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LIGGETT’S MEN REACH BRIEULLES
By NEWTON C. PARKE,
Staff Correspondent.of the International News Service.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VER
DUN, Oct. 8 (9 a. m.).—An American battalion that had been cut
off and surrounded in the Argonne forest last Friday, was relieved
last night when their comrades broke through the stiffest German
resistance and rescued them.
In the advance last Friday the Americans had to go forward
through dense undergrowth. The men of the battalion noticed
Germans slipping to the rear, but believed that they would be
"'mopped up’’ by the second American line. The enemy groups
succeeded in holding up the assault of the second American col
umn with the result that the battalion was cut off.
\\vhi'll th" ;l(l\')l“f‘l‘l! !’l!‘tl]l")lt\"z‘”""" e —
were sent back to maintain con
tact with the main body Ahey en
countered the enemy in their
rear,
The Germans took shelter in an
evacuated trench system that the
Americans had passed over, using it
as a base of resistance. The boches
broughkt up machine guns from dug
outs, while airplanes carried them
food, ammunition and medical sup
plies. Carirer pigeons were used for
communication purposes.
The Americans fought continually
to prevent capture. A half dozen
times the main American force tried
to hack its way through to relieve
the surrounded battalion,
The occupation of Hill No. 244 yes
terday permitted direct machine gun
fire against the Germans. The Amer
ican advance northward then released
the battalion. The Americans, who
had been surrounded for”“over three
days, then turned upon the boches
who had formerly beén Dbesieging
them and captured many of them,
Boches Withdrawing
East of the Meuse
By NEWTON C. PARKE,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Oect. 7
(night) —American forces advancing
up the Meuse Valley have reached the
sSouthwestern outskirts of Brieulles,
13 miles north of Verdun
The town igß honeycombed with
machine guns. Observers counted six
teen machine guns in a single build
ing. American artillery is bombard
ing the town and the buildings are
crumbling to pleces under our big
gun fire,
East of the Meuse River the Ger
man artillery fire is slackening and
air observers reported that the en
emy has been withdrawing his heavy
guns since September 26,
American batteries poured hundreds
of tons of gas shells into the Hara
mont region east of the Meuse, where
German artillery was stationed. The
German gunners had to work their
guns wearing masks.
Our artillery is inflicfthg heavy
losses,
Rescued Rheims Is
By HENRY G. WALES,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S,
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
ON THE CHAMPAGNE FRONT, Oct.
6 (delayed).—Rheims was liberated
l"srom the enemy artillery yesterday
y the Americans’ capture of the
Mont Blane heights. The city has
teen sunrrounded on three sides since
July by the Germans.
Rheims has been evacuated by the
civilian population since May 27,
when the Incessant bombardment be
gan. Even the French have not been
keeping troops inside the city,
The cathedral was badly battered,
as were most of the other bulldings
in the city. The north end suffered
.most severely, as at that point the
cathedral was exposed to artillery
fire on two sides. Shell holes are
vidible everywhere except in the front
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‘How Atlanta Meets
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- Order toßlock the
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. Spread of the Flu:
3’ Teachers and pupils report at 3
the schools Tuesday morning and
?, are dismissed for an indefinite pe
{ riod.
{ Many meetings, particularly
| those in connection with the school
{ improvement movement, scheduled '
? for this week are called off. {
Decision made that the Colum- |
bus Day pageant at the Southeast
! ern Fair opening Saturday and the
{ fair itself next week need not be
{ abandoned since they are open- |
! air gatherings.
! All theaters and moving picture .
. houses close promptly when noti- #
! fied of the Board of Health's order. |
! Hugh Cardoza, president of the
Theater Managers’ Association,
pledges to the city the heartiest
co-operation of the theater men in
every way.
Poolrooms close following action
{ by City Council in ratifying the
g Board of Health order and amend
ing it to specify poolrooms and the
5 general provision closing all places
$ of public amusement,
) Atlantans ride to work Tuesday
; morning in “wide-open" street cars
) since Board of Health order pro
§ vides that cars be operated with
; all windows down except in sase of |
{ rain. Fresh-air fiends happy for ¢
‘stho first time in their chilly but
{ healthful existence.
