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Show TO SAVE THE TURKS ENEMY LINE CRUMBLES THE ALLIED DRIVE SLD BELGIUM TO VERDUN QUARTER OF MILLION TROOPS RU8HEO TO BULQARIA TO GUARD ORIENT RAIWAY. DEMANDS OF ALLIES MET FULL AND HOSTILITIES SUSPENDED. ' Germany Making Desperate Effort to Pravent Turkey From Deaortlng th Kaiser's Army of Woman and Baby Butchers. Bulgarian Army to Be Immediately Ds, mobollzed and All Meant of Trana-peInalde the Kingdom to Bs Turned Over to Allies. Advance of Troops Under King and Marshal Haig Jeopard,,; many's Submarine Bie. tho North 8ea, rt London. London. Bulgaria Is definitely out Germany, If roMtrts from a neutral renter vau be rolled upon, I of the war and Turkey, vlrtuully cut going to nmkw a great effort to wain-tnl- a off from communication with her allies coinnninli'uilou over the Orient and her arude In Palestine almost annihilate!, likely soon will he forced to railway with Turkey, und Unix I,oh sue for a cessation of hostilities to keep her eastern ally in the war. against her. Turkey, tut off from Geriiiuuy, Ini not the manpower to protect the two Seeing eventual defeat slurlng her gapa throiiKh which the ulllea ure In the fur through the swift prog threatening the Ottoman empire, at resa of the Serbian, Italian, British, the heart aud aoulh of the Tauru Greek and French troops In the tnoimtaln. of Serbia and the Invasion of The peace demonstration at Coil Bulgarian territory, the Ilulgnrs atantinople, led hy Tnluut laha aud begged for an armistice, reserving to hacked by a tremondou force of pub-li- e themselves no conditions. All the ter opinlou, are forcing the Issue. rltory now held by King Ferdinands Only the Turkish llrxt and accoml inen Is to he evscuuted ; the Bulgarian ariulea are avalluhle for the defense of riny Is to be Immediately demobilized and all means of transport Inside the Constantinople. According to a Hague dispatch to kingdom, even along the Danube, is to the Central News, 250,000 Herman and be given over Into allied hands. CITES INDIVIDUAL INSTANCES OF traiM have arrived Auatrla te Be Tested. YANKEE HEROISM ON at Sofia from Rumania and while part Thus, In addition to the Isolation of THE BATTLEFIELD. of these will remain In Sofia a an Turkey, the back door to a direct infavoring the overthrow of the vasion of Austria-HungarIs flung klallnoff .government, the majority wide open to the allies and doubtless Report of Lsadtr ef American Forces will endeavor to keep the allied troops the time Is not far distant when adin France 8hows Hew the Flag from the Orient railway which Joins Is Being Advanced In the to he the full to will taken the vantage Germany and Austria with ConxtanU-nople- , new avenue through which the enemy Thrilling Struggles. the rapture of which was a few can be reached. With the debacle In year ago hulled as Uie greatest Serbia aud Bulgaria complete, the Washington. At the moment when achievement of the central power. s in Albania soon the uatlon has resolutely set Itself to The removal of troops from will be put to the test, and when their the task of backing up General Perw Is not ithout however. danger. evacuation te their own borders Is acmen with six billion ng shings tight A few weeks ago, when appealed to complished the allies will huve welded more dollars, the commander of Amer his on weateru the by front, an Iron semi-circl- e colleague about the central lea's expeditionary forces proudly lifts for, assistance. Field Murahal Von powers from the Black sea to the the curtain of military censorship for Mackensen reported that condition In North sea. moment to reveal to folks at home Rumania did not warrant the transfer Outlook Gloomy for Huna. vivid picture of actuul war sac of a single soldier to that country. Vlowlng tho situation In all Its as- rlflee and heroism, which ought to Now Rumanians are predicting that If the Rumanian army does not rejoin pects tho success of the great of. make the dollars over here fly like the the Allies, there will be at leuat a fenslve In Belgium and France; the bullets over there. The facts by which General Per out of the war sone In the rlalng In that country which will com' blotting of the off enables the public to visualize the Turks Balkans, shlng cutting pletelj nullify the Ituehurest treaty so from Intercourse with Germany and real battle scenes enacted upon real far as It provides for the revlrtuulllng Auatrla-lluagarexcept by the long battlefields by real American lads are cf the central powers. German papers, too, express aux route through