The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1918, Page 1

vil THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR THE B THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 101. BISMARCK, NORTH. DAKOTA, FRIDAY, ‘APRIL 12, “1918 aoe ro wu “SHOOT THEM DO| NN WITH EYES SHU BRITISH HANGING GRIMLY ‘ON TO MESSINES RIDGE. POINT OF HUN | WEDGE DRIVEN DEEPER ATLYS Germans, Altho Held in Flan- ders, Are Making Progress East of Bethune CONTINUE HARD PRESSURE British Task Is to Prevent Sides of Salient Being Widened by the Enemy © (ASSOCIATED PRESS.) { With the British hanging grimly on to the great bulk of Messines ‘Ridge, their ‘bulwark in Flanders, . the Ger- mans to. the south are pushing their wedge deeper into the British lines east and northeast of Bethune, one of the British advanced bases. The point of this wedge was driv- en last night further along the Lys caval to. Merville, two miles west of Lestrum, which the British held up to yesterday. The salient was also extended slightly to the Horth to the vicinity. of Neuf Berquin, two miles northwest of Estaires, another point where the British had»been making a stand. German Pressure Continues. The Germans today were continuing what ‘appeared to be their heaviest pressure’in this region, and had made: some progress when the noon official report ‘was issued ijn London.’ The southern ‘side of the’salient, as it runs aoutheaat toward Givenchy. is being strongly! held by. the British. They were standing firm todav:at Loisne. three miles northeast of Bethune, and along the line horthwest to the Mer- ville region. Further southeast, like- wise, they repelled a German attempt to advance.’ northwest. of Givenchy, the high ground about which, protects the British’ right flank between, Bith- une. great ger flanks being attdcked:.”.” “Northwest of Atménticres, abandon- ed yesterday ‘by. the’ ‘British, , the ‘line was: straightened. out by their with-| drawal from Ploegsteer, ‘whence they fell. back fighting to the. vicinity: of Neuve iEglise; close to. ‘the southern end’ ‘of “Messines Ridge, which pro-| tects:their new positions. “British Lines. Firm. . The British lines-apparently aré De- ing firmly ‘maintained ‘along the high ground’ in the Messines and: Wyts- chaete regions and to the north to- ward Ypres. No material change ‘inj the. situation ‘is reported here. The battle, however,: is continuing along the whole front from La Bassee Canal north to Holebeke, the Germans ham-; mering hard in their desperate at-| tempt to win something substantial. | On the Somme battlefield there has been no resumption of infantry en- gagements on a large scale. The Brit- ish, however, were subjected to strong local attacks southeast of Arras, all of which were repulsed. The artilery is reported increasingly active in the| vicinity of the Somme, while Paris} announces. a rather heavy. bombard- ment along the French line to the southeast of Amiens, in the vicinity of Hangard. AUSTRIA STILL IN LINE WITH KAISER BILL Thoroughly er With Hun ‘Emperor That She Should Have Alsace — ed CONSCIENCE, Vienna, via Amsterdam, April 12.— Complete solidarity ‘exists between Austria and Germany, and “we ‘shall jointly enforce an honorable peace,” says Emperor Charles in a telegram to Emperor William, denying the truth of the declaration made earlier in the week by Premier Clemenceau of France, that the Austrian emperor recognized France's claim to Alsace- Lorraine. It is added that the fact that Aus- tro-Hungarian troops are fighting for Alsace-Lorraine on the: western front demonstrates the emperor's. faithful- ness to his.ally. NEW GACKLE HOTEL H. H. Wittmayer to Give Village Good Hostelry Gackle, IN. ‘D., April. 12.—H. H. Witt- mayer has. leased the hotel formerly conducted by Mrs. ‘Kate Schlenker, and he is having the place overhauled and redecorated. with a view to: giv- ing Gackle a first-class hostelry. Pri- or to the:fire dir: Wittmayer. was’ pro- yotebie ptemibis waotel wets IS’ DENIED Attacks Made Today Against | ASSAULT MESSINES RIDGE] ‘Messines ridge and -Wytschaete,: dom- rth sines village, aud tee eae were: sg rote this’ ‘{serves in the’ same prodigal manner * BRITISH AVIATORS BOMB LUXEMBURG Sey | » London, Thursday, April | 11—British aviators today | | dropped more than a ton of | | bombs on the railway sta- | | tion at Luxemburg. On re- : porting on aviation activi- | | ties on the battlefront Wed- | inesday, the official state- | ; ment on aerial operations | says that eight enemy aero- | | planes were accounted for | ; and that seven British ma- chines are missing. | \ | | i | ' ¢ DETERMINED ENEMY DRIVE: IS CONTINUED Points of Strategical Value Held by Allies German Troops Driven Back by | British After Making Slight Gains With the British Arn Army in France, ; Thursday, April 11—(By The .Asso- ciated Press).