The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1916, Page 1

French Sees Senee Successes on the Somme, at Verdun and In Champagne. MANY BATTLES IN AIR Engagements Reported Along the Entire Front From the Somme to Verdun. LONDON, Aug. 26.—A heavy at- tack made by the Prussian Guards against the British positions at Fhlepral, on the Somme front, was Fepulsed by the Worcestershire and ~ Miltshire Regiments, it was officially { Mmmounced this afternoon. Near Mouquet Farm the British made a gain of 400 yards. German trenches along the Cour- celette-Thiepval Road were captured. 8, Aug. 26.—German attacks ithe wast night on the Somme and Verdun fronts were repulsed, says to-day's report of the War Office. Following is the text of to-day French War Office report: “On the Somme front the artil- Jery fighting was violent at the “end of yesterday and during part of last night. South of Maurepas at about 10 P, M. strong enemy Feconnoitring parties in the vicin- ity of Hill 121 were dispersed by our fire. The Germans made no other attompt to attack. in the Champagne, after an in- tense bombardment, the enemy at about 9.30 o'clock attacked our Positions west of Tahure at two different points. The attack was held up by our curtain of fire ex- cept in a small salient in our line, where the enemy succeeded in gaining a footing. Shortly after- wards we drove him out by a counter attack with hand gren- ades. “On the right bank of the Mouse (Verdun front) the enemy violently bombarded the region of Thiaumont and Fleury, and he several times carried out lively @ffensive actions against the vil- lage and tho trenches bordering en Thiaumont work. None of the: attempts succeeded in reaching our lines. “In Lorraine we caught under eur fire a German reconnoitring party before Neuvillers, north- west of Badonvillers ‘On the whole front our air service was particularly active yesterd It ongayed in a num der of fights with the enemy, in { the course of which it clearly showed its superiority. “In the region of the Somme th German mi s were by brought down, on Lieut. Nungesser, who thus counted for bis eleveath mae A second acropline was brought ant Otilcer Dor to di down by W being his oe The third near Petuin. chines were by ebine gun ar our pilots and de fell ma h oma quarters nied suddenly on our enemy achine Taree other nbarded w in damaged condit r snti-aireraft a Fokker, ad pursue vwh i In rey guns, brough which Was atti and fell he being » region chine Ville two ot down | condition, in the Bpincourt, the other near Foanex, In the vicinity of Pont-a-Mousson @ Fokker was put out of action, AL EZOITION TE Adhd ONE CENT. GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED < DN THREE FRONTS, SAYS PARKS “FNVEAER AEROPLANES SHOT DOW « matted 4 ow FRENCH ASSASSINATE TRENCHES, I CHARS Berlin fopitiens a Special Squad Is Assigned to Kill Off the Captured. BERLIN, via wireless to Sayville, 1, Aug. 26.—Charges that the Beenchipave introduced a new body of men whose sole duty is to assassinate all Nving German soldiers in con- statement given out by the semi-of- ficial news agency to-day, ‘Tho statement was headed “Bara- longs of the Trenche: recalling the crew of the British ship Baralong. “The French some time ago intro- | duced a new fighting system which is | the most cowardly and flagrant vio- lation of the laws known up to the present,” it was stated, “Within French companies special, 4etach- ments are formed with the!kxpress order to remain behind in conquered trenches and kill all Gemans still alive, “These troops are called Nettoyeurs, Their equipment Is not the rifle, cart- ridge and bayonet of the other soldier, but the revolver, knife and hand grenade. When a French storming column succeeds in taking @ trench tho Nettoyeurs start clearing the trench of all living persons, that is assassinating the Germans. Hand Brenadeg are thrown into dugout where often there are wounded. Those who escape the grenade ure killed by revolver shots and knives when they attempt to come out, This terrible slaughter is continued from man to man. Every whether wounded or not, whe! armed or not, is mercilessly ideal or shot,” BRITISH WAR VESSEL SUNK BY SUBMARINE mmander and Men of Aux- iliary Ship Lost in North Sea —87 Rescued. LONDON, Aug. 26.—The torpedo- ing in the North Sea of a British naval auxiliary, with the loss of 2% men, was announced officially to-day. Eighty-seven men were saved, The official statement sa y Phe British armed umer Duke of Albany was te pedoed and sunk in the North Sea on Thursday by subs marine. commander and 2 men Jost. leven offivers and 76 ratings were saved.” ee Lila Nehcmeste he Very Latent, The “twinkle to fox tre pat dances t boarding ste an enemy were a dance tong the m popular this it was the convention of nal As tion of ‘Chinese pro- wom wale” novelties | trot," will be dee the Dan winter, vealiny n Nat Master dance 1 AY ne Safenaard i Children, |_ Keep them, well and strong with Father Joln's Medicine; pure wholesome.—Advt, quered trenches with knives, revolvers | and hand grenades, wero made in a! killing of German submariners by the, Che |“ Circulation Books Open to All.” NEW YORK, jhe new b Ag -J Rerta). init Nap Mayo Victorious in GERMAN WOUNDED IN ssn | | | | “ENEMY” DESTROY DEFENDING FLEET; LANDING FORES Great Battle Off Harbor Here. HIS LOSS HEAVY, TOO. s Nevada and Texas of His Fleet “Sunk”— Long Island Invaded. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—The de- fending squadrons under Rear Ad- miral Helm have been “destroyed” by the hostile fleet under Admiral Mayo in the navy war game off New York Harbor, and this afternoon an invading army was being landed (theoretically) on the shore of Long Island. The following message from the chief umpire was picked up by the Arlington wireless station at 11.10 to-day: “Discontinued battleship engage- ment 11.10 A. M.- Red force gain con trol of sea, Cannot call problem yet. The only hope of protection of the Atlantic Coast from the invading army now lies in the defending sub- marines, which were believed to have arrived in the vicinity of the landing about 11.30 o'clock. The exact num- ber in the flotilla is unknown, as four have reliably been reported “sunk” and more rumored “destroyed.” There were originally seventeen under com- mand of Admiral Grant. When last heard from they were off Fire Island at 9 o'clock this morning, about 25 miles from the scene of the engage- ment, A great naval battle between the “Red” invading flect and the “Blue” fleet, under command of Admiral Helm, which is defending the coast, was In progress to-day out in the At- lantic along a line extending, roughly speaking, from Long Beach to Cape May. The battle began shortly before daybreak this morning when four de- stroyers of the "Red" fleet made a dash in from the ocean and en- deavored to send men ashore at Far Rockaway, The destroyers were sighted by the scout cruisers of the “Blue” fleet and driven off. Away out In the Atlantic the battleships and cruisers of the invading fleet manoeuvred for an at- tack, while Admiral Helm, having been apprised by wireless of the ap- proach of the “Red” fleet, steamed to the defense of New York harbor at top speed, At noon wireless reports stated that two battleships, the Texas and Nevada, one scout cruiser and five destroyers, including the Wadsworth and Cooper of the “Red” fleet, had been “sunk” by Admiral Helm's de- fending forces, In his movement against the ap- proaching fleet of invasion Admiral Helm up to noon had “lost” the scout ruiser Birmingham and the destroy- evs Fanning, Draton and Balch, Naval observers ashore say the three de- stroy of the “Blue” fleet were "i | probably sunk Jn an attack on the tn- a | ‘and attack was posit ading battleships and that the battle- ships were undoubtedly sent to the theoretical bottom of the sea by tor- s launched from the three de- stroyers. Admiral Mayo, commanding the “Red” fleet which assembled early in the week at a point some 600 miles! out to sea, managed to get within striking distance of Scotland Light during the nt without being ob- served by the scouty of the defenders, It was not until the Rockaway land- ing Was attempted that the point of vely known to Ad. miral Helm, | mrs. M’ADOO, DAUGHTER OF PRESIDENT WILSON, HAS TYPHOID FEVER, Poo EP EeeoSEEno ols os Y SCO 29O6 090 906-956-96-0-0-06-26 944-8 604G% 6. WILLIAM.G. ME ’ Mra. William G. McAdoo, daughter of President Wilson and wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, has @ slight attack of typhoid fever, probably in- curred while on a trip to the capital last wee)’ She is in Spring Lake, N. J. Secretary McAdoo announced that he would ancel all engagements until M McAdoo 1s well. The McAdoos have been at Spring Lake all summer except last week, when they went to Washington. Upon their return last Saturday Mrs. McAdoo complained of iliness, but attended ao social function before being compelled to retire. it was thought she had a re- currence of the malaria fever which at- tacked her in South America several months ago. HIGH REWARDS TO MAN WHO SANK LUSITANIA Danish Paper Says He Got Iron Cross and Hohenzollern House Order With Swords, LONDON, Aug. 26.—The Stifts- Tidende of Ribe, Denmark, is quoted in a Reuter despatch from Copen- hagen to the effect that the com- mander of the submarine which sank the Lusitania was Capt. Max Vulen- tiner, son of the Dean of the Sonders- burg Cathedral, Capt. Valentiner, this newspaper says, has been decorated with a num- ber of orders since the sinking of the Mner, including the Iron Cross of the First Class and the Hohenzollern House Order with Swor distinction which ts th of the German Emperor. EEA CROWD SEES DOUBLE RESCUE ie City Guards Save Fa Daughter From Drowning, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Aug, 26.— While a fashionable crowd on the board- walk looked on, John Hillard and his daughter Minerva, both of Cinctnnatt, were to-day rescued from drowning here by beach guards. Hillard was washed into a jetty by « heavy rolling sea and was caught among the crevices and held fust, Miss Hil- lard swam to his assistance and she too became captie in the jetty stones, Hoth were going down a second time when & surf boat reached them, A beach sur- geon worked over the couple for # half hour before he succeeded in reviving them, ————_.__ uckman Falls From Hay Loft, derick Selzer, thirty-three years old, a truckman, fell from a third floor window to the sidewalk in front of the | i v: stables of, hia employer, William, ‘Tul- bot, No. 624 West Twenly-ninth Street to-day and fractured both ankles istained internal Injuries, He was ce moved to Bellevue Hospital, was hoisting ——_.>—__—_ (For Racing Results See Page 2.) SATURDAY, RAILROADS REJECT PEACE PLAN; WILSON HURRIES TO CONGRESS AUGUST 2 Only Unqualified White House to-day and went to threatened railroad strike. The Pre: summoned Democratic Leader Ker Senate Commerce Committee, who lation affecting interstate railroads. t The trip to the Capitol was who! President came to discuss legislation ‘bad been made for bis reception there. 10 PAGES SENATE LEADERS SUMMONED BY PRESIDENT TO AVERT STRIKE Concession by the Railways or Taking Over of the Systems by the Government Will Avert Tie-Up, Say Brotherhoods. (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening Werld.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—President Wilson suddenly left the the Capitol in connection with ti sident went direct to his office and n and Chairman Newlands of the has charge in the Senate of legis- lly unexpected and no arrangements Although it was known that the affecting the threatened strike, his »pecific putpose had beef kept a secret. Just before the President reached the Capitol it was declared among MRS, SHONTS BRINGS SUIT | JEFFRIES MAY LOSE AN ARM OVER NOTES FOR $10,000 Action Against H. A. Haines Grows Out of Purchase of Stock in Chemical Company, Milla D. Shonts, wife of Theodore P, Shonts, to-day began suit in the Supreme Court against Henry A. Haines for $10,000. She alleges that Haines was director of the Barytes and Chemical Company at a timo that she subscribed to $25,000 worth of ita stock and gove her notes in return. Subsequently, she says, demand for the stock was made upon ber and she returned {t understanding that the notes were to be given back, Sho de: clares, however, that the notes were not returned, but that she was in- formed all of them had been de- stroyed except one for $5,000, which was pledged as security for an in- debtedness of $1,600 Subsequently Mra. Shonts says she found that some of the notes had been assigned to a third party, with the result that she lost $10,000 in sct- ting for >_—- BENNETT SEEKS LIGHT ON CAMP WHITMAN Senator Wants to Know What Political Debts Were Paid by Selection of Site. ALBANY, Aug. 26.—Senator Will- jam M, Bennett of New York, who is opposing (oy. Whitman for the Gubernatorial nomination at the primary election, to-day put an countant at work in the Comptroll office to examine the vouchers for ex- penditures Camp Whitman, He sald: “IT would like to have answered the questions as to what political debts were pald by the selection of Camp Whitman, back in the wilderness and without any water supply, what troops were Ize there that could not have been accommodated at Peekskill, and how much of the State's money has beén spent to bring a water supply to Camp Whitman aft Navy Yard Employee Killed. Julius Weill, forty-nine yeara old, a r employed at the Brooklyn Navy Hatner, ing, the FROM BLOOD POISONING Former Champion Cut First Finger of Right Hand With a Penknife, and Infection Set In, LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 26.—As @ result of the cut on the first finger of his right hand from a hunting knife, Jim Jeffries, former heavy- weight champion, is in danger of lo: ing his arm. Blood poisoning has set in and hi swollen the arm to an alarming tent. Physicians say the finger, at least, will have to be amputated. peak RN cal al MOSQUITOLESS BROOKLYN PROMISED BY EMERSON Queens Also to Be Free of Pests, Is Prediction, as Marshes Are Drained. Health Commissioner Emerson this afternoon predicted that the death knell for mosquitoes in Brooklyn and Queens would be sounded thia year. The prediction was made before he went with a pagty of health officials to Inspect the drainage of about 4,000 acres of salt marshes bordering Ja- maica Bay, with the {dea of doing away with the salt marsh mosquito. JB Bo. BOY DYING OF POISON HIS MOTHER GAVE HIM Woman in Double Suicide Attempt in Central Park Is Expected to Recover, ‘Theodore Beach jr. eleven years old, is dying to-day in Bellevue Hos- as a result of swallowing mer- tablets which his mother, Mrs. Hortense Beach, gave him yesterday in Central Park, Mrs, Beach, who also swallowed s 1 of the tablets, probably will reco Mother and son were removed to Bellevue late yesterday from Flower Hospital and have received every |known remedy that might counteract the poison No trace has been found of the boy's father, Who deserted Mrs, Beach several years ago, leaving her with out resources. She managed to ob- idl Stagg Street ar for the Brooklyn | many. Was arrested Gas Com: 83,000,000 for Canal al Bus WASHINGTON, Aug La tosday urged the House Appro- tations Committee to provide $3,000, 000 to pay Nicaragua for canal wa haval right negotiated by the resant treaty. 4 Jhad been in distress recently, tain a Hving for herself and boy, but} which | President Leaves Capitol When It BecomesKnown 8-Hour Day Is .Flatly Rejected in “Last Word” of the Executives. Brotherhood officials that only unqualified concession: by the ratiroads ef the eight-hour day or action of Congress taking over the railways fer Government operation could prevent the threatened strike. Wileon firet conferred with Democratic’ Leader Kern. Later he saw Chairman Newlands of the Interetate Commerce Committes, who, it was undereteed, after a canvass of the Congressional uation, had condluded it wae feas- ible to get through Congress be- fore adjournment, an amend- ment to the pending bill te in- crease the membership af the Interstate Commerce Commiasion, some sort of an expression that the railways should be authorized to make rate increases te meet higher wages and to provide some sort of machinery for arbitration for similar disputes in the future, pessibly along the lines of the When he finished conferring with Senators Kern and Newlands Presi- dent Wilson came to the door of his “I came here on certain matters of legislation, That is all I can say now.” Then, after making the foregoing announcement, Prealdent Wilson re- turned to the White House without conferring with any one else and without making any further explana- tion of his visit. Senator Newlands stated positively that no joint session of Congress had been arranged. RAILWAY HEADS SILL WORK- ING ON DOCUMENT. On all hands the President's visit to the Capitol was taken as indica- ling that the situation had reached a crisis, Late this afternoon the railway executives still were work- ing on their communication to Presi- dent Wilson. Among the railway executives it was said that any plan for legisla- tion suggested by the President would have to be considered but that the inclination of the rallway heads was to stand solidly on their demand for arbitration of the present dispute. At 1 o'clock to-day The Evening World representative, through the courtesy of one of the railroad presi- dents, was allowed to look over the draft of the final answer of the rail- road systems of t! United States to President Wilson's proposition. As has been hinted earli: the doe- ument to be read to President Wilson some time this afternoon in, in sub- stance, the most emphatic kind of a rejection of what the President pro- posed and had made up his mind to be the only way out of a@ situation little short of a calamity—a nation wide strike involving 400,000 men. The railroads concede nothing. The anti-Wilson programme executives in the general conference have won out hands down without the semblance of a Mt, though some of the ses. sions have gone well into fifteen and twenty hours at a streton, CAN'T ACCEPT 8-HOUR DAY AS PRESENTED. The document itself is couched in dignified and restrained language. In substance it reads Mr. Bi at: We have given (he most serious consideration to ubm) i by vou to unify ons of employers and em- noth ratlroud- p business of the | White House for Matters deserve. The general execu- tives have reviewed the findings of these managers, weighed them thourhtfully and conscientiously for many days. We have reached the beayy serra * je cannet accept the eight-hour day as it le presented to us., We are willing that a neu- tral beard should decide whether thie ie or is netan eight-hour day. “Becend—in our opinien the chief item in the demand ef our employees represented by the four Brotherhoods is an extraerdinary inerease in wages. We are will- ing and. we respectfully request that this extraordinary demand shall be arbitrated by a commie- mission created by Congress. “Third—In order that justice may be done to our employees we propose now to put inte any sav- ink in the country all the (traerdinary earnings that o: employees would have made hai opted the bas! ight-hour day proposed by you. The Inter- state Commerce Commission any other Federal body may audit our books during the time elaps- ing between ¢ acceptance of thie propesal and the decision of the Arbitration Commission. In the event that Arbitration Commission shall decide that the workers are right we ol payment on the terest, from the time of acceptance.” The final draft of the communica- tion was accepted by the general ex- ecutives conference at the end of a two-hour session at the New Willard. Hale Holden, Judge Lovett, F. B, Un- derwood and Louls W, Hill says that it is more than human, that it fa a just proposition no man can ignore. ANSWER OF BROTHERHOODS APPARENT. The next move seems to be up to the brotherhoods, What their answer to this proposal will be is apparent by the preparations for leaving town at midnight, There is no denying Secretary Tumulty looked anything but happy to-day. Secretary Lane, the President's chief adviser in difficulties of such magni- tude, was summoned to the White House early to-day, When he came out, he said to the wailing reporters: “It is no time to deny that the situ- ation is grave, but I still think thi what we are facing now js not final, Hale Holden, Judge Lovett and Daniel Wilard will go to the White House late this afternoon, Mr. Hold. en will read the final document, As soon as the PJresident has heard the ratlroad side he will receive the em- ployees. A, B. Garretson, spokesman for the Rrotherhoods, says he will give | his answer at the White House, The general chairmen of the Broth- erhoods had been in session since 1 Mr. Holden sald he would relea the railroad statement after his visit to the President o'clock. | ing led to the doubin sulcide attempt = SAILING TO-DAY. ' Stockholm, Gothenburg . PLM, Tenadores, Havana ... . $P.M, ‘Our managers have gone over the situation with the deliberation such \ WILSON HAS NOT GIVEN UP Hol As usual, in the heat of the exolies , ' ee