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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
U. s. ARMY NEAR END
WHEN PEACE WAS MADE

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 10
of superb spirit but a bit "grOggy"
when the armistice was signed, was
the statement made to the a in
vestigating committee by Colonel
Fred Huidekoper, formerly adjutant
of the Thirty-third division. The
witness said he had been told the
transportation situation on the bat
tlefield was so bad the American
army could not have kept on a
month longer. French officers be-
lieved the American troops were not
given the shelter and a + they
should have had.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
FLYER GIVES FIRE ALARM

ONTARIO, Cal, July 11.--An
army aviator who discovered a big
brush fire as he was flying over
the ranch of j. C. Smyth near here
recently, turned his plane back to
the city and by signals informed the
Ontario fire department of the
blaze. Mr.. Smyth whose home was
in danger, had tried to summon
the fire department several times by
telephone, but owing to a strike of
chemical engine responded to the
aviators appeal and the ranch house
and other buildings were saved.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
POLO AGAIN POPULAR
IN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

HONOLULU, T. H., July 10
Polo is to be revived in Hawaii. The
Hawaii Polo and Racing association
at a recent meeting decided to hold
race meets here on Labor Day and
on September g., with an inter
island polo tournament beginning
August 80 and continuing until Sep
TENDER 49,. Four polo teams will
compete in the tournament repre-
senting the islands of Oahu, Maui,
and Kaui and the army.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
EXPLORfRPLANSFLIGHT TO SOUTH POLE

pedition. has been appointed chief
of the wireless staff.
Captain Hurley, official photog-
rapher of the Australian forces in
the war and who accompanied the
Mawson expedition as photographer,
will go as photographer
Lieutenant E. Healy. late of the
Dublin Fusilliers, has been APP
pointed a member of the shore party
which will leave the Terro Nova
when the vessel becomes fast in the
ice, and will explore the district to
the south of the great ice barrier.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
BELGIAN COL0RS
BARRED FROM HUN

BRUSSELS, July 15.-Belgian pa
triotic societies are forming to take
action to prevent the German repub-
lie from adopting the Belgian ma
tional colors-black, yellow and red
for it's flag. Intense indignation
is manifested, and this is a bit
heightened by the plea that the
colors in the new German emblem
will be disposed of horizontally in
stead of vertically.
1t is generally supposed that the
Belgian colors of today were chosen
by the patriots of 1880, but the rev
o%lutionists of that ear merely took
for themselves the black, yellow and
red which had been legendary in
Flanders and the Brahant since the
middle Ages.
The princes of Flanders bore on
their arms a black lion on a field
of gold, and those of Brabant a
golden lion on a field of black. The
trappings of both were red. From
the thirteenth century, therefore, the
Belgian colors have been black, yell
low and red.
An argument against the use of
tie colors by the Germans is that
the Belgians have actually employed
the black, yellow and red horizont-
ally in their enthusiastically in
their mercantile flags-so they con
slider they still have a priority on
that disposition of the colors as we'll
as the vertical use The horizontal
bars were adopted by the patriots
who overthrow the Austrians in
1889. In 1880, the first flag to fly
from the Hotel de Willie in Brussels
was the horizontal barred black,
yellow and red.
The Belgians scorn the plea of the
Germans that they have the right to
use the cOlors because of their use
by the ancient Germanic empire, of
which Austria was the center. They
assert that the confusion resulting
from the employment by Germany
as well as Belgium of the black, yell
low and red would be embarrassing
to the nation which had fought four
years to keep it's colors unsullied.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
WEATHER DECIDED CHANGE
LOCATION, SAYS BAKER

WASHINGTON, D. c., July IL
Questioned by the house var inves-
tigating subcommittee about the To-
cation of most of the army train
ing fields in the south, Secretary
Baker said he had never heard any
improper suggestions from any one
about the location of the camps"
He declared the camps were placed
in the south rather than the north
solely because of weather condi-
lions.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
AMERICAN WOOD SHIPS
NOT WANTED IN SWEDEN

STOCKHOLM, July 11.-Another
American wooden steamer has ar
rived at ~Gothenburg and is offered
for sale to the Swedish shippers.
The Americans have expected this
tyoe of vessel to be especially suit
able for the Baltic but the Swedish
experts find them much too large
aud clumsy.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19

