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Zeitung to Resume.
Chicago, Oct. 9. The Illinois
Staats-Zeitung, a German-language
newspaper which suspended publi
cation here several months ago, will
resume daily issue tomorrow. Judge
John Stelk, chairman of the board
of the new company controlling the
paper, issued a statement in which
he said the paper was rteeded for
government purposes to reach per
sons speaking German omy.
Riveter Makes $64 in Day.
Chicago, Oct. 9. Sixty-four dol
lars for eight hours work was the
record established by one riveter
at the South Chicago shipbuilding
yard Sunday it was announced to
day. The weekday scale for each
rivet is eight cents and on Sunday
this is raised to 16 cents.' Three
men in a team last Sunday drove
1,014 rivets for which they were
paid $162.24. The share of Hugh
McNulty. the "driver" was $64, while
his two helpers split the remainder.
Carry Piano by Airplane.
Paris, Oct. 9. One of the new
allied bombing planes in order to
demonstrate its carrying capacity
, has brought from London to Paris
a full sized upright piano. The ma
chine landed in Paris safely after
its flight across the English chan
' nel. The airplane is capable of car
rying six persons and much bomb
ing explosives.
Mercier Thanks U. S. ,
New York, Oct. 9. An autograph
(message to the American public
from Cardinal Mercier of Belgium,
1 expressing his admiration ot the
powerful assistance" given by this
country to the allied armies, was
brought here today by Paul Vanden
ven, director of the Belgian infor
mation service, with headquarters
at Washington. The letter,, written
at Malines, within the German Iine3.
also voices the prelate's apprecia
tion of American contributions to
Belgian charities.
Pelts Reach New High Price.
. St. Louis', Oct. 9. Figures for the
first three days of the international
fur exchange auction total $2,595,500.
A new high price of $81 a pelt as
against $6 last April has been set
for Hudson Bay sable. Tolar bear
pelts sold as high as $110.
Red fox pelts were the largest
sellers today, 20,400 of them bring
ing $611,840. Many sold as high as
$70 a pelt. The highest price paid
for a single skin was $410 for a sil
ver fox.
TURKEY SENDS
PEACE PETITION
THROUGH SPAIN
Rumor of Ottoman Surrender
Reaches London With
News of Chnge in
Government.
OFFER TO MEDIATE
BEING CONSIDERED
BY DUTCH CABINET
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Prince Maximilian's Announcement That Armistice Has
, Been Requested Received By Reichstag in Stony
Silence; Austrian Premier Informs Chamber Note
Accepting Wilson's Terms Has Been Sent
BULLETIN.
Copenhagen, Oct. 9. The German reichstag has
been summoned to meet October 12, according to the
Berlin Tageblatt. Chancellor Maximilian's recent
speech and the political situation will be taken under
discussion.
Fires Set by Huns Followed
By Destructive Explosions
Leave Utter Ruin in Wake
Amsterdam, Oct. 9. Referring to an extraordinary
session of the Dutch cabinet which has been held, the Han-
delsblad says it is very persistently rumored that the gov
ernment is considering offering its services to both the belli
gerent groups with a view to their reaching an agreement.
No confirmation of this-was obtainable at the Dutch foreign
office.
Georce Bernhardt, the German oo-ty
litical writer, writing for the Vos-
; .',.1
London, Oct. 9. The British for
eign office has received indirect news
of the fall of the Turkish cabinet.
Tewfik Pasha, who it is reported
will be the new grand vizier, is un
derstood to have pro-ally rather than
pro-German sympathies.
, According to advices which are
not official, however, the cabinet
had decided to. take military meas
ures against Bulgaria, but found that
the opinion of the country was
against them.
It is rumored that a Turkish peace
note has been dispatched through
the Spanish government.
The surrender of Turkey within
the next 48 hours will cause no sur
prise, the Evening Standard says
" today. The British authorities, it
adds, are in possession of informa
tion showing that a process of dis
integration exists in Constantinople.
Success -in Champagne
Won by Second Division
With the American Forces in
France, Oct. 9. It is now permissi
ble to state-that it was the Second
American division, which bore the
brunt of the recent hard fighting
in the Champagne. This division
took St Etienne and the positions
leading to that town and thus creat
ed Ihe slight salient now projecting
into the German lines.
