Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 4, 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vol. 45 today s weather warm some showers. Temperatures yesterday s maximum 69.3 minimum 41.9. To o c cause f one of the most deserving causes to which Winnipeg people Are asked to contribute a the red shield Campaign of the salvation army which closes today Sun rises 7.33a.m. N Moon rises 7.14 etsy6.26 Winnipeg october 4, 1918. Morning no. 79 fierce fight for Cambrai 1ml Section or Hindenburg line smashed armoured car penetrates German lines to routers French score another gain in Champagne St. Quentin and Cambrai take prisoners West of Blanc ont occupied Havre oct. Belgian a Mored car has succeeded in entering routers and has returned safely to its t lines according to the belgian official communication tonight. The statement says n u t d i Rench and belgian troops today m British occupy Many 1 owns Between positions East of important Advance made North is Adan. Despite the German resist advanced our lines too Filo i reaching the outskirts of Hoog , almost directly North of Roul cars As Well As the Road Between i Hoo Glide and routers. A counter it Lack on eight mile front coders completely k jaded. Wiy 10 sequent big Success yesterday a belgian armoured car passed through the Cerman lines reached penetrated routers despite a Vio j Lent fire. It returned through the German position and reached our c positions. On the North front a few prisoners were taken in minor Operc-1 if machine guns ground littered with enemy dead nearly three thousand prisoners captured North of Rheims captured austrian troops out Albania Vienna officially announces tells of rapid Advance attack Strong positions in is. Quentin of villages in flames with the British army on the St. Quentin sector oct. 3 by the associated British troops smashed a Large and vital Section of the Hindenburg line today Between St. Quentin and Cambrai. They have occupied Many additional towns and Vil Lages and 5.000 prisoners and numerous runs have been taken j Vienna. . The Battle was resumed at 6 troops have been withdrawn from o clock in the morning and con Albania tinted throughout the Day eng Lish and australian divisions drove deep into de fences. The ground Over which the British troops fought their Way against the inevitable swarm of machine guns was littered with German dead. War office ail Paris oct. Troops captured 2.800 prisoners j today the War office announces tonight. They made an import ant Advance to the Northwest of Somme by in the Champagne occupying the Crest of Blanc Mont. Phenomenal Success continues to attend efforts of Allied armies though phenomenal Success continues to attend the efforts of All the armies of the allies on the West front the desperation of the resistance and the lavish expenditure of their Man Power by the German High com Mand testify to the enormous importance attached by to the positions from which they Are being forced. The military consequences of the failure of the germans to hold what Are the most strongly fortified positions yet erected in the new style of warfare which the adaptation of Many kinds of technical science to warfare has produced will be sufficiently serious leaving Oil one Side the possibility of a genuine collapse of the German machine but the political results which Are Likely to accrue when the decisive defeat suffered by the Kaiser s Best troops along the Hindenburg line is realized by the germans and their allies and among the Peoples of the territories occupied by them present an even More menacing Prospect. Hence the bitter character of the Tig King in France and Flanders. But the Cost which is undoubtedly being incurred by marshal Focoli in his Effort to turn the defeat already inflicted upon into a. Crushing disaster encourages Confidence that his object will be attained. Yesterday s gains justify the inference that the germans have not merely roiled too confidently on their ability to hold the Hindenburg u be. But that they have jeopardized their ability to retire from it with any show of deliberation by too Long a postponement of that operation. The germans May yet reach the line of the Meuse with their armies intact but the allies Are taking such toll of their strength in prisoners and a shulties that this shortening of the line will bring them no advantage 11 Man Power. Deepen wedge in Belgium. In the routers Ilenin sector the british1 and belgians have deepened their wedge and have virtually reached the railway from Rouls to uru