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GENERALLY FAIR
TELLING PROGRESS MADE BY
ALLIES WHEN DROCOURT-QUEAST
SWITCH LINE IS PENETRATED
Alternative Defense Establishing Back of Main
Hindenburg Bulwark Lost. Threatening
Entire German Front.
FRANKO-YANK THREAT
HARRASSES THE HUNS
Retreat Endangered Along Its
Entire Length by New
Squeeze Movement
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Telling progress was made by the
allies today in the great battle on the
western front when Canadian and
English troops pierced the Drocourt
Quent switch of the Hindenburg line,
otherwise known as thtf Wotan line.
It was upon this alternative line
established back of the main Hinden
burg line each of Arras that the Ger
man commandant was depending to
hold off the allies from €ambra*l.
Break in on Two-Mile Front.
In their advance the btitish broke
into the German positions back of
the switch line on a two-mile front.
They reached the outskirts of Sagni
court, about two miles northeast of
Queant according to advices, and
further north are reported to have
penetrated Dury, more than two miles
east of the Wotan line.
Far reaching results may follow to
day's advance which began with a
plunge early this morning by the Can
adians and English south of the
Scarpe river. If the allied gains can
be held, the Hindenburg line would
appear to be completely outflanked on
fjfrjftorthein end.
Franco-Yanks Threaten.
threat is being doubly main
through the Franco-American
north of Soissons, continued
st night. Progress was madf?
fc*al
"work
Petain's forces jn the wood
oucy-le-Chateau, and on the
ier south. It is here that the
pressing in on the Bastion
'IANT-E
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Ap.llER.iobain, defending Layon, the
wages, bulwark of the Hindenburg
Beckwick,
fronts between the flanks
WANTttHsh made further progress, not-
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at the northern end. They are
reported at Beugny nearly four m/es
northeast of Bapjaume. and they have
taken the town of Moreuil, further
north of thir area. The Germans hold
ing point at Le Transloy, 'between Ba
paume and Transloy is in danger of
being taken.
The Germans are still on the back
ward track in Flanders. The British
are keeping closely after the enemy.
They have reached the Lys. east of
Estaire, and have captured Xeuve
Eglise, near the edge of the Messines
Ridge, south of Kernel.
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I|2.20 BUSHEL
FOR WHEAT IS
1919 PRICE
President Wilson by Proclama
tion Fixed That Basis for
Cereal
COMMISSION ON COSTS
Washington, D. C., Sept. 2.—By proc
lamation issued today, President Wil
son set $2,20 per bushel as the mini
mum guaranteed by the government
for
the
1919 wheat crop. A disinter
ested commission, the president stat
ed, will 'be appointed next spring to
see if the increases in farm supplies
will justify an increase in that price.
$2.21 1-2 at Minneapolis.
The proclamation fixes as reason
able guaranty prices for No. 1 north
ern spring wheat and its equivalent
at Minneapolis at $2.21 1-2.
Possibility of peace before the mid
dle of 120 was indicated in a mempr
andum written by the president and
accompanying the proclamation as a
factor for determining the price for
tie 1919 wheat crop.
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OPERA HOUSE BURNS.
Fargo, Sept. 2.—The Opera block
at Casselton, N. D., was destroyed by
fire Sunday morning of unknown ori
gin. Assistance was asked of the
Fargo department, but the request was
cancelled before the company's tie
parture.
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FOUR MEN OVER
50 ENLIST FOR
MILITARY DUTY
F«ir men, all over fifty years
«W, enlisted in Bismarck dtfring I
Mm. last week for service in Uncle I
tan't army. One of their number,
F. Briscoe, sold a Half-section of I
land and invested the proceeds in I
nfeorty bends. He will serve I
Uncle Sam as an expert auto me
chanic. Imer Wilson goes in as
I bookkeeper, and W. W. Ridgeway I
I of Hurdsfeld enters the commia
sary department. William Boyd of
I Manning, the fourth of the quar
tette. enlists as an auto mechanic.
All are substantial, well-known 1
citizens of central North Dakota,
and they are very enthusiastic ov
er the opportunity offered them to
serve their country.
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WEATHER BOYS
TO CELEBRATE
Clouds Will Not Interfere With
Observance of Labor Day
This Afternoon
ALL EXPENSES CARED FOR
Exerything Cleared Will Go Di
rect to Red Cross—Program
Begins at 2
"If the boys over there in the
trenches can keep on fighting in spite
of rain and storm and mud, 1 guess it
will not hurt us to pull otf our cele
bration even if the weather isn't as
favorable as it might be, and you may
announce that unless it is raining tor
rents, our Labor day program will be
given at the Capitol athletic park this
afternoon as scheduled,' said Frank
iUilhollan of the trades and labor as
sembly this morning.
