The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1918, Page 2

ee _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, _ AMERICANS GO INTO BATTLE WEARING POPPIES IN HELMETS AND DRIVE BACK THE GERMANS “We Will Do Anythi Declare—vU. S. Mari tacks—Infantry WITH THE FRENCH ARMY, June | forces in Veullly Wood and started across in mass formation, They were 6 (Associated Pross)i, — When the American troops were entering the line at Veullly-La-Poterie, where they | chine gunners, their formations were fought euch a gallant battle, they dec- orated their steel helmets with poppies | ng France Asks,” They nes Repulse Two At- Wins Near Toul. | mowed down by the American ma- | broken and they in conclust before were n the reaching fromfi the fields, according to details of | American line the fight given by the French soldiers. An American officer told his French comrades that his battalion would not yield an inch of ground, and it aid ‘not. “We will do soldters going into battle. Almost arrived at their position called upon to receive the shock o: they were ¢|yesterday morning they charged and | captured yesterday afternoon they killed mony of the enemy and took prisoners, The Germans concentrated large forces before Veullly Wood and be- gan amass attack, They were mowed down by the American machine gun- ners and the attack was broken up before reaching the American line, |the Germans fleeing in confusion, The marines are fighting like 'Tro- Jans and have no desire for sles a German assault and, acording to the French, displayed magnificent | malities of tenacity and bravery. ‘The American machine gunnere Caused enormous losses in the ranks! of the enemy and by their well-sus- tained fire greatly aided in defeating | the attack. When the French coun- ter-attacked the enemy the Ameri- Cans again assisted until what re- mained of the German column re- treated in disorder. There is little left of Chateau- ‘Thierry. It has been shot to pieces, and now is only a pile of bricks and atones. The Germans concentrated large anything France wants,” was the declaration of the soon as the Americans AMERICAN MARINES BEAT OFF TWO GERMAN ATTACKS, H THE AMERICAN ARMY IN EB, June 6 (Associated Pross,) American marines wrote another glorious page in their history Tuesdoy night and Wednesday in beating off two determined German attacks on the Marne battlefield, Tuesday aight | enemy Tuesday night they almost a: nihilated an enemy patrol yesterday morning. They outfought the German machine gun pouition yesterday aftor- noon, killed seven Germans and cap- tured a wounded German, ornate alc Sa AMERICAN TROOPS BEAT BACK NINE WAVES OF ‘IN CHATEAU GERMAN TROOPS - THIERRY BATTLE “Had Front of Our Lin es,’ Magazine Gunners Say, After Outshooting Enemy and Holding Them on the Marne. WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE MARNE, June 6 (United Press).—Fighting with machine guns ———— National Endorse * Halls Beddi Standard of Qualit: If you shop the country over for Mat- Springs or Beds you will find that ‘s” give the best satisfaction. It ‘pays to get good beddi iste longer, is more comfortable and pe. difference in price is s mominal com- with the value. Ask reliable or call at our uptown store. FRANK A. HALL & SONS 25 We . “sth St. mounted dn the windows of Chateau- Thierry, Americans the croas- ing of the Marne. They outshot and outgamed the enemy. “We had the time of our live said some of the men in this batt! who had come back for rest. “We had heard that trench warfare was dull and uninteresting—but this is the life!" Many of the Americans were green at the business, but they shared with the veteran United States marines the glory of stopping Germany’s ad- vance at the Marne. After two days of constant travel the Amert- can reserves arrived at the greatest battle in history, riding in Fords, Within two hours they were in the thick of it. Their guns were dumped from the Ford wagons and hastily mounted in the streets and in the houses of Chateau-Thierry. Then fo three days they held the bridge and | prevented the Germans from getting | pontoons across Despite our withering fire, emy came on repeatedly other side of the stream. Our ma- chine guns were going constantly, Officers aided in picking off the Ger. mans with thelr revolvers. Then tho enemy - mounted machine guns in the windows on their side of the river, right opposite the Americans, and opened fire. One group of Americans had guns the en- from tho a) + FOOD -and coe hie this Lion Milk BRAND EVAPORATED or CONDENSED makes the dandiest Rice Puddin’ you ever tasted put to Might | they wiped out a large enemy patrol; | enemy machine guns, and | After inflicting heavy losses on. the | TRAINLOAD OF BIG GUNS AT THE BETHLEHEM PLANT 1918, . S. MARINES DRI VE BACK GERMANS IN TWO MARNE ATTACKS: = SHIPMENT Slaven ave witnewar, in an old mill directly over the water and the Boches were just across, For two days they fought, trying to di lodge each other. German bullets whiszed into the windows and plumped into the walla of the room, but the Yanks’ shooting finally won, inflicting heavy casualties and silenc- | ing the German guns. Our guns in this mill also com- manded a wheatfield