The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1918, Page 1

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'“ Cireulation Books Open to All.”’ blishing NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1918, “Circulation Books Open to All.”’ 14 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. _ GERMANY IS STARVED TO FEED ARMY GERMAN GAS SHELL ATTACKS $24000.N THEFTS VON HINDENBURG SQUEEZING AND RAIDS BY BIG AIR FLEET AGAINST PERSHING'S TROOPS Bombardmen lwo Hours, Keeps Up for but No Amer noe" NNSTERIUS FE cro» wos AT HOBOKEN PIR PROTEC Many Fly Airplanes Attempt Over the Line, but e Driven Back. » SWEEPS BIG LER Pere Entire City Department Fight Wit! 2 AMPRICAN <MY < sons x anANGiE van 6.—"Tho Germa $500,000 Blaze in U.S posed t Americans yester- | 3arred Zone. ful bom day made an unsucce nent with gas German air-| Wire aboar Swedish-Ame Pass sarge’ 4 “ et t driven off by the American machines of Seventeenth Street, Hoboken, and anti-aircraft batteries e city’s fre fighting shells in consi » number «Di y and caused the om the German gu " in ree of the Governme an ear 4 z ext 4 three side nah n f t u t pt extraord mash ull pa nehes | na n to prevent a 9} f the fumes to the ine of transport to three hours, On sie penn Ont wes RO eRDiCH t auickuess 4 which fng shell, but * f Jangerous pos t i ft eferen to the ne at 1 ydocks and other not @ single case of gus poisoning was BahN aie Siete reported. Tho duration of the shell- ji cis ¢ ReOReatIbe cod ing was two hours, but traces at th ah BGe Ou th poisonous fumes remained f 1 register a signal at er hour after the bombardmen Fire Headquarters, led th weased nN tthe barrest Visibi was good yesterday In the z rid Investig. clear, cold atmosph und as a re-|t ult there was much aorin Ivity | aie t half on both sides na lanes in farge numbers repeatedly apted toe is the Americar were Wher 4 i 5 driven off elther by f ' from an terles or by tha at 1 t No. 2, oticers Toe Ame ” rapidly attaining 1 degree of ior uh efficiency. Yesterday t uaily | When engin fired shells that ox 1 uo close to| ond alarm wan sent in’ fr the enemy airplanes tha! tho aviators! Arter another w were compelled to scurry back to @ | M wafer area, pursued ‘ by @ trail of shrapnel putts seatiedt : The artillery on bo sides u 4 w etivity to-duy. The American ; ners shelled the Ge ree , and communications ef American Troops Vace Mont See, , F Fortified by German e WITH THE AMERICAN A iba : YN FRANCE, Feb. 19 (United Prew) : LE alla —The A r is opp Pe ; Y Mont Sec, a 1 om on th five lef Dy tered ho m tT M i 41 Is annou Jay ned t buncing anid Mv 1 with ena i) f ! ehine-g nents 1 ot np) With ush of water the Minsk posts. T Ame a ty ‘ ettied and tho fire was ipakbaaad MRS a 1 ne ently to permit deck burgh lad quoted nm rean © poured Into the hold { i ’ foany tho waterfront was th ey ‘ sane qos BULA S ¥ t Minsk « the ene a afford I ak ching ; ' Oey 4 : he Gove petual sansu j The A gh th it Bhim 0 ‘ y vund W on trcats ca he “dunge Blue ie a ° rows h guarding cor apn . ¢ at the drydocks and two com it Cots vt Jiers barred tho ap-|, 6 es to the ammunition tuctory ef Toul) _ ; “YN \ " Krepp Piyidend Cat From 12 to 10 1 Per ¢ oe OPENHAGEN, Jan. 20 by matty ee rupp Company haa reduced its beet nun jend and is paying only nb por erent, Last year tt paid 12 per baa ; nt. The annual report of the com i" ¥ . pany says that the tnereasing de © army have necessitated pari ding of a large share uf the "eemy docs that counts nov Fe ve pew plants, CAUSED SUICIDE OF LAWYER DAVIDSON a ied Polson | Five Years to End Life If Caught, He Wrote in Confession, GERMANY AND AUSTRIA DRY | Fail, rut) Extinct Feb. 16 rop Dogs Are Almost and Crows Have “cas THO MILONARES | Eee eh) memes NDNOREE AION United Pi WHITE to The Praning W PLAINS, N.Y Rochelle and a promit ember of BERNE, Switreriand, Feb. 16.~Hin- ne W County Bar Associa-|denburg !s squoczing Germany like was cleared away to-day when|an octopus « sponge. Even !f there was learned Davidson had misap-| {a lttie complaint in the army ove proprlated between $70,000 and $84,000 | food, Germany and Austria are stary- lente by forg- | ing | ed to him by | rtgages and notes } 2 Just heard & most remarkable | Heller in Suit Against Devidson shot himself in his home| story i) rating the case in point, Wife jut New Rochelle, Following bis tun- | which wus reported at bo! 9 Brit ® ssing gown, M 10 KEEP THE ARMY GOING (Gpriiniinraiecinisaetctidicateemnicciecbiaanaiociemtimoe FRAME- APC fe toler Bo | Philip 5 Kastel Nam Names Paul E. ral, reporth reached District Attor-| lsh and American War Offices Philip F. Kastel, millionaire stock | 20Ut# @ dash by German destroyers that Day a g. A Gorman officer, through ss in r broke: of X 2 Rrond treet, to- doy | 80 ths Strait of Dover and the sink rubbing ois chents. tent, 4 fiwediary, apyrdachéu w man with | {ng of eight patrol vessels, Tpe patras nied th "4 ti s, d, teled to prevent an investiga | whom he was porsonally acquainted rapes Rrough’ Nis Bitorneys | is telng edulapel Geib. wits Hon. Davis however sent Walllam| A meeting was arranged aboard a Randolph Mf. Newman, WR MMF! Tee nrmament. for antisubmarine for the Weat-| boat on Lake Constance * divorce from Maud Edna Kaatei, No. work, did not have a chance once the rict Attorney's The German offered to sell PrussiaD on Wout osta Street, naming Paul E.| Germans got among them. to find out | military secrets for $20,004 he, Heller, President of Heller Brothers, | _ It Is bolleved the German destroyer Was Implloated| to Jge their value before paying ; , | flotilla bad intended an attack on} Dav alleged peculations.! "the acqualvtance questioned BOROHE ANUFACKUPCE® OF! upply ships between Kngland and Du stisNed Davidson | the officer, who was of bgb rank ewark, No J France, | t mcerning his motive Kastel alleges that on the aight of! ‘The surprise attuck was made by |. ftvthins flied & roport with the| AGEO PARENTS UNABLE TO GET 12 after midnight he went to}the Germans at 12,30 o'clock the SUSTAINING FOOD, ‘hemes an eet Rs Aintie m ning, the Violent gunfire awaken-4 hn! ‘Phe officer broke down and wept ne OR Sith Steet AB COMpART | (the residents of Dover, Sr for- of) Lke a child, declaring bis motrer and | with G. Rose and there found Heller| tyeaye minutes tho action continued, 2) father wore old, poor, broken (0 and Mrs, Kastel, the latter attired in! the flashes of the guns being plainly nds) heaith, and unable to get sustaining |. japanese «,| visible from the high ground about SUBMARINE FIRES THIRTY ROUNDS IN BOMBARDING DOVER Kills One Child and Injures 1 er Others—Three Men 1a Woman Are Hit. | | LONDON, Feb, 16—An enemy sub- ; marine bombarded Dover early this morning. “Fire was opened about 15.10 | Bee ck,” says the official report. “The firing continued three or four minutes, laos thirty rounds. “The casualties were: Killed, ono child; Injured, three men, ons woman and three children. Sight damage was caused house property.” ‘The attack followed by twenty-t _|GEN, ROBERTSON QUITS aeeeiea » money in order <— EnOd,, HO War ted tne ioe a eon. | Hastel van to the phone andicalied up| tho city ef | to send his parents t weal aes k , With daylight it be known | try. which Me PASS Pitsmaurice, who lives at the) wit the German destroyers had mide | he the front and try to ed. Lf be | Hotel Gotham, to come to her aa-|q guddon c cuaauel, & iy | he would commit suicide Alc |tucking a line of “drifters” eng “gs t ‘ | Aa Ame HS celta Sting proceedings followed, it) $8 hunting a submurino wh | 0 ' | acted at the expir vor | been sighted by the pate w tur the last five] snort Jeave, the matter was dropped. |@ said, as a result of which Holler rn wes A eiied' 4 pocket|‘phe incident shows the trend of|spont a week the horptta) and! mert t bo taken on an] events Fitamau went to Palm Beach to i ago: i wor Th ¢ ure, , n ' f p a o b ! t 8 is erma h New Y k pedo boats under « 4 kw partioy an Egyptian pt ‘ a At a Meinecke made « sur W i stroyed the crop, stalk and a trong forces guard a tollow-| yaid that a wind blew bu beceme ievide n Channel between Calais and D | from France, producing the | wing the party ke © north, and Cape G $ ' 4. | ing army of caterpillar je wit Folkestone on the sout $ $ MeGran,} ‘The plum crop, likewise, way a f ; giardship, numer 1 1 fishing I ' : Joseph | ure, owing to tho weather, amera and weveral motor vesse irs, § 1 fed: | mans boast a plum treo ¢ ; wers forced to give battle, the larg M was bona} woman and ch Mit of them being destroy oO 1 off} of the mainstay en ween Mr, and Mrs. Kk Jo boats suffered tio ead, | there ' ; All returned.” " pany| ‘1 tN atiatnes |e t PEACE I$ STILL NEARER try, W af 1 i , i my On principally man oe NUNCIO'S REPORT TO POPE principally manu ae Fs 7 his ite [¥ LE Powe FROM VIENNA AND BERLIN ft al wite,| VEGETABLE