Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 1918, Page 1

FRENCH STRIKE HEAVY BLOWIN NORTH; 20,000 PRISONERS Che Casper Daily Cribune CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, SEPT. 14, 1918. ALL THE NEWS CITY EDITION THE DAILY TRIBUNE LEADS NUMBER 282 DENVER OFFICER VICTIM OF VOLUME TWO IN DRIVE GR METZ NEW LINE SMASHING ATTACK AT TAKEN UP AISNE THREATENS TO BY YANKS TURN GERMAN LINES | r [By Associnted Press.) i | The scope of the victory won by the American First Army in Lorraine continues to grow. The rete of prisoners is now said to number 20,000, which is virtually the equivalent of two enemy di- | General Pershing’s forces in two days drove into a maximum depth of thirteen miles, which is ap- proximately the distance from the tip of the salient below St. Mihiel to Hattonville, a mile and a half COLORADO SPRINGS BANDIT ! 155 SQUARE MILES OF TERRITORY 7°, Capézred To. OF ST. MIHIEL SALIENT, REPORT Woman; Attempt- WON BY ABERIGANS IN REDUCTION 2 477¢s¢ 1s Feta | DENVER, Sept. 14.—The kill- : : |ing of Patrolman Luther McHahill | Inhabitants of German Villages Ignorant here early today brought the cas- of History of Past Four Years; ire ihegBtisoe : ‘ ‘bandits who began terrorizing Victors Get Great Ovation Colorado Springs and Denver yes- | \terday to two officers killed. One| —_————_—___——_. lis probably fatally wounded and! [By Associated Press] | three are slightly wounded. WITH THE AMERICANS IN LORRAINE, Sept. 14.—)| McHahill was killed when he Thirty-six hours of fighting netted Pershing’s forces approxi- | topped on his way home at 4 o'clock mately 155 square miles of territory in the St. Mihiel salient, |‘his ™orning to investigate a. closed which has been in German hands since the autumn of 1914. paugmonie sancing hi Se a Following American troops thru the captured villages, a| Bouesaed eres correspondent found evidences of long control by the Germans, | drove away. including bills of supplies, paid with) Of seven.men sought in connection currency on which the Germans with the robbery,of the Katy train at printed French monetary terms. Koch, Kansas, July 10, Roy Sherrill The inhabitants were absolutely and Byank Lewis sre in ignorant of events of history in the last four years. - Every Ameritan entering the vil lages experienced the, same. recep- | tion as that given Segretary of War | Baker and General, Pershing. Aged | men and women seized and kissed the | hands of officers and correspondents, crying and laughing. Curiously aged children imitated their elders unknowingly., ———————_— BATTLE LINE REDUCED 2 MILES BY ADVANCE Credit Due Individual Soldier, Declares| @AUZE WORK TO : : , BE SPEEDED UP Chief of Staff; America Will See the | IN THE FUTURE | War Thru to Finish, Says March acu fs Mrs. M. C. Clarkson today issued WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—The elimination of the St,|, call, requesting a full Attendance and Colorado His slayer immediately SPINNERS WALK | OUT TO FORCE ‘+ CHANGE, CLAIM | eo jcaptured at Palmer Lake early today, LONDON, Sept 14.—Spinners inj the Yorkshire and Lancashire cot- ton mills Quit work at noon today in accordance with a decision reached a week ago by the Amalgamated As- sociation of Spinners to strike for the ‘abolition of the Rota system. riously wounded. He was shot when he and Miss Eva} de Morris, a sister of Lewis, were | The woman denies knowledge of the} train robbery. COLORADO SPRINGS, Sept, 14. was killed and detective John D. Ri- ley was probably fatally hurt in a lof the defendant-+was allowed. | (United P, |court admitted Debs to $10,000 bail.| (United Press Staff Correspondent.) hit ale DAE Bo —John Rowan, chief of detectives, | | —————eEooce~—=t"_=='I battle with robbers in a downtown district. The slayers are thought to | against Metz and possibly the i ortant Bri: be Frank Lewis, Dale Jones and Roy | achieved a 2 ly rad ey Iron_Fiekds’ now Sherrill, who are acchsed of a train robbery in the vicinity of Paola, Kansas, July 10. The trio was ac- companied by at least’one woman and Citadel of Laon. were at a filling station in the heart of the city filling their auto with gas- oline when the detectives tried to ar- rest them. rifles and immediately fled on the road toward Denver. DEBS GETS TEN YEARS IN WEST VIRGINIA PEN CLEVELAND, Q., Sept. Eugene V. Debs, charged with vio- lation of the espionage act, was to- day sentenced to ten years in the Moundsville (W. Ya.) Penitentiary sustody.|°2 each of three counts of the indict- Sherrill is in the hoeniti “here, se-|™ment, to run concurrently. The motion for a new trial was overruled. An exception in behalf The RED GUARDS WIN VICTORY ON THE |north of Vignuelles, They opened fire with|for a distance of one to t | j | 14.—| | | | ‘cans have taken 15,000 prison- | ing \ ers. i} } } ;ARMY ON METZ FRONT, prisoners. .VOLGA, REPORT STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14.