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

Abolishes “Soft Snaps” “Hf It Happens In It’s In The Evening World’’ ae _ PRICE ‘TWO CENTS. MY YYW): New York (NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1018, by The Prone The New York World’ 1918. FRENCH TROOPS NOW IN SIGHT OF LAON: BRITISH AND AMERICANS ADVANCE WOMEN SPY NESTS HUNTED IN TWOBIG ~NEW YORK HOTELS German Agents Agents Believed Entrap Army Officers and | Lure Them to Resorts. to LEADERS KNOWN. Story of “Woman of Mystery” Puts Officials on Trail of Espionage ‘Band. A Gorman spy system with two fashionable New York hotels bases, attractive country Long Island shore and fishermen to carry obtained army fall clutches of the spies is believed by Agsistant District Attorney James FE. Smith to have been uncovered Aja¥éstigation following the Mrs, Maretiet Voorhees, the offmystery.” The Prosecutor and I are now trying to draw a net homes on information from officers who into the by arrest of “woman deral agents about the ringleader, a German, who was one of the attracted attention early in the “Vaterland crowd” that! war, and a woman about whom most of the spy activitics are believed to have centred According to information obtained by Mr. Smith, the general plan of the German agents was to use a we dressed Woman as a decoy. She usu ally posed as one of high standing in Long Island Social circles and pro fessed deep patriotism and admiration | for men in uniform Using the hotels as places to scrape acquaintance with officers, it was not long before the conspirators in vited them to parties at on the Long Island shore, bag been informed a bungalow Mr Smith | Bits of information, particularly as to the movement of troops, thei per sonnel, commanders and the length of their training and condition of equipment would naturally — be drapped in friendly conversation. This information, Mr, Smith be Neves, has reached Berlin, not s¢ much for the purpose of attempted submarine attacks as to acquaint the German feaders with American mili- tary efficiency | The exact method used to convey the information §s still largely 4 ter of conjecture, but the theory that it 1s carried to sea by appartnetly in flocent fishing boats |s regarded as probable by the investigators Mrs, Voorhecs was again to-day by 3 him information on which he said he expects to wet some quick action He hopes by to-morrow to have defMite line on the man and ¥ sought. Throughout her tion Mrs protestations Four other p taken into custody Mrs. Voorhes was taken into cus tody at No. 586 West 111th Street where a lieutenant in the Quarter master’s Department was known her husband, Persons who had been constant visitor: including the leu tenant, ceased their visits suddenly and the Assistant District Attorney who had he place under surveillanc decided to take Immediate action mat questioned | Smith and gave interroga Voorhees made vehement loy ity to America also are to be Mra. Voorhes, according to M Amith, was married to a Mexican and later married John Voorhes, a chauf four at Camp Mills, to gain status as an American citizen | She told Voorhes she had been friendly with a German agent, he is quoted a4 baving wld the authorities. tn in2y VON HINDENBURG Circulation Books Open to All."’ ro, Clearing and cooler to-night; fair and cooler to-morrow, 18 zaGEE ALL CLASS 1 DRAFT ELIGIBLES IN WAR DEPARTMENT TO LOSE “BomB-PRooF” Jops BY pEc.31 DEEP INTO CIIYS | US ORDERTOGT HAIG EAST OF NEUVE CHAPELLE; DRIVES ON HAM AND ST. QUENTIN PHONE SERVICE — MARTIAL LAW IN BERLIN Secretary Baker Orders Replacement by Men Physica'ly Unfit for Service Except in Special Cases. Many bate Houses and) AS GER A U ROWS: esidences \Wi e Wij t WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Secretary Baker has ordered the chief of Re NGETIGES W ill Be W ithout M N NREST G 9 each bureau in the War Department to replace by Dec, 31 all men Wire Connection. HERTLING 1S REPORTED OUT wNhin the draft ages who would be classified in Class 1 now assigned im 5 | Many New York apartment houres to duty in Washington or in War Department branches elsewhere, military