The evening world. Newspaper, August 3, 1918, Page 2

SL ee ~ | "Sralnee 7 =a ~snaemnceeenvasaaaan THE EVE , where Quentin Roosevelt fell to his death, sreerdting te to| statements, to-day is in the hands of American troops. are searching for Roosevelt's grave. _ Rapid giving way of the Boches followed bitter fighting along the of Seringes, Sergy and Cierges. There was no denying the offensive of the Americans in that region, The Germans made every effort to hold, not only by throwing in ts of Nesles, Fere and other woods in that region. were captured there, the Germans having no opportunity to de- them. MUSSIAN GUARD CUT TO PIECES. can attack. Roads, fields and woods are littered with enemy deaJ the woods. Those remaining continued to fire until the America the next bunch of machine guns was encountered. The Americans swung across the fields in open lines, through woods a ‘crossed the Soissons-Chateau-Thierry road and, intervals. They laughed it off. Stray prisoners were picked up here and) there and sent back to the rear along with captured machine guns The doughboys continued to trudge through the mud and water. Wagons carrying guns, ammuniitno amd rations followed in their wake. | All the roads the Boches had held in this morning were jammed with ‘every sort of army conveyance, FRENCH TROOPS DRIVE ON FROM VENIZEL TO BRAINE JUST SOUTH OF THE VESLE Continue Their Advance Further East—Ger- mans in Retreat on Three Sides of the Soissons-Rheims Salient. LONDON, Aug. 3.—On the main battlefront the French after com- pleting their occupation of Soissons have occupied the south bank of the On the northern end of the plateau to the southeast of Soissons the French have advanced from Venizel to a point south of Braine, on the! Vesle. The advance is continuing on the line further to the cast. | On the easterly side of the Soissons-Rheims front, the line to which “the Allies have advanced, runs, according to the latest advices, from Serzy- and Savigny, both in the Ardre Valley, to the highest point on the | ju between the Ardre and the Vesle, and thence to Rosnay, Gueux Thillos and on to the Vesle at St. Brice, which is on the original line. The German retreat is general on all three faces of the salient con- ‘quered by the Germans in May, and the Allies are pressing close on the of the retreating enemy, says Reuter’s correspondent at French headquarters, telegraphing at 11 o'clock Friday night. “Plessier Wood,” he continues, “which abuts on the Soissons- - Chateau-Thierry road, turned early in the day and the defenders sur- _ rounded. This wood was the centre of the enemy resistance and the aoe for it was extraordinarily bitter. Farther north the British troops pressing through the ast of Villemontoire.” ncrois Wood, were soon more than a mile ¢ RENCH CAPTURE SOISSONS | © AFTER A DAY OF FIGHTING AND A GREAT BOMBARDMENT Rapid Advance of the Allied Artillery Over Bad Roads One of the Remarkable Features of the Battle. QVITH"THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Aug. 3 (United! French troops now hold the wrecked city of Soissons. Gen Mangin’s poilus swept down the slopes of Montagne de Paris tt and drove the Germans out of the place. Then they resiste. n oe rebound from the hills on the other side. The atiack on the city followed a bombardment, whica, after the > day’s fighting, permitted the French to occupy the placé firmly. | The capture of Soissons was only an incident in the advance, which | ‘sretched around the whole length of the rapidly straightening salient. The ‘Germans fell back from one to two miles everywhere, while Allied cay- “airy at several points penetrated a mile further. A remarkable feature of the fighting is the manner in which the “artillery is being pushed forward with the infantry, in spite of the bad ‘ meat of the roads. % $$ GERMANS ALSO IN RETREAT ALONG THE ANCRE IN PICARDY Retire on Right Bank é Bank of River Along a Front id of Three or Four Miles. [BRITISH REPORT] © the east bank of the Ancre, in the region of Albert in Picardy on a ood of Feuchy (near Arras) was repulsed with loss, eee oe Lhodere front tne, v al different points between Tushed them. Then would come a further uninterrupted advance until LONDON, Axg. 3.