New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS EW BRITAIN HERALD:E HERALD “ADS MEAN [ BETTER BUSINE PRICE THREE CENTS. NE W BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, TUILN? i, 1916 —TWELVE PAGES. EST ABLISHED 1876. BRITISH SMASH THROUGH ENEMY Literally Blow Their Way Into Contal- maison Amid Deluge of Shells--French on Hill Watch Peronne London, July 11, 11:45 a. m.—With the capture by the French of La Mai- sonnette Hill which dominates the ~ valley of the Somme and from which everything that happens in Peronne can be observed, one of the primary objects of the Anglo-French offensive has been achieved. The two armies now are engaged in an effort to organize and extend the limits of the ground they have s gained and in repelling German coun- ter attacks which are directed parti- cularly against the British to north of the river, where they succeeded in regaining a footing in the Trones wood. At other points, however, the British have been able to make some a progress, although necessarily slow against well fortified positions. The Germans, on their part, are heavily shelling the Allied front from Lens to the Belgian coast, but thus far there have been no attempts at infantry actions except for the usual raids in which both sides engaged. The Russians continue the advance toward Kovel and now are engaged in a pitched battle along the banks of the Stokhod which they have crossed at some points On the rest of the Eastern front while there fll continuous fighting at many places no important change occurred. Both sides are concentrating their foes at Lutsk salient to the east of Kovel, HUGHES IS PLEASED | WITH OWN WORKERS ™ { Satistied With Campaign Commit- tee Roosevelt Helped Him Select DIFFERENCES GONE, HE SAYS Aims Transcend All Personal Fecling In Picking Pilots to Guide Ship G. O. P. Over Jagged Novem- Good ber Reefs. Bridgehampton, N. Y., July 11.— Charles E. Hughes made the follow- ing statement concerning the repub- lican national campaign committee, whose personnel was announced in New York last night: “I am very pleased with the appointment It means the effec- tive work of a reunited party. So far as I know the importance of this was recognized by all and there has not been the slightest friction in con- stituting the committee. Instead, there had been a general desire for harmonious effort, as our national aims transcend all differences that have existed.” Mr. Hughes and Col. Roosevelt are understood virtually to have selected the entire committee. The six pro- gressive members were endorsed by Col. Roosevelt after a thorough can- vass of available material by George W. Perkins and several other progres- sive leaders. William R. Wilcox, the national chairman, is chairman ex-officlo of the campaign committee. The third consecutive day of rain at Bridgehampton kept Mr. Hughes indoors again today, working on his campaign plans and speeches. To- morrow he will go to New York city where he has numerous appointments much of the committee. In the Caucasus and Mesopotamia the fighting between the Turks and Russians continues with varying re- sul The weather in the greater part of this region, which is extreme- ly hot, precludes any sustained efforts. All Contalmaison in British Hands. London, July 11, 2:04 p. m.—The British captured Contalmaison, on the French front last night, the war office announced today Several lines of trenches in Mametz wood were taken by the British. Heavy fighting continued in Trones Wood. The statement follows: “Last night, after a brisk bom- bardment our infantry again carried Contalmaison by assault, taking 189 unwounded prisoners, including a battalion commander and four other officers. A strong counter attack de- livered by the Germans during the night was beaten back with heavy loss to the enemy and the whole vil- “Further east we stormed several lines of trenches in the Bois de Mametz, and the greater part of this large wood is now in our possession. Here we captured one heavy howitzer, three fleld guns and 296 unwounded prisoners, including three officers. “Heavy fighting continues Trones Wood. “In continuation of the report, on aerial combats on July 9, one of our aeroplanes was shot down by a direct kit from an anti-aircraft gun, and three other machines have not re- turned to our lines.” in The Storming of Contalmaison. With British Army in the Field, July 10, 8:00 p. m., via London, July 11, 4:00 a. m.—In a mid-summer af- ternoon in bright sunlight undimmed by fleecy clouds and in air as clear as eny artillery observer could ask, the British stormed Contalmaison, whose rossessian both sides seem to regard as the tactical keystone of the present situation. Fragments of walls of an old chateau still standing amid ruins con- stituted the last glimpse the Asso- ciated Press correspondent had of the town before the attack. In their preparatary bombardment tefore the attack a British 15 inch shell was seen to tear away a portion of the walls which rose in a cloud of dust. For a given area, the artlllery fire was the heaviest of any vet sean on this front. The Germans an- swered the British shelling with an immense volume of their own fire, placing a curtain In frant of the town which at times was hidden from the | British guns enveloping the town, and also scattering shells near the front Iine. The British fire kept on inc and spreading until from the Trones Wood another hotly disputed point Which already has become branchless @nd leaflesg trunks, ta Ovillers and reasing Boiselle, the artillery duel d along | the new front. At 4:40 o’clock as the British charged there seemed to be peace in Contalmaison, surrounded by walls of shell fire. Soon after the British en- tered the town and after the German infantry was forced out, the German suns took their turn at hammering the ruins and knocking off more sec- tions of the walls of the old chateau, while the British were tossing the with party leaders during the next two days. Waiting For the Bugle. New York, July 11.