The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1917, Page 1

Che Circulation Books Books Open to All.” | to Al.” t 1827) by The Frese Fv (The New York World), P RICE pe NE CENT tn Greater New York and judson County, N. 3. TWO CENTS elsewhere. INS BY ITALIANS ON ROAD TO TRIESTE “Circulation Books Open to All. Ad 12 P = a E 8 ae ae sis Weather—Fair; probably rain to-night and to-morrow, PRICE { ONE CENT tn Greater Now York and | Medsom County, ¥. 3. TWO CENTS elowwhere, MILLIONAIRES AND-CLERKS WAR Ako aUTOS PATROL STREETS OF eiry ‘1 RELIEVING POLIGE REGULARS. pine ns Increased Surtaxes on ‘In- H : comes Above 6,000 Leite of Home be: DAREDEVIL AUTOISTS fense League Replace Men FOR GEN. PEI PERSHING’S ARMY! $40,000, | | Taking Examination. | | blow was struck to-day by the Sen- , | Middleton, Sieanign, Linthicum | at Finance Committee at the at- { RICH BRC IKE RSC ON DUTY. | ind Brain Are the Drivers |tempt of the House of Representatives | —— | Selected. to impose excessive and burdensome Stock pechace Members | HINGTON, May 26.~Four of | War taxes Oh Alperigae BuuGlena: hk Guard Lower Part of Ci America’s “dare devil” auto drivers|entire section of the revenue bill, as » been picked to pilot the huge that Major Gen. Pershing and will control on the western | passed by the House, {mposing a tax Including Financial District. automobiles This ac- on sales of of 5,per cent. and tires was stricken out. The Home Defense League got its| first taste of real police work to-day | net © Pay Midleton, sales | ton was taken because the anager of the Detroit Ste nd tee, under lead of Chairman when 6,000 members went on pi jucts Company; John J, Jennings, 8, has set Itself against the and station house reserve | sales mana Detrott banking | principle of taxing the doing of bust- take the places oF 9 pat m; Ge "i clot vents foal PA act of a Det vut 88, the Police Department who fe y ee kal Taatanaocn sh nt ie detered for the civil servic ai rake | tax on motor cars the tion for the pos Army al / nmittec if e nd Ce I h 1 »p of a has ‘ety < « mpany ¢ license tax $1 or $ noon Pe ¢ Amt and All the H I ficers will have their ow? m ; members on duty to-day volunteered charge of the forces and all hithelenuntes eir services s far as fp ble th tters connecte with A & their servic ° Uarters in France, tax industry in were assicned to posts ur — > —~ manner wou 1 i hav th ¢ home result of checking t ume of bust Th the financiat district » JAPANESE WARSHIPS SAVED ness and dry up both the sources of e lea ‘ Wa Broad recta with 2,800 FROM TRANSYLVANIA Me acest SE ree a ror nelr ow i rer Ky : Wee gree th t and laid down ine : ick. ‘the | Were Escorting British Transport in | t reault in ex Wague men dist re Mediterranean and Engaged imposts on gross omoly mas be Boat at Sank Her business tion a € | ed on “— ritory from I B TOKIO, May 26.—An ar ld abot 4 by the Admiralty te : mer heee tery and fr Ea 1 x aikeaty aie sales, The new form of graduated tax River. . POneeSE | wh he Senate Com { Among those ir st oon ania, which was torpedoed € bet t wilt ne Be ¥ My Lae ay were t following M ar a May 4, was being 4 But = 7 ut in d away with Stock Exchange: It H. Ha a by anoge sestroys . z taxes on h Sen Hamilton Fish Benjamin, C, 1. Wil ORCS LHe SONDR utors expect to see in sper cox, C. FF. Watson, John J € According to the announceme t pee ter a indust Kelly, H. V. Day, Walter C. Tay rescued 2,600 out of ov h will result in increased returns Le Grande Ber and FE M. Dr Nida the Transylvania, wir ; : the Go ton Japan's allies b; Cotton on pi George praises of unt of thi | { | P. Morgan an of bs cle < | c y iffe o OLWee he ve if c ieeib w salt mage Li comrades on the ¢ c t the} ee Uren cess" GHD BURNED TO DEATH ci | Senate Ce rittee affe x did not give the | a Atay fd not give the) picture theatres, Tickets of admis ranks and | sion costing ten cent is will not crew lost their! be taxed. The He assessed be them one cent tax for in pr The tax w rd all kinds of amuse t sting more ALONE IN APARTMENT p large Income Sh er the House Kaxious for promotion attracted jal | ¢ ks . ee cnee ever anevrs A ™/ Aunt Leaves Little Girl to Go to} graduated sea ® Petition for a vil service 1 t uy: 4 ; : cf There was an examination on re and ims to Find | a $4 ups Je eg mec rmch 41809 House in Flames, Jadopted i ye an but {t was invalidated h In a fire w stroyed the en- | Means ( t tored. In Mayor on recommendation of the P royed 2 } ' er 2 epaatine ead ¢ pe 1 $4 lice Commissioner w " 1 , tN One Hundred mes, as H i 1 that many of the patrol \ j ! 1 I “ae | 1@ Bronx, |t enate mak upertax ra tained advance copie ; . : a hie He asked in the exam a Kolb D : The examination began y yme : : ® and continues until 6.30 k t 6 ed in an am The radica the H \ evening, when all cand t t w to LAncoln Hos eis 1. t th res turn in thelr paper 4,859 found y Waye Lig W trotmen listed for examinat wor aua on the floor of the ay planned, excused at 11.30 o'cl At that hour! \ * on nat somea of on , 3,019 members of Home D ly ri tt . gh bg ‘ H Th € ' 6 . Dp ix Bran 1 1, | Com . , ho! 1 : 0 d members wer wo ye , of patrol e la nl r Ho'cloc » ¢ x wid fp 4 y 4 o'clock 1 i Had he} ary t from 3.30 o'clock until 8 \ ie Al ped \ night, when the regular Im Mrs. I wage went ou A A EL a leective ia oa eas ‘will resume their posts. irevu ie Upoee oare OF ‘ 1-8 per] —Ee par ent in flames, Th cent. ur ncomes x 1916 ad en succeeded in keeping the fir < t elimi i ¢ (Réolng Results on Page 2.) top floor Finance | roving | TTALIANS SWEEPING ON: TAKE 3. SOOMORE AUSTRIANS: "BEAT BACK COUNTER ATTACKS | ene Masters of Vast System Trenches Built to Bar Way to Trieste. ly, S. DESTROYER SMASHES oO No. 9 Becomes Unmanageable, Runs Onto One Ledge, Backs Off and Hits Another. United States torpedo destroyer No, 9, bound from the ROME, May five hundred prisoners 26.—Three thousand and further progress in the Carso front fighting was announced ag the latest achlove ments of the Italian offens!: official War Office report this after vo in th y Yard to Long sland Sound, became unmanageable noon, Much material was also cap | while passing through a narrow pas tured. ) s suge in Hell Gate, just off Astoria, ‘The 3,500 prisoners were fn addILON wore artor 41 etelock toca 1 t@ the 10,245 reported yesterday as Bhi bhoirtablbn-thize Ate hiiving been made on the two previous| W4¥ Swept by the swift current onto Jaya, The statement says the num-|# rocky ledge. After about ten min ber of privoners taken on the Julian! Utes, No. 9 was backed off by her front from May 14 up to yeaterday|©Wn power and an anchor run out ke jbut not quickly enough to keep the | ‘The Italians made import g-|eraft from smashing up t ane | ress in the coastal region i er ledge and denting some of her} a Gt) Tiefeute, oe plates on the board side, forward uth r Rey f nishap sent te on the Guif Trieste, to] Hart Preein 4, One Hundred Jamiano, and also th Thirty-fifth Stre and Park Ave Flondar and M nue, b Spe 1 Policeman Hust luty Hell Gat ridge The oast of B alo, the regi r ance of the war wh ad stagna Nor Tiv ar t ne imp en ed oft € | Italian tr "8 to-day stood vic wa into t and ou r c wo ou masters of the vast and com It eved the steering | plicated system of fortifications which Kear beea urily disabled as| Aus n have been construct the was Pp K under Hell Gate all winter long to bar the way to| 1 —— nd Latbach eee mere [GERMAN ARTILLERY FIRE achieved by his tr ing Jexposed directly to shelifire at ad romans | vanced observation posts, His H ports Improvements nee has fired bis troops to the utmost| Position of His Troops on zeal i Despatches from the front to-day! Bank of the Sc told of repulse furious cour INDON, 3 Increa . jattacks by both wings of the Italla tot tha Clana amata front. They were continuing almo' : | with staccato-like insistence, and the | 4° Uritish eset fighting was intense jand Groisilies | s | Northern Fran ave |FRENCH TROOPS GAIN fected w slight fmprovement in thelr | ON CHAMPAGNE FRONT : Paris War Office Also Announce ean peso Repulse of Two Counter We our 1 ns Attack ‘ right bank of t | PARIS, May de RSG Ng Th , ry haw whe Champagne front during ‘ BORE FEOF | Following is the repo: War Office “On the Chemin-des-Dames CITY SHUTS DOWN ONE HOUR FOR LIBERTY BOND SALE ed great a f Jouy d All our 5 field t 1 Pittstie | upprecia 1 i FE M ‘ ' y W total of I ( I \ W \ F found that § 1 fa terd | 1 | juarter = | President Has First Day of Rest $)F W in Weeks, T, Redg t ; t WASHINGTON, Ma n Cor Reaft ‘| Ere rowded with exe ; Pitianaid’ Presi leon rested to-day he had AGAINST HELL GATE ROCKS. ‘GERMANY’S FOOD SUPPLIES TO LAST + UNTIL THE HARVEST Star-| Bh nhs That Eat on May Force Kaiser _ Seek Peace. By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, the Allies that the resistance of the tentral Powers, particularly Ger- many, would be weakened by scarcity | of food this spring have completely vanished. Reports indicate that the Teutons have succeeded tn passing the lowest bb ct their oupplies and are from various sources now which will tide them over until wheat and potato crops are harvested. | The American Department of Btate, Administrator Hoover, and Frederick Penfield, returning Am Austria, all contribute In effect the nent , according to Ame tely reached Sv many, ny n je © to t Depa erland from ( tlon wit 1 Ge Improve ring vegetables have becom From present ations, to thene vers, the yuntry will be able id out until rellef la brought by the next harvest Mr, Penfield reported to the Pre dent that w there | naiderable | deprivation the Dual Monarchy here !# no starvation and the morale | of the populace rema steady SAYS TEUTON POWERS HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF FOOD, Mr. Hoover told the Senate Com mittee on Agriculture that in certain | ta the Allios in Europo were | reepe as well off for food supply aa the Central Pow 1, France May 26.—Hopes of | oeginolng to ébtain early vegetables | food situa. 50 WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE KILLED AND 62 INJURED IN GREATEST OF AIR RAIDS Sixteen German Airships Drop Bombs Three of Them Shot Down by British Aviators. DOVER AND FOLKESTONE HIT, SAYS BERLIN REPORT LONDON, May 26.—Death-dealing German attacks by sixtee: enemy aircraft, resulting in the killing and injuring of scores of women and children, and followed by battles in the clouds between British and airplanes last evening, marked enemy 1¢ bloodiest Teutonic aerial at | tack on England since the war's opening. Details were revealed to-day ir and Home Defense statements. 1alty list was ofticially fixed at seventy-six killed and 174 in jured; twenty-seven women and twenty-three children among the deac jand forty ¢ women and nineteen children among the injured, (British official reports do not locate the place of the raid, but 1y nearly all the damage was done in one town, Berlin's official report bombs w ya naval base of gr Folkeste sa dropped on Dover and Folkestone. t Importance. Dover It has a population of 45,000. five miles southeast of Dover and has 35,000 popula- 4 principal point of departure from England to the ne | Iti Continent.) Royal Flying hines ar winged their way across England. H Royal Naval Air Service planes at Dunkirk, called into action im mediately, battle array above the Channel, | thrilling enc 5 occurred on. Corps mac ¢ to battle with the invaders as they wung into Here a series of ‘ounter rs. Eng! —————_—_ # Ono British machine gave battle to and Italy—particularly England—are | BOMBS WERE DROPPED three of the enemy craft—and shot Jopendent for food to a csoniderable | ne of them down. The two sped o ext the e end of the | ON STREETS CROWDED W eo raiders to encounte Atlantic lane infested by sulmarine 1 naval planes over the Belgian 144, she has securely | a noeuvred and foug Before One-third Se p ation © pester es | emy forces could escape, twe many, #0 Hoover to! commit : ; win-engine — lee & the brunt of the|Air Raiders Flew Directly Ove a | neengine iilatamia abe sie | to the groun ‘ na have planter Aad ( as Work Hours | ie entag Sess ea cars the well-to-do classes are able to fe made b; ld Marshal V t buy what they need at high prices Ended Sree ere Sena Nib Thus it becomes evident that mill-| A TOWN ON THE SOUTHEAST Oh las ‘ , tary t alone must be relied upon |COAST OF ENGLAND (via Le ‘A large equadron of many atr for the next six or nine months to r aie een =~ attacked | jdon), May 26—The most ambitious! Southeast England betw eu many, Just how far int as SO ween 6.16 rip actin weil) /A! e raid yet undertaken by 1 6.80 o'clock lust evening. » I od depends on Great . ‘ed be wer ped at a num- et a tha oa | of s, but nearly all th | printing ne ER apap r of 5 y all the pst Meee , damage occurred in one town, predicted ¢ f pope D ers, prome where some bombs fell into the 1 and of |4nd wor ning to t streets, causing co Dle cas wbor to a ps wi The 1 sree x er | ualties among civil popula n dec even Pita suiharinasaced | Some shops and house na ‘3 » were gertously dan a, " f we t rre verte The total cagualitie, 4 te re wix %.| yby the police from gene 1 under | y lidren, and infu 6; Inj favor r ances, th ‘ , wore we nteal Powers « ’ od ae we . 43 women . 4 uppl 7 € I and hildren wer njured. : y bd . A anes of the Royal FI HOR w went pursuit and the slg i ng aireraft were engaged by a 4 Me fn ing squadrons of the Re ' er 4c s Alr Service from Dunkirk 4 we t t t b Britiah a es Channel anc National Guard Has Now 180,000 . ff the I 5 nin the Members 1 t ’ Britis ’ : , 5 t t BeCARE Naval airplanes atiacked the ee at , ! s.| Alrdrome of &t. Deniswestern, | . 1 T %, w « zo sizo,| near Bruges, yesterday morning ‘ La i a ap ] ishat plete “ee i ir « miny bombs. “yi ek Me 40 ex shops w hey struck In the evening, several enemy on Southeast Coast of England—