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onner | Bede « twee a PRICE — oe New Sor Two CEST |* Gireulatlom Books Open to All.” | nmiet, 800%, te The Press Pubtteting re World NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1917 —_——- Cire ulation Books Open 16 PAGES MBARD ZEEBRUGGE WestherPrebablie Showers Te Night and Te Merrow 3 = | EDITION } to All.’ ON CONT Om Oe Modem County, Sd PRICE TWO CENTS ceewhenm 41,000 TEUTONS CAPTURED THIS WEEK ee eee U. S. FLYERS IN GREAT AIR BATTLE AMERICAN FLYERS FIGHTING GREATEST OF ALL BATTLES WESTERN FRONT Daily MORE AMERICANS WIN | NOW ON Cafayette Squadron Gains New Honors and Makes New Scores. CROSS FOR NEW YORKER. Another From This City Has Just Brought Down His First German Plane. WITH THE LAFAYETTE 8QUAD- RON IN FRANCE, Aug. 28.—As the Jand fighting to-day on the western pat ts the greatest cf all |. “Jes on the earth, so are mansed yyrib’ Srht~ ing forces on both sides fighting the GTeatest of all batties of the skies. In the thick of it is the Lafayette Squadron of American flyers. They are around Verdun. Here at their head- quarters to-day it was declared the equadron had never before in its his tory experienced such flerce fighting or fying, German aviators around Verdun are thick, They are vigorously aggressive, Germany has concentrated an unpre- oedented number of anti-aircraft guns. Her gunners are infinitely more ac- ourate than ever before. (Nevertheless the Lafayetters are @aily gaining new honors and making new scores, The flyers make several patrol trips dally over the entire Ver- Gun front and likewise participate in been rounding up doctors and druggists bombing raids far behind the German engaged tn the business of supplying | Mnes. The Americans’ planes in addition, a quantity of small bombs for hand throwing. EXPLOSIVE BULLETS NOW USED BY THE GERMANS. Flyers to-day expressed the utmost | St ~ LINER DEVONIAN “SUNK BY U BOAT: - DOUBT ASTO GREW of 10,345-Ton Vessel—Prob- |John GQ. Center, ably on Way to U. S. The Ley! nian, which left an Atlantic Aug: and THE FRENCH WAR GROSS """""” iner Dev; on July 28, has been sunk, pre- Two of Them Drove Ambulances | Through Barrage of Gas Shells, Aug. 23.—The French War been awarded to the follow- ing members of the Ameri sumablly by a German submarine om the report rs of the line to-day confirmed but stated that they had received no word as to the safety of the crew. n Ambulance Haas On her last trip to @ foreign port eld Service: Section 7—Byiney Fairbanks, Cam-| tte Devonian carried a crew of sixty bridge, Mags.; John Owen, London;| “Nd there were sixty-five American Records at the Consulate here showed t horse tenders aboard. British there weet’) Americans in the crew. Thé Devofiian, long in the Boston- Langford Allen, Little Compton, R. 1. Section 6—=H. P. New York; at ‘arso! Bols, France; Vevigewn, Querec; G. BE. G. Leslie Tome, St. } | | have | cocaine, been re-equipped with bomb-drop-! snittid their operations to the east side pers for big misalies and they carry, toaay and arrested Samuel Welss, who | Louls; R. A. Drake, Franklin, N. H. Mr. ‘Toms and Mr. Drake won thelr Liverpool service, was the first ship sailing out of this port to arm her- crosses for driving through a barra of . kas shells, self against submarines, Ca’ ad- ‘The condition of Price McQuillan, Who yjces from Jand to the company lost a leg @ fortnight ago, and of W. 8. here did not indicate whether the Stetterlein, who received seven shot Devonian had departed for thin side, ree se fi pebabls ae eh lace although {it was assumed that she hey are being removed to t lake | oe i Hospital in Baca was on a westbound voyage when _—_—— eae sunk, | She was of 10,345 tons, built at DOCTOR, DRUGGIST AND 14 | sscitast “tn 1900 aod reginterea at was 652 feet long by beam. Liverpool, fifty-nine She DRUG USERS SEIZED IN RAID The Leyland line ts one of the as- 5 ities S amy, {Soclated companies tn the Interna- Federal Authorities Shift Opera- Neeki Lisronntiloiadacit tions to East. Side—Physician a Throws Away Roll of $100. The 'M’MILLAN PARTY ON WAY HOME ABOARD NEPTUNE Federal authorities who have morphine and heroin to addicts | Relief Ship May Land Arctic Ex- | plorers at St. Johns conducts @ drug store at No. 149 Sec-| Sature ond Avenue, and Dr, Maurice Irving} Donald BR, MeMiilan's ba age hye Meltze ho has on office No. 28 pellet ehip Neptune, aoc Mark's Place. Fourteen drug users a wireless message recelved indignation against the German air-| were also rounded up! and are held as|to-jay by the American Museum of mens’ newest atrocity—using exclU- | wisnogses, |watural History, ‘Tho wireless, algned sively in their machine guns—explo- ; Sy Mantinan, Bald sive and incendiary bullets, It We charged that Dr. Meltser made|"”,.. 