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Voi, LXXVTII No. 26,235
fCopyrlght. 1918,
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First to Last?the Truth: News - Editorials ? Advertisements
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1918
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WEATHER
Fair Saturday and Sunday. Little change
in temperature. Moderate west
winds becoming variable.
Full Report on Pa*? 10
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TWO CENTS
5 In Greater New Yrtrk and
/ within roromutlnic dltttunre
THREE CENTS
Elsewhere
Work or Fight,
Wilson Tells
War Strikers
President Threatens to Put
Bridgeport Workers
on Blacklist
Smith & Wesson
Plant Taken Over
Awards Must Be Accepted
by Employers and Em?
ployes Alike
(5ji, al ["-pitch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-President
Wilson to-day '.ook dra>tic step.; to im?
presa bot! employers and workers that
the decisions ?r the National War
Labor Board are final, and that the
I'fderal government will not count?
enance any attempt on the part of
cither cari'.al er labor to resort to
force to compel modification or suspen?
sion of the War Labor Board's awards.
The President to-day authorized the
War Department to take over and oper?
ate the Smith ?S: Wesson Company's
plant for refusal to accent the War
Lcbor Board's award, and at the same
time warned the 4,000 striking machin?
ists at ?nugepcrt, Conn., that unless
they immediately returned to work
they would be barred from employment
in all plants working on government
contracts, and that claims to exemp?
tion from military service on industrial
(pounds would be rejected.
TV effect of the President's inter?
vention was to make clear that labor
disputes would not be allowed to inter?
fere with production necessary to the
winning of the war. He pointed out
?hat the few employers who refused to
co-operate with the government would
be severely dealt with in justice to the
great majority who are working in full
unity with the nation's plans.
The determination of the President
to stand squarely behind the National
War Labor Board is clearly expressed
in his letter to the Bridgeport machin?
ists.
President Wilson's Letter
'the President's letter wa3 addressed
'o the Bridgeport District Lodge of the
lnternatioral Association of Machinists
"and oilier striking workmen of Bridge?
port, Conn." It follows:
"Gentlemen :
"I am in Tcceipt of your resolu?
tions of September 6 announcing that
}ou have begun a strike against your
employers in Bridgeport, Conn. You
are members of the Bridgeport branch
of the International Association of
Machinists. As such and with the
approval of the national officers of
your union you signed an agreement
to submit the questions as to the
terms of your employment to the
National War Labor Board and to
abide the award which in accordance
with the rules of procedure approved
by me might be made.
"The members of the board vvcnj
not able to reach a unanimous con?
clusion on all the issues presented,
'?'id as provided in its constitution
the questions; upon which they did not
agree were carried before an arbitra?
tor, the unanimous choice of the
members of the board.
Reflects on Honesty of I-abor
the arbitrator thus chosen has j
"?ade an award which more than 90 ''<
P? cent 0f the workers affected <
accept. You, who constitute less than :
10 Per cent, refuse to abide by the !
?ward, although you are the best
P?'d of the whole body of workers j
affected and arc, therefore, least en- !
Mied to press a further increase of j
wage? because of the high cost of j
v>ng. But whatever the merits of ;
t;|p issue, it is dosed by the award, j
our strike against it is a breach of '
faith calculated to reflect on the sin- ;
"n,v of national organized labor in !
Proclaiming its acceptance of the !
Principles and machinery of the Na
"??1 War Labor Board.
"H such disregard of the solemn
?ojudication of a tribunal to which
goth Parties submitted their claims
c m,, t,0med Wlth- agreements be
?r, n ,7" SCrap,S ?\ paper' If "Mrs
>r?Ph'l? awaIds Jhe p?-?p? remedy
'* subm ssion to the award, with an
application for rehearing to t? e tri"
vari Bf/P.^rike against the
?-"-ird is disloyalty and dishonor.
Must Enforce Compliance
"The Smith & Wesson Comnanv of
Continued on last page
Petrograd Taken;
Bolsheviki Driven
Out in Revolt
PARIS, Sept. 13.?Dispatches
received by English newspapers
through Helsingfors announce that
Petrograd has been taken by the
anti-revolutionists.
