The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1918, Page 1

“If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ _ PRICE TWO CENTS. ation and City Go cia the ‘a of naae a Copright, 1916, by ‘The te entree NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 4, U.S. TROOPS PIE PIERCE THE GERMAN THIRD LINE \ (i A. WEATHER—Unsettied To-Morrow. Le PRICE TWO CENTS. _ [ “Cireulation Rooke Open to o All.” | 1918. 14 PAGES NEW OFFENSIVE 1S BEGUN IN FLANDERS AND INFANTRY DRIVES AHEAD ON The LORRAINE FRONI : Pershing Troops Conduct Their First Operations With Exclusively American Artillery Support and (ia Win High Praise From French. WITH THE PRENG + (United ® Press).—American infaniry @ trenches in the region ot Dogs Wood, Lorrain Three hund at first operation with exclusively American artillery support SH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Ma Friday penetrated to the German third li 1 American infantrymen in ducted thei preparation by these batteries Phe French o! men pennets udisplay d NAVAL AVIATOR KILLED, ANOTHER HURT AS PLANE - GERMANY § FRST FALLS 300 FEET one PEACE ENVOY HAS Ensign Alden and Ce as! forte! REACHED aa Long isla BABYLON, I 1 May 4--t oe vows bas oe Fort Wayne, Dutch Financier, and Said to Ind., way killed Be Friend of von Kuehl- patient mann, Coldly Received MARRIAGE LIGENSE ELINOR GLYN —_ FOR FRIEDA HEMPEL Writes cf German Devastation of France TO.DAY’S EVENING WORLD, Magazine Page. 4 As US. GUNS SMASH TRENCHES Veto ifter intense » York Raises Honor ilag at City Hall As Liberty Coach Is Tooled Into Plaza GERMANS BEGIN NEW BATTLE oe Semester ame ea FOR YPRES AND HAZEBROUCK: BRITISH AND FRENCH GAN ren Pad tiviiakiy Intense From Locre to the Eastward and BetweenMeterenand Nieppe Wood —Artillery Battle Below Somme. | LONDON, May 4.—An intense bombardment was opened by the Germans early this morning on the Flanders front from Locre 10 the south of Ypres. There is great activity also on the south- »|ern side in the sector between the Forest of Nieppe and Me- 2 |teren, the War Office announces. [The area of the cunnonading indicates that should the attack de velop it will be a frontal sweep westward against Hazebrouck and | flanking thrust northward to enctrele Ypres from the west.) ; The British slightly improved their position in a minor oper- } ation near Hinges, north of Bethune, in Flanders, while on the + northern front the French carried out a local enterprise in which {i p | Prisoners were taken in the Locre sector. | An official despatch from Paris reports spirited artillery fight- : ing along the Acre River, on the front southeast of Amiens. =t= ! _ FRENCH AND BRITISH IMPROVE | LINES BEFORE GERMANS ATTACK ) ra | 2] | City Passes Loan Subscription Quota| and Still Going Strong—Nation : Exceeds Three Billions; Another : Billion. Looked For. |Prisoners Captured in the Locre Sector— Machine Guns Taken Northeast of Hinges. : [BRITISH REPORT] - Z| LONDON, May 4.—The text of ad | issued today is as follow | “We improved our p. the British War Office statement tion slightly last night by a successful minor ae : jenterp ise northeast of Hing captured machine-guns, | “A successful local operation in which several prisoners were secured mf ¢.| by the French troops was carried out in the Locre sector. “Early this morning the enemy’ artillery opened an intense bombard- | ment of the Frenci and Bri positions from the neighborhood of Lo- «THIRD LI LIBERTY. LOAN +| \cre to the south of Ypres, and has shown great activity in the Forest De 2 $O040446469-484-404-0—9-49O94040000-5-0.4000460440000- 240006 | Nieppe- -Meteren sec or " “| WELL OVERSUBSCRIBED Rise BY OFFICIAL FIGURES WASHINGTON, M {all and Girl Who Drove | OFFENSIVE 1S BEGUN AGAINST THE ITALIANS NN EXTENSIVE FRONT BOMBARDMENTS ‘ARE RENENYED ALONG THE AVRE IN PICARDY French Carry Out Several Raids Near the Oise WILSON SAVES LIVES OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS SENTERCED 10 OEATH A the and Ailette Rivers—German Attacks Fail. aria [FRENCH REPORT.] ' PARIS, May 4—The statement {to-day by the War Office ee Ayre ers and rs 1 and northeast he night was calm.” °¢-———————— re BRITISH Loss LAST WEEK 36,262; "ep cross mission sare, TOTAL IN GREAT DRIVE 250,000 Henohes Sewenstlo-onely ne Prom F Houte Mt ‘ Killed Last Week Were Men—One Division Lost 9,000; Another 6,000. 522 Officers, 6,034 Alone Has 4,000,000. ry . here 1 > tw « the ve preenennnnnnnnnnnnnnas eG pis te sia ONDON, May 4-1 avin . Killed—Omece 022; men, . ' A e I N G! a and lett 4 thera ; & ed ! Wounded—Oficers, 1,492; men, . $ W268 1s " json OM s-OMcers, 541; . ‘ 4 ESULTS, Page 2 ' Mor s sac 1 H FNTRIES ue ef / Moree oe a nn NN Orne ee ee bd Oe AOS Wil lave Ll) VASLNGTON, May bmw mash } }