The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR Se “-THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 214. AUDIENCE SITS. ENTHRALLED BY EDWARDS’ TALK British Fighter Proves Most Ef- fective War Talker. Ever Heard in City. “HURRY UP, 0: AMERICA” Captain of Royal Fusiliers Says We Must Get Into Game in Earnest An audience which filled every seat in the Auditorium ang which occupied every foot of standing room in the ro- tundas, stairways ang! aisles, sat for more than two hours last evening, en- thralled by the terrible earnestness and the simple sincerity, of the mess- age which Capt. Frank, Edwards of | the Royal British, fusiliers brought them from the fighting line in France. Never in the history of Bismarck has a speaker so held an audience of such proportions. Not a word cf his long discourse was lost; there was, fre- quently, abundant applause, ‘but for the most part his hearers sat silent under the spell df the'tale which he enfolded, so absorbed in what he had to tell them that they hardlf dared move. Edwards, of medium stature, stock- ily built, and appearing to be of mid- die age, talked straight at his audi- ence. He was sparing with gesiures; he did not shout or rant, ‘but in a calm, dispassionate, recitative tone, keyed low, yet of such timble that it|’ reached every section of the big build-| ing, he told his story with a pathos and a depth of feeling which carried his words direct to every heart. | He spoke from a stage brilliantly dressed in the colors of the allies. At his side stood on three standards the Red, White and Blue of Great britain, rance and America. The _ Liberty cherus formed .a ‘background for the speaker, and B. C. Marks, chairman of the Burleigh county chapter of the Red Cross, Rev. George Buzzelle. Four. Minute, Man and junior Red Cross «auxiliary organizer, Governor Frazier and. other. officigis occupied places on the stage with Kim. The outstanding figure, to, to. everyone was that of the British fighting’ man, his very being radiati-- passionate love for the cause in which he spoke. Chairman Marks spoke briefly on the Red Cross, and.Rev. Euzzelle again sounded a demand for the wom- en of North Dakota to awake to the needs'of the student nurses’ reserve. | ‘The invocation was rendered by Rev, M. J. Hiltner. At 9 the audience rose and sang “The Star Spangled Banner,” which sounded from every community! in America at this hour last evening ; There was nothing incongruous in an amphitheatre decked out with the co -| ors of Great Britairl by an audience! assembled to hear a fighting ambassa-; dor of Great Britain in thé singing of | a national hymn whicn had its birth in the throes of our struggles for in- dependence from that power. It serv- ed, rather, to show how completely; the old wounds have been healed, and how wholly one are the two great na- tions whose unity of interests never, has been more clearly demonstrated than in the spirit which has existed since the beginning of this war. In part Capt. Edwards said: Until the day of. victory we must “Carry on, carry on,” and I know what I am saying; I know the cost of it quite as much as anybody here this evening. look here. men—there is: no one in this room this evening who/{ longs for peace as I do. I am not) here to glorify war, God forbid; no man int this room longs for peace as I do. [ have had four years of this! war and that means I have been away from home’ for four years and I have been cut off from the life of my home and my little children for four years in the happiest and loveliest years of their lives. I have a little boy at home, four years old, and that little chap has never known peace; he has never seen peace in his mother's heart, he has never seen peace in his mother's fade. eH said the other day, “Mother, what is peace?” A child ques- tion, what is peace? His mother tried to tell him in baby language. “Moth- er.” he said, “does peace mean that daddy will come home?” “Yes, dear,” she said. “Then, mother.” he said, “why can’t we have peace now?” 1 tell you, there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of our men in the line who long for peace now just as that little lad did; ‘but much as I long for peace there is a price I can not pay for it.. Much as t Jong for peace I can. not purchase it,/ nor consent to purchase it by the be- trayal of all that I hold true and right and sacred and good. The Pain; the. Cost. | Therefore, knowing the pain, and the cost, the sacrifice and the tears— aye, the blood and the life—I say we) must “Carry on, carry on,” until the: day of victory dawns, the victory that shall mean a permanent and blessed | peace for our children and children’s | children. We must carry on. But all | this means sacrifice. unspeakable sac- rifice. You know I sometimes think that in America you stand today in very much the