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BrifFm S WccMy \cws THE NEWS, Established 1871. ALLIES STILL PUSHING FOHWARD ; ' 3ETWEEN QUENTIN AND CAMBRAI; BRITISH TAKE 8,000 PRISONERS Franco-Americans Menacing Machault Near Rheims — j Capture of Gornay by Americans Liberates FourL Other Villages, j ; I With the American First Army in . Field, Oct. 9.—Verdun is now free from Germany artillery domination as is also Rheims, as a result of the success of the Franco-American at tack east of the Meuse which began yc -terday. The famous city was taken from the enemy’s four year grip in the fighting over fields which had not been stirred by battles since 1916. ■ Tht French-Amcricns advanced more I than two miles on a seven-mile front in tiiis region. WILDCAT DIVISION BRINGS UP CENTER OF LONG BATTLE LINE With the British Armies in France, Oct. 9.—The British, Americans and French are attacking on a twenty in ile front between St. Quentin and ; Cambrai and are well ahead of their ’ scheduled objectiv<|:. The assault, I beginning on a limited front early I yesterday rapidly drew its scope until j it encompassed the whole front be- ( tween the two cities. An average depth of one to three miles has been made with a total penetration of five miles in the center where the Ameri- ' cans are fighting by -the side of an I endless chain of Scotish-Irish units. . The armies drove deep into enemy ( lines, capturing Brancourt and Vre mont. Americans engaged in the I fr.f'ting are General Lewis's Wildcat' Division, comprising troops from j Carolina and Tennessee. The Ameri- 1 cans overcome stubborn enemy resist- j k ance, especially from machine gun- 6,->.OOO Bl I.GARIAN SOLDIERS H AVE SURRENDERED ARMS I London, Oct. 9—-Sixty-five thousand ; Bulgarian soldiers surrendered to the ’ allies at West Uskub in accordance | with the provisions of the recent i armistice, it is officially announced in a dispatch from Salonika. British troops have entered Cam- . brai. Field Marshal Haig announced i today. More than eight thousand prisoners and many guns were taken in yes- , terday's operations on this front. FRANCO-A MERIC ANS TAKE | BATTERIES AND USE THEM With the British Armies in France. Oct. 9.-—Franco-America ns pushing forward toward Bussigny have cap tured two batteries and turned them against Lermons. ALLIES STILL SM (SUING IN ON ST. QI INTIN TODAY Paris, Oct. 9.—T he allies are still smashing forward between St. Qum tin and Cambrai. The French and . ''British are at the gates of Bohain eleven miles northeast of St. Quintin and the Americans are less than two and a half miles from Bussigny. In Champagne the Franco-American di-, •virions are menacing Mchault, twenty miles northeast of Rheims. The french, operating in Liason with, the American left wing, is pushing for ward in the Argonne forest, which the enemy is hastily evacuating. Two dime German divisions have been J,, ’roved in the fighting .along the S<. >.e river. \MERICANS TAKE GORNAY AND 1 OUR OTHER TOWNS Washington, Oct. 9.—-The capture of (. >rnay by the Americans liberated f, r other villages and bagged thref thousand prisoners Tuesday, it was .. I K \NCO-AMFRIUANS ADV ANCE EAST OF THE MEUSE 3 Mil ES With the American First Army \ .1, Oct. 9.—French and American t’’oo’>s, in their attack east of the Meuse, have- advanced more than thr •* ami a half miles at some plac-s. Attacking under the cover of yester day morning's darkness the French and Americans caught the Aust"o- Germans completely by surmise I- - , and advanced more than a mile and a ( quarter in the initial rush. , GENERAL BYNG'S ARMY RENEWS ATTACK TODAY London, Oct. 9—-The armies of Gen- i eral Byng and General Rawlinson re- i jiiewed their attack this morning. i ( (THE ATTACK ON ARGONNE CONTINUES WITH SUCCESS 1 i With the American First Army in i jl' rance, Oct. 9.