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•\\ \* VTT— Xo. 285 .12 FADES tWSt HARRISBURG, PA.. TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1918. i,N KTs HOME EDITION -
f PRESIDENT NOT
TO ANSWER FOE'S
PLEA FOR PEACE
TILL TOMORROW
Exchanges With Allied Cap
itals Probably Will Be Made
Before Kaiser's Government
Hears From United States*
OFFICIAL COPY HAS
REACHED WASHINGTON
Americans Generally Favor
Short, Sharp Reply to Ber
lin and the Quick Defeat in
Field of Kaiser's Army
By Associated Press
Washington. Oct. 22.— The
official text of Germany's latest
note to President Wilson was re
ceived by cable to-day at the
Swiss Legation. Frederick
Oedcrlin, the Swiss charge, ar
ranged to deliver it to Secretary
Lansing as soon as it could be
decoded.
The charge's appearance at the
State Department was delayed for
several hours, as the task of decod
ing and translating proved to be
long and tedious. Considerable dif
ferences in verbiage may be shown
and it is understood that the official
text will clear up certain obscure
passages in the wireless version re
ceived yesterday.
Xo Decision To-day
Indications were that no announce
ment of a decision by the President
could he expected before to-morrow.
Secretary Lansing was with him un
til near midnight last night dis
cussing the wireless version, but
i here now must lye further confer
ences and it is assumed there will
lie exchanges with the Allied capitals
Although the note is regarded as
an awkward uttempt to meet the con
ditions laid down by President Wilson
for consideration of an armistice, no
one here believes that an immediate ,
cessation of hostilities is in sight. I
Generally the opinion is that the only j
step possible at this time would be to '
sanction with approval of the Allied 1
arrangements to be die- I
■ ated by Marshal Foch in the field i
for the evacuation of France and
Belgium. As any such arrangement '
necessarily would safeguard the su- !
premacy now held by the Allied
armies, an armistice virtually would
mean surrender by the Germans.
The general tone of the note to- 1
gether with the significant statement t
that "the offer of peace and an arm
istice has come from a government j
which is free from any arbitrary and !
irresponsible influence." strengthens
the belief here that there is a genuine
desire for peace.
The President, as spokesman for
this country and our Allies, is stand- |
ing for the absolute surrender of the
enemy, and it was asserted ;n a re
sponsible high quarter last nigh'
that it was not the purpose of the
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Dark Hours For Germany,
Says Cologne Archbishop;
Calls on People to Pray
By - I ssoc iat ed Press
Ituscl, Oct. 22.—Cardinal Hart
man. archbishop ot' Cologne, has is- [
sued a pastoral letter in which lie
says dark hours have come for Ger
many* threatened by an enemy su- '
perior in numbers and shaken io the
foundations of the state by internal !
changes. He calls upon his people to
offer public prayers.
Deep discontent is spreading
everywhere among the German peo
ple. the Cardinal writes, and they
not only give expression to their
state of mind by what they say, but
write disheartening letters to the
men at the front, impairing their
courage and power of resistance I
The cardinal invites all Catholics to I
rally around the emperor. In all
Protestant churches of Prussia pub
lic prayers have been ordered for the
protection of Germany from ihe mis
fortunes which threaten her
350,000 Men Are to Go
Into Training For Battle;
Localities Not Mentioned
Washington, Oct. 22.—DraTt calls
suspended three weeks ago because I
of the influenza epidemic, now are'
going out again in certain zones '
where the surgeon general's office <
has decided it is sale to semi the
men to cantonments. The localities i
and the exact number of men will 1
not be announced for the present.
The October program is under- ;
.stood to provide for the induc'ian of
about 350,000 men, and the number
not called out during the remaining
days of the month will be added to
succeeding monthly quotas, ell be
ing called as quickly u S precautions
for safety will permit. The largest
single call suspended was f.Sr i 40,000
men who were to have entrained Oc- I
tober 14.
