New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1918, Page 1

is being ’ ~ HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEVW SPAPERS PRICE THREE NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1918. —TWELVE PAGES. SPRING OFFENS:VE OFF, IN WAR D PARTMENMELIEF Opinion Expressed in Wash-éREPRlSALS I]IVI[]E ington That Germans Will UPINH}N EN FRAN[‘,E ’ Official Statement of Location of New Englanders on Chemin Des Dames With the American Army in France, March 17.—(By The Asso- ciated Press).—The American troops who have been in action along the Chemin des Dames are a division composed exclusively of New England units. The division contains units from all New England states, troops from Massachusetts having been especially active. The identification of these troops up to this time has been prdv- hibited The restriction was removed when it was d®- covered and Stripes, a newspaper published by, for and American Expeditionar Forces, had con- tained disclosing their identity. by the censor. that the Stars the troops of the in its latest edition a story Not Move Until Attacked by Allied Forces Deputy Ferro Will S | Seek to| j Limit Zone of Airplane | { I ENEMY LINES NOW CHOKED WITH MEN | Activity. | Daris, 18.—A debate SPY IN OUR LINES THOUGHT 'TO HAVE SENT WORD TO FOE March 1 prospect in the cham- the subject of re- attacks on Paris. been a revival the pessibility the part of the ~No pears to be s ber of deputi risals for aerial cently there has discussion concerning lof an agrecment on | belligerents to cease reprisals of all tion of Teutons Noted Near Lake of | kinds, particularly air raids over open towns outside the fighting zone. This discussion originated in the re- port that the Central Powers had made a proposal to this effect through neutrals, at the same time agreeing to give up the of gas aud liquid / fire at the front. Since that time the Germans have intensified their air rids, instead of taking a step in the opposite dircction, In France there always has been o strong element hostile to bombard- ment of any but purely military ob- jectives. This clement, though di- minished in size, is still active and is certain to bring on a debate if it should appear the government has decided to make reprisals. Premier Clemenceau has been quoted various- ly on the subject but generally is un- derstood not to be in favor of repris- als on undefended towns. He is be- lieved to favor air raids made as far as possible within the German fron- tier, but strictly upon ments of military value. The interpellation prepared Deputy Mayers, radizal-socialist, will | be presented on the return of the | premier. Abel Ferrer radical-so- cialist depuiy and an active member of the army committee, who has in- tervened frequently du the war in regard to important questions, an- nounces he will ask the government to propose to the enemy through ncu- front, | trals that all reciprocal action of the be | Various aviation corps be limited to po- | the zone of tho bombardment by can- non of the longest range. The objection is raised that Nancy, Dunkirk and Rheims would thus be at the mercy of the Germans where- as the Allies only could reply against n, French or Alsatian towns. ALLEGE”;LL’E GAL PR AL Arrested for Sale Intimation Given Concerning on S from Which Information onrce ilas Been Received—Kaiser Wil- helm Continues Bluff—Concentra- Varda, Italy. March 1 hope that Field lindenburg soon us complete vic v the western front,” i« a message sent by s ror William to the Pomeran- 1 provineial council, as quoted ¢ Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin. Amsterdam, 7—1 have strong Marshal von win for use ton, March 18.—Germany’s reat spring offensive on the ern frout no longer impresses American military men. In its weekly review today, the War @epartment records the conclusion that the cnemy, in spite of his past prep- arat will not tak the offensive until forced into it. This confirms the \ many officers have expressed weeks in the fact of afficial fore- | to the contrary from both sides | A\tlantic. | While hostile preparations for an | offensive in the west are not slacken- ing, it is becoming more evident that the enemy will launch the offensive only if compelled to da so by the exi- | Wa thre ions for establish- | 1 cast of the b gencies of the general strategic situ- ' says the statement. the is ion, s The which closed a information on is not dis- divisions nature of the opinion It is noticed have arrived on the and the German lines ax ypproaching the point in density vond which it will be impessible o go without choking the lines and hampering the free movement of re- E€TVes. Apparently this ror ntration regarded defer nat an offensive movement. Much of the statement is devoted to the activities of the American troops now engaged on five fronts, one of tho to the iss bord statement, however ad cently published press r trench fighting ins have based fresh estern 1id o 10 is as a sive Belgia N 108 sectors 1ying clc 5 t The afficial nothing to r ports of in which involved. Teutons Mass on Italian cwhere on the western find no evidence of any military operations by eitlier side. Tho perfod of activity, the statement says, | i« being prolonged . It notes however, indications of Austro-German concen- trations in the Italian theatre which forccast assaults on Verona or Brescia 1s their objectives. The statement follow | The period of inactivity in the west | prolonged. Though the raids now place would in the past have considered important en- gagements, owing to the fact that they are merely of tactical value, they can- | not be held to be major operations. While hostile preparations for an offensive in the west are not slacken- | ing, it is becoming evident that the | enemy Will Jaunch this affensive only | when compelled to do so by the e gencies of the general strategic situ- ation. “While fresh German divisions reported as arriving in the west, fmportant to notice the density of enemy forces has reached a limit yond which it will be impra for such additianal large troops would hamper moveme n their line of. will become . \” | John Maleaski, 65 s> raids and the Ameri of “Medicine” and Obtaining Money been by False Pretenscs. I'ront. front the major | morning old, will be In police court tomorrow John Malcaski, 6 charged with obtaining money under false pretens and with practicing medicine without a certificate. Male~ aski, who is a workman on the night shift at the anley Works, was ar- rested this noon at his home on Orange reet by Detective Sergeant v C. Malone. The warrant in the issued by Prosecuting At- Klett, following a . complaint Nathan Bock. weeks ago Bock was suf- foring with a lame back and went easki for some medicine. Ho red it for a consideration of $2, says. Later he went for moro medicine, and, accordirg to Maleaski, was refused and told to go to a store for it. The stuff was some Maleaski had made up for his own use. An 1ysis made at the state laboratory that it contains turpentine, are | kerosene and camphor. " KUSTIN C. DUNHAMN DEAD the Prominent Hartford Citizen, in 85th experts 5 years case w torney made by Several taking been be tica bodies 1t com- | of other munication and | as ta make it impossible to maintain | the flexibility of maneuvers. l | Year, Dies in Florida—ELeft G. O. area P. to Support President Wilson. “Our own forces n France have been constantly in action troops are now in the trenches five different | soint This week we undertook our | first assault G positions | S Ay Allied contingent Raid on March 11, Hartford, March 18.—The death of Austin C. Dunham of this city at St. Petersburg, Fla, last night was announced in a telogram received by relatives today. e was in his 85th || car, a native of Coventry, and a res- |, ident here since babyhood. He was a student at Yale, 1850 to 1854, and in his later years became prominent- ly identified with the business life of Hartford. He was for 30 years, up 19 president of the Hartford TWlectric Light Co., was a former of the Willimantic Linen <o., and was a director in numerous ol and banks. Fe had tten much on industrial and finan- subjects. to 1912 he hen he had support administration Dunham had spent his the south and in Cuba whero he owned a plantation for several vears. Several days ago he was taken ill with stomach trouble. His daugh- ter M Newton Barney, of Farm- ington, started for £t. Petershurg, | ¢ Friday. Our at agair any rman ‘At dawn on March 11 after a pre- Jiminary bombardment lasting three- | quarters of an hour, we drove a highly | successful raid against a German trench segment. Our men penetrated | the German line to a depth of 300 | vards. The enemy was driven off aft- | er hand-to-hand flght, whercupon | our contingent returned to our lines. g three places in Lorraine, Amer- | ican troops, In co -operation with small "“‘ lotachments, raided German ; " trenche Two of these operations®nc® out at the same time,; \l‘_“ a frontage of some 600 yards.| ~'- prolonged bombardment the | were able to T(‘fu‘hf Few of the enemy | in the first line trt-n(‘hx::i‘ wttackers swept forward into | n second line. Our men Te- | mained for nearly an hour in the Ger- | man positions and retired after infliot- ! ing much [damage and capturing quan- Litie of material L been a decided to a X p1esident was a republican; d the dem- were carried win- ich on After o utts their abjec { | ters in king units ives. and PIRE AT NAVADL BASE, Norfolk, Va., March 18.— f 1known cause destroyed s building at the naval today. The house Massachusetts during exposition. 1t was empty < to ha 1sed e the Ma avorable owing mo1 wis the carly Toul up a attack ted b yosite our cotor. own o been s an a SPARRING FEATURE Allied and Tilts——French French (By ha minoy western sht B of them Bach side this moment soundings connte demons hecome as the spring advanc The troops of every branch of the service 2nd have vy by the arrival of ers of in trench warfare high quality. Paris, were brought back ers official statement today. Cheppy where the German trenches were cn- tered on a long front Irench nther n the of St. Mihel. London, carried ment on northeast “Hostile artillery v the Cambrai there azainst against our forward areas be- iween Warneton Berlin, Twenty-two brought day army headquarters The statement Yesterday planes In emy’ front loons and 1 of the and tions. captive HOLLAND SENDS ANSWER Attitude on Made patched to London. Washington, ope be acquired ¥ Great cement forward awaited Jema of locked tonnage ate Hol Gispatehed tn conclude ments of the boy sentatives hoard of control of The a lowed b: sels the war, DIMOBIIZING base | of Sentry Fires on Mysterious | OF WESTERN FRONT| spects Building But With- | out Success. uton Troops in Constant Take 120 Pris- oners in Four Iaids. With the American Army in | Mareh 17 (By —American port nce March 18 the Associated Press) th A\ssociated Ther intelligence officers the sion that possibly a spy might be within the northwest of Toul. Early today an American sentry saw flashes of a sig- re- e been dozens of trench raids and : 3 evidence leading conelu- at lines to actions everywhere along the front during the past fort- work American but the Irench, Amecrican and ish soldiers have started as many the Germans. is sounding the and occasionally develop into sharp en- without any sequel. Such rations may be expected to more important and violent as have i nal light from a window facing in the direction of the enemy lines. He fired through the window and dashed into the house but failed ® find anyone. ¥our hours carlier some important telephone wires within the American lines weore found to have been cut. An American patrol last night en- | tered the ememy trenches at one end of the sector and penetrated them for some distance. Much valuable infor- mation was gathered. As the Ameri- cans were ready to return, they es- tablished contact with the enemy, who opened fire with a machine gun. The Americans jumped to a safe po- | sition and hurled hand grenades at the enemy gun and silenced it. Re- turning to the American side of No Man's Land, the raiders brought back with them a German rifle breech, protected by a metallic cover over the muzzle and a snap clip cover, both of which operate quickly an efficiently. Officers declared it was the best thing of its kind they had ever scen for protecting rifles. The mechanism was turned over to the in- telligence department with a recom- mendation the attachment be fur- nished the American troops. Another patrol on the other end of {the sector reporfed that the first line held raiders the onemy other at these have a been feeling of superiorit encouraged immense- increasing num- whose first efforts have shown their Americans, rch active 1, M very 17.—French raiders st night nd more than 130 prison- raids, according to an from the war office | The largest raid was made at wood, northwest of Verdun, in four and where the prisoners. The at Vauquiers, Malancourt, and north aptured 80 raids were made Ardennes, near the Cheppy wood, of March 18—*Engl out a successful raid last Acheville and captured sc with sh troops it at prisoner wa strongly. Wil the Gorman fired on them several times with rifles and machine guns. The American artillery bombarded billets and new enemy works at La- hayvi St. Baussant, the village of Montsec, Richecourt in the Quart de Reserve, along the Pannes-Monsard road, and considerable bedy of 5 troops northwest of Buxieres. They also smashed another battery of gas propectors which had been set up in double line of trenches. The enemy has shelled various parts of the American positions rath- er heavily, many