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1 Ra bting \s swetlouiog oes Immediots right te preeveding Brteeb Weel reldieg parucs agate e@ew) > beleeers at man) p-ista to tabling oom prioweess” erehe ook lathe e ematbing the Ger mmeupiention Weocker ont bowing ap om © Wend mortars particulary Genirective tore o@er pereyels and severe) opened the wap ter pane of Bllere joches and © her large eallbres wringing ip capper. wrersing everribing 87 it rf, | I he } i~ i g tH | ! @ jz ote launching of (he British offensive Preach te we the ettack Thies ovement of Preach trenpe war to 6 section of the Preoch line edpoining (be Jubetion polet the Britiab treat ing to the War Offce aapouo: ement the Brition \nteetry sprang rem the wrenches ot 140 o'clock, throug) lowte of mone ond dust + hied Dune over the whole field oe far a» (he ere cnld soe ond Degen the | i i i eew Britied (reach mortars, which fre thirty-five & minute, plare: eutting wire entengiomen|s 004 des'roying Urencbes say the British curteioe of Ore prevented them jam Ove dave who Witnessed the advance ot the junction of lines osi@ the stiack @as lauacbed a» (hough the 1 bi *e I zf - ] i th i i i t M.” read one despatch, “we hac occupied the German front bedind rows of German dead” Starved in the Trenches. curtain of Gre was eo elective that the Germans were unalte to to the front Mae. Mea in these trenches were starving for turer ¢ f a nightly reids om German trenches secounted for many of the de _——_femdere of these positions, and also enadied th British te oteerve the effort at the artiliery Gre during the preceding day »~ The number of prisoners taken in these raids has not bern tleclosed, Wut the correspondents have been permitiot to any (het men were captured from Dettalion in the German line apposite the British foreee The informa thus obtained shows (hat net « single German regiment has been re from thts front ‘The number of Germans opposite the British fromt and in reserve behind the ines was estimated « month ago at #00 000 ¢ Moving southward from Arras, the Germans face the British in the order; First Bavarian Reserve Division, Thirty-eight 1 ° @term Brigade, the 111th Division, the Fifty-second Division, the Fourteenth Corps and the Sixth Active Corps, which rests partly north and ili eem ct ae femen = Behind the German front are the following reserve units: The T Reserve Corps, concentrated at Valenciennes; the First Guard [Reserve Division, northeast of Cambrai, aud the Fourth Guard D’rision, southeast of Cambrai ‘There is no way of estimating the ber of British troops opposing Germans on this front. Travellers arriving from France recently have the country sround Amiens swarming @ith several hundred + @wesané Britiod troops. ™ The British troops first sent to the aitach were seasoned regiments Syne had been awaiting eagerly their chance at the “Roches” for many — wa. Te tet lee ‘ im reserve beck of the lines. » The news of the British offensive, which wae quickly circulated in Lon- ‘Gen, created the greatest enthusiagm, and details of the baitic are being c ewatted Only this morn: ‘eats at froat, while writing of the British artillery and raiding suc- warned the public thet an advance might be made. accounts of today's battic state that the British casualties were jout London like @iléfire, Along the was a turmoil of exoltement. Frem ally soldiers, cheere@ the tidings whieh and women in little groups ecanned the cheers of joy. an ineffective raid on British trenches to the weet- after a heavy bombardment. On Wednesday night the British made three raids tn the neighborhood f Messines and accounted for a oumber of Germans. The King’s om » @aire Light Infantry made an expedition into the German lines and returned "wth @ denen prisoners. FIVE DAYS’ BOMBARDMENT * PRECEDED: TO-DAY’S ADVANCE tremendous offensive which bas the ‘big push” of the Mritioh was launched by the British army about to commerce, It wan otated Rngiand had 2,000,000 men fully @ five-day bombardment | equipped and’ trained, in preparation the amdunt of ammunition | for the gupreme effort to break the and in the territory in-|Qerman jines, More than 1,000,000 exceeds anything of the kind | shells are declared to have been fired been previously knowm in| daily in the preliminary bombard. war. weeks reporte have been nd France ‘BELLANS "Absolutely