mmiu&lay JpwmU Austrian mte to AlliesyAndrassy Pleads With Lansing Fr Terms of Peaces .... ' • . / '■- • ' I HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH > ' £l)c Si ctr-JuJc penitent. LXXXVII- Xo. 241 12 FADES "ItSrH SSffViKSSg- HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 30, 191R &SSiESjSr "WcSaf HOME EDITION AUSTRIA'S HARD PRESSED ARMY NEAR TOTAL DEFEAT ENEMY IS LACKING MUNITIONS NEEDED TO USE ARTILLERY Country Is Laid Waste For Ten Miles by liuns AMERICANS IN RESERVECORPS Little Fighting in Franee W he reFoe Is Holding By Associated Press Italian Headquarters on the Piave, Oct. 30. —The Austro-Hungarian forces arc leaving behind them, east of Conegliano. They aer leaving behind them, scattered along the roads toward Vittorio, seven miles north of Conegliano, and' Sacile, farther east, many big guns and munition wagons. ,„ At Italian Headquarters on tlic 'u'iave, Oct. 30.—Austrian forces arc retreating under ever increasing pressure and it is felt that the attack against the enemy will become over whelming as soon as the entire allied force can enter Ihe action. With three successive days of fair weather, an extremely large body of troops with supplies has crossed the pontoons over the Piave. It is expected that the Austrian munition supply will give out. There are in dications that the enemy's heavy or tillefV is being withdrawn in an ef fort to save the big guns. The American Red Cross is pre paring to assist the Italian popula tion in towns evacuated by the Aus tlinns. For ten miles back from the river the country has been desolated. The latest reports ijliow fhe Aus trlans retreating steadily to save themselves in the Piave district, where 150 guns and one thousand additional prisoners were captured to-day. Monte Grappa has been at tacked violently by the enemy, how ever, but the action resulted in his repulse. More than 20,000 prisoners have been captured since .the at'tack be gan. King Victor Emmanuel visited the reconquered territory yesterday. One year ago the Italian armies were streaming westward from the Isonzo with a great military disaster j imminent. To-day, the Italians, with British and French divisions fighting with them, and with American con- I tingents in reserve, are pouring through what appears to be a breach in the Austrian lines east of ' the I Piave river. -IMIIHI Prisoners Are Taken Val Dobbiadene has been captured. Conegliano has been occupied nntl along a line stretching south to the. Treviio-Oderso railroad, the Allies [Continued oil Page 10.] HUGHES DEPLORES WILSON APPEAL fty Associated Press NKW YORK, Oct. 30.—Calling for national • unity "alter the ntctliorgi of a republic and not an autocracy" and deploring Presi dent Wilson's assumption that only the return of a Democratic majority would uphold Ids na tional leadership. Charles K. Hughes declared Jn an address hero last night that bipartisan support alone "would save the President from tlie lesser dignity and influence of mere party lead ership." ".Must we Republicans," he asked, "patriotically toil and give without seeking a voice in the national assembly, yielding our representation to Democrats, not as more worthy or more loyal, not as more sacrificing or more intel ligent. but to Democrats as sueli. simply because tliey are Demo crats? THE WEATHER For Hiirrlxhurg and vicinity i Prohn bly rnin unit cooler to uluht mid Thursday. For Eastern Prnnsylvnnln i Prob ably rain and cooler to-nlglit and Thursday! moderate nest and northwest winds. fllver The Susqnehnnnn river and nil Its branches will rise slightly or remain nearly stationary. A stage ol about 4.4 feet Is Indi cated for Hurrlsburg Thursday morning. OVER 30,000 HUNS TAKEN IN FRANCE SINCE OCTOBER 1 1 I i Havre. Oct. 30. —The official ; statement issued by the Belgian war office reads: "From October 14 to October 37 the total number of prisoners taken by the armies in Flanders was 1 8,293, including 331 officers. | The amount of captured material j ,is so great that it is impossible ! as yet to Count it. In the period I from October 14 to October 27, 509 guns' were taken, of which ! the Belgians captured 247 and ! the British 211. Over 1.200 ma chine guns were taken during that time. With the 12.000 prts- I oners taken from September 28 to October 14 the total number of prisoners captured in a month exceeds 30,000." V < QUARANTINE IN ! HARRISBURG TO BE OFF TUESDAY ! Acting Health Commissioner [ Removes Him on All Activities The City