New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS § HERALD “ADS” MEA! § BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CC;NNECTIC[}I‘,’FRIDAY, MAY Shil ESTABLISHED 18 ALLIED LEFT FLANK BENDING; - HUN FAILS AT OTHER POINTS? French Maintain Positions and Shatter Blows Near Soissons and Farther South Germans Make Slight Advance in Center But Are Held Otherwise ATTACKS ON AMERICANS AT CANTIGNY QUICKLY FOILED ' Germans Hurl 4,000 Shells But Infantry Is Heavily Punished in Attempt to Reach Trenches. With ‘the American Army in ¥France, May .30.—German artillery in the course of the night severely bom- barded the new = positions. of the Americans at Cantigny west of Montdidler. They fired as many 4,000 high explosive shells in a I pace of time. Several by the Germans to come repulsed with heavy loses Americans, Enem airmen were night and this morning, ief over by were the active bombing vil- lages behind our lines without regard | to militar American icarried out a suc ful raid the Germans late last night. objectives. against > Rickenbacher There was much Scores Again. aerial actlvity on the front northwest of Toul today and two if not three, German machines were shot down. Lieutenant Jidward Rickenbacher, the former automobile racer, not only brought down one machine but ued Licutenant James A. Me sner, of Brooklyn, after his machine had been damaged. Single handed, Rickenbacher attacked two Albatross Dbiplanes and three monoplancs. After he fired 100 rounds into one bivlanc 1l crashing to the ground. The lieutenant turned and attz another which sought safety in flight. Meanwhile the remaining machine had descended Rickenbacher to attack. As he was returning behind American lines Rickenbacher —saw four German planes cominz toward him. He turned and saw Lieutenant Meissner, who was flying high, at- ‘tack one enemy machine just as a second hostile plant attacked Meis- sner. Meissner’s machine collided with one of the enemy and a wing of his plane was torn. Meissner im- Inediately turned toward home when . third enemy machine, seeing that Me was crippled, took hastily after him Rickenbacher made a long dive and drove off the German with his machine gun, undoubtedly saving Meissner. U. another were for 1 too low for S. Pilots Guns Jam. fight two American od to withdraw be- cause their gu became jammed just they attacked the enemy. Another pilot encountered five hostile planes and had fired six bursts with- out apparent damage and the enemy shachines returned, Late five Americans saw two y machines over Apremont. They attempted to get away as the Americans came up, but two Ameri- wans got on the tail of one of the enemy machines. Hundreds of bul- Jots were fired into the fusillage of the German plane and it crashea into wood. The other ma ne was chased down by an sAmerican and it was seen to overturn “as it reached the ground. The results of several other combats, have not yet been reported An American aviator was captured by the Germans in No Man’s Land after his machine had been damaged in a fight between five American smachines and a German squadron. The American aviator was last seen going into the enemy trenches under cover of German rifles. n pilots BRUTALITY IN HOSPITALS. Nervous Patients Rebel at Treatment of Berlin Doctors, Amsterdam,. May 31 Drastic meth- ods employed by the German medical authorities in treating nervous pa- tients in military hospitals in Munich resulted in revolts by the patients in which wards were wrecked, according to the Koelnische Volks Zeitung. At Rosenheim the hospital was burned by the rebellious patients. The paper pdds that electric shocks of such strength are employed that the pa- stients scream in terror. Deputies have prepared a long se- ries of questions to ask in the Reichs- tag concerning the veports of ill- ‘wreatment. attempts made | last ! forces northwest of Toul | | Frank cked | German j the | enemy | SOUTHINGTON MAN MISSING IN ACTION William J. Lilly Only Con-| necticut Soldier on Casualty List. Washington, | list today cont as follow May 31.