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!.XXXVII— No. 236 14 PAGES D "&,W , HARRISBURG. PA.. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1918. OJV 'LLK W 8 PA |'KV MV^HAHVLHUILITO^* 9 " TWO CEKT3 HOME EDITION
NO ARMISTICE FOR GERMAN
ARMY, PRESIDENT DECIDES
ALLIES TO CLEAR
OCCUPIED GROUND
OF ALL INVADERS
Only Problem Left
Is 44 Terms" For
Evacuation
LATEST NOTE
NOTHING NEW
Yanks to Keep Up
Good Work on
Battlefield
Hy Associated I*cess
Washington, Oct. 23.—Gcr
"niany's new note to President
• Wilson, in official text, was'de
livered to Secretary Lansing at
R) o'clock this morning by Fred
erick Oederlin, charge of the
Swiss legation.
The statement was authorized
that there is nothing in the com
munication to alter the decision
of the President that he will not
an armistice to the Al
lies before the Germans evacuate
ail occupied territory.
Only One Problem
Official intimation already has
been given that the only ques
tion for immediate consideration
is whether there shall be a dis
cussion of "terms" of evacuation
while the Allied and American
armies continue their work of
k clearing Belgium and Northern
France.
Exchanges between Washington
ami the Allied capitals have been
in progress 011 the basis of the wire
less version of the note received
.Monday and it is regarded as cer
tain that any reply the President
may make will bo governed by the
supreme war council in France.
It was said the expected verbal
differences in the wireless version
Had the official text did not appear
I 10 alter substantially the meaning of
' Ihe note.
Secretaries. I.ansing and Daniels 1
and General March, chief of staff of
the Army, were called to tlie White
House shortly after noon, just as a ,
State Department messenger arrived
' to deliver the German note to the !
President.
Secretary Daniels and General !
March remained only a short time, j
leaving the President and Mr. Lans
ing in conference.
The new German note, an official j
dispatch from Rome to-day says, |
strengthens the belief there in ae- ;
counts of the wretched internal sit
uution in Germany and that complete 1
dismemberment of the Germanic al- ,
liance is at hand at the moment when j
the Entente Allies are bound more:
solidly together.
It is said to be the unanimous
* thought of the Italian people that the
enemy must accept the terms de
manded by the military leaders.
Hun Chancellor Looks
For Definite Answer; !
Fears Violent Peace |
Copenhagen, Oct. 23.—"President
Wilson's reply to the latest German t
note may, perhaps, bring definite;
certainty as to the result of the nego- I
tiations," Prince Maximilian, the im-1
' perial German chancellor, said to-1
day, according to a dispatch received 1
here from Berlin. "Till then, we;
st prepare to resist a peace of!
violence "
Prince Maximilian continued: "Aj
government which acted otherwise;
•*> 4 would be left to the mercy of the i
lighting and working people. It'
would be swept away by public |
opinon."
THE WEATHER
For Hnrrlxborg nnil vlclnltyi Fnir
ll ■■ <1 nnrmrr to-nlgtali Thursday
partly rloutly, priibnWly rain.
For Kaotrrn Pennsylvania t Fair
iinil nnmrivhiit nnrmrr fo-nlKhtl
Thursday pnrtly cloudy, prob
ably rnln In extreme next por
tloni light xoiithrnxt In xonth
winds.
Hlvrr
The mnln rlvrr will remain nrnr
ly stationary. All Irlliularlrx
nlll fall to-night II ml probably
Thursday, except the I.ower
'k w exl llrnnrli nlll remain nearly
alntlonary to-night.
[ALLIES GAIN
59 MILES IN A
GREAT ADVANCE
By Associated Press
Tills "war or defense" Is not
fur distant. If military events
continue to develop during;
the near future as tliey have in
the recent past. During the Inst
ninety-seven days of lighting the
Allies have .advanced along the
line from I'ont-nu-Mousson to
Xieuport. an average of alout
twenty-eight ndies. This advance
lias aggregated thirty-eight miles
from Chateau-Thierry to Grand
lup: lifty-nlne miles front Amiens
to the Nanthre river and thirty
eight front Dixtntidc to the
Fccloo-Zeobrugge eattal.
The grand average is held to a
low figure by the fact that at
tacks east of Khfiuts have not
carried the German line hack,
over permanent fortllieations and
against desperate resistance, as
far as the enemy wits forced to
flee farther west and north. In
tlds sector, the progress niade.
however, is as important as much
greater advances in some other
parts of tlie front.
