yOLUME XI. LETHBR1DGE, ALBERTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1918 NUMBER 242 BULGARIAN SPLIT IN TWO "Over Crest, Going Downhill to Rhine" Generalissimo Foch in Optimistic Vein ALLIES CAPTURE PRILEP:

London, Sept. 25.—Mar­ ter than ever. It fights bet­ al situation, the marshal shal Foch, commander-in- ter than ever. All. of its said: ARE (USE M chief of the allied armies on losses have been made good "The enemy is shaken up and it is a more splendid Various Factions of German House Believe It Was Not Equa the western front, who dis­ and shaken down, but is likes interviews and rarely army than it has been be­ still holding out. You must Bulgars Fall Back on Veles in Precipitous Fashion—British to Serious Situation—Resignation May Be Expected— grants one, received a few fore. not think that we shall get and Greeks Advance Along Vardar River—British Cap­ "The Americans are Von Payer and Freiburg May Go, Too. newspapermen at his head­ to the Rhine immediately. ture 1,000 on West Front. quarters on Tuesday. Am­ splendid' and are wonder­ We have passed over the ong those received was the fully gallant in the field. crest and are now going London; Sept. 25.—The speech Defends Action on Belgium correspondent of the Tele­ Ten thousand fresh Ameri­ down hill. If we gather im­ In vigorously defending Germany's LONDON, Sept. 25.—More than 40,000 prisoners have of Count von Hertling, the Ger­ graph, who thus records cans arrive in France eve- petus as we go, like a roll­ man Imperial chancellor, deliver­ action toward Belgium, the imperial ery day; ing ball, so much the bet­ chancellor admitted that In invading the marshal's brief utter­ been taken by the British in their successful offensive in Pal­ ed yesterday in the reichstag "The French army is the ter." main committee, made an unfav­ Belgium, Germany transgressed the ances made in an ejacula- same good old army that it With a few cordial words estine, it is officially announced this afternoon. orable impression upon the reich­ written law, but, he said: tory manner with the use stag members, the Exchange Te­ "As for individuals,' so is there also was in 1914. No more is to the marshal then dismissed legraph correspondent at Amster­ for states, another law. That is the of hardly any verbs: be said." his interviewers and resum­ LONDON, Sept. 25.— East of the Vardar river, in Mace­ dam reports. The address is con­ law of self-defense." "The British army is bet­ In discussing the gener­ sidered unequal to the gravity of He repeated the German conten­ ed his work on his maps. donia, the Germans and Bulgarians are falling back on Veles^ the situation in that parliamentary tion that there/were grounds for the 25 miles southeast of Uskub, according to a Serbian official body whose parties were to meet fear that the enemy would invade Bel OFFICERS UNDER SWEDISH GUNBOAT this morning to decide upon their gium and referred to alleged proofs statement received-here. Along the Prilep-Gradsko road the PROTECTION OF NORWAY STRUCK MINE; SANK attitude toward the chancellor. from Belgium archives of Belgium's Serbians have captured 13 guns and a great number of am-* The. Berlin Lokal Anzeiger says dubious neutrality. He also alluded London, Sept. 25.—A number of to offers of peace to Belgium before Copenhagen, Sept. 25. — The It hears authoritatively that if French and British officers have Swedish gunboat Geinhild has munition wagons and other material. > Count von Hertling resigns, Vice- the invasion and again after the cap­ taken refuge in the American con­ ture of Liege, which Belgium refused been sunk by striking a German chancellor von Payer and Herr sulate at Moscow, which is under mine in the Skaggsrack with the LONDON, Sept. 25.