Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 5, 1917, Page 1

Bulletin VOL. LIX—NO. 260 --.POPULATION 29,919 . NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1917 TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportio}l to “t'h; Cify’s Pobulation RUSSIANS BRINGING UP FRESH TROOPS In Their Attempt to Break Thro;lgh Austro-German Lines in Eastern Galicia CAPTURED 33 MACHINE GUNS FROM ENEMY In Champagne on the Western Front the German Crown Prince Has Made Another Effort to Break Through the French Lines Northwest of Rheims, But Was Repulsed by French Troops—American Independence Day Was Celebrated Enthusiasticall.y in France and England as temporary minister of e o d in- | was damaged. it is officially announced. ustry, today receivec n R. Stevens| Al the British alrmen who en ed Well as on the Battle Fronts. U s e e e b A . jean railroad commission to discuss the ! fheir fights. best methods by whick Americt May | The official statement announcing assist Russia. Stevens inquired | this result reads American Independence day was|progress on the Koniuchy- about the present system of supplying| “The vice-admiral at Dover reports celebrated enthusiastically not only in | sector, on the Stokhod, in Volh: the army and the ci an population. that naval aircraft from Dunkirk in- the United States aiso in France |and at Brody, on the ' Galician-Vol- | The members of the American com- | tercepled the hostile squadron return- and England on_the battle | hynian border. | mission « satisfaction. at whatling from Englaud after the attack on tronts. In Paris a lion of the| In Champagne on the western front|the vha and promised ener-|Harwich this morning. An enzage- first American expeditionary force on |the German crown prince has made |getic co-operation in improy the {ment ensued at a considerable dis- its way to the baitle front was the |another desperate and fruitless effort|svsiem of suppi ance from the Belgian coast. Two cent to break the French lines northwest of e St = el e e e the Four Rheims. Attacking in force along an on 11-mile front, the Germans made espe- Cabled Paragraphs Another Air Raid Near Essex, Eng. TWO OF THE RAIDING MACHINES WERE BROUGHT DOWN. Russian Torpedo Boat Blown Up. Petrograd, July 4.—A Russian torpe- do boat of an old type was blown up by a mine in the Black sea on June 20, according to an official statement made today. Amsterdam Dock Workers Strike. Amsterdam, July 4.—All Amsterdam dock workers struck yesterday morn- ing. Builders' workmen and shipyard laborers struck in sympathy. A big| protest meeting of strikers was fixed 1 DEATHS REPORTED for the afternoon. The burgomaster . bas forbidden street demonstrations and open air meetings. Inden: Warning Had Been proach of Raiders and Anti-Aircraft Given of Ap- Argentine Demands ity from | Germany. Buenos Aires, July —The note Guns Were Ready for Them—Sev- which the Argentine government has 3 & sent 10 Germany on the subject of the | eral Battles in the Air. sinking of the Argentine vessels Ori- ana and Toro, it nfirmed, demands indemnity satisfaction and assurance| y. i oo 4 mnemy atrplanes that no more Argentine vesseis will be attacked. appeared over the Kssex coast about seven o'clock this morning, says an official communication. “Our anti- BEST METHODS BY WHICH WE MAY ASSIST RUSSIA |aircraft guns came into action,” the et O announcement continues. “Some Discussed by -Russian Minister uf‘:‘“m"i( e evsoen) Dot Hew noi_ ¥ n received. Trade and Members of American| "qy, of the German machines. that Mission. {tock part in the air raid on Harwich b | were brought down ablaze by British Petrograd, Stepeanoff, | naval aircraft and a third machine ay to the the result in flumes and a third was seen to hav aged mpts to b | cinily strong efforts around Cerny and |sian raiiroads, toge with veral other machines were at- erman lines in e and against the Californie pia- | mendrtions for rei Led with indecisive results. ed by the resuit French repulsed all The report begins with the acknoy ‘Al our machines returned safely.” the 1 edzment t the re Late reports on the air raid placed I'rus: After checking the Germans. ceived the E: casualties to 11 killed and 26 in esp rench tock the initiative in 1lof its Russian colleanu ar red. ard a > tion east of Cerny and les that the commission e | o the i euite 7z German salient. Ger | the Russian roi s 1T WARNED OF APPROACH OF During & on the left bank of the Meuse ! technica! personnel of Ruszians « ers and 1S.