The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1917, Page 1

_ GREAT THREE-DAY FAREWELL ON. ¥. TROOPS BEGINS WITH DINNER 10 O'RYAN TO-NIGHT Plans Practically Complete for Fare- well Feast Arranged Under the * Auspices of The Evening World for 30,000—Goodby Parade Thursday. — 7 ATENS S ANS ARE EV Korniloff AUGUST 28, 917. UBWAY SEIZU Circulation Rooks Open to All.”’ 16 PAGES ACUATING WEATHER—few te night and te-merrem, 7 | wee « tm doremtes ® Bedeen County, § 8 PRICE ests Hope in the Russian Army TRIESTE REFUGEES FLEEING ~TOAUSTRIAN INTERIOR, SAYS Meee TTALIAN EMBASSY REPORT NEW SMOKE BOM SAVELINER IN LON Naval Gunners Fire Many Shots at Submarine in | Bay of Bisca AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 28.-—-A s story of a two hours running thr ight with a submarine, during which the new bombs, which shroud v n a cloud of thick black smoke, we defer used as one means of ‘a8 To-night’s the night, and to-mor- Yow night's a bigger night, and next day's the biggest day, and then!— Ob, well, the khaki-clad boys will be 2,000,000 10 SEE meine as esc sl” SEND OFF” PARADE, officers and men alike, with memories ef the Big Send-Off. i | The Joyous three-day festivity will Acting Chief Inspector Dillon be inaugurated to-night by a formal Announces 4,000 Bluecoats inner at the Biltmore to Major Gen. | ps ORyan and the officers of his staff. Will Handle the Multitude. There will be great doings. The ; Mayor's Committee and The Evening, At least 2,000,000 persons are cx- World have seen to that. John J. Pected to jam into and over Fifth Cavanagh, President of the Socioty of Restaurateurs, will present William Courtleigh, Shepherd of the Lambs, as toastmaster; Mayor Mitchel will speak for the city, and Gen. O’Ryan will deliver a speech which they do say is going to twine the Red, White and Blue around the very table-legs. Gov. Whitman, prevented from at- tending by unavoidable engagements, will send a patriotic message of good heer, and the last word” will be spoken by Thomas D. Green, Presi- dent of the Hotel Men's Association. LAMBS REHEARSING A SPECIAL “GAMBOL” FOR THE EVENT. The Lambs are rehearsing to-day @ special “gambol” which, Mr. Court- Jelgh says, will “not be wanting In the spirit of the hour.” | skyscraper and every home along the Reservations for the dinneg closed/entire line of march ts utilized to the at noon. The souvenir menu by | limit of its capacity for heads.” Malcolm and Holmes is one that| For weeks the population of New York has looked forward to this big “send which was proposed and constantly worked for by The Eventing World, ow the preparations 'y | complete. A platoon of mounted police will Avenue from One Hundred and Tenth Street to Washington Square Thurs- Yay morning to review the greatest military parade in the history of New York—the godspeed of the city to the khaki-clad soldiers of the Twenty- seventh Division, United States Army, en route to France, This estimate of Spectators is made by Acting Chief Inspector Dillon, and he says It is | conservative. “We are preparing handle an even greater humber,” he said, “Fifth Avenue can not begin to hold the crowd unless every window of every to ts bound to find a place among the souvenirs. It's 8 Gehring say! historic dinner difterent, “Charlie there has been no “such other," yet it is a simple affair with a v special appeal to Americans who ari And are that and nothing else, On the dais|iead, followed by Major Gen. John F. | will be the Mayor and Mrs./O'Ryan, his staff, and the division Mitchel, Gen, and Mrs, O’Ryan|neadquarters company. Acting Chief Capt. E. W. Moore, aide to the} pyjiion anngunced to-day the follow- Mayor; William Courtleigh, Mr. and|ing detalied plan for the policing—a Mrs, August Silz, John J, Cavanaugh] pian which every citizen ought to and Thomas D, Green, The setting| study for his own good for all this will be the famous sup-| Pour thousand policamen will do the per room on the main floor of the] work of handling the vast throngs of Biltmore, which will be especially) siectators, Two thousand members decorated for the ssi, So muc Ni oe the Home Defense League under tor the formal dinner | police command will be in reserve at abe BUS bps Fr ening gun for the! a ious points along the line. eeeer | bloweut PMOPTOW HIRBE “gixteen, emergency hospitals, with when, at 5.30, close to thirty thou-| ; sand mcn and officers will gather; ®Mbulances, police patrols and sur- tes senice hoatda au the guesia| Fe will be established at equal of the city that is proud to own them !ntervals from one end of Fifth Ave find prouder still te sorve them, On| nue te the other. Nine Inspectors this occasion August Silz will be the| of police will be stationed at inter- toastmaster | vais and will be in constant tele- At Van Cortlandt Park Mr, &ilz! phone communication with each will make @ brief speech and, by| other telephone, the dinner to the troops) Acting Chief Dillon will haye his at Mineola, Sheepshead Bay, Ure, headquarters at the south end of the Bliss estate, Pelhum Bay Park and) reviewing stand at Fortieth Street several armofies will be put In mo-| Ail the detectives in New York will tlon. |be mingling with the crowd and at The up-State units which will take eight police stations along the line part in the parade on Thursday there will be truck-loads of police will also find a warm nd-OIf | reserves ready for call Dinner" ready for them as soon as POLICE RULES WHICH THE they get back to their trains, PUBLIC MUST OBEY, “We want all the boys to feel as Here are rules which the police will happy we do in serving them," farce the public to obe: said Adolph Lorber, “\ e have tried No person anywhere along t a very hard to make it a memorable will be permitted to use a box, rarrel, night for our troops, and if there be anything lacking to make it such | (Continued on Ninth Page.) Rati abceeeeiienaaeee (Continued on Sixth Page.) (For Racing Results ge 2.) | told by passengers arriving he French steamship to-d The submarine at'acked sel at 9.45 A. M. on Au just out- side the Bay of Biscay. Most of the women passengers were still in bed or in their baths, and at the danger signal came tumbling on Weck in various phases of undress. The ship immediately began to sig®tag while the nf¥n" gunners blazed away at the UV boat, which could be plainly seen before the smoke screen was released. The new smoke contrivance like a series of huge cheese boxes swung on the side of the ship. Tho bombs are released from these boxes. Passengers said the screen w: tive. After it was dropped, however, the gunners could not see the sub- marine. WILSON WILL MARCH AT HEAD OF DRAFTED MEN To Head Parade of Quota in Wash- ington When They Mobilize on Sept. 5. WASHIN( Hr aN, the ves- looks 8 effeo- Aug. 28.—President Wilson will lead the parade of capital conscripts when they mobilize here for entrainment to camp Sept. 5. ‘The President's action follows his ex- pressed wish that throughout the land mobilization day be made a gala and patriotic affair. After rehing down the avenue with the young soldiers he will review those who constitute Wash- ington’s first quota “ATTENTION! OFFICERS OFTHE 77TH DIVISION | Buildings at Camp Upton Are Un- | completed and Time for Re- porting Is Postponed. t that the contra officers’ quarters at have been unable to nplete the buildings, the 1,500 reserve officers who had been ordered to report at the camp to-morrow cannot be elved there. ‘This Was anounced to-day by Col. E. E. Booth, Chief of Staff of the Seventy-seventh Division, who declared |that he made it ton the authority of | Majo: », J. Franklin Bell, commander | of the division. Col. Booths announce- | ment follows Attention of port to the S Due to unfore tion work the ¢ | Owing to the fa | working on t ‘amp Upton, L. 1 re- nfficers directed to re- enty-seventh Division In construe- is unable to [finish a sufficient number of buildings lto accommodate the officers directed |to report Aug. 29 at Camp Upton f duty with the Seventy-seventh Division |'Therefore all off belonging to the Seventy-seventh Division will delay re- porting in person until further notice All these officers will report by letter on Aug the ral Jeventy-seventh Divis pton N.Y. giving their city ad dress, where ers givi date when’ they will report in person will be mailed to them la ss | CUNARD STEAMSHIP SUNK. BOSTON, Aug 28.