phone service this winter as an also be filled by men in the deferred |e outcry issued by the Postmaster! General, whose department now con-| with and residences will be without tele men physically disqualified for general service The positions thus vacated may classes where such deferment has been granted on the grounds of pendency. Exceptions are to be made only where incumbents are in dispensable and where men not within the draft age are not available to r places, The chie of bureaus are instructed to report to the Adjutant eral on De the number of names of all men within the draft age then employed in their bureaus and to furnish a certificate that each of tuese fs indispensable and that others not within the draft age are not available to replace them, Twenty-five per cent. of all officers now assigned to the office of the Quartermaster General will be trained for actual field service under aa order today by Major Gen. R. BE. Wood, Acting Quartermaster General Officers disqualified for field service will take Suir piaen trols the nation's wire sys The orders ¥ tems | nt into fect Sept. 1 NREST by the and the fear that German business will not be in Germany, caused U Jen: |but their full fo is only beginning to be felt in many parts of the city.| The orders prohibit the installation of new telephones and also bars additions Breslau and leading German cities. or extensions to service now in force in business houses or residences. ex- “because of ill health.” A split in the German Army command is cept in the case of essential war in- | |dustries or where it is proved such EER MD Heine Ne ——- — service is essential for commerce al] Prince Frederick William of Prussia and Crown Prince ods : MANY GERMAN PRISONERS nee | Of Bavaria are reported to have opposed the German offensive in | Many apartment house owners in | Manhat an, the Hronx and Brooklyn| MAY BE BROUGHT HERE, dorff. to ange discontinue the ACCEPT CONTRACTS. NEW ARMY ORDERS HINT tan i exchanges in their howses.| the German defeat Soules are at. 8 in nee ‘hal rand to itatants wie ity In his last speech before the Constitution Committee of ie Increase in Corps of Interpreters ed to have their own lines in Prussian Upper House Chancellor von Hertling admitted that i te ‘amps \s The owners’ motive was S a wile bald diheris forward on th i in Internment Camp RnR COG ac Aue set sai i ;; German Imperial dynasty was at stake and promised election re n the entire front between the Somme and the Vesle, Provided For [Roce aneoenaan c an Forie h ’ . says to-day’s War Office report. sept. 6 am tenants, in most “caves rer tral his latest utterances Kalser Wilhelm talks only of matne (To-duy's officlal and unofficial despatches indicate that the Terms of Government Agreed Jtaken out on Oct, 1 taining the Fatherland by a “successful defensive, ders providing for a sub- Now that ten-| the F . Tine stantia » corps of fants ¥ lied since S®pt. 1 for} crushing the Entente Allies, | ne entire 150-mile Ine from Ypres to Rhelms.! to by Class One Lines aS | interpretern of the army revived | telephony re being refused, th The German General Stafl has notified Chancellor Hertling | South of Ham the towns of Le Plessis-Patte-d’Oie and Ber- > ic Ac ‘eports of plans for bringing to |owners are trylr evoke tt | * H + Patriotic Act. Pere. ire: Bn ee el eee ietntaor hacrvien rhey| that any debate in the Reichstag on the present military events ill |lancourt were captured, and still further south the French pursu- neweTT Mans captured on the western [are told the cance wr final] be disastrous to the morale of the German Army and people. ing troops pushed ®eyond Gui Cai . mae the panronda: of thé oountey zine yon uivry, Caillouel-Crepigny and Abbe- y wie county | front und that the branches must come AMSTERDAM, Sept. 6—A decree signed by Gen, von Linsingen! count i id will accept the proposed contracts The new orders provide that in [out, Tenants, many of whom sup. nny ine ealpoer Ss = wt ie i ourt. setween them and the Government,| addition to the commissioned per- | wowed they had almost a month in |SOUM andant of the Brandenburg Province, in which Berlin as locuted, — : : proved by Director General Mc sonnel of the interpreter corps | Which to make contracis with toe according to the Cologne Volks-Zeitung, places the City of Berlin and jouth of Peronne French troops made further crossinzs of Adoo, was annotinced to-day follow. | @!F&idy authorized, there will be |telephone company, eannot have! the Province of Brandenburg under “the law relating to a state of siege, | the Somme in the region of Epenancourt. Further south the Ham- . “one First Lieutenant, ne ec | their own line put ; 1 hon . . imp | . eniine . ng « meeting of the Law and Exee-| ong Vipitedeniicen ae aml ars part ‘ hich provides for a fine or imprisonment for persons inventing or cir-| Peronne road was reached at several points. ane earns of the Railway Ex-| for each 500 prisoners of war in. | Brooklyn ur 1 ¢ v nojculating untrue rumors calculated to disquiet the populace | American troops heve taken Glennes and . - are approaching ecutives' Advisory Committee at the) terned in the United States | Wity te proy any phone | A notice accompanying the decree calls attention to the circulejion h ; S PP! ns g ee lear dies lenaniar and cananye pire the Aisne at new places northeast of Fismes, the statement showed. New Haven’s board room, Grand Cen- —- lene ROUL ENR aller are Wenewed ta frivolous and sometimes malevolent and traitorous gossip, exagyertt-| ini 3 tral Termina ‘GIRL WHO SHOT LENINE fs he same situation Jing the transitory success of the enemy and casting doubt upon Ger is 50 ‘ ae ; 4 es aa ae ee Se er ae Thirty officers of big railroads at N One case cited of « Brooklyn |many’s power for an economic resistance and depreciating the wonde s 90 tlles, but the turns and twists of the line make thie battlefron’ ae ih ; 1 telephone, had it wired for exten |{li Aemey' me “ eh , ; A Philadelphia, who presided, was au- Vara Kanlanl bene a ad C | and even offered to have its| withstanding the enemy Gen, Humbert’s army is making steady progress toward the leaulgen't i ektara tovelentactwo! (Lon 1 Report a in a teal wen telephone: put f the company’ Gen, von Linsingen expresses the hope that this admonition in| region of Guiscard and Ham. Advices from the battlefront say class one ratiroads advising accep- Condition rom Rough could only giv sery he offer| t ay nite Phesauph oe cell a Gandia ) a ee " ee Phe offer! iffice and that it will not be necessary to enforce the decree be bale ehaes of an has yetaaly been taken by the French ance of the contract becaus Handling was refused | , ae i Zen orces. is encircled from the northwest, west and south dictates of patriotism | ; An officer lephone com The Volks-Zeitung adds that similar decrees have been issued i ” e AMSTERDAM, Sept, 6&—Dora Kap ‘ F At the close of fifteen-page Tete 142 S imember of the Social Revolus|Paky said to-day that a fow excep-|Breslau and other cities, all operative immediatel __ In the region north of the Ailette the French reached the out- ter which tells of the « are ws ith wns hl tionary Parts, who lust Filday at. {tons would be made, Doctors may | skirts of Isinceny and the plateau north of Landricourt, and south e contrac ra c i i have new phones, a business rs F fhe mtract was drawn, Mr. Cuy We me to asesaataat Nikolai Lenine, Wee mer ed aes me a LONDON, Sept. 6.—Count von Hertling, Imperia! Germay Chan.| Of the Ailette the advanced forces are along the Vauxmillon etter says the Holshevik Premier, is in a critical | houses he rove thelr cases . me " "The contract does not give us in | condition at a hospital in Moscow as|Fedcral, Municipal and State offices cellor, has resigned, giving bad health as the cause ror his retir-ment,| *@¥ine- the way of protection all that we|the result of rough handing by a mob|are exempt as well as war industries, !agcording to the Geneva correspondent of the Daily Express, quoting: 9 — a ee |deom ourselves entitied to have, but |after the attack, says a despatch from| but that is all. When cancellations | despatch received in Geneva from Munich, Bavaria 6 Sl he region of a fair difference | Gaz zasen | voked. | Germany