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FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 92
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918
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Certainly of Checking Germans Unanimously Asserted At
End of Battle Germans Will Be Exhausted and Incapable
of Another Offensive German Lines Being Pounded by
Vast Assemblage of Artillery German Gains Are of No
i Vital Effect France Calm and Confident v
By Henry Wood
(United Press Staff Correspondent.) .
With the French Armies in the Field, April 17.
(Night) Every inch of the German line from south of
the Somme to the Oise a front of ninety kilometers
(55.89 miles), is being pounded by the vastest artillery
concentration yet attained by the alliesr Even the coun
try for miles to the rear of the enemy positions is under
bombardment'
Prisoners say the cannonading, in addition to prevent
ing tht digging of a single trench, is inflicting the heaviest
losses.
The offensive has reached a stage Where allied military
officials declare unanimously that the present battle is ab
solutely and irrevocably decisive for Germany. With the
allies' present certainty of checking the German offensive,
coupled with the known German losses, the Germans at
the battle's end will be exhausted and incapable of ser
iously attempting another offensive. Instead, they will
have to remain on the defensive, constantly threatened
by internal upheavals, while American arrivals swell the
superiority of the allies.
French military officials declare the French army is
capable of waiting another eighteen months if necessary
to attain a crushing superiority. But with the Americans
maintaining or increasing their rate of arrivals, the final
military victory is possible much sooner.
Pay Dearly for Gains
London, April IS. "German infan
try, attacking in. three waves south
east af Kemimel hill, pressed us back
Blightly at one porat, but ft counter at
ItiaicM Ttoirtd (the (Situation," Field
Marshal Haig reported today
"Shortly after mid-day the attack
8iad been repulsed at all points."
In the Bailleul sector the enemy, at-fttw-king
three jrM: before mid-day
iwas copiplotely repulsed.
"Our line yesterday was intact on
the whole front. There wag no change
Sa the British front during the night,"
Jiaig said.
"There was hostile artillerying on
tfhe'Lys battle front, from Givenchy to
eastward of Robecq, continuing until
dawn between Locon and Robecq.
"Local attacks ti the. Morris sector
yesterday evening were reputed.
"More detailed reports of the fight
ing yesterday in Nieppe forest and on
the- Wytscheate front established the
verity of the enemy's losses."
The Germans again are in posses
elon of Yytcheate and Meteren, it is
admitted in Field Marshal Haig'9
night official report.
The British recaptured these villages
ii counter attacks yesterday morning.
Jmt were compelled to evacuate, them
orain in the face of continued, enemy
assaults. The French are eo-opera,ting
with the British on this front, Haid
FOCH KEEPS COOL AND
WAITS PATIENTLY
THE 11ET0 STRIKE
WI Nat Use Reserves Until
Rijfht Moment To Make
Blow Effective
SPILLED THE SOUP.
;
With the American Armies in
Lorraine, April 17. The Anieri-
can artillery on this front al-
ready has reduced the German
artilleryby two thirds silencing
enemy batteries with only a few
minutes bombardment. The
French are amazed at the Yan
kee gunners' accuracy.
A lieutenant commanding one
gun spotted a German "rolling
kitchen."
"By gosh! I'll bet I can
splash one in Heinie's soup,"
he exclaimed.
The first shot was too "long"
the second was too "short". The
third spilled the soup.
This is just an exampl of the
extremely small targets the Am
erican artillerymen are capable
of hitting.
The Americans are now the
masters of No Man's Land ou
this sector. Every night five to
eight .patrols scurry from the
outposts and smash the enemy's
dugouts, listening posts and ma
chine gun nests.
An officer and 12 men raid
ed five machine gun nests, a
field telephone post and some
snipers' hiding places without
loss."They spent five hours map
ping the entire area before that
section of the American trenches
PLEADED GUILTY
San Francisco, April 18. Captain A.
R- Paulson, former ekippef of the
steamer Alliance, pleaded guilty to
day to ia charge of conspiring to ship
arms and' ammunition into Mexico. He
will be sentenced tomorrow.
