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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1918. 4 18 TO 45 DRAFT BILL GAMBLERS BEHIND I AO LENS 1 PERSHING WANTS 25,000 AIRPLANES; "SEARCH THIS AREA, AND FIND A U-BOAT," SAID ENSIGN MURPHY 1 4 U. S. Transports Sunk la Lives Lost-German Report Washington, August 24 As an example of, the desperate situation In which German leaders find themselves In trying to keep up the morale of their people, Secretary Lansing today cited a report in the Berlin Zeitung Mittag of August 20, which said: "According to American papers 14 American transports which left the United States June were torpedoed and sunk.

Seven hundred and tweiuy-two men lost their lives." The secretary said he believed this at- report to be at the direct Instigation of the German Oiiice. Such propaganda, he said, was doubtless due not only to the reversta that the German army has been suffering on the western front, but also the fitod situation throughout the empire, which is reported to be very bad. MORiUILl cwVjsr SINUS v3. 1 0 19 Maes Where the British and French are advancing and tho Allied Rains since July 18. Tlie; broken linn shows the Gorman advance up to that time.

The solid black line is the present Allied position, tlie arrows indicating where the French have crosse-d tlie Oise, and Allette. The black and white line is tlie old Hindcnburg line us It ran before March 21. BRITISH GET BRAY AND THIEPVAL; ARE NEARING BAPAUME Continued friiiii Page I. sh ine has been straightened be-randeourt. north of Thiepval, lloisselle.

to the south. There en Lrl has been extraordinarily hard fighting ibis locality. that Boehe position which has held cut for days in ihe center of the battlefield, is gradual-'y being surrounded on all sides. The town is choked with Herman dead, and many living Hermans may' no laptured there shortly. Itapti lime's Full War.

In the advance of napaume, the Village of A just it the edge of the larger town, has I ecu rendu d. It seems certain that Itap.iume will fall at an early date, but more heavy fighting is ixpected here. British troops have advanced ie a point north of Mory and have ilso entered Crolsilles. which is some miles east of the Arras-Papaume road and probably marks the peak of the idvance eastward in the northern battle zone. There has also been fighting north of the River Scarpe today, and the Rritish here have made progress, penetrating the old German front line for more than Sua yards.

The British itt.teked Givenohy and recovered the old front line from which the-y retired during an attack last evening. lio.i-tainc Stronsr. While Field Marshal Haig's men pressed forward with mighty striib-s on the main battlefront today the-y had to fight for every yard of grounei. Considerable numbers of guns and prisoners have been captured all along the line, and the British have again inflicted the heaviest possible casualties on the enemy. The ground over the battle has been fought was littered with ileiul Germans.

,1 fighting a losing battle, the Germans are unquestionably becoming disorganized and rattled. Officers who have been taken prisoner have RYAN'S CANDIDACY, IS WARD'S CHARGE Declares Coney Island Democratic Club Is Headquarters' for Handbook Patrons. A direct charge that the gambling element and advocates of a wide-open Coney Island are behind the candidacy of Alderman John J. Ryan and that they have turned the clubroom of tho Coney Island Democratic Cluji into a gambling headquarters and installed a racing ticker there for the benefit. of the handbook and poolroom bettors, was made last night by Charles R.

Ward, Democratic leader' in the Sixteenth Assembly District," and Mrs. Jennie Mc.Mahon, leader of the Regular Women's Democratic or ganization in the Coney Island District, ityan with the backing of County Leader McCooey, is seeking to overthrow Ward, who refused a finalr chance to make peace with the county leader last year by supporting the candidacy of Bird S. Coler for Bor. ough President in the primaries, coming within a shade of nominating him. The Coney Island Democratic Club, at 2928 West Seventeenth street, Coney Island, is the headquarters of' the Ryan faction.

The Sixteenth Assembly District, leader also threw a bomb when he, hinted broadly of efforts to encompass the defeat of the Democratic State ticket in this county by the local interests who were unsuccessful in an attempt to force the nomination ot William R. Hearst for Governor. These interests, he declared, were inimical to the candidacy of Alfred E. Smith for Governor, and Bird S. Coler for Controller, for personal reasons and are ready to sacrifice the welfare of the party for their own ends.

Mr. Ward declared that he was on the eve of retiring fro mthe leadership when conditions within the district caused hi mto change his mind. The accusations of Leader Ward and Mrs. MeMahon were made at a Democratic rally at the Cowenhoven Homegtead, Sixty-seventh street, be-tween New Utrecht and Sixteenth avenue. In addition to the two speakers.

