New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1918, Page 1

manas] N WI BRI'T AEN HERALD [ e PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 19178,¥TE.\;' PAGES. ESTA.BLISHED ] ] CAROLINA Y HUN PIRATE British Steamer Picks Up Small Motor Craft From Missing Porto Rico Liner Damag by Shells---Spiintered Oar Tells Grim Story of Machine Gun Horror g LIFUT. R ARRIS IS STEAMER CITY OF COLUMBUS IS Two Women Included in 19 Survivors La MR'GANS HURI_ BAGK : SAFE IN PORT ON THE ATLANTIC| at Lewes, Del.— Another Oil Tanker SEVERE” WH”NI]EI] _ ported Sunk — Railroad Administrat] 9 The Savannah liner City of Colum- officers explained that this was the . I bus, with passengers, reported sunk by |usual precaution. The explanation, Shl SSafe Tota LOSS ofLifq L Th Winsted Man Marched From This | £2c5m5. e o™ Wi "o Sevees | and they camne. throusn without the - : 5 coast, Sunday, arrived here today. No [least intimation that vessels were be- . 8 s G“y AS Omcer Oi Goml]any E submarines were observed, and, while | ing sunk all around them. New York, June +—Evidence that the German subi ~ — — officers of the ship heard gun fing | Captain Diehl did not know that his | that attacked the New York and Porto Rico liner Carolina § AMERICAN WOUNDED AT iR four hours after the City of Columbus | ship was reported lost. He sent no Bl k F d Vl had picked up an § O S call from tho | messages, he said. After hearing her lifeboats was brought here today by a British steamed 0C orwara jove- . ' ARMY HOSPITAL IN NICE. COMMISSIONED AT AGE OF f |steamer Carolina, none of the passen- | shots ~directly ahead, the vessel's West Indian ports. : gers realized that they were in the | course was changed and she proceeded The British ship reported that she had picked up at 4] menton WeStel'[l Slde e _— :‘!flng‘xr, one nnll(l Hvt\v news o ‘nh- utI(u\é s;_xe;;c‘l Sl,usc e i vesterday off Cape May an empty motor lifeboat, belongil Nice, France, Monday, June 3 . i ained from coast patrol vessels here _ast nig o wireless caught calls Seid DS 2y AR epien > i The firet baton of sounded Amert. | Delieved to Have Been Second | ™.y, . were more than 60 passengers | for help from a tanker off the Dela- the Carolina, damaged by shell fire. The hull of the motorbg Of Cam aone Sahent can soldiers who had been amal- Youngest Officer in Federal Service | aboard and when all lights on the | ware coa 5 been pierced by the fire of the U-boat's guns. One of onl p g amated with the French troops steamer were extinguished Sunday The City of Columbus proceeded on{ oars found in the boat had been splintered in a way tha arrived at Nice today. They were —New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury, | night, Captain J. H. Dichl and other ' her voyage this afternoon. 3 Near Nuel"y Wood fenttoNtie S American S hicsriial Middletown and Bristol Mcn on List & cated the use of a machine gun. 7 A boat from the steamship Carolina containing 19 su e S O U BOATS FA]L lN PRIMARY inc!uding_ two womenxhas {ande(l at Lewe Al)cl.. This Apparentiy the foregoing refers | Severely wounded in action is the was received by the New York and Porto Rico line toda; ASSIST FRENCH TO to American iroops who have ne of Second Lieut. Robert V. K. the coast guard service. All but one of the 19 survivor, 0 arn sne Mho e 3 g .","‘:—”' Harris is well known [ POSE CAPITAL BELIE ES passengers, the message indicated. The member of the crg HOLD MARNE RIVER | according to the plan announced i Sfel iy fixom Shiencelhen dngt o0 ) an engineer. L out a year ago as second licutenant some time ago. Whether they Lok LI e e e ST were wounded in the fighting of |©°f Company B, 102d U. S. Infantry. Another Tanker Reported Sunk. i gt h) 2 the present offensive, or while = P Reports came to shipping authorities today that 4 Conflict Continues With Bitterness | acting with the Freneh in other HERE Tw‘] MUNTHS, Expected to Destroy Trans-| American tank steamship had been sunk by a German subi o S sectors is not clear. The main e - | = 3 . > P Between Afsne and Ourcq, Germaus | BCE2 18 RO Berf 0 e T 7 s el Qe T No Eer]tafls w (‘r‘el disclosed. e e Capturing Pernant—Advance Be- line with the French against the . 