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German Report
 Admits Retreat Before Advance
:" T,---1-e.-v -41I' " Says British and Americans Follow Them to Their
 New Positions.

Berlin, Oct. 1O.-British and Am e,ican troops followed the retiring Germans on both sides of the Roman road in the direction of Le Cateau, says the official statement issued to- day by the German army general staff.
 The Germans retre'ated step by step to new positions, fighting all the way.
 The statement reads:
 'On the battle front between Cam brai and St. Quentin we occupied positions in the rear.
 We have evacuated Cambraf.
 Southeast of Cambrai by means of successful counter attacks, sup ported by tanks which in the even- ing of Oct 8, put us in possession of Seranvilerls, and the heights on both sides of Esnes, Bavarian and Rhine land divisions primarily, as we'll as troops of the German Jaeger dvi- sion, rendered essentially easier dis engagement from the enemy.
 "ln the face of strong infantry at tacks, our troops retreated step by step toward new positions, fighting all the way.
 "In the evening the enemy stood east of the Bertry Busigny- -Bohain line.
 Between the Argonne and the Ornes river, Americans troops in cooperation with French forces again advanced in uniform attacks on the eastern bank of the river Mouse.
 "On the border of the Argonne for est attacks failed with heavy losses fo: the enemy.
 "Cornay, into which the enemy pen etrated, was recaptured."
 "On the battlefront between Cam 'brai and St. Quentin, the statement adds: We occupied positions in the rear. .,, "We have evacuated Cambrai."
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Strict Justice and Common Good to Be Motives in
 Drafting Peace.
TEMPER JUSTICE
 WITH MERCY
Secretary of State Delivers Masterpiece In Address
 At Auburn Thursday.

Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 1O.-ssIf
 another world war is to be pre-
 vented, strict justice and the
 common good must be the under
 lying motives of those who are
 charged with the responsibility
 of drafting the peace treaty after
 Prussian militarism is crushed"
 secretary of State Lansing, said
 tonight in an address.
 He was speaking at the cele-
 brati0n of the one hundredth an-
 niversary of the founding of Au-
 burn Theological Seminary.
 Temper Justice.
 While stern justice must be tenn pered with mercy, MT. Lansink said when the time comes to balance the account the authors of the "frightful wrongs committed against mankind should not be forgotten" he urged, however, that the American people discriminate between the ignorant and the intelligent, between the re- sponsible and the irresponsible, be- tween the master and the serf.
 Principles Clearly Stated.
 "The principles upon which a gen. eral peace will be made between the warning nations,' said Mr. Lansing, .have been clearly stated by Presi- dent Wilson.
 Thoughtful men must know that the peace which is to come will not be lasting peace if it's terms are written in anger or if revenge is the underlying motive of those who are charged with the grave responsibility of drafting the greatest treaty which this world has ever known.
 "Let us not forget that, while stern justice without mercy is un-C Christian mercy which destroys justice is equal ly un-Christian.
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Stiffest Fighting.

Southeast Of Cambral. Oct 10. (By The Associated Press )-( Noon. )- Between Fresnoy and Bohain where German machine gunners have con- centrated in force there was the stiff est kind of fighting today.
 British tanks helped to clear the machine gun nests.
 Allied troops are in force a thou sand yards south of the LeCateau road and have captured the towns of Estoumel and Igniel Les Frisettes on the highway.
 The British are still reported to be progressing.
 Bridges Blown Up.
 Six ponton bridges and two infan- trq brigades over the Scheldt river have been blown up by the enemy.
 British cavalry east of Cambrai seems to be working forward. Late last night they signalled from Beau mont and they were said to be making good progress.
 Dixie Troops Capture Town.
 It was Tennessee and North and South Carolina troops who captured Busigny after overcoming only slight opposition. They then wont forward. This morning the British were well to the east of Honnechy and Trois- viller.
 Important Gains.
 Northeast of Cambrai additional important gains haye been made; The
 N
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
hey Are Facing Eastward
 Along Hindenburg Line; a Defeated Force.
FRMAN BORDER GETTING NEARER
ll Along Front Allies Con |tinue to Press Forward
 Victoriously.

