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iff 66 Pages Six Sections Section One Pages 1 to 18 VOL,. XXXVII-XO. 40. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. E I REPORTED READY FOR PEACE Germany, Austria) Turkey Said to Be Agreed. WILSON TO BE APPEALED TO Amsterdam Says Armistice Proposal Made to Reichs tag by Chancellor. BURIAN TO ISSUE NEW NOTE Prince Max Declared to Have Avowed Willingness to Accept 14 Conditions. ' LONDON, Oct. 5. Prince Maxi milian, the imperial German Chancel lor, in the Reichstag today, emphati cally declared that the new govern ment stood on the basis of a just , peace, regardless of the war situation. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 5, (By the As sociated Press.) Willingness to join a league of nations on a basis of equal rights was declared by Chancellor Maximilian in his address. He also proposed complete rehabilitation of Belgium and immediate establishment of popular representative bodies in the Baltic provinces of Lithuania and Poland. ! CBy the Associated Press.) A powerful movement is appar ently under way in Germany for a general armistice and peace. The new German Chancellor, Prince Maximilian of Baden, is reported to have proposed, or to be on the eve of proposing, a general suspension of hostilities, the appointment of pleni potentiaries to meet at a neutral place for the discussion of a league for arbi tration and disarmament and the for warding of a request to the entente al lies for their terms. , Conditions Declared Acceptable. It is furthermore reported that the German Chancellor has expressed his willingness to accept President Wil son's 14 peace conditions. Austria-Hungary, through its min ister at Stockholm, is requesting the Swedish government, according to ad vices from Berne, to transmit to Pres ident Wilson a proposal for a general armistice with the entente allies on land and sea and in the air and start without delay negotiations for peace. These negotiations are to be based on the terms set forth by President Wil son. A new peace note to be issued by Baron Burian, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, it is announced, will declare that all of President Wilson's terms have been accepted by the dual monarchy. , Triple Approach Rumored. And, finally, from Berne comes the announcement that Germany, Austria Hungary and Turkey intend simultan- 1 Concluded on PaB 6. Column 1.) if 1 - r -' s est, e- I; a I "a T TEXT OK THE 14 PEACE COJf DITIOJfS EXTTNCIATED BY PRESIDENT WILSON. Below is presented the text of the 14 conditions of peace enun ciated by President Wilson. As the American executive holds the position of spokesman for the entente allies, these 14 principles may be regarded as terms that will be agreeable to all the na tions fighting the central powers. The 14 principles given below are therefore likely to be the funda mentals of any peace treaty that the entente allies will permit the vanquished central powers to sign: 1. Open covenants of peaee without private International understanding-. 2. Absolute freedom of the seas In peace or war except ns they may be closed by international action. 3. Removal of all eeonomle barriers and establishment of equality of trade conditions anions; nations consenting; to peace and associating themselves for Its maintenance. 4. Guarantee for the reduction of national armaments to the low est point consistent with domes tie safety. . SL Impartial adjustment of all colonial claims baaed upon the principle that the peoples con cerned hsve equal weight with the Interest of the goverament. 6. Evncuatlon of nil Russlsn territory and opportunity for Russian development. 7. Evacuation of Belartum with out any attempt to limit her sov ereignty. 8. All French territory to be freed and restored and repara tion for the taking; of Alsace Lorraine. ' 9. Readjustment of Italy's frontiers along clearly recognisa ble lines of nationality. 10. Freest opportunity for au tonomous development of the peoples of Austria-Hungary. 11. Evacuation of Roumanla. Serbia and Montenegro, with ac cess to the sen for Serbia and international guarantees of eco nomic and political independence and territorial Integrity of tho' - Balkan states. 12. Secure sovereignty for Tur key's part of the Ottoman Em pire, but with other nationalities nnder Turkish rule assured se curity of life and opportunity for autonomous development, with the Dardanelles permanently opened to all nations. ' 13. Establishment of 'an Inde pendent Polish state, including territories Inhabited by Indisputa bly Polish populations, with free access to the sen nnd polltlcnt and economic integrity guaran teed by international covenant. 