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

THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR / THE BIS THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. . No. 237.. . BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, ri PEACE OFFER RESULT OF CONFERENCE Reported Leaders of Bulgaria Behind Demand for an Armistice. SITUATION IS VERY GRAVE| News Causes Panic in German Capital—Admiral Von Hintze in Statement ————— & HERTLING RESIGNS. London, Sept. 28—Count Von Hertling the German tmperial chancellor has resigned, according to a dispatch from the Central News Agency to the Hague. London, Sept. 20.—Bulgaria’s offer! of peace to the allies -is a result of a meeting held Monday and attended | by virtually all the leaders of Bul- garia, including Radislovoff, the ltb-| eral leader, and members of the cab- inet. It was not, as German news- papers contend, the impulsive act of Premier Malinoff. If martial law has b en proclaimed in Sofia, it is because of repeated anti-German demonstra- tions and pacifist demonstrations in front of the palace. ‘ Situation is'Grave. The situation in-Bulgaria is grave. This year’s crops are poor. Recent- military events ‘have convinced those who still believed in the star of Lu- dendorff that the game was played to an end. According to advices received at; Copenhagen and forwarded by the Ex: change correspondent there the news} from Bulgaria caused a panic at the | German capital. ‘ ' Speaking in the Reichstag yester-| day, Admiral Von Hintze said: | On Thursday Bulgaria proposed to! the entente commanders to open peace | negotiations. From the reports, which | were not yet complete, Von Hintze! said, it was»not clear whether Pre- mier Malinoff.\had acted officially or in his private\ capacity. He added there was great excitement in Bul- | garia, and in influential’ circles the; people were against..an.armistice or | any appeal for peace: ~ s German Statement. aan He said the peace delegation which it was reported had left for. Salonika on: Wednesday was ‘still in Sofia on Taursday. The German ‘high com-/ mand, Von Hintze said, immediately threw all its available reserves ~-into Macedonia when the \bad news from that front reached, headquarters. Admiral Von Hintze is reported to have said: “It will be clearer in a few. days, gnd ‘there is no reason. to give up the game in Bulgaria.” - GREAT BRITAIN REPLIES 5 Britain for an armistice. by the answer given /the Bulgarian. representatives on the tront by the; allied commander, \ - | At the same time regarding the pro- posal that duly accredited Bulgarian | representatives should confer with tne allies on the question of the peace, it. has been made quite cleay to the So- fla government that such a peace ne- cessarily involves a complete rupture ‘by ‘the Bulgarian government with Turkey, Germany and Austro-Hungar: The allied government necessarily d mand every guarantee which.tiey de- mand necessary to safeguard their military operations. , In discussing the Bulgarian proposal | the allies have no intention of attemp:- | ing to make a final territorial settle- ment in the Balkans, which obviously must be a métter for consideration at the peace conference. The ques- tion it is stated is one of conclusion of such a military agreement that would prevent any further danger from | the Bulgarian side to the allied opera- ti ns in the Balkans. “If this is not satisfactory it is said, the allies have no further conditions to propose. sd BUY W. 8, 8,——— ‘ KOSITZKY WOULD _.; TAX OIL BY BULK, State - Auditor. Believes Some| - Companies are Reneging. In his biennfal report, State Auditor ; Karl Kositzzky recommends that oil | companies operating in ‘North Dakota ; be required to“keep a record of the gallons of oils and gas handled each year and that they be taxed a certain sum on this ‘volume ‘of business. “Un- der the present system,’ says Mr. Kos- itzky, “it is not difficult for oil com- panies to arrange to have no stock on hand when the assessor ‘calls in April, and as a result the state is los- ing thousands of ‘dollars annually in ta xrevenue which itneeds and should have.” * , ‘Mr... Kositzky would: also tax at a flat rate all vending