The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1918, Page 2

—— EVENING THE EVENING WORLD in Reporting the War Has the News Service of the Associated Press, the United Press and Special Correspondents. No Other Evening Paper in New York Has a News Service So Complete. WORLD, TURSDAY i cI ere. The offensi ins held up, the attacks up to this Wit mAY F a) e mre ot nee: es ste WILSON STAYS AT WHITE HOUSE TO HEAR NEWS FROM THE FRONT + Despatches From Gens. Pershing and Bliss, Confirm Reports of the Fighting and All Officials Are Confident. WASHINGTON, July 16.—Official reports on the new German offensive and the part played by American troops in holding up the) enemy on the first day began to reach the War Department early to-day from Gens. Pershing and Bliss. The following statement was issued LATEST CHANGES IN THE LINE OF GREAT BATTLE LEE AAO ALAD EEL DDED DDD DEDDE 4 DD PDDPREMEIDA LE DIDOD OF444-4-44-6-44 949569 OD 909GO9506-144O605O9444-406OO0 0.000 pray eae Advices received in London up to noon to-day said there was little change in the siuation, The attacks which continued throughout yes terday were conducted by the forces of Gen. von Below and Gen, von | Boehm, who are directing the operations of the two armies on the left wing of the German Crown Prince group. Great numbers of German corpses are hanging on the tangle of; barbed wire in front of the French positions and all the reports state that the losses of the Germans must have been exceedingly heavy. 12,000 GERMANS TO MILE ON BATTLE LINE. t soeenge The Germans are employing from 30 to 35 divisions (from 360,000 to 420,000 men) in advices received here this afternoon. This is nearly one division (12,000 men) attacking on each mile of the fighting line. From a captured map it is evident that the Germans’ main attack was intended to be down the Mame Valley into Epernay. There is every indication that the enemy intended the attack should be a really big one, Some of the German troops came from the army of the Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavarta, so it is believed there is little likelihood of the Germans launching another attack while this one is on. To the east of Rheims many German tanks have been knocked out of action by French and American artillery. Their wrecks strew the ground. The main attack to the east of Rheims continued up to 7 o'clock last night. The fighting was extremely severe in the vicinity of Souain and at Prunay, where the Germans captured a wood south of the village. This was an exception, the German attack elsewhere being repulsed with heavy losses. The French line of resistance remains practically everywhere intact. AMERICANS IN COUNTER DRIVE GAIN GROUND EAST OF RHEIMS; SPIRIT OF GERMANS BROKEN U. S. Machine Guns Turned Loose With Ter- rific Effect After Enemy Is Allowed to Pass First Line. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE MARNE, July 16 (As| sociated Press).—Word received this morning from the battlefront to the east of Rheims shows that the Allied defense is not only still holding up the German attempts to advance, but appears to have broken the enemy’s spirit. At one point on that front of the offensive where American troops are fighting they organized a small counter-attack late yesterday on (he) flank of a salient established by the Germans and drove them out in short order, but in hot fighting. The American troops in this section occupied intermediate positions in the rear of the first lines. The Germans were allowed to come through, but when they tried to cross the open field up a slight grade the American machine gunners and infantry, occupying excellent positions, mowed down the advancing ranks, the enemy breaking and retiring at | many places. This operation was conducted on a portion of the front) to the east of Rheims. STOOD LIKE WALL AGAINST ATTACK. WITH THE AMERICANS IN CHAMPAGNE, July 16 (8.5 A. M.), (United Press).—American units holding the line east of Rheims have not given an inch before the German drive. Forming the Allied right flank, they stood like a stone wall against | the great enemy pusa, inflicting huge losses on the Germans and taking large numbers of prisoners. their great offensive, according to by the War Department: “Despatches received from Gen. Pershing and Gen. Bliss con- firm the press accounts of yesterday's fighting. American troops west of Surmelis counter-attacked, captured prisoners, established and are holding their advanced positions. Germany’s barrage was met by counter-barrage, which in many places prevented the ad- vance of their infantry. Full reports covering the entire front are, of course, not yet available. The general situation this morning is regarded as satisfactory. “The first day in such a battle is, of course, merely general ad- vance guard action, The great pressure of reserves and concentrated masses is still to be looked