Racine Journal-News (Newspaper) - April 15, 1918, Racine, Wisconsin THE EACH NO 89 BRITISH FIGHT FOE TO A FINISH WISCONSIN MONDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 15 1918 TEN PAGES THREE GENTS Allies Improve Their in Many Localities and Yield Only iii One Place in the Face of the Rushes SAMMIES BEAT GERMANS BACK FROM THEIR LINE By The Associated Press British lines on the Lys front are holding well against terrific drives All-around the sweeping semi-circle southwest of the tions the enemy was fought to standstill yesterday and last night and tn localities positions were im- proved by counterattacks At only one point did the defense give way This was at Neuve where tho British withdrew after beating oft at- tack after attack The village has hands and the British were once before definitely out of it only to re- capture it This morning the British again were back at the Germans here and were giving them a hard KAISER'S FORCES HIT AT WEAKEST THE ALLIES DEFENSE Washington Says the Foe Has Made Headway Along tho Canal te Within the Immediate Vicinity of ACTIVITY SHOWN IN THE SECTOR inc WASHINGTON D C April The war department's review of the military situation for the week ending April 13 published today It becomes evident that the enemy Is with renewed visor at the weakest point he can find opposite him In the offensive in Picardy the mans sought for a rift in the line where the French and British forces Joined Failing to achieve definite far-reaching results they promptly return to the assault elsewhere hoping that by driving a wedge into the tor the front held by Portuguese and British units may effect a break through Here on a frontage of yards from Armentieres to the canal the segment held by the Portuguese troops flanked on ther side by British divisions was pen- after an intense bombardment i Enemy Makes Some Headway The enemy has made headway along the canal to within the Immediate vicinity of Bethune while other points northwest of the city of considerable tactical tance have fallen Into the hands of the enemy The enemy himself in forty miles of Calais He will in all probability continue his assaults hoping that by an enveloping attack on an oblique front he may score a are pushing for Hazebrouck tion of which would cut oft railway connections of tho British and make tho holding of the line to the oast extremely difficult The Germans displayed their elation of this bv attacking no less out of the triangular area formed by than seven times One assault was Push Hard at Merville plets victory TII the sector the Less in Picardy Salient In the There has-been less activity along tho southern flank of the Picardy ent Here tho line taken over by the French Is now fully consolidated The Germans by costly driven thrusts were able to force the French out of the triangular area formed by the the Allette and the old line stretching from to Chateau On an approximate twelve mile front a depth ranging to six miles The French contested every foot of tha ground and were check the enemy's onslaught The Gorman high command made attempts to enlarge its gains in tho area from to Noyon but they were everywhere repulsed by the French British of the the British their lino In the woods and took a number of ers carried out by troops in rive waves This was tho only attack that bent the British line In the slightest and tho position here was speedily Tho Germans have been foiled in their push in further in the loul region and this important town is still In British hands Far to the southwest on the Lys front they have failed In their at- tempt to drive in back of Bethune The British here have lines and pushed enemy back from the Clarence river They took 150 prisoners ami suns in one of these Fighting practically in hand British have checked the German in Big Parade Launches Third liberty Loan Drive OVER OF ANOTHER CALL FOR MEN BY UNCLE SAM xNEW CONTINGENT WILL START TO SOME TIME MAY 1 AND WISCONSIN'S QUOTA PLACED AT The second call for recruits for the national army has come but for eral days It will be impossible to state just how many men the city and Racine will have to furnish Under the plan for calling men in the nation and who are to en- train some time after April 26 Racine was called upon to furnish 84 men first division and 44 from the second division The latest call the men to entrain between May 1 and May 10 calls for from the state of Wisconsin The call for this month called for men from the state and un- der that draft Racine will furnish the 84 men who are about to receive their call to Under the second call it is Racine will have to about 50 additional men making a total of 134 within the next few weeks Just how they will be divided as between the two boards under the latest be it is expected will nish the larger number The boys who are to entrain either on April 26 or one of