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1 X 5 V v 1v V I ! T ' sfS-r' ' 'I P I C J SS"Sl2ffi:': 8 pges today . . - .&o Two Sections VOL. CIII-NQ. 61, . -- v " ' ' 7" ' .1 a ri WIL.MINGTOK, K. SUNDAY MORNING, NOTEMBBR, 3 1918 WAN PRISONERS 111111 .MIS WHOLE NUMBER 39,584 NOW TOTAL SO Adva dill nic e Is - ii u Made By Forces Northwest of Verdun TO AMOUNT TO ABSOLUTE WSTRIAN CHIEF CONSIDERS THE ITALIAN ARMISTICE TERMS WHILE HIS ARMIES ARE BEING ROUTED .. , ; Several Towns Captured As Americans Press Forward Meanwhile, the Great Austrian Naval Base at Pola Has Been Raided. ALLIES TO TAKE TRIESTE More Than 80,000 Prisoners and 1,600 Guns Captured up To Date. German Resistance Collapses as Pershing's Men Drive On Bay onville, the Last of the Enemy's Organized Defenses In the Meuse Region, Has Been Taken. GAINS MADE IN FRANCE British, French and Americans All Have Success. (By The Associated Press.)" Over the plains of Venetia andi into ie mountain valleys of the Trentino, ie Italian and allied pursuit of the emoralized Austro-Hungarian goes n unabted. In France, the German efenses are shaking under the as- itilts of the British, French and Americans. West of the Meuse, the nemy is retiring before the Ameri- ans. Austrian emissaries have been given he armistice terms of the allies and ave returned to their own lines. khere the Austrian command has aken them under consideration. lleanwhile an Italian naval contingent as raided the great base of Pola. Fhile allied warships are on their pay to Triest to take command of a ituation made serious by fleeing1 Aus- nan soldiers. The allied ministers and delegates pntinue their deliberations 'over the perman armistice terms. From west of Asiaero to the Piave fie Italians are pressing into the Im portant valleys leading to Trent and re wen beyond the old Austrian fron- er northeast of Asiae-o ' West of the prenta. the Italians have forced their ay into the Nos valley leading to ard Grigno. while further east thv penetrated into the Important ?ana valley, the main nathwnv iffA ae AUEtnans rptrpatinif f-rn-rt Yta Tfol- fan mO'intain vnna Tn U Xll..n XX luc OCXiUUU rea the Italians have crossed the Piave ear Busche and northeast of Belluno ra pushing up the Cordevole vallev oard Longarone. Un the Venptian nlsins Italian oit has crossed the Cellina-Medpua 'T". six mile? east of the Taglianieri A and are racing to reach the cross nSS of that river. In their advance With the American Forces Northwest of Vjerdun. Nov. 2. 7 p. m. Kf.By the Associated Press.) General Pershing's forces continued- their attack. In the region west" of the Meuse this after noon, capturing Fosse. This represents an advance of four miles from the starting line through Bayonville. The Germans gave little if any in dication of an impending retreat un til this afternoon. All morning long the Americans at every part of the front had met with stubborn resis tance. The first intimation that the enemy was retreating came from the fourth French army, which was advancing to the northeast. Within a short time, various American units from all parts of the .line .announced that they also were advancing and were finding the resistance melting away on the right. Even troops in motor trucks had not been able to catch up with' the enemy. The Americans were not slow in. fol lowing up the. advantage oa the left wing, which has met with the most serious resistance, and began to press forward immediately in the Bois des Lioges on the heels of the Germans, clearing up all who 4agged. behind. They pushed their line northward for nearly a mile. Champigneulle, a strong point in the Freya defence line, had been taken earlier in the day and the troops who had rjished it pressed for ward and swept through Verpsl after partly surrounding the town. I -Through rain and mud the Americans advanced toward Thenorgues. a pile anJ, a. half north Qf Verpel. The enemy haoT been expected to hold there for it was a ' strong position, but very lit (Contihued Oh Page Three) NEW RECORD WILL THE DRAilHIS MONTH BE MADE IN 253,335 White Meri