—Col. Roose- velt’s plans for his proposed division have been perfected to the extent that officers have been accepted and th localities from which their commands are to be recruited designated From Western Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada, at least one cavalry regiment has been accepted. It would receive its preliminary training either at Fort Douglas, Utah, or Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, before joining the rest of the division at Fort Sill, Okla. Rock Chaning, former Princeton and all-American football player who served with Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in the Cuban campaign and is now general manager of the Utah Consol- jdated Mining company at Salt Lake City, has been selected by Col. Roose=< velt to raise this regiment and an of- ficer detail from the regular army for service with it chosen Troops have been previously accepted from all the states named and plans prepared for their rapid concentration and training in case of war. BRITAIN LOSES PATROL BOATS Have Austrian Cruiser Reported to Ve in Sunk Five Armored sels Adriatic Sea—Only Nine Survivors, Berlin, July 11, by Wireless to Say- ville—The Austrian admiralty an- nounced today that Austrian cruiser had sunk four or five British armored patrol boats. Only nine men from the British vessels rescued. The announcement follows: ““Our cruiser Novara met a group of four, or according to the declarationg five armored British patrol boatsgoff Otranto road (at the lower end the Adriatic.) All the patrol boats were destroyed by our artillery fire. All the steamers sank in flames, three of them after the ex- plosion of their boilers. The Novara was able to rescue only nine members of the British crew: The Novara is a scout cruiser of 2,384 tons displacement. She has figured in several engagements in the Adriatic. an were ot prisoners, connecting the Adriatic and WOMAN’S CLUB BUY! SITE. As Yet No Plans Have Been Made for the Erection of a Building. The Woman’'s club of New Britain | today filed a deed at the town clerk’s | office recording the transfer of a lot | on the east side of Russell street to | the club from the New Britain Real Iistate and Title Co. Authority to purchase the lot given at a special meeting of the club held last June, but, according to a statement made this afternoon by a prominent member, no plans are in the works for the erection of a club- house although the lot was bought as the site for such a buflding. The club simply had the opportunity to pur- chase at this time and did so, said the (Continued on Tenth Page.) Herald's informant. The strait of Otranto is between the | heel of Italy and the Albanian coast, | TIonian | was | NEW YORK CHILDREN SENT BACK HOME IN WAR ON PARALYSIS 'A djacent Gltles and Towns Refuse to Allow Youngsters from Metropolis fo Enter PATERSON DEPORTS 800 AS UNDESIRABLE strictions on Large Numbers of Boys and Girls Who Come From In- fested Districts—Public Health Ser- vice at Washington Starts Nation- wide Fight. New York, immediately July 11.—Communiti surrounding increasing fear that they will be infected with infantile paraly- sis from children fleeing the plague in the metropolis. A number of cities and towns in New Jersey and New York have estab- lished quarantine and some are turn- ing back all children from York city. Paterson, N. J., which has had one death from the disease, has ex- cluded all children no matter whence they come. It was announced there that 500 children from New York city already have been deported. The state health department at Al- bany has called the attention of the New York authorities to complaints from up state communities that chi dren believed to be from infected Ais- tricts here are being sent to other parts of the state. The announced that nine cases up were children from Brooklyn. ‘Warning is given here that viola- tions of the section of the code providing that laymen must re- port c of suspected infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases to the department of health will be severely punished. The maximum penalty fense is one year's impr $500 fine. 1,000 Fined in Court. The city magistrates are co-oper ing with the police and health autho ities in the fight rainst the epidem- ic. It is estimated that more than 1,000 persons were fined vesterday for violations of the sanitary code. Most offenders threw or left cans uncovered or broke the rules for keeping the s city show New state for this of- nment and otherwise city These fines ranged from $1 to were paid by afford even these forced. $5 and most of them persons ill able to small amounts. The exodus of children from the uninfected parts of the city contir ues and it is estimated that seve thousand go each day. A decided increase of deaths and new demic of rinfantile paralysis was re- ported tod During the last twenty four hours 195 new cases developed in the five boroughs of New York city and there were thirty-two deaths. in the nfimber Restrictions on Children, | Plainfield, Conn., July 11.