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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
10000 Used in At
tack-Two Villages
Are Finally
Taken
Haig Holds Firm
Near Albert
Mackensen Sent to Aid
Hindenburg Ger
mans Have Mill
ion Reserves

The Germans resumed the offensive
in Picardy with great fury yester-
cay on an eighteen-mile front,
southwest of Amiens, divided about
equally by the British and French.
AT some points they gained ground
slightly, at others they were
thrown back with tremendous
losses.
Against the French, from Grisvesnes
to midway between the Luce and
Avre-rixers. at. least .esesan divis,
ions 100000 men) were thrown
ten times with great recklessness.
They were moved down." Paris
officially reports. The enemy took
two villages southwest Of Moreuil,
while around Grisvesnes the
French advanced slightly. Mean
while a great artillery duel devel-
oped on the south of the German
salient, between Montdidier and
Lassigny.
Haig reported last night that the
desperate battle still continued.
The enemy, he said, had advanced
slightly just south of the Somme
and also in the French sector be-
tween the Luce and the Avre, but
had been repulsed elsewhere. He
also testified to the great German
losses.
The sector chosen for attack covers
the juncture of the British and the
French forces which took the place
Of the badly cut up British Fifth
Army. This point in the line is
nearest to Amiens, now about
twelve miles away.
Further north the Teutons were
thrown back with great losses in
an assault west of Albert. On the
rest of the battlefront it was COM
paratively quiet yesterday.
Marshal Haig reported unusually
strong hostile artillery activity in
the Ypres section.
Berlin officially announced that the
Allies on Wednesday made four
unsuccessful attempts to recapture
the heights southwest of Moreuil,
just to the south across the Avre
from the new front attacked by
the Germans yesterday. Last night
German headquarters reported
"fresh successes" south of the
Scmme.
Heavy rain continues, but apparent
ly the enemy has moved forward
large numbers of heavy guns in
spite of it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Allies Ready to Repef Both
Peace and Military Drives
kaiser's Last Hope Is Decision This Year, Which
He Seeks to Obtain Before American Power
Becomes Efective-Czernin Shows Adherence
to Miltarism
By C. w. Gilbert

WASHINGTON, April 4-The new
German offensive reported in dis
patches from London was fully ex
pected.
American troops are being rushed to
France to be absorbed into the French
and British armies. to meet any critical
situation that may develop as the Ger
man effort to force victory this year
goes on.
The Allies will have to get along
with less food than was allotted to
them for the fastest of the cargo ships
are being used to transport American
soldiers, men for the front now having
priority even over food.
The Czernin speech is frank mill
taristic speech. 1t means that Austria
stands with Germany in her determine
ton to win a military decision in the
West. Its political purpose is to tell
the Allies that they are paying a fear
full price for standing with France in
her demand for Alsace-Lorraine.
Even the liberals of Germany, whom
the President likes to address, now are
int1amed with the idea of conquest and
of obtaining a victory on the Wes,
front this year. Their newspapers are
becoming frankly annexationist.
German Attacks Now
Lack Surprise Value
These paragraphs sum up the war
situation as it exists to-day. Germany
freed from the necessity Of fighting
foes in the East counts with the ut
most confidence upon winning the war
in the West before the United States
can exert it's full force. The lull which
has taken place for the last few days
merely signifies concentration of force 8
for renewed attack. 1t will not take the
Allies by surprise as the last one did,
and there is reason to believe that it
can be resisted effectively. The surprise
in the last attack lay in its magnitude.
Germany concentrated more men and
guns on the short front where the
drive was delivered than it had been
believed possible for her to do. These
included her own effectives from the
Eastern front, the Austrian troops, the
Eastern front guns and the guns she
had captured in the East, and had, to
the astonishment of the British, adapt
ed for use in her army. The over
whelming nature of that attack brough,
anxious moments to the Allies, espe.
cially when the Somme proved to be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Americans i'm Verdur
Sector May Say Ane.u
& hey Shall Not Pass!r

