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.V. 8 BRIE RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS Helen Keller Christens Ship Los Angeles, ,Oct. 17. Helen Keller, the famous deaf, blind and once dumb woman, christened the cargo vessel West Arvada, which "was launched today at Los Angeles harbor. The west Arvada is the twelfth ship to be built here for the government. Pope Trusts Wilson. Rome, Oct. 17. "You may say that the Holy father is pinning his faith entirely on President Wilson to make a quick and durable peace," - Monsignor Cprretti, Papal under .secretary of state, said today. "He is making prayers to this end that President Wilson may not deviate from his present course and that nothing may interfere with his pur-oose-nd comnei a renewal of the war" AMERICA'S HISTORIC ANSWER: '"UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. THE WEATHER t For Nabratkai UnsatlaJ wMi lowers Fidy and probably Sat urdayi cooUr ia oast and central portion Friday. Hourly TcnparalofM. , lp. n. I Lighting Ban Suspended. Washington, Oct. 17. Restric-J tipns as to lighting were rescinded! as applied to Liberty loan advertis- ! nr. m a... I.oi.aJ .a1... k. 17... 1 415 in an uiuci isaucu luuajr uy i' uci Administrator Garfield Street signs, outdoor meetings and all other campaign .instruments will be exempted from the lighting restric tions for the remainder of the campaign. Fairbanks Gets Si Million. Warrington Oct. 17. Douglas Fairbanks, a motion picture actor, who flew from Washington to New York yesterday to sell Liberty bonds, arranged by telephone to- night to return to Washington to morrow by postal airplane and de liver his $6,000,000 in subscriptions 1 to Secretary McAdoo. The secre tary wjll receive him on the south steps of the treasury at 5 o'clock. K. 0. Closes, Theaters. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 17. Dras tic orders by city officials closing all churches and theaters, forbidding public gatherings of any character and regulating the opening and closing of stores, went into effect here tonight as a precaution aginst ' the influenza epidemic, reported more serious today. , , Only War Work in Chicago. . Chicago, Oct. 17. Chicago's clos ing order issued today means, ac cording to Dr. St. Clair Drake, di rector of public health for Illinois, there will be no foot ball games Saturday, no -wrestling bouts and no other public entertainment that will draw crowds. This includes club meetings, dinners, lunchtons .and everything not essential to war work. Vote of Confidence. t r- Washington, uct. i. A resoiu 'V tton expressing the confidence of I V the senate in whatever course may ' k tiUn Kn President Wilson in dealing with Germany and Austria in resoortse to-'the demand for an I J armistice was introduced today by i f-Senator -Lewis of Illinois, the demo cratic whip. The resolution was not referred to committee.' but went to thjjtable, permitting it to be callidJ up arany .umt mere was no cussioir. " . v I II II II II II ."M 1 U I Y II I VI rt Ik'a' I U II II II II Jl Jl y I a. :.... ll J v l I u , r r l M w 1 1 u 4 lv. ' . ... .. M. ii m , . m St I I d. m. s mm - w - - 7 a m S8 lp. m, ,.rw....W ! . .. S . m...... ..87 4 p.m. M I , " i ' a. m St p. m. ., It VOL. v48. NO. 105. llT " T'T 3T& 'M1 lH OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 198. tWViMttSS TWO CENTS. pL.rH:. r ' : t 1 " : ; r v i i i i i i i i y f i i i i i i i v i v v v i i i I i i i if i i i i v i i l i v j : s r-i : t 1 s 9 LACK OF SUGAR CAUSE OF "FLU," SAYS DR. PINT . Chicago Physician Reports Diphtheria Antitoxin Is : Specific for Malady ... Sweeping Country.' Chicago,' Oct. 17. Dr. Louis J. Pint, former state bacterioligist, and at present connected with the re search laboratory of the University of Chicago, told tht Chicago Medi cal society toniglit that he had suc ceeded in isolating Mie germs re sponsible for the so-called influenza epidemic which is sweeping thj country and thaj the regulation , diphteria antitoxin is an absolute specific for the disease. The gernfs responsible for the dis ease, which he said is not influenza, he gave as staphylococus aureus, which is usually responsible-for car buncles; streppococus, which causes blood poison and vincent angina, which causes sore mouths. He said the epidemic was mainly caused by , tha-present war diet and especially by the curtailment of the usual con sumption of sugar. Dr. Pint