—Precau- tions are being taken throughout this town and Health Officer Clark of Can- terbury have the arrangements _in | chage. Word has heen sent to w | York city that familie~ who intendc o come to this section should remain 1t home for the present Federal Aid to I ht Scourge. | I ! | | i | | (Continued On Eleventh Page). Plainfield, in This State, Placing Re- | New York | department, sanitary clean, which now are being rigidly en- | 'MEXICAN OFFICIALS BELIEVE |NIANTIC GEASES T0 cases In the epi- | s : | Trevino Learns Bandit Forces Another of the perplexing questions | | | from of international law growing out of | the war in Europe was presented to _ | the United States government by the Baltimore of the German Deutschland, which came The state department 1 at Lrine Germany. arriv: subn | was called upon to determine whether garbage in the strect {u o | AN American in close touch with Ani- ;fir\c.m b er from section of the ate by health officers to safeguard children from infantile | para Each summer there are a | great many children sent to the farms of Windham and New London coun- ties from New York city, especial | and about Colchester where there | settlements under the care of various | Hebrew societies. The number | children and adults who came to this section for the summer months often runs into the hundreds and as a | means of protecting those already here preparations have been made to | establish quarantine of new arrivals. | County Health Officer W. A. King cf Willimantic, Dr. A. A. Ch of this Washington, July 11.—Instruction for state and city authorities con- cerning means of prevention of the spread of infantile paralysis was com- | pleteda by the public health service today, to be mailed throughout the United States. It recommends isol- ation of patients for six or eizght | weeks, ana of persons coming in con- | tact with them and a general strength- ening of all sanitary precautions. Re- | ports to nw health service today indl- cated that infantile paralysis is not | eptdemic vmzml in New York city. wo Cases in Belleville, TI1L | Belleville, TIL.7 July 11.—Two cases | | of infantile Daralysis have heen re | ported by local health authorities. | | Measures are being taken to prevent | | the spread of the disease. | | Death in New London. New T.ondon; July 1l-—After an| | autopsy this afternocon health office i Richmonds stated that the death of a Goldstein girl from Brookivn, which occurred here last night was due to {infantile paralysis he child. was one year old, died while being hrought | | | e Jiminez. The arrival said the anti- American sentiment in Chihuahua City had disappeared Another American who e from the Casas Grandes distr the advent of the rainy been a great relief to the the American expeditionary 1 mand, some of whom were beginnin to sicken with the continued dust storms which had prevailed for sev- | eral weeks. He added that in that district cling firmly to the | belief that Villa is dead Mexico City, July 10.—The national {elegraphic lines now re in a posi- tion to give public service except in a few localities where the rebels still are in control A tower 148 feet in height will be erected at Chapultepec Castle, te be used in the transmis- (Continued on Tenth Page.) the fi craft to make the tlantic vovage should be treated as a merchant vessel or as a belliger- st unde sea ent warship. Tf the submarine is a merchant vessel engaged in peaceful commerce (and this is the prevalent view) it is entitled to all the rights and prerogatives of any other bellig- erent merchant vessels outside the en- trance to American territorial waters. But if this submarine entered Ameri- can waters as a belligerent warship the so-called “twenty-four rule” ap- plies, as in the case of any other war- ship, and the Deutschland is subject to the rules of international law that this government invoked in the cases i of the Kronprinz Bitel Friedrich and the Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. The situation was complicated further by the action of Simon:Lake, inventor of submarine vessels who asserted. his in- tention of libeling and.thus holding up the Deutschland if it contained any of | his patented devices. Mr. Lake said that the Krupps copied his plans when he was in Germany in 1904 and 1905. VILLA IS DECIDEDLY ALIVE Sacked Town of Diaz, Cut- ting Off Ears of Captives, Preceding Recent Raid. El Paso, July 11.—Mexican au- thorities in Chihuahua City believe if not actually ading the bandits in the operations Chihuahua, according ‘o hat Villa is directing, in Southern i (fairs, who reached the bor- the state capital today. He that Gen. Trevino, commanding government troops in northern Mexico, has received official reports at before the clash at Jiminez, the Villa forces captured and sacked the town of Diaz, several miles north, and cut off the ears of captives. Substantiating the story of branding of prisoners, was the of a Mexican soldier who reported to Gen. Francisco Gonzales upon his ar- rival in Juarez, that his ears had been cropped following his capture id the the story e 69TH REGIMENT IS VERGING ON MUTINY Object to Removal of Favor- ite Officers By Major General Wood. Camp Whitman, Green Ha- ven, N Y., July 11.