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AMERICANS PREP ARE CALMLY FOR
BIGGEST OPERATION ADVANCE IS
MADE WITH EAGER ASSURANCE
Tribune Staff Correspondent With Pershing's Army Northwest
of Verdun Tells How Our "Yanks" "Go to It."
In Face of the Huns.
BY. C. C. LYON.
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.
With Pershing's Army Northwest
of Verdun.—All day long the divisions
have been filled with "underground
rumors" of an impending offensive.
For three days, day and night, ev­
ery road leading toward tho Ger­
man lines, has been clogged with
horse and motor-drawn artillery, thou­
sands—it seems—of ammunition wa­
gons, loaded to rapacity and then
tho never-ending stream of heavy
trucks carrying the paraphernalia of
the engineers and material for mak
bridges and roads.
The infantry has been in billets I
close to the "jumping off place'' for
sorao days, and the doughboys watch
the passing traffic with keen inter-:
est.
Early in the day the colonel sends
for all his majors and captains and
they are in conference for more than
an hour. When they" return to their
own commands all the officers aro
close-mouthed, while the doughboys
are consumed with curiosity.
The captains send for their lieu­
tenants. More conferences. Then
the lieutenants, in tus-n. are close
mouthed with their men.
See That Rifles Are in Order.
Liut rght alter dinner each lieu
tenant announuos "inspection.''
"See that your rifles and bayonets
are in perfect order." he says, signifi
cantly. I
There follows the regulation inspec
tion, during which the men are lold
to do into bundles everything but
the actual lighting equipment.
Emergency rations are passed out
to those who haven't any.
Everything buzzes with excitement!
during the supper hour.
The company cook has received or­
ders to have all equipment connected
with his rolling kitchen outfit ready
for moving.
"That settles it," -the boys agree
among themselves. "We're goin over
the top tonight sure."
After dark, the captain comes
around and addresses the entire com
pany:
"Yes, boys," he begins, "we're go­
ing into a fight at daybreak tomor­
row./. I couldn't tell yotf before this,
huV now,
1 want you to know what wu
ai% going to do.
Biggest Operation Yanks Haye
Tackled.
"The German lines run through
those woods yonder"—he points to a
dense forest some three miles to tho
north. "This is going to be tho big­
gest operation the American army has
over tackled. The corps artillery will
open up at 11:30^ tonight, and will
hammer the Gprman back areas for
two hours and a half. We're going
to give them plenty of gas, too. so
they can't bring up their reserves.
"Then, at S o'clock in the morning,
our division artillery will oegin play­
ing on the German wire and trenches
for another two hours and a half.
"We're going forward and TAKE
those trenches at 5:30 in the morn
ing.v'
A-iWt2B of conversation and numer
our ^expressions of satisfaction run
through the company. Everybody
has an "I told you/so" expression on
his face. The captain continues:
"Now, boys, this is not going to be
any picnic party. We have informa­
tion that some of the best troops the
Boches have are immediately in front
of us. In fact, some of them have
been identified by our intelligence de­
partment as Prussian guards.
Company Keyed to Combat Pitch.
"We hare just as big a part to play
in this offensive as any other of the
hundreds of companies that go for­
ward. We must reach our company
objectives, else the troops on our
left, and right can't advance accord­
ing to schedule.
"I know you boys, and I'll stake
my last dollar every one of you will
put into this fight the very best that
is in him.
"All I ask of you men is that *ou
follow me. and go where I go."
The whole company joins in one
big shoot when the captain has fin­
ished.
Will they follow him and give the
best that is in them? Just wait and
see! There could be no other inter­
pretation of that shout.
This operation, marking the open­
ing of the great battle- to the north­
west of Verdun, was, as the one cap­
tain had told his men. the biggest
thing the Americans had yet attempt­
ed. Facfng the Germans on a front
of 20 miles, that night were several
hundred thousand American troops.
And the back areas were jammed with
tens of thousands of reserves, who
would wait to be thrown into the bat­
tle if they were needed.
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Sleep Out of Question.
Not an officer or a man on that
whole front tried to sleep thaht night,
It was after dark when the men were
told they were going forward. The
big artillery would start at 11:30. Ev­
erybody waited up to hear it.