Ordinarily Labor day is blessed with
fair weather. Because this day has
proved an exception, the Bismarck
trades unionists do not intend to be
cheated of their one big holiday of the
year, and they will be on hand at 2
o'clock this afternoon to entertain
their guests as originally announced.
The program at the Capitol athletic
park will open at 2 o'clock with a con
cert by the Elks' band. Addresses by
Hon. John N. Hagan, commissioner of
agriculture and labor, and Rev H.. C.
Postletjiwaite, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, will follow, and
then an interesting series of athletic
events, including the annual Labor
day baseball game, will be offered.
At a meeting of the trades and labor
assembly Sunday evening it was
agreed that all expenses incident to
the celebration (be pro-rated among
the various unions having membership
in this body, and every penny that is
taken in at the park tbis afternoon
will go direct to the Red Cross. Sev.
eral substantial donations for the ben
efit of the Red Cross already have
been received, and the laborites hope
to realize a very substantial sum.
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CAPITAL CITY
OFFICERS NOW
AT THE FRONT
Capt. Frayne Baker Makes Quick
Trip Across—Lieut.-Col.
Quain is There
Capt. I. P. Baker has been advised
of the safe arrival in France of his
son, Capt. Frayne Baker of the quar
termaster corps. Capt. fliker, who
had been stationed on the Mexican
border for 15 months, was home for
a brief furlough during the summer,
leaving Bismarck for the Atlantic
coast less than a month ago.
Among other Bismarck fighters re
cently arrived in France is Lieut.-Col.
E. P. Quain, commanding a base hos
pital unit, largely compose of Bis
marck surgeons, physicians and nurs
es. G. C. Wachter has received advice
that his son, Eugene Wacht-ar has ar
rived in England.
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BRITISH BOAT
TORPEDOED OFF
FRENCH COAST
Thirteen Survivors of Crew of 37
Reach Canadian Port on Oil
Tanker
A Canadian Atlantic Port, Sept.. 2.—
The British steamer Eschrick, 4,151
tons, bound from Bordeaux to Mon
treal. was torpedoed on the night of
August 16 when about 500 miles oft
the French coast. Thirteen survivors
of the crew of 37 have arrived fiere on
an oil tanker, which picked them up.
An engineer and fireman are believed
to have been killed when the torpedo
struck the engineroom.
The survivors were afloat in their
lifeboats for three days 'before the
oil tanker came along.
FISHING SCHOONER LOST.
St. Johns. N'. F.. Sept. 2.—Twenty
men from the fishing schooner Elsie
Porter, of Lunnenburg, Nova Scotia,
and five from the schooner Potentate,
of LaHaven. landed here today, and
reported that their vessels were sunk
by a German submarine last Friday.
The captain of the Porter was held
prisoner on the submarine.
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BOARD IN SESSION.
The Burleigh county commission is
in monthly session at the court house,
transacting routine business.
THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 218 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, SEPT. 2, 1918.
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This is the Day. a
The Hour.
The Year.
The Age.
We are climbing to the peak of our
hopes ,our dreams and our goal lies
but a lttlie way ahead of us.
Human eyes have never seen the
\vorld as we shall see it when once
we scale the summit. Human feei
have never trodden that high. Human
justice has never been so widely flow
ing as it will be when we come to
this goal of ours. Human liberty
has never touched as many souls as
it will. Human love has never been
as deep nor as broad.
This peak lies but a little way ahead
of us.
Beyond it stretches the endless val
ley of peace, honor, freedom, and all
that makes this globe a worth while
place i\i whilst to be born, to live, and
to die.
But first we must scale the peak.
No height upon the mountain's side
is high enough.
Nothing that lies beyond is ours un
tif we have attained tne peak.
That peak is victory.
It is decisive, final, everlasting de
feat of the Huns.
To be achieved in battle over there
and in effort over here.
We all must climb, every last man,
woman and child of us.
Those brave soldiers of ours—our
best and finest Ijoys—cannot do all
our climbing.. They cannot pull us up
to this peak of human ambition if we
hold back.
They are fighting over there in
such a hell of shell as man has never
known. They go courageously, glori
ously to heroic death. They come
out of battle torn, crippled, blinded,
shattered of body, stronger of soul.
