The Sandusky Star-Journal from Sandusky, Ohio • Page 1

THE WEATHER FAIR AXD OOOLEK TO. NIGHT AXD SATl'K- IAY. SANDUSKY STAR-JOURXAI THIS NEWSPAPER RECEIVES THE FULL LEASED SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS LAST EDITION Sixteen Pages FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, SANDUSKY, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918, NUMBER 313- ARMIES APPLY NO QUARTER SPIRIT AS HUNS PREPARE EVASIVE PEACE MESSAGE DEFENSE SYSTEM CRUMBLING LIKE LOUSEJ)F CARDS Allied Patrols In Outskirts Of Grandpre and Germans Evacuating Chemin Des Dames Region---French Drive At Apex Of Salient, Cambrai To Verdun. BULLETINS ROME, Oct. correspondents on the western front declare the Germans have begun an evacuation of villages near the Swiss-Alsatian frontier, forty villages between Basle and Colmar having been cleared.

Inhabitants of Mulhause, Colmar, Altkirch, Ferret and other villages, it isasserted, have been ordered to be ready to evacuate "at a.moment's notice. Devastation The Huns Leave Behind WASHINGTON, Oct. Bulgarian troops will join the allies in attacking Constantinople and hasten Hie elimination of Turkey from the war was believed likely in diplomatic quarters hero today. LONDON, Oct. p.

patrols have entered Grandpre according to battle front dispatches received here today. The enemy is holding the heights to the northward. are reported to be evacuating the Chemin des Dames region. FORECAST OF NEW NOTE SHOWS ONLY DESSREJO BICKER Evasion Of Prince Max And Kaiser Will Force President Wilson To Reply In Plain Tones. Is Belief Of Diplomats At Washington.

LONDON. Oct. reply to President Wilson, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Express today quot- ing "authoritative sources'' will be as follows: "Germany will evacuate Belgium and France, providing peace negotiations start in a neutral country before the evacuation is completed and providing the allies will give their assurance that German territory, including Alsace-Lorraine and Polish Prussia will not be demanded. "During peace negotiations German troops are to remain in Russia and Roumania." This British official photo gives an idea of the destruction and devastation left in the wake of the retreating Huns as they are driven back by the allied forces. The The greatest defense system in military is falling like a house of cards before the greatest live forces of all time.

Along the whole 200 miles front from Lens to Verdun, the' Germans are giving way in the world's biggest battle. With the enemy on the verge of a rout between Lens and' St. Quentin, falling back before the hammering of the French and Americans in the Champagne and Argonne regions and with-' drawing between Rheims and Laon, Marshal Foch has suddenly; struck at the very apex of the gigantic salient extending from Cambrai to Verdun. French war office announced that in this new assault directed at the heart, of the great St. Gobain, massif; the village Military authorities agree that fall of the St.

Gobain massif, recognized as the greatest-defense on the west front would pre I cipitate a disaster which would utterly split the German armies' and probably throw hundreds of thousands of the enemy into a TROPHY TRAIN SATURDAY trap from which there would be no escape i i our nundied and fifty French, Italian and American planes took Caotured War Relirs Here part under American direction. With the machines engaged in I CS 1 6 Railroad near Albert torn up by Huns. photo shows how they left the railroad lines near the station of Albert. The picture was taken half an hour after the enemy had evacuated the town. The British soldier in was the first man to reach this point after the Huns left it.

The photographer was right behind aim, it seems. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 11---The kai- ser has summoned to Berlin three sovereigns of the German federal I states for a crown council to be held tomorrow before despatching Ger- I many's reply to America's note, ac- cording to a Cologne dispatch re- ceived here today. TO PUBLISH LOAN DELINQUENTS Unofficial reports state that the German reply already has been drafted at a conference of Chancellor Max, Vice Chancellor Von Payer and the German military representatives. Inhuman Treatment of Helpless Victims of U-Boats Is Told.

juica-duiies ciiidaireu in regular pursuits, more than one thousand allied planes were in! the air at one time. In the Balkans. French and Serbian troops are northward toward Nish and westward toward the who are retreating before the Italians in Albania, GrandpreWillFall Szon At Night, Previously reported $1,287,000 Awaits Orders From State Health Board; Flu Situation Is Not Serious In Sandusky By ROBERT .1. BENIVKR (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 11--That the kaiser and his militaristic crew will attempt evasion and wunter JQRCH AND A I I A i A i i proposals when they reply to dent Wilson's peace note inquiries was the conviction in well-informed circles here today.

