The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1918, Page 1

ST _ PERSHING REPORTS BIG BATTLE: HEAVY LOSSES TO U. S. TROOPS “If it Happens In New York , ‘ It’s In The Evening World’’ _ PRICE eve CENTS. co th by Che_ ew York NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 191 The F 8. 16 PAGES BIG GUNS A CA iN BOMBA RDING AMIENS ircnlation Books Open to All WEATHER—Fair and Cooler. PRICE TWO CENTS, —= BILLION AND A HALE TAKEN | OFNEW LOAN, CITY'S SHARE. STANDING iy $389,200,000 ta] Week fo k for New York ‘NOW WE ARE TOLD WE ARE TOLD Diswict Begins and Big | WHY U BOATS FAIL 10 Boost Hoped For. | Cr. ENTHUSIASM. | TO SPUR » Renewed Energy All Along the Line to Raise Subserip- tions Above Quota. | WASHINGTON, Apri! 22.—Half of the three billion dollars mini mum sought for the Third Lib. | imp ” hazard } erty Loan remaine to be sub- | ous, Cupt. Ku ting in gribed in the remaining working the Lokal Anzeiger days of the campaign. Early re- Be y a n sub ¢ ports to-day to headquarters in- tained in alnking ike dicated that the total had been raised above $1,500,000,000. Re- ports already in show $1,456,585,- 100,000 ciTY EMPLOYEES 100, IN LIBERTY LOAN PARADE * are ; ' | New York faces a new week of the = v ; the Britisn | front, and Robecq, at the tip of the Flanders salient. \ ‘ Taberty Loan drive with the total All Are to Turn Out in Patr bedy: was tecovarst and A strong local attack by the Germans on the front north of Albert 1 purchase, up be military hono i 8 purchase, up j= | Caen eanaes tsary Donors | Was repulsed after the enemy had captured one of the British advanced vtanding at $3 n Next Fri Mayc sents an incre or Hy Announ | 1¢ total standing on the books of the) New York City w: Mea taken seoond Reserve Bank at closing hour| | one 100,006 ety Miche Liberey Loan Committee does |@mployees, Mayor Hylan announced this sot hesitate to say that to-day marks |afternoon, The da, April 26, will be © commencement of the crucial |mado a legal holiday in the city. Mayor ek for Now York's district. The|Hylan communicated this decision to district is lagging far behind ite W. Loft r= ninimum quota of $900,000,000 and © drive js more than half over, Unless there is a big upward boost says n bond sales be closing hour | That this city's respones may be all xt Satur¢ the Second Federal \ings the President expects I ain going ve Dis will not reach !t8]to unk you to a meet- 1um quota, the committee de- fing of the Ex of the Mayor's Co: tonal De ate An A a ein arrange Renewed cnersy und a will to win lle | has spread downward through all the |" mation ip thousands of volunteers This we in the Day, © culated to let district know faving a dollar drive that apable. J. P. Morgan paid $50,000 for a steol jl lS almet of a dead Prussian Guard at © noon 1 votore the suo |QNE DEAD TWO INJURED Treasury Bu! the relic by buying @ Liberty Bond ¢ BY FALLING DERRICK that denomination, and the great didi Al crowd cheered. Lieut. Gordon Sherris of the Can- adian Black Watch, was the 1 held up the steel helmet wi bimeelf bad taken from a s the second battle of Ypres ; nounced that the helmet would go to |i" the one who bought a $50,010 bond Charles A. Bll, a broker repres Mr. Morgan, took up the b Morgan will re-auc helmet when Harry Lau y person in the New York 1s/ is unes- Roof of Ne’ ected in Brook ma Car One man wa fon tho prectous | c noon mecting on the usury 4 6 nt on etaps. Jing at the time, T t w The following large subs MS) men escaped. A were registered to-day w 4d) moned from the W i Department of the Federal Reserve | , Bank: t Philip ™ ditional), #1. B, F. Goodrich Rubber Co: $500,000 i Fah g Merchants’ Fire Assurance Corpor | ation, $100.0 TUR WORLD TRAVEL DURE Scranton and Le’ Company, $75,000 HL E. Verran Co., $104 Federal Shipbullding Rowe & Hagen (ad- 000. mpany igh Valley © $100,000. Wontinued on Fourth Page) ‘ | SINK U.S. TRANSPORTS | °* tory us| ‘2,972,411 GERMANS v Car. | | BARON RIGHTHOFEN, GREATEST OF GERMAY AVIATORS, 1S KILLED BRITISH LINES ADVANCED ON BOTH BATTLERRONTS: ——-REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK \Hindenburg’s Artillery SI s Artillery Shelling Four Allied Positions in Picardy and Flanders Preparatory to New Drives by Infantry. Fi | LONDON, April 22.