New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1918, Page 1

N ' HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS EW BRITAIN HEFR HERALD “ADS” MEA BETTER BUSINESS N>E\W BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, APRIL“IQ, 19—18.——T\\7ENTY PAGES. ESTABLISHED 18 Armies—Orlando’s Statement Cheere FORCES IN F ISH SMASH Embassy at Washington Announces Italian Regiments Form Right Wing of Al GERMANY HIT AT M. E. CONFERENCE Elimination of Publi- cations in Kaiser’s Tongue is Order to Book Committee LYNBROOK PASTOR Rev, George W. Rocsch Defends Ger- man Pari ther and Many Others Have Faith- fully Served Methodism—*'ut Ban That Threatens on Anythin Amer- n,” Says Rev. Dr. H. Beatty German publications will be elim- inated and other foreign langu newspapers coming out under the ap- proval of the Methodist Book concern ‘will the - New be 2 it York East favorably made to the ference at its movin ture action of the c torecasted in the discussion of the German publications. It may develop that the home mission support to for- eign speaking churches will with- wn unless at least one of the Sun- services is conducted in English. purpose of the action is to fur- the Americanization idea and to stamp out any foreign propaganda. The German national spirit came in for scathing criticism. “There Germans and Germans,” said T superintendent E. G. Richardson of the Brooklyn north district, in his wdvocacy of the withdrawal of home mission support of foreign speaking hurches unless services in English wre conducted on Sunday. Recently he returned from the section of the st, where “110,000 voted disloyalty o the United States,” and he cited that of the necessity for the oment g the ‘Amer- cani Recently he talked wetion of the conierence finally rots on recommendations committ the sion. ference was at con- Fu- [:t The ther rict as an example advanc ion ide STANDS BY FLOCK| hioners and Says His ia- | are | PUBEIC APPEAL FOR LIBERTY BOND SALE Speeches and Canvassers in Cen- tral Park Tonight and Saturday | RLIEN ENEMY GIVES §200 Thus Far New Britain Has Subscribed | $789,000, Excluding Inside Sales at the Various Factorics—Individual Team Reports Encouraging. a stirring attempt to drive home he citizens of triotic necessity to Uncle Liberty Sloper of four- the Soldiers’ tomorrow been e J 8 mon; has m alks in monument tonig night. Four booths have d in Central Park and in each will stationed a woman agent, while \members of the male soliciting force will canvass the crowd during the &peec On Sunday afternoon these booths will be transferred to various parts of Walnut Hill Park where someone will be in charge at all times to subscriptions from the Sun- day promenade Band concerts will be given tonight and tomorrow t at Central Park and on Sfinday afternoon at Walnut Hill Park. $800,000 More Is Needed. Chairman Sloper announced today that thus far $789,000 worth of bonds have been subscribed in this city, leaving just $800,000 more to be raised in order to have the city meet its oblization to the government. This $789,000, however, does not in- clude the subscriptions at the various as a complete re- port oncerns cannot be made is- over and every working been ap- proached. It is however, that the working people are generous mt ¢ nt and take ins factories from those « until the canvass man reporte has re Governor Holcomb Calls on Connecticut to Rally to Support of Third Liberty Loan Hartford, April 14.-—Gove .ach person in nor Holcomb, in a proclamation issued “onnecticut, “by savings and sacrifices, to d Liberty Loan, to the end that our cause may pre- vail and righteous peace be established.”” In the proclamation, the governor says: It is the critical hour of the war.” The proclamation follows: “State of Connecticut, “By His Exccllency, “A Proclamation “Today our government is asking us to subscribe for the third Liberty Loan. It is the critical hour of the war. The world waits as of a conscienceless autoeracy are hurled against the armies oples Belgium and Serbia have been stricken. Their sufferings no onc can tell. France, England and Ttaly, wearied by years of cruel war, are fighting with a spirit born of the high cause to which they have pledged their allegiance. They look to us for help and we demand that it be given. It is a time for us to gather up all our courage, to make every effort, and to overcome every obstacle. We must hurry our soldiers over the sea, we must build ships, we must provide sup- plies. It is for us to furnish the money to do these things. Our gen- erous support will give strength to our country, cheer to our Allles, and discomfort to the enemy. “Now, therefore, I hereby call upon the people of this common- wealth to respond to this call of our government, earnestly urging each person, by saving crifices, to share in this loan, to the end that our cause may prevail and a righteaus peace be established. “MARCUS H. HOLCOMB, Governor. “FREDERICK L. PERRY, re in MARCUS H. HOLCOMB, Governor. “By His Excellency's Command, Secretar RHEIMS TOTAL RUIN; | CATHEDRAL WRECKED Week of Fire and German Par has been nothing but ruins. mans have shells into the cording to Matin, and buildings can and There thoroughtares, peared from view under the accumu- lation of debris. the Place Royale and the market place and the Musicians’ House, which dates from the 16th century, have been re- duced The cathedral, falling stone by stone and 500 will be nothing left of [AMERICAN DIVISIONS 10 FINISH OFF FOE French General Says Our Soldiers Will Be Deciding Factor in End. Shells Level Famous French City. April 19.