The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1918, Page 1

TWO SUBMARINES SUNK, 73 “Tf It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ PRICE ‘TWO CENTS. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), ae Che ‘Circulation Books Open to A All” id WEATHER—Fair and cooler. “Cirenlation Books Open to All.” | 1918. 10 inhale __PRIOE TWO CENTS. FOCH’S TROOPS TAKE ST. MARD: WITH 7,450,000 MEN ABROAD, GEN, MARCH TELLS SENATORS Also Informs Correspondents MAY RAISE WHISKEY TAX TO $8 PER GALLON IN THE NEW ‘REVENUE BILL 80 Divisions Will Be in | : | France by June 30. | 1,550,000 MEN IN CAMPS.| Adjt. Gen. McCain Promoted as Merit Reward—Brig. Gen. Harris to Act in His Place WASHINGTON, Aus. 17 March at his conference to-day with the Senate M told Bena Gen. tary Committee Americ numbers rs that th an Army now under ehtly than 3 arins 00 more Dinen, with 1,450,000 men in France or on the way a and approximately tonments at home Ben we the Ru cau of the avairs th were given to understand that there was not a chance of establishing a Bive on the eastern front, because of the great number of men that mous be req In his | Old Rate of $3.2¢ Change if Committee W It Is ASHINC iTON tax of $8 whisky and Aug Subject to Finds Short of Goal, a gallon other dis- led liquors was tentatively de- cided upon by the House Ways A on and Means Committee to-day. The tax now | The new rate is subje ange if the committee should find itself short of the $8,000,000,000 goal when the bill is ready to report Rates on other liquors are sed inp! wit ment f n d force twe f extremely h “ WILSON ENJOYING REST, SPENDS DAY MOTORING newspay said tha ‘act lin pects Norman's diers t 1 from the United ay. Famous by Italy and $ a8 tok Other Points mene ot 1a _oMolal MANCHES Ma through the Span evidence that A Germany are s treatment, as ha tailed reports, menus, are rece ineluding ved the daily show that the question of the t of pris oners had largely become standard ized, ea FURTHER WITHDRAWAL OF |; ENEMY INDICATED. Discussing the battle situation in France, the Ch tention to the f have now portions of their } vol ent places, He p nc tion of his own on th taken as an indication of an expe 4 further withdrawal by the ene Ir a general w ized on a 1916-1917 pe n along the Aisne-¥ south, sible te Military Committee may clud muster rolls # led Ww Announcer was Tua Major Gen, Georte B. Dur the first Ame gullantry in (Qoatinued on Booond Page) de nt leeway ¢ dinary nt p pack at the Re ling to the M. House for luncheor from Glouves' enjoying th Woe, Longfellow, ft Interest. portion, but the com- s formal an- Aas- sh liquor tax ttee ause withdrawal of from bond, to escape the commi legislation,” Made) and Aug. fri tors who hi golt links on the ut in et of Nol Longfellow Chasm aid, through night Rost wit permitted him to go nas he y two uring the fore 4 with Mrs, Wil other desl ds to-day a half to to-day hours’ places be pr at having been summer home of dn the ularly | AVIATOR M’ KERNESS KILLED IN AIR BATTLE WITH FOE Yreach Une, Moke h pilot were picked up within the’ claus, ¢ ! the] EP Teepe e, | tee which col | SPAIN WILL CONFISCATE INTERNED GERMAN SHIPS TO AVENGE U BOAT LOSSES Madrid’s Note to Beilin Declares} Ton for Ton Will Be Ex- acted From Teutons. LONDON, Aug, 17. PAIN has notified Germany of her intention to compen- sa herself for future out- rage against Spanish shipping by confiscating a corresponding | amount of tonnage from German shipping that has found refuge anish ports, says a despatch imes from Santander, ® are about ninety Ger- steamers yoluntarily man terned in Spain. in- GERMAN GROWN PRINCESS TAKES TRIP IN SUBMARINE Goes to Helgoland, Accompanied | by Grand Duke Mecklenburg, Without Kaiser's Consent. | AMSTERDAM, Aug. 17,—The Crown ermany, accompanied by Duke of Mecklenburg and of Bru submarine trip to pers, which add that f the Em to German newap the future Empress t life in “such ex-| The n Princess was for merly the Du cs burg-Schwerin, ‘The ¢ A of Mecklen and Duke Mecklenburg is her brother, The [Princess of runswick probably ts | Princess Alexandra, who married the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. _ PROPOSE 10 RAFFLE PEARLS OVER HERE) Jewels, Worth $2,000,000, Given} to Red Cross, May Be Sold in ue 3. LONDON, Aug. 17.