Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 1

NEW YORK METAL QUOTATIONS (By the Associated Press) Silver 92 Lead ...7 l-471-2c Spelter. E. St Louis l-4c SMELTER SETTLEMENTS Silver 92e Copper, price fixed by government Lead 7c FORTY-SECOND YEAR RENO, NEVADA, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1918 NO. 73 'iG DEFENSE WITH IS OUT MlEUW Ft EASTERN NEVADA FOR- GOVER il SEEKS olu SHELLS rKLNUH IN BAI ILL AMERICAN CANNON J.H. FULMER Noted Officer Badly Wounded I SIDE BV SIDE EFFECTIVE ON NOMINATION AN OF BARK CEASE TO FALL AFTER FOUR EFFORTS GOVERNOR BY DIVISION STAFF WITH BRITISH FOE'S FIRST FORCES LINES aw lliulTi'Tfi ffJV.

Germans Attacking to North of REPUBLICANS IS INJURED IN Bapaume but Are Not Able To Reach Their Objective Despite Great Numbers i BATTLE German Artillery to Bombard U. Si. Front with Many Gas Shells Prominent Labor Leader of Ely And Member of Legislature In Field Against Kearney Gallic Army in Region Near Noyon and on Right Bank Of Oise River German Forces Repulsed When They Attack French Lines At Daybreak Enemy Keeps Hammering Away but So Far Is Being Held; Nesle and Guiscard Are Taken by Foe American Marine Struck with Splinter of Shell But Is Saved by Cigarette Case Figaro Predicts Monster Will Be Silenced; New System Of Alarm Adopted PARIS, Mar. 25. The long range bombardment of Paris was resumed Confident He Will Win and Col.

Douglas MacArthur, Who Was Censor at Washington, In Casualty List Aerial Activity on All Sides Owing to Fine Weather on This Sector Says He Will Have Support Of Organized Labor feeven Deaths in List Cabled By Pershing Today; Eight Are Reported Wounded J. H. Fulmer of Ely, one of the best known Republicans in Nevada, todaj announced his candidacy for the part; Cat 6:30 o'clock, this, morning but was COL. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR AMERICAN STEAMER PARIS, Mar. 25.

The French on Saturday went to the assistance of the British and took over a sector of he battlefront, the war office announces. In the region of Noyon and on the right bank of the Oise, heavy fighting with the Germans is in progress. The statement follows French Plunge Into Battle "French troops began to intervene on March 23 in the battle now beinjf fought on the British front. They relieved certain of the Allied forces and took up fighting themselves on this sector of the front. "At the present time they are engaged in heavy fighting in the region of Noyon and they are disputing the heights of the right bank of the Oise with important German forces.

Germans Repulsed by-French WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Mar. 25. (By the Associated Press.) On the Tout front there was considerable artillery activity during the night. American ouns heavily shelled the German front line positions. Enemy batteries replied, usiAg many gas shells.

Later photographs were taken from airplanes of. the damage inflicted by the Americans. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Sunday, Mar. 24.

(By the Associated Press.) American artillery on the Toul sector continued today to shell effectively enemjl first line and communication trenches, the town of St. Baussant, the billets and dumps north of Bouqueteau. (Many of the American shells have fajlen in the German trenches and the ffrst two lines in at- least one place have! been virtually abandoned. WASHINGTON, Mar. 25.

Gen. Fcr-shing's casualty list contained today thirteen names. One died of wounds, three died of disease, three from causes one man severely wounded and seven slightly wounded. Col Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the Rainbow division, was severely wounded. Col.

MacArthur formerly was the war department's censor here ai.d recently was decorated for bravery. TORPEDOED AND SUNK nomination for governor. "I am in the fight to win and not only expect to be nominated," said Fulmer who is visiting- in Reno today, but feel certain of election. I will have the backing of the solid labor organizations of the state and have received promises of support and the highest encouragement from prominent men all over the state." Veteran Legislator Fulmer has lived in Nevada for th last twelve years and has resided a'. Ely all.

of the time. He was born in Missouri forty-seven yjars ago. In 1908 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature from Whitt Pine- county, and two years later wai re-elected. In 1912 he was elected to the state senate, serving in the upper house during the sessions o. 1913 TmT was chairman cf the' ways and means committee of the senate, the most important committee of that body.

In 1916 he was re-elected to the asembly fcr the third interrupted after the second shot. After a brief interval two more shots were fired. The bombardment was again suspended at 9:10 o'clock. American Hurt; Worshipers Killed An American corporal of marines was struck in the chest by a splinter one of the first shells which fell luirngr Saturday's bombardment of Paris by the Germans. He was injured eriously but his life was saved by the eflection of the splinter by a cigar-tte case.