.The Second American division
consists of the Fifth and Sixth regi
ments of marines, the' Ninth and
Twenty-third infantry and the Fif
teenth, Sixteenth and Nineteenth
regiments of artillery. v
Benzol Tanks" Explosion
'Destroys Chemical Plant
Pittsburgh,, Oct. 9. The fusion
building of the' Aetna Chemical com
pany's works at Heidelberg, near
were, was destroyed tonight by an
explosion of several benzol tanks.
Officials of the company announced
several hours after the explosion
that no one had been killed or in
jured. The cause of the explosion has not
Mtt determine . -
sische Zeitung of Berlin, says that
Prince Maximilian s announcement
in the Reichstag that an armistice
has been requested, was received in
stony silence.
Warns New Government.
Like ghosts, remembrances of for
mer chancellors' speeches flitted
through the chamber, - speeches in
variably based, ori, reports of. "vic
torious march of German troops,"
he says. Bernardi bitterly com
plains that Prince Maximilian
neglected the opportunity to dfeclare
that Germany was ready to discuss
with France the fate of Alsace-Lorraine
and with Russia the question
of border provinces. He says this
omission confirms the view that the
new government means to per
petuate the political conceptions of
the old government, and declares
that this continuation of the old
policy is extraordinarily dangerous.
He concludes:
"The government only puts its
trust in President Wilson and a kind
fate."
The Berlin newspaper, Germania,
organ of the Catholic centrist party,
says the inner cabinet of Prince
Maximilian of Baden, the imperial
chancellor, is composed of Frieder
ich von Payer, the vice chancellor;
Adolf Groeber, the clerical leader;
Mathias Erzberger, one of the cen
trist leaders; Philipp Scheidemann,
socialist, and Herr Fricdberg, vice
president of the Prussian state min
istry. Austrian Acceptance Announced.
Vienna, Oct. 9. (Via Basel) In
opening the Austrian chamber of
deputies, Baron von Hussarek, the
Austrian premier, announced offi
cially that a peace note had been
sent to President Wilson and said:
"In a measure the note accepts
the basis for negotiations indicated
by an important personality in the
adverse camp. It is evidence that
the central powers are disposed to
a course leading to a pacitic
Ihe ce
adopt
end.
"But I cannot deny that this basis
requires in many details a modifca
tion of the political ideas which
thus far have directed public opin
ion. Nevertheless, I hope this as
sembly will approve of the new
step leading to an epoch in which
the great peoples of the world will
decide their own future."
Creighton Students Over
Top on Liberty Loan Drive
Creighton university went over
the top Wednesday afternoon in its
Liberty Loan bond drive. Not a
man in the entire unit of the Stu
dents' Army Training corps failed to
subscribe. The quota was fixed at
$21,500 and subscriptions reached
$35,000.
V. Quinn started the Creighton
subscription with $1,000. Subscrip
tions did not cease until all of the J
. . . i
hjtt or more memDers oi tne corps
had taken bonds.
Cambrai Gave Name"
To Cambric Because
Of Linen Factories
Cambrai before the war was a
city of 30,000 population and nota
ble for-its manufacture of linen.
The word "cambric,' descriptive
of a kind of cloth, came from the
name of the town, it having been
invented there in the 15th cen
tury. The city contained fine
cathedral and some . remarkable
examples of ancient architecture.
WILSON TO HAVE
NO DEALING WITH
HUNSJMPEROR
Rejection of eace Proposal
Will Follow Chancellor's
- Admission of Responsi
bility to Wilhelm.
Washington, Oct. 9. An early re
sponse to President Wilson's note
of inquiry to the German chancellor
is expected by American officials.
While realizing that an answer to
the three pertiitent questions put to
the Prince of Baden will be very
difficult if the original proposal of
the German government were not
sincere, officials are confident that
internal conditions in Germany and
(Continued on Face Ten, Column Two.)
With the British Army on the Cambrai Sector, Oct.
9. Successive explosions have occurred in Cambrai
which, it is reported, have reduced the town to ruins.
The Germans started fires wherever possible before
evacuating the city.
Paris, Oct. 9. Jules Cambon, the former French
ambassador at Washington and one of the foremost
figures in French affairs, said to the Associated Press
today:
"At the moment the central powers address them
selves to President Wilson to obtain an armistice and
begin negotiations for peace, the German armies renew
the horrors they have been committing in all the oc
cupied territories.