at the edge of the town, through which the enemy repeatedly attempted to advance. At times as many as nine waves of skirmish HMnes were visible In this field. As the American machine guns opened fire every German would duck out of sight in the wheat, then slow- ly, line by line, their heads would ap- pear, then their shoulders, they tried to resume the advance and the bullets again whipped amidst them, reducing their numbers. They en- deavored repeatedly to reach the river by this means and each time they were driven back. The hottest kind of fire was poured in on the Americans, The enemy held Hill 204, overlooking our. pos'- tions, and made the most of the situ- ation, but the Americans stuck Those guarding the bridge main- its approaches and prevented the Germans from crossing until it had been blown up, then they poured in « stronger fire, preventing enemy en- gincers from throwing across their pontoons. The machine gunners, fighters and officers laughingly told of their ad- ventures. ‘The majority of them w: apparently recruited from the region of Pittaburgh, and included every- |thing from a clerk to a mill hand, but now they're the fightingest fight: ors on the. Marne, The greatest number of American troops ever placed in one sector is now around Chateau-Thierry, Included is a regiment which dates its history back to revolutionary times. They are stoutly holding their part of the ine. Constant dust clouds over the roads and valleys show the movements of men, wagons, guns, artillery and cav- alry’and American infantrymen, all mixed in great masses, with bicyclists pedaling along among them palatal Six Killed and Injared in Air Rald on | { ‘Trevis | AMSTDRDAM, June 6.-~Allied alr |ralds on Trevis last Saturday killed | two persons and injured four, according | to a despatch received from Coblenz to- day Most of the bombs fell in the fields. “AMERICAN PATROL | WITH DOUBL tained a sweeping hail of bullets at | ‘been killed, ARTILLERY BATTLES ON ITALIAN FRONTS ROME, June 6.—'"The artillery strug- gle was liveller at intervals aside the 78 IN ON LINER; PASSED DANGER plaid Lifeboat Drills Kept Up and Whale Taken for U Boat Caused Alarm, AT AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 6. —An American passenger steamer Brenta and on portions of the Piave f the War Office announced to- “Elsewhere the fighting activity was patrol actions." ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Wednesday, June 5 (Associated Press).— The Italian Army if improving both in morale and material, according to Major Gen, Eben Swift, head of the American Military Mission to Italy. ‘1 have been studying the Italian soldier for about three months.” he said, “and have found many things to admire, As far as the American Army is concerned. It is quite certain that we need not fear comparison with the Allles as soon as we have profited from their @mperience. It ts to be remem- bered that the war had been going on from one and one-half to two years before our Allies began to show results.” SENATE ACTS 10 CURB WASHINGTON, June 6.—The Senate to-day opened the drive on war profi- teers, It unanimously passed the Borah resolution calling on Secretary McAdoo to furnish all avatiable information on profiteering, together with a list of all concerns making more than 15 per cent. profit The resolution callg for the informa- tion which President™Wilson told Con- xress in his revenue speech is in the Government's hands. It ts to form the basis for a concerted wealth conscrip- tion movement, which may go so far as to take every iny of war profits GERMAN WOMAN TELLS OF 25 RELATIVES KILLED BERNE, June 6.—A German woman now in Berne told the Associated Press correspondent to-day: “Twenty-five of my relatives have five are invalids and only two are left unharmed aut of 32 en- ed in the war, My husband was Kifea on the German front near Arras, My uncle sent seven sons into the war and six of them were killed within two onths. The losses of the Germans since the March offensive began have been terri- Be, she aged, NBATILE C ITS OWN NUMBER (Continued From First Page.) | for the purpose of crossing the bridge prior to its destruction. Here agaln the courage of the Americans was beyond all praise. | ‘The Colonials themselves, though accustomed to acts of bravery, were struck by the wonderful morale in the face of fire, the coolness and \the extraordinary steadiness of Americans never fai their d thet, and with their machine guns. playing upon allies. The watchfulness of the |the approaches of the destroyed bridges and foot bridges they prevented any reattack by the enemy. the French troops, at the They will be relieved at the same time as side of whom they fought “"The French command, knowing their just pride, fear that they would have humiliated these valiant sooner than their French companions in, the fight. troops if they had offered them rest The episode of the THE WAR PROFITEERS from Central American and West In- dian points arrived here this morning with seyenty-elght men, women and foonfined to harrassing bombardment and| children, worn out by days and nights of unnerving vigil occasioned by U boat activity, Leaving the last Southern port June 