New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1918, Page 1

SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1918. —TEN PAGES. UN VENTS FURY O FORCES BRITISH F tion of General Battle Forecast as Soon as Artillery is Bmljgh't‘Up * GODSPEED FOR MEN [CURTIS DECLINES 'ASSAULT ON ARRAS | PaTossrsio_stmsw wims pean | Attempt to “Wrest Demuim from English K London, March 30.—A gruesome picture of Dbattlcticld ondi- { | tons B S et s P et s e || After Fierce Battle---Situation Repo | 4 . “‘ i = ) and between them. The enemy has only recently found time tc “ Mayor, in Farewell Talk, Tells He Tells Democrats Chamberlain Germans Are Said o Have Paid | vwwanyormsacaa = - @ comrades has affected fresh troops, who in this w: the Soidiers to Be True Should Be Re-elected as An Enormous Price in thelr surprise that the Britiéh are nat too weak to fighi. Prisuncrs say the British endurance and ski s aying the proc ling with German dead. There are great piles of bodies alo 1e road J 5 5 Near Albert---Quiet Throughout Night Paris, March 30.—French troops, supported by serves, are offering desperate resistance to powerfu saults of the enemy, the war office announces. The battle which was resumed with renewed viol 40 ARE INCLUDED IN QUOTA DISREGARD TOR POLITICS HEROIC STAND BY BRITSE FRENCH HEARTS TOUCHED BY| i T T progress of the German army.” Americans City Treasurer Casualties ; L S | et All Registrants in First District Ap- | Town Committee Will Mect Tomorrow | Battery of Heavy Artillery Cut Off PERSHING!S OFFER OF }\RMYT British Evacuate Mesieri! pear But Four Fail to Show Up in| tfo Take Action on Nominating An- | Tor Three Days But Won Way London, March 30.—The Germans, attacking vd Second District—IHumorous Scenes | other Candidate—Registered Re- | Back to Line—Montdidier Pivot of SnEe day at Demuim and Mezieres, pressed back the B As Men Prepare to Leave. publican Candidate for City Clerk. | Attack on Irench. PREAEHERS A[;[;USE[] Sincere Appreciation of Man- from Mezieres, the war office announces. ] - All the enemy attempts to capture Demui e ly Words Expressed by Y D3 pture Demuim | bty mpibuis for Chmp Devess snd | Commerelsl Truct company, who Was || Branse. Maseh 95 () ihs Ascaciated i { down after sharp fighting, which lasted through the th t N e < wi ncminated on the democratic ticket | Press)—The German attempt to F En[T"]US TALK ALy - - a noon ; with them went one man from Win- e Newspapers—Warning to| noon. p x ¢ ¥ 5 Thursd: evening for city tre force the British back along the | 1\1 leld, Kansas, sen oy his - western | today sent to Chairman W. F. Man- | Scarpe and capture Arras cost them ezier: 8 i & > i draft board with the local men, K es, captured by the Germans, is in the " ) gan of the democratic town commit- | an enormous price in casualties al- — Teutons, Says Journal. S p i e the first contingent of the second |tee his refusal to be a candidate. In | though they used ten divisions. Nor i ¢ south of the Somme where the principal gains of] It T e s (PO s letter, which is printed below, Mr. | of the river the British held to their | Criticism of War From Pul- — i Germans in the last few days have been made sad leave-takings at the depot, 10 | Curtin thanks the democra for the | positions and only slightly wavered | B i p FAie i ) ovents of the past few Ve | honor showed him but explains that the enemy onslaught. South pits Regarded as Paris, Mareh 50-Gen, Persh miles north of Montdidier. stesled the courase of the citizens | ho is a friend of City Treasurer E. S. | of the river)however, the Bt g sincere and manly words in placing = nd registrants and instead of the | (v | b at the disposal of Gen, Ioch the en- nb n, considers 1 E e 8 slightly between T ux an i ralty . S s e hysteria that marked the departurc | \m"‘,[“ (‘“‘“\ \lL !1[ \-mv‘l‘ 0 ‘:m?,r; tired slightly between | l)1slo3alty. tire resources of the American amny | FIFTY-FOUR WOMEN itente Situation Satise Boisleu of the first draft quotas there was & [ should be returned to ofice: R ha one straight to the heart of 1 Army Headqu The was hard fighting on both the French people. Fcho dc VICTIMS OF BIG GUN : » March 30, (By the PRSI Eeloserm nation VR N o) Chairman sides of the Scarpe. To the north, | Washington, March, 30.