for.” Tension was somewhat relaxed at the War Department. Officials were more than ever certain of the ability of the Allied and American forces to checkmate any effort the enemy might make. President Wilson again abandoned his usual morning round of gclf to-day and remained at the White House, hearing reports from the front. He was up late last night following both official and unotticial advices, aes teatsi CAPTURED AMERICANS ESCAPE, SEIZE GERMANS ON WAY BACK Many Cases of Individual Bravery in Yester- day's Battle—Men Take Place of Horses Killed in Bringing Up Munitions. WITH THE AMERICANS ON Bevan rapid bh et it ran short THD MARNE, July 16 (8 A. M.),/0f ammunition. Volunteers were on the Marne began yesterday at 3) by shell fire. Every man volunteered. A. M. Initial attempts of the enemy); The necessary number was picked. | They drove their horses, drasging the to bridge the river were frustrated y id | allop by American artillery and machine | PAP! cuissons, at a gallop through shell bursts, Several horses were gun fre, ‘killed. Returning, more horses were As the German fire was concen- to re en trated on the American positions in| auteq that the men were toned to the bend of the river from three} substitute themselves, They would sides our men gradually fell back in| leap off, cut loose the mangled bodies of the faithful animals, then grasp the traces and run along beside the [remaining horses. When this strange cavalcade—half man and half animal —arrived at the battery the men serving the guns paused long enough in their deadly work to cheer their heroic comrades. Sergt. Fred Brown and Oscar Wil- cox returned to the American lines late yesterday afternoon with aight prisoners, They had been captured themselves and disarmed. But, watch- ing for an opportunity, they over- powered their guards and escaped, picking up a squad of Germans on the way back. Documents and maps taken from other prisoners showed that the en- emy reached none of his planned ob- Jectives between Chateau-Thierry and Dormans, A full enemy division was identified as the 10th, The Americans engaged this same division when they were thrown across the path of the Germans’ advance on Paris in June, and stopped it. Another remarkable phase of the battle was the lack of aerial observa- tion in the middle of the day, While the weather was fairly clear early In the day, the sky soon became heavily clouded and few airplanes were up when the Americans counter attacked around noon, There were two sharp showers late in the afternoon, atvr which the sky again became’ clear. Airplanes then began to swarm in perfect order and the Germans suc- ceeded in throwing six pontoons across. Following the cleverest dictates of strategy, the American retirement continued until our men reached the base of the salient created by the bend in the river. There they halted at 10 o'clock and resisted all efforts of the Germans to dislodge thom. Coolly, despite the Rarassing fire, the oMfcers began préparing for a counter-attack, Shortly after noon it} began, Slowly and methodically, as though executing some training man- oeuvre, the Americans pressed for- ward, Their advance was irresistible. They drove the Germans back more than two kilometres (a mile and a quarter) before there was any slack- ening of the attack, When it did halt it was voluntary, | AMERICANS RESUME THE COUN- TER-ATTACK, The counter-attack was after @ brief pause | resumed his time the! American assault was conducted with | An almost unbelievable ferocity. The Germans were caught up in the cy- clonic SLODOODE LEAL DODD DEE LE DORR EVEL BEL DYPODLODUD DYDD ORD 04 460908669094 F906 66-0: FOOE-H94-00666.0-0:4-00:04.000-4: LET HD BEG TO BUY UBERT BOND AND LIVE Mother Didn’t Know She Was | Doing Wrong and Sen- tence Is Suspended. Mrs, Annetta Bernat, thirty-two years old, of No. 407 West 624 Street, wife of an ambulance driver, pleaded suilty to-day before Justices Ed- wards, Collins and Murphy in Spectal Sessions to a charge of violating Section 485 of the Penal Law by al lowing he r child to beg. Sentence, however, was suspended after hoar- ing her story. Mrs. Bernat said that her daughter Ida, fourteen years old, had become i and morose because she did not have the money to subscribe to the third Liberty Loan, and that in order to obtain the money the girl had auc- tioned off her doll in the street. Then she bought a bond for the child on the weekly payment plan, $12 having thus far been paid off, | In the child's possession was found @ book giving the names of about one! hundred persons who had given her | money. The mother said she did not know that she was doing wrong in| allowing the child to collect the moncy | in that way. She had kept the money collected in excess of the amount re- quired for the bond payments be- cause she did not know where to take it. | The woman was arrested on Tuly 6 by Officer Louls Falk of the Chil- dren's Society who sudi he had. re- ceived numerous complaints neighbors that the child was be; in the streets. He said that the child had collected from $8 to $12 daily. | pes | ‘AUSTRIA ALSO TALKS. NA PEACEFUL VEN, BUT WITH ASTRING” GERMAN AIR RAIDERS BOMB U. $. HOSPITAL; KILL TWO, WOUND NINE Red Cross Nurses and Doctors Keep! on Operating During Attack at Jouy—Woman Among Injured. ARI8, July 16.