New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN, éONNECTICUT,ZéT\WENTY PAGES. ESTABLISHED 18 HIT BACK TO DRIVE NS Enemy Gains Footing, But Petain’s Forces Immediately Counter-Attack and Furion Battle is in Progress—Huns Make Gains at Frightful Cost in Men FICE |1NE DIES OF WOUNDS FRENCH DESTROY ONE OF THREE GUNs | Allied Forces Give Way Under Terrific SUPREME SACRIFICE | UNELE SAM OBTAINS i T e MADE BY Q0T ERSE 100 M[BRE_HEHTERS Fli, e | e | Ten Miles---Americans Raid Foe at Po Paris, April 26.—One of three Ger- , forts known as ‘joy hills.’ man long range guns which have lines start from the station. On theso it o . ; i been bombarding Paris has been de- the heavy guns are moved to the = i a Castalty List From Gen. Persaing Four Fail to Report and Are LlSl-i : | | siroyed, ‘according to Depity Chatles | iring. pavorm. Below Verdun-—-Night Battle for Hang | ; _ Seine. The deputy said he had |ing to a platform which is still oc- i e i s i talked with the general commanding cupied but the center platform is | London, April 26.—A footing has been obtained fon YRS the scctor near Crepy en Laonnois, | empty. Its gun has heen destroyed, | il by the Germans in their attacks on the northern front, the vhere the big guns are stationed. The | Two more spur lire: are under con- | Office announced today. The fighting still is continuing in 4 | Le Boucq, of the department of the | “The first spur has a branch lead- Gives 75 New Namss I ed As Army Deserters enemy, he declared, is constructing |struction indicating further cannon | region. The allied forces were engaged all’day yesterday with grd whith the gun slides explains the | 7 SUperior ememy forces along this front from Bailleul to Hj regularity of the direction of beke (a distance of about 10 miles) and finally were compel to measures taken to counter-attack |firing which we undergo. At the | to give ground. the cannon bombarding Paris. I went [ moment of firing ten he hi i 7i 5 s a osts rere holding out southeast of Vil to see the general commanding a |fired by a special apparatus to cam- | German posts which were holding i i | certain sector who showed me photo- | oufiage the sound of fhe hig sun so | DBretonneux, on the front south of the Somme, after its recapy Iasica on Honor Roll. ! to Go With a ¥ormer Quota. S i graphs and gave me all the informa- |its location cannot he indged from | Dy the British were cleared up. Washington, April 26.—The casual-| New Britain s 19 more men into | i . GO : [iEhiog=onn A LRt aRaamn BTGt ok : —— pocnington, fAprilias So G R (i st o _ 1 The photographs show the guns'|clouds of smoke from surrounding French Counter-Attacking at Kemmel. ty list today contained 75 names, A 8 are placed exactly between Crepy en |heights protect the gun from airship | -5 e . . divided as follows: | men going fr buth th and se 3 ¢ S Laonnois station and the counter 'observation.” \Vith the British Army in France, April 26. (By the Assoc Killed in action, 9; died of \ds, | oNd exemption it The men en- Ty : : 1‘ >ress.)—The French this morning are counter-attacking B: die case. ounded se | trained at the loca i er station £ 5 i i 5; died of disease, 3; W 1 ¢ C o, . x Kemniel in an attempt to reclaim the positions taken by ' 83; wounded slightly, 2 at 8:04 o'clock. &0 to Hartford, . | K them being reported severely wounded | other snecial trein which took them | . . - | Vesterday's fighting was of a desperate nature, and the and two slightly Wounded. They are: | to Camp Upton. Yavhank, L. I, via : o | 1 s were only made at frightful cost. Severely Wounded—Captain Henry | New Haven. A crowd of more than | [ : - el n i N H. Worthington and Lieutenants Or-:a thousand peonle ihronged the sta- | ¢ / g 2 i - : land C. Brown, Edward M. IFreeman, i tion pl t > & t farewell T ¢ i ' American Raid on Heights of Mepse “John J. Hyde and Harry F. Kc!l; jat the : ldicrs, "”“ 't‘""_"‘ : i \With the French Army in France, Sun., April 20. (By the Hlightly. Wounded—Lioutenants Wil-| Was & il s 7 sociated Press.)—American troops today made a successful tref liam H. Kirk and Alfred P. Kievlin. | which et s ! N H x les P In addition to the seyen officers Vious occasicni, the public being evi- 54 MI]RE [i["Nfi T[] New Haven Man Buried| ™ : . c g named, another lieutenant, Julien N.|dentls stecled ¥nst any - outward 0] ed‘ meix (on the front below Verdun (9 miles north of St. Mihi en S SR e L e o e Alive for Three Tlicir French comrades harassed the enemy in the same wa tion, was reported a prisoner in Ger- | 8 ands of war must be met. e man; nd sufferin, 1 severe E : FURT SL[]['UM MAY ] fiumbef of places in Lorraine and in the Vosges. any and suffering from u Severc e | . ; i 2 : < g : ! : il o Jbpear. i : “Machine Gun” e scctor along which the Germans made their heavy at The list follows: OF the anotaticdlled B eachy board, IS g inst the Americans yesterday is situated among very brol there were two absentecs in each of Held the Line | Killed in Action—Sergeants Harry : , G hilly country about 17 miles eastward of the St. Mihiel salient] iy At g : whom the boards have heen unable t . Q 1illy country about 17 s s ot Hotae Lp::\ DD oIPOL | find any trace and they will undouht- SE Exemption Boards Send | the road hetween St. Pizier and Metz. The town of Seichepre] L i edly be classified as deserters. In the 5 - T ided by hills about 800 feet high. he line of the al Akins, Delmar J. Warner, Joseph I gl Ay el l HE REY FIGHT Notices t Yal | surrounded by =1 4ol 5 2 g marco, Charles G. French, Joseph ‘_‘L‘_\‘rl‘ll'i‘,tl‘\f@" \J“‘),'\fi\,l,';‘ L’!“’l':"l‘:(“’('_”‘ ;‘:l'(f‘;‘ tices o Call Next | ‘ e passes 2,000 yards north of Seicheprey and a few hundred y3 Gaudette, Ralph Palumbo. Eo i e e e e SN Quota nee. April (By the Ass 11 irom fhe edge of Renneres wood. "'he Germans were able to § \12‘“0“: "(’.N}‘\g"c‘”"“iilr’l‘\““'}‘, '”l’x\“‘l"t‘ 160 Washington street, also failed to T i B S e (S .| {his wood and a strip of ground 1,000 yards long and half & ~ Adams, G % 0, Benjamit i i g i round n ot en O Gy . . = SSieae, g Wksice, Clurenvn B, Pyrah, Charles To | 0P ' 10 the second distriet, Fis- | Albert Adflms afld Befiflfl]m l(flS' e e % " vide, lying to the west of the wood, on Saturday morning and Ny e, 70 Woodland | : - 1. were found ¢ i o Shull, IR Srel of 10 Vioodienil Coincident with the departure of , alive today in a dugoui in No Man's < on the Amercan sector near Seicheprey was a sequel to | street, is also classified as a deserter.| 3 : : Died of Disease rgeant Cooper . . G L i Om Gl “y | 100 men for Camp Upton morns | Land, * The dusout had been i e @ { He was scheduled to go with the last t had been badly | action. D. Wells, Mechanic John L. Ikhrle,| ¢ & ek ! no 4 162 uive Lives lor (0 ing the fi and second district ex- | smashed by German shellfive anil| - - nebadeip quota, but failed to appear and w : P e George C. Ross j A il e o e el emption hoards announced the names | Low the men managed to keep wlive Wounded Severcly—Captain He S f e e T i .ul' 54 more registrants who will in the rain and a and under con-, SE D N AHAN All