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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH DETAILS OF FIRST WEEK OF THE GREAT BATTLE TELL OF BRITISH HEROISM. OVERWHELMED BY NUMBERS 4 Fiercely Contesting Each Position, Haig's Men Fell Back in Good Order, Mowing Down the Advancing Foe and Often Counter-Attackin- across the river. On the near-b-y heights British field guns firing prac tieally at point range smashed every effort On some occasions British indashed into fantry, counter-attackinthe water to fight the Germane. With the object of capturing and Essigny, southwest of St. Quentin, the Germans employed at least six divisions, or 72,000 men of storniing troops, the 50th. 45th (reserves), 11th, 88th, 187th anr 238th, in the proportion of one division te every British battalion. The averag width of each attack was 2,000 yards. Ten Tanks Wreak Havoc Amid Foe. Passing through Urvillprs, there was a bloody struggle in a chalk quarry, where many German dead now lie. After the Germans had come some way forward ten British tanks drove into them and shattered some of their bat talions with their machine-gufire, dispersing groups of the advancing units. The British fought many rear guard actions and made numerous counterattacks in the neighborhood of Roisei, falling back to the line of the Somme only when new masses of Germans passed through those battalions which they had not met and beaten. Between Gozeaueourt and Epephy occurred a most desperate struggle. The Germans attacked in overwhelmTheir previous boming strength. bardment had had little effect and the British but had suffered troops slightly. The weather was misty, and, screened by this mist, the Germans wer on top of the British before the latter were aware of it. In dense formation they came on, offering excellent targets. Ground was yielded by the British only under pressure of overwhelming numbers. Heroic Deeds af the British. Fighting Saturday between Arras and Bapaume for possession of the heights between the Cojeul and Sen-se- e rivers was especially bitter. Outnumbered eight to one, the British troops clung to their positions to the last. In Gauche wood, where Scots and South Africans were placed, another terrific struggle ensued. The Germans several times managed to reach the wood but were repeatedly thrown back. Their losses in killed were especially heavy, as they came on in mass formation. Attempt after attempt was frustrated. From a height below Gauche wood known as Chapel hill to Epephy three German divisions and parts of a fourth were thrown against the British. At one point the enemy was actually among the British advance posts before he was discovered. The fog thoroughly screened him. Waves of Germans flowed past the farm and around it, but in the farm itself the Leicesterg held out, fighting and refusing to surrender until every man was killed or so severely wounded he could fight no more. The British showed the greatest strength between Bapaume and Peronne and above Bapaume as far as Arras. The Germans, however, concerned with the southern flank, at the Franeo-Britisjunction point, concentrated their most terrific blows against the line, relying on the necessity of an automatic British withdrawal in the north if their line was bent or broken in the south. Bapaume was an obstacle on the northern side, to capture which they sacrificed thousands of their best troops. Rivers of blood were shed for the town's possession in a combat that lasted almost all night, until the British finally yielded the ruins, after having exacted a fearful price. Kaiser Orders Jubilation. The kaiser was with Feld Marshal von Hindenburg in Peronne surveying the bloody fields where thousands of his best fighting men were killed or maimed before the British finally withdrew. The emperor ordered a general the empire jubilation throughout rockets and flags and a holiday for the children being the chief symbols of celebration. lie conferred a gold inlaid iron cross on Hindenburg. Wilhelm also sent dispatches to the empress telling of the progress made by his armies. n ' I.ondon. Details of the first week f the great battle In France show that, while the fighting has been more severe than In any previous offensive, there has been no cause for pessimism. The German losses have been terrific, probably 250,000 casualties having been suffered by the kaiser's hosts. At such cost they won less than d of the ground on which they had counted. The morale of the British troops has been perfect throughout and they have fought magnificently. Million Germans in Action. These facts stand out: It Is known that at least 1,000,000 Germans were engaged on the whole front of attack. In the Somme area not less than 52 army divisions were identified. The British line suffered its most severe buffeting in this stretch, but was firm everywhere. The Germans believed that a loss of 500,000 would be a cheap price for success in the west, but with a loss already of 250,000 there is no prospect of their attaining the victory they seek. They regained all the ground lost in the Cambrai battle and have taken back sections of the territory taken from them in the Somme offensive of last year. The lighting was not by any means a continual German advance. The British counter-attackeheavily and fought for every foot