The evening world. Newspaper, September 3, 1918, Page 1

“If It Happens In It’s In The Evening World’? New York ene * Circulation Books Open to A a RIOR TWO CENTS. Copyright, 1918, br The Prove Publishing Co. (The 'New York World). NEW YORK, “TUESDAY, “SEPTEMBER 3, 1918. LENS AND QUEANT TAKEN BRITISH CAPTURE NINE TOWNS, 10,000 MEN SDE 8000 W ROUNDLP HAIG ADVANCES FOUR MORE MILES; bed Circulation Books Open | to Al n| 16 PAGES Weather—Showers to PRICE Two OENTS. | FOR DRAFT SLACKERS HERE: 200 NO NOW ON WAY 10 CAMP AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE seiniaia T0001 15,000 in Greater City Were Found Without Registration Cards. | GET 400 IN ONE HAUL. From 25 to 30 Per Cent.) Found to Be Wilful Shirkers | —Enemy Aliens in Net. From 10,000 to 15,000 suspected draft | evaders, who lacked registration cards | or birth certificates, were arrested in} (ireater New York to-day, and many sf them, even if they are honest, may | jot be released for two or three days. | In Manhattan alone the round-up for the day was officially ¢s ag 8,000 men, And the army of re viar and special agents of the De partment of Justice as busy im the other uereusne. as a were afternoon 200 proved] ed on their way to this slackers wer amp, and it was officially estimated hat from $00 to 1,000 from Manhat an would be on their way before ght Cardiess men will find it ditiicult 1o get home to-night, Bvery exit] from the city, every street from business to res: 41 districts, will he wate And ape] even in & taxicab, for a special squad) s detailed to wateh every auto | Charles De Woody, Division Super- | ntendent of the Department of Jus- tice, who ts in charge of the § draft law enforcement campaign, said this afternoon “From 25 to 30 per cent. of the men arested, according to the re- sults of the questioning thus far, are wilful slac' This means tha the he greater city is 15,000, then lurking slackers will 1 4 from their h s place and put where they belong—some in the army, others in prison. Capt, David Asch, Assistant Director of the draft in this district, | eald: “New York is the greatest slackers’ retreat in America, It is the best hiding place for the | man who wants to evade his duty. And such men have come here in droves. It is only fair to the g number of the found here are not to be day's toll in at to the By far the most spectacular fea- ture of the wholesale raid occurred | at noon at Madison an! abn Squares SOLDIERS AND SAILORS AID IN UNION SQUARE SEARCH. Cordons of soldiers and sailor Department of Justice thrown simultaneously and w warning around these two 6 tres, And after (he cordons w s and men we (Continued on Sixth Page LABOR AGAINST LORDS. mated — |corded, HOW DRAFT AGE MEN MAY AVOID ARREST IN NY man of draft age or who appears to be of draft age is likely to be taken into custody to-day unless he com- plies with the following require- ments: He must carry and show when required his registration card and the card showing his latest clas- sification in the draft. It he appears to be of draft age, but had reached his thirty- first birthday on June 5, 1917, or had not reached his twenty-first birthday on Aug, 24, 1918, he must carry wih him papers satlsfac- torily 6 COTTON FUTURES J JUMP $13 A BALE ON U, S, REPORT | Rush to Buy as Government Fore- casts Luss of 2,482,000 Bales From Last Estimate. Government's cotton crop re- . considered sensationally I Puttish market here, ed a swift of approximately $11 a bale the price of “futures” as compared with Friday The advance continued until some of the positions, notably October, had risen 260 points, or $13 a bale WASHID IN, Sept, 3.