- ilsed | the ronds have a =mvoc ENEMY RAIDING SQUADRON. 0600 men. and and Wed- Raids and patrol engazements tem of moverament. ‘he of | = — nesday added thousand | occupied the Germans and Pritish | which to the rcads is d {Anti-Aircrait Guns Were Brought Into to the total guns a~d ! further north Several A n at The mo mmed Action Immediately. 3" machine guns were takca from the ! tack. n the Carso south of Gori repert fce: 3 o Mo Austro-Germans I ccked by the Italians, Rome | e o A Town on Theessex Coast, July 4. Vielent artiliery o < nin ts ! cure . Thie A pprosch: of win =nemy . YRIGGIE | the 1 | squadron was made known shortly b s e 5 P | Therefor 1 to in | fore 7 o'clock. The mor: was dull SFESS DESPATC-ES WILREZ FORVEZR PREMIER OF CHIN {the = oilable number of lacomotives{and vy, the coast being obscured Wnd freinht cars P point the ist. Short he UBMITTED TO SisSY BAKER | 18, TO:COMMAND, TROORS | 20 freight cors. | ket e B He =t fore News Which Have Been Assembled for the! (1] ! % i o D - Conss Cvertirow of the Manchus. ! equestin e i | mo- § thing could be seen of the air- A} st 1 ‘ i jtves ard at onee. | planes, tb number of which was es- ba o by { The order he | timated iously. The Germans. fa SR of Liper of Amearica’s credit t - jored by the weather succeeded in pe: -z FrPE e S A 000 Fon . " S oicating nfand a little distance and 5 rom oL e . cmil, et | (ki the i s it wa ropved homhs promiscucusly i provine.. last |, ot . 1 consider- | 1id was short and swift. Tt is| i rotary tro-ps have ! ¢ At only slight damace was done h semiied and Tu-n Chil i a 1 th ar no casuaities have been re- is no yr<hin o ihe poe will take command N the cause L 0rC for th2 ove W r —_— from from ted to 3 cen- +.th London ued i nee h= 2 a rd >nz Kuo Chan Now i by me the 3 STy o errment temp: cre-ary of | kinz. He is also orde s 2 Tuan Chi Jui in the pre nz the despaihes detiverzd | m to The Associated Press b a R T T e. Other despaiches addies:ed in DEMOCRACY AT HCVE same way were deivered (o the retary of war here today and A3 _WELL AS ABROAD s in Washington with cortain por-| tain Here What Armies Are Fight- | ions eliminated ing for Abroad. Washingio e la and no| New York, Juiv 4—Newton D. Ba- | adequate pr n for examination secretarv of war, told a great au- >r censorship has b made. Thei tenight at the stadium of the | partment was overw 1 and | Coileze of the City of New York that| a quent of hours in im-{while the nation was preparing on a | portant ¢ resuited | zigantic scale for war, “we must fizht Assurance has been given by Sec-|for democracy here at home as our | retary Baker the new procadure|armies will fisht for democracy | fs to be practiced only teraporarilv and | abroad.” that double censorship will be short-| Mr. Baker briefly reviewed the Vived. | causes which led to the entry of he| S United States into the conflict and re- | BOSTON'S RECEPTION iated some ‘of the work alrend done | ~!in the way of preparation. ne man | COMMITTEE FOR ELK3 | lained in the reguar. the national " - P zuardsmen and the soldier of the se- Five Hundred Prominent Citizens | jective national army were to receive Have Been Invited to Act. the same care and treatment, he said, = for “each will be equal in dignity. re- Roston, July 4.