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Evening star., 1918-01-19
WEATHER..

For the District of Columbia, fair'
continued cold tonight; temperature
between 10 and Is degrees above zero;
tomorrow increasing cloudiness, fol-
lowed by snow; slightly warmer; gentle
winds. becoming easterly.
For Maryland, fair tonight, except
snow in the mountains; continued coid'
tomorrow snow and slightly warmer;
gentle winds. becoming easterly.
For Virginia. fair in east, snow IN
west portion tonight; tomorrow snow
and not quite SO cold; ntpaes1 m1aeeaee Sn'i.
For West Virginia, snow tonight and
tomorrow; not quite SO cold tomor-
row.
Tide Tables.
Compiled by United States coast and
geodetic survey
Today-Low tide, 1928 am. ana S:lZ
pm; high tide. 12:46 am. and PA pm
Tomorrow-Low tide. S:25 am. and
s:14 pm; high tide. 1:44 am. and 2:22
pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-sun rose. 7:24 am; sun sets,
Tomorrow-su rises. 1928 am; sun
sets. Sis pm.
ASloo1h AASSSs AA.Vo s@..AA' -
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at 2 pm. yesterday:
Observation-Disclosures pm. 81; 8
pm. IS; Il midnight, "a. Today. am,
10; am. Is: IL noon, %: 2 Pm. %.
Maximum. 81, at pm. yesterday; mini
mum, Is, at 8 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum. 81; minimum. 26.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pm. 1882;
8 pm. 1884; IL midnight, 29.S7. Today,
am, 1894: am, 1904; II noon, 3o-o5;
= pm, 1904.
Evening star., 1918-01-19
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Evening star., 1918-01-19
CURB STOCKS.

Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibb. Co.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
KING AND QUEEN IN BRuGEs
Huns Backing Toward Ghent, After
Losing 6ruees--zeebrugge Is
Occupied by the Allies.

Paris.-The Germans have aban-
Aoned the Belgian coast, and are seek
ing refuge back of the outer defenses
Of Antwerp.
King Albert of Belgium and Queen
Elizabeth entered Bruges.
The French have captured the town
Of Thielt, in Belgian Flanders west Of
Ghent, and have passed on 2,000 yards
sast of the town.
The enemy resisted strongly be-
.ween Bruges and Cambria, but re-
tired slowly northeast of La Fere.
With Ostend in the hands of the al.
lies, the troops drove forward along
he coast in the direction of Zeebrugge.
II is reported that Zeebrugge has been
evacuated by the Germans. Belgian
infantry entered the city of Bruges.
Zeebrugge, the port of Bruges and
the second important German subma-
rine base on the Belgian coast, has
been occupied by allied forces.
The Belgian official statement says
the Germans have given away under
Belgian pressure on the entire front in
Flanders.
Lille has been captured by the Brit
ish. 1t is the largest town in France
taken from the Germans and has been
for four years an important point Of
the German defense system.
Gen. Won Arnims army is no longer
strong enough to sustain operations on
the extended front from the French to
the Dutch frontier 1t is therefore
reasonable to expect that the German
march across Belgium will be rapid
and that King Albert will re-enter his
ca pital earlier than was hoped.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
FRENCH CAPTURE R0uLERs
RouIers Is the First Important Belgian
Town From Which Huns Have
Been Driven--king- Albert
in Command.

Paris.--Roulers has been taken by
the allies. This city. which before the
war numbered $4,000 inhabitants, is
the first important Belgian town from
which the Germans have been driven.
On Oct IA the battle famed up along
the Flanders front, and the first day s
progress gives reason for high hope.
Under the command Of King Albert
Of Belgium the British, Belgian and
French armiks attacked. There was
no artillery preparation, but the troops
advanced under cover of a creeping
curtain of fire of extreme power
The. troops progressed methodically
and in most satisfactory way. Ma
chine gun nests were forced to sur
render, one after another, and at
in the evening the advance amounted
to four miles in the direction OF Cour-
trai for the British; four miles toward
Thielt for the French and two and a
half miles in the direction of Thourout
for the Beglians.
To the French, in the center of the
iAiCs iCit eiC hOHOi Va toPtuiiueo itouA7
ers. and the plateau covering Il.
Nearly 10000 prisoners have been
counted and a large amount of mate
rial and many guns have been taken
with the horses attached to the guns.
This shows that the methodical with
drawal of the Germans, of which they
will not fail to speak in reporting the
battle. could not be accomplished. Ger
man reserves which attempted to
hurry up to the front line did not es-
cape the keen eyes of the allied avia-
tors and gunners. One troop train
was cut in two by shells. When the
occupants of the cars jumped out they
were met and scattered by machine
gun fire from allied aviators.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
ovERsUBscRIPTioN SEEMS As
suRED FROM REPORTS NOW
IN AT HEADQUARTERS.
rs, ,O0O.O 900 ARE SUBSCRIBERS
ber Of Persons Participated Than
in Any Previous Liberty
Loan Issue.

