Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 30, 1918, Page 1

_—— aii scat Te. bast BREAK THRU SOMME LINE AND «e wu ze « n 7: ol L ra e OF RI ER WEATHER FOR WEEK. THE DAILY TRIBUNE UP TEUTON FORCE ON Probably showers Tues- ‘ % Say STR Has twice the circulation day; fair with seasonal tem- f h rature thereafter. Probe bed Tat oe pel 5 ing the local field. HUN PL AN VOLUME TWO CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918 NUMBER 270 oe [By Associated Press] Moving forward with sustained power, the British, east jand southeast of Arras, appear to have crashed clear thru the Hindenburg line. Dispatches seem to indicate that they have | begun to roll up “German forces on the front to which the Flanking Movement enemy is retreating along the whole Picardy front.” a ¢ cecequent GUARD BY CAPTAIN LANNING: WWITINY LOOMS AMONG THE MEMBERS ; ee ee this morning. G ° Hendecourt-Lez-Cagncourt, northeast of Bullecourt, has Retirement Likely albe fallen before Haig. South Hendecourt, slightly east of eincourt, was captured by the advancing British. East of as Result of Suc- ch Th - i Arras further gains are reported. The Drocourt-Queant “switch | harge at Casualt Lists Show Leds Than Half {line is now within striking distance. Further south the British Al th cess ong e _ f T L T d Garbled A have taken the village of Combles, where terrific fighting oc- Somme | S rue Losses lraced to Gai ccount NON-ESSENTIAL curred during the German retirement a year ago last March. . | of Personal Conversation with Weaver | Further south the night passed without change. There — were counter attacks by the Germans against General Mangin’s (By United Press » | iS U S R army between the Ailette and the Aisne, but these were re- LONDON. , Aug. 30..—British Is the government trying to suppress the true number of casualties | . Py ' pulsd by the French. broke th: Ss to the American Expeditionary forces in France? i Rees ties aay ~ eae > Everyone—at least every loyal Amercan—knows that any intimation | d fons the pront tromithe Somme Sout tus Neyer xenon r: and west of = Witt THE AMERICANS IN| in the affirmative borders on Hun propaganda and far be it from The ‘Tri-| iPr Neltsalerens) [ancl Kenencejees tito) the: A ilette iasectot aw Dich) its Neate Peronne, Field Marshal Haig FRANCE, Aug. 30.—Th Genk asi bune to raise a doubt by repeating the question, but it has falllen to the| WASHINGZON): “Aug. | 30-— The can et present; the enemy appears to have checked the French reported today. This crossing are atrerpeite (conkianour raiding re | lot of Captain W. L. Lanning, ranking officer of the Casper Home Guards | fuel administration today announced veil ne ‘th renin Ue forces from this perilous position in where the Germans intended to the Vosges region, using specially| to broach an insinuation of this character, which might lead some to doubt | that it would not approve of priori-| tet etween t +H jomme and the Oise. a hold temporarily to cover their | trained Cate ion atenty zoeeiona Ce faith which the government and the War Department keep wich the | ties for materials to be used in the | stant featiee of be cnet Ot Arras We aejseet ene mane = . e of No Man's nd, in effo: to} people. e § i e inci i iki q le cti ew oil refineries. 3 4 Nera ty retreat to the Hindenburg lire rea Like A cerican 4 lies “The people. At the same time the incident constitutes a striking example of |construction of new oil refineries are slowly advancing along the Arras-Cambrai road, widenin, may well result also in a flank- ing movement against Ham from the north and thus force a retirement to St. Quentin. The advance, brings the British into the very outskirts of Peronne and flanks it from the south. The Allies) now hold the Somme line from| Buscourt to Noyon, of which they have captured the north-| ern and-easterh Suburbs. ~ Canadian troops smashed forward this morning in a new attack south of the Arras-Cam-/| brai Road. In yesterday’s fight- ing there the British pushed over four miles beyond the Hindenburg line. The British are also pushing ahead in the Law and Lys val- leys on the Flanders front. They advanced two thou- sand yards on a seven-mile front between Bullecourt and the Scarpe