the five days following are all to so to Camp tcr Battle Creek Mich but under the latest for troops the men will go to some other fort or barracks It be- ing announced at Washington that they will be placed with regular army units This may be for the purpose of filling up the different units to full strength The army post to which the last group will go will be one of the lowing Fort Slocum New York Fort Thomas Fort Oglethorpe Georgia Fort McDowell California Fort Screven Georgia Fort Logan Colorado Fort Sam Houston Texas Ohio Vancouver Barracks Washington Jefferson racks Missouri and Jackson racks Louisiana the region oC Armentieres and in the sectors where our own forces this enemy like one in are fighting considerable activity pre- Picardy stopped The After protracted artillery pre- Germans havo spent thousands of parat lives in reckless attacks to break through tho British lines or to de- stroy the British army but the effort without result desired BALFOUR SAYS AID TIME EVER REVIEWS TROUBLE FROM BEGINNING Says the Kaiser Started the War and It Will Not End Until He Is Chased Back to Berlin and the Allied Troops Parade Its Streets DRY HUMOR WINS GREAT AUDIENCE The crowning feature of the ic celebration or Saturday afternoon was the held at at the auditorium and the address ered there by Clarence S Darrow one of the foremost lawyers in the try band contributed to the program with a number of lent selections largely of a patriotic nature A vocal solo by L C Dawes of the band was one of the special numbers W S Goodland was the chairman of the meeting Fulton Thompson A J Lunt and L J also places on the platform In Introducing the speaker Goodland referred in words of highest praise to the in which so many had participated and of the pride which all citizens of the city should feel in the spirit which waa clearly evidenced by the Loyalty parade He expressed his in the success of the local Liberty loan Mr the Continued on page 3 RAGES WITH THE SAME INTENSITY ASSAULT ON BAILLEUL IS EX- BRITISH LINE AS A WHOLE AND IM- IN MANY INSTANCES WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE April battle about Neuve Eglis near the Belgian border i which has been retaken by the i mans continued to rage this morning LONDON j wRh the same intensity that has THIRD LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE STARTED HERE MAJORS AND CAPTAINS GET IN- TO THE CAMPAIGN EARLT HOUSE TO HOUSE CANVASS BE MADE The Third Liberty Loan bond drive started this morning all of the ors and their captains getting Into the early The city has been cut into sections and each team has a tion which it will work from house to house and from store to store None of the residents oi tha city are to be overlooked and everyone Is to be ed to take a bond of some tion The work has progressed to a fine in most of the big factories and many of them will come across with a 100 per cent record There will be a monster meeting of workers at the Commercial rooms tomorrow noon when luncheon will be served to about 300 The capacity of the hall will bo taxed and everything is being done to commodate the men and women The first report will be made at that luncheon and it promises to be a big SIX BADGERS ON MISSING COLLIER NAVAL BOAT WITH 203 ON BOARD MISSING FOB PAST MONTH OF- CANNOT EXPLAIN MY S- DISAPPEARANCE WASHINGTON D April Orders for greater efforts to find the missing naval collier Cyclops over- due from South American more than a month went out today to American ships In addition craft on patrol duty south are1 aiding in the search So far not one word has come to clear up the mystery of the collier's disappearance Naval officials were no nearer today to a solution of the disappearance than they were three weeks ago when anxiety over the safety first developed absolutely nothing on which to found an ex- planation The big carrier has ply vanished I Suspect Germans Suggestions heard most frequently were that German agents had lured Darrow flits Keynote of War in Talk Here RACINE THE TOP IN ITS LOYALTY TO THE SWORE AT BOND SALESMEN AND RUE GREEN BAY Wis April Fred Knaack of New Denmark Wis paid a fine of and costs Ing to today in municipal court for at Liberty scription solicitors and bond sub- threatening them with an axe when called on him yesterday with the object of d People From Every Walk of Life Give Splendid of Their Purpose to Back the War to a Conclusion FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN LINE Between and people bonds participated In parade Saturday and had not contributed to the Red I afternoon which started the third Cross Y M C A or kindred funds loan bond drive to continue Knaack was born in county but Ws parents were Germany PATRIOTIC MASS MEETING TONIGHT DR LYMAN POWELL AUTHOR AND LECTURER AND DR H C Outagamie tne week In addition to re born m more than lined the highways and appeared