Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 25, 1918, Page 1

Withdrawal of British Forces Carried Out In a Master- Wireless P) Cabled lant Found in Paris. — e TO ATTEMBT GIGANTIC FEAT Paragraphs a 'y Manner as Had B“n Hanned o Paris, Friday, March 22—The direc- tor of the municipal laboratory at TRk A was ‘Shiained by organised jeemen ot Forest, 76 Miles From Paris City Hall Amiens was arrested this morning. It | American Troops in Training at Lor- | Situation Is Rendered More Acute by | Cincinnati. 3 \ / is reported a wireless apyaratus was . found in his home. ment. SLAUGHTER OF GERMAN INFANTRY APPALLINGcorstue o Gus soms. Londor!, March 24—The Canadian war correspondent's despatch from the £ s Franco-Belgian front today says that Throughout Sunday There Was No Cessation in Battle Along | while ,ihe English were battling_ with the Germans further south, the Cana- the Fifty Mile Front—Teutons Claim Capture of Per- dians on Triday night launched the greatest gas bombardment in the . rld's history betweén Lens and Hill onne and Ham—When Field Marshal Haig’s Men Were Unable to Withstand the Terrific Onslaughts Delivered Bouchavesnes and behind the Somme by Vastly Superior Forces They Gave Ground, But Al- i i g 0 . O, - f AMERICAN TROOPS NOT ways in Orderly Fashion—Teutons Report Capture o IN THE BIG BATTLE 30,000 Prisoners, 600 Guns and Large Stores of War Materials—More Than a Million Germans Have Been Washington Says Only Ame; gineers Were at Cambrai an En- Waghington, March 24. Nothing has Brought to the Western Front in an Effort to Crush the| been received here to indicate what American regiments were brought into British > the British and French Forces Are|ieinichos “ir any American troops ritish Army—Both British despatches, If any American troops participateq, officials thought it would Watching Events With Optimistic Eyes. be found that they were American en- gineers caught in some sudden move- mer:t as they were At Cambrai. The withdrawal of the Pritish forces | progress, but the latest reports showed along the battle front in France was |little or no change in the situation in long ago planned in the cvent of the |favor of the ememy- since yesterday, BRITISH PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING ANXIETY Germans attacking in great farce.|while on the other hand the defenders | Men, Women and Children Are Read- 3is announcement comes from the [had pushed the attacking forces back British front throush The Associated |after a bitter struggle and were hold- Press correspondent who describes the |ing strongly along the whole new front operation of the British army as a|to which they had withdrawn. masterly withdrawal, made possible by ing the Newspapers. London, March 24.—The British peo- ple have experienced no_other period e s 5 of anxiety comparable with this gallant shock troops in the front lines, | _Desperate Fighting in Progress. end since the days of the retreat ture | from Mons, in August, 1914, when the mans, while artillery, machine zun [has been in progress since tbe initial of the small British army was week who checked the advance of the Ger- | Fighting of a most desperate nature lal| fate and rifie fire worked appalling slaugh- |attack, but so far the British have ter among the masses of German in- |Used few troops other than those which fantry as they were sent forward, thug | Were holding the front lines undecided. There was perfect spring weather These today and all the streets and parks enabling the main body of the British |shock troops have been making as to fall back deliberately and without (8allant a defense as was ever record- contusion. d in the annals of the British arnty, were crowded, but solemnity = and gravity prevailed everywhere, which even a stranger must xave noticed. This army, it is declare, has been [and as a result they have enabled the conserved ana up to the present very |main body of the forces to fall back | wer few counter-attacks have been made |deliberately and without confusion and against the Germans. Where the [0CCUDY Dositions which had heen pre- Hritish have stormed the Germans' newly acquired positions they have driven them back. But each mile of advance makes the bringing up of supplies to the German artillery and infantry more and more difficult, and Foe Hurling Hordes Into Fray. The Germans, on the other hand, op- | ing. special ed; réading the Men and women, and eevn children, newspapers, . and ations which printed the aft- . long before the. Gai oftensive | SEoon official reports were bought as fast as the newspapers could supply them. The churches weres filled and the day was one of anxiety and wait- erating under the eyes of the emperor| The British people had not expected unquestionably the British stratesy, as|aad the crown prince, have been hurl., any marked relirement by -the Brit demonstrated since the bezinning of |!16_ Vvast hordes into the fray with the great attack, is to let the ememy, ish rmy, aithough they ' had 'been utter digregard for life and have fol- | Warned that this would be a natural a8 Iar. Sache > P ie out|loWed into the. abandoned positions, ! development of a great battle. H o Brien e Rt 1 forces, |thelr supplies and finding their com- | <ion. getting farther and farther away from | the bulletins caused general depres- Toward night it became known munications increasingly . diffieult. that the official view of the situation T e e otk O pi| More than fifty German divisions|did not warrant such despondency. opthmigtio Gt € have already been identified by actual!