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oro i am tsgm. mami MS OAKLAND AND VICINITY: ToniglilUnd. Thursday fair, except cloudy or foggy tonight and in the morning; light westerly winds. 7 Exduslve Associated JVcsi EDITH Press International ttw rvc 4: VOLUME LXXXX THREE CENTS SUNDAY FIVE CENTS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1918. Br NO.

51. rrT itvrfta i CL 11 AllJL A 1121 vlil- li 1W iLHJ? 11 UJUM to: lio: 7 '7 7 mm i teady Advances Are Places Allies Upon Strategic LIIL I II IU 7 niD $13,320,350 tin IMEIfiE ADVANCE EIN Oakland's allotment subscribed up to October 15 Amoiint'yet to be raised in maining Daily subscriptions necessary East and Northeast of pres LONDON, Oct. 16, 6 p. m. The Belgian city of Thourout has been captured by The fall of Courtrai is the allied forces in their Flanders offensive.

imminent i uiiunui ui I77I1 Yesterday's subscriptions 679,850 Oakland fell short yesterday 526,763 It has been suggested that unless greater progress is made today and tomorrow the mayor be asked to close all but essential business Friday and Saturday in order to permit all citizens to devote their undivided attention to putting Oakland over the top. PARIS, Oct. 16. British patrols entered the southwestern suburbs of Lille this morning. BRITISH ARMY 16.

neuters Ihe Belgian cavalry this morning was reported to be within a mile of the important railway center of Thielt. That town is only about fifteen miles southwfest of Ghent. WITH THE FRENCH FORCES IN FLANDERS, Oct. 16. Ilavas.

The Germans today resumed their lotag-range bombardment of the French of Dunkirk on the' Strait of Dover. There were some civilian victims. PARIS, Oct. 16, Twelve thousand prisoners and one hundred guns were captured by the allies in two days' fighting on the Flan ders front, the Echo de Paris stated today. IN FLANDERS, Oct.

7 PARIS, Oct. 16. A high German functionary In Belgium declared on October 9 that German occupation of Brussels would end at the latest within fifteen days, according to reliable Information received In London, says the correspondent of the -Echo de Paris. All tha civilian population along the, Belgian coast has been moved back out of the Country and British aviators are said to be reporting fires over aJ vast area. BE FID 19, IS PREDICTION HEADQUARTERS with the horses attached to them.

Lourtrai and Ghenthave been for the first time since 1914. great industrial centers of Lille, Roubaix and Tourcointf seems Inevitable. On the left the Belgians are approaching Thourout 12 miles from Bruges and within twenty miles of the Dutch frontier. There are signs that the Germans realize the days of their occupation of Belgium are numbered. They have begun the work of destruction In Western Belgium.

According to information reaching Paris, the Germans are preparing to get out of Bruges and Ohent and even Brussels, 1 he Belgian advance was eo rapid that one division captured six batteries of German guns complete Ihe journal says that maps given out to the correspondents The German extreme right wing Is being threatened more and more as the allied wedge In Flanders la driven deeper. The enemyt resist ance Eeems to be slackening In Flanders and it is believed here that important results may be seen within a few days. The advance of the allies is from two and one-half to five miles on a thirty-mile front. On the right the British hold Menln and Wervlq and have Courtralaimost-wtthln their "grasp. The evacuation of the of and including 8,493,900 4,826,430 1,206,613 four days re- Circled Room Go in Flames ordered.

It waa several minutes before the firemen, choking, blinded by smoke, were brought from the building. Another strange rescue was that made by B. A. Haakins and his wife. They heard the fire alarm and started to leave their rooms.

When halfway down the corridor Mrs. Haakins remembered her pet canary, which waa in its cage in the room. "We can't leave Dickie," she cried. Haskens made hla way back Into the room, where the flames were already eating their way through the woodwork, and brought the bird to safety. He was the only one among the group of refugees in the houses across the Street who appeared unconcerned about the blaze.

TWO IXSE ALU THEIR WAR. BOND PURCHASES. Liberty bonds and War Savings Stamps aggregating several thousand dollars In value were-destroyed by the 'fire. Mrs. Frank Cooley said that the entire purchases of bonds by her and her husband were burned In their trunk In the hotel.

