The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1918, Page 2

BRITISH RUSHING iNCTHE V TO MEET os “Successful counter attacks carried out by French troops yesterday afternoon and evening drove the enemy from the remainder of the ground gained by him during the morning in the neighborhood of Locre and captured a number of prisoners. The whole of the village is in the hands of our allies “After the heavy repulse inflicted on the enemy yesterday tl passed comparatively quiet on the northern battlefront, “We advanced our line slightly during the night east of Villers-Bre- ionneux. “On the remainder of the British front there is nothing to report beyond artillery activity on both sides in certain sectors.” _——— BIG ARTILLERY BATTLES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AVRE Patrols Active in the Noyon Sector and South of the Oise—German Raids Fail. [FRENCH REPORT] PARIS, April 30.—The statement issued to-day by the French War Office says: “The artillery battle’ was waged with considerable violence north nd south of the Avre, in the sector of Noyon and on the south bank of the Oise. French patrols were active along all this front, and brought back fifteen prisoners. “On the right bank of the Meuse (Verdun front) and in Upper ‘Alsace German detachments were repulsed by our fire, leaving prisoners in our hands without obtaining any result. There is nothing to report on the remainder of the front.” 7,100 CAPTIVES TAKEN SINCE KEMMEL FELL, BERLIN SAYS night aa But No Mention Is Made of Terrible Defeat «1's one Suffered on the Ypres Front. [GERMAN REPORT] BERLIN, April 30.—The announcement from general headquarters last night says: “On the Flanders battlefront, from midday on, the artillery fire re- vived. The booty taken since the storming of Mount Kemmel has in- creased to more than 7,100 prisoners, including 181 officers, fifty-three guns and 233 machine guns, “Between La Bassee Canal and the Scarpe, as well as north of the Somme, there has been lively reconnoitring activity on the part of the British. Strong partial attacks made by the French against Hangard and most furious leys of THE EVE MEN NING AMERIGANS MASS. BATTERIES FOR AMIENS DEFENSE Fire Ten Shots to One of Ger- mans—Infantry Digs In on P ic ard Line. By bach Eyre. Copyrtadt, 1918 he by The Pree ishing Co, ew York World.) to 14.) HEADQUARTERS —— UNITED STATPS INFANTRY ON THE BATTLE FRONT IN NORTHERN FRANCE, April 30.— the American For several days expeditionary forces havo been playing an active part in the most momentous battle of the ages, In the positions assigngd to our contingent by Gen. Foch, which are on the line that bars Paris and Amiens, the road to the regiment to which I am attached is holding and helping the Franco-British forces north of us to withstand the latest RICA Sricists | EBs ©. woe BROTIS ‘STARVING AMERICAN CAPTIVES PARADED THROUGHOUT GERMANY FUR AMUSEMENT OF CIVILIANS Teutons March Underfed Prisoners Around, WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 380, 1 AND MUNITIONS INTO FLANDERS en. For two days October in a trench Canadian Soldier Says—Meagre Fare Is ers from town to town, placing them on exhibition to jeering The narrator, a Canadian, escaped from Gi cause of their treatment. They told him they were in deplorable shape The Americans said they had had no chance to wash or get clean soup and two slices of bread for supper. British prisoners were not Hardly Enough to Keep Men Alive. LONDON, April 30, H’: the German Government bas marched American war prison populaces, was told by one of the British and Canadian sol diers who bave escaped from Germany and made their way through Holland, there, he sald, fifteen Americans captured las raid in France were kept on exhibition. He said the Americans were thin, weak and mentally dazed be- as @ result of being marched for miles over hard roads to towns and villages to be exhibited to the German people in an effort to show the American Army could not stand against German soldiers. clothes. Their dafly fare was acorn coffee, two slices of bread made from rye, sawdust and potato flour for breakfast; soup, a small piece of tough beef, turnips, such as usually were fed to cattle, for dinner; permitted to communicate with the Americans, and English