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2 A TTiE OMAHA SUNDAY BEB:, OCTOBER gfl, If 18. -- AUSTRIA MUST GIVE FREEDOM. WILSON ANSWER . Reply to Peace Plea Calls At - tention to Recognition of Czechs and Jugoslavs. , Washington, Oct. 19. President Wilson has answered the peace note of Austria-Hungary with a declara- - tion that the Austro-Hungarian gov- , eminent must satisfy the national aspirations of its own people and that they, the people, shall be the judges of their rights and destinies. - .The text of the note handed to the s Swedish minister follows: "Sir: I have the honor to ac knowledge the receipt of your note of the seventh instant, in which you transmit a communication of the im perial and royal government of Aus tria-Hungary to the president. , am now instructed by the president to request you to be good enough through your government to convey to the imperial and royal govern ment the following reply: "The president deems it his duty to say to the Austro-Hungarian gov ernment that he cannot entertain the present suggestions of that govern ment because of certain events of utmost importance which, occurring since the delivery of his address of the eighth of January last, have nec . essarily altered the attitude and it- sponsibility of the government of the United States. Among the 14 termslof peace which the president formulated at this time occurred the following: ' '"The peoples of Austria-Hun gary, whose place among the na tions we wish to see safeguarded ;.- and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of auton omous development.' Condition Changes. "Since the sentence was written and uttered to the congress of the United States, the government of th United States has recognized that a state of belligerency exists between the Czecho-Slovaks and the German and the Austro-Hun-garian empires and that the Czecho slovak national council is a de fac- W. belligerent government clothed with proper authority to direct the military and political affairs of the Czecho-Slovaks. It has also recognized in the fullest manner the justice of the nationalistic aspira tions of the Jugo-Slavs for freedom. "The president is, therefore, no Icr.gcr at liberty to accept the mere 'autonomy' of these peoples as a basis of peace, but is obliged to in sist that they, and not he, shall be the judges .of what action on the. part of the "Austro-Hungarian gov ernment will satisfy their aspira tions and their conception of .their rights and destiny as members of , the family of nations." fAccept: sir, the renewed assur ances of my highest consideration. "ROBERT LANSING." Approved by Senators. , The note rejecting the Austrian ' peace offer was read to members of the senate military committee today as they left their weekly conference at the War department. Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the foreign relations committee, one of the group, said: "That is good stuff, and others nodded their agreement. -' Laer Senator Hitchcock made this statement: , "It seems to me to fill the till exactly. It lives up to the letter, and spirit of our relations with these subject nationalities of Austria, whom we have encouraged to seek independence. The reply at this time may be ex plained by the publication yester day of a proclamation by Emperor Charles federalizing the states of Austria in an obvious effort to quiet the situation at home and at the same time meet the conditions of peace laid down by the president. The president before has spoken of the justice of the claims of 'subject natit nalities for self-determination; now he makes their real free dom, a condition precedent to peace for Austro-Hungary. The Czecho-Slovaks, having won recognition as belligerents, yester day paved the way for taking their place in the family of nations by a formal declaration of independence. t Pershing Awards Medals to Heroes Distinguished service crosses have been awarded by General Pershing to the following officers and men, for extraordinary acts of heroism: First Lt. Joseph W. Smith. Aus tin, Tex.; First Lt. Charles O'Brien, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; First Lt. Leon Marchland, Interpreter Alfred Du Bois, First Sergt. Herman M. Sell, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Cook William Shefrin, Brooklyn. N. Y. GERMANS DENY CRUELTY CHARGE ' (Continued from Page One.) meeting of the crown council in Berlin, where General Ludendorff made a gloomy report on the mili tary situation. In the presence of Emperor Wil liam an '. all the federated princes, the general, according to this news paper, declared the situation was such that Germany might be invaded within a few weeks. t In view of his great promises of last spring, he was made the subject of bitter reproaches. Prince Maximilian of Baden, the imperial chancellor, said the war must be stopped at once. King Lud wig of Bavaria sharply criticised Ludendorff, while King William of Wuerttemberg declared a heavy re sponsibility rested upon the emper or. The grand duke of Hesse com plained of military interference in political matters. The chancellor finally cut the recriminations short, the newspaper adds, by proposing submission to President Wilson's terms. Admits Game Is Lost. Indications that General Luden dorff probably was correctly repre sented in his attitude by the Essen newspaper is contained