—The casualty ins 60 names, divided i Killed in action, 15; died of wounds, 6; died of accident, 11; died of disease, 4; wounded severely, 15; wounded slightly, 8; missing in { action, 1. The list: Killed in Action. Wagoner Chick M. Campbell, Pitts- bu Ka Privat, George M. Ab- ney, Minola, Tex.; Stanley Belen, New York: Robert L. Bolen, Saltillo, Miss.; Ira D. Cochrane, Protection, Ga.; rank Colon, Aberdeen, S. D.; Ken- | | neth Idward Counter, Alden, Minn Francis Dyer, Lake Arthur, Donald Gregg, Houston Heights, | Carl M. Martinson, Stanley, Clarence L. Masscy, Columbus, Ga.; teorge E. Money, Glasgow, Mont Murray, Nunda, N. Y. Spidel, TUnion Furnace, Malcom R. White, Southampton, Howard L. Pa N. ¥. Died of Wounds. Privates George I°. Aitkens, Nation- 1 City, Cal.; Lester W. Chase, Derry, N. H.; Charles Messina, w Yor Marshall B. elson, Grand Junction, Charles Poulter Louisville; cslie L. Stokele ington, Mo. Died of Accident. Lieuts. Richard Anderson, St. Louis; Robert J. Griffith, Athens, Ga. William 8. Stear: Jamaica Plains, William N. Newitt, Enfleld, Frank P. McCreery, Fort Washington, N. Y.; Cadet Eugene P. Penn, Austin, Te Sergeant Gordon J. Geeting, Chicago; Privates Claud Engram, Hawkinsville, Ga.; Thomas W. McDermott, Albany, W Daniel Albert Snyder, Buffalo; ILawrence Wolff, Brooklyn. Died of Disease. Corporal Bert Lewis, Cal.; Privates Don Francis Gunder, Puyallup, Wash.; Humbert Hook, North, 8. C.; Isaac M. Vaughn, Bel- linger, Tex Stockton, Severcly Wounded. Lieuts. Clark M. Apted, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Thomas D. Amory, { Dupont Bldg., Wilmington, Del.; Ser- geants William Albers, Ridgewood, N. Y.; George Fuss, Newark, O.; Me- chanic Claud D. Green, Efingham, Privates Horton Cpeech, Hartan, Henry J. Cundiff, Decatur, IlL; Calvin Downer, Traverse City, Robert J. Faves, Doucette, James W. Hicks, Williamsburg, Charles Joseph Murphy, Long Island City, N. Y.; Henry Musilek, | Lake Andes S. D.; Henry Ruch, Waukesha, Wis., idore Stupelman, Newark, N. J.; William B. Trussell, Honea Path, 8. C. Slightly Wounded. Sergeant William B. Connell, Pitts- burgh; Mechanic Clarence E. Mitch- ell, Lansing, Mich.; Privates John Joseph Carberr Bayonne, N. J.; Clarence B. Ditty, Dillon Mont.; Jos- eph H. Lunzer, Paul; Paul J. Owens, Wellsville, X Frank Van Schoick Raub, Newark, . J.; John 221 South Tenth street, Read- ing, Pa. St. Missing in Action. Private William J. Lilly, ton, Conn. Southing- HUNS GAS UKRAINE TOWNS Entire Communitics Asphyxiated in Retaliation for Disorders Among ves, London Newspaper Learns, London, N their reprisals orders in*the eral villages 31.—The Germans, against peasant di Ukraine, drenched sev- near Kiev with gas, ac- in cording to the Daily Express. message, whole 4 asphyxiated. a Petrograd dispatch to Thus, adds the communities were |GALL FOR 280,000 ! DRAFTEES IN JUNE Apportionments Withheld Until Destinations Are Arranged TOTAL MAY BE 300,000 Quota Estimated on ‘Space Available for Men in Camps and Canton- ments—More May Go If Overscas Shipments Increase. Washington, May 31.—Official an- nouncement was made today that 280,000 men will be called to the colors during June. They will be o dered to report June 24, but it has not yet been determined to what camps they can be assigned, So the list of apportionments is for the pres- ent, being withheld. The quota is based on the space available fo- camps and cantonments. of shipment of troops across again is raised still more men may be called. In any event the probabili- ties are that ecnough men will be called for special service to round thc number out to 300,000. QUIGLEY REAPPOINTS OLD COMMISSIONERS estimates of the men in 1f the rate | Conlon, King, Kehoe, Egan and En- tire Finance Board Arc Re- turncd to Office. Mayor Quigley today 1eappointments to the sion, the police board, Loard, the civil service and the finance board. Frank Conlon was reappointed to the fire board for a term of four vears and P. F. King, chairman of the police board, has been officially reappginted for a four year term. Thomas H. Kehoe is likewise named for a four year term on the water board and Roger W. Egan is again named as a member of the civil service commission. The members of the finance board whose terms expired this year are ail reappointed, for three years. They are Chairman F. 8. Chamberlain, P. C. McIntyre, Fred Beloin and P. F. King. KUNZ READY T0 LEAVE TParole Expires Thi announced fire commis- the water commission Afternoon and He Will Be Held At County Jail Until Next Weck. It will probably be a few days