women at Munich who spoke to them were locked in cells twenty-four houra on bread and water. assaults in the val- Somme, Luce the and near | Ypres, i Over our heads a continuous stream Of shelis of all calibres is hurtling its su way into the enemy's lines, and the Germa ing in kind, though | UF th con: y less Intens Our}! | artiligry'e shots average ten to the} /" mans and our troops thus far, but the sing of bat reported oppo- site our front indicates a likelihood of more strenuous fighting in the none too distant future GREAT DAMAGE IS DONE BY THE AMERICAN GUNS, Al m ai tu te would enable Gen, Ludendorff to draw sentry 3,000-Bed Hospital in Liverpoob in Charge of U. S. Red Cross and Physicians, 30.—All non this part of the line for fresh throw into the strife that we must prevent to rther north, The tury ot our ¢ ur infantry as well as our artillery] LONDON, April cuca jturning villages behind the my! Must be constantly on the alert to/ wounded in France will, in the future, |iines into dust heaps prevent the Germans from intrench-'1,. brought to England, it was learned While it 19 well within the battle! 1 too solidly, and at the same time 104 t6.gay zone, the sector wo occupy for the N® must improve our own defensive!” 4 2,000-bed horpital in Liverpool ts tn| | , syste charge of the American Red Cross, vores lini var ave been ne In, |trenches—mero shallow ditches like jand attendants. This Is designed to Finley auacuciere:batwean the: Gare |Comh Cok tet: Forma meee te eye ne, oon ree re belng developed, | France 1 night long every doughboy not on luty or patrol duty digs and gs, pausing only to snatch a bit of kewarm water or to gulp down some & Kaspipes— HAD BEEN “THROUGH HELL,” ¢ HOPED FOR ANOTHER CHANCE | pid coffee brought him by carryt! pa rtles from miles in the rear. Oe eee Whar Captain in Guard} | partition,” | shutting his office from the large 1918, TOR To THE FLANDERS @ COPELAND, TAKING OVER HEALTH POST, AIMS AT EFFICIENCY New Commissioner Says He Will Be Accessible to All, and Aid Government Plans. Dr. Royal S. Copeland, the new Health Commissioner, assumed his duties promptly at clock to-day Hardly had he entered the office than he called for the scheme of the or- ganization of tho department, the Otisville plans—the city has w lar sanatorium there—and met the heads of several branches that will be under his supervision. The Commissioner went after things in a manner that betokens an administration of efficiency. When asked what he intended to do first, he replied: “I want first to get a line on the personnel and am aiming now to find nut the duties of the several heads of the department—to get a bird's-eye view it. The vartous cogwhee!s of and details will have to come later. I have been a college and hospital administrator for many yéars ard will strive for the maximum in eMficiency.” Asked about the charges of graft in the department and the investi tion thereof begun by his prede sor, Dr, Copeland said he knew noth- ing of that situation, but had ar- ranged a conference with James BP. McBride, Civil Service Commissioner, this afternoon and decide what steps would be taken, “I am going to be open as possible,” he cards are on the table, as frank went on. and “My And this glass he pointed at the enclosure re- ception room adjoining, “is going to | come down, I was raised on a farm and a bell has @ particular horror for me, Any person that wants to see me can do 80, “Now the question of co-operation re , 0 we , All day long be lies in the mud at A y ; between the department and the Gov- ees re Tae are tenpuinss ily repuleed. Foretield engagements | a4... ,while, there is evidence thet|the bottom of his open trench trying} Regiment, Is Killed in Action —|ernment. 1 have served as a member ‘i y polnts on the remainder of the front. Jour guns havo inflicted heavy tossew|to sleep and wondering whether the | on French Front. of the Committee on Hospitals and ‘On the eastern bank of the Meuse (Verdun front), a thruSt into th c het to get Medical Facilities of the Council of French trenches brought in some pri ” - 0 the} on the enemy infantry, At least one| next Krupp shell is going to 6 HARTFORD, April 30.