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BRIEF RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS ALL THE LATEST WAR NEWS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE M v3 NATIONWIDE "GAS MASK" DAY FOR ARMY PLANNED New York, O'cU 31. The chem ical warfare division of the army to day sent teltgra: s to the governors oi all states requesting that they designate by proclamation a day to 'f. observed throughout the state , as "gas mask" day for the gather ing of fruit pits and nut shells for making charcoal for gas masks. It is requested pecple be 1. . :1 to save ; shells and pit's for that day and in rural communiies to organize nut gathering expeditions. - SHOES CLASSIFIED IN FOUR DIVISIONS. Washington Oct. 31. The war in t dustries buard announced today that - shoes Mill be Ll-'ssified in the price , filing j-rogram recently decided upo.. if - four dilsions instead of three. The additional class will in 1 .elui- ail those selling at less than . 5m pain Ihe otner tr.ree riass ; divisions are! CU?s A, $9 to $12; : Class B, $6 to E.9S, and Clas C, to $5.95. U. S. TROOPS AT FRONT ' ARE TO BE KEPT WARM. i With the American Army in I Fuce, Oct. 31. American fighting f men at the front are to keep warm inis winter. The forestry section ot, the American expeditionary ' fotee has promised to deliver ' s in the road ready to be , hauled ""to the men at the front ' before the first of January 1.100.000 ; :ubic meters of fuel wood. This is j iquWalent to a pile of wood' a yard wid and a yard high stretching ; :rom laris to Berlin, j Thousands of foresters now are busy in the French forests gather- ing and cutting the wood, which Aomes from dead wood and refuse. : The fine ttees of which the French , are so proud are not being cut The Omaha BMLY - v' Bee VOL. 48. NO. 117. Cilml u HcnlUn Bitttr May 2S. IMS at Dank P. 0. r t Hank 3. 117 OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1918. By Mall l yr). Dally, MM: ttttrr. S2.U: Dally Sw., UMi wttM Nak. aauaa tr TWO CENTS. THE WEATHER: For Nebraska: Fair and wtrat r Friday; Saturday probably i erouing cloudiness. 3 a. m. A . m...... i a. m.. Hourly Tiwpwilnwa. SM .as 1 p. 1 t p. m. S p. as. a. n S.V d. m. v. M t a. m SS 1 S p. m. ..,...... 10 a. m.....i...M ! a p. m, -..ST 11 a. m.. ...... SS i T p. BV . .......SI IS SS a. av. X Em in. wm M t I t j vy lzi vy u u w u j u u u u u ma VI U U LA U U U (:' BURY FLU VICTIMS IV COMMUNITY GRAVES Juarez, Mexi, Oct. 31. All efforts to bury the dead from Spanish in fluenza in individual graves and in coffins have been abandoned in Mexico and community graves are being dug in many towns where bodies- are being Juried at the rate of from SO to 100 daily letters re ceived here from the interior today stated The cemeteries have even been abandoned as burying places and the open fields are being use be muse of the large number of the death One hundred deaths oc curred in Parral Sunday. VOTERS RESENT NEVILLE'S SELF IMPOSED TITLE Executive Sends" Out Letter :r With State Sea!,: Calling :;-Attention to "War Gov ernor's Deeds." - ' In his desperate effort to gain re election. Governor Neville not only ascribes to himself the designation of "Nebraska's war governor." but he goeV further by branding all op posing his candidacy, as being "not in sympathy with our country's cause." , . This latest outbreak of the gov Lenjor appears in, the form of letters ' addressed to members of the lome Guard companies of Nebraska, the appeal being on letter heads of the ' executive offices, bearing the sear-of the state in colors. The letters have been characterized by some of the recioients as the most audacious po- litical act of any governor this states has ever had. In effect, Neville challenges the patriotism of all who refuse to sup port him. He makes the solemn declara tion that he is an asset to the gov ernment, otherwise he would not seek re-rtection, but would enter active military service. The casual political observer rises to a point o privilege to inquire just at what time and place did the 'governor determine that he was an "asset" to the government." "It must have been after the-'Lucky Seventh' ceased to function," the observer remarked. i i Roasts Those Opposed. .Indexing free democrats with those who "are not in sympathy with our country'c cause," is said to have aroused the fighting spirit of that faction of Nebraska democracy which is endeavoring to rid the state of the Hitchcock-Mullen-Neville machine. The second section of the gov ernor's appeal to the Home Guards follows: " - "I am a candidate for re-election as goverffor of Nebraska. If I did not feel that Biy experience in co operating with the federal govern ment, was an asset to my country