United States Marshal James M. Power, Democratic leader in the Twenty-third Assembly District, who joined with Ward in supporting the Color candidacy; Mrs. Marie B. Hosie, Vincent Donihee and others made addresses. The meeting was presided over by David Ruth of Bath Beach, choice of tho county organization to succees Ward a few months ago, who, like Mrs.

MeMahon, has now joined forces with the present State Committeeman. "The principals in the movement in support of my opponent, for the post of State committeeman," said Ward, "constitute the very worst elements, in Democratic politics. These men who now seek to contest my leadership have been grossly disloyal to our district for a number of years. It has been their practice constantly to act as local spies for outside ring politicians advocating rubber stamp leadership. They desire a free hand and an unregulated Coney Island.

They, would degrade our party locally and would ruin the reputation of Coney Island if not kept in "They have already degraded the party by making a gambling room out ot, their Democratic Club room at Coney Island, and actually installed a ticker In tlio clubroom so that those who hart placed bets with handbook or pool room men on the races, or desired to place other bets, might know whether they won or not without waiting for the evening newspapers. By this act they made the Democratic meeting place an unfit placo for the men and women of the district. Under pain of injury to 'their reputations no respectable citizens of tho district can now ally th'emselves with my opponent's candidacy, without esponsing the cause of the gamblers' and police court meddlers and taking sides against the respectable people of the district." '''a Mrs. MeMahon said: "What mother wants her democratic, sons or daughters to visit such a place, to be the associates of such people? What wife wants her husband in such a retreat as they have made this club" room? "But tho day of the gambler and lawbreaker in otir midst shall be shortened, for the women of this district will 'sfe to it that at the Primaries on Tuesday, September 3, they will he forever driven from Democratic control and will never again have an opportunity to resurrect such a disgraced brand of politics." PLENTY OF SUGAR NOW Washington, August 24 No additional restrictions on the use of sugar by householders and the public generally will be necessary, Food Admin-strator Hoover announced today, be--ause there is plenty of sugar to care for domestic ad allied wants, provided the present conservation measures of two pounds a person monthly are continued. 2 RUSS GENERALS JOIN THE CZECHS Washington Considers AcceW sions Important-Both Men of Great Military Experience, a Amsterdam.

August 23 General C. Stcherbatcheff, former Russian commander on the Rumanian and General V. A. Tchercmlsoff, for-'' mer commander on the Russian northr'1' ern front, a Moscow dispatch to the Rhenish Westphalian Zeitung of Ks1--sen says, have accepted commands in" the Czecho-Slovak army. After tho fall of the Keren- sky government, General Stcher i.

ba'tcheff became chief of tho Ukrainian armies op-. posing tho Bolshoviki. In Janu-' nry last he was Outlawed by liolshevikl government as amio-i enemy of the people. There been no reports concerning him sineo the Ukrainian pence with tho Central Powers. Tho last rei'd port concerning Goneral Tchore jn emlsoff was in Decemher, 1917, when lie was released from imprisonment in Potrograd by tho "1'J' iq- Washington, August 24 The accession of General Slchnrhntrhoff and' General Teherernlsoff, former high officers in tho Russian army to the Czecho-Slovak forces is considered tremely important among officials The Czeclio-Klovnks have military leaders of unquestioned ability, both their numbers have been so enlarged' by recent additions from among the loyal Russians who have flocked to their stnndarriR to resume) the war on; Germany that they havo needed ad- ditional commanders.

Brigadier Genera William V. Jud- son, formerly military attache at Po-trogrnd, said today ho knew both tnese officers to lie men of great military experience and ability In the former Russinn army and that they would doubtless prove of great valuo tn tho Czecho-Slovak forces and their Russian recruits. PASSES THE HOUSE: Continued from Page 1. and General March and which the Administration strongly opposed. It was finally defeated by a vote of 1 4 to 146.

Flynii Didn't Answer. On this roll call the Brooklyn and Long Island members, with the exception of Representative Hicks, who is in Europe, and Representatives Flynn and Delaney, who did not answer to their names when called, all voted against the McKenzie amendment and in support of the Administration. On the roll call on the final passage of the bill, Representatives maner, Dale, Caldwell, Swift, Haskell, Cleary and Rowe all voted in tho affirmative. An amendment of special interest to New York, which was defeated, provided for the exemption of policemen in cities of 600,000 or more' population. This amendment offered by Representative Thomas F.

Smith of Manhattan, who stated that the police forces of every large city have been very seriously disrupted, was voted down by 113 to 54. (By tlio Associated Press.) Washington, August 24 The new-Man power bill extending the selective draft to all men between the ages of 18 and 45 years was passed by the House tonight with only minor changes in the original draft of the War Department. The final vote was preceded by three days debate, during which the chief contention was an amendment to defer the calling of youths from 18 to 20 years until older men had been summoned. A final effort was made by Chairman Dent today to place the 18-year-old boys in a deferred class, but a motion to recommit the bill to the Military Affairs Committee with instructions to incorporate that amendment was lost, 191 to 146. Now Goes to Senate.