—August was the most disastrous month to the cotton crop that has ever been re- @ loss in prospective produn- tion amounting to 2,482,000 bales, re- ulting from the severe drought. The Department of Agriculture to-day fore- cast the crop at 11,137,000 equivalent 500-pound bales, basing its estimate on 1 canvass made Aug, 25. This was 5.7 per cent, of a normal crop. Last month the crop was forecast at 18,619,000 equivalent 600-pound bales, ch was a decrease of 1,616,000 bales m the quantity forecast from the e condition, — COMMANDEERING OF STEEL SURPLUS BY U. §, HINTED 40,000 Manufacturers Called On for Complete Reports on Stocks. WASHINGTON ept 40,000 manufactu ‘s using steel in their produots have been called upon by the War Industries Board to make complete reports of their steel stocks, down to the smallest holdings. intimated to-day that this step ato’ to commandeering for ix supplies of steel 3.—More than |war' use all LUDENDORFF AT ODDS su WITH PRINGE RUPPRECHT Jtoday deliv the | Abotinn |, | esstul German cor lent that this step * Bavaria. Seed that thie situason | o ihe Vedios Prins aa, i ae; BERLIN WAR OFFICE ADMITS DEFEAT | NORTH OF AISNE; TAKE NEARLY | 600 PRISONERS, TWO BIG GUNS BIG SLACKER ROUND-UP Pershing Reports Capture of the Village of | Terny-Sorny Over Vigorous Resistance | —78 Machine Guns Taken. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—North of the Aisne American troops continue their advance in the face of vigorous German resistance, Gen. Pershing reported tu the War Department under date of Sept. 2. The | village of Terny-Sorny has been taken, together with nearly 600 prison- ers, two large guns and d seventy-cight machine guns. POSONED BULLET FIRED AT LENINE Bolshevik Premier Reported) Out of Danger From Wound Revolutionist Inflicted. COPENHA , Bept. 3—The con- dition of Nikolai Lenine, Bolshevik Premier, has so improved that physl- cians consider all danger passed, ac- cording to a Moscow despatch re- ceived through Berlin, The bullet fired by Dopa Kaplan, the Russian girl terrorist, at Lenine was an explosive, poison missilx, ac- cording to a despatch to the Hambur- ger Fremdenblatt from Helsingtors. A number of these bullets were found on the would-be assassin when she was arrested. Stringent measures have been taken by the Bolyhevik Government to stop the apparen tematic reign of terror inaugurated by the Social Revolutionists against the Bolsheviki and the German representatives in Russia, Commissary Peters has is- sued a proclamation declaring all persons found carrying weapons are to be executed on the spot. Persons conducting an agitation against the Government are to be interned and their property confiscated —_— CITY FIREMEN THREATEN TROUBLE IN LONDON Ultimatum Declares Drastic Acti mn | Will Be Taken Unless Organ- ization Is Recognized LONDON Sept. 3 laring ts reeoxni elty fremen tum to unle the J owithin s taken n of the firemen follows the met i Premier Lioyé idered by the «nizing thei virtually BY GIRL ASSALANT MRS. SKEELS HELD ~ FORTHE DEATH O ANDOVER TEACHER Nurse Accused of Murder After Chemist Reports Arsenic in Woman’s Stomach, LAWRENC When Mrs. | nurse who was arrested last week on Mass., Sept. 3.— Bessie May Skeels, the} a charge of stealing jewelry belong ing to Florence W. Gay, Andover teacher, was arraigned in the District Court to-day an additional churge of the murder of Miss Gay was pre- sented. Miss Gay died Dec. 13, 1917, the cause being given by the attending physician as cerebral hemorrhage. In April, 1918, her body was exhumed at the request of District Attorney Henry G. Wells and the stomach sent to Prof, Whitney of Harvard, who reported that he found arsenic in it Mrs. Skeels pleaded not gullty to both charges and waived the reading of the complaints. Both cases were continued till Sept. 14. Mrs, Skeels has been ill In a hospital since her arrest, and the Judge decided to send her back to the hospital with the un derstanding that if her ¢ nim proved she would be committed to jail The evidence in the murder charge | will be presented to the Grand Jury| which convenes here next Monday The District Attorney |asked the authorities of Bayonne, N , to make an investigation of the eaths there within the lu of Mrs, Skeels's parents, hy land her sister-in-law James Clark, assistant pr of Hudson County, N | clared to-day that hiv ¢ further developments ling the bodies of th sof the Wilkins fa onne, of which Mrs ber, Mrs. Skeels nursed recently two years r brother - 250,000 AMERICANS SENT a} TO FRANCE IN AUGUST LONDON, Sept, %--More than te France during August, learned Ubis afternoon, it was ¢ Re Atel eee ee 250,000 Americans were transported | | Haio’s Troops Sweep Forward on a| Twenty-Mile Front, From Above Queant to a Point Near Peronne, and Are Still Driving Toward Cambrai. Lens Evacuated Before British Ar- rived—Pronville, Doignies, Velu, Bertincourt and Rocquigny All in Haig’s Hands—Wulverchem in Flanders Taken. LONDON, Sept. 3, 5 P. M. (Associated Press).— Carrying their attack to the northeast of Arras, the British to-day captured the village of Hamblain-les-Pres, just to the south of the Scarpe, in the direction of Douai. (This, with other places mentioned below, shows that nine towns have been captured by the British today on the Arras front.) The Second Prussian Division, considered one of the enemy’s best, was rushed up from Cambrai, but the men were so worn that they were easily pushed back. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Sept. 3 (Associated Press).—An attack was launched just to the south of the Drocourt-Queant line, where a strong British force is driving ahead on the northern reaches of the Hindenburg line proper. Again there has been furious fighting. Thousands of prisoners have been taken and the enemy has suffered terrific losses. LONDON, Sept. 3 city of Lens and the town of Queant, on the lower end of the Drocourt-Queant switch. Lens was evacuated by the Germans, the British moving in. The British have advanced to a point just to the west of Buissy, 24% miles northeast of Queant, and occupied Pronville, a mile and a half southeast of Queant. FOUR-MILE GAIN ON 20-MILE FRONT The British also hold Doignies, Velu, Bertincourt and |Rocquigny, representing an advance to a maximum depth of four miles on a twenty-mile front effected this morning. The British found Doignies and Velu unoccupied. The situation in the southern part of the battlefield is said to be extremely interesting, but nothing more can be said for the moment. (Capture of Lens and Queant are outstanding incidents in to- of British troops. Lens, which dominates long been almost within their grasp, but Queant has been one of the stroag: day's great advance the coal fields, est points on the Wotan line the secondary line upon which Tindenburg bas depended to bar the way to Cambral and Doual and the great French coal fields in that region [This line is to the east of the old Hindenburg line. It bas been completely smashed in the neighborhood of Queant, and this may mean that the Germans will have to give up the coal mines which they bave beep using since the early days of the war. (There is even more significance in to-day's successes, The advanced line now extends southward of Queant three-fourths ol We way vo reronne, We iowest point being Rocquigny. (The capture of Lens will prove a bard blow, not only for senth $ 3.—The British have captured ‘the ‘ GAINS BY BRITISH TO- DAY LPR LADD ODE DLE DEED EPDDDDO PPO LDP POPPED DB Sau st RANQCOURT thy POPP OEEE RRR RART ECHO RERORER EHREFETRPEEERORIRRRF EERIE CEE RESRE TEEPE Het tere: POLLEY DL DE DEDEDE DLE ED PGE OD-19-968-49808- 08080 BERLIN ADMITS DEFEAT ON ARRAS-CAMBRAI ROAD BY ‘STRONG SUPERIOR FORCES’ Claim Is Made That Northeast of Queant and at Noreuil Germans “Held the Enemy Thrust.” BERLIN, Sept. 3 (via London).—South and east of Arras the | British have succeeded with strong superior forces in throwing back our | infantry line on both sides of the Arras-Cambrai highroad, says the cfficial statement issued to-day by the German Army Headquarters, Northeast of Queant and on the northern fringe of Noreuil the | statement says “we held the enemy thrust.” An advance by the Allies in portions of the wood west and south of Coucy-le-Chateau was also admitted. menta! reasons, but because {t {s the juncture of a number of rail- ways, : (The occupation of Wulverghem registers a turther advance of one mile In Flanders. The town is six miles north and slightly west of Armentieres.] CANADIANS AID BRITISH TROOPS, Ce Gen, tiaig in his report io the War Office announced: the ture