The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1918, Page 1

“If le Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’? ¢ PRICE TWO CENTS. Covrvight, 1918, b; (1 Che Circulation Books Open to All.’ | "New York SHIP AFIRE IN BAY; (5 REPORTED DEAL ae ae y The Press w NEW YORK, SATUR ‘Three Army Corps Abroad Have 675, 000 Men VON HINDENBURG IS REPORTED DEAD OL SHIP BLOWS UP IN BAY: 5 MEN REPORTED KLLED AND 18 OTHERS INJURED ain Explosion and Fire Aboard the Cervantes Off 69th Street, Ridge. FUND DONATIONS TOTAL $7,027. 05 H. Outerbridge | Leads - Day’s Contributions With RESCUED. ‘Members of Crew Blown Into, Water Picked Up by Patrol Boats. Fifteen members of the crew of the MITCHEL MEMORIAL *: Spanish Line steamer Cervantes are been burned reported to have death and eighteen others were se- verely burned shortly after noon to- day when fire in a deck cargo of ott quickly followed the explosion of the to $250—Smallest 25 Cents. BE. H Outerbridge, | check for $250 to The World for the Memorial Fund to Major John Purroy President of the | Chamber of Commerce, to-day sent a! Mitchel mail bore a letter, The same in childish writin steamtr’s boilers where she lay at anchor off the foot of 69th Street in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn All of the injured mombers of the} 5 cents, losing 2 | With these two and a score more con tributions received by The World up A who were picked up from the} to noon to-day a total of 7.05 has water surrounding the blazing ship|been subscribed. Of this amount $450.25 was received this morning. vy motor boata of the Submarine Pa-| | 9 trot and private craft, were hur-| ‘Though the largest contributions seorge, Staten Island,| WCF smaller in number to-day, the ried to ®t. Georg’ ; | stnailer contributions were more nu and lodged in the Staten Island HO8-| merous, Many lette pital there. |imclosing $2, $1 and -| Brooklyn Daily dead, all of whom were mem me mite.” E, Y, Gallaher, Vice Pres bers of the engineer staff and fire- of the Western Union Telograph Com roam crew, are reported to have bee") nany, sent $50. And “No Name" gave trapped below by the flames, which | 25 oe ts, quickly spread over the whole ship.| The largest contribution to the » : via the fire-|fUnd yesterday was $250 from the Roeir avenue of escape via Journal ot Commerce. Samuel Un- room ladder being cut off, they were | burned to death. At o'clock repored to be in 4 termyer contributed $250 With the two larger subscriptions this morning, E. H. Outerbridge The Brooklyn Daily tributes to Major Mitchel and lauds tors comments on The World start- ing a fund to perpetuate his memory MEMORIAL EXPRESSIVE OF A SENSE OF JUSTICE. Mr. Outerbridge wrote: “Your starting a fund for a suitable me morial to the late Mayor Mitchel was more than a kindly thought—it was expressive of @ sense of justice and aff on which rightly felt the citizens of New York would be eag erly glad, through this means, press. “Mr, public of monument Cervantes was | the 4 sinking condition. The fireboats Zephar Mills, William J. Gaynor and New Yorker, which arrived on the scene a halt hour after the sending in of the alarm from the Bay Ridge Police Station, were able to draw nearer than a hundred yards from the ship was wrapped inan incandescent mantle of flame. From the crow, few of only fragmentary and came un- which rescued members of if whom speak English, pcounts of the ex- plosion and fire have been gleaned. | The Cervanes, from Balboa, was anchored on the Brooklyn side of the to the Narrows, you to ex- Mitch offices course he lways work in the several held in this city wi be Breatest channel leading about a half-mile from shore was up in all the boilers and she w am his n history and in the m head-on to 8 preparing to make | and hearts of his people. He and his way. |work here were truly national assets Suddenly came the explosion, which | because they accomplished results in ore away a great hole in the super-| uplifting the standard of municipal structure just back of the bridge administration and in manifesting amidships and tilted tho single fun-|that, in what is perhaps the most net out of blumb. Fire seemed to| difficult city in the world to govern abroad. fine attributes spected at home and “Coupled with the the deckload of oil and gasoline had | caught fire Some o fthe members of the crew! of character was the attractiveness amidship were blown over the rails of youth and the personal charm und