American troops, in taking over
part of the Verdun front have as
sumed the most important role vet
assigned to them. They will fight on
ground which in 1916 saw some of the
hardest engagements of the who'll
war.
Moreover, this is part of the from.
where military experts consider it
probable the Germans may strike this
year. The German line here is held
now by troops under the command Of
General Won Gallwitz, one of the most
famous of the Kaiser's leaders, His
appointment in itself makes an enemy
offensive here more likely. An Allied
offensive down the valley Of the
Mcuse has also been predicted.
This may be the part of the front as
signed permanently to the American
army, but it is more likely that Cen
eral Foch, the new generalissimo. has
put in some of Pershngs men here
to relieve French storming troops
he intends to throw into the gigantic
battle in Picardy.
Even if there is no offensive on this
lIOE tuc AIlellCdiS ucIc VIII DrOD :
ably see much more lively fighting
than they have experienced in the
Toul sector to the south. Heavy ar
tillery duels and trench raids on a
large scale have marked the Verdun
region throughout the" winter and
spring. Some writer's have thought
the French would try an offensive
toward the great German fortress OF
Metz from the positions about Ver-
dun.
The German Crown Prince started
the great Battle of Verdun while
France was still in the grip of winter
on February 81, 1916. He released
such Il storm of artillery fire as never
had been seen before, though it often
has been surpassed since. For few
days he made rapid progress. There
was some sentiment in French mill
tary councils for giving up the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Mackensen to Aid
Ne,u Driue; Foe Has
Million Reserves
By Arthur S. Draper
Tribune Gable Service1

L
LONDON, April 4.-From several
enemy and neutral sources come re-
ports that Won Mackensen is booked
to play a big part in the expected
new drive by the enemy. Estimates
fix the German reserves which will
be sent into the second battle at sew
enty-five divisions, or roughly one
million men.
The most interesting feature of
Haig's first report to-day is the
statement that the enemy's artillery
has been active in the Menin Road
and the Passchendaeie sectors on the
Ypres front. This strengthens the
theory advanced in these dispatches
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05

To- NIGHT. Moulin Rouge Ball, Webster
Hall. 1l9 East 11th St.-Advt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05

Effective Monday. April 8. weekday PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad trains leaving New York Nennsylvania
Staton) o.O4 A. NJ tHudson Tcrininal) 300 A. NJ
for Poin. Pleasant, and leaving Point Pleasant 7:4s
A. NJ. for New York will be restored. .-Adyt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Germans Strike at An1iens;; Make Small Gain
In lO Massed Attacks; Americans at Verdi
Ford Can Launch Three
U-Boat Chasers a Day

WASHINGTON, April 4.-With the
first of the Eagle boats, the new type
super-submarine chasers for the
navy, scheduled for launching in
June, Henry Ford, the builder, has
assured Secrctry Daniels it would be
possible under great stress to turn
the craft out at the rate of three a
day.
Under present plans Mr.. Ford con-
templates launching boat a day
after the building process is in full
swing.
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continued on Last Pare

yssas.gsr LIBERTY BONDS
si ~. VENUS FEACIIA.--Adyt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Pleads With People Not
To Be Over
confident
Foe Fights With
Courage of Despair
lnemciency, He Declares,
Must Be Stamped
Out to Win "

General Leonard A. Wood, who has
just returned from France, and who
startled the country only few days
ago by his frank and graphic picture
of what he saw on the 30O-mile battle
line he visited in Europe, addressed
the Manufacturing Perfumers' Asso-
citation at the Hotel Biltmore last
night. Once again, just as he had done
when speaking before the Military
Committee of the United States SEN
ate, he was frank and forceful, plain
spoken and in deadly earnest.
Time and again during his talk
which occupied the greater part of two
hours and held his hearers keen in
fidence in this country. He fairly
pleaded with his audience and through
them the whole country not to under
estimate their opponents.
The Germans, he declared, are brave,
remarkably efficient in everything they
do and led by men who are wonderful
strategists and tacticans. They are
fighting, he declared, with the courage
of. despair and they will neverT stop
until they are beaten into a state of
absolute subsection and what. in an
individual, would be described as in
sensibility.
Will Not Be Easy War
General Wood branded as base wick
edness the effort of any one at this
time to mislead the public. The man
who says this is going to be an easy
war, the general said, pounding the top
of the speakers table with his clenched
fist, lies.
To win this war, in the opinion of
General Wood, therc must be an mme-
date and thorough reorganization Of
the entire nation. Inefficiency, wher-
ever it appears, must be stamped out.
No matter whose head must fall, there
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
Enemy Contesting the Grounds

Enemy COntesting the Grounds
E. O. S. With the American Army
in France, July 20, 9 a. m.-The
forces of the allies continued to ad-
vance throughout Sunday. Up to
this time the advance was quite diff
ficult but yesterday the enemy dem
onstrated that they had not lost all
power of resistance. In the village
of Fere-en-Tardenos there was hea-
Wy fighting but the allies got the up
per hand. Last there was hot fight
ing in the village of Fere-en- -Tardi-
nos the German stronghold on the
southeastern part of the salient but
the allies are gradually obtaining the
mastery here. They are also firmly
established on the southern part of
the town despite the strenuous ef-
forts of the Germans to beat them
off.
After conquering -Tardi-
nos the allies have before them the
difficult task of crossing the river
Ourcq, but fortunately the river is
low and there are no bridges left by
the Germans.
Further to the southeast there are
violent artilledy and infantry en-
engagements.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
PHIL G. KELLY CONVICTED AMI
SENTENCED TO FINE AND
IMPRISONMENT

Raleigh, July 29.-The conviction
of Phil G. Kelly, Baltimore uaust
dealer, and his sentence to pay fine
Of $4,000 and to serve six months in
jail last week, closes another chap
ter in the violation Of federal liquor
laws, so far as North Carolin& is
concerned. The significant fact about
the Kelly case is that although his
alleged operations covered a good
part o fthe South, he was finally
turned up in North Carolina. This
happened as the result Of the efforts
Of Deputy Collector H. G. Gulley tn
the liquor raid at Neuse December
a, 1917.
1t means no little to the record Of
Collector Bailey's force in Eastern
North Carolina that Phil G.. Kelly
should have met his downfall In this
State, although he had before heen
trailed without result by government
agents. His conviction this time On
the charge of conspiracy and other
violations of the federal laws fol-
lowed his plea of guilty.
The revelations which followed,
the seizure of the dealers books and
papers in Baltimore recently were
sue has to stratle even the revenue
officers. No estimate was placed on
the amount of business which has
been done in North Carolina through
this agency, but it If said to have
been enormous. WA:skey was sent
in by carload lots. camouaaged with
plaster Of paris, lime, apples, and
other ingenious devices, it is said.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
10000 POUNDS OF SUGAR
SAVED BY COAST GUARD

Washington, July 29.-How coast
guard crews saved $4,000 pounds Of
sugar when a steamer stranded off
the coast of North Carolina is told
in statement issued here tonight
by Secretary Daniels.
The secretary says despite pro-
tests of federal officials at Elizab beth
City the sugar was being dumped
overheard until the coast guards
men came along and showed how to
salvage the no wscarce article. The
statement reads:
screws from coast guard stations
recently succeeded in saving from a
vessel which went aground $4,000
pounds of sugar which otherwise
would have been dumped overheard
and lost.
"A merchant steamer loaded with
cargo of sugar went aground on
the coast Of North Carolina. In Or
der to float the ship, the wreckers
began dumping bags of sugar over
board, as they had no means of
landing them through the surf.
Deputy Collector of Customs Baum,
of Elizabeth City, N. c., protested
against this waste of food, but no
means Of saving it was found until
the crews from stations Nos. 1858,
169, ITO and III arrived.
Though the sugar was in bags
weighing 800 pounds each, and had
to be hauled for miles along sandy
beach, the coast guards crews man
aged to accomplish the task and
$500 bags of sugar, $4,000 pounds,
were saver and stored away"
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
HUNS RETREATING; SHOW
STRONGER RESISTANCE

there have as yet been no signs of a
let up in the retrograde movement
If, as some of the military critics
have suggested, Crown Prince Rup-
precht of Bavaria purposes to starr
on offensive against the British in
France and landers as a diversion
against the big battle in progress no
signs of it are apparent at present.
What little fighing has been going OIL
in this region has been in the nature
of patrol raids, in which the British
have taken a number of prisoners
and machine guns.
The German line is again north OF
the Ourcq river, and Fere-En-Tarde-
nois, which has been entered by
French troops, is at the mercy of the
allies. The Tightening of the TANKS
holds promise that the retreat will
be continued.
The line along the greater part OF
the bottom of the Soissons-Rheims
salient has been pushed forward in
some places as much as five miles.
From behind the advancing lines
the allied heavy guns kept a contin-
uous bombardment throughout the
day, shelling the German positions
wherever the airmen reported troop
concentrations.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
The Fighting Yesterday


On the extreme wings of the grad
ually decreasing pocket-near Sois-
sons and Rheims-the enemy, heavi-
ly reinforced, is holding tenaciously
to his ground realizing that success
es there would result In q. general
crumbling Of his plans of defense
against the lockihg-up Of his entire
armies inside the big bag. In addi-
tion to the large number Of troops
for reinforcement that have been
thrown on these two sectors, the Ger
man long range guns from the region
north of soissons and north and
northeast Of Rheims are keeping
both wings Of the salient under a
heavy fire. :-.t -
The retreat of the enemy has not
become a rout, and SO long as the
picked troops around Scissors and
Rheims are able to keep we'll open
the mouth Of the bag through which
the Germans are falling back it is ex-
pected that the greater portion Of the
ARMIES Of the Crown Prince will be
successful in reaching in order the
line where it is intended Tor them to
turn and make 4 stand: ,''"' =
Just where this stand will be made
is problematical. More than half the
pocket has been recaptured by the
American, French, British and Ital-
ian troops opposing the enemy and
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30

Sisters of the Poor il you want a
place to Sleep
"A wall and several curses com
pete, but the fireman Is gone.
"The Arches have stopped ana
there are no more whooms, but pee
pie stay in their cellars. 1t is only
nine o'clock, and experience has
shown that the industrious and me
thodical Boches will keep coming
back again and again until after mid
night.
"A half mile away bright req
glow gets larger and larger and
lights the sky. A fire has broken out
in the railroad yards and is making
great headwav. Several cars of oil
are burning tiercely and spreading to
cars o, merchandise. Half dozen
American soldiers are working fever
ishly trying to get the untouched cars
away from the fire.
Two Of them have got hold OF a
switch engine and are shuntlng Out
whole strings Of cars.
"'Do you know anything ABOUT
French engines, S!.?' asks the I'M
promp.u engineer, I cant find the
dam brake.
"The fire is eating IT'S way towards
a pier on which stands q line OF
drums of gasoline. .
Come on. boys! roll them kees
O. gas outa here yells the corporal,
and the line of drums STRAIT trMnding
down the pier. It is Internally not
and the average man does not know
Just how hot gasoline can get before
1t begins to misbehave: but the line.
never wavers." II.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
RACE RIOTS IN PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, Pa, July 29.-A ne.
gro was shot and killed in southeas'
tern Philadelphia today as a result
of race riots which have occurred
since Saturday.
This makes three deaths lately
Three plocemen were shot yesterday
and more than three score were in.
jured. Feeling was engendered when
the negroes began to move into a
certain white residential section Of
the city. Three hundred police as.
sisted by so marines from the nav,
yard are on duty in the district
where the rioting occurred to restore
order.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
WAR AND MATRIMONY

Amsterdam, July 29.-Husbands
and wives in Germany who are
weary of the bonds of matrimony
are making use Of charges of es.
pionage to persecute one another;
says the Rhenish Westphalian Ga.
zette, citing a number of incidents
which recently have occurred. Many
Of these cases were of false charges
but the victim was. usually detained
and 'sdbjected%to constant surveil.
'uce by the police. Bogus letters
play an important part in these
cases. The Gazette calls for strons
measures to counteract what it char.
acterizes as "this growing evil"
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
R. !. REYNOLDS
MANUFACTURER
And One of the Wealthiest To-
bacconists of the South
Died Today
WORTH TEN MILLION
WORTH TEN MILLION

Winston-Salem, July 29.-Rich-
ad Joshua Reynolds Of the r. J. Rey-
nolds Tobacco Company, after a
years illness died at his country
home here today aged 68 years.
He was one of the most successful
business men in the South and hia
wealth is estimated at ten millions
Of dollars. He is survived by q wise
and four children, four brothers and.
one sister. The funeral will OCCUR
on Wednesday morning.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
ITALIAN STEAMER
BLOWN UP BY GERMANS

Rio Janeiro, July 29.-The Ital-
ian steamer Giuseppe Baribaldi Of
1000 tons was destroyed by an ex-
plosion 800 miles off the Brazilian
coast today. Six of the crew were
killed. The officers of the vessel re-
ported to the Italian Consul that the
explosion was caused by dynamite
placed aboard of the vessel by Ger
mans.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
AIR RAIDS
ON PARIS
The Signals, Bomb Dropping,
Care Of Property and Aid
to Injured
ALL GRAPHICALLY TOLD

