The evening world. Newspaper, August 6, 1918, Page 1

+ Atl o'clock the temperature was #4 pleads naan dean ‘If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ Che |“ Circntation Books Open to. All? | Copyright, 1918) by The Press Publishing Con (The ‘New York World). ee EOE TWO _CENTS. FRENC Q HOPE OF HEAT RELIEF FOR 48 HOURS _NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, H SHELL GERMAN LINES FROM THE VESLE TO THE AISNE FAINTING MOTHERS AT CONEY. EARETS FORTUNE TAKEN 10 SAVE IT LOSE CHLREN NBG CRS, ca HOTTEST AU Mercury Higher From Day's Beginning, but Humidity Is Not So Severe. | Threats Said to Have Been Made Against Him and Other Americans. G. BIN 12 YEARS. “WOMEN AND CHILDREN JAM GONEY ISLANDS oy oy threcte tom wealthy 100 LITTLE ONES estes Atala ert ert many by the war, it was reported to- Atte pts of German offici to ex- DEATH TOLL IS FIVE.) In Crowd of 200,000 Many Faint | 44y and Long Lines Wait for Hours Outside Bathhouses. induced the United States Gov- Early Crowd Rush to Beaches, but Even There Many a number of American citizens, am sare GREATER crowd than has ; ; : Are Overcome. A sone to Coney island on a |Lily Busch, widow of the St. Louis week day this season is | brewer, Hour Temp. Humidity:| there to-day. It is es' ed at Mr. Ehret is on the ocean bound 7AM. ‘ 2 7 between 150,000 and 200,000, prin- | for America and is expected to reach SA cipally women and children, One | a, ariantic port this week. After his 9A. M.. bed 69 hundred lost children had been | ; Dortithle week: -Atter hie 10 A. M. bed bd brought to the Coney Island Po ar s expected to make for 11 A. M. 89 57 Station by 1 o'clock this | mal applica the return of his 12 noon . 90 53 nie oon. $40,000,000 esta ch is now in the 1PM. 92 “ ry is filled to Wen Bes: ; 2p. M. 92 LM capacity fg lines of people rol Of) A. Mitonall’ Bs fF, Alien 3 P.M. 93 37 are wait the hot sun Property Custodian. The New York - KAnGee tha wa mmodations, | Millionaire, who is eighty-three years WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—A nes. formed early this | old and very feeble, reached Copen- shower area in the far north that | The principal line is n about three weeks ago without is increasing in size offers the | at the Municipal bath house ey of any kind. He appealed to only promise of relief from the | eecple are nding five abreast re Hines jr. b canis excessive hot wave which to-day | Gnaithe line 19 the shape of the peli te, pl oeun try overspreads the entire eastern | letter S extends a block down the cat a SHO ce half of the country and the Lower ect BaonIioey Mem eon Lai Missouri Valley to the Atlantic | Failure to provide iclent 1s lived with him for fi con | ticket takers the Culver sta Relief from that source, how- tion for passengers from second et went to German r Nis ever, is not in immediate prospect fare points caused a serious jam AANA visit in May, 1914, ¥ was for the sweltering tern dis- | inside the g At 1 o'clock there when the war broke out. His trict, since at least from thirty- there were about 600 persons in | friends declare he was unable to un six to forty-eight hours must pass the crowd. »ple jumped the wartime travel, Soon after before the showers travel eas Rate women fainted and cni 1 States aeclored ar P is. ward far enough to make their dren were lost, Trains were ar 1 became the victim influence felt. riving at the rate every 1 extortion schemes forty-five se train « nan officials aid At & o'clock this afternoor has six cars and is jammed, Yet war. Whether any temperature was 93 degrees, equa there are only three ticket selle ecured from the brewer 90 kin t for the second fare people. wn, but last May the entire Hag! that et AUG) Si01006: mebIng \8 Many childrer ime sepa ine was taken over by the day the hottest of the date in twelve! arog Spl AO Ree years. A repetition