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THE MERIDY A NT TRTRITN E
PIAVE RIVER CROSSED
BY ALLIES IN ITALY
SUNDAY’S OPERATIONS RESULT-
ED IN CAPTURE OF NINE
THOUSAND PRISONERS.
FRENCH MAKE NEW ADVANCE
COVERING WAR ACTIVITIES
Additional Ground Taken in Country
Where American Sixteen-Inch
Guns Are in Action.
Paris.—French troops backed by
American 16-inch guns added to the r
gains around the bend in the battle
line east of Li Fere Monday, but not
so largely as on Sunday. The Ber-
lin statement admits a withdrawal
to new positions in this region. Their
old positions apparently had been
blasted into dust heaps.
A belated official report from Gen-
eral Pershing says that on Sunday
the Americans ousted the Germans
definitely from Bellue wood, east of
the Meuse and north of Verdun.
This position, like others wrested
from the enemy in the Verdun area
was captured after fighting which
lasted several days. American naval
guns are shelling the railroad sta-
tion at Longuyon, 16 miles behind
the German line.
American units have gone into ac-
tion further west, just east of Reth-
el. The Americans’' gained about
two thirds of a mile, according to
early reports of their activity Mon-
day. This move seems designed to
push the line so far north in the
neighborhood of Rethel as to make
trouble for the Germans opposite the
Americans northwest of Verdun,
some 40 miles east.
The Italian official statement re
ports the capture Sunday of 9,000
Austro-Hungarians. Also it is stated
that the allies have crossed the
Piave river. Unofficial’ reports in-
dicate that the allies have progressed
four miles after crossing the Piave,
hut neither official or unofficial re-
ports tell at what point the stream
was crossed.
The large number of prisoners tak-
en Sunday in what so far appears to
have been an operation of no great
magnitude is significant as indicating
the lack of fighting power on the
part of the Austro Hungarian army.
Anything can be expected from this
front from now on.
The British Mesopotamia expedi-
tion has occupied Kerkuk, .155 miles
north of Bagdad.
Appointment by Governor Hobby.
Austin, Texas.—Capt. W. R. Davis
of Austin, has been appointed presi-
dent of the board of managers of the
Confederate Home, vice R. P. Bull,
deceased.
-No Coal Famine This Winter.
Washington—-There will be no coal
famine the coming winter or even an
approach to the hardships of last
winter, Fuel Administrator Garfield
has announced, but the public must
z continue to co operate with the' fuel
administration in conservation mea-
sures, as far more coal is needed
- now than in normal times.
Do Heroic Work at Orphans’ Home.
Dallas.—The teachers of Buckner
Orphans’ Home deserve great praise
for the 'heroic way in which- they
have nursed the children through the
influenza epidemic, says Dr. Buckner.
It is due to them, he thinks, that the
epidemic was not disastrous. Most
of the children have now reached the
convalescent period. In the boys’
dormitory 80 have been allowed to
sit up, which left 100 still in bed. In
the girls’ dormitory 50 were allowed
to sit up, leaving 123 still in bed.
“Started War With a Dirty Trick."
London.—A Copenhagen dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph company
quotes Maximilian Harden, the editor
of Die Zunkunft of Berlin, as saying
in an interview with the Berlingzke
Tidende of Copenhagen: "We started
the war with a dirty trick and all
our subsequent victories have been
the resemblance of dishonesty. * * *
William II. is a film hero and Ger-
many a vulgar cinematograph show.
We sit today on the ruins of 30 years
of Hohenzollern politics."
Minotto Tells of Caillaux Intrigue.
New York.—Startling disclosures
regarding alleged negotiations, of Jos.
Caillaux, one time premier of France,
and Count von Luxburg, former Ger-
man minister to Argentina, intended
to re-establish Caillaux in power in
Paris in 1915 and bring about a sep-
arate peace with Germany, have
■been made .to Deputy States Attor-
ney General Becker by Count James
Minotto. The deposition of Minotto,
who is a son-in-law of Louis Swift,
has been forwarded to Washington
Zoning System to Fix Freight Rates.
