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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15
Union Congregational Church.

Union Congregational Chufcn.
Tenth and Park SITS.
Rev. H. E. King, pastor.
II a. m.-Morning worship. w.
1915 p. m.-Sunday school.
Christian Endeavor at 6:15 p. m.
Lieut.. M. H. Thompson, president.
Evening services at 1880 p. m.
Mid-week prayer meeting Wednes-
day.
Everybody invited at all Of these
services.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15
CITY LOCALS

Crocheting knitting and sewing
every Thursday p. m. at the Protec-
lion Home. Instructions free.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15
st. Paul's A. M. e. Church
Second and Center

Rev. S. L. Brit, D. D., Pastor
10:45 a. m.-Preaching.
1890 p. m.-Class meeting.
p. Sunday school.
$50 p. m.-Christian Endeavor.
500 p. m.-Evening worship.
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Wanted-A live deputy to repre-
sent us through Iowa and Illinois. If
YOU can spare few hours each day in
your city, please write C. M. johnson,
supreem grand organizer, for instruc-
tions, Horton. Kans. 49,.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15

Mrs. Mann of Clinton, Iowa, mother
of Lieut.. E. w. Mann, is in the city
spending few days with him and
her daughter, Miss Adelaide.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15

Wanted To Rent-Four or five room
house. Will consider two or three un-
furnished rooms in private family.
Walnut 1927.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15

Wanted-A first class barber to
take charge of shop in hotel. The
right person is guaranteed a good sal
ary. Write D. c. Russell, 1918 Cum
;ns street, Omaha, Neb.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15

Rev. T. H. Stoner, pastor of the A..
N. E. church Of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
was in the city this week attending to
business. -
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Shaw of Ches-
ter avenue have been indisposed the
past week, but are now some better.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15

Mr.. John A. Spencer of Grinnell
made business call to our city We'd
nesday. Mr.. Spencer is a big hearted
business man of Grinnell.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15

class in home economies will meet
every Thursday at the Protection
Home. Instructions free.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15

The Young Women's club will meet
Wednesday evening at the Protection
Home.
Nj. ]. R. Ford, who has been sick,
ls able to be out again.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15

The Margaret Batome Kings
Daughters Circle will meet with Mrs.
Wells, 1885 N. Corning street, March
21st.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-15
union Baptist Church

Union Baptist Church
Sixteenth and Mccormick.
Rev. j. H. Reynolds, Supply Pastor.
$3.50 a. m. Sunday school.
II a. m.-Preaching.
p. m.-B. Y. p. u.
p. n.-Preaching.
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First A. NJ. e. Zion Church.
Rev. e. S. Hardge, Pastor.
511 S. E. Fourth St.
1880 a. m.-Preaching.
LOO p. m.-Sunday school.
$50 p. nv. C. E. Society.
8 p m.-Preaching.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-11
GERMANS BECOMING UNEASY
 ABOUT THEIR BONDS
THE NINTH LOAN IS NOT BEING TAKEN. PEOPLE BEING skEP-
 TlCAL ABOUT ITS SAFETY.

Amsterdam, Oct. l0.-I, would seem that the Gcrman public is beginning to doubt whether the ninth German war loan is safe investment The German papers publish an impetus to the loan the statement that an offic- ial declaration will soon be issued an nouncing that the Imperial govern ment and the reichstag will assume full responsibility for the absolute safety of the War loans
 "Let no one think that such q dee laration is necessary" the statement continues, "becaue subscriptions are failing. On the contrary the pros pect is excellent and the total Of the ninth loan will reach at least that of the eighth. But it is necessary to cir phasizc abroad that the empire is sound"
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HUNS DEFEATED ARE SEEKING SAFETY IN FLIGHT

thence through Sedan and on to the southeast
 General March, chief of staff. indi- cated last Saturday that the cutting of this greatest single communication system of the enemy was the main objective of the American thrust west of the Mouse The Americans arc within less than eight mile of the road at a point nearly 100 miles in an airline from the point where the Brit ish threaten it on the north. IL may be a race to cut the road but the strategic effect would be different in each case.
 Should this line be broken by tho Americans now moving forward on both sides of the Mouse. it would cut the German western front in half Such move might be considered viz tally necessary to tho launching of a blow at the Rhine valley. The Ger man troops in the north could offer little help If that lateral rail system that has stood like a wall behind the whole German front in France, be lost to them
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JAPANESE STEAMSHIP
 IS SUBMARINE VICTIM
THREE HUNDRED LIVES BELlEV. ED TO HAVE BEEN LOST WHEN VESSEL WENT
 DOWN.

