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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918. HONS, HARRIED BY ALLIED ARMS, RACE HOMEWARD Distance Separating Invaders of France From Rhine Line Diminished Greatly by Two Days' Running. By Associated Press. The men of the once formidable German armies holding the Hinden burg line from north of Cambria to St. Quentin are facing eastward, de ' feated and in retreat. Their backs are the targets for the British, Americans and French troops who bitterly fought them, step by step, out of supposedly im pregnable defenses and now are har rying them across the open country toward the German border. No whert is the enemy attempting a stand in force. True, the German border is yet a long distance away, but the past two days of chase have materially de i creased the width of the area sep arating the invaders from their own Rhine line. Infantry Pressing Forward. Le Cateau, the important junction point 12 miles southeast of Cam brai, represented Thursday night the point of deepest penetration by the allied troops. The British were the masters of it. All along the front, however, the British, American and French have , been steadily pressing forward their infantry forces, taking numerous (owns and villages, while far in ad vance of them the hoof beats of the cavalry horses intermingled with the roar of the whippet tanks and the staccato barking of the machine guns inside the moving forts. So fast has been the retreat of the enemy that at various points the al lied forces afoot lost contact with him. The retreat, which Is over a front of about 35 miles, from the south of Douai to the region east of St. Quen tin, has left in the hands of the allies, in addition to the towns taken, valuable lints of communication and strategic positions of high import ance and driven in a wedge that seemingly will force the Germans everywhere from the North Sea to the vicinity of Verdun to fall back. , . Southeast of Douai, one of the re maining strong points iri the Ger man line in the north, the British are standing in Etrun, 12 miles southwest- of Valenciennes, the pivotal point in the enemy's known next defense line and 10 miles to the south of the city is outflanked at Solesmes. . Forming Huge Sack. Meantime the French and Ameri can armies on that part of the line running from northwest of Rheims to the hleuse river are still press ing forward in the converging move ment with the armies in the west and gradually are forming the entire war theater into a huge sack. The Americans continue slowly to advance up the eastern side of the Meuse, while west of the river, in ronjunction with the operations of the French, they have all but ob literated the great Argonne forest as an enemy defense position. To the west of the forest in the Aisne valley and still farther west ward the French also have made further gains. Throughout this entire region the Germans still are offering stubborn resistance mainly with- machine guns, realizing the importance of holding back their foes while their armies in Belgium and farther south make good their (retrograde move ment. Serbians Nearing Nish. Both in the Macedonian theater and in Palestine the allied forces are pressing the enemy hard. Albania is fast being cleared of the Austro Hungarian troops, while in Serbia the enemy is nearing Nish. At last account General Allenby was still driving the Ottoman troops north ward in Palestine. So lightning-like are the maneuv ers of allied armies on the various battle fronts from the North Sea to Verdun, in Macedonia and in Pal estinethat except to the war ex pert with his military maps constant ly before him, it is almost impos sible to visualize the situation and realize the swift strides the allies are making in defeating the common enemy. In France and Belgium in three weeks five important cities which have been in German hands for four years have been recaptured. Dixmude, Armentieres, Lens, Cam brai and St. Quentin are now in allied hands, while Lille, Douai and Valenciennes seemingly are all but captured. Serbia shortly is be fully reclaimed, and the Turks soon will know the Holy land no more. Steamfitter Meets Death As Grasps Live Wire Fred Barrington, 810 North Six teenth street, a steam fitter, work ing in the boiler room of the Hyland apartments, Eighteenth and Nicholas street, was electrocuted at 3:15 Thursday afternoon; when he at tempted to pick up a wet electric light cord which was heavily charged. Barrington was dead before a physician arrived. The Weather 350 Yank Airplanes Raid the Teuton Camps ComparatlT Local Record. 118. 117. ltlt HlfhMt ytrr Uwnt yesterday ,...BS it 35 Men tmperatifr ...J 48 r. ii..t 71 nA ntv Temperature na , precipmuou aeperi , vrtn from the normal: Normal temperature ,. tl Kxceia for the day i 6 ' "' Total exoesa alnce March 1...., 711 Normal sreclpltatlon e.r men Exeeai for the day " Total rainfall since March 1 wiRirni; 1 1 l ' - Deficiency ror tor. period, ii ...vi mm Deficiency for cor. perlo. 'II 11. BS lnchea Report! From Stations at 7 P. M. ET. T inn na SIBLB IVUIVi ' .sin..- ..- of Weather. T p. m, Cheyenne, clear ....... SS Dodge City, cloudy tender, part cloudy.. Tt 1 Marth Platte, clear.... .i 1915. 