TH RIEF
Kk RIGHT
JLiREEZY
BITS OF NEWS
THE NEWSPAPER YOU ALWAYS LOOK TO FOR LATE AND MOST RELIABLE WAR NEWS
The Omaha Daily Bee
7
j
r
Too Tall for Soldier.
Wiggins, Miss., Oct. 13. "l ong
est" is no misnomer in the case of
Prof. H. P. Longest, principal of
the Magnolia Consolidated school,
near here. The army has refused to
accept , Prof. Longest as a soldier
because he is too tall. Examining ;
medical officers at Camp Shelby, ;
ivhere Prof. Longest arrived re- j
cently found him to be six feet, eight
inches iall, the tallest man yet re
ceived at the camp.
Entire Town Sold.
London, Oct. 13. A whole town
of 2,500 inhabitants, with a record
ed history dating back to the time
of the Saxons and Danes, Shaftes
bury, in Dorsestshire, has been sold.
The greater part of the municipal
ity's acreage and buildings, part of
the estate of Lord Stalbridge, has
been purchased by James White, a
nationally known sportsman, for
'240,000. In the terms of sale, Lord
Stalbridge announced, was a pro
vision that the town be offered to
the mayor and corporation at a rea
sonable price, and if they are un
able to purchase it, to the tenants
If neither option is taken each in
dividual tenant is to be given op
portunity to buy his home.
Sends Wilson Rare Book.
Florence, Italv, Oct. 13. Postmas
ter General Tordi of Florence who is
a collector of ancient books, has sent
to President Wilson a rare edition
of the life of Christopher Columbus.
The book was written by Fernandez
a son of the discoverer of'America,
and was published at Venice in 1571.
Profiteering in Wine.
, Paris, Oct. 13. In the department
of the Seine and Oisne the authori
ties have fixed the price of or
dinary wine with a view to prevent
ing soldiers from being the victims
of exploiters who have been making
them pay fancy prices. The liter
(pint and three quarts) of red wine
was limited by decree to 32 cents,
and white wine to 36 cents.
The measure has not been en
tirely a success, as may be seen
from the notices which have been
put up in many places in the depart
ment: .
"Red wine, 32 cents; attendance,
10 cents "
"White wine,) 36 cents;, attend
ance, 10 cents."
Candy for the Bees.
London, Oct.' 13. Owing to the
unfavorable season in certain dis
tricts, many stocks of bees are
weak and very short of food. Bee
keepers are therefore recommend
ed by the Food Production depart
ment to inspect their stocks immed
- iate4y. Those which have less than
five seams of bees should be united
,to form strong colonies of not less
than eight seams, and all those short
tf food should have a quantity of
syrup fed them for immediate stor
age in the combs. This syrup can
be made by dissolving each one
pound cake of candy in 10 oz. of
water by heating over the fire. The
manufacturers of this candy, are now
apparently ordering enough not only
for autumn feeding, but to last
throughout the winter and spring.
THREE BILLION
MOST BE RAISED
IN NEXT SIX DAYS
VOL. 48. NO. 101.
Enlertd 11 Mcond-eliu ntttfr May it, (906 it
Omtha P. 0. Mtr lot of Mirth 3, II7S
OMAHA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1918
By mall (I ytir). Dally. 14.50. Sunday. S2.S0.
Oilly tod 8ua., it; auttlda Nik. oto extra.
TWO CENTS.
THE WEATHER:
For Nebraska Fair Monday
mnd Tueaday, warmer in at por
tion Monday.
Hourly Tpinprrnturra,
Hr. Dr.
S a. m 6i I 1 p. rn. MS
A a. m M 3 i. ni M
7 a. m (VH j 8 p. in,...
S a. in AA 4 p. m.. ..,.....
a. ni A 1 A p. m M
1U a. ni m P. ni '
11 a. in...
13 in...
..AH 7 p.
. .7 I
63
German Peace Talk and Span
ish Infleunza Will Not Be
Permitted o Defeat
Loan P'ans.
wm wmb m mam
. ,
CL0QUET AND NINE
OTHER MINNESOTA
TOWNS WIPED 0VT
Trains Race With Flames In Rescue of Inhabitants;
12,000 Penniless Refugees Quartered in Public
Buildings of Duluth; Nearly 100 Bodies Found
On Roads in Devasted Region.
Washington, Oct. 13. German
peace talk and Spanish influenza,
the two great obstacles encountered
in the fourth Liberty loan campaign,
will not be permitted to defeat plans
for obtaining more than the $6,000,-
, 000,000, although half of that amount
must be raised in the next six days.