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facade, and the windows have 01l been
shattered,
The Joan of Are statue pedestal in
front of the cathedral was struck, but
the statue itself had been removed
The Grand Hotel, Municipal Theater
and all other buildings in the vicin
ity of the cathedral have been bat
tered to pieces,
The Géman retirement places
Rheims outside of normal artillery
range,
Ameritans Put Down
Heavy Boche Attacks
(By International News Service,)
By HENRY G. WALES,
Staff Correspondent of the I, N, S,
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
ON THE CHAMPAGNE FRONT, Oct,
7 (night).~Meavy German counter
attacks gwere delivered by the Ger
mans agalnst the Americans southe
east of St. Etienne today, but all were
quickly repulsed,
The counter strokes against the
Americans fighting with General Gou
raund's army devcloped during the
morning and were aimed - at high
ground which the Americans had cap
tured between St. Etienne and the
Somme-Py-Attigny highway
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The breeze blew chill through open !
windows of Atlanta street cars Tues- |
day morning, and workers \’mrnlti‘,
downtown shivered in the realization |
that heroic meéthods are necessary to |
beat the Spanish influenza |
But open windows constituted anly |
one, and perhaps the mildest, of the
preventive means put in force \\'.!!r‘
schools closed indefinitely, movies, |
theatérs and poolrooms clogsed, with |
numerous social events postponed |
the city was in the midst of the most |
rigorous quarantine ever adopted for |
precaution against disease here !
The ordinance adopted by (Council |
Monday afternoon, designed to en- |
force the quarantine, stipuiated two |
months as the maximum term for |
which the methods would be effec- |
tive, but physicians and school offi- |
cials stated their opinion MTuesdav
that the necessity of such rigid meas ‘
ures would not last so long, and that |
danger of the disease would be over
come shortly,
The orders will not apply to the
Southeastern FFair at Lakewood nor
the Liberty pageant to be given the »-i
Saturday. Soth these attractions are
open-adr affalr ind the uarantine
ordinance was designed to prevent
gathering of people in poorly venti (
lated places |
Council did not proerastinate when |
the matter was placed before it by |
the Board of Health, but passed the
ordinance us soon as it was drafted
by a special committes At 1 meet
ing of the Board of Health, held ears
ller, Dr. J. P. Kenned eity health |
officer, declared a telegram had |
come from Rupert Blue, surgeon gen- |
eral of the [U'nited State Pub! |
Halth Service, urging that all places '
of public gathering be ¢losed |
‘The plague is on the ‘nerease in
Atlantn said Dr. Kennedy ind It
looks ke we are in for a gerious ep '
demic There are fifteen to twenty |
CageN to each physleian ind the 1
shortage of doctors ind nurses n |
Atlanta because of the war is well |
known.' |
Dr. P/ L. Moon and Dr. Ethéridge |
dded their testimony to that of |
Nr, Kennedy that the epidemic was
becoming sefrious ‘
The ordinance as adopted by Coun
| Continued on Page 2, Coluymn 5,
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8! 1918,
Germans Soon to Regret
Delay of Great Retreat
By JOHN McHUGH STUART,
Staff Correspondent of the International News Service
ARIS, Oct. B.—The fruits of Marshal Foech’s masterly
P strategy are acenmulating
French military experts today expressed the opinion
that the Germans will regret that they did not retreat on a large
scale when the strategical situation was opportune.
The Allies are cutfing into the flanks of the German arm:
and are menacing vital lines of communication
Swift advances of the Allies are imperiling various group
of the Germany army. There was an example of this un the
Champagne front within the past few days when General von
Mudra’s army was nearly surrounded before it could retire to
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Lieut. J. S. Brewster,
Of Esom Hill, Killed
som Hill, Kille
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In France on July 30
Lieutenant Joseph 8. Brewster, of !
