New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1918, Page 1

ESTABLISHED ISe 22, THURSDAY, AUGU HAIG STRIKES AGAIN IN SOMME-ANCE ENEMY FORCED BACK FROM YPRE! 'BECKER GOES ON STUMP FOR | UNCLE SAM DESPITE INJURY CONGRESS DEBATES REPORTS ON DRAFT! Both Houses Simultaneously Take Up Man Power Bill SOME CHANGES ANTICIPATED | House Eapected to Develop Warm Dis- cussion Over Work or Fight Rule and May Decide to Call Men of 15 to | 20 With Others. e With d ltancously in the Sen- congress today turn to the man power bill dr ex- limits h djournment | ed to ena vita withi irmy ft a to | > years, Passage in house | te expe upon as var b " f mendme te militar il and the floor The e inclusion nt of which ap- committee the vhich will f the house dr be brouz house militar providing ti al culled ht up on te mendm nd were ex committec nt it r those cted tc MINNESOTA TOWN IS WRECKED BY iORNADO Entive Business Scction of Tyler and Many Residences Blown Down— Deaths May Reach 125, \ug Minn Y n Mis, \ n of tern nig I tor tou in hwe at 9 o'clock la ntire busines: tion, par sidence district d » information ern Rai mate from to given ad officials here out by | ! FRED BECKER AND EARL BARROWS [ Two Connecticut Boys At W alter Reed Hospital Who | Have Turned “Stump S peakers” For Uncle Sam. Th banks ed incude ti and < destroy CRE S SO the power housc al stores. Thr district dences east ve gen of the and the e solid hlo. west res and of rown 1 in the there nd, rly boys speak ch one of the boys stood up be- the assembled men and told them that they were doing their “bit” here when they stuck to their wnd manufactured gas shells for which 5,000 Nor: 1 of the was out were >spondent Herald.) -American Cor Brit \ug out West™ held by at the V 1wes (By Speci New Washington { | open. was | men to hear nd the numb de known - injur- | ‘n,\ sodiers are not of big to t und . nti v briefly, thi have § Until th riefly, ti Co R everal ter the cut boys here pital These Britain ford. and ther neeti- cd hos- theory over job, th s the showed Tears to one of the boys he wounds, and explained to the laborers that g and gas shell, to drive the Hun back to the and over. The Jaborers answered their speech- s with cheers and yells . When interviewed in the ard by the writer the “stump s enthusiastic and anxious Fred Re mucei \TTOWSs of of New Walling Vet Hartfors ith several others, have tour into Maryland to spirits of several thou- and soldie It had ind more eyo of his hoys ker came He morni nry of 1 were nece Rhine re ssary OUR MFG. CO. SUED FOR § turned bolster up the sands o from a 2 5,000 turing at this plant coming discontented, they of Uncle Sam if they r there.” A call was senl to Walter Reed hos of the wounded men to plant, at the men hospital k- to manufac nt seens the hec felt if ervice to men <7 were alumet and Heela and Osceola Con- would bhe “do it in. ward in the hospital received an addition several days ago. A more of wounded Yank arrived from the thick of the fighting They had been t C and Cha tean-Thierry. According to them is not a popular sl man soldiers now the new slogan coming of the ~olidated Mining Companies Bring werc “ove he oversea \etion for Copper Bills, pital for some or g0 over to Md., and talk { diers there nucei were r their se "hey wer dent of the company. R tationed ore this lidgeworth to Recker, umong the fir vices, rtfore Praperty of th e M of that S by the United imount of §12 1etion m of Michig vimed ta ur town w Wednesda 1l to th “Gott Mit an with the Lord Help ¥ Uns’™ Ger to vol T vice 0L bras by by n to on | A the presi- ss band | is inspired Nl companies « be duc near speakers’ t and deliveries of refine on t} writ is returnable in September before district court in Hart- BRITISH SHIP LOSSES CLIMB DURING JULY TWO MURDERED AND THROWN FROM AUTOi Ly 16 te the Cal- Michi- the o 000 ntiff Hecls companie M for solidated which are Co. of £100,000 and Mir Co, sues ir ‘ Tons Over June—To- for Superintendent of 10,965 Cigar Factory and |Increase Hotel Cashicr Slain While tal Destraction During Month [ | | | | the | 'OUR OLD 'PLANE PROGRAM; | Swedish i | | | the SENATOR PROBERS DEN()UN(]El i BIG IMPROVEMENT NOTICED ) nization and wanufacturers are among 1de by the sub-commit- ich Senator Thomas of Col- Wa Ay The 1o | effective awaited report of the senate military | profits to | criticism te ington = excessive reraft v with b-committee production a scathing investigating submitted today , of was orado v Di tion s chairman viming the arraignment delays in the carly the wa improved conditions and dations for th wion of arate department of binet officer at its Failu to airplanes and lions of dollars of wholesale condem program, much that and predicted period when planes soon report review of recommen- | | days of i or aireraft 1b-committee en ere a new se praised aviation with accomplished successful we are approaching