The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1918, Page 2

tt OE! eR hin THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, f 1918. ‘#4 GERMANS” PAY HEAVILY FOR SLIGHT GAINS OVER ALLIES © Pavey flat top is oval, being nearly half a mile from southwest to northeast and half that distance from southeast to northwest. Ite slopes extend outward into the foothills from a quarter to half a mile. [The village of Kemmel lies at the northeast edge of the height. Southeast of Mont Kemme! fs the hamlet of Bellevue and south of the hill is the village of Dindenhoek.) fi Gen. Radcliffe said it was possible for the Allies to hold on the im att directions until the eage. ‘| ruins Ypres sector even with the Germans on Kemmel Hill, but it was not convenient to Have them there and it was hoped to eject them. At Kemmel Hill, continued the General, the Germans gained 2,000 yards on a front of about 1,200 yards, including the important tactical feature of the hill itself, which gives important observation over all the ground to the north. Berlin claims to have taken 2,000 Anglo-French prisoners, four can- noh and many machine guns in Wednesday’s fighting below the Somme, the most practical use of all the | Allied troops. |ufter gathering hurled them terre. powerful requent occurrence, Fir now a mere heap of smoking which the Germans hold with dim- culty, for the French give them no / liberty of movement and their re-| peated efforts advance further wore stopped as soon as they began. ‘The artillery, extending the radius of Its fire, bombarded heavily Hallles, Castel and Senecat Wood, all situ. ated on the same plateau to the south- to AG cl ext of Hangard, which elevation A despatch from Moscow says the Germans are steadily withdraw. 7" Of Hangar, which eleva Ing troops and sending them to France. Polish citizens refused to enlis | Tho enemy launched soveral as- in a proposed Polish corps to fight stelle Sc ainst the Allies in Flanders, saults upon Hailles and even suc. FIGHTING STILL IN PROGRESS ON NORTHERN FLANDERS LINE . German Prisoners and Three Machine Guns Captured—Artillery Battle Below the Lys. | [BRITISH REPORT] LONDON, April 26.—Following is to-day’s statement by the War! Office : “On the Bailleul-Hollebeke front after severe fighting lasting Wrough- out the day against a greatly superior force, the Allied troops were com- pelled to give ground and the enemy obtained a footing on Kemme! Hill. Fighting still continues in the neighborhood of Dranoutre, Kemmel and Mierstraat. “We carried out a successful minor operation during the night west of Merville and captured fifty prisoners and three machine guns. The: hostile artillery has been active along our front from the Lys River to} Givenchy. | “South of the Somme hostile posts which were holding out southeast of Villers-Bretonneux have been cleared by our troops. The enemy's artillery has been active also in this area with gas shells. ( “On the remainder of the British front there was nothing to report.” VIOLENT ARTILLERY FIGHTING SOUTH OF THE SOMME RIVER Successful Raids on Different Parts of the Front, Especially in Neighborhood of Lassigny. [FRENCH REPORT] PARIS, April 26.—The statement issued to-day by the War Office follows: “South of the Somme violent artillery fighting occurred during the course of the night. “We carried out a number of raids at different puints on the front, especially in the region east of Lassigny, between the Mictte and ti Aisne, near Bezonvaux, in the region of Eparges, in Lorraine and in the Vosges. We took prisoners. Everywhere else the night was calm.” VILLERS-BRETONNEUX RETAKEN BY BRITISH BOMBS AND BAYONETS Surprise Attack Without Aid of Artillery on Position Dominating Amiens Which ¢ the Germans Had Taken. LONDON, April 26 (to Reutor's Ot- tewa Agency).