SHIP LINE PLANNED

MEXICO CITY, July In. F.
TrncOso, Mexican charge d'affaires
in Norway and Sweden, has in
formed the government here that he
has arranged with a syndicate of
Danish capitalists to establish a
steamship line between Denmark
and Mexico.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
DIRIGIBLE IN MID-ATLANTIC

NEW YORK, July lit is es-
mated that the British dirigible
R-34 is more than half way across
the Atlantic on her hOmeward
flight. The last message, received
at midnight, said she was 1850
miles east of New York and travel
ing at a speed of As knots.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
SAN SALVADOR FLYERS
TO STUDY IN MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, July 1.-THE de-
partment of foreign relations has
received word that the government
of San Salvador will send to Mexico
within a short time several aviators
who will study the air service here.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
HARDEN MAY REPRESENT
GERMANY AT WASHINGTON

COPENHAGEN, July 11.-MaXi-
milan Hardin, editor of Die Zu-
kunft, probably will be appointed
German ambassador at Washington
as soon as diplomatic relations have
been restored, according to the Ham
burg Fremdenblatt.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
FIVE DEAD, MANY INJURED
IN STORM AT PITTSBURG

PITTSBURG, July 11.-Five are
dead, a dozen missing and
than 40 injured as the result of a
severe electrical storm, with high
wind and a cloud-burst that swept
this section late yesterday. The
property damage is estimated at
thousands of dollars.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
ALLIED SHIPS AT FIUME

PARIS, July 11.-Three allied
warships were ordered to Fiume,
where there were disorders recently
between Italian troops and other
elements of the forces of occupation.
The situation in Fiume is reported
to be quiet.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-19
JAP BANKS FORM
SYNDICATE FOR
CHINA LOAN
GREAT POWERS TO ADVANCE
FUNDS FOR RAILROAD
BUILDING

TOXIC, July 11.-Eighteen prin-
cipal Japanese banks have organized
a financial syndicate for the purpose
of advancing a loan to China as a
member of the proposed new four
power financial group: 1t is an
.nounced that the Yokohama specie
bank will represent the banking syn
dictate in conducting negotiations
with the financial syndicates of the
three other powers, the United
States, Great Britain and France.
This consortium of American,
French, British and Japanese bank
ers was originated in Paris in May
last at a meeting over which Thomas
w. Lamont of New York, pre-
sided.
Representatives of the so-called
big Eight" investors in China,
comprising the firms of Mitsui, Nit
sbishi, Okura, Kuhara, Furukawa,
South Manchurian Railway, Sino-
Japanese Trading Co., and the East
ern Asia Industrial companies, have
submitted a joint statement to the
minister of finance and the minis
ter of foreign affairs saying that
objects of investments by the new
syndicate should be limited to the
construction of railroads, the open
ing of government highways, and
works on rivers and canals. All
other undertakings, they declare,
should be left outside the sphere of
the new syndicate.
1t has been stated that the
loan which banking groups of the
United States, Great Britain,
France and Japan are to make to
the Chinese government probably
will be about 500, 600, 900, to be
paid in four installments of $685.
600, 600 each over a period of years.
The proceeds of the loan, it has been
] stated, will be used for the build
ing Of railroads and for the general
economic development of the coun-
try. Thirty-seven American banks
will participate in the loan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
When the Whole World Recovered
Its Breath Along With
Its Hopes !

continuous fighting in the Douaumont
sector. When the German attack slack
ened on March /, the real crisis of the
defence was over.
Petain then had both the men and the
guns to hold the positions on the east
bank of the Mouse. He had also deve-
oped the method of counter attack, so
costly to troops which had already made
great sacrifices to gain position which
in their weakened condition they
couldn't hold. He was reducing the bat
tie of Verdun to series of infantry &C
tions in which The better individual fight
ing qualities of the French infantry were
bound to tell in the long run. And after
March the French artillery began to
measure up to the German in calibre and
numbers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

