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Show I FORK. UTAH THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH Washington. K. V Mum the specialist of Ibe'lt !" iff CENTRAL POWERS WILL ADVO CATE "NO VICTORY" END OF WAR, IT IS PREDICTED. PROGRESSIVE MEMBER OF GERMAN REICHSTAG SEES HANDWRITING ON THE WALL, nf tx Aiirtmy ctoittenip. JfvcRv Surrender of Belgium and French Ter. Admits That America Cannot Be Forced to Make Peace and Cxpreaa-eritory Without Indemnity Is Plan I Deutsche Tug on It learns iiimI good authority Unit Germany Austria-HungarImvo agreed to iiiuke another pence offer to the allies. The offer will have us Its Imsls no territorial aggrandizement. (lie sur render of Belgium and French terrk torhil acquisitions for payments In ' money und no Iruleinnlly on either side. Then lx growing displeasure In German parliamentary elrelex against ,Dr. Karl llelfferlch owing to Kiitur day's events In the relelixtiiif. The General Anzclgcr of Dusscldorf lre diets that Ir. llelfferlch will resign the vice etiuncellorslilp In u few weeks, If not sooner. t'hnneellor Mlehnellx, In tin address do the felcliHliik main eonuuittee on V,obr 8, ax rejMirted In Iterllu 11 patches, replied to the charge that officials had undertaken propaganda for the new fatherland party, which is currying on a movement in favor of a "flerrnnn poure The chancellor laid down the principle, which applies to Prussian officials as well as those connected with ( the Imperial government, thut nil are free In their political belief so long as the empire Is not endangered thereby. As regards the army, the chancellor said, nil political propaganda will he excluded. Vice Admiral Von Capelle, German minister of marine, announced In the relehstng, on October 9, that a dot had lawn discovered In the navy to form a eonuuittee of delegates on the Bus-siamodel und to paralyze the fleet bu as to force the government to make peace. The guilty parties have been arrested and have received their Just deserts, the minister added. Admiral Von Ciipple attempted to . link the rudicnl socialists wiUi Amsterdam. Tilt says y proAmsterdam, George Goetln-in- , Is gressive member nf the quoted In u Berlin dispatch as having said at a meeting of the central committee of this party that although the military situation was satisfactory . there was no hope of crushing Germany's enemies on land. As for the submarine eumpalgn, seven million tons of shipping had been sunk, lie asserted, hut no disposition towurd peace on the part of England was discernible. A rationing system for food-Htullaid not been even introduced, and no one was able to say when the would make England more inclined for peace. America cannot he forced to mnhe peace," Heir Goethcln continued. We cannot force America to puy u war inThere remains only Engdemnity. land. But should we, in order to obtain an indemnity of KUHMt, 000,000 marks, sacrifice 50, 0 0,000,000 and another half million men?" Germany's allies, Herr Goethcln continued, were not Inclined to continue the war for plans of conquest, hut were striving for pence by understanding und conciliation, while the pun German clamor for annexations wrs finding n had reception among them. He asserted that the long working hours uud Insufficient feeding nt home increased the desire for peuee among the workers and that strikes might he exacted If the war should he continued for alms of con quest. Un-plot- FRONT IN FLANOERS. British and French Join in Breaking German Lines. London. France uud England united their forces on October 9 in u furious drive ugulnst the Gorman forces on the Flanders front. Their furious charges could not lie stayed, and they e made a advance on a front, tuking thousands of prisoners. ' , Scarcely three weeks are left to complete the Jolt which Is to elenr every height und hillock and every Inch on the slopes of the northern tip of the ridge that bars their sweep down the plains of Flanders. "East und northeast of Ypres" is the vvay the British otflelal statements refer to this battleground where tin better part of the British efforts tlds year have been invested, und Invested at a profitable rute of Interest. For the first time in neurly three months the French, whose lines adjoin the British just above the tip of the ridge. Jumped Into the fray. Side by slile the two armies started on the years final drive. From the not ills taut sen swept un ley wind, giving fair warning that the time Is short. It fired the "Tommies and pollus to redoubled vim. Never before have they pulled together In such brilliant successful team play. ten-mil- e