New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL I OCAL NEWSPAPE‘RS BHETA EN HERA 13 SATURDAY ][IYI3 1918, *TEN PAGES Amsterdam Paper Tells of German Field Marshal’s Death, Declar} by Congestion of the Brain Following Argument Over Offensi P, & C. HAY BUY ?fiRiTlSH SUCCEED; MERIDEN EUTLERY FRENGH ADVANGING Oificials Declme to DISCUSS Gur-‘Pmouers and Guns Cap tured in rent Rumors of Purchase | - Raids on Flanders Front | DEAL 1S. IN PROGRESS GO AHEAD 500 YARDS | !Jl Britain Machine Company Said Soldiers of France Push Forward Be- to Be No Bus tween Montdidier and the Oise— Interested, But Tlas ness in Cdmmon AWith Cutlery Man- | German Raiders Driven | | English. nfacturing to ke it Desire qf plant, New Successful ware carried out by night on - the Flanders Viux Berquin and of which 96 prison- and a few machine the war office an- ‘ London, pris British last front, near ris, resuit were taken captured, ounced today A German r d upon nders, in Thes purch the' riden Cut- July 13 minor ent Jocated in South B ne lery compay Meriden itain manufac- firm is being otiat e New surir ers Ma: contem- Britain hine the E G P reported, The S comi mention® as ny is 1tt which ad- lines in sector, was party itish Meteren ident ling the I the plated buyers. Pres New in Mac bl Fla today, vefused to discuss the matter. 2 that t New of the Brita aine company, German artillery developed luring the night on the Flavd- front, und opposite Beaumont- Hamel. fact he The tivit, G in hine company has noth- manufactur- Me common in the sriden it ¥ Py Fied | between ing line that would make desiraple for them, N Adyance dulyy 18.~-In a out last night Montdidier French pushed their tiong for a distance of approXima 10 yards in the vicinity of the Porte rm, the office announced day’ published o ( of the Meriden Cut- follows: g Machine com- industries of its a of to over deal, | 500 Yards. n - gpe on th the Oisc Qutlery -plant 1tion front the advanced posi- is doubted s .mal i L, F. . Co. May Buy purch s would & Clar Ofiicials & Clark in- lined The likely Landers, Frary more were war ¢ ed and to cuss subject. A account the vicinity northwest of Com- rm together with the nearby, was captured by in a local operation o of July § ‘he Porte of Antheuil, pei 2 ) This Loges Farm: the French the evening NEW YORK T0 OBSERVE FRENGH BASTILE DAY Brilliant Aerial Exhibiton QOver City Is Part of Day’s Program. rm is in rumored any is as Britain the live made through G, Pratt, stockholders pany, one o that city,. has president, deri wroposition’to the the Meridens Cutlery coinpany their stock @and take Meriden' pfant, The been in the - works for has not as yet been com- as all the stockholders been seen and not enough have given options to give control the w Bitain can- If the deal goes through, ikely, all stockholders in | be given an | fixed prige purc ihe which Home ol not of the ' ase South has time ! rive them Ne as | the will at tl har mae (Meriden) to secure : Mr. Platt, but been completed New York, | holiday here by what is expected claborate fiight i staged in the sky e city under the direction Trench aviator, Captain O Poy- Airplanes of several natio in squadron formation, hovering over allied in the war will fly over the city each point at which the exerci ng held In church throughout the city the ! day will be observed hy special pray- er and religious socicties have noti- { ficd the local commiittee of their plans for special services. stare ted by and other busines: cipating by demonstration Telegrams reet son, chairman of the national com- mittee, teli how the whole country from Maine to California is preparing to observe the holiday tomorrow From nearly 200 cities have come re- quests for peakers of prominence, and so far as every request is being met The military pageant, a feature of the monster Bastile Day mass meeting in Madison Square Gar to merabers of the committee, an Allied tribute to France. Captain ward White of .the British and Cana- dian Recruiting mission, the origin- ator of the idea for the spectacle, is iq]in