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MANY APPLICANTS
' SEGURETOSITIONS
GOOD WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY
U. 8. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
DURING PAST MONTH.
I DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA
Doings and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of South Carolina People,
Gathered Around the State
Capital.*
Columlila.
Some idea of the excellent work
-which the local office of the United
Stages Employment Service is rendering
persons seeking work can be secured
from the report of the office for
the Qionth of September.
During September. 1,541 appllca
t tons were made at the office for positions.
Of that number 1,443 were referred
to openings, and 1.371 accept?ed
the positions offered them. Of
th4? number of applications, 286 wera
made by. women.
John L. Davie, superintendent of the
local office at Qolumbia. said that
these figures show what the office is
dojng In placing men and women
who are seeking work. Tlia report
speaks for itsejf. Two facts are evident
from It. The first Is that the
office in Columbia is rendering valu%
abls service to men and women seeking
positions. The other is that the
office is rendering aid to men wanting
employees.
Patrick Salmon, examiner in the
office of the United Stales Employment
Service in Oklahoma City, Okie.,
arrived in Columbia, with 143 laborer*
who will be employed at Camp Jack on.
A number of Indians are among
the men brought to Columbia by Mr.
Salmon. The others are white men.
Another shipment df laborers from
Oklahoma Is expected within the
next few days.
Continued Economy Necoosary.
The food administration announces
In a pamphlet issued from Washingtoa
and distributed through the state
administrators that for the allies the
danger of privation is passed, but the
need of rigid economy is still presont.
For the people of the United States,
says the food administration, the ne.
cesslty of voluntary sacrifice, of willing
devotion is as great as ever. Con
aervaffon Is Imperative to provide
against the lean years.
"Going without wheat by the American
people in the bust six months
saved the allies from actual defeat."
say* the food administration. "We
had lees than 20.000.000 bushels to!
spare, we sent- 141,000.000 bushels. We
did It by going without it. If the
American people had failed In th^s, |
the second battle of the Marne. the |
victory in which our American troops
had so great a share, would never
have been fought.
Influenza Increasing.
Spanish influenza is reaching an
epidemic stage among the civilian j
? population of South Carolina, accord-1
tng to reports received by TV. James
Adams Hayne, state health ofTcer, I
who estimates that there in fully 5,000
,cases In various parts of the stale.
The worst epidemic in the state,
according: to reports, hi in Newberry,
where 1,600 cases are reported. The
town is under rigid quarantine, and
the three mills there have closed
down.
Dr. Hayne has appealed to the physicians
and the nuraes of the state
<o help stay the epidemic. Because
of the war, there is a dearth of phy-j
siclans and nurses in some localities,!
and assistance will be sent by the'
state board of health at once.
There i? a strong probability that
extensive quarantine meaaures will be
adopted by mdny towns and cities
Throughout the state to prevent or
stay the progress .of the disease.
The scarcity of physicians and
nurses as mentioned above would
seem to make such step absolutely
necessary unless a favorable change
In the situation is soon noted.
Automobile Lieenaea.
The regular monthly meeting of
the state highway commission was
held receatly and the report of F. H.
Murray, acting state highway engineer.
showed that work is progressing
satisfactorily.
Receipts of 930.1.192.36 for licenses
W for the current year were s^own. The
total number of owners' licenses Issued
to date was 53.500; dealers' licenses.
2,883; motorcycle licenses,
3.213; the receipts iw these being
$232.651 63. $11,760 and $1,757.42 respectively.
Charters and Commissions.
W. Ranks Dove, secretary of state,
loaned a commission te Powell &
Freeman of Columbia, with a proposed
capital stock of $10.00 for wholesale
and retail clothing business.
Talor-Bethea-Renner Lumber Co.,
of lAtta, was chartered with a capl'
tal stock of $10,000.
The Piedmont Mining Company of
Gaffney was chartered with A capital
stock of $V000. William Guest la
president; F, M. Boykln, vice president
and SL L. Settlelheyer, secretary
end treasurer.
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Impressive Figures Given.