—DMavor urley has | sponsibility and opportunit, -a _mem- Invited 9 promineut citizens to be- |ber of the army of the United States.” tome members of .the reception com- mittee for the Flks' national conven-| SUBMARINE BOMBARDED tion next week. The mayor and James R. Nicholson, past grand exalted | PONTA DEL GADA, AZORES | ruler and president of the Boston Na - fonal Elke Conrenilon association,|A Girl Was Killed and Several Other | will outline the committee’s duties at Persons Were Killed. a meeting to be held tomorrow night. Tmmediately frer the holiday elab-| Ponta del Gada, Azores, July 4— orate decorzt: ns of downtown build- |A German submarine bombarded th Ings in hono- of the convention was|city at dawn today. A girl was kilied started. T ks will distribute |and several other persons were in- more than $1.000 in prizes for the |ured. est showir; made. = Lisbon. July 4.—An American torpe- do boat destroyer joined in the firing at the German submarine which bom- barded Ponta del Gada, the Azores, to- day, savs an official announcement by MEETINC, CTALLER'OF PEACH GRC” 'ERS OF NEW ENGLAND To Cc- “or Means of Preventing | the Portuguese minister of marine. Wastage of the Fruit. B e e RUMORS OF ASSASSINATION “ford. Conn.. July 4.—To secure - tage of what is predicted as a OF PRESIDENT OF CHINA crop of peaches, and to prevent e e . ase of the fruit, peach growers of | And That High Officials Are Pledging N~w England have heen cal'ed to a Allegiance ot Monarchy. meeting at the capitol on Friday. The 111 is sizned by Elijah 1. Roegers of San Francisco, July 4. — A cable- Son-hinaton, John A. Scheuerle of |§ram received here today by the Chi- nese World, a newspaper, stated that Sy £ 8 unconfirmed rumors persisting in ail ~fizld and nine growers. A <cuggestion will be made to the mo-‘ing that committees be orzan- | sections of Peking were that Pr Jz-@ tn work thorough county leagues |dent Li Yuan Hungz had been assa: o -ure .assiatance of hi §: in | nated and that former hizh officials of the republic had declared allegiance ‘o the monarchy. = = the fruit. The first step wi b~ - —arket survey and a plan for di i~ “an of the crop through a trans- bortation committee. Construction of Aviation Fields. Washington, July 4.—Rapid progress in the construction of the aviation fields for training fivers for the war is being made. According to Howard Coffin, chairman of the Aircraft Pro- duction board, who has just returned from an inspection trip. 222CHI EXONERATES THE NEW YORK POLICE ~ys T~ Were Not at All Involved in the Cruger Murder. Prlogna, July 4—Alfredo Cocchl, British Destroyer Sunk. co-‘agsed slaver of Ruth Cruger. the Ne- York girl, said he had no secret| ILondon, July 4—An_ old type of crmnection with the New York police [British torpedo boat destroyer has struck a mine and sunk in the North Sea, it was officially announced this evening. There were eighteen survi- vors from the sunken craft. 2-a that they were not at all involved In the crime. Cocchi's statement came after a new inquiry by the rolay pros- | When Demonst-ation Was Made in|Announcement Made By Secretary of Front cf the Whits House. | War Baker—Duration Impossible to| i State. i Washington, July 41— A R demo 1 ion by mem c e New York. Tuly 4—Secretary of V woman part n fro o \ t e d on his arrival he House toduy resvited com ot deliver an Independence fare against the Austro-Hungarians. WAR DEP'T CENSORSHIP IS ONLY TEMPORARY.| MCRE ARRESTS SUFFRAGISTS or IN WASHINGTOMN hit the new war depart- sorship is only temporary ed a the probable duration rrangement. S tary impossible tate nt v said it wa to =¢ TRUCK CRUSHED BY A TEAM P NEAR SAYBROOK JUNCTION | One Man Who Escaped Injury Said It At the police the suffracisis| Was His 42d Experience in a Wreck. | deciined to — —_—— — - S ok Junection. Conn. July 4 - ; \s a furniture motor truck of the L Kevstone Auto & Siorage company, of | FOR FIRST MILLION MEN XNew ven, was on the crossing just | exst of the station here, early today, | Will Be Delivered by Sept. 15¢—200,000 a freizht from Boston for Harlem { Men Have Becn