in a .nes sage from the Berlin correspondent of the Danish newspaper, Ber lingske Tidende, who reports that at the end of September Luden dorff declared he had lost the game and could only hold the west front for a fortnight. At the same time Bulgaria gave- In, and concurrently with Ludendorff's declaration of his , defeat there came an ultimatum from Austria-Hungary stating that Germany should request peace, as otherwise the daul monarchy could not take any further responsibility, Czech revolution being expected, the correspondent adds. It n held that Baron Kurian s speech on President Wilson'9 last note also is in the nature ot an ulti matum to Germany, peremptory m character, although similarly mask ed in courteous, phrasing. It is considered plain from this speech that for Austria-Hungary the war is over, that it cannot go on any longer, and that if Germany fails to satisfy President Wilson and the allies, then the only alternative of the, dual monarchy is a separate peace, It is felt that this must have had its influence on the German mind as well as the expectation in Ber lin, according to the Berlin corre spondent of the Danish newspaper previously referred to, that Turkey will comply with the demands of the allies for surrender. Might Have Prevented Outrage. Commenting on the report in the Handelsblad of Amsterdam that German submarines had been order ed by wireless to return at once to their bases, the Yorkshire Post says: "If the Handelsblad story is as inndcent as it seems, it is a damag ing story of German mitigation of 'frightfulness.' If the German gov ernment can wireless to all its sub- imarines, it could have prevented the outrage on the Lemster by tele graphing to all U-boat commanders that atrocities must not be com mitted. "Outrages have been excused in Germany on the ground that it is impossible to communicate with U boats by wireless telegraphy. But, if the government can recall the U boats by wireless they could have modified the ferocity without wait ing for President Wilson." PERSHING'S BOYS HACK THEIR WAY Continued from Face One.) five to eight miles across difficult country which the enemy defended with tenacity. Capture 5,000 Prisoners. "Having driven the enemy on the first day from strong positions held by him on the right bank of the Selle river, by a determined and per sistent fighting they have success fully cleared the whole of the high ground east of the river line, captur ing many villages in the course of their advance, together with more than 5,000 prisoners and a number of guns. rurther north our troops are steadily continuing their advance They have reached the general line of Orchies, Cobrieux, Bourghelles and Templeuve and southeast of Roubaix, the village of Nechin." Occupy Zeebrugge and Bruges. Havre, Oct. 19. "In the course of the day we continued to pursue the enemy, says the Belgian otticial communication issued tonight. "We have occupied ZeebruRge and Bruges and passed the Bruges- Ghent canal and made progress to ward Aeltre. French Attack Hunding Line. Paris, Oct. 19. The French armies all along the front have been successful in their combats against the Germans, making advances at numerous points and at others warding off violent counter-attacks, says the official communication is sued tonight. In Champagne the French have reached the Hunding line, attacked it and captured St. Germainmont. Seven hundred pris oners were taken. Count Tisza Says Austria : Has No Chance to Win War Amsterdam, Oct. 19. Count Tis za, the former Hungarian premier, speaking in the Hungarian lower house, according to a Budapest dis : patch, said: "We have lost the war in the sense that in consequence of the, shifting of the relative strength we can no longer hope to win the war." Therefore, he said, he approved the offer df Germany to make peace on the basis of President Wilson's "14 and supplementary points. Count Tisza was premier of Hun gary at the outbreak of the war. He has been looked upon as one of the men in Austria-Hungary most re sponsible for the declaration of war against Serbia. A recuperHv diet In influenza. Horllck' Malted Milk, very digestible. Adv. Have Your Old Clothes DYED, as WE Dye 'Em, and Forget That They Ever WERE Old Clothes. Of court, Dye work can ivr hm ruaranteeil. but we jdo magnificent work in this line and show some marvelous result. , -. , v x f Phone Tyler 345. DRESHER- BROTHERS Dyers, Dry Cleaner. 2211-lt Farnam St., Omaha. For Supreme Judge UN : J J Judge Ernest B. Perry OF CAMBRIDGE Clean, able, fearless Omaha Bee. Remarkably fit timber. Lin coln State Journal. The west three-fourths of the state is entitled to at least one judge. World-Herald. Judge Ernest B. Perry of Cambridge is one of the nom inees for supreme judge. Judge Perry is highly equipped in law and character for the office. Courageous, alert, active with a fine conception of the honor and duties, he should attract, to his support a strong enough follow ing to insure his victorious elec tion Jn November. McCook Tribune. , .. - . -, ' ' By Associated Press. Allied troops on a front of, more than 120 miles from the North Sea to the Oise are pressing closely the retiring Germans. The enemy is given no rest and may have diffi culty in holding his supposedly pre pared lines when they are reached. On the north the British, French and Belgians are approching Ghent, in the