The evening world. Newspaper, September 12, 1918, Page 1

“If It Happens In New York CITY DRAFT ROLL MAY Paw EXCEED 1,000,000 WEATHER—Probably showers to-night and Friday. ) » : ” It’s.In The Evening Worl. o } ' r “Circulation Books Open to Alt” | r = » — PRICE TWO CENTS. me ' 12, 1918. 18 PAGES PRICE TWO © CENTS. _ if ~ ’ ’ + 2 b= ————— EARLY pic 10 rEICTR. Pershing Opens First American WHERE U. & _ BLOW FELI FELL Peasants Lead New Revolt— Furnishes Climax to New | 940g £4-69-046004-4.b0004 Lb ADRES ED 29 Frenct aeien Al : Offensive on Both Sides of St. ne . in 7“ 22 French and English in | “Offensve of — Hertling City Estimate by Government L|EUT, SWAAB, NEW YORK Peter and Paul Fortress. Burian and Crown Prince. Mihiel on a Total Front of 40) 3 a i i ' D 1 atecresaeren - : . * of 780,000 Expected to DOWNS THREE ENEMY | ONDOS. Sept. 12—russian peas) AMSTBRDAM, Sept 12 (Asso Miles and Drives Germans Back, Be Much Greater. ants who revolted against the Bol-|cinted Press) Speakin the : imesh PLANES IN ONE FLIGHT |stavici Govaroment’a: tow dave ago| xrapp rounliton works 4 Aided by French Troops. = P * _ are reported to have entered ‘o- | Empero Mam declared that —— NEW SUPPLY OF CARDS. sates ; io nay a . en Emperor William a 1 . ——- as alice Oe ee ee lees ee ne ee eneatest. horce vot “Armeticans jxet * \ Some Local Boards May Be arge part of the population, saya a) Fatherland knew that he had ‘ : : Open Until Midnight ares sees, oer n to the! no stone unturned tu shorten the war Engaged in This War Is in Ac- Handle Late Arrivals. | Severe fighting is proceeding in the |and for the entire civilized European tion—Allies. Already Have Su-|: ae | city and fires have broken out at| world." : * he number of men resiatering In| several places | ‘The omperor sald tt took two to premacy of Air — Americans): New York to-day for military classi- STOCKHOLM Sept 12.—Eleven make ce—that one could not do it . . . rs deation oil Ge) avich greater han [dapgiiehratn) ast layer Franch citin| anibas’ he: ebula” evatoonie tni-oisr Eagerand Fighting Magnificently |: 1 phad been expected by the Goyern- | j Zens have been arrested and impris- Germany, he mfron Tey, heer! ees FlS Ele ment’s best estimate makers nd may | }oned in the fortress of St. Peter ed with her enem Jestr BY FRED S, FERGUSON. exceed 1,000,000. | St, Paul, in Petrograd. her, and she must pi this United Press Staff Correspondent D4 The rush of men to the registration y reliable information re- her determination ve b WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE METZ ? ph began before daylight and at ceived Rare to-day-trom: the . te stence, * . . Pore. 7 ; ® FRONT, Sept. 12.—The first American offensive started? three o'clock this afternoon was} WSAMIEH IAAL INGAFROFATRE ihe After mentioning ace SEC AP EA Mer oR ens ide RM. i Lockhart, the British |the Emperor said that the German] at 5 o'clock this morning between the Meuse and the pes re werner oe reese than three-fourths of the expected Consul General at Moscow, who was|laders had made it pinin to every ; . . vo eee ebteeeee . scmaier hed uirendy. sansa | lemned to deuth by the one who wished to understand “chat Moselle Rivers. The attack was carried out by the First ‘Ehe above map shows particularly tue St, Miblel salient, which the ft vernment, but who es: We are at all t ad, offer the | Germans have held since their invasion of France in 1914, It is the d Martin Conboy, director of the dra Eanes ‘ . . jermans have he my @ + atieer sie sit w aw tho rewult of the intervention] Mand te veace” | Army under the direct command of Gen. Pershing. most dangerous pocket remaining on the entire western front. 4 pee of all the neutral diplomatic repr . . | The St. Mihiel pocket is In the form of a rigat angle, beginning at ail districts and from outly ‘= N GERMANY and ad- pe ‘ , q PrORN Si aletriste: aad) fromm! 