4 . - SAYS U BUAT GHIEF‘ . <rx]);.jl?_:a\nl:11{:})11)011]1)%:‘3‘1, oritl;c {\Imch:;\](.\ "and t Germans since the March offen- : i i | | . ansportation company, put in safely at an Atlantic por Into Hearts of American according to word received here. Her arrival relieved the Public, Opinion in Wash- which had been felt concernng her. here. tween Aisne and Oise at Standstill— E arted is in the Cantigny | - - I sector, southeast of Amiens, where . ! i . | Hostile Artillery Roars Above, oo 2ot o o rliant record v . ' i i i g AT B T hsh. in tho capture and holding of the . . | | Ordered te Act or Go Home, | . Amiens—Yankee Patrol L2 town of Cantigny. 3 E . ington, 300 of Carolina’s Passengers Rescued. Baris], ydune ot MEHRop L Soan | : He Tells Captain of An Atlantic Port, June 4.—Three hundreds of the pas thrown into the battle on the westerm g B and crew of the torpedoed steamship Carolina were picked side of the Champagne salient, have HlNDENBURfi Rl KlNfi ' : i Textel. Washington., June 4.—Attempts of | sea in open boats by the schooner Etta B. Douglass. _I{D‘h 4 stopped the German advance ar | . . se s by S 3 glass. e Germany to carry her submarine war- i g g SaIha Newllfy Wdon and, in's dashing coun: anchored a mile off an inlet near here at 1:30 o’clock thi | o i | A fare to America through the depre- SEpstae s ; : ter-attack, have thrown back the Ger- | ALL T[l TAKE PARIS ) . Atlalntic City, N, J. June 4.— P noon, apparently awaiting orders regarding the dispositio dations reported vesterday of under- | ghj 1 Avors meh 2 3 shipwrecked cargo. mans, the war office announced today. Thirty-six survivors of the steamship | .o crast u : E pon coastwise shipping off iti g | B S A | Textel, which was sunk Sunday after- In addition seven members of the crew were landed at the New Jersey shore and thercby . - rd 1 , sis which had forced a passage of the noon sixty miles south of New York | check the increasing flow of troops Jetamhart byfojcoast wiiardlilchaat e S river were thrown back again by| BOth Sides in Furious Race B e e ooh oi | to Fiance undl putiiten s (a0l the Ca"?l_l]l of Newark, N. J., and six Porto Ricans. French and American troops. . S i @ ; : today to leave here for New York. hearts of the American people, will he men tarried long enough to say they “had a toug A Phtitle conttach Pwith thel to Gain Superiority : Arriving here yesterday in two :"' t"‘“‘_"‘;:‘t"“"& This became apparent | and then they were whisked off to the coast guard station § ® Faa : 4 : ast night as government officials and S ; 5 greatest violence between the Aisne leaky boats and almost exhausted they were supplied with much needed food. of Numbers. L . | | from their long pull for shore, the :2? fil‘::fic v}:;‘:fiinmo:athceMTMufih; 3 rew i a alle y : Embe“ of the crew told stirring Tist” which based on what s be- McAdoo’s Fleet Safe in Port. Preanic bosk 4Nt S, DTSN AR ! ety i e, A o T i‘}:‘r“‘g9;‘:‘“““&‘:“‘_"?2‘:1;’s’ewi‘s"l;“;;' Washington, June 4.—All of the 111 coastwise vesse Between the Olse and the Alsne the | vance on ihe Alsne cm;‘“;?e?“sa'w LIEUT. ROBERT V. K. HARRIS. L“o‘]d how the 'FE\x'.c;ll; representing & | niete failure. control of the railroad administration were reported safe Germans last night were prevented|be developing into a race for Paris ‘“d"ed‘” B ”’;{'““‘000'000 was tor- | © Reports recelved by the navy de- | before moon today. from making any progress, says to-|and recalls the race for tho sea after DL gl BN o had” saiq |DaTtment early today showed that duy'e oAl Lttt E the battle of the Marne. In 1914 it | Lieut. Harris is the son of Rev. and The first warning, we had,” sald|five sailing vessels and the tanker Clyde Liner Huron Puts In. The Germans