—Col. Louis D. Conl and Lieut. Col. John ]J. Phelan of the mustered out of the federal service today just as the regi- ment was entraining here for Pharr, Tex. The order came rom Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. The cause of the action was given as ‘‘physical disa- bility.” The news of the mustering out of these two officers came ike a thunderbolt and con- sternation reigned in camp. Major Michael Lynch was or- dered to take command tem- orarily ‘until relieved by some designated officer to be named later. Under provision of federal WEATHER, Hartford, ¢ July 11— For H wd and vicinity: un- settled tonight and probably on Wednesday. T\ 69th regiment were ordered | BE A FEDERAL CAMP Six Recruit Companies Ordered to Leave Today for Border Duty FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT HELD ‘“Rookies” SHp Out of Quarters and Re- Cause Disturbance in Village, quiring Services of Police Squad to { Quell Them. Camp Holcomb, Niantic, Juiy 11.— This federal concentration camp prob- ably will close its existence today with {the departure for Nogales of the six recruit companies here. Orders issued by the commandant, Colonel Shuttle- worth, U. §. A., today designated the following to command the companies: Major, J. Richard North; captains, Albert H. Griswold, Philip Cheney, R. { F. Andrews; first lleutenants, Angus M. Frazer, C. H. Edwards, Maurice W. Haag and Frank C. Godfrey. The officers will deliver the men to the regime 1 commanders at Nogales and return here to be mustered out of the federal service. The companies will leave in two sections, the first one with companies one, three and six and M of Winsted, leaving at 5 p. m., and Numbers two, four and five on the second. The band will go with the first section as well. The recruits were paid off today. “Rookies” in Riot. A squad of Company M's men wa rcalled out last night to quell a disturb- ALLIES OBJECT 10 SUBMARIN AS WAR VESS British and French Emba sies Protest fo Wag ington That Deutschig is Potentially in Cl With Belligerent Shipg KOENIG WILLING TO PERMIT INSPECTI Captain of Undersea Freighter Not Try to Prevent United From Examining His New Officials Can Take No Cogn of Protest From Canada on| shipment of Metals. Washington, July 11.—Rep: tions have been made to the st partment by the British and H embassies seting up the claim th German merchant subm Deutschland is potentially a w4 even though designed and useg merchant vessel. Will Await Hughes’ Repof The department will tae t bassies’ views under consideraj connection with the report of { Hughes, the Ameriacn naval who is making a physical exa of the submarine search of an like equipment. Before the ar the Deutschland, acting upon of reports in’ the press that marine was due at an Amerig| Colville Barclay, the British sellor and Charge de affaires temporary absence of Sir Cecil! Rice, communicated to S Lansing the deposition of his ment regarding the use of an; water craft in commercial Again yesterday, Mr. Barcla; dition to notifying the depa the arrival of the Deutschlan the foundation for subsequen for any damages that later inflicted on British commen occasion to direct Acting Polk’s attention to the tions he had made on July & M. Jusserand, the French sador, also has been in o0 tion with the department. Any Submarine & Wamn From the Allies’ point of submarine ig essentially a The United States, Great France agree on the dootrif is illegal to change the chi a merchant ship into a orul vateer on the high sea, buti man government always upon that right, Consequs argued, it would be no the German interpretatiomn natianal law for the Deufs take aboard armament oubs three mile limit and to pH commerce. 1 Question As to Nickel ¢ Baltimore, July 11.—7Phe merchant submarine DI began toduy to discharge principally vestuffs. ic complioations arise. comment has been made connected with the vessel ¢ tion of the navy departmen ing Captain C. F. Hughes formal survey of her for ment, it was thought no ob; be raised. The detail was instance of Acting Seorets Polk and is understood to with official opinion that government must take eve) tion to establish beyond do! act character of the ve Deutschland's cargo when will be placed in a bond house, to be disposed of 18] representative of tif owners. A question has arisen submarine will be permitf] back to Germany a large nickel that is on the doel she is moored. Shipment: the United States from Cal A A ance at a local hotel. A score of re- mlhtairy law thefl-‘ IS MO aP-| cruits tovk French leave after taps peal from the decision of the nlmlJ g;»( into the village. They in- | % St dulged in a free for all fight Word Washington authorities. [ was sent to camp and o squad went It is said that a regnlar out in a hurry and broke up the s E Sl it T tad | crowd. Three men were arrested but army officu \”11 betappointedil ettt (i ndor e, el | to fill Colonel Conley’s place. | not be put on trial. The men were | {INolinformationicouldibetob=LasiitEl et S itne Skl i s itained in regard to Colonel i })hel'fl] s \,’aba”\-\' A repor Yale Battery Leaves Today. i l h I p_r New Haven, July 11.—Battery A of | was prevalent that the entire | the Yale battalion will leave for |regiment was threatening to |hana. Pa. late today. Ame ‘ i : e = ‘mutiny. (Continued on Tenth Page.) 1 is the world's greatest prof metal, has been allowed 9 that its distribution shou trolled that none could rea tral Powers. The Canadif nient is said to be cong new situation Will Not Accept Pas An emphatic statemen by Henry G. Hilken of thd represents the Deutschlan | that under no circumstan passengers be carried on vine on her return trip vision was made only fd | and that it would be i | take any other Two a treasury department (Continued on Tent