The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1918, Page 3

te sree pete PIAVE IS CROSSED BY BRITISH TROOPS IN NIGHT ATTACK |Itatian Armies Greatly Encour- aged by Successes of Eng- lish and French Troops. * TS TROOPS EXTEND THEIR UNE SOUTH OF LENG Haig henoie ‘hoot Another Battle Along Canal Du Nord in the Cambrai Sector. LONDON, Jan. 4—British troops @dvanced their lines south of Lenn night, Mield Marshal Halg re- irted to-day. North of Cambral, in the neighbor- hood of the Canal du Nord, ho sald there w.8 local fighting yesterday afternoon, resulting !n no material change in the military situation. Heavy artillery attacks took place during the night in the Bullecourt and Ypres sectors, LONDON, Jan, 4. — An offictal statement on the campaign on the Itallan front, issued by the British War Office, says: | “In Italy one of our battalions made ® successful and difficult raid across the Plave last night, capturing pris- oners and inflicting considerable damage. Our losses were alight.” ROME, Jan, 4.—The Italian pubtte, | as well as the army, is greatly en- couraged over the success of the two recent thrusts of the Allies against the Austrians—that of the Frerch at Monts Tomba and of the Italians at) the Zenson bend of the Lower Piave. The Italian victory at Zenson Bend is regarded as ope of the difficult ac- complishments fof the war Many military men doubted the army corps der’s ability to drive the back from tho west bank of the river, so strongly held was the position, but he adopted wearing out tactics Instead of a direct frontal at- tack and succeeded, There were prac- Ucally no Italian josses, On the whole front, according to the official statement, there has been nothing of importance to report with- in the last day, GOVERNMENT TO TAKE BLOCKS OF WATER FRONT It British Lost Twenty-three Airsh: im Three Days, Says Be BERLIN (via\London), Jan. 4.—"So far this y 1 atate- ment to-day, lost in the air by our gunfire twenty-three soroplanes and two captive balloons on tho western fi ee “FRENCH BRING DOWN EIGHT GERMAN PLANES Air Raid on German Bases, Artillery Battles and Repulse of Attacks Reported by Paris. PARIS, Jan. 4.—Following is to-day's report from the French War Office: “During the night the Germans un- dertook several raids on small posts in the region of Juvincourt, but obtained no success. In the Champagne and on “Large Area Embraced, Is the right bank of the Meuse east of/ Learned From Secretary Baker Hill 344 (Verdun front) there was vio- + Ps “ lent artillery fixhting for a Ume. In and Major Gen. Black. Upper Alrace German attack near WASHIN oN, Jan. 4.—Conferences prisoners and a machine gun in our! Ifulbert, now a member of the pilots brourhe York Dock Commission, Secretary nes and a eap-| Baker a c k, Chief of Army sclosed that the within ferman combats, On the saine sauadrons bombarded Tiombach and railway sto ’ | Sablons, Conflans and Arnaville, In the course of these expeditions profectiles Weighing 7,500 kilograms were dropped.” PROMOTIONS IN IN THE ARMY, Government is considering taking over inother large area of dockage, compr ng many ¢ity blocks along the New| York City t front Commiasioner Hulbort also asked for assurances of appropriations for chan- nel improvements to make access other docks the city may build. pairs vets Shs bor —_ — or Rich New York Woman Cartin: Coal Home in Her Limousine 5 GUARDSMEN ~ FIGHT BLIZZARD IN FRENCH WAR ZONE March Sixty Miles ¢ Miles on “Nerve and Hot Stew,” With By J. W. Pegler. WITH THD AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Jan. 4 [United Press}— America’s soldiers in France are fast to keep warm under conditions as they exist in the war rone. | learning how How a certain big militia contin.) gent marched sixty miles in the teeth of @ blizzard “on its nerve and hot atew” ta ono chapter of the story of how our soldiers are enduring the hardships of the fighting man in the best possible fashion. | It haw been bitter cold. But the cold enap relaxed slightly to-day. The snowstorm and a paused palo sun shed Its fee warmth across a vast white desert over which the Ameri- cans aro putting up a defensive fight against tho cold There 1s worse of ft Americans perience, out the the heat A young French soldier is home on leave from the front. Before the war | weather and more therefore the profiting by bitter ex- ‘They are preparing to ahut snow and wind and eivut in coming soon; ar COAL CONTRASTS, jhe was employed in New Orleans, 'bamtang billeted in his father's barn, barn, TO NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS on felioers. aPee't wien 28 ANID = game,” ald, “I've been doing it ; Se s to Children’s Loy- for three years, ‘There's no use crawl- frawe Loader |! into the hay unless you stuft Suffrage Leader paper Into chinks in the wall and Cross, build tn the window holes with loose pitt THE ICAN ARMY IN) bricks, like the French soldiers do INCE, 1 Jan (by the| when they are billeted in wrecked ated I On behalf of the vijiagos near the front, Just watch Expeditionary “Fores, Gen. | and you'll learn the trick.” Agitators ora Tell Public | "*" ne ba am u] ingly eae ¢ Frenchman kicked away and vd he aay fin the Children's 1 bricks from the base of an Workmen in United States In fifteen minutes he fin- | Aral i 1 for Lif Nyerican Loyalty League was answered | Old wall Brig. Gen, March to Be Major Gen- 7 | Are Imprisoned for Life. 18 Yollows ished his job and plasterless masonrs eral in Regular Army. LAWYER’S FEE $50,000. | “The American soldiers In France | filled the window aperture, through WaAsHID Jan. 4.—Brig, | san are very glad to have your m | which snow had formerly drifted. y Pata for Settling Clntm Against ont suge, No sacrifice we can make rh rapes ue 4 4 Peyton C, March, major general in the Seesien oe weve naan ; The militia contingent on complet ‘ - a Pag ‘ated parles J. Perry Entate. an, an Will be too great if we can insure a ania. a National Army, was to-day nominated ly tikder wabeanee cli News Meee ate eet aprinces, of, the {28 tts sixty-mile hike found thetr new by President Wilson a major generai] In arguments before Justico Aspinall 9 {der sentence feted an Aco see He | billets Intensely cold, But within a in the Regular Army. Brig, Gen, Ed-|in the 1 Term Supreme Court, ca tab eal Aca al Lh od citi Wahine See Bra taigre iy very short time they had plugged up win B. Babbitt, Ordnance Department, | Brooklyn, to-day, an attorney for Mrs. re trait ry draf’ 3 : n and un ' e ; a ; F Be by : ; ; spi ue all ts 1i0lad “and: stunted | teaehio’ Gras Was nominated to be a brigadier gen-| Mannie 0'¢ onnell 0 Ridxo | ver indictme in this city in connce- fiokeh heen zZ 4 a going ble fi bucket uuleve r 3a t rer 1 an's Council of National Defense, came | Ng in portable flre-buckets. eral in the Regular Army Roulevard, Brooklyn, sald A. Ga-| tion with the preparedness parade " ° Neuen 1 fi = da that Obl ber 2 : arabtink. co wonton 1 ay fol-| Hundreds suffered on this: march ‘The’ following were nominated to be | Tee a aie ce for aetilign dae | Domb murders eighteen’ months ago. | D when their fleld-shoes, already worn major generals'in the National Army; [Nearly § aap Bee for Is being held up to the Russians as |! ‘ . a wheas . Brigadier Generals, William G, Lang- at whee a martyr to the cause of Liberty, ac The women of t ed States ne to pieces. The steel bob- fitt, John B. McMahon and William G. , atin ators in the foadine ta hele Willem & fence are with you in the spirit of ser- | nails Intensified the cold. Many men aah, Rat ording to F ro} jam S. Thayer of : a stan | agatihas ashi ‘The following colonels were npm- sad a Paldkan | TORAA EAD RINK Uni earatt cada You a ndard-bear- |in this contingent had tnsuMictent nated to de brigadier generals in th Iving about | of the American Red Cross Mission bin fie © love you, believe |underwear and socks while they 150.000. Juath ordered an ieee - : f ea marched all day long in the teeth of {eDonald, ¥ A; Miller, | inveatigatio to Ttussia To Spee Cabelu H. apse a meet veral week: wir tha Samuel FL Gay Polar Ge Na j Xmas Turkey for Wilsom Suffered) ago in Pc a,’ T said] “A | came cemonre ware Bet aes Munroe McFarland, William R. Sam-| From Congestion of Ra: |to-day, © @ protest against the | w ‘ome dropped from the ranks le, EM A. Helmick, John §S, Winn,| KIEFER, Okla, Jan A ve : i | | suffer from frostbite. Robert L. Howze, *, Plag-| Thomas, a turkey . Wan tho | Carceration:of Berkman In the United | “Only twenty-one of my men failed | sender of the giant red, and Blates was adopted, 4. speaker told |to finish,” said a Colonel plumaged gobbler which reached the| 0f Berkm und sald that he | The housing facilities throughout i hite House yesterday, Fearing that oy Runbenn aie |the American zone consist of village he scare in the t las"? win, James A. Ry Tilant, eyed . ‘ Paper 4 Wishes | houses, barna and wo Wiss Harry H. Bandholtz, Aansio} ROAR) FES ES beset | or PPM | barracks. The latter are flimsy, but Paul A. Wolf, Tiemann N. 1 tea ree audienco that it was far from un- 4 from the | comfortable when the snow is banked mer EB. 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MALL CLOCK, Sh an sae tea sirdaas Zean || Bemlnn Morrow and Wilt Take | “The 0 Wa , and lecture dart, and Ane! rf the follow) a t Rer wf ig t F are al j I t ‘ y afe ken Hag sh KEELER OF ALBANY DEAD. who t a spires at His Farm to Virgin t " lt a HANY, Jan. 4.