Ksom Hill, Ga.. who was widely
known in Atlanta, was killed in ac
tion in France July 30, according to
a tejegram from the War Depart- |
ment received Monday by his sl
ter, Mrs. N. L. Post, of No, 126 East
Fourth street,
Me was 20 years old, a member
of Company F, Fifty-ninth Infan
try, and a graduate of Georgia
Tech He received his commission
at the second officers’ training camp
at Fort Oglethorpe, and was sta
tioned at Camp Greene, N, (~ sail
ing for France in May Mrs. Post
received a letter from him after he
had arrived, stating that his tran
port was attacked by a subma ine
en roush, but gave no further par
ticeulars,
Ahout two weeke cgo a letter ad
dressed to Lioutenant Brewster was
returned, with the information that
he was dead. Through Lieutenant
Howard Conway, of the same com
pany, it was learned that he had
Six Months in Pen
For Ton of Coal Sale
Bix months in the penitentiary was the
sentence of Kd Thomas, a negro boy,
driver for the Atlantie lee and Coal Cor.
poration, who was convieted in the Fed.
eral District Court of selling a ton of
coal without a statement from the pur
chaser, contrary to the fuel administras
tion ruling.
Thomas sold a ton of conl which he
was on his way to deliver to the home of
Mrs. . M. Inman Another negro, John
Collough, purchased it Thomas already
has served 30 days in the stockade for
the offense, sentenced under w city regu-
Intion,
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been killed in action, but this re
port was not confirmed until the
telegram from the War Depart
ment,
Surviving are five brothers, Lieu
tenant Virgll 8. Brewster, Company
A, 121#t Infantry, of Camp Mills,
L. 1., SBergeant Major Fred H,
Brewster, of Camp Gordon; J. G,
Phil and Robert B-ewster, of At
lanta, and three sisters, Miss Laura
Belle Brewster, of Fsom HIill; Mrs,
R. M, Pearce, of Rome, and Mrs, N,
L. Post, of Atlanta. He was the
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. S,
Brewster, of Esom Hill
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.Directors and credit men represent |
ing every Atlanta bank and trust|
company were in conference Tuesday !
with Chairman Forrest Adair, going |
over the list of well-to-do men and |
setting down opposite their names Hn-!
amount of Liberty bonds they should
be able to buy without difficulty. The !
city committee, with the influence ul’]
the bankers behind them, was deter
mined that the wealthy men of At-|
lanta must do their share in 1311“%!"-1
paign or put up a mighty good alibi,
The publication of the names of .tll!
thseribars was expecetd to have
ome infiuence on this The total At |
lanta subscriptiofe up to Tuaesday |
VT .|,‘r:"vv‘s|||-"‘. $6.,500,000 \\'):Hn“
the tHota is 314 000 000 |
You'd be surprised to see the list |
of really wealthy men who have wr:..!
cribed to one %100 hond H»lunu'rl
Kome woman committee worker,” said
Mr, Adair Tuesda “L.ook at HII‘E
list Here's a SI.OOO bond taken by |
a Greek owner of a bootblack stand |
Here's another 31,000 next to it |
bought By a man who should have |
tuken SIO,OOO at least.” i
Mr. Adai Monday night addressed
i meeting of bank director epresent i
ing every finuncial institution in the
clity called to discu the ituation, |
He told them the exact facts and |
urged them to see that the men wh-.l
are abie to invest large amounts are
prevailed upon te do so He pointed
out that it i to the banks that rh-'
Treasury Department look for re I
ults; that it will reflect upon the
banks if the loan fails
Bankers Drafted.
A. P. Coles, of the Central Bank
and Trust Company presided On a
resolution by John . Murphy and Ara
G. Candelr It was voted unanimously
that each bank president should no
| tify the directors that they are sub
| lect to cal by Cahirman Adair at ,nn\‘
time A 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
'H,:- bankers will meet to make M:.m-‘
for direct call on the men with |
| money The bankers, of course, know |
the financial condition of ;.y'vlr‘th-.fll\"
every well-to-do man in Atlanta and |
L are in a position to wield considers |
able Influence over them. ]
The Clearing House Association ;.t|
its meeting Tuesday afternoon \VH]‘
Continued on Page 2, Column 6
LEDITION
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of the International News Service.
WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—The national capital waited patient
ly today for President Wilson's reply to the Hun peace
proposals, Officialdom and the diplomatic corps having
accepted the belief that the reply must be an unqualified rejection
of an armistice and a discussion of terms based on the President’s
public utterances,’confined itself to speculating whether the reply
would make plain to the Central Powers exactly what guarantees
are necessary before the United States and its Allies will talk peace.