1 weil, Every one and everything Corpl. Stephen Bigelow of Boston |* uUsiness of writing prescriptions fF! on board, Disco tn July, was recently lightly wounded by one | Us beret le Be, Laaadeesceal ad very heavy lle Bay. Capt. rt were je y els: pecta’ Bent! Bob did fine job.” Of these explosive pellets during ®lvancey of the’ Treasury Department, It was 5 Me ym the Neptune, off the srala far to the rear of the enemy | with @ squad of detectves, invaded| coast of Labrador. The ship may reach Nines. | Wotss's place @ 2.40 o'clock, and at the|a. gonn's by Saturday. Comrades of Sergt. Harold Willis |same moment United States Marshal]” y9 Ne ptune was nanded by of Boston, oMclally reported missing | McCarthy and another squad descended) Gert jonert Lartlett, formerly @ meme and believed a prisoner of the enemy, jon Dr. Meltzer. } Mer cote: Gears expeditions (tt tena edd to-day his machine was seen to}, TWO men who had just pald Welss) cian and his men at Etah, Green- fall after © German shell struck it, | 727 STUY Reeterped OY Meter Were [tand, where they had been marooned Feached the ground, however, it|\Marehal McCarthy entered Moltzers | Previous unsuccessful effort to rescue righted and made a perféct landing. | office he found two men thre who | ©Millan's party, and later made @ long From this Willis's friends deduce he|had just received pracriptions, Melt- | lege trip from Disco, reaching Copen- was only slightly wounded. Immediately after the incident Bergt. Edwin C. Parsons of Spring- field, Mass., flew over aviation camps, dropping messages asking for news of his comrade, All German airmen since captured have Deon questioned as to Willis's fat No éefinite word has yet been ob- tained. One satisfaction here is that during the very raid in which Willis was presumably captured Corpl, Wal- ter Lovell of Concord, Mass,, avenged im by bringing down a German plane in flames, ‘Willis has just been recommende for promotion to a leutenancy, the German He) was ranked as one of the very best| fn the squadron, NEW YORKER GETS WAR CROSS! FOR BRAVERY. Gergt, Andrew C, Campbell of Chi- cago and Sergt. JY P, Doolittle of New York have both beon awarded the French war cross for bravery. Corpl, William B, Dugan of South Orangp, N, Jy, has been granted three (Continued on Beoond Page.) zer ran into another room when he hagen. aw Marshal McCarthy and threw ern ee away a roll of more than $100, | OVES PRICES The detectives who worked up ine | HOOVER APPR Welse-Meltzer case say that Meltzer ivotd two hours in the morning and urs in the evening to legitimate practice and reserved his after for writing perseriptions for drug users, | FIXED FOR SUGAR FUTURES ons Committee of F Liquidate ¢ Local & ts on the oe POLISH REGIMENT The maximum prices fixed by @ com- Appolnted to; | that the vessel was lost, | | Hearst as a contestant “TAM FOR JUDGE HYLAN,” SAYS MURPHY, BUT HE WILL _— IF NOMINATED BERLIN TO CHANGE. POLICY 10 ARREST NEUTRAL DEFECTION Principle of Right as Well as Might Urged by New “Tammany Will Support Choice of the Democratic Primary,” Say WILSON SEES GOMPERS Leader. | hop Leader Save » Had Charles F. Murphy appeared at Labor Leader Say That He Ha Tammany Hall to-day for the first Laid Just Grievances Before time since the organization revealed | the President. to @ more or leas astonished public Judge John F. Hylan as the D WASHINGTON, Aug The gene ral strike situation throughout the ¢ mo try was discussed to-day at a confer cratic candidate for Mayor, Charles|ence between President Wilaoa and | L. Cralg as the candidate for Comp-| President Gompers of the Americar Federation of Labor, M troller and David H, Knott as the ndidate for Sheriff. Mr. Murphy has been resting at his estate in Good | anc, Ground, L, 1. had been assured that On his arrival at the Wigwanme