—-The Germans are executing a local retirement | | best troops, but by making great preparations for defense of the | @ Big ammunition | 4 The Prussian Guards and other divisions were cut to pieces by the | \4 American artillery destroyed great numbers of machine gun nests! 4 co the nigh our ‘patfols_ have Pushed forwa in the Albert| 5, iti | 14 | A. First, cents on every you buy for dividends. bn consumer's depos 1,000 feet of gas? 1,000 feet for labor that they are go- ing to increase They have already increased the| bor, but they may have more. Q. What else do they charge you on your 1,000 feet of gas? A, One-half cent for “bombardment” insurance. Q. What is “bombardment” insur- ance? A. If the Kaiser comes over and drops a bomb on the plant, or sends a submarine, you've got to pay % cent a thousand feet for the loss of the company's pro} Q. What clse you on your 1,000 { cents |thousand feet for money that they |are going to borrow to build addition | to thelr plant Q. How much money are they go- ing to borrow? A, One hundred and forty thousand dollars at 7 per cent | interest [= 2 <ooTRemarn LE PES CS CO600-046 AMERICANS GAIN FIVE MILES; U. S. FLYERS BOMB CONFLANS' “Enemy Relinquishes Efforts to Stop Ad-| Pershing Notifies War Department. vance,”’ [AMERICAN WASHINGTON, Aug. captured Hill 230, south of Couleng: This morning the enemy, relinquishi commenced to fall back, with our troops in close pursuit. our artillery has interrupted his communication and he {s attempting to destroy large quantities of mate: ready progressed to a depth of five Last night our aviators success: and yards at Conflans. Numerous fires and one large Sxplosion. THREAT OF $1.25 ¢ GRAND ROZOY L) PSOULCHY .—The War Department last night made public the following communique from Gen. Pershing. Yesterday on the Mne of the Ourcg our troops in hard fighting All of our machines returned. NING WORLD, Gonos REPORT] es, and the wood east of the hill. ing his efforts to stop our advance, The fire of rial, Our advance, which has al- niles, continues, fully bombed the railroad station | hits were made, causing several AS IN NEW YORK MAY REACT ON ALL COMPANIES (Contin} Rea, First Page.) they are going to charge 9% |, thousand feet of gas Q. What else will the harge? A. One and one-half per thousand cubic feet for Interest a. does tl a mean? A. it ns that if you have de- | 1 posited $10 in this company, to assure them of your account, this company is going to use your $10 to run the business with, and it is going to charge you 6 per cent. for using it; therefore it to A Where before their summer ser-|, The chief popular services will be charge you for this 1! vice was higher than the winter, laxt | Held in, Hyde Park nua Bitern ned every thousand feet it |year It rose to the point of summer | fiom 2, antl, 7 orclock, woe What ng equal, Giney” Smit iz en Gipsy” Smith, the and a y,{8 thls company going to| for ‘Astor ng at the and therefore this company jot to get its one-half cent + Yrom you to pay for fighting you. Q. What else is there charge A. Three Q. How do they figure that? to in WOULD OBEY LAW NOW IF PEO PLE WILL PAY FOR IT. | thing like that, and—well, they need the money, Q. Was this the valuation that Hi hes put en. ath oe com- aban eqenidre meta to do © COM PAN: 1o all this money’? Tells gol pa reve « - Der sery have plant, ranged to do a conside fore the opinion was rend agement sald, company | ¢ vantage of this ing 95 Q. Why did they want to enlarge he plant when they were operating, lows? A. Bec as the man “We had faith in tho | ourts.”” Q. What is the real status of the; Day will be observed throughous Great 7 Ay it has increased its) Britain Sunday with semtees tn} 6. fo thal. according to the com-| churches of all