The evening world. Newspaper, April 13, 1918, Page 1

Described Che “Circulation Books Open to All? i “If It Happens In New York { I) It’s In The Evening World’’ __PRICE TWO CENTS. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1918. FRENCH CAPTURE HANGARD BELOW SOMME; ALL ATTACKS IN FLANDERS REPULSED by The Press Publisoing jew York World). . baa : “AMERICANS UNDER FIRE IN Eveni JE GE LY LTO OES TT World b ~HOWAMERIGANS CAN FIGHT DRIVE 1S ONE-QUARTER OVER SHOWN IN FIRST OFFENSIVE AND COUNTRY’S LOAN TOTAL - LEDBYTHEIROWN OFFICERS. 10 DATE 1 ¢ Behave Like Seasoned Veterans Un-| ew York pO rReS anee “SOLDIERS SHOOT dcr Baptism of Fire—Tremendous "pLibeity band Outburst of Artillery Opens the} wrwneron, so o— FIVE AFTER DARING Show, Then Volunteer Raiders Go} "ttt tepotes to Feder fever (hes Top gid Fenetrate to Pe tree een Hn DUP Al HOl LIS passed totalled $539,426,100, or slightly more than one-sixth of Third Line of German Trenches— { Enemy Flee, Leaving Many Dead! Woman Among Victims the minimum amount sought by Secretary McAdoo. These figures are based on re- Camp Mills Men. subscriptions Assist AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, | of the reported {SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, March 18. | have been received by the Federal N a sun-flooded room on the ground floor of a shell-racked and shrap-| ] nelscarred building in a devasted village on the Luneville front of the American Army in France, the Colonel of a certain regiment, the| peels seceenveciane will be Lieutenant Colonel, a French Captain, a French Lieutenant, two Majors, zal several Captains and a flock of Lieutenants of the! With the nat American unit were rocking with laughter over some freshly imported American stories, 1 had wandered into the camp about noon and had spent most of the afternoon exploring the front line trenches and I was} plastered with mud, We were all smoking cigars and enjoying stories. Reserve Banks in binding form, On the official reports to-day was based an estimate that sub- n'a contribut Before sold: rad LAbe t Loan we ad held up Retr © Herman second New York still is race to Avenue and } run a neck-and-neck hold its vaunted position as sub- seriber to half the grand total The time was 4.30 o'clock. Warm breezes carrying the) *¥>s° Miree (Gohan eee acit ino tad t yy | Reserve in preliminary suggestion of spring floated in through yeaeiaiss 1 preoblya: the open window and two meadow iarks, establish-|, and the awirling ‘Tent ing a home in a cluster of trees across the road, filled th air with melody. nade open-atr bond is morn American and French soldiers passed in unending procession, Motor trucks loaded with supplies and ammunition clattered and rumbled by on their way to a position in advance, whence their contents were to be carried into the trenches by sturdy, perspiring boys who a few months ago were drawing comfortable salaries for pleasant employment in of- tices, stores or workshops in one of the most prosperous manufacturing and agricultural sections of the United States. On the top of a ridge a mile to the eastward rising and spreading smoke clouds indicated where German shells were dropping about the camouflaged dugout of one of our front line commanders. The warm, heavy, languorous atmosphere quivered with the faint concussion of the explosions on top of the ridge but an enviable jon |! pout bat the 200,000 al lays, Loan Com- eir reputa- tion for hus LARGE SUBSCRIPTIONS MADE BY NEW YORK FIRMS. iptions © course of Four men in Unite uniforms walked into the ca man Beinbrink's Ho! |mue and Fulton &t | wi 1245 A. M. to-day had any Half a dozen me in the room, an: toward tho bar for the drinks aut bubser Invana, $76,000. 