res upon which direct communication with Ostenzi from the South is maintained. German reinforcements cannot be thrown rapidly into the defence of the Northern portion of the new salient. Now that the lines of communication Are dominated by the allies guns Retreat from the sea coast must soon result. To the South the British belgian drive is producing the Best of results. Army Tieres has fallen and Lens is definitely taken. Thus Lille and Douai respectively Are brought into the Range of Cromity. Northwest of Rheims effective attack has also been captured. The statement says ii Otince. Berat has been taken Raih Vay East of St. Quentin and by the allies. Advanced fighting to East j the statement says. _ Faubourg d Isle. A Hundred we have withdrawn out Divi prisoners were taken. J Sions from Albania. This was Northwest of Rheims. We of j i , without Moncion. Oct. Attack by the sri jail infantry and tanks an sight mile front from Seq Ehart to lie Canul North of Bony in ire rat. Que Eipur. Sector was completely successful according to Field marshal Laig s report from British Juad quarters rendered necessary by events on. Copied Cormi Ehy and reached the bulgarian front. The Aisne canal Between con Berat fell into the hands of chevre no and la Neuy Illette. In the Battle continues violently. We enlarged our gains in the Region North of Rome. Oct. Troops in Albania began i energetic Advance _ on tuesday in the Adriatic and Somme by. Breaking Osum. The italian War office announce we captured Blanc de today. The italian columns in the r occupied the Village of Anont Crest and Meavali to Nischt. I Kieri and the line of the semen from Idlor Etres Northwest of Somme British troops have Reao Neci the to the metall Bridge Aud. P Kins of . About five several heir rats. _ i -1 3 Ailes East of Bellicourt. And f lathe the Austro hungarian forces prisoners to the number of Isth have captured Guoy and rom Riv and Are burning Nerv 0 Miles North have captured Guoy Cate let. The statement reads the Aust _ retreating rapidly and Are burning were taken today their depots. The italians Are a the or for n teaching Berat. They have Captur with the French army in France. Ai Dann this morning in j pm num Ner of prisoners and a Large Fantry attacked along a front of Quint it of Ivar material. About eight Miles from Seq Hurt to i the canal North of Bony. The attack Success u i at All Points. On the Rig lit of the attack English the text of the communication Fol Iri Albania. Tuesday our troops the second australian division Bain and secured the Hist ground i material South and Southwest of Beaure capture of Berat reported. Vol. I Home. Oct. A Semi official Gouy and be Cate Iet captured. Statement o meanwhile on the left of the at Albania Saj a. N the italian operations we have occupied pack the English and Irish battalions t he Scheldt canal i Pouy and be Cate let. Capturing pure and advanced beyond the i villages and the High ground to j West in this locality Wunt a attacked during the i con Hase huskies for Alia. Oct. Captain t. O. Kei for the r which inthe of Ity arranging 50 Siberia for oct. 3. General Debeney s troops in Region of St. Quentin yesterday Betran to smash through the lines of the Hindenburg positions Over the entire front of that army those lines were two and one half Miles deep in some places and were supported by several strongly organized Woods. They were defended by machine Sun sections which proved unable to Check general Debeney s j Advance. A breach made in the Hindenburg East of be Tro Quoy was widened to the outskirts of Lazdins. Fur ther North the French troops in con Junction with British forces took several Small pieces of Timber in the face of vigorous resistance. General Gouraud s troops crowned their successful Campaign in the Champagne last night by taking Chall Range and advancing to the Southern Edge of the Village of Mouron. The latter town is in front of the Western exit from the grand pre Pap. Further Gouraud s men also took the Crest of the height called Croix Des so flans. From where they command the Valley of the Aisne Ethward. Mech Soful operations. On the remainder of the St. Quen tin Cambrai Battlefront Only patrol j encounters Are reported which secured additional prisoners. Endorse school Board move. Edmonton. Alta. Oct. Edmonton High school teachers Asso elation Toniki it voted to endorse the m the area of s with school Board in its move to North or the Scarpe our troops higher Grants from the pro and Federal governments for educational purposes. They