The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1918, Page 2

VON ARNIM'S DESPERATE, FUTILE HAMMERING STOPS: BRITISH RECLAIM GROUND Sustaining Great ey (na Troops Give Up! Attempts to Batter Thru Unyielding Allied; Line; Dashing Counter Drive of French Thrusts | Enemy Out of Locre. With the British Army in sociated Press.)—Up to noon today the badly punished German troops along the Flanders front had made no further attacks} against the allied lines which held so brilliantly. throughout yester- day’s intense fighting. With the British Armies in ated Press.) —Further desperate against the allied lines on the Flanders battlefield yesterday after- | noon and eyening met with no more success than the enemy’s futile! and costly attempts earlier in the day to break through and cap- ture the hill positions west of Kemmel. Not only did the British and French maintain their positions at virtually all points in’ the face of furious on- slaughts, but during the night they reclaimed seevral bits of territory on which the enemy had succeeded in get- ting a hold, Locre Retdken. Locre had again fallen into German hands late yestrday, but the French once more'made a dashing counter drive, and thrust the enemy ou tof this important place. The allied lines in Flanders this morning were to all intents the same as when the Germans surged forward yesterday and in front of the defend- ing positions gray uniformed men lay in great number, representing the aw- ful price paid by thé Germans. fl Allies Better Positions. North of Kemmel the British and French, countering in conjunction, al- sa pushed forward somewhat during the night and bettered the positions. At one time yesterday the Germans actually had some men on the lower slopes of, both Mon Rouge, and the Scherpenberg, after they succeeded ‘in driving a small wedge into the Fretch Mne between these two elevations. Fierce fighting continued about Loc: re all day, and the enemy sacrificed great numbers of men in an attempt to, push through here.” here. British Succeed _ In Locre Battle GERMAN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. Berlin, via London, May ‘The official statement from General head- quarters today says: “Infantry engagements developed on isolated sectors on the Flanders bat- tle field. North of Voormezeele and | Vierstraat we captured’ several br lish ‘trenches. Strong detachment which were penetrating the enem) lines near Locre came in contact with French counter attacks. During the course of the fighting 2 enemy suc- ceeded in establishing himself in Loc- re. the village failed. “Strong artillery activity extended over the whole Kemmel territory and continued until darkness fell. “Macedonian front: “Between the Vardar and Lake Doir- an, an enemy thrust which followed rartillery preparations lasting seevral days broke down before’ our lines.” GRACK TRAIN ON N,P, WRECKED AT CASSELTON, ¥. D. Four Carsof North Coast Limit- ed Jump Track; Defective Switch Cause Fargo, N. D, May 1—The North Coast Limited ‘No. 1 on the Northern Pacific, was wrecked a short distance cast of Casselton, N. D., shortly after six o'clock tonight. “Four cars, the mail, baggage, express and day c ‘h, as.well as the engine left the trac The mail and baggage cars were part- ly: telescoped. No one was injured. ‘The cause of the wreck is given by of- ficials as a defective switch, but the engineer of the train and .people of Casselton believe the switch was tamp- ered with as it was all right a shor time before the train was due to p The train was travelling forty miles an hour at the time the time of the) wreck. RECORD LOAN DAY MAY BE OPENING OF BANNER WEEK Washington, D. C., ty loan subscriptions led $174,443,000, the ré single day in the campaign, and the beginning of what the treasury hopes will be a banner week to drive -the loan far above the three billion dollar minimum. The campaign total _to- night was $2,457,744,000 not including j (effort the His attempts to advance beyond | Flanders, May. 1.—(By the As- France, May |.—(By the Associ- smashes by Von Arnim’s army | today’s business, which apearcd to be | large. | The San Francisco district with an} official percentage of 88 and fifth posi-| tonight that the one hundred percent mark had been passed with’ sitbscrip- than its uoqta. FRENCH COUNTER DRIVES GERMANS FROM A VILLAGE Locre Again in Hands of Allied | | Troops, Who Hold Hotly | Contested Hospice GERMAN BLOW FORRCEFUL | 'Thuirty Fresh Battalions Flung | Against Comparatively Small | Allied Forces | | British Headquarters. in France,} |May 1.—(via Ottawa)—French forces !this morning held the whole of the town of Locre, west of Kemmel, includ- jing the hotly contested hospice. The | allied line » made some progr eee ! attack was the biggest | rmans have made in the Flanders oi e, the enemy employ. ing about th y fresh battalions of reserves, tf addition to the large num- of divisions in position at the be-| ginning of the battle. | | A satisfactory feature of the strug ; sie is that the British and French em- ployed relatively smaii for At one point the lrench were forced | jto yield a little ground, but suports promptly arrived and drove back the Germans. | By 11:30 o’colck in the morning the} Germans had forced their way through near Locre as far as Hyde Park corn. | er, between Scherpenburg and Mont Kouge. This was one of the critical moments of the day, but the French! counter attacked flercely and an hour later had pressed back the enemy on tho flank and held him in the center | By 3 o'clock the French were hold- | ing the ground cast of Kercerhet farm | and Locre Chateau and also part «tj focre vilage on ihe southern slope, of “Scherpenburg. Thencelorth, the Lasition became lily more. satis- factory. ‘By 5:20 tie French had re- taken all. the 1o8:) ground cent, 2 | narrow strip at Hives Park | [LEAGUE WORKER'S tion in the percentage list, sent word N |niust disclose’ whether they have de- ‘fore they are able to recover from the | | tacked! Separately with the object, of | line. SDAY, MAY 1, 1918. ESCORT CHARGED WITH KIDNAPING Miles City, Mont., May 1.