—German air raiders last night bombed an American Red Cross hos- Pital at Jouy, killing two men and injuring nine persons, including Miss Jane Jeffrey. The hospital was full of wounded and operations were proceeding when the attack began. Physicians and nurses never halted their work. Three tenta were destroyed. The hospital was bombed delib- erately. At least three bombs were dropped. East of Chalons, Red Cross workers searched all night long for wounded and many were sent back to the hospitals. To the thousand beds at tho American Army Field Hospitals in this neighborhood supplies of bandages, ether, &c., were de- livered from Paris within twelve hours, (Miss Jane Jeffery left the United States in October, 1917, with the Second Special Health Group, ac- cording to the Publicity Section of the Red Cross here. Her home is in Dorchester, Ma: WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE MARNE, July 16 (Asso- ciated Press).—The Germans ap- parently deliberately attempted to shell several of the American hos- pitale near the Marne front yes- terday. A number of shells fell intermit- tently @ short distance from them, They did no damage beyond dis- turbing the patients, | statesman who now prates about the froi| monardhy’s national questions as a London Learns Extent of American eeis| war aim had probably no idea of| their existence at the beginning of the war. “This fact can be recognized from that amateurish and superficial man- ner in which our opponents discuss jan attempt to solve these complicated problems, This method, however, ap- pears to them t obe useful, They, therefore, organized it as they have organized the blockade, and in Eng- land they now have a Propaganda Minister, dD QUEEN'S SILVER WEDDING SHOWER BRINGS 595,029 Burleson Expected to Be Given GIFTS FOR WOUNDED MEN Control of Telegraph fe Lines Soon | Whole World Sends Offerings to cUrardister London, Including 9,268 Pieces WASHINGTON, Julyt 16.—Presiden 4 q Wilson to-day signed the Wire Control of Sterling. Resolution, empowering him to take I ONDON, July 16.—The pros 'WIRE CONTROL MEASURE SIGNED BY PRESIDENT | over and operate for the Jeriod of the ject of offering Queen Mary | war, all telagraph, telephone, cable and radio linea, @ shower of gifts for the Proparations for taking over the| Wounded in celebration of the | Trunk Line Telegraph and Telephone| Silver wedding anniversary of | Systems already have been made by the| the King and Queen has had an 4 Post office Department, and the under-| amazing success, Princess Be: standing is that President Wilson will entrust the Government control to Post- master Burleson. Officials think action will be ordered very shortly. enn U. S, SHIPS COLLIDE | AND ONE GOES DOWN trice yesterday at St. Jamei Palace presented to the Queen 585,761 gifts in kind besides 9,268 gifts of sterling. The Queen expressed astonish- ment at the magnificent total of gifts which came from all over the world, They are displayed in the famous Queen Anne's - drawing room and adjoining apartments in the palace and in- clude a great variety of offerings from the dominions. eae 23 RIGHTHOFEN'S. SUCCESSOR RLLED IN TRIAL FLIGHT Capt. Reinhard’s German Air Squadron Claims 177 Victories Over Allied Flyers. AMSTERDAM, July 16.—Capt. Retn- hard, commander of the air squadron of ° Oosterdijk Sinks After Crash With San Jacinto and Crew Is Picked Up by Latter. AN ATLANTIC PORT, July 16—The sinking at sea on July 11 of the Amer- jean steamship Oosterdijk after a col-| lision with the American steamship San | Jacinto was reported by a Swedish | steamship arriving here to-day. | The Oosterdijk's crew was taken! Aboard the San Jacinto, which although ,Dadly damaged, had managed to reach Jan Atlantic Port, |, Both vessels, ed an | by naval crews, carried ca | supplies. ‘The San Jacinto's 8 O § | brought one American and two neutral | | Yospels which stood by until her safe arrival at port was assured. The col-!ths late C: re Ric! val at port 4 ‘ ne late Capt, Baron von Richthofen, laters, Comurred in Worth “Atlantic! 05 been killed during @ trial Right, the Lokal A }etaims 17 Reinhara. 450 BATTLE 'PLANES DELIVERED BY JULY 5 At the Same Time 2,514 Liberty - elger says. The squadron aerial victories under Capt. ‘U, S, TROOPS IN RUSSIA RUN INTO THOUSANDS Participation in Murman Coast Operations. LONDON, July 16.—There are several | thousand American troops operating on the Murman Coast, in Northern Russia, | by Manufacturers, | it was learned authoritatively to-day WASHINGTON, July 16.