The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1918, Page 2

BRITISH G UNS, Fighting still is in progress on the French front at Bailleul « British front further east. BRITISH AND GERMAN TANKS IN BATTLE BEFORE AMIENS nd on the Haig’s Troops Regain Ground Lost Below the. Somme—Hard Fight Continues in Picardy. [BRITISH REPORT] LONDON, April 25.—The following statement was issued to-day by the War Office: “Heavy fighting took place all night in and around Villers-ireton- | néux and still continues. Our troops regained ground by counter-at- tacks and have taken a number of prisoners. “The fighting yesterday on the whole of this front was most se vere, and heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy by fantry and tanks. “North of the Villers-Bretonneux-St. Quentin road the enemy three times attacked our positions, and on each occasion was repulsed with ‘hoss, During this fighting the enemy made use of a few tanks, “A raid attempted by the enemy during the night in the neigh borhood of Bucquoy was repulsed. “The hostile artillery has been active during the night in the Festu- bert and Robecq sectors.” “Late yesterday evening the enemy also attacked French positions northeast of Bailleul and was repulsed. Early this morning the enemy renewed his attacks in this sector and on British positions farther east, after an intense bombardment. The’ fighting continues in this sector on a wide front. artillery, in- GERMANS HELD AT HAN HANGARD; ARTILLERY BATTLE ON AVRE « Heavy German Casualties as the Town Changes | Hands Three Times in the Night. [FRENCH REPORT] PARIS, April 25.—The statement issued to-day by the Pari Office reads: “The battle continued with violence around the Village of gre d, on which the Germans concentrated their efforts during the n French troops resisted valiantly and counter-attacked several times with success. The village was lost, then retaken by the French, and finally remained in the hands of the Germans at the cost of heavy losses. The French are holding the immediate outskirts of Hangard, and the Germans have not been able to debouch from the town in spite of repeated efforts. “On both banks of the Avre the artillery fighting continues with violence. “The French made several successful raids, especially west of Las-| signy, south of Coucy-le-Chateau, and in Lorraine. We took a certain number of prisoners. ‘The artillery fighting was very active in Woevre in the region of Flirey and Regneville. Elsewhere there is notii- ing to report.” GERMAN OFFENSIVE THIS TIME SMALLER THAN THE OTHERS Great Slaughter Attending Headlong Rushes Causes Change to Local Thrusts—Seck High Ground Before Amiens. OTTAWA, April 25.—The resump tien of the German offensive seems | tillery War a ommand means he Allied while has been unified. | Gen. Foch probably has his army J of reserve in a position where it may | be used when needed and there from | fear here that the Allied man power | will be overwhelmed. It is thought that the fi made by troc | now holding the line and unless there danger the re- on @ much smaller scale than for meétly, and its objectives in yester- day's attack were obviously limite), save a Reuter’s despatch Lendon. “It is possible,” he says, “this is due to the realization of the great slaugh- ter which has been attending '¢| ive army will not be used Teuton headlong rushes, but the| American troops are believed enemy has huge forces assembled in| engaged in the fighting around Han- the neighborhood, and if local thrusts | gard. The official statement Mke that which captured Villers-Bro- | Paris last night styled this position of tomneux yesterday can be repe | the line as the Franco-American front the enemy is sure sooner or later to| confirming the impression here take advantage of these gaing to| some part jen, Pers hing’s pusb onto the utmost at the best mo- | have been w eneh corps is no will be $ * shown to be grave to be from igned with F ment, in that vieinity “As in the case of the attack which! ve juncture of the Irench and captured Armentieres, the enemy | British lines apparently is somewhere made two thrusts against Villers-| between Hangard and Ville rs-Bre Bretonneux yesterday. One was ma‘+ | tonneux, which le just north of the against Mount Kemmel and was re- Luce and cover two of the pulsed. The other was launched | &reat highways along which the Ger against Villers-Hangard, where the! man