today, and are now within a mile of Queant, the junction of the Wotan and Siegfried sections of the Hind- enburg line. The British captured Rien- court, two miles southeast of Bapaume. The French cap- tured Quigniny, Roy le Grand, Rouy le Petit, La Paneterie and Fermes des Fonds Gometz. PARIS, Aug. 30—Americans are attacking north of Sois- sons, approaching the Wwest- ward side of the Soissons table- land. Ten fresh German divis- ions were rushed up to oppose this advance, which seriously threatens the whole western portion of the enemv’s Aisne- Vesle line. Beyond Noyon the French are pushing toward Guiscard and Chauny. In the Ailette region the French reached the borders of | Coucy forest. German counters northwest of Soissons last night were re- pulsed. apparently, | Boches are showing unusual fight, | using tricks to catch American pa-|} trols, but the Yanks are too keen,| bea*ing the Germans at their game in the guerilla fighting. An in- | creased number of German deserters | ane Prussians. Two KILLD IN WITH AIRPLANE misinterpretation and garbled repetition of a statement, truthful in itself, which is traced to a high authority. A near-mutiny took place at the drill grounds Wednesday evening, own | when Captain Lanning, speaking before the guard members in his offficial | capacity, quoted Adjutant General Weaver, of Gheyenne, and, indirectly, | Major General Leonard Wood, commanding general at Camp Funst.n, Kan., in a severe arraignment of present methods of army conduct and the text) of news distribution. Prominent members of the guard, whose veracity cannot be questioned, fare authority for the statement that Captain Lanning charged the govern- | ment at Washington with an attempt to suppress the news of army casualties | abroad, and indicated, Presumably on the authority of his superiors, that the true casualties to the American armies in France. That Captain Lan-| ning has not been misunderstood by those who took exception to the state- ment, is attested by the undeniable fact that Captain Lanning attacked the | policy of the government in this respect by declaring that he could see no WICHITA FALLS, Texas, Aug.| 330.—Cadet Ellis Babcock, son of | Brigadier General Babcock now in| France, and Lieutenant McGriffin, instructor at Call Field, were instant- | ly killed today when their plane fell | two thousand feey while e looping. ALLIES BATTLE BOLSHEVIKS ON USSURI FRONT [By Associated Press.) TOKIO, Aug. -—There has been severe fighting between | the entente forces and the Bolshevik red guards on the Ussuri river front along the Manchurian border. Jap- anese casualties of a few days num- ber 70, including officers. > JOHN 0. SALMOND [3 DEMO CANDIDATE, J. P. John D. Salmond, successful can- didate at the Democratic primaries for justice of the peace, will oppose Judge W. E. Tubbs at the November elction. His name was erroneously omitted from the list of results which appeared yesterday. MOONSHINERS SEIZED I N RAIDS OVER SIX STATES Five Outlaws, Two Sheriffs and Two De- serters Among Casualties from a Roundup of Illicit Distillers. WASHINGTON, Aug. 36.—The biggest round-up of illicit whisky distillers ever underta pleted in the mountains of Tennessee, and South Carolina and Florida, r by the government,*just com- Alabama, Georgia, North ulted in the seizure of 486 stills, the arrest of 200 moonshiners, the killing of five outlaws, two sheriffs, and the wounding and liquor makers. of a number of government men! Thirty thousand gallons of pale moonshine whisky were seized and dumped into mountain streams. Over $100,000) worth of stills and paraphernalia were taken. A score of deserters trom the draft were found participating in moonshining, and two were killed in Georgia by raiders. All the states involved is “dry” territory. reason for the pursuance of such a policy. Furthermore, he declared that he had received this information from Adjutant General Weaver, of Chey-| enne, who, he , had received it direct from Major General Leonard | | Wood. While it is past belief that any American could give vvice to such an accusation, much less believe it, The Tribune promptly wired Major Gen- eral Wood for an explanation, knowing full well that an answer