in the prosecution of the war, I would not be a candidate" for re election, but would seek service in the military establishment It is a well-known fact that those who are not in synmathey with our coun try's cause arer' striving with might and main to bring about my defeat I brieve that you are disposed to lay partisanship asideand vote to rontinue in office men who have C tina a Tutu Two. Calomm FlveJ Bernstorff Recalled From Constantinople to Berlin Basel. Switzerland, Oct 31. The Frankfort Zcirunga copy of which has been received here, savs Count von Bernstorff. Gfrman ambassador "to lorkey, will arrive in Berlin rn day, having been recalled from the Constantinople embassy less on ac count of recent events in Turkey than the necessity to have soma one n Berlin especially acquainted with American matters. The newspaper adds that the Turkish ambassador in Berlin, Turkish officers in Germany and two Turkish princes , who were studying in the German capital, bare been recalled to Turkey. STRAITS OPENED TO ALLIED FLEETS UNDER ARMSTICE Allies Will Occupy Forts of Dardanelles and Bosphorus to Insure Safe Passage of Warships to Black Sea; Ottoman Government to Free s Prisoners of War at Once. EMPEROR CHARLES' ARMY ROUTED;, 50,000 MEN MADE PRISONER IN ITALY By The Associated Press. London, Oct 31. (Via Montreal) The terms of the Turkish armistice, whichre now in operation, include the free passage of the Dardanelles to the allied fleet, Sir George Cave, the home secretary, announced in the House of Com mons today. Another 'condition is the immediate repatriation of British war prisoners. Other terms, it is learned, comprise the occupation of the forts of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus necessary to se cure the passage of the allied warships through the Bos phorus to the Black sea. TOWNSHEND ACTS AS ENVOY. , General Townshend, the British commander captured at Kut-El-Amara, was liberated several days ago t by the Turks, Sir George Cave announced, in order to inform the British admiral in command in the Aegean that the Turkish government asked that negotiations be opened immediate ly for an arimstice. A reply was sent that if the Turkish government sent fully accredited plenipotentiaries, Vice Ad miral Calthorp, the British commander, was empowered to inform them, of the conditions upon which' the allies would agvee to stop hostilities ancl could sign an armistice on thes conditions in their Behalf. . - The Turkish plenipotentiaries arrived at Mudros, Is land of Lemnos, early this week and an armistice was signed by Admiral Calthorp on behalf 'of the allied governments last night. It will come into operation at noon today. TURKISH FORCES CAPTURED. London, Oct 31. The entire-Turkish force, which had been opposing the British on the Tigris has been cap tured, it was officially announced today. Insurrections Break Out ati Vienna and at Budapest; Cities (ht Rhine in Panic London, 'Oct 31. Ismail Hakki, commanding .the Turkish armies of the group operating in the Tigris region in a x i ' i i ! . r,. . . mesopouunia, nas surrendered wun one enure division ana the best part of two other divisions, the Evening Standard says. - The Standard also says it understands the British vice Ladmiral at Saloniki concluded an armistice with the Otto mans government at noon. i TURKEY'S PART IN WAR REVIEWED. Turkey, which now has been granted an armistice, en tered the war in November, 1914, when it severed diplomatic relations with Great Britain, France andvRussia. Military operations began against Turkey on Novem ber 5, and Great Britain annexed the island of Cyprus. Tur key entered the war only a few days after the German war ships, Breslau and Goeben, had sought shelter in the Dar danelles, which was at once blockaded by the allied fleet In April, 1915, allied troops were landed on the Gallipoli peninsula, but the campaign failed, and the allied troops were withdrawn in December of the same year. They have continued it success- fully ever since until now they are within a few miles of Mosul Turkey sent 'armies against thei British in Egypt and against the Russians in the Caucasus. Botlrf campaigns had a measure of success from the first, but the allies soon drove the"Turks back beygnd the Turkish frontiers. In Palestine the allied drive under General Allenby resulted a few days ago in the cap ture of the important base of Alep po. The Russian campaign in, he Caucasus was rendered fruitless by the rise of the bolsheviki to power. For ' several weeks after the United States declared war on Ger many, Turkey toe no action, but on April 21, 1917, sheevered dip lomatic relations. Hewever, there has never been a declaration of war either by the United States or Turkey. ' The British began a campaign along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in November,1914. They ad vanced to within less than 100 miles of Bagdad, but were defeated, re treated to Kut EJ Amara. where they were later forced to surrender. Eaxly in 1917 the British renewed the offensive in Mesopotamia. Gale Lashes Juneau. - Juneau, Alaska. 