The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 8, 1918, Page 1

viene” an s ‘THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAI THE BIS THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. WILSON ASKS GE TO HAMMER GERMAN LINES; ALLIES HAVE CROSSED AISNE bee. i (By Associated Press.) While Field Marshal Haig is attacking on a 20-mile front north of St. Quentin, the French along the Suippe continue their progress northward toward the German communication line despite strong enemy resistance. The French have reached the juncture of the Suippe and Aisne rivers and have forced their way into two large towns on the Middle Suippe. On the front attacked, the British and Americans are pushing} eastward from the hills west of the canal between. the two towns at the railway junction of Bohis, and railway lines running north} and south, so important to the German supply system in this region. Successful continuation of the French advance around Rheims is menacing the security of the German’s Loan massif. After capturing Berry-au-Bac, the French are fighting their way into Combe Sur Suippe, at the junction of the Aisne and; Suippe. Progress northward from these towns would outflank | both the Champagne and Laon positions now occupied by the Ger-| mans, and make untenable the lines of both the Aisne and the! Retourn. In the-center by entering Bezancourt, the French ap- | parently have broken the German hold on the Suippe and made, necessary a retirement to the Retourn or Aisne further north. On the north the Belgian and British pressure is maintained, and the Germans continue to withdraw from the Belgian costal | FRENCH AND BRITISH CONTINUE | regions. H Between the Suippe and the Meuse the French are pressing the Germans hard. ‘ Large-fires are reported behind the German lines on the American sector east of the Argonne, and the important town of | Brieulles. on.the western bank of the Meuse, is burning. CROSS AISNE. With the French Army in France, Oct. 8—German forces have | turned’at bay at the north bank of the Suippe river and have been | counter-attacking with desperate energy all day. If the French succeed in establishing themselves on the north bank of the Aisne! in this region, they will immediately turn the enemy flank on the Suippe. Therefore the Germans have attempted to keep the; French south of the Aisne. In spite of the enemy resistance, the! Aisne has been crossed at Berry-au-Bac, the whole village on the! north side of the river being in the hands.of the French. | SAVE BATTALION. With the American Army in France, Oct. 8.—Word was re- ceived last night of the rescue of an American battalion which had been surrounded by the Germans in the Argonne forest. It is pre-| sumed the battalion was relieved by other American troops which} fought, their way through the encircling: German line. j PROGRESS NEAR CAMBRAI. London, Oct. 8.—English and American troops attacked this morning on the front bétween St. Quentin and Cambrai. Satisfac-| tory progress is being made. In successful local operations. near | Mont Brehein and Beaureauvoir, on this front yesterday, more than 230 prisoners{were taken by American and English troops. Today’s attack, was launched just before daybreak. bene thawte renal eftiatenb: army. ab $0. shonts a}. a : | time, is. sim: wonderfulf. | EVACUATION CONTINUES, Ho recalled seeing these Americans | ‘Amsterdam, Oct. 8.—The, evacuation of the Belgian coast, region by the-German forces is continuing. The telephone lines; between the frontier and the coast were being taken down yester-: day and today. The stores of material at Knocke near the Dutch! border have been set on fire, and many. factories have been under- mined in preparation for their quick destruction. i | FALLS. IN AERIAL BATTLE. | Paris, Oct. 8.—Roland G. Garros, who was reported missing yesterday, in advices from the front, is believed to have fallen dur-| ing an aerial battle Saturday. He went out with a patrol Saturday | morning and became engaged in a fight with an enemy squadron. ITALIAN ACE KILLED. | Amsterdam, Oct. 8.—Lieut. Remy of the German army, who; claimed 44 air victories. has been killed, according to the Lokal; Anzeiger. ( i |GERMANS SEEK TANK SILENCER | ae wn LIBERTY LOAN TOTAL PASSES rn rss ot amin BILLION MARK Washington, Oct. 8—The overnight} subscription of $82,000,000 to the Lib- erty loan raised the totdi to $1,405, 610,000. } Subscriptions to the Fourth “Liberty Joan must average more than $420,000,- 000 daily from this time on if the cam- paign is to D flone successfully October (By Newspaper Enternrise Ass'n.) London, Lng., Oct. §— she Germans | are frantically searching Yor an anti- dote to the tanks. The allied tanks, combined with air- planes, have proved to, be an intidote to the German machine guns. Permanently on the defensive, the importance of the machine gun to Ger- many has more than doubled since Foch grabbed the ‘initiative for keeps. AND NEVER IN THE WAR HAVE |THE MACHINB GUNS BEEN OF su a LITTLE USE TO THE GERMANS! ” Kk Both fliers and tank fighters have/| The,haif-way mark in the campaign been trained in devices and codes by was reached today with total-sudscrip-/ which the exact locations of machine tions amounting to only $1,320,716,950./ gun nests were accurately pointed out| Pleven working days of the campaign] by the airplanes. Htween 20 and. 30—strong muscular iel- _. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, OCTO ————— “BULGARIA OUT—WE'LL FIGHT HARDER,” SAYS NEWTON BAKER By Harold E. Bechtol.:,, (European Manager of the Newspaper Enterprise Ass’n.) London, England. Secretary of War Baker, just returned from the front, said to me recently: “Developments in the Balkans will-not affect America’s military plans in the least. Withdrawal: of Bulgaria from the war will not cause us to slacken our efforts or Jessen our program for the complete overthrow of German militarism. “Rather, we shall quicken our efforts to make the final blow stronger and bring the end the sooner, that the world may be again at peace.” RRR Re BAKER SEES YANKS GRITTY, GAY AND EAGER FOR BATTLE But Seriotia Understand ing of. Cause. Most Im- presses War Secretary. BY HAROLD E. BECHTOL. ! uropean Manager of the Newspaper | Enterprise Association.) ondon, Hng., Oct. §.—In an interview | at the home of General Biddle here in London Secretary of War Baker give} me his impressions of the First United | States army. | Baker was just back from France, where he spent many days with the | American fighters and watched them | in battle—the first complete American | army to take, part in the war. | “Serious soldiers,” he called them. ; “Determined and efficient.” i He told of incidents he had witness- | ed (o illustrate their grit; their eager-| ness to “have a go" at the Germans; their gajety. He termed their morale superb,” | and told how they all smile—broad ; American smiles. y “But the outstanding impression! the American soldier makec,” he add-/ ed earnestly, “the impression |. carry | away, is one: of a soldier who under=| stands perfectly. well the: righteous | cause for -which he is fighting!”. | Secretary Baker made it very em-} phatic that the Americans’ splendid | spirit—their |light-heartedness—in no sense dul.el their determination, or | their appreciation’ of. the serious busi-} ness: ahead. He continued: | “The transformation of these young’, Americans, fresh ‘from civil life, into | determined, competent units of a thor-' when they were “rodhies” back home | in training camps. ' \ U./S. Boys Apt Pupils. © | “Their astonishingly rapid develop-; jment has been made possible by their|of the residence of General aptitude and inteliigence; their zeal! and energy; and the whole-hearted ; spirit in which they dropped every-{ thing else dh set about to learn their) jobs in the'atmy.” paker stood on a hill and watched | their victorious advance east of St.! ‘Mihiel. “It was an advance by thoroughly competent troops,” said Laker. “Their | conduct. was magnificent.” Wlustrates, Yankee Grit. | The secretary visited the hospitals! where the wounded men just back) from the firing line were being cared) for. ‘This incident, he said, illustrates the grit of the wounded Americans and the solicitious care they receive: “When I entered one hospital two | orderlies were trying to pull off a! wounded soldier's boot. A bullet has! gone through the boot into his leg. | “Don't try to pull that boot off like; that!’ ordered a surgeon. i “But the woundéd man gritted his teeth, said it didn’t hurt and started to help the orderlies get it off. “Hurt? Of course it hurts,’ insist- ed the surgeon. ‘Slit the boot clear down the leg!’ And the boot was slit.” Speaking of the Americans physical fitness, Baker said: “In the German army and in the! French army there are older men andj young boys; and in a lesser degre? this is true even in the British army. But the Americans are almost all be- lows in perfect physical trim.” Baker talked with scores of soldiers —soldiers of practically every branch Paper men photographed in the garden in France. eee ‘CAMP GRANT COMMANDER FOUND DEAD mp Grant, Ill, 0 $.