be- fore John Kunz is taken to the fed- eral penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. His brief parole to arrange his business affairs before beginning his sentence of one year and a day for his unpa- triotic utterances is due to expire this afternoon at 4 o'clock. At that time he is expected to report to United States Mar: al Middlebrooks at the federal building at Hartford, prepar- atory to beginning his sentence. He will be placed in the Hartford county jail and held there until Marshal Middlebrooks can arrange to take him to Atlanta. This will probably Dbe some tifne next week. FLY FROM U. S. T0 CUBA Two American Naval Hydro-Air- planes Reach Island After Trip | From Port on This Side of Gulf. B State toda from vana, May naval hydr at a Cuban port, an Amecrican port. United | ived having flown AMERIC Paris, ~In connection with ! the Memo 2 es in Bor- deaux today a review of French and American troops was held and dec- | orations we awarded to American <oldiers for heroic conduct during the 1ecent fire in a ship in the harbor, j government MARRIED BY TELEGRAPT BRIDE IN TOPEKA, KANSAS, GROOM AT CAMP MILLS Kansas City s 31—Although separated by more than 1,800 miles, Mrs. Goldie Orrick, until last night Miss Goldie Garden, of Topcka, Kas., and Private Homer Orrick, a machine gunner sta- tioned at Camp Mills, N. Y., to- day were celebrating the first day of their married life. The ceremony which them man and wife was formed by the government. bride sat in a commercial tele- graph office in Kansas City, a minister asking the questions, which were then flashed to the army camp, where they were Te- ceived by the camp operator, .who, in turn, transmitted those by the officiating minister at that end of the wire. Mrs. Orrick said the probabil- ity of her husband being sent overseas very soon hastened the wedding. PRAISES HOSPITAL UNITS SENT BY U. 3. made per- Th Col. Bruce of Medical Mission | Tells of Work of Mercy Abroad. An Atlantic Port, May 31.—A Brit- representing the medical missi Medical to ish British today ", ociety, attend the arrived hev American in Chicago, June 10. The mission includes McKenzie and Col. Herbert consulting surgeon of the British in France. Col. Bruce said a operated by the Sir Bruc army Bri Presbyterian unit :h, directo reputation as France.” “I am also able to speak from per- sonal knowledge,” he continued, * , had established “ane of the very best in hospitals which your government generously and promptly aid at the reque: year. They consist of the Lakeside unit, with such famous surgeons er; the Philadelphia unit, with Major Hart and John Gibbon St. Louis unit, with Major and the Chicago unit, Beasley. “I should also mention Harvard unit sent over to help Brit- ain at the beginning of the war with Lieut. Col. Hugh Cabot in charge of surgery. Murph with BUBONIC PLAGUE ON SHIP Member of Crew on Ship Arriving at Gravescend Dies, and Third Case Is Under Suspicion. London, May 31.—When the steam- er Somali arrived at Gravesend ye: terday from Bombay, it was found that three members of the crew were suffering symptoms suggesting tho bubonic plague. Two cases, one of which ended fatally, proved to be the plague. During the voyage several rats were killed by the stokers and other dead rats were found in the storeroom The vessel is now moored in Grave- send and will be disinfected. REBELS DEFY BOLSHEVIKI, Moscow, May 29 (By the Associated Press)—Strong revolutionary detach- ments of demobilized Russian soldiers and gu peasonts equipped and artillery hav ict of Tschigerine, ince of Kiev, in an governmental power, been the with machine risen in the in the pro attempt to seiz The Bolshevik asked to send revolutionaries, s has troops to subdue WEATHE Har(ford, May 31.—F, for New Britain and vi ) Cloudy tonight followed by turday, warmer. 