into the bay by the explosion. which endeared him in a singular Others in the fo'c's'le reshed (hrough way to those who were brought in flames to hurl themselves over side, intimate relations with him, Before five minutes had elapsed “The testimonial in his memory the big ship was seething from bow Shown by the citisens of New York to stern and a hugh mushroom of &t his funeral waa perk fy a belated dense black smoke had spread high ¢XPression of the »ple's feeling, but Ree shar ra thane it Was an outpouring and a silent ex above the Narrows. Dress hich will have a high edu From both the Brooklyn and Staten oie es oe . el ‘ ius Island shore small craft put out at ro vere privileged to see it and once to rescue those who were strug- gling in the water and steam launch- se from two men-of-war anchored Continued on Fourt Fourth Page.) | arson ANT, Sener ae @Codptinued on Second Page.) spring up all over the ship almost in-| high principles, humane instincts, un- stantly |flinching courage and persistent ap ‘Through the hole made by the ex-| plication and energy, made of its | plosion great volumes of smoke government a pattern that all cities poured upward, Another column of the country may well desire to | from the forward deck indicated that | emulate, and made it most highly re- ~ Ghewers this afternoon and to-night; Sunday y ne “Circulation Books Open to All.” DAY, _SULY 13, 14 PAGES. 1918. _ 1,100,000 TROOPS ABROAD: N.Y. DIVISIONS FORM PART I — " THREE CORPS ~ GERMANY INTENDS TO KEEP BELGIUM Announces. | Will IGNMENT OF UNITS. |ASS 90,000 Soldiers Sent Across} Since Last Week and Rate Keeps Up. Restore Country After WASHINGTON, July 13.—Ameri- A d can troops overseas and on shipboard Using Her as Pawn, en route has passed the 1,100,000 He Says. mark, Gen, March, Chief of Staff, | Radha told Senate Military Committee mem-| COPENHA July 13.—Denial \bers to-day at their, weekly con-|that Germany intended to in Bel- lference. This represents an increase | gium was made by Count von Hert- than 90,000 since last week. |ling, the German Imperial Chancellor, in of his h before Main Committee on of more Of the Americans abroad 331,000 are in the fighting Mne and the others /the Reichs Thursday the course , Gen. March said, have reached @ stage | of training which would make them| “The present possession of Belgium available in an extreme emergency | only means that we have a pawn for More than 250 American airpthnes|future negotiations,” the Chancellor Ea: aie) a ne : ; ; had been shipped to France up to July said, “We have no intention to keep Unofficial advices place the number of Allied troops in the Balkan Ader Us RUHLDNe La TLee Pevucui ladutioe GaAnunect apical 6, Gen. March said. Belgium in any form whateve at close to a million, including Italians, French, British, Serbians and Ih the lest pix toontae thers have been several eumpra of/ the acnile Three army corps of from 229 000] “What we precisely want as ex- Greeks, of Field Marshal von Hindenburg and there have been many reports that ie 000 men each have been detl- | pressed by us on Feb. 24, cl BERAT HAILS CAPTORS AS LIBERATORS, he has been in poor health, A despatch received in London yesterday nitely organized from Am an di-|cellor continued, “if that er the ROME, July 13.—The Albanian advance is continuing rapidly,” @ fm The Hague quoted a Dutch traveller from Germany as declaring that | vislons in France, Gen. March an-| war, restored Belgium shall as @ semi-ofticial statement declared to-day, 4@ report that the Field Marshal was ill and unable to participate in the nounced later at the weekly con- | eeltsdependent state not be subject “The enemy is making oniy sporadic, rear guard resistance. He ! ROC IAE AR NeAOUae Ha abel al Oar OATHIBRY German news. ference with newspaper men jto anybody as a vassal and shall) abandoned and failed to destroy abundant war material, which has been that Gen. Ludendorf, the first Quartermaster General, pad taven gree tea Major Gens Hunter, Ligesth come) live! with’ ue in aveds ‘friendly T87/ cantiired by our forces, Field Marshai's duues as Chief of the General Staff, manding the dist (ihe Bunsel? wee tions “The population of Berat hailed our troops as liberators.” Keeping step with reports of th sion, National Guard, has ben detailed! “I have held this point of view | Yield Mt ae First Army Corps. Commanders for! gium and I still hold it to-day. This FRENCH STRIKE AT NEW POINT IN FALL OF SEA PLANE. « spate