1 jin uniform drew 5 A eantin 3 ' ff 50,000 bouted * and the firing of distant German cannon, From a kitchen separated by Sea Ran $50,000 ane shouted “Ta NifA, The patrons o! a thin wooden wall from the headquarters of the regimental commander} Seeman Bros. $49.00 , ; od against came the mouth-watering odor of corn pones baking in bacon fal, Out-| 2 ©: Williams ® fh. 0 side the window, seated on the ground, with the leather strap of his steel 4H. 1 t & Co, $25,000. | A fare “Red” the C al! np, Day & 000. helmet. buckled under his ample chin, “Red,” the Colonel's orderly, was} apical at drive ts 8 Atluntic compelling a reluctant mouth-organ to contribute the strains of “She }cumuiativ. me ne sare nboard op t I ” he Bu ! |Loan Committe sa ho impetus | teiand Rallr May Have Seen Better Days” to the humming atmospheric medley of | 70". the first weelt will carry na Raliroad . peace and warfare, | of effort is ly r bees RerAT . “ The minimum quota o ONLY CORRESPONDENTS IGNORANT OF RAID, ight before |. ring trom a Woe were in what had been, for nearly threo years, a quiet naned thon went irely out of f fa telepathic agreement, the Germans had refrained from shelling the vil- eee of te one his he lage that had been turned over to the American forces, and the French | BE oberon Saray gh the door to had refrained from shelling certain German villages back of the German | fe "Woe don't want any aquawk f Ines. True, there was not much left ip any of these villages to serve as a nd target. Every building showed tho marks of bygone hostilities. The | w., mar civilian populations had long since departed, Nothing remained of the |a i Hote! de Ville, at the foot of the malo street in our village, but the front |er wall, In which a wide arched doorway served as the frame for a picture of | 4 ploughed fields in a valley and the green slopes of a ridge beyond, a ridge crowning which were our rear line trenches, some of our machine gun |‘ batteries and various signal stations and observation posts; also, through this frame could be seen hundreds of shell holes, resembling n lined bowls sunk into the ground, for {t had been three years since they wer made by artillery, and Nature in three years had cushioned their inner surfaces with grass and weeds Only the muffled boom of guns and exploding shells and the sight of | 1 Second Page,) > PECTION FOR You, s and! bul 6 Arab ad, (Comtinu:s 4 Second E ) 4 (Continued on Fourth Page.) $939,426,100 Battle Between Police and .- " rts to Federal FR. By Martin Gree:t. ‘ | rial] Hestrve; Sanks and thoir morale under continuous, heavy aésaults. Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. WW All the districts of the country y G, 49th = wicca! 2 - Copyright, 1918. by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World).| except Minneapolis. Only a part confessed of J AMERICANS AGAIN REPULSE ~~ REPEATED GERMAN ATTACKS; FIGHT BESIDE THE FRENCH | eas ‘ | U. S. Troops Combated With Vigor in the) Forest of Apremont, Says Paris War Office—Forty Prisoners Taken. it renewed their | attack a PARIS, | pril 13.—The Germans list | | upon the French positions in Brule Wood, in the Forest of Apremont American troops in this sector, in conjunction with the French, says} to-day’s official sta t, have combated with vigor and broken the; he enemy attacks. | majority of At one point where the enemy obtained a footing he was thrown out by a counter-attack Forty German prisoners have been taken in this region since yes- terday. In Lorraine the French made a raid in the region of Eply of | me The persistence of the German attacks in the Apremont Forest, on the Toul front, may be regarded in the naturo of a feeling out proces, to de- termine the strength of the American positions, their probable numbers | DPR RATT! RANCE ‘air to-night and Sunday. | “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ - 14 PAGES 5 PRICE TWO CENTS. —————_-¢ =. BRITISH TROOPS ADVANCE IN THE REGION OF GIVENCHY: ENTIRE LINE IS STIFFENED ~ Hard Battles On Below the Messines Ridge and Montdidier on Somme Front—Rheims Is Again in Flames—Amiens Cathedral Hit. EPORTS from both London and Paris to-day show a R stiffening of lines. Haig repulsed all allacks on the Flanders front and made @ slight gain at Festubert, near Givenchy. French troops by counter attack regained the entire village o/ Hangard, on the Luce, south of the Somme. Fighting in that region ts continuing. Repulse of German attacks in Flanders took place west of " GERMAN AIR RAIDERS KILL 24 AND WOUND 62 MORE IN PARIS; 5 SLAIN, 15 HURT IN