of ground. Details of the Fighting. In one battle on the extreme left the Germans employed not less than nine divisions in an effort to break For three days the three through. British divisions held them at bay. Finally, under weight of numbers, the British retired behind the line marked by the ruined villages of Bulleeourt, East Nogueil and Croiselles.. The next morning the Germans renewed the attack, striking northward from Fontalnelles and Croiselles and westward from Cherissy. They drove in mass formation, wave after wave, toward the heights between to Ilenin hill. Two hours of drum fire, in which shells were gas and mingled, preceded the infautry attack. From eight oclock in the morning until noon continuous waves of gray-cla- d troops stormed the heights. British machine guns posted on the ridge swept down line after line of Germans. By three oclock in the afternoon the Teutons had succeeded in pressing past Henin hill on both sides and threatened to cut off the machine Not gunners posted on the crests. until then did the Utter retire and rejoin the main British force. Similar fighting was going on at the same time on the right wing. Tremendous pressure was brought to bear around St. Leger, Vaulx and Vrau-cour- t. It lasted all day. At times under the German blows the British line sagged heavily, but at nq point did it give way. Desperate Defense of Vaulx. A bitter battle was fought for possession of Vaulx, but British machine gunners posted in the ruins of the village held the Germans at bay. A ruined factory .served as a fortress despite the shelling to which it was subjected. Not until late in the afternoon was it impossible for the British to hold the town longer. Even then the retreat only went for a thousand yards. The British rear guard fought every step of the way, and, returning to the was main body, a counter-attacPunched against the Germans in possession of Vaulx and the village was regained. The fighting continued all - night. Finally Vaulx had to be abandoned before heavy night attacks, but only because German forces had pushed past further up the line and were driving to the attack of Mory. Another bitter struggle was fought around (roiselles. At Mory Scottish and English troops Inflicted tremendous losses on the Germans. Sunday Battle South of Peronne. The fighting Sunday was tremendous. All day loi.g heavy forces of Germans endeavored to force a crossing of the Somme south of Ieronne, while further along the line they concentrated their efforts Hgainst one-thir- ' f 4 d d L Ilenin-sur-Coje- high-explosi- f f- -, -- h Peronne-IIam-Ohaun- y UTAH BUDGET Juab county will this year levy a road tax and will spend a total of $22, (XXI on its highways. For the theft of a flivver, A, BRITISH AND FRENCH CRUSHING IN HUN ADVANCE WITH APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE. Hindenburg Hurling Mass After Mass Into a Center on the Front Between Mondidier and Marcel Cove, Without Success. 5T- - Imndon. The end of the day on which Hindenburg had boasted bis army would be in Paris saw the great German wedge in Picardy encased on both sides by walls of granite and its spearhead badly buttered oil one forside while desperately craning ward on the other, taking fearful punishment. The Prussian eagle's wings are as if tied fast, unable even to make the slightest fluttering moe. They are in great danger of being momentarily Meanwhile the beak" is clipped. desperately backing away toward Amiens. The twelfth day of the bat-al- e brought the Germans only gains in this lmeking movement, but netted them a bloody liar-veof losses. With the fatalistic persistency of a losing gambler, Hindenburg is hurling mass after mass into a center on the front between Montdidier and Mareel Gave wltieh lias the ominous significant length of some thirteen miles. He pursues, despite the indescribable blood path in wltieh thousands upon thousands of his best fighting men have suffocated during the ten days of the win or lose tussle, the same aims which he set out, but failed to gain, in the first violent sweep: separation of the French and British armies. Paralysed on both sides, forced to dig in where lie had intended to roll up the allied wings, he still hopes to penetrate further and further in llte center, reach Amiens, cut the laris-Calai- s rail and automatically release his flanks from the grip in which they are now held. lu the marshy angle between the Avre river and Luce brook lie is throwing new divisions into combat as a last desperate chance. All day long Monday the carnage raged on this front, and it continued throughout the night. Despite their small gains during twenty-fou- r hours, the Germans are farther away from Audens than they were three days previous after ihe capture of MezereS, which they have since lost. Their center faces the big strategic railroad in a semicircular shape, the nearest point still being ten miles to the southeast of Amiens. Time, the greatest ally in this crucial battle, lias enabled the British to take every possible measure of precaution to bring up their forces und bring up fresh troops and more guns. They cannot break through, is the keynote of every dispatch from the insig-uifiea- st front. WHITE STAR LINER TORPEDOED One of Largest Passenger Vessels Victims of New York. The White Star liner