The evening world. Newspaper, June 28, 1918, Page 1

o ——- POET E RIO cr =. ———— f j Murder of Ex-C a ee Are You Enrolled for Thrift? Last Day for Pledges To Buy War Savings Stamps __| on pm aoe & PRICE Two ‘CENTS. Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Ce, (The’ New York World), NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2,000 HUNGARIANS TO TO BE § LENINE REPORTED OVERTHROWN War Stamp Sar es Expect- éd to Yield Government $150,000,000. LIMIT CLUB “OVER TOP.” bles Speak and Muratore Sings at Sub-Treasury— Parade Downtown. ‘This ts National War Savings Day, ‘aside by President Wilson, who asks You to buy at least one War | @avings Stump no matter what the amount of your pledges made during the drive of the last week Inci- @emtally it is the last day of the drtve. New York's estimated quota 1s 2,000,000 pledges, which it is hoped will net $150,000,000 New York was short 260,000 pledges of the quota at 4 o'clock this after- Boon, and word was sent from the War Savings Stamp headquarters to all workers to redouble their efforts. New York went “over the top” in the Liberty Loan, the Red Cross @rive and the Knights of Columbus 6rive. It cannot fail to uphold this feputation in this drive, Buy an- other stamp! be first of the working groups to report 100 per cent. was The Limit Club. To become a member of this erganization it was necessary to pledge $1,000 for War Savings Stamps by the end of the year. One thousand members at $1,000 apiece were sought. At 10 o’clock this morning beadquar- tars reported that the 100 per cent. mark had been reached and that the 1,009 memers were enrolled, thercby ‘g-string $1,000,000 for Uncle Sam by Deo, tl. When the drive ends at midnight to-night, the Campaign Committee Believes an income of $1,000,000 a week will bave been assured the Govern- ment for the rest of the year, The picir:s already secured a.cure an av- @rage of 50 cents a week from each @gner. This amounts to something gore than $7 000. There are rweuty- ix Weeks remaining in this year, so a total of $20,000,000 is already assured. ‘The War Savings Committee takes particular pride in the work accom Decause, it points out, the general sale of stumps will go on in gdtition to the sale to those who are Quldlling thelr pledges. ‘Ihis gencral gale ts expected almost to double fhe elty’s War Savings Stamp con tribution. Optimism with regard to the final umber of pledges at midnight to- might te strengthened by the re- ported increase in pledges for yes- terday. The quota set for the num- per of War Savings societics whs ox- ceded by 315, The mark had been get at 10,000, but witb the 34 eleties added to the list y the total was brought to 1!) average membership of 1 cleties is 100, making the total num secured cleties 1,031,500, No time ip the organization of Wa Societies to-day, every off nt op winning individu! ylodg wilt ve s At the request w 1 Gormmittee, all of mn ! megwiraice sitting this morning 7 eourts opened court with 2,000,000 SAVINGS PLEDGE HY TO-NIGHT, WORKERS’ AI; “DRE ENDING WITH RUSH. | a Twellth Page) =| 5 GERMAN APL AGAIN BOMB PARIS, 11 DEAD; 14 HURT Enemy, Raiding City From Different Points, Subject to a Violent Gun Fire. PARIS, June 2%%.—Bleven persons were killed and fourteen injured by | 2. the explosion of bombs dropped by German airmen in last night's alr raid, it Was officially annou: to- day. In ¢ldition, the 3° great material damage was done The enemy plane which arrived at the city over different routes, were tin declared that subjected to the most violent gun- fire. Premier Clemenceau visited the | ruins to-day. The alarm was sounded at 1039 P. | M. and the “all clear’ signal at 12.05 | AM | Reports of the raid indicate that! the enemy machines took different courses in an effort to break through the defensive barrier fire. During the | commotion in the air thus created some | of the machines evidently were able| to effect a penetration, for bombs} began to drop almost immediatoly,! There was shortly @ lull, after which the bombardment again grew in in- tensity, and then finally subsided President Poincare sent messages of sympathy and solicitude to the victims on behalf of the Government. Cases were reported where carcless onlookers were wounded by frag- ments of shells fram the anti-aircraft fire. M, Teyssier, Chief of the Parts Fire Departinent, died of suffocation while directing the rescue of victims of Wednesday night's raid 287 TYPES OF A AUTO TIRES TO BE GUT TO 32 BY WAR) Manufacturers Will Begin Elimina- tion at Once and Eventually Get Down to Nine. WASHINGTON, June 28.