Will Be En trained Between "November ilyand 15. PASS. THE 3,000,000 MARK Largest Proportion of Those Called to be Men Under New on. BOTH-SIDES ARE CLAIMING VICTORY be cavalrv overcame strong Austrian fiance m the region of Pordenone "a northward. Further south, the "TO armv fnntir,n - ae front immdiatoW nn.V viatic. Mnro tV.ovi Oft Ann "-oners and more tVio-n 1 enn i ,7 e been counted by the armies Der General Diaz. marshal Foch continues to smash 1 tne western - n.. ti. ,i ' 'u"i- vii Lite uui iu 4tenciennes has toVor, v,t orde t?wa,rd the Franco-Belgian witish 1111 oi vatenciennes tne r sn have Tournai within their rrasP- whi'p tn tv.n J.,. on at LeQuesnoy is most serious. TonLCaPture of Valenciennes and the bspiv posit,on,? around it, military ill nn c pointea out, prooaDiy "J.,mPel the Germans to carry out hi, r 1 movement on a large soutn. rne line or tne ued on Page Two). Statements are 'Issued by Demo cratic' and Republican Cam paign Chiefs. FESS' CLAIM IS BROAD Concedes Only Seven States to Demo crats Camming Says Democrats Will Increase Majorities In Both Houses. Washington, Nov. 2. Victory In Tuesday's congressional elections was claimed tonight in statements issued by democratic - and republican cam paign leaders. Homer S. Cummings, acting chair man of the democratic national com mittee, predicted that" the democratic majority In- the senate would be in creased by the vote to be takW in 40 senatorial contests-and that the, demo crats would make gains in the house of from 30 to 60 members. Republicans will control .the next house by a majority of 25 members, Representative Fess, of Ohio, chair man of the national republican con gressional committee, tonight declar ed. While no formal statement was issued .by the republicans as to the senatorial contests, leaders of - the party predicted that the next senate would be republican by a safe margin. In his analysis of the political sit uation. Chairman Fess said 230 con gressional districts are "safely" re publican, 172. are "safely" democratic and 33 are .doubtful. Fourteen states, Chairman Fess said, will go republic (Continued On 'Page Three) REPUBLICANS HAVE: NO SHOW IN SOUTH Except in Four Congressional Districts Democrats are As sured Victory. SENATE NOMINEES SAFE President's Appeal For Electing: Hen Who Will Support Administration ' Was Complied With In the Primaries. ;tes senators or tUSe ( . J : rii-nr-, .in i " iue voters wm De can- CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN ONE OF MUCH BITTERNESS York, Nov. 2. Chief interest in e'f-tion next. Tn1aT' In all tA ew -- j " t-nsfjajlrl an1 KAA,a. UtI nters in the choice of United members of the upo Th n tn e car select state officers. aliv wuicn Degan apatneti- ihon ur'-'i which slisht interest was rel6n,i r'ul l"vVo weeks aeo. has de- closing days into one "e tY,r,.- . bl contests in nyears for mn ' f cngress. nins t.,.' 5 1111(1 republicans are ex- in effort to elect, congress- opefuj , .! Iin5,ylvania. BoJth sides-are - "-reasing their representa- oa. Th, le it, quor Question is the chief - Sti... . State contftst. Willija.ml U. r l Mil 1 f , J "ics-n jnester millionaife, is the DWf Candidu for. governor on rtJJaior' Eugene CBonnlwsll. charged with being the candidate 1 of the liquor dealers. His candidacy has been repudiated by Vance C. McCor mick, A Mitchell Palmer and other democratic leaders. . In Massacfmsetss all ,but one of the present members of congress are seek ing re-election. - A whirlwind, campaign has been waged in Rhode' Ieland over the elec tion of a United ' States senator and three eonarrsmen' .