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日二十月九
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'Affaires of Switzerland ad interim in charge of German interests in the United 8.ates:-
D pertinent of State,
October 14th, 1918.
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"In reply to the communication of the German · Government dated the 12th inst. which you handed us 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 takma laid down by the President of the United Sistes
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
ALLIED OFFÉNSIVE IN FLANDERS.
Big Attack Begun Towards Courtrai.
Temperature 6 a.m.
October 16, 1917,
Humidity
16,
1918.
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
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
Extent of the Attack....#
London, October 14. Beater's correspondent at British Headquarters, writing to-day, e872: The Second British Army, with strong Allied forces operating between them and the Yeer floods, attacked in Flaugeza this morn ing. Oar attacking front extende from the Lys River Warvicg to the hamlet of 8. Pater, on the Roulers-Menin Road.
| By eight o'clock in the morning we had advanced an average of three thonesad verde. Abons eix búndred priscaeza were sent back. We were then within fifteen hundred yarde of Moczele..
A German Claim..
London, October 14. of America in his Address to the Congress of the United States on on a wide front between Dixmude and the Lye,
A German :ficial wireless message es ye:-The-nery attacked the 8th of January, 1918, and in his subæquant Addresses justifice thrust.
We etemmed the
the President in making a frank and direct statement of his decision with regard to the communications of the German Government of the 8th and 12th of October, 1918.
The Situation Summarised,
Lyona, October 14.
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"It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation
A French #ireless masssge states-The French have entered and the conditions of an Armistice are masttere which must be laft to Lop. Toe Germaos carried away more than 300 persoas, of whom the judgment and advies of the Military advisers of the Government
Lone is the Mayor. The French found 6,500 civiliane in Leon. of the United States and the Allied Governments and the President to a depth of five kilometres, and have reached north of the Aisne In the region of Leon the Franco-Italian forces have advanced feels it his duty to say that no arrangement can be accepted by the as far as the railway from Laon to Bheims. Government of the United States which does not provide absolutely satisfactory safeguards and guarantees for the maintenance of the between the Scheldt Canal and the Senses. They have resched the In the Dousi sector the British have continued their advance present military expremacy of the armies of the United States and outskirts of Lien 3: Amend, five kilometres south of Dessin.. of the Allies in the field. He feels confident that be can safely On the whole front the German retreat continues." assume that this will also be the judgment and decision of the Allied pagne this backward movement has been hastened by the irresistible Governments.
thrusts by General Mangin's Army."
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'The President feels that it is also his duty to add that neither the Government of the United States nor, he is quite sure, the Governments with 'which the Government of the United States is
associated as a belligerent, will sebeent to consider an Armistice so long as the armed forces of Germany continue the illegal and inhuman practices which they still persist in.
Another Withdrawal Expected.
Cham.
Paris, October 14
importaat centres, have been taken. The strongly-fortified forest of A Havas message states:-Laon and La Fere, we are most St. Gobain is now cleared of the enemy. Leon was one of the great bastions of the German positions in France. The Germans will be
THE SERBIAN FRONT.
At the very time that the German Government approaches forced to withdraw to the Mease on the line from Mezieres to Lille. the Government of the United States with proposals of peace its The Germen Army is beaten, but not rented. It has lost immense enbmarines are engaged in sinking passenger ships at sea, and not the ships slone but the very bosta in which their passengers and quantities of material and now must clear out of other salients, orews seek to make their way to safety: and in their present enforced | withdrawal from Flanders and France the German Armies are par ening a course of waaton destruction which has always been regarded as in direct violation of the rules and prsetices of civilised warfare. Cities and villeges, if not destroyed, are being stripped! of all they contain not only [
."?) batjoften of their very inhabitants.
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Occupation of Prizrend.
Lyone, October 14.
A Fresch wireless message ataire :-The French hava occopied Piz end in Serbis.
An Austrian Version.
"The nations associated against Germany cannot be expected to agree to a cessation of arms while acts of inhumanity, spoliation, and desolation are being continued which they justly look upon with["- horror and with burning hearts.
ני
London, October 14.
An Austrian official menasce says:-Ia the region northward of Nish withdrawal enzegemente continue, the civil population
What the Capture of Nish Means.
Paris, Otober 14,
"It is necessary sled in order that there may be no possibility participating. Enemy pressure is especially strong in Moravs of misunderstanding that the President ehould very solemnly call Valley. the attention of the Government of Germany to the language and plain intent of one of the terms of peace which the German Govern ment has now socepted. It is contained in the Address of the President delivered at Mount Vernon on the Fourth of July last. It resistance has been overcome and French cavalry have pushed on. A Have mesage states The Serba have taken Nish, 8iff is as follows:-
***The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can The important strategic railway junction in the Baking and the Something more, then the mere capture of the town has been effectad separately, secretis, 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. to virtual impotɑnoy.”
The taking of Nish blocks one more evenge of German expansion in the East.
The power which has hitherto controlled the German Nation is of the sort bere 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 pesce, if peace is to come by the action of the German people themselves. The President feels bound to asy that the whole process of peace will, in his jadgment, depend upon the definiteness and the eatiefactory character of the guarantees which can be given in this fondamental matter."
"It is indispensable that the Governments associsted ageinst Germany should knów beyond a peradventure with whom they s7B dealing.
"The President will make a separate reply to the Royal and Imperial Government of Austria-Hunga13.
"Accept, Sir, the renewed sasarances of my high consideration.
(Signed), ROBERT LANSING."
[We are able to publish the shove through the courtesy of the Bulletin.]
KING GEORGE IN LONDON."
Meets the Premier and Chief of Staff.
London, October 14.
His Majesty the King arrived in London from 8indringham to-day and granted a lengthy sadience to the Fremier and the Chief of Staff.
THE PEACE QUESTION. German Overture Merely a Trick.
#Paris, October 14. A Havas message states:-The German Reply to President Wilson is a trap. It pretende to accept his pointa, but is in reality strick to enable the German Armies to effect a cafe retreat; No kemiation is pourible until the military and naval ohiefs have besn
that Germany will be incapable of remming hostilities, or Makilan sonditional surrender is made. No armistice on be
depriving Marshal Fook of his advantages.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE PEACE QUESTION,
Unrest in Austria-Hungary,
London, Uct. 10. - Various messages indicate, that the situation in Austro- Hungary is more critical. A Zurich telegram even says that the end of the Dual Monarchy is imminent. There Eave been violent pacifist demonstrations at Vienna and Budapest The Emperor is conferring with Anti-German Austro-Hungarian statesmen.
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 sa- sured may be fatal.
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The "Lokal Anzeiger," states that the Reich- atag Conservatives have communicated to the Chancellor their serious objections to the acceptance of President "Wilson's reply.
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Herr Harden Speaks Out.
Amsterdam, Oct 18. The "Tageblat quotes a lecture by Herr Maximilian Harden in Berlin, who amidst prolonged applause, said that the antocratic rule of certain persons was a thing of the past. Bubmarinism was advised by men who will stand before a State Tribunal. The work of Herr Kashimanu and Count Czernin at Bresilitavak had brought upon them the reputation of having the morals of card sharpers,
Marshal Foch.the Judge
Paris, Oct. 13.
A Havas message states: There are two salient pointe 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 sa s first sondition of the armistice. President Wilson is asked to man- age the appointment of a Commission to arrange the condi tions of the evacuation French comment ways there is. no room for last hour, manoMKEZDÉ.. lent Wison wi
THE PEACE QUESTION,
force Germany to give further precise explanations. Only one judge fixes the armistice, Marshal Foch. In an armia- 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.
An Extraordinary Idea.
London, Oct 14- An extraordinary German idea of evacuation is indicat ed in Dutch telegrams.
Reuter's correspondent at The Hague quotes the "Nieu- we Courant" is 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'" 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. Soma Allled Demands.
London, Oct. 14. Scepticism as to German sincerity and insistance on guarantees dictated not merely by Marshal Fochi, 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 Gerraan reply is in nowise 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- 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- marines.