THE WEATHER] I
For Hnrrlsburg mid vicinity: Fair
contlnurd cool to-night, with I
light frost! lowest tempera (ore
about 1.1 degrees! Wednesday
fair and warmer. i
For Hastern Pennsylvania! Fair I
continued cool to-night, with
light frost! Wednesdnv fair
warmer! light south winds. '
River
411 streams of the Susquehanna
river syatrm will remain nearly
stationary. A stage of about i
t.O feet Is Indicated for Harris- '
burg Wednesday morning.
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PARENTS ARE TO
GET SIO,OOO FOR
SLAYING OF SON
XicaragUH to Pay That Sum
to Mr. and Mrs. David K.
Cannon, of This City .
Shot almost nine years ago. dur
ing the revolution going on at that
time in Nicaragua, his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. David K. Cannon, ..802
North Sixteenth street, will receive
SI 0.000 from that republic because
of the death of their son, Leroy
Cannon.
Young Cannon went to Nicaragua
some time before 1900. when lie
was shot. After locating there he
purchased property and decided to
remain. The insurrection broke out
and he. with a number of other
Americans, was shot in November,
1909. Since then the United States
lias been discussing settlement with
the Xicaraguan government for the
injustice to citizens of this country
and finally succeeded tn getting
SIO,OOO for the Cannon family
I.etters of administration so that Mr.
Cannon can receive the money were
issued to-day by Acting Register of
Wills Jaines G. Miles.
Young Canpon was well known in
the city and played on the Central
High school .football team while a
student in that institution His
father at present is one of the toll
takers at the west end of the Market
street bridge.
, Letters of administration on the
estate of Robert A. 8011, who died
jn camp recently, were issued to
Charles S. 801 l and Charles K. Boas.
Letters on the estate of Her.bert D
Harry, another local soldier who
died in camp, were issued- to his
widow, Mrs. May B. Harry.
Acting Register Miles to-day pro
bated the first will since lie has
taken charge of the office. It was
that of the late.Dr. L. M. Sliumaker.
Letters were issued to Mrs. Elizabeth
K. Sliumaker.
Farmers Tour Upper End
of County by Automobile
to Study Feed Problem
Several scores of farmers this
morning started out in their auto
mobiles and gathered at the farm of
Howard Speese, three miles north of
Dauphin, at 8.30 o'clock, from where
they started on'their farm auto tour.
The tour was planned hy if. o!
Niesley, county farm agent, under
the auspices of the Dauphin County
Farm Bureau, and Is for tho pur
pose of emphasizing economic pork
production and economic steer feed
ing. It is to further the program of
the United States food administration
.'or an increased pork production In
the county during the coming year.
The farmers stopped at Hiram
Yeager's farm, one mile cast of Hali
fax: J. M. Boyer's farm and 11. '/.
Motter's farm. Hog pastures, silos!
teer feeding, corn variety tests, mid
other things of importance to the
hog and steer raising farmer, wiie
studied.
YES, SIR! KISSING
MAKES 'EM CRAZY
By Associated Press
Trenton, N. J., Oct. 22. —Cure
W insanity by extracting diseased
teeth, removing infected tonsils
and the gastro-inteslinal tract,
was announced here to-day by
Dr. Henry A. Cotton, medical di
rector of tlie New Jersey State
Hospitiil, in a report to the State
Department of Charities and Cor
rections.
Causes of infected teeth were
charged by Dr. Cotton to bad
dental work, neglect and promis
cuous kissing.
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FINAL PLANS FOR
CAMPAIGN TO GET
GREAT WAR FUND
Leaders of Movement Aim
at .$170,500,000 to Aid
Our Forces Abroad
The United War Work Campaign,
final arrangements will soon be coin
, pleted for the $l7O, 500,000 carn
; paign which is to open nationally
lon Nov. 11 and continue for a week
| The fund will he collected for the
■ use of the seven organizations that
I care for our soidiers and sailors on
I duty and on furlough. The units re
presented in the drive will be the
' Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., National
j Catholic War Council of the Knights
of Columbus, Jewish Welfare Board,
War Camp Community Service,
American Library Association and
the Salvation Army The money ob
tained wilt, be devoted to the needs
|of the organizations, the division
being based on the scope and size
of the units.
In order that the public may have
a better idea of just what the func
tions of each of the participating
organizations are, the headquarters
J officials yesterday discussed the
jwork of each in detail.