advance ward Amiens ts dl Germans were evidently anxious to | cted. Villers-Bretonneux was cap mans yesterday, the wipe out a salient and capture high ground on both sides of the road | ¢xtreme righ he Bribiod line ang mding to Amicus before attempting | He extrem Phaneranen Uae another general advance. All otter | {U8 having heen. formed hack about enéray attacks yesterday wero | mile in this renewal of the ma German drive clearly diversions. tid ee [ete AT cos fare tain cee | to support and stiffen the line a believe that they have already been heavily enguged ALLIES HAVE NO FEAR | OF BEING OVERWHELMED WEEDING out THE UNFIT, | umetency rds at Army Camps ‘American Troops Are Believed to| ming Wark ne rs : . bis WASHINGTON, April 2.—The urgent Be in the Fighting Around | need of American troops in France hus Hangard. | cued 6 bsstening of ‘the process of WASHINGTON, April %.— Army | jee oe in battle Biftelency officera hero sce in the new German | Ment’ tonal Guard orgahisetions rive @ surer test of strength than | ire 4 burticular object of mc the first onslaught in the Somme | ‘"X? may have Koad officers region. The element of surprise hay charae 1 recently from ing been eliminated, the Allies have | Sfiecrd Heserve. Core (he Engineer hrown great resources into their _ lines to resist the attack Three Bisles 15 Bs OMicers believe the Germans will bo! graxuTON Onts Ranh M—T able to muster greater strength in| nen were killed and @ number in . their new offensive than in their} to-day by an explosion at the plant of earlier efforts. They have brought | the Hamilton Tar and Ammonta Com Rp Felnforcements und mohised ar-' known, ? “AUN Of the explosion te not bee kno . ; , ’ the] THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1918. DANIELS HONORS N.Y. NAVAL MEN FOR SAVING LIVES | Commends Crew of Destroyer Parker for Heroism When Ship Was Torpedoed, | | WASHINGTON, Aprtl ~OMecers f States De- over Parker mended to- men the United were cor day by Secretary Dante for bravery and heroiam in their work of rescuing the nine survivors of the British Hospital Ship Glenart Castle, tor pedoed Feb. The men commended are: J. C. Cole, No. 2 Hestla Park, Roxbury, Mass., 'who jumped overboard to rescue a drowning man, and J, T. Newman, | No. 4 Georges Road, New Brunswick, N. J., who went to Cole's assistance }and had to be called back by the executive or. wo other David Goldman, Phila delphia, and Wilbur Mathews, No. 97 Palisade Avenue, Yonkers, N.Y. Jumped overboard to the assistance of |the fourth officer of the British ves- | sel Others commended are Roy E Hoftses, Provide R. 1; ‘Thomas | | |¥, Troue, No. Crescent Street, | ~ | Brooklyn N. Y.; James H. Quinn, No. |104 ae Avenue, Mount Vernon, and Francis W, Beeghley, Des | I ih Ja. | The officers and crew of the Parker recetved Great Britain's ani ee Thomas J. MeN ay the Admiralty, who oominended nes | before Par} nt Parker wag trailing two a m | The ‘LOSING ONLY ONE MACHINE, BRITISH DOWN 17 OF ENEMY More Than 24 Tons of High Ex- plosives Are Dropped on German Targets. | LONDON, April Tho statement relative to air |issued by the War Office last night, offictal of bombs were dropped on different targets, Including Roulers, Merville Armontleres, Bapaume,. the railway stations at Chaulne urout, Tour hal and Courtrat and the docks 4 Zeebrugge. Dt hi® were ob tained on all these targets and sev- | eral fires were started, All our ma- chines returned.” » HEAVY FIGHTING 1S ON IN THE ASIAGO BASIN British Flyers Wing Four Enemy | Airplanes in Battles in Sky | in Italy ROME, April 25 —Quite severe fight ing in the Aslago Hasin, west of the Brenta River, 1s reported in the of- ficial statement issued by the War! Office here. The statement reads: | “In the Asiago Basin, British recon. | noitring patrols attacked enemy de- | tachments which attempted to oppose| them. Before our lines at Canove the enemy Was forced to retire, loaving behind a number of dead, Later on hostile groups advancing toward Monte Kaberlaba were repulsed in | disorder by our rifle fire. ‘Another | party approaching our lines south of Btoceareddo wag attacked and dis- | persed “On other sectors of the front there! was patrol activity on both sides, Our, captured machine guns and es in the Alano district Four enemy airplanes wore shot |down by British aviators operations | artillery INFANTR Y, TANKS, CAUSE BIG LOSS TO GERMANS German Prisoners From the Captured U Boat 58 Arriving at Fort McPherson, Ga., for Internment $44 44440406-6O6-0064-04 vovr $064 644646006006 & Omrrow ser These or Fanning in an engagement } November, 6 the first German pris- arrive in this country, GERMAN CAVALRY | - ONDUTCH BORDER, | They we by the caught in the war zone (4,027 CASUALTIES TO DATE IN PERSHING’S “9 NEW NAMES FORGE; 298 KILLED “ON CASUALTY Ne ast to marines, which had been SHIN( ay 1 Lin Whea the murvivors were alghted, Gen casu | ne names, bringing the grand | *. BERMANS NOW N ADMIT up to’ 4027. OF these, 208 | LOSSE: FE SIE " were killed in action The fleures i S IN OFFEN | Kaiser's Note to: He to Holland De-| to date are as follows: | Two Killed in it & Action and WILL REACH 600, O00 | mands Transport for Ma- i by wncldent. | Twenty-Nine Wounded— | | terials for Army Use. | ca | Lieut. Ayer Among Dead. | Report From Sean S andinav vian Sources | Ss of wounds | _ | May Be an Enemy Attempt to | ROTTERDAM, April 25.—The anx- | { WASHINGTON, April °5.—Tho Minimize the Latest Casualties. lously awaited German note to Hol aiiclde wxasuls casualty list to-day contained forty- COPENHAGPN, April 25.—Rellable ne has arrived at The Hague al unknown CAUSES. .+. 4g [Nine names, divided as follow |neures, which, though not octal, come |th® contents communteated to the] aii, aoathe..s.s.. Killed in action, tw led (is trustworthy sources, ore we ‘Dutch Government, Although no} Wounded wounds, six; died of accident, jermans now admit thelr losses in pic announceme as y non | LAanturec 4 Wiltud,” WOURAOA, AHA. GAUHUSAG Jn) thal Cee cs ree eene: URE: FOE POOR) Minaing died of seven; died other | early phuvos of the luteat offenaive have {Ade It ts learned from well-informed} — Grand total Toa? ~«-CAUSes, one; wounded severely, flv | peached 606086 | sources that, while not exactly in the | wounded slightly, twenty-four, ‘The | figures given by Karl Bletbtreu, /RAture of an ultimatum, the note Is U, S) MARINES | FIGHTING list follows | uropa, of Germany, show that|Couched in strong language and 4 KILLED IN ACTION, 4nd of dan this year, | mands an early answer, It indicates 1 Lieut. Laurence 3. Ayer, Private | had Jost 4.600.000 killed, | a determination to secure the right of ON THE WESTERN FRONT Frank McCall ‘ jan r through transport from Germany to | ii Ea DIED OF WOUNDS. deaths rs Helgium of sand and gr vel, which | § ; ; t eg RP ee ia obviously 1s needed for military pur-| Total Casualties of the Corps to ee rele Seatnaes It Is believed here lelbtreu's figures | poses, | Date, 274—One Company Lost | srrante Alexno, 11 red wale mitered ‘hore, Biel mite by |g nee : ’ ate, 2 e t rank Alekno, ITorace G. McDer i Bien with seein so Simultaneously reports arrive from 21 Killed and 140 Wounded, dantual Haren ities suffered in the latest ofensive |the Duteh Westphalian frontier of| — ~ Xs DIED OF DISEASE {tere the Franco-Britieh forces, military demonstrations by the =| WASHINGTON, April 25—Amerl-| 5. Charles H " deaths among Germany's civilian pop. |e oAvalry along parts of the} can marin fe BIO RAR: A tra BR. Johnson, Albert Kelly ai Vv | ulation make it certain Germany can Dutch-German frontier hitherto only | and last in th * are now seeing | yiobeak George ¥ cai recover her losses for @ generation or| guarded by Landsturm men, not action on the west ripen eel Aegis pee are being reported in G mae Mintater Tells) camuaity Il total casualties of | 749 PIED. OF ACCIDENT. < tion Serion Riereciat Ng aos Jout, James Calder quardt, TH » April 25.—Speaking Barnett announced to: Corp. Daniel J anion, Privates to in the first chamber of the rirty-four en i a hay Donald R. F Robert Sommons. Netherlands Parliament on the sand| Killed and four officers and DIED OF OTHER CAUSES. and gravel question with Germany, he fecipans oat sr aiied Private Jesse M. King, the Dutch Foreign Minister declared | Wounded from i total strengt Private Hector E, Rollman, pre- he could not and must not conceal | men viously reported missing, now re- from the Chamber the fact that the ported prisoner in Germany, ‘WOUNDED SEVERELY | Corp. Carl A. Johnson jr, Privates Na-| Omer A, Godwin, John H question was a very serious one, He | sald he could not say more about tt. | TO MOBILIZE TIN CANS. lomatic Break, War Industries Board View at | tlon-Wite Campaign, Napoleon St. Charles, Roger W. Will- | ¢ | reads: SHINGTON, April 25.—OMcials| WASHINGTON, April 25.