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MAX PLANSFOR
DEFENSIVE WAR
WITHIN BORDER
i Collapse of Empire Is Feared
by (iennany's Impcral
Chpncellor
KAISER FACES A CRISIS
Many 'Reforms' Promised, All
of Which Arc to Come
After the War
•
By Associated Press
, Copenhagen, Oct. 23.—Peace con-1
j versations between Berlin and Wash- 1
jington have reached a critical point,.
{according to Prince Maximilian, the;
iGeYman imperial chancellor, speak-1
•ing before the Reichstag yesterday I
In the course of his address he.l
'urged that debate 011 the situation!
'urising.on the exchange of notes be-'
'tween himself and President Wilson
be restricted as much us possible. ,
"The whole German people is anx- •
ions to hear the views of the gov-'
eminent regarding the prospects of j
peace," he said, "but I am üble to!
speak only with the greatest reserve
and urge that the members of the;
Reichstag limit debate, as is con-j
sistent with the seriousness of the;
hour. The whole German people'
have been spoken to by President 1
Wilson anil this fact gives the ut-!
terances of the representatives of i
all parties addfcd force."
Points People to Crisis
! "To-day, therefore, lam going to
say only this regarding the interna-!
I tional situatioif: The President's]
]first answer to the peace move of;
the German government has in all)
1 countries brought the questions of
a peace of justice or a peace of vio-l
llence to the highest point," he con-]
:tinued. "President Wilson's last note ;
did not make clear to the German
people how this public agitation will
end. His next answer will, perhaps,'
bring definite certainty. Until then]
we must in all our thoughts and in
our actions prepare for both even-,
'nullifies —first that the enemy gov-!
[ernments are anxious for war, in j
I which case there is no choice for us j
[but to put ourselves in a posture of 1
defense with all the strength of our]
people driven to the last extremity.'
Fears Downfall of Umpire
! "Should this necessity arise, I j
have no doubt that the German gov-]
ernment, in the name of the German;
people, will issue a call for national
defense in 'he same way that it,
spoke for the German people when 1
it took action for peace. He who f
honestly took u stand on the basis j
of peace also will undertake the duty,
of not submitting to a peace of vio- ]
[Continued oil Page 1-I.]
Two Stolen Automobiles
Returned by the Police;
One oi Nine Missing
Two automobiles reported stolen
Monday night, were recovered by the
police last night. Nine automobiles
have been stolen in the city since
October 1. Police have been so ac
tive in recovering them that but one
remains unaccounted for.
The Ford tmiring car of Clarence
Brlekley, 1836 Chestnut street, which
was stolen from in front of the resi
dence Monday night, was recovered
at Twenty-third and Herr streets.
An Overland roadster, stolen from
Joseph T. McDermott, 142 Sylvan
Terrade, was recovered by Officer
Kettrow near the Colonial Country
Club last night.
The City's Splendid Emergency Hospital
BAN TO REMAIN
ON AMUSEMENTS;
| FEW NEW CASES
(physicians Who Fail lo Treat
Sick Flayed by Health
Officer
' "Although the epidemic situution
, In Hari'isburK is steadily improving,
| the ban closing all amusements,
! schools, saloons, wholesale liquor
.stores and other places will be
enforced Indeflnitey," Dr. J. 11. J.
I Raunick, city health officer, said to
j day, in answer to numerous queries
I about when the restrictions would
lie lifted. ,
j "If we are not careful now we can
Ido more harm in twenty-four hours
| than we could remedy in a month.
I I want every one to cohtinue observ
ing the closing-orders and 011 Satur-"
; day night ah business places and
• stores are to close again at 0.30'
o'clock. We ajre determined to use
I every possible means to stop the dis
| ease and will not take any chances
with a second outbreak because of
lifting the quarantine ban too soon.
' Harrisburgers must be patient. It
is far better to keep things closed,
prevent large gatherings and stop
'the sickness and death, than to let
.the places open too soon, and have'
a repetition of conditions, with
j thousands more victims and huh-
Idreds of deaths.
N'ccd of (Quarantine
"The danger point Will soon be I
past, but if the closing orders are
not continued residents of the city j
would only be subjected to contagion
and there is certainly 110 one who,
would want another outbreak of the
disease." L)r. Raurtic-k concluded.
The number of new cases is de
c-reusing dqily, physicians report,
and at the emergency hospital, Fifth
and Seneca streets, there are less
than seventy patients now. Four
new cases wero admitted, and about
a dozen patients discharged. Two
deaths occurred there to-day. Both
of the patients were brought to the j
hospital in a critical condition. Theyj
were James Jones, 1208 Derry
[Continued on I'ngc 12.]
