The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1918, Page 4

HINTED GERMAN ~OFFIGAL REPORT Press Complains at Attempts to} Conceal the Truth—Public | Morale Weakened. | AMSTERDAM, Aug, 12—An off-| iat note published in the Stuttgarter | Neustaddblatt is believed to be for the purpose of preparing German | Public opinion for evacuation of con-| siderable territories between the Avre fand the Gomme, according to advices | here to-day. (The territory between tho Avro and the Somme roughly Includes Much of the present battlefeld, @ with the cities of Neste, Roye and Chaulnes.)] Morale in Germany has suffered @evercly from the recent defeats. Military critics are dumb and the) People are gloomily suggesting that | the army may be compelled to fall) ‘back a long way all along the line. THE HAGUE, Aug. 12.—German | mewspapers are asking pointed ques- tions concerning reverses in the west fand are caustic in their comment, A Berlin despatch to the Post of Munich complains of the attempts of certain German official circles to con- | ceal the truth from the people, It gays this has done incalculable harm and is largely. responsible for the public bitterness, The despatch addi: “The same day that Gen, Luden- @orff confessed our strategic plans had failed, Prince Henry of Prussia, fn @ specch at Hamburg, said the Turkish attache had just told him he considered the battle on the Marne a German victory. So the German pub- lic may choose between Laidendorft nd the Turkish Attache. It is painful to see private persons in prominent positions, like Prince Henry, trying to represent facts in a manner at variance with the truth. “It is ridiculous to suppose that the Amportance of the events can be con- cealed ultimately from the people.” The Deutsches Zeitung of Berlin eclares: ‘Tho events between the Bomme and the Avre constitute the first serfbus defeat of the war.” ‘The newspaper complains that the German infantry “has been brought into disorder, although the forves on both sides are equal.” It attributes the defeat to the weak morale of the troops of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, due to the last Reichstag wpeech of former Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann. The Socialist Vorwaerts of Berlin cails upon the Government to tell the people the truth about the war, It says that the expectations of those “who wish to lead the nation through the war like an ignorant child with the stereotyped asmurance that every- thing was golng qplendidly” are un- fulfilled. The Cologne Zeitung says “the rea- pons for these regrettable oocurrances are not yet closed up,” adding: “At any rate, a dense fog enabled the edemy tank squadrons to break in surprise through our front lines, Our troops there found themselves isolated and were undble to cut through the enemy masses in the wake of the tanks and were cap- tured. The enemy, afthough unable to carry out a complete break- through, was able to advance his lines ten kilometres. The Cologne V Zeitung says that as far as odh learned the Allies were not numerically superior and supposes that the fog and the be DIVISIONS PUT OUT OF ACTION BY THEIR GREAT LOSSES Fifth Bavarians Among Those Suffering Most—Box With 450 Iron Crosses Captured. LONDON, Aug. 12.-—-Some of the Ger- man divisions @uffered heavily. The Fifth Bavarian was burried from ras to «Lihona and waa overrun by the advance, losing #0 many In killed amd prisoners within an hour or two of dts arrival that it waa of little use afterwai The diet divi sion no longer oxista, says the Dally Mall correspondent, and some of the smaller units were annihilated. Pris- oners the number of were taken from the 28th Infantry regi- to ment and its two remaining compan- {military and joa, kept in reserve, were surprised later in Framerville and ail killed or captured. ‘The 24%d Division was thrown tn porth of the Somme fust too late to check tho British rush through the woods, and many from it were cap tured. Among the items cabtured here was a box that contained 450 Iron Crosses for distribution. SEARCH OF PASSENGERS AT HALIFAX RESENTED Diplomats Suffer With Others and Make Indignant Protest Talk of Action. | and threats of | cod by many | Intense indignation diplomatic