The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1916, Page 1

ALT EDITION U. S. CITIZEN CONVICTED Che [*Cirealation Book Open to All.” l FOR PART IN IRISh REVO TO-DAY'S WEATHER—Fair. | EDITION PRICE ONE OENT. Copyright, 1916, by Co, (The New NEW YORK, TH The Press Pablishing York World). URSDAY, MAY 18, 1916. PRICE ONE CENT. WOODS'S WIRE TAPPING STORY IN SE MAYOR THREATENS IF NOT MADE PUBLIC Orpet’s Mother Flinches VERDUN ATTACKS REPULSED; FORT TAKEN, ‘aati Paris War Office Reports Heaviest Fighting for More Than a Week. GREAT GERMAN LOSSES. Eighty More Bombs Dropped on a Railway Station at Metz. PARIS, May 18.—Several @vere made by German troops on the Verdun front last night in an effort > capture a redoubt at Avocourt. The official statement of to-day says @he Germans were repulsed each time @nd that they lost heavily. ‘The fighting at all points was the most important for more than a week. French troops, after severe fighting, @aptured a German fort on the north- slope of Hill 304, A German enoh north of Hill 287 was raided by French forces, which killed the attacks or nts of On the Verdun front of the Mouse the artillery on both sides was fotive during the night Two French aeroplanes dropped eighty more shells on the railway @tation at Metz on the night of May 06-17. east The text of the War Office state- Bent follows Between the River Olse and the River Aisne a strong reconnoitering arty of the enemy which was en- @eavoring to approach our lines in the neighborhood of Quennevieres (wan subjected by us to a counter at- wok and dispersed, leaving some dead nD the field. “On the left bank of the River louse, after a spirited preparation by ir artillery, the Germans endeav- @red several times last night to cap- ture the rodubt in the Wood of Avo- wourt. Repulsed each time, by our fre, the enemy suffered very serious flosses. As for us, we executed at a point to the north of Hill No, 287 at bout 8 o'clock in the morning a sur- {prise attack upon a German trench. The men occupying this positien were either killed oz made prisoner. “At this same time of day French Preops took possession, after a furl- ous engagement, of a small fort of the enemy on the northeast slope of Brin 304. “During the night of May 16 French @viators conducted numerous bom- bardments along the front to t porth of Verdun. For instance, fif- teen Mells of large calibre were thrown’ down upon an tmportant do- Pot of munitions between Raucourt Qnd Arracourt, ten kilometres (six @iiles) south of Sedan; five more on fhe railroad station at Bedan, where a fire broke out, and fifteen on a depot of munitions not far from Azannes. Diving the same night two French @eroplunes threw down eighty shells on the railroad station at Metz-Sab- tons. BERLIN, May 18 (via London).— ‘The repulse this morning of three at- tacks by the French agatnst German Positions on Hill 304, northwest of Verdun, was announced by the War Office to-day, The statement sa} “Hand-grenade engagements south- ‘vest of Laon continued. “Three further attacks by the ‘rench against our positions on Hill were repulsed early this morning. ‘enemy suffered very heavy losses in the surrounding open country, This refers to attempts to attack made by African division consisting of id White and colored French troops AD pants ance by weak enemy forces of Reichackerkopf failed uring a retreat through Esnes the PARIS CLAIMS; ~ BERLIN REPORTS SUCCESS ‘AMERICAN GUILTY IN IRISH REVOLT: Jeremiah C. Lynch of New York Convicted Before Court Martial. LONDON, May 18.