8 41 64 .CO .. Inch 12 37 Inches 13.24 Inches i 1., Omaha, raining lVoeMo Of" .ST cloudy old City, clear. S -," f 1 Lake City. pt cfy S ...r-.,. cinr ti a iferldan. part cloudy.. 19 rii Y":c.'"i:;r;r.iit;tion. Jr . w h ".4. WELSH KlttoroJofUt. est. (0 fall. .If .00 .00 .24 .71 .T .00 .00 .00 .OS 2 With the American Forces Northwest of Verdun, Oct. 10. (By Associated Press.) An American bombing expedi tion, consisting of more than 350 machines, yesterday drop ped 32 1 ons of explosives on German cantonments in the area between Wavrille and Devilliers, about 12 miles north of. Verdun. The American bombing exploit marks one of the high spots in the air fleet operations of the war. In the expedition were more than 200 bombing airplanes, 100 pursuit machines and 50 triplanes. The bombing machines were given splendid protection during the aerial battle, which took place during the opera tion. Twelve enemy machines were destroyed. Only one en tente plane failed to return. In addition, American airplanes yesterday destroyed or brought down five German machines and one balloon. They also took a great number of photographs and dropped news papers to the American troops. Washington, Oct. 10. Word of the first great Ameri can air raid against the German camps north of Verdun sent a thrill through War department officials today. So far as could be learned, the participation of 350 machines in this one enterprise marks it as the greatest air offensive yet undertaken on the western front in point of the air forces employed. No record could be discovered here tonight showing either allied or German bombing raids on anything like a similar scale. The most significant feature of the first great American raid, outside of its possible place in the great strategic game that is being played on the western front, is the fact that it indicates that the United States has taken its full place be side the allies in the air as well as on land and sea. HUNDREDS DIE AS SUB SHELLS SINKING SHIP ALLIED ARMIES WinCMIMIUSJ WIDENINGWEDGE (Continued from rage One.) appear to have slightly stiffened and it is considered not unlikely that the enemy may try to make a stand on the east bank of the Oise and the Sambre canal, running northeast of it. French Pressing Forward. Already the French first army op erating south of the British have reached the river at Mezieres, and as they are drawing closer " to it northward the British and Ameri cans are approaching it still further north. The French line at last re ports from Mezieres ran west of Regny, east of Marcy to the out skirts of Fontaine Notredame and north of Beautreux. There has been hard fighting east of Bohain, but apparently the oppo sition there has been overcome for continued advances are reported. An attack was launched this morn ing east of Scheldt canal and the British penetrated for a considerable distance, leaving the enemy oc cupied ground to the north in a still deeper and. sharper salient. Inci dentally the British here are only about five miles from Douai to the north of them. They also are able to place an infilading fire upon the Germans holding the salient, mak ing it exceedingly uncomfortable for them. There continues to be indications the enemy realizes he must get out of here and his plans for the moment very probably have to do with straightening his line northward all the way to the salient the Belgians and British have made in his posi tions at Roulers. The Germans made oue weak effort to push back the Belgians in this salient early this morning but the attack failed en tirely, the Belgians pouring in a hot fire. Troncols and Camnoles Captured. The British captured Troncois without opposition and marched through the town but the Germans appeared to be in considerable strength in Camnoles and fought hard before the British smothered most of them with the fire from their own machine guns and artil lery. It seems that the cavalry which has performed wonderful work in clearing up the country and hasten ing the retreat of the Germans at several places has been heavily en gaged by small groups of enemy machine gunners. In some of these places opposition has been- over come by maneuvers and charges, while at other points whippet tanks and armored cars have cleared the way for the horses and men. The cavalry forced its way east ward along the road to Le Cateau by fighting. In some localities the cavalrymen appear to have dis mounted and continued the fight at points where it was dangerous to risk themselves and their horses by charges. But at other places they hacked their way through into the enemy's lines with their sabers. The enemy frequently broke and No Trunk like a Wardrobe Trunk No Wardrobe Trunk like a pimiAHfj In a class by itself. Sturdy in construction ; compact in arrangement; complete in every detail. The Trunk shown above, our special T1:. $59.50 Others $32.50 to $165.00. FRELIIIG & STEIIILE 1803 Farnam Street run at the sight of the cavalry. The German dislikes the steel of the sa ber even more than he dislikes the steel of the bayonet. Cambrai was not as badly dam aged by the internal mines as had at first been believed. But at that the Germans did all they possibly could to wreck the city. Roads