The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1918, Page 3

and Special Pa asain MARTIN GREEN DESCRIBES NEW BATTLE UNE SECTOR HELD BY Tht AMERICANS Coming of the Boys in Khaki a Tremendous Moral Stimulus to the Fighters of France—Almost Continuous Bombardments Make It Necessary to Live in Dugouts. BY MARTIN GREE, Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). AN AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, April 29.—The news that the American soldiers turned over by Gen. Pershing to the French Army in accordance with his suggestion at the time of the beginning of the great German offensive are in the battle line on a new front was cabled to New York today. For miiti- tary reasons, however, it may not be possible for some Th _THE EVENING WORLD, ‘TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1918, THE EVENING WORLD in Reporting the War Has the News Service of the Associated Press, the United Press No Other Evening Paper in New York Has a News Service So Complete BRITISH DESTROYER SENDS U BOAT TO THE. BOTTOM SHAKING AO remarkable photograph shows the actual sinking of a U boat by a British destroyer. pirate and the British vessel, The U boat submerged, a depth charge. steaming dt full speed, rushed to the spot. the destroyer passing over the spot and dropping A great cloud of smoke, a huge column of water and smooth patches of floating oll were all that remained to mark, even for & The lookout of the destroyer sighted the undersea | few moments, the spot where one more lurking pirate had finally met Itsy end on the ocean bed. This photograph was made from anothe hurrying to assist her sister ship. background, destroyer time to go into details concerning the strength of the unit or its exact location—at least such details must not be mentioned at this writing. The censor may permit me to say that we took our positions last week and were right in the thick of; hostilities from the start, although our sector 1s one: cist sectors; therefore, in the ght of what {s happening in Flanders and alonx ythe Somme, we must needs be content with the assurance that we are in a comparatively tranquil position Inasmuch as military necessity is of paramount Importance In the Gissemination of news, this article must be of a general nature. My alm is to describe, broadly, what sort of a position we are in, how we got there, what we are doing and what we promise to accomplish, Doubtless, by the time this mail communication reaches the United States the cables will have conveyed specific information which will enable the reader to bulld up a complete story of our new activitfes from what must, In the circumstances, be confined to the lines of a sketchy scenarto, Perhaps better to start @ it would be their places would hold them as gal-! ed the Me n sition open and there was As lu how we reached our new pos seusers, a populace in the sector in assembled for front had been inspired to new cour- coming nearer to tt guns on the firing line. BUSINESS SUSPENDED AS BOYS IN KHAKI The passage of the has been unhe suspended in all towns through which we passed, community moral effect almost exer-|in ceascless use. The rogi- in that movement too, In a| mental Adjutant takes his combina- previous letter I told how the French] tion receiver and transmitter to bed which we to with him when he is granted a chance to sleep and the wire drapes over the Colonel's cot. the movement the usually described in the communiques as “quiet.” In| @e by the sight of the sturdy, clean] In the cave which is used as an of- this war, when the thunder of artillery rolls continu-|Shaven fighters in khaki. From that! Ace there is a tiny stove. The whole ally along @ front extending from the North Sea to! ‘strict our unit marched through a e ) but it seems quite : ew si, : a populous country, billet at night ifortable when the village above {s Switzerland, a sector 1s described as “quiet” when ft {s not as nolsy as other tin Villkaea Grn’ the valleya: nlways | guolied’ ad tee cheek of exploding rman guns jars small » sound of the bigs! missiles from ( pleces of stone from the ceiling and wails, ‘The buildings in the village PASS. are steadily crumbling under artillery American troops|fte—in fact all the villages in the ‘aided. Business wax| Vicinity are gradually turning into heaps of ruins. There are strict orders against soldiers showing them- and when we skirted a the »ple poured out to] Selves on the streets in the daytime nd lined the roadsides. |U9less they are engaged in military women rowing in the fields left their horses ploughing or har- | Work the best dugout in the village is occupied by tw By the way, er view ‘ standing and ran to get a clo: aty-five pri- + with what we promise to accomplish, | lan and doggedly as they had been of the strange troops. Astonishment| vutes. One