charee of its and presenta- tha | tion ana obtai for it serv rriq | Of near 0 Allied soldjers, sallor and m in graphic The , rallying the Allies to th “ACI f he at first the tide Cierman 11 he presented. In the A group of French their 1 and the 11 se July The French tomorrow will be marked to be one of the demonstrations over an Amer- of the Journa anent from the nos 1ad ag) ot eve not and >ther make would should | would present whether or something actured not He riven. company W the or usiness whether 1eth e would he continued mitions work would mant Deal Se s Certain. certain that the deal completed as quite a large the skkholders of the| ave greed to and when is thought | will e “1t seems n itl fell that that. most on the s Mel “The at qnite = be the committee are parti- for special ic re reque placc arranging company Mr, Plait's figurs generally known the terms. it others P ed Owen John- of agri iden Firm Meriden one time ful cutlery cc Eigtes, but of been fx agares it d to s, 1ot been nge of results nt is Is Old Onmc. Cutléry one of neerns late company the most in the vears it sive in its ef- and the busi- large. Even managemer did not that were expected. good and the high so it i busines he nade an eminently = succe one under neéw mna nt New Britain most of » B Fnited h ot Torts as ness hs the ¢ pring ‘the “The pla ‘produet is still Mbelfeve that the 50 one de, can sful corpor oxelusively anti-mreraft tion cd in has 2,00 e ed manufac mounts. rines, torm. of all WO NEW 206 Atrmen Botit Get Tenth Vie- L German Flicrs, rrench Over soldiers u unner with {the 1 the ITav rying v help. Then from posite s of the Garden will tachments of the der their America sailors s Allied force e na ] “rench | out for it Bour; yunced by the e different own represent ne iotor has gained natior ch ur Jickary unced. aerial of 0 is ann will Of By | the | Mer- | | ehancellor continued, 10 | Russia; | port, Department | ! Behrsing, > | Roselle Park, N. which will be | { Mauch Chunk, Pa.; i Chicago; | York, | New d (GERMANY DOES NOT WANT BELGIUM, CHANCELLOR SAYS Von Hertling, in Speech Before Reichstag Main Com- mittee, Declares Its Present Possession Is Only “a and Adds That Teutons Have no Intention of Keeping it in Any Form Whatever. “ Pawn feor Future Negotiations” Copenhagen, July Germany intended was made by Count Gefmvan- chancellor, the cou of his speech bhefore the Reichstag main committee on Thursday. “The present pc only means that we have a pawn for future . negotiations,” the chancellor said. “We have no intention.to keep | Belgium in any form whatever,” “What we precisely want pressed by February 24, ‘is that after war restored Belgium' shall self-dependent state not he subject to fiybody as a vassal and shall live with us in' good, friendly relations. “l have ~placed this point of | vie from the beginning in regard to Belgium and T still hold it today. This ARMY LOSES 71 MEN; 14 DIE IN ACTION Marine 13.—Denial that to retain Belgium von Hertling, the in eneral lines, vesterday con- the di- clearly my polic formity with the rection of which laid before you. “We are wagir defen side in as a war of as we have done from the very beginning and every dency and every domination has been remote from our minds ‘What we want of our territory, the | pansion of our people in the the { domain and, nat also se as a |regard to the future. This pletely in conformity with my view in T Belg this point of view can be in detail depends on future tions, and, on this point I'am to give binding declarations, WILHELM 1S I]REAMleI OF GERMANY’S FUTHRE i e S Raves About Harnessing Sun’s Rays and Getting ssion of Belgium tendency to 1s the open inviolabiliy for the ex cconomic curity in is com- point of | how wed gotia- unahle as ex- us on gard to ium but establis n Corps Casualties Total 33—11 Killed | While Fighting, ; Ocean’s Treasures. Washington,July = 13.