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Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
American Battalion
 "LOst'' For FiiveDaVs
Few of Its Members Were Killed or Wounded-Avia- tors Provided Them Sup plies.

With the American Forces North west of Verdun, Oct. 8, 11.15 a. m. CBy the A. P0.-The American lost bat talion in the Argonne forest was res cued at $40 o'clock yesterday. Though 1t had encountered terrific opposition, 1t was found to be virtually intact. few of it's members being killed or wound- cd
 The Host battalion" pushed ahead with the other troops when the first American attack to the west of Yer dun began. They were surrounded in all probability because they were not used to forest warfare. Advancing in too widely separated columns, the en- emy was able to infiltrate behind them without being seen.
 As soon as the members of the bat tahon missed the troops to the right and left of them they tried to find them ! but their efforts were checked for the time being by the rain and terrain conditions.
 l Then began a series of ingenious means to give the men relief so that | they could hold out against the assail- ants ringed about them until theil comrades could forcibly come to theil relief.
 l Many times in the course of the da!
 airplanes flew over the section of the
 forest where the Americans were be- | lieved to be and messages were dropped for them As it was though
 their supplies on hand probably haC become exhausted, cunningiy devised
 parachutes, used to bring up ammuni I tion, then were released above tht
 forest which concealed the where
 abouts of the troops from the eyes 0
 their anxious searehers.
 It was five days ago that the bat
 talion was trapped near the edge O
 the Argonne forest about two mile'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
BRITISH ARMY OFFICER
 CHARGED WITH THEFT

New. York, Oct S.--Federal agents today began a search for lieutenant Colonel Charles Glenn Collins of the British army, sportsman soldier of fortune and globe trotter who disap- peared from a hospital just before deputy marshals reached the institu- ton armed with summons for his appearance in court to explain the alleged theft of pearl valued at SS500 from business concern for which he worked in India
 Collins. who is said to have had a brilliant military record in three wars is widely known as the former. bus band of Natalie Schenck of Newport and New York, who left him while on honeymoon trip around the world and who obtained a divorce in 1907 three years after their marriage Collins again came before the public eye in the United States when, in 1914, he eloped with Miss Annie Rumey Wheeler, daughter of Samuel P Wheeler of Chicago and Fairfield Conn.,, wealthy sewing machine manu- facturer, after series of attempts covering a year which were frustrated by detectives in the employ of the young woman's father.
 A veteran of the Sudan and Boel wars, Collins, held captains commis sion at the outbreak of the present conflict and was soon at the front where he won promotion to his pres ent rank. He was gassed and invalid ed to Canada, serving for time as camp instructor.
 He then went to India and returned to this country last spring. He wa: arrested at the request of Bomba! officials, but was released in bail ant recently, owing to illness, went to tht hospital, from which he disappeared
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
40 PER CENT. OF NEW
 ENGLAND'S QUOTA SUBSCRIBED

Boston, Oct S.-Forty per cent of New England's quota of half billion dollars in the fourth Liberty loan had been subscribed tonight by 269,1l1 persons Yesterdays subscriptions as tabulated today were $17 ,461 ,000, made by 3S,503 persons, and brought the total for the campaign up to S199 065,- 900. Three hundred and twelve of the S34 banks in the district failed to send in returns, and the committee hoped that with a fuller report tomorrow the total would be nearer the daily aver age required to assure the quota being paign on Oct. 19.
 l SIPS. $40, 900; Connecticut, $33, ,000;
 Rhode Island, $14,7S1,000; Maine s9,- 1 52S, 900; New Hampshire, $6, 401 000; 1 Vermont, $6,047. 900:
 l Boston's gross total was S64, 900, | but from this more than $21,000,000 had been deducted because of requests of l subscribers that their purchases be 1 credited to other communities. The
 net subscriptions amount to a little more than one-third of the city S :! quota
 l In Connecticut Hartford had turned
 in to the federal reserve bank the entire amount of it's quota of $16, 400 000: New Haven had but 5 per cent
 of it's S12,000,000: Norwich, 4S per cent
 of it's quota; Waterbury, 34 per cent.
 and New London, 49 per cent.
 Cities and towns reporting oversub-
 scription totalled PAP, of which 97 were in Vermont, 76 in Maine, B in New Hampshire, 16 in Massa chusetts 15 in
 Connecticut and one in Rhode Island.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
KAISER HAD MISPLACED
 CONFIDENCE IN HIS ALLIES

