The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1918, Page 1

| y \ (f ‘\ ey — OS ie aad z “NEW YORK’S RED CROSS TOTAL IS $7,899,956 “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ The PRICE TWO Cc 18, ENTS. y The Press Publishing ww York World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 19 1918, 20 PAGES _ - nn WEATHER—Fair, oe - PERSHING ORGANIZES FIRST FIELD ARMY GERMAN-IRISH PLOT FRAMED IN THE U.S. NEWYORK RED CROSS DRIVE GERMANS AND SINN FEINERS ° CLOSE TO EIGHT MILLIONS © HERE PLOTTED IRISH REVOLT BEFORE END OF SECOND DAY 10 BE FINANCED BY BERLIN vy peek: ae Blast of Whistles and Chime of Bells Makes the An- nouncement at 3 P. M. MANY BIG DONATIONS. Every Section of City Covered in Enthusiastic Campaign to Swell Fund. When a blast of whistles a a Grash of church bells startled the city at 3 o'clock to-duy it was t carry the announcement that { days New York hai $7,899,950 to the Red War Fund. Up to? teams met for daily lunche port in the Cha:ber of C second day's total stood Of this the Cross o'clock, when the various on and re- the thirty-or was second with $267,342 Among the lure donations record- od wore Oliver H. Payne, $250,000. Harry Payne Whitney, $100,000. Mra, Nicholas Brady, $20,000. National ¢ Bank, $250,000 Standard O11 Company of Now ney, $500,000. Henry L. Doherty & Co J. P. Morgan (additional) Guggenheim Interests, $5 Mrs. William Douglas Sloan Ogden Mills, $100,000, Mrs, Howard Pratt, $25,000 $180, $25,400. . $40,000, "750,000 MEN N MEN NCW 21 TO BE ADDED 10 ARMY BY REGISTRATION JUNE 5 | Gen. Crowder Estimates 1,000,000 Will Be Enrolled and Only Fourth Will Be Exempted. WASHINGTON, May 21.—E | mates to-day by Provost Marshal | General Crow indicates that probubly three-quarters of a mil- men will be obtained for the army by the rogistration on June 5 of al: youths who have attained twenty-one years of age since June 5 last Pully 4 million youths, accord- ing to Gen, Crowder's estimate, | will be registered. At least one- fourth of them, he thinks, will be ed on various grounds, t Wilson, in a procia- mution to-day, formally fixed June 6 next as the date of regis- “ f Commit-| ‘ation. All men, whether citizens $9,168,698, the ‘Coroprath . or not, are requested to register, tee $3,492,610 ang the House to House; put exomptions under the original Committee $63.635 | act including men already in the Darwin P. Kingley's Team No, 15| military service apply. Divinity eae ee.| @nd medica! students are ex- carried off the honors for having se- | annie somred the largest amount of sub- A statement by Secretary Baker seription—in this tance just one.| guys: * n, Crowder’s estimate of Cleveland *H. Dodge gave $500,000 1,000,000 registrations on June 5 John D. Rockefeller’s Team No, 24] Was based on tho fact that almost 10,000,000 men becween twenty-one and thirtyrone registered last year, “Gen, Crowder,” tho statements adds: “plans to have the local boards keep their offices open for registration purposes between 7 | A. M. and 9 P. M. on Juno 5. } Between thoso hours all young n who were born between June 6, 1898, and June 6, 1897, must These men are subject ions of the selective service act undr which the first istration was held. \. S. Agents "Uncovered Evi-| dence Partly Responsible for Round-Up by British. |ARMS. BY ’ SUBMARIN Uprising Planned for This Time, When Teutons Expected to | Have Channel Ports. GION, May 21 between Wash of plotting Irish agents in this country for uprising in Ireland has been uncoy- ‘ by United States Government agents and {s partly responsible for receut arrest of Irish leaders by British Government Evidence German and on ered the the The"uprising was set for about this | time, when the Germans had planned |to reach the chanr great drive in France and it was be- lieved England would be thrown into confusion by the German advance | This evidence, which may be made public soon, is |dofinitely that Irish leaders, mainly Sinn Fein sympathizers in the United States, have man representatives 1 ports after their who agreed to furnish money to finance a rebellion| in Ireland and possibly to send arms and ammunition to Ireland by sub- | marines or blockade runners. There waa even some discussion of the chances of soldiers to take part in warfare on Trish soil Ireland was | from British and the Germans to be freed entirely influence if possible, counted strongly Jon the Irish trouble to divert Great | Britain's attention from the