Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 5, 1918, Page 1

NCO-AMERICAN ON hee Flanders Fighting Quiets Down as the Allies Concentrate Their Efforts on Smashing Huns East and West of Ar- gonne and Northwest of Rheims Base French and Americans, smashing into German positions in Cham- pagne, have forced.the enemy to withdraw from valuable ground in the hill country near the Suippe river, ‘ East and west of Argonne and northwest of Rheims, there has been heavy fighting to the advantage of the Allies. On northern sectors hostilities apparently have quieted down. By advancing over the heights of Blanc Mont and Medeah Farm, the French and Americans have placed the Germans around Moronvilliers in a dangerous position. HAVRE, Oct. 5.—In Flanders since September 28 the Allies took 10,000 prisoners, 350 guns and 600-machine guns, says the official statement. IBy United Press} LONDON, Oct. 5.—Americans attacking on an eight-mile | address. Chancellor Buchtel has spoken:to Casper audiences a number of times before and the theater front between the Meuse and Aisne rivers, advanced two miles | building is sure to be filled to its fullest capacity. Chancellor Buchtel arrived in the city this morning and prominent members of the Liberty Loan com- today, it is officially reported here. LONDON, Oct. 5.—Franco-Americans have definitely broken thru the whole front of the enemy’s defenses behind the tillery is supporting the infantry assaults. The weather is ideal for stupendous aerial activity. h Threatened with encirclement, the Germans in the Monts regions northeast of Rheims, have a withdrawal.— The Germans. have definitely retired behind the Kriemhilde-Stel- lung line opposite-the American Champagne sector. The Allied smashes are continuing along the whole front rip the progress practically everywhere yesterday and last night. Field Marshal Haig reported today that the British line has been advanced north of St. Quentin. The French have crossed the Aisne-Marne canal at several points northwest of Rheims and have reached Bermericourt. The Austrian retreat in Albania continues. PARIS, Oct. 5.—Franco-Americans are driving northward against Vouziers and are now within five miles of that import- ant German base. The enemy is hastily withdrawing his long range guns thereabouts. 2 It is reported that the Germans are evacuating the entire Moronvillers grove. General Denby is increasing pressure against the northern defenses of Laon and St. Gobain Massif. | Franco-Americans are now strongly entrenched on the Orfeuil tableland. The evacuation of Argonne forest is expected as a result from the American pressure. The Germans are fighting desperately in Champagne for every inch of ground because of the number of valuable com- munication lines behind the front there. ‘ The opposing armies swing to and fro and the battle is described as of unstable equilibrium. The Allied area north of St. Quentin is being gradually widened but the Germans are fighting hard and progress is slow. PEACE CRIES HEARD AGAIN Fresh Appeal of Austria-Hungary Directed thru Holland; Wilson to Receive Memo- randum of Austrian Peace Offer (Continued on Page 8) Fy [By United Press) LONDON, Oct. 5.—According to an Amsterdam report Austria- Hungary has again requested a peace conference of all belligerents. She made the request thru Holland, asking that The Hague be placed at their disposal for the meeting. ‘ ¢ Holland promptly notified the belligerents, says a Vienna report, Amsterdam. via ‘»strian leaders plan to send Pres- 3 ine wilson @ memorandum stating| Von Hussarek, Austrian premier, is their conception of his 14 points. The | likely to be succeeded by Heinrich Austrians are meeting in Vienna in| Lammasch, who is one of Austria’s connectiy i ef-| foremost peace advocates, Font ee eee et oT ccordinig td the Vasslacha) Zait- Thi ies ‘the| ung’s Vienna correspondent, the Ger- dee eeTeDes: Haniss UOt | sins parties ks the reteliznh are aend- ing their leaders to the emperor to | urge federalization with self-determi- | for the German races in Aus- Amsterdam report that Great Britain has demanded Austria te explain the meaning of non-committal confer- ence, [By Associated Press.] LONDON, Oct. 5.—Reports from Swiss and German newspapers indi- cate a great political disturbance in Austria-Hungary. It is stated that tria. Count Czernin and representa- tives of the constitutional parties in the upper house are said to be going to urge the emperor to adopt a simi- lar course. N CAMPA \ VALUABLE GROUND IN HILL COUNTRY TAKEN IN FRESH OFFENSIVE CITY EDITION The Casper Daily ALL THE NEWS Cribune EXPLOSIONS ‘ROCK DOZEN THE DAILY TRIBUNE LEADS VOLUME 2 | EAGLE SCREA Chancellor Buchtel: of Denver University, Ex-Governor of Colo- | Colorado, to Loose Verbal Batteries in Big Drive; | Sheridan Near End of Campaign, Report the big \is spending the day with | mittee. , |received following the main address. | By A. J. MOKLER, Chairman Publicity Committee. | Tonight at the Iris theater the citizens of Casper will hold their first and only public meeting for drive for the Fourth Liberty Loan, and at: this meeting voluntary pledges for subscriptions will be A. Buchtel of the Denver university and ex-gov- jernor of Colorado, one of the most interesting and-dloquent speakers of the West, will deliver the main| top with a rush. Chancellor H | Before the meeting the Liberty chorus, numberifi 300 people, Suippe river west of Argonne forest, say battlefront dispatches will form at the Park school house at 7:00 o'clock sharp, and march today. Furious fighting continues there. Heavy American ar- to the theater, headed by ‘the Casper band, where an: open-air song service will be held at 7:30, led by the band,. There. will also be an} | opening song seryice, of 15 or 20 minutes by the | the. theater... CHILE EXPECTED TO BREAK WITH i , UBy United Press.) { .