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Show - UTAH EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE- I RETIRING POWER OF ALLIES GROWING mil TO LI RED CROSS WORK OF MEUSE Meetings Listen to port Made by Organization's War Council. Annual BELIEVED THAT ANY PAUSE WILL BE BUT TEMPORARY, TO READJUST COLUMNS SUPERIORITY INCREASES AS PRE IN MAN PONOERANCE POWER ADVANCES. ONE-FOURT- Northward to Coast Far Stronger Than That Line Surrendered from Lille Believed That Teuton Retirement in Belgium and France Mutt Be Resumed Immediately Perahing'a Boya to Try Their Metal. Washington. Germans Now Stand Upon in Belgium British front to officers Successful operations on the Valenciennes took on new importance here iu the light of the diplomatic situation. Field Marshal Halg's armies are striking savagely at the hinge of the present German line of resistance, and the progress already made is thought by officers here to make It certain that the Gerumn retirement, both in Belgium and in France, will have to tfe resumed without delay. South of the new British wedge the French are keeping continuous prese sure against the enemy along the front, making It difficult for the to disengage German commanders their forces from tills most exposed sector of their lines. In view of the existing niUitary situation, officers pointed out that evert day was seeing the allied tactical superiority increased, even as their superiority In man and gun power Is increasing. Since President Wilson has already pointed out to the German x authorities that the safeguarding and guaranteeing of that superiority must be the basis of any armistice agreement, a proposition the German leaders accented with the statement that "standard of military power in the field" must of necessity govern such terms, It Is clear that the conditions of the armlstioe to be formulated grow Inereadntij hard on ihe enemy each day. The advantages in position derived from the latest British thrust, officers said, certainly will not be overlooked In estimating the situation of the opposing forces. More than ever officers are convinced that new operations on a large seal are impending on the front and that General Pershing's two aggressive, young armies soon will try their mettle again. There are many minor happenings that seem to indicate to these observers that a smashing blow is in preparation, although the extent or ooject of it is only a matter of speculation. Olse-Serr- BRITONS GREET WILSON'S REPLY Strongest Language Ever Addressed by One Nation to Another. London. The popular comment on the president's note here is that It contains the strongest language ever ao dressed by the head of one great nation to another In modern times. The note is welcomed, first becaues it brings matters to a new state ; further proceedings, if there are to be further proceedings, will be in the hands of all the governments interested. Hitherto, so far as the public knows, the nations associated with the United States, and which have more at stake, perhaps, than has the United States, have been onlookers to the correspondence. The note Is welcomed, secondly, because It promises to bring the season of discussion to an end altogether, one way or the other. Washington. Now that the Germans have been cleared out of Belgian Flanders and much of northern France, army officials here are watching the battlefront Intently, many of them with a distinct feeling that a new storm of attack may be about to break against the enemy. Beyond doubt the German retirement In Belgium has slowed down. However, it Is not yet clear whether this Is due to the fact that the retreating forces are nearing on the whole northern front the line which frequently has as the been selected by military-critic- s first pausing place on the way to the Meuse or the border, or to the necessities of extending allied communication lines as the troops advance. It is probable, officers said, that there Is necessity for a breathing spell on both sides. There is little doubt here that the German army is headed for nothing short of the Meuse line, and that any pause will be but temporary to permit readjustment of the columns and sup ply lines in order that the same orderly sequence of movements shall characterize subsequent retirements. Several halts of this character may be expected. It was said, as the withdrawal project is carried out. The fact that the allied armies are hampered by ex tending communication lines gives op portunity for such halts before Marshal Foch's forces can come up in sufficient force to compel a resumption of the rearward movement. The line surrendered by the enemy from Lille northward to the coast, It was pointed out, was far stronger and no longer than that he now stands upon In Belgium. In addition, by the evacu ation of the Flanders coast, he has fur nished the allies with means of setting up new and more direct communication lines from England via Ostend, or other Flanders ports. With out question, it is said these avenues of supplying the advancing armies already ar"e being opened to free the longer lines back into France of that burden, and consequently officers can not see any tactical advantage gained by the enemy unless he intends to fall back at least to the line of the Meuse. Zee-brug- GERMAN QUITS ON NATAL DAY. Officer Decides to Celebrate Birthday by Surrendering. With