—The casualty list today 14; died of wounds 1: and other causes wound- severely 46; missing S; total ,71. | i list: ' army | Amsterdam, " German emperor of Germany orits we ful Karl zeiger One after a busy surveying operations from a observation posts, emperor, ting with his entouraze glowing enthusiasm s time when the loose on destruction July 13 pictures recorded correspondent Rosner, of the How the futury his fav- the faith- Lokal An- shows: Killed in the is by action died of accident ed The evening, day in chain of chat- with of Ac A. 1ward J. Killed in n. the Herbert Corporal I St. Paul; Teamster Victor Chicago; Privates Waltter Rapla River, Mich.; Arthur M. Duffy placed in the service of Hoboken; Raymond Howard, Newell,| suits. He sketched far W. Va.; Zachary Kryvoy, Stufchincy,! vances in the- technical Delbert Murray, Forestville, { physics, echemistry and W. Nenneman, Nobl, O, 'ming. The emperor Walter Orwick, Steubenvil 03l a1 Nor! Germany’s Yorkes Plowman, Glomawr Ky.: Max | would be rcovered k. Roshon, Wadsworth, ( Abe | tratd From the air Los Angeles; Bagburni svils | Saaigfonn ot s iaie oy GUEtOUHOXE SRV marvellous ilities” of the g how purified al works would Tieut. Brooklyn Buermeyer, ! Hayek, ¢ Geisert, W. Cole, spoke Rosner, now let again be peaceful pur- hi domain, the would Ld- in Wis.; forecast that in nitrates extracting needs by ni- osen, ams. ‘the new wast erve T pos s motors and ' waters from met. 1 to fertil the fields so that de will blossom like and make /arid region self-supporting as regards food. “With daring flight of fancy’ tirues Rosner, . ‘the emperor predicted the harnessing* of the rays of the sun and the recovery of the in- nermost treasures.” This will all come:-to p: peror assured his hearers, many secures the ‘strong which he is working. Died from Wounds. Musician Arthur J. Stowell, Me. Free- rts roses Died from Accident. Captain James G. Ellis, Jr., Deni- son, Tex.: Privat Malachi McGee, Hecksherville, P. The Severely Wounded. Anuvoxuh Roger Fleury, Jr., ville, Ma Albert Watherston, New Haven, Conn.; Privates Charles D. Brookline, Mass.; Clarence Ebensburg, Pa.; Harry Pa.; Joseph Br ocean’s Stan- ss. the em- once Ger- Bishop, peace’” for Boyle, Carbondale, cia, Jersey City; Lionel Dusablon, Woonsocket; Theophile L. Fontaine, rwood, R. 1.; Wilbur Gregory, Hobart G. Hall-} Roy Hogoboom, | Korda, Jersey U. S. AVIATOR KILLED Lieut, € man, Grampian, Pa.; Albion, Pa.; Stephen City; Earl F. Lewis, 348 Howard| avenue, Lancaster, Pa.; Frank Mec-| Shane, Hoboken; James J. O'Donnell, Hazleton, Pa.; Laslovico Tasoni, East | Albert L. Thrush | Philip Davis, Former Lafayette Flier. Reported to Have Fallen to Death Behind German Lines. Paris, July 13.—Official confirma- tion has been received of the death of Lieut. Philip Davis of West New- ton, M former member of the s ing Squadron who was last seen engaged in' an air combat in the vicinity of Toul'on June 25, n, Pa.; Jesse R. Miller, Ava,, ‘Omrades of Lic Davis droppea Don ©. Murphy, Lincoln, TlL: | ? Dote into the German lines asking Cornelius Panley; McCorkle, W. V. for news of him. A CGerman aviator Ernest ltoach 452 Dumiper street, | Fecently dropped a reply, suyving Lieut. e townl! Senkewiss | Davis haa Ikilled In the fall edford his plane Sheffield Pa Missing in Action. Lieutenant James | Henden, Blanchard RBattell, Colum- bus Privates Pete Kochanowski S Ga mok Bole been Mass Mavine corps « of ho Corps, 5 The W sualty list srine FCATH L] Hartford, July 13.—Forca cast for New Britain and v cinity: Continucd unsettled with fonight. Sunday shows: Killed in L5 _woundec d severely, | action,”11; died of wounds, | 17; total, 33 he marine corps casualties were in Thowes Third Page) (Continued on imperialistic ten- | world | scientific | AMERICA HAS SENT 00,600 MEN IN WEEK Soldiers Overseas and Enroute Have Passed 1,100,000 Mark | THREE CORPS ORGANIZED Gen. March Reports in Weckly Re- view That Transportation of Sol- N diers to France TIs Unbroken— Corps Commanders Named. ‘Washington, July 13 American troops overseas and on shipboard en 1,1000,000 mark, staff, told committee route has passed the Gen. military at arch, chief of sen- ate members to- day their weekly conference. of This represents an increase