Removes , indigestion. On te "powell Stall ogg ote 3 | Z ninety miles in lengt The allies aré now on the offensive Sesame tere name tteme CLOSING QUOTATIONS. With wet changes from prorions closing i FF Fak SEELEG! EE BeecbES CEOTEEEEOEEE EEE New % { : + + H ‘ 2° €6F05 £8 FEE E © MDEPENDENCE ie tt LAKE HoraToGna a ari bs Vey 1 : 2 ‘§ Rae et SEF SE= - i Hy Mia Ss iki wae ten Bureau, Pulltser Bullding 5 * ‘Arcade, Park Rew; World's . me ib} ? fie tiats HY ES Ae = sql 106.610, ren cas | TES SVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1919. Where Allies Made Progresn in , Sudden Drive in France To-Day ae ve. —— tm practically every eid of the war! ‘The Hrition aaeault « on the! heels of the great ou won by the Kuestans in Ge 1 Buke al whieh have resulted in com. | pletely driving the Austrians from | Hubowine and are still continutr trat the alee met with severe for several dave the been steadily from position after po Trentine « The de Also of Verdun by the French appears have etiffened the balance of battle in that bitterly contested seo. peare recently to have of the dotende The last considerable offensive un dertaken by the Hritieh was a drive in foree at Looe in Beptember, 1915 Om the Melan front powers Rave feverees ani Malians hove the Avatria sition tn con | | \ in conjunction with « similar Frenoh The effort in the Champagne district Britied captured Looe and cial have taken and many une preee home (Beir According to the Britieh War OMe the reserves failed to arrive on time, The Hritish official loames in th battle of Looe were 6,000 mon That the Hritieh public is prepared to tace 4 roll of dead and wounded «> an even vaster scale is indicated by the comments of the Hritieh newspapers in anticipating the present offensive The only front in the whole theatre of the world war where comparative quiet reigns to-day ta in the Balkans and the predictions of an allied ad vance in that region have been at least as numerous and circumstantial ae thoes regarding the Hritieh army io France. CARRANZA RESTORES GOODS SEIZED FROM AMERICANS Gold and Silver Bullion, Many! Horses and 100,000 Cattle Being Returned, WASHINGTON, July 1. -Efforts of) the Carranza Government to restore American property selsed by local authorities in various Mexican Staten Were reported to the State Depart- ment by Apecial Agent Rodgers, He} sald some of the gold and silver bul-! jHom recently taken from Americans At Manasanitio had been returned and! that Coahuila authorities were re. storing many atolen borees and oattle EAGLE PASH, Tex, July 1. ov Mireles of the Atate of Coahulla to- day signed a manifegio ordering the return of 100,000 cattle recently ‘neixed from American owners just south of | the border. | FOURTEENTH’S DROWNED | BOYS’ BODYES RECOVERED They Horder, They Went Under and Died, (Special to The Kreoing World) ROLLA, Mo, July t--The bodiea! of Robert Daley and Lewis Reilly, | privates in H Company of the Four: | teenth Regiment of Brooklyn, found in the Gasconade Riv tween Arlington and Jerome, weat of here early to-day. They were drowned when their troop train stopped at Jerome Thura- day afternoon to permit the Brooklyn militiamen to obtain relief from the heat by swimming in the Gasconade, | | Wilson me y ton, | WAAHINGTON, July 1 President Wilson returned trom New Yor short before & AM. to-day 1 | directly to the White Hause = | | NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE, My Low. Clo, | | July 18 Y20 1276 Ht 1b 1b.8b We He it HH “ iP ht 964 193 8. wea oft 4 to 2 | pointe ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. | Allle-@hatmers months’ net ear prefered dividen Company " alter allowing for dual A per cent. per nm atock. mpany dectared a md of B1-2 p stock, payable July 16 rons Ma Now, Miter Five montha’ 196,862, Net ine Hystem ed BRON. O14 102,363, 448, 1 Ryeten N nereas increas $20,197.66) M—MAY rol b , after tam, Five months 02.662 Net incr five 5 © Ow TA ean cover DRIVEON VERDUN RESUMED ON BOTH Germans Launch Four Fresh "ye Assaults Which Fail After Fierce Fighting. PATIA, July 1 The Crown Prince has resumed the drive on Verdun with the moat powerful attacks on both banks of the Meuse, the War Omee announced to-day, The moat violent fahting in many weeks has developed On the northwest sectors of the fort. ree In a #erion of terrific attacks waat of the