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/ [ “ Circulation Books Open to 4 All.’ ONE CENT in Greater New York and Hudson County, N. J. TWO CLNTS cleewhere. Copyright, 191 Co. (Thi 7, by The Press Publishing ¢ New York World). NEW YORK, SATUR RDAY, SUNE 23, (1917. FOUR NILES OF TRENCHES FOR PERSHING MEN BETWEEN _ _ Location Virtually Agree Upon as Urged by the ‘ Visiting Mission. IN AN AUSTRIAN MUNITIONS PLANT |More Than 1,000 Victims, Ac- cording to an Announcement in Parliament at Vienna. SUPPLIES CONSIDERED.) Warning in Paris Not to D pend Too Much on Use of Aeros. WASHINGTON, Ju @an expeditionary French firing line may occupy a posi- tion between tho British and French Gector, It is estimated that the! American expedition at first will oc- 23.—Ameri- forces on the AMSTERDAM, June 23.—More than necessarily be placed in such a po tion as to insure an independent Ii e"eommantaton ent 0s TW MORE WOMEN PIGKETS supply THE BRITISH AND FRENCH 1,000 persons were killed or injured or| een French and Britis Cclorld. f “Circulation Books Open to » All. 10 PAGES WEATHER—Warm; showers to-night and to-morrow, FINALS a ee Bat ONE CENT tm Orrater New Tork nad Hudson County, N. J, TWO CENTS elsewhere PRICE 70,00 ALAN ~TALANMISION | INTHE STADIUM Many More Outside Join; in Wild Cheers for the Visitors. & ‘Twenty thousand persons were| crowded into the City College stadium | this morning, a forest of waving! green and red and white; and “4 many more gazed in from the side- walks, the rooftops and the rocks in| Morningside Pari, to tender greet- ings of welcome to the Italian Royal Commission, Fifty bands of music blared their welcome and the shouts |from thousands of throats at times silenced the music | It was a reception of which to be | proud, and the Prinoe,of Udine and his party showed their appreciation of |the outpouring. In the centre of the stadium a platform had been raised, with quarters for speakers, singers ly about four miles of are missing in consequence of an ex-| . oupy only al ‘ missing in consequen: | and special guests, as well as the trenches. nin munition factories in -Bloe-| members of the royal party, Italian | Ut has been reported u , according to an announcement| societies, gay in color, Joyful in on- British and French lines join near the Lower House of the A thusiasm, and headed by one or more bands, o ‘ched to the City College St. Quentin, one of the objectives ’arliament by the Minister of! é r ne quent Anne an F ment by ms hours before the scheduled arrival | of the Allied attacks. If the Ame Defen. s forwarded in a despatch | of the part jean troops are placed as above 2 bom cated they might be tir fam Vien pileane iy inal n was ae at 11 to enter St. Quentin when th The casualt were given by the bile He id every corner © the big German stronghold is taken.) | Minister as follows: Dead, 136, miss- . ith A ' w uy oes spied bigrte 10, , ront of the platform, wit d From official sour became sennnaad Of the wound- (2 p m, h its gold . ‘ and green, red and white background, known to-day that the h mis. sib a Aion to this c: mmend slight injuries. in which were the royal arms, 400 girls a sich 8 = rabing’s said the explosion|from twelve to fourteen years old , ’ was due to lack uf caution] Were seated. They came trom Bt, troops. she see ee eg, in ,, {Joseph's Church, dressed uniformly 4 In offictal quarters it was pointed! on the part of men emp Ne P ch, dressed uniformly in hat the American forces would 4 | the Italian colors, and made a beau- pat tha ¥ trench mortar workshop. | tieut picture. Behind them were the societies in their uniforms The Prince and his party reached |the college in automobiles, flanked Britt . | gla dasa dang ne ge would | ARRESTED AT WHITE HOUSE. with an escort from the army and| tors m fhe Anvarionn torcaa. yi navy, the National Guard and the map contusion in supply. | ye | police. They were escorted into the ate June H—-Walle Amerion 8] aie “Surprise Aitack.” Dut Ave | main tall, where: Mayor Michel aad talking about a vast fleet of aero-| MAKE se Alta Mee cldent Menea of the Cli Colle planes it should not fall to pay prop-| Promptly Taken In by bade them welcome. From there the er attention to the equally vital in-| Policewomen, | party marchd into the stadium. This fantry and artillery arms of offense,| .inGron, June 23.