—Thanks to the magni- | floent counter-attack of th\Austra- Mans and English regiments yester- day the Germans received a severe repulse on the front before Amiens. Englich troops engaged were the | | i} terday's counter-attack should be a| surprise, and it was accordingly de- cided to mako a night attack with bombs, bayonets and machine guns, with artillery preparation, Hours of grim fighting followed, Artillery on both sides was silent, the combatants became inextricably mixed before the were tinally driven out and important | an hires, Northamptons, Durhams and Yorkshires, reinforced by young] tion dominating Amiens was restored troops revently raised in Hngland | to Jiritish hands, The enemy is now and which recently gallantly held |in an awkward salient, formed by the | Villers-Bretonneux against an inferno| confluence of the Somme and the of gas shelling until overwhelmed by | Avro and he may soon find himself in| an assault of fivo Givisions of the}a slau,dter house position. enemy. The Germans selzed and es-| Hangard {9 also important but it tablished a hold on the village, which |has changed hands so ofter that tho they packed with machine guns. Con-|ene.ny’s hold there may be consid- sequently it was necessary that yes-!ered precarious, | -¢-— MORE THAN 1,500,000 GERMANS | BATTLE ON WESTERN FRONT Thirty Divisions Have Been Sent Twice Into} Action—Hand-to-Hand Fighting in Ruins of Hangard. ON THE FRENCH FRONT FRANCE, April 26 (Associated Press) —From Mareb 21 to-day the Gorman Staff will find itself with- until the ‘out further reserves, have employed approximate-; The more they asyasics dong the road t ard Amiens the more pert 1,600,000 ly 180 divisions (more t jlous becomes the salient the Ger men), of which thirty have been with-| mang are ¢orming. in tho Somme | drawn to refill the ranks and have! region, expec in view of the fact then been sent into the battle for the | that the Allied reserves are virtually 4) intact and th ed armies are now e, alk in the total of di- a time, He 4 commanded by a single chief visions in action 160 ane The present moment is less About seventy other divisions have not yet been engaged in the battle, but of these a considerable proportion favorable to the German plans than when they started their ad vance on March 21, Then a weak arefunfitted to do moro than hold) Peint existed between the French é tes Wane cormrard a and British armie Now there awd sector ne forward mo’ terka anailee mee “ae ihe ie ment must therefore carried since the unified command ha be as Raerwise given the opportunity to make through very quickly, —~ found thom IN @———____- —_—--— ceeded in reaching the lower slopes of Hill 82, just to the south of this village, but the French artillery and machine guns put an end his oRress, At the samo time the Germans were Ma great attention further t the British sector around where the fighting was very The army of Gen. von der Marwitz, whioh includes a division of the Prussian Guards, mot the most to n to |cachy, severe. | determined resistance from the French | troops wherever they tact The German effort gives more arked signs of becoming a desper- ate attempt to force a way to Amiens, whatever the cost. This cost hitherto has beon very high, for neither the French nor the British is ceding an inch of ground without taking heavy toll from the German attacking forces, Several additional German \divisions have been terribly tried |since the offensive was resumed this week, and the enemy possesses only a limited number more with which to continue hts ruphos, ITALIAN AUKILIARIES FOUGHT WITH PICKS ON THE FLANDERS FRONT Working in Trenches When Ger- mans Appeared, but They Killed Many of the Foe. WASHINGTON, April 2.--How two companies of Itallan auxiliary troops digging trenches for the Alles in Flanders fought attacking German troops with their pick axes Is told in @ despatch to-day from Rome. The mossage saya: The first Italian troops reached , November, These con- and various war discipline and others necessities showing capacity, Later on al Tarditi In an all-night battle bind pate upon rangers casas Individual combats with bay- onets from house to me Bicrendt ka came in con-| munitions for artillery FIND WOUNDED U.S. BOYS AFTER FIVE a Under Heavy Shell Fire at Seicheprey, Escape Is Con- sidered Miraculous. | WITH THRE AMPRICAN ARMY DAYS IN DUGOUT |Long and Short at Camp Devens; Fs IN FRANCE, Thursday, April 25 (As- | sociated Press).