The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 11, 1919, Page 2

TURKS AND HUNS REFUSE TO FIGHT: FOR DAMASCUS Australian Tells of Victory Gained Over Superior Force. ENEMY MORALE SHATTERED ~ Interesting Account of Capture of An- cient City by Australian Forces —Could Have Sustained Siege for Months. Sydney, §. W.—An interesting If | belated account of the capture of Da: | mascus by Australian forces last fall | is given by a returned Australian sol- dier in the Sydney Morning Herald. | The narrative starts with the Aus- | tralians’ advance from Tiberias and | the subsequent encireling operations which resulted in the fall of Damas- | cus itself. “Leaving Tiberias behind the Aus- tralian division pushed on northward to Lake Huleh, where they tried to | cross the Jordan, but the enemy had | blown up the big stone bridge, and nests of German machine gunners lined the precipitous river banks. gown the river the patrols reconnol- fered, but always they were met with | n burst of fire from the eastern bank, But the old Jordnn had to be cr d, so the Tenth Light Horse, under cover | of darkness, forced a passage near the | lake, while the Fourteenth Light Horse | did the same further south, In the | morning théy converged on the enemy | from either flank, capturing a number of prisoners, ‘a’ few guns, ‘and- many machine guns. The bulk of the enemy rear guard bolted. So once more was continued the great race toward Da- mascus. Enemy Rear Guard Routed. “At Kuneitra the rear guard ma- chine gunners were again encountered, and once more at Sasa. At the latter place there was stiff fighting, and we had some casualties, but the last ob- stacle was removed, and we pushed on to the great city. “Away to the eastward we could see clouds of dust rising from the Hedjaz road. It was the remnant of the Fourth Turkish army from Aman. So,.in spite of their long start, we had made a dead-heat of it. Their fate was already sealed. We had been in the saddle all the previous aft- ernoon, all night, and all the morn- Ing, but there was no chance of a halt. General Hodgson—commanding the Australian divislon—pushed the Third. Light Horse brigade toward the south of the city, while he sent Gen- eral Onslow’s Fifth brigade on a wide encircling sweep to the west and north of Dumar, with a view to block- Ing the escape. “The battle of Damascus, which fol- lowed will be studied in years to come as the perfect example of the influ- ence of morale, Napoleon said that morale td material is as three to one, PHILADELPHIA—: in one of Philadelphia’s suburbar Up and out among the sheep and the cattle and the trees. And #t beats books all hollow! ‘Bank Letters Show Appeal to Townley to Save It From j Embarrassment and Disgrace (Continued from Page One) | sible. As far as I can understand the delay is in the settlement with Mr. Hastings. Mr. Hagerty claims that he and Box have drawn money on the company by himself and also by Mr. Box. In fact, Mr. Hagerty told me {that the books of the company that was kept with Mr. Hastings, shows where he made entries that he had drawn checks and used the money for his own personal use, and Mr. Hager- ty claims that the aggregate of this amount to about $25,000. Mr. Hag-| erty intimated to me that Mr. Hastings being an officer of this bank and an} officer in their company, he thought! they were justified in the position they were taking, and that the bank should assist them in the settlement with Mr. Hastings, under the circum-/| stances. | T am giving you this information| because I believe it- is of sufficient importance for you to know,.and there | a large amount of money involved} in it, and also that we are badly in ‘need of available funds at this time | | We are working hard to convert paper ‘so that we can have available sutffi- cient to meet our demand, and we have ijdone well to meet it al all, when you consider our deposits have slumped $300,000 in 2 month and a half, the ‘principal atcounts effected of their heavy local demand. | We are relying on you for assist- ance and cooperation in carrying the burdeh. We aypreciate what you have jal ty done in directing funds and | also the enforcement and, hope that }you bring to me from time to time. For us not to worry but that you are ature study is real nature study now Here one found it a hundred to one.. A'|jn position and-Have matters in hand few thousand exultant horsemen hem-| where you ean render assistance and med in and captured an army. The leave us comfortable. city was surrounded. The roads to I trust you will devote a part of northward were held. Having aljin- your yaluable time now to bridge over dance of arms and munitions, food and ‘his dangerous period, that we may water, and being in such overwhelming Hot fear embarrassment and diserace. numbers, they could have sustained a eee vou we succeserl be si for months, even if they feared 4 aU Renee Ana on (Ra lege vs e y feared gaged in, lifting humanity into a high- to risk battle in the open. But their er sphere of culture and enlighten- morale was shattered. ment, which results in a life of com- “There