I According to reports received here the German reply will be sub- PART OF HUN GAME USED ON CITIES LOST WIT TTnr FIKST ABMV, Oct. I I p. fiRhtint? is continuing in tho Argonno region. Tho Germans are being pusher! completely off the heights north of the bend in the Aire river east of Grandpre. The enemy is constantly throwing in fresh divisions to stop the American advance.

Latest information indicates the Germans have only about fix fresh divisions left, the others being only slightly rested or in action. Total prisoners since Tuesday have reached 7,000 and are increasing. All German lines of communication nro under constant bombardment from airplanes and artillery. WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST 'ARMY. Oct.

11---French troops, cooperating with the Americans in the Argonne. have reached the outskirts of Grandpre. Farther to the left French have seized the railway station at the western approach to the Grandpre pass. The important cut through the Argonne massif is in control of i ies a most important es in sreat forest-have rVMRK A i been'wiped out The Americans to the eastward have reached Sommerance and oc- American bank Citizens Commercial Third National People's lj. S.

Home S. L. Sandusky total Berlin Heights Huron Castalia 0,050 24,150 14,800 28,500 950 1,000 75,450 2,000 11,550 1,050 3 45(L AVith seven new cases diagnosed as Spanish influenza, nine cases of la grippe and one of pneumonia reported to the health department up to noon Friday, Health Director Schoepfle insisted that the situation here is not serious or alarming, and lie cautioned against undue fear, although insisting that every reasonable precaution bo taken. Whether the strict regulations communities where the epidemic exists. Dr.

Schoepfle says it is a 1 quastion whether an epidemic ex- i ists. "I shall do nothing further until the official orders come from bus," said the health director Friday. "In any event, if an order is issued, it will not become effective until midnight, Sunday." This is WASHINGTON, Oct. 11--Reports of the 'kaiser's abdication and the relinquishment of command and physical break down of Ludendorff are part of the German camouflage game to convey the idea that Germany's inner front is more shaken than it is, officials warned today. interfered with.

proposed by the state board of While he believes the situation in health, including the closing of the state is serious, 'Dr. Schoepfle schools, theaters, churches, says conditions here good and is a the disease is not spreading rapidly. The He is being besieged with calls and asked Friday, that people observe carefully the statements in the papers, and for further information call the health department at the i City Hall. "I shall give all the facts to the i newspapers, so that the public may 1 rely upon what is printed," he I i shall be made effective here, matter yet to be decided upon. state regulations provide that such closing orders shall be issued in by the peoplo." Many carpful observers of practices believe the reply will run about thus: "Germany will accept the president's fourteen points, if they are made to to America's friends Turn to No.

Four on page 12. About 950 Persons Including Women And Children, Lost On Ships, WASraXGTOKT, Oct. ll--Gcr- I man soldiers and sailors are en- gaged in a new orgy of fright- fnhiess and destruction as they see defeat staring them in the face. This was evidenced today by accounts of the brutal murder of men from the United States cargo carrier Ticonderoga. The counterpart of this inhuman slaughter is found in the wantonness with which the retreating Germans are wrecking their way out of France and Belgium.

Nothing is spared. HimJenburg is' believed to be bent oa creating a desert insofar as he can, just as he made a desert farther west earlier in the war Vermilion 5,850 cupied another large section of the i i i line. I County total 99,350 Grand total 1,386,950 The names of residents who, in SWUM StUEIS St. Juvin (three miles east of i Ch6Ster Grandpre) is a mass of rui i the bankers of Sandusky have' not rnents smashed and burning. Chievers (between St.

Juvin and praci'cally of bonds will be published in San dusky papers. Space for this pur- the And Sergt. Maurice Platte Are Victims. partially burned or following statement- IN DIFFERENT CAMPS Orders were received from Columbus by undertakers, Friday, that all funerals of persons dying of influ- enza or pneumonia must be strictly Meantime the health Ludendorff is placarding all houses where cases i have been reported. The placarding is a warning to people to remain away, and regulations require that be kept out of school.

