The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1918, Page 1

‘uninjured. except for the shock. Our away, _ =) THE BISMARCK TRI THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. | No. 140. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MAY/31, 1918. LAST EDITION. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUN DRIVE NEARS MARNE GERMAN AIR PLANES START RAID ON YANKS Single Out Area Behind Ameri- ean Lines for Preten- tious Movement AMBULANCES ARE STRUCK] Wounded Carried to Cellars and Caves Beyond Danger of Guns . SHELL AMERICANS. With the American Army in France, Thurs.,, May 30.—German artillery in the course of the night severely bombarded the new positions of the ‘Americans at Cantigny, west of Montdidier. They fired as many as 4,000 high explosive shellg in a brief space of time, Several attempts made by the Germans to come over were repi d with heavy losses by the Americans. The 82nd German reserve divis- ion, from ‘which the Americans tak prisoners in the fighting at Cantiany, is commanded by Gen- eral Von Lorne and Stauge. This officer served on both the Rus- sian and western fronts and came br Cantigny between May 12 and ‘With the American Army in France, Thursday, May 30.—German airmen made a preteitions raid o” the area behind the American lines in Picardy last night. American and French wounded soldiers in hospitals back 0! the front were carried to cellars and caves by American nurses and members of the American Red Cross. Three American ambulances were caught in the raid. Sergeant Ethan Wells of San Francisco, woh was driving the first ambulance said: “Ouur three ambulances were hur- rying to the hospital with patients when a bomb wrecked a building dir- ectly in’ front of us, in a narrow| street. Our machine was. perforated by flying migeiles. .We were all hurl- ped. with, a. few Private Robert A. Bowman, of Gal- veston, who was in the same car sal “Phere was a terrific oxplofion: The next thing I knew T was lying on tha ground. 1 looked around and heard’ patients groaning. I pulled my- self together and found. the patients ambylence was -shot to, pieces.” - Thesecond car apparently received the fhe fotce of ‘thé ‘explosion and was wrecked completely. } Private Roscoe Wiley of Madison- ville, Texas was driving the third car. Sergeant J. W. Nolder of Al- toona, Pa., and three patients were with him. “There was wreckage all around us.” said Sergeant Nolder, “in- jured civilians in the shattered houses nearby were begging for help. We all pitched in as soon as we had recov: | ered from the shock and assisted in the work of rescue, we had to dig many persons from the debris. By the light of smal pocket lamps. Mean- while enemv aircraft were buzzing overhead. ‘The barrage was deafen: ing. Bombs continued to fall. It w worge.,tha thing in the trenche 1 wonld, ral have been in no man’s| land, , Only’a few persons were injured hy’ flying! glass. Several | private- houses: were';wrecked and ‘a--number of civilians including several babies were killed and injured. The raid was planned on a much larger scale than recent ones over this territory. The Germans same in wave. formation , and, then scattered widely. One squadrca dropped’ bombs a few hundred feet from’an Ameri- can field hospital and at the same time one of the Jong range guns shell- ed a village a few hundred yards Sounds Alarm. The first alarm was sounded at} eleven o'clock. The dropping of bombs and the firing of many anti-aircraft guns began almost immediately. La- ter there was a brief pause after which the raiders returned to remain almost until dawn. A new American aviation hospital had been onened only westerday in a certain village, a bomb fell in front of it last night and shattered windows, but none of the patients was injured. French Nurse Killed. A French nurse, her mother and two little sisters were killed in a house a short distance from a hospi- tel. Another nurse was standing on the upper floor of a hospital minister- ing to patients when a piece of bomb strich her, piercing her lung. Five American nurses were in the same hospital. They were ‘Miss Na- talie Scott, of New Orleans; Miss Helen Spalding, of Brooklyn; Miss Mary McCadlish, of Atlanta: Miss Blanche Gilbert, of Cleveland and Miss Constance Cook, of San Francisco. While the raid was in progress thev went about cheering the patients. Although many serious cases of sick and wounded were aggravated he- cause they had to be moved. The nurses had to carry them to the low- er floors and the cellar. “Tt was an exciting time.” said Miss Scott, “but there was no panic. Some of our bovs actually: slept through it all althongh their heds were showered with broken glass.” Much metivity: Rae There Was much aerial activity on the tere aah west of Toul today (Continued on Page Three.) GERMANS DOSE RUSSIAN TOWNS WITH POISON GAS London, May 31—The Germans in their reprisals against peasant dis- orders in the Ukraine drenched sev- eral villages near Kiev with gas, ac- cording to a Petrograd dispatch to the Daily Express. Thus, adds the message, whole communities were as- phyxiated. SWEDEN JOINS AMERICA IN TRADE PACT More Than 400,000 Tons of Shipping Are Released by the Agreement IN. DIRE NEED OF WHEAT Washington, May 31.