denominations. ‘The! aly! ayatean ory Nae Cuterowa the! principal services will be heid at Wost- hat elem He ACURA ag. [minster Ab! ne King and Queen GQ, What else has accrued to the a4- | i atiend a Archbishop of Can- company? ‘Kable A. They ha had a rem population, @ What has been the result of thi at vig the 40 cent Bays cents sin. needs the money nies added on to your feet of gas as stated above, the little thousand | Q. What some of the operating expenses which are Included in ne | $1.01. A. Repairs which are going to be made and which 14% cents per thousand cuble feet. at are all the other various Kinds of operating expenses besides | $1.01 cost? A. We will find out at the meeting of the Public Service|r Commission on next Tuesday at 2.30 P.M. | Beach Consumers Ple Ald in Gas Rate Fight, | A meeting to protest against the | raise by the Brooklyn Borough Gas| Company of its rates to $1.25 a thou- rand cuble feet was held by the Man- hattan Beach Civic League at No, 75 Oriental Boulevard Jast night, ‘The speakers called the action unfair and pledged thetr support to the Public Service Commission nl elvio bodies taking part in int uy » fet, WAIT ON P, S, COMMISSION? OF COURSE NOT! WILL APPEAL, SAYS CORPORATION COUNSEL Q. What else are they going ¢ of three or four miles, according to news received in London to-day.| charge you for? A. Three and one | | The German hold on the west bank of the Ancre in this region has Ee STR te Doeeitnn SHED eae: 1B elk e| Vi s this? A. Because " > ~ n A precarious, and it seemed to be tenable only if it were intended to be | veh Tay ihn, im mare last | |Company Cannot padi Charging use of ir. the starting of an offensive. The retirement appears t candle power made by law, dnd $1.25 Until It Has Entered bid ape renin ,| they want to try to be lawful from | Sis cate the abandonment of any attempt at an offensive in that quarter ai now on Its Judgment Then how does the balance come | ent, * ' ; é PA Ob thant are brand cents wae | Tndignant over what many have The report issued to-day by the British War Office follows: eee ie an Hey raat Aecount for | characteriaed as the Public Service rdid attempted by the enemy yesterday morning in the neigh-| to make a good oll c et, or some- | Commission's lackadaisical attitude i gh] @t yesterday's inquiry into the Brook- lyn Borough Gas Company's boosting Of rates from 9% cents to $1.25, Cor- | poration counes! Burr dectared tee diy \erporousi “seutners | aim Not in the least interested in f70 ff the. Times | ‘aid killed ‘by be J Serving Ci rs i does or fails to do. | Uxplained, increase 4 ™ r did apetae | London € | JAPAN’S REPLY F RECEIVED. | Formal Statement |Joint action by .|the ones mentioned which go into the| Powers and the United States in | technically SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1918. BATTLE LINE AS CHANGED BY -FOCH’S NEW BLOWS DOEEDROEEDEDIDDEN DDE EDD EGO EEEE4E DEES OROFOEIOD 909046446660065504040008865084 : ana —y ttintnl ca = 01 Me Mig Ait f Avimey — (a LS cenmpne, Be Fismerre Of one thing I am certain, and that is that as head of the law department of this city and as direct representative of Mayor Hylan | will appeal the Hughes 80- cent gas opinion before te Appellate Division of the Supreme Court at the earliest possible moment, ‘Will you wait until the Public Service Commission has completed its inquiry?" Mr. Burr was asked “Of course not,” he replied. ‘There is only one thing holding up the ap- peal at this moment and that is the entry of the judgment by the Brook- lyn Gas Company. The gas company cannot begin charging at the rate of $1.25 until it has entered its judg- ment. In any event the $1.25 rate will never go into effect here. The city wil fight to.the last ditch against it.” Assistant Corporation Counsel John O'Brien, who is handling the gas fight for the Corporation Counsel, has discovered that the Hughes opin- jon is based on property valuations of the Brooklyn Borough Gas Com- pany obtained by the Public Service ‘ommission in 1912 ‘The Public Service Commission to-day arked the Brooklyn Borough Company @ statement of its new the Commission has this Will have a basis for a member of that body « formaily to file rat When tement it pmpt action, — SUNDAY F REMEMBRANCE DAY.) Au ain to Observe War Anni- versary, LONDON, Aug. 3.