New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1918, Page 1

NE\‘OT BfilT/\lN, CONNECTICUT, ESTABLISHED 1876. /\UGI,‘S’I‘VZdV 1018, - TEN PAGES. RETREAT TO CHEMIN DES I FOR GERMANS AFTER ¥ THREAT TO CALAIS EN . 'NEW BRITAIN HAS EVERY REASON 1% CONFIDENT U-B0A TO BE PROUD OF MEN, DECLARES EUT. 4. A, 13 0UT OF RUNNING LIEUT. GRIFFIN, ON VISIT HOME | vt v recisct v e o [afternoon that Licut. Joseph A. [ led Company I i Connecticut in- -~ : i tin killed In action. The message notify- | e - : German 8 { fantry, on the first of its - . 4 . ik KHOCka ][ Bmadsme journey to Berlin, Germany, arrived ng the parvents of the death camo 2 : S between the A5 it (i il o o ‘ - v et mile front thy turned from nce on Sunday. Lieut om the war department in Wash- | > Licut. Glover was onc of New o oy This attack, strect. had been S fensive For six days Lieut. Griffin : : and the New Britain boys were con , ; i g, Britain’s most promincnt men. He ; Y - northwest of Sags [lemil ailiing the TReaGaE PR : | was graduated from Officers, Training i e whole German ped Guns Ready for Action and Stern | the direction of Berlin. The third 8 . that the Frenchil Battalion of the 102d. United States . . school =t Platisburg and iater was nat the renciiy Chase Ensucs—26th Shell Halts [ jprantry made an advance of E . ot % ) o e retirement from SoiS8$ kilometers, which is the equivalent of 5 assigned to the military camp in | 5 di . No details G 117 miles. . Westtield. He had been in - France . v \tlantic Port. Aug. 20 A 400- ! Our ive began on July and Submarine Pops Out of Waves with 100-Foot Pirate, v : ; ! V o of two miles in this seq{ ren bmarine was sunk | from then until the 26th were several months. Previous to going | B . v along the Aisne and bef enemy submarme was sunk by | from ther i 26th., > Eh oo A E AR G ot e Iy going forward,” said Lieut. | % 5 into the army Licut. Glover was n [SE o y . which only an immediae hed here las tnight. The tale of | Griffin. “There was no Jet up. The A 3 2 ey 5 5 Unofiicial dispatcly® batile between the tanker ar fighti was constant. For the part < lawyer, a member of the firm of % 3 : be achi ; r anker an il been achieved by the '8} t s tol bday by John Cros 2 Britain soldic took in that % danid ks ' 3 toche & Glover. He was a d : a2, old today by J v ol New i | past Roye. The line as it § vief 1 of the former, from his hed | drive a number will be recommended - : of Yale and was 24 years old. : . | W spital where he is being tre for distinguished services sses." | B . - close tc > importz oW1y (e hosrtia i ereinell thclnpattedted ) ifongdst i guish o A 4 According to the war depariment’s e oo o e mpOnt Doy for shock | Who the soldiers are who will be thus e o i have been fighting for the | Crosby is said to be in a serious con- | recognized Lieut. Griffin declined tc ’ . . statement, slover was killed Ve iR SO R i &\ |'w‘; l\\\ td to be in a : riou u‘\)u g ./\< 1 \jxq‘”(m‘r Hn!m \l:;\\:i(. m» i . S | he Germans’ hold on R& case is that he felt no ill effects during | to be proud of its soldiers in France,” = 1 LIEUT. =z A. GLOVER recent progress of th eFren the engagement, which took place last | said Mr. Griffin e e o i i SRR would appear that Roye now riday, and was in good health until | *We had a number of casualties,” | 1ST. LIEUT. ASHLEY T n g In Flanders the British h! «al appred vesterday morning. Then, safely in |said Lieut. Grifiin, but he declined to | ———— — == FHRST R{ORNENG s U C L b 5 5 7 g port and beyond the reach of the un- | mention any specific instances or | Stanley Works at that time gains in the Ly 1] ent ind tl P tion . within : 1 pivate, he collapsed zive any estimates of the number. I am glad to he back™, said Lieu- | - > 3% ILE MORE salient appears more difficult da iving against the [tedfi he second mate was on the bridge | “Our battalion captured 300 prisoners | tenant Griffin, He added that he ex- FRENCH FORVY the salient the British have won %rofind on a = ffont “of - YR 3_o'clock in the afternoon.” |in one day. The soldlethimercy h xs Sl 0 ":;”:l“‘;‘ S e x miles and entered the important town of Merville, where { Cre Wis never a sigin | cellent condition and their spirit is ieut. Bennett o; ompany, 101s GRS T = 3 of any crafi around but he causht the | yv\ e R idi Machine Gun Batta landed in thi Clarence river enters the Lys streak made by torpedo coming | “Ljcut. Chamerlain was in the i country yesterday and the guest SR O, 500 Germans Rounded Up! Noyvon fast is m.