Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 16, 1918, Page 1

PEACE DRIVE BELIEVED AUSTRIAN MAY TURN DEAF EARS TO PLEAS OF BURIAN United States win ATTEMPTED JAIL PATH COMOU ALL THE NEWS CITY EDITION | VOLUME TWO b R, CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, SEPT. 16, 1918. ALLI Che Casper Daily Crih THE DAILY TRIBUNE LEADS NUMBER 283 Refuse to Join in BREAK FIZZLES é Preliminary Meet| Say Reports from Nation’s Capital [By Associnted Press] WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.— The receipt of the official text of the Austrian peace proposal is awaited here, but unless the communication is couched in terms radically different from versions contained in press dis- patches, it is felt that the entire plea will be characterized as a German‘ ruse to obtain the best possible terms before an Allied victory could im- pose most severe punishment. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 16.— The Austro-Hungarian government, in- vites all belligerent governments to meet in a neutral place at a time to be determined, to secure an expres- sion of views which would show whether those prerequisites exist which would make peace negotiations appear promising. oe The proposal calls for all bellig= | erents to send delegates to ‘‘confi- dential and unbinding discussions on basic principles for a conclusion of peace.” It suggests there be no interrup- tion of the war. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 16.-— The Austro-Hungarian note inviting all belligerents to a conference for the | discussion of peace was despatched today by Baron Burian, Austro-Hun- garian foreign minister, on the order of Emperor Charles, declares the Co- logne Volks Zeitung. Hints that the Bolshevik govern- ment may seek alliances with other powers is contained in a note ad- dressed to the people’s comissaries and soveits by Lenine, printed in the Pravda of Petrograd. This says the position on the Czecho-Slovak front is becoming more dangerous daily. For the soviet government there is only one way out, namely, to con- clude defensive and offensive alliance with another power. “To save the power of the work- ers and peasants we must not recoil from an alliance with imperialism,” the note says. Se eee {By United Press] LONDON, Sept. 16.—Newspapers are practically unanimous that Aus- tria’s proposal is a camouflage. The real reason is that Hindenburg wants time to reorganize his shattered (Continued on Page Six) U.S. NOT LIKELY 10 ENCOURAGE AUSTRIA Answer Will Be That Central Powers First | Subscribe to Basic Outline, Is the Leading Opinion at Capital By CARL D. GROAT [United Press Staff Correspondent] ; WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Austria’s proposal to discuss peace will be refused by the United States, it was stated on high authority today. This authority stated that it is perfectly safe to assume that the proffer will not be approveds Secretary Lansing has not yet received a copy trian note, consequently he makes no comment. |and opened ‘the door to be-accosted | speak to him. Due for Stiff Sentence; Prisoner in Jail Sounds Alarm ~ Interference on the part of William Tucker, recently con-} victed of receiving’stolen goods and who is awaiting sentence, | frustrated an attempted jail delivery ‘at the courthouse last} evening and reopened the case of Clyde Estabrook, found guilty | of larceny by a jury in district court, with the probability that he will be given the maximum sentence in the state penitentiary. | Estabrook during the course of the evening succeeded in filing the bars from the window in the north of the | jail and was ready for flight when Tucker interfered and attempted to lock his fellow prisoner in an adjoin- ing cell. A fight ensued which re-| sulted n an alarm. being wafted to) the sheriff’s office upstairs, where | Jailor George McKenzie and J. H. | Adriance of the Tribune were in con- versation. MeKenzie rushed to the basement } DRIVE SURPRISI CLAIM OF BAK by Estabrook, who said he wanted to Instead of stopping, | however, Estabrook pushed past the | jailer and fled up the stairs. While | the latter was locking the jail door to make the others secure, the es-| caped prisoners gained the outside. Adriance, who had by this time gone outside to take a look thru the} jail window, noticed the escape and | called to a passing taxi driver to j the chase. Estabrook sped up Fourth | street on foot, took to the alleys and back yards and was finally overtaken in the rear of the Natrona Lumber eompany, where Jailer McKenzie} took him into custody a few minutes | 61) treated. Injured, He Says; | men were seriously injured. later. — * papas: | Fearing that General Pershing was An inspection of the jail disclosed itrying to create another pocket the fuct that one of the jail bars had) giong the St. Mihiel front, the Ger- OUT SUNDAY EVE SHIP SURVIVORS ‘Man Convicted on Larceny Charge Now Whole Fainilies AMERICAN LOSSES IN ST. MIHIEL ‘Majority of Wounded Are Only Slightly | in Fear of Fresh Yank Assaults [By United Press} | LONDON, Sept. 16.—Secretary of War Baker, in an interview to- | day, declared that American casualties at the St. Mihiel salient were| surprisingly small, considering the- scope of operations. The majority were wounded only | slightly. Scretary Baker also visited the American hospitals. The American morale is superb, he said. Prisoners are being | ETIC SCENE MARKS LANDING Lost in Sinking of the “Gal- way Castle” with 960 Peovle on Board, Most of Them Women and Children [By Aasociated Prean)} PLYMOUTH, England, Sept. 15.