1 Oct. 31. Gas tineau channel, on which Juneau is located, early today was whipped by what 'marine men said was the worst storm ever experienced he.-e. Fer ries were unable to operate an4-jt-tra ropes were placed to hold steamers to their piers. ALLIES LAUNCH DRIVE IN BELGIUM ON WIDE FRONT " Another hnjiortant- Strip of Territory Tarn From En emy by British, French and Americans. By Associated Press. With the British Army in France jind Belgium Oct. 31. Another big slice of important territory was torn from the enemy today along a wide front in Belgium between Deynze, on the north, and Avel ghera, .on the south, by an allied force composed of Belgian, British, French and American troops. The American units were fighting with the French nortii of the British. - Thf attack was launched at 5:30 'o'clock this morning and by noon the British had jamniea ineir way forward to aepth otM.000 yards, taking 1.000 prisoners. Qn their left their allies were battling for high ground between Lys and Cscaut rivers. The re ports indicated that here also things were going well for the assaulting trooas.. ., . - Amsterdam, Oct. 31. There has been an outbreak and a panic among the population in the Rhine provinces, arising from re ports that the authorities were prepared, if necessary, to allow the enemy troops to occupy Coblenz and Cologne, according to the Berlin Taglisch Rundschau. Berne, Oct. 31. Military insurrections occurred in both Vienna and Budapest Wednesday, according to the Berlin newspapers. The people and troops acclaimed a republic socalists After war lords. London, Nov. 1. Independent . socialists throughout Germany are about to start an agitation for the immediate abdication, of Emperor W illiam, the dismissal of Field Marshal von Hindenburg and the withdrawal of commands from the crown princes of Prussia and Bavaria, arcording to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph cofnpany queuing the Volks Zeitung, of Leipzic. CRY "DOWN WITH HAPSBURGS." Amsterdam, Oct. 31. The Berlin Tageblatt and Vossische Zdi tung publish reports of serious demonstrations at Vienna, as well, as at Budapest. An all provisional soldiers and officers council has been established at Vienna, where the people are parading the streets shouting: "Down with the Hapsburs." TlwLammasch cabinet is expected to resign, according to re ports received here and the array 'is in full course of dissolution. In Budapest demonstrations continue in favor of a republic. The people are shouting for a republic and the soldiers are "replac ing their imperial cockades by revolutionary colors. Revolutionary troops, it is addd, govern the whole city. DESERTERS COMMITTING OUTRAGES. London, Oct. 31. Disorders prevail throughout Austria-Hungary in addition tc immense confusion. Seriou outbreaks have oc w:rt2LtiiVii-ititimBius everywhere, aceord-' ing to dispatches from neutral papersi -. The Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen National Tidenden rays that on the Hungarian-Croation frontier thousands of deserters are committing outrages: railway trains are being attacked and robbed. In Slavonia several castles are afire and towns are burn ing. Another dispatch says that Austro-Hungarian soldiers are de serting into Serbia. During demonstrations at Prague American flags were unfurled and diminutive reproductions of the statue of liberty were displayed. President Wilson was repeatedly cheered. ALLIES IN VIRTUAL ACCORD OH TERMS FOR ENDING WAR Representatives of Entente Powers Visibly Content With Results Achieved at First Formal Meeting at Versailles, Though Work Is Not Finished; Colonel House Sits in Council. Paris, Oct 31. The representatives of the entente powers left 'Ver sailles after their first formal meeting today, visibly content with the results that had been achieved. They have not finished their work, but they have reached a substantial accord. An informal conference took place at the home of Col. E. M. House, President Wilson's personal representative, in the forenoon prior to the assembling at Versailles. Among others present were M. Clemenceau and M. Pichon, respectively, the French premier and foreign minister; Signor Orlando and Baron Sonnmo, the Italian premier and foreign min ister, and David Lloyd George, the British prime minister. This gather ing was preparatory to the formal meeting. In