in dows on housetops and every possible place of vantage Weather tions were there not being a cloud in the heavens It was military and civic parade ever witnessed in Racine From start to finish it was a regular wave of patriotism and loyalty The procession was one hour and three minutes passing a given point TO ADDRESS and every activity in the ENCE AT FIRST PRESBYTERIAN The two speakers who are to ad- dress the patriotic mass meeting at the First Presbyterian church this evening are men of prominence Lyman P Powell Is president Hobart author writer new educational reciprocity movement be- tween America and the Allies and of the movement to bring over young French women to study In American colleges and universities As vice president of the Association of erican cently returned from a study of moral and other conditions in the war zone In England he was the of the various ties In France he had the i ESS city was represented nationalities from almost every country in the world were In bands of music played patriotic selections flags were displayed from public buildings and private homes they Continued on page BELDEN SAYS STATE IS BACKING DRIVE JUDGE AND ATTORNEY THOMAS M RETURN FROM TOUR OF SOUTHERN PART OI STATE Another assault four miles west of Neuve is ed momentarily The latest reports reached Our Americans Bent Enemy Against the American sector south I counterattacked and drove off of Verdun German storming troops remnants of the units A- hurled themselves Sunday American I ber of prisoners were taken Our infantrymen beat the enemy in hot j casualties were relatively slight own infantry off tha num son an internal explosion had sent her down All of these suggestions had flaws in them it was said A that had fighting Tho enemy withdrew to his trenches with the loss of nearly 100 continued 3 Baliour is to shatter tne army before the American weight can The British last evening she had been captured by a group or be brought into the scale The up their success of Saturday German agents aboard appeared to be man inspired press has been British counterattacks 3.000 the only explanation that would its masters to show tho utmost east of this town were com- count for the silence o region and to the western I front with military guides and armed guard to study conditions first hand Dr H Herring is believed by some to be among the best known men in the religious world He has also executed a minoi contempt for the American military her radio raid against one of our outposts -in of Toul the Germans have 1 the Woevre Hostile artillery has not repeated the attacks which cost been active throughout the week both them 400 casualties About Neuve and before Field shal battered divisions have been putting up desperate resistance has changed hands eral times and is now held by the British after In which the en- emy suffered grievously It is an Im- portant strategic point as it is one of the outposts of tho Ridge Although they have been a tln more than a mile from Bailleau a valuable position for two days the Germans have not been able to ad- vance more than several hundred yards West of the town they have repulsed and south around their efforts also have gone for naught Artillery Heavy On either wing of the sharp salient around St the American troops In the last few days have been beating German attacks Tho enemy has not followed up his forts northwest of Toul and east of St where he in two days of hard fighting by tho Americans in Apremont forest The duel hero is heavy Sunday's attack on the American sector canio after a violent ment and was made by picked enemy troops Prisoners were captured by the Americans 34 German dead and ten wounded were found in the American trenches while dust beyond them 30 more enemy dead The Americans with hand granades and bayonets went out of their positions to meet the oncoming Germans Two effort But the masters do not share that contempt They are planning whole campaign and are successful and the enemy was i forced to fall back The British also i Naval rushed out several posts north of the coasts in the en in the and with reckless extravagance tions in the Meuse hills and m i tha Vosges Our counter battery work after very efficient struck the looking i On the Italian Front Lively shelling took place along the whole Italian front and the allies ex- a number of minor raids in tho region The of the has been going on and the continuation of centralization of hostile units is reported The probability of an en- emy offensive in this area is AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER STEPS DOWN AND OUT AMSTERDAM April the Austro-Hungarian for- eign minister according to a dispatch from Vienna has resigned Count Czernin did not know of Emperor Charles letter to Prince he made the statement that France had initiated the tions Austria according to a j Vienna dispatch to the Lokal of Berlin On learning of the letter he resigned but yielded to a request that he remain in office until the j conclusion of the peace agreement with Rumania the American help may their blow has been PARADE CHAIRMAN HIGHLY PLEASED At tills period of history when so many of our people have left home and kindred turned their backs upon every prospect of life and gone forth into distant lands to do and dare for the cause of democracy we cannot as to ignore the appeal for the work of the Third erty loan It is gratifying to those left at home those who are to go to know how the people come forward and are willing to make sacrifices for the cause I wish to hank all for their hearty co-operation in making the Third Liberty loan parade such a success THIRD LIBERTY LOAN ADE COMMITTEE By GEORGE M MURPHY Chairman LOAN TOTAL GOES TO WASHINGTON D April WASHINGTON D C April have patrolled all vicinity of her for wreckage of survivors rivers has been found Every operations indicate that the j sel known to have been anywhere In defense of the entente allied troops has stiffened notable pastorates In Chicago nd Omaha Nebr and for twelve years he was secretary of the Home Missionary society of the tional churches carrying that society through its period of reorganization The entire state is fully awake tc the need of the government for funds with which to carry on the work of the war according to Judge E E Belden who returned here Sunday from the southern part oC the state where he accompanied AtS Thomas M Kearney on ti speaking tour The people are ing the greatest loyalty he said and are coming across handsomely as far as the purchasing of bonds is con- cerned The audiences been larger than and the people are more responsive and there is a vast change in the feeling of the general I the region at the time has been com- 3 CHILDREN KILLED WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBARD MONROVIA with Reports from every particularly appealing and source showed nothing to warrant the theory The explosion theory is met by the fact that only sufficient ammunition for her guns was on board The ship's cargo was not explosive Secretary Daniels said the ment had no word that would cate the presence in southern waters of a German raider It is tha absolute silence of the dio that makes the case one of tho In 1913 he was elected secretary of the National Council of the churches of the United j States Dr Herring is known as a was a most hearty strong speaker and an able Chi in bonds being tian statesman Ha Is said to nave a public Judge Belden said that the at Burlington was simply great COULDN'T HANG ONE ON STREET HAWKER Several Liberty loan bond salesmen thought they had chased their quarry WASHINGTON D C April mysterious in naval annals That I up a tree and had him cornered Three children were killed when the fact alone inclines officials to the be- afternoon during the time the German submarine bombarded the Uef that the ship might have been parade was passing through Sixth port of Monrovia capital of Liberia captured by persons aboard for in no Thay were decidedly wrong 1 t -i i q n Vio tive message for these times The public invited attend this mass meeting to 10 the state department was advised in a report today from were injured The bombardment f other way would lit have been ble to silence calls for aid One of the Cyclops engines was damaged but it is not believed the en- government that it destroy French wireless station at tne disappearance subscribed for at the meeting lington be said is In the game with a will this time and will a fine showing He related the instance of a Walworth county farmer who said that he had an mortgage which he planned to sell and put into the Third Liberty Loan bonds That seems to be general Judge Bolden says He will hold a hearing in citizenship tomorrow and then return to the speaking circuit to finish out the week's schedule COUNTY ORGANIZED FOR LOAN DRIVE however for the roan sought to be bluffed turned the tables on them i and took them up in a minute The man sought to be bluffed was j That the cities towns and villages in named Moyer giving his residence as county will come across with Thurston avenue He was selling than their allotment in the third CANADIAN PREMIER ARRIVES U S AN April 15 Sir William Hearst premier of On- tario accompanied by Lady Hearst arrived on an American steamship from Porto Rico Other passengers Rear Admiral canes and buttons on the street and Liberty Loan Bond drive there is not Out his wares when one tne shadow of a doubt Reports from The possibility was suggested that i explosives might have been put i aboard mixed in large quantities with i flf the of the campaign every section of the rural districts are tho Manganese ore and a time bomb committee yelled him Buy a flattering Teams are out set to explode the mass In that case Lib ty Bond The fellow turned inK tne hamlets and not a farm house however the sea would be covered with MANY AUTO PERMITS ISSUED BY POLICE More than 100 have been and saia on your bond I wlu be missed in the drive am same None of the men had -a There was a meeting in the lit Pleasant town hall on Saturday blank in his possession so could not ing which was addressed by Attorney a wild scramble for a peter J Myers and O W Johnson comply one scraped up of this city About prominent bond salesmen went back to citizens and the I where the fellow was dishing out his tees were organized and districts intent on calling Meyer's en out to the men in the teams battlefront mainder of the western front except for artillery duels FORECAST April cloudiness with ably showers Into tonight or Tuesday tonight central portion to fresh winds Saturday's Temperature Maximum 59 Minimum 32 Range 27 Sunday's Temperature Maximum Minimum 60 34 Range 25 Button means you are Uncle Sam's Partner issued at the police office the past i calling was on the Everybody there was interested and Harry 3 Knapp U S N who few days to automobile owners to op- j h r ald however for Moyer i enthusiastic felt confident been in charge of the American I erate cars They have applied for sl a the blank paid his money Mt Pleasant will come in 100 per cent forces at San Domingo and a censes but have not been able to the surprise of the salesmen strong j them tne department j sold more canes and This committee has visited but all officials were deeply inter- more than was reported Saturday taken over at West I Advices from the capital city state tons after that everyone in sight of Grove Yorkville Caledonia in the report and it was i Tnis not include reports from recently taken over at west Saturday were staged investing ton Rochester and Waterford and that the development Minneapolis district which started its edly was the outgrowth of j campaign today that France had been ready to talk peace THREE CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL JOB When the new tomorrow evening Mayor Thiesen will deliver an annual address and it is understood will have thing most interesting about the city hall building: for president city council will bring out three dates Aldermen Miller and Olson It was expected that there would be opposition election of a board of public between Joseph singer Lang but the chances axe that Mr Blessinger will it A number of changes on of health are expected but so the other offices are will be re-elected R CONGRESS OPENS IN WASHINGTON TODAY WASHINGTON D C April The national society Daughters of the American Revolution began its congress here today with a up largely of sions of part in the President Wilson will attend session and may speak AMERICAN KILLED EST PLANE CRASH IN D C Ensign A Perry U -S -N E in a seaplane accident in prance April 12 the navy ment today was advised His wife lives at Oconomowoc Wis Dental Work for Drafted Men All men qualified for general limited service who require dental work can have same by applying to W H Fancher Wednesday evening April FLAGS j at We have received expected shipment you can get in two Price 1.75 for mail orders that on Saturday there were the performance staged investing applications on file and not disposed PEOPLE OF PRAGUE CHEER ENTENTE of The clerical force Is i a day So far this year i licenses have been issued biles and at the corresponding date j last year the number was only Last year the total licenses issued were and it is ex- ton Rochester and Waterford and the same same enthusiasm and early this morning the drive on Reports from Union Grove morning that was ed before the drive commenced in earnest and it is expected that in the in The the village will show up to run over There Prague capital of Bohemia on with has thus far been this year Saturday licenses and it is be- I cheered the entente and President the number will go to against 8.000 last year WilBon a dispatch from to the Lokal of Berlin All The meeting in terian church tonight Speakers of the members of parliament reputation The party delegates together will and Serbo-Croat delegates met to the town hall and adopted a manifesto out- FAIRBANKS UNABLE another column delegates principal mann Trunk the evening I occurred at the close of the hall In support of the policy WANTED Experienced nent position good pay The was compelled to cancel his Racine engagement to speak for the Liberty bond Issue at the local of his voice giving He is under the doctor's care at present It Is certainly a matter of that this famous movie star was his many ad- here meeting The feeling against Foreign Minister Czernin by the shonts of disapproval with which his name was greeted crowds i singing anti-German I Be sura to attend meeting In church tonight Community chorus This Button means you are Uncle Sam's Partner
