The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1918, Page 1

SHIP “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ Lea LLL “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ _PR RICE TWO CENTS. Com Me Wi Went NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, UNK OFF VIRGINIA WEATHER—Fair; wielerats tangerine: <2 52 temperature. t rl % | EDITION “Circulation Books Open to All. Ag 1918. 12 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. _ FRENCH AND BRITISH TROOPS President Wilson and E. M. House in Magnolia, Mase.,| Dismissing Official Business for an Auto Trip INCOME TAX SOARS ~IN $8,000,000,000 : REVENUE MEASURE: anlpimice Doubled and in Some Cas’s Trebled Over the Measure Passed a Year Ago. GO LUXURY RATES UP. Inheritance Taxes Are Boos'ed) ¢ CLOSING ON ROYE AND ALBERT —_——————— bP 4 0 ALLIES MAY FORCE GERMANS BACK TO NESLE-NOYON LINE BRAZILIAN SHIP DESTROYED BY (BOAT'S SHELL FIRE OFF WINTER QUARTER SHOALS, VA Latest Successes Place French’ So Close to Roye That Fall of Town Is Believed to Be Inevitable— Germans Trying to Hold the igny - Oise Canal. PARIS, Aug. 16.—The French troops have made an impor- * | tant advance on a front of two and one-half miles west of Roye, | according to the War Office statement to-day. The French prog- ee More Than 50 Per Cent.— Insurance Changes. | : WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 wn i less than uw half bililon of its $3,000,- 000,000 goal the new revenue bill was) rapidly nearing completion to-day The House Ways und Means Com decide the excess mittee still had to and war pr 8 question Some new minor taxes will have t be added of the languag : the bill and p some of the ; importan rates may have to be : committee writes its changed as the report in preparation for submitting “4he bill to the Hous But the of the mea first time to in all its ess quate {di actically complete dr PRES WiLson ano OSE Diet wim ser e in some cases cases of inter- RAILROAD YARDS WN: : ‘WLSON 10 SPEND TWELVE HOURS A DAY IN OPEN WHILE ON HIS VACATION sisson trent and the Rev. ‘The normal rate on the first $4,000 S. MacFarland Officiate ~ SERVIGES HELD AT GRAVE of taxable income is 5 per cent. After that the rate goes up to 10 per c with the following schedule of sur-| axes: On portions of income between $5,000 and $7,600, 3 per cent; t tween $7,500 and $10,000, 6 Three Distinct Hits on Track Charks| in Front of the Station at | Pre t Plays Golf at Hunt Club between $10,000 and $15 : : ; cent; between $15,000 Loneiver | With Dr. Gr. Bae | Religious ¢ mony. 15 per cent.; betweer guyon, | 5 | Pari Aug 16 $40,000, 20 per - - MeCall a Visitor Neuika cies (eens and $40,000, 2 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN] yfAGNOLIA, Mass, Aug. 16.—Twelve] Roosey $40,000 FRANCE, Aug. 15 (A * Shoals, t OF ware ROOSEVELT | RETREAT SPECIALIST |rese was in the region of Villers-les-Roye, about two and one-hulf | WHO HAS TAKEN COMMAND | | miles west of Roye, St. Aurin and Armancourt. The Germans ere giving way little by little north of the Avre. Madrugada’s Crew of 22 bs cape in Boats—Picked Up by Liner. OF GERMANS ON-SOMME: AN ATLA PORT Aug. 16 The French are progressing snd threatening to envelop the enemy Twenty-two men, constituting the |‘? *e#? PSHDOOOD ‘ aT . crow of the. breatilan) tourmantec| at Roye and along the Oise. The Allied line half encircles Roye, notor ship Madru 4, reached this | where the strongest pressure is continuing. port to-day with a story of the sink The French advance at Villers-les-Roye makes the fall of the ing of thelr ship by a German sub- | { day off Winter Quarte! | ¢ Virginia marine y town inevitable, it is believed by military men. Possession of Roye \% \ by French troops would make necessary a rectification of the Ger- e of the Ma d been sunk Capt H :|man lines and an enemy retreat to the Nesle-Noyon line would * | be probable. The Germans by shell having beer fired In ty nking about minutes, the 1 after the n hour are clinging desperately to a range of hills east ot The got away, safe t, in two open boats which | i , : Pere up four hours later by # coast] « Ribecourt. They are also stubbornly defending the Lassigny-Oise Canai, ' 2 the loss of which would entail the evacuation of Noyon. marine appeared about 200 y said Capt.) f Humpbert’s now on the plateau south of Lassigny dominates the whole southwestern corner of the battlefront. His