the Army In France. "Gentlemen, it's my birthday and I am bring in some of my friends to take dinner with you," was the naive announcement of a German officer in surrendering to Lieutenant Reardon of New York's Seventy-sevent- h division, up In the Argonne the other day. He spoke perfect English. His face was wreathed In smiles. He waved his hands toward the woods behind him. Out popped thirty German soldiers. They also were smiling. They had been surrounded by a detachment of for some time. the Seventy-sevent- h After making a brisk fight they decided to give It up. Hun Alien Draftee Ordered Released. Butte, Mont. Holding that aliens cannot be legally drafted into the American array, Fed-erJudge Bourquin has issued a writ of habeas corpus applied for by John Napora, a Russian citizen, and ordered his release. Napora had been classed a delinquent by the Minot. N. D., draft board and inducted into military service under the rule providing for such a procedure. Slavs Denounce Manifesto. counBasel. The national Jugo-slacil, formed of all the political factors In Croatia, has rejected the Imperial manifesto of Emperor Charles announcing the federalization of Austrian states. The manifesto is held to be insufficient and is denounced as being intended only to deceive President Wilson, according to the Agram correspondent of the Munich Neueste Nuchrichten. Admission Untaxed. New York. Announcement Is made that the government will exact no tax on admissions to the events of "sports week," which are to be held in connection with the united war work campaign to raise $170,500,000 the week of November Railroad Men Buy Bonds. Washington. Employes of railroads under federal control subscribed not less than $164,002,150 to the fourth Liberty loan. This total, according to incomplete records received by the railroad administration, was distributed among l,64,GJt persons. Lumber Production Restricted. Washington. Production of lumber will be restricted to the filling of es sential requirements under regulations issued bv the war industries board. The control of output will be exer cised by the board through priority of labor, material and equipment. Canada Bars I. W. W. Mail. Washington. All printed matter put out by or In the Interest of the Industrial Workers of the World has been barred from the Canadian mails. Postmaster General Burleson has notified postmasters not to accept such matter destined for Canada. Will Speed Construction. Washington. As a means of speed ing up construction work at army camps and elsewhere, the patriotic pro motion section of the war depart nient's construction division plans tu "bomb" workmen on 308 jobs over the country with patriotic literature. Pay for Nurses While in Prison. Washington. Captured army nurses hereafter will receive their regular pay from the United States government while held as prisoners. This reversal of the previous ruling handed down by the treasury department July 16 is wade public. ul 11-1- it at least S1L000.O0O. It will thus been teen that durtnf tion CHAPTERS TOLD OF v Re- OF COUNTRY'S POPULATION IS ENROLLED. Estimated That Approximately Eight Million Women Are Engaged In Canteen Work and the Production of Relief Supplies Vast Sums Ex, pended. Red Cross chapters throughout the country held their annual meetings October 23, at which the following message from the War Council was read: To the Chapters of the American Red Cross: The War Council sends greetings to the chapters of the American Red Cross on the occasion of their annual meetings for 1918. With these greetings go congratulations on the great work of the chapters during the past year and, above all things, on the wonderful spirit of sacrifice and patriotism which has pervaded that work. The strength of the Red Cross rests upon its chapters. They are its bone and sinew. They supply its funds, they supply its men and women,, they supply its enthusiasm. Let us, then, review together the Red Cross story of the past year. Some Idea of the size to which your Red Cross family has grown may be gathered from the following facts: On May 1, 1917, just before the appointment of the War Council, the American Red Crass had 486,194 members working througl 562 chapters. On July 31, 1818, the organization numbered 20,648,103 annual members, besides 8,000,000 members of the Junior Red Cross a total enrollment h of over the population of the United States. Since the beginning of the war you with of the chapters have the War Council in conducting two war fund drives and one membership drive, in addition to the campafgnon behalf of the Junior Red Cross. The total actual collections to date from the first war fund have amounted to more than $115,000,000. The subscriptions to the second war fund amounted to upwards of $176,000,000. From membership dues the collections have amounted to approximately one-fourt- f24.600.000. Splendid Work Done by Women. be added that very large contribution of materials and time given by the millions of women throughout the country in surgical dressings, In knitted articles, In hospital and refugee garments, in canteen work, and the other activities the chapters have been called upon to perform. It Is estimated that approximately 8,000,000 women are engaged in canteen work and the production of relief supplies through the chapters. For the period up to July 1, 1918, American Red Cross chapters, through their workrooms, had produced : 400,120 refugee garments. 