HUGH HELP HAY
TURN THE TIDE 111
FLANDERS FIGHT
Situation Such . That Further
British Retirement Is
Probable
FOCH PLAYS HIS CARDS
BUT DOES NO TALKING
LIBERTY SHOES MAY COME
ALONG WITH "WAR SUITS"
Only .Standardized Clothing Controlled by weeping
Price Fixing Covering Every Stage of Manufacture
War Continues '
Fighting of Last 48 Hours As
Bloody As Any Since
War Started
By Carl D. Groat
(United Press staff correspondent)
Washington, April 18. Military men
here today looked for important de
velopments following arrival of French
reinforcements on the Flanders battle
field- Tat it might be the forerunner
of a vast strengthening of the British,
as mentioned by Haig several days ago.
was the thought here.
Army men recalled that Haig then
(Continued on page six.)
LIEUTENANT MtQUARRIE
IS DISCIPLE OF OPTIMISM
For Hour and Half Story of
Battle Keeps Audience
Forgetful-of Time
M Doa 't worry about the situation in
Franice. We've got it In the neck and
so will you. It has done us good and it
will do you good. We will win all right
and your boys will be marching down
the streets of Berlin singing Yankee
Doodle Do."
With this optimistic view of the crit
ical .situation in France Lieutenant
Hector MacQuarrie held spell bound
an audience last night that packed the
armory to its utmost capacity.
tor the lieutenant is not an otvator
of gloom. Although lie had taken part
in the terrible experiences of the firs'
little English army sent to France and
had fought at the first and second
battle of Ypres, he spoke ouly of tin!
bright side of things and the audience
was with him cheering patriotically all
references to the friendship between
this country and England. -Was
Unprepared
Lieutenant MacQuarrie said in part.
' fEvery child in Englamd itudies
about George Washington and ranks
him along with Abraham and the
prophets. We really regard Washington
as one of our national heroes and are
prctud of him.
"The German propaganda succeeded
(Continued on page two)
Washington, April 18 America may
soon wear a "liberty shoe" and "war
suits"- to ho mainufjaetured at low
cost on a large scale end with very
few shapes. '
Models and specifications for the
shoe and suits are bcine considered by
the war industries boatd. While board
officials said neither is imminent, ulti
mately the coumtry must prepare for
this standardization. If the example
of Emeland is followed, the tan. shoe
will go.
The standard war suits will be made
in a few designs of standardized ma
terials and with, a retail price fixed.
Rapidly rising prices on necessaries
resulting from the tremendous war or
ders which aie usurping the output of
clothing and shoo factories make nec
essary firm action by the government
to protect civilian cor-sumers.
Officials indicate that only stand
ardized clothing controlled by a sweep
ing price fixing policy covering every
stage of manufacture from raw mater
ial to the finished product will save
the country from economic difficulties
if tho war continues.
The war industries board is silently
plunging into its price fixing activities
Wool .manufacturers have boca noti
fied to appear tomorrow for confer
ence with Chairman Barnch if the
board. Leather manufacturers were
here earlier in the week. Cotton men
were assembled in New York, working
on plans for regulation of their own
industry to be. submitted to Baruch.
Representatives of other industries will
be called in the future.
The rapid rise in price of necessar
ies lately has alarmed officials. The
prices are not the result in all cases i
of shortage of raw material. Bow cot
ton, 'for instance, dropped sharply on
the cotton exchange last week, but, in
tho last two months prices of finished
cotton products haver practically doub-'
iea, 11 was statoa. umors tor . Hund
reds of thousands of yards of gauzo
are usurping the output of looms The
same is true of leather, hides being as
plentiful as ever, while shoes are soar
ing in price.
Official are also keeping an eye on
post war foreign trade and their deter
mination! to hold down prices is ex
plained in part as a desire to have
America at the end of the war on a
price level which will permit competi
tion with foreign countries. They
point out that if prices are allowed to
rise mow, labor will demand its share
of the increase, supplies will zx un.
and once raised, it will be extremely
difficult to attempt a reduction such
as would be necossary whon the Amer
ican nianuiacuire.ru undersell i other
countries.
England's success in standardizing
clothing is being carefully studied and
it is probable that whatever America
does will be modeled after the action
af England.
TO CLIP MILLION
MILES PER flllH
FROM TRAIN RUNS
Director McAdoo to Reduce
Passenger Service West
of Mississippi
TRAINS MUST CARRY NO"
HALF - FILLED CARS
One Passenger Train Will Be
Made Practically To Da
Work of Two
V
ELECTION WAS A
"DKAW"
Albany, N. Y April 18.
