The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1918, Page 1

iH ie! E 1 ~ PRT y )) THE. WE. Rain or snow. crs a BIS} THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. rob WITHDRAWAL CARRIED OUT WITHOUT Loss British Take Up Stronger Posi- | BATTLEGOING tions Back of Advanced Line at Ypres PIVOTING ON WYTSCHAETE Retrograde Movement Centers | in Successful Counter Attacks on Huns With the Ameri- can Army in France April 17.—(By the Associated Press )— It was reported this morning that the British, fighting magnificently, had regained the much contested town of Wytschaete, altho this was not con- firmed at the time of filing the press dispatch. (ASSOCIATED ED PRESS) With the Ypres salient in southwest- ern Belgium menaced by the contin- ued advance of the Germans on the Lys battlefront, immediately tot e| scuth the British have bcgua te with-| draw from this advanced li tish forward positions ent mel Ypres have been given wp and a new) hee to the west occupied The withdrawal | w: carried out | with perfect order wi-houw! enemy sn- terference. Apparently the -retvograde cessful counter attagh‘carriéd*aut’ on | the Germans, who yesterday captured the town of Wytscliaete negr the; highest point of the easterly. Messines ridge and who presumably pushed out somewhat beyond. the’ town. They are unofficially reported‘as having 1d- vanced to St. Eloi, a mile and a half north of Wytschaete. No Further Retirement. There seems to be do danger at present of a retirement,on any larger scale than this on the: northern’ end of the Franco-Belgian line as the re- sult of the recent German successes. The line, as a whole, appears likely to hold as long as the railway com- munications supporting it are intact. The situation on the British front is more serious than at any time since; the German drive in the north began, it is admitted in London. Premier Lloyd George told the house of Commons that he was hope- ful of the situation,,adding that Gen- eral Plummer, the British commander n the Messines area and General Foch, the allied commanderin-chief, were both confident. East of the American sector, near the Bois le Pretre the French have repulsed German. efforts. RUSSIAN SHIPS FIRE ON HUNS Kuehlmann Protests to Bolshe- viks That German Allies Are Attacked’, London, :April. 1 ‘itish Admir- alty, per wireless)—Dr, Richard Von Kuehlmann, the German foreign min- ister, has telegraphed to M..Tchitcher- in, the Bolshevil foreign minjster, to the effect that the Russian Black Sea fleet has separated into sections. of unknown nationality, and, in viola- tion of the peace treaty providing for the, disarmament of Russian warships, is attacking allies of Germany. Dr. Von Kuehlmann gives notice that all Black sea warships continu- ing to act in violation ofthe Brest- Litovsk treaty will, after ‘April 20 be treated as hostile ships. . YOUNG iG MOTHER HER DEAD Mrs. Jerry McCarty Dies at * Dunn Center : Dunn Center, April 1 Mrs. Sorry ‘MicCarty, a member of the-local: con- gregation, of the Latter Day Saints, is dead,’ survived by her husband and two daughters, three and two years | old. NORTH DAKOTA BOY | WINS COMMISSION | 1 Adjutant General Fraser today’ re- ceived’advice from Camp Dadge, Ia.. that Private Harry Ellsworth: Maher. a select service man who went: from Ramsey county, has been discharged from the 313th enginears {o;accept a commission as sécoad?? lieutenant. ; Tdeut. Maher wored biar promotion through his own eféarts;and:Gengral Fraser is much Bratifed to learn: of his success, j complaints CARD SYSTEM ADOPTED THAT 100 SOLDIERS JOIN: MUTINY tary trang and police companies caped from Camp Logan yesterday inj rebelling against an order transferring | them to other camps. Nearly all of} them have been captured. They will) probably face a charge of mutiny. in Recapture of Town on the North FOR BRITISH |WITHDRAW FROM re IN FLANDERS Ally Said to Be Holding Well, While Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses BRITONS ARE ADVANCING Allies 'Take Up New Battle Line —Germans Driven Out South of Arras London, Eng., April 17.