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Ao yl a Ae aed v 7 s THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1918, U. S. PHONE IN CAN TIGNY 45 MINUTES AFTER BATTLE STARTS * bv nyt ta GERMAN THRUST [Map Stowe Where Ure Cantigny| riven sors mst_|MOUNTAIN BATTLE Verde the reas ave nthe tne) and tne ston} [J NOT ALARMING ~ sPERORNE = FOLLOW THESE DRESTINS| 19 QQ FEETUPIS eéctor (which Includes the Amerkan Lunevile sett). Fi | P bog ce ed } ot GERMANS TAKEN PRISONER VIEW IN LONDON QUENTIN Sys ece eo"! WON BY (TALIANS } yowen ae HAM All men who bee twenty- i) IN TWO RAIDS BY HAIG TROOPS sewspapers Admit Big Loss of ANTIGNY bl MARLE ast, and gue teen Jane Positions Northwest of Trent | those already in the military ser- ar Fi Vice of the United States, must Are Carried After Forty register on June 5, 1918, under the Hours of Fighting. Selective Service Law, ts b Any one who w t 4] a g will not be at ITALIAN ARM SADQUART- SISGONNE home on that day should go at Ae hs tt prac once to the nearést local board, |S: Tuesday, May 28 (Associated | fill out the registration card and |Press)—One of the most brilliant | Guns, but § ‘Enemy Attacks in the Flanders Salient Beaten Ww Back—Artillery Active at Many Points. eM SAN. sides Sicutel werk [BRITISH REPORT] 10g Newspapers, while admitting the : L Germans have gained a substantial NDON, y 29 LONDON, May initial success, deprec any idea of Wie British War Office : treating the enemy's advance too “We carried out a successful raid last night southeast of Arras, and *eriously. It im recalled that similar captured prisoners and a machine gun. A few prisoners were taken by ‘rust have not been followed by i contingous success. us also during the night west of Merville. A raid attempted by the) tne patiy Chronicle fears that the enemy at Givenchy les la Bassee was repulsed. A hostile attack Upon’ advance has involved a big loss in ne of our posts south of the Ypres-Comines Canal also was repulsed pean specta it need not cause undue alarm. after sharp fighting. : (tapes ees Y sepris : “The hostile artillery has been active north of Albert, in the neigh-! «The country is so diMcult that 6 borhood of Ayette, east of Robecq and northwest of Merville, and has Gen. Foch'a reserves should have oO CHANTILLY time to intervene before the stragetic s Shown somewhat increased activity locally east of Arras and south Of siuation is altered serlousty te the ay Drive Will Itself Out. MO! QOIDIER pilaatineh “LASSIGNY ollowing is the statement issued to-day by mail this, with a stamped, self- | mountain operations since the begin- addressed envelope, to the local [ning of the war was carried out by | board having jurisdiction over | his home address, If he does not know the address of the boara |0Fthwest of Trent, early this week, | the card should be matied to the particulars regarding which are now Mayor of his home city, or if in [being received. ‘Tho basin of Presena cael si " @ country district, to the County | Lake was captured by Italian Alpini 4 Clerk, Such cards must be re- ceived by the local boards by sake 6 against a numerically superior enemy. the Italians in the Tonale regton, but thinks that in other re- after forty hours of flerco fighting Registration on June 5 will take The Austrians were well entrenched, | place between 7 A. M. and 9 P. M. having at their disposal strong forti- at the local boards covering the fications built before the beginning of | registrant's address. Any regis- ~Lens.” Jactriment of the Ail The Ger- | trant who is not certain of tho |‘ War and greatly strengthened “) Eten however, probably have done | local board to which he belongs |*!nce then. The great Presena moun- # rather better than they expected, should inquire at once at the |t#!n was reached by the Alpini after . laeapeere their achievement thus far | nearest local board, Any police attacking four times under a heavy Lik fo seule beyond undoing the | omicer will direct him to such |fre. The enemy was