The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1918, Page 1

*(If It Happens In It’s In The Evening World’’ @ New York Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.” “Cire Copyright, bby The Press Cat Urwe New York Werld). Publishing NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1918. ulation Books Open to All. 2 20 reall bed British Vessel sel Under Fire of German Submarine Off ' Virginia Capes. S.O.S. CALLS PICKED UP. | Liner With 100 Passengers Puts Out Lights and Forbids Smoking on Deck. * ) CWABHINGTON, June 14—The + Mavy Department was advised to-dey that the British steamer Keemun had arrived safe at an ‘Adlantic port. AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 14— Phe British steamer Keemun was at- tacked by a German submarine off the Virginia coast at 9 o'clock last might. A stenmer arriving here from a Buropean port to-day reported having Picked up the Keemun’s wireless calls for help. They were heard off Nan- tucket, but the Keemun's operator gave his ship's position as off Virv ginia Ships ready to eal from here last night and to-day were turned back ‘on reports that the submarine was operating tighteen miles off the Vir- Capes. i Keenmm has been in the Brit- fh governmental service for some time, aocording to the A. Holt Com- pany, which formerly manager her. ‘The first S. O. S. was heard at 7 P, %M., according to word brought here. ‘It aid: “Ghelled by submarine.” Two thours later, at 9 o'clock, there camo a econd message: “We aro sinking.” "The tact that two hours clapsed be- feween the first call and the signal “winking” made port authorities be- Deve there had been a running fight (between the Keemun and tho raider. The American ship picked up the wireless calls when 160 miles east of Wmington, Del, and her 100 pas- wengers were ordered to put on their Wife belts and prepare for any emer- eancy. There was no excitement aboard the trip, but full speed was made and a migzag course was pursued, All lights ‘were forbidden and no smoking was glowed on deck. Aa es EX-GUNNER OF U.S, NAVY COMMANDER OF U 151 Wineteen Survivors, Prisoners on Submarine Eight Days, Reveal Raid Details. The commander of the German submarine U 151 of the two enemy raiders that fave been oper- ons (Uenunued on second Page) 4 v SHIP ESCAPES _ AFTER ATTACK OFF COAST; OTHERS TURN BACK T0 PORT WHICH SANK 15 SHIPS} « U BOAT SPEEDY SETTLEMENT | OF SUBWAY STRIKE WOW IS PREDICTED, Board of Estimate and PRS. G “Get Together,” Looking Toward Adjustment of Ditficulties. After a protracted meeting this morning the Board of Estimate and the Public Service Commission agreed to “get together" to-morrow for @ @iscussion of the strike in the new subways. It ls confidently predicted by thone who have followed the course of events leading up to the strike that Mile Indien tag a gpeedy_settiement ct the strike through mgreement be- tween the Board of Estimate and the Public Service Commission upon re- lef for the contractors. | Aldermante President Alfred E. Smith, backed by Borough President Dowling of Manhattan, solved the problem with @ resolution calling the conference at 9.30 to-morrow morning after Mayor Hylan, Comptroller Craig and Chicf Counsel Ransom had fruit- lesaly debated the subway strike for two hours, “If no adtion looking towerd qn in- crease in the subway workers’ pay had been taken to-day,” said Matthew A. McConville, representing the sirikers, “every man would have Deen released to-night from the obligation not to sect, outside jobs. Mayor Hylan sséd he was opposed to the cancellation of any subway con- tract unless it could be shown that the cancellation was justifiable ——> LIEUT. PAT O'BRIEN FALLS 2,000 FEET AND LIVES Flyer for British Worried Only About Trousers After Plunge at Texas Field. GAN ANTONTO, Tex, Jume 4— Lie@t. Pet O'Brien, Royal British Flying Corps, who is in the United States after having escaped from a German war prison, fell nearly 2,000 feet in an atr- plane pore W-day, bub was anly elightly injured. O'Brien was alone in the airplane over Kelly Field when it fell. He was consefous when ald reached him, and his chief concern was over his new trousers, which he feared had been ruined. He was taken to the emergency hospital. Cuts and brulses about the face and body were his chief injuries, ‘EXPLOSION KILLS 300 IN SKODA GUN. WORKS; 700 OTHERS INJURED Blow-Up in Plant Near Pilsen Heard 150 Miles Away, Paris Informed. AMIS, June 14.—An explosion da gun works, May 25, ) persons and g to informa Journal to heard rh explosion wa aw a IR ACING ESULTS, Page 2 ENTRIES, Page 12 t" Cnneronccosaneonanrocanconoatt 150 mite ating off our coast since the last | week in May—is Capt. Neus one | time gunner's mate in the United States Navy. On June 2 he had heen seven weeks away from his buse at Kiel and hel fuel and oil for throo weeks more By that time ad Ysteamers and being Arericun tack coast wise ' Atlantic coast of America cam him by wireless m K had put to sea April 14 This information aod much more ht WILSON PROMISES POINCARE TO SEND MEN AND MATERIALS UNTIL VICTORY 1S ACHIEVED |Only by Winning Can Peace Be Obtained, He Says in His Answer to French President's Message. ASHINGTON, June 14.