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

GERMAN ONRUS WITH VICTORY NO NEARER AND RESO Large Gains of Territory Scored Scored by Enemy Really | Have Not Definitely Advanced Cause of Central Powers on West Front DETERMINED ASSAULTS REPULSED Defeat Paves Way for Allied|* Counter Which Breaks Up Teuton Attack (By Associated Press) Germany's great drive into the al- lied lines in northern France seems Virtually: at a standstill today. Her Breat onrush appears to have been stemmed, with large gains of terri- tory scored, but with final victory no nearer in sight and her resources in « Men and material depleted. French and British troops beat back the enemy last night in his desperate efforts to advance toward Amiens. and to push out from the Montdidier salient. Slight progress in the drive for Amiens along the Luce and Avre valleys is the only forward move- ment reported anywhere along . the Mine, despite the most incessant Teu- tonic attacks and the enemy was pushed back at one point at least. Allied Victory. The most determined assaults were in ‘the neighborhood of Hangard-én- Santerre, where~ the ~Franco-British | troops met the assaulting waves... A British counter attack paved the way for an allied. victory after the com-! bined forces ‘had broken up’ the Ger-| man attack. The French gallantly followed. up the advantage and the village was recaptured. : ,The setback for the’ Germans here was almost pronounced ‘as /they: were catablished west of Hangtard-en- -San- * térre and were endeayoring to de- beuch from” thig position within a scant 10 ‘miles from the Gutskirts of |, Frene! ciniah A iat ‘They haye, now Deel 5 a back well beyond ‘that limit. Further south in the Montdjdier region the. enemy. made a- detofmined put, futile attack to éapture, Grivesnes. The «French onnished ‘their German assailants y na obtajned possession of the To/the potth ‘of the Somme. the Britfsh: held their lines intact. The Germans made two attacks in the eastern outskirts of Albert, but each |’ time with repulses. i London dispatches reflect the ‘exe cution there of renewal of the power- ful assaults all along the battle ‘line + where the Germans have further con- eolidated their positions and brofight up their artillery. MYSTERY STILL SHROUDS DEATH OF BANK CLERK No. Clues to Nature of End| Which Came to Cashier Henry Biersdorf H STEMMED URCES DEPLETED. ST. PAUL MAN if RESCUED FROM | CHINK BANDITS Pekin, China, April 1.— | | E.. J. Purcell, one of the | Américan engineers cap- tured by bandits in northern | Honan early last month, and | | held for ransom, has been | rescued by soldiers who in- | tercepted the band as they | were attempting to retreat further into the mountains. Mr. Purcell’s home was for- merly in St. Paul, Minn. | The: bandits succeeded in | | carrying off their other cap- | tive, "George Albert Kyle, of | | Portland, Ore., who, how- ' | i | 1 i | | | i i | shall exacuate immediately the strate- -| will be permitted to remain in Bessar- _ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, ROUMANIA AND RUSSIA AGREE TONEW TREATY Roumanian Troops to Be With- drawn From Mouth of the Danube River | |MAY STILL GUARD ROADS| | way With Militia—Grain to Be Provided Moscow, April 1.—The ‘treaty be- tween Roumania and Russia has been completed. It provides Roumania gical terrain near the mouth of the Danube and shall withdraw from Bess- arabia within two months. After the expuiration of two months, however, a Roumanian detachment of 10,000 men abia to guard railway stations. The policeing of Bessara>ia will be at- tended by royal militia. The Roumanians arrested in Rus-; sia will be exchanged for Russian rev- olutionary soldiers arrested in Rou- ‘mania. An undertaking is made by Roumania not to take offensive ac- tion against the Russian republican federation, and also to assist the fed- eration if such action is begun by oth- er powers. Russia pledges to Kou-' ever, is reported in good | health and being fairly well 4 | treated. HAWLEY FOLK . TAKE ANOTHER RAP AT BILL iDestroy German ae in Minnesota Schools . Caution Pate © Hayley,, Minn.,. April 1.—Uitizens ot. wawley, who sometime entered the | ‘home of a resident. here, took! the pic-| ture of’ the kaiser from the walls and | burnt it; went on thé warpath again to | make ‘Hawley 100’ per cent loyal by destroying all the* German textbooks | in the school house. The crowd, which numbered about. 