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Evening star., 1918-10-06
KAISER CONFERS BLACK
EAGLE UPON HERTLING

AMSTERDAM, October 5.-Emperor
William in his autographed letter ac-
cepting the resignation of Count Won
Hertling as imperial chancellor and
comforting upon him the decoration
of the order of the Black Eagle
wrote:
after accepting today your resig-
nation I feel constrained once more
to express to you my warmest thanks
for the self-sacrificing faithfulness
with which in grave times you re-
sponded to my call and, in the po-
sition of responsible leader of the
government, rendered to me and the
fatherland eminent and successful
service.
Acknowledgement I have conferred
upon you the high Order of the Black
Eagle. Always your grateful and well
disposed.
(Signed) WlLfELM' l.. II.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE. October (Havas).-British
troops on entering Lens found that
the coal mines in the city had been
entirely destroyed. The church could
scarcely be- found amid the ruins. The
city hall, monuments and houses also
were destroyed.
Great tongues Of flame were shoot
ing up today from the city of Douai
and more fires have been started in
Cambria. The Germans also have ap-
piled the torch to many villages in
the Cambria area.
AS the flames and smoke rolled up
from the ruined places they wee ac-
companied by explosions as the Ger
mans blew up tn. stores they were
unable tn save and which they did
not wish to leave behind. fearing they
would be US I'd by the British to hasten
the German retreat.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
VIM. DUVALL BROWNS
Resident Of Southeast Washington
Falls Overheard From Launch
in Georgetown Channel.

William Duval1 of 11oi X street
southeast was drowned shortly be-
fore 9 o'clock last night when he fell
overheard from his launch in the
Georgetown channel.
According to the police. the small
craft was about 500 yards below the
railroad bridge and not far out from
the sea wall around Potomac Park
when Duvall lost his balance. Will
liam A Rollins OF 1908 X street south
east, who was aboard the launch, was
unable to reach Duvall before he dis
appeared beneath the water. p
Rollins notified the harhor police
and they went Immediately to the
scene. They had not recovered the
body at midnight. Duvall was about
thirty years old and an employe of
the navy yard.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
Americans Sweep On in Ope,g
Protection Is Best Yet GiUe1

crate impersonal awkwardness that
always characterizes their operations.
Toward the middle of the afternoon a
flock of tanks was bombing along
over the fields toward Cunel, well
ahead of the rifemen.
tanks impotent. No attempt was
made to send them through that
dense jungle. which the Germans have
recently made even more difficult to
penetrate by telling great trees and
binding them together in huge punches
with barbed wire.
Immediately east of Argonne for
est the land ships took a heavy toll
of Prussian Guards. One guards bat
talon was reduced to fifty men.
A guards division was so badly cut
up that it's remnants were hurriedly
removed from the battle front. An
otoher guards division was also
badly mauled, particularly by our
guns.
German Losses Heavy.
The German losses during our
bombardment, it is believed. were
greater than during any previous
preparation fire. The German artil-
lery was handled in a mastery fash
ion.
During our preparatory drumfire,
which in the center and right sectors
began at II pm. Thursday night and
kept increasing in violence until the
zero hour, the German gunners lay
low. Doubtless they were crouchine
in dugouts or other shelters from the
demoralizing fire which was extreme
ly efficacious. In any event fewer
enemy shells dropped on the first
Army front than on other of the pre-
ceding three nights. Even when our
doughboys leaped from their box-hold
trenches and strobe forth to meet the
foe the German cannonade was feeble
feebler, indeed, than it had been on
September II in the Woevre district
or on September 26 east of the Argonne
Our own barrage, laundering ahead
of tho infantry, was SO timed thai
it grew heavier the nearer we got to
the kriemhild line. Thus at 5:3(
twenty-five American shells burst or
the enemy every minute. at the
number was forty-five a minute, which
was later increased to fifty-five
Meantime the German batteries were
biding their time. AS soon as oul
boys got well under way and at grips
with the machine guns in difficult
country like the Morinc wood, hurri.
cane Of shrapnel and high explosives
swept over them.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
n,0O0 TURK PRISONERS
NOW HELD BY British
5000 More Taken by Arabs-Cav'
airy Clears Country North
of Damascus.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, October s. $3.50 pm
Seventy-one thousand Turks have
been taken prisoner by Gen. Allenby's
forces since the commencement OF the
British operations in Palestine and
Syria, according to an official state
ment issued tonight by the war Office.
This is in addition to 5000 prisoners
claimed by the Arab ARMY.
Three hundred and fifty Turkish
guns were taka
The text of the statement reads:
There has been no change in the
general situation. Northwest of Da-
mascus our cavalry are clearing the
country. They have tAken more than
$4,000 prisoners in this area
Since the commencement OF opera
tions on the night of September 1S
more than 1000 prisoners and $50
guns have been captured, besides
some 5000 prisoners claimed by the
Arab army of King Hussein."
Evening star., 1918-10-06
CZECHS AND SLAVS SPURN
BARON BURlAN'S PLAN