was little fight left in them. !fort, enjoyment and e, I beg to A fringe of machine guns and a few |remain, Very truly yours, pieces of artillery held off the attack- aes ers for an hour or so. Then the horse- AACTIIPING LETTER men broke through. ‘The Third Light| pear 4a ERS eT Horse brigade captured some thou-!,, ear Mrs Towdley:—“Agreeable, witlt “ 4 your request, to inform you when we sands of the Fourth Turkish army from |were in need of funds, I desire to Aman. state, we shall be called upon to pay . Turks Refused to Fight. out in the next thirty days about $100,- q i (000. The money which we obtained “The Fe y which we obtained Se opm aceon entered the | trom Duluth ‘and Minneapolis have outskirts of the city, found the big bar-'| eon used up, and there has been a racks swarming with Turks and Ger-|rapid decrease in the country bank mans, But they wouldn’t fight and |palances. We are running from day the Victorians rounded up 10,000 of.,to day with very closé reserve and them and led them away. Another | anticipate further withdrawal, which column, several thousand strong, flee- | Will necessitate funds to the ‘extent ing from the Arabs, tried to escape by |! Probably $200,000 to $250,000 be- the northern road to. Honin. But the | een now and harvest. Third. Light Horse brigade started in | soy, oe eee ne roe pursuit, charged the rear guard of |}; ae ty ised ae : Hess ia € layed, so there are no large amounts German machine gunuers ard captured | coming to us‘at this sedson. Our only the. whole column. source of credit is the Bank of Com- “Meanwhile. the Fifth Light Horse |merce and Savings, Duluth and Mer- brigade—which used to be the camel |cantile State Bank, Minneapolis, both eorps—broke through the cordon of | being small and limited in capacity to machine guns,. hidi |accommodate. We can not expect’ a eu hiding; int the: northern: dollar of help from larger banks and Gardens, and. reached the Barada |we cannot tell from da 1" Gorge 6,000 strong, streaming out | our reserve will be ried fae “the along the road to Beyrut. In one place j fact’ that we have assisted the league a house on the hill overlooks the gorge, |and the Consumers United Stores com- where the rail, the road and the river pany to an amount of $200,000 natural- run within a few yards of each other, |!Y depletes ‘our available that that and here aipatty of 18 men. of the rite while we’ are glad to be of as- Fourteenth regiment, N. 8. W., with /Sstance the time has arrived when two officers, opened fire on the big col- | get through the summer, without dit: umn. , Turksapd Germans fled in all | ficwity. , directions. © % ¢ Awaiting your early, consideration “Several. were killed and the horse- jin this matter, and trusting that ‘you men then killed the horses and mules | Will give this your earnest attention, in the gun tegms and blocked the road. we beg to remain, Very truly yours, The column} was cut in two and more SENOS than 3,000 surrendered, A mile further along the road Others of the Fifth bri- gade- opened=with machine guns and rifles on the leading portion of the col- 4 . umn, “The enemy was absolutely at |open-a free night school the first _thelr, mercy, and after a futile half- | Monday and Tuesday of Novem- hearted resistance surrendered. , | ber. é , /... “HurpStarts Destruction. | Manual training and dregs- | \q¢ wag nightfall. More than. 20-| making’ will open Tuesday, No- 000 enemy had been captured, and still FREE NIGHT SCHOOL rendered—ptébably there was no one President. THe Board of Education’ will, vember 4, at 7 p, m. in the high ; they came. The town had not yet sur-| school. Mr. Neff and Miss Sta- hiood. Made n schools. The kiddies go right evening, November 3. Miss; Moore will be in charge. Phone Supt. Martin, 285 or 835 and enroll. Do this now. Don’t wait. Ten members neces- sary to start any class, Be on hand the first night.—Adv. students at the Northern Arizona Normal schoo!, are minus their hair as a resu!t of a students’ 3) prank. Among them is Brodie Campbell, son of Governor Campbell. The students first captured Cornelius Buckley, a “town boy,” | and clipped part of his hair. Buckley's friends captured about twenty students and retaliated. A general chase, capture and hair cutting, which included all the young men of normal and PeerenearenrseereeeroePOPODIOooood, town who could be found, fol- lowed. Arizona Students Hairless After Big “Cutting” Bee Flagstaff, Ariz—About forty young men here, half of them $ i Barbers did a rushing business 3 removing the odd-shaped patches 3 of hair left by the amateur cut- 2 ters. $ ; t oon. World’s Smallest Pony. Pechin, Pa.