the Caucasus and south- contained In a report to his governern Russia and the steady gains that ment of awards to officers and men plclon of the crown council held Sun are being made by the allies In making of the marine corps of the disa of discussion for the Russia day ostensibly once more a factor In the tinguished service cross. crown princes marriage, hut at which portray a picture of thrilling other matters might be discussed. The struggle the darkest days of the war They n are faced the seemingly by fighting In actuul death-gri- p presence at this council of struggles, showing how the Stars Bratlano, who Is strongly for the and Stripes Is being carried foot by allies. Is strongly commented upou by foot, yard by yard, and mile by mile WILSON ASKS FOR SUFFRAGE. tUs German press. nearer to Berlin. Auatro-Himgurlu- COMMITTEE OF FIVE FORMED AT OUFA CONFERENCE WILL UNDERTAKE TASK. y Rtcognlztd by All Frovlsional Opposing Bolshevikl and Will Endeavor to Establish Law and Order In Russia. Body . Councils of the chuos Washington. Out which bus existed In Russia since the overthrow of the Kerensky government by the Bolshevikl there is emerging a central authority which officials and diplomats here hope will be able to reestablish order and reuew the fight against the common enemy. Official Information reached the Russlun embassy Thursday thut the conference at Oufa, European Russia, w hlch has been rec. ognlzed by all the provisional governments opposing the Bolshevikl, Including the Siberian government, has constituted a committee of five as the lawful authority for all Russia. This committee will he responsible to the constituent assembly of all Russia, which will convene next Januury 1, provided 250 members attend. The committee of live set up as the sovereign authority lx composed of M. Tschalcovsky, of the government of the north at Arehangel ; 51. Yotngod-sky- , bead of the western Siberian govM. Astor, former mayor of While the Instances of Individual ernment; Moscow and member of the Constitubravery and heroism cited by the gen- tional Democratic party; Lieutenant eral In this patrlcular communique In. General one of the foremost Boldlreff, volve only a dozen or more members of a single fighting organize tlon the experts of Russia, and M. Avkxentieff. marine corps they typify file spirit Success Marks Loan Campaign. with which the whole American army Washington. ilessages from all secIs Imbued. lu the buttle for the possession of tions of the United States reached the Vlllers-Cottereforest, Just north of treasury department Saturday almost Soisxons, on July 18, a Wisconsin Ind, simultaneously with the owning of the rlvate Albert A. Taubart, weut out campaign for the fourth Liberty bond, lu advnnce of the Hue of his company, telling of villages, towns and cities which had within a few hours suband, plunging straight into the fire of an enemy machine gun, whose crew scribed their quotas of the $0,000,000,-00- 0 total. was desperately shooting directly at him, first overnweu and then overpowMiners Entombed. ered the astounded Germans, finishing III. All hope has been Slurphysboro, the exploit by capturing the gun and abandoned of rescuing alive 15 miners ll s crew. IIow another lone marine captured known to be left In the north mine of wo machine guns and four prisoners the Franklin Coal & Coke Co., Itoyal-to111., In which 21 men were trapped In tho same engagement Is recited In the account of the award of the cross In an explosion Sunday. to Sergeant Cukcla. This youth from MRS. ENRICO CARUSO the state of Washington advanced alone against a nest of machine gun which was harassing his men und threatened to hold up the whole company. He worked his wuy to the rear of the Genimnx, picking up enemy hand grenades on the wuy ami finished the Job lu a few moments. An Inspiring and graphic account of how a small detachment 'of marines brazed their wuy through the enemy ranks and 'opened up a line for the advance of their comrades relates to the exploits of Private Barczykowsky of New York. Vrlvate Barrows of Massachusetts. Private ITurley of Pennsylvania and Second Lieutenant Joseph B. Cnrlmrt of New York City. Austro-Hungarian- u, n uian-to-iua- SENATORS DOWN SUFFRAGE. Federal Amendment Resolution Lacks Necessary Two-third-e Majority. Washington. The senate on October 1 refused to grant the request of the president that the woman suffrage resolution be passed as a war measure. After five dny of bitter debate, corridor conferences and cloakroom negotiations, the Susan R. Anthony federal