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News Want Ads Bring Results The News Three Months $1.25 SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1918 Number 141 Volume XXII. EIGHT PAGES. YANKEE SHELLS ARE DROPPING ON METZ; SOON OLD GLORY WILL FLY FROM ITS FORTS AOVANC ALLIED Al TOWARD BRUGES AND THE SEA: BIG DRIVE mA3nu 1 mAWK01 METZ. LOWING THE CATHEDRAL TO THE RIGHT 0, Sorrowing Friends Pay Last Germany In Desperation Tribute to Beloved Friend ccepts All Conditions, Hand Dispatch Says (By Lowell Mellett, United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE BAITISH ARMMIES IN FLANDERS, Oct. 16.

Allied forces driving into Belgium have thrust their wedge across the road from Bruges to Courtrai, severing another artery of communication to the tervelde and Thourout, advancing toward Bruges and the sea. Toward the southern end of the fighting front Menin has teen taken and Haig's men are in the neighborhood of Haubour-din, three miles from Lille. The G.ymans are using prodigally the great stores of shells in their Belgian coast bases. It is becoming evident they will be unable to save these munitions, so the enemy is using them up as fast as possible. Their batteries gave ours a more stubborn response than any other time in recent weeks.

OF THRONE WEAKENS (By Robert J. Bender, United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. Upon a growing dissatisfaction in Germany over Kaiser-rule, authorities here toady based the view that the Hohen- zollern power will soon crumble and that the Wilson peace terms will then be accepted. Both openly and guardedly, the Teuton press is voicing its dissatisfaction with things as they are in Teuton political life.

The comment expressing discontent with the present autocratic power is now becoming so general that the all-powerful German censor aparently does not dare kill it. TOTAL IRE THAN Subscriptions to the Fourth Liberty Loan in the Santa Cruz district are estimated to be well beyond the mark today and the actual cash already paid into the banks is be tween $775,000 and $800,000. The war loans Equalization com mittee is holding daily sessions now inquiring into the financial status of persons who have been reported to them as deficient in the amount of their subscriptions or as having not subscribed at all to this issue of the bonds. Santa Cruz county stands well up toward the front of the counties in pro rata subscribed to this' bond is sue. All indications point to this district easily going over the top.

A James D. Gregory a woodsman of Boulder Creek a.ged 34, is in the county jail charged with a statutory crime against a girl of sixteen years aleged to nave been committed at Capitola some months ago. Gregory was arrested at midnight last night at Boulder Creek by Constable Frank H. Moore on a warrant drawn from a complaint sworn to by the girl's father. LONDON, Oct.

16. (United Press Dispatch.) The allies in Flanders in Tuesday's fighting took twelve thousand prisoners and from two to three hundred guns. The Express declared today. GROWING RED GERMAN RULE SANTA CRUZ BOND 825.000 TODAY SERIOUS CHARG AGAINST WOODSMAN OF NFLUENZA SINCE LAST RETORT The Santa Cruz Red Cross Salvage Shop has closed its doors as a precautionary measure in connection with the general effort to head off Spanish influenza in Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz lodge of Elks announces that they will not hold their midweek meetings until the danger of an epidemic starting has passed.

The Wednesday night prayer meet ing at the various churches in tl city have been indefinitely discontin ed. The Wednesday night meeting the Christian Scientists has also bee discontinued until further notice Dr. A. N. Niftier, health office said this afternoon that there are now eight cases of influenza of rec ord in Santa Cruz.

This would indi cate an additional four cases since yesterday. Miss Aleta Hodge and L. G. Haslam, both reported as suffcr-irg from influenza are not seriously It can not be definitely reports that those influenza cases now undei treatment arc all of the virulen "Spanish" tyrie. They have all beet reported to the health officer as in fluenza.

I rn HI Ojip FIRE OAKLAND, Oct. 16. (United Press Dispatch.) The Hotel Metropole, in the center of the shopping district, took fire at 11 o'clock this morning and was completely destroyed. Three hundred people were forced to the street. Reports that two children were trapped in the top story are un- confirmeed.

OF The toal registration in Santa Cruz county is 9G28. Of this numebr the Republicans have registered 5446 voters and the Democrats 27 2. Next come the voters who are declined to state a party preference, numbering 905. Then the prohibitionists with 2S4 and Socialists with 1S6 and the Progressives, 95. Fresh, Juicy Apples We cater to purchasers by the box.

Secure a few boxes now while they last. Although oranges and grapefruit are exceedingly high priced at present we will always be able to serve you. The California Market AND GROCERY Phone 96. 117 Pacific Avenue. WE DELIVER.