BERN, Switzerland. October s.
Baron Burian, the Austrio-Hun-
garian foreign minister, has declared
to the deputies of the German ma
tionalist group that the internal con-
ditions of Austria demanded a revi-
sion of the constitution, according to
the Nouvelle Presse Libre. The fun
damental terms of the revised consti-
tuition, he declared. should be an
agreement between the various Aus
trian nationalities. Thus far. the
newspaper adds, the Czechs and Jugo-
Slays have refused to collaborate in
the proposal to revise the constitu-
tion.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
Huns in Rage Apply Torch
As Meu RetireAb0utC Cambria

1t is evident that the Germans were
prompted solely by rage in applying
the torch to many of the places to
which they set fire. They are de-
stroying things of no military value
to any one aud the destruction OF
which simply adds to the general dew
astation Of the country.
Village after village in all the
country east and southeast of Cam
brai and Douai is ablaze. The Ger
man is realizing that he must get out
of this country and seems determined
to lay it low in his spiteful fury. He
has even set fire to the wreckage Of
ruined houses, while the homes OF
the peasant poor. in which they might
have lived again, have gone up In
flames as the Germans retreat.
Everywhere the British continue to-
day to make advances, SO that the
movement is general. even if the push
ahead at any particular place Is
slight. The positions at the breach
in the Hindenburg system at Beaure-
voir have been further improved and
nearly a thousand prisoners nave
been taken in this area.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
DUKE OF ALBA BRINGS ON
SPANISH CABINET CRISIS

MADRID. October 5.-The Duke of
Alba. minister of public instruction
in the Spanish coalition cabinet, has
notified Premier Maura of his inten-
ton to resign. The Marquis de AL
hucemas, minister of the interior. has
advised the premier that he also will
resign if the Duke of Alba persists
in his purpose.
Premier Maura declares he will not
form another government if the pres
ent pact for national unity is dis
solved by the resignation of it's mem
berS.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
FIVE YEARS FOR swINDLER.
J. J. Worthington Secured More
Than 800, 900 at CharitS' Expense

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, october s.
A sentence of five years in McNeiIs
island federal penitentiary, following
his conviction on a charge of de-
frauding through the mails. in con-
nection with nationwide charity
swind.es, was imposed on J. J. Wor-
thinpton. alias William Mathew
Chase, here today.
Mrs. Rae Pelmont. codefendant.
convicted with Worthington. was
Granted a stay of sixty days before
sentence is imposed.
Federal authorities said that char
ity swindles conducted by Worthing-
ton in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and the north
west netted him an amount in ex-
c.ss OF s10e.0ce.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
REPULSED
ON ITALIAN front
Gain Footing at But One Point in
Assaults North of the
Grappa.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, October 5.-Austro-Hunga-
rian forces yesterday launched an
attack against the Italian lines north
of the Grappa, and the mountain front
of northeastern Italy.
The war office says that the en-
emy was repulsed all along the front
of attack except at one place where
the Austro-Hungarians gained foot
ing.
The o-Hungarians began their
assault along the front from the head
of Stizzon valley to Mont Solarolox.
The place where the enemy pene-
trated the Italian lines was at Malga
Valpes.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
GEN. PERSHNG THANKS BOYS
Cables Expression of Gratitude for
Work Done on Farms

members of the United States Eovs,
Working Reserve for their assistance
on farms last summer in a cablegram
today received by William E. Hall
national director of the organization.
The achievements of the United
States Boys Working Reserve during
the past year are beyond praise" said
Gen. Pershing. The American ex-
peditionary forces thank one and all
for the spirit which you have given
U.S."
Evening star., 1918-10-06
Denial Turks VIII Seek Peace;
Issue Discussed With Allies

and Turkey. The question of peace:
it is added, has been the subject OF
definite decision upon the details of
the form and the time at which 10
undertake new steps toward peace.
1t is declared that the central pow
ers are proceeding in full accord
with one another and desire 10
pave the way toward peace in such
a manner that new measures Will pc
understood as a continuation OF the
policy of the central powers.
Prince Macmillan of Baden, the
new German imperial chancellor, yes
tert}ay visited the Austro-Hungarian.
Turkish and Spanish ambassadors at
Berlin, according to the German press.
The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin says
that the speech which Prince Maxi
milan will make today in the reichs-
tag will be an important one.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
NEW BULGARIAN KING
RETAINS OLD CABINET