—Mobiltza- |} “The weather on Tuesday was un-|o¢ the Netherlands Legation, pen of empty tin ‘cans from Kitchens in| q,_, WOUNDED SLIGHTLY. favorable for flying until 6 P. M.! without information from thelr Gov- every home, hotel and restaurant 18 | mq gimace ge, Ar, Dolan: Corporals after which sharp fighting occurred] ernmont regarding reports that the | being considered by the War Industries Ghristanson, Bdward 'B,g jin the air, Reconnaissances were) German Minister had left The Hague, | Board to relieve the tin shortage Buclen Wietolae Augeler Pale Sat thes day. Merville’ Heteiees, [And that the Dutch Minister had ft} vata trom tin. cun W. Barrows, Walter F. Bissa Wore te Gorrustihe 2 | Berlin, thought to-day this did not icthis figure aan be doubled by a nati \ iter B. Birkland, Everett T, ' tad A Py oe wa |necessarily mean a break in diplo-| wide campaign, {t 18 believed ow, John M. Corbit, Charles F. railway junction Ren the matic relations was near between | Officials consider tin saving A neces- Goodnow, Roy Aiaaah Naat icele alhyl te eo ty daucal pty Germany and Holland Jeary part of the war programme ah DER LLIN gall Fourteen hostile machines were Pee is $F Buds ‘ _ |Haddad, Harry 4, Kane, Leonard V. ut of cd 4 one was whot down Ik, Ar Seren tinea oramtarnear | ranco-American Picardy Front; |i sits Muery 4 Mieny Ane Ine of our machines is missin, w J. Nett, George Powers, Jo OTe rhe ine olane twenty che tone , Seifried, Patrick M. Stanton, Towns Where Fighting Is Harde. t PRE DDD-I@ |ISSUE MOBILIZATION CALL PP DID DDG S s. Y. Drafted Men To Fort SI um, May 2 to Jraft, to-day received from the Ad Jeral mobilization to take place Ma : Jto 5, inclusive, At that time 2,065 a | n will leave New Y k City f Fort Slocum. ‘This will be the t : ® |General orders each board to p 7 an juors to be earrted on tra é ® }and instructs that the men a ®|searched and sentries placed at the . ®|doors at all places where the trains : > z rf ; $ OND RACE—Steeplec > Je and upward: about two mi ¢ ree $34 no 147 (Allen), straight Villers Bretonneux (No, 1 on the above map) 1s east Amiens | 145 (P Hie and just below the Somme, It was captured yesterday by the Germans, |(hird. “Ki but retaken last night by the British forces. Heavy fighting still com: Winning, First a tinues in that vicinity Hangard (No, 2 on map) {ts southeast of Amiens and perhaps | Arehbishop the nearest point to that city reached so far by the German It is two ie 4 i Hes and a halt f 1 oh to Paris. From Hangard| 0°, TAU “Minn. April M.—Areh- miles and a half from the railway which runs t¢ Bh HGHEANG'| iran seun trainee ache pasanile adti |southward along the Olse new {is the Franco-American front HOAVY | tered « relacee after pecuperating. fF He yaical breakdown. somewhat jimproved to-day, was fighting te reported there, HYLAN REVERSES ¢ thr Hudson River Sinking Fund Commission to-| Terminal tn Brooklyn F Commissioner Hulbert — further’ ay turned a come nersault and | charged that Mr. Smith wante to keep t ew out the bid of the Hudson Dock|the army piers on the North River Term year leasg of Pic N.Y. CENTRAL FIGHTS U, S. SHIP PLAN, SAYS HULBERT. Dock Commissioner Declares Presi dent Smith Wants Army Piers Kept on North River. Addressing the Sinking Fund Commis- on this afternoon in defense of his action with ference to the leasing of Pier 69, North River, Dock Commies, sioner Murray Hulbert charged that A, H. Smith, President of the New York Central Ratlroad, who is regional rail- road director under Director McAdoo, fs opposing Gen thals's plan to have | the transatlantic base of the United States Army centered south of the Bush ‘| PIERLEASE VOTE; THROWS OUT BID mor y Property De- fared Open Dock After Mi yor Attacks “Trust.” inal C front, where they will be of the great« st benefit to the New York Central Railr as @ trans-continental ship- rporation for the ten- , North River, at $25,000 a year, Although this sum/|Ping terminal ; i “Ia it corporate greed or getting the was bid th Amount se ‘ int was raised to| poy» and supplies for them the paras $30,000 at the suggestion of Mayor]mount question of this war?" asked Hylan, referred to by Justice Green. | Commissioner Hulbert. baum as a “most extraordinary pro-| Later in his attack Commissioner Huts beading, out the | bert cited as an instance of his oppost- Hud the ‘coms tion to public bidding that even the Binion Vane ‘ 1, | New