—-Remembrance a a thankagiving ser- he Lord Mayor and other city is Will be present at special ser- in St. Paul's, | terbury wil to Meet U. WASHINGTON, Aug 3.—The for- cost you|mal reply of the Japanese Goveri- ment to the Amertean proposal for Japan, the Entente Siberia, was delivered to Acting See- ry Polk to-day by Viscount Ishii, the Japanese Ambassador. ‘The answer was understood to meet all the requirements laid down by the American Government, “L” CAR DERAILED: 7 HURT. Passengers Rash to Deore When Fireworks Bellow Short Cireult. Seven in an “L” train accident at noon to-day near the Atlantic Avenue station,| Rrooklyn, when the trucks of the rear car were derailed, They struck the third rail and knocked it off. In thei sulting works, caused # by end to the walle of aitle was tled up) Reside the tracks, half an hour, BRITISH DOWN 1 14 PLANES. Fivers Set 16 More Machines on Vive in nears, | LONDON, Aug. 2.—Britigh aviators, on Thursday destroyed eleven German machines in aerial fighting and drove down pe others, says the offictal’ statement aerial operations issued (o-night. ‘Twenty-four tons of bombs were dropped on military targets, In a raid on an, alrdrome six sixteen ma hangars and fire, Elect) wey, Ernest Schmidt, thirty-five years old, jan electrician in the employ of the In- ipomeny ‘ARMY OF 1,000,000 persons were slightly Injured] > ort} St short| 4 6000-00 IN “Aes FSaclron | of MUIZON Zi $| | $| $4046-% PPD | NOW UNDER PERSHING: B DIVISIONS IN DRIVE (Continued Ffom First Page.) ‘ee Possible to advance without walking | over them, The selection of Major Gen. Mel, ¢ the Military Bureau and commander of the United States Guard, to head one of the new divisions to be formed in this country, was announced, Gen. March announced the names | of Brigadier Generals who had been recalled from France for duty in this Jesse | | country. They are James J. Hol- brook, who goes to the Southern Di partment; arles W, Kutz, to com-| mand the Engineering camp at Camp | Humphreys; Douglas MacArthur, to} command the 2ist Brigade of the ith Division at Camp Meade, Maryland: Howard IK Hickok, to command a brigade of the 10th Division at C. ‘amp Funstor, Kansas and Cornelius Van- derbilt, ‘to command a brigade at Camp Lewis, Washington ILL MAN LEAPS TO DEATH. Finkelstein Planges From Window of Brother's Brooklyn ¥ Jacob Finkelstein, forty Jackson Street, killed him: morning by jumping from a window of| the fourth floor apartment of his brother Morris, at No, 2035 Bergen| treet, Brooklyn, The crash was heard Mrs, Mollie Lipson, a tenant on the b; first floor, who called a policeman, Finkelstein had been a sufferer from stomach trouble for some time, made him despondent. ——_—__. 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BRITISH LOSE 11 240 MEN IN THIS WEEK'S FIGHTING 93 Officers and pr Of These, Men Were Killed—Missing 3,486, LONDON, Aug. 3.—British casualties | in offical lists published week totalled 11,240 during tt They were eect 424) 10,816 sA86 11,240 | Former Actre A Conductorette, | Married to German, Arrested, The first American born rtf, ex- actress and ex-conductore*, aud pret- ty, to be classed as an enemy allen be- cause she is the wife of a German, has | been taken in custody by a U. S. Mar- shal for failure to register. She is Lilly | Karezewski, twenty-two years old, of No. 65 Franklin Street, Jersey City Her husband, Joseph, was arrested last Tuesday by the Enemy Alien Bureau an enviny alien and also for around shipyards and docks. time rry Armstrong, assistant of the bureau, warned the wife ister at once." When she failed the marshal was sent gfter her. She is Men Up to 40 Will Be Accepted for ‘Training