said diphtheria antitoxin without the diptheria anti- toxin without the loss of a single case. Mrs. H. G. Montgomery Dies of Pneumonia; Huskanfl Overseas , ;X i . v - Mrs. Harry Gage Montgomery, wife of Lt. Gage Montgomery, died at 6 o'clock Thursday nigty at her apartmepts in the St. Regis, Thirty seventh "and Jones streets, from bronchial pneumonia. j C. S. . Montgomery of Montgom ery. Hall 'and Young, last night capied his son, Lieutenant Mont gomery, serving with the Thirteenth balloon squadron in France, of the ' death of his wife. Mrs. Montgomery was lhe daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B.' Johnson, Thirty-third and Dew fy avenue. Besides her parents and husband she is survived by two sons, Harry Gage Montgomery, jr., aged 10. and Reed, aged 9, and a sister, Jeanett Johnson. The date of the funeral, which will he private, has not been an nour.ctd and members of the fam ily have requested friends not to send flowers. . , i Mrs. Montgomery was an active war worker and took a leading part 'in the activities of the Women'. War Service Motor corps ' CENTRAL EMPIRES BEING CONVERTED TO DEMOCRACIES Germany and Austria Rearranging Internal Affairs and War Methods in Hge of Meeting Wilson's Peace Re quirements; Emperor Charles Grants Autonomy; Hungary Recognized As Separate State. BULLETINS. Berne, Oct. 17. Advices received from Berlin say that therexis great activity in political circles in view of the German reply to PresidentSjyilson's note. It is-un-derstood the note already has ben drafted and that it is not a complete refusal of President Wilson's de mands. ' The semi-official newspapers indicate that it is cer tain that Germany will seek to continue the conversa tion. Field Marshal von Hindenburg was expected in Berlin today. v Baron von Hussarek,the Austrian premier, has made the announcement that Austria is about to be transformed into federal states, according to advices re ceived here. Buenos Aires, Oct. 17. The foreign cjffice has re ceived a dispatch from the Argentine legation in BerlinV saying that the present situation in Germany is unendurable. Washington, Oct. 17.- Signs 'multiplying today that Germany and Austria are hastening to rearrange their in ternal political affairs- and their methods of warfare in the hope of meeting the peace requirements of PresidentWilsori. There was no indication when the German answer wold rnmfi. hut that one would be disDatched was made more certain bv the statements of Baron Burian, he Austrian foreign minister, before the foreign affairs commijttee of the 1 2v a f i? J Austrian parliament. I inrflTV I nAII Following closely radicaf changes LIDCM I LUnll TWO BILLIONS SHORT OF MARK hReasons Why Bonds Should Be Oversubscribed Given in Statement Secre tary McAdoo. Washington, Oct. 17. Fourth Liberty loan subscriptions reported ?nd unreported probably amount to ourbillion dollars, although those actually tabulated by headquarters here aggregate $3,607,507,350, the treasury announced tonight. Two days remain for the racing of two billion dollars. On Saturday night! subscription books will close absolutely, Secre tary McAdoo declared today, thus setting' at rest persisent reports that owing to the retarding influ ence bf the influenza epidemic the government contemplated giving the nation another week " in which to enter pledges. New reasons why the loan should be not only raised, but over sub scribed, as emphasized ttfday by Secretary McAdoo are that tre mendous warexpenses will continue to run on for many months regard less of the outcome of Germany's efforts , for peace. Even if peace should come soon ai.d no agency of the government is drawing its plans in this definite belief there will be immense manufacturing orders to be fulfilled, armiy to, be brought back to American shores, and a multitude of other expenses which the momentum of war will carry on. . Y l nis means otner war loans, oec- (Contlnued on Pag Two, Column &x.) in-iie German governmental struc ture, Information came Hb the State department that the Austrian em peror has announced to the affairs committee of parliament his purpose to grant autonomy to the oppressed nationalitiees in the dual empire, one of the requirements laid down by the president. Meets Magyar, Opposition. Bitter opposition from the in tensely conservative German Mag yar components of the empire is certain to be aroused by this rad ical change. It is