Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 18, 1918, Page 1

HAIG EDGES NEARER ST. OUENTIN WITH —<—<<<—___ SALONIKIA DRIVE IS START OF CAMPAIGN Major Operation Is, Seen in Activities CITY EDITION VOLUME TWO in Macedonia, Say| War Critics; Four Thousand Taken [By Ansocinted Press] | LONDON, Sept. 18.—Bulgarian | resistance in Macedonia is weak- ening: The Allies have advanced ten miles. tion to. Mark M [By Ansoc! PARIS, Sept. [By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.— It has been hinted in military) being made by Germany. circles. for some months that! this autumn would see a major PEACE SCREAM operation on the Macedonian, front and from the news of the | [By United Press.) ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 18.—Seere- past few days it appears that the! tary of the Navy Daniels in an ad- operation has begun. { While. it is not possible, for milit| tary reasons, to give the number of | men intended to participate in this! movement, its object is clear, that is, | to cut Turkey off from the other) central powers, to crush Bulgaria, | FOUR AND HALF MILE GAIN | dress at the ensigns’ graduation here PARIS, Sept. 18.—Allied forces today said that Austria’s peace hote, on the Macedonian front penetrated Germany’s peace offer to Belgium four and a half miles on a front of |and the Kaiser’s scream at Essen 15% miles and captured 4,000 pris- | Were due directly to Allied-American oners, says the official communique | Victories. today. .| “Military success is the only argu- ment German militarists can now un- PRISON INMATES (|tsuintutness of the Kaiser's state. TO GET REGULAR) PAY FOR LABOR ment that he did all he could to [By Associated Press} shorten the war for no Hun, no At- tila, sought his end by less considera- WASHINGTON, Sept 18.—Presi- dent Wilson today authorized’ the tion of those upon whom his soldiers trampled in their eagerness to short- placing of war supply contracts with | the head of prison and reformatiories | en tne war,” declared the secretary. at prevailing prices and directs that} cose Sela prisoners engaged on such éontracts ILLION NEXT shall receive wages corresponding to those paid for similar work in the J L same vicinity. | [By Annociated Press] 100 SURVIVORS _ | WASHINGTON, Sept. e | 18.—An AMERICAN SHIP farmy of four million, eight hundped LANDED SAFELY Chief of Staff March told the house | appropriations committee today. There are now about 3,200,000 men under arms, March said, and the plan is to call 2,700,000 of the new draft registrants to the colors be- |tween now and July: [By United Press] AN IRISH POORT, Sept. 18.— Hundred survivors of the torpedoed American steamer Dora arrived here today. LOCAL MAN INJURED | ALL THE NEWS thousand by July, 1919, is the en-| larged American military program, | CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1918. BELGIUM SPURNS HOLD ‘PEACE PROPOSAL WHEN GAMBLER OF HUN POWERS Repetition of German Peace Demonstra- eet of Reichstag; Labor Interests Talk Aims inated Press] | 18.—Belgium, after consulting with the! | Allies, according to the Petit Parisien, has decided to refuse | | without elaboration the reported! offer of a separate peace ——} NEW TERMS DRAFTED | LONDON, Sept. 18.—It is rumor- led in Berlin that when the reichstag | meets there will bé another peace |demonstration similar to that of | July, 1917, according to an Amster- |dam dispatch to the Exchange Tele- |graph, which said the terms of the |peace resolution were now being drafted by majority leaders in con- | sultation with the imperial chancel- }lor. The reichstag will convene on | November 5. | LABOR-HEADS CONFER | LONDON, Sept. 18.—American | delegates at the interallied labor and | Socialist conference here today pre- sented proposals that the conference |endcrse the 14 points laid down by +President Wilson as conditions on | which peace may be established and maintained. | the | ‘HOUSE ADOPTS | GENERAL PLAN REVENUE BILL [By United Press} WASHINGTON, Sept, 18.—With jless than an hour's discussion, and | without amendment, the House to- {day adopted the general plan and |rates in the war revenue bill for tax- ation of war and excess profits. It is lestimated to yield three billion two {hundred million dollars in taxes. |BLANKS MAILED BY THE DRAFT BOARDS TODAY [By Associated Press.] WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Draft boards thruout the country began | mailing questionnaires today. TROOP TRAIN CRASH Richard E. Shroder Hurt in Wreck That Kills Over 20 and Injures 38; Freight Hits Another Train Headon SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 18.—The list of injured in the train wreck last night at Marshfield includes Richard E. Shro- der of Casper, Wyo. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 18.—Failure of a freight train to receive necessary orders, it is said at the general offices of the Frisco, is believed to have caused the | wreck of a troop train at Marshfield last night, Twelve soldiers and two railroad | troop train and freight met head-on employes were killed and 38 soldiers|near Marshfield, Missouri. were injured. Their names are with-| act number of dead is unknown. — held. ¢ is said that most of the| Eleven bodiés are in undertaking troops were from Colorado and Min-! establishments at Marshfield and it nesota, ca. | is believed that a dozen remain in the Sieg wreckage. Fifty of the more seri- SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 18.