Washington. Oversubscription o
etie Fourth Liberty loan seemed as
sured when the three weeks campaign
closed. 1t appears that again the
American people have given to theii
government not only what was asked
but more than was asked, in order that
the war against Germany and her al
lies may be carried to successful con
clusion.
How far the total will run above the
S6,000,000.000 goal officials would not
estimate. New subscriptions entered
during the last day and those made
effective by payment of the 10 pei
cent installment probably will amount
to billion and half dollars for ths
entire nation, it was said.
Indications are that the number OF
Individual subscribers will far exceed
$4,000, 900, and break all records of dis
tribution of war bonds for either this
nation or any other.
The honor roll of bond buyers will
irclude many who have not particf
pated in the First. Second or Third
Liberty loans, officials said. 1t viii
bear the names Of subjects Of other
governments, neutral and belligerent
throughout the world. Germans. in
termed in camps in this country, and
others whose sympathy is not with
their native land, will be enrolled.
A large part of the six billion dol
lars will be paid over to the govern
ment account by banks through whom
subscriptions were arranged by indi
viduas The individual subscribers
then will take ten months in which to
repay the banks on the installment
plan for the bond loans. Bonds will
be delivered when the last payment
has been made. The transaction rep
resents the most extensive scheme Of
popular lending and borrowing through
banks that the country has ever seen
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
BELGIAns KEEP UP ADVANCE
Fifteen Thousand Retreatine Germans
lnterned in Holiand--BeIgans in
charus Dutch Belgian Roredr.
to persons

London-The Belgian advance con-
tinues. Cavalry, closely following the
enemy, captured several machine gun
nests, according to advices recsived
here. Further north the Belgians
reached the Dutch frontier. To the
south they reached line more than 20
k:lometers east of Bruges. capturing
numerous villages, including Moer-
kerke. Maldeghem, Ursel and Aeltre.
The material abandoned by the enemy
is enormous. Several batteries were
captured on the Belgian coast.
All of Hollands communications by
land and sea have been reopened as q
result of the successful allied advance
In Northern Belgium.
Fifteen thousand retreating German
soldiers have been interned in Holland
after being cut off by Belgian troops
moving northward from Eccloo. ac-
rording to reports from the frontier.
Belgian soldiers took charge OF the
Dutch Belgian border and were re-
ceived enthusiastically by the popu-
lace.
The Germans are evacuating Ant
werp, the Daily Express learns from
its Belgian frontier correspondent
Antwerps warehouses are being
stripped. Thirty submarines are be-
ing shipped overland from the Flan-
ders coast to Kiel or Wilhelmshavens
Airplanes are being sent to Duessel-
dorff lin the Rhine province)
The correspondent says the whole
Flanders coast from Ostend to the
Dutch borders is benig shelled and
resembles wall OF flames.
The Germans are blowing up the
famous Solvay poison gas factory and
enormous quantities of ammunition,
which they are forced to leave behind.
British and Belgian forces are rap.
idly clearing Northern Belgian of the
enemy. according to the official Brit
ish statement relative to operations in
Belgium issued by the war office.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
AUSTRIAN PEOPLE MUST RULE
SELVES. PRESIDENT WILSON
SAYS IN HIS ANSWER.
CONDITIONS HAVE CHANGED
fhe Dual Monarchy Must Deal Direct
Iy With It's Owen People Before
Approaching United States On
Subject of Peace.

