GERMAN CAPITULATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1918, Page 5

GERMAN CAPITULATION

AN OFFICIAL DENIAL SUCCESSES IN FLANDERS LILLE AND OSTEND CAPTURED GERMANS SECOND LINE BROKEN HEAVY FIGHTING IN RUSSIA (BOLSHEVIKS FARE BADLY (Press Extraordinary.) Received this day at 8.35 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 17. The United Press London correspondent learns that the Allies have captured Lille.

OSTEND OCCUPIED

DESERTED BY THE ENEMY

The High Commissioner reports as follows:

LONDON, Oct. 17, 4.30 p.m

The Admiralty reports that Vice-Admiral Keyes this afternoon landed at Ostend, wlijch is clear of the

enemy.

WESTERN THEATRE

hanne and gained the outskirts of Coolneamp. South of the Lichter-velde-Thielt railway we advanced beyond Ardaye. The French entered' the park of Ard'oisi Castle, whence the line runs to the outskirts of Emelghem and Iseghem, which aa - e now occupied.

YON ARNIM'S ARMY.

ON VERGE OF DISASTER

I ,UB ÜBipuisny)

Received this day at 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, October 17. Von Arnim's Army is retreating on the North Sea-Lille front. He is alleged to be on the verge of a complete rout. NEW OFFENSIVE. BRITISH AGAIN ATTACKING (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Receiveu this dav at 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK,'October 17. A new British offensive has started on the Bohain-Le Cateau front. GERMAN SECOND LINE. BROKEN BY ALLIES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received this day at 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, October 17. The United Press Paris correspondent learns that the Allies effected a break through the German second line of defences in Belgium, advancing nine miles probably in the region of Thielt. THE YSER. CROSSED. ANGLO-BELGIAN ADVANCE, Australian and N.Z. Cable Assouution.j deceived This Day, 9.-10 a.m. LONDON, October 17. Sir Douglas Haig reports : On the 15th our troops under the King of the Belgians continued attacks between Dixmude and Lys. We advanced to an average depth of over, sax kilometres. The Belgians crossed the Yser northward of Dixmude, and occupied Sohoowbakke.

Further east the Belgians beyond the railway station at Ingelm'unster reached the Lys near Baviohove. We took several hundreds of prisoners' to-day. Tlie enemy all day bombarded Dunkirk and La Panne. TIIIELT CAPTURED. FRENCH IN OSTEND. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received This Day, 9.40 a,m. NEW YORK, October 17. The United Press Paris correspondent states: The Belgians have entered Thielt. French cavalry have reached Ostend and British naval forces have also landed. AMERICANS ATTACKING. FRENCH CAPTURE VILLAGES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received this day at 2.55 p.m. LONDON, October It. An American communique states that the First American Army continues its attacks, they having advanced on both sides of the Meuse. A trench communique says: To-day we made progress north-west of Sissonne. carrying Notre Dame de Lisse, and westward of Grandpre when the village of Talma was captured. ENEMY RUTHLESSNESS. DISCONTINUANCE ORDERED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received this day at 2.55 p.m. LONDON, October 17. ' The German High Command has ordered a discontinuance of devastation. PEACE TALK. AN OFFICIAL DENIAL LONDON, October 16. The British Foreign Office at ten to-night stated that *t had no official information on the subject of the reported German capitulation. FURTHER DENIALS. PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND. LONDON, October 17. The Press Bureau is officially informed that the reports published in the afternoon that Germany had capitulated were without foundation. The Daily Mail says: We understand that the capitulation reports are without foundation. It is officially denied that Germany capitulated.

The British crossed the Lys and pushed several kilometres beyond Menin,

The Belgians captured Thourout and the French captured Liohtervelde and Ardaye. The British have occupied Menin and it is reported that they entered Courtrai. Over twenty villages have been freed. A Belgian communique states: Our troops continued their advance on the whole front of the attack. They crossed the Yser at Schoc-ur-bakke and progressed towards Schoom We captured Keyem and reached Praf St. Bosch. W T e are enveloping the Thourout line and have reached the railway station at Wynendael and Hooge, on the ThouroutBruges road, where we advanced between Thourout and Mondel. French troops have reached Turf-

ARMISTICE ARRANGED.

A GERMAN REPORT.

PUBLISHED BY REUTER. IJtteuter's Telegram.] Received This Day, 10.50 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. Reuter, via Vancouver, states that the New York Tribune's special cable from its own correspondent with the American forces on Wednesday says that elements of the German Army opposing: the Americans have been told that all plans for an armistice and the withdrawal from the occupied territory have been arranged. The plan embraces the withdrawal of the German troops twenty kilometres, while the Allied armies are withdrawn ten,, with a neutral strip of thirty kilometres between the armies. A general withdrawal commences, the Allied armies halting ten kilometres from the German frontier until peace is signed. RUSSIA. BOLSHEVIKS REPULSED. ENEMY REINFORCED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.* Received this dav at 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, October 17. Press depatches from Archangel say that the Allied forces repulsed heavy Bolshevik attacks on both banks of the Dwina, 150 miles north of Kottes. The Americans and Russians advanced 125 miles north-east of Vologda. Reinforced Bolshevik forces are striving to regain the lost positions. They shelled the Allies continuously for an entire week. NEAR EAST. NEAR SOFIA. FRANCO-SERBIAN SUCCESSES.

(Australian and N.Z Cable Association '

Received this dav at 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, October 17. The French entered Pirote en route to Sofia. The Serbians captured Aleximitz.

TN ENEMY COUNTRIES

REVOLUTION IN CHEMNITZ

A GERMAN SOLDIER'S REPORT.

(Australian and NZ Cable Association

Received This Day, 9.45 a.m. NEW YORK, October 17. Mr James, who is on the American front, cables that a letter found l on a German prisoner says that a revo--1 "Hon has started in Chemnitz, in Saxony. HUNGARIAN INDEPENDENCE. A PROCLAMATION ISSUED. lAnstralian and N.Z. Cabl# Association Received this dav at 10.50 a.m. NEW YORK,' October 17. The Hungarian Parliament has issued a proclamation declaring Hungary independent. THE KAISER STILL REIGNS. DECREE SIGNED BY HIM. I Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received this dav at 10.50 a.m. AMSTERDAM,' October 17. That the Kaiser was still reigning on the 15th appears from a decree published in Berlin and signed by the Kaiser on the 15th, prescribing that the decreed military commands under martial law must be issued in agreement with the civil authorities. AMERICA AT WAR. COST OF THE ARMY. A BIG BILL. WASHINGTON, October 16. A Military Deficiency Bill providing for £1,200,000,000 has been reported to the U.S. House of Representatives. It is intended a»s a financial preliminary to the dispatch of 5,000,000 men to France in 1919, and also intended to keep eighteen divisions ready overseas and eighteen divisions constantly in training.