The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1917, Page 2

THE EVENING WORLD, THUKS troops were being thrown in constant duel of ar- counter attacks. The Germans ap-| parently realized the danger in (he wedge and sweeping arm tactics un- fighting in part, with @ tillery intermixed. ‘The town was still in English hands to-day, despite ev- ery effort by the enemy to dislodge the defenders, FRENCH WIN TRENGHES; HALT GERMAN ATTACKS ALL ALONG THE LN the | | to-day over pes of Vimy Ri face of violent resistan forces ewarmed over a German Intrenchment between the C: River and Neuville se, storming the position. The oor- fesponding and adjoining position @f the trenches to the south of the river was to-day being cleared of its Teuton defenders by combined artillery fire in a concentrated deluge of steel and various at- tacks. Hill 90 was firmly in Brit- ‘ inde despite bitterly desper- ate assaults from the Germans, Throughout yesterday the Ger- mans shelled Vimy Ridge vigor- ously. No more Violent fighting has been seen anywhere on the western front dhan that which marked the repulse by the British yester- day of two German counter-attucks on Monchy, It was hand to hand Spirited Fighting Between Somme and Oise Rivers and the Champagne. PARIS, April 12.—The following re- port was issued to-day by the Freoch War Office: | “Between the Bommo and the Olse artillery fighting continued with vio- | Jence during the night, especially tu) the region of Urvillers. “Bouth of the Olse our troops, after artillery preparation, attacked tho) German positions east of the linc from Coucy La Ville to Quincy-Basse. After a spirited engagement wo forced back the enemy ae far as the southwostern edge of the Upper Coucy Forest. Several important points of support fell into our hands, notwithstanding the resistance of th enemy, who left a number of dead on the ground and prisoners in our hands, “In the region northeast of Solssons there were patrol encounters and ac- Itive artillery fighting, especially in the sector of Laffaux. North of the Aisne our feconnoitring parties pene- trated the German lines at several points and brought back forty pris- oners, one of whom is an officer, “East of Sapigneul a sharp at- tack enabled us to expel the enemy from certain portions of trenches which he had held since April 4, and our line was re-established intact Two surprise attacks by the Germans in the Champagne, in the sectors of Ville-Sur-Tourbve and Butte du Mes- nil, were broken up by our fire, ch inflicted losses onthe enemy. ‘In the course of an incursion into German lines in the Woevre, northeast of Remenauville, we in- fllcted appreciadle losses on the enemy. 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Makes the richest, smoothest and most de licious drink, You'll like it bet- ter than what you now use, Guaranteed to please you per- fectly or you can take it back the ,WORRY OVER MEXICO. | pressed by leaders that when the! = WILSON EXPECTED 10 FORCE SELECTIVE DRAFT PLAN FOR ARMY THROUGH CONGRESS Ministers in charge of our féatiba! with Huropean nations, diplomatic at- tention is now being given to affairs of southern neighbors, The leading countries of South America—Brazil, Argentine and Chili—are becoming deeply concerned in the war, and the uppermost question with them is of following the jead of the United States and breaking with bhai A 4 B 4 3 But so complicated are their prob- an Embargo on Exports lems and #0 devious are the ways of From Oil Fields. | Latin-American politics, that it Is |impossible to understand the vary- jing phases of their situations. Db: |nite results amd declarations are ex- pected within @ few days, with strong probability that Brazil and Argentine will line up with the United States, while Chill’® course is more inclined to neutrality, Cloak Room Revol Revolt Over Con- scription Will Fail, Say House Leaders, Carranza Threatening to Put By Samuel M, Williams dent of ‘The Brening (ipeciat Gtalt Correaponded WASHINGTON, April 12.—Threats of @ serious fight over the General Army Staff Bill in Congress grew to- day, but friends of the selective draft system are confident President Wil- son will force it through. It ta the army bill proposing a lim- ited form of universal service and conscription, that is exciting Con- gross most. In fact, there is more animated discussion over conscrip- tion than over the declaration of war, A cloakroom revolt against it h been declared in the House of Rep- resentatives, but confidence is ex- come obstreperous and is causing no end of worry for diplomatiats, thentic advices to the Washington Government etate that he is threat- ening to place an embargo upon ex- of what he calls “first nece Mexico's principal article of | export just now is oll from the Tam- | | pico and Tuxpem regions, which sup- If these oll wells, controlled by the English, should be selzed or em- bargoed, serious complications would follow, It is thought probable that Great Britain would insist upon for- clble measures to protect her Inter~ ests and that the United States, as time to vote comes the bill will be| passed by a large majority. The $7,000,000,000 war revenue bill Was explained to the Senate Finance Committee to-day by Secretary Me- Adoo, Chairman Simmons said no oppo- sition was expressed and he expects its quick passage after it has been approved by the House. No formal | action by the Senate Committee will be taken until then, Mr, McAdoo's iden was that at least would be obliged to assist in what- ever steps might be decided upon. In his testimony before the House reiterated his belief in the necessity of conscription to raise an army. A half the $7,000,000,000 should be| ),2\,c8° fhut raised by taxation, the remainder by | virtually had decided on plans un- bonds, der which opportunity would be 4iven for approximately 600,000 men to volunteer for service for the term of the war, Army and navy officers having largely supplanted Ambassadors and Wood, WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES AFIELD, April 12.--Canadians earnod new honors to-day in a storming ad- and get your money. ORDER FROM YOUR GROCER. 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Of clinging desperately since the first these 161,619 will be needed to fill up sweep forward of the Canadians the regular army and 206,349 for the cleared the top of the Vimy Ridge. National Guard, As 150,000 men must Headquarters reports to-day be withdrawn from these two services showed eleven more German gUNS within six months to train the first captured etween Crosilles and 500,000 increment of the selective con- Thoeux. script army, their places must be It was over ground inches deep tn snow and slush, in cold wet weather that the British and Gérmans battled man to man to-day—with the best nan steadily winnin, The = ritish advance still continued. Stiffening re- sistence all to St Teutons were de stop taken by that number of additional volunt All recruits enlisted since the de laration of war and those to be en- listed hereafter will be notified that they will be discharged at the close of the war, putting them in the status of war-time volunteers Seleotive couscripuon, Mr, Baker told the committee, would be the fair- rately striving to the encroaching wave of the British advance by it the burden of defending the Nation would be equally distributed mong all classes, The plan favored lor securing the first quota of 600,000 men would be: 1, To registed all unmarried men between the ages of nineteen and twenty-four, 2. To put the names, numbered, in @ box and then draw a number corresponding to a number indi- cated by a “wheel of fortune.” 8 Select from those drawn the men best fitted for service. Army Departinental commanders have been ordered to resume recrult- ing National Guard organizations to ‘the peace strength of the regular army, 100 men to the company, Many companies now have as low as sixty+ | tive men A War Department statement was issued to-day to make plain that the National Guard recruiting had not deen discontinued, Recruiting of the Guard to war strength will not be undertaken until Congress has authorized the emer. gency enlistment contract, to hold during the war, Otherwise men woul | is ae EE TOY BALLOON KILLS GIRL. nnea Choked to: Looked On, Death as Playma Catherine Hennes, an eight-year-old schoolgirl living at No. 69 Ouk Street, Concord, 8. 1, was choked (o death by 4, {07 balloon tn the yard of Public Schoo! No, 12. during the noon recess while hundreds of her schoolmates looked on, The little girl was trying to blow into the ballpon, when it slipped through her mouth ‘and lodged in her throat An ambulance was mimmoned from thi but the child old, living at NV removed to Belovite condition to-day after cker which she had been eating be » lodged in her throat. Miss Men- delsohn was working as & seamstress at No, 18 West Twenty-second Street and was having luncheo When the cracker caught vine Be arcolde maid-! bo required to obligate themselves to ton), 480, six yours’ service in the Guard, irre- 12 (Mink), spective of the present emergency. Jt » lla is felt that this would be unfair to en who wish to volunteer for the only The purpose now 1s to introduce $12.98 A_ sensational event which presents countiess opportunities for great savings- Coats of the highest class and_ smartest style NOW_at_ very spectal prices for quick selling. Exquisite Semi-Dress Coats — Stunning Street Coats--Swagger Sport Coats Wool Velours, Serges, Burellas, Gabardines, Coverts, Poplins and Poiret Twills—in Black, Navy, High Colors, Checks and Plaids, Sizes 14 to 44, BROOKLYN STORE NEWARK STORE Fulton and BridgeSts- Market & Halsey Sts. Carranza m Mexico has again be-| Au-, ply a lange part of England's needs. | an ally In the war against Germany, | Military Committee Secretary Baker | {)) est method that could be adopted, as Maa r | ERICA SCHOONER CAPTURED BY U BOA Crew of the Marguerite of New York in Open Boats Forty-Six Hours, WASHINGTON, April 12.~The Am- erican schooner Marguerite of New| York was captured and presumably sunk by a submarine thirty-five miles southwest of Sardinia on April 4, ac- cording to the following despatch Ee Ambassador Sharp at Paris: “Consul at Tunis on the 16th reports schooner Marguerite, New York, 1,663! tons gross, Heri to Algeria in ballast, De Barrenchia, New York, owner, and Charies W. Willard, South Portland, Maine, master and only American on board, reported captured and probably sunk by sub-, marine, unknown nationality, thirty-| « southWeat of Sardinia, April M. No resistance or attempt to escape. No ships in. aight. minutes notice. Strong wind. Tow refused. Forty-aix hours in boats, Picked up by French torpedo boat. Landed Blzerta. No caguaities. Papers held by submarine. Total crew of twelve shipped at Margeilles. ‘The following was received to-day nt Consul Washington at Liver- poo | ‘Norwegian bark Marion, in bal- last, Limerick to Pensacolt ink by shell-fire without warning afternoon | April 6, 160 miles weat of Fastnet. | No conversation with submarine. | Marton not armed. Weather and sea | moderate, One American aboard, Albert Hutehinson, No. 885 Elghth | Street, Boston, All rescued after | forty-seven hours in small boats, ex- ‘cept one Russian, who fell out of lite- boat and was drowned.” Detector 'WALL STREET’S ALIEN ACTION Stook Exchange Asks Records of| Thelr Money and Se: At a special meeting of the Governors of the w York Stogk Lxchange resolution was passed imstructing mem- bers of the Exchange to turn in by 2| P. M. to-morrow to the Gpvernora a! memorandum of securities and money belonging to alien enemies in their pos- seasion. ain CLOSING QUOTATIONS. With wet changes frum previous closi: tnt £ WE fatanig teen ts Bethieieen ti. E Hethlevem Stead 1. 4 + a" Butte & saverior, 43% + 1% Cal. Petroleum. ng ti Central Leather wet | 100) 1 + * fy i Ges & Be my cgt * ty det ¢ Me Ho we +8 13 ath 120% ; 2 oe aT ay OR it 100% 174% 167K — & Ey - HN TOR ns BA BR: By * pty oo Oo + SPs a a2 Inter, “Paper. My aT 87 + z a o ‘opper. + Hy oh an ay ot se t At poy 2h oh 19% me BO” 4 y Bm SI 83} 1S SoG ty to eh Be 1 Yh ay at at aut & Be Bh ty + OR N cy " - % N.Y f +1 Northions Macfie 1018 ty Onto Cities Wg Peeific 3 + i ni ng + id 24-1 bs rad i any wy By By t's an” + rd Hotter Tomei ne ‘e 4% + vada is ig 18% bh me tik HIS + 8 16% + 3 ne + * og Sy t iB a 8 bait jog t $ 8g ~ iv Stosk sales” total 33,200. the Army Bill in the How: not later LONDON, April A feeling in| than the middle of next week. It will] CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN fome quarters (hat the war may end ,b& taken up at once and passed, If MARKET, . possible, by the end of the week, it WHEAT. P the dant of the yaar is indi- | wit not be considered under a rule| Weinewaye Ta ee a ee | dd by the fact that in underwrit- unless the necessities of the war situs Sos, Mey en iy tats ise on a ing circles business was done yester- | ation demand that It be put through | 1so¥ Jul Tis ino day “to pay total lows If peace is with brief debate. The-debate over] 108% Sev Tt Thou ta not declared before Dev. 31," at 45 the congeription feature will, unless | guineas per t, Some time ago checked, require many hours. jie Hh | business was done at the rate of % To Roosevelt to raise " * ‘ per cent. against the declaration of and head a volunteer army of 100,000 | Peace within eighteen’ months ond NOMe © Neat eeastin ead ices ta ITEMS FOR INVESTORS, A rep in Wall Street that 10 to 1 by Representative Wmerson of| Superior Copper Company, dividend | being offered at Lloyds that Onto. of $1, payable April 30 to stock record peace would be ¢ dd owithin With the approval of Attorney| April 16 hinety days was desc a8 More General Gregory, Chatrman Webb of] — atianti dies Steamship in the nature of @ Jocular bet than an the House Judiclary Committee will! Lines, ye surplus. gitempt to trade iitroduce to-morrow a bill to allow} chars the allied governments to recrult| Balance, available for com . their citizens in the United States, | oUu® aes J “ Chairman Culberson of the Senate ni Sanita hel lwae. baa Mae TRY JUST Judiclary Committee Will Introdtice | eee eee ieee Sor ote heat the same bill After tax, $922,209; 1 10, ONE DISH J (sane Addams of Chicago, President of the Women's § Party; Gilbert] Ohio Cities Gas Company, for ten THEN Roe of New Wein-| months ended Jan. 3. Gross income Pague of | WOR $2,500 Net after expenses and "7 berger of the F ype . YOU'LL America, and Char Hallinan of | (exes, U.es18. , Balance bala oun the American Union inst Mill] $5) 714, leaving balance of 2, FALLIN J i tarism. spoke in opposition. to the onent terms of the Adm! istration| gastman Kodak Company, extra divi- before the House Judiciary Commit. | payable June 1 to stock record April 9. toe - | They contended in general that the} Wayland Oil and bill ax now framed would create a} lar semi-annual divid dictatorship in United | States! Mock record May 1, also 2 per cent worse that any autocratic conditions} on common. stock, payable June Ul to vbrowd, stock record June 1. DAY, APRIL 12, 1917, BERLIN REPORTED MAKING OVERTURES FOR PEACE 10 U. §. ——et State Department Declares It Has Received None, Formal or Otherwise. COPENHAGEN, April IiemAppar. | ‘ently positive reports were received | here to-day that the German Foreign Office was makiag overtures to the United States, It Was understood the negotiations sought peace between the two nations, No further detatis were available j here. | Official circles manifested the most intense interest in the report, It is understood that Secretary of State Lansing has ‘already recetved | the overtures through unofficial me- diaries, The proposition as reported here is for the United States Govern- ment to send Col, B. M. House to The Hague for a secret “unofficial con- ference.” Germany's terms were not specified in the reports here, but it was hinted there had been no change in her po- sition as outlined by the German Smbassy in Washington early In De- cember, when Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg hinted that the question of indemnity for Belgium would not be) an Insurmountable obstacle to peace, | but plainly insisted on a return to! |the status quo before the war—in- cluding return of all her colonies or| @ rearrangement of all belligerents' | | colonial possessions, When Col. formed of the Copenhage German peace overtures to America, he said: “I know nothing of any formal or official action along that line. As! for any peace suggestions that may have come to personally, I can only say that these have been so in- formal, so indirect, and so vague, that I have given them no considera- tion, and they can in no way subject of the Copenh; WASHINGTON, April 12.~-The State Department declared to-day it had received no peace overtures—| formal or otherwise—fom Germany. It added that this Government is not | ready for any such overtures and the} department left the inference that the Administration view is against fa separate peace. LONDON, April 12.- Reports from a Swiss source have been received in Rome that the Bulgarian Minister at Berne has made overtures to the En- tente Ministers with a view to the conclusion of @ separate peace, says the Exchange Telegraph's Rome cor- respondent. TRIBUTE TO AMERICA PAID BY ALL PARIS Papers Filled With Accounts of Celebration of the Alliance of the Two Nations, PARIS, April 12—Paris made this a day of tribute to America, News- papers devoted columns to relating full details of a great demonstration last night under the auspices of the Comite France-America to “celebrate the alliance of the two nation President Poincare and Ambassador Sharp were among the notables pres- | ent. “If I commonted on the varieties of German France,” atrocities in northern Sharp declared in ‘his formal “my words wouldn't be fit Viviai Hanotaux, president of the committee eloquently lauded America and President Wilson, Gen. Brugere expressed the hope that America would soon send even a small con- tingent of her regulars to France, An enormous crowd in the Champs Elysees watched the arrival and de- parture of the distinguished invited guests and cheered repeatedly, ———_—— Armes Set) ta Bridgeport’s He- atricted District, BRIDGEPORT, Conn., April Mill~ tary and local police visited many rest- dencea in the restricted districts to-day and seiaed @ large quantity of rifles, Pistols and daggers. Muny | families were ordered to move immediately from the district and were forcibly ejected from their homes to-day MIHOMA FORMOSA Anew tea=you'll tke It a 10c Can—Free Sent for 3c in stamps with your own and your grocer's name and address. Write for it now. ‘eo THE GLOBE TEA COMPANY Inc. y Ni 194 Water 8 POIs des Beaux. 0 W. 40" St. | submarines (two reported were sunk SPAIN SENDS STRONG | PROTEST TO GERMANY | Madrid Aroused by Torpedoing, | Without Warning, of the San Fulgencio, LONDON, April 12—For the first time, according to a Madrid despateh, | ® Spanish steamer—the San Fulgen- clo, of 1,558 tons—has been torpedoed without warning and without any op- portunity being given to her crew to gave themselves, Other reports from Madrid say that deep indignation i» felt there, and that a strong protest has been made to Germany by the Spanish Govern. ment. To-day's official announcement of the week's submarine situation gives seventeen British merchant ships of 1,600 tons or over, sunk by mines or before the past week) and two sunk of less than 1,600 tons, one of which was sunk last week and not then re ported. TURKS LOSE 8,000 MEN IN PALESTINE BATTLES British Advance Further in Drive Along Mediterranean Coast— Fall of ‘Gaza Likely. CATRO, Egypt, April 12 (via Lon- a The British are continuing their successes in the vicinity of 4 Palestine, Their mounted forces have occupied further Turkish territory to a depth of fifteen miles, consolidating strong positions menac- ing Gaza and making many prisoners. The losses of the Turks around Gaza are estimated at 8,000, while the British dead, according to the re- ports ‘received, were less than 400. One hundred and ninety British are missing, mostly members of small parties which became isolated in the fog after penetrating the town of Gaza, REPAIRS TO SEIZED SHIPS MAY BE MADE IN MONTH Preliminary Inspection —_ Indicates Damage Done Is Less Than Was Expected. Preliminary inspections of the Ger- | man ships taken over by the United | States In this port indicates that the machinery of the vessela was not us| badly damaged ag Government off- | clals believed, but 1t was stated to- day that no report would be made} until & more thorough examina ye |had been completed. While the ex- |teriors of tha engines appeared in| g00d condition it Is believed the more | minute examination will show that jmany obscure but important parts of the mechanism have been tampered | with, If it is found that th not much greater than w disclose in the preliminary inspection, Gov- ernment officials say thut most of the ships can be made ready for service | within a month after the work is started, ALL GERMANY WORRIED OVER FOOD SITUATION Tension Increases as April 15, Day for Reduction of Bread Ra- tion, Approaches, LONDON, April 12.—The food sit- uation is dominating all other con- siderations in Germany, according to the Berlin Vorwaerts, as quoted In an Amsterdam despatch to the Central News, The Vorwaerts says: ‘otwithstanding all che big events the new food regulations which are be introduced on April 15 form t exclusive subject of discussion in tne most considerable circles of the peo- damage ple. The nearer the fateful day ap- proaches the xreate yinus the ten- sion, A diminution in he bread ra- tion forms a serious dilficulty for the entire population and causes great preoccupation Some weeks ago the German news- papers announced that the bread ra- tion would be reduced by one-fourth beginning April 15, owing to the scarcity of wheat. It was stated that the potato ration would be continued at five pounds weekly and that 250 grams weekly would be adde meat ration, Surprise and cc GERMAN Tn AND U BOATS OFF BRAZILIAN COAST ‘waa Serious Outbreaks Mark Pub- lic Insistence on War With Germany. BUENOS AIRES, April 12.—Rumots of raiders and submarines were ft vived today in the report of the sink~ ing of ‘an Argentine sailing vessel off the Brazilian coast. Reports received here did not specify the vessel's name or whether she was sunk in a wreck, by a raider or by a submarine, The steamer Garonne, arriving to- day at Rio, reported sighting a Ger- man raider southbound off Monte- video, Serious outbreaks in Sao Paulo marked the continued public insis- tence on war with Germany to-day. The proponents of war attacked houses of German-born residents of Sao Paulo and reserves of police were called out, Reports received here early to-day asserted a number of citizens had been killed and wounded in resisting the guards, A break with Austria was moment- arily expected to-day. German Min- ister Paolis and his staff, with all German suls, will bo transported to Christiania on the steamer Rio de Janeiro, leaving here April 18, Be+ cording to formal announcement t6- day. pasenmene -eanelor DAMAGE TO THE NEW YORK. 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