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• , THE STANFORD WORLD •-eirsorstrinits....sorOso , i1.41.4 • NO PEACE UNTIL HUNS SUITENliEll PRESIDENT WILSON'S ANSWER TO GERMANY BLASTS HOPES FOR ARMISTICE FOCH WILL DICTATE TERMS Announcement Is Made That 250,000 American Soldiers and Supplies Will be Sent Across Each Month -No Relaxation Washington, Oet. 15.- President Wilson has 11115Wered (14.1111anyS peace proposal with a decision %% hint' not tinly fulfills the expectatioits of Slip - porters of his diplonmey, hut also dis- pels Ills. fears of those who preilieted be would substitute vietories lit firms with defeats at diplomacy. N0 111:1111. with kiliseriSt11; 311110eraey must go; no arillistiee eVell be thought of while Germany continues her atrocities 011 1/1 1111 111111 sea. One cannot be considered unless it is fully dictated by the allied commanders ilk the field in such terms as abselutely provide safeguards a ta I gua To n oes that Germany's . part trill not ire a scrap of paper. This, in a f.''. U ords Is the president's answer. May Cause Revolt. If it does not bring 11 linty be Illore I 1111 II 1111 11111011111- 101)111 surrender, allied diplomats and American riffirillls belleVe it 11111y 11 rev\! II 1 kill Ill I 1 ' 1111 1111)% 1 lilleS1 1011 It speaks for the entente fil- lies as well as for the United Slates. The dispatch of the president's reply was followed by the issue of thjs for- mal statement lit the White liorli•r. by Secretary Timothy: \The government will eontinue to send Over 250,000 Inert With their Slip- plles every month and there will be Ill) relaxation of any Idiot\ Quite outside of the formal plinses of a diplounitle that was President Wilson's word to 1111. world that he hail jai thought of stopping the fighting at this stage. President is Applauded. 'rue senate chamber rang with ap- plause . of senators as the president's answer Wits read a few minutes after It had been announced at the state department. Senator Lodge, the presi- dent's chief critic until yesterday, is- sued a statement explaining his grati- fication at the president's decision. Opinion at the capital mid througlioat official Washington Wits unanimous In approval. The official note which will ('otive)/ the president's deilsion to the Gentian government and, more important, to the Dermal] 'temple, was delivered yes- terday by Secretary Lansing to the Charge of the Swiss legation Wino has been acting as the intermediary. It was given out publicly by 11r. Lansing fit the state department at six o'clock last evening. lit full it follows; . The Note to Germany. \Sir: \In reply to the coMmunication of the Gerinan government, dated the twelfth instant, which you handed me today, I hive the honor to request you to tras• mit the following answer: \The unqualified acceptance by the present German government and by a large majority of the reichstag, of the terms laid down by the president of the United States of America in his address to the congress of the United States on the eighth of January, 1918, and In his subsequent addresses justifies the presi- dent in making a frank and direct state- ment of.his decision with regard to the communThations of the German govern- ment of the eighth and twelfth of Oc• tober, 1918. \It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation and the condi- tions of an armistice are matters which must be left to the judgment and advice of the military advisers of the govern- ment of the United States and the allied governments, and the president feels It his duty to say that no arrangement can be accepted by the government of the United States which does not provide ab. solutely satisfactory safeguards and guar- antees of the maintenance of the present Military supremacy of the armies of the United States and the allies in the field. \He feels confident that he can safely assume that this will also be the judg• ment and decision of the allied govern- ments. .\The president feels that It is also his duty to add that neither the government of the United States nor, he is quite sure, the governments with which the government of the United States is asso- ciated as a belligerent, will consent to consider an armistice so long as the arm- ed forces of Germany continue the illegal and Inhuman practices which they still Persist \At the very time that the German -government approaches the governmen of the United States with proposals o peace,, its submarines are engaged In sinking passenger ships at sea, and no the ships alone, but the very boats in which their passengers and crews seek . to make their way to safety; and in their present enforced withdrawal from Flanders and France the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruc- tion which has always been regarded as In direct violation of the rules and prac- tices of civilized warfare. Cities and vil- lages, if not destroyed, are being strip- ped of all they contain, not only ma- ' terlals, but often of their very inhabi- ' 75,000 Turks Captured. London: Oct. 12,-I '115111 taken tiy the Egyptian eSpetblionary foree, exClusive of those taken by the Arabs, have risen to more than 7:000. it Is estimated that of the entire strength of the Turkish' Fourth, - Sev moth and Eighth armies. not more Than 1 7,(5)0 have escaped, this figure Including 4,000 heavy rifles. Many of the prisoners captured were In a lamentable state of exhanoi• tto:o. They are receiving such treat- ment and attention as nosMble. he nations associated swains= 'any cannot be expected to agree to •vieon of arms while acts of inhis. . ,,eition and desolation are be which they justly look horror and with burninu ,__Is. •.• \it ss necessary also In order that there may be no possibility of misunder- standing. that the president should very solemnly call the attention of the govern- ment of Germany to the language and plain intent of one of the terms of peace which the German government has now accepted. It is contained in the address of the president, delivered at Mount Ver• non on the Fourth of July, last. \It is as follows: \'The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, se- cretly and of its singie choice disturb tile peace ,pf the world; or if it cannot be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to virtual impotency.' • \The power which has hitherto con- trolled the German nation is of the sort here described. It is within the choice of the German nation to alter it. The president's words just quoted naturally constitute a condition precedent to peace, if peace os to come by the action of the German people themselves. The presi- dent feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judgment, depend upon the satisfActory character of the guarantees which can be given In this fundamental matter. It is indis- pensable that the governments associat• ed against Germany should know beyond peradventure with whom they are deal- ing. \The presid;nt will make a separate reply to the royal and imperial govern- ment of Austria-Hungaria. \Accept sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration. (Signed) \ROBERT LANSING. \MR. FREDERICKOEDERLIN, \Charge d'Affairs ad Interim. In charge of German interests in the United States.\ Alsace-Lorraine Belongs to France. Otte outstanding point which does toot appear in the president's note --a point 011 Whiell Ills. World his heell asking silleSlions, Ise iills%‘ert41 ,1 110W. 11 lien the president declared I lii the It rong dirlie 10 rralice n hell 1 1111111y look Alsave-Lorrailis. shoilld righted, he 11041111 Ililt Alsare-1.01 - rdille S1001111 be returned to Fran-,'. Those who ,, ccetill 1 11 c li 1 'cs 1 111' 11 1's decisituti arraii•_:es the Sit llation for somm tang more thall 1111 Illiesitillitiollill sill'refiller base II oll the argl11111411 thu lis. hiss noW passed the stage where he might have alaieldell a sill -render of the (leritian military and naval force» and left the Hohenzollern autocracy on Its throne. Mr. Wils011. lleent41111g to Lien% Illis 11015 ilifilrilled u ti. I114ilinill people that if they amit peace they call only altaiti it by getting nil of the kaiser and his sysleits. All arlillStlee. il is trIle., might ristill. firSt and the details of the downfall of the t;erpain antoenitic government !night he uteranged later. But, this is abut att armistice would =, entail: stop to the alroeities on land mad sea mid the systematic (le- strUction and deliastatioll ill the Wake of the retreating German :mules. Then tIll' diSarnialtiellt of all the (lunation forces anti deposit of their a11115 01111 111 11111 lisiliS at ponds be ellsecell by the allied military e01/1111.1111(11.1*S. Then lite (occupation by allied forees of s et:1111111 I:erinall cities or stroing- holds of strategie importance. Prob- ably also the oceopation tlw submarine loses, and a thrtiing over of the 1:vomit] fleet. In short. it Will1111 entail taking from Germany of everything a ith which she might break her word to ati :irmistiee. From that point the i 1111.11 States and the fillies might pfloc00 0 00t io Of 1111 thill relllailled mit kaiserism if the Germain people have not done it before, as President 11'ilson in his mite plainly 111 sites I 110111 to do, One of the most important points of Ills note is that in withal the pres- ident ncknowledges the preesnt Malt goVerlillienCs unqualified accep- tance of his peace teritIS, :001 then gill's Oil to show that these peace terns provill . specifically for the substitu- tion of goverottient wholly resison- Sible 10 Ille I:elan:ilk people tlieloselveS for the present 11111. 11111111111101 $13\ the Gertnan liiilituirhsi '. LATEST MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Livestock. Chicago, 1 , A. 15.--tiogs: Receipts SOO. Mark: r fairly active on good liogs: luau -king grad,: ilutl, Itrittisess. 111 I 7.1, 1550; light, t17.8114, tt45 packing. $16.75 it, rough. SIK.251/ 16.75: pigs, good to ehoiee. $11;.1\ N i ro ' Cattle: Rpis 36.640. Better gradi-s of natives arid western steers fur'. steady, othete shov. itul. her rrattle. weal INFLUENZA CONTINUES to 26e towel . '25 10 50.• lower UNABATED IN COUNTRY beef cattle, grerd. elusice And prime. Phi f t 19.25 ; eonorion and medium, 1!siZ:r-ri 11.25, butcloir ....las and heifer, 1A- as hi ng i on net, 15.-1 1 ,c ImIll li te $6.7.51i ,ssiro•rs and ...Mess. $5 It . • 6.75; stovbel , ,s e a eattit service ittitiounceil !..-t and (alley. I'. I hat It IS 1110W mobilized fol i,atH i i and roixel and choir... beef Ste'- , erS. country. spanIsh Influenza which ha- • . a) sheet) , oe'e. While the epidemic eonlinues mostly 5 ,,,, fur aluatellin most section): of the emottry, feeding ,r , !lie number of Tien' eases al ariny choice anri gond. .113,51r.. 19 _-. i'anlpfil Showed a Ill ('I 11111 11 ebelee anti iir , rr , u1s 1 and yesterday, the I01:11 for the -V11 1 -.0111' good, $8.75', 1. period ending at 1101111 yesterday being Minneapolis Grain. NeW ellSeS ,of pneumonia also Minneaprii, 1...1. 1,10ur. ,le , reased as did the number of ilea, ed. Shinto, r.-ir I l'ni.1111101111 eases for the two ti i iyg Barley: '.l 'It\ %%ere 4,7811 111111 ileatlis 1.1;12. Rye: 1 1.1 , 1r.../ 1 Since the . b('giumilig of the epidernie 13ran: FOCH STARTS DRIVE ALONG LIIS SECTOR NEW MOVE THREATENS TO PUSH r ERMANS ENTIRELY OUT OF BELGIUM FRENCH TAKE 3,000 TEUTONS Nev, Advance of Allies Has Brought Them Within Range of Enemy Coast Denenses, but no Op- position Is Offered I . I t 1. V \ III ' I io..ber 15). Peace talk per\ ;tiles I but It 18 falling oil deaf ears as far as the armies in the field are concerned. 1 it - stead of a relaxation in Ihe intensity of the fighting, new hisSlilities Oil what seemingly is a major scale are being . carried out by the Itritish, French anol Belgians rianders, Ill'. nig cleared oa: the old Loon salient 111141 made tult:owes northward InI lialiipagile WIlieli are Iliellaring the retaa.inent of the (leonine: east- ward tea aril the VtilelirielllleS-Me• Zieres , Nletz 11111., ( lulls or. tiered a drive in the 1.ys river region of Vialitiers totrard 1:11elit WIlleh threatens to break entirely the grip of Hie ( 114'1111111s ill Belgium all the way frolil the frssIllier lis the eoast It 1111 likeWlse to eliminate ihe big bulge Iii Ille line With 11,1111. I. it.c 11111•5. Ills. latest offb coli11111111lea- thin from Field Marshal an- nounces that only Weal u! is taken place in the lieW thealsir 111111 that Many prisoners 11:1‘4. 