of them ingestigated a from a military standpoint. In the first} held and gratification were on every face--| boarded up opening In a stable yard Place, we have materially strength-| And they knew too that if the) astonishment at the long lines of men] Lighting the way with his electric ened a sector where strength was] NOP to advance should be given thelr ang guns crawling, snake-like, alongs lamp, he descended a steep flight of needed. Wo have given infantry and| Crothers-in-uems from across the sea | the highways, gratification in the rea- stone steps and found himself in a - would advance eagerly and effective-|jiyation that the United States had spacious, arched cave, walled with artillery to an ally for use where his] }y, although it must be admitted that | segeemed her promise, We left new brick, the top of which is probably men and guns were too thinly dis-|it is demanding a great deal from| hope behind us. want: teak thigie Hal pearedctHe tributed to allow of a feeling of abso-| COMParatively new soldiers to expect! Wien characteristic thoroughness Word along and the privates moved in lute security. Roughly spenking, the| ‘em to attack with the dash andiii. irench had prepared for our ur- Nd took possession. A billeting off- Madition of the American fofcen tO Cerri! OF She MOB MONEA) ical in the battle ling, ‘The detack- | Oer WhO had overicokad fhisicaye|ls | Pia he ments of our unit selected for tho his first survey of the village tried the French has placed three men} Tp connection with the moral and] rst work at the front moved in at to take It for officers, but the Colonel where two men w before their ar-| military effe f our arrival in anew! nignt, and there is no reason to be- Tuled that jt belonged to the privates rival and has increased the effective-| sector, Tam tempted to compare the |jieve that we betrayed to the enemy by right of discovery, ‘They have ness of the French artillery about 30] Wat With a great fire I witnessed injthe arrival of reinforcements, Three named their retreat “The Road to ! le it New York years ago. It was a ware-| days after the first American took his He nd a neatly chalked signboard per cent. We have made It por*sle} ib ouse tire which had gained headway plare opposite the Boi our head- marks the entrance. . ee ean Tees oye hy erryal eee ie \ gts jauarters were estab’ ae Ne ONLY THE RECRUIT INDIFFER- who have been -| gines second and third alarm had}jons defined, our base hospitals, rassed sector f go| brought to the scene all the apparatus ‘jouned by the French, temporarily, ENT TO eae to the rear and rest we| 0 lower Manhattan and atil! the fire ed to meet possible needs, our, Your correspondent had an oppor- have come into th gained. The streets for blocks around | e1¢ station for the treatment of tunity to observe that evening the part of France as a vita were cluttered with engines, hose ercly wounded, fully manned and respect in which gas ts held by sot IR ajanient: Wo: have wagons and hook and ladder trucks. | equipped, and work was progressing diers. A considerable number of in not only n unif the | Chief Croker was in charge. He was}on new battery positions and fleld fantrymen occupied the main street civilian py L of the part of the] Stopped in the street by a group of[hospitals, ‘Traffc regulations cover- of the ge, forming for a mareh through which we have! Teporters: jing many square miles of territory to a village further on Every few passed, So our arrival here has had! A CRITICAL MOMENT AWAITING [kept ingoing troops and supplies to minutes the shriek of an approaching @ moral as well 1 military effect REINFORCEMENTS, certain reads and « 5 Meled to ial eal ie ala oe oxy ee f FRENCH SOLDIERS CHEERED UP! "I have sent in a fourtin peer ae “ See eee ee eee lan ual RY AMERICANS: pale bsp ener i” y Raves, A ‘was there ever an of conges- an officer shouted one word--"Gas!” a amuil French detachment | t0 come. If we get nore engines Hore Tons While yet_ your eurrenponent Wa Bae ee or ee aol tPhe bluse burst through the rootoe| What we aro doing and tho sort: of /Cumbiliie, for Ns eae Daas Ve oe 2 Hp oe Sean a seee; (the warchouse and drove away the| position wo occupy in our now field a areal of sieel mie an ins mre aide of the road was a bank backe Le away oe yecta, | Fe vat sounde ke dumping Re ceninat the moon, The sol. | firemen who had been fighting from | a ey ud teeing carload of tinware into a stone quarry idibsa, dow ire tleworn, moved | 4) adjoining roof, A fire wall col- | Suffice rt artillery, in- Im thirty seconds every gis musk wa as one man to the bank and rested| /apsed and the blaze spread into ag- (With heavy ane’ Ue 2 fs ar aa aAiitar and the inen wera etboDlt against it. Most of them went to building. Reports from a back pete a n bo mA ce nUgyeneie unc ele i halnoace tet were that three