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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
No Attack in Force Made
on Sectors Held by
Amer leans.
YANKEES DESTROY
GERMAN TRENCHES
First and Second Line Defepses Near
lunevile ObIiterated by American
Artillery = Germans Bringing Up
Material With Which to Build Con.
crete "PiIl Boxes"-Group of Huns
Surrenders to Sammies.

German artillery fire has been
intense on lengthy front north Of
lie 6assee canal and in tho Ypres
sector in Flanders. On the French
front the Germans have carried
out minor attacks northeast Of
Verdun and in Lorraine. French
troops repuIsed both attemps with
loss.
British monitors and naval air.
crafts have made combined at.
tack on Ostend, Belgium, Ger
man aerial and submarine base,
and HeIooland with machine gun
fire. In the attack on Ostend Brit.
ish airmen brought down five Ger
man machines, while the monitors
bombarded the town heavily.
Germany, according to unofficial
reports from The Hague, continues
to argue that the attitude Of Hol-
land toward the Anglo-American
shipping demand has changed the
situation between the central pow
ers and the Netherlands.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
CHICAGO SALOONS HIT.
Thousand City Bars May Go Out Of
Business May !.

Chicago March 22.---lt is estimated
that on May / more than 1000 Chicago
saloons will fail to apply for licenses
owing to the increasing difficulty Of
obtaining supplies and because Of the
inability Of saloonkeepers to make a
fair profit. Already the price Of whisky
has been advanced to 25 cents a drink
In many saloons and 1t Is generally
conceded this price must become uni
form.
The closing Of 1000 saloons will
mean loss Of s1,00O,oo0 in revenue to
the city, according to the forecast of
Controller Pike. Mr.. Pike says he ex-
poets to balance this loss with the
collection Of $1,000, 900 from the county.
the school board and the park commits
sioners for public improvement bene-
fits.
Saloon men are said to be discour-
aged over the outlook the whisky on
hand rapidly dwindling and most small
saloons being reduced 20 the sale of
beer almost exclusively.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
GERMANS SACRIFICE
men; GAINS SLIGHT
british Lines Forced to Give Slightly Few Points Front of
9 Fifty Mles-Germans Hurl Regiment After Regiment
Against Anes-Haig Reports Hun Losses
IN Exceptionally Heavy - Desperate
+ Fighting Continues.

British soldiers have wthsood the most stupendous
ttack Germany has hurled at the western front during the
front of than fifty miles the armed hosts of democracy
grips with the forces of Pssanism and what be the
decisive struggle in the great is raging northern France
In their first onslaught the enemy after gigantic lombard
passed the British oupos at points and attained the
atte ne but nowhere did the Germans gain their objeves
Regiment after regiment hurled at the British front and
field Marshal Hag reports the German losses exceptionally
leavy.
Desperate fighting continues all along the lines from the
ensee the Oe and especially the Cambra sector Enemy
forts before Cambria aimed principally to the north and
buh of the salient left after the fighting ceased there last Nov
nber with the intention of cutting off the salient
Germeny offensive finds both sides prepared for the
prolonged and sanguaary combat For months the Ger
hans have been training their troops and moving and
ppes behind their lines between A1ras and St. Quentin The
also have been active and prepared for blow the
emy might deliver and had anticipated the offensive movement
iould come where it did.
Behind the British lines is the devastated which
Ee Germans retreated last March.
Hndenburg then declared the retreat made to
Tide battle field for the future
attack may have been fent but breach in
British lines might involve the safety Of Paris and Aimens
the French channel ports south of the Seine to Belgium
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
MUST PREPARE FOR
COAL SHORTAGE
Governor Harding Advises Consumers
to Store Fuel-Little Eastern Coal to
Be Suppiied-lowa Production to Be
Increased 1000, 900 Tons.