—The converting at- < ;tack on the Argonne massif continues ] I with renewed success. Heavy fighting ; has developed in the center, where s the infantry operations were preced- 1 ed by unusually strong artillery bom- ' bardment, which lasted al! night. ’ 1 (ALLIES RENEW ATTACK IN 'i QUINTIN-CAMBRAI REGION < London, Oct. 9.—The British/' (french and Americans, resuming their 5 attack in the St. Quintin and Cambrai * region this morning, extended the 1 fighting over a front of about twenty ' 'miles, embracing the section north of, 1 I Cambrail. Rapid progress was made J (ALLIES CAPTURE GERMAN / I POSITIONS ON 3-MILE FRONT Paris, Oct. 9.—The capture of the' 1 ‘German positions on a three mile f ,front southeast of St. Quintin was ( ‘announced today by the war depart- 1 ment. i ! STEPS’ARE TAKEN f TO PREVENT SPREAD.' I '< OF INFLUENZA HERE - —— - .BOARD OF HEALTH REPORTS j FEW CASES OF EPIDEMIC DIS- ’ ■ EASE, BUT FINDS THERE IS NO I OCCASION FOR ALARM HERE ' i’ | A meeting of the Griffin Board of ' Health was held at the city hall Tues- | day morning at which the question of/ i Spanish influenza was discussed and steps taken to prevent the spread of/ the disease in Griffin and vicinity. I Members of the board present were I )Drs. ('. F. Griffith, T. I. Hawkins and : | IJ. Render Anthony. I Reports made by the physicians- | present showed that a few case, of I the epidemic disease are prevalent in ' Griffin, but it was stated there was , no occasion for alarm and it was not , deemed necessary to close any pub- 1 lie meeting places, as is being done' in some cities. The board thought i (that with the necessary precautions;, 'there would be no spread of the dis- I ease here. ■ A resolution, offered by Dr. An- i thony, was passed requesting the; j superintendent of the city schools to j have all children inspected each dayj as they enter the school rooms and b where any pupil shows symptoms of/ a cold to send the partv home with' 1 i 'an explanation to parents as to way I this was done. I The board had no juris diet iov in the ( cotton mill districts, which are out-: - side the city limits, but recommended ..that the superintendents of the mills report any cases to the doctors ar.d that they be isolated to prevent ' i-e . spread of influenza. I Mayor Ilamond and Sanitary I.: spector Archer v.-ere present at the. ’.meeting and offered their assistem in isolating any case’s in th- <it ". 1 Mayor Hammond agreed to the put ' ting up of signs of warning and -mid 1 the city council would doubtless < ■<-’ • operate with the board in any way'■ ■ possible. The doctors of the city were , ’ asked also to co-operate and prompt-’; ■ Iv report any cases of influri 'a i •' ’ may come under their observation. GRIFFIN, FRIDAY. OCTOBER IT, 1918. IMM HS mtSTim TOLD Personal and News Notes as Gather ed by the News and Sun’s Corre spondent in Pike Metropolis. Williamson, Oct. 9.—-Quarterly meeting held here last Saturday was largely attended and a success finan cially, as all indebtedness was paid a‘nd the Woman’s Missionary Society made a particularly fine showing which goes to prove what a few earn- : est women can do. A basket dinner 1 was greatly enjoyed. Miss Emma Dickinson spent the week end at home. Miss Inell l illyaw, who is attend- ‘ ing school at Locust Grove, spent the' week end with her parents. Mr. Fillyaw and Mr. Gill are out as- ter a week at home with severe colds. 