The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1918, Page 1

A “mn lt Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ — PRICE TWO CENTS. FOCH’S ll trae. CITY'S TOTAL 10 RED GROSS $34,000,000 AND GOING UP. TONS OF SMALL COINS IN IT New York Lists Show More 300 HOSPITAL PATIENTS | been cau British German aviators 1 by hospitals in Red Cross War Fund mounting every | the hour of the tabulation of returns, the total at noon to-day was ann, Chairman William C, Bree (000,000 in round numbers. of bells the successful bombing of France by ed by es! WOOD MAY 60 BAGK es T0 CAMP FUNSTON Requests That He Be Given More Active Duty Than Command of West Department. chorus and whist brated cluse of th drive There are many sources still unre- Ported, and it will be several days be fore the city knows by just how muco {t has oversubscribed {ts allotment | WASHINGTON, May Major $25,000,000. Gen, Leonard Wood's re that h Here is the significant fact devel. | Ph" Biven more a bidsh Commander Western Depart oped by the great drive: There were, t was understood to-day, w More than 2,000,000 individual contrib anted by the War Departme utors, The first time the Red Cross} and the al will be assigned to] asked New York to go down into its nan division of troops, prob Pocketbook only 43,000 answered the! “bi at Camp Funston Gen. Wood yesterday was detached Diea. A sirgle dime. r ope n and ordered to | | }as Commander hty-ninth {| ved in an envel™| fy at the Red Crosa headquarters, | \ mmand the qtern Division dquarters stands at one end of the scale of the! 4+ San Franc pola city’s individual donations. ‘The other) dent Wilson late t extreme is Mrs, George F. Baker jr’s| It generaily had inderstood check for a million Between th that after passing + tired phys sums the contributions ran the whole al teste Gen. Wood would ad his gamut of figures from two zits to division to F seven, One little girl sent thre niden| ‘Just before al Wood's engage curls a few days ago in lieu of the pen- | MCMC Wt the President, Secretary Baker went to the White House and nies she lacked took with him General March new | Contrivation boxes to the number! Chief of Staff. It was the feet tees of 450 and weighing 1.2 nd#| the Chief of Staff had been in conte went to-day to the Cen uustience with the Pea Company, acting as depositary The contained $10,800 and | ofa churehes in the Greater represented the cont the Catholic City. Bince the Red Cross dgive ibution DROP BOMBS ON LANDAU has been | Garrison Headquarters and Private | {a progress, three tons of coin have Meitranaived atetha Ganienl Cris Houses Said to Have Been | Company d counted. Damaged | Mr. Breed announced to-day that| RiAMi Sia G | as soon as all the reports are in he rea er ; | will publish a complete tabulation of |¢ by t airmen, the} receipts trot w Yur ( f Bertin repar | the amounts raised by ea rison headquarters and some collectors, the teams, the booth com. | Private houses are said to have been mittee, the house to house ¢ jamaged ac, This report 80 Wil, a Pe cae tpear easel aincall a «MISS STINSON'S BIPLANE (Continued on Second Page) Starting t e or a RED CROSS CAMPAIGNERS “hs arc hae FOR THEIR WEEK'S DRIVE) visssnsves sy as MOUNT Red Cross asked of I! nt ct re ond Be Le aN the Nation, $100,000,000. |Chisago to New York mell fist Amount already reported from | turned over twice and crashed to the $144,000,000. jsround New York's quota, Patan ed Adi contributed (incom: | {URN 10 N ' plete) by New York, $34,000,000, oe en, biokan Estimated individual contrib fin striking utors, 2,000,000, | IHinois the only State that did | Germans Seine Four Dutch Ships not exceed its quota AMSTERDAM, May 28~ Th : Individual subscriptions in Man ave seized and taken inv hattan totalled $13,317,576 the Duteh steamship Jantie and an Corporation subscriptions in Mt faconn Manhattan totalled $12,232, . n nef Theatres contributed in net permitting Du t ail without German safe conducts. hattan more than $1,000,000, | WRECKED AT BINGHAMTON : CADET FLYER FALLS. GERMANS BOMBARD 2,000 FEET TO HIS. U.S. HOSPITALS AND DEATH AT IATMINEOLA TROOPS FUNERALS: ‘Tail Spin’ pemeet Fatal Plunge High ieeetiaive § Shells Fall Ail! of Indiana Man About To Around Buildings Behind | Get Commission, | American Lines | | Than Two Million Indi- | INJURED BY THE BOMBS Flying Cadet Charles B, Passwater, WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN| vidual Subseriber. | a student aviator in the Army Avia raiice Monday, May 27 (Assocl} a i | RS tlon School at Mineola Field, fell with ated Press),.