The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER ‘Partly Cloudy. SDAY, MAY 15, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GRAPHIG AG ‘Cheerful Discipline on Mission That Meant. Death to Most of Them-——Port Blocked for All But Very Small Craft—Hun Destroyers Re- fusé to Give Battle. _ London, May 15,—The admiralty has issued the following gra- phic story of the Ostend operation: es “Dunkirk, May 11.—The Sirius lies in the surf some two thou- sand yards east of the entrance to Ostend harbor, which she failed 80 gallantly to block, and when in the early. hours of yesterday morning the Vindictive groped her way through the smoke screen and headed for the entrance it was as though the old fighting ship awoke and. looked on. ' \ : A “A coastal mortar boat had Visited her and‘hung a flare in her stack and rusty rigging, and that eye of unsteady fire, paling in the blaze ‘of star shells, or redening through the drift of smoke, watched ‘the whole great enterprise from t¥e~ moment when it hung in doubt'as to it’s ultimate triumphant sifteess. | : org between! fis SURPRISE ATTACK “The planning and execution of that success had been en- trusted by Vice Admiral Sir Robert Keyes to: Commodore Hubert Lynes, who directed the previous attempt to block the harbor with the Sirius and Brilliant. Upon that pegasion a combination of unforeseen and unforeseeable conditions had fought against him. “Upon this, the main problem, was to secure ‘the effect ofa surprise attack upon an enemy who was clearly, from his ascer- tained mi, expecting him. The Sirius‘and Brilliant had been baffled by the displacement ‘buoy, which marks the channel to the harbor that the’ in ‘the toward’ mid age, it was large.upon the‘coast. “Night, ‘ wphe solution of the, indicated: by. the ‘chronicle: of .e1 It -was.a night that:promised well: t y, windless—and. craft, i ‘ tor boats, whose: inshore. ah ae “From the destroyer. which: served the commodore fora flagship,/the re- force. were visible ‘Of Diackness." « . ry of guilt planes were about. tually on the wa: over the invisible cpest of Flanders the summer lightning of restless ar- “There's the Vindicitive! The muf- fled seamen and marines standing by the torpedo tubes and guns turned at that name to\gaze at the great black ship seen: mistily through the screen- ing smoke from the destroyers’ fun- nels, plodding silently to her goal. “She receded into the night astern, as a destroyer raced on to lay a light buoy that. was to he her guide and those on, boi nomore. She passed ds of the small ci mission-was to guide het, light, her’ and “hide her in. the clouds of @ smoke screen. 3 No Preliminary Bombardment. “The ‘no preliminary bombard- ment of.the, harbor and batteries as before the previous attempt: That was to :be. the first, element in the surprise..;-- : ue “Monitors anchored in firing posi- tions far, seaward awaited the. sig- nal. The great sea batteries of the Royal marine artillery. in, Flanders, among the largest guns that wefe ever placed on-land mountings, stood by to neutralize the bigger man artillery along the coast ‘and the airmen who were to collaborate with an aerial bombardment of the town waited somewhere in the darkness oventieas Destroyers patrolled to seaward of the small craft. “The indVicitive, always at that sol- emn gait of hers, found the flagship's light huoy‘and bore up where a coast- al motor boat was waiting by @ cal- cium flare upon the old position of the Stroom Bank buoy. “Four minutes before she arrived there and fifteen’ minutes only before she was due at the harbor mouth, the signal for the guns to open was given. Two motorboats dashed in to- ward the ends of the high wooden piers and torpedoed them. There was a machine gun on the end of the wes- tern pler and that vanished in a roar and leap of flames’ which called to the guns. . . Surprise Was Complete. “Over the town a flame suddenly appeared high in the air and sank slowly. earthward@#—the signal that the airplanes had seen and under- stood. Almost coincidentally with their first bombs came the first shells, whooping up from thé monitors