also. In View of the increased and increasing Cost of living demand an increase of their own . Cutter 118 lives Are lost Washington oct. . Tampa a former coastguard Cut Ter in the naval service was lost off the English coast sept. 20, with All on Board while on con Voy duty. Ten officers and 109 enlisted men of the Crew one British offi cer and five civilian employees lost their lives. A Navy department statement today announcing pushed Forward steadily the Day. They Are main taming constant pressure on the Wornan rearguard. Has been cleared of the and our advanced Ilet Aeh have reached the general line " Avion. A ending. Shantay arid and Are East of the Bois Trenier. This our troops occupied and arme Tieres evacuated by ,.brain. Oct. 3. Lens was Cvack Ted by the germans on tuesday the War office announced to j arme Tieres was eve activated the evening. Be official report is As follows in the Flanders front the repulse North of St Den and i and West of is re i the text of the statement the disaster. In Flanders enemy attacks North j says the ship was at night i i a. Of were repulsed. Northwest West we took 1 prisoners. In the evening Par j attacks by on both j of the Ypres Llenin Road failed. And were Eva to. If a without fish tins on a we occupied Nar in to poem Tialii East of both town.-. The course of the Day . Strong preparation the abandoned Posi j7nj Over t Bassee Bulluch line. T Day was i t Eny Partia attacks on Ain of inf Scheldt near and Ean of were repulsed. Attacks and thrusts against North and South of St. Failed. Of Anzyle chateau continued on paso the Bristol Channel and that reports indicate that the was struck by z torpedo while escort ing a Convoy. Captain c. Batter Lee of the coastguard commanded the Cut Ter. Apparently there to the Navy s report lays an was Feit after the Tampa had gone Well ahead of the Convoy about 8.45 . And that later quantities of wreckage one of the Tampa s life belts and the bodies of two unidentified in uniform were found. The villages occupied by the germans in the Ortli toward Vou Ziers. Avia tors reported that Semide and Slont St. Martin and even towns further to j the North Are in flames. In taking and the Heights of Croix Des Soudan Gour Aud s troops have accomplished an other remarkable feat of arms. There is probably nothing More formidable in the Hindenburg line anywhere than the defences which the germans had raised Here to defend their Access to the Region commanding the Valley of i the Aisne f re. Breaking through lines or i trenches and barbed wire five deep Gen. G Mouraud attacked this position Ahev carried it against rein forced troops., that counter attacked l him three times in vain. The pos session of Challe Ranore and Croix Des j Soudan by the 1 Rench seriously i compromises position of what Ever German j troops remain in the Forest of Argonne and in the Region j North of Dorfeuil. _ last outlet blocked. No longer is there an outlet to the West from the Argonne Region open to the and the american and Vance along the Eastern Edse of the Forest virtually closes the Eastern i exit from to i foods w the woo Clcil Region North of i Dorfeuil is. Now under the fire of French suns. I Vou Ziers is directly threatened by the latest Advance. I in the Centre of a Long ba.tt.i-. Urie Gen Berthely t s troops Advance 1 i de within a Ruch of the Forest of brr int Nave captured Loire. Encourages the Hope that the ii a of rhe Irris will soon be entirely freed from the tire of the German _ second Hin line of i resistance beached1 offi French Headquarters in France oct capture of Chall Erang a. A Northwest of the a Forest Means that s continued on three saturday Means a larger crowd in the free press Marret place saturday s. Free press classified Section Means a in the classified Market place. Man thousand lines of Public needs and necessities. All the More need to put your want and. On a Ped where the crowd will see it first. Mark your copy classified display Means a More insistent Call to the great free press Public. And what else you have for Market. Advertise it free press want ads. Bring results. British have Cut big Gap in German line making desperate Effort to breach in Hun defences North of St. Quentin positions of great strength stormed and thousand prisoners at noon i butter order limited to Creamery product Pree press special Ottawa oct. Is pointed out Here that the recent order of the can Ada food Board with regard to but Ter is limited to that manufactured by the creameries. The order provides that manufacturers