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Show Somewhere in the ARMISTICE TERMS V, S. A ARE GWEII 110 REST BEIIIG WORKED OUT CONFERENCE AT VERSAILLES AQREES UPON MAIN POINTS; COMMANDERS MUST O. K. ASKS THAT NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE AND ARMISTICE SE EN. TERED INTO AT ONCE. Expected That Alllea Will Insist Upon Surrender of German Fleet and Occupation by Allied Foreea f Towns on the Rhine. Accepta Preeldent Wileon'e Terma and la Ready te Dlacuea Peace Terma Without Awaiting Reaulta of Exchange With Germany. Ixmdon. The Versailles conference, according to the report current In ioudon, hua agreed ou the nmln point of the aruilHtlce term, which will now he considered hy the uillltury commanders. The liunl pence terms, It la wild, will be aubiultted to Germany with the armlxtlce terma, Aa part of the terma of an artul-tlc- e the livening New any It under-atand- a the allied nuthm will Insist Upon the aurrender of the German fleet. Including all the (ieruiun and upon the occupation hy allied forces of all the fortified town on the Ithlne. Kir George Gave, the British home secretary, gave a long account lu the house of common of Germany's III While Washington. Germany's lut eat note to President Wilson was de- llvered to the stale department Monday through the Hwlas legation, cable dispatches from Europe brought Information that the government had ruuxed another communication to be dispatched to the presl-den- t, asking that Immediate negotiation for eace and an armlsih-- he entered into without awaiting the result of the exchange with Germany. The Vienna government UKMcrted that It adhered to the same point of view expressed hy the president In Ida last communication iijam the right of -- xlmul-taneousl- y sub-murin- e, treatment of British war prisoners and her continued violation of agree moots concerning prlaoners of war. The home secretary declared that Ger tunny ought to be made to pay for these violations. Battle Against Profiteering. San Francisco. Formation of a pro organize posed $3,000,0(10 state-wid- e tlon to stop profiteering In foodstuffs and reduce prevailing food prices was effected here Tuesday. Representatives of the State Federation of Labor, Federated Women's clubs, the State Council of Defense and other organizations were present at the conference. Rumania May Reenter War. Indications London. Accumulating of Rumania point to an early ' Into the war. Private advices from re-ent- Brat-lanBucharest state that who was virtually forced out of office by the Germans, Is about to return to power. The keynote of his platform will be renewal of Rumania's war on the central powers. u, Guatemala Hit by Yellow Fever. San Diego, Cal. Chumperlco and San Juan de Guatemala, Central American ports, have been placed under strict quarantine on account of yellow fever, according to word brought here by shipping men. Salvador, Honduras nnd Nicaragua have put restrictions on the traffic from the two ports. ALLIED FORCES CONTINUE WITH SUCCESS THEIR DRIVES ON IMPORTANT SECTORS commonwealth can be gained from figures which have just been Issued Out of a population of officially. 5,000,000, Australia has sent abroad 330,000 men. n e the Austro-Hungaria- n people, es. peclully those of the (zceho-Klovaand JugfvKIxvs, and requested that he begin overture with the allied governments with a view to ending Immedi- 80LF DECLARES THAT WILL. BE (DELEGATES IN THE REICHSTAG ate hostilities on all HAVE BEGUN TO CLAMOR FIRST STEP TOWARD A front. FOR INDEPENDENCE. JUST PEACE. Revolutionary bands are driving the troope out of Montenegro, the correHndent of the Dully Latest Communication From Germany Sensational Scenes When Separists Assert Themselves Defiantly, ShowNew at The Hague learn from ViSays Peace Negotiations Are Being Carried Forward by Represent-tive- s enna. The rebel have captured ing Leaven That May Yat Result In Downfall of the Kaieer. of the People. Nlkslc, Ilcrane, Scutari and Rlrka. The Austrian governor general ho left CcJtlnJe, the Montenegrin capital. , Emboldened hy the London. Washington. Gcrmuny's answer to The official text of the German note President WOrnm's latest eomnmnlea German government's acceptance of Aid not differ materially from the unlion declares that Germany Is now the principles of official vyralon aa received by cable. laid down hy President Wilson, the awaiting projMtal for an armistice. No official comment was forthcomIt I understood lu authoritative delegutes In the relchstag from ing, but It Is known that no response quarters that the alltal government uutionalitle now have begun will he made at preent to the com- will not reveal their armistice term to clamor for Independence. Sensamunication, which la believed to have until Germany ha replied to l'resl tional neene In tbe relchstag Wednesbeen dispatched with the prlmury In- dent Wlliton's last note. day, with the Separatists asserting e tention of satisfying the German Premier Lloyd George and Foreign themselves defiantly, were described la not Secretary Balfour, that their government accompanied by lu dispatches received here, bused on omitting any opportunity to forward naval and military officers, have gone advh-from Berlin. the negotiations for an armistice and to France. Representing tbe Poles of Prussia, peace. A dispatch from Copenhagen, under I Regarding the renewed asStychel claimed the right of surance In the German note that the date of October 27, says: Germany's I Independence, declaring tbe time hud constitutional structure of the Ger- answer to President WIIswu's lutestlcome to put aside tbe fayorlte man government has been and la being Iniun formula, "every ground where the Is as follows: lines, It I changed to democratic The German government has taken I German stake Is struck Is German pointed out that the truth of this state- cognizance of the answer of the presl-- 1 ground." I ment and the scope of the chunges al- dent of the United States. , President Wilson, he suld, was ho fur-1 ready made or projected, after all, aware of the "The president Is nmnlty's benefactor and was moved hy sre matters to be dealt with In con- reaching changes which have been car- - the strongest feeling of Justice which nection with peace and not In arrang- rled out and are being carried out In Ijles in men's hearts. German Poland, A strong disposiing an armistice, flie German constitutional structure, I he added, had been brutally admlnls-an- d tion Is evidenced officially to yield to thut peace negotiations are being I tcred and tbe Poles hail not been I German both of the apparent Intent by a people's government. In mltted to become the equal of other ind Austrian negotiator to continue whose band rests, both actually and I citizens. these two essentially different func- constitutionally, the power to make tbe This unusual language In the once tions In one phase of the negotiations. deciding conclusions. subservient German reielistug was Im "The milltury powers are also sub-- mediately followed by Indications of Huns Condemn Wilson's Reply. a Danish Separatist movement. Dele- Jct to It. now gate Hansen, In tbe name of tbe "The Germangovernment Copenhagen. With few excetlon h the German pres condemn President proposals for an armistice, j ish population nnd of right and Wilson's latest note, saying It I an shall be the first step toward a tlee, demanded tbe execution of Unalteration of his former stnndjiolnt just peace, as the president has de- - pnigue treaty, which promised tbe and betrays lack of comprehension of scribed It In lit proclamation. people of Schleswig a plebiscite to per "SOLF." recent events In Germany a well as mit them to decide whether they (Signed) misconstruction of what had happened would remain with Germany or return there. It I also said that the note repThe German reply Is eseeted to I to their former Danish allegiance, , demands to concession a the resents Then Delegate clear the way for a general discus-- 1 representing Mon of the Individual views of the en- ef the allied nation. created the greatest tente powers on pence terms and tin sensutlon hy pointing nut that Socialists Indicted. among the nations fighting ance by the Gccinnn government of Wilson's fourteen terms vMllwaukee. Victor L. Berger and Germuny so thut a united front on President un four others, prominent In tbe Socialist these questions may be presented to made the future of Alsace-Lorrain- e International question. He gnve warnparty, were Included In more than the common enemy. The German reply nmy or may not ing that the proposed autonomy was fifty Indictments recently returned by prove thut Germany will accept such now Insufficient, moaning that nothing the federal grand jury, terms of an armistice as may be pre-- short of Independence or return to the sented! In this connection the presi- province of France would meet the apCOL EDWARD P. OHERN dent, In his last note, said : proval of the people. "Should such terms of an armistice be suggested their acceptance by