Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 99, 7 March 1918 — Page 1

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TRENCH RAIDS INCREASE ON ALL SECTORS IN FRANCE

SOUVENIRS OF NO MAN'S LAND SHOW HOW GERMANS SAW HIM

Eadie Believed to Have Been Officer Who Led Fight on Hans in No Man's Land

German Advance into Russia Suspended and Thrusts

Are Made from to the Vosges.

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FRENCH REPULSE HUNS

WASHINGTON', March 7. Ambassador Frances, leporting to the state department under date of March 4, said fe was temporarily quartered with the Siamese and Brazilian diplomats in a club house placed at their disposal by the mayor of Vologda. He added that a few of the Red Cross and publicity workers were still in Petrograd. (By Associated Press) With the cessation of the German advance Into Russia, military operations In the European war fields are again confined to trench raids, artillery bombardments and corollary aerial activities. New Raiding Tactics. Both sides are almost equally active in the newly developed raiding tactics,; in which the artillery arm is freely

employed by way of preparation and support. The German raiders, however, were somewhat more aggressive than usual during the last 36 hours, according to the indications in the official reports which reveal thrusts by German troops virtually all along the line from Flanders to the Vosges. The artillery fighting along the French lines centered chiefly in the Verdun region where it was accompanied by raids which the French re

pulsed. Bombardments also have o:v cussed at various points in Lorraine, but there is no mention of the American sectors In this district having been further driven at by the German infantry. The German ad rice Into Russia was suspended on Tuesday, Petrograd dispatches declare, and its resumption on Wednesday appears to have been only t.o accomplish the consolidation of the German line delineated in the peace treaty along the Esthonian and Livonian borders. French Repulse Raid. German raids on the Verdun front last night were repulsed by the French, the war office announces. The communication follows: "Rather heavy artillery fighting occurred in the regions of Cormicy and Rheims. Last night the Germans made raids against our trenches at

Avacourt wod and northwest of Hill 3 44 (Verdun front.) Our fire everywhere checked the assailants and prisoners, including an officer, remained in our hands. 'Our lines were bombarded intermittently today in the region of Avocourt and north of Douaumont. At times there was heavy artillery firing at various points in Lorraine and Alsace. "On Tuesday three German airplanes were brought down by our pilots and two by the fire of our antiaircraft guns. "Macedonian front There was reelprocal artillery activity west of Lake Doiran In the Coma Bend and north of Monastir."

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TILTON, N. H., March 7. Lieut. Harold F. Eadie of this town is thought to have been the officer who lost his life when he led his men into No Man's Land on March 1, to trap a German raiding party returning from an unsuccessful attack on American trenches, according to confidential information received by his father, James E. Eadie. One of the survivors

of the company told a correspondent of The Associated Press of seeing "the captain" kneeling "beside a spitting machine gun, blazing away at

the Germans with his automatic pistol," and falling with a bullet in bis

chest. Eadie's father thinks the lieutenant was acting in command of his company.

Lieutenant Eadie's death was re

ported by G?neral Pershing, who did not, however, identify him as the "captain," mentioned.

Who Wouldn't Come When This Little Charmer Sent Radio Calls for Help?

That gas masks hold high place

among the war souvenirs of the men back from No Man's Land is well explained by the photographs made when Major A. W. Owen found his own old gas masks in the hands of a friend and tried them on again. The days of Ku Klux clans were recalled by the grim pictures that resulted. Major Owen, officer commanding western division of the British-Can

adian Recruiting Mission, was asked

show for the grim side of the war and disregard for its horrors "It is time to go," said one man, John Payne of

Milwaukee, who made careful provi-1 ducci

sion for his wife and four children and presented himself "to do his bit." The gas mask has assumed the importance of the daily rations in this war, recruits are told. On active service, a soldier carries both masks so

FREE RUSSIA

IS ENCIRCLED

PETROGRAD. Wednesday, March 6. To a gathering of workmen's and soldiers' delegates at Moscow on Monday, M. Prokroveky, leader of the second peace delegation at Brest Litovsk, explained the treaty with the central powers. Deeply moved, he begged those in sympathy with the democratic revolution not to deceive themselves. The new frontiers traced by Germany, M. Prokrovsky declared, constitute a ring of iron around revolutionary Russia. He said the Germans were endeavoring to stifle the revolution, the conquests of which were re-

to nothing by the economic

demands of Berlin.