machines, pea-nut and pop-corn wagons,‘stamp machines and- other, money-making devices. / Buy w. §, STEELE OVER Sie BY 100°CLOCK + Saras 7 Steele, N. D., . At 10. | o'clock this metnineehavamen J. | F. Robinson reported that the Lib- | | erty Loan subscription for Wood- { | lawn, which includes the village ° | of Steele, had reached $16,000: The ouota for this township was $15,- | 000. A.big biraege 4 tien is ex. | tonight. i | i pected before the campaign closes + IND BIGLOANIS YANK \LEADER | BREWSTER General Brewster is- one of the American commanders in France. COLLAPSEOF ‘BULGARIA DUE ~TOYANK ARMY Concentration of American| Troops on West Front Pre- vents Shifting of Germans GEN. A. W. GOING GREAT IN BISMARCK Subscribers Cheerfully Signing Up—Only Kick that Amount Isn’t Bigger. POLLS OPEN UNTIL 9 P. M.| Capital City Folk Still Have Sev- eral Hours to Get Names on Honor Roll Washington, Sept. -28,—Before dawn today the fourth. liberty loan campaign was on. : ' So eager were some communi- ties to make strides toward their subscription goals that they sent solititors to work at the stroke of midnight. Scores of towns are trying to give .all expected of them before nightfall and to devote the remain- ing threc weeks to doubling or trebling their quotas of the mighty war loan. : A million and‘a half men, wom- en and children are enrolled in an army bf active campaigners to place a bond in every home. The whole vast machinery got smoothly into action. Like the grimmer campaigns across the sea, every detail had been planned ER | PASS- HINDENBURG LINES ¢ — Cai | Washington, Sept. 28.—The impend- | ing collapse of Bulgaria, General) March said today, is a direct result of | goncentration of American forces on! the western front. Hitherto, General March explained, whenever a section | of. the central empire. was menaced j Germany was able to withdraw di-; visions from the. west front. “That day is now past,” he added, , “as a result of the concentration of! the entire American army on the western front. This has iorced the German general, ‘staff to. keep intact their whole strength in France.” The elimination of Eulgaria would | foreshadow. the finish of Turkey and | possibly the re-entry of Kumania into | the war. Pass Hindenburg Line. In the new drive, The French and Americans have passed the Hinden-} burg line and are fading ‘ Krem- | hild line. eGneral March was unable to identify positively American, units in this action. He said the attack was sharp and rapid, pwhich hitherto has marked the American operations. on the On the first day Pershing's men _ad- vanced from four to six miles. Offi- cial reports to date shows capture of 8,000 prisoners, while the French have taken more than 7,000. BUY W. 8. ‘FLICKERTAIL FIGHTING MEN WRITE FRASER North Dakota Warriors Tell of Their Experience in Many Fields “T slept last nignt di,the same place| Joan of Arc did,” writes Major E.\C. ‘Geary in an interesting ‘letter from, +Tance to General, Angus Fraser. | Geary and Fraser are old comrades of the Famous ‘Fighting First. | Capt. M. W. Murphy; who also is! from Fargo, writes from the American | Red Cross at Bordeaux, stating that, everything: is going lovely with his branch of the service and that there is plenty of work to be done. Major Harold ‘Sorenson, whose! friends expect to see him a colonel before. many more days have passed, writes.General s‘raser from the Lambs club at. New York with interesting | news of the old 34th. “The Sandstorm” | division, with which ‘North Dakota was brigaded on the border. A recent | photograph ‘of the officers of the -andstorm division shows Major Sor-} enson, Judge Advocate General Bitz-| 4ng of Mandan, former assistant attor- ney general of North Dakota; Col. | Luce of the olé First Minnesota and{ Col. Mollison of the Second Minne- sota. all of whom are quartered at Camp ‘Cody, and) who are veteran northwestern fighting men. “When. the Sandstorm division gets across,” said General Fraser, “you'll see something doing on the west front. That's a crazy fighting bunch.” Capt. Earl Sarles, gon of former Governor BE. Y. Sarles of Hillsboro, writes from, American Lake, ‘Wash. where he is enjoying his work as cap- tain in the quartermaster corps, and the general has interesting “letters! from Lieuts. Ernest and Welland Or- chard of Dickinson, brothers who went out as battalion adjutant and in com- mand of the macaine gun company of the Second; respectively. ———aivwin s SHIELDS HITS BALL PROMPTLY —~ Shields, N. D., Sept. 28—The_ vil- lage. of Shields hit the ball at 9 this morning with subscriptions totaling $3,500, more than the village’s quota long in advance. Salesmen be- gan gathering subscriptions by well-organized methods.. Posters appeared in shop windows and the story of liberty bonds on streets and from fence corners. President Wilson's autographed appeal was published in newspa- pers throughout the land. In mo- tion picture theatres films plan; ned by leading stars told graph- ically. way Americans should. buy bonds, and 125,000 volunteer speakers began to drive home the appeal. More than a score of special trains filled with war rel- ics - fresh from. France's battle- fields started their journeys from town. to town. The big Fourth Liberty Loan is go- ing great in Bismarck. A, splendid spirit, is reported. at every ward poH- ing place.. The only objection that has ven made has come from, subscribers who did not regard their allotment as high enough. Many ‘have doubled, trebled or even quadrupled the amount assigned, to them. Ward Two polling place opened for business at.8:30 this morning and re-| ceived its first subschiption at 8:40. Then for two hours the clerks had all} they could do to accommodate the con- NBE ' general PACKING PLANT , | 200 beeves daily. JUDGE ADVOCATE eS p ‘ s eS GEN. W.A. BETAEL General Bethel is, judge advocate of. the American army in France. _ 3 BUILDING HOMES FOR EMPLOYEES Big Equity Institution at Fargo Soun Will be Ready to Be- gin Operations “Supt. Hoopman > wired me today that excavating had been. commenced at. the Equity Cooperative packing ; plant at Fargo for 24 honies for work- men,” said P. My Casey,’president of the executive committee, today. “The packing plant buildings are completed, and we are ready to begin operations as soon as the’ machinery can be in- stalled. We have 40 carloads of ma- ichinery on the sidings there waiting to ‘be unloaded, but it seems impos- sible to find men to-do the work. As *lsoon’ as we can get this machinery in place We will begin killing. Our ca- pacity™ at-present limited by~our storage facilities’ to 1,000 hogs and By doubling our storage capacity we can. doubte our killing’ capacity. ) s “We will, kill, hogs, beef .and some mutton, whatever “the market de- mands; and we should:ve onerating by mid-winter, if the’ labor situation eases up somewhat. Our expert, Supt. Hoopman formerly of Wausay, Wis., has'been with us since last June, su perintending work’ on the *’ont, and! he will look after the, installation of the machinery.” : ABV W. 5. See TO PHYSICALLY stant stmear of subscribers. All day} long bond) buyers continued to. string ; in, and there was hardly a moment throughout the day when three or) more purchasers were not lined up be-| for the table. This experience is typ: } ical, having been duplicated in the five other ward polling stations. a Ward One at 3 o'clock had sold $45,- 000 worth of bonds to approximately | 150 buyers; Ward Two, with an appor-! tionment of $46,650, at 2 o'clock this afternoon had sold $22,600 worth of bonds to 153 buyers; Ward Three had sold $35,000 worth of bonds up to 2 o'clock; Ward Four, with a quota of $14,800, had sold at 2 o'clock $10,000 worth of bonds to 53 subscribers, Ward Five, whose quota is about $80,-/ 000 had sold $13,000-worth of bonds’ to 70 subscribers at 2 o'clock. None| of the big fnancial and commercial in- terests which are listed in this ward had found time. to sign up at this hour, a majority of the business then| having planned to attend: to this de- tail in the evening. Ward Six at 2 o'clock was nearer the goal than any of the others, with $33,000 of its $40,- 000 allotment sold to 100 subscribers. Everyone Proud to Pay. EXAMINE 1918 - REGISTRANTS “Immediatey upon receipt of the ‘second edition of the selective service regulations, local boards. will proceed to the ph. examination of all reg- istrants who ‘have