New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS R PRICE THREE CELNTS. TAKE PART OF ANS HIT BRITIS] 4‘.} 4 Flghtmg With ’leutons on Oise and in Region of Noyon: —-Brltlsh PRESIDENT WILSON CABLES |GUNNERS CONTINUE LONG RANGE BOMBARDMENT OF - | Germans Fot'ced to' Defensive Bet CONGRATULATIUNS TO HAIG T0 EAMMER HUNS PARIS RESUMED BY GERMANS| Nesle aqd Ham---Struggle Continues. Bapaume---Further Advance for En Expresses Admiration ~for| P M "[;lP ATIONBY U. S, Amerloan Arllllery Shll Bely et o | "“Tho aatin says ono of the shel Yestf?rday at Some Points---Prince Killg 9 epe interrupted after the second shot, fired near Paris yesterday struck & Valor of Bntlsh Troops After a brief interval two more [church in the suburbs. Several ver- | R As was the case yesterday, the peo- | Another air rald alarm was sound- | the aid of the British and to ok over a \cctor (,f mc b F Alli | ple dld not take to shelter. Cellars |ed shortly after 1 o'clock this morn mavhe ' NEW AIR GAS ATTAGK which were filed on Saturday re- |ing. After forty-five minutes busles ffonf!,\thiflwar Qflice announc es. ‘ = Washington Officials Anxjuu‘;? mained empty this morning. Little |and church bells anunounced all was n the region of Noyon on the right bank o e % G — o interest was shown. clenr and_the Parisians were abie to | Ojse heavy fighting with the Germans 1o in progr Washington, March President . S ; M ‘ : Soon after they were awakened by |return to their beds > & g ns is in progr Wilson today cabled Field Marshal But Decline to Make German Airman Sails Close to Yan- | the first shot the people were brought | Twenty-four shells reached Parls i i congreiulating Mtus ol e to their windows by the rattling of | on Saturday and vesterday. The| Tne statement follows TR ok e G S drums, Policemen circulated through | interval between shots was reduced | “French troops began to interveno | selfeaciifice wih whien o ferlyelandivrediciing iatinal SAHicr Fumes—Letter Discloses Peace Fx- | €ach quarter of the city, introducing | from (5 to 20 minutes on Suturday (0| on March 23 in the battle now befng | under your command contin ¥ he the new system of alarm, which is |an ave of 4 minutes ve ay. | fought on the British front. They re- | heroically he Pnessase xoes ( Washingt March —German | Pected By August. distinguished from the alarm in the | On two occasions there was an in- | lleved certain Allled forces and took | numbers lay I not express to you my warm admiration of ths splendid steadfastedness and valor with which your troops have withstood the G man onset and the perfect confidence all Amerigans feel that you will win Any Comment. ce Line and Ricleases Mustard greatl s\ t ai id terval of only o r two wminutes. | up fight th ) tx ¢ S By Sa ateme at Americs s ha ri , i se o r raids. erval of only onc or o utes p fighting themselves on this sector | people. The el ;u.v-tL‘;lu‘t“\.:“1:;,“‘.]";03{:3 | R the American Army in France, | Work was resumed under normal | This was fuken to indicate that at| of the front ‘ ;‘(,,,:““m British front had not been confirmed :«',\me,-:c'm( ’.‘m‘“‘f. Asso ‘m}d‘u'- ) | conditions. All transportation lines least two guns were firing. The {ime “At the present time they are en- | bless them and give them Strer today and officials, including Major- | eatas neen artillery on the = Toul |were running. The streets were full | of flight of the shells is estimated at | gaged in heavy fighting near Noyon, | this time of trial General March, chiet of staff, de-|tively onomn fist nrr oo, shell effec- | of people whose sole subject of con- | 10 minutes leasi. The curve trav- |and they are disputing the heights of | Tuo Mang clined to comment on the report. lvely enemy first line and communi- | versation was the new battle of the |ersed at 10 miles and the maximum | the tight bank of the Oise with im- | signiticant oy T o © Amer. | C¥ton trenches, the town of St. Baus- | Somme which was generally com- | height attained at 15 miles portant German forces, e e : 18 tact Am sant, and billets and dumps north of | pared with Verdun. “Northwest of Rhefms there has|aays' fighting (he encmry. el e bl auE = the Ger-| Boqueteau, Many of the Amercan An American corporal of marines A | bes a violent artillery actian near ' ;000 p e fibi ‘”,l X»xti‘?f;”'wki,“\. ; nbral sector | ghells have fallen in the German |wag struck in the chest by a splinter | Washington, March 2 Sourcy and Lolyre. In the Cham-|sscond fay wiicl tnens i ce s ?)