Few of the guests were able to carry any valuables from the building, with the exception of some small personal belongings. Mrs. Alice Smith, the woman rescued by Driver McCarthy, threw. small bundle from the window before she was carried down unconscious. It was turned over to Inspector McSorley, and proved to contain considerable money-and two diamond rlncs.

It waa returned to her upon proper Identification. While the firemen were fighting the blaze and cursing the failure of several of the mains to deliver water, the crowds noted that the American flag waa still floating trom the flagstaff 'over the hotel. Suddenly a long tongue of flame leaped upward and the flag was wiped An hour later the tower carrying the flagstaff caved in, and the pole fell with a crash upon the truck of the aerial watertower, narrowly missing one bf the firemen. Vessel Sinks After Crash With Warship NEW YORK, Oct. 16 The British freight steamship Port Philip, outbound, was sunk.

in a collision with a United States war vessel oft Swinburne Island In the- lower bay this The Port Philip's crew of fifty men was saved. French Aviator Killed in Fight AMSTERDAM, Oct 16. Lieutenant Roland G. Garros, the noted French aviator, who waa posted as missing on October 7, after a flight over the German lines, waa shot down and- killed October 4, a Berlin message today announced. Subscribers for Bonds Total 91,354 Accordtng to figures compiled, by the Liberty Loan committee the total subscriptions fer bonds to date number -This-number of.

individual subscriptions exceeds that of the entire third loan by I12 BLAZING One woman was badly burned and another almost, suffocated, by smoke and fumes before she was carried from the upper story of the Hotel Metropole when, the structure, one L-the oWest landmarka in Oakland, was destroyed by fire today. Two women were carried to safety down ladders while others aaved themselves In a similar way. A score of men and woman fought tholr way tbroufth smoka-choited corridors and stairways or climbed down fire escapes to safety while the building was ablaze. It was reported that two children and an aged woman were trapped In an upper story. Firemen risked thptr lives in a search through the building.

Xo bodies have been found. Heroic rescue was effected by firemen who saved Mrs. Alice Smith from the fourth story of the burning hotel. The woman had run from nor own room Into the hall, had found herself trapped and had been a8iHtcd by a stranger she met In one of the rooms Into the tower room on the southwest corner of the structure. Karly rumors that an aged woman and two small children were trapped In the hotel and burned to were denied by First Assistant Fire Chief Sam Bhort this afternoon.

At the first possible moment Short went through the building with bis men and made a search of all the rooms which could be entered. No bodies were found. The man and woman were seen by persons In the street, trying to find a way from the window of the room In which they were trapped. The man had placed a towel around Mrs. Smith's face to save her from suffocation In the volumes of smoke.

A ladder was raised, but It reached to within only about five feet of the window ledge. CARRIES FAINTING WOMAN TO SAFETY. Driver J. A. McCarthy and Tiller-man Klplte ascended the ladder, clung to the ledge, and while one held the ladder, the other raised himself until he could steady the woman and dllow her to slip from the window, hang by her hands and drop Into his arms.

The life net had been prepared below, but McCarthy, who Is a powerful man, held his burden and carried the fainting woman to safety. The man who had helped her fol-. lowed, but refused to give his name disappeared In the crowd. A cheer was raised by the crowd when the rescue was effected. A similsr rescue vi effected by Firemen Hell and Anderson of Miss E.

Cole, who was carried down from the Jefferson street aide of the building. Miss Cole was taken to the Receiving Hospital. Mrs. Smith was carried to the Brown undertaking where medical aid was summoned. She recovered under treatment.

The fire waa a apectacular one, the fight against the flames was watched by great crowds of people. Fire apparatus was brought from all parts of the city, and Chief Steln-metz of Alameda came. with a piece of appaftusand three men from the island cltv department. fire oiiie.iwrFs ix IK MI. Fit ROOM.

The origin of the Are Is believed to have been In the boiler room of the hotel. The flames gained headway up the elevator shaft, and wlth-. In a few minutes after the blaze was discovered by a negro woman who Is A cook In the hotel, flames were ernckfihg and shooting from wln- dows on three stories, and the hall and stairways were filled with smoke Women In their night attire were helped down iadders from the-lower stories, and others wefe carnled or led from the main siaa entrances trances. In all morei than a score ot women were rescued from the burning building. Half a dozen chil dren Vera carried out by their narents ind firemen.