—All along the 100-mile front In Macedonia from Freiburg, vice-president of the to entertain. the protection of Norway, accord­ the region north of Monastir to Lake Doiran the entire entent armies Prussian ministry of state, also On the Defense loss of the chief officer and 18 ing to a dispatch from Copenha­ men, reports the correspondent of have pressed further forward against the demoralized German and Bul­ will resign. In all future fighting, both on the gen to the Exchange Telegraph garian troops, whose reinforcements have not been able to stiffen the the Politlken at the Skaaw, the line for a face-about. North of Monastir, the important strategic post |Vwest and the east, the imperial etian company. The Bolshevlki gov­ northernmost port of Denmark. Amsterdam, Sept. 25. — Germany cellor said, it would be solely a ques­ ernment has placed a guard tion of Prilep has been occupied, thus giving control of the numerous' maintains her readiness for peace de- tion of defense. He declared that the around the building and has de­ YIT TO BE TOLD Persistent rumors, he adds, are roads radiating from it to the French cavalry in the centre. The Serbians epite repeated rejections of peace of­ submarine warfare is slowly, but sure manded the surrender of the offi­ current at the Skaaw that another have pushed their wedge further between the enemy's western and eastern fers from the central powers, declared Iy, diminishing allied, tonnage. cers and the consulate office. Swedish gunboat struck a mine a armies while on the extreme eastern flank the British and Greeks) have- AMtniral Von Hintzo, the German for­ few days ago. and that a greater advanced along both sides of the Vardar to depths averaging about ten . "Above all," he said, "it is re­ Seventh and Eighth Turk Arm­ 1 eign secretary, in addressing the stricting the transportation of rein­ part of the crew were killed. miles over a front of 20 miles. Ncwhere are the entente commanders. reichstag main committee. forcements of men and material from ies We^e Destroyed Very permitting the Bulgarians and Germans to lose contact with the advanc­ Speaking on the recent Austrian the United State*." Thoroughly ing troops, who are harassing them vigorously. peace proposal, Admiral Von Hintze So badly has the. 100-mile line been penetrated or battered that - ' said that the German government'.s at­ direct calamity seemingly faces the enemy, unless the retreat Is greatly • titude toward peace had been mani­ London, Sept. 25.—Detailed re­ hastened, unless the /enemy is fleet enough of foot to outdistance the, fested to the whole world in repeated ports of operations in Palestine allies on the wings of the drive and reconstitute his front to the north,. appeals,.- — are considerably behind events with its centre resting possibly, on Uskub or thereabouts. Even. If there. The latest reports from such a movement is possible, doubtless it will be necessary for the. "We maintain this appeal for peace, DISCIPLINES HEIR enemy to straighten his line westward through Albania to the Ardriatic. tour readiness for peace," he eontifl-' the accredited British corres­ pondent a«mt from Nabulus on sea. f - tied, "despite the partly jeering, partly • : : : O CLOSING ON ST. QUENTIN. ene^ripg rejections which we have ex­ Amsterdam, Sept. 25.—Crown Princo Monday emphasizes the astonish­ ing thoroughness of the destruc­ With the British Armjr in' perienced from our enemies. In this Charles of Rumania has been punished France,1'Sept. 24.—Another Anglo- ive ar*i1n full accord with our allies." by his father, a3 commander«Ia-ehlef tion, at -thejfTth and 8th Turkish ; Death .Occurred This Morning French assault was delivered 'j'h.Q-loreign. ,8ecretary said that, af^ of the- army,-with close confinement armies. *{• '. .' "•*'" v ; at St. Paul After Long; . agalrtst the GermanidefensesjSe-^ ."!5r*ttef.''p¥Eip>tfs features, it had ap­ In Sympathy With Calgary — for 75 days for "transgression: of mili­ Remnants of >these forces which •' -fore" 8t. Quentin today. Reporti peared to the German government tary' regulations," according to an of­ succeeded in crossing tbe Jordan Illness received up .to two o'clock^this, .thai-it should not take any further Today WiM TelJ-^Accepl No * ficial telegram from Jassay by way. river-^are isolated and are 'being afternoon indicated that < the al-. fctfetWjvihvthis. direction and that a mo- Freight For Calgary of Berlin. The crown prince began gathered in. lied attack was meeting success. meHFwVen llie nation's enemies "were his sentence yesterday. "There has been no more com­ St. Paul, Minn.. Sept. <25.