The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1918, Page 1

| THE WE! Fatt arid } THIRTY EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 79 BISMARCK, NC NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, HUNS OFFENSIVE DISMAL FAILUR PRICE FIVE CENT SAMMIES RAID OPPOSING TRENCHES OF ‘GERMAN TROOPS FIRST AND SECOND LINE POSTS OF ENEMY SHATTERED BY HEAVY . FIRE OF AMBRICAN ARTILLERY: Gunners Shell Positions All ns All Night ar and Throughout Morn- ing, Reducing Strong Bulwarks of the Hun to ‘~~ Twisted Mass of Usless Wreckage GERMANS “FED UP WITH WAR,” ARE SURRENDERING TO THE SAMMIES Scores Fell Victims to Own Gas Attacks, Report Prisoners | —State That 900 Projectors Were Used in : Recent Raids on United States Forces oes | With the American Army in France, Thursday, March 21.—' (By Associated Press)—Enemy first and second line positions on a part of the sector east of Luneville have ‘been destroyed com- pletely by American artillery fire. After the raid into the German positions last night, the American gunners shelled the positions heavily all night and this morning. ; Today, a patrol without assistance from the artillery, crossed No Man’s Land and found that the first:and second line had been wiped out. SEESeE GREAT UNSUNG PATRIOT TODAY Artillery firing by both "sides ont. this sector continnued all day. North-' west of Toul a number of Germans de- serted last night and surrendered to an American patrol. The y ceraaane | approached shouting “Don’t The prisonets were: fared aver to; (SHARPS STILL DOUBT THIS IS BIG OFFENSIVE Military Experts Do Not Believe Germany Would Risk All in One Attack ALLIES ARE IMPREGNABLE Positions Strongest They Have Occupied Since Beginning of World War March 22.— Washington, D, C. | American military observers already jhaving cast their doubts on whether the German drive begun yesterday really heralds the long-expected Ger- man offensive, were closely scanning the official dispatches today or evi- dence to support their view that the German onslaught, terific as it may be, really is the forerunner of some other movement. There is a marked tendency among American army officers here not to accept the present movement as the real offensive until it is more fully | demonstrated. American observers think that the military situation in ‘France is against the probability of a real German of- fensive at this time. The view pre- vails that Germany would now herdly stake the issue of the war on a des- perate drive against. the all but im:| pregnable’: allied line’in the west. Reports from Holand: that Jermany. :|semi-officially has made peace offers the French. Much information, ot value! Increased Crop Produ Production Means was obtained from the deserters, ‘who: : " and decided ‘they would rather ei More Work for Her With prisoners.’ tothe entente coming at the same | time as the attack engaged immediate} eC UBER At ar BRITISH. ARE. HOLDING HUN | | | | | | Advantage for Teutons in Big Drive Allied Artillery Ranks of Charging Infantry- men During Attack ! London, Eng., March 22.—The great battle on the western front continued until last night, the war office reports. | The British are holding the enemy. The statement follows: “Fighting hour last night on the whole front between the river Oise and the rives Sensee. Our troops continued to hold the: enemy in their battle positions. “During the enemy's attack yester- day its massed infantry offered re markable targets to our ‘rifles, ma- chine guns, and artillery, of which full advantage was taken by our troops. All reports testify to the exceedingly heavy losses suffered by the enemy. “No serious attack has yet develop- ed this morning, but heavy fighting is still to be ep:pected. [FIGHTING MORE _ ACTIVE, ALONG ENTIRE FRONT ‘oma, March | 22.— ighting is General Von Linsingen, commander of the German troopa that, have oc- cupied Rovno, snapped looking thru a field periscope. Very likely he was looking for More Russia to carve up. ‘As you may observe, the Hun general is pretty fat. Evidently he ts letting the German people, women and child- ren, do the starving. (ONECANDIDATE - FOR SENATE IS ON LONG LINE | Desperate Fighting Fails to Gain|On Front of More Than Fifty Miles Armed Forcesof De? continued until a late | } ‘attention. Although there was nothing! ‘te’cuntirm the report. it was pointed | LOYALTY PLAN becoming more active. along the whole front the war office an- BRITISH SOLDIERS MET AND WITHSTAND MOST STUPENDOUS ATTACK OF 3 1-2 YEARS’ WAR mocracy Are at Grips With Prussianism in What May Be Decisive Struggles | iMASSED MEN coop Tarcer|NO OBJECTIVES AIMED AT BY ENEMY WERE GAINED IN TERRIFIC CHARGES nec Regiment After Regiment Hurled Against Allied Defenses Without Making an Impression on Solid Wall— Fighting Ended During the Night cs (Associated Press) British Army Headquarters in France, March 22.