—Capt. Ar-| National Defense, and it has been our os prisoners, Village has been rendered untenable, |him, Casu. see ro Inavitebie as tho |thur J, Locke, who 1s mentioned in| endeavor a Increase the hospitals ~| uring the four days the American |chalk into which the trenches must] 144 Casualty list as having been|here to take care of the olvilian popu- | » at > like snow a st ‘ jon as evising accommo-, AMERICANS DANGEROUS NEW GERMAN DEM ahd seventy-fives and thelr heavier broth [be dug shows up like snow against |iited in action, was commander of| @tivn a8 well aa devising accommc i] A S |ren have been on the job it has been |the green and ; : we, and | company M, 1024 Regiment, made Lee eae! to dae Ik touch as Once | on fire more than once, and even its| camouflage is impossible, hence the) 4. of former National Guardsmen|with the National Government so " h b lati | |deapest collars, organized as little |‘ n gunners know exactly What) ¢rom ‘Torrington and Winsted, His| ° SURO RRO — omenanerenten or machine gun forts by the Germans, | to aim at | widow, who lives at No, 658 Albany | : ; ¥ | culos! 4 other diseases are vital Press Is Gradually Informing P' ublic | Right to Send War Material Over| ave been crushed under an ava-| 1 the daytim ore is NO COM-!| Avenue, this city, Was notified by the] pep polling Fe you can depend on it, of Menace From Soldiers They | Linibaite lanche of French and American high Wee ication whatever, even between | war Department, Capt. Locke was]we are going to do everything In our ata RhiTeaied |. -imbourg Railway to Antwerp explosives, platoons of the same company. Run-| at the Mexican border as a first Heu-|power to help dessen diseave in the | Once Ridiculed, One of Them. Saturday night I visited the frst |Rers carry'ne massages between com-|tenant and was clected captain of his/#TVICO” Oe aan ana] GENEVA erland, April 3%] AMeTERDAM, April 30.—Germany|!!N© positions of a battalion of our|Pany end Pattulion comman ters must | former command in 1917. Sixty of bis|.,0.. aequaintance, Dr. Copeland | German newspapers wh demands from Holland, saya tho Voa-|Tesiment, whiol, during the night of | traverse Open & und in full viow of} men were killed or wounded in the : ridiculed American intervention !n si Saltsnw Of Bovis, the fad april bogan the work of rellev-|the enemy a half-mile off, and are} rst American clash in the Toul sec- have known the Mayor only a 7 taut 4 ge en eee RRS AP Te the. Srenol t onal | thus exposed to rifle and machine-gur: |tor, On March 28 he wrote his wits t time and I think he has been war now have Legun gradually to in-| send war material over the Limbourg |!8 the French units previously In-) h Bia tree tg be . “gh judged on several matters, fo form the German publi ning the | Ratiway to Antwerp, the right to send [Stalled there. ‘There was neither a} fusiliades, 4s well aa to the inevitable) that he “had been through hell” but) ie assured me that he wante to wipe dange an troops. foodstuffs for shipment from Antwerp | Complete neh system, nor were | Sbell fl |hoped for another ¢ put inefflelency te Oban © OA) oe ae, wen cani oe aout Hetae| there any communica iran MEN SHELLED AS THEY CARRY | mans. ant 1e charter makes me the head of jo the Full Amert tats Me and eravnk | From the battatt | FOOD TO AMERICANS. |""In the same engagement four other |inis department and 1 am going to be ays the Zeitung | '9 the importation of sand and grave Laiaaspeeibacebeclpuiiniees ida) ola Rr t $ j| Connecticut | soldiers were Killed lene head, Of course, I shall keep in of Constance “An Holland,” the newspaper adds, | of command—a hole carved out of the |’ Transportation ef fo mere Lrhg| te Joel BO KO a eltaoe his |touch with the Mayor.” Nanaia tilda he i | aide quarry Walks over a/@mnunition is a tremendous ohnson of New B rhe sith ie: The Vieans newapavers are taking pre cati P4 “eat 5 one ‘in “oon: | mead i a pit 1 wit : Me ing the big French m vate Frank Barnes of Plainville and “or | U abbagiylant MS lls adh a ditions to redross the balance," traight t iri ' ntaining a stew the doughboys |b BAYS te GRIER Se NOW RAILROADS TO RUSH ICE. | srital id A. ¥ ri position at t leall “Slum” are always being shelled, | os 1 t ve despateh it nur pow y ire on iene thee sue McAdoo Acts to Avert a mine " one place the nust go through a | BLIZZARDS IN ITALY Pa AR ee age of a bare latens coping [Lane nugcethey must xo MOURN S| CAHILL GERMAN PRISONER. LFA ed og Nl TRIAN DRIVE pore th ee er} Saturday night just in time, Behind | WASHINGTON, April 30.—Rail 7) mr wport ¢t Mole | f which, some 4 " ~way, | us burst a veritable torrent of shrap- | Med! Corps Captain of New York lroads were instructed by Director ; ¥ Germans, 7 Vefensive{ Hel and high” explosives. ‘Trees | sing Since March 21, |Genoral MeAdoo to-day to take spe x ; A - ssihe lihae tha’ |tembled beneath the violence of It | Gant ancis J, Cahill of the Medical] cial pi to transport natural ice| Snow Six Feet Deep 2 at Some Places |x, + Grain Ships Seon to Sail for sa x village} “This bombardment went on for cnet He Hs Se CE Wie reer (cial BRIBE AO SrRRepart etl ine | : N 4 land, nentl above, T hours, neve ackening in ite thun-| Corey et | German offensive at threatened because of the scarcity f in the Northern WASHINC April 30.—Announce- | littl ) of houses composing the yus frenzy, und under it all our | mencement of the Geviuan offenalve At) vanufacturing materials, | i ment of the sailing of three grain ships | vil ure on y j]soldiers somehow stumbled along, | St, Quentin, is & sermany © develop) methods handling Mountains, ae te he ide GA acl aac oe cid, gas to | bringing Up the rations and cartyldges | according to information received here | and routing mail, the Railroad Ad- WASHINGTON, April 30.—An unex | ogt 23 between the t : 8 Our) that mean life to their comrades to-day through Red Cr sources. | ministration anno : n between : have }of a committee of railroad mail pected return of cold weather in the Nethe pn-jmen would ha ravinedin the tt Germans Capt. Cahill’s name was in Ameri: | oft, te Fe Pen’ tha mountain regions of Northern Italy will| ments concerning the pr yore | exposed to fror Adin ave] rover the lands ey casually list announced On Acril th |bitles & ria delay, in the opinion of Italian off Helals, lero m that country have been com | trom Germah a and ma-| With star 80 Mgt one's pr s. | The War Department measage to his DE GRACE RESULTS yh eine| ups and downs, for the only way to] SiN) rh _ Depa : Hon Helin) KILLED UNDER COAL PILE, |GERMANS SEEK TO STABILIZE | es being seen and fired upon is | Manne the te Embassy we ony that t ards had} ” E 5 jrop flat the muddy ground. : FIRST RACE. Maiden two-year-olds - THEIR DEFENSES t p fle 4 groun: furlongs,—Aunt Di left @ snowfall in some places six fvet) yo 4 A . Our tfoops have never known any- 8 t WP end Ones f ale tana bool aoe. uh Term | Following the t this before. In their at ae Hd CLyked, straight $12.00, place | > - | fed Bene th In Army and $5.35 show $ firats | Jorice 2 | r 01 2lst sad of Cornett | (Troise),. plac ), show $2.30, secone BIG IRISH. “DEFENSE FUND,'’| ,Seiretare Marist of No: an 8 nsequent Graduate of Cornell | Green Mint, 115 (Dominick), show $2.30, Street, Brooklyn, while tending # coal s, advat ” we 1 it" \third, ‘Time, 543-58, Brisk, Sea Pirate k Falls, [Lady Vulvajn also rar $20,000 Vour Towns) | f to send the uy pa int ct Alo im Rep H pe villag M sa 7 i | No Bethlehem Dividend Step. UBLIN rit 30.7 a ‘do a was Cart f Fr n Ve tartin to Keep On| The Bethlehem Steel Corporation dl BUBLIN, As Tran "dee | He wae carried bapa ON +S oe At bn high spirits taking hard- Working rectors met yesterday but took no ac tense fur obably naw exceeds any | buried und) fight as 1 as c ; i J te 7 y axe ‘ emnladek Seer Re ATReREhE thane atte and dangers altke with a broad April t party |Uon on the dividends. President Grace similar fund ever. collected here half an Ayein ‘ Mm, Gung and look forward to the day| lecided not t \ May. D. nnounced after adjournment that only Pour towns sent in §20,000, govered Mar the enemy back. Ey ally eal y ity © our turn, dea \ hocy On Working, routine business had been transacted, ( i ' | Canad an ca 08 NEW NAMES ON CASUALTY LIST) ONLY 20,000,000 FROM PERSHING) BUSHELS-~HDOVER Two Killed in Forty-Seven Are Ac SURPLUS IN WHEAT tion and) Tells Grain Report- | Men Fifty Per Cent. of the Mill Output ed Wounded. Goes to the Allies, : WASHINGTON, April 30.—The | Herbert Hoover, National Food Ada asualty list to-day contained fifty-|ministrator, addressing 600 represens. 