—Archbish­ Buffering from war psychosis and the 'The validity of the actions , which plete victory in history," the cor­ op John Ireland-of the St. Paul diocese On the right, the French appear- • intoxication of victory was not a suit­ LATER led to his arrest will be investigated respondent says. "Groups of men of,-the Roman Catholic church died at ed to have possession of L'Epine de Gallon, southwest of St. Quen­ able time for new appeals for peace. Local freight handlers went on and such measures as are requirett'by have been found sitting under 3:55 o'clock this morning after a long Ottawa,.Sept. 25.—The following are illness of heart disease and stomach tin, a strong position known as "The appeal, however, was made," strike at noon today. Thirty the interest of the country and "the white flags awaiting the accept­ the western men and officers in today^ dynasty will be taken," the dispatch ance of their surrender." trouble. He was SO years old. ; Round' Hill to the west of the jtlie secretary added. men are affected, the yard office casualty list: threatened city and the hamlet adds. _ More than 260 guns were cap­ Archbishop Ireland recently cele­ Infantry Chloroform From Hertling. staff is also out; This adds eight of Francilly-Selency, while to the Amsterdam, Sept. 25.—Count von Not of Royal Blood. tured, vast quantities of ammuni­ brated his 80th birthday. Shortly af­ Killed iu Action—Corp. G. Harrow, iK north the British have seized the tHertling, tRV German imperial chan­ more men to the list 6f strikers. London, Sept. 25.—Reports have tion are .lying everywhere, some terward he suffered a second relapse Calgary; A. Hardy, Prince Rupert, B. Supt. MacKintoah is in Calgary. munition depots, covering acres high ground west of Fayol and cellor, in'addressing the reichstag" been received here of the arrest of and his condition became "grave. C; D. G. Golley, West Wingham, cleared the woods east of Fres- main committee, complained of the He will be back tonight and nego­ Crown'Prince-Charles of Roumenia^ of ground. It is reported that if The archbishop was in frail health Alta.; D. Duguid, Vancouver; W. J. It is believed here that the crown the Turks try to raise new ar­ noy of the enemy and had storm­ lack of attention his acquiescence in tiations iooklng to a settlement for a year. Last winter he went to Mills, Edmonton; R. White, Prince ed their way through Pontruet. the 14 points laid down by President prince is being disciplined because, mies to replace those destroyed Rupert, B.C. will be opened. Florida. When he returned early la Fighting was progressing this Wilson as peace essentials had met according to a report reaching, Lon­ they must call on'Germany to the spring he suffered a breakdown Artillery Ifrom the American "executive. don, he went to Odessa about .Sept. 'supply everything and every in­ afternoon along tha ridge between A strike of the- crew of the local and for several days was at the point Died of Wounds—Sergt. E. Olsen, Pontruet and Gricourt. The chancellor asserted on Feb­ 15 and without the sanction of the strument of war, as the Turks of. death. After his physicians had Victoria. .." C.P.R. freight sheds is imminent. a'# king, married Miss Zyzie Lambrino, a manufacture only small arms mu­ ruary 22 of this year, he declared in cording to the information gathered practically abandoned hope for his Mounted Rifles GERMANS REPULSED. the reichstag, his agreement in prin­ Roumanian, who has no claims of nitions. recovery he improved rapidly and al­ Paris, Sept. 25.—German troops by the Herald in vallway circles this royal blood. Died—R. Graham, Vancouver. ciple with the. possibility of discus­ morning. , ' ; The correspondent describes most immediately after -he was able Railway Troops last night made an effort to re­ sing a general peace on the basis of a remarkable spectacle around to leave his bed. Killed in Action—Corp. A. P. Moor- gain some of the valuable ground If the strike does develop, it will be recently won from tham by tha the four points of President Wilson's called some time this afternoon, it is BROUGHT DOWN Balata. This area was strewn John Ireland, Archbishop of