— (By Associated Press)—The fighting is still continuing, but the first stage of the offensive has passed. The enemy has failed badly in the execution of his program, as is attested by captured documents, showing what he planned to do in the early hours of his offensive. Vigorous counter attacks late yesterday restored some of the posi- tions which the British had abandoned temporarily. GERMANS TELL ANOTHER STORY Berlin, March 22, (British Admiralty, per Wireless Press).—The British first line has been captured, by German troops, attacking from the southeast of Arras, as far as La Fere, the war office announces. if British soldiers have met and withstood the most stupendous attack the Germans have hurled against the front in. three and jone-half years: of warfare. On a front of more than 50 miles, the armed forces of deémoe- racy are at grips with the forces of Prussianism, and what may.be the decisive struggle in the great war is raging in northern France. | FIRST ROUND FOR sald they were “fed up” “with war out More Help ; ‘out, that the threet of German guns| Lenroot ¢ or Davies Will Be ‘Keked | | npunces. The Italians drove back ‘Overcome by Own Gas. ALLIES BUT MORE — The; men sala that during/'the gas/ projector : attack against tne Ameri- i WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING| can lines recently, 90( projectors were; ‘ employed.’ ‘One-halt’ fell within the: tanttors pyran is overcamy, Mrs. C. A. Severance Tells What | accerding to ‘the deserters, eleven| Organization Acco! ish | Cermans were. killed and 30 wounded | 8 oy mpl ished © | while taking oul yie dead. ‘for First Loan a -Ameri¢an;-informatiol sthat only, } 78 projectors’ werd’ ‘Ased, “aft, Amert-' Mandan, March 22.—Mrs. C.! can sean etficers. are inclined) 4. Several . Paul brought: to! rth. Di to doubt.the Atory... 4 close her meetings in akota . Enter Hun Trencties. | in Mandan this afternoon, after a very. | ‘An Atherican patrol: last night en-| successful series. She came out to! tered the first line of the enemy and! meer -the county chairmen, at. their! remained /there six hours, but did not | conferences on. the liberty ‘loan,! see:any pf the enemy, : it is reported | thrift and conservation, and with her! that the Germans recently constructed jp \.iriug “and . patriotic talks has, trenchés that are concrete half way! roused. the women to a new realiza-| up thé sides, it activity continues behind thé! "ton OF ele duties and privileges at i enefny-lines. Reports.today say three | What Ameri ica Gives Gefman aeroplanes flew over the| At her closing the session ‘1 Man-| parts.of the American Hnes at day-} gay: today, she said: “Ame is! break ped Sed thels.achine pera giving iis most precious possession; at,-our pos! Atha i rai ite, | a the flower of our young mauhood,! over | were withou ul {ang our first duty is.tc raisg the! t ty d fei l thes: NONP ARTISANS toys from the dangers amo. whien| ‘PLEDGE UNCLE \the field the most perfect typ2 of | they are going. We are »urciug imo; ' menhood, and must give inem the Ss AM M SUPPORT |» teat peviect equipment, the vest uni-| m, the best guns, the best ammu- \ nition, and tne dest food thut monty; Resolutions “Expressing Loyalty van buy. We must keen a steady Adopted at 48th District tarrage from the American base. For i ; tu's we need vast sums cf money, and Convention ‘at is up to the American women to | help produce this money. Women Killdeer, N. D, ‘March 22—The} fave the spending of 90 per cent of Nonpartisans of the 48th jegislative, the money in America, ani on them district, which includes Mercer, Oli- | we must depend to make the deep ver and Dunn counties, in their legis-| cuts into luxuries and necessities, lative caucus this week pledged thei:/ Which will save the money needed | support to the administration in the| it is for the women of the county cation i imay be for its effect on the people of r ; 4 to’ Withdraw. to Insure ; England and France: FRAZIER AND . BOX TO. J0mn “IN COUNCILS 'Governor and Secretary of State Council of Defense: Called for Conference | AMERICANIZATION | P H AN President Hopes to Work Out) System of Combatting Ger- man Propaganda Governor Lynn J. Frazier and! /Thomas Allen Box, secretary of the: North Dakota state council of detense. will leave next week: for Washington to attend a conference of far-reaching importance, called by President Wil-| son and the National Covcii of De fense, in. cooperation with other ad-} ministrative bodies, with a view tc} working out some plan by which Ger-; man propaganda rife throughout the; United States may be counteracted. The secretary of the interior bell issued invitations to the governors of the states, to the chairmen of the state defense .councils and to about | three hundred presidents of corpora-! tions and chambers of commerce and! patrols at several points on the | front and ejected an Austrian de- | ‘tachment which had forced its - way, into. an ‘advarice post in the Frenzela valley sector. Alorig the eens EAD) » oe MANAGERS GOING AMEAD) nd wine cov om BIG FIELD OF STATE CONTEST Election of American i je 14 LENROOT, LEAD GROWS, || the seceatary of state, indicate | | | that the lead of Congressman Len- root over: James Thompson would : | be. increased by the official re-.