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‘rain, says @ Reuter despatch received THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1918 U.S. DESPATCH BEARER DELIVERS ORDER; ASKS IF HE’S YELLOW — ursting sholls, smoking and joking. graph wir Army ambulance men went clear into times. Couriers were forced to pass Man'- Land, gathering up the| through two or three barrages tn , which were eut many wounded. One driver, who had beon | order to maintain communication, In ing was worse than any ho had over |rettes, in faco of a heavy bombard- geen at Verdun. ment restored the wires almost as — p= fast ag the enomy shells disrupted Man's Land during tho thick of the \feht and did herole work tn gather- PLANES NEAR TOU ling up wounded. One German, who |as three Americans approached him U. S. Soldier With Grenade Pre-| jnother soldier discovered the trick vents Treacherous Enemy From jand hurled a grenade at the German. |One of the German's legs wan blown IM FRANCE, April 22 (Associated | 4 village near the front lines which Prees).—Two low-flying German air- | the correspondent visited to-day tells ja mute tale of Saturday's tight planes were brought down Saturday | iehting. ing the German attack tn and about | other yulldings have been blown off. Seicheprey, northwest of Toul. The| The enemy fire became so hot here hine gunners who bagged the|that Salvation Army girls who had The girls protested, saying they were and fought effeotively against the |not afraid of the Germans and enemy aviators. wanted to atay in thelr dugout, but During the engagement the Ger- were cheered by soldiers returning from the front Iinen, et Verdun during the most desperate | the meantime the men of the signal AMERICAN GUNNERS wae |had offered to surrender, attempted Exploding 1 Bomb. Joff and he died Inter, a prisoner of by American machine gunners dur- | There are huge shell holes in the nd Ween wicered to retire, |Deem bervine coffee and doughnuts to the officers did not wish to take the mans concentrated their artillery fire ON BOTH BATTLEFRONTS enemy assaults there, said the shell-| corps, many of them amoking clga- Ambulance men ventured into No WING TWO GERMAN \to explode a bomb on the ground WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY | the man he attempted to blow up. \atreets, and parts of tho church and |the Americans wero forced to leave. Dut they remained in their position |responsibility, As they left the girls on the Ameriacn Setephene and tole- (Continued From First Page.) ferent sectors of the British front. The enemy’s shelling has been directed chiefly against our positions astride the Somme and Ancre Rivers, in the Lens sector, in the neighborhood of Festubert, and in the Nieppe Forest.” TWO RAIDS BY GERMANS CHECKE’) BY THE FRENCH One Was East of the Avre in Picardy, and the! Other East of Rheims. [FRENCH REPORT] PARIS, April 22.—Following is the statement issued to-day by the _ War Office: “A German raid last night east of the Avre in the region of Thennes, was repulsed. We took prisoners. Another German raid, east of Rheims, gained no greater success, “Active artillery fighting continued at different polnts on the front.” ————_.4 = 1,500,000 GERMANS SUFFER FOR FOOD ON BATTLE LINE Front Is Constantly Under Fire and Revictualing Is Perilous—Struggle May Last for Many Months. OTTAWA, April 22.—The lull in the) hitherto have failed to attain fighting in France 1s not expected to} their object owing to the impos- last long, notwithstanding the Inc) sibility of using reserves, and meney of the weather, with wind and| gulted in the bottling up of 1,500, 000 men in the triangle of Haze- brougk, Amiene and Noyon, troops, originally supplied with @ week's ratio aro vir- tually starving im a devastated reaion which |e difficult to revic- the ground is marsh and here to-day from London. "The Germans are licking their hurts after their recent thrashing and evidently do not mean to reattack un- til they are ready to do #0 on a great wale,” +6 message adds, “They are being openly and enormously rein-| pitted with shell holes constantly forced, but the Allies have also| under fir strengthened their forces and it 1s not} “There is a great concentration of Mkely that the next thrust will be ony | shell fre at Mount Kemmel, which is more effective in achieving a decision | already stripped of trees, This ts than that of a month ago when the) probably the scene of the noxt big German people were told to expect 4) attack, speedy triumph. “Da@ails of the Belgtam success of “The expectation on this side {#/ the 17th of April show (hat it was that the battle may last well through | brilliant and also tmportant tn re- the summer. For one thing it will| sults, for it played @ part in foiling henceforth be impossible for the en-| the attempt to cut off the expected emy to beneft by a strategic surprise| British retreat from the Ypres sal- similar to that of March 21, when|ient, Gen, Plumer congratulated the they attacked on a@ front of fifty) Belgian commander urmly, saying ‘i the Second British Army was grate- “All the enemy's onsiaughte ful for the help. BRITISH BATTLE ALL NIGHT AGAINST DETERMINED ATTACK | Germans Defeated in Attempt to Storm Haig's Positions North of Aveluy Wood on Front Above Albert. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, April 22 (Associated Press).—Taking advantage of the the Germans at 10 o'clock moonlight, last night made a strong but unsuo- | cessful rm Tan So a attack against the British LLL AN | posttiona north of Aveluy Wood, on nove Albert, Heavy fight jing col nued until 4 o'clock this “il \ |morning. The Germans appoar to have taken one British outpost, and GULDENS) |to have lost ground themselves elne- : where in the wood, ‘The asswult was |preceded by a heavy bombardment, and the gunfire on both sides kept up most ight | The active artillery fighting |/ througho Sunda east of Arras 1 1 hoth sides t) urpe |Bomberdinens at oo blarkot Gesi@ LeavA. 015 20 ho 38 Dia, us w pLIValoe Poin at Which the Germans Attacked Gen. Pershing’s Forces Dovaumont COMMERCY COMMERCY FOREST ARS ‘ It is along the St. Mibtel salient that the Americans are holding thelr longest front. The first positions they took over from the French were east lof St. Mibiel, but since then they have gradually extended their line until It runs around St, Mibtel north- , Ward. indicates tho point of the and the surrounding territory alse was continued, The British improved their lines somewhat in the neighbor- hood of Villers-Vretonneux. — AMERICANS WHO RESCUED WOUNDED UNDER FIRE Lieut. Neither Slept Nor Rested for Six Days at a Stretch, PARIS, April 22.—On the anniver- sary of the enlistment of the Ameri- can Ambulance Corps in the French Army, Lieut. Albert Smith and Pri- vate Edward Bickel, of Seattle (Wasb.) University, were decorated with the Croix de Guerre to-day. Smith and Bickel spent nine days carrying wounded under shelling and machine gun fire, beginning March 2. For six days they netther slept nor rested, Smith commanded twenty ambu- lances, all of which were riddled, al- though only two were lost. ‘These ambulances carried out the last wounded from the trenches to the dressing statiogs when an evacua- ton was ordered. Bickel volunteered and rescued sev- eral wounded from 4 trap so danger- ous that the French commander would not order the ambulances to attempt the feat, S apuiiarsri JOFFE SENT TO BERLIN. Bolshevik Ssoct April 16 (Asso- elated Pross).—Odolph Joffe has been named Russian Ambassador to Ger- many, and is leaving Moscow to-nixht with his staff. On his way to Rerlin he will meet Count Mirbach, German Am Dassador to Russia Joffe waa Chairman of the first Russian peace delegation at Breat-: ovak. He. isonly thirty-t and is a polenerih B ve f long term jn extle aime ive in Stberla, many, and at 100,000 Boy Farm States. WASHINGTON, April 22.—More than 100,000 hoys between #ixteen and twen- ty-one have been enrolied in fix States Karoll tn Six for summer farm we the United States Employment Service announced to-day. The States and enrolments low; California, 22,000; Indiana, 18,845 Hiinois, 25,000; Ohio, 18,000; Tennessee, 4,200, and Wisconsin, 14,000, Davison TURIN, Italy, Sunday, April 21.