Health Department, fol-1 lowing a conference with represen- j tattve businessmen, ministers and members of the medical profession, j reported to City Council in special I session at 4 o'clock this afternoon ' that it is inadvisable to lift the in- j fiuenza quarantine in llarrisburg [ before early next week. However, if conditions continue [ to improve rapidly and the clanger | is deemed past before that time, an j earlier lifting of the ban may be. decided upon. Dr. Kaunick said af- i ter the meeting of the health board j that it is tlie desire of the health' authorities to do everything possible' toward restoring normal business! conditions and that from the pres- ! ent outlook the quarantine will be j lifted about Tuesday as indicated by | Dr. Royer in his statement last night. ' However, should the epidemic break ; out anew, which is not expected, a j later date may be found necessary. ' The City Health Bureau held its j meeting early this afternoon imme- j diately after a conference of almost! two hours with physicians, leading! businessmen, hospital and Red Cross, representatives, clergymen and school! officials. That everyone of these will j co-operate with the officials was as-j sured. While everyone else in the j city was represented at this session newspapermen were not permitted to be present and after the meeting was, over were not given any information about it. During the afternoon busi-' nessmen in the city who had learned I of the conference, could get no defi nite accounts of what had transpired, j Situation Improved Reports were made at the meet- | ing by a number of the physicians who were present, and Dr. Raunick i afterward said that every phase of the epidemic situation was discussed. It is understood the physicians all | gave opinions on the advisability of J lifting the ban, and on the possibil-i ity of a further spread of the dis ease if the restrictions are discon tinued next week. Whether the other officials present at the conference made any state ments about the closing and open- I ing orders was not announced. One [Continued on Page 2.] Guns in Verdun War Speak at St. Juvin; 18 Hun Planes Are Downed B.v .1 ssociated Press Washington, Oct. 30.—Heavy nr- j tlllery and machine gun fire north I of Verdun and the bringing down i of eighteen enemy airpluncs, with i failure of five American machines ■ to return as told in Associated Press ; ilispntches last night' were reported I by General Pershing in a communl- j que of yesterday received to-day by ; the War Department. The dispatch I says: "Artillery and machine gun fire • cohtinued heavy during the night l on the front of the first army north ! of Verdun, reaching particular in- I tensity in the region of the Bois! Belleu and the Bois d'Armont. "From tHe remainder of the front j there is nothing of importance to ' report. "On ihe Verdun front there lias; been heavy artillery and machine ' gun fire to-day west of the Meuse, | especially in the region north of St. Juvin. With more favorable weather conditions there has been increased , aerial activity on the front of the first army throughout the day. Our pursuit squadrons efiguged the en emy in numerous combats, in the course of which eighteen enemy airplanes were shot down. Five of our machines did not return. Our aviutors also carried out important i reconnaissance and photographic j missions." The Voice of innocence bat the Music of Knaves I V T' - 'i lafe r h wmwr, / ■ a, \ / V t tBl& ■ DEMOCRATS WILL i NOT DEFEND THE PRESIDENT'S PLEA Semite Leaders Dodge De bate With Republicans; Recognize Weakness Washington, Oct. 30.—-The Demo- j crats in the United States Senate J will make no attempt to defend j President Wilson against ltepubli-1 can attacks on the floor of Congress. I At a caucus of thos Demo-! cratic Congressional leaders who! have not returned home for the! elections it was decided to bldck I nil further partisan political discus-! sioi) in the Senate until after next! Tuesday. When the Senate meets! again on Thursday, Senator Miy-j tin, of Virginia, Democratic leader; of the Senate, will make a point of j no quorum, and he will thus pre- j vent any debate and force an ad-j journnient from day to day unless) a quormu should be presented un-1 expectedlv. There is little likelihood that there will be any quo'rum until [Continued on Page 12.] 