labor would be cared for was asked to state his position in Some time ago Mr. respect to the filing of an independent credited with petition designating William pinion that in) a representation in ha martes for the Mayoralty, after Judge WS! I"! Hylan had been officially designate as the Democratic fusion candida‘e. | am for Hylan,” said Mr. Mur- | that he hi defo ‘s just griev the rights of Gompers expressed had a bette: having unless labor ‘i Fr problems t ut the no-strike pri made not might PRESIDENT GREETS. ected, phy. “The organization is for Hylan. There is only one candi- date.” This means that Judge Hylan wii!) get the organization support in the primar! f he sticks. “If Mr. Hearst snould enter the| primaries and beat Judge Hylan for the nomination would you be Hearst?" was the next question the Two Natic Ishii Replies WASHID for} pu TON, Aux, 23 | ON STRIKE TROUBLES Gompors de- clined to discuss it further than to say evident and that he of the xinning of hostilities MISSION FROM JAPAN: |Hopes for Closer Union Between] President | Foreign Secretary. AMSTPRDAM 28.—"A_ policy and Aur based on might alone not on ed to failure from the interesting ad- Richard Imperial [right ts do was the Dr. beginning,” mins! made by von Kuehimann, German For- . eign Secretary, In his maiden speech to the Main Committee of the Reichs- | tag yesterday. ,| ‘The new Secretary, according to a telegram from Berlin, dwelt on the tremendous reaponaibility in assum- ing-office “when the country Is baset {by the mightiest of enemies without and grave diMculties within Dr., Yon Kuhimann lald down the followthg programme: the mainton- ance of cordial relations with the Allies and with the neutrals, “whoso rights and necessary conditions uf ax- wo shall be most careful to intence THIRTY GERMAN’ ATTACKS ~ DRIVEN BACK NEAR LENS: TALANS MAKE BIG GAINS ———_<4— London Announces Officially the Capture of 25,000 Prisoners in Three Days—Italians HaveTaken 16,000 Austrians in Same Time. | | | AMSTERDAM, Aug. 23.—British warships last evening bombarded the German submarine base at the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, according to the frontier correspondent of the Telegraaf. LONDON Aug. 23.—The important submarine base of Zee. brugge and other military objectives in Belgium were attacked yesterday, by British airmen, the Admiralty announces: ” “A bombing raid was made by naval alrcraft Wednesday morning on the Zeebrugge Mole, shipping and batteries,” the statement says. Some hits were obtained. The Ghistelles Airdrome also was bombed. There were explosions near the western shed and a fire was started. All respect as f enemy tricke ocd.” “To arrest further defection of im- portant neutrals Js an extremely serl- ous and important task confronting us," said Dr. Kuehimann, “We can only solve it successfully by observ ing the principle that In polities might edunts, but also right, and that {only if we base our conduct on both we hope to achie r as is compatible with y and our own milltary lasting re- to the Tammany leader. | Wilson formally welcomed the Japanese |wiuieg, Burthermore, we atill have re- “ nly,” {aston to the United States when he ‘ rhe ett ie pe cal Visemunee toni head) oF the | tlons with the belligerents, although, infssion, with Ambassador Bato, Both{of course, oMctal relations are rup- the choice of the Democratic Par- were accompanied to the White House |tured, yet currents of public opinion ty as expressed in the prima: by Secretary Lansing and the Prest-|waft across the border line of the Mr, Murphy said he knew nothing | dent received them In atate whatever about the tntentions of Mr.|by military and naval aldes Hearst as to running tn the primaries. | 1 terms the Preal When asked if he thought Judge | dent welcomed Japan's Mission b In warm and cord! Hylan would draw out beturo the |* mossaxe of cloner friendship and ¢ primary election Mr. Murphy ans. |2P*ration between the two nations, and era) In appropriate language Viscount Ishi ; replied “Judge Hylan is the man to p: that question to, Personally I do not delleve ho will withdraw.” ARMY OF LEADERS GREET MURPHY AT THE WIGWAM, All the prominent district leaders, most of the minor leaders and a sr army of district politicians would-be officeholders gathered the Wigwam to groot tho boss. was no outward‘ signs of Tho army and navy fon then called and Dante members of t ‘CAN'T MINE GOAL AND at re evolt ® | against the candidacy of Judgo| Protest Against Price Fixed Hylan, Mr. Murphy refused to com by Wilson, ment on tho resignation of Thomas! sorngpowN, Pa, Aug. 2t—"We B. Rush, leader of the Twenty-ninth | cannot mine coal uni eell it f Assembly District from the Tamman. tt eoalaniaimoen. ian Executive Committee. 1co st, 1 will not sell one p L. J. O'Reilly, Mr, Hears 1 at the and if the Gov foal secretary, said this n wants our mines they are we that he has not heard from the pub Jeclared J.C, Forsythe of Usher about the petition fied in his President of the Central I behalf, Mr, Hearst ts in Ban Fran Operators’ Aasociati a claco and was at his newspaper off! in that city to-day ton hee rif Mr. Hearst will have to take # ent, action shortly if he wants to get aha H 4 of the primary fight. He has u midnight Aug. 31 to file his dectina ee teas ins tion, and he can't send it by wire therefore, if he desires to hi WASHINGTON, President will have to send his message by Wilson to-day James T frdm San Francisco, If he wants t n, rela, mnie surrounded ng navy. «| statement that the Government would Secretaries | SELL IT FOR $2 A TON |Central Pennsylvania Operators to trenches.” Dr. von Kuehimann concluded with an appeal for trust in the army and ;| The Liberal press at Berlin points ; out as a significant feature of Tues day's session Chancellor Michaelin's }not take final action on the Papal peace note without consulting and ad- vising with the committee, This ts being received as a pledge that the Government henceforth intends to |collaborate with the Reichstag fac- tions in dealing with the chief prob- lems of the Nation's foreign policy, jand that tt would continue to work in harmony with the committee in the direction of achieving peace of reconciliation and mutual under- standing, While the Chancellor's informal »| Statements and apecitic reference tc |the peace note are in keeping with tations, it is not unlikely that the Vatican's message will prove the basis of an extended debate on war lens during the committee's present sitting, at which the issues of Par- Namentary reform are equally cer ain to be discussed, The German ond Pan view the ken mus offering ar ultra-Conservative press continue note with plain and warn againat ichstag coalition parties »pportunity to influence the Govern ment’s attitude. a ee Piclons |mittee of the New York Coffee and} stay in, all he has to do 1s to let the of Patents; Willlam 1, Frierson UITS TEUTON Fe eee inn fettigmes ea BeAr at atl DO BM ; hattancows, ‘Tenns to bo Arsistant BROOKLYN MAN WAR VICTIM. bl a rea petition stand and say nothing re ‘ ant z —_—— jugar future contracts, | he Ee.| Judge Hylan struck back at Mayor | Attorney General, vice Artin UD- | peter BE, Jennings, With Canadians, Officers and Men Resign i ling prices of Aug y the Ex. Z : wood, resigned; Arthur H. Lea icers and Men Resign in a Body, | (nares usr trading, have| Mitchel to-day and accused th eatin Kin Says Report From C. Hoover,| Mayor’s friends of trying te ob as el and Brig. Ger Peter B, Jean ne nt Copenhag jit i | seure loce Issues tr mu siand, Adjutant Ger t e Brook yn, haw a 8 Sopenhagen, | Ja 4.98 nicipal campaign by rai Fe be Brigadier « “ in France with « a. COPENGAGEN, Aug. 4.80; pApril, 4.82 . i ational Ariny. In the headquarters at Ottawa, Canada JEN, Aug. 23.—The oMcers apr + of patriotis: e Jude: ed ey shen ha snlalaa he cave thi name and men of the First Regiment of the aan not want the #v; port of anybody \ Last Two Days of Big Sale, 8 8ex! flend a* Buxene Woods, Nu Polish Legion has resigned in a body. | Novem 38, |does not hold that the interests of | gig Men's and Youny Men's Suite séips, (292. D8 Graw Street, Brookly The commander has published an order| Settlement. w be allowed over, this country are the supreme cons The "HUB" Clothing Corner, Broad The Canadian army accepting the resignations these prices, but may be transacted be-|@ration in the war and stated that |" 7 Bt. (Opp. Woolworth |the Brooklyn police to The regiment will be placed at the low Any person questioning his patric c $10 & 812 Men's & Young Oe Ree ee & isposition of the Austrian military