additional Not engaged in the chara Hanes Ml dese aaa tet: eds ‘ buildings had been invaded by tha! warfare woe had anticipated before it A ea Salsa U8 ne ested Along the road moving toward the) ii ew on that side, Chief Croker {reaching th nuke perp cis | iNe Sema eae eae r wi ‘att ! iat A Kay that if reinforcements didn't arrive un play in fixed trench an li elim) ae re +A the moonlis muy visible, As they| ye tes ine whol mtv ae ese Rey a rave and si : the re ain) i low | Ho" med in the new a No oxi t, and ea \ i Lain ire quar hat olth ’ « » 1 command wh as carried by word mene at the Rinem he e¥h ' ey da sounded | ou of mouth down the line 1 ’ plead F he \ of mt cP RE soldiers awakened and Ii ; . se alananiyo wn : # reais ps un vit the roadside at rest and wat th ri ete : a Ne eay m1 unt poopie Jrawn by exhausted, steaming hor try lowing a » in the sha nd streaming from bebind the wag A ' altered m ; woods. was a line of An w our | Ene sepia iy moines co followed, Tho screeching of whistle aT ped na Wi briakly int nth stance announced the val] involve nan adjuss ’ mm regu f additional engines and apparatus,! ‘The inha is_ prov 4 be a instead The fleemen who had been vainly ene ; mt and the nash the grave work to subdue the advance of the - torage f 2 Sry © ize redoubled their exertions, The | fi na 5 is la sound of : new secinn tho need of immeclcving as Cue and on mailed shoc 4 un f Hat tlor work 1 w Imos Alera at £ iyi iS. uniso alichte niraculous speed in concentra hae PONE ground and sla heads we u f) their cin la re being exoavat fou beat 1 Weel mice Ave was held }u aah ae Sere re Every rifle was at rangle! ine yeh cia | the nig ee va ee and the clinking of galt eae ed aw epanle Ais AP ea COLONEL HAS TO ‘CRAWL ON TeanUELaRinem would ha Other metal accoutrements was ryth-| giers who have bearing tho! HANDS AND KNEES, eer roteanan inle, almost musical, What had been jrunt of the Boche off for close] It iy established in a cellar the floo ird cal experier a straggling x ement 0 four years are redoubling their ex. |of whic ty feet below the level|dicr knows what ga snd no mat footaore fighting ad me, bY | ertions and the new, fresh forces, are! of the courtyard. The ce is under| tor if a false alarm might 1 _opepeatgglesy ow M With speed and] one of the houses in the vil-lovery five minutes for anh ; emericn hae ma : come a long) la It 4 ‘ eaves cons would, quita mechanicall the confi et, a sprist eel tan Sepretienp ett Hausa may al rade. >mmunion u Mt develop. | our Colonel, wt ull, Nas 10 go on It 4 ne ers, gol ) passed from the o drab to that Gen, Foch will! his hands and from his office to hen avant A horizon blue and 1 Vv what Chiot c git, night ana fail to heed the me KON bway from fron ! nthe ar f the reserves day . Up and and seh have sp 1 knew, with “the ui r Hiers, | ¢ f rn lown ; t continual da lospita pea uit that the, Americans take! “Boys, we've stopped stream, of oftt nd-me ¥ sah k Telephone iWwiuenW are Ww aul an oraumene WOMEN STORM WALL OF BAYONETS IN DRAFT FAREWELL Press Past Soldiers as Siders Start for Camp— 4,088 Called to Colors, A throng of hysterica east side women broke through a solid tine of bayonets to-day, scratching and biting the soldiers and police, in a frantic effort well to drafted sons and brothers and to prolong their fare- sweethearts who were entraining for Camp Hancock, ¢ Of all the Stirring scenes that the Draft Act has produced this was the] climax, It was caused in part prob- ably by the unusually large number of the drafted men, and in part that they were going so far from home for their training. The yot exciting moments came the change Place station in Jersey City, The draft men had been ferried there and the women had After the men had Kone the gates and were en- women made i over followed throug training, the A their rush, Stull another vessel is shown tn the lar army and had re-entisted. hd took with him his younger br Thomas, Hubert and Joxeph C. Kennelty were another pair of bro- thers, soon to don the khaki, Charles Law and Rob Heller, formerly of the Manual Training High School, with interscnolastic championships for athletic events, went on one of the tr Then thi was Fred Kaiser, who got so much spoofing on account of his name, that he hurried to the front ofa and refused to be comfurted Hughey Morgan, once a famous Jockey, is on his way to camp, and declared that he was going to be an aviator. With bands playing and crowds cheering, 1,400 drafted men left New- ark for Camp Dix to-day ven hundred were from Newark and 300 from the township. emerson SENT OFF 3,600 DRAFT MEN, HE GOES TO CAMP HIMSELF City Clerk Dolan of Jersey City Tendered a Banquet and Will H Have Parade in His Honor. | _ City Clerk Frank A Dolan of Jersey City, after sendirg 4,600 men of the Jdroft to the cantonments, will himself be one