So far as has been reported le is the only American victim of the ombardment. The Matin says one of the shells fired a the direction' of Paris yesterday truck a church in the suburbs. Several arsons who were attending a Palm Sunday service were People Show Small Interest As was the case yesterday the people did not take to shelter. Cellars which were filled on Saturfiay remained empty this morning. Little interest was shown in the bombardment.

Soon after they were awakened by LONDON, Mar. 25. The capture by the Germans of the towns of Nesle and Guiscard, announced by Berlin today, is confirmed in this evening's British official statement. LONDON, Mar. 25.

The British this morning were counter-attacking between Nesle and Ham. Reuter's correspondent at British headquarters reports the French also were in action. North of Bapaume, he states, the Germans were attacking in consdiera-ble force at dawn, but did not get through the British barrage. Relying on Numbers The Germans, says the correspondent, are relying upon sheer weight of numbers in their heavy attacks, on. the British lines, relieving their tired troopK by fresh divisions which press forward without waiting for artillery, support: The enemy all day yesterday and through the moonlight last night kept up his hammering of the British positions, the message states, the British troops resisting with valiant stubbornness.

The Germans are employing many small bodies of Uhlans, mainly as scouting patrols, it is added. How the Battle Started BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS EN FRANCE, Sunday, Mar. 24. (By the Associated Press.) The main AIRSHIP HOVERING LONDON, Mar. 25.

The admiralty announces that the American steamer "Northwest of Rheims there has been Chattahoochc. 3088 tons net, has been a violent artillery action Un AiMs regioniCa Shells Fall of Courcy and Loivre. In the Cham- For the third successive day German sunk by a German submarine off the English coast. Her crew of seventy- pagne, two German surprise attacks artillery bombarded heavily with gas east of in failure. ouippes resuiieu Suippes resulted 'Turn to om two) OVER COAST OF EGYPT time and served during the session of eight was landed safely.

The commander states that the submarine fired a number of torpedoes of which four struck the vessel. 1917. Author of Important Bill French patrols took some prisoners near Tahure. "There was much artillery activity between Arracourt and the Vosges. At daybreak, German forces attacked the French lines east of Bleneroy and east of Badonvillers.

The Germans were repulsed with heavy losses." the first shot fired the people were brought to their windows by the rattling of drums. Policemen circulated through each quarter of the city introducing- new system of alarm, which is distinguished from the alarm Fulmer came to Reno last week to attend a meeting of the legislative oemmittee of the Order cf Railway LONG RANGE GUNS MYTH SAY AERO LONDON. Mar. 23. The inhabitants (Turn to naire two) NEW YORK, Mar.

23. The steamship Chattahoochee, torpedoed off the English coast, was formerly the Hamburg-American liner Sachsen and was one of the vessels seized by the United States when this country entered this war. She was built in 1911 at Belfast and was 470 feet long with a 58-foot beam. of Cairo, Egypt, were informed officially last Thursday, according to a MINER IS KILLED Renter dispatch, that a hostile airship had leen observed off the coast. The public was warned of the possibility of air raids and ordered to observe the FALL OF PETROGRAD CLUB MEMBERS WHEN RESISTS lighting regulations.

An official statement issued in Athens on Saturday says that on Conductors, of A-hich organization he is a member. He was elected chairman of the committee at a meeting held yesterday afternoon at the Riverside Hotel. During his services in the legislature Fulmer was the father of various measures supported by organized labor and was the author of the bill passed at the last sesion establishing an eight-hour day for women. Kearney Starred the Ball Fulmer is the second Republican to formally announce his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, William M. Kearney, former state engineer being the first.

In ad-, dition to this L. R. Thatcher, state senator from Eureka county, has indicated that he probably will be a candidate. BY PREDICTED Thursday, Zeppelins passed over the Island of Crete, traveling in a north thrust on the British right flank by the Germans Thursday morning was south of St. Qucntin and the enemy used a division for every 2000 yards of the front, there being approximately one German division against every British battalion.

The purpose of the attack here was to capture Urvillers and Essigny-le-Grand and thereby acquire high ground for a further advance. It is now possible to give more details of the early stages of this and other fighting. Oise Is Crossed On the extreme right of the British OFFICERS ENGINEERS OF U. S. ARE AT FRONT IN BATTLE CONSUL NEW YORK, Mar.

23. Officials of the Aero Club of America, who calle" a special meeting to discuss the nature of the weaion employed by the Germans in bombarding Paris at a reported distance of more than seventy miles, refused to believe that long range guns were used as claimed in the German official communication. They asserted that the creation of a gun capable of shooting more than thirty miles was deemed impossible, and discounted the German claim as erly direction. Cairo, the capital and most poulous city of Egypt, has been in no danger from air raids since the Turks were driven back from the Suez canal. The Turkish lines in Palestine are the nearest enemy points to Cairo and they are 120 miles northeast.