at sea. The surprise, despite the German watchfulness, seems to have been com- plete. Up until the moment when the torpedoes of the motorboats ex- ploded there had not been a shot from the land—only occasionally rou- tine star shells. « “phe motor launches: built to either hand of the Vindicitive’s course the likeness of a dense sea mist, driv- ing landward with the wind. Star shells paled and, were lost as they sank ‘Bie the beams of searchlights They were ac- visit Calais, and gory aution against tight Thursday the ships’ moved from their anchor- known that some ni jounced. German alr |’ Butisince then aerial reconnaissance had established mans had removed the buoy ‘altogether and that there now. were. ha guiding marks of any kind. They also had cut gaps ta landing, and further, when ine German ‘destroyers, were at President Wilson. Will Receive First Letter from Gov. Whit- man of New York ~ TO AUCTION OFF MESSAGE Chief Executives of Nation and Empire State Will Auto- graph Noted Missive ‘New York, -N. Y., May. 15.—Aero- plane mail’ service in the United States was inaugurated when a gov- ernment aeroplane pilated by Lieuten- ant Torrey H. Webb, left Belmont Park at 11:30 a.m. for ‘Washington, with: pouches containing some 4,000 letters.. 0.5, ~~~ Airplane mail service upder the di- rection and authority of the United States government was instituted to- day over a regular route for the first time in thig country with Philadelphia ‘ag, the central point of the system. The pioneer plane of the service arriv- ed from..New , York at the landing place here at 1p. m. ‘ In six minutes the 350 pounds of mail brought from ‘New York had been shifted to another aeroplane. Some maf! from Philadelphia had been added, and at 1:06 O'clock with’ Lieu- tenant Edgerton as the pilot the starz for ‘Washington, approximately 140} miles distant, was made. President Sees Start. Washington, D.~C., May 15.—Aero plane mail service between Washing: ton and New York went into opera- tion today, when the first mail car- rier piloted by Lieutenant George L. Boyle, left Potomac Park for Phila- delphia, at 11:45 o'clock. President and Mrs. Wilson witnessed the initial start. The president, as head of the Amer- fcan Red Cross, will receive the first letter by airplane from ‘New York. The communication will be from Gov- ernor Charles S. Whitman and will express: his wishes to the president for the success of the Red Cross cam- paign which starts next week to raise $100,000,0v0 for war relief work. The mail airplanes will be piloted OLIVER COUNTY MATRON MEETS TERRIBLE END Death in an Attempt to Save Farm Home f Woman Made Desperate Attempt to Extinguish Flames— Funeral’ Thursday - While ‘attempting to save her home by carrying, .a gasoline’ stove which was‘in flames, Mrs. Fred Mathias was Lurned to: death last evening on her lusband’s. farm near. Hannover, On: ver county, ‘Her nine-year-old daughter had started to ‘fill the stove preparatory to getting the evening meal, put no- ticlng something wrong about the ac- tion of the burners ran to her mother crying “fire”! Mis. Mathias rushed jnto the kitch- en and seized the stove, hoping to fave the home from destruction But as she staggered to the door, tne oil container broke and spiasned the oil over her clothes. immediately sne was én) eloped*ty flames, Dropping ‘ue stove vhe ran for e rein barre!-tear by and jumpeu ints it “Her body, was on’y partia'ly coy ered and th> flames, continued to. burn alout her acad and ‘shoulders, Her husiand ‘ran in from thy filet aud discove ‘cd his wife lifeless in the tarrel. Five childen. stood near by erying zud helninse about their mother’s charred remains. The funera! will be held Thur dav from the German Evangelical churen ai Hannoyer. “ Mrs. Mathias was thirty-five years of age and is survived by a husband ard five chi!lren. ARRESTS MADE FOR OUSTING OF THEI. W.W. Twenty-one Leading Mine Offi- i cials of Warren District Are Indicted Tucson, Ariz. May 15.