on the east side of the river. Ths ~.
bank operation began on March ~,
lasted until April II, the centre Of A.
attack being shifted gradually surth.~
and further west. The Germans co;.S,
ground persstently, but at an enor,.a
cost. Near the river they pushed south
as Tar as the famous two-crested no.,
Mans Hill, whose northern crest +,.s
captured. But they never got possess;os
OF the southern crest, or of Hill 2os :.
the west of it, the two keys Of the DO
fence on this part of the Verdun from,
In order to facilitate onero+;.
against Pepper Ridge, on the east howl
Won Falkenhayn set out to carry Cons
Ridge, on the west bank. In order -
envelop Goose Ridge he tried r. t.,..
Dead Mans Hill. In order to envolas
Dead Mans Hill he shifted the att,or ~
Hill 3o4. Finally, in order to s.rrou.s
Hill 304, he attempted to smash ~.
French line still further west. hstuooa
Malancourt and Avocourt. All these .f
forts broke down with terrific losses
Meanwhile on the east bank tn. Gov
mans made a series of desperate as
saults on Fort de Vaux, about mil.
south of Fort de Douaumont Thee
lasted, with intermissions from March
3 until April /. They were a complets
failure. Then, on April 10, the third
phase of the great battle ended with N,
repulse of an assault on Pepper Hill
The German casualties now reached
total of about 200. 900
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
The German Rush as 1t Met the
Unshakable French Three
Years Ago
By William L. Mcpherson

this is that Won Falkenhayn was con-
Quoting purely defensive operation, in
tended to make the German positions
in France more secure against an AL
lied attack
The last paragraph of the General
Staffs exposition reads:
ut had not been possible for us up to
the spring of 1916 to close this sally port
War on two fronts had kept a substantial
portion of our forces in the Russian and
Balkan theatres. Only when these forces
had been released could the reduction of
Nerdun be undertaken with this strateric
purpose in view: first to close the French
sally port, SO far as Germany was con-
cerned, and then, in the course of further
operations, to swing the door inward
toward France"
In this last phrase only is there any
lntlmation that Won Falkenhayn expected
to use Verdun as base for an advance
on Paris. Yet, if he didn't, why did he
continue for months his costly effort to
destroy the French bridgehcad east of
the Meuse?
Verdun was never used as a French
sally port for an invasion of German
Lorraine. Metz remained undisturbed in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
Strategy Still a
Question

The strategical conception which I'M
deriay the Verdun operation is still OBJ
scurc. In October, 1916, the German
General Staff, departing from its custom
issued statement intended to convex
the idea that the purposes which Won
falkenhayn had in view we're in a large
measure accomplished.
The official version of Won Falken.
hayn's strategical intentions is given in
Volume II Of the "Kricgsberichte aus
dem Grossen Hauptquarter" Vcrdun, it
says, constituted the northeastern cor
ner pillar of the whole French defensive
system. 1t was also the chief French
sally port for an offensive against Mid
die Germany. IT. was the most dangerous
sally port Of all, since an offensive out of
It would put the French armies in the
rStr Of the German armies on the Aisne
and Sommc fronts, in Artois and in Bel
gum. Furthermore, French possession
OF Vcrdun was standing threat 10 ;,
German utilization Of the rich coal and
iron ore deposits of the Briey district
which were of immensc value to the Ger
man munitions industry. In short, Yer
dun was, both for offensive and defensive
purposes, one Of the most valuable oper-
alton bases in French control.
The inference 10 be drawn from all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
A Fight for
Every Step

AS at the Dunajec and in the French
attack in Champagne, the first line de-
fences were blasted away. Woods were
RACED and the hillsides we're poughcd
up. Most of the men in the trenches
were either killed, wounded or stunned.
But the defence didn't melt away.
Fortunately for the French the ad-
vanced lines were lightly manned.
There were only 100000 French troops
in the Vcrdun sector and they were
evenly distributed over the whole front.
AS in the east, the German shock
phalanxes advanced at the end of the
bombardment, expecting to find no
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
And FaIkenhayn
Still Attacked