The decree nationalizing the banks had fallen into abeyance because the German terms had the effect of converting the banks into German concerns. Military evacuation by Russia

iy r. J. Wall of the Canadian Pacific slow work, according to the Major, Railway, to explain the Intricacies of (Slipping the hood over his head in a

that if either be damaged there is i of Esthonia, Courland and Livonia gave still one left. It takes ten seconds to j the enemy full authority in these

put on the helmet; fifteen seconds is

his two souvenir masks "from France." To Interest some new recruits, Major Owen undertook to do so and discovered two old comrades of trench raids his own masks. Now he knows how he looked to the Germans. Many of the officers of recruiting depots have souvenirs from gas masks to saw-tooth bayonets and remnants of aeroplanes. The temper of the recruits is shown in the zest they

twinkling

The P-H helmet is a cloth hood with goggles, saturated in chemical compounds which absorbs and transforms the deadly gas as the soldier breathes it through the cloth. He exhales through a compressed rubber tube. With the box respirator, however, he draws the air througn a box containing charcoal and other purifying chem

icals which absorb the poison,

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THIRD FORCE OF AMERICANS NOW FACING THE GERMANS

Enemy Repulsed with Losses When Raid Is Made on New American Sector.

MRS. MYRTLE R. HAZARD

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grad council of worTtmen s and soldiers, gf t t d wh ,g t But of conrse one doesn.t see the

delegates; M. Sverdloff and others from Petrograd addressed the conference. They said the Russian representatives were obliged to sign the peace agreement as a tactical measure owing to the situation brought about by Ukraine in agreeing to ignominious peace terms. The meeting adopted no resolution.

sender of radio messages from ships in distress.

few radio operators in the government service.

Mrs. Hazard is one of the

Civic Bodies Ask County to Pave Streets to Retain Natco Plant

26 Benedicts Accepted, 12 Rejected for Army

Twenty-six men who were examined by the army medical board here Wednesday afternoon passed and twelve were rejected. The men were recently married men who were placed in Class One by the District board. Those who

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Hugh R. Foss, William L. Taylor.

Petitions asking the county commis

sioners for permanent improvement of South Eighth and South Ninth streets, under the three mile road law, were signed today by hundreds of citizens. Committees of the Commercial club and the South Side Improvement association are back of the movement, whose purpose is the retention of factories in the south side, forced to

leave the city unless street improvements are made. The condition of South Eighth street is so deplorable that YV. F. Bockhoff, president of the National Automatic Tool Works, informed a joint committee of the two civic societies that he would be forced to move his factory unless improvements are made by next winter. Former attempts to remedy the transportation problem under the three mile road law were frustrated by remonstrances. The petition in circula-

of the Boston pike, a distance of one and three-tenths miles. The improvements are not of such magnitude that they will entail a large expense on Wayne township which will bear the cost under the provisions of the law. The Natco has had several offers

to leave Richmond, cne of them from Plattsburg, N. V.

FIREMEN DEMAND WAGE INCREASE

PERSHING TO "AMERICANIZE" SECTOR ON FRENCH FRONT

Threatened to Kill Every One in House, Including Gold Fish Gets Sentence Charles Price, lineman, 414 Main street, was afraigned in police court Thursday morning to answer to two charges, one for being drunk and a second for assault and battery. Mayor Zimmerman gave him $1 and costs

tion today has the endorsement of the; on each charge including thirty days

commercial and industrial leaders of the city. Payroll of $20,C00.

The Natco employs between 250 and

in the penal farm in the second. Price was arrested Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Officer Davis.

i 300 men, with a monthly pay roll of! His wife who a.DDeared against him

I mlttee that he was anxious to stay in

but would not tolerate in-

j adequate transportation facilities. He

had suffered under this handicap for

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Walter Burkliardt, Elmer Young, Jesse nf,tifinn nro-

Paving of South Eighth street, be-

j ginning at the intersection of South

H street, continuing to the intersection

Beals. Walter Pohlentz. Fred A. Seikel,

Flovd Lamb, Harry R. Brown, Howard

J. Elstro. Forrest Davis. Frank I. Hale,

Raymond G. Stemple. Carl Russell Elliott and Homer W. Ramsey. Those rejected were; Walter R. Whetsel. George O'Brien, Melvin O. Ramsey, Karl Kinley, Edward Wolfer. Walter Rigga. Harry Morgan. Pan! Hietry, Dale F. Martin. Robert H. j Wiechman. Vernon Horn, Walter El- j stro.