—The bombardment of Amiens has been | renewed, according to a despatch to-day from the British front. | Three additional hits have been made on the famous Amiens Te FS a air _——a ss Cathedral. caging frit: TANERIED | von | [The points at which the Cermans are nearest Amiens are In the ‘ fited| Hangard neighborhood and the position just below the Somme. Both ed? j Leader of “Flying Cireu a With EF ial Victory. are about nine miles from the city.] I sc In reporting improvement in his positions on both the battle- a fronts, Gen. Haig announces what appear to be artillery prepara- n tions for new infantry drives below the Somme, in the Lens sector, i panier nd and at Festubert and the Nieppe Forest, in Flanders. Gains were made near Villers-Bretonneux and Albert, on the Somme Since Capt ko was shot down | posts, in October, 1916 ‘on Richthots Se tian been ihe moe ae ya Halg’s report tallies w e sent by correspondents with the British cessful German's armies in Flanders and Pleardy. The correspondents say the Germans War Office a | s he had ach! elghtieth aerial | are massing for the third and what may prove to be the greatest blows of alth is as in previous dited explicit. brought down an all on these fronts. The three-day lull has permitted the Anglo-French forces strongly to consoli- date their new positions and to move forward artillery and reserves. French reinforcements in large numbers have been poured into the Bailleul and Mount Kemmel regions, and it is believed the Germans can They may strike within the next few hours, Capt. von Richthofen first came into Prominence as leader of the “Flying Circus,” a squardon of German avia- |tors which fought In @ peculiar circu- lar fc each other! make no advances there. ar » one was at- Pyle Sync In a We . ta ld sweep the “By constantly extending r drives Into new sectors,” says one} r, Recently a ed upon him of the Ked Eagle tionably hope to exhaust the French | clear to the correspondent, “the Germans unque sustaining the British armies |reserves, which already are =| North Sea. “There are numerous indic: KILLED OR PRISONERS, }a fresh diye between Ami TOTAL ON WEST FRONT of exploiting drives when su A'lies successfully resist.” Paris reports that Germ Fut Al Conese, ee Rhelms sepa ulse: qe , 1914, and Feb- P , at 5,000,000, \the Order ations that the Germans are preparing for d Arras, harmonizing with their system | cessful and abandoning those where the east of the Avre River and near| in ralds BRITISH REPULSE ATTACKS | ON LINES NEAR ALBERT | | | | | On the aaaticn otat kiiea (Check Comes After Germans Capture One of} aug | Haig’s Advanced Positions—Raids Near Lens. 31, 19 [BRITISH REPORT] oe LONDON, April 22.—The text of the statement issued to-day by| grand eh nd |the War Office is as follow | Bee ty naval | shelling, eiem inst ~~ hood of M fA f if EDISON HAS NEW GRANDSON, which the {in ne John Eitsan Sloane Geta Liberty attack wa Hand When $2 Hoare Ola, “We r I ath and nor 1 tf and h need al 1 ! Bond tor Nin Mra. Sloane was Miss Madeline Edison. |B. Wilcox, Corpin. TI NEW NAMES ON CASUALTY LIST SENT BY PERSHING: Forty-Nine Wounded and Five | Others Dead of Injuries in Fighting. WASHINGTON, April 22.—The cas ualty Met to-day contained seventy- | one names, divided as follows: Killed tn action, 10; died of wounds, 5; died of aootdent, 1; died of disease, 4; other causes, 2; wounded severely, 7 wounded olightly, 42. Tho men Killed in action are all Privates, Lieut, Stanley Huguenin (ied of accident; Lieuts, Marland C, Hobbs, George Peck, Arilo Alfred Schardt and Edward B, Wilcox were Slightly wounded, The Ust follows: KILLED IN ACTION. Privates Horbert F. Akroyd, Elmer G. Dawley, Ray D. Kreager, John J.