finally over- sof last year's French vic- | board. Do not walt until June 5 whelmed by a bayonet drive. » tortes, | goreniien TNS AQUI Tho fight was rendered more dif”- | “If the German successes had been | On June 5 registrants should |Cwt by the condition of the ground, won two months ago,” says the Dally | apo 6 pill eal seunds carly [Which wax har’ and slippery with One Wounded U.S. Sergeant in Combat WV ACH) oa eactreae icine tec Teethe dey co an to avoid any [late spring snow. ‘The Itallans ad de-epread nee of alarm. Exper- possibility of being unable to {vanced so steep ascents, down precl- | tence, howe 0 hed Mee ted otha Saha : es and over glaciers, Four Germans Drives Them All Back. | Seen ruaiedenine lc seepathe, pices and over glacier successes Prequantiy are followed by | ~<a n ROME, May he bri nt vic- [AMERICAN REPORT.] |tong pauses of impotence. Conse- = o3 | Persons who are ill should send | iory of the Italians in the Tonale : quently we are able, without making} * SGALE .OF MILEGe= } 4 friend to the local board, which | pion w won in fighting on WASHINGTON, May 29.—In addition to .his report cf yesterday, leht of the new German advance, to wlll INDICATES GAIN MADE by GERMANS ON MOMDRY-- | Will give directions as to the | pound about 12,000 fect above the 4 mana . ne j regard it calmly methods of registration, peered . unvee and Ce sanouncing the capture of Cantigny, Gen. Pershing’s communique sa amid meltin ws and ever The Timeg seen indications that the HB INDICATES YESTERDAYS ‘“GAIN:: | $Yo: @ievriieee Will OS Boe9) See tor ng glacters, The battle was re- “Section B—Yesterday morning three of our planes encountered) Tetlrement was a deliberate outcome failure to register, and persons kable on account of the highly . . : * | of a definite resolution made swiftly The latest German advance, as indicated in the the heights of Neuville-sur-Margival and Vregny, falling to do so will be guilty of zed troops er and the four hostile planes flying at 3,000 metres in the region of Montseo. In| in view of the formidable character of| Shaded section of the map, was approximately six which are northeast of Solssons, while the British AT meanor, and may be im- s app the fighting which ensued Lieut. Douglas Campbell successfully attacked the onslaught. It adds miles, They have crossed the Vesle River on both have held the enemy at St. Thierry, northwest of mediately inducted into military Mountain, dominating serv : : : ie signiticance of the German ad-| sides of Fisme directly in front of the point (indl- Rheims. two of the German machines. Of these, one lost both wings and fell.] vance can not be minim and the| cated by the arrow) toward which some of Gen. The map also gives an idea of the latest advance # Fijyin' 3, frie pegs 4 j advane ¢ to the Vesle converts the at- ahtit ‘i of the enemy, in {ts relation to Paris, The Germans 0 0 {This was referred to in yesterday's communique. In the same encounter! eo sito an operation of great Ime| Foch’s Feserves are now being rushed. They are also have reached & point about sixty-seven miles from |WAVAL FFICER INDIGTE Plateau and the ap- uiise Pass, had been by both sides as a field _ . for offensive operations, but now be- one of our aviators was wounded, but succeeded in ma aking @ Normal] portance and some menace. The lose| “cross ta the region of Basoohes. The French by the French capital. They are advancitig on a line be- SARE HASTE: REBEL pends landing within our lines, of the positions which the Allies have| Counter attacks havo stopped the.German ad on tween Vailly and Berry-au-Bac. | AS A HOARDER OF FOOD Amoen the fevwite of te Talal ‘ : " sacrificed #0 much to maintain ts a attack were the blowing up by artil- "Yesterday morning in a sector recently taken over by our troops regretable development and we fear up In the trenches all night talking/tye flelds, in dugouts — anywhero! Two Tons of Sugar Among Sup-|lery fire of an important Austrian an American sergeant encountered