Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1918, Page 1

HUN GRIP ON APEX OF SALIENT LO@SED __ BY ALLIED ATTACK OVER 30-MILE FROM Che Caz WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Friday; | not much change in tempera- ture. VOLUME TWO per D Cribune SERINGES TAKEN BY [=er=| STRATEGY aly THE DAILY’ oe Is the only newspaper in W: oming carrying both Nssoet: ated and United Press dis- patches. KAISER BRAGS OF SPIRIT OF HUN FIGHERRS Not Abashed. by Numerical Superiority of American Hosts, Says Emperor in Appeal to Retain Morale [By Associated Press.) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 1.—The coming of American arriisel to France and the numerical superiority on the part of the Allies do not frighten Germany, declared Emperor William of Germany, in a proclamation to the Germany army and navy) today. The vital forces which are streaming across the sea to the, enemy,” ” he said, “are being attacked by German submarines, CLASS TWO oAFE which the German forced have won,}| bringing peace to the eastern front, and the heavy blows*‘dealt the Allies | during the present summer, He*as-| sured the army and navy that, altho they are in the midst of the hardest) struggle of the war, they would be! victorious. Continuing, he said: “American armies and numerical | superiority do not frighten us. It is the spirit which brings the decision. Prussian and German history tenclies| that, as well as the course which! No Calls I B seat E th m has hitherto taken. | No Cal s mminent unti after X- “We mast haustin of Class One thruout “We must and shall continue fight-| ing until the enemy’ 's will to destruc-| Nation, Says Wm. Simpson tion is broken aaeeew es William Simpson of Cody, member of the District Draft. Board of Chey-} enne, and who is in Casper today,| checking over questionnaires and FIRE HATRED OF other data with a view to re-classify- jing any whose claims to exemption jare not well founded, confirms re- |ports of the past week that no Class 2 men are to be called in Wyoming, until the first class thruout the country. With hundreds | of thousands remaining in Class 1 the country at large, draft calls upon! Wyoming during the coming months | will be exceedingly light. “It is my personal opinion that no {men given deferred classification will) \be called for some time to come,” is exhausted | [By Associated Prens.] | LONDON, Aug. 1.—Serious riots} are reported from the country dis- tricts of Ukraine, according to a Kiev dispatch to the Fremdenblatt of Ham-| burg, the Exchange Telegraph cor-| respondent at Copenhagen, reports. The (By Aanociated Press.) ance to the ‘German usurpers,” Approximately half a million reg- necessarily be called before deferred OR STREET CAR which the number of Class 1 men was ee al war labor board today announced | to a typewriter when her sight be- zing from 38 to 50 cents an hour.| Chine, which worked extremely well. peasants are offering organized | said Mr. Simpson today. as they are characterized. \istrants will be placed in Class 1 from WAGE INCREASE the 1918 registration, and these must classes are to be touched. ° In addi- tion, there were many States in MEN ANNOUNCED) exceedingly large before the additions |made by the 1918 class. The late queen of Rumania, bet- WASHINGTON, Aug. 1,—Nation-|ter known as “Carmen Cylva,”’ took awards to street railway trainmen em-|@n to fail. She invented an idea ployed in several cities of wages|/for a comparatively soundless ma- Among the awards was one of 38) to 41 cents an hour for trainmen of the Omaha & Council Bluffs Rail-| way company, retros retroactive to July 17./ LAST ISSUE U.S. CERTIFICATESIS | OVERSUBSCRIBED [By Associated Press.) b Ae ASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Half a ulin snublocet epee te of indteb-| [By: Associated Preiu.] saa i 4 closed two days ago, pg Sted WASHINGTON, Aug.| 1.—A Scribed $84,750 000, making a total| of half a_ million of certificates now outstanding in an- aly tion of the fourth Liberty loan, | $2,183,835,000. RECALL OF HUN AMBASSADOR IN shortage un- skilled workers in the war indus- tries is shown in incomplete re- ports to the Department of Labor from the Federal Employment Ser- vice, which today took over the | war industries. inal reports are expected to KIEV PROBABLE) show shortage of 1,000,000 LONDON, Aug. The war industry was defined as contemp} the manufacture of products or the erection of structures directly or indirectly supplied to some de- partment of the Government for use in connection with the war. Coal mining is classed as wholly warework. Railroads and farms 1.—Germany is} dor V ating the recall of Ambassa- Bandi on Mumm from Ukraine and of U nS Passports te the ambassador clearing v° im Berlin, pending the followin», of the situation at Kiev, ing the assassination of the n field marshal there Tuesday. ferman { é EGLARES BOARD recruiting of this class of labor for | STEEL Run 10 Per Cent of Reflected in y CARL WASHINGTON, by Oe first great casualty lists, wh: the of the 200,000 Americans fighting in the Soissons-Rheims #!! day Tuesday. These heavy casualties are as yet unfeflected in the ‘"e enemy began to emer \lists received by the War Department. battle. Casualties normally run severe as the Soissons-Rheims battle, \it is believed they will run 10 per cent bes more. While not disproportionate to the! scope of the recent fighting, the lists a bring the war home to America| jas nothing else has done. American casualties for the entire} war to date, so far as announced by |\the War Department, total slighty | over 14,000. ited Prean} WASH ReTON. Aug. 1.