‘1\0:-‘;“ vx:‘;n::’”wi & fiui ()l[‘I\;‘!h )ndhu;:o'tl trenches and the first two lines in at [ of one of the first shells which fell |sador =harp. in Paris. report agne two German surprise attacks ' withdrawal this deduction from the German plan | A6 P8, DO Bere 1o SOW AL least one place have been virtually |in Saturday's bombardment of Paris. |the stuie departiment foday the ca lippes resulted in failure. | front west of massed attack, the numbers they [ 00 =00 e i v abandoned. 2 . He was wounded seriously, but his | bardment of Paris at lone rar ;“Hv""‘}} 2 ols took some Prisoners|in excoll s are employing and the) strength ol FECET, BT SHec il BElciments, Aac i (V)‘m: American patrol freely in-|jife was saved by the deflection of jthe Germans. He forwarded the [w-ml “whure . . s o good omer the Allied resistance. sl g e “ = “"d: m cted this point in the enemy line | the splinter by a cigarette case. So | French o 1L statement i which her \\\.v> 1\“\!‘»\ x\r(liinf'}:‘_\‘ 4‘\5-111\‘11: | THe Allted osses, 1t was Acclaved, |, S to VS HEEOT Eay (EEHCS without molestation last night and |far ag has been reported he is the |the fact was announced to the public 1 Arracourt and the Vosges ke ; would be far less than those of the Ison, wxiously | this morning and remained there se ¥ whreak (ierman forces attacked msterdam, Mar empire stands cal in its soldiers, Ma 1ester featuy the situad front, is that after Members of the Aliied mission said today that, in the nature of the fight- ing, the Germans must be losing at Says British S emans beoause they are fihting on | Scanned British and German state- [ eral hours. There has been no con- 0 > French east of Blenoury and east the first day of th B ments A AElSIhatreer tha in® & thaneit of Badonviller. They repulsed with | Western front the \ossiche the defensive Berlin’s announcement that Paris| 24 hours. = 2 APA ME EAPTUR?“ heavy losses. {correspondent says the 1 ! was being bombarded by long range : 4 Britiohl CounteriATtack. tillery was shellec th u \ SINK guns was taken here as_confirmation ermans Hurl Gas Shells. London, March 26.—The British g7 iSR4d of Trench reports, that riflo shells fell For the third suc e day Cier 0y ¥ | 9 e e NS Tever rainter TN TINER |in Paris Saturday and ye 5 man artillery today bombarded hea 3 ‘lo , / e UL L Pho HBritl SEIZED HUN LINER Rho X thelnew welinoniyeliv: withiiz: Heils Hooe T ij‘ L Kl ¥ ) i it\\‘luv '\‘;‘:Lr'.,x:,.‘l“kllflv}I‘\].‘(h‘l‘l 'vm St miles—exceeds even the dreams of | Within the American lines. Toda responde ports ¢ a Ao were in action. experts her but consider- | Pombardment was made in two peri- e i o e | \'..m_"‘h 'm. ,'{‘,m,wm’ h ported iy me Steamer Chattahoochec Was TFormer | atb atisf i was taken in the | 9ds, each a half hour in length. Many | ro-iu o the bombardment | £0s shells and a few hizh explosive | GEITANS USed Divisions on EveryiNesle Alse Taken by Smrm, O | ermans were nttacking in consider o ahe Hamburg-Amerlean Vessel Sach- rferri ¢ little damage resulted, | Shells fell on the American positions. miifg troops swus | through the British barrage the American 1 tr t of T are relying on sheer weight of num- . 