This evidently refers to the
peasant mobs which were reported
as having marched into Petrograd
where street fighting was going on
with supporters of the Soviets.
U.S. Industries
Board Enters
Hearst Fight
American News Co. Asked
Why Unwanted Papers Are
Forced on Venders
The War Industries Board, which
some months ago ordered the conser?
vation of news pr;nt paper, has asked
the newsdealers if the practise of the
American News Company of forcing
them to take Hearst papers they can?
not sell has been discontinued. Joseph
A. Sultan, to whom the inquiry of the
board was addressed, yesterday replied
in the negative.
With his reply went affidavits sus?
taining his answer, and a request that
the Board either send a representative
to take up the case with the newsdeal?
ers or permit the dealers to send a
committee to Washington to present
their case.
This action of the board follows the
appeal of the several organizations of
newsdealers to Hugh Frayne, the labor
member of the board, for protection
against this effort to force them to
how to Hearst's will.
Admission by Dean
David Dean, the geiiTal manag? r of
the American News Company, admitted
yesterday that the pulp and paper sec
tion of the board had taken the matter
up with his company.
"We told the board that, so far ns
this company is concerned, the practice
complained of by the dealers docs not
exist," said Mr. Dean. "The statement
that thousands of papers are being
wasted through faults of ours in un?
true. We are sending 'Americans' only
to those who order them.
"Where dealers send in a personal
order to cancel 'Americans' the order
is respected."
This denial, Mr. Sultan said lust
night, was technical. He was satisfied,
he said, that he could prove to the full
satisfaction of the board that, not only
has the American News Company sen?,
immense quantities of "Americans"
to dealers who tried to cut them off,
but still is doing so.
Dealers Make Complaint
The complaint of the venders to the
War Industries Board was that this
practice, of the American News Com
patiy, in its efforts to help Hearst win
his tight to keep the dealers under his
control, was in effect a most serious
violation of the orders of the board that
paper be conserved, and offset its at?
tempts to save paper by making news?
papers non-returnable. By attempting
to force the dealers to take papers they
could not sell, the dealers said, Hearst
would manage to keep hi* circulation
figures up, though thousands of the pa?
pers would serve no purpose whatever
and the unfortunate dealers would be
out large sums.
With the loss of this important
weapon against the dealers in sight,
the Hearst crowd yesterday resorted
to new tactics to force the dealers to
cease their revolt against his methods.
This developed when a flying squadron
of husky youths took position outside
the store of Mark Moskowitz, president
of the Harlem Newsdealers' Associa?
tion, whose place of business is at lOSo
Seventh Avenue.
They made their appearance, armed
with all of the papers except The Trib
Continued on last page
New Draftees
Off for Camp
Next Month
Serial Numbers Already
Being Issued to Thurs?
day's Registrants
14 Million Men
Enrolled Thursday
Induction of 91,000 Now
Available Here Will
Begin Immediately
A generous proportion of the pro?
spective soldiers who will entrain nex*
month as part of New York City's
regula? contribution to the Nation?.)
Army will be composed of Thursday's
draft, registrants of the preferred age,
nineteen and twenty and thirty-two to
thirty-six, inclusive. Captain David
Asch, who was in charge of the office
of the Director of the Draft yesterday
in the lemporary absence of Martin
Conboy, made this statement. At. the
same time woril was received from
Washington that fourteen million men
had enrolled for the drai .
The work of compiling and forward
ing the returns on the registration was
accomplished so speedily that the as?
signing of serial numbers by the draft
boards was under way, in some in?
stances, scarcely an hour after the
polls closed. Serial numbers were
given to the registrants of June 5
1917, but in the two subsequent reg
istrations of men turned twenty-on*
the order in which a man registere:
was the numeral which represented hin
in the lottery. This draft will hi
characterized by a return to the seria
number system.
Draft Drawing Next Week
"With the serial numbers assigned,'
Captain Asch declared yesterday, "tin
drawing at Washington will follow im
mediately. This should take place
from present indications, on nex
Tuesday or Wednesday. Question
naires will be mailed to registrants o
the preferred class?"*, as soon there
after as possible."