—Jeremiah C. Lynch of New York, a naturalized American citizen, has been tried and convicted by a court Dublin on a charge of participating in the Irish rebellion, The sentence was to be promulgated to-day, but no word has been received by the Ameri- can Embassy here as to what sen tence was im The vewst victed martial in to rsed at Lyneh had 0 court tal © Embassy from the American in Dublin. Pre vious to this, the last news the E. bassy nad of Lynch was that under the Defense of the Realm act he was prohibited from leaving the five mile zone of Dublin, is provision as a rule only app: to hostile allies, but can be extended to friendly aliens. It was extended o Lyneh, he had been making trips to Western Lreiand, Lynch has resident of Dublin for soine by a m was re ceived by t Consul as been a time. ‘Two other Americans are in custody in connection with the rebellion, one in England and one in Ireland, the | Embassy was informed. Timothy Healy said in the House of Commons to-day that he understood James M. Sullivan, former American | Minister to the Dominican Republic, had been kept in jail in Ireland for eight days without the lodging of any charge against him, When he was finally released, Mr. Healy said, no apology was made. Secretary Grey sald the United States had brought to the notice of Great Britain the detention of Mr. Sullivan, who was arrested In Dublin on April 30, It was understood at the time that he was charged with com- plicity in the rebellion. The case was being investigated, the Foreign Secretary said, and when the facts were ascertained they would be communicated to Ambassador Page. News of the arrest of Jeremiah G. jin New York Irish circles, Lynch visited his friends here about a year ago and told them he was deeply in- terested in the Sinn Fein movement. Up to four years ago Lynch was one of the best known of the young Irishmen {in this city who were pro- moting Irish literature and scholar- jship and incidentally, agitating for Irish freedom, He had lived here for fifteen years, having come from Ire- \land as a youth, He was the repre- sentative in the United States of the aelic League and one of the found- and President of the Philo-Celtic sague of New! York. : four years had been employed b Consolidated Exchange and had writ- o Lynch, who jten life Insurance as a@ side issue, de- termined to return to Ireland, He was an American citizen and un- doubtedly still retains his citizenship. | Lyn manager of the Southern District of Ireland for the Prudential Insurance |Company of Newark and also an ap- |pointment as an agent of the New York Life Insurance Company. He made his headquarters in Cork, and |his friends here say he was successful in his bus Doy ntures, although he spent a great deal of his time attend ing to Irish aff, 8 Which yielded him no financial return, Lynch is about forty years old, y SENTENGE SECRET Lynch in Ireland was not unexpected | a firm on the} n procured the appointment as | U.S.SENT$80,000 - TOIRELANDINAID | JOINED WITH PLAN ~OFTHEREBELLION —FORPEACE COURT Former Under Secretary Says House Committee Agrees on Officials Knew of Revolt | Five Battle Cruisers, 20 Sub- | Days in Advance. marines, No Dreadnoughts. |AFRAID TO STOP DRILL.|TO COST BIG NAVY PROGRAM $180,000,000. 115,200 Were to Rise and | Universal Disarmament Advo- Had Only 1,886 | cated—Daniels’s Five-Year Rifles. Scheme Rejected. | LONDON, May 18.—The British | | Government knew several days in ad- | | vance that the Irish rebels planned | WASHINGTOD House Naval . May it Committee — The to-day | adopted a “big navy” programme for open revolt, but did not disarm them,|one year, and at the same time went on record in favor of universal dis- armament. No dreadnoughts are provided for, but five battle cruisers are included tn the prograinme. The committee's programme calls for expenditure of $180,000,000 in fleet construction. ‘The five-year plan recommended by the Secretary of the Navy is knocked out, but the number of ships proposed by the Secretary is Increased in almost every class, In favoring universal disarmament the committee culled on the President Jto do all within his power to bring about settlement of international dis- putes by arbitration fearing great bloodshed. Sir Matthew Nathan, who resigned as Under Secretary for Ireland fol- | towing the rebellion, made