gas ells being mixed with high explosive ones. Several times during the the . s crowded with airplanes and , occasion several enemy planes overhead at the same time. Planes from the rear of our lines, corrying American observers maneu- vered to get in a fight with the enemy planes but they were not successful. American anti-aircraft guns drove off number of enemy machines and the others high in the air. observers obtained badly wanted photogrophs and valuable in- formation back of the German lines. American troops in the Luneville sector huve subjected to fairly heavy bombardments during the past 24 hours, but have effectively re- turned the fire. Patrols at two points established contact with the enemy last night and early today. The Ger- mans retired. American soldiers are | the Mecklenburg trench, days nzo, and which it now Is per- mitted to name. The anti-aircraft zuns east of Luneville were extreme- the | 1 pusy today in driving off enemy airplancs Sihe 1lties w inflicted o0 cnemy in patrol Zonnebeke s active dur south of the Bapaume- road and near Lens, and was considarabl, activity encounters the of night a and Zonnebeke. 18. were Tondon, March Tintente rplanes by the Germans Franco-Belgian announced adds: shot down 22 enemy captive balloons. the the forces on the German to 18 captive bal- 38 airplanes. Fifty-nine plancs fell behind our lines the rest behind the enemy posi- We lost 61 planes and three balloons in the same period. via a down the vester- front, today. on day - and two February aerial amounted on on losses of en- were a kept American been Use of Shipping by Allies Kunown in Document Dis- March 18.—Plans for the Dutch shipping to ¢ the United States and Britain, either by voluntary or by seizure was going | today while the governments the reply of Holland to that she accede to the terms contract which Germany or suffer seizure of all her in. American and Dritish ation of still holding taken two o Is nd the o Projectors Destroyed. . Army in France Associated Press) last night again | bombarded supposed gas projectors { detected in the German lines north- | of Toul. Photographs taken la- showed the complete destructive- their The cnemy ther but periods of fire Gas With the March 15 Americ Ameri (By the has een artillery considered today. veply, which to London, negotiations there and’s is v York, March for seizure by wes jter ne plied T frequent 18—All arrange the United States Dutch ships in New York har- were completed today by repre- of the navy and shipping The actual of the vessels has not gunfire re- akly, wi during the There | exeont Man's Land bru with 7 Germun ni hour transfer | been infantry throush reported been no patrol these active the usual ed and method will the oun no of procedure it milar to that of German ve States entered is un hes the encmy. "he artillery iner to a certain the enemy finds it t.o up with the sustained A f German last night 20 vietim ring th obsegvation be Are exte ood rol- hus been seizure United Dutch crews will not | to of war hut one ofli- when the ated costly but keep fire busy t no treated snipers “hosts ¢ put it o isoners the n today “hut high activity A erial wion” as we the wind TANDSTURNM. i 17.—A Vi Zeitung tion ot S WHATHER. enna ' 0o 16 of siarttord, ¢ oy Fair warme March 18, New Britain o Flashes of Light and In-| maintained | No | indi- | Amer- | | either J WAR FACTORY NEAR B AK PARIS DESTROYED PEA Thirty Killed by vlolent Explo- | sions at La Courneuve fiERMA AMERH FELT IN FRENCH CAPITAL Wil Retalid Roofs and Windows For Mile Over of G sions’ | | | | i | | \round Shattered—Four sSchool Givls Dic ight—American Red Cross Praised For Efficient Assistance. | | I I [ | Paris, March 13, (delayed).—Two | i violent explosions today in a factory | at La Courneuve, north of Paris, | | caused the deaths 16 persons | the injury of a large number, mostly slightly, says an otlicial statement to- ' night. | | Later it was said the | | | | March® ambassa London, and Swiss have directed 4 foreign office to notify zovernment that Ge coed witih measures agh property in the same/proporti \ction is taken againkt German P erty in the United ‘States, Reuter's i Amsterdam correspéndent states. r It is stated in the Berlin advices announcing this action, the German government has restricted itself to measures absolutely necessary to pre- vent enemy property in Germany he- | ing taken out of Germany during the war, and thereby possibly aiding the enemy. of ind been &l n nber of mil ructed dead was 30. Gen. Dubail, the tary governor of Paris. has