au-| The following permanent committee !8 in for an interesting session a nor Pinch-Hacks, blues, et addres thorities, for the liquidation of contr: has! Instead of calling tn the reporters | blacks, bialds, browng, wrays and fancy e, Capt, ¢ > Ibeon' appointed: A. Schierenberg, , w, @2d submitting himeelf to a cag [itd Mis weniline Palm Beach Bulte Branch Detective Bureau Hopkins: Henry Schaefer. Wiliam Bane — — Friday, $8.08 96.95. Hub Clothiers, ton for relatives or friends of the dead (For Racing Results See Page 2.) Max Mayer. (Cont Jon Sixth Page.) Broadway rner Barclay Street—Ad moldier, the machines returned.” “In the last three days the Entente Allies on the western front have taken 25,000 prisoners and since July 34 they have taken 32,500 prison. ers,” said Major Gen. Frederick B, Maurice, Chief Director of the War Intelligence Office. ———$— 2 RUSSIANS FALL BACK ON THE RIGA FRONT am confident,” he continued, ‘that before the end of August we will have topped the figure of 40,000 which the rmans claim to have jtaken in a month on the Ruastan Petrograd Says Withdrawal Fol. | fats although their total undoubt- ) y In componed, by at least half, of lowed an Intense Bombard- mere stragglers from the mutinous ment by Germans, PETROGRAD, Aug. &&—Tae Russ! forces on the northern en@ of the Ru and disorganized Russian unit [A despatch from Rome says it is offically reported that Italian forces have captured 16,860 Aus- in sian front, where the Germans have| trina in thelr sweeping advance begun an offensive, have retired un-| of the last three days. Of these der pressure from the region of Rag- 350 were officers. This would kedem and Kemmern to the Lako| bring the total number of pris- Shloyirn and Frankendorf region. oners taken by the Allies thie state The oMetat ent issued to-day by the Russian War Department, an- nouncing this withdrawal, saya that the German artillery conducted an intense fire in this sector, BERLIN, Aug. week to more than 41,000, London places the number of Germans 4nd Austrians killed and wound- ed at 100,000.) Discussing the attuation on the British front in France and Belgtum 23 (via London). German forces yesterday occupled| Gen. Maurice said: without fighting the Ruslan posl-| “We still are in the midst of a tions west of the River Aa to the| battle, Battles nowadays last two or Oding-Gigaun line, on the Riga front, | three months instead of a day or ewe according to the official announce- | 4# In the old times, Trying te pre ment made to-day by the German| dict the result trom the aobleve- War Department. |ments thus far ts ike judging the <> | battle of Waterloo fron the situation that existed at 10 o'clock in the morn- THIRD “RAINBOW” FORCE ing. Whon we get to 4 o'clock in Flande e ‘ob: MAY BE FROM NORTHWEST s:sss’ wo "sco ineiy we obtaue' decisive victory." Beat National Guard Troops That Were! canadiane to Train at Palo Alto, Cal. ¢ Shifted to North Carolina, Back rhe} Gain at Lenn, WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN Thirty At- THE FIELD, Aug. 23.—A tew yards WASHINGTON Avs 23.—National back was all t more than thirty Guard troops which were to train at. succe and desperately waged Palo Alto, Cal, will be shifted to North German counter attacks throughout Caroling under present War Depart- last night cow! d@ wrench from the Canadians’ grip around Lens, To-day fighters still A ment plana, found t Maple 1 back the nd still the city, west vat pick crawl, This Indicates that after the first two Rainbow divisions are in France the third will be the northwestern forces. a ink Teutonic inch by troops int th Or outskirts of Lens w advanced post was established mly held to-day, It eurvived » storm of German counter Bernstorff’s Nephew Taken Prisoner on the Dead Man ill h darkness after atta midnight ked the pithead, } si 4, and mines adjacent, PARIS, Aug. 23.—Among the 609 ll closer to the centre of prisoners made tn the hollow re- | the , cesses of Dead Man Hill wae a battal commander with his | Rome Reports Italian Ga: on staff, uding Count Eugene Both Wings of Freat, Bernstorff, the nephew of the ROME, Aug, 3%.--Furious fighting formep German Ambaswador to | continues op the Isongo fromt, The ‘Weak aman. War Office announces further gaing a J for tse Italians on both the northern —