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7 V ' N. . Is- 7 , f K V" - i - , ' i 1 1. 1 UNCONDITIONAL SPlUOBNpfetVBUY'r ANOTHER BON D, THEN I" MI Complete Service the ; Y' Associated Press 4s TOU CI-NO. 387. WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1918 WHOLE NtJMBER 39.S65 Wedn " f ' ' - Hn.n " ' ' 111111 , " Armistice Can Mot Be ThougMW German mmm rm : 1 una " TURKEY WILL vPROBABLY'BHCLtJBE-SEPAR GERMANY IN PEACE MUST FIRST RID OF THE Allied Commanders Will Exact Guarantees Before There Is Armistice. MUST SURRENDER ARMS President, in Reply to Maximil ian, Speaks For the Al -lied' Nations. MAY CAUSE REVOLUTION More Than Unconditional Sur render is Probable. Washington, Oct. 14. r-Presi- dent Wilson has answered Ger many's peace proposal witha de cision which not only, fulfills the expectations of -supporters of his diplomacy,' but 'also dispels the fears of those who predicted he would substitute victories at arms with defeat at diplomacy. No peace with kaiserism; au tocracy must go; no armistice can even be thought - of while Germany continues her-atroci ties on land and sea ; one cannot be considered unless it is fully dictated by the allied command ers in the field in such terms as absolutely provide safeguards and guarantees that Germany's part will not be a scrap of paper. This in a few words is the presi dent's answer. If it does not bring a capitulation hich may be more than unconditional eurrender, allied diplomats and Ameri can officials believe it may cause a revolution in Germany. Beyond question it speaks for the entente allies as well as the United States. . The dispatch of the president's reply was followed by the the issue of this formal statement at the White House by Secretary Tumulty: "The government will continue to send over 258,000 menwith their sup Plies every month and there will be do relaxation of any kind Quite outside of the formal phrase f a diplomatic document that was President Wilson's word to the world that he had no thought of stopping: the fight at this stage. The senate chamber rang with the aPPlause of senators as the president's answer was read a few minutes after it had been announced at the state -department. Senator Lodge, the presi dents chief critic in his course, until today, issued a statement expressing n's gratification at the president's . de cision. Opinion at the capitol and throughout official Washington was inanimously in approval. The official note whichwill convey 'he president's decision to the German government and more important.to the (rman people was delivered today by secretary Lansing to the charge of lhe Swiss legation who has. been act lns as the intermediary- .It was given 0ut publicly by Mr. Lansing at the tate department at 6 o'clock this evening-. 'The full text of the president's re P-y win be found .on the. front page of tar.) -lp outstanding point which does ff'Pear in the nrsi Aunt's note a not P':;t on which the world, has been skir questions can be - answered to n''it. ' - . Wnp,, th(, president declared that the , n? rione to France when" Germany, f"k Alsacf-Lorraine should be right ' - meant - that Alsaee-Loraine Er''i!'i bp returned to France. d liiogr Who contend that the presi ni s decision arranges the situation or something more than an nnconditn. iw surrender base it on thrargu--"nt that he has now passed thm IUre r. e.re he might' have accepted a but "nder of the German military v. and (Continued on Fag Twoi .-. -V j 7 : v 1- ,J " s 1 yt ORDER TO SECURE KAISER AND PRESIDENT'S REPLY TO GERMANY "Washington.. Oct. 14. President -Wilson's answer to Germany, handed to the Swiss charge d'affaires for transmission, follows: - "Sir: In reply to the communication of the German government, dated the 12th instant, which you handed me today, I have the honor to request you to transmit the following answer: "The unqualified acceptance by the present German government and by & large majority of the reichstag ,of the terms laid down by the pres ident of the. United States of America in his address tp the congress of the United, States on the Stir of January, -19 18, and in his subsequent addresses, justifies the president in making a frank and direct state ment of his decision with regard to the communications of the German government of the 8th. and 12th of October, 1018. ' 'It musfbe clearly understood that the process of evacuation and the conditions of an armistice are matters which must be left to the judgment and advice of the military advisers of the government of the United States ajid the allied governments, and the president feels it his duty to say that no arrangement can be accepted by the government of the United States -which does not provide absolutely satisfactory safeguards and fuarajitees of the maintenance of the present military supremacy of the armies of the. United States and of the allies in the field. -He feels confident that he can safely assume that this will also be the judgment and decision of the allied governments. . . "The president feels that if is also his duty to add that neither the government of the United States norrhe is quite sure, the. governments with which the government of the United States is associated as a belligerent, will consent to consider an armistice sovlong as the armed forces of Germany continue the 4ilegaL -and inhumane practices which they still persist in. v v ; " ... .At thery time,, that the Gerkaa government. pjebacbes jth . government of the United States with proposals of peace, its submarines are engaged in sinking passenger ships at sea, and not the ships alone,-, but the very boats in which their passengers and crews seek to make their wey to safety; and in their present enforced., withdrawal from Flanders and Prance the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruction which has always been regarded as in -direct viola tion of the rules and practices of -Civilized warfare. Cities and villages, if not destroyed, are being stripped of all they; contain not only, but often of their very i Inhabitants. The ...nations associated against Ger many cannot be expected to agree to a cessation of arms while acts of inhumanity, spoliation and desolation are being continued which .they justly look upon with horror and with burning hearts. "It is necessary, also in order that there may be ' no possibility of, misunderstanding, that the president should very solemnly caU the attention of the .government of Germany to the language and plain in tent of one of the terms of peace which the German government' has now accepted. It is contained in the address of the president delivered at Mount Vernon on the Fourth of July last. "It is as follows: The destruction of every arbitrary power any where that can separately, secretly and of its single choice disturb. the peace of the world; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to virtual Impotency.' The power which has hitherto eon trolled the German nation is of the sort here described. It is within the choice of the German- nation to alter it. The president's words just quoted naturally constitute a condition precedent to peace, if peace is to come by the action of the German people themselves. The president feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judg ment, depend upon the definiteness and the satisfactory character df the guarantees which can be given in this fundamental matter.. It Is indispensable that the governments associated against Germany should know beyond peradventure with whom they are dealing. "The president will make a separate reply to the royal and im perial government of Austria-Hungary." "Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration. (Signed.) "ROBERT LANSING." "Mr. Frederick Oderlin, Charge d'Affaires, ad interim, in Charge of Ger man Interests in the United States." WAGE NATION-WIDE FIGHT OOPIDEMIG Public Health Service An nounces That Its Forces ; Are Mobilized. ' 10,741 DEATHS IN CAMS Number of Pferr Inflnenia Caei Among , Sldler Now Decreasing After Exacting a Big Toll Spreading . Amemg Civilian. Washington, Oct. 14. The public health service announced tonight that it now is'mobillzed for a national cam paign against the epidemic of Spanish inftflenzar which has swept the country. Additional headquarters for state-wide efforts to control, the disease will be established in cooperation with state and "local; health authorities at Balti more, Columbus. Ohio, Richmond, and Columbia, S. C ; . thile the epidemic continues un abated In most sections pf the country, the number of , new. . cases at x army earn Da showed a decrease both Sunday and today, the total for the 48-hour -period 'ending at noon today being 15, 153. New . cases of pneumonia also de creased as did the number of. deaths. Pneumonia' cases for the two. days w?r .7S0an thsfdeathsM Sines the beginning .pv-mw nrem in army oanips, the total cases ot in-1 7t cnUnued-on Pai Tw , ; ,v ; f 1 HERSELF HIS SYSTEM PRESIDENT RENEWS r APPEAL FOR 10AN 'Relaxation -Now Would Mean Defeat When Yictory Seems To Be m Sight." OVER 3 BILLION TO RAISE Nearly One Billion a Day Neceawaiy to nJSend Loan Over the Top Rich mond District's Showing Is 44 Per Cent. Washington, ...Oct. .14. After writing his reply to the German peace offer. President Wilson tonight,, in .a formal, statement to the American people, re- newed his urgent request for support of" the fourth Liberty loan. x "Relaxation now, hesitation' now, would mean defeat when victory seems to be in sight; would mean years of war instead of .peace upon our terms," said the president. " Coincident with the : .president's statement," the. treasury department an tinnnCiH thai with but- flv dava ,lf t in the fourth loan' campaign, hall the six .billion dollar total remains ' to be" subscribed.;? That means that the coun try must invest -nearly ' one ; billiqn dollars a day- in .bonds from now uhU Saturday -midnight ' when :. the '; three week's drrve ends. 7 :,' ' f Subscriptions officially reported to the treasury department ,ow . f total -.--only f2.79MM.9WV hut officials - were con - - COoattaBed- JPasXwoV' ; r SEARMORGUES ONES BURNED TO DEATH Forest Fires Devastate the . Moose Lake District of Minnesota. .v? ' - 1 '';. POSSIBLY i: ' 1,000 PERISH With Homes Wiped Out and PennilessLIen and Women Tuntio Charity. Moose Lake Minn., Oct. . 14. -Men and women of the -,Moose Lake, district of Minnesota, driven - by fire from their homes, penniless; jinany of them, wear ing clothin g" . f utnJshed . by charitable relief workeri, , tonight took - up the search for thei'dead, which through out the burnedj-wglon may total 1.000. Barred' by thes military authorities from leaving the city they. wandered between vlong Unes of bodies in the improvised mofues here, searching for loved Otnea, yrho. have not' been heard from since 'the forest fires laid -waste roi norinern -Wisconsin iour aays -ago. Motor trucks brought in more and more bodies throughout the night. During the past 24 hours the charred bodies of 300 victims have heen found in the Charred no-mans-land which be fore the fire formed the smiling shores of Moose "Lake and Kettle river. Ad jutant General Rbinow tonight esti mated that the number of dead in the Moose Lake and Kettle river regions alone might reach 500. These are be lieved to be 500 more dead in adjoin ing regions. Improvised hospitals here and the permanent institutions at piiluth are caring for the needs of the injured re fugess, many of them are in a critical condition. ' The force' of rescue workers .will be doubled tomorrow, Gen. Rbjnow said. Search of the great acres ofrarm land laid waste by the fire is expected to result in the finding, of hundreds more victims. Many persons are also be lieved to have been, drowned in lakes in which they took refuge. Many re fugees'nerein a serious condition from exposure, said they stood for hours in ice-cold weathl while the flames raged above them. Rural residents, ' refugees say, were given but a moment's warning before the fiery hurricane swept down on them. A pall of smoke , had hung over the countryside for hours, and a ma jority believed the holocaust to be merely1 the usual autumn fires. Officials in charge of relief work still are .unable to make an accurate .'estimate of the material damage re sulting from the fire. It was said, how ever yiat in this district alone, fifty square miles has been stripped clean of timber, crops, livestock and human habitation. No further danger 4s anticipated al though . the .conflagration continues in isolated areas: Fire 'south "and south west of Cass lake, driven by a high wind, were said to be gaining tonight With the city directly in the path of the path of the flames, but was believed efforts of the fire fighters would pre vent the fire from attaining serious proportions. f. ( Tobacco Markets Close. Danville, Va., Oct. 14. The Danville bright leaf tobacco market, the largest in the country, will be closed after the sales of Wednesday, October 16, as a precaution against the spread of influ enza to contiguous rural sections mar keting their crop here. Similar action will be taken by all the markets of Virginia. and North Carolina. Dl. A. W. Gatliff Dead.' Williamsburg, 4ty., Oct. 14. Dr. A. W. Gatliff, president, of the, Southern Coal & Coke Co., died at his home here today 'from .'pneumonia. To Subscribers " : Subscribers to The Star, both in the ,ctty and by- mail, . should not complain'.lf - they, fail -to receive,Ueir, paper, if , the subscription: is inar. rears. Under? the ruling, of . the War I ndus'tres Board -;we. are -required under oath : to - elinTLiftate every ub scriber who is not. Paid , in- advance. . It has . been impossibleTto notif'y, many, -t excep t'by li beral advertisi ng in i the paper, -.which : jthe : subscriber, may. or-jnay not have seen. . Ifvyour paper, fails , to come and- you are. unir . certain about your subscription, ;tha r safest- plan .is to 'enelose remittance r ' for .' renewal- fd ;ybu-wlll;'be- given-' credit -'fo the -fuH Amorant.' f t FORAYED FOQH LAUNCHES ' NEW DRIVE IN BELGIAN FLANDERS; AMERICANS1 FACING DESPERATE RESISTANCE Americans River Extend Their Lines Are Beyond Cunel and Romagne "While Patrols Are in Boise de Bathaville. GAINS MADE IN BELGIUM British, French and Belgian Forces Press Forward Five Miles. MANY PRISONERS TAKEN Number of Towns and Several - - Guns XJapturedi ; f- - ' " "Vifith the American Army Northwest of Verdun, 16 a. m., Oct.' li.-f.By the Associated Press.) The American troops west of the "Meuse are now be yond Cunel and Ramagne.' Their pa trols are in the Boise de Bathaville. Farther west the American line has reached St. Georges and Landres-Et-St. George. ADVANCE OF FIVE MILES BY THE ALLIES IN BELGIUM London, Oct. 14. 5:30 p. m. The British, French and Belgian forces in their new drive against the German po sitions in Belgium have captured Roulers, the Evening N,ews says it understands. y The newspaper says an advance of five miles has been made in Belgium by the allies. CoVrtrai is threatened from the,. north. The advance continues. The allies have reached the, town of Len delde, four miles northwest of Cour trai, and the line runs in front of Iseghem. NUMBER OF TOWNS TAKEN N BY BELGIANS AND FRENCH Havre, Oct. 14. On a front of more than twelve miles between the Hand zaeme canal and the RoulersTMenin road, Belgian and French troops today captured a number of towns, a large number of guns and quantities of ma terial, according to an official commu nication issued tonight by the Bel gian ( war office. ALLIED ATTACK ON WIDE FRONT STOPPED,. SAYS BERLIN Berlin, via London, Oct. 14. At tacks by the allied troops on a wide front between the Lys river and Dix mude have been stopped by the Ger mans, while i efforts by the French and Americans in the Champagne, have failed, according to the German official communication issued tonight. TOWN OF ROULERS TAKEN nsoi WITH ?,SOO PRISONERS . Paris, Oct. 14. French troops have captured-the town of Roulers in Bel gian Flanders,, and also. 2,500- prison ers, according to the official announce ment tonight. FRENCH CAPTURE S.OOO t- PRISONERS IN FLANDERS London, Oct. 14. In the attack in Flanders today the French took 3,000 prisoners. " Ship Collide With Schooner. An Atlantic Port, Octi 14. An Old Dominion. Steamship Cocpany liner, said to be theMadison, collided with an unidentified sjpbooner off this coast this morning at 3 o'clock and was badly damaged. She was towed to port. The fata of the schooner could not be learn ed "here today but it is reported she is not seriously damaged.' , . : . ' 1 School . Bnlldlag Bnraed . Tuskegee, Ala., Oct. 14. The boys'-industrial and trades building of the Tuskagee" Normal and Industrial In stitute was destroyed by fire shortly before midnight with an' estimated loss f ' between $85,000 and 310,000. .ondottVlOct;. 14. TheBriti8h casual ties; reported fqr the week ending to day 1 nurribered ,i3'5,710J; divided asT toU lowsr ..Killed . or .died"; o woundsOf-frcers,552;-xmen, 6937.r-T.Woiaadad cr Atrocities Cease. West of Meuse Austria, Is Informed . Turkey Is Obliged To Make Separate Peace, Amsterdam, Oct. 14. The first step taken by the new Turkish cab inet headed by Tewfik Pasha, says a' dispatch from Vienna under date of Sunday toi the Weser Zietung was to dispatch a note to Austria Hungary to the effect that owing to the military situation, Turkey was oblig-ed to conclude a separate peace with the entente. The centraL powers requested Turkey to await the result of tile exchange of notes with President .Wilson, but no reply so far has been received from. Turkey. SpMARINE GREAOTTHAN EYER Sir Eric Appeals to America. For Rapid Construction of War Vessels. REVEALS BRITISH LOSSES Give Warning "That "Germany is Not Beaten, Is Not IVearly Beaten, and in Some Respeets 1m Stronger Than Ever." New York, Oct. 14. An appeal from the British government tq America to expedite the construction ef destroy ers and anti-submarine craft and ap- I piiances was raaue. nere luiugiu uy Sir Eric Gedes, first lord of th&British admiralty, after he had asserted that the U-boat menace today is "greater than it ever was." Speaking at a dinner given by the Pilgrim Society, Sir J3ric said ,. that within the past few days he and Vice Admiral Sir Ludovic Duff, of tne Brit ish navy, had discussed the naval sit uation in all its bearings with Secre tary Daniels and Admiral Benson and that "complete unity of view" had been reached. "It is with, Mr. Daniels' full concur rence that I now make this statement, that there is no great service that can be rendered by the pivilians of the United States today charged with that privilege and duty than to expedite the output of destroyers and anti submarine craft and appliances of. ev ery description," Sir Eric said. "Your secretary of the navy is .press ing upon, contractors and workmen, the naval order, 'Full speed ahead;'-' in this work of paramount importance nA to a -nloaaii-PA fnr man try with him in -telling . America - now ! great is the importance that- speedy 1 constitution be accelerated." In opening his speech. Sir Eric said J that while he must resist the tempta-1 tion to allude to the present political situation there were two .things which he was copvinced had not changed. "One is our absolute loyalty to those nations who' are associated with us," he said, "and the other is our determination to continue the war and. not be diverted from our purpose untiiwe have secured the only peace which could justify all this terrible suffering " and destruction which has been and' is being brought about by the Inquity of our common enemy. "Of one thing I am clear. We must not relax the muscles of our Jfightjng arm: nor our war effort; in any anti cipation of an early "peace. To do so would be the surest . way . to render any discussions which may take place prolonged .and. less .satisfactory." - . . -Sir "Eric reviewed British naval loss es. . declaring his country's losses in fighting ships of all classes have, been approximately . 230 "more than twice 1 the; total losses bf war vessels 'of -the whole ot,ou allies' and that 450 aux iliary" craft.' such as .minesweepers , and trawlers-; also . have been 1 destroyed. British" merchant, ships' td -the' number of 2.400 'with a grioss. tonnage of near- ly 750,00 have been sunk, he said. tCOontnaed on -Page; Tno V J i ATErPEA CE The Entire German Front-In Belgium is Threatened With a Break. ROULERS IS CAPTURED French Take 3,000 Prisoners and Belgians Capture Sev. jeral Batteries. ' ' ADVANCE FURTHER SOUTH ( Americans Withstand Heavy Counter-Attacks. (By the Associated Press.) . Peace talk pervades the- air but it is falling on deaf ears, as far as the armies in the .field -are concernea. msieaa oi a reiaxa-r,. tion in the intensity of the fight-" ing new hostilities on what seemingly is a- major scale are being carried out by the British, French and Belgians in Belgian Flanders. Having cleared out the old Laon salient and made advances northward in Champagne, which are menacing the retirement of the Germans eastward toward tlie Valenciennes-MezieresrMctz. line, General Foch has ordcidt a drive into the Lys river region' of Flanders toward Ghent which, threatens to break entirely .the grip of the QermanS in ;-iumJ all the way from the frontier to the coast and likewise to elimi nate the big biilge in the line, with Lille as its aoex. While the latest official commanic tion from Field Marshal Haigv an nounces that only local actions have taken place in the new theatre and that prisoners have been taken in the fighting, dispatches from headquarters assert that Roulers has beeh captured" and that Courtrai, the' junction point ' en the railway leading- to Vlhent, has been outflanked. The French troops alone are said to have taken S000 prisv oners while the Belgians ; have capur- d several complete batteries of guns . and numerous prisoners. Just how wide the new front-of attack Is ,has not become apparent.' It is stated that the new advance has brought the al lied troops within range of ' the ene- my, defenses but that the guns from them have offered no opposition. . r ...... . Meantime to the south the. Germans are offering , stiff opposition to . the British southwest of, Valenciennes and on the Solesmes sector in an endeavor to ptevent the ' closing In "of the Lille sack and the capture of this important . . ; town and also Valenciennes, which are in precarious .. positions ; if a pincer" ' movement, gets well under way. At 'last' reDorts the Germans werS J- still falling back; trdm the region of . Laon, that "town and the entire SC. Gobain massif beings in' the hands of v; the French? kIn Champagne the' French . , have been ' enabled to make farther- crossings -of. the Aisne'and 'to mateV, c " rially better;their front eastward, not- , withstanding the .stoic defenses of ths . enemyr who realizes .it is. of the greatest importance" to', hold ,,",ba'ck the French y . and Amerio4nsdriyiiig northward, as , a break In the' southern line , and a- - swift advance would imperil the .: en- " tire German force inside the 'sack from -the Oise riverwest of,FlavIgriy to, Sissonel east' of Laon. : , j s 'i - ' ' : Probably: the" greatest"; resistance of' 4 all is faced .by' thV Americans on both ' sides of .the - Meuse riverjVIci oils counter-attacks are being '.. delivered -against" the ; men; y from': , the United - V States, the fierceness of . the assa nl ts hndicating that fresh forces have been, r j brbught into the fray to halt their dor ; n ! 'I 1. 1 'A1 m Pi -I 2 1 fii X. ti.- 1 '' ;i t . i ;: i' . n it 4 I A A- li! 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