—-Two American soldiers, wounded tn the engagement around Selcheprey last Saturday, were found alive to-day in a dugout in No Man's Land, The dugout had been badly smashed by German shelt-| fire and how the men managéd to} keep alive in the rain and mud and under continuous German bombard- ments, physictans say, is ttle short! of miraculous. Another soldier, Raymond Demun- | sky, of New Haven, Conn., was buried | alive for three days when he crawled to the surface, Domunsky was born | in Russia, but had been neturalized | He was found by Ameri Red Cross stretcher bearers who went out into! No Man’s Land this morning, 1} Germans fired on the Red Cross flag, | but the stretcher bearers kept waving it and the enemy fire stopped. | The American troops tn the Selche- prey fight, additional details show, were outnumbered, in some instances eight to one. The latest advices are was one of 150 Americans who at on time were almost eurrounded by at least 800 Germans. French troops! Sergt. John A. Dickman, formerly | @ printer of Somerville, Mans. and who is now wounded in a hospital, |told @ remarkable story. He and his men had charge of two Stokes guns. They were isolated for twelve min- utes in an cnomy barrage and were unable to signal the American ines, Dickman was wounded, but kept pouring a hot fire into the German attacking waves and broke up the jformation. He and his men retired only when thelr guna became Ja chine Gun" Parker, who marned la gun by himae was asked by his | wupertor officer ono stage of the red. engagement whether le could hold and were sive COn-lthe line. Ho roplied that he could, struction, proving themselves excel- | unteas killed, and. ho dl lent workmen, not displeased that) author Willlam J. l'acrell of West they were unable to arms | Newton, Mass, a regimental chaplain, against the foo like the French «nd | proved such a good fighter that a high b st | officer offered a commission to him in wo auxil working ia t ad~ man sub 1 charge ordered the soldiers work before ng altern jermans, to do wo but the [tall fell upon the Ger- ns with thelr pleks, killing many, turing others and retiring in an orderly mar FOUR GET HERO MEDALS FOR SUBWAY RESCUE Saving ot Laborer From Excavation in Brooklyn Rewarded by Camegie Commission. PITTSBURGH, April 26.—The Car- negle awarded twenty-six hero medals. Mpanios | in Flanders surrendering Hero Fund Commission to-day his command. Father Farrell to the assistance of a battery four of the American gunners were killed, carried up ammunition and we w ine Continued from First Page» SRG eer Father Farrell wa wounded | craft programme by authoriz’ jalightly, but refused to have hia| salient about 6,000 " 1) President to establish an | wounds dressed on Sunday morning | 4.000 yards decor ! us pbc with Junt he had carried Myron Dickin- j tonnevx and we Tahentewe EUG 7 son, nineteon, of Bridgeport, Conn,, | strongly. This the Fiah asa oaitid vaitention te, {one of his wounded comrades, to a| until 10 o'clock Inst tutements that the $640,000,000 | dugout drersing station British deliverod bor ated for the aviation pr Father Michael O'Connor of Boston | *ttack. There + had been epent and $100,000, Jand Father Osias Boucher of New |™00n to asulst ti nal Bedford, Mass., took charge of the cooking and washing and carried on tho work of serving hot soup and food to the soldiers Raymond Connor of New Haven, a |eunitary squad runner, was another |hero, He was one of elght men cap- |that the American casualties are| ¢ |much under the firat estimates. | Edward Jaccuss, a New Haven solider, told the | srespondent came to their assistance, said Jacques, | . helped the crew to keep the gun work- | Oe 8-6 ‘Tho orjginal darky M nd Jem 1 just 3 Stat camp PUTS ALL AVIATION WORK BATTLE OF TANKS FIRST IN HISTORY; HAIGS MEN WIN, rth Mmendiment oO n Wadsworth sky was heavily overcast and a ¢ mist hung over According te had no anticl from the Bri sitting snugly the regic prise lon of sh las oe the avia Norman Jette, thirty-#lx, of No, 349|tured by the Germans who escaped 3d Street, Brooklyn, helped savelang went to Selchoprey, They tooh hn Nanfro, laborer, from death in a subway April 1%, medal Jette was assisted by Joseph Baallé of No. 143 Madison Btreet City; W. Arthur Robinson of No. Wyckoff Street, — Brook! Michael Higgins of No. 1917. He recetved @ silver from drowning at North Long Branch, N. J., Sept, 6, 1915; bronze medal excavation in Brooklyn on|{ New York 2] Propagunc of the first ald stati until a doctor arrived. jwent to the rear « squad, returned to th wounded, charge 2 nnor (hen nd organized a hove now front and | balloons, which |becn falling on the American lines since Tuesday, indicate that the Ger- have Street, New York City, Basile was/mans are still trying to undermine awarded a silver medal. Robinaon|tne French mors ale, f and Higgins were each given a bronze | | medal John Sisco, No. 369 Fast 18th street «| HOW LIBERTY WORKERS Paterson, N. J. saved Josephin mico from drowning at Paterson on WILL BOOST THE LOAN Aug. 11, 1915; bronze medal. Robert M. Cowan, No, 120 West 14th Strect, NE Herbert Peart, twenty-«¢ UBBIAN Liberty Day—Meet- dent, was awarded @ bronze medal in| R ings east side, upper east connection with the saving of Miss side and Bronx. Sheehan. ide Liberty Land All Day~Exhip) of war paraphernalia, Evening CAR SUPPLY ROW TO WILSON Hunsarian nignt. Principat -- er, Abram I, Hikuy Fuel Ratlroad Adminietra Aa eat ee ea ra | beosnegig leave Kinderhook for Stuyvesant | WASHINGTON, April 26.