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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
OFFICIAL WAR
STATEMENTS

FRENCH.
Paris, March 22-Local attacks were
made by the Germans at various points
during the night but they achieved no
success, the war office announces.
The statement follows:
French troops repulsed strong Ger
main raids south of Juvineourt in the
sector of Godat north of Courcy and
north of the Aisne. In the two last
named regions German detaehmen 3
were driven from advanced FrencA
positions after lively fighting. -~Tne
enemy suffered considerable losses. X
I'm the Champagne west of Mount
Carnillet German attack also was re-
pulsed. There was rather heavy artil-
lery engagements in the region of the
heights, at some points on the right
bank of the Meuse and in the Woevre.
1T has been established that on
March ., Sub-Lieut. Harblin brought
down his tenth German airplane."
ITALIAN.
Rome, March 22-Fighting is be-
coming more active along the whole
front, the war office announces.
The Italians drove back patrols at
several points on the front, and elected
an Austrian detachment which had
forced its way into an advanced posi-
ton in the Frenzela valley sector. Along
the Piave the artillery fighting became
more intense.
GERMAN
Berlin via London, March 22-Ger-
man troops stormed broad sectors
from a point southeast of Arras,
southward to La Fere and every
where captured first enemy lines" the
war office announced today.
An intense firing duel' is proceed
ing between La Fere and scissors and
astride Rheims, in the Champagne
region.
In Flanders there is strong artillery
ing.
The statement follows:
From southeast of Arras as far as
La Fere we attacked the British posi-
tions. After powerful fire by our ar
tillery and mine tErowers, our infantry
stormed in broad sectors and every
where captured the first enemy line
Between La Fere and scissors, on
both sides of Rheims and in the Cham
pagne the firing duel increased in in
tensity. Storming detachments brought
in prisoners in many sectors.
"Ostend has been bombarded from
the sea.
I'm Belgium and French Flanders
the heavy artillery duel continued.
Accommodating detachments pene-
trated on many occasions into the
enemy lines.
Our artillery continued the destruc-
tion of the enemy infantry positions
and batteries before Verdun. On the
Lorraine front also the artillery activi-
ty increased on many occasions.
From the other theaters of war there
is nothing new to report"
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SIGN OF VICTORY!
If It's Big Drive, Then Allies
Won First Round.
London Finds Great Satisfac-
tiOn in Haig's Report.

London, March 22.-The eagerly
awaited British official statement of
today which gave further details of
the tremendous fighting indicated in
last nights reports. was read with
great satisfaction, insofar as it re-
vealed that the enemy had been held
and had suffered great losses. If this
turns out to be the great German Of
fensive that has been predicted the
preliminary round appears to have
gone in favor of the entente, altho
as the official report points out
further heavy fighting is still to be ex-
pected.
The tremendous artillery duel was
heard more distinctly than ever in
Kent last night. Houses were con-
tinually shaken as the result of the
violent cOncussiOnS
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II MORE KILLED
Disaster on e. s. Destroyer
Manly Cost Sixteen Lives.
Additional Dead and Wounded
Reported to War Dept.

Washington, March 22.-Twelve ad-
ditional deaths as result of the col
lision between the destroyer Manly
and a British man of war March 10
were announced today by the navy de-
partment 1t was announced also that
ten men not reported yesterday also
were injured. All of those hurt were
reported doing well.
This brought the death list to six
teen. John c. Holmes. carpenters
mate, of IA Dalton street, Boston,
Mass, was one of the twelve men re-
ported killed today. The names of
the eleven others have not been re-
ceived.
In addition to those previously re-
ported the following injured have been
landed and sent to the hospital:
Earle P. Nelson, electrician, Water
loo, Ia.
William J. Luckock, gunner's mate.
Newport R. I.
Isaac Diggs, mess attendant Nor
folk, Va.
Charles D. Dwight. seaman, Chi
cago, Ill.
William A. Johnston, ships cook,
North Portland, Ore.
John Leo Cardin, fireman, Wilkin-
sonville, Mass.
Edward F. Russell, seaman, Natick,
Mass
Frederick Hanson. coxswain, Brook
Kirk w. Morse. chief gunner's
mate, Snohomish, Wash.
Charles William eagle, fireman,
Monroe, Okla.
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so-caIled "Slacker Bill" which pro-
vides that an alien Of allied citizen
ship must fight or be deported so
that his own conscription laws may
compel him to do his duty: when
Great Britain and the United States
are putting the finishing touches on
an international draft convention; it
may interest a great many able
bodied young men in this country
who claim British citizenship but
have not volunteered for service.
that the British and Canadian armies
have a vast number Of these land
battleships, evidence Of which is
given in the accompanying photo
graph. This shows only one British
tankdrome in France. How many
more tanks are ready for actionf
The censor may know, but he won't
tell. However. the Germans may
find out-as they did when the mon
sters routed them or captured them
at Cambraii
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Enter Huns Second Line Be-
hind Perfect Barrage.
Find Germans Had Evacuated
Both DefenSeS.
FRUSTRATE COUNTER ATTACK
Shell Fire PuIveriZed Hun
Trenches and DugOuts.
Call for Raid Volunteers; Even
Cooks Want To Go.
HY FRED s. FERGUSON.