1.1 KI T. KELLER KILLED' Word has Just reached this city that First Lieutenant Daniel Keller, 2 3 years of age, son of William H Keller, First Deputy Attorney Gen eral of Pennsylvania, has been killed in action on the French front. Lieu tenant Keller was attached to the Three Hundred and Sixteenth Penn sylvania Infantry, Seventy-ninth di vision, and was married in Philadel phia just before embarkation for France. Me lived in Lancaster. PRAGUE, BOHEMIAN CAPITAL, IS SEIZED BY THE CZECHS Austrian Garrison Surrenders to Revolutionists While City Officials Take Oath of Allegiance to Germany's Enemies Copenhagen, Oct. 30.—The Csech national committee took over the functions of the local government in Prague, the Bohemian capital, on Monday, marketing the final steps in its successful revolution there, ac cording to a telegram from Berlin to the National Tidende. The Austrian imperial symbols ]r A SLACKER CONGRESS j (From Roosevelt's Speech) "The President's personal organ, i the World, Itself says that the i j present Democratic Congress is a 'slacker Congress.' And the Pres- I ident asks the voters to keep these , ' slackers In control provided only . that these slackers follow him I with abject alarcity in whichever I ttetv direction he may momentarily ! lead. Small wonder that in the cloakroom of the House the bitter jest circulates: "Here's to our tzar, last in war, first toward ; i peaet>, long may he waver!'" I DORSETT SPEAKS FOR GOOD ROADS! IN PENNSYLVANIA Says R Will Give Farmers ' Good Roads and That They | Will Support It E. B. Dorsett, • one of the most: | prominent members of the Pennsyl-j vania State Grange, to-day issued a ! statement in which he urged all ! voters of Pennsylvania to vote for. l the proposed bond Issue for road j i purposes in the election next Tues- ' | day. Mr. Dorsett, who is chief of the , : bureau of markets, Agricultural He- | | partment, is One of the best known farming experts in Pennsylvania. His • statement is as follows: "Five years ago the proposition to ! I bond the state for fifty millions of ' dollars was defeated by the voters' of this state, and largely through the 1 influence of the Grunge, led by their ] master, "Farmer" Creasy, At that j time there was grave doubt in the | minds of the Grange members as to | [Continued on Page 12.] were removed from various build ings and Imperial proclamations torn down. The city officials have taken an oath of fidelity to the Czech state. During Monday night the general commanding Prague garrison and his staff placed the entire armed forces in the city ut the disposal of the Czech national committee. REPUBLICANS SEE 1 HOUSE CONTROL; : MAJORITY OF 20 Congressman Fess Rases Fig ures on Telegraphic Reports From Different States Washington, Oct. 30.—Based upon i telegraphic returns received yester i day, the prediction W8.% made to-day | by Representative S. IX Fess that the j Republicans would regain control of 1 the next House of Representatives by ' a majority of not less than twenty. I He said that If the voters carried ! their protests against the President's I attempt to dictate to the poll as forcibly as these protests are now : being received by letter and telegrams the majority would be larger than I the early canvasses show. | Democratic leaders are greatly 1 concerned over the situution. One j of the leaders suid last night'that I two Domocratic seuts would be lost | in Kentucky, one held by Reprcsent j ative Swager Sherley, chairman of Ii he Appropriations Committee. A ! gain of one in New Jersey for the ) Republicans is conceded, with Del l Continued on Page 10.] German Cruelty at Crest in British Prison Camps; Briton Demands Release By 'Associated Press London, Oct. 30. —Germany has | flagrantly broken the rules of inter | national law in her "treatment of j British prisoners of war, declared Sir : George Gave, the British home sec-i | rotary, in discussing the question of i prisoners of war in the House of ! Commons yesterday. Some of the . German internment camps, he said, were reasonably well organized but there were other camps where con ! ditions were almost unspeakable und ■ where inhumane treatment almost I past belief went on. | Working parties of British prison ers were beaten, tortured and made ' ;to .work when they were ill. Every- 1 i thing was done to break their spirit, I j but Sir Gdorge added, the enemy hud I failed in most cases. ] Sir George believed that if nny ! armistice with either Germany or! i Austria-Hungary was reached the ] j government would take steps to see ! that one of the primary conditions ' would be that all prisoners'of war In ' enemy countries should be immedi-1 [ately and unconditionally released, i iGERMANY SENDS j ! ANOTHER NOTE | TO WASHINGTON i President Is Drafting Answer to Austria's Latest Com munication PEACE IS NO NEARER ;Berli Still Harps on Alleged Democratic Changes in Government By Associated Frcss Washington, Oct. 30.