7 VOL. No. XXXI. 90. CHATTANOOGA, TRNN., THURSDAY EVKNINC, OCTOHKR 17, 1018. IMtlCR: THREE CENTS GERMANS RETREAT FROM NORTH SEA TO LILLE PEACE RUMORS STATEMENT FROM HOLD ON BELGIAN SEVENTEEN DIVISIONS OF McADOO COMING AMERICANS ENGAGED IN "To the Publisher of The Nows, NONEFFECTIVE Chattanooga. Tcnn.: COAST LOOSENED GERMANS BEATEN BACK "I am deeply grateful for the splendid support you have given ARGONNE AND CHAMPAGNE to the fourth liberty loan and regret to have to ask your fur- War Machinery at Nation's ther assistance, but I think it Allies Only Twenty-On- e Miles 3en. Arnim's Whole Overthrown and Re- Important that a brief state- Cam- Army Capital Kept Going at ment of about 27S words con- From Dutch Frontier, Clos- Troops Under Gens. Bullard, Liggett and Assumes Full cerning the loan be given a tirement Proportions of a Rout. Speed. prominent display, In first pago ing Trap on Boches. eron in Desperate Fighting Belgians Undei box. If possible, in your Friday's Taking of Lille One of Most Important leer' ehallarcatly appre- - After Yser ur co-- 0 King Albert, Crossing River, REICHSTAG MEET Cif M assistance and SUCCESS ON ALL FRONTS WILL n. Statement will be Made Allies Since Gen- 4? Captures by l to you direct Thursday Are Marching On Ostend Torch mon. "W. G. McADOO." eral Offensive Launched Against Request for an Armistice May Chief Rendezvous of ts Not Applied at Lille. Be Forthcoming From Ger Endangered Germans Hurry the Teutons in Midsummer. London, Oct. 17 (4:20 p.m.) British aviators, in conjunction many Army Command. From Long-Hel- d Area. 17. of with naval forces landed in German Paris, Oct. The whole the German army of Gen. Von! (By John Edwin Novln.) 14 (Associated Ostend, submarine base thii Oct. 17. N. 8.)- - . iMMIC SEEMS l'ress.) Arnim is in retreat from the Nortli sea to the of hav- Washington, (I. LUIS has been captured by the Brit- it was region Lille, "Stop speculating about peace the morning, officially announced this afternoon. been beaten back and overthrown the hi.""f ish. Allied pressure on all sides of ing by allied attacks todav. mors. The American people will was center British Admiral Arrives. is all of as aa salient of which l.lllo the The retirement assuming the proportions of a rout. Seven- the truth fast anything tho to glvo up tho real happens. There is so far STATIONARY NOW compelled enemy London, Oct. 17. Admiral Krycs, of the British landed teen divisions comprise the army of Von Arnim. nothing city, the largest town of Prance cap- navy, but rumors that tho war's end is at four at Ostend this afternoon, an official announcement from the Chief German Base come tured by the Germans and for says Captured. hand. And the rumors do not an unit of the enemy admiralty. London, Oct. 17. (1:2 p.m.) Lille, chief German base in from authentic sources." years Important That was the official view of the In Most Cities defense system. The admiral was preceded by members of the air northern has been the British. Throughout the sim- royal force, France, captured by war situation today. The al- Tho fall .of Lilts comes almost who landed at Ostend this Information of the of general tho of an morning. capture Lille was received from the lied armlei on the western front are Country Little Change ultaneously with launching French the their blows offenslvo by Field Marshal Halg cavalry patrols, snys Evening News, reached Ostend Flanders battlefront this afternoon. continuing sledgehammer defenses 1 .. .1 -- ...1 i I '.1. 1 . I . i on the badly-shattere- d German mili- Is Noted. against the new , German unu returned wivn inc no were seen been to- tvuBjr report mai iicrmuns Lille had held by the Germans since the autumn of 1914, machine. Officialdom here was south of Valenciennes. His troops tary of there. when Von Kluck's German hordes overran and northern working tooth and nail to the lib- day are storming forward south Lt Belgium put Selle where French Cavalry at Ostend. France on their sweep towards Paris. erty loan across. ALARM IN SO. Catcau, across the river, Germany soon off- AMERICA they were halted late last week. London, Oct. 17. French has entered the Eve- The of Lille is one of the most made may capitulate have cavalry Ostend, taking important captures icials Ireltove that the final break is In Flanders the allies gained ning News said this afternoon. by the allies since the offensive was launched near but until docs Important new successes, whllo from general against the reasonably she allied Oct. 17. under mid-summe- r. break there will be here Churches, the Olse ta tho Mouse the pres- London, llelgian forces, command of King Germans in nothing doing Poolrooms, Fraternal the In Washington except to keep the war sure is maintained strongly. In Albert, which crossed the Yser river, arc on a Whole Hun Line Shaken. Etc., Under Ban of Laon Germans ap- marching Ostend, machinery well oiled and running at Meetings, angle north the seaport on the English channel. The whole German line is shaken this new allied top are retiring from between the by victory. speed. in Many States. parently Resistance the Germans is the. ht Olse and Sene rivers. by battlefront Lille lies thirty-eig- miles from the coast and is a of German Moral Gone. crumbling along city great At the White House and state de- New York, Oct. 17. Health officials Since the beginning of the week except in the region of the Argonnc and northern to the number of roads that con- expressed hope that the of there has boon little In Champagne, strategic importance owing great partment It was explained that there Joday peak heavy fighting There American troops, under (Jens. Cameron and bill- there. Seven lines run into Lille and a of was new from German the Spanish i0uenza epidemic here tho area southeast of Cambval, whore Liggett, verge railway score nothing reached and French sources. The general situation within had been and passed. Reports the British nnd Americans made such iard, troops, under (Jen. Gouraud, arc engaged in des- highways. cap-tur- n Germany is very bad. The German showed a decrease of 180 In new oases rapid strides last week uftcr the perate, fighting. The a twenty-fou- r re- Germans have been using it as base of operations and people have seemingly lost all confi- during the last hours, the of Cambrai. The Germans number 4,738. Deaths from In- For Once City Not Fired. supplies since the early days of the war. dence In the military leaders. The long being sisted strongly on the line of tho Selle, strain under which fluenza and pneumonia, 623, were ten and lt Is those defenses that the Brit- Uritisli in Flanders, Oct. 17. The At one time the British were within eight miles of the they have labored fewer Headquarters (Renter's.) city, for four years has at last resulted In than, yesterday. ish and probably the Americans under Germans, on leaving Lille, which was captured today by British hut it was not until the new offensive was opened generally on the a complete breakdown of the German Hit South America, the same command are assaulting. coast forces, did not set lire to the buildings in the city or cause Flanders front that the place was doomed. morale. Santiago do Chile. Oct. 17. The pub-li- e Germany's hold on the ltelglan any The British made a movement the Everywhere throughout the empire is greatly alarmed by the rapid has been loosened. Fighting their way explosions. great converging against dangerous disturbances have taken spread of the epidemic of Spanish forward until they have reached Cools- - The Germans are out a double retirement in Flan- from the the west and south. e carrying city, attacking nortli, the place. The present control is seriously Many deaths have occurred camp, only twenty-on- miles from tho ders with as - Courtfai the pivot. The northern retreat extends from The attack by the allies on the northern end of the Flanders menaced. But how far the- swing here In the last few days. Dutch frontier, the allies seem to be off coast cities and t Ostend southward, while the other affects the industrial a front in with east of Cambrai against the war party will go no one Buenos Oct. 17. The rapidly cutting the an of conjunction the pressure put the here in is Aires, epidemic tho enemy to out of Lille-Dou- Washington as yet ready to compelling hurry northern France. whole ai line in and forced the Germans into a new of Spanish influenza Is making rapid the which is about him peril guess. Policemen, firemen, trap closing The on the northern front where is un- headway. postmen evidence the Germans only point there any retirement throughout the whole zone. That Germany must surrender and other servants es- Tangible that before Is public appear are from the coast, which today is at Court rai. With the fall of Lille the cities of and Rou-bai- v conditionally long the belief retreating adjacent Turcoing of officialdom, Her are almost pecially susceptible. they have held so long and which has Two Miles in New Drive. are doomed. supplies Die In gone. Her army Is In a very precari- Seventeen Birmingham. been the chief rendezvous of subma London, Oct. 17. Uritisli advanced two When the Germans made their drive on the Flanders front ous situation. Her allies are ready to Birmingham, Ala., Oct.