The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1918, Page 1

ae “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening Worl aa Che “ Circulation Books O, em remem PRICE TWO CENTS. cre » 1918, ry The Press Co, (The New York World). - BRITISH HOLD UP SEVEN THREE UPTON SOLDIERS DIE, AQ HURT IN TRAIN WRECK: CARS PILED UP IN DITCH Privates of 305th Infantry, on Way) From Camp, Killed Near Central! Islip, L. I—Broken Rail Blamed} BROADWAY HOLDUP NETS$2,000; MAN FELLED WITH BRICK Two Bandits in Auto Get Satchel of Money in Rob- bery at 74th Street. Three soldiers of the 306th Infantry Were killed in a troop train wreck on the Long Island Railroad at 3.60 o'clock this mornii.¢ two and one-half miles east of Central Islip, L. I. Forty others were injured, and of these thirty were so seriously hurt that they are confined to Central Islip State Hospital. The dead are: PRIVATE GEORGE MURPHY. PRIVATE EDWARD MOHAN. PRIVATE OSWALD HUDSON, The names of the injured and the addresses of the dead have not yet been made public by the military aus} ies, who have established a! pesieaions | Edward Goodman, No. 308 West censorship. The official statement at| 147th Stret, with $2,000 in a satchel 6 offic that he calkt Camp Upton, whence the men had z ie ih re 4 ear 74th Street, this af- entrained for Long Island City, és his a ternoon when he was attacked by two “Yarly this morning a Long Island | men, estward bound, ; peaeeners i bd ‘ater from this, One of them hit him on the head ers containing in part 90 | with a brick, tnfilcting a scalp wound. can’ , mot with an accident. | japanvicrioliea | Tho other snatched the satchel. ‘Then | Five coaches wers derailed and over- turned and three soldiers were killed | Poth made their escape in an auto-| issued carried, was | Broadway, says: | train, © Tackaberry 206 West 77th and @ number injured, The injured re- | mobile. celved medical attention and will be} returned to the camp. The cause of FIRE ON CROWDED GAR rhe a CAUSES PANIC; SEVEN HURT The statement then gave the names , of the dead as above. pl ‘The trai. was composed of twelve is belleved to have averted a greater} 0 Escape When Short Circuit disaster. A broken rail, according Causes Blinding Flash. to railroad officiats, was the cause! Passengers were thrown into @ panic The first two cars parsed over itlang seven were injured to-day ohns embankment and piled up. Two|&nd Amsterdam Avenue line caught fire others were derailed but remained |ffom a short ctroult in the feed wires upright on the road bed. The others/0" Amsterdam Avenue, near ssth remained on the track Street. The fire started with a blinding : ; y [Men and women struggled to escane, und them members of Companies E, Fl windows were mashed by saarenkers and G, 805th Infantry, were in the|trying to jump to safety. cars, These were mostly men fram] ‘The injured are R Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Isl- Street; Olga M. FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF PLOT|!24th Street, W TO WRECK TRAIN. ey ems ls Sheriff Lent of Central Islip, who pris fe No. reached the scene as a member of |, A Fo found no evidence of a plot to wreck ath Streot,, None was in- the train, although somebody may |to a hospital have been guilty of negligence. lary ty OL extinguished by the Railroad officials ald the track day, but a defective rail must have escaped observation. The conduct of the uninjuri diers was described by & ft Lent the accident has not been deter- stedl cara and the atesl construction|” “ecusers omaen Windows Trying safely. The next five rolled down an|a crowded surface car of the Broadway ‘About 700 or 760 soldiers, most of |{%*% and smoke quickly filled the car twelve years old, of No, and towns, the earllest rescue party, sald he had ats ae ipsa ast ove BALFOUR SAYS GERMANY | as “splendid.” There waa no sign of | panic, he sald, and the unhurt men|British Foreign Secretary, in Ad- extricated thomselves calmly m| dress to American Labor Dele- the upset coaches and gave expert | gates, Declares Drive Will F first aid to the Injured “It demonstrated the value of the Iie LONDON, April 15. I do not thi training they have been getting,” the by ver mn 4 het ne c 1 suce ; F Sheriff said. Fou would Gavelan eee Meee brad ose thought that seme of tein’ were ex | delonates perienced surge ne way they handled wounds. It was sald ti the Injuries in-|1 (Continued on Second Page.) tosh wets uae Gannuny Ato Re A CIN G | ocicn 5 rvaee Page 2 EN RIES, Page 6 wl} T§ GREAT ROBBER STATE). LOAN TOTAL $620,947,950; NEW YORK'S CONTRIBUTION NEARS A QUARTER BILLION “KILLS MECHANIC ~ AND STOPS FHT Drive Alor Grind Helper Helper to Death is Liberty Loan Trip Was About to Begin. WASHINGTON, April 15.—Lib erty Loan subscriptions tabulated to-day at the Treasury showed a total of $620,947,550, which is | $67,000,000 more than was re- | Ported Saturday, This did not | include reports from the Minne- | apolis district, which started its | campaign to-day. To-day's total loan subs NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1918, AMERICANS REPULSE THREE GERMAN ATTACKS, FIGHTING | WITH GRENADES AND BAYONLTS | Thirty-four Raiders Killed in Trench and| Thirty in Hand-to-Hand Clash in No- “Ctrenlation Books Open to All. 1a 16 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. HEAVY ATTACKS; FIGHTING TO WIN BACK NEUVE EGLISE ‘ FIVE WAVES OF GERMANS RUSH AT ONCE AGAINST HAIG; | Man’s-Land—More Prisoners Taken. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, April 15. (By the Associated Press).—Preceded by an intense bombardment of high ex-| Plosives and poison gas shells, picked troops from four German com- were completely repulsed after terrific hand to hand fighting. The Americans captured nineteen more prisoners, © The German losses already counted are thirty-four dead and ten wounded, who were in the American trenches, and thirty dead in No Man's Land. The French General iption the Second Federal Reserve Dist which includes New York, stood I > death of Max Be $248,400,000 at 11 A. M. show the district for These fig seven days of t mechante, under the |drive as slightly in excess of its $900. » school | Seen 000,000 minimum quota ia t spectators mt Bheepeh' The proportion woul! ba been! Bay Speedway to-day abruptly jut) on the wrong side but r the New! a 1 to the proposed Liberty Luan | York City subscriptions, In the other mignt through the State of Lieut sections of the district, New Jersey | , KK ae: and up-State the result has 1 me St ne young Lafayette | up to requirements, drilte flyer, The following large ptions! I was run down by the aero-| were registered to-day: 1 4 beheaded by the sharp ‘. Ros Fes inten i 5 Da cues eae Newcastle Leather Co, $150,00 L. F, Rothschilds & Co., $150,000, | * was to take his R. Neumann & Co., $80,000 Solomon & Phillips, $40,0¢ I, M. Oshinsky, $26,000. 8. Dorfman, $25,000, t wings and ty Loan Jo- Superior Garment Company, *2 I the! National Sponge and Chamois ¢ Com- | 000, ° | herer & Brother, $40,000. f urked the New Jersey Zinc Company, $1,000,- | abruy { diffi-| 000. culties ry Stehlin's Sinclatr Ol and Reflaing Comp efforts t away. ‘Three da $1 . |week the flight successively The long deferred Liberty pageant! postponed bad weather, —which looked a old-fashioned whole Jot like an| Yeaterd circus parade to dis- 4 that the quality of rand cas for t cerning people—started from Madison! tor oj] . ik rat Square Garden promptly on the dot] to-day seemed auspicious in every re of 10, A day had been eet threo} spect. | times for this drive of the circus} Near noon, when the big biplane, peoplo in ald of the Liberty Loan| with its powerful Gnome eng and thrice sleet and snow and gen-| capadie of driving the ca rd at eral cussedness in the weather line! 139 miles an hour w ed out of| had caused a postponement. the hangar, all the pur from b- | But to-day’s bright skles were re-! 