Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, September 28, 1918

Issue date: Saturday, September 28, 1918
Pages available: 36
Previous edition: Friday, September 27, 1918

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 28, 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s weather fair and cooler. Temperatures yesterday maximum minimum 53.4. Bulgaria through the Brilliant Allied Advance has sickened Bulgaria of the War and it is now crying to fighting. Pun re pc 7.25 . Sets 7.15 . Moon Rise s . Sets 4.19 . Winnipeg saturday september 28, 1918. Morning edition 74, allies peace fighting peace is s Winnipeg hanging postponed simply because no Hangman Ottawa sept. The fed eral authorities have nothing whatever to do with the procedure in Connic lion with the execution of the supreme penalty is the attitude of the depart ment of Justice in connection with the sensational postponement of the hang ing of Sullivan and Johnson at Winnipeg. The incident has few precedents As the reason for the postponement was the fact that the offi crc1" Hangman Ellis was carrying an execution at Montreal and lit could not be present in win d Esperdy refused to 1 lie matter of providing for exec operations request comes entirely under provincial jurisdiction. It has been a Trade j tonal belief that in the absence of the official Hangman the sheriff should j himself pull the lever. Official Otta i a considers thai the reprieve is Mere lessening of hammering while in the nature of a postponement. J in the meanwhile it is slated that Ellis has left Montreal tonight on his to Winnipeg. Of Allied armies in Macedonia receives request for armistice Franco apexes have captured prisoners second Day of big drive Between rhe iras and Verdun shows material gains May be military ruse War material secured includes More than Hundred guns twelve of which Are of heavy calibre mks Are considering genuine Ness of request heavy counter attacks against americans at Mont Fancon fail second Hindenburg line London sept. I Orein Secretary Bali our and Andrew Binar Law tiie Chancellor of the Are in uni Ferem a l Lection pos Sibu Premier Lloyd Georgre re-1 Lloyd May put his poli., a length of 19 Miles j pans sept. The first 1 Day of the Battle. Gen. I i oud s men recaptured All tiie abandoned july 15 and then stormed the hindu Buvire line on they now i Bulgaria s act first break in United front of Central Powers associated press the welding of the armies of the entente into a , under command of the inter Allied War guided by the master strategy of marshal Foch apparently Lias come the first break in the United front of the Central Powers. Bulgaria smallest the teutonic allies seems to have Start wbk colors. Premier Maun off has asked for an armistice to consider terms of peace. Whether he is acting upon his own responsibility As the representative of a. Revolutionary party or with the approval of King Ferdinand and the government remains in doubt. In either Case How Ever there is Little doubt that. Bulgaria has ceased to be a military actor in the her armies Are in Eull Retreat and her soil has been invaded. Secession of the Ballina state from the Thra Dom of Germany wiil be almost As severe a blow to the teutonic Alliance is was the collapse of Russia to the allies. If Bulgaria lays Down her arms Turkey her armies shattered by the coup of Gen. Allenby in Palestine will be Cut off. From her allies. Her line of communication will be severed except across the Black sea. Through Rou Vania. Or Over the mountains of trans Caucasia into Russia. Where the grip of the German controlled bolshevik is becoming steadily weaker. With her supplies of German made munitions and raw materials hanging by such slender threads military observers believe the ottoman Empire will have no course Lect but to follow the example of her Balkan neighbor. Hut it makes Little difference to the entente whether the Turk Abandons Germany and Austria. Bulgaria quits lie can no longer Monace to their plans. Back door to Austria open. Tiie Hack door Austria will stand ajar before the victorious British. Unch. Serbian Gruels and italian armies plunging ahead through the mountains of liberated Serbia. Only 230 Niiles ahead of their Advance guards is Belgrade across the Danube from the Plains of Hungary. They already have pressed Forward a Quarter of this distance since the Strum Nitza and Koch Ana taken from bulgarians influenza epidemic in Montreal Barracks Montreal sept. Influenza has broken out in epidemic form in the Montreal Barracks. To Day in was reported to. Military head quarters ihai_20 cases had occurred in the Barracks Here. . F. S. Patch a.d.m.s., reports that so i i -u., i 10 Inui. British on cases Are it of a serious front make Advance into enemy territory serbians advancing rapidly ii direction to Cut off enemy nature. Of draft delayed. Washington sept. For entrapment of i draft registrants Between october 7 and 1 1 were cancelled last night by Provall Marsial general Crowder As a. Re Sull of the spread Spanish influenza. Serious conditions Are Preva Lent in. Many of the army Camps. The j 1 epidemic is sweeping through All but 1 3 of the Camps in the United states and has increased the death rate in British make Strong attack West Cambrai drive on thirteen mile front results in capture of Many prisoners and guns All objectives reached reports Gen. Important positions taken cavalry has advanced Over fifty Miles since offensive prisoners taken i spread Westward Morl Alil u. With even greater seven of Hindenburg line and apexes in fight or Bulgaria s request for an j tical Fate to test in face of present events . Will continue fight. Park sept. Is under a Rood Thill no instructions i a i free pres special Cable a i i London Are t Ardig Tut Miu Jauan Appia whether defences of tiie enemy beyond for an armistice will be i George win or not put his Poniti which lies the open country. Paris sept. French troops in the Battle line East of Rheims further Advance today and in the two Days Battle have taken More than prisoners and consider Able War material according to the Are Oil the front of tiie second j macedonian offensive began on september 1-1. Once Over i Hindenburg line along the by i which is less Strong than the these will have to be de i polished by the artillery before the infantry the last liven Tho military commander in i Macedonia until there is oppor a no question of technical Tim Cui i mtg i or i Consul Talioli Between ties fora week or fortnight will suf l a i i Nee to Complete a new Register with France. I. Real Britain the lined its greatly electorate in ies Italy and the other allies. I chiding six million women voters. Meantime the military will continue. But leading industrialists and at least official communication tonight. The Paris. J7.