—Col. Hage- acting commander of Camp Grant, was found dead in his quarters at the camp this morning. Rumors that he committed suicide are not confirmed. At camp headquarters i was announced Col. Hagedorn was found, dead at & kfast_ time. “The cause of his death was due no doubt to worrk and nervous strain due to the hard work of the camp and the spread of epidemic,” announced Col. Cassell, who becomes active-com- mander of the camp. Col.sCharles_ B. Hadgedon, acting commander of Cantp Grant, committed suicide in his quarters last night. His jbody with a pistol wound in ‘his head | was found in his bet at ‘this morning. — BY Ww. s . CHILD'S EPI-EMIC. * Buenos Ayres, Oct. 8.—The medical department is alarmed by the persist- ent spread of an unidentified epidemic among children in Catamerica prov- ince. In a. month 100 children have died out of a total population of 10,- RMAN . +. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SPANISH FLU ~ RECALLS OLD i | | | Present Epidemic Similar | First Outbreak of Influenza | in 1889-90. NCIENT HISTORY lias AN Washington, Oct. —Spanish influ- enza, public health service ‘scientists | believe, is very similar to the epi- | demis of grippe which swept the jcountry during the winter of 1889 and ¥ y provably, the infection, resur- ‘rected in Europe, and after sweeping | ‘the war torn‘countries, now has ap- peared in the United States, has a | very ancient history, taking it back to the day of Hippocretes and Livius }more than four hundred years before Christ. | The best means of treatment of in-, ‘tuenza cases were communicated to! ithe country a few days ago by, Sur- geon Genet Blue through the Asso-/ Now General Blue has! let which tells some- i thing about the strange malady. “It seems probable that in 1918, as! [in 1889-90, the carliest appearance was! jin eastern Kurope,” it says. “By} April cases were occurring on the !western front. In ‘Spain, according 'to reports, 30 per cent of the popula- tion wee attacked in May. The 1889 epidemic, starting in northern Europe, also fell heavily on Spain; the present | ruler, then three years old, being one |of the first attacked in Madrid. The j king of Spain is said also to have been attacked in the present epidemic. ~ GRIPE SEIGE to) Y’S MEANING PRESIDENT UNWILLING TO. REPLY TO NOTE UNTIL HE UNDERSTANDS ITS TENOR ' Washington, D. C., Oct. 8.—President Wilson today informed | the German government that before the United States can discuss |an armistice German troops must be withdrawn from all invaded i territory. He asked Chancellor Maximilian whether he represent- ‘ed the German people or the authorities of the empire who are ‘conducting the war. : | _,_ NOT REPLY BUT INQUIRY. ie The president 'S message was not a reply but in the form of an inquiry. Germany is asked whether it accepts the terms tala down ‘by the president in his address to congress of January'8. The J message was transmitted by Secretary of State Lansing through | the Swiss legation. The text of the message is as follows: ‘ ‘Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge on behalf of the presi- | dent your note of October 4 enclosing a communication from, the | German government to the president and I am instructed by the | president to direct you to make the fgllowing communication to | the German emperor: i ‘ WANTS TO KNOW MEANING. Before making reply to the request of the Imperial German government, and in order that the reply may be as candid and straightforward as the momentous interests involved require, the president of the United States deems it necessary to assure him- self of the exact meaning of the note of the imperial chancellor. = nee AEE TERNS ACCEPTED. joes the imperial chancellor mean that the imperial ‘= ernment accepts the terms of the president as laid dew rar president in his address to congress on the Sth of January, and ube Sere eee and that his entrance into negotiations oul e only for the arrangement of details f e ii of terms thereby agreed to. BENS Tne “With regard to an armistice, the president feels bound 1 say that he would not feel at liberty to propose a cessation of abins to the governments with which the United States is associated |The epidemic of 19/8 was at its height in Germany in June and July. It has appeared in practically every | section of Burope. In England the ep-| lidemie prevailed 4 May, June and! | July. i i “Outbreaks have heen reported from ns of the United States, | i Sane ters means| when the disease | America almost simul: so rapid a occurred j taneously with its appearance in west-; ern I in rope. mptoms in the present epi-! e been an acute onset, often | dden, with bddily weakness | in the head, €; back, and} | elsewhere in the body. Vomiting