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New-York tribune., 1918-09-29


WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.-A dis
patch from Switzerland to-day saws
that the Vienna "Arbeiter Zeitung"
reports that the victories of the En-
tente in Macedonia and Palestine are
making a profound impression in
Austria. The semi official papers are
trying to reassure public opinion by
pointing out that only a rupture Of
the Belgrade -Constantinople line in
the region Of Nish could mean
catastrophe for the Central Powers.
and that it is long way from the
present front to Nish.
The "Arbeiter Zeitung" replies by
stating that the Austro- German
troops rapidly covered greater dis
tances in their Serbian campaign.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

largely that of a clearing operation, a
great number Of isolated machine gun
meats being met with. These and or
dlnAry Snipers have been troublesome
although unimportant in view Of the
general operation.
'Ne detachment OF engineers south
OF Montfaucon. being hampered in
their WORK, dropped their tools long
enough TO clean out one German ma
chlne gun nest. The gunners who were
not killed were captured by the Amer
leans.
Aviators Have Trouble
Thich clouds and ground mists again
hanVered the airmen detailed for OBJ
scrvation to-day in the area Of the op-
Grafton now in progress. The condi-
tons. however. did not prevent entirely
operations by the pursuit planes of the
American air forces.
In no previous engagement has the
pursuit machine displayed greater in
dlifcrencc to weather conditions. Night
flying has become common, the airmen
starting off in the darkness and land
ing by the light of flares. Their course
rs determined by flash signals.
Raids by the airmen heretofore have
oeen confined almost wholly to the day
hight hours in operations of this char
acter. but the Germans have been
torcec IN this engagement to combat
swift attacks upon their balloons by
planes appearing out of the darkness
and clouds and opening on their troops
with machine gun fire while the men
were trying to get a period of rest
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
battalion of Death"
Commander Not Slain,
AS Bolsheuiki Reported

ARCHANGEL, Sept. % (By The AS
soclated Press) ).-The Bolshevik wire
less report of the capture and execu-
tion of Maria Butchkareff, who was
commander of the Russian women's
battalion which fought so gaIlantly IN
the early days of the revolution, is an
absolute fabrication. She rode to the
front on a locomotive with a corre-
spondent of The Associated Press the
day the wireless reported her shot, and
recently returned to Archangel
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
u. S. Propaganda
Is DISCOVERED on
German Prisoners

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
ON THE VERDUN FRONT. Sept 27
(NiQht), (By the Associated Prcss).
Among the prisoners taken day
by the Americans were fifteen soldiers
of an Hungarian division, whose posi-
ton was astride the Meuse River.
To the east of the Meusc more than
100 men from the Hungarian division
we're captured by the French, who were
cooperating with the Americans in the
drive.
captured by the Americans was found
American propaganda, which had been
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Single Yar,k Corps
Captures More
Than 5000 Huns

WITH AN AMERICAN ARMY
CORPS NORTHWEST OF VERDUN,
Friday, Sept. 27 (By The Associated
Press s).-German prisoners counted up
to noon to-day by one corps alone total
more than 5000. One division took
more than LOO of the total and re-
ports that it still has several hundred
more. The prisoners include a large
number Of Prussian Guards.
The prisoners carried in dozens Of
machine guns and automatic rifles,
which were captured with them. and
the cages in the rear resemble small
arsenals. A majority Of the prisoners
expressed pleasure that the war has
ended for them.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Gen. SoukhomlinoH
Escapes From "Reds"
Cars War Minister Convict
ed of Treason Reaches
Finland to Join Wife

STOCKHOLM. Sept. 2S.- General
Soukhomlinoff, Minister of War in the
Russian imperial Cabinet from 1909 to
1915, who was reported court t-martialled
September and shot the same day,
has succeeded in escaping from Russia
after a most adventurous flight. He
was arrested upon his arrival on Fin
nish soil, but will be granted his free
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Wilson Holds Yarn, Wife Xnits

