The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1918, Page 1

“If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ PRICE TWO CENTS. Copreight, 1018, by The Press Publishing (The ‘New York World) podind YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, “ | | “Cirenlation Books Open to All.” 1918. AMERICANS WIPE OUT GERMANS 16 PAGES Clearing Te: Night; Thursda: p = i PRICE TWO bhacsdbedbaies CAUGHT IN TRAP AT SERINGES CITY IS PREPARED TOFIGHT 1.25 GAS RATE IN BROOKLYN GERMAN DICTATOR IN UKRAINE IS ASSASSINATED WITH BOMB BY AN AGENT FROM MOSCOW Not Affect Case of Big Kings County Concern. Field Marshal von Eichhorn Killed With His Adjutant at Kiev. IS Corporation Counsel Burr is mar- shalling his legal } |tempta by the and Brooklyn Union gas combine to an- forces against at- Consolidated SLAYER CAPTURED. | |nihilate the Highty-Cent G The decision of ex-United 8 !preme Court Ju declares the eigh 3 Law ates Su- Attack Charged to Social) Revolutionists—Kaiser cent gas rate a Gravesend and Coney Island to be Enraged by Deed. confiscatory has encouraged the ——— Brooklyn Borough Gas Company serv- AMSTERDAM, July 31.—Ficld Mar- | ing those districts to boost its rate to $ shal von Hichhorn, the German com- | mander in the Ukraine, and his at} “The people atfeoted—by- the $125 rate need not have any fear that it fatant, Capt, von Dressler, were | will be permitted to prevail without wounded by a bomb in Kiev, says an a bitter fight,"" deciared the Corpora- official announcement recetved here tion Counsel, ne Law Department trom Ukranian capital, | of the city Is at the disposal of those who claim the $1.% rate is excessive A later message from Kiev an-| founces that von Dressler died The bomb was t which drove close carriage as the Fi Hing to fight. This ld come before the Public chhorn and von) action ¥ Sorvice © ommission, which, I ‘own from a cab the Germans’ they were approaching 1d Marshal's residence on the would aot ¢ tain, to dene: _ GENT YON “If this process is too s thod of fightin another m way from the company that imposes a ra re have been arrested. before a jury ino court of law. Th eram declares, that the crime or 7 matter how hard any corporation inated with the Social Revolutionists | Officers Kille 4, 521; Men, 8,474; | may fight against them Jakes w ae ae Losses in June Were | “Perhaps fest injareet sean ie uss as al enty~ 4 sumers serve y the ings three, He declared at tho Inquiry | 141,147, County Lighting Company and held after the crime, the advices state,| LONDON, July 3 Brit the public at large to know that that he came from the Province of Eyam, adjacent to Moscow, OM OF-| compares with total casualties rem ers from a Communist comniittes, | = x "lin June of 141,147, The losses for July to kill the Field Marshal, He reached | | teported during July totalled the right of that concern ta charge more than 80 cents for gas will not be desided by a referee, The trial of the case will be held Inquiry shows, adds the message, | 521; men, 8.474 | The city is ready and confident that the assassin calls himself Boris| Wounded or Missing—Officers, 1.537;| that it can prevent the company Danskio, and that he was an agent|men, 56 from raising its rates. the Social Revolutionists of Luc| Since March 21 of this year the British | “One need not be a lawyer to know UR in Moscow. He was furnished | have taken 14,500 prisoners on the weat-|that a gas company whose §0-cent by the Central Committee of that | trp front James lan MacPherson, Par-| rate ig reed to be confiscatory faction with a bomb and a revolver, | Uamentary Secretary to the War Office, | oo ino: jack the price of gas, informed the House of Commons to-day “DRYS” THREATEN TO TAX aad a supply of money, it Is declared. Emperor William, before being in- formed of the fatal termination of Mbitum, to $1.25, or any other price it sees fit! The gas company that attempts to raise rates will have to tice Hughes which! ad |? KL ALL POSSIBLE NOW SOLE OBIE | IN GREAT BATTLE|— ;Small Company Decision Doss| Every Other Aim Submerged, ys March—‘Rainbows” Fighting Near Fere. WASHINGTON, July 31.