The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1918, Page 1

“If lé Happens In New York it’s In The Evening World’’ PRICE “TWO CENTS. _{ “Circulation Books Open to All.’ Copyright, 1918, b 7 The Press Evbtishing y NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, N.Y. TROOPS OF 27TH DIVISION IN FLANDER‘ 1918, lo, “Circulation Books Open to All.” 12 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. _ BRITISH CLOSE TO THE HINDENBURG LINE” FRENCH AND AMERICANS GAIN AMERICAN ARMY MASSED UNDER PERSHING COMMAND: N.Y. BOVS ON FLANDERS LINE 05 Pet Cent, of U. S. Troop: “SWE ‘GAS’ TO-MORROW! in One Force, March OUTL List of 20,000 Minor Casualties | to Be Forwarded From France. WASHINGTON, 7 Organ ization of the First American Field Army in France 1 essing yapidly, Gen. Mareh told mbers of | the Senate Military Committee j day, that nearly 95 per cent, of the) American troops ‘brigaded with the] British and French have been with drayn an abled at ay | © did not de vat | ber of Ar n thel r fo am B t jual withdraw of American troops which have been brigades 1 and British| foree second now in the pres ent battie. Th are from 90,000 to 100,000 American t however, | e Referring to the location of Ameri- can divisions in France, Gen. March shid the 27th, composed of New York troops» (mostly former National | Guardsmen) had now taken its place fon the line in Flanders composed of negro t cans eon a ten front t night, while the French and American troops further north were within ten miles of St. Quentin. In his weekly talk with newspaper respondents ¢ March charac terized the German retrograde move ment as “a general retreat” on hundred-mile front from Arras to near Rheims, He pointed out that the German lines now are sixty mile French capital at as compared with forty miles as late as July 15, ‘The enemy's retreat was forced pri marily, Gen, March sald, by two oper-! tions, ‘The first was that of the tish on the Arr fron of the nne ( , | Secretary 20,000 MINOR CASUALTIES RE PORTED BY PERSHING “HELP MAKE NEW YORK . 100 PER CENT. PERFECT! city Is Expected to “to Make Beiter ! Showi x on Second Autoless Sun- Police to Take Names. day }O-MORROW will be the sec- T ond “gasless Sunday” for New York, and the city ex- pects to report 100 per cent. per- fect on gasoline conservation this time Last Sunday there were a num- ev of qutomobile “rs who through misunderstanding and for other reasons did not heed the re- quest of the Government that thelr machines remain in the garage: By order of Mayor Hylan, the police will report all slackers who waste gasoline ‘Joy-riding around to-morrow The license s of the offenders will be and in all proba- made public on ow town number ted down, will be as not turned serve gasless making it that such @ step will not lying on the pa- ricans, 1 of the Fuel uel Adminis- York to set a patriotic example, Fail int THIEF DIES "N STOLEN AUTO DRIVEN OFF PIE ice Believe Dri ot Mechanism Cost Him His Life. 1 punishment for larceny saw the wn the purge in the East River into the fe thief was in Ignorance INTERNED GERMANS, IN FREEPORT CLUB , “FOUNDIN SPY HUNT Activity of “Woman of Mys-} in Long Island Town Leads to Discovery. ONE SAILOR Many Soldiers Entertained Elks Quarters, Near Mrs. Voorhees’s lees's Bunge alow. Assistant District Attorney James E. Sinith believed to-day he had par- mystery surrounding lL, 1, of the woman | tially solved the the activities in Freeport Mrs. Margaret Voorhes, now helt for the Gov lof mystery, ernment in a place of detention on the west side, He learned that one of four interned German sailors em ‘lub at Freeport simultaneously | ployed in the Elks disappeared alm | with the woman’s arrest The club is less than 100 Voorhes occu fee from Jthe b wo Mrs. ers are under | pied and many so stood to have t n entertained there Jat Saturday night dances and Like | affairs The fact that four men seized by man |the Government when the Ge on was taken liner George Washin, over to be converted into a transport were working in the club probably |was not known to the soldiers Freeport folk have become to the idea of the mans _| there thi they almo: forget to tell about It Mrs tions to the club th t Attorney tall men have been unable to de boing Voorhes ot | invi Ri? | we and army termine. BKdward Li is Chairman of the club and one who can give definite jy] tion on this point, Mr, Lang not at his residence, Light Freeport, when investigators so | him Kriday night and was n printing office to-day At th Franz Zitteiman member of the interned crew »|George Washington, who is as caretaker und major domo by Langer, said he unders: had gone to Was: t at his house ployer connection with some pr Dainy Me PORTON, Gent the club. daisies for a war charity appr ‘ i tary "McAdoo on his arrival here [OBt" Tuesd ! and asked him to buy a flower, | 40m BF t splain ] y."" Mea d, He dug|so did not know whether dow c t jt and |hes beld communication w aid he thou ninized J*toueh."" Ther cht the flowe nyited or . Mr. I ¢ POWDER KILLS FOUR GIRLS. \ Ztielman was ¢ Works at : aa Bosuton | He valid 4 MPTON LA \ i Hi In of Bay and Frances Sicens Lede Wage ad SR : other sailors, Recently there Was a obably caused 0) a " \wununued ob Pecond Mage.) MISSING. || 28-YEAR-OLD FIANCEE OF MILLIONAIRE, 70, WON BY ACTS OF KINDNESS : { so used! Mise — Pater ORR MANN , | | | Miss (Continued on Secund Page.) Kuenemann's Aid to Paralyzed Old Man Began Romance yivania t GIRL'S KINDNESS. » WON THE HEART OF AGEDMILLIONARE == Otter June FOUR MILE ADVANCE BY FRENCH: ONLY THREE MILES FROM LA FERE ' GERMANY REPORTED ON EDGE OF REVOLT AS MUTINIES GROW IN ARMY AND AT HOME Whole Bavarian Division Imprisoned After Desertion—People Hamper Military Purauing Disaffected. LONDON, Sept. 1. —Gen Wworalization of Germany . aes “TWOSHIS BATILE tion and widespread yin the doby mutiny a doin a dexp the ph from tt dau correspondent und Yhursda correspondent says that lon reaching him is al to napire scopticlen Reth Arrive Safely in’ Por With Stories of Thrilling Ee counters in’ Atlantic corroboration from aul urces He asserts that the German Ari is filled with desponder nd AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept seething with mutinous spirit, aad that alarming outbreaks tave Varrived curred in several units, principally | last: fow Bavarian and Silesian ur iiters Ww Qne incident on the Ar tront terminated in a whole Bavarian a Vision being rmed and trans ported to Baya where it was placed ina prison camp, and the toamer net Vo bow of the Silesian regis | day hes resulted in nearly a hundred | jured mutiny of one n being executed ber of desertion Appeared tot correspondent nated ty thousand desert farted ie aang " © than twen alon| y dou | Lar nu throughout the ertheless hund re ive] a nix 1 ‘ Soe S080". EIN AND PUTS MAN POWER bev AT GERMANY'S DISPOSAL The A ated & c ten (Continued on Second Page.) 1 ons now detained 4 UBOATS GOO MILES FROM SANDY HOOK American Troops Co-operating With the French Ten Miles From St. Quentin—Drive on East of Ham —British Take More Towns. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE FRONT, Sept. 7 (Associated Press).—The Germans fell back a'short dis- tance early to-day before the pressure of the French and Ameri- cans to the east of Revillon, at about the centre of the line be- tween Conde and Rheims. From the hills northwest of Roman, between Revillon and Montigny, American troops brought in prisoners this morning. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Sept. 7 (Asso- ciated Press).—The German retirement continues throughéut the whole area to the west of Cambrai and St, Quentin and the British advance guards in the zone generally between Cambrai and | Peronne are close to the Hindenburg line. Numerous fires still are seen as the Germans retreat and there have been many more explosions. MARKED PROGRESS BY ALLIES. LONDON, Sept. 7.—Marked progress of Britis| , French and American troops continued to-day from Rheims to the Messines ridge. Announcements by the London and Paris War Offices show ,|important gains by the British on the Peronne front, east of the | Canal du Nord, north of the La Bassee Canal in Flanders and also toward the Messines Ridge. Paris officially announced the ad- vances on the front between the Somme and the Oise and the occu. | pation of the towns of Dury and Ollezy, more than three miles east of Ham, whic hwas captured yesterday. Fresh troops and sup- | plies were brought up by the Franco-Americans below the Aisne | River, and a new advance was made to-day. Press reports from the battle fronts show even greater prog= | ress than is indicated by the official announcements. It is authori- bers a ul mneut ' % ‘ Ms tatively said that Tergnier, only three miles west of the important German base at La Fere, has been occupied by French troops without opposition. FRENCH ADVANCE ON 20-MILE FRONT. It is also stated that the French have advanced on a twenty- »|mile front to an average depth of two miles, and at some places to |a depth of four miles. The French troops also reached the Forest of Coucy and are now on a big stretch of entirely new ground. toward Q Lak and Laon, The French ench The elge of Bt nty- t fortified Qu Phe & French t time statement today, forwarded from Berlin, the German War youl Rivers the enemy followed the retiring by way of Ham and Chauny and during the evening (in tighting the German rear guards on the line of Aubignye Nument” Ph t cliims that in the Vesle Gorman forees yesterday repulsed renewed attacks by the Orfiew says Somme and Qise feerma: ‘ River re America The Chemin-des-Dames a crossfire from Allied troops south of the Aisne and to the westward. German occu. endangered by the French ad- statem: herliy is under pants of the St. Gobain forest are vance HAIG TAKES MORE VILLAGES, British progress on practically the whole battle front from Havrincourt Wood to the River Aisne contingss this morning with } The British line {