The bill now goes to the Senate, where leaders tonight predicted its passage early next week. The Senate plans to substitute the House bill for the measure favorably reported by the Military Committee of that body, and thus expedite Its final enactment. Congressional leaders hope to send the measure to the President by the latter part of next week. The Senate, soon after convening, unexpectedly abandoned plans for a vote today and adjourned until Monday. An attempt in the House to insert a work or fight amendment, by which those exempted from military service on occupational grounds would be required to remain at their civil tasks, failed, 52 to 91.

The amendment was directed against strikes, and was characterized by officials of the American Federation of Labor as a conscription of labor. The House today reversed Its action of yesterday in voting to include Members of Congress in the draft. By a rising vote, 89 to 143, it defeated an amendment by Representative Gregg of Texas, which would, make Members of Congress, State Legislatures and Federal and State executive officers liable to draft. Police Amendment Lost. An amendment by Representative Smith of New York to exempt police officers in cities of more than 600,000 population and designed to relieve the situation in New York, where a shortage of policemen is said to be threatened was defeated.

An amendment by Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, which was adopted provides for tho appointment of special examiners in local conscription districts for the re-examination of men placed in deferred classification as a means of further combing the deferred classes for addi-: tional men for actitve service. Chairman Dent of- tho House Military Committee read a letter today from Secretary Baker in which the latter set forth his objections to the McKenzie amendment, which was defeated yesterday and which provided for deferring the call of youths from 18 to 20 years. Mr. Baker said he believed the amendment would seriously impair the ability of the War Department to get the men in accordance with the military program. POOR SERVICE ON B.

R. T. The Eagle got this last night: To tlie Kditor nf Tlie Kaicle It tiiki-s Just one hour Bntl tw.nty-8vi. minutes to net from Avenue and Flatbusli avenue to Hie Morougli Hull. Walkhin? oh, no; liy the popular 11.

K. and there was not even a hloi-k for an exeuse. At 0 on Sutunhiy nlcht I stood at the eor-ner of Avenue l-'latliush avenue fontllj expeeUntr to transfer to a Flatbush avenue enr for boroiiirli Hall. The first ear to eoni-- from the ham did not even stop, nnil nohmly enulil have siiui-eziil on if It had. After fiften minutes a sei-enil one app.

ared. A few inn on the riinnlnj; hoards, hut the conthe-tor refilled to allow anyone to get inside. At a third r-ar eftme alonjr. lty that tlm there w. re li.v iii-tiiat count forty-five would-be pa sengers at tlie trunsf.

eorner. A few mnnaRid to get on tlie ear already crowded. Tlie rept may tie th-ri-vet. Tlie Flatliiisli avenue line certainly de serves the first pl-lee for poor service. One of tlie men iriive a tn'w name tt the eompHny the Itotten Terrlhte." fc.

C. CYCLE HITS A motorcycle bounced onto the sidewalk at the corner of Suttor and Pennsylvania avenues last night, knocked down and injured three women, hit the street again and disappcred In the darkness. The women were Sarah Dreyfuss, 15, of 3B5 Sheffield avenue; Beliil Huringfeld, 40, of 277 Pennsylvania avenue, and Rebecca Gordon, 50, of 697 Sutter avenue. They were attended ya physician of the neighborhood and sent to their homes. The police are seeking for the owner of the motorcycle.

Another motorcycle with a sldo car, operated by Samuel Holliday of 116 Rochester avenue, with William Miles of 249 Chauneey street as a passenger, wa sstruck at the corner of Saratoga avenue and Dean street by an automobile driven by Jerome Gustey of 189 Cornelia sereet. The two men on the motor cycle were removed to St. Mary's Hospital. TUBES IN LONDON TIED UP BY STRIKE London, August 24 -London today faces a striko in tho underground railroads. The omnibuses virtually are all running again, but on (wo underground railroad lines a number of men and women employees struck this morning.

As a result the companies found It difficult to maintain a service of more than one train every twenty or thirty minutes. Traffic conditions became worse as Ihe hours passed. The attendants and police had difficulty in clearing the platforms of the passengers congesting them. The strike is due to tho demand ol tho women employes for the samp wages as those paid the men. the same grievance whleh caused tho omnibus striko of a few days ago.