—| ously injured are in Springfield, hos- Wrecking crews of the Frisco today|pitals. ‘The military refuses to give Worked to recover additional bodies’ out a list of the dead. (JOHN W.DAVIS SUGGESTED FOR ENGLISH COURT [By United Press} WASHINGTON, Sept. 18i—Solic- itor General John W. Davis probably will be the new American Ambassa- dor to Great Britain. [By Axnnociated Prenn.] WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—John |W. Davis of West Virginia, new So- |of soldiers killed last night when 4}licitor General of the United States, | AVOY LO | FRO ee a Hey AP ete DEAD BIG BATTLE ON has been selected by President Wil- an ambassador to Great Britain. The announcement of Davis’ selection was disclosed on his arrival in Switzer- land, where Davis is head of the American delegation to the Berne {conference between American , and |German missions on treatment and exchange of prisoners of war. Che Casprr Daily Cribune THE DAILY NUMBER 288 UP FRAMED FLASHES ROLL [By Associated Prens] Intended Victim of Gun Play in Meshes| of Police Net along with Three | Principals in Wyatt Fiasco a roll and other valuables before envious eyes, and subsequently re- |sulted in the victim of the fiasco being drawn into the police net, startled the Wyatt apartment from its slumbers last night and ended at \the city jail, where the principals are now confined. They include |Chas. Laswell, reputed gambler; Ed Bohlin, of Wild West fame; Alban Cook and William Downie. Chas. Laswell, Who rooms in the Wyatt, had become acquainted with | some men around Casper and espec-| MARINE jially on the Sand Bar and during the | jconversation he spoke of pulling off| a game and displayed much money, | several watches and other valuables. | About 12 o'clock last night, the door of Laswell’s foom was suddenly | thrown open and @ man in the true re bandit style ordentt the occupant to| $3 ‘Stick ’em Up.” t iy Instantly the occupants of the| room became active, A. M. Burleson | [By Axnociated Presr ] made a dive for a closet and had bare-} WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Pro- ly shut the door-when a bullet from; vost Marshal General Crowder to- one of the bandit’s revolver smashed| day announced orders to local draft thru the panel and splintered into the; boards, which will permit voluntary wall near his kness. At the same time,| induction of draft registrants into Laswell struck ‘up the other gun in| the Navy and Marine corps, and the right hand ofthe masked man| provide for drafts of men to be a with such force that the hammer cut| signed to those services if volun- a gash in his forehead and partially| tary inductions do not suffice to stunned him. fill the demands. Calls for men The other bandit who was also in) for the Navy will go out before the the hall evidently saw that things! end of this month and Marine were going against his partner and| corps contingents will be called drovying his aim he ran out of the | within a few days. building intent upon making his es-| - SS es cape. | Officer Weddell was passing atone 913 000 YANKS his beat and upon hearing the shot) t ) he ran into the hotel and saw the ban- | dit who had fired the shot making | IN F his way out of the rear of the hall.| The officer gave chase and at the lsame time sounded a general alarm| which brot other policemen to the scene in short order. In fact the quickness with which the police ar- ae Boe jrived on the scene was commented | (By United Press) |upon by many. ! LONDON, Sept. i8.—Three hun- Officer Weddell caught up with/dred and thirteen thousand Ameri- jthe fleeing man in the rear of the/cans embarked for Europe during Wyatt and covered him with his gun. | August. The bandit appeared to be in two| —_> | minds at first as to whether he would | | surrender or give battle, but at last |gave up his guns and was taken into | A jeustody. He proved to be Ed. Boh-| }lin, a man well known around Cas-| OF EPIDEMIC 20 per, having earned quite a reputation 7 \here ,as a rider of wild horses, with) . the lasso and also as a dead shot. | Officer Weddell made a short re- |port of the escape of the other man ‘to his brother officers and then took Bohlin to jail. [By United Press} | Later on Officer Nicholson found) BOSTOw, Sept. 18.—Nearly a | William Downie hiding in the alley! score of deaths and two hundred new |back of saloon row and covered the) cases of influenza have {man with his gun. Downie surrend-|here in the last twentyfour hours. /ered as he saw the officer had the} —— |drop on him and came out, On being} jquestioned, Downie turned on his E |pals and gave away the whole deal. | It developed that Laswell was a gam- |bler and that the plot to take away some of his late gains had been hatch- ed by Alban Cook and Downie. Boh- |lin had been taken into the game lat- er on, and had entered the room in the ee | Wyatt before the real bandits put in [By Associated Prens.) ltheir appearance with the intention; WASHINGTON, Sept 18.—During jof paving the way for the robbery. | the week ending September 13, eight {He was present at the holdup and hundred eighty-four sick and wound- | was showing Laswell some dice passes | ed soldiers of the American expedi- |when the door opened and Bohlin ap-| tionary forces landed in the United | peared. States. Four hundered forty-seven | the officers immediately took up Las- er Sued | well and Cook and the four are now, |in jail waiting the action of the court. HUNS FORECAST mtg | Cook had preceded the other two Upon hearing Downie’s confession, | arrived the previous week. VERDUN FRONT | WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.--Viscount | \Ichire Motono, who resigned as min- | ister of foreign affairs for Japan| four months ago, died in Tokio yes-| terday of stomach trouble. | battle soon on the Verdun front. An attempted holdup, which had its inception in the “flashing” of | OPEN TO MEN | developed! AMSTERDAM, Sept 18.—German blunt re. war correspondents predict a great authoriti HUNS FIGHTING DESPERATE Der°NSIVE ! FLANKING MOVEMENT FOLLOWS CAPTURE OF reisune 1e40s |CQMMANDING HEIGHT 'Holnon Village Marks Latest Advance in * Driving Foe Beyond Hindenburg Line; Stiff Opposition Anticipated as Result of Teuton Orders to Hold Positions | LONDON, Sept. 18.—(Associated Press)-—Northwest of St. Quen- jtin, the British today advanced from two and a half to three miles on a fifteen-mile front. Hargicourt, Villeret, Le Verguier, Ronsoy and Berthaucourt were captured. Ephey is almost surrounded. In an at- tack from Holnon Wood north to Gouzeacourt, the British crossed the Hindenburg line at Villeret and Gouzeacourt. Fifteen hundred pris- oners have been captured. The British attack took them far nearer the line from which the German offensive started March 21 last. Latest reports placed Gen. Heig’s troops at an average distance of about a mile from this line. Fighting is continuing this afternoon. British Field Marshal Haig, two months from the day of the Allied offensive on the Marne, has begun a closer investment of St. Quentin. Troops are attacking northwest of the city, with the evident intention of outflanking it on the north. The new operations follow the British capture of Holnon village, on high ground three miles northwest of St. Quentin, Tuesday night. Holnon is on a hill, as is Maissemy, captured late Saturday. These hill positions dominate the terrain north of St. Quentin, and the road connecting the city with Cambrai. From these favorable points the British are moving in toward the city. Full details of operations are lacking, but undoubtedly the British will meet stiff opposition. e Germans here are on or near the Hindenburg line positions, rand captured’ documents show that enemy troops have been ordered to maintain these positions. Northward, the Germans are using their big guns actively against the. British lines. Tuesday evening the Germans attacked at Mouvre, west of Cambrai. They pressed the British back to the western out- skirts. Apparently the enemy is determined to hold his ground on the line between the Scarpe and the Oise. |\Enemy Counters Hurled Back jin Region Northeast of Sancy PARIS, Sept. 18.—The Germans last night launched violent coun- ter attacks against the French on the plateau northeast of Sancy, seven miles northeast of Soissons. They were unusuccessful, says the official communique. Good Progress Made in Fresh Assaults but Details Lacking WITH THE BRITISH IN FRANCE, Sept. 18.—Field Marshal Haig’s forces this morning attacked the Germans on a considerable front northwest of St. Quentin. Simultaneously the French carried out an pesatebe bt aes Satria oe coe ae (Continued on Page Six) ALLIED REPLY HITS LEADERS Resignation sof Austrian and German War Ministers Exvected to Follow Refusal of Peace Conference SERICH, Sept. 18.—Vienna newspapers are greatly excited over British-American comment on the Austrian note. It is rumored that Foreign Minister Burian will resign, and that Hungarian Premier Wek- erle’s resignation is also imminent. The same excitement is evident in Berlin, where the positions of Chancellor Von Herling and Foreign Minister Von Hintze appear crit- ical. German newspapers now openly admit that the peace note resulted|also anticiwated. It will fail unless from long Austro-German negotia-|the Central Empires make a clear tions. jacceptance of President Wilson's “- — | terms. WASHINGTC Sept. 18.—State — Department advices declare that the | ~ s Tentons have began the removal of| -LANE CATCHES all useful materials from the Baltic| aioviicel of Rumiatwith the eppar-| if fie Ar TeO0e ent intention of withdrawing later. FEET IN CA NADA WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—R ognition of the Jugo-Slavs in Au TORONTO, Or as a separate nation will be President | his machine ca’ Wilson's next thrust, following his|more than 10,000 ction of the Austrian note, |near Le predict. Henry C A new Teuton peace maneuver is |death FRESH BOMB IN MAKING ria t. 18.— while n the When fiving e t re fe camp yest was adet to le Saunders red dept