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b \ sat “RESCUED IN DASH THROUGH BARRAGE caegreme German Aviators Drop Notes, Then Batteries Shell Soldiers | Coming From Mass WITH THD AMMRICAN ARMY} IN UORRAINE, June 18 (United| Press).—During the figtiting near | Laneville an jumped upon the par four Germans carrying smen. | “Who'll go w back Adhove Buddies?” Amother officer and four men vol- | 0 Man's | American Lieutenant pet and spotted | | two | away th me A brin, shouted, -wnteered. Land under shell fire and se the Boches. They discovered that one of th They ran acro} ttered | wounded men was a Ger- | yman, while the other was an Amert- | can, The former was being carried | on stretcher; the la was being | forced to stumble along on foot, Dumping the wounded Boche unce: emoniousiy on the ground, they placed the American on the stretcher | and brought hiro back to the Ameri-| fedn trenches: * A typical exam’ Was told to-day by men in See Bector. German airmen dropped notes over towns in the rear of the Ameri can lines, saying: “See you next Sun day at g On‘ Sunday, these towns were sub jected to a terrific bombardment by the German artillery. One shell ex ploded in the midst of a group of diera returning from masa, morta wounding two men The wounded men, ies, were placed side by side in hos: pital cots, where the last religious rites were performed over them. Realizing that they were dying, t e@almly shook hands across the wetween their cots, bidding other farewell, then sank back their piNows, exhausted, “Sorry I can’t be with D Company | to get the Germans,” one whispered pPearhantanses ht Se RESCUES AIRMEN ple of German namor | | | who were bunk | race each AND BRINGS HOME CRIPPLED MACHINE . Schooner Li Lather U Little Pic ks} Up at Sea Two Missing E signs and Dirigible. he schooner Luther Little came |_, 220 Germans failed to renew thelr! | jout, Biksel Risked Life That), te to port to-day with two naval en- sign aviators, dirigible balloon Cape May, N. terprising skipper of whose loss with thelr | as reported from , yesterday, The en-| e Luther L' d his tle even managed to drag aboa raft the which otherwise would have been a cripped dirigible its complete loss to the Government, — | The two flying men, whose names were not given out, left a navi tion at Capo May with the dirigible at 6 A. M. Saturday mo > take up anti-submarine patrol southern tip of the Jers Sandy Hook, Yesterday five miles sou oft crew of the schooner saw ble aloft and apparently in difficul- ties. One of the gondola was try! hife to make leading from the gas bag to the gon between the y coast and when forty- Hook, the reas two passengers in the fg at the peril of his repalis upon @ola. The big balloon started to de | #eend and finally rested on the sur face the sea, Th er Li manoeuvred for a favo tach {finally bore ¢ enough to the wrecked airship to send a boat j.and take off the aviators, La faircraft itself w oisted aboard. The dirigible was due to r to fits base on Saturday afternoon, and lost by th nd do it had been given up naval authorit j stroyers jfares ih search of [without success, and Pthat it had caught { stroved ASENSIBLETABLE BEVERAGE FoR WarTir4e INSTANT | POSTUM No boiling Each cup stron or mild as desine NO WASTE Germans Renew | Pre mn} gan using fas to Jalong the Marne front. The | Relleau came tn for its share, | Americans | west of Toul yest |The American casualties were con- "| tion east of Chateau-Thierry has been| AMERICAN IS |American Ambulance Picking Up Wounded _In Flanders Near the Front Line of B PERSHING PATROL CROSSES MARNE: ARTILLERY ACTIVE —_— Gas Attac but Fail to Shake the American Lines WITH THE AMPRICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, June 18 ( s).—Tho Germans od terday be- greater extent Bois de but de- » the heavy gas and other shell- the American lines remain in- An American patrol crossed the River Marne Sunday night east of Ch | teau-Thierry and at once established contact with the Germana, After an jexchange of shots the Amer rans re- |croseed the river safoly by means of boats. A German raiding party took a fow | Ameri Luneville n prisoners on the terday. The enemy raid front ye: followed patrol fight, in which the penetrated the enemy trenches, killing one German und wounding another. attacks on the American front north- | day. The enemy} losses sustained Sunday mornini | when e Germans were defeated io} an al mpt to take American prison- ers, are estimated at more tha 200, siderably fewer, The enemy artillery fire in the sec- increasing for ome time, and tho; American fire has increased propor- tionately. The Germans Sunday night started to construct a footbridge across the Marne at this poiat, but were diacovered, and abandoned