—The sinking of the British ste Malda, which left an American port on Aug, 15, was ree ported in, a cablegram recelved he y-day by the Cunard | No details were given as to the fate of the crew | The Malda, under charter to the Iogear Lane, has made only one voy- age to this country and was @ vessel 7,884 tens gross. ~ pane italian Guns Clear Miles of Territory From the Heights | of Monte Santo, KING S S FORT LOST. on «| Advancing Italians Find Large Stack of Abandoned Muni- tions and Supplies. WASHINGTON, is being evacuated, Aug. 28. Its civilian popu- Trieste lation is deserting the town at the or- der of Austrian high command, cording to the Zurich correspondent ace of Corrlere d'Italia, whose despatches were cabled to the Italian Embassy here to-day. Most of the citizens left yest with them “all the cable stated refuge in the rday, articles of They of taking value,” sought Austria | Hourly the Italian }comes more certain of a interior offensive be- allitary de- cable The cision, say | Austrian messages troops in the domi nated by Monte Santo, reported |so far ahead of the Italians in thetr retreat that no trace of them can by found except stacks of abandoned munition, guns and food gector are From Monte Santo, many square miles of territory can be raked by the Italian artillery. No Austrian | position in th zone can be held more than a few hod are still held by the Austrians, are isolated. No food or munitions can reach the beleagured troops. T! fall of these mountain forts is a m ter of days, the cable messages say. 1 Emperor Charles spent the | day of Aug. 22 at the front with the Austrian high command and Gen. Boreoeviz, He saw Tarnavo captured and one fort on the Carso destroyed by the Italian bombardment. He left ing to victory. Austrian papers admit the precart ous position of their troops. The Lokal Anzeiger correspondent makes no effort to conceal the tmportant ad vantages gained by the Itallans. Sweep on in Spite of Har Counter Attacks, ROME, Aug. 28.—The Italians made further progress yesterday on th Lainsizza Plateau, on the front Gorizia, the War Office announ Th) Austrians made violent counter acks, but failed to recover p: tions taken by the Italians The announcement follows “On the whole battlefront there were artillery actions principally yesterday. On the Hainsizza Plateau our troops, continuing their progress, have been in closer contact with the enemy. Vigorous local attacks assured us 8 positions which the enemy failed to recapture, although he made violent counter-attacks Unfavorable atmospheric ¢ ditions greatly impeded the ac tivity of our airplanes: peat a /“INSIGNIFIGANT GAINS” | BY BRITISH IN FLANDERS, | ADMITTED BY GERMANS | BERLIN British Aug. 28 (via London) ~The made only insignificant gain (Continued on Second Page.) Monte Gabriels and Monte Daniels} but while the Italian troops were charg: | KORNILOFF DESCRIBES GRAVE CONDITIONS IN ARMIES OF RUSSIA Here are some of the striking pas- ch of Gen, Korni- Commander-in-Chiet of the Russian armies, describing condi- tions in the army to the National Conferéen ‘he army must be regenerated if Russia is to be saver “Soldiers have shot four re mental commanders and other officers, “One Siberian regiment left its positions and returned only whe, threatened with extermination, “We are implacably fighting anarchy in the army. Undoubtedly it will be finally suppressed, “The situation at the front is bad. We have lost the fruits of our recent victori: he army has been transformed into individual groups, which have lost all sense of duty, “| BELIEVE IN AND | PRE- DICT THE RESURRECTION OF OUR ARMY.” FIVEAUTO BANDITS. ~ ROBANDKILLTWO MEN IN CHICAGO Messengers, With $8,100 in Cash, Victims of Holdup as Scores Look On. CHICAGO, Aug, 28.—Two men carrying $8,100, the payroll of the Winslow Brothers Iron Works, were shot to death in front of the plant fo- day by five bandits who escaped in sn automobile with the money ouls Osenberg and Hart slain payroll messengers, from a bank in ute As they stopped in front of to the Allen were urning bile le entrance fron works, a car containing the robbers drew up. Three of the bandits leaped from © machine and opened fire with re rs, Osenberg and Allen fell with bullets in thelr hi The bandits fi Mt score of persons killing, ads, ed more than twenty witnessed ‘555 NEW YORK POLICEMEN WILL HAVE TO 60 TO WAR Out of 699 Called for Examination Only 144 Are Rejected for Service At Police Headquarters to-day it was announced that the number of po licemen who must go to war will be at and probably m This is bout 200 more than the highest esti i" made by the W number called for examina 609, and of these only 144 w re Jected for physteal and economle It is said some of the 144 were re jected because of the dependency relatives, and these probably will b tuken when the District Board review