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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN", WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1918. FALL OF TURKISH CM REPORTED Constantinople Excited Political Crisis'. 1 Over SMYRNA TO MAKE OFFER Three Delegates Dispatched to Ath ens to' Begin Negotiations With Entente Powers. LONDON, Oct. 8. The Turkish Cabl ifet has resigned, according to a dis patch from Berne, Switzerland, to the KvenIng Star. The message says great excitement prevails at Constantinople. ATHENS, Oct. 7. Delegates from the government of Smyrna, Turkey, are expected to reach Athens tonight with an offer of peace to the entente allies. LONDON, Oct. 8. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Athens dated Sunday says: "The Governor of Smyrna has sent to Mytailene three delegates, a Greek, an Englishman and a Turk, to enter Into peace pourparlers, according to the Hestia." AMSTERDAM, Oct. 8. Ex-King Fer dinand of Bulgaria, accompanied by Prince Cyril, his second son; two Bul garian Generals and a large suite has passed through Budapest to his estate at Erenthal, Lower Austria, says a Budapest dispatch to the Cologne Ga zette. Ferdinand's former stately appear ance has undergone a change through the stress of recent events, and he walked sadly up and down the plat form at Ordka leaning heavily on his stick. His head was bowed and in his haggard face were deep furrows. "WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. The State Department was officially notified to day of the abdication of King Ferdi nand of Bulgaria on the night of Octo ber 3 and the succession of the Crown Prince Boris. The new ruler, as well as Prime Minister Malinoff and two other mem bers of the Cabinet, retained in office, are regarded as friendly to the United States and the allies. BRITISH El IS ADiyilTTEO BERLIN" TELLS OF ATTACKS RE NEWED BY AMERICANS. German Official Statement From Army Headquarters Says North Bank of Suijpc Cleared. BERLIN, via London, Oct. 8. Ger man headquarters in its brief state ment on the operations in France, to night admits that the allies gained Rround in the center of the battle front between Cambrai and St. Quentin.. At other points it declares, the attacks were repulsed. BERLIN, via London, Oct. 8. Amer ican forces in the Argonne region yes terday renewed their attacks on both sides of the river Aire after the strong est artillery preparation, says the of ficial statement issued today by the German "War Office. British troops on the front north of the Scarpe River advancing to the east ot Oppy have gained a footing in the town of Neuvireuil, the statement ad mits. The statement said: "The north bank of the Suippe River was cleared of the enemy by local enterprises. "In the afternon strong enemy forces advanced in partial attacks on both sides of St. Clement-a-Arnes and be tween Bazancourt and Selles. The at tack broke down." ANGLO - AMERICANS WIN (Continued tYcm I-lrst Pa?. other villages have been taken, accord ing to the Evening News. WITH THE BRITISH' FORCES IN FRANCE, Oct. 8.-1:30 I JH. (By the Associated Press.) The battle begun at dawn today has resulted in a serious defeat for the enemy. Boches Are in Flight. The British and Americans and French, have advanced everywhere, smashing through the last lines of the Hindenburg system and driving the disorganized Germans before them. In some places, and especially at Tremont, which appears to have fallen to the Americans, the fighting allied troops have penetrated the German lines for a distance of more than three miles and still are advancing. rremont is more than four miles northeast of Beaurevoir and only three miles from Rohain. At 1 o'clock the general battle line reached was Brancourt, Serain, Villers Outreaux, Esnes and Niergnies. The French First army on the south has entered Essigny-Le-Petit. The terrific British barrage struck terror in the hearts of the enemy and killed many. The machine gunners, BREAKS A COLD IN A FEW HOURS First Dose of "Rape's Cold Com pound" Relieves AH Grippe Misery. ront stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing and snuffling! A dose of "Pape's Cold Compound" taken every two hours until three doses are taken will end grippe misery and break up a severe cold either In the head, chest, body or iimos. It promptly opens clopped-up nostrils and air passages; stops nasty discharge or nose running; relieves sick headache, dullness, f everishness, sore throat, tneezing. soreness and stiffness. "Pane's Cold Compound" is the quick est, .surest relief known und costs only a few cents at drug stores. It acts with out assistance, tastes nice and causes no inconvenience. Don't accept a sub stitute. Ajlv. however, held out to the last and hordes of them were annihilated. Advance Exceeds Schedule. Some of the places reached by the Americans . and British by 1 o'clock were not in today's programme at all. But, having won from the very outset, it was apparently decided to carry on. Again the Americans- showed great gallantry and fought their way for ward side by side with their British comrades with a push that promises well for future operations. The last line of the Hindenburg de fensive system has been shattered on a wide front and the German army in this section ha3 been put to flight, ex cept for rearguards and machine gunners. The battle continues) but the resistance