| | turns, Returns from six counties | | | of the state received by telephone | ; today increased Lenroot’s lead thy | \ ' 348, over earlier reoorts. $ +. PD aie a z Contenders for Secretary Wilwaukee, Wis. March 22,— " tt was thought probable that eith- of State’s Job er Irvin Lenroot or Joseph. E. | Davies, republican and democratic | nominees respectively, at the re | cent primary for United States | senator will be asked to with- | draw during the course of a meet- ing of the Wisconsin Loyalty le gion, a nonpartisan organization, | this afternoon and evening. { The managers of both nom- | inees, regardless of gossip in ccm nection h a possible withdraw- i al, are going ahead with prepara- tions for an active campaign. | Both candidates expect to have certain that the league will reindors i large numbers of speakers in the |Hall for the position which he ha field frominow, untll:si¢e now until election day. {held for three terms past, and in view : of this fact a number. of: prospective | ‘NOW ENTERED Candidates ‘are grooming. themselves! CONVENTION COMES SOON; lonly Week Remains in Which to, Make Medicine as to League’s Selections It is currently reported that Secretary) of State Hall will have no lack of op-| position for re-election. for the league nomination, should the! an bolt chance to strike at ran-/ ane has been rather generally suggest-; o° Former = Dealiee Possible! It is not yet! FIGHTING IS dUE — London Eng. March 22,—Th + [| eagerly awaited Gritish’ official | i i SPANISH BOAT ~ HELD BY HUNS; 3 BACK TO PORT: Montevideo “Halted on dchcsidal Submarine, Searched and Turned Around | statement today, which was ex- { | | pected to give further details of | | the trenmendous fighting, indis |. | cated in last night's reports,.was | read with great satisfaction inse- if | far as it revealed that the enemy |» | had been held and had suffered | | great losses. i If this turns out tobe the great | German offensive that has been: : | predicted, the preliminary round | | appears to have gone in favor of | i | the entente, although, as the re- | rt ooints out, heavy fightin NOT ALLOWED TO CALL), ftp belexpectea, YY Tentins The tremendous’ duel was | heard more distinctly than ever | in Kent. Houses were continual- i { i | i | | Cadiz, Spain, March 22.—The Span-, jish trans-Atlantic liner Montevideo, | ly shaken as the result of the vio- i which sailed for New York on Monday,! lent concussion. i ;was held up by a German submarine | % eee Tuesday, and forced to return here.; . ‘After firiny warn , b.| . No Objectives Gained. Li g a warning shot, the sub- In their first onslaught, the enemy. ; marine came alongside the liner, and | made the captain promise not to use, 2fter a gigantic bombardment, from great magses of guns, passed the the wireless. The captain was ta-| {ken aboard the submarine where he: British outposts at some points and ‘was detained while German sailors | attained the battle line, but nowhere | searched the Montevideo. — Montevideo. | did the Germans gain the objectives | Planned. Regiment after regiment “LOYAL GERMANS . HERE TONIGHT: eedingly heavy. "Desperate fighting continues along | the line from Sexsnee to the Oise, jand especially on the vambrai were |aimed principally to the north and south of the salient left after the fighting ceased there last November with the evident purpose of cutting joff the salient and driving through the opening towards the old battle- ed that John Andrews, publisher ot| President A. W. Lucas Has Ex- fieid of the Somme. a prosecution of the world's war in the) tu carry on a catapaign of ei: following resolutions: WHEREAS, Our beloved country is| engaged in a just war egainst an auto: cratic nation, and WHEREAS, it will take men to de- fend, and much motiey to finance this county in this struggle for democ- ret LEREFORD, ‘Be it -resolved that we, the Nonpartisans of the 48th legts- lative district in, convention assem- bled, do pledge our loyal support, both morally. and financially to dent. Wilson; EB IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we commend Governor Frazier for. calling the legislative assembly in session extraordinary, for the pur- pose of feed and seed legislation, and his many expressions of his loyalty to this nation and his people here in North Dakota; ‘BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the members of the ‘Nonpartisan league commend and encourage the; good work of all committees and or- gauizations of the Red Cross, the/| Council of Defense and the:“On to Vic- tory Drive,” BBE IT FURTHER~ RESOLVED, that we favor the fixing of prices, espe- cially upon those farm products which come into competition with wheat as foo C. W. Stephens, J. B. Hagelbarger, F. P.