1 The Woman's Club was entertained by Mrs. Emmett Smith Friday after- _ noon. The house was attractive with ■ decorations of Goldenrod, grasses and plants. Punch and sandwiches were • served in the dining room. Mrs. Lif- ' sey, Mrs. Holland, Mrs. English, Mrs; Smith and Mrs. Wilkinson, of Barnes- ; ville were present and a fine paper 1 was read by Mrs. Holland, explaining' the work to be undertaken soon to raise funds for Red Cross and other I organizations. Mrs. Emmett Smith ( was appointed chairman of William- ' son. The work is such as to appeal I to everybody and Williamson will 1 have no trouble going over the top. ‘ Drewry Dickinson and A. J. More land spent Saturday in Atlanta. Mrs. Reeves, mother of Mr. Couch Reeves, came down Saturday night for a visit. A mistake in last week's paper was that Mrs. Smith had taken her daugh ters, Mary Virginia and Ruth to Ral dolph Macon College, Lynchburg, Va. It should have been Randolph-Macon Institute, Danville, Va. Mr. T. A. Pond has been quite sick, but hopes to return to his work in a few days. Dr. Walter Beauchamp left for Montgomery, Ala., last Friday. He is at Camp Sheridan. News was received Monday of the death of Dan Boswell at Camp Jack son. He was the son of Mr. Dan Bos well, conductor of the Southern rail road, who has many friends here who sympathize with him and his family. Young Dan was one of five brothers in the army. Alton Dickinson, Miss Willie Drew ry and others motored over to Bar nesville Saturday to see Miss Francis Dingier at the A. & M. School. Paul Beauchamp, who is in Atlanta at work, spent the week end at home. Miss Lillian Yarbrough is better af ter quite a severe illness. GRIFFIN SOLDiER - MOUNDED IN THE BATTLE IN FRANCE JOSEPH M. (RAWFORD MEN “"T ION Elf IN LIST OF 622 NAMES ON I’WO SECTIONS ISSUED BY COMMANDING GENERAL. ; Washington, Oct. 9. —The following (casualties are reported by the com manding general of the .American < . 'peditionary forces: ' Killed in action. 6.‘1; missing in ; ition, 24; wounded severely, 164; du ( from wounds, 29; died from accidc ? (and other causes. 2; died of disea: < . 25; died from aeroplane accident, 2; wounded slightly, 1; prisoners, 2. T tai, 312. Section Number Two. Killed in ac’ion, 62; missing n a tion, 16; woundd severely. 163; du . ffro.m wounds, 36; died from accident and other causes, 1 ; died of disc;.. 26; died from aer mlane accidetn, .' wounded, degree undetermined, 2; prisoners, 2. Total, 310. Marine ( <>rps ( a ualtie- Summary of •■.i.- saLa-s to date: Officers — Tot ; Deaths 41 Wound< : 75 (Missing 0 I'. < THE NEUS EH fJEEfiI Gathered at Thriving Metrop oils, Brooks, By a .News and Sun Reporter. i Brooks, Ga., Oct. 9 Thursday. October the 10th will be great Lib- 1 erty Loan Day for Fayette county. C. (D. Redwine, who is chairman of thy : Liberty Loan committee of Fayette, ‘ /expects to go over the top again as ■ ha - been done before in the other I jloans. There will be a band from 1 [Camp Gordon that will play it.spin! ing music ami speeches will be made jby soldiers who have returned from p'ranee. In the rural districts of the .county Chairman Redwine has asked [all who have autos to meet the hand and speakers at College Park. The 'first stop will be at Woolsey at 9 .o’clock, the second at Brooks at 11, [.the third stop at Starrs (Mill) Ryson i (where a luncheon will be served at .the beautiful spring. They will vis.t ■ .the other points of the county in the ‘afternoon. Fayette will no doubt go ..over the top again. I 'The fourth division of the Fayette [Sunday school association will be held ,at White Water church next Sunday/ .afternoon beginning at 1:30 o’clock. I pThere are several Sunday schools in jthe division, the three Sunday schools at Brooks and about six other schools I are expected to carry out a fine pro- | |gram. Die public is cordially invited ( to be present. Wilson Hayes, the small son of Mr. I and Mrs L L Hayes, caught a fish on I last Friday that weighed 7 1-2 pounds which breaks the record for a small i .fisherman in this county. Mr. and Mrs.J. L. Steinheimer, of : Waycross, Ga., spent the week end ! with R. P. Steinheimer and family. Air. Steinheimer is an old Brooks: j.boy and his friends are alwavs glad !