No Change on British Front Reported
Last night’s attacks were repulsed with no ground gained according to wartime dispatches. British forces held positions as lines remained static amid ongoing bombardment and counter assaults.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1918
Page
1
Givenchy St Venant Sector Holds Against German Assaults
British war office reports six German divisions attacked the Givenchy to St Venant area with heavy losses and limited gains as French and British forces repelled assaults south of Kemmel and near Amiens. Night fighting continued with British artillery and machine guns repelling further attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Givenchy
Lys Battle
War Office
Givenchy-St. Venant
Lys
Kemmel
L Yunced
Givenchy- LaRassee
Flanders Battle
Robecq
Lys Battle Front
Riex du Vinage Farm
Kemmel Hill
Aris
Amiens
Italy signals dispatch of troops to French front
Rome reports Prime Minister Orlando told the chamber of deputies that Italian units will march to the battlefields of France to show solidarity with the Anglo French forces. The move follows praise of Allied efforts on the western front and aims to place Italian regiments alongside French British American Belgian and Portuguese troops. The Italian embassy later confirmed Italian regiments are already in France forming part of the allied right wing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Belgium
Washington
France
Spies to be placed under military rule bill urged
Senate heard Norman H. White of the Army's military intelligence urge passage of a Cham berlain bill to place all cases involving espionage act violations under military control. He warned delays worsen alien safety and warned of rising abuses in papers while Justice overtaxed. He cited 20,000 New York aliens who refuse fingerprinting and noted enforcement gaps amid war demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chamberlain
Oregon
Norman H. White
Brookline
Mass
Military Intelligence
Army
Senate Military Committee
Department of Justice
White
United States
New York
Meetings Called Off At Central And Bleakley Schools
Meetings planned at Central and Bleakley schools tonight are cancelled due to rain and poor roads. Speakers cannot make the drive, and attendance is expected to be low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central
Bleakley
German Offensive Proved A Failure On Eleven Mile Front
British lines hold from Givenchy to St Venant after a major German thrust aimed to break through toward Bethune and Vimy Ridge. French gains near Castel on the Somme push Germans back from the Paris Amiens railway as heavy artillery duels continue and renewed assaults fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Givenchy
Ypres
Haig
Lys
St. Venant
Salient
Bethune
Vimy Ridge
Arras
Mount Kemmell
Somme
Castel
Paris-Amiens
Lawrence Furnishes Twenty Of The Draft
Lawrence county selects twenty nine draftees with twenty seven white men and two colored to leave on the Union Pacific at 9 58 o clock toward Camp Funston. Richard Wagstaff named alternate if any regular is discharged. Some draftees listed by name from Lawrence and nearby towns. The Bosch Magneto plants in Springfield and Plainfield seized as enemy property. directors named to run operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Lawrence
Union Pacific
Camp Funston
City of
Anvil
Herbert R. Laslett
Everett D. Wood
Byron Phillip Sweeley
Walter A. McClain
Paul E
Richard H. Wagstaff
Clarence Kiser
David’ Humes
Nelson
Washington
Bosch Magneto Company
Springfield
Mass
Plainfield
N. J
Alien Property
Palmer
Ireland Opposes Postwar Conscription Rally
A Dublin conference of Irish Nationalists and Labourites backed a resolution to resist conscription, aligning with Irish bishops who denounced it as forced and inhuman. Clergy will organize fundraising and parish meetings next Sunday to drum up support as British authorities move to handle the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lin Feinners
Ireland
Students Excused From Classes for Symphony Visit
University and high school students may attend the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra concert on Monday April 22 without loss of credit. University students are excused from classes, and high school students need a parental note to Prof F H Quiney. Evening concert begins at 8 00 due to train schedule changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
F.H. Quney
Eudora Patriotic Rally Promotes Liberty Tomorrow Night