2L Con- gress of Medical Societies to be held James ish hospital in ew York under Major William Dar- o of the splendid work being done by the 50 sent ta our of Mr. Balfour last Major George Crile and Major Loew- the Harvard unit, with Major Harvey Cushing; the Major another GERMAN AIR SWARM Bombs Descend in Deluge GHEER WOUNDED PATIENTS Enemy Aviators Approach in Masses and Penctrate Far Behind Lines— Trench Nurse, Mother and Two Lit- tle Sisters Slain. With the American Army in France, May 30, (By the Associated Press)— German airmen made a pretentious raid on the area behind the American lines in Picardy last night. Bombs were dropped on all sides of one of the largest hospitals in a town many { miles to the rear of the front. Amer- ica and French wounded soldier {were carried to cellars and caves by | American nurses and members of the Red Cros Only a few persons were injured by flying glass as most of the windows in the hospital had been shattered by bombs dropped the previous night. Several private houses were wrecked and a number of civilians, including several babies, were killed and in- Jured. Approach in Wave Formation. That the raid was planned on a much larger scale than recent oncs over this territory is eyidenced from reports made by many Americans in villages over which the raiders pass- ed. The Germans came in wave for- mation and then scattered widely. One squadron dropped bombs a few hundred feet from an American fleld hospital and at the same time onc of the long range guns shelled a village a few hundred yards away. The first alarm was sounded at 11 o’clock. The dropping of bombs and firing of many anti-aircraft guns be- gan almost immediately. Later there was a brief pause after which the raiders returned to remain almost un- til dawn. A new American evacuation hospi- tal had been opened only yesterday in a certain village. A bomb fell in front of it last night and shattered windows, but none of the patients was injured. In some Instances the bombs fell within 30 and 40 feet of a hospital building, but, fortunately there were no direct hits. A French nurse, her mother and two little sisters were killed in a house a short distance from a hospital. Another nurse was standing on the upper floor of the hospital ministering to patients when a piece of bomb struck her, piercing her lung. Nurses Cheer Patients, Tive American nurses were in the same hospital. They were Miss N alie Scott of New Orleans, Miss Hel- en Spalding of Brooklyn, Miss Mary McCadlish of Atlanta, Miss Blanch Gilbert of Cleveland, and Miss Con- stance Cook of San Francisco. While the raid was in progress they went about cheering the pa- tients. Although many serious cases of sick and wounded were aggravated because they had to be removed, the nurses had to carry them to the low- er floors and the cellar. “It was an exciting time,’ sald Miss Scott, “but there was no panic. Some of our boys actually slept through it all although their beds were show- ered with broken glass.’ * Bombs Wreck Ambulances. Three American ambulances were caught in the raid. Sergeant Ethan Wells of San Francisco, who was driv- ing the first ambulance, said: “Our three ambulances were hurrying to hospitals with patients when a bomb wrecked a building directly in front of us in a narrow street. Our ambu- lance was perforated by flyins siles. We w 11 harled out, escaped with w scratches.” Private Robert A. Bowman of veston, who was in the same car, said “Ihere was @ terrific explosion. The thing T knew 1 was lylng on the looked around and h d 1ts groaning 1 pulled my cclf together and found the patients uninjured excent for the shock. Our ambulance was shot to pieces The second car apparently received but e Gal- next ground. | the patic (Continued on Eleventh Page) ATTACKS HOSPITALS American Nurses Heroic As mis- Paris, May 31. river, it is announced officially. tions. Marne. Soiss of Soissons. lers-Bretonneax sector, east ciated Press.)—In one of artillery opened a heavy fire. were driven back in disorder. constantly. gained the town. bardment, the American gunners tion fire. Paris, May 31, 5:45 a ward south of Fere-en-Tardenoi yet fallen into their hands. Thierry, the population of which Chateau Thierr: the river Marne. follows : Wounded or was only 92,47 fully the effects of the casualties In the center the Germans made a ¢ Further east and also northwest and all the German efforts were in vain. attack won back the town of Thillois, west of Rheims. Withdrawing before the German onslaught near the Aile the French fell back on positions north of Blerancourt (9 mi southeast of Nayon) and Epagny (7 miles northwest of Soisson The French are holding their positions along the road bet: ons and Chateau Thierry, as well as in the western outsl American Troops With the American army