—Imme diate reduction in the number of types and sizes of automobile tires from 287 to 32 has been determined y automobile tire manufac in a tions of the Conservation Division the War Industries Board. the programme announced to-day Nov. 1, 19. sizes will t of by , all but nine types and © mass discontinued. AMERICANS KILL OR WOUND 1,100 70 1,200 AT BELLU "= Careful Checking Up of Official Reports Shows Heavier Ger- man | Wirt mh OAMBET B 1N THE MARNIE J 8 (United Proae)Tt ounded Pues Nis ba eau Wood ween 1100 pnd 1 according to a carcful checking up of oMclal reporte to-day, | sentative Egan, |New Jersey NEW YORK JERSEY TUNNEL PROPOSED BEFORE CONGRESS Salder and Egan Ask Govern- ment to Bear Half of $12,000,000 Cost. WASHINGTON, June 28.—Repre- New Jersey, to-day introduced a bill to provide Federal ald for construction of a vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River be- tween New York and New Jersey. The bill provides for an appropria- tion of $6,000,090 if New York and will fumish @ Uke amount. In the Senate a similar bill was introduced by Senator Calder. In introducing the Senate bill Sen- ator Calder tssued a statement which said in part: “War conditions have demonstrated |the need for prompt measures to re- lieve the Intolerable condition of traf-| fic congestion resulting from complete reliance upon inadequate ferryboats for the transportation of trucks and other yehicles from Manhattan to the} Jersey shore ans must be adopted and put into execution without further delay to tunnel or bridge the Hudson River as a means of furnishing for vebiru- lar traffic quick and continuous cons nection between these points, unham- pered by weather conditions. “Transportation by ferry is almost entirely superseded by tunnels and bridges between Brooklyn and New | York. Communication between Man- hattan and the Jersey shore is made rapid, convenient and safe for pas- senger traffic by means of the Penn- sylvania and McAdoo tubes. Vehicular traffic, however, be- tween these points must ettll rely for BOLSHEVIK ARE OVERTHROWN, Grand Duke Nicholas Said to Have Been Proclaimed Emperor. LONDON IS DOUBTFUL. Lenine and Trotzky Said to ilave Fled, Leaving Korni- loff in Control, LONDON, June 28.—<According to |shevik Government in Moscow has been overthrown, says a despatch to | from Copenhagen. | Moscow, | captured by Gen. Korniloff, supported by German troops. Advices from the same sources as |gert that Grand Duke N | been proclaimed Emperor. Nikolai Lenine, the Premier, and coast. operated with Gen. Korniloff in the capture of Moscow. MAKES LONDON CAUTIOUS. The Exchange Telegraph Company publishes its message containing the reports of the Bolshevik overthrow and the accompanying details “with reserve” and points out that the in- formation amanates mainly from Ger man sources and therefore should be unconfirmed reports to-day the Hol-" |the Exchange Telegraph Company the reports add, has been | cholas has, Leon Trotzky, the Minister of War, | are said to have fled to the Murman | Gen. Kaledines is said to have co- | GERMAN SOURCE OF REPORTS | rd with recommenda- | Under | its transportation upon the slow and |recetved with caution, antiquated ferry boats. The advices declare that the up “The delay resulting from tthis con- | porters of Grand Duke Nicholas have dition is a tremendous tax not only| overthrown the Soviets throughout upon the business community but|the Siberian provinces of Irkutsk, also upon consumers throughout the| Blagovieshtohensk and Khabaravak country who use the freight handled} The defeat of the Bolsheviki is said in this expensive way. During tthase|to bave been made possible by the war tines it has resulted also in #e-| Victories of the Cxzecho-Slovak forces rionsty hampering the Government. | 4nd the treachery of the Red Guard “The coal famine of last winter| Several detachments the Red brought out in @ etartling way the| Guard are declared to have murdered danger to the ctty, State and Nation| thelr officers and then surrendered remulting from @ complete reliance| The Copenbagen newspapers, the upon a method of freight transporta-|AS®ACY despatch adds, give prom! tion between New York City and the| Bee to a Berlin dospa: quoting Jersey sho: the Tages Zeitung of that city a saying it had reecived » message from of ($8,000,000,000 ISSUE |S aimee srr etn | overthrown and that Kerenaky is the ° man of the future in Itussta.” | House Has Now Authorized Total | of $20,000,000,000 in Liberty | Grand Duke Nicholas is an uncle ne jof the former Czar and at the start | Loans. of the \..r was Commander in Chief WASHINGTON, June 28.—The House | of the Russian Armies. Aftor winning day to authorize issuance of |several brilliant victories in the ini 0 more in Liberty bonds. | tial Russi@m advan he was re ry Department now has au-| moved and appointed "Viooroy of the thority te total of $20,000,000,000 | camun** ‘+ iets ws 30 ‘ m "| ported to have been arrested, follow > ee the royalist cee Tits, we Heavy Gun Pire Heard Along Rag. | 54Ve been placed on trial by the rey lish Conant jolutionista for Ay 1 r ee ‘1 of parently noth th TANNON: Funs Heavy gunfire | trial, ag the Grat shed gia oust | ported an continuing inst ‘out last night, The cannonasding, |the revolution .ats | n presumably came from the weat| Gen, Korniluff was fe n front, wa audible in London |mander-in-Chior of ; _ (Continued on Pourth es THR WORLD TKAVE) BURFAL, ESULTS, Page 11 ENTRIES, Page 11 >| AMSTERDAM, June 16 (ec { Associated Press) the Bohemian 04 been barred from the #14 GERMAN TROOPS IN MOSCOW REPORT FROM COPENHAGEN GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS, REPORTED PROCLAIMED AS EMPEROR OF RUSSIA | | AWD wichOaKe Ni@ROLAeviTcn iU. S, TROOPS FROM MARNE TO PARADE IN PARIS AND RECEIVE DECORATIONS Joint Celebrations on Both July 4 and July 14 Arranged for Soldiers. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN WRANCE, June 2% (Associated Press) = It seems probable that both July 4 and July 14, the French national holiday will be celebrated jointly by Americans snd French in Paris Unis year It is planned that the American urits which have so gallantly and effectively d to be wid EMMY DESTINN E BARRED | FROM JM STAGE IN PRAGUE: ground that | Czeen ak agite have appeared In opers a) Vr Hing t Nod recer ‘ bi anticAu donc |pla The f 4 GC bidding t | WHEN BITS WHALY Take Horstord’s Seul 1 kaw or viersurk, Buy a4. 3918. sided in stemming the German onrush oward Parts will be decorated in th nce of President Po Premier Cle u, Gen, Foch, Gen. Pershing Jand other notables, Fren and Amorican troops, accord Jing to the programme, will march stde |by side in the processions on both holt days. | The successful operations of the Americans on the Marne front have in reas the confiden the ‘@patilities of heir aphere 20° eee “Circulation Books Open to All’? RUSSIAN OFFICIAL SAID 10 CONFIRM DEATH OF EX-CZAR Berlin and London Both Quote | Telegram Signed by Tchitch- erin, Foreign Minster. PARIS, June 28-—The court mar- shal at Darmstadt, Germany, has re- colved a telegram signed “Tohitche- rin” announcing that Nicholas Ro- manoff, the former Russian Emperor, has been assassinated, says a de- spatch to the Matin from Berne, The Assassination ook place between Bkaterinburg and Perm, LONDON, June 24—The Frank- furter Zeitung reports that .! Tehiteherin, the Russian Foreign Minister, has telegraphed the Rus- sian Minister at Darmstadt that the) former Russian Emperor was mur-| |dered a few days ago between) Ekateriaburg and Perm, says an Ex- change ‘Telegraph despatch from | Copenhagen. | Wolf Bureau Saye Ex-¢ Was Murdered While 1. Train | AMSTERDAM, June 28.