--general i Rilia hot commanding the Iii eur raises in Macedonia has telegraphed French government that trades Union claim it is a revolutionary Challenge sheer implacable Black bolshevism originating oni the purely military View a comparatively Small group of mint the granting of an armistice to it is considered would be impartial Justice to All nations secured by league of nations Price of peace says Wilson sch a great advantage to her that it co Jid not be granted without severe such As. Possibly the Eva of Serbia. Must consult with allies sept. From tiie foreign office that application Tor an a o juice there no suggest our that s action was taken of his own initiative. Tiie re is for an armistice in order to peace. Great Britain can reply after consultation with her h is understood that the offi a Law is that peace with Bulgaria have prodigious effect. Is , Turkey. It would fret Salonika a my. And evenly. Four flies Over Alps Paris Rcpt. U Annun Zio. The Rived in air plane. Alps. Italian author aviator. Ai Paris this morning in an to lying from Italy across the Jukl West. New York. Sept. Price of must peace will be impartial Justice to All Ward any s5t5 i urls k table but by what Ivy no discrimination to and no employment of any form of oblige the Observance of common e his he set Forth i economic Boycott or exclusion except people. J Nis of in nip. Nina to by head he added no Man. No group of six officers and Jas. Cook c. I the third divisions of the so Orth corps Kelt r in Smeen and w. H. Overlong. Lunder Gen. Haldane. To be executive committee. The enemy s defences East of havin state Meme were read giving details court carried the villages of Fles of the death of a. Underwood an old quires and gained Possession of a. Timer of the Union which occurred Long Spur which runs eastward from f of wounds received on Active ser that Village toward Ifer Colegr. Vice in France Nyrl of three other on their left. Scottish and naval members Bertram Smith. Peter units of Tho 17th corps having storm Wright. .1. Gellatly. Who had recently led the line of the canal do Nord East wounded. Inn Southeast of oeuvres at the conciliation Hoard appointed first checked by the defences of Grain in connection with the grievances of win com the showmen employed by the Nipes electric Street railway Pany. Concluded it s labors last night after a session extending Over two weeks publication of the Tine Ings is expected at an Early Date. Strike of Mill hands court. Out flanking Unis 1 Ellase from the North they seized Annex carried Forward the whole front of the corps. On the extreme right american detachments captured a series of. Trenches and fortified farms forming the outer defences of the main Only for a. Short is Tho hand ennui a system Southeast or be Xvi nor in which the Sash and Mill Cate let. Uie walk out which i substantial Progress has been took pice yesterday at 10 toward Rall Dencourt o clock. In. The afternoon a speci8.1 meeting trades number to the Vas held by the men in Tho and labor Temple where a of new members were added strength of the Union. Full details of the events which had led strike were explained to tha to the men. Over 300 our deep Advance astride the Arras car brai Road was a greatly de by the close co operation of the 22nd corps under Gen. Godley South and North of the sense and Scarpe Rivers. Cross canal do Nord the 55-th London divisions of this men went out on strike. I corps crossed the canal do Nord and All the Sash and Mill trades attacking North Ward has captured the cite their demands Are for i saucy Lestre and saucy Cauchy. Of nine hours with five North of the on the left. English and. Scottish completed the capture of the r. Pens at the peace this was president Vrlin . Sorl a answer Given tonight Ectore an audience of fourth Liberty loan workers Here to the recent peace 534 talk from the Central Powers Al Jio wins though it did not refer specifically to i the utterance of enemy leaders. Mrs acc i not a question declared it of coining to terms army cities bring about peace a her oust Vitious Tak in m so it Ullin v Iii. Arthur 66. Ring a . I for we cannot "miaiierln.-ii. 62. Cloudy As they have of. Lair Winni pus time. I he Prasi Clen the to. German recover.-5 Cloudy Fici a 76, cd Edmonton. 68. Iwo i it Xci menace to the j 40. Colury. Effect and i the continues come to terms with made it impose corned. . To. And thus free the and Palestine armies and j j and peace must be guaranteed there will be parties to the peace promises Nave proved entrust of economic penalty by an even Day of men chose these to of the issues the Priti exclusion instead of 10 hours Treme hours saturday orld May be vested in the league America s peace h ave had to work. The rate j Arleaux in go Helle and the the g Al the men interested locally would be called to a mass meeting to be held i labor Temple on monday evening Pri Sohei s big Guus Security and Peoples and make the recurrence of n another such struggle of pitiless Force arid make them wrong weak nations when the situation of affairs at Cal part of the settlement Attl. Even in their own internal of Orthy and Means consent with the com fairs. J the terms she will accept and Al ways finds that the world does hot want declared the president. It wishes the final Triumph of jus Tice and fair after committing the fourth lib erty loan to the energetic endeavours on. Gary would be considered. Gates lating _ than to. Declare that the sympathy i of the local men was Strong Cambrai. Their Brethren. The in in Al labor circles is that London sept. The Assoria to British troops today advanced to a Point within three Miles they took Between Tiri toners. Some Ger bal throughout Tern. Continued on ;