11,..'ll II Ii1.11 in the fighting, front head- quarters assert that Routers leas been captured 111111 I 1111 1 the jinn: - 1101i !Mint 011 the railway leading to Ghent, has lieen mit flanked. The French troops alone are said to have taken :LIMO prisoners. while the Bel- gians have•eaptured several complete batteries and gnus and numerous pris- oners. Just how wide the new front of attack is has not lies -Mlle apparent. It is stated that 1 he lieW 1111V111114. has brollght Ills. 11111141 troops Within range Of the enemy coast defenses, but that the guns from them have offered no opposition. - 111eantime, to the smith of the Ger- mans are offering stiff oppo sition to 1111. liritish southwest of 'Valenciennes raid on the SoleSIlles . seelOr ill MI P11(1141Vor to prevent the Closing in of the 1.111e stick anti tilt' capture Of this iiiipm\atit town and also N'atlen- Ciellite:-. are in precarious tio-. sitions if :1 pineer-1110V(.1111.11t gets well under way. At last reports the Germans were still falling back front 111111 region Of 1,8011, that 10W11 111111 the entire St. Go- hain massif being in the hands of the French. In Champagne the French Ili'.',' been enabled to imike further coo:stags .if the AiSne and 10 material- ly better their front westward, not- withstanding stoic defense of the en- emy. who realizes it is of the greatest importance to bold back the French and Americans driving norl liward. as a lireach ill the southern lines and ti swift uottatio. ould imperil the I'll - tire German forces inside the sack from the Oise river west of Flativigny po sissotine, east of Laon. Probably greatest reSistalive rut 1111 is.111(4.11 by the ,Americans on both skies of the Meuse river. V Iii (111,8 counter attacks are being delivered against the inenfroin the United States, the fierceness of he assaults itiillatting Mut fresh forees lu VI' beim brought Into the fray to halt their dieor-die efforts to 1 0 1' 04 '0'11 11 1 1 11141 river valleys and thereby compel the Germans, ill ease of a retreat. to wend their way obliquely northeastward, instead of eastward, toward the Oer- man border. Concentrations of :to tiuilery itre tieing broughl against the Aineriean positions at various iii:tees. c.ns attacks r, not being sParial the enemy in till efforts to hold the .A1111•11 cans in check. t(a1 ,, cndlidligt1 agaihNt thh , nf wheat, tt , ca•us taT: eat,s. eau,,pm-,pa in formy camps. the total raise- i.f with 6f0 / 1r ago. 11111•112/1 11•111/11 gll Is 2i/1.11211 Corn: N. 51.7115(1 7 5. toia 35,465. and. deaths 10,74 1. $64 FOR EIGHT HOURS 'MADE BY ONE RIVETER Sixty-four fen c it, no, trd ! :1•1•1,1-1* :It I /O. S , 111111 I ] - I r I r a A , Sttitilay. it !.. Th, for 1':1 , t1 1110 k eight e()nis final S11114;11' is lit. Three 1111.11 KIM III.St rbro•-e I 01-I rivets, for uttieli :hey ti'ere 11;1111 share of thigh m e N i nl y. the \driver. - was• $81.. •viiile hi , (we helpers split the lialittire. ADMIT THOUSAND ALIENS TO FINAL CITIZENSHIP Camp I,ewis. (let. 1:1. aim. , 'lull Ii 'II 15111111 11114•115 W1.111 11:1111111117.0•1 here :,, , oterday lo) United Stales I oi•triel fridge Neterer iuf s,.:1111,.. I If lt,jo lolin• her approximately title -fifth were horn 111 enemy countries. Soldiers cannot intikl. allotments tc dependents if the dependents tire enmity 111111:1101,\ eVen though they live lii thin country, according to it ruling received yesterday from the .111(1go ad. vocate general's office. SIR JOHN COWAN This is Lieut. thai. Sir John Cowan, quartermaster general Of the British army, alio is responsible for the sup- ply of food, materials and ammunition to the British forces On all fonds. WORLD NEWS IN CONDENSED RIM NeWs etnallating fr0111 lierlin Says a great conflict III1S arisen 14.1Ween the RIISSiall prelllier. Lennie :11111 For- eign 'Minister Trotzky, accoriling to ut Copenhagen dispatch re, '1'1 Veil 111 I.011(11111. Premier 'Amine is accusing 'Trotsky of sillipiirting It counter ret - 'Mahan. No direct news front Moscow has been reeeirell for sel'erall days. • A. favorable report has been inher- ed by •the senate JuiliCiary committee on the bill authorizing dry tones.five miles broad apitilid all coal inittes, o IWfinite abandonment of Fort Yu+ 1,,Wstiate. 113 0., lifter service of :111 - proximately 40. years. Is announced by Ill,'' western department of the arno• -iiiSon Francisco. • o A unit of the T. N. T. and gun cot- ton . works of the British Explosives. IA(1., of Toronto, Ont., was virtually destroyed by it series of 12 explosions. sa it 3111re e0:11 WO mined from April 1 to Silitenther 20 than ever before in any hair Year period in the history of the American clad industry. o The sinking of the steamer Leinster gave a stunning blow to whatever feeling existed ill England fOr 11 1 11•11 Or reconciliation. The affair caused more indignation than any submarine exploit since the sinking of the Lust - Undo. The ointrast between Prince Max benevolent utterances and Oer- many's duty by 1I9y Military a 1111 11115 . 111 policies is the text for most of the London newspaper sermons on the sit- uation. American Troops sent overseas have passed the 1,IMX11,000 mark, Deneral March announces. fr l'ostineti within a few days will 11S - Mlle the task of delivering telegraph messages (-hissed as night letters. in cities and OM IS where postai deliveise les are maintained. 'Delivery of tele- grams other than night letters Isy tele- graph messengers '.till continue for the present. sr sr Cholera is slowly spreading in iter lin, notwithstanding the preventative measures taken, a Berlin dispatch says. Seventeen cases were reported October 8 and 1:1 deaths occurred. I'lain indication has been given by the national 'war labor hoard that Ill eligeS where organized labin. oppose adVaneed street ear fares recominend cal toy the hoard in connection with in creased wages IkWarded III employes of public tit ilit ies companies. the entirv= award, including the wage' tolvances will be suspended. 4 4 The state department has been of- ficitilly notified of the abilicatjon ii King Fgr11111111111 of Bulgutria Ill I fin night of October 3 and the suecession of the Crown Prinee Boris. The new ruler, 115 I 11$ Prilllf. ifli$10•1* N111 nr/ // ft and 1 tallgr 1111.11111grg of the cabinet, reininial in office, sins regard- ed as friendly to the United Stales and tlit; allies. • • Congressmsin Royal C. Johnson of South Dakota. hits received a slight wound its France according to word receiVed hiy Ills wife in Aberdeen. III. recently reflikr.11 11 11111171111ey ill the ordnance department, preferring att as- sigiltitetit to the trenches. . General improvement in corn proq. peets On October 1 OVer a 1110111 Is 11:40 Is ShoW11 Ify the department Or fool- eulttwe's monthly crop report, just Is. hied. The estimated wheat 1.1.1,11 1}1 318,000.(XX) 1/1141)Plll, Illt t'011111111'1 , 11 to 315 000 000 100.1101m tool venr. SHIPS COLLIDE IN STORM AND MANY SOLDIERS DIE AND OUT NONET INDUSTRIES FOR MEN In: hushing Waters Put Out Fires and Steamer drashes on Scottish Cliffs in Stot-mt Sea A British Port, Oct. 12.-A large number of American' troops have been 'lost as the result of the sinking of the transpOrt Ortranto in the North channel, between the Scottish and iri)li 4.011SIS, ill a collision with the steamer Kashmir. The Ortranto, after 1111. collision, %vas dashed to on Ills' locks off the south Scottish coast, with a Koh - aisle loss of 372 American soldiers. 'Three hundred and (11111 men were taken to BelfaSt loy the British de- stroyer 11innisey, the only - vessel which made int attempt at rescue ill the ter- rific guile when the Kashmir. another essel in the convoy 1 11 1111. Ortranto rationed the Ortranto amidships. Of the 1199 American soldiers lrni laIarti the -Ortr anto, 311) were loaded. .. - -aeventeen were rescued alive at Islay, leaving 372 unaccounted for. The On 11111(0 and the other VeSselS of the convoy were battling with the heavy seas and high winds Sunday 1110111111g. The storm 55115 Sis severe and the visibility so hail that the 11\aslintir a fortner Peninsular and I liner, crashed into the Or- tranto squarely - amidships. The laslituir backed away badly damaged. hut was able to make port. As the bows of tile litsliittir were pulled fount the great hole the side of the Otranto, the water rushed in but for a thile it (lid not serve to still'. Ill,' engines. The Otranto tried to proceed, but made no 11g/111WaY against the gale in her crippled condition. Thirty minutes sifter the crash, the Itritish destroyer Mousey, herself dam- nged 11)'the heavy seas, appeared out a the Mize a llsWer to the distreSS 01111S Of the Otranto. 