The classifying of all new regi?
iran?s must, not necessarily be com
pleted before any of the men eau b
inducted into service, Captain Asch de
elarcd.
"As soon as a man either waives ex
emption or is found to be withou
adequate claim." he said, "he will b
listed as ready for call to cxamin?
tion. Classification is subject to cor
stant change, and for this reason w
can go ahead with inductions withou
waiting for the complete grouping."
1,100,000 Draftees Here
There are 1,400,000 men on the drai
rolls of New York City, including me
of all registrations, who have not bee
inducted into service, according to ii;
ures given out at Mr. Conboy's offic
It was announced in June that tr.
Class 1 A men of the June. 1917, ret
istration had practically all been it
due'ed into the service. Since the
slightly mere than 50,00?) men, newl
attained twenty-one, registered; M7,0(
in June, 19 i S, and K!,000 on Augu
24 last.
A majority of the. men of the seeor
two registrations who were physical
fit and without dependents, have bei
sped campward. The departures fro
the city have been quietly, but stcai
ils, proceeding, made up largely i
youths twenty-one years old.
It is estimated that there will 1
350,000 men of nineteen-twenty ai
from thirty-two-thirty-six in New Yoi
City. About 26 per cent of these wi
it is believed, be placed in Class
Under this proportion 01,000 men wi
be available for immediate inductio
This number was unexpectedly i
creased by the registration of a lar
number of men who should have e
rolled for the first draft. Practical
i.one of these were wilful delinquen
but had failed to register because of
misunderstanding of the age limi
They willingly inrolled and there we
few arrests.
Draft officials were astonished at t
comparatively small number of alie
who registered. There were appro:
matoly 131,000 in the entire city, i
elusive of all classes, declarants, nc
declarants not enemies, and enei
aliens. Manhattan, with its registi
t'ion of 343,398 men. showed the sm
total of aliens of 30,000, of which oi
8,000 were enemy aliens.
Brooklvn led in number of alie
registered, with 00,000, 10,000 of win
are enemy aliens._
Students' trailing at colleges to
called every three months?on pa
four. i
Peace Nearer
Than Supposed,
Hertling Says
German Government and
Military Leaders Now
Ready to End War
Policy of Conquest
Reported Abandoned
Vice-Chancellor Voices
Willingness to Give
Up Seized Areas
LONDON, Sept. 13. Notwithstanding
the declination of Germany's peace of?
fer. Count von Hertling, the Imperial
German Chancellor, is convinced that.
peace is nearer than is generally sup?
posed, according to an address made by
the Chancellor before the trades union?
ist lenders in Germany, says a dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph from Copen?
hagen.
The Chancellor declared that both
the German government and army lead
ers desired an understanding and peace.
Count von Hertling said the govern?
ment and the army leaders were against
all conquests.
As soon ns he was convinced of the
impossibility of an agreement with the
upper house, on the suffrage question,
the Chancellor said, he would dissolve
the lower house.
Right to Indemnity
Abandoned by Huns,
Von Payer Asserts
AMSTERDAM, Sept.. 12. -Reiterating
that Germany," as the innocent and at?
tacked party" in the war, had a right
to demand indemnification, Fredrich
von Payer, the German Imperial Yiee
Chancellor, in his speech to-day at
Stuttgart said that "we prefer on calm
reflection, and even with our own
favorabls military situation, to abandon
this idea."
Turning to the question of the oc?
cupied territories, the Vice-Chancellor
said that as a preliminary condition
of peace for Germany and hear allies
those nations must, have all their pre?
war possessions, including the German
colonies, restored. Then Germany, he
declared, could evacuate the occupied
legions and could Rive back Belgium
without encumbrance and without re
E( rve, provided no other state was
more favorably placed in regard to Bel?
gium than was Germany.
Stand by Russian Treaty
He asserted that Germany would not
submit to the Entente Powers for ap?
proval or alteration the peace treaties
which Germany had signed with the
Ukraine, Russia and Rumania.
The postponement of peace prospects
-and Un- likelihood of ?i fifth war winter
weigh equally on all belligerents anj
not on Germany alone, said von Payer.