thia state- ment to-day before the Royal Com- | mixsion appointed to investigate the | j outbreak. Three days before the re- | volt in Dublin began the Governinent }learned that Irish leaders had been | informed the Germans would co-op: them In |and air offensive. Sir Matthew said the Irish constab- ulary and the military Jate with a great land, sea were at once | CRET; MITCHEL CALLS ON THOMPSON DEMANDING THAT POLICE HEAD ~ BE PUT ON STAND AT ONCE “Tl Split Things Wide Open in Pub- lic Statement,” Mayor Declares to the Chairman of State Legislative Committee. “WE HAVE ALL WE WANT,” SAYS SENATOR THOMPSON Mayor Mitchel this afternoon in the meeting room of the Thompson Committee in the Municipal Building announced that unless Police Com- missioner Woods was at once called by the committee to the witness stand he would issue a public statement and “rip things wide open” on \the matter of police telephone wire-tapping. The Mayor and the Police Commissioner had called to demand that they be examined. exer At Death Penalty Hints In Questions to Talesmen cane Mayor Mitchel was deeply cined over statements made by coun-{ prior to the arrival of the Mayor, sel for Father Farrell of Brooklyn ator Thompson said ho believed that the Mayor personally dad “lis-/ accomplished all the commit tened in’ on conversations over warned, ‘The const was patrolled dey | 28®, Dullding programme agreed Wather Farrell's wire, He expressed | te Could hone, to accomollsh, in: tam Audinipnet@iaed pet a Seaitie upon follows: | the opinion that the time had come|M4tter of telephone wire-tapping and lianding of German arma, and it was| rive battle cruisers, $20,488,631 for the facts to come out. was in favor of dropping the matter | undoubtedly due to these precautions |' ach aa ‘The Thompson Committee had been} right now. Apparently Mayor Mit- \ that Sir Roger Casemnt was captured | Bows sons SPulnerss SATEEN Neat dis@ussing the wire tapping matter in} chel did not share this belief, buy f few hours after he landed. | re ula pando Alas | executive session for @ long time prior wanted to us the committee as 7 ifs Sealy é | 314 each 1 r, Part medium through whict " a ilacpe ¢ ie }to the arival of the Mayor. Part of jum through which he might give | A Wee bee ane of ies Siature | Twenty submarines, three of 500 MARIAN + |ihe time Commissioner Woods had[Out to the public his side of the 1.208, Sir Matthew stated. About ‘| e Dey ey + Ty; Prey nee PORN BS ONS: Dee es 5 | ra of these were in Dublin. When aes meee a Basten ea gone Long Wait Torture to Woman} | mitt At 815 o'clock Senator] Commissioner Woods, while waiting ; hes i t or the former and $725,000 tor Se | . to be called, said that his te ese a a masts F FEL res A mien adit . said that his testimony i Be rarely SEAT Dies Oe Uae eae | cues atte Whose Dominating Trait Is Fe A ee ceil the Mayor onl Mame be {ajlirioun to the i | only 288 eg and platole, 'o One hospital ship, $2,225,000 | shi | e sy ’ ont. “2 regre' 825 being in the possession of the| One ret ship $136 | Love of Her Children. | | Commissioner Woods to-day, We}™* Oi ae erst ite aa, Fy shale, The @ aT CTR aa 4 p fuc » $1, ; ta ‘ a yernment is bound to be injured by rebels, The Sinn Fein leaders had! On¢ ammunition ship, $2,714, | want to ve just to them and Mele ose make, I have ect to tall counted on obtaining thelr arms and) ni Vattie cruis are to have a| Marguerite Mooers Marshall. them @ chance. We tie New Ere calce hake ‘ Lakin’ a a ave a , ples te eo Ne lice Depart- Phat cu eit ge ag i rapes speed of thirty-five Knots, 180,200] (Special Staff Correspondent of The He had no sooner uttered the state-| or 1. tapned. telephone wires | | auxiliary AY: wag n cerns 20, horsepower and a chief armament of se Evening World). f . | ment than the Mayor and Commis jay i doral authorities are working rifles and 1,000, rounds 0 ammMU-| on 14-inch guns, Elght of the sub-| COURT HOUSE, WAUKEGAN, | [sioner Woods hurried Into the meet | 111, O11 1ocal potice constantly, That jition when she was sunk ere | marines and four destroyers are to/ Til, May 18.