—The sole jobject of the Allies and the Germans jin the Solssons-Rheims salient now is |to kill as many men as possible, Gen. | March, Chief of Staff, said to-day | his at semi-weekly conference witi Whatever the be- has been newspaper correspondents, | object e cither side had at | ginning, the ¢ submerged by fighting Gen neral said, developments in the that the greatly flattened, March pointed out salient has been thus virtually dissipating any hopes of the Allies bagging large numbers of the enemy. The German with- drawal since lust Saturday had he added, reduced the another ten miles to fifty-four miles. The maximum German retreat, in the centre, Gen ‘cepted a is fourteen miles March's statement w explaining reports that the | have nearly 1,000,000 men on this narrow fron:, and as disclosing the reason for the terrific fighting in which American forces have been engaged in the cen- of the battlefront, where losses have not served to divert either from the struggle for critical Hons. The Americans hold the apex of the lied drive, the vital point on which the outcome of the struggle may d the fury ¢ |ter-attacks is accounted for by | fact. Arrival of the 42d (Rainbow) Divi rticipation in the fight Germ: concentrated tre sido posl- this | tifled ax in action at rey and Clerges, rma where the crack Guard divisions have been ed in recent fighting by Ameri- can troops, Gen, March announced the forma- length of the line] German coun- | GERMANS HAVE COLD FEET, WOULD BE THE VERDICT OF “Act as Though They Had Suffered a Big Defeat,’ Says Member of the Reichstag— More Excuses by Press. MSTERDAM, July 31.—Further excuses for the German defeat A on the Marne are appearing in German newspapers reaching here. Reichstag Member Traub chides tho discouraged Germans, declar- ing: “If Frederick the Great appeared to-day he would say: ‘You are suffering from cold feet and should be ashamed.’ We are losing courage as though we had suffered a big defeat. Let's act like men.” “A small withdrawal was necessary and will be helpful,” says the Frankfurter Zeitung The Rheinteche Westphallsche Zeltung denies the Allies have gained the Initlative, pointing out that the withdrawal] from the Marne Was made so that a solid front might be presented SOME REASONS FOR THE COLD FEET. GENEVA, July 31 big offensive was launched, total nearly a million men, according to a high neutral official who has just arrived from Berlin, He said tho German casualties in the last two sections ofghe offensive mated at 350,000. 4,760,000 GERMAN CASUALTIES IN WAR. PARIS, July 31.—German loss reached 4,760,000, according to L‘Homme Libre, Premier Clemenc have 6,430,000 men, west front. The paper estimates that since March the German losses havo been a million and a half, of which a million, it iy sald, have been put out of action. German to 8 since ch 21, when the were enti- since the start of the war have aates published here to-day in newspaper, The Germans now it is stated, of which 4,000,000 are engaged on the aus ribing hi ros experiment was the first to FROM AIRPLANE nce STONE” W ELBE the attack on von Eichhorn, tele- prove what its gas is worth before wiseed a re =| Scott aia enes| LIQUOR OUT OF REAGH <i" lsat Serer oem | GERMAN FAMINE OMEN, says a Berlin despatoh: Tho Public Service Commission, | yee i at Camps Logan, Texas; | ROdman Law, at Kelly Field, | “My Dear Field Marshal and Gen-|. . » through William 1, Ransom, its |'0 Be 100a ed ot a eee eauropard, Perf Feat in Advance REVEALED BY WATERS \ erel—I bave learned with indignation | Defy “Wels,” Who Claim Prohibi-|chiet counsel, to-day announced ita | Kearne ation i area 4 erforms Feat in Advance puis: Pravis, exas; od ge, e % and deep regret of the abominable} tion Would Prevent Raising intention of fighting the Brookiyn | ous apa Masa erresa of Capt. Serrat. Stes ocmmenitied Seeing: you 6nd $8,000,000,000 by Levies. [RGRED SREP OTS ELAR FAIA MN |i On cane of the mix divisions Ane - - “When Ye See Me, Ye Will Weep,” your adjutant, Be assured of my! | o : 4 Hansen saya tie Sompeky AS Be ced last k, theso will be] SAN ANTONIO, T tuy 1—] Reads Inscription on Rock sincere and hearty sympathy. I hope|. WASHINGTON, July 31—A threat to|right to use the Hughes decision ‘a nounced last week, 1 > , Tox, July | ds Inscrit , 4 pray to God that you