— More than 400,000 tons of ships are released to the United States and allies by Swed- en under the terms of the commercial agreement signed at Stockholm by representatives o fthe two govern- ments, the state department was no- tified today. News of the signing of the agree- ment reached heer first in news dis- patches giving no details. Dispatches from Sweden recently have said a re- duction in the bread ration soon would become necessary, which would place the country in real distress. The state | stores of grain, it was said, would! last only until August 5. The country; needs 67,000 tons of grain to get along until the new harvest. It is understood the American gov- ernment in return for the ships will give liberal treatment to Sweden in supplying food rations, raw materials and manufactured products including 's0-called lesser essentials. Negotiations have been proceeding for osme time, and their successful culmination was due, it was said to- day, to the recent changes in the Swed- ish government. The new government is extremely friendly to the United States. Under a modus, vivendi in effect for some months, the war trade board has permitted. exports to. Sweden. in. suf- ficient quantities to meet immediate and urgent needs, and Sweden re- leased to the allies’ and the United States approximately 100,000 tons of shipping. NORTH DAKOTA “WAY BE. ASKED FOR 4,200 MEN General Crowder Announces That 280,000 Draftees Are to Be Taken in June Under a June call for 280,000 men, announced in today’s Associated Press dispatches from Washington. North Dakota, using past quotas a8 a ‘basis, probably will be asked to fur- nish 1,200 men. This call will ex- haust practically all the state’s cred- its on future drafts, and will place our select service men on an even keel with other states, whose draftees have not been so patriotic in enlisting prior to their time. General Fraser has no advice of the June call.’ All information available; here today is contained in the follow- ing special from Washington: Washington, ‘May 31.—Official an- nouncement was made today that 280,- 000 men will ‘be called to the colors during June. They will bé ordered to report June 24 but it has not yet been determined to what camps they can be assigned so the list of appor- tionments is for the present being withheld. The quota is based’ on estimates of the space available for the men in camps and cantonments. If the rate of shipment of troops across again ts raised still more men may be called. In any event the probabilities are that enough men will be called for special service to round the namber ou: to J Oy 0. HIDES PISTOL IN BOUQUET, THEN SHOOTS Mike Wear of New Rockford At- tempts to Kill Patient at Jamestown Asylum Jamestown, N. D., May 31.—With a weapon concealed in a bouquet of flowers, which he extended to Frank Karuse, an inmate of the state asy- lum for the insane, Mike Wear, of ‘New Rockford, N. D., is accused of shooting at Karuse three times, two bullets taking effect Wear, according to the sheriff of fBtutsman county, says hat Karuse shot him seventeen months ago and threatened to again shoot him if the opportunity afforded. Karuse was. placed in the asylum subsequent to the first shooting. Karuse’s condition is not critical. Ree eee weweewe E GERMAN BLOW FALLS WHERE. 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His animal <intell!- gence, knowing he was halted at one spot, expected to take his enemies.by surprise in anoth That the alli prised as Voy fs shown iby the fact that British and French#forces met his attack along the Chitetnumes Dames, in*g, distrier he hadjassumed to be de dof its defendérs since the Americans, -there three weeks ago, had been shifted north to meet the’graver thrust. THERE IS COMFORT FOR AMER- ICA IN THE FACT THAT VON HIN- DENBURG CHOSE TO MAKE HIS THIRD AND PROBABLY FINAL AS- IN A SPOT WHERE HE not so sur: SAULT KNEW. THERE WERE NO AMER} CANS. The 25-mile front between Vauxail- lon and Rheims has seen no fighting since last. summer. The first German blow gained (ostensibly for the crown yrince) in less than a day the fam- ous Chemin des Dames, “Road of the Ladies,” for which thousands of lives were sacrificed vainly in 1917. The German staff apparently has decided to move the main battle front from Flanders and Picardy to the Champagne. There are two reasons for perceiving this strategy: The armies of the allies have strengthened their front be- tween Ypres and Montdidier to such an extent that it is improb-, able the Germans could again ‘break through on that front. 2. The Champagne front was necessarily weakened to throw re- enforcements northward: into Pic- ardy and Flanders to’stem the great drive of March and April. Thousands of American troops who had been stationed along the Chemin des Dames were among he reserves sent to Picardy. Therefore the Champagne front would seem to be the best spot to select for a “victory” of the sort dear to the hearts of the German people —one in which ground is gained re- gardless of the cost in lives. That the Champagne front was not weakened enough to place the allied line in any real danger is indicatea however, by the official reports of the first day’s fighting, showing that a British army is holding the line be- tween Berry-Au-Bac and Rheims. This fs the first time the British have ex- tended their front so far to the east. Here again the allies are given fresh proof of the far-sighted strategy of General Foch, commander-in-chiet of the allied armies. The German strategy in attacking a ta new point is similar to that em- ployed in March, when the drive be) gan. The French were given every reason