—Twenty-one of the leading mining company ofti- cials, employees, and business men of the Warren district were arrested at Bisbee this ‘morning on indictments returned by the federal grand jury, which last week completed an inyesti- by grmy aviators especially detailed to the service for experience in cross country flying. “ i To Auction Off Letter. The stamp on the. first letter to: be carried: from ‘Washington to New TContinued on Page Three.) —————— | AMERICAN FLYER | | BRINGS DOWN HIS | NINTH HUN PLANE Paris, May 15.—Sergeant Frank L. Baylies of New Bed- | | ford, Mass., a member of the | | French flying forces, has’! brought down another Ger- | man aeroplane. His score is .| now nine enemy machines | sce. February’ 13. xd gation of the deportation last July of nearly 1,200 alleged -members of the LESS: THAN HALF TIL). ABLE LAND IN RUSSIA IS WORKED Samara, Russia, Thursday, May 2. (By Associated Press.) —Less than half the tillable land of European Russia, remain- ing in control of the Bolsheviki government will be cultivated this year. » General unrest among the peasants, the uns¢t- tled contitions of land distribu- tion and ‘Shortages of seed, horses “and agricultural imple- ments: are responsible for. this condition of affairs. ates Had Planned .W.in Revolution sensation today is-the race for air hon- the */super-aces ‘of the ¥rench flying drons—Charles Nungesser and Rene’ Fonk. These two flyers’ have 'out-Guyne- mered Guynemer, logg: hailed as the greatest of war-birdapen. Fonk is the aviat Guynemer_ by bring! down a. Ger- man who had hoasted:..""With Guyne- mer dead, I'féat no Frenchmen.” Pacey rec . Fonk haye in e last few days plished: that caaseeate any, tne ‘ fore the German drive, and. Pat sangot the:two air ri- vals are lay: ites\ ‘Nungesser within five minutes, dur- ing a thrilling air’ Gombat, brought uown two German hich will be marked down as thirty-sixth victim: flight he damaged another, which haa not yet been placed officially to’ his credit. ¥onk, the next day, cored a greater triumph. A ‘ In two flights he felled six Ger- mans. . sah wy The firat twa ho encountered short, ly after leaving hia aitdrome, He rid, dled: their planes with a spiral diving " 1 He bagged another before alight ‘Then after. short rest he wént up again and three more Germans bit the ROSTOY-ON-DON Largest Town in Cossack. Terri- tory Recaptured from the Huns by Soviets: Moscow, Friday, May 10. (By,the As- sociated Press).—Rostoy-on-Don, the largest city in the’ Don Cossack terri- tory, was recaptured today by the Russian Soviet troops who drove out the Germans, The Germans, who had held Rostov, for only a day, are re- treating. The armistice on the Kurst front has heen extended to the Voronezh and Don districts. Martial law has been declared, and the Sovibt troops have been ordered to disarm bands in- vading the Russian territory, despite the armistice. FRENCH TROOPS ATTACK TEUTON Allies Capture Wood on West Bank of Avre River in Night Sorties’ i . —__—_ Paris, May 15.—French troops yes- terday evening attacked the German positions below Amiens and captured a wood on the west bank of the Avre river, it is announced officially. The Germans made a counter attack ane were beaten off with -seyere losses. During’ the night there was a violent bombardment north of Montdidier ana between Montdidier and ‘Noyon, {Si Ce SS f GERMAN ARTILLERY FIRE HEAVIER TODAY | London, May 15—The Ger- |-man artillery: fire, increased | | this morning’ near *Morlan- | | court, south of “Albert, and | |.in Flanders, north of Kem- | mel, the war office reports. | | | | °. who ayenked" Ing bets on their fayor- ——— $4,095,699,000 TOBE REVEN OF FISCAL FEAR or tiat Revised Estimates; of: Probable Receipts Submitted to the . Senate by McAdoo. Syl ecthe ha 4 permet Li i ime INCOME TAX TO BE HEAVY More Than Half Total. Amount Will Come from, Segrce— Other Main Items ‘Washington, D.C., May '15i—Revis: ed. estimates, of ,revenue receipts in the current fiscal. year, ending nexe June 30, are placed at $4,095,699,000, the suni which the American people will contribute directly to the gov: ernment mainly in taxes for the prose- cution of the war. These estimates reported to the senate by Secretary McAdoo in compliance with a request for specific information throwing light on future revenue needs show that. about one-third of the expense of the war this year has been met by taxation, and two-thirds by Liberty bonds. D $2,775,185,000 From Incomes. ‘The report disclosed that about $2,- 773,185,000 will be collected on the basis of income and excess profits tax returns, on file May 4, about $348,000,- 000 more than the yield estimated when the war revenue was enacted last october, but less than the $3,000, 000,000 recently estimated. The to- tal now expected from internal reve- nue which includes receipts from in- come and excess profits return is $3, 645,899,000; from customs $180,000,. 000; from miscellaneous sources in- cluding $40,000,000 earnings of in- creased firat clss postage, $270,000,000 and from salés of public lands $1,800,- 000. 120 NAMES IN CASUALTY LIST Washington, D. C., May 15.—The casualty list today contained’ 120 names, divid- ed as follows: : Killed in action, 3; died of wounds, 3; died of accident, 1; died of disease, 5; died of other causes, 7; wounded se- verely, 6; wounded slightly, 48; woundedfi 8; missing in action, 39. WEALTHY WISCONSIN BANKER STRIPPED AND BRANDED WITH YELLOW CROSS BY NEIGHBORS Janesville, Wis. May 15.—Enraged citizens of Janes- ville and surrotinding towns today stripped W. G. Heller, a wealthy retired banker, to the waist, painted a German war cross on his chest, smeared his back with yellow and then dumped the remaining contents of the yellow paint on his head because he declined to contribute to “your share is fair” fund!being raised for the Rock county war chest. The “painting party” was said to be composed of some of the most prominent men in Evansville, Beloit, _. Janesville and other towns in the county. _ Heller, before his retirement, held important connec- ville. tions in banking and manufacturing interests in’ Janes- [EXECUTIVE OF RUSSIAN FIRM: - TELLS OF PLOT. REVEALED BY. FRIEND OF THE CROWN PRINCE Arms Were to Have Been Supplied Teutoni¢'Soci- eties in America by Fatherland, and Junction Was to Have Been Effected with Wobblies in Attack on Our Government in 1916 Is: Testi- mony in New York State Quiz ‘ New York, N. Y., May 15.—Testimony that in 1916 Germans in the United States were planning to revolt against this country was given today at the state’s attorney general investigation'ef ‘re- ports of hidden munitions. et aa Ivan Norodny, vice president of the American- Russian Asiatic corporation, testified that Baron von Gersdorff, a-friend of the German crown: prince, and a German agent in Mexico, told him that German societies in the United States would be equipped with arms from Germany to combine with me I. W. W. ahd socialists against the gov- , ernment. ~ e 2 VANCOUVER SHIPYARDS | FIRE RESULTS IN LOSS OF $1,500,000.00 TODAY. Vancouver, B. C., May 15. —Fire broke otit in the’ boil- er room of the’ J. Coughlin & Sons shipyards here early this morning. and did damage estimiated’at $1,500,000. One fireman: was killed and sever- al injured. %. REGARD QUIZ “AS AFFRONT Declares Aircraft Investigation Would Indicate Lack of Confidence Washington, D. C., May 15.—In a letter today to Senator Martin of Vir- ginia, Democratic leader of the. sen- ate, President Wilson declared he would regard the passage of the Chant- berlain resolution calling for an in- vestigation of aircraft and other war activities as “a direct vote of want of confidence in the administration,” and an attempt by congress to take over the conduct of the war. Vote to Report Resolution. By a vote of 3 to 2, the Senate ex- Penditures committee ordered a fav- orable report on the Chamberlain res- olution, but made an amendment mi ifying it so as to limit specifically the military committee's activity to army operations. A provision added expressly prohibits the committee from a general inquiry into the con- duct of the war. The president informed ‘Senator (Martin that he had no objection to the most searching inquiry into the aircraft situation, but he deemed t=- advisable at this time any investiga- tion of the conduct of the war. At the last session of congress his oppo- sition to such an investigation put an end to such proposals. It is believed the president's atti- tude was dae to the form in which Chairman Chamberlain of Oregon, chairman of the senate military com- mittee, introduced the resolution. The resolution “authorized and direct- ed” the committee ‘to inquire into and renort to the senate the progress of aircraft production in the United States or any other matters relating to theconduct of the war by, or through, the war department.” CAUCASUS IS READY TOSUE WITH TURKEY Moscow. Friday, May 10.