Reports from all parts of the
country tonight indicated that the
"American people were fully aroused
to the danger of failure through be
lief that Germany's offer to agree to
President Wilson's peace terms
meant an early end of the war.
Committees everywhere set out to
dispel this feeling among the public,
while thousands of other workers
by house-to-house canvasses met the
situation created by the influenza
epidemic.
From scattering official returns
.. received here today on subscriptions
taken shortly after noon yesterday,
the treasury announced approxmite
ly $2,500,000,000 had been subscrib
ed through incorporated banks and
' trust companies. With reports in
previous campaigns as a basis it was
fair to assume, , the announcement
said, that the total was not far short
of $3,000,000,000.
Thousands of new volunteers will
begin work in every district tomor
row and there was a hopeful feeling
at headquarters -that the country
would go over the top.
Returns tonight showed the fol
lowing gains by districts for Satur
day: ' New York," $49,000,000; Chicago,
$27,000,000; Cleveland, $22,000,000;
San Francisco $19,000,000; Philadel
phia, $16,000,000; Kansas City, $14,
000,000. Although official figures on sales
in the St. Louis district for Saturday
are unavailable, it- apparently still
leads all districts in the per cent
of quota subscribed. It had 70
per cent of its quota on Friday.
The city of St. Louis, despite the
influenza, has 61 per cent of its
quota.
The reported sales by states in
the Kansa City district:
The reported sales by; states:
Colorado, $13,543,000; Kansas
$24,336,000; Missouri, $38,683,100;
Nebraska." $20,968,000: New Mexico.
$815,150; Oklahoma, $13,224,800, and
Duluth, Minn., Oct. 13. With probably 800 persons
dead, thousands homeless and without clothing, and with
Drooertv damage mounting far into millions of dollars, whole
sections of northern Wisconsin and Minnesota timber land
tonight are smouldering, fire-stricken areas, with only the
charred ruins of abandoned, depopulated towns to accen
tuate the general desolation.
The bodies of 196 victims lie in Duluth morgues. Hun
dreds more, along the roads leading to Duluth and Superior,
lay where they fell when overtaken by the fire.
Twelve thousand homeless andw
penniless refugees all in need more
or less, of medical attention are
quartered in hospitals, churches,
schools, private homes, ami in the
armory here, while doctors and
nurses sent from surrounding com
munities attend them, and nearly
every able-bodied man in the city
has been conscripted to fight the
flames which now are reported to
be dying away.
Germans Suspected.
Reports that the holocaust re
sulted from the work of enemy
agents were circulated tonight.
Definite confirmation was not avail
able but it was learned that incen
diaries were driven away from a lo
cal shipyard when the fires in Du
luth and Superior were burning at
their height.
Until a careful census of the
burned area is taken no accurate
estimate can be made either of the
loss of life or extent of property
damage. The fires in Duluth and
Superior, it is said, destroyed prop
erty valued at more than $1,000,000.
Physicians feared an increase in
the influenza epidemic as the re
sult of exposure and privation.
Trains Race With Fires.
A snecial train of 20 coaches
brought 1,500 refugees from Coquet
and Carleton, Minn. They con
firmed reports that many persons
had lost their lives in those towns.
Albert Michaud, a special police
man, told a tragic story of the burn
ing of Uoquet and ot the mad rush
of its residents to escape.
"At 6 o'clock last night, a forest
ranger gave warning that unless the
wind died down the townspeople
would have to flee," said Michaud.
"A thick pall of smoke hung over
the town and at 7 o'clock the spe
cial trains were called.
"The scene at the station was in
describable. There came a rush of
wind and the entire town was in
flames. The trains pulled out with
the tires blazing closely behind
them. Women wept and clung to
their children while others cried
frantically for their missing ones.
The fliames licked at the cars. Win
dows in the coaches were broken by
the heat. The engineers and fire
men alternately stoked to give the
boilers all the steam they could
stand.
"Other trains were hurriedly made
up out of flat cars, box cars, any
thing that would roll. But even
then, all did not get away. There
are many dead in Coquet."
Coquet was a town of about 7,
500 population. More than 4,700
(Contnoed on Fuse Two, Column Six.)
150 LIVES LOST
l PORTO RICO
EARTHQUAKES
i 1
Fatalities and Heavy Damage
Reported in All Parts of
Island; Tidal Wave Adds
to Horror.
