The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 2

AMERICAN TROOPS ENRAGED BY THE GERMAN GAS rockets were sent up. The barrage started at and continued for for ty minutes. Minewerfers are fired electrical thé entire battery being sct off simul taneously, the second attack coming before a varrage of projectiles, ‘The projectiles were equipped wit time fuses. ‘They did not explode until they had janded in the American trenches, This is the first time the Boches have used time fuses. In addition to this attack, an Im portant village was gas-shelled three times during the night. The gas at- tacks continued during the day The doctors hurried an oxygen tank to the side of one victim'® man cot. He drank In the oxygen from the rubber cup with a sigh of matis- faction at the temporary reliof. ‘The American Army has gas equip- ment and will use {t as demands, but It is a matter of self defense, The Boches introduced the gas terror to the world, Its use against the Americans has aroused the entire army to the stage of “ace- ing red. It would stir the fighting blood of| every American to view the hospital where lay the victims of the German eas attack. 1,200 Bombs Dro: Alrdromes LONDON, Feb The War Of- report un aerial operations nays Twelve hundred bombs were drop- ped Monday night. The chief targets attacked were airdromes south of Ghent, west of Tournaj and in the neighborhood of Courtral, Hoxtile billets around Douai and east of St. Quentin also were bombed heavily All our machines returned.” DEGLARES AMERICA FAILS BRITAIN IN SHIPBUILDING: Not Enough Laid Down in Either| Country, Says Member of England's War Council LONDON, Feb, 27.—The January output of shipping in Great Britain | wad leas than haif what had been expected it would be; the Fobruary building is no bette: States ts failing Great Britain as far 4 shipbuilding {# concerned, accord- ing to George Nicoll Barnes, Labor member of Parliament and member of the War Cabinet In ech in the House of mons | work. The winning of the war, he sald, was dependent on the output of ships, which might be built in large num! still if it was desired to| omp satisfactorily through the next | few month! oe AMERICAN SHIP RAMMED AND SUNK SUBMARINE Captain Sent His Vessel Along) Path of Torpedo and De- stroyed the U Boat. BALTIMORE, Feb. 27.—A_ slight dent in the bow of his ship and a check for a goodly sum in his pocket Were the evidences brought here by the master of an American steamship to show he encountered and sank a German submarine on bis last trip across. He described the action a» follows: “I saw the torpedo coming. I could tell it by ite wake, It was too late to etop and I just bad to hope it would Pose. It aid, ana I immediately gave ere to shift the course, a0 we fol- lowed directly in the wake the tor- pédo made coming toward us, “We bad gone @ short di when the submarine rose to (hi face a few yards away to see what | damage had been done, We were going at full speed and when he saw Qs the submarine wae sti\i ascend. ing. It was too late to dive, so he tried to avold our bow. [ ordered the whee! shifted and we erasied into It} There was a distinct shock | full tl aboard and, looking over wide, W could see the hull badly battered an: sitking rapidly.” —— LONG DELAY SEEN IN WORK ON NEW BROADWAY SUBWAY Shortage of Labor and Materials May Halt Extension Until Fall or Winter. Prediction wax made at the office of be Public Service Commission toda that the Broadway subway, whieh ty sw running between Rector Street @ ‘Times Square, will not be completed fo 59th treet he north and south until next fall at thé earliest If labor condit f materials Ate new line in Ma ontinue, it $8 announced, nattan will not be completed tte ¢ th before next wmter. This announcemer NH cause Gisappointment to thousands looking forward to the o#th Street extension Speaking of the delay in the Broad- way subway “ork an official of tho Fubije service Commission said "it ty not safe make any prédictions as to When the new subways will Be oven. The conditions in the la Der and material markets aie such tha noone knows what to- brigg forth.” ae Cami Resords. OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. 27.—Ai! ship bullding records for the VOM. it was declared to-day. Con- ts for 4600 wooden ships and torty- han nite have been let by the Imperial Munitions Wonrd | New yards to hasten the © t FOUR RADS WIT | AMERICAN HEL Chemin Des Dames and Champagne Regions. .