The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1918, Page 1

a THE WEATHER :Mitd temperature, THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. 59. EUTONS RENEW M : | JAP PROPOSAL FOR "ACTION IN SIBERIA CENTERS ATTENTI -SAMMIES AVENGE DEATHS OF COMRADES BY WIPING OUT HUN POSITION WITH HEAVY GUNS " Artillery. iDénkardment ‘Tu Turns Geran Strongholds Into - Charnel House—Explosion of Gas Bombs and Shells Adds to Destruction of Enemy AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS ASSIST AMERICANS’ AIM Exact Location of Minenwerfer Battery Disclosed by Sur- vey—Patrols ‘Busy With the American Army in France, Thursday, Feb. 28.—(By Associated Press.)—Swift retri- bution has f. upon the Ger- man bat which this week bombarded the American trench- es northwest of Toul with gas shells, American heavy artil- lery concentrated its: fire on the German minenwerfer batteries for half an hour today and oblit- erated the position. Many direct hits with high ex- .Plosive shells were made by the American gunners. Timbers were thrown. high..in. the--air-and~ ex-- plosions, probably of enemy am- munition and gas, resulted. The ground about the German bat- teries was turned upside down and if there were any German soldiers ‘there they certainly, suf- fered death. Thus far six men have died from the effects of the German, gas ‘shells. More than eighty are, in hospitals suffering ining. Most of these lightly injured; and. is reported to be. condition, Aeroplane Photos Help. Aeroplane | photographs’ aided the American gunners ‘in their destruc- tive fire against the’ German batte fes, The photograph taken. youn day. disclosed. the:<exact .Jonation. the minenwerfer with ‘the"¥eaillt tit ‘i it didnot take the ginners id: even up thé score with the en While the nuiber of ‘eeniy abells falling within the American: lines has ,* decreased” slightly within ‘the list -24 hours, nevertheless. the artillery fight- ing has been’ lively.” While an ‘empty ammunition train. wes ‘halted at a place called Dead Man’s Point, ‘ a° stray enemy shell 4 dropped nearby and killed two men, two horses which had run away, and wounded four men. Telephone Men Heroes. In a certain town behind ‘the front, } \'a, German shell exploded near the door leading to a telephone .dugout, blocking the passageway. The. oper- ators in the dugout although in con- siderable danger, continued: to work. the important line at the same time calling for help. Soldiers were sent to the dugout and the passageway re- opened. The American artillery has kept up a constant harrassing and destructive . fire on many. vital enemy points such as crossroads and towns. German working parties. were dispersed effec- tively, and once tthe 75's fired vigor. ously on a number of Germans in a first line trench, quickly blowing in the entire trench system: Ground mist and rain have prevented free observation, but the guns had the ex: emy ‘targets so well registered tha: they have been able to work effec: tively. German Guns Wild, . Late ‘today the Germans attempted “to retaliate for the destruction of the minenwerfer_ batteries.» ‘They bom- barded the American heavy artillery with their biggest -guns,but their shooting had little effect, American patrols were all over ‘No Man's Land last night, but did not, encounter any Gegnans. The Amer- ican sector ig now an ocean of mud, , and constant work is nécessary to >‘ keep the tretiches, gun pits and dug- outs free ‘from water. From: informa: tion: reaching the American, lines, it is apparent. the enemy. is taking ad- vahtagé of the: low visibility ‘to do much: work in its positidns. ; Many om Noises of “kinds : impossible: to: sup- ee and other information wake this : Sr TO CET «4 AND FIGHT” IS LAST WORDS Boy Contracts Fatal At- «of Pneumonia on Way to Draft Board | ie it to facie jach, N. D., March 1-"T j,Well so that I can fight for dig SPANISH. SH CABINET ination ‘under the draft. Thedeceaser ‘was a son of Thomas Krarick and a favorite. See of the late J.B. |NO INTERFERENCE SHOWN it plenceinat fotified the king Jest night > ~ SPECIAL RATES AND SERVICE FOR BOYS + IN BLUE AND GRAY ; Washington, D. C., March 1,— Director-General McAdoo hi | to their reunion this summer at | Tulsa, Okla., and that the Grand | Army of the Republic shall have | the, same for its meeting at Port- | land, Ore. Director-General McAdoo decid- ed today he could promise train facilities and special rates of ) !1 cent a mile. —> NEW PROPOSAL FROM _ RUSSIA *..TO JAPANESE? Fact That: Viscount Uchida Has Postponed Departure From Petrograd Significant, London, March . 