Washington.-Pres Wilson has
answered the peace note of Austria
Hungary with a declaration that the
Austro-Hungarian government must
satisfy the national aspirations of Iits
own people and that they, the people.
shall be the judges Of their rights and
destinies.
President Wilson has rejected the
plea of Austria Hungary for an armis-
tice and peace negotiations, and in SO
doing has made clearer the conditions
which the central powers must meet
TO end the war
In a note made public soon after 1t
was well on it's way to Vienna, the
president, in effect, says there can be
no talk of peace with the Austro- Hun
garian government except upon the
basis of complete liberty for Czecho-
Sloyaks and other subject nationalities
rs free members of the family of ma
tons. He refuses to entertain the
Austro-Hungarian suggestion for this
reason without discussing military
questions dealt with in the reply TO
Germany.
He said autonomous development
of the peoples of the dual monarchy
would not do. In short, the president
tells Austria that she has waited too
long, in the hope Of sharing victory
with Germany. He says conditions
have changed since he laid down his
fourteen points before congress last
January.
1t is now up to the dual monarchy,
ke points out, to deal directly with its
own people first before approaching
the United States and the allies on the
subject of peace. He makes plain that
these peoples must have liberty and
independence-not autonomy before
we can talk business with Austria.
The president in his message wipes
out the tenth of his fourteen terms. 1t
is the one which read:
'The people of ustria-Hungary,
whose place among the nations we
wish to see safeguarded and assured.
should be accorded the freest oppor-
tunity of autonomous development"
No longer will 1t figure in the presl-
dents peace programmes, for Austria
Hungary has made 1t impossible.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
LEAKEsvILLE OCTOBER
RuLEsFoR SOLDIERS BOXES
Al Christmas Packages For American
Boys Overseas Must Be Sent
Through Rcd Cross.

Washington.-All Christmas ship
ments to United States boys abroad
must be made through the Red Cross,
and all parcels nust conform with reg.
ulations made by war department:
One package only may be sent to
each man. 1t must be inclosed in a
box furnished by the Red Cross No
parcels are to mailed after Nov. Is.
A label issued to the man overseas
by the army must be sent by him to
relatives or friends at home and this
will be good for box from the Red
Cross.
Boxes must be packed by the rela-
tives or friends and delivered un-
wrapped and unlabeled to the Red
Cross, which will inspect, weigh, label
and mail the packages. Three pounds
Is the maximum weight of all pack
ages. No written message may be en-
closed
The sender must furnish postage
from place of mailing to Hoboken. N.
j. Each package must bear the label
tCNctttt iiOli all Ont "kSh thC hoih0
and address of the soldier and the in
spection label of the Red Cross.
Inspected packages will not leave
the custody of the Red Cross until de-
Iivered by the Red Cross to the post
office. In event of Christmas par
eel label being lost no duplicate can
be issued.
The following articles will not be
accepted for shipment. Intoxicating
liquors, poison and all articles or com
positions containing poisons, explo-
siyes, inflamable materials Qncluding
friction matches). mechanical or
chemical devices which may ignite or
explode (patent cigar lighters, etc..
liquids or fragile articles easily brok-
en-, and all other articles that may in
any way cause harm to mails or injury
to persons.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
AuToCRAcYs DAY IS DONE
President Has No Thought of Endan-
gering Allied victories--ArmIs-
tice Is Matter For Allied
Commanders in Fjeld.

Washington President Wilson has
answered Germany's peace proposal
with decision which not only fulfilis
the expectations of supporters of his
diplomacy, but also dispels the fears Of
those who predicted he would substi-
tute victories at arms with defeats at
diplomacy.
No peace with kaiserism, autocracy
must go; no armistice can even be
thought of while Germany continues
her atrocities on land and sea; one
cannot be considered unless It Is fully
dictated by the allied commanders in
the field in such terms as absolutely
provide safeguards and guarantees
that Germanys part will not be a
scrap Of paper.
This, in few words. is ;he presi-
dents answer
/ If 1t does not bring q ts3ilulation
which may be more than an uncondi-
tional surrender. allied diplomats and
American officials believe 1t may
cause revolution in Germany.
Beyond question 1t speaks for the
entente allies as well as the United
States.
The dispatch of the presidents reply
was followed by the issue of this for
NAL statement at the White House by
Secretary Tumulty:
"The government will continue to
send over 250,000 men with their sup
plies every month, and there will be
no relaxation of any kind"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
AMERICANS TAKE STRONGHOLD.
Pershing's Men Capture Town by Out
WHITING the Enemy.