GerCapture 9000 in a Day. muny would atford the best concrete London. Nine thousand Germans evidence of her unequlvoeul accept- have been made prisoner and l.r0 guns ance of the terms and principles of have bpen by the British captured peuce upon which the whole action In theli- - attack nralnst the Germans, proceeds. MRS. ELLA FLAGG YOUNG NO TALK OF PEACE THERE. k Auatro-Ilungur-Ia- Austro-Hungaria- n n eo-pl- Ih-put- Dnn-awal- ta In Siberia. A brigade of RumanWashington. ian Infantry has been organized In Siberia to fight with entente troops, received according to a cablegram Tuesday by IYof. T. O. Masnryk, presl- nntlonul dent of the Czecho-SlovaCouncil. k Alsnee-Lorralnj- -, accept-agreeme- 1 Becomes Linguist In Prison. Terre Haute, Ind. Having learned Russian, Spanish, German and French while In prison, former Mayor Don Roberts, back from Fort Leavenworth, where he was sent for election frauds, declared he will offer his services to the government Kaiser Abdication Rumored. Copenhagen. Following a meeting at Berlin of the leaders of the Ger-man federated states, the kaiser considers his position hopeless and Is pre-pared to abdicate, according to a late dispatch received here. 1 1 Bombing German Positions. Iiondon. The British Independent air force again has been busily en-- 1 gaged In bombing German positions far behind , the battle line and has met with good results, according to an official communication. Ban Put on Club Sandwiches. New York. Club sandwiches containing chicken or bacon, or any dishes containing more than one kind of meat, must disappear from hotel menus, according to an Interpretation . by the federal food board. Cut Off From Supplies by Flood. Asheville, N. C. Two thousand negro soldiers and a number of white officers, employed In the Ilsgah forest, have been cut off from all supplies by floods caused by heavy rains. Turks Attack Germans. pressed IXMidon. Gerinuuy's luird soldier sre being given no rest a the British, French ami American forces' continue with success their drives on lnisirtiiMt sectors from north of Valenciennes to east of the Meuse. Meanwhile the Italians are pushing ahead In the region of Monte Grappa, The Americans, British, French, Italian and Belgians have all lcu victorious on the western front, and n there are plenty of reserve to In thrown In whenever It heroine necessary, General Foeh will undoubtedly hold the whip bund to the end, which nmy come nt any time. One of the lmortunt event of the past week on the western front wua nuval the plueing of American guns In position and their participation Three gun are In the alterations. cenhuinmerlng the German railway front. They ters hark of the Olse-Serr-e are 0erated by officers and men of the United States navy, under com mnnd of Rear Admiral IlunketL Ou the eastern front the auccesa of the allies Is of the utmost Importance. The French have crossed the Danube Into Rumania and ruptured many prisoner and much war materlul. The Serbian continue in pursuit of the front, enemy on the Iaraeln-Karallevand aoiue hundreds of prlaoners have The been taken during tbe week. Austrians are getting out of Serbia aa fust as they can, for the troop have lost their morale and no longer muke any pretense of fighting munfully In the field. Condition In Austria are even worse thun In Germany, and disintegration of the empire Is In progress. Hungary Is now an Independent country, and the emperor hus announced thut he Is reconciled to the resurrection of the kingdom of Poland. The Rrltlxh have resumed their offensive agidnst the Turks In Mesopotamia, and success is following their effort. Albania Is being evacuuted by tbe enemy and the allies have been uniformly successful on the Archangel front The capture of German sub murine bases on the Belgian const, together with the activity of the allied fleets, hus practically annihilated the menace, and the northern European neutrals are preparing to brmg home food to the starring people. Beattie, Wash. Three hundred MM,j persons, most of mem bound AlaskanM and resJdeuia of u,e Yukon territory, lost their live when the Canadian I'nelfle steamship nme puny's pussenger slimmer Prim-eSophia wus (mitered lust Thursday by storm, dragged aero Vanderbilt ris--f and droped to the bottom f .DB cunut, an arm of the Itm.de pawns not fur north of Kkugway, Ahik. Aeeordlng to latest rctons, every one on Imurd wus drowned. Shipping men mild tbe to of il(l Koplil with all aboard wu the worst marine dlmmter In the history of the I'uclflc coast. The vessel, 2320 tons gro. bun plying In western Canadian und Aluxku waters since she wu built In 1912. The vessel, it wu thought, wu lurrying a capacity loud of passenger, nearly all northerner, who hud taken the lust ateninlsmt up the Yukon river before the lee und hud Itourded the Koplilu at Skagway. The passenger were among the hundred who left I Alusku this full to tbe winter In the stutes and Cunudu. They Imd come as far ns White Horse by river bout and there Imd hourded train fur tbe Alusku jtort tbe heavily loaded Wednesday Sophia left Kkngwuy for Vammuver and Vlctorlu. Not many hour out she ran Into one of the find snowstorm of the yeur. Kurly Thur.