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

ner ae vo IP A 8 OE A I AE RAMEE RN NY em RN NRNREDRR NE: THE EVENING WORLD, "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1918. | U. S. TROOPS FIGHT SHOULDER TO SHOULDER “WITH ne ALLIES A ec AMERICAN TANKER Map Showing Lines of Great Battle in France Hi the Somme. Their troope show ex- eerne Battie ts far from over, Other With Paris and Sea Both 55 Miles Away | haustion. Reserves, however, are | crines are porsible but Aba in on | ~ coming: up north of Albert. our aide, The enemy ts rther from i} TTBRLeGcT. *Bouth of the Somme, fresh enemy | hia raltheads. His ‘ines are con- SENT lJ BOAT DOWN | t attacks are expected. Their reserves | gesting, creating difficulty in mov! meneame pRivisH REPULSE ATTACKS AFTER HOUR'S FIGHT IN VERY HEAVY FIGHTING \,.: cover ve ' Enemy Thrown Out After Entering Positions) South of the Somme—Situation Around Albert Remains Unchanged. LONDON, March 27,.—In his report to-day, Field Marshal Haig Said: | ~—UNDERFIRE OF U 8. GUNS Pershing Bestows Distinguished Service Cross | On American and French Officers for Gallantry in Battle. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, March 27 (Associated Press).—The American artillery con- tinues heavily to shell towns held by the Germans and German batteries opposite the Toul sector with gas. Naval Gunner Reports Sub-| marine Disappeared in Dis- tress—Attacked Twice. while inspecting enemy trenches ta the Toul sector early yesterday, elcountered fifteen of the enemy and immediately opened fire with their rifles. They also used grenades, and, © after a few minutes, managed to get away safely, taking turns at covering each other's retreat. They got bask WASHINGTON, March an hours battle with # German U boat on the morning of March 1 the American ol] tanker Paulsboro sent ne enemy vessel beneath the waves The Germans themselves'have rec! bes ed a ” Navy “As a result of the enemy’s attacks yesterday afternoon and | “@amased and in distress,” the Navy} peaiens . to the American lines without ® ‘ . a % ss | Department reported to-day, | cated in kind, bul the doses of gas] scratch, but it 1s known that three evening astride the Somme, our troops on both banks were forced | + waw the tanker’s second struggle! sent against them by the Amerteans| Germans were Killed and others were . : t oubine i have been twice as large ad the lat- | Wounded. back a short distance in the neighborhood of Bray. elt » submarine to aie days, ter have: received. + a The honor of being the first men ' : n | » the firet encounter, a torpedo F outside the American service to re- “A heavy attack made early in the night against our new line jmissed the boat by twenty. le The hig of Richecourt, one of the | ceive tho Distinguished Service Cross 3, " 7 fT ae jyards, I shots at the submari avgets of the Americans, has been | has fallen upon two French officera— south of the Somme was repulsed atier severe fighting. At one [oo") divine Aram bt! | abandoned, so far as American patrois| Major Jacques Corbaron of the ti 7 river “ | whieb reconnoltered ni the t French Mission, attached to the point in the neighborhood of the river the enemy forced his way Tm the second battle a submarine ear the town! american forces which were north of | Were able to determine, | The American artillery a | jing up a stream of othe about 5,000 yards dead ahead opened fire tandem fire, then salvos, then firing shrapnel. Some of her | | Luneviile, and Lieut. de la Gigials of | | fifty shots reached their mark, com- | i the artillery. These officers gave as- sistance to the American troops while they were under heavy fire. The Distinguished Service Crosse also has been awarded to the follow- into our positions, but was thrown back by our counter-attacks, “Further local fighting has taken place also north and north- east of Albert, but the situation on this part