antity production be hoped The and says all questions official corruption a of | foreign | qt mil- wdopt may for.” N vaste of im- aft appr airplane p automobile and in- motors airc the dis- left " T dominance of honesty or are by inexperienced ‘unsystemati tions, gram manufacturers ALLIES FALLING BACK, BOLSHEVIK CLAIM | (Continued on Ninth Page) toward the says the “enemy™ retreated hisTs added that s retired to Klenovskoyo, fighting. Kazan a drawn fought, it is said. There fighting near Simbirs Soviet army advanced to of Vyry At advancing where Allied operating ha village of Purgasovo, bulletin issued from ers” army headqua A bulletin on the fighting dail “headquarter According Monday the on the “east front” of Michaelevo, Krot cupied the station at Bolshevik the Oneg expeditionary captured according the *labor- on Monday. of the from vekholm. Kamy: for hard Near - ft- trooy along is iet er river, forces the to e e battle has where the was been the village ors course the is issued i ks Tnerease. reports and transmitted one issued o 1 tin illa ind oc- Bolshevik Aug Tien to ihe Soviet London, Japanese in troops opei took the s | received sin and Kormovtsl nd (Continued on Ninth Page) " SWEDEN ACCEPTS EMBARGO TO GERMANY Stater 0 100,000 | and it tons of dead 000,000 tons Sweden export wood the Allies shippir A the w York 12 rms of gives to weight of Swedish to vernments steel, commercial recently ned by the Allies and Sweden expected to diminish cupplies to Germ: lic here v head of treaty 2 iron ore license which is he sending th also to the pulp, eos the ot Allied paper v, were made pub- | Axel pecial commission of to the United today Nord iro ete., the the = government ) (Continued on Ninth Page) AMERIGAN SCHOONER | NOYON NEXT STATION SUNK BY HUN RAIDER| ON FOCH'S SCHEDULE Attacking Vessel Believed to! Fall of Lassigny Teans Be Triumph, Captured Loss To Germans of By U-Boat Crew. Great Base. A Canadian The Americs wi Atlantic h schoo day Banquereau imed Aug Paris, ylvania Aus. (Havas.)—The oc- cupation of lassigny by Gen. Hum- bert's army, newspaper commentators [lulm\c. will facilitate the capture of Noyon, toward which the armies of Generals Mangin and Humbert are steadily. Lassigny one the pivots of the German defense between the Oise and the sunk 1 trawler in banks. It 1 was Tuesday manned crew this mornin ves the is pre the a Germ fi attacking captured wnd vivania's here the vess by ymarine pressing wa as system Somume, the P port on Wednes towards the there has not the Germans claim trying to do a considerable ved Nova wsadena. today, Pt Gen tinued the pierced French Mangin to move f ay Oise. con- I¢ been the Seotia The crew, reported fishing schooner which that their the bottom at midn The rescued crew of schooner Lucille reached port last night Pasadena reached man front vessel cht the Schnare was as Tues it hag distance been and withdraw to ire bent. back it to the Observers here sce a for the enemy in the I orih ot r Ancie intitec Bapaume. hattle fishin which reported that is belie Aile may to when fire and Vieinity attack Pasadena in 1910 istered new dar itish attack direction of are was nearby by gun left: the said, the built thei er was destroyed When they in small hos they had been made The Kylvani Glo Ma at gross showed her to be Smith & Co.. of Glouce tained by Jeff Thomas no o itish on the 1916 Lassigny. on ground of wias at and we Maritin Capture the French Aug (Havas).—The which ulted in the fall Wednesday with thrust from the by of Chasseurs, Divette wood. Iy fortified position which had delayed | the French advance for two days, aken in a sudden dash and the talion reached the outskirts of signy on the west and the north Meanwhil units, composed o men fram Brittany and Pari took the uthern skirts of I signy 1 | rossed through the town, chasing the | ermans yre them By noon u company sineers had cleared out | of or 1< e e ’ On IFront in France, operation Lassig tons records vy wnd owned by nus cap- o8 hegan battalion a strong west L U-Boat. 1 With Aug Arriy ¥ Three An Atlantic Italian steamship terday reported ning fight with a German sub off the New F ind coast last day. Five of the steamer's crew were injured the six foot hole her 2 shell from lasted Hour Battle Port, which having An here run- ine Tues- bat e Las- on otiner | ‘| | | ship has a ou midshi The and stove in the U-boat 8 by battle ; be s Riding in Rahway, N. J. Izeaches 313,011 Tons. BUCKSHOT MEDICINE CALMS ALIEN SPIRIT | Ay Montrea shipping N. J., Aug London superintendent | Rahway Arthur | xu | Amiboy cigar Miss 19 Perth 1 Girer July increase los es of merchant « Perth : ituin during the Amboy. | yreguted 176,479 a hotel cashier, | 10,965 tons over d 1 pser of the ST : factory in Perth ok tons, an the June iral va Janny ivm., Ambos oss tonna e king 11 t Allied and ne sunk aggregated total tonnagc month 313,011, The