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Ne,w and Probably Final
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LONDON. Oct. 1.
Although Field Marshal Halg today re
ports only heavy German artillery Are
outh pf the Tfpres-Comlnes Canal and near
Eonnebeke. with a successful British raid
wear Gorelle, on the Arras front, the con
viction Is growbig here that the war on
the western front has entered a new phase
and probably Us last The fighting there
k, as different now from what It was In
I14 and 1915 as It could possibly bo.
First, there was open warfare when
the Germans swept over Belgium and
France. Second, there came trench fight
ing, which slowly developed until the tak
ing of a single trench was an operation
as big as Waterloo. 'Now one rees vir
tually open country battles, with the enemy
engaging In a sort of rear-guard action,
-which when fully expanded will menn a
Prussian rout.
CURTAIN ON KAISHIVS DRAMA
Only the sudden collapse of hostilities
can prevent this curtain on the Kaiser's
Three-act drama.
Not since the Crown Prince broke his
.eaglet feathers against Verdun more than
Vft year ago have the German armies dared
a. real offensive on the western front. Since
the Somme. Hlndenburg nas been openly on
the defensive, and the present methods of
fighting are the direct outcome of that gen
eral's grop!ngs to find a means to hold out.
The Somme battles were a series of
storming operationsthe taking of trench
systems that stretched for miles In eritable
jnases of supporting cuts and channels. So
long as Hlndenburg believed he might still
break through the Allies' line he continued
th s trench warfare He kept his front line.,
full of men Tens of thousands of his
troops were killed before lie awoke to r
allzatlon that he was toning his punch.
Hlndenburg due the trenches and dugouts
fleeper ofter thirty or even fifty feet be.
low ground But his men still died like
rats In traps when British Tommies threw
bombs down the dugout openings or rolled
charges of high explosives down the almost
perpendicular stairs.
In the fire trenches, where Hlndenburg
kept troops standing shoulder to shoulder
to repel attacks, Allied shells tore whole
.companies to shreds, While the great Oer
man tactician blundered on, nrltlsh and
French guns thundered and the superb Ger
man labyrinth of trenches became an ap
palling shambles
HINDENBL'RG SKCS A LIGHT
At last Hlndenburg saw a light The of
fensive was no longer hit He must fight
henceforth a defensUe war. The famous
retreat on the Somme last w Inter was step
number one. He abandoned his once precious
trenches, now become a hell hole Uttered
with the putrlfylng corpses of German
youths.
Hlndenburg's next step was obsencd dur
ing the battlo of Arras In April His
trenches were still there, but now thinly
manned. The bulk of troops was kept In
support trenches hundreds of yards be
hind. But his plan was still faulty, and later
at Messlne. In June. German troops were
more widely scattered Mtchlne guns were
no longer fired from trenches, but from
special Isolated posts. Also trench mortarH.
And specially trained counter-attacking
troops were In readiness to chnrge the tired
British as soon as objectives had been won.
But the British got on Just the same,
and Hlndenburg began to lose faith In
trenches. July 31, beginning the b ittle of
Flanders, found the Germans still differ
ently disposed.
They were occupying not trenches so
much as concrete shell-holes, two or three
linked together with short tunnels. "Pill
boxes" steel nnd concrete turrets, whose
mud-covered tops were Just above the
ground made their debut and from their
narrow silts machine-guns spat death ocr
the Flemish quagmires These shell-hole
positions and "pill boxes." with scraps of
trenches a few yards long, plus patches
of barbed-wire entanglements here and
there, covered on area a mile or so In depth,
and such a thing as a Are trench had ceased
to exist.
The Idea, of course, as British officers
explained It, was to make It necessary for
. the British to lire at Invisible targets. The
pillbox tops were well-nigh Invisible from
the air and only a direct hit sufficed to put
them entirely out of commission. Then
when Tommies advanced they would como
cross an unsuspected bit of barbed wire
enfiladed by machine-gun fire. Finally,
after crossing such a zone as this they
would meet fresh troops In a terrible counter-attack.