than last week. commandir more Major 11st 90,000 since Gen. Liggett, (the the Sunset) division National Guard been detailed mander of the | | l manders for as tempor com- first army corps. Com- the and third been designated. Thiee Army-Corps Organized. Thréé aymy corps of from 225,000 to 250,000 defi-, nitely American divi- March, at second have not yet men each have been ‘organized from sions in \mfi‘ conference with March arding the Fr troops let-up whatever maintained for months In announcing the army corp France, Gen. chief of announced today the had the weekly newspaper men. Gen. little to say military the proceeding situation in ance but said shipment of was without any the same rate being July as for previous the organization of he showed that five regular, nine Guard and sectional units of army divisions have been used to make up the three corps. Those in Command “Over There The first army following: First commanded by Bullard; second corps comprises the division, regulars, Major Gen. Robert L. division, regular: Major Gen. Omar Bundy; venty sixth National Guard Major Gen. Ciarence Edwards; Forty-second Na- | tional Guard (Rainbow) Majox: Gen. Charles Menhor; Forty-first Na- tional Guard (Sunset) M Gen Hunter Ligg Thirty-second Na- tional Guard (Michigan and Wiscon- | sin) - Major Gen. W. G. Haan. Second Corps: Seventy-seventh Na- tional Army (New York troops) Ma- jor Gen. Georgze Duncan; Thirty fifth National Guard, (Kansas and | Missouri troops) Major Gen. William M. Wright; Bighty-second National Army (Alabama, Georgia and Ten- nesee) Major Gen. William 1. Burn- ham; Thirtieth National Guard (Ten- nessee, rth Carolina, South Caro- lina, and District of Columbia troops) Major Gen. George W. Read, Twenty- cighth National Guard (Pennsylvar troops) Major Gen. C. H. Muir; Fortieth division regulars, Major Gen. George H. Cameron. Third Corps: Third div lars, Major Gen. Joseph E Fifth regulars, Major Gen. John I. McMamon; Seventy-eighth National | Army, (Delaware and New York | troops) Major Gen. J. M. McRae; | ghtieth division, Major Gen. Adel- | bert Cronkhte; Thirty-third National | Guard (Illinois troops) Major Gen. | George Bell, Jr.; Twenty-seventh Na- | tional Guard (New York troops) Ma- jor Gen. Ja O'Ryan. Command- for the army corps are only tem- for the present, Gen. “the policy of the war depart- being to wait until the various | major generals have had experience | in handling the corps units before | making permanent s ! lections, Appointments lieutenant gener will go to the | selected for | permanent details, | Recomme | President Wilson nominations Genceral in the Gen, Wi, ( G. Sharpe jor B. on regu- Dickman; ment as e officers the ds Promotions. | President today made army Major army: Major jor Gen. IMenry Quartermaster General general, for four a Harry 1. Rog of Ordns with for four line rozier with of major Brigadier Chief major ! dier tien zeneral vears: mz«-] Clarence ¢ Tilliam has { | April Famous Mil in Failing served Sev ---Credited Amsterdam, July % Marshal von Hindenbuf Nouvelles. His death/is'§ view with the German emp emperor and the field marshi ferences of opinion concerning death of I7ield Marshal von many u[vml\ that he was ir London [7rida 1y from The Tague over Germany. tion the rumor. The traveler chief of the German staff ing the German offensive Hindenburg was reported from'.an acute nervous disease. sive on the western front. At the outbreak of the war was a general .in retirement. was promoted to field marshal. man forces on the Russian front Falkenhayen. When he became general. Field Marshal Paul ars old last September 28. The Hague. William occurred on May 16, by an apoplectic marshal’s death. stroke which (German newspapers w dded that Gen. was appointed chief of the general Beneckendorff The newspaper from good sources in the occupied district of Belgium. field marshal died from cungeatl In Poor Health For Six Mo In the past six months there have been seve Hindenburg, 1 poor health. and the dispatch s quoted a Dutch traveler f¥e Germany Late in May The newspaper