—The American people will send men | and materials “in steady and increasing volume until the | forces of freedom have been made overwhelming and victory | achieved.” ‘This was Prestdent Wilson's assurance today to President Poincare of France, in response to the latter’s message of yesterday on the first anniversary of American troops reaching France. Tt is “only by victory that peace can be achieved,” declared. The President's cablegram, mada public by the State Department, said: “Your telegram of yesterday wae certainly conceived in the highest and most senerous spirit of friendship, and I am sure that I am ex- Pressing the feeling of the people of the United States, as well as my own, when I say that it is with increasing pride and gratification that they have seen their forces under Gen. Pershing more and more ac- tively co-operating with the forces of liberation an French soil. President Wilgon tm steady and increasing volume until any temporary inequality of force is entirely overcome and the forces of freedom made overwhelming, for ‘they are convinced that it is only by victory that peace can be achieved and the world’s affairs settled upon a basis of enduring justice and right. “Tt 1s 9 constant satisfaction to them to know that in this great enterprise they are in close and inttmate co-operation with the people of WILSON DEMANDS LIBERTY MOTORS CAPITAL AND LABOR’ AND B.INCH CUINS SHIPPED TO FRANCE OBEY WAR BOARD ia Message to Telegraph Com- panies Declares Co-Opera- | and Equipped and Two Others Are Being Formed. tion Vital to War. WASHINGTON, June 14.—Two WASHINGTON, June 14--Evidence °“AMERICAN TROOPS BOMBED AND GASSED BATTLE OF BIG GUNS GOES ON IN REGION ABOUT THIERRY ATTACK ON AMERICANS RENEWED | WITH BIG GUN AND GAS SHELLS; SOME CASUALTIES REPORTED that President Wilson intends to see that the recommendations of the Na- tional War Labor Board are followed to the letter was seen to-day im the text of his heads of the two great telegraph companics asking that they accept the Board's findings in thair contro- versy with their employeos. The fact that the Prestdent had personally taken up the case be- came known last night with the an~ nouncement of Clarence H. Mackay, President of the Postal Telegraph communication to the complete American divisions, nearly 60,000 men, fully equipped with American made arms and ammunt- tion, are now in the fighting zone in France, members of the House Mil! tary Committee were told by War Department officials to-day. Two other complete divisions will be made up soon, ‘These troops are tn addilicn to those fighting with the French. The divisions are commanded by Company, that bis company would walve its right to discharge men who havo joined a unton and the statement that Newcomb Carlton, President of Gen. Bundy and Gen. Bullard and a complete escadrile of American air men ts attached to cach division. The committee was als . : supplied the Wamere. ¢ inion, would send Bisiwith the iatest data roduction answer Monday. and ebipment of ordnance lane: ‘The War Labor Board's dectston in |0n4 oan prtnance, aires be S100 Tak SE Ta should | he frat shipment of 24 American be permitted to je rec made eight inch b enough ¢ President's lettor to the tele- ere The President's letter to Te- bunny equip a full r t of heavy graph heads, made public to-day, reads: ‘My attention has been called to the fact that the National War Labor Board, after a careful consideration of the questions at issue between the telegraph companies and thelr em- ployees, have arrived at a dectaton, the artillery has bean made and will soon be followed by others. Two hundred Liberty engines hav been delivered to the Allies, and 2,000 engines to our own army and navy. This ts the high water mark gine production. Two hundred Hi essentiat points of which are em. | Paee-Sulza engines for the fust feht prea a? tere dellowlna ing planes have been produced and ML, ‘The omployees have a right to | tte War Department om say thi join a union if they so desire, and| Sb cylinder en is now com Liga urged for joining the union | !Bt@ quantity production i vsinatated Two hundred Hayiland bombing ompany should not be re. Planes have been turned out thus fa | eal with the union or to| The Hanley the other tyne of ; large bombing plane adopind by th | ttees of employees should | 4ePartment, is not yet in product | 4 in presenting griev- > | Germans Vail in Spy Canes tn | ances Switrertund, 4, Wh r GENEVA, June 14. Maude Ruth jers fail | English pchool iniatr anu ¢ eof of have boer ‘ Lat Board charges of espionar y ¢ 5 The Telerraphers' Union should | German residents are 06 n } - to force the arrest of British and Ameri: (onunwes on myould F ago - S82 Fealdcoty of Switactland as cnln ‘ ‘ of en-| First Quiet Night in Two Wecks on the Sector Northwest of Chateau-Thierry Followed by Bombardment To-Day. WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE MARNE, June 14 (noon). (United Press).— Following the first quiet night spent by the Amér- itans in the Torcy-Bouresches sector, northwest of Chateau-Thierry, EIGHT AMERICAN PLANES DROP 80 BOMBS NEAR METZ; TROOPS REPULSE ATTACKS Supply Sheds, Cantonments and Railways Dam- aged in First U. S. Raid on German Territory. [AMERICAN REPORT] WASHINGTON, June 14.