The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 18, 1918, Page 8

Sse Recent Events Encouraging; British Retaining Boyelles; Pays for Towns Hun Blood A New Onslaught is Ex-| pected Between Bail- leul and Wytschaete, in Wake of Tremen- dous Battles British Fought to Regain the Towns, Giving Them up Only Before Un- paralelled Massed At- tacks Ottowa, Ont., April attack is impending Bailleul and Wytschaete, says ¢ Reuter’s correspondent at Brit- ish headuarters in France in a dispatch received here tonight. The correspondent adds that the British are maintaining their positions at. Boyelles, south of Arras. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Out of the chaos of the tremendous | battle along the Lys river, south and | southwest of Ypres, the thunder of which may be heard forty or fifty miles | away, theréhave come during the past | day reports which are more encour: | aging to the allied powers, The Brit ish not only have held the ground! which they were defending on ‘Tues-} day, but Rave struck back so powé fully that Meteren and part of Wytsch- aete were retaken and held for a time Only after heavy attacks did the Brit-| ish-retire again, from the villages. Huns Claim More Towns The most disturbing news has been a report from Berlin that Poelcapelle and Langemarck, north of Ypres, have been taken by the Germans and the admission from London that the Brit- ish have retired from certain of their lines in the Ypres salient. The retire- ment here was expected for the ad- vance of the Germans at Neuve lise and Bailleul left the positions 17.—An between in front of Ypres open to a flank attack. | Tt was officially stated that the retire-| ment was orderly and it is probable that it will have more of a sentimental than a strategic effect. Just how far the British lines have been withdrawn is not known. It may be, however, that | the German claim of taking Peolcap-} elle ‘and’ langemarck was the result of ‘the ‘British retirement. Battle Intense The battle now is in its ninth ¢ has deepened intensely at many points | along the curved front from Messines | ridge to Meteren. There have been re ports that the Germans have occupied | the:village of St. Eloi, which lies less | than three miles south of Ypres. but | these*have not been confirmed. It al 80 was said that they have taken pos- itions on the south slope of Mount; Kemmel, which is about two and a half miles north of Wulverghem. This also has not been confirmed Foe Suffers Heavily. On all the rest of the front from Messines ridge southwestward the Germans have flung themselves against the granite wall of the | ish defense. Official and semi-o dispatches have told of the frigh losses inflicted on the attacking mass- es of troops by the British rifle and machine gun fire, On the southern side of the salient there have been engagements of some magnitude, especially east of Robeca. five miles northyest of Bethune, where the Germans were caught by the Brit- ish artillery fire and scattered The line in front of Arras has again ; heen the sccene of fighting, but here the British took the offensive and } ee "ALGOHOL-3 PER GENT. AVegelabiePr fords: | similating the Food by Regula § fing the Stomachs and Bowels of coming back to the WANNER ORDERS | This order issued yesterday | afternoon. Captain Wanner also requests all ASTORIA Mothers Know That Bears the Signature drove the Germans out of British | trenches which had been carried by the enemy. ‘ Artillery Duels. In the Picardy sector there has been | | | * up from a hundred homes and great! plundereds. Many things have been cannon-yomitsvolcanic fire. It is a liv-| deliberately destroyed by their own- jing hell. It is a part heretofore un-|ers in order that the Germans might , touched Flanders going the war of the| not get them, $ | devastated regions of the Somme, and pea so the gentle peasant folk stand and| look, or wander on. As they go they | ‘ cannot comprehend it. Its awfulness/ PEACEFUL PLAIN has numbed their brains. i j the | The correspondent found a_ little; FEATHER, MAJOR Freshly Turned Farm Lands,| % No Tears; Silent Suffering family group crouching beneath huge; British howitzers held in reserve.| - ae af {Their eyes were fastened on the} Picturesque Villages En- mounting columns of smoke. which gulfed in War. Drag John M. Birkner Around by the Neck for Violating Espionage ;rose from the village whence they !canje. There were no tears and no} words, but’ the’ expression On their! faces was like'that of those just con-| lievly artillery engagements between the Somme and Oise rivers, but only patrol encounters are reported oflic: | ially. | Further south only raiding opera: tions have been going on The Turks announce that they h taken the city of Batum, on the ea ern shore of the Black Sea. They r port strenuous fighting before the Ry sian defenders of the city were dri en out | Raron Stephen Burian Von Rejecz | has succeeded Count ¢ eign minister of A ed on Decemt The Macedon gain he-| come active. Greek and British troops anced and driven the Teuton- s from seven town along the ved, on the eastern end of nch forces have also been] Struma r the line, Fr active in this theatre of the war Fifteen British merchanumen were | lost ¢ submarines i GUARDS REPORT Lexington Day Celebration Will be Big Parade and Speeches “All members of the Bismarck home are ordered to report at the} at 1:15 p.m. sharp, Friday, to take part in the Lexing- April 14 ton Day parade. Guards are ordered to report in uniform (if they have one) and with guns. Ernest G. Wanner, commanding.” lodges, unions, orders and house organizations to ‘be represent- ed in the monster parade that will ex- cel any held previously. He means the invitation to include everyone. Wea- therman Roberts has been asked to do} his bit by furnishing good weather. | Well known speakers will deliver ad- | dresses after the parade. } HOUSING BILL =| STRIKES SNAG Attempts at Amendment; Meas-: ure Called “Step Toward Autocracy.” Washington, D, C. pri] 17.—Unex- pected opposition from the republican | side prevented passage of the $6!.-| 000,000 Di housing war workers, in! the senate today and determined ef forts to amend the measure will be made tomorrow bofeor the final vote. | dlican leader Gallinger declar-| for Rep ed provis f the legislation commendeering of dwellings was step toward a species of auto While Senator Fall ol publican, said the measure wi sponse to ‘the voice of the m: ss Senator Swanson. of Virginia, the| chairman of the public buildings com-| mittee, and other democrats, defended the legislation as vilally necessary to} dite manufacture of war mater-| | | | | For Infants and Children, | Genuine Castoria Always Use For Over ‘he | : horrid drean- ring the week from mines or | C04 CMU ME, April 18.—Four demned to die, | Santa FP Why they stopped beside the great! hundred con s in the state peniten- guns was unexplained. Possibly it was! ti yester tarred and fea Gray Smoke From Burning Ham. because it gave them a sense of pro-| thered and led around with a rope j tection from dangers.’ out beyond.; around his neck Major John M. Birk- ; Many of the refugees know only in} ner, of Camp Cedy, Deming, N. M., ja general way where they go: they| held in, the penitentiary a federal ‘are following the lead of — military; prisoner. He is charged with violation oS guides like sheep fleeing from a storm. of the espionage act. h Army in’ France, A few cherished belongings. are all; Major Birkner, who was born in they with them) and they ¢ ‘ng | Nuremberg, Germany, but who has to these desperately as their last re-; been in the American military lorces THE OLD AND YOUNG FLEE lets and Belching Guns Left By People = With the Br April 18. 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Some have CTE I sear perpetrate going gaan ee We .are Shoe specialists—we know Shoes (the,proper 2 ville, Bailleul and a score of other} by their own hearths before they | beam 4 rus of fi San = nearby places which never lost their could be removed, A host of these poo | in the yard to find Birkner. stripped shape for your feet), we know how to fit them (the right. = charms. Then peacetul farm land i wile must have realized their danger Seater a arena neh and. eee tons | size to give you comfort and correct appearance). We = freshly turned ready for the spring} but numbers refused to be dragged} he prisoners, w 8, : . “ = crops. The battle lines were not ar {from the homes which they had been | leading him about the yard by a rope feature Florsheim Shoes—they have a record of “depend- = ‘ to the eastward, but death and des-! keeping so patiently, awaiting the re-| #7ound his neck. — able quality.” ‘ ‘ 2 truction seemed remote with walls of | turn of husbands or brothers from the| Assistant Superintendent Dugan res- ; {3 khaki clad men guarding the land.|war. There were many pitiful cases of Cued him. The prisoners, evidently in ‘ = pittle lads stood at attention by the homes in whieh there were bed ridden accordance with a prearranged plot. You can come to us with the confidence of being well 3 r de and saluted as the motors | invalids. whom theri friends had no Recurel E: het ne oe . a si ai passed and old men and women ber; 1; means of removing without help trom | pillows, but whore the tar came* from served. Our experience adds nothing to the cost of the F ed welcome from the doors of theiy/ the soldiers. : jis a mystery. shoes, : 2 cottages Paralytic Rescued Under Fire | Birkner is alleged to have made dis- = Driven From Homes | It was only yesterday that a Brit-; loyal utterances as ‘you can’t beat . . z Within a few days all this has been |ish official photographer who was re-} he Dutch,” and “The Germans will | 9 e = changed. The plagne of war has de-|{cording the. history of the war on his} Sink American transports as fast a8 /& FY scened on the countrysid ow one] films, discovered a helpless paralytic! ‘hey are sent over.” Birkner claimed |% osen S 0 i 1n 0 = meets his civilian friends—the little |lying in a house which had already | ane ohare: were spite wore 4 opine F4 Fy ® folk and the aged—-from many ham-| been partly wrecked by shells. The| ‘inate officers whom he seiplin- |= ij ‘ = lets making their way sadly back along | invalid had no ‘relative and _ his; €@- 3 Only One Store. McKenzie Hotel Bldg. = the broad highway leading westward | friends, who:had looked after him, Seagr= Fr gt it Se Pi Ss from the tide of invasion whieh is|were veal or cut off from hin, so the SCHWAB TAKES Vanssncesnenuontaacuennnany usncovocganensasuconascugeanqncveny tunnanocinny u d ng them all from all they hold |photosrapher, with the assistance of . A dear, ja soldier, ‘carried the.man to safety. OVER NEW JOB . ‘ : They look back on the rolling fields |thongh their road lay. through what) . a vast buliding program, will assume his | vice president and general manager that separate them from their little| might baye been a horrible death, at|Steel-Maker Will Be at Head of }duties late this week, according to!of the fleet corporation, and Bain. world. By day a bank of grim, grey |any momeént.°“This is*one instance fi A statemetns published here. today. bridge Colby, a member of the board, amoke from burning hamlets and from |among many. Fleet Corporation Mr, Schwab, with Chairman Hurlay,|'conferred with President Wilson yes- myrid belching guns mark the zone} Sometimes there is no way of sav. pee een of the shipping board, Charles Piez,| terday. alone which are struggling the splea-|ing valuables of bulk in towns which Washington, D. C., April 17.—Char- q did British soldiers in their efforts to! come first under the fire of the Ger. | les Schwab, steel-maker and shipbuild- J block further inroads of the Hun, By {man troops. Relics ard treasures rep:jer, newly appointed director general night the skyline is some times ajresenting the savings of years have|of the emergency fleet corporation, laurid blaze as consuming fiames leap | .een abandoned to the flames and} with .inlimited power to put thru the ‘ Him Home in Safety The supreme papedics of war are not enacted on the battlefield, but in the home. Above the shouts of command and encourage- ment, the roar and. shock: of the great guns, and all the swelling tumult of battle which bear the husband and father to a hero’s grave and a martyr’s glory, there:rise the weeping of the bereaved wife and'the cries of little children deprived of a father’s love and care. é American fathers aré now on the battlefronts of France. Many must fall; how-many:-de- pends upon us who remain safely at home. life, your soldiers life, and bring him home in safety to those who hold his life far more precious than their own.” ~ ment is Published. by: ‘ .