The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1916, Page 1

AL E£OITION Cepectans. 1996, ee, — PRICE ONE CENT. | SOMME ATTACKS CHECKED, BERLIN WAR OFFICE CLAIMS; ALLIES REPORT NEW GANS Germans Contradict Paris Announce-; ment of Advance on Three-Mile French Assaults Were Repulsed.| In the face cf the official claim made by the French War Office | last night that German tresiches on the Somme line had been captured on| fronts totaling thre. miles, Berlin officially announces to-day that the Anglo-French troops who penetrated positions around Maurepas have been driven back .fisr suffering heavy losses. British attacks f om Ovillers to Pozieres and west of Foureaux Wood are declared by Berlin to have been repulsed. The Frenci War Oftice reports that a great artillery battle is in progress near Maurepas. It says there were no infantry attacks last night, but Berlin asserts that five French attacks in that region were beaten off last night. Berlin does admit that German first line trenches | near Belloy-en-Santerre, south of the Somme, were lost to the French, The London War Office declares that the British, in conjunction with | tie advance at Maurepas, pushed forward west and southwest of Guille- month, three miles away. The British also claim the capture of trenches west of High Wood, in the same section. ALLIES SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES, MAKE NO HEADWAY, SAYS BERLIN) | French Attacks Said to Have Been) Beaten Off Last Night—Lost Trenches at Maurepas Regained. Peaodeait Pee ena iWHY SHOULDN’ TENGLAND’S SONS SING, ASKS GEORGE| Five @uccesded jn penetrating positions west of Fourncaux Wood and south of | Maurepas, inflicting heavy losses on the allies, it was officially announced | this afternoon. Following is the text German War Office report “Pho enemy's fire increased at Minister of War, Addressing Eistedd- fod in Wales, Draws Glowing Picture of British Situation. of tovday's times to great violence west of REREVATWICH) Waconia: Wytachacte and on the La Bas- A f 6 Canat and to the south |— ‘Britain's honor is not dead; her ocet | mane {9 unbroken, her destiny un- fulfilled, her ideals unshattered by her enemies,” declared Secretary for War Lloyd George in addressing Welsh singing societics at the Eis- “After strong British attacks from the Ovillers-Pozieres line and west of Foureaux wood had been repulsed Botte mernlog, fd teddfod here to-day. re \» al i » “Britat p alive, el Sule pos sion) advanced $0 ain is more alive, more potent, she has greater dominions, her in- fluence is wider, her purpose deeper and more exalted than ever. Why! shouldn't her children sin - 14 VESSELS. SUNK IN JULY BY U-BOATS Destroyed Merchant Ships Total Tonnage of 103,000, Says Official Report. the assault between Gulliemont end the Somme, and at the same time very considerable Hritish forces advanced between Pozleres and Foureaux wood, The assault failed, as did five nocturnal at- tacks attempted by the French. After stubborn fighting, portions of the enemy troops which pene- trated our postions west of Four- eaux wood and south of Maurepas were driven back again, The enemy's losses were large. “South of the Somme fixhting Had Wood was suppressed by our cur it saw to-day. The ade. tain of fire. icipal Hiwense to prove ik “At numerous points on the | un John Kirk, who front French patrols undertook |Marched Up the avenue fity-four | years ago on his Way to war with the One Hundred ana ‘Phirtieth Pennayl- | (Continued on Second Page.) vania Infantry and wanted to ¢ SE brate the date. He wore his ( in ry fs inna) modal of honor for bra’ fads War Racing Results Geo Page 2) Front, and Assert That Five)’ oner, lau took place in the neighborhood of BERLIN, Aug. 1%—During the| Oy iui of the roadway an the car ap-| Relloy. The French obtained a |month of July seventy-four hostile ain dE ail Hed ap foothold here in our first line merchant ships with a total tonnage , Pro’ i Tat the a il trenches over a width of about | of 108000 were sunk by submarines | forward & i BAe ie chs serie h | §00 metres. East thereof and |of the Central Powers or lost by |! right hand was badly cut, He) near Estrees the enemy has been | mines, it was officially announced | ¥°% taken to the King# County Hos- pulsed, to-day. pital for observation, reton both sides of the Meus . gee Le Roy Fulwood, Treasurer of the "On dl “e a a f | (Verdun front) the artillery was One Man W the Parade. Alden Mines Company of No, 1} WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—In al) jts| Broadway, a son of the injured man, more active. An attempted at= Je aradetui history Pennsylvania Ave-|said an