-duIn the dark of tbe storm, she nut a aground on the Vanderbilt reef. cull were sent out and the United States lighthouse tender Cedur. the United States government steamer Peterson and several small bout went When dwyllght to her assistance. came It wn found tbe Imat was resting easy and tbe weather calm, and It wu decided not to remove tbe passenger. The stortg sprang up Thursday and the winds whlpied down the long, narrow Lynn runul with hurricane force. The Sophia, In the path of tbe gale, w a acpounded against the rocks. On the count of the danger of stranding, near-b- y ships did not dare to go near her. Lifeboat were Impossible, although the shore was not many yard Inaway. Thursday night the gale creased In fury and probably while lifted many of the passenger slept, the steamer up, dragged her nrroia the reef and sent her to the bottom. h o at LUDEND0RFF RESIGNS. Jus-fblc- Kh-klln- Rumanians Will Fight Northsrnsrs who Had Left lee Bound Region 1 dr the Statee Meet Deatn rs 1 Australia Does Her BIL Melbourne, Australia. Some concep-- 1 tlon of what Australia has done In the war and of the losses sustained by the Navsl Guns Are Amtrlcan Csn-toHammering the Huns Railway Being Back of Olse-SerrOperated by American Boy h Austro-Hungaria- Allies Continue Drive That Will Send Huns Back Acrosa Rhine. lamdon. While both Germany and Austria are seeking to secure a cessation of hostilities und Turkey also Is reported to be favorably disposed toward peace, the entente allied troops on all the battle fronts lire giving no heed to peace proMisals, but are continuing without mercy to drive their foes before them. And In all the battle zones the allies are meeting with marked success. In France the German battle line Is slowly disintegrating under the violence of the allied offensive; In northern Italy are being the forced hnck hy the British, French and Italians, with heavy losses In men killed, wounded or made prisoner; Col. Edward P. OHern, chief of near the shore of the Adriatic, in Alordnance of the Flret American field the Italiuns are driving the bania, army, has been for years one of the Austrians the Montenegro toward most noted experts of the ordnance In Asiatic Turkey, both while frontier, bureau. He is a Weit Pointer, a naIn Syria nnd Mesopotamia, the British tive of New York, forty years old. He are fast clearing the Turk from their In directed the work of the big guna former strongholds. the 8L Mihlel drive. Burian's Successor Selected. Rioting has broken out at The Vienna vmzette Amsterdam. and Smyrna, according Constantinople to a dispatch from Mytilene, Island of has published a letter signed by EmLesbos, to the Pntris. At both cities, peror Charles appointing Count Julius the dispatch adds, Germans were at- Andrassy to succeed Baron Rnrian as foreign minister nnd president of the tacked. cublnet council. Excess Profits Taxes Imposed. Would Boycott Germany. Washington. Individuals engaged In London. In or Joseph Havelock, leader of business separately partnership will be required to pay a war excess the Seamen of Great Britain, was reto parliament to represent profits tax, In addition to their in- turned come tax, under a new provision In South Shields. The new member Is a Strong advocate of the boycotting of the revenne bill Germany after the war. Austro-Hungaria- n Refugees Flocking to Amsterdam. Weather-beate- n Amsterdam. refugees, mostly from the north of France, are trickling Into the Dutch provinces of Itrolmnt and Limburg. Some 2000 are now accommodated In towns in these provinces. Coffee Drinkers nt Military Brain of Germany Sees Handwriting on the Wall. Ierne. The resignation of General von l.udendorff 1ms caused a sensation throughout Switzerland and the central 'empires and is commented on ns a sign that German militarism Is really abdicating. Among tbe Gerninn