Be Suppiied-lowa Production to Be
Increased 1000, 900 Tons.
Des Moines, March 21.-"Its going
to be a long war" Is the message
brought from Washington today by
Governor w. L. Harding, who has been
in the federal capital several days.
1T is recognized in Washington that
we are in for long war. No indica
ton is seen there that there will be an
early termination
The governors principal business in
Washington was to arrange for ship
ment OF eastern coal TO Iowa, especial
ly coal from southern Illinois and parts
Of Ohio and Indiana. 1t is probable
that Iowa will receive some eastern
coal, but It will have to be stored in
the summer.
There will be coal shortage next
winter" the governor predicted. Lack
Of equipment to handle the freight
business Of the country is the reason.
Then all eastern freight must go via
three railroad lines.
Here In Iowa we will get limited
supply Of hard coal. Southern Iowa
will be expected to depend on Iowa
coal The northern part Of the state
will get some Illinois coal but that will
be brought in during the summer.
AN effort will be made to increase
coal production IN Iowa at least c,0oo.-
900 tons. Our production has been
around 5000 900 tons and our consump-
tion around 100000.
"All consumers who can store coal
should do so.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22

, angle Of the Aras- Cambria and Ba-
paume- Cambria road, while the Ger
man army south Of Cambrai is strik-
| ing against our trench system in the
region west Of the Scheldt canal. No
doubt the enemy hopes that the at
tacking forces Of these two armies may
succeed in forming a junction, thus
cutting off considerable slice Of the
British front and taking back all of
the Hindenburg trenches lost exactly
four months ago."
Kaiser at Front.
| Emperor William. Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg and General Ludendorf
have gone to the western front to wit
ness the German attack, says an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from CO.
penhagen. Bulgarian and Austrian
troops are now on the western front,
the dispatch reports.
The Bulgarian troops which have ar
rived on the western front will be used
| as strategic reserve, the dispatch says.
| The number CT Austrians on this front
is not large, but Austrian cannon in
great amount have been concentrated
| there.
| The Austrian war minister, Won
Steiner, who is now in Berlin, Is said
to have promised Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg that the Austrians would
| take over the work of guarding the
eastern front when the offensive in
the west began.
| May Attack Americans.
Nothing has been reported as to
attacks on the lines held by the Amer
leans. It had been expected that the
Germans would make an assault on
the American held trenches in the
Lorraine and Toul sectors, acting on
the theory that troops which have not
| had experience in engagements OF the
first degree might be found to yield
easier than veterans.
That such an Nattack may yet be
| launched, and with only slight artil-
lery preparation, is within the possi-
! bilities.
The activity in the American sec
| tors during the last three weeks would
indicate that the Germans have been
concerned with the disposition Of Cen
eral Pershings legions, their probable
strength and the locations of the bat
teries supporting the infantry holding
| the lines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
Twelve Additional Deaths
Due to Az s>nt of
u. S. fOyer.
TEN II RED NOT
Py IOUSLY LISTED
Effort Made by Crew TO Escape Fre~s
Vicinity When Depth Charge Was
Heaved Overheard to Prevent De-
struotion of Destroyer Mariey -
After Part of Vessel Blown of -
Survivors in Hospital.

Washington. March 22.-Twelve ad-
ditional deaths as a result of the COL
llsion between the destroyer Manley
and a British man off, war March 10
were announced today by the navy de-
partment. This brought the death list
to sixteen. John G. Holmes. c.rpen-
tiers mate, Boston. was one Of the
twelve men reported as killed today.
received.
1t was announced also that ten men
not reported yesterday also had been
Injured. All OF those hurt were re-
ported doing we'll
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
tBy the Associated Press

With the American Army in France,
March 21.-Enemy first and second
line positions on the sector east OF
Luneville have been destroyed COM
pletely by American artillery fire. Am
eriean guns shelled the positions all
nieht and this morning.
Today patrol crossed NO Mans
Land" and found that the first and
second lines had been wiped out.
The patrols obtained additional in
ties. the Germans. apparently, having
decided not to molest them.
Artillery firing by both sides on this
sector continued all day.
On the sector northwest Of Toul a
number OF Germans deserted last night
and surrendered to an American
patrol. The Germans approached the
Americans shouting Don't shoot"
The prisoners were turned over to the
French
Tell Doubtful Story.
Much information Of value was OBJ
tanned from these deserters, who said
they were "fed up" with the war and
decided they would rather be prisoners.
Included in the information obtained
from the men was the statement that
during the gas protector attack against
the American lines on Feb. 27, 900 pro-
jectors were employed.
One-half Of the projectiles fired fell
within the German lines, the gas
overcoming many Of the Germans.
The next day, according to the Ger
mans. eleven Germans were killed and
thirty wounded while taking out the
dead.
American intelligence officers are In
clined to doubt the story about 900
projectors. American information is
that only seventy five were used.
An American patrol last night enter
ed the enemy first line and remained
there six hours, but did not see any
OF the enemy.
Hun. Building "PilI Boxes.'
Great activity continues behind the
enemy lines Within the last four days
a number of rock crushers and con-
crete mixers have been brought up and
there are signs that the Germans in
tend to construct a number OF new
pill boxes opposite the American front.
Several trains Of mateJal have ar
rived at towns in the German lines
during the last twenty-four hours.
Today's reports say that three Ger
man aeroplanes flew over various parts
OF the American front lines at day
break and fired their machine guns on
our positions. Their efforts. however,
were without result.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
SAYS HUNS PLANS FAILED.
British Correspondent at Front De
cIares Program Was Frustrated.


[By the Associated Press.]
British Army Headquarters, March
22.-The fighting still is continuing, but
the first stage of the offensive has
passed. The enemy has failed badly in
the execution OF his program, as is at
tested by captured documents showing
what he had planned to do in the early
hours of his offensive.
Vigorous counter attacks late yes
terday restored some Of the positions
which the British had abandoned tenn
porarily.
The exact British line can not be made
public at present The only reason is
that it might furnish the enemy with
valuable information.
Weather Favors British.
Last night was fairly quiet along the
front This morning the Germans were
bombing in the region Of Crois- -elles.
There were indications that they in
tended to continue their attacks today.
Z The weather is cold and bleak. A
heavy mist makes air reconnaissance
impossible This is OF advantage to the
British. q M q = sprived Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
SHORTAGE IN COUNTY OFFICE.
Auditor and Deputy in Montgomery
County Resign When Accused

Special to Times Republican.
Red Oak, March 22-Followfng the
discovery Of a shortage of several hun
dred dollars, County Auditor Fred Am
bur and his deputy, c. c. Ellwood. hur-
riedly resigned and quit office. AS yet
no criminal or other action has been
brought against either OF the men.
Much of the shortage has been made
good since the report Of the examiners.
A sensational discovery Is alleged
has been made in conduct Of office and
hiding Of examiners reports. 1t is
charged the auditor removed from the
records three sheets containing the ex :
aminer's report made in February and
attached them to other papers where
they would not likely be seen by any
one going over the papers. 1t is claimed
that Ambur, to make good part Of his
shortage, borrowed $500 and that the
day following the examination he
checked out this sum and repaid the
loan. Many irregularities are charged.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
Senate Wants 70 Know.

Washington. March 90. A resolu-
tion introduced by Senator New. Of In
diana, asking the war department to
advise the senate at to it's reasons for
not making public the addresses Of
American soldiers killed and wounded
abroad, was adopted today by the SEN
ate without a record vote.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
War Party Rules Reichstaa.

Amsterdam, Thursday, March FL
The main committee Of the German
reichstag has voted 12 to 10 against a
motion of the independent social demo-
Gratis to evacuate the Aland Islands
and not interfere with the internal af-
fairs cf Finland by the dispatch OF
troops and the supplying Of arms.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
Held on sedition CHARGE

Special to Times Republican
Council Bluffs, March pa B. Will
ken, said to be a retired merchant OF
Atlantic, was arraigned before United
States Commissioners John Organ here
today and held under $1,000 bonds on a
|charge Of sedition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
PORTER THE LAMB
TO THE SLAUGHTER
United States District Attorney Con-
sents to Sacrifice Himself on Demo-
cratic GubernatoriaI Altar-seIect

Des Moines, March 22.-Claude R,
Porter, Of Centerville, United States
district attorney. has consented to be-
come the democratic candidate for gov
ernor Of Iowa, III he can arrange his
personal affairs" according to party
leaders. Nick Reed, Of Ottumwa and DR..
]. w. Reynolds, Of Creston, the latter
chairman Of the state central com
mittee. made public this information
here today. adding that there was 10
doubt but that M. Porter would make
Nthe race
Nomination Of ticket, and drafting
of platform. are to be accomplished
at a statewide conference Of democrats
here March 2S.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
Tire Weather.