Littered With Dead. Throughout the whole battle area roads are littered with dead Ger mans. Occasionally there is the body of a khaki-clad soldier who reached his journey's end. Here and there in the tracks left by the tanks, there is an assortment of field gray cloth, snaky looking canvas machine gun belts, guns themselves and a shrapnel helmet or two all bearing witness to how a British tank had charged down up on a machine gun nest and crushed the entire position under its great weight. Fires are still burning everywhere. They are accompanied by explosions as ammunition dumps go up. Oc casionally shells from British guns find their target in the ammunition of the enemy, but more often the explosions are set by the Germans themselves to keep the material from falling into the hands of the British, who they realize will soon be at them if they do not go quickly. It is quite apparent that the Ger mans have no definite ideas at pres ent of obtaining any order out of the ragged remnants of their smash ed divisions.,, Almost every report from the low-flying airmen, who themselves have been severely pun ishing the enemy today, is to the ef fect that the roads leading eastward continue to contain streams of con fused, disorganized Germans and their equipment. There are no signs of the general movement eastward coming to a halt. The British seem everywhere to be rolling back the enemy wher ever they have continued the at tack. The cold wind and drizzle of today reminded the fighters that winter is fast approaching and for that rea son it is doubtful if the victorious British armies and the Ameri cans co-operating with them, will pause. All the rear organizations are moving up as the men in the line go forward. (Continued from Fate One.) submarine declared that the shell was an eight-inch projectile. Here tofore only six-inch guns have been reported on submarines. The survivors, who were adrift for four days before they were picked up, said that a raft with five wound ed men on it had put off from the Ticonderoga and that they had at tempted to taw it with them ' but that it broke away during the night and disappeared. Japanese Steamer Torpedoed. A , British Port, Oct. 9. The Japanese steamship Hirano Haru of 7,935 tons gross, has been sunk. It is feared that 300 lives were lost. The Hirano Maru, outward bound for Japan and carrying 200 pas sengers, was torpedoed by a Ger mat submarine early Friday morn ing about 300 miles south of Ire land. The few survivors who were picked up by the American torpedo destroyer Sterret have been brought here. They declare that the torpedo struck the steamer in the forward engine room. Nothing remained for those on board, including the women and children, but to plunge into the ocean. A large number, however, went down with the ship. ! The ves sel disappeared completely within seven minutes after being struck by the torpedo. Perish From Exposure. The scene was indescribable. The weather was bad and rather hazy. The cries of the drowning was heart-rendering. Everybody had been supplied with lifebelts, but only the stronger were able to stand the buffeting of the waves and ex posure. Providentially, commander of trie American destroyer Sterret, heard the explosion and steered his vessel for the point whence the sound came. He found the ship had disappeared and he saw a mass of people strug gling in the water. There were no small boats avail- ahtp so th dpctrnv.f in h VoA weather steamed about picking up j those who were still alive. The: American warship picked up 30 per sons, one ot whom died while be ing brought ashore. Among the survivors were these passengers in the first cabin: A. A. Young, Louis Durmont, A. B. Ask? laca, T. H. Butler and Fred -J. Karsch. About 22 members of the Jap anese crew were rescued. While the American destroyer Sterret was engaged in the work of mercy and picking up the men and women struggling in the water the German submarine fired two torpedoes at the war ship. Both missiles happily missed their mark. After making a thorough search for survivors the Sterret headed for the submarine, firing several shots and dropping depth charges. Senate Votes Extension Of Daylight Saving Law Washington, Oct. 10. The day light saving law would remain in effect until rescinded by congress under a bill passed today by the sen ate. The measure, which was en dorsed by Chairman Baruch of the war industries board in the inter est of fuel economy, now goes to the house. Under the present law the clocks would be turned back an hour on October 27. Wilson Asks Large Over-Subscription of Fourth Liberty Loan Washington, Oct. 10. Presi dent Wilson today issued this statement on the fourth Liberty loan campaign: "Recent events have enhanced, not lessened, the importance of this loan and I hope that my fel low countrymen will let me say this to them very frankly.. The best thing that could happen would be that the loan should not only be fully subscribed but very greatly ever-subscribed. We are in the midst of the greatest exer cise of the power of this country that has ever been witnessed or forecast and a single day of relax ation in that effort would be of tragical damage alike to ourselves and the hest of the world. Noth