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The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-10-19
CERMAN'SPEACE
DANCE CHECKED
Allied Forces Enter Cuortrai in
Midst of Festivities of
I, Enemy. !.
YANKS ADVANCE 2 MILES
Establish Posts South of Tur.
coing-Tanks Cross
Selle River.

With the British Army on the West
ern Front, Oct. .-(Delayed.) 1.-THE
British, in their advance past Lille
have established posts north of Tur-
Going.
American troops that advanced three
kilometers (nearly two miles). south
of LIE Cateau yesterday, were still push
ing on this morning. They have taken
more than 1900 prisoners and repulsed
numerous machine gun attacks.
The Germans had established ma
chine guns in shell holes and were aid
ed by the fog. The mist was SO thick
this morning that tanks had to be
steered by compass. American tanks
crossed the Selle river with much dit-
fculty. At the same time the stream
was bridged by engineers working un-
der machine gun fire.
Stiff Resistance.
The Belgians, in their advance on the
Flanders front, have been meeting with
stiff opposition from machine gun nests
around Bruges.
Cavalry Is surrounding the rear
guard enemy positions, while patrols
are pushing out ahead.
A British general who complained of
the delays of his dispatch riders sent
through the ewly-captured town of
CourLfal was informed that they were
held up by civilians to be kissed.
The Germans were giving a dance in
Courtrai "in celebration Of peace" when
they were abruptly driven out.
The first allied troops to enter Lille
found the city undamaged. It was pro-
fusely decorated with flags.
Civilians were dressed in their best
clothes and a general holiday spirit
prevailed. There was much dancing in
the streets and singing of patriotic airs,
while old men played accordeons. Flags
that had been secreted for over four
years were flung to the breeze as soon
as the Germans were out of the city.
Crowds followed their liberators,
cheering and Offering drinks and cigars.
Men and women with children in their
arms rushed into the streets to kiss the
allied soldiers.
The civilians said that the Germans
waited until the last minute and then
blew up the bridges outside of the city |
on Thursday morning. The boches de- |
parted on the run.
There were similar scenes of jubila-
lion In other captured cities.
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L0CES WOOD IS
CLEARED HUNS
Americans Forced to Withdraw
When Germans Shell Forest
With Mustard Gas.
YANKs FIGHT LIKE DEMONS
Mop Up" District South Of
Grandpre and Patrol in Di
rection of Brieulles,

| With the American Army Northwes
| of Verdun, Oct. 19.-In heavy fighting
Friday the Germans were driven from
Loges wood and from the northern edge
Of Grandpre. where they had succeeded
in emplacing a few machine guns.
Later the Americans withdrew from
the forest when the Germans shelled i,
with mustard gas. but continued to
hold both sides of 1t.
Northward of Cote de Castillon
American patrols entered the strong
passing beyond them.
Patrol encounters continued through
out the day until darkness fell.
The Germans had counter attacked
in the sectors of Grandpre and Loges
wood on Thursday night, driving back
the American line slightly.
The noisest unit Of the American
army was sent in to win back the lost
ground. The doughboys attacked with
fixed bayonets, yelling like wild In
dians. Uproarious cheers announced
the capture of the first German line.
AS the progress continued through
the woods there was continuous cheer
ing.
"They came at us like Indians" de-
clared German prisoners afterward.
The boches were surprised that the
Americans, who could shout SO feroci-
ously in battle, could be so mild and
gentle in their treatment afterward.
For the most part the Germans
fought we'll, standing by their machine
guns or engaging in hand-to- hand en-
counters until bayoneted. The Ger
mans have evacuated lie Grand Carre
and Hazois wood and the Americans
have occupied Bantheville wood.
The American line Friday night
skirted Beffu, Lemort Homme and Ian
dres-St. Georges on the south.
Americans have 'mopped up" the
district north of Grandpre and on Fri
day patrolled toward Brieulles and
Bots de Foret.
Observers reported violent explo-
sions in the region of Clery LIE Grand
and Ainscreville.
Clear weather increased air activi-
ties.
Austrians who were captured by the
asked to be put in separate
cages from the German prisoners.
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COMMITTEE TO NEGOTIATE
Commercial TeIegraphers' Uni ON
Elects Officers and Concludes

Washington, Oct. 19.-With the Sc
lection Of Washington as national
headquarters and the reelection of s.
j. Konenkamp as president by accla-
nation. the Commercial Telegraphers'
Union of America brought its biennial
convention to an end today. ]. A.
Campbell was elected secretary treas
urer an dthe following were elected
presidents: L. I. Marshall, Los
Angeles; Kenny Whitten, Pennsyl-
vania; e. L. Boole, Chicago.
A committee of five, with President
Konenkamp as chairman, will remain
in Washington to carry on negotiations
regarding locked out men and the ad-
justment of wages. This committee
will organize today and map out its
campaign.
The next convention will be held at
Atlanta, starting on the first Monday
in october. 1919.
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MANY TOWNS SEIZED IN
AREA SOUTHEAST CAMBRIA
Yankees, Fighting With British, Continue Vic.
torious Progress -Wassigny and Ribeauxville
Taken Marcq River Crossed-English
Warships Shell Germans.

London, Oct (11:so any British troops continuing the
Rbeauxve and have entered Saduel officially announced
late tonight by the Office.
wassgny important nineteen miles south
east of Cambrai).
Hags have also Bazue further north of Waspnv
and Maznghen
The British have five miles and have COM
peted the capture of Doua They with the
east of Vred and Cattelet.
Further north advance the Marco
river between sanghn and chereng and approaching the
village.
The Germans still in retreat between the
the Lys river Gen. Pummer British army east of Turcoing
and Roubax standing the Belgian frontier Fighting continues
Three Miles Beyond Lille.
With the Allied Armies in France and Belgium, Friday Oct ls
Qo pm British and American troops southeast of LIE
1900 prisoners and 2O today
British than three miles southeast Lille had been
officially announced that prisoners captured this
front
On the Belgian British warshps sheng etreating
Germans.
With the British Army the Western Battlefront Oct Is-
(Ngh 10 pm)Aled patrols pushing from Bruges APP
from the Flanders front today
(Ghent is tweny-three miles southeast of Bruges).
Belgian cavalry from Bruges has been driving
Ghent Also French cavalry the city
Bruges canal rapidly marching norhward
Americans who attacked with the the Bohain- LIE
Caeau 'front.' continue to forge ahead and have formed junction
with the British
How Line Now Runs
The line past the west bank of
Jone DE Mer stream past the lie Cateau road the railway
Taken 5000 Prisoners Since Thursday.
Paris Oct l9Te French continue successfully their advance
5ssy sas nv ss;s 4 sss essf si
of nearly nine miles south of Hannappes.
Along the canal the French hold the Hannappes Tu
pgny and Noyas Since Oct II in this the French First
army has taken than prisoners and twenty guns
East of Rehel the Germans have been driven territory
between the Ardennes canal and the Ane west of Agny The
town of Amby aut has been addition
Carried Into Captivity.
With the British Forces France Oct observation-disclosures
the last fifteen days OF their occupation of Lille the Germans took
into captivity $4,000 of the inhabitants of the city.
The British meeting with little opposition in the Lille salient
and to the noward In most places difficulty found in keeping
contact with the main forces owing to the rapdy the
retreat
Capture All Belgian Coast.
London Oct 10 (230 pm Allied forces have the
whole of the Belgian coast according information received by the
Evening News. The allied line position
Dutch coast to the east Buge and to the south of Courtra
Four Towns Captured.
With the Allied Forces Belgium, Oct I9he
Hasm Ved and Cateet have been captured by the allied
forces
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PROTEST FROM GERMANY
To United States Against Allen Proper

TO OH1teu StateS against N1Ten Property
Sales.
Washington. Oct. 1D.--Protest against
the Americanizlng OF German owned busi-
ness CONCERNS. ships and other property
by Alien Property Custodian Palmer has
been made by the German government 10
the state department. The note, trans
mtted through the Swiss legation and
made public last night. declares the sale
Of German owned property In this country
Is consciously aimed to do lasting injury
to German economic existence"
Referring specifically to the proposed
sale OF the property In New Jersey Of the
North German Lloyd and Hamburg Amer
lean steamship lines, the note says 1t Is
an endeavor ito shackle through measures
OF force the opportunities OF German ship
ping interests to develop in the future"
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STEAMSHIP LUCIA SUNK

New York, Oct. 19.-The American
steamship Lucia, equipped with buoy
ancy boxes and supposed to be unsink-
able. has been sunk, according to word
received here Today by shipping circles.
She was torpedoed by a submarine i'm
the Atlantic, but details as to the date
of the sinking and the fate Of the crew
were lacking.
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and in the airv and to enter immedi-
ately upon negotiations for a peace for
which the fourteen points in the mes
sage of President Wilson to congress
Of Jan. 8, 1913, and the four points
contained in President Wilson's ad-
dresa Of February IL. 1918, should
serve as a foundation. and in which the
viewpoints declared by President Will
son in his address of Sept. 27. 1918, will
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HUNGARY MUST RETURN
TO FULL INDEPENDENCE

Amsterdam, Oct. 19.-"Hun-
gary must return to its au-
tonomy and complete independ-
ence." declares the draft of an
address to King Charles, which
was read at the conclusion Of
the sitting of the lower house of
the Hungarian parliament, says
a Budapest dispatch.
Hungary Is in harmony with
the international currents based
on the noble principles of Presi-
dent Wilson's points," the ad-
dress adds.
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RAIN, SAYS BILLY 'POSSUM.

GOOD friends, L
bid a fond fare
well T o t h o s O
who've read my
rhyme, For ere
another sun has
set, And with an
eye that glistens
wet. And years
that one cannot
forget, I'm leav-
ing you this time;
So let this be my
epitaph, Rhymed
in a. pinplinp tlIne
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FLATTENiNG GERMAN LINE
Interesting Military Developments May q,

London. Oct. 10.--From the Scarpe to
the sea the process Of flattening out the
German line continues and many interest
ing developments may be expected shortly.
The fall of Roubaix probably will follow
that of Turcoing. The line from Turcoing
now runs southward along the Lille Douai
railway.
Indications are that the Germans are
about to evacuate the pocket between the
Serre and the Oise north Of La Sere.
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FOR RATIoNlNc HollAMn %

vVV M IIONTNO dOICAND.
washington. Oct. 19.-Negotiations for
rationing agreement with Holland are
be resumed in London Immediately. The
Fgotiations were brought to a standstill
Ft January owing to Hollands failure to
|cept an agreement Professionally decided
!. because OF German opposition md in
Fference. Hollands change of policy is
|trlouted In some quarters to the change
the military situation.
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GERMANY CANNOT CEASE
HER SUBMARINE WARFARE

m Copenhage Oct 5s The German reply
the German capital 1t contained point
1-Germany cannot her bmarine ewarfar
2-Thee definite on an armi
S-President Wilson's demands re mot elected
ena Is made perpeed crueles and robes
GERMAN REPLY READY. ~
M oct Cemanys reply President
1y the
aerlare the submarine warfare cannot be
as armisce
reject the presidents
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CONFERENCES IN BERLIN

Basel. Switzerland, Oct. 19.-(Havas.)
There were government conferences
n Berlin Thursday that lasted all
day, according to advices here. The
war ministry held five-bour session,
in which the military chiefs pattici-
pated
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SERBS CAPTURE KRALJEVO
Austrians Being Pursued In Direction
OF Trestenik-German Air.
mar Aoki,a

London. Oct. 19.-The important Ser
bian railway town OF Kraljevo. eighty
miles south of Belgrade. has been cap
tured by the Serbs, the Serbian war Of
hce announced today.
The Austro- Germans are being pur-
sued in the direction OF Trestenik,
twentyone miles east Of Kraljevo.
German airmen are active in bomb
ing liberated cities.
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PANIC ON BERLIN BoURsE

Paris, Oct. 19.-There was another
panic on the Berlin Bourse Thursday,
according to advices from Zurich. Mar
itime securities are reported to have
dropped rs per cent. and chemical
product issues from 10 to 20 per cent.
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little good, little bad, a flock of
mirth, fling at fad, gave you simply
what l had; May my successor beat
his dad, And you'll forget me soon. The
weather? Rain and slight change in
temperature tonight and Sunday.
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Total world. 1927. .67S 323.772 Inc. 1904
The admiralty state that If British
losses from enemy. action alone are con-
sidered August Is better than any month
since September, 1915.
The average monthly British sinkinss
for the eight months ending August
were 2l0.2 .234 tons. and the average out
put 12S,733 tons-an average monthly
deficit of 81.501 tons.
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czEcHS RULE IN PRAGUE

Copenhagen, Oct. 19.--Czechs are
masters in Prague, according to a Ber-
lin dispatch to the Berlingske Tidende.
Czech money is in circulation and the
Czech flag waves over Hradschin cas-
tie.
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B0LSHEVIKI SURROUNDED

Don Cossack Volunteer Army Scores
Point.
Amsterdam, Oct. 19.--The Don Co.'S
sack volunteer army and other detach-
ments have surrounded the ,bolshevils
forces In the northern Caucasus, says
dispatch from Kiev. The retreat of
the bolsheviki to Astrakhan and Tar
itzyn has been cut off.
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REPORTED TO HAVE RESIGNED
Basel, Oct. 19.--Baron Burian, the
Austrian premier, has resigned, ac-
cording to Vienna newspapers.
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SUNK BRITISH SHIPS
Still More Than Those Built In Month.

Still More Than Those Built In Month,
london Mail.)
The August sinkings of British mer-
chant vessels were 6,123 tons less than
in July. The following is comparison
in gross tons with the output of new
ships from yards in the United King
dom:
New
Sinkings. Ships. Deficit.
Eight Months 1.681,S76 1,029,s69 652,0o7
August ...... 176.401 124675 51,726
Tonnage lost by British, allies and
neutrals: --
Aug. July. Inc or Dec
British .:.... 176.4o1 1S2,524 Dec. 6.123
Allied and Neu-
tral ....... 151.275 141,24S Inc. 10. OPT
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Sinkings, Ships. Def


trai M 49,. l51. .a75 1929 Inc. 1o,os7
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In the chapter entitled 4 Woman
Critic Of Women our essayist favors US
with an appreciation of Madame Arvede
Barine, French writer whose works are
not widely known in this country. The
most notable among them appears to be a
volume entitled Portraits de Femmes,
which, We are told, contains her choicest
essays and most penetrating criticism OF
life. Her portraits include those of st.
Teresa, Jane Welsh Carlyle and George
Eliot.
Madame Barine put forward a remark
able suggestion concerning George Eliot
which is entirely new TO us. She attrib-
utes her willingness to enter into marital
relations with George Henry Lewes to the
fact that George Eliot was an ugly
woman!
George Eliot" says Madame Barine,
chad all the weaknesses of her sex. She
was tender and generous, enthusiastic and
devoted, exacting, jealous, cowardly; but
the craving to hold within her hands the
heart of a man had in her the peculiar
intensity which it assumes in ugly women.
To this was due the only serious fault OF
her life and its greatest mistake
After this it is impossible TO deny TO
Madame Barine the attribute OF orlgl-
nality; nor are we surprised that she
quotes with approval the declaration OF
Lord Acton that by choosing TO live with
Lewes George Eliot sacrificed her right
to a tomb in Westminster Abbey.
Gems like these light up the pages OF
bundle of essays which are otherwise ex-
tremely serious.
WOMEN AND THE FRENCH TRADI-
TION. By FLORENCE LEFTwIcH RAVE
MEL The Macmillan Company. $50.
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the supreme literary gift, and says that
among all French authors of anything
like her Importance, she is probably the
least read"
In one passage of the essay on The
Great Sdloniere We are regretfully told
that Madame de StaGl left no consum-
mate and immortal literary monument;
and in another, on the following page,
We are asked to believe that her teachings
have become a part of the intellectual
heritage of the world. There are many
similar inconsistencies in the "apprecia-
lions" contained in this book.
AS to George Sand.
The authors personal judgments Of
great women are for the most part kind
ly, but-she cannot resist recalling some of
the unkind observations Of other bio
graphical critics. Thus in the chapter on
George Sand, who is denominated A LdW
Unto Herself, we are reminded that a re-
cent review has said that nothing can
make the life of George Sand decent
reading; and although this is character
lied as the utterance of a muckraker, the
author goes on to tell US that George
Sands great-grandfather on her fathers
side, King Augustus the Strong of Po-
land, was "a monarch whose immortality
was literally Olympian and who counted
his unauthorized offspring literally by the
hundred"
How much more gently this is put by
that genial critic James Huneker when
he says: George was named Lucille Au-
rore Dupin, and she was descended from
a choice chain of rowdy and remotely
royal ancestors"
In view of her tendency to gibe a little
at her heroines, We are rather surprised
that Miss Ravenel did not recall Schil-
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SSN/HAT need is there Of another
w new book on Japanr asks
the surly critic. The same sort Of need,
we venture to reply, as exists from time
TO time for a new dictionary, a new CYCLIC
pedia or a new gazetteer. History goes
on making itself from day to day and
month to month and year to year.
To illustrate: The present reviewer
first visited Japan in 1895, but the books
which furnished him with a good intro
dueiion to the country then would hardly
answer the purpose now. In the domain
of Japanese history alone a good deal of
water has run under the mill since 1895,
and the visitor to Japan to-day could
hardly afford to be ignorant Of the Russo
Japanese war and the events following
the Treaty of Portsmouth, in which Japan
has been a participant.
History and Much Else.
This new volume on Japan, therefore,
BY the late Robert P. Porter, the well
known journalist, serves most useful
purpose in enabling the traveller and gen.
eral reader to keep up with the times.
The work is divided into two parts First,
a compendium of the history Of Japan
from $50 B. c. to A. D. 1914, concise
without dryness, and compiled with due
sense of proportion; and, secondly, an
account of the physical characteristics of
the empire, its population and resources
and its modern development, including
brief notices of japanese art and litera-
ture.
The book was incomplete, although
most Of it was in type when the author
died. In the preface Mr. Russell H. Por-
ter says his fathers object in writing it
was to describe the main facts of Japa-
nesc history for English speaking people,
and TO explain how an Oriental State al
most as impotent as Burmah or Siam was
able in the half century from 1853 to 1908
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The Latest Descriptive Book on Japan

reload and suddenly reappear in quite q
different spot, to repeat the operation
The intending traveller to Japan, be-
fore he goes on board his steamship at
San Francisco or Vancouver, will do well
TO provide himself with a copy of Mr..
POrter's book. He will find it most help
full in those discussions in the smoking
room, where it so often happens that a
little knowledge is dangerous thing.
Furnished with this small volume and
Prof. Chamberlin's Things japanese, he
should be able to hold his own against all
ordinary fellow passengers.
JAPAN: THE RISE OF A MODERN
POWER. BY ROBERT p. PORTER Oxford
University Press. 1925.
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Perry in 1854 leave nothing to be de-
sired. The author conveys the idea that
Perry's expedition was more threatening
in character than other writers have
deemed it.
Perry, Gate Opener.
1t is true that Commodore Perry, as an
American Ambassador, conveyed Presi-
dent Fillmore's request that the country
should be opened to commercial inter-
course in a fleet of four warships, but
that the Japanese themselves have not re-
garded his mission as unfriendly is shown
in Count Okuma's Fifty Years Of New
Japan, where Mr.. SUBURB Shimada,
member of the Japanese Parliament,
says: "The conclusion of treaty of in
tercourse and commerce between Japan
and the United States of America fifty
five years ago marked a new era in our
history and paved the way for our pres
ent position among the great Powers of
the world"
OF course Perry knew that the Shotgun
ate Government then in power might re-
sist his pacific mission by force, in which
event he was prepared to meet it, but
"thanks to the intelligent and clever
diplomacy of Perry" says the same Japa-
nese writer, America was able to secure
the honor of introducing Japan to the
world.
In his chapter on the physical charac-
teristics and population Of Japan We OBJ
serve that Mr.. Porter gives the height of
Fugi Yama, the most famous of all Japa-
nese mountains, as 1895 feet. The fig
ures more generally accepted as correct
are l., 365 feet, the thousands correspond
ing to the number of months and the
hundreds to the number of days in the
year.
The health and physique Of the Japa-
nese people are said to have been i'm
proved by the introduction of foreign
games and sports, of which baseball has
appealed most successfully to popular
favor, especially among the students of
the schools and colleges. Mountain climb
ing, as praetised by the English, has
grown in popularity as recreation for
the leisure class.
Soldiers Wonderful Swimmers.
Swimming, which was practised with
great skill under the old regime, retains
its vogue, and the most wonderful achieve
ments are described on the part of Mill
tary students. While an accomplished
civilian swimmer is expected to be able
while treading water to hold an open fan
in one hand and write q poem on it with
the other, the young soldier under like
conditions will will load, aim and fire his
rifle at fixed target. HE will then dive,