—(By the erninent has proposed peace negotia- tions, Foreign Minister Tchitcherin is infotmed by the Turkish government. Turkey, acting iwth Germany, has in- sisted tha tthe Caucasus government send its delegates to Babaton. NEW ALLIANCE FIXED FOR TWENTY YEARS Zurich, Switzerland, May 15. Neuste Nachrichten of Munich says the new. Austro-German al- liance is fixed for a period of 20 years, and, includes a military convention and provides for the closest economical and customs relations. : ANHESON- WELL: Associated Press)—-The Caucasus g0v-; —A Vienna dispatch to the) HUNS BUILDING UP LINES WITH. FRESH FORGES. Units, They: Continue :‘ « Bombardment: Inflict ‘Severe Castialtie ‘Enemy and Take ‘ers in Flander (Associated. Press.) °: ve While the Germans continge to re- constitute with’ fresh elements thelr units shattered by the allies dufing — the recent big offensiva they. ere keeping up intensive. bombardments of the British and French ie on various sectors in Flanders Pic- ardy. They also. have bs én- brojled with the Frerich’ in Reavy’ st- tillery duels in Champagne aad ih the Vosges mountains. 4 No Infantry Engagements. No where on any part of the line from the North sea to the Swiss fron- tier hes there been an {nfantry .en- engagement of great Iraporthace LaF: Morlancourt, which lies ‘to the ‘south of. Albert, the Germans delfyi an. attack against the Britiah on @ front of zeal a mile and at one. point pen- etrated a British position. je Aus- tralians in a counter attack ‘almost immediately: recaptured the’ od-| and. the enemy suffered: heavy’ losses. and was repulsed on the’ other ‘parts of the front. Z ‘A similar operation was attempted on the French on Hill 44, the scepe of many previous bloody athies in the Kemmel sector. ~Unot ac: counts say the enemy gained, a@ foot hold on the rugged slopes, But that the French were pressing them hard, while Field Marshal Haig in bis lat- est communication asserts that’an at- tack north of Kemmel (which might include Hill 44) was repulsed: ~ British Take Initiative... ¢ North of Robecq, in Flanders, the British took the initiative into, their own hands and in an attack {nfijéted casualties on the enemy and céj prisoners, On the Amiens sector the French carried out a similar manuever ‘with like results. Wherever the Ger: mans essayed a stroke, ©: it’ near Morlancourt and Hill 44, they, met with’ almost instant repulse at the hands of the allies. PGRN ‘Although the Germans everywhere’ are remaining in comparative quiet, except for their artillery work, it Is realizer behind the allied lines that this state of affairs will not last long, for the enemy is known to bé@ prepat- ing methodically for a resumption of hostilities. The strengthening of the line is being made both in man and in gun power, and, in reconstitutiig regiments that were shot to pleces by thé allied guns during the big drive the Germans are bringing up men _w! have had no part in the great strug- Time of Blow Unknown: : When the blow is.to be delivered ap; parently is beyond the tealm even ot surmise, but it is highly. probable that it will not come until the enemy is fully prepared in every way, to"en- ter the battle to gain his objective— ‘French {and the opening of a fairway to the channel ports, sitet | In the Italian theatre cons(derable | fighting continues around Monte Cor- ‘no, which commands. the approtch to | the -valley leading from, Trent:to” Rovireto. Here the Austrians have ‘the separating of British ang renewed their attacks to ‘gronad |” Continaed on Page Tie :