St. house, Medicine Hat; G. E. Birch, message of February 2, but that Pre­ 11 BALLOONS AND 3 PLANES with wreckage of the retreat. Lynn Valley, B.C.; V. Morphy, Wes- French north of the Chsmin-des- understood. Paul, was born in Ireland in 1838, the Dames. They attacked In tha re­ sident Wilson, neither at that time, The men here are considering o> With the American Army on the Here alone the British captured •son of a carpenter. He was carried terdale, Alta. ttov since, had taken any notice ,of the 87 cannon, thousands of horse- gion of the Moisy farm, in this strike in sympathy with the striking Lorraine Front, Sept. 24—(By ; with his parents in the tide of Irisli Accidentally Killed—Corp.. C. E. chancellor's declaration. the Associated Press).—The lac-: drawn vehicles, hundreds of motor Edwards, Vancouver. area, but according to today'a Calgary freight handlers who are de­ immigration to America, while he was war office statement the effort • Count von Hertling concluding by manding recognition of the union and est aviation records show that lorries and field kitchens, water a child. A jolting trip west on a prai­ Died of Wounds—D. E. Simpson, declaring that lie favored the forma­ carts and ajnass of other impedi­ was an entire failure. • - also one of the amendments to the none of the American aviators rie schooner were among his boyhood Victoria. _ f tion of a league of nations, the promo­ McAdoo award. The company, it is •have as yet equalled the record menta. Much of the destruction memories, bringing him finally to St. Died—J. White, Victoria. The text of the statement reads:.: v tion of universal, successive disarma­ understood, has shown its willingness of the late Lieut. Luxbury with was caused by airplanes, which Paul, Minn., in 1852, when Indians in Died, Prisoner in Germany—Lieut. "In the course of the night tha ment in equal proportions, (he estab- to grant the amendment but will not his 17 aerial victories. The latest swopped down upon the retreating gay blankets stalked the streets of E. M. Chant, Oklahoma City, Okla. artillery was active In. the region « Jisbment of obligatory courts of arbi­ recognize tbs union. man to be rated as an "ace," al­ columns and dropped bombs from that frontier town. One evening the Prisonea of War—E. R. Munro, Ed­ of St. Quentin and between tha • tration, the freedom of the seas and though as yet unofficially, is Lieut. a low altitude until the whole col­ Missionary Cretin, first bishop of St. monton. Ailette and the Aisne., At the present time' no freight is umn became vast broken masses Jhe protection of small nations. being accepted nn Lethbridge for ship­ Frank Luke, Jr., of Phoenix, Paul, while watching from his win­ Wounded—E. R. Geddes, Magrath, "German attacks in the region-;: Expressing confidence pn Field Mar­ of Jmen. Many of those who es­ dow some boys of his parish at play, Alta. of the Moisy farm were complete­ ment to Calgary. A strike here would Ariz. Although he is as yet credit­ caped wounds or death fled to the shal Von Hindenburg and (5en. Lud- seriously tie up Lethb'ridge's whole­ ed with three victories, he will called to-John Ireland and Thomas ly checked. ) \ eudorff, the imperial chancellor in hills, abandoning everything, O'Gorman, who later became bishop "On the Vesle front lively artlk sale business. About 30 men would soon have at least six.more add­ only to bo captured by the cav­ nddressing the reichstag main commit­ be affected. In Calgary the yard of­ ed to his score. During the oper­ of Sioux Falls, to come into the church. lery fire was maintained. tee, said they would be equal to the alry, while others sought refuge He asked them if they wished to be­ "French troops repulsed Geiv: : fice staff and the baggage checkers ations around St. Mihiel alone he in the British lines. Situation and that the allies' "prema­ have gone out in sympathy with the come priests. Both, agreed that, priest­ man raiding parties In the Cham- » ture cries of victory" will soon die has brought down 11 German bal­ freight handlers. loons and three airplanes. hood was their^ambition.