- - r s Efforts of. the democratis in New Hampshire, normally repnbHs&n, have been cehteredjOn the campaign of John B. Jameson for th two-year unexpired term, of the late Senator Gallinger. . He is opposed 'by George H. .Moses, former minister to Greece. Delaware's JntereptN in the . elf ction centers in theeonteetrforUnited ;;tea senator; !Lewi Ball is .seeking , he seat of Willard Saulsbury, pres nt pro tern, of the senate. r, ' t sy ' K No- - state officers will be elect' ' (Continued on . .ragr rro-j Atlanta, Nov. 2. Support of the dem ocratic administration declared by President Wilson to be necessary to successful conclusion of the war and to peace negotiations already has been granted in the south through the demo cratic primaries in which all except one man pointed out by the president as having failed to support the ad ministration were eliminated from pol- tics for the present at least. Chief in terest among southerners in next Tuesday's elections turned today to ward sections of the country, where politicians other than democrats have a chance. In practically every race in the south Washington, Nov. t2.-Draft calls for the mobilizaUoh " of '-290,773 ' additional men at army.. training ' camps before November 21 ,.rere'. announced tonight by Provost Marsha General Crowder. Between November il; and 15, It was announced, 253,385 white 'men physi cally qualified, fox '.'general military service will eijtrainakingt the larg est single call Issued - under the selec tive service acfc siSS': . The remainder 'of the November to tal, so far as announced, "Wjif be made up by negroes for'.ntrainraent Novem ber 19 to 21. -"y. '-' " ' With the ' 'assembling of the "natti provided in these! calls at eamp, the total number of men ; inducted into military servlaeriilie' draft will have passed. thexStDOO.PQO ahdthe num ber -of menln tfte -.United. Stsies army. in the neldor ,iov training, will total i more thm,0,of----- Men who registered September , 21, under the act extending "draft age limits, will, make up the largest pro-, portion of the November mobilization, as the eligible list remaining from previous registrations largely was "ex hausted by ' the "October, calls', though the October calls were suspended be cause of the influenza epidemic, near ly all have been re-issued during the last three weeks. In states where the calls have not been re-issued, men called for camp in October will leave with the men called for this month. Calls for additional-1 men to entrain later this month are, in ..preparation, it was said today at the office of the p.-' ost m irshal . general. - -e North Carolina will send 107 white registrants t Camp Greene and 1,000 to Fort Caswell. South Carolina will send 312 to Fort Moultrie. Of the colored registrants called, North Carolina will send 200 to Camp Greene and South Carolina will send 1,110 to Camp Wadsworth. ITALIAN "NAVAL TANK" DESTROYS WARSHIP ARMISTICE TERMS MA Y REQUIRE GERMAN RETIREMENT TO THIRTY MILES BEYOND RIVER RHINE Lay Keel for First Steel Ship at Carolina Shipyard Wilmington's First Span in Pershing's Bridge of Ships Started, to be Complete for Duty in 201 Days Thrilling Event in City's History. A thrilling hour in Wilmington's history was marked yesterday after noon at 3 o'clock when the keel for the first steer ship ever to be built in this city, was laid at the Caro lina Shipbuilding corporation's shipyard on the banks o fthe old Cape Fear, be low vunset Park. The hour" marked the end of ship yard construction and preparation, and the beginning of actual ship con struction; the beginning of a series of at least 12 great 9,600 ton fabricated steel ships for which the Carolina yard has- contracts the beinning of a great industry growth ' during the months and years to come. A huge crowd .of Wilmingtonians, men, women and children, business men, citizens- generally -and shipwork ers and' their families, witnessed the interesting procedure of laying a keeL Music was made by the Fort Caswell crack band under leadership of Pro fessor Kurz. Patriotic colors flapped in the breeze and soldiers and sailors were there, representatives of those men whose welfare and whose ability to deal' the Hun a knockout blow, de pend on ships, ships and more ships a bridge of ships to Pershing, some of whose spans will be Wilmington made. Addresses were made United States District Attorney J. O. Carr and Dr. Thomas Travis, of the publicity de partment of the Emergency Fleet cor poration, lately returned from the west ern front, where he served as a Y. M. C