The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1918, Page 1

Le Fo ©6Bringing a thrilling story of her fis! . Troops in “If It Happens In It’s In The Evening World’’ New York PRICE “TWO CENTS. 1918, by The (The ‘New York Werld). Ee Press Publishing France Number More Than 800,000 1918. N RUNNING U leamer From Central America | Brought in by British Convoy. EARD DISTRESS CALLS. ron Bulwarks and Elevated Bow Disguise One U | Boat as Freighter. AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 15 swith @ German submarine off the Vir- winia coast, the British steamer Kee- mun docked here to-day. The Keemun, attacked last Thursday night, apparently is uncamaged. She Gocked at a plier a considerable dis- tance down tho harbor, She carried mo passengers. According to the story by the cap- tain of the vessel, the submarine at- tacked the Keemun at 6.30 o'clock Toursduy night off the Virginia Capes. With the first ehell from the sea Pirate the gun crew of the Keemun opened fire on the submarine, which fs apparently one of tho largest of von Tirpit’s undersea flect The range then was 7,000 yards, and “with shells from the five-inch gun of the U boat throwing up fountains of spray around the Keemun a running fight started which lasted until the Keemun fired her last shot at 11,000 yards, or about seven miles. The Keemun's guns were worked fapidly, returning shell for shell. Both weasels moved through the water at twelve knots, Just how many shots were exchanged could not be ac- ourately learned, but it is said the wattle was one of the hottest in these @aters between a merchantman and @ U boat. The Keemun made Quarantine early dm the morning and the naval officers obtained a long statement from he captain and forwarded it at once to Washington. Denying he had sent out any wire- fess call on Thursday evening that ho was sinking, Capt, Collister pro- feased ignorance as to how the mea- wage originated. He woul ot admit that ho believed the L the call, but the U-boat armed Americar the supposed sir The Keemun cre scribed the run than an hour wit said that th had no desire fers. ship was r Collistor, ship or was trying to marka even f American steamer a antic port trom Cent An an Atl fean por 11 Amer- | Zone to-d reports Thurs came from n at w shelled by subma arriv Jay tloualy tha Cuban btwo (Continues i ) REBUILDING. 4 HEALTH ' Fate: Jour @ reuows olicigth.—Adrt, UNNERS SAVED Thi: KEEMUN TWO MORE SHIPS ATTACKED BOAT BATTLE: U.§. ARMY ABROAD EXCEEDS 800,000; MILLION BY JULY 1 _|Shipment of Troops Limited Only by Capacity of Boats, March Announces, WASHINGTON, June 15—Ameri- can troops sent to France now num- ber more than 800,000, and the Gov- rnment expects to have 1,000,000) there by July 1, Gen. March, Chief of Staff, announced to-day, The number of troops now being transported, Gen. March said, is lim- ited only by the capacity of the ships available to carry them. nd we will continue to ship them| ” he added. Chief of Staff also dectured that all four offensive dr: by the Germans “have been stoppe: Gen. March's disclosures were made in his first weekly conference with newspap: rrespondents. Earlier in the day he told members of the Sen- ate Military Committee at their weekly conference with War Depart- ment officials that the situation of Allies more favorable than it has been for many months.” The committee also was told by March that American forc being put into the front lines in great er numbers every week and the mile age held by American units, inde- pendently of the French and British, gradually extended, ny American troops have been sent abroad, Gen, Mareh said, = this line, The the is now that thetr number now !s reaching the point of becoming sufficient to counterbalance the losses of the All 800,000 FIGURE INCLUDES ALL BRANCHES OF SERVICE, The 300,000 figure includes branches of the service nec all ary to make up a complete army, both com- batant and non-combatant unit March said. All War Department | figures regarding troops sent acros. will be given out on this basis, | Gen, March suid that the four Ger- man drives so far made were “all part of a common scheme of offen REVOLT IN AUSTRIA [5 LONDON REPORT; RIOTING IN VIENNA fague News of Uprising Received From Different Sources, = LONDON ~A report that a revolution had bro- June 15 (United Press) ken out in Austria with serious riot- ing in Vienna was contained in a despatch to the Central News to-day from Amsterdam. The despatch de- clared the information was received from the German frontier. The despatch brought no details of the reported revolt. It declared that meetings favor of stopping the present fighting at the war fronts are being held in Hungary. LONDON, June 15 in (Associated Press).