—Two strong Ger- Dames region communique | je occasion stated to-day | In the Champagne twice attempted bombardments southwest Butte-du-Moanil ia located) but were region the Ger- | of the Chemin-des-Dames were Champagne, after a violent | , the Germans attempt- to approach the French lnes at joints of the new French porl- tions nouthwest of the Butte du Men- The aeaallants were arrested by | the French fire “There Was oon German! yon | intermittent quite lively character at [Chavos Wood and Avocourt Wood. bombarded | Two porsons were | reported Killed and eleven wounded.” ‘GERMAN WAR BUDGET UP 2,875,000,000 MARKS treasury Says Due to Interest on War Secretary ot AMSTERDAM, Feb the Imperial sec in thé budget debate in aid that the additional re-| marks over | 7 was due mainly to the increase tn the interest on that no funds for war costs were asked | in the present budget Dealing with and the United | the principal Roedern said | the yield from war profits with an additional levy, evening he urged ship | workerg vo put their backs Into their | would exceed | tax produced 70,000,000 marks @ month. | Fresh taxation proposals will be sub- | mitted to the Relchstag by Eas! Whether they will represent the| extensive financial legis! ed by the war or whether * temporary leg first atep in | tion necessit there might | still uncertain SUBMARINE SINKS LEYLAND FREIGHTER | |Philaeiphian Left be Port on|Jects apparently being a British Pod received yesterday at the| ¥y offices of the International Mercantile | Marine Company Line freighter Phijadelpbian bh the Leyland | She was a vessel was bullt in 1801. She flew the Britien they have received no oMcial notifiea- tion of the sinking, had heard re- steamship had been out of their bands | | for some thine, HOSPITAL SHIP IS SUNK; 164 PERSONS MISSING American Torpedoboat Lands Some of the Survivors—Eight Boats LONDON, Feb. 27. pital ship Glenarte C the Bristol Channel, unced officially tients on board. lianded by an American torpedo boat -The British how- | 41), There were) Survivors were . 6,807 tons gross . Was Dulit at Delfant Bristol! Channel is an arm of ¢ Battery on tue | the Atlantic extending into the south- nd Seventh Avenue on ns and the shortage nd and Wales have been landed here +12 HURT an OFF TRUCK BY SHARP TURK Workmen on Way Réconstruction Hospital Are to New U. S, row will Breaks All Ite Shipbuliding| motor truck carrying fifty workmen | States Reconstruction Hoa. near Colonta too short a turn an today made} ominion have nh the workmen were broken in Canada since March. with broken | The truck did not ‘The men are from New York and Jersey Ci nstruction have been geeaeg at Welland, “Vancouver and UARY 27, 1918. a note ca RE U.S.NAVY USES BRITISH TANK TO WIN RECRUITS IN NEW YORK IPRESS | (fF BRITAIN JMPAN READY TO ACT IF RUSSIANS SIGN GERMAN PEACE PACT | Foreign Minister Molen Says There Is Full Understanding With America and Britain. ONDON, Feb, 27.—"Should the Russo-German peace actual- ly be concluded, it goes without saying Japan will take the most decided stops,” Foreign Minister Motono is credited with saying before the Japanese House of Representatives Friday, in a despatch received here to-day “The fullest understanding ex- ists with Great Britain, America and the other Allies,” he declared. GUARD FRUSTRATES PLOT TO BLOW UP SHIP PLANT |Conspiracy to Delay Work on| Building Vessels for Emer- gency Fleet Thwarted. NEWBURGH, N. Y. Feb. 27 A | tempt was made to-day to blow up the the New- |compresser in the plant | burgh Shipyards Company here, the ob cy building ships for the er fleet The plot was defeated by William | Hogan, a guard. Hogan saw a man working at (he compresser and thought | man, {who was bending over, suddenly straightened up, struck the guard over sunk by @ submarine. She left here on| the head with @ club and escaped. 11 with @ catgo for England, of 5,120 tons and him a workman of the plant. Ti Hogan was knocked unconscious for time, but recovered ani started a sea of the plant Under a machine p found a bundle which he picked up and The Boston agents of the line, while| hurled as far aw he could. 