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VCHL. 11.
THIR^«>
AY, APRIL 11, 1918.
NO. 2538.
CIVILIANS EVACUATING ARRAS
COMMANDER IN CHIEF
ORDERS CIVILIANS TO
LEAVE CITY OF ARRAS
PARIS, Apr. 10:—According to
reports reaching this city from Arras
the civilian population is being re
moved.
It is believed this precaution is
taken, by the orders f the Com
mander in Chief, go as, not to in
anyway hinder the action, of the
Allied heavy artillery should the
city fall, into the hands of the Ger
mans.
PARIS, Apr. 10.—The Germans
in launching an assault, on the
Allied positions, on a front of about
38 mila3, from Ypres on the North
to Arras on the South end of the
lino have succeeded after a long
better straggle in making some
gains.
On eleven sections of this front
the Germans have succeeded in push
ing back (he English lines. The
British are holding further enemy
advances in check South of Armin
tlers and at Givenchy, West of La
Basse.
The point of the greatest depth
of penetration was four miles at
Estaires. (Estaires is 14 miles West
of Lille, on the river Lys, and abotit
30 miles South-west of Dunkirk on
the English Channel.)
PARIS, Apr. 10.—The Germans
have launched a fierce attack on the
town of Hangard, nine miles to the
East of Amiens but were Anally re
pulsed with heavy losses. French
positions have been strengthened in
anticipation of renewed attacks.
On the West bank of the Meuse
near Verdun heavy artillery duel*ng
on a large scale is in progress.
Hosvy artillery dueling is also being
carried on in the Apremont forest
and on the Woevre plain.
North-west of Rheims and North
east of Montrenad the French cap
tured a number German prisoners
without themselves losing a man.
More American troops are daily
arriving on the Woevre front.
LONDON, Apr. 10.—General Mau
rice announces, that the Germans in
a powerful drive, on. the Messnies
sector have, after an extremely hard
fight, during which they sacrificed
an untold number of lives, been suc
cessful, in entering the British lines
near the River Lys. He adds how
ever that the positions taken by the
Gormans, did not Include any of
the British positions along the high
ground.
General Maurice further says that
tho taking of these positions, along
the Lys, makes the British positions
at Armentirea awkward, as Messines
is just six miles North of Arm
entires.
During the fighting last night,
when the Germans entered the Brit
ish lines, one thousand French
Troops were cut off in the retire
ment and captured by tho Germans.
NOTICE
.Modini has opened his cafe, and
doing business as usual.
Keep Posted, Read tha WORKER.
PATRIOTIC”? LUMBER
BARONS BEATEN
SEATTLE, Apr. 10.—The West
Coast Lumber Association, which has
for sometime past, been using every
moans in its power to break tho tim
ber worker’s strike for the eight
hour day, has played its last card
and lost. This last card of the
lumber trust was an appeal to Secre
tary of War Baker for martial law
in the lumber camps.
Secretary of War Baker, following
the autocratic refusal of his request
for a settlement of the lumber strike
by granting the 8-hour day, has
taken no action. This was in the
face of the fact that the telegraphed
resolution of the 200 lumber kings
present was based upon the usual
"patriotic” and “win tho war” plea.
Baker, however, was not fooled by
■words, as he probamy Knew me
brand of patrotism of the lumber
trust.
The lumber kings have ruled this
state, ecnomically and politically for
more than a quarter of a century.
Become g drunk with power and cor
rupted with greed, they could not
see the handwriting on the wall, even
ein the glare of a worldwar. They
could not adjust their business to
a new social condition demanding
a more efficient working day. Even
when they knew me Western Pine
Association, which also has to com
pete with Southern Pine, had taken
the inevitable step and decided to
grant the 8-hour day, even then the
West Coast Lumber Association
would not yield.
The government’3 answer to this
organization in its last ditch, fight
extremety has been the sending of
troops into the lumber camps.
Needing spruce for its own and
the allies’ aero fleet, the government
is not going to be held up by a
small handful of selfish, short-sight
ed lumbermen And, in addition to
luamg the fat war profits they fondiy
expected to make on the government
contract, the lumber barons have
the discomfiture of seeing the
spruce timber logged and manufact
ured into lumber under the 8-hour
day and union conditions of work.
Last October, when the I. W. W.
and the A. F. of L. sawmill workers
tad tied-up the lumber industry
the lumber trust raised a *500,000
slush fund to buy up the newspaper
support, clever lawyers, for court in
junctions and strikebreakers, and de
cided to fight for victory regardless
of all else.
At the last meeting of the associ
ation there was present the pessim
ism of defeat. The lumber kings
privately admitted that they had lost
their campaign, and that they had
no hopes of getting martial law est
ablished in the camps under their
control.
The Northwest Lumber association
lost the greatest strike in the history
of the Northwest, because it tried
to hold up the government in its
necessity.
Compared with steel and copper,
the lumber trust of the Northwest
that controlled the spruce supply,
were small frogs in a big puddle.
When the government needed their
spruce it simply stepped in and com
mandeered it, but like the Bourbons
it seems never to learn anything and
never forgets.
FROM AMSTERDAM & OSWEGO
AMSTERDAM, Apr. 10.—The for
mer Empress of Russia, according to
■German papers, has become insane,
and is now confined to a sanitarium
at Tobolsk, Siberia. Her condition
is reported to be hopeless. The
former empress was reported to be
seriously ill last February. She ac
companied the former emperor, Nich
olas Romanoff, when he was trans
ferred from Tsarskoe-Selo to Tob
olsk. She is 4 5 years old, and be
fore her marriage was Princess Alix
of Hesse.