ma be | 8 liquor out of existence in the new lan effort to “recoup past losses," built around two regular infantry! poaman Law has jumped from at in River's Bed Granted a sperdy recovery. Mus. Tie | Revenue Bill wan the prohibition reply | counsel Yor the concern admitted |regiments in each casc moving airplane several times and preserve you to us and the father. | to-day to claims that making the Na- | yesterday, ‘The General said that details of the . S STERDAM, July 20 (Corre- Jand. |tion dry at this session of Congress| According to Mr. Ransom Referee | sniqcation of all the American forces |!Mded safely with the aid « “| A 8p nee of the Aassocl- . eases a os Sou wall halt plana to raise $3,000,000,00 in|Hughes found that even under tne | ‘ “i ratte 4 4 od Proaa)--Tho ‘ pth geort er of i i hae 3 plan 0 tal bnormal conditions of 1917 the 95- ¢ now being worked, and In the fu-|chute at Kelly Field. The ex ated Preas).—Tbho famous “ ——o wad Anti-prohibition forcea in both {cent rate fxed by tho Public Se rvicdlliRs re will be no so dD the feat was performed from a heig b aneer stone” in the River Elbe jeor iasio! telded e company 3 atlo vy. b hear Teta , which, acc in 3 VICTORIES IN 5 MINUTES, | Dour. including members of the Sen- ner Peon eee wae cone any 2 |tlonal Guard or National Army, but|o¢ 6.000 feet, with Secretary MoAd aon B. wnich “ascording * Jato Finance and House, Ways and|fuli value of its property. that every man serving under the}. oo crator, o plane waa driven! ‘s hg ae ea me TERY |Moans Committees, contend the coun-| “Under ordinary conditions,” American flag will wear on his collar SOT Foe et, | predicts @ famine when seen, is Belgian Avintor Downs Six Bale! iy wit jose more than §1,000,000,00 in|Judge Ransom, “a 95-cent ra the letters “U. S." now reserved for|0Y Fdward Stinson and an ordinary) now yisibte for tt Hig Be toons tn Week, revenue {f the pending dry amendment | be quate. regulars only. baloney pRSVEhi IS WAS used I: 8 ng of tho war, Paks ogarlgh ee r taro attain period Wu yaient to {ner ar) Gen. March announced also tho| WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, = ‘The stone lic the bed of the o Belgian a ore o-day countered ith Ve e pe a SAYS id . i IEP 0 T y ove ee is eee sagla e bathers Phere gina ye hi nas would, In my, opinion, warrant a|conversion of fifteen National Army |IN FRANCK, Tuesday, July 39 (Aa-{ river and haa never beon visible week. three of them within five min-|or a victory will stop the prohibition mention Ot ealaclohine e fiak] are eee oe Al Arete leaclated: [eveaa)i=Céphy “Barret “Al Goins atone ba obteslled In’ ula utes, the Belgian Legation announced | ut th M0 to 315, Into Meld artillery, These | rronch aviator, has dropped from al Germ peat : to-day. This brings his record to twen- to-day were confident that or thi will comprise part of the artillery | ovine airplane w STERRRE Ee Rem 2D) ERO Ry FP ty-one tn three month the Kevenue Com- lon, impre units for the new divisions atc és will weep in n . | He was up 500 metre -_ jouses behind thin wai Gen, March had nothing to reveal) wien an umbretia twelve yarda in . NO PEACE OFFER TO ALLIES, |tney can beat pronivition enna at re. | aa to the extent of the casualtics sus-| v1 meter, landing safely. He occu.| 10” Vereer. Mart te Making Atr- ceaeasaiean ig to-day the i o. tained by the American forces in the sled an® fol mh the cuaesvers pe earnts ts — Balfour Formerly Makes Announcr-| 475 MILES IN 350 MINUTES, Hing for a publi recent fighting. He sald, however, | Pt o GAINES Y Sih = wont ja Common i pfinances and rates of the | inat Gon, Pershing bad beon ordercd | “ane aviator crawied out of his seat See nigaa’ taaanietne al LONDON, July $L—No enemy Gov- | wrench Aviators Rested Forty-five Company wither to content |to cable the onaualties as roceived,|wnen tho plano was above smooth i ; ‘ent has approached the Allies on oF ° h ante ; A h nooth the subset t hein, Foreign Seere- 4 Sinanan . = ., ehh 5 a : and that these would given oUK ground and hung by his hands with tary A. J. Balfour declared to-day In] PARIS, July 31 (Havas Agency) inclined to th mt , BYE nero at once, He added that tho parachute firmly attached to his - REP rol