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‘| 4 | sat ASTOUND ij Miia tnstaties, installed, they were greeted with th a Marsetitse, The President ? and Premier responded wit with a cheer for Princ ately NI NEW GUN’S REPORTED RANGE S U. S. OFFICERS Twenty-Two Miles Greatest Distance Shells Were Ever Fired—Use of Aerial Torpedoes Suggested by Ordnance Experts. WASHINGTON, March 2%.—News that German guns were bombarding | [re Paris at a range of about sixty-two | miles astonished American ordnance | 4 oMicers beyond belief. No such range of guns had ever | peen dreamed of, The| world’s record for long distance bom they said bardment was established by the Germans some time ago when at a range of twenty to twenty-two mile they dropped occasioned shells into Dunkirk. The greatest long range American | German troops suddenly rushed for- | gun yet deevioped is the sixteen-ineh rifle, which’ at the greatest possible | elevation, it is estimated, would throw ——_- RANGE OF 500 MILES | IS CLAIM OF INVENTOR OF AN AERIAL TORPEDO Carries Half Ton of Explosive and Is Positive in Going to Ta get, He Declares. The bombardment sf Paris recalls the story printed Mare 14 of an aerial torpedo which the in-| long range yentor, a Philadelphian, claims has a range of 500, m ‘The inventor ts | Leter P, Barlow, who has already in- vented an anti-submarine depth bomb used with marked effect against U boats. le \.. According to an account of his in- Yention app ing in the Philadel: | phia Public Ledger, Mr. Barlow says | his acrial torpedo is even more effec- tive than! his anti-submarine bomb, Sand is, in fact, “the most terribly destructive engine of warfare that the world has ever seen, Joseph Steinmetz, President of the Aero Club of Pennsylvania, who is an airplane en nd a well known manufacturer, said of the in- vention “There is danger that it will strike the German inventors’ mind soon, and T live in constant fear that Germany may grasp the principle of this torpedo before we can use It." Mr, Barlow is quoted in the artlele # that Gen. Squier was shown torpedo six weeks more than half a ton of J ously injured. a shell about nineteen miles, Evidently, ordance officers said, the German artillerists had new world-surprising weapon, although it was thought possible they might be using some sort of aerial torpedo, developed some Ordnance oMcora were at first in- clined to dbelleve the Germans were conducting their long range bombard- ment from some nearer point to whieh they had broken through, but on re- fiefiction concluded that even had the ward it would have been impossible to ng up and plaice heavy long range guns in such « short time Clark, Infantry, and 2fanuel Sanders, fleld artillery, aro ruffering from gun- shot wounds, and Andrew J, Hershey jinfantey, bas a shell wound in his left Bon Williams, colored, a stevedore regiment, a member of is the most neri- He lost both feet, sup- posedly In an accident has not been on the battle-front, and Thomas Arthur, regiment of engincers, has both legs broken, also supposedly accidental, although his regiment clashed with the ase enemy "HANG ALL THE HE RED GUARDS, GcAMAN ORDER 70 TROOPS Soldiers Operating in the Ukraine Reported Told to Take No Prisoners. LONDON, March 23.—German ofMcers operating in Finland and the Ukraine have ordered the soldiers to take no prisoners, but to hang all Red Guards, German newspapers report Georg Lede- bour, an Independent Soclalist leader, as declaring in the Reichstag, according to an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Amster Deputy Ledebour added “On the one hand we make peace \with the Boisheviki and on the other we hang them. This is the best way to stir up hatred that will laet forever against everything German.” The speaker was Interrupted by Presi- him to order. jovernment, raing, toa Heute, despatch {rom 4, has been informed by the feropol of the constitution ident Tauridian Republic, Whole of the Crimes, —_- NO INTERVENTION PLANNED, uding the the explo that can be inveh | It has a range of 600 miles and is} ; positive in going to its tar Tells Peers German War Prisoners “Two weeks ago one of th fore- | in Siberia Are Not Real most aernautical engineers and my- | Menace. self were told to go ahead on the first ono of the full sized torpedoes| TONDON, March 23.—Premier Te~ and not wait for a contract. lraucht told the Japanese House of “L offered the torpedo as a gift 0] peers to-day that the Government is the Government. nee ss “The authorities at Washington ad- |", considering veauabgch. bikes mitted when they were shown the |Beria, where enemy war prisoners are plans that Berlin could be blown off/no real menace, according to de- the map and the German nation could | Spatehes from Tokio. be whipped in thirty days. WASHINGTON, March 23,—Ger- “They also admitted that thou-|Man prisoners in Siberia number sands of these devices should be on | about 80,000, according to State De- hand before their use was com-|Partment information to-day, The menced, beca so simple is the Department, however, had no tnfor- principle on which they are operated |Mation about an attack upon or cap- that the German inventors more than | ture of Irkutsk, as reported in a prese Ukely would discover thousand of t of their cities, it after a fow} » had levelled some —>——__ 65 SICK AND WOUNDED MEN BACK FROM FRANCE Part of Contingent o of 101 Sent | to Base Hospital in an | Atlantic Port. AN ATLANTI PORT, Mareh 23. A contingent of 101 sick and wounded rt soldiers, sixty-flve of them direct from f TROGRAD, March 22 (United Press).