Daily British Whig (1850), 10 Oct 1918, p. 1

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12 PAGES. 236 YEAR 85: NO. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 1918. LAST EDITION _ Quarter ALLIES PURSUE GERMANS THROUGH BURNING TOWNS illion: Germans Now in F ull Re ENEMY FLEEING HONS. TRAPPED "BEFORE BRITISH " IAT FERGELY THE GERMAN PAPERS F 1ERCELY HOSTILE They Lament G Government's Proposal, Which Threatens Germandom With Ruin. Amsterdam, Oct. 10.--TFhat . pen- ance for wrong done is far from the | German public mind is. shawn by the | FLYING THE WHITE FLAG the on The British Are Within Two Miles of Le Cateau--| British and Americans Have Won a Com- plete Victory Southeast and East of Cambrai. (Canadian Press Despatch.) New York, Oct. 10.--The Associated Press this morning issued the following : \ Crossing the St. Quentin-Le Cateau railroad, the French forces operating just south of the. Americans and the British along the line where the Hindenburg system has been émashed, have made a new advance which appears to be important. ~ Marcy has been captured from the enemy, and the French have reached Fontaine Notre Dame and Fonsommes, well east of the railroad. "They have also occu- pied Etaves wood and the village of Bocquiaux, further north. Marcy | is approximately five miles east of St. Quentin, and is directly south of the line oni which the British and Americans were fighting yester- | day. of St. Quentin could escape from the net being thrown about them, and marks a new step in the operation of outflanking the Laon sal- ient. British and American forces seem to have won a complete vic tory "south-east and east of Cambrai. state that the Allies are marching eastward through burning towns in pursuit of the enemy, who appears to be hurriedly retreating, The British Nearing Le Cateau (Canadian PressDespatch.) London, Oct. 10.--Further progress was made by the British last night fowards the northern part of the present battle front, to the east of Cambrai. Fighting is going on south-east of Cambrai, on both sides of Caudry. The British are now within two miles of Le Cateau. Sallaumines and Noyelles have been captured. Hot On Heels of Retreating Huns {Canadian Press Despatch.) Paris, Oct. 10.--A quarter of a million Germans are now in full retreat between Cambrai and St. Quentin, with tke Allies hot at . their heels, according to.battle Front. reports that came in through the night. At some points the advance has exceeded fifteen miles in the past two days. This forward movement of the Allies is regarded as the first step in the great general retreat of the Germans' which seems now inevitable, for it, is doubtful whether Gen. Ludendorff has sich fortified positions on the upper Oise and the $ambre canal as to per- mit him effectively to resist the exploitation of the victory of the past two days on the Allied side. The result of Marshal Foch's skilful strategy is that the region of Laon and St. Gobain massif has become so dangerous that the evacuation of this vast and important pocket in the near future seems imperative. CANADIANS CAPTURED CAMBRAI SAVING THE CTY FROM FLAMES . (Canadian Press Despatch.) With the Canadian Forces, Oct. 9. (Delayed)--Early this morn- ing Canadian troops penetrated Cambrai, and are now in complete possession of the city. Thus is fulfilled the legitimate ambition of the Canadian corps, for the achievement of which they have been fighting hard ever since they stormed the Canal du Nord and took Bourlon wood on Sept. 27th. Even if the Imperial troops, who yesterday so gallantly advanced south of Cambrai, had had the good fortune to capture the city, its fall must still have been attributed to | the sledge hammer strokes of the Canadian corps, before which' the enemy crumbled. The capture of Cambrai fittingly crowns the brilliant record of the corps since August 8th. Cambrai fell to a night attack. We kicked off at half-past one. - Thé morning was pitchy dark, but careful preparations resulted in all the troops getting to their desti- nation without a hitch. Our third division had the honor of cross- ing the canal and penetrating into the city. The element of sur- prise assisted in overwhelming the enemy defence in the streets. Somg Sens elements apparently were * caught between the city and further south. : began at once to try and save the clty from fires that ~ broke GUEAE various points. The Allies have not fired a single shell into Cambrai, and these fires must have been of incendiary otigin. ae our third division swept out due east to the line of canal, securing the bridge heads as far as Eswars, and Morenchies, Blacourt and Cuvillers; with many hundreds | § This advance cuts the railroad by which the Germans just north | Reports from the front|' | | i | | | | - mint The Kaiser, the young Emperor of Austria and t Turkey, with the Kaiser's mouthpiece (lower:right), Pri Baden, who has sent the request for peace. NATIONAL AUTONOMY FOR AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Germany May Asi Ask the Allies For Counter-Guarantees, Says Cologne Gazette. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Oect. 10.--It is reported from Vienna that the Austro<Hun- garian ministerial council has de- cided to introduce national aulo- nomy, "'in order to make President Wilson's stipulation an accomplish- ed Tact," says an Exchange Tele- graph despateh from Copenhagen to-day. The Cwech party did not take part \in the' deliberations, ad- vices add. It-is holding an import- ant meeting to-day. Want C ounter- suarantees., (Canadian Press Despatch) 'Basil, Oct. 10---"Onlyl military reasons could "compel us to &ecept President Wilson's' conditions," says the Cologne Gazette in commenting on the American reply to the Ger- man peace offer. "It is possible Germany may require cdunter- guarantees, for example the evacua- Lod of ithe colonies woecupied by the 88." The newspaper continues: "The political and military authorities of the empire are now going to debate these questions. It is probahle the Chancellor will present to the Reich- stag the result "of these delibera- tions. For the moment the hour is too grave to permit of suppositions." FIRE AT HOSPITAL CAUSES TWO DEATHS Blaze in Officers Quarters Of Base Hospital at Rahway, (Canadian Press Despatch) 'Rahway, N.J., Oct. ~Two of cers are reported hid and sevefai athiers were injured in a fire which destroyed the officers' quarters at Base Hospital No. 3 early to-day, at Colonia, three miles from here. The fire was confined .to-the officers' quarters and did not spread to ihe mai hospital buildipg." Captain Warren T. Walker, quartermaster, is reported to be among those burn- ed to death. , Want Minister of Personnel. Ottawa, Oct. 10.«The «civil ser- vice is agitating for a minister of personnel, whose particular funcs tion it will be to deal with civil ser- vice matters and serve as a channel of communication ta the cabinet. Hon. A. K. MacLean, who is chairman of the cabinet committee on reconstruction and development, will probably be assigned to this work, He has made a study of civil service problems. An, early response" to President Wilson's note of inquiry to the Ger- man chancellor is sapeniod, by Am- erica officials. tection." o London, Oct, ¥ peal for an armisti direct military necessity, is the infor- mation obtained fgam -most authori- tative sources. Hithe most literal sense of the words'#he German mili- tary leaders have only one hope of escaping a disaster of the first mag- nitude, and' a refusal of the armistice will deprive them of it. Predictions in war are dangerous, bit your corre spondent's information points to an almost immediatd succession of events which wil lmake the recent victories, great as. they have been, seem small by ¢ n. = Witham Higher Com "have extri- cated the German armies from a posi- tion the difficulties vf which Luden- dorff thoroughly appreciates. - Mar- shal Foch must have smiled when he heard of the Gernian proposal, even if he did not: burst inte Homeric laughter. He has the enemy in the hollow of his hand, according to my information, and events are likely to move: both rapidly and decisively. rmany"s ap- was dictated by "THE KAISER'S FAITH SEEMED SUPREME He Told Soldiers in September That Line Could Not Be Broken. ~ Berne, Oct. 10~The German Em- peror, addressing the German sol- diers at Rufach, Alsace, late in Sep- tember, said: "Neither the Freneh nor the Amer- icans will break through our front in Alsace-Lorraine. We shall defend with the last drop of our blood these provinces, which belong to "us, and which the Almighty has entrusted to us to administer as His stewards, and we shall keep them for the benefit of heir. inhabitants and the glory of bl "Our faithful allies are with us in this.' The last drop of blood of ev- ery Austrian and Hungarian soldier, the last drop of blood of every Bul- garian and Turkish soldier will be shed before our enemies wrest from "us land which belongs to Germany, "Our enemies cannot and will not succeed. We uré under divine pro- More Large Guns for States. Washington, Oct. 10.--Huge in- creases in the artillery programme hive been decided on by the Ord- nance Department, which asked the House Appropriations Comanittee to add $1,100,000,000 to its estimates of $2,667,000,000 to carry. out its part of the enlarged army programme. +The War Department has decided to provide 'more' big guns for each of the 80 divisions 'that the United States expects to have i in France next year. ' London, Ont., Oct. 10--Rev. Capt. N. H. McGillivray. Jormerty of Knox Presh: St.Thomas, now connected. With the. militia § in this city, ed to the mt Germany Marshal Haig's Forces Have Made An Ad- vance of Ning Mies. 300,000 GERMANS RETREAT TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF ST. QUENTIN. British Cavalry: Pursue--Huns | Burn Everything in Sight---The British Took 11,000 Germans on Wednesday. ~ With the Stila A on the Cambnrai-St. Quentin Front, > Oct. 10.--The Germans on a, remarks of Rhenish papers Chancellor Maximilian's speech, Sunday's 'Cologne Gazette envelope itself in icy silence. The Rhenish Westphalian Zeitung, | in a fierce editorial says "It is the heaviest blow the German people conceivable, adds: "It means the ment of Germany's Flemish policy| and the absolute surrender of all fruits of victory in the East Baltic Ger- to mandom is threatened with. utter ruin {and the Empire' s gates opened wid to. Bolshevism." The proposal Alsace-Lorraine refers to as "the crowning absurd) ty of al Ithe absurdities for which ( man policy has distinguished in all its pacificatory efforts there in the for as 3 twenty-mile front have been put to flight north and south af St. Quentin. [British cavalry are 'pursuing them. The deep- ost gain is about nine miles, There is no sign of the advance slowing up. Ot is estimated' that 300,000 Germans are in retreat. They are | burning everything dn sight. Many thousand prisoners and large stores of booty have heen, taken by the (Allies. In yesterday's attack between Cambrai and St. Quentin the Allles took (11,000 prisoners and 1200 guns. Franco-Americans - Gain. {Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, Oct. 10.--The battle in Champagne jis continuing 'with great intensity. The IGer- mans are putting up a stiff de- fence, but the Franco-Ameri- cans are making steady gains. Two. thousand [prisoners were taken yesterday. The Ameri- 'cans have taken the strong fortress of Mamelle on the i "Verdun front. A "» ie a More [French Captures." (Canadian Press Despatch) Paris, Oct, 10.--French troops advancing east of the St. Quentin Le Cateau rallroad have captured Etaves wood and Boequiaux village, and further south have taken Marcy and reached Fontain Notre Dame as well as Fonsommes. | War Tidings. Tuesday's victory in France yield- ed the Allies sixty square miles of territory, and a great number of field guns, trench mortars and machine guns. The enemy has been thrust back into open country beyond de- fensive works. The British authorities are in pos- session of information which would not surprise them to hear that Tur- key had surrendered, within the next forty-eight hours. The U.S. army has advanced north of Cambrai and gained considerable ground. ® Germans have set fire to the beau- tiful town of Bohain. Germans are surrendering "freely" in- this sec- tion. Malincourt was also captured Wednesday by the British. , The Montenegrins, including. wo- men, have taken up arms against the Austrians in Montenegro. General Allenby's cavalry last Sun- day occupied the towns of Zahleh and Rayak, respectively 33 and 30 miles northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus, No Extension of Term. - Hamilton, Oct. 10.--One of the important resolutions which will be considered at the Methodist General Conference some time this week is one relating to the extension of pas- toral terms from four to five years. The special 'committee which has to deal with this important matter met this morning and Aeciase, after len- M io abisior oot The Austr. -- ustra- lan a has no intention a | the majority really im {such a policy peace. can be enforced? past forty years." v It asks: "Does the Chancellor, does agine that with | Will®hey dare humbu 1g the German | people to the extent of telling and total abandon- | of then | to precipitate withdrawal he Eacny otig 9 | especalt | i 1h HO, WE LIE CRON SINCE THE BRITISH CAPTURED - ITY. OF CAMBRAI I 14 Ludendorte's Forces Being Thrown Into Disorder--A General Giving Way of Enemy Line. ' Paris, Oct.' 10.--The battles is | proceeding with great intensity ~{albng the whole fighting front. With the fall of Cambrai, Gen | Ladendortf's battle line continces | crumbling about him. The ditack by the armtés of Gen. Byng and Gen.s Rawlinson toward Le Cateau tends of the that President Wilson, if he gracious" | German armies in this region, which ing of Germany white? The paper taunts the ment with completely misjud gung the | position. Its action, it say#, is born of vague imaginings and nervous tim- idity. "A peace such as Prince Maximil- ian advecates," the paper continues, "would be a peace to the great glory of England and establish Anglo- Saxon world dominion. As for Ger. many she would be pushed into a corner among the nations "of the earth." GETS SG ARED, GERMANY ¢ And Blames the British for the Burfing of Douai. {Canadian Press Despatct h) London, Oct 10.--Indications that Germany is becoming anxious in consequence of the threats of reprisals for the destruction . of towns dn' France are afforded by =a telegram from Wolff Bureal, saying | that Doual was burning as the Yre- sult of the continuous British bombardment. - 3 * AUSTRIA-HUNGARY + MAY BE SEPARATED. + (Canadian Press Despétch.) +* London, Qct. 10.--A move- + men favoring a proclamation 4 separating Hungary and Aus- % tria is making extreme rapid + progress among the public in + the dual monarchy, according + | toa despatch from 'Zurich. + | + + CEFR VPIPEPIRP PPP IPP O00 | CHURCH LOSES CASE. Supreme Court Rules on Bequest of | Sixty Thousand Dollars. Toronto, Oct, 10.--In consequence | of a decision handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada Ottawa, a bequest of $60,000 provided for in the 'will not go to the bene- Christian Science Chure the Supreme Court having Ontario Brom Ont, fit of the charities, reversed the ruling of the Court of Appeal. The will ,which has been in dispute since May, 1917, is interpreted in the decision just given: Mary Cameron, the only surviving © sister of Mary Helen Orr, commenc- ed proceedings in May, 1917 She | has since died, leaving as her next of | kin a son. New Commission for Good Roads. Ottawa, Oct. 9A. W. Campbell, former Deputy Minister of Railways and Canals, will likely be appointsd shortly Commissioner for Good Roads, with the rank of Deputy Min- ister, Mr. Campbell was a pioneer in the good roads movement Pte. Stephen Lambert Fowler, of a Canadian infantry unit, a well known Toledo soldier, was admitted to the 1st 'Southern Geheral - Birmingham, England, on Oct, 1st. suffering from a gunshot wound in the right leg. John Watt succeeds w. D. Cuth- bértson as accountant for the Boyd Caldwell Company, Ltd., Lanark. LL ---- Sa -- ly deigns to' accept the offer, will do so with any other, aim butt the bleed- | new governs | will of Mary Helen Orr, of Bobcay-| Hospital at {evidently are being thrown into dis- order. The Wrench and Americans are. {forcing back the enemy in the jc hampagne and consolidating their | gains 'on the Suippe River front, { while Frenfh cavalry ls north of the river, reconnoitring toward {Juniville and Machault. \ In the Argonne, the - Ge 8, caught in a pocket, are putting un supreme resistance, An artillery battle is raging along a wide fronl ~ north-west of Rheims. Paris regards the news from the front as Indicating a general giving way of the German line---a collapse piece by piece of the enemy's posi- itiops and a crumbling away of his [army, regiment by regiment and (division by division. + | THE WORLD'S NEWS | IN BRIEF FORM Tidings From All All Over Told in a Pithy and Pointed 3 ---- Arpaio "rT Shi, bai been tiosed in order to combat the influenza epidemic." A Vienna despatch says Hungar- # {an newspapers report 100,000 cases of influenza in Budapest. One hundred and eighty thousand -{new cases of Spanish influenza are reported in the German army. Former King Ferdinand of Bul {garia and large suite have reached | Coburg, in Central Germany. { Under the auspices of 'the Gan- janoque High School Athletic So- clety the annual field day of sports Iwas held &t the driving park Wed- | nesday 'afternoon. { The health of King Alfonso, who has been ill from influenza, is im- {proving Steadily. His general cone | dition is excellent. Mayor Booker, Hamilton, receiv- ed a telegram notifyihg him that his son, Flight Lieut. Charles 8. Booker, had been killed in action. Banning of "The Form" is being urged upon the Min- ister of Justice, and the matter will be considered by the Cabinet. . The American people strongly ap- prove President Wilson's reply to Germany's peace request. London regards the reply as clever and logi- cal. Marshal. Joffre's attack of grippe. which caused him to delay his visit {to London, is mild in character. | The marshal will be able to be out | by At Kitehener for the first time in sixty-four vears the Ontario Journal, formerly the Berliner Journal, a German language newspaper, 1s _pub- lished in the English language. Speaking at Glasgow, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill sald that that Wwe were not go to be rf of the victory at the moment. Henry Marsh, thirty-five years of age, his brother, Joseph, thirty-three years, and two Russ met instant death from fumes in a wine vat at the Stamford Park Wine Cow pany, Niagara Falls. Marjorie Rachael Brind, wits Major Briand, of Force, shot herself doa in Eng, while mentally unba ey had lived some timo in isisaret | O'Sullivin; oabaint singer, was questioned at New York on Wednesday in an effort to ascer- tain whether she re aonally ald- od Walter - sian Grenadier, to | 'the 1 ot 1 Afr on, need, London, Ont, Oet. 10. --Four hundred and forty-four tons of hard coal stored 3 a number of Government bufldings of wo city are sought by Fuel Be) Cont McCallum. ler ES Daily Racing - we were going to win outright, and Haatus tsateerensy

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