have made & further | Was @ question primarily of speed, | Mrs. R. V. K. Harris of 152 Holbird | Captain Lowry, “was when 8 shrapnel | Herpert L. Pratt represented the e 4 i A L advance in the Ourcq Valley, captur- | ©Ach side trying to outpace the other | Street, Winsted, and is in his 22d burst over the bridge at 4:20 on'Sun- | German U-boat toll off the Atlantic An Atlantic Port, June 4—The Clyde liner Huron, fre et o i NI R Potasis and mlm htis ‘n:)nnnont‘s wing. The | vear. \\'hm: 1‘\)0 was corfnr:l:ssi\oncd a :::O\‘af:;‘;;;::o (f“,‘,.".,i‘?,‘,’““”;,f;’ :j;‘pt ocast,1 Tr;!e dosmmlllnnt of five otlher ville for New York, with 90 passengers and a heavy caf] The Germans have made a further resent contest is a race of effectiva- | vear ago, at the age of 21, he was o side ship. ap- | vessels, all of sma onnage, had | - i 4 c - : Relince 2t dne ot hotween The ith each contestant trying ig|the second youngest commissioned | tain, who spoke good English, boarded | been reported unoficially to the de- | IO an Atlantic s last f”%{}‘ to Soeaps 'the submarine Marne and the Oureq, capturing the | PFINE Up as many men as possible | oficer in the federdl service, thers | our boat, demanded our papers and | partment. The fate of the coastwise | and a’rrn'c(l today at ‘thc docks in this city. The passeng Village of Neuilly-La-Poterie, (seven | i the shortest possible time in order | having been a young California officer | ordered us to leave the ship. The guns | liner Carolina, which reported by | sent from here to their destination by rail. { and one-half miles northwest of ! 0 Pe numerical master of the situa-| who was a few months his junior. of his U-boat were kept trained on | wireless yesterday that she was being Chateau Thierry.) tion. Lieut. Harris was formerly a mem- | us.” shelled, was still unknown. Official 5 : A Th ‘the! affensive of March 21 thelibet ot e Haotrovd Michine ) Gun After the submarine commander | rcperts showed that the attacks, New York Display Lights Ordered " Out. Germans intended to capture Amiens | ccmpany and served on the Mexican | had taken over the Textel, Captain|which it had not besn determined New York, June +—The police department today isi Enemy Artillery Active Near Amiens, | 274 the channel ports. The effort, | border two years ago with that unit. | Lowry reported that the captors | were made by one or by more sub- Sniav Liohts in New' York Gty i G however, was of a nature to bring|On his return he was given a dis- | said: marines, had resulted in mo loss of | Order that all display lights in Ne ork City at night London, June 4.—The German ar-)about immediate results. charge that he might take the offi-| = “I hate like h to do this, but | life. bidden until further notice. tillery developed considerable activity 'ljh;- Germans realized this and n | cers’ examination, which he succ(‘fis»!wn have been ordered to get into ac- The navy department reports Ty PR A PRI early this morning hetween Albert and | {Neir haste to finish matters resumed | fully passed. He was at once as- l tion or return home. We have been | showed the loss of the following ves- | Empty Boat From Carolina Found. (he crew, exact number and the Ourcq. The Germans cap- tured Pernant. Further south the = Serre, on the front above Amiens, the | the March towara Paris for & third | signed to Company M of Winsted and | over here for two month Jacob M. Haskell, Isabel B.| New York, June 4—A British)here: of the schooner 8 i gl time, thinking that success would | remained with that outfit until last, The Textel sank at 5:15 p. m. Wiley, Hattie Dunn, Bdward H. Cole, | stcamship arriving here today from | /Tathaway, of Boston. mean an end of the war. The ene-|summer when he was transferred to iba | v my is now apparently risking all in mpany E in this city, Lieut. Ar- A nerient Patrol th Elghe a formidable attempt to reach Paris.