TJhe loiatyrptiw -"election- On)
New' York state yesterday 'was-
almost an even break between
the drys and wets.
Twenty cities voted dry.
Eighteen voted wet. One is still
in doubt.
Manufacturing cities retain
ed the license. In the larger
cities votes of the newly en
franchised women . were about
evenly split.
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LOADED-APRIL 1,1918
(Continued ou page two)
.
Abe Martin ' t
Another thing. we can't understand is
why it is necessary t' solicit a red
- Wooded American t' bny a Liberty
f-ond. Who remembers when we nsed t '
lnow a eow I' mew th' lawn? . -
By J. W. T. Mason
(Written for the United Press)
""New York, April 18. Further stif
fening of the British front today jus
tifies General Foch's reluctance to use
up a great part of his reserves in de
fensive fighting to protect Ypres and)
Hazebrouck.
If Voa Hiudenburg's bloody effort to
reach the ehanucl ports can be perman
eutly checked without disturbing the
allies' reserves, the Germans will have
met one of the most serious defeats in
the war. It will mean that Ilindenburg
has failed to compel Foch to accept 'the
German conditions for an allied offen
sive. This unquestionably is the reason
why Foch is showing such persistent re
fusal to employ his reserves along the
northern end of the battle front.
It is unreasonable to expect Foch
to develop at this time so overwhelm
ing a counter offensive as would force
the. Germans back to the positions they
occupied before the present drive began.
When- the Germans started their ad
vance four weeks ago, they were fresh
and had spent all winter preparing
their plans and accumulating vast stores
of munitions. The allies are now weak
ened because of their defensive fight
ing and have shot away a large part of
their reserve ammunition.
For Foch to use his reserves now for-
offensive purposes would be to attempt
to drive the Uermans back while the
allies have probably not more than fifty
per- rent of their maximum offensive
efficiency. To take the offensive about
Ypres and Hazebrouck would mean for
Foch as heavy a price in casualties for
meager gains as Hindenburg is now
paying. This would suit Hindenburg ad
mirably. He eonld turn to the German
people and declare that the allies' re
serves had been enticed into battle at
the farthest point sway from German
territory, and at a time when the allies'
efficiency was far from its potential
maximum.
Hindenburg recently said a battle, is
a living thing that takes time to de
velop. Foch understands quite well that
thi maxim holds true also, for eoun
ep offensive.
AUSTRIAN TROOPS If!
UKRAINE REFUSE TO
SERVEON WEST FRONT
Refused Even To Go To Italy
leutons Iry To Make
It German Colony
Washington, April 18. Austrian
troops in the Ukraine have Tefused to
do services on th west front, or even
in If al, according to rumors reaching
the- :tate department today. In addition
to these rumors, authentic Information
showed that the Teutons are tryinjr to
convert the Ukraine into a German
Austrian colony.
Insofar as possible, the Teutons have
cut off all communication between the
Lkiuine and Russia and are supplanting
the Ukraino officials with Austrian or
German officials. German and Austrian
money is being circulated and the na-
tive money is being suppressed as fastjstops since contemplated changes
!as possible
These facts came frQm reliable sourc
es, which the department did not feel at
liberty to reveal. At the same time an
unsubstantiated story was that the Tou-
ons intend to dissolve the Ukrainian
legislative body, the rada.
The department was without informa
tion as to whether Germany has been
able to draw new reserves from the east
front for western fighting since the
great offensive started. It had reason
to believe rccentlv, however, that Ger
many had drained the eastern reserve
about to the limit before the west of
fensive opened.
Chiefly Austrian soldiers are in the
Ukraine, according to tho department's
information, nnd they refused to be mot
ed.
The Teutons still control Odessa, tho
great grain port, and Nikolniev, tin)
Ukrainian river town where is located
an important submarine building works.
AN ABANDONED SCHOONER
DONNERWETTER ! DOTS DER THIRD TIME
Washington. April 18. Waterlogged
and apparently abandoned, the four
masted schooner. Herald, New York,
was sighted April 12 in latitude 23
degrees 44 .minutes and longitude 85
degrees ix minutes west according" to
a state department dispatch from the
American consul at Tampico, Mexico,
today.
Washington, April 18 Director Gen
eral McAdoo is about to clip 1,000,000
miles a mionth from the total mileage,
traveled by passenger trains west of
the Mississippi river.