is constantly diminishing as the British and Americans continue driving deeply. War Is Now in Open. The attack begun this morning by British and American forces on the Cambrai-St. Quentin front has become open warfare in the real old sense of the term the developing of various carefully worked-out maneuvers into one great general scheme, which is to combine in securing prearranged ob- THE BATTLE OP MANILA BAY which once stirred the blood of America, is now temporarily for gotten in the excitement of a greater conflict. But the courage and ability which defeated the Spanlnrds are playing their parts in the present war. Men who proved themselves then are the leaders now are among those upon whom we de pend for victory. Each of these men wears upon his breast a bar of blue and yel low ribbon. Every American should know what that decorat.on means and accord it the honor It deserves. The United States Marine Corps has published a book which de scribes and depicts this decora tion and all of the others which the American . Government has bestowed upon its fighting men. It is printed on coated paper and Illustrated In colors. Every American should have a copy of It. lilvery reader ot The Orego nian can get a copy -free by merely sending his name and ad dress, with a 2-cent stamp for return postage, to The Portland Oregonian Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington. D. C. Ask for the INSIGNIA BOOK. jectives and the rounding up of as many Germans as possible. Men Brought Up in Dark. It had been necessary to assemble the assaulting waves to east of the Hindenburg line and to get the masses of men in through the intricate bat tered trench system in the dark. It was a task of extraordinary diffi culty, but it was accomplished well before the zero hour. ine Anglo-American attack: was launched at 2:30 o'clock in the morn ing. in the darkness ot tne hour of a quiet moonless night 20 miles of guns suddenly crashed forth in a hideous dissonance, The enemy's artillery response was weak. This confirmed the idea that the Germans steadily were withdraw ing their guns. Rain Begins at Dawn. Another phase of the battle com menced at 4:30 o'clock, and yet an other phase when the first gray of dawn was filtering into the dull sky, which presently fulfilled its threat to rain. The first reports were quite prom ising. A good deal of machine-gun re sistance was encountered at various sectors of the Beaurevoir-Masnieres line. American troops going into battle in conjunction with the Fourth British army on the St. Quentin-Cambrai front attacked near the point where the last line of the Hindenburg sys tern had already been smashed. The early reports indicated that progress was being made despite stiff machine gun opposition. Bombardment Is Terrific Simultaneously the Third British army attacked on the front from Cam brai south along the continuation of the Masnieres-Beaurevoir line." There was a frontal attack on this line and at the same time an effort to turn it at its northern, extremity. The attacks of the two armies were converging operations, the general di rection of the thrusts being northeast warv The assault was accompanied by ois of the most terrific bombard ments of the war, the massed British cannon' firing wheel to wheel. By the Associated Press.) The entente allied forces everywhere are defeating the armies of the Teutonic allies. In France they are fast carrying forward maneuvers which are resulting in the enemy's line giving away from the region of Cam brat and Verdun. Likewise in Mace donia and Turkish theaters the clean Ing-up process continues unabated. Over a front of 20 miles between Cambrai and fct. Quentin the British American and French troops have started a mighty drive, which, in, its initial stage, has thrown the enemy back from highly prized tactical posi tions to a depth of from two to five mlle,s. Numerous towns have been cap tured and seemingly all the great d fensive positions of the enemy in th region have been obliterated. Large numbers of prisoners have been added to the already great throngs captured since the allied offensive began. In ad dition, terrible casualties were inflicted upon the enemy by the heavy artillery fire at the beginning of the attack which began early Tuesday morning and the machine-gun and rifle fire the attacking forces against the enemy, who resisted stubbornly at variou points. The American troops fighting along side the British always were in the van and when night fell their positions were where the points of penetration of th German line were greatest. At last ac counts hard fichting was still in prog rees, with the enemy steadily givin ground. deadale Hu rnder Arrest. F.OSEBURG, r.. Oct. 8. Special.) Jacob CI ine, of Glendale, 60 years of age. was brought to thia city today by Sheriff Quine and locked up on serious charge, preferred by hia If year-old adopted daughter. w RECENT PEACE HOTE ROUS ES HUN PAPERS Press Taunts Military With Misjudging Position. HREAT HURLED AT ALLIES Echo Beige, Published la Exile, at Amsterdam, Captions- Its Edito rial "The Crocodile Weeps." AMSTERDAM, Oct. 8. That penance for wrong done is far from the German ublic mind is shown by the remarks of the Rhenish papers on Chancellor Max im lian s speech. Sunday's Cologne Gazette envelops itself in Icy silence. The Rhenish West- halian Zeltung-. in a fiery editorial. says: "It is the