—Army |easualties reported by General Per- \shing today totaled 120, including} Corporals Harold E. Mason of Sioux} Falls, S. D., and Frank Mattern, Mo- |L. Roberts, Idaho Springs, Colo., se- verely wounded. | Marine casualties totaled five, the smallest i iniseyerelaye several weeks. ELEVEN FLYERS SHOW DOWN ON : TTALIAN FRONT [By Axnoctated Prens.] WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Eleven lenemy airplanes were brot down by \the Italians on the front in north. jern Italy Tuesday and raids were made with planes which bombarded enemy railroad plants, according to |the Italian war office statement from Rome. Princess Waldemar of Denmark is a woman of great energy and of an original turn of mind. Having pur- chased a plot of land near Copenheg- en, she divided it up and built a number of houses for rent. She her- self collaborated with the architect | and helped to draw up the plans. She interested herself particularly in the kitchen arrangemeuts, and worked out an idea for a new sort of com- bined dresser and table which was | afterward thot worth patenting. FACES | J : R c . ; e 0! ‘Chey- | enne’s retired physicians, died at his must obtain unskilled labor | ‘means of other than Federal em- | ployment service. AMERICAMUST FOR BIG BLOW \Casualties in Soissons-Rheims |bridge, S. D., died of wounds; John} | from the governor and adjutant as to | by |Mrs. Barkwell returned to Cheyenne — Sensational Capture of Villages, Routing of Huns, Is Told by Foreign Writer ITSELF [By Associated Press.] LONDON, July 31 —(De-| layed. )—Yesterday was a day of hard in-and-out fighting on attles to! the American front, Reuter’s | Tel h ~ Men Engaged; Not elegrap correspondent re. | ports from north of the Marne. Taste ree Date He said the final capturé of Seringes D. GROAT |by the Americans was especially creditable. After the Americans took the vil- lage Monday, the Germans kept up 1.—The nation must steel itself for 2 constant artillery and machine gun ich are likely to run 10 per cent fire to drive them out. It continued Toward evening, from Nesles forest in a way that seemed |to forecast a fresh attempt to tuke jthe village. Of the fighting which ensued, correspondent write “The Americans, after three day to-and-fro fighting through the v: lage, determined to have a real, fight to the finish. Consequently, they withdrew, as if retiring from Se- ringes, and the Germans crept down \from the high ground, convinced that their opponents were beaten “As the Germans began to organ- ize their defenses, they found bul- MUSTER HOME GUARDS IN uly \vilsgh veal, Wes ect log before Wednesday Set as Date for Formal | they discovered that the Americans Ceremony to Follow Equip- had commenced an encircling move- ment ‘of Local Unit for jments on both sides. Slowly the ec el Ser: | Americans encircling the ring closed clive Service jabout the village. ——- | “When the Americans re: ed the The Home Guards will be mus-j|precincts of the village, their fire tered into the state service by the ceased, and with a yell they closed adjutant general next Wednesday. | | with the foe. Only the clash of steel | 1 on steel and groans were heard | Captain Lanning returned from “At this /kind of fighting the Cheyenne this morning with the or-/ Americans are more than equal to ders for the muster and instructions |the Prussian guardsmen. “In a little more than ten minutes what will be expected of the men here it was all over, and except for a few when the muster takes place. German prisoners, every German had The Guard will be equipped at | breathed his last.” once with the new rifle instead of <> the Krags which were sent here from | Lander. The Krags will be used for ALLIED Alb FOR a few preliminary drills until the 3 per cent, but in 3} per cent, but in fighting as HOUX COMING 10 the new rifles get here but the new arms will have the regulation bayonet and stacking swivel and are in fact ex- actly the same rifles as the boys are now using on the western front in France. The state of Wyoming was able’ to obtain the new rifles because the supply for the nation has of late exceeded the demand the the offi. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. cials at Washington are anxious to | Allies’ program for aiding Rus have the military units ih this coun-|Under way. Quietly the try become familiar with the new| States, Japan and Er gun. troops to Vladivostock Last evening the Guard held its|to arrive soon from nearby coloni regular drill and all members are} Japan has agreed to Amer warned that due to the shortness of plan for economic aid, supported by time between now and muster day,|a protective force. Official an- every member must be present or nouncement of the whole project accounted for by some valid reason awaits only final Japanese word on for his absense and an intensive minor points. | work at drills will be undergone un-| til next Wednesday. On muster day, the governor and} | adjutant general will both be here to accept the company of Casper Home | guards as a part of the state polar land the company officers iene |have their command in as good sh as possible by that time. ca A RETIRED PHYSICIAN OF CHEYENNE DIES TUESDAY CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 1.—Dr. Major C. Barkwell, on f |home on East 17th street last night, = According to their custom Dr. and! [By United Press.] WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 1.