would | explain any misinterpretation of the general's remarks. This confidence is | borne out in the following message received by The Tribune last evening]! | from Camp Funston headquarters: DAILY TRIBUNE, Casper, Wyoming. General Weaver must have misunderstood me. I doubted if we had yet received more than a part of the casualties of the recent fighting. We were discussing in a purely personal way the publica- ‘tions of casualty lists, both of us having sons abroad. LEONARD WOOD. And thus the travesty is explained. Whether his remark was garbled | by the adjutant general at Cheyenne, or whether the captain of the Home’ Guards misunderstood his superior officer, has not been ascertained, but the fact remains that Captain Lanning has spread broadcast the impression that a high officer in command of the American army voiced a charge of} which a menial would not be guilty. On the other hand, it is a credit to the great majority of guard mem- bers that they did not accept their officer's statement as true, and took steps toward refuting the statement. They are also dese: of praise| for severely criticizing the remark, and it stands as a matter of record) that some of the more temperamental were in favor of demanding a psblis) retraction, with dire consequences in the event of his refusal. His remova from the rupture was averted at the drill grounds is explained by the fact that they | charged its inception te lack of tact and general ignorence on the part of | the captain. Captain Lanning may say that he was misunderstood; that he did not) accuse the government of a deliberate attempt to break faith with the pub-| — lic, but if so, according to guard members, he is unable to express himself in intelligent English, and is, therefore, not entitled to hold a position as RAR NN (Continued on Page Two.) GAS BARRED IN |MEXICO CLAMPS PLEASURE CARS | ONLY, DECISION Roo —— [By Associated Press} | NOGALES, Ariz., Aug. 30.—Gen-| J |eral Cabell, commanding the Am 30.—The |can forces in the Southern Depart- |ment, today issued the following statement: “I am much pleased with the way General Calles is handling the situa- tion in Nogales, Sonora. Everything is quiet. I expect it to remain so.” WASHINGTON, Aug. ban on the use of gasoline on Sunday for motor vehicles and boats, will apply only to pleasure riding, be aaministrator Garfield announced today. ANTI-SALOON INTERESTS MAY BE ASKED TO FILL GAP harmless and | What I said was that) uard is privately endorsed and the only reason that an open| The present capacity is considered jample. Priorities will only ap- proved for materials to maintain ex- isting facilit RUSSIAN ARMY TAKES PORT ON THE BLACK SEA AMSTERDAM, Aug. Aug. | sian be | 30.—A Rus- volunteer army has captured according to Kiev dispatches. sesalyacetese nice Aadetcaty BOCHE FOREIGN © MINISTER WILL _, ADDRESS DIET LONDON, Aug, 30.—German for- eign minister Von Hintze will make a statement Monday before the for- eign committee of the Prussian Diet. | Imperial Chancellor Hertling has ar- rived in Berlin from headquarters, |according to a Copenhagen dispatch; to the Exc! ge Telegraph. DRAFT BILL TO ‘BECOME LAW ON PASSAGE TODAY | WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—It ap peared probable today that the man- power bill extending the draft to all jmen between 18 and 45 would be| jaw before night. | PARIS, Aug. 30.—Americans attacking with the French north and east of Soissons en, ed in their firet battle with the German calvary today. The enemy hurled a ‘ge body of mounted troops against the Allies in an effort to break up their advance. It was ly unsucce: d the Al. ‘© steady the Black Sea port of Novorossysk, | the gap in the famous line to which the Germans retired “a teen months ago. | WITH THE BRITISH IN FRANCE, Aug. 30. aiding | Bitches, on the south bank of the Somme, a mile from Peronne, was captured by Haig today. The British entered Lesboufes and patrols passed thru Morval to the southeast. The British this morning pushed forward in an easterly direction from Bapaume. The British advanced 1,000 yards at one place. Letransloy is reported to have been captured this morning. The Germans have been driven behind the Somme eyery- where along