1.—Tokio ad- vices forwarded. in a’ Reuter. dis- . patch from. Shanghai say that the Vanunoes ambassador ‘to Russia, Viscount Uchida, has: postponed his departure from Petrograd. It ii lieved, the dispatch says, that ‘the Russian government has . made a new new proposal. SEED AND FRED. AcT.NO- BLOGK 10 FARM LOAN ‘Assistant... Attorney General Brennan Rules Lien Has’ Same Effect as Tax Claim Opinion Holds That If Land Bank Declines: Aid It Acts on Its Own Volition That the operations of the North Dakota seed and feed bonding act, in- asmuch as the proposed lein to pro vide payment for seéd and feed does not attaoh to the land until October 15 of the year in which bonds are issued, will not prevent the farm land bank for this district from obtaining a first mortgage on the land at tné time loans are made, prior to Octo- ber 15 of each year, and the aci should not: militate against the mak- ing of federal far mloans in this state, rules Assistant Attorney Generai Daniel V.. Brennan in an opinion fut- nished today to’ Fred W. McLean, re istrar attorney for the federal tara ‘)oan bank at St. Paul. . The seed and feed bonding act lien, when it‘does attach to the tard, wail take priority over all first mortgages executed after January 30, 1913, itr. ‘Brennan’ rules.” He holds, however, that inasmuch as this lien does not attach until: after the crop has been harvested, and inasmuch as the law first. provides a lien on the crop it- self, the farmer who borrows: from the county under this bonding act-us: wally. wil have “had § opportunity to pay off the loan before. the date up: on which this lien attaches. “There. is nothing in the. tederai farm loan act which will prevent. the loaning of federal.funds to- North Da- Kota farmers who take, advaataze of the seed, and feed bonding act,’ said Mr, Brennan today.’ )\‘Tiie farm loan bank ‘will simply take a first. mort- gage with the notation that it is sub- Ject to’a first lien to secure the coun- ty seed and feed bonds, should these not be paid prior to Oc‘nber 15 of the year in which they issite. The same thing is done now with respect to taxes. If the bank refuses to these conditions it will be acting on its own volition and’ not under cogi- pulsion, and it would be an act which I would. consider neither politic nor patriotic at this time.” The. question raised by Registrar McLean also had been transferred to the attorney geéneral’s office by R. J. J. Montgomery, president of the North Dakota Farmers’ union, and (Mr. Brennan’s opinion is an answer toyboth ‘patties. = i CRISIS 1S OVER ‘Madrid, ‘March 1The Marquis ce oe | ANCHOR LINE STEAMER SUNK BY HUN 8UB. | New York, N. Y.,,March 1.—The | British merchant steamship Ti- beria, of 4,880 tons gross, owned by the Anchor Line, was sunk by [| ! a German submarine while bound ; | for this port, February 27, ac | cording to information received | in shipping circles today. The [ aorey was POU ce RED COUNCIL WILL RETURN TO PETROGRAD Decision of People’s Commis- sioners Announced in Offi- cial Statement Today SHIP AWAY. VALUABLES Everything. Not Needed for De- fense of City Being Trans- ported to Safe Place London, March 1.—The Rusian council of Peoples’ commissioners has decided to return to Petro- grad, says an official Russian statement received here today. The removal of elements of the population valueless in the de- fense of the capital is being con- tinued; however. Gold and other valueables continue to be shipped away from the city, the statement adds.’ No previous indication that the Peoples’ commissioners had left Pet- rograd has’ been. contained in the Rus- sian’ Advices. These commissioners, who comprise © the governing’ body under the: Bolshieviki ‘regime, -have had their headquarters at the Smolny institute in Petrograd. « Dispatches trom Petrograd, bearing Monday’s date, reported the removal [oa camp oul commissioners expected ‘to ‘remain at’ the institute. LA FOLLETTE AND ° HIS HUNNISM. UP FOR DISCUSSION Entire Question Will Be Gone Into Thoroughly by Bad- ger Assembly Madison, ‘Wis., March 1.—The entire subject of Senator La Folette’s stand on the war and of.atacks on him to- day went on the program for. a thor- ough discussion béfore the state as- sembly. It may start tomorrow or perhaps not until Monday, depending on the rapidity with which members respond to the call for assembly auth- orized today. The La Follette forces are prepar- ing an elaborate defense, questioning theorigin of anti-La Follette resolution adopted by many prominent organiz- ations all over the country. They hope that a vote will not: be reached until Monday, so that the intervening hours may be spent in collecting data and evidence. TEACHERS HAVE NARROW ESCAPE IN BAD STORM Young Women... Wander | for Hours Before They Finally Fetch Up at Ranch House ‘Bowman, N. D., March 1.—Florence ers in the Golden Valley district near Austin narrowly; escaped ‘death in a blizzard when their buggy broke down while they were driving.to-Rhame/ en route hither to take the teachers’ ex- amination. The young women sought to continue: the journey on foot, ‘but the storm -was so thick they lost their way onthe’ prairie and wandered about for hours before’ they stumbled onto Carl Olson’s home, tyo miles out of Rhame, LARIMORE PIONEER PASSES IN. CANADA. Larimore, N. D., March 1—Mathew Doyle, a pioneer who came to Lari- more in 1882 and was for years en- gaged in business here, is dead at Bat- tleford, Sask., at the age /of-72. Mrs. Abbie D. Watt of this city is a daught- er ofthe deceased, EXPERT DRIVERS _ TO HANDLE BIG “TRUCKS IN ARMY John Gradette and Loyis Clooten, expert automobile mechanics and driv- ers, leave tonight for Fort Leaven- worth, Kans., having been inducted into the land division of the sign: corps, with which they will serve as drivers: in. the motor .truck .division. prone the. ofier All; but ‘two. of et retained Both are well: known nck young, the government!s 1 per, activities | ‘Thompson and Velma Maynard, teach; | INTERNATIONAL ARRANGEMENT I$ PREDICTED Regarded Probable a at: Washing- ton Protection of Viadivostok Will Be Assured: LONDON FAVORS PROGRAM Believes Celestials Should Have Free Hand and That; They May Be Trusted Washington, D. C:, Mar. 1— Japan’s proposal for action:in Si- beria_ has crowded Chafcellor Von Hertling’s speech: info sec- ond place in considerationiby of- ficials here and:there are indica- tions here today: that‘ conditions were being formed which would. show themselves: in some ar- rangement of international char- acter to prevent the vast stores at Vladivostok and control of the Trans-Siberian “railway: from |falling in the hands of the ad- vancing Germans. The expectation that President Wil- son would address congress soon in reply:'to Von’: Hertling’s speech was dissipated today in evidences that the president is making no such plans at this time,’ and probably does ust consider it necessary to’ repiy to the German chancellor for the’ present, az least. Before the president speaxs there doubtless will be an interchange of wiews from London ‘and: Pari3, ¢o that if Mr. Wilson spedks he will ex. press the views of all the co-belliger- ents as on previous ‘Octd<ions. Outward “indications .ttday were that the. president was, siudying the cmestion of .American participation with. the Japanese in Sivecia to the exclusion of ‘other t subjects. + LONDON: FAVO! PLA *“tondon, March Sen propos: als- with regard to ‘Siberia and their reception in Washington ‘bas brougit the question of Japan’s: active parti- cipation ‘in military operations to the forefront here, the developments dom: inating the news columns of the pu- bers, 3. The bulk of the opinion favors Ja- pan’s proposed action without quali fication,‘and: the plea is made in. some quarterg: that she act implicitly be trusted. and be given a free hand. BEACH'S FIRST WAR VICTIM IS DEAD IN FRANCE E. E. Salzman, Member of Co. M, Dies in Base Hospital at Front March 1.