of Creamery butter shall deliver All such butter made in the provinces of Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Ontario and Quebec Between sept. 30 and nov. 9, 1918, both Days to a cold storage warehouse at Mont i real designated by the Dairy produce i Etc. The Sale of Creamery butter to householders is restricted but House holders May i keep whatever stores they have on hand. Moreover there is Hun complains strategy Foch is demoniacal general Ardenne admits Serio Saess of situation on West front danger in belgian drive no restriction whatever butter. Householders on Farmers May Lay in i Foch carrying out encircling we nent in each plans to break through i believed germans have now began War s greatest Retreat British sweeping through Lens their Minter Supply and May place l orders with Farmers for butter to be j delivered at freeze up time. There j no limit to this class of butter order being confined wholly to Cream j Ery butter. I j British Headri Marler to Iii Trunce i oct. Has been a Day of satisfactory Progress on both i the Cambrai St. Quentin front and in Flanders i there is More Confidence now that Seq Ehart. Ram court. And lie Cate let j have been taken and it in the Cambrai St. Quentin front there has been most desperate fighting. The old Hindenburg positions have been almost entirely Pasa we " Allied a footing of the i de and the Allied troops Are Debo Ching into the rolling country a beyond them. But has not relinquished the Centre of his defensive system without making the strongest efforts to retain it. Seq Ehart North., of St. Quentin has been captured for the second time by the British having been lost in the interval in a violent counter attack by . South of St. Quentin the French have taken Taii court and Are pushing on into the Valley of the upper Oise. In the St. Quentin sector the last portions of the wide Belt of defensive positions Are being overcome and sir Douglas Haig s. Forces have earned highest credit Sii Alj to of .thenr.work. Progress along the Aisne. Along the Daisiie and in the Hilly country North West of. Sheinis the troops of generals and Berthelot Are making Progress though Here tha enemy is clinging desperately to his positions. Gen. Berthelot has reached the Ait be canal which parallels the Bank of tha River of the name Nelme for some distance North of Rheims. The Vance brings very near the Prospect of final Relief for Rheims from tie four year bombardment to which it has been subjected. Even More important than the pushing of the germans from the Heights dominating Hehns and from the Vantage ground of the Chemin Des Dames is the Progress of general Gouraud s army West of the Argonne. There Chall Range has been captured and. An Advance made beyond it which closes the Valley the Aire where it passes into the Forest of Argonne. The americans Are advancing on. The of the Forest to shut the Mouth of this passage through which the defenders of the German positions in the Argonne must emerge if they Are to escape capture. The Long Battle in the West made of of Many coordinated offensives and extending from the sea to Verdun is growing in intensity As the plans of marshal Foch approach their Climax. Within perhaps n few Days the crisis will be reached of the new stage of the struggle which began with the. Definite fracture of the indent aug line and the intensification the pressure on a. Front by Means of new attacks upon both flanks. This new stage will determine whether Sajihe germ an High command can prevent the Retreat which it must again undertake from becoming a disorderly rout and whether marshal Foci can utilize his Superior strength to snatch a Victory equal in significance to Sedan and Waterloo but immeasurably greater. Than either in magnitude. X Turkey May ask peace. In til political held there is much speculation As to the possibility of an immediate demand by Turkey for a separate peace. Rumours that informal negotiations Are in Progress Are Rife but As far nothing official has been promulgated. The appointment of Prince Maximilian of Baden Ito be Imperial German Chancellor in place of von , must be a severe disappointment for the pan germans who would probably have preferred or. Solf. The Champion of German colonial the Prince is reputed to share the policy of the moderates and his appointment must be regarded As an Endeavor to placate the Reform parties and to encourage the German people in the belief peace by negotiation May yet be the fact remains that Prince Maximilian holds office at the pleasure of the clique which rules Germany and that no essential difference in the policies of the Central empires can be expected la his accession As chief political adviser of the Kaiser. Austrians withdraw from Albania. The first valuable fruits of Bulgaria s secession from the teutonic Alliance have been the retirement of the austrians from Albania and the destruction in the Harbor of Durazzo an important seaport some distance North of Valona on the Straits of Otranto of several warships the official announcement by the of the retire ment definitely admits that it was caused by Bulgaria s action. Tie of the Allied armies advancing in the Southern Balkans will shortly much nearer the frontiers of the dual monarchy. This withdrawal demonstrates As nothing else could do he reality of the setback which the Central empires have suffered and their inability to maintain their hold on the Balkans now that Bulgaria has deserted them. I Rehain Northeast of Senu Ehart and i that their patrols have reached Beau Revoir. Thus it would appear that the Brit j ish have created a Gap and Are ing hard to Widen it. Boring five holes preparatory the using blasts of dynamite fierce fighting in camb no sector London oct. 73 Canadian press despatch t join writing in the Berliner Tage Blatt. The Well known German military critic general Ardenne. 7 i admits the seriousness of the Situ Stoll a highly situated action. Tie describes the strategy traps general Foeh As land As aiming not merely at the j encircling of the German armies i in All sectors but to break 5.1 through in every one. He says Point is be Aud St. Quen the situation factory but for the a Selirian attack on Down on my carefully avoided positions How they can Hope to Ste highly situated sub. I Village of Stoll. Which i once it fairly this being in tact a. Suburb. Present operations to Bor overflowed into open. The Allied Victory least news. The1. Germans who were Are to undoubted the i tics concede germans it is re Cara brai and the prepared to suffer even greater losses indications Are an attempt to drive the wanting that the germans have been the War s forced to begin greatest retreats. J the troops Chi Oivera Trig with the belgians have taken villages near routers. After hard Street fighting. They have forced the germans Well Back and Are still going. The Gar l mans must get Olla 61" the belgian coast As far us Ostend. If the Advance Here continues As it gives every is of doing. The British troops have almost the capacity being surprised in these stirring times. Else the report of King men in oing through Lens would have stirred great emotions. The canadians probably will be disappointed they were not tie first to enter Lens in the reduction of which they did such wonder Lul work but doubtless they will find satisfaction Chat the germans Are being hounded out of the heart of the great French Coal and canal Region. New British attack on six mile front canadians 13s Helcl talc canadians in old a had special marksmen and thus re establish his vital flank i detachments and Nachine guns Between Douai and St. Quentin. , a. Back to the line of the Ca beyond question yesterday 7 Battie j every ten Yards. Every a was the most Savage and sustained met by u German counter at in which the Canadian corps j.nel-. Ever engaged. I 1 Day of of i the rearmost ump the utmost heroism and ten positions of tie line Ign i acuity of our infantry including Bat Between Cambrai and St. Quen talons from Quebec. Central to ,.p3r find Ost Western Manitoba and Eastern Bri to to 1u1 eat lion Tish Columbia enabled us to cling on to the salient we had driven into the heart of s defence in face of wave after wave of counter at tacks by almost overwhelming num i with t be British armies in France. I oct. British launched fresh attacks this morning on a front of nearly six Miles Between sequel tart Bony Northeast of St. Quentin. There has been heavy fighting along the Hindenburg line in this area and More ground of the most important nature has been gained. In Flanders substantial advances have been made and there has been extraordinarily heavy fighting in which the British forced their Way Forward by sheer might. I l.oca-1 attacks in the neighbourhood of routers by the belgians resulted in the gain of some ground. The British crossed the Lys uni tit last reports were still going the British captured Ghe Luwe late yesterday after the germans had held out there for several Days. Soon afterwards launched a vicious counter attack again is the Menin Road in this locality an d As a result seem to have established machine gun posts in the Eastern out skirts of the Village. Holding at terrible Cost the positions in this locality Are of the utmost strategical importance to the germans and their men Are being thrown in in. An Effort to hold on continued can Pace Throe 1vjeathek re Root. Following is weather report issued at St. John s meteorological Oscr Victory at 7 . . 