"St. Quentin, Lens, Cambra and Douai are burned,
mined, ruined. Having formerly been prefect of the
department of the north, I know what this new terror
means to the regions devastated by the German armies.
Thse represent the richest territory of France, where
the largest French industrial establishments are located.
All these centers have a glorious past. They are filled
with splendid monuments and museums and libraries
of priceless treasures. In Cambrai stands the tombs of
the illustrious Fenelon.
"One cannot view without profound sadness all the
ruins the German invaders are leaving behind them
ruins that represent, not only material loss, but also
moral losses.
"The conduct of the German armies is an outrage
to civilization and humanity."
Traveling Salesmen
M& Hotel Men Must
Engage in War Work
Washington. Oct. 9. Emphasis
on proper understanding by the peo
ple of the necessities of the war and
tuv hiivi v a. u uug auix
day by Chairman Baruch of the waf
industries board. He pointed out
that the shipyards and ordnance
plants alone are short 310.000 men
and said the Var industries board
and the Labor department's employ
ment service are working on plans to
tap the less essential industries for
labor for war work.
Mr. Baruch alluded to the, num
ber of private chauffeurs and sug-1 15,000.
gested that a great number of these
men couldg into moressential
employment,.. He said he was in
formed that there ' are more than
100,000 traveling salesmen and 100,
000 hotel waiters, workers and bus
boys and added that occasion de
mands a transfer of men from such
employment to essential war work.
Italians Take Elbasan
In Southern Albania
Rome, Oct. 9. Italian troops
pushing northward in Albania en
tered the city of Elbasan on Monday
after crushing stubborn Austro-Hun-garian
resistance, the Italian war of
fice announced today. The Italians
are continuing their advance.
El Basan is one of the chief towns
in Southern Albania and before the
war had a population estimated at
LIBERTY LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS IN OMAHA
AND NATION STILL FAR SHORT OF QUOTA
Omaha Lacks Nearly $4,000,
000 of Share, bt uChair
man Eastman Is Hope
ful of Outcome.
Omaha did not raise its quota of
$11,000,000 of Liberty bonds in three
days as had been planned, but the
drive will continue until the amount
is obtained.
For the first time since the drive
started an exact total of subscrip
tions has been tabulated. Up to 10
o'clock Wednesday night $7,055,600
of bonds, accompanied by the first
10 per cent payment, had been of
ficially checked and audited at the
Federal Reserve bank.
Omaha still has to raise nearly
$4,000,000. None of the Liberty loan
officials doubt the success of the
loan, but realize that the next $4,
000,000 will be harder to raise than
the first $7,000,000.
Hard Worw From Now Onr
"Let us bend every effort to go
over before Saturday night," urges
O. T. Eastman, county chairman.
"Let it not be said that Omaha ever
failed in a request of the govern
ment.
Live Stock Exchange Sales.
At the captains' meeting on the
steps of the Federal Reserve bank
kWednesday evening it was an
nounced that the sales in the Live
Stock exchange to date are $206,550.
Big Parade Today.
ioaay noons exercises at ine
Tower of Liberty will be conducted
by the wholesalers and manufac
turers, who will close every whole
sale and manufacturing establish
ment in the city from 11:30 to 1
o'clock.
A parade will be formed at Tenth
and Farnam streets and .proceed to
the Tower of Liberty, where
speeches will be made by Mayor
Smith and Floyd Gibbons, the latter
a returned war correspondent.
Woodmen Circle Purchases
$200,000 Worth of Bonds
and Parade to Liberty
Tower at Court House.
The Woodmen Circle had a parade
all its own Wednesday afternoon,
to show what this great woman's or
ganization is doing.
The climax was reached during
the exercises at the Tower of Lib
erty on the court house lawn, when
Mrs. E. LaRocco, suprem advisor,
announced that the Woodmen Circle
has subscribed $200,00 of the
Fourth Liberty bonds. The order
bought $250,000 worth of the Third
loan and large amounts of the first
and second.
Mrsvrank Judson, who has charge
of 1,500 women Liberty loan workers
in Omaha, expressed pleasure at
receiving v this big subscription,
which was made through the wo
men's committee.
