The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR.: een ee THE BIS EE See aR ES THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. BELG 100 MILLIONS AND 1,000 LIVES IS FIRE TOLL Searching Parties Continue to Bring in Bodies of Isolated Settlers. A SLIGHT RAIN FALLS More Than 50,000 Have Been: Rendered Homeless by Forest Disaster. Duluth, Oct. 18—The great fires which: paralyzed Northern Minnesota, burned up $100,000,000 worth of prop- erty, killed 1,000 people, injured thous- ands more and made momeless fifty TUM. “BISMARCK, C NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918 a mee ee _ COAST Federated States of the German Empire EAR LAST ‘EDITION ——_—_—_—__——_ CK TRIBUNE|[ ea PRICE FIVE CENTS > ‘OF HUNS ~ OSTEND, ZBEBRUGGE AND = QTHER NAVAL BASES HAVE _. > BEEN TAKEN BY ENTENTE Immense Quantities of Munitions Captured — To South in France Teuton Resistance: is E More Stubborn. (By Associated Press.) The German withdrawal from western Belgium and costal | regions show no signs of halting. The enemy is retiring and addi- tional towns and cities have been occupied. The German forces virtually defeated and demoralized are in retreat toward Antwerp. | In Belgium and northern France, the British, French and | American armies have swept forward with relentless speed, crush- ing rear guard detachments left behind by the Germans to retard ;pursuits. Immense quantities of materials have been captured by ; the allies and the number of prisoners taken is steadily mounting. ‘ing the three free cities of Ham- thdusand today are burning then-| ‘i 5 ‘ salves aac. ee | \ From Lille southward. the German retirement is not so rapid, > Rain fell during last night, but it! ‘but the British maintain pressure all along the line east of Cam- was in such small amounts as to ,be| xr !brai. Further south the enemy is retiring from the angle between neglible. More rain is expected ‘to-| 5 : Le ithe Oise and the Fere. day. Not until a heavy | downpour | = f Ge 7 : nT, a pA, eo S vl pet 0 F ~ arrives, however, will the threat pass. | (Cy 16 Io 4 © breiees Z * Zeebrugge Occupied. Searching parties continue to bring in} 4 FP? LK. on \ _ eee , baad F metiak thas avin be > f the bodies of isolated settlers who | Pf fl grr FN eh j wv AU STRIAS je an |e Poeeiuaeenthe second and last of the submarine bases.0n the perished in thé flames. @ : agree o 720 ¥ NGARY cy < | coast, is reported occupied by British forces, probably naval forces, —Buy v.88 Luben a, ey = 10 ) nU wd jand the enemy is reported to have evacuated Bruges, which the ASURG: (ee ae x6 hoa, \cavalry is approaching. 4 ¢ 4 De \ Gornian .federdied’ stated “having In the center, the French and Belgians continue to advance ¢ a) ~ representation in’ the bnuesrat includ- jtoward Ghent, by way of Thiel. 3 4 HAVE LIGHTED FOREST FIRES Note Found at Elk River Would Connect Up LeSueur’s Friends With Horror. St. Paul, Oct. 18 Evidence that the great Minnesota forest fire is of in- cendiary origin was received in a letter today by special agents of the depart- ment of justice, who are inivestiguting the case. s The letter, which was rawled in pencil on apiece. of flimsy,,paper, Was found in front of the Arthur. Olson's: yarage at Elk River Monday. at 11 a. m. by L. Houlton, president of the first National bank of Elk River, which forwarded the missive to government agents in Minneapolis. It read as follows: | | i | | | | PNUEMONIA IS FATAL T0 MORE _-FLU SUFFERERS i * i Three Deaths. of Out-of-Town People in Local Hospitals (CALL FOR 2,80 FOR FT. SCOTT NOT CANCELLED Entrainment of Men Will Pro- ceed at the Earliest Pos- burg, Lubeck and Bremen. Four kingdoms; ‘Prussia (1), Baavria, (2),} Saxony (3), Wuertemberg (4). S: Mecklenburg-Schwerin (7), burg-Strelitz (8), Oldend Brunswick (14). Five duchies X@- | Coburg-Gotha (10), Sale-Altenburg (11), Anhalt, (12), Meiningen } (13), Saxe-Weimar (22). Seven prin-! cipalities; Lippe (15), Waldeck (16), / Schwarzburg-udolstadt (17), Schwarz- burg-Sonderhausen (18), Reuss, older; line (19), Reuss, younger line (20),! schaumburg-Lippe (21). The terri-/ tory of. Alsace-Lorraine has no direct} representation. in. the Bundesrat, its; two commissioners having no_ vote. | The small map. shows the cities of Metz, Strassburg apd Coblenz. occu-} pation of which may be demanded by; General Foch preliminary to an armi:| stice. They are Garmany’s strongest defenses: on’ her stem front, The first two are in territory taken from} France in 1870. ! ay Ww. 8. 8 PEACE URGED . KARLSRUHE, & STRASSBURG ~ | In the Lille region, the British are working eastward toward Tourcoing and Roudaix, and the-fall of these cities would appear to be a matter only of hours. H ! East of Douai, Field Marshal Haig is marching toward Valen- \ciennes. In the opening south of Valenciennes Thursday the : British took 4,000 prisoners. Enemy in Pocket. | The German retirement between the Oise and the Ferre was ‘made necessary because the enemy was in a pocket, the sides of (which were being pressed in by the French. The French are ad- jvancing northeastward from the junction of the two rivers and jhave taken Anguilcourt, two miles east of the junction and north |of the Ferre. | Northwest of the Argonne forest General Gourard is battling jforward against stubborn resistance. In the neighborhood of Vouzieres the French have carried jout an important stroke by crossing the Aisne river. Evidently they intend to advance northeast from there and outflank the _.{ Germans at_Blourt forest. This. would be of great assistance to the American advance east of the forests. | From reports, it would appear two American contingents are joperating east of St. Quentin and Cambrai. One is working with the British and aiding in the advance east of La Cateau. The {other is with the French and assisting in the attempt to smash in the right flank of the German salient northeast of Laon. ao? SWITZERLAND “Bud: - Fine job you did up at the “Over Night. 1 ae Frere i a alka Rea : PIO TI Te EE Rtsistance Stubborn. stay clear. She will soon show up.|SEVERAL SEVERE ATTACKS| The call for 2800 men, 1917 and ‘organize their economic and mititary | In both these regions, the allies have fdund the enemy regist-. qeaadl 3s (at ae ea duit kek tla) —— Ce Aree ame 0e been il {policies on an autonomous an-dmit-|ance very stubborn. Meet me at the same old place with | : ptrainfhg next Monday for Fort Win- litary basis. C <aroly, pre It is probable that east of La Cateau the Germans are stand " ney . ce ‘Other ‘i 5 i ~ y litary basis. Count Karoly, president | is p e that eas La Cateau the rmans are s - ae ee Te ea ' Patients May Die—Bis- field Scott, Caltt, has been postponed, jof the independent party, demanded !ing on the Hunding line, a defensive zone established to support “E, A. CLARKS.” | Special ageuts of the department . of justice are working on the theo ’ that the forest fires were started I. W. W. propaganda to “get square” for the recent wholesile convictions , at Chit The fact that six men ' are under arrest on suspicion of start- ing incendiary fires lends credence to the belief that the fires were deliber- ately started by human fiends. not cancelled, General Fraser impress-| es upon local board in a circular which today supplements his wire of yester- - day, advising that the cafl had been Three new deaths were added to|temporarily deferred because of the Spanish influenza’s toll during / the | flu. last 24 hours. All of the victims were] “Your induction orders stand in people from out-of-town, and in two| their ‘entirety save as to the date instances critical attacks of pneu-|When registrants will report, and no monia had developed before the pa-;man can be released for any other tients could be brought to local hos-|duty. The instructions from the pro- vo8t marshal general are that this en- Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 18.—Scenes! that immediate peace negotiations be| the Hindenburg system, which is now, gone. ot tumult prevailed at the meeting of | commence Peper reeurd 10 ihe} The retreat from Laon has. it is admitted by allied observers, the Hungarian diet yesterday, during} community of interests arising from), x i Esl ap ae iano : which demands for peace «were made the policy which has hereto been |been conducted with great skill. It has been a tremendous task and it’ was announced that Austria / followed, according to advi from to move thousands of men, hundreds of heavy. guns, and mountains was being recognized on a eral! Budapest. Count Stephen ‘tiza, thejof munitions out of the Lao nsector. basis. So great was the disorder that | fonuer. Hungatian reuiien tt z au Continued rains have retarded the Americans in the Argonne re i ffice "9 o: 1 oe £ , “You are an en- . a . , il . . the presiding officer was forced to| Count Karoly, yabta, ie legion, but General Pershing’s men have gained ground east, of adjourn the sitting. |tente agent.” Martin Novesy, one of’ 2 2 \ I 2 ( Dr. Alexander Weckerle, the Huan-|the members of the diet, answere: | the Argonne fores Coat Chattillon, a dominating height, has garian premier, said the federal state|“We are friends of the Hntente.”/been taken and positions near it are solidly held by the Americans. which will be formed in Austria will | Great disorder ensued. THREE CITIES FALL. marck Scourge Appears to Be Abating. wav ney —— 1 STUDENT PILE BLANKS Questionnaires Required - From 18-Year-Old Class to Com- plete Records. Aeperts to Adjutant General Fraser indicate that in some instances the filing of a questionnaire with the lo-| cal board has not been enforced prior} at a local hospital this morning of to the induction of a registrant of the; Miss Frances Weber, a student nurse the student! who enrolled here for training about 18-year-old class into army training corps. In order that these questionnaires may be made out, and that the records of the lo- | pitals, | Ura Baumfalk, a well known young farmer of Brittin,. son-in-law of J. 1. . | Allensworth, a pioneer Burleigh coun- M ty rancher, and brother-in-law of Kitchell Al-ensworth, passed away at | vive. a local hospital last night from pneumonia, into which Spanish influ- enza had developed! The young man was 29 years old, and he was brought to the hospital here on Tuesday. Ora Baumtalk was born in Nebraska. He came to Burleigh county in 1911 and one year later was united in marriage with Miss Mary Allensworth, The widow, with four little children, sur- Funeral services probably will be held from the residence near Brit- tin this afternoon. Student Nurse Dies. Unusually pathetic was the death two. months ago. Miss Weber was one of the patriotic young women who volunteered in the student army nurs- trainment suspension must be ‘vacat- ed at the earliest possible moment.’ Each board is directed to at once take a complete survey of th ehealth con- ditions in its county, consulting with: all available authorities, including ‘the physician member uf the board, | whose conclusions shall be consider- ed final, and to at once advise the adjutant general's office what is the best course to pursue to follow the orders of the provost marshal gener- very careful attention,’ advises al. You must give this entire mat- ter very careful attention,” advises General Fraser. “Slight indisposition of a registrant must not be magnified. The government does not wish to en- train a man who is not physically fit, but all men whose healt his reason- ably good should*be entrained at the earliest possible moment.” s ——-auy Ww. 8 8 GIVE US COAL maining two days.. The Tribune, Bismarck, N. D.: BILLION A DAY FOR TWO DAYS NECESSARY TO PUT OVER LOAN ON WHOSE SUCCESS DEPENDS ALL WE HAVE FOUGHT FOR—M’ADOO Washington, D. C., Oct. 18.—The fourth Liberty Loan today'neared the home stretch of the campaign with $4,350,- 000,00€ subscribed and $1,750,000,000 to be raised in the re- In spite of this tremendous balance, workers over the country reported they would be satisfied with nothing else than a substantial over-subscription. Washington, D. C., Oct. 18.—I am deeply grateful for the splendid support you have given to the Fourth Liberty Loan and regret to have tovask your further assistance, but I think it important that a brief statement of about 275 words concerning the loan be given a prominent display on \ Paris, Oct. 18.—Lille, Douai and Qsténd, three great cities {have been delivered from the enemy. This is the most glorious day for the ailies since the victory of the Marne, and it fittingly ‘closes a battle of three months which was opened by General Man- ‘gia's counter attack. The results have been splendid, but the vic- i tory in Belgium is not all. The British south of Le Cateau have {broken into G n positions. The whole German defense system least of the Meuse is in danger, The prospects of the future are even more important than the actual results attained. The road ‘to Brussels is open. The-French and Belgian armies are advancing ‘rapidly toward Bruges and Ghent. The capture of Ostend makes :it possible to land reinforcements. BEGIN NEW RETIREM b Paris, Oct. 18—The Germans have begun a new retirement ‘between the Oise and Serre rivers, in the Cambrai region. CELEBRATE LILLE’S DELIVERANCE. aris, Oct. 18.—News of the deiiverance of Lille spread rapid- in Paris, arousing deep and quiet joy. Flags were hung out on ‘all sides, and a crowd of refugees from the Lille region paraded to ithe Lille statute in the Place de la Concorde, where they sang the cal boards may be made complete for|ing, reserve corps at th f i i in y ‘riday i atly statistical and other purposes, Gen-| her goveniiont. Sac cate fore Trew first page if possible in your Friday issue. I shall greatly |} : 1 : eral Fraser today advised the local) St. Cloud, and had shown a rare apti- ' appreciate your assistance and co-operation. Statement |! Marsellaise and decorated the statue with allied flags. boards as follows: tude, for the profession, into which will be wired to you direct Thursday afternoon. LOW. ks ee Ge ere a W. G. M’ADOO. NEW CROSSING OF LYS. “tm thase cases. if any, in which registrants have been inducted into; When an unusual demand was made ine stugent army training corps with-| upon the hospital nursing staffs of the out having heretofore filled out and tued a questionnaire, local boards will | enza, she, with other student nurses, at their ‘earliest convenience, and in} responded to the call, and while ad- order that their records may be com- plete for statistical and ‘other pur-| she threw herself with genuine zeal. city by the spread of.Spanish influ- ministering to the needs ‘of other sufferers GEN, PERSHING Commander of American Forces Says There Must Be No | What the Loan Means. Washington, D: C.. Oct. 17.—Subscriptions reported and estimated up to noon Thursday amount to $4,000,000,000, leaving at least. $2,000,000,000 to complete the Fourth Lib- _ erty Loan. Only two days are left within which to raise this With the British Army in Flanders, Oct. 18.—Considerable i opposition has been met by the British southwest of Douai, but this fighting died down some hours ago. In the Lille area’ the Brit- ‘ish troops ‘have reached Rouncq. A new crossing of the Lys has ‘been affected. There was little opposition north and: south of |Lille. The fourth British army launched a powerful attack from places she ree herself stricken | iwi @ malady, which rapidly‘ ran into pneumonia, to which mne. suc- Lack of Fuel. sumbed at 5:30 this morning. f * Two brothers were with her when # 7 shown in their records, with a: re-|the end came. One, Frederick Weber, Washington, D. C. Oct. 18— quest that the same be filled out and|came from St, Cloud, and the. other,| United States Fuel Administrator “ returned by ‘such inducted registrant] Private Weber of Camp Dodge, arriv-; (arfield is in receipt of the follow- to hislocal board. Commanding of-\ed late last evening.’ This evening| ing cablegram from General Per- ficers of the various schools are be-;on No. 2 they will depart with the| shing: ing requested to givé to such inducted | remains for St. Cloud, where funeral “Let there be no shortage of registrants the orders necessary to! services will be \held tomorrow. coal. Lack of coal means limiting secure compliance wit: such request. Wilton (Man Dies. our war industries, railroads and : Each questionnaire, ‘when returned,! Mike Evans, a well known Wilton| shipping are slowed down and the shall be filed with the record of the/resident, died at a local hospital at! army cannot be provided with vast sum. No country on earth but America could raise so vast a sum in so short, a.tmie.’ America can do it and must do it. The destinies of the world and the hopes of civiliza- tion are centered upon America. We shall fai] in everything we have fought for and hope to gain ih this war if the Fourth Liberty Loan is defeated. - ; . * Let every true American citizen today examine himself under the white light of patriotism and say whether or not he has done his utmost in this emergency. The highest obli- gations of duty and patriotism command every true Ameri- can to go the limit of his ‘ability to buy Fourth Liberty bonds. Don’t delay: don’t wait to be urged—be as quick to iLe Cateau southward this morning. American troops are par- ticipating in the attack. The desperately fighting Germans are being driven back to the Oise. The Selle river has been crossed at ‘St. Menin, and the station has been captured. At last reports the iallies were well east of the river, and still advancing. ¢ | IN DANGER OF COLLAPSE. % ! Paris. Oct. 18.—General von Arnim’s army is no longer strong nough to sustain operations on the extended front from the Dutch {frontier. It is therefore reasonable to expect the march across Belgium will be rapid. At the very moment the Flanders battle was won, another i poses, forward to each of such induct- ‘ ed registrants a questionnaire’ ad- | ee dressed to the school at which such inducted registrant is stationed, as | registrant returnitig it, in the usual|9:45 last evening, after a few days’ ill-| means to deliver the telling blows x y 1 : “Manner. In thisgconnection, it should| ness from the epidemic. Hq was suf-| ‘needed to end the war. Without do your part in this Fourth Liberty loan battle as our sol- |! pgansive was started in the direction of Hirson and. Vervins, by : Peeters cper ge eS SR eee a on ela eee Pepa roe Page be rd diers in France are quick to obey the orders to charge the | Anglo-American and French forces. .The object is to take the 3 ul ammunition to use it the enemy, Tke man in the mine helps the man on the firing line. The mort, coal you produce the soner we shall'have peace. Every sol- dier of the American expedition- ary forces expects to be backed up by the miners of America just as labor in every branch of in- dustry at home.has stood behind vanced stage when he was brought to/ Bismarck, and little hope for his re- covery was entertained from the first. inducted registrants may be ordered from the schools they are now attend- . ing within the next few weeks, and that it is extremely important that questionnaires be obtained from them prior to such removal.” ——_0rw. « s——_ 'HERRIED DOCTOR DEAD. It was reported here today that Dr. , . Ritchey, a) well-known practitioner of armies of the crown prince on the flank and condemn them to an early retreat toward the Ardennes across the front ofthe powerful ‘allied right wing. : : | The way back’'to Germany lies through two bottle-necks separ- ated by the Ardennes, the one being Liege and Dynant and the other being Montmedy and Verdun. The latter is\already partly blocked. : we Sacer Whileit may be admitted that the Germans Ure fightitig ‘well \] enemy. : Buy Liberty Bonds on the installment plan if you cannot buy them for cash.: Every patriotic bank will help you. If “ every patriotic citizen will do his duty today victory for the Fourth Liberty Loan is certain. The continued victories of our armiés in Europe, the certain defeat of our enemies, and the glorious ‘triumph of the cause of liberty depend upon Several ‘New Cases. Several new and very severe cases have been brought in from out of town during the last 24 hours. Mrs. W. L.. Price and two-year-old daugh- ter Lillian of Zap are in a tocal hos- Herreid, S. D., had succumbed to. the Spanish influenza and that the whole town’ was {nthe grip of the epidentic. pital in avery Critical condition as a result of pneumonia® growing’ out of (Continued on Page Seven.) a rat us. We soldiers know that we can. depend.upen. you to do your part as we are doing ours.” ~ what the American people do in the remaining two days of the Fourth Liberty Loan campagin.—W. G. M’ADOO. and conducting their retreat with great skill, military-opinion : (Continued on Page Six) foes Em ene RD ea