—11 |P. Davison, Chairman of the American Red Cr Cross stati scheon where, th of Italy's friendship arty, owing to the elo f fronuer, re-entered France by way of Mont Cents. Soreecnatine NEW YORK GOTTON EXCHANGE Red al January 2 ub both graduates | | Brooklyn Survivor GET FRENCH WAR GROSS ,.°» «. Smith and Private Bickel | toliowing story to his friends for America, | in ; | ton would be ‘put in the hands’ o | soon amma, 4 & 3. Ss. 10 15 20 25 Raines “Scale of Miles against the Americans, It was launched on Saturday by a force of 1,200 shock troops especially trained for such work. The Americans fell back beyond the village of Seiche- prey, but within @ sbort time recap- tured It, “B" shows where @ smaller attack was made by the Germans, ending heaviest German attack yet made/in their repulse. A. H. RAVEN, HIT BY U BOAT, SANK IN FOUR MINUTES’ Didn't Mind Cold Water—Sorry Ship Could Not Fire at Submarine. Von Schoen, of 1606 Avenue Flatbush, on his arrival to-day in Brooklyn from foreign waters, told the “My ship, the A. H. Raven, was sunk by a torpedo in the English Channel on March 14. We were loaded with supplies at the time, The torpedo struck us near the forward bridge and the boat sank in four minutes, It was so dark that we were unable to see the enemy U boat and could not fire on it. Seven of the crew of thirty-el including four Americans, were lost. ‘The lifebuat Von Schoen was in cap- nized just after it was lowered and he remained In the water for several hours untll a patrol boat picked him up. The A. H. Raven was used in transporting supplies and had @ displacement of 4,500 tons. “I didn't mind tho experience of being torpedoed and then chucked into the old water for hours,” added Von ‘but what hurt me was that we were unable to send back even one shot at the U boa ll AIRCRAFT REORGANIZATION I$ ORDERED BY WILSON Baker Working on Readjustment, and New Head of Production Will Be Named. ment of the aircraft programme has been decided on definitely by President Wilson, and Secretary Baker has been directed to carry tt out, It was indi- cated to-day that a man not heretofore mentioned will be given full charge of ment two or Uh what bly It was not Personnel Aircraft it her the If would be re: however, ganized that. p man, LICHNOWSKY & A PRISONER, and many. don up to the outbreak of the war, the publication of whose secret memo- randum strongly erlucising the Ger- man foreign policy, Is to bring bim before the German courts, is | virtually @ prisoner at bis chateau in | Bilesia The Prince ts under police survell- lance because, according to the Dues- dorfer Tageblatt, 4 plan by which \the Prinee intended to escape to Swit. zerland before been discovered, GOVERNOR GIVES 7 SONS, coming to trial has tof Ma sin South Carolina to Be Private, | GREENVILLA April 22.—Viv Jian M. Manning, the seventh son of Gov. Manning of South Carolina, to of+ fer ‘hi to the United ' States WASHINGTON, April 22.—A readjust. | 'WILSON OPPOSES SEDITION. TRIALS BY COURT MARTIAL bial Chamberlain Bill Would Put} U. S. on Level With Enemies, | He Writes Overman, place in G V before concluding peace. | It seems the ¢ WASHINGTON, April 22.—Presi- dent Wilson came out to-day in op- | position to the Chamberlain pill,| f @ large war indemnity. which would try violations of the se- | dition laws by courts martial, and in effort toward peace more difficult. a letter to Senator Overman of North nany among Catholics, Hertling, about the conditlons which they GERMAN ANNEXATION BEMANDS PROLONG WAR, SAYS VATICAN Recent Gains Embolden Teutons to Insist on Portions of France, Belgium and Poland, as Well as Indemnity. ROME, Apr ATICAN circles learn with regret of the change that has taken including Chancellor yon wish to obtain srmans are determined to consider the famous Reichstag peace resolution of July 19 as nonexistent, and now Insist on annexations in France, Belgium and Poland, besides the imposition Vatican circles consider such ideas as only leading to a prolonga- tion of the conflict, and its further embitterment, rendering any DISPUTED HEALTH. BUREAUS NEEDED, SAYS GOLDWATER ienllian Former