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The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-29
MOUNT KATMA|
 WILL bE SCENE
 0F EVAPORATION

SEATTLE, June 28.-The region of Mount Katmai, Alaska's great volcano, called "The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is to be visited this year by two explorers sent north in the interests of the National Geographic Society, the organization that last year sent Professor Robert F. Griggs of the Ohio State College to make the first extensive exploration of the mountain. 5,.
 The two men going north this year are Jasper D. Sayre and Paul B. Ha. gelbarger. They are also from the Ohio State University, and it is be. lieved they were recommended by Professor Griggs. It is thought at the University of Washington that Professor Griggs would have returned to the mountain this year, but did not do so because he could not get back in time for the opening of the fall semester at college.
 Sayre and Hagelbarger will attempt to reach the crater from a direction opposite to that taken by Professor Griggs and his party. The two left here recently for the north, and prob. ably will spend the entire summer studying the mountain.
 Katmai is the greatest crater on the face of the globe, according to Prof. Griggs. It is more than nine miles in circumference and $500 feet deep. It burst forth in 1912 and sent out fine ashes that fell on an average depth of ten feet for radius of 100 miles. It is said there was an appreciable fall of ashes as far south as Victoria, B. C., and scientists claimed they found Katmai ashes in Virginia, North Africa and parts of Europe.
 Before the 1912 eruption very little was known of Katmai. Tn 1916 Prof Griggs visited the mountain but did not make an extensive exploration.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-29

It is smart and practical for actual sports wear. The silk sweater-coat or sports-coat is much less simple. It has short yoke and two-piece col lar, wide at the back. The body of the coat is plaited and set in the yoke. It is full and long with saddle-bag pockets stitched flat to the skirt. There is one large button to fasten the coat at the base of the collar and two on the wide girdle. A coat Of this sort will prove useful and com fortable wherever some warmth and much good style are required from a sports coat that will see little actual sports wear.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-29

Madam velva will give scientific card readings for a short time only. from p. m. until 10 ?. m., over Hegg's store.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
Allies May Soon Pitch
 Shells Across the Rhine

To the north the Belgian and French troops had an excellent day of sustained progress. Here and there the Germans were pressed into tight places and are fighting vigorously to extricate themselves.
 The town of Sweveghem, three miles east of Courtrai, was penetrat- ed by soldiers of the second army onk ly after hard conflict. The German artillery kept up harassing and en- fildaing fire from the north.
 The French got across the Lys river at Oyghem and advanced toward Waereghem. They also established themselves east of the river between Petegem and Grammene.
 Since the attacw alunched a week ago the second army has counted more than 6,200 prisoners and 169 guns. This total is not complete to date.
 In Flanders the British captured quite few field guns yesterday. In- cluded in the number were three coln- plete batteries, one of which was harnessed lip and ready to move off.s This was surrQiinded by smart tacts ics on the part of body of cyclists.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
Figures Fourth
 Liberty Loan
 Not Obtainable
Complete Reports from Sue cess of Fourth Loan
 Are Lacking.

EaPe1
 Washington, Oct. 21.-After reading a rumber of laHe reports on the out come of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign which closed Saturday, treasury officials declared tonight there is little certainty at this time either of the total volume of sub scr.ptions or the number of sub ser!bers
 They still feel no doubt that the hoan had been ovelsubscribed hut explained that many earlier mes saSes appeared too optimistic in the light of avtual figures being compiled by every bank and local committee over the country.
 Some cities which at first reported they were heavily over subscribed, discovered they barely went over their marks.
 There was good ground for the estimate that 22,O00,000 or more in dividuals had subscribed to the great est war loan ever floa,ed by any government.
 The fact that many of these rep resented lump subscriptions by cor porations which later would resell bonds to their employees, led to the Belief that the number of actual bond holders would be considerable higher
 The first of these reports is hardly looked for before next Monday and the final compilations may be delayed for two weeks.
 The navy subscribed over $4O,OO0,- COG. The army also made fine record but the figures are yet in complete.
 General Pershing cabled that up to October II, members of the Ameri- can expeditionary force had sub scribed $1.207. .000 and that this probably would run to two million or more
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22