the attempt even before the American machine gunners on the bank could) get into action, To the west the Germans have taken to drench certain localities with mus- tard gas. One of these places is} Belleau Wood, the Germans appar- ently thinking that this was the only way to drive the American troops out. But it was not, for they are still holding all their positions and at the same Ume aro giving the enemy is of American gas clou to worry) ab Germar airpl even nes yesterday and late sunday were very active There was hardly a moment when the hollow bark of the Archies was not ecard ‘RECOMMENDED FOR ENLISTED WHENLLS. | WEOT, J.T. BISSEL | regard for his own ome} THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1918. Kd Td ve i \ vn RESET SNE | or DOONED SENTRES | sleeping on sentinel post in the face |that he “PAGE OF AMERICAN WAR NEWS TO SERVE NATION Confident Action Would Be Challenge to Loyalty, He Wrote. WASHINGTON, June 18—"T am persuaded that this young man will take the restored opportunity of his forfeited life as a challengo to de-| voted service in the future With these words President Wilson | pardoned Jeff Cook and Forest D. to death for Sebastian, sentenced of the enemy, Announcement that the soldiers had been pardoned was made some time ago, but the Presi- dent's comment on the cases were not made public until to-day, “In view of the youth of Private Sebastian,” the text of the President's order read, “and the fact that his of- fense seems to have been wholly free from disloyalty or conscious disregard of his duty, I hereby grant him a full and unconditional pardon, and direct report to his company for further military duty. “The needs of discipline in the army ‘HEROIG AMERICAN BEAR, DEAD ARIE, LEGION OF HONOR ENTERED THE WAR | | seas lighiar |Widowed Mother Here Re- | ceives Message of Sympathy From General Commander, | Fred. C, Behr of New York, whose | | nan n the casualty list to-day, | he dead, among wounded in action, enlisted In the Marines as soon as the | | United States declared war. A tete- | gram came to-day to his widowed West 100th § difference was marked at once | mother at No reet, and a between t the War teleg! n and the kind Department has been sending out on casualties in the reg- ular army. The me fe is longer and perhaps more expre This sive of sympath Jis the m that Mrs. Behr re- ceived “Deeply t to state that a am received from abroad advi nr, Marine Corps, is re interred June 8 1 in action. Body will b end of war. 3 felt sy broad unti my heart yathy in your t row Your son nobly b » in de fense of h suntry.”* Men of His Command (Signed) "GHORGE BARNETT, * : “Major General Commi der.” Might Escape. Julius 8, Anthony, No. 1407 Madisen — —_ Avenue, was sixteen years old when WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES | he enlisted with the marines two ON THE MARNE, Monday, June 17] years ago. At first he was a e CApiontatan Second Lieut, | "Apher attached to Headquarters, but tae has been | When the Unite es declared war he wanted act ig himself recommended for thi ench Legivn transferred to machine gun com- of Honor for distinguished gallantry | pany, He went to France in Novem displayed recently at Chateau-| ber, and to-day his nan 0 Thierry the list of severely wounded The story of rs a} He has a brother Jack in the ambu thrilling example of Ms d.s-| lance corps and a brother-in-law in order that} the aviation corps. Hi vand migut} Flora Weitz, has at flag in the front with a}son Avenue home ors, was rman the men under his ¢ reach safe On June party of thrown | 8 Anthony wa 8. On that da m the Yesterday the American artillery opened @ retaliatory fire against th rea behind the German lines, wh apparently an ‘ raid, bom bard us far niles behind the American | Toul sector is now heavie st gunfire in jaipaey we U.S. AMBULABCE MEN OFF FOR ITALIAN FRONT Take Commands Into Fighting advance. Th y was ordered into} won their victory in th Chateau rry, where they crossed | Thierry regioi to the north b Ns « not + , t v ft s what most of the f. in of ther, 1 by Harry Joseph Golden sa b on. lea 1 that hia nan wa T W v easualty 1 mor but the A wour oluentased Germans finally ru: 51 Jackson Stre J some of the #©) shoreman and wit to southern side of the river to} yay player w f tt » position The] were worrying about his r 1" wn up tesa. und | A d Freneh | clover that he € t M degie tha leant ann a: 4 Licut. Bis ii ualty Ww t safet > old addre n . to n f the WTR Ber where a neighbor ied for It fathead (BT handed t Goi position where |, anon ‘ uth side of the a Arion, #1 , : ie the news from his m f v around him until the use she had be te pu an American ling, while he wa eer m who dit When | examined his pocket ft} a sy Suis he had |@9y cigare for ec jeft his men and nem across | habit, She found no cigarettes, b | bridge, All reached | did find the telegram and was alm fety, What to him 18] prostrated unknown Charles 1. W air Lieut. 