New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1918, Page 19

HOWN AT RHEIMY Il Body ol Soldiers Hand Tedrick's Troop a Surprise ench Front, April 1S (Corre- Hence of The Associated Press)— the heroic tenacity of a small of French traops in holding the of La Pompelle southeast of ne prevented a strong force ol hans from capturing that old ang dismantled work on March 1. ter pouring over fifty thousand s of all calibres on to the posi- and pumping over all surround- thick clouds of the most deadly, bnous gases, two battalions of 3 selected 2 Princ Frederic '8 advanced to the attack. All farbed wire entanglements had uprooted during the bombard- and the centers of resistance in of and around the fort had been plished when the assaulting infan- vaves came forward, e ground and the trenches form- the only obstacles between the han lines and the French posi- had been leveled and the few ch advanced posts had retired on to their supports and then the casemates of the fort itself, ke with the rest of the small gar- they prepared to fight to the the churning up of the ground t the fort had obstructed the of fire of the machine-guns, the frans met with only slight resist- until they had reached the This was more -than half with debris resulting from the v bombardment and the attack- troops were able to advance to stone walls. There, however, stopped in spite of their liguid machines. e of these implements was tried heavy timber door leading into outhern side of the fort, but the held firm. Meanwhile from be- a shelter of sandbags at one of the moat, a group of hardy s of the garrison opened fire on sermans with a machine gun and or put out of action all who attémpting to place cans of higl sive against the walls of the fort. e garrison consisted of colonial s of tried courage and the ht up to the traditions of Soon the ememy found their ts were doomed to failure and éd to the advanced work which er with several bastions, they fed for some hours. o efenders communicated with comrades in the rear, a counter- < was organized and, although ghting which ensued was of the Jest kind, the Germans were n out of every inch of trench had occupied and forced to flce isorder to their own lines. pidepces of the nature of the le were still to be found when correspondent of The Associated s arrived at the fort soon after cessation of the bombardment. Jhe barbed wire fronting the ene renches were the bodies of doz of Germans shot down as the The systems of barbed W glements which had formerly lented approach to the fort were st non-existent, most of them g been buried under heaps of . All about were dead rats d by the fumes of the Germ e communication trenches bled under the hail of pro and to go from one spot to an- it was necessary to cross the under immediate observation the dominating heights of No- and Berru where the Jans have been installed since Lo Germans were evidently still rined at the defeat of their care- planned attack and the cor- Lndent with some colleagues was inipg their lines, only a hun- yards or so ¢ they opened and_ swept the seveial es of big shells. The only meth- escaping further bombardment %o feign death and. when the guns quieted a little to creep away in ps of two. the way the party was ohse by a squadren of German . who signalled to their batter once more the corresponde bombarded until finally they hed the marshes behind the fort comparative security, Soldicrs, Tntil d avi- cently 1id not recoznize ial responsibility in relation ,e funeral of a discharged soldier naew announced that will be made in every honors accorded. v grant of e, case, and ERMAN FRIGETFULNESS. soldiers Wear Pull Beards to Look More ¥ Ferocious. nsterdam, April 26.—To be clean en or bearded like the pard is the Lnative presented to the German line troops. The reason is to be ht in the gas mask. Some au- ities hold that the mask cannot Lelied upon to protect any but ven faces: others again hold a dense hirsute growth within ma#k nets as an additional air But it must be a real patriar peard--no miere seven or days bristles, says an articles in Zeitung. e W that the g is a peculiarly Teutonic and should be cultivated a . des, according to ancient tradi- | it adds to “frightful aspect,” he ely Adds. s tests at the front in air-tight cles are carried out every fort- t, and full bearded men testify e additional security afforded by beards. Deutschr full attri- ENCHGALLANTRY | the AUNTIE WINS RACE AT HAVRE DE GRACE Fight Followers from All Over the New England States to Witness Monday Night's Bout. Lew Tendler, the sensational light- weight southpaw of Philadelphia, the most-talked-of boxer in the world at the present time, will box Willie Jack- son 15 rounds ta a decision at the New Hav rena on next Monday night. Tendler takes the place of Trish Patsy , Cline, of New York, who was injured by an auto a few davs ago and wil be unable to keep his New Haven en-~ gagenient. In securing the Philadelphia won- der, the Temple A. C. of New Haven has made a ten-pin strike and greatly rengthened the card for its initial Fans all over the country are acksan bout the biggest show. interested in the Tendle and it will no doubt 4 house ever seen in New England. | Tendler is working out in New Ha- ven for the important engagement, and the fans are much excited over the coming bout. Dave Fitzgerald, the New Haven referee, will officiate, and Frank Smith, sports editor of the New Heven Register, has been chosen as official timekeeper. MAY LET MATTY 60 Soldiers in France Want Reds Man- ager, Hermann to Decide—Chase May Become Manager. New York, April 26.