Yankee Flyers Respond to
Signals For Aid in Raid;
Down Three Enemy Planes
With the American Army North
west of Verdun, Oct. 23.—The clear
weather early yesterday morning per
mitted of some aerial work and the
Americans downed a Hannover bi
plane at Bayonville, a Rumpler at
Buzancy and a balloon In the vicin
ity of Tatlly.
Fifteen American night fliers re
sponded to alert signals when the
Gewpans raided the front and ba£k
areAs and searched for the enemy
airmen up and down the lines. One
American saw the tracer bullets of
a German tiring his machine gun at
a supposed troop movement hut he
was unable to engage the enemy
raider.
Police Take Man on
Way From Store With
12 Quarts of Liquor
Sylvester Wilson, 650 Briggs
street, was arrested by City Detec
tive Carson and Patrolmen Whiting
and Jackson, about 4 o'clock this
'morning on the churge of breaking
jinto the liquor store of Samuel Katz
man. 1207 North Seventh street, and
stealing twelve quarts of liquor val
ued at S2O.
Entrance to the store was gained
j through the rear. A window was
ipried open with a screw driver. Po
lice arrested Wilson us he was eonr-
Mng away from the store with the
1 liquor In a basket.
. City health officials have found that the open-air scchool at Ninth
and Seneca streets could not be equaled as an emergency hospital. Ideal
conditions prevail there since it has been converted into such an insti
tution and sceres of patients have been under treatment or arc still
being cared for. Above are shown interior• views at the hospital. The
upper one was taken in the children's ward, in the center of the
picture is a nurse holding an eight-ntonth-old baby boy from Steelton
who was found in the anna \>f another little tot on the steps at the en
trance to the building. Below is a view of the light, well-equipped
kitchen with some of the nurses pre paring meals for putients.
CITY'S TREES TO
GET ATTENTION
IN "DUE TIME"
Political Fences tldt Mbre At
tention Than Shade
Problems
Docs the commissioner of the city
park department have authority, to
order tiie removal of two old silver
■maple trees In Race street, near
Hanna, which have groArn out over
the highway and are now a danger
ous obstruction to congested traffic?
Commissioner Cross, of the park
department, asked ' practically that
question of the other members of
Council yesterday when he called
their attention to the two trees and
said they should be removed. Jn
other words he apparently forgot
that under city ordinances shade
trees are under the jurisdiction of
the city forester, (Hurrisburg has
none because Gross didn't appoint
one) and that the city forester is di
rectly responsible to the park com
missioner.
So, after lite Council meeting yes
terday, Mr. Gross in his usual fash
ion casually remarked:" 1 was just
wondering who had jurisdiction _to
[Continued on Page 12.]
200,000 Recruits For Navy
to Bring Personnel of the
American Force to 700,000
By Associated Press
Washington, Oct. 23.—Two hundred
thousand recruits for the Navy will
be needed in the coming year, main
ly to nran merchant ships in govern
ment service. Secretary Daniels has
informed the House Naval Committee,
in favoring passage of a 'bill for the
purchase of 520 acres of land for en
largement of the Hampton Koads
training station.
This increase would bring the naval
personnel to more than 700,000 men,
compared with 54,000 at the begin
ning of the war.
MUNITION WORKKHS STKIKK
Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 23.—Nearly 2,-.
000 machinists and toolmakcrs of this
city walked out to-day, affecting six
plants working on war orders. De
ma'nds asking on an average ten
cents per hour more were refused.
A number of women workers are in
cluded and a general strike in the
city Is threatened. A representative
of the War Labor Hoard is expected
to be sent here Immediately to pre
side at a conference of employers and
workers.
EIGHT-HOUR DAY
! BOOSTS WAGES AT
C. I. & STEEL CO.
Big Munitions Plant Adds
$.'10,000 a Month to Heavy
Payroll
The Central Iron and Steel Com
pany today announced that tlie big
plant now working ulmojst entire-,
i ly on government contracts has been
i placed on the eight-hour day. Be
i tween 1,500 and 1,600 men are af
-1 fected.
j Officials of the company said in
making the announcement that the
change would mean an addition of
$30,000 to the payroll -each month,
j The official announcement signed
by Robert H. Irons, president of the
j company, follows:
"The Central Iron and Steel Com
' pany recognizes the principle of the
i basis eight-hour day and effective
! November 1 all hourly, turn and
: tonnage men will receive time and
half time l for all turns over eight
| hours worked in one turn, Sundays
land holidays to be considered same
I as week duys."
j Many o: the men now work twelve
: hours a day while others have ten
j hour tracks. For t hese employes the
| additional pay will be considered. J
; The same policy recently was an
i nounced at the Steelton plant of the
! Bethlehem Steel Company.