—A score of prominent residents of Miles City and vicinity were arrested today on | warrants charging them with kidnap- ling. The ‘son alleged to have been kidnaped J. A. McGlynn, an or- ganizer for th onpartisan league. McGlynn was to have held a meet- ing here on Apri The meeting did not mater partly because Mc- Glynn was ed to a train by sev- According to some of they took no further McGlynn. They deny ped him: | i }eral persons | the defendants action agains | that they ‘keidn GERMANS USED SOUTHERN FLANK IN BIG ATTACK Meanwhile They Bombard North- | ward ern Flank of French With Poison Gas EW BATTLE APPROACHES | tions of.8211,000,000, or a million more} Enemy Must Soon Show His | cre: Hand on Extent Planned for Fighting Line May 1.—(By the As: jated —The Germans again turned their at- tention to the southern flank of their front Sunday night and early Monday morning, assaulting the Hangard wood a number of times successfully. ; At the same time they bombarded ‘with poison gas shells the northern flank, where they are: strong indica- tions of an approaching attack, It appears certain the Germans soon cided to confine their operatioris to:the present battle front or to extend the actual fighting line. The enemy's tactics In the present battle beara very close resemblance to those used in the battle of Verdun in 1918, but on an immensely larger scale. After | the opening rush along the entire line for the purpose of overwhelming the defenders by strength of numbers be- first great shock, each flank is at- securing strong ‘suporting bases on both wings which would permit them to launch a second and real offensive. On this occasion Flanders and Pie- ardy form the flanks of the German battle front, the center of which is| ;the Arras salient. For their opera-| ‘tions in Flanders” the Germans are} well placed a8 regards communica-| ; ions. The allie: not so well pro-| vided in this resp Up tothe present, however, the en-| emy¥ has made only little progress of | either end of the line, but his menace has not been effaced. It is kuown thet the Germans are very powerful and that total fresh divisions are} available for further big efforts, ‘al- though they alréady ‘have thrown ap- proximately two million men into the Many divisions that have participat- ed in the battles have been severly | d. Some estimates of their) amount to as high as a half million men.” Conservative © calcula- tions, however, do ‘not ‘place the ‘loss- es beyond © 300, 400 mon. WHEAT CONTROL. CHECKED. PRICE ADVANCE. RIOTS Hoover Declares Flour, Untram- RUSSIAN REVOLT HUN PROPAGANDA meled Would Now Be $30.to New York, N. Y., May J—If the French Newspapers Hold Belief | That Berlin Was Source of Sensation Washington, D. y 1.—Recent reports coming from Finland through Copenhagen that a revolt in Petrograd Monarchy, emanated from Berlin in the opinion of French newspapers as given in an official dispatch today from France. The French papers prefer to accept the news with great caution. “The French papers” said the dis- patch, “receive with great reserve the report sent out by German propa- ganda that serious troubles appear to have broken out in Petrograd that a monarchist restoration is likely to fol- low in favor of the former Czarovitch, had resulted in the restoration of the} government had “allowed “the com- in wheat to take its untrammel- 2” flour would be selling at the mill door yesterday for $30, to $50 la barrel instead of $10, to $10. 0° and | probably “rioting would have been ex- | perienced in all our ceniers of con- | gested population, of violence that leads to blood in our gutters” declared Herbert Hoover, federal food adminis- | trator, in an address. here today. ' Mr. Hoover spoke at a conference | of 160 representative American grain dealers and officials of the food ad- | ministration’s grain division. called to discuss grain exports and regulation of cereal consumption in this coun- try. i Asserting that when flour went to $16.75 a barrel at the mill door last May and resulting hardships dislocat- ed our entire economic life, Mr. Hoover said he did not accuse the grain trade of having been responsible for the sit- juation, but rather blamed the fact that the allies had to have wheat and were 8, | Alexis Nicolaievitch.” RRR ARR aaah prepared to pay any price for it. With the French army in France, | the Postal ¢ STRIKE AVERTED IN PAPER MILLS BY LABOR BOARD PEP Conciliation of Telegraphers and; Harbor Workers Then Tak- en Up | AGREEMENT ENDS JULY 1 Demands Will ‘Be Adjusted| ; While Work Goes on, Under | | Arrangement Sa aera: { Washington, D. C., May 1—The| war labor board today averted the) strike of the pulp and’ paper workers “| called for May 1, in the plants of the | International Paper company, which | manufactures sixty percent of the Am- | 7 erlcan consumption, and started to- jatives of the commercial telegraph | ucation decided today at its meeting. conciliation of difficulties involv. | operators union that operators are be-| Such use can only be obtained howev- jing. minercial tolegraphers and New | | ing dismissed by the companies all ov-|er, the board voted, upon the formal | York fretght handlers. er the United tSates for joining the | granting of a written request. An elght hour day and an increased | Gnion. sg. J. Konenkamp of Chicago, seale of pay demanded by the paper | president of the operators’ union, told | {workers were taken under considera- | the board that authority to call a |tion by the board, upon an agreement | as ip his hands, and that dis between union officials and employers, involving up to 100 operato |that the board's adjustment would be} ‘in Dallas, ‘Texas: j made before July 1, and that wage in- nd | | HOHENZOLLERNS | NEVER GAVE AID, | LUTHERANS SAY had been mad A Clevland, Ohi rgo, if granted, would date ofr | aM 7 hi May |. In the meantime the federal! (og Seattle; Wasitington, “and Cut | New York, N. ¥., May 1.—No as- ill consider the} BO. | sistance or guidance has e come to trade commission Rice the American Lutheran Church from jawards in fixing prices for paper. 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