11'hen the de- stroy . er maneuvered to get Nalongside. Captain D o atvidsn of the ()t I'llnto, 5thnted 1.ientellant Craven. command ng - i the destroyer n , o M t Ito ake the at- tempt. LIBERTY LOAN LAGGING; PRESIDENT URGES HASTE Minneapolis District Claims Distinc- tion of Being First to Sub- .. scribe Quota 11 - ashington. Oct. 15. -After wiring -his -reply to the Nermant peutee . offer, President Wilson bist night in a f o r. Mal statement to the Allleritlall pe0- pie, •reneweill his urgent request for support of the fourth Liberty Foam \Relaxation now, hesitation _now, '.5 - 1111111• mean defeat when victory AC.1.111:4 to Ile in sight ; would mean years of war instead of peace upon our terms,\ said the president. But) fise days are left jti subscribe the remaining half of the six billion dollar (1110111. StliiseriptiOniS offiviatily reported tc the treasury department now total only $2,798,4 19,950, but officials were confident that t•eports yet to be made on yesterday's stiliseriptIons would carry this total above the three billion dollar !nark. The :dilute/molts district claims the distinction of being the first to sub- scribe its quota. $210.000,000. with every state oversubscribing, but its final reports to the treasury are in- complete beeause banks are so short of help that the tabulations have not yet been completed. MONTANA CASUALTIES. Killed in Action. Pvt, Alexander Ross, Broadview. Lieut. James C. Simpkins, NIissoulti Died of Wounds. Pct. John M A. cKee. i'vt. Sofus Quinn: Chester. PvL Wm. II. Alartin, Anaconda. Missing in Action. Pvt. John :lames, Helena. I'vt. Leon It. Lambert, 111111 iugs. I'vt. 11'in. M. Pfarrer. Lambert. I'vt. Win. '1'. Bray, Whitehall. Pvt. Clint W. IlLackwpod, Salesville. Pvt. Albert Paitl, Butte. Wounded Severely. Pvt. D aniel itionigren, Mitchell. I'vt. Wm. P. Flanagan, Absitrokee. Pvt. Thos, W. Rohm ta, Columbus. Pvt. Th011111S Fostvo R lt, ed Lodge. Pvt. Arthur Peterson, l'andalin. P vt. Carl 0. N'inge, Corp: Ca rl P. Damson. Uoplar. Pvt. Yoh J. P.. Crane, Itighwood. I'vt. Russell 11. Fluent, Butte. Pvt. Louis capelet. St. :Xavier. Pvt. Vernon Scott, 1,Iardin. Pvt. Emery F. Moor. Brockton. Pvt. Ralph G. Steele. Butte. Wounded Slightly. Pvt. Walter E. I'd (11111', Libby. Pvt. Ernest Simmons, Sidney. Pvt. Floyd A. Harper. l y aniele. Pvt. Peter Itglihgr. iIreat Falls. Pvt. .1 St. Joseph. Niechanic E. T. Larkin, Chinook. Died of Disease. Pvt. Ralph D. 11.11(41111Ve. I's - I.1'1 C. Peterson, .151111tws. Pvt. Jolla Williams, Marys \ SECRETARY BAKER RETURNS. Washington, ()et. 1 4.--Seetaaary Ba- ker returned from the western front yesterday with Ills'message that the Liberty loan \must go over the litp” whatever the result of peace proposals. -l. Is the only comment the secre- tary would make on the penee over- times. Ills own explanation of his trip shows that it was taken to pave the way for war on It great scale. \TM army 11115 11(11W /11111 Is doing all that e proud and grntrful country could tisk,' Mr.•Raker said. . CRITICAL LABOR 8HORTA6E IN MUNITION FACTORIES NE CESSITatTES SPEED NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY Applications Now on File for Loans Equal Amount of Funds Held by State Land Board and New Bor. rowe9i May Have to Wa=t critucl.1 labor shortage of. 139,1101 1 !lien lii Ille 111111110011 taetorir•s of the roiled Stales litis been reported tOIChill les II. tirireliflehli sesTe111 1'1 Ot le the A1011111114 s'OtIlleil rot' 'heel us e , by Franklin K. Lane, cliair111011 of the field division of the 11.111i141111 1 council of defense. and Nathan A. Smyth. ; I: :aslant directut general of 111, , I 111th States employment serviee. These W110 att. reSpOlsSible IOC the labor sup- ply (of the 11:111011 111 War work request the Montana of defense to ap- peal 1(1 all coutily and community eoun- cils of defense it , assist 1111, community labok, boards to (.1)11111 all non -essen- tial industries for men to fill these favtories. and to do their utmost to come to the t•elief of the gter'sil in its dire need. reason given for the present Si tuation is that : \A stock of high explosive shells I mperatively neeileil in France has been destroyed and the II 11W of these supplies has lweti retarded :tot 01 1 11 Y for tio. present montiml lint for liconilis Iii route unless is pi-0- %1(1Pd. 