"Weary Willies" Dig For
War; Bring Up S7OO
N'cw York Oct. 23.—Members of
the "hoboes" union who assembled
on the Bowery yesterday for a flag
raising in honor of 30,000 of their
I fellows now in the service dug deep
in their tattered pockets and, at the
exhortation of Jeff Davis, their
"king," bought S7OO worth of wa
saving stamps to back America's
lighting forces. One "itinerant
worker" alone purchased S2O worth.
Douai Left Uninhabitable
by Its Hun Occupants
London, Oct. 23.—Not one of sev
eral hundred houses in Douai in
spected by the correspondent of the
Daily Mall at British heudquarters
is in a habitable condition. Appar
ently the inhabitants were removed
so that the Hermans billeted In the
town coul<l have a free hand over
uses and their contents,
Tho south and east sides of the
grande place the correspondent adds,
were blown to the ground.
BRITISH TAKE BRUAY
AND REACH BANKS OF
SCHELT IN FLANDERS
Haig's Men Fighting
Stiff Battle in
Valenciennes
GROUND IS WON
IN NEW ATTACK
By Associated Press
Parts, <•'. 23.-—On the SeiTC j
front last night tlie Germans
I met with heavy inaelilnc gun J
lire, French efforts to cross' the \
I Souche and Serre livers, the 1
war office announces. Further 1
east the French, made progress
between Xl/.y-Le-<'ointe anil 1,0
Tliour, taking prisoners.
London, Oct. 23.—The British he-jl
igan a new attack early to-day of the;
'front between Le Cateau and
; Solesmes, south of Valenciennes, j
'Field Marshal Haig announces.
! The British have captured Bruay, i
Itwo and a half miles north ol' Valen- i
Iciennes, and have reached the west
jbank of the Scheldt,
1 The statement folows: |l
| "Early to-day our troops attacked 1
on the Le Cateau-Solesmes front nnd| (
fare reported to be making good pro-jj
| gress.
"Farther north, bet wen Valen- ;<
Iciennes and Tournai. we have taken '
Bruay and reached the west bank of i
the Scheldt ut Bleharies and Espain. ;i
[Considerable resistance was en-;'
'countered on this front yesterday j.
jand sharp lighting took place In 11
jwhich our troops*pressing the enemy <
vigorously, inflicted many casualties 11
I upon him and drove him from Ills J
: positions, capturing a of i
! prisoners." • , 1
With the Allied Armies in France'
ami Belgium, Oct. 23.—British troops
! were fighting their way into the j
; center of Valenciennes early to-day. j
| They were fucing a strong enemy i
| machine gun fire from the e:st bank i
'of the Scheldt canal which flows j
J through the city.
Make (iiKMI Progress
| Britisli troops again are storming;
| the German defenses west of Mau- j
1 beuge. The new attack, launched i
! early to-day between Solesmes and |
Le Cateau, is reported to be making ,
| good progress
Field Marshal Haig, In driving
'forward on the seven mile front'
| north of Le Cateau also is increas
' ing the menace to Valenciennes, ]
| through the western suburbs of;
which the British are fighting. North t
of Valenciennes the city lias been j
'outflanked by the capture of Bruay.!
•It is not probuble the Germans will j
be able to hold out in Valenciennes 1
much longer and once the Scheldt is
'crossed here the Britisli will be in
! position to threaten seriously both j
Mons and Maubeuge."
Win High Ground
Between Le Cateau and Solesmes j
:the British are on the high ground 1
east of the Selle river and it is from
{this favorable position to-day's at
tack was begun. The German re-j
isistance here has been bitter as the
line is vital to the security of the
'German defenses over a Wide front'
[to the south, and southeast.
| In southwestern Belgium the Brit- 1
'tsh continue to close in on Tournai.
'North of the town they have forced!
a crossing of the Scheldt while on
the south they have reached the
[western bank of the river on a four
;mile front from Bruyelles to Ble
' haries.
j South of Le Cateau the enemy Is j
i resisting stubbornly French at-1
;tempts to cross the Serce river and
[take in the rear .the German posi
'tions east of the Oise. South of the
'railroad junction of Alontcornet the
] French have made progress between
| Nlzy-le-Comte und Le Thour.