1 3 > e rican lines northwest o foul % hes in their attacks on our lines, re-p''Hde - push into the ener Tondon,iMarch 120-The: admizally FALL NEAR and planed down. When close to the { hes. : mheutiinies frc LRt e e MO announces the American steamship ligenitacliatiacks fon ounjlisieg ¢ been sunk by a German submarino | Germans Expected to Occupy Deserts [ whieh explode in mideair with o bl sithsui s angs fon axtillerys Subpo | i g ' o i “The atiue Westw 1 1 f D rew i ans are e loving mar wd went fof off the English coast. Her crew of s | Germans are emy i Yni ithin 2 . sh-red flash and give off a cloud of 1 i 2 pncite | With the offensive spirit of 1914 78 won 8 3 sastor | ed Capital Within 24 Hours, Con- 5 ; d More, Than 60( y small bodies of Uhlans, as counting | § g2 el ;ms‘igg];‘::yfirv;? e P mustard g Being heavier than the | Gallant Defense Made in Tace of reEbans 600 S Gunsiiraken S| NS S s ey, | battalions stormed over the g states th E ) | 5 s : o Tt sul Treadyell Cables. air, the mustard gas quickly descend- & & British——Prussitns N 5 e The spearhead of the German ef of torpedoes of which four struck tho ¥ Sidov ara L5E our batters posie | Overwhelming Numbers — Gunners SN ow R MGl G 0 o |[onire iron (TR British vessel I ashington, March 25.—German | tions and : of Former e T 3 M tsabo tlesr o Ieitis { bravely but their leader; o ¥ 2 T . omme Battiofickl— | Somnic battleground. The Iritish | adership w | occupation of Petrograd within 24| After the machine disappeared, the | Remained at Posts, Covering Re- we falling back on new positions | €4 to the mighty Dblow. New York, March 25.—The steam- hours was predicted by American | German shell bombardment be- ! under tremendous pressure, destroy- | ©Vening the British had Leen p ship Chattahoochee, torpedoed off the Consul Treadwell in a dispatch reach- | gan. Another enemy plane hovered | ing evervthing that might be useful [ Pack on the whole battlefront.’ English coast, formerly was the kHam-= [ing the state department today, dated | over the town while the bombard- British Army Feadquarters in e i L T e to the enemy e B burg-American liner Sachesen, and jMarch 20. Virtually all Americans | ment with gas shells was in progress. | mrance, March 24 (By tho Assoclated | now are xirnding vy (he nor e LIS i Germans have been pushing | was one of the vessels selzed by tho | have left the city, the dispatch says. AR R St i sl e L0 0 R NG ! 12 | forward by sheer welght of numbers ENE“Y AIRSHIP ON United States when this country en-{ The consul reported from Moscoy oy 'W ”-‘] .‘H" [' ’”‘r»‘ .h‘l )lt ‘(‘\‘ e ”= (_" Olfnenah m“»,- !]le 5 l"fll\‘ \»lun:\,;lf with the aid of little artillery ! e \r. She was built in 1911 | after returning from a trip to Petro- 1e weather was suitable today for | Eritish right flank by the Germans | St L LT Ghits n the raid near P ) Srit- | N T G :t‘;“[;i‘l}‘l:t,‘:wn‘rl was 470 feet long with § grad. The commissary ot the eity | aerlal work and the Germans took | Thursday was south of St. Quentin | € Al statement. Bapaume was cap- [ G0 SRt Sy I 0 1 JOURNEY TO EG a 58 foot beam. | had told him that he expected estab- | 8dvantage of it. On one portion of [and the enemy used a division for |HMIod I MEDL fighting. Sunday. This marked the extent of The Chattahoochee left an Ameri- { lishment of German control within a | the scctor 14 encmy planes crossed | every 20,000 yards of the front, there [ U thE evening Nesle wis taken by | yne onemy’s progress whose advance can port on 7 for an Eng- | day betw cen noon and ¢ o'elo k, while belnaflone |German ol ko Whestnat f J/ LA Ha Trench e s belng contestéd) stronsly Public in | Guire| Wrmmea it 1l : % g . The vess e disnatoh e om: Moscow our friendly ones were over the Am- | every Eritish battalion, he purpose | American an eneh e rown i e : i} p l\hn; li::\‘xn‘:\':\t\]{‘wl by Captain Laroe. conf d re y»](n"[~ ‘11[,"(1““),(,m,,(,,{::.‘,‘l‘;,.‘{: erican line In the same period. One |of the attack was to capture Ury ‘,”“ k through a pathless wooded Battle Resumed "“""‘"l"f me. i For Air Atack—Visitor Sec of refused to sanction tho | EYOUD of seven enemy planes, ap lers and Bssigny-le-Grand and there- | COUNLY. I°resh attuacks by the Germans have e German peace treaty and strongly | ently @ hombing expedition, was dis- | by acquire high ground for a further '!"' than 45,000 prisoners B developed northward and southward ver Coast. PRISONERS ARMED, ondomnea i covered at midnight and driven of by | advance. It now is possible to give [More than 600 cuns have heen of Bapaume, the war office announc = - LS the rapid fire of American anti-air- | more details of the ecarly stages of | tured. the stutement says The British repulsed powerful at-[ tondon, A &l