And when it did start, nobody could
have slept, even if he had so desired.
It was said later that pouring steel
and gas into the (Sferinans that nighc
was the greatest concentration" of ar
Hi-lerv the world had ever seen.
The night passed as with one long,
continuous roar, save for a short in­
termission between the time the corps
artillery finished its work and the di­
vision guns started theirs.
For more than an hour before the:
tinio fixed for the infantry to start
forward, the boys were in formation
every bayonet fixed, every rifle in
perfect order, every cartridge belt
bulging.
1 had imagined that boys who were
about to receive (heir first baptism
of fire would lie nervous and unset­
tled, but I was forcefully impressed
by the calmness and steadiness that
prevaded all, ranks.
I can't say they were. light-hearted
or festive as they stood there in tho
darkness waiting for the hour of oO
to come. There was none of that. On
the contrary, there was something
positively spiritual about them.
Their boyish, clean-shaven faces
seemed to say as I peered into them:
'The test hour for Americans has
come. Our country expects us to
give a good account of ourselves,
AND WK'ltE GOING TO GIVE IT."
"Zero Hour" Sees Line in Mo­
tion.
The "over the top hour" came, and
from one end of that twenty-mile front
to the other tens of thousands of
shadowy forms moved forward in the
graw dawn. It had begun to rain.
"So much the better JFr our pur­
pose," a colonel said. "We'll pull a
surprise party on the Boches. They1
won't be expecting us in this rain."
We took them completely by r
prise. Our artillery fire pulverized
their wire entanglement.
before S o'clock the rain had ^top­
ped, the haze was lifting and the sun
cam© out, permitting our airmen to
watch the retreating enemy.
only one serious difficulty confront­
ed us, and that was in bringing up
our artillery. Our infantry was ad­
vancing so fast the big guns couldn't
keep pace with them.
What had been No Man's Land a
few hours before now had to be cross­
ed "with the heavy guns. There were
no roads, and tho ground was so soft
Puts O. K. on
Bill of Fare
The Downcast Dyspeptic Takes
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets After
Eating and His Stomach Is
Now a Twelve-Cylinder
'Racer.
The old-time grouch is now a Sunny
Jim. Instead of feeling dull, stupid,
irritable and dhzy after eating, he
takes a Stuart's Dyspepsia Tabled
and is bright, active good natured
and full of "pep." He puts his O. K.
on the entire bill of fare everything
is good from the soup to the pie and
cheese and sets sung and comfort­
able.
Once you learn the remarkable ac­
tion of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in
digesting food, preventing and over­
coming gassiness, heartburn, sour ris­
ings, lump in your throat gagging
and the other distresses of indiges­
tion you will eat what you want at
any time without the slightest dis­
tress. Get a "0-cent box at any
drug store and join the throng of
live ones who are doing their bit and
doing it again overtime.
Furniture Company
Bismarck
220 Main Street
Furniture Upholstery Repaired, Re
finished and Packed.
Get the Genuine
and Avoid
Waste
Horses Wanted
will be at the Northern Pacific Stock Yards Satur­
day, November 9, to buy Geldings from 5 to 9 years old
weighing from eleveh hundred pounds up to sixteen hun­
dred poinds, that aire broke. .These horses must be sound
ill good condition,
JACK CHARLES HORSE BUYER
& Hit* Bismarck.
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that the first guns sank to their bubs
and stuck.
Building Roads as Advande is
Made.
Up rushed the engineers. For the
next few hours hundreds of big trucks
dumped their loads of bowlders and
crushed rock, and pretty soon there
began to appear through iNo Man's
Land little white streaks of newly
made roads. They -were hastily tuiu
affairs, but, so long as fhe gun car­
riage drivers were careful, they were
able to get through. When a car
riags or a truck, however, went off
the patch and into the mire, there
was no time for delays. The military
police, whose job it was to "get the
guns through," wasted time on
formalities.
"Ditch it!" they'd yell when a
truck or piece of artillery got '.nired
and held up the stream of.traffic, and,
while the artillery officer commanding
that particular piece would stand by
and protest and curse that he could
get it back on the road within quarter
of an hour, the "XI. P." and his men,
with the aid of the mules and horses,
would be pulling it off to one side.