Washington.—The railroad admin-
istration has announced steps to
standardize class rates in the west
and south through proposals to the
interstate commerce commission of
a zoning system. This would tend
- to wipe out many regional differ-
ences in class rates dictated by state
commissions and much discussion be-
fore the interstate commerce commis-
sion is expected. The new system
would involve some advances, and
some reductions in rates.
SUMMARY OF WORLD’S
IMPORTANT EVENTS
AN EPITOME OF THE HAPPEN-
INGS, AS TOLD IN THE NEWS
OF THE PAST WEEK.
Many Occurrences of Interest and In-
formation Recorded Here in Con-
densed Form.
FOREIGN—
The total monetary damage done
to Belgium by the Germans up to
this time is estimated at £384,200,-
000.
—O—
Spanish influenza of the most viru-
lent type ever experienced is
causing many deaths in England,
Scotland and Ireland.
The speedy unconditional surrend-
er of the Austro Hungarian monarchy
is probable, according to a Vienna
dispatch to the Frankfort Gazette.
—o—
The English house of commons has
adopted a resolution in favor of wo-
men sitting in parliament. The res-
olution was passed by a majority of
249.
The Austrian authorities in the
part of Poland occupied by the Aus-
trian armies have formally handed
over the administration to Poland au-
thorities.
Bombs were dropped recently by
the Germans on an American hospit-
al near Rarecourt. A Red .Cross
nurse was blown from her bed, but
was not injured.
Denial that Germany has ordered
the cessation of all destructions
whatsoever on the western front is
made by the semi-official North Ger-
man. Gazette of Berlin.
—0—
Texas and Oklahoma troops fight-
ing with the same spirit that harks
back to the days of Alamo and Tex-
as independence, have stood their
baptism of fire gloriously in France.
--0--
It is the purpose, of the German
command to dispute every foot of
the American advance on the line
west of the Meuse and to inflict the
heaviest possible losses, German
prisoners captured declare.
—0—
The German chancellor states that
now the kaiser must take up his
'cross of concluding quickly necessary
peace. He stated also that “when a
fortress can no longer hold, it is no
dishonor if the commander surrend-.
er."
—0—
The Spanish government, accord-
ing to the newspapers, has received
an official communication from the
German government stating that the
German admiralty has ordered sub-
marnes to' return immediately to
their bases.
DOMESTIC—
The influenza situation is some-
what improved over last week.
—0—
There are about 250 cases of influ-
enza in Buckner orphans’ home
near Dallas.
The first snow of the season is re-
ported in northern Nebraska, Minne-
sota and South Dakota.
—o—
The Pythian home at Weatherford,
Texas, recently suffered a fire loss
of several thousand dollars.
—o—'
Joseph S. Kendall of Dallas,“Texas,
has been unanimously elected presi-
dent of the Missouri State Life Insur-
ance company.
—0—
Texas' state prison system fiances
are in a much healthier condition as
a result of the marketing of the cot
ton and sugar crops. The total bal-
ance on Oct. 1 was $802,934.
—o—
Gus W. Thomasson of Dallas, will
be in charge of the Washington
office of the war industries regional
district, embracing all of Texas and
parts of Oklahoma, Louisiana and
New Mexico.
--0--
- About 2,000 selective service men
from Missouri have reached Camp
Bowie and will form the advance
guard of the 100th division, which is
scheduled to be trained there for ov-
erseas duty.
—O—
The Bankhead Pathfinding com-
mission, which left Memphis, Tenn.,
on Oct. 15 for a tour through Arkan-
sas, Oklahoma and Texas, will make
a run through Texas, from El Paso to
Texarkana, making short stops at
several Texas cities.
—o-
The North Texas conference of the
Methodist churches, which was to
have been held in Terrell* has been
changed. Arrangements have been
made to hold the conference in Dal-
las Nov. 6. ,
—O—
Instructions have been given all
exemption boards to mail out 10 per
cent of the remaining list of regis-
trauts of Sept. 12 each day until the
number is exhausted. Local boards
are expected to start mailing the
new questionnaires at once.