Berne, Oct. S.-The German em- peror, addressing the German soldiers at Rufach, Alsace, late in September, said:
 Neither the French nor the Ameri- cans will break through our front in Alsace Lorraine. We shall defend with the last drop of our blood these prov inces which belong to us and which the Almighty has entrusted to us to administer as His stewards, and we shall keep them for the benefit of their inhabitants and. the glory of God.
 Our faithful allies are with US in this. The last drop of blood of every Austrian and Hungarian soldier, the last drop of blood of every Bulgarian and Turkish soldier will be shed be- fore our enemies wrest from us land which belongs to Germany.
 'Our enemies cannot and will not succeed. We are under Divine pro- l tection.''
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
INCREASED CAR FARES
 FOLLOW HIGHER WAGES

Washington, Oct. S.-Plain indication was given today by the national war labor board that in cases wrehe or ganized labor opposes advanced street car fares recommended by the board in connection with increased wages awarded to employees of public utility companies, the entire award, including the wage advances, will be suspended.
 The board made public letter to John R. Alpine, acting president of the American Federation of Labor, calling his attention to the fact that labor organizations in New Orleans were planning to oppose increased fares recommended by the board when it granted an increase of 70 per cent in wages to conductors and motormen employed by the street railways there
 If this action is taken by labor organizations" said the boards letter
 it would seem in justice that we shall be compelled to suspend the entire award, including the increases ir wages, pending a re-hearing of this matter which We now have under ad- ViSement"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
SPREAD OF INFLUENZA IS
 FAR FROM BEING CHECKED

Washington, Oct. S.-While con
 lnued decrease in the number of new cases of Spanish influenza at army camps was shown in reports today to the offices of the surgeon genera! of the army. the spread of the malady among the civilian population over the country apparently still is far from being checked.
 Reports to the public health service showed that the sdisease was spread ing rapidly in the south and that it also was epidemic in portions ot the middle west and far west heretofore free from it South Dakota was added
 to the list of new states reporting the disease in epidemic form, while new outbreaks were reported from a mum
 Der of other states. During the "A hours ended today at noon 11.750 new eases of intlueEza have been reported hy all army
 camps. This was sharp decrea SC
 over the daily average last week. New
 cases of pneumonia aiao decreased, to- | talling only 2.1S1, and deaths wer1 Camp TayloP, Kentucky, reported
 the largest number Of influenza cases 1,044. Camp Funston, Kansas, repori | ed 92T cases and Camp Dodge, Iowa l 996. Pneumonia, showed he greatest increase at Camp Meade, Md, where
 255 were reported. There were zS1
 new cases at Camp Grant, Ills, and
 160 at Camp Sherman, Ohio.
 The epidemic continue sto subsidf
 at Camp Devens, Mass.,- only four new casts of pneumonia and A of in 1 fiuenza being reported. Conditions a1 | Camp Dix. N. J.. also showed improve.
 ment' with only eleven new cases O
 influenza and 29 of pneumonia report. | ed.
 | The total number of cases of in l fiuenza, reported from all army camp:
 since the disease became epidemi.
 last month now is placed at nor,
 than tS2,000. while pneumonia case Itotal 19283 and deaths 671
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
SENATOR LODGE REGRETS
 PRESIDENTS COURSE

