New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1918, Page 1

e N KW BRITAIN HERAILL BLISHED 1876. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1918. —TEN PAGES. GERMANY SUGGESTS CONFERENCE ON PE SIX TORPEDOES SINK SECOND LARGE Towss Rardy Ohane thnds But Aled| o o N WHTTE, STAR LINER Forces Finally Press on---German Counter Attack Southwest of Rheims Unable to Stay JUSTiClA IS U_BOAT VICTIM Force of Blow --Light Fighting Near Arras e D O RS S = = ! Eleven members of the crew are dead. |the engine room, causing a violent ex- London, july 24.—There was fierce fighting Tuesday between Second Largest Ship The White Star liner Justicia, says |plosion and the other penetrated a Amsterdamy T T et e (o s it s AN of a Belfast dispatch today, was sunk off | forehold. peace conference Eaeasnce e e ‘~| Yoo TG correspondent on . the north Irish coast on Saturday | The liner was in tow at the time and | Vorwaerts of Borl Chateau Thietry saysfa dispatch irom Reuters e in Worid Suflk Off | morning last. as she did not sink until 2 o'clock in The suggestiof the French front. In the morning the enemy retook [Epieds an One of the crew of the Justicia is |the aftcrnoon there was ample time to First—Germil the hamlet of Trugny a mile to the south. I'he Americans A » | quoted by the newpaper as asserting |transfer the crew ta other rescuing rst—GCTTig counter-attacked and re-entered Trugny and continued to press Irish Coast on Pas- | it ten’ tomedoce wore diseharsed | shins west.. N back the Germans, who still held Epieds when the dispatch was | at the Justicia. Four of the approach — Second—The pes G S e CER Al S : A ¢ ing missiles, he added, were exploded | mhe Justicia, in size and tonnage, | not be questioned. ' fted : _ e | Sage to America |w e on e i nearly anprosched the dimensioms of | . Thind The prin In the n between AMont St. Pere and Charteves the News of the sinking of the Justicia |the great steamship Vaterland now T French and Americans pushed forward two miles, capturing a e was announced by the Belfust ive- |in the service of the American gov- | Dcenl discussed but mayis number of fortified towns. The Americans completed their occu- ning Telegraph. The liner was torpe- | ernment and being used for a carrier | the fate ot 1'?‘{3”‘“‘ also i - ! . 3 An Irish Port, Monday, July doed, the newspaper states of American troops to Europe. She Fourth—The Balkan (By the Associated Press)—The g | The Belfast Telegraph says land had | was designed as a modern passenger | conference table. ! Thife ‘Star lnen Tustdis : cen |Just been lost sight of en a ter- | liner for the trade between New York o At places the enemy is burning his stores while elsewhere they |White Star liner Justicia has been ;J Fifth—The freedom of i ie explosion shook the Justicia. The | and Rotterdam but never entered the 5 ! 3 3 ot and s tnie: rifit explosion sh h o fand ) = ) have becn set on fire by Allied shells S8 re tiicejiacEDeeniy|ECSRERRS el crew speedily was mustered on deck | service. and the Suez Canal and the rigl burning in the important base of Iere-en-Tardenois since Monday The Justicia ~formerly was the|but it soon was ascertained the dam- After being completed at Belfast| Stations. v ; g . Dutch steamer Statendam, whi age was so trivial that the liner would | the Cunard Steamship Co. turned the Sixth—The colonial question is™# evenin was taken over by the British govern- | remain afloat for sufficient period | Justicia over to the British admiralty | the status quo . SN ment on the stocks at Belfast when |to enable her to be towed to Dort. | und the vessel for some {ime was used sta \7‘1 S R e % e Raiding in Albert-Arras Sector. shé was nearing completion. She was| A tug pulled alongside the liner for | ag 4 transport of troops and supplies. I'he Vorwaerts considers this a very reaso Is were carried out by British troops |a vessel of 34 tons gross. this purpose when two more torpedoes | The Justicia was 740 feet long, 86 r- - Four hundred of the crew of the |were fired by a submarine, which had | feet beam and 43 feet deep. “No Compromise,” Al t night in the region south of Bucuoy uyd northwest of Albert, Gt T TR, Been TrGel el (e ANl RS St e e says today’s war office report. A few prisoners were taken. A fjare” They report that the liner was |missed the mark, passing between the i 3 ashington, July, 24— German raid on the Dritish lines northeast of Bethune on the |sunk after a 24-hour fight with sub- |liner and the tug. Returning to American Port. suggestions which the Berlig i Blanders tront! was repulsed marines. No passengers were lost. Further attempts were made by the| New York, July 24.