And then tho streams of guns would
again flow past.
As the day wore on the spirits of
the entire American army mounted
higher and higher. Every road be­
hind what had been the German
trench sysem was an avenue along
which trudged scores, and, in some
cases hundreds, of German prisoners,'
guarded by American boys.
Little Work for American
Surgeons.
Only occasionally would an "am­
bulance come back filled with Ameri­
can wounded. The doctors in the
t. Telephone 115
conomy
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The Bread Line
Holds many men who would be eating in their
own homes instead of where they are if they had
only saved when they were earning.
While you are earning is the time to save.
Don't put it off. Come in today and start an
account.
BISMARCK
this Coal Now.
Better Order Early
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BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE
field dressing stations stood around
all day, with little to do.
Every wounded dough boy had the
same story to tell.
"Things are going great," ^they'd
say. "We're eating them alive. Our
tanks are doing great. They'd go
ahead and charge into the machine
(gun nests and blow 'em up, and then
we'd rush in and mop 'em up."
The boy who came back' that day
without having his pockets full of
tierman souvenirs counted himself
mighty unlucky.
Ono slightly wounded doughboy
came back wearing a Bocho helfnet.
with a Boche pistol at bis
The American official communique
Finds Something to Do
the Business
"I tried everything that I h»ard of
for the stomach and bowel trouble
and bloating, but \feot no permanent
help until I struck Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy, and that did the business.
My son in Canada has also taken it
and writes it has done him a lot of
good." It is a simple, hainilesss prep­
aration that removes tho catarrha*
mucus from the intestinal tract and
allays the inflammation which causes
practically all stomach, liver and intes­
tinal ailments, including appendicitis.
One dose will convince or money re­
funded. Lenhart Drug Co.
BISMARCK
NDAK.
Bismarck, N.
GOING OUT
CLOTHING
BUSINESS
$3,000 STOCK New Goods
Sold at Big Sacrifice
SALE NOW GOING ON I
I Our stock consists of
Arctics, Men's Suits, Mackinaw Coat§,
Rain Coats, Overcoats, Leather Vests,
Overalls, Pants and Trousers, Boys'
Suits, Woolen and Cotton Underwear,
Woolen Socks, Mittens, Fur Caps, Work
Shirts, Dress Shirts, Caps and Hats,
Sweater Coats, Jerseys, Suit Cases, Neck
ties, Work Shoes, Overshoes, and other
things too numerous to mention,
COLEMAN'S«Z™STOKE
Opposite Hotel McKenzie, Bfemarck.
•1 •Jp^i..
.Hide,
a
pair of Boche field glasses uround his
neck.
"How'd I get "em," ,he repeated, to
my question. Oh I'just '»rarW
1'oche officer out of them. 'I told 'm
he wouldn't need 'em back in this
prison cam".
YOU GET IT
BY CARRIER
BY MAIL IF
PAID NOW
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING MOVEMENT
ALREADY HAS EXCELLENT START
Despite many obstacles the Christ­
mas shopping movement is progress­
ing, according to Bismarck mer­
chants.
Thes government simply request
that every one observe war regula­
tions, that in the buying of Christ­
mas gifts for those other than young
children presents should be of the
useful sort. Accordingly, toy depart­
ments as well as the gift shopB sug­
gest service, conservation, comfort
and patriotism.
Nevertheless there are certain reg­
is always terse, and seldom indulges
in any detailed explanations.
Recounting this first day's battle
jyjgj, t||
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ulations set down by the government
bindings retailers. Working force
cannot be increased Hearing tho
holiday season store hours cannot bp
lengthened, and all .deliveries will bo
restricted, customers bolug asked to
carry their own packages whenever
possible. Another serious proposition
confronting tho shopper Is •that no
stocks can be replenished.
In the long run the best general
thing to do will bo to follow tho ad­
vice—"ou will show a patriotic spirit
by starting, your Christmas shopping
now!"
report that same evening. It said, in
part:
"Our troops, attacking today on a
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