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BRIEF RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS RUIN AND DESOLATION " v MARK BULCARS RETREAT Washington, Nov. 3. Protests to the civilized world against atrocities alleged to have been committeed by the Bulgarians on inhabitants of eastern Macedonia, as revealed by the allies' reoccupation of that ter ritory, were made in appeals for a redress of 'the wrongs by the Athen ian press and the University of ' Athens, made public here tonight. s Ruin and desolation marked the retreat of the Bulgarians, flourish ing town having been decimated and their inhabitants deported, the women and girls being subjected to gross indignities. ' s RED CROSS CHAPTERS TO PRESENT A MASQUE - New York, Nov. 3. Announce ment was made here tonight that Red Cross chapters are preparing to give a nation-wide production ' during the week of December 16 of "The Roll Call," a masque byfPercy McKaye depicting the emancipation of humanity from degrading forces by the far-reaching ideals of the Rtd Cross. The production will be a feature of the Red Cross "Christ mas roll ca.ll." "COMMUNITY" OPERA PLANNED FOR SOLDIERS. - Washington, Nov. 3. For encour aging American composers and ar tists, -plans for establishing a na tional or "community" opera to rival such organizations as the Metropolitan and the Chicago Op era companies are being made by the War Camp Community service, acting under the direction of the army and navycommission on trainy ing camp activities. Under the gen sral direction of M. Edourd Albucm, the first opera is. now being re hearsed. SERBS HURL ENEMY . ACROSS DANUBE RIVER. Paris. Nov. 3. The Serbian army has reoccimied Belgrade, the Ser bian capital, the War office an nounces in its statement on opera tions in the eastern, theater.- "After .the capture of Belgrade, the Germans and Austrians, beaten, retired to the north bank of the Danube. The Second Serbian army has reached the Bosnian-front, Ser bia, almost in its entirety, having been freed from the enemy." , , BELATED QUARANTINE ORDERED IN ST. PAUL. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 3. A com mittee of representative citizens in charge of methods of combatting the influenza situation in St. Paul voted today to declare a drastic quaran tine, commencing tomorrow, be- cause of the increase of the dis ease. Theaters, churches, soda fountains, saloons and other pub. lie gathering places are affected. De partment stores also may be closed. THE INDUSTRIOUS JeAsT AND . PRODUCTIVE WEST SHAKE HANDS THROUGH OMAHA. The Oum & Daily Be VOL. 48. NO 119. Enteral u went-tliM mttar May Tt, IMS it Oaiha P. 0. "t ut t Mirth 3, Il7t OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1918. By Mall (I yttri. Dally. $.S0 Oally aa Sua.. 15.50; att4da I Sa4ay. UN: Nab. avitata txtra TWO CENTS. THE WEATHER. For NebraaVa: Fair and warm er Monday; Tutiday uncattlad nd cooler, probably ahowert. Hourly Trmprra.area. B a. m a. m.. .... 7 a. m 8 a. m ;9 a. HJ..X.... 19 a. m..... 11 a. in...:... 11 ni .45 I 1 p. m. A .44 .43 .45 .47 .ft .S3 P. 1 p. Jn." 4 p. w. ft p. m. p. m, 7 p. m. . .M ,M . .M 1 .641 mum. was uki h at : 1 "S. FORTIFY TEUTONS BAVARIAN BORDER Germans Preparing to Meet Attack through Austria While Continuing Retreat on Western Front; Yanks in Pursuit By Associated Press. Copenhagen, Nov. 3.-Austro-Hungarian froops are being withdrawn from the western front and the Germans, fearing the allies will march through Aus tria, are digging trenches and erecting fortifications aIong,the Bavarian fron tier, according to a Vienna dispatch to the Politiken. x Washington, Nov. 3.-General Pershing's communique today says the First American army Continued its attack west of the Meuse and that the operation is progressing satisfactorily. Saturday night's report tells of the First army's sue- :esstul advance, overcoming all resistance, and or a W-mile advance in two days by the Americans fighting under the king of the Belgians south of the River Lys. G, 0. P. PRESENT , TICKET 100 PER GENT AMERICAN i With the American Forces Northwest of Verdun, Nov. 3. (By Associated Press.) Gen. Pershing's forces con- mued to make satisfactory progress during the night and his morning, but they met with isolated opposition here and there, indicating that the German retreat had slightly slowed up. - v TISZA SLAIN IN HIS OWN HOME BY THREE SOLDIERS "Hour of Reckoning Has Come" Cry ; Assassins as They Raise Rifles to Shoot Former Premier. Amsterdam, Nov. 3. The Berlin Vos'sische Zeitung contains a dra-i matic description of the assasina tion of Count Stephen Tisza, former premier of HungaryVlast week. At6 o'clock in the evening three soldiers invaded Count Tisza's residence and presented themselves in the drawing room. Count Tisza, with Jus wife and the countess Al massy, advanced to meet the in irutiers. askinsr what thev wanted. "What have you in your hand?" t soldier. demanded of lisza. Tisza replied that he held a re solver. The soldier told him to put It awav. but Tisza replied: ,"I shall