The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1918, Page 2

AAO by) sn ame ea Asta MILITARISTS STAKEFATEON GIGANTICDRIVE | War Lords Cannot Control Ger- | man People by Political | | ] Maneuver 7 NO ENVELOPING MOVE! ‘ Hy Premature to Express Opinion of | the ‘factical Phases of | the Situation ' BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. | Washington, D. C., March 25.—The| German offensive, says the war de partment’s weekly communique issued last night, proves that the German militarists, no longer able to contro. Bt the German people by political manew | o ver, have been forced to attempt a gi ™ gantic feat of arms to maintain their Q domination. a While the great attack has been a adle to make headway no definite en fe veloping movement has deen outlined, and it would a fo ‘Bt te is mn G E as of jth lan it active in he YpresLak tic gion. 2 “The German infantry r thereupon advanced pr along the ft a of Cambrai, Ko on the northern flank between Cro ab les, Bullecourt and Lagnicourt; on the vi southern, along the line Gouzeacourt- Me ‘Hargicourt-I.everguier, and extending! Or across the Crozat canal to beyond Laj i the Fere. | the The British forces are heavily en- es gaged, while the Germans have been: to able to make headway no definite en- a veloping movement is as yet out-! lined: 1 at Opinions Premature. the “It would be premature to express; for of the operations now taking place.; We must expect further changes in| he combat situation, which are énevit- able in a battle of such magnitude. Enemy caswalties have been exceed- which may be the prelude of an of- fensive in this theatre, An Austrian detachment launched ‘a heavy assault ingly heavy. in the Frenzela valley and was able “Artillery duels aro reported in Art- 0 Peuetrate into the advance out- ois and Flanders and he exension | POTS vut was thereupon checked. Nea of he-batle front is possible. “Peace between Russia and the cen-, if) “Prior to the German atack, great) 4 tral powers has been ratified at Mos-|; the activity prevailed along’ the "entire | cow. However, the enemy is continu- iF tun Eritish front. The British roops were| /8 to advance into Russia. Petro- vile successful in a number of raids strong-/ 8"@4 has been evacuated. The Rus- afte ly driven into thte enemy lines Prov-| sian general staff has moved from for; ing their alertness and initiative. Smolensk to Moscow. While the Ger-| aL “Our own forces in training in Lor-| mans have made no serious attempt lor raine-are still holding on. to ,{to advance in Esthonia and Livonia ry, trenches’ northeast - of Badenviller| oeyond the line held previously, it is ithe which: were captured last week. Inj reported that they are now again on kee this region our artillery is continuing | the march.” F ou i to batter the German lines and a num.| ., 22@ review oulines briefly he prin- tha ber of scouting parties, which have! cipal of the week on other frouts. G penetrated the German positions re- ISOM DEMANDE chu port that enemy works have been con-| | BAN SOM sae ve siderably damaged, | Peking, Marci 25.—T'ho bandits in 1 “In. our ‘section north of Toul, our! ‘the province of Honan are demanding Hing artillery has successfully modbarded/% Cash ransom, in addition to rifles, oll enemy works and billets behind their| fT GA. Kyle of Portland, Ore., and pro lines. During a raid one of our pa-| 2 J. Pursell of St. Paul, two Ameri- fit trols reached the German second line|°# engineers re Eee pire aby hie and returned without suffering any, ‘hem. Tho handit ! helt casualties. In this area the enemy °aPitate the -Amer UG made a thrust against the French for-| mands are mer } nese ces on our flank Our own forces be-| Mond P. Tenny, a lega ot, came engaged. The Germans were’ *cretary to the Ant rea driven off. foreign office, have gone to Honan to negotiate with the A dispai Hostile Raid. “A hostile raid was also attempted | seninet our forces at another point.! is Operation -was preceded by-a/ said Me: and ursal strong barrage. Our infantry, welll tale hel Eat Welen rte supported by artillery, was able to! wes of Yenchengho, northern Honaa.) stop the attacking column before our| } ; trenches were reached. raided hostile works ville. “In the Laon area the enemy used a considerable number of gas shells, causing only slight casualties. Gas bombardments were noted in Lorraine. ; “The French front has also beeu; extremely -acive: Large raiding op-) erations’ were undertaken, more espe- cially'in the Verdun. area, A brisk! French attack against hostile trenches | © in Malancourt wood resulted in the} penetration of the enemy front of 1,400 yards to a depth of 800 jor tod yards. Eighty prisoners were taken.