—Beach’s first war victim is Harley B. Salzman, word of whose death in a hospital in France on January 25 has just reach- ed his father, E. E. Salzman. Harley Salzman was only 19 years old, and was not subject to the draft, but he was one of the first to enlist in Co. M of the Second North Dakota regiment. He later was assigned to service with the 164th ambulance corps, 116th sni- tary train, which. sailed for France some time’in Décember.~ No. details of his death have been received. BREAKS HIP AND ‘DRAGS* HERSELF _ ‘ALONG THE ROAD Binford Woman Has Agonizing Experience Following Pain- ful Accident ) Beach, N. D., ” Binford, N. D.,-March 1—Breaking her hip in a ‘fall on the ice while on her way ‘tothe home of her son Oicar, Mrs. F. Greenland dragged heself | along the frozen ground: for'a conid- erable distance before:she was discov- ered by Steve Rorvig and her husband who carried here home. She. later was removed to the Fargo héspital, where she is reported to be improving. BE A . PATRIOT Is it patriotic triotic'at this time when our united energies are’needed to defeat the Hun and defend: democracy to embroil YOUR city in fac- tional strife and bitterness engendered by an ‘unneces- sary, uncalled-for city. elec- tion? THINK IT OVER! BE A PATRIOT! ‘Be a true blue American Before it is. too. la YOUR N. HOSTILITIES TO CEASE WHEN PEACE IS SIGNED. London, March 1.—The Russian | peace delegates at (Brest-Litovsk | were informed: that hostilities | would cease only when the peace | | treaty was signed, says an offi- | cial Russian statement received | here, Three days: were allowed | ior the negotiations, beginning to- [ | day. 2 Na SASS A RN eR Se CENSORSHIP IS WRONG ASSERTS GENERALMARCH Chief of Staff of United States Army Would Take Lid Off of War News SAMMIES REAL SOLDIERS Prepared to Reflect Credit on Their Country in This Great Struggle An Atlantic Port, ‘March 1.—Major General Peyton March, new chief of staff of the United States army, ar- rived here today after nine months abroad as chief of artillery of the American expeditionary force, He will go at once to Washington. Describing the American troops in France as so well trained in modern warfare as to. be’ able to handle themselves..‘with entire credit to the United States,” General March said the censorship was “lamentable,” and intimated he would advocate that ‘the regulations in. this respect be made less stringent, 80 that the people. in ‘America might learn as much as pos- sible about the activities. of the ex- peditionary forces. American officers in France. can: not, understand the present censor- ship methods, adding:. “I ‘know of no gentle method: of conducting “a “war, of “this” magnitude; | and no army can expect not.to have somebody hurt.” “The American forces are remark- able for their morale, and health,” he declared. MISSOURI RIVER BREAKING UP AT OLD FT. BENTON, Average Date for This Event Preserved in Bust-Up Which Was Reported Thursday The breaking of the ice in the Mis- souri river at Fort Benton, Mont., at 6 p. m, Thursday, was reported today by O. 'W. Roberts, head of the U. S. weather bureau service for North Da- kota. There is nothing exceptional in the going out of the ice at that point on this date, states Mr. Roberts. The ice in the Madison, Jefferson and Gal- latin rivers, which form the Missouri, generally ‘breaks in January or Feb- ruary, and this is an average date for the break-up in the Missouri at Fort Benton. Unless gorges. should form below Fort Benton, an early break-up at that point is desirable, as it gives an opportunity for flood waters to flow away under the ice further down the river. Troubles come when the ice goes out in both the Yellowstone and the Missouri at Williston at the same time. There is nothing in the present situation to cause alarm. The snow- fall north of Bismarck has been about normal this winter, but so much of the flood water already has been car- ried off that flood conditions approxi- mating those of last spring are not anticipated. WILLISTON _MAN GETS MINOT JOB Supt. L..G. White Succeeds Francis at Magic City Minot, N. D., Mar. © 1.