—The Brit- ish have’ recaptured Meterem, on the northern battle front, by a counter at- tack, it is announced oficially. ‘The British positions before Ypres have been withdrawn to a new battle line. ‘South of Arras the Germans were driven out of British trenches into which they had forced their Karly this morning, the German artil- lery became more active south of the Somme. The British made a_ successful counter attack in the nefghborhoud of Wytschaete. Repeated German at-, tacks north of Bailleul were repulsed, che Germans suffering heavy losses. | PASHA FACED — — FIRING SQUAD | EARLY TODAY een Ss / | French Traitor Pays Extreme! Penalty, in the’ Forests i of Vincennes | London, Eng, April 17.—The battle | {in Flanders is raging today with in- | credible intensity, telegraphs the cor- respondent of Reuter’s, Ltd, at the | British army headquarters in France. As far as the latest reports enable the correspondent to ‘judge, the bat- tle is going in favor of the British. Notwithstanding the desperate at- tack of the Germans, they have gained no further ground since Tuesday morning and apparently they have lost some. The British at dusk on Tuesday, {says the dispatch, were advancing in} {the neighborhood of Wytschaete, } | south of Ypres, and were reported | again to be holding ground which they | j had lost there. RAILWAY WAGE COMMISSION IS _ READY TOTALK | Will Make Report of Findings to} McAdoo on Secretary’s Re- turn From, West .. rae |LOSES HIS INDIFFERENCE, piss Paris, April 17.—Standing - before | ja firing squadin the zsrests of Vin-{ cinnes- early--ieday; Paul Bolo Pasha, condemned traitor, los: eatirely his at- | titude of indifference. When the or-/ der to fire ;was given the rifles spoke and Bolo crumbled with several bul-| ‘lets in his head. ‘Escorjed by several guards, Bolo; left the Sante. prison, 75 minutes be-| fore his execution. After leaving the automobile at Vincinnes, he listened to; reve y I | SLIDIN SCALE INCREASES | Washington, D. C., April 17.—The | railroad: wage commission -has com- pleted its recommendations for wage increases for railroad employes, and | a report will be submitted to Director the exhortation of a prison chaplain. General McAdoo upon his return from His eyes were bandaged anj he went, a Liberty loan speaking tour'in the: Without a struggle to the’ firing west. squad. |to the amount of the increases to be| AMERICAN R. C. | WOULD SUPPLY | given, although it has been said that suployes now receiving small pay will be given the largest advances. ' The commission began its work on CAPTURED BOYS Washington, D. C., April 17.—Cap- tured American soldiers arriving in German prison camps will find Ameri- can Red Cross emergency food par- cels awaiting them if the German! government consents to extension of; on arrangement already in operation ;at one camp. lu was announced at Red Cross | headquarters today that permission has been obtained to store emergency supplies at the prison camp at Tuchel, west Prussia, and that 360 ten pound food parcels have been shipped there from the Red Cross headquarters for relief of prisoners at Berne, Switz- erland. About 23 Americans now are prisoners at the Tuchel camp. Sergeant Halyburton and Corporal Upton, American prffisoners, have deen delegated custodians of the emer- gency food ‘supplies at the Tuchel camp, it was announced. MEDINA HOME GUARD | Jan. 21. It is understood that the recomen- dations call for sliding scale of in- creases and that all employers, re- gardless of union or non-union aifilia- j tions, have been treated alike. Ex- tensive hearings were held in addi ; Hon to investigations made by ex: perts. The revision is the most ex- tensive ever undertaken, affecting ap- proximately 2,000,000 persons. Regents Take No | Action Regarding MeVey’s Speeches Grand Forks, 'N. D., April 17.