of the battlefront re us 10 Is keop- shelis on enemy positions in this region, St. | Baussant. northeast of Richecourt, ing clowe to the American gun crow ; : 3 becn heavily gh fing cans: Col. Douglas Mfao- ains unchanged in charge of Chief Gunner's Mate [has becn heavity shelled with high|ing Americans: Col. | } mains uni ala be are q Heiter of Monomines Shes, jexplosives, and enemy dugouts and | Arthur Col. George f Leach, Pau In the German tactics of pushing in by sheer weight of numbers, ‘reiting of the struggle after the |anipers’ posts in the vicinity com-|hcman Te Handy, Capt hig? the non-commissioned officers have proven themselves very valuable,)"!>™arine had started to manoeuvre j Dletely silenced McCauley, First Lieut. W. K. Word, i * ; astorn, Relter’s report gald in part: Yesterday a group American | Capt. ¢ fag tres a Lith nad Wee according to the correspondent of the Daily Mail. “Tho after-gun appeared to have |#nipers discovered an enemy nest) {vy Sb” Rosenwald of the Medical more yolocity than the forward gun close by and promptly opened fire on| Corps, All these officers distinguished “They have led and rallied their men with energy and tact,” he ' and the shells passed over the ship The Germans replied with their| themselves in the fighting on the * writes. “We have been told sometimes by people who pretend to under-|and struck near the starboard bow. rifles and then fired atout three} Uunevi ctor. | o 0} Jozen or 80 des. >parent! stand the German Army that in these very qualities non-commissioned | A Hoerce fring was kept up from that dozen or so grenades. Apparently the Germans jangle until the submarine got astern, not Intend to be chased officers would be found lacking.” Apparently picking her own position, ‘out. One of the American 37 milli-|1ANG.—t 28, at hte At Noyon the French are on the German flank in a most dangerous |#"° Temuined elightly on the vessel's thetre Gun (eames thea wot Into action) TTA RD LAN gto ’ port atern and fred from that posi- j against the nest, and owing to its! i"! a Kevbel nod Reswaall position, thelr guns being able to command the German lines of com- | tion the forward @un's shells tit! accurate fire no more Germans were| © \"., Petre oat t the entire distance Hindenburg has advanced |@'0pPing shor: seen at this particular point a munication for almost the 5 “The submarine then drew closer, ACRUIDbEN Gf these: barns Hib mies | sday March 28. against the British. valps both gana yy re es fobtained dir lta th @n ahaa Merritt Funeral shells fa’ on alde _ fa Z ptained dire s In er Military experts nid gpk ue tee Eerpans vend Yd lant. Shrapnel Was TOW weing teed rapid fire was kept up. The sub. oneitieds municating trenches, while men, aie their flauk so dangerously expored, and expect the counter and some of the shells burat before | marine had upparenuy dropped badk sibly officers, were passing through | Maren 23. 1918, PAUL attack to beg'n at that polat. If made in sufilelent force, they say, bo hae Pensa rg Pscooig the deck. |and ship's shells either fell on top of |them, and also fired effectively, us it will result i thing short of a disaster for the German force: side on the pert fe durat againet the| the submarine or close to her bow laid snipers, on parties of Germans | from hie late resigeneg,. Ta Monday Is sald to have seen the bloodiest fighting of the whole ° SL Gr RE it castes OF | av., Brong, Thuraday 1 P, M war, the German losses alone being fixed at 250,000 by some “Shells fell in ail directions on both sides and over the length of the ship. servers, i A shell burst close to the ship's stern, Fragments of it becatne imbedded in the wooden deck at the rear of the | gun crew. Another shell burst along- swung broadside to and submerged or sank, bow first, with the stern up at an angle of about 15 degrees. She disappeared in about twenty seconds It js believed that the submarine was damaged and in distress, R hd Liue uniforms, the first time | Uniforms wero seen on this front, | Normal aerial activity continued yes. |who were dressed in light and dark the weather belng favorable. | pt Lutheran Cemetery. —ALEXANDER SCHENCK, at CAMPB! FUNERAL Broadway, @6th st., Friday, jside of the starbourd bow, The tre- |mendous concussion threw all the | men on the platform to the deck face forward, “Both of the Paulboro’s guns now had the range of the submarine and a “The Vacuum O}1 Company praised the gun crew, and the master of the vessel, Frank W. Chapman, added his praise for them, for Reiter and for Conrad Johannson, who was at the wheel, “EVERY MAN WILL DO UTMOST,” One enemy plane fl lines doing photogr: ¥ low over the | STONE.—WILMER STONE. c work, The! — Serv ti-alreraft gunners drove | OHURC ,off enemy airmen who appeared singly | day. & or in groups. There were several aerial combats between planes carry- ing American observers at the guns, but these were withow. result Two A _ ENTIRE GERMAN RESERVE CAST INTO ATTACK AGAINST BRITISH e . e Total of Nearly 200 Enemy Divisions, Possibly | 3,000,000 Men, Believed Massed | on the Western Front. LONDON, March 27.—Telegraphing late on Tuesday, the corres-| pondent of the Daily Mail at British Headquarters in France says that nearly two-thirds of the entire strategic reserve of the German Army has| now been thrown into the fierce and vigorously continued attack. | “This Gennan reserve,” he’ adds, “consisted of eighty-five divisions, | tulalling 1,275,000 men, out of a total number now reaching not far short f 200 divisions, or possibly 3,000,000 men, which they have upon th western front, “After the first day thirty-three of these divisions were put into the n of an erlcan patrol. LONG RANGE GUN INTENDED * TO SHELL LONDON, HE SAYS | a is creer | | German Ordnance Offixer Declares Bombardment of Paris Is | Only a Test man aiithority on ord a ys in the Vosatac! Zeitung lin that the bombardment of Paris ‘8 merely in the nature of a trial for; kins which are really intended to bom- | ard London, Big Battle. are again at acwst« in the war, The encmy has collected on this front | GEN. HAIG TO ENGLISH ARMY | Field Marshal’ s Stirring Address to British) ONDON, March Field Marshal Haig issued the following special order of the day to the British Army on Saturday: every avatlable division and is atming at the destruotion of the British Army. We have already !nflicted on the enemy, in the course of the on’the Third Day of the | L “To All Ranks of the British Army in France and Flanders: “We last few days, a very heavy loss, and the Frenoh are sending troops as { | | i | | Just Arrived! ! The Cunningest Little Bunnies and the Cu You Ever Saw Are Now Waiting for the Kiddies at All Wry Stores. rY LITTLE, FELLOWS that tools nt the kiddies with thelr e tnike mi ind new ‘macn 1 8 point on t LIN, ; Excha ; battle, On the third day another twenty-one are known to have taken| quickly as possible to our support, on kn ee Geka | part. Since then they must have drawn upon the reserve for a few more “I feel that every one in the Army, fully realizing how much de- ndon is about 125 miles from the | pends on the exertions and steadfastness of each one of us, will do his utmost to prevent the enemy from attaining his object.” penne GERMANS TOOK TWO MONTHS sions, ’ ‘It is therefore clear that we have been struggling with the whole available strength of the German Army, and the marvel is that our sol- diers have held out so obstinately and steadily against odds so heavily egainst them.” 'NO SCARCITY OF LABOR | IF PAY IS FIXED RIGHT |. cording to @ Headquarters announcement says “We continued the bombardment of | oftictal statement from to-day, ‘The| general May Be 50,000 Idle Men in New} “There {9 no scarelty of labor in New tench sihes Mondey Sch and a were ern IS ONCE MORE BEING URGED *“s5" oll ‘mines Ee yas wie ee Ere a t| OEM, VON BLOTTNITZ ar manager of the clearing b. ployment offices of the State Bure Employment at No. 44 Last 23d 5 AILED AT ST, QUENTIN Mr. Woodcook was discussing intone, of Onecof of German Di- | report sent out from Washington by the} — visions Fell Friday, Says Am- long white, silky fur and come tn PAVIER MACHE BUNNIES—Very Ufelike and canning: white Will Result From It.” AMSTERDAM, March 27.—"A great battle has been fought and victory has been won, but nobody can foresee what will result from it,” in Period of Training to Be Shortened England, and Younger Classes to MENTE FE “ihe KABBITS—Novelties | said Gen, von Ludendorff, Chiet Aide to Field Marshal von Hindenbur; pmbers of the National Conference of on ie to lors. \ hry : uh ! al ve Jenburg, | members of the 3 al Conterees ste nd brown colors, rt ise BON Be caren the Ke be ‘ ae In an interview with the correspondent at the front of the Tages Zeitung Herre Me ee ee Rap teageto aa ac HEeA Despatch. be RACH 19¢c Nery long tie ty 29C&49¢ LONDON, March 27.—Discussing means of replacing the losses ol | ; 0) jouncd! ren as, ta: ¢ AMSTERD, Mareh jen. von — ’ 5 of Berlin, there were at present at least 60,000 idle! piotenits, i Can ' : A j commanding one of the Ger man power in France the Daily Mail suggests it probably will be foun. “The preparations for the battle meant. two months’ of strenious eee eee ee one ne ment | mae divisions attacking Bt. Quentin AFew of Our Many Easter + Candy Specialties;| ' ; A : ANT OIk tua itcalnetae At eal . used thin statement as an argument | was in action Friday, according my necessaty to shorten the period of training for recruits and to send toj labor,” he said, “In the begl ining at February the order was given | nepinat, the employment of women In| (oq hen received hera from Ger-|l gait Chosslate Hellaw Best. each Pape, the front the younger classes at an earlier age than heretofore, jand on the night of Mare vk 0 ne Ye ae begun, right to the mine} yo ‘not dowbt the statement,” sata 8" *Uren® tonday, +++5 25¢, 50c, 78¢ 3 see the result.” Yoodcock, "But don’t think all | . Sir Herbert Morgan of the Misty of National Servise (onlay Urged ne eee a isn coo ur, Wondcech But don thine!!! BAUCHLE PLEADS POVERTY. | hy 19s, 34a and 666 ener ¢ o . the enlistment of men of fifty years and older for home service in order thelr tenacious remiatance, and O96 | sive means in his favor, Undoubtedly letting for a wood. pale are flmply | The marital adventures of George he to release younger men for the fighting front, |tinued: ‘The British believed {hey the British use machine guns esd inesa people who have been crying) )Ups Rauchle, lawyer, and president |} Assorted Chocolate Cream Eggs, each ‘3e MA} much skill gbout the shortage of labor and urgit the now notorious Partridge Club |T Assorted Chocolate Cream E, All physically able Russian subjects in England, this newspaper says, |¢ould rely on the strength of women Into industrial For instance, ¢ sone ‘Jehinery, ‘Tho employment of tanks) ce, they con were unfolded this morning in stru b a 0 C1 rt 7 are being called to the colors, authorities having cancelled the recent OF|anq great numbers of machine una] te rd iecra saan. oartiaere, starts never trled paying, men. Court betore Justin, fiers, |] Asseried Exansnes Starrs Sony. see By : 0 ches, ch mac ey, te ¢ ury in the ault of his ex-| der which temporarily suspended the summoning of these men. lie typical of their methods of Ware! is are planted. Such eens ‘einen What they pald the men, ‘They | ite ¢ ‘sit Ona hci atlinons Rouad Easter Box, Alled with Ascorted Chesal San is nn a * ‘ lat ” Ns 0 not explain that had they kept men es Bauehle tes a i‘ The Daily Telegraph for the first time urges application of ¢ n. | fare Bais tanec |cannot we observed by our artillery, {At work they Would have had to pay | pjaf'Ma,klorence Pyles Hauehle test: |1 CR ATES—Chocolate Marshmallow Eggs, Bin acrat 18e paeNY ¥ ' ‘ak tn tan ‘ ‘The German Infantry hed only one) and in foggy weather especially can. | More” 1 | teno without making any clatin for “ an scription to Ireland in order to replace the recent los | night reat during five or six daya of| not be reached, Our intenury aes | a fea wor aa er jatimony: be ‘cau at Husband are Srevslais br ical an ie i i if e| ts ¢ ” 1 ad sinttate - | agreed to pay her $400 mont ‘he « “The question of extending the operation of the military service | pattle me ,,|take all these machine gun nests, | — [payments continued never decreas: | Mids uslly Bee Pond. Led act to Ireland,” the paper says, “must call for reconsideration by tho re, “mn # pattie ike bala ie marke, | scattered everywhere over the battles | | TALIANS REPULSE ENEMY. Ing emounte Until November, 1918.) i ty vase a pial 7 cr i “the infantry! a ite) eld, | ‘uchle told. the c hat she ta Sve Who realize how magnificent has been the contribution of Irish regiments} not only once but continuously, from|” “our men advanced with great | | soum aroren Niue advanaas (Et i je told the court that she ta} to our past success in this war and how priceless from every point of |trench to trench. Jelan, wo that it was dificult to follow |port the Arsa Vo repulsed enemy | “lin 8 virutally without funds. | interview published in by rifle fire, In an detachment says to-day’, i Metal — €0 Patrol 1 view would be a fuller participation of Irish manhood in the salvation} the] them with tired horses and damaged | Votksaeitung of Cologne Gen, von Lu. 1 SHERIDAN HAS BAD TURN, WENED NOCGAT—Dainty munication “if fee of Europe, In this hour Irishmen will be conscious, if they never were |genanere sald: {See REE BR ABIFIE OF: SN SRG 18 jeounters occurred along the Plave ani aed | Rota hoc on eplendic Montello. Po} , ‘| es. ; (olighy ‘ ow s , is cast of Policeman Martin. Bheridan, world before, that it is that and nothing less from which so many of them are| ‘The course of the battle goes ex-| LONDON, March 27.-~The German | "on the reminder of the front there |¢amous alt round athlete, ill In St. Vine jactly aa it wae planned and a9 It Was| way correspondents agree that Gen jhoped it would go. The infantry has! von Ladendorff made the jcompletely maintained the spirit with /ine German offensive, were desultory arti! ere more intense a plans for | Monetal Kemion, Copenha- lery actions, which cent Hospital with pneumonia, had a intervals’ in’ the }turn for the worse early to-day and his| ondition 18 reported ae extreme) orit: | standing aloof.” the { dave. corps a | ‘a cf « WARNS USERS oF LIGHT. Met if * ng ¢| which It ntered, the war in 1814, and! gen correspondent of the Hxchangy | Americans on aaity |! sad oniomeenatiees | a ptrletty nt ou mort his will bring further succeswes, a . P pe ptounty rat eport upo! hen ae peter pareniyer t Kraph Company reports, ‘The | ‘ tow. | 2netatiet Whe Ram fer Congress! ith the finest Oll Fit A | ar faving iy hough the en still strong and |General on Friday was present at the | OTTAWA, 0 The follow: | Under Arrest. hE big ee + dese jah Vieotar fights with determination Mane Ce a ) order personally. to {tng Americana are mentioned In to-day'a! spay, Pa,, March Ralph Tillot- |} | of pear etene * + duplicate Purl “We have succeeded in changing {control the ¢ Killed tn action=] on, recogniged Socialist leader and |) ere i a teagrant, Gevley issued to-day his weekly warn the fighting from position warfare to| ’ “tng about what he wae going to do tu | into effect fare of movement, although tho |Cor Pr laor ‘. sins \ Netore of tae night” ondex, |Reen no pro attacker had everything against him |e ‘hin Neoit, auch te ig Wales 6 effect Thursdays and! turned off for vrief perioua! and the defender bad strong defen- Giuperor and Crown Prince, F Geodore, Cleveland, U, aot . ——$—$—$