New York banks have been advised
by the Liberty loan committee to in-
creaes their margin’s on stock trans-
actions from 20 to 30 per cent.
—o—
A warning to Spanish influenza
sufferers against the use of alcoholic
beverages has been issued by Dr.
Royal S. Copeland New York health
commissioner, who declared alcohol
tended to increase the danger from
the disease.
A little over 1,000 knitted articles
made up the first shipment sent by
the 133d war relief society of Dallas
to the 133d Field artillery regiment
in France. Most of the articles were
socks knitted with the soft light
gray yarn.
--O--
The first contract to be made with
an independent telephone company
of the southwest by the government
covering federal operation has just
been executed by Postmaster General
Burleson with the Texas Telephone
company of Waco.
—o—
The Texas state wide prohibition
law has been declared unconstitu-
tional in a majority opinion by the
court of criminal appeals. Judge
Prendergast dissented. The attor-
ney general stated that a motion for
a rehearing would be filed.
—o- '
The first airplane flight from Texas
to the national capital was completed
recently when Lieutenants W. P
Bancker, Jr., Z. P. Lee and C. N
Cone landed at Washington from E)
lington field, Houston, Texas. The
distance of 1,700 miles was made in
a trifle less than 30 hours.
—o—■
According to arguments set forth
in the latest bulletin issued by E.
A. Peden, federal food administra-
tor for Texas, the best answer to
the question of how the milk supply’
shall be conserved and the dairy-
men receive a fair return is to be
found in a closer organization of the
dairymen.
WASHINGTON-
CO!. E. M. House and Admiral Ben-
son have arrived in Europe, to help
frame the draft of an armistice to
be submitted to Germany.
Twelve officers and 211 enlisted
men of the army lost their lives in
the sinking of the American steam-
er Ticonderoga recently in the war
zone.
Because of their inefficiency, 15 to
20 ship yards now building wooden
ships for the Emergency Fleet cor-
poration will not receive any addi-
tional contracts.
'Senator Chamberlain has intro-
duced a war deparment bill to allow
cadet flyers extra pay at the rate of
$42 per month, in addition to their
pay as private first class.
—o—
Embarkation of 2,008,931 American
soldiers to participate in the war
overseas was disclosed by corres-
pondence between Secretary- Baker
and President Wilson recently.
—o—
Permission has been asked by the
San Antonio chamber of commerce
to import 1,000 cars of oranges from
Mexico, which the agricultural de-
partment will not allow owing to
regulations.
—0-
Restrictions on the manufacture
of furniture, elimin ng all new pat-
terns for the duration of the war and
curtailing1 active patterns 50 per cent
has been announced by the war in-
dustries board.
—o-—
Sinking of the American cargo
steamship Lake Borgne off the coast
of France, without loss of life, has
been announced by the navy depart-
ment. The ship foundered after
striking a rock.
—0—
- The interstate commerce commis-
sion has asserted its authority to al-
ter railroad freight rates initiated
by Director. General McAdoo, even
without affirmative showing that
they are wrong.
Two hundred thousand - recruits
for the navy will be needed in the
coming year, mainly to man mer-
chant ships .in government service,
Secretary Daniels has informed the
house naval committee.
Cablegrams received by' Herbert
Hoover, chairman- of the Belgian re-
lief commission, indicate that the
population of reoccupied territory in
northern France is more than 1,500,-
000 and that of reoccupied Belgium
about 800,000.
Marshals Foch, Joffre and Haig
and Generals Petain, Diaz, Pershing
and Gillian, chief of staff of the Bel-
gian army, have been awarded the
distinguished service medal by Pres-
ident "Wilson, acting as commander
in chief of the United States army.
-0—
President Wilson’s answer to Ger-
many’s peace proposal embodies all
.that the allies are fighting for. If
Germany really wants peace, the
only way to secure it will be by an
unconditional surrender.