of last night's; pushed off trains by crowé to force Mr. Whret and! heat 1s promised, and last night was| ting off at stations along her Amer tizens in Germany| the hottest of the year. The lowest} beach near Coney Island. nah HORA ae Fe ported to p been made Another temperature, 78 degrees, was reached | scheme report ereaueires J was to interest them ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN at 6 o'clock this morning arcane a Cantina The mercury, it is expected, will go! IN AIR RAID ON ENGLAND 1 ord badly de 4 Ger still higher this afternoon, but tbe | nda fi in these coun one consolation is the big drop in ' s ned, the humidity, which had declined to Another German Airship Is Dam- 7 Ba breeze from the Away by British Flyers. pais ¢ would ation At 8 o'clock to-day the mercury had A atscwabee ; gone up to 82 degrees, with the hu- LONDON, Aug. 6.—The mpted | 2 re midity at 78. The barometer showed raid by German Zeppelins wast | P 29.91, with a rising glass, meaning! Anglian coast la clear weather, without a chance for & asco, a porte * STAKE ON B, R T, LINES storm to break the heat At 9 ¢ ts € i and the humidity af, She giana at ut at ea, bringing down one n 29.94 and a breeze of five miles an : . aaindot hat M Vas) veur from the northeast, A year ago (flames, damaging nd and driv-| Demand Made That Men Be Per- to-day the temperature was 82 de-|in# @ third away happened to| mitted to Join the Brotherhood grees at that hour the other two airships in the squad Kee fon Gontarnes At 9 o'clock yesterday morning the Fon Is not disclosed in the Ltt Bae ; tatement G, Grifing, Assistant Grand Chie humidity stood at 95. | WASHIN Aug. 6.—American| pngineer of the Brother af Loca: Hardly a breath of wind was to b® | airmen pr down four enemy | had this morning, even cre ng the planes on Aug the French Wa | motive announced this af pridges from Brooklyn, and the | Office reported offic tically ig | ternoon Herald Sq Hotel subways were unspeakable \that t 1a strike of the mot Trolle: d "Ls" for Coney Is! ormen motor switchinen of the and were jammed carly in the morn- | MALVY [S$ ACQUITTED ctl ree elle ear ng. They were jammed coming : ares : nis from the beach, too, with the crowds : mitt fF; i which had slept in their bathing suit Me : pn the sanda all night. Every pool ' , Wa 1 rete of the city was er ty Former French Minister of Interior all night; every park had its throng | Freed of Connections With ffing mace H aiate of lodgers on the benches and grass, | Bolo Pasha Intrigue. Huestis I and the sleepers were undisturbed! pinig Aug 6,—Louia_ Maivy, |J- Dempee the by the police, Fire escapes were! rormer Minister of the Interior, to-day | Brooklyn Ra ask crowded. was acquitted on all charges of treason |ing him whether he could arrange for Srowing out of nis alls with the Bolo trigue, connection |@ meeting of bimeeil aud a wis Pasha “defeatist" in- ‘ecus office to-day for the purpose of fContinued on Second Pege.) cussing the pending questions. ernment to take over the property of | ng them George Ehret and Mrs. | PARIS SHELLING CONTINUES, WOM N” BLOWS UP U BOAT WITH “BABY”; HURLS IT IN OPEN HATCH ike-Believe Infant War Bomb and ‘Mother Now Wears Vic- toria Cross. ONDON, Aug. 6.—Interesting revelations regarding th work of British mystery ships which have play portant part in a warfare are made by the correspondent of the Time: show how British seamen } met German craft and cunning with craft and cunning. How a “woman and baby” counted for a U boat is told. The submarine ordered a vessel to surrender and fired a few shells into her, ‘The boats then left the ship, leaving on board a “woman” | who ran up and down the deck with a baby in her arms as if mad. The U boat came alongside the vessel and the woman hurled the “baby” into the open hatch, The “baby” exploded and blew out the