Dispatches from Washington say:
"Congressman W. F. Stevenson addressed
the house on the subject of
fixing a price on cotton. His address,
in part, follows:
"There is general talk of cotton
price fixing, said to be necessary because
the price has advanced to an
extravagant figure. The Washington
Post last week asserted editorially
that it was far beyond its worth. Let
us see if this statement is justified.
The four years before the war began
the South made 59,687.538 bales; in
the years 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918 it
made 45.343.125, a reduction of 14,-344,413
bales, or more than a year's average
crop. The world, outside of the
United States, has made for the last
four years an average of 6,513.000 I
bales. Or for the four ?f! (l"i? ftoo 1
bales of cotton, and add to this the
number of bales raised in the United
States for the last four years and we
have 71.395,125 bales, all that !ihs been
produced in the world in the last four
years. Consumption has been at a
rate of 20,000.000 hales a year average,
or for the four years 80.000,000
bales, which shows that it has exceeded
the production by 9.604,875 bales.
"Can we expect the world to get
cotton as cheap when consumption exceeds
production by 2,500.000 bales a
year four years? Again, fertilixers j
and labor and supplies and stock and :
machinery have increased in price
100 to 300 per cent. The price of
goods mad* front cotton hag^jtlso-increased
on an average of 300 per cent,
and shall cotton be held down to bare
cost of production ar.d less? The
price of cotton v/hen the war broke
out i<o 1914 was 14 oems per pound. It
is now 33 cents, and there ia a proposition
to tlx it at 25 cents per pound.
Certainly it would be unfair to cut the
price of cotton down and enable the
manufacturer to Increase his handsome
profit. The plea for fixing price
of wheat was to fix such a price as j
would guarantee a cafe return and
stimulate production. The fixing of
any price under 85 i.ei.ts will have the
opposite tendency in cotton.
"Let supply and demand regulate it.
That was what we were told in 1914.
South Carolina Casualties.
..Casualties among South Carolina
iiuu|?, uversnm, ma mown dj recent
reports from the front, are a* follows:
Killed in Action?Private! Wade
Thompson. Sellars; J. X. Murray,
Blaekville; Jacob Prioleau, Charleston.
Died of Wounda?Lieut. K. V Walsh,
B.?ckville; Privates H. S. Archer Anderson;
F. D. Strlbiing, Columbia.
Died of Disease?Privates Humbert
Hook. North; Eugene Davis. Florence;
Preston Robinson. Anderson.
Prisoners, or Missing?Sergt. P. N.
Gunter. Samaria; Privates C. S. Bagwell.
Belton; G. L. Howard, Greenville;
H. L. Waters. Liberty; Luxe
Robletter. Battle Creek; W. A. Douglass.
Hartsville; I. C. Quinn, Pacolei.
Severely Wounded?Lieut. L. A.
Freeman. Spartanburg; Private Robert
Jacobs. Pelion; Eddie Saunders,
Orangeburg; P. J. Hfl Ross, Pelzer.
Strenuous Labor Situation.
Figures assembled by H. L. TUghman.
federal labor director in South
Carolina, indicate an unsurpassed labor
shortage in this State. Mr. Tlghman
has an iminediute call for 12 500
workmen on government contracts
alone. The men needed include 3.300
carpenters and nearly 10,000 common
laborers.
The following is the number of men
needed by various government construction
companies in the state as reported
by Mr. Tilghman:
Mason & Hangar Contracting Company,
Charleston port terminal. 1,200
carpenters; 2.500 laborers.
Subcontractors of Mason A Hangar
also at work on port terminal construction
work. 600 men iminedia'?ly and
200 additional men weekly.
Charleston navy yard. 200.
Parris Island marine barracks, 200.
Cantonment construction, Columbia,
2.000 carpenters and 3.000- laborers.
Electrical workers and other skilled
workmen are called for to the number
of 2,300.
Dam construction contractors at Lugoff
are calling fot 500 men.