Night Battle for Hang H. Worthington; Lieutenants Orlando | 2c2:n did the disappearing act. Un}BOTH IN COMPANY R 10 and under con- | SERGEANT CALL new emplacements. are expected. SEVEN OFvFIGERS WOUNDED SOME TEMPORARILY EXCUSED ; : said M. Leboucq, “I was anxious to Pive Dic of Wounds and Three of | Each Board Sends Fifty Men—Ome : assure myself personally with regard | 1 As one of the deputies of Pa I “The emplacement platform on | | Discase—Thirty-three Scvercly and| Deserter Has Two Offenses Charged | Slightly Wounded—A\dams and | Against Him, as Iic Did Not Appear Dow, previously reported killed in ac- | demon ¢, Brown, Edward M. Freeman, John | Other absentee was Joseph Mattas, of | summored to leave next Wednesday | linuous ' by dments, phy- On the French Front in s Srei e lzer City, Pottsville, morning at 8:04 a. m. for r i TG e o e GASSED IN BATTLE | sprit 25 (By the Associated B £ =% I enms N v Jous. Fred R. Himes, Abe Ruskin; Corpors Several Temporarily Excused. Pt ' Vider mo Flags | Following are the first distriet se- | ~-Another soldier, Raymond Demun- = : , Bioies el Cookarvan s TG i D e e o 0| CERES BRI Und el ek on R s BN ) e e o e, e e Germang hfter - gaitiari (ol Anlker, Joseph 1. Wood; Privates Alex- | eral men who either for business or| and Die Under ¥lag of Kaiser's! John Gutawski, 226 Washington |alive for ilice davs wien he crawled | Company I Soldier Blind for Several | columns, hurled them upon Haf ander Allerdice, Joseph Amedeo, Leon | other reasons found it difficult tof. _ rect; Antonio Amenta, 44 Orango |10 the si Demunsky was born | ki en Santerre, resulted in the K. Barden, Hugh Carroll, John P. Cot- [ Jeave today and they were granted a| Mightiest Enemy—Served During ' (icet: Frank Biedka, 44 Orange |i Ru t had Deen naturalized Days: Suiicred Terrible Burns { changing hands several times. tingham, Ralph J. Cullinan, Malvern | few days extension of time by their : i T ; & 3 vidual combats with bayonets. Davis, Michael J. Dillon, Harper H.!board. It is these men whose names liouse to house, were of freque Faulkner, John Gawlak, John Gi- appeared on the first list published, Mo New currence. Fire burst out in all guerre, John F. Grangcr, Basilio Gui- put do not appear today. John P. Sul- tions, unti]l the village now is & dora, George E. Hight, George Alfred livan, of this city, recently commis- of smoking ruins which the Gel Hopkins, Robert L. House, Julius' sioned as a second lieutenant at Camp held this morning with difficul Kulhayi, Frank F. Mellon, Poter Mod- ' Devens, was sent to Camp Upton this the French gave them na libe zelevski, John Norr Samuel R. ! morning as directly in charge of the movement and their repeated Schlimper, Ben L. Siemon, Charles W. | first di t men, and his aides were to advance further were StODDN Williamson. | Clarence 13. Conant, Michacl A. Belkin, soon as they began. Meanwhils artillery extending the radius Wounded Slightly—Lieutenants Wi Francis Dugan, Wilfred J. Dunlay, liam H. Kir Alfred P. Kiving Ser-t George Colling and Joseph Leszkiewic fire, bombarded heavily Hailles,) tel and Senecat wood, all situat geant Charles Smith; Corporals Rob-| In the second district Philip Smith was ert P. Barrett, Harr allaghe captain, assisted by John MecCarthy, 3 told ih ¥ : ga sious | the same plateau to the south Martin O’Reilly; Mec e Charles O, m‘gm Kerin and Joseph Farr. Albert Adams. Arch street; Leo Tomashewsky, | lj’-‘- old the wrespondent he w . badly wounded by gas. th-e nre}:pu;’ Hangard which elevationiuil it Wikoier Joh. Moatandis : Benjamin Kasica. | Horace street; Francis R. Collins, 29 | 9N¢ of 130 Americans who at week and, as a resull, was S1006 BN 1 ute to Amiens. The enemy la Privates Harold P. Archer, John Bo First District Men. in the attack on Seicheprey, w Myrtle street; John IKosewi e D S LRl L LR several A mohed by the | scveral assaults on Mailles and Walter Borek, Walt ‘abak,| Those who went from the first dis- | the Associated Press describes is | Bond street; William Hart Eae i e e R L s it continued for |svcceeded in reaching the The gas used was | Slopes of Hill 22 just to the so tbis village, but the French william E. Devine, Caleb W. Feeback, | trict were: lestined to hold a proud p Droese, 216 B: t street; Se! George W. Ford, Charles ( vfe, Jo-| Peter Montguris, & Bethlehem, | the story of the American participz vina, 28 Lafayette street; training ns it scemcd like they | perspiratory glands and the eves, and [and machine guns put an end were our own fellows. We tainly | any moisture on the flesh results in | Progress here. seph Healy, Elmer Jernbe Thomas | Fa . Conant, 103 Camp | tion in the world war,” New Britain | Janello, 54 Beaver street; Joseph Sat- I made it hot for the Germans.” torrible burns. The young soldier [ At the same time the Ge Kelly Jalter A. loiselle, Silvie | stieet; I'rank Kulis, Stamford, Conn.; | boys, judging from cables received to | kowski, 179 Broad sireet; Dominick ne Lusardi, John Madere, Georze| Alexander Konik, 144 Grove street; | date, played an important part. There @ Cardillo, 14 Brook street; Michele . Marble, Jo ormar aurice D. | Francis Dugan, 39 Washington street; | Company €, 102d United St in— Hizetto, |06 WEeayeriistrock; SVir) can’ John A. Dickman, of Som- | writes that he was badly burned about | were devoting attention further O'Meara. 1 Jehn Stanulevich, 104 Iast Main ntry, led on by its gallant ¢ ain, | Vecchiareno, 97 Langdon streef, S 5 B s unded | the body, but that his eves were in-[to the British sector around Privates Thomas Connolly, Charleg| sircet, Meriden; Philip Tamroz, 160 | Alfred H. Griswold, made the t | Providence, R. L; Herman Schrodel, | iV "€ e f'l Ll et naec “:d the worst. He says that he suf- | where the fighting was very Wiggins and Michael Holmes, | Washington street; Thomas Berezon- | defense which thrilled the American | Jr., 20, Division street; Willlam Lazar, | 1 & Rospital, said he and his men | Jurec the SIS 506 0N ime of writ- | The army of Gen. von der previously reported missing in m-rmn," ¥y, 144 Grove street; Salvatore Riz- | rcading public because of the death- | 40 Grove street, Lttt e e e ie ondition was much Improved | which Includes a. division of reported wounded in action. 58 Te % artfor i At he Sl 4 f} i EleE TG ToN < pnuunes IR ] 5 P i a now reportec 58 Temple treet, Hartford, ke determination of th fighting e EEEE Gl IR At cney [eitor B ra unable to|and he was well on the road to re-|mous Prussian Guards, met th — Jonn.; Michael A. Belkin, Hotel De- |foes. No wonder that the esample it res still trou- | determined resistance from Ottawa, April 26.—The Canadian Hartford, Conn.; John Gwo of Captain Griswold, single handed, George Edward Hyland, 70 Smal- | siznal t Vmerican lnes. Fe was ficovery, althoush D' efcsis i > vt S re. ity; George nr undes t kent pourin h ire | bled him to some extent. French troops. overseas casualty list issued today in- Grove street; John B. Manres, | kiliing at least four of his foes met |16V street, city; George Henry John- | wonnded pouring & hot fire | Be, @ menting upon the gas attack,{ The ‘German sffort chelS cluded the names of the following in street; Paul Matosian, 1690 | with ready response, when he ral- |Slon 458 Maple street; Philip Seapel- | info the German atiacking waves and | Commenting BoCl marked signs of becoming & i \mericans who were killed: A. C.