New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1918, Page 1

[ ot Rt . — — OVER 9,000 SIGN P [KAISER WILLING TO END WAR || oitine ot it Hoart Feore Con " CALL OF PERSHING!BY CRUSHING ALLIED ENEMY| mricfioivi i wusissi The premier said the British casualties in the last offensive in I nce were one-fifth of what they were in 1916 AmsterdamitSept peaking at In his address the emperor said in | Premier Lloyd George said he was all for a league of nations, Krupp munition wo. Zssen, | part: and that in fact a league already had been begun. The British em- Mllllfll‘y Reglstml]ou im\ EH“re S Deror Willlar dsclared evers “What T want to do today is to e pire, he said, was a league of free nations and that the Allied countries | . remotest corner of the fatherland | press my imperial thanks to the di- fighting the battle of international right now were a league of free knew he had “left no stone unturned vectors of the Krupps, the foremen, nations. for your people and for the entire the absolutely astounding manner in the Krupp works have been P i E “males zed European world.” which 3 2 TeVIous LS he emperor siid it took two to placed at the disposal of the German R make peace—that one could not do it ' army and its supreme war lord. Very S []F DR [i unless he could overcome the other. | srcat work has been accomplished PROMINENT CIT]ZENS PUT Germany, he declared, was confronted | and this under increasing food diffi- with her enemies’ will to destroy her, | culties, clothing difficulties and losses, ‘ \l.x:m she must place agalnst this her sorrows and cares which have spared AB[”ETS REJEETE“ 5 workman's dwelling Rhoel modest After mentioning his offers of pea ndustrial mobilization, without —— Political Life of City March to Dis- | wished to understand “that we are at fore was made on the German peo- (By th | part afident 20 mile front in Lorrainefnear the Gerr = | veace.” (Continued on Ninth Page) s B H [ HISTORY WRITTEN IN BLOOD 1,500,000 KNOWN IN AMERICK | ton of the famous St /Minict saitent, wehich Hel years has ecte he Allied 1 E st o E. W. CHRISTTORESIGN | SUPT. H. F. MOORE MAY | - T B i e, led L g TR English Investigator Uncovers For asury Investigation Committee Re- | 12 mile front on the south and an 8 mile front om the westes AS WAR BUREAU [;HIEF ENTER WAR SERV][;E World's Information Crimson| ports Heavy Inroad on Natiom's | Side. The assaults yhere prOgreSS'mg: favorably «at the lates reports. e { A barrage lasting! several hours preceded the thrust. Heavy] Continent—Whole Tribes Reduced | and Other Dopes—968 Victims in | Concentrations of French.and American artillery and airplanes | ) Card Early—Fathers and Sons Ap- —— The movement evidlently is aimed pri} pear Ready to Answer Duty's Call. At 2 o’clock this afternoan approxi- mately 5,300 men between the ages o 18 and 21 and 31 and 46 had registercd at the registration offices uader the | | | | | new selective service draft law. O Pages of Berlin's Rule on Black | Manhood By Craving For Morphine cials of both the first and second draft ) it 1 ds expressec ¢ opinio! hat o £ g 1 7 boards expressed the opinion that the | WijJ] Become Chairman of | Government Would Take total number of registrants in this city | | by Sword. will fall short of the various estimates, [ Board of Instruction Con- Over New Britain that of the government of 9,688 and of : . | =4 ng evidences of the brutal methods | use of mor; coca i T Ee citade £ 2 Hem 5 2 ol wi 20 000 ama 10,500 nected With Draft. Health Department. s e e b e S0 B scase ne b erolaand [he German citadel of Metz lies only some 15 miles to the The first, third and fifth ward men tration of her colonies in Africa, made T"‘:l‘<tl«l«1«,v1~ containing ot!