Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1918, Page 1

YANKS ADVANCE LINES AFTER CRUSHING HUN OFFENSIVE IN VAUX REGIO ————_—___._. a , TODAY The Cazyrer Darilay MARNE CROSSED BY HUNS IN WEATHER TODAY Partly cloudy tonight and Tues- day, not much change in temperature VOLUME TWO MUNITIONS DEP WEATHER FOR WEEK Occasional local thundershowers, with nearly normal tem- peratures NUMBER 231 me” OT TAKEN BY RUSS REVOLTERS IN BATTLE Czecho-Slovaks Triumph Over Bolshevik CASPER GUARDS EIGHT DRUNKS Forces at Kazan as British Occupy Murman Town ; Siberia Loyal (By United Press) COPENHAGEN, July 15.—Czec against heavy resistance. ho-Slovak troops captured Kanzan Kanzan is ax important munitious center 430 miles east of Moscow. It is reported that the British ha: coast, about 375 milés north of Petro Genera] Alexioff, former Russian chief-of-staff has been appointed commander of the anti-Bolsheviki} forces. He arrived at Omask with a} large army and was enthusiastically | received. WILL MOVE CAPITAL STOCKHOLM, July 15.—Moscow reports that the soviet government! is planning to move to Murom on the Oka river. The new anti-Bolshevik govern-| ment in Siberia has formed a.cab-,) inet of influential business men and former Duma members and has open- Gl la at. with the Czecho-Slo-| vaks. A Russian volunteer army forming at Vladivostok to cooperate} with the Czecho-Slovaks, it is de- clared. is | [By Associated Press.) | LONDON, July 15.— American | and British troops have occupied the whole of the Murman coast in north-} ern Russia, says a dispatch from Mos- | cow to the Central News, capturing Kem. The Americans and British} have advanced toward Toroki, the Rolshevik authorities having with-/ drawn to Nirok. LONDON, July 15.—Commanders| of the Entente Allied forces have is- | sued an appeal to the population of the Murman coast, requesting it be| held against German and Finland. It is declared the Murman coast 1s Rus- sian territory and under the protec- tion of the Entente Allies. | LONDON, July 15.—Request of | the Russians rable Allied forces now coast, which to the extreme north of Russia. On the coast are several harbors connected by railway with, Petro- grad. More forces are being sent. The local population is cooperating. Meanwhile the Germans are mak- ing a desperate attempt to secure control of the coast. They need the harbors for submarine bases. ph ST See Mrs. C. E. Winter has received} word that she has been re-appoint- ed as chairman of the woman’s com- mitee of Natrona county for the fourth Liberty loan drive which will be, in all probability, during the lat-| er part of September or the first of ctober, The assistants who worked so faithfully during the third cam- paign will be on duty again for the next one, which means that ‘the drive | will go “over the top” with. colors flying. oe _ C. A, Crooks of Billings and Butte, i a business visitor in Casper to- day, seven deaG sf wounds, seven of ve occupied Kem and the Murman grad on a connecting railroad CLOSE OF | DRILL TUESDAY AT HIGH SCHOOL The first drill of the new Home Guards will be held at the Athletic field near the high ychool tomorrow night. The drill will not be a pub- | CHECK OUT AT POLICE HOTEL At the city bastile today there were eight plain drunks captured from the wilds of Saloon Row Satur-/ day evening, also two characters FIFTH GREAT DRIVE ON THE WEST; RESULT IS IN DOUBT [By United Press} PARIS, July 15, 4:15 p. m.—The French Champagne army is holding magnificently, says battle front dispatches. The Germans crossed the Marne on pontoons where the river is very narrow. Elsewhere the French are holding. : 2 Simultaneous with the drive on a 50-mile front_between Chateau-Thierry and Main-de- Massiges, the Germans attacked formidably onthe Ourco front toward Lafere-Milon, 15 miles northwest of Chateau-Thierry. They encountered a crushing barrage and were unable to ‘debouch from their own positions. = . 