The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1916, Page 1

Wi f EDITION __ PRICE ¢ ONE © ENT. pera oe eat te ny a eee ny nn nth ee OPA TRE ee POPE SENDS PEACE MESSAGE TO WILSON; BERLIN EXPECTS MOVE TO END THE WAR “Circulation Books Open to. All? Copyright, 1016, by ‘The Press Pablishin ili (The New York World). ” __ NEW y YORK, SATURDAY, MAY. 6, 1916. “Circulation Books Open to All.” 10 P A G bd . U.S. TROOPS ROUT VILLSTAS IN FIERCE TWO — 230 Men Under Major Howze Dash Upon Big Band With Pistols. NO LOSSES FOR U. Americans Ride 36 Miles and Surprise Mexicans After Lat- ter Attack Carranzistas. FIELD HEADQUARTERS, NEAR NAMIQUIPA, May 6 (by wireless to Columbus, N. M.).—A full squadron of 230 men of the Eleventh Cavalry surprised and routed a force of 140 Villa bandits at Ojo - Azules, @eventeen miles south of Cusihurta- chic, early yesterday, Forty-two Mex» ieans were killed and a number wounded. There were no American casualtic The bandits, under Gens, Cruz Do- minguez and Julio Acosta, had visit- ed Ofo-Azules the night before and attempted to take the town from the Carranza garrison, Meeting with re- sistance, they decided to wait until morning before renewing the effort Major Howze at San Antonio, thir- ty-six miles to the north, the situation and set out night with six troops of t Cavairy, reaching the outskirts of Ojo-Azules shortly before dawn. The Americans came upon the Villistas encamped in the huddled adobe huts of the town. The Villistay were completely sur- prised and sprang from their pallets half clothed. After firing a few wild shots, they began a filght, each man shifting for his own safety. ne of them were able to seize their horses, already jaded from a hard day's ride previously, but others made their way into the hills afoot. The run- ning fight lasted two hours. The American attack was a cavalry charge with pistols, the first to occur since operations were begun. Six Carranza prisoners the bandits had been holding for execution were released by the Americans five horses and mules were captured Gen, Antonio Ang of the Mexicans killed, He was live of Felipe Angeles, former confidant of Villa, who was once mentioned for the Presidency of Me feo, and who ts now living near Paso, Major Howze reported he pursuing the scattered r band, which is the largest remaining under the Villa standard It is believe l the band is the same as that defeated at Temoc April . by Col, George A, Dodd's com. mand, Major Howze's march of thirty-six miles was made in less than nine hours, This is considered a remark- able record. Col, Dodd's dash for Guerrero at the first of the Ameri invasion fifty-five miles seventeen hours. Other ¢ operating in the Antonio. EL PASO, Texas, May 6.—Gen. Scott | expects to sign the El Paso agreement with Gen, Obregon, Carranzista War Minister, to-day, establishing between the two Governments the status of the American expedition and providing for its future course. Whatever ob- atacies prevented Obregon from sign- ng yes to have been o As arrangements went forward for the final meeting of the war chiefs, circumstantial accounts revealed an Interesting phase of tho preliminary Sevent S was one rela the was still of the mnant covered in district about n day believed were reome. valry detachments are now | in Juarez. War Departn is declared, Into their hearts" conference started Brown, ferred instead with Gen mandant at Juarez, and of Pa sage to Obregon is declared er tolerate that if the anarchy Me the years 1916 blacker marks {n than 1846 and 1847, Despite this, it was learned to-day, of the expedition, ever, had its effect ence was found The with called, him ready negotiations the and to proc understandi proval Mayo to. nt, “talk turk Brow HOUR BATTLE KILL 42 IN CAVALRY CrARGE OFFICER WHOSE TROOPS ROUTED VILLISTA BAND IN TWO-HOUR BATTLE. "Major ROBERT LEE HOWZE to Juarez, axir Obregon made ing demands In the first conference, for withdrawal the om would swoep- that United States meant to press the c and Mexic gee LUSITANIA MEETING OFF. it “to throw the fear of God Just before the first unable to find Obregon, con- . com: onsul Garcia 0, giving them Scott's mes- The communication to have been a that the United States would no long- Mextce jeans continued their attitude of assertiveness and deflance, 117 Mexican warning be history Reflection on Scott's attitude, how. on the leader by the thine the second confer- sting rapidly, | portunity to clean up Northern | Mexico, and when the meeting ended ‘tentative arrangoment had been Agreed Upon, subject to ofMeial ap- ‘BIG CROWD SEES 6,000 0F “FINEST” Mayor Mitchel Pins Medals on | sHeroes at the Review- | ing Stand. SHOW RIOT FORMATION Spectacular Manoeuvres | Madison