A BLACKMAIL PLOT OfdefS It Laid WflstP ikp DpSPft In than 450 planes participated the direction of the American first army. American. French and British bombing planes dripped 32.000 tons of 'high explosion. In addition other machines engaged in their regular mission. More than a thousand allied planes were operating over the front in the Champagne and Moselle regions simul- taneously.

They went as far as Mezieres and Sedan. (40 miles behind the lines.) Damvillers of was set afire. Twelve German planes attacked the allied squadrons near Turn to No. One on pase 12. dusky have been making a careful examination of all pledges to the Fourth Liberty Loan made by citi- zens of Erie-co.

They find a who have done their a large who have not sub- Turn to No. ttight on Page 12 Relatives At Bedside When Claims Two; Can by Stricken, will bo permitted to i i work. i I I Under the new-orders, doctors are TWO 1 a requireti to report all I WO, I riOmaS cases of influenza. Careful watch is HONOR ROLL 100 Per Cent Concerns INFLUENZA VICTIMS Private Chester Herb, died at Camp Taylr, Ivy. Private Clarence Popke, died at Camp Sherman.

Sergeant Maurice Pintle, died at Kort Benjamin Harrison. Advance On Valenciennes I5y IEGAM)T, yond Solesmes and Le Cateau. East (United Press Staff Correspondent.) of St. Quentin, the French have I reached the Oise at Hauteville, and are nearing the Grand valley and Guise region. The enemy has set fire to Vouziers, the important railway town on tho western edge of the Argonne forest.

Farther to the east, between the Argonne and the Meuse the Franco- PARIS. Oct. p. --French and American troops have made additional important in the Champagne and Argonne regions. The Americans are reported to be north of the Grandpro pass and to be advancing north in that region.

North of Argonne forest the French have reached the line of La Xcuvi'ilc eu Tourney-r. Fuy, Caury and Signy and ore on the outskirts of Machault, and libcut two from Voii7jers. In Picr.rcly Britirh and have I'onetraterl tjjo Ardigny forest east of JBohain. American advance is continuing. By LOWELL (United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN A Oct.

11--British, French i and American troops pressing on after the retreating enemy between I and the Oise, are spreading out fan-wise and enlarg- ing the gigantic wedge they are Germans driving into the heart of the German armies. Through the capture of Estrun, PARIS, 11--The are retreating precipitately northeastward from Cambrai in the gen- eral direction of Deuajn and Valent British are now oily ten miles ciennes. southwest of Valenciennes. British East of Cambrai the allies are be- Turn to No. Two en page 12.

Third National Bank. A. R. Singler Co. Farrell-Cheek Foundry Co.

Sandusky Gas Electric Co. Easiest Way Mfg. Co. Hindc Co. No.

2 Mill. Hindo Dauch Co. No. 3 Mill Boston Store. Erie Window Glass Co.

Sandusky High School. Sycamore School. Campbell School. Sandusky Foundry Machine Co. City Offices.

Sandusky Portland Cement Co. .1. B. Schaefer Son. Rinkleff Hardware Co.

Donahue Hardware Co. Sandusky Home Telephone Co. Edward Pusch. Frohman Chemical Co. W.

A. Bonn Klec. Co. The Mack Iron Wire Works- People's Loan Savings Co. Acme Barber Shop.

Rrightman Jfnt Mfg. Co. X. Y. C.

Campbell-st car shops. Citizens Banking Co. Herman Auto Co. R. Ricrelli and Son P.

J. Smith Estate R. It. Pollings Sandusky office. Three more Sandusky soldiers have fallen' victims of Spanish in- fluenza in the last few hours, in as many training camps, a i a I total of nine Erie-co have died of the disease within a I week.