AMSTERDAM, Friday, October a.
The Bulgarian government today offer
ed it's resignation to the new king, who
expressed his confidence in the cabinet
and asked the ministers to retain their
portfolios, according to a dispatch from
Sofia.
AMSTERDAM, October 5-The first
decree signed by King Boris was one
denobilizing the Bulgarian army, ac-
cording to dispatch from Sofia
Former King Ferdinand left Bull
garia Friday night. Before signing his
declaration of abdication he received
the various party leaders, who all ex-
pressed approval of his decision.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
WORLD SPEED RECORD
IN SHIP CONSTRUCTION

ABERDEEN, Wash, October 5.-A
new world record for speed in ship con-
struction was made today. The wooden
speed ship Aberdeen, launched last Sat-
urday after seventeen and one-half
days' of work, was completed today for
sea in twenty-three and one-half days.
The previous record was made with
the steel steamer Crawl Keys, built at
the Encorse yard Of the Great Lakes
Engineering Works in twenty days. The
Crawl Keys was a single-screw steamer,
while the Aberdeen, a ship of 1000 tons,
built by the Grays Harbor Motorsh;p
Corporation. has twin propellers.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
RUSSIA BREAKS TREATY
PROVISIONS WITH TURKS

AMSTERDAM, October 5.-The
Russian note to Turkey, published by
vorwaerts. concludes, according to a
Berlin dispatch:
1.-THE Russian government is
obliged to state that in consequence
of the action of the Turkish govern
ment, the treaty of Brest-Litovsk,
which was to have established peace
full relations between Russia and
Turkey, is null and void
1t is understood that this applies
only to the clauses in the treaty con-
cerning the relations between Russia
and Turkey.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
10 DEAD ON SPANISH SHIP;
OTHERS HAVE INFLUENZA

HAVANA, October 5.-The Span
ish liner Alfonso XII, bound from
Spain for port in the West Indies,
with 1882 passengers on board, re-
ported by wireless today that nine
teen persons had died on the steamer
from Spanish influenza and that
many others were ill.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
Peace MOue Not Yet Made,
But Is Coming Says Report

terms have been accepted. according to
a Vienna dispatch to the Frankfort Eel
tung, which is quoted in the Dutcn
press. The note will be published i'm
mediately.
Reports from other sources tnat thS
new German imperial chancellor would
have something to say on the peace
question. at today's meeting OF the
reichstag are reinforced by a Berlin
message today which reads:
."The unexpected summoning OF the
reichstag is due to the fact that the
new chancellor has an important state
ment to make to the people and the
parliament regarding peace"
Evening star., 1918-10-06

BY the Associated Press
BASEL. Switzerland. october s.
Denial that Turkey is about to seek
a separate peace is made in a dis
patch received here from Vienna
which says that the attitude of Tur-
key toward the central powers con-
tinues loyal. The dispatch adds that
all reports that Turkey will follow
the course Of Bulgaria are incorrect,
as the Constantinople government in
tends to act in full military and po-
litical accord with the central pow
erS.
Another Vienna dispatch says that,
instead of new peace measures be-
ing instituted by the central powers
the desire for peace always has eX-
listed in Germany, Austria Hungary
Evening star., 1918-10-06
Haiq Gains in Quentin Sector;
Enemy Quitting High Ground

Press).-During the night the British
appeared to ilaye regained possession
Of Beaurevoir and of the railway at
Penchaux.
In the Beaurevoir fighting the British
have pushed their way through the
German forces until the latter now have
been reinforced with cooks and officers
servants, who have been thrown into the
line with rifles. Apparently, every
available German has been brought out
for active service in this locality.
Weak enemy forces attempted list
less attacks between Blecourt and Tilloy
and the British had no trouble what
ever in smashing them up completely.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
ernnlent.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 5.-Field Marshal
Haig reports some progress by British
troops around Montbrehain and Beaure-
voir, in the st. Quentin sector.
His statement tonight adds that the
Germans have begun to withdraw from
the high ground between LIE Catelet
and Crevecoeur.
Using Every Available German.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, October 5 (by the Associated
Evening star., 1918-10-06
SCOUT PATROL SHIP 397
SUNK BY NAVAL VESSEL
ALI on Board Saved as Craft Goes
Down in Long Island Sound
Following a Collision.