—Heart-rending scenes were witnessed when hundreds of survivors of the torpedoed steamer Galway Castle landed here Thursday. The passengers were mostly women and children. It is believed that whole families were lost. It mattered nothing that warm, dry clothing was distrib- [uted to take the place of scanty attire survivors snatched as they left |the ship. Their one thot was to get | news to their relatives and friends. There seems to be no reason to {doubt that the ship was torpedoed | without warning. The explosion oc- jeurred between the engine rooms, a | fact that is taken to rule out the pos- | sibility that the ship struck a mine. NGLY SMALL, IS ER IN INTERVIEW Shes London, Sept. 16.—The British {steamer Galway Castle was torpe doed and sunk by an enemy subma- rine. The ship carried 960 passen- gers, including 300 women and chil- |dren. Eight hundred and sixty were Boches Withdraw SHOSHON “GUT-OFF PLANS Very few! \Project to Fall Thru on Recom- mendations of Engineers Who ON ThE AOGKS been filed out and the heavy screen likewise had been cut, It is believed| that Estabrook had help from the) AMATEURS USE mans gave way in the center for a distance of three miles. The abandonment of this territory outside. F .., |tends to straighten the German Metz He bears marks of this tussle with ¢ront, Tucker, in which the latter landed @ ‘The Americans, however, have be- telling blow over the eye. Estabrook gun a new movement at Doncourt, will be tried again on a charge ofjto drive another wedge in the line. attempting escape and will be liable| By this process the Americans are} to a term of from one to ten years at approaching the German frontier, Rawlins, whereas previously he faced / which is from two to twelve miles only a term in the county jail. | away now. “T’ll take all I can get,” Estabrook | $< is quoted as saying this morning.! Mrs. W. S. Kimball, Sr., returned Officers believe that he desires to| Saturday from Denver, where she ac-} escape the draft and it is likly that} companied Miss Ruth Kimball, who his term of imprisonment will in- entered the Wolcott School for Girls. clude the period of the war and sey-|This is Miss Kimball’s first year at eral years to follow. the school. ties with a vengeance. | ee WASHINGTON. Sept. 16.—The| Austrian note asking a secret con- | ference of belligerents to canvass the | | possibilities of peace negotiations | | reached the Swiss legation today en} route to the American government. It will be submitted to Secretary | Lansing this afternogn. } LOADING CRANE | TO HANDLE OIL SUPPLIES HERE) of the Aus- However, it | was learned that the note is consid- ————————————————S—S | ered adroit, and aims to place the | burden for the continuation of the war upon the Allies, Some answer will be made prob- ably after consultation of the Allies. This answer may be an irreducible minimum of Allied terms and may The answer probably will inform | . ‘ the Teutons that President Wilson’s| The General Supply Co. has in- |stalled a large tramway and crane| basic principles must be accepted be- rie Ne pear tool platform at the| for a get-together session can be un-| frm’s warehouse near the Carnegie | dertaken. The central empires have| Library, and the improvement will never indicated their willingness to|aid materially in loading and unload-| SLEDGE, CHISEL ON STEEL oAFE Would-Be Cracksmen Give Up Casper Buffet Job as Hope- less and Take on Load of Booze Instead Amateur yeggmen, after making fan attempt to break into the safe of the Casper Buffet, gave it up as a bad job some time Saturday night, and contented themselves with a few bottles of booze in lieu of more ma- terial booty. The cracksmen, who were evi- dently unfamiliar with the construc- tion of vaults and kindred furniture, used a sledge hammer and a chisel to cut away the combination of the/ safe and desisted after they foun that this had no effect on the mech- | Show Wide Variation in | Cost Estimates | | Recent rumors are to the effect that plans for the building of the cut- | off between Shoshoni and Bonneville |have been abandoned or at least de- | layed until spring with the result that negotiations for the operation of the | Burlington passenger trains over the Northwestern tracks between Orin }Junction and Shoshoni have been | dropped for the present. The plan to change the routing contemplated the building of a cut- | off betwen Shoshoni and Bonneville, |a distance of three miles. The origi- |nal estimate of the cost of this im- |provement was about $100,000. |Later another engineer gave his opinion that the work could not be |done for less than $250,000. Still |another engineer raised this amount |to $350,000 and government engi- |neers, it is reported, believed would cost a half million dollars. ab har Nats 31 COLORED MEN FROM WYOMING it ED DR VE ear EXTENDED TO FLAGENEW THEATER SERBIAN FORCES, SUPPORTED BY FRENCH, ADVANCE ON BULGARIAN STRONGHOLDS ON GREEK BORDER Important Hill Positions Fall on Old Front as Allies Continue Gain on West; Metz Guns Opening Fire [By Associated Frees] Allied troops are on the offensive on the Macedonian front. Reorganized Serbian forces, aided by French units, are attack- ing Bulgarian positions in the mountains on the Serbo-Greek border east of Monastir. Three important hill positions which