A telegram was received early i i a morning by relative? a i nouncing the death of Private Ches-i ter Herb who was stationed at a Taylor, Ky. Death occurred early i I the morning. George Herb and Miss I a Herb, father and sister of young soldier were called to Camp Taylor Monday by his serious condition and were with- him at the time JiOAT WAS SHELLED AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 11-Two hundred and forty-three men eluding army men detailed to care for horses, are believed to have been slain, mainly by shell fire when the United States steamer Ticonderoga, formerly the German ship Camilla Rickmers was torpedoed and shelled 1,700 miles off the Atlantic coast. The story of her destruction, brought to this port by seventeen mon who were rescued from an open boat, is a tale of relentless murder by the commander of the U-boat.

a i a torpedo into the side of the Ticondergoa after she had been forced to leave a convoy, the a i commander fired on the Tn Inflnpnrp Frpnrh For lip as she tri 1 to ste away and I I I i i a ra nge of a mile began spraying her with shrapnel. The Ticon-. deroga's gun crsw went to their stations but guns were quickly shot away. Thn crew then tried to take to the boats, but the U-boat's cannon were on the lite boats and they were torn to splinters. One beat wan, lowered while the Peace But Only Reap Revenge, Says This Is To Act On Idea Wai Is Over.

By I I A I I SIMMS. I Press Staff Correspondent.) PARIS, Oct. 11- -The are a I i a i a i blackmail against I One bc a wan, lowered while the France. i a i guns hurled shells at it. Men fell by the score, either killed or badly wounded, as they tried to go over the side of the-sinking ship.

As the vessel was disappearing men in one boat successfully launcher, tried to pull away, while a hurricane of shells burst over them 'fioors recently taken prisoner declare it is Germans' i i to raze France as pletely as they did the section over which they retreated from tho Ti me Somme. They i i a a plans to make Gen. the Allies Within 14 Miles Of Great Junction Point Of Supplies, Oct. of death. Private Herb left San-' is no i i to a on the idea that the dusky with the last contingent of a is over." Gen.

March. Luden- such a complete desert a the ad- i a i allies i be a to live SUPPORT LIBERTY LOAN the most sinister purpose be lieved to be behind tho a is the hope to create in France a sen- favoring stoppage of the war as a mrans of saving, the historic ctt'ios and towns of France and Beli i from sacking, i and a i i i The slow mines now wrecking I Cambrai. have srnt a wave of i and ove the mon struggling in the water. One man swam to the TJ- boat, which was less than a quarter of a raile away, begging the German i a to stop. He was commanded to swim away by the lieu- Turn to No.

Three on page 12. chief of weeklv Lift Gas Ban After Next Sunday, Word From Fuel Director the The Ger- boys "on Sept. 4. a a today "weeklv ft 808 h8V( ade a blunder in of age and leaves to mourn "their! conference i correspondents. i 7 WASHINGTON, Oct.

11-The loss his father, two sisters, the MIss-j "The thing to do is to back the a i a I the use of gasoline on es Adelaide and Edna Herb, all of government with men and money un! hoU in" Germany a 1 in this city, and one brother, Fred Herb til victory is certain." he said sufficient gasoline is reported in (Proposition, not tne sl.ghtest vestige st ock at that time, according to an. i adlninlgtra of Bellefontaine. Funeral arrangements will be completed upon the ar, rival of the body this city. He is the i first member of Sandusky council, This was March's appeal for sup- of such idea remains port of the Liberty Loan. More than men The Temps asks what will be have fate of Lille and Valenciennes.

iii a i iui 6 lie Knights of Columbus, to die in the shipments are continuing. service. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Popke embarked for Europe he said, and i It says the public'is "begVnning to! The officers of the wonder why it is necessary that re- 1 Automobile Club had and ment changed the draft ages BO that shall be withheld.

Erie County received a To assure victory the war depart- taliatory chastisement of the enemy! further word relative to the new ore I at the Irene of Perklns-av. were! 2,000.000 men "might" "reach Prance i "We have to thank God for thrvnot of their son. soon as possible, and asked more I fact that the necessary weapons arsl flV at. rnnnPir A Cll nnliaa anrl A A snw A 1 i 1 ons are i our to make the Germans 12:10 Friday morning at a The capturtTof Le Cateau by" the feel Sneritian. following a British, March pointed out, brings I says.

anger," the newspaper attack of influenza i allied Turn to No. Seven on page 12 Turn to No. OB page 12. "Let them be employed earliest possible moment." Friday and local officials had been notified. The conditions have prevailed on previous Sunday will be in next Sunday, but local autoists Us- lleve that It will be the laat.

Further at tho details of the fuel 1 order are expected soon..