The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 15, 1918, Page 1

hte .to the north. Should this occur, Lille will probably fall. THE WEATHER @ENERALLY FAIR THE BISMARCK TRIBUN THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. RRR ARR ee | ‘HUNS HARD PRESSED ON. BOTH FLANKS IN EFFORT TO ESCAPE FOCH TRAPS Resistance in France and Belgium Solely for Purpose of Delaying Allies So That Retreat Can Be Made With Fewer Losses. (By Associated Press.) We In Flanders and from the Oise to the Meuse the allies continue| their blows for vigorous gains. As the Frensh push on in the Aisne region, the Belgian and American operations are being re- newed today with success. 1 Smashing their way through the network of railways in west-| ern Belgium, they are how within two mlies of the important rail- way center of Coutry. Evacuating Belgitm. i The German resistance in Flanders appears to be only for the) purpose of delaying the allies until the evacuation of Belgium can; be completed. The enemy is reported to be evacuating Ostend and to be, sending large boat loads of troops away from the costal! region. | i Between the Oise and Argonne the French are pressing the! enemy hard and giving him little chance tq dig in should he desire to do so. East. of the Oise the French are within half a mile of} the Fere along most Of its length and have advanced between five' and six miles:east of Laon. The French now threaten Rethel,' having captured Nanteul-Sur-Aisne,.two and one-half miles west! of Rethel and about the same distance east of Chateau Porcein. | Mighty Battle. Keeping step with the American operations east of the Ar: gonne the French are moving forward west of the forests. Gen- eral Gourad has moved north of the Aisne. | The allied blow in Belgium appears to be one which may have a direct bearing on the course of the mighty battle raging from! Dixmude fo Verdun. - : | The progress made against the Germans on the first day of} the offensive seems to indicate it is possible for the allies to press/ eastward and outflank both the German submarine bases to the; north and the German lines to the south. i A glance at the map shows that the railroad by which the! submarine bases are supplied are in great danger as the allied; advance carries the line nearer and nearer to Ghent. | South of the new break in the German line, the Germans have! been in a serious position for some time.. Lille has been in danger: from the south and this new attack threatens to outflank the cities! REPULSE RAID. ; (By..Associated Press.) + With the Amercian forces-Northwest of: Verdun, (12:20 P..M.) Oct. 15.—Units-of the Second American army, which began oper- ations October 12, under General Bullard, today repulsed a German raid on tHeir positions. ! v CAPTURE HEIGHTS. London, Oct.:15.—Serbian forces advancing north of Nish on Sunday captured on a large front all the heights on both banks of | ie Morava river, according to an official announcement here to-| jay. = TANKS ARE IN ACTION. _ (By Associated Press.) With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, (Noon)—} Oct. 15.—Tanks were brought into action today by the Americans to break a way through the wire entanglements west of Romange. Despite German resistance the progress of Americans was satis- factory today. The Germans apparently were ready to contest the ground as stubbornly as they did yesterday. The enemy artillery was being used freely to hold the Americans, but the Yankee gunners did much to brak down the German resistance. ROULERS TAKEN. H Paris, Oct. 15.—Roulers has been taken by the allies. This! city, which before the war numbered 25,000 ‘inhabitants, is the! first important Belgian town from which the Germans have been driven. This morning on the anniversary of the battle of Ghena, which was fought October 14, 1806, the progress in Flanders gives cause for high hope. Under the command of King Albert of Bel- gium the French, British and Belgian troops attacked at 5:50 a. m. The weather turned fine, and the troops progressed in a most satisfactory way. Machine gun nests, were forced to surrender} one after another, “and at 6 o’clock this evening the advance was! six miles toward Coutrai for the British ; four miles for the-French and two and one-half miles in the direction of Thierault for the Belgians. To the French in the center of the line fell the honor! of capturing the city of Roulers. Nearly 10,000 prisoners already | have been counted, and a large amount of material and many guns! have been taken. Cut Train in Two. German reserves which attempted to hurry up to the front| line did nat escape the keen eyes of‘ the allied aviators and the gunners. One train was cut in two by shells and as the occupants! streamed out they were met by machine gun fire from the aviators. | SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN CLIMAX. i Amsterdam, (Monday) Oct. 14.