..The plan worked only In part. Then
came the battle of Menln road, when the
unheard-of creeping barrage used by the
British took the fight out of even the pill
boxes. The rain of shells flattened every
thing. Likewise, the same terrible curtain
of fire often wiped out German counter-attacking
troops before they got started.
Such la the fighting today. It Is now
Hlndenburg's move.
WHEATLESS WEEKS ARE
FORECAST BY FOOD EXPERT
War Sole Business of Everybody Now,
He Tells Hotel Men Officers
Elected
Wheatless weeks will be established In
America before the end of the war. ac
cording to John McK. Bowman, head of
the department of hotels, restaurants and
dining cars In the national food administra
tion, who addressed 150 prominent hotel
men at the fourteenth annual banquet of the
Pennsylvania Hotel Association In the
Pellevue-Stratford Hotel last night.
Mr Bowman told the hotel men that
there was only one business for every
body today and that business was the busi
ness of war.
Felicitous speeches were delivered by V.
IL Gaut, toastmaster; William M. ounn. ex
Governor of Idaho: John McGlynn. presi
dent of the New York State Hotel Asso
ciation ; Thomas D. Green, president of the
Xew York City Hotel Association, and
Jlahlon W, Newton, president of the Phlla-
Vtfelnhla Hotel Afmnrlnllnn r Afllla.- 1--...I...
ireident of the Pennsylvania Hotel Asso
ciation, was the chairman.
That Government orders Involving further
food restrictions may be expected very
soon was the warning given by J. Miller
Frailer, manager of the Bellevue-Strul-ford.
The following "filcers were elected for the
coming year: Pres'dent, J, Miller Frailer;
Vic, presidents. W R. Gaut, John P, Cope.
W. A. Relst, Arthur Heebe and J, D. C.
-tumble: secretary. Colonel Thnmns n i.
V.SIJ treasurer, David B. Provan.
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Kits for Lancaster County Draftees
INCASTER, Pa.. Oct. II. Mayor
.ITrout. heading a cjtliens' committee, went
gamp Meade todaKwlth 320 comfort
froo th Juancaster Red Cross Society
niuuurKi 10 iancasier county sol-
Tbes were presented this afternoon.
Gamp commander. Qeneral Kuhn. hv-
wired Hi Mayor ha would have all
aster County tnen assembled for ih
HHtatlbn,
WHnOmttefi Tuni Now $7,609,000
VHJftlKaTpKt I).. Oct. II, Subscrlp
tioa tr Urty Bonds In this State have
aaaet th 7.H.000 mark, and renewed
Tort r &m mad to .reach th JJ,
80.ga umrH . T Wllnlnton Police
RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP SLAV SUNK
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Accordinff to an official statement from PctroKrad, the Slava was sunk
Russian warships for a considerable time stood off a strong German fleet
Slava was of 13, GIG tons, 370 feet long and carried four 12-inch
GLI AUSTRIACI OVUNQUET
BATTUTI DAGLI ITALIANI
Riparti Italiani Arditamcnte Ir-
rompono nelle Trincee Nemiche
e se ne Impossessano
CONFERENZA
PARIGI
ROM A, 18 Ottohre.
Dlspaccl gluntl dalla frontc Itallana dl
Dattaglla retano die durante la giornata dl
martedl' l'artlgllerla austrlnca e' stata nt
tliisslma rtmgo tutta la reglone the si
cstende da Monte Nero al mare Per qu.into
II fuoco fosse Iolrnto puie lion Impede
ngll Italiani dl controbattcrlo ed In pa.rec
chl puntl le batterle itallane rlusclrono u
rldurre al sllcnxlo qucllo austrlache.
Riparti nemlcl hanno nttaccato gll aam
post! Italiani suite llnee a sud dl Mori,
1'lmportante cittadlna nel capltnnato dl
Rovereto. ma sono stntl prontnmente re
splntl d.il nutrlto fuoco del fucllleri Italian!