—The Soviet commissaries to-day | ai make inquiries of America, Bi Japan regarding Japanese mobilization yecupy Siberia. he military commission, War Minister Trotaky, 1s plans for defen headed by considering | PRAYERS FOR BR BRI Archbishop of Specia LONDON, March “The Archbishop of Canterbury to-day issued the foliow- ITISH ARMY “It is obvious that in these days of al prayers ought to. be our church on behal! f France, arrived at a base hospital last nd the THgMools cause. fF 1) We are fighting night. Four of them were suffering mae from wounds and were probably under Roomanian Armistice Prolonged fire in one of the engagements he- pg el tween American patrols and German ; raiding parties wounds, how. |. ERIN. via London, March 88.~Th Roumanian armistice hae been pro: ever, ure xed for three days, the German War infantry: Ldoyd M. Olive announced to-day Why not try? *SALADA’ TEA ' ‘ It is so economical compared with ordinary tea or with coffee. you have that inimitable flayour. And then as his regiment | THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1918. SIX GERMAN DIVISIONS TO ONE BRITISH BIG EVENTS OF GREAT BATTLE; TOTAL LOSS MAY BE 325,000 German Casualties Alone Would Probably Be 200,000 on Their Own Estimate of Number of Prisoners Captured. stantiated the total losses on both sides in the Initial stages of the German drive will probably reach 325,000. Experiences {a this war show that the missing or captured are generally one in five of the total casualtios. This, according to the German estl- mate of prisoners, would place the British losses in killed, wound- ed and missing at 125,000. Aa the attacking force necessarily sus- tains the greater losses it may be that the Germgn casualties total 200,000. I Berlin's claim that 25,000 British were taken prisoner is sab- At Cambrai last November the British captured 10,000 men in a day's fighting. In December the Germans took the same number from Byng. In the battle at Arras last April the British captured about 12,000 in two days. Nivelle took 10,000 Ger- mans at Verdun in one day. In the Champagne in 1915 the French captured 25,000 prisoners in three days. British correspondents estimate that at least 1,500,000 British and German troops are engaged in tho battle, Tho number of Germans 1s variously placed at from 800,000 to 900,000. The British force is about 600,000. The Germans have ninety divisions ongaged. So intense was the fire of the great number of German mor- tars that at most points on tho British front the wire entangle- ments ceased to be obstacles and trenches were obliterated, Gas shells were used by the Germans in unusual quantities and British gunners were forced to Wear gas masks, This {s the first time in the war on the western front, since the opposing armies established themselves in their trench sys- | tems, that the defensive zone has been broken through. A British correspondent at the front telegraphs that one British division south of St. Quentin had to bear up under repeated assaults of six German divisions. This would make it appear that the weak spot in the British line has been found, GERMAN THIRD LINE TRENCH IS HIT BY AMERICAN SHELLS; SMALL GUN BATTERY EFFECTIVE Big Munitions Dump Blown Up by U.S. Artil- lery Fire—Heavy Gas Attack Is Launched _Against Pershing’s Force. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Friday, March 22. the Associated Press.)—Tho Germans launched a heavy gas attack against a certain town tn our Iines northwest of Toul last night. blowing and the fumes of mustard gas from the shells hung low over the lines for several hours. The batteries firing the shells were located to the right of Richecourt and our artillery was busy all morning with a retaliatory shelling. The town shelled contained a cer- tain number of Americans. Our artillery to-day dropped a number of large shells into Joun Wood and after firing a few minutes secured direct hits on the target, causing a tremendous exploston fol- lowed by dense columns of smoke as a big enemy munitions dump blew up. ‘The first explosion was followed by two others less severe. Our shells also made direct hits in the enemy's first and third Une trenches. ‘The Germans again have been giv- FRENCH WAR GROSS FOR COL. BARKER OF THE OLD 69TH pecan Sill New Yorker Decorated for Gallantry in Action During Hot Fighting an example of the accuracy of the (By|flre of our 87 milimetre guns) An enemy machine gun emplacement which has been annoying the Ameri- cans for the past two days was lo- cated and then the battery of “little fellows,” as they are known along the front, got into action, firing rapidly. They secured a number of direct hits and put the emplacement gun's crew out of commission, ‘These small guns, tl. size of a No wind was| » which are about e-pounder, are easily | moved from place to place even in the trenches, They also secured di- rect hits on the junction of commu- nication trenches as mer. were pass- ing and into the entrance of the du; out which a number of the enemy were seen to enter and from which smoke was issuing, None of the enemy was seen to come out, Threo of our patrols reached the enemy's line carly this morning, out ty the brilliant moonlight they were discovered and driven out by brisk machine gun and automatic rifle fire. Our infantry discoyered one,enemy patrol inside our wire, These Ger- mans were driven off and it is be- lieved they suffered casualties, pines, during which he learned the jungle warfare of the Moros. He was a Major when he went to France as military attache, Col, Barker is the son of Fredertck W. Barker, a Syracuso banker, and his home when on furlough is at Syracuse, 20 HURT IN DISORDERS OVER REDMOND ELECTION Defeated Sinn Fein Candidate for House of Commons Hit on Head With Brick. i , WATERFORD, Ireland, March 23.— Col, John W. Barker, ono of the tong erection of Capt. William Redmond con, sending officers of the 165th In-]q «he House of Commons over Dr. fantry—the old 69th of New York— has been awarded the French War Cross for gallantry tn action during White, a Ginn Feiner, was accompanted by disorders here which lasted all night. Crowds of men and women paraded the streets, Windows wore broken, firearms the recent hot fighting of the Amert-|were used and twenty persons were in- cans in the sector east of Luneville. |Jured. One cf there ts Dr. White, who was hit on the head with a brick when Word of Col. Barker's honor was re-| 11. resuit of the clection was announced ceived in New York to-day Capt. Redmond was cheered by crowds. Col. Barker relieved Col, Hines,| Joseph Deviln, & prominent Nationalist who was in command of the Sixty-|imember of Parliament, tn a speech from ninth when it sailed for France, Bo- fore that time he had been on spe- cial service with the American Em- bassy at Paris and had served as 4 window of @ hotel, sald Waterford had struck a blow for the honor of Ireland, Capt, Redmond said a thiumph had been gained for the polley ty and com- military observer with the British |™on sense in Trish Army tn France. _> Before the French Government WOULD KILL PRO-GERMANS. Job Hedges Declares “God Threw Us Into War, decorated him, Col. Barker was cited iu Pershing’s despatches as “a regi- mental commander of extraordinary courage and efficiency.” | signed to the Ninth Infantry and|of New York, in an address here recom served with that outfit during the| mended the death penalty for German- y : tha| Americans who live in this country an Spanish War. He served in the|Americans who It this count id battle of El Caney and the siege of| "We didn't en war, in my Bantiago. Later he gained his]opinion.” Hedges tod Almighty took us by the neck snd threw us into captaincy in campaigns in the Philip. i | waters. CHICAGO, March 28,—-Denouncing Graduating from West Point tn the] pacifists as the “illegitimate offspring | class of 1894, Lieut. Barker was as-|of a hope and @ regret,” Job ©. Hodges LIEUT, COM, ELLIOTT KILLED IN WARSHIPS’ COLLISION ABROAD L7.COM. RM ELLIOTT JR. | McCall mila 8. collided 1 Lieut. Commander Richard lott Jr, of New York and phia, was in command of the U. ‘ayer Manley when with a British man of war it in Europ) He was killed with fift rs of those aboard the Ma DUTCH SHIP CREWS EMBARK FOR FINAL TRIP DURING WAR 4| | Fifteen Men 5 Se and Hel Under Guard on the Nieuw Amsterdam. Unser the scrutiny of 100 Unit States Secret Service men and cu toms officia!s ships tn paring to-day for what probab! the crews of the Dut ew York waters are pr 9 will be their last transatlantic voyage while the war lasts | On the big Nieuw Amsterdain, the only Dutch ship in British American waters that escaped seizure | by the Allied Go he Dutch sailors and offic 0 to 1,000 | of them, will sail next Wednes It is known that some parting Dutch are outspokenly pro- | German, Fifteen such were suddenly seized this morning and placed on | board the Nieuw Amsterdam, to be held there under guard until the ship | sails, This was done to prevent them from receiving communications for thei nds on | the other side, It sald ihey | would be classed as undesirable} aliens and never would be permitted | to land in America again, On the other hand, there are some members of the Dutch crews who have declared their intention to be- come American citizens, whose sym- pathte# are with the Allies, aud who} j have established permanent Amerl- can homes, These will not be sent to Holland, and it 1s said that some of them can keep their old jobs on the ships if they want to, rece American wag ‘The ship will carry about 8,000 tons of rice and 2,000 tons of coffee for the yeople of Ho! of the de- ft was RAIL DIVIDENDS LIMITED, Must Not Pay More Than Regu! Rate Up to Last Jane WASHINGTON, March 23,—Railroads were forbidden by Director General Mc- ‘Adoo to pay dividends of more than thelr regular rate of the three years ending last June 0 from cash accounts on hand Dec, 31, when private control ended, Cash as. time are| presumett to be purposes | knd subject to Government ‘eontral They may spent only k ti purposes Moecitiod ‘by the ‘Director Gene oral. BRITAIN SAVES DAYLIGHT. | Clocks to Be Put Ahead on Hour To- Morrow, LONDON, March 2 eenwich time will be advanced } « ur, begin ning 2 AD ritain | will thus: b just one programm: TROOP MAILS Ih IN BAD SHAPE, WASHINGTON, March 23.—3ail ser-| vice to American soldiers with Pershing | is “completely de 4," according to Representatiy Mass setts, in the House to-day. Ho « \ the Post Office and War Departments have fall inate in routing the mails di this | to the nted ° many holds quick nec Tween the troops and thir to the best morale homes vital New Elections Are Ordered in Ramanin, JASSY, RUMANIA, Thu March M—The newspapers announce the Rumanian Parliament is to be dissolved and that new elections have been exdered. ‘ | southwest of Cambrai) | by local mists. lit as the most vidlent they ever endured, according to the Daily Mail's eleventh-hour | | mostly flew low, peppering our trenches with their machine guns. NEAR ST. QUEN TIN 0 DIVISIONS OF GERMANS DRIVING BACK THE BRITISH LINE (Continued from First Page.) attack drove them out, Reuter’s correspondent at British headquarters tele- graphs. A large party was surrounded and probably was captured, {Mory is on the northern battlefront, fifteen miles below Arras, It ts about four miles back of the line held by the British before the Germans began their offensive.) There is reason to believe fifty German divisions are flowing into the struggle, the correspondent states, and probably half as many more are in close reserve. There are probably 1,500,000 men engaged on both! sides. Under the tremendous onslaught the British troops are falling back | very slowly and in excellent order. At many places they are withdrawing voluntarily so as to maintain an unbroken front. The Germans this morning were pressing hard the British forces defending Hermies (about 2 1-2 miles back of the old line, in the region The scenes of activity behind the battlefront baffle description, but where there is the same well ordered organization and quiet conti-! Tt he weather is wonderfully fine, although the visibility is handicapped | BRITISH UNDER GREATEST BOMBARDMENT IN HISTORY One Division Held Back Six of the Germans’! Near St. Quentin and Only Withdrew When Darkness Came. LONDON, March 23.—The artillery preparation of the Germans in the drive against the British lines is described by those who took part in} correspondent on British front. acteristic of the fighting up to the present,” says the correspondent, writ- ing last night, “is that we did so well under the terrific impact. “South of St. Quentin one of our divisions had to bear up against the | repeated assaults of six German divisions, possibly 90,000 men, and only when the assaults ceased with darkness did our troops withdraw to strong positions behind the canal system between St. Quentin and the Oise. “It is estimated that altogether nearly 600,000 Germans participated lin the offensive. The enemy fought well and his gunners did good service. The quickness with which the guns were brought forward into No Man’s| Land after the infantry had advanced was marked. He had in many) places the advantage over us in positions and he was at all points largely superior in numbers.” “The strength of the mortars which the enemy brought up in such! great numbers in one corps’ front,” he says, “sent over such an over-| whelming weight of iron and high explosives that in most parts of thz| front wire ceased to be an obstacle and trenches were obliterated. GAS SHELLS DRENCH BRITISH BATTERIES. “At the same time all of our known battery positions were drenched with gas, but their gas shells failed to reach all of our batteries, nor dia | they succeed anywhere in breaking down our wire. At one point wher. | the Germans found our wire unbroken they set to work with scissors until they had made a way through, an incident reminiscent of the methods of | fighting inculcated by Frederick the Great. All of this was done under |v our machine gun fire. “A curious fact reported by our airmen was that the Germans com- posing the special assault divisions wore new uniforms, ‘Got on their | best clothes for a visit to Paris,’ commented one of our Generals. “Our flying corps did valuable work despite adverse weather con- ditions. One of our men in the early morning reconnaissance spotted \several thousand Germans moving westward south of Bullecourt and another reported three thousand of the enemy in a sunken road in this area waiting to advance. Few enemy machines were seen and they “The thing that stands out as char-| | BRITISH GUNNERS WEAR GAS MASKS. “This is the first battle where British gunners had to serve their guns in gas masks and it was a difficult task. Fortunately practices with gas | masks have been taking place frequently for an hour daily. 1 found every one | saw pretty confident. At first they did have a hard job to meet the masses of Germans who came on in denser formation than ever before, yet all reports show that they fought magnificently, The attack west of Cambrai failed. To the south, below St. Quentin one British division beat off massed attacks of six German divisions and killed thousands. The Germans advanced 3,000 yards into the British lines north and south of Croisilles by throwing 100,000 men into massed action on a seven-mile front. Eight German divisions attacked two British divisions on a six-mile front before Cherisy. The entire drive was made behind a barrage of gas shells and every- where British officers and men fought all day with gas masks on, Even this could not dampen the jubilation at the havoc they caused the German | infantry that presented such point-blank targets, British machine guns| worked terrible devastation in the ranks of the onrushing enemy. At least forty German divisions already have been identified as tak- ing part in the initial drive, and British flyers, who have the mastery of the air, report others hurrying up. To these 500,000 men, it is believed DUTCH MINSTER DENOUNCES ALLIES FOR SHIP SEZURE Dr, Loudon Calls Act Unjust and Others Assail Wilson in Parliament. THE HAGUE, Friday, March 22.~ Belzure of Dutch shipping by the Allled Governments was unjust, Dr. Loudon, the Dutch Foretgn Minister, declared to-day in the Upper Cham ber. “Without a shred of justice,” ho said, “the associated governments have carried out the proposals, als thoeh the Dutch Government in its reply went as far as possible to meet the demands of the associated powers, ‘The resounding protest of the Governs ment will find an echo in the two Chambers and among tho wholo Dutch people. It is a protest imbued with tho principle of right.” Senator J. T. Cremer attacked tho United States after the Foreign Mine ister had completed his statement. The Senator recalled the Hudsons Fulton celebration tn New York to commemorate the discovery of tho Hudson River. “A committee was sent to Amers fea,” he said, “and the speaker who representtd the Dutch Government ived with cheers by tho Americans when ho » a speech commemorating tho achievements of his Dutch ancestors. Then the Amer- feans had tears in their eyes when they saw our flag. The eyes of Amer- icans have no tears to shed now over the dishonor of our flag. America re- gards neutrality as partisanship, We refuse to furnish war materials to the Allles—that is the head and front of our offending.” Referring to President Wilson, Senator declared: “Preside calis himself our friend. Well, Heaven preserve us from our friends.” oniceaetsiillipaacseee BAKER IN LONDON, GREETED BY AMBASSADOR PAGE Secretary Nae Safely at Bri Port After Tour of the Belgian Front. LONDON, March 23.—Secretary |Baker has arrived in London, He was mot at the station by American Ambassador Page Secretary Baker visited the Bol, front King was rec tho t Wilson Friday and had a long talk with Albert iderable raiding » Belgian front, in conjunction with the present ¢ he British lines. eae Sake THREE SPANISH SHIPS SUNK IN THE ATLANTIC Barcelona Awaits Details of Loss Following Torpedoing of Two Others by Germans. BARCELONA, Spain, March 23.—The Spanish ships Jolet, Joaquina and Gua+ daiquivir have been sunk in the At« lantic, !t was announced hero to-day. No details were given. CHARITY. IMPORTANT! First showing of the most wonderful of all moving pictu Cardinal Mercier The Hero of Belgium in ‘TheCross Bearer’ CARNEGIE HALL To-Morrow Night at 8 P. M. and Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings at 8 P. M. Entire Proceeds to go to the | Haig has opposed even larger forces. In its extent and the ferocity ot ‘the fighting, the battle has never been equalled in intensify it was by the fire from the greatest concentration of artillery in the world’s history | inittee ho represented the army in the ITALIN | WAR “MINISTER site he Fepaaenied hy ara TO LEAD TROOPS AT FRONT; pee |member of the Italian War Com- Artillery Fire Increases on Italian Front, General Alfiert aren Cabinet Post] ROME, March Nuinerous patrol to Take a Command—Zu- encounters have occurred along the Italian front, the to-day, War Office announced and there has been some in crease in the artillery fire on the moun tain line pelli Succeeds Him. ROME, Friday, March 22.--Gen. Al- fier! has retired as Miniéter of Wal Le eee ee eee ai |6100,000 FIRE | LAID TO SPY | has been succeeded by Gen. 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