The parade started at the Wood
men of the World building and pro
ceeded directly to the Tower of Lib
erty. It was led by the supreme of
ficers, Mrs. Emma B. Manchester,
supreme guardian; Mrs. E. LaRocco,
supreme advisor; Miss Dora Alex
ander, supreme clerk, and Mrs. Effie
E. Rogers, supreme manager.
Mrs. LaRocco made the address
at the Tower of Liberty in place of
Mrs. Manchester, jwho has just re
covered from a long illness. She
told of the great patriotic work done
by the Woodmen Circle and of its
large membership. The Woodmen
Circle already has a canteen worker
Miss Naomi King of Omaha, in
France, and soon will send Mvss
Blanch Aiken. An ambulance dona
ted by the organization is now on
the way to France-
The boys placed the stone in place
on the Tower of Liberty, represent
ing the Woodmen Circle subscrip
tion. They were the only masculine
figures in the celebration.
Treasury Department Admits
Slow Progress Toward
Six-Billion-Dollar Goal
Causes Concern.
Washington, Oct. 9. The Trea
sury department today openly ad
mitted that the slow progress of
the fourth Liberty loan" toward its
$6,000,000,000 goal is a matter of
serious concern. With the three
weeks' subscription period half
gone, the loan is only 30 per cent
subscribed. The total reported to
the treasury up to tonight is $1,791,
463,200. "There is no use in denying or
attempting to camouflage the fact
that Liberty loan committees
throughout the country are con
fronted with a serious situation,"
said the treasury statement review
ing the campaign reports. "If the
loan is to be subscribed, a daily
average of $467,000,000 must be
raised between now and October 19.
Cognizant of the fact that the
loan never can succeed at its pre
sent rate of speed, canvassers
throughout the country are stating
plainly to all citizensNthat they must
buy bonds in larger amounts than
heretofore. Wealthy persons par
ticularly must go deeper into their
capital Cjr extend their credit and
not depend upon their current in
come to pay for bonds. People of
moderate and small means must
pledge their future earnings in
greater degree."
"Double the third," has been
adopted as a slogan in many dis
tricts to stimutate subscribers to
do twice as much as they did in
the last loan.
Reports by states in the Kansas
City istrict show the following re
sults: Kansas. $16,162,650; Missouri. $3,
254.000; Nebraska. $9 327800; New
Mexico. JC4.72S.JTX); Oklahoma, $5,
995,300; Wyoming, $1,976,750.
ALLIES IN HOT PURSUIT OF
BEATEN AND DISORGANIZED
ARMIES OF KAISER WILHELM
Thirty Divisions are Smashed and Retreat
Becomes Marathon as Cambrai Falls;
Numerous Villages and Thousands
of Prisoners Captured
BULLETIN.
London, Oct. 9. Unofficial reports were current in London tonight
that British advance guards were within a mile or so of La-Cateau and were
approaching Lille. There were also rumors that Marshal Foch's master stroke
was still to come. It seems certain that there is a general army retirement go
ing on along the line from Anas to St. Quentin,
By the Associated Press.
With the British Army on Cambrai-St. Quentin Front, Oct. 9. The Ger
man troops on a 20-mile front have been put to full flight and the British cavalry
is reported to be pursuing them, the infantry marching in columns of four
through villages hastily abandoned by the enemy.
Cambrai has fallen and the British are how well to the east. ' "
The deepest gain some hours ago was at least nine
HUNS BEATEN ON
GROUND CHOSEN
BY THEMSELVES
Resistance Overcome and All
German Plans Upset -by
Allied Pressure in the
Champagne.
With the French Army in Cham
pagne, Oct. 9. The battle in Cham-
paigne is going on with increasing
intensity today from the' Aisne in
the region of Vaux-Les-Mouron,
which was taken this morning by
the French, to the Suippe river at
Bazancourt, which is violently at
tacked by the Germans.
North of St. Etienne, on the
Ames river, the enemy made a vigor
ous assault upon the positions won
by General Gouraud's men Tues
day, but without otrier result than
to increase largely the German
casualties.
Notwithstanding the stubborn op
position the enemy is offering on
the Suippe and north of the Arnes,
the impression still is that he is
merely seeking to gain time to re
duce the difficulties of retreat, the
extent of which in view of the de
velopments on the extreme left wing
of the fighting front it is impossible
to forecast.