—Wit the examination | jing room. Mayor Mitchel demanded |i in. reason, en Ae invited ike aan of on ey | be built on the Pacific Coast of a third panel of 100 veniremen, | that Comm ieel niet eypoas DO CAOTTT ih want ‘siat akhude. ta: telline rts of Republicans to authorize brouae han {as a witness without delay m : 4 ae ting sed Efforts of I brought togeth: ‘ tea aes ap | Thompson Committee all about po- fella pada An Laan a larger number of ships were uc- by deputy sheriffs | | “If he isn't,” said the Mayor, “IV iicg wiretapping, why it has pe de tious literatu feated in every Instance. ’ | shall prepare and give out a state ’ sec! ded. ae : | who scoured the | done, the results obtained and the Secretary a Republicans voted solidly against | ‘ | ment to the press giving the Inside of | pecautions observed to prevent mis | REBELS GOT $80,000 FUND FROM) imme submitted by Chair- | county oil Bish | 1k whole affair,” takes, After I have sketched the AMERICA, an Padgett and announced they in motor cars, . U| tt is your privilege,” said Senator man Pads there besan to| Wikh ORber : ; general aspect of the case, 1 shail It was estimated, he added, that} would briyg in a minority report ie ss r SHOTOSs er Ramsem| Tompson, “to xive anything YoU) come to the case of Seymour and $80,000 had been received from Amer-| Amendments offered by Roberts, ~ day another at) _ ~~ | please to the press.” Seymour and frankly tell the rea- ica and paid into Dublin banks from| Massachusets, providing for premiums | |] .v» + Miq| tempt to pick nator Thompson then invited the! song why the telephone of that firm the middle of September, 1914, to the| to the contractors to speed up con-| |{ , Po) jury for the trial THREE STRIKERS SHOT Mayor and the Pollce Commisstoner| was ‘listened in’ upon following April, when the money was! struction were defeated, Amendments | |]Ug » |j of Willlam H. Or. Into a room in which the members!" wre method of using the tele \withdrawn, After that It was not] by Britten, of Hlinols, to limit the time | Porat=a—-] pet, accused of IN ATTACK ON FACTORY of the committee were holding an @X| phon to detect and prevent crime found possible to trace the methods] for commissioning the ships, alyo were the murder of ecutive segaton, The session was pr S}has t seriously injured by the of the receipt in Ireland of money | defeated Marian Lambert, bis elghteen-year+| fytire Police and Fire Departments racted and at intervals t mo ad | present. publictty." \ rom the United States. ‘The disarmament resolution, intro- | old sweetheart. fA ; 4 led |s id: SONVERRDY| pate an YT Te iy reported that Commissioner Sir Matthew said the authorittes|duced by Representative Henlsey of| And there began the fourth day of ae ati is Me cuateraation with tha reportors| Woon Wilu aay thas the, palice Bag believed if the proposed rebellion were | Missouri and adopted by unanimous] mother's ordeal, For, as 1 w Out to Handle Mob. | be sy for months preventing the let alone it would die of its own ac-| vote, was as follows: ' Mrs. KE. O. Orpet, sitting barels ANSONIA, Conn, M Ty | carrying of plans for smuggling cord without bloodshed, He sald of-] “Upon conclusion of the war In Bu-| 6 away from me, and as close . M0B TARS AND FEATHERS arms into Mexted Jficlals realized that forcible interfer-|rope, or ay soon after as it may be) Url “is ap) a pug f | since our tr have gone int Jence was certain to cause serious dis-| done,’ the President of the United lor ‘chair could be move A RAE Lao. Fiat ’ at nt of the! GIRL AND MEN VISITORS Mexico,” Mr. Woods satd to-day, ‘it ordera, States {s authorized to invite all great | *Wenty-one-year-old son, T couldn't) Ansonia Manuf. Company bas been up to me to help the Federal On April 24, he said, members of the ernments