— Tentative pro- afoot to the pearl necklaces made from pearls contrib- posals are have uted by the women of England for the Red Cross fund raffled in America. 0,000, have been made #8, varying in value from | $200,000 down to i) It was the lected the pearls that they should be raffled for in @ lottery for | which six tons of £1 tickets have | already been printed. But when the House of Commons unexpectedly | defeated the Lottery Bill by four votes | it becume impossible to raffle them in this country It 18 proposed that If the lottery 1s promoted in America 21,000,000 | ($5,000,000) of the proceeds shall go to the British and the other £1,000,009 }to the American Red Cross, less the | et ual expenses of the lottery SHELL LOADERS KILLED. ostow That Killy | Mystery tn Two, ¥ WASHINGTON were and no of th Kind has occurred with this explosive before in the or seven Years it has been in use. The killed were RP. Nicholas, ordnar st clans, @" and E, B, Hollana,“rdnance man, third ©. C. Holcomb, ordnance man, class, injured, will recover, Seema Specie teaitve 2 Se: port to-d. Inot due | reached her destination, tu Jued in the aggregate | into |, r n of the commit- | ° GERMANS PERMIT SAILING AND WAIT TO SEESHIP SUNK ipa Course of Dutch Steamship Laid Out by Admiralty in Path of Mine. LIVES IN Spanish Influenza Breaks Ont Among Passengers and Five Die at Sea. $47 PERIL, A Dutch which ship from rmis Kotterdam sailed by on of the alo’ ut by the € pe German Government and course carefully laid man Admiralty, barely missed struction from a huge floating mine that lay squarely on dictated to the story told arrived at an Atlantic course, according when the ship That t 1 the a tude of t d her pass and submarine who observe the appea qulek among prac ly all the passe and ¢ sh influenza ne members of the crows of Dutch ships from the West Ind. which had been taken Allies native and The over by th their way back to ed of the disease and sland bu F ship satled on Aug. 3, and ( d day out the first of the negroes owed symp the fore many © infec were ea. epidemic tion had spread through the and the steerage. The ¢ disappear four days bh Conditions of life approaching in Holla a cries, accordin the versions told by many of th passengers, themselves Hollanders, | William F, Enck, a Sumatra tobacco planter, said “LT have lost sixty pounds in three months; that is eloquent. testimony to the lack of food. Meat is almos unobtain nd the war bread is podst uff ANOTHER GERMAN PLANE; iS PILOT IS KLED Rumpler Mi ed Intact After Battle ne ( aptur at Nancy- Planes on a New Raid ITH THR AMI W AKMIES IN A 7 f r npl 4 r t f i} wn and Land, w . than a day an escaped under tire American bombing — plar again attacked the railway yards at Dommary-Baroncourt, | near Metz. Several trucks were ob. served to have been destroyed, ‘ NOW AT THE GATES OF ROYE U.S. ARMY NOW 3,000,000, BRITISH GAIN MORE GROUND IN PICARDY AND FLANDERS TWO SUBMARINES ARE SUNK, ONE BY AN AMERICAN SHIP, OTHER BY FRENCH VESSEL Information Given to Poincare, President of France, After He Witnessed Debarka- tion From U. S. Convoy. ARIS, Aug. 17.—-President Poincare ister of Marine, days at a Freneh port, where they cio IFrench Troops Gosiay Advanced Defenses of Roye Southward of Avre River and Seize Junction of Montdidier-Estrees St. Denis Road—House-to-House Battle in St. Mard. PARIS, Aug. 17 (United Press).