Still Won Falkenhayn wouldn't admit,
defeat. The battle entered it's fourth
phase on May 7. On the west bank ~
the Meuse violent German attacks al
along the line eliminated. on Nav 90
IN the capture of the southern summit
of Dead Mans Hill Then the attacL
shifted to the east bank After week
of furious fighting Fort de Vaux wa,
taken.
A breach was thus opened in tbs
main French line Of defence northeast
of Verdun. Through it the German,
advanced in June against Fort de Sou.
vile, two miles southwest of Fort de
VauX. They made some progress and
nghtlng continued in this sector through
July. But the British offensive on ths
Somme now absorbed German atten.
ton. The assault on Verdun fagged
and then ended. The May and June
attacks resulted in at least 100000
additional German casualties, bringing
the German total TO 100000 or over
The French losses were probably some.
what less.
Nerdun was, however, still CLOSELY
beleaguered. The German General
Staff communication of October. 1916.
IN which Won Falkenhayn's strategy
was elucidated. contained this compla.
cent statement of the situation on the
Meuse:
What our troops have exhibited in
the way of buoyant aggressiveness, in
stiff defence of conquered territory,
IN the cheerful endurance of unheard
OF hardships and sufferings of every
sort and in an undeniable zest for
battle stands out as the highest pos
sible example of heroism. The victory
which they thereby achieved is consid
cradle. We can look down on the basin
OF Nerdun, on the city, on the Meuss
bridges and the railroad lines and are
able to bring them all under destruc-
tive fire. Verdun's value as the corner
stone of the defence of the French
frontier is thus, if not completely de.
stroyed, at least greatly diminished
It's usefulness as brldgehead and as
an offensive sally port is absolutely
nullifed'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
pis0des of the Great War-IV: The Pause at Verdi,

Mackensen is supposed to have used two
thousand guns at the Dunajec Won
Falkenhayn used three thousand at Yer
dun, most of them of the newer and
heavier calibres
Typographical conditions greatly.
favored the artillery attack. The
French positions on the east bank of
the river curved in a semicircle from
Brabant, on the north, to the Cotcs of
the Mouse on the south
The northern arc was, therefore, not
only subject to direct fire, but could
be enfiladed along it's whole length by
German batteries near FORCES, on the
west bank, and in Spincourt Wood to
the northeast of Ornes. The German
fire on February p was massed con-
secutively on the various segments on
the northern eight mile front. It's in
tensity may be judged from the state
ment of French artillery officer that
$4,000 projectles fell in an area 200
metres long by 500 to 600 metres wide.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

organized resistance. They took many
prisoners. But all along the line
French units offered fight. They sac
rlficed themselves in order to retard the
German advance. 1t took the shock
infantry four days, from February 2l
to February 25, to reach the main
French line of defence on the north,
from Samogneux to Forts de Douau-
mont and VauX
When the empty shell of Fort de
Douaumont was taken by the Branden-
burg division on February 25 the Ger
man High Command thought that Yer
dun was won. But on that day the real
French defence of the fortress had
only begun.
The fighting around Verdun divides
itself into several easily distinguishable
phases. The first phase ended on Feb
ruary 25. In the opening five days the
Germans broke through the northern
face of the semicircular bridgehead cast
of the Mouse and the French troops were
drawn in on the eastern and southeastern
faces. Three hundred thousand Germans
were engaged against about 100000
French. Besides their losses in dead and
wounded the French lost between 10000
and 10000 prisoners. But this was the
ordinary cost Of holding line subject
to drum fire. bombardment. The Ger
mans had made an advance averaging
three miles on the whole Eastern front
and at Fort de Douaumont they were in
sight of Verdun.
Petain's arrival was the signal for a
French counter attack. This cleared the
hill on which Fort de Douaumont stood,
leaving a Brandenburg's battalion ma
rooned in the dsmantled work. From
February rs to February 20 there was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
Premature
Rejoicing

ms assurance was premature. Al
most simultaneously with its publica.
ton General Nivelle, who had succeeded
fetaln, started a counter attack, which
broke through the German lines for s
two-mlle gain on four-mie front
Douaumont fort and village were re-
captured. A few days later Vaux for
and village were retaken
On December 10 Nivelle was pro
noted to the command of all the
French armies in France His sue
cessor at Vcrdun, General Manglr'
started another counter offensive Oh
December Is. This broke the German
line on front of six and one -quartsF
miles and regained all the important
strategic positions on the east bank o.
the Meuse. In these two brilliant
operations the French took about w
600 prisoners and suffered very sllgh'
losses.
The door for a French invasion o.
German Lorraine was again open. bu'
the French were never to use it. lhe
fact could only add to the chagrn O
the German strategists. who. merely u
the hope of closing it Of their own ea,
plantations are to be accepted, nS'
sacrificed more than 100000 men,
Among the great struggles OF NV
war Verdun stands out by reason OF ~
duration and intensity. 1t was a's
tinctively soldiers ba.Ilc It herasds'.
in way the recovery by the infaauE
arm of its once proud distinction .
the queen of battles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