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 us any farther. The "Daily Express says: The Alles won't trust German honour. The Germal Arms must lay down its arms, leaving all war material in the evacuated ares. Mr. Archibald Hard 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 dissa 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 un- true statement that they have been accepted." If the "Ger- mans are prepared to lay down their arms unconditionally and surrender the High Seas Fleet and Heligoland, we should have a guarantee of good faith. The "Times" says: The associated Goverments have not the slightest inten- tion of accepting Mixed Commissions. An armistice is within Germany's reach in 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" says: 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 Flect. The "Daly Graphic" demands punishment before peace. The "Morning Post" says: Germany's design is impudently clear. It is to get the Allies and America talling and sow distrust among them to 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.
Caution Advised
London, Oct. 14,
There is reason to believe that the German telegraphs" are being rigorously controlled by the military, hence more than usual caution is necessary in placing any construction on the news allowed to get out of Germany."
Stern Justice.
London, Oct. 14. At a luncheon to the Serbian Premier at the Mansion House Lord Kending, 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 usting 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: President Wilson and the other. Allies will not cease the process of annihilating the Ger- man Empire fill they have hostages, making treachery im possible. The Albany "Knickerbocker Press" 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 fleet, consent to the Allied occupation of Kiel and Heligoland and give up the Rhine fortifications
Canada's Destres
Ottawa, Oct. 14,
Bir George Foster, Acting Premier, declared that Cana dians do not wish to conclude peace, before the Kaiser and his creatures are placed beyond the possibility of recom mencing ver, The German have not yet shown the least, sign of repentance.
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INFLUENZA, MICROBE DISCOVERED. ·
Pazia, October 14:
A Havai mesange “via109 :--- The inflammes microbe has been discovered by a Frenchman.
PHILIPPINES
CONSTABULARY.
Placed on a Temperance Basis,
Brigadier General. Orama, Chief of PhilippicesConstabulary, bas ie aed ej ecial order prohibiting the oficiale and enlisted men of the nonstabulary who zümber ab nt 5,350 men to deal in, ne cr drink any, alao- bolic beverages of any nature whateo - Tais order which places the Philippine C- etabulary, on the same tem perance basis as are the United States Army, including the Philippine Scouts, the United States Navy, and the Philippine National Guard is as follows:-
"Officers and enlisted men of the Philippine Constabulary are strictly forbidden to deal in, use or drink any alcoholic beverage of any nature whatsoever. Violation of this regulation will be punished. by application of paragraph 353, M. P. O., to officers and summary.. ccart to enlisted men.
This regulation was effective in Manila on the afternoon of Ox tober 3, in the provinces 10, and in Mindanso and Sale the slim- moon of October 16, 1918,"
Aalexsract of paragraph asfa
referred to reads: “The Caief may dismise an officer of... misconduct or disloyalty to the United Statee."
MOTOR SCHOONER AFIRE. Vessel Saved by Crew's Hard Work.
While of the harbour of Paeria | Priccssa, Palawan, the motor schooser Capt. Coppeur, 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 crew, saYN the Manila Bulletin.
The fire was discovered early in the morning by the first All hands were im- mediately called," fire pomps rigged and sfter-hatches taken
mate.
When the hatches were lifted & ses of Aame and, amok. shot ap, nearly setting fire to the rigging. For about an hour it looked as if the vessel was doomed but finally the bisɛs was pul ander control. Capt. C. L. Dolli- var, master of the vessel, gara' great credit to his crew for the manner in which they worked to save the boat.
When the fire was finally extin- guished the boat put in to Puerto Princess where temporary repairs were made to enable the schooner to make the return trip 10 Manila,
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
The Orders of the Day for to morrow's Council meeting are:
Becond reading of the Bill inlituled An Ordinance to amedd the Opium Ordinance, 1914, and the Opiam Ordinance, 1917.
Second reading of the Bil intituled An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Ten million eix handred and five thousand three hundred and forty-five Dollars to the Public Sarvios of the year 1919
The Artists Rifles Wa Issen that. Beynolds, Secretar