A million and a half are there. Oth
er millions will go to strengthen the
arm which is driving to its lair the
Beast of Berlin. And still more mil
lions will "go," even as they stay
here at home. They will go in spirit,
in effort, in work. Without these the
peak of victory,^ and all which that
contain?, would recede, further and
further from us.
They must climb together—the sol
dier over there and the worker over
here. One cannot lag behind. Both
have the same goal to attain. Both
will suffer in the same agony of de
feat if we do not reach the peak.
And they ARE climbing together.
Workman and soldier—OXE FIGHT
ING FORCE, incomparable, unde
featable, irresistible!
That is the secret of America's suc
cess. That is why the United tatesS
has been able to come so rapidly and
so overwhelmingly to the front when
the sword of the Hun flashed threat
eningly near the throat of democ
racy. That is why the "feeble"' little
American army' has grown and is
continuing to grow so alarmingly
strong that the despots of Potsdam
quake in their boots and would give
their stolen loot to ward off the blow
that is falling and cannot be turned
aside.
Americans are working as Veil as
they are fighting.
American labor having sent a part
of itself over there to fight, is work-
THE TRIBUNE
IMPORTANT GERMAN DEFENSES FALLING
BROTHERS IN ARMS—WORKER AND SOLDIER
Workers Will Produce
BY CHARLES-MTSCHWAB.
(Chairman, United Statep. Shipping
Board.)
I am indeed glad of the opportunity
whic his presented by this particular
Labor Day to extend to all classes or
workers my sincere thanks and appre
ciation for what they have done and
also to ask them to continue in }heir
unsparing efforts, to the end that the
greatest shipbuilding program ever
known may be put through on record
time. ,.
The men in the industrial plants are
performing an absolutely necessary
and patriotic service which will per
haps go further towards ending the
present conflict than any bther ser
vice other than actual fighting at the
front. The men that put in a full
day six days in the week on essential
industrial pursuits are just as much
patriots as the soldiers in uniforms.
The wonderJul record #ihlaunching
nearly 100 shlpg on -nldependence
Day is only one example-of Such co
operation and shows what our Ameri
can labor can do when inspired by
patriotic enthusiasm and a willing
ness to put everything aside for the
good of the common cause. This per
formance should act as an inspiration
to all branches of ndustry. and I am
am sure our industrial workers will
were undreamed of in the
continue to produce results which
were undreamed of in the past.
My particular duty is to see that the
greatest possible ship tonnage is pro
duced this year in order that men.
food and munitions may be carried to
the front where the battle for the safe
guarding of self-government is being
waged and, with the assistance and
encouragement of my friends and of
the workmen themselves, the job will
be carried "over the top."
ing harder, longer, more efficiently
to make up the difference. It is doing
better it is increasing its load.
And because we are all in the war
together—worker and soldier—and in
it to our last dollar, our last drop of
blood, our last ounce of energy WE
WILL WIN.
We are nearing the peak. We will
arrive, soldier and worker together.
Then, indeed, this will be our DAY—
the day of victory with honor and
glory.
Let us all try a bit harder to do a
bit more that we
Smaller Paper War Measure For Time
In order to effect a fifteen per cent reduction in print
paper ordered by Trade Commission, it will be. necessary
for The Tribune occasionally to issue a four page paper.
This probably will not be necessary after October 1, when
the mailing list and city carrier list is revised.
The Tribune proposes to comply strictly with the gov
ernment regulations and assist in the reduction of newsprint.
A four page paper twice a week for the next few weeks will
easily effect a i5 per cent reduction.
It is hoped that -the readers will bear with a four-page
edition occasionally until our print reduction is within the
government requirements.
This is a war measure pure and simple and is not to be
construed as a permanent arrangement.
may
not falter in
the. great adventure upon which this
nation has set out—to establish free
dom. for all. forever, upon the proud
summit of decisive victory, from
which our eyes may behold the pleas
ing valley of permanent peace.
The worker is fighting the Hun in
mine and mill, factory and field, shop
and office, in railroad yard and freight
shed. He is climbing to the peak of
victory as he stands before the roar
ing red flame-of the blast furnace as
he pours flowing metal into cannon
mold as he digs in the darkened pen
far underground for the coal the in
dustries of war must have as he
plows land, harvests crops, saws lum
ber. drives trucks, cuts cloth, gins
cotton, fires engines, rivets ships, fills
I
shells as he does anything which
brings American soldiers over there
nearer the retreating trail of Hun foot
prints.
Yes, in truth, he fights who toils.
He's every inch a soldier, is the Am
erican working man—AXD THAT IN
CLUDES THE WORKING WOMAN!
He fights with machine, lathe, plow
handles, with whatever implement of
war in his hands, and he fights as
courageously if that is a pneumatic
rivet driver as if it were a machine
gun. The fruit of his labor is as im
portant. It is as ljrge a factor in
oriqglng us to the peak of victory.
He is a soldier—is the worker. He
has earned the right to stand hand
in hand with the man in uniform, the
man with a gun. and say:
"We will win!"
They will win. We will win. The
indomitable spirit which has woven
itself into our hearts and souls can
not be beaten. It cannot be stilled
It MUiST ascend to the summit of hu
man hopes. And that is the victory
we are striving for.
W hen this is done, as done it must
be. the veterans of this war will num
ber within their ranks, mechanic, la
borer, miner, farmer, engineer fire
man puddles, riveter steel worker—•
VERY WORKER who helped to win.
They are earning that place now.
Their brothers in uniforms will be
the first to give the veterans of war
industries a place of honor side by
side with them who fought with guns.
Xo one better than the soldier in
the trench the sailor on the battle
ship, knows how futile would be their
effort, how sure their defeat if that
strong arod valiant arm of American
labor were not back of them—work
ing, striving, sustaining. It is true
The soldier in the trenches little fears
the enemy as long as he knows his
people back home are standing by him
heart and soul.
And we ARE standing by him!
fc,very true and loyal worker in all
these states is with him, for he is our
boy—and America- boy—and we wii
win WITH him.
EIGHT DAKOTA
HEN GRADUATE
LIEUTENANTS
Commissions Awarded Flicker
tail Octette in Fourth Camp
Dodge School
Washington. D. C., Sept. 2.—Eight
North Dakota soldiers graduated from
the fourth officers' training school at
Camp Dodge, la., with commissions
as second lieutenants. All of the 239
successful candidates in this school
are from the northwest, and the en
tire number is assigned to the in
fantry.
Xorth Dakota's graduate officers
are:
Paul W. Crawford. Cooperstown.
Alvin L. Derby. Bathgate.
Albert A. Hemp, Valley City.
John M. Johnson, Upham.
Fred A. Kramer. Fargo.
John J. Laemmle, Ashley.
Fred A. Maser. Jr.. Dickinson.
Henry S. Snore, Minnewaukan.
-BUY W. S. S.-
SIXTY BUSHELS
OF OATS RECORD
ON SPERRY FARM
Lynn Sperry. one of the Missouri
valley's most successful native born
farmers, has some oats which are
making as high as 60 imshels to the
acre. His wheat is running all th'j
way from five bushels to 23 bushels
to the acre. A Red Cross acre which
had been badly beaten down by rain,
hail and wind, and -which had to be
harvested by hand, yielded 11 bushels
of food wheat.
YANKS CAPTURE SEVERAL BIG
TOWNS IK FIRST FIGHTING IN
FLANDERS AGAINST THE
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
With the British Army in Flanders, Sunday, Sept. 1.—rln their
first fighting in Belgium, the Americans captured Voormezelle and
several strong German positions in that vicinity. On their entrance
in Voormezelle they found the shell fire had been so intense'/•hat
hardly one brick was left standing upon another.
As the Americans advanced, the German rear guard ope* I
with their machine guns, but these were quickly silenced.
YANKS ADVANCE ELSEWHERE.
Elsewhere in the vicinity the Americans advanced their li
Counter attacks by the Germans resulted in their gaining little m«
than a slight foothold which in every case was quickly loosened.
some places the Germans did not even get a foothold.
There has been especially heavy fighting in the whirlpool of
the battle around Bullecourt. and Hendecourt, where the British are
holding positions almost resting against the Drocourt-Queant or
Wotan line.
It is believed that Bullecourt itself has thrice been lost and wori
in the past two days.
TWO DAYS'DOG FIGHT.
First the British were in the town, and then the Germans. Wlflle
one side had the control the machine gunners and bombers from the
other would filter in and get the positions, and then the place would
become most active. From ruin to ruin, through cellars and old
trenches, the fighting hits continued and all of the time almost the
same tactics were being followed in the country surrounding. In
the language of the British soldier, it has been a '"dog fight" here
for two days.
Just now it appears that Bullecourt and ITandecourt are agarin
in the British hands and hiding places and dugouts are being mopped
up. Fighting has been going on in the villages of Esooust, St. Mein,
and Longattc, and these places also are in possession of the British.
PILED WITH GERMAN DEAD
The ground in front of the British line throughout this region
is piled with German dead.
The enemy seems to have removed virtually everything he had
in Pennine, for he realized that the town surely must come into
British hands soon, but nevertheless there was fighting there before
the town was captured.
128,302 PRISONERS CAPTURED.
Paris, Sept. 2.—The allied forces of the eastern front have
taken a total of 128,302 prisoners, since July 15th, it was an
nounced in an official statement today. In the same period 2,069
guns, 1,734 mine throwers and 13,783 machine guns were cap-'
tured.
79,000 ON FRENCH FRONT.
Paris, Sept. 2.—On the French front, 75,900 prisoners and 700
guns, have been captured by the French since July 18th, it is an
nounced today.
FRESH ATTACK LAUNCHED.
London, Sept. 2.—An attack was launched this morning by
Canadian and English troops in the important sector south of the
Scarpe in the Arras region. The war office announces good prog
ress was being made.
CENTERS ABOUT BAPAUME.
London, Sept. 2.—The core of the whole battle now is between
the Scarpe river and Bapaume and it is here that the Germans
are really fighting. In this sector, the Germans are fighting well
to keep the allies off their great line of defense that winds along
the most favorable ridges from St. Quentin to Drocourt. London,
Manchester and Liverpool troops are operating here while to the
south the Canadians are fighting fierce battle against stubborn
resistance.
LOST ONLY 25 MEN.
London, Sept. 2.—The Australians who captured Mont St.
Quentin with 1,500 prisoners, and thereby made the fall of Per
onne inevitable, accomplished the feat within an hour and with a
loss to themselves of only 25 men, according to the Daily Mail's
correspondent at British headquarters in France. The correspon
dent says that the better part of three German divisions crumbled
to pieces before one Australian division.
The capture of Peronne, according to the correspondent,*
should turn the enemy's present line and hasten his retreat. He
now has in this southern quarter only one good position to hold
before he reaches the Hindenburg line from St. Quentin northward.
LA TRANSLOY LOST.
London, Sept. 2.—La Transloy, the important point on the
line between Bapaume and Peronne where the Germans have been
holding stubbornly has been considered today as virtually in Brit
ish hands. They have captured Villers-la-Foulax to the north
and La Transloy now is outflanked on both sides.
The capture of Moreuil, northeast of Bapaume, was reported
this morning. Between 3,000 and 4,000 prisoners taken by the
Australians in the vicinity of Peronne yesterday.
MAY EXECUTE 5,000
Amsterdam, Sept. 2.—An announcement by the Bolsheviki
government to the effect that 5,000 revolutionaries who have been
arrested and sentenced to death will be executed if the revolution
ary party conducts fresh intrigues against the Soviet government,
is quoted in a dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung. Other dispatches
to the same newspaper state that all roads leading to Kremlin and
the main streets of Moscow are occupied by troops. The inhabi
tants keep indoors fearing fresh disturbances. Moscow, the dis
patch say, appears deserted.
Amsterdam. Sept. "J.—According to dispatches received here to
day from the eial Russian telegraph agency, Xicolai Lenine, the
Premier, who was shot Friday night by a Russian female revolu
tionist and who was reported to have succumbed to his wounds, is
out of danger.
PERONNE HAS FALLEN.
Paris, Sept. 2.—The allies are keeping up the battle in the
face of increasing resistance by the enemy, and they have ad
vanced the fighting to include a front of some 125 miles from
Ypres to Soissons. This is more than well informed observers
had hoped for. Peronne has fallen and with it the last chance of
the enemy for holding strong positions along the Somme.
While important features are being performed along the main
battle line, General Mangin continues to forge ahead, adding to
the enemy's losses. General Mangin's success is not only due to
valor of his troops, but in the skill he has shown in maneuvering
them.
NEARING CAGNICOURT.
London, Sept. 2.—The British have penetrated the the vitally i|
important Drocourt-Queant stretches of the Hindenburg line, ac
cording to reports from the battle front this afternoon. They
have reached the western edge of Cagnicourt, about two miles
northeast of Queant.
A large number of prisoners were taken in this forward push
against extreme stubborn enemy resistance.
The British advance along the Cambria-Bapaume road is
continuing. On this road, the British are approaching the village
of Beugny, nearly four miles northeast of Bapaume but it to not
yet definitely reported captured. & ....... |r
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