Racine Journal-News (Newspaper) - April 17, 1918, Racine, Wisconsin VOL. NO. 91. BRITISH Kaiser's Men Are Still mering Haig's Forces North of Foe Shown Weaker in gle Southward from Arras GERMANS FORCED OUT OF TRENCHES RECENTLY TAKEN The Associated With tho Ypres salient In western Belgium menaced i by the con- advance of the Germans on the Lvs Immediately to the tho British have begun to from this Tho British forward positions cast of Ypres have been given up a new Hue to the west was carried out In perfect der without enemy Apparently tho retrograde ment Is pivoting on the where London today reports a successful carried out upon the who yesterday captured the town of. near tho highest of the easterly Messines Ridge and who presumably pushed out somewhat beyond town They are unofficially reported as having advanced to St. a mile and a half north of two miles west of and about six miles directly south of St. Is on the old battle line as It existed before the British began 1 their offensive last taking sines Ridge and later pushing on and gradually absorbing all of the the continuation Ox the spur to the ot This may indicate that tho retirement the line of the spring nf 1917 although such a withdrawal 17, 1918. THREE LLOYD GEORGE SAYS NOTHING VITAL LOST TO THE KAISER'S Declares That Gen. In Com- mand of the Allied Forces at Is Still Confident of iv IS BY 1'Kli.SUKR'S CLAIM April Messages from the houso of commons late WISH ARE STILL HOLDING THEIR LINE INTACT ON fLANDERS day night state that the prime expressions of confidence re- the present battle situation BOLD PASHA EXECUTED IN FRANCE AS SPY In Flanders had an effect on the remarks regarding the confidence of Gen. Plumer command of Messines other generals were made after an during which he had been in conversation with a general straight from the who had seen all the He did the name of his and in some quarters there was 'a disposition to ask why the premier had not Field Marshal The general im- was that Gen. Plumer was specially mentioned be- was command of tho Second which is bearing the brunt of the present Referring to the situation at the front In the house of Pre- mier fluctuation between hope and despondency must continue for some time But I am still full of Gen. Plumer is quite We have lost but we have lost nothing HERE'S GOOD CHANCE TO SAM of 1017 although would Include the abandonment the entire position as well as the Messines Ridge from the greater part of which they have been driven In the present it would leave the town of still in British GEN MAS OPENED THE WAY TO YOUNG MEN TO GO ER THERE TO FILL CLERICAL OR MECHANICAL Gen. Pershing has presented the opportunity many young men In have been seeking for some He has paved the for them to work in the shops and division quarters back of the lines in There are many local men within draft ago who have been looking lor a. chance to servo in some one of the mechanical or office position divisions and if is here for them to take ad- f Both of the local exemption boards nre now enrolling young men for mechanical and office positions back of the If you ride a before a firing squad forest of condemned Entirely his attitude of When the TICE LOSS OF BAILLEUL MAT ALLIES TO LOSE 12. OUT OP 18 is no. inclination here to minimize the loss of Bailleul and possibility that may lead to the of evacuating Ypres and Under the heading Still Ad- the Daily Mail says that as long as the railway experience in any mechanical line the American people for renewed to this time in their the tions supporting it are j ht wants you and wants you J port for the war The secretary ex- mans have been in marshy the security of these jn order to get accurate information to see President Wilson some they captured the first ot you lime during the day to report on his the important ridges by storming no danger at present Gen. Pershing can use you and There of a scale the K of the recent German any much larger j asking you to come over If than this on the northern end of I you a a franco-Belgian line as the result j a a bullets in his Escorted by several guards left the Sante 4S minutes be- fore his After leaving the automobile at he listened to the exhortation prison Then his eyes were bandaged and he went without a struggle to his AMERICAN SOLDIER MAKES SECRETARY OF RETURNS FROM TRIP IN EUROPE AND CALLS UPON PLE RENEWED Correspondent Says with Much the Gun Moat Terrific of the Entire FOE HELD AT STANDSTILL BY DEFENDING FORCES part of and ably all It. is in the hands of the Gen. F. B. chief director of tary the war announced April tle in is raging today with telegraphs the correspondent of at the British army headquarters In A star as the latest reports enable the correspondent the battle is in favor of the Notwithstanding the desperate at- tacks of the they have ed no further ground since Tuesday and apparently they have lost During his three experience in the war the correspondent says he has never heard such terrific and gun fire as has gone on since Tuesday afternoon and which continued as he filed his dis- patch this The British at dusk on says a Reuter dispatch from the British headquarters in France were in the neighborhood of south of and were reported again to be the ground which they lost Among the numerous at- tacks Tuesday afternoon and Evening on the northern Flanders one in great force in the Zillebeke sector was disastrous for the whose massed waves were shot down at apparently were ordered to retire and then the British gunners got on their the cor- respondent says and the slaughter was The worker In any capacity onia ra a April back from a. seven line as a whole appears likely to hold or along shipping or if you have i to Europe today called on MAY EVACUATE CITY OF YPRES Figures As They Now Stand Do Not Include tions from County Dis- Nor from Some of the Local Banks and er FREDERICK DALE URGES WORKERS TO GREATER EFFORTS Today's Grand No. Tuesday's No. Wednesday's No. Today's Team No. 147 12 11 GO V ine nei LI i i v cations has been provided for by the as to can use massing of large