| geaview avenue, Bridgeport, Conn. |licd his men and routed the enemy. | lati, 67 Hast Main street; Joseph A. | broke up - He and his) BECERE T the worst yet, and now I|ate attempt to force a way to Al Johnston, Boston and 'R. McNamara, | ldmond Slonsky, 15 Silver street; | Mothers, sisters and sweethearts | (laffey, 97 Lawlor street; Giragis | men rolirc o URS | | now what war really 18 The cost has been very high. Lowell, Mass, John Condon, 617 Main street; John |anxiously await more detailed news | Kuchadorian, 72 Spring street; Wil- becamo ’ . : “"He adds that when he was wounded | From March 21 until todas A. Bjorklund, 15 Commonwealth | of the attack at Secicheprey, but they | lam J. Sullivan, 163 Tremont street; ia ; : "ho !, o fell into a shell hole in “No Man’s | Germans have employed ap y r|\0 A H avem Ralph J. Dube, 712 Main | will be inspired by the heroic recep- | Albert Harry Hughes, 192 Chestnut | mans i Land.” mately 130 divisions of whie] FIVE BUP\NED i DE T tr Waterbury; Constanty Mur- the news by relatives of the |Street; Joseph Gorman, 33 Lawlor | by his sup hicensak onestagefop refill] An all-night battle in which Campaign Against Villa on Border. | Street; Nicola Mersina, 64 Lafayetts | lle was found by American Red About Body. strect; Tony Gonsaloes, Plainville, | CT0ss stretcher hearers who went ¥ Britain hoys—and by | Conn.; Giovanni Constanting, Ansonia, | 0t into No Man's Land this mornine Sergeant Clarence Callahan, of Com- strange co-incidence both born under | Conn.; Douglas A. Johnston, 376 West | The Germans fived on the Ited Cross ny I, 102a U. S. Infantry, son of flags of the nations where the Kaiser | Main street; Wincenty Rajewitz, 16 but the stretcher hearers kept | Mps. Ma A. Callahan, of Smith rules,—made the supreme sacrifice in { Washington street; Stanley Ostrow- | WiVing it and the enemy fire stopped. | street, has been badly wounded in ac- the defense made by the American | ski, 50 Horace stree Srenislaw A. he American troops in the Seiche- | tion in France and is now believed to troops April 20, when the Germans - rmington avenue; John | 1'rey ht, additional details show, | he in an American base hospital be- Lurled their best shock troops in the | Tz <off, 89 Broad street; Leo Peter: vere ontnumbered in some instanc lines undergoing treatment effort to capture Seicheprey. The s Amiean e Gight to one. The latest advices ar . burns and polsoning. names aded to New Britain’s honor { 111 Silver street: Rakas Alekiowicz | that the American es | , brief letter, written on March roll, alrendy numbering five 8 Beatty strect; Sylvester Simino, 54 | Much under the first es o 3 to his brather, Edward X. Callahan, Lave sacrificed their lives are: Beaver street; Henry Berndt, 380 Bdward cques, a New Haven ' ergeant Callahan says that he was e I F: ed: ‘We ot on finc vith enchmen. They had been | of a variety that especially affects the yon o i : 5 have been withdrawn to syn, 216 High street; Wilfred J. Dun- | two latest heroes street; Willlam Williams, 27 Spring | the engugermio - he could ranks .and have then i been i TR i i SHTART lay, 464 West Main street; Joseph Private Albert Adams was an or- | -’I‘(”P'("* ({]’]’“’ml‘l “R:“”(‘;‘_”’ 5:: hold e 1nes "" LAt he the battle for!the macontitias Employes . of Bakcry IS | Moskowski, 109 -Grove street; Peter | ) han, about 23 years old. His mother | O o dmeay lenyy IR0 T NGO IR O st S T L oL Q ing the total of divisions in Exafth, 96 Smith strect: Misits el e O G street; Evan Krish, 29| Wather William J. Farrell of West AS FOOD DICTATOR {155 S incat 7o othor divisiam korko, 53 Rroad street; father died in Bristol about seven \\’ ’]‘“""“’“"‘““?