accident must have befallen tack by the enemy on Chapitre inoue never saw anything like the pro-| his father as there was not a reason| 1 ee, te ubtioning NEW CAPTIVE UNDERSEA BOAT MAY BE THE BIG LINER BREMEN. | Passengers Arriving To-Day Saw Submarine Lashed to a Destroyer at Deal. CRUISER GUARDS HER. ccompanies Captured Subsea Vessel Into Port While Cun- ard Passengers Look On. | | A possible clue to the fate of the German submarine cargo carrier Bremen, now long overdue on this) side, was furnished by passengers aboard the Cunarder Alaunta, which | arrived to-day from London, fourteen | days out. These travelers believe it not unlikely that the Bremen fell into the hands of the British off the south coast of England about Aug. 6 and ts now at Deal. Certainly there ts a large German submarine at Deal, and it was towed In by a British cruiser on Aug. 6. The Alaunia left her dock in Lon- don on Aug. 3, but was detained two days at Tilbury on the Thames and was again stopped on Aug, 6 and ottered into the he: or at Deal. | While the vessel was lying there a British destroyer and a big British cruiser steamed in, the destroyer leading the way Lashed to the sido of the destroyer was a great German submarine which was kept afloat largely because of the support offered by the cruiser, which | bore a list toward the side to which | the enemy undersea boat was lashed There Was great excitement in the harbor over the arrival of the Brittsh war vessels’ and thelr prize and the excitement was still prevalent when the Alaunia was allowed to proceed several hours later. No one on the Alaunia knew any- thing about the Bremen at that time, but the officers and such of the pas- CAR STRIKES AGED MAN; TRIED SUICIDE, IS CHARGE Witnesses Say John Fulwood Deliberately Threw Himself Onto Tracks, An old man, who, according to witnesses, tried to throw himself un der a Flatbush Avenue car at Sixth! Avenue, Brooklyn, to-day, was struck but not seriously injured. When he was dragged from under the edge of the front platform he sald he was John Fulwood of No. 115 St. John's Place, and that he was sixty-four years old. ‘The police made Mr, Fulwood a pris- charging him with attempted He had been standing in the why he should want to take his life STAMFORD, foot shark killed itself four trying to-day to force his way through a net set guard the bathing beach at John She. map Moyt's. | managers and prest | realize that by call YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, oo PRESIDENT 15 DISTURBED BY DEFIANCE OF MANAGERS AS HE MEETS WORKERS »Men at Conference Willing to Agree to Tentative Proposal Providing for Trial of 8-Hour Day Under Federal Supervision. (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—When the 640 members of the general com. mittee of executive chairmen of the railroad workers’ brotherhoods and thelr sub-committee of thirty-four, headed by the four presidents of the brotherhoods, this afternoon went before Prealdent Wilson to exchange with | him pledges of co-operation to end the railroad strike there could be no mix 1916 STREET CAR PARLEY FAILS; STRIKE DELAYED A DAY Che [*Ciroulation Books Open to All.’ | 2 | ‘ : ; ; Te Deve Weether—F ain, AL o EDITION f “Cireulation Rooks Open to All,”’ INTERBORO MANAGER WHO SAYS DIRECTORS ORDERED DISMISSALS understanding of the willingness of the chairmen to follow the lead of thelr) ————-—— head in agreeing to the tentative peace plan proposed by President Wilson. The union chiefs met in a local theatre just before going to the White | House and heard from President Garretson of the conductors his version of the earlier conference of the labor men with the President, which 1s sub: stantially as explained to them yesterday on their way here. neir® “LIFE OF PARLIAMENT PROLONGED TO OCT. 10) railroads, nts still Hlouse. sending for 1 confer. The attitude of the Wh uneasiness at the action of the Presi the en moment has not bettered the of the managers. T going around sayin Ing to, wet) anyenere: By Coalition Cabinet. thelr heads,” and AGRE. Gould. ‘bas . LONDON, Aug, 17 An- changed between them and thelr pres-/quith anounced to-day that Parlla idents in the last three days he would! ment would adjourn, on Tuesday or ve presidents | we until Oct, 10 here he had simply doubled the num=) jy) re ber of enrnest experts who will tell nm RAED) WAS SAKGR tO avold ab There him that an arbitration mmission much decide whether a rigid eight- general feeling of disappointment with | hour day is practicable for “ood rall- the | roading” and will not foree the roa into bankruptoy ie n ae kes on it by Redmton on and Devin MANAGERS BELIEVED TO BE|!” “” vin UNDULY AROUSED. IneMciency allroad presidents for with him at the earilest possible temper s are Appeal to the Country Is Shelved Owing to Attacks on the mana dy ts go: golng over the teles! ex- | Premier nesday next, appeal to the country. is Coalition Cabinet. Recent out Di have laid) bare its to deal with great ques- sengers as were familiar with war| orne anawor of the White House is/UORS growing out of the war, and its vessels remarked upon the great size] nat the managers are umiuly eon.| breakdown in attempting to hands and peculiar construction of the] ire iaa that ahe drveilent cali the Trish Home ite 1 jGerman submarine, They now are) naga niieo. He tar. of the opinion that the British war| UN TAUTOAUS 6x00 ia tefl vessels intercepted the German under-|Rether to assure then ne wa the | ELKUS OFF 10 TURKEY: sea boat somewhere off the coust demoralization —applivation i —— Jeight-hour day is intended, but that | he does Insistron the acer 6 of! WILL PUSH RELIEF WORK the plan for a definite period as an} experiment of which ti of |New Ambassador Will Also Strive mediation and conciliation (with Its] ee OER OL appropriations much increased and| 0 Re-establish Unhampered Mail Communication With U. S. {ts powers enlarged) shall be the| ines 7 ; : Abram 1. Bikus, recently appointed Should this compromise be rejector rt tw tha dallvond’ Gor hie | Ambassador to Turkey, sailed to-day Wilson does tb ve he, it] aboard the Danish teamship Oscar is pretty well settled they w isk for| UL He will go to his post by way of ten days or two week . to} Berlin, Vienna and Sofia, ‘The Am make new statiation! sur ke | bassador 4 out A statement sure there are no profita mes | which he sald he lett “feeting that 1 chanically effective w Me Save behing me the resources of a the eight-hour day to ra kreat, gener t * and hat h It Is also gettled that on else) would do his ut t for the retie fails, Mr. Wilson, w tee! the native population of Turkey an of the fact that the men ensi-| to resestal ree mail commu tive to public opinion the cation between that country and the operators of the tular| United State heads of the corp 7 “Relatives and friends in this eoun | financters back of the will try of resi n wey have bee not hesitate to send t u ected to great y because of certain very touchy nterference with maby" satd Mer ne near Central Park h Yor Bikus he f " f the 1 Day and the shores of Luke Miclis y will use its ‘ Chieago and ask them how f mmunteat 1 bx relatives re to underwrite their hired men, AS EIGHT-HOUR DAY DEMON: | STRATION FESTIVAL und friend Am Pn « with him 100 f the short inds of « of the be er The Irmen were 1 nt > their meeting at the Bijou Theatre Lower fle tiats that the Amerieat tera Hegutars, Labor last night had passed the word) WASHINGT Aug. 17, ~The through every or ' t report on Guardsmen on the throughout the country tha dag ee ORO EE, (Oey ork ending was to be observed rel BAVAN E Sicn sine Wate CeuR eather kine the regulare 238 per cent (Continued om second age.) ‘with four deaths, a | Uhird Street, were sick, |C MAN FALLS 75 FEET TO HIS DEATH INTO Painter Drops From Scaffold at Thirty-Fourth Streét Cor- ner, Striking Pedestrian. Jacob Doets, a painter, fell seventy- five feet from a scaffold on the Broadway side of Saks's store, at Thirty-fourth Street and Broadway, at 10 o'clock to-day, striking in his fall Herman Dakin, a negro, of No. |250 West Ono Hundred and Thirty~ who passing the orth store entrance, Dakin was knocked across the sidewalk, but es- caped serious Injury, Doetz, landing his head, crashed partly through steel and glass vault cover and was instantly killed. The accident occurred at a busy hour on one of the busiest corners in New York and attracted a tremen was | dous crowd, in which women shoppe = predominated, It so happened th etz fell at @ moment when ther was no one entering or leaving ¢ store by the door in front of which he landed, but there were many on the walk, Dakin was struck a glaneing blow | on the shoulder by the falling patnter His eyexlasses were jarred from tly t } him Doetz was thirty-four years old, sin- ived In a rooming house at No With Albert Peter One Hundredth din painting win gle an won of Street, he was eng tow frames on the out he Saks building. Peterson says tz, In reaching out with his 9 11h, a misstep and slipped down be- tween the 8 affold an and the wall, ‘BIG INCREASE I IN DEPOSITS. IN THE NATIONAL BANKS. $2,037,000,000°) Are the Figure Over Last Year—the Grand Total 1s $10,856,000,0¢ AMIINGTON, Aug} itlonmad nthe year June Treas ury Department reported to-day Tho total «deposits reached $10,800,004 ot Hon