1. gonooly 153 and 98, of 1 flected in the double glory of tho | : thelk> teachers t pageant, The clreus band led the | Bteblio's rie he | cavalcade, and that 1s “some band" | oi in fying jad # when it comes to snappy jazz stuff. Bracing Harcknias ° Followed a troop of equestrians and Ber (pee eto Gct equestriennes, {f you know what that ri rans We Psy 4 , in nobby riding costumes and | J." Rees 1 “if ii siinting from thelr two-| 1. seo that everything 9 | quart hats, ee | What appeared from a distance to ine A pei be a pr on of bank vaults re- | of 4 salah 8 itself, on Nearer view, into a| ¥"°" . ater, A herd of twenty elephants. Each | P! his py hy Meccan: trundling pachyderm carried a big | 100 Led oelpte s the purchase of Liberty | ‘ PNR EVERY CITY SCHOOL WORKING, FOR THE DRIVE, Loan Con on ¢ e¢ pts B r 1 # and t i M AH tt t Fourth Page.) TUE WORLD TRAVEL boRwaD, arace at (World) Buibting t eral commanding @ the troops in a neighboring sector] Personally congratulated the prin-| day on tho excellent offensive quall- ties and tho splendid resistance of the American troops, “With such men| OR WILSON the cause of the Allies is sure to tri- umph,” the French General wroto in! his report to the French Army head- AND NEF quarters, | The doctors tn tho front line dress- ing stations also reported that syv- Americans who were slightly Wounded refused medical treatment The usang fs in Be in Bolénian Cap-| tal Back Deputies in De- FRENCH GAN AT HANGARD | panies hurled themselves against the American positions on the on; Germans Suffer Tremendous Loss | bank of the Meuse, north of St. Mihiel, early yesterday morning, but | Northwest of Merville and Near Bailleul—British Advance Neat Robecq and Take 150 Prisoners. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, April 15 (Associates Press),—The battle about Neuve Eglise, near the Belgian border, whiél has been retaken by the Germans, continued this morning with thé same Intensity that has marked it for days and the British are poundiny the Germans hard, expected momentarily, The latest reports this forenoon showed that the British line wat | being strongly held as a whole in this northern zone, and in some im stances had been considerably improved by counter-strokes, The British last evening followed up their success of Saturday, wher | they pushed the Germans back from Robecq, on the Clarence River. Local | American position in tbe St, Mihiel sector began Saturday morning. It was resumed with increased vigor Just before midnight and continued tnter- mittently until nearly daybreak, The Germans then laid down @ barrage, leaped over the parapets and reached the American front line trenches closely behind the barrage. At this mome fantry burst fr n their shelters, tacking the enemy with grenades and bayonet. The stru, » continued back and forth for & a most of the front Involved the Amer- fean troops were completely victori- ous, as was evident from the heavy toll of enemy dead and wounded, At another point a la enemy force surrounded twenty-five Amert- cans tn front of their trenches, The suddenly attacked and f the Germans and re- uninjured and America killed several turned to thelr ¢ briv prisoners, he American troops northwest of ‘Toul again were subjected to a vio- lent artillery bombardment on Satur- day night. Tho American batteries ent back an equal number of shells, The Germans mad no further at- tempt to penetrate the lines, n6 American In-| at-| but over) juntil the Germans had been driven nouncing Berlin, back to thelr trenches, One man : with a slight wound in his hand who sia sate was ordcred to the rear later was| AMSTERDAM, April 15—Thou- found, according to tho surgeons, sands of persona gathered In the “fighting lke a tiger” in the front line | streets ee ra ay eek ey A couean avd aviliers Aisicnitae oe ue, capital of Bohecsla, on Saturd. nounee rmans and cheered the Entente and Presl dent Wilson, says a despatch from that city to the I Anzelger of Berlin All