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New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Official Statements

Corps have reached the Livenza
River at Francenigo.
Further south the Eleventh italian
Corps has occupied Oderzo.
This advance has been gained
throughout practically the entire
length Of the objective assigned to
me (the Earl of Cavan. British com
mander on the Piave) by his excel
lency General Diaz when he first
laid his plans before me, early in
the days Of October. The energy a,i
determination of the infantry has
been beyond all praise.
The difficulties of bridging the
Piave led at first to an inevitable
sshortness of supplies. In spite Of
lack OF food and sleep and in the face
Of constant fighting the 37th Italian
Division and the 7th and 23d Brit
relief 10 their final objective.
The Royal Air Force has again to-.
day done excellent work.
British and Italian troops operat-
ing on the Asiago Plateau have en-
tered Camporovere northwest of
Asiago) and captured the heights of
Mocatz. The number of prisoners
taken by the Tenth Army has in
creased to more than 10000.
The advance continued this morn
ing. The Tenth Army has reached a
line two miles east of Ormel!e. the
western edge of Lutrano, Albina,
Cologne and VendemIaro and is con-
tinu'ng the advance. In yesterday 5
operations tho yeomanry captured d
more than 200 prisoners
The Third Army has crossed tbs
Piave, south of the Tenth Army. The
advance OF the Eighth and Twelfth
armies is proceeding rapidly. Wit
torio has been occupied by the Eighth
Army.
Aviators report that the airdrome:
at Tausue and Pordeno and the am
munition dumps at Sacile are burn
ing. A mass of hostile infantry. est
mated at 10000, was attacked from
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Entire $50 Miles
OF Italian Front
Ablaze With Battle

LONDON. Oct. 31.-The ertire Ital-
ian front is ablaze, a Central News
dispatch from Rome says. All the 1tal-
ian armies now are in action.
From the Stelvio Pass to the Adriatic
the Italian front is more than 1870
miles in length, running south to west
of Lake Garda, thence east across the
Brenta and Piave to the apex of the
new Allied wedge near Sacile, where it
turns south and west to the Adriatic.
The active Italian front has been
considered generally as being between
Lake Garda and the Adriatlc. front
of about 100 miles
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
ITALIAN

ROME (Oct. 30).-Our armies are
continuing TO advance rapidly after
the retreating enemy. who has at
tempted in vain to retard them
Heads Of our columns have reached
Serraval)e, Orsago, Gajarinc and
Oder2o
Cavalry divisions are advancing in
the plains and some squadrons to- day
entered Sacle.
In overcoming strong resistance
between the Piave and the Monti-
cano the Third Army has fought
brilliantly. The river crossing at
Ponti di Piayc VAS carried in fierce
action. The enemy WAS obliged TO
evacuatc Asiago, which we promptly
occupied
During the rush of the advance it
has been impossible to keep count OF
the thousands Of prisoners and many
guns taken. Besides the populations
OF towns and villages we have Iiber-
ated numbers of Italian prisoners
who have been in Austrian hands.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
FRENCH

PARIS (NIGHT). - During the
course of the day very violent en-
gagements took place on the west
slope Of the St. Fergeux Plateau,
which turned to our advantage
and enabled us to take 12O addi-
tional prisoners.
PARIS (DAY).--The artillery ac-
tivity has been rather lively on the
Disc front. At the end Of the day
yesterday the Germans counter at
tackled violently west of St. Fergeux.
The French maintained their posi-
tions.
In the last two days the number
OF prisoners taken by the French
Fifth Army has reached 1,45a, in
cluding a. colonel of cavalry and
three chiefs Of battalions.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Army Officers Will Get
Uniforms at Cost to u. S.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-Ready-
made officers uniforms and cloths for
tailor-made articles will be sold by the
Quartermaster Corps at cost after De-
cember /. The War Department an
nounced to-day that stocks will be
carried on that date at quartermaster
depots in Washington, New York, At
lanta, Fort Sam Houston, San Frn-
cisco, Chicago and ST. Louis and at
other depots as soon as the cloth be-
comes available.
A schedule of fair prices for making
the uniforms and furnishing trimming
and Innings will be prepared, and list
of tailors who will agree to make the
uniforms at these rates will be pub
lished. The government will guaran-
tee collection of bills.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Americans TO Have
Wood Pile as Long
AS Paris to Berlin