been placed in Class 1 regardless of the pendency of an ap- peal to the district board, unless there is also pending a claim for deferfed! classification on the ground of engage, ment in industry, occupation _ or em- ployment,” said Adjutant General Fraser -today.: The second edition of selective service regulations referred to is ‘now in the mails for all local boards, rw 8 oa MRS. CLEMENS TO TESTIFY IN COURT MARTIAL Mrs= Helen Clemens of the adjutant! general's office has been ,ordered by General Fraser to Camp Grant, New Rockford, Ill., to testify in a court mar- tial proceeding. involving the case of John Kos. of Ward county, held as an Approximately fifteen per cent of the price of the bonds already has! (Continued on Page Six ) 1 RUSSIA AT THE L MOSCOMy comanthy REPU BL panel) \ O J UimHuanw ) jersta gl) Nx! e i army deserter. The court martial will sit in this matter next Monday. ATEST 1 CG YONA Ss : N\ i \ (ASTRAKNAN p Every day or so a new republic is born in Russia, but this is of the Fourth Liberty loan, reports Chairman James McCormick. * ¥ what the country looks like today, with the Bolsheviki; of only a fraction of the former vast empire. in- control SEPT. 28. 1918 LIN - tw. CK TRIBUNE LAST EDITION ‘ PRICE FIVE CENTS: OLIVER COUNTY OFFICERS MAY BE OUT CROP Gaines Protests Right to Take Flax from Land Seized by - Council ‘of Defense TO ESTABLISH PRECEDENT Decision in Case will Affect Stat- us of Similar Deals in Other Sections The right of the state council of de- fense to seize and turn over to other parties the property of North Dakota citizens will be contested in the dis- trict © court here October 4, upan which date Judge W. L. ‘Nuessle has mate returnable an order issued today | on petition of, A. D. Gaines, wealthy} Twin City and Dakota land-owner, cit- {ing State's Attorney Robert Dunn and Treasurer Paul H. Wolff of Oliver county to saow cause why they should estricted from harvesting a lax trom 80 acres. of Gaines’ (land in Oliver county. Is, was in conne {ings’ of Mr. Gi | which’ total several thousand acres, that the council of defgnse last June ordered: “That any person in the State having the means and ability | so to do shall have the right and/ privilege to enter upon and take pos- session of a specific number of acres of, land which is vacant and unpro-| ductive and which is not now being| utilized during the season of 1918 for} crop or food production or for pastur- age for livestock, and which is not; subject to lease contract or otherwise ; for purpose of breaking up or summer; fallowing same so as to prepare the jland for a crop production for war} purposes for the yfar 1919." ' |. Pursuant to this order, and with the! {approval ‘of the state council ‘of de-| jfense, State’s Attorney Dunn and! County Treasurer Wolff of Oliver! county ‘took ovér 80 acres of Gaines’ land, while other Oliver county peo- iPle entered upon various parcels of! jthe big property. No." Mr. Gaines claims that the land which Dunn and {Wolff put’ in‘ crop: had bce leased ‘for two years for pasture purposes; that the ‘Oliver county officials ig-! nored this lease’ and went upon the land and broke it and seeded it to flax without the consent of the owner or the lessee, and Mr. Gaines asks to e shown what right the defendants jhave: to ‘remove. from his ,tand the! !crop which they have grown there. | Gaines is represented by Attorney | ; WW. H. Stutsman of Mandan, while At-| torney General’ William. Langer ap-, pears in the preliminary proceedings | |as- representative of the defendants | and the council of defense. The coun-| ; cil of defense’s land conscription order | thas several times been attacked in| the courts, but in each instance the council has arbitrated and settled the; difficulties out of court. Mr. Gaines, | who very greatly resented the seiz- ure of his land last spring, does not appear disposed to arbitrate, and it is expected that'an actual test of the powers delegated by legislature to the council of defense may result from this action. It is not known: how much land was | seized a¥out the state under this or-| der. The acreage, however, was not | extremely large, because the order! was promulgated too late in the spring | to, permit the planting of wheat, and! almost too late to warrant the sowini o fmuch flax in land so taken over.