The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1918, Page 1

| ee ‘wlaia, ANAL| [Circulation Books Open to All.” | (“Circulation Books Open to All.” (Bi balan PRICE TWO CENTS. Serre the Nee Nia Worthen NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1918. 20 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ ‘WOOD ON AMIENS FRONT TAKEN BY FRENCH N.Y. AIR MAL AT CAPITAL ee SS NEW ARTILLERY ATTACKS IN THREE HOURS, 20 MINUTES» | ON HAIG'S LINES AT KEMMEL: WASHINGTON AERO DISABLED 7 FRENCH HOLD THEIR GAINS tis fete Trip in Two see With P. ni BATT AC adelphia as the Half- Way House. of Aerial Mail. : British Troops Make a Successful : Raid Northeast of Robecq in Flanders and Halt a German Attack in Neighborhood of Lens. LONDON, May 15.—Following the successes of yesterday on the Albert and Kemmel fronts, further encouraging news cones * to-day from the British and French headquarters in France. : Paris announces that French troops yesterday evening at- 2 tacked German positions near Hailles, on the front below Amiens, + and captured a wood on the west bank of the Avre River. The : Germans made a counter attack and were beaten off with severe ! losses. During the night there was a violent bombardment north > of Montdidier and between Montdidier and Noyon. . Machine From Philadelphia : Guided to Landing by Five Others Washington « drought 6,000 lett Ldout. Webb reached Philadelphia at @’clock and was recetved by a com- mittee which presented Alm with @ wrist watch, | landing place. —_ WASHINGTON, Ma 1 Ch 1 PHILADELPHIA, May 15— | : Lieut. Webb landed at Bustle- | PY @ great throng, including Presl- ia mal dive net Gm ie g mn | WILSON ENLISTS. $4,095,699, 000 FOR WAR USE PRESIDENT ISSUES ||” ‘Field’ Macshal Halp's voport saiditha' Gartsans wore reputed daeebiit) bers RAISED BY TAXES THIS YEAR . last night in an attempted raid near Lens and that the British had ee re 10 fr INCOME YIELD IS ENORMOUS ris : FOES ieee A machine cgrrying mail landed at Belmont Park at 3.35 o'clock Five planes met the machine in the air and piloted it to the UPhis is part of the section tn which Americans are co-oper- dal mail delivery from New York at exactly 1 o'clock this after- noon, This was one Ww "and » half after leaving Belmont Park, L. 1, with the mail for this city and Washington. Lieut. Webb was received by a committees representing the city, State and Nation, and was pre- $2.7 95, 185. 000, or $ 48, 000,000 Whate jest assault under aakeat ihe Germans in several days. This hit 1a front of nearly a mile, Field Marshai Haig'’s report last sented with a wrist watch. Second Lieut. J. ©, Edgerton relieved Lieut. Webb at the Resolution Would Be Vote wheel to pilot the machine on ‘ . _ ’ ; : oat ona 1 WoUND | mers oe FIRE OW U.S, SOLDIERS ss10ser tae neti ° (es GERMAN COUNTER ATTACK te | HALTED BY FRENCH TROOPS Positions Captured Yesterday Held and Heavy Losses Are Inflicted on the Enemy. bi RENCH REPORT] ec : 1 j n PARIS, Ma —The follo tement wa ued t by the Says Adoption of Chamberlain Than Was Estimated aOPHON ON St 1 succeeded in entering the lines ¢ Australians counter-attacked and fully re-established iid that atter the enemy the inauguration of viee under the Post | othe vies eee. BORDEN FURTHER EXPLAINS. a0 ; in clon gots glnedincse ae rt sree NO | “ERROR” ABOUT U. 5; ARMY sun Late i. ee - capt ie | f L \ ag cay Ot REAEWAL.AT SUESSA KAISER SOUGHT ABDIGATION Tee Fey nt YPTAWA, 3 . i Rs OF HIS DYING FATHER ' min pied eee GERMAN RAID NEAR LENS Pe nes ee part IS BLOCKED BY HALG TROOPS s Otawa, A Attacks Between Somme and Ancre ™*! BLAN NEW ORDNANCE PLANT. + Rivers, Northof Bethuneand Around Kemmel, G Mad Minskte xiao [BRITISH REPORT] H p 1 tr i M w li f © reported : Steal i i en f vas " M He Birkett, | ss ve » 4 #8) too ma". Pe aRe eget eee 1 woud LKESULTS, Page 2 ( ie: ys { — } EN NTRIES, Page 10 nen sty ‘ (Continued on i Puge) rt t t i DCL. | BF ~y —w a desis Mi g ad 4 eu A in the torest of ‘ s4 ; ee (