The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1918, Page 8

ALLIES WITHDRAW FROM SECTOR | NBAR AMIENS, LEAVING GERMANS NUD AND DEVESTATION, IN RAIN ‘Huns Have Brought Up Heavy Artillery and New Divisions in Attempts to Capture Amiens; Allies Mined All Roads and Bridges IGHTING HEAVIEST NEAR HAMEL IN a F 4 TRIANGLE OF LUCE AND AVRE RIVERS After several days of comparatve inactivity along the battle i front in Picardy, bitter fighting has been resumed along the west- € ern section of the salient in the lines of the entente allies. Attacks © by the Germans against the British and French are admitted to! jg have yielded some gains to the invaders in the critical sectors east | of Amiens. | 4) > The fighting, according to latest reports, has been heaviest! in the neighborhood of Hamel, where the British were forced back slightly, and in the triangle formed by the rivers Luce and Avre,' y further to the south, where the French were forced to give ground. $ ‘Nothing is known as to the details of the battles in these see- € tors, but the fact that the Germans have been in a degree success- 4 ful would seem to indicate that they have succeeded in bringing up: | some of their heavier cannon and new div 4 tinue their attempts to capture Amiens. Reports from the French and British fronts have mentioned heavy rains, whice would mean that the Germans have been work- sions with which to con- 3 ‘'WUXTRY! WUXTRY! ‘sky have been started ing under a severé handicap in bring- | ing up guns, ammunition and supplies} y to the front. The battle field over which the allies have retreated was} many of the burned buildings were, old, the contents were valuable. Some : 2 ion, the; Persons thought that the minimum 4 eee Pre raetiparsHan oy loss would be $2,500,000, possibly as| B the retreating forces. The lull in the | Blgh ee sh 000. eran dis battle for the last few.days, probably | Buildings facing the fire swept dis-| was caused by the inability of the | trict to the north and south were dam- Peutons. to move their heav supply | #8ed to some extent both by fire and | ® trains over these roads, together with; Water, play ed upon them to prevent} i the necessity of reorganizing the shat. the spread of the flames, a tered divisions Which bore the brunt: BEA QT’ =a j 4 of the-fighting after they had passed, Py the first field of fire. ‘ P British Still on Defensive. The Britis! nce retaking AyettP. | SPIRIT NEEDED @ south of Arras, have not resumed | Federal Judge Speaks in Fargo their offensive operations, so far gi reported by London, but the Germ: at Liberty Loan Patriotic Meeting 1S official statement says that four : } tacks by the entente forces againgt the heights southwest of Moreuil were j repulsed with heavy losses. There are no reports of fighting except out- '@ post encounters along the French} lines on the Oise river. | There have been heavy artillevy t boitibardments of British positions on 4 the Menin road and at Passchendaele, & east and ‘northeast of Ypres, accord- 44 ing to London. t, however, there AMERICANS NOT QUITTERS is nothing to foreshadow a German at- MW tack there. Confronting them are well fortified lines and high ground held by the British and it is improbable that a serious attempt to break! through will be made, French Raids Successful On the French front before Rheims k Fargo, N. D., April 5.—Men, money and spirit, the latter being the most important of the three, will win the! war, Federal Judge Martin Wade of; Des Moines, Ia., declared here tonight | jbefore a large audience attending a t ; r |patriotic meeting held under the and Verdun raiding operations have | auspices of the Cass county Liberty been caried.out by the French, Which | joan committee. have been successtul. The French; ‘The man who way down report ‘very heavy artillery engage-\ heart hopes that the Kaiser will win| ments north of Montdidier, a sector! the war, Judge Wade rted has no/| Bewhich hase witnessed savage fighting! place on American soil. These men! f) and where the Germans have been | working for the Kaiser, in this coun-' fee foiled in their efforts to advance to-/try are devoting their efforts to kill! ig Ward the Paris-Amiens railroad. ‘the spirit of the people in this country | ‘ Nothing has been reported from the! ag jt is the spirit that is the most im-' + Italian front and it is not likely that! portant of all if the war is to be won. | an attacks has been launched there ‘The America npeople are not quit:| by the Austrians, who have gathered |ters” Judge Wade declared, “and will | an enromous army for a possible drive | neyer compromise for they are right | gouthward into the plains ofn north-! and if we are right in the war no pow-| bi ern Italy. ler on earth can compel us to trade! Armenians Recover Erzerum | this right for wrong.” i Driven to take measures for their/ “Win the War.” #. defense the Armenians have organiz; “Any man which tries to take one f° @d'an army and have recaptured Er7- foot off of the American soil” he con-; . erum from the Turks, as well as other | tinued “ will do so only over the dead i | points in the neighborhood of that bodies of every American man, wom-! city. jan and child. There is only one thing The landing of German troops in{in the eharts of the American people) b> Finland is apparently going forward jat this time and that is to win the: fi, reports stating that 40,000 men have war.” arrived at Hango, a fortified port on; Judge Wade asserted that while he; the extreme western tip of the Fin-|was a firm believer in reform move-| ‘nish peninsula. ments this was not the time for ad-} ‘There has so far been no official, Vocating reforms on economic ques-' « reply to the “peace kite” sent up py tions as this could be taken care of Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian | after the war was over. | & foreign minister. Newspaper com-' “Put your trouble saside until we i; ment,: which may be considered asi Win the war,” he said, “for if we don’t jehowing the trend of opinion in en-| Win this war there will be no need} tente alied chancelleries, is unanimous , for economic reforms.” in his a | abandonment of its plans without fur- in rejecting the idea of peace under! the conditions and it is probably that. they foresee the replies which will be enunciated by government spokes- fs men in allied countries, i FIRE SWEEPS _ KANSAS CITY padss f= Wholesale District Burns; One be Hy, One fireman was believed to have! sergeant-major of cavalry, attached to { of a large building in i ing owned by Fireman Believed Dead; Others Injured Kansas City, Mo., April 4.—Fire, be- B lieved to have started in an old build- Where he was a lieutenant in the med-) Aeronautical the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Co., last night spread west- e ward and south, over the greater part of an area two blocks wide and ‘ear- ly five blocks long, bounded by ninth and eleventh streets and from Santa 4Fe‘Avenue to Liberty Ave. Firemen had been unable to bring the blaze M under control at an early hour last night, Most of the buildings were old,| some rooming houses and some used f as warehouses. Deen burned and three others were in- ured, one seriously, when the wall the burning ‘area fell. The three injured men were taken to a hospital. ‘The fire was believed to be under ‘control at 9:30 o'clock. 4 ‘Bhelarge new building of the Rid- enour-Baker Co., was badly damaged a jp. m. it was thought it had een Raved from complete destruc- (eit-is the largest building in the ‘threatened area. Other. buildings totally ddstroyed ) at that time were used by the Wil- iams. Plow Co., American Wire Co., wit ., Abernathy Fur- iar Co, Ware Paint Co, and the Warehouse Co. a strict affected {x largely a @ warehouse section of the loss considered th: ALLEGED “DOC QUACKS” DENY DOPE CHARGES Minneapolis, Minn,, April 5.—Six lo-| cal physicians, indicted by the Hen-! nepin county grand jury on charges, of selling narcotic drugs in violation | of the Harrison law, pleaded not guil-| ty when arraigned in district court’! late today. All were released on bail | and given until Saturday to enter de-| murrers to the indictments or to change their pleas. The indicted men | Doctors Benjamin Shallet, C. D. Whipple, H, W. Darby, Van H. Wilcox, | R..§. Brown and Daniel Gordon. | Dr. Shallett was arrested late today upon his arrival from Fort Riley,! ical reserve corps. | Investigations which led to the re- turning of indictments against the | physicians began when it was Jearned that drugs are being sold to draft! men to disqualify them for military | service. | SON OF BELGIAN MINISTER | OF STATE KILLED AT AMIENS| | | New York, Y., April 5.—-An-} | nouncement that Etienne De Sadeleer, | | the Belgian interpreter’s corps, was | killed at Amiens, France, March 25,} during the bombardment of the city! by German aviators, was made here today by the young officer's father the | Hon. L. De Sadeleer, minister of state | for Belgium, and a member of the special ‘Belgian mission to the United States. : BARGERS REFUSE CONFERENCE Norfolk, Va., April 5.—Masters and strike for higher wages today refused to confer with representatives of the companies pending a report from ithe character of mates of coastwise barges wno are on! api ype | IT’S KUEHLMAN’S TURN TO SCREECH Amsterdam, April 4.—At the import- | ant conference held today at German headquarters between the emperor, field. marshal on HindenburVg, Gen- | eral Von Ludendortt, and Dr. Richard | F. Von Kuehlmann, the German for- | eign minister. Count Czernin’s speech | was dis d among other matters. | stood that Von Kuehlmann an important speech at st opportunity. Count Czernin is expected at Berlin is memorandum fixing the blame of the war on Germany. AUSTRIAN BLOW AGAINST ITALY BELIEVED NEAR Favorable Opportunity Now Only Need, Military Critics Say TO ATTACK MOUNTAIN LINE cations that the Au only for tavorable weather to launch another attack upon the Italian front) were reported today in an official dis- batch from Rome. “Some military critics” says the} dispatch, “are of the opinion that Austria intends to await the results} of the offensive in France before un-/ dertaking to deliver the blow against | Italy, but great preparations are car- ried on by the Austrians without in terruption, and all the forces form- erly operating in Rumania under Mac- kensen have now been placed at our! front aviators repost that the} Aus re transferring large bod- ies of men from the Piave line to the; mountain zones. Evidently the Aus-; ‘ian | Postmaster General | power to order this déne without pro- BILL MEETS terstate Commerce, Com- mission Washington, D. C, April 5.—Oppon the president to reorganize the gov- today inthe senate. ing the legislation jurging ments specifically limiting the pro- posed powers, Senator Reed of Mis- sourl, democrat, declared: the presi- dent, under the pending’ draft, could “wipe out and destroy” the interstate commerce commission; transter func: tions of the federal 'trade commission to Chairman Geo, Creel to the pudfic information, and give those of the fed- eral reserve board to comptroller of currency or any banker or’private in- dividual. . When Senators Fletcher, of Florida, and Wolcott, of Delaware, democrats, declared their confidence that the president would not make such use of the bill, Senator Reed argued that they should not object, therefore to special exceptions. ‘The effort to force amendments will be continued tomorrow by Sena- tor Smith of Georgia, While Senator Peed was speaking, Burleson, who: took the Overman bill to the capitol the day it was introduced, appeared in the president’s room just outside the senate chamber, and conferred with a number of supporters of the measure. Refering to Mr. Burleson’s visit, the Missouri senator declared he would not ‘object. to’ replying to cabinet members’ ‘arguments if they Were made on the floor of ‘the senate rather than in whispered conversa- tions in the cloakroom.” Senator Borah. of Idaho, senublican. said in that particular “instance that there was much doubt: over the ques tion whether’ the president had the per iegislation, and he believed that in matters of doubt it was better for OPPOSITION President. Could “Wipe Out” In- ents of the Overman bill to authorize ernment departments and agencies for the wra period opened their attack In an address of two hours, oppos- amend- 7 ITALIAN KING APPRECIATIVE _ OF RED CROSS Rome, April 5.—King Victor Em-| manuel, in receiving H. P. Davison, chairman of the American Red Cross war council today, expressed deep ap- yreciation and admiration for “the manner in which the American Ked Cross has shown to Italy the support ppd sympathy of the American peo- ole.” The king said that not only had this in itself been of great value, but the way in which the assistance had been rendered made it doubly valu- ale, The whole Italian people had been impressed, he declared. CZERNIN WORDS CONTRADICTION OF HUN ACTION Italians Consider Speech Mere Hun Pro-Peace Propa- ganda WORDS, DEEDS OPPOSITE) Washington, D. C., April j—Italy, | like the other allies, regards the rec- | ent ‘speech of Count Czernin, the Aus-| tro-Hungarian foreign minister, as merely another phase of the Teuton- ic peace offensive. An official dispatch from Rome today says “Italian political circles © consider the speech of Count Czernin.as the tleverest manifestation of the Austro- |German propaganda. . In spite, the apparently graceful tone of the Czernin polemic with President Wilson in order to as- finds that the Austrian premier's ac ceptance of the four fundamental prin- ciples of President Wilson econd age is flatly contradicted by the | ions of Austria. In tremendous concentration of | being made against Italy and | the executive and legislative depart- trian command has realized the im-j) possibility of breaking through the} Italian resistance along the Piave and | regards the mountain line more suit-| ed for the invasion of Italy, New Fortifications. ‘Lately.the Austrians have und taken the construction of new for i fications along the Livenza and the| Tagliamento rivers, adopting a ne system consisting of points of sup-| port with several bridgeheads employ: | ing in this work Italian prisoners and the civilian population of the invaded | Italian provinces. Renewal of the German a against the British and French lines in Picardy today indicated to milita observers here that the Germans, | having gathered strength during the! lull of the past few days, might nowj be ready to launch their greatest ef- fort, Seme officers think the allied| commanders real that only the first phase of the gigantic battle has pas- sed, and that this probably accounts for the fact that no extensive counter movement has been undertaken. Huns Hope Doggedly. It is pointed out that the previous record of the German high command argues against any possibility that it would be content with the minor strategic advantages already gained hw their costly enterprise, or with the tner attempts to force apart the French and British armies. The bat- tle ot Verdun continued for months their object was unattainable. Prepar- ations for the present drive were so much greater and the object sought of so much importance that officers here are confident the German gen- eral staff knew it was entering on a long, bitter struggle when the as- sault was planned, Under the new publicity policy, the war department had nothing to add to reports from abroad as to the sit- uation at the front. If General Bliss and Pershing sent in any advices, they were not made public and casu- alty lsts from France again were withheld. Major General March, act- ing chief of staff, said he had cabled Secretary Baker for specific instruc tions in this regard. AIRMEN’S PROBE REPORT PUBLIC Society Committee Says State- ments of Officials are Untrustworthy Y., April 5.—The spec-! ial investigating committee of the society of America, which has for several months past een studying the aircraft situation; with a view to learning the exact) cause for the alleged delays in the| manufacture and shipping of air- planes to the seat of war made its! official report to the society at a pub-| lic meeting here tonight. Charges that virtually all state- ents issued by government officials ith respect to the execution of the aircraft program had been found to be untrustworthy and should be dis- regarded and that the very virous censorship over all mattgrs connected with it had been of no military value, were'contained in the report of the; committee, which also ‘expressed the conviction that the only purpose of the rigor of the censorship was to preclude the country from finding out the official state- New York, N. mi ments, CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS NECESSARY, HAYS ASSERTS. Denver, Colo, April 4.—Although unity at home is essential to the win- WILSON SIGNS; ments to act together. j LIBERTY LOAN BILL ENACTED Foundation Laid With 41 Percent Provision Carried’ Washington, D. C.,. April legislative: toundation for t Liberty loan was laid tonight when ss. completed. and: President ned the bill authorizing is- suance of additional bonds at 4% per cent. _ Earlier in the day the treasury an- nounced that the bonds would mature in ten years; that the loan campaign opening Saturday, would continue for four weeks, until May 4)! nd — that after the initial payment of five per- cent on subscriptions, installments of 20, 35 and 40 percent would be due August 15. The amount is $3,000,000,- 000 and over subscriptions, and the only remaining details to be determin- ed by the treasury are arrangements for conversion of bonds of the first and cond loans into third liberty bonds. Start Printing Bonds Within an honr after President Wilson signed the bond bill, the first completed bond of the third’ liberty loan came from the press of the bur- eau of engraving and printing. It was a $50 “baby bond’ and was laid aside by ameJs L. Wilmeth, director of the bureau, for special disposition later. Forty thousand more: bonds will be! ready in the morning, 100,000 by Sat-! urday and thereafter they will be respectively, on May 28, July 18 andj Count Czernin declared in his speech, | that the French and Italian aspira: tions are ‘foolish Utopis Occupy Russian Territory. “The Austro-German ministers, af- ter theoretically admitting some of | the Maximalist points at Brest-Litovsk | have immediately occupied a large | Sect ion of Russian territory, thus | showing once more that there is nev- er a_ correspondence between words | and deeds on the part of Germany an4j| | Austria, The Austrian press ‘at the ‘same time discusses the colonial prob- ; lem in'a way as to put Austria in the ‘same line with Germany in regard to \ the imperialistic aims of the central | | powers. | “The Italian press finds that the al-| ! leged respect for the integrity of other nations on the part.of Austria can- net be reconciled with the repeated assertion that Italian provinces must \ assured to the central empires by a ‘further rectification of ' frontier. the immigration to the Adriatic shores \ |there. The irreducible contradiction is thus emphasized.” HOARDED WHEAT TOBE SEIZED ‘IMinois State Food Administra- | tion Plans Drastic Action en i i ie Chicago, I, April, 4.—Prejarations ! were started today by the Illinois state food administration to seize im- mediately wheat being held by tarm-| FIRST YEAR OF © be occupied and kept. At Kratz a Ger-| p; man commission has passed a resolu-| tg | tion to the effect that Triest must be) war, the Italian] joans Me The same motion advocates fonts to allies; ‘over one ‘third has | 5 establishments; ot Germanic populations to replace] py the Italian and Slavic elements living ing. | between words and actions or projects} has heen raised by taxation and other 0) bi e ures. may seem to a country whose a mates made by officials less than a year ago. Slow progress of the ship- E . KEEPING SOLDIERS STRONG Gocd Way Baking 4100 Fillmore St. WAR COSTS U.S: NINE BILLION More Than Half Made ;Up.in| Loans to ‘Allies; Army Gets | One-Tenth : Washington, D. 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Chicago, Illinois building program and the retarding/oft the outpouring of war supplies .ase regarded by officials as>.the chief reasons why expenses did not eqnal estimates, * ‘ Money, Spent Here Government expenses. now ‘as fup- ning, a billion dollars a.month, wkh somewhat: less than half voing to the allies, who spend. the’ greater, «pert. ot their.loans for war «supplies in 'fhis country, BOR a ae Since.the declaration of war, April 6,°1917, the government's “actual éy; penditures -have been more’ than’ $9; 800,000,000, but,"about $800;000,000'"o% this ‘sum .would haye been spent fer normal, activities’ even if. the’ ['nited States had not entered the war: |. Financial experts calculate that the war has cost. in dollars .evén :more than the formal treasury figures: show, on account of increased expenditures of many state and local ‘governments under. war -conditions. They.,.do not venture to estiniate the aggregate of these.expenses, howéver. On. the other hand the war has resulted: in innumerable economies, public... prt vate and. personal, enforced partly'jby rising. costs and partly by. organized economy movements. a WASHINGTON MEN REMAIN. HEADS OF THE ADVENTISTS. ‘San. Francisco, Calif, April 5A. G. Daniels, W. A.’ Spicer, and W. T. Knox, all Washington, D. C,, were) re- elected today respectively president. secretary: and treasurer of general conference of Seventh Day Adventists, now. in. session here, Early in the world-war cod liver oil was selected turned out at’ the rate of 500,000 alers presumably for higher prices, fol- day. Reports to the treasury today told of busy liberty loan workers in‘cities and villdges al over the country pre- paring for enthusfastic celebrations Saturday ‘for the-opening of the loan campaign and the:anniversary of the entry of the United States‘into the war. ’ Provision Held Over. 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