—Rheims, which on fire for a week, is now a great pile of smoking During the past week the Ger- | fired more than 100,000 | heart of the city, ac- | correspondent of Lo flames from burning seen by aviators 60 Ottawa, April 19.—One of the fore- most French generals, who command- ed the three French divisions in the heavy fighting previous to April 7, declared to the correspondent with ihe Frénch armies that there was “no quitting in the present battle situa- tion, but, on the contrary, we have every ground for confidence both in Picardy and Flander: The correspondent’s Reuter’s here ! follows “The course of this battle, like all others, especially was the same. Each side would continue to ply blow : counter-blow, endeavoring 'by weight of numbers or superior skill to find the weak points in the enemy’'s ar- mour and each endeavoring to retain suftifcient rese to turn the scale when the de moment, W the the be aw no 70 miles 2 are traces which of streets and li dispatch have disap- quotes the general by as Ancient buildings in to dust and ashes. vaulting of the famous the correspondent Rheims says, 1s | there | the edifice but | ' GHAMBERLAIN BILL T0 STOP LYNGHING Military Man Sees In It Protection Against Mob Rule | END TAR AND FEATHER REIGN Aliens Laughing at Military Authori- ties Because of Lack of Power, Norman Il White of Brookline, Mass., Tells Senate Commiittec, Washington, April 19.--Passage of the biill introduced by Senator Cham- berlain, placing under confrol military -authorities involv- ing violation of the espionage at, imperative for the protection of aliens in this Norman H. White, Brookline, of military in- telligenc the army today told the senate militar The non- o “only { telling of 'aliens on rails and hanging nocent aliens.” The department of justic overworked with the criminal work incidental to the Aliens arc bezinning to laugh the milit authorities because I their lack of authority said CABINET CHANGES UPHELD But all cases is country M the th bill, he sa means a fe of the tarr and the nd di itens of women perhaps of in- | | he said | 18 aqrdinarg at he Northclific Press Takes Dig at Lloyd George for “Game of Politic London, April 19 the British changes in the terday The exceptions, embarrass the cliffe pr has refrained cism of many a matter anad it protestin political re-shuffle vhich feehlé politivis like Mr. Chamber- lain, who is publicly saddled with re sponsibility for the Mesopotamia failure. Witl press few supports cabinet announced y tions Daily Mail, which i that in government among the order the from criti that needed it \gainst says not no ns PRESIDENT BURNS HAND. Graps Hot Pipe While Climbing From of the committee. | daily | feathering | Nerih- | the | zives oflice to | " P, . KING REAPPOINTED | Mayor George A. Quigley Again Names d in Chamber of Deputies Sanguinary Defeat Suffered by Germans Attempt to Break Through Near Givenc ---Gunfire Blocks Assaults South of Ke mel---Six Enemy Divisions Fail to Gain Washington, April 19.—Italian France and form the right wing of the Italian embassy announced today. In making the announcement the embassy gave out a raj dispatch from Rome, saying Premier Orlando had announced Italian division would be in the thick of the battle. regiments already are allied armies, Rome, April 18.—Premier Orlando announced in the cham of deputies today that Italian troops would be dispatched to battlefront in France. The announcement, which was rec plause follows: “Italy, having followed with admiration the heroic effort the Anglo-French troops on the western front, could not re absent from the battlefields of IFrance. She wishes to bring] her allies tangible proof of solidarity and very soon the color [talian regiments will fly over the fields of Picardy beside t of the Irench, British, American, Belgium and Portuguese, 4 sealing the union which exists between the allied peoples governments.” cived with a storm of Germans Completely Repulsed. ondon, April 19.—The Germans were completely repulse the attack they launched yesterday around Givenchy, on the so ern side of the Lys front, the war office announced today. \\ the assaults ceased, after heavy losses, the enemy had only | able to secure a limited footing at one or two points of the 3 advanced British defenses. Six different German divisions, it been learned, were engaged in the attack Givenchy-St. Venant sector. The enemy launched further Kemmel. These were broken up by chine gun fire. There was no change in the situation along the entire By iront during the night, which passed in comparative quiet wit exception of activity by the artillery both sides. I'he attacks against the line in the Kemmel sector the reg of which was reported today, took place yesterday morning. In minor enterprises at various points during the night British captured a few prisoners and some machine guns. unsuccessful in last evenit British artillery and attacks the sout on Wipe Out Machine Gun Nests. Paris, April 19.