Washington, Oct S.-While most congressional leaders tonight approved President Wilson's note of inquiry to Germany, and especially his refusal to accept any proposal for an armistice until the enemy evacuated occupied territory, Senator Ledge of Massachur setts, republican leader and senior minority member of the senate foreign relations committee, and Representa- tive Fess of Ohio. chairman of the republican congressional campaign committee, expressed keen disappoint- ment in the course taken by the presi- dent.
 4'I am keenly disappointed" said Senator Lodge that the president should at this stage enter into a dis cussion with the imperial German government as he has done in the note signed by Mir. Lansing. In his first and second paragraphs he asks for further information and invites fur ther discussion. It IS true that in the last paragraph he enquiries whether Prince MaximiIan of Baden represents merely the constituted authorities of | the German empire Prince MaXimilian | is the chancellor of the German em- pire, appointed by the kaiser. l do i not understand what he can possibly i represent except the constituted au- thorities, which represent the German empire and the German people, unless a revolution has occurred of which | the world has as yet no knowledge.
 To us he stands as the representative
 of Germany and of the kaiser.
 T feel very strongly that there i should be no discussion wdh the Ger Iman government until they are ready and compelled to accept the terms we l think 1t right to impose.
 T cannot but feel a painful anxiety as to what effect this note will have
 upon the allies. upon our armies, upon cur soldiers who are fighting and dy ing and conquering in order to crush the thing with which the president is opening a discussion.''
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
OPEN WARFARE BATTLE ON
 CAMRRAI-ST. QUENTIN FRONT

British Headquarters in France, Oct. (Reuters) 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 tern-the devel- oping of various carefully worked out manoeuvers into one general scheme which is to combine in securing pre- arranged objectives and the rounding up of as many Germans as possible.
 It had been necessary to assemble the assaulting waves to the east of the Hindenburg line and to get the masses of men in through the intricate and battered trench system in the dark. It was a task of extraordinary difficulty, but it was accomplished well before the zero hour.
 Comparatively few tanks were em- ployed In fact this was a night surr prise and it must have minimized alike their opportunities and the necessity for their assistance.
 The Anglo-American attack was launched at 23O o'clock in the morn ing. In the darkest hour of a quiet moonless night twenty 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.
 Another phase of the battle com menced at 4.3o o'clock and yet another phase when the first gray of dawn was Altering into the dull sky which presently fulfilled it's threat of rain.
 The first reports were quite prom ising A good deal of machine gur resistance was encountered at various sectors of the Beaurevoir- Masnieres line. Here the allies are getting for. ward but slowly.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
LibertylOa1 Drive
 Continues to Lag
With Nine of 1e Working Days Gone Only $1, ,6OO,- 000,000 Has Been Sub scrihed.

Washington. Oct. S.-Nine working days of the fourth Liberty loan cam paign now are gone, ten remain and only S1, 500 100000 of the six billion total has been raised
 Treasury compilations tonight showed that pledges of 1,5s1, ,556. 300 have been received by banks through out the country. This figure did not include today's report from the Dallas district, however. and the addition ;s expected to raise the amour: to at leost $1,600, ,00o, 900. The increased sales as shown by today's report over yesterday dnnounls to $26S, 100000, says the treasilrys review of the campaign and while this is an increase over former days 1t still is far from satisfactory. The campaign now has extended through nine of the nineteen days that it is to run and only slightly moro thar one-fourth of the total amount of the loan, six billion dollars, has been sub. | scribed. Obviously the very hardcsr ! kind of work will be required to ffoa- | the loan.
 Subscriptions by districts with per. lrentages of quotas include; New York subscription s9S7 .995.. | O0O; percentage 1S.7
 l DoStoH. SuoScrlptlon l99,ll5,9 9O9i | percentage 39S
 Philadelphia, subscription s9S 652, :, i50; percentage 17.7.
 The cities of Butte. Mont and St Paul completed their quotas today. | The increase of over sf00. 900. GOO il | Chicago's report today was an CT couraging feature to officials. Nine teen hundred and eight commuu:r hcnor flags already have been tward ed in that district.
 Totals in Philadelphia districts ar divided as follows:
 Philadelphia $59,753,O5O; Easter
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
ANOTHER WORLDS RECORD
 MADE IN SHIPBUJLDJNC

Washington, Oct. S.-American shipyards established another worlds record in September by delivering "A vessels of 3S2,635 dead weight tons, In making this announcement today the Shipping Board also disclosed that it received one vessel of 6,e95 tons on the contract awarded to Jap anese yards.
 September deliveries exceeded the previous high mark for American yards made in August, by 30,017 tons and compared with 2S156 deadweight tons which the board was advised to- day by Consul General Skinner. at London, British yards completed in that month.
 September deliveries included 45 steel ships of 25s,S7O tons and 29 wooden and composite ships of 1o2,- Ge5.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
FEWER NEW INFLUENZA
 CASES IN MASSACHUSETTS