—A decision as to whether Christopher Mathewson will be released from the manage- ment of the Cincinnati National league club in order to go to France to promote baseball amoung the Amer- jcan {roops may be reached at a conference in Pitsburgh today be- tween Mathewson and August Herr- man, president of the Cincinnati club. A telegram to this effect was re- ceived here from Mr. Herrmann yes- terday by William Sloane, chairman of the war work council of the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Sloane yesterday sent telegrams to the Cincinnati president and Mathewson asking that the manager be sacrificed from major league base- ball so he might respond to an ap- peal from France for Mathewson's services there, In the event that Matty goes to France it is said that Hal Chase will manage the Reds during the absence of the old master. LET’S ALL REJOICE Money-Grabbing Skit With Fero- Fred Fulton Is Off. 0, April 26.—"It's all off,” lard said vesterday regarding proposed Fourth of July bout with IF'red Fulton. surance of Promoter J. C. Miller, who cious champion declared the match couldn’t be staged. “The opposition encountered at St. Paul and the fact it is growing makes it look as if T will not get a chance at Fulton,” he said. A permit to stage the fight will be granted or refused after a joint hear- ing by the Minnesota public safety commission and the boxing commis- sian at St. Paul on May 4. STECHER VS. LEWIS Giant Grapplers to Meet on Mat Tonight in Madison Square Garden in Finish Match, New York, April 26.—Joe Stecher and Strangler Lewis, two of the lead- ing grapplers of the country, each of whom has perfected a dangerous lock, will meet tonight in a finish match at Madison Square Garden. Spectators will haye a chance ta judge ®f tha relative merits of the body scissors used by Stecher and the headlock em- ployed by Lewis. It is highly probable that the winner will be matched with Caddock for a championship contest in the West. Incidental features will be an ad- dress by Big Bill Edwards in behal? of Liberty Bonds and the auctioning of Hun trench hat captured by Charley Ross, now with the ambulance service in France. Ross was farmerly a well-known trainer of pugilists. A, KEEFE WOUNDED IN ACTION. Cleveland, Obhio.. April 26.—An- drew Keefe, of Cleveland, former tzseball player with the Washington rican le and the Columbus ition clubs, has been ded in action in France, acecord- ina to word received yesterday by his brother. -SOLDIERS IN FARM WORK. London, April 17.—A new plan to provide comfortable homes for dis- charged soldiers by enlisting country people to ac sountry hosts” to the army men has just been launched by the Marquis of Sligo, himself a farmer captain in the army, and Vis- count Knutsford, long interested in charitable enterprises. They have formed the Country Host Institution which “hosts” arc urged to join. The scheme has a two-fold ohject. Tt aims, not only at giving the brok- en soldiers a lift but also to qualify them for farming work, thus ineress- Ing the country’s food supy Briefly the plan requires the host to provide free lodging and board for the man and a good-sized garden or farm in which suitable, light outdoor work can oe found for him. The men selected as guests shall be of good character, sober, not suffering from any serious ailments and able to look after themselves. An allowance of fifteen shillings a week will, if required, be pald direct {o the former soldler in return for lhls labor. moreaver, declare that if he had been Jesting Jess Willard Says Propmed! Despite the seeming as- | returned from St. Paul vesterday, the NEW BRITAIN 'DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918. INEWSBOY RISES T0 MILITARY FAME Former London Character Now in Khaki With Medals On Behind the British Lines in France, April 19. (Correspondence of the As characters of pre- in Lon- don was a street- boy whe sold papers outside one of the hotels most frequented by American visitors. Delighting in the nickname ‘Frog- faced Tieh”, he won the admiration of visitors as a master of varying his nightly refrain of ‘Winners” and ‘‘Orrible Murder ironical comments on the warld’s | events and caustic replies to pedes- trians who ventured to bandy words with him as they passed. Persons who knew Tich Tapley in the old days would scarcely recognize him now in his