San Juan, P. I., Saturday, Oct, 12
One hundred and fifty lives were
lost in yesterday's earthquake in
Porto Rico, it was estimated by Gov
ernor Yager today. Almost every
town in the islands reports damaged
property md scattering fatalities.
There are unconfirmed reports
here of great damage in Santo Do
mingo' from the earthquake.
Reports from the interior are com
ing in slowly because of broken
communications. A slight additional
shock was felt at 4 o clock this
moraine and the people are fearful
of a repetition of the experiences of
1869 when a series of earthquake
extended over a period of several
weeks.
The greatest loss of life from yes
terday's shock was at Mayaguez and
Aguadilla, west coast cities and in
the intervening territory. The
known dead at Mayaguez are given
as 40 and at Aguadilla 30, with the
numbers rapidly increasing.
At Mayaguez 70 per cent of the
houses of- brick and cement con
struction are reported either de
stroyed or damaged beyond repair.
The greatest loss of life here was
in the cigar factory5 of Infanzon and
KodrigucA a three-story, modern
concrete building, where several hun
dred persons were at work at the
time of the disaster. The front of
virtually every building on the
Mayaguez plaza crumbled into the
street, killing and injuring people
who had rushed out of the build
ings into the plazafor safety.
At Aguadilla the loss of life was
due chiefly' to the tidal wave.
At Poncem, on the south coast,
the known dead are reported to be
seven and the injured 11.
Governor Yager, the Red Cross
and the military authorities are
working together for relief.
President Wilson to Reply
Quickly to German Note
Great Britain, Prance and Italy Have
Agreed Already on Line of Action;
Indications are There Will
Be No Armistice.
GERMAN RETREAT
CONTINUES ALONG
, SIXTY-MILE FRONT
Cracking of Lines From St. Gobain to ths Argonne
Necessitates Enemy's Retirement to Depth of
30 Miles; British Troops Now Within
Ten Hundred Yards of Douai.
Washington, Oct. 13. The government asks the American people to
withhold their judgment on Germany's note until President Wilson has receiv
ed the official communication and has had opportunity to consider it.
9 President Wilson returned?)
MUST PUNISH
HUNS' CHS,
SAY BRITONS
Sinking of Steamer Leinster
Blow to Feeling in England
for Peace of Reconciliation.
H0WT0 INTERPRET GERMANY'S
Any Agreement IVJade With the Imperial Chancellor
I Made With the Beast of Berlin and None Other.
PEACE PROPOSALS EXPLAINED
By LYSLE I. ABBOTT.
i RESIDENT
WILSON has
German imperial
r asked the
chancellor whether in his pre
sent proposals he speaks for the
German people or "merely for the
constituted authorities of the em
pire who hae so far conducted the
war."
The German empire has a writ
ten constitution. To understand of
whom the "constituted authorities"
consist we need but "to read the con
stitution. Article 5 of section 1 provides:
"The legislative power of, the em
pire shall be exercised by hc Bun
desrat and the Reichstag."
The members of the Reichstag are
chosen by secret ballot, in districts
similar to those from which our
congressmen are chosen. There has
been no redisricting of the empire
since 1870. Owing to the increase
of the population in great indus
trial and manufacturing centers,
without any increased representa
tion in the Reichstag, the rural com
have representation in that body
vastly out of proportion to their
actual voting power.
The Bundesrat is composed of
representatives of the small states
of which the empire consists. These
representatives are appointed by the
hereditary rulers of these petty
states and .hold office during the
pleasure of the appointing power.
The Bundesrat, which is the real
legislative body of the empire, meets
in secret and its proceedings are
not made public.
Article 2 of section 4 provides:
"To the king of Prussia shall be
long the presidency of the Confed
eration, and he shall have the title
of German emperor. It shall be
the duty of the emperor to repre
sent the empire among nations, to
declare war and to conclude peace
in the name of the empire, to enter
into alliances and other treaties with
foreign countries, to accredit am
bassadors and to receive them."
Article ' 12 of same section pro-
.SEPiS-5 tPlttrgUed. by tfee junkqrs, .(Continued oh rw two, Coiuu Tw.)
.London, Oct. 13. The sinking of
the steamer Leinster gave' a stunning
blow to whatever feeling existed
in England for a peace of reconcilia
tion. The affair caused more indig
nation than any submarineftexploit
since the sinking of the Lusitania.