A. worker in the danger zone. The first rivet was driven home by John W. Towle, resident representa tive of the shipping board, and the next by President Lorenzo C. Dilks, presi dent of the Carolina corporation. The program was scheduled to begin (Continued on :Pa. Two.'; DEMAND THAT..THE. KAISER ABDICATE wtown ?With Wilhelm!" And "Abdicate Immediately V Stuttgart Mob Shouts. THOUSANDS TAKE PART Demonstration Follows Meeting? of So cialists at Which EMatblislKment ef a Socialist Republic Was De - manded. Amsterdam, Nov. 2 Shouting "Down with Wilhelm!" and "Abdicate immedi- AMERICANS NEAR - . . i : THE MEUSE LINE It is the Enemy's Last Strong hold in the Verdun Region. Would be Forced to Leave Be hind all Military Supplies And Loot. v : . V 'l.j 1 GIVE UP ALL WARSHIPS J Surrender of Helgoland Fort resses Also May be Embod ied in Terms. NOW UNDER DISCUSSION War Council's Decision Soon Be Reached. Will ';'. Washington, Nov. 2. The ' supreme war council at Versailles, it was learn ed today "through diplomatic channels. Khas under consideration, as the stat- ing point in framing terms of an armistice,- proposals that Germany be re quired to - withdraw her armies with- ' out their military supplies' or the loot being carried from France and Bel- , gium to a zone 30 miles on the Germim side of the Rhine and that the entire German navy, including submarines Km : If. .-'rand- - -threr'Helgoland fortress, ..rfauritj .XJ FREYA LINE SHAtTERED Railroad Junctions of Great Import ance to the Enemyare Already Under Fire of the American Big Guns. With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Nov. 2. (By the Associated Austrian Supr-Dreadnought Sunk at S Pola Italians Who Made Attack Probably Captured, t CAMPAIGN. ACmviTJJtfS. IBT, . . s CENTRAL STATES CLOSEp Chicago, Nov. .2. -The central states tonight . virtually1 closed their campaign' activities, vwlth the two" major parties' confident of ylctry at ' Tuesday's elec tion. The campaign . .was largely con ducted V through newspapers - and ; bill tering the harbpi? was described by naval officials here as .a small vessel similar to v. the Lagies boat how being built for the United States "navy. Washington, Nov. 2. The Austrian super-dreadnought Veribus Unitis, the flagship of the Austro-Hungarian fleet at the naval base, at Pola, was tor pedoed and sunk Friday morning by an Italian "naval tank," which; man ned by twd officers, succeeded in pene trating the mine field at the entrance for the two houses, except in two con- Qf the harbor. An , official dispatch gressional districts in Tennesse end ! from Rome, received tonight, said it one each in Virginia and North Caro- ts Relieved the two officers survived lina, democratic nominees a"re assured although they probably were captured of election. In Its primaries last sum- by the enemy. ' mer that party swept out of the field ; The officers who carried out the dar Senators Vardaman, of Mississippi, and ! ing feat were Lieutenants Rassaele Hardwick, of Georgia, declared by the ! and Rassaele Paolucci, the dispatch president to have failed in suporting i said. The "naval tank" used in -en his administration in its war efforts, while Representative Slayden, of the 14th Texas district, resigned from the race to succeed himself the day after it became. - publicly known that the chief executive opposed him. There was one notable exception. Representative Huddleston, of the ninth' Alabama district, won the demo cratic"" nomination despite presidential opposition. He goes into the election Tuesday with a republican opponent, J. O. Thompson. ; In no , southern state, will important constitutional amendments be voted on, but all states except-Florida will elect senators this year. All except Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and North Caro lina will elect governors., In Mississippi, South -Carolina, Louis iana, Arkansas and Virginia, the demo cratic nominees for , the senate are vf ithout oposition. . . ' The ( first and second Tennesse, the latter being normally - republican, the ninth Virginia and two North Caro lina districts are the -only southern congressional districts where republi can opposition appears to .be serious. AUSTRI ANS TO QUIT SERBIAN TERRITORY Complete Evacuation is Imminent, Says Vienna Ofllcial Statement' On' War Operations. "Vienna. Nov. 2," via London. The evacuation of all Serbian territory by the Austrians is imminent.