amendment resolution enacted by the house last January received on the final roll call two votes less s than the necessary mujdr-ItFifty-fou- r senators were recorded for It and thirty against It, with twelve absent and paired. Before the vote was announced Senator Jones of New Mexico, chairman of the woman suffrage committee, to comply with parliamentary requirements, changed his vote from the affirmative to the negative and r.jOved that the senate reconsider. Chairman Jones. and other champions of the resolution declared after the vote that the defeat Is only temporary. and that the contest will he renewed after the November elections, when changes In membership are certain.. two-third- y. Telle Senate That Passage of Bill la War Measure. Necessary Washington. In a personal address to the senate on September SO, President Wilson asked for the passage of the woman suffrage federut amendment resolution as a vital war measure. "It Is my duty to win the. war," suid the president, and to ask you to remove every obstacle that stands In the I tell you way of winning It that this measure which I urge plainly ' upon you Is vital to the winning of the war and to the energies alike of prep, aratlon and of battle. And not to the winning of the war only. It is vital to the right solution of the great problems which we must settle, and settle Immediately, when the war Is over. ts n, COLONEL ARTHUR LYNCH BOCHES STRIKE ANOTHER SNAQ. Meet With Serious Opposition ' Their Efforts in Russia. The Germans are Washington. meeting with Increasing opposition In their efforts to establish control iu Russia. - Swedish press reports received at the state department from Stockholm said Jhat In a recent battle with the Ukrainians, the Germans lost 1500 men. German forces which have been n centralised at Pskoff since the ambassador was forced to flee from Moscow have found their post tlon untenable and are leaving the city. They also are evacuating Biel gerod. Ship Construction Record Broken. .Dierdeoii, Wash. Setting a new worlds record for wooden ship hull construction, the ship Aberdeen Is ready for launching, having been built In 1?H days. Hull and superstructure are 05 per cent complete and machinery Is 40 per cent Installed. The previous launching record was 47 days, set by a Cortland yard some months C.er-ma- Want $2.50 for Wheat In 1919. Washington. Senators and represtates sentatives from wheat-growin- g and officials of the Nutionut Wheat In conference Growers association here decided to appoint a special committee to urge upon President Wilson Immediate action fixing the price of wheat for 1919 at $2.fl0 a bushel. More Liberty for Soldiers. Omaha. Lieut. Col. J. W. S. Wuest, Wiiifra g. tVhsfcj Col. SMl)lilW t Kpipr InlMtl' ikln 'l II vwe Arthur Lynch, member W ago. I Irs-land- ." ' eti-list- ed important. The president, with 5!r. Wilson, reached the caucus room Just before for the noon. All was in mollncs drawing, including a battery of cameras that reached across the room directly before the bowl. This bowl, the one used In the original draft lotfrom Its place tery. had been at liideiKMidence hall, Philadelphia, for the occasion. Before making his explanatory statement, Provost Marshal General Urowder w hDpcred to the president, that iu his ease the blind, always worn hy those drawing numbers. Would be dispensed with. Mr. Wilson said he thought It would he better to inuke no exception In his case, so the blindfold made from a slip of cloth that covered a chair used In the signing of the Declaration of Imleisiidenee was adjusted a the president approached the bow I. The crowd applauded as No. 322 announced, ami the president returned to his seat to watch the remainder of the ceremony. After the first number had been drawn und recorded the next fifteen numbers were drawn, in order, by Vice President Murshal, Senator Saulsbury, president pro tempore of the senate; Speaker Clark, Secretary Daniels, Acting Seeretury Crowell of the wur department, Senator Chamberlain of Dent of Oregon und Representative Alulmnm. chairman of the senute and house military committees; Representative Kuhn of California, the ranking Ucpuldicun of the house committee; General March, chief of staff of the army ; Admiral Benson, chief of oer-a- t Ions of the navy; Lieutenant General Young, retired; Provost Marshal General Crowder und Colonels Warren, Wlgmore und Kc,efer of General Crowder's stuff. Enrico Caruto, the famoue Italian tenor recently married Dorothy Park Benjamin of New York, twenty-fiv- e years old, daughter of Park Benjamin, n a patent attorney and naval expert Caruso la 20 years her senior. well-know- Pari. The entente uHIhI t from Belgium t Verdun. lief ron lx, are registering victory victory over the Teutonic urinle f,. the enemy front almost everywi- ,,-n.,I crumbling, notwithstanding Hie resistance Unit is . Mg on various sector. On all of the sector under aiiav from Belgium to Flnmlerx. t ,,e glon of Verdun, the German frnut ugradually 1 ling Inn k und.