- Bishop Cre­ pagne and in Lorraine and in the. • s,wny. He continued: tin sent them, in charge of a guardian latter region carried out a raid "Certainly the pure enthusiasm to France, where they were, educated into the German lines." torhich characterized August, 1914, by the Marist Fathers. When he BRITISH IN'RAIDS. could not liist. but the Arm resolve to heard of the outbreak of the civil war London, Sept. 25.—In Flanders*' hold out till tbe end will, despite all in America, the student turned home last night a successful raid was vacillations and vicissitude*) continue. Miners and Owners Stand Pat ward, fired with as much patriotism London, Sept. 215.—The following carried out by the British in tha ' The people at home will not leave the UH relfglon. After being ordained at Canadians have been awarded the neighborhood' of Wulverghem. 1 p.rmy in the lurch just when every­ SIR UP St. Paul, he eagerly accepted an ap Military Medal: In this and' in other encounters", thing 1B at stake. Prom the first day Calgary, Sept. 25.—Whether the strata settlement. pointmertt ,as chaplain in the 5th regi­ (Privates, except where otherwise prisoners were taken, Field Mar-: We waged the war as a war of de­ "bumps" in the Crows Nest mine Mr-'. Harrison said that no compro: ment of the Minnesota volunteers. He specified.) shal Haig's official report today, >'v fense. • Only to defend ouselves did which caused the miners there to go raise had been reached this morning Announcement That Holland was ardent for the unionist cause and 657,054 Lance-Corp. H. V. Botterell, announces. •we invade Belgium." on strike for the principle of a single and that another meeting will be held shared every hardship of the-soldiers' 690,106 M. L. Lutz, 736,025 Lance- German troops last night coun-1 1 shift for eight hours, are caused by this afternoon. He denied that the Will Open Economic Nego­ life in their terrible winter raids. He Sergt. J. Bailey, 77,656 Corp. N. L. ter-attacked the British lines' GRUESOME DISCOVERY. gas or mere settlement of. different conference bad discussed a report tiations Seized by Huns was stricken with fever after "less than -Caldwell, 865,318 A. G. Elder, 15,373 above Gricourt, northwest of St... strata overlying the nilnes. is one of that the miners are demanding that a year's service and returned to a St. Lance-Sergt. R. S. Graham, 1,000,371 Quentin, where advances have rt» Quebec, Que., Sept. 24.,—Laborers the points over which the coal con­ the government, acting under the law Paul pastorate. W. H. Lobb, 1,000,202 Corp. D. Moore, cently been scored by Field Mar>' On Saturday, discovered two human ference now in progress here has been governing the safety of mines, call Amsterdam, Sept. 24.—It is semi­ shal Haig's troopsl The Brrtlitl', officially announced that the Dutch 288.033 Actiug-Corp. ' N. W. -Pace, ftkulls and other hones near the old hung up. The meeting this morning out * all the men in this particular He soon attracted national atten­ 1,000,990 V. Rogers, 754,946 R. C. commander,""in'his official report"*: church at Lauzon. It is helieved they between F. J5. Harrison, government mine, with the alternative of a. gen­ government has decided to resume tion through his work for temper­ today, announces that these at- „ economic negotiations with the enten­ Webster, 7;:fi,965 Corp; E. A, Bissell, ire the skeletons of British soldiers fair wage officer and assistant com­ eral strike in the Fernie dfctrict, Thfe ance. Those were the day when St. 28,723 C. M. Dunlop, 234.906 Lan'ce- tacks were repulsed. te governments. 1 fnterred there some 200 years ago, for missioner for the district, and Com­ government' officials cling to the view Paul was filled with border turbulence Corp. P. C. Kennedy, 129,271 Corp. C. Heavy losses were inflicted on% some time ago old time cannon boxes missioner Armstrong with Hon. Wil­ that a satisfactory settlement can be Gorman newspapers have seized and the riot of drink. He made hut-to- upon this announcement as an occa­ Kilminster, 28,772 A. McMillan, 406,- the "Germans who delivered tha,'-.', and other relics were found there. liam Sloan, minister of mines tor Bri­ reached without a strike and are hut visits of St. Paul's shanty town, 368 F., T. Ore, A20.222. Sergt'. J. A. several attacks.. British posts in, tish Columbia, was. attended by Pre­ bending every effort to get both sides sion to warn the Dutch that they are throwing whiskey bottles out of the in danger of losing the rest of their Ross. (All Manitoba regiments.) the region to the east of Arraa,*'.. flOW PARIS WILL BEAT sident Thomas Biggs of the United together. ' squalid doorways. The work he thus near Sauchy-iCauchy, ware ala»' , Mine Workers, Secretary Brown of merchant tonnage to the entente. began he extended throughout the The Cologne Oazette says: attacked' and ' here alio' tha '- HIGH; COSX OF LIVING the Bame organization, and two repre­ northwest and. travelled the whole emy was driven off. sentatives of the men at Fernie. GERMANS PROTEST TO SOVIETS "The Netherlands government will country preaching temperance. The process of closing In on. not yield unless it obtains guarantees Paris, Sept. 24.—Victor Boret, min­ The government representatives are He a long time ago conceived the PTE. GRIST St. Quentin was continued by ths ister of provisions, will introduce a trying to reach "an amicable settle­ Amsterdam, Sept. 24.—The German that its Bl)ips. it sent out, will not. be British, who made progress In the v, seized in America, as were those idea of consolidating the Catholic par­ bill authorizing an advance by the ment, though both \the miners and consul-general at Moscow, according ochial 'schools and. the public schools. Gricourt - neighborhood and alt$n , government up to. 250,000,000 francs, the mine manager are obdurate. The taken there last March." in the Selency region west of SfiW } to a Berlin dispatch, has protested It.is openly asserted by the Volks The plan was tried at Faiibault and (or the purpose of organizing co-op­ miners 'stand pat oh '.the demand for to the Soviet government against the Stillwater, but friction, which the Quentin. One thousand! prisoners'- erative restaurants and developing a single shift on the ground,of safety Zeitung of Cologne that seizure is the were .captured in yesterday's op-1 arrest of. a large number of German object of the entente governments archbishop could, "not. relievo, arose, the existing communal and municipal and want the subject handled through and the scheme was dropped. Telegraphic information this morn­ eration particularly around SL eating; places. the department or -nines, which is the subjects and persons against whom and the.'newspapers speak of those ing was received by the family to the Quentin. governments' efforts to cause trouble One. of his early, works was the It will also provide tor tJie creation reason why Hon. Mr. Sloan has been there are no' adequate grounds for sus­ -r- - i effect that Pte. Cyril John. Grist of between 'Germany and Holland over pr a central kitchen, where rations called in. A great mass, of document­ picion. founding of a. colony of 900 Catholic infantry had been wounded on Dutch exports of foodstuffs. ffarmer»rinBr«s in western Mi«»»»tMinnesota" . Will be prepared for all troops in. Paris. ary evidence has been submitted by i„ Sept i4tji and is now in the hospital. THE WEATHER : Tbe consul-general, it is added, em­ The American note to Holland rela­ He became bishop in 1875. and arch­ These are measures which M. Boret both sides to sustain their'arguments, ; l He is suffering from a gunshot wound phasized the case of two Poles who tive to the taking, of Dutch ' ships bji hopes will eradicate the increased for and against, the theory, that the bishop in 1886. Celebrating his gold­ in the left shoulder. The family re­ High I,?:;. were under the protection of the eon- the United States,..i8 calleS" by the en jubilee a few years ago, the priests cost of living and the present wastage "bumps" which frightened the miners sulate, but were executed without sides at 1604 4th Ave. N. Pte. .Grist Low pt food., ' are caused by iU (M tti If. wn Rltenlsche Westphaliau Gazette "a of-his , diqoese: presented him with a #rs#«r identifies**^ •"' Austeri>iora oX, American Perfidy." I enlisted with ope of the later,Alberta Forecast: Cloudy and «ool purse or,1100,000,' ' ' - . ' units, — '• ''i-. Jgcal showers, "-