Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1918, Page 1

‘RIGHT Wi WEATHER FORECAST Generally fair tonight and Sunday, with thundershow- ers in central portion. VOLUME 28 Cri NG OF B t ALLIES PLUNGE ON ; e Gasper Daily UTE | THE DAILY TRIBUNE Is the only aper in Wy- oming carrying both Associ- ated and Unilted Press dis- patches. CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1918. NUMBER 247 MILITARY OPINION LOST IN. ADMIRATION GENERAL FOCH, GENIUS BEHIND GREAT GAIN SCHOOL TEACHER ALLEGED VICTIM OF OIL oWINDLE oY. COMPLAINT Asks Body Judgment as End of Oil Bubble Another “oil bubble” burst in the District Court this week with the in- stitution of a suit by Miss Gertrude Zahm against George M. Harris, who, she alleges, swindled her out of some $2,650 in cash and stock certificates on the promise of making her a bene- ficiary ina stock promotion program. which would return untold revenue. Charging. that representations made her by Harris have proved wholly false, the plaintiff asks for a body judgment as well as court orders which will secur® for her the return of $2,650 with accrued interest. The complaint recites that the plaintiff-was a teacher in the public schools at the time she met Harris, who represented himself to-he a unmarried man of considerable means which included a 4,200-acre ranch at Sussex, Wyo., well stocked with sheep, and certain valuable oil leases which held great possibilities, To make two final payments on the leases which he was unable to meet because of fiancial embarrass- ment attending the stocking of his|a joint interest in the oil leases and/leasés a8 agreed and carried out the| ranch, it is alleged, Harris persuaded|in the company to be organized at a/scheme with deliberate intention to} the plaintiff to furnish him money and stocks to the amount of $2,650, representing savings and borrowed money, for which she was to receive CASUAL | | | } |him inthe rear. ; | The enemy seems and a dozen villages. \impregnable redoubt of Buzancy. defenders surrendered. |east of Ville Montire.” jfuture date. PARIS, August 3.—Friday’s Splendid success i; ‘launches his counter-offensive, July 18. Rarely in the history of war has a plan been followed out with such clock-work regularity. Military opinion here is lost in admiration of the splendid genius which ‘conceived it and of the.masterly way in which it is being carried out. | What the conseauence of yesterday’s victory will be cannot be gauged but that it will be Gertrude Zahm Sues Geo. |. ‘Hamis for $2,650 and| [By Aunociated Preas.] Little by little the movement quickened. ‘ The Dormans-Rheims road was left three niles bekind and Guex, Poilly, Vezilly, Goussan- court and-Coulonges were passed at a bound. The fall of Soissons decided, irrevocably the fate of the battle. LONDON, Aug. 3:--The German retreat is general on three side: of the salient conqueted by the Germans in May and the Allies are pressing close on the heels of the retreating enemy, says Reuter’s cor- respondent. After the fall of Soissons the correspondent at the French headquarters received the names of the villages and by the Allies with almost monotonous regularity. “Plessier wood,” the correspondent continues, “which abuts the Soissons-Chateau Thierry road, wae turned early in the day and the This wood was the center of the enemy resistance and the fight for it was extraordinarily bitter. “Farther North the British crossed the Soissons-Chateau Thierry road and pressing thru Conyois wood were soon more than a mile woods reoccupied deceive and defraud. In support of This money, the complaint recites, |this contention, it is further set forth the defendant appropriated fo his|that Harris has a wife and family own uss; he failed to secure theresiding near Sheridan. TIES TO YANK | ARMIES NEAR 12,000 IBy Ansocinted Prens.] WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Sena- tors of the.Military Committee who asked General March, chief of staff, if he had any estimate of American casualties ig recent fight- ing, were told that the Government had absolutely none. Senational reports sent from Washington said Pershing had reported to March that he estimated casualties at 12,- 000 in recent fighting. Offici denounced this report of mislead ing. ; \ WASHINGTON, Aug. | 3.—The merican casualties in the pres- ent offensive on the western front are estimated at 12,000 in killed, wounded and missing. __General Pershing has thus. re- ea ee gee President Judge A. C. Campbell ‘a8 callei“an important meeting of ze Natrona “County Bar association Clog morrow afternoon” at 2:30 ‘lock in room. 208 of the Oil Ex- “nange building, ——— con Everry and Harkness, electrical ‘tractors, formerly located at 135 North Cetner, ‘have moved their, of- fices to 144 est Firat street. ported to Chief of Staff March, and the latter so \informed the members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee today. | General March told the commit- tee that the American casualties | eek ago were av “sging 17 in and that foday they 1,000. This indicates the intensity of