The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1918, Page 1

40 GERMAN DIVISIONS USED UP — ate “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ ‘De |“ Circulation Books Open to All.’ | Copyright, 1019) by The Prese Peblishing ‘Co, (The New York World). __PRICE Two CENTS. 6 =-___— 4 Lower City Covered by Pall of FRENCH EVACU: EVACUATE NOYON, BUT HOLD HEIGHTS BEYOND Frequent Heavy Counter Attacks Have In- flicted Great Losses to Germans, Says Paris Official Report. | Black Smoke and Debris Is Hurled Across River Imperilling Pedes- trians in New York Streets. | - ‘First Crash at 3.06 P. M. Quick- ly Followed by Three es ll Skyscrapers Rocked by Detona-'x The official report says: tions—Mystery Adds to the Bx.| citement. jar At 3.06 o'clock this afternoon a thunderous explo- bec , sion in the Erie Railroad yards section of Hoboken hurled | ’ i@ lett bank of i a tremendous column of black smoke over a thousand feet! #!¢ holding in the air. | Almost before all downtown New York had recovered from the shock and the rocking of high buildings a second shock and a rolling boom hurled across the river. Then two more explosions, each of heavy magnitude, shook all the lower end of Manhattan. “4 line as | miles to the north of Roye. This between the two towns. French troops ginning of the British new line of the Somme first. Before the echoes of the fourth explosion had died! , awa great pieces of charred wood began falling from a| height of more than a thousand feet upon buildings and streets between Fourteenth Street and the Battery. Sev- | eral pedestrians on lower Broadway and in the financial dis | trict had narrow escapes from the debris. Later reports placed the scene of the explosion at the | Jarvis Warehouse at No. 238 Prevost Street, near the Erie] Railroad yards. The International Carbon Company’s| plant adjacent to the warehouses also caught fire after the | joy | )ec| nly 37, Not explosions. 12,000 Ma s Will be 7 A WASH M 6 t mushroom of smoke ) 1 1 jet of ae broadened and spread alo’ er rata until the heavy umbrell no A North Rive: City and Hoboken. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, PARIS, March 26.—The battle continues with the greatest violence, ' and the Germans are making still greater efforts, the War Office au- gion rding the German thrust, Frequ Jise firmly.” There is a slight discrepancy between the British and French reports on of the Allied forces, east of Albert and Roye. extending from Noyon to Chaulnes, the latter being six or eight may mean that the two armies overlap If the French line extends to Chaulnes the >w occupy three-fourths of the front they held at the be established, is the point from which Haig’s army ad The fourth shock followed within ten minutes of the | vanced toward apa ume at the opening of the Battle of the Somme LOnee ASSAILS U.S, DELAYS IN WAR AS NATION'S CRIME; “Sie=scsc A AN AIRPLANE IN FRANCE oss PLACED AT 550,000: { “Circulation Books Open to All’? | 20 PAG E 8 1918. NEW BLACK TOM IN JERSEY — SHAKES ALL OF N. Y. CITY » WEATHER—Partly Cloudy; Cooler To- nigh 28 i PRICE TWO CENTS. Haig Reports New Alignment of His! Forces, and Correspondents at the Front Assert Important Events the river. The German losses have been so great that the enemy has been obliged to bring up reinforcements from all parts of the western front. The War Office has established the fact that more than seventy German divisions—sbout 840,000 men—have been engaged. Following is the text of the report: “The fighting died down during the night. Our troops established themselves on new positions east of Roye and Albert. “North of the Somme continuance of the fighting ht the enemy multiplied his Noyon and Chaulnes, . The Fr of Noyon and supported effec- t counter inflicted on rt t order, The ght in perfec Gen. Halg says the British Parla reports tie) Brench is expected, but it has not yet developed. Attacks are reported to be developing this morning south of the Somme against our troops and those of the French in the neighborhood of Roye and Chaulnes. “The enemy’s losses continue to be severe. in 1916. Albert, east of which the He has been obliged to reinforce his battle front from all parts of the western theatre. a ee Over seventy hostile divisions are known to have been engaged in the battle.” Every hour brings nearer the moment when the Allied armies’ serve will be ready to intervene in the struggle. The German cial will be stopped as soon as its initial momentum is ab- sorbed by the exhaustion of battle and collision with equal forces. The way to Paris is blocked by a powerful French army under 400,000 GERMAN CASUALTIES Latest Figures Indicate That 850,000 Troops Have Been Engaged Daily to 500,000 for the British. "HOPES GERMAN G00, OFFICIALLY CALLED ON, WILL FAIL THE KAISER Decla w Defeat in West e Information, b’ iubject to official correction iM , ; ee “| PrOCKHOLM, March 2 A All t Yo e re A : S fe ays will ahow whe GERMANS BRITISH was br four ok 1 re ing) & “wasted # behind us, he t al number aK Total number engaged had the Er railr { aimed @ spec ) he six da ) pa six days World had the Erie ra ad tion ¢ A as ach numbe aged Votal number engaged da ; . ; MAES AE tr new a! casualtt ‘ Total casualties 0,! a 7 tin ding German New York 1 leaned y si the ttice buildi 1 NAVAL FLYER IS KILLED. arias de ee t 1 id v lack ° Kastan Betebanty of noston “TIN HATS” FOR WOMEN, | ' Loses fe In Floridan J e r WASHINGTON, M n 26 At fondon Milliners Sd ow battle ‘ hy) J y. Naval f r ‘ & ( { , 4 1 hs Y f 1 , : > plosion had not affected the ¢ train erween New York (Racing Entries on Page = WANT TO FLT ON PLESE Fs Take Father Joins Medicine uow,—sacvt. Several firniw ¢ fitters now in Will Be Recorded in Few Hours. LONDON, March 26.—The War Office report to-day shows } a realignment of the British forces north and south of the Somme | 26 (Associated Press).—There is reason to believe important, River, where it swings to the westward from Peronne, apd renewal |eyents will be recorded within the next few hours, which may lead of attacks against the combined British and French forces south of | jto betterment of the position of the armies which are stemming brightest pages. javiators and the service has proved fully its ability to smother the Ger= man airmen at a crucial time, ERIE YARD WAREHOUSES BLOWN UP FRENCH FORCED TO QUIT NOYON; IN EXPLOSIONS, FOLLOWED BY FIRE = 130 GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN ———__+ 4 —_____.. Terrible Losses Inflicted by British Gunners, Says a Correspondent at’ the Front—Latest Retirement Simply Straightens Out Line. BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, March | the German onslaught. The enemy is fighting desperately hard against time. On the first day his reserves were reduced to fifty-two divisions. At the end of the second day some forty divisions from the reserves had been put in, A heavy German attack yesterday about Ervillers was com- pletely smashed by the British artillery fire. Last night British aviators took heavy toll from the German infantry in Bapaume. No officia! figures are at hand, but from compilations made personally the correspondent is convinced that at least 130 German airplanes have been brought down in the last five days. Bapaume was turned into an inferno by squadrons of British aviators, Their bombs tore to pleces whatever was left of the place. The work of the British flyers since the beginning of the battle has been one of the Bitter battles in the air have been fought by scores of The computations of German airplane losses have reference to only one section of the battlefront, comprising perhaps two-thirds of the line | affected. Reports from all along the front indicate that the German loss of life yesterday was heavy. The enemy advai ed against Allied gunners and were firing with open sights. The fighting yesterday continued wi he whole line. th more or less intensity along The Germans pushed hard in the neighborhood of , Estrees, Dompierre, Merricourt, Miraumount, Achiet- and Ervillers. Fouches, Cnaulnes, le-Grand, Sapig Heavy fig wa xermans now hold. vely little change in the line, had been reported up to 16 my strongly about half Somme. 1 by the 3 ymewhat from t [ No heavy Velock way bet attack The f g troops, throught which bulged ine ll back s straighten the front, “ HAIG READY TO MAKE A STAND AND STRIKE POWERFUL BLOW London Expects Change of Situation in Forty- Eight Hours—Recruiting Renewed With the Miners’ Organization Assisting. YN, March 2 Military expe -day expressed the belief" 1 . and that within troops to cease their ree OND attack, I for every foot ff ground, the British ting ne