| The loss of guns was regarded as eontact and’ many of these men were | inevitable, but the British casualties Struggle Is Still Going On. On the battle line in France the sectors apparently holding their own, |ter of the enmemy infantry as it ad- but with the Germans at salient points |vanced in close formation over the|most still pressing forward. open has been appalling. The town of ChaUny, southwest of |British Losses Within Bounds Ex- St Quentin, situated on the road to Bastad Compiegne, the gateway to Parts, has ! |NO OFFENSIVE PLANNED been occupled by the Germans, and, The British losses have been within ON AMERICAN SECTOR e et oeimeen 0 | hav lost a considerable number of men | Prisorer Says All Teutons Want is to Be Left Alone. - the bounds expected, duc to the tac- according to the Berlin official com- . cwnication, everywhere between the |tics of the commanders. The . allies mians are pressing their advantage. |iN Prisoners and a certain number of Throughout Sunday along the entire |EUS. But very few pieces of artillery fitty mile battle front the fighting nev- | Bave been taken by the Germans since er ceased for a moment, and where |the first day. In fact, the whole With- Field Marshal Haig's men were unable | rawal has been executed in a master- ic withstand the terrific onslaughts de- |1 manner, showing how thoroughly livered by greatly superior forces, |the British had planned for the very simply given two days’ iron rations and | are understood to be relatively small sent over the top into_ the frightful| considering the magnitude of the op- sungulnary struggle is still going on, |Maelstrom made by the allies "artillery, | eration so far with the British forces on most of the |Machine guns and rifies. The slaugh- | them. The paj soldiers in the discussed the embassy were asked for details, but they have none as yet. With the American Army in France, Saturday, March 23.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)—A prisoner taken in the American sector when questioned today said that no offensive was plan- by the Germans in this sector. AlL we want is to be left alone,” he ot ST i " |events which have occurred. ne i s - is permitied to say now what . some have known for a long time, | declared. More Than a Million Germans. namely, that the British never intend- B It has now been definitely ascertain- [ed to try to hold the forward positions is anxiously awaiting news regarding ed that considerably more than’a|in this region if the Germans attacked | the German ofiens million Germans have been brought to [in the force expected. expecting to hear that the British have won a victory. The American snipers have heen ex- geedingly active during the day. They south of St. Quentin but it daily be- |mans, in the British view, cannot now | picked off a considerable number of comes increasingly evident that the|hesitate I carrying on their attack,the enemy, some of whom were seen to whirl and pitch from the parapet into their own trenches. Others were seen to drop in their tracks as the American In this circumstance it is interesting | sharpshooters’ bullets hit them. the Western front in an endeavor | There is every reason to believe that to crush the British army holding the | harder fighting than has yet taken line from the region of Arras to the|Dlace will develop shortly. The Ger- ememy in his drive has met with op- |and it is a case of break through or position not counteg upon and unable |admit defeat. to realize to the fuil his objec Offensive One of Desperation. Claims Made by Germans. In addition to Chauny, the Germans |to note a statement made yesterday by are claiming the capture of both|a German officer, a prisoner, who de- | BERLIN REPORTS CAPTURE OF QUANTITIES OF BOOTY Peronne and Ham and to have increas- |clared that the German' offensive was ed the number of prisoners taken tolan act, of desperation brought on by more than 30,000, in addition to 600 |the fact that the Fatherland must have | Says guns and large stores of war materials, | eace. It is claimed also by the Germans that - American and French regiments which were brought up to reinforce the sertions at their face value nad are proceeding accordingly. further information than this mere |curred east of Peronne and in the Bois statement has