Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-10-18

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with the French at Laucon. East Of
the Mouse also the Americans were
going forward, and, at the time of
writing, these movements, as we'll as
those all along the line, were still pro-
crossing.
These operations in France were
steadily crushing the great German
salient whose apex was near Laon.
and the French were maintaining a
| continuous pressure on both sides Of
! that city. They also were compelling
the further retirement Of the Huns
who still remained south of the Aisne
between Neufchatel and Vouzieres.
The American air service on the
front of the First army clearly dem
onstrated it's superiority during the
week. Huge aggregatiOns Of bombing
| planes continually flew over the en-
envy front lines, communications, back
| areas and troop concentrations, doing
incalculable damage while the pur-
suit planes kept the air clear of Hun
machines.
The Serbian army kept up the unre-
hitting pursuit of the Austrians in
Serbia as the. Bulgarians withdrew
| from that country, or surrendered. ac-
! cording to their agreement. Before
the end of the week the Serbs were
quite close to Nish and moving ahead
steadily. To their west, in Albania,
the allied troops made considerable
progress. The Italians took ElbasSan
after crushing determined resistance
| by the Austrians, and then continued
their advance northward.
The occupation of Beirut by French
marines only accentuated the troubles
of Turkey. The cabinet resigned, af-
| ter peace note was said to have been
started on it's way to President Will
! son, and Tewfik Pasha, it was report
| ed; would be the new grand viZier. His
sympathies are rather with the allies,
| and there is little doubt the sultan
himself would be mighty glad to get
out of the war on the best terms OBJ
| tainable. London was convinced Tur-
KEY had notified Germany it intended
to make peace and that the kaiser
tried to stave this off by the proposal
| of the chancellor.
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Hungary was in a condition
! almost of panic and was nervOusly
| awaiting the outcome of Prince MaX's
effort Reports from Vienna said the
ministerial council had decided to in
troduce national autonomy "in order
to make President Wilson's stipulation
az accomplished fact" Among the
reople of the empire the movement to
] proclaim the separation OF Hungary
| AND Austria was making great head-
yav. Meanwhile the Bohemian lead
| ers were comforting and preparing TO
declare the independence of their
country and its separation from Aus
tria-Hungary, and, knowing the dam
gers of such action, made their wills
| and settled their personal affairs.
| - "a
Boris, who has succeeded to the
throne of Bulgaria on the abdicatlon
of his father, Ferdinand. adheres TO
the terms of the surrender made by
| his armies, and has ordered Germany
| and Austria to quit his country with
in month. Already the rail connec-
| ton between Vienna and Constantine
pie seems to be effectually broken.
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Three more victories" by the MUIR
derous German U-boats are to be re-
corded. The Irish mail boat Leinster'
the japanese liner Hirano and the
American cargo steamship Ticonderoga
were torpedoed. The total loss of life
was estimated at more than 9O0. In
the case of the Ticonderoga about 23U
were killed, most of them by shrapnel
fire after the boat had ceased to resist.
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One painful result of the German
peace offensive was the decided slow
ing up of the campaign for the fourth
Liberty loan. Presumably because
many short-sighted people thought
peace was at hand and the money
would not be needed, subscriptions TO
! the s6OO0,0O0.000 loan were distress
! ingly slow in coming in. All the agen-
cies engaged in the campaign re-
| doubled their efforts and the American
public was loudly warned that the
Hun peace talk must be disregarded
and the money must be raised. Uncle
Sam needs those six billions and he
will get them, and he will need and
will get much more, in all probability,
before pe&ce is declared and the arm
les are di-banded- If the people re-
fuse to lend the government all the
| money it needs, at a good rate of in
| terest. 1T has other ways of getting
| r..r.lr and II r,.iIl adnrt them