The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1918, Page 1

-SLAVSRESTORE RIBUNE( NS START FIERCE COUNTER ATTACK ABOUT SOISSONS TURKEYS BREAK WITH GERMANY GAUSES LITTLE SURPRISE IN WASHINGTON Deep Feeling of Dissatisfaction Exists at Porte Over Teutonic Treatment of Turkish Aspira- tions Washington, D. C., July 30.—No official advices regarding the reported break in rélations between Germany and Turkey have reached Washington, but the government would not. be surprised if Turkey ‘has been driven to an open rupture. It has been known for months that a growing but deep feeling of dissatisfaction has existed over German treatment of Turkey. r It would be natural, officials said, for the Turkish govern-j; ment' to endeavor to. find somg new friends ajnong the powers; before breaking with. its old associates. | When the present sultan came.to the throné'in Constantinople a few weeks ago, some strong anti-Germans cathe into power. It} has been a question of whether these men were in strong enough} positions openly to defy the Teutonic powers. Many Turkish offi-| cials:long have resented the dominating ways of the Germans and| have blamed them for the lack of food and other supplies in Tur- key. as well as the reverses: sustained by the Turkish army. PROMISED ASSISTANCE. i‘ | Gérmany promised assistance to the Turks in the Palestine | and Massopotamia campaigns, where the British forces have been | consistently defeating the Turks. In neither case has the German: pledge been fulfilled and the Turks are known to have become} indignant over the result. * | The strained relations between Turkey and Bulgaria which | recently resulted in.armed conficit, according to reports, have! | $250;000 FOR-AN caused strong. anti-German feeling in both countries. ‘‘Bulgaria | and Turkey: are said: to realize that they are being impoverished | by. the,Germans in their efforts to provide food for the Teutonic | soldiers and*civil population: : \ ~ “RED OF GERMAN DICTATION. . | : Amsterdam, July :30:—Turkey intendg:to handle the’ situa- | tion in the Caucasus according to her own ideas, says a telegram | from {Constantinople of July 28, which quotes a newspaper article! presenting the Turkish viewpoint. « “We have nothing: to say against the principles. laid dow against the Brest-Litovsk treaty: But when the Caucasus, newly.| organized, tarned ‘toward us, and, master of its own: destiny, refu ‘bé bound ‘by’ the. what is: mere natutel than for'- ud tostake-into- consideration the Necessity of this new’ situation | teed f area front. Should’ we close our ears to.a people Greed and Yace of ourselves? | same ‘also aware of the action to place under German con- ol! Saku. That is a logical consequence of the applica- | tion-of the. Brest-Litovsk treaty. How could this treaty be taken! into consideration in the affairs of the Caucasus, seeing that the | Bolsheviki has not even been able to return to us, according to; the treaty conditions, our eastern frontier, and that, with the tion,’ | GERMANY ALARMED This reported attitude on the part of Turkey may account in part for the report from Copenhagen that Turkey and Germany | have severed relations. Early this.month it was reported that Germany was becoming alarmed over territorial aspirations of her allies, especially Turkey. An announcement came from Ber-| lin that German troops had been landed at Poti. on the Black sea coast, and an important point on the railroad running from Tiflis to Baku. On June 15 Turkey signed a peace treaty with the; Transcaucasian government, but the terms have never been re-' ported adequately. 5 | The Baku region on the Caspian sea is one of the world’s; most important oil regions. Possession of this point might also! be a menace,to British control in India. i FINE ESTATE _ UNDER RULE : OF GERMANS Refugees Tell of Brutal Hun _ Treatment in Occupied Territory ~ “TN “BLIGHTY” Beautiful Salisbury Court of 186| Acres Made Red Cross | Hospital | os CONFISCATE FOODSTUFFS |WILL CARE FOR 3,000 MEN| | Southampton, England.! July 30.— “BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. | America’s wounded men who are Petrograd, June 15.—Refugees from | brought to England from the western the Russian provinces occupied by front will soon find waiting for them Teuton troops bring reports—of con-|near Southampton a military’ hospital stantly growing hatred among peas-! which, built under the supervision of {the man who. attempts to kill the! ‘chat to kfll'thé head HUN would be For the destruction of a U-boat, $125,000, ; i | For the destruction of a German | screaming of - whistles in this city, ants for the Germans. . In the vicinity of Pskov,Esthonia, confiscation of- foodstuffs by the in:| vaders led to two uprisings by the _Dpeasants. In the latest of these up risings, the peasants had been in- formed by some one that American and Japanese troops them. This hope for aid, naturally, did not materialize, and the uprising, met with disastrous result. A number of the peasants were executed and ali of the manor houses in four townships were razed by the Germans as an ob- ject lesson, according to word re- ceived at Petrograd. Z In the Pskov region the Germans have confiscated @ll foodstuffs they can carry away except for a small ai- lownce of grain for each inhabitant. Under the Germans the bread rations , have often, been aglow .as,one pound per person. Bae ae were to help; ; the Red Cross authorities of their own iland, is situated on one of England's most magnificent country . estates, iknown as Sarisbury Court, compris- {ing 186 acres. . Woodland, pasture land and ample gardens, with a half-mile frontage on Southampton waters which afford good fishing and splendid boating, ;comprise the site of this American in- | stitution. Southward, the convalescing | soldiers will look across the water to {the busy harbor of Southampton, with the shores of the Isle of Wight in the distance. Off the hospital. jetty they will s2e anchored an ancient British frigate, now used as a train- ing ship, here decks swarming with young midshipmen at their first les- sons in seacraft. Centered in these surroundings is jan old Manor House, which, erected as a private residence thirty-five years ago, by a wealthy British land owner, {will serve as the central hospital building. From the. towers of. this, (Continued on Page Three.) {5 Americari machine gu Huns from a trench. ATTEMPT TO | KILL KAISER That’s the Reward Offered: by) England, If You Believe \ German Newspapers — Amsterdam, Holland, July 30—Two | hundred: and fifty thousafid dollars to! Ueaiger! 225 Lae ig A “hwo handred thousand “t ‘at tempt on.the life.of the crown prince! Thqse are the prizes hung up by the British government, if the official History of Holy Book in Church | Marne. | Gernian newspaper, the Norddeutsche | AllegemeineZeitung, can be believed. Of course’ it’s part of the pati-Ger- man’ propaganda scheme, just as the recent announcement that an attempt had been.made to kill the kaiser ana) Von Hindenburg and its subsequent denial was propaganda. The idea seems to be that this’sort of lies. will make the kaiser and the ‘clown’ prince morejpopular. The fan paper which prints this weird ys declares the authority for it is two recaptured German deserters who had been eniployed in Copenha- gen by, the British secret service. It isn’t necessary to kill the kaiser; | all ygu haye to do is attempt it to} win Re reward. The Allegemeine Zei- tung intimates that England realizes impossible, According to the story the follow- jing scale of prizes has been hung up{held that the evidence was as admis- by Britain for other similar feats: bridge $75,000. For ificiting a mutiny or a strike, | $12,500. For causing:a fire ina yard, $20,000. German ship- | 7 |" The prisoners are said to have de-/ ‘ iclared that the French government | criminal. 7 i “\is offering similar prizes. ~The Kaiser's Bible. ———aury ONE MINUTE SILENT! PRAYER FOR SAMMY As Curfew Tolls the End of Day | Heads Bow—Silence Reigns (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) Arkangas City, Kans.. July 30 Eaeh day as the evening twilight fades away at*9 p: m. is announced with the every head is bowed in prayer for a {minute in silent. supplication for the | welfare of our soldier boys and their | cause across the sea. Fifteen thousand people obey the ‘admonition of the ministerial associa- tion. The city commission made it ar official moment of prayer. Dusiness stops for just one minute, then the whistles sound an “amen” and the reg- ular. whirl takes hold again. Perhaps the idea of prayeréwas {never more frcefully impressed upon a ‘people as this program has .im- | pressed it her. When you loog about you and see every head bowed and \perfect ‘silence reigns supreme you automatically drift into a prayerful at- titude. Taxicabs here bear this placard: “We stop at 9 p. m. for qne minute [while the city engages in prayer for our soldier boys and: the cause they represent in France.” Traffic. stops, on the streets and pedestrians on the sidewalk. | BUY W, ©. 'S.———— | LORD LITCHFIELD KILLED.. London, Jply 30.—The third earl of Litehfietd , director of the national Provincial bank of England and the bank of Australasia, was found dead today in the grounds of his estate at Shugborough park, Stafford, with a gunshot wound in the head. Lord }E4tchfield was born in 1856. ; government was seeking.to make a im was no other going institution of the | —¥ protestant denomination ‘at that time. “MACHINE GUNNING FOR HUNS i nners have ,jeen in a large measure responsible for the great victo#y over the Germans between Chateau: Thierry and Soissons. This American official photograph shows a Yunkee machine gunner of the Second division taking a whack at the » | SINKING OF LUSITANIA HUMANE ACT clared I{. Saved Ger- man Lives BIBLE GIFT FROM KAISER} | at New Salem Is Ruled Out of Court | Whether the facts surrounding the alleged presentation ¢f a bible to Rev. A. 1. Fontana’g church,at New Salem by Kaiser..