bottom of the submarine. The “woman” was decorated with the Victoria Cross, ‘These mystery ships are known in the navy “Q" ships. Several officers have been decorated for their services on these vessels AREN'T GERMANS LUCKY? NOT A MAN LOST IN ac- RETREAT, SAYS BERLIN! im thing That Would Have Been Useful to Allies. A semi-official statem sued in Berlin ¢ Without the loss of a s and after removal or destruction And They MSTERDAM Aug. witbdrawal in the Ma of everything useful to the enemy Allied official and unofficial de s reported the capture of thousands of undreds of | machine guns anc tous and of Qhis rel GERMANS MORE ANXIOUS OVER WAR SITUATION): Kiet That Force of Arms Will Not | Put Nation on Feet Stead ily Growing | AMBBTORDAM, Aug 6.—There situation as menths, a Jing to a I te Handelsbla The to rede: 0. n Kuehimann, former F Jeten Scoretary, ars ed that for of @rms will not put Germa 16 war 1 w come |etena y growing, Thera f suMctént tifica for a le | fortable feeling » an a few mont ‘rom the Marne and the Some Vietima and Material Dam- age In Reported, PARIS. A 6-Tr un to-day victims was reported — Advice te LibenEY “BONDS Do Agvice taut ett Part, and material Some Also Destroyed Every- damage WEATHER—Fair and Continued Warm, [*< “Circulation Rooks Open to All. 1918. 14 PAGES >] FLYERS BOMB GERMAN BRIDGES; FRENCH ADVANCE IN PICARDY SS ee AMERICANS HOLDING FISMES UNDER ARTILLERY ATTACK; TOOK SEVENTEEN BIG GUNS Mustard, Sneeze and Chocolate Gas Shells Hurled Into Our Lines in Tricky | 5 PARIS, Aug. 6.—North of the Vi Fashion, but Without Effect. | ug. orth of the Vesle the Germans have been ‘repulsed in efforts to dislodge French and American units which Foch Awaits the Bringing Up of More Artillery Before Attempt- ing Further Advance in Force— Two Bridges and Mill Near Braisne Seized by French Troops. : ire ae AMERICAS aa fSSSTT= Sy SP naa crossed from the south bank. The official statement from the Suet Ky ite ae aad ae ri RETREAT 10 THE MEUSE |War Office to-day also reports a French advance to the Avre, north | of Montdid: Much importance is attached to-day to the operations north of Montdidier. These are pointed to as a direct menace to the junction point of the armies of Gen. von Hutier and Crown Prince Rupprecht. French heavy artillery on the south bank of the Vesle this Americans along the Vewsle increased | the of. their artillery fire Monday afternoon, bringing into ac- tion guns of 150 millimetres against the forces west of Fismes. Dur 1g the af- ternoon the Germans employed flame projectors from the slopes north of Vesle, SUGGESTED IN BERLIN; PEOPLE VERY NERVOUS Retirement Hinted At Would Mean | Relinquishment of Much Terri- | where they appeared to be well! tory in France and Belgium 1, Machine guns also were intensity org. Tiga ranen taal) HE HAGUE, Aug. 6-The |afternoon laid down a terrific fire on the tableland between the (a I Berlin Vossiche Zeitung, in | : _ ‘ % The American Mnes also were sh 1 pessimistic article, hints |¥@Sle and the Aisne. The crossings of the Aisne were also heavily jected to heavy fire {rom German 105s,| ‘ch so ‘ag and late in the afternoon the enemy | ® the porsibility ef a a re- | shelled. ! Fs in| treat to the line of the Meuse, we. 7 ' Schl RE Ret secon | cording to advices here. | Franco-American aviators flew over the enemy forces and of gus shells. ‘The big gun duel soon | : became So violent that observation was} | A neutral traveller, returning | dropped bombs on the pontoons thrown across the Aisne by the diMeult and maps had to be used, the | 4in, declared to-day that Americans picking out German posi- | “man on the street” there |Germans, Two of these were destroyed. The | i# Nervous and is beginning to | ppp iA ps ; 5 a tions observed during the day, The) Is nervous and is besinniok 69 | RRENCH BRINGING UP MORE BIG GUNS. Germans shelled forests, cross roads, | ‘eckon on he ultimate wat ol y highways, clumps of trees and all] Germany The enemy artillery fire is having little effect, but French advanced other places ere it ought troops | - : ther places where they thought troops} ecient as hinted at | {fOops are encountering machine gun barrages. The French are awai!