James Henry Thomas, general secretary of tho National Cnlon nf Itull-wuymen, declared today that, the striko was entirely without the authority or support of tho executive of the union. HE MAY GET 20,000 oiiiiniicil from Vugv 1. committee's inspection tours, were i outlined in the report. The record, how-evir. teems with interesting state-1 ments, opinion and comment regarding failures and delays i tlie aviation program in the past and improve- incuts expected the future.

Among the witnesses whoso de-I tailed statements are disclosed are John I). Ityan, chairman of the Aircraft Production Hoard; Major General Kinly. Chief of the Army, and some Navy otlieers, heads and engineering experts of other great automobile and airplane companies, Amerkan and foreign fliers and engineers. Much of the testimony regarded confidential some giving new military secrets and inventions was deleted before the) testimony was given to the publie-. Other testimony, the report indicates, was eif such a confidential nafuri' that it was not recorded by tho stenographer, who at times even was excluded from the cominillee hearings.

liyan Wants One Head. In principle. Chairman Ityan approved centralization in one man of all authority over aviation affairs, while General Kenly specifically recommended a Department of Aviation, ln-aded by a Cabinet otlieer, the principal proposal of the Military Hub-Coinmitiee. Koth detailed waste of what they termed millions of dollars in the early stages of aircraft proiluc-tion and improvements being worked out In the reorganization. Lack of proper organization and executive eli-reetion.

General Kenly said, was responsible for early delays and failures. That the original aircraft program called for 23.000 airplanes last July was eliseloseel by General Kenly. The He Haviland 4 machine was conceded by General Kenly not to be satisfactory, but ho said it is being perfected with every prospect of success, lie Haviland fls, he also stated, soon are to be built in 'quantity. Mr. llyan statenl that LibeTty motors ef eight cylinelers as well as twelve are being perfected, and that with the Liberty motor a demonstrated success, its utility would be expandeel.

General Kenly said tlwit while the motor is successful, aircraft authorities should have developed sooner un individual machine about it, anil also should have built foreign planes, with foreign motors of known value, early in the war. Henry Ford testified that the Liberty motor "is the best article that has ever been gotten up along; that lii and stated that his factories to turn out 100 n.otnr daily, besides one "Kagle," or dwarf submarine chaser. Too many noeis. g. ry.

Mr. Ford said, were responsible for some ait era ft ililllcultion. He advocated a single "Doss" fot aviation a fi'a i rs. How aviators have been provided camps and fields and tr.iiiiod far ahead of the production program was detailed by Colonel C. G.

LiUutr, construction head of the Sien.il Corps. I'rging construction of mora training fields, Colonel Kdgnr said virtually all now are "seriously" overcrowded Camp Kelly No. 2 at San Antonio, Texas, he said, men in a camp built for As to the Liberty motor, Mr. Ryan said "There is no motor on either side that compares with it." Supplies of i spruce lumber for airplanes for this country and the Allies will he ample, I Mr. Ryan saiel in reference to his re-I cent inspection trip on the Pacific Coast, although for a time, he stated.

I "the whole country was literally held I by the throat by the I. W. ms name is uesiey lopping, class. Wesley- atld recently and recently played at the Colum- bin Country Club. D.

in a match against Fred McLeod. the club pro. who was partnered by Itobert L. Corby, a Jocal amateur. Topping was aided by Cameron Buxton, the Philadelphia champion; p.

James and George Morse. The pro-amateur combination won on. the last hole, Mc-Leod dninj? a 70. troops in the Fismes sector have advanced as far north as the Soissons-Uheims road, accordine: to the War OMice announcement tonight. The statement says: "Between the Ailette and the Aisne we have made progress south of Crecy-au-Mont and taken about 100 prisoners.

"West of Fismes the American troops have carried their line as far as the Koissons-Bhcims road on a front ot about SfiO meters. "On Friday' nine German airplanes were brought down or put out of ac-j ion, and a captive balloon was burned. The same day our bombing planes drop-perl 12, Sun kilos of projectiles and fired several thousand eartiidces in the re-! idim of Anizy-lc- 'liauteau, Mraneourt. Kanilricourt and Mortir T'orest. where aerial observers bail signaled important enemy reserves and convoys." and material ami allow later results lo guide him in the matter of more decisive action this year.

I'rciicli Critics View. Some able l-'rem-h critics hold to the second view, which is based on the theory that an enemy withdrawal Is gradually going on to some new Hindcnburg line, which probably is of greater depth than the i est one. Those who argue that the world is witnessing the preliminaries to a decisive stroke, base their belief on the fact that Ihe Allies presumably are om-ploying very considerable forces ill the aggregate in the present battles; that they are exploiting their gains to the utmost and that they already are threatening vital enemy positions. They think nlso that it. would lie folly not to push to the last degree this year the immensu advantage of Allied initiative, superior morale nnd enthusiasm for nn offensive, especially among the Americans.

mentioned recent reverses and nspe- daily the defeat which is now being Uv Colemcls ri'ltii'izeel. suffered and ha Id that Germany was Regarding detachment from duty of willing to give uny thing for peace. Colonel Heeds of the Signal Corps, These statements are of value only who was criticised in the committee's as showing how the German Army leport. and Colonel Montgomery, finis coming to look upon tho war now other former military member of the going against them board. Chairman Kvan said their serv- Xew Winy I'orevs Thrown In.