The vigor and perseverence of the
allied pressure appears to have de
ranged all the German plans. No
where have the Germans with all
their genius in organization been
able to prepare a stable position
uoon which their defeated troops
could retire in security, which sug
gests that they, again have erred.
Reparation by, Germany
Demanded by London Press
London, Oct. 9. Discussing the
ultimate peace terms, the London
newspapers reter with indignation
to the outrages still persisted in by
the retreating Germans and unani
mously demand reparation and pun-
shment for these latest crimes, as
well as for other outrages commit
ted during the war.
The Daily Telegraph says:
"The evacuation of Belgium will
not undo therime of 1914. Repara
tion to the fullest measure must also
be made, for Belgium has the first
claim on Germany's resources for
the unspeakable outrages she has
suffered."
miles on this sector and there are no signs of the advance
slowing up. On the contrary, it is going faster every hour,
with clear ground ahead. '
Everything that could be burned had been set afire by
the enemy before he begun what virtually amounts to the
rout of no less than 30 divisions, the smashing of which was
continued furiously today. '
North of Cambria the Canadians attacked and pene
trated deeply also.
The British marched through Bertry without opposition.
They reached the outskirts of Troisvillers and hold Maurois
and Honnechy.
LARGE FORCES SEEN FLEEING.
Large forces of the enemy have been'seen from the a!r
fleeing well to the east of Lecateau. t
Maretz fell e'arly and the British reached Busigny and
passed-quickly through Bohain. These are only a few' of
more than a score of towns captured.
Many thousands of prisoners and quantities of field and
machine guns were taken as ,well as vast stores of other
booty, which the enemy did not have time to blow up or set
afire.
All this was the immediate effect of yesterday's great
victories, which are being exploited to the fullest. The
Germans may try to make a stand on their partly completed
line at Le Cateau, but they have been- badly punished and
they face an overwhelming disaster.
' TAKE CAMBRAI AND 10,000 PRISONERS. ;
London, Oct. 9. The whole of Camorai is in British pos--
session iueld Marshal Haig reports tonight from headquar
ters. The Canadians were the first to enter the town.
In the great defeat inflicted on the Germans yesterday,
10,000 prisoners and from 100 to 200 guns were captured.
Paris, Oct. 9. The Anglo-French troops have forced
the Germans to a general retreat north and south of St
Quentin. In an advance of about eight kilometers east of St
Quentin, the railroad junction point of 1 Mezieres-Sur-Oise,
has been captured by the French, who also took 2,000
prisoners and a number of guns, according to the French
official communication issued tonight. Big gains also have
been made by the French along the Aisne, where 600 more
prisoners were taken.
1 .g) London. Oct 0 Th O
treat from the Scarpe river south
ward to below St. Quentin enabled
the British easily to advance from
two to three miles this morning.
The Germans started backward
last night. The British have met
with little resistance today as they
have not been in contact with the
German main line.
The weather is bad, otherwise it il
believed that the British would hav
advanced further.
The Germans are burning villages.
The retreat lengthens the lint
which the Teutons so long have beeg
trying to shorten and the situation
opens many possibilities of retreats
elsewhere. '
il
The Morning Post says:
"Indemnity for Belgium should
foe made as heavy as possible and
uermany made to feel the weight
of her transgressions by the neces
sity of paying for them."
The Post suggests that the war
indemnity should include the hand
ing over to the allies of the mer
chant ships which Germany has been
building.
The Daily Mail demands that
Germany should be punished with
the utmost severity for the wanton
destruction of French towns and
the other newspaper? endorse this
demand. The Daily Express coun
sels the stoppage of raw materials
to Germany until all accounts have
been settled.
; " :
Railway Held by Allies. ' .
The big railroad town of Busigny,
southwest of Le Cateau, has been,
taken and for all practical, purposes
the allied troops now hold theCam-'.
brai-St.Quentin railway. The maxi'
mum advance at 2 p'clbck thisifte
noon was five miles at Bertry, fo '
miles southeast of Lecatear. - M
In yesterday's attack betwt6
Cambria and St. Quentin the llTf
troops made 11.000 nrisonerw
captured 200 guns. fu f ,
In , the American sector 'of
front the Germans ire reaistingtpfcy
strongly. The American lossei, ba;,
