The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1918, Page 1

* $289,700,000 FOR CITY. ; é Second District Be Behind in is|| “i it Happens In It’s In The Evening World’’ New York PRICE TWO CENTS. Covrrtaht, 1018, by (The New York Wertd). % ‘The Press Publishiog 19 | “Cirenlation Books Open to All. id 1 8 P AGE 8 18. WEATHER—Showers; cooler Thursday. a HAIG STRIKES HARD ON MESSINES RIDGE: HALTS ALL DRIVES; RETAKES WYTSCHAETE - NEWYORK TOLD TO SPEEDUP anos cx, ACCUSED CAILLAUX. AS LOAN TOTAL FORNATON er SWINGS TO FIRST BILION Subscription Ratio and Head- quarters Sounds Warning. Will Require $75,000,000 a Day to Reach Mark Set as Desired Goal. WASHINGTON, April 17— Subsoriptions to the Third Lib- erty Loan as shown In reports to the Treasury to-day now total $931,156,060. The first day's busi- nese for the Minneapolis District, where campaigning began Mon- day, brought in approximately $25,000,000. ‘Tho men in the third line of dofense Liberty Loan buyers—ere not hold- ing their own against the great of- tensive on the western front, accord- | ing to the Liberty Loan Committee to-day. The total for the Second Federal Roserve District, whioh includes New York, was only $289,700,000 at noon, While this is a gain of $14,917,900 over the closing figures of yesterday \t js) not by several millions what the com- mittee expected at this period in the| campaign. With the New York district aiming at one and one-half billions the pres- ent total is so far behind the necns- sary ratio that It will be necessary to aise $76,000,000 a day during the 1e- | maining sixteen days to reach tio} goal, The minimum Amount of $900,- 000,000 set for this district is appar- ently safe but the Liberty Loan Com- mittte has no idea of stopping there, Many districts throughout the coun- try have already gone far over thoir quota and New York, the greatest ity in the world and the centre of} the wars commercial activity, must! cad all other cities in standing be- nd the boys in the trenches, they Joclare, ‘The Second District as a whole ta) not even holding its own for the} minimum of $900,000,000, It 1s New York City that is pulling it over on the daily average. Many of the out- side cities are far behind in thelr subscriptions and a warning was apnt to them from headquarters to- day, It read: “How do you expect to win the war if you fail to support the | boys at the front. You are be- hind in your average subserip- tions to the Third Liberty Loan. | Wake up and help us help the boys Bo over the top.” Small subscriptions are wanted flood of them, Tho committee eati- mates it should have between 5,000,-| 000 and 6,000,000 subscribers from} this district alone, and it will have | (Continued on Second Page.) ' HOUSE APPROVES DRAFT OF MEN 21 SINCE JUNE! {condemned trattor, lost entirely the Reports Senate asure Expected to Register “cre Than 1,000,000, WASHINGTON, April 17,.—The House Military Affairs Committee, after @ long debate to-day, reported to the House the! Senate resolution providing for the reg-|!8 head and he: Jatration of all men who have become twenty-one years of age elnce June 5 last. ‘The opposition to the © measure in committee centred araund the classi- fication of ‘more than 1,000,000 men who will be registered in the draft under the questionns! method. Representatives Gordon, Shallenberger and other mem- bers of the Minority in the committee wanted the committee to decide whether the new registrants shall be placed at the head of tho Iist of available men or be placed after those now on the list. The committee reported the bill with- out any material c ees and left this question to be settled by the Provost Marshal General. Gen. Crowder plans to eift the men among those now fied. ewe ANY CITIZEN MAY ARREST A SEDITIOUS SPEAKER Attorney General Lewis Gives Rul- ing in Upholding Silver Creek Man's Action. ALBANY, April 11.—A person making seditious or disloyal remarks may be arrested by any private citizen over- hearing the words, Attorney General Lewis ruled to-gay The opinion was rendered nfter F. J. McCarthy of Silver Creek arrested a man for making an alleged seditious statement, took him before a Justice of the Peace, and had him iinprisoned for three months, all within three houra’ time, ‘The question was raised as to whether McCarthy, & private citizen, had author- {ty to make the arrest. The Attorney General held that hes had DRAFT TEST Fi FOR MORRIS. Who Claimed Exemption amined in Washliagion, April 11—Nelaon Morris, | Chairman of the Board of Mo & Co., the Packers, who originally claimed exemption from the draft on grounds that he was essential ne conduct of @ business having war con- Packer CHICA to tracts, will be examined at Washing- | ton Mr. Morris now is a dollar-a-year man in the Quartermaster’s Depart- nt, He was to h been examined by hs local board here today, but his request that the examination be trana- | ferred to Washington will bo allowed. |demned man’s cell ACING ESULTS, Page 4 ENTRIES, Page 6 Thrilling Account of an American Soldier’s Firat Dash ‘Over the Top” By MARTIN GREEN Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World at the Front @ap SEE MAGAZINE PAGE 14 | trial “So Much the Be Better, 1 Am De- lighted,” Says Traitor When Summoned to Doom. PARIS, Apri] 17.