The number of men needed for tha
$3,000,000 government contract at
Camp Sevier. Greenville, has not been
reported to Mr. Tilghman. Neither Is
the number designated for Camu
Wadsworth.
Appointments by Governor.
Governor Manntinif made the following
appointments:
K. C. Allen, magistrate at Datta, Dillon
county.
W. M. Dillard. magistrate at Westmlntser,
Oconee county, vice John D.
Sheldon, declined to serve.
T. A. Irwin. Spartanburg .commit* j
sioner of federal elections.
Walter M. Dunlap. Rock IH11. commissioner
federal elections.
Game wardens: K. I*. Grim ball,
John's Island; A. S. Perry. Summerrille;
Kdw. M. Bailey, Kdisto Island.
To Try Camden Routa.
Postofflce authorities contmplate an
Immediate change in the present motor
mail route between Columbia and
Charleston. Trucks which have been
hitherto utilized between Columbia
and Orangeburg are to be diverted to a
new motor mail line to be established
between Columbia and Camden. The
new arrangement is to be effected
within the next week or ten days. It
was emphasized that the motor mail
plan had ngt been ao successful as had
been anticipated.
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daughter of Lord Brasssy, and wife of
Lord Freeman Thomas Willingdon, who j
has been governor of Bombay since
1913, and is first lord in waiting to hie
majesty, George V.
ENEMY'S VJUN RESISTANCE
FULL RETREAT NORTHWARD OF i
AUSTRO-HUNGARIANS UPON
THEIR OWN BORDERS.
Allies Closing in on All Sides of
Groat Battle Area Despite the
Strongest Opposition.
I.ens tho heaft of the crest 'coal
region in northern France and Arinentieres,
almost equally important
as a manufacturing center, have been
evacuated by ttve Germans; the German
fortified positions between Camhrai
and St Quentin have been definitely
smashed, and the Austro-llunKarhfiS
in Albania, forsaken by their
for*ner allies, the Bulgarians, are in j
full retreat northward toward their,
border from the Adriatic sea to l^ake !
Ochrida.
Of the reconquering of invaded Bel-1
gium and the progress of the French '
and Franco-American forces respectively
north- of Rheims and eastward'
in f Ml II til no crnri tn 11. ? I* ? ?* ,r '
iv tiiv v u iuii/ ui v er- j
dun. the tale remains the same?the j
Germans slowly but surely are being i
forced everywhere to give ground and ;
their vital defenses daily continue to j
he eaten into, notwithstanding the |
strong resistance that the enemy is
imposing to make null the efforts of
the allies to close in on all sides of
the great battle area from the North
sea to the Swiss border and compel
the German command to reconstruct
its fighting line.
In Belgian Flanders the Belgian.
French and British troops are keeping
up their eastward progress in
their endeavors to compel the Germans
to give up Ostend and Zeebrugge.
their naval bases on the j
North sea.
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PRICE OF WEARING APPAREL
TO BE FIXED BY GOVERNMENT
Washington.? Prices and dHtribu-j
Hon of practically all articles of wear-'
itig apparel are to be controlled by I
the war industries board. Regulations
issued prescribing certain fixed
prices for shoes constituted only the
first step In a general policy for price
control of clothing.
This was disclosed by Chairman
Barucli, of the board, at a special'
meeting of the National Retail^ Dry .
Goods Association. Referring to the
putting into efTect of the agreement
between the board and the shoe in-,
duary. Mr. Harueh said:
"After that will have to coma the
regulation and distribution of most
all of the things which you gentlemen |
have to deai with; i don't want von
to say it can't be done, because it j
must he done. It is unthinkable that '
only the man with the longest pocket- I
book can get the things that he
r.eeds."
INFANTRY AND TANKS MAKE
muai sutUbSSFUL ATTACK
I^ondon.? The attack by British Infantry
and tanks along an eight-mile
front from Sequeheart to the canal !
north of Bony, in the rft. Quenltn see- j
tor. wan completely successful, according
to Field Marshal Haig's report
from British headquarters.
British troops have reached the
outskirts of Monlgrehaiti (about five
milos east of Bellicourt | and further j
north have captured Gouy and LeC'atelet.