-t- - the he lence or ihe attack of the Briua Ainerlcuiis, French und Belgian. Belgium Ihe advuttce of the tro,,, f King Albert and of Field Marsh,, h.,ik hits pierced so deeply eutwut tha Gerinunys sulunuiltic lmN. llw North sea are In Jcopm-dof Mi,K,nit off. The famous Meslu, NYytwhurt ridge Iihx been ruptured and the ulllH gun dominate Ihe pluin uih Mettin anti Bottlers, litiNirtaut railmud Junction iHiliit for the supply f q Gerinun armies north aud oiith, are virtually lu the hand of the lirltMt and Belgian, aud seemingly . unit full. From Ufltnhral to St. Quentin the Prlllsh and American again have dt- -' llvered successfully hard Mnutslu agulnst the German Hlrotig Hut ill along the front. Including the remain-In- g portion of the itid lllndetihiirg line. The Geniuin here are offering tnoat strenuous resistamv and In counter-attac- k foiiiNlled the Itrltldi on one or two to withdraw for slight distance. The British are In the prnres of cleaning up the towu of t'umhrul, having ienetruted it suburb fmm the northwest and southwest. In the region of St. Qnenftn, where the American are fighting with the llritlsli. die old Illndenhurg line bus Iss-- cut and penetrated to a depth of three mile, over a front of eight mile. lit conjunction with the operation of the French northeast of Solwxm. the evacuathe Germans have ami the tion of the Chemlii-des-lhinFrench now hold half f Ibis fumou defensive position. Likewise there I an Indication thut the enemy Intend to give up the remaining meltioii held hy him along the Vesle to Hlieltn. In Champagne, the French trxi west of the Argonne forest everywhere are pressing forward, and likewle to the east of this position the Americans are moving northward in unison. ouAlready the big forest Is virtually f,.r l'y... ms-to- r n i- tflanked and apparently tn will be made a part of the FruncicAmcrieun line. the From the St. Mil, lei toinlmrdlug Americans are heavily enemy troop tralnss which are Mag hurried to tte front. r wa HUNS TO QUIT Military Governor BELGIUM. Declares Troops Will Return to German Frontier. Imiidou. Von General Fulken- MAY APPEAL TO WILSON. If Such la Determination of Bulgaria Allies Refuae to Listen. the Bulgarin I out of Washington. Iun of Stephen In the opinion war. wh ateroff. Bulgarian minister here, l definitely hi country believe that nllhince detertulned to abandon II d. If tie with Germuny and Austria. iitente allies refu-- e to listen fl 1 nit overtures, will appeal to the Stute to use it good office. Penaterolf said hi country woiiltl willing to let settlement of " ''i1"a rest lit the hands of such a country the United States according to a announced by President IN il"n. Huns Object to Shotguns. protest Washington. The German against the use of shotguns by at ti can troop ha been received state department and an answer will be dispatched. Shotgun are ttei said, on . by American troops, It was ns authorized by the accepted rule war. 11 -' ha user, of the Utahns Busy Buying Bonds. British parliament, In making his sp-- j Snlt Luke City. More than $7,000,- peal to tho Irlah to raise a brigade for tha western front Is aiking them tol,HM' ,,f lllp Mate's quota of $18.570,800 fight side by side with the Stars and of the fourth Liberty loan was raised Stripes, v. 4, shelters "three times the first day of the campaign. From the figures available 31.183 persons more Irishmen than there are In subscribed. Waxhlugtou. The drawing of order numbers for the 13,000,000 draft registrants enrolled September 12 wa started Monday, September 30, by president Wilson. Blindfolded, Ihe president gmKl into tho great glues lottery Imwl and It drew out one iff 17.000 capsules. contained a slip numbered 322, thus numgiving to men holding that serltil In their respective ber first place classes after registrant already class-llle-d tinder prevlou registration. The number was low enough to lotieli the list of every haul draft board In Ihe country exeept one or two of the very smallest. Marshal drew Ihe Vice President second numlsr, and wo follow ed by sixteen other notable who had been Invited to