—Standing before a} firing squad in the forest of Vin- oennes early to-day, Paul Bolo Pasha, attitude of indifference he had main. tained subsequent to and during his When the order to fire was! the rifles spoke and Bolo, crumpled up with several bullets in given Escorted by several gu left the Sante Prison forty-fiv utes before his execution, After leav- ing the automobile at Vincennes he listened to the exhortation of a prison chaplain, Then bis eyes were ban- daged and he went without a struggle to his piace Lofere the firing squa “So much the better; I am di Mghted," Bolo exclaimed = when awakened this ntorning by Command- ant Jullen of the third court martial, who toid him that the hour of expla- tion had arrived rds, Bolo min- These were the only words spoken by Bolo except for instructions to the chaplain to take from his body a slik. lace handkerchief which he placed on his chest and give it to his brother, Mer. Bolo. The condemned man went to his execution In a new sult of clothes brought to the prison by his brother, and wearing white gloves. Before setting forth from the prison Bolo asked to be permitted to partake of communion. After the execution the form of an Internment at Vincennes was gone through, and then the body was turned over to Bolo's family. When Bolo was taken to the office to go through the formalities of his removal from prison for the execution he refused to sign the register. The oMicials insisted. upon which Bolo cried in an authoritative tone: “It ts I who command here; no one has any- thing more to impose upon me, J think.” The Chaplain, alter the execution, found lying over Bolo’s heart, two | embrotdered handkerchiefs. which had |been plerced by the bullets. One was given to Rolo's brother and the other to his widow. The first authentic information relative to revelations made by Bolo on the evo of his death was published to-day, The Temps states Dolo's revelations conc x - Premier Joseph Caillaux and Senator Charles Humbert. The final investigation on military authorities Capt, Bouchardon, hours in Bolo's behalf of the was conducted by | who sev ool | Cattaux spent to The pasea a state of was takea the con- were a 8, both extreme of dramatic | number |men being nervous excitement. With the two men face to face, |Bouchardon closely questioned them \as to the authenticity of Polo's state. inings formation Joab ments and explanations offered by |the cx-Promier, Later his wife, Mme. Cailluwux, was taken to confront |Bolo, whose hair had turned com- white and who was sald to twonty years in the last * maintained regarding probable! court mart following Bolo's dis- closures. An incident took place in jthe Sante Prison which may cause| |Caitlaux stil) further worry, When 'Mmo, Calliaux had left Bolo's coll after the confrontation she tmme- diately made for her husband's cell and, it te promimed, gave him a do. of what hed passed | talled account between Bolo ond parnelt. LEANING VIRGIN SHOT DOWN: BLAZING OL KL FROM CATHEDRAL AT ALBERT; PEACE ( OMEN T0 SUPERSTITIOUS OFF BRITISH COAST Figure Hit t by C German shel: 37 IN SHIP CRASH Crew of Oa Burning Vessel Rescued Just Before Mine | Blew It Up. | AN ATLA)? ‘Thirty-seven © PORT, April 17.— lives wera lost when the American steamship O. B. and the British steamer War Knight, ‘oth laden with naphtha | and inflammable olls, collided off the! | British coast on March %, according Jen- to members of the crew of the O. B. | vandallem or an accident, Jennings who arrived here to-day. All who perished, with one excep- tion, were on the British vessel, They | were burned to death by blazing oll. Those who survived the flames of wero rescued by Soon after, while the Mazing bull was being towed toward shallow water, it struck a mine and was biown up. Tho destroyers went to the rescue through a fleld of biasing of! and toox off also the crew of the Jen+ nings. A number of the crow of the American ship were, however, badly burmed and had to be removed hospitals after being landed An officer of the