An enemy airship might also come across the Mediterranean sea from the southern coast of Asia Minor. The distance by that route would be 460 miles one way. A German airship recently attacked WASHINGTON, Mar. 25. German occupation of Petrograd within twenty- TULSA.

Mar. 23. Stephen Ivenoff, a coal miner was shot to death when he resisted officers sent to arrest him for alleged pro-German statements. Ivenoff is the second pro-German to pay with his life for disloyal state TEUTONS LOSSES OF army the enemy corssed the river Oise at two places. One body of troops came out of La' Fere and swung north, while another army crossed at Moy and turned south to form a junction with four hours was predicted by American Consul Tredwe.ll in a dispatch reach-March 20.

Virtually all Americans ing the state department today dated BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. Mar. 25. (By the Associated Press.) A further advance late yesterday by the Germans at some points along the battlefront is record- effort to distract attention from ments here in the past twenty-four an the La Fere group. Throughout the have left the city, the dispatcn said.

Naples, Italy, after a trip of 300 miles from the Austrian coast along the i restaurant i other means by which the French cap The consul reported from Moscow tMurs. Joseph Sring. a day the battle- raged in the lowlands about the Oise. Adriatic. ital was teing shelled, such means, after returning from a trip Petro ed.

grad. The commissary of the 'city, he they said, might include aerial tor At Yendeuil, a group of British held waiter, was shot to death last night by a police investigator for declaring, it was that he was glad the Germans were winning on the Western 100,000 DAILY IS ESTIMATE pedoes guided by wireless. -said, had told him that he expected the establishment of German control DESTROYERS BEAR within a Another consular tele out until four o'clock Friday afternoon. A little further north the Germans stormed Urvillers and Essigny. Just west of St.

Quentin the British BERLIN OF 0 gram from Moscow confirmed the report that the patriarch of Russia refused to sanction the German peace were forced to fall back, but through treaty and strongly condemned it. STOCKS BREAK SOM out the day they clung to the Holnon NAMES OF NAVY American engineers have again been in the throes of fierce conflict in which they have done excellent work in transportation. The presence of the American engineers on the battlefront has long been known. They were praised highly for their gallantry in the battle of Cam-brai last fall. WASHINGTON.

Mar. 23. German statements that American troops had taken iart in thei fighting on the British front in France had not been confirmed today and ofifcials. including Maj. Gen.

March, chief of staff, declined to comment on the reports. wood, a little northwest of the city. Gallant Defense by Britons CLAIMS 45,000 GE RMAN SUBMARINE South of St. Quentin a number of UNDER STRESS strong'redoubts made a gallant defense and it was nightfall before the last of HEROES WASHINGTON, Mar. 25.

Members of the Allied military missions said today that in the nature of the fighting on the West front the Germans must be losing at least 100,000 men a day. They made this deduction from the German's plan of massed attack, the number of troops they are employing and the strength of the Allied resistance. The Allied losses, it was declared, would be far less than those of the Germans, because they are fighting- oh them, with their machine gunner, had been reduced. The end of the first day PRISONERS SUNK BY OWN found the British behind the St. Quentin canal.

DF BATTLE umcers lntucaiea mat tnere was WASHINGTON. Mar. 23. Names of naval heroes given to six new destroyers were announced last night by Sec nothing here to show that any Amer Friday morning the enemy renewed his assault with increasing vigor and, fTnrn tr nagc two retary Daniels, BERLIN. Mar.

25. (British admir-jalty jer wireless press.) "The Ger iney aret ilCLaila, or sner-inl units hart heon tn tho TORPEDO British forces. mans are now standing to the north of Official Washington including Presi NEW YORK. Mar. 25.

Stocks broke from one to three points at the open dent Wilson, today anxiously scanned the defensive. 17 IRE'llSSING British and German statements Whether the war department has re Rear Admiral Bowman H. McCalla of New Jersey; Breese. for Capt." Kidder Randolph Breese of Pennsylvania; Ramsay, for Rear Admiral Francis M. Ramsay of the District of Columbia; McCook, for Commander Roderick Mc-CoOk of Ohio; Cowell, for Master John G.

Cowell, home not recorded, and the Somme in the middle of the former Somme battlefield," says today's official stateemnt. "Baupaume was captured in night fighting. In the evening Nelse was taken by storm. British. Americans and French were thrown through a wooded country.

Grand Theatre TONIGHT ceived confidential advices from Gen. Pershing- waff not disclosed. LANING REAPPOINTED LONDON, Mar. 23. How a German submarine was destroyed by one of its own torpedoes, which acted as a boomerang, is vouched for in an official statement by Capt.

