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The Weather. K.ir Monday, preceded by rain coast; Tuesday fair. VOL. CI-NO. 393. Germany ALLIED .ARMS ON GERMANY WILLING TO EVACUATE BELGIUM AND IS PREPARED TO ABANDON SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN Believes, However, Evacuation Would Necessarily Take Several Months. NOTE IS REPORTED SENT Reply to Wilson Said to Have Been Handed to Swiss Min ister Saturday A PROTEST IS ENTERED Objects to the President's Charge of Cruelty. (By the Associated Press.) Germany's reply to President "Wilson has been handed to the Swiss minister at Berlin for transmission to the United States, according to unofficial advices to Amsterdam from German sources. In the reply Germany expresses will ingness to evacoate Belgium butr be lieves such a withdrawal would neces- tarily take several months. It is added that the German govern ment is prepared provisionally to aban don its U-boat campaign. A Madrid dispatch says Germany has notified of ficially the Spanish government that the German admiralty has recalled all Eubmarines to their bases. REPLY D E LEVERED TO THE SWISS MINISTER TESTERJJAX London, Oct. 20. According to un official reports reaching Amsterdam, tie German reply to President Wilson vas delivered to the Swiss minister in Berlin Saturday evening, says an Ex change Telegraph dispatch from Am sterdam. In the note Germany consents to the evacuation of Belgium, but protests against the charges of cruelty in the president's note and says she was forced into submarine warfare by the allied blockade. The German government, it is added, denies responsibility fo rthe loss of women and children on torpedoed pas senger ships, but to advance peace Germany is prepared provisionally to stop unrestricted submarine warfare. Finally the note disputes the right of foreign powers to meddle with Ger man internal affairs and declares Ger many should enjoy the same" right of self-determination as other nations. IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION OF U-BOAT WAHEFARE, IS REPORT ram, Oct. 20. The German reply tokor "esiaent vVilson will announce an im mediate suspension of submarine war fare and will offer political guarantees, German newspapers say, according to a wneva dispatch to LInformation. The German papers declare that the fiew note will abandon the proposal for mixed commission to discuss condi tions of an armistice "which the Am erican and German high commands will ange on the battlefield." Berlin' financial circles are said to e disturbed over a report that hego lat:ons have been broken off. : EPLV TO THE PRESIDENT -0T to BE; READ UNTIL. TODAY Amsteraam, Oct. 20. According to wvices reaching here today from Ger many, the German reply to President ""son may not be read until Monday, i ' correspondent in Berlin of the flandeisrad, telegraphing Saturday th! ;,n' f'P,i''-ns which will underlie e Gerr.-jan reply, the text Of which w"i be riffiniti.. c.j tonight From tViA tnns nt 'PrAKirtArit vv 'Sons rtnlv the Cl&rma-n trntrommanf beli ri a. . ti,,- t ii takes into account the wish u.,, "-"ucncies in entente quar ts C'-'mr-c ryr. ; . j - an. .f,i.j a j llr conditions ror evacua- f ' hif h heretofore had not been fit The German govern- Dlf.n. i ver, is ready to find a basis L 'r discussion." ABDlCATlo OP KAISER AND , ' hu prince ONLY "WAY OUT EmppfJOn' 0f:t" 20- The abdication of i.. .. r ,r ViiHam anrl t.h frown nrinc tr,r: fibl means of solving the "teT according to opinions ex- Prtsse Msfr, ' ltle Munich Post, the Swee Mr.r,!; Jl-wacht and Franklische dig "t. an Exchange Telegraph r rn Zurich says. It is added Patci. that t.h 1e rapidly the abdication -bout the better for the ' v Spa 'l OFuikd U-BOATS: : ORDEIIED TO BASES m!t "' L- -u- The Spanish gpvem rcei 0r,iias to tn newspapers has tbt an cmcial communication .from th g ' Aa sov arnmont stating l that V?"ad,:ilraity has ordered ub-, Mll'ili'4 on Faaro Two.K.. "tw 7 on the s 777) T A -TC I II SV MM J fill f Northern Belgium Being Rapidly Cleared of Huns (By- the Associated Press). Victory crowns the allied arms on every battle front. Northern Belgium is being rapidly cleared of the enemy by British and Belgian troops. Bel gians have occupied Zeebrugge and Heyst, have crossed the Ghent-Bruges canal and on their left have reached the Dutch frontier where 15,000 Ger mans, cut off from their retreat by the advance northward from Eecloo, are reported to have withdrawn "into Hol land where they were interned. Ghent, it is predicted from British headquarters, will fall at an early date and the French, by a swift stroke along an extended line have put their forces within two miles of Tournai. Thielt is in the hands