—Bolshe-| igne thru which the American line was last reported running. The Germans are reported to be readjusting their lines on the edges of the former salient. | sive may have is uncertain at present, official communications throwing little light on the prospects. What further development the offen- If the offensive were undertaken for the purpose of opening up the way for a subsequent drive large purpose. Meanwhile, as the intensity launched offensive movement which seems mainly aimed at the St. Gobain Massif, The French this morning attack in German hands, that has already of the fighting on this front seems to have lessened, Foch has defending the German ed on both sides of the River Ailette and in the re- gion of the Aisne to the south and southeast. General Petain’s troops started with a great rash which took them into the German lines at points ‘wo miles. French pressure seemed particularly effective south of the Ailette, where they captured the important heights of Mont_Des Singes and the towns of Allemont and Sancy. | The Advance here threatens to right 15,000 Prisoners Cap- tured by the Amer- icans and List Is Still Growing [By United Press} LONDON, Sept. 4.—Ameri- ‘Gare expected as the salient Has not ‘yet been clear- | ed of all the trapped Germans. By Fred S. Ferguson. WITH THE AMERICAN Sept. 14.—Having defeated and routed the Germans every- where in the once famous sal- ient, America’s victorious first army today faced the enemy) The Ameri- along a new line. cans advanced 12 miles in flank the Chemin Des Dames. Eighteen’ Hundred Prisoners Taken in Initial Dash Today; More Villages Fall to Allies; British Take Over 1,500 Cap- tives and Imovrove Their Lines | | (By United Press} LONDON, Sept. 14.—In an attack at 5 o’clock this morn- on the Aisne front astride the Ailette river the French ad- |vanced two miles on an eleven mile front, capturing several \tewns. Striking toward the western end of the Chemin des |Dames they captured Allemaut. Farther south they seized | Sancy.. On the northern bank of the Aisne, advancing eastward they reached the western edge of Vailly.. Mont des Singes also | has fallen. | The attack threatens to turn the Chemin des and endangers Laon. Dames flank The French have already taken 1,800 | LONDON, Sept. 14.—Field Marshal Haig announced to- | day that the British took over 1,500 prisoners in the Trescault- | Havrincourt sector Thursday. [By Anse =) | LONDON, Sept. 14.—The attack of the French in the viki forces, according to urgent tele- some places. grams received here from Moscow, | Driving across the Meuse are reported to have captured Sim-| heights from the west, the! birsk on the river Volga, 105 miles! A ericans cut thru the salient | southwest of Kazan, and their cav- seven ‘miles; to. Vigneulles,| alry is pursuing the counter-revolu-| | direction of the Forest of Coucy at the southern end of the |St. Gobain Massif was progressing satisfactorily this morning. South of the Ailette the French captured Mont Desiages and (Continued on P: -) tionary forces. jwhere they met other Ameri- es jcans smashing on from the FIVE TANKS OF jeuuth, Chie coutaletaly closing GLENROCK OIL RECEIVED HERE The number of prisoners Five tank cars, transporting pro- jeral field batteries were taken. General Mihiel salient by the Americans and consequent reduction of | that sector by 22 miles, General March said today, is of extreme of gauze workers at the Mullin Club, Red Cross rooms, during the coming 4 > oe le Fi “ impo teaeeets ser Allies a much better base tg beginning Monday. The rooms and guns is increasing. Persh- jing yesterday announced over | 13,000 prisoners counted. Sev- duction of the Glenrock Oil Com- pany in the Pilot Butte field, arrived here this morning, consigned to the tion of the Pilot Butte pipeline, regu- lar shipments. will reach here from the Glenrock's wells in this field. pte ALS oo BRITISH LOOSES The arrival abroad of the 40th division composed of Cali- |e Spee fran 9 till 5 gihlee each i i | v to re- fornia, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona a aa |day and workers are urged y rf A : the enl i militi ro- | and Colorado troops, which el despite the enlarged military pro-| spond. jgram. This suggestion is, he de- extim | at Camp Kearney, California, was,an-|¢lared, “preposterous in: its falsity.”| “+ the samestime announcement is | nounced today. Part of the division} All reports today from the Amer- |made that workers are also needed at | s in England. ican front indicated great enthusiasm | other Red Cross rooms in the making | General March paid a high tribute|in the entire army. © of refugee garments. to the American forces, which in less than two days wiped out this salient, | the narrowest and most angular on) the entire Western front. Operations there, he said, not only were a trib-| nte to the work of the staff, but to the individual soldier as well. “It's hot stuff,” he said. No re-| port has yet come from Gen. Persh-} ing identifying any individual unit) hich participated. Gen. March, how-| 17. ays, chairman of*the Republican ever, announced the .composition of he staff which, under Gen. Pershing, planned and executed the movement. This staff is entirely different from the general staff of the American e~-| veditionary forces, which remained in its entirety at expeditionary head- quarters, The capture was accomplished by cuick blows on both flanks, March explained. The Americans ad- vanced across difficult terrains, con- sisting of densely wooded hills, inter- sected by numerous ravines. Gen. March laid particular empha- on the determination of the whole strength against the Germans. He referred to recent publications, United States to continue to exert its | Gen.| WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Will national committee,/has replied to the letter written to him by Secretary Tumulty, in which the secretary to President Wilson asked if it were true that on Labor day in Chicago he used the following language: “The Democratic leaders at Wash- ington would not stop at anything | thet they believed would insure the | re-election of a Democratic congress | | this fall. They would even end the war with any kind of a compromise jit that would insure the continuance of the Democratic party in power.” Flon. Joseph P. Tumulty, White House, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Tumulty: I have your telegram. On Sep- tember 2, in Chicago, I attended a meeting the of Association of Re- publican State Chairmen called by its president and attended by. 15 of such chairmen. At thtat time I made remarks referring in a gen- eral way to the length to which Democratic leaders are going in their efforts to control the senate and house, and also as to the irre- vocable stand of the Republican party for a vigorous prosecution Mr. Hays was in Washington at) of the war and.against an incon- the time Mr. Tumulty addressed him| , clusive peace. |the telegraphic inquiry but made | haste to secure a copy and his an- which, he said, intimated that Amer: swer was made in full as follows: ica was not going thru with the war, Sept. 12, 1918, | 1 I did not use the words quoted in your telegram. What I said then, what I now reaffirm, and which I shall continue to declare, [By United Press] LONDON, Sept. 14.—British cas- was substantially as follows: As to the means resorted to by certain Democratic leaders to get votes I said: “In the special election in Wis- econsin, the Democratic machine leaders. published advertisements, undenied since by them, addressed to the soldiers at Camp Grant, as follows: “*To the Wisconsin soldiers at Camp Grant; Tuesday, April 2, you are entitled to vote for United States senator from Wisconsin to succeed Senator Paul O. Husting. President Wilson, your command- er-in-chief, desires all loyal Amer- ieans to vote for Joseph E. Da- | vies for United States senator. | Davies’ election “means joy at Washington and gloom at Berlin.’ | Secretary Baker, Pershing, and General Petain entered St. Mihiel shortly after the enemy fled. The inhabi- Midwest refinery. With the comple-/tants were enthusiastic. They said the Germans had kidnap- |ualties for the week totaled 21,756.' ped a number of men and boys, looted two banks, and plun- dered all the houses. They had also forced the inhabitants to contribute a million francs. 21,756 IN WEEK | American strategy forced the Germans to evacuate Montsec peak without a fight. Despite the mud American par eli oa Se Le Be ee Ets (Continued on page 8) CHAIRMAN HAYS BACKS UP CLAIM THAT | DEMOS HAVE PROSTITUTED PROPRIETIES :: TRAGEDY, PAIN ‘Suffering Forgotten in Ecstacy Over Great Victory, Says Parisian Writer; Captives Number 22,000, Says Echo de Paris [By Assoctated Dress} PARIS, Sept. 14.—The first groups wounded who ar- rived at the evacuation hospital behind the battle front from the St. Mihiel sector forgot their sufferings in joy over the beating the Germans had been given, says the correspondent of the Paris new er, La Liberte. A office de- clare s were rible of ured ¢ hat the adversaries. soners in t French Mihiel Aus- oper: tri cluding 5,000 | “I regard this as an infamous prostitution of all patriotic prop- ‘erties and the grossest violation of | the plainest civil duty worthy of the severest condemnation of atl Americans. In this crisis, when all patriots are striving to bring to the aid of the country’s cause every | resource in men and _ material, | when thousands of Republican and | Democratic boys are dying, side by | side, when both political parties | are loyal, such conduct is immeas- | urably reprehensible. From such | action it is evident, and I regret } to say it, that these Democrat lead- } ers will go to any length to carry | | } { 1 the senate and house. Such un- patriotic efforts to use the war for partisan purposes must fail. Such inevitable failure was shown | in the Wisconsin result, it was | further shown in the Michigan pri $ | mary, and it will be conclusively | °°"*% ae proved in the Maine election next > . week. The American people will HIGHER FREIGHT not tolerate it. This is the war “J T of no politieal party. This ia the | RATES ON MEAT people’s war, and we demand that ane the war be kept out of partisan WASHINGTON, politics and that partisanship be creased rates for the kept out of the war, And what we products moving from east of Chi- ask from the party in power we cago to Pacific coast p Ss were au- irrevocably pledge for ourselves.” (thorized by the Inte: Commerce Second, as to the imperative ne Commission to new rates cessity of a vigorous prosecution represent incre s of from 20¢ to of the war and a conclusive peace |30c a hundred pounds. only, and the need of a Republican | - _ = congress to that end, and in con- Miss Mabel King: returned to Cas- nection with a discussion of the |per this morning after an absence of Continued ‘on Page 5.) four weeks. She has been visiting jrelatives at Canon City, Colo, para ith Spee coe iadbeous oak