a German patrol of four men, who| that many heavy guns may have/ \bout the aproaching adventure with| Where there was the slightest cover. ve arene dt Jes munitions depot and the capture of had entered one of our trenches during the night. In the fighting which| fallen into the hands of the enemy.” ful anticipations, Then came the work with bayonets, ! plies Found in W ashington Home | two telegraph lines ch ran through “The ¢ hievement,” de- | en we reached Cantigny,” he a a A ver of Medical Director Nash. Paradise Pass. ensued, our sergeant, although receiving three wounds, succeeded | clared the y News, “is formidable | added, “it is only a pile of bricks and} Germans were incinerated in dne dug-| ; +. May 29.—Tite firat in- | assisted greatly driving out the hostile patrol, which left grenades and wire cutters behind! and brings them further south than stones. Our artillery had levelled the | ut when they fired on the Americ: WASHINGTON, May 29.—The first in- 7 Italians were Violent artillery d ene for food hoarding in the United | {Te Foquiped (ne efforts \by “In Lorraine, on the evening of May 26, a hostile patrol attempted) they have been in this sector since town, The German machine gun bul-| after crying “Kamerad!" Se aa iu today against a|the Alpini to carry the guns to the " trench war began in 1914. But we lets were buzzing about like bumble Big cellaré int Cantigny, where it bey : . untain to a e enemy w * ‘ited States naval officer—Medieal Di- | mo! _to penetrate our lines. It was driven off with loss to the enemy With} have grown familiar with the course TWO HOT A] TACKS bees, but our fellows didn't pay any|was possible to conceal a bundred|Goise FT, Nash, U. 8. N., and hist five killed. Of these one was brought into our lines. One of our men} of these great thrusts which achle more attention to them than if they| troops, were completely smashed by | wife, Carolina a startling success in the first rush i z Pe omer was wounded. Gia tesa Mur ierpetee Jab be the ae —— had been contett aioli the American artillery. Enomy loses An lavontory oat WARTIME ECONOMY “ i i ic! | i ‘ | ok fense brings its reserves into action. (Continued from First Page.) “It was the finest e e of team/ were probably the heaviest in these showed 100 worth of supplies o This morning Lieut. Rickenbacher and Lieut Campbell attacked This is what we may anticipate in the bead kai work I ever saw. There was not al pits of death including ¢wo tons of sugar and one-| demands caienes Lot ee group of six enemy planes and brought one down out of control. present case." otis sisted the French in directing the | Hitch anywhere, ‘The men cracked] ‘The Germans ran toward the half ton of rice, Jokes and sang, but they were busi-| Americans, “kamerading,” in groups| Vr. Nash is a prominent navy « snappy relish that turns a artillery fire. : egeencelts rs cer here and his wife is well knov KAISER EXULTANT IN AISNE DRIVE SURPRISED GEN. PERSHING DECORATES | tre sruers vreparation vexan at [Repstke J tht MotH oo qcy. ot te and twenty stom dugouta, oF | eer ere and Ms. | 5.45 o'clock, one hour before the 1n-|1yn-‘who also was. slightly wounded, | "Hem they were cornered, oder alias ne ESS ALL | FIVE AMERICAN HEROES fantry went over the top. The lines | was brought to the hospital and placed] In the hand-to-hand fighting the| home and garage, MESSAGE 10 JES, BERLIN CLAIMS | aks 1B. he ItHaa | wae ue Maia AHOe o€ Josut Bet | Auabrloana uoed the weapen thay have | footed ike wwe Ls, a ; of Americans moved forward in p ler, As soon as their eyes met they] learned to love—the bayonet, and the ey even had stored four barrels Economy! Try FROM THE AISNE FRONT Gallant Marines and Soldiers Win} fect order, the tanks in the lead. The | olasped hands and creeted cach other] foches sque itish T Sent TI 1 like long-lost brothers f n ied like pigs when they | of fresh wager in case the water sup ° nine ; erica lery did iflcent faced the cold stee y was cut off and several cases of British Troops Had Been Sent There} —pistinguished Service Crosses | American artillery did’ magnific ste was a great show, wasn't It?"