heen vouchsafed. de Genlis. The most important phase |nizh¢. In their retirement according to|of the battle occurred in the latter The state; s that it Berlln, the British are burning towns |neighborhpod. During the mOrning the | i hcis cciiembr o foine British and villages behing them. This state- |Germans had pushed southward tow- |ioums and villages and thatp between ment, however, seemingiy is capable|ard Ham and had succeeded in getting !tno Somme and ihe Oiso the Germane 8. loothold at some points in the de-|are still going forward. Enormous Germans themselves in their famous |fenses to which the British had falien !quantities of booty have/ beon taken t by the Germans, Germans Forced to Give Way. siatement which follows: “Between the Somme and the Oise our corps are fighting their way for- > b siich 1p it |ward. * Chauny has been_taken. e enemy was forced to give way and| “Our booty in war material manifested. Field Marschal Von Hin- |the situation was restored. This was |cnormous. denburg has complimented the Ger-|one of the very few counter-attacks as|tirement are burning man emperor on the “initial success” |yet attempted by the British, ang villages. latest German official com-| TLast night was fairly quiet along| ‘“We have bombarded the fortress of munication is loud in its plaudits of he battle tro i 3 T o viln longrdibiancs ainan 1 again surged forward againet| “A gizantic strugzle is tak “the attacking spirit of the infantry |the Germans to the'southeast of Ham, | for Bapinume. A on the of being received with reserve, as the “strategic” retirement left little stand- ing in the territory they evacuated, even denuding the country of trees. Already the spirit of boastfulness ‘which pervades the German army in times of success is being _strongly { back, The British organized a counte attack and hurled themselves against the Germans with such ferocity and the t, but thi i the 2roops, Qeclaring that the battle front, but this morning the cEil Not have been excelled. while the enemy continued his assaults Quiet On the Other Fronts. iq the neighborhood of Mory, south- |line. On the other battle fronts the | West of Croisilles. Gghting activity continues compara- —_— many points in our‘attack between tively slight, except for reciprocal | BERLIN REPORTS M Perronne and Ham.” bembardments and trench raiding RTS MORE. e e operations. Albng the Aisne front THAN 30,000 PRISONERS | GERMAN TRANSPORT \ Champ: th llery duei EE":':,. I TR ol s i [ iaiie " Franco:Amerioat. -Reserves SUNK BY A MINE. been somewhat violent. The Have Been Defeated. The Entire Crew, of the Seldiers Americans on their sectors, especially northwest of Toul, are daily keeping{ Rerlin. March 24, via London.— their artillery practice, with visible | (British Admiralty Per Wireless ¥ man on British o However, the British. take such. as- FiSnch Toung s Villages. Berlin, via London, March 24—Paris been bombarded by Ger fong Eritish have been defeated, but ,no| The hardest fighting vesterday oc-!itarca suns. according to fie et 0 official communication issued to- “The Somme has heen crossed at and Admiral Von Meyrer Were Lost. London, March results, against the Germans in | Press)—The Germans have captured |rivian oy X t of them and now and then car- Peronne and Ham and dcfeated Brit- rying out successful raids. ish and American regiments broughttransport Frankland struck a mine and up from the southwest for \a count-|sank at Noorland, according to an Ex- BRITSH AND FRENCH er-attack on Chauny, according to the|change Telegraph despatch from war office statement today. Stockholm. The transport was crowd- HOLDING NEW FRONT. soohe statement adds that more thaned with soldiers, cannon and muni- 2 X ners have been captured , accordi § i e 1o DI D D tions and, a ng to the despatch and 600 guns have been taken by the Harder Fighting Will Develop Shortly, | Germans. — Victory in the battle which has With the British Army in France, | been raging near Monchy, Cambrai, St. A Stockholm despatch dated March 24—(By The Associated Press).| Quentin and La Fere is claimed by the |22 said that another German transport had been blown up by a mine near the at the junction of the two|Fourth armies and parts of the Fran-|Aland Islands and that the transport were the trend of fbe|co-American resefves aye declared to|Frankiand, which came to its rescue, offensive optimistic eyes' have been beaten with the heaviest British and French, who co-|dermuns. The British Third and riving at Stockholm on the gunboat Svensksund say that the German the entire crew, all of the soldiers and Admiral Von Meyrer were lost. as the reports give The English in their re- Transloy-Combips- Maurepas ipation of American attle was one of the features. Officials of the American front e and momentarily n Retiring Burned according to the is French towns & place battle is in_progress 24 —Finlanders ar- Condensed Teiegrams | .qu:nor Hobby of 1'08“.. 