Believed that Em peror . Charles thinks this can be support he will receive from the liberal elements and the separatist parties, especially if he can maKe it appear that the change is a long step towards the final peace so in sistently demanded'by the populace. The announcement from Copen hagen of the rlading of a decree in the Hungarian parliament recog nizing Hungary as4a separate state is regarded as an earnest of what is to come to the other national ities of the empire. It has been suggested that the delay in dis patching the president's reply to the Austrian appeal for an armistice jjjrfy be accounted for by the con viction of official? that events are moving so rapidly in Austria-Hungary that it would be. wise tq await the outcome of the present agitation there in order to adapt the reply Jo the new conditions. Moving Toward Democracy. Baron Burian's statement to the foreign affairs .committee that tGer 'many will make the constitutional modifications'' necessary to realize the demand for a democratic forrrv o. government and abdication of military control was regarded as in dicating the Austrian -purpose to do likewise. Events are moving in the same direction in Turkey where the sul tan has declared for a representa tive government so that the conclu (Contintwd on Psa Two, Column Five.) GERMANY RECALLS U-BOATS ' JS REPORT AT AMSTERDAM Civilians 'Left in Lille, By Germans Frantic WkK J oy British Headquarters in Fland ers, Oct, .17. British drums were beating through the streets of Lille this morning, while British patrols advanced east of the city in contact with the retreating Germans. Tfie evacuation of Lille and the British entry into the citywas one of the most dramatic events of the war. At-4 o'clock this morning the German commandant at Lille or dered all the inhabitants of iille to assemble as promptly as possible. As they hurried through the gloom of the streets they observed the gar rison marching out. They were told to go out to the British lines and meet their friends. Then came the rhythmic tranp of infantry, which gradually died away. The Ger mans had departed from Lille. At dawn a -British airman flying over the city beheld a most amazing sight The streets were thronged withcivilians who were frantically waving handkerchiefs and shawls. Not a soldier could be seen. The aviator quickly turned and carried the news back to the British lines. Patrols advanced immediately and entered the city. At daylight the allied line in the north, which is being carried for ward by -the Belgians and French ran from Mannekensvere to St. Pierre Cappelle to Leke to Coucke laere to Wynendaele to Poorthoek to Pottebezemhoek to Grietehoek to Meyboom to Coofscamp to Tur- kyenhoek to Ingelnunster. Allies Threaten to D five Foe Over Dutch Frontier Germans Speed Up Retreat to ' Avoid Capture or Intern- ment, but No Disor der Is Seen.v By Associated Press. ' Over a front-f 40 miles, from the"North sea to Lille in northern France, the Germans are in retreat before the Belgian, French an British armies. Likewise the enemy is being forced to concede defeat by retr6grade movements before the British and Americans south east of Cambrai; under the attacks of the French in the pocket beween Oise and Serre rivers norh of Laon, and by reason , of coninued strong attacks by the French and Ameri cans in Champagne and alongthe Meuse river.' Nowhere, however, s the enemy in disorder. In Belgian Flanders his steps are being hastened by rea son of the swift drives into his line by the British" at Lille, just south of the Belgian border, and by the Frepch.and Belgians further noxth, which threaten to compel him t enter Dutch territory and face in ternment unless he is fleet enough to withdraw out of the entire pocket between the Scheldt river and the sea and reconstitute his line with its right wing resting on Antwerp. Ostend, one of the famous sub marine bases on the sea, is in Brit ish hands, Bruges is all but captured while to the south from the region east ofRoulers the allied forces ar. fast-driving toward. Ghent in an en deavor to seal the western Flanders sack and retain in it large elements of the enemy's forces. 1 Resist On Courtrai Sector. 