The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1918, Page 1

dy THE WEATHERS : Macecy tua Er eremea rape rests ery per semen eet, [BUN THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO.:99. HURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1918 AMERICA RUSSIA SUMS UP COST OF HUN PEACE Republic Deprived of One-Third Total Mileage of Railways and Vast Area MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LOST bs Seventy-three Percent of Iron, 89 Percent of Coal Taken by the Germans | | | ¢. fe Petrograd, April 10.—Un- , der the terms of the peace treaty, the commissioner of of commerce. announces, commerce announces, Rus- sia has lost 780,000 square kilometres of territory, with 66,000,000 inhabitants or.32 | per cent of the entire popu- | lation of ‘the country. 4 | One-Third. Railways Gone The announcément says Russia has. also sustained the following losses: One-third of her total mileage, of rail- ways, amounting to 21,30 kilometers (13,350 miles); °73 per‘ cent of the total iron production; 89 per cent of the total coal production; 268 sugar Tefineries, 918 textile factories; 574 breweries; 133 tobacco factories; 1,685 distilleries; 244 chemical facto- ries; 615 paper mills; 1,073 machine factories, The territories, which now become German formerly “brought: in, annual revenue amounting to $45,238 ‘rubles and had 1,800 savings banks. IMPORTS DROP FROM AVERAGE Custom House Figures Show De: crease. of- ‘More Than < { | ee, Néws York, Ni DI ports .of merchandise’at:the ‘port of New York:in February ‘last amounted to $94,303,959, at decrease Of °$3,550,- 869.as compared. with the correspon-i- ing month last: year, according to’ fig- ¢ 2 SENATE TURNS DOWN |. CONFERENCE REPORT Washington, April 11— The conference report on the | bill providing severe penal- ties for destruction of or in-* terference with production of essential war materials, containing the clause giving ; the workmen the right to | strike for better wages or | working conditions, was re- | jected today by the senate 34 to 25. INGLE BACKS BRINTON OUT OF HIS HALL Dawson Farmer Shows Fighting Spirit and Worsts Townley Store Promoter PEOPLE BACK UP NEIGHBOR Dawson, D,, April 1!—Of 300 people who packed the Dawson hall to hear J. W. Brinton tell his side of the Townley chain stores scheme, but 30 signed Brinton’s prepared resolu- tions condemning J. I. Ingle, well wel known Dawson farmer for his ex- pose of Townley’s famous Bismarck attack on the farmer members of the league who had asked an accounting for their money invested in the chain stores.. Less than 50 followed Brint- ‘on from. the hall when after an .un- auccessful effort to prevent Ingle from speaking, the ‘chain. stores promoter declared the meeting: adjourned and stamped from the hall in high dudg- eon. Brinton, however, did-not. escape before ‘Ingle had waved in his face the chain store, manager's,‘‘Beach re- ‘| card,” as recently printed in the. Minot Messenger,: with . the -question: “If this isn’t true. why don’t: you. make the Minot Messenger deny it; if ‘these are ‘lies, why..don’t you: put the, man who wrote them: in ‘jail’ for criminal Model.” y if : is i: Coats Jerked-Off.: were flourished when Brinton made lis high-handed attempt to deny Ingle ‘| ho stage: after, Ingle claims, Brinton had promised, both-at the recent meet- ing: in ‘Kenmare: and ‘again here: in Dawson, on the afternoon of the chain eéting, that the Dawson: farm: er would’be given a chance to talk. “The old man’s going. to talk!” “We ures made public: at-the custom house last night. Duties collected on direct importations and withdrawats from warehouses. were $8,077,779, or $2,+22;- 517 less than in February, 1917. - > Exports of merchandisq during the month amounted to $167.136,944 as against $222,360,121 in February last year." é Imports of foreign gold were $92,129 less than in February, 1917, while the amount of domestic gold sent out-of the country decreased $8,174,877. Im- portations of foreign silver increased by $356,116, and exports of domestic silver fell, off $3,087,799. GERMANS PUSH HEAD OF LINE FURTHER WEST Parties of Huns Reported at' Steenwerck—British Re- take Lestrem London,’ Eng., April 11—The Ger- mans pushed on yesterday from Croix. du-Bac southwest of Armentieres, and | parties of them are reported in the; neighborhood of Steenwerck (about five miles west of Armentieres),*Reu- ter’s correspondent at British head- quarters reports. Yesterday noon the | enemy occupied Lestrem, but in the} course of the afternoon the British drove him out and across ‘the river Lawe. . . 4 CAMP. TRAVIS GOING’: . | TO HAVE A CLEANING Fred Huber Came to Berthold "Country :as_ Soldier » and Couldn’t:Go Back San Antonio, Texas, April °11.—A laundry capable of doing the work of 30,000 officers and men has been es- tablished at Camp Travis. | The laundry was established by the government and is equipped with late modeled machinery. In addition to taking care of the work of the camp, it is prepared to receive out- side work. The business has been a success from fhe start and the net profit: already has run into. many thousands of ‘dollars, although it has been in operation only. four months. This, is said to be the largest laun- dry in this section of the country. FERRY OPERATING Good Ship Marion Opens Season on Missouri River want to hear Ingle!” “Bully for ‘the Uttle old mau,” were cries which came from all parts of the building, and ‘when Ingle shook his fist under Brint- on’s nose. atid took a place on the stage, the bulk of the big audience: cheered wildly. ‘Sheriff:Price and the Steele home guard: were. present to maintain order, and there was . no} further disturbance. Ingle reiterated all that be had told in recently pub- lished statements. of the ,Townley chain store scheme, ahd added some new facts, substantiated by affidavits, which were read by officers of the meeting. ‘Brinton did not remain to hear Ingle out, but 250 farmer neigh- bors did, and at the close of the meet- mg Ingle was surrounded by chain store members anxious to learn how they could get their $100 back. “Pll camp on your trail from now. until after. election, Brinton,” Farmer Ingle shouted after the retreating oack of the disgruntled chain store promoter. Mills, the socialist lectur- er whom the league is employing in North Dakota and Minnesota, spoke at the meeting here, but said nothing on the chain store subject. ~ INSTALMENT PAYMENT OF INCOME TAXES TO » RECEIVE INDORSEMENT Washington, D. C., April 11.—The treasury is considering endorsing leg- islation to authorize the instalment payment of income and -excess profit taxes due under the present law June 13, Internal .Commissioner Roper to- day told delegations of the national conferenve of state manufacturers’ as- sociations. ae : | WOULD SEND MORE BOYS Mother of Tom Hall Doesn’t Be- grudge Nation Her Sons, Walter Hall, the “baby” of Secre- tary. of State Thomas Hall’s paternal home-at Jamestown, left Camp Mer- ritt, IN. J., recently for service; in France. “Now that, the Americans are getting. in over there this war’ ign’t going to last long,” Secretary of State Hall’s ‘aged’ mother writes‘him from Jamestown. “Sorry to ‘see Walter Go? I wish I had a dozen boys to send,” said this typical American mother when a neighbor sought to sympathize with her. {GERMAN SQUADRON ARRIVES AT LOVISA }® London, Eng., April 11—A: Ger. ' Miah squadron with several trans- | The Red Trail ferry Marion opened the season on the Missouri river be- tween. Bismarck and Mandan’ this|| cording to a Reuter dispatch trom week. -The river is unusually: low, for this season of the ye@r, api. ‘been necessary for the, considerably ex: to doth sides of the river, ports “i8 reported to have arrived at Lovisa, midway between Hel- - singtorg and Viborg, Finland, ac- | Petrograd. THe squadron. came | _from the direction of Reval, and a A Rained ieee cer | PROVE FUTILE & :. Twelve coats; were, jerked, from|.' “| brawny. backs aud: hard-muscled. arms > ON BRITISHERS | Fighting Continuing This Morn- ing North of Armentieres With Line Holding | |HUNS HAVE PLOEGSTEERT | |Capture Village on Flanders Battlefront—Violent Fight- lies ing at La Bassee With the British Army in France and Belgium, April 11, (By Associat-| jed: Press.)—The fighting was continu-! ing this morning north of Armentieres with the British holding Messines iridge and Wytschaete, which changed ‘hands several times yesterday. | During the day the enemy succeed-! ed in entering not only these: posi-} tions, but l.a Creche, Nieppe and Hol- lebeke. Vigorous counter attacks forced: the enemy from all of these places. The Germans this morning were in possession of about haf the village! of Ploegsteert and Ploegsteert wood! on the Flanders battle front, just to/ the north of Armentieres, ‘ | WITHDRAW FROM ARMENTIERES | London, Eng., April 11—The British have withdrawn from Armentieres on | \the northern battle front, the war of- fice announces, : Violent fighting continues all along { the front from La Bassee canal to the!» Ypres-Lomines canal. On the front north of Armentieres { heavy fighting was, continuing last | night. There was little change in ‘the: | British position. r GERMAN ATTACK BROKEN UP Paris, April 11—A_ German attack in the Champagne last night was brok- en up by the French fire, On the prin-| | cipal battle front~ there was heavy fighting between Montiidier: ‘and Noyon.. . not “INWARDHELD ~~ FOR SEDITION Charged With Defaming His Country Ryder, ‘N. D., April 11.—Peter Ben- son, prominent farmer and member of the Nonpartisan league, was arrested at his home fear here yesterday charged-with seditious utterances by TNeputy United tates ‘Marshal G. H. Trotter. He appeared before Com- missioner H. C, Miller and: was bound over to the United States district court under bond of $1,000. His hear- ing was set for April’24 “ Trenson. ia recoghized as one of Ward county's league heavyweights. He was engaged last winter in organ- izing Townley stores and lately had been’ working for the league securing| names to petitions to amend the con stitution. © i | Js? i | Burglars Make Call While North-| : ~ern Pacific Night Station \ Agent Is at Lunch © | night ticket agent was at lunch early | Wednesday morning some one.tut a i gcreen at the rear of the Mandan N P, ‘passenger office and :took $57.64} | from the safe, which had been left; open, An envelope containing $127 was not touched, ‘When Frank Barth, ticket agent on -duty; returned after an absence of 20 minutes, he notified the city agent and.the special agent of the company. ; The robbery is being investigated. |. ON INSPECTION WORK Deputy Dairy «| Commissioner BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, T. NS D. "HUN ASSAULTS MANDAN TICKET. ° OFFICE RIFLED ‘| would easily accomodate 50,000 laten- Mandan, N. D., April 11.—While the t “\when farmers have little to do. ‘It'is ——— THREE DAYS LOAN DRIVE NETS SALES OF $212, 005, 250. 00 Washington, ‘D. C., April 11. — Liberty:! | loan-subscription offi- cially reported today | from eight, of the 12 federal reserve: dis- tricts for the first, | three days ofthe cam-’ paign amounted to | $21,005,250, The New || | York’ district contrib- uted $157,200,000.: Dis- || tricts not reporting were. Minneapolis, Dallas, Richmond and | Philadelphia. ‘ { OO FOR BIG CAMP: Believed Flat Surrounding State __ House Ground ‘Is'Better “Than Fort HAS. MANY. ADVANTAGES it is probable tnat the first annual encampment of * the "North “Dakota|. home guard, which is’ expected ‘to bring. 15,000 to'20,000. state militiamen here forthe first: week in’ July; will be held on: the tract ‘of several -hundred acres immediately. adjoining the capi- ‘al grounds jnstead of at Fort Lincoln, as:originally platined. The .. capitol grounds could be more‘easily piped for -water;~.they’ immediately adjoin city, predenting: no such: ‘ranspor- ow diffleulty'ae would -Fometincoin, three: milés ‘from the’ city, and the} wellshdded capitol park offers: better ‘facilities ‘for outdoor meetings, than do the treéless. grounds.at the fort. Capt. E: G. Wanner, chairman of he governing; board of thé North Da- ‘rota home ‘guard, believes it woyld be very easy. to make provision for fifteen chousand or more. men near the capi- ol. ‘The state owns a’ large quantity wt discarded ’ piping _ which:*formerly was used for mational guard encamp- nents, and telephone, electric light #ires and other connections are con- veniently provided at the state house. The Capital City athletic park immed- lately adjoins the capitol grounds; the state house park is reached by four streets which sre paved directly to the boulevard, and they are accessible from every part of the county. The surrounding hills form’a perfect natur- al ampitheatre, affording a convenient vantage ground for spectators as well as’ protection for the great tented city which would House the guardsmen. If the. capital site is Selected for ‘he encampment, it {s_the intention of Capt. Wanner to erect on the highest hill back of the state house, a 100 foot flagstaff, from which Old Glory, visible to. points within a radius of 29 to 30 miles would float, giving the ancampment the proper military set- ing. The capital’ portico, from which; Roosevelt and other famous men have | spoken, would be the most suitabie spot in the city from which President, Wilson or Vice President’ Marshall,’ ye or both of whom will be here for, ‘he encampment, could address thé/ yeople, and the capital park, with its; abundant shade and beautiful lawns, ; ars. : “Advices reaching Capt. Wanner indi- cate that every. home guard. unit with- in’a radius-of 150 miles will attend’ the encampment in a body. It is an- ‘icipated that newly organized home | guard units and those which are too distant to permit. of attendance as units, will be well represented. .Gen- eral Fraser probably will have .coin- pleted: before’'the end of the month he regulations tnder which the:homa muard units ate to become a state mil- itia, and a brigade and regimental or- ganization will have been effected tong before the’ date set for the en- campment. The first week. in July is a time generally . observed throughout the state asa holiday week, and it is be- lieved that with President Wilson or Vice President Marshall here on in- Puderbaugh in the Field H. C. Puderbaugh, . deputy dairy commissioner, who had. been engaged at Fargo since the ending of the farm- ers’ institute’ season, reported at headquarters today preparatory to lektas up the annual spring inspection work. ANOTHER SON JOINS: L. M; Parsons Has Two Boys in U..S. Signal Service Francis Parsons, son of L. M: Par- sons, wire chief for the North Dakota Independent Telephone Co., here, and whose brother, Wi L. Parsons, has al- roads, pares months’ service-in Trance with a al corps, has enlist- of in 1h sigaal service division at St. Paul and has'veen apeicaed: to defer dependénce ‘day: Bismarck will have she hoonf: of entertaining at least 30,- 000 North Dakotans, who ‘easily can motor {i im a ‘day from ‘points not Tore than‘ 208 miles. distant, oe SUNK BY SUBMARINE be ] | New York, April 11— } Minnetonka, .. 13,528 tons | gross register, and formerly | pass r trade for the At- | lantic nsport line, was | BF ine. in: the ‘Mediterranean ake Fe ry, the Marti- —— Te * BIG BRITISH STEAMER The big British steamship, | in the..New ‘York-London | sunk by a German subma- rin fi d ITY STRATEGISTS DISCOUNTING NEW RETREAT Insistent That Armentieres Was of No Strategic Value to the Allied Armies GERMANS PAYING HEAVILY Fighting Hard for Every Foot of Ground and Sustaining Serious Losses (ASSOCIATED PRESS.) Armentieres has been evacuated by the British, while the Germans are struggling: to push forward southwest of Messines ridge, the keypoint of the British line in Flanders. Messines ridge has been the objec- tive of desperate attacks and the Ger- mans have pushed on to the ridge several times during the fierce hand o hand fighting. Each time, how- ever, the British retaliated with ef- fective counter attacks and are still holding the ridge. i Fighting Pushed to Limit. ‘West of Armentieres the enemy has pushed the fighting to the limit and at one time succeeded in driving ihree miles ‘beyond the river Lys, to Lacreche. But the British by vigor- ous counter attacks, ousted the Ger- mans from Lacreche and and neigh- oring terraine. Wytschaete, south of Messines, was also the objective of heavy German attacks, and possession of it changed several times, but this morning found | Field .Marshal Hatg’s troops holding the town. : f There wasa similar hard fight for ‘Lestrem, at the western tip of the German ‘salient on the river Lawe. The Germans worked their way to this place yesterday, but were un- ‘able to move on further and were evi- dently. driven out of it and. back across Lawe. ' - + Loss of Armentieres. The evacuation of Armentieres had been ‘discounted as the place is with- out ‘strategical value.” ‘Wihat-is left of the. town’ is full of gas, hanging there|, from the copidus gas shell bombard- ment. Bomar North , of Armentieres, the ‘British position hingés on Ploegstreet’ and Ploegstreet wood, which line was bi- sected this morning." "~~ : ‘There was no let up in the engage- ment today the battle continuing on the: entire 25-mile front.from La “Bassee north to the Ypres-Comines canal just below. Ypres. MORRIS, PACKER, CALLED FOR PHYSICAL EXAM. Chicago, I!., April 11.—Nelson Mor- ris, chairman of the board of directors of the Morris Packing Co., who caimed exemption on industrial grounds, has been called for physical examination by draft board No. 13 on April 17. Morris is now in Washington as a $1 a year civilian employe in the quar- termaster corps. AZORES MADE NAVAL BASE Uncle Sam Establishes Post for Protection of Atlantic Trade Routes ‘Washington, April 11.—For the protection of the Atlantic trade routes to southern Europe, the United States, with the consent of Portugal, has established a naval base on the; Azores islands. Guns have been landed to begin for tification of the station, which in addi- tion to being used as a naval base for American submarines, destroyers and other small craft, also will serve as homing station for the American airplanes, a number of which have already been assembled there. TRAVELERS MAKE DRIVE THIS WEEK Knights of the Grip to Do Lib- erty Loan Bit Now ‘Bismarck Commercial travelers will make their Liberty loan drive Friday and Saturday of this week, two days in advance of the formal opening of the North Dakota campaign. This is done because travelers generally will be out on the road during the general campaign, and the local committee of grip knights wishes to give every member of the fraternity an opportuni- ty to kick.in. Unless somebody holds a stop watch on the commercial men they are quite likely to put Bismarck over the top before the real drive be- gins. STATE. AID FUNDS Rural Schools Get More Assis- tance From North Dakota State Auditor Kositzky today is mailing out state aid warrants to 599 | Fae choos receive a tata of Bar| SPOKERMAT ‘nthe "lowe eno soousts vaneins |. MBBS Sa tic somighanmege “C s E OFF HUN _CASUALTY LIST TODAY Wasltington, April 11.— | Today’s casualty list from General Pershing gives 124 names. As announced by the war. department it shows one man was killed in ac- tion, two died of wounds, five died of accidents, and thirteen of disease. Sixty- nine men were severely wounded, and four were re- ported missing. Thirty were slightly wounded. REGENTS WILL ACT TUESDAY ON MINOT ROW Totten Says Resignation of Pres- ident Steele Now Is in Hands of Board DISCLAIMS DISLOYALTY Educator Merely Aping Townley in Views on Financing of the Great War Fargo, N. D, April 11.—The North Dakota board of regents probably will take definite action on the resignation of Prof. A. G. Steele, acting president of the ,Minot normal schoo, tendered to the board late yesterday following a@ demand to this effect by the Minot chamber of commerce be- cause of certain expressions made against the Liberty Loan, at their meeting in Grand Forks on April 16, according to George Totten, a member of the board, here today. Steele, in an announcement, de- clares that he is a strong. support- er ofthe government ard is not disloyal, byt. ‘merely: entertains views regarding war finances that differ from those of the govern. merit. He declared his expression was “an error of. judgment and not of heart,” and says he regrets having expressed them. He has | not made any plans for the future, he announced. Steele’s resignation has been forwarded to Charles Leisman, secretary of the board of regents, at Bismarck. BENTALL GUILTY - ON TWO COUNTS Socialist Candidate for Governor of Minnesota Convicted of Espionage | Minneapolis, M J. O. Bentall, socialist candidate for governor, was found guilty on two counts of violating the espion- age act by a jury in federal dis- trict court here today. The maxi- mum penalty provided for viola tions of this act is 20 years im- prisonment and a fine of $10.000. He will be sentenced next Friday. Bentall now is under one yeai's sentence in the Crow Wing county jail for obstructing the draft. i { | | i Bail was fixed at $10,000. Bentall $ charged with obstructing enlist- | ments through an address delivered last July in Hutchinson, Minn. The first count in the indictment charg- ed ‘Bentall with “attempting to cause insubordination, discontent, mutiny and the refusal of duty in the military \forces.” The third count charged the same offense with regard to the young men then in’ the audience who were } then in the naval service. Bentall was jfound guilty on these two counts. SOLDIER KILLS | ‘TWO, TAKES OWN | LIFE, AT WRIGHT Fisher's Island, N. ¥., April 11.— Sergeant James Boyle of the coast ar- tillery, shot and Killed two 1 wounded, several others seriously, cluding First Lieutenant Jean Becheud and then committed suicide with a service revolver, at Fort Wright to- day. He had just returned from leave of absence. bf SACKVILLE WEST IS NAMED SUPER WAR COUNCIL HEAD | London, April’ 11—Major | | General Sackville West has been ‘appointed acting Brit- ish representative at the su- preme-war council at Ver- | sailles, it was announced to- | day in the house of com- mons by Andrew Bonar Law, the government’s * | | a —_——o— ESE. 21 DEATHS SHOWN IN PRICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANS LOSE. MANY MEN IN. “TOUL ATTACK Sammies Repulse Teutons With. out Loss of Single Man— | | Prisoners Taken BOMBARD FOR THREE DAYS Kaiserites Spent 72 Hours’ ‘in Preparing for Assault— Our Gunners Star 2 ’ : | With the American Army in France, Wednesday, April. 10.— (By Associated Press) — The iGermans attempted an’ attack against the American positions northwest of Toul just before Sunrise this. morning and were completely repulsed. Two Ger: man prisoners. said the enéfy: \planned the attack with a force of 800 men, but that it was stop- ped in its full strength by the effective fire of the Amerjcan ar- tillery. The Americans los’ no prisoners. One of the German prisoners died later of wounda.. | The attack was the’ heaviest yet made on an American force. Brilliant work by American: gun- ners dispersed the. German: in- fantry before they reached ‘the wire entanglements and those of the enemy who got into.the wire were accounted for with machine * gun and rifle fire. ~~ caren Xt The attack:came’ after. a yio-' lent artillery bonrbardment : of three days. - A large number: of the enemy are believed ‘to‘havé been killed during the: attack, which continued for two hours. 72, HOURS OF PREPARATION. For 72 hours before‘their ef- forts, the Germans had beed fit} ing an, increasing niin of shells at the American positions, and making extensive use of gas shells. At noon yesterday, thé enemy began a harraséing fire against one of our:strong points, and kept it up thruout the night, dropping hundreds of shells of all’ icalibres on both front and -rear positions. The American. artil- jlery replied vigorously, the ‘men lin some batteries working with their gas masks on for two or \three hours at a stretch. | At about 5 o’clock this morn- jing German infantry in the front line signaled their batteries for a ‘barrage and started, for the ‘American line. . The Americans ‘laid a counter barrage almost im- mediately. The gunners espe- ‘cially trained for this work were iselected from three of the best iregiments in the force. | GUNNERS DO GOOD WORK: | A terrific fire against. the ad- ivancing enemy was kept up by ‘the American batteries. The Ger- ‘mans probably suffered severe ‘casualties as several bodies were ‘seen hanging across the barbed ‘wire after the enemy retired. The ‘attack was made in a heavy imorning mist, but the American | gunners did wonderful work con- \sidering the poor visibilty. | As soon as.the American bar- ‘vage lifted, American infantry- men climbed from their shelters land attacked the enemy with ‘heavy machine gun and rifle fire, \driving back those who had: not ‘been dispersed by the artillery fire. The attack was followed b: a violent. artillery duel, whi {was still going on at a late hour |tonight. i { | | i 'BOLSHEVIKS ASK | PERMIT TO HALT DEMOBILIZATION London. Eng., April 11.—The ..Bol- sheviki government has asked Ger- \many for permission to postpone the demobilization of the Russian army.in {consequence of the Japanese Sanding at Vladivostok, according to-.reports in circulation in ePtrograd and’ for- warded by Reuter’s correspondent. WALTERS IN FRANCE Leon Walters, formerly an assistant of the weather bureau office in Bis. marek, sends word of his safe arrival in France, Mr. Walters left Bismarck on Dec, 20, 1917, for Fort Stevens, Ore., to enter the coast artillery serv- ice. From this point he went to San Francisco, where he boarded: a trans- port bound for the Atlantic coast’ by way of the Paname canal, and arrived in New Jersey on March 3. From this it will be seen how rapidly the’ war “| department is transforming ‘Taw fe fruits’ into efficient soldiers: Hiss i: | Frei” Bibetatek “win et”