khaki uniform with a “crowned” ribbon on his breast in- dtcating that he has been twice awarded the prized military cross. His comrades of the London regiment, awarded a meda] on every occasion on which he has merited it, he would be covered with ribbon from head to foot of his diminutive body. Tao small to go into the army by the regular channels, Tich after sev- eral trials, was accepted as a stretcher bearer in the London regiment. At the front, he quickly became one of | the most popular men in the regi- ment. One of his officers, in a report to headquarters, said of him. “Cheer- fulness, courage, devotion to duty and disregard of danger are as mu a part of his equipment as his haver | sack and his water bottle.” Tapley probably looks less like a hero than any other man in his bat- talion. But his caustic, good-natured humor, which was little more than an amiable diversion in civilian life, bhe- came an invaluable asset in the trenches, keeping up the morale and optimism of the whole battalion, His officers find themselves continually paying tribute to his usefulness in this respect. One of them wrote in a let- ter a short time ago: “His gospel, whether consciously or | not, ig the gospel of cheerfulness, and in practice it works out that his spirits grow lighter in proportion as dangers and discomforts sTowW heavier. His jests in time of stress' provide just the electric spark that turns the hearts of men from gloomy pessimism into luminous defiance.” The ex-newsboy has the reputation, from Lens to St. Quentin, of bheing absolutely fearless. In his work as stretcher-bearer, he goes busily about among the falling shells. always| whistling a popular tune, with an | ever-ready work of sympathy and encouragement for the wounded. He is generally looked upon as one who bears a charmed life, for he has never received even a scratch, and his very presence is regarded as a mascot. Tapley won the second of his two decorations under heavy shell fire in the Chalk Pit north of I.oos when, single-handed, he bandaged and car- ried to a safe part of the trench all the wounded of his own company and several from a neighboring bat- talton, | Weavy Increase Shown. Havana, Apri] 26.—The increase in trade Detween the United States and Cuba from $196,000.000 in 1913 to $443,000,000 last year will be empha- sized in an exhibit of Cuban trade at the annual session of the National Foreign Trade Council of the United States at Clncinnati, O., April 18-20. The great development of trade be- tween the United States and Cuba has "given the island a leading position | the Western hemisphere. Cuba’s trade with the United States is de- clared to exceed by large margins that of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Me: ico. Tast year the United States took 75 per cent. of Cuba's export and sup- plied 76 per cent. of the island’s im- London, March 18-—Prince Albert, one of the King's younger sons, who was formerly on a battleship, h now joined the Naval Air Service, is expected soon to become a certified pilot. PRO-MILITARISTS IN GERMANY. Amsterdam, April 17——Berlin news- papers announce the formation of { new pol 1 party, called the rer- man Workmen's and Employers' Party.” Tts aims are said to be sim- ilar to those of the Fatherland militarist party. | EvERY Packace You Ear - POST TOASTIES pro- sociated Press).—One of the familiar | | eanda. effect of the Statutory List has been in this respect among the nations of | Tt io expected that the island’s | BRITISH GABINET LAUDS BLOGKADE Is Most + London ot The Blockade the tee, Inter suecess ca nolicy. almost cent €o! possible to complete the work. “Thank: American have other inst: tain enem admirably gone far sidious m I very pron ma list, tuated by world in and meth The ma istry of t 1617, it mans and “The Allied tra tons betw of “The. g year was tween th many. fo tions by, Scuth An enabled u ports to source. “Public tlockade else, but this is its evidence many the want leather, c “It is h siderable is entry of enabled u ample of lionaires” millionaire there are aires hav It takes lionaire New Greater Prussian the mixit Tageblatt peper say the pigs demnity i “Tt will to be wc man em so long ceed in s competiti through ture mot hard and fore.” HU Tokio, prints the exist iorean money eq Ty out apan an < in 81 Have, Is Assertion tant weapons in the hands of the Al- lies,”” asserts the British Dealing with amplification of the blockade of Ger- | many during 1917, the cabinet 'S | in its annual report just made public: | “The chief method by which this | amplification has been effected has | been the conclusion of a series of agreements with neutral shipping cempanies. ground during such negotiations has | been the British control of bunker | facilities and the powers wiclded hy | “A very Tn the Far East, the German commerecial events nancial stability of enemy firms South America has been very gener- ally ‘shaken, and in some been forced to eliminate this interest. “In