1 ((Associated Press Summary.) l The men of the once fOrmid- kble German armies holding the Hlndenburg line from north. of ,ambrai to St. Quentin, are fac Ing eastward defeated, and in Retreat.
 Their backs are the target for (he British, French and Ameri. Ian troops who bitterly fought hem, step by step. out of SUD- btsedly impregnahle defenses, Ind now are hurrying them |cross the open country toward kard the German border.
 Don't Make a Stand.
 Nowhere is the enemy attempting btand in force.
 True, the German border is yet long distance afway, but the last D days of chase have materially de- |ased the width of the area sepra- the invaders from their own line line.
 e Oateau, the important junction Int twelve miles southeast of hbrai, represented Thursday night point of deepest penetration by allied troops.
 The British were the masters of it. Il along the front, however, the lish, American and French have n steadily pressing forward their antry forces, taking numerous ms and villages while far in ad- Ice of them the hoof beats of the flry horses intermingled with the rs of the whippet tanks and the ecato barking of the machine guns de the moving forts.
 Running Ahead of Time.
 b fast has been the retreat of enemy that at various points the led forces afoot lost contact with he retreat, which is over la front about B miles from the south Douai to the region east of St. (ntin. has left in the hands of the es, in addition to the towns talk valuable lines of communication tsartegic positions of high im- tance and driven in a. wedge that mingly will force the Germans rywhere from the North Sea to vicinity of Verdun to fall back.
 Foe Is Outflanked.
 outheast of Douai, one of the re ming strong points in the German m the north, the British are pdlng in Etrun, twelve miles invest of Valenciennes. the pivot polnt in the enemy's known next ense line and ten miles to the tn the city is outfFenked at Soles- eantime the French and American lles on that part of the line run
 rom northwest of Rheims to Meuse river are still pressing ward in the converging move lt with the armies in the west gradually are forming the entire
 tneatre into a huge sack.
 Americans Go Up Mouse.
 ne americans continue slowly to ance up the eastern side of the :se, while west of the river, in junction with the operation ot trench, they have all but oblit- Eed the great Argonne forest as enemy defense position.
 ' the west of the forest in the le valley and still further west
 gains.
 Oifer Some Resistance.
 throughout this entire region the mans still are offering stubborn stance mainly with machine guns lslng the importance of holding
 'nelr foes while their armies in 'eiam and farthera south make
 their retrograde movement.
 ,.n Tn the Macedonian theatre ant sssllsesstine, the allied forces are
 Continued on page six)
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Managers of the loan campaign are counting strongly on the harvest of pledges next Saturday, Liberty Day, to swell the total. Secretary McAdoo today decided to go to Chicago to address ap audience. Tn St. Louis all theatres, schools, and churches are closed on account of influenza and most sales came from house to house canvassing.
 The Indiana counties still lead the district with 96 per cent of their quota subscribed; Kentucky is sec- ond with 76, and Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri follow in the order named
 Subscriptions in the Kansas City District are:
 Colorado, $s.964, $50: Kansas, $20,- GOA 100: Missouri, $4,7s0.900: Nebras- ka. $13.29s.050: New Mexico. $533,- $50; Oklahoma. $S.565.6O0: Wyom- ing, $,310,3OO.
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NOTICE.

Al, Banks, members of the Pine Bluff Clearing House Associa''on' wlil be closed Saturday. Octoner IT, Columbus Day-Legal Hollday' ! Pine Bluff Clearing
 House Association. By H. B. Strange, Manager.
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NOTICE.

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< < + | : * | * | < | FUNERAL SERVICES FOX
 CHARLIE NICHOLS.

Funeral services for Char lie Nichols will be held this (Friday) morning at 10 o. clock, from the Chapel of H. l. Holderness.
 The following will act as uallbearers: B. Caber. M. B. Bloom, William Rosenzweig, ]. H. King, D. M. Niven. Her. man Soltz, Gerson Moore and B. Pram.
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All owners of Bicycles are warn- ed to procure a license tag at once from the City Collector, and place same on their Bicycles in a conspi- cuous place. The police are instruc- ted to arrest all owners who have failed to procure "a Bicycle License Tag.
 w. B. HUTT, Collector.
 J. Frank Stewart, Chief of
 Police. 1n.11-Cf
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F f + + < + | | f + + | | IMMEDIATE ACTION ON
 WILSON'S PEACE NOTE

Basel Switzerland, Oct. 1O.- A Berlin dispatch received here today says that the. con servation faction of the Reich. stag has asked an immediate convocation of the legislative body in Germany to discuss President Wilson's reply to the imperial chancellor'ss, peace proposal. :.
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Haig's Men Advance Rap idly Along Entire Battle
 Front Yesterday.
ANGLO AMERICANS
 CONTINUE ADVANCE
Desperate Resistance From Enemy Rear Guards,
 Covering Up."

LOndOn. Oct. 1O.--La Cateau has been captured by the Brit-
 ish, Field Marshal HaIg an- nounces in his report tonight.
 The British have advanced rapidly along the whole battle front. They now hold the line of the Selle river from St. SOup- let to SOlesmes, which repre- scntS an advance of about ten miles east of Cambrai.
 Many Civilians Rescued.
 Meny civilians have been found in the captured towns and villages, 2,5O0 being liberated in Caudry alone. The text of the statment reads: At dawn this morning our ad- vance was resumed along the whole battle front.
 Rapid Progress At all points rapid progress was made in spite of the efforts of the enemy's rear guards to hold up the advance.
 Our troops approaching the large woods east of BOhain, have entered Vaux-Andigny.
 North of that place we have reach eu Iue general l1ne or the Solle rlV- CT from St. Souplet to the neighbor- hocd of Solesmes and have captured I1e Cateau.
 West of Solesmes we captured Ayesnes and Rieux ard then St. Mar tin.
 West of the Scheldt canal we have taken Etrun.
 "In the towns and villages captur- eG in our advance today numbers of civilians have been found, including 2 zoo in the town of Caudry. Southeast of Lens our troops have made further progress and have cap tured RouvrOy"
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WEATHER.

ARKANSAS--Friday and Sat urday probably showers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09

he escapes the gallows, an assassin's bullet or fails to be killed in a battle with police, but dying in prison is by no means a happy ending. It is par ticularly trying on one's family. Fay, like many another famous criminal, might have earned fortune in le- gitimate way. Your high-class crook has plenty of gray matter. But he chose the other path, and instead of being millionaire, although he stole millions, he died as poor as any sneak thief whose limited intelligence bars him from associating with that aris- tocrat of the criminal world, the bank burglar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
What Does It Profit z A Man To Be a Burglar?

HE other day a man was found 2 = shot to death in a Chicago al- ley. An occurrence of this kind is not unusual in town where the foot pad and the "stick-up" man flourish like the green bay tree, but an inves- tigation showed that the victim was Eddie Fay, a crook and bank robber known wherever there are metropoli- tan police departments. His fame, such as it was, was international.
 s In the course of long and active career, although he spent much time behind prison bars, Fay is credited with having stolen more than S2,000,- 900 from banks in the United States. It is believed that he was killed in a thieves quarrel over division of 1, loot or aquestion of leadership.
 The careers of criminals make a fascinating study, but there is a marked similarity in the way most of them end-in sorrow, degradation and death. The chances of crooks meeting violent death are just about ir the ratio of 100 to 1. He may, ii s is true, die peacefully in prison, if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

American troops entered the western outskirts of Sedan on Wednesday after noon, November 6, and completed the occupation Thursday morning.
 
 This laconic press dispatch awakens memories freighted with sadness for the French, and yet at the same time thrills them with the dawn of a new and a better day.
 It Is indeed fitting thing that Amer jeans should have the honor of wiping out the shame of Sedan for the French. for 1t was at Sedan on August 30, 1870 the retreating French were concentrated or rather massed, under it's walls. in a valley commonly called the sink of Gi. vonne.
 Bear in mind that hostilities began on August ?, and that on August the French were defeated at Worth, after a bloody contest and were forced to fall back from the frontier. A series of bat ties followed, ending with a desperate struggle at Gravelotte August 1s), with the result that Bazaine and McMahon were prevented from uniting, and Bazaine with 10000 men. took refuge in the strongly fortified city of Metz. Leaving force to besiege him, the main German army turned westward after McMahon, whom they found at SeA dan There, on September l, was fought one of the decisive battles of the world "a battle which at that time resulted in the surrender of the largest army ever known to be taken in the field. a battle that dethroned dynasty and changed the form of government in France
 
 This is why it is we'll worth while as our boys are in possession of Sedan, to refresh our minds about the part it played in the Franco-German warrior out of the defeat of France was born the overweening confidence of the Prus- sians that they were to be a race ot supermen and conquer Europe and then dominate the world and bring it under the influence of German kultur The army under McMahon consisted of g brigades, 15 divisions. and four corps d'armes, numbering nearly 100000 men. Napoleon III was with him. Tt was there" says Victor Hugo. mo one could guess what for, without order, without discipline. mere crowd, of men, waiting. as it seemed, to be seized by an im- mensely powerful hand. It seemed to be under no particular anxiety. The men who composed it knew, or thought they knew, that the enemy was far away" This Was why I set down the dates | showing the swift march of events since August 2 when the war had begun The great writer, patriot and seer. ia ilis grAnht account of the depacle Asaaass how" calculating four leagues as ~ aas march. they believed the Germans ae at least three days distance. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

The trouble with throwing care to the winds is that the winds blow it all back to you.
 You can't always tell. A lot of men are honest because they are afraid to take chance.
 Most of us imagine that we lack the ability to do things. when we merely lack the energy to do them.
 Any father can tell you that if moth CT had her way every kid would be a mollycoddle.
 A man would fight if he thought that he was being henpecked. But smart wife can manage a husband without let ting him know she is doing it.
 Gosh! Won't lot of the prohibition ists be mad when they discover that there is no Sunday closing law in heaven!
 Anyway, the man who expects the
 unexpected to happen is seldom disap- pointed.
 You would imagine that when man has lived 20 years with woman he would know something about her. But she is as great mystery as ever. Another damli: Once upon a time a couple bought lot in residential sub- urb and didn't build bungalow on it. Every wife delieves that when she dies her, fool husband will supply the chil- dren with a stepmother who will beat tAem until the blood runs all over the house.
 The reason why a woman can save two more pennies by doing the shopping her self is because her husband buys at the nearest place. while she buys at the cheapest place. Maybe you have noticed it yourself. But on the level, isn't 1t hard to get chum- my with man who wears long whis- kers?
 When a girl wears a dress that ex- poses her elbows you know why those yellow points are called funny bones.
 Funny Is right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
Sorry--Wanted To Fight.

Tt is a great disappointment to me that l will not get into the army before the war is over" said Otto Roeder. the affable clerk at the Tutwiler hotel
 T was in the last draft and had made all preparations to go when called. For several weeks during the summer I was in training with one of the civilian classes, and was just begining to feel like regular soldier when Bulgaria, then Turkey and Austria Hungary surren- dered, and now it looks like the Ger mans have hoisted the white flag, and it begins to look like 1t is all over. guess I'll stick to the hotel business in the future"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
A MASCOT.

By Arthur Guiterman, in The Mirth-
 full Tyre"
 In the glow of their youth they have come, and they pass With the flare of the steel and the blare
 of the brass;
 And the brave little dog, with brisk
 little wag
 To his stump of 2 tail. trots along by At his post in the ranks like the rest of For the brave little dog is away to the war. They will go They will gor' throbs a drum as it hears;
 There's the fall of a vail in the roar of our cheers. But the brave little dog is as gay as a lark; There Is joy, there is heart in his brave little bark As he gambos behind or he frolics be fore, For the brave little dog is away to tn. war.
 He's away to the war. There'll be need of him there Of the stanch little tyke tkat's fhe tea of despair;
 For there's none that's SO old !a m, world. or so wise.
 But may find new faith n tas as2 <, of his eyes, And his tongue is balm Sa Elte h<l t I that is sore;
 So the brave little dog is a~ss ss tie war.
 May the powers be good to tfs sasd iis- tie elf, Who is first for his frienc and is "a st for himself; May there still be bone fer his hEn- ger to find,
 And pat on the head from hafa Y at l is kind;
 May the heaven of men kesg x Ysid yoFen door the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Arkanrns Mnn to Preach.