Congress has been asked by the
navy department to authorize a sec-
ond three-year naval building pro-
gram to provide ten additional su-
per-dreadnoughts, six battle cruisers
and 140 smaller vessels at a cost
of $600,000,000.
INTEREST
Ho VS EWIFE
If it goes down in the middle your
dough was too rich-too much sugar.
$ * *
The dark brown stain which tobacco
makes on brass and copper ash trays
can be easily removed with a little
denatured alcohol with a brush.
Texas Items
The fourth Liberty Loan drive was
a great success in Texas.
The food administrator for Texas
calls upon the people to use less cof-
fee.. -.
—0—
Many cities in Texas are enforcing
"the work or fight” order of the gov-
ernment.
--O--
Brigadier General John D. L. Hart-
man of Douglas, Ariz., has become
commanding officer at Camp McAr-
thur, Waco.
-0—
A carload of mohair shipped from
Fredericksburg to San Antonio
amounting to 36,700 pounds brought 81
cents a pound.
Colonel W. L. Redd of the regular
army has been selected as chief of
staff of the 100th Division at Camp
Bowie, Fort Worth.
-—O--
Land six miles north of Waco has
been leased by oil prospectors, and the
indications for oil and gas are said to
be exceptionally favorable.
—o—
About 10,000 acres of land northwest
of Bronte, in Coke county, have been
leased by oil promoters who will start
soon digging a deep- test well for oil.
—0-
The -game of football that was to
have been played at Houston on No-
vember 2 between the University of
Texas and the Rice elevens has been
postponed to November 16.
—O— -
The campaign being conducted
throughout the state to collect fruit
pits and nut shells to be used in the
manufacture of carbon for gas masks
is progressing satisfactorily.
—o-
A certificate to do business in Texas
has been granted by the department
of insurance and banking to the Inter-
state Business Men’s Association, an
assessment society of Des Moines, la.
The announcement that the govern-
ment has decided to pay $4.50 a bushel
for castor beans instead of $3.50, the
guaranteed price at planting time, is
very gratifying to the ones who plant-
ed castor beans in Texas this season.
A respite of 28 days was granted by
Governor Hobby to Frank Gilbert, who
was to have hanged in.Liberty county,
Texas, November 1. Gilbert is under
death sentence for the killing of his
wife, and a 21-day respite previously
’granted. expired November 1.
Carrying a consideration of $75,000,
the Crown Oil and Refining Company
of Houston has. purchased a three-
quarter interest in the Allison Oil
Company’s twenty acres, located on
Hogg Island, at Goose Creek, Texas,
one producing well being located on
the tract.
President R. E. Vinson of the Uni-
versity of Texas, after conferring with
the local health authorities at Austin,
announced this week that there would
be a further suspension of all classes
at that institution until Monday, No-
vember 4, on account of the influenza
epidemic.
Orange (Texas) shipyards are to re-
ceive the aid of more than eight hun-
dred Texas soldiers, who have already
started to arrive. The soldiers are
members of federalized companies
who have not yet been called into ser-
vice. The men are to receive the pay
accorded civilians.
Delegates from local unions in Tex-
as, Louisiana, Oklahoma, California,
Kansas and Colorado will meet in El
Paso November 19 for the purpose of
perfecting permanent organization of
the International Union of Oil and
Gas Well and Refinery Workers, a
charter having been granted the or-
ganization at the last meeting of the
American Federation of Labor in St.
Paul.
Renewal of contracts for furnishing
of 18 of the adopted text books used
in Texas public"schools was refused by
the publishers, and the governor, in a
proclamation, calls for bids for the
furnishing of books covering the fol-
lowing subjects: Spelling, geography,
arithmetic/ United States history, ele-
mentary grades and general history.
The bids are to be received up to noon,
November 27, and are to cover a pe-
riod of from one to six years.
—o—'
The field officers’ training school at
Camp Stanley, San Antonio, for the
Texas cavalry has opened.