- or supplies might be congregated. | , Lame , P f Late Monday afternoon the Ger-) |) the Siche Zeitung would | ing the bringing up of more artillery betore attempting further advances ' ' f 8 BINg Up y is mans began using mustard gas, sneczo| Mean the relinquishment of pr : pa Fnocolate as, whicn| ‘eally all occupied French terrie {in force, ‘ , p eee ‘si tor a two-thirds of Belgium. 1 # so named from the odor Riven} Oy nn Swe t epee French ttroops to-day maintained their bridge-heads across the Vesle, out by the gaseous substance These he sseuni siver, sb tan attacks were ineffective, the| f¥e miles south of Neufschatel, | overcoming two strong German counter-attacks. A mill on the edge cf yuna Spada : aeht| flows northward throug Verdun i American gia Ges MAVIDG! SBMENET Hh the Beigian bocder south | the village of Braisne, six miles nortiwest of Fismes, was occupied by the he troops all the German tricks. | Nevertheless the Germans were Her | of Dinant French during the night. Two bridges in thai region were also seized SPC URAL A cel lag Hake AUSTRIAN FLYERS KILL Machine gun batteries have been installed in Braisne and the enemy with their shelis, endeavoring to reach making bitter resistance there, Artillery of both armies is heavily shell- oi aiguereanily ; ttle ane Nie A 1,000 ITALIAN PRISONERS ing along the Aisng, Vesle and Oise Rivers night be a for @ crossing Of! 1) ar oe 7 f Bombing One of the most important results of the present fighting, aside from iat : Be at of Camp—Men Killed and |regaining the initiative, recovering French territory and wiping out anting gar wn} Women Kidnapped menace to Paris, 15 the effective depletion of German man power, bask emalsy etter a Sue Austrian airpianes| MORE THAN 40,000 GERMAN PRISONERS. covery twenty or t r | MoT eeer Hy Since July 15 Ludendorff has used no less—and probably more— a seated He ria [2 nd poe : . *?! than 750,000 men against the Allies, of which 75,000 will never fire an- . lot Nore than 40,000 of these are prisoners, Tens of thosands "| . ‘ ; wing | dré buried in the Rheims-Soissons pocket, or are lying in German hi »spitals, J manently maimed " oe ae emibe AL GNerans eR? “4 In places the ground is still strewn with German dead, the t the A een ane Blane , Americans having no time to bury them arned ; Sa received from Switzerland state that long trains behind the sna have Pl i mein wa ines are bearing off we » the already congested hospitals. . 1 along t Me | tealiar in power alone the A have dealt th t Pasa . ae — low f which Annot re German po raat the koe tek acrose the este |OERMAN MARINE MINISTER | months ag + daily, almost hour aap r Aw a Capel 1 Tirpit ng them "Trt Germans are niece a W Sucee Will (Quit S § F i ‘ vane ey 1 In Desy y critics that the Germans 1 ‘ Fe soi x ° : e Vesle and M w ; M ; - hdd AMS sith Ihe German. position bet two rivers,” says Le Journal, abe 1 ‘ aii 1 critical one, being shall ind swept by the French artillery along t Ma ¢ ire t uit at some points on the flanks. Its communications SPEECH TGR HEMET ard are unsate, and it will be dangerous for the Germans to make their stand ng were found in the “illage Aus. 6. have| below the Aisne instead of going behind that river, The result would mee cae in kapt under {been received here that t the}... bly be enormous losses for the enemy. aA there by the Germans who oc-|heimshaven revolted and that a number * cupled the village, of guilors were executed. The Germans are trying to bring about i quieting down of things a £