The evening world. Newspaper, October 5, 1918, Page 1

PERSHING MAKES NEW TWO-MILE ADVANCE \ Real Americans Are Fighting, Real Americans Are Buying Bonds “Come Across Like a Real Man!” be f “ Circulation Books Open to All.’ | = Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing (The "New York World). _ PRICE ‘Two “CENTS. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, WEATHER—Probably showers to-night and Sunday. “Circulation Books Open to All.” 1918, 1 + P AG E 8 “PRICE TWO (CENTS. — NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS ROCKED BY JERSEY WAR PLANT BLOWUP PERSHING TROOPS CAPTURE 00 MEN; FORCE ENEMY TO MOVE BACK Blé GUNS Americans Renew Attacks Between |; the Meuse and the Argonne, While Franco-Americans Deepen Pocket| West of Great Forest. 3 LONDON, Oct. 5 (4.22 P. M.).—Despatches from the front this afternoon say American forces, attacking on an eight-mile REFUGEES FLEEING FROM TH «front between the Meuse and the Aire rivers, have advanced two | ‘ miles to-day. ‘ It is estimated that the Americans to-day have taken between 3,000 and 4,000 prisoners in the Argonne-Meuse fighting. PARIS, Oct. 5.—American troops attacked again this morning between the Meuse and the Argonne along an extended front. The advance at some points has reached more than a mile and 999. CIVILIANS DRIVEN NATION PASSES FROM AO TOWNS IN BILLION MARK IN ALSACE-LORRAINE Inhabitants of Mulhausen, Alt- kirch and Other Places Or- dered to Leave at Once. several villages have been taken. The forward sweep of the Americans is progressing brill- iantly, according to advices received by La Liberte this afternoon. The American forces are now in contact with the last defenses of the Brunhilde line, Briéulles and the Meuse. The enemy is reported to have removed the long distance | represented by the woods betweeen | guns that were protecting the railway junction of Vouzieres, six, miles north of Monthois. i ; i 0 ith Gen | The American advance was timed to progress wi en Reports Show One-Sixth In With Time One-Third Gone —New York Behind, Gouraud’s right and is menacing the Germans in the great fovest, evacuation of which is expected. The first attack was made yes- terday and Gen. Bullard’s corps reached the Kriemhilde-Stellung line. Troops from Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia and WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—One billion dollars has been subscribed to the Fourth Liberty Loan. This is a sixth of the total in the first itzerland, West Virginia, as well as regulars are in the battle. Under pressure of French and American attacks in Cham-| pagne the Germans have retired cn their left flank and given up territory east of the Monts, according to the War Office an- week of the three weeks’ cam- Official to-day total paign reports showed $957,124,000, representing sales up subseriptions as nouncement to-day. | ubserip' West of the Suippe t rear guards, Northwest of R 1, keeping in touch with the German “AMERICANS HALT RAID; have re; its southeast of Moronvilliers neig reported sales would raise the eims in the last five days the French have taken total above the billion more than 2,500 prisoners and thirt guns, KILL OR CAPTURE ALL ae aaond WAGh ot the) Bountt GERMAN LINE BROKEN ALONG SUIPPE RIVER. | Liberty mL opened t LONDON, Oct. 5.—Franco-American forces have definitely | GERMANS REACHING LINE | ances which broken through the whole front of the enemy's defensive line behind Y tah a the Suippe River, west o mne, according to battlefront de-| » Al i t spatches received this afte | | 1 New York In the region north of St, Quentin British troops made substantiai | n ng to off ines from th progress ) } f Beaurevoir and n of Le Catelet, | \1 Depa ut Washingtor Field Marshal Ha g’s report to-day says that 800 prisone captured, | ratiure |! xth of i 4 The British line northwest of Le Catelet was advanced slightly Friday} Every German who reach 1 an 1 er > ic’ | Americar w quota w 1 night. jc ptt 1, wounded 4 a lat r In the La Bassee area the German retirement has reached Equing- in th | t hem, only four miles from Lille, Courtrai, fifteen, miles east of Ypres, | we u 14 is being cleared of its civilian population. | cfezaramer q low . {der oppe 1 ri 1 GERMANS SET FIRE TO DOUAL |»: ms WITH THE BRITISH ARMY FRANCE, Oct, 5 (Ass viata 28% BH Ay 28h cas Press).—Flames were shootit from the of Douai {| 1at more fires have bee irted The Germans also have n nt applied the torch to ma unbria area | 7 10,500 1 AK by IN FLANDE . 28, the Hele British and French forces have taken 10, 500 prisoners, |*/¢0, at {plan + collided near Kella 350 guns and 600 machine guns, says a statement from the Belgian War As tabi © TRE PYRAMID GRATE seu dewigne for ‘ ra Photographed Especially for The Ever peor SUENES LKE BATTLE ZONE ss wounded into our car, an’ TA gto tet AT w EIR HOMES AT PERTH ‘AMBOY ing World by a Staff Photographer. 