The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1918, Page 1

CELTIC IS ‘ “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ Che ~ |“ Cironlatior lation Books Open to All’ “Circulation Books Open to All.”’ Lada = Ss. the ty Work Werte NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1918, 16 PAGES ‘PRICE TWO CENTS. _ | ~ Pee crmnseeopamee.s niga oer gamers ape) DEY aC EEA AER BTA. 9 VES ~ THE STEAMSHIP CELT WAS ATTACKED AND TORP DOLD B BYA GERMA SUB! EA e CORDING TO RELIABLE INFORMATION RECEIVED TO-DAY IN MA. RINE CIRCLES HERE, DURING A VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO ® AMERICA. EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO SAVE THE VESSEL, WHICH, IT IS BELIEVED, CARRIED NO PASSENGERS. WEATHER—Probably showers late te night. NAL) EDITION GERMANS AGAIN THROWN BACK IN ATTACKS SOUTH OF SOMME | ‘GAMBLER IS SHOT DEAD; ~ SAM SCHEPPS IN CUSTODY IN ANOTHER ROSENTHAL GAS Harry Cohen, WI Who Was ! on Testity in John Doe Inquiry, Mysteriously Killed. KNEW OF IF HARE -E M RING. WITH MURPHY AT Held for Investigation. They Discuss Hearst, and Leader Asks About Warn- ney James | ing Letter to Officials, Smith this afternoon a mass of evi Harry Cohen, gambler, No. 7 West 2d Street, Assistant District A | een id have laid com-| | ume known to-da gs of the most} important conference had ring In H Jat Adantic City between Mayor Jonn rning |! Hylan, Tammany Leader Char Ji. Murg Aldermante Presid w Mifred EB, stir r A. Whalen i Mu j y wasp x The \ t is ' \ ee ‘ Smith told an Eve Ww r i . 1 Mrs, Hylan and Hiss V n, Mrs. Mur her Mra, Sa 1 Mrs. W » McKenna, and si t your a and get him quick.” Schepps was a witness in the first |! known | After the ding a private din party 1 u diploma timation that the Board Walk was t und Ww hereupon the \ffairs of adi chairs avatlab' Rosenthal murder case © the police as a gambi andy man in underworld do’ were loft to di ate among them was brought back fro h wireless own that several importar were discussed by Mays and Leader Murphy, The fir was the Gubernatorial « of Mr. Hearst poken publ Hear wo ment Ac SCHEPPS AND TWO OTHERS NOW UNDER ARREST. nd at 11 o'clock | pad 1 mak New Y hough th e taken © three wert the Dist "Did y ¥Yott?" & trict Attorney's oltice Yott” was one f Cohen crowd, “Do y “T do," Schepps a and I consider urrest jetion ar outrage.” “Do you know t murd ‘Harry the Yott " wa conne with the arre ft Grace Leslio “1 do not,” said Schepps. CONFRONTED BY ONLY WIT NESS OF SHOOTING, BSchepps was thon confronted Joseph Edney, elevator boy at the| Raleigh Apartment, who was t \ nilsson (Continued on Second Page.) ven (ent fH st THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU. | the Dopocasing. Amade Pulitzer (World Isha / HM 09-68 F ny 7 many oad Se a nstrined lub to b sae saltnen Hall into line labital tor’ Ge ‘and Bouth American Steamship Lincs, Trav \ Checks aad meney orders for sale, Check room Tasesee and parcels open day end niaht ‘Beekman 4000,—Adrt, <= Ex” icsAsyrt: |LONG RANGE U.S. GUN lessee ——_ + 4 > —__—_ THREE DAYS AT FRENCH FRONT BRITISH HOLD ALBERT LINE | AT HEIGHT OF GREATEST BATTLE AGAINST TWO NEW DRIVES: MILES OF SINGING YANKEES artin Green, Evening World’s Cor- RUSH FORWARD TO RATTIE| rin Green Evening Worlds Cor FRENCH RETAKE A VILLACE —__—__——_— | Struggle in Valley of Oise and | Parching’s Army, Under Direct Command of| Entrance of American Engineers. Paris and London Report the Fail- Gen. Foch, Show Rare Spirit as Welcome | Order Comes to Enter Great Fight by MARTIN GREEN. ure of Powerful German Attacks * With the French Aimy atthe Hen) | North of Montdidier’ and South of NEW YORK WOMAN | vere na aa : HELD OUT TO LAST {== <UCAN ARMIES 1 1.—Pershing’s at Ww" THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, April. 1.—Throygh the Somme River. ure moving forward to the the courtesy of the French military authorities | was enabled to nt They will soo be in battle 7 — “4 petay ™ 1 - = . . ab IN ha TORN TOWK In great ; ve h ives camtons thr ; be on the rPe las Bests We y and Tauh day near tae ARIS reports fighting of extreme viclence last night in the dough boy * are being sent forward, | POllt where the combined French and British forces foiled the German seclor worth of Montdidier. French and British troops manned by Persh-} attempt to reach Paris through the Valley of the Oise and forced the broke up the assaulting waves of large todies of German rs, follow, “Slum change in the German plans. y the pre and | zone and ich developed into’ — (roop. attack along the front between Moreuil Farther south the French held the town of Grivesnes agatust ( gny. Since then I nave been in the combat repeated atlacks, inflicting hea ed battles in the pen terrain in the valley and hens, keep the men well losses on the Germans. air and on Gen. Haig reports the defeat last night of two German attacks ilong the Oise in| i the western outskirts of Altert, where the British tenaciously Noyon sector. 1 was within 150 yards of the} Aold their line 1 with warm food, They ure advance German patrols on the banks of Vise al South of the Somme the Germans persisted in their allempls d © highest Sc ommand American Army, wt \ is © ‘ Pontoise, near Noyon, on Tuesday even 1 wa fo advance loward Amiens along the Luce and Avre Valleys, bub ; sie icrerne ae oo : f " % accompanied by two other American co} indent made liltle progress. hid t know ex I believe we were t nl resy ny] /t was reported to-day by the United Press thal the Germas arena | fat 4 the front line of t rt had again occupied Moreuil, al the western point of their advance 1 hi north of Montdidier. No mention of this was made in the Pari na rally on the south bank or the Oise after! @Mtetal report, The British War Office last night anncunced the ° . in orderly eal Was a magnificent spectacle and also a magnificent aplure of this village by the Franco-British troops an Army fil a An ae Aone by ie oumeaue CREE rete SER PARIS, April 1.—Ke x is the text of to-day’s statement of ardines in the great es the French War Office s, which are driven by Frenea Compared with this struggle per intry, with all branches of “Yesterday and last night the battle continued with extreme arms engaged, including cavalry, the raids and bombardments | had wit : ‘ Americans and French are on ; : ‘ 7 . violence north of Montdidier, The enemy directed his efforts in eh | Messed in the American sector seemed like a Fourth of July celebration in Ja country town. ves| MOTORED TO FRONT WITH CHAUFFEUR FROM TEXAS. TO SHOOT 105 MILES. [:?crsessoe ashes 1S PLANNED BY NAVY vss sss particular along the front between Montdidier and the Peronne- Amiens Road, and threw forward important forces with the par ticular object of enlarging his gain west of Hangard-en-Santerre. — ee ee Se sa | Leaving Paris an Monday morning with only three t q hey ha ese varana ; i g | May 1 ling vonly taree military passe Franco-British troops broke up the assaulting waves, which were Be pe apeeetniae by Fanon. of Gane ANCITeCS Nias Gale, We Kes the vicinity of Soissons early in the after-] not able to debouch. A brilliant counter-attack, in which our Al- and material for the present emer The train could not enter the tow au tation was being] lies gave proof of their valor, enabled the French to throw back | aency ie 6: effect virtually, istulte ed by Germans. We walked in and reported at military head-| the enemy completely and recapture this villa in a unified army command, so far as | “The fichting he th w ent PieHO AAG. Ome terion | GUATKES The town was bombarded all night, Next morning, provided he fighting further south was no less violent, Grivesne } for wt orned, This hown| with our Fre edential roceeded tol the front tn an aulomoblt vas the objective of powerful attacks which were rendered inces- ret srders issued to f f For Wadhe 1 ant®, leading to hand-to-hand fighting. This town remained in ened te (OF Prenon WUllia yeh ullcur trom Fort Worth, Texas. We motored slowly] the hands of the French, who inflicted considerable losses on the It wil, be devetos gt ee asilvity: tegniieved sundry yr hours a road choke infantry and artillery hurry-] German IPAla ormbodioasoredtion =A throughout the zone where the Ameri- | ing Thousands on thousan men, walking or riding Between Montdidier and Las: iys, there were ms ee : can troops are quartered, It began at 4 ey : A ‘ t portant action iv ; : k in the morning, when he trucks, hundreds of great all ha over the country een | 00 important actions, Jed motor camle n rum ¢ Aisne and the Oise, out of which the French drove the German eepaiiamaiiie " oO Se) OMINOAM. NOUR maser end We met hundre { refug walk r riding on camions f ioe t drawn; marching men, horses and] > Ne ‘ artillery nisned by the Red Cr It was a pitiable t women and : v un ; ; As on Saturday, aomo parties wore | oj i174 en driven f the second time from lands the had ve r “!0~"Janother, The Americans passing were | te 1 drove the G 1 1 py Al a . . . nou rhs | cheered by others who stood along the | br; f can-| Teutonic Forces Make Little Progress Along . roads watching the virtually endless 1 —- P . Yo bou 1 1 processions, some of which were miles | ; Luce and Avre Valleys—Haig's Army Cap- : Me ne apen Tati tie wea Titre tures 109 Machine Guns Near Serre. he [the “etiotonay ans Averys trove at ‘irse lof niction i isnt f sail LONDON, April 1.—Following is the report issued to-day by the PRINCE EMICH ERNST (cc'svistn!™"Fno! wibiete| healed ty. Anne Monin, deserted by all save Mrs. Dike, in ehire and sh War O eatest enthusiasm for the work they vy York he removal of pe 1| The { atta j ‘i the a eqieaUN Sur) ill suppl Son Foor Fall | Con rn tect F R i nn 8 si ae taG r | fi ft t ice an v ut has as Atticks amd counter-atiacks follow § | ALA don them and tA 1 1 \ erday al ta AMS! M tarted , | ; . " \ und the ti > continue. t : ‘ ding a} A litt nd of r Gera | 1 ne 1 of Serre, which a five-ton fi from a ditch | \ ‘a noth! ans who ar va H ¢, the total number warrieds | (Fer Racing R See Page 2.) (Continued on Page Two.) | ¢ belief is now held that the first onrush of the enemy has bra