the ordinary nickel and built
real wonder in world bored with won
ders
Just as the sun plays on the golden
ball at the top Of the Woolworth Build
ing long after the rest of the city is
clothed in night, so will Woolworth's
romantic career play with the magma
ton of posterity long after the most fan
tastic tales of fancy are forgotten.
For the story of the man was human
one. spun not from the brain of poet
or artist, but from a dreamer who
dreamed in terms of fact and built in
deeds.
AT twenty-six Frank ". Woolworth
was failure. His past was series Of
dull chores and unsuccessful attempts to
earn a livelihood. His future to those
who knew him, wasn't worth a nickel"
and yet his future, built on nickels,
proved that dreams recognize no par
ticular age and, given the proper i'm
petus, can materialize into the most gilt
tering Of realities
1t is hard for the everyday mind to
conjure with the figures of small things
in big terms, yet Woolworth turned
dream into fact-a fact that tells of
2o0 tons of hairpins sold every year and
100000 pounds of candy, 80 600 tons.
consumed by the millions of customers
who buy them in and 10 cent packages.
But of sucn striking triflcs was the huge
Woolworth business and the Woolworth
Building constructed.
One could continue forever to give
Woolworth figures and facts. It is
enough to say that the man whose
brain evolved the monument which now
bears his name was an ordinary man
who dealt in ordinary things and who
was extraordinary only in the way that
even the most commonplace can be
turned into romantic achievement.
What is the secret of your succcss?"
The question was certain to be asked of
Wooworth. A success so unusual. even
in metropolis where successes are many
and strangely attained, might be expect
cd to bring out wondrous "open sesames."
marvellous secrets, but such was not the
case. Woolworth, who Stunned publicity,
and who, while he lived, was extremely
reticent answered with trite phrase
that has been so oft-repeatcd that it can
never become classic.
Work." was the laconic reply, and
going on
Going on?" The phrase was hardly
clear one.
Yes he continued. "Going on, despite
all rcvcrscs. Failing, but going on despite
failure. Falling down, but continuing
despite the fall. Going on
And his life was all matter of going
on He went on at 26, when most men in
his position would have been broken with
encouragement, for at that age he was
told that the weekly stipend which he re-
ceivcd as salesman for A. Bushnell &
Co., Watcrtown firm, was about
81 more than he was worth. He went on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
The Third
Phase

The third phase of the battle was the
extension of the German attack to the
left bank Of the Mouse. Halted at Dou-
aumont, Won Falkenhayn decided to try
to reach Verdun from the west Tacti-
cally an advance on the west bank had
been made necessary from the fact that
the French batteries on that side could
enflade the more advanced German line
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
Requiem for q Probable occasion
By Amy Lowell

Once there was fine Kaiser,
Tricked out like a peacock,
Struttcd up on a great horse
Before a million little painted sold,.rs
Parading to and fro
Like a Christmas toy.
&c dressed up in a uniform, and a uniform
and uniform,
And they were all brand new
ana as gorgeous as the tailors could make
them.
Well, that is fortunate, for good cloth lasts
quite q while.
Now which will you choose to sit on the
piazza in?
But, really, the negroes who pass the gate
Observe you very little now;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

They are busy shouting, gigging, kissing,
Arranging for the next generation
Only the pickanlnnes stare,
Digging their toes into the gust
Hoo! Hoo! They say he eat men.r
DO they so?
And did you?
All those dead men, Kaiser
with wheat growing out of their mouths
Millions and half of dead men.
You had appetite
Deaths Head Hussars,"
with skeleton on their caps
But think they should have worn vour
portrait instead
n' any ratc' caution your servant to be
careful when he brushes that coat;
IL is getting bit shaky in the seams.