Commissioner Is Fitst Witness at Beginning of Public Hearing. {1 22, ier Health Commissioner Sigts- S. Goldwater was the first wit- | ness to-day at the public investiga- of Health Department by the Hylan Administration, The ex- tion the Carolina declared his belief that the asure {s unconstitutional. If enacted, the President declared, the bill would place the United States on a level with its enemies, The measure, he said, is opposed to the spirit and purpose of the Espionage laws, In his letter to Senator Overman, the Prosident also indicated that he m TIO MEN OF 165TH AVE WON FRENCH ~ HONORS AT FRONT Military Committee as r al, resigned last week, after, was eald, his advocacy of tho m it of B Company said to-day. | Lieut. Everett ts one of the officers sure failed to receive the support of | of the Rainbow Division sent back by the Attorney General. | Gen. Pershing instructors. He in- Attorney General Gregory has/ vited about seventy of the parents chosen @ new assistant—H. ®altue | wives and friends of men of the for- Brown of Boston, to succeed Mr. War-| mer 69th to meet him at the Astor ren—and {s speeding work “galnst| Hotel yesterday, and told them of enemy aliens, plotters and spie: their loved ones. For five hours he The President's letter follow: talked and answered questions. “My deav Senator.—Thank you for| One story of herolsm was of Pri your letter of yesterday, Iam heart-| vate Thomas P, Minogue of Lieut fly obliged to you for consulting me! Everett's own platoon, Private about the court-martial bill, as per- | Minogue, who lived at No, 219 W haps I may call it for short, I am 6th Street with his mother, was re- wholly and unalterably opposed to ported killed in action on March 20, such legislation and very much value) “Tom Minogue's name will be near the opportunity you give me the top when the history of the boys say 80, | deeds is written,” said Lieut, Everett, “E think it 1s not only unconstitu- | “It was after some of the boys had tional but that in character it would Teturned from a trip out in No Man's put us nearly upon the level of the Land that we discovered one was to ‘The Germans had latd down a heavy It would be altogether inconsist- |». trage and it wus a dangerous tri uncalled for, jleaped over the top, “I take the liberty. my dear Senator, | fell flat and| 4 began crawling along the ground. | » a collection for his mother, When i} gel what you have been doing lthey get back to New York they are nounced "Gen, O'Rourke of the Dub lin Fusiliers” would be the review ing officer, When “Gen. O'Rourke’ showed he was mounted on # green donkey, with four aids on sim- |ilar-hued mounts, It was discovere: he was Private Jim Darcey of thr | kitchen police, and he had to retrec to a position previously prepared pil adabt tll T) NEW NAMES SHIP STRANDED ON TOP OF TRANSPORT SUMNER Norwegian Vessel, ¥ With ith 15,000 Bags of Coffee, Goes Ashore on Barnegat Shoal. BARNEGAT CITY, N. J., April 22.— heavy fox early to-day The stranded whip lies in the show of | SENT BY F PERSHING ‘The Vindal is of 856 tons register and there is @ possibility that she may be saved, a8 sho 18 headed off shore and | the sea {8 smooth. Members of (Continued from First Page.) the ane st Guard wont to the rescue of the | Harold McDonald, Edward L. Me- Vindal's crew of fifteen men and|Fadden, Charles ¥, McLean, Law- brought them ashore, landing them on|rence J, McNamara, Freddie 8. Mor- | the beach AUER See rau, Joseph Nuasky, D: |O'Leary, George W. Russ HAVRE DE GRACE RESULTS, | st Jonn, Biwin A. Sheldon, | 3 | |J. Sheridan, Frank N. Sincoski, | FIRST RACE: Malden two-year-olds: . M. Thompson, Aron Tor- | SO Tai, plnce ie sian, Merwin H, Tuttle, Peter Viola, Tho Wanderer, Alfred 8. Yafte. | PREVIOUSLY MISSING, Now REPORTED KILLED, Major Raynal Cawthorne Bolling. The list carried the first official in- formation that Col. R, C, Bolling had been killed, In a previous list he was reported as missing tn action, although subsequently Assistant McLane, Mas Miitie Don also ran SECOND RACE—Three five and « hal 3 Blair Gowrie year-olds and nas. Bre LAL 2-6, | Greentree. retary of State Phillips, his brother- | in-law, was informed in @ despatch r * from the American Embassy at Paris that his body had been found with a bullet wound through the heart. The Y; r, but weH9 Le bad been erctacied to Cola awit & ¢ ——— Barnegat Light and almost on top of | the United States transport Sumner, jnine which was wrecked in Decemby 916, | Jan. Whe OTTAWA, Apr casualty st for the week ending to-| remainder were jhe would not be taken prisoner, abetn, N Blanc and ‘a 230 injured, IRISH FLAG OVER TOP IN AN AMERICAN RAID, WILL BE WAR MEMENTO | Private Carries Green Banner Aloft} As His Regiment torn in the barbed wire, but during a close encounter its owner never let go of the flag. n it was all Americans of Irish-ancestry told him it should be back to sugge: 100 Killed in Action and 30 Died of Wounds—Americans Named in To-d, discovered one was! day contains names. very people we are fighting and af. ™ssing. It was Tom's ‘bunkle.’ Vol- | 199 were killed in action, tcGHEG 1s diaplog, unteers were called to go in search. | woundy and $41 were wounded, made up J ett, R. E Union, Cal. Detroit uM, Labert3 “Cordially and sincerely yours, olng to erect a memorial tablet in . ‘ “WOODROW WILSO! fis church to bis heroism, When 1 | Brouse, Ely, Nevada; G. EB, Simp- died she sald | son, Detrolt; R. H. Hill, Los Angeles; Borah renewed his opposith told his mother how he son, ; " ; Benet oo ene TT the Senate | she was glad he died fighting for bis|y1 ‘Grey, Plymouth, Maas; H, A. To Fight B Old Glory, charging “that political country, although she worshipped | ° rev atown, Maus.; B, Gea. e ‘or supporting it before the Sen him.” Jordon, Che » Mase. 3 Milligry Committec, had given the im- MOne of Lieut. Everett's humorous setin, Lewiston, Me.; G. D, Scott, You uy US GOV" ression that America’s farming popur| stories was of the St. Patrick's Day | peverly, Mass. o* fation 18 disloyal. Farmers, he said, are! ®0Ca ton, in the trenches. There| <q... eat t uo, BONDS as loyel aa others and are buying un-| 00°" dress parade behind the lines Cancelled on report of missing— Ks usually large amounts of liberty bonda, | N48 Sfternoon at which it was an-|J. P. Bent, Belle tonte, Pa. ' 118 PARISIANS ARE SLAIN IN 15 DAYS BY BIG GUNS More Killed by Super-Cannon Than During Seige of Paris in Franco- Prussian War, S, April 22.—Analyst The Norwegian steamsh{p Vindal, from | PABIM AS palyeln. ot the Moe heecyihan wort Ter 6a Atala German long range gun bombard- pes Prine anan hue at oatten Gate Vy LST ment of Paris shows that shells have ashore on Barnegat Shoal during @ fallen on seventeen days since March that with the figu |days missing 118 persons were killed Paris wa: man batteries fro! , 1871, during The bombardmen ED PRUIT AND ¥ vlllows preset In any pleasing Mayor um Jellies: Ke in Miniature of 1 Old Time Gum rewented tn diversity of ity “aor 29e framed and sent the United States, fon mot with his approval and it has been framed and soon will be sent, a 655 ON WEEK'S LIST : OF CANADIAN CASUALTIES | "s Report. ‘The Canadian Dare, which 105 Parisians were killed and 369 in- jured. sumed yesterday, amination of Dr, Goldwater was con~ ducted by President MacBride of the Civil who is acting with Commissioner of Accounts Hirshfield, Dr. Goldwater was asked {f he be- lieved that the continuance of the Bureaus of Child Hygiene, Sanita- tion, Preventable Diseases and Food and Drugs are, as at present consti- Muicipal Service Commisston, Charges ig tah Utah Wate the Baa | Returning Officer—=How | te tends or ea Aaniees, oe, |tite © sheet ta. the Eiglan invest gators, its being their contention that casary to} Private Tom Minogue Died, | Mish ancestry ts to be sent to Jing health bureaus mentioned aro stamp ont German — propaganda. | America a. a momento of Irish |ixomcient, extravagant and useless. Modu 8 opposition to its passage) Ten omoers and about one hundred TA Che Ge the ‘vecent saldacage | oe Coie ote re eee as been developing and Senator ‘ Hed out b rr " ment of the bureaus by explaining Borah has sought supp ‘ of Senate | Privates of the 166th Infantry (old | ried ul by Americad troops & tinat ne believed tho success of these leaders in his efforts to defeat it, | 69th New York) have already been} Certain privat, Warne Weanlne into Je anches of tho Health Department ‘Tho bill has not had the support of | decorated for gallantry in action and| fag to his gun barrel, In the ene | depended upon the special qualifica- the Department of Justice, and) coolness under fire in the trenches| suing fichting it was stained and | tions of the directors and the enthu- aries Warren, Assistant Attorney |in France, Lieut, Bugeno F. Everett slagm of the workers. | Dr, Goldwater was asked if Le had ever contemplated wiping out these over other |bureaus. He replied that such a |thing had never occurred to him jwhile he was Health Commissioner. Changes in a department so important and complicated as that devoted to health, Dr, Goldwater explained, could not be made in one night, but rather must be modifications, some of which stretch periods of 8 “Do you know whether the New York Academy of Medicine approved |what ts known as the district health an?” asked President MacBride, ba: § slieved they disapproved it,’ t replied Dr, Goldwater. “This appeared to surprise Presl- dent MacBride, for he told Dr. Gold water he was mistaken ‘ou had former employees of the Bureau of Muntcipal Research in the Health Department while you were The over Of these | 30 died of The of gassed, malaall rae Commissioner, did you not?” asked ent with the spirit and practice of | , T sing and tll. sina Tom jumped up and said, ‘I'm going, 7 MacBride. America, and in view of the recent Sede J { crete “ me ar taet veri replied Dr, Goldwater, “alsa logisiation, the Espionage Bill, the) mj. nung twenty-four grenadea| ja) PPT im the Gay'e casually employees of the Civil Service Sabotage Bill and the Woman Spy! around him, and ex : sa ton nl f which you are bead.” 1 pressing a hope| N | Commission of wh' you are hea Bill, I think it t# unnecessary and Killed tn action—E. Ambrose, Eliz At this junction Dr. Goldwater ad« ministered a thinly veiled rebuke ta Chicago; aml Er TO rae ee Died of wounds—-8. P. Bnapp, Sid-| the investigators. He sald the af« of expressing myself In this emphatic | phe machine guns were active and! ney o, fairs of the Health Department are way because my feeling 18 very deep| wo could sco him by the German|” pica rrances Miller (nursing sts-| too technical and complicated for the apie the matter, as I gather your) rockets, Suddenly the machine guns tr), Ballevilia. Me J, average citizen to understand, own Is. topped. Standing up, he started for- Ga oa " “Isn't fi Dr. Goldwater, that " | stopped. § q Gassed —R, Phillips, Worcester, sn't tt true, Dr, Gi * It 1s Arata 8 Way you have) ward, blazing bis way with the Bre- | yyasy, it takes misrepresentation and mise been handling these important bills, | nqdes, Whenever @ rocket went UP| 1) R, Jones, Waterville, Me; F.| statement of facts to get the peopig a ate ey tee a my heart for ne dropped into @ hole, Determined | yay, Carroll, Ta. vt tho city aroused over questions « ny ne bill whic! ‘s ro , f 0) v mut pal depart« Hee any conipreilen at tie | ome een ene DMTRAW TORT! Woundes Patmore, Seattle; B.| Teorganisation o| . 4 4 Cenhed SerW Are Ont ee ne he | Johnson, Mi H. R, Hessler, ’s your statement, not mine'* “At gives me the greatest satisfaction | men of the platoon pald for the por. Wilkes-Barr MacDougal, | retorted Dr. Goldwater, to tell how much I have appreciated | jpetual care of his grave and took up | Oak: Mis: o res for two this space ntribuced Dy E. Pritchard, 331 Spring Street 4 shelled by m Jan, & to o.€D,. period MOORE.—HELEN MOORE, Services at CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway, @6th ot, Tuesday, 11 A.M nt Was re- Athactive Offerings for Monday and Tuesday, April 22 and 23 NUT BUTTERCUPS—A_ colle el in the di 0 ot net inished 9c MILK CHOCOLATE COV- ERED MARASCL CHERRIES Big, Swot. Ripe, Crimson Chorrtes! First plunged in rich Fondant Cream and luxe ed with our ie stul BORG Box pee Storess New York, Brooklyn, Newark,

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