—The Justicia, waerts declares the German govermel The first torpedo struck the en-|submarine to torpedo the Justicia dur- | reported sunk apparently somewhere pation of the Barbillen Wood. . \ number of fires are visible from behind the German lines. London, July 24.—Rai ment is about to advanc: ; gine room and the ship then stopped. |ing Friday night, but all failed and it | off the coast of Ilreland, was return- tente and America thruu;hh:htehg En- pan- German Counter-Attack Fails. 'WORCESTER AVIATOR Several other torpedoes were fired |was not until Saturday morning and|ing to an American port after deli ish government, officials h Paris, July 24.—The Germans last but only two of the missiles were |after the submarine had expended | ering a large contingent of American the German (k'\““ l: Sxe ere detect. night delivered a counter-attack upon REPORTED MISSING | ¢frective. numerous torpedoes that the destru FrobDs it vas Toaznanlhons! round table conference the s the allied lines in the vicinity of tion of the ship was accomplished The Justicia had a troop carrying definition of > the actual | y S & peace term ¥ vrigny fiv miles outhwest of - Eleven of C ad. The final attempt was made at 'I-um-uy of between 7,000 and 8,000 o = A 2 1 : & ! President Wilson and Iheims The war office aunouncec x 5 London, July 24.—The Justicia car- slock on Saturday morning when two | men. Her crew aumbered about 500. Lloyd George of today that the attack been o Flyer Killed in England— Y g e have recor: pulsed: s Philadelphia Airman Thought themselves definitely that no C?,td\i: ‘here was great activity by the | conference w. il 0o EReteEN he night along the front to Be Prisoner, thereonce will be entered into unless illery g the night along ] lere has been an acceptance by the e R s e G e e Central Powers of the exact termeg northeast toward Rheims France. July 24, (By The Associaled upon which the conference is to Premiers . Great Britain and Clemenceau of France : paris, July 24.——Important gains | Lafayette flying squadron, is officiall President Wilson's definition of ¢ were realized Tuesday by the Allies, | reported as missing since July Norfolk, Va., July 24—Fire which [ terms upon which America 5 il particularly by the }rench troops who | following an air fight = = X . i ;rv discuss peace has been acec pted ire bearing 0 per cont. of the oftort | U =0 e | Single Railroad - Between |1, .. Tncludes Killed. Wounded Search For U-Boat Which [started shortly after noon today in an | by (L of the great Entente powers ) which they vie in bravery with the | dispateh from correspondents ; Estlmate ncludes Killed, ounde {mmense hangar at the naval base here | oy oLroSentative of their own desires Americans, British and Italians. headquarters of the American army Them and Capture Sunk Schooner Off o s here point out that Germany s F 3 SO SRR e e and Those Taken Prisoner threatened to destroy the structure. |} duite well aware of these tondi- ront says the French are steadily | that Licut. Hobbs had been killed on ‘ . lons and consequently they can only hting toward Oulchy-le-Chateau. | June when he was forced to fly March Says. Maine Coast. Help was summoned from Norfolk. view this reported new attempt at Borth of the Marne in an advance of | low hecause of engine trouble and _— peace negotiations as another appeal \ nalles > | had been broug ;g i i to the pacifist eleme o wo kilometers (about 1 miles) the | had been brought down by anti y i Q W ements in the Entente Allies took fortified farms and Bar- | craft guns Washington, July 24.—The advance H R TE Y I Kennebunkport, Me., July 24— AUSTRIA AS READY and also as intended to quiet the un- easy socialistic elements billon Wood. —_— of the Allied and |American forces PSP S S ron ot o1l e ¢ L within the heladds) surpaesed in London, July 24.