—There is good reason to be-| lieve that the German submarine warfare will reach a.climax dur-} ing the winter, according to the Rheinish Westphalian Gazette, which says it will produce an economic crisis of unanticipated/| dimensions in entente countries. | RESISTANCE BROKEN. With the British Army in Belgium, (Monday) Oct. 14.—! Enemy resistance in Flanders, at first exceedingly heavy, is re- ported to have been broken. After the advance today, there were} evidence that the enemy was withdrawing from the coast of Bel- gium. Most significant was the feature that the German coast batteries were not firing. The enemy. artillery reacted heavily south of Roulers, after the attack was launched, but north of the city this activity was slight. The German rear guards were over- come, and. further north the enemy resistance .grew slighter. Among the prisoners was a complete regimental staff and battalion commander. . : Blow Up Material. The enemy is beginning to blow up material which cannot be removed, and the torch is being applied to towns from which the Germans are withdrawing. The fact that the coast batteries are not being fired gives rise to the belief that the British navy is operating off the coast. One report even went so far as to say that Ostend, which seems bound to be evacuated by the enemy, has been occupied by British moni- tors. There is no confirmation to these rumors. ; The British have passed through Roulers and are still advanc- ing. They are also-operating quite a distance east of the main Roulers road. « «* % | 1 roo $$ . BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUE PRESIDENT WILSON’S FIGHTING SDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1918 5 BS) te N FACE When President Wilson answered the Huns’ evasive and insulting “peace” note. this is undoubtedly the way he tion: “What do you mean? The picture is the latest one AUTOCRACY MUST GO---WILSON: looked. You.can almost see him as he composes the ques. Will you get out of France? And whom do you represent?’ of Wilson, just received from Washington. ’ Washington, Oct. 14.—8 P. Mi—President Wilson today answered Germany’s pexe: proffer with a note declaring anew that there can be no | ‘peace with a German government contrelled ‘by a military autocracy | and no thought of an armistice while Germar atrocities continue on ! land and sea. The official interpretation of the note as openly expressed was: “Au- tocracy Must Go.” When the time to consider the United States and the allie: posing the central powers will an armistice comes, the persident said, the military advisors of s will be consulted, and no military advantage of the armies op- be lost. The text of President Wilson’s note follows: : “The unqualified acceptance by the present German government and by a large majority of the reichstag of the terms laid down by the president of the United States of America in his address to the congress of the United States on the 8th of January, 1918, and his subsequent addresses justified the president in making a frank and direct statement of his decision in regard to the communications of the German government of the 8th and 12th of October. He feels confident he can safely assume this will also be the judgment and decision of the allied governments. The president feels it his duty to add that neither the government of the United States nor the governments with which the United States is associated as a co-belligerent will consent to consider an armistice so long as the army of Germany continues the illegal and in- | human practices which they st: ill persist in. “At the very time that the German government approaches the government of the United States with proposals of peace its submarines are engaged in sinking passenger ships at sea, and not the ships alone, but the very boats in which their. passengers and crews /seek to make their way to safety; and in their present enforced withdrawal from Belgium and France the Germans are pursuing a course of wanton destruction which always has been considered a violation of the | rules of civilized warfare. Cities and villages if not destroyed often are stripped of all they con- tain, even to their population. The nations associated against Germany cannot be expected to agree to a cessation of war { ‘while acts of'inhumanity, despoliation and destruction are being pursued which they justly look upon with burning heat. It is necessary also, in order that.there may be no possibility of misun- derstanding, that the president should very solemnly call the attention of the government of Ger- many to the language and plain intent of one of the terms of peace which the German government has now accepted. It is contained in an address of the president