4 The enemy is apparently attempting to converge on Chalons from several directions. This ‘is only part of a general advance on Paris. They also hope to take Rheims, which is already surrounded on three sides. ] 3 The main drive is led by General von Galiwitz’s army, which has not engaged in the previ- ous four drives. Americans just before noon heavily countered against a large force of Germans who erossed the Marne at three places on a four-mile front east of Chateau-Thierry. The result is unknown at filing time. Before this, the Americans countered at Vaux, repulsing a German assault. They hurled the Germans back almost a half mile beyond where they began the attack at Vaux. First rushes pushed the Americans a mile and a quarter at the greatest point. |fesistance finally slowed the Germans. A t Then the Americans organized a counter before the enemy could reorganize his shat- tered units. Fighting was most bitter. ‘like a violent earthquake. | American Americans used their bayonets. Artillery fire shakes the ground |ic one as the men ure only com-!were taken up for plain begging. | |mencing the long lessons that make/| William Hall, a colored resident, got} |for the finished soldier in time and | into an altercation over a crap game | i their appearance before the public at| dowin the Northwestern yards and present would be anything but in- | spiring. pulled a knife to asSist his side of the, fracas. AMERICA MUST REBUILD FRANCE AT | WAR, DECLARES SPEAKER New Offensive Launched by Teutons Is|\Dashing Counter by Aimed at Rheims; Germans Attack in| Americans Hurl Mass Formation, Following an Intense; Hune Back; Yanks Bombardment of Lines and Rear Area| Defending Marne | | | [By Associated Prens.] Thirty-three days aiter they | TBy United Press] | The German offensive was resumed this morning on a 50- | SHIPYARD WORK Obligation Continues Until Nation Is Re- mite front, extending from Chateau-Thierry eastward into the| were halted in their plunge toward patriated; Casper Pays Noble DELAYED AGAIN BY BIG STRIKE [By United Prens.] OAKLAND, Cal., July 15.— Claiming that their employers fail- ed to keep their arbitration agree- ment, 3,500 boilermakers and iron- workers in three great shipyards walked out today. Scores of ship contracts have been halted << — 60 CASUALTIES ON LIST TODAY FROM PERSHING [By United Press] WASHINGTON, July 15.—Gener- al Pershing today reported 60 casual- ties, including 14 killed in action ease, 28 severcly wounded ana thr missing ieee DESERTION OF AUSTRIANS AS RESULT DEFEAT LONDON, = July 15.—Forty thousand Austrians deserted fol- lowing the Piave disaster, ports thru 1 Three thousand deserters were ar- rested in Budapest. Austrian cabinet leaders are go- ing to German headquarters on an important say re- unoffi cheanels, Dr. Downie of Thermopolis, who dren. They? will make their home of Casper’s retired physicians. HAITI MAKES WAR ON HUNS [By Associated Prens.] PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 15.—The Council of State, act-| | Tribute to A lly in Europe During the next ten years—after the war—Americans will |have an opportunity to help the people of France rebuild a |nation made desolate by war, and America must rise to the jemergency, just as it has on.t he firing line, according to Dr. |Dean C. Dutton, chautauqua lecturer, in a stirring address to |the crowd assembled at the corner of Center and Second last’ west ‘night to celebrate French Independ- ence day, ‘‘The Fall of the Bastile.” | “You will have an opportunity to \give your dollars. America will have la chance to send men to replant the forchards laid waste by war, and |America will and must help in this jwork. Long live France—Glorious \France!” concluded the speaker, and to emphasize his admiration for the heroic people who have fought the hardest and suffered most in the war for freedom, he led “three cheers and a tiger’ for our ally, in which the crowd joined.- Hats waved and \“hurrahs’” were given with a will—a scene that would have done credit, ing for that same “chance” which |makes all men free and equal and} !which unclasps the shackles of autoc- jracy. | “We're fighting to give the whole |world a chance,” he declared—‘‘a \chance to live, to make money, to en-|Stituted another suit against the! jjoy educational privileges, to rise above the oppression of the Hohen-| zollerns and the Hapsburgs.” , The speaker was eloquent in his praise of the French people, and fol- \lowed Dr. Walter H. Bradley, who touched upon the significance of French independence and the“ great debt which dates back to the time of Lafayette. He recited the words of |General