the fighting, as ‘well as the stiffening of the German resistance due to their throwing picked shocic. The drill of the Home Guard last | evening was 4 momentous one. | Definite instructions from the gov- ernor and emanating from the | White house in Washington were | to the effect that there is a pog- sibility of the men of this unit being called upon for volunteers for service in France and after -acalibioiiee troops in against the Americans. The list reported today totaled 266, including 112 killed in action and 56 wounded severely. [By Associated Press.] WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—The following} names appear on today’s casualty list: Killed in action— Cyril Brier, Denver, and Harry Gavelick, Denver; died of accident and other ca Otte. Schauna- man, Sisseton, S. Dak. the usual drill, Captain Lanning lined the men up in serried ranks and told them of the new issues that had come up during his recent trip to Cheyenne where he was in conference with Governor Houx and. the adjutant general, The news that the draft age was likely to be raised from the pres- ent extreme of 31 years to 40 Asrattene ener | | {By United Press) | PARIS, ‘Aug. 3.—Herbert Hoov- er, American Food Controlled, and his party had a narrow escape in a German air raid at Boulogne: A bomb crashed in the windows of their pri 181045 YEARS DRAFT LIMIT IN PROPOSED BILL {By United Press} /WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—-Eighteen to forty-five years are the draft ages in the new manpower bill to be in- troduced Monday by Sentor Cham- berlain. It gives the President dis- car. necessary to send overseas. LUDENDORFF IS BUNGLER, AVER _ BOCHE GRITICS BERNE, Aug. 3.—General von Lu- dendorf is universally blamed for the .|western front disaster, according to advices from German sources, which declare he will be superceded by Field Marshal von Mazkenzen, who has been summoned to the imperial headquarters from the east. Luden- dorff, accused of mismanagement and imprudence, has placed the responsi- bility on his subordinates. years was quietly received by the ranks of Casper’s soldiers and when the words of the governor, asking for volunteers to step for- ward three paces, the response was instant and hearty, fully one-half of the men responding to the call. Rumors were current that General Pershing himself, a Wyoming man, has asked for men from his home saan =? cretion to call those below 21 for) training both in the military and voca-| tional education, or call them last if Fall of Soissons Decisive Victory For Allied Army in the Salient Taken by Germans in May; Vesle Line Probably Rendered Un-| - tenable by Sweeping Gains in Wake of German Retirement on Three Sides; Village After Village Falls to be perfectly aware of this. He already bes set fire to bases at Fismes, Braisnes | The German retreat began Friday after the fallofthe~Tatdenois. line. Ameticans. in the-center;> Following. is ‘a list of itharched toward Vesle down the Orillion valley while from Hartennes |the French debouched into the Crise valley, taking in the previously IN WINDOW: OF | HOOVER'S C82 | | | | } | | ! ! | 1 | i | | | | | | as injured his health during the Aug. 3.—A revolution against Boisheviki and in favor of the Allies occurred at Archangel. HUNS DRIVEN BEYOND AISNE IN BRILLIANT THRUST UPON HEELS OF FOE, FLEEING TO THE NORTH French Advance Guards Prepare to Cross the Vesle; Allies Take Up Defense Positions Along Aisne; Huns Pillage and Burn in Retreat Before Victorious Advance; Soissons’ Fall Mere Inci- dent in Scheme of the The right eli of the German armies [By Associated Pr Allied Commanders south of the Aisne appears to have crumbled before the at- tack of the Allies. Occupying Soissons apparently is only a small incident in the grand scheme that being worked out by the Allied commanders. From there the Allies swept along the south bank of the Aisne as far as Venizel and along the stream took positions which will facilitate their crossing, should that be the intention of generals who are directing the offensive. PARIS, Aug. 3.—The French advanced forces have reached the river Vesle and.are preparing to crozs the stream. The Germans are continuing their retreat towards the Aisne. LONDON, Aug. 3.—The Allied advance south of the Vesle river toward Fismes continues. Skirting \the Aisne from Pommiers to Venseizel, the Allies a:e reaching the region of Serches, Couvrelles and but a link in a chain of victories since General Foch |Cersuel. Fismes is within range of the American artillery. At Chamery, where Quentin Roosevelt fell, Am2ricans are searching for his grave. The Allies occu- pied Dormans wood. The French recaptured all g ound lost Thursday east of St. Hilaire. Germans Pillage and Burn on farseach. 