—Willlam H. Ke ‘ estinnnalre, ke of neventy-f Ho was for t Valls to Stop Ratdn Hoalinn Chthes, ™ 1 i f More Coal Ordered Dally to Relieve New Bngtuad y l $ - . Gri Vollots Thy Snow sxanivn ts * taken mn ¢ Women me : Wo Groves we V Shoes Going to Pieces. | -| Continuing, To-morrow, Third Floor he time to railroad work unth 1, when he will take direct ot | tho next loan campaign, —. U. S. SAILORS "COMMENDED. | Men t Sa oa 8 ANERCAN FLYERS 30 LIBERTY LOAN FINISH TRAINING 1S SET FOR FEB. 15; ATFRENCH SCHOOL MTADOO TO DRECT © Annapolis ana a Of Wrecked Crew, ‘ON, Jan. 4a commended Lieut, eign George O. ‘Therides and seven men of the United States anapolls steamship and Chief ne n'a Mat Zastro of the Ui! es steamshi» Ozark for gallantey i the rescue of the crow of the steam ship Paddieford on Oct. 30, whem thmey vessel went ashore in a heavy a an unnamed point. ' Going to ‘Battlefront After a Preparations for New for New Drive Al- Week's Rest—Only One ready Nearly Completed— Member Failed, Amount Not Yet Known, — HINGTON, oh Maton Berokinnd and Witting eae 3 r 7 ,| WASHINGTOD a ates § nd. an rt WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY Tan, G—/ERO third) Annapolla carried “b life line t PH Yomtel, tiroukh “the bee ng \t possible to get two hirano | the Padi ‘ord's crew ashore in afer Ensign Etheridge and the remati ef the men of the Annapolia, who mentioned with Zastro. of th took a Hfeboat to the wreck and te § the rest of the Paddieford's crew. — Liberty Loan campaign will be opened | ree IN FRANCE, Thursday, Jan. 3 (by the Aanoclated Preas)—Tho firat| Feb. 15, tt wan learned to-day, group of young pilots and observers t amount ts to be raised in this to take a course of instruction in the | Hird drive could not be ascertained. Extensive preparations for advertis. ing and distributing the bonds wore | Wal nearing completion to-day. Mambers| fhe walters’ surtke thresteneneall of striking new posters, notably one|*mall downtown restaurants still hung by Howard Chandler Christy, were be- | fire last Bight, iar the some ive were reports at a head ing prepared. Wan laying plana fora strike: in Secretary McAdoo will give all of | hote ee THE HONEY HOUND = American flying school nearest the battle front In the Woevre completed | {te work to-day. After a rest of a wook the equadron will be sent to tho | front, where the finishing touches will be added under actual battlo conditions, The work at the front will be car- Med out under the guidance of || voteran French aviators, For many weeks the aviators have been flying over the American zone, * Stetke Stilt Watis, © | taking instruction tn thelr various duties, including aerial photographic PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKL} work and observation, All the men CITY EDITION are useful, energetic and enthusiastic, Wiking —Tole and said by their instructors to have shown remarkable aptitude, Only one member of the entire class under instruction failed to measure up to all | standards. The members of the squadron to- day showed their ability to overcome | difficult conditions of ground, In get- | | ting away on thelr final instruction trip they set forth from a field cov- | They Get It In the Neck! Ail throat ailments—hoarse- cred at some places with three feet of ness, soreness, tickling, irrita- snow, All the men made successful : it 5 jaidinga abvar- a AlgKOC GE an hoa? tions—get it in the neck when and a half. With holiday diversions over, the entire American Expeditionary Foree by to-day had resumed training, which ls to be unrelaxed hereafter unless unforseen developments occur. The newly-landed divisions of former Cough Drops get on the job! They haven't National Guardsmen began active work in hand grenade trajuing, the chance with that unbeat- Instruction: going on doapits) the snow able combination — that heal- which covered the ground in sorae ° bl places to the depth of a foot. Other ing blend of former guardsmen, who had been ~~ found to be good markamen, were || Sugar, Honey, Horehound, Menth eked for sniping work and began ng tho finer points of that practice. A division of Regular Army men || which already had been at the front | resumed to-day the carrying out of | manoeuvres during which alrplanes co-operated with the artillery. ‘This division 19 rapidly nearing the polnt where it will be classed as expert in this co-operation, and the aerial ob- sorvers are becoming equally eff Both 75a und guna of larger cal- are being used The weather is clear and cold, and | except for the snow on the ground conditions are ideal for Instruction purposes, | 24 W. 45th Bt, | | Coovrteht—The Sweets Comoanr of America, 41 Now York. Mth Avenue Ha Injanction | Dropped. 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