Freeman of the British steamer Flixtftn. The captain declares that while on his way from Havre to a Welsh port. a. German U- Rum AMERICAN ing of the market here today on further heavy selling impelled by the wr news. The weakest issues again included equipments, or war shares, and special industrials.

United States Steel, the market leader, opened with a sale of 9000 shares at from 864 to 86, representing a maximum decline of two points. Union Pacific also broke two points. Among tho other stocks which exhibited weakness were Texas Company, "More than prisoners and more Meredith, for Marine Sergeant Jona- than ft ft A titi A 1 hpan ra ri itrnrl i WASHINGTON. Mar. 25.

Nomina AU of Guisi arri and Chaunv were rantnrod in I than Meredith of Pensylyania. Pa uliiie tions submitted by President Wilson ithe commissioner officers honors dis- the tinguished themselves during the Civil forn to be register of the land omce DESTROYER boat discharged a torpedo which when I a short distance from the steamer was I at isalia. Cal (a reappointment). Frederick and, describing a semi-circle. tral Leather.

Great Northern railroad, the submarine and sank it. St. Paul and Chesapeake and Ohio. Violent fighting developed for possession of Combles and the heights west of town. The enemy was defeated, the statement says.

DUTCHVERNMENT BALKS AT OFFER NEW AMERICAN DISTINCTION IS AWARDED SOLDIERS IN WASHINGTON, 251 Vice Ad- SSS JSS SSK SMZUZZ: COMMENT OF BRITISH PRESS ITS CONFIDENCE teen dead, seventeen men are missing from the American destroyer Manley as a result of her recent collision with i WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN ing post in the Toul sector, is from LONDON. Mar. 25. The Dutch cabi FRANCE. Sunday, Mar.

24. (By the Charleston. S. C. He and all the men net is sail! tn have decided Sunrlav in i r-- 1 Tt IVjvino I a British warship and the consequent i 1 in the patrol have been given ten days v.

send the Allied powers a lormai re-. nf the. United States army medical re- power pendlum is swinging in favor of leave in recognition of their services. fusal of their offer of grain in return iai.uu., Mar. 25.

Commenting on the results of the German offensive, the Dally Chronicle says: the Allies. No weakness at the Anglo-French junction has yet been disclosed "MADAME JEALOUSY" A. picture that mirrors every emotion, that pierces tho thin crust of conventionality a story so unusual that "Assuming that the German losses and the task before the enemy In the The distinguished service cross has been awarded to Corporal Charles H. Burke, infantry. His citation reads: "Severely wounded while patrolling, he refused to leave his platoon commander, who also was severely wound explosion of a depth bomb on board.

Of the dead Lieut. Commander Richard McCall Elliott, the commanding officer, and fourteen enlisted men have been identified, and two enlisted men have not been identified. Six men were seriously Injured and sixteen slightly injured. THEY MUST HANG for Dutch ships, a dispatch from The Hague to the Daily Mail. GEN.

BEFORE COMMITTEE next days of the battle is more formidable than that already accomplished." The Daily Chronicle says: "In the main the enemy is held. Nevertheless, serve, serving witn me uruisn arm), has been awarded the distinguished service cross, one of the. four new American decorations for bravery. Lieut. Davles on January 7 entered a dugout under continuous shell fire and remained there attending the occupants after it had been blown in.

He performed an amputation operation and saved the life of a British soldier. He received the first medal conferred on any American serving with the British forces. are at least 150,000, the enemy has sustained a reverse for he has not obtained a strategical success directly conducing to a decision, while he has -lost eight to ten per cent of his -effectives without similarly lowering the efficiency of the Allies. Allies Show No Weakness ed. He stayed at his side during an intense bombardment and assisted in driving off an enemy patrol." Honor for Dead Man we are bound to recognize that the situation viewed as a whole, is WASHINGTON.

Mar. 25. Maj. Gen. it will jar the most jaded critic.

COMING TOMORROW MARY GARDEN IN' 1 WASHINGTON, Mar. 25. New Mexico decrees convicting Frank C. Mc-Knight of Ranger Lake, that state, of the murder of Clause Sweazey were today in effect sustained by the supreme court which dismissed the proceedings. The French commander of.

a division with which American troops are being trained today-, has awarded the cross of -war to an AmericajD infantryman Turn to pace two) i'. Leonard Wood, who recently returned from the battlefront. was called before the senate military committee late today to inform it regarding the general military, situation and especially as to the American expeditionary forces. "This matter is of the greatest importance, for Germany a.t present is at the critical moment when the man Pointing out that the Germans have been able to bring to bear at certain to our two) Takes Prisoner The lieutenant who, -as previously recorded, took a prisoner in a listen-.