The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1917, Page 1

IG BRITISH a TRST 7 4 } a aE Circulation Books Open to All.’| _ sccnnsinnieeenite ticle icenciapin MM TR SORE ih 4 —. PRIOE ONE OENT, == “ren, tite te Pam NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1917. ‘14 PAGES ___ PRICE ONE GENT. ‘| , J j Lo \ ‘ l. a r ¥ BRITISH SMASH GERMANS; GREAT SPRING DRIVE ON , Haig’s Troops Pierce Lines at Many [OTHER 10 YIELD ru 0,000 AS WAR FUND KAISER PLEDGE (GERMAN PLEDGE AUSTRIA BREAKS rap Broun powep NOT ENOUGH FOR | ONRELIEFSHPS | WITH U.S. ENVOY GERVANLBCRALS, WEANS OHNE) ASKS Passports) FOR JOINT WAR COMMITTEE sein No Full Satisfaction for Thos?}Seyen With Guarantees From State Department Also Gets | Points and Take a Lot of Prison-| Seeking Greater Share in Berlin Sunk Unwamed and Notice of Action From DEMANDED IN CONGRESS ers—British Claim Victory in| BOY 10 THOSE WHO Government. Outside the Barred Zone. Minister at Berne, ; Terrific Air Battles. “RE : »| tow rl 8—The tosn 5 : ini Cc at REFORM —IMPERATIVE.”| LONDON, Aprit #—The toss of the SPAIN TO ACT FOR U. S.| AdministrationLeadersOppose Meas- LONDON, Apr! 9.—The British early this morning attacked the Ger-| fan lines on e wide front, from a point south of Arras to the south of | Lens, thus opening what is belleved here to be a general spring offensive, | The move has been looked forward to eagerly for some days. The of-| fensive of the British Flying Corps tn the latter part of last week, the atteck on Zeobrugge Saturday night and the activity of the Frenoh in Bel- gtom, as shown in yesterday's official communication from Paris, were | considered © prelude to important m!!itary operations | ie Briton Commander, Gen. Haig, ee mipr tne German tne tos near pone. FRENGH CHECK GERMANS IN ATTACK NEAR RHEIMS trated everywhere and that satisfac- tory progress was mado in the direc- Paris War Office Reports Progress in the Fighting in tion of Cambrai and St. Quen Important connection positions in MADE hiMt HAPPY Mrs, Patsonk Finds Little Jo- seph, Long Lost, Is Stranger in Her Home. Little Joseph Patsonk, who became rich little George Bernard Sbire and then far from rich little Joseph Pat- sonk again, Is" expected to again ex- change his humble home at No, 898 Union Avenue, the Bronx, for the marble baths and tapestry hangings of No. 41 West Eighty-second Street. His really-truly mother is willing to Disappointment Over the De- lay in Putting Proposal Into Effect. BERLIN (Via London), April 9.— Formal pledge by the Kaiser for po- litieal reform was generally hallod with rejoicing in editorial comment to-day. But a number of the more liberal newspapers indicated clearly the pledges were not enough to satiety those secking greater participation by the people in government. “While the promise will please the Socialists, they will take into ac- count only deeds,” declared the So- Norwegian steamship Camilla, the sinking of which without warning was announced on Saturday, brings up to four the number of Belgian re- Met ships torpedoed within four days. The ships were carrying @ total of 17,000 tons of foodstuffs, The number of relict ahips torpedoed since F db. 1 io seven. In addition to these three were fired on and escaped. All the relief ships which were sunk were torpedved without warn- ing i broad daylight, They bore the full markings of the Americen Com- mission for Relief in Belgium and had safe conduct passes immed by the Swiss Minister in Washington on behalf of the German Government. All the ships were outside the war Severance of Relations Re- garded as Prelude to “State of War” Declaration. WASHINGTON, Apri) 9—Austrin Hungary, under the pressure of Gor- many, bas severed diplomatic rela- tions with the United States. Baron Erick Zwiedinek, Ohara: d’Affairies of the Austro-Hungarian | EXmbasey here, called at the State De- partment to-day and asked for pass ports for himself and the embassy staff. Almost at the same time despatch from American Minister , ure as Financial Check Rein Over the Executive—Bond Bill to Be | Presented in House Thursday. LABOR MOBILIZES ITSELF; . NO STRIKES DURING WAR By Samuel M, Williams, | (Gpeclal Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, April 9.—With the nation in the greatest war of |history and Austrla Joining with Germany in plotting the destruction of with the new German line Champagne. sive him back to Mrs. Leo D. Shire, | otalist organ, Vorwaerts. zone, on @ line guaranteed by the are ae eal tk | America and of democracy, Congress to<lay inaugurated a policy of b wiih J ig German authorities to be safe for the | Stovall at Berne sa! ¢ Dual Mon- 4 5 5 ‘The extension of the attack north- his foster-mother, who it ls sald is) py Emperor promises only 4 , hobbi ‘ ; ward te Lens doubtiess was intended) PARIS, April 9.-“Between the out in the country somewhere with a commission's vessels, archy had broken off diplomatic ro ling the President and putting War and Navy Departments In the Somme and the Aisne patrol encoun- ters occurred during the night,” says to-day’s War Office announcement “Notwithstanding the bad weather, there was active artillery fighting in several sectors. “Northwest of Rheims a German | to give the British more elbow room for their operations from Arras to the point of juncture with the French @round St. Quentin In the direction of St. Quentin the British took Fresnoy le Petit and ad- her heart almost broken because her | conviction of what was right made her turn the boy over to bis newly- discovered parents, “IV's no use!” sighed Mrs, Patsonk. “Georgie can never be one of us, We are too poor, He has known what and Janoucheoski have been summartly removed from their commands in the Russian army be ise of the defeats 1rs | suffered by forces under their respsc~ 'r4®-1tive commands along the Stokhod, an- |nouncement from the War Ministry ad to-day, “While we frankly admit the num ber of our machines which are miss- ing, the Germans say none of is missing, T! is probably the: (Continued on Fourth Page.) aie | 23D READY TO MOVE. | Expect to Start ‘0-Day. Col. Frank H. Norton of the Twenty- wo Battalions Some Time | secret general vote, so the fight for jequal votes must continue,” tnststed the Vossische Zeitung. The Taegitsche Rundschau, on the other hand, declared: “Thus, in a few strokes of the pen, have been created what years of agi tatlon and conferences have hereto |consistent with the Just demands of |the people? In view of this danger | the parties of the Left hi nuggost- ed that the new scheme be entrusted to the Reichstag, but thia the King’s message doos not contemplate.” ‘The refashioning of the form of _ UNCLE SAM SEIZES THREE BIG AUSTRIAN with the captain's two ciildren, Bor- | tha, aged twelve, and Joria, three and | one-half years. The three were hud- dled about an ofl stove trying to keep warm, “{ am very sorry, but f am here to take possension of this boat by order lations with the United States in Vi- enna yesterday, It 1s presumed this was done by handing passports to American Charge Grew. Ambassador Penfield, whd had left Vienna on Bat- urday, probably did not know of the} Government's action, when the United States began ap- Praising the possibilities of conflict with Germany, this acheme of the Imperial Government to weize the jsl- ands and establish a base of opera tions against the United States came |lead strings of politicians. In both Houses there was introduced an insidious plan for a “joint committee of Congress on conduct of the war’ designed to hold a financial check rein over the Executive. At the same time jealous leaders of the House, both Democrats and Republicans, broke out in revolt against destroying our fiscal system. Con | wrens is entitled to detailed tnforma- tion of bow the huge sums demanded are to be applied.” Republican Leader Mann read the| brief text of estimates submitted to of the war, J. Hampten Moore, Re- publican of Pennsylvania, and Martis W. Little Page, Damocrat of West Virginia, made speeches indorsing the plan ‘The Houses Committee on Ways and @ vanced their line southeast of Le/attack on our positions in front of| money means and all it brings, Mrs | . « c » \c » fore failed to achieve. By prearrangement, Spain will take * inl, ‘ Verguier. No estimate of the aum-|Courcy was repulsed by our fire. | Shire can have him. Jt just breaks! «pranks to the Emperor's inter evan tan Gadameaiie ehh eonatial voting appropriation requested by the Administration unless given more ber of Germans captured Taal yet he South of this point two German de | bP hearts, but it seems to be the! vention,” said the Lokal Anzeiger, “an | terests of the United States in Aus- | detailed information about the purposes of expenditures, given, the statement says, but the tachments were repulsed after a| Wisest thing, Lam a real mother, and} iypjeasant Internal dispute hay been trin-Hungary, All Austrian Consu- ¢ 2 number 1s considerable vely engagement with grenades, In| 1'm letting bim go because it willl s¢ is addre roduce ® 1 The committee would be composed of six members of the Senate aha! lively engag & | ie settled, His address will pi lar agents will depart from the Untted , ee ag cats ci. | aM gh eo mnrs ra iat teean® |iteg arcane eAty. GIN lot oe poa/tdea| RS Aa ce astonalnalatacoeepnn inten ios the siplernndic severe Oe | aeaulag Sout Derioera ty BOs SOL TMP eneaey 0 Te Le ac clot we made some ptogresi enade | e A ie there can be no outside interference, —— was the case with Germany. pial ‘ morning on a wide front |ygiting. There is nothing to report|vnce in @ while.” a t the German people continue], , ; . em evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. Arras to south of Len | from th ‘The sh iitearntaky of mak lee cian a 4{Liner Martha Washington and|__U> t the time Charge Zwiedinek | shrserecnpidaan pest Pie Reeve Ne Bien eatitecane a tec ee et ale = : ng’ naked for his passports no rimilar ac- The resolution provides that the committee shall be known as the trated the enemy's lines and are When Joseph, or George, was a few! “We wished for an immediate start Two Freighters Taken Over See pee mee enre oy i age Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War and “shall sit during the making satisfactory progress at STEAMER CONCORD GOES months old ue motes, pane to care! in fulfilling the Chancellor's promise, —No Resistance Made. and their representatives here din- |Sessions or recesses of Congress, shall make a special duty of the proo- | vce the exreotion ct Cambral’ we ASHORE WITH 150 ABOARD eee JOS Oe BY OoSRy OE Tees | uE Can Vnuie OF bee Sree a che mere claimed having any knowledge of the lems arising out of the war, shall confer and advise with the President of i n the direction of 1 vi 40 rosal is not i cla e | : R . stormed the villages of Hermies evcntunily bho GA Was taken byl earentath “Pranchise ratermimcniy| Coreen oF ne Form Malone his) Intention @ their saaveractenite. 1 4 the United States and the heads of the various executive departments and and Boursies and have penetrated ; Mr. and Mrs, Shire, who came to love| one of numerous reforms which Ger-|*fternpon scized the big passenger e deep actt gestions shall report to Congress from time to time in Its own discretion or when ’ into Havrincourt Wood Boat From New York for Provi-| him ag their own. After things mend-| many needs.” steamship Martha Washington and pig «gaping acid the United requested to do so by either branch of Congress."” “In the direction of St. Quentin fan ean ar New ed for the Patsonks, the mother tried| THE HAGUE, April 9 (via London). | the freighters Dora and Ida, th | ; ; ; ‘ i Pay Weannag mana | ee yunds Near Newport— | ¢d for wi F sguvnae i other i col pa ay a pine ee eae aa |e Frotentens Dore, on the only | states undoubtedly te the prelude to | The committee would be clothed with the widest powers of inve: we captu eg Passengers Taken Off, to find hor boy, but could get no trace| nig comment on the Euater me | veggeig of the Austrian Government], deciaration of a atnte of war | ait Iling testi ae cai ote ea nae ti Nene CC bin. Finally, mie beard of him by sage. of Eeperce hips iste Ol in New York watere over which he| ‘The Uslted States, by the break in | gation, compelling testimony under Oalh. erguler. : The steamer Concord of the Col-| accident, identified him, and prepared| Wolff, in the Berlin Tageblatt, My8) 1. Nieadiction, Another Austrian| relations, 1s released of the care of Genator Weeks of Massachusetts (> —— No estimate of the prisoners Jonial line, which left here at 5.30/10 fight for his posession by law.) that President Wilson in his mensugo| NA Juriadtotlor malaya, ted ep in| probably, 2,000,000 war prisoners. In| introduced the Joint committee re#0-| eatimates mor8 tm detail tha this. can yet be given, but conside nie [o'clock last. lant for Froviganse, R.| but Mrs, Shire said there would be| pointed out that America wae not) 0% ‘Bay wince the beginning of| Russia alone it 1# estimated that/lution in the Upper House, and Rep-| Congress ie entitled to know some Bumbers are reported capture 1, we nt ashore at 6 o'clock this morn: Jno fight, She loved him, she argued,| hostile to the German people, PUT!) war, was seized by United States | 1,250,000 Austrian prisoners were un-| resentative Maddon of Llinol# pre-| thing about how this money is to be } ing in the heavy snowstorm off Pru-|put his own mother must love bim| only to the Prussian autocracy and| moe der American protection, with a con-| sented it to the Lower Houre, Both] axpended.” GREAT AERIAL BATTLE dence Island, in Narragansett Bay, | even more, to non-responaible government, which | vot q single argument attended the) siderable number in France also. In| members are Republicans, GRAVE MISTAKE TO GIVE DE- which is @ short distance from New-| So Josey George went to Union| was the natural enemy of freedom. | aking of the enips by Collestor| Austria the United States had cared | ADDED $100,000,000 FOR PRESI- TAILS, HE SAYS, EADHES CEIMAX NEVER: . [ports ® 2 Between 180 a0 plo pass |avecue wilh all bie dainty olotiee) “Phe resmient Crew 6 line 9998+| Malone, the oficers ond Ten OF GNA for ail te Belen sot NewMAROA! DENTS USE STARTS REVOLT. | Zopreseniares Sherer 06 Sie sengers were on board, ‘The Concord and all his costly toys, That was tw9] rating democracy from the Imporit| voggeis, after they recovered from| prisoners. Other amall groups are| ‘The revolt in the Houre on money|tuoky, defending the Administration ‘ DREAMED OF IN WAR was fooling her way under a slow] weoks ago, Government,” eaye the writer, “and|:neir surprise, immediately packing |tpought to bring the total well up| matters started by Representa-| sald: , oy and when she struck there was| “Ho never would call me mamina| gave the German people @ hint to| up thetr effects preparatory to being | to 2,000,000, tive Fitzgerald, Democrat, Chalrman| “In time ef war we have got to / 7 BRITISH ARMIES | othe Leer pn PRIA ARSE. BODE A0)8: Mert V8! do likewise. It is necewsary to an-| transferred to Filia Island, So faras ——————_—— of the Appropriation Committee,| ive a leeway to the Exeuutive, It WITH THE 3 pie Ti ame} . ‘olonial steamer Sagamore took | souk, w plas avay 6 mY, es pd swer that the German people must] a cursory examination shows none of KAISER NNED 10 E when there was reported the general| would &@ grave mistake to epecity A im AFIELD, April #—The British have loft the passengers and landed them|morning he wakes up calling for) not be held in bondage and must re-| the veeseie has been damaged, | deficiency dill, already, passed com-| all details of appropriations for mill- inaugurated aerial wartere ‘ " ie at Bristol, none the worse for their mother jar Ae s ae de Be main tho masters of their own house.| Orders to take over the ships came IS WEST IND E | back from the Senate with an|tary purposes, It would be fatal to Initherto undreamed of even in this lexpertenos, | President Dunbaugh, at |bu: he doesn't mean us, Then be a) vsecret, direct muffrage te now prn-| trom Washington about noon, Col. | |added appropriation of one hundred| restrict the President and the ad- greatest Liebe ou ane |the to A Ofiven fot: of We est Hove hades pide rir PAT REA yt | teas” continued Herr Wolff, “but| lector Malone, snccrapeniog by ue millions for the President to use as/ ministrative departments in money | German t he €\ ton Street, sa) hat the Concord was | bi othe e ether equal or some form of plural | secretary and Lieutenant Commander | |. 4 E " he deemed necessary, Against this| matters the way we de in normal premacy spurred a} jit re . ’s. Shire 4 3 . {stablish Zeppelin and) fost. heir air sure macy spurred a little damaged and would be pull {1 haan drs, ale has atayed Bway | voting ia contemplated, the meanago| Parl P. Jeusop, U. 8. N., hurried ty Expected to ppel | Pitegeralé, backed Oy Republican| times, 1 heave me doubt but that certain English air genera OY | Off rE i erent ae east ame wente the | irae not sey For the parties of the|the Martha Washington, anchorcd Submarine Base There, Says Leader Mann, protested as inaugu-| many details of thewe estimates will eee) usm |Biale Bad’ Colonial linen ue’ here |hce love tums atid bo Gente f rave (artery nauet Matinge CAR Be aor) OF Btapietan, BE 5p DIP auch Mase | Copenhagen. rating @ polley of voting blindly targe| be laid before the committees of 1 It the English lovses appear Bish.” Tt! crning wore delayed by the | %Y % love me, and he can't. Tt a¥* | ceptable since any phiral aystem|trality. The Martha Waubington,) oo on 9 — ammn| sums of money that the House could | Congress.” x he explained, “it is because fae sg > {storm and will not reach New York | nce . |which again favored the propertied | owned by the Austro Amertoan Line Urtaa cites pol pr po not approve, Not content with beldtag the puree ent fighting is on an undrear ‘ > | itil late in the afternoon, bgt ca Gas tamed aun nave |r so-called educated classes would| Steamship Company, is one of ee | fn eg seers . ofp at “I am for giving every dollar nec-| strings in voting money to the Gov- \ scale, The German boast of numer- - | More thai . cause new tnequalittes and provoke ‘gest passenger ships afloat, ig the Dai eat Indies from) wasary for prosecuting the war," he] ernment, members ef the House eoa- ous planes downed is therefore easily [RUSSIAN GENERALS BOUNCED | vccn received by the Pateonks urging | roan gtrito, Capt. Robert Stuparich was not on| Denmark was to defeat known Gor-| 014 “nu: we must not act blindly! tinued their clamer for continuing explained, We are fighting practically —EEE | them to let Mrs. Shire keep the boy. |” a 411 the Gov: board when the Collector arrived, so|™&n plans to establish a Zeppelin lee’ ‘ diwaye above the enomy'a country; |Twe Dlamiused Because of Defeat) “of course,” added Mra. Patsonk, "'r| . What will the Government do if, : ht out Chief Officer | #24 submarine base there. and substitute some one elee's judg-| thas conte! ever the expenditure Teetces a vast maiority of all our | Along the Stokhod, jmean Mrs. Shire can adopt him ‘le-|fter the war, there should again be 1” ss a ad enya Tt was learned on the highest au-|™Ment for our own, It te folly to be-/ atterward, That to the principal o8- é v najol o or Ba | ori " Victor Kandis, who was at luncheon sg cae te or i casualties are behind their lin: PETROGRAD, April 9.—Gens, Loch| sally, I want him to be happy, that's | no majority for an electoral system Yr thority here to-day that months ago| sim ® wer t maintain our rights by| ject for a joint committee on conduct ‘ Panos 3 | | the House last week by the Secretary | Means met in executive session at 10 i a P ssnihion (tind Sie By ae received 0} . sya _ y @ Unite t omont,” | to ght ’ BUREAD a Qifetal Russian statements, recently | 0 ma New Fork tee " ete a oF+| poy rashent if the German Empire is ace . a “cniet | — is of the Treasury, calling for three | o'clock this morning to formulate leg- Mm anguin: es Infilcted by | ders to: ! n n Broo! | becoming dally more important,” he ‘allecto' alone 8 . 1 doll to P mails | tal the Germans when they foreed pas-|to be ready to move the first and second , billions of dollars to be made avail: | (siation to finance the war. ated that one regiment was «imo ‘on and Matthew D. Ac n to-tnorrow | Co-operatio! 0- resp: yo yur elt J ~ } oly wiped out, and others were morning, y will entrain for duty at the people's representatives which i» p (and eaid 000,000 bond Issue measure on Thure- 1d by the German attack. pointe up-State known everywhere but in Germany,” Monday Morning Wonders, “The Department ought toe submit day in the House was reached by i EN a