1 ipiall rlusclrono a catturare parecchi
lrlglonlerl.
Anche sullc pendlcl nordlche del Monte
San Gabrlele riparti d'ncsitlto austrl.icl
furono sublto sbandatl dalle truppe Itallane
e postl n fuga con gravl pcrdltc mentrc
le perditc Itallane furono In.signlficantl
A settentrione dl Selo riparti Italiani dl
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Incurslone Irruppero nelle trincee austrlache
e ttcacciarono gll occupantl. cho sgomlhatl
si dlcdero In parte all i fuga cd In parte
prlRlonlcrl
I'n forte numero dl oeroplanl austrlacl
tento' dl olare sul tcrrltorlo occupato dagll
Italiani, ma furono fugntl "dal fuoco del
cannonl untl-aerel. Insegultl posela da squa
dronl dl .icroplnnl Italian! I quail tornarono
Incoluml alia loro base Gll uviatorl aus.
triad ragglunscro solo per poco II loro oblet
tlvo polclie' poterono laUar cadere alcune
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1'nrtlglleila nemlcl lerl fu nttijlsslma
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Sulle pemilcl noidli'hp ile I Monte San
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PRO B A BILE CADUTA DEL
GABINETTO 1TALIANO
Uti dlspacclo da Roma annunzla cite una
grue crlsl politlca, la quale causcrebbe la
caduta del Mlnlstero Uoselll, sarebbe affrct
tata dagll attncchl fattl dall'onorevoio
Arturo I.abrlola, capo del soclallstl alia
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What is a Liberty Bond?
S0OALISTB0LT
Attempt to Create Military
Dictatorship Now Feared
in' Germany
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JUNKERS VS. "PARLIAMENT
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18.
Prince von Bulow, former Chancellor
nnd late German Ambassador to Italy,
has arrived In Berlin, dispatches de
clared today: His visit there caused a
revival of the report that he is to suc
ceed Dr. Gcorg MIchaclls as Chancellor.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.
Throughout the German press appear
Indications that when the Reichstag
meets again on December B to vote
a new war credit the fiercest parliamen
tary battle of the war will be waged. Al
though It Is exceedingly doubtful whether
the Socialists can persuade the Rndlcnls
nnd the Centrum to Join them, it seems
probable that all theso parties ns well an
the left wing of the Nntlonnl Liberals
will demand the retirement of the Chan
cellor. On tho other hand there are many In
dications that Mlchnclls, with the support
of the Kaiser nnd the military authorities,
Is planning to go ahead and govern the
country ns he pleases regardless of ad
verse votes in the Reichstag. Ho has good
Blsmarcklan precedent for such a course
and the Conservative papers, which today
are his only firm suppc.-ers, are demand
ing that he take i). The Deutsche Zeitung,
for example, writes:
Tho crisis demands a radical solution
and taht the Reichstag shotild be sum
moned for one purpose only: To hear of
Its dissolution
Similarly the jingo Dusseldorfer Gen
eral Anzclger demands the Immediate ap
pointment as Chancellor, of nn apostlo of
blood and Iron like Hlndenburg or Tlrpltz.
Many Liberal and Radical papens, among
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0- CAN I BORROW MONEY ON A LIBERTY
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them the Frankfurter Zeltung and the
Hamburger Fremdenblatt, are frightened
lest Mlchaells may try to establish a mili
tary dictatorship or at least may attempt
to continue In office himself supported by
military backing. , .