their en the Fenner Sta Law provides full pay for drafted policemen. “REGENERATE ARMY OR RUSSIA IS LOST,” Commander - in - Chief Conference Troops Will Be Resurrected. MosCOW the Natic \iort, Aug, %8 | Conference Gen, Koi the ¢ ceived a great ovation, stirred the Assembly with his description of con- ditions in the army Gen, Korniloft said the death penalty, restoration of which he had asked, constituted only a small part of what Was necessary in an army stricken with tho terrible evils of disorganiza- tion and insubordination. In the present month, Gen, Korat- loft said, soldiers had killed four regimental commanders and other oficers and ceased these outrages only when they were threatened with being shot. regiments of Siberian Rifles, which had fought #0 splendidly at the be- ginning of the revolution, abandoned ita positions on the Rigg front. Nothing except an order to extermin- ato the entire regiment avaliod to cause it to return to its positions, “Thus we are implac anarchy tn the army,’ the command- er continued, “Undoubtedly it will finally be repressed, but the danger of freph debacies is weighing con- stantly on the country “The situation on the front is bad. We have lost the whole of Galicia, the whole of Bukowina nd all the fruits of our recent vietori At several points the enemy has crossed our fronties and is threatening our entire southern provinces. He is en- deavoring to destroy the Rou- manian army and is knocking at the gates of Riga. If our army does not hold the shore of the Gulf of Riga the road to Petro- grad will be opened wide. “The old regime bequeathe Russia an army which, despite all the sin Its organizat the- s was animated by a fighting spirit and was ready for The . nev sacrifices: the spirit and needs of the army has transformed it into a ction of in dividual groups, which lost all sense of duty, and only tremble for their owrf personal safety have Gen. Korniloff then outiined th |most Important of these m« ORNILOFF WARNS In a speech to| mmander in Chief, who | Quite recently one of the fighting ARMY MUST BE REGENERATED, With revenue legisiation, asures, in CITY WILL BREAK CONTRACT - “FFSUBWAY IS HALTED AGAIN MAYOR INFORMS P.S, BOARD ——<4=— {Ransom Hints That Suspension of | Service Was Intentional—Berwind road Before the selsure the city would have @ right to break the contract for subway operation between the ‘eity and the Interborough. Then, if the clty did not have the facilities to up- rate the lines itself, it would have power to turn them over to a private company, The Mayor refers to the city’s coal supply in with excuses offer by the Interborough for last Saturday's shortage, Despite the fact ‘gain deliberately suspends trat- fo as it ls charged it did last Saturday, ts contained in a letter eolemnilbndpen subway contracts which give the city La Follette Introduces Eight! the rignt to tae over the iines if the Amendments — Will Urge | Preett owners do not operate them amendments to the War Tax Bill pro- viding for levies on war profits rang- ing from 48 to 76 per cent, were in- 76 per cent, rate, and if it was re- jected would ask consideration of the next in order until one was accepted, | Says Fuel Shortage Is Remedied— Railroads Deny Blame. \\ An open threat that the city will | ite te subway tines if the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Company Written to-day by Mayor Mitchel to Acting Chairman, William. Hayward of the Pubile Service Commission, The Mayor calls attention to the , i ee | “carefully and skilfully according to Each Until One Is Accepted. | tno highest known standards of ralle | operation.” ’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Bight| troduced to-day by Senator La Fol- lette, i: | The Senator said he would first offer the amendment for the highest The Dill as it now stands would | make an average tax of 26 per cent, naideration of post- age sections of the bill, the Senate, by connection In resuming a‘vote of 89 to 29, struck out the that the clty has hundreds of schools, |provision levying @ one-cent tax on fire houses and pumping stations to letters and postcards, designed to look after, not to speak of other public buildings, it has pever had occasion to shut down any activity on account of coal shortage. The Mayor says the Interborough would never run short |raise $50,000,000 in reven | A provision giving American sol- diers and sailors abroad the