| “The jet quest 4 aN erga , , ; i f stion asked by wounded | candies in the event of t for Rest, Says the Ger- for Unusual Gallantry. =e ; Billings said + I wish the folks] soldiers arriving at the hospital was! light | — nantes sd Fierce hand-to-hand fighting at home could have seen it. T wouldn't electric | j ant being | put out of busines: & occurred in Cantigny, which con ave misw r the w " al 8 to whe ould be) Tons of fc ffs, including half a RICAN ARMY LN| in Cantigny, which con- | ave miswed it for the world ffi Act ny Rahal would Tons of : NAR ? igny, to return to the line, |ton of ff 70 pounds of ham ar (Associated Press) tained a large tunnel and a num- second quality food into first quality. That’s Tells of Germans Reaching the} ‘River and Forecasts Further man Press, WITH THI ome CoP HAGBEN, May 29.—Military Progress. , critics in’ the Berlin press admit AMSTERDAM, Moy 29.—The Kaleer| they were surprised by the cho! ja on the Aisne battlefront, at @ point] of the Chemin des Dames for the] infantrymen ha AM If anything more like this is com-| bacon, hundredsof cans of SAUCE Three mon attached to the Amerl-| ber of caves. The tunnel shel- PHONED BACK NEWS pained ee ee ee | Ran, VORRIADION BAG frat, "na ‘THE ORIIRAY WOR CSET ENGIN ‘ can Marine Corps and two American] tered a hundred Germans. The ft eet whiskey and brandy and eve After the first arrivals the doctors! win MASA SAWATIOA hal Ree uiei tec ttd Reco aunaes OF TAKING CANTIGNY; were extremely wary in handling the| tea, oysters, salt, talcum powder patients until had Makes old south of Laon, according to a despatch | new German offensive on the western | Distinguished Service Cross for con-| like baseballs into these shelte they examined | shaving soap were found in’ gre . s bg thelr pockets, They found the ma-| quantitie = from Berlin to-day. front, and they declare it is obvious pian heroism in action, Two bebe | An offi told the correspondent TR jority i°, f em had hand gren arr oe OF , . ». | dead. eric pnt forward pver them, When aie ‘ . ° ‘Telegraphing from thie point the! the Entente Allied commanders like- | dea 7 |that the Americans went 252 GERMAN PLANES byes vice vise > | Pharmac ee 2 8 leanaten, wale pulled from the hi f RT.—WILLIAM RUPPERT, Malver sent the following message to| Wise were surprised, _Pharmacist Fred Schaffner, | smilingly, but that, at the same time y eee NBT ior ; aasert- that exhausted 8. N., during an engagement on ed the Rael Thirty ate adninca in One Dugout | Pockets of LF iE! he Serv the west side of the St. Mihiel salient, | their faces refl Leel| | drawled: reat ball game this} DOWNED IN ONE WEEK | CHURCH, Brondway, 66th st., s recently were as-| attended to the removal of more than| American grit and determination. for Firing After Shouting | morning, doe.’ | Gay Mb Pee Champagne positions | 100 casualties, following a gas shell| several officers, describing the scene, iamerad? | | The criti: English divi signed to* th a4he Kalserin: “Wilhelm (the Crown Prince) at-) etacked the English and French along ———————————— obviously to permit them to have} bombardment April 13. The citation | “4 that the outstanding feature in | IGTON. May 29.--Allied air nent a says he disregarded his own pre. | @raed th diac GERMAN GAS. ATTAGK | WASHINGTON, May je RELIGIOUS NOTICES. s4pe Chemin-des-Dames, completely #ur-| needed rest, and the commentators|monitory xyinplome, “inviating that | their minds was the wonderful morale | WITH THE AMERICANS IN PI- AL PHEAUENE: MEME Bad. doatroved SS NOES aig Brine them, We have crossed the) are jubilant over the assumption| he was all right, when the contrary! of the men and r absolute confi- | CARDY, May 29 (United Press).