1 Was decor. | tion, M 1M frbting there early this month, 1912, Directly after bis enlistment ne !merly of No. 16 Fast 111th Stre with propriety impose grave penalties | upon those who imperil the safety of thein fellows, and endanger their country’s cause by lack of vigilance, or by infractions of rules in which safety has been found to rest. “1 am persuaded, however, that this Wall Street Reporter Downs German Flyer, Wins a War Cross 2 young man will take the ored op- portunity of his forfeited Ufe as a | challenge future, and that the soldiers of the Army of the United States In Franc their country reposes in them to per- mit the possibility of further dang from any similar shortcoming. “WOODROW WILSON." ‘The order in the Cook case was iden- tical. a | PERLMUTTER A A PRISONER. York, James TP, MeManus, an at= ———— torney, of No, 27 William Street. @ Bocho n't Notify! While “Chris” is officlally credited hho just 5s Moved. Friends of Mrs, Mary Perlmutter, for- t, may carn her gratitude by sending new addréas to the War Department at} — Washington so that she may learn about her boy. He is not de or able to tell the mother how to com- municate with him. | Two months ago she recetved a mes- sage saying her son, Lawrence, was re- | d missing in action in France. The | new casualty list reports him definitely | as captured, But the War Dapertment has not received the new address of the mother, U. S. TRYWIG GAS ON DOGS. War Office Wants Small Animain— Jersey City Kill 355 A three-days’ dox-killing crusade by « Jersey City police had resulted ye: erday afternoon in destroying 995 stray { is, When the dogs declined to eat’ poisoned meat they were she Health Officer Hagan and the S$. P. ¢, A. arranged to sctd small stray dows to nimi War Department at Washington for| gases riments in | sting poisonous against our The Government wants dogs nemic ‘t more than thirty pounds for ts. eS Gen, Morrison Takes ( Wentern Depart WASHINGTON, Morrison to-day assur of the Western Depa t San Francisco 1. Charles G. ‘Treat to duty in. Italy which Major Gen, Leonant was ordered Ww was de 4 from his di parture for Era June 18 was sent to parents he two brothers France leaves four sisters and| Wouna Soldier Mentioned tor ‘ ravery by Pershing. First Licut, Leslie Herbert Groser ALMANY, June 18,—Henry Johnson | of No, 763 Kastern Parkway, Brook- A whose name appears in to-llyn, hag been killed n io bons : is father, Hi .vert W ely wounded, is one of two las sro sentries Who were mentioned | of the editorial . by Gen. Pershing in his communique (f the Piaanelal Chronicie, bas been of May 19 for bravery and devotion The communique, after describing the | Lieut, Groser was killed Ju 1 party of twent en wid | . . F GOR H on and his companion “con- | the platoons t at 1 fi. ting after & wounds | ¢y ou . ! eve nd bite the use of ¢ acd) by | Chateau-T “7 & ved jor force." it was there was | Vrivate Kelm Was Ste u was twenty-seyc ; : fore Enlisting. and was one of the best wo ASBURY PARK, 18 N. J Private Charles B, Keitn, ported | 1-in action in Fran \ Mr. and Mrs, PD: Kel™ | ness f No, 408 Bighth Avenu Bradley to devoted service for the| 44 ing the latest merger story for tho Pursuing th 80 much su decorated with the cross, News of his exploit, last week to his friend in } with the destru enemy plane bagged two others, but “the ob acrver jt a ors BROOKLYN OFFICER, r, and the War Department may be Gevides Mel Ujeut, ably Met Death in the t uates of the 4 a| School and of HRIS" FORD, who usel to gin sustenance by chas- ion b will realize too keenly the high chi Wall Street Journal, and got bis ceived acter of the cause for which they are] excitement by boarding subway tenant fighting, and the confidence which) cars during the rush hour, is now ette. German airmen with ess that he has French war along with camo in @ letter w | det photograph, tion of but one his friend says ho didn’t see them fall.” smoke PLATTSBURG GRADUATE, 1S KILLED IN ACTION | ROMn, of Am Fa frantic | United Prob- ting | Herbert Groser at Chatean-Tt do by the War Depar at that | Brooklyn Leys" rne Te was t nanager of the High School Re nae his ont .