The contrast between Prince Max's
benevolent utterances and Germany's
day by day military and naval pol
icies is the text for most of the news
paper sermons on the situation. Not
only the slaughter of women and
children on the Leinster and the Hi
rano Maru, but the Germans' refusal
to exchange prisoners and the
stories coming from the front of the
needless devastation in Belgium are
working together ,to put a damper
on any sentiment of leniency to
wards the central powers.
It appears plain that the German
peace proposals are regarded with
more disfavor here' today than they
were a week ago. Even some prom
inent papers' with pacifist leanings
are demanding punishment for the
violations of civilized warfare as a
necessary part of any peace terms.
The words of Arthur J. Balfour,
secretary of state for foreign affairs,
were symptomatic of the public feel
ingn. Mr. Balfour is usually most
scrupulous in his observances of the
traditions of diplomacy for polite
phrases under all circumstances. Tfie
putflic interprets his remarks as a
sign that the government does not
carry any leanings toward a com
promise with Germany.
Three Injured When
Two Interurban Cars
Meet in Collision
In a head-on collision near Childs
Point Sunday at noon, in which in
terurban car No. 1, on the Fort
Crook line, southbound, crashed into
car No. 3, north bound, three pas
sengers were injured. C. T. Lismond
of Sioux City received a fractured
right leg; Mrs. C. J. Lismond, suf
fered a badly bruised back, and C.
E Scarr, a South Side druggist, re
ceived a bruised back and internal
injuries.
All were taken to the South Side
hospital for emergency treatment.
C. E. Scarr was later removed to
the Ford hospital. Harry Boyd was
conductor and William Jamison
was motorman on the south bound
car, and Harry Graves was conduc
ted and J. McClanneghan was mo
torman on the north bound car.
They escaped without injuries. Both
cars were badly demolished.
Body of Grace Smith is
Cremated, No Funeral Here
The body of Miss Grace Smith,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Crittenden Smith, was cremated
in Philadelphia. There will be no
funeral at this time, and the family
requests that friends do not send
flowers.
Prince Saves Drowning Man.
Seattle, Oct 13. Prince Axel' of
Denmark went fishing today in Lake
Curl, near here. Besides getting a
basket of fish, the prince jumped
into the water and pulled out Ray
mond Frazier. a Seattle banker, 3
member of the party, who had
iL'PP.e P.8 ft flftatipg &g, "
to Washington tonight after a
two' days' visit to New York.
Col. E. M. House, the presi
dent's close friend and advis
er, accompanied the presiden
tial party, which included
Mrs. Wilson, Miss Margaret
Wilson and Secretary Tum
ulty. The official dosument had not
been received in Washington to
night. It probably will be here to
morrow when the president confers
with his advisers, among them Sec
retary Baker, who returned today
from the western battle front, un
doubtedly prepared to give him some
inside information on. the brpken
condition of the German military
power of which the world does not
know at this time.
Prompt Decision Forecast,
Tonight, as last night, no official
of the government felt justified in
speaking to guide public opinion in
the direction of the views which are
being formed. The Associated Press
is enabled to say, however, that
these views rapidly are crystaliz
ing and the next step will be taken
promptly, probably sooner than may
be expected.
President Wilson is expected to
decide first if Foreign Secretary
Solf's reply to the inquiries address
ed to Chancellor Maximilian war
rants him .in presenting Germany's
original proposal to the entente al
lies. It should be borne in mind
GAINS OF ALLIES
MAKE HUNS' LINE
MOREJJNSTABLE
Great Number of Germans
May be Captured Unless
They Speed Up Their
Retirement.
By Associated Press.
By the successes of the British
and the French the entire German
line from Rheims to the Belgian
frontier is made decidedly more un
stable, and with the new advances
of the French and the Americans
(By the Associated Press.)
Paris, Oct. 13. The German stronghold of La Fere,
together with a great part of the St. Gobain massif of which
La Fere was a northerly outpost at the Oise, has been cap
tured by the French, today's official war office statement
announces.
With the French Army in France, Oct. 13. Laon, the.
last of the group of natural obstacles forming the keystone ot
the German defense in France, has been taken without a .
fight.
The La Fere-Laon railway line has been crossed on the
high ground between Danizy and Versigny, about 2i2 miles
east of La Fere.
The northern and eastern sections of La Fere are burn-s
ing.
Notable progress has been made by the Italians and
French along the line to the ear,t, where the French have
reached Amifontaine, 15 miles north of Rheims.