Spain is attached an effect which is stated, diminishing trade between the neutral ruthless end of the year,” tiens from, not unnaturally, more upon the food the new f Breeds Millionaires. Amsterdam, states that in York, Berlin and in all other large | ““Whether we shall g thing is essential a sensational narrative alleging Important Weapon Allies . April 19, (Corre | Assoclated Pre; | is one of the most impor- | I war cabinet. the development and The weapon in the back- -Allied Chartering commit- considerable amount of an fairly be claimed for the tablishments have been mpletely destroved and re- will probably make it s to our agreements with shipping companies, the fi- in cases they into lquidation. In ances, firms containing cer- v interest have been obliged the policy has worked . and is considered to have to counteract the more in- | ethods of German propa- n all countries the moral ounced, and a definite stig- to inclusion in the has been accen- the growing dislike of the general for German objects ods.” in preoccupation of the min- blockade during the year was directed to Ger- neutrals on her borders. tonnage employed in de increased by a million cen the German declaration U-boat warfare and the says the cabinet. reat blockade event of the the declaration of war be- e United States and Ger- llowed by similar declara- or the rupture of rela- a considerable number of nerican states. This has s and our Allies to stop im- the border neutrals at the attention has been ~xed, of Germany than anything it is very doubtful whether most important aspect. The is strong to show that Ger- also suffering gravely from of such things as wool, otton, rubber and so on. oped that we may see con- results in the future from orms of pressure which tho America into the war has s to employ.” 2 April -As an ex- the war breeds mil- the socialist Vorwaerts in 1913 there were 103 in Kiel, whereas now while multi-million- increased from 15 to 47. only $250.000 to be a mil- Germany “how & Shortage of Pigs. April 26.-—Pigs in | citics may be used only for g of sausage, the Berlin recently announced. The s this is because nearly all have been slaughtered. port. trade with the United States will be | ALL FOR KAISER ] even greater this year, | LR SRR B, | Noted Aviator Killed. | “Work Twice As Hard: Save Twice as | Ams am, Apri 26— er] = { aerial combat of Flight-Lieutenant| wo. That's Unthinkable. Buddecke. one of the “star” German alrmen. He received the Pour-le-| Amsterdam, April 26. In a war Merite from the Emperor a few | loan propaganda speech at Munich weeks ago. Buddecke was last heard | President Havensteln of the Reichs- from as a member of the German | bank, declared that Germany’s finau- Military Commission in Constantino- | vial position was better than that of ple, and he may have been killed in | her enemies and that ““the longer the Palestine. { war lased the stronger became the fa- e | therland’s financial power,” according PRINCE ALBERT A FLIER. | to the Vossische Zeitung, L a war in- s not yet certain,” he added. depend on the victory still Bankruptcy of the Ger- however, is unthinkable enemy does not the fatherland, one namely freedom of for German products whole world. Then we to bear war burdens bet- nd and Fragce. But| wili be heavy. Our fu- to must be, work twice as save twice as much as be- re, 1s the mashing suc- on the N SPIES TN JAF 26.—~The *AN. chi-Nichi April ence of an associatien of spies who have received ual to three million rubles to a campaign of spying against d who have their headquar- beria. The newspaper men- | tions the report that the organization | was paid the money in German marks. | = | S . o f “The United States is obligated to | nd 1,000,000 tons food cach | month to. the Alll s golng to ! do it."—Vernon K ]’ { ence continued their journey to Argen- i { ‘ LATIN-AMERICAN CONGRESS FAILURE Argentine Refuses to Recognize Mexican Delegates ; Buenos Aires, April 12 (Correspon- dence of The Associated Press) With the departure of the Mexican delegat who came to this country a special embassy from the presi- | dent of Mexico and whose diplomatic | credentials were not recognized by the | government, the long-discussed con- gress of Latin-American neutrals ap- | | pears to have heen definitely aban- | cept by offensive tactics, which doned by this country. ference had been postponed, and they | were coolly reccived by hoth the peo- ple and the government of Argentina. tina after being notified that the con- | | Senor Cabrera did succeed in ar- | ranging with this government for the | chartering of Argentina transports to carry cereals to Mexico, but this ar- rangement ‘¢as cancelled by the gov- ernment. RBY ATRPLANE. And Mr. Fox Proved to.Be Fleetest | n Special Event. i Léndon, April 26.