not, because you have not aid aside vonr rifles. .The soldiers then requested" the women to leave the room, but-tnev , declined to da so. A soldier tftn ad dressed Tisza as follows: - "You are responsible for the de struction of millions of people, be cause you caused the war. Then raising their rifles, the sol diers shouted: "The heur of reckoning has rnme." ' The soldiers fired three shots and Tisza fell. His last words were, I am dying. It had to be. The soldiers quitted the house, ac companied by gendarmes who pre viously had been employed to guanj the door.'" IVo Kearney Men Are , Killed When Auto Is ; Struck by U. P. Train Kearney, Neb.. Nov. 3. (Special Telegram) W. H. Keefer, manage! of the Stickel Lumber company for - U - in ...... .r.J T T? C.o n . llic v jf tai a, . aim j . . wnoii, a local merchant, were killed tonight when their car was struck by Union Pacific train No. 2. They had large Dotato holdings west of the city and wereTeturning from an inspec tion of the 'crop. They failed to hear the trail! and were crossing the track ahead of it. . : . .- , Gompers Urges the Nation "To Follow the President" -"" New York, ' Nov. ( 3. Samuel Gompers, president of the Ameri N can Federation of Labor ,and chair man f the American Labor mis; " sion,, who arrived af an Atlantic port yesterday, after a two month tour of England, France and Italy tonight issued a statement urging ' the nation to "follow the president and the president's advice, at least until after the triumphant conclu aion of the war." . . v: J : " ' v- HOHENZOLLERN TRUNKS ARRIVE AT GENEVA VILLA FLYING GERMAN FLAG By Associated Press.' Geneva, Nov. 3. Dozens of trunks bearing the royal Hohen zollern monograms have been ar riving in the past week at the lux urious chateau named "Buonas," on the lake of Zug. The chateau, which is flying the- German' flag, is the property of Baron von Kleist, a German. TRIES! AND TRENT TAKEN BY ITALIANS Virtually every American division had not only reached its objectives this morning but was far ahead of them. risoners. guns and material are reported to be increasing in number and. quantttyr,.".,-.-'wi;; ix-. 1 " " . ; ENEMY'S DEFENSE WEAKENS. ' The enemy opposition took "the form of intermittent artillery fire and at a few points with the use of gas and in fantry. This resistance, however, generally Vanished when the Americans exerted themselves. ; v The general character of the enemy's defense was al most exclusively that of rear guard actions, instead of the usual bitter direct opposition, and generally it was over come without difficulty. American aviators late today reported that the Ger mans to the east of the Meuse appeared to be in full retreat. The aviators' messages said that all roads running north ward were packed with troops, artillery and trucks. American aviators went as far as Kemoiville. Thev reported that the roads southwest of Kemoiville are choked with, trafhe. . (TSX.:.!. T"k! ! J There is a possibility that , the German retirement west of ' the Meuse may carry the enemv back so far that the whole German line east of Rethel will be endangered. The Americans advanced today to an average depth of about two and a-half miles over a 14-mile front. Only disorganized resistance was offered by the Germans' today to the French and American troops from points east of the river Meuse to that part of the line extending to Rethel. The Americans carried, the aoex of their advance to the little lake in fcelval woods to the north of Bar-ricourt. , Stenay Under Fire. Stenay, an important railway cen ter- less than four miles from the American front, has already been so harassed that it has been ren dered 'almost useless -to the enemy. Ihe uermans continue to retreat all along the front. The retreating German troops and convoys and enemy ammunition dumps and various villages within the Teuton lines ,were attacked to day by .American bombing airplanes.. ureal damage is reportea to nave been done to property and, con sternation caused among the retrea ing troops.. Ihe American bombing machines made two. attacks, the first in .the morning and the other in the after noon, reaching as far as Stenay and Beaumont. Fires are reported m both places. , Eight squadrons participated in the raids today. Bombers' attacked Beaumont where they destroyed a warehouse and exploded an ammuni tion dump. In Stenay another am munition dump, was destroyed. -Harass Troops in Flight. In the region' of Vauand Som (Contntwd on Pate Two, Column Six.) Republicans Can Cast Vote for Party Ticket Tuesday With Absolute Feeling of Patriotism. . American Soldiers to be - Santa Clauses to Poilus New York, Nov. 3. American soldiers in . France will become "Snta Clauses" to friendless and lonely poilus. who are spending their fifth Christmsyin the trenches, if a plan announced here today by Miss Byrd W. Hamblen, secretary of Le Paquet Du Soldat, an organ ization devoted, to the welfare of the French soldiers, is carried out. Relatives "of American soldiers are invited to send a dollar bill, a card of