fighting in France and at the channel ports Jat the vory time when tt would be most necessary for the country to keep calm to prevent a German in- vasion understood to show; touch with Ger-| sending German) PLANE FLIES OVER ~BIER OF RESNATI. UP FIFTH AVENUE |Roses and Lilies Dropped From Air on Italian Flyer’s Funeral Procession. Showers of lilles and roses sift i} down from a leaden sky upen Fi |Avenue this afternoon and the drone of a Caproni biplane's engir gave strange lant antiphonal to the w ing numbers of Chopin's Funeral March, The body of Capt. Antonio Resnati, late the Royal Ttallan |Flying Cc 1 killed at Mineola |Field last Friday py the crashing of S. AVIATOR KEEPS UP FIGHT AFTER BULLET BREAKS A LEG Flyer, Probably Charles J. Biddle, theta Himself and Crawls to Allied Line as Shrapnel Bursts Around Him. ‘TH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 21 (United Hell —An Anierican aviator—a captain from the region of ladelphia—fought the Germans over the lines east of Ypres, ahs at leg broken by a machine gun bullet, until his engine was disabled, Descending in No Man's Land seat and crawled into a shell hole. A German ‘battery, firing at his disabled machine, scored a direct hit and smashed it. The Captain, surrounded by bursting shrapnel, dragged himself from crater to crater until he reached the Allied front lines, near the juncture of the Belgian and British armies. The aviator was taken to a hospital, where h@ is reported doing well. ‘The foregoing probably refers to Captain Charles J. Biddle, who was reported in a Paris dispatch received yesterday to have been found by scouts in No-Man's-Land with a bullet through his leg near his wrecked machine. He had previously been reported lost after a fight with a German. AMERICAN PATROL SCATTERS A STRONG GERMAN FORCE; | MANY BATTLES IN THE AIR} IGreeps Across No Man’s Land and Comes! Back Without Sustaining a Loss [AMERICAN REPORT] he unstrapped himself from his 200,000 AMERICAN TROOPS IN THE FIRST FELD ARMY ORGANIZED ON BATTLE LINE All Seasoned Soldiers Who Have Long Been in France—Gen. Lig- gett Likely to Command, With | Menoher Leading a Corps. | WASHINGTON, May 21.—America’s first field army—approxt |mately 200,000 men—has been formed in France, It is understood io consist of {wo army vorps of three divisions each witn Col. A. W. Bjorti- |stad as Chief of Staff. Brigading of American troops with the British continues. Presuni- ably men ot the National Army are the ones used to take their places with the British, Formatiog of the field army is accomplished by use cf seasoned troops which have been in France for a long period. y Army officers here believe that | Mas al . AMERICAN | GENERAL wan, wll command the eld erm WHO MAY COMMAND CORPS IN FIELD ARMY Gen. Hunter and Major Gen, Charles T, Menoher who has been ot the Rainbow Division, will command one of the army corps. commander a Caproni machine which he rode. | The present arrangement, accord- Pi ed slowly up to St. Patrick's Ca WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 21.—The} ing to information here, ts provisional, jthedra! for the final offices of the] — | - ‘ | in order to try out plans of organiza- church, official communique, issued at American Headquarters last night, says: | |tlon, Changes may be made in the 4 Never had Fit) Avenue Han a “Except for artillery firing on both sides im various sectors. there size and arrangement of the unit and ‘uneral cortege such as this, where, ' . 2 also in the commanders. Field following the grim im y of was nothing new to report to: aye armies, it is pointed out, are not of | Such events behind |the great man mad: vered he battle Ino, bird of the alr flying over the body of man on its last journey and strewed the path with flowers , Behind the) caisson which cariied the grea bronze casekt marched mourners from military and civi} life in a core texa twenty blocks lonr One hundred and fifty men of the 225th Aero Squadron formed o guard of honor from the flying 1 at Mineola, where Capt. Resnatis had lain since his death, to the Island raijroad station in The funeral train arrived a yannla station in New York at own Pennay!