Hie Aircraft Hoard and avia- j. tion generally had been severed. German divisions continue f. Whon he took charge of aircraft arrive in the zone, only to be stood production, Mr. Jtvan said, so far as up before the advancing British and he kncw nn(.

the men then in mowed down. hile they have been charge of affairs were experienced, able to check in a measure the Allies, Ulss time and lives in earlv pro-they have been unable to stay their duction stages, Mr. Ryan declared are continuous forward movement. more important than loss of the mil- There are stories of less than a Hons of dollars involved. America dozen men being left in some of the has not yet built a single fighting German companies which had par- airplane, he said, because the time ticipatcd in the recent righting, has been "fooled away" in experi-Soldier prisoners captured today ex- minting with a fighting machine to pressed themselves generally as hav- nt the Liberty 12 motor, ing lost faith in the lngner command, Regarding the He Haviland machine while non-commissioned officer at- Mr.

Ityan said with changes ordered by tributed the defeats to the inetll- General Pershing and agreed upon by ciencies of the German Air I engineers, it is expected to he "serv-and, more especially, to the presence I iceable. useful and of military value" of many untrained recruits in the I ind tiuantity production of the He Ilav older divisions. Home are said to Hand should be reached next September have deserted while on the way to I or ictober without stopping production the front to participate in this battle. of the 4's. Shieffelin of Yale, and Cutler of Harvard, Did the Hun.

(By tho AssoolaUil Press. London, August 24 "Ensign T. H. Murphy," says a statement given out today by the Committee on Public Information, "sits day nnd night in an office in a little shack at a I'nited states Naval Air Station poring over raised maps with colored strings stri ti lled cm them and litlle redhead vns stuck in them. His job is to i.icji talis nn every German sul (mi fiMin it nase.

He Knows when mid air ami how badl each uj pi 11 damages them. He even v. ie thty musf come to Hie vice n. sk-ppcr tu smoke i iv-'; i tie re is no smoking in- knowU'dtre uV- itie.l tlu faiiniv 't many r-in. the Naval station.

Tak-, K. .1. Si'hu-ii Vlt'in a mt'inht tlu I'liivorsiiy, wh-t is 1. 1. 1 It lir tu c.

Kll 1 e.a .1 a r. i It: i n. lam of John Jay of II t'i it in dint1 tar! pi it stu Jiis v. iiiurniny; when ihai i 1'in in the inhMle of map and rxi-lainifd: ni't'dinn a Mtmko riht They haf tf-(i ftn many hours such ami such a ('Miliar. In tl; rcc 1: ami ours hey II emerge w.ll be tobacco.

oaivh this with his tin'ir) pointing to the map 11,1 you'll lind a sub- nun "Knsian pilot, l.i.-iili 11 stroke and ci varsily new in "ti in as the first I Cutler, Harvard 'ernst. in. Taggii-t. huimre.l- I tain ilic li' I 7. ami male, and niaeliin.st electric, an and chain! ai sprinter, complete the lug seaplane.

"Three houis alter I'm! left ils sl.uion hot! the same exclamation. Hie crew of the seaplane oihcers made is the seaman caned his mate: 'Large Hun going north. One The seaplane jisoif between the end the sun and for two minutes bore down on the l'-boal. Half a minute later the vessel stalled to submerge with a -crash' dive. "Lieutenant tripped Tiis bomb release at the instant the big seaplane was direuh ov-r the eiu niy conning town-, which was exactly awash.

Knsipn Sehiefi, liu put the jehine into a vi i tic al bank to observe the edict of ihe explosion and a white geyser spouted liftecn feet on the enemy's port bejm. The delav had been just right. When the splash cleared the stern of the submarine as lipped up a mi her propeller were out of the water. "The air pilot knew then that she Mas iiainaged; that she could not submerse am, was a p.ey to any of the patrol boats. The ho i plane being shoit of luol, then signalled to a drifter: 'Damaged ii'uin-u-ine five northwest of Hut t'ht driller, knowing that a submarine on the surf ice would mart to run like a scared tat.

and that it could not catch her, relived the news to torpedo boat destroyers. "The destroyers did the rest. Tllev hurried up and rammed the l'-boat. There were, only six survivors. The put her down hut she was the prize of Sehielfolin of Vale and Cutler of Harvard.