‘um ng the umv:‘] point of alient s toward the tanker. He yelled and the | hospital when 1 left. iHe had a slight [last evening of Mr, and Mrs. Parker of i i g | as that which centered around Montdidier at the beginning ship v thrown out n ’ H,‘;,-;“_ injury to hig knec caused by a :“ IL{ Vine street, whose son,, Luther Larker, || FURNISH 2,238 MEN IN Before 9 0°Clock—Raid | the Picardy offensive The stability of the present German 1 2 when going over thie fopin the big,is top sergeant in the same company SATURDAY'S QUOTA. from the Somme to Rheims depends greatly upon the holding on deck hy that time, i 3 able to state t ¢ He hrought good s for all of the = | = nslye gl ool ung : SR S E0C SSTE : On Americans In Toul—| (he Noyon salient whose western outposts are Roye and L ¢ the particular accomplishment New Britain boys in the battalion Shineon DDy o8 started the thing toward us which won for him his distin- ¢ which he left on August 5, h g v estit 1 1 nat mnounced to- | o4 n | nH “What we did see was another tor-| yished service cross yeen detailed to Camp Dix to train the e e e British Stand Firm, pedo. We zig-zagged, dodging the “Captain Griswold, so far as I soldiers in machine gun warfare. general show th 158,000 missle just as prettily as could be t i ent by us. Then the submarine came out of the water with her guns ready issed Dby a signy. British troops are reported to have reached the railrd station in the western suburbs of Roye. The French have driy the wedge between Roye and Lassigny to I‘resnieres, cutt main highway between the towns. In addition to being ened from the west of Lassigny is being approached from the s by General Humbert’s troops who finally have debouched frd Thiescourt Wood. Along the western bank of the Oise and south of Noyon tj§ | staff, I think he will be returning . general morale and health of the boyvs since last June 5 should reg- London, Aug. 1 p. m.—The to this country soon were splendid that Gardner Weld who ister for military service next % ‘¥fergeant Albin W. Backicl of ! was wounded on July 22nd, was get- Saturday. Of this number Was 200d for 115 knots hut we besan | COMpany I, has been sent to an offi- { ing along well and would probably be is estimated that about 1 ikl eI G & RO 6 a0 Filieg ) to go with the U-boat coming behind, | C6T'S training school to qualify for a “able to rejoin the company soon and will go into Class 1, subject ‘\‘r:wnn the Oise and the Aisne and | £ S g L : | commission Zdward Ogren of Com- | that Gordon Robinson wrote from the immediate call to the colors. reached a maximum depth of two | She opened up Wwith her guns and ths | COMmi Bdward Og a BEIEE & G, I Erenc Sie e imnerz reache Dresli . ST | pany I, attended the training school ! hospital to the company that he was State estimates of AT LR R R Fe G BT | French have taken Pimperz and n‘u}utl Dreslincourt, to 4 “I wag acting as spotter for the gun- | And has been commissioned as a sec- { rapidly recovering from shell-shock. day’s re ratton include: C S | northwest. ast of the river toward Soissons General Man calling the shells as they kicked | ©nd lieutenant.” e said the rest of the boys, How- necticu 238; Delaware, 1 ey S Wronc ‘ | has captured more high ground and has taken Mossain and } 4 e i has Deon sentho Al “BII Hait R e Nalne 00 The advance of the French troops k: k upiihe aierinpout fre W bout JROGH | aul Galfdnihas een eentil) me ,‘-““‘"J“"'_’ e il oh | W endangers the whole German position | brought his total of prisoners to 2, In this operatioff™ t twenty-sixth shot took the submarine | become an instructor at Camp Dix. ! son, Louls Rerknagle Leon Bradley assachuse 5,310; New Jer- Shignsna el i e e - T e 1 right. She did not blow up with a |At the conclusion of his seven davs' |and Al Schade were all well and hap- 1.416; W Hampshire It is possible that the Germans now I'rench not only oo ]“;,‘\‘”“‘.‘ "' Noyon. but “*"}!\C t 5 > ressure against Soissons. rom the heights arounc \lor W ; : will withdraw to the Chemin des| PTESSUre against ¢ n TOgt e cied L around slowly and drifted broadside on. | for the greater part in this city visit- | of this city He described “going ania, 12.583: Rhode Islar ey they can bombard the German battery positions nor Soisso We did not slow down hut made for | ing relatives of soldiers to deliver per- | over the ton”. when, on one expedi- 827 and Vermont, 505 SWiftly as we could travel. I |sonal messages, he will go to the | tion, they picked up a German man- : : A . our shot destroved the enemy | camp. He appears in excellent physi- | dolin on German territory which he | —_ If Mar h,‘l Foch can succeed in pincl ”7 N \l condition and agrees that he never | ana ‘Bill* Hart later enjoyed playing vancing northward he virtually will compel the Germans | | A North of Rove the French have 1C1Ng ; L —_ | felt better in his life, He gained | B company has also as a souvenir, one GRUGERS IN SESSIGN taken the Bracquemont and Fendu! retire from the present line north of Roye toward Arras and w She was all of 400 feet long and could ! French Tenth army again attacked know has not joined the regimental Lieut, Bennett reported that th young men who have become H i | make 17 knots an hour. Our boat ! Lang. What she did was to swing |leave of absence which will be spent| py. He had also seen Thomas \Wilbor 278 14,932; Penn- efore 9 o‘clock this morning the | which have been harassing the Allieed occupants of t —— = French had captured 500 Germans in | s the sector attacked. American Ship Rams U-Boat. weight fighting the Huns. Having | of the shells of the long range gun woods and have accupied the greater { hasten, if not force. a German retreat to the north of the A Washington, Aug. 20.—The navy de- e (M‘ September he was en- | which ‘\hmm Pa . ]l‘]n\ nell part of ll;.m,_ ignes, according to ad- | hotween Soissons and Rheims. Success around Noyon might partment announced tod that the | titled to wear the foreign service in- [ is about four or five feet long 7 | Members of Committee to W : | vices, L oals P s e S B s SC ° § cap of an American steamer had | signia. Soon after arrlving in France|inches in dimmeter. The battalion, | o e h B mone nade 6 Fettiicipil EnadeNvrostess ol the s outheastllor | (F12TiCa0 LINE e (il i Gl et reported his mmed and prob- | ldeut Griffin was transferred to «"om- | when advancing, passed the emplace- e £ Tk el “* | Beuvraignes. { hills and German resistance may continue stub ! pany L, and since March he has been | ment of the gun itself. Lieut. Bennett liveries and Extension of Credits. The attack of the French yesterday | There has been only slight activity along the Vesle, t m. on August near Winter Quarter | the buttalion adjutant said also that the battalion felt that A committee of local grocers met | between the Matz and ”‘"‘.’f" W »n French and Americans having enlarged their holdings north | _ Previous to atta hing himself to | the higzest proof of the splendid |yesterday afternoon chamber | a front of ¢s and although the | _ Se o sp b 2l | 2 resistance | the river by slight advances at several points > is reported they have | T 7 t ot the woods a born Shoal, o the yrithern Virginia. coast The captain stated the submarine was | Company E. Lieut Griffin served sev- | spirit of the home folks was the new {of commerce room take further | Germans offered a stubborn i Fu 2 1 S 1 struck on pert how, bringing her | eral vears in the United States regu- | division of soldiers which had lately |aetion toward carrving out measurcs | the French made an advance of about | ['here has been no change in the German tactics between t gside lar army. was employed at the | arrived, g proposed by the State Council of De- | a mile. Ancre and the Oise which might have been expected from t The submarine crew hailed in strong | ———u .~ fense governing the delivery of goods, At 6 o'clock last evening the battle 2 At R — j : appointment of General von Boehm who conducted the re ercantaa ving they wers the credit system, ete. The commii- | line ran as follows PI 7 & . cRrct > . froi e Marne, to the supreme command in that area Berl frienda; the captain sald but he o 5 mw tee numbers 20, but only nine were La Pravim farm, which is north- | irom the Marne, I 1pr : 1at arc > plied they were no friends of his. He | PETROGRAD RIOTERS present. It was voted yesterday that|west of Fresnieres, Arbe-de-Canny, the ! says that Monday Allied thrusts west of ( ne 1 north kept on his course, he said. The TPV ¢ r 7 TN? | each of the 20 members of this com- | western outskirts of Lassigny, La Rue. Roye failed while the French were repu vigorous batf] S e {GRYDOWN WITH HUN 0 0t = 0o e e s Lipue 68 e o gorou n n a badly r v ! e ) . thern out.