— Franco-Americans have _ ad- from, Chicago for the summer a few weeks ago. Determined to enter the United | States army to do their share toward | | trimming, the Hun, the cases of two) l young men who arrived in Casper, yesterday presented many perplexing | {problems to the local exemption | | board and the recruiting office here. | J. H. Rinehart, 30 years old, who YANKS FROM CANADA EXPERIENCE | TRIAL IN EFFORT TO SMITE HUN was born in West Virginia, and A. L. | Taylor, 25 years old, born in Mis- |souri, have spent the past twelve lyears in Alberta, Canada, but, not jtaking out naturalization papers in that country, still remained citizens of the United States. Desiring to enter the United States Army, the | Canadian authorities sent them to Great Falls, Mont., for enlistment. In Great Falls the recruiting officers refused to accept the men, but told them if they would come to Casper they might succeed in enlisting. Upon arrival here they called at the recruiting office and were turned down because both were of draft age and they were sent to Sheriff Pat- re the . possible. FLANK MOVEMENT | EXECUTED TO FORCE RETIREMENT OF HUN Straightening of Line Secondary in Import- ance to Compelling Evacuation of Ron- cheres and St. Gemme; Assaults Made on Allied Positions Are All Defeated [By Associated Press.) American and French troops have begun a turning move- ment which, if successful, will compel a German retirement over a wide sector east of Fere-en-Tardenois at the center of the Soissons-Rheims salient. They attacked over a front of over three miles on each side of Nesiles, at the apex of the Allied wedge north of the Ourcq. The greatest advance was toward the east, where the Americans pushed on some distance from the town of Sergy and approached Chamery. Altho the announced purpose of the attack was the straightening of the line, this is really secondary to outflanking the Germans southward. The enemy is holding strong posi- tions at Roncheres and St. Gemme, where this line is still less than five miles from the Marne, and a continued advance be- tween Nesles and Cierges would force him to fall back to escape being cut off from the rear. This seems to be the only sector where the Allies are attacking with infantry. Reports from the front tell of heavy artillery fire along most of the line between Seissons and Rheims. The Germans attacked the Allied lines on the heights of Bligny, southwest of Rheims, Tuesday, but were repulsed. Along the British front, German artillery is active. The enemy’s heavy guns carried out an especially heavy bombardment at Villers-Bretonneaux, east of Amiens, near Bucquoy, on the northern side of the Picardy salient, and in the neighborhood of Meteren and Merris, on the western side of the Lys sector. Franco- Americans § Smash Forward On Ten-Mile Front Near Center [My United Press] PARIS, Aug. 1.—(4 p. m.)—New advances have been made by the Americans and French over a large part of tne Rheims-Soissons front. The Allies advanced between Oulchy- le-Chateau and Fere-en-Tardenois, in the Arcy wood district, near Circes, and toward the Rheims road near Bligny. Amveri- cans hurled the Germans back into the wood near Gousson Court and are progressing toward the Ardre Valley on the right flank of the salient near Ville-en-Tardenois. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY AFIELD, Aug. 1.—General Mangin’s army attacked on a 10-mile front between Fere-en- Tardenois and Plessier Huleu this morning, taking Hill 205 and capturing Ora Moiselle. At the cabling hour, the attack is still progressing. Other troops took Meuiner’s wood in the salient southeast of Cierges. Americans Storm Heights Between Seringes and Sergy in Night Raid. [By United Press} WITH THE AMERICANS IN FRANCE, Aug. Yankees stormed the heights between Seringes and Sergy night, gaining all objectives. They advanced behind - American-made smoke cloud, preceded by a series of rolling barrages. An Allied attac Germans from 4 which cleared American advance Americans, , made the just east of the small pocket WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE AISNE-MARNE, Aug. 1.—Franco-Americans on the main battle front continued yes- terday the process of straightening out their line. They scored (Continued on n Page 6.) NINETEEN MILES ARE CLIPPED OFF LI NES ing the French army there, de- vanced nearly 19 miles since , they started the counter offen- clared that the offensive is be- sive. Praising the Americans, ing executed in a manner to General DeGoutte, command- . : ; spare the Allied reserves. German resistance has stif- fened north of the Ourcq and bitter fighting is under way on the plateau there. Allied efforts since crossing the Ourcq have been to squeeze out the German machine-gun rear-guards by flanking movements. Today the Allies tore into the ton, who referred the case to the German lines for maximum local exemption board gains of two miles at some After considering the case the points. The Germans are re- board finally registered them and ported to be “digging in to hold placed them in Class 1 of the draft where the two young patriots will be the present line. Germany is calling upon compelled to await the next call for| every man it can spare. Up- men before they can enter the ser-| wards of 30,000 were called vice. from the Krupp works. F a ry > Hie to BD re. || amo. slic: tly nat {a ndu bro: riot yo on ie %