WASHINGTON, Sept 28-Presideht Wilson returned 70
washington at o'clock this AFTERNOON from New York
AT Manhattan Transfer a miles out of New York
small crowd gathered distance the windows of tho
PRESIDENTS private to watch him holding with outstreced
hahdS sken OF from which Wilson was rolnp
ball preparatory starting soldiers sock One Gnsbod
knitted sock lay in her lap
The President nodded and smiled interested audience
the station PLATFORM but did himself become
from the task of holding his hands "just So"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

dropped behind the German lines a
week ago by American aviators. These
leaflets told of the actual treatment
afforded to German prisoners taken
by Americans, as an offset to the re-
port that German officers were telling
German privates, that the Americans
killed all prisoners after torturing
I hop,
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count that the attack has fallen short
of success. What matters is the Amer
lean squeeze. If that gets home, and
all present appearances are favorable,
German opposition in the Champagne
sector will go to bits and the defence
of the Hindenburg quadrilatcral will
fall through in turn"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Austria Withdrawing
troops From Albania

I oNDON, Sept 2s-Austria is
IL withdrawing her troops from AL
baala, according to reports received
IN Amsterdam from we'll Informed
sources, the Central News CORE
spondent at Amsterdam wires.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

General soukhomlinoa was sen
fenced to hard labor for life on Sop
tember 26, 1917 by Petrograd court
after being found guilty of high trea-
son, abuse of confidence and fraud.
General Soukhomlino1f was charged
with being responsible for the break
down of the Russian army while he
was in Office because he failed to in
crease the output of munitions works
and prevented the military department
from supplying troops with guns and
shells. 1t also was alleged that he
had communicated secret information
to German agents and that he and his
wife had accepted bribes from con
tractors. The trial developed that all
these charges were true.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

Onslaught Of Americans
Takes Them to Brunnhilde
Position of Germans
Guns Start Fires
Behind Foes Front
Bridges Over Meuse Being
Bombarded by u. S. Can
non West of Verdun

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
NORTHWEST OF NERDUN. Sept 2S
~ G. m.).- BY The Associated Press.)
With their backs to the outer edge
Of the Brunhilde line. the Germans to-
dav we're lighting desperately in an en-
deavor 10 bring the American advance
to a definite halt The Germans were
increasing the volume of their fire and
indicating anew their determination to
resist to the utmost.
The line fought for runs through the
northern Argonne woods and eastward
along a line parallelling the Epinon-
Vile -Montfaucon road to point near
IVORY, and thence northeasterly. The
Germans are massed in the Cierges
woods and in the Emont woods.
(i0:fO q. m.).-High explosive
shells from the American big guns are
. ow reaching far beyond the German
pes Fires at Brieulles and at other
points are attributed to the work of
the American gunners.
AbNliS HiC ltpOINcQ 10 ut 1dlllIlS Cu
Consenvoye, Dun-sur- Meuse and on
other towns far in the rear of the Ger.
man lines. The bridges over the Meuse
also are being bombarded, thus chok-
me the exits of the Germans who are
withdrawing
Americans Use Artillery
The Americans are using their artil-
lery freely to break up the enemy dis
positions. The Germans are depending
upon machine gun fire at every ad-
vanced point in their effort to check
the Americans.
The determination of the Germans to
hold the Argonne Forest and the re-
gion to the east Of it has caused the
enemy to reinforce the front opposing
the Americans. One German division
brought UP is the same unit that was
used TO reinforce the line when the
Americans fought for possession of
Belleau Wood. northwest of Chateau
Therry.
There has been much fighting in the
dense forest, but its character has been
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

dom at station in Finland where his
wife went after her acquittal on 4
charge of high treason.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
The Evangelist IN Politics