center the British are march ing on Tournai while the British, French and Americans north of the Oise are threatening the important railway lines south of Valenciennes. In the Argonne west of the Meuse the Americans have improved their positions near Bantherville. Unofficial reports are that the Belgian coast has been cleared com pletely of enemy forces and that 6,000 German troops have been caught between the advancing allies and the Dutch border and the North Sea. This force apparently was unable to escape southeastward toward Antwerp owing to the rapid ity of the allied advance from Bruges. Allied troops are reported nearer Eeechloo, IS miles east of Bruges and the same distance northwest of Ghent and also are approaching the Dutch frontier near Sluis. The allied troops in Flanders have regained 800 square miles of territory in the past four days. Wedge Being Widened. Between Bruges and Courtral the main resistance is somewhat stiffer than further north, but south of Courtrai the British are advancing rapidly from the DouailLille line The Marcq river has been crossed east of Lille and the town' of Che reng eight miles east of the import ant junction of Tournai taken. Trem chereng southward to east of Douai the British have pressed forward nearly eight miles on a thirty mile front in three days. South of Valenciennes the Brit ish, American and French forces are widening the wedge driven into the German defenses and have forced the enemy behind the Sambre canal on a wide front east of the important railway center of Guise. The Selle has been crossed in force joutheast of Cainbrai and the British are approaching the formid able natural obstruction of the forest of Mormal, guarding the Valenci-ennes-Avesnes railroad, the main German support line in this region. The French maintain strongly their pressure between the Oise and the Serre and eastward along the Aisne. There are some indications that the Germans are preparing for a re tirement irom their positions in front of the Americans northwest of Verdun between the Meuse and the Boult forest. The American advance threatens the security of the Kreimhilde positions on the left center of the sector. A further ad vance in the JtJantheviile region would further increase the menace to the Germans. East of the Meuse the enemy Saturday attacked the American position in the Bois De La Grande Montague, but was repulsed. Nebraskan and lowans in ' Canadian Casualty List Ottawa, Ont.. Oct. 19. The names of the following Americans appeared in the Canadian casualty list lssesed today:" Missing. J. A. Jensen, Burwell, Neb. Wounded: D. Gasperi, Oska- loosa, la.; E. Hammer, Swan, la. General Pershing Asks Coal Miners to Stand Behind Men at Front "Let there be no shortage of coal. Lack of coal means limit ing our war industries, railroads and shipping are slowed down, and the army cannot be provided with means to deliver the telling blows needed to end the war. Without coal we shall be with out guns and ammunition to use against the enemy. The man in the mine helps the man on the firing line. The more coal you produce the sooner- we shall have peace. Every soldier of the American Expeditionary Forces expects to be backed up by the miners of America, just as labor in every branch of industry at home has stood behind us. We soldiers know that we can de pend upon you to do your part as we are doing ours. "PERSHING." WESTLAWN CEMETERY PARK P LAN Every Family Should own a lot in a cemetery, where 1. Lots may be purchased on par tial payment at time ot firat burial on the lot. 2. Where there Is perpetual care of the lot free and no annual assess ments for that purpose and where there are no neglected graves. ) t. Where the service is courteous and thoughtful and car line service is direct to the cemetery. West Lawn offer all these ad vantages in addition to natural beauty and seclusion. In case of immediate need tele phone Walnut 820 or ' Douglas 820 and our free automobile will call for you so you can make your selection. WEST LAWN CEMETERY, 58th and Center Sts. Office 15th and Harney Sts. rOnV Bet ' Grade , of -All few Cast Iron Used THE Heating Question You can't buy hard coal. What can you do then to heat your home? A Soft Coal Stove Will do the business and we are now showing a full line. Don't wait until the line is broken as we can get no more this fall. A VICTORY PIPELESS FURNACE or a Fox Furnace with pipes will burn any kind of coal and keep your home much more comfortable than the old hard coal stove. Let us give you a figure. It pays to have your heating plant in stalled by a man who understands the heating business and it costs no more. Call us by telephone. John Hussie Hardware Company 2407 Cuming. Douglas 1116. "If you buy it of Hussie it' right." M ary G. Keenan Nonpartisan Candidate "County Superintendent of Public Instruction" Present incumbent appointed last August by county commissioners to fill vacancy caused by resignation of her brother, Thos. J. Keenan, who ' joined the colors. Has had seven years' experience as a teacher. Prin cipal of Bennington Public Schools last year. Holds a state certificate .