Equipped. { River, et it. Thomas Pompi, fof 215 Oak set. was hurt and later Washingion 7 1 Clothing ind | sent to New Haven for sursgica: } camp equipment for the firs on | He was driving, and Bert Rogers of | men of ihe new mies will be de! - | 45 Foote reet, was on the seat \KilhI ered by Sept. Ist, the tenteti . Rogers was unhurt and later| the mobilization of the firs 1 raiiroad men that this was his| of the national army A rty-second experience in a wreck. | issued tomizht by the war de t engineer did not see the savs that adequate supplies for all the | truck until almost on it and he stop- nationa! guard and national army will | ped the train of sixty cars forty rods| be availabe by the the troops - the collision. are called out San Salvador Volcano in Eruption. | The department- has already equip-| San Salvador. Republic of San Sai- ped 300,000 men, national guard and . July 4.—~San alvador volcano regulars, and the troops in France been in eruption for the last two | have stores with tnem to last six| but no damaze has been done. | months danger is believed to have pass- Tents for more than half a million | men will be ready pt. 1st which is | e —_————— — i more than will be needed by that time. | WEEKLY STATEMENT OF BRITISH ADMIRALTY. Only Fifteen Ships Over 1,600 Tons Were Sunk—Five Under 1,600. The weekly ship- | ping summary issued today shows that 15 British merchant ships of more than 1,600 tons were sunk and 5 vessels of less than that tonnage. Eleven fi ing vessels also were iost. The sum- mary: Arrivals, 2 London, Ju! 45; sailings, 2,846. | British merchant ships sunk by mine or submarine, over 1,600 tons, 15; un- der 1.600 tons, 5. British merchant ships unsucces: 1y attacked, inciuding 5 previously, fu 16. Britieh fishing vessels sunk, 11. PRESIDENT OF CHINA ESCAPES FROM PALACE No One is Allowed to Irterview Him in His Place of Refuge. Tien Tsin. China, July 4—Li Yuan Hung. the Chinese president. with twoa attendants, escaped from the palace at 9 o'clock last night and sought ref- uge in the Japanese lezation. The Japanese, considering the urgency of the case, zranted him refuge. No one is allowed to interview the president in his place of refuze. Elkus Arrives in New York. GENERAL CADORNA New York, July 4—Abram I Ekus, former United States ambassador to Herewith is reproduced the latest|Turkey, with which this country sev- portrait of General Cadorna, com-|ered diplomatic ‘v'e!ann‘l;fl last Al'r;:l.. or ? i arrived . here tod Mr. Elkus was mander in chief of the ltallan army. |, ccompanied by his wife, three: chil- who is in the field directing the war- ' gren and attaches of the embassy at Constantinople. B { with profound assurance of his German Agents at Workin Coal Fields AN ORGANIZER OF THE I. W. PLACED UNDER ARREST. w. IS HELD WITHOUT BAIL Federal Author ies Satisfied That Re- cent Strikes and Agitations in An- thracite Regions Had Been Stirred Up By German Agents. Scranton, Pa., July 4-—With the ar- rest today of Joseph Graber, an organ- izer of the Industrial Workers of the World, charged with being a spy in the eraploy of the German govern- ment, federal authorities declared their investigation had eatisfied them that recent strikes and agitations of the I.W. W. in the anthracite coal regions had been stirred up by German agents with the hope of lessening the power of the United States in the war by decreasing coal production. Graber, who was taken into custody by United States Marshal James Magee, was held without bail under the alien en- emy act “Our information proves.” eaid John M. McCourt, assistant United States district attorney, “that German money has been poured into the district in an effort to cause strikes and thus lessen coal production. BELIEVE THERE IS NO GROUND FOR SPY SCARE Nothina Strange About the Attacks on Transports by U-boats. Washinston, J ¢ 4.—The unsuccess- ful submarine attac! on vesseis of the American expeditionary force, has re- vived spy rumors in the capital The gratification of officials over the safe arrival of the last units of the ewpedition is tempered by indiz- nation that the German admiralty was able to lay its plans so well and to attack the American vessels in force before they reached the danger zone. Discussion of possibie spy activi- ties took many angles today. Some officials argued that an attack was to have been expected as a natural consequence of the zeneral knowledze that was common property There were indications that the de- partment of justice might be asked to Condensed Telegrams Five hundred r were confiscated from alien residents of Salt Lake County, outside Salt Lake City The Oversea casualty ilst issued at Positive Inmates Died From Poison Ottawa contains the name of B. Me- S Cormick, Roxbury, Mass.; wounded. 7 TESTIMONY OF ANOTHER EX course in Historical Aspects of the Present War is included in the PERT IN GILLIGAN CASE curriculum of the Harvard Summer School. s Harry Carranza, a Japanese, was|DR. VICTOR C. VAUGHN rowned while boating on the Quinni- plac river at Cheshire Wednesday af- ternoon. Had Analyzed Cartain Organs Recruiting offices for the Tiritich army are to be cpened soon in Chica- | 80, San Francisco, St. Louis and New Etieans. From Stomachs of Four—Decla They “Unquestionably Had —_— From German submarines have opened a | campaign against the Swedishi mer- | =X chant fleet along the Norwegian north P ' ern coast. 3 the Effects of Poison Lord Northcliffe, ish war mission in called on Secretar cussed further c atn. head tha Me edits fc The estate of Jos. dent of the Bath Irc in March, was valued at $3.136,928 in an inventory filed in rt at| Bath, Me. | The first of the 50,000 deic pected to attend the national convesn- | tion of the order of Biks in Poston, | which will open on ; rived vesterday i Plans to provida a and incs - cussed [ fund for aszed members nnual conventior G Bedford the American | New ion at Richard Elliott, ners Tnd., w er Clark as suc resentative (omsion the sixth Indiana d The fourteenth the Massachuset ternal Order of Pittsfield, Mass., dred delegates ilie, s sw trict | annual session State Ae oper attendance 1 The Lafayette Aviation posed of transferred from American arm effect just h The Bay Stat was authorized commission to posed new rate a six-cent fare a Made Corps, « A Point Americans, will shortly he & s the enc P arrang ing a been comy eet Rai the public vice | ait wit ' g nto effect its pri 1 surplus ¢ The greatest over expendi: the colony of Newfoundlan n preliminary statements cal year which ended A further drop was announced at 1y brands of cut §1 $1 o barrel belc in the pri Chicago when fam spring wheat fl a barre s $5.50 3 Members of the 4t a* meeting in Ly Professor E. F ed to send Wilson. It ington. 4 £ |DETROIT TO BE ASKED | TO ADOPT 80O Restore French Town Been Besicged Dr. Manuel Arroyo, v lin, from Gu; nala undertake an investigation. At the navy department it was said tonight that all the information which had come through was contained in Secretary Danlels’ statemen ester- da telling how ¥ expedition had | encountered two atiacks. Officials taking the view that there is no ground for a spy scar. suggest- ed that it was 2 matter of public in- formation that the crossing of the ex- tion would follow soon after Gen- Pershing’s announced arrival, therefore would not be ‘unusual, these officials argued, if the (Germa "-boats were given ral rs to cruise in squadrons e tha one of them would intercept the boat Officials snid zht that if fing reports on the « ing aroused sus- picion of defects vernment | hinery for m recy about sach ope remedial steps would bhe n. {AN EQUAL ELECTORAL FRANCHISE IN PRUSSIA Object of Public Declaration by Lead- ing Conservatives in Berlin. Berlin. Tuesday ia London ‘The n e e an equal electoral franchise in 1 found champions in unexpected quarters to- day when leading con atives joined lin"a public dec 1 on the