- This an nouncement -Is -made-- in .the official statement, .from tht war office today. "On the - Italian -mountain front ; our troops, in . carrying out our , : measures of -evacuation., according to 'plan, will occupy positions which ' they held at the beginning- of the-Italian- war;- - "In. the Venetian plain, a movement of retreat across the Tagliamento is in progress. "' :. , "The evacuation of all Serbian ter Titory is imminent," " ately!" a crowd of several thousand j Press.) To the north of the advanc- persons, despite the efforts of the po lice to disperse them, succeeded today In reaching the royal palace at Stutt gart. Some mounted the palace rail ing, clamoring for the deposition of the emperor, according to the - Weser Gazette. After several scrimmages and an exchange of shots, mounted, palice managed to drive the mob awayv The demonstration was the sequel of a meeting of independent socialists at which resolutions were passed demand ing establishment of a socialist repub lic. , . ' , At a meeting of the progressive par ty at Munich, Prof. Quldde, a deputy in the landtag, declared.: "The vital interests of the German people demand the emperor's abdica tion." A resolution was adopted demand ing that the emperor abdicate in or der to attest to the sincerity of Ger many's conversion into a peoples state. FAVORS THE ACCEPTANCE OF ARMISTICE CONDITIONS Amsterdam, Nov. 2. (By the Asso ciated Press.) German Banking and commercial men, after a meeting, have sent the government a declaration Jn favor of acceptance of the tentente's armistice,, conditions, according to the German papers. The declaration pre sents an argument against those, who hope for an improvement of the sit uation from a continuance of the war and demands measures for facilitating peace, even if sacrifices, are required. ALLIES WILL CONTROL RAILWAYS IN TURKEY PA'RT OF BELGRADE HAS BEEK jTAKEJf BY ALLIES London, iNov.-'2.iPait "of . Belgrade? the -Serbian capital, has been re -captured, waccordingto.- the Evening News,' which savs It: has received unofficial -ad- '"ontanucd" on .fage Three). -lvices to this effects Additional Clause in Armistice Pro vides for Allied Officers on All The Roads. .London, Nov. 2. An additional clause i nthe terms of armistice granted by the' allies' to Turkey, which has just been received, says: ""Allied.. officers are $o be placed on all railways, including such portions o fthe trans-Caucasian railways as are now under Turkish control, these must be - placed at the - free and complete disposal of the allied authorities: due Pconsideration befng given to the needs" f . the population i :':' -' " . "This clause is to - include the allied ocenpation of Batum, 'Tvrkey will raise nonobjection to vhe occupation of Baku by "the allies. ; A - ' uig Americans who have broken through the German's strongest lines of resistance, Including the Freya po sition which was shattered Saturday, lies the so-called Meuse line the ene my's last stronghold in this part of France. The line in general faces the mili tary crests and railroads east from Hirson to Mezieres, Sedan, Mouzon, Mont Medy and Longuyori and then south to Etain. The railroad junctions in the regions of Mont' Medy and Lon guyon are already under the fire of the American big guns. It is noi believed the Germans have an organized system of defenses be tween the American front and this Meuse line as they had the greatest confidence that the Freya, "Kriem hilde" and other lines could hold in spite of any attacks designed to break thehi. The so-called Meuse line has the advantage of important railroad junctions connecting it with the main line direct from Germany by several routes. rendered. . It Is possible that the conditions, -when