NAVY PATROL BOAT TAMPA
LOST WITH ALL ON BOARD
Washington.?I>oss of the naval pa- j
trol boat Tampa, formerly the coast-J
guard cutter Miami, with all on board :
?118 nine?was announced. The ves-1
sel was sunk on tile night of Septem- ,
ber 2?> In the Bristol channel off the
rnaat of Bngiand. and Vice Admiral
31ms' report indicated that she was
torpedoed while escorting a convoy.
Through the sinking of the Tampa
the navy suffered ita greatest single
blow of the war.
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1 PEACE OFFER MADE >
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PROPOSITION MUST SIGNIFY
UNQUALIFIED ACCEPTANCE
OF WILSON'S TERMS.
NO COMPROMISE IS POSSIBLE
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Great Principle Is "Reign of Law, !
Based Upon the Consent of
THE GOVERNED.
1 Emperor William issued a proclamation
to the German army and navy t
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; Macedonian front had crumbled, he
J declared that he had decided In accord
with his allies to ugain offer
peace to the enemy.
The t??x| of the note forwarded by |
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Prince Maximilian, to President Wilson,
through the Swiss government
follows:
"The German government requests
the President of the United State to
take in hand the restoration of peace,
acquaint all the belligerent states of
this request and invite them to send
plenipotentiaries for flfe purpose of
opening negotiations.
"I| accepts the program set forth
by the President of the United States
in his message to Congress on Janu- :
arv 8 and In his later pronouncements. |
especially his speech of September 27,
as a basis for peace negotiations.
"With a view to avoiding further
bloodshed, the German government
requests the immediate conclusion of
an armistk-e on land and water and ;
In the air."
NEW PEACE MOVE IS NOT AT {
ALL POPULAK IN WASHINGTON
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Washington.?The new peace move
is not popular here. It is believed ]
that the President will give it a quick
and decisive answer.
Leaders of Congress are unwilling to 1
negotiate with Germany for peace, j
Here and there a member of the '
house or senate who hesitated about
entering the light against German autocracy
thinks that It would be well
to discuss terms with the Berlin government.
but the more sturdy congressmen
believe that the President
should turn the proposition down fiat.
There is very little sympathy here ,
for Germany. Austria or Turkey, and
a majority of the senators and repre- |
sentatives hope that the president will j
give a quick sliort answer to the German
chancellor.
STRONG LANGUAGE EXUDES
FROM GERMAN NEWSPAPER
Amsterdam.?-Germany is beginning
to realize and admit that it is a na
tion of scoundrels.
Press comment, always the best key
to the public opinion of a nation, is
veering around to the point where it
is confessing Germany'* faults. Frankly
the German papers are beginning to
admit that they must abandon the!
idea that their armlee are fighting for
conquest, and realize that what they
are fighting for is bare existence.
"It is a matter of damnable import-l
ance," says The Cologne Gazette, al-j
ways regarded as a semi-official Jour-|
nal. "whether we are or are not re-1
garded throughout tha world as a na-j
tion of blackguards. Indeed we are |
being so regarded."
DESPERATE FIGHTING GOES
ON ON AMERICAN FRONT1
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With the American Army Northwest
of Verdun?T^ie American troops
on the line stretching westward from
the Meuse who are opposed by rein- j
forced units of the German army were
biisv straightening out the kinks left
in their long front. It was a day lacking
spectacular operations, but a sum- '
mary of the reports reaching headquarters
indicated the desperate ehdtg,
arier of the fighting. The general line
was not materially altered, but such
changes as were made were to the
advantage of the Americans.