—The lor Falls. ee] neelyrates re nae 12 M.—Sub-Treasury Ac: Administration of the car sup trees day, Speakers, Ethel Garry- avait utilige waa carried to-day before | Fe Laurette Taylor, Jane Grey, |Prasident Ww non | Ray Cox and Flore Fuel Administrator Garfield ana| 7.80 P. M.—-Me Patriotto Walker D, Hines, of the Railroad Ad- | Service League, Unit No, 2. En ministration, attended the conference tlre block of 87th Street, botween Columbus and Amsterdam Ave- | $3,250,000 TO BELGIUM, pues: | a £5; SkecElbariy. Loan falls, fa o AL publican and Democra Parties to Date #5,255,550,000, Every Arsembly Distr: WASHINGTON, April %—Belgium 8 P. Mi--Liberty Loan mass was granted another credit of §3,250,00)| meeting, Acaden Maal by the Treasury to-day, muking her! Brooklyn, Speakers, Martin W s8 from the United Stated . oie pike Hor tso.00, and credits to all the Alice | Littletc the Rev Nehemiah 45.285, 880,000, ) Boynton aad others. the storm artiNery had perhap ' ; fals Becurity nd . ty At the nt lo gunners put down a sha ura, cant ‘: : and the British infant « for i ' ! Hen Mt ward, The attack was made from the southwest and northwest on Villers- | Bretonneux and ¢ drove in toward the « the town in a conver movement As a result the British bottled the| town up. States District. Judge The British ry immediately this morning dec rushed the town and 1 and te ting 1 Moltne hand fighting ens the bayone : eing used freely, Six hundred pris- fv oners were taken here alone. \' sty i Leroplanes x ONE LONG RANGE GUN ee Rarry tn tor OF GERMANS DESTROYED..." 13, and last December apr 1 his application | This applicatie PAR April 26.—The . 11 4 i rte , if i 1 he had been bombardment of Paris ned ? cPaceerss erate during the night. Ch ‘ ko i yal remarks. Meitner far as could be ascertained, nobody had |"... onattield said that while \ been hurt and the damuge dono way! ner se well disposed toward u qualified for eitiae not appreciable he 4 ¢ of his occupation dem: | One of three German tong ge guns | “tution jnas been destroyed Jing han bean devtroved, according tol HAVRE DE GRACE RESULTS, he had talked with the General com R “ : with: tt luced #0 4 f ath | one of these guns wa t tne crew af this GUD Were killed. | Original Darky Mutt and Jeff inehes, and Fred Mader, 6 eat difference in stat | FAINTS WHEN ARRESTED with care—amply rein- che th of Mian, separable | INTO ONE MAN'S HANDS or to the offic WILSON ASSURES GREEKS OF AMERICAN rig! ER CO. FIRED HIN ) April 4 President hag assured the Greek people nited States is determined 6 give its fullest measure of support 2 ; to Greece and that country's rights ‘Files Answer in ver in Her Suit for| shan be preserved in any’ finat peace negotiation $50,000—Alien Section of Chorus Let Go publication in In an filed by unswer to-day in the i line with Pree Supreme Court the Metropolitan| ident Wi s regarding the s | rights of small nations and with the Opera Company to the suit for breach | announced Dolley of this Government ea tH — ‘é are | OMelaia would not comment on the f contract instituted by Mme. Mar- report that the Greeks have questioned arete dt-Ober, the prima donna| the silence of the Allies regarding. the pageants r the prima donna) titure of Gr it it ts knowns they jis declared to Rave expressed on attach 4 to the subject, occasions “sentiments of numerous avowed hostility to the United States THOMAS ROULSTON DEAD. and attacked its I and the ned 200 Grocery Stores in New Government, so that she was known| York and Vicinity, <s and regarded as a hostile alien enemy}, Thom unizer’ of the whoso activities were inimical to the viva paid cesanyt ON be | Mme. Ober, who is suing for $50,000,! Street, Brook! Me Wak Bane eged to have been born under the| pyelfast, Tet 1 » Mesotiyn flag of the Hohenzollerns, and by “herf whe afi tablished intense hatred, conduct and utter-| his first at Court and Nfnth Stret ances" to have “Injured the discipline! 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