Meuse the Germans captured a fortined work necting trene Mil 304, French regained all the | The Germans resumed the attack on the weat bank of the Mouse last even. ing The entice rogion eaat a of Hil 904 becanw the scene of the bloodiest fighting The Germans | and elements of con. in Auhting east of an 4 four differ. ent attacks, The firat, preceded by liquid fire, Wan directed inet a Freneh ponition between Hill 304 and the Eanes-Naucourt In the second attack, the enemy swarmed forward in Compact mannen, attempting to carry French positions weat of the Fane ghway. Thin .ttack was also repulaed, After a brie rked only by Intense canhonading, the Germans directed a most powerful thrust Againat the French lines east of Hil! M1 Tt wan in this fighting that the y captured the French fortified » Which Was lator retaken, riy this morning the Germans launched the fourth attack agatuat Avocourt redoubt, Thia attack speedily stopped by French fire. Bast of the Meuse the battle that bas raged unccasingly for two days for possession of the Thiaumont work continued throughout last night. De. terminod to take the position at any cost, the Germans directed exceed- ingly violent assaults, after bat ing in the redoubt with heavy shells, The French were finally driven out o main portion of the position, rus taining the outskirts 13 MORE DIE OF PARALYSIS: 53 NEW CASES REPORTED During (he past twenty-four houra fifty-three new casos of infantile paralysis have been reported to the Department of Health, thir- teen proving fatal, Of these forty- ment which extended over a front Swimming in Missouri on Way to t¥® ere in Brooklyn, eight in Man- hattan, two in the Bronx and one in Richmond, Since jast Saturday fifty. nine deaths have occurred of the disease, Fifty-one died in Brooklyn, seven in Manhattan and one in Kich- The mond. total af victims now reachon 36! The aver @ deaths have resulted ia from ove to four yeara old. Reginte H. Guilfoy rim aith, ‘The ¥ t death hal year-old) girl aking of the dis. Simon Flexner of the Rock- jtute at a conference of Physicians today said that Kinaing, coughing and sneeaing were most likely to spread tne disease aioe AQUEDUCT ENTRIES. TRACK, N.Y, for Monday's nm that of @ four. tee 8 AQUEDUCT RAC July d The entrie races are aa folly vine fire 115; ture We ka are iy agen Mia! dock why 118 TR. Muha me ‘timp, Ne {ih Neer ahettha Voce Tray 118) Deckan 8 ie We 116, axlvinD ear olla HACK Three y in W108 Hoan 10d: Toga Ling, ifs Hac Ae Vellowetoue 12. SX pect, Can, Wid SC hantertan TOA. * Marie OMiile, 1 verdaie, 112) Doe Mesis, Witiets iit i lane, 108, be Eran end uonant ; : mis i Ni ba aa eleen 110 1 ‘AvDreotice allowance slalmed, ‘Tyech tam, WAR PREPARATIONS HURRIED BY CARRANZ ‘ pued tre Bell did wA say " ed) weseull upon Versiung is unminent repu HEADS ws me Vee) lave wa hum at sectet agedils EXPECT CARRANZA REPLY TO U.S. | TO FORCE PRESIDENT TO ACT WASHINGTON, Juin i reply wil deere obly be delivered & bere te t by Foreign Minteter Aguilar to Amer it le now on tte way to Washington | the amewer ts forecast by the Mesican capital last wight, there are few in Washington who belles |breab can be avoided, The (arrensa memorandum was tone and language and sv defiant tb | js wish for peace, The American Government demand ® ed in tie ultimatum that Carranee Utine bie future attitude toward thie) mn, eapectally with view to the inued 0 tion of Chihuahua ping and Geo Trevinws threat to attack If American troops moved in any direct the Io Grande, orday nave toward | Hooretary Lansing Mexican Minister | ver told pationce was exhausted and (hat an immediate reply wa Almost imm: gave out in M ment that ie expected to be the undwork for the anewer, This charges of expected | | lean Government and repeated ite mand for the immediate with- drawal of American troops, a de- mand with which Mr. Wileon hae no intention of complying. As @ result, this Government ta prepared for an unfavorable reply from Carranga to ite request that Carranza co-operate in auppreasing anarchy and bandit raids, War prep- @rations will continue without abate- talk oreign dip- jay that while they would like te served, they be! such that proposals of medi- ation would be futile. The rigid con hip on troop movements instituted by the War Department is said to have been inepired by authoritative infor- that erate