- WITH THE AMERICANS IN PICARDY, May 20 (United Press). —An American reconnaissance patrol penetrated the German wires to- aight. The patrol crept across No Man’s Land, at a point where the lines are about 200 yards apart. In the distance the shattered church tower and the jagged walls of other buildings in Cantigny stood like ghosts in the moonlight. A strong German patrol suddenly attempted to surround the Ameri- cans, but scattered when the latter opened fire. Ihe made its way back without losing a man, Aerial activity continues day and night along this front. Bombs were dropped near an American hospital, but no one was injured, The} American patrol | uniform strength, but are rearranged from time to time as strategical con- siderations dictate. For offensive |operations a field army generally is augmented by the addition of severa! divisions. Both fleld and corps commanders ure expected to receive the rank of Lieutenant General by act of Con ress when Pershing makes his ree- ommendations, The American division, of which it s understood there will be three to a corps, consists of 30,000 men. In ad- dition, each has some 10,000 corps troops"—aero squadrons, sig corps 2.a0| barking of anti-aircraft guns, the breaking of shells in the sky and the Information concerning these plots rs baat of airplane motors is almost constant, c'elook and there Capt. Doherty 'M’ADOO OUSTS NEW YORKER. Judge W. A. Moore, $25,000 JW. Mackay, $25,000. AS RAILROAD PRESIDENT | coveramens and turned over to the! Fully 5,000 persons were masse le he Germans made only a slight reply. Up to noon to-day and before the State Department, which forwarded | outside the station and along 32d second day's results were given out —— {t to the representatives of the Brit-| Street to Fifth Avenue, ae well as ’ at the hincheon of the team c oe . W. Huntington of Virginia Line |tsh Government ; the length of the avenue to the] ‘« HAIG S TROOPS HOLD GA NS This amount was distributed among eral Orders, | more of the plotters would be rounded] The casket ciate rried by u-| AGAINST COUNTER A ACKS; the boroughs as follows: Manhattan. | WasHINGTON, May 2.-C. w.|up finally and the arrests are be-lpeurers from the Aviation Corps to| 84,606,459; Kings, $126,049; Queens, | iruntington of Now York has, been re.|lleved to have been ordered by Brit-\the gun caisson which walker hel BATTLES ON MANY FRONTS $109,101.50; Bronx, $20,000; Richmond, | moved by Director General McAdoo us| ish officials at this time because it] 324 Street entrance to the stat a! GUN | $35,000 : | an Railway for has been gathered by several inves- tigating agencies of the United States became known th n open outbreak the U. S. Signal Corps, acting as mar- shal, organised the funera! procession broad American flag was uray This morning the American artillery shelled German positions aad nal battalions, fleld artillery, cavalry and pioneer regiments and heavy ar- 4 T [ttlery—making each corps approxt- la). Gen CHARLES MENOHER ehately 106,600 sen, ; The present rate of flow of Amert- |ecan troops to France shows that 200,- » HOUSE PUTS “ory” RIDER | 000 Yankee soldier will be trans- | ON FOOD APPROPRIATION > =: ith of Bay. ne Sur +4e. CO pL Len the month of May Tho improved shipping factiities witt provide for the transportation of an additional 250,000 men across the At- lantlc in June. The plans for the movement of this great body of men Would Prohibit Use of Big Fund Unless Liquor-Making From Grain Is Barred + ale In June have been fully worked out The wpirit of sacrifice marking the | di of the Railroad Adminis! was {mmincnt |across the entire length of the cash WARN ST ON Mey a : The House! and every possibility of failure has Red Cross drive spreading from |tration's orders for Intenar and | as hinted to-day that @ number/at either end Italia ga ow Oe BONO OF OF ne forday went On| 1 : le rains ounting house to the city's, curbs, Improvement ot hie roud. J. Hi Younm | og gee ante aay mt OUT ee Onto anon ors were Successful Raids by English Army FollowS) second as tavoring the stopping of tne | OO vaalaeiths Laren : , sresenting | Of Norfolk, Va. has been appointed| °° % a a | the Italian custom, the aviat > of grain and fruit in the manu © present rate of troop move To-day John Ullmann, repr renting | Federal Diveotor of the ro Be | United Stat under waist tor form and cap were laid, The wh French Victory Yesterday in Flanders ture of alcoholic beverages. The|'ent. Christmas will bo celebrated the 6,000 mem t sblic The Virg! _ tt Jeveiopments In the Irish plot.