—The Minot school board bas unanimously eleci- ed L. C, White of Wiliston to be head of the Magic City public schools be- ginning July. 1, 1918. Mr. White has been superintendent of schools at Williston for four years, and has en- joyed remarkable success there. For- mberly he was engaged in a similar capacity at Carrington.. He succeeds here Supt. Bruce Francis, who was not a candidate for the position this year, LANGER AND BRIDE RETURN TO STATE Attorney General Addresses Farmers at Maddock Today Attorney General William S. Lan- ger, who was married in New York on Wednesday to Miss Elizabeta Cady, cut his honeymoon short in order to address a meeting at Mad- dock today, Mr. and Mrs. Langer are expected to return to Bismarc! | men/ianden dargecterty int their friends are planning to beothem off. this -week. ‘Their General March said.) Ambassador Francis Has | ABDICATION DEMANDED i OF KING FERDINAND. [| | London, ‘March 1,—The pants | | terms submitted to King. Ferdi- | | nand of Roumania by Count Czer- | nin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, included the king's ad- [| dication in favor of his brother, ; Prince Wilhelm, or the taking of ; | a referendum in Roumania for: | | his successor, according to a dis- | jones, from Amsterdam today. i NOTHIN’ RUNNIN’ "ROUND N. Y. BUT BARB WIRE FENCE From Hun ’Tis Simply Immense —Hoboken Is De- serted 'New York, March 1.—German newspapers have informed their readers that New York city for its protection has girded itself with a barbed wire fence, 625 miles in length, The Germans have also been told that. 50,000 sdldiers are guarding the port of New York, and that rigorous measures had been taken in Chi- cago and where and that Ho- boken is deserted. ATTACKS UPON GARFIELD WERE AID 70 HUNS Rep. Rainey of Il of Mlinois Says These Speeches Won’t Be Circulated in Germany STORY CANNOT BE TOLD Revelations Promised When Lid Finally Is Taken Off of Con- gressional Mess Washington, D. C., March 1.—The fuel administration's recent closing order was defended’in the house to- day by Rep. Rainey of Illinois, who declared that when the “entire story. is told there will be members of the house who would be glad to expunge from the record, if they could, speech- es they made immediately after the coal order’s promulgation.” Speeches made in this house that day—none of them on the democratic side—Rep. Rainey said, “will not be dropped ‘from aeroplanes inside the German lines and if an effusion from an ex-attorney general of the United States given circulation gets into Germany at all, it will be sent there ‘by German agencies and-will splend- idly ‘encourage German armies in the crisis.” The Illinois representative asserted that too much had already been dis- closed regarding military movements. “The entire story,” he added, “can- not ‘now be told. After the war is over it will ‘be possible to give all the reasons for the coal order of January 17, last.” WARD COUNTY’ S CHAIRMAN BUYS SEED AND FEED Grain Stored in Several Eleva- tors Whence It Is to Be Dis- tributed to Needy Minot, N. ‘D., Mar. 1.—Chairman J. M Hohe of the Ward county boa-s o* commissioners is hime from the Twin Cities, whither he went to ovy seed and feed for farincss of this crunty. He endeavored to contra fos 120,00) bushels of feed, 45. buslels of seed oats, 13.09) Iusheis of seed barley and 24,000 bushels of seed wheat. The commissioners, be- cause of the prevalence of soft corn in the east, are not trying to buy any of this grain for feed, but are confining their purchases to oats. The.feed and seed grain wil be stor- ed in elevators at Minot, Logan, Des Lacs, Berthold, Lone Tree, Deering, Glenburn, Plaza, Makoti, ‘Ryder, Douglas, ‘Max, Benedict, Kenmare, Donnybrook, Carpio, Foxholm, Buri- ington and Sawyer, from fhich points it will, be apportioned out. to the lane: fori ‘asrest:| farmers ia! each district whose. appli- ithe: ant: up. insthe cations: sare bn filed: with: od ational oe (GERMAN ADVANCE INTO RUSSIA RESUMED: ALLIED EMBASSIES ARE DESERTING THE CAPITAL - I Conniniltes on Public Information Verifies Report That Left Petrograd—London Reports Departure of the British Minister TURN FOR WORSE SEEN | IN NEWS DISPATCHES Believed Situation Is More Grave Grave Than Recent Commun- ications Have Indicated Vologda, Russia, Thursday, '| Feb. 28.