"Our state debts," the Vico-Chancel
lor said, "are everywhere reaching1
fantastic heights, and everywhere we
struggle against the encroachments on
our personal liberty^ All of the bellig?
erents of Europe must admit, if they
;ne not blind, that the longer the Euro
I can peoples lacerate each other the
more certainly will the historical and
paramount position of weakened and
impoverished Europe be lost in favor
of cleverer and more calculating peo
I.les."
Herr von Payer reminded his hearers
that after four years the war still
was being waged almost entirely on
enemy territory. 1!" admitted that (he
U-boat war hail not worked so quickly
and surely as had been hoped. He
added that it. was useless to dispute
whose was the; fault. The enemy, he
said, was still unable to compensate
his losses by new construction, and
declared that, the robbery of neutral
shins almost without parallel by the
Entent ? could not be repeated.
"The mor- troops ihe United States
sends the greuter will tie the need of
shipping for reinforcements of muni?
tions and provisions," Herr von Payer
said. "The filling up of the enemy
army by Americans therefore bears
in itself its limitations."
He argued that the loss of shipping
would become fatal to Great Britain
after the war because it would Jose its
shipping superiority to the United
Slates, and "the hope of compensating
themselves from the German fleet,
which still has to be conquered, will
surely he adequate comfort only for
the very imaginative Britishers."
The speaker said that the Germans
have only to see that the war con
tinues to be waged in a foreign coun?
try, that the Germans are fighting for
their lives and th<"? ir homes, and that
the enemy's only hope is that the Ger?
mans collapse inwardly sooner than
they. He asserted that enemy attempts
(Continued on page three)
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'Retreat Without Interference, ' Say
Germans, Yet 13,300 Are Prisoners
r/t | "MrlE evacuation of the (St. Mihiel) salient . . . which
? bad been under consideration for some years, was completed
without interference," said the Berlin War Office statement
yesterday.
"Austro-Hungarians assured the systematic retreat of the Ger?
mans," according to Vienna's communiqu?.
Thus, without interferring with the enemy, Pershing's First
Army, in one day, crushed the fortifications the enemy spent four
years in perfecting, took 13,300 prisoners and captured 60 guns.
The only indication that the enemy expected the blow is given in
the report of one correspondent, who says:
"Among the prisoners was Major Schruesig, a count. He and
his staff had their baggage packed and were waiting to be captured."
Tanks in Lead
In First U. S.
Drive on Foe
Yankee Veterans of Other
Fights Win Fresh Glory
at St. Mihiel
By Wilbur Forrest
(Special Cable to The. Tribune)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
LORRAINE, Sept. 12 (Delayed).-In
our participation in the second battle
of the Marne American divisions
fought under French army command?
ers. To-day, the beginning of the St.
Mihiel salient drive, saw French units
participating under an American army
commander -General Pershing, tem?
porarily in command of America's first
distinct army in the European war.
American divisions engaged are some
of those which have already covered
themselves with glory in other battles,
although it. must be stated that in to?
day's fighting the. enemy's resistance
was heavy neither in guns nor men. The
Franco-American attack was not a sur?
prise to the German High Command,
which ordered the seven division com?
manders to fortify their sectors. This
work had proceeded feverishly for two
weeks, hut had not been sufficiently
completed.
Enemy Without Heart
The division comtnanders evidently
ordered the evacuation of their heavy
artillery when the. American artillery's
preparation began at 1 a. m. this,
morning. The barrage began at G a.
m., "like a fiery waterfall upside
down,' as an American officer ex?
plained it. The enemy units fought
without heart and then trailed north?
ward, leaving machine gun nests here
and there to retard the advance.
Before noon the American advance
had met with heavy opposition at two
places?Montmartre Wood, which was
well filled with machine guns, and the
village of Sain Haussant, which was
drenched with artillery tire. An offi?
cer who advanced into Baussant said
it was the hottest fire he ever liad
seen, but, like everywhere else, the
enemy had tied iir.d was giving us a
parting hate from guns far to the
north.
Our line was held up temporarily
until the tire ceased, and then ad?
vanced. The important road centre of
Thiacourt has been seized.
Tanks Surround Thiaucourt
Tanks surrounded Thiaucourt before
the infantry arrived, and when the
first patrols entered the edge of the
town the tanks were sitting around
in a circle waiting for the doughboys.
Thiaucourt has been burning fiercely
in places from our shells since early
in the morning.
The enemy, in spiteful wrath, lias
tilled the village of Fey-en-Hey, west
of Pont-?-Mousson, with mustard gas.
Our leading wave discovered the situa?
tion and deftly piloted itself around
the village, leaving-it. alone until the
fumes were dissipated. American tank
crews shoved themselves ahead, with
courage worthy of the highest credit.
Though some tanks were bogged en
rout?, other.-- worked well ahead of the
infantry, cutting off Boche villages.
guns and prisoners.
In addition to their work at Thiau?
court, the capture of Pannes goes first
to the tanks, who there worked the
same man?uvre.
The attack was planned by the staff
of America's First Army in phases. The
tanks and the doughboys advanced to
these objectives or phases so rapidly
that those in the rear in division and
army corps headquarters were unable
figuratively to keep up. 1 luring the
early hours telegraph wire-; wore
stretched behind the advancing wave
and aeroplanes sent back messages,
which generally read "going strong."
Before 2 p. m. the messages changed
to: "Objectives reached. Digging in.
Awaiting orders." Meantime prisoners
were coming back by thousands, and
j America's first important "all-Ameri
??--.n" is, being gloriously won.
Yanks Capture
Men of Seven
Hun Divisions
Officer Prisoners Bitter in
Criticism of High Com?
mand's Judgment
?Biy The Associated Press)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY 1>
FRANCE, Sept. 13.?The prisoner
taken by tha .Americans havS coin; iron
seven German divisions, amonsr then
men from the Landwehr and Land
sturm. The Austro-Hungarians mad
prisoner came from the 192d, 10th, 77tl:
-55th and 307th regiments.
The prisoners asserted that the cas
ualties resulting from the America
tire were very heavy. Among the cap
fives were numerous officers, who free
ly criticised the High Command fo
what they termed bad judgment.
All the evidence at hand tends t
confirm the belief that the German
were altogether unprepared to resii
such a force as General Pershing set
against them. One division on a ce
tain sector sent out a call for reii
forcements. The only reply to this aj
peal was an order to hold the sector i
all costs.
Valley Trap Closed
Vigneuelles, a little town in tl
northern end of the valley that \vi
the northern entrance to the St. Mihi
salient, was entered by the Americai
last night. The first force to get the
was only a small patrol. This was su
ported by a large force that mov
down the ridge along the northern cd
of the forest, and in a few hours t
trap was effectually closed and a n<
line established.
(t? p. m.). Brilliantly supported
the French, General Pershing has ?
complished the "limited objectives"
the operations undertaen in the St. ??
hiel region. The two forces, pushing :
spectively southeast and northwe
took position after position from t
enemy, advancing with a rapidity, p
cisi?n and dash that disheartened h
after his reverses of recent mont
Few late actions have yielded so mi
ground of .so important anature.
Artillery Demoralizes Foe
The preliminary artillery work in
dark hours of Thursday morning \
demoralizing in the thoroughness of
destructiveness. It is now known t
the enemy was orepared for a possi
blow in this region, but four hours
almost unsurpassed shelling with
and from guns of all calibres left 1
powerless to bring up his reserves
maintain communications.
Eventual stabilization here will ?
important lines of rail eommunicat
as well as roadways, and leave in
possession of the French and Am
cans high ground which will be of g
military advantage when the wet sea
begins
In the military sense the action
been normal in all its aspects, ex?
in the rapidity of execuation.
does not mean there has been no 1
fighting. There has been fighting I
brilliant and tierce, because one vit
important point was held by a fam
well tried German division. Never
less, the division was unable to w
stand the steady and unswerving
vanee of the Americans thrown agi
it. and. in addition, los.t many pri
ers to the United States forces.