Celtic has been torpedoed, according to cablegram received by officials of the line. The message read : The Celtic torpedoed. Hope to save ship. The Celtic, one of the largest and c most popular of the liners, was built in Belfast, Ireland, in 1910. She was 680 feet long with a seventy-five-foo- t beam and depth of forty-fou- r feet. Her passenger complement was 2000. trans-Atlanti- RUSHING TROOPS TO FRANCE. Unnecessary Shipping to Be Eliminated and Men Rushed to Aid of Allies. Washington. Executive orders have been issued which will pluce in France ROLL STEEL FOR $215 WEEK or en route by August 1 all troops now in the cantonments of this country. Many Workers in St. Louis Mills AvLess than 15 per cent will be retained Offia Year, erage $5,000 for training purposes. To facilitate cial Says. the overseas movement President WilSt. Louis. Rollers employed at the son pressed for an immediate stateSt. Louis and Granite City plants of ment from the French and British the National Enameling and Stamping authorities as to what percentage of company are making as much as $215 supplies can he eliminated to make a week, working eight hours a day, an available additional shipping. official of the company said. Standard Oil Grants Wage Raise. He explained that rollers were paid New York. The Standard Oil comon a tonnage basis, and that such a figure was unusual, but estimated that pany of New Jersey on April 1 granted many of the 173 rollers employed in all its refinery plant employes a flat the two plants average $4,000 to $5,000 wagp inerease of 10 per cent to heroine effective at once. a'.vear. Rolling steel is one of the forms of Mrs. Wilson Heads Committee. labor requiring the highest degree of skill, although men sometimes serve Washington. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, their apprenticeship in three or four wife of the president, will head the years. The work consists of superinhonorary committee of the woman's tending the heating of steel bars that Liberty loan committee of the District Repeatedly German engineers at- are to be rolled, adjusting the rolls if Columbia. tempted to throw pontoon bridges and feeding the steel into them. Account for Two More Bandits. Texas. Two more dead MexMarfa, has called Defense all upon county HELP WAR ON PRAIRIE DOGS were found near the scene of icans defense councils to furnish maps of .be between United States cav-ilrfight area the Infested with counties by Government to Assist in Fighting Roand armed Mexicans near troops the rodents plainly marked. A camdents Whose Depredations Men2,8, according March Mexico, Iliiares, to be launched will treat shortly paign ace Food Productions. all the infected areas with poison, fur- :o information brought here. of the nished by the department of agriculNat Goodwin Wins Case. Santa Ke, N. M. ture. t'nited Slates department of agriculNew York. Nat C. Goodwin, the ture ha been promised farmers of tetor, was given a verdict of $2500 A scheme is on foot to take tin ore New Mexico in their war on prairie tgainst the Mirror Film company by Panama canal to from Bolivia via the i jury in the supreme court. dogs and other rodents whose depredaGoodwin tions are a growing menace to the Jamaica bay, where a European firm ued for salary, charging breach of has smelters of tin just purchased food production of the state. The New Mexico State Council of nine acres of land. e. v. 4 y 4 DR. A. T. GOTJGH Registered Veterinarian Bogedatil and I. Pierpout must spend the next ten days in jail at Salt Lake. Phone - - UTAH The storm which visited the PAYSON. Wednesday of last week left about eight to ten inches of new snow. The population of Ogden is estimatDR. L. N. ELLSWORTH ed at 30,848, according to the figures DENTIST offered by li. L, Polk & Co. In the Office in Douglass Building 1918 city directory. Over Bertelsen8 Store The Uuion Pacific Railroad company's embargo placed upon perishable goods lust fall has been raised, ) according to advices received at Ogden. The chief of police at Salt Lake has DR. J. H. ELLSWORTH recommended the passage of an ordiDENTIST Also nance giving authority to owners qf Office over Bank, Payson, Ut Office Hours, 9 to 12; 1 to 6 war gardens to shoot dogs and cats Res. Phone 103-- j Phone 23. which destroy their crops. The Welter County Farm bureau lias entered into negotiations with the Liquid Carbonic company of Chicago to sell 4tX),(XX) pounds of sour cherries MISS LULU TIETJEN to that corporation during the coming season. Teacher of Piano Peter Goetz, a mail carrier of the loand Harmony. cal postoffiee, heads the list of mail Studio at her home Santaquin carriers in Sail Lake in point of the amount of war stamps sold. Mr. Goetz has sold to date $10,443.90 worth of Stamps. vhe teachers of the Jordan school J. H. FRANC0M district received their contracts last VETERINARY SURGEON week. The teachers were given a Calls Night and Day blanket inerease of $3 per month, in 57-Phone Payson, Utah. 4 addition to a graduated increase for efficiency. Sale of war stamps by commercial traveling men of various firms in the state is proving highly successful, according to Information received by DR. L. D. STEWART James W. Collins, state chairman of PHYSICIAN and SURGEON 4? the war savings committee. Office over Bank. As a result of a fall in his