—The French last night reduced German| chine gun nests on the front of vesterday's attacks southea Amicns, the war office announces. There was heavy art fighting in this region. Germans nxm!. sted by Atta With the BritiSh Army in H April 19 (By the Associated Pi Exhausted by the failure of day’'s attacks on the Givend | Bassce canal front, the G Police Commission— | made no further movement | | 1 Chairman of in thei ponse and Liberty Bond buttons to the and not the exception among the fuctory em- ployes. Alien The latest team report record filed with Chairman Sloper shows that team Np. 15, captained by P, F. Mc- Donough and Philip (‘ou\ln, who are soliciting among the refired bus men of the city, entitled to honors. This t bseriptions which total $5,700. very gratifying report comes the m which canvassed the Brewing company. At this rn 17 men were anxious to sub- to Liberty Bonds and took $2,250 worth. What was particularly pleasin one of these men, who is an cnemy alien and is obliged to live in a restricted and is yrevented from moving about at will, i {mvlul\f, ,00 worth of the bonds and | Washington, April 19. Eaid Baboticasnl Eicven | ernment has taken over the big plants teams have reported 147 individual { of the Bosch Magneto Co. at Spring- o ling $18,950. They | field, Mass., and Plainfield, N. J., and itemized s follows: directors will named Alien Buflding trades, 18 subscriptions [ Property stodian Palmer to con- totalling $1,050; clothing and duct their operations. Investigation | stor 16 subscriptions for it was announced today, that | hotels, restaurants and oons, cnemy owned. subscriptions 250; barbe the west front end the pillars. Shells are still bursting all around the build- ing. Notwithstanding the terrible hom- bardment, 40 Paris firemen ar ill in the city working to save the furniture and portabic effects of the inhabitan the night and on the greater the Flanders front quiet preva morning. The British re-established line west of Robecq on the west part of the Lys battlefre capturing ground at Riex du * farm yesterday afternoon. Kemmel hill still was being bombarded this morning in P tion for fresh assaults by tH man ched. British Tank. After four years we are now only within sight of this declsive point. The Germans have still got in Franco unused reserves nd rresh divisions. | The battle will proceed and the next Som Rl b avel iR RairiTven: | |snockgmiustibeNexpoctod gesilioon Sad el e e the flood pouring In through Bail- Sl el s 'luel toward Habebrouc is checked. hés besn 61 duity tn Bhelms slise the | The battls may continue = mionth o outbreak of the war and has been |more, but the entents will continue e e until {he enemy’s forces are exhaust- and his numerical superiority down to the vanishing Roint our turn will come, with the of American divisions. with a German woman who spoke re; English badly. He d to her hat she must have recently come to his country and her was that the had come to ountry as a ide 50 vd ittending German pu ons would not of 1 hava comments glorying German %uccesses,” said Dr. Richardson, Dr. H. H. Beattys, of New Rochelle, Y., one of the leaders in the dis- | .ussion, declared his disapproval of |s! ,ublications in German, doing so measure. He doubted If there | vere many German-American Method- ts who cannat sp he church should that they will re be rule Other Appointm remark 19.—Pr. white House British army was brought in the Lib- He crawled of the tank its working Washingzton, April sident Wilson rode around the grounds today in the tank Brittania which here frouw ifalo for Mavor George A. Quigley today s, appointed Patrick F. King as a mem- | Mr. 1 reply Enemy Gives $200. of the commission s term is the only one to expire | on ihe police commission this year, and his new appointment is for four | |y At present Mr. King is chair- | man of the commission and is regard- ed as an excellent afficial. homas H. Kehoe has also been re- appointed on the board of water com missioners, and reappointments were also signed for John E. Downes and John O'Brien as members of the board of public works. William J. Farley and John W. Al- len have been reappointed members of the baard of compensation and as- sessment. GREGORY'S AID RESIGNS Charles Warren of Boston Retires as ber police e licati been that years I campaign hole in the side use Kin erty we approve seen through a and thoroughly part In president burned in Ser inspected out of the tank the grasped a hot pipe and | hand slightly. The burn ard said was not serious. climbing ed his BOSCH PROPERTIES SEIZED French Attack at With the French Army in April 18 (By The Assaciated P The French administered a shi back today to the German which, since the great push, ha hammering away in an attemp| astride the railroad connecting with Clermont. The attack b dawn along the front east e about five miles between Then! Mailly-Raineval. everal Germans were captured and i points seized Before the French went of top the Germans sent over pd shells. The French artillery g tions were most vigorous, the fantry went forward in a del with a fine rain. The soldig| over their knees in mud northern flank they soon ¢ heights. In the center of infantry entered Senat woed enemy gun emplacements W fended the approach to Castel duced by grenades and rifleme British Line More Sec Ottawa, April 19.