-SANTIAGO, Oct. 5.—It is expect- \ed that Chile will hand the German | minister his passports within the com- | ing week. at A ls ‘PRINCE BORIS — NOW IN CHARGE OF BULGARIANS [By United Presa] ZURICH, Oct. 5,—Crown, Prince Boris assumed the reigns of govern- ment in Bulgaria following King Fer- dinand’s abdication, says the official Korrespondenz Bureau in Vienna. <= —— BILLION MARK WASHINGTON, Oct, 5.—One bil- lion dollars has been subscribed to the ‘Fourth. Liberty Loan —— CARGO: VESSEL STRIKES MINE WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—The car- go steamer San Saba, of therMallory \line, was sunk yesterday 15 mil2s southeast of Barnegat, New Jersey, the navy. department announced. It | is supposed to have struck a mine. The death list is unknown. the engine for some distance’ and al; injuries resulted in his death at the squad. The body was shipped direct | The meeting will Re called iyerder by County |E. Winter, and 'L. A. Reed, chairman of the public-meetings committee, will preside during the evening. The! - BOCHE, REPORT IS PASSED IN LIBERTY LOAN Ghisimnan Chirles chairman of each. of the local com- platform apd they will be introduced |to the audience. Music Is. Big’ Feature Among the musical numbers on |the program. will be several patriotic songs by a chorus of girls from the Natrona county high school, known jas “With the Colors club.” This club has’ volunterred ‘to sing or do any- thing else, in-the way of real work, that will help the loan committee, or jthe Red Cross committees in any work in the future. This chorus is lcomposed of the following high school girls: Helen Adell Wilson, |Ethel Dorothy Stitt; Inez Seanor, |Oral Martz and Ethel Sprague. Arminto Meeting Big Success The meeting at Arminto last night was enthusiastic and well attended. |The speakers from Casper were G. |R. Hagens, C. R. Reed, and W. O. Wilson and the double quartette con- jsisted of the following: Mrs. Sylves- ter Grant, Miss May Winter, Miss Selma Young, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. | Burns, Messrs. Mingolet, Tolhurst jand Wallace Leavett, Mrs. Leavett \being accompanist. More than §$2,- 000 was pledged at this meeting. Some Clock at the Midwest The ‘With, the Colors elub” will | visit the Midwest Refining company’s |plant on Monday afternoon, where they will sing several patriotic songs \and their captain will make a four- minutes’ talk. Mr, Reed will’make a jshort talk and introduce the elub to all the employes who will congregate at the main entrance in front of the ‘big Liberty Loan clock, which is six ‘feet in diameter, and instead of the dial indicating the hours and minutes, it records dollars, running from~$1,- 000 to $50,000 and the boys at the plant declare that they are going to “bust the clock’”’ and that it*will be necessary to add more figures on the dial. Chorus at the Lyric This P. M. At the Lyric theater at this after- noon’s matinee at 2:30 the “With the Colors” high school girls’ chorus will ising two. patriotic songs. This girls’ chorus is composed of the following named high school girls: Helen Ad- ell Wilson, Ethél Seanor, Isabel Han- |way, Edness Mokler, Mabel Lamb, |” (Continued from Page Three) 0. B. DUNCAN OF CASPER ROLLED TO DEATH UNDER A LOCOMOTIVE Fi LBL eeargpmeree e | Private O. B. Duncan of the Casper Guards was killed in Thermopolis Wednesday night when he, fell from a locomotive, He was rolled under tho the wheels did notctomch him, his hospital a few hours later. _- Private Duncan was a Casper resident and for the past three months a meinber of Company D of the Home Guard where he was in the first to his former home in Chicago. CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, OCT. 5, 1918 S AT IRIS TONIGHT - WITN FORMAL OPENING OF DRIVE | mittes: are expected to be on the) Number 299 540,000 BOND SALE, MIDWEST At 2 o’clock this afternoon as the paper goes to press the Midwest em- |ployes at the refinery had subscribed $40,000 worth of Liberty bonds ard |it looked very much as tho the re- finery employes were going over the The pipe fitters went to the $2,000 mark for their share and other parts of the plant took over large sums likewise. INFLUENZA TAKES FIRST TOLL IN CASPER, LITTLE BOY DEAD, MOTHER. ILL AT THE HOSPITAL Dreaded Plague Contracted En Route to * Fhermopolis Proves Fatal within _- Ten Days to Little Ray Bryan The first case of Spanish influenza to take its toll of life in Cas- er was reported this morning with the death of little Fred Bryan, the 'three years and eight months’ old son of Mr. and Mrs, Ray O. Bryan who live on a homestead at the head of Salt Creek._ The little lad died at a local hospital where he has been under the care of Dr. John F. rs, Bryan and her son left last SOLF NAMED 10 FOREIGN OFFICE Sunday for Thermopolis and were IBy Associnted Prenn.J both in the best of health apparent- ly. A woman who sat in the same ~-COPENHAGEN, Oct. 5.—Dr, W. S. Solf, German colonial secretary, seat with them part of the way com- plained to Mrs. Bryan that she was feeling badly and that she believed she was taking pneumonia as_ her throat was sore and her lungs pained. has been appointed German imperial foreign secretary, says the German official statement. Mathias, centrist leader, was appointed secretary of state without a portfolio. Herr This is, beyond any doubt, where Bauer, Socialist member of the reich- the disease was contracted according to the physician attending the case. | stag, was named secretary of state for the imperial labor office. Mrs. Bryan, mother of the influ-| oo enza victim, is also very ill at the! hospital with the same disease but her condition has not become critical H. A. Rispin, a prominent oil op- Fighting ants have an organized| erator of Denver, is a business visi- system of ambulances. ‘tor in Casper for a few days. yet. The funeral services will probably be held Monday afternoon at the Shaffner-Gay chapel. pelea ite er aie} Now within Eighteen Miles of Greatest Single Artery Connecting Germany with West Front, Asserts Chief [By Associated Press] WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—The American advance northwest of Verdun threatens the greatest single line of communication between Germany and the west front, General March said today. General Per- shing’s forces have reached a point within 18 miles of this great art- ery. The progress of Pershing’s forces caused the Germans to throw in we pushed forward until they now facs the German Kriemhild line de-|| Summarizing the news of the past fense. week as excellent, Chief of Staff Despite the epidemic of influenzs | March said in his weekly interview the embarkation of American troops|/many divisions but the Americans continued with a quarter of a million; today that the offensiyes conducted last month. The total number em-| by the Allies on the three major sec- barked has passed the 1,850,000/tors had resulted in a forward move- mark, WNS IN BLAST | AT PLANT | Wrecking of Biggest | TNT Plant Takes | TO SEND NATRONA ‘OVER THE TOP® farrowing Tou in | Loss of Life and Property, Claim [By Associated Press.) | NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—After | more than 18 hours of terror, a dozen towns in northern New Jersey are in a shattered con- dition as a consequence of the | munition disaster which visited the district last night with a trail of tremendous explosions and raging fires which continued thruout today. | At the $18,000,000 shell making | plant of T. A. Gillespie & Co., situ- | ated at Morgan, New Jersey, one of jthe community manufacturies pro- ducing ammunition for the American {and Allied armies, an explosion from | an unknown cause scattered fire- | brands among tons of trinittrotuloul, } the most powerful explosive known. | Detonation followed detonation. ‘. There ise no, dgfinite estimate of pthe dead. Unofficial estimates place the dead at upwards of 137. | A night shift known to number | 2,000 was unaccounted for this after- |noon, being numbered only in scores. Fourteen bodies are reported to be identified. That others are in the | seine is believed likely. It is feared that some of the men have been de- stroyed and no trace left. In the meanwhile some of the communities which surrounded Morgan with popu- lations totaling more than 60,060 evacuated almost as completely as if they were in European war zones. Hundreds of homes were ruined and the roads leading out of the devastated districts were thronged all night and day with men. women and children fleeing to points of safety. With them moved ambu- lances carrying the hospit: in other p! Fearing other explosions, the au- thorities in,many towns have ordered all homes evacuated but found that their warnings had already been obeyed. The Atlantic division of the Amer- ican Red Cross on receiving estimates from its agents at Perth Amboy that approximately 4,000 persons are now refugees and that one fourth of these are in need of food, dispatéhed am- bulances, motor canteens and auto- mobiles containing physicians, nur- | ses and social workers into northern New Jersey. Headquarters have been eostablish- ed at Perth Amboy with relief work- |ers prepared to erect tent colonies | for the homeless. ured men to MAIN COMMUN MENACED BY Y ICATION ANKEES lly the entire stretchh from the North sea of Verdun. Gouraud’s army, just west of Ar- gonne forest, as fought its way for- |ward to a point where it also threat- jens the German communication line. |The British drive on Cambrai and St. |Juentin, which was aided by the 27th |(New York troops) and the 13th | (Tennessee, North and South Caro- |lina and District of Columbia troops). American division, has developed in- to a battle for the entire Hindenburg line. The British have broken entirely |across the enemy's zone of defense. |In the Flanders drive the Allies re- conquered 75 square miles of Bel- |gian territory. | The return to this country of | Brigadier General Henry Hutchins, formerly with the Texas National | Guards in France was also announced today. General Pershing had asked per- ment of the battlefront for practical mission to send the officer home,