finally agreed upon may not emerge from, the council in exactly this degree, but il Is believed they will 6e no less potent for preserving the mili tary supremacy of the allies, and at the same time offer propositions which the Germans may 'accept without fur- -ther fighting. , The same information, coming through the same sources, indicates that the armistice terms as finally agreed upon, may be made known to the world Monday or Tuesday and that they will be presented to Germany for.: acceptance in their entirety or not -at all, without opportunity for quibbling or trading. ' From a military point of view, the proposal that the German armies be dismissed and retired 30 miles beyond the Rhine is classed only as tanta- . mount to an absolute surrender. It would not only throw, open to the allied and American armies many roads to Berlin itself, but with the sur render of railway rolling stock de prive them of means to retrace their steps to fight if : they would. There is some question among mili tary observers as to whether such com plete terms are really necessary. Undoubtedly the object sought In proposing that the enemy retire 30 miles behind the Rhine is to destroy the German inner system. That system Is supported by a -chain of fortresses, without which the line would be untenable and some military . experts believe it may not be necessary to go farther than to demand 4-he sur render or dismantling of those forts.' The military discussion developed by the proposals brings a suggestion .that a wide zone might be established with, in the borders of Germany from which the armed forces of both sides might s bewlthdrawn until peace treaties final- . ly have fixed new boundaries. The French and Belgium frontiers are ex-, pected to be re-occupied by the allied armies but it might develop . that M the German forces would be required to fall back, the GermanV frontier pro vinces might be left unoccupied in ; a military sense. It seems certain to military experts ! here, however, that the terms will In clude the surrender of the Metz. for (Continued from Page Two). Si t M 1 BUDAPEST STREETS SCENE OF SANGUINARY FIGHTING Copenhagen, Nov. 2. The last tele- tually exhausted. According- to !a gram received today in Berlin from Budapest said that "sanguinary street fighting was: In progress between Hun garian and Bosnian troops. Since then, telegraphic and telephonic communi cations have ceased. . PRISONERS ARE SET FREE . BY .THE NATIONAL COUNCIL London, Nov. 2. Budapest is be flagged, according to a German wire less message received here today, and many public demonstrations . of broth-;-erly feeling are occurring Troops sent by the. national council have lib erated troops which .were locked in barracks ;by f the gendarmes. . - Lejtner, who - recently attempted to kill Count Tlsza, and who was ar rested x early-In October, nas-'ibeen':; set free by a-mobwhoiraidedthe,;prlsonwvi v , The Viennnal grain reserves are 'yir- Zurlch dispatch to the exchange Tele graph Company, Vienna has only three days' flour supplies. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO IMMEDIATELY MAKE PEACE Amsterdam', Nov. 2. The German Austrian state council, according to a dispatch from Vienna, has issued 'a proclamation - to the ' soldiers at - the front saying that the government has been taken over by the nationl "as sembly. The" assembly will immediate ly conclude peace and begin the order ly demobilization of -the army, the proclamation declares. 1 i SOLDIERS TAKE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO COUNCIL Amsterdam, Nov, 2. Amid scenes ol the wildest enthusiasm regfftient aftei -regiment, each with - its, commander; 'is v appearing;, before the national councU", (Continued . On ' Page -Three -- , ! i k 1 ' i & - Ir i "it : 1 1 I VV: t c I- t: I t' t' i . f I'-'-aV';!" ti- imm mm ii f- f -:,' f, r mm si Pin :, o. '-i !i:y -'mmi "my ml I : mmm mm ft u: r.flH til ml hi -U. .5 f if I ( H I . t h I t ) 1 '2t i 11 s Ml n -Mr t i ' 4 f i ' I I: s i r i 2 r i
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