—Determined enemy at- tacks continued today ‘against: points of strategical value along the: new battlefront north and south of Armen: ; eres, from which the. British have | withdrawn. On’ the extreme right, the | Jermans . were : pounding. ‘the ‘British defenses .at Givenchy, which has changer hands numerous times. North | of -Armentieres . the Germans were showing. an ‘equal degire..to : possess iriating-positions which changed: hands several times it yh aid ae The Germaps,/got’:#..4 morning, ‘but the: British were cling:| | ‘tng. to: the: west “ridge ‘and ‘were ‘Keep- ing the enemy from Wytschaete. In’ order to appreciate fully the/ trend of the. present .fighting, the of- fensive. operations must be viewed as + whole, for they’ go to make up un- loubtedly what is ‘the crucial con-} ‘lict of the, war. The loss of a city! rere or there or the abandonment of! rive or ten miles of territory in any sector does not mean: disaster. The battle has got beyond such con- siderations and has settled down to a} grim race to determine whether the German man power is good enough to make good its thréat to annihilate the Eritish army, and force its capitula- ion. It is a cold proposition of which side can kill the most men in che next tew weeks and at the same ime find more recruits to fill the de- d‘leted ranks. , The mists continue to favor the on my and to hamper the defending zunners. It was partly on account 0% ‘hese fogs that the Germans progress- 2d as far as they did. ATTACK ON MESSINES RIDSE. London, April’ 12.—German troops made a determined attack along the Messines ridge and succeeded in gain- ing some ground, says a Reuter’s dis- yatch from British army headquarters ‘n France and Belgium. but the Brit: ‘sh once again drove them out by a counterm attack early this morning. The Germans are developing great artillery activity in the southern area, the dispatch says. The Eray-Cordie road {s being fiercely shelled, herald- ing, it is believed, further infantry attacks. Three: attacks in to’ b) which the enemy launched yesterday in great waves near Ville Chapelle were repulsed (wth immense losses to the Germans. The ground was strewn with their corpses. In brilliant sunshine the. battle. is continuing with fierceness which has scarcely lagged since the beginning. .The Germans are throwing in their.re- la D as the opening days of the ofensive. TWO FOE ALIENS TAKEN TO CAMP Sioux Falls, S. D, April 12—Two enemy aliens, Paul Gross, a German editor of Aberdeen ‘S. D., and Ernest Wehling. a Sooux Falls cigarmaker, * recently arested as “dangerous” were ' taken from this city today. in custody): of federal officers to a detention camp. FORMER STEELE MAN DIES IN CALIFORNIA ‘Steele, N. D., April 12—News has reached Steele of the death at San Diego, Calif, of A: L. DeShon, a pio- neer rebident of Kidder county, who left; here. some time ago to seek health in the west. The deceased was 67 years old. i RYDER TEACHER DIES’ Ryder, IN. D., April 12.—Miss Row: |! ena A. Cornell, a Minnesota young woman..who has been teaching the Hiddenwood school, died at the home of Chris Olsonatte; ill , jaays.,, Her inter! es ae saab b Gadiphel mi sodes, tarrings and‘ beatings show how the rounding up of suspected pro-Ger- mans, by loyalty cronies has ‘s})read! over the nation: pected ‘pro-Germans kiss the flag. Coshocton 300 citizens in autos male 30 suspects kneel, kiss the flag and say “to hell with the : woman who brandished a r che crowd was carrie! to the court: ouse steps and put through a long oyalty ceremony. At V nan was compelled to ind flv it on his home. sing crowds tarred men charged ‘with disloyalty. suspected disloyalist to a stake, whip- ped him, tarred and feathered him, and ran him out of town. Leeds Man, Pleading Ignorance! of Leeds, food administration, appeared before selling the, flour, declaring that he did not kngw he was violating the food regulations, promised. to contri-: ‘bute $10: to the Red Cross at Leeds, and Dr. Ladd announced he would. be allowed to continue business on his} good behavior.’ ' 1 pr alleged, sold a large quantity of flour to a train crew, without selling the required substitutes also. ates a meat market at Leeds, and of his sales. SCENE OF WA +, The shaded portion of this m coal mining district: which has b man rioting in the United States. the map; that. the first lynchin ig the shaft and tipple of No. 8 all flat country and the mines ar entry straight down from 150 to out into the coal often a mile 9° towns houses. have sunk because now regulated by law. The above ‘the center of the inset picturs a the miners ‘down into the Block the left, of the pictu, e These “scattered fag-kiss ’ éni- OHIO— At. Delphos hundieds joined. loyalty bands ‘which toured the; wn for sevéral nights making ae At re’ One} volver at ington; one igs the. flag MICHIGAN—At Jackson anid Lan. NEVADA—A Reno mob bound a 30LD TOO MUCH . FLOUR; PAYS RED CROSS PENALTY ; ae ey i of Law, Agrees to Con- «| tribute $10 Fargo, N. D., April 12.—E, Fogelson N.-D., who sold ‘flour in rger quantities than allowed by the r. Ladd today and after admitting Fogelson, the food administration | He oper- inst. make regular reports hereafter HUNS SUCCEED IN. NEW BORN BABES: AND MOTHERS Paris, April 2A shell fired by the German long range cannon yesterday struck a foundling asylum in probationers, six wom deg were injured. on the southern outskirts of Paris, and three persons there were killed, and:eleven wound- ed. Within the hospital were 30 women with new born babies. One maternity nurse, one patient and one baby were killed, while two poe her shell. struck a a towing alley and \p shows the southern +!inois soft 2en the center ofthe anti-Ger- 't was at Colfinsvifle, shown on ‘of the war took place.. Inset Madison mine neat.,-Benton. “It’s 2 all shaft: mines Wke this—one 300 feet and channels‘ running more, in all directions. ‘in many of channels undernéath. This’ is ground portion of tl ove. Little cabli tess. the cables runi HOW--'ANTIEGERMAN: “FEELING? HAS4 SPREAD OKLAHOMA—"Knights of Liberty” | at Altus forced a/man and a: boy to ; kiss the. flag, after tarring and whip- ning them. Théy. were ‘ordered to leave town, a CALIFORNIA—Ten roughly handled after it was. charged they drank;a toast tothe: kaiser: They | were later ‘convicted and jailed. KANSAS—A Kansas City carpenter was badly beaten when. hé was found with a German flag +1: this possession. WISCONSIN—Ashiand. teacher tar- red and feathered. ."\ WASHINGT.CIN—One man at Yaki- ma tarred and feathered pe ordered out of town: ‘men ‘were VERMONT—Windgbr preacher was! roughly’ handled and arrested. Con-| victed of disloyalty and sentenced to 15. years in prison. NEW: JERSEY—Hoboken man who called soldiers passing, “bums” was beaten, rescued ‘by police and cen- tenced. Two men, pro-German: sus- pects. beaten at Passaic,’ MOTT CLAIMS OLDEST MALE «Be C.. KNITTER ‘Mott, D., 2 April 12- 12.—Mott claims the udeet male knitter in ‘North Da-) kota in the person of Peter Guertz, a Mott farmer of German descent, who at the age of 60 already has knit four | pairs of ‘sox.for our boys in France| jand now is at work on another con-! Mr. Guertz calls in person! signment, at the Hettinger ‘county headquarters for his supply of yarn, and re'turns in work which is superior to that done :by many of the women workers. BAND REORGANIZED Mott to Again Have First Class: Concert Organization “Mott, N.-D. April 12.—The Mott coucect- band has been reorganized with Capt. 8. J. Boyd, commander of the Mott-home guard, as president; H. M. Cornell, secretary-treasurer; Fred Rau, librarian; ©. G. Orr, leader, sha John Smith, assistant director. KILLING MORE the Rue d’ la Creche, en patients and three ownded! 1@other "THE LAND OF LOYALTY RIOTS ’S FIRST AMERICAN LYNCHING | BEE IS ONE VAST RUMOR FACTORY, | i | And Every Story of Rotman: in the hotbed of anti-German feeling— jlllinois leads the’ world. and look at the names on the store and j eKifer, burger, Koffman, Goebel, and so on— |German nam eafter German name. of the district. of ‘the business and professional peo- | ple are of German stock. ; must work at it out here. | {admit he knew German. ‘ers’ suspicions and their dread of | ktiows about it Lut nodody saw it—no- ee German menace—a. menace which| | Merville. ing in the neighborhood of Merville, | | tts ism Increases the Suspicion of the Illinois Miners BY H. E. BECHTOL Daily Tribune Reporter Who Went to Investigate the. Anti- German Outbreaks in Southern Minois. St. Louis, Mo., April 12—There are more outward evidences of patriotism | the mining towns across the river from here—than in any other place in the country. And as a rumor factory, southern ‘Walk down Collinsville’s main street windows—Wurtzbacher, Schroebel, Arms- office Schlosser, It's the same in most of the towns A great percentage But they’re loyal Americans— second, third and fourth genera- tions in this country most of them. In Collinsville, a town of 10,009, only 38 aliens registered. The miners know that. CANADIAN CASUALTIES | Ottawa, Ont., April 12.