Oct. 2. An" ultima
tum to Germany regarding the ruth
less destruction of cities and private
property in northern France and
Belgium is being urged on the al
lies and the United States and" is
under consideration.
The burning of Cambrai and St.
Quentin and the devastation of one
of the most popular regions of
Europe as the Germans retreat, has
aroused great indignation and it
was said in diplomatic circles today
that Germany would be warned
soon that if it allows the work of
destruction to continue, severe re
prisal will follow.
It is suggested that the cities on
the Rhine would be marked for de
struction and the Berlin govern
ment told that for every French
and Belgian city ruined without
military reason a German city equal
ly important and valuable, senti
mentally and materially, will be
laid waste.
A dispatch- from France today
quotes the Petit Parisian as follows:
"Cambrai is burning. This is the
new crime accomplished by those
great destroyers of life, fambrai,
the historical city, with "all its
memories of the past; Cambrai. the
modern town, with its industries, is
falling to pieces among a red and
black whirlpool of sparks and
flames. CambraP is at the present
moment but an enormous fire. The
Germans have left, but threw as they
went their incendiary torches on the
valuable remembrances of ancient
France."
ENEMY FORCED TO
RELINQUISH HOLD
ON BELGIAN COAST
Germans Reported Moving Their Heavy Gyns as Allied
Wedge Cuts Deeper in Lines and Warships Join
in Attack; Entente Forces Demolish
Defenses on Six Fronts.
Paris, Oct. 2. The Matin announces that the Ger
mans are evacuating Lille and that the commander there
has requisitioned all means of transportation, even
wheelbarrows and baskets to take away the booty. The
newspaper adds that the evacuation of the townspeople
to Belgium towns near the German border is being pur
sued hastily.
Many towns and villages were carried today by the
French troops onHhe various fronts, according to the
war office announcement tonight. Especial progress
was made north of the Vesle.
By Associated Press.
Again the Germans are in retreat on an important sectot
of the western battle front in France. The scene of the new
retrograde movement is a wide front north and south of La
Bassee canal.
The continuation by the entente allied forces of their
brilliant achievements in restoring Belgium, Flanders and the
expulsion of the enemy from further territory in France from
the region of Cambrai to Verdun evidently has brought the
Germans to the realization that the great bend in the line
from Menin to the east of Arras is likely to prove another
such trap as was the St. Mihiel salient unless they are fast
enough of foot to move eastward, giving up Lille, Lens and
Douai and straighten their line from the vicinity of Cambrai
Qto Belgium.
On all the other six battle-fronts
from Belgium to Verdun 'the entente
forces are keeping up their success
ful advances, although the Germans '
everywhere except northwest ol
Rheims have materially stiffened
their front and are offering strong
resistance to further inroads into
their territory.
May Make Ostend Untenable.'
In Belgian Flanders the wedge of
the Belgian, British and French
troops have penetrated still farther
eastward and southeastward from
Dixmude, and only a few miles more
will be required by the allied troops
to give them positions by which Os-
GERMAN GRASP
ON BELGIUM AND
FRANGEBROKEN
Retreat of Invading Forces
May Be Turned Into Ver
itable Rout, Opinion at ,
Washington.
First of Master Lists
Mailed to Draft Boards
Washington, Oct. 2. First of the
master lists of order numbers for
the 13,000,000 men who registered
September 12, were placed in the
mails tonight en route to district
boards over the country which are
. .1.. a 1 i t ,
iu mane mem avaname to tne news
Washington, Oct. 2. The Ger
man grip on northern France and
Belgium has been definitely brok
en. Even the most cautious mili
tary observers in Washington
agreed tonight that the Hindenburg
line was disintegrating and army
officers centered their whole atten
tion on the efforts of the German
leaders to extricate their arimes
without a crushing disaster.
Outflanked in Belgium and in the
Champagne, the great German zone
of defensive works known as the
Hindenurg line already was becom
ing untenable when Field Marshal
Maig s men smashed through it to
day just north of St. Quentin. The
immediate investment of the city by
French troops and the swift widen
ing of the breach northward, coupled
with the continued rapid progress
of French, Belgian and British
forces in Belgium it is thought here
may possibly upset the' whole Ger
man scheme of retirement, which al
ready had begun on the Rheims
front.
Ringed by Victors.
British penetration nf the line, it
Vice Chancellor Von Payer I The 7utZP
Declines Chancellorship ' vicious machine gun fight to the last
msterdam Oct 2 Vice Chan-1 and were uPPrted by infantry and
ceilor von Payer, has definitely de-1 numerous batter.es of field artillery,
rlitiprl flip rhanrp 11r.rQl,in srrrHino. i he enemy, however, was driven
to the Berlin newsoaners.' !hack and the Italians occupied Do-
papers ana post them immediately was said, may furnish Marshal Foch
upon receipt. , willia means to embarrass the Ger
man retreat, always with the possi
Surrounded Yanks
Hold Their Position
Until Relief Comes : border.
British Headquarters in France,
Oct. 2. (Reuters.-The contin
gent of Americans who haa been
holding out since Sunday in a far
advanced position between Cam
brai and St. Quentin against great
ly superior numbers, have been
rescued.
In our attacks around Vend
huile yesterday, we were able to
'fight through and relieve this
party, numbering some hundreds,
who, having taken up their posi
tion Sunday night, were sutround
ed by the Germans early Monday.
Notwithstanding that they were
opposed by such superior num
bers and only possessed the am
munition and rations which they
themselves were carrying, the
Americans made a magnificent re
sistance and the ground was
strewn with German dead.
lenci.
When operations were suspended
the Serbians held the high ground
between Lskub and the Bulgarian
On the extreme left allied
troops had completed the occupa
tion of Struga near Lake Ochrida
and Kichevo, farther north.
U. S. Airplanes Make
x Flight for Liberty Loan
Houston, Oct. 2. Loaded with
Liberty bond literature, two bomb
ing planes left Ellington field to-
I day for a 1200-mile flight to Denver.
The aviators plan to reach Denver
Saturday.
News of Bonds Carried in
Texas by Plane Courier
Amarillo, Tex., Oct. 2. Lt. A. D.
Booth of Call field, Wichita Falls.
Texas, who is making an airplane
tour of the Panhandle region of
Texas in the interest of the Fourth
Liberty loan, arrived here today.
A ... .
Sheriff Clark's Nephew
Dies in Military Camp
Sheriff Michael Clark received
w.-rd last night from his sister, ad-
i3uiS in in ui me ueatn oi his ne-
pnew.
bility of precipitating a veritable
rout.
Ringed by a wall of victorious en
emies over the whole front from the
North Sea 'to Verdun, the situation
Ua f . .. - : 1 ....1.
-. ..v.v..jr ui incaKO. crave. l ie drive in p unm U
in a military camp at Gettysburg, menacing vital communications on
x a ne lett tor Chicago immcdi-1 one side, while Amercan and French
ately upon receipt of the news. (Continued on raKe Two, Column Thr.)
Illinois Trooper Shoots a
German Commander in Heel
With the American Army North
west of Verdun, Oct. 2. (By Asso-
I ress). Illinois troops be-
Meuse and the Argonne
more than six mil
day of the attack.
ciated
i
twtv.ii the
advanced
on the first
the unit reaching its objective hours
ancaa oi lime.
The advance was so rapid that in
the region of Gercourt-Et-Dri!!an-court
they came upon a party of
Germans just about sit down to
a muciieon in the
colonel was shot in the heel as he
,Vi urmP!,ng to escape.
The Illinois soldiers helped them-
- A
selves to the Germans' lunch of
pork, red cabbage and black bread.
Seven kegs of beer and a supply of
wine were found in the dugout. The
wounded colonel told the officers
he was astounded at the rapidity of
the American, advance. He had no
idea that the Americans would reach
that region for days, if at all ,he said.
The Illinois men had dinner and
went to bed in the positions that
had been occupied that morning
hv the enemy. During the afternoon
dropped news
papers and cigarettes ior tne men
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narfi. ..iiiii.iii.il
r. v "crcome and a .prinin nor,.-,
who had moved along the west bank
of the Meuse beyond Gercourt and
consolidated their positions.
tend, one of Germany's sea bases.
will be made untenable, and, indeed,
the entire North .Sea coast now in '
German hands, put in jeopardy,
British warships are now violently
bombarding the coast and the Ger
mans are reported to be moving
their heavy guns eastward, fearful of
their capture.
Many additional towns have been'
captured by the allies in this re
gion and numerous prisoners have
been taken. The important railroad
junction point of Roulers is all but in
the hands of the allies, while south- -ward
from Roulers the British have
cut the Roulers-Menin railway at
two places and are in the process of
investing Menin.
Pass Beyond St. Quentin.
The French are now in full posses .
sion of St. Quentin and have passed
on eastward. The entire Hindenburg
system between St. Quentin and Le
Catelet has been completely smashed'
by Field Marshal Haig's forces, withJ
whom the Americans are brigaded,1
and further ground has been won in
the outskirts of Cambrai and north ,
of that city. At one point north of
St. Quentin the British were forced
to give up a village under a heavy
counter-attack by fresh German
troops.
A band of Americans, who had
outdistanced their fellows in arms,
were surrounded on one sector by
the Germans, but were released after
two days, during which they killed
many of the enemy wh sought to
capture them.
Northwest of Rheims the St.'.'
Thierry massif has been captureM
and north of the cathedral city the
envirojis of Bctheny have been
i cached by the lrrcnch. The Ger
mans along this front are in retreat
to their old 1917 line and the French
have reached the Aisne canal at sev
eral points.
The French in Champagne and the
Americans on their right have made
further eains against the Germans
in the cleaning out of the Argonne
forest and pressing northward On'
both sides of this bastion.
In Palestine the British have oc
cupied Damascus and taken more
than 7,000 Turks prisoner.
Huns Prepare to Ev
Washington, Oct.
dence of German
evacuating the Bil
reacnea me Mate ac
in dispatches saying
offices and the conteniS
hour.cs of the German
district were being moved
turned over to the militar,
mcnt m the interior.