'signed. the State mglbltlon bill. American authorities’ ‘Seized three | merican .ai s ized Dutch ships in the Panama % zone. R Y ity TOPIC THERE OVERSHADOWS| Mexico will formally resume its dip- lomatic relations with Brazil next EVERYTHING ELSE wmonth. GERMAN ° MILITARISTS FORCED The Spanish steamers Arpillao and ) A e § £ = 2. Besana, vere sl b German wob-| Gorman “Monster Gannon” Located in St. Gobain A wage increase from $2 to $5 a day TO PLACATE PEOPLE|NAVY IS PREPARING = i : ? Former Premier Asquith urges re- conciliation with Ireland to help the e ACTIVE DURING THE GREATER PART OF SUNDAY American aviation students now .in Italy will co-operate with Italians in aerial defense. raine Are Still Holding the Trenches i Northwest of Badenviller Which Were Captured Last Week. Report That German Officers Have Been Seen In the Ranks Fighting With the Bolshevil Washington, March 24 —The Ger-| Tokio, March 24—Th i : : O teirvale ‘wenty Minutes and man offensive, says the war depart- |America and i Iurope fn the possic| Several thousand cenefield labérers | The Shells Began Arriving at Intervals of T u ment's weekly communique issued to- |Dility of Japanese military - interven. | are on strike in Porto Rico for am in-| .. - S 3 2 day, proves that ‘the German milita- |tion'in the war is duplicated in Japan, | Crease of 60 cents a day. the Detonations Seemed Louder Than Those of Saturday rists, no lnn?el‘b w{?fig} control the | where the question of the despatch of Rod McMahon, of a national “pro * x German people by pol manoeuver, (an army to Siberia not onl; over- i e = o] R 1 e have becn forced to attempt a gigantic |shadows eversthing else, but has ove- | minence on_the race tracks, died at —They Failed to Distract People From Their Sunday 1850 of avins bo' malntals] hoir dumii-fated a nationalprodiems mot’ ap- | Buffalo, N, T./afler s Joug: Hiness. The French Cor % ation. R 1 proached in importance since the Rus- - i Any Great Extent— renc! vernment to Lol the sreat arfack has been able |so-Japanese War. The correspondent, | A: Mitshall Palmer, the allen prop- Habits to Any s = 0 make headway no definite envelop- is connection, is reliably in- | erty custodian, w: ; 3. . ;s ing movement has been outlined, the|formed that Japan, after the frankest |all property owned by .the enemy. Has Decided That the Future Bombardment of Paris'by communique says, and it -would . be "xflha?“ of views with the aliies, is AR T e s N the N Life premature to express opinions on the |Still studving the question and has not i Distan Shall ormal Li tactical phases with a combat situation |decided upon its poiic than ‘100" injured when ‘500 miunition Long Distance Guns @hte““lfl = 2 inevitably changing in a battle of| German Officers With Bolsheviki, |W2&0ns near Mons were blown up. of the City, 2 magnitude. 5. 5 > i 3 3 ‘The assault launched by_the Ger-|ypePresentative opinion amovg the| The Navy Department announced : S mans against the British front has|rious-ang as fraught with possibiities | s i pi Aest o Sor i AL reopened ihe fehting season in thelof danger to the safety and national Paris, March 24, — The German tirely inefficacious. The Petit Parlsien on ique. interests of Japan, as well as to the| - August Belmont will soon start back | “monster cannon” which ' has _ been | comments upon the bombardment as Despuriie Silibuey Visturs. gause of the allies. The chaos in Si- | to France, where he spent most of the | bombarding Paris has been located in|an extremely minor incident as com- “This operation confirms to us that |2SFi%: with ll:am':as qoetween oDPDOSINE| winter engaged in Red Cross work. | the Forest of St. Gobain, west of Lal|pared with the gigantic battle {n pro- the German higher command, unable . regm; 1] :r oseerd of Man(;hprla, . on. and exactly 122 kilometers )ap- s'rfs %nutheJBrm!h front. A to_control the strategic situation |jy oh as rendered more sinister| An appeal was made to young men | proximately 76 miles) from the Paris| Le Pitit Journal says that Jules through: political ageficiet, as has bean fl: Ae tpflresenoe‘ of 140,000 German|and women graduates of colleges to|city hall, _1Verne had foreseen this gun, and it unceasingly attempted during the past | fuay, - T who are Vir- | volunteer as school teachers in Chic-'| The gun bombarded Paris _during declares moreover, that it is a Freach - four months, has been forced to en-| counte that: Grrmas ot nac; | 280- the ‘greater part of Sunday. The day |lnvention, “More than & year ago gage in a desperate military venture |icen seen in the rapks Hentag —ain e e T s g T At | fring our cannos more (hah AN T oan efiort Ty retein s Somination | kePpieoh in the ranks fighting w Able_blooded men of draft age after | from the ten inch shells, and immedi- | firing our cannon more than 2 over the peoples of the central em- = April 1 will be stopped by policemen | ately the alarm to take cover was|meters. The secret lies in the great- pives, -and It posaible. foree: & iotoric Japanese Navy Preparing. and asked to produce their registration | sounded. This occurred af er suppression of the atmospheric re- ous peace by the fortune of arms. It is announced that the Japanese |Cards. o'clock and many persons sought shel- | sistance. 3 “The German attack began with a|NAaVy is making careful. proparations to TR = ter, but greater numbers of them aP- breroei, e 7 brief but overwhelming artilleryy bom- {mect the possibility: of the Germans| Fernandez Guell, leader of the re-|jcared in the streets on their way to| THEORY ADVANCED ABOUT bardment with high explosive and gas |transporting submarines to the Pa- |Volutionists of ‘Costa Rica, was killed | the churches. which were almost as GERMAN LONG RANGE GUN shells, at dawn on March 2lst in the|Cific. The two Japanese warships at|When fighting against:' government | we] filled as usual. _The women who rolling country north of the Oise 94|Viadivostok, it is pointed out, could | forces. seli palm leaves on Palm Sunday, did miles. northeast’ of Paris, land marines in the event of danger to 3 i o ict tha | their usual thriving businese. “From Croisilles, south to Vendeuil, |the lives and property of the Japanese. | , Chicago liquor dealers perdict that People Were Not Distracted. : a distance of 47 miles, the Germans| The fact that several Japanese |25 cents will be the price for a drinl iving at| Paris, March 24—A prominent Am concentrated this preliminary barrage|Were among the killed and wounded | of Whiskey after May 1, the next lic- | - At first the shells began arriving at| Daris Mareh 21.=A prominent Am in which a number of Austrian bat- | recent Siberfan cnzagements has | ense period. B O T e sy | held. for military ressans; Inta sty . encouraged the press more vigorously 4 a : i LIRS e oomn Hine hostile artiliery | urge: government. action. | = *""¥ | The ‘Austrian Government’s bill re- | calm, seemed.louder than those o Bat | kcining et R Sir ncthva T (6 Toten e shakecs | Sl i tnPeise. ab Eaca lative to general compulsory labor was |urdar. _Their power to disturb_ the | concerning the long range gun that . % 9 ey Yuihme s siceos Food. introduced in the lower House of the | equanimity of the populace, however, |18 5 & region. In Japana the war. has created a|Austrian Parliament. seemed less, the people refusing to be ‘;“Ced the theory that the barrel of Furious Fighting Gontlnues, grave question by the steady rise in disurbed from their Sunday habits to tr "’fl:“{;,,lsh Sarm“’w:d hgl S nmi “The German infantry division there- | [0 Price of food and other necessi-| The fuel administrator issued permits | any great extent. 7 ol s SodiRUe 1y 4 ties, causing increasing hardships to r shipment fit.of that portion of the | free from the sides of gun when. it is flanks of the salient in front of Cam-| " Although tne Siberian situation is | Apriy. May, and June lieve the Germans had broken through | tion, -which s the_ greatest cause of the Sorthern Fa:k bé'em o Tuilioe serious, it is not deemed at present to the line and were bombarding Paris | l0ss -:;ot to;n‘ ang ]e.re ¥d in- Bullecourt and Lagnicourt: on . the |y, hiical, but the indications are| The main’ committae of the Reich-|froni nearby positions a semi-official | CTeasing the —muzzle v south@n, along the line Gouzeau-|g), t Japan will remain in a state of | stag voted 12 to 10 against a motion | note was issued dpring the day. This G“_R e i court-Hargi Eadbtit G ex-|dlertness and preparedness - to meet | of the Independent Socialists to evacu- | warned. the’ people against believing e chemist pointed out that kAo the Cromeyien, and eX” |eventualities. Should intervention be |ate the ‘Aland Islands. ‘passimiatic' reports. parently the same. propu mymfl;fiwm the Crozat Canal to be- | gecid Atk it Tels ok @ i e s iy jeed 82 n otfer Bigh T} {The /Frérich froht i3 intact” said [ity. He added that the shell of Eazed. While the @ been (§ion and that alvay mloe | L o e s W Ty adGsttibr tor ho cons | ks ihs Fravela 10 & Skt Relpt T able to make headway no definite en- |would be entrusted with the campaiin. | fis Seememt por Lan weel o> O trary is a e largely - through _atmosphere much veloping movement is ‘as yet outlined. [The question of how the Russian peo The bombardmerit of the capital end- | thinner than that traversed by the or- ‘Tt would be premature to expressiple would, view. the entrance of Jap-: Acting Chief of Staff Genéral March | ed around one o'clock and as late as|dinary shell, and therefore With less an opinion regarding. the tacticallanese forces into Siberia forms an | ) phises of the operations now taking 5 pe il ites Friction. anivel e three o'clock no explosions had been | air resistance. The opinion was given IMportant aspect of the Dresent Situ- | e mert this 58,000 ot have mene: | heard for more than an nour.: The| that the shell probably i made. of