Germans and Austrians Join craft guns. {his and other fights. | Guiscard and Chauny weore . tacks vesterday afternoon morth- | S b 1‘ 0, -UEYDL, were Infg { tured in t ing ward of Bapaume, ally last Thursday, accordi . w T BOA DR N TO PDR An American patrol has br t 1 On the extreme right of the British | vening. ard a 5 : i y A in Stheria. [- T DRIVE it ! o oo 'mans crossed the River | Violent fighting developod for pe The British drove back to the|® Feuter dispatch, that a hostil some valuable papers from flve Ger- |army the Germ P > % Harbin, March 18, (By the Ll vAanalkilled by American artillory ‘Are |[Olhe, et two! Places, | Onel body ot |Eosslon ineie ”””"'\,.““ ; shis | enstern bank of the Somme bodies of Z-lol:;‘:c]m"l}n:‘;;:bn:lu W ciated Press)—Russian and Gern - : a few s ago. Among the papers |troops came out of Ta Fere and Wost of th The epomy wi - | Germans which had crossed the river S 2 arnadiy soldiers in Siberia are organiz Germai Submarino Sceks Haven At |y, O0F (758 (00 [ U0ONE IO DT | ng north while another army | feated between Licourt and Brie, south of f;z::-!:/““z}{\ i imd»slnfm'm-dc irmy corps composed of one exclu- El Terrol, Spain, After Battle With | letter from his daughter in Berlin ' crossed at Moy and turned south to = = T'eronne. i € the necessary lighting i sive Russian division, and arother to saying: “We are being told now that , form a junction with the La Ferc CAUSALTY LAST. An official state: i be two-thirds German and one-third Three Allied Ships. peice will surely come in July or[group. Throughout the day the| - ) German Advance Conceded. A “::‘m”", “;:f‘“““ issug Austrian, ording to reports reach- August ervbody was elated when | battle raged in the lowlands about [ Pershing Cables Names of Dead and 12 o Y, says on Th g Irktusk. Forty thousand Cos- El Ferrol, Spain, March 24.—A 400 [ the news of the Russian peace was |the OF Wounded From Pr Eritisn il £emy e Headanariers M0 | ooy i02 Deneed oveneha AR cacks are said to have joined 10,000 [ton German submarine has sought | yeceived.” At Vendueil, a . of British shingt Mareh 23.- (ieneral | France, March 25. (By the Assoclated | Crete travelling in a northerly Germans, the combined force being |refuge in this port. The captain made | The cntire American front, from | held out until 4 o’clock Friday aft- | Pershing’s casualty list, which | Press)—A further advance late yes- | tion. expected to go to Irktusk n urgent request for admission, de- | generals to privates, eagerly awaits | crnoon. A little further north the i r departmient late last | terday by the Germans at some points = 8. L. Gray, an American businies | claring his craft had been damaged | pews from the British front Germans stormed Urvillers and Es- ' s is follows along the front is recorded. Cario, the capital man at Omsk, reports that 1,000 pris- | severely in a fight with three ships. | confident that the Germans cventus siuny. Just west of St. Quentin the i iceident: Piivate Anthony | German cavalry in small numbers | jous city of Egypt oners with machine guns, air { The U-boat carries two 11 centimeter |1y will be defented severely, even If | British were forced to fall back, but lomuno ; has been in action, but thus far it has | ganger from air ralds since the motoreycles, armed c and aununu- | gung and a crew of 30. spani they should strike hard at the o .| throughout the day they clung to the Died or disease: S@vgt. Jule Haus- | been used merely to harass the [were driven back from the nition hz been concentrated ot | warship has been sent out to guard |The German offensive is the sole top- | Holnon wood, a little northwest of ton. I'rivg mnklin Cooper, Jos. | British durnig their withdrawal, al. The Turkish lines in Tomsk her. 1ic of discussion on the American sce- | the city. 1. Cover nest Statford American engineers have again |the nearest enemy points to Cair At Krasnoyarsk a passport bureay | e IS Gmet e At e outh of St. Quen e strong Weounded severely Priviite Jacob | been in the throes of fierce conflict|they are 320 miles northwest, A1 5 been established and to supply | HONORS GERMAN LEADNIS. by wireless operators British redoubts vn.yxr‘rv- i .».nv\\\ .