St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 1, 1918

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7 3 a ' on | | . —— ' . P rr and rear worked LTT two-Nour; and commodities purchased and seit? done. Secret Alleved.. oar a! 4 Sinwiec inte } shifts. Nearby rooms were provid-:on the ixchange |, ' : The Hague says the demand is for) ‘somebody possessing the confidence | of the Germans and their allies to} replace the present military oli-| garchy, but opinions clash regarding} who this vague personality might! stock ,ed with between shifts,! an isec the credit and property of ‘those assisting in the drawing rest brown & Co. to do so.” ed. Officer 2 nd enlisted rnei or Jourdan, represe cage Img } the army ager as tellers. the brokerage firm, told a Post-Dis- As soon a8 a tallv sheet was 1 |' patch reporter that Schmidt’s oper- it wa taken to the’ ations (ng -] in. a loss to the firn, Government Priiting Office, to be of $250,600 to $309,000. | be. iset in type and the ts | tirm’s office a clerk, in the ceekadipany These lists will be sen i¢ Lusence of Lirown and Schmidt, Said | A}l reports indicate 2 dec ‘ided | district draft boards, who will j VS i tood’there that Schmidt | | ce! eavage between the Junker and them ] interest in the firm to} conservative classes and the class) sala deal represented by the Socialists and} USING AIRPLANE AMBULANCE oo at lis home said he had, Radicals, who on this occasion have no statement to rtaake. This was;the support of some Centrisis and An uirplane fitted with @ etretch-}~ oF SHO Riegel Ons jn Te TecEerer leven National Liberals. er. to be used in transporting any Ship petition had been repeated to Limperor William’s aviators who may be injured in mea, , iety tor the people to co-operate in| at uw distance frem Scott Field, ms Preferred Payments Alleged. the Government evidently will be} had «2 successful testing trip. the creditors and the amounts o | distasteful to the junkers, one of! went from Ss forth in th¢t;whose foremost newspapers, he | petition are Dulany Ma- | Kreuz Zeitung, declares that a dics) $1308.97; -G. Lb. Hodgman, |! tatorship is the only possible alterng- | where, ° 5 with numbers Junker Demands Dictator. inaster belated anx-| their claims ‘ bankruptcy Ti hospital! as sel h, picked uv placed in a stretcher, ° - %¢ } . . Soott Field to Masceou Lieut.- Ford, who was , ; - Rick M5 plane . + street, and th an AMSTERDAM, Oct. 1.—The Ger-! |inan press is emphasizing that the'| | need for cool heads never was! | greater. The possibility never be-' fore entertained is beginning to dawn on the people, that Germany ‘may lose the war, and the sudden- ‘ness of this realization has had a be- ’ hovwaght Boiled down to ‘* brass tacks’ it means that out- of-town space-buyers know reclining position on risinie tes and Richmond Fecht, $7.55.| tive. On the other hand, the 4de- and returned to. Scott Field in 10, +2e¥ allege that = the brokerage | mand of the popular parties is for a ‘minutes. The nainted rirmy committed acts of bankruptcy | popularly elective Cabinet. i i, Pee other ety ditors since ANUE. Ss, al-| Chancellor von Hertling and Foreign | Community Sing Tonight. Siete wood mae adcroaitted its insolvency | Secretar y yon Hintze on the public | , 3 im Writing four months ago. |agitation is not yet reported and 4: Boyle Memorial Center, Lf The A" Oley ont? rete re 1O7 ) > a] a | sp hg gnc * ' = a iounts Sald to!terms of the Bulgarian surrender | auspices oO! al amp Vomn Nave been paid ‘o them are, K. D.| have affected the German people if Uliman, $362.43 Richard Flassell. they (7 ] W ijliam Recker, S500: J: S. Wolt?t. | ~~ @-— e i 9 he Se and oriner : iliot j | Ae erg riner Gov, Elliot W.| Vision of Defeat, Looming Suddenly, a ona | mayor, 4 Dares German Press. | Chese securities, the petition says, are pledged with ovat brokers and | ace u ers as security for indebtedness to vari- ous banks. VBhe So pledged, according to the petition, Again Concentrate in the Ph~ preg asstty amounting to about POST-DISPATCH | | aver: Schmidt, the p tition «awe ai , betes = garde et-tion says that as a wildering effect on them. ae S¢tween Brown a ‘chmid ) p! uc qe . 