The Texas bureau of the United
States employment service has been
asked to recruit 5,200 men within the
next thirty days for employment in
the munitions plants. • That these
workers must come largely from the
ranks of men now engaged in non-
essential work was made known in a
communication received by Raymond
G. Miller, examiner in charge of the
Texas bureau, from H. W. Lewis of
San Antonio, federal state director of
the United States public service re-
serve.
State Land Commissioner J. T. Robi-
son makes the suggestion that at the
close of the war, when thousands of
American boys will return maimed
and without the personal equipment
or necessary means of supporting
themselves in a befitting manner, that
the national and state governments
should earnestly consider the matter
of requisitioning the large land hold-
ings upon terms deemed fair to the
owners and turn them over to the use
of such soldier boys as would be in-
clined to occupy them.
PRESIDENT MAKES VERY
FIRM ANSWER TO GERMANY
WILSON TELLS GERMANY ARM-
ISTICE WILL NOT BE GRANTED
UNLESS THE’RE HELPLESS.
MEANING OF MESSAGE CLEAR
Will Give Enemy No Chance to Re
- new War While Allies . Enforce
Peace Terms.
Washington.—The text of President
Wilson’s reply to Germany’s latest
note says:
“From the secretary of state to
the charge d’affaires ad interim, in
charge German interests in the Unit
ed States:
. "Department of State, Oct. 23,1918.
“Sir: I have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your note
of the 22nd transmitting a communi-
cation under date of the 20th from
the- German government and to ad-
vise you that the president has in
structed me to reply thereto as fol-
lows:
“Having received the solemn and
explicit assurance of the German
government that it unreservedly ac-
cepts the terms of peace laid down
in his address to the congress of the
United States on the 8th of January,
1918, and the principles of the settle-
ment enunciated in his subsequent
addresses, particularly the address
of the 27 th of September, and that it
desires to discuss the details of their
application, and that this wish and
purpose emanate, not from those
who have hitherto dictated German
-policy and conducted the present
war on Germany’s behalf, but from
ministers who speak for the major-
ity of the reichstag and for an over
whelming majority of the German
people; and having received also the
explicit promise of the present Ger-
man government that the human
rules of civilized warfare will be ob-
served both on land and sea by the
German armed forces, the president
of the. United States feels that he
cannot decline to take up with the
governments with which the govern-
ment of the United States is associ-
rated the question of an armistice.
"He deems it his duty to say
again, however, that the only armis-
tice he would feel justified in sub-
mitting for consideration would be
one which would leave the United
States and the powers associated
with her in a position to enforce
any arrangements that may be en-
tered into and to make a renewal of
hostilities on the part of Germany
possible. The president has, there-
fore, transmitted his correspondence
with the present German authorities
to the governments with which the
-government of the United States is
associated as' a belligerent with the
suggestion that if those governments
are disposed to effect peace upon
the terms and principles indicated
their military advisers and the mili-
tary advisers of the United States
be asked to submit to the govern-
ments associated against Germany
the necessary terms of such an arm-
istice as will fully protect the inter-
ests of the people involved and in-
sure to the associated governments
the unrestricted power to safeguard
and enforce the details of the peace
to which the German government
has agreed, provided they deem such
an armistice possible from the mili-
tary point of view. Should such
terms of armistice be suggested,
their acceptance by Germany will
afford the best concrete evidense of
their unequivocal acceptance . of the
terms and principles of peace from
which the whole action proceeds.”
"The president would deem him-
self lacking in candor did he not
point’ out in the frankest possible
terms the reason why extraordinary
safeguards must be demanded. Sig-
nificant and important as the consti-
tutional chaises seem to be which
are spoken of by the German for-
eign secretary in his note of the
twentieth of October it does not ap-
pear , that the people of a govern- .,
ment responsible to the German
people has yet been fully worked
out or that any guarantees either
exist or are in contemplation that the
alterations of principle and of prac
tice now partially agreed upon
would-be permanent. Moreover, it
goes, not appear that the heart of
the present difficulty has been
reached. It may be that future wars,
have been brought under the con-
trol of the German, people, but the
present war has not been;, and it
is with the present war that we are
dealing. It is evident that the Ger-
man people have no means of com-
manding the acquiescence of the
military authorities, of the empire in
the popular will; that the power of
the king of Prussia to control the
policy of the empire is unimpaired;
that the determining initiative still
remains with those who have hith-
erto been the masters of Germany.