neutral tonnage was the | 2 2 tons over the ned ny Subjc - Jalso of ere murd - | m Lutomobile x rly today No clue The into i The the of lost during loss in allied : an increase rt for Junc tack Guard at Fort Douglas | hot to death to | Prison Camp. sla been found bodies | s ty, A Se en- both had ‘been thro rey third St th var on in the emy aliens pri street lsovsp or crNrin® 1S HEARD IN Dougla post hodies full of bu amp re ital 2t Fort < Sith thel An automobile identified as Kup PARTS. it esterday, cer’s and containing the hat Miss attack it b nd wraps . heard atnd of hea ot the re an Parie annon Paris earls A | o Jannt was found abandoned |, e here known zu in today rd r a read twn miles from todas | | | | | three hours. g the town and captured the last enemy liding Uars. | & = = occupants who were ; MORE THAN 100,000 TAKEN SINCE JULY 18, SAYS MAKERS VOW INDEFINITELY A vow soldier wd to never ightir CARTRIDGES T s o wonRk 3 Allied armic 100,000 pri larcel Hut Paris, The Au A \ug taken mo Was stand I ringtor o ha he erican in ers since July n rance until the very end cho d the working until has of \ top « taken Western 1. The itied e 1 s to G over been the t Cartridge S th vith the B serie: ployes at ment Co. m depart WENTHER | rk The resolution wi t we hing emplo \ug. X Britain tonight Hartford, cast for New cinity Fair Friday. ; ers’ autograp n. Per and vi- I and action followed [ Violini Lieut bureau and of Ttalian Ae the i i nf publis . information | F | « succenstul | GRVEN IN CRE 20 I Paris, | mile frofy froy assigny tof ice staten Four villag Ville, were occup river, the statemé The Irench B of Noyon, their line# Farther cast theW Bois have been takens La Quincy-Basse. THE \isne, west of ‘Soisson y: Humbert' the Matz and the Qise ¥ive The French military /men sa town of Noyon inevitable. General General Byng's army is of the region of Bapaume Achi times late yesterday afternoon are in that position It is not expected t Ailette line, but may retreat to the ( French Watch German Flight. 2 Wl From the | of Le Plemont o the I'rench troops now are watching the German) toward the north Paris. Aug 1eight the Oise front in their retreat p. m.— British Strike Between Somme and Ancre London, Aug. 22.---British forces attacked this morning bd tween the Somme and the Ancre rivers, war offic statement. North of the Ancre the statement continues, the Arras Bapaume railway has been crossed in spite of enemy r sistance. says s strong Between two and three thousand prisoners were captured b the British in vesterday’ the British trc vi northeast Merville, the Fresh German cot veloped east of Miraumont and lrles. aid to have been very active during its heavy fire this morning statement adds 11z Neuf savs s operations troops have reached the Berqui of statement nter-attacks t hostile rht have artill continuin are reported I'he the and Haig Holds Albert-Arras Railroad. British Avmy in France, Aug p. m th British” troops are holding virtually all of thq railroad and red th well With \ssociated rras-Albert of that line. The British success beyond the railroad were rej ir eastward as the Bape In their new attack the British ez taken in their final objectives on the ri enemy lines South of Albert the in 22 (By Press)- establ have eas enabl the vorted in the north Some 1 1 this o0 pas b today apparently had t and were well inside thd \ the British crossed the Americans Bomb Enemy Positions. American Forces in France Aug Two bombing 1 Wer ] Bombs were successiull With \ssociated Press.) terday American northeast of Verdun the 20, (By th out yes Roman,| opped on rail4 irried lun-le by aviators on \1 road tracks and roundhouses Three American and attacked three of Verdun on hre the turned to their bases sa \nother planes near Licutenant untered north reconnaissance planes German machines \r 1€ Oue German airplanc and others we driven fely reconnai Il Urband. sance format Three of r 1 npler noeno- viucous the ph Gierm: tacked lieuten- spiralled n airships I'h hich ant opened fire and hit one German . sharply downward and disappeared at 11,000 feet. >ATROL BOAT ASHORE, POSSE AND W DEAD SLACKERS IN PITCHED BATTLH Drives Montauk Onto Rocks on Two Officers and Two I ters Re Cumberland Island—17 Sur- ported Shot in West Virginia : Man nt. vivors Brought to Land, LinH An Atlantic Port, Au tembers 2 ven f the cr the United tates patrol bout Montauk the were lost | when driven uashore e miles north Lerr Wednesday mornir huve on Cumberland high nd o'clock ndin I'he venteen Fernandina body of sury one has 1 rece ivors sent Sherift warning JERMANS CLATM DAMAGE TEAVY AMONG unty nd PANKS ¢ militiae rmed to the Juncement t 10 had o thay ina itement from | ocloe - ' beer Allied b ol O ad been dectroved on the battlefiell | wers b ctween Anc A t since hot. Th caped £ iraded and tak ef1 1 they have fortified said tanks re and the Avre. , Al