| Petween the Oise and the Aisne London reports the checking damaged bow and a quantity of wa of 230 grocers and marketmen in the | of Orval, Le Hamel, the southern out- [ s e L J g ter in her hold. The captain thinks g city and call on them after window | skirts of Dreslincourt and Pimpre: German eftforts between Herleville and Lihons, west Chaulnes. hie sank the submarine. | Hundreds Killed and Wounded in | ©2rds have been printed, asking them Ihoush th £ ’J‘\ Egcaliuias) 2 ”‘-1‘15 In the operati ns around Mer ville the British have tak making the announcement the - to siEn the set of resolutions recom. | one “]‘]” argslies tanorant a8 \HiSmorelprisonerstinsadditionttofthes6¥5captured i partment did not name the ship. Be- . < Street Battle Following Pro- mended last week. Hach grocer will | carried the French line farther down| i e e use of the American skippers cir- | Believed — Germans Have| e wo cards bearing the terms | the slopes of Lassigny massif. storming of the Outtersteen ridge sKipper 03 | given two cards A g I mstantial report and the tangible cession of Workmen. of the agreement, one to be placed in{ The Fench also moved up the val- evidence furnished by the damaged Abindoned Ho of _ | the window and the other in a con-|ley of the Oise, the line being hetween | - SR =5 . TQ IQ Seb T S pe London, Aue 20, unareas of peo- |28 Mindon ana'the athe e ] | MORRISON OPPOSES |60 PRUSSIANS TOO ] : ble were Kkillec d wounded in a reg- 7 . i | corded most of the accounts of sub- | Reaching Channel Do NSre 20 2 Another meeting of the committee H Y m DR | ) . lar battle between Lettish guards ane = ’ : —— ’ C IGHT RULE 3 g Jostructions reaching the navy b £ Hay f‘"{ e betw \' L \"{{"‘ _’”v”‘};, M| il be held the latter part of this ! WORK OR FIGHT RULE ! LAD TO SURRENDH S riot ln during 1;m4 \l\_ ;m u-; in ; t’tlvl'- | week when it is expected more definite French Occupy Vassens. i [ With the British Army in France, | 8¢ sa¥s an amsterdam dispatch to |, ion will be taken. The committee | Paris, Aug. 20.—French troops dur: RETORTS ENTENTE FORCES AT | Aug. 20, (By the Associated Press) ‘hf,-\l'.\:::':?'\ e o es Petro. | 10PeS to have the window cards ready |ing the past night occupied the vil- | ARCHANGEL FALLING BACK. | By withdrawing their forces in the | The disbateh which Guotes Petro- |y "yt time, and each member will|lage of Vassens, northwest of Mor- Reflect Merville sector of the Lys salicnt the [f{i,l aftor the vite had been withent | Pe supplied with a sufficient number ! cafn, ‘between the Oise and the Aisne, Germans definitely have given up one | oot % oF 1he Iy s B of ths polnts fromn which aldrive forl 05 20 02 S & SIOSeEEoR € : : e o : 5 Rheir 2 lis . or | Calais logically would be launched. | i 4 5 24 by 24 inches and will bear a copy There was reciprocal artillery fire their tfaelische Zeitung, of | O ! | shouting “Down with the Germans; : [Fapor: ¢ o Vesle t t e Entente allled troops | T1iS IS taken to indicate the German | g 00 8, "W W0 LIe (SETIARS: | of the resolutions in the region of Lassigny and Dreslin- or's emphatic opposit to the | Ve > (By th LA S ol | high command has, at least for the 1 L the Lre he Dattle The plan of the grocers is that de-|cgurt, west of the Olse, the statement | Work or fight amendment to the new et have withdrawn outsids 1 tinie being, abandoned hope of reach- liveries on all purchases less than $1|cyve’ A Germen aerial bombardment | man power bill extendir draft on n R ! side g . SStp - S ill be done away with and only one = S e Six o | ages was presented to th nil- rism . the range of the Bolshevik artillery. ine the cuast and Dow. borhaps, 1S inefieute. Margal law was procatmed | YL Do done avay with i || ey 0 Leiou I o tRtn : i 1 Lt o SOt R Soviet troops are reported to have | chiefly concerned with getting the |j; "Potrograd the same evening delivery a ¢ ulowed in cases where civiljan population were killed 1d | itary — commitic today Fray iring T troops ¢ t > ve % e e EE e 4 1e same eve 2. | the purchases amount to $1 or over. Ste . hiuncolhe Stotement aat Morrison, secretary of t Y \ hin n up the Balkal tunnel of the |German lines back to a place of Rt the purchases amot a score injured, the statement ada io . sect Amc ere machine g Secretary of A. F. of Considers it | ait Coming of Amcricans and \ccommodated Yankees Seek >n On Patriotism o Amsterdam, Aug. 20.