greeting, and the name oi American soldier in whose behalf the present is to be given,, to Miss Hamblen, in care. of J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, who in turn will cable the money to Paris and a holiday package will be shipped to he poilu who, in each case, is ex pected to acknowledge receipt. Tuesday will be the day when all good men will come to the aid of their party, and it will be a day when all good republicans will go to the polls with a feeling that they can be as patriotic as anybody else and at the same time vote for their ticket, which, on this occasion, is made up of 100 per cent Americans and the best ticket ever presented to the voters. At the top of the first column of the main ballot will appear the us ual party circles. An (X) within any of these circles carries with it affirmative votes for the proposed constitutional amendment, relating to the right of suffrage as to per sons ot ioreign Birth, and also the proposed constitutional convention. The main ballot comprises divi sions indicated as: National ticket, state ticket, congressional ticket. legislative ticket, county ticket and precinct ticket. The next ballot in size is' the non partisan ballot which carries the fol lowing offices: Supreme judges, state superintendent, regents of the st;.te university, county judge, "mu nicipal judges for the city of Oma ha, and county superintendent. A smaller ballot will contain the names of eight candidates for seven places on the Board of Education and the smallest ballot of the set will show two candidates for the (Continued on Page Two, Column Four.) Kaiser Victim of Pessimism, German Armies Unbeaten, Asserts Captured 'Officer FRENCH LINER COMES INTO AMERICAN PORT WITH LIGHTS BLAZING An Atlantic Port, Nov. 3. A large French trans-Atlantic steam ship which arrived here during the night came into port with all lights ablaze, the first time in, months that this has taken place.' Passengers laid a wireless mes sage had bten picked up at sea which caused the commander to order the paint scraped from the ports, and that the promenade . r'ecks were illuminated that night for the. first time during the voy- By Associated Press. French' Headquarters in FrancV, Nov. 3. Germany's armies are un-' beaten, according to a German di visional staff officers, recently taken prisoner on the French front, and Germany's1 request for an armistice was the result ot the influence which pessimists have, gained in th?- government and jver the em peror. The officer, an intelligent representative of his class, .saidr 'v "The Germans' request for an armistice is proof to me that the grand headquarters has been sub merged by the crisis in the interior' 6f Germany; The influence of the general staff over the emperor has been exaggerated. "The emperor is surrounded by people whp feel and talk defeat of the species of Scheidemann (the German socialist leader. They are continually setting before the em peror the unfavorable situation of Germany from their point of view and painting in somber colors the frightful responsibility he has . in curred, as well as the possible con sequence to his person in case of de feat, which appears to them to be imminent. ' , "There are days when no bfficer ot tne general start can gain ac- .' cess to the emperor. There are days of acute pessimism, passed by the monarch almost entirely in prayer and reading.' The German people want peace at once and at all costs. They have had enough of war. "Another cause of anxiety is the separatist movemeht which has become very serious lately. The talk through all, south Germany now is: "Let us separate from Prussia." "Bavaria is the worst. There every one, even the soldiers, may insult Prussia without provoking a word of defense in our behalf. The Bavarian press employs the same" tone and we are beginning to hink that this is desired by the Bavarian army which . will make no further efforts Their attitude is an enigma." The divisional staff officer re vealed it was the opinion of the mil itary caste in Germany that but for untoward events Germany, after a successful termination of the presi enc war, would have put her indus tries in shape to furnish war ma terial to both sides in a hypothet ical war etween the United States and Japan, and then, ' After both sides had become exhausted, would have joined hands with one country, probably Japan, to crush the other." Forces Landed at Austria's Principal Seaport; 100,000 Men and Over 2,200 1 Guns Captured. Rome, Nov. 3. Italian land and sea forces landed today at Triest, the. prin cipal seaport of Austria-Hungary on the Adriatic, accord ing to an official announce ment made this evening by the Italian war office. Italian and allied forces in their drive in northern Italy have cap tured 100,000 Austro-Hungarians and more than 2,200 guns. Italian cavalry patrols have Crossed the. Tagliamento river, at Spilimbergo; which city has ,been occupied, according to the' official statement issued at the war office tonight. Trent Falls to Italians. The Italians