—The French are at the gates of Roye. They have occupied the advanced de- fenses of the town southward of the Avre River. They also occupied the junction of the Montdidier-Estrees St. | Denis Roads, and Georges Leygues, Min returned to Paris lo-day after a visit of two American naval bases and were enabled to obtain a first-hand view of the co-operation of the two navies in combatting German subma rines. Immediately after thelr arrival there an enemy submarine had just been sunk by a French patrol, ely inspected the Franco a report was recelved that while it was confirmed at the same time that another submarine had been * {aes tecpadiy ane Agne noni: mactoll aatewe Mavi hs (bees St. Mard, a mile south and west of Roye, has been President Poincare made a minute inspection of various Amerl- taken after hard fighting from house to house. The Ger- mans had formidable defenses at this place. can installations at the port, being especially interested in the hydro- airplane tation Beyond Loges While the two officials were at the port a convoy was signalled coming in cadi te Peediant cuNadRedlanvanWee veel aRGEWe TRGUL | Wood the Germans were pushed back behind the Roye- towards the sea to observe the arrangements L.rde for the protec P tai oie akie Lassigny Road. After mv ri a“ nt pos ghee on veel ‘ dest ie and WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 17 (Asso- participated in the chase of an Allied submarine somewhere below | the surface | ciated Press).—French troops this morning carried out a local at- | tack in the region of Autreches, about ten miles northwest of Sois- | sons, and captured the plateau north of Autreches village. This | gives them command of the region extending northward, south of the Oise River. Local actions elsewhere resulted in the further tightening of ‘GREATEST WEEK OF AIR FIGHTING | IN WAR; 339 GERMAN PLANES DESTROYED OR DRIVEN DOWN | the grip of the Allies upon the approaches to Roye to the west, ‘| Only 123 British Machines Reported Missing—, the north and the south. The Germans are intensifying their ar- More Than 320 Tons of Bombs Dropped |tillery fire in that region, with no other effect than to slow up on German Bases and Bridgea. | the Allied advance. Measured by 4 | GAINS IN PICARDY OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED, gaged, the GERMANY P PREPARING | PARIS, Aug. 17,—French and British troops have made new LONDON, Aug. 17 of mac the number | intensity of the fighting and the mag- headway on the Picardy battlefields. The French War Office an- neo a os ia r jn “ i ae FOR SUPREME CONTROL nounced to-day that in the regior. south of Roye French troops th ee woutitormtd OVER ALL BATTLEFRONTS made further progress in the Loges Wood and have reached the outskirts of the wood on the east. There was heavy artillery "© fighting west of Roye during the night. Northwest of Ribecourt |the French have repulsed two strong German attacks, Official reports say the British lines have been pushed cast- ne Ward north of the Amiens-Roye road and north of the Ancre. British troops have also gained further ground in the neighbor. Plan Only in Line vie sag yaa Ges hood of Vieux Berquin, at the apex of the Lys salient French troops are within a mile of both Roye and Lassigny. Camp During niMtAR stead | oe Cesar, a mile west of Roye, been captured, while the Midian 89 driver nd wr n of trench and Plessis de Roye, less than a mile southwest of Lassigny, have fs vik ‘rom | been occupied.’ A number of prisoners and a great quantity of material ish air noof | were taken bie Hed y CONSTRUCTING NEW HINDENBURG LINE. wemy is reported to be preparing for evacuation of the Roye- ! - : 4 ae ilient. German pioneers are said to be constructing i 4 ‘ JAIL FOR MISS FEDER, another nburg line,” : Asi catia nf iY a HOnsdeia Gh iteaniea slau The French and f king at five vilal points, At the ex- He (etn One Year and Three Months 7 of idy have shoved : . , : “A : ay m Lassigny heights, There i Ia 1 t 1 1 Lassigny and Roye. Marshal Foch th f the crescent between Chaulnes and ae aren ‘ ind in the centre of both crescents, Tae Th uta ! h ectly between Lassigny and Noyon, rear eee mid $200 : she IMPORT: ANT POINTS UNDER FRENCH FIRE, | gu the omer: fi aot alp maratians | Secdieinpath Goeshuaee Rie altae From their new positions the French hold under their guns Butte navy from Aug. § to Aug. 15 dropped |three mont de Plemont, Bois de Reserve and Mont Renayx. They also cover Noyon sixty tons of bombs on German| as fixed @t $10,000 for Miss Feder . from the westward and southwestward, docks and airdromes in Belgium. ed $2,00 (or Poleki pending appeal * ONE BY U. S. SHIP {