A British Port. Monday, Oct. 7.-fnc Japanese steamship Hirano Maru Of ,935 tons gross has been torpedoed and sunk It is feared that 300 lives were lost
 The Hirano Maru was outward bound for Japan and carried about 200 passengers The vessel was tor pedoed and sunk by a German sub marine early on Friday morning when about 300 miles south of Ireland. The few survivors who were picked up by the American torpedo destroyer Ster- ret nave been brought here. They declare that the topedo struck the steamer in the forward engine room. The vessel sank in seven minutes.
 The scene was indescribable
 The weather was rather hazy. The cries of the drowning was heart rer- dering. Everybody had been supplied with life belts, but only tue strong est were able to stand the buffeting waves and exposure.
 Provident.ally the commander of the American destroyer Secret heard the explosion and steered his vessel for the point whence the sound came. He found the ship had disappeared and he saw mass of people struggling in the water.
 While the destroyer was engaged in the work of mercy and picking up the men and women struggling in the Wa ter, the German submarine fired two torpedoes at the warship. Both mis- siles happily missed their mork. After making a more thorough search for survivors the Sterret headed for the submalne firing several shots and dropping depth charges.
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PRESIDENTS REPLY
 PUBLISHED IN BERLIN
WOLF AGENCY DECLARES REPLY TO FINAL QUESTION WAS CIV. EN BY PRESIDENT OF REICH.
 STAG.

Amsterdam, Oct. le.-Thc semi-os- Giciai Wolff Bureau. of Berlin has made public President Wilson's reply 10 the peace proposals of Prince Max tmiian, the imperial German chan cellor with the following note ap- pended:
 The official text of the reply is still awaited but the reply shows that further declarations from the German government are necessary. To that end careful consideration by the gov ernment is necessary.
 "A reply to the presidents tina question has been given by the speech in the reichStag on October by Pres ident FehrenbacE. who in the name oi the German nation. declared the reichstag approves the peace offer and makes it it's own"
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GOAT IS SOUGHT FOR
 BLUNDERS OF GERMANY
VON BET HMANN HOLWEG SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN PICKED TO
 TAKE THE BLAME

Copenhagen, Oct. 10. 0.-Apparentiy German writers are endeavoring to place the blame for the proclamation of Germany's intensified submarine warfare and the failure to secure an early peace advantageous to Germany on the shoulders of the government If former Chancellor von Bethmann Hol. veg To this end George Bernhard in a leading editorial in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung declares that if the German people had not been deceived and misled by Bethmann's government it is doubtful whether the submarine warfare would have been proclaimed and President Wilson probably would have succeeded long ago in bringing about 2 peace without conquerors or conquered" as outlined in his message to congress in January. 1917.
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GERMAN PEOPLE ARE
 UNLOADING WAR BONDS

Basel, Oct. 10.-Therc are pcrs.s- tent rumors among the working classes in Germany, according 10 ai- vances received here. that Germany's s imperial bonds may become yalueless. The rumors have their basis in the re- peated entente victories The people of numerous towns are said to be un- loading their war bonds at extraor- dinarily low prices and q panic seem7 imminent. The German newspapers are publishing long appeals in endeav- ors to tranquiize public feeling.
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With Their Faces to the
 Fatherland Their Backs Are Targets for the Amer jeans, French and British.
LeCateau Has Fallen Into the British Hands Which Will Assist in Hurry ing the Enemy Across the Rhine--So Fast Was His Retreat Only the Cav airy Could Keep Up With Him.
2: alH 4,
 ''f lssls l