the Czech members nt and party d ut sith Slovene und Serbo-Croat dete ates, met all and adopt Jed a mar 1 gathered in the str et 1 in sup- [Port of the 5 f the delegates. | © princi; ‘ tration curred at th © of the meeting The feeling t Porelan Minister Crernin was élsapproval wit name was inging | t jal Czech part Dux, t ine Jepatch sa ¥ opposed Jthe ext , Jhemlan pre Cre minority in t \ r gion would the utmost CHARLIE CHAPLIN DRAFTED; shouts of | | WAVES RIGHTS AS i counter-attacks delivered on the German positions 3,000 yards to the eas! of this town were successful, and the enemy again was forced to fall back somewhat, The British, in the course of the afternoon, also pushed out several posts north of the canal between the Lawe and Clarence Rivers. These operations Indicate that the defense of the Entente Allied troops iffened, The battle which has been raging about Nueve Eglise has been one of | the most sanguinary of any since the German offensive began. On Friday } ; night the Germans succeeded, after heavy hand-to-hand fighting, in gain ing possession of the town, They held it through the night, but on Satur. day morning the British drove forward and pushed out the enemy. The Germans continued to fling great numbers of troops against the defense. Yesterday the British took the initiative and cleared the Germans from the slopes to the east and southeast of the town. The enemy kept lon hammering, and after a night of severe fighting at close quarters, forced the British to abandon the village, eemneepenemeh teense “ GERMANS BATTLE ALL DAY, BUT FAIL TO DENT THE LINE ‘.|Get Into the British Trenches at One Point, but Are at Once Driven Back With Great Losses. LONDON, April 15,—Following is the text of the British War ' 1 Another assault on Bailleul, four miles west of Neuve Eglise, | ' | After a night of terrific artillery er NaS fire and a bombardment with gas Office statement: ells, the Ge ns ¢ 4 “Severe fighting continued all day yesterday ground Neuve day thelr efforts to d | Movie ¢ Now ib- er ‘i third line of the American positions | ert His | Eglise. After beating off numerous attacks our trox ere in the end near Apremont For rthwest of ? | 0 lle ithe oC m the village meet thas made iva aitaouay cata ( : compelled to withdraw a second time from the village of which failed, The enemy's casual- Od AD 4 “Strong attacks were made by the enemy yesterday afternoon es in tho f days’ fighting Aplin, i Aine ID ae between: GO anal Aa ears an at a number of other points on the battlefront. Northwest of Mere Of this number more than 100 were} ; au ville tierce fighting took place, as a rresult of which the attacking killed, ; ‘ Although the enemy wasted fully a| hou aD German infantry were driven back with great loss. The hostile ine halt of his especially trained shock |!!n has wa xpects t * . i orth r of the = were male ; n of 800 e was un. {Wear Uncle « short| fantry, advancing along the northern bank of the Lys, were caught 1 te the an lines, | selling “! y the fire of our artillery and were unable to develop their attack. \ ed ur ] _— yt F a taken — ¢ course of the day no less than seven attacks were dee Sealed fghilog MOTHER OF TWENTY HEARS liv the enemy in the Merville secttor, all of which were re ack fore Nn! jr | rulse, itl v is troops. In one case the ene 5 gaara: oem fo 8 SON TS WOUNDED IN FRANGE else with teary toss to i toons I ny ad we ‘ oa | | vanced to the assault in five wav Under the weight of this attack A >8 | Brookl . line was bent back slig but was vor yr red by a 6 ae vate yuthwest of Bailleul parties of the ene ceeded tempo- ! : pets i rarily in penetrating our positions, but were driven out by our coune . ahd ter a « and our line was res ae , ful minor operatio e ca t by us during the A " three t cast of Robecq. Several n were lery b a aie tn Pr He ene} ptured by us. other son, L » with the Sith risia Artillery at Camp Upton, “Fighting took place also early this ae south of the