—What was apparently a FIGURES ARE NOT ALL IN, Seen GANA two miles east of the hangars near can hospitals in the rear of the Bonar Law Makes This Announce-yioon to-day. A “tail spin," from! American tines in Picardy occurred | Total of Fund Expected to} — ment To-Day in the House which the youthful aviator was una- | Sunday afternoon when the Germans | Reach $150,000,000—What | ot Commons, sle to atraighten out, was the cause | hurled high explosives and gas shells! New York Did. | ONDON, May %.-Andrew | of the fatal drop. within a few hundred yards of two HKonar Law, the Government Passwater, who was twenty-two hospitals, Fortunately no damage The nation’s total subscriptions to] ao raat Ba ruse of Com | years old and whose home was at was done. the Red Cross will reach $15,000,000] House of Parliament that. 309 | NOBleville, Ind., had nearly comj..ted By a coincidence the bombardment With New York's contribution to the} casualties to hospital cases had [the requisite ninety hours in the air was going on while American fune- demanded of eadets before they re-| rails were being held. Several shells as Lieutenants fell a short dista ceive commissions rtive service party, but the ceremony was not dis- | turbed | German attempts to carry the w fare to American sick and are enrolled in the of the Army Aviation Corps abroad. With but « few more flights ahead of and wounded him, he was looking forward $0 Te Sbegan about ten days ago when, with ceiving, next week, the prized Silver) the advent of a new moon, enemy wipgs marking him a full-fledged airplanes circled over the little vil Avee bf the aenny lages where it has long been known hospitals were located and dropped To-day Pasewater was to make DiS) icing, several civilians were injured endurance in @ recent air raid while not far veral machines had taken the alr | from the American hospitals, ‘They fet Pass & spirals before ¢ | were asleep when the attack began, took his seat in the fuselage | feeling secure in their proximity to ind gave the order to spin bis pro- | the hospite pelle He rose from the fi made} Much indignation has been caused |* a fow circles of the broad plain where among the soldiers and civilians over he hangars stand to get bis altitude | the air raids and Sunday's bombard ind then swung off toward the Mead- | ment. It was not the fault of the Ger »whrook Hunt Club: mans that those in the hospitals wore Just how the cadet managed to get | not killed and wounded as were those mself into the perilous situation in the British hospitals in Flanders from which the “tail spin" resulted | recently never will be known, That is one of} The only comment of the sick and! the tricks of aviators which is taught | wounded American soldiers is 1 n the regular course and utilized as| they want to get out as soon as (he a desperate re » to fool an antag-| doctors will permit so asx to strike ynist in air cor Always a dan back at the Germans. gerous expedient, the “tail spin esos BRITISH CASUALTIES Jess than &,000 { It is brought about by turning the 33 694 IN LAST WEEK nose of the machine upward at too ’ sharp ans vusing the planes t¢ es se their grip on the air and the! Nearly 5,000 Below Those of Two aeroplana to op tall downward Weeks Ago, When 41,512 Since Pasawater's machine was seen to go into the I spin” at only 2.50 Were Reported feet, officers of the flying school be LONDON, May 2%. -British casualte Heve the situation must have been | reported in the week ending to-day WROUBRE AYE ae reached a@ total of 33.6%. ‘Th a 4 The plane sho arth with light vided as follows ning speed, landing in an unploughed | ied or Died of Wour ve field a short distance away trom the! 138, men, Wounded or Missing Meadowbr Hunt Club's vroperty. | officers men, 29,204 lying officers at Mineola AiO sraeciatai’ eae ate he ll Wan Ah had been following the evolutions of | tor the week before 41,512, the Ia ee PRR URS binoculars, Saw the | any week