At the outbreak of the war, in 1914,
Gypsy Smith, the English evangelist,
applied to his government for some post
in which he could serve. He was rejected
because of his age.
Now he is in this country helping to
cement the human bond between England
and America. In this work he has found
front line trench for his talents, for
nowhere can man of his gifts be so
valuable as in moulding the emotions Of
the masses toward a predetermined end.
His presence in this country is SYM
bolic of a change which has recently
come over political thought the world
over. Twentieth century political SCI
ence recognizes, as that of former days
did not, that the dominating forces in
political life are emotional, not mental.
Man as an individual may, it is true,
derive his passions from his convictions.
but men in mass derive their convictions
from their emotions. Men in the mass
are unwieldy; they must simplify. They
accept hero as the symbol of a move
ment; an anecdote as the picture of a
condition.; slogan as the expression Of
an idea. The evangelist who compels
the emotions is displacing the politician.
The politician goes to the brain; the
evangelist to the heart. The politician
makes drive on his hearers mentality;
the evangelist flank attack on their
feelings.
There has been during the war much
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
How Boys Can Help

The one best way for a husky, courage
Gus, patriotic boy to help his country fight
this summer is that offered by the Boys
Working Reserve of the Department of
Labor. If you are too young to enlist in
the army or navy, you can (if over six
teen) enlist in this farm working corps.
That means you volunteer to devote your
vacation to the patriotic task of increas-
ing our national crops. Next to fighting
there is nothing so important to your
country. 1t is the second line of defence
and offence.
Here in New York it is hoped to enlist
10000 boys The enlistment blank was
printed in The Tribune on Monday. Your
school teacher can explain the details. If
your standing in school is good you will
be released at once for work, receiving
credit for full years work in school.
You will have your board and washing
free-and pay beginning at 1915 week
and reaching 1925 a week after two
months.
If you can't fight, farm!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
Remember the Lusitania!

There may be some Americans who
forget why we are fighting the German.
Did you read description in yester-
days Tribune of the Paris church where
the latest German hate sought out its
victims? They were largely women and
children-as were our own victims of
the Lusitania. The Tribune CORE
spondent who visited the church saw
scenes which took him back to those
Queenstown morgues of 1915.
we are fighting the German because
of the Vay he fights. Any other reason
is superfluous.
The truth has come to America slowly.
But it has come. We see now our motto
in the war. 1t is no more, no less, than
Remember the Lusitania" That sums
up the whole case.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
They Are Enemies: Treat Them as
Such

More reports are coming to this coun-
try of the use of Bulgarian troops on
the Western front. Germany has Off
cially advertised their presence there. 1t
doesn't matter whether they are actually
fighting, doing second line duty or form
part of Hindenburg's strategic reserve.
In any case they are engaged in hostili-
ties against the United States.
Why has the Administration hesitated
SO long to declare war on Bulgaria and
Turkey? They are both aiding Germany
They are both aiding Austria Hungary
All their resources have been thrown
into the Quadruple Alliances common
pot. Only fantastic refinement Of dip
lomatic sophistry permits our govern
ment to claim that we are not at war
with these two countries, when it is
manifest that they are at war with U.s.
Our forces in France have been put
under the command of French general
issimo They are subject to his orders
France is at war with Bulgaria and Tur-
key. Our troops, under French com
mand, will fight Bulgarians and Turks
if any Bulgarians and Turks come their
way. What an observation Of reason,
therefore, and what an exaltation of dip
lomatic camoufiage it is to say that we
have not drawn the sword against Tur-
key and Bulgaria and that they have not
drawn the sword against us!
1t is time to get back to common
sense. Congress would gladly have de-
clared war last December on the Bulgars
and the Turks. 1t deferred to mysteri-
Gus suggestions that Ferdinand the Per-
fdious and Mehmed V, the Butcher of
the Armenians, ought to be allowed to
remain on the State Departments list
of quasi friends
They are not friends, but enemies. Let
us classify them officially as such.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
official propaganda designed to strength

official propaganda designed to strength
on the belief of peoples in their re-
spective governments. But there has
still been comparatively little of the en-
circling appeal which binds their emo
tions. There have been a multitude of
hortatory speeches on the public plat
form, often enough frightening the emo
tions of the audience with their very We
hemence. But there have been too few of
the persuasive invitations to sympathy
which weave the bonds Of loyalty.
Gypsy Smith, telling Of one British
Tommy who shares his cigarettes with
prisoner, achieves more with his audi
ence than the statesman who learnedly
exposes the whole fallacy of Germany's
conception Of international law. The one
creates hero, an anecdote, symbol;
the other only dry conviction. The
one sets in motion the irresistible driving
power of mass emotion; the other only
the cold chisel of reflective Judgment.
The understanding that the American
and English concepts Of liberty are akin
is effective. But the emotion which says
"Tommy is my brother" is overwhelm-
ing. A true alliance of peoples can come
only from the popular feeling of loyalty.
And loyalty springs from the emotions.
The evangelist, the specialist in mass
emotions, is therefore a potent political
figure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
Hollands Reproach