POWDERS Ari " Ma A ha MIXED WITH THE FLOUF pro x 1 thatle Bread is, , é to get ever. It is not only mixed Piters , boaheasion. of natet| four, but with a 5 is ed | of be w ot tho} turnip: spots, nu raed l A |w r ald 5 t 1 A im-| be , 1 fe ep t " wR The German y , sane | ing, “The very y = f Xe New| ge are waten t fa 1 1 States| t s : 1 ancl M $ ay s t President W FenyA Hijetd New t At me ; pee . ile 0 AMSTERDAM mays 7 Cee Toe wnek a nation it Ut ; 1 to be a fone, “Bverything inable . nuneel > I have heard again th tates ne ga tHe Peoples of ithe word bepin 1 Mrs. Kaste! of a ne) twlking with 1 WOMEN ON RAILROAD STRIKE} corpses ore wed for f Senge a) ee Lebigh Valley Section Hands Merl coas, Whether it ts tr nusband Princ 1x of Baden in an inte mand More Vay the atory refuse 1 Holler. Pi : ,) view in Berlin ‘ | Th amino { become acauain h 1 will not an Cha rm ae A ‘ ihe a or von Hertiin. ply to Pre . sivia om gh | is equally 49 great a ol a r , ) Valley Rajiroa Joun-| bread famine, The Buudrat © 'o sce Mr. Kastel tn regand to| dent Wilson, Pris Lost Cree , They | malt ances for tho new t n Kastel had the| “except to point that Wi ‘ ' year to 1% per cent, for } nent involving Ger-| has not spcken ay a world fudy i ' . Americans in attack i His words are “ig Orémaiecd Ly @ UuIon visaeri. A (Contoued oo Secgad Puy. Jeu cance, 4 # PLEA OF SHIP STRIKERS’ UNION LEADS WILSON 10 INTERVENE: SOME MEN TO GET MORE PAY President Prepares a Proposal for Workers as Federal Board Grants Increases in Delaware Yards— Strike Spreads Rapidly in East. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—As the walkout of woodworkers in Eastern shipyards grew rapidly to-day, President Wilson prepared a definite proposal to end the strike +s dire plese ven appeal (o the President te was thade to-day by hood of Carpenters pproximatel y 50 per AS CHIEF OF STAFF |*22 Jin robin cont. of whose members in the New Gen. Wilson Takes His Place as p%0"* Serie are-out to-day demand Head of British Army in fine immediate assurances of disher London j whens and closed shop ¢onditions LONDON! fou, 18.—Gen, Bir Wittam| ne Phemsent te expected to drive Chet ot the British Imperial] oe the Neart Of the troubles and ap- aff, nes resigned, it was offictaily an [Ort € the loyalty of the men in get. Cad Tule ealig [ting them back to work while the (ten, Wilson, aub-Chief of Staff, takes nment gets its programme for Tiel vara tea ote pworkers on a working basis. Ap- ea tel ieaisita peals by Chairman Hurley of the Ship- Hoard and others have proved FRENCH TO TAKE OVER ca und e@ that a solution brought by ENTIRE MERCHANT FLEET jcon v0 the President Transfer of Control to the Govern- Th ¢ ae - = soln santo ot ne e . r now, earned definitely a. eae aay Ke WAGE ADVANCE GRANTED IN DELAWARE YARDS. Tho Shipping Board's Wage Adjust- ent Bourd to-day agreed on an in- wages, definite working con- PARIS. Fon, 1 ) the Journe) OMelad thian for the requisitioning of A decree published pring WRO- yy the en France on! dith merchant marine of un and overtime pay for all ships Murch 19 yard workers in Aled Delme ment « hen * ware Ya ng about 60 per i ad i H- cent. of «hip on the Adantic It doe ude the striking i iy expected to affect Many of the striking carpenters, pite the advice of their als, have signified their * emu WITHDRAWS Mus | COMMISSIONERS IN RUSSIA sso: ntention of cccepting the award. The strikers in the New York dis- Berlin Announces That They Have t have not done so, but it {s hoped Cr af Line— Troops He vil at Sheree 1 ew wage scale is not so high Pacific coast rate, nor ao hig Sa ndon w York strikers Krad “ i ‘ n vin ined sal uit Turle rn Manaver w t a ! M alrman ies . t Labor A ec ad i s A Secretary ki me i Na fay on the ROOSEVELT SITS UP IN BED; ss 'oe2 Sais" Ug READS DETECTIVE STORIES .”. sie w neondrn To-Da t W s } {the B \ us Operatiot : , i is " } F t 1 Hult. i ‘ work Gov- i Ntion he needed it ts fur-) WOODWORKERS REFUSE TO AR hae th » offelal bulletin BITRATE CONDITIONS. sevelt Hospital, which! 4 woodworkers’ strike was ad passed “the Hest sated to-day, “came out of a were M n Senator T or s John Purroy Mitchel. The Major sald n, chief of the Ja adjustment wan going to start for California! aiyision, agreed to mediate hours ead this afternoon wiges, Dut insisted also on medige _ anditions ! SOKR THROATS HEALED : : oe 4 Quick Wijeha's Medicivermaary, Which was 0 closed shop dem t ’ ¢ —_