—Disloyalty eseneh ple. B ! el Gl 1 Democratic Committee. | the most desperate conflict was staged ! fostered by certain religious sects has Bioanc o e il o oan ‘ Slante wawioi i1 Fifty-one of New Britain’s sons left | President James M. Curtin of the DBritish Army Headquarte: the registrants left Mayor George A. e Ha L e or and L Quigley delivered a short speech to | DT St S RIS R L L S tn_ | Leen growing in the United States| “to use the | T T Rt i ! satisfactory. Along the them in which he praised their cour- GO e 1, whe ¥ north of Gavrelle e cnemy | recently according to department of | MAY sy ihere has beer there is { Shell From Long Range \\'m..un.f““‘ tion last nightit was comy age, said he hoped and expected them e lee St pres. { a4 British back on Justice officials investigating violations | Iiore than ever today a t u A ) {1y quict. to do their duty in such a way as to ent, the Democratic Party could aillenl, but were repul South of ©f the espionage acts. Many preachers | nf”_r;n;um Jetween the two countries B kes Paris Church During L h‘. British line b reflect credit upon their city and state e e e the river tho most bitter fighting was &0d religious teachers in public speesh | The Petit Journal says: G Goodl Bridny T Seroioe) trengthened rapidly in eve nd urged them above all things to and printed pamphlets, officlals as- | Pershing 1et asking so nobl long the front There i be true Americans. sert, are e doctrine that war | Sharc in * honors and sacrifice r March 30, . | heartening displ: of deter “our Fail to Appear. ainst G r constitutes murder | the b of nations now in prepa = and optimism. The first exemption board \;-‘v't 30 a personal friend of mine, as was |} been doing marvelous 'work in, Of fellow E and is the k:r(.a,fl‘ In_warning to the Cen- In the vieinity of Albert tH men from its own lists and the one e S Rl B G Bebr i e sh it | ke G (G ed in the baok of | tral of the grim resolve of fong range gun have founa |1NAUS today were reported to who was registered in Winfleld, K: e He is a ca and ef- |1{he withdrawal. One battery of | levelation | free nations to conaue bodies. It now is kaown 54 |SNE themselves in along ¢ sas. He is Floyd W. Ritter, Who | {iiont official and, in my opinion Heavies was sutiore and lost ‘.0";““‘(”_} Several erman and Austrian “Gen. Pershing’s words to Gen. | women were killed from Thiepval 1o Boiselle, Swas repistered | with| the | western should he re-elected to that office [ qvs Althoush often surrounded the | Préachers and Sunday school teachers Foch, in their simplicity, have a_deep v For a brief space the tides| board, but who was in this city when of. his| political afflic men worked thetr may out to the| Na@ve been interned for disloyal ut-|meaninz” says the Fi T m e ireh, Dbringing down part o | 1Ct have slackened, but an et Rad A 2| terances and many others particularly | bring out the magnitude of the stak 6 Toofland toenlieie bres | ent they may set in again. W regardle EENR e nililn 2l i ik, in northwest states have been warned | : 1e. On the events of the Somme f ° | Germans bhave brought forwa h all came. Rather than go to the tions. Jor this reason, I decline expense of returning to the far west, to accept the nomination for City : Lhe A vgh and 20 f wide. Nearly 0 accoL On | to desist from critizing the country angs not only the fate of England the debris fell inward or | artilles wnd overhauled the motives in the war. Wd France but of civilization and itk o . high ground near Albert ther Mr. Ritte: ronsented to going with . ure: generously tendere ~ the New Britain men. T to me at the City Convention on o B00 s in fint orib e o eads of the worshippers, 60 feet he. | .8 € [SATUEE D summoned in the first district ap- | rjuisday night. ol YRICA SN onto; T OWI| That the department of justice con- | ress for which Germany vietor- =g . i will be renewed, perha; peared, but in the second _district b rCree sy infantry but who still are doing heavy rs such criticisms to the aims of | icus would ute her co greater ferocity than before. v 3 Yestcrday afternoon the er xecution e G e : A e In addition to H. Strochlin, coun- | there were four who did not show up. | J. M. CURTIN S sutoniamonsa nemy. Tanks s war of seditious nature and s | nethods of human exploitation.’ s AR SR While these men are not classed 8 | (pairman Mangan explained that, | D3V raveling in pa ter ordingly it was made plain | [ smai succe south ofi# ! i | river, on the British righ| oc] i *opula | alsc s a vic Ithoug sed > ind will have to do some explaining e e b e The department has been consider- Toch Appointmeat Popular, | also is a vietim, although sear to satisfy ti VIRt e | SoIRLItCOR IR e M SO W ST et hat sector of the hattlefront lying ably hampered by lack of legislation | Washington, March 30.—The ap- [ have not yet found her body. Amons | captused Mestores od el who ditofapnear \were Ered sHid_Heeenle e ais et TEe i e e e i : | Blanche, north of that villa) 2 da c ; e ol Zone S 5 o G 4 ; - et oflstafs, fo supreme ec and [ and former Senator Gauttes ward Stabert, Kistantignas Staret e o e todavR be the crucial zone of con- able them to deal with violations of | chi of staff prem ommand | tteron Yoo A HoaET iRV etondalstaie || ; T e i their small gains of yesterday in | gress to expedite passage of several | garded here today as the important ;\“L‘;'inS’;“;‘,{‘;""im{fi{o“;}"‘l - e o : Jolmzon fegistered Republican their northwest drive toward Amiens, | bills now pending which would grant | development in the situation on the PREMIER LENINE ILL g it | were held up by machine gu b tration sheets has disclosed the fact were meeting with the most obs | the problem. The elevation of General Foch made e ]‘M,m_ Sorict Lok B that Adna F. Johnson, nominated by te resistance on the part of the | A bill which the department of jus- | known iclal information last {Head of Bolshevik Government Is Mayor's Farewell Talk. stinate I nt I . | great strength and were too iU e is not a r tere t‘ ¢ lny He o u\ :‘m o indicate little or no change including women in the c (l.ss(ftlx Py n:, armi s obposing the German on en With Pneumonia—aGenc | tected, and the British were City Hal e a the other hand, is a registered repub-. 3 "4po situation since last night, de- ' aliens. It is said a number of Ger- |slaught. This is a step long urged by : 3 r > gle during which 25 Germa vor alking to the men who | . SR 3 el ST s e e T 5 e sle 28 word. In talki fokthemnenpne trar of voters, had a conference yyo.. north the enemy had desisted | States are considered dangerous sitigl amd epparentlyinas bron gntiabout by | BEr oG on W Mareh i 2 0 ENTlolaill Lol | taken prisoncriia hand toxl are about to take off the n : T i GGV BRG] kb soice e SR HER SR e zens and will be interned as soon xg[reason of the immediate necessity of : i the city of New Britain wants and explained that it is the privilege of :"ti’;fiv’x‘::":;flvr(l‘;t)l;‘![irh Petrograd cor- 1\:;: 1:‘1:; ((,,17"‘1nglnwtxtwivilfid\ expects of them is that they will bo |, o p) (v to nominate any man it sees i = o Ice E | | | standpoint, than to endorse the 1hout Telegr: Hill, which changed present incumbent, Mr. F. 5. | hands s times Chamberlain, Mr. Chamberlain is Below the Somme, British artillery K the church vesterday by a sh ¢ shell struck the north side of Before the second district me driving back the rmans Although it was learned that Presi- nt Wilson had been officially ad- vised of the appointment when he | against Arras but it appears they are | the bill is enacted only waiting for fresh troops before renewing their drive. | . WOMAN SPY CONFESSES ¥nemy 12 Miles From Amiens, AlL . \ ming the advance and making pris- | today. = | who was Killed, i is feared his desenters, B they ywillbeSrounded PUDH v pon irecelpt Foft this etierl the S town today | : Strong German forces attackf ichefconventipn glognll Lalllivacancles | nouth oriithe| Bhmma rlver Contnnadll i tne varlous Siatea thatisonate libotitnt ot 6. Foch, French | the injured are Countess Mourland, : ¢ E British organized a count R S e e flict. The Germans, follow up this sort, and officials are urging con- | of Allied and American forces, is re- | e e : - At one point the atackin) ont 21 men in order to provide An examination of the party regis-| ere pressing the attack vigorously |the desired authority for dealing with | western