—Reporta-of @ werious crisis in| They sources, Austria are current to-day. come from various outside but there is no direct confirmatory news. A news message to-d official Fabra Agency of Madrid somi-< says private information from reli! completely away be | Is} from the! !ast night's affair ager ACID THROWER AT WORK A YEAR IN HEART OF CITY Acts of Supposed Insane Man at Grand Central Recalled —Women His Victims. The acid attack made last night upon twelve young women on Seventh Ave- between 46th and 47th Streets, whereby four were burned so badly nue, to necessitate their treatment at Belle- vue Hospital, was but a renewal of the malicious freak of some degenerate or insane creature who has been carrying on similar depredations in and around Grand Centra} Station for a year, It became known to-day that com- plaints of like outrages have come to the police from this congested centre of city life, and that every effort to cateh the acid thrower has been unavailing, To-day likewise detectives going oven) the scene of ast night's which might lead to the captureof the mad brute responsible for the criminal ttacks. The testimony of all the victitns of so that the acid thrown is slow tn its results, In eacn instance their garments were burned efore they felt the able sources state that grave events) heat of the fiery stuff on their bodies, where are about to occur in Aus the population is demanding peace at) thrown or projected any price, Amsterdam messages Say a rumor was circulated on the Bourse day that rioting had begun in Vienna. WILSON AND MERCIER IN FRENCH ACADEMY Unanimously El ected to Membership With Ex-Premier Salandra of Italy. President Wilson, PARIS, former Premier Salandra of Italy and r, Primate of Belgium, ted of June 15. Cardinal Mere elec to-day to Moral and unanimously Academy were the French Political Sciences NAVY MEDICAL DIRECTOR FINED AS FOOD HOARDER Dr, Francis S. Nash Assessed $1,- 000—Charge Against Wife sive." Up to this he added, th extension of the Allied front from eims to the sea had reached to| ty-six miles, To hold that added | , he said, additional troops w necessary and the importance of g ting Amorlacn troops over quickly Le- | ie paramount | Gt Murch declared “ne | he capture of which would make it for England, 5 roof go fwther up the sea 4 \ " n (Continued on Second Page.) and in every case the acid was from @ squirt gun from behind Bellevue doctors who treated t yester-|four most seriously burned have n been able to arrive at an exact termination of the nature of the They said to-day they belleved It was sulphuric, but that the: admixture of some other corrosive acid with it. The effect of the acid is very painful if not dangerous. might be an President Wilson at Flag Day Fete Sings ‘Star-Spangled Banner CED ee ee DRED EEE Oe 3 Teeeoe eee Se « attack could * | find ho trace of a bottle or other Clue The names of the victims of tho! acid thrower, as the police obtained them when they went to a druyg ature at 46th Street and Seventh Avenu for relief, are: Mrs, Helen Farden, @ trained nurse; Miss Billy Wallac of No, 185 West 47th Street: Madge O'Brien of No. 60 Sheppard Avenue, Brooklyn; Miss Olive Cleaver of No. 272 Waldon Ave Jersey City; Miss Rose Goldfeir No, 346 Tompkins Avenue, Brook Miss Florence Beachner of No. 27. Baldwin Avenue, Jersey City, and Miss Martha Minsky of No. 629 Last 87th Street. Five others, who received minor $ 3 o 4 pyright, International Film Service.) President Wilson yesterday led — memoration of Flag Day, the 11st the singing of “The pangied anniversary of the birth of the B at the Sylvian Stars and Stripes. Mrs. Wilaon _Theatre, Wa In com Is beside the President «'n, 180 MORE U. . DESTROYERS — TO BE SENT TO EUROPEAN WATERS BY END OF THE YEAR Plans for Greatest Fleet of Its Kind Revealed in Secretary Daniels’ Demand for Langer Personnel. vn =| BOARDS. AGREE ON PLAN TO END SUBWAY STRIKE Just Increases Asked by Will Be Paid—No ¢ Contract Car WASHINGTON, June a's sea forces will n Dur be augmented by five m quadrons of destroyers this House Naval ( MTD Lee Wa ried to-day These ships will give t Workmen eral Nat the world’s on the greatest destroyer fleet ustory. burns and who did not need the SSieste TT Phne whice Gail fer athe Bi of Bstimate and the Dismissed. vices of the two Bellevue Hospital "700m | Tuerelonn nan erate | PUbie Service Commission have come WASHINGTON June 18 — Dr.| Physicians summoned to the a to an agreement as t ow the new | Francis Nasi, @ medical director|store, went to their homes withou , ft tet bean iin. | S#DWays Bball be comp in the navy, was fined $1,000 to-day! giving their names. i eiraee Mere: there ¢ moors, the | this @reement will be a in the Dia f Columbia Supreme} Miss Audrey Maple, whose home ediate increase tr ; the sunwa t Peal ay niering & plea of nollelat No, 640 W 39th Btroet, was Committee was told tors from| known until the meeting harge of unlaw! x . 