of South Eighth an4 O streets, thence east to the intersection of South Ninth street, a distance of seven-tenths of a mile. Paving of South Ninth street, beginning at the intersection of South E street, continuing to the intersection

alleged that he said while intoxicated that he would kill every one in the house "even the gold fish." He strewed the floor with sugar, coffee and other groceries. Mrs. Price had recently been ill and was not fully recovered. The threats of her husband frightened her and she ran out oh the roof where she stayed for sometime without a cloak. Martain Regan, 62 Sherman street, charged with drunk, was fined $100 and costs and given thirty days in the penal farm. Regan was several times arrested for drunk previous to this time and each time was let off because be promised to reform.

WASHINGTON, March 7. Based upon the three line method of trench warfare evolved in France, the war department, it was learned today, ha3 approved a plan of organization which fixes six divisions as the strength of an army corps. Three or more corps will constitute a field army and the immediate purpose of the departnipnt is to complete the organization of the first field army in France in the shortest possible time to give General Pershing the strength to hold a fully "Americanized" sector of the front. The plan leaves to General Pershing the determination of the number of corps and the number of field armies needed and also authorizes him to recommend commanders for the higher units.

By the six division army corps plan

i each corps will occupy a front sector

with two divisions, while two replacement or reinforcement lines of two divisions each will back them up. The effect is to produce the line of depth necessary for the type of warfare now in progress. Feed Third Line. Replacement troops sent from the United States are fed into the war machine in France at the third line. They move forward in regular order as their training progresses and arrive at front line trenches to fill in casulty gaps only when they have been thoroughly seasoned. To fulfill the functions of an army

corps it has been found necessary to

Richmond's fire fighters Thursday mornlng presented a "demand" to the board of works and through the board to the council for an increase in pay from $80 a month to $90 a month. The petition was signed by every fireman in the department. It asked specifically for a twelve and one half percent increase and, as their present pay is $80, the increase would make

their pay $90. The board will present the petition to council without recommendation. William Pippen, a member of the department, appeared before the board and made emphatic protest against the

administration's policy of refusing to appoint the hold-over firement and holding their undated resignations. "I am speaking for all the boys when I say they want to know where they stand right away," said Pippen. Fire Chief Miller explained that several of the firemen have chances to get other jobs and they would like either to be appointed or discharged at once. "The board will get at that when it gets some other matters straightened out but you can't force the board to take action," said Mayor Zimmerman. "There has been some trouble In the fire department and we're going to hold those resignations." The board placed the street depart

ment under the general oversight of i place under a corps commander, in

the city engineer ana awarded a contract for supplying the city's 1918 crushed stone supply to the Rheinheimer quarries of New Paris, O., at their price of $1.10 a ton.

TURN OVER $10,000

WABASH, March 7. Members of the Wabash County Council today appropriated $10,000 to be turned over to the local chapter of the Red Cross to be used in making supplies for soldiers. All members of the council voted for the appropriation.

addition to his six infantry divisions approximately 30.000 men known as corps troops. These comprise artillery units, engineers, and all types of service battalions for worK on the communication lines of their own corps. A similar organization of about 130,000 men is necessary for each field army of three corps. These field army troops maintain the lines from the advance base of the army back to the sources of supply. In the case of General Pershing's forces this line connects with the ocean transport service.

Included in the corps troops are many units of heavy artillery equipped with guns ranging up to 10 and 12 inches in calibre both for fixed emplacement and for mobile artillery. Many Big Guns. This comprises the artillery reserve of the corps. The great general artillery reserve of the field army is under direct command of the army commander and included in his socalled army troops. The organization schedules show that General Pershing is to be equipped eventually with artillery of all calibres on a scale not heretofore dreamed of. The proportion of artillery to army rifles adopted by the war department is greater than that of

either the British or French armies and the tendency of the department is to increase the big guns. Included in the heavy artillery assigned to corps or field army commanders will be whole brigades of antiaircraft guns, mobile howitzers of six. eight, ten and even twelve inch calibre, rifles of similar size including heavy long range naval guns and probably, as soon as they are available, batteries of the monster American 16inch naval rifles recently developed. With this array of guns, enemy depots, twenty miles or more in the rear of his trenches could be kept under bombardment.