40. visited. the potato’ warehouse of Herman Schulte. of . Leavenworth, ; Kan., which they decorated with yel- low paint. A large iron cross was painted o nthe house with a sign. “No more Dutch talk here,” along side it. After, going to a home of a resident, said. to be proGerman, and making him kiss the flag, the crowd dis- persed. WISCONSINS SENATORIAL FIGHT ENDS Badger Citizens Tomorrow Will Select Successor to Sena- tor Husting ALL CLAIMING VICTORY: April 1—Today Milwaukee, Wis., was the last of the brief but exciting | Special ‘senatorial campaigns in Wis- Mystery surrounds the finding of the dead body of Henry Biersdorf, as- sistant cashier of the (Merchants’ bank at Napoleon, ‘and the robbery of about $600 from. the teller's wiv dow, according to W. C. Macfadden, secretary of the ‘North Dakota State Bankers’ association, who returned ‘consin ‘to fill the yacancy made by! poleon on Friday evening. - |the death of Senator ‘Husting, and to-| The post mortem examination ‘re-; morrow the voters of ‘the state will! vealed no cause for the death of the go to the polls to elect his successor. | young man, who was about 25 years|The candidates are Congressman 1 old and unmarried. The coroner’s| vine L. Lenroot, republican, Joseph inquest brought a verdict of death | Davies, who was chairman of the F from a natural cause, there being NO ‘eral trade’ commissign, democrat, and| evidence of violence on the body: of Victor .L. Berger, socialist. the: officer. Indications “ are . that: Both Lenroot and Davies claim the! Biersdorf. walkéd into the directors’, election, ‘but neutral observers en room. of the-ibank and died suddenly. 'tangled in a mesh. of cross-currents ‘Approximately $600 was in full view and undertow confess themselves un- able to predict the results. The situa- tion reaches back in both parties to; of ‘customers of the bank on the téller’s desk and between $5,000 and $6,000 and‘a large number of Liberty an bonds were in the vault which ‘was open. As far as the investigation’ con- ducted by officers of the bank in con- nection with the state ‘bankers’ asso- ciation? circumstances seem to indi- cate that some stranger entered the bank shortly after the assistant cash- fer expired, walked into the room and seeing the officer dead, stepped up to the teller's window afd took the ymoney, leaving some silver and cur- rency. Biersdorf’s home is at New Ger- many, Minn., where his mother is liv- ing. His father died a number of years ago. The young bank offi- cer, according to Secretary ‘Mactad- den was in the draft age. BACK FROM DUNSEITH Chairman Board of Control In- spects Sanatorium Work James A. Brown, chairman of the state board of control, is home from ‘Dunseith, where he inspected::4m:+ provements, now being made ‘inseie state sanitorium for the treatmiiatof! tuberculosis, ° (edt) at — 4 old alignments, and. old fueds, and: , embraces the’ wet and,dry question! and other issued underground, as well! las the loyalty issue which has been; proclaimed by Davies and Lenroot: alike. EXAMINE I. W. W. |, EDITOR To LEARN ||. HP HEIS SICK MAN i Chicago, IIL, April 1.— | \ | | | 112 members of the I. W. W. charged with conspiracy to | disrupt the government’s war program, and the case against one defendant dis- missed, Federal Judge Lan- dis adjourned court today to permit physical examination of J. A. MacDonald, a Seat- | “tle editor, whose counsel said he was too ill to stand | te _ Work of Tat cee a After formal pleas of not || guilty had been entered by | ! ; dence property at the Forks | joint’ direction of the federal and mania the. surplus of grain in Bessar-! abia after the population and Rou- ‘maniap troops have been supplied. | |Roumania reserves the right to pur-| ' chase provisions necessary to feed the | i ‘Roumanian population in Russia, For! the benefit of Roumania, Russia will! ‘reestablish the: depots orgaitized by! ‘|the allies for feeding the Boyamanien | people. WILSONSTANDS PAT ON PEACE BASIS VIEWS ! ‘Reiterates Belief That Germany | Must ‘Be Crushed Before ‘End Can Be Gained New York, N. dent Wilson. kas Y., April 1.--Presi- not changed’ his | central powers, his reply to Pope, Benedict and his dec‘aration to con- gress on his declaration of war with Austria, according to a letter he has written to Lishop. Theodore S.. Hen-} derson of the eMthodist-Episcopal church, made public here today by the national war council of the cburch, Bishop eHnderson wrote the presi- dent in behalf of 20,000 American ‘Methodists, asking in particular: whether his present unwavering. pur: | pose was expressed - in the follow- |ing words from his messages. “The German power, a thing with-| out conscience, honor, or capacity for) covenanted peace, must be crushed. ; Our'present and immediate task is to | win‘the war and nothing shall turn | us aside until it is