killed during the Carso Plateau, says despatch from Milan News 14 PAGES ‘Wisin SUMMONS RAILWAY PRESIDENTS; 640 UNION CHIEFS FAVOR PEACE PLAN BROADWAY CROWD nose and broken when Dietz fell on | PRICE ONE CENT HEDLEY REFUSES TO ACT ON DEMANDS OF CARMEN: PUTS REPLY UP 10 BOARD \Place of Directors, Who Discharged Men, to Pass on Reinstatement, Says Traction Manager—Labor Leaders Give Transit Officials Until To-Morrow to Avert Strike. THIRD AVE. MEN THREATEN TROUBLE OVER DISMISSALS General Manager Hedicy of the New York Railways Company, in conference to-day with a committee from the Street Carmen's Union—=- |including officers of the “alien organization,” with which both President |Shonts and he vowed they would never do business—passed responsibility for the discharge of seventy-three employees since the agreement was signed last week along to the Board of Directors. As a result of his action, New Yorkers will not know for another day at least whether they are to be inconvenienced by a new city-wide traction strike. At the outset of the conference General Organizer Fitzgerald of the union forces demanded the reinstatement of the men who had been dis- | missed before he would consent to discuss the other questions involved. Hedley said he was without authority to put the men back to work, their discharge had been ordered by the Board of Directors, “If you are without authority,” said Fitzgerald, “there is no need of going any further with this conference, Our business is with your Board of Directors. We will give you until to-morrow to get them together so that we can conter with them,” ‘ “L can make no promises about getting them together on such short notice,” was Hedley’: answer to this ultimatum, “However, I'll see what can be done in the matter.” Later in the afternoon W berman, an of Shonts, announced that the {cial were making every effort to | ft | get In touch with the directors, He Hesides Manager Hedley, the com- sald scan 66 were gpending |Pany Was represented in the confer- thelr vacations in. diffe parts of by Ans nt Manager Norris country, but it hoped to| “Md James L. Quackenbos, one of Its ch a sufficient number to havo a | *ttorneys. Several L ey sident | peaceful settlement of the controveray traction |@nd would feel free to act as it saw assistant Pp ence them nt the was times during the confer, Manager Hedley endeavored to the union representatives lay temporarily, the demand for the reinstatement of the dismissed employees, so that the other griev- might be considered. Tho union leaders steadfastly refused to r plans net to proceed with ww quorum here by toem: The conference which ended so un- satisfactorily consumed about hour, While the union leaders would uss the subject, it was plain y looked upon Hedley's agree- Ing to confer with them as a sign | that the company was weakening in it determinat) ‘Wtod » other questions until the seventy - | Reportera were excluded from tho | three men were put back on thelr conference, but all rts agroed that | | the ing proceeded without frie. | General tion. it conclusion General Or- | ned raid satd } ment 1 Mr & the Bo: an vide, ances n not to rec 6 cars Organizer Fitagerald that under the agree- week every man who was to be taken back’ prejud He characterized n of the company in dia- harging them as a gross violation of ompact 6 union committee was made up Jas follows: Willam B, Fitzgerald, ral organizer of the union and man Who bas engineered the f the employees on all nm ines of the city; counsel for the Vahey, of Boston, ‘4s most prominent pneral or- ration President Edward McCann, © Brosident; Jc a, Busl- ohn J. Burns, Financial , and these members of the ‘oard: Patrick J. Lea, Mitchell, Thomas Sheehan, ‘ Nallou, Thomas Dougherty and rank Hox | EXECUTIVE BOARD GIVEN POW. ER TO CALL STRIKE, Tho Executive Board of the local mpany | Union has full power to act. Its meme aK is organ. ! bers were clothed with the right to vl that it had done call a strike by the vote of 2,000 em- everything possible to bring about a ployees of the lines, who met last vut At wanizer Pit We went Hedley to the ard of wed 1 Hately take up Mayor Mitchel and fthe Pubs © thing have request t tir arrange doing the t tors, at 1 0 We tin er with in Straus Serv isa Jquestion of a nent signed ini mining Ist that these d f Lnsportat \1 } union Fridiger, James H unto ton Mr ne of the ven + Willtam Conway, It veal union; what the press af ae Agent; J ad 1 1 pan will wre speak for tons them- FINAL EFFORTS MADE FOR PEACE, SAYS UNION LAWYER Attorney Pridiger for th sald that if 4 tei not anion nuceessfub in Ap t teation would to live » its agreement otic