of the French, OYER 10 VILLAGES TAKEN BY BRITISH Fie arshal HargV Mert Drive Forward in French Flanders. CROSS THE SELLE RIVER Advance Steadily Continue In the Di rection of Valenelenne In the Face of Stubborn Resistance by Germans. Paris, Oct. 20. Respite' the abom inable weather in French Flanders the British armies are progressing in the region of To.urnai with clock-like reg ularity, capturing today more than ten villages, including Nechin,. Wannehain. Froidmont and Froyennes, the latter a few miles northwest of Tournai. The river Selle has been crossed at several points between Hasp res and Saulsoir by the armies operating in the Ienain region and the advance steadily continues in the direction, of Valenciennes, in spite of the stubborn resistance of the Germans in this sec- ahd torrential rains which are making rivers of the brooks and the fields a sea of mud. BRITISH CROSS THE SEL.U3 RIVER NORTH OF IXCATEATJ London, Oct. 20. The Selle river has been crossed north of Le Cateau by the British in spite of strong opposition. Field Marshal Haig reported today. The British advance' continues further north and Denain five miles southwest of Valenciennes, has been captured. The text of the field marshal's state ment reads: ; "At an early hour this morning our troops attacked the enemy's positions on the line of the Selle river north of L,e Cateau and have crossed the river despite1 considerable opposition. "Further north the adyance contin ued yesterday afternoon and last ev ening. Our . troops completed the cap ture of Denain and have reached rthe general line of Haveluy-Wandigriies-Brillon-Beuvry. The enemy's resis tance is increasing on this front." ; HAIG'S EVENING REPORT V ON THE DAY'S OPERATIONS London, Oct. 20. In their attack this morning the British troops succeeded in forcing a passage of the Selle river between Le Cateau and Denain, ac cording to Field Marshal Haig's. re- port from. headquarters? this evening- "Having completed the capture of the villages -in the river yalley and driven the. enemy from the towu of Solesmes." continues the report, "our troops fought their way forward up the slopes east of the Selle and have established '.themselves on; the high ground overlooking the valley of the Harpiss river. , -: " "Determined opposition was encoun tered, especially in the viefnity of Sol-, esmes and at the village of St. Pytoiu This resistance was overcome after hard fighting and a large .number of counter-attacks repulsed. As a result, of this operation . which v was out in a heavy rain we captured; over.. 1,000 prisoners -apd jKroe .guns..L v . ' "Further north - our; advanced troops are reported to r be within r; mUes of Toirrnai"- and' alo tto rbe 'in touch wlth4-the , enem " yeact , of tht general nna - n-f nonain. . Bo is des". Eftlusettes, ,H Or -.- :.-v-' --.'v.. s. v-- .--.-. :.-.-o-. v;-; v:;::v..: "- -'-.v.. , ; :;.v;V;.s-.r . :....-.y 1 H i FOUNDED WULMINCTON, N. O, MONDAY ilOBiaNG, OCTOBER 21, 1918 WHOI.1 RECABIED, SPA IN IS TOED . o President ALL BA despite stubborn enemy resistance as well as the high ground round about. British troops have crossed the Selle river, have re-conquered Solesmes and have had hard nghting not only in the section around that town but at St. Python -to the east. Here the British have captured more than 2,000 prison ers. , Since the beginning of, operations in Flanders the allies have made an advance of more than 30 miles over a 36-mile front, clearing all of western Flanders as well as the coast of the enemy. Fighting desperately to hold their positions to the north' and south of LaCateau the Germans on a front of 40 miles have massed nearly half a million men.. Their line is vital to the Germans but is just as vital to the (Continued on Page Two.) BRIKSON WILL BE NAMED IN THIRD New Bern Man Positively Slated T For Congress Succeeding CoL W. T.Dortch. WOODLEY ACTS MARSHAL Chief Deputy In Col. Dortch's Office Will Be Appointed By Attorney General Until President Can Appoint Wade Candidate. By W. J. MARTIN. Raleigh, Oct. 20. S. M. Brinson, of New Bern, will tomorrow be named by the democratic congressional execu tive committee of the Third, district as the regular democratic nominee for congress, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Col. W. T. Dortch. W. T. Woodley, of Chowan county, who has been chief deputy marshal under Colonel ' Dortch, will be named also tomorrow by, the attorney-general of the United States as marshal ad in terim, pending an appointment by the president. Among democratic leaders in Ral eigh, including party members who are close to the situation in the Third, district, there is entertained no doubt about the nomination of Brinson by the