Marshal Haig announces in his re- port tonight The British have ad- advanced rapidly along the whole pat He front They now hold the line o the Selle river from St Souplet tC Solcsmes, which represents an ad- vance of about ten miles east of Cam brai
 Many civilians have been found in the captured towns and villages, 2,5Ol being liberated in Caudry alone. The text of the statement reads:
 At dawn this morning our advance was resumed along the whole battle front At all points rapid progress was made in spite of the efforts of the encmys rear guards to hold up the ad- vance.
 Our troops approaching the large woods of Bohaia, have entered Walk Anhgny. North of that place we have reach ,d the general line of the lSalle river from St Soupet t0 the neIGh- borhood Of Soieames and have cap tureI La Cateau
 West of SOlesmcs We captudel AV- csues and RieuX and then s. Martin
 "N est Of Scheldt canal we have tas- en Etruu.
 Tn the towns and villages captured in our advance today numbers of civ ilians have been found, including =, 500 in the town of Caudy.
 Southeast of Lens our troops have made further progress and have cap tured Rouvroy."
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AIRMAN BLAZED THE
 WAY FOR THE ARMY
BOMBING EXPEDITION TOOK IN TERRITORY FROM THE
 MEUSE TO METZ.

With the American Army North west of Verdun, Oct 10.--Its way blazed over a large area by aerial bombs, the army again moved slight ly forward to day in the territory held by the Germans. The aviators who participated in the brilliant of fensive that began lato yesterday flew over the enemy lines this after noon and reported dozens of towns still smodering and significant quiet in extended areas which until now have been the scenes of enemy activity
 The aerial operations for the past 24 hours have been far the greatest ever attempted. They included a bombing expedition of over 350 planes. The towns bombed included those from the point fartherest cast in the Franco-American positions beyond the Meuse to Metz, This expedi- tion was carried out with the loss of only one man,
 Observators told the officers at headquarters tonight that they had Leen unable to see any movements on the roads where ordinarily Ger man troops are moving and in towns where their presence had not even been reported, otherwise. American troops had been seen bivouacing.
 Here and there an enemy battery was observed but all reports agreed that in the greater part of what had been the German advanced area the guns had been moved back.
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4OO0 PRISONERS TAKEN
 EAST OF THE MEUSE
GERMAN BATTERIES w FER E SMOTHEREo BY AMERICAN
 ARTILLERY FARE,

Paris. Oct 2. 9.-Wednesday-The attack east of the Mouse begun Tues day by the French and supported by the American, had one main result in view. That was to restore the battle line west of the Mouse to the place where it was when the Germans be- gan their attack against Verdun in 1916.
 The operation was very success iul The enemy seemingly was taken Iy surprise. He had massed his troops and guns further east in strongly fortified positions. leaving the Austro-EIungarans to hold the point where the main attack was de- livered There was no artillery pre- paration, despite the fact that nor mally sustained artillery fire had been necessary to reduce the mass of wire which the enemy had built in front of and between his lines virtu- ally in the Bois- de- -Caures.
 The nature of the terrain forbade the use of tanks. Therefore the at tack was unique because it broke through strongly wired permanent positions solely by the element of surprise and dash. The German bat teries which might have hindered their advance were smothered by the American artillery. This operation has aided largely in further releasing Verdun from the enemy menace.
 About 1000 prisoners were taken. Today the Germans rushed up rein forcements and delivered counted at tacks Those were nnsnccessf full.
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BULGARIA. MAY TAKE
 UP ARMS AGGAiNer TURKEY