delivered at Mt. Vernon on the Fourth of July last. “It is as follows: ‘The destruction of every. arbitrary power that in any way that can separately, singly or of its own choice disturb the peace of the world, or if it cannot be destroyed, at least its reduction to potential im- potency. “The power which heretofore has controlled the German nation is of the type here descrided,, It is within the power of the Gefman nation .to alter it. The president's words just quoted naturally constitute a condi- tion precedent to peace, if peace is to come from action of the German peo- ple themseives. “The president feels bound to say that the yhole process of peace will depend upon the definiteness and sat- isfactory character of the assurances which can be given in this important ‘matter. “The president will make a separate reply to the royal and imperial gov-| ernment of Austria-Hungary. “Accept, sir, the | renewed assur- ances of my high consideration. “ROBERT LANSING: “By Mr. Frederick Oderlin. Senate Applauds Note. Washington, Oct. Wilson’s reply to.the German peace offer was vigorously applauded when ead to the senate, immediately .after it had been dispatched. The senate had remained in session beyond the hour of adjournment to receive this ‘message. 4 : Zi 14.—President ; ‘SCORES WHO PERISHED IN _’ FOREST FIRES LAID TO REST; TWENTY BOD IES IN ONE GRAVE | Duluth, Minn., Oct. 15.—One hundred bodies were buried in |a single grave at Moose Lake’today shortly before_noon. Other | community graves were covered during the morning, and late into | the day the services.continued, while motor trucks brought in new | bodies from the fire: wasted districts. iy * Moose Lake and Cloquet are now the centers in the grewsome ‘toll taken by the greatest ‘forest fires in the history of the north- west. Fifty ‘additional bodies have been-brought to Moose Lake since daybreak this morning... Cloquet.and Carleton added another fifty to the total today, with reports from the Dond du Lac reser- district are-praying for rain.. The fire, which has caused the great- lying low, waiting for a wind which will send the flames sweeping ‘through the hard wood and the jack pine which covers the “Top-o- Land” section of ‘Minnesota. Duluth, Minn., Oct. 15.—Simple services were read today over ‘stores of bodies as the-last rites were performed for many who . ., (Continued on Page Eight.) EACE $$$ ae PRICE FIVE CENTS. FIASCO TURKEY PRACTICALLY OUT OF WAR AS ALLIES PUSH ON TOWARD TEUTON SOIL Only Question of How Far Entente Must Go Be- | fore People of Germany Arise to Stop In- vasion. : | Washington, Oct. 15.—President Wilson’s reply to Germany (ending talk of an armistice until the Germans are ready to sur- render was on the cables today if it actually had not arrived at Bente: Only a few hours should be required for its delivery at erin. . Washington has undergone a perceptible’tension of relaxation since yesterday. i Everywhere the feeling is apparent that the atmosphere is clearer than before Prince Maximilian came forward with his | peace drive. The purpose of the United States and her allies are {more than clearly stated and the powers in Berlin and the German | people must see the futility of attempting to conquer by such pro- | posals. js j There is no indication that the allies of Germany will hear from President Wilson until the dominate factor in the central ‘allies makes a move unless one or the other of them pleads anew. | Cut off by the defection of Bulgaria and cowed by the victorious | British armies,.Turkey already is virtually out of the war and a {separate appeal from the reorganized government at Constantin- ‘ople is looked for. : As to what will happen in Germany it is conceded that one guess is as good as another though there is no doubt here as to {what will happen ultimately. With the allied armies advancing | steadily toward the German border the only question is how far ; they must go before the Teutonic people arise to stop invasion. H It was Field Marshal Hindenburg himself and not the sup- | posedly pacifigt Premier Prince Maximilian, who caused the Ger- ;man government to accept the president’s peace terms and seek ; an armistice, according to an announcement reaching Washington ‘today through neutral countries. ASK FAVOR OF FRANCE. Amsterdam, Oct. 15.—The German government has proposed to France that in common with her allies France undertake to re- ifrain from bombarding large towns of northern France and enter ‘into an agreement with Germany to permit at any rate a portion | of the population of Valenciennes to pass into the French line, says ‘an official statement from Berlin. AUTOCRACY MUST GO. 1 London, Oct. 15.