Unofficial Washington, the man and woman in the street, was con
tent to leave the whole affair in the hands of the President and not
speculate, being perfectly satisfied that the reply would uphold
the honor and dignity of the nation.
The President has been in consultation with London, Paris and
Rome. The general outline of what he plans has been' communi
cated to the Governments there. They have been asked for state
ments of their positions.
Officials today were silent as to
when the reply might be expeet
ed. Internationad etiquette
makes it necessary that the c¢op
ies of the reply be at least start
ed on their way to Berlin and
Vienna before the text is pub.
lished here.
President Wilson again. denied
himself, his early morning exergise
on the golf links foday and remained
close to his study in the V\'\ltn House
alone. He had before him fil of the
confidential information gathered by
the State Department dealing with
the German and Austrian situation.
Officials in commenting on the great
task which the President has in pre
paring a reply to the Austrisg'm and
German communications said:
No Doubt About Reply.
“There is no doubt of what the
President will say, but he must be
unusually careful in just how he
says it in the present instance. This
time, for the first time in the war,
the President will be addressing the
entire peoples of the world, His re
ply will be published in Germany
and in Austria complete, It also
will be published in all Entente and
neutral countries.
“The United States has always
taken the lead in any movement for
good that comes out of this war, The
United States today stands firmly for
peace—hbut it must be a real peace, i
peace which will assure to all of the
peoples of the world that there never
again ean be another war started
through the whim of outrageous au
toerncies. Therefore, the President
is carefully weighing his words.
“Far more depends on this reply
than most people realize. There must
be*no ‘made-in-Germany’ peace, of
course. But the President may be de.
pended on not to shut the door
against the lasting peace that mus
follow this war."”
Officiale also commented on the
apparent effort of the Austro-Hungu
rian leaders to make it appear that
the present peace move was pof
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forced by military necessity. The
Vienna version that the peace offer
Wwas “the last link of the 1916 poliey”
cansed much amusement here, ‘when
It was contrasted with the address of
Count Tisza at the reform congress
at Budapest, when he boldly declared
that “Bulgaria’'s treachery and the
gituation on the western front led us
to decide, together wrjth Germany, to
undertake the peace step.” Officials
pointed out that this indidated rather -
conclusively that the Austrian lead
ers are badly divided.at the present
time. .
May Await Delivery.
Whether the President will wait un
til there has been sufficient time for
the message to reach the Central
Powers' capitals before uuthorlztn:\
its publication here was a subject o
which information was withheld. Be
cause of this, various reports that
the note already had been handed to
the Duteh and Swedish envoys here
were current. #For obvious reasons it
wias impossible to confirm them.
The one nutm:uullr&' feature of the
entire exchange has been the una
nimity with which the entire United
States accepted, from _the moment it -
was known that a néw peace offer
was coming, the view that it would
be rejected. One year ago, even six
months ago, theyge was always in evi
dence a healthy minority throughout
the country who, when peace wias
suggested, came to the front with
openly expressed hopes that a way
out had been found. Today all this
s changed, FPor 72 hours telegrams
and letters have been pouring in on
the leaders of official life and to the
White Honse and State Department,
All are couched in the same general
langpage. They demand that the war
continue until Germany's military
power is eryshed, and the great ma-
Jority demand that the fighting con
tinue until Germany shall surrender
unconditionally,
Many of the messages received ur?o
the President to demand a change in
the governments of Germany” and
Austrian-Hungary, Others, many of
which reached the Senate and House
leaders, favored complete indemnifis
cations for all peoples who have suf
fered from Germany's ruthless poliey
of destruction, Not a single message
received in ofMielal quarters carried
the slightest sontiment in favor of
accepting the Teutonic suggestions,
The reply, when completed, will go
to Turkey as well as to Germany and
Austrin-Hungary, inasmuch as the
Sultan's Government is reported to
have joined in the peace overtures.
2 Good Reasons
Why Huns Ask Peace
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Oct, & —The treachery of
Bulgaria, combined with the situation
on the wesgtern front, made it neces
sary for the Central Powers to move
for peace, according to an article in
The Amsterdam Tiza. -
“As far as possible, the article
adds, “autonomy will be granted te
the various nationalities of Austria«
Hungary and a new f‘nlzlnd‘wflLb.
created out of part of Gallcia"
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