withstood Allied ef- forts for several years have already fallen—the heights of Sokol, Dobropoli and Teak Vetrenik. The Allies captured po- sition midway between the Carna and Vardar rivers, which command the upper course of the Czerna. ; Meanwhile the French and British on the main battlefront in France continue progress. North of the Aisne the French captured Vailly and nearer Chemin des Dames, stormed Mont Des Signes. Astride the Scarpe the British pushed forward new posts, while along the Ypres-Comines canal they advanced on a front of two miles. Aerial fighters and artillery are active on the new Ameri- can front southwest of Metz. Enemy guns are hammering the American lines but no infantry attacks.are reported. Yankee Guns Trained on Forts ‘of Metz from New. Battle Line [By United Press} WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE METZ FRONT, Sept. 16.—Metz is under a long range bombardment of American guns. Both wings of the American line are straixshtening and co-ordinating positions across the late salient. The Germans are digging in far to the rear.. Aerial fighting is intense. Ger- man airmen having been reinforced... Still infantry fighting is in progréss along the Moselle river where the Americans stormed fortified quarries. | British Gain, Take Captives in Drive thru Ypres Region LONDON, Sept. 16.—The British advanced on a two-mile front on both sides of the Ypres-Comines canal last night, and captured a number of prisoners and machine guns, Field Mar- shal Haig reported today. They also advanced slightly in the Cambrai vicinity. There are no signs that the St. Mihiel defeat resulted in a withdrawal of German reserves from the British front. The British found a strong, large. attractively furnished hut near St. Quentin, evidently prepared for the kaiser. WITH THE AMERICANS IN LORRAINE, Sept. 16.— (12:30 p. m.)—Activity of German artillery increased some- what during the forenoon. There were no infantry attacks. PARIS, Sept. 16.—The French captured Vailly on the | northern bank of the Aisne river, also Mont des Singes, with | 300 prisoners. | American positions on an eight-mile front between Jaulny and Moselle was markedly improved today. The Germans | retreated farther thereabouts. | (Continued on Page Six) BALFOUR SEES NO RAY HOPE IN LATE NOTE ‘Belgium Approached with Proposition to Remain Neutral While Austria Makes - hy anism of the lock. They were ap-| parently uninterrupted in their ef- CALLED TO WAR forts and the attempted burglary was not discovered until the following pesos morning. The safe contained a con- WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—A siderable sum in cash and checks, | draft call for 29,016 negroes from 33 the result of Saturday’s busy trade. states, qualified for general service, No trace of the burglars has been| Was issued today. They will entrain ‘ound. |for army camps September 25 and ———o 27. Wyoming is called upon to fur nish 31 men for this call. Heinies Wear Made ginis. in America Clothes TAR COVERING (By United Press.) | END TO PA VING PARIS, Aug. 17.—(By Mail)— The German prisoners rounded up| The cement bed for the paving was iby Americans are being fitted out|completed Saturday, and now all that i and cast-off |remains is to lay the rest of the tar- with “hand-me-down” uniforms of the Sammies. All of the! gravel pavement on top of the con- atorn and badly worn uniforms from |crete and finish off. the expedition are washed, fumigated| Th tar gang is nearing Second and patched, then dyed green and|street on Pine, and in another day turned over to ithe prisoners. Onjwill probably reach Second street. the blouse and in several places on |The weather since Saturday night has the trousers the letters “P. W.",|stopped the work, but it looks as tho make a bid to the Teuton peoples to| accept these principles for they have |ing the heavy oil well tools that the | meaning “prisoner of war”, are sten-|it was going to clear up and be warm overthrow their rulers. practised annexations and indemni-|firm sells here. | ciled prominently. from now on. Up Text of Bait for the Entente [By Anssvetatea Press} LONDON, Sept. 16.—British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour, giving his personal views of the Austrian peace note to the journalists, said, “It is incredible that anything can come of this proposal.” While Austria was preparing a that they meet for an informal discussion of peace terms, was making ready an offer of separate peace to Belgium. nounced that Belgium was ap proached with a proposal that if she would remain neutral during the re- mainder of the war, Germany is ready to withdraw to the frontiers that were violated in August, 1914. It is believed that a desperate “peace offensive” is now well .nder way. If official sentiment is re flected by newspaper comment in Allied capitals, efforts of the C 1 Powers to h peace by negotiation are doomed to fail Secretary Balfour said that he was utterly unable to see that the confer- note to the belligerents, proposing ermany It is an- ence proposed by Austria could have the desired end. “I cannot hones als now made to us able to study them Balfour said, “see the slightest hope that the goal we desire—a goal of peace which shall be more than a truce—can really be attained.” Coming afte the prop: speech of or Von “this cyn- an govern- ne attempt to ob- n attempt to divide the Allies.” | eUruveerevreveetve b&b sv ev vereeuicvuvewy