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TRIE
1918
1865
Southeast Corner 22nd and Strand.
NO. 264.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1918.
VOL. 38.
JL W
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BITTER FIGHTING.
strike the decisive blow.
The enemy
is still fighting well.
He is still of-
WILL GET REFUND.
Meziers and
hung on too long- and that he will have
rifles
i ng
From this the
is
FERDINAND’S VTTUDE
the Lys, will outflank Lille, the
Ferdi-
Is
NEGOTIATIONS AT SALONIKI
announced today.
frontier east of Veles, the Serbians have compelled the Bulgarians to retire.
TEUTONS ARE DISARMED.
that the battleship Minnesota struck a i
proceeding between the Bulgarian dele-
tice proposed by Bulgaria, according
the department, and the Minnesota is
fering splendid resistance west of Ar-
gonne, but how long can he keep it
up?
Experts agree that the enemy’s with-
drawal to a shorter line, probably that
The navy department last night is-
sued this statement:
“The navy department is informed
culated.
The soberest and most conservative
i observers here consider that yesterday
! marked the first step in the devcisive
FIVE CFFENSIVES
ON WESTERN FRONT
overcome by flanking operations and in current
others quickly organized storming par-
ties rushed the enemy and silenced him.
I mine early this morning off the Dela- . gates and the allied command at Salon-
( iki regarding the terms of the armis-
ualties, according to reports reaching
Yanks Go Across the St. Quen-
tin Canal in Face of Des-
perate Resistance.
eral. announced officially today that |
the encampment wrich had been sched-
uled to meet in Beaumont Oct, 3 had
ADVOCATES MEASURE
AS WAR NECESSITY
Leaders Count on His Influ-
ence to Swing
Votes.
Great Difficulties Confronting
American Troops in
This Region.
Proceeds to Port
Unaided.
German Withdrawal to Shorter
Line Believed to Be Im-
pending.
AMERICANS ATTACK
WITH THE BRITISH
PROGRESS IS SLOW
ON VERDUN FRONT
By Associated Press.
Paris, Sept. 30.—An armistice has been concluded between the allies
and Bulgaria on the allies’ own terms.
The announcement was made officially today.
END IS NEAR,
FRENCH VIEW
by Empress Zita. They brought with
them a large quantity of baggage.
WILL URGE
SUFFRAGE
| rived safely at a naval station and is 1
now in dry dock, the navy department ;
‘ Radeff, Bulgaria's Most Skillful Diplo-
The Bulgarian delegates arrived at Saloniki Saturday, accompanied by
the American charge d’affaires
Bulgarian representatives thave agreed to an armistice, probably the
first step in Bulgaria’s withdrawal from the alliance with the central pow-
ers, a few days less than three years after she entered the war on the side of
Germany. It was on Oct. 8,1915, that Bulgaria issued a manifesto announc-
ing her decision to cast her lot against the entente allied advance. .
Bombardment of Fortress
Getting on Nerves of
German People.
SERBIANS TAKE CHAREVO.
By Associated Press.
London. Sept. 30.—Charevo, east of Veles, and six miles from the Bul-
President Wilson to Ad-
dress Senate.
Victory in Sight, Asserts
Paris Critic.
mat. Taking Part.
By Associated Press.
London, Sept. 30.—Negotiations are
GERMANS BEATEN IN FLANDERS.
By Associated Press.
Havre, Sunday, Sept. 29.—The Belgian and British armies defeated the
Germans today in heavy fighting on the Flanders ridge and on the Mes-
sines-Wytschaete position, according to an official statement issued by the
Belgian war office tonight.
The Messines-Wytschaete ridge has been occupied and the Germans
have been defeated in efforts to defend the approaches to the River Lys.
British and Belgian troops on Saturday and Sunday took more than
9,000 prisoners. They also, captured more than two hundred guns, some of
heavy caliber as well as a very considerable quantity of other war material.