privHege of mailing letters free was tained. | Senator Weeks, Massachusetts, at- tacked Increased postal rates OM) oF coat i¢ tt would whole series of measures taken by | newspapers and magazines and profit) peo y, ‘ould pay market prices, those who are completely forelkn to n publications. /® IND AGAIN BEFORE SER- ‘om the standpoint of equity and| Justice," said of the country }on all your ho! Every on om the President! down, Who has had everything to do| to-day. has peiter so levied VICE COMMISSION The Mayor's threat of seizure was t striking of the several de nts in the subway situation The Public Service Commis. sion resumed its inquiry into Satu ated that taxes should be IF RUSSIA I8 TO BE SAVED. |ihat they would not materially dam-| 44's tie-up witb several witnesses ae ie 1 the /#K8 any enterprise, ‘This legislation | On the stand. If Russia wishes to be saved the) would damage a great industry, and} i. J. Berwind, President of the army must be saved. The army must! therefore it should not be passed Berwind-White Coal Company, was s eamanacnsed » cont ‘eo must] > 4 be regenerated at any We mu ; |recalled and declared emphatically immediately take measures such as 1) METHANE OF AMERICANS that there was not the slightest poi have referred to, which have n| sibility of @ shutdown of the subway approved in their entirety the AROUSE ENVY IN FRANCE service, whatever any official might Minister of War.” | say. He admitted, however, that he | would have sald the same last Fri United States Officer Gets Phone day addition to oration of the deat p i ae ‘aah o ee |" ad v4 po ry . ‘ a : els all in Ten Minutes When Told M ne oe i ‘fed Vice Pres\. penalty, ch are irst, restora: | ental ij dent David W. Ross of the Inter- vn of discipline in the army by the to Wait Eight Hours, borough had told him yesterday that |strengthening of the auth yotom-| AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 28.—Ef- | his company must fill the power house Jcers and non-commissioned officers; | ficient and result-getting methods em-|punkers, and added: “We have begun |xecond, improvement of the financial | ployed by American Army officers in| to go so." He had received no formal fpomition of officers, who have been in| charke of the expe hearer intrare. | written notice, however, he sald, & very difficult position in the re-/I rance Nive ential viding to wil, ONLY 200 TONS ON HAND IN Jcont military operations; third, re- |e itty ot New York. who a FEBRUARY. | strictign of the functions of regiment jal committees, which, although man againg economic affairs of the regi nents, must not be permitted to have any tary operations or the appoint leaders NO MORE SUPPLIES CAN BE RE- | CEIVED AFTER NOVEMBER, “The strength of every pends upon conditions In the in its rear,” Gen, "The blood which will Inevitably flow during the restoration peri shed in vain tf the army, part in decisions regarding mill army de district (Continued on Fourth Page) nent of Korniloff continued, fod may be having been reorganized and prepared for battle, | to-day from abroad, Another witness was W. L. Pepper- Mr. Hardy sald that reeently an army | man, assistant to President Shonts, officer wanted to use @ long distance fie revealed that on Feb. 8 last the telephone line to a certain Freneh city. aisiy coal ‘estimate laid on Mr Ho was told the line was busy, und | oo nty4 desk showed there were only that his turn would come in eight hours, || mt hn hand hala oe (4 The officer went “higher up" and got |*00 tons on hat as grea hie service In ten minutes. ‘Tho neat anxiety for a short tine, the witness day @ detail of the American signal) said, but soon afterward the general corps. was engaged in stringing {coal situation became less acu'e, special wire between the two points, Before the hearing was resumed To reach one of the American! w, 1, Ransom, chief counsel of the amps, located fifty miles from a sup- | commission, gave out & statement in ply base, Mr, Hardy said it was nec- |") no charged there was much essary to travel by rail 150 miles. Af De eaters that Seat tho firet supply train had tray. evidence to 08 © tle-up that route @ force of American |of the subway was Intentional, for neers began to lay out a new and the purpose of forcing Mr, Berwing We ct adore and track layers, “ies to live up to his coal delivery oom- opie edjeqions, the soad was built, tracts, He ulsg denounced Mr, Bere