With the American Army in France,
March 21, (Evening.) - American
troops at Dawn today went over the
top in a wooded and fog shrouded
sector for the second time within
twelve hours, entering the German
second line trenches. They were ac-
companied by French units. They
fond no enemy troops and returned
after cleaning up the German
trenches.
WithstOOd Record Smelling.
The troops who participated in the
raid had withstood the hardest artil-
lery bombardment of any Americans
in the west front lines.
They swept forward behind a per-
feet barrage, passing the first line of
German trenches and entering the
second.
AS in several previous raids. it was
pcsltlors untenable and had with
drawn. The German wire entangle-
ments, trenches and dugouts were
completely shattered. Wednesday
night spectacular artillerying followed
a night raid by the Americans and
French. Volunteers were called for
ard even cooks and teamsters asked
to go.
TT raiders waited coolly in their
trenches, while their artillery roared
its overture. Then they went over
the top and cleaned up the deserted
enemy trenches.
Prevent Hun Counter Attack.
Al American lieutenant traversed
the zone of shell fire for some dis
tance and picking up a wounded
Frenchman brought him in
A heavy German counter-barrage
including gas, followed the raiders
return. Their machine guns whipped
the American lines. A counter attack
apparently was planned but it was
stopped by our artillery and machine
gun fire
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is 1T OR ISN'T IT?
American Military Men Reserve
Opinion on Big Drive.
May Be Only Big Show To
Cloak Some Secret Move!

Washington. March 22.-American
military observers. already having cast
their doubts on whether the German
drive begun yesterday really heralds
the long expected German offensive,
were closely scanning the official dis
patches today for evidence to support
their view that the German onslaught
terrific as it may be. really is the
forerunner of some other movement.
There is a marked tendency among
American army officers here not to
accept the present movement as the
real offensive until it is more fully
demonstrated.
Despite announcement from London
that the German war machine is at
tacking on wider front than ever be-
fore attempted in the west, there is a
distinct feeling here that the move
may not prove more than a gigantic
demonstration to overawe European
neutrals or cloak some other purpose
Germany has in mind.
American observers think that the
military situation in France is against
the probability of real German Of
fensive at this time. The view pre-
walls that Germany now would hardly
stake the issue of the war on des-
perate drive against the all but i'm
pregnable allied line in the west
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Germans Attempting To Put
Across Triangle Campaign.
Scarpe and Cambria Forces
Driving for Junction Point.
WOULD SURROUND BRITISH
Initial Effort Is To "Pinch Off''
Cambrai Salient.
Design Similar to Former Sue
cessful Counter There.