—An airplane re- cently joined in a fox hunt, according to Country Life. Its correspondent sa. *While running we saw an airplane following us overhead about 100 feet up. The airman waved us the direc tion in which our fox had gone and when we checked we heard several shouts from aloft and were put right by our friend above, the hounds veri- ving his information. “A little later he landed in a field, told the master where he had seen the fox, then But the f BERLIN BANK PAYS BONUS. Amsterdam, April 26—The Deutsche | Bank of Berlin, which is enjoying rec- | ord prosperity on account of the nlst[ | number of war industries in which it is interested. is paying all its employes war bonuses ranging from 30 to 50 per | cent. of their salaries i TWe'll substitute corn for wheat and | vietory for defeat. 19 NOT WAIT FOR volve the principle that barra and Salesmen. WOULD GET U-BOATS opertion o of miles centration, THEM | \ Paris, April 26.—The remarkable Commander Bellaire Believes Britain | incqualities resulting from the French moratorium of rents, which has been Should Have Had Aggres- lin effect cever since the war, is seen sive Policy in a case which has come up in the o . cecurts here An »d Frenchman, London, March 2 (Correspond- | Whose only source of income was a s oS e Aastiatad T Com- | large house, rented it just before the i S | war to a tenant who was mobilized | mander Carlyon Bellaire, M.P., Who | .nq is still serving. Consequently he [ is regarded as something of an au- | is not obliged 1o 7 rent. FHis wife thority on naval matters in the house | Mmeanwhile is occupying the house, of commons, is of the opinion that | Which she sub-lets to 2 number of | the admiralty has reliedl far too | Weekly temants as a good price. The much on defensive tactics in coping | beor landlord, deprived of his only with the submarine menace. source of revenue, lives on money “The happy position foreseen for | Which he borrows at a high rate of us, next August, by Lord Jellicoe,” | Interest, the iender belng the tenant's he writes, “canmot be attaimed ex. | Wife. He is trying to obtain some =% 1justment of his borrowings througt the French courts, ges shall This proposed conference was to | be laid in the sea to bar the cxit of = 25 have brought the South and Central|the German submarines, nnd s TRACIOR BECORDS, American republics into a closer union | operations of German surfs craft London, ta oppose pressure from larger nations | to clear a passage shall be prevented cords f and it has been stated here that it| by the concentration of our own sur- | set in the even was to have served as the basis | face craft. new Ifor a Spanish-American union by | “The important thing to remember ]lrt“(lm“:' tu.flm?thrjr 0(1la‘l'f>v‘<" between | j5 that. in going and coming, German et ropaiica lasdl ol lomatic] S mermesiie) ot mats woili et 1atic | face craft have cleared a channel nost agents of Spain, that country already | T e ohera S ; having announced its intention of | 1o STASH the operations of the : ’ seeking closer relations with ,\'muh] o, lutaces cralt amiostin v soil and the America as saon as the war is over. 588 lernoseditaliaiixnhasa 8 Sl e apesgy That this neutrality conference was | 0 b e bl s el (L epth of the fur ontce the dream of Frestdent Irigeyen | SI988¢e. A defended barrier in the , WiTOW P ORSH e as the crowning giory of his interna- | ool ‘D & (lrw_nh of (L0 fesk Ly poniecthy i ”;‘Hv\ % ’b s "H tional policy is no Ionger doubted, but | feasible. No mining flotilla ought to | I¥ level, but s Wi it has met with such a cold reception | "© able to ast In facc of a concen- | W secompiEnad by e R since the South American X"’I)\l\)ll(‘f,‘) trated and overwhelming naval force. | averaged 11 b ac S 1’:4"V: .“H‘k t began, one by one, to throw aside their | Consequently, if the British and | fuel consumption was 2.46 gallon neutrality and cast their lots with the | American mines are as efficient as | per acre. The engines are ramn co Entente Allies that no one was sur- | the simple German minc which we | tinnously for the allotted . twely prised when it was announced that the | captured In the first week of the war. | hours, proposed conference had been indefi- | if We avail ourselves to the full of = nitely postponed. 1(“1 the other details that go to form | JOBS FOR OFFICERS The aims and purposes of the pro-|a barrage, such as nets. microphones | TLondon, April 26.—To provide em posed congress never were clearly sot | and other devices, we may then say. { ployment for commissioned officers o forth, despite the fact that several na- | with abselute conviction. that i the army and navy after t Wil tions invited to it insisted on such a | submarine menace from the North [ hureau abiished consisting statement being made before they ac- | Sea, Atlantic and Dardanclles will be | of hankers. nd other cepted the invitation. smashed from the date when we have | commert he chaifman The Mexican dclegates who had| performed the delicate a halanced the commit St. Davids been assigned to attend this confer- — e Practical Automobile {nstruction N THE SHOP AND ON THE ROAD. 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