Ark, will occupy the pulpit of the First Baptist church on Sunday, November 10, both morning and evening service said B. C. Cox
 pr. Hobbs is state leader in Ar kansas and his church in Jonesboro is said to be the finest and best equipped church building in the state. Every body is especially invited to be present at both of these services next Sunday. pr. Hobbs has the reputation of being one of the finest pulpit orators in the country hope he is going to have big crowd out to hear him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09

1t is dead easy to see how completely they were trapped and at the mercy of the swift-moving Teuton army for in- stead of its being several days journey away, they were moving as stealthily and as silently as serpents. They were there when the sun rose when the French army i'll fancied security, was quietly sleeping. They awoke to find on all the hills around Sedan, at all points of the compass, dense, dark mass of German troops, with their commanders and artil- lery. Not one sound had they heard.
 The battle was one of artillery. The French had been caught in a valley which the great Napoleon had called a
 bowl" The German guns got in their deadly work. The French fought des- perately, but the battle was a massacre General McMahon was wounded early in the day. The command passed first to General Ducrot, who was also dis abled, and afterward to Wimpfen. a brave general, who had hurried from AL geria just in time to get into the fight. Only one regiment, Zouave one, cut its way out and reached Belgium. But Me- Mahon's army of more than 9O;00O men, together with the Emperor Napoleon III. surrendered. and France was left with out an army in the field Yes. am right glad that today Uncle Sans men in khaki are masters of Sedan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
Paris Celebrates
 Winning of the War.

NNTELL may the Parisians drink
 w toasts to victory and sing "The Marseillaise." Champagne is flowing freely in Paris, and whe would deny the French their hour of triumph after four years of indescrib- able suffering and sublime sacrifice ? Paris was gay before the war, Paris of today and tomorrow will be gayer still.
 As the Associated Press points out. just 100 days ago the Germans, who ! now sue for peace, were 35 miles from Paris. For the second time since the world war began the French capital was in Imminent deadly per il." The roar of artillery could be heard and Parisians knew not what hour their beloved city would fall into the hands of the invader. But they did not despair. They faced the sit uation with a calm heroism that was superb. ,t
 And when the Americans marched into Sedan there was additional in centive to rejoice. Sedan is a city oi tragic memories for all France. IT 1870 it was the scene of a disastrous defeat, an almost incredible cataclysn which left France at the mercy oi E the Prussian foe. Historians have described that debacle, but the glow ing pen of Hugo has left an imper- ishable record of Sedan.
 In paying Americas debt to France it is fitting that American troops should have the glory of wrestling Se- dan from the Hun. It was striking climax to series of victories which gave the death blow to autocracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
RUssIA's NEW CONSTITUTION


 Under the constitution of soviet Rus sia the central committee of the all- Russian Congress of soviets is the chief governing body of Russia. It has 200 members elected by the Congress. In actual practice this committee has the real governing power. This empowers it to appoint and approve all the acts of the IS members of the council of peo- ple's commissars. This council corre- spends to the cabinet in most govern ments. The central governing commit tee may declare war, make loans, deter mine boundaries, direct foreign affairs and carry on all activities generally as signed to Parliaments, Congresses and cabinets. The only functions reserved for the exclusive Jurisdiction of the all- Russian Congress of soviets are the rati- fication of peace treaties and of the so- viet constitution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
"MAssIF."

From the Youths Companion
 Among the words of foreign derivation to which the war has introduced the reader, is the French word "massif, ? which means a more or less widely ex. tended region of high land. usually with a number of summits grouped about one eliminating point. The word is not pre- cisely new in English use. for geogra. phers have long found it useful addi- tion to their own particular vocabulary and great many persons who had for gotten it until the fighting began 1T France now recognize 1t as an old, al though not a familiar, acquaintance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-09
Celebrates the News.

Il was at the real estate luncheon on Thursday" said Arthur Crowder. 'It was in the midst of the startling news being cried on the street of Germany s having signed an armistice. Someone spoke up and intirnated that he consid- cred the announcement premature, that the old reliable Associated Press had not bers and remarked that so far as he was concerned 1t was settled, as he had already celebrated the good news by talk ing drink. But, said he, If 1t is not true l am willing to take another one every time the afternoon paper gets out an extra and says it is so-that is, pro- vided my bottle will permit it."