-. from Kearney State Normal. , Hi 'J. w, A X.:;""1 .v .MI LIBERTY LOAN WILL PASS SIX BILLION MARK (Continued from Tar One.) whether the number of smaller sub scriptions by individuals is found to meet expectations.' New subscriptions entered during the last day and those made effective by payment of the 10 per cent in stallment probably will amount to a $1,500,000,000 for the entire nation. Before business opened this morn ing $4,599,719,450 had been reported to federal reserve banks. Big Task Ahead. For the next five days banks throughout the United States will be busy adding up subscriptions. Re ports and payments then must be made to federal reserve banks, which are expected to take at least five days more to report to the treasury. The honor roll of- buyers will in clude many who have not partici pated in the first, second or third loans. It will number subjects of other governments, neutral and bel ligerent, throughout the world. Germans interned in this country and others whose sympathies are not with their native land will be enrolled. A large part of the $6,000,000,000 will be paid to government account by banks through whom subscrip tions were arranged by individuals. The individual subscriers will then take 10 mouths in which to pay the banks. The transactions represent the most extensive scheme of pop ular lending and borrowing the country has ever seen. According to official figures to night, only the St. Louis and Min neapolis districts had exceeded their quotas, Minneapolis having gone over today. Unofficial reports cred ited several other districts with passing the 100 per. cent mark, how ever. Confirmation' probably can not be obtained for several days. Coupon Bonds Ready. Most coupon bonds of the fourth loan are ready for delivery now and registered bonds will be available soon. Holders of first and second loan bonds, which bear 3 1-2 and 4 per cent interest, respectively, have until November 9 to exchange them at benks for bonds bearing 4 1-4 per cent interest if they choose to do so. Twenty per cent of any fourth loan subscription is due November 21, second installment of 20 per cent due December 19, 20 per cent Janu ary 16, and 30 per cent January 30. About $16,000,000,000 have now been raised by the American people in popular war loans sflnce the United States entered the war and all loans have been oversubscribed. The first loan was for $2,000,000,000 and there was $1,000,000,000 over subscription, but none of this over subscription was accepted. The second loan was for $3,000,000,000; subscriptions amounted to $4,617, 000,000, and the government took only, half the oversubscriptions, making a total actually paid of $3,808,000,000. The third loan was for $3,000,000,000 and subscriptions amounted to $4,176,000,000, all of which was taken. New York Exceeds Quota. New York, Oct. 19. In the face of official figures showing a total fourth Liberty loan subscription of only $1,375,331,050 by the New York federal reserve district, 'members of the Liberty loan committee confi dently declared tonight that when the final figures were compiled it would be shown that the district had gone "over the top" with its $1,800,000,000 quota. Chicago Completes Quota. Chicago, Oct. 19. Chicago com pleted its quota of $252,300,000 of the fourth Liberty loan early tonight and began to pile up oversub scription expected to run into mil lions. The remainder of the district has already completed its quota. At 9 o'clock tonight the subscrip tions in Chicago were estimated at district headquarters at $225,000,000, distributed among 1,000,000 subscrib rs. The total number of subscrib ers in the district was estimated at 3,935,000 against 3,400,000 in the third loan. BOND COMPANY HOLDS SESSIONS BUT CANT AGREE ... i (Continued From Face One.) the company, which he refuses to do. Vice President Luikhart stated publicly that the reason he discharg ed Brown, who was former super intendent of agencies, was that "he went out on the streets of Omaha and repeatedly made statements that his associates in the company were pro-German. No successor has been named for Mr. Brown. I regret very much there are no sensible steps we can take to compel Mr. Brown to correct his statements. Calls for Retraction. Mr. Brown denies that he ever gave publicity to any such state ments, although he and Mr. Lee and Mr. Beattv. former associates in the Iowa had 5156,000,000 or $8,100,000; offices of the Lion Bonding and over its quota with hnal figures like ly' to show a further substantial in crease. Will Feed Refugees. Amsterdam, Oct. 19. The Dutch government is prepared to care for refugees entering Holland from Belgium, according to a statement made by Premier Riujs de Beren- brouk in the chamber yesterday Surety company did discuss such a matter in private. Mr. Brown demands a retraction of the statement from Mr. Luikhart. Two employes of the company, holding responsible positions, tendered their resignations Satur day. They are Walter Farraday, un derwriter for the compajiy, and E. A. McGhisson, special agent for Nebraska. A? Shop Early! VI Is It Neckwear You Have in Mind? Stylish affairs that go well with the latest frocks and costumes? If so, a glance, either hurriedly or leisurely, at our newest show ings will prove delightful. Very new vests and vestees are in pique, Georgette, nets and satin. Separate collars, and sets with cuffs in . organdie, pique and Georgette. Plush neck scarfs in rich shades of brown and grey, besides black. Wool Dresses For wear on every occasion when service is essential. 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