00) ptt YOR ime eee te The Americans have captured ten villages Verdun, then running about twenty miles south to St. Miblel and turn- towns and clties Indicated bE | Ose eae weenne s Buaeicn Seats Gaseae hae PMP tion works he declared he knew ae Wanced several kilometers on a 15-kilometer front—about! ing eastward for twenty-five miles toward the German border. The creases over the estimated quotas wn unexpected front in the Arsamus ms Mouse and the Moselle Rivers are the boundaries of this twenty-five | Shoots Fokker on » Back From | District of the Russian Province of, heavy cares under which the people . . . . a he. Q The tentative figure for New York | Shi Fokker on W ay Back From ae Novwored Ketoni ng to a de-| had labored, He continued twelve miles. The immediate object of the attack is lim-) ii). streton along which the Americans to-day have started the! was 780,000 registrants, but it 18 ap- | ane he i ups i WO |,patch from Moscow, Six districts| “But to whom, after all, do we ited to a specified line. Tanks are in action. offensive, parent, say those who haye examined lens: nen Attacked in that province have united against|/Owe this? Who spoke at the very . < Z 5 oo oe 2 ne the detailed reports from local hoa us | ITH: (THR) AMA@RICAN. [ihe Huselan Bovis Government beginning of the war of starving out American infantry attacked behind a heavy rolling Ition, starting at 1 A, M. There was rain during the night and. the thus far, that New York may pa ‘ : % 2 Province the German women and = children? as tar, that Now Fork may pase ARMY IN FRANCE, Peasants tn the Province of Kasan | 'M nies ives barrage, timed to go forward 100 meters every four min- | flashes from hundreds of guns concentrated around the salient brilliant! million mark. This will hecessita | Wednesd sents ait (ke are arming against the Bolsheviki WhO was it who introduced terribte 4 now supply of cards, and printers are| : tures German Jand, the despatch adds, Soviet forces| hatred into this war? It was the yteg, |lighted up the storm clouds. #t work on a hurry order for 100,000) Rite : @ belie formed’ to supproms/the rea ShO0iy . Sverything within the are sali aa 7 ti shaw Zor me GCE Mr. Con- | o bellaved: to ‘havi Bele Kore " id “Every one of you in the remotest The greatest number of American troops and artillery yet involved Everything within the ar. of the salient was under fire, Ic Addi Hon oy sald 1e might be decestary for| Den shot down yesterday by vats a F orner of the Fatherland knows that | jp 1 + inthe attack to the artillery bombardment, airplanes dropped bombs on all railroad some registration placcs to be kept | y mane BAR Sloe to the All Peopiea|Z left no stone unturned to shorten| ” “AY Single operation ts engaged in tne ; ee ry [setitres, bridges, hangars and munition supply centres in the salient, open until midnight to handle the late | Ga Wik chia dem dtiphieses. Gena Roitakelpredadtions fon ie: war as fi Ra sible you . [St. Mihiel is on the Meus ee in front of Metz, on onan y “hich is one of the strongest fortified points on the western front, arrivals, t $ epee the caer ety C ne to a| @ed your OF and for en thirty-three miles from that city and about twenty-three miles from the 5 « a Mphe most surprising reports came| {he Wines he engaged and shot |thelr personal safety, according 10 &1 17. stiised suropean world l 1 he St. Miblel salle PRISONERS IN BATCHES OF 50 AND 100. Brooklyn, where it was said that} “WN a Fokker machine, Contin- | Moscow despa penhiche) “0 wracanibors Lets: peoeented he Lorraine border. It is at the apex of the St. Mihlel salient. tae eh ci kon | We fe carly entimates had been too low] WM his return flight he was at- | Westfaclische Benvatotin héiny Gublis ‘With & wleak ankicd [The despatch from Ferguson was received by the United Press The number of prisoners taken is probably large. Indetinile re- ¢ early eatimates ha p of Ge e ordel “4 the o 4 he ti cabling ti ¢ in all nections excepting the Browns.| Tene! OY a group of Gutman (ats ney a salen (artearealsat ambiguous offer of peace in the name| in New York tn triplicate via Western Union, Commeretal and French — [DC TtS at the time of cabling tinis despatch (11.25 A, M.) say that groups | : ville district. aut wis eee flames and forced another down |in the streets of Petrograd ana | of ahs. Garmal » Dire i 1 ay a cables. The cables indicated that they had been relayed from the [a 50 and 100 are passing through villages near the front. Many of the Riper tedeer anerey) in all bor-| OUt Of control Moscow pei quic mbit Pt) tront by courler to Nancy, from which point they were forwarded via | )viSoners are from the crack Tenth Division which participated in the oun The vic bore nays deen pepartad “ y Meaolasy peasants Pills Sut a “He up above knows my sense of} Paris and London.) \s ime offensive last July. 1 and ¢ al confirmation of them | Ge: arriso d_ occupied - sariatht ananteainl? " : ro) ome A dean w . oda From the Jersey side came similar | er ean silovka, according to a despatch to- | responsibil ty. Repeatedly during the) Gag QN WEST SIDE OF SALIENT. | From the moment the first American went over the top te-day re- reports, and, in particular, z dav trom Biol pea ed | : ports flowed back steadily telling of increasing successes. boy reported that a serious situation Lieut. Swaab is a son of Mr, and STOCK . 7 of the Imper t have un- | The Americans and the French also attacked on the western side | : P had arisen because remiatrant®| see Maver fwanm it of No. 48 STOCK BOTA Be pt 9 (Via Lon- ambiguously given to understand, to! i hiel sali i hoo, iin. the 7a | Artillery and tanks so smashed the powerful enemy first line that 4 outnumbered the available cards in! Central Park West. He istwenty- [20m {Bert 1h) Caled Blake Ae ne Who wished tana, {Of the St, Mihiel salient, pushing the ¢ ck in the region of Fiesies| iste ingantry resistance was encountered, Prisoners indicated they had ! eran NUMBERING CARDS IN| {UF Years old. He entered the | een arrested in Moncow. He Is ac- lena ia Sesh ta ady to| (at the northern base of the salient) action was on a front of abou’ | been expecting an attack, but did not know when or where it would be. service in June 917, rece "4 s 7 1 offer the han, € - rn L 7” 1) SERIAL ORDER TO-MORROW. pesdibradl Ens 1917, receiving * [cused of being implicated in the plot |°"r one ss : sight miles. The French are on the k of the salient, keeping pace | (The first village was taken by the Americans within forty-five i ERED SSNS SY at |to purchase Lettish troops, the sup- Me WEperOr dsclA , wer . 5 " Local oars aes nt eaves ML le | eolumt Onur nO, bes | dort of the Bolsheviki, and is under| of Germany . 4 my Was the with the Americans, pinching in the sides minutes, Woods and other strong points were then enveloped.) : * Foe the musibering of oarda Ih serial] copyuer thucetqere i peg. (SPREE ME Re aBRUIAGES es ieerations the crushing cron Prisoners taken by the Americans reached four hundred in a fe ame i driven narrow gauge railway trains and wagons were order, The aT Ros ee rire in| training In both France and Ituy, | Press) troops have ar- | any: hours. The French are advancing on a 35-kilometre are (about 20 miles), Haeag dl Mallon All of Guts ork was done by the Americans any local board is expected to be in} yriends here believe the air battle | rived sa rehangel. Many of} “To make peace,” he added, “two are| Letyoen the points of the American attack They are starting dhol ee this the first complete all American conducted attack Detroit, where one board will hay 4 fohi he ened the sie them speak the Russian language|Peeded. If eithe nwilling the| | cen: tne eee . Y : ‘ The First Army's air reserve, working with the French, assumed the 19,000 men. This means that in the! Germans may have been his frst | quently. other cannot, presurhing that he does | encirclement of St, Mihiel fiensive with the infantry. At 9 A, M, they { sia : crawing at Washington about 15,604 Lieut. Swaab's brother, Frank L. | Most of these troops are from| not overthrow the other. ‘Thus wo are [As the American front to the east of St. Mihiel ja twelve miles and |e is ENO OTONITY: At they reported not a single Boch: numbers will have to be us Swaab, aged ninoteen, is a member ates where the winters are much | confronted with our front north of the town is eight miles the total length of the driv plane in the sky, American observers and bombers worked unmolested, margin of 3,000 belay, prov of the nw York State Guar A He © those in Russia, Their voyage| Will to de beer ‘ | {8 about forty miles.) | under the escort of chaser planes. future registration of boys rea ogisterec us Draft Board to as quick and tranquil. The m solute will.to destruction we must ‘ | pees an a ; Gee ere of elent |_day suffered few discomforts, except there | place our absolute will to preserve eur} The weather is ideal for the offensive. The Allies have com cic AMERICANS IN GERMAN FIRST LINE. In the waterfront districts of lower was « heavy list of seasick. | existence. nremacy of the air 7 RIC § FORCES ON 1 = : F 'T : Manhattan there were strange scencs GERMAN GENERAL HUHN ee cuir’ lormvellarniy cue inate Kan P iil ae ; | AMERICAN FORCE 5 ON THE LORRAINE FRONT, Sept. 42 Gt men from the far corners of the DRY RESOLUTION SIGNED liahowncrou thie will anGaed! ithethen More than 100 tanks, manned by Americans, aided in sma the | (Associated Press).—American forces this morning launched an attack earth sitting at the little desks of SLAIN BY BRITISH FLYERS Shiai * lin assault or withdrawal or trench | fowerful, concrete-geinforced first line of the enemy, in the region of|on the German positions, At 9 o'clock they had progressed generally children in public school bui ir a | witon Affixes Stsnature to Zone | NéntiNK th only thing that matters /S+, Baussant (twelve miles east of St. Mihiel), The tanks drove forward! along the line. Some prisoners were taken at different parts of the ses iwalting their turn to be i , a Resolution, IEA Ae enemy atonal as much | 41 sunrise, t {a dense smoke screen, The town of Monlcee (a greai| { with the ald of inte ra AA | Mai f His Staff Also Killed] wasHInaTon, sept ssible. That has occurred and hattan leader br tir | Attack Nea Wilson to-day #igned the Joint resoly- continues to occur German stronghold seven miles east of St. Mihiel) was kept 1 The first wave of American troops met with little resistance, and at at once: | O . on pa ed. by Congr y cnnepering DECLARES. ALLIES ADMIT. in a smoke screen all morning long to prevent effective German 8 o'clock the second American wave was in possession of several points “he “White Id and theat Juentin m to establish prohibition zone . The “Wh vA nd oun ; seound shipeards, qrunitions. fas us deathedat vation, ft the German first line, district centring 1 Broadw GENBYA, Sept, 12.—Gen, Hugo Huhn p m haa ec \ . " , , | ; between 35th and 57 German Army Nay heen killed by [M4 Stes war Annas ‘ proved that it be the Allied artillery Is moving forward, Pagny-sur-Moselle is aflame The Germans are now falling back on the fronts on each side of early in registering des ; : Gan ig B tovdny, [lution more drastic restrictions thar be Bc ' uperi- | from the American guns, the St. Mihiel salient. Though undoubtedly suspicious of the intentions of ‘ y actors living | mato m Hn ‘o-diny Wve ca lonAemad Rar ort ur poats, like @ consumin ; ; . “oe oo Leslee to think noon is early of his atalt was also slain Stabe. Any ie series ar od Med worm, gnaw at the enemy's vitae (This town is twelve miles from Metz and five miles north of the | the Americans in this region the Germans were unaware at the time of morning. Among those who came in HE RRETOWIY, RCRROR {estat at the town of Oliver, Wis.,| more than our enemies will admit, | Allied line where tie Moselle crosses it.) the direction of the attack. The American troops are all intensely eagsr to sign was @ legless man on a Mitte | Bop Ranina’ Raila tana @otncs oka pnieh hae spring yp Wish wana sar | ‘Even though, in the opinion of| The attack on the left side of the salient is also making progress, ‘and are fighting magnificently. — ross e river ‘om A ‘ lasted e most terrific 2: Saliberetet are cones fe Ht tt t sContinued on Becond Prey (ah renner 5 nanan az. - Tht sttack followed four hours of the most terrific artillery pregaza-._ Thyis aie soiié lindivatiois tha we : as A éé ———- —— ~