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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16,
1918.
October 16, 1917,
三拜六十月十英港香
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
PRESIDENT WILSON ANSWERS GERMANY,
SATISFACTORY SAFEGUARDS AND GUARANTEES DEMANDED,
A CHANGE OF GERMAN POWER NEEDED.
Wa-bington, October 14. The Secretary of State this afternoon made public the following Note to the Charge d'affûres of Switzerland ad interim in charge of German interests in the United 8.ste=
D partment of Sale,
October 14th, 1918. "Sir: "In reply to the communication of the German Government| dated the 12th inst. which you handed me to day I have the honour to request you to transmit the following answer :---
"The unqualified acceptance by the present German Govern- ment and by a large majority of the German Reichstag of the. terms laid down by the President of the United States?
ALLIED OFFENSIVE IN FLANDERS.
Big Attack Begun Towards Courtrai:
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SIX HUNDRED PRISONERS SECURED SO FAR.
London, October 14: The British, French and Belgians commenced a big attack to day in the direction of Courtrai.
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Extent of the Attack.
London, October 14. Beater's correspondent at British Headquarters, writing to-day, saysThe Second British Army, with strong Allied forces operating between them and the Yeer ooce, attacked in Flanders this morn iog. Our attacking front extends from the Lya River Werving to the hamlet of 8 Patere, on the Balers-Menin Road.)
By eight o'clock in the morning we had advanced su avarage of three thousand varde. About six hundred prices were sent baak. We were then within fifteen hundred yards of Moczveels.
A German Claim.”
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London, October 14. of Americs in bie Address to the Congress of the United States on on a wide front between, Dixmade and the Lys.
▲ German (ficisi wireless message enye: The enemy attacked We stemmed the the 8th of January, 1918, and in his cabergoat Addresses justifies thrust. the President in making a frank and direct statement of his decision swith regard to the communiostions of the German Government of
the 8th and 12th of October, 1918. ·
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The Situation Summarised.
Lyons, October 14,
It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation Leon. Tas Germans carried away more than 300 periode, of whom A French wireless message states:-The French have entered and the conditions of an Armistice are matters which must be left to one is the Mayor. The French found 6,500 civiliana in Lson. The judgment and advice of the Military advisera of the Government of the United States and the Allied Governments and the President to a depth of five kilometree, and have reached north of the Aisne In the region of, Laon the Franco-Italian forces have advanced feels it his duty to say that no arrangement can be accepted by the as far as the ratingy from Laon to Rheime. Government of the United States which does not provide absolutely satisfactory safeguarde and guarantees for 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 sesume that this will also be the judgment and decision of the Allied Governments.
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The President feels that it is also his duty to add that neither the Government of the United States Dor, he is quite sure, the Governments with which the Government of the United States in associated as a belligerent, will consent to consider an Armistice soj long as the armed forces of Germany continue the illegal and inhaman preotices which they still pereist in.
At the very time that the German Government approaches the Government of the United States with proposals of peace its eubmarines are engaged in sinking passenger ships at ses, and not the ships alone but the very boste in which their passengers and crews seek to make their way to safety: and in their present enforced withdrawal from Flanders and France the German Armies are pur- ening a course of wanton destruction which has always been regarded as in direct violation of the rules and prsetices of civilised warfare., Cition and villages, if not destroyed, are being stripped, of ill they contain not orly (
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The nations associated against Germany cannot be expected to agree to a cessation of arms while acte of inhumanity, spoliation, and desolation are being continued which they "jastly look upon with horror and with burning bearts.
In the Dousi meetor the British have continued their advance between the Scheldt Canal and the Senses. They have reached the outskirts of Lies St. Amand, five kilometres south of Dessin.
On the whole front the German retreat continues. In Cham-
pagne this backward movement has been hastened by the irresistible thrusts by General Mangin's Army.
Another Withdrawal Expected...
Parte, October 14
A Havas message states :— Labp and La Fere, which are most important centres, have been taken. The strongly-fortified forest of BL. Gobain is now cleared of the enemy. Lion was one of the great forced to withdraw to the Mause on the line from Mezieres to Lille, bastions of the German positions in France. The Germans will be The German Army is beaten, but not rooted. It hse lost immense quantities of material and now must clear cat of other aslients.
THE SERBIAN FRONT.
Occupation of Prizrend.
Lyone, October 14. A French wireless meenage stairs-The French have occupied Pizrend to Serbia.
An Austrian Version."
London, October 14.
An Aarian cficial megaspe says:—In the region northward- of Nish withdrawal engagement continus, the civil popolation
What the Capture of Nish Means-
"It is necessary also in order that there may be no possibility participating. Enemy pressure is especially strong in Morava of minnderstanding that the President should very solemnly call Valley. the attention of the Government of Germany to the language and plain intent of one of the terms of pesos which the German Govern ment 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 followe
Paris, October. 14.
resistance has been overcome and French cavalry here pushed on. A Haras message states The Barba bave teken Nish. Stif
Something more then the mere captare of the town has been effected. ***The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can The important strategic railway junction in the Balkans and the separately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the only through railway from Germany to Constantinople has been world; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at least its reduction eecored. The taking of Nieh blocks one more avenge of German to virtual impot ney."
expansion in the East.
"The power which has hitherta controlled 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 pasce, if pesce is to come by the action of the German people themeélves. The President feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judgment, -depend upon the definiteness and the estisfactory oharacter of the
guarantees which can be given in this fundamental matter.
It is indispensable that the Governments associated against Germany should know, beyond a peradventure with whom they are dealing.
The President will make a separate reply to the Royal and Imperial Government of Austria-Hungary.
"Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration.
(Signed). ROBERT LANBING." .
[We are able to publish the above through the courtesy of the Bulletin.]
KING GEORGE IN LONDON
Meets the Premier and Chief of Staff.
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London, October 14. His Majesty the King arrived in London from Sindringham to-day and granted a lengthy audience to the Fremier and the Chief of Staff.
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THE PEACE' QUESTION.
German Overture Merely a Trick.
Paris, October 14. A Havas weissge states-The German Reply to President Wilson is a trap. It pretends to accept his points, but is in reality
■ trick to enable the German Armies to effect a safe retreat, No semistice is possible until the military and naval chiefs have bean secured that Germany will be incapable of resuming hostilities, or until a roomditional surrender in made. No armistice can be
deriving Marshal Fook of his advantages.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE PEACE QUESTION.
Uarest in Austria-Hungary.
London, Oct. 30.
Various messages indicate, that the situation in Austro- Hungary more critical. A Zurich telegram even says ' that the end of the Dual Monarchy is imminent. There have been violent pacifist demonstrations at Vienna and Budapest. The Emperor is conferring with Anti-German Austro-Hungarian alatesmen.
German Conservatives' Demands.
Amsterdam, Oct. 13.
The Conservative members of the Reichstag have declar ed: The evacuation of occupied territory before an honour- able peace and the integrity of German territory are as sured may be fɛta).
The
"Lokal
Anzeiger," states" that the Reich- stag Conservatives have communicated to the Chancellor their serious objections to the acceptance of President Wilson's reply.
Herr Marden Speaks Out.
Amsterdam, Oct 13. The "Tageblatt" quotes a lecture by Herr, Maximilian Harden in Berlin, who amidst prolonged applause, said that the autocratic rale of certain persons was a thing of the past. Submarinism was advised by men who will stand before a State Tribunal The work of Herr Kuehlmana and Count Czernin at Brestlitovek had brought upon them the reputation of having, the morale of card-sharpers.
Marshal Foch the Judge.
Paris, Oct. 12.
A Havas message states: There are two salient points in the German reply to President Wilson's note." The Ger man Government accepts the conditions of peace laid down in the 14 original and four supplementary points. The Ger man Government is prepared to accept evacuation as a first condition of the armistice. President Wilson is asked to man.. age the appointment of Commission to arrange the condi- tions of the arcuations French comment says there in no room for last hour, manoeuvron President Wilson will
THE PEACE QUESTION,
force Germany to give further precise explanations Only one judge fixes the armistice, Marshal Foch. In an armis- tice only two persons count the victor chief commanding and the defeated chief obeying The American press says that Prussianism approaches its Sedan every day..
As Extraordinary London, Oct. 14
Idea.
An extraordinary German idea of evacuation is indicat ed in Dutch telegrams.
Beater's correspondent at The Hague quotes the "Nieu- we Courant" as saying that the Dutch Minister at Berlin is: going there and it is rumoured that his visit is in connection with a German proposal that, in the event of evacuation of Belgium and Northern France, Dutch troops will take over control of the evacuated territories. The paper adds that the German idea is that the Allied armies on the Western Front shall remain on the line they have reached when the Germans begin evacuation.
A telegram, from Copenhagen says the "Politiken's" Leipzig correspondent says the evacuation will be carried out by the Centralite troops withdrawing to the frontiers unpursued and the evacuated territories becoming a neutral zone temporarily occupied by neutral troops, possibly Dutch.. Some Allled Demands,
London, Oct 14 Scepticism as to German sincerity and insistance on guarantees dictated not merely by Marshal Foch, but by the British Admiralty before an armistice is possible are the key notes of comment in the papers, which point out that the rejoicings in London theatres, etc., on Saturday evening were premature for the German reply is in Rowise a surrender.
The "Daily Chronicle", says: We cannot contemplate Germany withdrawing her armies intact, reconstituting them on a shorter line and then rattling the sword again at a peace conference. The conditions of the armistice are naval and military questions. Marshal Foch may ask the Germans to leave all their guns behind, also the Allied occup- ation of Alsace Lorraine with the temporary bridge-heads on the Rhine, while the necessity for stopping criminal sub- marinism may involve the surrender of all German sub- mariles
The Daily News" says: Germany, admits defeat, but President Wilson also suggested that the military rulers of German must be eliminated. On this point Dr. Solf's answer does not carry as any farther. The "Daily Express says: The Allies won't trust German bonour. The German Army must lay down its arms, leaving all wär materia, is the ti evacuated area. Mr. Archibald Hurd writing in the "Daily Telegraph" emphasises that Germany having lost her Colon- ies has no excuse for a great fleet. If the peace Conference allowed Germany to retain a naval force..proportional to that four years ago the price our victory would be disas trous, therefore the High Seas Fleet must be surrendered.
The "Daily Mail" says: The German reply is not an acceptance of President Wilson's terms. It is only an ad- true statement that they have been accepted. If the Ger mans are prepared to lay down their arms inconditionally and surrender the High Seas Fleet and Heligoland, we should have a guarantee of good faith. The "Times" says: The associated Governments have not the slightest inten- tion of accepting Mixed Commissions. An armistice is within Germany's reach on the same terms as Bulgaria. The Government of the United States is equally determin ed as the British people that Germany shall abide the // arbitrament of force to which she appealed four years ago.
The "Daily Telegraph sass: It is impossible for the Entente armies to contemplate an armistice, without the most substantial guarantees, for example, the surrender of ́ strategic points like Metz, and Strasberg, while Britain should demand the surrender of the U-boats and the dis mantling of the High Seas Fleet. The Daily Graphic" demands punishment before peace. The "Morning Post" says: "Germany's design is impudently clear. It is to get the Allies and America talking and sow distrust among them so as to remove her armies while the Allies are unable to recom- -mence active operations. This is not the first time the Germans have. erroneously assumed that President Wilson does not understand them. What the Allies, Great Britain and her Dominions demand is unconditional surrender.
The United States has not yet communicated with Great Britain regarding Germany's reply.
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Caution Advised
4London, Oct. 14
There is reason to believe that the German telegraphs are being rigorously controlled by the military, hence more than usual cition is necessary in placing any construction:
on the news allowed to get out of Germany:
Stern Justice.
ct.y.
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London, Oct. 14. At a luncheon to the Serbian Premier at the Mansion House Lord Reading, with great deliberation said: "Speak ing as Lord Chief Justice of England perhaps I may be per-. mitted to say that justice is merciful when there are exten- uating circumstances, but when there are not justice is stern (Loud applause).
Complete Surrender,
New York, Oct. 14. The editorials reiterate that the complete surrender of .: Germany is necessary as a basis of peace. All are sceptical of Germany's sincerity. The "New York Tribune” says:. The only satisfactory proof of the change of the German Government would be the abdication of the Kaiser and the renunciation of succession by his discredited dynasty. The "Washington Post" says: Prezident Wilson and the other “ Allies will not cease the process of annihilating the Ger man Empire till they have hostages, making treachery im- possible. The Albany "Knickerbocker Fress" considers the "note"as "an"insult" to the "American people." : The "Boston Post" says: Before any step is taken in the direction" of peace Germany must surrender her feet, consent to the Allied occupation of Kiel and Heligoland and give up the Rhins fortifications, p
Canada's Desires,
Ottawa, Oct. 14- Sir George Foster, Acting Premier, declared that Cana- dians do not wish to concludo pesce before the Kaiser, and his creatures are placed beyond the possibility of recom mencing war, The German have not yet shows the least sign of repentance
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INFLUENZA MICROBB
DISCOVERED.
*Paris. October 14.
A Havas mo586ga sisi00; The influence microbe has been discovered by a Frenchman.
PHILIPPINES
CONSTABULARY,
Placed on a Temperance Basis,
Brigadier Gamers!. Orama, Chief of Pbilippines Constabulary, has is ned B Epecial order prohibiting the finals and enlisted men of the constabulary who number abint-5,330 men to deal in, ase or drink aay. aloo- bolic beverages of any naturs whatsor. Tais order which places the Philippine Cun stabulary on the same tem- perance basis se are the United States
Army, inclu·ling the Philippine Scoute, the United States Navy, and the Philippine National Guard is as follows:-
“Officers and enlisted men of the Philippine Omnstabulary are strictly forbidden to deal is, use of drink any alcoholic beverage of say nature whatsoever. Violation of this regulation will be punished by application of, paragraph 353," M.P. O., to officere and, summary ecart to enlisted men.
This regulation was effective in Manila on the afternoon of Os tober 3, in the provinces 10, and In Mindenso and Sala the after- Boon of October 15, 1918.".
Ao extract of paragraph 353 referred to zesde: The Quiet may dismiss an officer of. misconduct or disloyalty to the United States."
MOTOR SCHOONER AFIRE,
Vessel Saved by Craw's Hard Work.
While off the harbour of Puerto Princess, Palawan, the motor achooner Capt. Coppans, belong ing to the Pacific Commercial Company, on her first trip to the south, caught fire, and was only saved from destruction by the heroic efforts of the craw, says the Manila Bulletin.
The fire was discovered early in the morning by the first taste. "All bands were . im- mediately called, fire pamps rigged and after-hatobes taken c. When the hatches were lifed & mses of flame and, smoke shot up, nearly setting fire to the rigging. For about an hour is looked as if the vessel was doomed but finally the bisza was put under control. Capt. C. 1. Doll ver, master of the vessel, gave' great credit to his crew for the manner in which they worked to save the bost.
When the fire was Gually extio- guished the bost put in to Pasto Princess where temporary repairs were made to enable the soliosder to make the return trip to Manila.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The Orders of the Day for to- morrow's Council meeting ar
Second reading of the Bill intituled An Ordinanes to amend the Opium Ordinance, 1914, and the Opium Ordinance, 1917.
Second reading of the Bul intituled An Ordinscoe to apply a eam not exceeding Ten million six hundred and five thousand three hundred and forty-five Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1919.
The Artists' Riflent We learn that:M.CO. W. M Reynolds, Secretary of the Sanit. {ary Board, who went Hords on 40ŘÍVE.HOLVIDO SOme time spo, han