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She rea ove ri. t Ended. be That a gray ox food hourd, valued at approximately| shoulder and her hand brought away ae 8 Pe $2 found in the Nash home, had]a large piece of 1 irough lack o ® been puret fore the declaration! ried to the Hote 1 in the navy w ealed in| renee { war with Germany and that much of| stupte received em s Hers exchanged the navy 4 uccord it had been ded for charitable dis-| on ine note! phy a s and the H " urds, th tribution ee z j mong the + therein will tak The Government instituted proceed. | 4°TS) back and | lo the jot balla’ park of Dr, Nash's|9n@ she } to a rs ann = i: t . pat uw i“ it illegally st ed wou tld be confiscated Miss Wallace told an } abroad neithe 1 nat Ra World man to-day of expe ite thes t | Ani ; r, Admiral Bay | no arta "CONEY LIGHTS | ON TO- NIGHT, | She sata ‘tiv modified or ; “Mis n Mil! nd Tha | vA . IMlumtnation for| left our ne t New Vt ar ws oF Hy a Lislet Feri | Hotel and w walking Mee air Seventh Ave we 47th am ney qu 4 Wipe rs of Coney Island) 4th streets when I felt my fe ar cer of ikboR and ine amuseme pe) eens growing very wa 1 louked y by Mie’ 7 id to be | ANd Saw something like tobacc v Ad turne Bht and to-morrow }O® MY shoes, Then my ne " fe ferent avingent (Continued on Fifth Page.) i toy for A é I N G mane wil bean —> - ESULTS, Page 2 pacha | ra Aaa, and Mac Fete ve of my ENTRIES, Page 6 beuch ber 4 is vick i now employed ' rio, “Circulation Books Open to All.” 14 PAGES 42 SPRSH Ee ET OF WEATHER—Fair Te: Night; Warmer Sunday. PRICE TWO. “CENTS. =a ——__> ¢o—————— “ARTILLERY BATTLES ON ALONG THE ENTIRE FRONT: GERMANS PLAN NEW BLOW Thousands of Gas Shells Hurled Into Enemy Lines Near Thierry by American Batteries in Retalia- tion for Heavy Attacks—U. S. Patrols Are Active. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, June 15 (Associated Press).—American batteries last night hurled thou- sands of gas shells into the German lines along the Marne front, |northwest of Chateau-Thierty. The bombardment was in retalia- | tion for 1 heavy gas attack by the Germans. There was patrol activity along the American fronts ‘in the | Marne region and in Picardy, and some artillery fire occurred in addition to the gas bombardment. There was no infantry action, , but the situation is tense along the entire line. PARIS, June 15.—The artillery on both sides was active last night jon the front between Montdidier and the River Oise, the War Office |announced to-day. | The gunfire was also rather marked in the region south of the Aisne and west of Rheims, in the Champlat-Bligny sectot. No in if antry actions occurred, | Following is the text of to-day’s War Office report: “During the night there great activity between the op- posing artilleries between Montdidier and the Oise, south of the Aisne and also west of Rheims in the region of Champlat and Bligny. “French patrols operating in the Champagne sector captured prisoners, The night was calm on the other portions of the front.” This report indicates that the fourth phase of the German offensive j——the drive southward between Montdidier and Noyon—is at an end, |The Germans have made no appreciable gain in this section for three \days. Their greatest gain is in the center, south of Roye, where they are just north of Antheuil—representing an advance of about five miles, Previously they had progressed more than a mile beyond this point, but were driven back, GERMANS PREPARING FOR NEW BLOW But the end is not yet, Both Allied and enemy critics agree that the Germans have sufficient reserves to continue the fighting on a grand scale until August, and they believe the drive has been stopped only to permit the reforming of the shattered ¢ The six days of terrible fighting east of Monididier realized mediocre gains and the Petit Parisien says that the German check gives a good reason for confidence, as the Allied armies are increasing continuously. It is pointed out that the army of the German Crown Prince is ex- | hausted and it is believed that Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, whoss | reserves are far from being equal to those under his command on March 21, will probably resume action on his portion of the front. Berlin has not abandoned hope of obtaining a “good” German peace The press is following with interest the preparations for a peacs offensive which seems to be clearly outlined arid about to pass from *!the newspaper domain into official circles, BRITISH TAKE PRISONERS IN A RAID NEAR BETHUNE Capture Machine Guns in Another Operation | and Repulse Two Attacks by Germans, | [BRITISH REPORT] LONDON, June 15,—The the War Office “A sful local operation was carried out last night by english and Scottish battalions north of Bethune (in Flanders). More tham sixty following statement was issued to-day