4 oul " i Races eo Saag sp mye schmict | hinting at the possibility that the | Le Newspaper i A Ciass ' OE SS SMe Oe Be oe oo ‘) | war nay be lost if everybody and | everything are not united in the ut-| 14 cols. ALIEN WITH THREE BROTHERS in | ape. Govecnmate has itself con- | eee tributed to veiling the real gravity a Spe vats gp M in the POST-DISPATCH AUSTRIAN AR Y BUYS A BOND | of our position during these four alone, and only years of war. It has preferred to Pellow Workers Abont Not Sub. (| %Pyss of danger to our nationa! scribing, but Changed ' life.” " ‘ ; * 4) ar 9 ‘ get find. 4 in 3 out of all 4 of the othe Joseph Sager, 25 years old, of 542¢| The Rhenisch Westphalian Ga- Louis newspapers added a Austrian enemy alien, whose brother | tion as ‘the last and highest weve,” and three brothere-In- law esi sol- j}and suspects that the Bulgarians, , Liberty La HY Urvanization in the Germany. big punch. Railway xchange Building sand Bavarian Secks Peace. . The Frankfurt Zeitung expresses lic said ta reporters that ] + | 1e into any argument : Bot impress on friend and foe with | : with fellow em-!, ‘ ployes at the Missouri Can Ce. Sat ‘truth” that Germany did net go . “| into the war out of lust for power. 5 OR om OUIS jbond, At that time he sai th a t the ST. L sae not want to buy guns to a, remy ans are justified in feeling war-tired POST-DISPATCH is the [I/nis prother. Later, he maid he de- and thinks the Bulgarian people wil! one best buy in ats terri. better to. py | with Premier Malinoff. brilliant red amd bears white crosses, | 0) Making payments to various The effect of the resignations of | creditors. all ged to have been| nothing is known as to how the! \ | $14,769; G. V. Hall iday & Co., $2246; | the terms. Assets Said to Be Diminished. By the Associated Press. stocks and property After alleging secret speculation br Yesterday, Monday, Na rhidy ish) > i ana in ‘ eats _terrible war has sedulously avoided by riself when thev Ce ppoine © ~* wel..r for the firm.’ . most effort. Man Says He Had Pani ee With | lead the nation in blinkers past the 13 cols. |North Euclid avenue, a registered | 2¢tt® refers to the Bulgarian situa- in the eae abewia a peared at the hesaquartete of the UEDA, DEVS Be further use for wought a $50 Liberty Bond. i regret that the Government failed to by extensive experience urday, when he refused to b : ; i Uy 8/The paper admits that the Bulgari- cided it would be tory. bond. | “First in E verything” Don't forget! Add Faust Cl ih der if you want. 20d Free recipe book at al rece gs |} out «of the war ti iin the near i'that Andrew Turk’ Waleéestine arfny at Gen. Al- | (lenby’s hands, nda Mika caomasiel drowned by ‘London over the day’s developments, i but no excitement and no demon- | Emperor | festo to the people tomorrow and it (a purely military arrangement which ne , ‘lems are dealt with and the ques- have been permitted to knowj,, | rangements are left to the peace con- | f@rence. i have been made that he be deposed. HAVE PUT QUI PEAGE FEELERS Cryptic Riise by Bonar Law Causes Impression That Further Results in East May. Come:Soon. “WAR NOT YET ENDED,” PEOPLE ARE WARNED Germans Still Have a Great - Undefeated Army, News-| papers Point Out—Outline| of Armistice Terms. wy the ASSOC hresa. LONDON, Oct. 1.-—‘Feelers”’ have | been put out by Turkey for an ar- mistice, the Evening News today says it understands. While these advances are saii to i be scermi-official, no notice will be ‘taken of them, th@svarticle states, un- til an official telegram is received. LONDON, Oct. 1.—With Bulgaria | irough the armis Monday, involving her surrender, tice signed complete military interest Eastern situation is be- | ing focused on Turkey. It is noted, Eonar Law, the Chan-| in his | made 2 eellor = the Mxchequer, | Guildhall speech vesterday remark PEPE, to the defeat of the | . - eo f thing more is going to follow.’ Later in his speech he said alsy eryp- tically, touching on the control of Bulgaria which the cantrol of her railways. will give: ‘In that there was something in connection with ; i Turkey which I cannot s@y, ' which we can all think.” Bonar Law's words were aln cheering, but the n created was that Turkey! Bulgaria’s lead. déep satisfaction in| pression would follow There was strations. The’ keynote of the news- | paper comment is a warning to the | ; — ‘lying in the road outside headquarF-| people not to think that the war is ended. The German army, it is} pointed out, is yet a great army and | as yet undefeated. According to : Vienna messages, (Charles is to issue a mani- is felt that this must be an utterance of historic importance lerdinand’s Status Discussed. The convention with Bulgaria was | was enetered into on behalf of the Allies by the French and other mili- tary comanders. No politicial prob- | ns of boundaries and other ar- There has been much discussion in the English press of the status of | King Ferdinand, and suggestions | That matter also was outside the scope of the convention. The Gov- ernment of the Allies take the view that the question of who should be Bulgaria’s ruler or titular ruler is a questiqn for the Bulgarian people to decide if such a question arises in | Bulgaria. Thus, it is. pointed out, | the Allies have given a practical ap-. plication to the self-determination | principle at the first opportunity of- | fered. A Complete Military Sarrender. The armistice arranged yesterday | | remains in force until the final and general peace settlement. It con- stitutes a complete military | der by Bulgaria. She not only ceases to be an enemy but ceases to be a belligerent. Nop information is yet at hand bees regarding the part King Ferdinand played in the latest events—whether he yielded against his will to the sentiment of the country o% whether he saw the coming storm and took the leadership in the new policy. The fact that he pardoned the statesmen wha had opposerd the en- trance of Bulgaria into the war is interesting, but whether he did this of his own free will or under virtual cempulsion from the new Premier remains to be seen. Events wei marching rapidly and interest now’ is foc on Turkey. Oatline of l ter attack. imade a stend on a well chosen line. ‘hanced 'nests drove cur men to take shelter St ‘in captured dugouts and ‘ing the line §0 us costly. |advance. liters. At the the fender of a moving truck. ‘whom the fortunes of war placed in | ‘command of a company during the | battle, chine _ tached to headquarters was informed | 1’8th | that his son, a Lieutenant, was aoe 2509 Kensington avenue, Maplewood. | the St. Quentin canal The A | was driven back in the heavy the Mi: t- | First Sergeant would succeed to the | iug last evening and last night. >. the | Germans are holding the east bank ‘leading his company. 'sympathetic eyes upon him, IGHT Press News Service -—20 PAGES. MISSOURIANS AND KANSANS IN HINDENBURG DEFENSES DITION ee a —— “PRICE TW O CENTS I se Gains — _— FRENCH GAIN AFTER TEMPORARY HALT IN REGION OF Our Guns Are Dug Out of Mud in Argonne a? 7} er ootiewel A - - - — forward over the suilenly retiring front dressing station, and Father ewer oain tees “lie “2 * pee Fy « V4 . 4 a ‘ Prussian Guards and Grenadiers and Kennedy, at the clearing station, slept last night—among the German pounded our advance greatly en- Their artillery ing line, and finally a days number of machine-gun - ene ee sot Louis and eume City Men in G-Ghenk BOs) sy ront Line Since Batile Began. heavily gasee. (8 sy of the Kansas City. Star.) ANS AS CITY, Mo., Sept. 30-—-The Temporarily, it was too much for: Star prints the following from its the exhausted Missourians and khan-' staff correspondent Sans. They chose a line of resist- “With the American ance, fell back to it, and dug fox, 30.—The Boche counter holes and rifle positions, consvlidat-i this morning with artillery, to gain an inmiper-; machine guns. atively needed breathing spell. troops boue the brunt of the attack | Our guns, after being dug vut of | and held the line. The artillery units the Argonne: mud. are going for- | are working day and night. ‘ward, and our long rangers are “Kansas City and St. pounding the -boche’s back areas. Our | tenes been in the frort line during iflyers hold complete domination of/the entire operation. The men are | the air. | fighting in the rain and mud. The Missouri-Kansas dougtiboy’s! “The Kansas City ambulance and fighting spirit remains - keen ad) hospital companies have been doing |high. His head is. bloody but un-| great work under difficult cireum- bowed. The dash and daring of thé) stances.” 7 first day of the great battlo has! given way to cold and canny fighting, Maj. Burgher-and Father Kennedy which is more effective and less | Are St. Louisans. Maj. Burgher and Father Ken- Artillery Blows Up Nests. ‘nody, mentioned ir Clair Kenamore’s Vhereas on the first day the op-| story of the participation of Missouri posing machine gun nests were de- and Kansas troops in the fighting stroyed by infantry charges, on Sun-| along the River day our light artillery took over the! ans, and with the 138th (St. Louts) task and lasted them out. The tanks are still plugging forward, andj| i l*rance. the back line is ready for the next; Maj. Burgher, so far as known | ‘here, is stil) the chief medicai officer St. Louis regiment. For many all of which were Guns Again Go Forward.- Army, bept. fas and elt ee The burial parties have not yet’ of the s , caught up with the Missouri-Kansas | Years he had been chief medical of- old Iirst Missouri lufan- with the irito the 'ficer of the try, which was merged the | Fifth Missouri Infantry wounded are in good spirits. Most | » 138th insantry. : sleep, but others talk, smoke and |; The Rev. Father T. D. Kennedy smoke, and shoot craps. Just back } Cormnarey was chaplain of the 188th of the line tired soldiers are sleep- 'Infantry, and after arrival in France ing along the roadside, in fox holes| ¥%% Made burial officer of the Thir- ‘and shell holes, and on ammunition! ey vou aidegenin deat >: is composed : Ws (9 ssouri an <ansas national i'dumps. I saw one man asleep on'! usd peminibiete tindicniiemieh aa headquarters, so dead Germans are, dressing stations Major’s Son Killed. A Sergeant trém Maplewooa,| “CU’s) Artiliesy. Th e fell asleep with a boche ma-_, ‘teat 2 2. gun for a pillow. A Major at-'| tle, probably was First Sergeant Ed ward 0. Johnson of G Company, | Infantry. whose home is at | With many/tn civil life he is a bookkeeper. jor did not wince. ‘command of his company in wounded—for. the first time in three. attacked | Missouri and Karsas | Louis men | THE VESLE Advance Between Aisne and Vesle; Champagne Attacks Continue With Success; 13,000 Prisoners Between Suippe and Argonne Since Sept. 26; 300 Guns Taken: ‘WEDGE PUSHED IN NEAR ST. QUENTIN which becam| ing cases, with hits in the legs or! British Capture Preville and Tilloy in Cambrai Area and Take Levergies in the Re- gion of St. Quentin, Also Vendhuile. . | Ry the Aseoclated Press. | LONDON, Oct. 1.—Under the threat of its speedy capture by the Britisa,, the city of Cambrai has been set on |fire by the Germans, Field Marshai ‘Haig reported in his. official state ment today. : British troops last night continuéa their closing in movement on the city. They captured Preville, to the west of the city, and Tillor, close o -on the northwest. Further south, on the front be : ‘tween Cambrai and St. Quentin, the ‘town of. Vendhuile has been takéii | possession of by the British. ne | North of St. Quentin the British wedge has been thrust still further Aire, are St. Louts- | Infantry when that regiment arrived | into German-held territory and the town of Levergies has been captured, | The battle was resumed this morn ing in the Cambral-St. Quentin see- tor. The text of the statement reads: | “Our attack north of St. Quentia /continued yesterday afternoon. We. ‘captured Levergies after sharp fight- ‘ing in the neighborhood of the vil- lage. “Farther north we progressed te- ward Jancourt and gained posses- sion of Vendhuile, English and Canadian troops are closing in upon Cambrai, and yesterday Proville and Tilloy in the face of . strong resistance, “Cambrai has been set on fire the 138th Infantry and the 128th (St. | the enemy. : “This morning fighting. vanine ‘again nerth of St. Quentin and in the © Maplewood Sergeant, whom | the fortunes of war placed in com-' |mand of a company during the bat- : Cambrai sector.” ll By the Assoctat« WITH THE BRITISH ARMY | FRANCE, Oct. 1.—Not one Ge now remains on the western side Road mending and building is go-' event the six commissioned officers in great strength. ing on night and day. The engineers,| were incapacitated or on detached | just behind the infantry, are oe Se ts —. _ con ' _ duty. ee —t eo —_ SHOWERS AND WARMER TONIGHT + | “WE'LL WIN WITH GOD IF PEOPLE TOMORROW PARTLY GLoUY GATHER ABOUT ME,” KAISER SAYS P a “All Must Give Blood and Wealth for n _ 4e"6@ THE TEMPERATUI nes ae * * Dy the Associated Preas. LONDON, Oct. 1.—-Bmperor Wil- liam, in a message to the Fathertan) (party, is quoted in an Amsterdam ¥: Pp. |: Gapateh to the Exchange Telegraph | at 8 Co. as saying: . mi. “T have the confident hope that. Official fore- ithe whole German people in these cast for Si. Louls | post serious times will resolutely | and vicinity: | gather around me and give their, Showrrs warmer tonight; /preath for the defense of the father- tomorrow partly jiand against the shameful enemy | cloudy and plans. warmer. “Such a unanimous resolve to ex-. Miseourt—ijst will and must, with God's help. Showers and warmer tonigh*; Pa PRE ef ae peak ee ay t Abt yrahs and/piood and wealth until the Iast! ‘and Vesle Rivers, according to to. | day’s War Office report. ee French attacks in,the Champagne satus % 1 B a a . Re, wea ot - 22 pe 5 choy een! * hy seawall lient a a tur