12 BRITISHERS ing appears certain. The enemy cannot hold the Vesle line. it is believed, but must recross the Aisne, \since by the recapture of Soissons the Allies are able to debouch on both sides of the river and attack JOIN ARMY THR LOCAL STATION subjects who have enlisted thru Ser- geant Falconer during the past few | days: by E. D. Young, Cody, Wyo.; N. Price, Cody, Wyo.; F. McLean, Casper, Wyo.; Shuttle, Casper, Wyo.; Leaf, (colored) - Cas; Jones, Casper, Wy: ; per, Wyo.; J. Scobie, Casper, Wyo.; T. Riddell, Casper, Wyo.; L. Proud, Edgemont, South Dakota. SCHOONER SENT DOWN BY SUBS {By United Prens} WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—A sub- sank a achooner yesterday x Nova Scotia, the Navy Department announced today. Nine ‘survivors in a dory landed at Gannet Rock. PRESIDENT TO TOUR WESTERN U.S. ROR LOAN «nitea (By United Press.) ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Pres- ident Wilson probably will make a swing thru the country as, far as the Pacific coast for the next Lib- He is considering “‘ erty loan. | bing” for Secretary McAdoo, whose s advise him not to un- last loan campaign. [By Annecinted Press.) KANDALASKA, Russian Poland, the Soviet troops | fled from, the city. ee state in preference to those from U Re treat from City of Soissons WITH THE FRENCH ARMY AFIELD, Aug. 3.—The French hold the wrecked city of Soissons, and have withstood coun ters, |Germans are pillaging and burning as they retreat. 12. British villages, such as Brouillet, are afire. The French encircled Plessier and Hartennes woods. Whole WITH THE AMERICANS IN FRANCE, Aug. 3.—The Americans continued their advance all along the center of the Soissons-Rheims ‘salient. jour hands. ~ « S.| Germans are retiring is in progress. Wyo.; A. C. D. MacKay, tured. Gasper, Wyo.; M. C. Roberts, Cas-| Cohan and other towns are now in Destructive artillerying of the roads where the Coulognes has been cap- (Continued on page 6) “OF YANKS IN. GREAT DRIVE 1 By CARL D. GROAT Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Eight divisioris of Americans are now en- gaged in the great drive. The 32d division is the latest to enter the struggle, Chicf of Staff General | March today revealed. SOVIET FORCES ~ TAKE FLIGHT AT ARCHANGEL other places and the cali for-vol- | | ances out that all dependents of unteers is a result of his call. Practicaily every man who vol- unteered last evening was over the draft age and had a family de- | pendent upon him. Some ot the volunteers have as high as seven | and eight dependents but their pa- triotism flamed up in an unmis- sweeten Troe cd arene: mararerteZT It seems impossible to gather all the guns and materials the Geer- mans have abandoned. The ground is so covered with German corpses that it is impossible to proceed without walking over them. Overseas troop shipments in July broke all records. Over 300,000 shipped, making a total in ce of over 1,300,000. ‘Fhe Rainbow Division was the izati which distinguished the crack Fourth Fr Discussing the general military situation, General March stated that the perimeter of the lient had been reduced to 48 miles, as compared with 74 at the start. The depth of the enemy retirement is now 15 miles, and still continues. [By Assoctat Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Ma- HOME GUARDS READY TO FIGHT IN FRANCE ’ IF NATION NEEDS THEM: CALL IS ISSUED takeable way on the call to the flag. The nation has sent assur- soldiers will be looked after as wards of the nation itself and Cap- tain Lanning will shortly receive definite information as to the way this plan will be carried out. (Centinued on Page Six.) | Allied armies still is the jor General Liggett, commanding the First Ametican Army Corps, is in active charge of that corps on the center of the Allied drive in the Aisne-Marne salient, General March told newspaper correspond- ents. General Pershing, as a rv- sult of recent transfers of Ameri- can divisions which had been bri- gaded with British, now has a mil- lion men under his direct command. Discussing the fight, March said that official dispatches covering battles to August 2 showed the present front running practically parallel to the Vesle and Ardre Val- leys, the next defensive line of the enemy At that time vancing forces were within six miles of this line. Later dispatches, however, indicated that the Vesle-Ardre line may be turned already. The objective of American and destruc. tion of the enemy's army, General March sai Fre: and British, pounding both flanks of the salient, resulted in the collapse of German resist- ance August 1, and the French walked into Soissons. Complete | success of the Allies is indicated by a confidential message reaching the chief of staff from an officer, who, at the time of wri g, had just re- turned from Fe: i This officer re; “seeming! imposs: for any army to er the number of guns and shells that were abandoned by the Germans in their retirement. The message advised that the Ger- mans were driven back without time to bury their dead, and Ger- man bodies lie so thickly that it was impossible to advance without walking over them, The advance im the center has averaged three miles on a front of 30 miles, while on the east flank west of Rheims, an advance of four miles on a fo mile front alread has been meade, re the ard ita go< oar dlit lary id [ar et 1ee a i Ve a a