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THE WAR.

BIG ATTACK COMMENCED IN

FLANDERS:

BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE ROULERS.

THE

TURKEY SEEKS AN ARMISTICE: PRESIDENT WILSON'S REPLY TO GERMANY.

Белега

[PAINCH WIRELESS.

THE CENTRAL POWERS AND

PEACE

PRESIDENT WILSON'S ANSWER.

WASHINGTON, October 14th. The Secretary of State, this afternoon. public the following Note to the Charge d'Affairer of Switzerland a Vaterim in charge of Gerican interests in the United States:-

Department of State,

October 14th, 1918. BiR-In reply to the communication the German Government, dated the 12th instant, which you handed me to-day I have the honour to request you to trans. mit the following answer:

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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

TRADE

Lorber, October 14th. There is an increase in imports of 11,703,884 lhe and a decrease in exports of 2,002,011 lbs as compared with Sep- tember last year.

THE INFLUENZA, MICROBE

DISCOVERED

A Havas message says:**

The microbe of infuenza, which originated in Spain and has travelled all It is contained in the Address of the Preover the world, has been discovered by sident delivered at Mount Vernon on the a Frenchman. Fourth of July last. It is as follows:

The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world; or, if it asadiot be presently destroyed, at least its re- duction to virtual impotency."- The power which has hitherto controlled the German nation is of the wort here described. It is within the choice of the German nation to alter it

The President's words just quoted as turally constitute a condition precedent to peace, if peace is to come by the action of the German people themselves. The President feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judgment, depend upon the definiteness and the satisfactory character of the guarantees which can be given in this fundamental matter.

It is indispensable that the Governments associated against Germany should know beyonda peradventure with whom they are dealing.

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The unqualised acceptance by the pre- sent German Government and by a large majority of the German Reichstag of the -terms laid down by the President of the

United States of America in his Address:

The President will make a separate -to the Congress of the United States on

the 8th of January 1918, and in his sab-reply to the Royal and Imperial Govern

ment of Austria-Hungary. sequent Addresses justifies the President

Accept, air, the renewed assurances of my high consideration."

making a frank and direct statement of his decision with regard to the com munications of the German Government of the 8th and 19th of October, 1918.

It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation and the conditions of an Armistice are matters which must. 'be left to the judgment and advice of the Military advisers of the Government of "the United States and the Allied Govern- meats, and the President feels it his duty

(Signed)" Roster Lansing."

Irmaopoa azmTER'E - AGENCY-]

THE GERMAN REPLY IS A TRICK."

PARIA October 14th.

A Havas message says:__ The German reply to President. Wilson is a trap. It pretends to accept his to say that no arrangement can be accept-points, but is in reality a trick to enable

THE SILVER MARKET,

LONDON, October 15th. Silver is steady? ·

Franco-fislotan bront

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

BRITISH FRONT.

BRITISH CAPTURE ROULERS.

LONDON, October 15th..

A German official statement says:-The | enemy in Flanders renewed his attacks on a wide front and captured. Boulers, Handzaeme, and Cortemarck.

EARLIER CABLES.

THE FRONT OF ATTACK.

LoxDos, October 14th.

THERSDAY

The Balkans.

EARLIER CABLES.

- {THROUGH" REUTER'U "Adairer.} THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF NISH.

A Havas message says :--

The Serbiana took Nish, after over coming stiff resistance. Something more than the mère capture of the town is the fact that it is the most important strate gic railway in the Balkans--the only through railway from Germany to Con stantinople.

more

FIGHTING IN THE AIR A HONGKONG MAN'S SUCCESS.

et air Eight is taken from a letter The following interesting description

received by Mr. Justice Gompertz from bis

son, who, it will be noticed, recorde his first definite success:-

August 19th. "I don't think I bave written since Verdun. Well, we naturally had a rest waiting for our "bus" to come back, and did our first show after that last Saturday week. Sunday we had a fairly good serap and got one Hun. Monday The taking of Nish blocks one

was Frankfort our most successful show, as, in spite of a running fight, most. of "; avenue for German expansion in the East. the way there and back with a total of

CIVILIANS PARTICIPATING

over 50 Hans, we gut very good bursts, IN THE BATTLES. brought down four (certain) Huns, and probably at least two more, and brought LONDON, October 14th. An Austrian official statement says;-

all qur machines back. I got my first certain Hun. It was rather funny the In the region, north of Nish withdrawal way I found out about it, as I got a engagements continue, in which the civil good burst of fire into him and saw him population is participating. Enemy pres-falling, as I thought, obviously out of sara is especially strong in the Morava Valley

[FRENCH WIRELESS.]

FRENCH OCCUPY PRIZREND.