of the last contingent of % to leave his home city to-morrow | for Camp Dix Mr. Dolan has been City Clerk for two | years, having previously been a travel ling salesman, In his present position | he was Director of the Draft. He had not only to get the boys together, but he |saw to it that everyone of them was given a good send off; and was per | sonally In charge of the arrangements | attending the celebrations them on their way which sped company of soldiers, carefully| And now, like a ralned for the work in hand, used |/0& well disnosed his thelr bayonets in such a way as tolomey (0 {he war ie form an iron rail, holding their rifles | City, expeciatly mothe 4 horizontally front of them, keep-|sweethearts, Last night he wan given ing the points away from the surging |a big dinner by prominent citizens of crowd so that no one should be|the town, headed by Mayor Frank injured. | Hag Against this improvised rail the} To-morrow, when he marches away women pressed until they broke the | With the Inst of the present. draft We hance Le the eaten, {there Wil) be the bizkert parade vet : Vin his honor and that of the bova, It whero the police, under Capt. John] wilt be headed by the Mayor and Co: M. Coukley, pressed them back again. | missioners Michael A. Kagan, Charles Many of the police and soldiers were |, X. O'Brien, Henry Moore and Jo: ‘ghtly hurt, but no woman was in- |seph Gannon, Private DD lary sure Jot $5,000 a year will continue during A total of 4,088 men were called| the exlatence of the war. He lives with to the colors to-day from New York |Ml# mother at No. 1 Crescent Avenue and vicinity, ‘The largest contingent, 1,585, went to Camp Upton; 1,155 to Camp Hancosk, Ga; 888 to Camp Wadsworth, and 460 to Camp Servier, In all par city and suburbs there were farewell parades i> 1 cele- ' tons, and many f the men had n dined and wined by their friends | al aah last night Some of rnot ust night, but ‘ train tin n end-off 1 r went xeellent irits, and r home f we us brave Three trains, each train composed of Il ca le out from the Carlton Avenue stath of the 1 Island road, bound for Camp Upton, before 1 ek. The be were all f representing 19 Ne Inclusive boys went away in ked by the and the ct hiefs of thoi jozen band vdke and waving unds o The 4% build at of factories and other t framed hundreds of girl yen their farewells wa win waving 4 wishe It perh b ably d 1 ergean aties Bve youcta’ wcrvice in the remus men and and | Jersey City NO STATEMENT ON IRISH, | BONAR LAW ANNOUNCES Liberal Members of Parliament Will Query Government on Evidence nd Trial of Prisor LONDON, May Andrew Bonar House of Com ta announced making any statement regarding affair n Ireland. Ioish nationa aver turned to London and ind stood, th not appear at W minster un A an port party meeting at D at But in ' A ernment proposed b I rial and wh any dence of the would Hed During t k ‘ Heating 4 > dixcuss A 1 it Chiet e would make a walt of he Governine 30 Per Cent, Due today Liberty Loan WASHIN n (38 CASUALTIES | RE PORTED TO-DAY FROM PERSHING — Contains Names of Seven Killed in Action—New York- er Dies of Disease. WASHINGTON, May 28.—Gen. Pershing’s casualty list to-day con- tained thirty-eight names divided follows: Seven killed in action; one dead from wounds; one from drown- ing: five from disease; eighteen wounded severely; six missing in action, Among the killed In action was the name of Major Raoul Lufbery, and Lieut. Walter B. Schafer, Ottumwa, Ia., was reported as missing In ac- tion The list follows: KILLED IN ACTION, }. Major Raoul Lufvery, Dieppe, France, Sergt. Carl Leforge, Flemingsburg, Ky. Corpl, Christian 8, Anderson, Spencer, Ia. Privates Arthur $. Cook, Chicag James P. McKinney, Batesville, Ar! David N. Nehrenberg, Drake, N. D.; Ezra Woods, New Milford, Conn, DIED OF WOUNDS, Private Joseph Ash, Lawrence, Mass. DIED OF DISEASE. Corporal Alexander Dodge, Algo- Mich, Private James Burton, Salada, 8. Alfred A. Ferguson, No, 175 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York. Walter Hennessey, BR. nac, F. D. 1, Scranton, Ia.; William Roe, Russell, Kan, DROWN Private Mike ®hade, Ma’ Russia, WOUNDED SEVERELY. Sergeant Elijah F. eee Cornorals John G. Masa.) Ind; Me Pettis, Ora D, Ockerman, Wagoner Dexter J. Leclair, Al- Gordo, Flynt, Mountolive, Kaleen, Arthur H. Quick, Kansas City, Herbert J. Lewis, Malden, Mass.; Bert Moats, Oglesby, Tex.; Herman Hi, Reich, Bloomer, Wis; Samuel Schwarts, Chici Jan Spelak, De- - troit; Michael Wiiman, Ashland, MISSING IN ACTION, Lieut. Walter B. Schafer, Ottumwa, Iowa. Privates, Conn; Haven, Frank J, Aliano, Bristol, Raymond C. Kirby, New Conn.; Anton Linhart, Bee, Neb.; Charles M: McGovern, Charles town, Mass.; Clarence Mitchell, St Louls, Mo FLAGS A Retailed at less than wholesale prices. 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