room at Phone 23 tlie St. Francis hotel in San Francisco, O. Charles Wliitteiuore, formerly IVe here to United States district attorney for Utah and prominent resident of Salt serve you with A. L. CURTIS. M. D. Lake, is n a critical condition. Sea Us anything in the PHYSICIAN and SURGEON The claim that he had purchased Before Office in S. Douglass line the liquor in Evanston for the purpose 4? Going Building. Telephones 4s- of using it as medicine did not save ElseResidence Cor. 9th and F. Sts. 4 Mardi Rirzi, an Italian, from arrest at wkere the Union depot at Ogden. Eighteen pints of liquor were found in his suitcase. use, As lie came off shift at the Highland O. F. TILSON. M. D. a at mine PHYSICIAN SURGEON and Boy Bingham, Spiro Itadman, Letter Heads 1 BUI Head miner, was placed under arrest on the Cards Office at Residence Envelopes charge of inciting unrest among his felMain Street Phone low miners with a view to hampering Wedding Invitations Payson, Utah the operation of 'the mines, Itadman Posters or Announcements is un Austrian. Oi All Kiads Salt Lake officers report the capture of the leader of a gang of drug smugThe best quality of work glers who have been operating in Utah and Idaho. Bert Brown, 25 years old, at prices that are RIGHT who says he is a former medical student, is alleged by the police to be the1 leader of the gang. Increase in telephone rental charges i dolhas been allowed by the state public utilities commission to the Bear Itiver Valley Telephone company, operating in Tremonton and vicinity. The business telephone rate is raised from $3 to $3.25 a month. Strenuous effort is to be made by Sergeant Harold J. Read of the United States marine corps to enlist 100 miners for service with the marines. Sergeant Read readied Salt Lake a few days ago from the Quau-ticVa., training station. Liquor- held by any person in Utah since August 1, 1917, no matter when or for what purpose purchased bought, is seizable by the state as contraband, according to a decision Subscribe handed down last week by the state for THIS supreme court in the case of Otto PAPERj Meek at Ogden. Howard DeWeese, convicted at Sait Lake of wife murder and sentenced to be shot, must suffer the penalty for his crime, the state supreme court affirming the judgment and directing the trial court to fix the date for execution. His fate now rests with the stale board of pardons. Monday morning W. II. Taylor, state road agent for Weber county, left men to build Ogden with seventy-fiv- e the state highway across the Cache valley divide, connecting Liberty, in Capital Stock, $100,000, fully paid,non-assessabl- e Ogden valley, with Hyrum, in Cat-licounty. It will tuke two months to complete the work. Sailors from Utah who are in training at the naval station at Sun Diego WAGES NEVER MADE A MAN RICH enjoyed themselves Saturday night at a bail given them by Utah people. BUT A SMALL INVESTMENT HAS The bluejackets held the floor, but invited the Utah artillerymen to also Stock now selling at 1 Oc per share. enjoy themselves and they did. More $20.00 buys 200 shares; $50 buys 500 shares; $100 than 2(X) persons were present. buys 1 000 shares. If desired send 2c a share cash and Claims of 139 more Utah Indian 2c per share each month. 5 per cent discount for all war veterans and widows of veterans to participation In the $25,(XX) approcash. Figure what it means if it advances to $1.00 or priation made for their relief by the $10.00 as others have done. last legislature were allowed March 23 Our holdings are in Wyoming, Oklahoma,Kansas, Kenby the state board of examiners. The registration of alien enemies in tucky, Colorado, Texas, where wells produce as high Sait Lake was completed lust week. 1 well will One 100-barr- el 0,000 barrels daily. The summary shows that 470 of Ihe which would enable a to pay 4 $72,000 us year, pay unnaturalized Germans of Suit Lake month stock with 50 on cent the issued, as complied regulation. per per per cent of be net profits are to paid in dividends to stockholders Thirty young lives were endangered, and damage estimated at $3000 resultWeCareEselling stock to increase holdings drill wells and pay when fire ed, dividends. Buy now before it advances. Sunday afternoon, which started from an unknown cause in a linen chute threatened the OrOFFICES: phans Home und Day Nursery, at Salt 830 Seventeenth St., Boston Building, Denver, Colorado. Lake. GEO. R. MARKEY, Misbranding soda water containers, In WM. F. REYNOLDS, that the labels failed to state who wus President Secretary the manufacturer or what the net conwas of of tlie cause institution tents, SALESMEN WANTED proceedings by Walter M. Boyden, for Send Free Oil Map and Literature state dairy and food commissioner, against the Utah Soda Water company of Bingham. We Carry the BEST k N PROFESSIONAL CARDS CCS O & IL a complete line ol Hardware, LUMBER and f Building Material Stoves & Ranges Farm Machinery Etc. Etc. Colvin - Recce Co. Job Sprinting are I of printed stationery for up-stai- rs your business mi and personal Bargains that will save you many a lar will escape you if you (ail to read carefully and regularly the advertising of local merchants a, In This Paper Again We Say The Double Standard Oil & Gas Company $100 invested in oil has paid $40,000 and it may do so here ast ' GENERAL I |