The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1918, Page 1

RET ET Re PN a a — ro . —_———— GERMANS STILL PUSHING HAIG'S LINE BACK Weather—Fair; Continued Cool To-Night and Sund . ot “If it Happens In New York FINAL ‘ It’s In The Evening World’’ (Om ¢ ap EDITION. re CUMMLMUElllllldlP Fa Tioy Books Open to All.” “Circulation Booka Open to iy ial > ue PRICE ' TWO CENTS. pace (the New Work Wo ‘reel’ NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1918. 14 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. _ ‘ pe GERMANS SHELLING PARIS « WITH 62-MILE RANGE GUN’ WITHIN 60 YARDS OF ENEMY! KAISER TAKES COMMAND: BOMBARDMENT LASTS HOURS: SEESHO MAN'S LAND FROM BERLIN CLANS ADVANGE TO SHELLS DROP EVERY 15 MINUTES FRONT TRENCH AT MIDNIGHT SDLINE; a (00 PRISONERS % DIVISIONS OF CERMANS "s"ssemitle iy, me Serbs ot he French Capital—city Raided From the What “We Looked Out Into No Man's Land, Which} E ‘ \ir Last Night and Again To-Day. the Germans Just at the Minute Had Ac-|GetTman War Office Announces That| FORGE BACK BRITISH TROOPS See Taos a odatingly Illuminated With Soari | me r Martin asia ial NUMaFGUT PIRTa oe British Have Been Forced Out of) PARIS, March 23.—The Germans have been firing More Than Half a Dozen Towns on Paris with long-range guns. Since 8 o'clock this morn- Green q licwrnts The tertee Wee Dalene ——Big Gains on Cambrai Front. IN NG Hl AND (AY BAT | lf. \ing shells of 240-millimetres have been reaching the capital i ha — of the Germans and Imagined- We Saw| t and suburbs at intervals of a quarter of an hour, killing Saw Hostile Soldiers Prowling About.’ | LONDON, Mare! oe racnived Here alates dliat Emperor William fe inceamm 5 the weecet . : ., about ten persons and wounding fifteen. The shortest dis- From a “The Germans Had Opened Up Their Artillery | ;,.,.,, Haig Admits Withdrawal in St. tance from Paris to the front is over 100 kilometres—about Bombardment Promptly at Midnight and| alee fee P : ° S b Cl ° i i ° m the Tops of the Hills Were Illuminated by | This annou ahi : dda : a OM : ie Quentin ector, ut aims 7 “hE aintyiiwo tiles, Front Red Flashes.” Leretcuts des aor “Hold in the North, Contradicting jin or a. t TCS! re { Th t that Pari being bombarded ‘ ie the Ber lin Official Report. ie announcemen' a aris was ing mbar ; sae ees was made officially this afternoon. AAouiesll yaar Wiles Ee ' BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, March U S “A Bullet Passed About Four Feet Over Our The German Heads; Another Hit a Parapet and Spat- tered Mud on One of Our Soldiers. He Trench Didn't Move!” BERLIN, Ma . Measures for counter-attacking the enemy's cannon captures so tar rmy gt ( hs vl : 23 (Associated Press).—The British, gallantly fighting, are still aca Gnilar axeeuling, oe Jare 15,000 p ; ha : Hs presenting a solid front to the fiercely attacking Germans, al- F A F ‘ By Martin Green. Crown Pri risoners, 150 na Fi ; A : ‘ An air raid alarm has just been given. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) k though the defensive troops have withdrawn their lines in certain " (Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York ning World). | the War ( - ne ’ nlacea fie atratarie reasons —— SOMEWHERE IN FRAN arch 1. \ een the | Md La 1 ot : 7 4 [he otticial announcement that Paris is being bombard tremain HIS is a story of a night in the trenches with the only unit of the) both erdun and i All day yesterday and much of last night the conflict contin-| rf ‘ ie 3 cS a ie eetars ent ‘Gunan efore the thi Aa A 7 f wo | unexplained until further details have been received. The statement in the American fc hich is holding a sector on the weste Bet ued to rage with increasing violence, as fresh German divisions ; ; i i wee bak Aaninnl di Par he) enemy) the British ¢ i r ‘ < patch that the shortest distance from Paris to roat is over 100 kilo- in F the direct: control of ts-own officers; Bor Whe) Redeticataad Weeens were hurled into the fray in an attempt to smash through the Brit- : ; : first time since {ake an active part in fighting we have a part) ¥. HI eas ac Arg ae | metres indicate it there has been no breach in the battle line above