—Robert Brown claims to | own the smallest pony colt in the! world. It is ten weeks old, a little | hare and almost | larger than a Bel as spry. The colt is as affectionate as a puppy and likes to crawl up on its owner’s lap whenever he is sittings High Price Paid for eefsteak. The highest price ever pald: for beefsteak was probably at Circle City, Alaska, a town sprang up over nt diring the Klondike gold excite- ment. The first bevfsteak to reach sold for $48 a pound. Every one ted some of it, and so they raf- tied it off for the benefit of 4 hospital. Tickets were sold from 50 ceuts to 0 for the privilege of drawing a Take Your Rations. If you could ride from the earth to Alpha Certuri, the nearest star, and you traveled at the rate of one mile a minute; you would reach your destina- tion in 48,000,000 years. It would therefore be wise to take a few sand: wiches. ‘ British municipalities are enacting ordinances against jazz dancing. The vacuum process of condensing milk was origined in 1835. ——————— 75 YEAR OLD RHEUMATIC THROWS AWAY HIS CRUTCHES - Vaid before the conference. Over to Yanks; American Legion | Cenvention Follows Homecoming! ithe ‘service. speech will be delivered by Judge} marck post of the! legion has made FOUNDATION FOR SETTLEMENT OF PROBLEMS LAID Nation Believes Industrial Situa- tion Bettered by Round- Table Meet PUBLIC res \it is planned to feed the guests in two, | b Beli aire 5 4 es | shifts. lief ls General That Present orowing of “mess call’, the most popu- Wide Divergence Will |lar-of all service calls, in various | sak Rice ite. | | Be Overcome | Washington, D. C.. Oct. 11.—Founda-! Mothers have arranged to hold dances the aid of confetti,’ serpentine, horns tion for the settlement of many of the} most yexlng problems in the nation’s) industries have been laid out at the; first weeks session of the national in-j dusirial conference, it was declared to- | day by delegates representing the groups of employers, labor aud the , pubiie. : t Each of the groups, particularly the | portunity to dance. employer's and labor's representatives haye outlined their attitude in pro- Ss laid before the conference, Next , it was said today, tha work of nilating these prop s would he the task for which the called by Presideut couyverence was Wilson. PUBLIC NOT DISCOURAGED Despite the wide divergence between the proposals of the employers and thore of labor, delegates representing the public were said today to be far fro:a discouraged, With the public representatives acting as a balance wheel another week in the opinion of those most active inthe conference wilt sec the two opposing factions approach- ing a common meeting ground, ‘The conference was not in session to- day as a dead lock in the general com- mittee of fifteen over the proposal of labor for arbitration of the steel strike having forced an adjournment until Tuesday. The general committee will mect Monday to consider matters to be 'The steel strike issue is expected to be a vital one next week as the labor delegates had intimated that it is their intention to force their arbitration pro- posal before the full conference. Keys to Bismarck to Be Handed (Continued From Page One). the city’s most noted’ speakers who himself had severkl sons in The dedication A. A. Bruce, former justice of -|the supreme court and at present | days holid Several bands , connected with the University of tee eee ee eee rcuiah i in D jwill be given at the Masonic temple. f DISCOURAGED | Because of the great number that are whose speches during the war were full of 100 percent Ameri- canism and patriotism. The ceremonies at the park will also include patriotic airs by, the famous band of the old First North Dakota national guard and this will be iriter- spersed with community singing led | by the soldiers singing the songs that |vesounded in the camps at home and | overseas, War Mothers’ Banquet In the evening, the War Mothers jwill seat every former service man | school manual D land Miss Catherine Staley, instrue'! land woman at a huge banquet that) | expected to be in the city on that day, Present plans provide for the! points in the city when the banquet is ready to be served. Following the banquet, the War at two places in order to accommodate all of the men and women who will here. One dance will be held at the armory and the other at the Masoni temple and the War Mothers have; asked the American Legion to have: suitable committees at both places to introduce strangers to those present so hat everyone will be given ample op- The parade, which will officially open the ceremonies will be one of the most interesting spectacles ever seen in the city. Besides the American Legion and other former service men, the Salvation army, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. Knights of Columbus, Jewish Welfare board, canteen girls, army nurses, boy scouts, home guards, vari- ous fraternal organizations and reli- gious societies will participate. The school children of the city and county will march in the-parade and a chorus of 200 school children will sing at the dedication and welcoming exercises. The Legion Convention On the two days following the homecoming celebration, October 16 and 17, the first state convention of the American Legion will be held, It is estimated that more than 350 dele- gates from the fifty or more posts in the state will attend this meeting. The convention will be held in the auditorium. On the evening of the first day, Thursday, the Knights of Columbus will entertain all the dele- gates