one-mil- S, x n LEAGUE FOR NATIONAL UNITY. Movement to Lead and Expresa Public Opinion on the War. Washington. A movement to lead und express public opinion on the war was Inaugurated here October 8 by formation of the Leugue for National Unity, representing church, imlitlcnl, labor, agricultural und industrial organizations, to which President Wilson gave Ids indorsement In un uddress emphasizing the need for team play by the forces of American thought anil opinion. Welcoming the leaders of the movement at the White House In a brief speech, the president expressed the belief thut American public opinion, the wars understanding although causes and principles, needed guldunce to remember that the war should end ouly vv hen Gcrmuny Is beaten and Germanys rule of autoeruey and might are superseded by the ideals of de, mocracy. TERRIBLE TOLL OF FLOODS. Result of Inundation of Portion of China. Washington. Never In the history Many Lives Lost as of China has a Hood worked such dev ustutlon and cost so many lives as already resulted from the great Inundation now in progress, according to advices received here Monday at the Chinese legation. BRIG. GEN. FOULOIS Trading With Enemy Barred. Washington. Commerce and restrictions uthdrlzed by the trading-wiih-- t net will be put into effect within a few days under an executive order which Brest dent Wilson virtually bad eompletml Tuesday, after conferring with cabinet members, Vance McCormick, chuinn.in of the exports administrative hoard, and Acting Secretary Crosby of the 11 y MORE OF BERNSTORFFS CABLE CONGRESS VOTES TO SEVER AND COMMERCIAL EXCHANGES WITH VON JAGOW WITH TEUTONS. MADE PUBLIC. C Throw Further Light Upon the Machinations of the German Diplomatic Service In Attempt to Overthrow French Government, Passports Issued to German Diplomat Ic and Consular Officials and All Uruguayan Officials in Germany Ordered Home. of Count von Washington. Bernstorff's confidential cable ex changes with the Berlin foreign office were made public by the state department on October 5, furnishing doeu mentury proof of the extraordinary activities of Bolo Pasha, now a prisoner in France, und throwing further light upon the machinations of the German diplomatic service. The messages, signed by Von Bern-xtoraud by Von Jagow, then foreign minister, show that $1,700,090 which the ambassador obtuined authority to place .to the cred.t of Hugo Schmidt, then a representative of the Deutsche hank at New York, was sought as a loan to a "leading political personality in France and was counted upon to bring pence. They were exchanged in Februury, 1910, when the French Socialists were threatening to overthrow the government and there was talk of Frunee being tired of war and dissatisfied with the part played by her allies. The wily Bernstortt cuutloned aguinst expressions In the German press French concerning internul manges, suggesting that German approval might upset all his plans. He also was careful not to put down the name of the political personality, saying a verbal report would he mude as soon as a trustworthy messenger could he sent. Hugo Schmidt testified In New York before Stute Attorney General Lewis, telling how the money was placed to ills eredlt, with Instructions from Von BernstorIT that it wus to be disposed of as Adolph Pavenstedt might direct. Puvenstedt already had told the attorney general that Von Bernstorff obtained the fund to finance a scheme of Bolo Puslm for peuce between Ger. many and France. Montevideo. Uruguay's break with umt to pass early Sunday Germany session of morning after un More ff all-nig- outcongiess. It was greeted by bursts of patriotic fervor from the public and press throughout the republic. The measure adopted by the joint session of the senate und house authorizes President Viera of Uuruguay: 1 To break diplomatic and commercial relations with the German em the pi re. 2 To adopt measures to facilitate with the navigation, In friendly nations, and measures to assure importation and exportation. The president acted promptly on the first point and took immediate steps towurd action on the sccouti. In a speech to congress he made It clear that Uruguay enters the war on the side of the United States not because of uny particular grievance, but to align Itself with the nuse of liberty and Justice. Passports were issued on Sunday to the German ( diplomatic and consular officials. Uruguay gives guarantees for their personal safety until they are out of the country. At the same time cable orders were dispatched to Berlin ordering all Uruguayan officials hi Germany to