—Malcolm Cotton- | Al alenitnay SUSmATing TO STRIKE AT ITALY | Central Powers, who are The fightir ) n around the ) N R S " T i believed to violence that of the March and May | Brown of Chicago, an American avia- | heen virtually steady for the last two | Generalissimo Confounds Encmy and ers and private craft were sweep- be again in a dangerous mood. Fensives and the Germans rapidly | tion officer, has been killed while fly- [ qavs, Gen. March, chief of staff, said s b ing up and down the coast in this vi- — pifensives 2 e i e | R AG Ehreet. Rt b Y8 S e e ¥riendly Critics by Continwing 10| einity today searchi The term “status quo’ AR are being worn out. The wild talk of | ing near Gloucoster. o i today, despite the fact that 15 fresh ¥ today scarching for eight of the [Capture of Munitions and Other |, ™1 s quo”, appifed in e German official statements, he | caused the machine to drop from a | givisions of German troops have been | Smash Ahead Relentlessly—Eranco- | c7ew of the Glotcestor fishing sehonn. ot T cetmah EUTEE ays, proves more than anything else | great height thrown into the fighting at Soissons er Robert and Richard A Stores Reveals Program for question has been rather loosely used he confusion in Germany resulting ! i and on the line south of there, Americans Pounding at Flanks of| * i tichard, which was ey (‘]‘ ‘“rr“‘»“ in connection with solu- rom the Allied blow. The Germans Pari -““(»‘ . !‘T S Louis Les- | mpe Germans are fighting desper- (e et sunk by a German submarine Monday Drive in Albania yflliyou (‘n]m\nl peace problems. In ke r retreat by paying a | lie Byers of Philadelphia, is missing | 7 o e L own Prince’s Army. norning, 65 miles = 5 i seneral it has been employ:. e e el e ek fori: oric s e aatolze il he plsle rallyaying TOring, 65 miles off Cape Porpoise, | Paris, July 24 (Havas).—Austrian | shhreviation of the tornr o o0 88 an jstly price but the necessity of recon- | says the Parl 280 |iremaining in their hands, over which | with the French Army in France,| Other members of the cro : : ol : 5 ¢ term “status quo cting their general reserves soon | Tribune. Byers, who was one of the | 1ERaUnE T IO BARCH ovhr WhOW s menby; he crew, Inolud- | preparstions for an offensive in Al |ante bellum. RUCUDE = 3 ek = mborsl ot S Tafav. avy material cd e SERY o By the Associate >ress).— g Captain Robert Wharton, arriv 0 sern * will. ob! them to straighten their l,‘( |(m.n|§n}l~l nu,l!‘n\\u ”:rr) slv:\"ll,i\‘tazl‘ e W e oid i‘ul,»‘d 3 ¢ v\ l.xe ; ociated F ;L.}s)‘ el ’, llrrnml bania have been shattered by the drive imi“rrtx”v."ln\' s )ymmm,, heretofore, as Gl Rhelns ctte escadrille, disappearec e It that railway, runming from |Tuesday was another successful day|here and last night after | v 1o Fronch and Italian troops dur. | N9iCated by her leading statesmen: ‘ol duty. He may be a prisoner : ke T o o has been o1 ¢ Defobouly may be & PUISONET | mismes to Fereen-Tardenois is reached |for the allies along the entire active | Naving been at sea for 36 hours with Ing the past fortnight, according to the | return of hew woje iStence upon the German View of Batte. ST Emany by the Allied troops, ho said, German |battle front. Eodut we'or and food Rupplles. Thel L L0 ¢ the Beth Tarislon| been ,.l:,,”,;;’i‘o‘]] nles and theye hay terdam, July 24.—Telegraphing = forces remaining in the sailent will be The bag of prisoners captured by |Sea was calm and the missing men : . e G s ecent uttahinoRy e Awsne-darne battie tront | SLAY 200 TO AVENGE pocketed. the French northwest of Montdidier | Were not in danger except from ex- |t the Albanian front. Enemy mu- jerman leaders tending to front between Soissor Boston, July 24.—Oflicials of the Tirst nayal district made every effort e aneed D A Second District Excmption Board times with gradually les- to jopnalig ot ol pan’s Reply Is Received. At thc sevond district exemption s g GO O board the examination 1918 regis- trants yesterday brought approxi- mately 115 new men into Class I-A. Yesterday 63 men were examined and the day previous 70 were examined. The remander of the 187 registrants ecame a hurried < 3 mpbered changed. It was eve : ; pondent of the Wolit burcan, | VON MIRBACH’S DEATH | ofiicial reports show the enemy has |tory was gained with very slight losses = materials have been destroyed or cap- | (he ; Syt ndickied tu | The Franco-Italian lines have been | used to secure the : of biacks and Amer- | Bolsheviki ~ Demand Heavy P mile front, despite heavily wooded |French troops met scveral strong Ger- > secure the giving back of her ines. They paid for it in somc defense. The area lost by the Ger- e : . -olumns continue to advance along the = J 3 jred thousands of killed negroes der of Kaiser's Envoy. result of which the allied line again | °Perating off the New England coast. | 5 = 115 MEN PLACED IN e Amsterdani, July 24.— e \e Flanders front in April, e il S50 NON e eustl reaplance i Sibn e lcha: and their as- | sassination of Ambassador von Mir- | divisions organized in this country |iijometer. The British increased the | Protect shipping. been informed by Foreign Minister | Sheridan, Ala.; Custer, Mich.; Funs- | Approximately 180,000 dead, wound- | mersible had been in New England Berlin Two regular infantry regiments will [1ost by the Germans since July 15.|cCrews of the sunken craft would indi- When the firing continued | Alexandrovitch, vice-president of the | Home Guards have replaced regulars |and munitions within the salient, evi- | the barges attacked off Cape Cod on| Washington, July ¢ sident | : hsions the German |additional one hundred persons are |ing to the camps designated, Gen. |ther. the Robert and Richard placed the | States for participation .n the expedi- s it U et fantry regiments of regulars, the divi- | The barges were attacked without [ and it will be made public as soon | o FARRRAer of the 187 vegistrants < . shov is itude (to of Tuesday evening the On the Rheims side of the salient |numbered more than 1,500. The vie- | haustion. nition depots, stores of food and war W that this attitude has been " e ews age U'hei “ " P SR = s r SO ard o & no: e e “pawn” hold Germany in the semi-official German n gency, SEEE »een thrown back an average dis- ,x“”"m uthward on the northern May Be Two Submarines. tured. shape of Belgium was ’n\l-mlz)d to be tance of & mile and a half on a ten [Side of the Marne, Amecrican and b straightened out at certain points over | former colonial X A an s 8 1 : & v onial possessior were hurled against the Ger- o ionis: - | country a ol ground to aid his |Man attacks to which they responded S gt S, 2k sl et ! From Revolutionists for Mur puntry and high gro O e e | by () Tt i) Gt o e b || R B e e Dl i gt In some places they mans during the last w\m;h. 11;6 T A ST awingd wordlfor Bhel Rt ot lwxnk; of m!a! Devoli river, the corre- ric RO Lo about equals that gained by them on |2¢Vanced. 2 s < - the Robert = Tehas spondent adds. < 3 5 zains in heavy fighting in the vicinity | t'® Robert and Richard on Monday, n e 19 more than 200 social revolution- e ! | RN . - CLASS 1 OF DRAFT D T ayachine | 1sts of the Left had becn shot by the The chief of staff announced that} ., ‘5qs of the salient the I'rench and | Other craft were ordered out to sup- ‘RUSSIAN PR AM OMPLETE - Bolsheviki for participation in the as- [The had grdered six new infantryim,.yop agvanced an average of one|Plement the regular coas: patrol and | bach and in the counter revolution, | during July, stationed respectively at.',mml,m- of prisoners taken in three Naval and marine men were in- the German charge at Moscow Camps Devens, :Mass.; Mead, Md.; |gays ta 1,100 by capturing 300. clined to the opinion that only 1 sub- |President Wilson Prepared to An- Completes Examination of 1918 third day the American : / s e n e N ove As s Ja- Registrants—Other Draf o hult at the first | Tehitcherin, says a dispatch from | ton, K and Lewis, Wash. ed and captured prisoners have been | Waters, but descriptions given by the | MOUnce Next Move As Soon As Ja Registrants—Other Draft Notices Among those shot, it is added was | form the nucleus of each new division. |The enemy continues to burn stores | cate there were two. Men aboard so that at times | committee which dirccted the plot | at interior guard posts for this pur-|dently being fearful that the future|Sunday reported tho submarine to be | Wilson has completed his pronounce- flight. | against the German ambassador. An | pose and the regulars are now mov- |will see him driven back much far-|400 feet long whie the fishermen of |ment as to the blans of the United i onthes and)| underarrest March said. Aside from the two in- length of the U-boat at 250 feet. tion to give military aid to Russia fantry stood up in the trenches _ o ins with salvoes of rifle fre LUXBURC NEAR HOMB slons will be composed of National Toch’s Strategy a Surprise, warning but the crew of the fishing | as Japan's reply to the American | fit &0 Re8 €0 S for thel ke angd sttack on July 21 American Army troops. Paris, July 24.