CARRY ON: BI Y BONDS
4th Liberty Loan
BONDS WIN BATTLES
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
AMERICAN SHELLS
FALLING ON METZ
QUADRUPLE, ALLIANCE BROKEN;
GERMANS BEATEN IN FLANDERS,
LOSING STRATEGIC POSITIONS
forces on many front, is being realized
by the allied generalissimo. There are
five battles today; there may be more *
tomorrow, all inter-related and work-
ing as smoothly as the cylinders of a
well-adjusted automobiles engine. All
are directed to the same, end—-to wear
of Galveston
I denburg system, is outflanked; Gen.
I Byng is driving the enemy north of the
| Chemin des Dames: Gen. Gouraud is at
the gates of Challerange on his way
to Vouziers, the key to the lateral rail-
road communications of the Germans.
Moreover, during the last week the al-
i lies on the Western front have taken
• more than 50,000 prisoners.
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great difficulty in preventing his re-
treat from degenerating into a rout.
“As for Foch, as for Napoleon,” says -
Maj. de Civrivieux in the Matin, “to
conquer is not to push back an enemy
behind the lines previously fixed upon,
but gripping him everywhere, to break
I the integrity of his forces and then
I hurt him disjointed and destroyed on
| the road to irreparable defeat. Like all
great dramas which have changed the
face of the world, the one which is
being played during these fateful hours
will bring triumph. Victory is in sight.”
An examination of one section of the
22-mile. front on which Gen. Gouraud
across as the barrage swept on ahead
of them. The Germans appeared to
have had orders to hold until the last.
That is what most of them did and.
of course, during the fighting of such
a desperate nature, the Americans suf-
fered some casualties.
As the Australians passed through,
both they and the Americans, some of
the units of which plainly showed what
hard battles they had been fighting,
stopped for a moment and cheered. At
other places where the fighting con-
tinued furiously, the Americans work-
is attacking in the Champagne will
I give an idea of the. German wastage,
cheered as they worked. The Americans i On the eve of the attack, Gen. Luden-
down the enemy’s strength. Marshal
Foch alone knows when the allies will
Him of Loyalty.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Sept. 30.—King
fantry, preceded by a large number of
tanks, started advancing through the- Metz is imminent. Some believe he has
haze.
dorff. feeling uneasy, reinforced the de-
tenders with two or three divisions,
j After two days fighting he threw in ten
I more divisions. These twelve or thir-
j teen divisions have been used upon a
their machine guns and
garian border, has been captured by the Serbians and the retreat of the By Associated Press.
D 1 1 1 De 1 c 1. on: , i ’ Washington, Sent. 30.—The battle-
Bulgarian troops has been cut OIL, says the Serbian official statement of ship Minnesota which struck a mine
A r • - • •1 I yesterday off the Atlantic coast has ar-.
Sunday. More than 700 prisoners were captured at Charevo.
In the heavy fighting around St. Nicholas in Serbia, near the Bulgarian
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By Associated Press.
Tulsa, Ok., Sept. 30.—Members of the
United Confederate Veterans, their fam-
illes and associated organizations un-
able to get a special rate to the recent
reunion here,because they had no iden-
tification certificates will get a refund
of what they paid in excess of the cen-
vention rate of one cent a mile, it was
announced here today by Tate Brady,
general chairman of the reunion. Sev-
eral hundred veterans paid the full fate
and the question of a refund was sub- I
mitted to the director general of the ;
railways, who has just ruled that the i
veterans may receive a refund by sub- j
mitting evidence that they paid full 1
rate for their transportation.
15,000 Armed Prisoners in Siberia Lose
Their Weapons.
Tokio, Friday, Sept. 20.— (By the As-
sociated Press).—Fifteen thousand
armed Austro-German, prisoners from
Blagovestchensk reached Heiho on
Sept. 18 and were disarmed, according
to a statement issued at the war of-
fice. The statement says that Japanese
and Chinese who have been on duty
along the Amur river entered Blago-
vestchensk with the main force of Jap-
anese cavalry when that citv was ta-
) ken by the allied forces.
attack by a multiplicity of
ware breakwater. There were no cas-
Telegraphs Austrian Ruler
cooperated closely with the Australians
and kept a stream of bullets directed
at the Germans all the time.
' The ground over which the Ameri-
cans passed was littered with German
dead, and the same was true' of other j front of 22 miles only.
sections of the front. Deep progress speed which the German strength
was reported virtually everywhere. being whittled away may easily be cal-
nand of Bulgaria has telegraphed to i
Emperor Charles of Austria, assuring :
him of his loyalty to the quadruple al- :
liance, according to the Neue Freie i
Presse which is quoted in dispatches I
reaching here.
King Ferdinand is expected to reach .
Vienna soon, according to a Geneva
dispatch from Innesbruk. When the :
two daughters of King Ferdinand I
reached Vienna late last week they -
stated that they expected their father i
to follow them shortly. The two
princesses arrived at Vienna on Sat- ;
urday night from Sofia and were met ;
Waco, Tex., Sept. 30.—The Texas di-
vision. United Confederate Veterans,
will not hold its regular reunion this
year. Bradford Hancock, adjutant gen-
By Associated Press.
American Headquarters in France,
Sunday, Sept. 29.—Fighting along the
new front northwest of Verdun has
settled down to the dreary business to .
which the machine gun has reduced
modern warfare.. Progress is being
measured by the laborious reduction
of small points which are held by
small groups of men, but able to para-
lyze forces out of all proportion to
their fighting value.
From a dramatic viewpoint the great-
est fighting has taken place in the
Argonne forest where it has ‘resem- .
bled a duel fought to c. finish in a dark
room. The density of the forest is
complicated by the strangeness of the
ground which resembles nothing so
much as the backbone and ribs of a flat
fish, with the ribs on one side short-
ened to half their length an’d the back-
bone running north and south. These
ribs represent series of ridges, and ra-
vines which are almost perilously steep
on the eastern side, but less abrupt and
longer further west. The ravines fol-
low each other ill ceaseless succession
along the backbone for about twenty-
five miles. To force such a position
would be sufficiently difficult if it had
been in the enemy hands only a short
time, but much harder since he has
been in possession of it for years.
Since the enemy has built a series
of stone mansions beneath the hillsides
and constructed approaches of stone-
line trenches, the formidable character
of the task may be understood. But
even more formidable than the dug-
outs and trenches is the barbed wire
woven endlessly among the trees. Hun-
dreds upon hundreds of miles of wire
have been strung there since two years
ago. Through it have grown weeds
and grass more than three feet high,
making the obstacle more serious by
concealment.
of Antwerp, Brussels,
' Siegfried line is going to pieces at
two vital points, namely Crambrai and
St. Quentin, the fall of which places is
No Casualties Result Ship considered a question of hours. Le
NU 04:4414299 I1UOU 81 PCatelet, the central pillar of the Hin-
FRENCH RESUME ATTACK.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Sept. 30.—French troops in the Champagne resumed their at-
tack at daybreak today, the war office announces.
The Germans violently counterattacked last night' south of St. Quen-
tin in the Urvillers region in an attempt to recapture Till 99. All these
efforts were broken up by the French defense.
tion of Beaumont and urgent necessity
Assuring ' for war conservation are given as the
’ treasons.
On the front northwest of Le Ca telet, German counterattacks pressed
• in October, 10102 The crowded condi-the British back to the outskirts of Villers-Guislain, while to the southwest’
of Le Catelet similar pressure sent Field Marshal Haig's troops back to the U. S. S. MINNESOTA
- D A n 1 1 phase of the war. The Belgians are
edge of the T HIlage OI Bony, - : STRIKES A MINE close to Roulers. the British, marching
.On the front southeast of Duai, the British have withdrawn from1
Arleux and Aubencheul-au-Bac.
Berlin Dispatch Tells of Action on St.
Quentin Front.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Sept. 30.—Bitter fighting
along the front of St. Quentin is de-
scribed in a semiofficial dispatch from
Berlin. It says:
“A big British attack to break
, through toward Cambrai, supported on
the right wing by fresh American
units, began on Friday morning after
three hours of violent artillery fire. .
"Deeply echeloned British infantry,
aided by a large number of tanks, at-
tacked over a thirty kilometer front
south of the. Cambrai-Bapaume road,
. but it was only repeated assaults, that
the British were able to gain ground
in the-directiom of Bourlon and Fles-
quieres.