has had three Imperial Chancellors since war wa new’ e om shevik Commissioner of Ju - declared—Von Bethmann-Hollweg, Dr, Georges Michaelis and Count | of opinion and are negl in com: | un : tice, the despatch adds, has ordered | e |which have, to a substantial extent, LM ag or et Sa i AEBERT STRAUSS REPORTED | ZURICH, Sept. 6—The German General Staff has informed Im-| id been safeguarded. ; mnt the “plot which undoubtedly existed | SLATED FOR RESERVE BOARD perial Chancellor Hertling that any debate in the Reichstag on preser REPORT NEUVE CHAPELLE TAKEN “In the opinion of this committee ae | toa } enlightened self-interest 1 the dic | | military events would he disastrous to the army as well as to the moral pits : rccoptance of the proposed contra Salectad’ by Wilson s British ake rr an 1. om . hositution so advises. oe Warburg's Place BLOOMFIELD, N. i OFFICIAL, and ale nat isk at St. Quentin—Capture Villages Demands — Person ne Thomas sponsible Be Dismissed From | eit | MLL KILLS. SELF IN HOME ru 8", S, Service and Others Approve ; ; nitrites WITH TH TISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Sept. 6 (Associated a STILL WHISTLING 10 Goganaler} ork ws the suc- | Police Recorder Gumey, Who Wa or Press).—Along the whole front from its southern extremity te the e ‘ "oder Also Newark Law Commi . - Seay om t 4 1 ve “ " KEEP HIS COURAGE UP: peas NO CHANGE IN AUTO “GAS tspsuime-Camrai road tie tire of the enemy’s big guns is dwindling, anceelemeanas Grete UE Ue ih wee Pe mes . i WU BO) iy 4 Sy ORDER FOR NEXT SUNDAY !'> indicates that the Germans are making strenuous efforts to gat vernment service M T “nt J mn f rtill behind the Hindent lefenses, Maw work and aiken ah ie ; A hp ; ‘ v | ive captured more posts around Havrineourt W Mic fisoted the ft purpose to fix n w , ie oh mbes ! In many pla torth of the Sensee River the Germans are firine isquoted bility for the round-up and ther ‘ rva Mt 5 : is paying In an Interview in the Possible. to foree the person reanonsi- | ( r lale A H va Fu . 1 ells indiscriminately it Austr Neues Wiener Journal, |” Ne COREA AAW A CPI I " ; t i 1 \ \ The Germans launched three counter attacks against.’$ “gular 3 re to-day THAYKA. BURRAB. LAR Zn YE A : Jay he feured he was abou wan a : | Iw were repulsed and once the Britis! .* repriced ver (World) Building Phy if J ‘mer Kk aAtuhe , “ea bie be mils 1; h om iy, wa ' war rot ' decks t * h he hill fo: ome e's a chance us ola ae ea ali Hee tga nat to Gea ae arse $i it ; . Heide! . If : 5 Ls Further hagh Ure merchuial adn, ‘Avslétant Attorney-General, soudition when be awoke this morning. | | .| Breslau and Other Cities Included in New Order, | Due to Disturbance Over Army Defeats— Split in High Command Rumored. defeat of German able to resume after the war, has caused a state of siege io be declared in Berlin, | Imperial Chancellor von Hertling is reported to have resigned vumored March, but their protests were overruled by Hindenburg and Lusen The Princes are now charged with dodging the blame tor ind no longer ot eludes Ue wume as it did last Sunday. Americans Reach the Aisne on an Eight-Mile Front, Occupying Sev- eral Towns Without Opposition— French and British Capture Many More Villages. PARIS, Sept. 6 (3.35 P. M.).—Gen. Mangin’s troops are now in sight of Laon, having reached positions within jten miles of that city. Gen. Berthelot’s soldiers have reached the Aisne on a large front. Gen. Humbert’s army is making steady progress and jhas succeeded in completely removing the German men- ace from Noyon. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Thursday, | Sept. 5 (Associated Press).—Franco-American troops reached the south bank of the Aisne Thursday night between Conde and Micil- | Arey, an eight-mile front. American forces Thursday afternoon occupied the towns of Dhuizel and Barboval virtually without op- arms Crown Rupprecht | PARIS, Sept. 6.—French troops last night continued to nush French, British and Americans have made progréts on practically Around Peronne. West of La Bassee the British hy ayopesnet ll es ee the British have ae is the last. day be ea: