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OKLAHOMA CITY 1
HISTORICAL SOCIETV
THE D/ ILY TRANSCRIPT
VOL. VI. NO. 175.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1918.
TRICE FIVE CENTS.
ENEMY SWEPT FROM ALL BELGIAN COASf
ARMY PROCEEDS WITH
UNSLAGKENEO EFFORT
DESPITE PEACE TALK
War Department Proceeding on
Theory That Sprink Campaign
Is Coming.
WILL KNOW GERMANY'S
ANSWER BY NOVEMBER 1
Absence of Capture of Prisoners
in Belgium Due to Nature of
Attack.
SAILOR SAYS PIECE OF PIE WOULD PPMTRA! CMPIOCC IM ™
BE WELCOME PRESENT FROM HOME ™HAL EMPIRESi IN TOURCOING CAPTURED■
tpr tn t,i= aunt- h.. r a ..V ^ rnUliLOu Ur HILL 111* U £7 n T7 KT/^J r A r\x r a « ,_ *
ALLIED PEACE TERMS F^NCH ADVANCE TWO
MILES NEAR LA FERE
By CARL I). GROAT
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—"The
next two weeks should determine
whether we shall have a spring cam-
paign.
"In the meantime, we are proceed-
ing on the theory that the war is go-
ing on and that a spring campaign
on big lines must be fought."
This summary of the war and
peace situation came today to the
United Press from a general officer,
holding one of the most important
places in the army establishment but
prevented by army rules from talk-
ing for publication if his name is
used.
"I believe," he said, "that by the
first of November we should know
whether Germany is going to yield on
President Wilson's terms.
"It is now just a question with her
as to what price she is willing to pay
for keeping the American allied ar-
mies off her soil."
Dangerous to Slacken
He declared that it would be fatal
to go on any assumption other than
that all the fighting branches are
going ahead w'th their plans cn a
scope greater than ever before and
with a speed and enthusiasm hitherto
unequalled.
Some weight has been attached
here to the fact that news reports
fail to show an abnormally large num-
ber of prisoners in the present big ad-
vance in Belgium. Some authorities
say that this indicates that the Gei
man is making his retreat in fairly
good order. They draw from it the
lesson that the German army is
beaten but not utterly defeated.
Large Numbers Evidently Retreating
Secretary of War Baker's attention
was called to this phase of the situa
tion and he pointed out that the de-
partment has no late accurate re-
ports of prisoners. On the othei
hand, he suggested that the appar-
ent lack of big bags of prisoners
might be due to the fact that thus
far the Belgian attack has been large-
ly frontal. A frontal attack shoves
the enemy out of the track of the ad-
vancing forces. A squeeze -attack
pockets prisoners.
The Belgian drive has proceeded ac-
cording to schedule. As pointed out
in these dispatches several days ago,
a salient was developed in the Lille
region making it untenable.
The allies are making for another
main object, Valenciennes.
German I.ines Improved
The effect of constant retreat plus
thb repeated German official prom-
ises of peace, has been to shake Teu-
ton army morale to its roots. But j
there is in the situation one factor
upon which army officers lay stress
which should tend to keep down over
optimism, namely that the Germans
are retiring to a shorter ilne. This
gives them a chailce to make fewer
men suffice for covering the whole
line and offers the possibility of cre-
ating some small mobile reserves.
The German plainly is going back
to his home lines. If the nation does
not yield, there will be a battle royal
along the German border defenses
next year—a defensive fight on Ger-
many s part which can be kept up
a long time and at great cost to the
allies. This phase of the situation
causes officials here to suggest that
now is the time to go on—not relax.
In a letter to his aunt, Mrs. J. A. t all about our work but that is for-1
Fox,-this sailor boy says that "sweets bidden. but anyway we are helping
are very scarce in his neighborhood the cause at Present, and before it is
and he sure would like a piece of nie' I,?™ ,thlnk"?« ,that the aviators
part than Gradual Tendency Toward Capi-
tulation Seen in Happenings in
j Germany and Austria.
in foreign waters the greater part of i 1 certainly would like to have a : j
the time of the past year II,. grad tell*him a Tiat ti"' 1 °??ld ALfEGED REFORMS ARE
uated from Boonville academy in the would cau8e\im to ^up and take fOHJECTS OF SUSPICION
spring; of last year, and immediately n°tice, and I am hoping to have a
enlisted in the service. chance later. Spread of
The interesting letter follows: hungry ^ ^
a niece of nio Ti V u« i,.c oviawisi
or cake „„f„„ i 1 W1" p!ay a much biK£ev part than1
cake. Ernest enteied the naval we are just at this time. I am not
aviation service from Boonville, Ark., ?017y. that I am in the aviation, for
more than a year ago, and has been it: j* interesting work.
W.X .. TOURCOING EVACUATED
LONDON, Oct. 18—Tourcoing has been evacuated,
it was reported from the British front today
Sept. 29. 1918. wa
fearl: hav
hungry man, send
Hasten
of sweets across the pond. We j
had plenty of chocolates until i
Bolshevism May
True Democracy in
Empires.
'By ROBERT J. BENDER
I ilited Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—Both
Was ?laH tn V""' . ,nav? naa p,enty of chocolates until
niVhirt °„Ket yoU1" etter and iately' but J'ust at Present they are
pictuie, and will send you one of out. I am tired of chocolates' anv-
ter" Wer 5SJ I ■ start,ed t!}is let" wa>'- You know' what I want most 'is
ter yesterday, and since then I have a big piece of pie, and iust anv kind
received four letters from home, and of cake would be great. Now don't I Germ anv an I A t •
one from my girl in Tennessee. think we are not getting enough to u Austria are now.going
Gee, but it is great to get letters eat, for we are, but sweets are in 1 noui>h a process of meeting, in part
But they are all too short. It seems need right now. at least, of President Wilson's peace
thatUevoJ,rKn^f, '°i write short letters, I understand that some postmas- j terms. Some of this "knuckling
even with me byVoVg thTsTme0 No! don\7efer trl^for^are^llowed ; 'l0W"" '""f be.°Ut °",y show; and
they are not all so short; it just seems to receive packages in the navv wit I .0me J enough to prevent
tnat way. —1 —■" *
FRENCH GO TWO MILES
.. y ;'"1' , • 18-—An advance of about two miles on a three
office today Fere WaS reported b>' the French war
Violent fighting is continuing west cf Grand Pre, where the
French have crossed the Aisne.
out written orders.
I the tumultous political
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
I nited Press Staff Correspondent.
. ians- Uct: 18.—Allied infantry supported by British moni-
tois, is advancing upon Zeebrtigge.
^;rHP^"?;P;elglAn f"rces s° theast of Thielt are marching to-
ward De.vne height miles southwest of Ghent).
The British have over-run Courtrai and the Germans, fight-
at°Utheb°front6 Hm'r 1" 'S .lUSt about llme for taPs anJ the central empires from boiling over,
nothing ' 1 ^" ^ swung my hammock. That was the view here today re-
i • 1 i • 111111 niv vjti iiidiin. iiimi-
cauldrons of hard, are retiring toward Audenarde, thirty miles west of
boiline over. I Brussels.
nothing will stop them until they
clean up the Huns. Then we will ail
be coming home soon.
I certainly would like to tell you
With love to ail.
garding reported Germany and Aus-
TOURCOING ENCIRCLED
. "™°unL¥s, been_completely encircled and Roubaix vir-
CENTRA! NORMAL TO DESTINY OF WORLD
PLAY VARSITY HERE DEPENDING ON LOAN
~ I
Football Season to Be Resumed
1 our cousin,
ERNEST
treat and was calling home her 1J. northeast of La Fere.
boats- Paris shows intense but grave emotion over the recapture of
political reforms may be sip- Lille, Douai and Ostend. The boulevards are decorated with flatrs
cere, it is admitted. — — /
,, .. , On the other hand, there is much El.FMFlNT rtF SUTRPRICl? P A TIPXTTr v
at University With Game Sat- i Continued Victories of Our i question as to whether the Teutons ^ mr,rnAr n
urday Afternoon. Armies and Certain Defeat of have undertaken a sufficiently broad EvLMORED IN WAR DESPITE AIRMEN
Enemy in Our Hands. j course to meet the president's terms !
Football will be resumed after an I I ~no Hohenzollern ruler, or at Ii&st PARIS. Oct. 7. (By mail)—The av- it was necessary to concentrate then
interruption due to the influenza eoi-; «<xhe lourth libertv ] . , ja powerless Hohenzollern. At least | nl'age war news reader has little con- somewher
demic and military conditions at the" rajsed bv Sitm-I- • ' h?" ™ Germany is saying the kaiser can- eeption of the long and arduou
university Saturday afternoon, when ! Y " SayS our
the varsity team will
started on the false claim that Ger- In 1917 the
State norm'ar of Edmond
in reserve and a concen-
pro- tration of twenty, thirty or forty di-
secretary of the treasury W G Me I "ot ,<ieclare war except when German cess whereby the element of surprise visions cannot be made without the
meet Central | Ad00t in a teIe}rram to th; Trangcri t tf""to,ry 13 "nvaded. This great war has been restored to modern warfare, enemy knowing. Heretofore too, the
- - — • started on the f«lso In 1917 the possibility of strate-j movement of these divisions into the
many was to be invaded and it is | f^'ca1 surprise or even tactical sur- section of the line
foreseen that the present reported re- Prise on a large scale was considered could not be accomplished without it
prevent the kaiser eliminated. Airplanes and balloons being discove
form does not
to be attajied.
'ithout it
ered on the other side and
ond game of the season. The game 1T 1 ^estl,n,es of the
will be called at 3:30 on Boyd field i f "" a" bem,f *
Permission of the military author- charging aHi^/ armies"'110^ 88 °" tH'
itics has been obtained for this game, j Betgfunf The fdlowL'" is 'ThTt!in" from startinS war on a very small; highly developed intelligence depart- consequent preparations "being made
which will see Coach Owen's team injffram. ' L tne tele" Provocation. fments and the ability of either army] to resist. The Germans solved this
aet.ion after a long interval of prac-1 ' Washincrt n p I Reforms Are Questionable j to obtain prisoners at almost any by developing night marching to a
tice. Daily work-outs on the field! , • Oct l"', 1918 I These reforms may be regarded in J time when need of them justified risk point before unknown. The patient
have been interfered with consider- j "Subscriptions reported and esti- j r,ermany as meeting the president's ( 'nK and probably sacrificing a cer- foot soldiers were drilled, drilled and
ably by illness of players and the ™ated up to noon Thursday amount! demands, on the other hand they mav I tain number of men to get them had { drilled until they could be said to
quarantine, which was lifted only a J dollars'leav" tha" f°Uri billion i mean that German.V atld Austria are j Put surprise out of the question. Or [ cover practically as rryjch ground in
short time ago. Arrangements for | billions more t^ratse^comnlete the ' appeasin« their own people and then j s° it was thought. For any attack on J the dark as they could in the daylight,
nractice now permit the football men fourth liberty loan. Only two days iare g0'ng ahead in a last endeavor a w'de front it was necessary to con- Brought Up Quietly
to go directly to the gridiron from j:ire 'eft within which to raise this jto stir thenr up to the "war of da- | centrate great masses of men and this Just before the attack they were
drill. cou.ntry on earth but | fense." could not be done without the en- brought up. usually by train and hv
The line-up for Saturday's game, jn so s),0rt a The military requirements appar-1 emy's knowledge and
especially
the back-field,
sum
America can do j
consequent night to the reserve line, back of the
it and must do it. { ent,y are bein& met f°r the moment. , Preparation to resist with similar fighting trench lines. They were bil-
doubt. on account of White's being; '"rhe destinies of the wor'd and According to all reports, the latest forces. leted in villages and not permitted to
out of the game with a dislocated jthe h°Pes of civilization are centered j evacuation^ from the west line, has I The German general staff worked leave their billets by dav except un-
Bartlett, Graham. Hill "?f",*u:-.!rl.?a shall/ail in been without the ruthless military | out a solution for the difficulty. They ' der direct necessity and then never
as many as two at one time. Ger-
fihoulder.
Swatek. Luster, Hardie and possibly j hop^to'gain^n th1s%ar,U^hthe°fourth'deStrUCtions that marked the earlier | worked it out on paper in the latter
true American citizen today examine I that such barbarities should cease as
^urchfiel will be ^iven a try-out in 1 liberty loon is defeated. Let every j retreat* President Wilson decreed nart of 1917 and put it to the test in man discipline managed it so well
th« backlield true American citizen todav examin'o i that such barbarities should opjisa ««Jthe Russian campaign that included that an airplane flying over a town
the battle of Riga and the battles j filled with trooDs would be likely to
about Dvinsk. These battles served as , report that town utterly deserted,
rehearsals of the method to be used in j So much the Germans developed in
1918 on the western front. J the matter of surprise.
Artillery Preparation Abandoned
WARNINGS OF FUEL
SHORTAGE REPEATED
Statistics Show That Enough
Coal Has Not Been Stored to
Tide Over Winter.
himself under the white light of pa
i triotism and say whether or not he
j has done his utmost .in this emer-
i gency.
| "The highest obligation of duty and
patriotism command every true
i American to go immediately to his
| bank or to his liberty loan committee
and subscribe to the limit of his
ability to the fourth liberty bonds.
Don't delay; don't wait to be urged;
be as quick to do your part
a peace preliminary.
Taken with the political reform,
this military reformation is held as
meaning that the German proposes
to make a new diplomatic maneuver,
in which he will claim he has met the
president's terms
Answer Expected '
Reports persist that an answer is
, uo .vuur pari in thl.
, j fourth liberty loan battle as our sol • . 4,
ADA, Okla., Oct. 18. (Special)—A I diers in France are quick to obey the I m K ln way a reP!y wl"
strong appeal to the fuel committee-
men. retail coal dealers and steam
1 plants throughout Oklahoma to urge
the use of wood has been made by P.
A. Norris,
According to statistics just compiled,
showing the production for the months
of April, May, June. July and Aug-
ust, it is certain that enough coal has
not been stored to guard against suf-
fering, provided the winter is as se-
vere as usual.
In a letter to the fuel committee-
men. fuel dealers and steam plants,
Mr. Norris says:
"As cold weather approaches, the
fuel question becomes pressing. Re-
peated warnings of coal shortage
have gone out over this state, and
As is the nature of this war, what
Long artillery preparations, here- ! one side invents the other adopts, and
tofore lasting for days, were aban- j the system was soon in use on both
doned as revealing the intention to i ides. To this the French added an
attack. The artillery to be used in a j portant factor by reducing
• — -■ — — . . ■ j - — — "j «vuuvmf^ the
being forwarded; and likewise that ^ was brought up long be-1 amount of artillery preparation and
^ ^ " fore it; was needed but was kept hid-J relying on gas and smoke screens.
orders to charge the* enemy. ' """ j corne fr°m the reichstag session. On ] (len unti| il was time for them to be- This left the ground in condition to
Buy liberty bonds on the install- j both points, the government pro- | K'n work. j traverse with the larger guns, which
Every n'Urio^c"bankcas1'' I fessed early today to be in the dark.' This ma'!e. the regulation of the long periods of heavy shelling had
„ _ . If every patriotic citizen will do his' H°WeVer' it: is ant'cip«ted that before ,ire ™ore dlf^lcult' the artillery offi- made impossible. In the counter of-
state fuel administrator. | duty today, victorv for the fourth lib- many days th" nation will find some j ('crs loslnK the benefit of successive j fensive on the Marne pocket, certain
ertvloan is certain. | new phase of the German peace of- { 'lays reports by ferial observers on 1 other new methods were put into use
,'Th.e continued victories of our ar-1 fensive for there is no mistaking the the effect of their firinK but it was it will be time enough to tell of them
!m^ehei^ies° and the gtorio^'tri- Ge'.man desire for peace and" the !-"^ered that spraying great mass- when i, is certain the Germans ha "
umph of the cause of liberty denend subject is alive, authorities say. j ' * shells into the enemy zone was j learned the lesson. In the matter of
upon what the American people do in i Bolshevism appears growing | iilmost as satisfactory. j strategy the above relating merely to
^e.I!!W?.il?ing..t^v°-daylof the fourth I throughout Germany and is even) The Pr°blem presented by the in-I tactics—most of the surprises this
penetrating the army, according to j fantry was a biP one- To hegin with, year have come from the allies,
neutral diplomats here today. Thriv-
Iiberty loan campaign."
W. G. McADOO.
time of the year is dangerous If m,1,tary defeat' food shortage | .^ '> <'len_ Huned -The remains ONF.Y NINE OKLAHOMANS
the war continues, we do not know general war weariness, extreme 1 -. ^ ' Do°len, formerly a res- ,x TODAY'S CASUALTIES
that coal cars will be available for socialists are Rowing bolder as they !dent of Norman. but who was killed j
hauling domestic coal Jsee P°Pu,ar support increasing ac- \ " street ,car ac"dent m Fresno, J
"If your country has no wood, it! to mea^ i"f°™ation ao resUn't^i OO^'cemetenlln Th<> WSr 'ie"ilrt'>-nt casualty lirc
th : will be impossible for you to get a *out JhrouBh the tight Ger-1 Vnrmnn thlo for today contains a total of ,
other states. Remembering the ex- supply. If you have any wood in the I censorship.
penence of last winter's attempt to county, however, you should begin the I y Head °ff Bo,shevism
make an inadequate coal supply meet I campaign immediately. The coal op- I Hopes were expressed guardedly
a stimulated demand in bitter weath- erators have been asked to give pre- i *7 neutral and al,ied diplomats that
er, we should take measures to get | ference in shinnino- ("'ermany would head off this move
a supply of wood wherever it is avail-
able.
Local Conditions Vary
"Many farms now have their wood
supplies, but in many counties there
Hamilton Funeral Sunday—The fu-
neral service of Henry George Ham-
ilton, who died last Tuesday morn-
ing, will be held at the home of the
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hamilton,
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. A
telegram was received from Charles
Hamilton when he left Babylon, New
\ork, and he is expected to arrive in
Norman Saturday about noon. The
burial will be in the I. 0. 0. F. ceme-
tery
Norman this morning at 10 o'clock,
j A large number of friends and ac-
j quaintances attended the last eere-
! monies.
liberal I Norman city schools will not
open Monday. Further notice will be
are no reserves for the villages that
are likely to be without, coal at some
time during the winter. You know
the conditions in your town and sur-
in shipping coal to sections , """""I Th
of the state which do not have tim- y estab>ishment of a liberal
ber. It means, therefore, that if your «over"n,e?t- Diplomats are openly
county has timber, the towns will be I aPPrehenslve 'est a growing Bolshe- ^ Qf q
expected to use some of this as fueL ' sm sp,nt ln Germany invade sur- , ' FnwARnt,
"Retail coal dealers should give 11°T,i"?.,?6" and allied countries j m_gt ' • EDWARDS,
only 175
casualties; and only nine from Okla
homa. The state list follows:
Sergeant Joe E. Bailey of Holden-
ville, Corporal Henry C. Oliver of
Keifer, Private Cleo V. Farr of Lo-
cust Grove, Private Levi B. Owens
given in the Transcript as to the ex- I Private Tracy Sprowls
Superintendent.
killed in action.
! Lieutenant Eldon Breedon of Med
i f°rd, Corporal Ivan N. Coffey
of
| Cloud Chief, Private Luther R. Liv-
! 'ngston of Commerce, and Private
their co-operation in the matter In 1 a"d lesu't a rei(m of disorder J
some localities coal dealers are mak- throutrhout Europe. Reported warn-
ing preparations to handle wood i ln s by Lord Milner. British war min-; ,eports- warned allied statesmen | James O. Deer of Carney.
, Some dealers are installing power 'Ster' that k is to the allies intere3t T'" ■ J. P °Ut f°r drastic Word was reC(,ived by Mrs Mattie
rounding country. You know whether I saws and will sell many hundred f° S8e - 3 stab,<? PoverT,ment main-:' "anp:es Germany, declaring that Sprowls of Noble several days ago
there is enough coal already in the \ cords. By all working together the 'aUle<l Germany aroused consider- ls would result in stiffened resis- concerning the death of her son
bins to carry your town through the citizens of the state will not suffer ?b!® speculation in diplomatic circles [ a^_, y Germany. _ Tracy, who was killed
not suffer
winter."
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winter. If there is not enough coal I from a fuel shortage this
J and wood is in wagon hauling dis-
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here. Similar views have been ex-1 DlP|omats are carefully studying latter part of September He wa«
pressed here privately on several oc-j rfports "aching here today by so-I thought to have been in the vicinity
casions by entente and neutral repre- j cia,'st and trades union protests in of Chateau Thierry.
sentatives. Germany in which more food and eas- '< 1
Lord Milner, according to London working conditions were demand--
ed of the government. Want ad, three lines three times, 36c.
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