4 eight names, divided as follows: | tatives of the grain trade here to-day, ‘ in action, twoi died of/declared that the wheat surplus in } wound e; died of accident, two; |the United States from the 1917 crop Aled of disease, six; wounded severe-| was only 20,000,000 bushels, and that ly, five; wounded slightly, forty-two; | 5 per cent, of the mill output is being missing fn action, one, | é Sua tat totlows: shipped to the Allies. KILLED IN ACTION. Consumers in the United States Capt, Richard Laurence Jett. Hoover said, have paid an unnecess Private Herbert G. Raymond. |Sary speculation and milling profit of DIED OF ACCIDENT. $200,000,000 for the 1916 wheat ee Privates Eldridge Cope, Willam W. |Pccause of the unsettled condition o Washington, jthe market then, in the absence ot vernment control, Capt ae oF bchbehat | Hoover estimated the 1918 crop at Cee eee cts Deatt Mudastt, Pres {Petween 00,000,000 and 909,000,000 j rivates Orris Pearl Mudgett, Pres |b. snois, compared with 620,000,000 | “ap ton Noel, Glarence rett Brown, | ?'4 THT Geiok tora a James Bates, Ray L, Siebert. é caer ; i SEVERELY WOUNDED. | nF “e bid ahs ie My 20 a beds 7 Sergts, Thomas J, Curtain, Gerala| No 2 Northern, at base markets, Patton. that this guarantee would not go to Privates Michael F, Davis, Leonard |Puyers and dealers, as generally Bes F, Sylvia, John Levi Smith, ed. pe SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. Mr, Hoover expressed the hope that Lieutenants Robert D. Coye, Rufus|® maximum price for wheat would B, Crain, Francis Worthington Hine, {not be necessary this year, but eald Corporals Frank M, Gannon, Burpee |the Government would take over any ' Wast jr. Geo Zabrosky, Raymond |commodity that conditions might in- er. } dic desirabte. > ers William Brown, Thomas| Telling how he fixed the price of i wheat Mr. Hoover in part said: >r " ae | “In making the prices for 1918 I did Privates Albert O. Abraham, John | 14+ think that any one man should fix R. Barrett, Charles W. Bradfield, | tnis, and so 1 persuaded the President Charles R. Clinkenbeard, Thomas J./¢, appoint eleven men, six of whom are | Corrigan, George W. Currier, Lloyd] farmers, and these men have this prob- E. Devel, George H. Dustin, John lem in hand. Under normal conditions Egan, W 1 'T. Foster, Gordon E.| we export under 2 per cent. of our Fuller, Donald M. Hair, Eugene Jou-| wheat supply, but under these war bert, Henry W. Kenn John Ken-| conditions we are exporting over 3 per , OG ; ; “q| cen Dey) Guy, ts Edmund | sr recollect no finer patrotism or sac ' P. Leroux, John F, Lindsat, Charles] pice than that shown by the co-operas A. McDonal ax Markman, Shelby | tion and advice of the grain men of the A. Miller, Roger J. Nolfi, John R,| country with the Federal Food Admin- O'Brien, Edward J. I Arthur | istration.”” Ss Pickup, Walter L. Redden, Louls E.| viscount Hehil Pr cicdsie Shaver, Jeremiah I. Sheehan, Vaughn | tials to Wilson. H. Bilva, Charles Webb, WASHINGTON, April 30.—Viscount Wolfe, Philip Wright, Morto Iehii, the new Ambassador from Japen, gins. resented his credentials to President MISSING IN ACTION, | Wilson to-day. Trivate Arsene Bergeron, aa CORRECTIONS. | oleD. me of Licut. Thomas J. Mooney, MIRINNE, ¥.—On Sunday, April 28. at ale previously reported as having died G00 West Und ave. New Forks from accident, now believed to be} RY NEL& ¥ ee NEY, . tn cable. | Baptist Chure Private Jesse M. King, previously re- and dam a \ ported dead of gunshot wound, now ry tne May} Cy reported slightly wounded, amore) eer aelpnie, Thuseaey eth Lieut. John W. Morris, previously! goon, May 2% at 2 o'clock, Intermen { reported wounded severely, now re-| private, ported prisoner,’ unwounded, | .—CHARLES WHITTIER. oo | sat CAMPBELL FUNERAL w c on ¢ a _| CHURCH, Broadway, 66ta at. Phureday, fwo American re | i dian Canu | 8.30 P.M ‘ —_-_“_$“«-_- nn eeaosx—wxox—oon" OTTAWA, Ont April 90.—T follow — = ing America nentioned In to-day's| LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS ON etn WoundedeLicut, 4°. Igemmis moose Te, ! Point, Idato, € Turne ‘ Attractive Offerings for Tuesday, April 30th SPECI AL ASSORTED, € OC 0 Lemar . in suncarahose ‘ made up Cryst inte ete. POUND BOX CHOCOLATE COV: sauares of Caramel Stores: New York, Brooklyn, Newark,