of the world to send| Mss the fact that, so far as MOFAl wroy. herween 150 ar DD wien rece fauthor to keep arms out of that Irish Government in Dublin Castle) representatives to a conference which | and emotional strain {s concerned, | oy.), Louisiana Band Beats ountry discussed plans for entering and seiz- | ynai be charzed with the duty of} it is she who is being tried and not he a paid os Ropes and Then Forees Them ‘ Hissi unteered ing Liberty Hall, the rebel headquar- | suggesting an organization, court of | her boy. ‘ 1 stimony ar tlee was he ret td fired by guards from inside the fac-| to Walk Five Miles. lters, at the firet shot from the rebels. | arbitration cr other body, to which| Mrs, Orpet 1s a large woman, deep. |i! ! ~7 ana us to hear all about the history The plans, he said, called for the im-| Questions of disagreement. between | yoyomed and wide-hipped, she has a a ; EE eee Nl em Lac May 18 telephone wire tapping during mediate disarmament and arrest of! jgtions shall be referred for adjudi-| onerous lap, plump, capabl a ane a shila init ' ent City Administration and the leaders, It was believed at that|cation and peaceful settlement, and aD, Re Cap the One man was snot) Vann, form i alee why the wire of Lawyers time that the Royal Irish Constabu- |to consider the question of disirina-[a round face with ! 1 was taken to a! MeNary VM. b. Viv a tenet ae aii lary, with regular troops at the Cur. {ment, and to submit thelr recom arogni the eyes and at the Mi BT \ found Reymacu 16 the aay |ragh Barracks, would be sufficient to! friments for approval of the wide mouth—though it's Witt ner house d testified yeetorday that they cope with the situation, He admitted | phe resolution further authoriaes | smiling she does t tas r 3 my - vie ‘i ar nteronted | that the authorities were mistaken in| appointment of nine men to rep es 3 W be 4 went a ‘ 1 : P in a thia calculation, | rese e United 3 in such con. | woman! She wears substantial, s¢ 1 marched y tothe fa ake Al We FYTAH Rata tract to supp amimunition to the [phe rebels exhibited greater or. {ference and appr 0,000 for} sible clothing; a dark-bluo suit, a/tor : val foathored and beaten wit f tJ. TP. Morgan & Co ganization ability and greater mili- Fe uciimittes alee agopted un| hive all waist with a fat lace window ! , Ne rt , behind other parties skill than we had attributed to] amendment preventing expenditure | jar which doesn't choke the folds of, © j fF tho] Mee e 4 | nterested 4 ; admitted Sir Matthew, “They |of money under the appropriation | ont neck: a hut staidly tri ‘ 1) ’Giticers are aecking t t] Both Seymours sald tically also acted with great courage show dan International court r her H + y is t and was 1 1g criminal con ft sar he i ena 0 with leaves and shroud na ~ > .. 1 wu , n " Was not a license required to bear 7 He Ma Atenanc | w f ‘ 8 ; ; | ed ow hei business. live armament Jarma in Ireland?” asked Lord Hard- | Se eee reise axociaa on | ine Vi \ factory 1} $10 Men & Young Men's Suits, $5.95 |r jor for “inte in on the | . who presided, | sure, including the building | Physically she ia Ceres, Godde f window 1 thred b The "HUB" C ttn Corner, Browd. Seymours’ wire was out in the “Yes” responded Nathan, “but it|programime, “1s $240,000,000, an in-| Rural Plenty, but 4 Ceres w 1 Buliding) ale to-day & Priduy, | regular form, approved by the Police |was not enforced.” Jerease of 090:080/200 ier last a Puritan conscience. Though [ha m0 . \ H t's a Young Men's Suits #& Top | Com declar that the | “Why was it not enforced in Ire | Broeras me Ad An nee s never been told, [am sure she lak ‘ pay) pe Lod, Qurspecial wire Was necessary “to pre- a net building programme of previous | bal Brie ctot tere broudway. os Barciay ee, | Vent crimes (Continued on Fifth Page.) yeara, (Continued on Fourth Page.) (For Racing Results See Page 2.) Aart. ee «CAPLAN William M, Offley, chief of ‘ i } “- . ORISA RE 2 at tengo 2"