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. Oct. % (By The Assoc lated
Press).-Amcrican ngntinp men at the
front are to keep warm this winter.
The foresty section of the Ame rican
expeditionary force has promised to
deliver on the road ready to be hauled
to the men at the front before Janu-
arv 100000 cubic metres of fuel
wood This ls equivalent to a pile OF
wood a yard wide and yard high
stretching from Paris to Berlin.
Thousands of foresters are now busy
in the French forests gathering and
cutting the wood. which comes from
deadwood and refuse in the forest
The fine trees of which the French
arc so proud are not being cut.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
BRITISH

LONDON (NIGHT).--T Britlsh
second army attacked this morning
southwest of Au Denarde, capturing
all it's objectives and 1000 prisoners.
LONDON {DAY). AS a. result oe
successful raids carried out by US
during the night in the ncighbor-
hood of lie Quesnoy we captured q
few prisoners and inflicted casualties
upon the enemy
Our patrols have been active along
the Scheldt Canal north of Raismes
Forest and have made progress at
certain points.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Ma jor William B. Dean
Dies From Pneumonia

CAMP DODGE, Iowa, Oct. 81 Major
William B. Dean. former West Point
football star. and acting division ma
chine gun instructor, died here las;
night from pneumonia, which developed
after influenza.
Dean, twice unanimous choice Of
critics for all-American halfback. wa
directly responsible for West point's
victories over Yale in 1910 and 1918
His parents, formerly of Upton, Iowa.
now reside in Los Angeles.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01

town would only interfere with the
Finance Committees work on the war
revenue bill.
The House. awaiting action by the
Senate, interrupted is three day recess
programme by adj journing unril to-mor-
row. Democratic Leader Kitchin said
the Senate might then be wiling to
"talk adjournment"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Diaz Sends Cavalry
Across the Piave to
Pursue Austyiarac

ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS
Oct. 80 (S D. m) (By The Associated
Press Allied troops advancing from
the Pave River have captured $4,000
Austro- -Hungarans and have taken
hundreds OF cannon. General Diaz. the
Italian commander in chief, has issued
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Max Makes Erzberger Head
OF War Press Department

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 31.APrince Maxi.
milan, the German Chancellor, has
signed a decree entrusting Matthias
cellor, with control of the War Press
Department. according to the "Vos-
sische zeitung," of Berlin.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
GERMAN

BERLIN tNIGHT).- = Hostil. at
tacAs from the Dutch frontier as far
as the Sche d. broke down before our
Lys front. Detween Deynze and the
Scheldt the enemy, who at isolated
points had penetrated our lines. was
quickly stopped.
On the Aisne heights northwest Of
Chateau Porcien violent French at
tackS were repulsed
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
BRITISH
italian Front

LONDON (Oct. 3I.-Tho advance
OF the Tenth Army continued without
check throughout the day. British
cavalry detschments, in close touch
with Italila cavalry. have reached
the western outskirts of Sacile.
Troops Of the Fourteenth Eritixh
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01

the following bulletin to his troops:
"Soliders, forward! In Italy's name
we will place the wreath of victory on
the tomb of our glorious dead, For
ward! Our immortal country c.!.ls!"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01

the Austrian line was broken and the
enemy was obliged to retire in disorder
that the ground has been given up.
The front is now extending for about
$50 Kilometres"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01

the air this morning in the neigh
borhood of Sacle and scattered.
British troops commanded by the
Italian General Pennilla haEc entered
hriaOo
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
AUSTRIAN

VIENNA (Oct. 30). - Taking into
account the resolve so often ex-
pressed 70 bring about "a conclusion
Of an armistcc and peace, putting
an end to the struggle of nations,
our troops fighting OH Italian soil
will evacuate occupied regions.
In the Italian theatre there has
been only minor fighting activity on
the Tyrolean front. Between the
Brenta and the Piave fresh and
superior enemy forces attacked
Monte Asolone and Monte Pertics.
Our troops, with unexampled and sol
dierly faithfuluess, brought all the
enemy's efforts to naught.
On the Venetian Plains the British
and Italians thrust further forward.
BY using all their fighting means
they succeeded appreci bly, in extend,
ing the points at which they had
broken through north and SOUTH Of
Montello
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01

LONDON, Oct 31.-Genersl Plumer's
British Second Army and French and
Belgian divisions launched an attack
early this morning on wide front
along the Scheldt River. in Flanders.
In heavy fighting the Allies pushed
their way forward east Of Journal,
forcing the enemy to fall back rapidly.
Objectves were carried everywhere
on the line as Haig's men advanced.
One thousand prisoners were counted by
the British alone, operating southwest
of Audenarde, in the initial thrust,
Field Marshal Haig announced last
night More captives were taken by
King Albert's forces on the left, which
swung forward for gains along the Lys
Derivation Canal. Daalghem, in the
centre Of the line, was wrested from
the enemy, the report from Havre
states
Advance British forces penetrated
far into the foes positions during the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Big Slice of Territory Won
by Belgians, British,
French and Yanks
Americans Press On
To Bellejoyeuse Farm
Allies Gain All Detectives;
Violent Fighting in
Champagne

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE. AND BELGIUM, Oct 81 g
other big slice of important territory
was torn from the enemy to-day along
q wide front in Belgium, between De-
nyze, on the north, and Avelghem, on
the south, by an Allied force composed
Of Belgian, British, French and Amer
ican troops. The American units were
fighting with the French north of the
British.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Italians Seuer
Foe Line; Trap
IS Divisions

Continued from page I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

vessel which sailed after war had been
declared.
Seven ships and twelve banks. Know
what bark is? Maybe you do, but
just to "show off" little and to tell
you, if by chance you do not know,
there arc several types Of vessels that
are square-rigged in whole or in part.
First there is ship, a vessel with
three masts, or occasionally four, car
rying it's sails on yards running across
the ship, on all the masts. Then there
is the bark, of three masts usually, but
on all except the sternmost mast and
rugged fore-and-aft on that one. Then
the barkentine - or barquentine-
square rugged on the foremost and fore
andaft on all others. Then the brig, a
twc-masted vessel, square-rigged on
both masts, and the brigantine, some-
times called maphrodite brig, Of
two masts, square-rigged on the fore
mast and fore-andaft on the other.
Briggs and brigantines have been al
Seven ships and twelve barks, four
years ago, and some of them have gone
and none have been built since. But
there have been two or three resurrec-
tions. AS before mentioned the fate
of many of our ships has been CONVEX
sion into barges by the removal of all
sails, rigging and masts, except the
lower masts. These have been allowed
to remain, partly because they were
as matter of course laundering big
sticks, with their feet heavily bedded
in the keelsons, and strongly fastened
at the decks, and therefore it was a
big job to remove them. They were
not in the way in the new use of
ship. Moreover, they might become of
use if hosting apparatus were to be
rugged.
In two OF three cases the demand for
vessels of any sort has caused the
owners Of such banks to rerig them as
ships, and the work was all the more
easily done because the lower masts
were in place. The old ship E. B. SUIT
ton, built at Bath, Me-, in 1881, and of
late coal barge owned by the Scully
Towing Company, has been rerigged as
a ship, but without bowsprit, and
made a remarkably fast passage from
an Atlantic port to Southern Brazil.
The old ship Harvard, also coal barge
in recent wears. has been restored to
her normal condition by Boston ship
ping house, and the Foohng Suey
was reftted as a ship recently and re-
named the Galena. 1t is understood in
shipping circles that she had only q
short career in her reincarnaton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

grown so fast that not even the normal
supply Of steamships in prc-war times
could meet it, and that normal supply
has been cut down by the operations Of
the German submarines, so that during
the last three years even the most de-
crepit old hooker, of any sort of rig,
has been able to earn a good income.
in New York Harbor, nor in any other,
on either the Atlantic or the Pacific
coast. You can see them any day along
the Brooklyn shore, and especially you
will find them anchored in the stream
or in the Lower Bay, awaiting their
turns at the docks or awaiting leave to
set sail. But they are not American
ships. Why? Because there are none,
or practically none.
At the outbreak of the war there
we're seven ships and twelve barks
flying the United States flag, nearly all
of them on the Pacific Coast. Some of
these have been lost; in fact, the first
American vessel to fall victim to the
German commerce raiders was the sail
ing ship William p. Frye, which was on
her way from a Northern Pacific port
to England with a cargo Of wheat She
was sunk in the Pacific, in the early
days of the war, and, by the way, she
was more nearly legitimate prey than
almost any other vessel sunk during
the war, as under international law
or international practice, for there is
no such thing really as international
law-she was carrying contraband to
an enemy of the country to which the
vessel which sank her belonged, al
though, having set sail before the war
broke out, in time of profound peace,
her status was not precisely that of a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
The Sailors Are
Mostly Scandinavians

But of square-rigged vessels, ships
and barks, there are many hundreds,
owned by Scandinavians and sailing
under the flags of Norway, Sweden,
Denmark and Finland; or rather, Rus
STA, but hailing from Finland. Most
of them are Norwegian, and nearly all
the ships seen in New York Harbor
recently have displayed the lag of Nor
way One day early in the present
month there we're thirty-two of them
in New York Harbor and bay, and there
are about 800 of them, sailing from At
lantic and Gulf ports to Brazil and the
Argentine, South Africa, the west coast
of South America and Australia.
They do not go into North Atlantic
waters, because of the danger of sub
marines, and, in fact, they are forbid
den to do so, by virtue of agreements
entered into six months or more ago.
They carry heavy freights, for which
the need is not as pressing as it is for
some others, and they are making good
returns to their owners. For the car
rying of lumber they are of better
service than steamers, because the
holds will take in longer sticks, and
will permit more compact slowing. A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Vessel Not American
Ship of Boyhood
Romance, Which
Has Gone rom
the High Seas For
ever
By Charles P. Tower

~ 7HEN you were a boy did you
~ ever think Of running away to
W sea: Maybe you did if you
are now we'll on to seventy years of
age. Probably you did not if you
are much younger. And if you did
not 1t was probably because the
romance Of the sea had in a measure
disappeared along with the square
rigged sailing vessel. While the sea
possesses a fascination for some men
and boys, regardless of the type Of
vessel by means of which one travels
on it, there is comparatively little of
romance attaching to steam driven
craft, and not much more to a schooner
or fore -and-aft rugged vessel.
If Richard Fl. Dana had lived in the
time of his grandson that classic of
the sea, 1.-TWO Years Before the Mast"
would never have been written; partly
because conditions were so vastly diff
ierent that Richard would not have
gone to sea before the mast, and partly
because if he had spent two years or
salt water in any fashion he would
have had no such story to tell. No,
neither the steamship nor the fore-and-
after has exercised such fascination
over young America as did the square
rugged vessel. And incidentally that
accounts, for the fact that nine men
Of one family and name, born in Nova
Scotia, Of Nova Scotian or English
parents, are captains of American
steam vessels; that every chief engi-
neer in the service of the Eastern
Steamship Company is a Nova Scotian,
and that half the captains of Ameri-
can vessels are Nova Scotians or
Scandinavians.
There was time before the Civil
War when American square-rigged YES
sells dominated the commerce of the
world; when American and British
ships loaded with tea raced from the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
The Conflict of
Steam and Sail

The senior captain, in rank if not in
age, in the service of one Of the most
important shipping companies in the
country, naturalized Nova Scotian,
was brought up in steam" His father.
also naturalized Nova Scotian, fol-
lowed the sea until he was nearly
seventy years old and was never ain
steam," and the two fight like the mis-
chief whenever the younger captain is
ashore over the respective merits of
sail and steam. "Any fool" says the
veteran, "can shovel coal into a fur
mace and heat water to evaporation and
send the steam into an engine and
make q screw 60 around and so push
vessel along, but it takes mighty
good man to set sails so as to take the
best advantage of any wind, light or
heavy and coming from any direction,
and get along toward home" And the
old man has the best of it when the
discussion comes TO an end.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

Scandinavian Sailors,
Now Only Ones ON
Board, Earn Con-
tempt of the Men
drought Up in
Steam"

very important service they arc rer.
forming is the freighting of wheat
from Australia to Atlantic ports, for
reshipment to Europe; a service that
there are no steamships to perform.
These ships make the voyage in the
old way, around the Cape, and until
the arrival Of the German submarines
OF the Atlantic coast a month or so
ago they have travelled in safety.
The sailing ships of the Scandinavian
countries and Finland have never been
IN danger Of the fate that befell those
of America, presumably because of the
lower cost Of materials and lower
wages in the shipyards and the lower
wages for seamen. Even England,
foremost Of all countries in buildine
steamships, has built many sailing yes
sells in recent years, and as late as
year or two before the war had some
thing like a million and half Of
gross tons of such craft. There was
plenty of employment for these sailing
vessels of England and Northern
Europe in the carrying of heavy
freights, and they voyaged from Can
ada, England, Scandinavia and Russia
to South Africa, Australia, India and
both sides of South America, carrying
one way or the other lumber and
grain, pulp wood and wood pulp, tea,
hides, nitrates and all sorts of mer-
chandise, quick delivery of which was
not imperative. Most of the English
ships were sold to Norway soon after
the outbreak of the war, ard then, as
the restrictions of war became more
and more rigid and the waters of the
northern seas became unsafe, these
ships sought employment in American
ports, and got it in plenty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

ports of China to Liverpool, New York
or Boston-yes, raced, as determinedly
as ever cup defender raced a chal-
lenger in contest for the Americas
cup, and won their full share of times.
But American ships were driven from
the sea in a degree during the war,
and in the days Immediately follow
steamship and the steel vessel, and
our sailing ships gradually disap-
peared. We could not pay the prices
for American materials nor pay the
wages of American workmen and COM
pete with the cheaper materials and
wages Of England in the building of
ships, nor could we pay the wages of
American sailors and carry cargo at
the low rates prevailing in England.
And SO the American square-rigged
vessels went out of service. Some were
broken up and some were converted into
barges, and in their old age carried
coal at the end of towing hawser.
England got our carrying trade, and
1OI our CUdSLWlSC service we DullC
schooners for such service as did not
require the speed of steamships In
recent years if one saw square trigger
along South Street or along the Brook
Ign waterfront or at a dock on the
Jersey side Of the harbor one stopped
to look her over as a reminder Of an
age long past.
They Are Not
American Ships
But the war has brought about many
unexpected changes in conditions, ard
one of these is the return Of the square
eed Of 'cross-ocean transportation has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Finnish Ships
A Government Dilemma

Owners and shippers Of Finnish YES
sells have not had very comfortable !
time of it lately, as our government
views them with more or less suspicion.
What is Finland, anyway? She is no
longer part of Russia. She thinks
she is a nation all by herself, but she
is in some degree dominated by Ger
many. Just what she is may not be
OF pressing importance to Us as an abb
stract proposition, but the exact status
Of Finnish vessel in our harbor, and
seeking permission to depart, is bust
ness in which the United States gov
eminent is very much interested, so
much so that there are now-or at least
were OH June 15-twelve Finnish ships
in New York Harbor and one in Bos-
ton, all controlled by one shipping
house, waiting for the American gov
eminent to decide what is best to do
about them.
Thirty four Norwegian ships in New
York Harbor at one time and half
score and more of FINNISH; and it is
the belief of the veteran head Of one
Of the Oldest shipping houses in the
city that there is just one square,
rugged sailing ship, flying the Ameri-
can flag, sailing out of New York--the
Edward Sewell, a four-master, now
owned by the Standard Oil Company, a
stray ship in one or two other Atlantic
Pacific Coast. And so, while we in
America see what appears to be the
reincarnation Of the square rigger, it
is merely the revival in our waters by
foreigners Of service That has sur
vived in their own-a revival with their
own ships, their own shippers and their
own crews.
We can't build sailing ships because
every plant and every man is busy
building steamships for government &C
count. Even if we could, it would be
difficult to man them, for you can't ip-
tensively train a man to be skipper Of
g sailing ship, and the oldtime skipper,
has passed away. The training camps
and nautical schools are doing splendid
work in qualifying our young men to
be junior officers on the new steam
ships and in coaching our present
junior officers to be captains, but it
would not be possible for them to train
shippers for square-riggers. And so
our young men, in whom a lively in
terest in the sea has been awakened so
abruptly that it is startling, must 60
to sea ain steam," and can have little
or no part in the reincarnation or re-
vival of the sailing ship.