—Four ———— jhundred and fifty American built MOONEY HANGING AUG, 23, |battic planes nad been sent absoad % or delivered at ports for shipment on Committed to Prison by Court to| July 5, the date of the latest com- Awalt Execution, | plete official report reaching the War FRANCISCO, Cal 16,—| Department. In announcing this fig- ecrctary Baker disclosed July An order committing Thomes J. Mooney | ure to-day Motors Have Been Finished ell rush And great numbers of|great flocks and scores of Allied ae wih e efed His. week: or jt, San Quentin Penitentiary to, await | also that deliveries of Liberty motors *, . . . them were hurle bod 0 bombin, lanes crossed lines and record without useless ena execution there on Friday, Aug. 23. was! oe ai!) classes on the Same date hi é Following a bombardment of gas and high explosives, which ad- | te Me ey Oe ne. TE RASS HAABGR MEE AU) Clive ciel; /<GOMMNNed tom Misi Paces whining, The choice of this new | given, the Sheriff here today by Bupe-| noe 2.614, ne i joining French units declared was heavier tnan any ever attempted at] Co-operation of the American ar-|Ranizations from the front far to etpiaiaiial | manne oF: BEnHOg: ue) dort Leelee pel gin Mouney man convicted ot Tre. | qe eee eer ; i ‘ " eat nfidence in je succe: In conn n a i Verdun, the masses of gray-clad German infantry swept forward to the | Ullerymen and machine gunners was| Strange sights were observed | points of July 4 shall not, apart from Nis pleas previous efforts, We are | % 3.9 expiosion here DIED. t . ; |perfect. ‘The gunners, firing trom| behind the Allied lines. Mingling! certain exaggerations, arouse our |the ¢ je Pee Mooney was granted until to-morrow | Cave. wittias, cuaiNG assault yesterday morning. |far in the rear, dropped shells on the |! t8@ roads with the rushing traffic | Onposition certain it will be unsuccessful. to arrange his affairs Services at CAMPBELL FUNER dia 4 av ; : the] 4 » Fre ‘ome! ' or i} ‘. : vl cas hie vices a! MPBEL NERAL American field guns, firing low over the heads of our men in ad-|enemy's pontoons with the greatest] Children, Who mat mien tae ned | [Section missing here.) ene SBRGRS He AL naa SOF $1,250,000 NITRATE FIRE CHURCH, Broadway, 66th st., Wednes. vanced positions, tore great gaps in the close packed rariks of the enemy, [sesurner: When : ne a una] wagons, fleeing from newly shelled ae rom the conficent Mitsranaes Ot ee etre caine cron archer and 290,000 J day, 10 o'clock . 2 . . . ‘eached ve ban he e " D a y q eSaeEeQqQuQqQr The machine gunners and riflemen withheld their fire until (ney could |Tonewer /he river bank thes any Armerioan. and’ Bronch flags, put?) oe olin te ae they, [Prefer 1n thoir satisfaction to over-| sxcnsoNVILLE, Fia., July 16.—Fire| HELP WANTED—MALE. i rf renee : comeplied plunge dma up in celebration of Bastille Day, | NTI Ar he 4 a ve a literally follow Gen. Putnam's famous order, “Don't fire until you sze|or them were drowned, Others were| wera still displayed everywhere in| nevertheless, represent the peace | (reket the aeeeene Cie thal thane | See ce ateeatien: OF TatraLe ORLY | spear errr mene at ” Sona * 0 e al 0 » shel 7 the ome ih Ww a i e m ? rm a raul A ont the whites of thir syes.” Then, st a signal, they cu loose with such /esusbt to the rain of shells and ms-|ERt ston tek “ane” Reecioan "fags |antlee a8 6 warning or Our teats | scutes, with thelr various nationall- [ihe “American Agricultural " Chemica | qs, "ein8 int A Sahel 4 chine gun bullets and the stream|¢rom their windows and waved them |ment of a defeated enemy we do not a cattentalatriclufe tat w i a tomado of steel that the foremost waves of Boche infantry were torn was soon thickly dotted with shat-|aa American ambulances passed consider the reproach fustified. Pp, are ne & to shreds. The Germans wavered, tried to reform their rank$, and finally fled, leaving the field carpeted with gray bodies, Time and again the Germans returned to the attack, doggedly trying to sweep over the American front lines and carry the rise which formed our support position, And time and again their waves broke and receded on the defense of the Americans, for all the world like the waves of the sea battering at a rock-bound coast. SHORT RANGE WITH TRENCH MORTARS The Americans even brought trench mortars into play. The range at times short that the heavy projectiles often cut through score of men before exploding. One of our mortar gun outfits, operai- ing in gas masks for six hours, wiped out five German battalions (prob- ably 2,500 men) Some of the rushes carried into the American lines and bayonet clubbed rifles and fists were substituted for bullets. But these temporary successes only resulted in the Americans taking a few prisoners. The prisoners were comparatively few, too, as a German, in the heat of ihe melee, had to shout “Kamerad!” quickly to beat a bayonet thrust. The Germans sent over an escadrille of thirty-six airplanes io attack the Americans with machine gun fire while flying low. Our doughboys turned their automatic rifles skyward and actually shot down one of the enemy machines. The others were so badly strafed that they fled, was $ The fighting was almust continuous throughout the day, but toward evening the Germans, thoroughly whipped for the time being, called off their infantry and settled down to an artillery duel that was a battle of some magnitude in itself. ) ie aancmmangeenigs - - mie eltins none Aik i ES TAY STIRBE tered bodies, In some places, the Germans clung doggedly to the south bank, Ameri can officers sent back word late last | night, however, that they expected to ‘drive these back across before morn- ing. It ts reported that this was ac In the hospitals, not far from the front, American doctors worked untiringly, despite the fact they were unde most constant fire from the enemy's long-range guns. FOOD PRICES INCREASED — and nurses complished, but this bas not been Tre 63 PER CENT, IN FIVE YEARS The battle was one of the most P ' N Fl YEAR remarkable of the war, For ten hours the intense shelling by guns of jcalibres continued, Everything within 10 Kilometers (25 miles) of the front all AND 5 PER GENT, IN LAST ONE Boost of 3 Per Cent. Recorded in was shelled, while the front lines Month Ending May 15, Federal and organizations immediately in the . rear were muabjected to the fiercest Bureau Finds, deluge of gas shelly and high ex ASHINGTON, July 16.— Retail food prices in the United States increased 3 per cent. from April 15 to May 1 of this year, according to es- | plosives. |CROSSED RIVER BEHIND CuR- TAIN OF FIRE. When the Germans attacked a| creeping barrage five kilometres (m |than three miles) deep swept over| ‘mates to-day by the Bureau of \the American and French lines, Be-| Labor Statistics, During the \hind this curtain of fire the Germs year ending May 15 last there crossed the river, In addition to throwing over pon. toons, canvas bouts and rafts, was an increase of 6 per cent, although most vegetables showed holding a score of men, wer a decline. out from the poncealment of Hoiling beef increased 22. per coded banks, their occupants poltug eere eueet aen aeue pollag | cent. during the year; corn meal like gnomes while ore 4 20 per cent; milk 26 per cent, being forced to Wear gas masks. and pork chops 20 per cent owing to the violence of their own Vor the five years ending May gassing: 15 last there was an average in Numerous stories are told of in dividual bravery of the Americans, ! One artillery outfit maintained such crease of 68 per cent, in the of food, according to the bu: wlutistica, price ue LSI ne ree enaegttenar is Ssehishintehentndiaighlerabbar eye see etm ne nt am 8 secant A Teese en song cea ne ——$—$—$—$—$——_——————$——————— None of the belligerents states need ever come into the position of Russia and Roumania, as we are ever ready to enter into peace negotiations with all our opponents." SAYS WRONG DONE AUSTRIA MUST BE REDRESSED, “If our enemies continuously de- mand atonement for wrong done and restitution, then this is a claim which we could urge with more justification against them, because we have been attacked and the done must be redressed, “The enemy's obstinacy reganding his territorial demands, regamiing Al- | Lorraine, Trieste, the Trentino and the German colonies appears to | wrone to us swe be insurrountable, There lies the | limit of our readiness for peace, We are propared to discuss everything except our own territory. “The enemy not only wants to cut from Austria-Hungary what he would like for himself, but the in- ner-structure, that of the monaroby | itwelf, too, is to be attacked and the monarehy dissolved, if possible, into component parts. “Now that it is recognized that ordinary war methods have not sufficed to defeat us, interest in our internal affairs suddenly has become supreme, The antente, however, dis-| high court. At product of historical and ethnograph- {eal necessity, which carry in them- selves the fundamental principle of life and race, “They, therefore, possess, and this applies fully to Austria and Hungary, the necessary elasticity and adapta- bility to the changing events of the times, the ability to reform them- sclves according to the necessity of their standard of development and to solve all internal crises without un- called for foreign interference, “Our enemies want to paralyze us by an offensive of irritation and to render us helpless, They want to crush our very powerful organism in order to make W parts one after the other serviceable to their own puropses.” ON TRIAL FOR TREASON French Senate, as High Court, Takes Up Case of Former Cabinet Member. July 16.~-The trial of Louis J. 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