| was covered by: ich fie at ° t, "Over There" by 2,000,000 A 4 ° ‘«inian {9 a coal carrying road y rich flor jouw n came up as an amendme y 3 merican Hackman: Aasc potiticd Red! sunning from Decpwater, W. Van ta| The secret system of negotiat ona | and prays of Hilton [BRITISH REPOR T| the ey food bill offered by | fighters, a lurge ni Fr of whom will Cross executives that next Saturday | Norfolk, Va hod heen in progress for phils escort of 1 1 ee : | Representative Randal! of California,| have been in Burope long enough to they would devote 25 per cent. of] Huntington te the first rattroad Prest-| mo inderstood, This tends Hee, th Seon draw by four o} LONDON, May 21.—Successful British raids in Flanders and Picardy, | pr« iit ng the expenditu f 8 jhs ave received final training and to their receipts to swelling the Second | dent to be removed by Director General | to statement from Lon-|pitth | Avenue, Di 1 ey || atte P , e aoa . ae a | 100,000 to increase food production ive taken thelr places in the fight- war Pund, | McAdoo, but it was hinted to-day at} don that the series of arrests several|marched the frat platean ot trevsea | active German artill tiring in Flanders and near Arras, and the repulse | ini 1 the Preal tent hae lenue ta proc | sng tront There was a constant stream of ap- | Fallroad Administration Headquarters |days ago had direct ¢ aneetion | Infant remnant BAS: ‘lof a German attack on the western portion of the Flanders front were 4 ins waking Ge wae use Of STAIR!” “Amarionta:millitary-effert en:the | that ction a. A ie " |the “reverse,” and the Regimenta " ng of tiquors i piicants to sign a 10 per cent..for- | imal tim hae executions tain at ken | with plans to ript the Irish | Bana, ra and the F reported by Field Marshal Hag toda ; eS front in France may equal that one-day agreement at committee) cr iiiswte well with the Fedoray men | Some Information was obtuined from| A brother of Resnati, who lived in, Ported by Field Marsha . hee ’ | of Great Britain soon, Unless headquarters. Those who arrived too! pen, eee Germans now held in internment Boston, an 1 twenty repre atives oft This report, following the brilliant success yesterday of the French 36,677 IN WEE $ LIST the British army is greatly rein- ate to be clas with the various) 3fr, McAdoo's action removes Mr. | camps In this ¢ ry, ithe Allied Government 1 R . Auth itch di ' ahaa tise! | forced in the next two or three businesses with which they should] iiuntington as Mxccutive Chiet of thu| It was made plain here that tho) (ion’ (ap nundted oMcers of the & of y are uns V the British in Flander: Ca cheering) OF BRITISH CASUALTIES months it is likely that by Aug, 1 ave been listed, will be in 1 4 b ave 1 4 United States ¢ vmen interest all in uniforn ect t ews | t. The Vrene perat alvanced the number of United States he last day drive—May 27 AIWay Cor whtoh qwived in the Irish solely these mourners, ¢ 1 { ' troops in France will closely ap- We have rewerved May 27 for ait! to pny his ¥ out of cory fund i pe on Nis ae, . . : , : proximate the size of Haig's z ar miment na ; 1 Se ee ML of th ( H A forces now facing the Germans, (Conti ued on Vi i \ a the ad, ruthe Government Repudlicaine t tie w oM Stun) han 4 J duy. The Lhis startling re tion of g 3 els eiiee ating fund y : wht ou a) : i . { | RO. Gividag. ¥ tride Me made by th is pate n ton, 4 ott #0 ey oe p y ba WW ely important Was made} Killed or Died of Wounds—urtcers, | des trie Weed eabet DUTCH HOLD SHIPS IN PORT treat t Ald a weg on Ninth Rage.) Haning) Lae vt but haan Pr yae 7 s putting men on the firing tine came id Mal ree me one Se pne 6f lia to | t dey it ve dined and | 7h. mene Missing —OMmcers, 1,241 Jay from authoritative circles. au Prohibited from! ¢ { Crperat on 5; V 4 Mar. Serrante, | the d far more secure men, 91,208 wnt developments both here and Ing. Rulw bu che A Cc | N G “6 y, in| f ton eport from ee sbroad have shown that the Amert 3 ‘ ay c a J i | Vi an wy 3 prepa ; THL Ha Un aay 2 sap : Ahh } nD m e = es ful local of vas carried out Sure| ren ns ants he net 8 Armee # ureperiag to (Ake Spt FaTOrnAne haa pAODIEILEO ' . ULTS, Page 2 s 7 aste vest M nt inlet , avaky Vika : ¥ will h of all Duteh ipe from Duteh unling an 4 Ee ia re \ 1 i Mer levpauen 4 iw Bile ry man who goes will carry his ports, Sailing vessels and cousta iB order bus’ ever reached’ tue,” NG NTRIES, Page 1 nain alsie of the Cathe |the largest 1Y week since | personal equipment, his rife, ing craft are exceptegdrom the ruling, said. | The fugeral service followed (Continued on Second Page.) Iman offensive besam 7 . peck, pack carrier, haversack, cari«