and former service men in the city with a boxing exhibition at the Auditorium. The Knights of Colym- bus have.arranged for three or four bouts among the best scrappers in the northwest, including a six-round ‘ex- hibition between Mike and Tor Gib- bons, both claimants to world’s titles. On the second day the delegates will devote all of the morning and part of the afternoon to business of the legion, but it is expected that they will be thru with their work early. The entertainment ‘committee of the Bis- plans for a street carnival and mardi gras on Friday night as the climax-<f have been obtained to furnish music Minnesota, a well known speaker ORPHEUM TONIGH Hale H “T am now 7 of age, and for a number of years have suffered with rheumatism, éczema ‘and a-gevere itch: ing. I’was compelled to walk on crutches, ' I obtained ‘no relief until 1 began to take Number 40. For The my rheumatism@and_ the itching eczem2 ig all’ gone.’ On’ Christmas day ‘B laid }away my, crutches and get around pret- jty. well, without. them. “You haye ‘my ‘permission’ to use this letter’ to adver- jtise Number 40, as, I feel that I ha received great .benefit and will con: tinue the treatment,’ believing I will it to other like sufferers to do! as’ J ‘relief. With great pleasure I subserih myself, Yours very truly, 4ac . Lut wig, Delphos, Ohio, (March 47, 1917. Number 40 is dem: ditions, malnotritio vansville, Ind., there tn’ authdfity to capttulate, But leyincharge, the Hun started on his work of demo- “THE OLD RELIABLE” { cream and poultry If we have. no and bookkeeping the high school. * “Citizenship school for for: born men and women will in the Wachter Sch direct to “NORTHERN PRODUCE CO.. BISMARCK, N. D. Poti deeet Commercial night school in- luding shorthand, typewriting|~ will open Mon- day evening, November 3. Miss | Ostby. will be in charge, also in " Sold hy Joseph Brestow. Blood. Have taken“eight bottles and! recelye more, and I wish’ to recommend have done and try ‘Number 40 and get FATTY ARBUCKLE IN “Fickle Fatty’s Fall” One of the best two-reel comedies Arbuckle ever made. | +. THE DYNAMIC STAR “THAT'S GOOD” A 5-act Metro romance of exquisite charm and humor: _ From; the Saturday Evening Post story. 3——SHOWS TONIGHT——3- for the enterfainment and everybody THEATRE. T ONL amilton a FREE NIGHT SCHOOL. TO _ TO BISMARCK STUDEN Bismarck’s free night school, which proved so;much of a success last year, will be opened for the season by the hoard of education the first Monday and ‘Tuesday in November, Supt, J. M/ Martin announced today. Te manual training and, a mik- ing department will open, Nov ber 4 at 7 p.m. in the high school building, in charge of R, H. Neff of the h training departme in domestic science. The commerciil sight school, offer- ing courses in shorthand, typewritios and bookeeping, * will, open Monday is requested to appear in costume and Several novel stunts will be developed by several of the organizations in the city: and with and other fun provoking accessories, it is believed the evening will be one good humor never before witnessed n the city. a Ba i Total, U.S. exports to Germany, in July amounted to $2,426,742. "ALGOHOL- 3 PER GENT, ANGéetable PreparationfirAs simitating theFood by Regula: j Stomachs and Bowels Facsimile Signatore ot eventng, November 3, at the school, with Miss charge. / oh ‘A citizenship schoob for forelgnbora mén and women will open in the Wach- tet school Monday: evening, November 3, with Miss Hortense Moore of; the wiish department of / the Bismartk high school in charge. Prospective students are urged to immediately communicate with Super- intendent Martin, 'phone Y 88h jand, to enroll without dela Ey thing will be free, but none’ of classes can be opened with less than ten members, and it is essential that students be listed early. i The modern “prairie schoome” is a veritable hotel on wheels. Order your Witter Suit or, Overcoat now. We guarantee satisdac- EAGLE,,. Tailiors, Hatters and. Cleaniers. tion. ‘\Phone d8. CASTOR ‘For Infants and Children, Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria BE OP TS NEXT MONTH ED high . Gena Ostby , in 285 or the An plan to ransack. { is gone. e other damage. rs during the-day. Bismarck~ Na Depositors protected under State Law WHEN THE FAMILY’S AWAY —the second story worker; the sneak thief and the burglar have full sway in the dwelling they -., Time after time people have gome to.us with “the things that the looter didn’t find.” Just an- other case of locking the barn, door after the horse ‘Why not put your valuables where they are protected against theft—and firé, aswell as any Here in the Safety Vault of the Bismarck Bank. there is a steel box that will keep.your belongings safely: You cai have access to them at The: service costs but little. ~The Bismarck Bank North Dakota “DOUGLAS GARAGE a and Electric Light Plant for Sale . as. If, you are interested ina good - _ paying proposition look this “up. » It will: stand the closest ah investigation. A good, sound business for Liye Wires. Wm. Johnson, Proprietor ~~ Douglis, N! Dal. ~ any time