—The ‘North Dakota board of regents took no action today in the matter of the made by one member against; an address given at Surrey, | N. D., by. Colonel Chas, H. mil- ilary instructor at the university, in |which, it was charged, the speaker jeriticised the state ddministration. It (was announced’ today that this ‘ques- | tion would be considered tomorrow. The contract for the “onstruction of the new chemistry building was awarded: to the Dakota Construction :Co., of Grand Forks. Colonel MeVey’s Surrey address pre- cipitated his resignation as a member of Goveronr Frazier’s staif. In a let- ter to the colonel, the governor criti- cised him for alleged vemarks against the state administration, an‘l Colonel} MeVey replied, declaring that such | charges were false and refusing to ; apologize, ‘In the same letter, he pre-; sented his resignation. | STARK COUNTY os OVERSUBSCRIBES, , Dickingon, + TN. D. Ap April 17.—Stark | ; county had Seeranecene by 30 per! | cent their allotment of $65,000 before} | the cancass began. The promise for |a@ complete canvass will be from one | hundred to one hundred and fifty per cent. Civil War Vetran Advisoty Com- j mittee of One Medina, N. Dg April 17.—Dr- David L. McLain, a civil war veteran, is an advisory board of one for the newly organized Medina Home Guard, which has a membership of 108, with 23 names on the waiting list. H. ‘L. Woll is captain; J. L. Peterson, first lieu- tenant; Henry Bertsch, second lieu- tenant; Sanroe Kaisler, treasurer, and) | Theodore Stram lad company clerk. HAVE SERVICE FLAG Killdeer Masonic Banner Shows Eleven Stars Hilldeer. N. D., April 17.—Killdeer | lodge, A. F..& A. M., has unfurled its iew service flag which contains elev-! en stars representing Master } Masons | | of this lodge who are with the colors.'| i WE MAY KEEP OUR PLEDGES). Fargo, N. D., April 17.In, response Ladd said. “If these are not forth-| to inquiries from all parts of the; coming, it may. mean the collapse eof state with regard to the new card sys-| everything América holds dear. It item of selling flour, flour substitutes. | may. mean the sacrifice of iarge aum- and sugar, Food Adminietrator E. .¥.| bers of our soldierr, who are defend- Ladd, today said the new system war ing our cause in Europe.” inaugurated in order taat the United! The cards, which are to be retamed ales may ie her pede with i by the merchants and returned io Jes 40. supply me federal food administrato™ at Far- rhe enter iT Peuaig edt Fe word nest faa reg i es galt a eek tnt perth tain amount of flour end wheat.” Dr,! at moi than 42 store, : : BRITISH 1} TAKE umertycoan * } -TEUTON FOES Brilliant Counter Attack Results way. || [Conny Is’ DOING : NOBLY'! | more, which would make the total sub- | distribution of the. bonds. cipated: that’ when: the campaign is aide Thiele nT HMB Wa Hee 1 McK _ BISMARCK NORTH DAKOTA, ‘WEDNESDAY, “APRIL 17, 1918 * LIBERTY LOAN $931 , 156 , 050. 00 Washington, D. C., Appril 17—Subscrip- tions to the Third || Liberty loan as | shown in reports to the treasury now to- || tal $931,156,050. ‘The || first day’s business || for the Minneapolis district, where cam- paigning began Monday,. brought in approximately © $25,- || 000,000. | Reports today told of a great flood of | small subscriptions from people of mod- eraté means. %. BURLEIGH WILL SUBSCRIBE. 195° PERCENT QUOTA | Bismarck: Alone Takes “More Than County’s Allotment of Third Loan | t Hampered by © Bad “Weather, | Committees Are Still: Boost- ing Their Totals DISTRICT HALF. OVER Minneapolis, April “17-— Subscriptions to the Third | Liberty loan in the Ninth re- | serve district: as shown in reports to headquarters here today touched $65,000,000. The ‘district’s allotment is $125,000,000. A steady rain which. fell thruout the district yester- | day proved of assistance to , the campaign rather than a | detriment, A. R. Rogers, campaign director, said. | Encouraged’ by the timely rain: and good crop pros- pects, farmers: are buying bonds willingly, he ex- plained. A total of 88 counties out of 300 in the district, have reportéd subscriptions com- pleted. Burleigh county will go at least 25 per cent over its.quota for the Third Liderty loan, County Chairman H. P. ‘Goddard announced this afternoon. With an allotment of ¥:50,000, Bur- leigh already has reported bond appli- cations. totaling $189,350. Of this to- tal, $157,900, or more than the entire county’s quota, is credited to Bis- marek. The county outside of Bis- marck alrealy has reported $31,450 worth of bonds sold and is expected to sell at least $10,000 more before the campaign formally closes. Bismarck’ is expected to take at least $15,000 scription for the county approximately $215,000. When Wesley McDowell of Marion, state loan chairman, placed Burleigh county’s allotment at $150, 00, he exnressed the hope that the county might sell at least ,«v0,000; and burleigh promises to exceel his aopes by $15,000. Some of the outstanding high lights of the campaign in ‘Bismarck are the commercial travelers’ quota of more than $15,000 and an approximate: to- tal for the state capitol, which was un- |! usually well organized for this drive. Another’ feature -has been the wide It is anti- finished the Third Liberty loan ponds wil be found i nthe hanus 67 5,000 fu- dividuals in this county. “We do not wish to slight anyone in this campaign,” said Cua:rman. God- dard this afternoon. “If, through some. miscalculation. or’ unintentional oversight anyone has. been overlooked we wish to urge thein to call on their bank and leave their subscription there. We*want to’ make this every- body“#,loan, and it<has been our ef- fort: +0 call: personally on everyone. That, of course, has not been possi- ble, and we hope that anyone whom we may, havetmisped wi:l ‘take advant- age of this {nvitation.” Country, Districts. Country ‘districts, outside of Bis- marck, up to Monday night had report- ed as follows: . "|, Bismarck (country) Baldwin -. | means of giving the government pow- jer to stamp out Germa: propaganda. ! ordnance department.” ; Part of German propaganiia in the } Seattle district, union cards have ceen { purchased who have been place in shipyards Bibi Paiste ae Ma De lia PRICE FIVE CENTS. RAGI GREATER PART OF WYTSCHAETE NOW IN HANDS OF THE BRITISH London, April 17.—The greater part of Wytschaete and probably all of it is in the hands of the British, Major General F. B. Maurice, chief director of military operations at the war office, announced today. CHAMBERLAIN BILL AIMS AT HUNSABOTAGE, Ww. P. puicinied of Milwaukee Argues in Favor of Adop- tion of Measure = BARON BURIAN TO if SUCCEED CZERNIN | —— i] Amsterdam, April 17.— {| | | Baron Burian has been ap- | pointed Austro - Hungarian 1 | foreign minister in succes- | sion to Count Czernin, ac- | cording to a Vienna dis- | , patch. Ht Pi CANADIAN 10 BELEXINGTON DAY SPEAKER SLOWING WORK IS DOWN German Propaganda Results in Filling Munitions Factories With Shirkers ‘Washington, D. C., April 17.—The bill of Senator Chamberlain of Ore- gon, to make violators of the espion- age act subject to trial under court martial, S urged today before the senate military commitiee by W. P. Bloodgood, Milwaukee lawyer, as a Black Devils” to Make Ad- dress Here Friday WON HIS FAME AT YPRES The North Dakota Council of De- fense today announced that it had pro- cured Lieut. J. R. Morton, of the 8th Canadian ‘battalion, unfondly Known! by the-Huns as “The Little Black; Deyils,” as the principal speaker for | Bismarck's Lexington day meeting, to ‘be held Friday afternoon, following | a great loyalty parade in which ev-| eryone in the capital city is expected | to participate. Lieut. Morton, now’ touring the state | in the interests of the National Coun-| .cil-of. Defense. and-the- Canadian re: | cruiting service, is “an interesting | speaker. His command, the “‘Little| Black Devils,” was almost complete-| ly wiped out at Ypres. Morton kept on fighting until a few months ago, when, he was ipvalided home. He tells of the actual fighting over there, ; what our boys are really going into, | and he tells it with a native Irish wit; and realism which gets his story| across. The Canadian has spoken at Man-} dan, Valley City and other points inj North Dakota to large audiences, and the North Dakota Council of Defense regards Bismarck as particularly for- tunate in obtaining his services for} the Lexington day celebration. if the weather is fair Friday, the pro- gram will be held on the commons, | north of the Auditorium. The exe cises will include community singing, and music by the Bismarck Elks’ band and the On to Victory orchestra, i ‘GRANT COUNTY Recesuity, of vevactatng vores and) = IN THE CLEAR Passchendaele. | Under the heading ae ull ad-|Baby Shire of Sta States Does Its vance,” the Daily Mail says that up j to this time in their advance, the Bit in Third Loan Germans have been in marshy ground. Yesterday they captured the first of] Carson, 'N. D. April 17.—"“Grant! the important ridges by storming] county is well in the clear,” reported Wytschaete, being aided by the fall of| Herbert H. Hallenberg, county chair-| Bailleul, and thus “the security of the; man for the Third Liberty loan. “Sev- Ypres salient, so long the bulwark of/ eral of the communities which already our left and touched with such im-| have reported more than doubled their mortal memories to us, is imperiled.’| quotas. Freda, with an apportion- ment of $1200, had sold $2400 up to; Tuesday afternoon; Shields, with a quota of $1500, reported sales totalling $2750 Tuesday afternoon. The county was organized by townships, with a} committee in each township, and with a district for each township commit- | teeman—the plan recommended by lthe government—and it has worked out excellently for us.” Mr. Hallenberg hopes to have com- plete returns for Grant county tabulat- | ‘ed before the end of the week, and | he is confident that a big oversubscrip- tion for the county wil be shown. GOES TO ST. PAUL “The direct effect of this .propa- ganda,” he said, “is to slow down the production of every department that iis werking for the government. 1 think it is having a very. unfortun- ate effect on shipbuilding, - airplane construction, and. production in the Mr. Bloodgood charged that as a for unskilled workmen where they are. paid the same wages, as the skilled workmen. This, he said, slows down production. GRAVITY OF HUN VICTORY RECOGNIZED Germans Have Made First Im- portant Gain in Capture of Bailleul nea LONDON PRESS COMMENTS ‘London, Eng., April 17.—There is no inclination to minimize the serious- ness of the loss of Bailleul and the GERMAN-RUSSIANS LOYAL CITIZENS; Mrs. H. C. Rhud Defends Fellow, Countrymen The German-Russians of North Das kota are loyal, declared ‘Mrs. H. Rhud of Fargo, on her arrival in Bie.| marck on Tuesday following a six, weeks’ tour of the German-Russian; farming communities of westetrn | North Dakota. Mrs. Rhud was born; in Russia of German ancestry. She’ | | ETIC POINT Lieut. J. R. Morton of “Little, | Amsterdam, BAKER PRAISES. SAMMY'S STAND. AGAINST .HUNS Secretary of War Declares Yan- kees Are More Than Hold- ing Their Own | ease Nene ond \WE MUST SURPORE WAR | | | | Financial Backing and Faith’ Re- quired by Our Boys Over There in Trenches Washington, D. C., April 11—Seere. tary Baker's observations in. Eurgpe were laid before President. Wilson early today. The secretary went. to | the white house at 10 o'clock and re- mained for a lengthy conference. | Just back from a seven weeks’ tour ;of the western battle front and to the !entente capitals, the secretary -re- ported not only on the military situa- tion, but political conditions as well. Americans Make Good. “The American soldier has made good in France,” Secretary Baker to- day assured newspaper men who met him at the war- department: “The | French and British authorities are uniform in their praise of the cour- age, endurance and soldierly queli- ties of our men. “The big thing for America to do is to support the war,” the secretary continued. “To support it financially jand with a firm belief.. The right arm of America is in France. It, is j bared and ready to. strike. The rest ‘of the body is here in the United i States\and it must support the arm. This support should include ,eubscrip- tions to Liberty.Joans as. wel as,mor- |al support of. of, high, considen confidence.” Levies HOLLAND WILL: SEND SHIPS if. ~ GIVEN SURENY [Dutch Government, heads | Assurance That Vessels wilt: oe Reach America ‘ ' April 17.—The Duteh government, Dr. Louden, the -foreign minister announced yesterday, is: pre- pared to accept the American govern: ment’s proposal to send three’ ship- loads of grain to Holland on condition that Holland send three ships of about the same tonnage to America. i According to the Telegraaf, the mint ister added: “Holland must, however, have the certainty that the three ships will reach America. The government has reason to assume that Germany will | place no itopeduinents in their -way.” HIGH EAGLE TO REPRESENT HIS RACE’S CLAIMS Standing Rock Reservation In- dian Selected to Go to Washington Fort Yates, N. D., April 17.—R, P. Higheagle of the Standing Rock: re- servation is one of three delegates selected at the Black Hills council at Fort Thompson, S: D., to carry to | Washington the Sioux nation’s repre- sentations as to its claims for an in- demnity for several million dollars for the forfeiture of the treaty ceding | these Indians the Black Hills country. Supt. Kitch, who attended the Fort ; Thompson conference, declares it the most representative ever held :by.the | Sioux nation. Delegates were ..pres- ent from Fort Peck, Standing -Rock, Pine Ridge, Cheyenne, ‘Rosebud, Crow Creek, Lower Beuwe, ‘Northern Chey- /@nne, Arapahoe and Shoshone reserva- ‘tions. Three Star, a Pine Ridge In- speaks tHe dialects common to the German-Russians who have emigrated | o America, and under the auspices of, Valley City Normal Librarian) the North Dakota council of defense) she has done good work in address-| Resigns Post ‘ng her countrymen on war issues. At| Hebron, Mrs. Rhud reports: that the; German-Russians of the “Little Mos-/ | Anna L. Gates has resigned her /post | cow” community, too hard hit by last] as assistant librarian at the Valley | years’ crop failures to invest individ-| City normal school with the intention | ially in bonds, banded together and! of leaving May 1 for St. Paul’ to be- | from their small store of ready money} come reference librarian in thé social | purchased one $500 Liberty bond for} science department of the St. Paul | the community. They did this of their] \ublic library. Miss: Gates has been own volition, says Mrs Rhud, because| assistant librarian at thé normal | he local committee, knowing their} school since 1915. Prior to coming | jmancial status, had refrained from} here she held a similar positions at! Velley City, N. D. D., April 17-—Miss dian, presidéd. The delegates will go to Washington in the near future: to file the resolutions which are. expect- ‘ed to furnish a basis for the final:ad- justment of thet long disputed Black ‘Hills claims. [DICKINSON’S NEW. « MAYOR IS ON JOB J. V. Jessen 1 Succeeds Alf White as Chief Executive Dickinson, N. D., April 17.—Dickih- zoliciting them. | Hartford, Chardon and Cleveland, 0.} | IRISH SITUATION CENTERS ATTENTION OF STATESMEN | London, Eng., April 17.—While na-[ | son’s reform mayor, J. V. Jessen, took | office today, and starts out with @ new | Slate so far as the police department, city attorney and street commissi6 jens departments are concerned The | personnel of the aldermen is élso The home rule bill, it is understood, | greatly changed, nearly one half of the 50| resistance to the enforcement of con- tionalist Ireland is making plans for] will take the form of a measiire amending the government of Ireland scription in their country, the rest of act which passed just before the out the’ United Kingdom is more interest- ed in the home rule bill which George Nicoll Barnes, labor member of the 000! war cabinet, without, ,portfolio, .an- nounced in: the house, of, conmmong.yes- 000 terday ttie’governmentwould pasa or ‘fallin the attempt. ste break of the war, but the operation of which was suspended for the period of the, war. /General opinion tavors a men, practically all who were elected: on April 1, being new faces in: the council.. A majority of the counctiiiea stand squarely with Mayor Jesses,in his contention for a new deal. Alfred ‘White, the outgoizig-‘e: tivé/‘who has been ill and confined federal. measute, which would ‘be his home the past two weeks, ‘was m made, applicable, to, Scotland, Wales) able to'be‘ present whet his successdt and England. 1 took office this afternoon. ‘= z