York Central might be outbid for santana Blues ot Wh} one of its piers at 33d Street by one ; pler hy making it an open] of the pier lessees who had been driven dock pending a decision of the court sway from the Bush Terminal by the In taking this unlooked-for action | Government ‘ t Jay the Sinking Fund Commission that would be outrageous to' liniered offer: of $41,000. a: yeas r away from the New York made late yesterday afternoon hy the Reb tcesl ebb de Ace Occident Company, the presont lessee naked Me rachel jsbassoiy of the pler, whose term of occupancy y< eepitesMAG- ig Welles KONO TT TELEGRAPHERS TO STRIKE. | year offer ade by Jame udit piety made by James Auditor CHICAGO, April 25.—Strike tnstrues 0. Appeared on to-day's ¢ tions were being prepared here to-day endar. . by P lent S. J. Konenkamp of the | Dock Commit ner Murray Hulbert] Commercial Telegraphers' Union of took the first step resulting in to. | America | day's si Sinking Funa| The Instructions deal with ponustbiti- Comin ia ties of a nation-wide tle-up following . next Sunday's planned demonstrations hat the | when members will publicly avow their on April | union membership, Discharges of union telegraphers in increasing numoers, son Lock | ¢ vadowing general lockouts next forced the union's hand, Presi ‘ d to-day, t 1 to sel! as Hydro« 1 69 to highest airplane Burns ur tric | PANAMA, April 25.—Lieut. A. J, erious Ocet France was drowned in Gatun Lake late ab bid) Sat boo for |¥¢ 1y. A hydroairplane in which he is fp sido Me Sanaa ig caught fire at a height t t 1 Mayor H a I It came down safely, but iny chan ft} c ng|Lleut, France was drowned while at- wher? I see Mr. Audito Anan tempting to swim ashore. Lieut. Evans, Ae : Mi another | who was piloting the machine, escaped. idder, sitting her Are 1 3} to go higher uy addressed, | didate for Governor, noving f rail. | WASHINGTON, April 25. — Senator | “Never im ull L wanted to James W. Wadsworth will not be a eh pla the SMSO aes cu" i for the Republican nomina- bx nae tlon for Governor of New York. He ‘a made th emphatic announcement to- of the day in answer to a question as to wir he would contest the renoml- en I pation of Gov. Whitman — worth Won't Be C M Auditor man Senator W am," 3 asin * Hud. : Nationally Endorsea- ssing Dock Commisstion- Mayor said | econded ould be commended for of this the dayl p. the o crowd, the New York ( riend bit of n against y oO nt Dock Company, which was | . tin W Vi 4, the home of wild corpor owner of every bit capl wouldn't be fad i much | The Standard of Qual n paying $15,000 @ year as it did under| If you shop the country Over for Dock Commissioner Smith Pattronnes, rings or Beds you will | A hose kers who arol3 hat hot eye the ay Baits | ne il thowe re h a pays to get good bedding now rushing forward and exclaiming |—lasts longer, {8 more comfortable indig against this Commission| and keeps its shape. The difference were very silent while concessions|in price {s nominal compared with were be to the Dock Trust| the value, Ask rellable dealers or Simmons, | in the 8 all en who take th ry clear to any | Call at our uptown st he trouble to ana-| FIRANK A. HALL & SONS |? Aviitian F Wemple, counsel tor the| Manufacturers of Beds and Bedding |Hudson Dock and minal Com- 25 West bth St. pany, protested against rescinding of the agreement between that com i ra chive) n and the Sinking Fund Com- ready been passed upon | DRAUGHTSMEN-—W anted, “L would like to say a word about; designers, detailers and 69," replied Mr. ‘Taylor tracers, experienced in me. | “Too hate replied the Ma yor, chanical or electrical wor! TAs a cl ‘the Mivor, san] Give experience, age and sal. vee ary expected; permanent po. aR 6 indig-|sitions. Address A, G., 98 ant Mr t World, es MEMORIAL NOTICES, _ Es WERNERT—in memory of my beloved A. Taylor, who said he rep- Lie area ot ate ie; | husband, Otte G, Wernert, who departed earch, ‘approached the rail aod | wie ute Apel 1915, WIDOW. about to add r Hylan excl matter of = HELP WANTED—MALE, Board when | 69 has al-| Re or E STAND SOLIDLY BACK OF OUR GOVERNMENT and ask our numerous patrons and friends to do likewise. This concern purchased $50,000 worth of Liberty Bonds and will be glad to receive subscriptions from our customers, AMERICA MUST AND WILL WIN THE WAR However, it is up to us to fur- nish the money and we stand ready to give our all, if need be, for our Government.