Y. M. C. A.'s Part
The- Y. M. C. A', accompany our
!fighters from the moment of their
: induction into the service up to the
lime when they march to the buttle
| front und then go into the trenches
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Habsburg Strikes Mine;
German Troops Drown
Stockholm, Oct. 22.—The Hatn
i burg-American line steamer Habs
! burg struck <i mine last Wednesduy
I while on a voyage from Riga to Dan
, zig, according to advices from llei
stngfors. One hundred German sol
-1 diers ami four officers were drowned,
owing to panic-stricken passengers
rushing fpr the lifeboats whleh were
| capsized.
STATE STARTS A
SURVEY ON NEW
PARK HIGHWAY
Superintendent Shreiner Or
ders Work Eor Improve
ment id Eastern End
Preliminary surveys for a second
highway to cross the Capitol Park
; extension somewhere about the line
of Seventh street and which will ulti
mately form connections with the
approaches to the "Bridge of the
j Counties" which is to span the dis
-1 tance from the eastern line of the
: Capitol Park extension to the brow
of Allison Hill have been started.
The lines will be considered by the
Board of Public Grounds and Build
*ings after consultation with Arnold
IW. Brunner and Warren H. Man
-1 ning, so that they will fit right into
the great scheme for adornment of
; the public domain. .
The filling in of the new avenue
which is to cross the Park extension
about on the line of Aberdeen and
East streets is progressing rapidly,
thanks to the foresight of Superin
i tendent George A. Shreiner, who se
l cured many thousand loads of cinder
and has contracts made for much
I more. This filling gives an idea of
I the height of the new highway and :
■ the stupendous proposition which !
| must be worked out to give the State
House an adequate setting in the [
! years to come.
The surveys will take some time :
and then the data will be submitted
by Mr. Shreiner, who lias been in !
consultation with Mr. Brunner about j
the park plans this month. The I
studies for the. bridge which Auditor j
General Charles A. Snyder says will
make a crowning part of the extend
ed park plans, are under way. '
jJAY LINES, ONCE BANE OF
HIGHWAY BUREAU, AGAIN
MARK STREET CROSSWAYS
'Failure of Two Previous Attempts to Keep Pedestrians on
Straight and Narrow Paths Does Not Daunt the City
Fathers, Who Have Ordered New Whitewash
i Jay lines will soon reappear at
j the street intersections In the busi
ness district, Conintissioner Lynch
| said to-day. Gallons of puint to be
! used in making the lines have been
; ordered, he said, following: the visit |
| by ilarrishurg officials to Erie and i
j Buffulo-
In those cities, according to Mr. i
, Lynch, a palm has been used which i
will not wear off the streets; one of i
the troubles Ilarrishurg had months
ago in attempting to ostahlish the i
I Jay line method to prevent pedes-1
HUN RETREAT ENDANGERED
BY FOCH'S TERRIFIC BLOW;
YANKS MEET STUBBORN FOE
Yankee Army Held
Back by Desperate
Foe's Efforts
U.S. ATTACKING
KEYTOHUNLINE
DEVELOPMENT of the I
plan being followed bv llie |
German high command in
conducting its retreat from)
northern France and Belgium i
makes it apparent that Metz is
being used as a pivot for the
movement. While the Germans
are pouting fresh divisions into'
the line in front of the Ameri
cans northwest of Verdun in an
attempt to hold the line firmly,
the rest of the German legions!
are swinging back toward the
Belgian border.
Allies Drive Deep
Into Belgian Territory
Allied troops on the northern end I
of the front in France and Belgium j
to-day are driving into the German !
line from west of Ghent past Tour- j
nai to Valenciennes. This is the
line of the Scheldt and two of the
important points on it—Tournai and j
Valenciennes —are nearly within the I
grasp of the British.
German resistance is stiffening he- |
tweeri Tournai and Valenciennes, the
southern end of the eighty-mile i
from Valenciennes to the Dutch !
frontier. The British armies, how- j
ever, continue to progress. Orcq, j
within less than a mile of Tournai on I
the west, has been captured and the j
British hold Da Sentinelle, one mile
west of Valenciennes.