|thur Johnson of Company E taking : e —— hiz place with the Winsted company. Withithe Amerloan Brmy iniFranced{ W py oo eeing Ohecked! Evarywhero: With the French Army in France, An American combat patrol engaged | Monday, June 3 (By The Associated in a desperate fight with a larger ene- | Press).—The Allies are now checking| 'ashington, June 4.—The army patrol near Ancerviller, in the|the German armies everywhere. casualty list today was divided as fol- Luneville scctor, early {oday. The| Terrific struggles took place today |10WS: American losses were slight. The | When fresh German divisions entered | Xilled in action, 3; died of wounds, German casualties arc not known. thelinogbetween ithe jouragfanafolhsin2i dlod of acelaeniiandiothar icanae e Tho Edna, and Herhert L. Pratt. The | (uha picked up at sea an empty boat | At Ieast Ten Vessels Da LTS UHE T e BER7 Bl crews of all have been landed safely. | o the New York and Porto Rico liner | The long-cxpected visit Dhiladelphial Tune A= mnettenany: Officials pointed out that with only | carolina. armed submarines to submarines have been lying in wait |* SWall loss in tonnage, and no cas- | ~ News reached here today that an| waters has resulted in i a few miles out to sca off the Dela. | \2/ties, unless there should be fur- smerican tanker, damaged as a result | tion of at least te The Casualty List ware Capes since May 21 is now o | Lher SDKIngs, the results of the rald |of a fight with a Germaun submarine | Stars and Strige ] g cepted as @ certainty in local ship- | V1L Pe mesligible. off the American coast, had arrived | Ports from variow el O et ante Chief Aim to Sink Transports. at an Atlantic port. Naval tugs|north Atlantic seaboard. of the British tank Cheyenne arrived The chief purpose of the German |Dicked up the crippled vessel at sea tacks were made by twos at the Delaware breakwater on his | raiding party, it was believed by of- | and towed her in. Details werc with- | mersibles and most of way t Philadelphia and gave the | ficials, was to sink transports, soon he_!;ihfm' H:\w Hm;\. TR ]m:i l-nr;nhul“nnwz.\qc‘nlrtto f 4 % & S a s ” S > | after the troopships left their home e tanker's hu as ct ast Sunday, hough is T the Mantine the Amerloans found | the edse of the forest, was retaken| Officers named were: Lieut Col | communication with the Cheyenne, | Muntng in the old sronpds on e | o5 Pl bmarine war on the | coast patrol by airplane themselves heing surrounded by over- | UY the Allies after the most fierce| Robert J. Maxey, Missoula, Mont., | jearning that she had been fired on, | :f‘r‘f::wgi((l)l b:fproéfia‘hl:" Thus 1t s | American side of the Atlantic durthg’| onsts o revont o s bl: Whelming numbers, but managed to|f8htng in which the French dis-|dled of wounds; Lieut. William L. |but had been able to escape. Ac-) B27O0F 2 °8 Do o Co® 3 D | the past ten days was reduced today | of the raid, centered uposl extricate themselves and retire fight- ved utmost heroism against supe- | Miller, Saginaw, Mich. died of dis-|‘ording to the Captain of the Chey-| “=ri, = 0 0o V' qerent | to fewer than 350 souls. the 220 passengers and o ing all the while. It is believed cer-(lor numbers. czse; Lieuts. John L. Mitchell, Mil- | enne, the 5“'>mm'“}e disappeared as | 'Thé ot}‘wr s O}. the Germans, With the landing of 19 survivors of | men of the 8 f\lva(r;n st tain that punishment was inflicted up- | _Choisy Hill, north of the Aisne, near | wukee, and Richard Blodgett, West | 8001 as the shore line appeared. Ho purp ) . ; on the ememy by the grenades and | Choisy-au-Bac, was the scene of some | Newton, Mass., died of accident and | aid a torpedo was fired at his ship iie was believed, was to strike fear |the missing Rtgmgshin (}‘(:‘ralinim of the | lina, of the New York St 5 5 i St e into the hearts of the American | New York an orto Rico line, at{mRico line, The liner was Tifie. fire of the Ameticans terrific fighting. The heights changed | cther causes; Lieuts. Leopold Arnaud, | When 180 miles from shore. beople. There was no doubt in the | Lewes, Del, the persons unaccounted | Sunday night when withi hands five times and eventually wers | New York; Robert V. K. Harris, Win- Bt D LoV inds of officials here that this pur- | for from this ship number 331 of ; off Sandy Hook, o ING S v vhic: s a = = . 