Rie Prtsinorad indicating tho Second and Third have not Yet sido of my policy is fully In conform- | | z id Marshal and the Kum he oe anlage 1 little to say ree lity with the general lines, the direc Beta Mas had disagreements cou- Gen. mach Be sy ya fade TiS ac esse bleh T ypuianday clearly lela AND GAIN BELOW MONTDIDIER Machine Bearing f Andrews cilia ie ees vffensive move. but stated that the shipment | before you. Crishes to Earth—Ensign Parks | ; {8 the: went ot troops was proceeding without) We are waging the war as a war : z ‘ Probably Fatally Hurt. «ite in May Field Marshal von Any lek Up: whasevers: Wiss SNe ie of defense aa we havo cone trom tho | POuew Aavance in Picardy Yesterday With| CHATHAM, Mass, Juty 1—Knx | cents way reported ill witi a hig be ial 5 > ndrews, a naval av was ki yphoid eve: Strassburs. . pase deere rag |very beginning und every Imper Blow Further South and Capture a Farm, i Disien tris probanty Yuualiy 'ei| isla. Murehel oA sce Gh coc ouncing the organization of| istic tendency and every tendency to = TUeRAT in Gia GL E> k famigeday sy . u an pee Soe caine Gen. March showed' world domination has been remote [FRENCH REPORT] | beach her to-day he machine | POrted by the Tribune of Geneva that five Regular, nine National) from our minds." | PARIS, July 13.—In an operation carried out last night on a front gual to earth and instanlly caught j be suffering from an acuse nervous ua aoe bedi tinn Pel een oes saree Heastsintes ee between Montdidier and the Oise, the French pushed their advanced posts | The seaplane started out from me eb = ie, The newspaper deciared it the three corps. our territory, open air for the ex-| forward a distance of approximately 500 yards in the vicinity of the Porte Hitege tf ghey Leising ra dauletail t jean a oes fee ures COMPOSITIC OF FIRST ARMY pansion of our people in the ec nomic \F . Ww. . ee | istacladlahd'th, pacity was much CORPS JY DIVISIONS. |domain and, naturally, also security | /4°™ the War Office announced to-day | bapecdees he was confined tn The first corps Is composed as fol-!in regard to the future [The Porte Farm is in the vietnity of Antheull, northwest of com | GERMANS KILL FIVE BELGIAN ie iwato manitarium, It added that lows: First division regulars, under| “This is completely in conformity| plegne. This farm, toxether with the Loges Farin, together with the | TS Bataleon mer ete no re- regulars, including Marines, under Belgium, but how this point of viow! on the evening of July « | at tne Major Gen, Bundy; twenty-sixth!can be established in detail depends a j ie ss ‘ lI ne oniiieak of the war Fieia (New England) division, the first!upon future negotiations and, on this (Today's gains fuiiow those of yesterday in Picard Petain’s | Pitteen Also nae at City Market | Maranal von Hindenburg was « Gen division sent to France, Under Major| point 1 am wnablo to give binding| ‘fcore advanced on ® threesmile front north of Mallly-Ratneval (elght in Brussels When Soldiers eral in retirement. He was credited Gen, Baward;_forty-second (Rain- | deciarations.” miles northwest of Montdidier and six miles north of Cantigny, which saat then Vewe abiba jwith evolving and carrying out the eAniisiad on Boum Bawa) | During his address the Chancellor, a8 been taken by tae Americans) and broke into the enemy's front for ed camp, Alen against the Russians in ee oe) _| referred to Russia as follows: "Re.| & distance of a mile and a quarter. The village of Castle, on the Avre AMSTERDAM, July 15—Five Belgian | East Prussia which resulted in the garding the east, we stand on the| River; the Anchin Farin, a mile and @ half south of the village, and sey 2 ras a ee bre Mest wer Serine Rineen defeat at Tannen- basis of the peace of Brest-Litovsk, era! other strony posstions were stormed, and 500 German prisoners al t in the city mark Field Marsual He continence | ned =e pes ey ia — IP SAET Oe ready have been sent to the rear.