British Headquarters in France Oct. 21 (Reuters.)-1t is the general impression that the resistance of the enemy everywhere is stiffening. Ap- parently the rapidity of the British drive in Flanders and northern France has caused the enemy to req lize that the allied forces are ap- preaching the fatherland at rate that, if not checked, might before long find their long range guns pitching shells across the Rhine.
 Therefore the enemy is pulling him. self together with a view to delaying to the utmost the allied advance.
 The second army encountered very stiff opposition in places when it re- stunned it's attack Sunday. When the fighting lulled last evening the Brit ish had driven big salientt.in to the German front from Shis1 tp. Belle ghem to as far as the vicinity ot Knock and to depth of about five miles. This morning the British line ran from Waaisonek along the Belle. ghem salient and thence past War coing and Bailleul to the west o1 Tournai.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
Section One.

London, Oct. 2l.-The text of the German note, as received by wireless is as follows:
 "In accepting the proposal for an evacuation of occupied territories, the German government has started from the assumption that the procedure of this evacuation and of the conditions of an armistice should be left to the military advisers and that the actual standard of power on both sides in the field has to form the basis for arrangements safeguarding and guar anteeing this standard"
 Section Two.
 "The German government suggests to the President that an opportunity should be brought about for fixing the details. It trusts that the President of the United States will approve of no demand which would be irreconcil- able with the honor of the German, people and with opening way to a peace of justice"
 Section Three. "The German government protests against the reproach of illegal and iu- humane actions made against the German land and sea forces and there by against the German people. For the covering of a retreat Instructions will always be necessary and they are carried out insofar as is permitted by international law. The German troops are under most strict instructions to spare property and to exercise care for the population to the best of their ability. Where transgressions occur in spite of these instructions the gull ty are being punished" Section Four. "The German government further denies that the German navy Is sink ing ships has ever purposely destroy ed life boats with their passengers. The German government proposes with regard to all those charges that the facts be cleared up by neutral commissions.
 l Section Five.
 "In order to avoid anything that might hamper the work of peace, the German government has caused orders to be dispatched to all submarine com. manders precluding the torpedoing of passenger ships, without however, for technical reasons, being able to guar antee that these orders will reach ev- cry single submarine at sea before It's return"
 Section Six.
 "As 9 fundamental condition for
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
Complete Text Germany's Note In Reply to President Wilson

peace the President prescribes the destruction of every arbitrary power that can separately, secretly and of it's own single choice disturb the peace of the world. To this the Ger man government replies:
 Hitherto the representation of the people in the German Empire has not been endowed with in influence on the formation of the government"
 Section Seven.
 "The constitution did not provide for a concurrence of representation of the people in decisions of peace and war These conditions have just now undergone a fundamental change A new government has been formed in complete accordance with the wishes (principle) of the representation of the people, based on equal, universal. secret, direct franchise"
 Section Eight.
 "The leaders of the great parties of the Reichstag are members of this government. In the future no govern ment can take or continue in office without possessing the confidence of majority of the Reichstag."
 Section Nine.
 "The responsibility of the chancellor of the empire to the representation of the people is being legally developed and safeguarded. The first act of the new government has been to lay be- fore the Reichstag a bill to alter the constitution of the empire so that the consequent of the representation of the people is required for decisions on war and peace"
 Section Ten. "The performance of the new sys- tenn is, however, guaranteed not only by constitutional safeguards, but also by the unshakeable determination of the German people whose vast ma jority stands behind these reforms and demand their energetic continuance. " Eleventh and Last Section. ''The question of the President with whom he and the governments associated against Germany are deal ing-is therefore answered in a clear, unequivocal manner and by the. state ment that the offer of peace and an armistice has come from a govern ment which is free from any arbitrary l and irresponsible influence, is sup ported by the approval of an over whelming majority of the German peo- ple."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
PALMER AGAIN WIELOS
 AXE ON ALIEN PROPERTY