‘mr nar- | northeast of Pont-a-Mousson, at the easterly edge of the salient reglster at the state armory oa Arch SR ———— public today by Edmond H. L. Gorges | c2H¢ ‘u“_fl-«h«'*l nereased rapidly in the under attack, and it seems not beyond probability that this may be W. Christ, purchasing agent at| It is rumored in the city hall L\,,,L‘ acting secretary of the interior, Union United States within the last two | a further objective of the offensive, should it develop favorably j of South Africa cc itutes the Briusn | years, and a drastic anti-narcotic law | in the crushing out or material reduction of the salient i lg ernment’s 1 o Dr W. S. Solf, | N | government's reply to Dr. = B0l must be enacted at this session of The rer 2 f thi i in f: | the German secretary of state for the | congress to check the wholesals Spm_?d The removal of this salient, in fact, would seem to be a Scnl ot e SR e T fockie Har Ol ee) cret frekconol s necessity before any drive in great force into German territory 4 : ) e h e e L]n:‘xutvyn of her colonies at the pea sions made public today by a special | 91 this front were attempted, as otherwisc the German forces to ment, 700; and Sixth ward, Ukrainian i most a year ago, to become chairman | take charge, in case Dr Henry I, ““fj‘t‘f"’,;f)(*” et a | treasury investigating committee to- | the west would be left in a threatening position on the left flank hall, Brwin Place, 1,500. The regis-i . 414 government board of instruc- | Moore, superintendent, should decide Che Toport 15 onlo of the most seh- | gether with a partial report on the'| of the attacking armies tration offices opened this morning at sational ever issued in connection With | number of drug addicts actually un- Bilhooay S : 7 o’clock and will remaia open until 9 —_— _ ‘German (colonial methods and costi- | der physiclans’ treatment In the t is known that General Pershing has a huge American army IS iR avaine tutes an indictment of German fitness | states: under his command and there seems little doubt that adequate J)i‘lrm\l\nvvhmurl 7 l“‘v‘l“‘l‘x.:i'ln\l\hv”‘l)vuwfi to Tule the b u; K ln}\:n}o of Africa. ;J he | T!m]m\'r‘st' zations of the commit- [ forces would be at the disposal of Marshal Foch for an important d00rs We yened this morning, the . e evidences upon which the report is | tee, which is headed by Representa- | push i is sector were initial s vel : . was a large crowd of men waiting to * : ; i : hased are taken from oflicial German | tive Rainey of Illinois, showed that ]“’,h “: (his Sectomivereithehnalbmotes toidevelon Halut e register and again at noon there was et e : : documents at Windhoek, from sworn | thousands of drafted men have been | CP€RINZ. 2 A . . ; unother large influx. The congestion | EHEE ; y S . statements by native chiefs and by | dismissed from military camps after The St. Mihiel salient is nearly 20 miles wide at its mouth, :\u~\’;]:lu\‘4’:\ ':(, .\m(,.».:;\quni ‘Iv’l]“:‘y‘)l\i‘n:; 4 % LA 2 : uropeans (}:vn: liar with the countiy | it was found they were drug addicts [ from Fresnes, 12 miles southwest of Verdun, to Pont-a-Mousson, by . action of factories king | B . and from the writings of Governor| and that this number included many | and somewhs N 5 1 f Bots e . 3 E somewhat more than 15 miles depth, with its ape s their employes by automobile to th g ; : . - Leutwen, who held office from 1884 to | who ~systematically developed the | g e s e s - M.“," WAt ts apex Just piiceaand giomrelie (e oty : S . 5 ' {1905; Dr. Paul Rohrback, Dr. Kurl | habit after being drafted in order to | the southwest of St. Mihiel. It was driven into the French line E.Z(‘.(\OVW"«,T,““,I.','H‘jm;:i“:’ ”‘;h:].;‘ ].‘\ T- i 5 _ Dove and others. Altogether the report | insure their dismissal. This condi- | in @ sudden German eruption southeast of Verdun early in the ;‘\‘! o ncrELh MG \m;’f - . ,,(,m(, in detail Dr. Solf’s claipi that | tion is one reason given for the ur. fall of 1914 before the line had become entirely stabilized after the ter this s was Mayor G . : “Germany’s pre-war humane treat- | gency of immediate remedial legisla- | )\arne a i attle The French check 1 Lise i s A 2 3 € Marne and Aisne battles. The Frer 2cked the Germa s Sl B Eniy oo bl N fvoune v ; ment of the native races won for her | tion ¢ French checked the German push failliondite, mas alicedof mimy others 3 e the moral right to be a great colonial | The necessary measures already pl e 5 pesterdayfureneratory fojleing) out of following statement by Acting Secre- | enue bill, the committee reported, | ones, however, and there is on record no previous organized at Hootee W KIStE anatTonz: Tamakin m‘:\T:“ lu‘.