—Escaping| Was the moment for which the crowd tm the opinion of a high member of), jing of police outside of suffrage|had been waiting, ‘There had been Major Gen. Pershing's staff. headquarters to-day two militant] nolse before; now there was a tumult, After reading cables to French pa- |», 6 bor banner to the White| ‘The bands started to play all at one Bers on tho nation-wide agitation in| House gate 1 were promptly ar-|the pretty maids arose and America urging Congress to approve|rested by two policewomen. The pos] their little fla s went up inte huge aero fleet plans, he declared to-| lice characterized the affair as a “aur-| 16 yin; the musk owned, only While supremacy in the a im tae iat POR Ine vain of the Italian national alr perative, aeroplanes alone are not go men arrested were Mrs, Law-|amain a whisper of Star ing to win the war. T aro three] wis of Philadelphia, who was| gled Banner." From the rocks in the big elements—infantry, artillery previously attacked during the anti-] park and from the crowds just outside aviation, The three should be consid-| suffrage demonstrations th week, | the college grou ame an answer- ered in balanced co-ordination. One| and Miss Gladys Greiner of Baltimore.| ing storin of welcome arm is as important as the other. They were charged with violation of] ‘phe Prince and tho rest of the paca tisanie Readies bat, th nice regulations arain: nlawful | cy. on gased out on the scene assemblies obstructing traffic, ‘They “BIG FOUR” BOARD 10 RUN were permitted to depart, however, with} With smiles on trem Ips and the understanding that they will appear| moistened eyes. America had ‘been N SAI for trial, riotous in its greeting to th had sits v North Carolina, | t But this wonderful outburst Council of National Defense to Be} jow ni ‘the | fro™ F Landa Pa Bed | part of this wonder ountry, left | Reorganized to Meet . ial “| them without expression to respond. | This Plan. ‘i Police Pullin ‘ Florence Lagonars for the} : : ea") so pretty maidens in front of the WASHINGTON, June 23.—The Coun- | then ‘on suffrage | 400 pretty m Ha mM ff pe mis ae tae ell of National Defense “very shortly” | pick | and Hou || platform, presented Prin nana | will be reorganized on a four-ma ae ri with a bouquet of American Beauty as. This was stated n <> - which was as @ young by a member of the President's ¢ Two NEW YORKERS GET \tree, Seated in the grand stand was) bi Antonio Peruzzi, wearing a red shirt Plans call for one man to d WAR CROSS FOR HEROISM and a huge sombrero, His breast railroad and industrial work; anoth leat cxuaran ate 5 acto will be director in charge of purchase es aa Ithe Prince learned ee and dissemination of all raw mat | N . ete a third will be dire f purchase and] Three Other Americans Also Hon-|enty-seven years a the only i tint survivor in New York who fought dissemination of all finished ma als, ored by France for Remo’ | and the fourth will be chairman of a _ eMOV~ with Garibaldi he asked that the vet general purchasing board ing Wounded Soldiers eran be brought to him, and the The chairman ‘of the purchasing] paris, June 2%.—Gen, Dauvin to-| Prince shook hands with him | board will act as purchasing agent for . t . e Frances Alda of the Met- i Jay personally pinned the War Cross on Dr. ©. Briggs of Schenectady, N, Y,;|Tropolitan Opera Company, and H, Forbes and Sidney Brooks chorus, sang the “Star Spangled Gabinet members Boston, John Bridges and Norman Lee| Banner” and Mayor Mitchel and One of the biggest of,New Yorks aa t : satbonist oS | f ¥ All were decorated © “removin, ; pT | Wale of cont wounded under the, most’ periens one | (Continued on Second Page.) the ernment, umstances: The five Americans are | ssi members of the Norton Division of the Red Cross. basta for everybody the as Well as (For Racing Results See Page 2.) |Armed Freighter sig al capes Being Hit U Boat Torpedo. NOW SAFE IN HOME PORT Naval Gunners Fire Four Shots and at Least One Made a Hit. AN ATLANTIC PORT, J A fight between an American freight steamship and a German submarine which took place June 6, one day out from Genoa, Italy, and resulted in the navy gunners on the American vessel scoring at least one hit, was reported by the Captain of the steamer on his arrival here to-day. The Captain said the U boat sud-| denly appeared at a distance of about 500 yards anti with her appearance @ torpedo was launched. The torpedo's wake was clearly discernible and it | was possible to so manoeuvre the ves: sel that it missed the ship by about 20 feet. Fire was immediately opened on the U boat from a stern gun and four shots were discharged in rapid succession as the submarine sub- merge The second shot, the Captain said, struck the periscope, throwing it high into the air and the last shot fired hit the water in the exact spot where the U boat disappeared. ‘The American vessel suffered no damage. This is the second encounter re ported within two days in which an American ship successfully fended herself against a submarine attack, SINKING OF BOAT BY AMERIGAN STEAMER OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED Smoke and Bubbles on Says Report t Department June 23.