accomplished, ie FRAZIER GOES TO WASHINGTON | \Governor Frazier Will Invite) Wilson to State Conference Governor Lynn J. Frazier is now on his way to Washington to join with | Secretary Thomas Allen-Box of the ; North Dakota Council of Defense in a national conference of defense coun ‘cils called by Secretary Franklin K. Lane ‘at the direction of Presideat Wilson, : While in Washington, Gov- ernor Frazier and, Secretary Box will seek an audience with President. \Wil- son, to whom they will extend a per. sonal invitation to address the Nort! Dakota home guard encampment an loyalty conference to be held in Bis- marck next summer, when the great- est patriotic demonstration in the his: | tory of the northwest is planned. ENGLISH RESIGNS PLACE ON BOARD : Labor Member of ber of Council Ae! cepts Federal Appointment A vacancy ‘Yn the execiitive board | | fot the North Dakota Council of De-| fense has ‘been caused by the resig-; | nation of William S. English, the or-| ; ganized labor member from Grand Forks, who has disposed of his ee an moved to Fargo, where he will con-: duct a state labor agency under the state governments. No successor to as English has been named: as yet. ICKEY 18 QUITTING. Louisville, Ky. ‘April 1—‘“Mickey” LaLonge, former- catcher for the oe Louisvilte: Athericanassociation club, bee Longer teaye eee t vied 99118! Holt a 1 | | | * NEW YORK HAS ‘ANOTHER BECKER- ROSENTHAL CASE New York, April 1— | |; Seven hours before the dis- -; trict attorney’s office was to have been informed by Har- | | ry Cohen, also “known as | | “Harry the Yot,” the =m || of the “man higher up” | the prosecutor's anti-gamb- | | ling érusade, Cohen. ‘was shot and killed’ ‘at 6:30 o’clock this morning. District: Attorney Swahn | | immediately ordered’ the ap- prehension of Sam Scheppe, | who was one of the progecu- | | tion’s'star witnesses against Charles Becker, the police | lieutenant who.was.executed | | for the murder of Herman | | Rosenthal, the gambler, in ; 1902. ALLIES. BREAK UP ASSAULTING WAVES OF HUNS Huge Reserve Forces Thrown in by Germans at Montdidier, Make No Impression 109 GUNS ‘Teutons ‘Suffer Heavy Losses in} Tw6 Attacks. on Out-.. shirts of alk of Albert Paris, April 1. —The vattie continued ; with’ extreme violence last. night in the sector north of Montdidier, large) bodies of :troop# being thrown in by} war. office .an the. Germans, ‘the nounces,.‘The..-French...and Rritish | broke up: the assaulting waves: : ‘Further south,‘ the fighting was jess | violent, the Germans making incessant | attacks in an effort to. capture Grives. | nes. . The French retained possession | lof the town'and inflicted heavy loss | es on the Ger mans: ” 109 MARHINE @ GUNS .TAKEN London, “April ..1.—The ‘Germans ‘made two-attacks on the British«post- | “OUR TASK TO WIN WAR?” tions in ,tha,western outskirts of Al {bert last: opening and in both cases; ; were repulsed. the war office an- nounces. South of the. Somme, the enemy views with respect to peace with the/ persisted in his attempts to advance| along the Luce and, Avre valleys, but made little progress. The number of machine guns taken by the Evitish in their attack near Serre: on Saturday..was 109. STREET RAILWAY PUZZLES AGAIN State-Owned Utility Interferes With Fourth Street Paving Tho Capitol street railway came to bat again today, when the city com- mission was closeted: with the state ‘board of contro! in an effort to work| {out problems presented by the Pav: | ing of Fourth’ street, soon to begin. | ! Fourth street ‘is traversed for its en- ‘tire length by the Capitol street rail- : way. For more than a year the-state! 1 and city boards have been seeking to! i find some way ‘by which the space} | between the rails’ can “be paved toj conform with the’ remainder of the} street. The. state voard,.of contro! | exhausted its'funds when it relayed | the rails ak far as Rosser street, per-| ;mitting the city to pave in between| | with concrete, It has no more money and: is .positive that it can do noth- ing further unless it be to scare up! sufficient odd rails to make another | fairly, respectable ‘crossing connec i tion, > * * POPE BENEDICT DEEPLY’ MOVED BY: PARIS DEATHS | * Rome, April-1..