'I'll'.' loss 11111S1 Irsi made up at once by putting tolditionall burden,: on all other America's' munition plants us operation and by. sill':' 1. 1111 the con- struction or tilos, plants 1,01 yet com- pleted.\ The AIontatia council of defense Is 114.011 to rally all rowdy and ...ono- immity councils of defense and the labor boards to put their entire influ- ence behind the employment • serviee Iii this emergency. Mr. Smyth slates: - The work is dangerous but that will not deter any . American for'it Is an) thinkable that any omit in this coun- try would hold haCk from doing work 5'. lit 1.11 I lIe Wuiluii'.lu' Fmghind and •Prance have long earried 1111. Vi' ien this . problem is placed liefore tap. AO:nay:in' tieitple.• 04ati1i50 will he Solidly behind- Ifni. etafplo•yineot servief and the eonnitunity tabor imards - tri this - emergehry.'\ • 770 Farm Loans Pending. While the state land office will he able -to take care of all applications for film loans now on hand without any extended delay. applications made from now oti will not be filled fig promptly as in. the pa.st beeatisso olle indications are that the money wilt mut lie available Ii s 1''1 11111)' as applies. lions have !men mode. According to Ille ))))) 111111y report of Sidney 51iller, register of the state land office, there are 770 farm loan applications pending at this time. amounting to $1,740.150 The total of the applications exceeds thenotal cash Ill) ha till by $it'i7.111/*72. * * * Influenza Continues to Spread. With SeVellil more communities . re- porting outbreaks of Spanish folio- r•pza, Sceretairy 'W. F. Cogswell of the state board. of health has is , lied fill or- der requiring the closing of sl'11001.. 1ill places of amusement. Itichtiling I heaters, and prohibiting the bidding Ill politic meetings ill all communities where there have been outbreaks of the'disease. The surgeon general has utiso asked that Spanish influenza be made a eportable disease. The following telegram relating to the einergeney medical 91111 rillodng, relief work furnished through the l'. S. public health flerylee to communi- ties unable to cope with the present Sit uation. even with fotte Ilas been received by Secrolitry (logswell: \The U. S. public health service will moloilise. with aid Of volunteer niedleal service corps. all outside medical aid required in combating the present in- fluenza epidemic. The Red Cross, upon specific request Not thls service. will mobilize nursing personell and furnish neressary emergency hospital supplies whielt cnnnot he obtained elsewhere. Itiform :ill city and county health o ffi- cers of your state that all appeals for aid must be made to the state health deptirtment wit! make request of the surgeon general of the piddle health service whenever local needs require. When neeessary. pidoi.c 'health serviee establish district officers Ill en -operate with stale officials and distributt. n144114'10 awl not -sine person!. StiltIKON GENERAL - 1.1. 5. Publio. Health Service.\ * * * How Soldiers May Vote. Comity central committees of all W.-s r :11111 county clerks should take steps at olive to see that restered voters who will leave . loniatla be- tween now II il election day 1111 draft ealls nre put In a position to cast their ballots, according to Seeretary of State C. T. Stewart. Snelt men could also vote under the provlsboli.: of the general absent voter law, bui tinder this law, fees nimmetEitig to III cents are collected on each Indlot cont, while there tire no charges in connec- 'Jon with the military voting Itt • 11 • • '1 • • •