Feeling that the whole peace of the
world depends now on plain speak-
ing and straightforward action, the
president deems it his duty to say
without any attempt to soften what
may seem harsh words, that the na-
tions of the world do not and can-
not trust the word of those who
have hitherto been the masters of
German policy, and to point out
once more that in concluding peace
and attempting to undo the infinite
injuries and injustices of this war
the government of the United States
cannot deal with any but veritable
representatives of the German peo-
ple who have been assured of a gen-
uine constitutional standing as the
real rulers of Germany. If it must
deal with the military masters and
the monarchial autocrats of Ger-
many now, or if it is likely to have
to deal with them later in regard to
the international obligations of the
German empire, it must demand, not
peace negotiations but ' surrender.
Nothing can be gained by leaving
this essential thing unsaid.
“Accept sir, the renewed assur-
ances of my high consideration.
(Signed) ROBERT LANSING,
MR. FREDERICK OEDERLIN,
Charge d’ affairs of Switzerland, ad
interim, in charge of German in-
terests in the United States.
Pres. Wilson’s Note Meets Approval.
London.—The popular comment on
the president’s note here’ is that it
contains the strongest language ever,
addressed by the head of one great
nation to another in modern times.
The note is welcomed, first, because
it brings matters to a new state;
further proceedings, if there are to
be further proceedings, will be in the
hands of all the governments inter-
ested. Hitherto, so far as the public
knows, the nations associated, with
the United States and which have
more at stake perhaps than has the
United States, have been onlookers
to the correspondence. The note is
welcomed, secondly, because it prom-
ises to bring the season of- discus-
sion to an end altogether, one way
or the other.
French Comment on Note.
Paris.—President Wilson’s reply to
Germany was received in competent
quarters here with entire approval.
It has been published by the news-
papers here in English, as well as in
a French translation, at the request
of the authorities. La Liberte says
that if Germany gives guarantees as .
demanded by the president it will be
materially impossible for her to con- A
tinue the war. "Everything is now
in the hands of the military," says
the Temps.
Note Generally Approved in Capital.
Washington. — President Wilspn’s
demand for unconditional surrender
of the military masters and the mon-
archial autocrats of Germany, as em-
bodied in his last note, meets with,
general approval in Washington and
throughout the country as reflected,
in expressions which are reaching,
the capital. Any opinion divided as
to the attitude the executive assumed
in previous responses is now unified
in the requirement found in the pres-
ident’s closing paragraph.
Spanish Influenza is Raging'Abroad.
London—Spanish influenza of the
most virulent type yet experienced
here is causing many deaths in Eng-
land, Scotland and Ireland. During
the last 24 hours there has been an
increase in the total picked up in the
street’s, which in the last seven days
had amounted to 131. In South Wales
18,000 are reported down. In Glas-
gow 510 died in the last week and
440 the week before. Many deaths -
are occurring in London and under- :
takers cannot cope with the demand.
J. S. Kendall Heads Missouri Life.
St. Louis, Mo.—Joseph S. Kendall
of Dallas, Texas, has been unani-
mously elected president of the Mis-
souri State Life Insurance company.
Following the election it was clearly
indicated by the directors, all of
whom are St. Louisans, that the
choice of a Texan for the presiden-
cy marked the harmonious close of
the recent fight for control of the
company.
To Increase Margins on Stock Deals.
New York.—New York banks have
been advised by the Liberty loan
committee to increase their margins
on stock transactions from 20 to 30
per cent.
Observe one wheatless meal a day.
* * *
The cause of large holes in cake is
too much baking powder.
* * *
When boiling eggs wet the shells
thoroughly with cold water before
placing them in boiling water and they
will not crack.
«•*
Tin that has become rusty or stained
may be cleaned by dipping the cut
surface of a raw potato in fine brick
, and rubbing well with this.
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