and Austrian peoples anger and Indlg-nntlo- n I lereusing over the fact that the military situation has lieen so long concealed or wrongly presented. In the resignation of General Germany loses wlmt often lias been described us her "milltury bruin. Unknown before tbe war. General Erich Ludendorff sprang Into prominence In the full of 1914 as chief or staff to Field Marshul von Ilindcn-burg- , then a general In the alterations against the Russian. When Von was given the chief command In August, 1916, Ludendorff wus appointed first quartermaster general, but his position In reality has been chief of staff and collaborator with Von Hlndenhurg. Soon after his appointment as first quartermaster general, General Ludendorff begun to be looked upon as the real boss" of Germany, and was recognized ns the representative of the Hln-denhu- d When Vteiel Strlkea Reef Off Skagway, Storm-Battere- forty-thre- e s south-easte- sim-ih- y, Iris-tres- CANT HOLD THEM BACK. Americans Advance In Spite of Great Odds. The American secWashington. ond army, tinder Major General Buthe line in the llard, Is holding Woevre. This was disclosed by Gen reerul Iershing In Ids communique dwar ceived Saturday night Gemma epartment Repulse of heavy r attacks on tbe front northwest Liggett General Verdun by Major re first American army also wu at-th- ported. In Its first major operation againthe Germans, considering the clearing local out of the St. Mihlel salient as a few a in affair, the American urmy. lays less than n month, has Bbendcj and village more tliun forty-fiv- e ,e to nn average depth tee of miles miles, freeing 105 squnre Amerrltory. In the offensive the than more J. icans have captured prisoners. is Rates Increased. New express rates 1 Increases of about haul, ed tnnlnly on short nhnrtiv bv the Ameriin-i- n. at great headquarters. Hun Finances In Critical Shape. Amsterdam. Public anxiety ot the solvency of the empire uppnren Is becoming acute In Germany. T has become hoarding of money rampant as to cause great Inei ventence. There hus been a gene run on banks to elose accounts a the theft of hidden fluids Is of du occurrence. Austro-Hungaria- Athens. DURING NIGHT, ALL ON BOARD BEINQ LOST. ps Shatter Bolshevik Fore; io. Bolshevik detachments tied In the region of ,Ihlg,v An sk und I'oehlkalso, on the the have been shuttered by nnd are no hmger troops d a menueo, h n . the war off ed Saturday. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, '. est known woman educator in the United States, and chairman of the National Liberty loan committee, who died at Washington of pneumonia, following an attack of influenza. American Effort Being Felt. Pari. Since the Americans begi the present battle they mve Inflict more than 70,0t0 casualties on t enemy, freed forty villages nnd 4 squure kilometers of French territo nnd have captured 20,000 prisoners I sides the German wounded who f Into their hands. Steamer Strike Rock and Sinks Washington. Sinking of the Ainer- lean cargo steamship Lake Borgne otf the coast of France without loss of life was announced Wednesday by the navy depan Jient. The ship foundered after striking a rock. Shipyard Wage Increased. Washington. Upward revision wnges in all shipyards of the roun to provide uniform national rates practically all the shipyard trades, fectlve Immediately, Is announced shipbuilding labor adjustment board Must Retrench. Portland, Ore. A call to coffee drinkers In Oregon was sent out Oc-- sons were killed and fifty wounded tober 14 from food administration an explosion which occurred In a here, asking that they tory In Dessau on the Elbe, curtail the size and number of cups miles northwest of Berlin. Other Itlms are believed to be In the ruins. of their favorite beverage. 1 sixty-seve- n in Stabbed Admirer of Daughter. Chicago. J. Norman Cook, char; with having stubbed to death Willi Bradway, 50 yeurs old, admirer of daughter, Nornm Bliss Cook, surrt dered to the police of Harvey. III., daring the stabbing was accidental Period-dilngto- npleta Daylight Saving The American P fir-- ' toher 20 completed . suvlng, if "daylight P ) Its results. Beyond the nnd ig buck of clocks ""ti(pd w be will scarcely mage ' rerage American. Cgech-Slovieply Pleases ' iivostok. In Russia whew are of Czecho-Slovak- s ntionnl to Austria was received c enthuslustn. The Cx Pragueto ns the way Austrian Troops Revolt el. Vienna newspapers to ! articles relative lnde-nIene- h p,gt- mobilizing the armylnfnt two re- says that e nr Karlowlts M rn |