place. We must expect further chang- |ation. e Grwetive Ui “clear signal’ was sounded at 3.30 | highly tempered tungsten steel and es in the combat situation, which are| May be Change in Ministry. i o'clock. that the deterioraion of the .barrel inesitable in a Dbattle of such magni-} mhe jliness of Premier Terauchi has| An outward bound steamter from an| _Although during the earlier hours of | of the gun is not likely o be as nde. i the bombardment the shells arrived on|as in the ordinary high velocity gun . #Enemy casualties have been ex- gg;ng:l;le nt;;e :ivr;)‘;ttsn of a possible | Atlantic port was struck by .another ceedingly heavy. Ship entering the port. The disabled | twenty minute intervals, latér in the| because of the elijnination of friction. —_— day they began arriving every fifteen|It was stated that heavy charges of Extension of Front Possibl BRITISH HOLDING LINE OF e T minutes’ on ihe average, and some of | explosives would tend to decrdise the “astllets dubin ara reporthlibichz SOMME RIER VTO PERONNE| The Spanish steamer - Montevideo, | them even fell twenty minutes apert. |accuracy of the gun. 3 tois and Flanders, and the extension of sailed from Cadiz Monday for _the Two Long Distance Guns. COPIES OF THE GERMAN £ the battle front is possible. War Officials Says Fighting is Still to| pnited States was foroed Lo rethe In military circles ‘the beliet was PLAN OF OFFENSIVE Prior to the German atfack, great he Esipacted: e * |expressed that the Germans were activity prevailed along the entirs Brit- oty : n h board of |using two lonz distance guns. The [Taken from Prisoners Show Their Ob ish fron, The British troops were| London, March, 24—There was no e e o | Mt says the position of ane o tne lact. Fic. frdkn Attainmat i o material ch: in the ity guns was estal e In e 3 e . strongly driven into the enemy lines,|fis battle frent I mertiaaation on | nounced a program was instituted for n %, bain_ forest, which would place it TLondon, March 24—Copies of the. ' proving their alertness and initiative. | hroughout the night, although fur. | 1e COmseTvation of newsprint paper. | 0 firther south than had heen | Goromms "l ot offanalve . ioken frm four own forces in training in Lor- | their fighting occurred at'a number| it is understood that the Miners|Delieved and in the wooded area. This|prisoners, according to the British | e ea® poril] Jholding on to. thelof points, the war office ann ounced | Federation at London has accepted )\Position would be about 70 iles from | headquarters correspondent of Reu: frenches northeast ~of Badenviller|todayl. British troops are holding the | proposal of Great Britain for the bom- | Paris. which were captured last week. In this |line of the Somme River to Peranne, ter’s, Limited, show that the enemy’s : : : tary servi 3 th : First day, region our artillery is continuing fo| Small enenm partoe . which - ar.|PIPE out of men for military service. Large Numbers Sought Shelter. |objectives were as follows day, batter the German lines and a num- ion along the who$ 8Lk ; Wuring the early hours of the morn- |average penetration alo n tempted to cross the river in the neigh-| Frap, J. Hen neral . counsel | ., . is was |front of attack, eight kilometers; sec= | ber of Scouting_ parties, which have | horhiood of Pareny were driven back. | for the Federal Trade Gommission, M e I e et O P foes|ond day, twelve kilometers, and o the | penctrated the German positions report| Northward from the Somme at Per- announced he expects to investigate : on both the subways and tram- |third day, beyond which the schems (At Spemy works havegggen consider- |ronne the British iroops are holdis | New York produce dealers next week. | 1007 b0 . T the aft. |does not appear to be chrried, twenty ably damaged. their positions after' beating off a e the. streatn of the clty sbowea | iilometers. 3 % - : - priests is reported in a dispa : ot Jector north of Toul our| There has been no material change in | fort Amaterdams. . Théy were Seotht e s o B it to{despatch states. Continuing, the cor- ey e ccemetully oombarded | the situation on the b attle front dur- | So on the charge of esponage by the ry respondent says: ; i ing the night, althoug : ake them to their destinations walked | F€5P0 > lines. ~ During a raid one of our pa- I1€ Lo tuten piace i o mbas o | Germans. in order that they might keep their| -Among the captured machine guny trols’ reached the German second line | pointa. and returned without suffering any. casualties. In this area the enemy ; identified as having been used ts. As Is usual when air. |are some irestrs I Frank W. Persons, | 2PPointmen Our troops_are holding the line of | orinee pn-ooneral Fran ot he Somme Ri rrone. S made a thrust against the French forc- tes e HeEL 1o Serrone, SmEll ; in_the Balkans last year. 5 craft - warnings, are _sounded, large |17, il OF the Amimean Red Gross, samousted | TUmbsrs of the populace