Boston. Oct. S-Although the epi- demic is not considered under control generally in Massachusetts, good pro gress has been made in the commu- mites longest. afflicted. They reported today a diminution in the number of new cases and deaths. The state health departments report today showed 12S communities. including Boston, with .413 new cases in the past A hours and 303 deaths.
 The building of open air shacks for the treatment of patients was urged by Henry B. Endicott, chairman ol the state emergency health committee who added that the shortage of nurses had not yet been met
 Deaths from influenza and pneu monia in Boston today numbered 15O as against TO yesterday and 190 or Sunday.
 Since September fl, when the epi. demic broke out. 2,2S3 persons have died here of influenza and 596 of pneu- monia-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09

southeast Of Lancon. It appears from the accounts that after a system of trenches running east and west had been captured near the edge of the Argonne the Americans passed these trenches and gained ground to the north, During the night, however, German troops to the left of the Americans slipped to the rear of the latter and into the trenches captured earlier and passed over by the ad- vancing forces Meanwhile the Ger mans had closed in on the east and west, completing the circle.
 According to one report, there were from three to four hundred infantry men in the surrounded unit, all of them having advanced without their packs
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
LAST OF THE HINDEN6URG
 DEFENSE LINE SHATTERED

With the British Forces in France, Oct. B., 1.30 p. m.-CBy The A. p. The battle begun at dawn today has resulted in serious defeat for the enemy.
 The British, Americans and French have advanced everywhere smashing through the last lines of the linden burg system and driving the disor- ganized Germans before them
 In some places and especially at Fremont, which appears to have fallen to the Americans, the fighting allied troops have penetrated the Ger man lines for distance of more than three miles and still are advancing. At 1 o'clock the general battle line reached was Brancourt, Fremont, Se- rain, fViHers Outreaux, Esnes and Niergnies.S
 The French First Army on the south have entered ESsigny le Petit. The terrific British baggage struck terror in the hearts of the enemy and killed many. The machine gunners however held out to the last and hordes of them were annihilated 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 out set, it was apparently decided to car ry on. 1 Again the Americans showed great gallantry and fought their way for ward side by side with their British comrades with 3 push that promises well for future operations. l The last line of the Hindenburg de- | feIsive system has been shattered or 8 wide front and the German army i1
 this section has been put to flight. ex-
 cept for rear guards and machine I gunners. The battle continues, but the resistance is constantly diminish. 1 ing as the British and Americans con. tinue driving deep.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
tRr Ind Associated Press.l )

Entente allied forces everywhere are defeating the armies of the Teu- tonic allies. In France they are fast carrying forward manoeuvres which are resulting in the eneTny's line giv- Ing way from the region of Cambrai 70 Verdun. Likewise in Macedonian and Turkish theaters the cleaning up process continues unabated.
 Over front of twenty miles be- tween Cambrai and St. Quentin the i;riusn. American and French troops have started a mighty drive, which ir lts initial stage has thrown the enemy hack from highly prized tactical posi- tions to a dept hof from two 10 i've miles Numerous towns have been captured and seemingly all the great defensive positions of the enemy in this neCion have been oblterated. Large numbers of prisoners have been added to the already great ihrongs captured since the allied of Iensive began. In addition terrible ca sualties were inflicted on the enemy hy the heavy artillery fire at the be- ginning of the attack, which began carly Tuesday morning, and the ma chine gun and rife fire of the attack ing forces against the enemy who re- sisted stubbornly at various points
 The American troops, fighting along -ide the British. always were in the . an. and when light fell their posi lions were where the points Of pene- ration of the German nne were greatest At last accounts bard fight nE was still in progress, with the enc my steadily giving ground.
 On the southern part of the battle front, from the Rheims sector to the Mouse river. the French and Ameri- cans are carrying out successfully their converging movement northwar6 ard on all sectors have gained addi- .ional ground
 Northeast of Berry au Bac the French have driven their line to the junction of the Aisne and Suippe riv- CTS placing the German front around zon and eastward in greater jeopar- dy. In Champagne General Gouraud' forces have Increased their gains al Int way eastward to the region of tho ArEonne forest. while on tho easterl tide Of the forest the Americans hav' improved their battle front along thu
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
ATTITUDE OF A. F. OF L.
 TOWARD PEACE PROPOSAL