Captain Lurcher, th of the first court marti | open an investigation | American Red Cross and { bulances were among the scene of the explosion. A number of wounded were ried away in motor trucks American army. Amecrican soldier: approached to within o few nundve of the burning building the injured th to vehicles waiting the tims to hospitals and urbs. An American the wounds of glass nearly a of the disaster. of severa windows on. Survivors due to a cussion grenades, caped with All circle of molished collupsed from the violence explosion. [n cvery quartes windows were {tered. .In lic school at Auverviliers curred <irls dicd fron Nearly Iter result homes, \merican hothe he loca ir advocate to dent. am- the Paris, of the ae iy first it car- th facc of [ Bo ig | m Washington, March 18.—There « hundred times much German , vroperty in the United States as there | is American property in Germany, ac- cording to estimates presented recent- Iy to a senate committee by A Mitchell Palmer, custodian of enem | property. The senate already has legislation authorizing the to sell the property holdings of German organizations in the States. and across ficld as to in move vid Paris sub- { ma d tlying scene wrmy officer dress a child cut by mile from (he The child was score in i school wherc shattered by the en | he one passed a custodian great | United | b¥ Ge were con- cuss declare the accident was man dropping a hox of per- fuses, which t off Most of the workmen minor injuries. o in CHARGES TUSCANIA CREW DESERTED SHIP a hox of es- windows mile ind than a monc while ¥ L S| Foldier Aecuses Seamen of Cowardice and Rep. Stecnerson Asks Dan- an rox icls to Investigate. W ion March 18.—A Secretary Daniels his possession charges that the torpedoed off with 000 Americs hoard was abandoned without effort to save introduced today of Minnesota ihe soldiers aboard the transpoet | v occurred, s \ usde such charges in a letter home, resolu- for all regz ashingio) ined Tonr a0 . 1sking the Porsons, fuformation in publi Tuscania of dumage to 3 | wred | are Red prefecture of authoritics, Regardins Red | munici e hee troon the - | an | A being « by (e Wi Scoteh roldicrs her Cross, co-operating the coust 1 and ass wm w American Rotr assivtance £ 1iof 7 ) 5 \gors was Rep. Steener: One on ner the Ame organiz diers showed gotten REDMOND BETRAYED DILLON DECLARES | “NEW HAVEN" DEBITS. Anticipated week., (ssistance, DISCUSS we |y No Agreement in Wash- | ington For March ifurther financial were dift h tration Washis conferenc New Haven v railroad admin on ulties o 14 on the vond todn but it provably would False British Ministers Reaping : : reached r a weel of Finance Williams ilroad administration tnat the vernment to provide the {fod by the Now Ha uring April 15 given for other companies holdmsg New Haven stock. These he said, are among the | discussed. The government is | any plan put for- | atistied with heretofore by the contpany not e Director o | Har- | * vest of Own Misderds, Says New | the r Chier. | hal agreed | Nationalisi | p | 000000 March John Redmor to lreland 18 Enniskillen, “From there is a by British lon nec thi yo the gr of state bond big notes o been ! meet | proval had b of tions, learnc i says John Dil- his first public appear- the Irish Natio dmaond f misun- horrible ssxon hhe issues bloek sugsc makin ance ax chai alist party derstanding and his endeavor fo conciliate and British people. Had the British ministers been honorable men and stood by him and imitated his states- manship, Treland today, instead of he- ing an embarrassment to England would be w source of strength and sup- port “The English ministers their hanor pledges trayed Redmond, while he ful and loyal, and are reaping | ter harvest of their { Nationalists of Armaugh rounding counties gathered numbers the meeting presented by the Inniskillen council, United ‘Irish leac and t Ancient Hibernizn Mr. Dillon 1 he ber man of a party idenl veligions di which haa nation on man of R r1 r " H many 101 ward calumny in the [rish | ) | BULLETS FLY AT . RIOT IN BELFAST | et | | "h nu were false to They be- was faith- the bit- Attempts to Hold F lea ! ati aga and Prof. De Vallera Open Air Mceting But Po- misdeeds lice Interfere, and su in lwrec > March 18.