The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1917, Page 4

} |ateadily the German retirement con- |tinues south of Arras, Indications | are jacking of any recot] mov Tho retirement may yet resemb! at loast in mome respecta—that ful ig the battle of the Marne. Then the Germans wer beaten, and their armies were retreating after being | severely trounced In battle, Now they apparently aim to fore. | wa an ultimate retreat—after what abt prove a very costly defense of I the vid lines—by taking up new pos! | tons previously arranged, like those | north of the Alsne, thereby eaving | scofes of thousands of German lfor use clsowhere In a last desperate | to force @ decision this ~ GERMANS RETREAT: * Blowing Up High High Towers in Fortified City Indicates Evacuation. ‘By William Philip Simms. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE BIUTISIL ARMIES PrIELD, M h 1-Slowly lives | attemp | | sum ) Commecourt has fallen into British | hands and as this 18 written the won-| dorfully fortified Bapaume is less than | {a mile away. There explosions follow | | oxplo leading to the belief that| | the Germans are blowing up their own | handiwork preparatory to evacuating! thet | Church steeples and similar vantage points have been systematically blown up a8 the Germans evacuated the| various villages in the territory over whioh they bave retreated, and the enemy has left picked mon in care- fuly chosen places to protect the re- tiring troops, They began heavy bombardments of the villages evacu- ated as soon as they believed the | English were cocupying them. | ‘The German high army command undoubtedly recognized the precart- ousness of the old positions and ts now jockeying for new ones, | Before this process ts ended the lretreat may continue several miles |to the Bast, stretching from Arras to Noyon. The German high com- mand evidently hopes for betterment in this way by the breaking up of the present stalemate and the be- ginning of a war of movement. LONDON, March 1—“The British eve the German retreat plan ts a strength-saving manoouvre, preceding ‘ent German blow," declared H, W. financial secretary to the War Office, in the House of Comenoas | this afternoon. “Aa a result of the Ancre pressure,” Mr, Forster said, “the enemy retired | on & twelve-mile front and the British |Bave advanced to a depth of two! miles, gaining ten villages and other | limportant positions. “The retreat ty bound vataroratly.| and wions, wn. Lirtur Pinto SHop RrounoTHe Corner 753 Sixth Avenue Detween 424 and 454 # te. | TUDIO GRAND, || The re= [| b Pathe, Edison and Columbia PHONOGRAPHS PHONOGRAPH RECORDS CHRISTMAN SONS Also 35 West 14th Street. Wholesale Foops ts sas Acwn,the cost of tty. xirects, far Wes? dot wand Clive Otay thcleesie prices Die Veaders Are: Coffee 5 $1.00 — * the palate of many discriminating coffee @rinkers Coffee 5 $1.25 - A superior, mellow blend of small and broken beans of high grade coffees. » Oolong, ios... 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Our mo ment re- Mained concealed from the enemy. “Rear guard posta, acting care. fully, hampered his troops, which only with hesitation groped for- ward, occupying, without fighting the ntrip of land which was aban- done! by us and whioh és lying in rial Yielding in the face of a erically superior attack, as hal boen ordered, these minor de tachments inflicted considerable sanguinary losses upon the enemy, and up to now have eaptured || officers and 174 men and 4 ma chine guns, and to-day atill dom!- nate the field in front of our posi- tons. “After & atrong artillery fire in the morning hours of yesterday the British attacked near Lo Transloy and Gailily. The attack near Le Transloy failed before our barricade, and also near Gaiily, where the attack wan ro- peated at night in hand-to-hand fighting. “The enemy, who had entered, wan ejected by a counter-thrust and lost twenty mon in prisoners At two places whieh are of minor importance and of narrow limits, British riflemen’s newts have been formed. “On the west hank of the Mouse (Verdun frome) in the mornin, French attack was prepared. ¢ annihilating fire prevented execution.’ TURKS IN UTTER ROUT its IN FLIGHT TO BAGDAD “Only a Disorderly Mob” After Kut-El-Amara Battle, Says State- ment to House of Commons. LONDON, March 1.—The remnant of the Turkish fo Kut-¢l-Amara have |given out In the House to-day The Turks, it was sald, would reach Bagdad only as a disor- derly mob, ‘This information was received from | Gen, Maude, comman ish expedition th of the Brit Tigris front and was announced by Henry W | RI CES | Forster, the financial secretary to the | War Ofics. Mr. Forster said that 2,500 prisoners had been taken the British since Feb, 24 and since the commencement of the of- by fensive on Dec, 30 some 5,000 Turk- Prisoners were taken by the French in the in the World Opposite Priced (7 8 6.50 weat Spring Frock Combination of gette Crepe, $22.50 New Spring Suits Very Specially Priced | | ~ 25.00 % 40.00 || | Materials are Gunniburl, Men's Wear Serge Burella Cloth, Velour, | | Jersey Cloth and Poiret Twill, | Cloth, Gun New Spring Coats Very Specially Priced 16.50 Materials are Cashmere Velour, Covert to 35.00 niburl, Men's Wear Serge, Burella s Cloth and Poiret Twill, 6 retreating from | day ‘he heen whattered to information of Commons} more than “Sot OVERTACTIFULS. SHIPS ARE ARMIED uted \“Germany Reconciled to Any Eventuality from Sinking of the Laconia.” BERLIN, March 1, ~-In its comment Laconia the Vrankfurter Zeitung bays } "It ts diMcult to understand that |the experience of the first weeks of ithe sharpened submarine warfare has not eufficed to put an end to such irresponsible endangerment of human lite | “Opportunities and for entering leaving England without danger are provided, Then why this culpable rashness, which can do no good, but incalculable harm? ‘The fate of tho seven Dutch merchantmen should have been a warning of the perils of th danger sone,” he Socialist newspaper, Vorwaerts, resident Wilson in trying to avold every aggressive word. He declures, he will the question as he would an ive, But at the same time he ning to arm merchant vesse arming will be followed by collisions with German sub- as far ay this is concerned, touch and then there can hardly be a doubt whether the overt act will bi ablished which involves war. All outward signs indicate that the German nation is reconciled com. pletely to any eventuality growing out of the loss of American lives through the sinking of the steamship Laconia, ‘There thas just been re- Jeelved here a lespatch from Washington to that the Unite tes Government regards the te ng of the liner as an ov uct aro no indications, how- jever, of any departure from Ger- many's resolve to carry on submarine warfare unretarded, The remarks of Chancellor yon Bothmann-Hollweg on this subject in s| his ade to the Retohstag yestor- “ul support The subm aun is inspiring great enthustasm and is regarded as | the agency which is capable of fore- ing the war to @ concluston in Ger- many's fave ‘FOUR MORE SHIPS SUNK WITH 8,796 TONNAGE Two British Vessels, One French and One Norwegian Destroyed that} by U Boats. PARIS, March 1—The sinking of ish prisoners had heen taken, The) the following vessels was announced total Turkish camualties in killed and | officially here to-day | wounded was estimated ‘by Gen.| Olan Farquhar, British steamship, | Maude at more than 20,000, 6,068 tons gross, on }eb, | ——— 4 leueuae Mik Wilseiees im’ Ale Gaigorm Caatle, British sailing ehtp, pith pada 1,596 tons, on Feb. 27. om rie Joseph, French schooner, of PARIS, March 1—Kncounters be-| peoanip, 193 tons, on Feb. 28, tween French and German patrols Sjostad, Norwegian steamship, 1,165 took place during last night in the | tons, on Keb, 28 Argonne and east of Metzeral, Alsace, sme the War Office announced to-day {,.‘The tonnage sunk as announced in to-day's reports, 8,796, brings the to- | tal of tonnage in destroyed ships since Fob, 1 up to 465,613 RUSSIANS REPORT GAINS ON ROUMANIAN FRONT Positions Recently Lost Declared Recaptured—Attacks Failed, Says Berlin, | PYTROGRAD, March t | don).—In an attack on Roumanian front troops (via Lon- Northern esterday Russian regained positions recently | captured by the Teutonic forces, we War Office announced to-day the BERLIN, Mareh 1 (by wir to | Sayville) Increasing activity on the | Roumanian front is reported by the War Office to-day, ‘The Russians at tacked yesterday at several points, but mained no sv i. | ENGLISH TOWN RAIDED "BY GERMAN AIRPLANE (via London) | ho sinking of the! > (ConUnued from First Page.) | | violations of American rights on the |sea and breaches of neutrality on American soll—Germany with the du- piletty #0 suddenly revealed by th: outbreak of the European war, has been numbering the United Btates among her enemies and making pro- vision to meet such a situation, ‘The documentary proof of Ger- many’s plot to unite Japan and Mex- ico againat the United States has | been in the hands of tho United States Government while German statesmen have been pleading that President Wil- son's action in breaking off diplomatic relations was “orusque’ and harsh, and that they were informed of no “authentic reasuna”’ for his action, HAD PROOF HERE WHEN HOLL- WEG MADE SPEECH. While the German Chancellor, Dr. Von Bothmann Holtweg, was making the «peech in the Reichetag in which he deplored the break and protested that Germany had prompted and cherished the friendship of the United States, “as Bismarck put tt, an heir- }loom from Frederick the Great,” the documentary evidence in the hands of officials here showed that Germany was plotting an attack on the United States by a t alliance, American officials wonder how, tn the light of these disclowures, Ger- man officials will reconcile their plea that the United States put an inter. pretation on the new submarine or- ders “not intended by Germany,” with the organized disabling of Gepman merchant ships in American ports, at a pre-arranged signal from the German Embassy here—some of them even before the break was an accom~ plished fact, American officials are equally in- terested in knowing what reception the startling disclosures will meet in Germany and what will be the effect on the German people if they are permitted to know about them, ‘The evidences at hand are that if Mexico, as Germany suggested, com- municated with Japan the proposal for an attack on the United States met with a reception In Tokio which was quite contrary to what Berlin had expected. It is thought here that Germany's announcement that she In- tended to withdraw from the Pacific, as part of the making of peace, was carefully planned long ago to attract Japan to Germany's schemes with the prospect not only of occupying the German possessions in the Pacific ad- ding to ber domination of that great ocean, but of settling the tong stand- ing friction with the United States. Observers here believe that the breakdown of the scheme so far as Japan was concerned was signalized when the Mexican Government sud- denly reversed {ts attitude and an- nounced that !t had no intention of cutting off the Lnitish supply of naval fuel ol], as had plainly been indicated MORE OPEN STREET CARS, LESS PNEUMONIA IN CITY So Says Health Department Expert at Hearing of Bronx Man’s Complaint, if open street cars are run as early as possible in the apring and as late a8 possible in the fall, pneumonia germs in this city will peck their srips and move to @ more congenial clime, That Is the opinion of the Health Departinent as expressed by Dr, Alonzo Blauvelt in answer to 4 complaint filed against the indiyortm- inate running of open care, John E. Thompson, a Bronxite, complained to the Public Service Commission that open cars are op- erated exclusively on the One Hun- dred and Hightleth Street Line as eurly as May. He contends open and closed cars showd run alternately at this pertod. The Commission wsked the Health Department's opin- ion and arranged @ hearing, ‘We are strong for the open cars,” declared Dr, Blauvelt. ‘They are the arch enemies of pneumonia, on the {Bombs Dropped on Broadstairs j Off Kentish Coast—One Woman fs Injured. LONDON, March 1—A hostile air dropped bombs to-day on | Broadstairs, it is announced officially, ‘The Announcement follows: “To-day a hostile alr | Broadstairs, One wom: ly injure } plane ane bonvbed was slight Rroadstalrs 1s @ watering on | the Island of Thanet, off the Kenttsh oast, It ls one of tho towns shelled }by German destre aye rs on Monday, ITALY PROGLAIMS ZONE | ON HER WESTERN COAST | | Notifies Neutrals of Way in Which ssels May Proceed Through the Mined Area, WASHINGTON, sive mine flelds for Italian ¢ March 1.--Exten the protection of have \ nm pro in effect along the Tyrrehen- or western coast, Neutral boats i business in those waters and nmerce claime fan, he} with Italian ports will be informed by the Italian Government, through special services organised for that purpose, av to what routes they may follow to be protected from danger A despatch to the State Depart- ment to- trom Ambassador Page, at Rome, said detalis of the geoara hic position could not be published pecaiiee of the military g@ituation The precaution w sade neo by the blockade of Italy throu German marine proclama principle that the germ of this ter. rible malady hates fresh air. 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