—! | German airplanes during the w 3 An hie st and are approaching the Vesle. | that the reserves of Gen, Foch are | Was evident, ig nen to be relieved | dence in themselves, ‘The Germans |Back at headquarters when the troops | BROKEN UP IN LORRAINE tween May 16 and May War M 8, a rite (Prince Hite ‘eladesich), with far away. The German newspapers | 48! Bice a Ane OF & result of ea machine gun bullets all around| started for Cantigny oftieers waited reports received by the British n military | a1 Q0 A: 3 ae ean . d Gs PC Rees vanced the Alda ® « statements of British} sy tal Apprentice Carl O. Kings-| the Americans as they were digging | anxiously for news of the Mrelude only the weatern front qhatit' st Rventae Prove nd Kreneh | prixoners admitting | pury, U.S. N., did the samo but lived. | in, put no attention was paid to them ter forty-five minutes of flerce ‘fght- thelr surprise was complete, Cor RioL’ Seatbelt. Winehenbeugh 2 os were handed back yoice came over the fleld tel- under fire near the en- | 08 Jokes ang aulpx were handed back |ing | Patrol Which Pressed F mb eh NEW GUNS, INS, BIGGER ER SHELLS NO AIR RAIDS ON CITIES | oun Ue aa Hood Lieut beds eee the American acialar hol eeu "This is Cantigny.” | Quickly Driven Back in Sundval took part in the successful attack also| And headquarters knew the Ameri- | Two-Hour Combat. Private Charles Schmitz of the in- Bar| os k » of tho most im- : cipated the repulse of the Ger-|cans had taken one of the most im- | | 3 fant “advanced single hand participated in . THE aRIC 2 : IN PARIS BOMBARDMENT | | against five Germans who had need man raid against the American lines| portant towns on the Amiens front) WITH THE AMBRICAN ARMY | 3 paeeeenemeaaes {cover In a shell hole and killed or) Monday and had won their biggest victory of | TN LORRAINE, May 28 (United t ‘t I R Ww British Government Consents on) wounded ali of them with bis autos) One participant in Mon ‘the war to date | Press),—The terrifle German gas at- on alibre of Long Range Weapons] 4, " he report came from & tack which began at 1 o'clock yes- : ° f umane Gi s to Suspend | Frank Alckno attacked |!® sald to have ben found to-day in @ ar t orning was broken up by Im Off n 2 Now 24 Instead of 21, but Force | joy. 1 I | h Germans and, although mor-|shellhole in No Man's Land with two! Corps nptatn Wire « tlh ie ay + a ene ead aa : pressive erings Jo >| ee ee {tally wounded, continued in action! wounded Germans as his prisoners. He | ing the German counter barris sea Seah ih sp adecullaa dated A of Explosion No Greater ae ie until the enemy wae driven off, F prisoners He ee ed American infantry and French | batches of gas had been thrown into and Specials for PARIS, May The long-range bom ee ’-\ then carried a message for assist. | ** naan Hg mae me 4 ayaa tanks in the attack, When Cantigny|Ur positions, Guns be pounding | ria berdment of Paris began again early Is, that so far ae w|' guard over them until the attack thia|fell the field telephone station wae|the projector layout as soon as th emo ay fthia morning ere shall be no a first flock of “tin cans” was sent over, | : . norning liberated him and secured the | ready for business. | In ei ent. over, COs aL “ WITHORAW DANISH SHIPS, erate im a eee |e oer ot ea ae Wea ee | pieces, Combination Packages, Gift Packages, > 227, Patriotic Sweets, Novelties and M hobs Packages in Excellent Variety. snination of (he shells discharged by the ndicates that new %, being used, Larger shells . ap Satine Naito aad IS GERMAN ULTIMATUM. Lieut. Irving W. Wood of Oakland, }of more than a mile, Within forty. | Pine : tea mune ar e f Corpus Christh e minutes after the jnfantry had! During the attack yermans de- arcane Cresta ses Ma Joie, Sects, Care terns wid haat one Arron vent ye ate tag epee a prt of nity mon sunan Ack Our Salespeople Sunches) inatead of 21. The power charge | cently made by the Archbishop S.] WASHINGTON, May 3 It was more exciting than a footbail|weveral hundred yards of German] the American outpostn in the say Special for To-Day, Wednesday ja greater and the detonation louder, | oxne, Cardinal von Hartmar si in| hea domanded—in