the British front. The whole western front. The whole western bank is now in possession of Haig’s troops and at one place south of Lachapellette the British forced a crossing to the east bank. | In operations completed this morning 300 prisoners fell into the hands of the British on this side of the river. The Ger- mens destroyed all bridges across the Somme, including the | railroad bridge and regular bridge at Peronne. Northwest of Peronne, however, the British swept so | quickly that the causeway of the Somme at Clery, on the north bank, was still intact. Clery is in British hands. Peronne and country to the rear of that city are well under fire of the British guns. North of Peronne, the Germans are now holding the road to Bapaume, as far as opposite to Combles. advance of the Britsh made the enemy retire again. patrols are astride the road and moving southward. Bapaume seems to be have been captured without muc resistance by New Zealand troops, who were assisted by the pressure from the English on the south.. The town was entered from the northeast. There was only brief street fighting an then the Germans surrendered. LONDON, Aug. 30. The British east of Arras resumec Northward the, British_ 3 $ their advance this morning, and at an early hour had pene%* trated another 2,000 yards on a front of seven miles, betweert Bullecourt and the Scarpe, according to advices received here The British reached within a mile of the Drocourt-Queang switch line, capturing Riencourt. ® % LONDON, Aug. 30.—The British captured Combles, bed? - tween Bapaume and the Somme, says the official statemen Advanced British troops crossed the Somme south and wes of Peronne. Between Hendecourt and the Arras-Cambrai Roa the Canadians attacked the German line and made favorabl progress. East of Sensee the forces of Haig made progress, capturin Bullecourt and Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt. The British al | captured Clery-sur-Somme, between Combles and Peronne. > YANKEES ROUT BOCHE CAVALRY IN ASSAULT LID ON BORDER The principal roads leading to- | WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ward St. Quentin are rapidly fall- | IN FRANCE, A 30.—~ d ing into the Allied control. North. _ ees isice Aner’ east of Nesle the French are out. | °°" Srtillery is pouring heavy fire flanking Gen. Du Nord. North of into the woods east of the Juvingy- Chavingy li and Boche machine gunners mans turned a heavy destructive ire on igny Two new Ge man div are identified oppo- meric Noyon the French are progressing along the road to Ham, having reached Paplincourt. he Allies threaten to envel Autrecourt wood and the tab land northeast of Noyo By a vote, said to be in exceas of 3 to 1, the local Bartenders Union has refused to participate in | the Labor Day parade this yea: | and unless other provisions are | | | | 1 Secretary Sol Cohen, of the Bar tenders’ Union, as the principal reason why the members of his lo- had decided to refuse to pa- trade, but it in understood that many members of the craft are considerably ‘ peeved” because rep- resentatives of the !iq ir interests have not met wath » more cordial reception among tie trade union- made or the white noron boys re- cind their action at their meeting Sundav, there will he a gap in the parade. “Prohibition,” was ascribed by ists when visitir % the city to whoop things up for John Barleycorn, and are now showing their resentment by refusing t. mingle with the horny-handed sone of toil ..1 their | natal day. | “Of course, we had made ar rangements for the Bartenders to participate in the patriotic pa- IN LABOR OAY PARADE, IS REPORT | rade,” said President Griffith, of | W. C, T. U and tne Anti-Saloon the Trades Assembly, today. “But League to turn out and fill the inasmuch as they have decided to gap in the parade caused by th» ignore us, and by a vote of 3 to 1 Bartenders. If we have gone on record against the can't have the positivé ude of the annual celebration of Labor Day, liquor interests represented, | it I have about made up my mind to might be «a good idea to let the recommend to the parade commit negative side have their day, and tee that we invite members of the this is probably what we will de.’ by :