1, the liner was at sea when the first wireless messages of warning were picked up. The ship's officers were warned to maintain strict order, lifeboat drill instantly began, notices wore posted that lights of every kind should not be displayed on deck. But all information to the reason f © such action was kept from the pas- sengers. ‘The speed of the craft was increased until she was making under a full head of steam about twenty miles an | hour. Capt. Livingston repeatedly as- | sured the passengers that there was no danger for alarm when the ship began its zigzagging. But when a short dis- tance out from the home port a low, black object was seen to be ploughing its way through the water and com- menced to circle the ship the tension grew to a high pitch. H. K. Farquhar- son, wealthy planter from Kingston, Jamaica, described the last two days of the nerve racking journey. He sal When that black object was sighted about a mile away lifeboats were swung out and passengers as- signed to their station; life belts were adjusted and we all thought it was a U boat. Our course became irregu- lar and we forged ahead at full speed, “Finally the object came to the sur- face and proved to be a whale. That night every one remained on deck, quartered near tho boats. Very few slept. Yesterday morning about 4 o'clock, 100 miles off shore, a bright yellowish-red flash was seen not far away on the horizon, It appeared like the flash of a gun. “Immediately our course was al- tered and we put out to sea, Th's flash was answered by another flash of five bright lights closer inshore. There was no wireless disturbance, and the entire ship was at a loss to know the cause, We then came about and arrived in port GIVES BLOOD TO BROTHER $0 HE GAN FIGHT FOR U. S, Bronx Soldier, Depressed Because He Was Left Behind, Regains Strength After Transfusion. George Wagner lives at No, 403 East Jbiet Street, in the Bronx, but even while he remains here his blood may be spilled on a battlefield in France. ‘there are three tn the family there now, George, his widowed mother and hie younger sister, Adelaide, The fourth, Who 1s absent, 1s Corpl, Peter Wagner, 105th Infantry, While the Corporal is in the army, George, as @ letter car- rier, supports the family. On May 29 « telegram came from the War Department saying that Corpl, Wagner wes gravely ill in hospital at Newport News, Va, and that nothing but blood transfusion could save his life ZONE IN TERROR a military | BAKER ASKS FOR $16,000,000 FOR DEFENSES IN RAIDS (Continued from First Page.) May 25 have found no new victim since they sank the Norwegian 1,570- ton steamer Eidsvold, inbound, at 5 P.M. on Tuesday, This attack oc- curred but forty miles off the Vir- inla Capes. The arrival at this port to-day of several steamships from Southern waters, two of which were passenger liners whose course led them through the submarine infested waters be- tween Sandy Hook and the Virginia Capes, gave point to the belief that, temporarily at least, the two German undersea boats have been “lying low” for the past forty hours, Each of the incoming boats bore testimony to the fact that the most vigilant hunt for the sea prowlers was on. Destroyers, submarine chas- ers and air scouts were in above and f™ the sea, and fow merchant craft had ventured out of harbors. On the passenger ships the same precautions as those obtaining on trans-Atlantic vessels were maintain- ed, Passengers were advised not to disrobe at night, all lights were doused and lifeboate were carried outswung on the davits and amply provisioned with food and water butts. | FIFTEEN SHIPS OFFICIAL TOLL OF THE U BOATS. The toll of the German submarines in ships attacked now stands ofM- clally at fifteen, with two schooners— the Samuel W. Hathaway and the Dessaus—reported lost, but not yet credited by the Navy Department to the score of the Germans. Of the ships designed for the bottom of the sea by the German commanders the tanker Herbert L. Pratt and the schooner Edna, have been salvaged and are being refitted for service in Delaware River shipyards. At the office of the New York and Porto Rico Line it was announced to-day that a mistake was made in listing the two children, Maria and Eduardo Beltran, among the ton passengers of the Carolina still unaccounted for. They were over- looked in the count of the survivors brought in en the schooner Eva B. Douglas early yesterday, This re- duces the passengers unaccounted for to eight, The steamship company says five or six of the crew still have to be heard from, This raises the total of those who may have lost their lives after the Carolina was torpedoed to thirteen or fourteen, The belief that the present U boat danger ls by no megns abated was reflected to-day in the rise of marine insurance rates. Tho underwriters raised the rate to Cuba from 1 to 11-2 per cent., and in some instances to 2 per cent, Before the advent’of the submarines the rate was one-tenth of one per cent. FURTHER DARKENING OF CITY 18 EXPECTED. As the result of a long reconnal: sance made over New York snd its environs in a big Caproni biplane last night by army dbservers, further darkening of the city’s lights probably will be ordered, Allan