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VOL.. LVIII. XO. 18,0G6. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COAST FREED FIEEJOAIIIWERP Ostend and Bruges Fall in Big Allied Snfash. ZEEBRUGGE IS EVACUATED HUNS-ALARMED BY ALIEN PROPERTY SALES GERMAX GOVERNMENT PRO TESTS SALES BY CVSTODIAX. British Warships Land Forces at Ostend, From Which i, Foe Has Fled. MANY PRISONERS ARE TAKEN Allies Advance 12 Miles Upon Front of 30 Miles and L' Rush Swiftly Onward. PARIS, Oct. 17. The Germans are abandoning the Belgian coast and are seeking refugee behind the outer de fenses of Antwerp. WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BELGIUM, Oct. 17 (By the Asso ciated Press, 9 P. M.) Belgian patrols have entered Bruges and cavalry is operating on both sides. Belgian guns are now firing from south of the city. PARIS. Oct. 17. Ostend has been occupied by the British, Admiral Keyes of. the British Navy having landed there this afternoon. French Cavalry in Ostend. French cavalry patrols penetrated into Ostend today, returning with the report that the Germans had evacu ated the place. WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BELGIUM, Oct. 17. 9 P. M. (By the Associated Press.) The allied in fantry made rapid progress today and pierced into the German front beyond Wynghene. The Germans are hurry gin eastward through the passage be tween Bruges and the Dutch border, trying to escape being bottled up. Only one good road exists in this passage, this being from Bruges to Eecloo. It contains a mad jumble of transports and fleeing men. Zeebrugge Is Abandoned. Zeebrugge appears to have been abandoned. The Belgians are in Bruges. Vast quantities of war material have been taken by the allied troops, These have been accumulating for four years. The Bruges-Eecloo road is under fire of the Belgian guns, which also are shelling the back areas, dropping shells into the masses of the fleeing enemy. The passage between Bruges and Holland, which will be made narrower by the advancing troops, undoubtedly will constantly come in for treatment by the heavy artillery as more allied guns are rushed up. It would appear from reports re garding the cavalry operating on both sides of Bruges that the horsemen even now are endeavoring to cut off the fleeing enemy. Raids Thing of Past. Having been driven from the coast means that the Germans hereafter will be unable to raid England or carry out aerial operations over the North Sea with the freedom they have had during the last four years. Iseghem, southwest of Roulers, changed hands four times before the j Germans finally were expelled. The British hold about a third of the newer " part of Courtrai, embracing about 5000 inhabitants. The older and largei part is still in the hands of the Ger mans and it is believed some 50,000 persons, mostly women and children, are in the place. Courtrai was only slightly damaged by shell fire. The British are all around it, so that the enemy hold is precarious. LONDON, Oct. 17. The German re treat begun Wednesday under the ir resistible pressure of the group of armies under command of the King of the Belgians continued today along the whole of the front between the North Sea and the River Lys. Advance Is 20 Kilometers. By this evening the advance had been carried forward to a depth of 20 kilometers over a front of 50 kilo meters. The Belgian army had entered Ostend and their cavalry was at the (Concluded on Pags 2. Column 2.) America Declared Aiming "to Do Lasting Injury to German Economic Existence." WASHINGTON. Oct. 17. Protest against the Americanizing of German owned concerns, ships and other prop erty by Allen Property Custodian Pal mer has been made by the German gov ernment to the State Department The note, transmitted through the bwiss Iteration and made public tonight, de clares the sale of German-owned prop erty In this country is "consciously aimed to do lasting injury to German economic existence." Referring specifically to the proposed sale of the property in New Jersey of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American steamship lines, the note says it is an endeavor "to shackle through measures of force the opportunities of German shipping Interests to develop in the future." The German government concluded its protest with the statement that "it cannot but be guided in the enforce ment of the retaliatory orders that have been Issued against American property Germany by the manner in which the United States of America will pro ceed against German property." The total value of enemy-owned property taken over by Mr. Palmer to date Is between seven and eight hun dred million dollars. Unofficial re ports received litre place the value - American-owned property taken over by the German government at $14,000,-000. ENEMY SHOWS SIGN OF OBEYING WILSON Political, War Methods Being Revised. REPLY OF GERMANY REPORTED DRAFTED COMPLIANCE WITH WILSON'S TERMS XOT COMPLETE, Berne Advices Suggest New Attempt - to Prolong Negotiations With United States. U-BOATS MAY BE RECALLED Austrian Emperor Says Will Grant Autonomy. He LOOTING BY TROOPS STOPS SOLDIERS FLOCK TO CITY Quarantine at Vancouver Barracks Lifted by Physicians. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Oct. 17. (Spe cial.) After being quarantined for about a week, soldiers were today per mitted to go to Portland. The quaran tine was lifted about 4 o'clock today and the evening jitneys did an unusu ally big business. The men are pro hibited from riding on streetcars. Soldiers have been permitted to go about Vancouver, but the picture shows and other places of entertainment have been closed and walking the streets has become monotonous. When the quar antlne was lifted today there was great joy in the post and every soldier who could get away started for Portland. It is expressly stipulated by the com raanding officer that soldiers pn .pass to Portland must not enter any place of public amusement, and that the must not gather in crowds. Military police are detailed to Portland to en force these regulations. GOVERNOR PRAISES BAND Music Declared to Be Constant In spiral ion in Patriotic Activities SALEM. Or, Oct. 17. (Special.) Sergeant F. C. Freyburg, drum-major of the Multnomah Guard Band, today nr...n tnr? nvArnnr Wlthvunmhil with j handsome framed photographs of the Multnomah Guard Band and the Amer lean Ked Cross canteen of Portland. The pictures will hang in the execu tive offices. "The band is one of Portland's great est assets." stated the Governor. "It is a constant Inspiration in all patriotic activities. The women of the canteen are making great sacrifices in the in terests of humanity, and their work la commendable in the highest degree. am proud of the pictures and of both organisations." Turkey Joins Reform Procession With Declaration Government to Be Representative. SHIRKER THROWN INTO BAY San Francisco Man ' Gets in Bad With Fellow Workers. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17. (Special.) Because he refused to buy a liberty bond, saying he had big doctor bills to pay, J. C. Thompson, employe of the Emeryville branch of the Standard Oil Company, was picked up by a gang of 73 men, women and girls, carried two blocks to the waterfront -and thrown into the bay. When he ran back to his office drip ping, a group of girls handed him his hat and coat and told him to leave the place. , MANILA HAS BIG PAGEANT Fifty Thousand in Line In Liberty Day Demonstration. MANILA. P. I.. Oct. 17. Fifty thou sand persons were In line and marched in the greatest demonstration in Ma nila's history last Saturday, Liberty day. A 25 per cent oversubscription to the fourth liberty loan already has been registered by the Philippine Islands. BULLETINS BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IV BEL GU M, Oct. 17. ll7 P. M- (Renter's.) The allied troops are within fire miles f Bmgea. PARIS. Oct. IT- King- Albert of Brl srlum sad Queen Elizabeth catered Os teal this afternoon. lO. DO, Oct. 17. t"p to the present nearly LOMMMtO British lives have been sacrificed la the war. according to In formation received ay Heater's, Ltd. LONDON', Oct. IT. The British Ad. mlralty today aaaoaaced the occupation of Ostend. The Admiralty statement readal K.oyal nlr force eontlna-enta work K with the uuvy landed at Oatcnd this mornlna and reported It clear of the enemy. Vlee-Admlral Sir Rogers Keyes, commanding the Dover patrol force, landed at Ostend at IZiZS clock this afternoon" WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. Signs mul tiplied today that Germany and Austria were hastening to rearrange their In ternal political affairs and their meth ods of warfare in the hope of meeting the peace requirements of President Wilson. There was no indication when the German answer would come, but that one would be dispatched was made more certain by the statements ofl Baron Burlan, the Austrian Foreign Minister, before the foreign affairs committee of the Austrian Parliament Following closely radical changes in the German governmental structure, information came to the State Depart ment mat the Austrian Emperor has announced to the foreign affaire com mittee of Parliament his purpose to grant autonomy to the opressed na tionalities in the dur.l empire, one of the peace requirements laid down by the President. Strong Opposition Certain. Bitter opposition from the intensely conservative German and Magyar com ponents of the empire is certain to be aroused by this radical change. . It Is believed that Emperor Charles thinks this can be overbalanced by the measure of support he will receive from the liberal elements and the separatist parties, especially if he can make it appear that the change is a long step towards the final peace so Insistently demanded by the populace. The announcement irom Copenhagen of the reading of a decree in the Hun garian Parliament recognizing Hun- Concluled on Page 4. Column 1.) BERNE, Oct. 17. Advices received from Berlin say that there Is, great ac tivity in political circles in view of the German reply to President Wilson's note. It is understood the note already has been drafted and that it is not a com plete refusal of President Wilson's de mands. Field Marshal von Hindenburg was expected in Berlin today. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 17. The Handels blad publishes with reserve a report that the German Admiralty has issued wireless instructions to all submarines to return to their bases. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 17. Dispatches from Berlin tonight indicate a strong anti-Wilson tendency, not only in mill tary quarters, but also in those which have favored peace. For example, Herr Gothein, a mem ber of -the Reichstag, writing in the Zeitung Am Mittag, declared President Wilson had given a death blow to the idea of a league of nations. His posi tion, the writer asserts, is one of brute force rather than equal rights, and Ger many would enter a league under such conditions with a feeling of "Inde scribable bitterness." ' , Gothein asserts that the idea of sur rendering at the discretion of the allies makes the blood of even the most con firmed pacifist boil, and adds that al though he always has opposed unre stricted submarine warfare, its relin quishment means extraordinary weak ening in the German military position. The Cologne Gazette publishes a manifesto of the Conservative party signed by Count Friedrich von Westarp and other members of the party, de claring that after President Wilson's reply the contest of arms must be fought out .to a finish. It paints a ter rible picture of the fate that would be fall an invaded fatherland. A dispatch to the Cologne Volks Zeitung from Berlin says that there will be exhaustive deliberations be tween the Reichstag, the Federal Coun cil and the supreme command, as well j as the leaders of all parties, before a decision is reached concerning a reply to Mr. Wilson's note. ' It is announced that Chancellor Max imilian hai appointed States Secretary Groeber as his representative in con nection with the civil administration of martial law. " 2 BILLIONS DUE 2 DAYS FOR LOAN Subscription Books Close Tomorrow Night. . GERMAN ARMY IS TOLD ARMISTICE ARRANGED WITHDRAWAL PLAXS ALL SET ACCORDING TO AMERICAN. TIME FOR PLEDGES SHORT Money Greatly Needed Even if Peace Should Come. IMMENSE OUTLAYS CERTAIN Over Three-quarters of Six Billions Now Thought Has Already Been ' Expended. Winnipeg Fire Loss $750,000. WINNIPEG. Manitoba, Oct. 17. Fire today destroyed the Gray-Campbell Carriage Company building here, loss was estimated at 1750,000. The WASHINGTON,- Oct. 17. Fourth lib erty loan subscriptions, reported and unreported, probably amount to M.000.- 000,000, .although those actually tabu lated by headquarters here aggregate $3,607,597,350, the treasury announced tonight. Two days remain for the rais lng of $2,000,000,000. On Saturday night subscription books will close absolutely. Secretary McAdoo declared today, thus setting at rest persistent reports that owing to the retarding Influence of the lnllu enza epidemic the Government contem plated giving the Nation another week in. which to enter pledges. Huge Expenses in Sight. New reasons why the loan should be not only raised, but oversubscribed, as emphasized today by Secretary McAdoo, are that tremeudous war expenses will continue to run on for many months. regardless of the outcome of Germany' efforts for peace. Even if peace should come soon and no agency of the Government is draw lng its plans in this definite belief there will be immense manufacturing contracts to be fulfilled, armies to be brought back to American shores and a multitude of other expenses which the momentum of war will carry on. Most of Jtoney Spent. , This means other war loans. Secre tary McAdoo explained. And whatever the measure of oversubscription to the fourth . loan, it may be deducted from future loans. Actually, the funds now being gath Yankee Captive Given Food and Re leased Is Told Huns Don't Want to Be Bothered With Prisoners. BY WILBUR FORREST. (Copyright. 191S. New York Tribune) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Oct. 17. The elements of the German army opposing the Amer icans have been told that all plans for an armistice and the withdrawal from the occupied territory have now been arranged. The plan embraces the with drawal of the German troops 20 kilo meters, while the allied armies with draw 10 kilometers. Then with a neutral strip of 30 kilo meters betwen the armies the general withdrawal commences, the allied ar mies halting 10 kilometers from the German frontier until peace is signed. An American sergeant captured by the Germans yesterday was taken a considerable distance to the German rear by his captors, given biscuits and a liquor ration and then turned loose. His captors said that the war would soon be oyer and they did not want to bother with.' prisoners. The, sergeant regained our lines at darkness without difficulty. ALIIE W FAR iHHIl Boche Beaten Back From Sea to Meuse River, FOCH LAUNCHES NEW BLOW Anglo - French - Yank Troops Hit German Center Hard Upon Extended Line. HAIG CAPTURES MANY TOWNS (Concluded on Pace 2, Column 1.) MAP SHOWING DASHING ADVANCES OF ALLIES THURSDAY ALONG FRONT EXTENDING FROM SEA TO NEAR ST. QUENTIN. I S E "A 1 1 -M- XMrL A? Sessine fHAL L HAZEBRO CK IHeEI 5j 3 J y 1 vVAVF ' ffii (( SjS Vl PU9A,X N( rHIErJ J 1 P.1Lle W0URNAi - A NIVEP : vvpol vLENS6 T :: -""" - ) T, ! z CAM BF 7M lIWsnot fBEAurioNT OOULLENS- JT p Sj&LKSMES J L lS j Jai.BERT 3 : yftL.ss.6Mr CHiMy"- j) I CT " .' STaStNTjlN . MAUBERT I rl- r aJr vervin s-ffuMiONY 1 ' - l V . I L'AHBAVE j "Vc - igf- iLfisw R0Z5V Jru MONTDIDfER , X LAFERJEF f t I J ( 'IdHAVMY - jL HOVION PORCIEN ( ' 7 fl NOVON t 1' a, ?56o'r I 5S5:::lr V. V JjXAQN . sHATEAM POROICK j sP' J-JZimlhim WE"CHytl; S-AI3NE TX I ItRMONT SZ' SOlSSONsT FTn JUNIV.LLE X5S OFFICER'S HAND TORN OFF Piano on Being Touched Releases Grenade and Hun Trap Scores. PARIS, Oct. 17. An English officer at Cambral had his hand torn off yes terday by one of the enemy's Infernal traps, says a special dispatch to the Temps. Seeing a piano abandoned in the middle of a street, he' struck a chord and an explosion followed which ripped off his hand. A grenade had been placed in' connection with the keys. The Temps' correspondent warns re-. Lille and Douai Fall Enemy Fights Hard Against Amer icans and French. (By the Associated Press.) Over a front of 40 miles, from the North Sea in Belgium to Lille in Northern France, the Germans are in retreat before the Belgian, French and British armies. Likewise the enemy is being forced to concede de feat by retrograde movements before the British and Americans southeast turning inhabitants of Cambral to be 1 0f Cambrai; under the attacks of the careful in correcting any lack of sym- French jn the ket between the 0ise metry they may find in their homes; . . . T , to beware of straightening pictures, re- and Serre rlvers north of Laon' and placing door panels which they find by reason of continued strong attacks loosened, removing nails and oj touch- by the French and Americans in Chaining- objects they may find In the court- pagne an(i along the Meuse River, yard, cellar or garden Such action he j Belgian Flanders the enemy's says, may explode an Infernal machine, , , . . , , steps are oeing nastenea Dy me swui ijm mini r A nrn rtrtRIIr"4Ntl0 i go hi w uia 41 iic vj biic ajiiiiiou HULUUr LtrUJtnLUNrtbbhS Lille, just south of the Belgian border, an4 Kir V TT'vqti f onrl "Rol o-ioril Frank Tjewls Dies in Kansas Jail; , ., , . . . . , I zartner norm, wnicn mreaten iu cum- Statement Made In Denver.. I i v,,'ra r,to rnr.h t.m'hnrv inJ KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 17. Frank face internment unless he is fleet Lewis, alleged leader of the gang that enough to withdraw out of the entire iiciu up intiMuun, jvitncaa ac icxaa I train near Koch, Kan., July 10, made written confession, naming his asso elates in the robbery, Fred Robertson, United States District Attorney for Kansas, announced today. The confession was given two weeks pocket between the Scheldt River and the sea and reconstitute his line with its right wing resting on Antwerp. Drive Made Toward Ghent. Ostend, one of the famous subma- ago in Denver. Lewis died last night rine bases on the sea js British in the Jail at Topeka. k-j t u . k Lewis says in the confession that he " u ' ".1UKCO had received information the express tne JJelgians, wmie to tne SOUin iroro car contained $250,000, but that the the region east of Koulers tne allied robbers obtained practically nothing. forces are fast driving toward Ghent in an endeavor to seal them in a Fland- DUNKIRK ers sack and retain in it; larSe de ments of enemy forces. Long- Strong opposition is being offered on -the Courtrai sector to prevent the allies from carrying out their ma neuver to the full. More than a score of additional villages have been lib- TEUTONS SHELL Broken Line Indicates Hindenburg Line. Heavy Black Line Shows Battle Front ns Indicated by Lntest Uls patches; While Shnded Sections Show Gnlns of Allies Thursday. Arrow Indicates Where Germans Fleelns; From Northern Belgium nad Coast Are Seeking; Refuge Behind Forts of Antwerp. Doable Line Shows Far thest German Advance In Offenslre Begun March 21 Last. Two Americans Killed by Range German Gun. PARIS, Oct 17. Two Americans were killed, one man was wounded and material damage was caused in I the German bombardment of Dunkirk erated and numerous guns and quanti- yesicruay who a iong-r?nge gun. A . . - . i, l I in ineir wiinarawai xroni ncai The advance of the allied armies in Flanders the Germans are carrying Belgium will make this bombardment out a tactical movement, which doubt- one of the last from which Dunkirk , w,il nH in a e-eneral fallinir-back ' tO tUcir lints III i'Aaiiwc ojiu ml'f tliom frt afrTic7.Vin their re- NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS' sistance materially on a new and shorter front This probably will be 62 from Antwerp to Namur and Metz, " and tnence to me owiss poraer, wmui would still leave the Germans 80 miles from their own border line, both r.t Antwerp and Namur. At present the center of the Flanders fighting is near Thielt, which is about 125 miles from Aix la Chapelle, on the German bor der. . British and Yanks Advance. Southeast of Cambrai over a front of 10 miles, between Le Cateau and Bohain, the British and Americans are delivering a violent attack against the Germans, and at last reports they had advanced two miles, although the Germans were savagely resisting with machine guns, infantry and artillery. North of Laon, between the Oise Boisheviki to put. txortam on efficiency and Serre rivers, the French are en deavoring to drive out the Germans or capture them before they can make their wav eastward to Hirson. Here also the enemy is using his machine gunners ancf artillery, but further gains have been recorded. The greatest resistance of all, how ever, is still being imposed against The Weather. ESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, degrees; minimum, 4o degrees. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. Wan Allies advance on wide front. Page 1. Official casualty list. Page 7. Lille is captured by British. Page 2. Belgian coast freed; Huns flee to Antwerp. London military experts say Germany still unbeaten, .rage l. German army told armistice all arranged so they let Americans capture. .Page 1. Huns fight hard on eastern wing. Page 3. General Mai leterre, compares German defeat with tnat ol r ranee in isii. .cage 4. Bolshevik outlaws stronger than ever. Page b. Mud-coated Tanks take enemy trench. Paga 8. Americans capture vital key position. Page 2. Foreign. Austria faces grave political crisis. Page 4 Sales of alien property in United States alarms Germany. Page 1 German reply to Wilson said to have been drafted. Page 1. basis. Page 3. National. Two billions necessary for success of loan. Page 1. Millfeed trouble explained by grain cor poration official. Page 9. Enemy seems to be yielding to Wilson's terms. Page 1. Domestic. Otto Kahn urges loan support by Americans of German descent. Page 5. American Jews will spend billion to relieve U, v 1 A -;no ; pi.m war sufferers, page . the French and Americans in Cham- Sports, nasrne and along the Meuse River, scarcity of boxers hits promoters. Page 14. where the holding of the line is essen- UregOD ana ABBtca armuss aouoie go. tial to stave off a general retreat all the way from Belgium to the Swiss frontier. The French in Champagne are still fighting hard to capture Rethel, but the Germans thus far have been able to hold this important posi tion. Americans Suffer Hardships. North of Grand Pre both the French weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. and , Americans nave made lurtner Judge Bennett may enter contest for Justice. progresS over difficult ground. Espe- I Teachers' salaries discussed by board, cially severe have been the hardships page 20. suffered by the Americans in encom- Actor folk have enforced rest. Page 12. ' , r..th.r rnort. data and forecast. Para 19. tr, included on Page 2. Column S.) Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Buying of seed potatoes for Southern mar ket begins, rage iv. Corn higher at Chicago on denial of report of Germany s surrender. Page 1U. Peace stocks score gains ranging up to 15 points. Page iv. Ten Coast steamers change owners. Page 9. Special train provided to carry shipyard workers 10 r ..ivuu.c. xo. Portland and Vicinity. Influenza spreading In city and state. Page 8.