London, March 22.-It is not yet
possible to give more than very
general and vague idea of the fighting
Thursday on the front between the
Disc and the Zebsee which continues
with swaying fortunes, according to
the accounts of correspondents at the
British front in the morning news
papers.
The German attack made on the
British front west and southwest of
Cambrai evidently aims at recaptur-
ing all the Hindenburg line, says a
dispatch to the Morning Post from
British headquarters in France, which
adds:
1.-The German army attacking south
of tae Scarpe seems to have delivered
it's first blow principally in the triangle
of the Arras-Cambraf and Bapaume-
Cambria roads, while the German
army south of Cambria is striking
against our trench systems, in the
region west of the Sche1dt canal. No
doubt the enemy hopes that the at
tacking forces of these two armies
may succeed in forming a junction,
thus cutting off a considerable slice
of the British front and taking back
all the Hindenburg trenches lost eX-
actly four months ago.
Began Bombardment at u a. M.
Struggles for villages and ruined
farm houses continued thruout Thurs
day, according to the correspondent
of the Mail. The enemy lombard
ment, 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. Be
tween and 10 the engagement be
came general on a front of some
twenty-five miles.
''The right of the German attack
was aimed at Croisilles, Bullecourt
and Lagincourt, and there was hard
fighting in a brick field near the first
of these villages. Along the Bapaume
Cambria road the enemy also attacked
and then towards GouZeaucourt, while
his left wing was pushed in the direc-
ton of Ronnsoy and Hargicourt.
The British front in the area of at
tack forms rather sharp salient. II
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DID TERRIFIC DAMAGE
British Aerial Attack on Mannheim
Caused Fires; Huns in Panic.

Geneva, Wednesday, March 20.-In-
formation has reached Basel that the
British aerial attack of Monday upon
Mannheim, Germany, did enormous
damage in the city. causing several
furious fires, especially in the vicinity
of the railway station.
A powder factory and a gas plant
are reported to have exploded. The
population, according to these advices,
is panic-stricken and many persons
are going to Switzerland, especially
women and children. The south Ger
man press is continuing its campaign
against aerial reprisals but the Berlin
government is declared TO show no
disposition to negotiate.
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trench, the Germans could do one of
two thingsIthey could surrender or
die. IF the tanks were a sensation at
Arras, they were a cataclysm at
Cambria when dozens of them clear
ed the way for the '"Tommies" and
aided in the capture or destruction
of hordes of the enemy.
AS will be recalled, the commander
of the vast tank squadrof went into
action seated in plain view on top of
his tank flagship. exposed to rifle.
machine gun and artillery fire. and
not only inspired his men but gave
the whole world a laugh when he
few the signal, ENGLAND expects
every tank to do its d-destl"
In these days when Great Britain
is asking her sons in the United
States to volunteer for service at
once SO that there nay be steady
flow Of much needed man power to
the western front; when one branch
of Congress in Washington passes a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
own K. C. YARDS
Heney Tries To Prove Morris
& Company Are Owners.
PrOber Reads Mass of Letters
and Private, Documents.

Kansas City, March 22.-Evidence
which Francis j. Heney, special coun-
sci for the federal trade commission,
said was designed to show that Morris
& Co, of Chicago, own and control
the Kansas City Stock Yards COM
pany, introduced at today's session of
the commissions investigation of the
meat packing industry of the south
west.
Mr.. Heney read into the record a
mass of letters and documents which,
he said, were introduced to show how
the Morris company controlled the
local company.
The witnesses examined included
Miss Hazel Wilson, secretary to Geo.
r. Collett, vice president and general
manager of the Stock Yards company;
O. NJ. aite, secretary of the company,
and \. Douthitt, of Kansas City. live
stock loan brokerage agent. Miss Will
son was placed on the stand to
identify letters alleged to have passed
between Mr. Co1lett and Morris & Co.
Only Morris Directors Eligible.
One of the letters read by Mr.. Hen
ey was addressed to Nelson Morris of
Chicago and dealt with the annual
election of directors of the Kansas
City Stock Yards company. The let
ter stated that a board of directors
suitable to Mr.. Morris would be chos-
en-. The letter was signed George r.
Collett.'
1t was declared at the hearing that
the local company is incorporated un-
der the laws of Maine at Portland.
Ne and that the annual meetings of
the stockholders are always held
there.
1t had been expected that condi-
tions in the Denver. Colo. plants
would be taken up at the morning ses-
sion but four witnesses from that
place did not arrive in time and it
was said they probably would be put
on the stand late today.
Mr.. Heney announced he hoped to
end the hearing before tonight. if pos
Sible
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Millionaire Socialist "Jugged"
for Speech at Springfield, Mo.
Defied Police Chiefs Order Not
To Make Address.
CANT SPREAD POISON HERE!"
New Yorker Gives Cops Tongue
Lashing at City Jail.
Never Before Arrested or "De-
prived of Free Speech"

Springfield, Mo-, March 22.-nIrs
Rose Pastor Stokes, Socialist party
worker of New York, who was ar
rested here last night when she per-
sisted in addressing a meeting of
Socialists after Chief of Police Rath-
bone had prohibited her speaking.
failed to appear in municipal court
this morning when her case was
called.
She was booked last night at police
headquarters on charge of holding
street meeting without securing a
permit from the chief of police as re-
quired by the city ordinance. She was
released on bond of 500, her surety
being Caleb Lipscomb. a prominent
Springfield grain dealer, who was
largely instrumental in securing Mrs.
Stokes for an address here
Chief RathbOne said today that he
would request Municipal Judge Trav-
ers to forfeit Mrs. Stokes's bond
Billed for Speech Tonight.
Mrs Stokes left early this morning
for Willow Springs. Mo, where she is
scheduled to give an address tonight.
While being detained at HEADQUARTERS
last night, Mrs. Stokes declared she
had never before been arrestd, and
criticised the police for "depriving her
of the right of free speech"
Chief Rathbone said today in the
future he would prohibit the holding
OF any meeting in Springfield to be ad-
dressed by persons whose loyalty to
the government in the prosecution of
the war could be questioned in the
slightest
We don't want any of this poison
spread here" he said. by prohibit
ing the meetings from the start, they
won't get a chance to say anything
that will force the police to take dras-
tic action"
Leaves Early for n. Y.
Later the bond was declared for
feited by the court and the case dis
missed. 1t is reported that Mrs. Stokes
took train before daybreak, having
purchase a ticket for New York. If
this is true, she evidently intends to
cancel a number of speaking dates in
this part of the state
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1000 CONVERTS IN
INITIAL RUSH DOWN
THE SAWDUST TRAIL

Chicago, March 22.-Billy Sundays
first invitation for trail hitters in his
Chicago tabernacle resulted in a rush
of 1000. Tho Billy worked a cold
deck on Satan by issuing his call to
an audience including large Bible
class delegations, many others swept
past the evangelist's rostrum- A po-
liceman, two Jackies and a soldier
were among the first fifty down the
sawdust path The first trail hitter
was David Ramsey, 21, of Chicago.
Billy had been here twelve days
when he announced last night the
hour has come" the band blared
Hold the Fort" and Onward Chris
tian Soldiers" Ushers formed their
guiding lines to the platform and the
rush began.
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SOME RESENT SEIZURE
Rotterdam Newspaper Says Taking
Vessels Is Stain on q. S. History.

Rotterdam, March 22.-In the alb
sence of the text of President Wilson's s
proclamation directing the seizure of
Dutch ships in American harbors.
crowds gathered Thursday around
bulletin boards to read of the action.
Mingled anger and bewilderment were
evident among the watchers.
Speaking of the seizure, the Nieuw
Rotterdamsche Courant says:
THE American government has
seized another's goods. The action
is a stain on the United States history
that will be uneffaceable for decades.
The Dutch will bear the blow with
dignity, which is the small country's s
best answer to the big power for
grieVouS injury
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The British tank was one Of the
great sensations of the present war.
It not only surprised the world when
t appeared in action, but it sur
orised the Germans there was
4 good strong jolt accompanying the
surprise. The very idea of land
oattleship was inspiring in itself, but
he tanks did not go into action with
my desire on the part of their crews
20 create poetry and romance. They
vent into action to sweep German
oarbed wire out of the way so that
The infantry could get through quick
y with bullet and bavonet and bomb
and overwhelm the Huns before they
could organize an effective defense.
Rough country - trenches. high
banks. woods. houses. pill-boxes-did
not daunt the tanks in the least; they
crawled right over and through them,
splitting machine gun bullets by thou
sands, and when thev got astride a
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Heralded German Tanks Did
Not Appear in Drive.
Huns Didn't Capture Single OBJ
jective Planned.
1874, 900 GERMANS IN DRIVE
At Least 10 Divisions Identi-
fled in Gigantic Offensive.
German Prisoners Declare Their
Forces Suffered Heavily.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.

With the British Armies in France,
March 22.-British troops are holding
the Germans everywhere and are driv-
ing them back in places, the latest re-
ports indicate.
The enemy has not reached a single
one of his objectives, which, accord
ing to captured map. included Her
mics. Archiet-le-Petit and Boiry-St.
Martin.
British counter attacks with tanks
at o'clock last night threw the Ger
mans out of Doignies, which the Brit
ish still occupied this morning. The
Germans have not used tanks on this
front so far.
The enemy attacked in tremendous
strength yesterday. At least nineteen
divisions (probably from 134, 300 to
2s5,000 men, figuring on the basis of
5000 to $4,000 men in a division)
have been identified.
Penetrate Second Defenses.
By noon they had succeeded in
penetrating the British first and sec
ond defense systems on a short 'front.'
age.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon the
Germans attacked heavily northwest
from Fontaines Les Croisilles. but ma
chine guns moved them down, hold
ing up the attack.
The weather, foggy thruout yester-
| day, was the same today, handicap
| ping airmen.
The German artillery operated in
| the open, under the densest camou-
flage. German prisoners declare their
| batteries suffered greatly.
AS this is cabled Hindenburg's first
| thrust apparently is checked with
small gains.
| Battle Continues on Cambria Front.
! The situation has quieted down, al
least momentarily, save in the region
of PongvilIe (ten miles west of Cam
braD where heavy shelling continues
Hermies is three miles west OF
Flesquires and nine miles east of Ba-
paume. Flesquires is the apex of the
| sharp "Cambrai salient
| Achiet-le-Petit is four miles north
| west of Bapaume and eight miles
southwest of Croisilles. The latter is
one of the points of the German pen
etration. Achiet-le-Petit is a junction
point in the railway running from
Bapaume northward to Arras.
| Boiry-St. Martin is two miles west
of Croisilles.
Doignies is about a mile south OF
Louveral, where the Germans are also
reported to have penetrated the Brit
ish lines. 1t is eight miles east OF
Bapaume on the Bapaume-Cambrai
| highway
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WAR ON BULGARIA.!
Their Presence on West Front May
Result in Declaration by U. S.

Washington. March 22.-Berlin re-
ports today that Bulgars are now
fighting on the west front aroused i'm
mediate speculation here as to the
probability of the United States de-
claring war against Bulgaria.
Government authorities said a de-
cision would await further facts as to
the extent of Bulgarias participation
and whether they are facing only Brit
iSh or also Americans.
If Bulgars participate in the west
drive to such an extent as to insure
their operation against Americans a
declaration of war is held inevitable.
Bulgarians here thought the dispatch
might refer to Magyars. instead of
BulgarS
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German Newspapers Herald Current
Battle as Expected Drive.

London, March GIVE are now
entered on a decisive battle for gen.
eral peace says the Taglische Rund-
schau of Berlin, according to a dis
patch from Copenhagen, in announc-
ing that the commencement of the
German offensive in the west is re-
ceived with great felicitation by the
German people, who will follow it
with feverish interest. The newspaper
adds:
"A single combat between England
and Germany, which is to decide the
war, our future position in the world
and whether the Anglo-Saxons shall
continue to press their will on the
world opened TODAY"
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19 DIVISIONS IN DRr:E
Germans Paid Colossal Cost for Small
Gains, Says Correspondent.

London. March 22.-Nineteen army
divisions were identified in yesterdays
fighting. Reuters correspondent at
British headquarters wires. He adds:
THE whole things is too big to be
able even to sketch or visualize easily.
Thus far the enemy has paid a colossal
price for such small gains al represent
the fruits of his mighty effort
During the last twenty-four hours
the cannonading on the western front
has been distinctly heard in Holland, |,
the Exchange Telegraph correspond
ent at Amsterdam reports
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MANLY REACHES PORT.
Crippled American Destroyer Is SAFE
in British HarbOr.

London, March 22.-The American
destroyer Manly has reached a Brit
ish harbor in safety, it was stated here
today.
Fire broke out in the after part of
the Manly and the depth charge kept
there was Immediately thrown over
board in the hope that the vessel
would steam clear. The explosion.
however, blew off the after part of
the vessel. Several survivors were
landed and are now in a hospital.
The Manly was damaged when a
depth charge aboard was set off by
collision Four men were killed and
several badly hurt
Will Send Bodies Home.
An Irish Port. March 22.-The
bodies of three men from the United
states destroyer Manly have been
brought here to be embalmed for re-
moVal to America.