| Larkin, Manuel Martin, George H. Horsigian, Herman Satner, John I, Glaton, Charles Waldron; Hugler Grover K. Tanner, DIED OF WOUNDS. Corpl. Frank B, Amaral; Privates Henry J. Hergaron, Walker Hatimett, Charles A. Henry, Leroy S. Wells. DIED OF ACCIDENT. Lieut. Stanley Huguenin DIED OF DISEASE. Sergt. Prank C. Cataldo, pneumonia; Corpl. Theodore F tuberculosis; Privates Josoph L. Mattingly, pneu- monta; James T Welch, empyema. DIED OF OTHER CAUSES. Privates Frank J. Watson, Arthur Williams. WOUNDED SEVERELY. Sergt. Edward G. Smith; Corpl, Jo- soph Thifault; Privates John L. Brock, William J, Dillon, Abrabam A, Flescher, Charles “MU. Harrington, | George Kertcher. WOUNDED SLIGHTLY. Lieuta, Marland ©, Hobbs, George Peck, Ariie Alfred Scha Robert § a Timothy J. Barry, Walker B, Board- man; Privates John V. Benoit, Hur old W. Berry, ¢ H. Cole, Samuel J. Conkery, Dambruob, Thomas N. Ei! quale Por. rugano, John F Tony Frisco, Charles Germat! Harry Gould, Ch ward Boscoe Ki h A.Lacoy, Oclide Lavelle, Armand Lemieux. Privates Lawrence RK. Loveland, (Continued on Second Page.) U. S, LOSSES ABROAD TO DATE TOTAL 3,897; 287 KILLED IN ACTION! Deaths From All Causes Reach 1,800—2,012 Wounded and 43 Capt A MPRICAN tea a follows : Killed in actic oe 287 Killed or prison Killed by a Died of Alsease Lost 4 a Died of wounds 10% Al cau 9 Grav al ! Wounded 1 Cap 1 43 42 ae7 500 GERMAN CASUALTIES, CUTNUMBERING PERSHING'S BOTH SIDES TAKE PRISONERS ‘Nothing Made Public Regarding Number of Americans Captured, but Washington Rejects Claim of 183 Made in Report From Berlin. WASHINGTON, April 22.—American forces in the battles of Seicheprey, while suffering the heaviest losses of their fighting to date, inflicted casualties numbering close to 500 on the Germans, Gen. Pershing reported to the War Department to-day. The losses have not been checked up, but are known to |have been less than the Germans. Nothing has been made public regarding the total Americans captured, but War Department officers said it was not improbable that both sides had made numerous captures. They scout the Berlin report of 183 captured. EIGHT-HOUR BATTLE WON BY AMERICANS IN GAS MASKS Attacking Force ‘‘Dope Crazed” Soldiers; Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. and Canteen Workers Heroic Under Fire. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN LORRAINE, April 22 (United Press).—American troops attacked the Germans northe west of Toul Sunday morning, following a heavy barrage, retak- ing all the positions lost in Saturday's strategic retreat. The | ground was covered with enemy dead, showing the heavy cost of | their assault, | During Saturday's attack many Americans fought in gas masks for eight hours, One officer ordered the men to load up '| with grenades and “sticks.” Then he took up a rifle himself and | emptied it into the advancing enemy, afterward joining his men \in hurling grenades, Americans cay the Germans wors @— "dope-crazed” and more like wild | tre men and beasts than buman, singing and yelling aa they advanced. In the artillery-wrecked villages in the rear, Red Cross, Salvation recover ver the Army and canteen workers bravely message? atuck, } ping the wounded and sorv- in No Land rmans and Ameri- Man's ing coffee to exhausted soldiers. | Latest reporta #how that tho p in the fighting, |Amertcans, although outnumbe Ya ried to for Yallantly withstood the onslaught of! mang out Into the ¢ three waves of storm when the troops. =A | “we can lick ‘em barrage behind r own . troops forced their advancing Infantry across No Man's Land into the at- |; | ek (Berlin of man 5 didn't know when ting thelr guns im the ed down the Ger- 1 in & breaking two machine gunners ner les of dead Germans w German aviators poured the . intl nar fir , uses into the © ¢ © but then “returned to | aimertean it y machine gunners helr ow s of departu A |retused bey the evacuation order World o dent at the front stu und re until they had says not one American w Ape J the German planes. tured. Par ully reporta Sheer bravery enabled rectification | attack was repulsed.) Jot the American nes. One telephone 4 despatch bearer, sent from the lineman worked in the open amills \ (