ENGLAND French Capital Attacked While Theatres Are Filled—Children and Many Women Among Victims—U.S. Soldier Dies of Shock. PARIS, April 13. others wounded as the result of the German air raid last night on Paris, it The killed included six men, fifteen women and three ehildren | rs Twenty-four persons were killed and sixty-two was offically announced to-day Most of the bombs dropped during the ratd fell in one spot, striking a} house, It was evident the raiders found their work much more dificult under the new system of aerial defenses, and dropped their bombs hastily. | ning It was a still, dark night of the sort most favorable for an 4 | attack ng-|and @ raid was generally expected. Tho theatres were in the midst of| their performances when the sounding of sirens and the noise of anti » afreraft guns gave ning that the raiders were approaching. ‘The crowds vir way to the cellars or to shelters, new he in the theatres made arrangements for which had been made in advance, In the cellar of the Comedie As on the occas Francaise one of the performers sang old French songs tons of previous raids, ambulances of the American Red ., Cross were first on the scene. | LONDON, April 13. do and fifte injured in the German alr raid last night om England, according to an Of those killed two Five persons were kil en others | offictal announcement made to-day re men, two | women and one a child | One German airship reached the midlands and 4 _| almost to the northwest coast, it was announced, An early annour "Four airships participated trated a few miles inland, Of th and the other nearly reached northwest coast, elling at @ great height and s defended areas r penetrated ment ast night’s raid e other two, one re The owed no inclination to att s Most of the bombs w pped in open country and ap 1 the| ju demolition of four houses one place the damage far reported ts] 5 inconsiderable.”” | ‘ An American soldier died of shock during the raid on glish s| Coast town, | 4 on the t ability * MEN IN GLASS ONE we ns TO FIX DRAFT QUOTA House Adopts Sen; esol wit? | Proposed by War Changing Sy edit “my ¢ | SENATOR STONE WORSE. [Suffers Relapse o WASHIN b pia t Condit Bs um HINGT t W f Miss e don (« H A 1 alionberge ashe uy (For Racing Results See Page &) Merville, the extreme western point of the advance, and at Locon, on the southern line of the wedge, where two drives were beaten off Haig still holds Bailleul, northeast of Merville. Hard fighting is in progress at Neuve Eglise, near the Messines Ridge. There is an active bombardment between Montdidier and Noyon. German raids on the Aisne were checked. Germans continue to bombard Rheims and the city is in flames German gunfire has scored @ direct hil on the Cathedral HAIG OFFICIALLY REPORTS ENTIRE FLANDERS LINE HELD. Gain Made at Festubert Near Givenchy—All Attacks on the Centre Repulsed— Heavy Fighting Near Messines. LONDON, April 13.—Following is the report issued to-day by the British War Office “Heavy fighting developed yesterday evening in the nelghbor hood of Neuve Eglise and Wulverghem, and at a late hour last night was still continuing. We advanced our line slightly in the neighbor hood of Festubert and secured a few prisoners, Amtens “Early in the night a strong hostile attack, preceded by a heayy as launched against our positions east of Locon eded in entering our lines at certain points, but was ter-attack, and ond attack attempted ht in the same locality was successfully en out again by a cc nemy later in the n beaten off “During the early part of the west of Merville and was repulsed, Or battle fr ne mu also attacked f the northern the enemy remainder ituation is un south of the Somme, ons into w the enemy er-attacks delivered by mme the enemy's artil p local fighting took place yesterday borhood of Hangard, and posi: had torced hi were regained b itish and French troops. North of » been more active.” way lery COUNTER STROKE BELOW SOMME GIVES HANGARD 10 THE FRENCH Tremendous Fighting Continues There— Artillery Battle Around Noyon—Rheims Set on Fire by German Guns, ext of to-day’s War Office y French troops 1 the enemy being + — ee Se a i