Cutler, Incidentally, was on his first flight as a pilot on war patrol and the bombs which damaged the submarine were the first that he had dropped in action." BELIEVE BODIES ARE UNDER LOST LAUNCH Attempt to Be Made Today to Locate Some of Those Missing in Canoe Tragedy. The search for bodies of those who perished in the Uockaway Inlet canoe tragedy of Wednesday night Is to be resumed again today by the police of the Harbor S.pia.l, with the assistance of V. V. Could and John Kogan. two of the leaders of the outinr; that endec.

in disaster. Search thus fur has beer, productive of nothing and the final identification of all the missing is still uncertain. Weather conditions yesterdav interfered wi.ii the search. Kogan and went out near the scene of the tragedv twice wiih ihr. i to dive i hope that bodies could be discovered in tha.

way or the launch found which lank Wednesday It js lieved ome bodies are held underneath it. The tide was running too Mi-oiis in the morning for the diving attempt and i the afternoon the po- i.i ooai could not get near the Khau where the disaster occurred because sens. and HonM ra of the heav Koth Roj .1 that they can locate the launch at the bottom, if weather conditions permit, and that its discovery will Meld at least some of the bodies being searched for. Relatives of those ni.insmg have furnished Gould with excellent descriptions of the lost so that identification will be easy when once the sea gives up the dead'. The almost miraculous way in which a Flaibnsh youth, Hubert Hoggins, of Klu J--luthnsh avenue escaped being a participant in the tragedy became known yesterdav when ho.

asked taht rumors regarding his being missing be set at rest. Muggins t.i oi iitue iiirmsnea violin to have music io l-ine outing. In the afternoon. if w.m in set out tor the party ho tounil that three strings r.n his violin hail been broken. He telephoned 1he -quarters of the Canoe Club and was advised to come just the same after he had repaired damages.

Hepairs occupied Muggins until 7:30. and then he left for the outing, despite the premonition of his m. Muggins, that i'-iiiiiiK was going to happen nnii up uuggins en route and he returned home at 9 clock, telling his mother he had de emed ne would lie too late. Mrs. Hug gins sain yesterday she thanked both ino ii.

it. j. ami the broken violin for saYlhg her son's life, B.R.T. CAR CRUSHES EDITOR Hull iiu'i'iMii hi iioum a munis!) avrnup -hi- lit tfn MiililiriUilH of Ihe llr-rir lyn I't'i'ljfij ypnioriliiy nftf' mi'iii. J.tnx ff fj O'Piui nvdiitp.

n-iir nilfor of tli, NCw Ymk Ani'Tji-mi. wiik siifi-7'(l lii'lwi't'ii tin. aj t), ami on- nf jhc inm imIIhin aiijulniner Hip mr tiii'-Hs. Iu Mn tin of the Vttliinti-cr JIi.pit,il, win) MUTiiiiMiii fnmtfi Mr, (JlniiHt ii rp. -i-iv( cntiislt-tiK nf Hip lurk.

Up was tiikt'n tti tli In is ii l.i I inprirui; lut Iattr jr If ft il liih li in hiviii io (ti rriili.ii. -jh yi-nr iUl. a riveter, nf 4t Wrs 'I'MlitU-tli iHtii-i-t, Mtinliiittun. lit.ii lft Jaw fractund whtu hnmiin'r in the Iiuii'Ih (rw.iiv -14 Oiikltiml Htrtct, (1 ff tit 1 1 ii Mr wlillc tlit itHMi wi-rv at woi on a it ant timk nt Kr lit tivfiuic hikI N'nrtli Hr ft itliiy nfh Tit- wnrt takco to Uiu WHIiaiiihLurij liojUai lor treatuienu i liritish Xe'ar Moory. At Hihueourt the boehe is des.

perately trying to hold up the advance of the British by fighting from the ruins of a large sugar factory. The British are fighting in the vicinity of Jlory and are pushing forward east of the Arras-Bapaume road as well as at St. Leger, just to the northward. The area behind the German lines "NEW" ARMY MEN CONVALESCE WHERE ROYALTY RESORTED Big Anglo-American Hospital at Famous French Watering Place Has Every Comfort. (Correspondence of the Asssoclated Press.) Headquarters American Troops with the British Forces in France, July 15 Some of the "new" army men who have fallen ill or met with accident in France are convalescing in bracing air that cost seaside visitors from $5.

to (20 per, day each before the war. They are living in a place that was once the favorite resort of royalty, where a new mixed Anglo-American hospital town of 2,000 beds has sprung up on a high and dry promontory facing the sea and overlooking a handsome bay, a popular bathing beach and a little port into which picturesque fishing smacks bring mackerel every day to be sold at aiietipn on, the quay. William Shorthoso, son of William the Conqueror, brought the port into history by. using it for the embarkation of the forces with which he tried in vain to wrest the throne of England from his brother, William Rufus. It would gratify all the home friends of these American hoys to see how they are being cared for, and how they begin to thrive as soon as their passing ills are conquered.