}y:« 1‘2:"1”"”\.\” ’,.‘.‘l:j’.:f” ‘1’(:}1 xh:‘l‘(:f\_ !:fiup:“n:lle;{v‘;_’y Lr(mpt to reduce this menacing bulge pointi 1g at the heart of Mool ol e e i e c n: > opinion here is unan cturers and dealers a Trance betwee S e b oy . 2 P e e s oo e B mously against any idewx of their ever | medicines containing compounds of “‘”& ]’_“]t“l‘;_“ f’“ £ 0 tresse: of Verdun and Nancy. i prisoner in police court this morning . : being handed back to the tender me narcotic drugs as well as the pure . Marshal ‘”,h has caused the launching of this attack almo. B . Pocaunnditta e G : i T : i 4 e cies of Germany. Any suggestion of | drus. The measure also would tax | coincidentally with the virtually complete eliminat tl e e e e 4 7 ¢ 2 the possibility of an act of this kind | {hese preparations, provide means of | various salients the Germans drove into the +d lines 4 &L on the part of Great Brit 1 keeping track of great quantities dis ¥ the Alled lines in theid Ing, Corporation Counsel J. E. Coope R L b X e part of Great Britain jproduces | *¢CPINE track Sl 5.8 1 offensives during the prese fighting year. nd in fact all of the local lawyers, ex- 3 bl 2K 3 : 3 i the utmost consternation.” OREG Sl St Gliay i et it b S | 2 g ‘ e e el holes through which thousands of L Georse W. Andrew, Judge F. B. Hun- | e g vears of German rule in Southwest | Yiolators are said to escape under the Germans Falling Back 9 2. m.—American forces this marne ¥etford and Lawyer A. W. Upson are | ; WAfrica was an unbroken record of offi- | 11Arrison antl-narcotic act : ing launched an attack on the Ger within the draft limits. Ex-Mayar .m,l W. CHRIST. cial bad faith, priv: oppression, 1,500,000 Fiends in America. American Forces on the Lorraine |man positions. At 9 o'clock they had had been effected. The fire poured in upon the Germans from y the Allied guns was a terrific one, while the German reply on the Liondon, Sept report contain Washington, Sept. 12.—Habitual | whole was weak. Connect t. and at 2 o'clock approximately - had appeared. The second dis- | the Stanley Works, is to resign his po- | the United States government may be +trict quota at the same hour was about i ¢jtion.me, chairman of the New Britain | called upon to declare New Britain a 800, divided as follows: Sec Hrd o : : el b econd WA, | \var Bureau, where he has been in di- | district, under the pubiic health de- Bunvitt Mission on Cherry street, 600; partment, and send a Fourth ward ammar schoal base-) rect charge since it was organized al- near St. Mihiel and prevented a debouching movement on the cept Judge B. F. Gaffney, Judge yeph M. Halloran was the only former DR o e e cruelty, barbarities and robberies, ¢ul- Hundreds of agents of the internal 'Prgnr.\mgr:tq g o (€ “""'\?f‘ dzen hj progressed generally along the line. mayor of the city who had fo registor e —— minating in the Herero and Hottentot | revenue bureau, acting for the inves- | Z2% Americas forces ‘"‘: OIS | Some prisoners were taken at differ- oday. tion to be appointed here to work tn | =TT | Tebellons. During the first 17 years | tigating committee, have reported de- | orichod &1 attevk agalnst the Gorman | ent parts of the sector Dad’s Océupation? Fighter. conjunction with the first and second | 10 193ve temporarily fo take up ser- | there was no law for the natives. Such | tailed Information concerning con- | boSitions o 5 SalaREEstinl(imne listr iraft boards > leave temporarily to take up cer-|protection as the la weventually pro- | sumptlon of morphine, cocaine, hero- Th e alher Iohn Th ttack | et Wwith little resistance and at $ district draft boards _ | br. Moore may decide to take some Ivided indicated considerations of hu- | in, or medicines containing similar al- | S peathor ls Gne. The attack|owclock the second American: wagsl Since the United States entered the | such action that would take him.away manity but the order tto exploit the | kaloids, and on these reports is based | 22d® by the French and Americans | a5 in possession of several points f | from New Britain for a time, and al- | natives as laborers remained. the estimate that at least 1,500,000 | o0 & MOSt daring one and so far has | the German line, s : though this report cannot be offic = y sersons in the United States | been successful. hardest working New Britainites in (ally verified, nevertheless the health e e Al o - [ cRerciia st FeenBal exca i concan fras S war work. He was for a long time | department is known to have held When the Germans first arrived, | ;o8 ML 25 NE Bl nitias, | ton of Franco-American artillery and British Move Towar | an executive meeting recently at which | says the report, they entered IHtoH = e m(f haliacs sserstincus G :’ Entente airplanes are operating in ritish Move Toward Cambrai, some plan as the first outlined above | agreements with the native chiefs, | Full roports ave expoeted to onan | /AT5€ numbe London, Sept British was discussed. but these became scraps of paper and | 300,000 known users within the fon |, L' ftack was preceded by a bar- | have eftected e intiie : In other cities where the superin- | the natives were fraudulently de- | - = iy s Now | ¥88¢ lasting four Hours. Du Nord to the hwest of the taw tendents of health have been called | prived of their best land. Traders York alone. AA et oL | of Havrincourt, Marshal® Halg 1 L : YA away for war work the government|and settlers robbed them of their | the St. Mihiel salient was made along [ announced in his off report toda #id son came to the registration has taken charge and conducted the [ cattle, which was their only wealth | NS | TLast year the committee’s records |, distance of 12 mile: The attack | The canal lir rere forms the main place together, and there were hun- | PRISONERS BULWARK health affairs. This is particularly | and the law subsequently prevente 1’ | i | | In each of the registration offices it was noticed that ther vere compar- ativel few youths between the ages of 18 and 21 ‘'who were )‘»‘r'»N‘[IH:“ the presumption being that most of | the youths between the ages are al- | | | | | i var Mr. (Christ has been one of the ready in the service. One boy, how- ever, in putting down the ocoupation | 1ocal fuel administrator and his never of his father wrote: “Figh In- | tiring energy, which has characterized {uiry showed that the boy's father is | all his efforts, will stand him in good already in the arn There were | stead in his new war work. filso several instances in which father | 1 i { mer draft ages of 21 and 31 in New The attack on the southern side of show, the production and sale of pro- |on the western side was on a front | defenses of Cambrai on the outhwest dreds. of instances where the older so in New London, which has been | the natives from possessing larg prietary cordials, “drops” and pare- | of eight miles. A short distance to the north the el s e e el s e H 4 A goric syrup, containing a derivative of | The Germans now are falling back | B hed t eanil 5 = J 3 | established as a government health | herds of stock. The natives tF 168X O ALl 8 are falling back | British have pushe » the westerly wpel of his coat a service pin, show AGAINST AIR RAID erds of s natives thus ep 0 i S | district, were driven to work at ridiculously opium, increased rapidly and that a [on the fronts on each side of the St. |1 f the car east and north of ing that he already has one or more . Should the reports prove to be ul-|inadequate wages large proportion was sold to indi- | Minhiel salient. Moeuvres, and established themselves boys fighting in either the army o i — timately substantiated, it is under- | were omis. ercs :”_Wv'i””f"m'\’ Ao | viduals who consumed it for the drug , Though undoubtedly suspicious of there i navy. i ttood that the healfh department | siaces oy hey were treated like | effect rather than for medicinal pur- | the intentions af the Americans in this| In their advance toward St, Quentin There was little confusion in any of | Germans Coop Up Captives Near|might be asked to give Dr. Moore | maltreateq ]f)rn women folk wero | poses. ) | region the Germans were unaware -n“n,, British have progressed as far the reglstration offices and under the i Bt e e B tum to ing | Meltreated habitually by the Ger-| Some army officers have been found | the time of the direction of the attack, | the guidance of the draft board