3 v’ N S s a e [% =0 > i3 B s, = hoa TRAINING SHIP IN PORT. which had distinguished itself at| Dowell, W. Va. severely wounded; FAIRBANKS SINKING D hlevement. Reports from Atlantic| The City of Columbus, of the Sa- | zooiisy 0 SIS BESE Douaumont in the defonso o Verdun. | Lieuts. Leo. T. Kewer, Waverly,| Indianapoiis, Ind, June 4.—Charles | oust cities “showing that enlistments | vannah line arrived at &n AtIantic | the New Jersey const eqr A cavalry corps cuted ane of the | Ma slightly wi ded; Li a 2 rai 2 iy & & i >, i safely her sngera | 7 o 2OE Kiovesnor Gobb, With 360 Auowed, | et milllant. verformancs o ol % Teios s \P[r:phl 16‘:;*‘5;2"! Warren Fairbanks, formerly vice- |in the navy and Naval Reserve had | Port, bringing safely her passengers | oast guara cutters werel Was in Danger of Submarine. war by marching 160 miles and im- | Iieuts. Benj. P. Burtee, Manchester, president of the United States, con- |increased yesterday, and the :empf‘r ~|~1:'1n cf;::‘;fl“‘;‘“‘;i‘;;gfn 117 “W(:m” “j\‘t‘l way to verify the report mediately joining in the hottest part| N. H., Bernard J. Gallagher, Waseca, | tizued to lose ground, during the of editorfalg in the press of the na s 8. the survivors, if possible. Eoston, June 4.—The United States | of the batile where it fought off ene- | Minn., and Willlam . Jenkins, Lees. | vight. This morning Dr. John 4. |Hon was the basis of the feeling that ‘:.‘lr"‘(-‘lk'(iit:n\z\"i:)\flr;‘:e):lnu:‘nofl r:.lf:”:‘::hl'\lx’: List of Missing, shipping board was advised today | my attacks, causing heavy losses to| burg, Va. prisoners, previously re- | MacDonald, —the physician-in-chler, | &l no time have tho Sanerieat Boop @4 CUAC b i 5 3C. " skell: A revised lis of the 1o ie . > | 5ai@ his patle e had such a strong determination to | sunken schooner Jacoh M. Haskell; ‘ that the steamer Governor Cobb, with | the Germans. ported missing; Lieuts. Charles . |said his patient was sinking rapidly. | 180 SUEE & CRCRT o coosstul end. the Governor Cobb, a United States | uhdersea raiders follo SR == In compllance with orders issued | shipping board tralning ship with Steamer Textel, of 3,210 — - { ‘csterday, armed craft and seaplanes [ 200 apprentice seamen aboard: the | Sunk by bombs 60 miles SATHTER. continued their search today for the | steamship Dorchester, of the Mer- |Sey ¢ Sunday. % Germans. chants and Miners Transportation hoonel Jacob M. Hasld ‘ Hariford, Conn., June 4.— As to tho number of U-boats taking | company, and the Clyde liner Huron [ tin, sunk by shell fire § Yor Hartford and vicinity part in the raid on American coast- | from & southern port. Barnegat, N _-’ 4 ‘ Fair tonight and Wednesd '_‘Y wise shipping, officials here were un- The coming to harbor of all these Schooner Edward H. (o warmer Wednesday. T vessels left unaccounted for, in addi- e (Continued on Sixth Page.) (Continued on Seventh Page) (S A —— (Continued on Sixth Page) tion to the Carolina’'s missing, only (Continued on Sixthd June 8 (By The Associated Press).— 200 apprentice umen abosrd, had TRE Chepman, Waterloo, Iowa, and Jo- A s e S o S Cormany il el Kape scph P. Sandford, Skowhegan, Maine, | ydc Rk S ) previously reported missing. now re- | (f- S,k ru: .,‘ll“g\"_”.:fnrm&e In \h_r; recent acts! 1< ieq dead. i of Germany is evidence of al ' rpe nist: desperation which might well increasa ) el pert the vessel was In the zone whers | British confidence in the final resuir, | Kiiled in Action. German submarines sunk a numhcrldm;\na Sir R. B. Finlay, lord high| Private Lon Meadors, Krupp, Ky.: w On the voyage fromi a southern of American ships, and some fears: had been expressed as to her safety,