may| if frequent. Chilly sehsations ard us-! ual, and the temperature is from 100 to 104 degrees, the pulse remaining | {comparatively low. Sweating is not frequent. The appetite is Jost, and | ation is marked. Constipation is ule, Drowsiness and photophobia ; common. The fever usually lasts, tare Biddle fom three to five days; but relapses | separation of Alsace/Lorraine ; are not uncommon, and complications, | particularly pulmonary, are to be fear- ed. The death rate is usually given as /extremely low; but in the latter, per-| tiods of an outbreak an increased num- } ! ber of deaths, presumably due to com-| | plications; has been reported-in Spain tand in the United States. Leside: bronchitis and pneumonia, inflamma: ‘tion of the middle ear and cardiac, weakness may follow the disease. | | “The short course of the fever (al! | ways less than en days) in uncom- | plicated influenza is/an aid in diagno- ‘sis, All ages are attacked, young ac-: \tive adults being especially suscept lible. In Germany there has been such fa preponderance of cases among the) young that it is supposed that the} 1889 epidemic conferred an immunity on most of those at present over 30 | | years of age. This has not beem ob- served alsewher | BUY W.S 8 | EMMONS COUNTY: | GRAND JURYIN | | SESSION TODAY, Linton, N. D., Oct. 8.—The Emmons ; county grand jury assembled by Judge! W. L. Nuessle convenes here today to| Mrs. E. L. Perras was killed some time | ago and to look into other matters} ‘hich may pe brought to its atten-| 'tion. Much’ interest attaches to the! | deliberations of this body, and some} unexpected developments are hint- ed at. be a symptom of onset and Maziness | investigate the Hazelton riots in which | . in opposition to the Central, Powers as long as the-armi Central Powers are on their: soils. £ ies of the in ' _ ASKS WHO IS REPRESENTED, “The president also feels that he is justified in asking whether the imperial chancellor is speaking merely for the constituted authoriti s of the empire who so far have conducted the war. . ‘Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my high ¢onsider- ation. ; ROBERT LANSING. Londch, Oct. 8 rantiree EAE \ sondon, Oct. 8—The Fatherland party is organizing s ment to oppose Prince Maximilian’s peace plans. eae AGAINST HUMILIATING PEACE. Amsterdam, Oct. 8.—Germany’s new ministry is one of na- tional defense aswell ds peace and is prepared to stand ‘to the end against a humiliating peace, Dr. Bernard Dernberg, former for- eign minister of the colonies, declared in a statement today. REJECTS TWO POINTS. : Copenhagen. Oct. 8.—The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says tw of President Wilson’s points must be considered rejected—the , t ‘vom Germany and th stituti of an independent Poland of Prussian Poland Tones ABSOLUTE VICTORY. Rome, Oct. 8.—“We must have absolute victory. Any kind of negotiations are now more than even inadmissable.” ___ The words of President Wilson immediately after the rejec- tion of Austrian peace proposals are repeated by the Epocha in large type as summarizing the attitude of the allies toward the peace move. The Epocha aciis that President Wilson answered in September the new peace trap by the enemy. ae DERNBERG SPEAKS. __ Amsterdam, Oct. 8.—“President Wilson’s fourteen old and five new points can be accepted by us if put forth honestly and without humiliation to Germary,” Dr. Dernberg said. “We shall not accept an unjust or humiliating peace.” har oo ANE NO CHOICE. msterdam, Oct. 8.—As part of the troops evacuating would have to choose between capture or flight when evacuation eceuts Anetructons have been given to escape to Holland in civilian clothes. SIX LOST WHEN STEAMERS COLLIDE EXPLOSIONS IN Washington, Oct. 8—The American | N. J: PLANT MAY BE HUN ACT steamer Westgate. of the naval over- , Washington, Oct. 8—Evidence tend- eas transportation been | sunk at sea with the lo mem- bers of her crew in collision with the steamer American. | A dispatch to the navy department said the sinking occurred about 500 miles off the Atlantic coast. It was (Continued on Page Two.) 000. * - j of 5,800 tons gross. | ing to show that the explosion in the yet remain. In the eleven days that have passed slightly, more tharf »120,- . 0,000 worth of bonds were sold daily. Campaign officials today reiterated the warnings against allowing Ger- . Man. peace proposals to lessen the ardor of the workers. This rather poor showing is attrib- uted partly to the interference of the Spanish influenza campaign. Many houses haye been closed, and inter- ferred with rounding up the subscrib- erst 3 In the honor list'reported today 19 counties oversubscribed. Wisconsin has nearly half its quota. The Cléveland district reported to-! tal subscriptions about 120 millions of dollars. | From San Francisco come. reports that subscriptions are $100,000,000. ———auv w. 8. 5: CONCRETE WORK COMES TOO HIGH Believing that bids offered on con- crete work savored of profiteering, the highway commission has rejected all tenders on, 4 1-2: miles of state highway construction which was to have been contracted: this month in| Bottineau county. Fhe work is, de- signed to link up the Northern high-|/ way, and the 4'1-2 miles contemplated would include several concrete cul- verts and one forty-foot span concrete pridge. The bids on highway construc- tion were deemed reasonable, but the tenders on concrete work were con- sidered too high. now above’ The success of this development ac- counts in large measure for the huge captures of machine guns and the re- the Germans were first hurled back on the Marne in July. . \ ‘So far the Germans haye tried three principal plans to stop the tanks: First—Inundation, But inundation can be carried out only’ in. certain fa-; vorable spots. Water is not always at} hand, and the character of the ground will not permit flooding in many cases. Second—Tank traps. These consist of big holes in the ground, covered! with sticks and dirt to conceal them. ; But special corps of engineers have {quickly located these and the tanks/| were guided around them. Third—Tank mines. These consist | of “planted” mines connected by cables: The minés are supposed to ex-; plode: when the tanks hit the cables. ; But the cables have been cut by en- ; gineers. Tho anti-tank guns have proved a jfailure. And in general artillery work in the recent British offensive the Ger- mans have been licked to a frazzle. It| is officially: stated that the British counter-battery work in this offensive has resulted in the destruction of ten {times as many guns as the British lost. | RY Ws S REDUCE TAX. Washington, Oct. 8—Resuming re- vision of the war revenue bill today. the senate finance committee consid-' : ered the beverage section and reduced | the tax of $8.00 per gallon distilled | spirits used for beverage purposes. as provided in the hotse bill to $6.40 per } gallon. markably low allied casualties since |, ee ON TO CAMBRAI A British; column oniits way to the Cambrai front, marching in leisurely fashion behind jogg- ing horses through a ruined village recently taken. from the Germans. OT BUY We 8. Se | F : | P. A. Gillespie plant at Morgans, N. J., |last week was caused by enemy SPANISH “FLU” | agents has been discovered by gov- ! | ernment operatives in a letter predict- | | MINN. SCHOOLS Sonora, Mexico. Agents of the department of justice | St. Paul, Oct. 8—The state board of j health met here today to consider the jare investigating, but they question |the genuineness of the letter picked up jin a railroad station in New Jersey ‘advisability of closing schools through- out the state to prevent the spread of! | Spanish influenza. | town. H 50,000 CASES IN SOUTH. | Atlanta, Ga.. Oct. 8—Spanish influ-! ;enza which started in the east a month; Washington, D. C., Oct. 8—Charges ago now has spread throughout the| that the U. S. Brewers’ association and south déspite drastic efforts of the! individual members have secretly fi- health authorities. Reports show more | nanced newspapers in the interest of than 50,000 cases among ¢ Ss. the liquor traffie, contributed to the ny WSS {national German-American alliance, FORMER GOVERNOR OF ‘been convicted of corrupt politica! KENTUCKY !S DEAD. practices, were renewed in a memor- Richmond, Ky., Oct. 8—James B.'andum filed today by Senator Jones, | McCreary, twice, governor of Ken-|of Washington, with the senate sub- tucky, six years a represéntative of judiciary committee. |his state in the United States senate,| .Secrétary Jones presented his mem- jand for several consecutive terms a/Orandum for the purpose of contend- | memper of the lower house of con-jing that the inquiry is unlimited in |gress, died today after a ~rief illness | Scope. : | BUY W.S. 5 | In his memorandum, he said, neither SUITS POSTPONED. ithe numerous recitals in the resolu- | Washingon, Oct. 8.—All anti-trust) tion’s preambles were intended to | suits, with the exception of the U. S.ilimit or restrict the inquiry. F Steel corporation, have been post-|charge made, he declared, will be poned from consideration, as applied supported by the alien property cys- for by the department of justice. i todian. } | ceed BUY W. SS ADDITIONAL DATA FILED AGAINST NATIONAL BREWERS