government to the prompt enactmen in fa or of electoral re neir ca which is unequivocal endorsemer of the agitation carried on by social democrats for many years pas: bears the date of Jume 20, but it was only made public today. It reads in part The mig struggle In which the German people are 1 gaged is not vet ended. The zned until how have been larzely of the opinion that the promise contained in the imper Eastertide message for the elimination of acrimonious internal struggles might be fuifilled. “To keep that faith with the Ger- man people to which it ied is er needful to take this work in hand without further delay. We therefore do not hesitate publicly to emphasize the need for the hour which dems of the government that it forthwiti jay down before the diet a draft of an | election reform which not only calls for a general, direct. secret ballot, but for an equal voting franchise for all.” ARCHBISHOP IRELAND MOVED BELGIAN MISSION TO TEARSi When He ‘Asserted U. S. Would Fight Until Belgium Was Restored. St. Paul, Minn., July 4.—Archbishop Ireland moved memb of the Belgian commission to tears and to a sponta- neous demonstration of affection at the Fourth of July celebration here today belief that the flag of the United States could not be withdrawn from the hat- tlefields of Europe until the suyering peopie of Belgium had been restored to_their homes. “If need be, the 100.000.000 people of the United States are.ready, too. to lay down their lives for the cause of humanity and the restoration of the rights of these devastated people,” said the prelate. General Le Clercq broke down in un- dertaking a response to the church dignitary and, unable to express him- self in words, embraced him warmiy. OBITUARY Judge Wesley U. Pearne. fiddietown, Conn.. July 4.—Judge Wesley .U. Pearne, who has been con- nected with the police court here for the 35 years as a judge and clerk, dled tonight after a_two vears' illness, in his 67th yvear. He was well known in Masonic circles in the state, having heen zrand commander of the Knights Templar at one tme. He was a srad- uate of Weslevan and a trustee ‘of that colleze for many years. He served three terms in the lezislature— 1900, 1903 and 1307. His widow sur- vives. Vs . St The finding of Philip zed, on nic Powe quent reles a ng amd M x m | | Donald Spauld <illed Spauldine Oakland Parl a trolley | The greater part of the estate of late RBishop ames A leFa 3% {Cathe [ will to ligious work by t who is vet be n to Leonard Wallstein ounts, who Mit police Mayor York The women’ ton supplement the by an ed 1 to show th | co-op | food May reports to the inte | merce commission from principal Iroads of t show in May 1916. The his vear were 246,981,930, an inc earr The new board of education | cago awarded | new spelline of the German emperor and considerable agitation her = months ago. Soldiers now mobilized in 2 and encampme in Massachu i % é are to given ar t learn enough of the French language to converse without difficnlt they should be to France sent The White Mountain Express the Boston and Maine railroad | ed into an automobile containin passengers at Winniequam at Belmont, N. H. I Mrs Woodward, of N and ing other members of the parts rthfield of PEAS SOLD FOR 7 BUSHEL The New England regiment at th officers’ trainine camp defeated t New York ment yesterday In the military pentathlon ~and _fleld dav sports at Plattshurg, N. Y. thereh negspap trophy et They 58 points the New Y Peck Until Farmers Came to correspond- of to bus (ot I 52, sl ers h es me their A dispatch from Paris ] ficial Journal publishes a granting American soldiers and sail- ors in France the same postal priv lemes as are enjoved by the Trench military. The letters of the Amer ans will be carried free and mones orders up to 30 francs will he ed to them without any commission charge. the O savs decree |10 i 40 fapan may sen 55 If necessary, minister navy | Retailers Had Been Asking 50 Cents 2