Pari : Wem art, les] ‘ la beCour Ss. of the line all by our lonesome, and French office ay we are doing our ichan t ile 5 Z ae ‘ . as would mit of bringin p guns to w 1 what been that calls for t but the highe ie a Between be ies Croleliies aii bi Ys kat ney Fifty Gevman divisions have been identified thus far on the| ; J . ; . poate e second erenity | \ : fj V af battlefront and prisoners have been taken from cighteen of them. isly rega as the extreme rang Bed 1s reached to put American] ¢ : He I 3 4-2 miles and the latte bode Some estimates place the number of German divisions engaged as Unless the Germans have some new invert uch range as sixty ; in 4 officers the| the form itish front high as ninety, but it is impossible to say whether this is accurate. jiiles is conceivab! The most powerful guns in action heretofore have er their owr c on BSbeBOE: AEN . ; ; ; a ae lieu and the Omi; ement sa The operation is so vast and is changing with such kaleido: | joo), able to hurl their projectiles only twent miles or thereabou thorities assigned us to a sector in ' h ids he li back a cndit Ray proj facia Tawa Haan cance tlanvan teed | tie scopic rapidity as the line surges backward and forward that it is| The calibre of the shells reaching Paris, 240 millimetres, is equivalent | e captt impossible to visualize the scene sufficiently to give a connected s ahs ; to about 9 1-2 inches. The heavy German ¢ Germans ma and accurate account of it at present. vane Throughout the night the battlefront extended southward, he mud in Flanders, but it can’t be the mud in our trenches and in our]... | of the fi tior 1 Wood and fought acr the es fire 17-inch shelis. had been under bombardment for about eight hours at the time of the trenches, In the trenches the| Roupy to the third hostile po: A 4 t > bel laren juale Olds: wast OF la and it was reported this morning that the French Army was now g despatch was filed, 4.15 P.M , and it sticks like mucilage. nere \ cr u 4 wd ———2¢<- and only serubbi t! ! Jaeg I erghase pote oe peel ude Sime he rma rcarae stavcaren or crnnas recor GERMAN FLYERS BOMBARD PARIS | pore erty tera ei cu a mv EL AGAIN DURING DAYLIGHT RAID era lc by years of to 5 of the United States and! PARIS, M lhe Germans la ta t t at ppalling. Ey 4 in the Philij Ther with and we ex-| lines in the W last n ; | bre {ma f th |Pursued by French Aviators After Dropping plained that ti renche: orkicf soak fires - Phe Serna sh at Powerful enemy attacks delivered with great w ii!) Explosives—Poincare and Clemenceau Visit into ourselve 1 of wha f like Ig HADEN 2! ry have broken through the British defensive : Damaged Districts During Attack SENT TO THE FRO NT TRENCH AT NIGHT. : oy a s ‘ g ack, that ¢ “Heavy fighting continued until late hours last m { night on the whole battlefront. During the afternoon ee i : , as ench village sever powerful hostile attacks, delivered with great weight At 8.20 this morning a few a es, gata very fugh miles of th of infantry and artillery, broke through our defensive wing Pa They were eine Uae slp ea und We cotld see quite pial ttt system west of St. Quentin. diy pursue sulatere’ cl f Paris @ 1 w dans have moun (oh ; . “Our troops on this part of the battlefront are fall T ! s 1 sh the , t ~~ ing back in good order across the devastated area of pre ; ‘eopnl Phamh Geni ranorad aaa , und een th t ma \ TTA GERUINANG, TON pared positions further west. atl. ve At RENT Cporied,. Siete ii hele in: happen Otte | ation in he G Srp verre terres “Our troops on the northern portion of the battle- 1 victi A later announcems ¢ further details of quarters showed wh in days gone by had landed some big |. : . : . mae {onid) Reliiog. front are holding their positions. Very heavy fighting projectiles in an endeavor to bi p the French headquarters Re TAaad with fresh hostile troops is in progress.” Pre P Clemence e Prefect of Police and A short din‘ance away, in tho direction of the trenches, there were | said the } The Germans f { ! to Mory, but er official it which bombs were dropped while the (Continued on Third Page.) espe dir tan " Second Page.) aid was still in p Going i vellar GOO pupils {