Uncle Sam Wants Men for Service With Tanks

Wayne County Chairman Albus of the United States Military Training association has received a request from Major W. H. Allen, Sixty-fifth Engineers to secure a few men for United States Tank Service in France. Men wanted must be expert mechanics, preferably with experience in large type gasoline engines or steam' engines such as machinists with shop experience, railroad locomotives, traction engines, etc.

THE WEATHER

! Dainties Aboard Hun Ships as People at Home Starve

For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and probably Frid:iy. Little change in temperature. Today's Temperature. Noon 17

Maximum Minimum

Yesterday.

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For Wayne Ccunty by W. E. Moore Fair and continued cold tonight. Friday probably increasing cloudiness. General Conditions The cold wave which Is gradually overspreading the central states extends as far south as the thirty-fifth parallel. Snow was peneral but light over the centra! ptates. The temperature has fallen forty-six degrees from Tuesday noon to Thursday morning but the cold wave is slowly breaking up over the west. Temperatures range from zero to twenty below in the region of Lake Superior. The storm over the northwest is already causing rain and snow over part of tha plain states.

! NEW YORK, March 7. Newspapers

jrom owiizenanu, wnicn nave just reached this country, contain interesting articles by Ferdinand Krugelmann, telling of his recent visit to the German fleet, near Kiel. He had an opportunity of observing how a torpedo is fired from a ship, how the wounded are cared for during a battle, and was shown through every part of the warships below decks. "On the evening of the first day," writes Mr. Krugelmann. who is a Swiss journalist, "I was invited to the cabin of the commandant. I had as

my companion and guide the Chaplain

of the ship, and we had a delightful talk. The officers told of their voyages to the far East, and their adventures and experiences In distant countries. In the course of the conversation reference was now and then made by these men to the enemy, but in such tones of admiration that it was a relief, in these times of hate and bitterness, to be In an atmosphere purged of these poisons, and. strange to say, on a battle ship which, after all, is only an instrument of hate.

I "Perhaps these men were so magj nanimous because they had been in

battle, and in terrific battle, and they talked not the idle prattle of landlubbers. Their judgment was based on actual experience and observation. These men of great physical strength and stature, some with beards like those of Neptune, were ready at any moment to face any danger, were as happy and carefree on board the ship as a group of children romping in the park. "After our talk in the cabin I walked on deck for an hour with the Lieutenant, who was on watch. It was a moonless night, and only now and then a star was visible behind the gathering clouds. Not a light was to be seen on the ship or on any of the ships lying near. Only in the passageway there was an occasional electric light, but shaded and dimmed in such a manner that it had a weird and uncanny appearance. The darkness was so intense that I had difficulty in walking about, but presently my eyes became accustomed to it, and I began to see gradually the monster funnels looming

above me, and the masts whose tops were invisible; the big guns looked like ghostly demons threatening death to all within reach. "The Lieutenant talked to me in a lively fashion, explaining various things, and after several turns around the ship he took me below and showed me the quarters of the crew. The men were sleeping in hammocks, and here and there an arm or a leg protruded, so it was not an easy task to go by without bumping against them. What a Breakfast! "The next morning I was awakened early in order to be present at some maneuvers and witness the firing or a torpedo. The barber came to shave me. and then I jumped into my bath, which a smart sailor had prepared for me. This done, I was ready for breakfast, and what a breakfast it was! Bread and rolls such as even Berlin did not have, and all kinds of dainties that were a delight to the palate. It was no easy task for me to leave the breakfast tade and descend the many ladders and stairs to the tor-

i pedo room, in the very depths of the j shiu.