since the beginn f fatal plunge. Immediately they start-| German offensive The failing off ny ed in automob: r the spot where | the totals reflects the lull in the fat plane had ashed between the attack whieh ended in A The aviators broken body wag | Md the one now beginning found pinned under the engine and _ A splintered of wreckage, Senate Passes Defleleney Hill re id * WASHINGTON, Ma eon who was of the party saw vier aaa At once that death had been instan- | *'* : ay =F seid age sbeae Amendments uded approp: A military funeral will be held at | $7,500 each for the widows of Ser the Seho Thursday and Passw stone and Brow er's body will be sent to his home eee "BRITISH KING HLS litytow Cadet Killed Near San An- PREMIERS 10 CONFER SAN ANTON May 28 was killed in a an airplane last night near San An — fo Discuss Quotas of M WOMAN DOCTOR IN ARMY = Money and Voice ot Col », a . New Yorker Gets niment te at Peace Table ASHINGTON Ma fei Ps my Med minion jers det cally 1 ar oy . « pay and ‘ a Y inv ® y t ' Rmpy Dr Mea 2 uate of Indiar , ach pea Vaivenyy, ere to be considered. NEW YORK, ‘TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1918. 18 PAG “Circulation Books Open to All.’ y? ES ‘PRICE TWO CENTS. == RESERVES REACH AISNE FRONT. AS GERMANS FORCE CROSSING OF R FU RIOUS BATTLE ON TO- DAY; LONDON AND PARIS CONFIDENT THREE GERMAN DETACHMENTS — ARE REPULSED BY AMERICANS IN BITTER PICARDY FIGHT Officially Announced as Notable Success—U. S. | Soldier Rescued and All His Captors Killed. [AMERICAN REPORT] WASHINGTON, May munique of yesterday, made public to-day by the War Department, says (Monday), a violent bombardment with high explosives and gas 28.—A section ot Gen. Pershing’s com. “Section B—In Picardy, before daylight this morning the enemy after attacked our advance positions in three detachments penetrated small portions of our front lines. Shortly afterward ouv part of the German trenches, Heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy Our casualties are light. “In one case an American was taken prisoner, but was rescued by! and some prisoners were taken, counter attacks and all of his captors were killed. Our troops displayed | 1 fine offensive spirit at all times and have achieved a notable success. “During the early hours of the morning in the Woevre a hostile foree, supported by violent artillery fire, attempted a raid upon our lines. | Chis force, which was composed of three officers and about 100 men, well equipped, They leaving one officer and four men dead in our apture portions of our trenches. were completely repuised by our infantry and our artillery, | trenches and one wounded prisoner in our hands, Fifteen or iwenty dead vere observed near our wires and ten stretchers were seen from this point. Here also our losses appear to have been relatively Slight “Yesterday in Lorraine the enemy was unusually active in bombard ig Our trenches with gas and in patrolling. On one occasion a patrolling approached our lines with cries of ‘kamerad.” Our troops replied hostile detachment was killed and his body party vith rifle fire, One of the ecured.” TWELVE U. S. OFFICERS wcouaLsece US. FLYERS DOWN DECORATED BY BAITSH GFRMIAN AIRPLANE, 8 ROUT THREE THES Awarded Militar Privates Get Medal Cross— AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS | M 8 ee o ¥ 3 RITISH KONT, ay 2 ot . rs °| rrrri eo eee the Britian Mili | Three Americans Win Thrilling tary na heen awarded Capt Battle Mile Over Lines Walk servi. in Lorraine. 1 that serv access ode WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY Arthur Irvink IN LORRAINE, May 28 (United : By BUMUC’ | Press).—Three American aviators de- Adams, Gouy I Harold ene inert 11. fe@ted four German airmen in a Jor Baldwin Le I Guy D. Spectacular pattie a mile above the Tibbetts and Ha ©. Updegrove. ground to-day, destroying one enemy Orne ations awarded re plane and driving rs back be Distinguished Cor Medal -Pri- hind their line ' Rrets The fight raged for 0 quarter of an Medal- ¢ Harold, hour, during wh # machines con vom bard Carl Dugan, w stantly were engaged in thrilling Iriver x w ok manoeuvres. geant Sisemor Just Gorn fled, the -> wings tt m nes were BAFF CONVICTION UPHELD. Brey SBE Away, a0.