Therf tiave been eight or ten fires In the old wooden structure during Its Quarter of a century of service. The property was valued at more 1 ETRJP By FRANK 3. United Press Staff Correspondent. ilSmeV. i have captured St.

Juvln Heights) them. Two anced northward from hundred and forty prisoners were taken. (St. Juvln is Just east of Grana Pre). blunging through belts of Ger-" man wire In the face of showers of hand grenades, the men of the first army have mopped up Grand Pre, crossed the pas through the Ar-gunne and are pushing on.

Captured German orders stated that Grand Pre must be held at all costs. A new Prussian guard division was encountered in this fighting, making a total of twenty such divisions encountered since the beginning of the American oflenslye in this region. At the start of the present phase of the. assault. the Americana jumped ott.

at 8:30 c-'clock in the morning and gained their first ob-' jectlyeg at some points with great (rapidity. in many cases there was only slight opposition, due to the deadline of the Yankee artillery fire. ARK I SKI) BY FOK. In the region of Cunel and Bois De Foret the Germans used "clack-crs." which made the same sound as machine guns. These sounds led astray our troop searching for tho machine gun newts.

This was especially the case when the clacker boxes were located behind the doughboys. of the Alsne, the Americana are digging In. WITH THE AMERICA! ARMY NOKTH OF VERDUN, Oct. 16 Americans are battering another breach In the Krlemhllde line In the region of St. Gorge.

The enemy-Is fighting with the utmost despera- -tlon, A break between the Alsne and the Meuse rivers means collapse of the entire German front In this sector. Hhould 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 assaults of the allies further north. i t'f WCY rXDKR SHF.I.L llRK. Buzanry is under American shell fire. Dun-Pur-Meuse, Stenay and other big railway centers have been repeatedly bombed by our airplanes.

The, way Is being cleared for a further advance and the enemy communications are constantly be lng harried. The Americans, steadily pushing on, are narrowing the avenue through which the Germans can withdraw. The rapid gains by the British and French to the northward make It necessary for the Borne offer the stiffest resistance to the Amerlcnns In this region to avoid holng cut off by Pershing men taking him In the rear. Otranto Death List Now Placed at 52? IST.AV, Scotland, Oct 16 (By the Associated Press) According to h. an carefully checked with army records, the total loss of life as a result of thf disaster to the transport Olranto.

527. ThfS( figures represent one American officer, enlisted men, 164-of the utrantos officers and crew, end fix members of the crew of a Krrnch tlshlnir T'r to today 2SS bodies had been recovered. Pastor Uses German; Mob Beats Him Up CttERTEK. 111.. OrV.

16 Rev. William felriel, a Lutheran minister, and his wife were severely beaten bt a mob of more than 100 men at their In Urmnen, seven miles-nortll (of here, Pmulay night, it was learned lut nUht. Both. Meldels are still In bed ss th result of Injuries Indicted. The tnd- 1 Jcnt Is said to have grown out of I protests, hei-iume Seldel used Oermaa Mn tha "pulpit.

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEA8ED WIRE TO TRIBUNE BULLETIN'. LONDON. Oct. 16. 6:03 P.

Renter's Limited 1 Minis that the German rtily to President Wilson Is exported to be communicated lm- mcdlatelv and that it is likely to oonmitule a general aXTtaiu of the President's conditions. BULLETIN. LONDON. Oct. 16.

Germany's reply to President Wilson's UuA. note is expected tonight, it is learned. LONDON, Oct. 16. 6 p.

m. The British foreign oflieo staled this evening that it hud no offi cial conllrniatioii of the rumors that tho German Emperor naa abdicated, but that opinion in well-informed circles was not disposed to reject these rumors. bv loanrTirrn phfrs LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE ftvnuv rnt ifi It 1s eTDected that the German chancellor will make a decision today on tne matters contnined in President Wilson's latest note, says a despatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange leie-graph Company, The German newspapers point oui, the message adds, that President Wilson note had the effect or a coia douche on the hopes for peace engendered by his first note. Some of the newspapers comment on the note In the sharpest terms and with unbridled words, adding that the language of President Wilson now has become excited after the conference he Has had with tne allies. KINGS IN SHINING ARMOR ARE BARRED.