"When I entered the room two of these deadly things were suspended rom the ceiling. They looked to me like miniature Zeppelins. The torpedo that was to be fired stood in fhe cen ter, ready mounted, and was surrounded by several sailors awaiting orders. The officers explained to me that these torpedoes were so costly that in a maneuver of this kind a torpedo boat was in the vicinity to follow the discharged torpedo, and capture it and return it to the ship. I had he opportunity of seeing for the first time the ingenious machinery used to handle these explosics. When all was ready for firing, 1 was taken on deck to observe the torpedo's course after firing. "The torpedo boat, which was to follow the torpedo, was lying near on watch. It had been originally planned that I was to go on board the torpedo boat and take part in the chase, but the sea was too rough to launch a boat, so I took my position with some

offices near the rail just above the spot whre the torpedo was to be discharged. "After a few minutes there was a loud, hi.ssing noise, and suddenly the torpedo was seen gliding through the green water, leaving a fine, distinct white wake. We followed the object with our glasses and then saw the torpedo boat start after it. "In the meantime I was escorted to the hospital of the ship by the doctor It was a large, well-heated room, scrupulously clean, and in it nothing was forgotten. While the doctor showed me through he interspersed his explanations with occasional references to art, music and literature, showing lie was as well informed on these subjects as he was on medicine and surgery. "We returned on dtck just as the torpedo boat came back. It was no easy task to hoist the torpedo back on board the ship in the heavy sea, but finally it lay safely on the deck, ready again for service."

HOLD EIGHT MILES

(By Associated Press) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY iM FRANCE, Wednesday. March 6. AD American staff colonel, while with a French raiding party for the purport of securing Infomatlon a few days bet tore his men took up their position In the new American sector on the Lor raine front, met a Prussian lieutenant in an enemy trench and captured him. The colonel with an American captain brought the Prussian officer back td the lines the Americans are now oc cupying. The German raid in this new sectof occurred on Monday night, a shars fight taking place In which the Gen mans suffered a repulse with losses. In it a unit which was among the most recent arrivals displayed the customary American fighting energy and apparently gave the enemy a much warmer reception than he expected. Third U. S. Force The American troops are training with French troops at the Chemin-de Dames position. This makes the thirj American force now facing the enemy. During several days of the American service here the casualties have been extraordinarily slight as the sector U one of the quietest. The lines are far apart and the position is held by strong points rather than by continue ous trenches. The Prussian lieutenants capture was the first instance of an enemy officer being taken prisoner by the Americans and also the first occasion upon which an American officer had cap tured either an enemy officer or a soldier In this sector. WASHINGTON, March 7. American, troops are now holding something over eight miles of trenches on the battle front Jn France, it was learned today, although In an airline their frontage is only about four and a half miles. This frontage is liable to extension at anytime to the regular trench allotment

for an army corps. Irregularity of the trench line is responsible for their eight miles of length. They are laid out so that flanking fire may be obtained alonic every part of the front. Strong points containing machine guns jut out for this purpose. The trenches also follow closely any protective slope of the country and wander up and downhill. Held by Division. The American sector is understood to be a divisional frontage, which means that at least three divisions of

American troops are there to give the necessary support in depth for the front lineB. This fact has aroused speculation here as to who will be selected by General Pershing to command the first corps of his army. Ma.jGen. Hunter Liggett is known to have acted in that capacity, but as yet the' expeditionary commander has not made any recommendations. It is possible that the French system will be followed in the American army so far as the appointment of corps commanders goes. It is the custom in Prance to select any one of the division commanders in a corps and to place him at the head of the corps. He retains his rank as division commander, however, and in the case of the American army that would be a major general. If the French practice is adopted therefore the grade of lieutenant general may be employed only for field army commanders. General Pershing today reported five privates killed in action, two men severely wounded and fourteen slightly wounded.

Americans Interned in Germany After War Was On AN ATLANTIC PORT, March 7. Due to a better system of food distribution and more rigid control of food supplies by means of ration cards, the last winter in Germany was not so severe on the poor people as was the previous winter, according to Miss Elizabeth McCann, an American, who with her three sisters arrived here today on a Danish steamship. They left Germany last December, she said, after residing in that country for It years, and were on their way to make their home in Philadelphia. "The people are hoping for peace to come soon," Miss McCann said, "I do not believe there will be an uprising of any consequence as long as the war lasts for the Germans apparently have every confidence they will win. We made our home in Hamburg and we were practically interned from the day America entered the war. "The German people know America has joined the other nations against them but they seem to believe what they have been told that enough American soldiers to help the allies to any extent will not be able to cross the Atlantic." -

SCREENS COME DOWN

GOSHEN, March 7. The City Council has adopted an ordinance prohibiting screens or partitions of any character to hide a complete view of the Interior of billiard halls or poolrooms and soft drink establishments.