Camp. Because of a shortage in oMcers for the Field Artillery arm of the National Army, the Government has opened | Camp Zackary Taylor, near Louisville, Ky., 10 civilians as well as men from the ted personnel of the --my for training. Applicants who file with the Miltary Training ( sociation, No. 19 West 44th 8 city offic ti t, this | student rs, be s ry officers The camp will beginning Aug Cosby, of the be open to civillans | 15._ Capt, Arthur E. | New York Headquarters, | | said to-day that men up to forty with the required qualifications will be cepted NEW SHIP LAUNCHING MARK.' Pict Completed Twenty-Four Days After Keel Was Laid. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Amer determined to match the achievement | of its overseas forces with the pro- duction of ships, Chairman Hurley of | Shipping Board said in a cable- sent to-day to Lord Northcliff Sir Joseph Maclay, British Mini af aa eT A ‘ords in launching vessels, Mr Harley’ said, be broken by | the | launching to-morrow of the 712,000 | deadweight ton cargo steamer Invinc- | ible at’ the Alameda, Cab, yard, nty-four days after her keel was will laid. NO CASUALTY ESTIMATE. March Lacks Figures, Tells Senators. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Senators of the Military Committee who to-day asked Gen, March, Chief of Staff, if he had any estimate of the American cas- | ualties in the recent fighting. t Gen. that the Government had absolutely | none. One of the Senators asked what the | extent of casualtic dy reported to the War Department: was, and Gen March replied that it was between 12,- 000 and 11.900, ‘This 1s the sum total of all casualties announced to date by the War Department ici ELECTRIC PLANT PAY RAISED. War Hoard Gives General Co.'s Km- ployees Increase to 20 Per Cen WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Wage n | creases of from 10 to 20 per cent. abo- | and its employees N. ¥5 and Phtstietd Company Schenectady, nis. eee CAMP VICE ZONE EXTENDED. Understood Action Was Taken to Affect New York. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—The prohibi- tion against vice in the vicinity of mill- tary camps, stations, ments: and’ all di jurisdiction will ap ni territory within a radius army r order: by It stood a was taken to affect Crew bat Two Now Accounted For, urvivers of the steamship Poseidon New York, | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Thirty-three | | | 5 700 GERMANS DIE IN BIG TERRORIST EXPLOSION AT KIEV Revetulidnials Rapes Report 60 Anti- Teuton Crimes and Threaten More. LONDON, Aug. 3.—The campaign against the Germans of the Russian Social Revolutionists of the terrorist Left includes an explosion at Kiev which resulted in the deaths of 700 German soldiers in addition to the murder of Field Marshal von Bich horn, the Copenhagen corresponden of the Daily “Mail quotes a leading | member of the party as saying The total of anti-German crimes the Social Revolutionist aid, Was jsixty. Munition works at Odew Kharkov and elsewhere have be blown up. n the near future stil! grave events will occur, The Social Rev lutionists are prepared to continu e struggle with Germany to th man,” the correspondent was ir med. ROME, Aug. 3—A state of sicg has been declared in Ukrainia cause of disorders following the a | sassination of Field Marshal vy ichhorn, according to advices from Zurich to-day In Roumania, Field Marshal von Mackonsen has also declared a stato of siege, the h despatches re Ported, f owing a rebellion of work men and peasants Cracow despatches recived y Zurich declared that in eonseques of the von ichhorn mumier, 0 yng had been arrested Premier Winnischenk Millukoff, and many members of 't Cadet party. AIR RAID PERILS HOOVER.” Windows of Private Car Reported Blown In, PARIS, Aug. e to-day that Herbe n ood Administrate a hatrow escape in f Boulogne when h pws of the | Manhattan Beach | ‘Surt Baths Surf Go there by Brighto Beach B. R) T. 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