62.0 maximum for pc ceding 12 03.j. Minimum. 41.9 barometer. 29.9s South Ivan of blowing 4 an hour. The Canadian meteorological service taken at 7 o clock last evening october 3, Winnipeg time were port Arthur. 52. Winnipeg 62 fair manned Oak 62, Cloudy quip Pelo. 63, fair Prince Albert. O4. Mir Bollt current 68.air 64, talk led Lcene hat 72 Tair Calgary 62. Cloudy Edmonton 58. Cloudy port Nel son. 24-. Clear. The weather has been Tine and warm today throughout the -.vest. Minimum and Majc mum Imp erasures 46-62 Prince Rupert 48-60 Vic Toria 50-58 Vancouver. 54-58 Kamloops 50-u4 by Menton. 34-58 Calgary. 16-66 Bat Deford. 34-66 Prince Albert. Medicine hat. 42-72 Saskatoon. .50-72 Moose jaw. 44-30 30-70 Parry sound 36-50 Toronto. 48-60 Ottawa 46 56 Montreal. 42-52 Quebec 44-52 St. Joan 5ors4 52-64. That line inevitable. It is pc i Sun ibid by experts As one of greatest feats in the War. Praise lavished on Field marshal _. . Not. Merely artillery and machine guns. For a j in a colossal number of prisoners but in triumphing Over All Day Long our artillery machine i a series of strongest defences and runners and had targets such j largest of Ailt of As Thev Seldom have offered to them. I the Slaughter went on from Dawn f. I the Allied armies to make Ilav dark but is still critical. Foch s strategy a us Cocks May elect to pay the Price of another desperate Hazard. Casualties Are now heavier our the casuals a recent operation than in the Battle of the previous seven weeks before Amiens and Arras and when we Wen through the Quant drop our . So far we have attacked and beaten out of his positions when he had superiority in men of and numerical to two much greater in i his men had fought destroy austrian base at Turazzo attacked by aupied cruisers on mos sorted the admiration of to idlers. Their Gray Waves lapping Over each i other to destruction recalled the bitter fighting ot.1915 and 1916. When i morale was at its highest. Determined to hold Cambrai. With the Canadian forces oct. 2. J. I. B. Livesay. Canadian Presa reports did not verify All the rumours of gains War ships Complete loss red to r troops Weie ainu. Waja mys a uni Side at the jump Oft yesterday cords annoy in. Non no under the screen of a heavy rage we anticipated or Ando to Luigi Luigi the attack of Dura our troops were made mor barrage. C in his counter attack. He had Down his own barrage almost on the instant that we went Forward our momentum carried us through his organizations which were thrown into temporary confusion from which we reaped at the outset Over 1.000 prisoners. These were from an unprecedented number of units., proving Ilu Aie. Oct. British and italian warships have destroyed the austrian naval base at Durazzo and t be warships anchored there us Cement made by occurred at wednesday when italian and British cruisers protected by lit Liuji and Allied torpedo boats and. American submarines succeeded n Makins their Way through mine Fields and avoiding attacks by submarines into Durazzo Harbor. An intense bombardment followed the i until the and the austrian the command for the purpose of torpedo Advance. His Paramount torpedo Ming our eng object was to keep his hold on Cam continued on paps torpedo gunboat sunk in missing London oct. Mea Are missing As the. Result of the sinking of a British Tor Pedo gunboat in a collision with a merchant vessel sept 30, according to an official statement issued by the British admiralty Toni go _ i enemy fire torpedoed an austrian de Stroyer and Steamer. Another vessel which was recognized As a Hospital ship was allowed to withdraw. British and italian air planes of j operated in the work. Other italian i and Allied warships were drawn up in order of Battle outside of the har i Bor to Deal with any enemy warships Cominer up to the assistance of the port. No losses or damages were suffered j by the Allied Squadron except i slight injury to a British Cruiser by a torpedo from an enemy submarine. Durazzo is a seaport in Albania 53 Miles South of Scutari. It is Situ ated on a Peninsula in the Adnau sea. For some time past it has been Lor austrian operations Bania. I v ;