heaviest blow to the Ger man people conceivable." and adds: "It eans the total abandonment of Ger. many's Flemish policy and the absolute urrender of all fruits of victory In the ast. Baltic Germandom is threatened ith utter ruin and th emnire's srt open wide to Bolshevism." The proposal for the creation of Al sace-Lorraine as a federal state It re fers to as "the crowning absurdity of 11 the absurdities for which the Ger man policy has distinguished itself in Its pacificatory efforts there in the past 40 years. Irea Taunts Government. The paper taunts the new govern ment with completely misjudging the position. Its action, it says, is born of ague imaginings ar.d nervous timid ity. A peace such as Prince Maximilian advocates," the paper continues, "could be a peace to the great glory of Eng land, and establish Anglo-Saxon world ominion. As for Germany, she would be pushed into a corner among the na tions of the arth." ine voiks zeituner fiercely declares hat now the German people, and not the government or the Chancellor, have poken, and boasts of "Germany's un- conquered hosts on land and sea." It threatens terrible things "should the enemy, in his blind hatred, persist in goading Germany to desperation." "Depression" la Admitted. The Essen Allgemelne Zeitung con fesses of being "depressed" at the fact that President Wilson has again been approached with a peace offer, which. says, shows "a peculiar kind of op- imism" after past experiences. Criticising adversely the Chancellor's mentions regarding Belgium and the Eastern border Btates, this paper, which s the Krupps organ, comes to the con tusion that nothing will bring peace ut the enemy s recognition that they are at the end of their strength. An indication of Belgian opinion 13 given in Echo Beige, which is pub- ished In exile at Amsterdam. It cap ions its editorial with "The Crocodile Weeps." TOWNS TAKEN BY ALLIES fConttntid From First I,t(re,. been inflicted on the chattered and disorganized German army. Many a trench and machlne-eun post was turned into a shambles in today's fightingr before the main bodies of th enemy ceased .offering strong resist ance. From then on it was a case ot ighting from shellhole to shellhole and from one machine-gun nest to another. n thse fights the German rcarguardr held with the greatest desperation unti overcome. Old Kamerad Cry No f.ood. The Germans again tried their trick of pouring deadly streams of bullet a nto the advancing troops until the al ios were right on top of them and then calling "Kamerad" and expecting to re ceive no punishment. The story of this best told in the words of a lanky Memphis lad, who said: We've come too far and been Fhot at too oftn to let them get away with the yell 'Kamerad: They are no kam erads of ours. Three of these Frit res in a shellhole fired at us until we were ht in front of them. They didn't spare us and 1 didn't spare them. I put the bayonet through all throe of them.' . llopts of prisoners were taken during the day, however, tho Amerirans get ting almost 2000, while tho British took ny thousands more. IS one of the prisoners knew anything concerning their governments plea for an armis tice. They had not heard of their Km' peror's published order of the day, but aid they had received vaguo rumors that peace might not be far off. KlnerK "Word Kept From Troops. Jt seems not unlikely that the Kai per' order was kept away from the troops .of the line because of the fear that it might have further effect upon their already poor morale. IVisoners arriving at the cages in large groups cheered one another for having been captured. The advance of the allied troops now has left Cambrai in a deep and almost round pocket. Kpecially hard fighting seems to have taken place on the front of Ma lincrturt and Wnlincourt, ind nt the rm kbit VtifMll-M IS"! Groceries 15 Off Palace Point Grocery 46th St. and Sandy Blvd. One of Rose City Park's up-to-date groceries must dispose of their fresh $5000 etock groceries and new fixtures at 15 per cent, discount, also Ford delivery cars. Building for lease. Everything must be sold by November 1. Come early and get your choice. We deliver. r moment it appears that the British are not actually in these towns. Generally speaking. th. forward movement seems to be conversing in the direction of Le Cateau and the im portant towns of Bohatn and Caudry. Theae last named towns are being rapidly approached. British Barrage- Terrific. The British and Americans went over th. top In a driving rain behind a ter- i fc rifle barrage from massed British can, ' I- on. which were fired wheel to wheel. fc- bard ed Germans. The German counter at tack, fired from a considerable range. ppears to have been thin and weak at most points, although at one or two places the shells came in quito rapidly. In spite of this bombardment and the etermlnation with which the enemy machine gunners held out In their lairs. he casualties on the allied side were xtraordinarily small, according to all vallable reports. Once during: the fore- -oon the Germans delivered a counter ttack In which a large number of In fantry unlta were assisted by three Ger man tanks. It is not improbable that his counter attack was expected at this point, which was well up near Cam- rat, on the left flank of the third army. was known that quite a large num ber of enemy troops were garrisoned in the intricate tunnel system built un- er Cambrai. The two-story cellars of the town were capable of holding; a large number of men. Ktnu Dead Are Piled I p. It was these enemy troops, undoubt edly, who rallied for the counter attack. ut it was fruitless and resulted only In piling; up German dead. Enemy tanks were speedily disabled, and while this was being; accomplished British artil lery sent shells streaming- into the massed Germans. Allied gunnera at the me time took their toll. Ho far this has been the only enemy reaction reported. It is not strange that" the enemy has not counter at tacked, considering the conditions on is side of the lines. There is the great- st confusion among the Germans. Men f many units are Jumbled together fighting a battle which it is Impossible for them to win. But fight they did. and fight gallant ry, too, in many cases, whatever else may be said about the German soldier. o is no mean foe. especially when hia back is to the wall and his officers are riving him Into the struggle. Supply Road Threatened. The push toward Caudry is of great importance, for well east of that place. una the road between Cambrai and Le Cateau, to which the Germans must re sort to get what remains of their sup plies out Of the Cambrai district. It is uite obvious, by a glance at the map. that this road Is not far away, and the cutting- of it would mean disaster to the Germans in this Immediate locality. The greatest depth of penetration by the infantry seems to be something less than five miles. Fighting continues verywhere and more ground Is being alned each hour. Tho French, whose line joins that of the British to the south, are also reported to have made gains correspondingly deep. There is no doubt that the victory is absolutely and overwhelmingly complete, but the next few hours may see Its scope great ly widened. Anything may happen. The British have the Germans on the un, and apparently mean to give them no rest whatever. WITH THE BRITISH AMY ON THE ST. QUENTIN FRONT, Oct. a. (10 A. M. By the Associated Press.) The British launched a terrific attack on a front of about 20 miles today from Cambrai southward. American forces co-operated, and the French at the south also attacked in conformity with the general plan. This wan the answer of the fighting British arnle to the German bid for peace. Karly in the day smashing blows had carried the British and Americans deep into the positions of tho staggering enemy. The battle is one of the most furl ous, as well as one of the most Impor tant of the war. The British cannon, wheel to w heel, sent tons of explosives crashing on top of the enemy In a whirlwind barrage during the better part of the night and early morning. Artillery noeki Kartfc. The very alr trembled and the earth rocked with the continuous roar of ex plosions. The exploding shells throbbed vividly against c-louds from which rain poured, the flashes being visible for many miles. The British armies attacked In a con verging operation in a northeasterly direction. The fourth army, with which the Ajnericansj were ro-operatlng, at tacked at a gap In the last Hinden burg system, siul for milos on both ment of greatest intensity which Fi' -1 crashed into th. German defense, lev- j P,j 5 I eled wire entanglements, caved in dug- iki!" outs and played havoc with the terrl- . b. I U fi t-ANTA . 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It would ap pear that the ge.ieral Ider. is to smash down the Hinder burg system complete ly on a broad front, enabling opera tions to be carried out to th eBt of it- Infantry Storms lflgn Crand. The first phase of tha attack be gan about 2 o'clock In tha morning when the infantry, with the assistance of an intense barrage, stormed the high ground Immediately south of Cambrai, where the Cambrai-Peronne Hallway runs along. Special atten tion was given to other high ground in the southern outskirts of Cambrai. as the town Is known to be strongly oc cupied by the enemy. Already British forces north of the town have gone well to the eastward, so that success at the south should un doubtedly result in squeezing the city Into British hands. The troops pushed on toward Walln- court, Mallncourt, Esnes. Wambaix. Se rain, Fremont. Brancourt and Lesdain. and toward the Cambrai Le Cateau road. If thin road is cut it will fur ther insure the speedy fall of Cambrai. . As a matter of fact, some of these towns probably already have been tak en, but information is always meager so soon after an attack of such great proportions is launched. Gtmirn la orth Worried. While this battle raged the British in the northern areas carried out dem onstrations which gave the Germans there something to worry about. Bitter fighting was in progress just south of Cambrai when tha British. Americans and French for 30 miles to the south went over the top. A cold rain had started during the night and continued. Mist and foe assisted the attack In some places. Tho enemy counter attacks at many places appeared to have been weak and thin, for the Germans, realizing the deperatcness of their position, had moved their guns well back. The British barrage did terrible damage among the ranks of the retiring Huns. The principal resistance came from the machine gunners, fighting from pockets and nests as heretofore. At this hour the battle Is proceeding with the greatest fury. 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