front ] | : mans, however, opposed the democrats for town and city clerk, itish defenders, howeve wind latest | tice is anxious to have passed is that | night means co-ordination of all | S S sl : S Reported Undes Anie ibandon the effort after a ha A. Quigley was asked to DELE . Thomas J. Smith, democratic (i 1o hard fighting. On the ex..man or Austrian women in the United | American and French military men| -Aesieff Reported Under Arrest. ion the &hell, the mayor seid that | NI 0t o S s L nd ator nine, the Bolshevik premier, is ill of |ing. The loss of the posit Americans, first, last and all times, [ G 5O 2 O e, owever, he correspondent says it is report- | sidered satisfactory. and will do e uty ¥ {he explained that, while Mr. Johnson who recently s Germans Rush Up Artil . : t ¢ ommanc ece: ha e) “And when you get to c he a registered republican, he has al- R S HaithEgiinRon Ny nepi ssack leaders, £ g i v d London, March he heavy con- | 5 IO C e L mayor said, “be men. And if Youly. o peen a democrat, as are other | Mhority ere was no explanation L should go overseas I am sure that you |pedd S0 & EERITNT S B F DS tinued pressure of the enemy con- [ \dmits German Agents Have Been |at th. White House of what the presi- """f,‘ arrested in the Don region. will be true American soldiers and |io1q My, Smith that he did not recall | Versing movement has brought the i i . . | dent The United States, how- | Finnish Red Guards have been de- will do all that is expected of you as |} w it was that he was first registered | Germans to within about 12 n\vllv.\ of Employed in Curtiss Airplane | avs has advocated the con- |feated at Tammerfors, north of Hel- do those who have gone before. Fur- a republican but thinks that his | -\miens. The British line now is west ¥ : f o jon of the military power jn |SIN8LOTs, by the government forces, hormore, Afivol shoula ever EStnto ] o ias sovat hve beon assiaontinl put | of Marceleave and Demium, bui de- Plant at Iempstead, L. 1. G e Tanastos on 1 |savs a Reuter dispatch from Petro- Germany T hope and trust that ¥oU |on the G. O. P. list without consult- | SPite this the situation is still reg d- e e e and the stion wax heard that |87ad. The rebels are said to have lost 1 have the same respect for the fino him. Inasmuch as it will be im- | €d as hopeful. While the enemy ad- ] RO o e Secretary B < cen visit to [10,000 prisoners and 21 guns. rman women as you have for the |, ssihle to change registrations until | Vance has not yet been arrested, it | sion that a group of German spies | prance and h sequent trip to RE vomen of your own New Britain, 0 | Ayeust, Mr. Johnson will make no et- | ccrtainly has been greatly retarded 1ave becn employed in the plant of ind s e connected with the ‘Pelro;:rfld, March 29 (By the Asso- Bat you will put no blot on the clean | rori in that dlrection until then; hut,| The explanation for the movement| o e Tngineering Corpsration clopment. clated Pross)—M, Lunarchsly, min- record of the red-blooded American |z Smith explains, the fact that he is | O Arras, according to French critics, | /% 00 enalb e A ‘ 5 1 whicat at Gen- |ister of education, says although an soldier. Remember at all times that | ominated by the democrats automat- | 1S that the Germans feit Hn.‘ HADCHOLH soim i il e Lydia W : ch oL 1 supreme a.lhar‘ncav with America is impossible ou are going for one purpose, to li.ajly places him on the democratic | the salient driven into the I m\‘h i en b ot ot 1 ¥ N ris dispatch lessm. is willing to accept American make the world safe for democracy " L B S R L | s O e RO ey o elling i=noral Persh.| asslstance In the form of loans and |, S after intaced You will represent New Bri nd L © P endthcvilestendcd i thelnqialtensivedl e St e i . *ling had aced the American forces |arms in view of the fact that Ger- This appears to be the only we are proud of you. God-speed vou DUTCH SHIPS STRIPPED. Oty s, OO D I e o o years old, | * @aE LR llien chillcon | man vAls tholeammon i enemy: fHicilines nedr : I hope you will return safely.” R the '““!"34v"“:"‘l."’."?”"