—(By Associated rPess) { —The American and Japanese ambassadors arrived here today | on a special train. Their trip |. | was an uneventful one, London, March 1.—Dispatches received by the Exchange Tele- graph Co. filed in Pe p. m. Thursday indicate that the German advance into Russia: has been resumed, } Wrecked ‘Railway No Block A forward movement of the invad- ers of some thirty-five miles beyond. Polotzk, midway between: Dvinsk: and’ Vitebsk is reported in these advices, the Germans pushing on despite ‘the fact that the railway has been blown up.and the -stores’ Provisions ia aber way destroyed.’ .' i ‘s German troops: are also, ‘reported © be ‘moving slowly from’ Luge: towatd: Pskov, at which’ placé they -are.,naiit’ to have concentrated:a. diviston of In- fantty; suported by, eavalry: ‘and? artil. ery, The Germans, likewise, ‘are deélared, to be moving on Sebeth, eight miles: northeast of Dvinsb. AMERICAN: EMBA’ bey ‘LEAVE serneninnton: D. C.,.. March. t=: ‘ comm public. * “tion today anes mi cis and his. staff, ; consulate, ‘the military 8 and the Red Cross repreeatennak all left Petrograd for Votlogda, - » railroad’on the hight of February Advice From Sisson The advice:came by cable trom Ed-: par G. Sisson, the committee's repre- sentative: in the Russian capital. Representatives of the information committee, it‘was said, will remain-in Perograd’ for the present. Late re-_ ports show that the circulation of the President’s address on January 3lgt’ is practically thruout Russia. The tot-. al is over four imillion copied; it: fs" said. < In’ addition, 1,300,000 meisages pridted in German went thru the northern lines of, the German army. About 200,000 were Successfully work- ed thru the southern and central fronts. The committee also said that Cer- man and Austrian prisoners in Russia were provided with copies. of the ad- dress. ALLIES ALSO LEAVE London, March 1.—The British'and- French embassies have left Petrograd: acording to a telégram from the Rus sian official news agency in Petrograd and which bears no date. If it is indicated, Ambasador Francis has left Petrograd, the departure of the French and British embasies takes from the Petrograd capital the ‘repre- sentatives of three of the most im: portant Entente countries. Sir George W. Bushanan, the British ambassador to Russia, some weeks ago left Petro- grad on a leavevof absence. F. <0. Lindley, counsellor of the embassy ‘has been charge'd’ affaires. ¥ x TURN FOR. Tt THE Worse. Stockholm, , March .1.—The', amet. can ‘consul has Jett. Petrograd, where he. remained after’ the embassy’s, de parture. The consulate’has ‘been. tak- en: over by the Norwegian ‘consul,. ‘This report. appears to indieste:thé! the situation ‘in--Perograd has taken: an unexpected turm for the:.worte in view of the fact that the latest’ pre- vious mesages from ‘the Russian capi- tal said the American consul would remeit there after the deperture of thee ambassador and his staff in ordér eep in communication with the Stata Department. WASHINGTON. DISPATCH ‘Washrington, D. C., March 1—A dispatch from Stockhom to the state department today announces the de- parture of the American consul from Petrograd, but makes no reference to Ambassador Francis of his’ staff." Troops Reach Dneiper. Berlin, Mareh 1.—German troops continuing their advance in Russia have reached the Dneiper river, the war office announces. Austro-Hun- garian troops have begun an into the Ukraine. ADMINISTRATION DRAFT. RECOMMENDATIONS U Washington, March 1—The admin: istration -recommendat to inctede men in:the draft law as:they twenty. oné. years of age was senate today: