The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1918, Page 1

FRENCH HOLD ROAD TO AMIEN WEATHER—Fair; warmer Saturday. “If It Happens In New York | %, if ”? It’s In The Evening Wor cy ¢ Bey . bod 1* Cironlation Books Open to All’? a ‘1. — __PRICE TWO CENTS. in rk NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918. PRICE TWO OENTS. | AGAINST ATTACK OF 180,00 MLN THY LBERIY BLS TORE CE GRUNGE” GAINS BY FRENCH ON GERMAN FLANK: SLIGHT LOSS BY HAIG ON THE SOMME $28,000; CAUGHT, FOR DISLOYALTY HEKILLS HIMSELF AS PRAYER ENDS > Ariz., Bank HUNG ON N.Y. DOOR KNOBS. ° | ~—TOOPEN THIRD LOAN DRIVE rovte ‘tutions, to Parents Abroad. “Ring It Again” Will Be an In- iain‘ ) a , ae vitation to Every One "WCE INGRAANS | John A, Frye, a boy of twenty, re leon ‘SVILLE, Ml, April 6—| to Buy a Bond ened his position as correspond poling with his arms crossed, Rob- a 0 le is pe jon as « « “ Clerk | Hanged by ike Illinois sient Dupes Three Big New After Writing Farewell Prescott, who was lynched at| 1 disloyal utter. | cott National Bank ;|midnight for alle J 4 of Prescott, Ariz., on Feb, 15, arrive 20,000 VOLUNTEERS. od cess ekg temic ering ly | —— lave ster aasuven! 49000 tn h on | Minutes before he was atrung up, ac-| Police Reserves, Formerly | IN PARIS ive Home Defense Leaguers, | Among Workers. cording to statements to-day by mem- bers of the lynching party, | Prager was a coal miner, and yes- | terday at Maryville, IL, in an ad- trict. Two days later the Pinkerton | dress to the miners on Soctalism, ts ational Detective with the] said to have made remarks deroga- assistance of Detectives Haskins and/tory to President Wilson. Miners hx elly from the First Branch Detective | tb became angry, and when they | Bureau, took up the trail of the threaténed to do him bodily harm forged letters from the bank cashler in three of the best known banks be- low the dead line of the financial dis Both of Mme. Dutreuil’s Legs Renoy, Broken by Fire on Church, More than 1,000,000 tiny Liberty Belis will be distributed throughout Greater New York to-night as tho signal for the start of the great drive semen jing 1 |Prager escaped to Collinsville, his | This morning the Pinkerton agency | home, 4 e an. Made of TASHIN q tive H for the Third Liberty Loan. Made WASHINGTON, April §.—Thelat providence, R. 1, arrested the for-| Some of the miners, however, fol- + pasteboard and replicas of the great name of Mme, Natalle Dutreuil, ger in bed at his apartment, No. lowed him, collected a crowd, took bell which rang out the country's In- daughter of George L. Ingraham, of Broad Street. As he got out of 1,| Prager from his home and led bim ldependence nearly a century and & No, 247 th Avenue, New York, was|he reached under the pillow 1 | barefoot through the street waving an naif ago, they will bear the tnscrip-|added to-day to those of Americans |" nwing automat ares ver from | American fax: kill nureh an | Under tt. sh melt ¢ he police, fearing violence, took Uen: killed and injured when a church in ree sy 00 the |Hragor feoni hia captors AOA, einced “Ring it Again.” Paris was destroyed by fire from Ger- | p, ha, chaving| him in City Hai “gater « The delis will be reminders of the man long rar Roth of Mme, | gone mbezzling $500 large crowd hered in front of the © guns. ratriotic duty of every one at home Putreull’s legs were broken, according from the firm which employed him in| Hall and demanded the man he country and the boys who '? & despatch from Ambassador tl Me was an expert! Mayor J. H. Siege! counseled calm- p teward:the country and Bharp. Her nlece, a. Franchwoman, neat| ness but the police force of four was \nave now entered the war on the western front. was decapitated. und be-| overpowered and Prager was found The Ambassador's aid \'c 6 bank peo-|in the ba nt of the Hall hiding “Ring st Again!” in an invitation to that the President of France, mem- Je up his mind to| beneath a pile of tiling, He was buy a bond and to get your nelghbor pers of the ministry and Allied and come to New|dragged down the street, and be- » t@ buy another. neutral diplomats attended the fu- lean up and go|yond the city nits, the crowd PlTHe bells will be distributed bY nerak of the counselor of the Swies tening to shoot if the officers 0,000 volunteers, of whom 10,000 ,,, Embassy and his wife, killed in the, He wre 4 ume of letters to | approached. It be police reserves, formerly | church, and heard a funeral oration | banks in th y with which the} One west of the city the rope (Benown as the Home Defnese League. denouncing the German methods of | Prescott institution was doing busl-|>¥ which Prager had been led was ’ Men will report to their various) yi rare, ness, aay Mr, John A. Frye, a] *hrown over the limb of a tree. He [ incts and will have the co-opera- a Niatoene: < bank, was about to} Was asked if he had anything to say fon of Police Commissioner Enright) Mme, Dutveull ix the daughter of |i. ve tor rk, and that it would | Hig answer was to drop to his knees MBPS Deputy Comminsioner Rodman former Supreme Court Justice George |i, 4 great favor to the bank if the|and with arms crossed to pray in ‘anamaker. Women's organtrations | 1., Ingraham, whose law office 19 at ian addrowand would } tia check | German for three minutes. Without MN also give their ald. 14 Wall 8 and whose rest-| on thom for $5,0W. A irrled a] another word he was pulled into the| Y SCOUTS AND SCHOOL CHIL-| dence Is No, 247 Fitth Avenue. Shel aii on the Anglo-London & T ris| alr ten feet and allowed to hang. | DREN ALSO TO HELP. | married Lieut, Bernard Dutreull of| hank of Ban Fr a » for $15,000, the | The mob then dispers Boy Scouts, high school puptis and | the French Army in the Church of the children of public institutions will | St, F While the crowd was hunting for cashing of which also ppe du Roule, in Paris, Oct, " 2 |be a great favor to the n. » the | bim,, Prager wrote his parents in ‘lao participate tn the work, The boys | $0): 1008 Itettera ho forged the cashier's nas Dresden, Germany, this note: will have police permission to ring} LONDON, April 5—The Exchange |'\'* eed pat iad Be. eater “I must, this the 4th day of all the bells they want to, to call at-| Telegraph correspondent at Amster=| oi sad ‘1 S08 onsets Hn that. he April, die. Pleaso pray for me, tention of the residents to the Liberty | dam reports the German newspapers wouldn't aed - i $4,000] my dear paren ‘This is my last P Bell hanging on the doorknob. as announcing that Emperor William |) i ‘ sould pa lettor ana testament,” When the city awakens in tho|has sent a porsonal letter to tha| 7)" VOT Mads und etter, he| ‘The police sald that Prager, while morning tho Dillposters will be busy |I'resident of the Swiss Confoderation | io.) gi7 409 more at 1 from |in their custody, had stated he was a plastering the walls with posters tell logizing for the Killing of the Wow York fel ft he matied | registered enemy allen, that he waa : ‘all about the loan, unsellor of tho Swiss Legation tn | ; 5 5 born in’ Geemany bi cohe ha aoe ’ will float from every avail rig during the bombardment of |t® the Seattle fi , a ae Mearns iirecd oy RL AR ; ages will flo 4 nl Friday |$600 he had embezzled taken out hia first naturalization ablo staff throughout the land in} RDAM, ‘Thursday, April 4,| The Pinkerton br at Provi-|Papers and had hoped to become at + eommemoretion of the first anniver- oficial statement to-day| dence joarned that man | American citizen } of our entrance into war with bombardment of Paris - 1 ” had al In Prager’s pocket was found a long , eae me heinad | knw stn a pies was ae rmany hen will be tc hed the | ‘al of the Counselor| great deal of re most of| “Proclamation” in which he stated ird Liberty Loan. Tho day was! of vation In Paris IevNIaN. He’ Siad dene © banks | his loyalty to the United States and ented by Secretary of tho Treas- of th A of the} to un abor and told of his dif avy McAdoo asc one singularly fitting 5Q |, W, W. SEIZED IN RAID) missir : durea Proy. | ficult entering the min union. r the start of the great drive ning = he preparations for the third} SPOKANE, Wash. April § 5.—Police to: » : “yo, REPORT OF LYNCHING rive far surpass the efforts made on | day raided the headquirters o: im the Po-| rkers and Agrteult the two preceding loans, It is ex-| ber ri rien rs rooms of than $3,000,000,000, and the country aalteetate se Sh al : f e shen Packs! fg ready for the bonds. The big of. ape ret Sel os 1 all books and und told DEPLORED AT CAPITAL fensive on the western front and t | ° ‘ot ahi = al entrance of our own boys | . ft 4hne | ernment saitha it fas stirred the putrlotiom ot tne| RULES HARD CIDER IS LIQUOR TS fag ta ar ech I ople at home more than anything naan eel Stat t Hoping There Will tphich has yet happened Mar eDReale cern i Be No Repetition | PARADE AND “BOMBING” BY | f Special il a AIRPLANES, ¥ . es WASHIN( N, Apr ' * y f ‘ General Gregory \ ‘At 11.80 to-morrow morning there lueh nue, the Bronx ll be & parade from committee * of selling , meeting to-day a dquarters, No. 120 Broadway. to cider" without @ Hquor license fa German, at City Hall, where tho campaign| The oplulon of Justice Laughlin say ni SWB) be officially begun at noon, Mab ste i ie nota Nanat, but , 1 Ww E r ven airplanes from Mineola wil)’ °) aithin the yal eae hyde nent 1a expected tod mb" the city with bond literature, 18 8 and (nten 1ob'a Lawless act and xt I@ Madison Square the National — 1 y t r that there w I @ for Women's Service will open) ‘THH WORLD TRAVEL woRMAD, |)... \)\), » WAS tho’ SWISE Liberty Bank, a miniature of the Arcade Pulltacr (World) Butiding. When | halt ‘ Bate In City Hall Park tbe | 4.. sea tgden boant Cietits area, |{2AE, Aum ef f had 90 A Cc 1 NG Fe Committee of Women for | falling, We ra all Coustwior Cube Ae en ate nas ee ; onal Defense will open its Lib- See tel mI ee pert stenographer and er, he ESULTS, Page 10 @ontinued on Becond Page.) | Taeoisee Dernman 1000— dar, |wore'at & ee Pe mi ENTRIES, Page 10 ' ‘ GREETING TO PERSHING ARMY Free Men,” Says President. W published in the Stars and Stripes, the expeditionary the warmest greetings on the anniversary of the United Stater’ themselves, but we have the utmost confidence that they will prove “Confident They Will Prove Themselves in ITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, April 6 (United foree's newspaper: entrance into the great war for liberty, and say tO thém that we not themselves in every sense to be made of th finest metal of free IVER. ARY WILSON’S WAR ANNIVER: Every Sense of the Finest Metal of Press).—The following meseage from President Wilson is “Please convey to the officers and men of our expeditionary force only have been proud of the way they have so far accounted for bev VIENNA OFFICIALLY INSISTS FRANCE TALKED ABOUT PEACE | | AS CZERNIN SAID IN SPEECH Declares Count Armand, Representing Clemen-| | ceau, Took Up Subject With Count Revertata in Switzerland. AMSTERDAM, April 6 to-day reiterates the assertion of Foreign Minister Czernin, denied concerning peace has been held betw An official announcement made which was yesterday by Premier Clemenceau of France, that a conversation on Austria-Hungary and France An official telegram from Vienna says that Count Armand, @ con- |fidental agent of Premier Clemenceau, had an Interview with Count Reyer: tata, counsellor of the Austrian I4 jon in Switzerland, at wiheh question of peace was discussed Count Re ertata declared on behalf of Austria that Foreign Minister | Czernin was prepared for a discussion with @ representative of France, Jand that he ielleved it would be possible to oarry on negotiations with success a8 soon as France renounced her plany for the conquest of Alsace- plied that M t in a position to accept the proposal for such a renunciation Lorraine, Count Armand the telegram says, Clemenceau On instructions from the Foreign Minister,” says the Vienna statement, Count Revertata, Counselor of the Legation in Switzerland, repeatedly niidential agent of M. Clemenceau, had discussions in Switzerland with a Count Armand, attached to the French War Ministry, who was sent to fn Vienna the | Switzerland to interview Count Revertata. | As a result of the interview of these two gentlemen In Freiburg, Swit-| zerland, on’ Feb, 2, the question was discuased whether and on what| basis a discussion concerning the 1g about of a general peace | would be possible be rance, or between e Fore nistera of Austria-iHungary representatives of these and ministers.” TREASON CHARGE HURLED HOSPITAL OF 500 BEDS AT BERGER IN SENATE RUSHED TO FRONT IN 12 HOURS BY RED CROSS Declares He Camot Cor € Hf More Traitorous Mar Americans Perform Another Record nder U.S. Flag nde Fla Feat in France With Equipment Seam tapante cen Weighing 22 Tons, y States to enagt th ALU, April 6.—The Amertean 1) Would puntah wit Hed Cross has ju per nm nonte nda t formed anotior record feat wiitlew or ut 1 war by preparing .nd ahipping to # ht wh Als ehind t ) front a andid: for Ad u dae) ithe Ags he hospital! was need rein ry t ve f pationts suffering ' min wctured mba voved from a how mnct W ! ' France mena ib jer did to Russia Ae . ae " | brah oP TO-NIGHMT, Moulin Rouge Ha Webster galleries Mal LLY bast D1 th eLenadve | \British Again Attacked on Front, but Hold Firmly a Wide at Most Points—Cruel Losses to Germans Reported by Paris. O-DAY'S report from Paris says a German allack on French positions southeast of Amiens with 180,000 men, nearly half of which were fresh, was wholly frustrated, The assault had for its object the caplure of the railway running southward from Amiens to Clennont and on to Paris. St. Aignan Farm, southeast of Grivesnes and two and a half miles northwest of Montdidier, was taken by the French and held against counter assaults, To the noftN'the FrentW Withdrew to the west of Castel, bul threw back the Germans from Arrierra Wood, west of Mailly+-Rameval, On the southern salient, between Montdidier and Lasigny the French conquered the greaier part of Epinette Wood, near the point of a former Prench advance, Attacks with strong forces against Brilish positions from the Somme to the Luce, are reported to-day by Gen, Haig. They were beaten off with greal loss to the Germans except a one point, the Brilish being driven back a short distance to positions east of Villers-Bretonneux, nine miles east of Amiens. These positions are being maintained, Heavy forces of Germans were engaged ty the Brilish near Albert, Further north the German artillery was active near Bucquoy and in the Scarpe Valley. PARIS, April 5.—Following is the text of to-day’s War Office | statement: “The Germans continued their attacks during the night with undiminished violence, throwing fresh forces into the battle. We have identified fifteen divisions (about 180,000 men] on this part of the front, seven of them fresh ones, “Notwithstanding the marked superiority in the strength of the enemy forces, which the Germans used up recklessly, they did not obtain their objective, which was the railway from Amiens to Clare- mont, as is shown by documents found on prisoners. French regi- ments, resisting step by step and counter-attacking energetically, maintained their line in its entirety and inflicted cruel losses on the enemy, “Meanwhile in the north the French withdrew their positions to west of Castel. They ejected the Germans from Arrierecourt Wood, west of Mailly-Rameval. Southeast of Grivesnes a brilliant counter-attack gave the French the St held against all assault Aignan farm, which they “Between Montdidier and Noyon the artillery fighting became very intense, French troops attacked the German lines and obtained possession of the greater part of Epinette Wood, 600 yards nortiy of Orvillers-Sorel. All efforts of the Germans to dislodge the French were vain “Further east a local operation enabled the French to enlarge their positions north ef Mont Benaud, which the Germans, not- withstanding their false statements, were never able to take from the French, Paris was greatly cheered and confidence was increased by toeday’s reports a NEW ATTACK ON BRITISH LINE; HAIG ADMITS SOMME REVERSE LONDON, April 5.—Following is the statement issued to-day by the British War Office: “Between the Luce River and the Somme heavy fighting con- tinued yesterday during the afternoon and evening till a late, hour. | j |