14. General association of na tions under specific eovennnto for mutual guarantees of politi cal independence and territorial Integrity to large and small states alike. FURLOUGHS ARE AVAILABLE Railroads May Obtain Services of Skilled Operators. Shortage of skilled men in certain departments of railroad operation has led to arrangements with the War De partment for indefinite furloughs for skilled railroad men at present in military service. Officials of the Rail road Administration have been in structed to make applications for need ed skilled employes. Those furlough ed in this way must continue at the as signed duties or return to military service. Before applications for furloughs are forwarded railroad officials are re quested to consider carefully the pos sibility of training substitutes, and no application should be made for a fur lough unless the man wanted Is abso lutely essential. EARLY END OF WAR HOT IH PROSPECT Peace Strategy of Foe Will Be Foiled. LATEST MOVE NO SURPRISE Germany Desperately Anxious to Halt Allied Advance. INVASION MENACE GROWS Armistice Developments Recall Fact Negotiations Impossible as Long as Enemy Holds Con quered Territory. WASHINGTON, Oct. S Tho state ment was authorized officially late to night that the American Government had received no new peace proposal from Austria, and had no official in formation whatever concerning new developments reported to be impending in the Teutonic campaign for peace by negotiation. An Austrian appeal for an armistice for discussion of peace on President Wilson's, own terms is regarded here as the logical sequel of the President's recent summary rejection of the pro posal that hostilities be suspended for secret and non-binding peace discus sions. ' Territory Must Be Yielded. What the American Government's answer to such an appeal would be is indicated by the statement authorized when the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister complained that bis accept ance of President Wilson's principles had not been noticed that peace could not be talked of upon any terms so long as Germany and Austria occupied a single foot of conquered territory. . New and more aggressive phases of the Teutonic, effort, for. peace, by nego tiations before allied and American sol diers invade German soil evidently are about to be launched, and the only question is the exact form they will take. . V. S. Not to Be Surprised. Officials here will be surprised neither by the Austrian armistice plea, which Berne press dispatches through Paris tonight say is earning, nor by a similar move by Germany herself, which the new Chancellor, Prince Max imilian of Baden, is said to have pro posed or to be about to propose in the Reichstag. There is no disposition to believe, however, that an early end of the war is in sight, in spite of the fact that the Germans are known to be desperately anxious to halt by diplomacy the steady advance of their enemies toward the German border. Proposals will continue to come, though, and there is no doubt here that sooner or later, as the great task of driving the Germans out of Belgium and France progresses, the Teuton al liance will crumble and seek such terms as were given Bulgaria. In the meantime every offer and sug gestion is regarded as nothing more than a continuation of the long-waged peace offensive, for the recent reorgan ization of the German Cabinet Is not re garded as indicating any real change of heart in Berlin or as making the actual masters of Germany any more worthy of trust. Negotiated Peaee Hoped for. Prince Maximilian's predecessors, leading through various shades of arro gance and concessions down to Von Hertling, could not humble themselves Concluried on Page 6. Column 3.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TZSTERDjirs Maximum temperature, 66 decrees: minimum, o decrees. TODAY'S Showers; Southwesterly winds. War. Runs flee before British. Section 1. Pace 1. Americana score. 2 to 3-mlla s&ln. Section 1. Pare 1. American flyers victors In air fights. Sec tion 1, Pace 3. Official casualty list. Section 1. Pass 16. Tanks drive for Boche center of communi cations. Section 1, pa 3. Americana win ferocious battle. Section 1 pace 13. Foreign. Enemy reported asreed on peace. Section 1. Pace 1. Austrian Premier resigns. Section 1. Pace 2. More than l.sno.ooo Americans land over seas. Sectici 1, pace 2. King Boris orders Bulgarian Army de mobilized. Section 1. pace 4. Fn''i"' autocracy detected in political bunko same. Section 1, pace . National. "West's candidacy for Senate expected to be active. Section- 1, Page 6. Reconstruction problems promise to precipi tate clash at capital. Section 1, Pace 12. Enemy's peace move not likely to end war soon. Section 1, page 1. Iomestlc. U. S. scout patrol cruiser sunk. Section 1. Pace 2. Roosevelt attacks Non - Partisan league. Section 1, Pace 4. Hearst starts fisht for life of publication In Nevada. Section 1, Pace 5. Influenzal ravages greatest since epidemic broke out. Section 1, Pace S. Munitions disaster damage estimated at S30.000.000. Section 1, Pace 7. Pacific Northwest. University sororities announce admission of 78 new members, section 1. pace 6. Sport. Squadron loses to Sprucers. 37 to 0. Section 1. pace 1. Boxing game looks panicky here unless Com mission steps in. says J. J. Kichardson. Section 2. pace 1. Swimming tour of country next 8prlnc planned by M. A. A. c. Section f. pace 2. First rounds In John O. Clemson trophy and second In Portland Club championship take place today. Section 2. page 2. Football popular sport In various Army camps. Section 2. page 2. Fifty huskies out for Oregon bertha Section 2, pace 3. Birds' speed given. Section 2. pace S. Play In Inter-srholastlc game Indicates cood contests during season. Section 1, pace s. Commercial sad Marine. Food Administration takes steps to conserve mill feed supply. Section 2, pace 14. War stocks slump In -Wall Street market. Section 2. pace 14. Corn lower at Chlcaco on war developments. Section 2, page 14. Prompt action on plans for mercer of two food commissions promised. Section 2 page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Temporary homes may be built. Section t, pace 7. 8lx Jewelers Indicted on rharce of recelvlnc stolen diamonds. Section 1, page 10. Defense Council appeals to mltlzena- loyalty for Sunday cloning. Section 1, page 11. Women's work In war portrayed In Liberty Temple demonstration. Section 1. page 17. Houxe the workers ta National command. Section i, pace 13. . Boya' army formed. Section 1. pare 12. Plant of Western Lumber Company totally destroyed by fire. Section 1. pace 14. Portland's first shipment of clothing for Bel dans to co this week, section 1. pace 14. Farmers short of labor and feed. Section 1 page 17. T. M. C. A. doing big work. Section 1 pace 17. Captain Walter Gleason. back In America from front, tells experiences. Section 3. pace 0. ' Candidates active as election near. See. tlon 1. pace 13. Orecon'e oversubscription to fourth liberty loan still climbs. Section 1. pace 16. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 1. page 4. UNPAID TAXES DELINQUENT Rash of Property Owners Kept Of fice Open to Late Honr. Although there were not so many people in the tax department at the Courthouse yesterday to pay the final Installment of their annual taxes, the rush was sufficient to keep the office open until a late hour. All who failed to pay their taxes by midnight must now pay a penalty of 1 per cent a month or for each fraction of a month, and after November 4 an additional 5 per cent penalty will be imposed. Height Record Is Set, NEW TORK. Oct. 6. Captain R. W. Schroeder's world record-breaking alti tude flight at Wilbur Wright Field, near Dayton. O., September 18, was cer tified at 28.900 feet in a statement by the Aero Club of America here today. Scientific tests of the aviator's records resulted in their complete verification, it was reported. GT106.0 BOCHE FLEES FROM ADVA G G BRUSH Retreat is Started in on Wide Front. LILLE ONLY 4 MILES AWAY Belgians Report Capture of 10,500 German Prisoners. FOE SETS "CITIES ABLAZE Great Fires Burning in Dooai and Cambral, While Germans Also Apply Torch to Other Towns In Path of Great Retreat. WITH TH3 3RITISH ARMY, IS FRANCE. Oct. S, 6 P. M. (By the As sociated Press.) Wide gains of great importance have been made today by the fighting British armies. In the north the line of Haute Deule Canal has been reached and the Germans are hurriedly evacuating Lille. Tho British are on the canal bank from Don in the north to Pont-Averdln In the south. Along the Scheldt Canal the British launched an attack this morning which carried them over the waterway from Bantouzelle to a point three miles to the south. A terrific British barrage is now falling over the ground three miles to the east of this point upon the Walllncourt line, which is the last of the Ilindenburg system, in this lo cality, and from it the Germans are now fleeing. British Are Victorious. Immediately to the south the Ilin denburg system has been already pierced and there has been desperate righting here all day long, in which the Brltfsh have been signally victori ous. The Germans delivered counter at tacks, but these were smashed, and then the British reattacked with great vigor, and as a consequence 'have re gained possession of the important vil lages of Beaurevolr and Montbrehain and the railway running between the two. Pouchaux, nearly a mile to the east, also has been taken. The fighting there also was very heavy, and everywhere the British advanced only after killing many of the Germans. The enemy threw in every available man ser vants, cooks, hostlers and motor driv ers but in vain. Huns Are Disorganised. In this section the Germans are greatly disorganized. In the 30 miles of front there are 29 divisions, or what is left of them. There are no signs this evening that the British are being held up anywhere; but the weather is cold and hazy and the air contact patrols have had difficulty In definitely locat ing from the air the rapidly advancing troops. It was reported by the planes, however, that the British have been ob served cleaning up some distance in ad vance of the points named. More fires have sprung up and virtu ally the whole German rear area east and southeast of Douai and Cambral, as well as in the north, is aflame. Lille Not Vet Set Afire. So far Lille has as yet shown no signs of fire and this probably indicates that the Germans at the moment think they can hold on there for a while. Brit ish patrols have reached points within four miles of Lille. The whole of Doual Is a seething mass of fire, from which the Autumn wind is blowing great billows of smoke and streams of sparks. Cambral is burning ana so are various towns (Concluded on Pace 3. Column 2.) Progress of the War. AMERICAN and French troops are crushing In the southern wall of the German defenses with heavy blows along the front from west of Rkelms to the Mouse. 1 In the north, under the menace of the British pressure from Flanders to north or St Quentln the enemy has set fire to Douai and other towns and villages in that area, evidently in prep aration for a retirement of the French frontier. Heavy explosions also have been heard. With the French covering the west ern outlet of the Grand Pre Gap through the Argonne forest, the Amer icans in an advance of three miles be tween the Meuse and the Aire are rap idly closing up the eastern entrance to the pass. General Pershing's men In smashing blows Saturday realised a considerable advance all along the front and took additional villages and heights from the Germans. Tho American troops In the sector be tween Rheims and the Meuse are en gaged in extremely heavy fighting. Joined up with Gouraud's army, they are driving the Germans before them at a quickening pace. French troops are reported to have reached Bethenvllle which is several miles beyond the for mer line. The Americans are advancing toward Sedan and the great communication line upon which German security on the present front depends. This im portant railway is only 18 miles from the American front- On both sides of the Suippe the American and French '.roops under General Gouraud rapidly are driving the Germans from the heights dominat ing the Champagne region east of Rheims. The Germans are retiring to the River Ames, but the Americans al ready have reached that stream at .St. Etlenne. Northwest of Rheims the French have forced several crossings of the Aisne Canal, while North of the city they have taken Fort BrimonL From SL Quentln north to the Lys on the front before the important bases of Cambral. Douai and Lille, the British are exerting strong pressure. The Ger mans are endeavoring to hold on to their positions until the work of dev astation in their rear is completed. North of SL Quentln the British have driven further eastward the apex of the salient at Beaurevolr, and on Saturday captured 1000 prisoners. In Belgium the forces under King Al bert maintained their pressure. Since September 18 the Belgian. French and British have advanced nine miles on a 2S-mlle fronL and have taken 10.S00 prisoners and 350 rum MISS KELLER SELLS BOND Secretary McAdoo Responds to Blind Solicitor. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. Helen Keller today telegraphed Secretary McAdoo from Hollywood. CaL. saying. "I would like to sell $1000.000 worth of bonds from my world of darkness and silence. Will you buy Just one bond through me 7" The Secretary, though selling bonds himself, ordered one through Miss Keller. HUNS FORESEE INVASION Inhabitants of 40 Villages in Alsace Lorraine Ordered Away. GENEVA. Switzerland, rv-t K -.--.- villages in Alsace-Lorraine, from Basil to Loimar, have been evacuated by the civilian population, according to the Democrate. The German authorities, the news paper says, now have ordered the in habitants of Mulhausen. AJtklrch and other smaller towns to prepare to leave Immediately. MORE SHOWERS ARE COMING Weather Report Predicts Seasonal Temperature for Week. WASHINGTON, OcL 5. Weather pre dictions for. the week beginning Mon day Issued by the Weather Bureau to day are: Pacific States Showers Monday or Tuesday and probably Friday. Seasonal temperature. FRAriGO-YAIIKS PUT EIO MI General Retreat Forced on Wide Front. MENACE TO RHEIMS ENDED Great Drive in Champagne and Argonne Hurls Enemy Back . Toward Main Line. RESISTANCE IS STUBBORN Americans Sweep Into Town of Gesnes After Long and Furious Struggle. PARIS, Oct. 5. Fort Brimont has been captured by the French troops, the War Office announced tonight. The massif of Moronvillers I been teken and the massif of Nogent L'AV. besse encircled. The statement adds: "We hold the course of the Arnes River; we have crossed the Suippe River at Orainville and the Arnes at several points. "In victorious attacks our troops, in collaboration with the Americans on the Vesle front and in Champagne, compelled the enemy to make a gen eral retreat toward the Suippe and the Ames. He abandoned strongly fortified positions held since 1914." WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN. Oct. 5. 11 P. M. (By the Associated Press.) The Americans again met with desperate resistance all day long and had to resist a series of counter-attacks. The machine gun and artillery fire was particularly violent most of the day. PARIS, Oct. 5. The German re treat before General Gouraud's army which is supported by the Americans on the right, is quickening perceptibly. French troops this afternoon reached Bethenville, lying about three miles north of Moronvillers. LONDON, Oct. 5, 4:30 P. M. In their offensive between the Meuse and the Aire the Americans have scored an advance of from two to three miles, moving over the most difficult coun try encountered in the Argonne fight ing. Among the towns reported cap tured is Cunel, a mile and a half northeast of Romagne. Delay May Be Needed. This advance carried the Americans very close to the German main line. It is expected the Americans may have to spend several days in prepa rations before being able successfully to attack these strong positions. PARIS, Oct. 6, 1 P. M. American troops attacked again this morning between the Meuse and the Argonne along an extended front. The advance at some points has reached more than Concluded on Pace 2. Column 1.) n