Citizens of Eudora plan a patriotic meeting tomorrow night with four minute men to address the crowd. Henderson Martin will speak and Miss Weede will render musical numbers with the city band. If weather allows, the band will travel by car. otherwise they will use the train. Funeral services for Mrs William Gabriel set Saturday at 1 30 from the Badpea Methodist Church with interment in the cemetery. A man convicted of vagrancy is noted in connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eudora
Harley
Henderson Martin
Miss Weede
William Gabriel
Badpea
Food and War Talk At Fraser Chapel Convocation
A general convocation on food and war will be held at Fraser Chapel Saturday at 4 PM with Sarah Louise Arnold, director of the five state food conference, as speaker. Delegates from colleges and universities are to attend as foot conservation is taught locally. sessions begin at 10 AM in the Chemistry Building and run until 1 PM with out of town speakers discussing food's global wartime importance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Fraser Chapel
Sarah Louise Arnold
University ‘Club
Chisaisal Association Opens Annual Meeting in Fraser Chapel
Opens tonight with an address by Chorestor Frank Strong of KU in Fraser Chapel. Prof Goldwin Goldsmith of the University School of Engineering gives an illustrated lecture on Crete. F C Shaw of Kansas City will present the president's address Saturday morning. Topics include Latin and university talks by U C Dunlape and F L W Murray. A noon luncheon at Rob inson Gymnasium features Topeka High School dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chisaisal Association
Kansas
Missouri
Frank Strong
K. U
Fraser’ Chapel
Goldwin, Goldsmith
University School of Engineering
Crete
Greece
Goldsmith
F. C. Shaw
Kansas City
L. J. Uihleren
Topeka High School
Rose
Morgan
U. Cg, Dunlape
FL W. Murray
University of Kansas
Robinson Gymnasium
Methodist Church Volley Ball Championship Match
Two church teams meet at the YMCA tonight at 7:45 to decide the church championship in a volleyball contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
Third Liberty Loan Effort Urged to Hit Target
The article argues this is a poor moment to miss the chance to support the Third Liberty Loan. It stresses national morale, urges timely purchases, and frames bond oversubscription as a setback to wartime financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty
Unsettled, colder forecast for Saturday in Kansas
A weather forecast from Kansas notes unsettled conditions and colder tonight with freezing temperatures after rain. Saturday is expected to be fair and somewhat warmer, with afternoon and evening readings showing a return to milder conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Rheims Burns To Heap Of Ruins In War Time
Rheims has burned for a week and lies in ruins as German shelling nears a hundred thousand hits. Firemen from Paris and locals struggle to save furniture and belongings despite heavy losses and ongoing shellfire. Sarg Eloi, on duty since the war’s start, has been wounded fourteen times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rheims
Paris
Lves
Sarg Eloi
Svoundert
Trial opens in embezzlement case in Kansas City
In Kansas City Missouri on April 19 the trial of Joseph S. Chick former treasurer of Scarritt Bible and Training School began before Special Judge Arch B. Davis. The state outlined its case with Virgil Yates leading and new evidence expected to support an alleged confession. Bishop F R Hendrix relative of Chick testified to a confession, with the prosecutor seeking the maximum five years in the penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Joseph S. Chick
Scarritt Bible and Training School
Arch B. Davis
Chitticothe
Persoinal Corth
Virgil Yates
F. R. Hendrix
Chick
Yates
Increases in Coal Transport Approved Tentatively
The interstate commerce commission tentatively approved rate increases for coal shipments from the Walsenburg and Trinidad districts in Colorado to Kansas points via the Co. and LP railroad. The item reflects rail transport adjustments affecting key mining regions and western routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Walsenburg
Trinidad
Colorado
Kansas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kaiser’s Army Finds No Weak Spot in Britain
Kaiser’s army reports no weak point in British defenses as changes of front place German forces in an unfavorable position. British positions are described as holding firm despite shifting fronts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
French Reserves Arrive as British Hold Front Lines
Ottawa reports a Reuters dispatch from London saying the British battle line is more secure and the French arrive as reinforcements, strengthening positions near Bethune and La Basse canal. The German push along the Lys valley threatens communications, prompting British withdrawal east of Ypres to shorten a possible retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ypres
Lys
Ottawa
Ont
Reuter
London
Givenchy
Robeen
Hinges
la Basse Canal
Bethune
Bailleul
Amiens
Casselhemmel
Douglas County Farm Bureau to Examine Agent Candidate
The Douglas County Farm Bureau executive committee will hold a session soon to examine a candidate for the county farm agent post. A. A. Hicks announced funds for salaries and expenses are available and that the candidate is sent by A. F. Turner, assistant farm bureau agent for Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County Farm Bureau
Devglas County Farm Bureau
Doulas County
A. A. Hicks
Douglas County Bureau
Bureau
A. F. Turner
Farm Bureau
Kansas
No May Fete Abandoned At Kansas University
War conditions force cancellation of the University of Kansas May Fete this year as women devote time to surgical dressings Red Cross work and study. Money saved from costumes will aid warm stamps. Normal times will resume the custom. An author play Milton's Comus is staged in its place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. U
University of Kansas
Milton
University of Kansas Surpasses Liberty Loan Quota
More than 24000 dollars has been subscribed by the University of Kansas in the Third Liberty Loan campaign, ten thousand dollars over the required quota. Today professors and employees continue the solicitation and next week students will be asked to participate though not urged to solicit. The Red Cross drive next month will rely heavily on students. The Douglas county quota of 15000 was approved by the county chairman a week ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
Liberty Loan
Svota
Eui
Red Cross
K. Us
Douglas County
Third Annual Concert by Presbyterian Orchestra at Church
The Presbyterian student orchestra of twenty five members directed by Harold H Belles will present a Red Cross benefit concert at the Presbyterian Church tomorrow night April 20. It is the third annual concert of the group with Prof Arthur MacMurray reading selections. Mrs Homer Talbot will sing two numbers and a silver offering will be taken for the Red Cross. In a separate note President Wilson signed a bill extending espionage act provisions to women and requiring registration of women enemy aliens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Orchestra
Presbyterian Student Orchestra
Harold H. Belles
Presbyterian Church
Arthur MacMurray
Department of Public Speaking
Lawrence
Homer Talbot
Epee
Presbyterian Church Choir
Lytle
Red Cross
Wilson
Bill Washington
Lawrence To File Exact Liberty Loan Subscriptions
A noon Lawrence Liberty Loan meeting announced that by Monday a detailed, bank-based report of Third Liberty Loan subscriptions for Lawrence and Douglas county will be prepared for publication. The special committee will review all data and report those failing to meet targets to federal authorities. Women’s efforts reported 45,000 in county and 20,000 in Lawrence, with continued campaigning through May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Liberty Loan
Douglas County
Liberty Loan
Lawrence
Vinland
Lone Star
Chamber of Commerce
Woman’s Committee
The
Third Liberty
E. New Hampshire Street
Massachusetts Street
Women’s Liberty Loan Committee
Fred Morris
Tda Alford
E. E. Griffin
Addie Buckminister
Carl Graeber
Ellis Johnston
R. A. Kent
Arthur C. Terrill
Cantains
Clinton
H. FE
Don Carlos
Henderson Martin
Hélen Weede
Profitable Drive by High School Junior Red Cross
High School Junior Red Cross collected magazines and papers and netted about twenty dollars for soldiers. Students canvassed town by car and sold the goods to a paper mill, aiding boys at the front with the proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Red Cross
York
Charges Dismissed Against Professor and Wife in Morals Court
Chicago April 19. Charges of disorderly conduct against Professor William Isaac Thomas and Mrs. Rice Granger were dismissed by Judge Graham in the morals court. Attorney Clarence Darrow had argued the case, maintaining the conduct did not prove disorderly behavior given the circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Usly
Chicarn
Liam Isaac Thomas
Rice Granger
Graham
Clarence Darrow
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Congress
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Eer
Richard Wagstaff
Dublin
Church OF Erin
Eudora Patriotic
Sarah Arnold Qne
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Martyr City
Piris
le Matin
Mince Royale
Musieiad
Germany
Berlin
Teuton
Bethune and
la Basse
University
Women’s Committee
City of Lawrence
H. H. Asher
Acacia
Lodge of Masons
Athens Council No. 4
Alf. Rudiger
Brackett Sc
Bowersock
Miss Spotts
India
Eastern Star Bakery
Henry Gerhardt
Onds
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