High Prices Blamed on
I War and Not Epidemic;
Costs Steadily Mounting
I "Blame the prevalent high prices
i for drugs on the war and not on the
j epidemic was the implied advice to- !
day of an ottjclal of Bowman, Mell j
land Company, manufacturing £hem- j
I ists of this city, who stated that the j
i world fracas has more to do with the |
j current skyward tendency of these !
i materials than the rapidly waning'
Spanish malady,
j Camphor, selling wholesale before j
! the epidemic at (3 a pound, has risen ,
steadily to 35 at which price it sells [
to-day. The aboVfc informant as to '
drug prices told a Telegraph repre- j
sentatlve that its importation from j
Japan has been practically nil since
the government transferred our Pa
cific: Ocean ships to Atlantic service
a few months ago on account of the
war. The country has been in dire
straits for the commodity ever since,
ihe said.
i Quinine, always in demand, sold
I from 90 cents to $1 at the start, now
;it Is $1.15. The reason for this, our
! authority says, is that Holland,
' whence most of the world's quinine
comes, put a ban lon this product
[about six months ago in retaliation
| for something Uncle Sam did to her
{commercially and, as a result of Its
scarcity now, Its price has gone soar
ing. Asafetlda. formerly costing
| costing from $2 to '52.15 a pound
reached $3.76 yesterday. The alibi ,
for this raise in price Is the same us :
applies to camphor as it comes from j
the Orient nndgis practically un-ini- i
porttve owing to the absence of
American ships on the Pacific to
bring it over.
HUNS ASK FREE
PASSAGE HOME
By Associated Press
PARIS, Oct. 2il. —Germany's
high command is ready to evacu
ate the invaded territories t>f
France and Belgium on the ex
press condition that the Allied
troops will not follow them in re
treat. but will remain where they
now are located, according to the
latest information from Berlin,
says the Zurich correspondent of
tlie Journal.
This grotesque proposal is the
outcome of the latest conference
at Berlin between the inemliers of
the general staff and the war cab
inet, it is said. Tlie militarist
party Is rapidly gaining ground,
but tlie members of the moderate
factions believe that before long
grnvo internal events will help to
improve the situation.
J
Eyes of World Turned
to American Front, Where
Big Attack Is Expected
Standing behind the Scheldt river,
the Germans apparently have stab
ilized their line and 'iie swift ad
vance of the Belgians, British and
French has been slowed down.
Farther south the British, Amer
ican and French are attempting to
break the Hundiug line. This de
fensive position is sufficiently strong
to delay the Allies' advance mater
ially. A t last reports the British and
Americans were advancing slowly
east of the iaelle river and around
what remains of the Laoll salient.
The eyes of the Allied world now
are directed at the Lorraine and
Woevre sectors in expectation of an
American onslaught on Metz which
is the hinge upon which the whole
German line is retiring.. A blow at
that fortress 'night, if successful,
throw into confusion the whole
retrograde movement which is going
on from the Meuse to the North sea.
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D BOARD WAPN€' RESTAURANTS
ington-—The food administration to-dav warned ' \ 1
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.bread and butter served with meals until the matter has Wfm
*bccn fully,investigated by the food administration.
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MARRIAGE LICENCES
Arthur l„ Wiihln*ton. nnd Delhi M. < itrter. lliirrll>urßi
C Henry Wlttlnicton anil Penrl Moore, llnrrlxlxiriit William It. Hnlaeit *
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Americans to Fight
All Winter if Foe
Holds Together
FOE TO GET NO
REST FROM U.S.
By Associated Press •
With the American Forces North
west of Verdun, Oct. 23. —Unless
they are saved by their plea for
peace, the Germans will be subjected
(to steady hammering along the
jgreater part of the western front
.throughout the winter.
There are two places 011 the front
where it is conceded that military
operations during the winter will ha
virtually impossible, but American
officers say seventy- five per cent, of
the front offers no real obstacle to a
continuance of the tight. It is not
questioned that operations will i e
slowed down.
Yanks Take BrieuHcs
The town of Brieulles on the west
ern bank of the Meuse which has
been stubbornly defended by the
Germans, has been given up by tha
enemy.
This is the latest point at which
Americans have driven a dent into
the German defenses, despite the
fact that the enemy resistance is still
as strong as formerly.
In the face ot stubborn resistance
'American forces yesterday cleaned
up Bois tie Foret west of Brieulles,
| capturing 75 prisoners, many of
ithem machine gunners who fought
to the last. Among the prisoners
were several officers. The enemy
'clung to the wood with tenacity
lowing to the fact that the cleaning
lup of this place endangers the com-
Imanding positions of the Germans
'to the north.'