Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 September 1918 — Page 1

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VOL.YANKS

XLVII.—No. 100.

GEN. PERSHING SENDS 20,000 CASUALTY LIST

Wtmnfled Hitherto Unreported Tip to August 20 Is Hade Public At Washington.

AMERICANS WILL NOT FLINCH, SAYS GEN. MARCH

New List Made Up of Men Wboa Wounds Were Not Considered Serious—Americans Hold

Own Sectors.

AMERICA WILL BE BRA YE.

**I am giving the facts to the people because I know they will face any casualty list with determination and courage, whatever tt is," General March said, in discussing the fact that 20,000 minor casualties occurred to August 20. but bad not been listed heretofore.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—American casualties to date stand at 47,173. These figures include lists to be published Sunday and a hitherto unreported list of 20,000 minor cases.

The 20,000 slight casualties occorred »p to August 20, and because of their trivial nature had been withheld.

General Pershing |elt lees Worry would be caused if these were unreported. However, some soldiers apparently -wrote home disturbing letters about cases that involved only slight wounds, and some apprehension resulted because the cajse was unlisted.

Will Publish AM Cases.

Hereafter General Pershing will report major casualties—killed and misstng—by cable, and will forward the wounded cases and hospital records by bi-weekly courier. The war departid Tit will pnbttsh all the wounds cases from now on.

Coupled wtth revelation of tbe 20,00ft list, it became known that up to a short time ago the Marine Corps headquarters estimated that about 6,000 marine en

*1 ties had not come through. These. It 1 assumed, were minor eases, but wheth* these are listed, with the tO,000 was n made plain.

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Pershing probably occurred mainly in the Soissons-Rhelma smash. To relieve the minds of anxious relatives It was explained th»t some cases we little more than scratches most at ths then involved had gone back t* duty fuickly. "Undoubtedly a great marry men,' Said March, "have written home telling about wounds that the doctor had pronounced light, and which Pershing «ii listed as not being severe, when *he letters might indicate to the peop) it home that they were severe. "So I have gotten a report I Om General Pershing as to the numb* of those casualties, tn addition to tioae Which he has published, so as to be able to give the facts to the American people. "I am giving the facts to the people because I know they will face any casualty list with determination and cioti rags."

Americans Hold Own Sectors. March revealed today that more than 90 per cent of the Americans in France are now in American sectors. This means a practical end to the British and French brigading systems, and March added that training in this Country Is now so increasingly thor

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DEBS FACES HEAVY PENALTY IE GUILTY

uLK' V iuLA ND, O., Sept. 7.——Wu£t*ne V. Debs, of Terre Haute, Ind„ national socialist leader, is to go on trial in federal court here Monday, charged With violation of the espionage law on Six counts. The charges are based on an address he made at the Ohio socialist convention at Canton, June 16.

Federal Judge Westenhaver, who will sit at the trial, this week denied a demurrer to the indictment, holding the pica of Debs' attorneys that the espionage law is unconstitutional, to be frivolous and entirely devoid of merit.

TVIm is to be defended by Seymour Rtedman, Chicago Allen Cook, Canton Joseph Schwartz, Dayton, and Morris H. Wolf, Cleveland. Morris H. Ililkjult New York, \v«u retained as an advisory attorney.

E. S. Wertz, federal attorney, and Joseph C. Hreitenstein and F. B. Kavanagh. his assistants, will represent

the government. The pennltv for conviction is twenty years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine on each count.

Terre Haute Soldier Missing In Action

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John A. Hamwn, 22, of U South Eleventh street was named in the casualty list Friday as rais*lng in action. He is & well known young man in that neighborhood, and his friends are anxiously awaiting word of him.

PUT WAR FUND BOOKS BEFORE EYE OF PUBLIC

Complete Report Made of AH Receipts and Expenditures Since Its Organization.

OYER TWENTY THOUSAND ARE FAITHFUL MEMBERS

Effort WQ1 Be Made to Add Thirty Thousand More, or Every Eligible In Vigo

County.