London, Oct. 10--Hhe porte has been advised that Bulgaria is expect ed to send troops against Turkey in an expedition planned by the entente allies, according to dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Amsterdam quoting advices from Constan,iIople, the dispatch adds.
 It is thought probalie the Bulgarian minister to Turkey will be handed his passports within 2i hours.
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Washington, Oct 1o-The smash ing victory Of the Anglo American forces north Of St. quentin may be paving the way for early invasion of Germany itself.
 Shrinking hints of a wholly new en- terprise, directed at tho upper Rhine valley, have come from unofficial quarters in France and they follow repeated reports from Switzerland that the civil populations of tho Rhine valley towns were being removed.
 Officers here regard these reports las highly significant. They give them particular weight because it now ap- pears that the enemy will be forced far back all along the front in north ern France and Belgium within the next few days
 While the constant hammering is kept up in the north to pin the Ger man armies there, is might be possi- ble. it was said to deliver q new stroke on the Alsace-Lorraine front that might swiftly develop into an ln vasion Of Germany itself
 The wholly unexpected extent of the German collapse between St Quentin and Cambrai. however, may upset any plans for drive to the Rhine, Marshal Foch may have plan ned. As the enemy stands today with great gap torn in the center of the lines that were, already struggling to extricate themselves and get back to a shorter front, there is even the pos sibility of crushing and immediate military victory for the allies,
 Should the French to the south and the British to the north also succeea in breaking through before the Ger mans can complete an extensive re- tirement, the capture or destruction of whole enemy army group might be realized In the opinion of Ob- servers here the situation today has almost limitless possibilities.
 Should the German armie escape the triple-trap between Verdun and Aht 4NOi LII OCd anu C9AHOiiol tl AtA~ on the Mouse front, many officers are confident that the center of attack will swing suddenly to a drive intu Germany itself by the shortest route the Rhine valley.
 For the moment, attention is con centrated on the startling forward rush of the Anglo American forces which have broken through the great St. Quentin Cambrat defensive zone.
 To the south it is known that the enemy is etraining every effort to hold up the French along the Suippe river. All but one of the 2i good German divisions on this front, it has been re- ported. are now on the front line. Should the French reach and pass the Aisne as they threaten to do the en- emy forces in the Laon pocket, appar- ently will be in desparate straits.
 Still further east to the Mouse and beyond, French and American forces are striking ahead even in wider menace, to the north of Lille. Bel gian, French and American troops have driven forward another grim threat.
 The spearhead of the British ad- vance was reported at Le Cateau to- day
 That would mean that the Anglo American efforts have forged ahead until the northern end of the great railway system behind the Germans 's only fifteen miles distant This lat eral trunk line passes through Vaien- ciennes. Avesnes and lHirson, reaches the Mouse at Charlevil!e ana runs
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(By the Associated Press.)