-Conrath, Committee. AT NEW ENGLAND Rev. Buzzelle Speaks at Loyalty | Gathering New England, N. Rev. ‘George Buzzelle, Minute Man, and district chairman for the. Junior Auxiliary to the Red Cross, was the principal at ar ing loyalty rally hel ere today, ; March 22.—j ‘Bismarck Four- ele ang, going to, Pwriteerianse cope and thritt to transforin this hitherie uost' wasteful nation into a wasteles: one. If this is done, Presiden: W:1- gon has said ‘It will be worth the war.’ H Great Unsung Patriot ' On the farmers’ wife depends in a large ‘degree the winning of the war. Contraty to the criticism made on me yesterday accusing me of ‘Attacking the farmers’ wife,’ 1 have always held that she is one of the great unsung | patriots—she bears thé brunt of this; | Increased cru)’ production, and to her’ it. means more men, and no more! Uired girls! It is to her industry and/ tirelese endurance that all the civili- zation-of America is.due—she is giv- ing uncomplainingly the best soldixis, | and responding to every cull of her! sountiy. I should be the lus: t cri- ticize the farmer's wife, as I aria (Continued on Page Four - GREAT DAMAGE AT. MANNHEIM FROM BOMBS; | English Aerial Attack Results in; Heavy Loss of Life and Property i | Geneva, ‘Switzerland, Wednes. | | “day, March 20—Information has i reachéd Basel that the British | aerial attack of Monday upon Manni Germany, did enorm- ous damage in the city, causing several furious fires, which raged for many hours, especially in the i vicinity of the railway station. | A powder factory and a gas plant are reported to have exploded, The population, according to these advices, is panic stricken and many persons are: leaving town jon insfduously within industrial plants. he Sia s Monon Ap ather industrial leaders to meet with) him on Wednesday, April 3, in Wash-/ ington, for the purpose of consider-' ing the national plan of Americaniza-; i tion projected by: the department of: the interior... - | To Reach Agreement. e | The object of this meeting is to| reach an agfeement upon ways and! means of putting the plan into opera-/ tion through the instrumentality of | the state governments and: industrial establishments. The, federal -legisla-| tive program will be fully discussed ; with the representatives present. This | program calla for an appropriation to; be made to the United States Bureau | | of Education for the purpose of ren-} dering financial ald and other assist: | ance to the states joining in a con-; certed plan to Americanize the many inillions of foreign birth who are en- gaged in the many industrial and com-| jmercial activities of the country. The department of the interior has | recently entered into a joint arrange-| ment with the Council of National De-| fense whereby the national plan of! Americanization is put into effect all) over the United States through the| medium of the forty-eight state de-! tense councils and a great number of! county and local committees on de-: fense. “English the Language of the! United States” is the slogan adopted | Americanization. | Americanization is to be dealt with as a measure of war for the purpose of counteracting the anti-American propaganda among aliens, a large proportion of which is being carried The entire plan will be submitted to the industrial! men present and will cover not only this feature, but oth- ers involving the human side of in- dustry. The war aspects of Americanization have impressed’ themselves upon the forcitiy. since the Berlin. Newspaper Sees Amity. more than a year ago, and it was und-} Between Entente and Cen- . tral Powers Coming turned to North Dakota to resume | E COMBAT TO DECIDE | [etive direction of the Lidgerwood | London, Eng March’ 22.——' are now entered on a decisive, battle for a general peace,” says the Taglische Rundschau of Ber- lin, according to an Telegraph dispatch from Copen- hagen in anouncing that the com: mencement of the German offen- sive in the west is received with great felicitation by the German people, who will follow ‘it’ with “@ single combat between Eng- land and Germany, which is to decide the war, our future posi- tion in the world and whether the Anglo-Saxoné shall, continue to press their will on the world, opened today.” Leeann \@ HUNG RENEW ‘THEIR EXECUTIONS OF { CATHOLIC PRIESTS | | London, March 22.—The execu- | | tion in Brussels of two Roman | Catholic priests on the charge of | ! espionage is reported in an Ex. Telegraph dispatch from Eight. other, priests, the dis- teh: says, have been sentenced | to imprisonment at hard labor at | | Brussels on the cha 0 N DECISIVE | Fa Lidgerwood Broadaxe, ad form-| er deputy secretary of state, is said) AT LES. be currying’ league favor with a| | view to tossing his hat into the ring.i rews resigned his post in the! | Secretary of state’s office something | ‘erstood at the time that some bad} | blood existed between him and Hall.) | Andrews first went to Washington | las secretary to P. D. Norton of the, ichird North Dakota district, but soon newspaper which Andrews has owned ifor several years. ‘Since that time the | Lidgerwood Broadaxe has been more jor less consistently prc-league, tak- ing an occasional wallop at the Town-; j leyites, just to keep its hand in. Frank | wilder is another ex-deputy in the’ ‘secretary of state's office who may! seek his former superior's scalp. It is} reported about Mandan, where Wilder) was for many years publisher of The ‘News, that he already has petitions/ {out. The Tribune has been able to find no one who has seen petitions. | Wilder retired from the secretarys of; |state’s office only a week ago, after several years’ service and will be suc “| ceeded -by ‘Maurice Duffy, recently de- puty postmaster at Grand Forks. Friends of Tom Hall insist he} jshall. run.. Hall. is also. an old} ‘4 | newspaper man and a former railroad: | "ler, (His majorities in past elections) have been the largest of any stat | ;in which Frazier piled up a year ago | |last fall. | Gossip has it that Walt Taylor of | |LaMoure, former commissioner of in-| surance, may seek to come back, and | | that ‘there is some possibility of his; ‘ | having league suport in case A. S, Ols- ness, the former commissioner, should | | decline to be a candidate for re-elec- tion. |. Olsness is one of the most popular officer, with the exception of the marg-/of the Slope, but to tell them in their tended General Invitation to Teutonic Americans i A splendid outpouring of loyal} Americans of the Slope of German birth or descent is anticipated for the| | patriotic rally to be held at the Com- i mercial club at 8:30 this evening, | when Dr. Karl Mathie, secretary of | the Chicago branch of the German! Friends of Democracy will deliver an| address upon what Uncle Sam may) expect from his citizens of Teutonic, ancestry. * Dr. Mathie long has been recog- nized as. a leader among Americans of | German blood. As sverintendent ot | schools at Wausau, Wis., a city with) a large German-American element, he} made himself a factor for the Ameri- canization of his fellow citizens. As secretary of the German Friends of Democracy he has been selected by the speakers’ bureau of the National Council of Defense to go out into Ger- man-speaking communities to carry the national council's message, The National Council and the State Council of Defense, under whose aus- pices Dr, Mathie comes here tonight, take it for granted that Americans who once owed allegiance to the kais- er or whose forefathers were German subjects, are loyal citizens of their adopted country. Dr. Mathie comes not to reform the German-Americans mother tongue what they may do to further prove their loyalty and bet- ter aid their country in the hour of its trial. President A. W. Lucas of the Bis- marck city commission ‘will preside over the evening’s meeting, and as chairman he extends an invitation to every German-speaking resident of Bismarck and the Slope to attend. Dr. Mathie is a forceful speaker officets the league elected in 1916, and} w oD eeE SL hose addrens will “be iranisiieeine agibling & very much’ Both Sides Prepared. Germany's latest offensive finds both sides prepared ‘for the shock of prolonged sanguinary combats. Behind the British lines is the de- vastated area over which the Ger- mans retreated last March! Field Marshal Hindenburg declared at the time that the devastation was carried {out not only to hamper the Allied ar- mies, but to provide a battlefteld for the future. The German attack may be only a feint, but .a large breach ‘in the British lines might involve the ; Safety of Paris, and Amines and the ' French channel ports from the mouth of the Seine to Belgium. German artillery fire also has been intense on a lengthy front north: of the LaBasse canal and in the Ypres sector in Flanders. On the French front, the Germans have carried out ‘Minor attacks northeast of Verdun and in Lorraine. French troops re- pulsed both attacks with loss. To Continue Attack | The exact British line cannot be made public at present. The. only reason is that it might furnish the enemy with valuable information. This morning the Germans~ were ‘bombing in the region of Croiselles. There were indications that they in- tended to continue their attacks to- day. The weather is cold and bleak. A heavy mist makes air reconnais- ances impossible. This is of advan- tage to the British, as the enemy is deprived of greatly needed aerial ob- servations. The Germans:-in many sections yes- terday attacked in three waveé‘of in- fantry, followed up by shock troops. As the result they gaffered heavy cas- ualties. The heavily massed German artillery has been badly hammered by the British guns. One of the most brilliant British counter attacks oc- curred at Doignies. The British ad- vanced with infantry and tanks at 7 p2my and after- flerce’ drove aut dhecenemy. %6503 nr