New York Oct. S.--The attitude of
 the American Federation of Labor toward the new German peace pro posal is that it should be ignored and
 tha tthe thing to do is to batter away at the enemy lines" until a peace has been secured such as has been enun- ciated by President Wilson. This at titude is set forth in a sta -efhtat by John Balpine, acting president of the federation, telegraphed here from Washington to the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy.
 Because of the deficiency of cotton yarn the British. cotton control board i is considering a readjustment of pro duction in spinning and weaving.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
INVESTIGATING NEWBERRY'S
 CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE

New York. Oct, S-Investigation of expenditures aggregating $176,O0oI in the successful campaign of Truman H. Newberry, U. s. N, for the repub- lican United States senatorial nomi- nation in Michigan last August was begun by a federal grand jury here today.
 Records of the campaign committee brought here by subpoena showed the total disbursements Inasmuch as the amended federal election laws prohibit expenditure of more than $10,00O by a candidate seeking membership in con- gross or by others with his know ledge" the inquiry was brought in the United States district court rather than before a state tribunal. Several prominent Michigan repub- licans. summoned here, went before the grand jury today, and others will be heard tomorrow.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
ENEMY ALIENS HAVE
 NOT CAUSED EXPLOSIONS

New York, Oct S.-"Thus far this year there has not been in this eoun- try one single fire or explosion which could be traced to enemy aliens" John Lord O'Brien, special assistant attor- ney general of the United States as signed to war work, declared in an ad- dress before the New York Bar asso- citation tonight He said this opinion was shared by the department of jus tice and the National Fire association.
 This country, with all of it's varied population, has suffered, less from vio- lence and explosions than England or EsAMcA" be assAxt4A
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
TURKISH DELEGATFoN
 BEARING PEACE OFFER

Athens, Monday, Oct. 7.-Delegations from the government of Smyrna, Fur key, are expected to reach Athens to- night with an offer of peace to the entente powers.
 A despatch to the Exchange Tele- graph from Athens dated Sunday says:
 '~The governor of Smyrna has sent to Mytilene three delegates, a Greek, an Englishman and a Turk. to enter into peace pourparlers, according to the -Hestia.'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
EASTERN RAILROADS SMASH ',
 TRANSFORMATION RECORDS

New York, Oct. S.-Announcement that the eastern railroads have been smashing records during the past few days in the transportation of food for export and to supply the cities on the Atlantic seaboard," was made here to- night by A. H. Smith, regional di- rector. His figures showed that 1918 cars of livestock and perishable freight moved east from Chicago to- day as compared with 1,259 cars Sat ur1Ry, the best previous showing.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09

to the governments with which the government of the United States is associated against the central powers so long as the armies of those powers are upon their soil. The good faith of any discussion would manifestly depend upon the consent of the cen tra1 powers immediately to withdraw their forces everywhere from invaded territory.
 The president also feels that he is justified in asking whether the i'm rerial chancellor is speaking merely for the constituted authorities of the empire who have so far conducted the war. He deems the answer to these questions vital from every point of view.
 Accept sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration.
 ROBERT LANSING.''
 MT. Lansing's reply was in response to the following request from Prince Maximilian, German imperial chan cellor, through F. Oederlin, charge d'affairs of Switzerland, in charge of German interests in the United States:
 "The German government requests the president of the United States of America to take steps for the restora- ton of peace to notify all belligerents of this request and to invite them to 1 delegate plenipotentiaries for the pur- pose of taking up negotiations. The German government accepts as a basis for the peace negotiations the pro- gram laid down by the president of | the United States in his message to congress of Jan. s, 1918, and in his subsequent announcements particu- l larly in his address of Sept. 27, 1918, 1 in order to avoid further bloodshed the German government requests to bring about the immediate conclusion of a general armistice on land, on water and in the air