Lroxa, October 14th. The French bave occupied Prizrend in Serbia

A DREAM.

[BY A RETURNED PRISONER OF WAR]. I had been three years a prisoner-of:

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

[SY COURTESY OF THE

CHUNG HUGI

CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE

PRESIDENT.

PEKING, October 15th. President Wilson has sent a telegram to Hsu Shih-chang congratulating him upon his election as President. The Presidents of Maxies and other American Republies have also sent greetings to Hsu.

It is reported that Hsu Shih-chang is consulting Tuan Chi-jui daily regarding the expeditionary forces. It is believed that an early peace is unlikely,

Fang Kunchang will go to Tientsin,

CANTON NEWS.

[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHENG NGOI

CANTON, October 18th.

THE CIVIL GOVERNOR,

We are informed that the Civil

terview with an M.P., that he intends Governor, Li-Yew-hon, stated in an in-

to give up politics and to return to Hongkong....

NEW .S. DONSUL.

The U.S. Consul General, who has just assumed office, has made his official call that the former Consul-General is being upon the authorities. We understand

transferred to Tientsin, SWATOW REPORTS.

control. I waved my arms to attract my" pilot's attention; then, to my infinite annoyance, I saw him apparently coming]

he was only shamming and was really out of his spin and promptly concluded

all right, as a common dodge of theirs when things are getting hot is to go down, apparently out of control until they are safe, and then clear off. Moreover, in a hot scrap there is no time to gaze at a machine you think you have hit. I had to devote my attention to another diving in from the other side. Well, I thought no more about it until I came back, wher both my pilot and another told me they had followed him (with their eyes) the naval leaders in Amoy waters have pro- A message from Amoy states that the whole way down and he had never promised to send gunboats to cover the perly. come out, but gone on spinning, Canton forces in their attack upon and, Sally, gone right over on to his

Amor, if the Fukien troops will not back and gone down anyhow. Mhad

evacuate the port. Other messages stato seen me wave my arme, and thought be

that there has been bitter Eghting for would like to have a look at bis observer's first Hun, so had manipulated that both armies have suffered consider, several days outside the Amoy city, and his machine so as to watch him falling and had seen him obviously out of con- man oficers neither better nor worse tral. One of the others was too cheeky-clared in order that an opportunity may than British officers are treated in eame right on and got about 4 or a chear be given for burying the dead,

You will report by telegram the date yers guns on him at once,

Router's Correspondent at British war in Germany, and had been home a telegraphing to-day, fortnight when the following letter Headquarters,

states:

The Second British Army, with the strong Allies forces operating between them and the Yser floods, attacked in Flanders this morning.

Our attacking "fract extends from the Lys River at Werving to the hamlet of St. Peter's, on the Boulers-Menin Road.

AN ADVANCE OF 3,000 YARDS.

By me had advanced an average of 3,000 yards. About 600 prisoners were

sent back

We were then within 1,500 yards nf Moorseele,

BIG ATTACK. COMMENCED IN

FLANDERS.

LONDON, October 14th. " The British, French and Belgians com-

reached me:

Sir, I am directed to inform you that you have been appointed command. aat at the prisoner-of-war camp for German officers at Captain -- and Licuts.and who have also recently returned from Germany, will be your assistants. You will in troduce the same regulations, diet and discipline as exists in the German camps, and provide exactly similar ac- commodation. You will treat the Ger-

Germany.

of taking over.--I have, etc.'

In accordance with these instructions I journeyed to the camp indicated, and took over from my predecessor,

"Well, what sort of a crowd have you

He went

down a few hundred feet all anyhow. and then fell to pieces. Besides that, we got several in the engines or radiators

one from my gu

The next day we got three in a scrap with about 50 and, the next, certain

able losses. An armistice has been de

LUNG'S TROOPS,

A message from Hoihow states that the men of Lang's army in Hoihew, have bad as a result of a disputa pitched battle over their dwelling quarters."

It is reported that Lung a new recruits in Fukien have borne. the brunt of the

here I asked, "Oh; foliol; they don't and & believed, in a very hot scrap with fighting recently and that more than half

Ved by the Government of the United States the German armies to effect a safe retreat.

which does not provide absolutely hatis. No armistice is possible until the mili-menced a big attack to-day in the direcny return I had read that German pro- factory safeguards and guarantees for the tary and naval chiefs are assured that tion of Courtrai maintenance of the present military Germany will be incapable of resuming supremacy of the armies of the United hostilities, or until the unconditional States and of the Allies in the field. He surrender of Germany."

feels confident that he can safely assume that this will also be the judgment and decision of the Allied Governments.