leave for home immediately. A note to thp German foreign office expresses the assumption that the sume guarantees given Uermun officials in Uruguay will he given to Uruguayan officials of Gcrmuny. These steps were decided upon at a meeting of the president with the cabinet. It Is expected that Montevideo will be converted Into a base of operation for the allied fleets. Luxburg Starts for Spain. Buenos Aires. It is reported In diplomatic circles thut Count Kurl von COALITION ONLY HOPE. Luxburg. former German minister to Argentina, who recently was given his Kerensky Pleads for Union of Forces passports, sailed October 5 for Spain to Save Russia. on a Spanish steamer. Iclrograd. When a committee from the Democratic congress visited PreLOUIS WERNER mier Kerensky on Saturday he addressed the committeemen us follows : The growth of anarchy, the condition of political ruin, which confronts i the country, the extravagant demands of various groups and the strivings In certain quarters to restore the former regime, force u recognition of the necessity of union und coalition. Only V , the union of the bourgeois and democratic elements cun save the country. Minister of Foreign Affairs Terest-ehenk- o pleaded for a reconstruction of the nations forces so that the dele-gatwho will participate In the Paris conference October 10 may point out to the allies that our fighting force inis been renewed and that our boast of strength Is no myth. ,0 treasury. es Sultan of Egypt Dead. im&F--' Istndon. The Hally Telegraph says It learns that the Sultan of Egypt died at noon Tuesday. Hussein Kemal was chosen by Great Britain In 191 to succeed his uncle, Khedive Abbas llllml, as ruler of Egypt, simultaneously with the proclamation of a British protectorate. His father was Khedive from 18, si to 1879. u 1 V fV , LUSaatw vi ft vj Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois wilt be the title of the chief of the aviation section, Slgnabeorps, U. S. A., as soon as his nomination Is confirmed by the senate. He was promoted to that rank from the rank of major. General Fou-lot- s was In charge of aviation activities during the recent Mexican operaa tions. Hurled Through Window. Globe Arlz. Judge John C, McBride, federal mediutor und widely Known labor leader, dual from Injuries leeched wheu he was struck by a lima way horse am hurled through a plate glass window on Main sheet. Escaping Prisoners Drowned. Wage Increase Granted. Laredo, Texas. of five alien cue-ic- s Lowell, Muss. A 10 per cent wage Interned ut Fort McIntosh, Tex-- , near here, who escaped Tuesday Increase for 20,000 cotton mill opera15, Is ght. two aredead und three are now tives, effective October Nuevo Jjitredo, Mexico, opposite by seven loenl mills. Other re. The two dead lost their lives (orpornllunx here, it was said, prob ubl.v will grant u similar increase. trying to swim the Itlo Grande. Believes Banker Was Murdered. I'eoria, HI. The charge Unit Jess Barker, millionaire hanker of this city, wus murdered, was nmdo by ids cousin, William 0. before a grand Jury. j Soldiers Aid Liberty Campaign. Salt Lake City. Thousands of Utahs citizens packed the main streets of Salt Luke Friday night, waved flags and shouted themselves hoarse when G000 soldiers from Fort Douglas paraded through the business portion of Salt Lake hi celebration of Utah's patriotic tiny aud to give impetus to the great drive In the state for subscriptions to the second Liberty loan Issue of government bauds. y A Thla la Louie Werner, editor in chief of the Philadelphia Tageblatt, who, with four other editor and officers of the paper, wae held for trial on charges of falsifying the new to the detriment of the United States and Ite allies. Butte Butchers Strike. Butte, Mont. Demanding an in- ,roHS. r,f $1 day over Un mvs.mt wf $t.:,o, ;oo butchers are 011 strike. Every shop In the city is Employers dcclurc they will not grunt thu men's dcuiamls. Five Go Down With Barge, Detroit, Mich. Five persons sank to their death when the barge Athens foundered In n blinding hailstorm 25 miles from Southampton. Ontario, In Lake Huron, according to a message root Ived hero. Feed Wheat to Livestock. One Seattle Strike Settled. Pastor It Treason Suspect Oklahoma City. Half a million Seattle. A strike In Scuttles wood-federal Cedar BuphK In. Thu bushels of wheat will be fed to liveyards, called on September It grand Jury has .cturned un Indict-Istock In Oklahoma this fall, it Is in. sympathy with the efforts of timber John Itch-hcragainst the dicated by reports received Monday by workers to obtain un eight hour day.'jmeut Gorumu Lutheran church ,he pastor the stale council of defense front 211 was culled off Sunday through the ef ut Low den, la., charging him with treu western comities. fort of Secretary of Lubor Wilson, sellable utterances. 