|to see him. Miss Nellie Shannon, of Brooks, has ,be< n elected principal of a school at Oak Grove in Butts county . She will teach there this fall and another .year, I Mr. and Mr--. J. M. ('arson, Mrs. J. B. ('arson, Walter and Blalock (’ar son, spent several days lasi, week in South Georgia. Jessii N. Ison and family spent the week end in Atlanta, going up to see their son Grover F. Ison who retern ,ed Friday from France. His friends will regret that he has been vvuonded an dare glad he is not seriously hurt He talks most interestingly of the .conditions in France and is anxious 'to get back. Grover is among the be<t soldiers that went from Line- Creek district. MILK COW FOR SALE. -1 will (sell one black no-horned mill: cow ■with second calf. R. P. Steinheimer, Brooks, Ga. wit MILK COW FOR SALE I will sell a four-gallon Polled Black Jersey cow with second calf 'two weeks old, $125.00. R. P. Stein heimcT, Brooks, Ga. Nl MERO! S PENDING TRI ST SUITS ARE PASSED OVER Washington, Oct. P.- The ■ upreme >c-iurt today granted the government’s motion to pass over numerous penci ling trust suits brought under the | Sherman act. Enlisted men — Deaths HDs Wounded . . (In hands or enemy . 22 .■' iss'ing : 2 1...'. -- < 3415 Georgians on the 1.-■! . Private Robert I <• D,, ■ ■ ed of di’ ease; ' m’ • r r.n, r. T ‘likeil, Atlanta, Wagmu m I. I’ruitt, Cidph-y, wounded - Corporal Frank (.>■<■ . . < i’ .L.it. ‘ ed of wound.-: C<><,k D • Cie ■: - : '-'aeon. Private Thon.a- W,,-.- K> ;. IF-, died of elsew-e: Private -L ■ eph M. Crawford, Griff H;.’.; ■. J. i'i ■■ - I .Ibany, W ' C. S:> •■>. V. ■ .> ourvl-d severely; Marine: Pr ■ B ,iam;n I . M< ley, S ..hi id- Hied in act. c ; !’■ ; at- ’!'• ' Davis. Ellijay, a..- 1 of woumi ■ ved in ti< ’i; P:. .ii.B Craft, previou iv.. t 1 < >i duty with c • FHESIOINT WILSiN DENIES AN AHMISTICE TO GERMANY RUT LEAVES DOORS OPEN TO PEACE (President Has Apparently Made Master Stroke to Bring Out Whether Germany is Really Sincere in Desiring Peace —Move Will Expose German “Trick.” ! — _ I - Washington, Oct. 9- President Wil- ; son has met Germany’s peace note i with a move which will, at one stroke, develop win ther he ( proposal is sin cere or merely a pretension and if a I pretension it be. fully justify for all i time befort the world the prolonging of the war with force to the utmost, force wthout stint or limit. At the ; j same time the president has left wide open the door to peace. i Declining to propose an armistice while the armies of the Central pow ers remain on invaded soil, the presi dent today called on the German chan- ; ccllor to state, as an atZolutely ne- I cessary preliminary to a reply from ' jthe Entente allies and the United [States, whether Germany accepts the i principles of peace as repeaedly laid' down, or merely proposes to accept i i theni “as the basis of negotiations,”! land whether the chancellor merely ( I speaks for the German military mas- . iters conducting the war or the whole ( (German people. • As the full significance of the presi- ‘ ' dent’s diplomacy is disclosed it be- , jeomes evident that he has left open (the way to peace and at the same (time left the militarist leaders of the I Central powers with a question they 'must necessarily answer in away that ■ [will had to peace or confront them | with an embarrassing situation in I heir own countries. i Among diplomats here the presi dent’s communication is regarded as one of his master strokes. It is point- ; ed out that upon cursory examination ; it may not show such strong terms as I some may have desired. All the pres- ' j ident’s advisers, however, arc confi-i dent that as a close consideration re - j veals its full import, it will be appar- ' lent that it is a long step forward if Germany really means peace, and i that if she does not it will strip bare I