official Hangars as Protection From & for o substitute until his | oan> WhHo took them into forced con- | to be habitual users of morphine, and | The American troops are all intense- | southeast of Aftt : £overnment for a sub " | cublnage. These were some of the | to have purchased supplies to take to | Iy eager and are fighting magnificently. | The Germans off bl e ki Sl A A Allied Squadrons. return o things which goaded the natives into | France with them. e 53 et = o fos LB SoDRoRIE rebellion, which was suppressed by || oollers o camp obtained narcotlc Little Resistance to First Way sectors, which the British overcame, were 25 or 30 men rc red who ; k ’ T = ; s Stassed themselves as glien e e s HTINIBUTLDING: PARSIFAL LINE | ruthiess crueity resurting virtually in | arugs illicitly from peddiers who loaf | smertcan Forces on the Toseaire fd there were a large | British prisoners are confined much the extermination of the three tribes ( about the outskirts of camps. Ingeni- | g e T e s A Were friendly aliens. Th also {like birds in a cage with scarcely involved. The Hereros were reduced | ous methods of receiving it were re- ss—French and American artil ‘W]LSON S[GNS DRY ZONE fuife a few traveling me us fol- | 1 om fo move about near the flying | New Defensive System Will xtend [ from 80,000 to 15,100, the Hottentots | ported, including ansmission in his marning directed a terrific J B“.L owers and others from out of town | g el sl ; from 20,000 to 9,800 and the Berg- | pies, candy, or cakes, saturating cor- | parrage fire on the German positions Wb visited the local boards today to |sheds at Evers, a suburb of Brussels, From Antwerp to Metz—Antwerp | Damaras from 39,000 to 12,800. Thus | respondence paper with a drug solu- | on this front. The Germans' big guas' st e During the past week, hd |#or the purpose« of Drotectir X ) tion, and sending packets inclosed in | return fire fas very vigorous at some | Now Ias Authority to Bar Sale of z £ | Forts Being Prepared for Develop- - fieTas - X ” more particularly during the past | hangers against aerial attacks, B LR gl X Pag knitted articles. places, although as a whole it wa Say or two, there has been quite 4 | cording to the Libre Belgique. ments. o Rt eliowly weal B e 2 states show addicts under treat- | There are some indications that the | Phe er hic: S repi ed i @ = o o - vsioi. : i bilce to seoure copics of fheir birth | The item, which is reprinted in tho | pyiye gepe 12.—A supreme line ment as reported by physicians: Germans are withdrawing their artil- sertificate to prove positively whether | Telegraaf. says some of the British [ defense, to be called the Parsifal line, WEATHER. Connecticut, 968; Delaware, 166; | jery, although it is more probable that Washington, Sept >residens ¥ mot they are inciuded in this draft, | prisoners have linen handages around |is being constructed by the Germans || - Maine, 427; Maryland, 1,062; Masea- |they are going to fight hard before be- [ xriicon todav sicned {1 g o he large corps of clerks in each of | their heads showing that they had not | from Antwerp to Metz, = Marcel | Tartford, sept. 12.—Fore || enusett .2 New Hampshire, |ing driven out after enduring a stiffe n tocay glenec the dolot yege] sy he affices worked well and this noon- | récovered from wounds The item | Hutin, in the Echo de Paris. The ar- for New Britain and vicinity: Rain 1 New Jersoyv. 2,274; Rhode Is- |ing barrage of more than wight hours. |1ion passed by congress empow Yme ‘they were served with luncheon, | adds that a similar number of h;-xgxan]n le also says the Germans are puttin and warmer tonight; Friday clear. land, 548 The Germans at some poinits are|him to establish pro western outskirts of Holnon wood, wnd the head registrars everything ed stiff opposi- Partial reports from the following Alcoholic Drinks From Vicinity of War Industries, D1 are fllling the same role at[the Antwerp forts in a defensive con ing. In New York city 2,000 ajready |increasing the volume of their big|around sh , munitions with the comphments of Mayor Quig- the Diest flying camp, dition. have been tzbulated. gun fire, but ineffectually. and other war Industries,