94 10 125 REPORTED DEAD: ‘WHOLE COUNTRYSIDE FLEES '- ASHAIL OF SHELLS KEEPS UP ee eee City Experiences All Thrills of a Bombardment From the Sea— Loss of $20,000,000 Estimated by President of Company. New York for several hours past has experienced all the sensations of @ bombardment from the sea. operated by T. A. Gillespie & Co, at Morgan, N. J., some twenty-miles away, have shaken Manhattan Island as never before in its history, Federal officials notified the Mayor’s office and the Public Service : Commission at 3 o’colck this afternoon that another explosion, more $ violent than any of the preceding ones of the day, was expected within > at and requesting that subway lines to Brooklyn and Quees be shut down half hour, Orders to that effect were immediately issued. : The Red Cross shortly after noon notified a number of the big sky to open all their windows, with a possibility of greater blasts, West Scrapers ‘The police also ordered that many of the old tenements along Street be evacuated As a measure of precaution women employees of the Standard Oil Tompany Building, at No. today ordered out of the building The War Department took over the territory covered by the Gillespie plant early this afternoon. The Commander of the East ase over to the jcumed charge at first and then turned the surveillance : RI LD B BY EY y } Ordnance Department. United States troops are patrolling as néar as they dare approach the burning plant. All bridges and roads are | atso heavily patrolled 26 Broadway, a skyscraper, were at noon | All Government records from the Gillespie plant have been placed Writer Who ha Wein All Night in steel vaults in South Amboy, which is almost deserted of civilians, Aiding Injured and Terror-| President estimates the property loss at $12,000,000, | This is exclusive of $8,000,000 worth of explosives, which belonged Stricken Refugees Tells of Havo.| to the Goverment. a a “The disaster,” he said, “was probably caused by the explosion Caught between dropping shells as they motored near Morgan 1a5l| of a kettle in Unit 6-4. There were seventy men at work in that unit, ck this mortung hauling the) eiyhteen have been accounted for.” of the Gillespie Loading Com: returned to New York Gillespie night, and working from then until 6 o'clc dead, wounded and sick from the vicinity Meantime six hundred employees of the plant are unaccounted for, pany plant, Craig Hamilton, a magazine writer, of them are foreigners and many may have gone to their The majority n W first eyewitness a { the explosion. He had | ¢y mer homes without reporting lost his hat and gone without food or He compared ene < The estimate of the dead still stands at from 94 to 125. The exact en he left it to that in the rear of a retreating army ih I number, it is said, will not be definitely known for several days. Fifteen end night and we approached | Amboy, w »| bodies have recovered 4 ” : Ey Dry It is estimated that 450 were injured in ) the dead. OF explosions | many had been burt this number 250 were treated in the hospitals of Perth Amboy and 42 TNT went| “At this time many of those whi ’ had first left their homes I] remain there. e blow almost tore reas us out of 1 swore |i ts f ‘ian | There are eleven of the Coast Guard missing, Charles Kaplan of bad t ye and taglu i high: n 0 OER sobs ai return, and! West End Ave vue, ne! 2d Perth Amboy detachment, was 4 t i} n and Je “") struck by a shell fragm hurt about the head. He was at s ruined down uy 2 us to | peeded up toward the plant | c t wm. | Ke FOL, CWO mile from the pl and the buildings around it, M ape po as nda | Att ¢ residents of came so frantic at the were running In every divection, Al onds ;wught tha it they might be blown nity that Mayor the electric Lights had gone out t o | Tenbrock al that T, 8. Gillespie, President of the company, make very few seconds another shell would idmi Mr ied b { an aviator from Mineola at once, signed the huge powder plant, | burst in the alr, lighting up the Accom- the machine wr et ‘ ‘ the smoulderin noting magazines that still remained any headed out tr e open coun. | Hem ? intact, At intervals the plane shot through a barrage of screaming shells, try. Many took refuge in the swamps, | manne’ a 50 ae | but came out of it unscathed. “We started Jonding some of t ough the surround. | “We drove t carried them as far ag the br ntempber (Continue, Bccond Page.) admitted Mr, Gillespie to an Evening World reporter. “But MEO: cane son om hs ‘ “7 aw Explosions following every half hour or so at the shell-loading plant. “The greatest menace is a huge TNT magazine in the side of a hill,” |