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1 i THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN '.TIIE WEATHER: Forecast for North Carolina: Local rains Saturday and probably Sunday. II A V Your Subscription iTL TODAY VOL. XXXIV, NO. 338. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATUHOAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS ml i i J L. J BULGARIA, SMALLEST OF TEUTONIC ALLIES WITH ARMIES IN RETREAT AND TERRITORY INVADED, SEEMS TO HAVE STRUCK COLORS Premier Melinoif, of Bulgaria, Has Asked For An Armistice lo Consider Terms of Peace, But Whether He Is Acting Upon His Own Responsibility or With Approv al of King Ferdinand Remains in Doubt. You Ordered , Now Eat It NUMBER PRISONERS TAKEN BY AMERICANS NUMBER 8,000 If Bulgaria Lavs Down Arms the Shatter- ea armies or lurxey win oe lut un From Their Allies and Lines of Com munication Will Be Severed Except Across Black Sea. AMERICANS CAPTURE 8,000 MEN ' WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTH- 'VESrorVlUN7Sept2(ByrA7 sociated 5 PreM.)--Tlie number of prisoners thus far captured by the Americans in their of fensive is now placed at 8,000, of whom 125 are officers. The captured' material includes more than 100 guns, twelve of which are of heavy calibre, many trench mortars and hun dreds of machine guns. (BY THE ASSOCUfKED PKBSS) BIG LOTTERY WILL JIT IE BEGIN 0 0 XT MONDAY EIGHT THOUSAND PRISOMERSTAKEN Will Determine Order Num ber of Thirteen Mil lion Registrants BY AMERICANS Advance Continues in Face of Strengthening Ger man Resistance TWENTY SIX HOURS WILL BE REQUIRED AMERICANS ENTER ST. QUENTIN FRAY Because of System Drawing Trench and British Also Ad Will Have But Little Significance vance and Take Many Prisoners i (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) In the fives of eteadily atrengthei." the American In German resistance WASHINGTON. Sept. 27. Drawing j of the msBter number whlrh will de- termlne the order In their respective , Clausen 01 wie i o.uuu.uuu n.ri. .iu , .- H. lstered for military service September " " v......k-- , 12, will begin at noon next Monday their advance and their front SOW Inl and continue without Interruption un- i eludes the villages of Charpentry. ' til the 17.000 capsules have been tak- y Eplonvllls and Ivolry. j Thty, vn irum nit? uuwi. wiiivutin crtiuiia icu t . that It will require twenty-six hours to j threw back German counter-attactcs ; complete the work. 'with heavy losses to the enemy. 'The ' Because of the classification sys- I prBOners captured by the Americans tern, this drawing- the third since i , ' i tk. . ' .- the nation went to war will not have alone now 'r 1,000 and the cap- ; the significance that attached to the ' tured booty Include mora than 100 first lottery last year when order (guns . "iV; i rzer:aTi7 racw Its plan of celling registrants and In- Hal shows that tha -Americans had vades the deferred classifications, the 1 entered the fray In the St, Quentln numbers to be drawn will affect only sector. They celebrated thalr entry . those men of the new draft ages who , ... . i cantorln ' outposts of tha ', HlndenbuVf , Una at LeCatelet. The French trotpa east of Rhelms were squally as aucceum. as . we wltn whom tney co- They have Increased tha are physically fit for military service and are not given deferment because of dependents or occupation. Details Not Completed, Details of the drawing have not ! Americans been completed, but General Crowder co-operated announced that he had Invited Acting J number of prisoners taken - by 'them NEW YORK, Sept. 27. The price of peace will be impartial Justloe to all nations, the Instrumentality in dispensable to secure it is a league of nations formed not before or after, but-at the peace conference; and Ger many, as a member, win have to re deem her character not by what hap pens at the peace table, but by what follows." ' This was President Wilson's answer With the weldinff of the armies of the entente into a compact whole under commander of the in-1 ter-allied war council, guided by the master strat egy of Marshal Foeh, apparently has come the first break in the united front of the central powers. , Bulgaria, smallest of the Teutonic allies, seems to have struck her colors. Premier Malinof f has asked for an armistice to consider terms of peace. Wheth er he is acting upon his own responsibility as the representative of a revolutionary party or with the approval of King Ferdinand and the government, remains in doubt. In either case, however, there is little doubt that Bulgaria has ceased to be a military factor in the war. Her armies are in full retreat and her soil has been invaded. . Will Be a Severe Blow. Secession df the Balkan state from the thraldom of Germany will be almost as severe a blow