A. Ryan, Spe- cial Deputy Police Commissioner, in charge of the Division of National Defense, is expected to return to-day from Washington, where he has been in conference with Secretary of War Baker on the subject of the protection ment from the air. Coney Island resort proprietors arc bemoaning the shutting qff of t lights at the great city playground, saying their business ts ruined. It Is reported that Atlantic City and other coast resorts are contemplating fol- lowing New York's lead in dousing night glare of New York from possible bombard- j | Following the closing to-day of the FRENCH HEADQUARTERS than appeared from first reports. alon GERMANS: THREW 22 LADDER FOOTBRIDGES ACRO.S MARNE; - ONE BATTALION GOT OVER Ottawa),—The recent attempt of the Germans to cross the Marne.at, Jauilgonne (which American troops helped to repulse),:was more s21 ON THE MARNE, June 6 (via ious The enemy threw twenty-two ladder foot bridges across the river, .7** Four were destroyed by gunfire, but a Prussian battalion crossed on the remainder, two men abreast, and advanced immediately on the railway, installing 4 machine gun detachment at the station, The remainder spread g the line behind the sheltering embankment. | The defense decided to throw the enemy back across the river at the enemy, who incontinently fled, battalion were killed or captured. port of Lewes, Del, came a crop of spy stories, the gist of which was that the German subs had been in com- munication with the shore there- abouts and had directed their move- ments on these advices. Capt. R. RK, Couldman and the cr, of the schooner Edward R. Bal Jacksonville to New York, sunk by & German submarine eighteen miles off Cape Charles Tuesday morning, were landed at an Atlantic port to-day. Capt. Couldman described the hold- up thus: “We were proceeding about 100 miles off Hog Jsland in a smooth sea Tuesday morning when the man at the wheel sighted an object off our starboard quarter, which he took to be a submarine chaser, “As soon as I saw the object I knew it was a submarine, Almost immediately it sent a shot crashing through our foresail and signalled for us to heave to. I brought the schooner up and the submarine mov- ing closer to us, broke out the Ger- man flag and two officers and four members of the crew, the officers only being armed, boarded us. “One of the officers, a man about forty-five years old, speaking perfect English, demanded tho ship's manifest and papers and announced that we would be given fifteen minutes to take to the schooner’s one ‘boat. One of the officers accompanied me to the cain, where I turned over the ship's Papers to him. “As soon as we cleared the schooner the Germans placed bombs, to which time fuses were attached, at the ends of ropes and swung them over the sides of the vessel. The Germans then left the ship and as we pulled away a terrific explosion took place and I noticed two gaping holes in the side of my ship. Being loaded with lumber, however, the schooner did not sink and {s probably drifting about.” GROWN PRINCE CAPTURED? The rumor was spread all over New York and in many other parts of the country to-day, including Washington, that “The Crown Prince and from 40,000 to 80,000 of his army have been cap- tured." Some reports went so far as to say that the Crown Prince's whole army had become prisoners of the Americans. So persistent were the reports and so eredulously were they received in many Quarters that the War Department is- sued a formal statement that “the story {9 unfortunately untrue as far as in- formaion here goes. cn hale? SS BELMONT PARK WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Three-year-olds and upward; claiming; purse, $600; six fur- $3; straight.—Galden’ Glow, 110 (J. Williams), 8 to 1, 2 to 1, 8 to 5, first; Onico, 98° (J. Rodriguez), 3 to i, 6 to 6, 3 to 5, second; Kirsties Cub, 107 (J. Callahan), 10 to i, 4 to 1, 2 tol, third. Time, 1.12 1-5. "Blazeaway, Noynim, Sorcerer 24, Col. Valentine, Paganini, Lazy Lou, Poor Buterfly, Miss Kruter, Midnight ‘Gun, B. Mose, Virst ‘Troop, ‘Grey Eagle, Wood Violet, June Bug Ruthie M., and Langden also ran. SECOND RACE—The Black Stamp Steeplechase Handicap; selling; four- ear-olds and up; $700 added; about wo miles.—Stonewood, 140 (D, Byers), 6 to 5, 2 to 5 and out, firs pdiobert Oliver, 140 (W, Allen), 6 to 5 5 and out, second; Northwood, 130 (a, Pal- mer), 8 to 1, 2 to 1 and out, third, Time 4.16. Gold Bond (lost rider) also ran. “UNFORTUNATELY UNTRUE” | alt costs, and this was carried out on Sunday night by dismounted dragoons supported by machine gunners, The latter engaged in a due} with the Germans at the station, enabling the French to work behind headed by their officers, some of whom plunged into the river and swam across, The remainder of the “BOMB” IN HIS VALISE ONLY BREAD AND TURNIPS Man Threatening to Blow Up Detecs tive O'Farrell in His Office Sent to Bellevue, A man with a black valiee entered the Val O'Farrell Detective Agency, N. 42 Broadway, this morning and ask to see O'Farrell. ‘The latter, suspect: something, tried camouflary, “Mr. O'Farrell {s out." said O'Farrell, “I'm the manager. 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