Iowa-Fair tonight and Saturday.
except unsettled in southeast portion:
cooler in southern portion tonight:
somewhat warmer Saturday.
Range OF temperature at Marshall
town: Thursday. SIS and "a: Wednes-
day. rs and ~; one year ago. 50 and
"a. AT this morning. 80, yesterday.
so.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
WAR WORK FOR WEST.
Factories May Benefit BY Redistribu-
ton Of Contracts.

ton Of Contracts.
Washington. March 22-An extensive
survey OF the location OF war industries
now being made by the war industries
board may result shortly In the trans
fer OF many government contracts from
the east to the west and south where
factories are working under less pres
sure and railway transportation con-
ditions are better.
The necessity for early decision is
emphasized by the fact that hundreds
OF contracts placed last summer will
expire in April and Mayand general re-
distribution may take place.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22

c. N. OLeir, OF Des Moines. now Lieu
tenant Leir of the sanitary, detach-
ment Of the l6sth; Captain Ross. Of
Red Oak, and Captain Casey. Of VIII
lisca, have been decorated for bravery
in a recent engagement
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22

SrIin, March 22.-[British Ad-
vhfraIty per Wireless Press.1-Ihe
British first line has been captured
by German troops attacking from
the southeast of Arras as far as
LaFere, the war office announces.
Heavy artillery fighting continues
in Belgium and French Flanders.
Reconnoitering detachments are
said to have penetrated the oppos-
ing lines at many points.
| London, March 22.-"We arc
now entered on a decisive battle
for general peace" says the Tag
slische Rundschau, Of Berlin, ac-
lNcordins to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen in an
,,l,nouneing that tho commencement
Of the German offensive in tho
west was received with great
IfeIicitation by tho German people,
twho will follow il with feverish in
'terest.
Tho newspaper adds: "A single
combat between England and Ger
many, which 10 to decide the war,
our future position in the world,
and whether tho Anglo Saxons
shall continue to press their will
on the world, opened today"
London, March 2e.-The great battle
the western front continued unit
st night, the war office reports. Th'
Fitish are holding the enemy. Th'
atement follows
vI'Fighting continued until late houI
st night on the whole front between
b river Sensee and the river Disc. Oul
Iops continue to hold the enemy II
leir battle positions.
'During the enemy attack yesterda!
massed infantry offered remarkable
Fgets to our rifles. machine guns ant
sillery, OF which full advantage wa!
ken.
'All the reports testify to the exceed
sly heavy losses by the enemy.
mo serious attack has yet developed
gs morning but heavy fighting still il
81 ibe expected"
English Public Eager For News.
, che eagerly awaited British officia
tement Of today, which was expect
to give further details of the tre-
ndous lighting indicated in last
| hts reports, was read with great
isfaction insofar as it revealed thai
I. enemy nd been held and suffered
lat losses.
< this turns out to be the great of.
|sive which has been predicted, this
IliMinary round appears to have gone
favor Of the intente, altho, as the
cial reports point out. further fight
still Is to be expected. The tre-
ldous artillery duel was heard more
inctly than ever in Kent last night
1ses were continually shaken as the
alt Of the violent conclusions.
:eek 10 Restore Hindenburg Line.
is not yet possible to give more
h 4 q very general and vague idea OF
n fighting Thursday on the French
Its between the Oise and the Sen
\ which continues with swaying for
~. according to the accounts OF
respondents at the British front in
morning papers. The German at
d made on the British front west
southwest Of Cambria, evidently
at recapturing all the linden
line, says dispatch to the Morn
Post from British headquarters in
ICE, which adds:
tha German army attacking south
he Scarpe seems to have delivered
lint blow principally In the tri-
Il N+AIr1 f 81
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
cermans Occupy oehakov.

London, March 22.-The Germans
have occupied the city Of ochakev. on
the Dnieper estuary, forty-one miles
northeast of Odessa, Reuters Petro-
grad correspondent reports.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
Elxina cadat kiII.d.