1 oil-shi- n Tm-s-da- lt-v- rt I , i Hh 01 Army sesWashington. The extraordinary 2, which April began sion of congress, methods which wilt , losses, und increase the L" "wtl, next seu son. Working with the tension divisions f (lu. I,,u.r'1 Draft Law, Two War Credit AlMeasures, Authorizing Loan to Among lies and Sale of Bond Important Measure Passed. ? ml , n CRUMPLE wears Doubt as to Outccme of Sub. marine Campaign. Austria-Hungar- SCeltung of Berlin hut LAWf tiiAHep v In vlsltimrSm. Cl- - bw'K flutes the Interests production from tlmt LTZ jj. announced nomvitv of portanee of ,a. u,e MOMENTOUS PROBABLY MOST AND ONE IN HISTORY, SESSION OF GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT. MOSOOOMfJWWR a Agreed Upon by Germany and fa' ttw m fw(3 agriculture and generally regarded ns the most momentous In American h. story, was 11 p. uw on Ocadjourned sine die at tober (I. Vehement criticism of Senator 1st Follctte, of Wisconsin, und his own defense, occupying virtually the entire sesday, marked the close of the war adjournsion. with other customary ment and legislative procedure, including President Wilson's attendance ut the cnpltol. The usual eleventh hour grist of legislation was put through, following six months of Important war action, and by night most of the, members who had remained for the final days were en route home to uwnit the call of the next session. December 3. During Interruptions of the day's debate congress found time to dispose of a few Inst moment matters with President Wilson In attendance during the last hour In his room near tbe senate chamber signing hills. Secretaries Lansing and Itedlield und Postmaster General Burleson accompanied the president. Among the last acts of congress were confirmation in "pen session of numy nominations, hastily sent in by the president, Including those of Major Generals Pershing aud Bliss to be generals. Itlglit of free speech and of discussion of public questions was emphasized by Senntor 1j Follette In hla three-hour- s speech, while senators criticizing him declared that he transcended the constitutional guarantees In that respect. Senator Kellogg of Minnesota bitterly denounced as a slander on the intelligence, honor ami patriotism of the oeuntry" the alleged declaration of Mr. La Follette in St. Paul that the nation went to war to maintain a technical right of Amerivescans to travel on munition-ladesels in behalf of munitions mukers Interest In the war. Marking the session which hn Just passed into hlory were its war declaration; provision for quick and large Increase In the nations fighting forces on land, sea and iu the air ; appropriations of more than twenty billions dollars; measures of taxation and credits to meet the financial drafts, and vesting the president with vast powers. Looming ahead for disposition at the December session are further enormous appropriations for this and next year, great tax und bond bilks and a mass of other war and domestic legislation with congressional primaries und elections closely following. Among the most important measures enacted were: Thp army draft law, two war credits measures, authorizing loans to the allies und sale of domestic bonds, the war tax law, appropriations of $010,000,000 for airplanes, the espionage act, control of foods, feeds and fuel; the trading with the enemy act, including authority for the president to embargo Imports, the soldiers and sailors insurance act und two war budget hills. Besides prohibiting further manufacture or Importation of distilled beverages and authorizing the president in the food control bill to stop or curtail that of beer and wines, the senate by u vote of 05 to 20 also passed the Sheppard resolution, proposing a national dry amendment to the federal constitution. It is pending in the house for action at the December ses- HUf, 1 1 7 ';. "''I d,.rr' it can to foster rf Ihe CnlvoMt, Dr. Phillips will the , tlJf tr-- i -- 1,;, alt h! two ;0f statYr? 'illlli with them plans for ,L.v,.n, (Y' beekeeping ,IMWl,f and immf of apiaries through be ween the U. S. culture and the state InSalt Luke City on OctZsY and will be in Twin Fulls 1,1,, Id Its cJY 1 dennY'' fo eft olx mi ' fober 13. me POTATO WEEKPUNNEOt ! Make Special Effort to Eat Pont., October 22 to 27. Washington. Three purpose, , be accomplished by a nntion wi tato week In which every , make a special effort to eat p..u. during the week from October 27, according to the Unite! f, department of agriculture. The j of these purposes Is to encourage tmting of the tubers lox'iiuxe it u time It is expected thut potato , be the most available and eronw,u starchy food ; the second la to 1 wheat during thut period; and third Is to encourage the general t, of potatoes us a wheat substitute the American householder. 