7,123,62,hospital supplies. 10,786,489 hospital garments. To the foreging must 10,13i,501 knitted articles. 192,748,107 surgical dressings. A total of 221,282,838 articles of an estimated aggregate value of at least $44,000,000. These artloes were largely the product of women's hands, and, by the same token, infinitely more- - precious than could have been the output of factories or machines. These articles going to the operating room of the hospitals, to homeless or needy refugees, and carrying comfort to our own boys in the field', convey a message of love from the women of this country entirely distinct from the great money value attaching to their handiwork. Money Spent in Work. By the terms under which the first Red Cross war fund was raised, the chapters were entitled to retain 25 per cent of the amount collected, in order defray local expenses, to carry on their home service work, to purchase materials to be utilized In chapter production and otherwise to meet the numerous calls made upon them. The chapters were thu i entitled to retain nearly $29,000,000. is a matter of fact, their actual reten ions amounted to only about $22,000,000. Out of collections from annual memberships, the chapters have retained about $11,000,000. From this total'sum, therefore, of retained' by the chapters, they have met all the oftentimes very heavy local demands upon them, and in addition have provided for use by national headquarters products valued, ai stated above, at upwards, of $44,000,-000. The chapters have in effect retwrned to the War Council, not alone the retained out of the war fund membership dues but, In value of actual product, an additional contribu $33,-000,0- the eighteen months which have enelapsed since the United States tered the war, the American people will have either paid In or pledged to the American Red Cross for its' work of relief throughout the world. In money or In material values, a net total of at least $325,000,000. Revealed America's Heart It has been because of this spirit which has pervaded all American Red Cross effort in this war that the aged governor of one of the stricken and battered provinces of France stated not long since that, though France had long known of America's greatness, strength and enterprise, It remained for the American Red Cross In tlU war to reveal America's heart. In this country, at this moraunt, the workers of the Red Cross, through its chapters, are helping to add to the comfort and health of the millions of our soldiers in 102 camps and cantonments, as well as of those traveling on railroad trains or embarking on ships for duty overseas. The home service of the Red Cross, with Its now more than 40,000 workers, is extending, its ministrations of sympathy and counsel each month to upwards of 100,000 families left behind number ever growing with the Increase of our men under arms. But, of course, fhe heart of the Red Cross and its money and attention always move toward and focus themselves In Europe where the American Red Cros s, as truly "the greatest mother In the world," is seeking to draw "a vast net of mercy through an ocean of unspeakable pain." Red Cross Worth Recognized. Nothing is withheld that can be given over there to supplement the efforts of our army and navy in caring for our own boys. The Red Cross does not pretend to do the work of the medical corps of the army or the navy ; its purpose is to help and to suppleby soldiers at the front a GEflMAU NOTE FAILS 10 ACCEPT 111 UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER t NOT MENTIONED BY BOCHE, WHO WOULD ARGUE. Protests Against the Reproach of Illegal and Inhuman Actions on Land and Sea, but Avoids Big Issues in Replying to Wilson. Washington. Germany has replied to President Wilson with a note wui4, though no one is prepared to say it will lead the president even to tinue exchanges on the subject of u armistice and peace, at least has served almost to bring conviction here that the people of Germany actually are taking the reins of government and sincerely desire peace. The text of the note follows : "In accepting the proiosal for as evacuation of occupied territories, tl German government has started froc the assumption that the procedure this evacuation and of these conditions of an armistice should be left the judgment of the military advisers and that the actual standard of power on both sides in the field has to fore the basis for arrangements safeguarding this standard. "The German government suggests! to the president that an opitortunltyj should be brought about for fixing the details. It trusts that the presides: of the United States will approve tf of to no demand which would be irreconcilable with the honor of the Oemm people and with opening a way to s peace of justice. "The German" government protest;' against the reproach of illegal and in human actions made against the Ger: ment. ninn land ami sou fnrpps find thprptii! Nor does the Red Cross seek to people. For thtf" against glorify what it does or those who do covering of a retreat destructions wis it; our satisfaction is in the result, always be necessary, and ftiey are which, we are assured by Secretary rled out in so far as is permitted M Bnker, General Pershing, General Ire- international law. The German