declared it A Accomplished Defeat of the Russians eld Marshal von st Prus Tannenburg until August 30, 1916, when staff in succession to Gen. chief of general staff Gen. Famous Military Leader Was 70 Years Old. Suffered Stroke on May 16. The violent interview between von Hindenburg and Emperan Les Nouvelles says. ultimately Ay resulted in the It ad ERLIN BOY WINS FRENCH WAR CROSS Private William Bolton Writes To His Mother Telling of His Citation. In a letter to ard Bolton of Bolton, a member Infantry, now in informs his awarded bravery the Croix De award of the his East mother, Berlin, of the active parent the war Mrs. Wil- 102d service that cross The the of- “rench govern- for distir hed service. Bol- received his cross for service on 20. On the same day, five oth- ers of the division to which he is at- he has been of France for cros: fici ton March | ! : | honor for distinguished service, | his Croix De Guerre, ached were awarded this badge of With Bolton also Te- ceived citation from the division general which citation gives him one star toward the official cross of the A ican government H writes that he will send the cross home as soon as he gets a chance Bolton enlisted after the out of the L ot Bristol the compunies merged regiment, iny a soon hresk war in C When were the was Connecticut into the te compz whic 3olton attached made a par e 102d imistic war but is very trenches at to his June The about does oi young outcome think that near. He was still in the time the letter mother. The letter 14 soldier of the the wa wa is o the not end sent STONE P | MYERS, This Afternoon at 3 o'Clock. The marriage of Miss Lucy A of Mrs. William d | daughter Camp street, a: 48 Camp Harry E street, took ternoon the at 3 o'clock, at bride. attended. The The couple” were ceremony was formed in the presence of only imr p: of nediate families of Rev. R Seinhoff, People’s church. ies, by c. the of the fiftieth wedding the groom’s parents, Mr. and ‘William Myers of this cit actually 3 versary took place two a0, hae v s 4 apassible for their preparations were Mr., Mrs: splendld health made at and Myers are considering their | the former being 75 Mrs being 69 IFollowi held and years, s the, ceremony a re during ‘Which both received comgratulations. A luncheon was served and afternoon the br automobile for a White Mountains gone about three was They, expect .many as declaring a report that the field marshal was ill and ufiab to participate in the work at army headqquarters had spread a e not permitted to men Ludendorff, the firs quartermaster general, had taken over the field nm!\]HI's duties al Keeping step with reports of the fiel marshal’s health have been dispatches from the field marshal and the emperor had had dxs,xmguncnt\ concer; ovement in the west. *l with typhoid fever at Strassbur; June 18 he was reported by the Tribune of Geneva to be su indicatin Vo Of ff erin ha learned ffom aireliable source that his mental capacity. was muc affected and tHat he was confined to a private sanitarium that the field marshal had taken no responsible part in the offen ded Hindenburg He was credited with c\m]\mtf and carrying out the campaign against the Russians in E sulting in the serious Russian defeat at A re for which hd Me continued to command the Ger: hq VO Luden dorff, who had acted as his chief of staff on the Russian front, camd with him: as his right hand man with the title of chief quartermaste und von Hindenburg wag The ‘u“~p<1pcr Les Nouvelles, which 10])1-(1\ the death of the] German leader. is a newspaper in the French language published af] It was followed field its information was ohtained Camp Sttreet Couple Quietly Marrle Stone) Stone of § Myers o place this af. the home off un per thel the contracting pasto In copjime] tion with the affair was the observancel anniversary of] Mrs. The#nni- about, but owing to the fact| three. dalighifers to”Be" present no claborate that time. enjoying g Myers eption couples weddgn in Lho ind groom left wedding trip in th to g weeks and upon red reside on Buckingham stoeet,