—Tt is official- sorted from Vologda, says the correspondent at Moscow, of the to accommodate his needs in carrving | according to the official statement is Gun Nest. out the work. The cards will measure | gsyeq at the war office today. Amcrican Workingman. Army \ | { | | | | | i 1| Washington, Aug. 20.—Organizec between the rioters and the Lettish guards occurred before the Smolny mners a s-Siberian railway. il 1o compl ines were advanced | American workmen, and a “‘consc erquin and Outterstein on of labor in a covert” way, whic 5 nearly all had agre opportt with the prov Lys salient, according to the | Would be resented in every cormer of slightest to the government vere made pr i ere secre greater security. This plan is being worked out in Federation of Laboi e Sot i The withdrawal here had been ex- | | Hartford and other large cities with . |~ Supporting the recent protest inats o 2 e pected for some time and it con- GRAVE CONDITION, | success British Repulse German Attacks, Samuel Gompers, Mr. Morrison de- WHOLESALE ARRESTS BY IN . C Gaal o s e 2 Four German at ) location of t a slighter broader front than that oi | . v Enhior [ODiokAl Jamest of | MeDRwholare nowRvor e Ly British positions at Chil- | S¢nate committee authorizing with Washingtor Ig Dispatches | vesterday. The retirement marked | o, sl Johat oy s miles of Rove, were rc classification ¢ ) S ratg Smee who L they may turn their attentions to more 5 1 tF n absent from work without manifest at Warsaw. The | fort which Germany launched early in oy He passed a restless | SSSential employment. It was L \ < statement s an attack upon the loyult « \ <en prisoner. The the old Polish capital are | the spring to “finlsh off” the Britsh | [5 400 0¢HC pulse was wenker. He IS orning by a member oF W6 Auestiona : o hits been w patient at the hospital for ions of this system arc IPOLDEr S0 Llie s ouses are 5 about three months obligations made at Iumw.u‘ and Plozk among the STAPE BADLY INJURED. | ELIZABETIT M. ASHLEY supposed members of the secret as e inilheitogsepie BT - v company wh INATOR OLLIE JAMES upany wh B | ents went out - tinued last night and today even on Sl e I The main object 1s to release 3,000 et | clared the provision inserted by the GERMANS IN WAKSAW. jallimore, Aug. 2 he condition L stores and meat market in order that | c £ drawal of deferred ltzerland today say deep un- | the concluslon and fallure of the ef-| yng pogyital of Bright's disease, was It was state £ D2 BlehbEsnye toilie 5 ¢ ns we German pat vho are mak- | army by driving through to the s ® ittee that those who f eing searched and arrests being [ MEMEER OF PERSHING'S placing therm stitement which s : sociation of th lish arm M who tock the px claim any credit for & Baker of General Pershing's leclaring the Prussians v i A, sl % Germam Raid on American Line, GEN. McCAIN ally deserted their posts islation not = staff and o lientenant accompanying Miss Elizabeth LIBERTY 31! SELL FOR 101.10. him were thrown from an autom of the late George Ashiey o New York, Aug. 20.-—Liberty 3% |bile into a ditch alongside the road |street. has received a call from the Hartford. Aug g Cross to report for New Britain and vicinity To 2 comparative Murray Washington, Aug. 20-—A Ger Aver, Mass., Au Maj A German prisoner taken Sundj 20. vaid an the Anerican lines nort Henry P. McCair P told an intelligence officer he heliey cent. bonds. continning their np- | hetween Alzonne and Montolien, in the | America Red for T rd course, sold at 101.10. attaining | department of Aude, vesterday, aftep|army service al Fos Hill, Staten Fair tonight And Wednesday, resulted in losses to the Ger .| head of the new hdivisior roper new high msx on the stock ex- |colllding with an ox cart. Both were| Island, . ¥. She eapects to g0 3 General Pershing reperted today in | rived here today mmed his an sol ey toaay o ¥ (miured IR alrew days e - - i his cominunigue.