Tho American part of this hospital was originally a Philadelphia enterprise with Philadelphia surgeons and Philadelphia nurses, many of whom are still there. The Hritish predominate largely among the patients. The small proportion of American cases are mostly ills such as. mumps, measles with a few cases of diphtheria, principally contagious diseases contracted coming over. There are some that prove that a young man who has been engaged in professional or clerical occupations, unaccustomed to heavy work long physical strain, may not through simple training become able to carry a load of sixty to seventy pounds on his back over distances that troops are obliged to cover.

They have developed hernia under the strain. The number of these cases of rupture Is not sufficient to cause alarm, but it is enough to emphasize the necessity of careful selection of young men who are not hardened to toil before they are incorporated in the Army. The hospitalized men arc few in proportion to the size of the units from which they come, and the sur-at home. 9Jii uaAiH 3jc Xaqj ajno pun sauipiinoj of a character reassuring to the folks AIRPLANE FALLS; KILLS MAJOR REAM Lieut. Benner of "Flying Circus" Is Also Badly Injured at Effingham, III.

St. Louis, August 24 Major William R. Ream of San Diego, flight surgeon of tho Hritish-American "Flying Circus," which started early today from Indianapolis to St. Louis, was killed when an airplane piloted by Lieutenant Wesley Benner of Me-tuchen, X. fell 150 feet at Ellington, at 10 a.m.

Lieutenant Benner suffered a compound fracture of a leg and internal Injuries. His condition is reported serious. Other airplanes of the squadron are reported to have landed safely near Ellingnam, 101 miles east of St. Louis, After the accident, attempts to reach St. Louis today were abandoned.

According to Information received here Lieutenant Ilenner was approaching a iHiiding in a corn field, one mile out of Elllngham when his engine apparently stalled and IiIh plane did a nose dive to earth. It was reported the Mier ran into a severe rain and wind storm which caused Lieutenant Benner to attempt to land. Two machines pre-viously had made a safe landing In the Held, Four machines landed safely just outside of Marshall, about forty miles west, of Torre Haute, and one landed at Martinsville, 111.. Major Beams' death was the second since the mission started on tour of Middle-Western eiticR. Captain James Fitz Morris of the British flying corps was 1 illed the first day, Au'tust 14, just outside of Cincinnati.

Major Keamn wns 42 years old, served on the Mexican border and until bis assignment on this flying tour was at a flying Held near San Uiego, Cal. TOO I.OM "Look here, now, Harold," snld father to his little son, who was naughty, "if you don't say your prayers you won't go to heaven." "I don't want to fro to heaven," sobbed the boy, "I want to go with you and mother." Pearson's. FRENCH ASTOUNDED BY YANKS IN BATTLE 'We Came to Fight, Not to Wait," Say Americans, Who Started for Berlin. First Sergeant Eugene Halpin of 126 Twelfth street. Long Island City, who returned home from the front, where he has seen the stiffest kind of service with Company 165th Infantry, this past week, Is busy confirming rumors and semi-authentic information sent to Long Island City families who have boys on the firing line.

Halpin and a dozen other men from the front are now detailed at Camp Merritt, N. and expect to play an important part in the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign. Mr. and Mrs. Jomes A.

Gordon of 45 Sherman street, Long Island City, learned definitely from Sergeant Halpin, that their eldest son, Edward, was killed in action on August 2. Tho only word they had received before that was a report of Edward's death, sent by a friend. There has' been no notice from the Government. Gorman was killed by a shell wound. In the chest.

Emmctt Gordon, his brother, was wounded in the same battle and is now in the hospital. William Gordon, a cousin of the boys, who made his home with them, and enlisted with Edward and Emmett, was in the hospital at tho time of this battle suffering from trench fever. Sergeant Halpin also brought back the information that Wardwell Dexter, son of Mr. nnd Mrs. William Dexter of Xott and Ely avenues, had been awarded the Distinguished Serv ice Cross for carrying dispatches un- der a heavy barrage fire.

"We had taken a trench," said Ser- geant Halpin. "1 do not know which one. but the newspaper said we were fighting around Chateau Thierry, when the Germans tried their old game. They laid down a tremendous barrage and with neavy reimorce-ments were preparing to counter attack. It was die, retreat, or reinforcements for us.