“In the afternoon the British re-
newed their assault north of Bapaume-
Cambrai road with a large number of
tanks. German forces there withdrew,
fighting obstinately to the line men-
tioned in the army report.
“In the centertail the British attacks
failed with losses before the village of
Graincourt. Only when the British
took Arleux did the brave defenders
of Graincourt abandon their position.” I
By Associated Press.
j AMsterdam, Sept. 30.—The Ameri-
| can bombardment of the fortress of
| Metz is getting on the nerves of the
j German people. This is emphasized by
j a corrsepondent of the Rheinische
| Westphalian Gazette of Essen who
I visited Metz on Thursday.
When the bombardment of the fort-
ress was started, the inhabitants of the
city believed an air raid was in prog-
ress and took to their cellars. When
the truth became known many per-
sons left the-city, but . most of them
now have returned.
Between Sept. 22 end 26 the corre-
spondent says shells fell in the out-
skirts of the city (where the foils are
located) killing 4 few persons and do-
ing damage to property y
to a Reuter telegram from Saloniki.
It is pointed out that the fact that
Radeff. former - member of the
Bulgaria cabinet and former Bulgar-
ian minister at Berne, has been added
to the delegation, shows that the Bul-
garian government is in earnest in its
offer. >
M. Radeff is one of Bulgaria’s eg
skillful and experienced diplomats and
la an eminent writer and politician.
With the American Forces north of
St. Quentin, Sunday, Sept. 29.— (By the
Associated Press).—American divisions
brilliantly attacked on a front of sev-
eral miles in conjunction with the Brit-
ish this morning. At nightfall they
were reported to have gained their ob-
jectlyes only by sheer might and after
killing large numbers of the enemy who
tried to halt them.
Elsewhere along the front between
St. Quentin and the sea important gains
were made today and tonight, and it
seemed . that the German resistance
at least for the moment was slackened;
British, Belgians and Americans had
the Germans on the go all day. The
situation contains so many possibilities
that anything may happen at any mo-
ment. .
The resistance encountered by the
American troops was as strong as any-
thing offered by the Germans for many
weeks. The Americans, as well as the
British, were held up at many places
from time to time by machine gun fire.
In some places this opposition was
By Associated Press. ,
Paris, Sept. 30.—Marshal Foch is
fighting five -battles simultaneously
and successfully—a feat unparalleled
in the history of war. Each battle
is so timed and placed that each army
suports another, all forming an indis-
pensible part of the whole effort.
Gen. Grant’s idea of a continuous.
a By Associated Press.
W Washington, Sept. 30.—President Wil-
Bison will address the senate at 1 o’clock
this afternoon on the pending federal-
rtamendment for women suffrage.
The president will ask the senate to
adopt the resolution as a war meas-
ure. .
Suffrage leaders have been counting
upon the president’s influence to end
the delay in the senate, which appar-
ently again is about to startavacation
recess without acting upon the suffrage
resolution already passed by the house.
. BRITISH PUSHING FORWARD.
By Associated Press.
London, Sept. 30.—British, American and Australian forces pushed for-
ward last night,in the front between Bellicourt and Gonnelieu, in the face
of the severest opposition. Field Marshal Haig announced today.
Four thousand prisoners were taken by the allied forces yesterday to
the north of St. Quentin and forty guns were captured there.
British forces have entered the northern suburbs of Cambrai.
After hard fighting the troops
reached the canal and scrambled
One American unit is reported to have
passed through Le Catelet and to have
reached Gouy. Other units which
stormed and captured Nauroy have
passed through Le Caberet wood. Early
in the forenoon 36 German officers and
1,000 of other ranks had reached the
American collecting cages, but this
number included only those captured
during the early stages of the attack.
It was at 6 o’clock this morning when
the Americans with the British on their
left and right flanks “shoved off” from
the Hindenburg outpost line, about
2,000 yards west of the St. Quentin
canal, which was captured on Friday.
After a short “crash” barrage, the in-
proceeding to port under her own pow-
er.”
There was no indication as to the ex- 1
tent of the damage to the battleship |
nor whether the mine was an enemy |
one. However, naval officers recalled 1
that mines were laid in these waters by
the submarines which carried out the
’ first raids of the Atlantic const last
May and June. .
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