The Robesonian., 1918-10-28
LUDENDORFF RESIGNS.
"Brains" of German Army Resigns
Position-Germany is Awaiting
Proposals for an Armistiee-R'e-
port That Reichstag g Makes Civil
Government Supreme.
Government Supreme.


The Associated Press gives this
morning the following summary of
the war news:
The German government has pre-
pared a rejoinder to President Will
sons last note in which after again
referring to the far reaching changes
which have been carried out and are
being carried out in the German con-
stitutional structure to which the mil
itary powers have been made subject
it declares that Germany is now
awaiting the proposals for an armis-
tice.
A London dispatch, however, re-
porting the fact that Premier Lloyd
. George and Foreign Secretary Bal
four had gone to France with naval
and military advisers, says it is un-
derstood authoritatively that the al
lied governments will not reveal their
armistice terms until Germany has
replied to President Wilson's last note
which it probably was expected would
contain more than the mere fact that
Germany was waiting for the terms
of the armistice.
A crash has come in the personel
of the German high command. Cen
eral Ludendorff, reputed to be the
brains of the German army-the man
who promised the German people ne
would crush Great Britain and France
before the United States could get
under way in a military sense-has
resigned his position as first quar-
termaster-general and Emperor VIII
liam has accepted the resignation.
simultaneously, while the German
line continues to crumble under the
allied attacks and the German bOr-
der is slowly but gradually being ap-
preached by Germany's foes, comes a
report that the Reichstag, by large
majority, has passed bill placing the
military command under control of the
civil government.
On the western battle front the
British, French and Americans have
continued to make further slight gains
against the Germans; in the Italian
theatre both the British and Italians
have scored successes, while in Ash
attic Turkey the British have captur-
ed Aleppo in Syria and are driving
ahead on both banks of the Tigrls
in Mespotamia, with the Turks un-
able to check them. The fall of Alep-
DO and the continued advance up the
Tigris are moves of such strategic
value th.t it is not unlikely Turkish
opposition shortly will be overcome
both in the Holy Land and in MesOp-
otamia.
The French armies, fighting on the
forty-mile front between the Disc and
Aisne rivers, are keeping up their Of
fensive against the Germans and have
made additional gains, taking several
villages and compelling the enemy tc
fall back at various points.
In the region southeast OF Valen.
ciennes, around LIE QuesnOy, the Ger
mans have delivered violent counter
attacks against the British. Their Ell:
forts to throw back Field Marsha
Haig's men from the positions they
hold were unsuccessful and heavy cas-
ualties were inflicted on the enemy
by machine gun and rifle fire..
The Americans have begun the sec
ond month of their operations IN tn
region of Verdun by keeping up thell
attacks against the Germans from tn
Meuse to the wooded country north o:
Grand Pre-. Some further progress
has been made notwithstanding con
tinued strong opposition by, ,Germal
machine gunners fNom BEHIND tne
natural Notifications which aboun'
through this district, American air
men also are continuing their bomb
ing operations behind the German
lines, their latest effort in this re
spect having been made against tn
territory around Briquenay north o
Grand Pre-, in which 140 airplane
took part, sixty Of them being bomb
ing machines.
Since the Americans began their op
erations northwest of Verdun, NOR