Washington, July 29.-Wrltlnt
of a German air raid on Paris, one
of the American Red Cross ipsectors
gives a thrilling account OF how
American troops and RED Cross work.
ers gives aid to the city in such des'
perate moments. He describes an
air raid in this fashion:
Nowhere is there any sound but
the echoes of footsteps. Not street
light is to be seen, not single ray
of light-nothing but the inkiest and
most impenetrable darkness. Then
all of the noise of the world seems
to break loose. Clang-clang-clang
bombs the tocsin-like a gigantic
pneumatic riveter working on a col
losal bell. Whooo-o shreiks the
siren, running up and down the scale
in an awful wall.
"The streets come to life. Doors
open and slam shut. The sidewalks
are full of ghcstly figures hurrying to-
wards the caves, where the inhaDl-
tants have fitted up cots and banks.
They get up now to make a sitting
place for the new corners. The place
fills up. Everyone looks apathetic,
sleepy and bored. The children go
to sleep with their heads on their
mothers shoulders, and a girl in the
uniform of a street car conductor
swaps war yarns with poilu in dingy
blue. In the last raid the front
trucks of her car were thrown from
the rails by the displacement of air
caused by an exploding torpedo. The
air and it's inmates were unhurt. The
poilu looks a mite incredulous and
murmurs, 4 can we'll believe you,
Mademoiselle.'
"Outside the noise continues Tor
about three or four minutes and then
subsidies as new noise starts-the
Arches, or anticraft guns, which
commence to bark furiously from a
dozen different points. Searchlights
rake the sky. The Arches continue
their clamor, but they are not firing
at anything, merely keeping up a
barrage fire to prevent the Bochc
from flying over the city.
Suddenly there is an earthrock-
ing WWhoom. No doubt as to where
the Boches are. Whom, whom whom!
One involuntarily ducks and tries
turtlewise to cover his head with his
shoulders. A hideous noise resounds
up and down the deserted street
falling walls, and the tinklfng and
crash of showers Of broken glass and
roofing tiles.
' Through glass and litter of the
street an American Red Cross COM
mittee come ploughing it's way One
of the city fremen stands on the
running board. They stop and the
fireman flashes an electric lamp into
the ruins, makes a hasty inspection
and then runs up the street and
dives into the redlight cave.
Anybody here from number 49
to 81? he calls. A half dozen voices
yell out that there is.
SIS everybody here from those
numbers? Was there anyone left in
either Of those buildings?'
There is an anxious calling back
and forth and rapid counting Of
noses. All here is the answer.
Good! Not much left of those two
buildings. Don't enter the ruins un-
til they have been Inspected by the
engineering apartment. Go to the
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
PLACING AMERICAN
SOLD|ERPR|SONERS
On the Borders of German
Towns to Prevent Their
Being Bombed
by THE ALLIED AIRMEN

Geneva, July 29.-Thirty-two
Americans prisoners including some
officers recently captured by the Ger
mans have been placed near the rail-
road station at Mannheim at Baden
on the Rhine, according to a report
which has been received in Basle
The Americans were placed in this
position to prevent allied air raids.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
COTTON

New York, Jply2s.-cotton, fut-
ures, opened steady with October "a
so, December 24.3o, January 24.1s,
March, ,24.os. M
New York, July 2s.-cotton closed
steady with October 24.S5, December
24.32,' January 24.16, March 24.OS,
May 24.06.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30
They ARE EXPECTEDT0TAKE THEIR STAND
BEHIND THE R|vERVESLE ULTIMATELY

reported in General Pershing's COM
muniQue received today at the war
Office.
The capture by the Americans Of
the towns of Seringle-et-Nesles. Ser
gy, Rancheres which are beyond the
Ourcq was also announced. The
Americans who are in the Fere-en-
Tardinos sector are pressing the en-
emy very heavily.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-07-30

American Occupy Fere-en-Tardinos
With the American, Army on the
Aisne, July 29.-Marne front at $3.50
a. m.-The French and American
troops are striking heavily at the
stiff German resistance who are
withdrawing in fairly good order and
are close to the river And~v and on
ly few miles in this side. The vii
lage of Fere-en-Tardinos has been
occupied by the Americans.