troop land and all our leaders, Is of ines- are under most strict instructions t timable value and of indispensable im- spare private property and to exercirf portance. care for the population to the best o By the first vof January your Red their Where transgression Cross will have working in B'rance up- occur ability. in spite of these' instructions tl wards of 5,000 Americans a vivid are being punished. contrast to the little group of eighteen guilty German government fur: "The men and women which, as the first Red denies that the German navy in sick Cross commission to France, sailed ships has ever purposely destroys about June 1, 1917, to Initiate our ef ing with their passengers. lifeboats forts In Europe. German government proposes with now has opYour Red Cross active, card to all those charges that the m erating commissions In France, in Eng- be cleared up by neutral commissi land, in Italy, in Belgium, in Switzer"In order to avoid anything land, in Palestine and in Greece. You the work of peace ttj might relief of a sent have supplies Germanhamper shipload has caused government and a group of devoted workers to to all subman; be ders to dispatched northern Russia; you have dispatched the torped commanders precluding a commission to work behind our armho without, of passenger ships ies in eastern Siberia; you have sent Ing for technical reasons, being special representatives to Denmark, to ever, to guarantee that these orders Serbia and to the Island of Madeira. reach every single submarine at Carries Message of Hope. Your Red Cross is thus extending re- before its return. "As a fundamental condition lief to the armies and navies of our the allies ; and you are carrying a practical peace, the president prescribes of every arbitrary power tt truction to relief and the of hope message can separately, secretly and of Its ot friendly peoples of afflicted Europe and u single choice disturb the peace of Asia. goverow: German world. the this To InIndeed, we are told by those best formed in the countries of our allies replies: "Hitherto the representation of S that the efforts of - your Red Cross to aid the soldiers and to sustain the people in the German empire hastli morale of the civilian populations left been endowed with 'an influence on at home, especially in France and formation of the government. "The constitution did not provi Italy, have constituted a very real facfor a concurrence of representation tor in winning the war. the people of decisions in peace t The veil has already begun to lift. What the Red Cross may be called war. These conditions have just upon to do In the further course of the undergone a fundamental change, war, or with the coming of victory, new government has been formed wi peace and reconstruction, It would be complete accordance with the of! of the idle to attempt to prophesy. representation (principle) But your great organization, in very people, based on equal, universal, truth "the mobilized heart and spirit cret, direct franchise. of the whole American people," has "The leaders of the great parties shown itself equal to any call, ready to the relchstag are members of this F eminent. In the future no governo' respond to any emergency. can take or continue in office withSpirit of All Best and Highest. The American Red Cross has become possessing the confidence of a major not so much an organization as a great of the ?eichstag. movement, seeking to embody In organ"The responsibility of the chance' ized form the spirit of service, the of the empire to the representation spirit of sacrifice in short, all that Is the people Is being legally develo; best and highest in the Idea's and as- and safeguarded. The first act of new government has been to lav bepirations of our country. Indeed we cannot but .believe that the relchstag a bill to alter the ft service In stltutlon of the empire so that thef this wonderful rpirit whi-tand for the Red Cross lus evoked In sent of the representation of the P' this war, is destined to become in our is required for decisions on war national life nn element of permanent peace. value. "The permanence of the new S3 At Christmas tlm we shall ask the is, not only however, whole American people to answer the constitutional guaranteed but als" Red Cross Christmas roll call. It will the unshakablesafeguards, determination of constitute a unique appeal to every German people whose vast niaji; man, woman and child in this great stands behind these reforms and j land of ours to become enrolled in our mand their energetic continuance. army of mercy. of "The president " question It Is the hope of the War Council whom he and the the governments roll this that Christmas membership cintpd npfiinst flermnnv are deaU3-- ; call shall constitute a reconsecration in a clear V of the whole American people, an In- Is, therefore, answered manner by the stateo spiring reassertlon to mankind that In equivocal the offer of peace and an ". that this hour of world tragedy, not to concome a government tice has from V quer but to serve Is America's supreme is free from any arbitrary and h.r aim. THE WAR COUNCIL OF THE AMER- ponsihle influence, is SupportedmaJ1 approval of nn overwhelming ICAN RED CROSS. of the German people." Henry P. Davison, Chairman. "SOLF Washington, D. C, Oct. 10, 1918. the-Germ- an ear-- o: i I fas b r son the son ers a i Rei |