The President feels that it is also bis -duty to add that neither the Government of the United States nor, he is quite sure, -the Governments with which the Govern

ment of the United States is associated as a belligerent will consent to consider an Armistice so long as the armed forces of Germany continue the illegal and in- human practices which they still persist

"

No armistice will be tolerated depriving Marshal Foch of his advantages.

H.M. THE KING ARRIVES IN LONDON:

LONDON, October 14th.

GERMAN NEWS OF THE BATTLE.

LONDON, October 14th:

A German official statement says:- The enemy attacked on a wide front between Dizmude and the Lys. We stem- med the thrust.

FRENCH FRONT

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give much trouble as a rule, except one For two truculent bounders." Juht after

about the same number on the Offenburg of them have been killed show (Wednesday). We got two' down | [FROM THE CANTON INTELLIGENCE BUREAU.] this side of the lines, and have the wreckage of one here now.

In accordance with the declaration pass- down out of control somewhere near the Assembly of the Republic of Chine at a

I got one

ed by the two Houses of the National Rhine. Rather funny towards the end joint session beld in Canton on October of the scrap, going back, one of our pilots 8th, the Military Government of the Re- was hit in the radiator and tanks, and public of China, as from October 10th, bis observer was slightly wounded in exercises the functions and powers of the several places. He had to go down, not knowing which side of the lines be was A very keen Hua followed him down, exchanging shots with the observer all the way. No sooner had our "bus" got down than the Hun crashed badly in the next field. Our fellows found they were. well over this side. Some Frenchmen

paganda in Spain claimed credit for our bad treatment in Germany on the ground that it had a useful moral effect in England." Baving my instructions to treat the Germans as they treated us," and also this paragraph before me, I had a fairly direct line to move along.

I could not change the diet at once to German conditions, for the simple reason that no coffee made of, burnt, acorns or cats could be obtained, nor could any baker, provide me with black bread. It also required a day or two to teach the to us in Germany as soup. However, in few days I got things fairly satis

H.M. the King arrived in London from GERMANS MUST RETREAT TO THE cooks to make the class of hog wash issued

Bandringham to-day and granted a lengthy audience to the Premier and the Chief-of-Staff.

LATEST CABLES.

TURKEY SEEKS A SEPARATE

PEACE.

At the very time that the German Gov- ernment approaches the Government of

AMSTERDAM, October 14th. the United States with proposals of peace The Vienna Correspondent of the Ala submarines are engaged in

inking Weser Zeitung telegraphs that Turkey has passenger ships at Bef and not the ships notified Vienna that she intended to seek

alone but the very bosta in which their passengers and crews seek to make their

a seperate peace."

The Central Powers, have urged Turkey

way to safety; and, in their present ento await the result of the present pour forced withdrawal from Flanders and

parlers with President Wilson.

Turkey has not replied to this advice

"ས, TURKEY WANTS AN ARMISTICE.

Rous, October 14th.

France, the German Armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruction which has always been regarded as in direct viola tion of the rules and practices of civilized warfare. Cities and villages, it fot Baron Sonning, Secretary of Foreign destroyed, are being stripped of all they Affairs, in the course of a message to the Patain not only but often of Armenian Legation in Paris, has indicated their very inhabitants.

The nations associated against Germany cannot be expecled to i

agree to a cessation

of arms while acts of inhumanity, spolia- tion, and desolation are being continued

that Turkey has requested an armistice.

SHIPWRIGHTS' CLAIM REFUSED

MEUSE.

PARIS, October 14th.

factory

Cabinet, and performs the functions and duties of the President until the next President shall have been elected, in accordance with Article 6 of the Presi President shall be relieved from his duty at the expiration of his terms of office. If at the end of the period the new Fresi- dent has not yet been elected, or having

dential Election Law, which 'rends :-"""The

stuff, was as near as I could get it to then went over to see the Hun, who had been elected be unable to be inaugurated

A Havas message says:-

The coffee, though made of the real Laon and La Fere, two most important burat oats; the bread, though only light centres, have been taken.

brown, was very stale indeed; and the

of three years. soup really brought back the nightmare

The strongly fortified forest of Bt Gobain has now been cleared of the enemy.

The Germans will be forced to with draw to the Meuse line.

From Mezieres to Lille the German army is beaten but not routed, and has lost immense quantities of material. We must now clear other salients.

......

(FRENCH- WIRELESS.}

-LAON IN FRENCH HANDS.

LYUNS, October 14th.

The Germans carried away more than 300 persons from Laon, of whom one the Mayor. The French found 6,500 civi lians in Leon..