\DA! Hand That Killed WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN Loses \ppent PRANCK, May 28 (A 1 ress) ALBA y. Me n A pinber of An ' planes Harr no ' fantry in tk ur Pont-au et by th Sopeals Gorman tines, the Americana poured ACING ESULTS, Page 2 ENTRIES, Page 10 In two places he} with eight machine guns, blew up our wires and attempted to! being carried] iGermans Drive Forward From the Chemin Des Dames,Captured Yes- terday, Forcing Back the British Left Wing—Allied Troops Counter Attack on Northern Flanders Salient. LONDON, May 28.—The Germans are developing attacks of great strength along the entire Aisne front of forty miles. Both | the British and French reports to-day confirm the announcement made in Berlin last night that the Germans yesterday forced a passage of the Aisne er west of the British sector, compelling the left of the British line to fall back. The enemy maintained fe from one funeral troons counter attacked, expelled the Germans at al! points and occupied | Pressure all day yesterday and severe fighting continues to-day. The Paris War Office statement of to-day says the Germans, aided | by new forces, crossed the Aisne between Vailly and Befry-au-Bac, The | French and British are tacing very superior forces, the Paris report says, peut are drawing back progressively. The battle is going on furiously | between the Vesle River gnd the Aisne plateau sector, behind which re- serves have arrived, (These reports show that the Germans, striking south from the Chemin-Des Dames after carrying that important ridge in the opening of their new offensive yesterday, have pushed on rapidly and effected a This rnis a front of nearly twenty miles along which the armies of the Crown Prince engaged in this great drive have crossed the Alane. In addition crossing of the Aisne River between Vallly and Berry-au-Bac. rep they have apparently pushed at points some distance south of the river and are striking for the River Vesle, which paral leis the Alsre along the greater part of this front at an average dis tance of about five miles ‘ (The Veale at its most southerly point in this sector {s approxi. | mately ten miles from the German point of departure, but the German penetration {8 apparently considerable short of this depth, (The British when the battle started apparently were holding A line approximately tweive mile Bermicourt, seven long, and Craonelle, between across the Aisne to the northwest, this die the line straddiing the Alane at tance, near Berry-au-Bac.} Haig Dickebusch Lake, where the Germans made a | miles northwest of Rhiema, | about midway reported that the fighting in Flanders is centred east of temporary gains against the French troops in the resumption of their drive yesterday morning. | Although the British losses admittedly | are considerable, the latest reports from the front to-day indicated that the enemy’s casualties are extremely March 21, While appreciating the gravity of th Aisne, inable to accomplish its obviou weakening ALLIED COUNTER-ATTACK IN FLANDERS, evere, aS a result of some ot the fiercest fighting singe ot the cross” ing of the military circles are contident that the enemy will pg purpose ot the other fronts WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, May 28 (Associated Press).—British and French troops this morning launched a counter-at. tack in Flanders, east of Dickebusch Lake. he attack began well, Success would make the enemy's assault of yesterday 4 complete ang stly failure, In yesterday's attack in Flanders, between Locre and Voormezeele, the Germa ire | ved to have employed four divisions (more thar §0,000 men) on one part of this front, measuring 6,600. yards, The attack was preceded by leaviest: bombardr ince Vor Hindenburg launched the offensive of March 21 A é beginning of this territic cannonade it looked as though the Germans were about enew their great eflort, From 1 o'clock yesterday morning until dark 1 grea neentration ot hostile artillery maintained a bombardment of drumtire intensi which Was opposed turio’ More ga ells thar a re employed by the Germans, especially in the back areas, in ar for 4 ’ nN, AtrauaNs of allied Ta) When the Germany advanced they met such an effective barrage or uw that the attackers never get tatclose quarters. They d