steps were v of the passengers aboard the Norwes- fan-American ner =~ Bergenajford, which arrived at an Atlantic port to- day, because while the ship was de- tained at Halifax four days many of the passengers, including diplomats of the United States and of a ‘neutral power, were forcibly searched by Brit- inh officials Alfredo de Luz, First Secretary of the Brazilian Legation at Copenhagen, was among those searched despite his vio lent protests, and Mrs. Iga Morris, wife of the American Minisfr to Sweden, had to submit to the indignity of a search even though she claimed éxemp- tion as @ diplomatic courtesy. Gilbert’ Dannehower, an American re- turning from work in Government ser vice abroad, is said to have made such threats of forcing a diplomatic » that he was not searched, dee ees CAR RIOTS IN DETROIT. Tie-Up Follows Ret Cent Par DPTROIT, Aug. 12.—Renewed die- orders broke out to-day in Detroit's traction fare dispute, when with loss 50 per cent. normal service pre- vailing, thousands of workers were compelled te walk to work A policeman was nit on the head with a brick while he and others were at- tempting to quell a riot, and cars were pushed over on their sides by factory workers angered at the tle-up resulting from the refusal of passengers to pay the six cent fare established by the Detroit United Railway. Milk bottles were hurled through some ear windows al to Pay Six fusion in the German ranks, It con- cludes that it is useless to hide the fact of the German check south of the fomme “hits us hard,” in view of the number of prisoners and guns lost. The Allies attacked the most in- vulnerable point on the German west- ern front, says Capt. yon Salzmann tn the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin, and, therefore, there is no question of the entire German pogition being men aced, He says the decrease in morale from the giant apparatus of Entente propaganda must not be underesti- mated. ( Tho strength of the German posi- tions from Verdun to the sea, he adds, les inea line curved toward the southeast, and after a consolidation of the Aisne and the Vesle front Field Marshal von Hindenburg can_ ship his reserves on the inner line freely and send them speedily to every men- aced point, ‘The Captain expects large scale operations in Beptember mass attack of tanks caused con- and October, Our Business just now is to con- serve wheat. OSTIGASTIES — incomparable corn flakes—make the j easy, effective and a daily joy. _ THE EVENING WORLD, GERMANY STARVE, SAY TWO WOMEN THERE SCE WAR All but Munitions Workers and Military Class Weak and Emaciated. “Germany is starving. There are no young men on the streets of hor citles but the maimed and the blind. The rest of the population, outside of the J the munitions workers, are emagated old people and chil- drens* ‘This was the grim picture of civil life in the Kaiser's empire that was brought to an Atlantic port to: day ty two American women, refugees from the enemy country, arriving aboard the Norwogian-American liner Ber- gonsfjord, They had been practically prisoners in Dresden since the entry | of their home land into the war and had only been given permission to loave most grudgingly. They are Mrs. Ida M. Otz2 and Miss Florence MacAvoy, both of Montclair, N J. “We went to Germany to study in 1910," sald Miss MacAvoy. “In 1913 Mrs, Otz returned. I was unable to do #0 because of illness. When the war came the following year Mrs Otz came back to Germany to get me out, but conditions w cided 6 such we de we in to remain where Dresden. “Long before America entered the war insults and embarrassments were heaped upon us. We were not allow ed to speak English outside of our were home. The Grand Union Hotel, in ared of all Ameri- ine one Was over glish in the cor ridors. Since our country entered the war we have not been allowed to leave our bome except under guard. “Conditions in Germany are fright ful beyond descriptions Starvation ix everywhere, Only the military and the families of munition workers get and this latter class e contradiction, They ts of the civil popu- lation, they have plenty of money, Government sees to it that théy are well fed, 1 once saw a woman with a cheap shawl ¢ her head pay the equivalent of $10 for a! pound of candy. “When we received permission leave we were told we could to nothing but the clothes on our b: But we discover as legal us to hire fabulous p to ke cared So goods. determined a not to leave anything for the plun- very thing, we were dering Government thieves. ripped up the old carpets in our hom and took them, riding triumphantly with our goods in a freight car to the Danish border. GERMAN MASSES IGNORANT. We ¢ Do Not Know of Goprritht 1018, by The Pree Hublishing Co, (The New York Evening Word). = ZURICH, Aug. 12.