Square After Men | Finish March. | Probably the most Impressive police parade in the history of the city wus that which marched down Fifth Ave- nue from Eightieth Street to Madi- 8,000 in line representing all |branches of the service and they moved with a precision not attaina- ble by any other body of similar size in this country outside the regular military serv That the pride of New York in “The Finest” hag got abated was, proved jby the great throngs that lined the | route of march and the applause that was bestowed impartially City officials and leading business and professional men packed the grand stand at Madison Square. llowing Chief Inspector Schmitt- men of Honor Men marched ten regiments Jof infantry, eight cavalry troops, motoreyele and bicycle squads, polive dogs and exhibits of vehicles used in | the police service After the presentation of medals by the Mayor special squads gave exhi- bition drills in front of the grand | stand. The riot drills of the mounted police aroused the spectators to en- sm. No snappier work has ever been seen in New York, which has | witnessed the performancesgof ma of the crack cavalry organizations of the world. The Department — Medal given to Patrolman John A, McCar- ren, who on the night of October 28 { subdued a burglar at No, 14 ton Street after McCarren had shot three times and slightly wounded, Patrolman John C. Caspers received the Rhinclander Medal for bravery. In attempting to arrest two drag fiends he hot In the right thigh, Berge was awar thusi heen was Alexander C, Anderson ed the Isaac Bell Medal, On | reseued a man from nt December drowning. went to Patrolman Franklin §, r, who on January 10 saved the life of a sailor of the U. 8. 8, Wasp) | who had fallen overboard, The Automobile Club of Amertea Medal was given to Patrolman Ed- ward F, Doyle for bravery at a fir in win ammonia plant, Patrolman f FP. Hagerty received the | Brooklyn Citizen's Medal, He over- " a robber a | JUST BEFORE EXECUTION | Plunkett, E xecuted in L in Dublin, ried Sister-in-Law of Other Mar-| The meeting of the Lusit u | viv under the auspices of {American Rights Committee, which Was to be held in Carnegie Hall to- jmorrow night, has n temporarily |Mitehel, Kesolutions condemnatury | of the German Government for sinking of Lusitania one year [ago to-morrow and its failure to dis jayow the act. as well us of the policy Jor the Administratic rt ommt Wane t Wee for 40,000, UNIONTOWN, Pa. May t.-# {thousand miners and coke work the sid " ere athy pendent coke operat w negotiations when Scott met Obregon vance the wages of their men. —— Victim, DUBLIN, May Joseph Plunkett, at th feaders in the rebellion, married an hour before he w He was mar sister of Mrs. put tod yesierday? ried to Miss Giffard, Thomas Macdonagh, the first rebels who was put to deata after tial court m BALTIMORE, Md, May 6 tives in city of Joseph HL wnt HY exe nt AY teenth cent were great tf Plunket the Catholic Church in thie country, INANNUAL PARADE at son Square this afternoon, There were | berger and his staff and the regiment) | sul in Dublin, was active in behalf of @94 seriously injured. She had not} | Mr. Sullivan, He made several trips ned consclousness three hours| ¥ito the castle and held conferences the accident. Mrs. Davis was] was | widow of one of | MAL M'BRIDE SHOT DEAD AFTER COURTMARTIAL; TWO OTHERS SENTENCED FORLIFE EU GENIA KELLY DAVIS BADLY HURT TO-DAY IN FALL FROM HER HORSE. McBride Was Lead Leader of the} Irish Brigade in the Boer War. |CASEMENT SEEKS AID. James M. Sullivan, New York | Lawyer Under Arrest, Likely to Go Free. LONDON, May 6.—An official des- patch from Dublin that Major John McBride was found guilty of treason and shot there yesterday morning. Two others, Thomas Hunter and William Cosgrave, guilty and sentenced to death, but the General commanding tho mtMtary forces in Ireland commuted their sen- tences to life imprisonment. There was little prospect of mercy tor Major McBride, Once before, when —— | the Boers rebelled in South Africa, ho EUGENIA KELLY HURT IN FALL FROM HORSE: Bride of Al Davis T hree announces were also found | fought against the authority pf Great Britain, James M. Sullivan, former Amert~ can Minister to the Dominican Re- ill Unconscious Hours After the | Accident. | Mrs, Al Davis, formerly Miss Eu- ia Kelly, was thrown from her} ‘se to-day on the Jericho Turnpike public, who bas been imprisoned in | Dublin Castle for several days on the lecharge of having been implicated tn | the Irish rebellion, probably will be | released to-day, it is said by official Edward L. Adams, American Con- riding alone on her way from Syosset to her home at Jericho, when she was| thrown, She lav in the road until Dr,} J. W. Malcolm came by in his motor car and picked her up and took her home to Jerichos It is not known whether s) k a telephone pe or the hard roadway when she flung off, fractured, with hich offictals, The present fa- attitude of these officials ap- is due to the efforts of Mr. vorable parently | Adama. Majer John McBride fought through- out the Boer War with the Irish Brigade under Gen, Piet Joubert When the Boers finally surrendered he made his escape and took refuge * GLYNN AS KEYNOTER circles in Ireland as the Irish Joan of Ave. In 1903 Major and Mrs, Me- | Bride delivered @ series of lectures In the United States on Irish polities. | pz a i x-Governor Selected as Temporary: On their return to Paris Mrs, MeBric = ernor Selected as Temporary {sued for divorce and was granted aj Chairman of National | | Con- a mining engineer In South Africa gunized the Irish Brigade in sesburg. When the Boer rebels ranted amnesty MeBride, permanent a Convention 11,000, Jelegates, cluding alternates who} cen in exile for several years, ) 40 Rewsvaper inen went to London and from there to| Paris. He resumed his activity ‘=| AIR-BOAT | E ABOARD Ivish political affatra tn Dublin, but ' FIV f his friends in this country did | WEATHERS HARD GALE. know he as prominently identified with the Sinn Fein movement | - LONDON, May 6,—Sir Roger Case- | Hydroaero Three Hours in legal separation, vention—Clark tu Preside lence in the sector embracing Hil! It might be sald of Major McBride] Wi ccmoN say ap No, 204, We had to evacuate a part that be was & born revolutionist, He] 0°, STON, May 6 “President! oe our trenches. on tho northern was born in Westport, County Mayo,| 80" conference with B-\ slopes of this hill, which had bi forty-six years ago, of a father who|lsneh of the Democratic onal) completely shattered and rendered | was an ardent Irish patriot and he) “Ommittee, It was learned tc + T-Juntenable by the artillery fire of the | |} was reared In an atmosphere of re- | “ited in President approving the germans, Our batteries replied with | His Immediate relations, the /#tlection of former Gov. Martin H./ng eqs energy and checked the ad- and the Gills espectally,|@lynn of New York, to deliver the] vince of the enemy. tive in Irish movements and | Keynote address ua tomporary chair-|""wpagt gight. a German attack dl- were driven from Ireland at| Mtn of the Democratic National Con-| pected upon the wood to the west and ne of the rising of vention at St. Louis, Speaker Clarks lig the northwest of Hill No, 304 was | At the opening of the war he was| it i# "xh Will be Invited to be} ouised with: the bayonet, | | Dead Man Hill and Cumieres. for the River f) FRENCH DRIVEN FROM TRENCHES ON VERDUN FRONT Continuous Combat for Twen- ty-four Hours on Slopes of Hill No, 304. STILL BATTLE RAGES. Paris War Office Reports Great German Losses and Claims Success Elsewhere. PARIS, May 6.—The French evae- uated part of their trenches on the} northern slope of Hill 304, the Verdun front, west of the Meuse, as the result of an unusually violent bombardment by heavy German guns, The War Office statement of this afternoon says, however, that all ef- forts of the Germans to advance were checked by French guns, and that a fresh division of troopa which the Germans brought tnto action sus. tained great 1oaBed. 10 Ast and northwest of Hill 3 pulsed at the point of bayonets. The attack launched by the Ger- mans yesterday was the mont deter- mined assault on the dominating po- sition of HIN 304 since the Verdun drive began. Tho battle raged all day yesterday. and throughout last night and was still continuing when last official despatches were filed to the War Office, Following is the text of the Paris War Office report: “In the vicinity of Lassigny we de- livered a surprise attack on a Ger- man trench in the wood of Orval, which resulted In our taking some prisoners and Infiicting losses on the enemy. “In the Champagne district, Sbmme-Py, the fire of our on near inflicted such damage on a battery that the Germans had to cease fring. “In the Argonne yesterday evening a surprise attack upon a small salient ejot the enemy lines at a point to the east of the Binarville Road made tt | poanible for us to make our way Into the German trenohes, We brought back some prisoners and took two chine guns To the west of the River Meuse the bombardment by the enemy with shells of heavy calfbre accompanied | by the use of suffocating gases con- tinued yesterday and last night. This attack attained an unprecedented vio- “It has been confirmed that the at tack of the enemy delivered the day before yesterday st our posi- tions to the north of Hill No. 304 was conducted by man troops 4 fresh division of Ger | and that th men