The United States scout patrol ves-
sci s97 was sunk in collision with
another naval vessel in Long Island
Sound yesterday. it is announced by
the Navy Department. The COM
mander of the 397 reported ell on
board were rescued.
Identity of the naval vessel with
which the s97 collided was not dis
closed by the Navy Department. The
s97 formerly was the steam yacht
Mary Alice and was Of 1S0 gross tons.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
ny LINCOLN EYRE.
Crblegram to The Sunday Star and
New York World. Copyright, 1913.

Cgb1egram to The sunday star anu
New York World. Copyright. 1915
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
ON THE AGONNE FRONT. October 3.
Gen. Pershing's forces swept across
the open country between our posi-
tions and the Kriemhild line yesterday
morning with the best protection from
our artillery, airplanes and tanks tnat
our infantry have ever had. Our prep
aration fire reduced the krupp bat-
teries to silence almost uncanny un-
til the American waves OF assault
were well on the road toward their
detectives. Then the Krupps reacted
heavily, of course, and our guns mad
to pound them nightly to clear the
way for the doughboys.
: In the air the Americans met with
fierce rivalry, but the Germans al
though displaying high order OF
skill and gallantry, were generally
kept back. A number of them were
destroyed, seven in one call area
alone.
Hun Resistance Stifens.
Our progress was necessarily slower
than in previous thrusts. for the foe
was defending his last prepared sys-
tenn of defense on the south frontier
with stubborn tenacity. He knows
that a breakage in the Kriemhild line
might mean irratrievable disaster for
him in this region.
The tank corps played a supremely
inportant role in the morning s
onslaught. Never have American in
fantrymen operated in such complete
harmony, in any undertaking.. with
the grim, rolling tanks. to which ma
chine guns are no more formida BILE
than beanshooters. because the dark
ness impairs the guns efficiency. The
tanks started half an hour behind the
6oushboys, and they had hard time
to catch up with the advance. but by
noon they were with or ahead of the
front-line waves. They waded into
rifle pits and machine gun clusters in
Morine wood, crunching the guns and
their crews to atoms wherever the
Germans stuck to their positions.
Tanks Fight All Corners.
The tanks fought with the Krupp
IT'S and even with bomb-throwing
f.orpoan nlaneS with the same delib-
Evening star., 1918-10-06

By the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, October 5.-Other
advices say that the chancellor
has not yet made the statements
credited to him regarding the
suspension of hostilities, the ap-
pointment Of plenipotentiaries and the
request for the allies terms. but that it
was understood he would make such
The new peace note of Baron Burian,
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister, will
declare that all of President Wilson's
Evening star., 1918-10-06
CIVILIANS MOVED
FROM 40 TOWNS IN
ALSACE-LORRAINE
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOclated Press.
GENEVA, Switzerland, OctO-
bcr 5-Forty villages in Alsace-
Lorraine froz,, Basel to Colmar
have been evacuated by the cf-
william population, nccOI .linE to
the Democratic.
The German authorities, the
newspaper says, now have or
dered the Inhabitants of Mul.
hansen, Altkirch and other
smaller towns to prepare to
leave Immediately.
Evening star., 1918-10-06
PEOPLE OF GERMANY
GET WILSON SPEECH