‘l‘ s was furned over to the federal au- oL T o — S A body of ish troopi he Roll of Hono: Navigating Instruments Taken Iy ["::L,-,\:,‘nl”‘ '\\vy\r\\ v;‘iunum cot ioritics and held by a U. 8. commis- SO L niEltinsa WIN DEMANDS IN CHICAGO. |off when the G ns env ously until surrounded, th tempt to ST 2 mess: from General Pershing and L m! Before the men went the Red Crews About to Return Home. foner in 1‘ 000 bail together with ; o0 public by the war department Chicago, March 30.—The eight |Yeaux on Thur; . The Cross dictributed sweaters, socks and ; ) ederick Arnoldi, a hoarder in her & Washington, March - 80.—Requisi- | capture Arras fz e The naming of General Foch also | hour wage increases of §1 a day and S ',‘ nacioudly o sewing kits to the men, and A, .1, 00 huion dnips when taken over FFrench militar uthorities i I went a great way toward strengthen- | €qual pay for like work by men and | in face of bittc onslaug Corbin distributed cigars to the first |}, "y, 5000 naval officers were found | very hopeful over their suceess v Wele arrodied after being Too e the belief that an clo-American | Women were granted to Chicago | RIENt When, under cover of district men. Those who went from | ¢ o oFiRl BANE T C0r their sox- | baftling the e e Dbyl bert White theRwomants il it C Rl ool otiandline) allicill paelins house: empiogent toasvh | theviwore drawi stcoskkil Ty L e i e e e el liGas R heCise and b ishand. The police say sea | blow is ta fall on the French tion. f Judge Samucl Alschuler, arbiter in |# £aP torn i the enemy 1i Max Belkin, captain lex Brousa, | yyants, Many had been taken by ship’s | clare the an attempt to break B the recent wage hearings here. Sev- - = Peter Prusinowski, Sebastiana FoI- | officers who were about to sail for{through at the junction of the Brit- nica, Henry Lippin, Carl C. Stimmel 110me on the Nieuw Amsterdam and |ish and French armies in the Mont Joseph Tofin, George Harten, Adam | the delay of 4% hours in the vessel's| didier region o was a failure o 5 2] 3 o = e Krukowski, Adolph Burniski, Adam }geparture was said to have heen due | Irer 1 the Germans i £eSin ozt i el cRe b el | B A Wi R IATES T NI STOR TSI | AT, st et R th Kolodgic tano Aparo, Bernard o the necessity far recovering them. | Montdid k5T Lol DECH L ! i Tt B oy New York, March Herbert Q. | has been persistent on 4 Zmiew Frank Szyskiewicz, How- | Some of the sextants were the per- | move, French now o = AR il Heyn, a prominent lawyer and di- |front from the south to H rd A. Timbrell, . licutenant; John | sonal property of the office forces in thi strong enous WilVTHER. % rector in a number of business en-| At 11 o'clock and aga Simanski, William Maier, Felix { were perbuaded to seil them 1o mect all eventualities | | TO BESTORE ORDER IN CRIMEA. | terprises, jumped or fell from a win. | artillery increased L.;gi,":,t Dzwoskowski, Joseph Romanchuk, | navy department. Situation Still Serious | flastford, March 30.—Pope- London. March 3 A telegram | dow in his office on the tenth floor of | with enemy \nmmum"’xla' Sanis Walak, Wadislaw k More than 1,000 memicr 1 A the ewspapers cast tor New Bri d from Copenha " that an |a building in Wall strect today and | raked with creeping i\,\‘fi. Dupnick, Joseph ? rico | puteh crews have sailed for home. | ) he wester cinity: Fair tonight: Sunday | official statement issucd Turkey | was killed. He was counsel for the [ intensity and duration of are being replace partly cloudy and warme Il aunoumces sh ring to restore | National Provisioner, official m of [ was such that no enemy g nd civiliah crews = order in Crimea the Meat Packers' assoais velop=d norih of Oppy, ed that Gen. Alexie 0. - sia G e whens he exieff, former Russian London, Marc | still are rushing and reorganizing their fori ter’s correspondent at Bri quarters telegraphs. Thel down, he says probably is o before another storm of st morning the situation on tj sector wag more satisfactory allied standpoint, The n| quiet. Strong. enemy patrols in sector penetrated the Britig line ncar Arleux and forced, their room here disclosed the 1. She told her story of - i z s 3 z cs in the Curtiss plant after .| SEIZES VON TIRPITZ ESTATES, | ¢T3l o jovkers’ demands also| Canadian Army Headqy tioned by an inspector wl Rome, March 30.—The prefoct of | "o ALec France, March 30, (By the Press, Ltd.)—From ecarly