In the kind of controversy that has
arisen between this country and Holland
over the use of Dutch ships facts alone
seem rather to confuse than to simplify
the terms of understanding. We believe
that on the facts we are justified-that
we had right to take use of the ships
in the way we did, and that our manner
Of achieving the imperative end was not
unnecessarily brusQue or discourteous.
We are bound to have good opinion of
our own official acts.
But Holland recites on her side state
Of facts which in her opinion justifes
the reproach that the American govern
ment, which has always appealed to
right and justice and has appeared as the
champion of small nations, "now CO
operates in an act Numerically opposed
to those principles" q proceeding which
can find no counterweight in the mani
festations of friendship or assurances of
lenient application Of the wrong COM
mitted"
We shall need to remember that Hol-
lands empire is in ships, and that it
hurts terrifcally to lose them, even tenn
porarily, on any terms whatever. 1t is
hard to see controversial facts clearly
when emotion is aroused.
The friendship between America and
Holland ought not to be embarrassed by
facts, whatever they are. If on the facts
we were altogether right and Holland
entirely wrong, still we could, not afford
to let small nation believe it had been
unjustly treated, if by any generosity of
money or feeling on our part the sense
of injury might be removed.
Let us not engage in dialectics with
Holland if it lies within our power to
cure her grievance. If it is matter of
cost, we do not care what the ships
cost, now or hereafter. We require
them, and we are willing to pay hand
somely for what we hold to be our inter-
national right-to use them in the way
we have proposed to do.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02

session. He is absolutely right in want
ing to make patriotism self~reliant and
Observation-Disclosures, if necessary, to
have its say from the housetops.
He is firm for applying to those in au-
thority the test Of Lincoln:
"Stand with anybody that stands right.
Stand with him while he is right and part
with him when hc goes wrong. In both
cases you are right. To desert such
ground is to be less than man, less than
an American"
Let US try to practise the doctrine of
emancipation which Colonel Roosevelt
breaches. Let us again become men and
Americans in the Lincoln sense.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
The Horrible Waste of the WEALTHY

Very interesting to the student III
"crowd psychology" is the report issued
by the Department of Health. showing,
the enormous food wastage in the CITY.
And not less interesting were the head
lines put over this report by our own
copy readers The effect of these head
lines especially, and of the report itself
in hasty reading, was to convict the
rich OF throwing away in garbage pals
vast quantities of food which might
have gone to the Saving East Side"
The showing was that 1853 families in
wealthy private houses" wasted total
of 2O5 pounds of good food. Average
waste per family 1919 cents per day.
This is quite dreadful. Think of it
families with incomes of several thou
sand dollars a year wasting 1917 cents
worth of food per day. The figures are
SO startling that Health Commissioner
Anlster intends to urge the passage by
the Board of Aldermen of an ordinance
prohibiting the wilful waste of food"
We DO not suppose our readers have
any idea Of what this must mean if it
is true for the whole nation, this wastaee
OF the rich. So we must repeat again
what we have several times said before,
The total number of persons in the
United States owning up to an income
of $4,000 or over last year was under
one-haf Of / per cent of the total
population, or, with their families and
appendages, say 2 per cent.
Suppose that the average expenditure
of all these wasting rich" was around
$4,000 year. Of course, in New York
it is much higher, possibly $4,000. But
on the lower figure wastage of 1914
cents per day, or $40 per year per
family, would be equal to fully four
fifths of per cent on the incomes of
full 2 per cent of the population.
But this is war time, and we are in
no mood to make fun of Commissioner
Anaster or any other earnest souls who
may wish to do their bit. So we sim
cerely hope that his proposed ordinance
will be promptly passed and all these
crininally wasteful rich brought to the
bar of justice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
The President and General Wood