1 Strong opposition is being offered on the the Courtrai sector to pre vent the allies from carrying but their maneuver to the full. More than a score of additional villages have been liberated by the" allied troops and numerous . guns and quantities of. stores Iiave been cap tured. In their withdrawal from west Flrnders the Germans are parrying out a tactical movement which doubtless will end in a general fall ing back of their fine in northern France and permit them to material ly strengthened their resistance on a new and shorter front. This prob ably will be from Antwerp to Namur and Metz, and thence to the Swiss border, which would still leave the Germans 80 miles from their own border line both at Antwerp and Namur. At .present the center of the Flaftders fighting is near Thielt, which is about 125 miles from Aix La Chapelle on the German border. Southeast of Cambrai over a front of 10 miles between Le Gateau and Do You Like; to Look at pictures? Of course yoiido and the better iheyare, ihe better you like them. . The Sunday Bee Rotogravure Section 1 parting October 20th , It off ere a splendid reproduction bf photos of Omaha Men and Women you ow Pictures; if the boys "Over' there" Pictures oj the battlefields .in .France. PictuisEverybody Will Like " Phome your Order today to Tyler lOOO and have THE BEE delivered regularly to ydurv'home. Bohain the British and Americans are delivering a violent ' attack against the Germans and at lasjre ports they were meeting with suc cess, although the Germans were savagely resisting with machine guns atfd infantry and with artillery behind their ljne. North ofLaon between the Oise and' the Serre rivers, the French are endeavoring the drive ont the Ger. mans or capture them before -they can "make their way eastward to Hirson. Here also theenemy is using his machine' gunners and artil lery to impede the progress of the French, but further gains have been recorded. The greatest resistance of all however, isstill being imposed after the efforts of the French and Am ericans in Champagne and along the Meuse river, where the holding of the line is essential to stave off a general retreat by the Germans all the Way from Belgium to the Swiss frontier. The French in Champagne are still fighting hard to capture Rethel, but the Germans thus far have leen able to hold this im partant position in their own hands. North of Grand Pre both the French and AnieHcans have made further progress over the difficult ground. Especiolly ""severe have been the hardships suffered by the Ameri cans in encompassing the natural fortifications and the attacks by hordes of enemy machine gunneds. Before the Americans the Germans are giving ground only inch by inch. Announcement, of Abandon ment of Devastation Policy Declared Unfounded in Berlin Dispatch. i Amsterdam, Oct. 17. The Handelsblad publishes with re serve a report that the German admiralty has issued wireless in structions to all submarines to ret turn to their bases. A Berlin dispatch announced the German newspapers this evening were to publish the following com munication: "The German army command has brought military measures into accord with the steps taken for the conclusion of peace. The German armies have received or ders to cease all devastation of places, unless they are absolutely forced to follow this course by the military situation for defensive reasons. "Nevertheless, it is to be ex pected that in the gradual retreat property will be lost which is ir replaceable by money, that is to say, insofar as such devastation is inherent in the conduct of the ' wapMtself, and especially on the i bombardment of "German posi tions by enemy artillery." H Opposition to Wilson. Dispatches from Berlin tonight indicate a strong anti-Wilson ten dency not only in military quarters, but also in those which have favored peace. Fir example Herr Gothein, a. member of the Reichstag, writing in the Zeitung A Mittag, declares Wil son has given a death blow to the idea of a Jeague of nations. His position, the writer asserts,' is one of the right forces rather than equal rights and Germany would enter k league under such -conditions with feeling of "indescribable bitterness." Gothein alserts .that the idea of surrendering at the discretion of the Wilson Note "Trap" And "Rude Answer," Says German Papers Amsterdam, Oct. 17. Judging by Rhenish and Berlin newspapers re ceived here President Wilson's reply to Germany was printed in full in the German press. The newspapers' variously termed the reply "A trap' "Wilson's Evasions," "A Rud4 Answr? and the like. Somef the newspapers do not attempt to comment on the reply, merely