Pershing on the occasion of |his visit to the tomb~-of Lafayette in France—‘Lafayette, we hi |come’—as an acknowledgment of ‘that debt from the first in command |recently came to Casper, was joined of the American forces overseas. {today by Mrs. Downie and two chril-| Dr. Bradley extolled the heroism of the French women, whose sacri- lin Casper, Dr. Bownie having ar-/fices, he said, will never be attained lranged to open an office with one }y the mothers of America. His his- torical reference to the days of the French revolution were couched in reverent terms. The Casper band furnished patri- ‘otic music for the occasion, which |was carried out in the spirit of reso- jlutions adopted by congress and the message sent the French people by the people of Ameri¢éa. This message Casper yesterday—in the churches HENNING, SEEKS $4500 DAMAGES FROM MIDWEST Refining Company Made Defend- ant in New Action in Connec- tion with Leasing of Office | Quarters Here Apparently determined to pile | grief on top of grief, W. F. Henning, |who, as head of the Henning and |Midwest Hotel companies, today in- | Midwest Refining company for dam- ages in the sum of $4,500, alleged to have been sustained thru the fail- ure of the Midwest to terminate its lease of June 15, 1915, on the see- ond floor of the Midwest building and thru failure and refusal ot exe- cute a new lease on the same prop- erty. It is alleged that the Midwest {remained in wrongful possession of |these office rooms. | The period of time which W. F. Henning, thru the Midwest Hotel ave) company, claims the Midwest remain- ed in such possession extends over ten months, beginning in August, 1917 and continuing thru May, 1918, up to the time of the latter’s remov- al to the Oil Exchange building. The suit filed today makes an ag- gregate of four or five actions pend- ing against the refining company in connection with their hotel contracts jand leases and they will go to trial |at the fall term of the-district court. —_ 'TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR OUTSIDE AF PRINT SHOP and the theaters, at the chautauqua| and at the open-air observance of the holiday, supplemented by a universal |pledge which the audience endorsed with bowed heads and fervent re- | sponse. A feature of the street gathering, | was read at all public gatherings in | ing according to legislative powers given under the new Haitien |. J. Phillipot, was the singing of the constitution, today unanimously voted the declaration of war Marseillaise by Gene Mignolet to the upon Germany, demanded by the president of the republic. accompaniment of the band. which was presided over by Leon! [By United Press} MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 15.— “I married Alfred J. Davis, an Irish Catholic, and now I find him to be |Abraham Sogolowitz, a Polish Jew. I don’t want him.” This, in substance, is the story told the court by Mary Flaherty, asking jannulment of her marriage to a Fort Snelling Soldier. Ce M fF ff Bs of hae CCC C Tee |Champaigne region, early reports indicating a combining of Compiegne along the west bank \the drive toward Paris with an effort to capture Rheims. At} of the Oise, Germans launched a |least two American forces are involved, the French official com-| new phase of their offensive today |munique announced today. | by attacking from Cheateau-Thier- | The Germans launched their drive on an 80-mile front from! ry to Maison de Champagne, north |Chateau-Thierry eastward to Main-de-Massiges, following vio-| of Massignes and far east of {lent artillery preparation, but the “French are sustaining their) Rheims, over a front of about 65 |positions eneretically,” says the communique. miles i m 1 h | Fred S. Ferguson, United Press staff correspondent on the es in length. Marne front, cables that the situation is well in hand. | Latest reports state that the He describes a heavy bombardment from Vaux, two miles Germans crossed the Marne at of Chateau-Thierry, to Jaulognne, followed by an infantry several places probably between Chateau-Thierry and Doromans. ‘attack at 6 o’clock this morning. Americans involved in the new drive constitute a heavy American troops are engaged in battle in this particular region and force west of Chateau-Thierry on a 10-mile front, and others ‘are in the line near Butte-du-Hesnil, four miles west of Main- i i reports say that they “handled the enemy well.” | de-Massiges. | The Germans are reported to have crossed the Marne at They broke up the German drive in Vaux region west of Cha- |several points and penetrated French positions to a depth of three miles. teau-Theirry, by a dashing coun- ter attack. So far as the length of the line is concerned, the present drive is the greatest of the year. Meas- urements of the line where fight- ing is known to be going on shows it is sixty-five and one-tenth miles long. WITH AMERICANS ON THE MARNE, July 15.