— Pope |} | Benedict expressed deep | ‘ concern on reeciving re- | ceiving reports today of the | occurrence at the loss of life | in the Paris church which | was struck by a German | shell: The pope visited Car- | | dinal Gaspari, papal secre- | tary of state, who is con- | ' fined to his bed with a cold, | and discussed with ‘him the | attitude’ which the vatican | : should take, it being felt | | | that the situation has as- sumed a new aspect inas- much as shells from guns in- || stead of bombs from _air- fale used. to | planes, ar | bombard BOMBING: Ri RESUMED |. Paris, April.1. e bom- ; bardt of, Paris. by long: | “ARE, CAPT RED} MonDay, APRIL 1, 1918. GERMANY HAS STAKED ALL ON SPRING DRIVE | War Department Anticipates At- tacks in Other Sectors If This Fails AMERICANS WILL GO IN Troops With Sufficient Training to Bear Their Share of Offensive | | | Washington, D. C., April 1.—Ger- many has staked its fortunes on the spring campaign, says the war depart- ment's review of the military situation | {today, and the allies and the United | States must be prepared for fresh at- itacks at new points, if the Teutons fail to achieve victory in the present| DEFENDERS SHOW SUAL POWERS RECUPERATION After Holding Line Against Terrific Attacks for More Than Week, Allies Assume Offensive. and Drive > Teutons Before Them SITUATION WELL IN HAND SOUTH... OF SOMME—HARD FIGHTING THERE Germans Leave 3,000 Dead in One Attack—En- nghting. Despite the successes gained by ithe Germans, the review says, “the enemy / has ben unable to force a decision,”! and so long as the allies are able to| maneuver with consistent unity so) long will victory elude the enemy, * Americans to Go In. i The placing of American resources | unreservedly at the disposal of the Al-| \lies is noted and the statement an-/ nounced that “such of our troops as! have received sufficient training will) j assume a share of the burden so val-| |‘antly borne by the British and! | French armies.” | The review also mentions that American troops are taking their} places in other, parts of the lines, thus | | eelasing French veteran units for| 1 ESO ean As Sele service. LANGER SAYS “FARMBRSWILL ~ BROARED FOR | Attorney General Gregory's! - Opinion Straightens Up Farm Loan Matter sf | | NO OBSTACLE | 1 LIEN NOW “EVerything tas been fixed up; At-| torney Genefdl' Gregory has sustained | , this’ office in every particular of its; | opinion on the seed and teed bonding | act; North Dakota farmers who have | seed bond leins on their lands will) get their farm loans from the federal land bank,” announced Attorney Gen- eral William S. Langer on his return today from Washington. Attorney General Langer declares | emphatically that under United States General Gregory's ruling a seed and feed bond lein is absolutely no bar to a loan from the federal farm land bank. LAND BANK BRINGS SUIT, Fargo, ‘NX. I, April |.—The Federal Farm Loan bank of St. Paul has filed suit against Mountrail county, North Dakota, demanding that a prior lien against the property of Peter Nomb, obtained by virtue of the seed and feed grain law recently enacted by a special session of the North Dakota legislature be set aside, it is an- nounced heer today by counsel for the farm loan bank. The suit. it is declared, is in the nature of a test case, aimed at the priority lien clause which has barred the farm loan ‘bank from doing business in North Dako- ta. Argunments will be heard in the district court of Stanley, Mountrail { county, April 3, before Judge Frank} Fisk. MANY BISMARCK FOLK LOST TRACK OF TIME SUNDAY) ‘That, extra hour o: daylight proved a puzzler for many Bismarck people | Sunday, and ‘confusion still existed to-! day.. Practically all .of the capital) city churches operated on the old schedule Sunday. The Tribune knows} | of at least two fair young worshipers; who wert to early mass at St. Mary’: 8 | on the new schedule and sat for an} hour in a deserted church before the remainder of the congregation filed in| and the services began. Dinner engagements made for 6: o’clock new time were kept by num- erous guests at 6 o'clock old time, with! jfhe result that it was 7 o'clock be-' | fore the first course was served. Peo- ple found themselves just an hour late; for trains running on the new sched-| ule which patrons sought to make on! | watches which hadn't been moved an} hour ahead, Police Magistrate Bleckreid became a trifle confused Saturday night, and | j instead of turning his watch and his’ clocks an hour ahead he set them back | ‘an hour. As a result, he was two hours { behind the rest of the world Sunday morning, and “he has been scrambling ever since to catch up. ‘Many travel- ers missed ‘No, 4 this morning, be cause it went east at 9:04 old time. | i When prospective passengers showed |up. at what they »elieved to ibe 10, o'clock the¥* found | th pees: cat Rb, Abe. east of Bistnarc! tente Take Prisoners, Machine Guns and Trench Mortar — Deadly Battle AMERICANS MOVING IN (By Associated I Press) Over the roads to the battle field in motor trucks and on