OSWEGO,N. Y., Apr. 10.—Thirty
thousand cases of canned goods, held
lor the American forces, were dee
tryed in a fire which burned the
Fort Stanwix company’s storehouse
at Fulton during last night. The
loss is estimated at $80,000.
Seed for use of farmers next year
war. also destroyed. The F'ulton
fire department worked throught the
night in the worst storm of the year
and saved the main plant. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
Keep Posted Read the Worker.
INFANTRY ENGINEERS
AND AVIATORS ARRIVE
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY, April,
10—‘Many American troops are now ar
riving on the British battle Front.
The contingent consisting mostly of
infantry engineers and aviators.
The Americans are being received
with open arms evcry-where; as it is
new realized that the newly arrived
troops' will srurely be the deciding
factor in the great battle now raging.
Their arrival is doing much to cheer
the men who have been taking part
in the past bloody and long drawn-out
engagements.
The violent fighting now in progress
since the beginning ctf the second
stage of the great battle is extending
to all fronts and the enferno is not*
raging' along a line more than 125
miles in extent.
Along the Belgium front from Corn
ines, ten miles north of Ulle, to
Ypres on the Camines canal the Ger
mans are heavily bombarding the posi
tions of the Canadian troops.
The German gunners are playing a
steady fire on the Armentiers sector
but so far have been unable to dis
lodge the British from any of their ad
vanced positions. German infantry at
tacks are also developing along this
sector but no gains have been made.
The British forces by a surprise at
tack have captured the German posl
tion around Givenchy and also the
village itself, which is 15 miles due
North of Arras and about 2% miles
West of La Basse. These positions
were just recently captured by the
Germans after a long hard fought bat
tle.
In another surprise attack, just
north of the La Basse canal the Brit
ish forces in taking some of the posi
tions captured over 700 prisoners.
The fighting along the left bank of
the Somme continued unabated with
both sides maintaining their positions.
Situation in this sector is practically
unchanged snce yesterday.
PERSHING REGOMENDS
BRIGADIER GENERALS
WASHINGTON. April 10—General
Pershing’ Commander of the American
expeditionary forces has forwarded to
the War Department the names of
twenty five officers whom he recom
mends to be advanced to the rank of
Brigadier Generals.
It is the belief in army circles that
such a large number of advancements
are recommended by General Persh
ing with the intention of using the
newly made Brigadiers, to fill the
vacancies which will occur as a result
of the army reorganization now in
contemplation.
It is also believed that the reor
ganization of /the army will cause a
general shakeup in the expeditionary
forces.
Pershing himself is on the firing
line and although he may be new in
the world war game, he is a soldier
every inch and the Department ■ has
come to rely on the soundness of his
judgement to such an extent that he
is today held to he the foremost, Amer
ican military authority.
Though on the firing line but a
very short time ho was quick to see
the disadvantage under which the al
lies were lighting without a supremo
Commander .and it was he, who re
commended the veteran General Foch
for that position.
WASHINGTON, April 10—'Tele
graph operators belonging to the Com
mercial Telegraphers Union of Ameri
ca, have threatened to go on strike on
April 28 unless the employing com
panies Immediately cease their dis
crimination against Union men.
The Union officials have filed charg
es against the companies, with Secre
tary of Labor Wilson and will un
doubtedly have their grclvances in
vestigated and remedied before the 28
of the month.
TO BE GIVEN DRASTIC POWERS
TO SUPPRESS SPY SYSTEM
WASHINGTON. April 10—Govern
ment officials announced today that
the government has now a plan in con
templation to fix in the very near fu
ture prices ot which, finished cotton,
I woolen and leather goods shall be sold.
The Government experts of the V.'_
Industries Board have been engaged
in investigating this matter for some
time and it is understood, have prac
tically finished their labors.
The Senate today passed the Sedi
tion Bill, recommended some time ago
by the Department of Justice.
This Bill is designed to give the De
partment of Justice drastic powers to
stop the system of spying now going
on to such a great extent throughout
the United Suites.
Tho House has already passed a
measure somewhat similar but the
two measures conflict enough in cer
,.CCw* ..t v-v» .* dj-i—iJLl
to be made in conference of the House
and Senate.
MILWAUKEE, April 10—Govern
ment iigcnts here today rounded up 175
enemy aliens whom, it Is claimed, liavc
violated the enemy alien restrictions
regulation as laid dawn by the Federal
government.
They were all charged with having:
interfered with the recent election, and
as 130 of their number were later re
leased, it is inferred that the charges
in meet cases were mostly the result
of politics.
WASHINGTON, April 10—It is a
practical Impossibility, to at this time
give out, any official figures in regards
to the Liberty Loan Bonds sold since
the opening of the Third Liberty Loan
Drive, but the Treasury officials say
that the sale according to unofficial,
figures Is rapidly approaching the $4,
000,000,000 mark.
GERMAN SOLDIERS MUTINY
AND KILL THREE OFFICERS
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AMSTERDAM, Apr. 10.—Accord
ing to reports which have filtered
through the German lines, German
soldiers in the Beverloo military
camp have mutinied. Tho mutin
ous troops fired on their officers
killing three of their number.
Other regiments were rushed to
*he scene and the mutiny was quick
, ly suppressed, and the mutinous
troops divided up into small groups
and sent to different sections of the.
camp. Seventeen of those who took
a leading part in the affair were
placed under arrest and will be
court-martialed and very likely be
shot.
NOTICE
To Members of I^ocnl 240 I. U. of
M„ M .and 8. W.
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on the Wage Question, Next Satur
day, April 13th.
The ballot, box. will be open from
1 I*. M. until 0 P. M.
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