have captured Trent, cne of Austria's chief fortified towns in the Tyrol, according to the war office announcement tonight. The statement also announce that Italian forces have landed at Priest and the Italian tri-color is flying from the castle and from the tower of Sangiusto. v Italian vcavalry have entered Udine. Entire Regiments Surrender. With tha Italian Forces in North ern Italy, Nov. 3. The Italian first army in its first advance on Trent captured enormous quantities of material and innumerible prisoners. Entire regiments are surrendering. The allied forces are ever press ing on towards the frontier in the mouri tains. - The Austrians are leaving their wounded by the roadside or in houses. Two thousand Austrian wounded were deserted in Feltre without attendance or medicine. Udine has been evacuated. Country Stripped by Invaders. The civil population everywhere complain thai (hey were stripped of everything of value by the enemyn the invaded provinces. Thousands of cannon are being captured by the Italians in addition to great quantities of war materials. At Vittorio a big petroleum ideposit was found, the Austrians not taking the trouble to burn it" Great quan titics of telegraph wire also was left undestroved. At Belluno, a large depot of food and material was found by the Ital2 ians. The allies frequently captured long trains of artillery, one train be ine taken at Razi, it having been abandoned by the retreating Aus trians in their haste. It was on October 29 that the enemy received a mortal blowby a main attack across the nevr nave. This permitted the Eiehth army to ir.ove to viuono ana cave mc Fourth army a chance tooperate lhen piece by piece, corps -y corps and division by division, the A-iftrian armies have fallen. When the Italian Fourth army reacheid A'onte Cismon. at thr junction of the Brenta, it gave the Twelfth army t 1 . i T?1. - a tnance to operate ai retire, mi the upper Piave valley, and also per mitted the sixth army to go into action tn the Asiaeo district. Between tht Fourth and Sixth armies the chief Austrian resistance in Italy was broken. It was in the mountains that the greatest num ber of cannon was taken. AUSTRIA AND ITALY UUI1 MyflHWh Official Announcement of Signing of Terms ' Reaches Premiers of Allied Nationsn Apartment of Colonel House y : By Associated Press. ' ' London, Nov. 3. An armistice between the Austrian and Italian forces : will come into operation at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon, according to an official announcement made here tonight. The text of the statement reads: "A telephone message has been received from the prime minister in Paris saying that news has just come that Austria-Hungary, the lastfof Germany's props, has gone out of the war. V ' "The armistice was signed by General Diaz this afternoon and will come into operation tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The terms will be published Tuesday. " Paris, Nov. 3. Official Announcement of the signing of the Austrian armistice reached the premiers while they were in session at the apartment of Colonel House, President Wil son s special representative, this afternoon, and gave the greatest satisfaction. y . ' ARMISTICE ANNOUNCED AT VIENNA. - Vienna, Nov. 3. (Via Londen.) Tln the Italian theater of the war our troops have ceased hostilities on the basis of an armistice which has been concluded' says the war office communication issued today. K -Z The conditions of the armistice will be announced iff a later communication." REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED IN HUNGARY. Berne, Nov. 3 Count Karplyi, after obtaining a re lease from his oath of fealty to the emperor," proclaimed a :. republic in Hungary, according to a dispatch to the Bund from Vienna quoting the Vienna newspaper Di Zeit. ' - - BRILLIANT PART TAKEN BY YANKS , IN HAIG'S DRIVE Jroops Surge Into Audenarde With Cheers Over Bridge Mined by; Foe After Frenchman Cuts Wires. REPUBLICANS SURE OF SENATE AND HOUSE, SAYS CHAIRMAN HAYS .New York, Nov. 3.-WU1 H. Hays, chairman of the republican national committee, tonight issued the following statement regarding Tuesday's election: "Latest reports from all' over the country make it certain that the republicans will carry both the senate and the house." v By Associated Press. With the Allied "Armies in France and Belgium, Nov. 3. Along the whole front below Eekke, which is situated on the Scheldt about .eight miles south of Ghent, the Germans have been forced back across the rfcer Americans from the Pacific coast, who played a brilliant part in the advance, captured the western out skirts of the city of Audenarde, which straddles the Scheldt. This American unit yesterdav added an advance of about five and one-half miles to what they had achieved the day before. When the Americans, after their brilliant drive, came up against Au denarde ihey found tint the Ger mans had blown up all the bridges except one across a small branch of he bcheldt which encircles the western side' of the city. ' This remaining