—Americans on this front delifered a counter upon the Germans in the Vaux region this morning and drove off the enemy. It is reported that the Americans advanced their own lines several hundred yards. The operation at Vaux appeared a feint, for soon after it began the Germans attacked all along the Marne where they were opposed by Americans and French. Their first crossing was made at Peak, a big river bend. Ameri- can machine gunners and infan- trymen died where they stood here. _..Other__ Americans__ withdrew strategically as the enemy attack- ed from east of Chateau-Thierry to along the Marne, east of Dor- mans, making additional cross- i} IBy Associated Press.) | WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE MARNE, July 15, 8:40 ja. m.—The Germans at daylight launched violent attacks |against American positions west of Chateau-Thierry, especially ‘mear Vaux. The attack followed a violent bombardment of high explosive and gas shells last night. | Americans sought shelter wherever available. When the jenemy infantry appeared, the Americans met the attackers with a rain of machine gun bullets. The Americans wore gas |masks. | Enemy bombardment of towns in the rear of the lines be- |gan at 6 a.m. Latest reports say the Americans are holding itheir own and maintaining their positions. | Heavy shells of German naval guns are falling in regions far behind the actual battle area, many in Meaux, 25 miles |from Chateau-Thierry. Reports from American advanced po- |sitions say they are holding the enemy well. | 8:51 a. m.—At this hour it is not determined how the |battle in the vicinity is progressing. The whole line in both directions from the town is dense |with smoke and gas fumes. The rear is punctuated in few in- termissions with the terrific din of American machine gun and \vifle fire, whch seemed to be hottest n Vaux. PARIS, July 15.—A new offensive by the Germans began ‘last night between Rheims and Argonne.. Between Chateau- Thierry and Main-de-Massiges, the Germans attacked this morning, says the official statement. The French are meeting |the shock with energy, and the battle continue on a front of 50 miles. | Official reports relative to the grand offensive show its most ambitious stroke since March 21, when the Germans launched their assault against the British from Arras to the Lafere front, in that the offensive has a 50-mile length. The Germans followed their most recent tactics of begin- jming an offensive. There was brief and intense artillery prep- aration, then the advance of assault troops. | There seems one new offensive in this attack. Great naval |guns have been brot up by them behind the enemy lines, and } jtowns and cities far behind the actual battle area are under ings. [Bonspexctaents P prpecte ate ae ; | Shortly after 11:01 a. m. ! e apparent purpose o} ie Germans in attacking along i inf 1 the line from Chateau-Thierry east along the Manin to Rheims i infantry wee. jand thence eastward to Massiges, is similar to that in the great unched a counter in the region attack along the Aisne late in May. They evidently hoped to of Conde. find the allies less well prepared in this sctor than elsewhere. Reports of fighting east of | The Germans seem to hope for gains which will compel an allied retirement from the Verdun and Saint Mihiel sectors. | The north bank of the Marne is held by the Germans for |some 20 miles east from Chateau-Thierry. A successful attack jin Rheims might force the allies back further east of the Marne and give the Germans command of the communication system Rheims said the enemy up to 11 a. m. made no progress. 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