tFrom The Boston Transcript
One of President Wilson's first Official
acts after he entered the White House
was an announcement that General Woods
tenure of Office of Chief of Staff would not
De interrupted until it expired by law.
year later, at the expiration of his term.
the President thought so highly of the
generals work that he wrote him a letter
of thanks and congratulations. and soon
thereafter assigned him to the command
Oh the then most important of all the mill
tary departments, the Department of the
f'as1' with headquarters at Governors ISL
and. Since then much has happened to
vindlcate the vigor and vision of General
Woods plea for preparedness.
Whether the President will WELD to the
Senatorial plea and accord to General Wood
the audience which u Democratic Senator
mas Led IN requesting, the people will soon
Know They will hope, and they have
right to expect, that the audience will not
be denied. They realize that the pressure
upon the Presidents time is severe, and
they rejoice when they hear that he has
sought brief respite from his cares at
the theatre or in game of golf, a horse
back ride or 4 motor trip. They are we'll
aware of the Importance of preserving the
health of the head of the nation at this
crucial time. Nevertheless, they will hope,
and they have right to expect, that
somehow and some time soon Woodrow
Wilson will make and take the time to see
and hear Leonard Wood telling what he
saw and heard on the Western front. 1t
is reasonable request that Senator
Thomas, of Colorado, on behalf of his col
leagues has left at the White House, and
reasonable are the hope and expectation
of the people that it will be granted. II
the President Of France thought it worth
while to summon General Wood to an audi
ence, surely the President of the United
States can afford to do likewise France
is democracy, so is the United States,
and the life of democracy the world over
is at stake
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02

sent to the old address, because the nostal
authorities knew other address. Three
weeks later it was discovered that the
troops had been moved.
The five carloads, after a still longer
period had elapsed, finally found their SOL
diers
The p. O. Plan
The PostofRce Department would have
liked to have sent the entire division post
on'ce along with the division, and then
would have given this confidential informa-
tlon OF its destination to American postal
headquarters IN France.
But the War Department cannot concede
that this method will not give information
TO enemy spies, even though every piece of
mail handled through the military mails
pears nothing except the soldiers name
and his divisional address, Names of places
cannot go on military mail. Even this is
fruitful cause OF delay. Mail for machine
gun companies, battalions and regiments of
the same numerical description is all
crowded into the same mail sack, though
the different groups may be miles apart on
the Allied front
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
Mr.. Baker To Be Promoted?

(Frons The Army and NGuy Register)
Persistent rumors have been rife this
week, with no opportunity to trace them
to their source or to sustain them by any
officially vouchsafed confirmation, to the
effect that Mr.. Baker will remain abroad,
probably in connection with the Inter-
national War Council, and that he will be
succeeded as Secretary of War by General
George w. Cocktails, at present acting quar-
termaster general of the army. Such an
appointment is possible under the law, in
asmuch as General Goethals is the re-
tired list ii he were on the active list
his appointment to a Cabinet position
would operate to vacate his commission
in the military establishment. Should Gen.
eral Goethals be appointed Secretary of
War, the choice of a successor at the head
of the quartermaster corps apparently rests
among Brigadier General H. L. Rogers,
Of that corps, recently appointed to- the
grade of a general officer of the regular
establishment while brigadier general OF
the National Army and on duty as chief
quartermaster with General Pershing, who
would probably so reluctantly consent to
his recall to Washington as to make some
what doubtful the selection of Gen
eral Rogers; Lieutenant Colonel r. E.
Wood of the National Army (major,
United States Army, retired), who is
on duty in France and who was asso-
ciated with General Goethals in the Canal
Zone. and Lieutenant Colonel Charles P
Daily, of the National Army Captain, mill
tary storekeeper, quartermaster corps), who
has been long and intimately connected
with the affairs of the quartermaster gen.
erals Office under General Aleshire and
General Sharpe and who is executive officer
of General Goethalss administration.