—Another ' note front the German government I reached Washington to-day. It sup j pientents the last brief eontmuniea — i tion, saying armistice terms were : awaited, by reciting in detail gov ; ernmental changes which have taken ! place in Germany us evidence that I the Kaiser has been deprived of all | power of making war and negotiat ing peace. This time the Germans do not ad— j dress President Wilson personally, | but send the information for the • American government, apparently I recognizing that the stage of per | sonal appeals has passed with iho | transmission of their armistice and I peace plea to the Allies. Constitutional Changes It reiterates that the actual power ! and responsibility of the. government j has been transferred to the Reich | stag and describes the progress of ; the necessary constitutional changes, j. The note probably will be forward- I ed immediately to Paris where the j Supreme War Council already is re j ported to have formulated terms upon which the United States and I the Allies might permit a cessation j of hostilities. Reply to Austria As word of the new German move came it was learned that President Wilson was working to-day on a re ply to the last note from Vienna, in which the Austrian government ac cepted all principles und conditions of the President and asked fur ar mistice and peace proposals. | The reply, which probably will be i made public before night, is expected I to inform the authorities at Vienna I that on the basis of acceptance of all | conditions, including . actual inde j pendence and not mere autonomy for I subject nationalities, their request has been referred to the governments with which the United Stales is as sociated. Situation Unchanged Frederick Oederlin, the Swiss charge, received the German note and appeared at the State Depart [Continued oil Page 10.] McCormick Wiir Get His" From Campaign Funds in Return For His Big Loan I Washington, Oct. 30.—N0 more i interesting topic has developed In ! ' political circles recently than the re- | j port of the National Democratic j ! Committee showing that Mitchell | Palmer, Vance C.'McCorniick, Joseph , F. Guffey and several other Demo-' j crats had loaned the committee j | $150,000 at a time when less wealthy : Democrats were making donations; i to the committee. It is pointed out : ! that National Chairman McCormick's; | efforts to raise a big campaign fund ! j at this time through holding up the; I poorly paid postal employes for J "contributions" comes with poor I i grace, as he will naturally benefit ; from this money to the extent of his I loan. In other words, Millionaire Mc ( Cormick is placed in the light of re- • paying himself from the national I committee at the expense of the fed | eral employes who must either give i to the campaign fund or be fired. i The national chairman is u very ; rich man and might easily make 1 ! good the whole Democratic detlci- ' : ency if he would. Many express sur- j j p-ise that he has not done so, in view j of his generosity in Democratic eam j paigns in Pennsylvania when he him ; self was a eandidute. Last Child of Family Taken by Influenza The third and last child of Mr. | and Mrs. Thomas H. Martin, of ! Colonial Acres, Mrs. Fred Ober- > I lander, died in the Hurrlsburg Hos j pital at 10.30 o'clock this morning jof influenza. Mrs. Oberlander'3 brother, James B. Martin, aged 24, died in Camp Taylor, Ky., of the | disease on October 10. Miss Mary i Martin, aged 18, a nurse in train ing at the Providence Hospital, I Washington, who came home for her brother's funeral, was stricken . and died on October 21. Mrs. Ober-, lander, who was 27 years old, was] iulso a nurse and nursed her sister] through her sickness, contracting the disease 1 nnd becoming ill soon lafter the second funeral last Thurs- 1 i day. Complete funeral arrangements, have not yet been made. However, i the services will likely be con- | ducted by the Rev. D. J. Carey, rcc-J tor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and] burial will De mode in the Alt. Cav- , airy Cemetery. Mrs. Oberlander survived by her husband no par- . ] ents. £ French Made Fresh Gains in Encircling Guise I By Associated Press Paris, Odt. 30.