In the region of Laon the France Italian forces have advanced to a depth of fire kilometres, and have reached north of the Aisne, as far as the railway from

Laon to Bheime

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On the first morning after the in- auguration of the new diet, six officers, as representatives of their rooms, asked to interview me. They were paraded at my office, and I asked what they wanted.. The spokesman saluted and said they had come to complain about the food it was hot what German officers wero spcustomed to. 3. replied that I myself, British officer, had been three years in a German camp, and that this was the exact food supplied to me, and my instructions were that they were to re- ceive the same. They aaluted and with

drew:

had his machine badly abot about on the way down, so that finally it got out of control, which is the reason why he crashed. The pilot had had two ribs broken. When the Frenchmen came along he shouted to them (in Germen, of course) to take the Englishmen pri- soners, (thinking, of course, he was on his own side of the lines). When told be was a prisoner himself he fainted and is now in hospital.

President, and the new Vice-President is also unable to act as President, the Cabinet shall exercise the functions and powers of the President,"

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10,000 FT. OVER BRUGES. HOW A BOMBING RAID LOOKS - FROM ABOVE,

Describing a bombing raid over Bruges in Belgium, Capt. Paul Bowsher writes: the most important German naval base The observer crawls through a little for The Huns come over pretty frequently into the nose of the machine, examines

bis bomb-handle, and adjusts the bamb at night to bomb the locality. We have dropping sight He kneels, a heavily, all been out watching them from the muffled gure in his little wooden cock roofs of the huts; then we had a tremen-pit 10,000 feet over nothing. Below be sees the black line of the canal which he dous battle with pieces of earth, which is using as a guide. He waves hi hand, is the reason why my handwriting is so into silence as the machine dives towards and the roar of the engine dies away smudgy, as I got very out of breath its target. He pushes the lever forward slowly, pulls it back again, and again pushes it forward, and again and again. From behind there comes the click and clatter of. 14 dropping bombs.

the room, one of the officers rather ag The next day as I was going round gressively did not stand to attention or salute. Remembering my own experi ences I turned to my adjutant and said: MR LLOYD GEORGE AND SERBIA

Put that officer under arrest and bring

He shouts to the pilot to turn, and The following telegram was sent by the one huge wing climbs towards the star him before me at Orderly Room Orderly Rooms the German oficer was Prime Minister to Peaitch at Corfuse the machine sweeps round. Garing produced and proved to be of the tracul in August

downward, the observer' sees at the edge My warmest thanks for your telegram, of the quay a red and his bearing and speech, which no come, because in this great struggle for the water where lie the destroyers and ent fort mentioned by my predecessor Greetings from Berbia are especially wel- slowly dies Away. Two fame, which

other, follow in', doubt he thought very fine and Prussian, human freedom ne country has shown submarines, and then more and more burst got him one month's solitary cone greater steadfastness and courage than on the sheds in the middle. A white sheet vement That was the same that. I got for Serbia. You are certainly right in belicy of flame bursts from one shed. An an

lapse of memory in Germanying that the day now fast approaches when munition store has been blown ap. The The only thing that naturally I could the attempts of autocratic power to with other bomis burst across the wharfes and necessary, also, in order that there fused the claim of the shipwrights of

not procure in England was a Red Cross pose on, the tree peoples of rod to crowded basins, leaving huge clouds of may be no possibility of misunderstand Clyde, Barrow, Aberdeen, Dundee, sad

aurat to sepit into the coffee ed stick militarist kultur will have definitely destruction they

Europe a white smoke where they have wrought officer, and I can't say I tried very hard, failed. The Allied successes in Italy and Simultaneously with the bursting of the ing, that the President should very solemn, Leith, that the minimum wage be fixed at On the whole front the German retreat gave brother Boche auch an exceedingly Czecho-Slovaks in Russia and Siberia, and streaming in swaying curves from

However, on purely legitimate lines on the Marne, the splendid stand of the first bumb, hundreds of green, balls come call the attention of the Government to weekly, because it would prejudice the continues

thin time that his letters were full of the matchless endurance of your own ground, and pour upwards past the wings Germany to the language, and plain hearing of the case of the whole trade by

British prisoners better. entreaties to his own people to treat people, all point to final victory for our orf both sides Gunfire fashes round the intent of one of the terms of peace which the Committee which has been fixed for

cause and to the early liberation of your town, and close to the machine now bursts country and your compatriots from an the clamorous barrage. the German Government has now accepted: October 24th.

sdien yoke Stand firm through these last roars homewards through a maelstrom of The machine. days and your reward will be sure." flame and fire

which they justly look upon with horror and with burning bearts..

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LONDON, October 15th.

In the Douni sector the British have continued their advance between the The Committee of Production has re Scheldt Canal and the Bensee. They have reached the outskirts of Lien BL. Amand five kilometres south of Denain.

In Champagne this backward movement has been hastened by the irresistible thrusts of General Mangin's Army.

Then I awoka