suf. fered’ overwhelming losses. “There has been 4 slow and con. | tinued bombardment upon our line at] Meuse there has been tithe j} and the United States were also discussed to-day. EDITION = — PRICE ONE | CENT. NO BREAK WITH GERMANY UNLESS U-BOATS VIOLATE NEW PLEDGE OF SEA SAFETY [Wilson and His Advisers Consider- ing the Plan of Sending Brief Note Declaring Diplomatic Relations Will Continue on That Basis. OFFICIAL TEXT OF NOTE UNDER CONSIDERATION By Carl W. Ackerman. BERLIN, May 6 [United Press] —American circles here pointed out to-day the importance of the peace feature contained in Germany’s reply to the American note and expressed the belief that President Wilson now-~ has a great to bring the wai suggested that the time is now r pean capitals The German reply contained the following reference to peace: “The Ger Government, conscious of Germany's strength, twice within the last few months announced before the world its readiness to make peace on a basis safeguarding Germany's vital interests, thus indicating that it Is not Germany's fault if peace is still withheld from the nations of Europe.” Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, Foreign Secretary von Jagow, Dr. Helfferich, Minister of Finance, Admiral Capelle, successor to Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, and several others spoke at a secret session of the Reichstag committee at which the note and the reasons that prompted the Government to take this course were fully explained. AMSTERDAM, Holland, May 6 (via London).—Despatches re- ceived here from Berlin say the note to the United States was written by Emperor William, WASHINGTON, May 6.—President Wilson read to-day with care- ful attention the portion of the note touching on pes Some officials be- lieved unusual significance should be attached to that part of the note, be cause it was taken to indicate officially that recent speeches of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg before the Reichstag were intended as notices to the world that Germany was ready for peace on certain terms. While it was indicated that President Wilson would make no further peace moves until the allied Governments have signified their willingness to receive suggestions on the subject, some officials thought to-day the German note might possibly draw forth something from the allies. Concessions by Great Britain on points of dispute between England The relaxation of the British blockade announced by Lord Robert Cecil almost coincident with the yielding of Germany on the submarine issue was regarded as sig- nifleant Mar. Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate to Washington, called to- day at the White House in the interests of peace at the request of the Pope, He did not see the President, but conferred with Secretary Lansing, It was learned on excelleut authority that Mar. Bonzano left a message regarding action the President might take toward bringing about peace In Europe, U-BOAT ISSUE IS ENDED, VIEW HELD IN WASHINGTON Over-Night Study of Note and Comparison With the Official Text Increase Chances of Its Acceptance. er an ¢arlgrend. Some. for Col. House to re WASHINGTON, May 6.—The offi-!#on to-day, shows no material differs text of Germany's note, fully de- es from the unofMctal text pubes it, one of the prime movers in the laeishi cepallion, Willinot belted by| Clouds, on Flight From Newport yurt martial, Lut will go to trial next News to Baltimore | week before three civil jud | BALTIMORE, Md, May 6-—~Carry whom Lord Chief Justice Baron AM ANE PAAGNgUNE.A hadhaaarons be president. 4 wiluhlses Manion Auwal Man Rite 1 4 “patriotic address,” but 4 angels 1 Rank Mala doubted 1€ he will be permitted 4, : BAB iis or {His trial will be In‘ chine follow : ae 1 on the charge of high tr 1 ! ‘ e178 in 1 was has asked that Sir Ka. bulleted by a stiff nead a is 1 but ed Carson will’ yuu \ sid, eRe refuse, Graft was brougnt to a standstill Intense artillery activity in the re- gion of Vaux } >— Belgians and Germans Battle Here. Louls Mauaser and John Maurrin young Belgians who live at No. 226 Cen tral Avenue, Brookl re > 4 wid of Germe and hud berfore President Wil-| lished yesterday. “=| Overnight study of the note by Cade | WILSON NAMES _NEW JUDGE members and officials did nee hange their view that probably there ppainted for Newly) Would be no break in diplomatic rela District in deeney, tions Unless there were further ate uM 6-5. Warren tacks viol of international There is a possibility that the United States may make a brief reply notifying the Berlin Gev- ernment that as long as the new orders to submarine commanders are fully observed diplomatie re> k Lan 1 of United states “attorney. nominated for |