sayings "Leave it to the su preme army command." The cus tomary truculence of the Lokal Anzeiger gives way to despondency,' the paper lamenting over "the hu man lies being sacrified, while Wil son has it in his power to end ,the carnage." Divine Right of Kings " Is at an End, Declares German Newspaper Berne, Switzerland, Oct. 17. Commenting on President Wilson's note to Germany, the New Zurich Gazette says: "Thp last hour of the divine right of kings has come. It is not too soon. This old fiction has long been considered an anachronist in our democratic era." Hungary Declared - Independent State " By Proclamation London, Oct. 17. At a. meeting' of the F'figarian parliament a proc-' lamauon was reaa declaring Hun gary tO jb an independent stetCt says a dispatch from Berlin for warded from Cppenhagen to the Central News teener btre. .. posed unrestricted submarine war fare, its .relinquishment means an extraordinary weakening of the Ger man mihtary position. iiie cologne uazette puQiisnes a manifesto of the conservative party sitrned bv Count von Westarn and other members of the party-.' dei claring that atter President Wilson s reply the contest of arms must be fought out to a finish. It paints a terrible picture of the fate that would befall an invaded fatherland. A dispatch to the Cologne Volks Zeitutig from Berh states that there will be exhaustive delibera tions between the reichstag, the fedyl eral council "and the supreme conr- mand ks well as the leaders of all parties before a decision is reached concerning a reply to Mr. Wilsonjs. note. It is said to be probable rtfe reichstag will not reassemble until next week. It is announced that Chance.ior Maximilian has appointed State Sec retary Grdeber as his representative in connection wtth the civil admin istration of martial law. Rumors from Holland. . London, Oct. 17. Late tonight the foreign office was still without news Of any German reply to Presi dent Wilson or any further devel opment in' the political situation as affecting Turkey or other enemv powers. Rumors more tantalizing than reliablevare still cominR'from Holland. For instance the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, which er roneously announced the German reply today,lirouRht alleged news of German abandonment of the policy of devastation, but a Berlin dis patch through Reuters Amsterdam correspondent tonight declares this announcement "quite baseless." Among the rumors "was one that General LudendorS had resigned. Another that' the German reply j would be a protest against the tone ot resident Wilsons note. Meanwhijt the attitude of the pub lic is that it is a matter of little consequence what reply Germany may make. Much more interest is displayed in the question whether the German army, pressed on every hand by the allied advances on all ; fronts, will be abe to escape. GERMANS SEEK REFUGE BEHIND , ANTWERPT0RTS 'W'f , yT Submarine Base Abandoned and Entire Front From Sea Southward in Rapid Retreat Before Allied Drives ; Yalenciennes Line Turned bjr Attack in , - Which Americans participated. - BULLETINS r . Paris, Oct 17. King Albert f Belgium and Queen Elizabeth entered Ostend this afternoon. - i Paris, Oct. 17.-The Germans are abandoning the Belgian coast and are seeking refuge behind the outer defenses of Antwerp. x 1' With the French Army in France, Oct 17. In con junction with the British first army the French attacked ihis morning over a wide front. The attack is progres-, sing favorably. f . x . ' s ' ' London, Oct. 17. Admiral Keyes of the British navy landed at Ostend this afternoon, says an official announce ment from the admiralty. The admiral was preceded by members of the royal air force, who landed at Ostencf this morning. French cavalry patrols, saysjthe Evening News, reached Ostend today and returned with the report that no Germans were to be seen therej , v " . ' . Zeebmgge appearajo have been abandoned also. - ,"""""""""- ' . , -' . ' - : Ostend is one of the two most important German suh marine bases on the Belgian coast. The other, is ?eebrugge about 13 miles t northeast of Ostend. The usefulness . of these bases fo the Germans had been v seriously damaged last spring by raids carried out by British naval units under Vice Admiral Sir-Roger J. B. Keyes. Both these raids were 1 1 allies makes the blood of even the most confirmed pacifists boil, and that, although he always has op-l , A ., ,j AJ . . fk- ....'