\Wilhelm, some ‘time prior to November, i916, were admissabie evidence was one of the important questions which arose this morning in the trial of the Morton county cleriv, who is charged with viplating ‘the ex pionage act of June 15, 1917, by inter- fering or attempting to interfere with the sale of Liberty bonds. District Attorney Hildreth arguea | that the evidence should .be admittea for the reason, he claimed, that it! covered one of a chain of acts which connected the defendant with the crime of which he now is accused. He sable as it would be to:show that a man who had robbed a bank had.pur- chased dynamite a’year in advance of the act, or nitroglycerine © six months in advance of the crime... The court. held, on the contrary, that the crime/of'acts which at the time they were performed. before ‘America had declared war on Germany, were nov ®. E. Podall assistant cashier in the Farmers’ & Merchants’ State bank of New Salem, hich the Rev. Fon- tana is a stockholder, was the witness from whom the government sought; testimony as to the kaiser's bible, in Rey. Rontana’s church. Poda.1 testi- fied that he went to New Salem in N vember, 1916, and that he attended | ~. Fontana’s church because there | tie understands and speaks and reads | (Con@pued on Page Three.) ' Your Subscription —when does it' ' | ‘expire? Look at the yellow address | label which is pasted on your paper. “Ft shows you the date your subscription expires, New “regulations. require that all mall subscriptions must be paid in udvance. In addition, all subscriptions must -be stopped on expira- tion date.‘ /Tribune_ readers ~ should watch their date labels and renew promptly before ex- piration. date. Bismarck Tribune ~ Company j Which the empress has a passionate | 4 ze AGED EMPRESS REJOICES OVER ALLIED VICTORY | Eugenie Happy as Town Where | Napoleon Proposed Is | Saved (By Newspaper Enterprise . Ass’n.) The aged Empress Eugenie, the last | empress of France, who has been liv- | ing in England since the birth, of the. French republic, is: watching with in- tense interest the successful drive of the’ Americans and French on the; For the further the allies drive the Germans the further. the Huns. will run from the city of Compiegne, which not' only has deep. significance | from, a military standpoint, but for romantic attachment. It was at Compiegne that Napoleon | III made Eugene his offer of mar- | riage. 4 Breaking from a hedge some flex- | ible green branches, the emperor | twisted ‘them into the form of a crown | and placed it.on her head. -Then, in a tone loud enough for all to hear the significant words,’ he’ said: “Until you wear the crown of gold!” | Naturally the city has been sacred to the empress ever since,*and: she would be deeply grieved if the Ger- | mans captured it. At-oné point in their June offensive the-Germans were within five miles of it, Now all im- mediate danger of its capture is re- moved. : A stor¥ is told of the empress, who | is now nearly 90 years-old, in con- nection with the beginning of the war. She stood in'a window ‘in Paris, think- | ing of the war of 1870, as: the: French ! army marched by on its way to the ‘front. As shé watched them she | cried: | “This shall be my revenge!” Eugenie has been caring for wound- ed soldiers in her English home. — \ | BUY W. Dependable Income Must BE Shown) ‘Local banks are in receipt of a cir- cular from the KederalLand bank of | St. Paul .issued to all Federal Loan associations of the northwest to the effect that in the future the federal | bank will entertain applications f loans from farmers only who have a| dependable income. | This means revenue from live stock, | especially milk cows, hogs. cattle and other stock. Farmers without such de- pendable income -cannot secure loans through the federal banks. Financial men over the northwest see in the new ruling a great induce- ified to get busy at once. “BUY W. 8. | *MORE COAL MINED; | ' MAYBE YOU WON'T | FREEZE AFTER ALL. (By N. E. A.) | Washington, D. C.—Coal prodiic- tion is showing a great increase. || The second highest weekly bitum- | ist | i inous coal production in history shown for the week ending June | 29, 8 - i Production for the week was || 12,458,000 net tons against 12.003,- '| 000 net tons during the! week of |/ June 22 and 11,583,000 net tons for |) the corresponding week in 1917. |) All coal districts excent central | Pennsylvania and Alabama showed increased shipments.. Anthracite ! shipments, increased 471 cars dur- | ing the week ending June 29, with ; the total movement amounting to | | 41,841. carloads. | ¢_ et TEUTONS VICIOUSLY ATTACK — IN A WIDE SEMI-CIRCLE - ABOUT RHEJMS SECTOR Allies Aré Forced to Retire Short Distance ‘About Cierges, Southeast of Fere-en-Tardenois (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Germans have thrown nearly a million men into the gigantic battle between Soissons.and Rheims and have been vic- iously: counter attacking all around the circular line that stretches from Soissons to Rheims. o “ Even this formidable férce, however, appears to have made not more than a dent or two in its latest efforts, while at various points progress for the allies, slight but important, is reported. 