—A neutral banker returned from just Germany was interviewed here to-day, vents on the Frepch front depress the educated Germans, but tho masses are ignorant of the real sé uation,” he said. “The press treats America us a big blu, and its achievement in the fleld is entire); ignored. All but the rich are 5 ing, but the discipline is marvel . Any other nation would have revolted months ag . Aerial Mail Carrie ‘The postal authorities to-day inaus rated the system of civilian carriers of aerial mail between New York, Phila- detphi# and Washington which has been contemplated for some time, I Shank of as mad first under the new rule, leaving t mont Park: fleld at noon with five pouches of mail for the two cities eZZ7Z job SPARTAN MOTHER PROUD OF SON KILLED IN FRANCE | FIGHTING FOR DEMOGRAGY | = a as # OOESEPH.ERKRAUSS ¢ Mrs, Wasserman Writes From Mon; Triumphanily. Mrs. Fanny Krauss Wasserman of No. Stanley Street, Montreal, and) formerly of New York City, has written to The Evening World a| Spartan letter telling of the death in| France of her son, Corpl. Joseph H.| Krauss, | ugh hia death left an empty my life that can never be she write I can face t future triumpha and proud that my boy made the supremo sacrifice | for his flag, his conntry and democ- | racy, No greater love hath a man than this, that he lay down his lite| for his friend Corpl. Krauss was born in Rou mania, twenty years ago and came to this country when two years old At seventeen he enlisted in the Na tional Gard and two years later joined the Regular Army. He went to France last ptember with a ma chine gun outfit: and killed in on on July % STEAMERS AND ELEVEN ~ SCHOONERS OFF COAST pata See (Continued From First Page) been get adrift In a dory shortly be- fore nightfall by the submarine eémmander. TH reported that prot sixty fishermen were cast mirift in small boats ter the t boat's attack upon the fleet. Naval and ma mon expected, however, of these would be picked day was over, of the Palmer reported that probably thirty sailing vessels were in the immediate vicinity at the time of the attack, They said they heard Yring ali day Saturday from 19 o'vlocK in the forenoon, Most of the sinkings occurréd on Saturday rather than Sunday, as early reports 1 indicated » men brought in by the Murley Included Capt. Edward Russell of the | Kate Palmer and Frederick W. Quin lan, one of the crow, and two Nova Scotia fishermen, y suid that when the supm, appeared they attempted to get away, but changed their minds and surrendered, Capt Russell and his small crew ny ordered alongside submersible and and. In tely they were » Kept there for hour while the submarine in we direction y were toid to get into their cast adrift about 6 o'eloek y by wer the their he was up five y. nor 8y stroyed by The tishe | brawney. sailors thirty A six-inch gun was mounted and a amaller or tern vond off told them the sub nersible could make twenty-one knots on the surface auxiliary schooner Alber 1k riland, Me, wa owned at P. sl here to-day ere fired at h rday morning INDICTED FOR FALSE OATH | united States Attorney George | to-day that a w ship. not guity and was released, on mann swore | | | i} | | GERMAN PRISONER GRABS MACHINE GUN” Angered by Shots at Him as He} Helps Carry Back Wounded Americans. ITH ‘THER AMERICAN ARMY ON THE VPSLE, Aug. 12 (United Pfess).