1(. The house created a special committee on woman suffrage, while the senate favorably reported the Susan B. Anthony amendment proposing an equal frum lose amendment to the constitution. The latter will he pressed Several hills passed the senate ami fullid of Joint approval and remain pending on the calendar. Among them are the soldiers and suil-ei- 's civil rights hill, the daylight saving measure, the Weld, export hill, the measure regulating the killing of migratory birds and the national prohibition measure. The proposed Colombian treaty for payment of 85,tKKMKK) In satisfaction of her loss of the Pan-lim- a canal .one, us 0f senate ratiheatton und is on the calendar. rth, wee .r, I W he pip ne oe le :J U dm pea i. ell tali tan Utahn Killed In Range Wir, Suit Lake City. C. I. Christen stockman w hose home is In Salt L. wus shot when mistaken by 1 p for one of the pillagers who, on had 8 with night previous, destroyed huge stacks of lmy und grain on e Christenson ranch near Layma,!, Ills wounds have since proved fau The tragedy Is the result of 1 rar war. 1' irct s'd oib jjt. S' rial re led its ( 'arl th Librarian to Assist Washington. Every pul, hi lihn. in the country lias been enlisted serve In the cuuse of food consn tion. Each state will have its him publicity director, appointed bj federal food administrator for t! stute, to supervise work by libw ans, encourage exhibitions ind vh crate closely with the United Sts' food administration. t! Ecuador Bars German Minister. Food Pledge Waek. Washington. In a letter aent to the heads of the churches la d United States, the food ndiwmdr tion makes an appeal for onetadrt thousand sermons, to be preached October 21 in bclmlf of food PW' Schedule day, to week, which begins thut tul of neurly forty million k th re .ns, .re 1m; itlOI te tie !S udt ru ei Quito, Ecuador. The Ecuadorm secretary of foreign affaire has a cablegram ?o the Ecuadorean lrp tlon at Lima announcing that Dr Pc the German minister to Peru and B undor, resident at Lima, will oat officially received by the Ecuadorw government in case he attempts come to Ecuador. IIM ilea C Th; ute In ifti lire tlx rm k--j ii Int "mi 'gn wtic " 'ftsll an. persons. Record Crops This Year. M Washington. Considerable coo were recorded in some of die r the as trys principal farm crops suit of conditions in September, Monduy's government report in1 of there would he record crops ('ir sweet oats, rye, white hiuI tobacco und beans. ike th in ml ia; dpi re nt mi Frost In Nebraska. 1? 00 Omaha. A killing frost state the over all Sunday night brnskn. The mercury resist above zero at Omaha Monday-owas the corn In the state rrulf will danger und the frost fit It. nd Th -- f house, hut rrt lay i, n sion. Cl I Bandits Secure Payroll Mo? addin. Uhlengo. Payroll bandits, and I heir long list of robberies tiers, Monday held id ,mk n? Sundgren, cashier of n I( returnltiR puny, while she was unM" hank, and escaped In uu with I19S0. White Sox Win Two. Great Drought I Broken. hca t lilengo. The White Sox won the Deadwood, S. D.-- Thc first two games from the 1,0 broke Giants In the and rain Sunday Murid championship series, the first drought In the Black Hilts name going to 1. White Sox by a 2 inches of snow fell D'r. 10 score; the scrum! being 7 to 2. lux which had been bnndnR Mtout to, (XX) people witnessed (he first here for a number of ditj game and 32.990 intended the second gtilslied. contest School Children En,itd',rhH Draft Evader Imprisoned. Washington. The 22,n00. I'idd. Ok!a. Maximum 0 penalties of children of America rt a senmriee of six M,ai.s ed for the week eiiiiipaigi' il ( tl(, 1 I unit and 1, fine of toher 21 .to 28, during wM , 10,10 JXW Kv,, "neh of the eight planned to enroll men convicted of to resist for food conservation the selei live driilt conspiracy law, Austrian Desire Cram Elevator Burn. dlspah'h A Amsterdam. Ft Lmiis, in Kir., h(.ved here from Vienna descrU v w Ing peace demonstration day destroyed the ;tn held by the Christian M'"!n ''"tor of the A Eh- - in the town hull Sunday-o- f "llU persons were present. 1 Vr I t in Ml It It 'Mi nr .Ii TH fo ny aid itli !w ret 11 1 fwi, ret re me Noi Rt Mx five-slor- v S'KIT"' 7 |