4As the mis- aile struck it exploded, tearing up the | Mooring and breaking about thirty dows ‘UPROAR IN REIGHSTAG OVER VON PAYER SPEECH Conservatives Object to His Criti- cism of Opponents of Elec- toral Reform. AMBTERDAM, Feb. 26.—Friedrich von Payer, the German Vice Chan- dolor, in an address to the Reichstag, 4 to opposition to the Prussian | Franchise Bill saying “LT cannot believe that those parties in whose hands the decision lies will fail to realize what they owe to t | public in this critteal hour and I hope they will emphatically repudiate the suspicion that they really aim at an intolerable delay.” The Vice the Conservative sections of the necllor's apee tag seriously, judging from the com |ment upon the address in a Berlin de sprich to the Koeinische Volkezeitung which says It was known that von Payor de sired to settle accounts with the servatives, and he did perhaps more than it was good for him to do. A pass slonato outbreak accompanied this part jot his speech from all the Conservauve Payer should have put these pollt) groupe on the same level with traitors like Liebknecht and Ditmann (Soela leaders imprisoned on charges of incit- ihe treason) and with those who tos mented. the traitorous strike provoked | fremengous outbreaks of passion on éntire Right | qhere were frequent scénes of tun |weriously interrupting the deliv Jepeech, and at its cl [to drown tho hisses in the #bouting | a Big Germ AMBTERDAM, Feb. 27. ~The friends Houge a geet German cargo steamer afic the Rheinland, has been luuneve the Vulcan shipyards at Vogosach the Wescr, ten miles northwest Bremen. ‘The Rheinland reg 16,000 (ons. WILSON TO REPLY TO RERTLING AFTER CZERNIN SPEAKS Germany Must Modify Russian Terms Before Even Dis- cussing Peace. WASHINGTON, Feb, 27.—President Wilson will likely reply to German von Hertling's is believed to-day in official circles that he will not do so until Count Czernin, Foreign Minister Austria-Hungary, promised address, and until he is in- formed of Wngland and Fran tude on the latest German utterance. To-day Washington's attitude scems speech, but it That any discussion of peace terms must include Ru all other portions of the war map. agreed that the re-erection of Belgium and the return of North- ern France ie final and not even 100 women and childr to death, according to a Reuter despatch | CAblesrame seized by British censors. from Hongkong. Fire broke out and several hundred others were burned to| came into the hands of British censors death, | SIX MORE BODIES TAKEN FROM LINER FLORIZEL | to delay the work gency | That there must be certain def- nite commitments made by Ger- the acceptance of the four principles, which must be ac- cepted outright and not merely defined as being open to consid- “self expression” various nationalities must be made to the world and not to Germany, be conducted under auspices other than the German Ithe steamer |the Red Cross reached shore to-day that signals had » win- Because these preliminary condi-| negotiations were the treaty of- , & grave question arisen here as to the sincerity of the German Chancellor's speech, If the address was intended to turn! ing up on the rocks ne ‘ported that there It can be sald If Germany hopes to apply the principles laid down by Russia into consideration she has ‘The reconstruction of the world! must be begun from the conditions which prevailed at the beginning of the war, The faults whioh existed then and which mado the prevent war | | possible must be corrected. “accoptance” of the Presi. | Vesisiature dent's principles is far frem being | jenough to constitute even the begin: | toward peace. the acceptance of the principle mu: acveptance of thelr es- concomitants, ning of a ste and Northern | various bulkhoads to say nothing of Russia, | Alsace-Lorraine and the other por. | tions of the war map that Germany | |More at thetr feeding grou tions of the Reichstag. That von nierned German Officer Who Escaped Baker, 19 charge of the intern: ‘ re-|ist's Mate V. R. Petty, Naval Reservist ot the capture jot Ketchikan, Alaska, has been com- ht of Georme|mended by Beerétary Daniels for herote ships ;action. in Jumping overboard on the ped from the eus- Philadelphia laet er who had ea: of the | Bery ries by hand clapping ar Wife of Senator Ca: WASHINGTON, o Freighter Launced, died last night after | 35 SHIPS WERE SUNK BY THE RAIDER WOLF, BERLIN OFFICIAL CLAIM Some of the Steamers Were Loaded With British Troops, the Report Says. Berlin, Feb. 27. HE Germon raider Wolf, which has returned to a home port after raiding Entente shipping in the Pacific, destroyed at least thirty-five ves- sels, it was officially announced to-day. Some of the steamships, it is stated, were loaded with Knglish troop: 1 the sinkings, thére- fore, caused a corresponding loss of human life 100 CRUSHED TO DEATH AT CHINESE RAGE MEET Hundreds of Others Perish in Flames After Stands Collapse at Hongkong. LONDON, Feb. 7.—In the collapse of the Chinese public stands at tho/ Hongkong Jockey Club races Tuesday, » were trampled |New Search Made of Vessel Atter Report That Signals Were Displayed Aboard. ST. JOHNS, N, F., Feb. 27.—Men from r ner Florizel after word ) observed on the ship, rapidly break- Cape Race, re- vered, None, however, was identi- fied. “The body of an unidentiNed woman *©|was washed ashe ‘URAL school § STUDY URGED this morning | speaker Sweet Wants Committee Appointed for This Purpose. ALBANY, Feb. As a compromise to the varlous confilcting views concern ing the Township School Law, Speaker weet of the Assembly, at a hearing on the measure to-day, suggested that a ymmittee be appointed to study the catire subject. and report necessary Jogialation at the 1918 session of thi —__—— Great South Bay Ice Torn Ont. (Spectal to The Evening World.) SAYVILLE, L. I, Feb, 27,—The vast expanso of {ce covering Great South | Bay was torn loose to-day by an eighty- mile gale with such force as to detach d docking along | the shores, With some loss to oyster jante and suminer Waterfronts, But he long fasting wild ducks und géese |are having & Jubilee over, the “open patches of water and a chance once Daniels Herote WASHINGTON, Feb, 27. — Machin- of Jan. 27 and rescuing Stores ee 5. N | his footing while ‘ste who lost his ating stepping tr | fohore from the U. 8. 8, Kennedy Pou two United States Army motor trucks running from Buffalofto Baltimore, each carrying @ three-ton load, passed \Through this city shortly before to-day. They will halt at Yonkers for the night, In the hospital war Private Ernest Sugnar, with @ vroken arm, received while’ fighting snow and ice in the Mohawk Valley Nova who baarded was no living person aboard, Every part of the vessel remain- Jing above water was searched and the lhodies of five men and a woman were ARRESTED AS GAMBLER George Young Bauchle Declares Organization Has Not Vio- lated the Law. George Young Bauchle, President of |the Partridge ¢ afternoon in the District Att | ducting the auiry th, who ts con- mbling in- ney John Doe” # Bauchlo was taken on a bench war- jrant issued by Judge Wad |} Court of General Sessions and a jraigned on a charge of conducting | |® gambling room.He pleaded not m in the | gullty and was released in $1,000 bail | for examination on March 6 | "I can prove my innocence,” said Rauchle. “The club has not violated the law and I have not received any | money from it The testimony leading to the issu- ance of the warrant was given by James O. Stack, General Manager of the Imperial Hotel, and Cyril de Cordov a POET TAGORE ACCUSED | WITH GERMANS IN PLOT | | Letters and Cables Seized by British Censors Introduced at Hindu Trial H SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.—Definite connection of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, | celebrated Indian poet, and high offi- elals of the German Governm: with an alleged conspiracy to foment r | lution against British rule in India was | established to-day, according to cohten- Uon Into evidence at the trial of thirty- one alleged conspirators of letters and | The correspondence, it wea asserted, on the way from Rye, N. Y., to Rotter- dam, Copenhagen and other European points. At the time the letters and mes- sages were sent, {t was explained, Rye s the temporary headquarters of the man Embassy. ‘FOOD PRIGES INCREASED Gain of 2 Per Cent. in Month End- ing Jan. 15 Alone, Labor Department Reports. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Retail food prices in the United States showed an increase of 2 per cént. for the month ending Jan, 16 over the preceding months, the Laber Department an- nounoed to-day. Four of fifteen néc- essary food articles showed a decroase— flour of 2 per cent., and lard, bacon and cornmeal of 1 per cent. each. Exgs and potatoes increased 6 per cent. each; but- ter 4 per cent. and milk 3 per cent. Sir- Join steak, round steak and rib roast |increased 2 per cent.; pork chops, ham and sugar 1 per cent. each. During the year ending Jan. 16 the price of food as a whole increased % per | cent. All articles showed decided in- | crease except potatoes, which decreased |18 per cent ues |NEED 1000 STREET CLEANERS lewhite Win diately by City, Ofte! Say | lthe Street Cleaning Dopartment atated to-day that for the la |department had been running short- handed in the matter of street clean- ers Many of the me who were with the] department a year ago have left the plante an dother industries where bigh- er_wages were paid. \*"the civil. Sere Comal }a circular to-day in whi attentt “3 ment for 1,000 men. ——_~. William Marsh: conscious 0 | Found Un Sidewalk. ™ | THhirtioth Street, was taken to Belle- |vue Hospital to-day suffering from a sult of failing down the front steps of her home. Mrs, Marshal! was found unconectous gn the sidewalk by Patrolman Mullin of TraMe C. the hospital the aul geons a she would recover, Charles A. Krickt| | tlons of the prasecution by introduc | 25 PER GENT, IN YEAR Commissioer Arnold B, MacStay of ten montha his |service, he said, to work in munitions jon issued they ¢all to the needs of the Btreet |Gleaning Dopartmet ad offer empley- BROKER’S WIFE HURT IN FALL Mrs, William Marshall, wife of an | oil stock broker residing at No. 20 Bast | possible fracture of the skull as @ re- | SEES NO HOPE IN | RERTLING SPEECH A TTACES N. WASHINGTON AIRPLANE MAILS START APRIL 15 | French Newspapers Consider| Bays May Be bias din Net It Continuation of Effort to Split Allies. LONDON, Feb | words of Count von Hertling concern- ing Germany's pacific intentions and his partial acceptance of President Wilson‘s basis for lasting world peace jish press is virtually unanimous in| ; the belief that the whole Eastern | eituation has been cleverly arranged | {and plotted with a view to bringing |Wastern and Central Europe under | German domination, and for the vital himmediate purpose of getting food | trom the Ukrairie The most important news) tion, notably the Westminster Ga vette and the Manchester Guardian, seem to have undergone a change of cutlook as the result of the events of the past week, while the Daily News | to-day, although condemning the gntente for aiding von Hertling’s ar- gument that the Entente, and not ub, was arrested this| Germany, is the real obstacle to peace ffice of Assistant! because the Allies have not ‘ointt formulated war aims, says in effect | that no hope can be drawn from the} |Chancellor's speech, The Allied de-| | mocracies, it says, will not le: 1 down for the estab’ governance of the fut The Datly Chronicle says “Inconsistency between words and deeds surely se]dom has been carried further than in the contrast between | jons and the ac- von Hertling’s profe: tions of his Government in Russia.” “We are quite unable to believe the Chancellor t# speaking the truth, says the Morning Post. “What Ger- many does is alone worth considera- | tion. What Germany says ts Inter- as an essay in making the esting onl worst appear the better reaso: The Daily Telegraph thinks the| speech reveals an attitude as essen- tigily antagonistic to a peace wh estable,”” spicuous and de ally that the Chancellor's dec that Germany never thought sailing Swiss neutrality iy gravely ominous. Speech tor W in Parts. PARIS, Tuesday, Feb. speech,” not a “peace speech.” The French press generally con- siders the speech as simply @ contin- uation of Germany's efforts to cro- ate differences between the Entente Allies. “Von Hertling talks hypocritically about peace,” cays the Petit Journal “The speech {s a monument Of hy- pocrisy,"" La Liberte exclaims, Marcel Bembat in L'Heur finds the Chancellor's tone changed and at- tributes the modification to the in- fluence of President Wilson's mes- sage. Count von Hertling bas continued the policy outlined by Foreign Sec- rotary von Kuehimann and added ono more temptation, the Temps says. It addi by ofiting from the example fur nished at this very minute by the negotiations at Bucharest, von Hert- ling tries to bring Belgium to talk separately or at least to take sepa- ratoly tection against his viotim." e Hostile Fe ing the Night, LONDON, Feb. were repulsed during the night north British of Bu Field 1 Haig ried to-day Both enemy and British artillery were rtheast of Ypre this mo: active ni. $o far as the| | British public 1s concerned the mild apers | which lean toward peace by negotia- ve Rus-| sia to German domination but “will defeat it and overthrow Prussian | militarism by application of the prin- ciples which President Wilson has | ment and | ch |the Bntente oan accept as any of his | previous statements, “The apecionsness of the spoech only makes its hypocrisy more con- . Not Peace, Is View The con- sensu of opinion In official and dip- lomatic circles concerning Count von Hertling’s speech is that it is a “war the initiative toward general negotiations, But instead of offering guarantees to Belgium, he demands guarantees. It is the invader who has thé pretension of needing pro- Dar- Hostile raids st of Bt, Quentin, in the neighborhood and east of Vermelies, Here as Machines Fly to Mineola. WASHINGTON, Feb, 27.~Airplane service between New York and Waah- ington will be in daily operation be- ginning April 15, the Post Office De-~ partment announced to-day. Bight |machines will be furnished by the fali upon almost deaf ears, The Brit- | War Department By arrangement bet een Postm ter General Burleson and Secretary | Baker an aerial postal service will be conducted for one year as part of the viation training system of the army. machines will be piloted by army flyers One trip each way will be made daily except Sunday on a fixed schedule. The fiying time between New York and Washington is esti- mated at leas than three hours, in- cluding @ stop-over to deliver mail at Philadelphia The landing flelds and hangars will be located = probably in Potomac Park at Washington, at League Isi- and at Philadelphia and in Van Cort. landt k or Mineola, New York, Van Cortlandt Park is preferred, but the prevalence angerous air currents therg may make It necessary to choose the Mineola Field on Long Island, If the Mineola selection is made arrangements probably will be mado for dropping mail bags into nete W central station in the Metrop On each trip 360 pounds of first class will be carried, It will oe- cupy a space of not more than twen- ty-five cuble feet. Of the eight gir janes to be provided by the War partment, six will be placed in operation and two held in reser FRENCH AND ITALIANS ACCEPT DRAFT TREATY Nationals Here Must Enter Ameri- can Army or Go Home to Fight. WASHINGTON, Feb, 27,—France and Italy have accepted in substance the proposed treaty with the United States respecting military service of jRationals similar to that signed wigh says the! Daily Mail, which remarks incident- ation f as- Great Britain and Canada, Secretary Lansing sent word to Chairman Flood of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to-day that he had re- ceived that word in o cablegram from the American Ambassadors at Paris and Rome. The so-called Allen slack er Bill, which would compel military service of subjects of co-belligerent countries in the United States, seems cértain to come up for action in the House to-day, in spite of Admin- istration opposition, Before the sign- Ing of the British and Canad‘an treaties, action on the bill was de ferred upon request of the State De- partment. JERSEY PASSES BOXING BILL. Sena’ Concars In Hurley Measure for Etght-Rou TRENTO! J, Fed. 2 Senate to- passed Assemblyman Hurley's boxing bill allowing eigh round bouts with eight ounce gloves places where liquor is not #18, une der supervision of a State Boxing Commission, to\ be named by the Govs or, The vote was 11 for the measure J 4 against enators Pilgrim of Essex and Me- Giennon of Hudson ursed the pass of the bil, declaring that boxing could not be considered a brutal sport in th days of War, but that on the contra: it Was a useful thing for young. men The bil has passed the House and 1s now up to the Governor O'IED. GRAY.—At Aviation Camp, Millingten, Tenn., while aérving bis country, Oudet ROBERT GRAY $r., aon of Robert aad Clara Ritchie Gray, aged 20 youre. Gervices at THE FUNERAL CHUROM, Broadway, 66th at,, Wednesday evening, $6.80 o'clock. Interment Kensioo, Train leaves Grand Central Station Thureday morning, 11 o'clock. HELP WANTED—MALE. 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