to believe that the drive was to come along the Chemin des Dames. Accordingly ther eserves were sent! to this part of the line, and American troops took over part of the front near Chavignon. Instead of attacking there, howev-; er, the Germans struck in Picardy agains tthe British. A gap was forces in the line of General Haig, and it took several days for sufficient reserves to come up to make any appreciable de- fense. Hindenburg is. now reversing the or- der and forcing the allies to draw troops from the line in sicardy to withstand the assault in the Cham- pagne. ‘As for the German objective, it may} g. be any one of these four possibilities, which are set down here in the order of.their plausibility. fate expected |. The large map shows thi prince and General Von Buelow deli The black line shows line shows the ground gainéd between Aisne on the first day of the drive. The map beyond Kemmed Hill. 1, The: purpose. of the attack in Champagne may :be to widen the front. It began at the right end of the ground in the advance of March and April. If the battle goes as the Germans hope, it will force the allies to strengthen the Champagne front without weak- - ening the Picardy-Flanders line. This. will, force the employment of the allied reserves. 2. It/may be aimed to straight- en out/the great dent in the Ger- man line made by General Petain last year when he forced the crown prince to retreat from the Chemin des Dames to the Ailette River. This would precent allied flanking movements both from the east and west, which have been much talked of since the drive began. 3. The Champagne attacks may be merely a feint to dikguise the German purpose of a new lunge for the channel ports at Amiens and Ypres. All the German prep- arations have indicated that the latter is still their main objective. It this is the case, the Battle of the Aisne is not the principal struggle, but merely a part of a great new plan. 4. The drive on the Aisne may mean that Hindenburg deter- mined tocross the Aisne and the Vesle rivers, capture Soissons and Compiegne, reach the Marne again tacks which heralded the reopening of th the battle line before the drive began; the dotted below shows the whole western line. Champagne front, where the, Battle of the Aisne is ing indicates the ground gained by the Germans. front, where the French held firmly aginst NAIDOC OOS POCO Carrere eattaiateaaael Ss and march on Paris. The fourth possibility, that of @ contemplated march on Paris, is con- sidered least probable for the reason that to -make‘this attempt would en- tail greater German losses than have yet been dreamed of, even in this war of horrible slaughter. It would require a secondary ser- jes of attacks against the Picardy line, for unless Hindenburg protect- ed his right flank he would place his armies in exactly the same position that Von Kluck was in on the Marne in 1914, when the French turned the German left flang and forced the great retreat to the Aisne. The only difference would be that in this case it would be the German right flank, rather than the left, which would be in the gravest dan- 0". There is the greatest reason for confidence in the ability of the allies to stem the new offensive, whatever e Champagne front, where the German crown vered the principal one of the two at- e German offensive. the Chemin des Dames and the River The figure 1 is the in progress, the shad- Figure 2 is the Ypres General Von Arnim’s attacks HE CAPTURE! “LADIES’ ROAD” oe | | GEN.FRANZ VON BUELOW General Franz Von Buelow, a Ger- man field marshal( is in command, un- der the crown prince, of the army which drove the French and British from the famous Chemin Des Dames Ridge in the first day of the new Battle of the Oisne. He is the man who led the German army which captured Warsaw early in the war. He is not to be confused with the other German generals of similar names who are in command at other points—General Hans Von Below ana General Otto Von Below. RAR Ree its objective may be. thousands of American reinforce- ments, to say nothing of the great mass of British and French reserves. are in the line and ready. The battle will be long and costly, but the Germans will pay a price for their victories out of all proportion t otheir value. FRENCH RESISTANCE STRONGER AS -‘TEUTONS DRAW WITHIN TWO MILES OF THEIR EARLY DEFEATS In Toul Sector on French Front American Carry on Valuable Raids—Observers Say Fall of Rheims Is Inevitable — Official Statement Notes Breaking Down of Enemy Attacks RHEIMS MAY BE ABANDONED _ London, May 31.—(Via Ottawa.)—The abandonment of Rheims seems inevitable. The Germans are nearing the Marne and the Paris-Chalons railway, which is the main communication between Paris and Verdun. Although the pace of the German advance hag slack- ened owing to the-arrival of the allied reserves, it is recog- nized that the allies have a difficult task to prevent fur- ther development of the menacing enemy success, Correspondents say the retreat over the Aisne was a most difficult feat of warfare, both as regards calm: generalship and the courage of the troops. The ground was repeatedly defended to the last man. . Officers were seen holding the bridges to the last moment and were then killed when they blew them up. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Keeping the tide of their advance in the center flowing strong- ly toward the Marne, the Germans have extended the battle line westward and virtually linked up the present battlefield with that of the Somme. The attack was delivered along the Ailette river, northwest of Soissons. .The Germans drove the allied line back so that it now runs northwestward from the vicinity of Soissons, through Epagny and Blerancourt to the Oise river, apparently at it’s point of junction with the Oise canal about. eight miles east of Noyon. The advance in the center has now brought the Germans within two miles of the Marne at one point, Paris dispatches report.: The wedge here appears increasingly narrower, however,.and on. it’s fake below Soissons and Rheims the enemy is. reported’ firmly: eld. & : The French war office announces the breaking down of enemy. attacks in the Soissons area and to the south, while on:the allied right the line extending northeastward; toward Rheims from the neighborhood of Vezilly, the Germans failed in all their efforts to win ground. ‘ meicnty fi FALL OF RHEIMS INEVITABLE.SAY OBSERVERS ; - ~ The energetic defense on the right wing is exemplified by. the fighting at Thillois, three miles east-of Rheims,. where; the.Ger- mans entered the town only to be driven out by a French counter attack. By such resistance the safety of Rheims is momentarily safeguarded, but observers of the operations view it's ultimate fall as apparently inevitable. ke Theprobability of German penetration to the banks of the Marne is’ likewise indicated in the news dispatches, ‘which men- tion the near approach of the Germans to. Chateau Thierry and Dormans, both on the Marne.’,,The civilian population has. left Chateau Thierry and some of the refugees from it have already , pased through Paris for the interior. On the British front the Germans are active with their artil- lery east of Amiens and in the Albert region to the nofth as well as on portions of the Flanders front, but no infantry movements of note are reported. \ ; In the Toul sector on the French front the Americans have carried on valuable raids. : KAISER DECORATES HIS SON Amsterdam, May 31.—Emperor William has conferred upon Crown Prince Frederick William the star of the grand commander of the Royal House of Hohenzolleren, with swords, a Berlin dis- patch today announces. In bestowing the desoration the emperor sent the following telegram: it “In view of the great sticcesses which the brave, battle-proved troops of your army group have gained in these days under your command, I confer upon you the star of grand commander of the Royal Order of the House of Hohenzolleren, with swords, and con- vey to you my heartiest congratulations on this high and well- merited distinction.” MARNE OBJECTIVE ? Baffled in their efforts to strike eastward and westward from the new salient in the allied lines, the Germans are attempting to reach the Marne with their heavy forces before the allied resist- ance becomes strong enough to halt them entirely. In the center, however, the enemy progress is slackening as the allied reserves are being thrown into the battle. HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES Heavy fighting continues all along the arch-shaped salient from Soissons to Rheims. Struggle as they will against’ the French defense on the west around Soissons the Germans are unable to gain. In the region of Rheims the same story is true Jas the British and French divisions there stand firm. By penetrating to the Marne or southward from Fere-en- Tardenois, seven miles north of the river, which they now hold, the Germans apparently hope to spread out eastward. and west- ward, as they failed to do further north,,and thus outflank the (Continued on Page Three.) AMERICAN SECTOR IN PICARDY HAS IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES are the testimony of our eternal grat- itude.” The Reverend Father A. Cadoux, the French chaplain, paid tribute to With the American Army in France, Thursday, May 30.—In the Memorial Day pxercises in “the vear of the Hundreds of} American sector in Picardy, a small American flag and flowers were plac- ed on ech grave of an American sol- ldier. The ceremony was in charge \of four American chaplains and one French chaplain, assisted by the Sal vation Army representatives. Lincoln's Getysburg speech was read, after which the band played religious and patriotic anthems, and | prayers were said in English and French. It was most touching to see old women, old men and children from nearby villages standing near the Am- erican graves with flowers in their hands. Tears were in many eyes as Chaplain T, J. Dickson of the Ameri- car army spoke. “The living could speak to the dead and by placing flowers on their graves tell them that their sacrifice has not been in vain,” he said, “the flowers the dead American soldiers and to the valor and heroism of France. He said that the mother), fathers, ‘sister’ wives and sweethearts of the Ameri- can dead may rest assured that the French will always care for the graves of their heroes. The French civilians then advanced and placed their floral tributes on the graves. The little cemetery was It- erally covered with flowers. The touch of war was not missing and just at the close of, the service American anti-aircraft guns began to fire on, German airmen hidden behind the clouds, A touching picture was added to the ceremony when a horse belong- ing to noe of the American officers killed at Cantigny was led to. the grave of his dead master where, He remained until the ceremony was over. Ce ella