.nf f ... ijuv am u esaiva nuiuu ni av w o tt co tuv avvaev w j congratulations and British and French decorations, on the skill in which he carried them out. Jf- g tVi- (Icrman rtrat hefftirL Wednesday under the irresistible KAHN SAYS WAR IS NOT YET OVER ; RUMORS FALSE Congressman Kahn of California?- in Lincoln, Declares Kaiser's Fake Factory Working Overtime. ' From a Staff Correspondent. Lincoln, Oct. -17. (Special.) "The war will not be over for, a long time yet' said Congressman Kahn of California, who was in Lincoln for a short time today on his way to Camp Funston to visit his old friend, Gen. Leonard E. Wood, Mr. Kahn was billed for an address in Lincoln tonight, but on account of the closing of all pub lic places, because of influenza, his date was cancelled here, but he went to Beatrice and spoke in the public park there this evening. "Some time next year, the war may be over," said the congress man, "but not before. I know the people of Germany too well to e pect that they are going to give up now. All these stories emanating from Germany1 that the kaiser is about to abdicate or that he is think ing of surrendering, is but stuff given out over there in-order that they may gain a little more time in order to do mori domage to the country." . Dems Play to Galleries. Speaking of the political situa tion and congress and the -part con gress, had played in the past year or so, the congressman said that (Continued on Fan Two, Column Two.) - pressure of the armies under com mand of the king of the Belgians . continued today along the whole of the front between the North sea and the river Lys. Advance 20 Kilometers. By this evening the advance had been carried forward to a depth of 20 -kilometers over a front of 50 kilometers. The Belgian army had entered Ostend and their cavalry-was at the gates of Bruges' Belgian cav- airy occupied Inglemunster. In the Belgian-French pone Pit them, Muelbeke and Wyngneme had been captured. . Farther south the sscond Britfsh army occupied the line of the Lys Lnorth of Courtrai. South the Brit ish have crossed the river and reached the outskirts of Turcoing. British troops TSptured Douai Jo day after defeating the enemy at the Hauta Dcute canal. Lille was oc cupied without resistance, the Ger mans having evacuated the city. Vast quantities of war material have been-taken by the allied trooj)S. These have. been accumulating for four years. . , . Fall Back Entire L Front. !j "The Gemans have given way under Belgian pressure on the en tire front in Flanders, according to (Continued on Pace Two, Column Three.) rt l rv Lnenoerger uies After an Accident in " 'Passenger Elevator ' Hooting Hun Mobs Try to Burn Hindenburg Statue Paris, Oct. 17. (Havas.) Peace demonstrations continue in Germany, according to .the Matin, which says that groups of soldiers go through the streets of Berlin singing pacifist and Vevolutionary songsv Pan-Germans who attempted to hold a meeting before the Hindenburg statue were obliged Vs disperse by hooting crowds which attempted to set fire to the statue. The police had .great difficulty in preventing them from carrying out their pufpose. According to reportsTy General Ludendorff, some divisions have refused to obey orders and "oldjfrs hold meetings to" discuss political questions. . " t - v. 1 ; ..." N F. J. Effenberger, . 4103 Irard ! street, an employe of the Nebraska , " Clothing company, was seriously in- s" v jured in an elevator accident Thurs day afternoon at 2.20 in the Omaha National Bank building and died at v 4 o'clock in Ford hospitat. Effenberger made an attempt t i alight on the fifth floor and the eft vator gjirt is said to have be t come confused and smarted th " r elevator before the door wast - closed. Effenberger was caught ' j between. the elevtoj- and the floor, - ' sustaining a compound fracture f the left leg, hfs right leg1 seriously injured, scalp wound and other lacerations which caused his death. The elevator , was operated by Mrs. Cline who became hysterical . after the accident. . ' " Mrs. D. Thomas. Western Union ' f messenger, witnessed the accident She tated Effenberger. forced, the f door of the elevator open just after the car left the fifth floor and wasv caught before the conductor could V i f stop the car. ; Effenberger is survived by a wife If A and four children Robert 9 years, the. oldest; Frank. Bernard' aivsV Vt Mary, the youngest, aged IS mv it