Fort Worth Tex, March 22.-Cadet
w. s. Arnhein, of New York City,
Royal Flying Corps, was the aviator
killed yesterday afternoon at Hicks,
He was an American but had Joined
the British aviatorA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
German Raider CAPTURED.

A Pacific Port, March ga German
raider operating in the Pacific ocean
has been captured by a United States
cruiser and is now being towed to this
port, according to report received
here today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
Eruitland

Fruitland.
Within twenty -four hours the death
summons came twice to the Strouse
home in Fruitland, Mrs. Maurice
Strouse passing away Saturday after
noon at o'clock and her mother in :
law. Mrs. James Strouse following her
in death Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
Germans Execute Two Priests.
Activity on Italian Front.

Rome, March 12.-Fighting is be-
coming more active along the whole
front, the war office announce. The
Italians drove back patrols at several
points on the front and elected an
Austrian detachment which had forced
its way into an advanced post in the
Frenzela valley sector. Along the Piave
the artillery fighting is becoming more
intense.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
Snow in Texas.

Fort Worth, Tex. March 22.-Snow
has been falling for twelve hours at
Perico, in Dallas county according to
word received here today but 1t Is
melting about as rapidly as it falls.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22

Washington, March 22.-Final deci-
sion on the terms Of the third liberty
loan probably will be reached tomorrow
at conference between Secretary Nc
Adoo and members Of the house ways
and means committee.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
Three Iowans Decorated.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. March 22.-According
to g dispatch received here today DR..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-22
greatly-neded aerial observations.

greatly NEEDED aerial observations.
f, The Germans in many sections yes
terday attacked in three waves of in
fantry, followed up by shock troops.
AS a result they suffered very heavy
casualties.
| The heavy massed German artillery
has been badly hammered by the Brit
ish guns.
One OF the most brilliant British
counter attacks occurred at Doignies
The British advanced with infantry
and tanks at p. m., and after fierce
! fighting drov:' out the enemy.
Germany Pays Colossal Price.
! Nineteen enemy divisions were iden-
titled in yesterdays fighting, Reuters
correspondent at British headquarters
wires. He adds:
"The whole thing is too big to be
able even to sketch or visualize easily.
Thus far the enemy has paid col
lossal price for such small gains as
represent the fruit Of his mighty ef-
fort"
The enemy bombardment,' he says
began at 5 o'clock in the morning and
at o'clock some Of the German units
left their trenches and attacked the
British with heavy and/light machine
guns.
Retween and 10 the engagement
became general on front Of some
twenty five miles.
The right Of the German attack was
aimed at Croiselles, Boullecourt and
Laginocourt, and there was hard fight
ing, on a brick field near the first of
these villages.
Along the Baupaume-Cambrai road
the enemy also attacked.
Struggle for villages and ruined
farm houses continued thruout Thurs
day, according to, the correspondent
of the Daily Mail.
Hun Munitions Depot Blown Up.
London, March 22.-Thirty German
soldiers were killed, more than 100 in
jured, and 500 munition wagons were
blown up by an explosion at Navrignies
station, near Mons, Belgium, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Amsterdam, filed yesterday. The
Germans had stocked enormous NUM-
ton trains under camouflage at Nav
rignies.
Germans Execute Two Priests.
London, March 22.-The execution in
Brussels Of two Roman Catholic priests
on the charge Of espionage is reported
In an Exchange telegraph dispatch
from Amsterdam. Eight other priests,
the dispatch says. have been sentenced
to Imprisonment for life on the charge
Of espionage, the dispatch says.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-08-13

One of the most peculiar acct
dents of the war was reported Fri
day.
Greenville Keogh, of Rochelle, N.
Y, an aviator attached to the French
squadron, narrowly escaped death
and a French captain observer was
killed when a bird broke the propeller
and caused his machine to fall 1000
feet on the French front.
The peculiar accident occurred
while Keogh was banking his plane
As the propeller broke the machine
fell sideways. Unable to right it or
choose a landing place, Keogh crash
into a rocky field. The French cap
tain observer was killed when he fell
from the machine and his head crash
ed against a boulder.
Keogh received only external in
juries of a minor nature.