ing has happened which makes it safe or possible to do anything but push our effort to the utmost. The time is critical and the re sponse must be complete." ION HALF DILLI REQUIRED DAILY TO REACH QUOTA Over-Subscription of Liberty Loan Declared Matter Of World Importance by President Wilson. Aviator Flies from Texas to Michigan in-24 Hours Mt. Clemens, Mich., Oct. 10. Lt. J. E. Davis arrived at Selfridge field today, flying from Ellington field, Houston, Tex., in 24 hours actual flying time. He will make the re turn trip in the same plane. Buy Liberty Bonds Are It Is Your Duty Woolens Scarce and Hard to Obtain? Yes! WILL Good All Wool Clothing YflC! Be Scarce and Hard to Obtain? Cb. You to Purchase Lib' of Our SPECIAL OFFER OF ALL WOOL SUITS AND OVER COATS FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN AT We don't talk "specials" unless we offer really exceptional values Every garment is all wool and strictly up to our standard of high-grade Quality Clothing. See Display in 15th Street Window "The Store of the Town" fueo. T. Wilson, V Browning King ? Co. Manager. Washington, Oct. 10. Over-subscription of the $6,000,000,000 Lib erty loan was declared tonight by President Wilson to be a matter of world importance at, this critical time. "Recent events have enhanced, not lessened the importance of this loan," said the president's statement. "The best thing that could happen would be that the loan should not only be fully subscribed but very greatly over-subscribed." Accordingly, instructions will go forth tomorrow to Liberty loan committees everywhere to do even more than in the last 11 days to get everyi man, woman and youth in America to hold up the hands of the government by buying bonds and more bonds than they have al ready engaged. Americans in the next nine days ending Saturday, October 19, must participate in the biggest outpourings of individual resources ever recorded in any na tion. Two Billions Already Raised. Two billions have already been raised one-third of the minimum now sought. Barely to touch the six billion mark, new subscriptions at the average rateof $500,000,000 a day are needed. An excess over that will be required to fulfill President Wilson's appeal for over-subscription. In the results hereafter will be read the nation's answer. Subscriptions in Kansas City dis trict are: Colorado, $8,964,950; Kansas,' $20,004,100; Missouri, $4, 790900; Nebraska, $13,296,050; New Mexico, $533,550; Oklahoma, $8,565, 600; Wyoming,' $2,310,300. Total, $55,465,500, 22 per cent of quota. VERY POPULAR Victor - Victrola Records JUST RECEIVED These are fine Records. They should be in every home. Most every Victrola owner has been,asking for them. Get Yours Quickly If You Want Them Smiles NO. 18473 PRICE 85c I'm Sorry I Made You Cry NO. 18462 PRICE 85c Over There NO. 18333 PRICE 85c Three Wonderful Letters From Home NO. 18461 PRICE 85c I'm Always Chasing Rainbows NO. 18496 PRICE 85c Mickels 15th and Harney Sts. Douglas 1973. . FLOYD GIBBONS SPEAKS AT CLUB LUNCHEON UNI (Contlnnfd from Tate One.) with you. No German army has been routed on the western front. The German morale is still as high as ever. The allies have made only lo cal gains on the western front. Ger many's heel is still on Belgium and northern France. "Fear of the present force of Americans in France is not the rea son for the present treacherous peace offer, but fear of an aroused America which will in the future throw all her resources in to beat the Huns. Buy More Bonds "Don't let down on your efforts. Upon you depends the continuance of allied victory. So far, it is only begun. There has been some slack ing up on the present Liberty loanj nnve because ot peace taitc. inis loan ought to go over the top even more than previous ones to show Germany that we are in earnest and don't propose to be fooled by any 'kamerad' trickery." Cablegram to Pershing Mr. Gibbons was to have spoken here in the Auditorium last night but because of the "flu" order was not able to do so. He speaks at Kansas City tonight. The University club sent the follow ing cablegram to General Pershing. "We have 115 men out of member ship of 430 with the colors. Our youth is in the ranks fighting for democracy. The remnant of us who heard Floyd Gibbons deliver his message from your army in France demand an honorable peace won by a victorious army; a peace that will recompense the motherhood of this nation for their sacrifice; a peace that will reward our allies for all peace that will compensate the sold ers and sailors of our Army and Navy for their suffering, privation they have suffered and endured; a and hardship." Kaiser Abdicates His Throne, According to Stockholm Rumor Stockholm, Oct. 10. Ther It a persistent rumor here that Emperor William -has abdicated. Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 10. Secretary of State Robert Lansing, who is here attending the centennial of the Auburn Theological seminary, in discussing the rumor which came from Stockholm today that Em peror William had abdicated, said: "That has been current for some time. Unless we know in whose favor the kaiser is abdicating, the story has no significance whatever. 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