— A German prisoner, rooted out from behipd a wall, donned a Red Gross brassard and helped to carry in American wounded, Witte he was thus engaged snipers shot at him. He got so mad he grabbed a captured ma- chine gun and fired on positions where he knew the snipers were lurking, dropping two Boche snip- era out of a tree. . HE WAS AMERIGAN CITIZEN Ferdinand =Schurmann Held in $10,000 Bail—Motion to Set Date for Trial. With the motion made by Asgstant Surtis Judge Julius M. Mayer set ate for the trial of Ferdinand Schur- President of the Felix Schoetler ‘company of No. 115 Broddway, it known that the éccused had cted several days ago, charged ly claiming American eltizen. Ho entered a tentative plea of $10,000 eon ith fa bail The indictment alleges that Schur- he was a citizen of the United States on Feb. 4, 1916. pointe is alleged that Schurmann swore was an American to collect an_in- MONDAY, AUGUST 12 It is| out that Schurmann registered| Reserve Boord In the work. Wherever . :; ean enemy allen on May 26, 1917. m treal She Can Face Future | \h tance of 1,000,000 marks from Ger-| LIBERTY BONDS SELL | AT NEW HIGH FIGURE Non-Taxable 31-2 Issue Reaches 100.06 an Hour After Open- ing of Market. ‘The non-taxable Liberty Loan 34s of the first issue, which went above par on Friday, sold at a new high for this movement of 100.06 within an ‘hour after the opening of the market to-day, ‘The record high for this Issue was 100.30, reached in October, 1917, In.Ji uary of this year first 348 sold as low as 97.20, ‘The brisk movement in these Liberty Bonds was made in three lots, which sold as follows: 281,000 at 100.02; 130,000 at 100.04; 47,000 gt 100.06. Other Liberty issues were slightly higher than at the close on Saturday. The general market was fractionally lower. a ny FOREIGN BANK INQUIRY. 4 to Prep for Expansion 4 of American Institetions, WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Exhaustive investigations of foreign banking felds will be conducted by the Federal Re- serve Board to make ready for foreign mn of American financial insti- Pu expa tutions? Following announcement that Ameri- can financiers had awakened to the possibilities of Pan-American banking and would be ready for commercial after-the-war Cemands, it was learned the North American banking interests will have co-operation of the Federal | North American banks can expand or extend their connections the Federal Reserve Board will lead the way, it was stated MORE U.S, TROOPS FOR ITALY Assistant Navy Secretary Roosevelt: Makes Aw cement in Rome, POMP, Sunday, Aug. 11 (Havi Agency)—Franklin D. Roosevelt, As- sistant Secretary of the United States Navy, in spenking at the luncheon given in his honor Friday evening by Admiral Delbono, Minister of the Navy, gave as- surances that additional American troops would be sent to Italy. One of the purposes of his visit to | Italy, Mr. Roosevelt stated, was to seek means of preventing enemy submarines from leaving the Adriatic. It was also desired to find ways for keeping the Austrian fleet from operating against the Italians, ——— SPAIN TO REMAIN NEUTRAL. Re Changed, 1-OMetal State be MADRID, Aug 13.—A4 the conclusion of yesterday's Cabinet meeting in the palace a semi-official ao issued, declaring that Spain's foreign policy will not be altered and that maintenande of ita neutrality ie vitel to the country. 1 ae SIX BRITISH BOATS MISSING. Fall te Return From Reconnoitring ‘Trip to Holl Const. LONDON, Avg. 12.—The Admtratt announced to-day that eix British moter. boats have failed to return from a! Teconnottering expedition carried out on | Aug. 11 along the West Friesiand Coast of Holland, ——___ Willis 1. Brownell Dena. ORANGE, Aug. 12.—7he Willis Le Brownell, former ineasene of the Crocker-Wheeler Company electric manufacturers, who died in Manchester, Conn., Inst’ night, will be brought to the home of his daughter Mrs. A. T. Prescott, No. 312 Park Avenue, Bast Orange. Funeral services |‘ will be held Wednesday afternoon. | ANALAX F you don’t feel well, clear the sys- tem first! Pink crys- tallized ANALAX pas- tilles taste like candied fruit and bring you back to normal. At your dealers ERD SON & Ropeins, Wow York Ineorporal Teeth Without Plates sed Gums. SETS OF TEETH, Gold and Porcelain Crowns, Bridgework, f° Gold, made et Reasonable Prices. BADLY DECAYED TEETH and Roots carefully extracted, Teeth thoroughly cleaned. Broken plates | while you wait or if sent by mail. Tatas DE. OFFICES: RET Te | 9AM, UNDAYS an 1 SECO WoyRs, If'you cannot fight, save and conserve. 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