forces m the sector of the Lys battle The German offensive as has been frequently pointed is the important railway junction about beyond the tlon can be made to your exemption observations being aided by the fall of board American soldier has Bailleul thus the security of the There will be no en- j in Secretary Baker Ypres so the bulwark of of such men but they will flay assured newspapermen who met our left and touched with such im- enrolled and their names sent to j at tne war the governor's together data as to what they are be with I morale of the American Their spirits are our e I mortal memories to is The Daily Graphic thinks it would be wise withdraw the British point farthest advance data as to what they are best fitted troops is near six milos to The enrollment will close April I behavior admirable and their troops from Ypres and of A British tne iast list will be sent to relations with tho French and British to avoid the risk of their being counterattack last night indicated the looking for a and he strength ot the British line in this 1 to serve Uncle Sam back of the j meets an American vital It resulted m the j France get to your board In France who does not smile tell the class of j and his Mr. Baker sad Americans are those who fear may have to come home before is Ing tho Germans the town of a mile and a half west of which they had The Germans are still hammering tho British line north of Still Maintain The present attack In Flanders does not seem to have diverted material British reserves from the Somme as the Germans apparently and such operations as are occurring to tlu southward from Ar- ras reveal the British in strength on this the battlefront where the main tier man effort must inevitably be ex- The British last night counter- attacked opposite and drove out parties of Germans who had en- tored the British trenches restoring the Around Albert and across the German artillery fire has in- you have been and they will tell at once whether Gen. Pershing can make use of you in Tho enemy bombardment s violent in the but no operations have Quid on American Oil the American sector around St. tho Germans have not ed their attacks of last Near tho forest American have crossed No Man's Land and BANANA SHORTAGE IS NOW PREDICTED SHIPS NECESSARY TO PORT FRUIT FROM SOUTH ERICAN PORTS INADEQUATE TO THE 13 MONTHS FOR EACH YEAR IS PROPOSED IN HOUSE MEASURE cut off and to It the situation is made more serious by the loss of Bailleul Is obvious and it would be dishonest to The paper that as long as the allied armies remain un- Germany's purpose is net at- while she is exhausting self in order to force a Correspondents the front say the Germans have used up 120 of their 200 divisions in the west and have been able to bring another two divisions from unpleasant reverses must be faced the Tl significance must neither b LIBERTY LOAN TOTAL IS DISTRICT REPORTS ON- LY 28.000" FROM WISCONSIN FOREIGNERS HAVE f- now total The first day's business for the Minneapolis where ing began on Monday brought in proximately Reports today told a great flood Hueffner Success of Third Drive Is Assured and Mlss A jonnson and Go George W. Byron flic Top with Surplus to J. D. Rowland Its A- F. John Mrs. McCaughey E. Walker Mrs. Vincent Adams B. E. 7 Mrs. Harry Campbell 9 George L. Buck G F. A. Morey 3S Mrs. J. Prostrednik 17 77 B. B. Hand 73 J. I. Case Mrs. H. C. 22 John Brown 41 Mrs. T. 4 Miss Clark 5 Henry Keefe Mrs. J. Brown 10 L C. 39 R 21 WILLIAM ROSS IS AT THE FIRST Mrs. C. V. Carter Harold Smith K. SImms George Jorgenson 4S6 25 71 200 600 24.650 650 149.850 6.150 3.850 3.200 Racine has gone over the top in the matter of the sale of the Third erty loan bonds in two and one-half Today's reports showed workmen are doing their in the matter of buying Liberty Loan In both a. of had been campaigns for the sale of workers in the factories securities the in the shops d both men and responded many county of Racine is 000, which leaves about for the city of Racine and the balance for in Michigan and ses 000 in Wisconsin campaign Their jn that gtate just The for- eign language campaign committee Bananas will be scarce the They are scarce now and before another week the chances are there will not be a ripe banana in- the The reason for the scarcity is the lack of ships to carry the fruit from the Cuban and South American most of the boats formerly in reached the German without barbed wire East ot the Some time ago bananas jumped up in price in the local market and day they selling at 7 and S cents a There will be no increase in the but there will be a de- scarcity and merchants will be unable orders for the There seems to be an idea that the are not to to the present Here is the 1: the 1920; year shall teen months or Ul O Wl Lw that trade having been taken over 6> the added month the government for other tQ be and to Section 2. shall be first day of the and the fifteenth second day every other days of to follow In rotation by making the of and the American near the Bols Le the French have repulsed German In Macedonia northeast wholesalers the Bulgarians have driven from handle the but that is a of every take and they wilL handle all they 3. That the day can secure and be pleased to do so. One car will last Racine a little half enough about the serious fact that they are still bringin Atlanta Monday at had rolled up s as they Some Purchased bond when k was really a but they have Pulled through come The ton has been doing good work and re- iws ports from sections are to the ire I effect that the county district ment will be far Taking the reports Racine lias gone beyond its allotment and is going far beyond that All of the teams did not make report today and known that several large subscriptions are coming in There are al banks to hear from and they will help swell the grand Some of the factories have not completed their work and it is impossible to publish the complete report of the different plants until after complete reports have been made to the executive der have there been refusals to buy In a few isolated cases men have been unable to invest In bonds for various but not in a single so far has there been a refusal a The workers in all of the big works are responding liberally and the men employed in the Case T. M. company's employed 1 plant are going beyond their past from The Times says the enemy will con- drawing upon their reserves in Russia until allied statesmen stop dreaming vain dreams about Russia j and do something practical to compel enemy cease depleting the sian fresh divisions before work twenty-first and about tan villages along a front of fifteen miles the left of the Struma northwest from Lake Creek and British troops participated In the Prisoners were en and severe losses Inflicted on the A SENATOR TOMORROW D. April 17. Representative Irvine L. of Wisconsin today an- his resignation from the effective at morrow he will be sworn in as a a member of having been elected to succeed Paul Flass Now at We have two the 6x4 in and the at Get one before they are all sold or the price goes which it may after May 1, according to tho Get ready for Decoration Day and the Fourth of Enlist Your Dollars Tins Button more than a The first day a car is opened two-thirds of the con- tents have been distributed among the So far there have been cars enough coming in to supply the but the can be ised during the summer is a car every The supply is being portioned throughout the one day Wisconsin will get its and then the supply on hand to some other In that way each state will get a proportion of the fruit on Section 3. That the day the in 1919. and the lagt day of December in each sub RACINE BOY MAY BE AMONG INJURED IN BATTLE OVER THERE April iron range gold is combining in no uncertain way the iron of the district to help win Reports from Liberty at various points on the range today briefly Virginia from McKinney Steel company gave and Republic Iron and Steel company One million is the i The work in that companys i plant Is not completed and yesterday's reports footed up close to the 000 of amount being credited to the Others 100 Per Cent. There are other concerns which Tne s. c. win the company has already n drives as 10o per the rep o I workers and company having given The only change food price list last in the official which dropped another with the 39 cents DRAFT CHARLIE EXPECTS HIS CALL IN LOS April motion has been drafted and expects his call in it was Although he is an Chaplin waived He is at present touring the country selling Liberty 1 Best nut and egg coal sold at per 'a substitute for hard order at 1266 Mourid sequent year shall be New Year's It shall a part of 4. That in. the year 1020, and every f o u rth year there shall .be an day called It is feared that another cine been injured in France as this list contains the name of Dewey D. He is reported as severely Leap to ybe between to the and but part of that shall be no Leap day in the last year of century that divisible by Smith is fair enough to say he not evolve the was wished and he presented the it might be April tonight 4and probably not much change Maximum Minimum 40 33 Range 12-100 N permanent good The Rummage Sacret Heart He was a the First National bank to Waco with C. He is related to Edward Bailey Gold Medal Camp Furniture company and his at Spring WIs. It is understood that he was transferred at Waco to some that having his work this of has definite regarding but it is possible his mother has been his if he is the Smith re- ferred to in the The Walker Manufacturing company is a 100 per cant concern as and the Ajax Rubber company has been reported as having so The work in that con- cern is incomplete and official report BOATS 37 LIVES LOST April were lost when the American ship O. B. and the British steamer laden with naphtha and in- flammable off Brit- 24. according to members of the crew of the B. who arrived here All with one exception were on were burned blazing who survived the flames on were rescued in the nick time by for soon the blazing hull was be- ing toward shallow it struck mine and was blown Flags Now at We have two the 6x4 at and the Sxo at Get one they are all sold or the price soes j which it may after May according to the Get ready for destroyers went to the rescue through a. field of blazing oil and rook off also the crew of the A number of the crew 61 the ship were badly burned to from 5) SAFETY RULING Yesterday the members of the al board ot health held a meeting and took action in regard tova of the University Extension So far the bonds by persons cor- Before Racine gets with its campaign there will be eral more thousand bond buyers ed to that The main speaker today was erick Dale of a former resident of Wash. He made a most impressive talk and brought tho message of sacrifice home to the bond He said there could be no real patriotism without sacrifice and handed out good the insisting that they make a. sacrifice before they can go out and ask others tc make i conflicts with action of the board in the with reference to OCCASION FOR PHiLIPP April 17. There will be no occasion tor lynchings in and officers who such threats will be dealt with promptly end that order will Ex- preserved Wisconsin are statements some contagious The ruling of the University i tension division ia to the effect children from homes where in response mumps and of Jump Taylor t made by Philipp in a letter today n-l in response to an appeal from John exists may change of without j Jn which he said that the I that county had deputy charged The ruling of the local board has always been that children in homes such diseases exist must be excluded from It was ed to follow old rule in- being pro-German and threatened come up here and hang Dance High St. man's Decoration and the Fourth of Wall paper sale continues at second Common school Flass Now Here for The expected shipment has arrived were and can cet your removed to hospitals office or factory at The Get ready for Decoration Day i and Price for 6x4 is and 8x5 is Get one now as the flag makers say the pries will EO up after May Enlist Your Dollars Button