addition to the French, Italian1 and British representatives, -M. R. Vesnitch, the Serbian minister to France, and Eliphtherios Venizelos, the Greek premier attended. The Americans present in addition to Colonel House, were Arthur H. Frazier. secretary of the American embassy; Joseph C. Grew and Gor don Achinoloss, who acted as sec retaries for Colonel House; General Tasker H. Bliss, the representative of the United States in the war council, with General Lockridge and Colonel Wallace as secretaries, and Admiral Benson, with Com mander Carter, and Lieutenant Commander Russell as his secre taries. Foch Arrives Alone. The hist to arrive at the cofer ence was Marshal Foch. He was alone without aid or orderly. At Versailles the business was over in a couple of hours and a long line of automibiles with the repre sentatives of the powers returned to Paris. The reason for the trip to Versailles today was that it is the headquarters of the supreme war council, which theoretically makes no decision except at Ver sailles. There will be another informal meeting at the residence of Colonel House tomorrow morning and the business of the council will be pushed forward rjfidly, either at formal or informal meetings,, until it is concluded. , The spirit of all the representa tives appears to be favorable to the ironing out of all obstacles rather than to raisjng them. Hamburg-Bagdad Gone. Basel. Oct 31. The continental Ijolicy of the German empire has collapsed." says the. Vorwaerts of Berlin. "The Hamburg-Bagdad line has been reduced to the Hamburg Bodenbach road." May Call Leaders To Account Amsterdam, Oct. 31. The inter party committee of the Reichstag, the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says it understands, is debating the ques tion of calling to account the states men responsible for" the failure of the German peace movements late in 1916 and at the beginning of 1917. Prince Maximilan, the German. cnancellor, has signed a decree en trusting Mathias Erzberger as dep uty imperial chancellor with control of the war press . department, ac cording to the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin. , ' Dollar Day Raise. Washington, Oct 31. An aver age wage increases of $1 a day was granted anthracite coal miners by Fuel Administrator Garfield today, effective November I. . Bolsheviki Execute Grandmother of Russian Revolutionary Movement ' Amsterdam, Oct 31. Accord ing to a Petrograd teHgram, Madame Breshkovskaya, grand mother of the Russian revolution, was shot October 27, on the charge of opposing the bolshevik regime. Special dispatches from London on October 16, said that Madame Breshkcvskaya was reported to have died in Russia September 14. "Soldiers, Forward" General Diaz' Response To Evacuation Offer, Envoys to Negotiate "Armistice Permitted to Cross Line BULLETINS. , London, Oct. 3 1 . ( 1 1 :50 p. m.) High placed German officials at Co penhagen this afternoon received information that the German emperor had abdicated, according to the Copenhagen correspondent of the ExcHangeele graph company, who adds: "Nothing is said about the crown prince." London, Oct. 31. -The Austrian commander on the Italian front has ap plied to General Diaz, the Italian commander-in-chief, for an armistice, the Ex change Telegraph company states. ' The application; the newspaper adds, has been forwarded to the Ver sailles conference. Vienna, via London, Oct 3 1 .-An Austrian deputation has been permit ted to cross the fighting line for preliminary pour parlers with the Italian com mander, according to trfe official announcement tonight answer to Austria's announce ment that she was ready to evacuate Italian territory, Italy officially replied that the offer has come too late. It is assumed the Italians will endeavor to drive the Austro-Hungarians from Italian soil before an armistice can be signed. General Diaz, the Italian commander-in-chief, issued NAVAL BATTLE IN BLACK SEA HOW FORESEEN Allied Fleet May Be Already on Way Through Straits to Attack German-Russian Forces. By Associated Press. Washington, Oct. 31. Announc ment from London that an armis tice with Turkey which permits passage of warships through the Dardanelles already is in operation led naval officials here to believe that an allied fleet, if it has not al-l points along the front ready started, soon will pass tl .ough to the Black sea to at tack the German naval forces there. These forces include ships of the Russian Black sea fleet taken over by the Teutons after the collapse of the provisional government in Russia. Official British reports re vealed by Sir Eric Geddes. first lord cf the admiralty, during his recent visit here, show that the G:rmans obtained one