General Gouraud's troops, in pursuit of the Germans,
have reached the banks of the Aisne in the bend that passes
south of Rethel and Chateau Porcien. Five thousand civil
ians have been liberated in the villages and towns retaken
from the Germans:
1
in Champagne and along both sides
of the Meuse northward, seemingly
the enemy, for a few days at least,
will have to hasten his steps east
ward and northward to prevent the
great converging maneuver from
capturing large numbers of prison
ers, especially in the pocket from
the region northwest of Rheims to
La Fere. Here, however, the ene
my, seeing the ultimate fall of Laon,
may have used the great network
of railways and successfully with
drawn a majority of his forces
toward-Mezieres.
Along the Aisne in Champagne
flip Frpnrh havp fnrrert tlipir uav
mat rne president s inquiry merely ( across the river at various places,
was a move ad interim, in which he
proposed nothing, bound himself to
nothing, and merely asked some
questions, which, he declared, re
quired an answer before he could go
further.
Allies in Agreement.
If he puts the proposition before
the entente it undoubtedly will
draw a quick reply. Dispatches last
night from London quoting the Lon
don Express as announcing that the
British, French and Italian govern
ments had reached an unanimous
decision for a line of common ac
tion were regarded as being deeply
significant.
Lacking official guidance on which
to base a prediction, observers are
forced to record indications. The
indications are that there will be
no armistice, and that if the entente
allies were disposed to agr&e to
one they probably would demand as
guarantee of good faith that such
places as Metz,. Strassburg, Triest
and possibly Essen be placed in the
hands of entente forces to guarantee
fulfillment of Germany's pledges.
Unofficial opinion at the capital
tonight was divided into two dis
tinct groups. One view, shared
largely by republicans in congress,
is that senator Lodges prediction
and are almost upon the important
railway town of Rethel, whence it
is only a step to Mezieres, while
north of Vouzieres they are con
tinuing to battle their way forward
toward Sedan. In the bend of the
Aisne more than 36 localities have
been liberated by the French and
several thousand civilians freed
from bondage. Since the offensive
,began 21,567 Germans have been
made prisoners and 600 of their guns
captured.
With the situation in France and
Belgium highly satisfactory to the
allies, the operations in Serbia and
Albania likewise daily are being
carried forward successfully. Xish,
the capital of the little kingdom
after the invasion by the Austro
Hungarians has been recaptured and
the enemy driven to the hills north
of it. The Austro-Hungarians are
slowly but surely being driven
northward in Albania and now are
being engaged in the region of Ipek,
30 miles southwest of Novipazar.
Hope of Page's Recovery
Given by His Physician
New York, Oct. 13. Walter Hines
Page, retiring ambassador to Great
Britain, who arrived here yester-
flav from F.nclanH snffrinir from a
of a situation which may tlr.:cu., rrious attack of heart disease, is
the substitution of the deliberations
of diplomacy for victories at arms,
has been fulfilled.
The other, confident fh the suc
cess of President Wilson's diplo
macy and probably forming its con
clusions from a close knowledge of
what the government is planning, is
very certain that the president lias
created a situation where he now
can deliver another stroke which
will bring about an unconditional
surrender or throw the kaiser and
the German miltarists completely
out of any power they may retain.
Inquiry Skilfully Framed.
There is a general feeling that
the next move will confront the mili
tary party with a choice of such an
unconditional surrender as will be
(Continued on Page Two Column Three.)
Dons Decide to Seize
German Ships to Make
Spain' 8 Losses in War
Paris, Oct 13. Spain, accord
ing to advices received by the
Temps from the Spanish frontier,
has decided to seize German
ships in her ports to the extent of
15,500 tons, in indemnificajapn of
sp5k& ippifi less
resting comfortabiv in a hospital
and there is "no apparent reason
why he should not get well," ac
cording to a statement by Dr. Sam
uel W. Lambert, his physician. Dr.
Lambert said the technical name of
Mr. Page's malady is myocarditis.
BRITISH AT GATES OF DOUAI.
London, Oct. 13. The German retreat along the west
ern front continued Sunday in an orderly manner. There
are no signs yet of a general debacle.
ine jsntisn are witmn a lew nundred yards ot Douai.
rieid lviarsnai naig reported today m nis otticial statement.
They have captured the Foubourg D'Esqurshin, the Douai
prison and the greater part of Flers, close to Douai on tho
northwest. ',
The edge of Lieu-Stamand, three miles south of Denain,
has been reached by the British in their push up the easterly
bank of the Scheldt canal southeast of Douai. They have
captured in this sector the town of Montre Court, a scant
seven miles from the outskirts of Valenciennes, and almost
directly south of that city.