71 TEUTONIC DIVISIONS Regarding the strength of the Germans, unofficial reports state there are 71 Teutonic divisions engaged in this struggle. The strength of a German division is about 13,500 on a normal , footing, so that if the units resisting the allies north of the Marne have been kept up to standard there are 958,500 men trying to hold the line until the situation.is relieved. Of these divisions, there lare 10 drawn from Crown Prince Rupprecht’s army in the north. CROWN PRINCE. REINFORCED The German cxown prince had in the neighborhood of 500,000 men between Chateau Thierry and Rheims when the attack began July 15. ~The increase in the number of divisions engaged in the battle would appear to indicate that he had since that time drawn heavily 6n other army groups. It would also seem that this jaction on his part reflects the importance of this battle. in the ‘eyes of the German high command. Through the German counter blow the Americans were driven back. from Cierges, southeast of Fere-en-Tardenois, while to the northwest of Fere.the Americans have. also been forced out of Beugeux, into which they had penetrated after passing through Grand Rozoy. 4 HEAVY FIGHTING AT BUZANCY Buzancy, situated on the west sidé of the Crise river, about five miles south of Soissons, has also been the scene, of, heavy |fighting and the battle appears to have been general along’ the line south of that point, notably in the plessier wood, near. where the front turns abruptly to the east. ‘ ‘ On the other. end of the battle front there have been shar; engagements, but reports credit the allies with making an:advance. at Aubilly, in the Ardre salient, west of Rheims. They have also forged ahead farther down at the head of the pocket at Villers- Agron-Aiguizy. i ; ‘ _ While these counter blows against the allied lines are general and of great violence, it is‘not believed in London that the enemy intends to make a real stand south of the Vesle river. Paris,‘on the other hand, seems to believe that the Germans may have fixed, on the present location of their armies as the field upon which they will turn at bay. PATROL OPERATIONS There have been patrol operations along the British front. Little has been reported to amplify the Copenhagen dispatch to the effect that Turkey and Germany have broken off relations. Amsterdam advices, however, indicate that Turkey intends to pur- sue an aggressive policy in the Caucassus region, the field sup- posedly set aside for German exploitation. This may carry a ° measure of confirmation of the rumor that the quadruple alliance has broken over the division of the spoils subsequent to the peace treaties with Russia and Rumania. LARGEST WAR APPROPRIATION The largest appropriation demanded since the beginning of the war will be submitted to the house of commons ‘ihuraday, the Daily Telegraph reports. The amount to be asked will be seven hundred million pounds. SEVER RELATIONS London, July 30.—‘“Relations between Germany and Turkey have been severed, according to direct information from Constan- tinople.” . % This announcement was made by the Copenhagen correspond- jent of the Exchange Telegraph company today. MAKE LITTLE PROGRESS London, July 30.—American troops in the Soissons-Rheims sector have been fighting virtually without cessation along the ’. entire front for the last 244 hours. The, German resistance has stiffened, and the Americans had made very little progress. ; HOLD POSITIONS With the American Forces on the Aisne-Marne, July 30.— Under a fite from the enemy only slightly less than that of yes- terday the Americans on the front north of Ourcq held onto their | positions this morning and even advanced slightly on the road {to Sergy. | Repeated efforts by the enemy to dislodge the Americans |were futile. On the Americans’ left the French are moving for- ward. To the right the lines are holding steadily. The guards that were brought in by the Germans to attack ment for farmers who have not dixers-/the Americans yesterday appear to have been withdrawn, The THOS. WALSH MINUS BAG OF GOOD CLOTHES Chief of Police Martineson Has Real Mystery on His Hands Here’s a real mystery. Some Bis- marek boys prospecting on the bot- toms south of town for bullberries, grizzly bears, Injuns and other legi- timate prey, stumbled upon a large and well filled suitcase. The find was reported to Chris Martineson, chief of: police, who ‘transferred the lug- gage to ‘police station. | Investigating \fighting is the heaviest the Americans have yet encountered. its contents he found several suits of clothing; underwear and other male apparel, and a pass book on the Unit- fed States bank of Chicago, located at ‘Halstead and Sixtieth street. The {pass book was made out in the name ‘of Thomas Walsh, who was shown to ‘have had a balance of something over $64. As a further mark of identifica- tion was found a classification card tissued by the local draft board of Clay icounty, Iowa, showing that Thomas {Walsh had been placed in Class V, subdivision F. There is nothing about the exhibit to indicate that the luggage might have been cast aside by a man con- templating suicide. Walsh’s bank de- posits would indicate that he earned a good wage while in Chicago, and his clothing is of fair quality. Chief. Martineson admits that for onte "in '* his exciting career he is puzzli ‘