another hypocrisy of German diplo macy so completely that the responsi bility for prolonging the war never (can be charged to the Allies, even by I the German people themselves. MARMMLL (SPEAK AT BIG RALLY DRIFFMRDA! Judge Marcus W. Beck, formerly judge of the superior courts of the (Flynt circuit, now judge of the State /supreme court and one of Georgia's ’ ; most distinguished citizens, has been .invited by kosweil H. Drake, chair man of the Spalding County Liberty [Loan committee, and David J. Bailey, chairman of the local council of de fense, to attend a big Liberty bond ..nd patriotic rally in Griffin next Saturday and deliver an address. Than Judge Beck there is not a more eloquent or f< ict'fM orator in Georgia, and his speech will be both interesting and in- ‘ ru< t :■■■<:. Score, of the friend of tin If -• ■! I ...Hi doubtless he in Griffin, attrm ted ,!,e)e I.;, till ■ 'I he - ■.. -ailing will tal>. •<!; • e at the < federate monument at tie intersec- ■ tion of Hill and S-• on tn t a) ■ f. ur o'clock p. m. The fi lends of Ju •• Beer ar planning to give him a r<> .:d we’, come to his old home and the oeca •ion is benit' look> <i forward to wit! plea-areable ot.ticipation. Th- ra! ! y • i |i ~ . •. ■ -• I. ' ■ ■' . I ' d a.m ail."' whi-h is pcogrs ssit’.g well in ihi citv aid •■ointy, but Judge Lt cl.' a ' ”■ w": ; stir the . *iv ity in the r .ir< ■ < f i' >■ '■■ ■ i ent bonds gen- THE SUN, Established 1877. WILSON MAY GO TO CONGRESS TO CAST FURTHER LIGHT PEACE MORE SQUARELY UP TO (.ERM ANY THAN EVER BEFORE i IS VIEW TAKEN OF PRESI > DENTS REPLY BY OFFICIALS I Washington, Oct. 9.—President Wilson will probably go before con gress to cast further light upon the position he took in the inquiry to German Prince Max as soon as the latter replies. Peace is up to Germany more (squarely than ever before as a result of the president’s query testing the sincerity of its maneuevring. Officials in Washington took thia view of the president’s reply today, holding that he had stripped away the masks and robbed Germany of develop whether the proposal is sin ' The threadbare pleas of our enemy are absurd and seek only to crush us. WILSON’S REPLY JUST WHAT ALLIES WERE EXPECTING Paris, Oct. 9.—-President Wilson’s i reply to the German armistice pro posal became known here through the I noon extra editions. The first opin ions noted that the reply was just as , was expected. REPLY DISAPPOINTING TO FIGHT TO FINISH MEN London, Oct. 9.—The first impres sions of President W ilson’s conditions precedent to the consideration of an armistice were somewhat disappoint ing, especially among the fight to a I finish advocates. WILSON'S ANSWER IS WHAT THE WORLD EXPECTED London, Oct. 9.— President Wilson answered as the world expected, de clared The Express today, the only London morning newspaper comment |mg on the president's query to Chan cellor Maximilian. “He pins the au thor. be he the kaiser himself or Max, .to one plain issue,” the article contin ued. SEmSWiM CJILED FOfl 51IIMH Judge J. J. I lent Will Be Formally Nominated Senator from Twenty- Sixth District in (.riffin. Secretary W. H Wlir-abm ha called a senatorial convention to be held in Griffin Saturday morning at ten ’•'clock, at w! ich time Judge J. J. 1 “f will be formally ’ ’ ' from the Twenty- Si’: -•■■UH ■■ cd district, cmntmsed of t’ ’•oim' .-,- of Spalding. F.. . -tte and .Butts. 3 T' ’ ‘ : ■ ■ i the fol- r-w.ng -5: ■ w o will attend the .convmition: F-' i . S( < ~(•■.! J. W. Gi‘" . S IL Gi .. R. I . Duke, R I! D ake. J. D. Tow mtone. O. T. Morelai: !, W. H. W’-eatm . W. 11. 1 .Connor. ■ Fro: Fnye”’ <■ ’C. D. P.-.d- J |wine, F. B. Brown. J. H. Stephens, 2 W. M. Pre Vr.N. W. Gable. Sam f ‘ Boykin, RP. Mint W. J. Sams. 5 From Butts c itv I. O. Gaston, J. T. Mo»re, ’’ erh - P. iwine, J. D» •Jones. W. F. Huddleston. l