The only enemy weakness was it
artillery, the reply of his big ;
being deficient and spasmodic thro
out, showing that he had previousl;
moved the greater part to safer
tions. But hia machine guns
vicious enough to compensate for
Americans Reach Foe's Frontier;
St. Mihiel
ed Out;
13,300 Prisoners
And Sixty Guns
In American Bag
Germans Prepared for Attack, but Dash of U. S.
Troops Is Executed So Rapidly Enemy
Is Left Powerless to Offer
Strong Resistance
Teutons Pressed Back 13 Miles on
Line They Had Held Four Years
British Drive Ahead 2,000 Yards on Cambrai
Front and French Make Important Gains
?American Tanks and Aviators
Win High Praise
Scptemb r IS, 2:S0 .1. M.
The Americans have eliminated the St. Mihiel salient.
Pershing's men have reached the German frontier. The eneray
has been swept back thirteen miles.
In smashing attacks the American First Army yesterday
cut through the neck of the German pocket and threw its
two days* work ten miles northeast of St. Mihiel
r?-5 j and mi (?way on the new line.
wfoiK Ck Extending their drive along
Wi'/wfrhk. f? MtJ* the iront eastward the Ameri
wSEk. X > cans reached PaKny. on the Mo
W/0/W/^^ ^Si" selle, across the river from Ger
W wf/w^^??Itaamm?im^^e^ rnan.v< an^ within ten miles, <>r
^^^^^^^^ffl^^^^^'' big gun range, of the fortress of
W^^^^^^^m^^^k Thirteen thousand and three
^E^^^w?/^m?MMww? hundred prisoners and sixtv
%su^Mmmmmm guns had been taker] by the Al_
The solid black area has been lies at midday and large num
vi'on bv lilt' Americans since , , .
yesterday morning. ; OCl'S 01 Captives were Still
streaming in.
At latest reports the fighting continued on a line from
Pagny northwest of Hattonville and the Meuse. The length
of the front between the Meuse and Moselle has been cut in
half by the American victory.
The French are within three miles of St. Quentin. By i
sharp attack P?tain's men carried the village of Savy and
swung nearer the besieged city.
The British attack to the north won new- ground and many
prisoners in heavy fighting east, of Vermand and near Jean
court. Field Marshal Haig announced last night.
After smashing two enemy assaults on the dominating
Franco-American heights positions on Mount Laffaux, on the
western end of the Chemin des Dames, the French launched a
counter stroke on the left, which carried them forward for new
gains in the enemy's menaced flank.
In Flanders the British advanced to within a mile and a
half of La Bass?e. They entered Auchy and further east they
partly outflanked the enemy in La Bass?e by an encircling move
which won the heights dominating the country to the east.
Americans Push Ahead, Taking
Big Stores of Enemy Supplies
(By The Associated Press) ,
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN LORRAINE, Sept. 13?(? p. m.)
? The St. Mihiel salient has been
wiped out and the enemy forces are
now virtually with their backs on
the famous Wotan-Hindenbur*r line,
with the Americans and French
paralleling them closely from Ver?
dun to the Moselle.
The line now extends past Nor
roy, Jaulny, Xammes, St. Benoit,
Hattonville. Hannonville and Herbe
ville.
General Pershing's troops con?
tinued their steady advance against
the salient throughout the night.
They reached and even passed the
objectives set for them.
Prisoners continue to pour in.
Only One Counter Attack
The Americans pushed ahead all
along the front, except at one point.
They met with less resistance than
i they had expected.
! The Germans made only one
?counter attack in an attempt to
.stem the onrushing tide of Ameri?
cans.
The Germans, however, began
their protective barrage too early.
They gave the Americans warning
of what was eominc*, and General
Pershing's men were completely
prepared for the counter attack
when it started.
Prisoners unanimously testify to
the accuracy and the ?Jeadliness of
the American preparatory artillera
fire.
Foe Hampered by Airmen
Observers had so completely lo?
cated the principal German work*
in advance that the enemy troop?
could only take to their dugouts
and await the en<i of the bombard?
ment.
The Germans last night and early
to-day were attempting to remova
their artillery through the town of
Vigneulles, under the stress of thi
American attack on the St. Mini* i
salient. They were meeting with)
the greatest ^difficulty, however,