Washington, Oct. 21.-Seizure of two enemy-owned concerns, the $1O, O00000 paint manufacturing firm of Gernstendorfer Brothers, Inc., and the International Insurance Company, both of New York, and the liquidation of the affairs of a third, the Ham,
 burg Assurance Company, were an-
 nounced today by Alien Property Gus todian Palmer. Directors for the seiz- ed concerns have been named and MT. Palmer has taken over the $500,00O assets of the Hamburg Company. The stock of the International com pany, MT. Palmer said, was owned by the Hamburg Company which was or ganized at Hamburg in 1897 with a capital stock of 10,000,0OO marks and
 which began to do business in the United States in March, 1914.
 In 1916 it's premium income in this country was $4,604 900.
 The International concern has a capital of $200,O0O but it's premium income in 1917 was $7,888,413.
 The International company will be
 operated under the control of MT.
 Palmer until it can be disposed of with the advice of the Advisory Con- mittee recently appointed by the alien
 property custodian. With regard to
 the Gerstendorfer Bros., Inc, MT. Pal
 mer's announcement said the firm originally represented an enemy ower-
 ship of 38 percent of it's stock, but in vestigation by Frances N. Garvin of the Bureau showed that 90 percent
 belonged to enemies Albert Gernsten-
 dorfer now in Germany, was the prin- cipal stockholder. MT. Palmer said, having 1,349 shares.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
AMERICAN GIRLS
 ESCAPE FROM THE
 RUSSIAN TERRORS


 New York, Oct. 24.-"Out of cloth
 as not out of courage;' two Ameri-
 can girls cabled from the borders of
 the terror-ridden Rusia the brief mes
 sage that told the Y. w. c. A. that their secretaries, forced to leave Pet rorrad because of Bolsheviki and ap- preaching Germans, were sa1e m Stockholn and ready to go on work ing, though they had come out ot the
 country minus baggage ana mlnas n any any
 word from home. The Y M. .. A. also had a staff of men workers in Russia. Miss Elizabeth Boies and Miss Eli zabeth Dickerson are the two young women who are now in Stockholm, waiting to go back to Petrograd or Moscow where their work among Rus sian working girls was welcomed by
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
Attitude Is Not Known

There was no official animation here tonight of the attitude of the President and probably there will be none until the official text of the new German communication has been re- ceived. The President was in confer ence all evening with Secretary Lan- sing discussing the note as received by wireless earlier in the day. Like the reply to the Presidents in- qulries week ago, this note was sent out from the German wireless sta tons and picked up in the allied countries many hours before the off cial text could move by cable. The official version probably will come tomorrow through the Swiss legation here
 May Be Cabled.
 As received by wireless the note is believed to be slightly garbled in the important sentences regarding condl- tons for the evacuation of invaded territory and for an armistice, but nevertheless it is regarded as an awk- ward attempt to meet the conditions lald down by President Wilson for consideration of an armistice.
 Important Declaration.
 And it makes the significant dec laration that the government in Ber- lin no longer is responsible to sim gle arbitrary influence-the kaiser but is supportde by an overwhelming majority of the German people.
 This declaration is supported by the statement that constitutional re-. forms are in progress in accord with the determination fthe people under which no government can take or hold office without the confidence of the majority of Reichstag elected by universal secret suffrage.
 Little importance is attached to the protests and denials in the note re- grading German brutality and ruth less destruction of property.
 Will Atrocities StOp2
 The important thing is whether atrocities will now stop. To an inves- tigation by neutral commission as suggested in the note the President indicated long ago that such investi- gations come to nothing except in connection with arrangements for fin al peace.
 Regarding the German denial of unnecessary destruction of property by the retiring armies, military ex- perts say that undoubtedly such arm ies are authorized under international
 Continued from page eight.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
ALLIES TWO MILES
 FROM TOURNAI