efforts would be made to wreck these traine before they reach the bor- Carrantes reply Ww the American vitimetum be peace oF war—will prow The beet Information obtels 0d in Merion Clty late yest 40 Bpeial Awnt Hodgers, aad that Carranse stalrment ives out im the to Aiseourtoous and Insulting tm ite perpert, tan answer worded would force the Vresident to take drastle action, despite te venu SECOND SQUADRO OF FST CAVALRY S OFF TO TENA Four More Troops Leave Van Cortlandt—Rest Will Go by Wednes Troop C of Brooklyn, M of Avon, HL of Rochester and G of Utica, eom- priving the Second Squadron of Firat Cavalry, Now York National Guard, broke camp at Van Cortlandt f Just before noon to-day and. rod nkers to entrain for the by mut. Col, James MeLeer was in t, Charles Currie Will. 1 command, with acting ax Adjutant, and Lieut fam Gillespie an Quartermaster, Few of their Intimates and ad- mirera were on hand to aee the troop. era off, but they were cheered by thelr comrades who remain behind. The time of departure from Yo Was ret for 2 o! | but 6 o'clock is the more probable hour. This leaves only Troops B, D, EB and I and Squadron A, the Second Field Artillery and Battery B of the First, at the park camp, Major Gen, Wood's orders are to rush every mili- tary unit southward as rapidly as it der. The most significant intelligence re- warding Carrangs'’s future attitule was shown to the State Department by @ telogram stating that ail Mexi- cans capable of bearing arma had been ordered to return to Mexico from the United States Gen. Hell wired to-day to the State Department tha Francisco Villa has been sven with Corranga troops four daya ago at Buatillos, on the railroad | between Chichuarua City and Ban / Antonio, Mexico | acannon: O'RYAN AND STAFF START FOR BROWNSVILLE TO-NIGHT More Enlisted Men and Motorcycle Despatch Riders to Accompany the Party. Major Gen, John F. O'Ryan, com- manding the New York National Guard, will leave for Brownsville with his headquarters staff to-night at 11.69 o'clock, Gen, O'Ryan'a staff includes Licut, Col, Cornelius Vanderbilt, General; Major Edward Major J. Lealle Kincaid, Judge Advo- cate; Liev n Torriberry and Lieut, Alfred Wendt, The head- quarters party will include als eighteen enlisted men, under super. vision of Sergt, MeWiliama, and al pumber of despatch riders equipped with motoreyeles, On the departure of Gen. O'Ryan, Brig. Gen. John G. Eddy will assume command of the State troops remain. | ing in New York, Gen, Eddy is now | at Camp Whitman, LAST OF JERSEY TROOPS GET AWAY FOR TEXAS Cavalry and Signal Corps Also Start South, Leaving Camp Deserted, BEAGIRT, N. J, July 1.— The mo- bilisation camp of the Now Jersey National Guard is deserted (his after- noon, the last of the troops ordered to the Mexioun border having entrained during the morning. The Fourth Reg iment of Jersey Clty, Troops B of Red Bank and D of Piainfeld of the cavalry squadron and the Signal Corps of Jersey City were the last to 0. Whether the Second Regiment of Trenton and the Third of Camden is ooming here next week is as yet un- can be equipped, and all remaining | Now York troops expect to be on their | way to the border before next Wednea- day, Battery B, Firat Field Artillery, ex- pects orders to entrain late to-day or Wo-mussow, The order for the Twen- ty-third Regiment of Brooklyn to pro- ceed to Peekskill to-day has been countermanded and it is now the un- derstanding it will be sent direct to the border, possibly with only a fow hours’ notice, Aw @ result of a physical examina- tion of the men last night, it was said, forty-one were rejected, It is under- stood @ few declined to take the new oath Arrangements are Governor's Isiand being made at for handling and unteers should the Mobiligation out and con- elected. Col, Do Bevoise will go with the Firat Cavalry squadron that leaves for Texas to-day, pt, G. T, Shiv. erick of Troop arrived from England yesterday on the Lapland, and hurrying to Van Cortlandt Park took command of his troop. He for- merly was with the Third United States Cavalry and knows the border thoroughly, Reports current at National Head- quarters and at Van Cortlandt Park that members of Squadron A had started wire-pulling to keep from being sent to the border were em- phatically dealed to-day by Major J, L, Kineald, “Just the opposite is true,” he said. “Squadron A is begging to be allowed to go." Gen ho t O'Ryan has announced that would move his headquarters the Mexican border on or before t Wednesday, leaving Brig. Gen. n G, Eddy, commander of the ond Lrigade, in charge of division headquarters. ROCKEFELLER CARETAKER MYSTERIOUSLY SLAIN D.'s Cleveland Estate, Stabbed by Man Who Escaped. CLEVELAND, O, July 1 decided, i | Warned Not to Go on Continent, LONDON, uly L—The War Office Jthia afternoon requested (hat in the mfety travel on the he re ing the most serio ereone have ness, ted ue bul Victim, Who Was in Charge of John} i Vincenzo ee MEXICANS HOME TO JOIN CARRANZA’S ARMY TOTAX ONES ‘AND INERTANGE FORPREPAREDNESS Levy on Munitions Included in Bill Expected to Yield $210,000,000 Revenue, ed WAPHINGTON, July L—tasome inheritance ead munitions tees are te per (he cont of preparedness If there le & Wer the eogt Will be paid for by bond tamwme Phifting the burdens almost entire 1y Upon seoumulated wealth end ty incomes, the new revenue bill in duced in the Mouse to-day by Kepre- erntative Kitchin ie epoch making to ‘the opinion of Adwninistration leaders Jt wil establish @ national Inheritance © (as ae permanent part of the Beoal | ayetom of this country Beperts ay the new bill will ratee opp mately §210,000,000 additional 100,000,000 from — ineome: $60,000,000 from inheritances and 000,000 Fre munith | ‘The present normal rate tax ie | bovsted from 1 to & per cent, The will bewin at $20,000 and will Increase at the rate of 1 per cent enh classification until 10 per nt, ie levied on all incomes in ex- cen of $500,000. ‘The Inheritance tax provisions will exempt all estates under $50,000 if the ) testator was 4 resident of the State lo whieh the property ties. If a non-reml- | dont, there will be no exemptions, The super tax rates are 1 per cent, for estates under $560,000, 2 per cont. for estates between $50, and $160,000, 3 per cont between $150,000 and $250,000, 4 per cent. between $250,000 and $ and 6 per cent, on estates in excens of $450,000. The bill in #o drafted as to not ine terfere with the purely State Inhert. tance Tax laws now on the statute book Varying rates of taxation are im- Posed on munition factories. If re- celpts of a plant manufacturing gun. powder and explosives do not exceed @ million dollars, a tax of & per cent. in laid; 8 per cent. is demanded where receipts are in excess of that sum, A sliding scale of rates Is also provided for cartridges and other munitions of war, Tho stamp taxes are wiped out, al- though part of the emergency reven act created gt the opening of the Eu- ropean Waris left to stand In modified form. There will be no more stamps on telexrams, mortgages, telephone calls, perfumes and deeds. Some of tho special taxes remaining are $1 a thousand on the capital stuck of bankers, $30 on brokers, $50 on pawnbrokers, a graded tax’ on the- atres, beginning as low as $10, so as to catch the smaller moving pleture shows, $100 on circuses, and @ tax on bowling alleys and billinrd There la also a Wine stamp tax, The rate of $1.50 a barrel on beer stands unchanged, ——$_—<»——___— SAY MEXICANS TRIE | Three Arrested, Charged With At- tempting to Throw a Switch in Kansas, PARSONS, Kan, July 1.—Three Mexicans were arrested here last night shortly before the first section of the train bearing the First Ilinols regiment was scheduled to pass through. The men were arrested on 1 tracks and arresting of- 1 they were trying to throw a ee $100,000 RUSSELL SAGE MEMORIAL TO COLLEGE rence, for Building of a Dormitory for Girls, APPLETON, Wis, July 1.—Mra. Russell Sage, New York, has donated $100,000, the largest gift ever recelved by Lawrence College, to erect a girls’ dormitory as a memorial to her late husband, President Samuel Mlants an- Vaccine to Elaborate preparations for safeguard- ing the health of the men and animals of the city's military units on their way to the Mextcan border, as well as those at Poekskill and Camp Whitman, have been made by the local Health Department. For the lest ten days bac- | William 1 ch laboratories in F ologiats under the direction of Dr Park have been buay at the at Sixteenth typhold vaecing in’ quart en forwarded to the various rps. Smallpox, diphtherta and clnee have prepare | Fogilano, forty years oid, caretaker on John bb. 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