superdreadnaught, sev eral battleships of the pre-dread-naught type and a score of fast de stroyers. The German battle cruiser Goe ben also is in the Black sea. This vessel was in the Mediterranean when the war began and escaped to the Bosphorus, where it was re-! ported td have been . "sold" toj Turkey before that country entered , ... , . .. the viar. ' The cruiser was badly There W,U be no immediate strike damaged several times, but recent of firemen. reports said, it has been repaired f T. P. Reynolds, president of Ne- nHin .Ky ph,C ,Germans &"ska Federation of Labor, re and withdra . n to the Black sea. j . t. f . , ceived the following telegram last Better Health Conditions 'ri?ht from w- J- Unas, secretary Donftr4J ot P.. of thc war labor board at Washing- uvpui isu ai ntiiiy uanijjii ton: the following bulletin to his troops: , V "Sordiers, forward! In Italy's name we will place the wreath of victory on the tombs of our glorious dead. For ward! Our immortal country calls!" - ITALIAN LINES EXTENDED RAPIDLY. The Italian army on the right is rapidly extending its lines in the valley of the upper Piare around Belluno, with the object of dividing the 'Austrian army and forcing sv re treat of the mountain army along the roads from Balzano. ' The most notable fighting was occasioned by the Third army's frontal attack along the lower Piave on the Austrian Fifth army, wheh ia resisting stubbornly to save itself from capture. This army- is also being attacked by the Tenth army, composed of two British, one Italian and one Ameri can division. . ' As the left wing of the Austrian army rests upon marshes and the sea, its, position is most precarious and lat est reports indicate that it is in flight wherever possible. The Italians are advancing rapidly virtually at all The ou'tposts are reported to be within 30 miles of Udine. The Austrians are retreating from their fortified mountain positions, blowing up munitions and fortresses and burning supplies as they leave. It is stated that the great fortresses at Col Kezzena wre destroyed in three , huge explosions. Rome, Oct. 31. Prisoners taken by the allied forces in their offensive on the Piave river now number more than 50,000, the Italian war office announced today. More than 300 guns have been captured. Omaha Firemen to Continue at Work - Pending Hearing Washington, Oct' 31. Steady im provement in health conditions at army camps and cantonmts for the week ending October 25, is noted in the health report made public to night at the office of the surgeon general of the army, with new in fluenza cases totalling a little more than 19,000 (a decrease of more than 50 per cent from the previous week), and pneumonia cases (5,961). show; ing proportionate decreases. The report said influenza and pneumonia probably would be pres ent in the cample for some weeks possibly through taqf winte "Omaha fire case is set down for hearing Friday, November 8. ' The firemen's union have ordered the firemen to stay at work until after the hearing and they will have a representative present." Mr. Reynolds later received an other telegram from H. L. Kerwin. assistant secretary of labor, advis ing him of the hoard's action. Standard Oil Raises Price. New York,. Oct 31. The Stand ard Oil company of New York to day advanced the price of refined due i petroleum in bnrrtis li ccr.is to chiefly to the constant arrival of new 7'4 cents a gallon. The advance men not before exposed to the dis-Jis due to the increased cost of coop-ease.- , t. Jerage. . Routed East of the Piave. Washington, Oct 31. Italian troops have reached Ponte Belle Albi, northeast of the city of Bel lune, thus definitely dividing the Austrian armies, said an official wireless message received here to night from Rome. i "The successes of our armies are becoming more and more stupend ous, said the dispatch. "The en emy is comDietelv routed east of th Piave and the enemy is with great aimculty sustaining the incessant pressure of our troops in the moun tain region, in the plain and in the Alpine foothills of Venetia. Our armies are aiming irresitibly toward the objectives which have been designated. "The enemy masses are streaming in confusion down the mountain valleys in an attempt to reach passe on the Tagliamento. Pris oners, guns, war materials and storehouses, scarcely touched, -fell into our hafids. - Fighting for Pass of Quero. The Twelfth army after having completely taken possession of the height of Ceseme is fighting to con quer the Pass of Quero. The Eighth army has conquered the ridge be tween the valle? ofc Foltina and the valley of the Pinve and has occupied the pass of Serravalle, advancing to wards the plaii of Cansiglio. ais (Coatinui i rt Tw, Colon " 5 '