O. B. Jennings told the story of the disaster, | “When the War Knight hit us| there was an instant explosion,” said. “Immediately there was a roar| of flame spouting out of the hole in the O. B. Jenning’s side which all but | enveloped the Britisher, I learned afterward that thirty-six of her crew of about fifty were on the deck at the time and they must have been almost instantly incinerated “We drifted apart and one of the destroyers by which we were con- voyed managed to get a line on her and was towing her toward the beach when in some manner the burning ship drifted onto a mine field and she blew up. The case ot! with which she was loaded took fire and completed her destruction | “We had our own safety to look after. Tho burning naphtha had poured out onto the sea, and it would have been folly to launch lifeboats. It was then that the destroyers showed thelr resourcefulness for they dashed through the burning bumped alongside of us, jumped to their decks In safe lost only one man, a seaman name Sheav, who was elther burned or fe. overboard and drowned “The O. B. Jennings being a nee to other ships, the sank her.” The War Knight eross regiater, bullt at Alar in 1917. The O. B. Jenr owned by the Sandard Ol! Comp and was a steamer of 10,290 tons gro oft, des was 0. | Reuter's Limited | he | «1 for the war. register | The bare nows that nings had been tn a collision and beached and that one of the ¢ killed, was recelved by the ON Company in New Yo after the ace! tac Oe Standa rk shor TURKS WOUND YALE MAN) Tey ar0 all well physteally and their behavior admirable and thelr relations with the French Cablegram Allevintes Fear Major Day Was Killed, NEW HAVEN, Conn., Ap Anxiety a8 to the wounds of Major Nan Day, a Yale man, who is a with the British camel corps of th peditionary force in Egypt, whore de had b nM reported without definite in Was relieved org to-day wher Parmley . Day y, stated fight w tured righ His condition 1s not m to ¢ Treasurer of tha Major was alive In a the Turks he sustained a'tre arm and shoulder eritics — THE WORLD TRAVEL BU EAU. Arcade Pulltser (World) Building. 53-63 Park Row. N.Y, City, Are you going South? Reservations, Tickets Hailing, do. via all Coastwien Cudan and Bout American Bteamehip Lanes geeks 288 msniy ordere for ‘Cheek room for parcels open day and o'Aht, Tatequecs ‘Boconas 4000, — Zar wntral Had Overhung Street 13 Since 1914, April 17. t the top of the Albert C LONDON, Virgin « The leaning} the- German lines, | iral, now behind the was shot down by German artillery | des in on Tuesday, from | British Headquarters says a oh France to} It ig not known whether the de- ‘struction of the statue was an act of The figure has been overhanging the street since 1914, when the city was shelled by the Germans, There was a widespread superstition that when the Virgin, holding the figure of the infant Jesus, fell peace would be declared, ‘The first thrown into Albert early in the war of the and @ greater part of the cathedral But by o peoulldr freak in the bombardment German shells that were razed most town, was torn away. the tron work the supporting statue of the Virgin waa wrenched 80 that the statue fell partly over and then leaned out at right angles over tho street Tho pious inhabitants saw a mir- in the fact that the Virgin still held the Saviour over them in allent appeal while big guns boomed The statue remained intact every bit of surrounding ground in Albert and in nearby villages was devastated until finally the Germans captured the town in thelr present great offensive. while re SO enmomne | O6-e4-604. a ___—| were reported again to be holding the ground which they had lost AMERICAN SOLDIER IN FRANCE HAS MADE GOOD, SAYS BAKER; MUST BE BACKED UP AT HOME and All Other Ways Fight—Attends War Council. WASHINGTON, April 17.— Secretary Baker, back from a trip to Europe, to-day called on the American people for renewed support | attended the President's weekly The Secretary this afternoon. “The American soldier has made » French and British strike. jport the arm. This support si and Eager to 00d in France,” authorities are uniform in thelr |courake, endurance and solderly qualities of our men A “The big thing for America to do 1s to support the war, continued, “to support {t financially and with frm belict. “The right arm of America is tn France, The condition of the American troops, the Secretary {are high, and British cordial and thetic, he sald. Il in every other way PEDAL TPPEDD ODO HOD 00006-45006 45540500650460 Sete ee |Secretary Declares Troops Are Well Physically even weeks’ war councl! Secretary Baker to-day assured newspaper men who met him at the War ald. It {s bared and ready The rest of the body is here in the United States and it must sup-| Department. praise of the| the Secretary to uld include subscriptions to Liberty Loans ly a8 well as moral support of high confidence,” ts excel ent eir apirita | a GERMANS ARE DRIVEN BACK ~AT BAILLEUL AND ZILLEBEKE: - Ne, ee Pa a 37 Die in Collision of U. S. and British Oil Ships Che | “ Ctroulation Books Open to All.’’ | NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, “APRIL jt, BRITISH REGAIN METEREN No Ground Gained by Enemy at Any Point Since Tuesday Morn- ing, Say Reports From Fron Flanders Battle Hardest of W. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, April 17 (Asso- ciated Press).—It was reported this morning that the British, fighting magnificently, had regained the much contested town of Wytschaete, although this was not officially confirmed at the time of filing the present despatch. LONDON, April 17.—The battle in Flanders is raging to- Reuter’s Limited at the British Army Headquarters in France. Latest reports indicate that the battle is going in favor of the British. Notwithstanding the desperate attacks of the Germans, they have gained no further ground since Tuesday morning and appar- ently they have lost some. three years’ experience in the war zone, the cor- respondent says, he never has heard such terrific and unintermit- tent gunfire as has gone on since Tuesday afternoon and which continued as he filed his despatch this morning. The British at dusk on Tuesday, says the Reuter correspond- the neighborhood of Wytschaete, and During ent, were advancing there. This information tallies with Gen. Haig’s report to-day that successful counter attacks had been made near Wytschaete, terday by the Germans. Gen. Haig also announced the recapture of Meteren, east of Bailleul, the extreme point of the German drive toward the railroad centre of Hazebrouck. There was further encouragement in his statement that re: peated attacks north of Bailleul had been repulsed. A body of German infantry in close formation was caught there under British fire at close range and suffered heavy casualties. A few prisoners were taken. Among the numerous enemy attacks Tuesday afternoon and eve. ning, one in great force in the Zillebeke sector, a few miles to the southe east of Ypres, was disastrous for the Germans, whose massed waves were shot down at close range. They apparently were ordered to retire and then the British gunners got on their flank, the correspondent says, and the slaughter was appalling. Gen. Haig’s report says that there was slight retirement of the British line from forward positions east of Ypres, owing to the German success to the south. The withdrawal was made |deliberately and without interference from the enemy. An effort to develop an attack east of Robecq on the southern line of the Flanders front was broken up. Paris reports artillery activity on both sides on the principal battle. fronts between the Somme and the Olse. French troops made successful raids at several points and repulsed a German attack on the right bank “One rarely meets an American soldier {n France who does not sm vil and wave his hat,” Mr, Baker sald The soldiers received were going to the front plone some of this cheer he information I wen 4a wal, the War Department and the Army. the kind of co-operation needed.” The \mpression one gota in France tn one of fidence and enthusiasm, sald Mr, Daker, he American, Bri sb, French and Mr Baker sald said, would bring a closer and moro understanding co operation be Hie tween “Tbe only sad Americans there are | those who fear they may have to come home before the Job ts done.” with very great enthustasm’ The Secretary said he could hear over the tele ing when the word came. I got,” he As for the Secrotary himaolf, he feels that he is “now equipped with the moans of judging and appreciating It Armies (Continued om Heocond Hage.) mI na of the Meuse. —— ROLLING BACK OF GERMAN TROOPS OFFICIALLY REPORTED BY HAIG the news that they | Terrific Losses Inflicted by Strong Counter Attacks — Positions Restored South of Arras—New Attacks 01 Somme, LONDON, April 17.—Following Is the text of today’s War Office esterday evening we delivered a successful vounter attack in the 1 of Wytschaete. At Meteren also our counter attack ré ation, and the village remains in our hands, "Throughout the afternoon and evening yesterday repeated hosti'e attacks north of Bailleul were repulsed with loss to the enemy. Bodies ey 4 day with incredible intensity, telegraphs the correspondent of : the highest point on the Messines Ridge, which was captured ye