{eorder. In his jun As & wteoplejack jhe Was man ed ‘ : nell Daily Sun, and « ef in AUSTRIANS’ | BREAD CUT HALF, | bis senior year, mak ft - | best known college papers in t Autharitiss Feenape cer Disorders| country, He was «7 od as Result, |the Cornell law school in 1413 and PENHAGEN, June The Aus-| was admitted to the ba sbinet has ordere ber cent. | gust he was married to M on in the 1,260-granime bread r f Philadelphia nding to a dest om Vi-| sf tia reduc ury res! \ Brent. wtrih The au © prepared £01 a’ demon= wad Jatlons. CHRISTOPHE = FORD. Before States on- tered the war Ford took up av! ere, went to France and re- drille Lafay- flyers were opportunity States uniform Lieut. at the chance was commissioned a First Lieu- tenant. he Lieutenant did not give any won the war sent down friend said had been far 4 running out back | tm. met him given the the United Ford jumped and ails of how ¢roas, or just how he cross the lines, w: of “Bas, when he Aw the enemy, and sent bim down in a trail of ‘DEMONSTRATION IN ROME IN FAVOR OF UNITED STATES rum rv Speech of Capt. La Guardia of New| York Forecasting Victory Arouses | ent started for Plattsburg, te Great Enthusiasm. ~"“With sol- | jans #0 herolcally bear- COTA RC ane, PE! Ney, MOB ee “s hordes and) with an organization as powerful as that | the victory of civilization | alnat militorism is within our Braap, id Capt. a Guardia of N diera like the brunt of thi rhea'’s, ata make m statement cau jonstration in favor of the States, Camp Kart WASHINGTON, Raritan at Metuchen, N. J., was to- day formally designated by the War, but Department as an ordnance training When ap. It will be given over entirely to 1&—Camp | only Just past seventeen, | thie branch of the service, $ a Dressy Gabardine model with deep » button trimmed on both bound buttonhole and pearl button embroidery in white. Also Corduroys, Bedfords, Sale at a. Downtown: 462 Fulton St. | 14-16 W. 1éth St. ENGLISH BOY OF 14 POSED AS HIS BROTHER AND FOUGHT GERMANS «| Killed a Great Many,” He Tells | Court After His Discovery in Uniform of Elder. ONDON, June 6 (corrempond- ence of Associated Press). How a boy of fourteen im- personated his elder brother in the great battle in France in April was toll in a Folkeston police court recently when Arthur Stephens was charged with wear- ing a military uniform without | authority. Young Stephens's elder brother came home on leave early in the winter and failed to return to his unit at the proper time, Huger to get into the fighting, the bey surrendered to the police in the name of his brother, He was sent to his brother's unit, and after sixteen days of fighting in the German offensive his identity was discovered and he was sent back home. _ Meanwhile the elder brother had rejoined his regiment “I killed a great many Ger mans," the boy told the magi» trate. “Tt was easily done, for you only had to pull the trigger and you couukin't miss them.” The fourteen-year-old soldier was discharged. ALL IN THE, S, ARMY, THREE BROTHERS CLOSE STORE TILL AFTER WAR Service Flag and Card on Locked Door of Clothes Shop in Pulitzer Building Tell Story. A service flag with bangs on the BE. @ i. three Clothes Shop on the sixth neath it a written card announces All in tho Service, 1 Lieut. BE. M. Finberg, France. | to Hight in H, L, Finberg, Tank. 4 A. D. Finberg, Tank, sa Hope to reopen after the wi About three years ago Charles Finberg, a wholesale clothier at No, 436 Broadway, opened the KE. & H, Clothes Shop for bis two sons, Elmer, | etpsinumen upon the authorities to reverse the order re~ jecting him. ‘Then, when the New York contin« | followed, stopping at the Adgutant | General's office in Albany and jour- ying on to Plattsburg, where he to take him in,” It. Having received his commission as Lieutenant, he went to Camp Wads- | worth, Spartanburg, 8. C., where he was soon promoted and put in charge {of the purchasing department. But | | as he afterward put he was not satisfied with service so far from the battlefront. ce last December, Ce aco gm pee mee enlisted in the tank to a training camp. He went to 14 rvice and went Donald, who ts had pre- viously enlisted in the Tist Regiment, his father had taken him out, Harold enlisted, however, Donald pleaded so hard to go that the instruction of officers and men tn the father relented and gave his con- sent. Re Dre Wednesday's Specials Q Immaculate Wash Models White Sport Skirts’ Featuring Two Bedell Successes % aed washable Corduroy novel cross belt, points to match pointed patch pockets, model, forming Pearl button trim- Also Gabardine, Piques, Repps Flap pockets having trimmin, Rich Linens, Pique. No Charge for Alterations Fashion Shops Nineteen West 34th Street Newark: | Brogsd & W. Park stare locked door of the floor of the Pulitxer Building. Be+ the eldest, and Harold, the next. A little later the youngest son, A. D., known as Donald, was taken into the Last summer Elmer went to Platis- burg, but for some reason was re- fused admission to the officers’ train« ing camp there, Returning in bitter to New York he sought out Influential friends, who

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