a virtua! ultimatumn-| seme" ne added. “We have pot the| second line trenches were American |Utst © meee Ue Mie te the Gor-| OLATE AND VANILEA BUTTERSCOTCH LUMPS these aworts, have fbut the force of the explosion does not | view of the s« » dan Gand 1Aas|ihat Denmark withdeaw immeadiat Boches on the run, All we 4 is|tergitory, The regiment sent back] nae 4 Maes evans centre the ri tate cots fl 7 n Inckets of toathnome pacer to have Increased, A shell ex-| by Brivis a in that pity there . “| nore Americans and then we shell|182 prisoners, including five ofMfcers,) Mana with a sti rifle and grenade} AS wal’ rae Fpiodea yesterday only a dozen yards | #i0uld be 1 ng there during thy| {om Allied trade the 400, me Ot ek them: ‘The American gunners neutralized| 7. In 4 two-hour fight the Boches| re } SPAY 19¢ gfrom @ man seated on @ bench, and did time of the Corpus Christt procession ie ish bottoms offered in exchange for] ‘The demeanor of the men wounded | the enemy artillery fire for about five| failed to penetrate the American eeesaiere bin, BELMONT. PARI needed proguote from Great Britain and) |" 1h.” action was found similarly! hours. An hour before the attack | Wires and finally retired, Chale loagen | Extra Special for Wednesday, May 29th | RR CWINNERG, [the Vultee Aiea cheerful when the correspondent] started tremendous explosions were) *Y'" considers ; | ERICAN FIL SECTIONS-A novelty, callection of lustrously tine bid few men were a hospital under sweets, having an o fillings of elther FIRST RACE—Two-year-olda; claim: | ©” ing Denmark leaked out to-day Visited the feld hospitals this aftar-| observed near Cantigny ire e of American | Selous pure frujt jelly hed Nuts An Ing: purse $0). five furlongs, straight | With the arvival here of a Danish ships, noon, He saw stretched out on their] A great number of American sol-| AE Ganesha | oe WED ES b to'h, frat: Fmeor Ma Uiabitcecay, Ws | Ris tH headed by Dr. J ts a number of these Americans,|diers rode into battle dn the rear eng | Ourses. They were moatly boys who! he pyd tod 8 ‘cond; Luttie cote, 12 | Newotat e now under way be-/¢of the most part only slightly|of the tanks, for all the world hike! 284 taken off their gas maske during ‘ramet? 8 to & even, 1 to 2, third, | tween Denmark and this country aud) wounded, who acted like schoolboys! kids back home “hopping a ride.” | the German patrol attack, tp order Taw cHocor ATE A | Ledy Davie, "Marmon, “Mayworth, | oor to rect ce aoe ment? 8") retumed from @ great day of sport! After crossing the enemy trenches | to ste better how to direct their rifle) 1] COVERED MASAO oenoee het, Muwiater, and mine ane smoking cigaret eagerly relating| it was a game of hunting the Boc he | and brenade fire at the Boches. Hy mina. Lindlaua Ohare SECOND RACE —8 ceviechase: sel)-| — -Vemr-Old SHIP In Service heir personal experiences and laugh-| machine guns. A Corporal attacked| They had been brought to the hos- ries, laden with sweet Jing: four-veu Upward; $600 ORTON, May 20.—'The te loudly at the humorous incidents.,}an enemy machine gun crew of} Pita! in American ambulances in re- juices, ure first plunged H | saahie ‘nia NAUnshad Kane ieut. George FB. Butler, tormerly| four men, The Corporal was wound- | markably quick time, Despite sheir Cream, ag Portamouth, Noi, twstan India who was|ed five times, but ied three | suff they were enthusiastic at vere’ with ! i H lared 1 and seaw 8 wounded in suid that! Boches and capty surth. He t of soon getting another ‘ “ e " e vas like a man-| carried off the machine gun c s the Germans Storest New York, xty-F c the | Alaskan service iraining camp back | shou Wer until hie w ed him ‘On be back with the boys i Brookivn, Newark bf Day atso TT « famous Lippe w ' Cape for t > s Gown ‘j Gays said one hen The specified welaht Includes Crack a Day teil, Boston in bbe oastwi Oe add, Bod some of thom remained ‘gas Boukss Bid ke ths sia, IQ Wal cb ms wet them," ’

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