fs fight ig = ete aa Feat anil tion and charge only the rate fixed by | over a long period bereafter. jane. When he jumped the para It was recently reported the ter- | retu m te ve Bours an. ey pias us. If the company tries to charge | - chute opened perfectly and bore bim “ee L moan peace agents were working in s time incl 4 stop of threes|more than the rate fixed by the com- A BPLEN iit? Spain to approach the Allies quarters of an hour at St. Nazaire, The| mission 1 shall ask authority to in Hor gently to the ground, where he landed | chee a a es distance 4 during the round trip was about! stitutes injunction actions, rene _Jrigoraten ie tie vy Monies sta “t mjeonans # | waharme ed. night, Movey ardem and Unvellaw’ checks foe ing on Page 2) 479 mil .. @ults @ad,oriminal proceedings,’ | san, Capt Barret was in the air about mia—sdm, i OLD FREDERICK THE GREAT, ERMAN LINE GIVING WAY BEFORE FRANCO-AMERICANS a Attacks on U.S. Troops Last Night | and This Morning Fail—French Repulse Four Assaults—Enemy Sprays Wide Area With High Explosive and Gas Shells. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July 31 (Associated Press).—Efforts made by the Ger- mans to advance their lines against the Americans on this front last night and this forenoon were fruitless. The Americans, for their part, were content to hold their positions along their slightly advanced line for the time. The German line is reported to be | gradually giving way both to the right and left. There was hard fighting throughout the night, but no concentrated attack in force by either side. During the night the Americans made a pretense of retiring from a part of the town of Seringes. The Germans advanced into [the town on observing the supposed evacuation. Two companies lof Americans then closed in and enveloped the German force, killing or capturing every man of it. Both high explosive and gas shells were sprayed by the Ger- mans over a wide area. The air forces on both sides were busy this morning. One of the American observers was attacked by \eight enemy machines but escaped and returned to his base. SERINGES CHANGES HANDS SEVERAL TIMES, BUT IS NOW FIRMLY HELD BY AMERICANS |French Maintain Positions East of Oulchy Against Repeated Attacks—Germans Bring Up Five of Best Reserve Divisions. PARIS, July 31.—American troops maintained their position in the region of Seringes-et Nesles, which they carried after violent fighting, ac- cording to an official statement to-day from the War Office. The village changed hands several times before the Americans completely fastened their grip upon it The Germans made four attacks against the new French positions east of Oulchy-le-Chateau. They were repulsed and the French line was held intact. The French and the Germans carried out raids at a number of other points on sectors east and west of the Mame salient, but there was no change in the general situation at these points. | The Germans yesterday, according to Marcel Hutin in the Echo de |Paris, threw in five of their best reserve divisions in a counter-attack be- tween Fere-en-Tardenois and Roncheres without appreciable effect against either the French or the Americans. French aerial observers, says the Matin, report that there are signs behind the present German battlefront of preparations for a continuation of the retirement northward, The enemy is destroying much material and big fires have been seen, The newspapers generally point out that the fighting Tuesday was marked by brisk but vain enemy reactions. They believe that the Ger- man line of resistance has been reached, although the Allies were able to make additional gains, # The newspaper Echo de Paris sald to-day that » semi-official note emanating from Hindenburg and Ludendorff declared the Gere man command had been compelled to postpone for some time the de« cisive blow against the French and British, owing to the new situation, In the fighting yesterday the stiffest resistance yet offered by the 1,000,000 troops the German Crown Prince has thrown’ into the Marne salient failed to check the Franco-American advance along the southern apex of thy, triangle. fighting, ' "American divisions did the greater part of ee = SS 5 Pe er ee Qed ot