The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1918, Page 1

oats Are Reported Sunk Off —— The | “ Circulation Books Open to All id ¥ ; A TWO 0 CENTS. Cnet SEO Tal NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, “1918, 18 PAGES PRICE Two CENTS. a seein I —— <= === Probably fair and cooler to-night and Wednesday. “Circulation Books Open to All?? | BIG AUSTRIAN GAIN REPORTED; ~ ROME ANNOUNCES LINE IS HELD ARM OFFICER SEZED HERE NAVAL GUNNERS HIT UBOAT ITALIAN TROOPS DRIVEN BACK -INSEARCH FOR WARGRAFT; WHEN U.S. SHIPIS ATTACKED = THREE MILES AT SOME POINTS GO OFFICES IN N.Y. RAIDED OFF THE VIRGINIA CAPES 24, 4.000 GERMAN TROOPS “srsoZonn Say ne Aurian | ; the Pi Line, Alth hR DECLARESO'LEARY sts. Gore sure. CUT TO PIECES BY AMERICANS | Asserts tne Wiole Front Is Held. Submarine marine. { lf RAZED | | LONDON, June 18.—The Austrians have driven forward jOIL RISES TO S| TO SURFACE. RNE FRO ] BATT F au at the extreme ends of the Piave line and menace both | Italian flanks in the river region, it was learned authoritatively r Heard 7 hh Microphone . : At Montello, the enemy has advanced four miles and occupied + | of U.S. Craft. Some Companies So Riddled That tworthirds of the high ground, If the occupation of the crest is Lyons, Witness at John) oe completed, it ts stl actiiene aniebt tore the whale Plave ) | i : une cal O'Leary's Trial, hg S Jere- sisnibela'ob the atke tt oaCanns ial | Only Forty Men Are Lett | line, but the Italians are confident they can avoid this danger. miah Feared U, S. Agents. teamship arriving here to-day re- .One Battalion Loses All Its Of-' In the marsh land on the lower Piave, the Austrians have ad- — ——e ported an engagement with a German ig * wre) | While Jememiah O'Leary, brought submarineef the tts cel yos- ficers Except One. Were the woe ra between Zenson and poled 4 the IN THE FIELD, June 18 (United move upon Venice. erman shock} The Austrians, according to the Evening Standard, now occupy -- €ontracts With Dummy Firm: , Unearthed in Exposure of Nation-W ide | extortion, TOTAL IN MILLIONS. | Washington Gets Thousands ‘of Papers Showing Illegal 7? Fees Up to 20 Pe r Cent. The arrest of an army officer by Dr. Jobn B. De Mund and Sidney B Pfeiqfer, special agents of the Treas VJ Gry Depatiment, acting in co-opera- f “Gok with the Department of Justice, wap made this morning in this city in} @onnection with the nation-wide punt for graft in contracts for war foods y |hack from Sara, Washington, this! terday in which the ship's naval gun- | morning to answer charges of treason | ners made dclean hit and either gunk WITH THE FRENCH ARMIE |and espionage, was boing arraigned | the undersen craft or disabled hér. Press).—American troops inflicted great losses on two Cr eg for the Governn " i | be fore Judge Learned H and, in an The American vessel was not dam 4 ‘ y ‘J 2 ese moe Te creek it was stat the JEREMIAH O'LEARY PHOTO: | adjoinis irtroom in the Federal] aged civisions (24,000 men) in the recent fighting on the Marne frep', 4 ord. | the west bank of the Piave from the Gonegliano railway to the Zenson arrest, was stated, . djoin Ov 01 1 the Feder . Ri: r P ; Reis : forerunner of many 1 GRAPHED TO-DAY. Building Arthur L. Lyons was re-| oa, rarely accomplished ‘ia this | iN to German prisoners. Bend. They have thrown fourteen bridges across (he river. These are stand the story en. Others lost} Under (he Italian fire. venty-tive out of sixty-one riflemen, One of the machine gun section The British held the post of honor in the mountains, and now weil vas reduced from seventeen to five men, Ong battalion of the Fourth] they rose to the occasion is shown by the remark of a correspondent thai American under-sea boat operating . | 6s . aa we A i sainst the Germans of the Virginia | Fusiliers lost all its officers except the results of the enemy attack suggest that it was the British who —____-+ -— carried out the most successful offensive.” American liner, ur- THIRTEEN AMERICA SOLDIERS | The Austrians undoubtedly ‘oped to sweep into the plains aud riving at an & ont conan y from N crush Italy, but the latter’s achievement in resisting the first onslaught is was NO!) Havana, were told the story of thi canmasina ; vie " ry by th slchiaee nA AMBU SHED BY 40 GERMANS e assurance that she is capable of defending her position. ‘ ’ The Germans are not likely to permit the Austrians to slacken their |the American conquering craft whi Lyons was ¢ ‘inl ie an tay ve | me ruscee a lay oe sen NEARLY ALL GET BACK-- WOUNDED efforts. Should they be compelled to send assistance, their strength on rine by Some companies were reduced to forty infantry war--the sinking of a su’ northwest. The another submar -was reported to ve lent add in lontractors have been acting in |iating on the witnes a ’ @oncert with th ors, and some l . ‘of Jerry's Might te Gee contractors have ell ecturn of ft day to the credit and glory of an that they were in the r erest to the trial the Washington wit) n vhen As AF*) OMicers of 6 graft. When the worl was Biv raigned he pleadec The pat 4 olock yesterday afternoon to ourt announc Faid the manufactoriox and contrac- bait in’ suc ters’ offices all over States, the special agents ar told Government officials + qj committed | Troops’ Rapid Artal Thwart fives in New York were i | i : eae th Ww ) "i for the signal. ; ed sir . esr 10 | seremiah’ O'Leary saslasuent cunlioncaeraeaiotan’se 1s0| a the western front would be correspondingly weakened. At 4 o'clock to th Jse Up Allied Reserve. vestigator in his jaw and! progence of German prowle P ‘ , 5 ia in Man ee sone of tho principal fixtiros ta the ee nu thteake tay on} Pershing Cables Details of How They Out- AUSTRIANS HELD EVERYWHERE, Queens were swo pan LONDON, June 18 A[iriah agitator's attempt to flee from | Monday,” said the one relating the | fought a Greatly Superior Force. Bes son eer fe on | omen ik ta Kntas si te eia ; SAYS THE WAR OFFICE IN ROME They had to wid them 100 operatives) Char Bonar Law | The trip to Washington war | chored close to a submarine mother [AMERICAN REPORT] | garnished by the American Protective | House of Cémmons this afternoon nightmare for Lyons, ording to| ship. Alongside this craft an Ameri-| WASHINGTON, June 18.—The following communique from Gen, ne League, which has lent its servic ‘It was a part of the man|yyons's testimony leary was| can ‘sub’ was lying. Off of the) borching y . lic ton : : BOOP SE icactucct of Justion for €h0\| eetiamy: to woe un thavAllied semerven| Cece ny the te subsharine q our ahi aha cota) Persting: was: made: public today Statement Iasued at Mic at Midnight Declared That Yast year. pefore the arrival of the American nts, he said, and saw Scere |us of their exploit On the night of June 13 and 14 an American patrol of thirleen men Two Attempts to Cross Piave Were Blocked. Capes | } With amazing quickness offices “They were cruising off th ' Sag OP eet : vice men in every railway compart- sain Di sg an into : | ‘ . aspite ere entered and books and papers|!t bas failed, The Americans are nent, In every hotel lobby. Halt way | lon wiitay, thoy sald a and aling in Picardy ran into an ambush of forty Germ Desf . = Belsed, carried to automobiles and] ‘Tho statement was ‘erected yn eee ee een ae changed hia | With only thelr peri wins jority in numbers, the greater part of our patrol cut its way through {ITALIAN REPORT] Be sce See area ee plana and Lyons said be was forced | ‘Belt object was to e enemy and ret » our lines. Fierceness of the figating may be ROME, June 18.—In their attacks between Zerson and Fossalta, | Mr, Bonar Law read extracts from|to give in continually to t orras | id beer rwarded | to give In [engage him. ‘Thoy cau 1 been | submarine slowly cruising, 4 proached undiscov ed from the fact tha ren who returne, inded, arly all of our along the Piave, the Austrians have been stopped everywhere, says an official statement issued at midnight by the Italian War Office. In the Building; and from thi to Washington, All noc fre now in the hands of the Treasury | Council which was held at Versailles Lyons when he 4 ary papers | the minutes of the last Supreme War | tions of the half-crazed was nervous eared in t iculars estruction of hostile planes of June 15 as tment. \to support his statements, pearings and then let egic da 1 e hi bee: ntry attac: CONTRACTS WITH DUMMY FIRMS | ge edllor s: oe this | het. pe ie wa | é + the communi of June 14 are as follows | mountain region and around Monteilo there have been no infantry attack REVEALED. ne SHARON AUIAISHRE AM PTISRD | for the Un Mt Of! heard the crash of the Destruction of of German planes occurre the| by the enemy suses raided were be- |tT0ops were pouring into France and| Justice. His n WOFE | aicatin, t The Ame u ‘ } , . ° i ‘ 7 a 8 pad oan A| hod reached a figure which a few! off as sox witne 5 | Reasan 8 “ihe om hake ang | wutse of the fight between the ican patrol and a group of twel | The Allied troops have taken several hundred additional prisoners yp great many of them were found, in 0 would have been thought | stand, however, and u que | made slowly ahead um een German Alba It has not as yet been detinite'y| and some machine guns. The official statement reads as folows: nitted, to} aft. The were Un | lir American military ¢o-| ing of Assistar ued, would not be 4 patch of black the sea, which spelled the hasty examination per Be free from the stigma of papers of those lp touched. In othor piaces it was found |. Th ) whom credit f ction of the plane, officially confirmed “On the h Air Cory e second hostile plane wa ck in the morr rear St. Mihiei. Here er yer type was attacked by Lieuts. Meissner, Winslow and mountainous front and around Montello the rry | i witb seru- enemy did not renew his infantry attacks. During the day a successful thrust was carried out by our troops. We occupied pulous ré Dp TRACE OLEARY'S ACTIONS BE- prirapatth oto Mr. Bonar Law enemy everywhere was stopped by our counter-attacks. Sev- that contracts for supplics had much mark ‘i f Ha ives to dumuny firms and corpora-| put the enemy has not attained one| FORE HIS DISAPPEARANCE. =| ¢ the enemy ship. Taylor. During the course of the fight the German plane turned over, | several positions, capturing machine-guns and some hundreds Gons, behind which were the em-|strategic object | ‘The actions of Jeremiah O'Leary a ei 8 of : e ' receding his disap- t © flames and was se crash of prisoners. ‘Ployers of the steno ue-] “After three days of attack the| the th days Jing his disap. | eountants and other oitle employees | Austrian offonnive has not secured | pearance Wert a ee NO CHANCE OF PEACE “There have been rant developments at any of the points “Important actions developed south of Montello and along Bonstituting the dummy firms the objectives hoped for on the first | Lyons, who was wit a ipied by our troo) he Pi i y Mechided in tho list of cuntractora| any,” guid Mr. Bonar Law regarding | the t On Ma $ testified ON JUST BASIS YET pied by MF OOF . ke | the Piave in the zone between Zenson and Fossalta, but the paided were those holding contracts|ine Italian front, He added that the O'Leary In Picardy, in the iteau-Thierry region and in the Woevre, ar- “for clothing, machinery, hardware, | there was reason to believe that the A vaniia pyieh re nen Gaitcrma, coats, slickers, and sbip-|initiative for the Austrius De nadowed SHOWN, SAYS ORLANDO : / lie ; : eral hundred prisoners were left in our hands. “T puilai puerta 4 invited Patr 1 Lorraine and Vo ding. had ome from Bert ae et 8 - b in ’ ' “Ene "TOS o . etwee! * } Raids in this city wore in progress baat pero rapes 7 ; him wi At of Italian P ¢ ere a hostile raid p by Enemy attempts to cross the river between Maserada and again to-day and evidence WAS April and May the section | Walkin ook J topped erable to Dist le a eaniies im — od Candelu (northeast of Treviso, were bloodily repulsed, On the “ hisacreaetie is Dae e Pace at ehine exceeded their de yen ete ' \ yo ment, He ¢ NAVY OF 131 485 HEN Lower Piave other counter-offensive actions in the course of eadquarters of the ring | rat ubmarine warfar On the night of May 6, Joh ROML, June ¥ iiation of the ' 1 development resulted advantageously for us.” Ge investigators: and that fis Hast 19th strat, Brooklyn, and honorable peace,” Troinier Orinnd Se y TRIAN FORCE EXCEEDS 1,000,000. ers could carry out their A Cc sok him in ar tomebile to the Saved. In. aeers sing the Chi WASHINGTON, Ju - il Austria’s entire effective military strength already has been thrown O'Leary wh were joined ution: Yeats 5 t on “ . ie ’ (Continued on Eighth Mages R ] N G a, Jerry, according to the Witness. ¢ oy 8 SNe, i ee into the Italian drive, according to a semi-official statement to-day. ' ortunity of concluding Just # m 87,180 to sloned officers tr " who . aa Aus cn LIBARTY PO | ENTRIES.’ Page a Then followed, according to Ly0ns's honorable peace, but. n Naval Ap Bill a with the additional men w : , Of Austria’s total of 92 divisions (1,104,000 men), 71 divisions rad (uh age sibility of auch a peace has over yet t " HOrdie naval ig (erg ihe nee: warahioe “40M ? si s war eaé branchan advan 3 (Conunucd on Sizth Pages ghowe isneie’ ba ide douaas \oubiding, A" Me |.(892,000 men), already have been identified on the Italian front, So far \ ' a 4 : | a - ~ a ee