North of Tournai the British are
I along the Scheldt on a front of live
I miles and north and south of this
I sector rapidly are gaining the west
! ern bank of the river. Between
i Valenciennes and Le Cateau the
I British maintain their pressure and
i have reached the Ecallion river at
I Thiant southwest of Valenciennes.
Trench lie pulse All
! German Counterattacks
i French forces continue their pres
j sure on the front from the junction
| of the Oise and the Serre eastward to
j Vouziers. On the extreme left they
I have advanced north of the Serre.
j East of the Aisne at Vouziers the
! Germans have ceased their violent
: efforts to dislodge the French from
1 important hill positions. The French
i here are in a position to outflunk
the Germans facing the Americans
;on the sector west of the Meuse,
| which accounts for the strong Ger
j man efforts to drive the French
i back. General Gouraud's men, how
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FEWER CASES OF
INFLUENZA ARE
FOUND IN CITY
Progress of Disease Finally
Stayed, Although Death
Rate Is High
i Decided improvement in the epi-
I demit: situation hqs been noticed
| since yesterday, according to Dr. J.
:M. J. Battnick, city health officer.
! "The number of cases is slowly de-
I creasing," he said, "so that with tlie
| observance of the health bureau pre
cautions all danger should soon be
! over."
' Dr. I'". K. Downcs, city school
I superintendent, issued an appeal
j last evening to male schoolteachers
| of the district, urging them to assist
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trians from crossing intersections
: diagonally.
Mayor Keister announced that as
| part of the plan to educate persons
| In the city to cross streets at right
, angles instead of diagonally, it is
I likely Boy Scouts will lie stationed
|on the corner und when a pedes
j trlan attempts to cross diagonally
lone of the scouts will hand him a
i card calling his attention to the city j
i traffic rules. Two previous attempts
to install the Jay lines system failed
j because the. puint which was used
I soon wore oft.
TO THE GALLOWS!
By Associated l'ress
AMSTKHUAM. Oct. 22.—German provincial and Socialist
newspapers continue their campaign against Hie "chief culprits"
responsible for the war. The l'Vuiikfsclie 'l'agespost of X'liienihiiig,
the lirst paper in Germany to openly demand the abdication of the
Emperor. declares the accession of the Crown Prince is entirely out
of the question.
"The German people are searching for the guilty," says the
Volks Zcltung. the organ of the Nuremberg Socialists. "The pan-
Germans and junkers urc silent to-day, liut we tlo not forget tliey
are the great war Inciters in Germany. The |Miii-Gcrmaii policy hits
led the German people to disaster.
"To the gallows with the guilty whoever they may he!"
HARDEN CRIES OUT
FOR SURRENDER IN
GERMANY'S CRISIS
"We Are Alone; Kaiser Must Take Up
His Cross Teuton Editor Says in
Addressing Berlin Crowds; Riot
ous End of Assemblage
Amsterdam, Oct. 22.—"We are
alone. When a fortress can no
longer hold it is no dishonor if the
commander surrenders. The Kaiser
must take up his cross of concluding
quickly necessary peace and accept
ing whatever is hard. Let the Kaiser
dbclare himself ready and let him
fit himself with new Germany as her
first citizen."
This utterance by Maximilian
Harden, addressed to several thous
■and people in Berlin on Sunday, was
| loudly applauded.
Meeting Muds in ltioting
I-lerr Harden, whose plain spoken
language In Die Zukunft, of which
he is editor, hus caused a suspen
sion of that journal on several oc
casions, was permitted, according to
the reports of his address, to speak
freely and without let or hindrance.
His remarkable declaration respect
ing surrender and the "Kaiser's
cross," 'followed a review of the
situation in which he pointed out
that Bulgaria was occupied, Tur
key's fate was sealed and Austria-
Hungary was out of the light. 'I he
meeting ended in a riotous demon
stration.
.Must Shoulder Consequences
"It is one of the most cruel iron
ies that this war which was begun
to maintain an impossible Austria,
should be ended by the declaration
of that self-same Austria that it can
not exist," continued Herr Harden.
"We must shoulder the consequences
of the step taken October 5. There
is no shame in accepting the conse
quences of acts which one has com
mitted.