to the Teutonic alliance as was the collapse of Russia to j the allies. If Bulgaria lays down her arms, Turkey, her ar mies shattered by the coup of General Allenby in Palestine, will be cut off from her allies. Her lines of communication will be severed except across the Black Sea through Roumania or ovej the mountain peaks of Trans-Caucasia into Russia where the grip of the Germandcontrolled Bolsheviki is becom ing steadily weaker With her supplies of German-made munitions and raw materials hanging by such a slender thread, military observers believe the Ottoman empire will have no course left but to follow the example of lLuSh.nlriSinThc aL Um ILmm ' anr tn Ha thr t1mM In nrtrnnvl. nc Iranian iicigiiLiui. IMPARTIAL JUSTICE TO ALL NATIONS IS THE PRICE OF PEACE DECLARES THE PRESIDENT IN LIBERTY LOAN, SPEECH League of Nations, Formed At Peace Conference, Is Necessary in Establishing Permanent Peace, For It Would Be Folly to Leave Guarantee of Subsequent Voluntary Action of Governments Which Destroyed Russia. (CONTINUED ON PAtiK TWO.) (CONTlNt'ID ON jPAGS TWQ.) LOAN TO BE ALLOTTEO TQ Fourth Liberty Loan Drive Launched by Addresses of Government Officials INDUSTRIL PENNANTS Americans, French ; , and British Keeping Huns . Sufficiently Amused STARTLING PROGRESS WASHINGTON', Sept. 27. All over subscriptions to the fourth Liberty WASHINGTON. ' Sept. IT. facing a smashing attack by the American First army on the heights of tha 1 .ll W. .11-... V.. .V. . ..... . " irurjr Meuae determined French pi mis announcement was to the west lust beyond the forest or summary of late reports RhowInK American troops advances during the day in France. Cheers greeted the news of the American successes, particularly when Mr. Strong eald the Yankee troops' in their drive had reclaimed 100 square miles of territory, for France. Patriotic fervor seemed to reach Its climax when the president arose to department, made tonight on the eve of the open ing of the three weeks' campaign in given tonight before an audience of I begin his address, the audience rising Fourth Liberty loan workers here, to and again cheering for several min the recent peace talk from the cen tral powers, although he did not refer specifically to the utterances of ene my leaders. Peace was not a question, declared the president of "coming to terms" lor "we cannot 'come to terms' with them," as "they have made it impossi- utes. text. ble." Peace must be guaranteed, for i -r-by Mr. Wilson read from printed The text of President Wilson's ad dress follows: The President's Address. "My fellow citizens: 1 am not here to promote the loan. That will be done ably and enthusiastically done and expectations are most excited we think more definitely than before o- tha 4oait.i that h.n. nnnn It ann nf (Kn. ., .. . ...v ...., -- ... -itne nistory or nations, )juiFuDca mnvii mum r- icaiiKU u y menns of It. For it has positive and well defined purpose which we did not determine and which we cannot alter, . -u Huiu v,nn;.i or aaiwxnoiy createu j mem; no statesman or assembly can alter them, 'ihey have arisen out of the very nature and circumstances of the war. The most that statesmen or assemblies can do Is to carry them out or be false to them. They were per haps not clear at the outset, but they aro clear now. The war has lasted more than four years and the whole world hue been drawn into it. The t'nmmnn will nf mnnlilnfl ha Kn substituted for the particular purposes j w,'h. th,L'ibert,y.,loan co"""lttee of Individual states. Individual states- Argonne and a simultaneous British thrust at Cambral, German armies on th- VfiRtArn trnnt tn th nnlnlnn nt. which the American people will be ! officials here are confronted , by asked to subscribe not less than $6,- menace that renders Impossible tha : nnA OOn nnn ih r.. i sending of aid to weakened Bulgaria, imiiBmioTi ti;ni iivr kivngtm Buy I routd do nnthinsr ma v Iiava liaif mttrth ' The drive was formally launched to- to do with the dispatch of peace ovar- ? night by President Wilson In an nd-" tures by Bulgaria, It was thought. dress to Liberty loan workers in Now There Is danger enough for the TorK city, in Chicago today Seer- enemy, officers said today : In the tary Daniels spoke to the American Bankers association, and Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board, dis cussed the loan tonight in an address to the Philadelphia chamber of com merce. Thousands of soldiers will partici pate in, Liberty loan demonstrations Franco-American attack, linked tip at It Is with the British drive. Ar the trust In the Champagne develops- It appears most probable to many obser vers here that the direct object sought la to extend the battle Una dlreatty up the Mouse until the Thlonvville- Mets fortress is masked and tha Ger- "there