—The Bri tle line is more secure than it} for days, justifying the belief enemy may be held in thet positions, says a Reuter's’ disp ceived from London today. There was only one point in battle area where the enem nything, this being opposits of Hinges worn Amiens-Cle Then heip DRIVE AGAINST LOAFERS her from Cremo was aftery SALUTE OLD GLORY. conic : : scribe know 5 s e Germans are the only race hat have conserved their nationality n the face of American institutions. “hey have their annual meetings for hat purpose. The Germans cha erize Americans as ‘check-wri nd say we have no country. Germans their ‘vaterland,’ the TFrench ‘Patrie; but Americans have so one German military offi as having said to a Coming to the defense America, Frenchman said: ““Why, they have their Star-Span- 4 Banner and their flag.’ subscripiic e “The German then declared: ‘That's | pakers, SL0eailliersans \o flag; that's just statistics,’ Teferring oo’ Sl e b e o the 49 stars and the ba [ scElpion: o Gncihad come torPAmeriza) tolber 100 e vnde® Rk S RS Gentil AmcrTeantl A nyonelwho | Cos e Bk S ) S T, of Germany does e It is time to Put| g, 4akcers and laundries, 13 sub: that threatens|yiong for $300; retired men, subscriptions for $5.700; miscellan- | stores, 11 subscriptions for Contribution Park Plants at Mass,, m Council's City to Unfurled in o Today. was 1 Plainficld, J., Shown to Salute ars and old Stripes toat of the flag park. A I flag purchased yvestevday by i man A. M. P noSHIS RS acting for the member: who Onee to the staff the es Glory! gain bree: in 10x15 area Foemy Owned—To Name Dir Gov. Beeckman of Rhode Tsland | at the top Cen- fe Alder- Rich- of the donated the unfurled this Signs Bill Forcing Men Between 18 and 50 to Go to Work. Wi orcoRa heir rothing, or W Providence, Beeckman by the every and 36 hours a to the N April igned an general Assembly, man between the ge of 18 vears to be employed at least | week The act is similar | city anti-loafing law.” | sec day 19.—Governor 1wt today, passed requiring be by e I X common council money, and it wa oo 00 Assistant Attorney General and $1,000; | showed : 17 | the company 16 S York., April 19 | was here today \ temporary pre it Magncto Co., taken ernment that all in Germany. M ] ic formerly rip- | three morning. Frank N buildin that the and is french officer, o 50 acting heen Wples . ha flag taken hitor of the instructed to displayed each at sundown the is entircly Teaves at Once. for for butchers, 29 te W is Washington, April 19.—The resig- nation Charles Warren of Boston assistant attorney general effec- was announced today at -Admission the B the gov own Amer- counsel in ROBBER WEARS TR Chicago, April 19.—An armed rob- wearing a soldie trench cap ded o Michigan Central passenger the Kast late last nizht at station and robbed the conduetor, who was alone or by ( of over made CH HAT. as tive GEORGIE POPL April 19.—Col ind later Co., COL. Hartford I'ope, president, the PPope Mix is critically ill his home No. 63 Concord has be confined to me time. ILL. George for at He for TS by at once auto- Tt u its stock is n nent Attorney the | the depar of General ( resignation. justice. has accepted or receiver tands at ip in defens. Yok egory his own peril han on anything imerican institution Dr. Davia G. Downey gave tha re- sort of the Methodist book committee ¢hich inclnded a tecommendation for he suspension of German publications wvill go to the Methodist boc Amendments to include a re- the other tions itizen was etary n 2 o wban street he and sec of the concern en his home SHIP MISSING 64 DAYS DOCKS. A Canadian Atlantic Port, April 19. The schooner Jean Campbell, 64 days from a Nova Scotia port with a cargo of flour, has arrived here. Relatives of the crew had been wear- ing mourning, having given the vessel up as lost. April 19 plant here in the world devoted to of m number eous ’51.17"1. Concert and Speeches Tonight. This evening at there will be a band bandstand in Central BOMBARD BELGIAN \misterdam, April 19 rpedo ¢ COA German the coast Nieuport, be- Flanders, ye: an official state- today ture netos of af mbarded hetween nd 1ind the terday 30 rt and o'clock | Hartl in the at s vhich about 7 §.—tore- hict mnected with haye th : yrmed G oncern cane; st e W vi- Jueticr publieations in paric I i ¥ i a few miles tonight Saturday. ment (Continued On (Continued On Eleventh Page) trosy ULerlin