trooy have worked their way to within less than a mile and a half of Lassigny and are now pus! down the southern slopes of the plateau. The enemy’s position, from Bray to Lassigny, is unfavorable. Hi ff the port side, Gen, “As avon as the periscor tructure wel ut of the opened fire without warning while «© were skimming wong with sa Several shel army, wate hing ind motor power Fi struck us below the water line and | We went over submarine and} ordered out the boats. opposite the railways are not available and transport is greatly congested. Chaulnes he lee of the 1-boat, which | is under heavy British fire. ship until she} ? BRITISH ENCIRCLING ALBERT FROM WEST, SOUTH AND NORTH; HINDENBURG’S PLANS UPSET shelling the ‘The Madrugada, 1,600 tons errying a varied cargo, had ieft thi ago bound for Santos, attack was may gross, | 4 | port two days Braail, The U ut 7.80 o'clock yesterday morniny, J Sank by | Sehooner Sy WASH! The American ayia e nen th, w held W.. AUR. 16. iajesicaaeacee cigramme wa red by ane Admiral tne te || Haig's Troops So Close to Chaulnes That the na| Meta én BS: ' J of the F h Germans Cannot Use Town—Lines ' ieheile Jb Sainte Them of Transportation Under Fire. ch | eee: LONDON, Aug. 16.—British troops are slowly encircling Albert, the oy nA M } urine J ny | fticial report of Field Marshal Haig d to-day. In addition tu : | i 8 1,520,000 GERMANS KILLED west and oy tig hive cose the i nt = M : front to the northward. \ progress south ot Albert also INHERITANCE TAX RAISED MORE Hunt Mra. W | Maser Hower ett” IN WAR; 240,000 THIS YEAR; 5 reporte: Inheritance taxes arc d More) vives were bombed at ‘Thiau t ' ft I PAI ‘ if It is said that the British are so close to ¢ haulnes that the enemy we nanan ot | nels} : a were : rf Cope \ vt | TOTAL CASUALTIES 6,000,000; cannot use the town, Almost all the rail communications in the Peronne ‘NEW yORK AVIATOR ! wound uit unheated | —— I region have been rendered useless by the Allies. |Echo de Paris Estimates That 120,000 Were Further slight enemy withdrawals from the Lys salient were an- Killed From March to June and a Still nounced in London to-day. The enemy has evacuated the village of Greater Number Since | Vieux Berquin, south of Merris, and has retired between one and two miles on a front of nine miles. ARIS, Aug. 16.—One million la wenty th hat he will lead a figh . \ t ramme amounting tov Boast : } ecilem. of ArKO entAted W KILLED IN AIR BATTLE = soc Quy a will comes before the ise, ‘The ° 1 f 4 | TO CHECK RENT PROFITS. 50,000 arc 0 15o,-| Lieut. Walter Miller's: Patrol of), has had hin are Katsing Vax ¥ In Plan of | J 5 wo) er 0,010 v] Eight Machines Attacked vt et n i | Houstog | * ed ; per cent; f 50,000, 12 per) 30 German Plane 4 wis me} WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Ra AltIs, Aug Ilion five hund nd cont; $1,000,000 to 100) 18 pont Fase ee 2 Polenta Venta z, i Re a mw hat jof ta aS, PFODEENS ft P sund Germans have b do duris ent.; $3,000,0 100,000, Twine < tavike: AG q win W v oday nts $4,000,000 to $9,000,0 BEF servicer, # ‘inn ‘ mat $12 Men's deers ng Men's Suits, 57.85 . , Ri . } , (Continued irth Page.) “ : Fane . ee y 8 (Ope iw et tl fh ode { aaa ab ; ; aa gies Bless Gath | worth Bullding), w to r How imated, amou »6 . TEE WORLD TRAVET, BUREAU, i of th rplor seut.| penula ncn & Cool Clot undCR Ah vounde id have be ¢ nto ne Arde. Pulitaer (World), Building € rican liy 4 hy: en vant ‘oponteurton , ; ; \ 8-08 Park Row {om | ner the pate ¥ ny << | c re +0, " all ot Sara ss rote Jehae Bh 5) TE Balad themaaye * Broadway,coraer Barclay i ea | ata sts plac ‘t leutons, ‘buy cin ceeded this figure, making at least 210,000 this year. {The above confirms a report sent from London yesterday afte» 1 German 1 € h en wal final edition of The Evening World last Marcel Hutin, military writer | Paris, said | noon and printed in the trawal days, it is belie on the western front by the Germans in the last few ved here, indicate that the e ’ intends to abandon the | offensive. It is said to be doubtful whether he will be able to resume wounded and ha H | From March | enid, while the ive divisions no the offensive, since thirty-f are necessary between the Oise and the Ancre, of which fifteen are oa the reserves. There are now a sixteen fresh enemy divisions in reséfve on the entire western 120,000 G d, Hutin last eight weeks has ex- June nl were le number of killed in th