Details of the remodeled train sched
ules are practically complete and an
official announcement of tho change
is expected wuata tea days, .. it was)
learned at tho offices of the railroad
administration here today.
The revolutionary change, besides re
leasing scores of -ktoomotivs for haul
ing wah necessities, is directly in line
with MeiAdoo's policy of economy in
operations of the national railways. It
will place passenger service on a strict
ly war basis. One train practically will
be doing tho work af two, it wss said.
Constant calls for speed in handling
materials needed ia' the; Drosecutdon
of tho war has forced the transporfea-
uun or passengers to oe given second
ary consideration. Recent elimination
of "superfluous trains" east of the
Mississippi river has provided basis
for the re arrsngememt of train sched
ules in other sections. The plan, which
will be announced shortly, Is expected
K arrect tn emire west.
Must rut Coacluog
Although the cut In service premise
16 be the most drastic since the gov
ernment took charge of the rail lines,
officials stated the re-scheduling has
been worked out on purely an efficien
cy basis-. They asserted tho publio.
would suffer few inconveniences.
Transcontinental trains no. kger
will be permitted to carry half filled: .
coaches. And they will make more
ntemDlated changes will
eliminate numerous local trains. The
number of trains from coast to coast
will be. fewer. Details as to the exact
reduction in that service were refused, .
bint it was understood the same curtail
ment would be effected as on connect-.
ing eastern lines, where fewer trains
have proved practical.
The "north" routes to tho Tacifio
coast are regarded by officials as hav
ing tho highest percentage of "cuper
fluous trains." Therefore fewer trains
especially between Chicago and Kt.
Paul ,is certain toi be the rule.
Barges on uteaia
Little change in southern transcon
tinental service is anticipated. One .
fast train, however, wag raid to be due
fcr conversion into a local traffic car
rier. This action is another part of Mc
Adoo 's far reaching plans far conserv
ing transportation farfritice in antici-
pat.ion of the great strain expected as .
America responds to the allies' appeals
for reinforcements.
Yesterday it was announced that to
improve facilities in the congested
eaHit, McAdoot would construct and put .
into operation a line of barges on the
Erie canal. This co-ordination of canal
and railroad facilities will be under the :
direction of G. A. Tomlinson, DuHith,
Minn., and all traffic? that can be '.
(Continued on page six)
PAINTS VIVID PICTURE OF
GREAT FLANDERS BATTLE
From Hill Top fans Views
Battle Spread Out Below
In Great Panorama
By William Philip Simms
(United Press staff correspondent)
With the British Annies Near Bail
leul, April 17. (Night) The fight
now progressing is the most spectacu-.
lar of the war. '..
From a hill top near Bailleul it can
be observed in pantocrine as though,
from a balcony seat. Miles upon miles
from around the Passchendaele salient
from which the Briitih are volun
tarily withdrawing'-vtoVnr outh west
ward of Bailleul, is visihie to the nak
ed eye. With Field glasses, infantry
can be plainly seen on the move. .
The battles of Unmoral, Verdun ana
Messines were all in a hill country, af
fording tho scantiest ghmpses. But
from elevations around Bailleul the
war's meet dramatic panorama fetch
es out with scarcely a tree clump ob
scuring the view.
Across fertile miles of faims, men
are visible . going into action. Sheila
burst in pasture lands. Abandoned
cows cease grazing and stare in .mild
astonishment at the strangle eruption.
The sky is filled with btaek and white
cloud puffs and with low- frying air
planes in contact with infantry, drip
ping signal rockets to point out tar
gets to the artillery.
The rattle of machine gnns and the
bais thunder of heavy artillery, com-.
mingled with the ear-splitting, velley
ing Dangs of guns, is a worthy orches
tra . to the greatest drama c all times.
1 . Some Things Kid i colons ' .. ' ' .
Flashes from guns and howitzers
cloverlv concealed or frankly eut in
tho opc-n leaped dazzlingry, sometimes
startlingly ner while , the horisOB
flickers like thousands of preket. mir
rors flashing in the sunlight
In tho foreground, a German shell
erutups fairly into a farm house.. The
former occupants -probably are tramp
ing slong the roads, regretting they
ever left their home. The house gives
off a white smoke for a few minutes,
then a flag of flames mottnts toward
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