—Contirma of de- Saw Blue Water Navy WASHINGTON tion of the sinking marine by the frmed American mi tioned in yesterday's despatches, w received to-day by the Navy Depa ment in @ report from Chief Boatswain 4 German sub gun hantman, nay crew tly the submarine w vadly damaged,” his says, “as nothing further was see of it." The report was made public by Sec retary Dantela immediately upon its receipt, After describing the unsu cessful attempt to torpedo the steame the report said “A periscope was sighted off the starboard beam and fire was imm diately commenced from the forward guns at about 2000 yards. The was headed toward the periscope, A shots were falling very close t | perisc “Suddenly a shot from the forward gun hit just in front of thy making the submarine @ light blue smoke stern of the aut came \ submarine appeared again at @ range of abou 600 yards, when a shot from the aft wun hit it squarely on the waterlin making small bite of steel fly and causing commotion of bubbles in tho water.” a Guilt for High food priows belongs to specue 1086 Tinton lator, says Hoover, win indore “the tremens dou Eanes THE PUBLIC BR DAMNED. Birand Theatre, com, To-morrow.—Aadvi. june 23.—| (MUST SEIZE ALL ‘COAL AND OIL SOON, Navy Secretary Tells | Senate Committee Almost simultaneously the House | ee mammal Passed unanimously a bill to permit |Crown Prince Again Fails {o| the Secretary of War to acquire land needed for coast defenses or army Dislodge French and Suf- | cantonmenta by lease or by condem- fers Big Losses. } Bation during the war. The Secretary of the Navy in- formed the Senate Committee that if the commandeering of coal and oll was not done negotiations must be | mans last night made repeated at-| entered into at once by the Govern- | ment to require the opening up of oll eke 1h a reate OF Werueilen Aaa 4. coal Gia Ha Aad THO: Suet |southeast of Filain, They also multl-(sioo1y must he regulated and the plied their efforts against the French | Government empowered to fix prices. where| “The Navy oll reserves must be saved,” he sald, “for the future which we cannot foresee,” time before Government must PARIS, June 28—Continuing their offensive on the Aisne front, the Ger- | positions north of Fro!dmont, To-day’s offl- jermans | | they fatled yesterday. \elal statement says the the the region preceding day—in wide the United States “in order to of Vauxailion on the one conserve our own,” ) southeast of Filain on the “If the war goes on for a year All these attacks were or two it would be absolutely repulsed and the enemy, whose vital that the oil in this country 1 were serious, gained no be materially increased becaus: advantage, the demand would be increasing- “The fighting was particularly ly greater,” he declared. “Oil ie spirited between Royere Farm the basle of conducting thie war. and Froldmont Farm, The ¢ " r- Everything depends on it. k- If Mexico were cut off as a source hev- lot supply, he declared, mans, who enlarged their atta ng front east of Epine de € the drain on regny, as far as to the north |this country would be tremendous. of Froldmont Farm, multiplied “Every acre of ofl land in America their efforts to capture these should be opened to the public be positions. helr attacking forces, fore we open our naval reserve broken up by our fire, were not Daniels said to approach our lines or While Daniels was testifying at ich from the salient pene- the Capitol, Pre Wilson calle 1 yesterday pe ally at the Federal Trade Com Othe efforts f the e ny, mission, presumably to discuss the f of Ci aliers de Courc and proposition by Daniels and Chairman e sector of Chambrettes, also Denman of the Shipping Board th. were repulsed the commission fix fuel and steel We penetrated the German | prices bass at several points and toc > prisoners.” INSULTS U. S. TO WRONG GIRL For nearly ek the Germans wa apparently been proparing for| Austrian Arrested Nemarks to _ DECLARES DANIELS commaudeer all oll and coal in the | . i re ithout|, With 200 off burning ships now made considerable sacrifices w |betng hurriedly built, Daniels ad- gaining the slightest advantage |mitted he did not know what Following is the text of to-day’s|the avilable ofl supply of War Office report: |the country 1s. He suggested | “The night was marked by vio- |% Government survey of all oll flelds to determine where fresh lent bo ‘dme pllo by « bombardment, followed by ® | wuoniies might originate, He sald! | new series of rman efforts | the Government wan going to got as ainst the points attacked OM | much of ita of as possible from out. COCCHI IN TEARS, CONFESSES — HE MURDERED RUTH CRUGER NAVAL GUNS ON UL S. HP SMASH THE PERISCOPE OF AN ATTACKING SUBMARINE so: tas SLAVER COMMITTED CRE AFTER STRUGGLE WITH VICTIM, DESCRIBES BURIAL OF BODY | 2a Prisoner Breaks Downas He Declares He Killed Girl for Rejecting. Love | —American Woman Gives Testi- | mony Before Italian Judge. EXTRADITION IS DOUBTFUL; PENALTY IN ITALY IS “LIFE” BOLOGNA, Italy, June 23,—Alfredo Cocchi, the fugitive New York motorcycle dealer, abandoned to-day his pretense of innocence of the murder of Ruth Cruger and confessed his guilt. The admissions of the young Italian, whose escape the New York police failed to prevent, were made in tears, after searching interrogation by Judge Zucconi broke down Cocchi’s reserve. Prior to this examination Cocchi had coolly and ‘insistently main- tained he had known Miss Cruger only two days before her disappearance in February, when she went to his shop to have her skates sharpened, and |had declared his conduct toward her was entirely correct. | Under Judge Zuceont's searching questions to-day, however, Coochi from his lips that the persons surrounding him belleved he was about to have an epileptic fit He was granted time to recover and then resumed the story of how the eighteen-year-old Wadleigh High School graduate met death at his hands in the building where her body was recently unearthed from the cellar. GIVES DETAILS OF BURIAL OF BODY. | After making up his mind to tell the truth, Cocchi talked freely and without reserve, gave full details of his crime, including the burial of Miss Cruger’s body. | After the confession had been completed, the Judge directed the Clerk to read to Cocchi the written report of his deposition. The prisoner said it | Was correct, and later signed it, On returning to his cell, Cocchi sald to | the prison attendants: “At last I feel relieved. tortured my conscience, penalty Zuceont questioned came 80 agitated as his confession fell haltingly I have freed myself from a nightmare which Now I have told everything, and I am ready to suffor any Judge an American woman, a relative of Miss ot giving testimony concerning the and the circumstances under which it was committed. not been ascertained, Cruger, who came here for the purpose motive for the crime, The name and address of this woman have Upon being further interrogated by the police, who were not satiefled Cocchi admitted that the He denied this previously that the had told them the ed by sion is now consid prisoner entire truth, murder had been His prece an assault ‘onfes ered to be compl Signor Venturini, Coechi's counsel, was permitted to see him later. id the complete story « To tho erime, this account being the lawyer Coccht to ar rful drive in the region where Red Crom Fs o neb forces in their groat of-| An insult to the Uni jt» | {dentical with the one he had previously given the authorities. encroached close to Laon, |* are ee ain ‘ oo Attorney Venturini to-day presented a petition to the court to refuse Tho fighting has been extending over vie K, Wahlig, a Red Cross worker, | the extradition of Cocch!. The Ministry of Foreign Affaire has been asked nearly elghteen miles on this front. ¢, @ department store Pas K f n a departm ¢ Pas Koksemin,! py the Court to ob he evidence against Coce > Three days ago the Germans began an Austrian, forty-two years old, living | ©” 2° Court to obtain the evidence against Cocch! through the Itallan Am- naking powerful drives at various at No, 199 De Kalb Avenue, shook his, bassador in Washington. p wh e French commanded fist in her face and cried: "You're no This is asked with reference to the article in the Italian penal code er ground ‘o-day, appar- |K00d; the United States is no good and hese scattered attacks have |'t# soldiers are rotten! | which provides for the trial here of any Italian subject committing abroad solidated into a co-ordinated = Ries 4 rae ie call Po-| a crime punishable in Italy with not less than three years’ imprisonment. & bi an rir tigi hag e rer yu ter ih’ BEGS TO BE SENT TO HOSPITAL. Berlin's Report ef ¢ Fighting ine eeaminetion Ge acne ba pecht had been steadily growing more ess in the close confine North of the Atene ‘ a ment under which he $s kept by the Itallan authorittes and this morning RLIN 3 (via IGN) omh:| socane wnee that r tot pouitian “mouth of ii J y zor as a é ed that he was 1 with a fever and asked to be sent to @ hospital, , t liciaehean’ and Ex-Mayor J. Ernest Thier of Mont.| Phe prison doctor could find no symptoms of sickness and his request was a » captured yesterday vale, now County Supervisor of Roads, | refused, His confession followed. n troops, Army Hedquar at Bergen County, N. J., to-day started Cocch! has shown great tnterest in what (ue newspapers are saying ‘ are taken Uh ee pare! Nees in R. M about him and has begged to be allowed to read the papers, This was — Saka ADA MGFer Cis toes . refused as against the prigon rules. ‘The prisoner {s not allowed to see Fear of Blindness Led Him to KIM When Sheriff John W te any one but bis jailer nt Him alt named Thier a member of Coech\'s family is reputable, and public opinion here leaned to a déliet ¢ seventy-seven years district exempttc ed his life by inhaling gas tor capistration the in his innocence, His father and brother both expressed implicit cont jay @ home of his son-in-law, Ne ace using priler of dence in hia innocence on the strength of the story he told them long Avenue, the Bronx. Fear ee woe were before his arrest : resolution were sent that he was going blind ts believed to the Sheriff and legisiatiy have prompted his act, His first story w that he left New York as a r ult of the jealousy