The Daily News says: "President Wilson's reply goes with shattering force and directness to the heart of the business. Kalserism has made the earth a shambles and kaiserlsm musf go. That Is the core of the reply. "It Is the most momentous declaration of world policy ever uttered, and has behind It the embattled strength of civilization and the sanction of democracy in every lund. No more kings in shining armor must be tolerated on this planet.

BASEL, Switzerland! Oct. 16. President Wilson's reply to the German peace proposals reached Berlin at noon Tuesday. It had not been given to the Uerman public, how ever, up to 8 clock last night. BERLIN BANKING' CIRCLES IN PANIC.

LONDON, Oct. 16. President Wilson's reply to the German peace note produced "a most unfavorable Impression," in Berlin, says Central News despatch from Amster-dam today. The publication of the reply It-adds, was followed by a panic in Kerlin banking circles and on the stock exchange. The supreme command, the advices state, will come to Uer-lln at the end of the present week, "to deliberate on mobilization, concentration of the national strength, and the raising of the military age." HOnEN7.OM.ERN 'STATUES ARE SMASHED IN BERLIN.

BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE. LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE. AM ST EH DAM, Oct. 10. Peace riots have broken out In' Berlin.

A mob marched through the streets shouting "Down with the war, the kaiser and Hindenburg." A pitched battle was fought between tho rioters and the police. Statues of the Hohenzollerns were smashed and the residence of the burgomaster was stoned, BY. UNITED PRESS rrvn vTRF TO TRIBUNE. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.

Upon a crowing dissatisfaction in Germany over kaiser rule, authorities here today based the view that the Ho. henzollern power' will soon crunv hie. Both obenly 'Afid guardedly tha Teuton press is voU'lng its dissatis faction with thine as tney are in Teuton polltlral life. The comment expressing discontent with the kaiser's autocratic power Is now becoming so general that the all-powerful German censor apparently does not dara kill It Leap From Fire 0 Liberty Bonds Paring escape from the burning Hotel Metropole waa made by Gene C. De Vere, who found himself trapped In an upper room on the west side of the building.

The Ho tel Under, owned by R. Sill, ad joins the Metropole on the west. The roof of this waa already In flames. De Vere took the one chance for hla life and leaped from his window to the roof. He lost his balance, but regained it again, and held himself from rolling; down -into the flames.

The lodging house on the north side of the Metropole was also In flames, but the fireman aucceeded in getting this under control. Heroism waa wasted as a result of the misunderstanding of an hys terical woman, when the fire had been blazing for almost an hour. and the Interior of the structure was an inferno of smoke and flames. A woman rushed Into the street, screaming that she must be allowed to go Into the building, and by standers thought she said her baby was In the bulldldg. "Where, where 'r one of the men asked her.

She led him to the Thirteenth street side of the building and point-ed to a second-story window, which could be reached from the roof of a porch. She kept on crying and pointing to the window. in there mere a cnua. Sam Short ordered his men. Without hesitation the ladder was thrown asralnst the wall and three men scrambled In through the window.

Others followed. NOT BABY) JUST PAPERS, SUE SEEKS. The crowd waited. Persons stajjd-ln with the woman- continued to quettion her, and presentely, through her eobblng, nan articulate worus, learned that It waa only some val uable papers which ahe wanted res cued, and that sne naa not unaer-stood what she was doing. "Gat those men out qulckl" Short Izzet Pasha Holds Turkish Empire Reins i i COPENHAGEN, Oct 16.

Upon the resignation of the Turkish ministry of Talaat Faith the premiership' was assumed by Izzet Pasha, a former minister of war, Instead of by Tewflk Pasha, former Turkish Ambassador to Great Britain as has been reported, says a Constantinople despatch under data of RllVday, October 14. Izzet Pasha also took the portfolio of mlnister-of war. No forolgn minister has been appointed, but Naby Bey, former Turkish ambassador at Rome la in charge oU the foreign ministry ad. interim. Danger Gone for Walter Hines Page NEW YpRK.

Oct 18. Walter Hlnes Page, former. American ambassador to Great Britain, who Is confined tn a local hospital with an attack of heart dlaease, was reported greatly Improved today, Page was stricken while en route to this country. Tcsfe' mows" QPlrfr JJ: eh vz sb I I I rt fveioSinrv-r-H uH, i -Vy (Continued on Page 10, Col. 4).