} Wednoed ih 3 | mand the German forces on the Rus- IORROTAT, NOTIOW NO ee erie cstiat cache Following is the text of the day’s report from the War Ottice fcers requ ie n front until Aug. 20, 1916, when TO READERS istration, and it ts supported in this “Between Montdidier and the Oise the Freneh in the course of CALLS 12, 143 DRART MEN, |erat utatt tn succession to Gen. ene / by the chief of the army a tion.” dministra The United States Govern. ment through the War Indus- tries Board has called on all Von Payer to Quit if Pan-Germans Dictate Volley. pers throughout the AMSTERDAM, July 1 Confirmation United States to CUT OFF was received here to-day that Vice Chancellor von Payer has filed his resig allowances for unsold co; nation, to be effective in the event that on and after JULY 15, in Admiral von Hintze, the new Foreign order TO SAVE WASTE, Minister, attempts to follow the war pe egestas Aims and policies of the Pan-Germans order only what they can Impeachment of Fermer Row actually sell. You o m n Miniatera Asked, BUCHAREST, Roumanta, Friday, July 12.—Deputy Strolct to-day introduced a yotion in Parliament demanding the impeachment of the members of the for- mer Roumanian Cabinet, headed by J, J. C, Bratiano, for their connection with the entry of Roumania into the war, quested to place a standing order with your newsdeal; to insure getting a copy of The World. FIELD MARSHAL AND KAISER | | | HAD A VIOLENT QUARREL BALKANS DRIVE SPREADS bag From The Hague Says the Kaiser and Von Hindenburg Had Serious Differences Over Drive Toward Paris, and ‘That General 10 A FRONT Of 200 MILES Was Stricken With Apoplexy. rts That Offensive Begun AMSTERDAM, July 13 (By Associated Press).—Field Mar- h shal von Hindenburg is dead, according to the newspaper Les Nouvelles. His death is said to have occurred after a stormy. interview with the German Emperor at Great Headquarters. For teveral days the-s have been rersistent reports that Gen. von Hindenburg was gravely ill at Great Headqiiarters at the Spa. Rome Repo: in Albania Is Designed to Crus Bulgaria and Turkey—Then Aus- tria Will Be Attacked. LONDON, July 13.—The general offensive in the Balkans, in- tended to smash Bulgaria and Turkey and to lead to the complete military overthrow of Austria-Hungary, is believed to be under way, with Italians French, British, Serbians, Greeks and Montenegrins in the fighting. According to the Associated Press correspondent in Rome, despatches | The Emperor and the Field Marshal are declared to have had serious differences of opinion concerning the German offensive toward Paris. The Field Marshal died from congestion of the brain. The interview between yon Hindenburg and Emperor William oe- there declare the Italian and Allied troops in Albania have succeeded in perfecting a single front, extending 200 miles from the Adriatic Ses to Salonica on the Aegean Sea. curred on May 16, Les Nouvelles says. It was followed by an apoplectic stroke which ultimately resulted in the Field Marshal's death, The newspaper says its information was obtained “from good sources Other ‘messages from Romie quote political and military leaders as |in the occupied district of Belgium.” saying “Austria is about to crumble.” | Palkenhayn, of the When he became Chief Staff Gen, Ludendorft, 1 acted as his Chief of Stafr on the Russian front, came with him night advanced their forward posts 500 metres in the region of the Porte Sum- Farm. who ha WASHINGTON “Successful raids were carried out b Frenchy troops north of the marshal Ge Crowde as his right hand man with the title Avre (southeast of Amiens), in the region of the Olse, on the Marne, and "*ued the f ate wf) o¢ Chief Quartermaster General, in the Champagne, resulting in the taking of pris ' education start) pace . Resigiicatren ye born in OFFICIAL BRITISH REPORT. Ne DARTS ONE, 2 00h Oo 1g eae he: entered thee LONDON, July 13.—Successful minor enterprises were {hand 164 ne Regiment of the Guards and took part by the British last night on the Flanders front, near Vieux Berquin By AEE EMRE rtp [ty Brae raid antinana te the ee Merris, as a result of which ninety-six prisoners were taken and a few ma. | —_ | Major, and went to the War Departe < ‘ pA r is % . a From Disease, nt in 1889 as Chief of Divisi chine guns captured, the War Office announced to-d, Te Geard iy A Boe “ vista g Pp ' F ay | WASHIN« July 13.—Senior| From 1891 until 1896 he was com. A German raiding party which advanced upon the British jines in| surgeon C. C. Pierce of the Public| mander of the 91st Infantry, and dure The Asta artillery |Health Service has been appointed | Flanders, in the Meterean sector, was repulsed, “4 | developed activity during the night on the Flanders front and opposite _ Beaumont-Hamel, ing the following four years was Chiet of Staft of the Eighth Army Corps, In 1900 he was pews, in ommend ot and in Assistant Surgeon General charge of a newly created divi to combat insidious diseases, parti ularly in ghe vicinity of army camps,