Vorwaerts In an editorial published on
Monday of thin week discusses this possi
bility, saying: , ,
Only two solutions for the present crisis
exist, parliamentary control or dictator
ship. The Pan-German rrcss Is attempt
ing to bring about the creation of a dic
tator who would dispense with the
Reichstag entirely. This Is the road to
ruin. Rut Germany's stand against the
whole world Is In the last analysis a men
tal equation, and the croatlon of a dic
tator would break tho psychological basis
of Germany's resistance. The Pan-Germans
In desiring a dictator prove that
they understand the soul of the German
people as little as they comprehend the
psychology of foreign nations Their
mixed policy of Ignorance of men nnd
overestlmatlon of hlght have brought
down upon the German people tho Mnde
scrved roidemnnilon of the entire world
The Pan-Germans want a strong man
now, oxternally to war successfully on
Germany's enemies and Internally to herd
me mass or tne uerman people woe to
the Chancellor
who attempts
ims mau
policy
Thcodor Wolff
Tageblatt-
writes In the Berliner
Mlclmells might as well make up his
mind to take his medicine now, as he
cannot evade for long the consequences
which result primarily from the taint of
his appointment without parliamentary
consent If the autumn crisis Is to be fol
lowed by more severe crises the full radi
cal remedy must be applied
Vorwaerts reports that Scheldemann be
fore th Socialist Congress at Wurzbure
said-
Mlchaells has become Impossible and
must be told to resign if he doesn't know
enough to go of his own accord. The
Fatherland party is planning a desperate
game, and Its policy. If adopted, would
lead to disaster. The Socialist party will
continue to .do Its dutv and to secure for
the German people all the influence the
people ought to have.
Our motto Is, "Away with class rule;
abolish all privileges; let there be bread
nnd equal rights for all, and peace and
freedom"
According to Vorwaerts, Friedrlch
Ebcrt opened the Socialist convention by
saving that If a vote were taken today
nlnn tenths of the people would vote for
a peace by agreement. He followed with
the assertion that the Mlchaells failure
meant the collapso of the existing system
of government and proved conclusively
that democratization was Imperative
and could not be postponed.
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ENGLISH-SWEDE STIR
PERPLEXES NEUTRALS
u.
S. Seeking Quietly to SCcurfl
"v",-'"": Ui disputed Mail
Pouches
Neutral 'eg-TrX" "
of the South Americans, are cond'"g ,0
day over the British detenHon nVonM
mail at the British Kmbasry "l"'
are bringing pressure to bear uJ lhr
American Government to act n. co?. th
Inasmuch aa they fear the InH?111"'.
me.lm.nary to further aclag'
possibility next of command.!.,0'1, "
vessels, and while it IsTld ?e " "f lh"f
such ships and pay for them fh. Ml,
themselves say they believeTna. im'"
not to be done. at th, outht
The United States Is do!,. ..
quietly and dlplomauiiiii0'? eta
mail sltuat on. nrrt i.. I '" ur ud o,.
man s tuatlon, nr.d has be,;X."r "P.
. . .' -- .ua uesnitirH .- . "
u.iuusn Ainoassador Tago fo .1, ""
pouches. KO l0 release ths
lor
In
view of the noaslhtiu.. .....
shipping
will be command....,; lat, neutral
trals are now trying to mVk. .S.U, ne
whereby they can be uJ T wSf 'ment
seizure. For Instnn .T. 'iho.ut tctutl
t.?.7anw"nu
For Instance. tT,. u! utl
could be used In coastwise tCh rtIW
carry Australian wheat to the Pr?5 or '
while others could h. ..A"." ?a.clfl? Witt.
wheat to Belgian relief stations "?'"
land In return wants a portion of ,?. LHo1'
fleet to carry cargoes desttaed 15 iPU,ch
only The Netherlands. Th. UnllM .neflt
Government has- not yet an. JStl,e'
liroposltlon. y" answl that
Dutch and
other neutral ,..
to arrlvo ronantl n-u,. .W.B wntlnui
cannot operate without American -2 lhejr
ilsh bunker coal, or that th? -Sf.?
deep down In their hearts-wan? a"
to selzo the boa,ts. nt ATnic
Two Acquitted of Espionage
DAVENPORT. Ia Oct lSDr i
Mathey and E. C, Willis have been f0uv!?nr,r
guilty In Federal Court here , o ''toffi""?
tho espionage act. eolation of
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