—In the rioting | \ddresses moh of Sinn Feiners and ne police in Belfast early Sunday, hurley sticks, clubs and stones were the chief weapons, but some revolver shots were heard. Many persons, in- < cluding some policemen were sent to | Ge hospitals, ary The Sinn Feiners have announced they would hold a meeting in St Mary's hall, a nationalist gathering place, but the authorities closed the hall. Saturday, Sinn Feiners were brought in from different parts of the country to begin imprisonment in the Belfast Jail. Many sympathizers came along. Prof. Edward De Vallera, member of parliament for Fast Claire and a| g Sinn IPeiner, arrived in an automobilo | jay at midnight accompanied by a body- | cto guard armed with hurley sticks, and | others carrying blazing torches. The | hall being closed, Do Vallera moved | 13 his meeting to a vacant lot 100 vards from the hall. He had talked ten| minutes when the police declared their intention to break up the crowd, numbering The rioting ensued It was | brought restored } Belfast, | for retween con Ma me; a wert ban the he Order of whose was to tinction been the HIT Up D forever tlict Trish erate party of curse | NEWFOUNDLAND STORM Years Des Worst Blizzard in 20 Ties wil Coastwise Traflic— Railrond and Pishing Vessel Founders, March 18.—The ox- last X0 Newfoundland s, for th i Mocied h, that perished to make 1 totay a compietely Only e il le trying he report =T much o although Sat The « whi the storm, ot about 2.500 Mo foindi- ht saffering was ciaused schooner ish-Jacen milit that order | cred near Cape was hrot intil the ry were | was | Mo, eva ba-k tast nigh AVIATOR DIES OF INJURIE Miami, Fla, March 18, —Francls| & here today. Tt we @liott Langdon, of Boston, a student | ner was from the Do- | gbserver at the naval aeronautical| gov Batiscan, last ro- | station here, died early today at the | suc New City hospital of injuries sustained | and 1,836 saturday when his seaplane fell m'(\‘ Vi March 18 the bodies A\ capsized boat of three sailors, Chinese, was Halifax e containin GE or w hoat washed ashor the Coal bound 1he believed minion Co.'s poried port Brunswick carric hinese crew | Biscayne Bay tak ter) threaten co- The the sage reached from together speeci gress The ch tralia hi head Wounded soldiers the G Petrograd, idonovo, about cow) name heep’s Skin iSpected of Being W Released. German Prisoncrs Bolshevik Army in Siberin—I Lov to Be Evacuated. Washington eptance ms March 18— denounce Bakhmeteff, who repudiated Ru D) d toda, the Russian last November the Bolshevik German was here ris ssador, ally ernment The onditions the amt! imposed assador stence and indep country. The emb will continue to advg with the allies’ wa by iy, decl ce of the declares operation rmany text of the resolution the central executive All-Russian Congres answer to President W transmitted adof committd of So Ison’s in press dispat the department t American consul at Mo with a brief summary ¢ the chairman of the regarding it, vrman, M. S belict state the a by verdloff, the that the prolet semi-prolgtariat ssed d of western ve, as well as of America with the reported to na Bolshevili. He is sald diffi irades have veading ams . We vast v r. Onc b1 n Y irm ex) Ltte: carr 1 pe attes the pr Cong son's wted All den the Russian A\ es He wded blution and Comrades allow to cons me s appls u all join this resolution.’” 150 a in Francis dispatches former foreign placed himself at commune at Petrog] referred to the d as a new name for the in Pctrograd. Trotzky no| as the commissary of nmunc Trotzk New Make-up. Ambassador ned press otzky, 1ssic, of e ambassador inists aviki own today that ministe: had Bolshevik Army. Manchuria, March 18 sed German prisoners are co-of ng with the Bolsheviki in Sib winst forces of Gen. Semneoff, 1 of the non-Bolshevik fac of Gen. Semne) that in a battle rch 1 they were fired on by r German prisoners attached erman Bolshevik forces. )ne wounded soldier claims n. Semneoff’s troops bayoneted ned Germans in a hand-to-! Germans in farbin, mmand says <ombat. idonovo A, March 18.—Maria § Bolshevik leader, in an sants declares ratif Spi nst Pac al to the pe: tion of the German peace means their Jand and freedom) Teuton Advance March 18.- Bakhm provir miles but were forced sk (in the prov southwest o 1 lose Continues, German atch and K of Tehorni il of M retire f Orel .ondon, e occupied p (in the 850 southwest to Moscow) Exchange 1 aq main base, says an aph dispatct urday. Austro-German troops ving on Woroshba and Khan pital of the proy of the s and about 400 miles south scow.) Orders have been givey cuate trom Moscow, ince Kharkov N. MANNERHEIM ADVANC tockholm, March 18, —Gen, M hefm, commanding the Fing ernment farces, is developing cessful offensive against the re Red Guards, say advices ff He has captured Helinola en 3,000 Red Guard prisoners. sufficient answer Il