 The men of the once formidable German armies holding the linden burg line from north of Cambrai to St. Quentin are facing eastward de- feated and in retreat.
 Their backs are the targets for the British, American and French troops, who bitterly fought them. step by step, out of supposedly impregnable defenses. and now are hurrying them across the open country toward the German border
 Nowhere is the enemy attempting stand in force.
 True. the German border is yet a long distance away put the last two days of chase have materially de- creased the width of the area sepa rating the invaders from their OWL Rhine line.
 Le Cateau the important junction point twelve miles southeast of Cam brai, represented Thursday night the point of deepest penetration by the allied troops The British were the masters of it. All along the front, however. the British, American and French have been steadily pressing forward their infantry forces, taking numerous towns and villages while far in allowance of them the hoof beats of the cavalry horses inter- mingle with the roars of the whippet tanks and the staccato barking of the machine guns inside the moving forts.
 So fast has been the retreat of the enemy that at various points the all lied forces afoot lost contact with him.
 The retreat, which was over front Of about 5 miles from the south of iCouai to the region east of St. Qucn- tin has left in the hands of the allies. in addition to the towns taken, valu-, able lines of communication and strategetic positions of high import ance and driven in wedge that seemingly will force the Germans everywhere from the North Sea to the Verdun tc fall back.
 Southeast of Doual. one of the re- maining strong points in the German lines in the north the British are standing in Etrun twelve miles south west of Valenciennes. the pivotal point in the enemy's known next de- fen limo an1 fn h. h the city is outflanked al Solesmes.
 Meantime the French and American armies on that part of the line run ming from northwest of tI@heims to 10 the Mouse river are still pressing forward in the converging movement with the armies in the west and gradually are forming the entire war theatre into huge sack.
 The Americans continue slowly to advance up the eastern side of the Mouse, while west of the river. in conjunction with the operations of the French, they have all but obliter- ated the great Argonne forest as an enemy defense position.
 To the west of the forest. in the Aisne valley and still farther west ward. the French also made further gains Throughout this entire region the Germans still are offering stub born resistance mainly with machine guns realizing the importance of holding back their foes while their armies in Belgium and farther south make good their retrograde move ment.
 Both in the Macedonian theatre and in Palestine the allied forces are pressing the enemy hard. Albania is fast being cleared of the Austro Hun garian troops, while in Serbia the en- emy Is nearing Nish, harassed by the Serbians. At last accounts General Allenby was still driving the Otto man troops northward in Palestine
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With the American Forces North west of Verdun. Wednesday, oct. D. The brightest spot in the herOlc and amazing story of the now famous lost battalion" which belonged to the 77th diIision, as yet untold, was the cll- max to the fourth day of the troops beleaguerement in the ArgOnne for est
 When the men were long foodless and almost wholly without ammunit- ion and when many were weak from exhaustion. but not one despair ng. al American who had been taken pris- Oner by the Germans suddenly ap- peared at the little camp surrounded in the valley.
 The man had been sent blindfolded from the German headquarters with s typewriter note to Major Whittlesey reading Americans, you are sur rounded on all sides. Surrender iH the name of humanity You will be well treated"
 "Co to hell" he almost shouted Then he read the note to those around him and his men, notwithstanding their wearness and hunger, anG in imminent danger every moment cheer ed so loudly that the Germans heard them from their observation posts
 None of the battalion could know that relief would come within 2l hours none felt very sure that it could come at all before it was too late, but the same spirit animatiug them to plunge ahead in the forest to their per;lous position maintained them at that mo- ment and every living man, wounded or we'll, ill the battalion entnusias- tically approved Major Whittleseys abrupt answer when the news of it was circulated through the position
 "A composite story gleaned from a dozen recitals reveals that the battal ion when ordered to advance last Fri day pushed its way rapidly ahead through the forest, and, in its eag- erness to catch mp with the retreat ing Germans, gradually spread out and widened it's ranks. Th,s allowed the Germans to infitrate unseen be- hind the Americans and they feil di rectly into a cunning trap fhich the Germans had set for them.
 Sheltered only in shallow and hasti- ly constructed trenches, the men were subjected to a grilling snipingI machine gun fire as well as a trench mortar bombardment every time theyI showed themselves. Only with tne' greatest difficulty and with extreme, caution could they move from place, to place and keep guard against sur prise attacks.
 Daily, American avatcrs search ing vainly for them flew overhead, ,, but no outcry the men could mako brought anything but volley of shouts and laughter from the Ger mans in front and behind and to theI right and left of them
 The beleagured men discovered there were machine nests all around them every fifteen foot or so and forI a man to show himself ever so brief ly. was the signal for sweeping rain of bullets. If man made an unusual noise trench mortars pounded the vi-' cinity viciously.
 Just for diversion the enemy made, a practice of sweeping the whole ter rain-the hillside where the impr3v ised trenches were located ano the, valley in which the men crawsed to, get leaves and water-ro2ularly and, then irregularly with machine guns
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CONSERVATIVE DEMAND
 CONVOCATlON OF REiCHSTAC

Basel, oct l0-A Berlin dispatch received here today says that the con- servative faction of the reichstag has asked an immediate convocation of the legislative body in Germany to dis cuss President Wilson's reply to the imperial chancelor's peace proposal.
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MEN LONG FoooLEss AND AL. MOST WHOLLY WITHOUT AM MUNITlON REFUSED TO
 GIVE UP.
MAJORS REPLY TO GERMAN
 NOTE WAS "GO TO HELL"

Americans Had Advanced So Fast They Became Separated From Balance of Army and We're Sur rounded on All Sides By the En- emy-Battallon Belonged to the SeVenty-SeVenth Division.
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THE COLLAPSE OF THE ENEMY BETWEEN ST. QUENTIN AND
 CAMBRIA WAS EXPECTED.
GERMANS REPORTED MOVING
 FROM THE RHINE CITIES

Americans Are Keeping Up Their Ob- jectiVe of Cutting the Railroad Which Would Divide the German Armies and Make Them in Northern France and Belgium Almost Help less.
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BRITISH OFFICIAL STATEMENT

London, Oct 10.-Le Cateau has been captured hy the British, Field
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People looking for rooms turn to the classified ads of the newspapers to see what is offered. An ad in the Sentinel Record may bring a customer.
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Arkansas-Frday and Saturday, probably showers. se .asA4ta