in France, May 30. German airmen flying at a great miles to the rear of the American lines today. off by anti-aircraft guns and were unable to drop any bombs. Killed or died of wounds—Officers, 1 missing—Officers, 6,182 ; men, 13 5 as the lists apparently did | American Troops Refuse to Budge an In Under Ons'aught of Yon Hindenburg’s Al in Picardy---French Leaders and Pub Calmly Confident Drive Will be Halted -The Allied left flank on the Aisne front been forced back by violent German attacks near the Aild y. Near Soissons and farther so German attacks broke down, the French ‘maintaining their pg ight advance north of north of Rhe The French, by a cou Artillery Activity Near Amiens. London, May 1.—Activity by the German artillery in the of Amiens, and in the Albert regil to the north, is reported today by the war office. been lively gunfire from the enemy lines on the Flanders frd between I'estubert and the Clarence river. There has a / Stand Ground. (By the Ag the counter-attacks launched agai the Americans in Cantigny, the Germans tried to use tanks. enemy infantry had no more than shown itself than the Amerid Both the foot soldiers and the tay The new American positions in Cantigny are being impro The Americans have not budged an inch since tH Every time the enemy artillery starts a bd retaliate and smother the oppd height penetrated ma They were dri Germans Near Marne Towns. m.—The Germans continued to push | , according to the latest adwil reaching Paris, but neither Chateau Thierry nor hd Dormans There is reason to hope that Chatd has fled, will be saved. is ten miles south while Dormans is six miles south of Vizilly. Fere-en-Tardend Both towns are of Britain's May Casualties 166,802. London, May 31.—Casualties in the during May reached a total of 166,802. British ranks repor The loss s were divided ,536 : men, 20,518. British casualties reported week by week have recently hd running near the 40,000 mark, evidently representing tained during the heavy fighting that started with the beginni of the German offensive in March. losses st The total reported in Ap ! not begin to refig sustained in resisting the G man thrusts in Picardy and [landers until the beginning of M4 ank Rheims. 31.—Baffled by the valor | of the Allied soldiers, the Germans| failed to enlarge greatly the pocket in | the Allied line. Iiven in the center the enemy appears to have been held and the advance there slackening. In accordance with their favoritc aneuver, the ( ans parently e moving their mns castward with the object of getting around Rheims through Ville-en-Tardenois | 1d the valley of the Ardre. The bas- tion constituted by the ruined city and high ground known as the Mountain of Rheims is a menace to the German flank. It is too strong to be attacked from in front with any chance of suc- cess, so the enemy is trying to turn it from the southwest. While any progre on French soil col s by the Germans with _the inevitable trail of ruin and desolation strikes I'rench hearts sorely, the uns confidence with which the public views the situation is markable. outcome, in the most No doubt is felt as and there is resolve to fight Situation Ymproving, Renoult Reports, “We return with the impre: that as the day advanced the situa- re- to the weakening the end. no to tion became more favorable,” Rene Renoult, president of the army com- mittee of the chamber of deputies, who accompanied ceau to the front Marcel Hutin, on his arrival Premier yesterday, of the Echo here Clen sal de Pi The extreme point of the Ger advance is Le Charmel, abol miles north of th ver Marne, cording to a Hav gency dispay The fighting front, it is decla runs as follows: From Chavig north of Soissons, it describes a ef west of that city and rejoins the “rise south of Soissons, then it te Be follows the Soissd Chateau Thierry road until near tennes where it bends southeast Grand Rozoy. Thence southwd leaving Mulchy-le-Chateau, it pa Nanteuil-Notre Dame and adva tewards the Marne to Courcy, BS Courpoil and Le Charmel, marks its extreme southern point Through Vesilly, Brouillet, Sa and Thillois it runs northeastwa the environs of Rheims. London, M 30.—Forty Gey divisions are engaged in the battle and 40 more divisions are gerve, says a dispatch from correspondent at French head (Continued on Eleventh Pj N