—Kach day's opera- | S¢hooner was given time to leave the | proposals has been receiv board has but one alleged draft #8Wg- The chief of staff said the’Ameri- |tions bring further proof of the com- | SHIP- er in the 1918 class. Only four have can divisions he mentioned last Sat-|pleteness with which the genius of — been totally rejected and 14 | urday as involved in the fighting still | General Foch has turned tk bles on Crew of Schooner Rescued. LOCAL BOY A PRISONE placed in the limited class, gentina Reaches Gothenburg on | were constantly engaged. He added |the Germans. Instead of slowing Portland, Me., July 24.—All those - - - Attorney Albert A. Greenberg wasg ravine from the sugar works at | 3oard Swedish Motor Steamer. no additional American units to those |down to a condition of what has been | on the Gloucester fishing schooner Red Cross Learns That Tony Bichum | today appointed captain of the second They immediately turned | already known to be on the line in|called stabilization, as the general| Robert and Richard, sunk by a Ger s % G Gt o s e i | London, July 24—Count von Lux- | this region, public from experience expected, the [man submarine off the Maine coast CLEI IR ATt L S tomorro U9 ey, SereiC COmTIHERIGITTE (0 o m———— allies continue to push forwar in the | Monday, had been accounted for to Through the local Red Cross rela In t st district additional 1918 were battalior f the second division, ad- | vancing ough the ravine oi Vis- | {oneux, were caught in the fire of | rman machine guns which covered i Disgraced German Ambassador to Ar- gentina, has arrived at Gothenburg face of deter: L 1 skilful vesist- s , 23 8 . o i ! : : COURT et : ermined and skilful tesist-|day. There were 23 persons on the |tives of Private Tony Iiichum, re- |resistrants will he cxamined fomor. on board the Swedish motor steamer | ¥ H LIBERTY LOAN nce by the Germans who had time to }vosdel. Three men were landed at {Suecha, on which he sailed from SEPT 281 to OOM, 1194 | ratove oo ihe il shotit ol : Buenos Aires on June 9, according to Konnobunkport and 11 ot this pops | P7riod seversl weeks ae e —_— Washington, July The treasury | Prise. last night. Four more were brought | HELFPERIC WELL GUARDED. Copen n dispatch o the \)' |virtually has decided to hold the The enemy, according (o reports, |in here today and four men and & T GERMANY'S ENVOY TO RUssLA [ change T Isemph Co n,:, L aepatell | fourth Liberty loan campaign in the ! NOW has 35 divisions in e battle | oy were picked up at sea and taken war at the German concentration o O icanliel | Ot LibureRirocests * |three weeks' period hetween Saturday, {200€, 400,000 men o which are in |44 ogton Wit Darmistaat German imperial vice-| oo September 2§ and Saturday, October | e pointed Ger- | HEMOCRATS NAMI SMITH _ (Continued on ALEXTS n(m‘\\m ¥ 1)f 1< 1\"\‘ oy | Cranse street, and is 24 years old. He | (ronoi ™y representative at FOR NEW YORK GOVERNOR MICHAELIS IN ARMY. | e FOLLOWS EX-CZAR IN DEATH |was a member of Company D, 102q | "% dis- ] saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 1 5T : WEATHER. Amsterdam, July 24.—-Alexis Ro United States Infantry, and enlisted | Ne York democrats in formal state With the American Army in France, AN s T manoff, the former heir apparent to |in June of 1917 el ..‘.‘,“” todas namcaliAifred Tl Dr. George Michaelis. the | ,.,|!"'\'.“:“""’ iy "m, bon ,,'l'> the Russian throne, died from ex- Private Randolph Stewart of Plain ARMY BEGAN ON JULY 7 Helfferich | Smith. president of the New York | former German imperial chancellor, | Parly tonight B posure o few dayvs after his father, |ville is also a prisoner in Germany, Amsterdam, Ju) General mo of | city boa of aldermen, as the party | is reported by a prisoner to be now | Thursday, probably local show. the former emperor. Was executed, Jand Private William O'Sullivan of | bilization of the Russian army began - haiiin b d the German | organisation's eholes for noml commanding a German army brigade ||| arc: sempihat coler tonight says a dispatzh- from Moscow to the |Forestville is a prisoner at the Lim- [on July 7, according to Moseow sde Pypacsy ai osgow. a3 BOVOrROX, A __ lom the western front — = e e |} | Berlin Lokal Anzeiger Mvurg gampee ... |¥ices receiyed here, SRR have learned th 1 S b e 1 action, have learned that the young in action, h L the young nto the soldier not dead but is a prisoner Privite Lichum brother and sister living at 34| O" course MOBILIZATION OI' RUSSIAN