Ttre TTgo War Fond association Saturday made a report of the work done so fhr and a complete record of every cent received and expended. The fund has taken care of Terre Haute and Vigo county's calls in the different war drives and has been Imitated in many cities in the country.

The organization here was one of the pioneer war funds in the country and its management and progress have been highly gratifying to the people who have cheerfully shared this plan of meeting war costs.

Twenty thousand five tmndred' persons belong and are keeping up their payments. The membership should nuiaber 50,000 and the patriotic citirens in charge will in a few days launch a drive to get that part of the public which so far has held aloof. The splendid report of the war fund organization follows: VIGO COITNTY WATTONAT, WAR

FUND ASSOCIATION FINANCIAL, STATEMENT FOR THE PKRIOD ENDING SEPT. 5, 1918.

RECEIPTS.

Pledges. Dona»1 8,242.00 tion

March April May.. ... June July Aug. Sept. 1 to 5 inc. ....

Total

Total. 18,242.00 20,294.00 2J.S97.50 24,381.45 10,061.03 20,8*7.50

20.294.00 20,697.50

IS.OOO.OO 4,330.45 490.53 1,440.60

20.051.00 19.570.50 18,447.00 4,733.00

*5.00 4,768 00

.$132,221.48

DISBURSEMENTS.

June 8—Military entertainment council (smileage fund) 4,000.00 June 11—Jewish Welfare

Board 2,500.00 July 6—Central Union Trust Co., Washington, D. C.,

Asst. Treas. of Red Cross fund 18,750.00 July 6—R. N. Fllbeck, Treas.

T. H. Chapter Red Cross... 6,250.00 July 6—War camp community service 2,000 00 July 15—Knights of Columbus war camp fund 16,000.00 A'.g. 1—Central Union Trust

Co., Washington, D. C.. Asst. Treas. of Red Cross fund.. 18.750.00 Aug. 1—R. N. Filbeck, Treas.

T. H. Chapter Red Cross. 6,250.00 Aug. 1—War camp community service 2,000.00 Sept. 4— "Central Union Trust

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PROD

ELECTION NOW IS HINGING ON REGISTRATION

Political Chiefs Know That the, Party That Gets T2m Registered Wins This Time.

"STAND BY THE PRESIDENT" SENTIMENT STRONG IN STATE

'Constructive Critics" Havt Not Been Able to Get Very Far With Their Attacks on the War

Administration.

By a State Correspondent, INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Sept 7.— The election in Indiana is liable to be won prior to Oct. 7, which is the last day for registration of the voters. The party that is the most successful in the reyistrj^ion of its votes will have a lead on its opponent that will be very difficult to overcome.

It has been a hard matter to arouse the people In many counties so that they will register. Both parties have worked hard to register their vote. Naturally in some counties one party has done better than the other. The registration in the rural communities has been heavier in proportion than it has been in the cities, where the people seem too busy to pay attention to the demands for registration.

In some communities there is a strong "Stand by the President" sentiment and in these communities It can be seen that the voters are taking the time and trouble to register. They want to make the election a strong endorsement of President Wilson in every department so that the kaiser will know that there has been no reversal of form here.

Comfort fOr

They take the view that every candidate for congress of the President's party who is defeated will be just that much comfort to the enemy.

Too, many citizens wish to vote tor men who will stand by the President and who will not be tempted by the political complications which arise occasionally and out of which it is sought to make some partisan advantage. Several of these "wilful" citizens have already been retired by the different states and more will go In the Novem her elections.

In Indianapolis the democrats are canvassing the factories with notaries and in that way are registering thousands of laborers who wouldn't take time to register if thery had to do it themselves. In practically all of the industrial centers both parties have employed notaries to register t£e fac tory vote. However, It seems likely that thousands of laborers will fail to register. In Indianapolis many republicans are showing a disposition not to register. No reason Is assigned for their action.

Whether they have concluded that if they vote they feel that they should vote for democratic candidates or whether they are not in sympathy with their own party is not known. The republican state committee here is putting on a big registration drive for next week in every county and no doubt it will succeed In registering thousands of votes.

Every republican county committee will devote next week to registration of voters and will be assisted by two men sent out from headquarters here. Of course, such a plan requires a lot of mosey. The republican machine seems to have no end of coin. Just as it did two years ago. No one seems to know from whence comes the hidden golden stream—but it comes whenever it is required for the drive that is about to be put on.

Cities Are Backward.

The democrats are doing very good work In many localities. In fact. Chairman Van Nuys said today that he is well satisfied with most of the reports

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WARMER WEATHER

TEMPERATITRH RJCCORD, 7 I SEPT. T, 1918, S a. ...52

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9 a. m.......,59 7 p. m...,...,68 Noon 70 Relative humidity, 2 p. m., 68 per cent.

LOCAL CONDITIONS AT 7 P. ML. WEPT. 7, 1918. Station pressure, 29.41 temperature, 67 higest temperature yesterday 85 lowest temperature last night precipitation, 0 direction of wind southwest velocity of wind, 2 miles per hour: state of weather, clearrelative humidity, 57 per cent.

Sun rises, 6:36 sun seta. 7 JO.

FORECAST.

TERRE HAUTE—Fair and warmer today. INDIANA—Generally fair with rising temperature Monday, cloudy threatening showenk

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German Manpower Is Rapidly Being Outgrown By Allied Arrivals In France.

WASHINGTON, Sept. T.—German man-power Is rapidly being outgrown by allied arrivals in France.

By spring the American army alone will outnumber the German forces, according to battle front dispatches reaching here today. America's monthly contingent is half tbe entire annual recruiting of tbe German's dispatches.

Between July' 15 and Sept. 16, about 150 divisions were used by the Germans, advices say. Germany has al-

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WARNS AMERICANS OF

Believed That Submarines Will Now Turn Their Attention to Troop Ships.

LONDON, Sept. 7.—Pointing oat the necessity that the American people refrain from over-confldence on account of the so far successful transportation of United States troops to Europe, competent naval men today waxned of the possibility of Germans «-iniring transports.

Hitherto the British and American system of defense in convoying troop ships has been practically 100 per cent successful, although the Germans have succeeded in torpedoing two, with a miraculously small loss of life. This success was due first to' skillful convoying—sixty per cent, and second, to tlfe size of the ocean, luck and German cowardice—forty per cent.

But the German pubh is now learning it has been deceived regarding the

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DAYTON. O., Sept. 7.—Fire, breaking out in the downtown business district early Saturday evening, paralyzed traffic on four street car lines, and threatened to start a general conflagration before being placed under control, with a loss of $40,000 to the Harvard Clothing company store, where the blaae originated. The fire department AMSTERDAM, Sept. 7.—Unidentified was tysndicapped in fighting the blaze German warships were sunk by mines by a shortage of firemen, caused by the const of Holland, according to war enlistment a. advices received here tonight.

The French are eight miles from Quentin, where their line runs near forests. French forces have seized Tergnier, three miles from L.aFere, and by capturing the railroad junction there, have cut the main communication line between St- Quentin and Ijion. At Basel the French are within eleven miles of Laon.

Huns Under Cross

American troops south of the Aisne and the French northwest of them have placed the Chemin Des Dames positions under a cross fire of artillery even before the German retreat has reached that stronghold.

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FOCH DMVE HOMED BY GERHAR RESERVES

Advance Defenses On Both Flanks and In Center Crushed By Fighting of Past Week—Foch Strategy

Outwits Hindenburg

FRENCH PUSH ON TO ST. QUENTIN

BULLETIN.

WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE AD5NE, Sept 7.—To the eastward of Glexmes, where the American line leaves the Aisne and cuts across the high lands to the Vesle, the Americans tonight were steadily prodding the enemy to hasten his retirement

At some points further progress toward the Aisne waa made. Most of the German resistance was from machine gun nests*. These, ths Americans were methodically eliminating.

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NEW YORK, Sept 7,—The present week's flglifiag xmder HTnntTta] Foch'3 splendid initiative has crashed the German advance defense at both flanks and in the center, thereby producing the most complex sit* nation Yon Hindenburg has had to face since his present retirement bO» pan, v f,

Seeking frantically to build up a great reserve army in his rear to oppose America's forthcoming Rhine offensive, Von Hindenburg has been compelled to send his reserves into action this week all along the west front to prevent the allies breaking through. i

First before Cambrai in the north, then between the Vesle and the Aisne in the south, and finally toward St Quentin the center, Von Hindenburg has had to increase the density of his defense as his has become shortened.

The week's fighting in this manner emphasizes the vastly important fact that as Von Hindenburg pulls in his front to create a new reserve force, he permits the British and the French to do the sames1 45

But there is a vital difference between the two results. Wliile the German reserves, created by shortening the battle line, nrast be with* drawn whenever possible from active combat to defend German territory at a later date against America's millions, the French and British are •under no compulsion to conserve their own power. 1.

Allies Gain Over 50-Mile Front

Iy~*NT0N, Sept 7.—Along a twisttng front of more than fifty miles from Havrtncourt wood in Picardy to the Aisne river, the allied armies today moved upon I^aFere, I^aon and St. Quenttn, the three important German bases close behind the Hindenburg line.

The lower part of coucy forest, west of Ivion, is in the hands of the French, whose advance Is placing in peril the Germans In the forests of St Gobain south of La Fere and west of Laon. It was from this forest that" the first German long range gun shelled Paris.

Little fighting was reported today from the right flank of the southern extremity of the active front where the American-French line borders the Aisne to Villers-En-Prayer, thence drops down to Glennes and then runs almost due north and south down to the Vesle,

The Americans on the right flank, where the A isne has not yet been

REM) IN ITALY

RC*M"E, Sept 7.—Raiding operations were reported by the war office tonight "Yesterday morning, southward of the Asiago plateau, the French raided the enemy's positions at Sisemole,'' the statement said. ""Defense works were destroyed and heavy casualties Inflicted. Forty-seven prisoners were taken. "In the Concei and Astico valleys the enemy's patrols were driven back. "In the Frenzela valley we carried out reconnoitering operations, capturing arms and material. "Three enemy attempts to attack our lines at Solarolo, in the Mount Grappa region were repulsed. "Anglo-Italian aviators in Albania carried out bombardments Thursday and yesterday sve&iuV

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reached, were reported exerting pressure to the eastward to force the Germans to relinquish what they still hold of the territory between the Aisne and the Vesle.

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The battle line today ran from Hav-* rlncourt wood, which the British have already half conquered south through the villages of Metz-En-Cauture, Fins, Londavesnes, Tincourt, Doucly, Hancourt and Tertry.

HancouiV and Tertry aft opposite ^Jprmand, less than six miles northwest of St. Quentin. Strong British attacks toward Vermand were reported today.

Below Tertry tbe line runs south through I-onchy, Aubigny, Dnry and Ollezy. Between the last two villages east of Ham the allies have pressed forward until they are reported at the sonthern end of the Croseat canal, in the suburbs of St. Simon, an Important point on tbe road to St. Quentin.

MANY GERMANS DESERT.

Soldiers Say They Have No Faith In Their Leaders. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES TN FRANCE, Sept 7.—The number of German deserters reaching the Amur-, ican lines is increasing daily. Germans declare they are disgusted with conditions and have no faith in their leaders. -.

Following a sheTI bamsm af" Frapelle, a German patrol approached our lines, evidently seeking to capture prisoners. An American lieutenant, spotting tbe enemy party, led a squad into No Man's Land in an attempt to ambush the boches. They fought awl fled, leaving two of their nnmbgr ,in our hands. i la the Woevre district, a German*

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DOWNED BY BRITISH

LONDON, Sept 7.—Eleven airplanes were brought down and 12 driven out of control in air fighting Friday, th* war oifice announced tonight. "Yesterday 11 hostile machines wer» brought down and 12 driven out of control,'' the statement said, "Ona balloon wa.-j destroyed. Five of our machines are missing. Thirty-two tons of explosives were dropped on enemy"% objectives. All onr night dying ma* chinas returned as My." __ __j