AMSTERDAM, October 5.-The
semi-official Wolff bureau of Berlin
has given to the German press the
text of President Wilson's recent
sneech. Several of the newspapers
~ western Germany today published
long reports of the speech without
comment.
Evening star., 1918-10-06

air was filled with masses of fying
earth and stones.
Deadly Relay System.
In going forward the infantry used
the relay system AS fast as one unit
was worn out and tired another pass
ed through it from the rear, the first
dropping back. thus keeping up the
strength of the front line. The reason
for the temporary halt in the Anleri-
can advance since the drive last week
was the condition of the roads, 1t be-
ing impossible to bring up artillery
and the ammunition supplies needed
in biting Off another chGnk or the
German line.
Not only had the old roads crossing
the trenches and no mans land be-
tween them been unused for four
years. but by the constant shelling
they had been blotted of the earth.
All the bridges had been destroyed
and had to be rebuilt. There We're
dozens of mine craters in the center
of the roads and at their sides where
the Germans before leaving had done
their best to blow up the highways.
1t was consequently necessary to lay
and haul up planks to cover the soft
ground.
Eerculean Efforts of Engineers.
1t is impossible to give the engineers
too much credit for their herculean
labors in this connection. Traffic aft
er the last advance became a hopeless
crawl of days. hours sometimes being
required to move q single kiiometer
In addition to building roads to the
front the corps mapped out one-way
routes. so that it would be possible
for the traffic to move continuously
in the same direction.
In the meantime the men and Off
GERS were itching to take another
crack OF the Hindenburg line and con-
tinGe on to the kriemhiltie Stelluag.
This is the name of a famous line of
trenches, which the Germans con-
structed before they built the Hinden-
burg defenSeS.
Foreseeins another push, the Ger
mans have for days been frantically
working to clean out the moss and
brambles from the Kriemhilde line,
Where they are making a desperate
stand now
Evening star., 1918-10-06
moved the loug-distanee guns that
were protecting tho railway junction
of Vouzieres, six miles north Of Mon
fhois

moved the long-distance guns that
were protecting tho railway junction
of Vouzieres, six miles north Of Mon
thois.
Germans Fight Bitterly.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES
NORTHWEST OF vERDUN. October
(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
Try to Halt Yankees.
Fighting with all the ferocity of
The early days Of the war. the Ger
mans did their utmost today to bring
to halt the American offensive.
Early this morning and in the fore
noon the Americans pushed forward
through blanket Of fog yard at a
time. and later in the day, when the
mists lifted. they drove forward a
further distance against the German
line.
Almost no change has been made on
the right near the Meuse. but on the
left the operations of the French. west
of the Argonne forest, and the Ameri-
cans, on the east, defined more clearly
the salient in which the enemy still
has considerable force opposing the
Americans, who have been steadily
clearing the forest Of machine gun
nests.
Aerial Effort Reduced.
Again the Germans concentrated
their greatest efforts on the center, in
an effort to prevent the swinging up
ward of their line to a point which
would endanger yet further that part
of the army left in the AR gonne woods.
Although the artillery action of the
Germans today was terrific-the vol
ume was greater than yesterday
there was notable reduction of
aerial effort. Only occasionally did
the German aviators accept the chal-
lenge of the Americans today, and
even a bombing expedition to Lam
Evening star., 1918-10-06

dres-et-St. Georges, where more than
two tons Of bombs were dropped. OLD
not develop resistance.
The contrast in, the forenoon was
not surprising because of the low Wis
ibility. but conditions in the after
noon were excellent and full advan-
tage was taken of them by the french
and Americans, who carried ou!
hundred missions, ranging from SIM
pie observation to bombing the back
areas. The theory of the aviators
is that the Germans have adopted a
policy of conserving their alrp!anes,
using them to great extent only on
cloudy days, such as yesterday. on
cloudy days they can fly by COMPASS
above the clouds, swooping below
them when occasion demands tnen
disappearing above almost immedl-
ately, and so escaping all but mo-
mentary observation.
American Planes Factor.
The American planes were an ac-
tive factor until late tonight: Be1ore
the fog actually had lifted, they were
ming the men in the trenches and
harassing the transports and artli-
lery. Time and again the roads be-
hind the lines were choked py Hlers
who with their machine guns drop
ped the horses dragging guns and
was accomplished without the loss
of a single plane. OF the few enemy
planes that did fly over the American
lines one was brought down py an
anti-tank gun captured a few hours
before.
Tanks Are Again Used.
Tanks were used again by the
Americans. but somewhat less ex-
tensiyely than on the first day. 1t was
a day of artillery action more than
anything else. Each side sent hun
dreds Of thousands of shells, both
high explosive. shrapnel and gas, into
the others territory. Repeatedly the
Germans gathered in force to launch
counter attacks, but always with
negative result. The Americans, most
of whom have now had experience on
battlefields, stood like veterans, here
and there changing their defense to
offensive and gathering in another
tiny bit of ground between them and
the kriemhilde positions.