bridge was mined and due to co uo at any minute. A Frenchman, who lived near by, had careful v observed the Hying; ot the explosives and knew where the Ger mans had concealed the electric wires leading to it. Hero Prevents Explosion. As the Frenchman saw the Amer icans approacning ne racea io we bridtrc and cut the wires. He then waved the Americans fo advance and they surged across the bridge with a mighty cheer. The total number of prisoners (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) GERMANY LEFT TO FIGHT ALONE. By Associated Press. Austria is out of the war., Deserted by her last ally, Germany fights alone a battle which means ultimate defeat ' sor abject surrender. After days of pleading,an armis tice has been granted Austria-Hun gary, whose badly defeated armje in the Italian theater are stagger ing homeward .under the violence of the blows of the entente troops. ' Trent, which the Italians always captured by them. Triest, ovr which there has been such bitter, fighting, now flies the Italian flag, and Bel-' grade, capital of Serbia, bat been occupied by the Serbians. ; In France and Belgium the Ger mans aye being sorely harassed by , the British, French, Americans and Belgians, and there ar in H Ira t inn. f.of an impending debacle. 1 Roosevelt Pays Tribute to Negro's Part in War New. York, Nov. 3. Col.. Theo dore Roosevelt paid tribute to the negro's part in the war at a meet ing here tonight for the benefit of the Circle of Negro War Relief. Our soldiers, white and black, he said, had acted in such a way that every American could look the cit izen of any country in the eye with out having to bow his head. "It must be remembered that all of us have got to set an example of steering a' direct course equally dis tant from kaiserdora and bolsheiv ism," he continued. "I expect that as a result of the war, we shaH apply at home lessons we've been learning and helping to teach abroad that we shall work steadily toward se curing fairer treatment for colored people, treating each individual as his or her conduct requires." Mark Your Ballot If Youl Want to Stop Alien Voting At Elections in Nebraska By a "clerical error" or an "oversight"' in the office of the secre tary of state, the official ballot for Nebraska does not carry the party endorsement of either of the constitutional propositions submitted to the voters. One of these, referred to as the "suffrage amendment," has for its purpose the amendment of the state constitution to stop first paper" voting. i - It was submitted' by a special session of the legislature called by Governor Neville Sist springv At that time the governor recommend ed in his message that the matter be left so it would not become operative until after 1920. This would permit the half-naturalized German-born voters in Nebraska to vote for president in 1920. . The legislature refused to. agree with the governor, after The Bee had exposed the meaning of the recommendation, and the amend ment was submitted to take effect at once on being adopted. - The 'other proposition is for calling a constitutional convention. Both of these -propositions have sinister opposition. At the primary election each was endorsed by democrats and re publicans, and therefore should have gone on the ballot as straight party measures. The secretary of state has failed to comply with the provision of the law in this, respect. It is now too late to have the ballots re printed. Voters who are interested in taking the ballot away from unnatur alized aliens in Nebraska, or who desire totiave a constitutional con vention held, must mark their ballots so. Otherwise the vote will not be counted. - ' - - - 1 "-'T Doom of 'Austrian and Turkish Empires Sealed, Says Asquith . - Cupar, Scotland, Nov: 3. Former Premier Asquith, speaking here Saturday, said there was daily ac cumulating evidence that the great cause to which British had pledged themselves as a nation and empire four years ago was within measure- able distance of achieving the pur poses for which the British had en tered the war together with the free peoples of the rest of the world. After referring to the extinction of the withering and reactionary cen-tury-61d rule of the Turks in Eu rope, Mr. Asquith said in regard to the Austrian situation: ' ' "Artificial structures of the Turk ish and Austrian empires have been held together for centuries bv au thority of;the dominant class. Their doom is sealed and in eastern Eu rope and part of Asia new states are springing, up as a result of the war, based upon the enduring foundation of social relationship and national freedom. That work of emancipa tion and self-determination has the sympathy and good will of every lover of freedom ; throughout the civilized world." t Many Killed at Bonn in British Aeriaf Raid Amsterdam, Nov. 3.A large i. t . ., . uuinuci vi persons were Kiuea ana ' many wounded at Bonn Thursday "J uu," vnvifysu ujr U1UIMI sir men, who carried out a raid on the railway station in the center of the town, according to the Coloe3 Volks Zeitung. . k