London, Oct. 21.-The allied armies are now two miles from Tournai, where the Germans are resisting strenuously.
 Juts to the east of the city lies high ground which is giving the Germans the advantage in the present fighting.
 If the allies take the city much heavy and difficult fighting is ex- pected.
 The British are not having an easy time around Valenciennes, but they have pushed to within three miles of the city.
 Here also the Germans have the ad- vantage in terrain.
 The Valenciennes-H -Hirson railway has been put out of action. This road which formerly was one of the Ger mans main lateral communication lines, lost much of it's value to them when they evacuated Lille.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
North Sea Mine Barrage Against Submarines Is
 Important Feature.
AMERICAN SUB BASES
 ON ENGLISH COAST
Pipe Line Across Scotland; Roosevelt Outlines What
 Is Accomplished

Wahisngton, Oct. 21.-Construction of the North Sea mine barrage against submarines, laying of an oil pipe line across Scotland, establish ment of naval aviation stations from the Spanish border to the English Channel and other details of the work of the American navy in foreign wat CTS were given to the public today by Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, who recently returned from visit to Eu- rope.
 "The American people seem to have very little idea of the extent of our naval activities abroad said Secre- i; tary Roosevelt.
 "The tendency is to think merely of the conveying and patrol work our destroyers and other vessels are doing and the present of our battleships with the British fleet.
 But important as this is, it is only part of our activities and there are dozens of other things of importance of which little has been said"
 The building of the northern mine barrage was one of the biggest things ever accomplished in ordnance work, MT. Roosevelt said. n1 turning out ma terial for it, number of plans in this country were kept busy for months
 Several American bases were es- tablished on the British coast to lay and handle the mines.
 To save haulage of oil, the Ameri- can navy has undertaken to construct a pipeline across Scotlond
 All the way from the Spanish bor- der clear around to the English Cham neP' said MT. Roosevelt, "we have es- tablished aviation stations so spaced that the entire coast line is covered by seaplanes and dirigibles. "These stations were built almost entirely by our sailors.
 At each station there is an aver age of from 200 to 300 men.
 "This aviation force and our patrol vessels have been doing such splen- did work that for the past six months there have been practically no sinkings within fifty miles of the French coast.
 "We hope to extend this patrol zone to hundred miles," In northern France, in cooperation with the British and Belgians, Secre- tary Roosevelt said there had been established what is known as the Northern bombing group composed of number of aviation units which did much to prevent the Germans from again using Zeebrugge and Ostend as submarine bases.
 An American naval force cooperat- ing with the British at Gibraltar is patrolling the Atlantic in that vicin- ity and is acting as convoy to vessels going to and from Italy, Greece and Egypt. There is a flying school with sever al naval aviation units on duty in Italy while on the Adriatic is large i group of submarine chasers. Each navy base has it's hospital, Secretary Roosevelt said, and in Scotland an entire watering place has been taken over by the Americans for use as
 hospital.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22