- "The Wolff Bureau, the semi-official German) ews agency, says it hax lcarned |from Russian sources that the for- | |mer Russian Emperor was murdered in @ train leaving Ekaterinburg im- | mediately after that city had been captured by Crecho-Slovek fore The Wolff Bureau al tho report that Alexis, (ho former Kussian Crown Prince, died a fort night ago, after a long \iiness WASHINGTON, June 28. Ukraine newspaper reports quoted in German oMcial wireless bulletins picked up to-day say the former Czar Nicholas was killed by a Russian Red Guard in @ personal quarrel. Another Ger- man bulletin said the family of (he Czar had been taken to Perus The despatch from Boerne gives! weight to the increasigg number of reports of the assassination of the former Russian Emperor, Darmstadt is the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and the former Empress Alix is a sister of the reigning Grand Duke. It le not unlikely that ¢ Russian Government, through Foreign Minis- ter Tchitcherin, would inform the Russian court of the death of Nich olas Romancit before making it pub. | lic through regular channels. — U.S. PREPARING T0 NAME | COMMISSIONERS 70 RUSSIA Plans for Assistance Have Reached Point of Considering | Personnel WASHINGTON, Juno 28 Pla | fending a commission to Russia to} assist that country ¢ mically and industrially have advanced the ere it is possible to announce on jal authority that the per jronnel of the commission i now be |i discussed. Men familiar with {ndustrial cond Russia and eape nated with the transpor of the country y be ar pa All reports of sensu ments in Hussia are tre clals hero With m@ diay tye hing until th vpneis, Ly regard toa t comes out of Berlin or f Mah source State Depart Glala are freakly shap cas OPEN MUTINY IN GARRISONS OF TWO HUNGARIAN TOWNS: REVOLT IN AUSTRIAN ARM Violent Demonstrations Among Sol- diers Reported in Numerous Cities —Thousands Taking Part in a General Strike at Budapest and Demanding Peace at Once. PARIS, June 28.—There have been rebelilaus outbreaks among the garrisons of the cities of Gyor and Pecs, Hungary, as a fesult of which |2,000 of the military involved in the mutiny have been condemned ‘fo death, according to reports received by the Matin to-day. Both Austria and Hungary are affected by the revolutionary move- ment, which is said to be in progress on a large scale in Austria, the news paper despatches say. The spirit of revolt is said to be strong in the army. Violent demonstrations are reported to have occurred in numerous cilles, (Pecs is the Hungarian name of the City of Funfkirchen, 105 miles southwest of Budapest, The city has a population of about 45,000, Gyor, more commonly known as Raab, is @ city of 28,000 popu- lation, sixty-seven miles northwest of Budapest.) LONDON, June 28.—Another Austrian attempt to throw out peace feelers via Switzerland has failed, it was reported here to-day in press despatches from Zurich, The report said an “unofficial representative had attempted to obtain views held by Allies, but returned to Vienna without accomplishing any- thing. COPENHAGEN, June 28.—Thousands of persons are participating in the general strike at Budapest, according to despatches from that city to-day. Socialist leaders have formed a workers’ council and have demanded dissolution of Parliament and adoption of the original electoral bill. The strikers continue their demand that the Goverament do its utmost to ob- tain peace soon. AMSTERDAM, June 28.—Premier Wekerle has admitted Hungarian Chamber that it is true work is stopped in most of the factor- ies and that even newspapers are not appearing, acc ng to a despatch received to-day from Budapest, The Premier saic alarmist reports, based on the greatest untruths, circulated and the workers refuse to return, So GERMANS MOVE UP BIG GUNS FOR NEW WEST FRONT OFFENSIVE; MAY BE AGAINST AMERICANS British and French Air Scouts Report Large Bodies of Marching Troops — Heavy Artillery Fire on British Front. PARIS, June 28.—British and French air scouts reconnoitring the Coerman rear lines have noticed large bodies of marching troops. Lorry \ tilled with munitions has been seen, making wandering targets tor Allied guns. Al the roads leading to the front have been repaired ready for heavy artillery, In fact, all indications point to the 1 fa (serman offensive, ilillery lire of the last few days along the British front Is nsidered here a sign that the approaching attempt will be made there. Germans have been firing thousands of shells into the ling running from ee TPES