—The German autocracy must go is the head- \ing placed over the reply to the German peace proposal here. CONSUMERS’ UNITED STORES C0. HELD UNDER-CORRUPT PRACTICES. ACT BY EMMONS CO, GRAND JURY Indictment Returned in Absence of Attorney General, Who Had Used Inquisitorial Body: to Punish Political Enemies of the League. JUDGE NUESSLE ISSUES SUMMONS \ | { | i { i | TRANSPORT ivation district showing that at least 100 more will be added from} that. territory. ae H * Fire fighters and thos¢ living on the borders of the fire swept est loss in the history of the state, is not burning today, merely} AMERICA SINKS; cass concern st Appear in FR MISSING jAll Troops Taken Off Craft as! | She Goes Down at Her Pier. |THE RED CROSS ASSISTS Hoboken, N. J.. Oct. 15.—The Amer- lican-transport Amer sank at her ‘pier here this morning. She was re- |ported to ‘have troops on board and it twas said between 30 and 40 of the ‘crew wére drowned in the boiler room. | All troops are reported to have been itaken off Safely. The cause of the ‘sinking is unknown. tt is thought re- | pairs in progress may have admitted ; the sea. The sinking occurred at 5 a. m.,| | while most of the troops were still in {their berths. In their hurried esca {to the pier most of them had no tim }to don their clothes. The Red Cros: was called on for assistance, and so. trucks filled with clothing, blankets ‘and food arrived. | ‘The transport formerly was Hamburg-American passenge~ ship America. She registered 22/62 tons | gross. The vessel was 669 feet long jand was built in 1905. With 4 ne’ j crey on board the ship has been in jarmy service as a troop transport. | Shortly before the transport America | Was about to sail today for Europe | with soldiers and supplies the vessel { foundered at her pier. : In the early morning darkness while ithe troops aboard were sleeping, the | America settled with her keels in mud leaving only her upper decks and j funnels ‘above water. Up to noon, ‘there was no loss of life. The cause jof the accident remains a mystery. A theory expressed in some quar- ters that water poured into holes owing to uncompleted repair sedid not stand up today as the vessel was ready to clear for a foréign port NONE MISSING. Washington, Oct. 15.—Unofficial re- ports to the navy department says a muster of the persons known to have been on the America shows none imiss- ing. the avy W.& 8. BOOSTS LIBERTY LOAN. Whshington, Oct. 15.—Liberty loan subscription has been stimuated by President Wilson’s reply, according to lreports to the treasury today. Court to Answer to “Slush Fund.” ! Linton, N. D.. 0% —Following an independent in’ tion during | which several certificate-holders were examined, the Emmons county grand {jury late last evening, in the absence ‘of Attorney General Langer and of its ‘own volition returned an indictment ‘charging the Consumers’ United [Stores Co. with violating the corrupt practic act by making contribu- | Uons t political campaign. This uction was taken Monday af- iternoon while the attorney general | was explaining to the court certain al- ‘leged defects in some of his indict- ‘ments, The grand jury had devoted jeveral days to an investigation of jcharges preferred by the attorney }general against local banks and in- {dividuals for alleged contributions for | political purposes. Under the direc- ; tion of the attorney general, the grana !jury has returned indictments against two banks and against a solicitor for recelving the funds. Then, while Mr. inger was occupied in court, the grand jury undertook ax investigation on its own responsibility. The jurors called vefore then sever- al witnesses who had bought certifi- ; cates in the Consumers’ United Stores | Co., and upon investigation it appear- ‘ed that the very statements made by |the attorney general as to the pro- visions of law applicable to contribu- ions by corporations applied directly jand without question to the Consum- ers’ United Stores Co., and before Mr. jLanger could return to direct the de- iliberations of this inquisitorial body, |it had drawn up and passed a sweep- jing indictment charging the Consum- jers’ United Stores Co. with whole- {sale violation of the corrupt practices act. The indictment was based on a clause in the Consumers’ United Stores! Co. contract which provides that eyerything invested in a local istore in excess of $10,000 shall be placed at the disposal of the National Nonpartisan league, a political organ- {ization; to be used for the purpose of propaganda. a | As soon as the possibility of such an indictment leaked out, the attorney general rushed down the street to the opera house, where the grand jury ‘was in session, but he arrived too late to prevent the presentment of the in- dictment, which was revarned against the Consumers’ United Stores Co. late last evening. i The court ordered the indictment filed and a summons issued for the. chain stores company: sont i (Continued on Page 2