—Gen. Pershing in his communique last night says: “Yesterday afternoon our troops northwest of Chateau-Thierry cap- tured the last of the German positions in the Belleau, taking fifty prisoners and a number of machine guns and trench mortars, in addition to those on the preceding day. “Early this morning the enemy launched ‘heavy attacks on a front of more than one and one-half miles on the line Belleau-Bouresches. The attacks, which were preceded by intense artillery preparation and ac- companied by a heavy barrage, broke down completely, leaving our posi- tions intact. The losses of the enemy were very severe. “Last night our aviators bombed with good effect the station of Dommary-Baroncourt, northwest of Metz All our machines have returned.”* U. S. PLANES BACK WITHOUT LOSS. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN LORRAINE, June 14 (United Press)—An American air squadron carried out the first all American bombing raid yesterday, destroying certain German military establish ments near Metz, Eight airplanes dropped ten bombs each on cantonments, suppty sheds and railways in the vicinity of Metz, Dommary and Darancourt, returning. in perfect formation without losing a single machine, [BRITISH CASUALTIES 3,17 NTHE LAST WEEK [LINER ASCANIA AGROUND; Killed Include 234 Officers and eis Reported Breaking Up 4,126 Men—28,825 Wour After Striking Otf New- or Missing. | foundland Coast | LONDON, June 14—British carvaltics | ST. JOHN'S, ALS rare pik reported in the week ending to-day peateenine, ma gel “ “ Rose totalled 24,171 officers and men TheY | tianche, off the southwest coast of | divided as follows | Ne | Officers killed or died of woun men, 4,216 foundiand, to Govern ated that sh y 1 re- tiew here au - There were nine re ab vara | Officers wounded or missing, 99: men. | 14 a1) were taken off safely with the BAD jerew. The Ascania in a ¥ saul a l gross tonnage There were 174 men t w. | ENGLISH “CHANNEL SAFER. | chee ges toon in the on U Hoats Carbed sin fend aud non t Feebragse Kt June 148 » the number in the We and the nn ‘ and Ostend He -_ WHEN VITARITY. ts ; am. Check room for bacuaae and parcais come 449 and vy tdrcause: lath. "Move erdam and Uerecm Seke te eae 3 din” ALL ON BOARD RESCUED | Paris Reports Practically a Compiéte Checking of Germans From Mont- didier to Thierry — Americans Celebrate Anniversary of Arrival in France With Victory. PARIS, June 14.—Practically a complete hold-up of German attacks on the entire front from Montdidier to Chateau-Thierry is indicated in to-day’s announcement by the French War Office. It has taken just five days to halt the drive which began on Sum for two weeks, the Germans began a heavy bombardment of our lines | day between Montdidier and Noyon, with Compiegne as its objec. with gas shells this morning. One American unit suffered several casual-| give, “It te their fixed and unalterable purpose to send men and materials In Daring these five days Foch has struck back three times— first at Mery, below Mostdidier; then in the centre above Com piegne, and finally on the right of that front, where the Germans were hurled back across the Matz River. Their withdrawal bélow the Oise merely straightened kinks in the line, while the Germans in their intense attacks between the Aisne and the Villers-Cotter- The War Office angouncement to-day says there wag artillery fight. ing last night between the Forest of Villers-Cottorets and Chateau-Thierry (which included the sector held by American troops). A German attack near Antheuil, west of the Oise, north or Compiegne, was completely broken up. There was a local action north of Grivesnes (four miles northwest of Montdidier), A French raid in the Courcelles region, five miles south- west of Montdidier, resulted in the capture of 30 prisoners At the Ferme des Loges the French progressed. American troops whose brilliant military qualities are mentioned daily in despatches from the front are given unstinted praise in the news- papers of Paris. They celebrated the anniversary of the arrival of the first American contingents in France by meeting a powerful German at- tack on a difficult sector and inflicting sanguinary losses upon the enemy. PARIS LOOKS ON DRIVE AS FAILURE. The position of the latest German effort after five days of fighting is described by a General who has just arrived from the front as tollowss “The German got a skinful” Military commentators here are unanimous in reporting ome more German failure, The enemy has won a strip of territory not without value but has sacrificed for it precious divisions without at any point attaining bis objective and without bringing him any nearer a decisive result, Such ts also the opinion af Henri Bidou and Col. de Thomasson, who would be the last pesson to hail a victory prematurely. Probably for the purpose of drawing Allied reserves to the right flank, the Germans started a big diversion with five divisions (2pproxk mately 70,000 men) in the vicinity of the Forest of /illers-Cotterets, ob tcining a foothold in Coeuvres, eight miles southwest of Soissons, a maxi- mum advance of a mile, but this in no way bettered their positions. The French resistance was so stubborn the Germans could not reach their | objectives. GERMAN ATTACK BROKEN UP ON THE COMPIEGNE FRONT mm | Prisoners Gestured oe by “Fresh in Raids From Their Positions Near Montdidier. [FRENCH REPORT] PARIS, June 14.—Following is the (ext of today’s War Office ' “During the night there were local actions along the front of the German attack, The French made many essful incursions into the enemy line north of Grivesnes and in the region of Courcelles, They took thisty prisoners, Near the Loge farm they also caplured prisonegm A ! & Sakon | ets Forest have gained nothing of importance. : ¢ rr ne cr wr ee