FOUR CASES HOTEL ME ROPOLE nromn uwmuiLU REGISTRATION COUNTY affection which was felt in this community for the girl. Open air services had been planned and these were held in the presence of many sorrowing freinds. Rev. J. B.

Orr, of Oakland, formerly pastor of the first Congregational church here, conducted the service and spoke words of comfort for the bereaved. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Mellor sang hymns that were favorites of Miss Jones. The pallbearers were Fred Jensen, Walter Clow, George Russell, Gilbert Witney, Clyde Lindsay, and Noble White.

SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 16. The great Northern oil piers were i burning fiercely this morning, despite the efforts of the marine and land fire apparatus and a downpour ow rain. The fire started at eleven at night. The minimum loss is estimated at two million dollars.

The cause is undetermined. Two Japanese liners trapped by the burning oil on the waters of the bay were orced to remain within a hundred feet of the blaze but are believed to be safe. The flames leaped hundreds of feet airward. LIBERTY LOANS ARE jpc UP WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 Liberty officials are optimistic today.

Gradu ally overcoming the handicap of peace talk, influenza. There is countrywide stimulation. DELEGATES TAKE BONDS Delegates attending the 46th annual convention of the California Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, which opened here yesterday, voted to subscribe $15,000 to the Fourth Liberty loan. The convention resumed its session today. LIVVE OAK MEETING TONIGHT The people of Live Oak School district will meet at their school house tonight to enjoy MacKenzie Gordon and Otto KunitL in musical numbers, on an interesting Liberty Loan program.

It will be a meeting such as Live Oak has not had before and will not have again for a long ever. ON FIRE LOSS Loving hands tenderly laid away all that was mortal of Miss Loula Jones in Oakwood cemetery this after noon. Her close girl friends had been at the cemetery all morning with great quantities of beautiful flowers with which they fairly carpeted all the space around the spot which wa sto receive the body of the one they loved. These loose flowers were in turn covered with load after load of set floral pieaes, worked into handsome designs, and all testifying to the Ml LA COQUETTE" IS NEW TURBAN One of the most Irresistible chapeaus of the new season is this casque turban in silver gray velvet, its close-fitting, severe lines delightfully by a cascade of silvery, uncurled ostrich. As a hat for wear at every time and season La Coquttte Is ideal, and fits itself to mature faces almost as well as to youth.

But it niustl "be worn witli an air!" WEATHER FORECAST 8- Tonight and Thursday fair except cloudy or foggy tonight and in morning. High Glass Accommodations PIEDMONT COURT Housekeeping Apartments. Steam Heat Public Dlnlngroom and Garage, bom 18 or M. tt-100 High street RS MILLIONS LONDON, Oct. 16.

(United Press Dispatch.) According to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam this afternoon it is reported there from Berlin that Germany accepts all the conditions laid down by the President Wilson, providing only that the interests of the German people are safeguarded. The report is believed to be approximately correct. The Nieuwe Rotterdamache Courant publishes a telegram from Hamburg saying that Germany has "capitulated." There is persistent revival of reports that the Kaiser has abdicated the throne. OUT OF ACTION LONDON, Oct. 16.

(United Press Dispatch.) Thirty hostile airplanes were destroyed, six driven out of control, two downed from the ground and one balloon shot down in flames, Field Marshal Haig announced today in his official communication on avi ation activities. British fliers also bombed the Fres-caly aerodome, damaging a zeppelin shed and wrecking a hangar. Casualties among the mechanics were noted. The enemy did not fire on the attacking squadrons. Thirty three tons of bombs were dropped during the day and thirteen in night attacks.

Eleven British planes were missing at the end of the day. WISS Shears and Scissors THE ALL STEEL KIND; WILL HOLD A KEEN EDGE; WILL NOT BREAK. LET US SHOW YOU WHY. Whitney Bros Co 113-115 Pacific Ave. Phone 125 HOTL ANES ARE LATEST LONDON, OCT.

16. "GER MANY'S OVERTURES ARE SINCERE. THEY COME FROM A PEOPLE WHO HAVE GIVEN UP," Foreign Secretary Balfour declared before the National Liberal club today. AMERICANS (By Fred S. Ferguson, United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTH OF VERDUN, Oct.

16 Americans are battering another breach in the Kriemhilde line in the region of St. Georges. The enemy is fighting with the utmost desperation. A break between the Aisne and the Meuse rivers means a collapse of the entire German front in this sector. Should the Americans break through here, the enemy's left flank would be shattered and the effects would probably be felt all along the line which has been shoved back by recent asaults of the allies.

TRANSPORT SIS ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 16 The British steamer, Port Phillip, in the transport service was sunk today off this port, when hit by a collier, twenty members of the crew were rescued. None were lost. BALFOUR SAYS HUNS GIVE UP BATTERING HE BREACH.