|j1. pe Another very successful French raid iq was conducted against the adjacent |” positions near Cheppy wood, where,! ona frontage of over 89% yards, a; depth of 300°yards was attained and numerous prisoners were captured. American officers, who are training! with French units, participated in|pehalf of “all the Alsatians and Lor- these operations. { oat “The Germans in turn temporarity | “ers ofthe United States for de- perce? to’ “penerate the French | tuen ofthe Publis ,addcepees P| tren¢! ah peat tre Caurieres | “Profoundly touched by your mes- ween one ta FRGHOL ANeRMEES The sage, I thank you whole heartedly for onémy thrust’ forward a number Ot once more proclaiming the memory of | units and” steceeded ‘in’ overrunning tho Frenchy’ positions and took prison- ere. ‘Peace Ratified, ch from Peking March 18 Our troops! safe and well. east of Lune France Won’t Sheathe Sword Until Provinces Have Been Restored New oaule m York. ge from ign Minis France w a March Pren A + tem- i he sword unt line on aj Alsace. D Amer ue. “These message High Comi bassad-r us: ew and Am- ashington, |! age by thanking; the premier and foreign minister Sciences, beyond the years and beyond ‘thé''Beds,” said the promier’s reply. “Your impassioned demand is no fee at " ‘longer merely that of thousands of orto, tHere bs beén no indica-}men torn away from their mother £ tiot of ai’ extension! of ‘the German’ country. offensive to the French front. ie Meee Te Lae tate Hebe ths | “We reg iccd i (world the symbol of right. pee é new. ageres; Rahat Mathes 0 ool our ‘uean d get of our strength, we will not by the: Trench wae “Simultaneously with tha German offensive operations in thé west, we note further hostile activities in Italy,’ the “indomitable: fidelity. of its memi-| Sardtion’ for the violence suffered.” and a representative of the Chinese! @ At hat time they were reported to peli | sun, ,, distance: and pos » ped from the |@ stranger must have noticed. jand women and even children, paar “wifeh printed the afternoon r official reports were bought as fast sheath’ the ‘sWord \itil after full re-|as the newspapers could supply them. |The churches were filled and the day, After thanking the association for| was one of anxious waiting. CAREF UL, MR. HINDENBURG! THEY’ RE A “ROUGH-HOUSE” TRIO we Piero Seavica bers to France,” hon's message s: : ‘The conditional the French mothe: vinces torn awa lence in 1874 the aim tow are directed immense efforts of France and the nt love of sacrifice which z s her children on the battle fi in this struggle which has been forced By them by an implacable aggres- on.” | Aero Club Refuses to Accept Reported Range _Tein egration of of the pro- by vi of New Teuton laa uss the nature of the weapon eni- yed by the Germans in bombarding at a reported distance of more than seventy miles, refused tonight to belicve that long range guns were used as claimed in the German official com- munication. They asserted that the creation of a gun capable of shooting more miles was deemed impossib! scounted the German claim rt to distract attention from ital was being shelled. they aid, pedoes guided by wireless. There were four ways in which Pari might be shelled, ac nt issued by Alan R. Hawley, p nt of the club, and Henry Woo a member of the board of go’ Such means, naval and iglitary aeronautics. t, by new gigantic long Inidideh in torests or » miles of Par Seto} by large aerial tor 0e3, eduippet with. wings which might be; unehed oh Paris from almost any | ibly guided by wire- less. control: “Third, “Vy aerial torpedoes drop- small airplanes flying at a seight of 25,060 feet. Such airplanes} ‘ould be unseen at that height. “Fourth, by aerial torpedoes espec- built to.be shot from the huge | n equipped with four motors s being under construction lin “recent dispatches from Europe.” BRITISH PEOPLE SHOW ANXIETY March —-The perienced no other per- y comparable with ‘la: ince the days of the re- London, | people have jod of anx! week end German oppression offends your con-| treat from Mons, in August 1914, when! and to expand.” the fate of the small British army was | undecided. There was perfect spring weather) today and all the streets and parks! were crowded, but solemnity and grav- prevailed everywhere, which even| Men | ere! |reading the newspaners, and special ae British People had not expected | Foreign Minister Pic- a means by which the French cap-} might include aerial tor-/ ud anthors of text books on! ‘They ; + ‘that has “characterized its present and British | officer of the American forces and} If we were Von Hindenburg (which you couldn't hire us to be), we'd be mighty careful about conducting a rumpus, atter | a nopinion regarding the tactic phases; three allied commanders-in-chief on the western front, General Haig, British; General Petain, I'rench and General Pershing, U.S. A. ny marked retirement by the British; Red Cross women on their appearance ny, although they had been warned | and told the-director that their work would be a natural develop-| was “inspiring.” General Pershing, great battle. Hence, the bul-! who accompanied’ Secreary Baker, al: j 1 general depression. To-! so congraulated the Red Cross on its t became known that the splendid work. the British G cod to he ing the magnitnde of the; the repor' SECRETARY “BAKER SPENDS A QUIET! SUNDAY IN LON DON London, March 25 Yar Baker spent a qui the residence of Ambassador’ working with his secretafies and afternoon receiving American ar british newspapermen. He dined the Page home where a numb mostly military me riained h him. On Monday morning t secreta will be received at Buckinghain pal :@ and on Monday night he will dine; at the Page residence with Premier | loyd George, Foreign Secretary Bal- four, the Earl of Derby, the war se retary, and a number of Gritish otft-| cers. He also on Monday will have} conferences with he Earl of Derby} and other British military authori- ties. * NIGHT 7:30 & 9:00 MATINEE 4:15 P.M. IMPRESSED WITH WORK. Paris, Thursday, March 21.—lollow-! ing his inspection tour of Americun | Fed Cross activities {n France, in-, cluding hospitals, rest stations, can-| jteens and stores, Secretary of War ifaker, said that he was particularly! impressed with the work being done luy the Red Cross at a big aviation |camp where he visited he officers’ ness and rest rooms watching the Red |Cross women serye the cadets and isoldiers with coffee, chocolate and sandwiches, “When one is in the zone of the| armies or in the supply areas words | of appreciation or praise for the Amer- ‘can Red Cross seems superfluous,” Secretary Baker sald.’ \‘‘The foresight 0 4 |prospective operations has been a/ source of pride to the commanding | in midocean. ers of Europe. hould be a source of comfort to the | ‘people of the. United. States who J; knew enabled ft to tarry on its work Secretary Laker cocmplimented the | SAMMY’S AN UP- STANDING SORT OF A Wied iifalid Los OF PP! coi Lanier Hat ONIGHT Bismarck Home Guards Present THE GREATEST AUTHENTIC EUROPEAN WAR PICTURES EVER were PICTURES. SHOW ee The Battle of the Ancre. _A glimpse i Stirring ‘scenes on thrown from aeroplanes. You will sce the Kaiser, Joffre, Haig, Russians, Germans, Australians, Send Shots Into From 76- rench Ordnance Officers at Loss to Explain Mechanism of New Mile Range | “Super” Munition of War-—HKombs May Have Propellers Attached—Costs $4,000 to Fire Each Charge. March § 25.-- The German annon” which has been ‘bombarding Pa s been located in the forest of St, Gobain, west of Laon 2 kilometres (hpprox trom the Paris cits Ba Paris, ter mately hall. Loud Explosions The gun bombarded Paris during | ‘the greater part of Sunday. -The day was ushered in by loud explosions from: the ten inch shells, and immed- iately the alarm to take cover was sounded. jo’clock and many persons sought shel- Iter, but greater numbers of them ap- \peared in the streets on their way to {the churches, which were almost as yell filled as usual. The women who ell palm leaves on palm Sundays did | their usual thriving business. | At first the shells began arriving at | lintervals of twenty minutes, and the jdetonations, considering the Sunday calm, seemed louder than those. of Saturday. Their’ power to disturb the | equanimity of the’ populace, however, |seemed ‘less, the people refusing to be distracted from their Sunday habits {to any great extent. | For the benefit of that portion of the I i populace which had been led to be- lieve the Germans had broken through jthe line and were bombarding Paris note was issued during the day. | pessimistic reports. Front Intact “The Freach front is Intact,” sald, the pote, “Any asvertion to | the contrary Is a Ile. The bombardment of the capital ended around one o'clock and as ‘late :as three o’clock no explosions had been jheard for more than an hour. The j“clear signal” was sounded at 3:30 jo’clock. | Although during the earlier hours }of the bombardment the shells ar- rived on twenty minute intervals, later in the day they began arriving every fifteen minutes on the average and some of them even fell 12 minutes apart. In military circles the belief was expressed that the Germans were us- ving two long distance guns. The |Matin says the position of one of the {guns was established in the St. Go- Ibain forest, which would placc it }somewhat further south than had believed in the wooded area. j been looking at this fightin’ stonewail tzio. You know of course, but since it’s an office rule to put names under all pictures, they are: the |This position would be about 70 miles from Pu To Beat Drums i The government has decided that in jthe future the bombardment of Paris by long distance guns shall not inter- ‘rupt-the normal life of the capital, but that the population shall be warn- led of a bombardment by distinctive nicans, differing from the usual warn- ings sent out in cases of air raids. Drums will be ‘be ten and the police will sound whistl admiration for the mechan feat of the Germans in constructing their new weapon, but speak passionately of the useless barbarity of the bam- bardment. The Matin says it is cov- soling to note thatthe number of vic- AUDITORIUM YOU WILL SEE land and sea. attleships blow. up A desperate tween airships. ACTUAL SCENES OF THE WORLD’S WAR R TAKEN ‘WHILE IN ACTION CHILDREN'S S$ MATINEE-24:4 i rasry | tile. jfrom nearby positions, a semi-official | This | warned the people against belleving ! The newspapers do not conceal their | tims is small, but it asks for repris- als on German cities. Prof. Paul Painleve. former prem- ip and president of the Academy of neces, told the Wxcelsior that by using tungsten in the fabrication of the projectile, the tungsten shells would be of about half the diameter tof stecl shells of an even weight, and ‘that therefore the atmospheric resis- jtance would be this accounting nge. He also for the extremely long | touched upon the possibility of a pro- ! pellor being employed on the projec- Austrian Manufacture The newspaper Le Journal in its ar- ticle regarding, the guns, says it is of 240 millimetres calibre agd of Austrian manufacture. It is a very delicate piece of machinery, which must be |handled by expert mathematicians and gunners, the newspaper adds, as the loading and pointing is a difficult task. It declares each shot costs about $4,000. “This is a new conception of our enemies,” the newspaper |‘ com- ments. The. ordance experts were not ready last night to commit themselves as to whether ‘the shell was a sort: of aerial torpedo driven by propellors, whether an inner projectile contained in the qriginal ghell has traveled a jeertain distance from the gun, or whether thé original projectile itaelt reacheg its destination, propelled per- haps by an explosive of a force hith- erto unknown. in Saturday’s bombardment twen- 7:25 a. m. to 3 o'clock p. m. a shell dropping every twenty minutes with monotonous regularity. The bombard- ment pregented ‘all the characteristic: of a bombardment by heavy artillery, there. being regular intervals between the shots and the shells falling within @ restricted area. Enemy aviators who flew over the city during the early hours of the bombardment regulated the’ firing. A Prominent American chemist, whose name ig withheld for military reasons, inja statement to the Assoc- iated Press today concerning the long range gun that is being used to bom- bard Paris, advanced the theory that the barrel of the gun is surrounded by a magnetic field which keeps the shell virtually free from the’ sides of the gun when it is being fired, thereby liminating friction, which is the great- j est cause of lost motion, and is great- ly increasing the muzzle velocity of gun. The chemist pointed out that apparently the same propulsive power was being used as in other high vel- ocity guns, but in much greater quan- tity. tHe added that the shell of the new guns travels to a great height and largely through atmosphere much thinner than that traversed by the or- dinary shell, and therefore with less stance. The opinion was giv- en that the shell probably is made of jhighly tempered tungsten steel and jthat the deterioration of the barrel of the gun is not likely to be as rapid as in the ordinary high velocity gun because of the climination of the fric- tion, It was stated that heavy charges jot explo: s would tend to decrease the accu of the ‘gun. PRICES Night—25c Matinee— 10c And MATINEE TODAY 4:15 P. M. ’s Reign Terror into submarine warfare. A freighter sunk All the noted rul- and vanish. Bombs fight be- ty-four shots in all wero fired from © as “ mr the siege of ‘Verdun, Canadians, English, French, Turks, Italians, Bulgarians and Americans, -NDMISSION—1 06: