South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 328, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 24 November 1917 — Page 10

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Sec'yBaker Pleased With Movement of Troops to France

WASFIIN ;TON, Nov. 21. Arrival of .T:r rian tr""r jn I'rance 1uls .ept i'.i with the expectation of h- r department, Sc'y Baker ud FYirfay night in t first .tatenent h )hh t-t r 1 uthorizerl In conirtion with the r.rogrens being inaIn in in rrA.-ins; Gen. I 'ershln'i nf M. Mr. n.ikrr declined, however, lo r-tate the nnmlifr of troor forwarded or to ir.dh ate whether he n.n!iciratejl d'-liy from this time on. f ement of the forces, he .aid, de;.T;je.I on Oso elements, the train..g and equipment of the men and '.he availahillty of hipf. "Ax fa.-t a. they are ready, Fhipn ini men will he combined," the secretary jviüd. "As many American troop are now overseas a.s wc tfx:.trci n the beginning to have ovrrvea at this time." Mr. P.aJ-;er indicated that an nffiii.il statement of the number of American troops in France was not 0 f.A expsctcd at any time during he war. lie caused an inquiry to he made of the military cenror, MaJ. C'.en. Mclntyre, however, which may r --'i It in more liberal reflation as publication of tho designations of regiment., brigades or companies hich ar engaged in action on the front from time to time. If there i.s nn Kound military reason for biipprriing that information. Mr. Maker Faid, he desired to Rive it out. The secretary's attention was called U the fart that the British ofillal statements recently have named it leat by geographical designations the troops' used in various of-f-nies. Apparently a new policy in this regard has hen adopted in Jondon and the war department may do likewise. Pennsylvania line announce hanjre in time, effective Sunday. Nov. LT.th. Sunday trains 30 3 (northbound), iuo 8:H0 a. m., and No. (youth-bound K leaving at :2j i. m.. are removed. Train No .'J will leave at 4:20 p. m. instead of 4:"d p. to.. 10 minutes earlier. No other change?. Advt. Old Bird You Look As YOU FEEL , You know well enough when your liver is loafing. Constipation is the first warning; then you begin to "feel mean all over." Your skin soon gets the bad news, it grows dull, yellow, muddy acd unsightly. Violent purgatives are not what you need just the gentle help of this oldtime standard remedy. CARTEftS w Title IVER .LS m?n hears 'SSx9tvr Color Ics faces often show the absence of Iron in tho blood. Carter's Iron Pills will help this condition. J Easy Spending A servings account, uith bnt one dollar to start, is worth more than five dollars in your pocket. This a boW tatement think it over. You will find the one dollar increasing in size, while the five dollars are rapidly rowin smaller, until they finally disappear altogether. Try it hy starting a savings account with this hank. AMERICAN TRUST COMPANY On Savings. V? HARRY LYERRICK Funeral "ST-il45 Director rrxx. motor rqriPMTT

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Tanks Charge Into Battle by Hundreds; Tear German Defense Lines Into Shreds

r.RITISH ARMY HEADQUARTEK. IN FRANCE, Friday, Nov. L'3. The impression which existed in the minds of many soldiers that the British tanks were freaks of littie value as instruments of war is bein? wiped out on account of the achievements of the reat army of these mighty engines which on Tuesday morning broke through the main Hindenburg line and carried the war miles into enemy territory. The work which the tanks did on that hrfct day and have been doing ever since is one of the most striking features of the war. It not tie said there are aione responsible for the tremendous victory won by the British, for infantry, artillery and cavalry all have played their part. Nevertheless, the tanks drove the entering wedge without which thi3 triumph probably would have been impossible. In a few hours they tore to shreds lines of barbed wire the demolition of which by a concentration of artillery would have required many days. Furthermore, their employment made impossible the arrangement of the secret attack, which would have been out of the question had the artillery been brought into play. J.osnm Kxtrcmely Li&ht. ine tanns nave uemonsiraiea fully their power in saving the lives of men and in conserving ammunition. The casualties amon the infantry which followed the tanks into action were exceedingly light. The correspondent has heard that two battalions for instance, had only one casualty each and that another suffered the loss of only three men. This is almost unprecedented in an attack of such magnitude. The casualties among the crews of the tanks also were very light on the opening day, which is the only one for which reports have thus far been received. It is impossible to state how many tanks were In action, but there were several hundred, and out of all the men who went forward in them it appears but fewer than 20 were killed and fewer than 100 wounded. Many of these casualties were duo to the fact that men left the tanks to perform some work in the open, where they came under the lire of snipers. llrst Itatth For Many. The performance of the tanks was the more remarkable because there was only a short time to prepare for their use. Some of the tanks were veterans, but many had never been in an engagement before, and the crews lacked actual : Tghtlng experience. Moreover. It was ; necessary to train the infantry to ', cooperate with thm. All this was j accomplished in a very few weeks, i In addition a great '.mount of ! work was done to get the tanks ini to position ar.tl brimr forward their ; fuel. Many hundred tons of petrol i were brought up secretly itnd storj ed pending the attack. H was done i- quietly that few soldiers in the j territory involved knew what was proceeding. AdtaiM-c I m prellte Sight. I The advance of the tanks, with j their general leading the way in a monitor flying his flag, was the most J impressive sieht imaginable. For j miles they were lined up along the I i?ritih front, and when they started forward it was like a great cerej mnniaJ parade. The stiffevt righting was at Lntcau woods, south of Masnieres. There the tanks engaged a number of Ierrnan field and heay guns and won th day against them. One tank deliberately charged a .".9 inch gun and cleaned out its crew with its machine guns. 12 Tank in One Charge. Cantaing fell hefore one tank. It charged into the village, making it untenable, by the jrigoroas action of its guns. Twelve tanks led the way into Marcoing. At Rtbecourt the tank- arrived just as the Germans were sitting down to breakfast. Th crew of the tanks got their morning meal from the food prepared for tb4e enemy. Thfj-f are nU the only , places which tanks asbted in taking. They have been swarming over tni' whole great territory annexed by the Iritih. and whea the full story' of their

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exploits is told it will make remarkable history. Looks Lik la of Old. The great battle liebl has tak-n on the aspects of scenes in wars gone by. It is no longer a conflict of trenches and shell holes but of men struggling bitterly with rifles and bayones over a virgin battle ground, while the long neglected j . . . . i cavairy sweeps in picturesque charges against the enemy positions over the wide territory involved. The roads everywhere for two days have been swarming with advancing troops and with prisoners and civilians coming back from the

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batants, men. women and children, have been pouring out of the captured towns under the guidance of their deliverers from German bondage. Thousands arc Frcexl. This has been a batHe of strange sights, but no more striking spectacle has been witnessed than that of these people marching toward homes and comfort back of the iiritish front. Through the very gaps which the tanks had torn in the famous Hindenburg line, mothers yesterday and today were pushing baby carriages containing Infants or tramping happily along with their babies clutched to their breasts. Resides them toddled other youngsters, many of them carrying their treasured dolls and not a few clinging determinedly to squirming puppies which they dared not trust to run on the ground. Old men and women were bringing away all the household effect they could pack on pushcarts or carry on their backs. For three $"?ars they had been in capv'vity and some of them in slavery. They had been subsisting on the bounty of the American relief committee whi:h furnished them virtually the only food they obtained. Capture German I lattery. Hard fighting has been going on today at Crevecoeur, southeast of Masnieres. The British were holding a high ridge in front of this place and some troops had forced an entrance into the western part of the town. The Germans were still holding the eastern section. A German battery here which had Veen giving trouble was charged and captured by dismounted cavalrymen. The lattery was surrounded by heavy barbed wire entanglements, precluding the use of horses, so the soldiers stormed the position on foot and annihilated the gun crews. In the region of Rumilly heavy machine gun and rifle fighting was proceeding last night and this morning. West of Cambrai, tanks, cavalry and infantry were pressing the attack vigorously about Fontaine Notre Dame and the strong position in IJourlon wood. Fontaine Notre Dame has not been officially reported captured, but the story goes that tank crews were served with hot coffee by the civilians in this place this morning. (Field Marshal Ilaig's official report Thursday night said the Germans had retaken Fontaine Notre Dame. ) Take unci Ti er Ii. Further noi .n near F.ullecourt the l.ri'ish were in possession of the entire underground fortification known as the tunnel trench, which had been famed for its supposed impregnability. At least Ave determined counter attacks have been smashed in this region. Southeast of Rullecourt hard fighting occurred at Moeuvres last night and a strong counter attack was repulsed. The lat line of trench defenses in the region of Cantaing have been broken and the Critisli today were firmly established, at many points in the Masnieres-Feaurois line south of Cambrai. Some Details of Rattle. It is now possible to give more details of Tuesday's battle. In the advance south of Cambrai. the first hard fighting occurred at Lateau wood, which lies on the Cambrai highway- south of Masnieres. This wood finally was cleared of Oermar.s and the advance continued toward Masnieres. Some opposition '. as encountered in a suburb hut by 1 o'clock this had been overcome and the British had crowed the

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l.'Escaut canal at a lock. The small G rman garrison fought bitterly to letain Masnieres. The whole place vas ui'dermined with dugouts in which the enemy was hidden with machine guns but the Germans were foiced to give up this place after a sanguinary struggle, although some of :hem were still holding out in the cellars today. Marcoing was taken with small resistance on the part of the enemy ami this gave the Rritish a second crossing of the canal. The advancing troops forced a passage here at the aine hour as Masnieres was entered. The Masnieres-Reaurois trench line north of Masnieres apparently had been reinforced by Germans from Cambrai and this front held up the advance temporat ily with ride and machine gun tire bat the Rritish alternately forcod the Germans from the trenches in hand to hand fighting. German Eines Stiffen. German resistance on the first day was comparatively weak as a whole and they surrendered freely in many places. Yesterday their lines stiffened and hard fighting followed. German reinforcements from Lens and the two companies of Invalids already mentioned were thrown into the line. The first counter attack came over the ridge from the northeast of Masnieres. The enemy advanced In massed formation as in the early days of the war. The Rritish had concentrated a large number of machine guns at this point and were hoping for a counter attack. They permitted the enemy to advance to within a thousand yards of the line before they opened fire. Then the machine guns and artillery were turned on the Germans and they vt re smashed in a withering storm. At 1 o'clock an attack on Marcoing was attempted by the enemy, but as in the former case they were caught in a heavy artillery and machine gun tire and they turned back afrer suffering severely. Battle for Two Hours. An hour later another body of Germans advanced on Noyelles, which was held by one company of Rritish troops. Here some of the stiffest fighting of the battle took place at close quarters. Roth sides rushed up reinforcement and for two hours the battle sirged back and forth through the streets and among the buildings. It was a melee in which the bayonet played the prin cipal part. The Germans fought well, but they were not good enough to withstand the fury of the Rritish as.-ault. and gradually they were forced back across the canal to the eist. Among the prisoners taken by the Rritish were several officers who were caught in the regimental headquarters. The regimental commander was captured and it is reported that his advent into the Rritish lines was a particularly humorous spectacle. lie came tramping back clad in an elaborate fur coat, followed by two servants who carriei. more of his x'inery. He was swearing mad at tho turn of events. The sight of Rritish cavalry t'new hin almost into a frenzy and the lurid language which he directed at the Rritish drew a smile from even the hardened Tommy. U. S. MISSION CALLS ON PERSHING AND BLISS PARIS. Nov. 2 4. Col. R. M. House, head of the American mis sion to the inter-allied conference, spent an hour Friday with Premier Clemenceau and another hour with Gen. Pershing and Gen. Bliss. All the members of the mission attended a meeting with the American Ambassador ViIlia.m G. tharp and arranged a program for their work before the conference meets next Thursday. Consultations with Trench officials will be in progress daily until that time, following the same lines as these hell with representatives of various dtpartments of the Rritish government in London. RIG Tl'KKFV srr.'F.IC, 7.H-. Special for today. 5 to 9 p. m. at Washington Restaurant. Adv. :c CIGARS. Rest in the city, at-

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ITNi; WlisTKRN PIClTItK AT IjASALLJ; today Ituth Clifford is the irood-lookinK heroine of the breezy western picture at the Lasalk- today that has been disguised under the society title of "The Iesire of the Moth." Just who the moth" is and what the desires is left a bit cfoudy, bu. there is no doubt about the holdups and the defeats of the villains by the smiling: Monroe Salisbury, a new film cowboy. He stands a ood chance to run W. S. Hart a rare for popularity with the matinee girls. The picture is fast, cle-an and a good western dramaSunday's bill is entitled "C.i.dy." a story of slum life with Dick Rosfc'on playing a down-an-outer. AT Tili: CASTLH Final showing of "Htr Hour," featuilng Kitty Gordon, will be Riven at the Castle theater today. "The Fighting Trail" Is also shown. Alice Joyce and Marc MacDer-' mott are the Castle's co-stars in tomorrow's picture, "An Alabaster !?ox." The story concerns the efforts of a girl to make restitution for her father's sins. The locale is a New England village. at Tin; oiirirci'M. Last opportunity will be given George Damarel and his wife. Myr tle Vail, in "The Little Liar." Other ' acts on the bill are "The Slacker," Moore and Rose, Duval and Simonds and George Nagahara. Headlining the new till opening tomorrow is Huge Jansen's "The Fashion Shop," a novel musical comedietta. Jack Dresdner, Tom Davies and company in a comedy playlet entitled "Checkmated." the Archie Nicholson musical trio and Wilfred Du Rois, Parisian juggler, make up the bill. AT THE AUDITORIUM. "Billie and the Rig Stick," a fourreel drama of the Dominion of Hayti: "The Last of the Troubadors," a two-reel picture of the O. Henry story; Little Bobby Connel ly in "Bobbie's Love Affair," and the Pathe News are Saturday's offerings at the Auditorium. On Sunday's bill are "Fatty" Arbuckle in a two-reel farce called. Oh. Doctor;" "The Red Ace," with Marie Walcamp; Mutt and Jeff, the cartoon characters; "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," a Boy Scout story by Richard Harding Davis, and the Pathe News. Monday the big rac ing picture. "The Whip," will le shown. AT Tili: OLTVE1L Lyman H. Howe's new production which comes to the Oliver theater Wednesday and Thursday, includes a series of pictures that depict the gorges, cascades . and picturesque ruins of ancient daj-s in southern France. Another " subject reveals the Treird beauty of Alpine heights. Other features are legging In Maine, broncho-breaking In the wild west, a ride over the Cascade mountains in Washington, "Somewhere in the Atlantic" of Uncle Sam's New Navy, including scenes of firing "salvos" by night and the latest devices and methods in operation for defense and attack in air and sea, and midshipmen at the U. S. naval academy at Annapolis. The return engagement of "The Black Stork" opens at the Oliver theater today and continues over tomorrow. The picture H founded on the famous Bollinger baby case in w hich Dr. Harry Haiselden, a noted physician of Chicago, refused to operate on this defective child to prolong its life. M'ADOO TO RELEASE ! $2,000,000,000 SOON WASHINGTON. Nov. jt. Sec'y McAdoo Friday night announced a new plan to place in circulation the huge sum of near two billion dollars accumulated in the treasury as a result of big over-payments received this week from the liberty loan. Three hundred million dollars of certificates of indebtedness, due Dec. 15 were called in for redemption on Dec. 6, and another issue of $400,000,000 of certificates, also due Dec. 15, will be redeemed Dec. 11, both Issues at par with accrued interest. ThL-3 arrangement will leave only the 5685,000,000 issue to be paid Dec. 1Z. The secretary' decided to call In the two issues before their maturity when it became evident that the aggregate amount of the payments Nov. 15, on Liberty loan subscriptions in cash, credit and treasury certificates was about $2.400,000,000, three and a half times more than was due on the 18 percent installment. In other words, it is now disclosed by belated reports trickling into the treasury thxit nearly two-thirds of the aggregate subscriptions to the second Liberty loan have been paid in full. Tabulations Saturday are expected to show that about $1. 750, 000, 000 in eh was received this week. PLANS FOR GREAT RIFLE RANGE FOR MIDDLE WEST CHICAGO, Nov. 24. Plans for establishing the largest rille range in the middle west north of ZIon City, 111-, were announced today by Capt. W. A. Moffit, commander of the Great Lakes naval training station. The announcement followed the receipt of messages from the navy department at Washington and Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, turning ever to the Great Lakes station the Camp Logan rifle range until recently used by the Illinoit; national guard.

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SHOWING Ri:ST PICTLUKS MADi; WIIKN Bl TITER ARK 3LDL W;: WILL SHOW T1IL3I TODAY The Beautiful Stage Star, KITTY GORDON in "HER HOUR" Showing the transformation of an innocent stenographer into a powerful and revengeful woman lobbyist.

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