whiting the Enemy.
With American Forces Northwest OF
verdun.-The capture Of Grand Pre- by
Gen. Pershing's forces was accom-
plished under terrific hardships and
with heroism not limited at in the
brief official announcement Of the TAX
Ing OF this stronghold of the Germans
The americans took the town pri.
marily by outwitting the enemy-by
attacking without artillery prepara-
tion, which the Germans had expected.
by wading the River Aire at four
points instead of building bridges; by
struggling through almost impossible
mud. step by step, until suddenly on
top of the amazed Germans and by
driving them into retreat after hand
to-hand fighting.
The Americans had moved to point
within short distance Of Grand Pre-
and the Germans had destroyed the
bridges over the shallow Aire as they
retreated. The enemy obviously ex-
pected an artillery fire to preface any
further attack, for his surprise was
unfefgned when the American troops
smashed into his positions.
Without attracting the attention Of
the Germans the Americans waded
into the cold water, which reached to
their waists and even higher.
On the northern bank they found
broad mud flats into which they sank
halfway to their knees. The Germans
ty this time had discovered their ap-
proach and opened a bitter machine
gun fire. but the Americans pushed
steadily on. Beyond the mud banks.
which were crossed slowly and with
the greatest difficulty. the Americans
found the Germans and closed with
them in desperate bayonet, hand-to.
hand fight. Rifles often were used az
clubs and each man struggled to down
his individual opponent.
The. Americans completely oyercams
the enemy, drove him into the woods
nc rth of Grand Pre- and took possess
sion of the important railroad.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
Hostile Airplanes Accounted FOR.

London.-Thirty hostile airplanes
destroyed. go driven down out of con-
troll, two downed from the ground and
one balloon shot down in flames. Field
Marshal Haig announced in his official
communique on aviation activities
The British flyers also bombed the
Frescaty aerodrome, da1aging .
Zeppelin shed and wrecking the han
gar. Casualties among the mechanics
we're noted. The enemy did not fire
on the attacking squadrons Thirty
three tons Of bombs were dropped dur
ing the day and 13 in night attacks.
Eleven British planes were missing at
the end OF the day.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25

this front. Again. shortly after the
battle of verdun started, the French
railroad which was to furnish many of
the supplies to the troops was de.
stroyed. The French government, how
ever, had macadam road 30 feet wide
on which four lines of traffic, two In
either direction, were maintained. Day
and night 14,000 motortrucks carried
men and equipment.
The traffic never stopped. When a
hole was made In the road, man with
. shovelful of rock slipped In between
the lines Of trucks and threw the rock
. into the hole, then jumped aside to let
the truck roll the rock down. Then an
other man would follow his example,
and so on until the hole was filed.
Trucks that broke down were showed
5nside and repaired almost instantly.
Had the French depended on their rail,
Eroad or on poor highways the Germans
would have won the battle.
There are few places in which good
roads will win great military Victories.
But there are many places in which
they will win great victories in time of
Epeace. Whenever crisis-military,
economic or social-occurs in the life
5of community, the condition Of the
road Is significant factor In deter
mining whether the community will go
mp or down, forward or backward. The
community with good roads is the COM
Amunity that will deliver the goods
when the necessity comes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
PRISONERS PITIFuL SIGHT.
Austria Sends Back Human Wrecks
Horrible to Look At,

Paris.-Exchanged prisoners Of war
are returned to Italy by way of Lake
Como. OF all sights of war, that of
an arrival of exchanged Italian pris-
oners is the most pitiful.
In Italy Austrian prisoners are well
cared for. well treated, well fed They
so home well and strong. In return
fer them Austria seEds back human
wrecks. horrible to see. 1t sends back
men mutilated. men wasted by starva-
ton and disease, men who have suf-
fered the most horrible cruelties. As
each arriving train comes in half the
returned prisoners have to be carried
off in litters. Not because they are
wounded, nor i'll, but because they
have been starved.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
Must Speed Up shipbuIIdlna.