sousht shel- |, ey, forTobt 1. Se0s" rowa oves parties of the enemy which endeav- | i t Tmen on the way to Eorope swill | T in the subways and’ the base-- | MESRR O NE BRaaty CHONE :\ es on our flank. Our own forces be- (ored to cross in the neighborhood of Niarch ments of houses. in|detected and frustrated with loss by ! came enzaged. The Germans wore|Pargny were driven back. e it The government has decided that in oy artillery fire. All roads In the | riven off. n our right we are o h With \ the future the bom! iment of aris 3 “A Tiostile raid was also attempted |ine French Cand 1o ne monh bt s | . Meyer Bloomfield, head of the In- ! by long distance:guns'shall not inter- |T8T, of the German advance are blockZ against our forces at another point.|River Somme at Peronne our troops|Foscr formoration. anneunced ther g | Fupt the normal life of the capital, but |00 bY Columns of TRORS EUF u,“‘,,,,", This operation was preceded by a|hold their positions, after beating off ee‘fl Corporation, s were” fac| thatt the population shall be warned of upon which we are making deadly play. strong barrage. | Our infantry. well | taumber of Rttacks on different) | Lacific coast ehip yards were a hombardment by distinctive, means. | phoR VRIS T are e ng CORH PEVL supported by artillery, was able to |portions of this front during the early | 3head of those in the East. differing from the. usual warnings sent riey stop the attacking column -before our . 2 ary 50 per-cent. | P of o Bight. Sigrey Weymmiouths: sortvicted ¢ KiT: | 0ut i Cases of alriraide. Drums. witl|CRes) Fr¥ hetivecti A9 an 10 pe trenches were reached. Our. troops| “Heavy fighting is still (o be expect- rey. sen J raided hostile works east of Luneville, an ling Oscar Mayo while hunting deer | b beaten and the police will sound TRe'E oo thiae. fchiok 2 imimt 4 In the Laon area the enemy used a| - June 27, 1917, was sentenced to 11| Whistles. considerable number of gas shells, < - arc_worth. They probably are -based - i . ‘The public services, the trains in iy Rt trteniF S ) months in jail by Justice Dunn in-the TS ihe |mainly upen statements made by e b FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL St Court at Bangor, Me. the subways, the tremways and the|pR O% causing only slight casualties. Gas upreme Court at gor, A A oot to. be bombardments were noted in Lorraine. GROVELAND, DANBURY automobile buses inu Sergeant M. Muller, of Chelsea, of | operated normally, The new waming ¥ Large Raiding Operations, Judge Eugene C. Dempsey, Prominent | Company. C..301st. infantry regiment, SRR o aiiE Bushes & WITH INITIAL SUCCESS| “The French front has also .been In Fairfield Political Circles. was _instantly killed. and four other a“"“‘n ind PR e e . — 21 extremely active. Large raiding op- soldiers were injured in an automobile | crowds In the streets is probibited and | Caiger Telegraphs Empress That “thel erations were undertaken, fore es-| Danbury, Conn, March 24.—Judge|accident near Ayer, Mass. Saturday. | SR B To5h (U0 Fbe end of| Lord Gloriously Aided” Germans. pecially in the Verdun area. A brisk |Eugene C. Dempsey. prominent in % = B ol s 223t i be asoinced. 1 French attack against the hostile|Fairfield County political circles, was| The Ghicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul( 2%y, B2 of 7 7HC o 8 IRIR | Amsterdam, March ,24—“Well,| Yoursl trenches in Malancourt Wood resulted {found deaq today in a_room at the |railroad is entitied to a compensation | 2% bEioTe, B ot the ehureh bells. . |Majesty, 1 think we may be well | in the penetration of the enemy line|Hotel Groveland. Death, according to|Of 20 cents per ton for coal and coke | ard the ringing of the church bells. /10000 iy "this nitial suecess on a front of 400 vards to a depth |the medical examiner, was accidental {Teceived from connecting lines and| The comment of the Trench pressiPInicl Tt gorlin” rageblatt quotesst of 800 vards. Eighty priconers were|and due either to afractdre of the |Shipped to points in. the Chicago dis- | this morning was about 55 bombard. | Field Marshal Von Hindenburg as say- taken. Arother very successful French |skull or concussion of the brain as a | trict. e it Bt back of the Gevman |ing to Emperor William when the fleld, raid was conducted against the ad-|resuit of a fall in the street last T e e Bee e At ‘on {marshal received the first telegrams: jacent positions near Cheopy Wood, |might. as he was leaving the Hotel | Horer Baxter Sprague, 89 president | lines and the terrific battle mging on | %0 /E S0, 20 orengive on the west- Where or a frontage of ov-r 300 yards | Groveland to g0 to his apartments at | of the University of North Dakota|the Eritish front =~ The tone ?lern front. | 2 depth of 300 yards was attained and {another hotel ' He was assisteq to a|from 1857 to 1891, and long identified | comment on the hombardment was of |\ *ip, T c 0 er adas that the time. numerous prisoners vere captured.|reom in the Groveland, but no physi- | With educational institutions ‘in New | astoaislment at the feasibilitv of the | SHS RCERPERE COCF 0 nT R American officers who ara t: 1 an was called as he appeared. un-|PEngland, died at his home at New,_ | performance. AS to the battle, a fa- S5id that i began at exactieiths - e e, O Mass Vorable ending of it is confidently ex-|45d that it began at exactly the t Ceahohe Judge Dempsey was unmarried, 53 = ¥ mected. ik i hour. . [ French Tranches Penet~yted. years old, a native of Parkhamsted,| Petitions signed by 75,000 residents Press Calls For Reprisals. Another despatch from Berlin says | o fun teriararile | 8B4 Was a member of the general as- | of Louisiana, North Dakota.and Mich-| mpe pewspapérs do not con thelr | the German.empress has received the | “The Germans in tun terporarilyisembly in 1895 and of uf constitu. |igan urging more drastic punishment | qnie SERSPOREE €8 DO TROTEY JICCE [Ehe German ompress st Wil - were able to penstrate the Frenchtional convention of 1902 He was|for persons and organfzations uttering | th ™G ¥ 10 10 colciructing their | lam: trenches at Samognoux. — Caurieres |formerly judge of probate and deputy | disloyal statements were presented to = ‘Wood and Bazonvaux, while soutawest C " HINDENBURG PLEASED o new weapon, but speaks passionately| I am pleased to be able to tell you 3 B Orncs an Rt S vt e | 1WUEY F TE Gl Connt, s S of iho useless barbarity or the bom- |that, by the srace of God, the batfle | & a g TR TR E bardment. The Matin says it i€ con- |of Monchy, Cambrai, St. Quentin and enemy thrust forward a_number of A S. i 3 i 3 units and sueceeded in overrunning the | - CENoES ISSUED FOR Mayor Hylan told A. S. rd, presi- | soling to note that the number of vic- |La Fere has been won. The Lord has MANUFACTURE OF DYESTUFFg|dent of the Municipal Art League, to Foriohr Tt a1tk O IbEre: tims is ‘small, but it asks for reprisals |glorjously aided. * = + THitherto, there has been no May He further o "tm‘:’e ',h}mcat‘.iion u:-;u after n:}.,, war.” | on German cities. ot | BeIP : £ indicati For Use of German Patents U, Bard objected to the use itral | - ‘Professor Paul Pdinleve, former - 2 indlcation of an extomslon of e Ger- | O rading With the Enomy Act | Park for treaches to help the Llberty | oot A ot of the Academy |LEGISLATION FOR LIBERTY i “We also note that Belgian units — Loan campaign. of Sciences, told the Excelsior that by LOAN THIS WEEK. have taken over the important Norsh| Washington, March 24.—After months using tungsten in the fabrication of B e e e O | e exporimenting with 600 Gorman par- | _ Three steamers which set eut from | the nrojectile, the tungsten thells|Secretary McAdoo Will Submit Size ! which for a long period had been held [ents for manufacturing dyestuffs, the | St. Johns, 3 was damaged severely by another ex- ard fighting 'was.is losses on the line from Bavauma taslneian. N. F., with : !uh.lim n;t ‘would he of fl;‘mt half the dlmzter o; and Terms to Congress. Pt e r combinations of the patent on March 11, report that eacl - | steel shelis of an even we! an Do -the Rt on omamercial produetion ‘of ‘39ee huy| tained several thousand pounds _of | that therefors, the atmospheric resist- | Wasnington, March 24.—Liberty loan Hostile Activity in Italy. been determined and the federal trade|Pelts and many other vessels nearby{ance would xahen, this accounting. for | 1agfslation and the controversy over “Simultaneous with the German of- |commission has issued thirty liceness{had met similar success. the extremeiy long rance. He als0|war machinery reorganization are the fensive operations in' the west, we|for use for these pafents under the - | tauched uponsthe Dossibility of a pro- {engrossing topics before congress this note further hostile acivily in Italy,|trading with the enemy act. Twenty-{ Apj ion for pardon for Thomias| peller being employed on the Pro-|yweek. Announcement tomorrow by which may’be the prelude of an offen- | two_applications of the E. I Dupont|J. My is to be filed with Governor | Jectil 3 - |Secretary MeAdoo of size and terms- sive in this theatre. An Austrian de- |De Nemours company of Wilmington, | Stephens. of California, after the Sup- © A’ Great Mechanical Feat. - - [of the billions of new war bonds is to- tachment launched a heavy assault in|Del., and, eight applications of the i reme Court issues the remittur on its| Alfred us, in the Figaro, alluds llowed by house consideration of = the Frenzela calley and was able to|National ‘Aniline and Chemical com- | decision affirming Mooney’s conviction | to the of the gun as a greatsthe bil W-fls & penetrate into the advance ouiposts.|pany of Buffalo, N. Y., have bees|for the preparedness day explosion in mwh:fuulmc,hnt points out as 2 before the DUt WS themeingm —haeieais © & 8 geamant a 44 - a tary mew Liberty loan campaign - .° San Franst=— factor the weapon is en- s e g Ay e