foot, 100,000 American soldiers are moving to j join the fight against the invader. Their destination in the fighting area has not been dis- closed. They are seasoned troo , into the fight. ps, anxious to get: ; British Army Headquarters i in Fraties: Mareh i \81—(By Associated Press)—The: last. twenty: ‘four hours continued unfavorable.to.the. aggres-. sive Germans along the British section of the néw \battle front, and was a strikingly good peri ‘for the defenders. This morning the British we: holding’ their entire ‘line’ with ‘strength ‘and they: - ‘had smashed numerous heavy German attacks at ipoints, and. had taken the initiative at several \points successfully. The most intense fighting continued south of the’ Somme; ‘in |the zone where the French have been making such a gallant stand. The outstanding feature of the conflict on the northern end of the ‘front is that the British again have killed a great number of the enemy. FORWARD MOVEMENT BEGINS : Today, the British initiated a forward movement about {Feuchy Copes, east of Arras. They launched a local attack at;3 o’clock this morning, and pressed it so vigorously that they re- claimed a stretch of territory 1,300 yards along and averaging about 200 yards in depth. This success had tactical advantages, but they were small compared with the fact that the British were able after the last ten days of gruelling work to undertake an offensive operation. : Situation Well in Hand. | South of the Somme, where |there has been so much: hard \fighting, the British appeared to ‘have the situation well in hand iand the town hall of Moreuila, ‘about which sanguinary strug- UNION CARPENTERS AT ” | NORFOLK WON’T WORK Norfolk, Va., April 1.— | A large percentage of the union carpenters employed 1 atk ers | on government construction | at army and navy bases here failed to go to work today. | Union leaders said no strike had been called, although the men have demanded an ' increase in wages from 58 | cents to 6214 cents per hour. | A strike of union carpen- ' ters employed on govern- ment construction work at the\ army and navy bases here called this morning, spread this afternoon to the yards at Portsmouth and ii the aviation field at Hamp- ton. Most of the carpenters | ! : re ae ment in the vicinity are out. - Other classes of skilled labor also began to walk out. At the Bush Bluff army base, 500 Ocarpenters and the en- tire force of electricians, plumbers, and sheet metal workers quit work. All car- penters working for contrac- tors at the Portsmouth navy yard went out. >. > KAISER BULLETIN, TO HELL WITH KAISER “These are kaiser Bulletins—To Hell with the kaiser,” Jack Charmley, former Mott publisher, inscribed in bold, editorial script on the ‘bulletin: board in a local hotel this morning; when a bulletin for which there has been found to be little or no author- ity was sent over from a local news agency reporting great victories for the kaiser. The hotel management had declined to post the bulletin. tain alleged news sources, employed by the govern- 1 Jack insisted that it should be posted | | and,.properlysitabeled,-in“order tat! : ed Pia might buhow! whit lies WE ‘ehis, Urdadbot Hews,SWhich has cen pen tifally: <distrabuted: sae: Sere, |gles have been swaying’ was at: ‘last reports still flying the Brit- ish flag. One of the most costly jattacks the enemy attempted l\vesterday was between Morlan- |court and the Somme, where 'a jheavy assault was made against |the Australians shortly after midday. The attackers ‘came |forward in masses, and the Brit- lish threw themselves against the \advancing lines so fiercely ‘that ithe Germans were hurled back, [leaving 3,000 dead. Brilliant Success - : The British operations at Las-. isigny farm, between Arras, and |Albert, yesterday afternoon; which resulted in straightening, was ‘a’ bril: iliant ‘success. The Germans were \pushed back with casualties anid | Bri itish troops returned with 200 ; |Prisoners, 40 machine guns, and |a trench mortar. South of Arras, ithe enemy made two attacks yes- iterday. One was near Hamelin- jcourt, astride the Arras-Ba- ‘paume railway, while the other was north of Boisleux St. Mare. ‘Both of these efforts were smashed, although particularly |hard fighting occurred around |Boisleux. - |" PRESIDENT WILSON WILL * MAKE LIBERTY DAY TALK | at ost \ 1 | Washington, D. C., April | President Wilson toda: | an invitation to open the. Loan campaign in Baltimote it | Saturday, the first anniversary, of ( America’s entrance into the, war. The occasion is | canton wand more. to stimulate | crepe awoan? baat, ‘gainc noo 2 Ne tise sil aide ant tot the:|