— | The following American names appeared in the Ca- nadian casualty list: Killed: N. C. Howe, Lake | Benton, Minnesota. | | i ‘NO WORD OF LANDING OF Jackies’ Presence in Vladi- vostok Unconfirmed | BOLSHEVIKI LESS NERVOUS cident Will Lead to Japanese Advance in Siberia Washington, D.C, April But the constant sight of German has its psychological effect. flag-Kissing episodes. The buginess people understand how; Flags are everywhere—three or four‘in a window. Everybody's coat is decorated with a flag button, a Red Cross; and all three Liberty ‘Loan buttons. Stores and. offices are fairly pa- nered with posters. i} “Fe a. 100 PER CENT American!” | with the “100 PER GENT” in huge, ‘etters is the favorite. | Passive loyalty isn't enough—you, In Pragers room was found a note; in German. I started out to get it translated, and I went to seven peo- ple before I found anybody who'd; I made it a point to find out that all of them could have translated the: love-letter, as it proved to be. | But did any of them speak German? | NOT LATELY! The night after the Prager lynch- ing word spread through Edwards- ville that a pastor suspected of pro- ermanism had refused to observe the; change of time—moving the clocks forward an hour. He was to be tarred and feathered, the report said. That night the evening church bell rang an hour earlier. Members of the congregation are said to have warned the pastor. And whatever the; reason, this pastor didn’t appear tor} he Sunday services. There's ground for some of the min-| Huns who'd blow in a shaft. Explosives have been found, stored | away by suspects. Strikes in the coai fields last summer are laid to German| agitation. A German sympathizer | blew up a bridge over which many miners went to and from work. Oth- er such cases are history. But where there's one story with aj foundation, there are 50 without. j This district turns out the wildest, rumors imaginable—one a minute! When you go to trace them down— “why, everybody knows about it!” That's as far as you get—everybody body heard it. Just the same, every rumor adds its | quota oto the-district’s nerves and in- creases the miners’ feeling against the) {they feel is making their already Ua MORETOWNSOR NOIMPORTANGE Germans Took Merville Last Night—Heavy Fighting at Neuf Berquin vasion of Siberia. | Press dispatches from Moscow have! ‘the miners feel about it, and they. go’ said that Bolsheviki officials were not jout of their way to proclaim their | patriotism. so féarful now as at ‘first that the; incident : would lead to. an advance in Siberia. BASIS FOR NEW HOME RULE IN Convention Laid Founda- tion for Agreement ULSTER UNIONISTS OBJEC Dissent From Understanding Reached by Majority of Nationalist Delegates report of that body. the Ulster unionists, says Sir Horact the labor representatives, agreed W which is given in the reached by the majority, ' states, should be enacted into law. BELIEVE LOAN | TOTAL REACHES | '400 MILLIONS Washington, D. C., April 12—Official re- turns at the treasury | for the first days of the Liberty loan today showed a total of $275,919,000. ‘These figures repre- Fs | | by initial payments || reported -by banks and trust companies in ten of the twélve federal reserve dis- i | i i BRITISH PRESSED BACK (| London, Eng., April 12 Aecaas 1 Ploegstreet, the Germans pressed back the British to the vicinity of Neuve Eglise, it is announced officially. ‘Last night the Germans captured Heavy fighting is continu- and Neuf. Berquin. On the remainder, of the northern, | dattle front there is little chatee North of Festyvert,, tricts, but since many of the bank reports '| were not included in \| the total, and the Philadelphia and Minneapolis districts were missing, it is be- - the actual to: | | { | i ground ‘by* mariner Ar CAVALIER BOY AMON( S. Jonason, Cavalier, N. | “Wounded: Corporal P. | Boucher, Red Lake Falls, { | Minn. v. U.S. MARINES Press Dispatches Announcing No Longer So Fearful That In- 12.—No word of the landing of American ma- rines at Vladivostok to aid British! | | and Japanese forces already there as | names, one after another, everywhere.! told“in press-dispatches had reached ; It adds the state or navy departments early | to the “nerves”——the suspicion ‘of the today. The addition of American forces district—which explains the ‘repeated, fs expected to reassure Russian gov-; tar-and-feather-! ernment officials who, for a time, after; | ings, rail-ridings, and the-lynching of the Japanese landed appeared inciln- | Robert Prager, suspected as pro-Ger- ed to believe Japan planned an in- |man—firat lynching of the war. IRELAND SEEN Sir Horace “Plunket Says sa lie motto. London, Eng. April 12—The Irish|Extreme Cruelties Practiced on convention laid the foundation for an | agreement on the Irish question which | lis unprecedented in history, Sir Hor-: ace Plunkett, chairman of the conven: | tion, says in a letter accompanying the } The convention did not find it pos-| sible to overcome the objections of; A majority of the nationalists, all of! the southern unionists, and five of! on a Scheme of Irish self-government, conclusions ; which he} four |! sent pledges backed | ‘* BRITISH TELL OF SACRIFICE OF HUN FORS Hundreds With Close-Range Machine-Gun Fire % eee as MOW DOWN MASSES OF MEN Allies Wait Until Teutons Are Packed in Front of Them to Begin Shooting London, Eng., April 12—“You could have shot them down with your eyes shut,” said a wounded machine gun- {ner in describing how the Germans attacked on the western front, accord- ing to the correspondent there of the u Daily Mail. “We fired straight into them and they went down in heaps, lyet we could not sto pthem.: It was one down and another come on.’ The correspandent quotes other re- marks from wounded soldiers, which | bear testimony to the terrible toll the Germans are paying for every food ad- vanced. “Aye, we're never far away,” @ wounded Highlander replied to the re- {mark of the correspondent that the Highlanders seemed to get into all the battles... He proceeded to tell. how his regiment was on a canal bank when the Germans tried‘to cross, ‘Murderous Fire.” 4 “They advanced on both flahks on get across. We waited ‘until. they were well in view. * Then when there were ‘hundreds ‘before ‘is we’ let fly. Man, it was murderous,” A Yorkshireman standiig nearby | broke in: “That may be, hut ‘that was:no bet- ter than when we saw them, along the sides of a hedge.’ They didn't expect us to be so near.. We pumped dullets linto them with ‘Lewis’ guns until our | bodies. ached.” {An illustration of the’ coolness and Confidence ‘of the British troops, the Daily Mail correspondent’ says: some Highlanders told him ho wthey found quantities’ of food in ‘the trenches, j which some ° other troops had, been. | forced to evacuate; before heavy Ger- man attacks. The. Highlanders ‘said | the ‘firs tthing they. did was ‘to sit | Some and eat the food. _ e fried their eggs and frizzled ‘Never miss a chance,’ is _We had a had a tine feed.” i their bacon, BRITONS MADE "SLAVES IN HUN PRISON CAMPS Prisoners by Germans, Says Reports ..| FRENCH ALSO ARE ABUSED ©\Shot, Beaten and Starved to Death; Worked Under Shell- fire of Comrades P| London, Eng., April 12.—How Brity’ jish prisoners of war in Germany. a | enslaved, starved and subjected to un a _ | told cruelties is related in an official report of a government committee li made public today, The detention and employment of non-~ -commissioned. offi- cers and men captured on the west- ern front, says the report, “have |! brought on these prisoners an amount || of unjustifiable suffering for which it || wolud be hard to find a parallel in ‘t history. : The report shows that _prisoners ! have been employed constantly under jae fire and that many have been killed by ‘British guns; that they have been kicked and beaten, denied cloth- ing and adequate shelter, have often been shot and that death from star- ‘| vation and overwork have been: con- stant. French prisoners have been subjects || ed. to the. same treatment. ||LAMOURE COUNTY | PIONEER CALLED iCamile Kramer mer. Dies—Came - to Bismarck in 1882 Bagele X. D., ‘April i2.—Camile Kramer, LaMoure county commission- er and one of the county’s most prom- inent farmers, died at the hospital here following a chronic illness. The deceased was born in Mannheim, Bad- en, Germany; serving his time in the ‘| Prussian army, and ‘then came to America, | arriving in Bismarck on ‘april 1, 1882, leaving the capital city two weeks later with a party of plo- neer Germans for LaMoure eounty, << | whare-ther' topkup homestead elatmsieicita | » deceased -ts: temper ee tore