same place that we did in 1914. I know there still is, especially among your young people, there still is for you about war some- thing of glamor, something of halo, something of romance and of adven- ture. Ah, but in England for us that hag passed, never to return; we have drunk the’ cup of bitterness to the dregs. Let me put it this way, per- (Continued on Page Two.) HAIG’S VICTORIOUS TROOPS PUSH ONWARD AND REACH IN POINTS HINDENBURG LINES (By Associated Press) German forces in southern Picardy are retreating over a wide front. After the capture of Roye yesterday the German front crumbled. The lines which have held back the French and British for the last two weeks are giving away, and today finds the French less than three miles from the Somme. Chaulnes, the center of the German line between Roye and the Somme, as it flows west through the battlefield has been cap- tured, and many other vital points have been: taken. While the French have been smashing the enemy front along the Chaulnes-Roye line, the British have swung forward east of Arras, and have reached the outskirts of the villages of Haru and Boiry-Notre Dame, about a mile east of. the position where they were known to be yesterday and well east of the Hindenburg line. South of the Somme the British have taken Foucducourt, while north: of the river they have gained nearly all of Terones wood. In the Flanders area the British have advanced their line over a front of four miles astride the Neuf-Berquin road. ~ This is the area from which the Germans have been retiring} for thé last three wéeks. } Every means known to modern warfare is being used by the; enemy to stay the onrush of the British and French, but the allied machine moves on. Heavy reingorcements have been thrown in by the Germans around Bapaume. The-one desire of the enemy seems to be to find a line where he can stand long enough to make an orderly retirement, but General Foch is ‘giving the foe no rest There is no let-up in the allied pressure. Each extension is mark- ed by further gains, adding to the peril of the enemy’s center, which is fighting desperately to prevent the British from break- ing through. RETREAT IS HASTENED. Paris, Aug. 28.—The German retreat on the Somme battle- field has become precipitious. The French third and fourth armies at no point are losing contcat with the enemy, whom they are pressing vigorously. CAPTURE 2,000 PRISONERS. - British Army in France, Aug. 28.—The British today com- pleted the capture of Thrones Wood. Canadian troops in their advance astride the Scarpe yesterday captured ‘more than 2,000 prisoners. ‘ ACTIVITIES INCREASE. With the French Armies ‘in France, Aug: 28.—Actvities be- hind the German lines on the Aisne and the Ancre front have} (Continued. on Page Three.) cy; i SEN. JAMES = ed into political prominence in the) western section, of the state, and he was not yet twenty-five when he was; selected as a delegate. to the Demo-| ‘atic national conyention at Chicago n 1896 which noniinated. Willim Jen- nings Bryan. for, the: presidency. Out of the.inemoradle” campaign ‘that followed thé Chicago convention DIES AFTER — : : through life, despite the fact that their Raltfmore, . Md., April 28.—Senator| wee were not always in accord, Ollie M. James of Kentucky died at) Jt was his ringing speeches in de- aa tas " BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNE j Lewis, at American Lake, Wash. The} |SHOCK. TROOPS HIS DAD'S AIDE ¢ * ae € MAJOR »: GRAVES Major Sidney €, Graves, son af Ma- jor General William, S Graves, now in command of the American forces in Sideria, has been decorated for brav- ery in France and has returned to go/ as his father's aide to Russia. } MANY GATHER TO SEE BOYS OFF 10 CAMP Large Delegation at Northern! Pacific Station to Bid Soldiers Goodbye | A large delegation of Bismarck and Burleigh county ‘citizens assembled at the Northern. Pacific station’ at noon today to see Burleigh county's 28 se- lect service soldiers - off for, Camp soldiers were escorted to the station by the. Elks’ band, which played sev- eral selections while awaiting the ar- rival of No.3.” * Today’s contingent, included. many well known Burleigh county. young men, and it was a splendid represen- tation of the-youug manhood of, cen- tral North Dakota. The ‘boys go int training ‘in the second largest ational army. camp in America : ty, W. 8. £9 HELD RED. CROSS ER |OTHER PROPERTIES RAISED leame before the board asking that) Johns-Hopkins hospital at'é a. m. Sei James had gen a patient here fo: three months.., Physicians at first be-| lieved he had a gcod chance to re- fense of the Chicago platform that first attracted nationwide attention to} the young Kentuckian and placed him} at a single bound into the inner coun-; TREASURY FUND CK TRIBUN AY, AUG. 28, 1918. LAST. EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS. RAILS ASKED DHORBASE; GET. ‘BOOST INSTEAD Ten Percent Increase Over #917; in Assessed Valuation An- | nounced by Board | A straight ten per cent boost in as-| sessed valuation was handed the prin- ‘ailways operating in North Da- kota by the state board of equaliza-; tion today. The railway companies their assessed valuation he decreased. The state board’s answer is an in-| crease of approximately $10,000,000, apportioned among the Great Northern Northern Pacific, Soo Line, North- western and St. Paul railwa: The boost is made, State Auditor Ksitzky stated today, on the basis of actual in-! creased values in these railway prop-| erties. Tho Great Northern, assessed last | year on $28,31 this year will pay| taxes on $2,8; more. The in- crease for the: Northern Pacific, as-} sessed last year on $24,387,178, will be $2,438,717. . The Soo line and oth- er railways, willbe increased propor- tionately, and the taxes will ‘be levied on thirty per cent of the'assessed val- uation at the regular state rate of} four mills, The Great Northern, Northern Pa-| cific and Western Express companies were each boosted twenty per cent, and the Wells Fargo was given a ten per cent increase. All telegraph prop-| erty was increased 20 per cent, and a/ similar boost was given the Pullman} company. | Every railway in the state protested | its assessment last year, when taxes | were levied on 30 per cent of the ac- tual valuation instead of 20 per cent, as theretofore. None of the railways operating in this state has yet paid} its taxes for the last fiscal year in full. The issue is yet undecided inj the courts, and some of the counties | have accepted .a partial tender of taxes. IY W, 8. §: PAGE RESIGNS — BECAUSE OF ILL HEALTH Washington, Aug. Paige of Garden Ci Y., ambassa; dr to Great Britain since 1916, be-! cause of ill health, has tendered presi- Walter Hines ICANS gain his health, but after an operation; cilg of the Democratic. party, of his} his situation became more serious,! home state. ‘ | and the transfusion of blood ‘which; “Big Ollie,” as James ‘was familiar-| was resorted to several times failed/ly known to thousands, attended five; to save his life. His wife and brother | pemocratie national conventions as a were at the bedside when the end) delegate from Kentucky suisequent to) came. | the Chicago convention and served as Ollie M. James, one of the leaders|;ermanent chairman of the conven! of the Democratic party and Jong 4' tions of 1912 and 1916 which nominat-| dominant figure in Kentucky politics... ed President Wilson. served five consecutive terms as a} — member of congress from the First; SENATE ADJOURNS. Kentucky district, was elected United) Washington. Aug. 28.—Considera-| States senator by the general assem-| tion in the senate of the war-time na-/| ‘bly in 1912, and was re-nominated for) tional prohibition measure, which is| that office by a large vote at the|{o be amended so as to be effective| statewide primayy on Aug.. 3, last. | July 1, 1918, was postponed today un-| Born in Crittenden county, Ken-|til tomorrow, the senate ddjourning|! tucky, July 27, 1871, and educated in|in respect to Senator James, of Ken: | public and academic school of’ that|tucky. : | section, James took an early interest} Senator Shepard, of Texas. prohi- | in politics and at the close of a legis-|bition leader, said the compromise | lative session, during which he served! measure probably would pass Friday. | as page, he began the study of law in! -———AUY W. 8, 8. | the office of his father, Judge L. H.; GOMPERS IN ENGLAND. | James, and was admitted to the bar; London, Aug. 28—Samuel Gomp- | a full year before he had reached his/ers, president of the American Feder- | majority. . ation of Labor and his party have{ During’the next four years he leap-|reached an English port. 1 x AMERICAN INFANTRY TO The Bismarck shock troops un- der command of J. ‘L. Whitney, Burleigh county chairman of: the” federal labor reserve, is almost ae Baie a Aen caas seem oe AT T ter Inpayment for services per. | SUBS VICTIM. ter. In payment for services per- formed by shock troops during the ef — + Aden Mutscheler of Wing, 18-year- old son of H. A. Mutscheler, operating last week. Messrs. W. L..and E..A. Anderson have sent the Red Cross chapter a check for $15; Martin |a 6;000-acre farm “for the “Patterson Burgois ‘contributed $33, and | J.and Co., was on the U. S. S. Mon-| George Gussner $15. The citizen tana, reported torpedoed the fore part} {of the week. The reports concerning | the fate of the Montana are vague,! shockers accept no money for and Mr, Mutscheler has received no their work, in which they have become remarkably efficient, and | official advices. He is inclined to be-! lieve that, it hit, the Montana was in isolated cases where a farmer has been hard hit no payment of any kind is expected. Ordinarily, | able to make some port, without the however, the farmer is able and loss of any men. The Wing boy en-| \Jisted for the navy May 27. He had! ‘been at Great Lakes training station! anxious to: nay, and in these in- stances he is permitted to contrib- {only 20 days when he. with 16 other} ! boys out of a group of 1,300, was ad-} ute to the Red Cross. The shock- |vanced to @ senior division. He left! ers are continuing to go out each | Great Lakes on July 1, and two weeks evening, and a great amount’ of ..lasting good has been done later entered active service on the Montana. His father last heard from, dent Wilson his resignation. BUY W. 8. 3—— tween town and country which | CLASH SHARP FIGHTING OCCURS AT INTERNATIONAL BORDER WHEN CUSTOM GUARDS ‘TRY TO CROSS Negro Troops Ride Over Line and Clear Nogales of Snipers Who Tock Refuge in Houses. Presi- dent Carranza Sends General With His Per- sonal Regrets Over Affair. Conference Held to End Trouble. Nogales, Aug. 28.—Likelihood of further outbreaks between Americans and Mexicans across the borded was believed to have been averted today when Brigadier General Cadell had announced that an agreement had ben reached wt hithe commander of the troops in Sonora. ‘Regrets for yesterday’s class between Mexican and American soldiers were expressed by General Elias Calles, military governor of Sonora, to Brigadier General de Rossy Cadell, in a telegram received from General Calles, Magdalena, Sorona, early today. General Calles stated he had been ordered to proceed to the border by Prsident Carranza to express these regrets personally. He is scheduled to arrive here this morning. General Calles arrived at 3 a. m., and the conference is to be held at Nogales today. CROSSED BOUNDARY. : Reports that negro troops crossed the boundary in the shoot- ing fray of yesterday were today confirmed. Troops rode one block into Nogales to clear the houses of snipers. _.Among the Americans wounded is Lieutenant Colonel Fred- erick Herman, commander of the border patrol. His condition is not serious. The fighting began at 4:15 yesterday afternoon when a Mexi- can attempted to cross into the United States. A. A. Barber, a United States Customs Guard twice orderer the Mexican to halt, end when he failed to comply, Barber drew his pistoi but did not ire. 4 ; Two Mexican customs guard, according to accounts, resented his interference with the Mexican seeking to cross the line and opened fire. , ‘ _ Their bullets missed Barber, but struck Corporal:Barney Lotz, in charge of the American guards. Lotz was shot through the arm and: lung and .ran to the Western Union telegraph office on the American side, shouting for assitance. He was removed to base hospital where he-died. As the Mexican bullets struck Lotz, Barber returned the fire. . FIRING IS GENERAL. The firing:then became general, Mexicans appearing ‘suddenly in the doorways of houses, on the roofs of buildings, and on the hills, and shooting across into National Avenue of the twin towns, khich form the boundary. line. American patrols returned the fire and reinforcements were sent for at Camp Lewis. Lieutenant {Colonel Herman responded. As he reached the boundary line, he fell with a bullet wound in the right knee, but after receiving ‘first, aid treatment he re- turned to the firing line and directed his troops. The first American military unit to cross the line was a troop of negro cavalry under the command of Captain Hungerford, who iwas shot dead‘at the head of his command. i) INFANTRY FOLLOWS. The infantry followed the negro cavalrymen, who after dis- mounting on the Mexican side of the boundary line, rushed forward singing: “Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here.” Several machine guns which were applied in the hills on the American sides inflicted heavy casualties on the Mexicans. After an hour and a half of steady fighting the Mexicans ran up a white flag on the Mexican customs house, and American officers went into consultation with Captain Abaslo, commanding the Mexican federal troops. At this meeting it was agreed to cease firing on both sides until eight o’colck this morning, but desultory firing continued. The armistice agreement provided that American military and ivil officers should meet this morning with the Mexican author- ities to investigate the trouble, and arrange a permanent agree- ment. The American town was guarded closely throughout the ‘night by soldiers and hundreds of civilians. (Continued on Page Three.) through the closer association be- him at Newport, Conn., Aug. 8. has resulted. , THE RELIEF OF FRENCH Fully equipped for battle, these American infantrymen are marching along a French road.to the front to relieve the tired French troops engaged in recent offensives. The poilus are seated by. , the roadside. ~<a a