With the Allied Armies in France ane Belgium, Oct 21,-(By the Asso- oiated ss)-The great battle in Northern France passed into it's sec on'. phase today.
 The first phase was completed when the Lille salient was eliminated ant the Germans were driven out of western Belgium, so that the line all the way from the frontier of Holland to the Disc canal is virtu- ally straight one.
 The Belgians, British and French in the north started a sweeping move ment today, pivOting on point about east of Courtrai.
 The object of this appears to be the clearing of the enemy from his front in northern Belgium and at the same time to threaten his ex- treme right flank. .-
 The position at the south is in the region below Valenciennes.
 At both places the exhausted Ger man divisions, whose ranks have had great holes chopped in them by terrific blows, are fighting with the greatest desperation.
 The German commanders are sac riflcing many men in their endeavors to hold their ground, but in both sections the allied troops have smashed into the enemy and made appreciable gains.
 Scores of additional villages have been reclaimed and numerous pris- oners and large quantities of sup plies have been cantIlrpd
 In the center of the battle area the British kept thrusting out every where and gradually during the day moved forward toward the west bank Of the Scheldt with increasing ce- le! itv.
 The Germans have taken advantage O. the natural protection offered by the width of this stream and it's caral and marshy lborders. They are hidden behind it in shallow trenches and are showing nervous ness as the allies approach.
 At the present time, however, the allies are not hampered in the least for the Germans were put to such !:urried flight that they had little time to take their trtillery and vast stores of ammunition with them.
 This fell into the hands of the allied troops, and the guns were promptly truned around. and shells made in Germany were sent east ward as fast as they could be fired against their original owners.
 Infantrymen thus had novel eX- perience in serving artillery. On the northern part of the battle area al- lied cavalry is moving ahead of the infantry, clearing out the Germans.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22

The British have approached to within two miles of Valenciennes, and the Americans, to the northwest of Verdun, have succeeded in occupying two highly important positions in their operations aimed at an advance northward.
 American and British troops have crossed the Disc canal on q wide front in the face of desperate resistance and further successes in this sector will menace the Germans both to the north and south.
 The Mathematician railway, formerly one fthe Germans main lateral arteries of communication has been cut.
 Over Ten Mile Front.
 The west bank of the Scheldt canal has been occupied by the British along Ian extent of ten miles, to the north of Tournai, which city is being de- fended by masses of Germans armed with machine guns.
 Belgium is gradually being redeem ed although now that the Germans have drawn their lines, the British, Belgians and French are encountering much stiffer opposition than during the early days of the great drive for the re-occupation by the allies of the Belgian coast.
 Ghent In The Distance.
 The city of Ghent, an objective which the allies have always in mind, ls seven miles away.
 Probably it will be outflanked from the north before it is taken. Allied troops already have made consider aDle progress with this end in view.
 On Dutch Frontier.
 Having cleared the Germans out of western Belgium, the allied forces are .andlng on a line from the Dutch frontier to the Disc canal that is vir- tually straight.
 new movement has begun to the sst Of Courtai, the object of which to Tree the northern section of Bel s.um rom the enemy. French troops aAve reached the Danube river in the exon of Vidin after offensive opera lons m the eastern theatre of the war astlng more than a month.
 m Hungary to ''Cut Loose" me economic independence of aungary IS to be proclaimed at an ally date in a manifesto which it is Charles, 'S D"pe'o'
 hungary will be permitted to main matic corps. N ''i o"" o'p'o-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
Reply of Germany to Uni ted States Note Has a
 Tone of Sincerity.
OFFICIALS AWAIT
 OFFICIAL TEXT
Makes Declaration That the Government in Berlin
 Not of the Kaiser.

Washington, Oct. 21.-Germany has replied to President Wilson's note. which, though no one is prepared to say it will lead the President to continue exchanges on the subject of an armistice and peace, at least has served almost to bring conviction here that the people of Germany act ually are taking the reins of government and sincerely desire peace on any terms the United States and the allies are willing to give.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
SUBMARINES
 CLOGGING UP KEEL HARBOR

Geneva, Oct. 2l--kiel harbor is unable to accommodate all the sub- marines which have returned from Ostend and Zeebrugge during the past week and some are lying off shore, according to advices received here.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22
ALABAMA NEGRO RESCUED
 FROM ANGRY CITIZENS

Montgomery, Ala. Oct. 21.-A negro giving his name as R. A. Daley was rescued from mob today by police after he was alleged to have made an unpatriotic remark.
 A warrant was sworn out against him in the United States court.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-22

all except the Bolsheviki authorities, "Petrograd is almost an abandoned city," they wrote before leaving. "There are hundreds of empty build ings and there is no need of the Bol- sheviki requistioning ours, so we want to stay on. The girls here need us."