\""‘“""‘\“ ““‘PP“"“ : 1'\ Weon Me o "'_“"’"]” "‘“1““' s not yet been engaged in the oy it Krawcik, Orange str ce | years ago. Adams was born in the; Qak street; Montever Ricardo, T |lain, prov uck fassaodrichiep TACH) s x se a considerable Gascling Tauk: Bosip, 103 Orange street; Georse | German district of Poland and was | West stree Bdward S8 Barron hichRofilcer opinad him /8 eomm || BHtal RControllan Bexor I Fast S iten §i|“l“ o;frc“‘\:\n;u:‘d to do mor:‘ Brookline, Mass., April 26 ve | Zdinski, 200 High street; Savas P.|reared by his auni, a sisteg of his | TTemont sircet; Charles s Cotter, | sion in his command. Father Far-| veonno Resiens From Offico—Was |held quiet Sectors. . The 8 men were burned to death in a fire | Saxon, 3 Main street; Yonspus E. | dead mother. Mrs. Lena Hanson of | 396 Elm street; Guiseppe Negro, 48 { rell went to the assistance of bat- movement must be carried tH which stroy the bakery of H.|Mytrza, 103 Grove street; Walenty | Booth street loved him as a son and, | Howard street; Justin Wm. Us, | tery when four of the American gun-| Supvivor of Lusitania Sinking. very quickly as otherwise thi Blewett & Son and the home of M Brezezinski, 24 Gold street; Peter | though her eyes were still red from . — : wero killed, carrieg up ammuni- i Al i ugene Blewett here early today. | Zakrzeski, 24 Orange street; John | wiping away her tears after reading (Continued On Kleventh I’ : tion and helped the crdy to keep the | London, April 26.—Baron Rhond- |i{her reserves. he fire started in the packing room | Falocki, 27 Holmes avenue; George |th- o o rom Washing- oun working. He jwas wounded | da, the Daily Mail says it under- of the bakery and spread after the | Coilins, 219 Washington avenuec; Al- | ton, led anc id: “I have B = slightly. { stands has resigned the office of 99, explosion of a gasoline tank phone Chaniewiski, Hotel York, Main | son. If ni: ry aceds him he wiil r Raymond Connor of New Haven. a | British food controller which he has “Allies Dig Own Grave' About 20 bakers were at work at | street; Wladislaw Tiskewi 23 Ly-| re: She b ion fondl¢ i v squad runner, was one of | held for the past 10 months. Amsterdam, April 26.—“B the time and some were unable to |man street; Joseph Leszkiewicz, 182 | I from Private Adam Hartiord, April 5 X right men captured by the Germans David Alfred Thomas, first baron | ple who wish to destroy us & escape before the flames cut off their | High street; Williamn J. Coleman, 44 | vhich come from France a short Hartord U vicinity: In who escaped and went to Seicheprey, | Rhondda, came to the United States ging their own graves,” said means of exit, while others were|Greenwood street; Frank Melley, | time a3 had a - light creasi idiness .|| They took charge of the first aid sta- |in 1915 to organize war munitions | Willlam as quoted in an inted jadly burned in making their way to — - . ! supplies and was on the Lusitianiz | ek Llie street, (Continued On Eleventh Page). (Continued On age). fi; (Contintied O Vventh Page). iwhcn that vessel was torpedoed. | (Continued On Eleventit Mass., Trapped By Explosion of