|.‘: ‘\\ = - in which they have done o\tvellr'ffi my airship might come acro the Austrians credent er | ne pers are circulating rapidly | fense and it was nightfall before the unded slizhtl Lict Royal | work In transportation. Their pres- | Mediterranean sea from the 1ssfan names. Germans # sunrc Amsterdar March Semneron |t e Front 1 of them, with their machine gun- ; Tharp, Corpo Arnold Cavico. Pri- | ence on the battlefront long has been | coast of Asia Minos h 10,000 rifies in the arsenal at Irk- | William at German headquarters on a wd been reduced. The end of | Vates Carter Dillingbam, Wm. known They were praised highly | that route would be 4% Sunday according to a Berlin cfiicial A\warded Cross for Bravery ihe first day found the British behind nuir, Chas. Fuller, Albion 0. | for their gallantry'in the battle of |y o e announcement, conferred the iron Lieut H R. Davies, United States! S+ Quentin canal i s. James MceDanielson Mark A. | Cambrai last fall. ! cro: vith gold rays on Field Marshal | qrmy medienl reserve serving with iday morning the enemy re- t ick, Dan Sanders, Major . Shel- BAKER PRESENTED TO KING. |von Hindenburg and the srand cross - {of the Order of the Iron Cross on | the distinguished service cross, one of Remains An Hour Discussing Amers | Gen. von Ludendorff. The emperor | the four J |and broke enemy resistance alof \mericans seted Aghin treat Until Last Moment Possible. Sheus i patted Aed | Berlin, March 25, (British Admir- ish fell back in the fighting late on London, March T in und most has been i ferman airships e tacked Naples after the British army has heen awarded| powed his assault with increasing Harry Shepherd. Burton I.. Thor- LR IS (T Bl nd fter dcesperate fightin irn Prince Henry of llr:n.\s, ht“;\xl of new American decorations for ! neny Ta Fere, succeeded in getting Previou reported missing now | te Younger hranch of that family, ROUSELLOT SENTENCED| At WA | also gave various decorations to de- | bhravery. »ss to tho British side reported as prisoner: Private Chris. | DS been Killed on the western front ¥ York ; a artmental ¢ s wi signed pho- | jeutenant D, s, on January 8, en- yer north British also | tian Sorensen i says a Central News dispatch quoting usellot, the yc Frenchman tograph with late e 1 v du t under continuous fire | withdr rom the Holnon wood, The j Berlin advices in the role of Marquis de Cs \“m' March 21 ! anc A there attending the oc- 3 w drove at tlam, which ! TFALLANS GET EIGHT PLANES, Prince Henry NXXVIL was born in | alleged to have tried to 1;.-1“”‘ had been blown in. . Mareh 25.—There has heon | 1858 and snceceded his father, Prince | $50.000,000 loan from g5 Bl : ok s | ' ; utatic Jera- niiue] S haraTe remarkable aerial activity over the |Henry XIV.. as head of the princi- | & o, on behalf of the King ar WILL NOT EXPLAIN ABS? 4 i in S lines on fhe Ttalian front, the war ,1; pality upon the latter's death in 1918, | wan. M“:“.,“.\( ‘“m' :":n ‘1:"’:'“:"" fice announced today izht cnemy > was a general In the Prusslan | concurrently in the federal pes) ¢hines were brought <Swn. 77 alry. Besides relgning in his own | tiary at Atlanta each for ong. been liv ! ) right 150 acted regent since | and six s. T ALt Tuncheo in t \ | isly disappeared from Washinglon | ho. as pre Hariford, March | various places betwe ke Gurda | October 1908 of the principality of “;’:\\,( :,,“:s\‘i-‘r{xmL::: sl f 1, I January, has suddenly returned ror Now Britain and {he Brenta, ¢ ; nes | the elder branch of the house o stationery he second for forging passes nity: Fair tan and T 1 bombed railway lines in the S hh King George Congratulates Hais. docks, arsenals. &nd '"“ N "‘" gy the Liv : suge to Mield Marshal Haig: “I can 8. Judge Mayer. 1 m March 25.—8ec "b‘k’ll‘\' Baker was presented to K Georg at Buckingham palace today by ,\m ‘; bassador The secretary r discussir 's effor 2 March e rof e rece . La laker e- | Loom! a0, ident of the Amer- | 0 \iner g L INTHER mie Joyd-G ¢ | ican Bleetric railway, who myste and is at his office. H i any information disappearance. | To Wit