participate. Officer ami men of the army, assisted by a corp of teller, then settled down to the tusk of emptying Ihe bowl. The J0W numbers Imd been drawn and recorded before 4 o'clock. The drawing continued u I most without Interruption through the night. Only the first 100 numbers wera flashed to the country by telegraph, of because of Ihe Impracticability telegraphing ull of the 17,0ti0, the press hud been asked to refruln from sending unre thun 100 number. The were to be complete master list mailed as mhhi m the drawing was over to district draft boards throughout ttie country to be mude public by them. There was an Interested crowd to witness the opeulng ceremony, hut the Interest was rather In the participation than In the drawing Itself, for the classification system which determine the status of the registrants has made the order number relatively un- Aib. military governor of Belgium, has announced that the German army Is preparing to evacuate Belgium and return to the German frontier, the Dully Express learns from Its Amsterdam eoiTexomlcnt. Iu announcing the proposed evucu atlon, General Von Pu)ketilmuer stut-e- d to the correspondent that Germany means to show the world that she really wants nothing In the wur except to defend the fatherland. The corresiMindent adds; "Pressure of the majority Socialists probably will force the Inauguration this week of a parliamentary government In Germany, with an accompanying peace offer on moderate terms. " the new commander at Fort Omaha, Issued an order Tuesday granting all men, with the exception of men on duty, permission to leave the post ns soon as the days work Is completed. Coal Production Drive. To avert a coal Washington. famine this winter und ulso meet all (lie needs of the war program. Fuel Administrator Garfield has launched a drive for coal production, which Is to continue until April 1. Save 500,000 Barrels of Gasoline. New York. Since the first gusless Sunday 10 cargo boats, carrying 500.-00- 0 barrels of gasoline, which otherwise could not have been shipped, have been sent to France from the United States, declares Mark L. Requa. Defenss Board Link Started. Washington. The new field division of the council of national defense,! which Is Intended to be the connecting link between the council and the citizen, began Its duties Tuesday under the direction of Secretory Lf.ne. Berliners Start Riots for Peace. President Votes at Primaries. A peace demonstration London, President Wilson Princeton, N. J. took In Berlin on Saturday. The place arrived here Tuesday fo cast his vote cheering crowds assembled In front of In the New Jersey primaries. The president was greeted at the station by a the Bulgarian legation at the German capital, necessitating police Intervenlarge crowd of Princeton students and tion. cadets from the aviation school. Cobb Ordered to Report Washington. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, former star outfielder of the Detroit Americans, but now a captain In the gas aud flame service of the army, has been ordered to Camp Humphries, a., for training. Germans to Build Concrete Ships, Amsterdam. Germany has begun to The Berlin build concrete ships. Taegliche Rundschau report that the first reinforced concrete motor vessel has been ordered by the Baltic Shipping Co. at Hamburg. Pershing Decorated. Tarls. The king of 5Ioutenegro has decorated Marshal Foch and General Pershing with the grand, cross of the Order of Danllo. A gold modal has been awarded to General Foch for bravery in the fighting at Verdun. Emergency Power Bill Passed. Washington. The house has passed without a dissenting vote and sent to the senate the administration emergency power bill, providing for govern-raeacquisition nnd extension cf electric power plants. nt Austria Seeks Peace DucuM'on. Amsterdam. A' proposition that j'' presidents and vice president and ne parliaments of belligerent states shall be Invited to meet Pa an unbinding discussion of the in of peace bus been Introduced P111 lower bouse of the Autr!,m ment. k Bolshevikl Plan General Massacre. London. If the Bolshevikl a" win pel led to leave Mouscow they and the to city tempt destroy the bourgeoisie wholesale, d, ' linns Vorst In a letter to ,fu Tsgeblutt. ' Bernstorff Marooned. ' Washington. (omit von former ambassador from Germanyto the United States, lx reported marooned In Constantinople as tne suit of Bulgaria surrender lo n-- r been has lies. Bernstorff lately resenting Berlin at the porte. Chile Desires Closer Relationmovement Santiago. Chile. -- A ! |