TERSE COMMENT ON GERMAN
OFFER AND AS APT AS TERSE
Washington.?It hardly Is taking a !
position I tl adv?nno nt ? '
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government to say that if the present
proposition signifies Germany's unqualified
acceptance of the four prln- |
ciples laid down by President Wilson i
It will be considered. If It doesn't; If'
It Is an acceptance "In principle" with
saving diplomatic language paving the i
way for quibbling around a council ta- i
ble, ! will not he considered. 1
MAY BE SHAEWD MOVE
TO HINDER SALE OF BONDS
Washington.?Ohe thought concern- <
Ing the German peace ofTer that found J |
expression in many quarters was that i
the Germans. In launching their effort i
Juat at this time, probably hope to affect
the fourth T-iberty loan by ereaf- 1
Ing the idea that the end of the war la 1
at hand. It Is believed, however, that 1
their effort will have the directly op- 1
poslte effect. Officials -were confident 1
that the American people will mora 1
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COL HERBERT A. BRUCE
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Col. Herbert A. Bruce, consulting
surgeon of the British army.
SEES THE APPROACH OF DAWN
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THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE HAS
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BEEN DEFINITELY BROKEN;
ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS.
One of Darkest Nights in Human History
is Coming to a Close; Vic- j
tory No Matter of Doubt.
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The German offensive has been bro- j
ken. Germany's conquered prov-1
lures and cities are slipping rapidly :
from her grasp. Allied troops in Bel- :
giurn. in French Flanders, in Artois, '
in Champagne and In Lorraine, are
advancing in country which has been ,
German for forty-seven long months
and all chance of a German return to
the offensive is gone.
The march to Berlin has begun.1
Cambrai. St. Quentln and Lille are
only the starting places, but after
four years no one can fail to see that .
the grand inarch has started. If the 1
road is loug the rate of our advance !
is increasing.
One of the darkest nights in all
human history is coming to a close, j
Victory is no longer even a matter of ^
debate. From the North Sea to the j
banks of the Moaelle the tlnal advance
is going forward.
GERMANS STILL IN RETREAT
ON WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE j
Again tli* Q?rm?nn are in retreat j
on an important sartor of the western ,
battle front in France. The scene of '
the new retrograde movement is nj
wide front north and south of La-|
Rassee canal.
The cmitinuation by the entente al- 1
lied forces of their brilliant achieve- ;
nienta in restoring Belgium, Flanders !
and the expulsion of the enemy from j
further territory in France from the:
region of Otwubrai to Verdun evident-1
ly has brought the Germans to the
realization that the great bend in the
line from Menin to the east of Arras
is likely to prove aonther such trap (
as was the St. Mihiel salient unless
they are fast enough of foot to move J
eastward, giving up Lille. Lens and j
Denial, and straighten their line from
the vicinity of C-ambral to Belgium.
On all the other six battle fronts
from Belgium to Verdun the entente j
forces are keeping up their success- i
ful advances.
IMPERILLED AMERICAN FORCE
18 RESCUED BY BRITISH
British Headquarters in France..?!
The contiaigent of Americans, who
had been holding out since Sunday in
a far advanced position between Cam- j
brat and St. Quentln against greatly
superior enemy numbers, have been ,
rescued.
In our attacks around Vendhuile we
were able to fight through and relieve
this party, numbering some hundreds,
who having taken up their position
Sunday night were surrounded by the
Germans. j
Notwithstanding that they were
opposed by such superior numbers
and only possessed the ammunition
and rations which they themselves
were carrying, the Americans made a i
magnificent resistance and the ground
was strewn with German dead.
LARGE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL '
IS CAPTURED BY AMPBirawe
Washington. ? General Pershing's
communique says that a partial count
of the material captured during the
past week by the American troops advancing
between the Meuse and Argonne
shows 120 guns.of all calibers,
Toft trench mortars. 300 machine guns. 1
100 heavy tank guns, thousands of artillery
shells and hundreds of thousands
of rounds of small arm ammunition.
Only artillery and machine ^un
lire was reported on the front.
BRITISH ARE FORCED BACK
AT ONE POINT BY GERMAN8
I^ondon.?The. Germans have lost
further ground to the British In the
intskirts of C'amhrai and northwest of
that city, but northeast of St. Quenin
the British under a violent counter-attack
have been forced from the village
of Sequeliart. The enemy attacked
itrongly northeast of St. Quentin and
mcceeded in pressing back our troops
from the village of Sequehart when
lis progress was stopped.
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MAKE STEADY GAIN
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NO REST IS GIVEN TO WEARY
HUNS IN RETREAT BEFORE
RELENTLESS FOE.
AMERICANS HOLDING LINES
Italians Attacking and Defeating Enemies
in Mountain Regions of
Northern Italy.
Nowhere are the armies of the Teutonic
allies belli* permitted to rent.
On the fronts in Flanders. France.
Italy. Albania and Turkey the enemy
still continues to lose ground, or is
being compelled to throw strong reinforcements
into his battle line to
hold back his aggressors.
In Belgian Flanders, the Belgians.
British and French troops are still
driving forward, although their speed
had been somewhat lessened by reason
of the bad condition of the ground.
.ic ciiniij is swiiuy rvacum iiK the
salient between Armentieres and Lena
and the British now ate standing only
a scant six miles southwest of Lille
over a front of about four miles between
Wavrin and Kqlnghem. at the
former place having gained a position
astride the Lens-Lilte railroad.
In the mountain region in northern ,
Italy the Italians on several sectors
have attacked and defeated the Au?- i
triana, while in Albania the AustroMungarians
are in fast retreat before j
the Italian armies. Italian cavalry
is working far in advance of the infantry.
harassing the enemy. The j
Semeni river in western Albania has
been crossed, and the enemy supply
center invaded.
In Palestine the Turks have been
driven far hevond Damascus with the
British still on their heels harrying
them.
OUR AVIATORS AGAIN COVER
THEMSELVES WITH GLORY
With the American Army North
west of Verdun. The American avia- |
tors again covered themselves with
glory and performed .almost the im- J
possible. Dawn broke with mists
heavy over the trenches and the coun- |
try across which the Americans were
to go. and it was hours before the
weather cleared sufficiently to permit
of any observation to speak of.
Th?? splendid laison that marked
the day's operations was due In great
part to the work of the aviators, who |
countless times risked their lives in
reconnoiteritig. attacking the retreat- j
ing Germans and bringing back re- j
ports. German tliers during the emirs
morning swooped over the beads of |
the American infantry only a few hundred
meters above the earth, using
machine guns with telling effect until ;
driven off.
AMERICAN TROOPS ARE DOING
GOOD WORK ALONG THE MEUSE
With the American Army Northwest
of Verdun?The Americans resumed
the attack west of the Meuse ,
and advanced their lines front two j
to live kilometers. They captured,
Hill 240. north of Kxermont. and the ,
villages of Gesnes, Fleville, Oheherjr
and La Forges.
In the face of heavy artillery and
machine gun Are Illinois. Wisconsin,
western Pennsylvania, Virginia and
West Virginia troos have forced the
aneniy back in tl.e Krietnhilde position,
south of Foret wood.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO LIBERTY
LOAN TOO MUCH BELATED
Washington.?The nation is marching
toward its six-billion dollar Liberty
loan goal at just u little more
than half the speed required to main- i
tain a daily subscription rate of $315,- !
000.000. Bond sales officially tabulated
were announced by the treasury
as $855,132,900 or an Incresae of $229.000,000
in the last 24 hours. At the j
standard rate of $315,000,000 a day. 1
the record by this time should have
been $1,575,000,000.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES ARE
SAID TO BE MODERATE
Tendon.?British and French forces
continued to advance north of St.
Quentin. They reached the outskirts
of Bontbrehain after severe fighting.
The American casualties in the Argonne
region are described as moderate.
The Germans have been unable
to maintain their imual artillery Are
and undoubtedly beginning seriously
to feel the loss of the large number
of guns captured from them recently, i
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION' IN
JERSEY MUNITIONS PLANT
Perth Am boy, N. J.?Many men '
were killed and scores of others injured
in a tremendous explosion at
the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Shellloading
Company, at Morgan, near
here.
The number of dead and Injured
cannot he determined until employe*
of the plant answer a roll call in tha
morning. Estimates placed the number
of killed and hurt at from 50 to
more than 100. ,1
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PLYING TO PROPOSAL OF
GERMAN KAISER.
ARMISTICE NOT CONSIDERED
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President Has Probably Already Fo?*>
mulated His Reply, Subject to
Approval of Allies.
Washington.?President Wilson 1?
conferring with the premiers of the
entente nations over the foihn of an- >
swer to be made to Germany's latest
peace propos lis. The indications are
that it will not be dispatched for a
lay or two.
While there may be some question
as to form of the reply, there is no
question whatever as to its < nature.
It may not use the shnrf anil fnn.nful I
NEW KING OF BULGARIA
ISSUES HIS MANIFESTO
Amsterdam In his manifesto to the
Bulgarian people announcing his accession
to the throne. King Boris, according
to a dispatch from Sofia, referred
to the fact that his father, in
renouncing the throne, sacrificed himself
in the supreme national intercut.
In taking the name of Boris III, the
new king solemnly declared he would
resepct the constitution and work
faithfully for the prosperity of the
country where he was l?orn.
IMPORTANT SUCCCESSES ARE
ATTAINED BY AMERICANS
With the American Forces Northwest
of Verdun. ? The Americana
achieved another Important though local
success hv forcing the Germans
out of Chuel rheherv. northwes# of
Apremont. Pushing forward, they
overcame the ?subhoru resistance of
the enemy and set.t'ed themselves on
'he commanding heights west of the
-Ivor Aire. Nothing of importance occurred
on the other portions of tho
American front.
later disastrous consequences to the
militaristic hierarchy if the army suf- <1
fer.s wholly decisive defeat.
Germany warts peace, yes. but ah? a
wants peace on her own terms, having 'f
failed to impose victorious peace on S
her own terms. She is not in the least
convinced that she will have to accept
our terms. Her statesmen are now *
maneuvering to disrupt our alliance
and at the same time to get the sentiment
of the German people behind .-i
them again by establishing the fact &
that the enemy demands that Germany
shall pay the price of her
crimes and meet the demand for restoration.
restitution, reparation. These w
demands are just as unwelcome to
I he peasant as the junker and neither
is yet ready to accept them.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED AMERICANS
ARE PRISONERS IN GERMANY
Washington Members of the American
expeditionary forces who liav?
been identified as prisoners of war in
Germany numbered 1.480 on October
f>. said an announcement from the office
of the adjutant general of th?
army. In addition. 220 civilians Interned
in Germany have been Identified
as have t'.l sailors held in Constant
inoplefi
term "unconditional surrender," which
would reflect the sentiment which has
come from the spokesmen of the nation.
but it is sure to convey to the
German government clearly the fact
that nothiug less than the terms already
laid down can be accepted.
By this time. Prince Maximilian's
note and that of Baron Burian, the
Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, in
official form, undoubtedly are in the
foreign offices in London. Paris and
Home, forwarded by President Wilson.
as requested by the central pow- A,
|.
Obviously the American govern- *
ntent would not proceed to speak for ?
the other belligerents on a jnatter of
such importance without consultation *
among them. and. it is purposed to 2
avoid the mistake of making a curt *
and peremptory rejection which could
be used by the central powers, before
their own people, to bolster up the
argument that they are waging a "de- ^
Tensive" war and that the objects of ej
the co-belligerents are to "destroy "
them."
Lacking official announcements of ^1
what the President has done It is J
highly probable that he had taken one I
r?f tllOCP i ML*i\ OAlll'^AO.
Either ho has asked Premiers I.loyd
George. Clemencean and Orlando to
advise him of their replies, or. mors *
likely still, the President already has *
formulated a reply and asked the pre- 71
miers for their acquiescence. _4|
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PEACE OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED
FOR MILITARY PURPOSES '
New York.?Once more it is esse^- ,\|
tial for the American people to recognize
that they are in the presence 4
of a peace offensive launched for mil- 3
itarv purposes. This offensive is de- ^1.
signed to benefit the military situation jfc
of the German by saving the German ^
army from the Immediately grave rer>t
in