Observation-Disclosures shipbuilders
were called upon by Secretay Daniels
to speed up their output Of destroyers
to meet the menace OF the new and
greater submarine effort which Ger
many is known to be planning. The
secretary began a series of conferences
with representatives of the builders
Most of the plants are working now
nearly to capacity on destroyers, but
arrangements will be made to lay down
as many additional vessels as possible.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
ROADS SAVED FRANCE TWICE
Had II Not Been for RadlatIng System
Germans Would Have Crossed
Marine and Reached Paris.

Good roads have twice saved France
In the present war, observes Farm and
Fireside.. Had 1t not been for the radi-
ating road system maintained by the
French government, the Germans
would have won the battle of the
Harne and reached Paris. The Ger.
mans had calculated ON only three d.
visions being sent out from Paris to
etop the invasion. Instead, the excel.
lent system Of highways made it pos
1ible for five divisions to be sent to
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25

Paris.-The Paris edition OF the Chi.
cago Tribune has received dispatches
from Switzerland confirming the re-
port that II Americans recently es-
capped from the German prison camp
at villingen, Baden. Only two are re-.
ported to have arrived safely In Switz-
erland. They are Lieut. Isaacs, U. 8.
n. Of the steamship President Lincoln.
and Corp. Harold Willis Of Boston.
willis, who was taken by the Germans
in August. 1917, while member OF tns
Lafayette Escadrills, escaped Oct. (.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
British Praise Wilson's Reply.

London. The correspondent Of Uni.
versaI Service is able to state on the
highest authority that Germans posi-
tion is such as to make It imperative
for her to accept the allies conditions.
The Hll Mall Gazette interprets the
tone as meaning t.lat 1kaiserism must
cease"
The powers associated against Ger
many are preparing an outline Of un-
discussable terms, which Germany
must accept without reservation. The
powers are said to be also drafting I
"st Of negotiable points.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
satisfied with Reply To Germany.

Ottawa.-President Wilson's reply
to German overtures is regarded here
as entirely satisfactory. Sir George
Foster, acting premier said: THE
presidents answer disposes effectu-
ally of any hope that may have becE
entertained by the central powers that
they would be allowed to escape the
righteous consequences of the four
years of unjust, barbarous warfare"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
"What's in q Name ~

Washington. What's In a name?',
asked a telegram received at Liberty
loan headquarters with the following
report: Berlin precinct. Otoe county,
Nebraska, with population OF 1000
and a quota of $4,000. was one Of the
first communities in the Kansas City
district to exceed its quota
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
Abandon Plans to RefIoat shIp.

London. - Salvage experts have
given up hopes of ever refloating the
Lusitania. They have come to the
conclusion that even If successful 1t
would not be worth the cost How
ever, attempts may yet be made to re-
cover the specie known to be locked
in the purser's cabin on upper deck
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-10-25
WILL MAKE THE HUNS PAY.
French Government viii Exact Full
Compensation and ReparatIon.

Paris-During a discussion in the
senate on the damages suffered by
Northern France, without military jur-
.sdiction, Stephen Pinchon, the French
foreign minister. reiterated the gov.
ernment's resolution to exact full com
pensation and reparation
Furthermore" the foreign minister
continued, this warning has Just boon
given in decisive form by President
Wilson in his admirable reply to the
proposals for an armistice from Berlin.
The president Of the United States. in
whose resolutions we always have had
entire confidence. has signified thai
he refuses. like ourselves. to negotiate
an armistice with state whose armies
continue to dishonor themselves By
acts OF spoliation and devastation"
Rio Janeiro Schools Closed.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-07-12

began yelling for the chance. Cor
poral Raymond Powell was first
up and he was given squad of
men for the work.
The guns bad put down aheavy
barrage, but the corporal led his
chaps straight through this fierce
fire and charged hot-foot after the
retreating enemy. Tbs Germans
retired to a strong point, but the
corporal with the other Yankees
went in after them.
"Our two boys we're retaken,
along with the five Australians,
and the corporal and his party also
captured boche officer. In the
meantime twelve Australians had
circled around and joined the
American party with the result
that fifty German prisoners we're
brought back"