"We must make sacrifices. The
Emperor also must make sacrifices,
lie must first adapt himself to the
new Germany and content himself
YANKS CAPTURE
GERMAN OFFICERS
IN VERDUN DRIVE
Americans Join With British
in Forcing Enemy Out
of War Theater
j Washington, Oct. 22.—1n storming
the Bois De Rappes and Hill 2'J7
yesterday, American troops, accord
ling to a communique received by
(the War Department from General
j Pershing last night, captured six of
, fleers, 255 men and a number of
j machine guns. The text of the state
ment follows:
j "In the course of stubborn fight
ling north of Verdun we have ad
ivanced our line at several points.
This morning our troops took Hill
No. 297, and drove the enemy from
the Bois De Rappes capturing in this
operation six^officers, 255 men and a
number of machine guns. Further
west they have improved their posi
tion on the northern edge of the
Bois De Bantlieville and have made
I progress northeast of St. Juvtn. East
iof the Meuse the enemy violently I
I bombarded our positions in the Bois
Caures."
! In the war theater the allied
i armies have taken no heed of the
j efforts under way for the re-estab
'lishment of peace, but are continu
jing to force hack the Germans at
I vital points along the lines in Bel
igium and France.
I In these endeavors the British and
i Americans are for the moment tali- :
ling the principal .parts. The British I
I have approached to within two miles j
lot Valenciennes, and the Americans,
to the northwest of Verdun, have
|succeeded in occupying two highly
'important positions in theib opera
tions aimed at an advance north
ward.
American and British troops have
crossed the Disc canal on a wide
front in tho face of desperuto resist
ance, and further successes in this
sector will menace the Germans both
■ o the north and south.
The Valenclen^ies-llirson railway,
lormerly one of tho Germans' main
lateral Hrterics of communication,
has been cut.
to represent the nation, lie must
remove from his successors all pos
sibility that they will ho harmful to
the nation. Then he must hear h's
own part of the cross and conclude
rapidly the necessary peace and take
upon himself the tusk of accepting
the onerous conditions involved in
that.
We must withdraw the German
troops to the empire's frontiers and
henceforth demand that the Reich
stag assent to a declaration of war."
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L Washington-r-Additional casualties made public by *| •
ithe. War Department to-day include the following Per *, >
sylvanians: Wounded severely. Private William Con- - §
I nors, Scranton; wounded slightly, Private Clarence B. * } : !
i Mock, Altoona; wounded, degree undetermined, Privates
t Arch S. Downey, Latrobe, and Edward E. Ulrich, Welty; <j |
| in hospital, JPrivate Donald J. Schenk, Altoona. I
\ Berne—Prince Maximilian, the German Imperial A
I Chancellor, is to speak at a plenary meeting of the *
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Ghent Is Neared bv
Allies as French
Launch Attack
BRITISH GAIN
ON lICAILLON
By Associated Press
British Headquarters in Belgium,
'Oct. 22.—Strong French forces at
tacked this morning on the center of
the Allied front in Belgium and are
reported to bo making excellent pro
gress in the direction of Ghent.
French troops hold a front of
about ten miles along the Lys canal
directly west of Ghent.
London. Oct. 22.—The British have
advanced their line to the left bank
of the Eeaillon river and have cul -
tured the western part of the village
of Thiant, five miles southwest of
Valenciennes, it is announced of
ficially.
Pennsylvanians Perish
When Ticonderoga Sinks
By Associated Press
. Washington. Oct. 22.—Seven Penn
sylvania soldiers went.doWn with the
Ticonderoga, torpedoed 1,700 miles
from shore. The submarine is re
, ported to have shelled the lifeboats,
I killing many of those who had suc
ceeded in leaving the ship safely.
The Pennsylvanians who perished
arc: Privates Welt.v M. Picking,
i 'liuniberghiirg; Leroy K. Gardner,
Milton: John S. Beisel. drums;
George \V. Brooth. Chester; Boss \\
Douglas, File; John P. Keith, Green
ville. Fred Walbeek, Knoxville. Pri
vate Lyman H. Hammond, of St.
Mary's, is reported saved. The ves
sel was torpedoed on September 20
and two officers and ninety-nine men
lost their lives.