will be parties to the peace whose promisee have proved untrust worthy and means must be found In connection with the peace settlement to remove that source of Insecurity." Volnntary Action Folly. "It would be folly to leave the guar antee to the subsequent voluntary ac tion of the governments we have seen destroy Russia and deceive Rouma nia," continued the president Five thousand persons heard the president speak. Just before his ar rival a guard of soldiers, sailors and marines seated at the rear of the plat form were suddenly ordered to at tention. - They arose with a smart click' of rifles, the natolnal colors were advanced and the great apdlence. Decame silent. This dramatic quiet tA K ,, ..wl ,.f . I, , .. , , t and tireless men and women lne connici, mu stop it as tney please. loyal who have undertaken to present It to you and to our fellpw citizens throughout the country; and I have not the least doubt of their complete success; for I know their spirit and the spirit of the country. My confi dence Is confirmed, too, by the thoughtful and experienced co-operation of the bankers here and every where, who are lending theli- Invalua ble aid and guidance. I have ctune rather, to seek an opportunity to pre sent to you some thoughts which I trust will serve to give you, in peniMpn fuller measure than, before, a vivid sense of the great Issues involved, la order that you may appreciate and ac cept with added enthusiasm the grave significance of the duty of supporting seat, to rise three times in acknowl- 1 Ai1rmnt. But it makes little difference to the entente 5j1lS: 1 ' ' 1 ' ' ' ' 1 ence In singing it. War Bulletins Read. Mr. Strong read to the audience a (CONTINUED ON PAGET fWO.) .. -ty-jime government by your men and ,,KrU --'. "'most P'nt of - . . ,, i Iz wmuCT ana seii-aeniai. rso man or . Lporthv1 R;dSnh Wman Wh H" rea"y take" What stage, escorted by Benjamin Strong, tnls war mean8 can heg!ute to Klvo . governor of the federal reserve bank h ,.. ...., iT... .1 of New. York., Then. a. tremendous ,t i, "1 l tonteht tk-.' to make it clear once more what the war really means. Tou will need no other stimulation or reminder of your duty Well Defined Purpose. . "At every turn of the war we gain a fresh consciousness of what we mean to accomplish by it. When our hope It has become a people's war, and peoples of nil sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune are in volved In Its sweeping processes of change and settlement. We came into it when Its character had become fully det'ned and it was plain that no nation could stand apart or be Indifferent, to its outcome. Its chn'lenge drove to the heart of everything we cared for and lived for. Our brothers from many lands, as well as our own murdered dead under the sea, were calling to us, and we responded, fiercely and r1 course. Saw Things As Tlioy Were, j "The air was clear about us. W saw things in their full, convincing proportions as they were; and we hai't seen them with steady eyes and un changing comprehension ever since. We accepted the issues of the war cs facts, not aa any group of men elthnr here or elsewhere nad denned them, and we can accept no outcome which does not squarely meet and settle them. -Those Issues are these: "Shall the military power ef any nation or group of nations be suffered to determine the fortunes of peoples (CONTINUKD ON TAGB EIGHT.) throughout the campaign, and the i man armies surrounding it virtually nrtvy department has asked its nerson- 1 separated from tha enemv flnmea in ! nel to co-operate as fully as possible ' northern France and Belgium. The un ine uDeriy loan committee. i progress mads by General Pershing's W'ounded soldiers and sailors also men In their first swift rush veaterdav have been realsed from hlspltals to I was startling in view of the difficult aid In the speaking campaign. More i and broken country through which than 100 French soldiers, Including the drive was made and gave further fifty members of the foreign legion, I evidence of waning German man now , in this country, will aid and ap-I power and also that German generals proximately 300 Italian soldiers are ' again-weTe out-guessed. As the drive expected within a few days. progresses, It Is believed tha French One of the new features of this front beyond the Sulppe river will be eamnalgn will be the use of the in- I come involved and the operation will duKtrlal honor pennant. When seven- i be extended to the more open country ty-five per cent of the total number I before Rhelms. The cutting edge of of persons on an industry's payroll ' the great attack, however, 'appears to h3 bought bonds the Industry will be.be the American advance on tha permitted to fly an honor pennant. ' Meuse. 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