—General Debeney'js, I first army has gained new successes ] ; in the encircling of Guise, according i j to tfje official statement from the i ; war office to-day. : North of Guise they have taken ' I the Beaufort farm, north of the Oise. ; Along the Peron 'river, south of Guise, the French have progressed i east cf Monceau-le-fSeuf and cap-, I tured prisoners,. DAUPHIN FLYER LOST IN BATTLE WALTER SHAFFER BODY HANGING THREE MONTHS TO TREE FOUND Hunters Discover Corpse oil Man Who Disappeared Last Summer Mct'lianlcsburg, Pa., Oct. 30. Hanging from a tree in the moun tains below Mount Pleasant, York county, the body of Vfilllum Por ter, aged 63, of East Coover street, this place, who disappeared front his home August 8, was tound yesterday afternoon by Shaffer Williams and Lloyd Stonesifor, of Shepherdstown. The men were on a hunting trip at the time. They Immediately notified [Continued on Page B.] | ALDERMAN DISCHARGES SLAYER J j II aIT i.; burg—Clorence J. Collins and • Carles I Reinecker, the Gettysburg boys held. in '.the*.- m|H js 11 the charge of shooting and killing V,J • ,1 J. Bushmn-i, also of Gettysburg, October 15, vrere, iu- '' i ,| charged On the grounds of no.jurisdiction before man Shaner this afternoon. They arc being Held ih/.lhe . \\^M .' a;-the rf/nvai ■: i ; :or: . . corn ■■ f; . 7. n. - bcrl.md 'ulajns county. 'The boys re\ t;Jy held con- *1 fessed the nr rder. j ALLIES TAKE 100 VILLAGES AND TOWNS Washington—Results of the victorious advance against, the Austrians on the Italian front hourly increase in im- y portance. says an official dispatch to the Italian embassy j fVc-me. M>- r ■ a ' sill >:*'. and $H • ■ ' Tne attl.c line is n' fc'-.v.ng closely * : " i'lg *|i ■ "cb -i ■ • a i• i•. •.• ! .' • ans ...• j • *.r U ed principal ; -wi lines cC rttreat;' TELLS HOTEL MEN TO KfEP OPEN . i"t : tor— A? the meeting of the cit, B•;.i or lienlth . V ||H . •< the board and Cry r Myers ad . . i :.-n a, bass open i • li.-iii,,.i H Rover • jMI ' I 'd to interfere. Lancaster police have instruc- :,y- L . ?.• id the state authorities. U. S. FAVORS DRASTIC ARMISTICE. - The armistice program -lid' to have j|9 -e. / the h pre we War ( not been yJH reported on early to-day by the American represent,i- 1 ■ c -ir icrt h..v veer, :• favor • d Jjj terms equally at drastic as-those described in press di.-v | : ' a patchcv T, r.greed upm at Versailles. FREER USE OF SUGAR GRANTED Washington—As an aid in fighting the influenza ii ?1 epidemic, the food administration to-day• telegraphed }' * federal food administrator of .each itate the information : • • csf-ar. extra sugar allotments for patier.t* !Jh ; i the i ■-c to be allowed. ' MARRIAGE LICENSES I'arln IL Mjrr unit Mnmnret B. Crrennond. York. WALTER SHAFFER FALLS BEHIND GERMAN LINES j Dauphin Aviator Believed by Comrades to Be a Prisoner | FAMOUS FOR HIS LETTERS i Wore War Cross and Had | Brought Down Two Planes and a Balloon Walter Shttffer. the Dauphin avt i ator who has been llying in France, is reported to be a captive inside the German lines. A comrade in his cscadrille, Lieu-j tenant McMillen, in a letter received! by Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Shaffer, last evening, said that he was seen to descend behind the German lines on October 3, while on a patrol with eight other members of his esca drille. Ha has not been heard from since. Every day members of his esca drille patrol over the German lines, dropping notes asking for informa tion concerning Shaffer's where abouts. Ills comrades are firm in their opinion that he landed unhurt, and is a captive in a German prison camp. Hit by Gun Fire Shaffer had said he would attack | a Boche observation balloon which was poised over the German lines | Hiding ahead of the eight other planes in the patrol of which he was a member, he started toward the balloon. Anti-aircraft guns behind the German lines opened lire, and Shaffer was seen to descend. It is [Continued on Huge B.] It I'.SSI A IX MOKItIIM.K ' MGHTMAKI-:, SAVS I'RIXCIC By Associated Brcss Honolulu, Oct. 30. , Prince George Lvoff, first Premier of the Russian provisional government et up after the revolution, left here recently for the United States. He said Russia is a horrible nightmare with ruthless murders, torturing and atrocities in those sections controlled by German led "Reds."
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