We did not want to die, we would not retreat, so wo sent for reinforcements. The telephone was out of order, so we sent one man. Later we sent another. Finally Dexter started out. lie found the other two men on the way and later we buried them where they lay.

He won his way to the reserves. When asured of the reinforcements. Dexter back to tell officer that reinforcements were on the way. We held that trench." Edward I'nger, former sexton of' St. Mary's Church, Long isianu i uy, got more than his share, said the.Sei-geant for while he was lying in a hospital after being gassed an airplane flying low.

dropped a bomb on the hospital, which blew off his toes. Five wounded soldiers were killed by that bomb. The Frenchmen do not know what to make of the Americans," said Sergeant Halpin. They say all the time, Wait, but the Americans reply Wait. Hell.

We came here to We had a Frenchman along with us once when wo started for a German trench, and after passing ivfew ditches and traveling a long distance, Major Hill Donovan turned and asked the Frenchman where the trench was. the Frenchman said, 'the trench is five miles behind. I think you go to all the way. Very good. I ilke to go "That is the spirit of the Americans and of their olllcers.

The otlieers are the gamest of game men. They lead their men. Their order, if order it can be called, is 'Come on, boys, let's Corporal John Duffy of Vernon avenue, vnili has been awarded the War Cross, is noted as the best "Hun Getter" because ho has killed more Geramns than any man in his company. During Sergeant Halpin absence, histirothor, Thomas Halpin, formerly mess sergeant in tho same company, Is filling his place CRIPPLED GIRL GIVES WAR SONG TO K. OF C.

"My both limbs lire paralyzed and useless. Ihe result of an iiltaek of infantile paralvsis yenrs ago, hut I want to aid the American boys fighting In Franco and on tho high seas. Therefore. 1 have composed the music uf a patriotic song, the exclusive rights of which I give to the Knights of Columbus that, you may sell copies to swell your War Camp Activities Fund for the boys 'over tnerc' and here." Eighteen-year-old Marie n. Dan nie ot ourieenin su-eei, rorj eleven years a sufferer from this-allllction, smt this llrnoklyn letter to Edward H.

Goate, director of the; Knights of Columbus Coney Island week celebration. i Accompanying 'he letter were inoj cofiies of her song, "They Are Fight-' lng for Liberty," and release clause, giving to the Knights of Columbus I War Camp Activities Fund all of tho royalties that niUrtit accruo to her. is jammed with men and transports, indicating confusion, while south of Bapaume the Germans seem to be I Topping's Hrotlier Is Good Golfer, throwing more troops. I It is not generally known that Kiite-nte Airmen Work Havoc. Henry J.

Topping, tho Greenw ich Never before have the Entente air- and "ne planes had such ground targets. A nnt'st in the metropolitan dis-iarge number of planes are swooping hli a toother who is also a over the roads, emptying their ma- Ktfr, though not up to H. .1. chine guns and cargoes of bombs into ihe ene-mv masses. Humming the rmi.h with dead and wree-kage and causing the greatest confusion.

The Allied aviators emptied their guns anel dropped their bombs as fast as they could and returned time and apain for more ammunition. The British armies continued smashing through the Germans thin morning all along the battle line, Hray-Hur-Somtne was reported in British hands after heavy fighting. The British pressed eastward of this place and are well beyond Happy Valley. Hecordel-Becourt is reported captured and the tlritish are said to have reached the hiph pround southwest of Fricout, whore the Germans have launched a heavy countor-attack. No Timr to Count Captuml (inns.

To say nothing of the p-rrat number of wounded Germans in British hospitals, several thousand have passed through the prisoner ramps of Gen. Byng's third army alone. There has been no effort and no time to count the number of Runs captured. British airplanes haw just dropped a larpe number of bombs on Thillcy, southwest of Bapaume, whore tho enemy had massed a larpe nunibrr of troops and much material. The French ItcKrt.

Paris, August 24 The American i I 1 1 I Some Experts Believe Decisive Battle Is Near (liy the Assorhitill l'ress.) London, August 24 The ultimate aim of the strategic ilan which Marshal Foeh is working out In the present series of battles is the subject of much speculation both in London and 1'aris. Broadly, the military experts are divided into two camps. Porno believe that Marshal Foeh is striking a number of hammer blows with the object of weakening the enemy numerically, and an regards positions and morale, preparatory to a decisive blow nt some absolutely vital spot. Others think that tit present the nonoralissimo is endeavoring to disorganize what is really a great fb-r-man retreat or intention to retreat on large sectors, being conrcnt to reap the rich fruits of this disorganization in the shape of big hauls of prisoners.