| There are, nevertheless, several coun-| ties in which the status of impromptu | lessees by virtue of the council of de- fense will be affected by-the decision of this Suit. The council of defense order pro-| vdes as payment for the use of the! land an allowance of ten percent of; the gross receipts fromycrops griwn,| to be paid on or before the first day | of November, 1919. |. The chief objection to the council's action in the western part of the state has been that it has resulted in the breaking up of land which is of little; worth for agricultural purposes but which was valuable for grazing, so, jlong as the native sod was ‘left un-| disturbed. ‘The result of breaking, it} | is claimed, has been a crop of rnustard | jand other noxious weeds which will] prove a detriment to the land for) imany years to come, while. it is al- \leged, the tracts will never produce in| |} grain as much revenue as they would ‘have created as pasture for stock, or/ as hay lands. | | Bpieett ae iR \ | | | EGENTS MAY ail NAME VALLEY _ CITY PREXY! The state board of regents will open; an important meeting at Fargo next} Tuesday. It is possible that further! consideration may be given at this! time: to the selection of a presidency; jfor the Valley City normal. Dr. Stout, ! |selected for this berth, declined to; qualify after coming to North Dakota {and sizing up the s§tuation. The board jaiso” will receive réports from ’ the heads’ of, other institutions and will) consider extensions necessary to ac- commodate 600 additional students at ‘oth the university and the agricultur- al college who are expected to en- roll as members of thé students’ army ; training corps. avy w.k 8 /MACLACHLANIN || ACTIVE SERVICE| Dr. T.. M. MacLachlan, well known Bismarck eye. ear and throat special- ist, has reported in New York for ac- tive service in the navy ‘as a lieuten- ant of the junior grade in the medi- cal officers’ reserve corps. {point near Ivoriy and thence northwesterly. ihas become common, airmen starting E IS PASSED © MARSHAL FOCH PUTS HUN DEFENSE TO MOST SEVERE TEST FROM VERDUN TO SEA Smashing Attacks Are Being Delivered by British and Belgians North of Ypres and in -Cham-: pagne District. ; (By Associated Press) Marshal Foch is putting the Germans on the western front to the: most severe test of the war. On four important sectors from Verdun to the North Sea allied troops are fighting their way into and beyond the Hindenburg line. \ Smashing attacks are being delivered by the British and Bel- gians north of Ypres; by the British and Americans before Cam- brai; by the French north of the Aisne. and by French and Americ- ans in Champagne and to the east. On.all fronts the allied soldiers are meeting with success. Cambrai it would appear is about to fall. The British, having captured the important heights of Bourlon Wood, are reported be- yond Fontain-Notre Dame, and Sailly, within one and three-quart- ers miles of Cambrai. * East of the Argonne the Germans are fighting desperately to hold the Brunhilde positions, but the Americans are progressing at several points. In the last three days, the British, French and Americans have taken more than 27,000 prisoners. In their Cam- brai drive, the British have captured ten thousand. while the Franco-Americans have captured more than 16,000. Serbian and their allied forces in Macedonia are pressing vig- orously in pursuit of the disorganized Germans and Bulgarians. Th® Serbians have taken Veles with its garrison, and are moving up its valley. From Ishtib the Serbians are marching toward the Bulgar- ian border and have passed east of Kochana, 14 miles from ‘the frontier. MENACE CAMBRAI ) The menace to Cambrai is greater than at the heights of Gen- ‘eral Byng’s stroke of last November. The attacking troops hold a longer front immediately on the west while to the north they are pfessing on over a terrain hitherto untouched by fighting. South- west of Cambrai the British are fighting toward the important Scheldt Canal, at Cantaing. HAIG’S THRUST TO NORTH Field Marshal Haig’s thrust, ndrth of Cambrai already has progressed more than three miles. ‘The British have. cut the high road between Cambrai and Douai. The fall of Cambrai, observers believe, would result in a general withdrawal from Douai and St. Quentin, which possibly would lead to a retirement to the French order. ; / To the north the British and Belgiah armies are fighting through the Hindenburg line between Ypres and Dixmude.. At some points the attacks, begun Saturday morning, already have resulted in an advance of 2 1-2 miles. The allied troops have pen- etrated the important positions of Houtholst Forest, German pos- session of which‘had stayed previous attempts to advance south of the Belgian coast. This operation apparently is directed toward the German sub- marine bases in Belgium and outflanking the bastian of Lille. French troops are fighting forwards up the slopes toward’ Chemin Des Dames. They have gained further ground south of’ Fort Malmasion, and have'taken the important points of Jouy and: Aizy and the ravine between. The Franco-American drive west and east of the Argonne to the Meuse continued successfully today The French have moved their line forward west of the Argonne forest and captured important positions on their western flank. UNDER GEN. POOLE Washington, Sept. 28—General March announced today that allied and American forces operating south of Archangel have been placed under command of General Poole of the British army. ‘the American units are commanded by General Stewart. : Ambassadsr Francis is at Archangel, and he said the Americ- an government is in close touch with conditions. CAPTURE ARLEUX British Forces in France. Sept. 28—Field Marshal Haig’s | forces today captured Arleux five miles southeast of Douai. BULGARIA OUT OF WAR i Washington, Sept. 23—Bulgaria is out of-the war in the opin- ion cf Stephan Panaicroff, Bulgarian minister here, who believes that his country definitely determined to abandon its alliance with {German and Austria and if the entente allies refuse to listen to peace overtures will appeal to the United States to use offices. 10,000 PRISONERS TAKEN London. Sept. '28.—Prisoners to the number of 100,000 have been taken by the British in the Cambria area, Field Marshal Haig announces. Two hundred guns. TRY TO HALT AMERICANS With the amex northwest of Verdun, Sept. 28.—With their backs against the outer edge of the Brunhild line. the Germans today were fighting desperately in an endeavor to bring the American advance to a definite halt. The Germans were increas- ing the volume of their fire, and indicating anew their determina- tion to resist to the uttermost.. The line fought for paréllels the Argonne wood and extends eastward to Montfaucon road, to a The Germans are massed in the Cierges wood and in the Emont wood. The Americans are using their artillery freely to break up the enemy position. The Germans are depending on machine gun fire at every advanced point. HEAVY FIGHTING AT YPRES is Paris, Sept. 28.—Allied troops began an attack on the front north of Ypres today, and the advance on some points has been more than two miles. The attack is being led by the Belgian army. One thousand prisoners already have been counted. Heavy fight- ing is taking place between Dixmude and Ypres and north of Ypres. RESUME BATTLE Paris, Sept. —Britigh forces resumed the battle before Cam- brai at daybreak today.-. They, are reported to have captured the villages of Fontaine-Notre Dame, Cantaig and Sailly. e AIRMEN DARING With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Sept. 28.— Thick clouds and ground mists again hampered the airmen detail- ed for observation today in the area of operations. In no previous engagement have the pursuit machines dis- played a greater indifference to weather conditions. - Night flying off in the darkness and land- ing by the aid of flares. Sees: : Raids of airmen heretofore have been confined almost entirely to daylight hours. but the Germans in this encounter have been compelled to combat swift attacks on their balloons and raids from planes darting out of the bank of clouds. SERBIANS ADVANCE : London, Sept ome and fa -Vilez. one’s a important. strongholds of the Bulgarians, been captured by . _ its good