committee which meets in Golds boro tomorrow at noon. Quite a number of others have been "prominently mentioned" here and there, but the "straight" dope as hand ed out by men in a position to know what will be done is that Brinson will be the nominee. v Assuming his nomination by the ex ecutive committee, his name will be printed on the tickets for the election two "weeks from Tuesday. C. R, Wheatley, of Beaufort, is the republi can nominee for congress from the Third, and Charles Laban Abernethy, also of New Bern, is making an in dependent campaign. : Chief Deputy Woodley, who will be named marshal ad interim today, has been an avowed candidate for the marshalship since Colonel Dortch was nominated for congress last June. His campaign has been of a quiet nature, but, his friends claim, for him a for midable array of endorsements for the job.-' Senator Simmons will be urged to recommend his appointment to the president because of his experience and knowledge of the marshal job. -J. He has been chief deputy for more than a. year, receiving the appointment from a deputyship in Colonel Dortch'a office. Stacey Wade, chief clerk in the in surance department, is another candi date for the marshal's place. ' He is understood 'to -have obtained pledges of 'K support ' from many democrats in the eastern district. Mr. Wade is a na-; tive of "Carteret and is a recognized factor in Third district" Politics. BRINSON WElL-KlfOWU IN r STATE EDUCATION Al. CJR CliES ; Succeeding his father, who was one Of the brainest men of eastern Caro lina and , a 'prominent lawyer, S. . M. Brihson practiced law. for-a few years after completing his; education," then taking up the' office of superintendent of , schools for Craven county,; - which office his father held for a number 'of 'years. '. . . i-, V -V.;' ,. , V Mr. Brinson has ; filled . this position for trpward ' of .-.twenty years; and '.has" been- very -instrumental' in ; standardise ift'tr; the school; system of., that - county jphe "first, and. 'probably, the best farm life r school": to be established.-- in the ,-ft ccoattnaed . on " rage ; Two).' k" -...-", - ' '...-V V ".'SV i. Wiison Probably Airier ttiMfeqnts acmMk VICTORIES OFFICIALS UNABLE TO FORM1 OPINION ON GERMAN REPLY Reports Are So Conflicting That They Are Disposed to Await Text. THE SITUATION IS HAZY Note May Be Designed With Purpose of Continuing Conversations. Washington, Oct. 20.-r-So many con flicting reports about - a German reply to President Wilson have come out of Holland and Switzerland during the past few days that officials here are disposed now to believe nothing on the subject until the text of a note is re ceived either through i official channels or from an unquestioned official source. German government organs an nounced Wednesday : that the reply had been dispatched and since cthen the newspapers of the border neutrals have heard almost hourly that the note was on its way or about to be sent i or would, not be. seat for' several days. (These have given varying accounts of its contents. A,- turf ums;&ju;ai " story1 x - now yie. .;-Rfcpi"ff w&sapiTJp- at tne after a stormy , meeting of members of tary leaders and sovereigns, of the German states appeared to observers here to have the color of truth, and it is regarded as" entirely possible that the same thing happened again later in the week. Every version of the probable na ture of the reply under consideration indicates that the Germans are pre paring to come forward with what they, at least, will expect the world to believe is a long step toward meeting the conditions which President Wilson has said most be met before there can ha thoueht at a.n armistice or discis sion of peace. Whatever may be theJ substance of the note it is believed here its form will be designed to make ft difficult for President Wilson to avoid further exchanges. According to one report. today the Germans will agree to evacuate Bel gium and to abandon provisionally un restricted submarine warfare but will dispute, the right of foreign powers to meddle, with German internal affairs. Another says the offer will include im mediate suspension of submarine war fare, political guarantees and an arm istice "which the American and Ger man high command will arrange on the battlefield.". . A dispatch from Madrid saying the Spanish government had been "inform ed that all German 1 submarines had been ordered to return to their bases appeared to support the assertion that abandonment of the U-boat- campaign has been determined upon. Government officials end diplomats heard all of these reports with inter est but pointed out the futility of at tempting t discuss them. ' Abandon ment of submarine ruthlessness would be one of the. important measures upon which consideration of an armistice is conditioned, but even if the frag mentary information at hand purport ed to come from official sources which it does not, it is not sufficiently defin ite nor complete for anyone here, to hazard a guess whether the terms of the president's decision have been complied with. ... Competent spokesmen of the gov ernment have said and reiterated that there is to be noydrawn-out series of exchanges. If the German government seeks talk without submission the president is expected to refuse to con tinue ' the discussion. ARMY OFFICER COMING FOR CIVILIAN OFFICERS Everybody Between 18 and 46 Eligible Except Claws One Men and Deferred Workmen. (Special Star Telegraph.). Charleston, Oct.- 20. Gem Henry i G. Sharpe, commanding southeastern de partment, tonight directed that the Ifolt lowing-announcement to sent t Wil mington: ' " ' -f';: '-"' . "The .war department requests that wide publicity be given the fact 'that an army officer., will: be stationed tem porarily In your city at either chamber of commerce or city hall, for. the pur pose of receiving applicants' from civi lians for infantry : officers training school to be held 'at .Camp Freemonti Calif., beginning December first; :v . "Applicants must be qualified for general military serivce .and eligibjity niles . the i same - as those for infantry, central officers training schools., ."All draft' registrants.; between -the ages of 18 and - 46 :are eligible except registrants in -Class .1, w1iox regist ered prior ')JtOi..-' September ?- -X2r" . and registrants in def erred'classlflcation on. account of industrial occupation or; em ployment including agf ieulture. ' , . - - 'The. officer ; will, arrive ;1n your city theIattexi'i)art"'of;th43.'we9k.' v "r-1 Defense System to Which 1 TAe, Ger maris Paris, Oct. 20. (By the Associated Press.) Events of the past three months involving the ebb of. the Ger man tide of . invasion in France and Belgium have emphasized the impor tance of the German defensive system which have been prepared by the foe for Just the emergncy which now con fronts him. The allied world is now studying the war maps to determine how far the present German retire ment may be expected to continue and what the entente armies may expect when they reach the front where the Grmans will stand at bay. -f The German defense lines resemble a tree with three main branches. The trunk of this "tree" has its root at the Swiss frontier and continues north as far as, Metz where it divides into two branches. The westerly branch runs to the northwest the Meuse and running westward, lifter which it sweeps to the north on a long curve. The other follows the Meuse down as GERMANS GIVE DP HUGE AIRDROMES bwns ;4SSlJl!ffiei "of "FnglanS Now Less Menaced From Airplane Attacks. BELGIUM BEING CLEARED King Albert's Men Occupy Zeebrugge and Heyse and Make Other Gains Thielt Captured by British and French. London. Oct. 20. (British Wireless.) In withdrawing from Flanders and the Belgian coast, the Germans not only gave up their submarine bases but also left behind immense airdromes. Before the enemy retirement, . northern Belgium might have been known as the home of the Gotha. By moving east ward the Germans lose , the points nearest to England from', which they used to carry out raids upon London and other English towns. Hereafter, 4t is believed, the Germans, will find it increasingly difficult to make air raids upon London. ; The evacuation of Ostend and Zee brugge will make easier the work of the British navy in keeping the Bri tish, channel clear of submarines. The Germans also have been forced to re move the torpedo boats from those bases. NORTHERN BELGIUM IS BEING RAPIDLY CLEARED OF HUNS London, Saturday, Oct. 19. British and Belgian forces are rapidly clear ing northern Belgium of the enemy, ac cording to the official office tonight. The statement reads: "During today's fighting the British, Belgian and French armies under com mand of King Albert of Belgium have been able to develop results obtained in the last six day& "The Belgian arnfy has occupied Zee brugge and Heyse and have stormed the town of Bruges. Elsewhere . the Belgians have crossed the Ghent rBruges canal-. On their left they have reached the Dutch frontier and on thel right are half way between Bruges and Ghent. The British and French have captured the town of Thielt and the high ground in' that yjcinity in spite Of, stubborn resistance by the enemy who endeavor ed to bar the ways to the Lys.-, At the end of. the day the French have reached the line of Hille-Vincat and .have ad vanced along the Lys to Gramme, Got-them-and Wielsheke. , - The. second British army has com pletely cleaned up Courtrai, carried, its line nearly four, miles east of the place. To - the south the British reached the Courtrai-Tournai road and although all communications , have , been destroyed by the Germans have advanced almost up-to the Scheldt river. - , - "Since the - beginning of operations in -"Flanders the allied armies have ad vanced 30 miles., over a front of 36 miles. All of western Flanders as well as the Belgian coast,, has been cleared of-the enemy."-, :.- RECOGNIZES PART PLAYED BY ' , U.'- Si CHASERS AT DURAZZO Rome, "Oct.' J.9.-Recognition of ! the part t played by American-: submarine chasers at Durazzo is given - in a : semi-, official f note issued here. The Ameri can 'boats -protected a convoy 'of steam ers : which entered the; harbot soon - af ter Italian, cavalry, had, reached a town. A-"'- large quantity - of ; w materiala'-was landed by, the steamers.' - . , Being Studied !ih tti etire Allies far as Namur, whence ft runs to Brus sels and Antwerp and thence to the Dutch frontier, i The branch that crosses the Meuse is the first that must be broken by the allies. In fact,- recent British and Belgian victories in Belgian Flanders seem to' have rendered a large part of this line untenable as a permanent defensive position. The line' crosses the Meuse at Dun, goes through the Argonne forest and then follows the Aisne river as far as Bethel, where it turns north and passes near Guise- and Solesmes. It continues northward past 'Valenciennes and reaehes the Scheldt at Conde. It runs along the Scheldt ' past TOurnai and Ghent, where it turns to the east and reaches Antwerp: This is the "Huhd lng" line-. The second line, known as "the line of the Meuse, "is established on the east baink of the Meuse river north wardly! from Dun. It passes, Sedan and Mezieres and enters Belgium just to the southwest of Binant, At Namur it leaves the river and , runs to Brus sels, continuing on to Antwerp where (Continued on Page Two.) FORTY DiyiSiONS ON 10-ip FRONT 5 ' ... . ivc-i Germans Set New- Record For Density, ot Formation In LeCateau Region. INTEND TO HOLD LINES Enemy Fightiivg Desperately In Effort to Check the Allied Advance . Amerieann Consolidate Newly Won Positions. Paris, Oct. 20. The Germans are fighting desperately to hold their po- sitons on the- front' north and south of Le Cateau which has an important bearing on . the : situation elsewhere between the Meusp and the North Sea. On a front of 40 miles the Germans have massed - forty, divisions in an ef fort to check the-allies. --This is said to be a hew record, of density for de fending, forces. The general-attack of the British, Americans and: French yesterday re sulted in extensive '' breaches being made in the enemy defenses. Along the Aisne Gen. Mang.in broke into the HUnding.-line. A large number of pris oners and considerable quantities of war - material were - captured. AMERICANS CONSOLIDATE : AND RE-ORGANIZE POSITIONS With the American Army Northwest of Verdun,-Oct: -20. .(By the Associat- ed Press) Activity oh, .the American sector west of the Meuse was limited today onlthe American -side, to the con solidation and re-organization of posi tions recently taken. On their side the Germans : occupied tnemseives in ; strengthening their positions. The American consolidation work was confin(I almost entirely to Loges wood. On the right of , the wood, af ter -an artillery bombardment of two and a half hours, the' Americans began the task of driving the Germans from Rappes wood. Fighting continues in the vicinity of Grand Pre where the Germans still offer bitter resistance. All signs of - a- probable ' German withdrawal to the Freya position, ex cept on the right, have ceased and the. enemy qow seems determined to hold his present position7 as . long as pos sible. The German counter-attacks are becoming more and more infre quent end it is -learned that instruc tions have been" issued not to under take counter-attacks unless there is positive assurance -of success. Artillery and aerial activity .was be low normal today because ' of the poor visibility dUe- to rainy weather. - . ! , t I TAR HEEL AIRMAN FLIES HOME FOR SUNDAY DINNER Warrenton, Oct 20.- Llent.'! Samuel M. Connell, stationed, at. Langley field, Newport News, Va., as Instructor ' fn aviation, flew here in an airplane., at noon today -for the purpose of. taking lunch with his parents. The flight was made in little over an", hour, v This is the first time that a North Carolinian has - visited his . home by airplane. Lieutenant Connell left at 2 o'clock- on his return trip ..- v :i' - . STEAMER REQUISITIONED BT SPAIN? IS'SUNK BY U-BOAT Damrid, Oct. 20. -The steamer JUaria, which has been requisitioned by-ythe. Spanish gorvermn en t has been torpe doed by .- a German - eubmarino, - the Epoca sayek The steamer was .used in transporting- phosphates .to-- Spain, " ; ? Will R By 15,000 HDN TROOPS ARE DRIVEN DUTCH TERRITORY - X' Cat Off by Belgians, They Cross the Border and Have Been Interned, INTO THE ADVANCE 'CONTlNUEStl Germans Still Falling Back Eastward Ghent Will Soon Be Liberated. London, Oct.- 20. rFifee). thousand retreating German 'soldiers have been interned in Holland i after being cut off by Belgian troops moving, north ward from Eecloo, according to reports from the frontier reaching Amsterdam and transmitted by the Exchange Tele graph Co. . v ' ' Belgian soldiers took charge of ; the Dutch Belgian border last night ,and were received "enthusiastically by ;.the populace. . --' !, . ; . BRITISH AND BELGIANS ? CONTINUE THEIR ATTACKS With the . Allied rjailes 4n.., 'France, and Belklky&-QcV"Z(lriBy the. Aeso. tinu6'd' Its attack, ,tt?day In conjunction r , v ri with the Belgians Tto the north. The combined--forces rff ought their way to the east of" Staceghem and reached Vichte, lying' ' northeast of Courtrai, and are still pushing On' rapidly. ,s The Anglo-Belgians , are also north east of Deerjyok; Spruete and Stratte. The third army in its attack had cap tured by early afternoon nearly . a thousand prisoners. - ' While the. Belgians. French and Brit ish were driving the German rapidly to the east in the direction of Ghent, which is being approached from both east and south, the British third army, attacking at two o'clock this morning, , smashed its way eastward to the south of Valenciennes. The success of this operation wbW?h this evening seemed assiirprt rnentis t.h tlirhitic- of thn Va. henciennes line ."and endangers all the German ofrces ndrthward ; to Flanders i a?d southward to the Olse canal, -'be - nina wnica inu ijerraans na ve ueg un . to retreat frpm other British forces and the Americans. ' : This thrust wiiir serve to upset 'the known German plan of trying t hold the line east of the Scheldt which the enemy is retiring hastily from what once was the LJlle salient. - Reports, from - the ; battle line in Flan ders indicate that Ghent will soon' be recovered. Already the allied guhs are hammering the. Germans on iall sides; cyclist - and cavalry- patrols pro sweeping ahead In front ' of Ihe Infan try, drawing closer and closer. . . The Germans were driven out of the northwest coast iri . Flanders mch sooner than they expected, ..for captur ed orders show that they 'inteBdedt to hold the, line of . Zeebrugge-Bruges-Thielt, but were unable to res.'3t the pressure. . , - . , ' t Thousands ;.of -civilians haye been liberated by," the Belgians and French (and masses . of booty, which the Ger mans have, no time to carry away ell into their . hands. It is considered jujte'possible that1' the Germans-will trv. to make several 'successive stands in, Belgium arid one nne or resistance unaouoteaiy, win comprise Antwerp, Brussels, and - Na mur, on which much work is beng ddne. At the same, time it is 'worth noting that .the Germans are working frantically in the preparation of a de fensive line . on. their :own frontleri es pecially in-the neighborhood of -Alx-la-Chapelle-'andlLiege. V ' ' EXPRESSES APPRECIATION ' . FOR WORIC OF AMERICANS With the' Allied . Armies .in . France and Belgium, Oct. 20. (By .the-Associated Press;)T Thefollowing' message has. been receivedby the. commander' of the American cofps fighting on ' the British frorit vfrom ..the chief of staff of the American Vexpeditiohary forces: "The commander-in-chief desires you to convey to the officers ; and soldiers of your jjorps his" appreciation'1 of the magnificent '.quali ties which have ena bled them', against powerful, resistance, to', advance 'jrore &hMtjten hiiles,-. and ; to take more j-than ,6,00fr prisoners- since September -27'- - - - - RALEIGH HAS COUNTED AT I LEAST. LiOO'. "flFLU" CASES Raleigh. Oct, 20. -A systematio cttn- vas of, 3500-of. thte $,0 00 'homes in Ral eigh today reaveled that there are nearly . 1;4 00 ., cases of : influenza. 'The . complete canvass, vit is estimated, will . -show a. totalof 2,000 cases. -1 .- Two emergency. hospitals are being established and- volunteer - nurses 'are being called for: - Total deaths to date, ' as a result of the epidemic,' number 82. - .Washlngrtoh," Oct." 20.4-Af: call for 2,tf00 Porto.Ric.ans .of ?draft-age frtvfor gen eral military service to : enter Las Cases , cantonment at-San Juan before the end , of October, :,has been'-issued by PEOVOSt '. axsbai:ceaeral Cxovdex; ' rev Wis 4 'Ami- mm '1. '11 if i 4 'HI
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