Further progress has been made by the British north
west of Douai and along the Selles river to the region oi
Solesmes, according to Field Marshal Haig's communication
issued tonight. Several additional towns have been captur
ed and prisoners have been taken.
AMERICANS R0ACH OBJECTIVES.
With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Sat
urday Oct. 12. (10:30 P. M.) "The American troops on
both sides of the Meuse have obtained their objectives," va,,!'
the official characterization tonight of the day's operation" f
The total prisoners taken since September 26 is 17.63U '
ALLIES OCCUPY SERBIAN CAPITAL. ,
Berlin, Via London, Oct. 13. Nish, the capital of Ser- M
bia, has been occupied by entente forces, the War office I
r 'announced today
Roosevelt Expresses
Hope That President
Will Stop Negotiations
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Oct. 13.
Theodore Roosevelt dictated a
statement at his home here tonight
in which he said:
"I regret greatly that President
Wilson has entered into these ne
gotiations and I trust that they
will be stopped.
"I regret the president's ac
tions, because of its effect upon
our allies, no less than upon our
own people, for it can't help awak
ening an uneasy suspicion that we
are an untrustworthy friend and
an irresolute foe.
)
Entire German Front Cracked.
Paris. Oct. 13. The entire Ger-
! man front from St. Gobain to tit
Argonne has cracked on a 60-niiU
front and it now appears that the
enemy will be forced to retreat lo
a depth of some 30 miles before find
ing a suitable line of lefense."At ti e
best, his position will be menaced
at its flanks on the Oise to the Hani
bre ranal from Ribemont to Lan
dreoies, which lines are very near
the Belgian frontier. There will be
nothing here like the cncniy's.strong
defescs on the Hindcnburg line.
Bctwen the Oise and Berry-Au-Rac
the seventh German army hits
been forced to abandon the line of
the Ailettc, retiring its right in the
forest of St. Gobain.
In the GhamnaiMie General Gnu-
"I earnestly hope that the presi- ;rua,i s continuing his terrific un
dent will instantly send back word
that we demand an unconditional
surrender and that we refuse to
compound a felony by discussing
terms with the felons."
"Unconditional Surrender"
Demanded by Senator Lodge
Washington, Oct. 13. Accept
ance in any degree of the reply to
President Wilson's note means the
loss of the war for the allies, Sen
ator Lodge of Massachusetts, mi
nority leader and ranking republi
can of the foreign relations commit
tee of the senate, declared tonight.
The senate republican leader de
manded an unconditional surrender
or the allies would be "left to hu
miliating defeat by a peace of bar
gain and compromise."
"Mr. McAdoo and some of the
press speaks of the German note,
if authentic, as a complete surrend
er,' said Senator Lodge. "It is
nothing of the kind. It is just the
reverse. If we accent that note it
.tb.lt Germany, by faUe.4 Jo
conquer the workf at this moment
and that we have lost the war.
"If we agree to an armistice now,
the war is lost. If we refuse an
armistice the war will be won.
There is nothing in the proposition
about reparations. We should be
left to the mercy of the German
diplomats to decide what reparation
we should obtain.
"If the German note is authentic
and we accept it in any degree all
our sacrifices have been, made in
vain. We are on the eve of victory.
We must have an unconditional sur
render. We must impose our own
terms. If we accept the German
note there wTll be no surrender and
we shall be left to humiliating de
feat by a peace of bargain and com-
slaughts on his disorganized ad
versary. For 17 consecutive days
his men have been pounding the
German positions and continuing
to make inroads upon the defenses.
To the north the British armies
are pushing their advances almost tc .
the point of liberating Douai, one of
the great objectives on their front
"Win War for Permanent
Peace" Conventions Planner
Xew York, Oct. 13. Plans for a
series of "win the war for perma
nent peace" conventions to be helc1 .
this fall and winter-In every state
in the union were announced here
tonight by the League to Enforce
Peace.
The conventions, which are bein
arranged by the various stats
branches of the national organiza
tion, have the twofold purpose of
demonstrating united opposition
a premature, German made peace
ana organizing ot all classes ptrf
hind the movement for a league 'i'
nations." - -J !'
it
convent
forn
braska and Iowa,
Tentative arrangements. cs'J JjtV
inventions in November i? )f P$ ''
rnia, Nevada, Wyoming, LttrMfJti i .
HP1
