St. John's Daily Star, 1918-04-22

              bht mk imte lailg mnr volume iv newfoundland monday april 22 1918 price one cent no 90 3.00 per annum americans smash german attack sammies victorious in clash with big hun forces in toul sector no major operations on northern front renewal of german drive against allies expected lull in battle but temporary germans bringing up mcii and artillery and allies solidifying their present positions with the british army in " france april 21.—latent german energy was waiting to be released today at numerous points along the battle zone but up to noon little of it was concentrated on the surface the slowing down of hostilities since the germans suffered such a grievous defeat thursday has repre sented one of those lulls which in evitably must come in any battle there were plenty of signs however that hostilities might be resumed on a big scale at any moment in the meantime the allies with their reinforcements are solidifying lines and waiting complacently for the germans next move the de fenders are extremely satisfied with the outcome of the operations in the past few days not only have they held their lines steadily in the face of furious attacks but they have in flieffed most serious losses on the enemy l&v'as a bit yof a sentimental shock to pull back from the passchendaele system over which the british stand ard was carried in such invincible fashion last summer but the wisdom of the move shows today 1 » « conscriptionist bishop dr ingram declares for new british manpower act london april 22.—the bishop of london yesterday publicly announced hinjself a conscriptionist and said that calling up notifications would be sent to all the clergy in the london dis trict under the new act the principle to be observed being that one priest should be left for each parish he appealed to the church to rally to the national cause without regard to the exemption accorded the clergy and added that he believed other bish ops would adopt the same line â–  » â–  for conscription at a joint meeting of the kirk ses sion and board of management of st andrew's congregation it was unanimously agreed to approve the resolution re selective conscription passed by the general assembly re presenting ah_the presbyterian con gregations of bnttst north ameri r-z at tc merino 4n jl,na t^tw expect new foe thrust in north allies anticipate renewal of german attempts to capture amiens great railway centre by associated press with the british army in " france april 21.—n0 further big enemy attacks developed during the night trouble is still brewing in the northern zone and south of the river somme there are indica tions in the latter region that another mighty thrust for the british supply base of amiens is boiling the germans are nursing their hurts in the region of laßassee canal in a sharp local engagement at rieze di vinarge this morning from the direction of pacaut wood the enemy overran the british outposts but were driven back to the wood in the arras region there was more activity yteterday and last night the british advanced their line slightly in a 1500 yards front ea?t of beaukains and repulsed a coun ter-attack later however the british withdrew to their original po sitions « m t pepper german lines in north twelve tons of bombs dropped on armentieres six foe machines brought down london april 22.—the british of ficial communication dealing with i aviation last night said the weather improved saturday but thick clouds prevented flying at high altitudes twelve tons of bombs were dropped during the day on var ious targets including men in ar mentieres and the thorout railroad junction during the last few days owing to the better weather there has been more air fighting six hostile machines were downed and three others dis abled three of our machines are miss ing . • our night-flying squadrons bomb ed bapaume and enemy billets and he roads leading to the front hostile railway junctions were also attacked at chaulnes where a large fire was caused at juneville twenty miles northeast of rheims and at bethen ville all our machines returned tells of german plot to embroil the dutch berlin planning to force holland tb participate in the war/by making big demands of the dutch london april 22.—according to the telegraph's rotterdam cor respondent a plot is being hatched in berlin deliberately designed to compel holland to participate in the wat holland he says may be faced in the course of the next few weeks perhaps days with the most serious perils she has encountered since the outbreak of hostilities the facts have not yet been made public and cannot be stated but the correspondent had reason to believe that the germaif government has already made or is about to make demands which if pressed would force the netherlands to enter the wat on one side or the other the writer intimates that the ger mans first move has been made to attempt to find a pretext for com pjaint that holland departed from neutrality by acquiescing in the en tente's demand for her mercantile fleet enemy repulsed by u s a troops tentoh assaults in the tool sector are defeated paris april 21—fighting between franco-american troops and german forces in the vicinity of secheprey northwest of toul where the ger mans yesterday launched a strong at tack against the french and amer ican positions continued throughout the night the war office statement issued this afternoon says the french recovered nearly all the ground over run by the germans the.american troops fighting in this sector repulsed the teutonic as saults on their line oporto market the fisheries department has re ceived a cablegram from oporto that the price of fish is 68 to 70 shillings for larp and 62 to 65 for small there is poor demand at the present moment battle halted but not ended struggle in lys valley probably only suspend ed while foe recon structs shattered forces daris april 21 via reuters ot tawa agency the following semi-official note was issued last evening the forty-eighth hour lull in the struggle along the anglo-french fronts most probably marks a suspen sion rather than the end of the bat tle of lys the germans must re construct their shattered divisions after their bloody defeat by the brit ish before mont kemmel and st venant on the givenchy front but they have engaged themselves too deeply in the salient north of the laßassee canal not to persevere in their attempts since the offensive is always more costly for the assailants than for the defenders and if as there is every reason to believe now the very severe battles which must be ex pected do not bring a decision which is necessary to the germans then their offensive power will inevitably decrease french opinion therefore waits the course of events coolly and most confidently the future presents for the brit ish more favorable conditions than the first phase of the great enemy offensive which nevertheless ended in failure of the german plan to drive again at armentieres germans expected to re new massed attacks in north—glorious record of british defence london april 21 via reuters ottawa agency telegraphing from british headquarters in france last evening reuters correspondent says captured maps prove that when the enemy broke off his attack south of arras to develop his unexpected success at armentieres he calculated on breaking through but he has been held now for almost a week he will probably try assaulting chosen posi tions with masses of men and guns the evidence is that the chain of hillocks running from mont kemme will be successfully attacked the enemy may revert to his original plan of separating the anglo-french arm ies but it is no longer possible for him to rush the channel ports pris oners admit the task set them when the offensive was launched has been cnuch more bitter than they imagined the fighting of the past week has indeed been glorious the valor and tenacity of the indomitable british troops has been unsurpassed and only numerical superiority yielded the enemy the slightest success the thin khaki line of a week ago which is now variegated with blue | french uniforms and which will op pose the enemy will much less likely yield to any sudden stupendous thrust british warships drive huns behind minefields german bquadron refused to come to grips with british and hustled away eastward j^ondon april 21.—british1 and german light forces clashed on saturday in the waters east of the great german fortress of heligoland the british admiralty announced to night after the exchange of a few olws a t ; r>na range the german war ships took refuge behind their mine heius ihe admiralty announcement says british light forces operating in heligoland bight saturday obtained touch with enemy light forces who retired behind the mine fields a few shots were exchanged at an extreme range one enemy destroyer was observed to be hit all our ships returned without casualties premier's son enlists goes overseas in charge of tank corps from quebec quebec april 22.—lieut houl gouin son of sir lomier gouin is in charge of quebec detachments of re cruits for the royal canadian corps and it is expected they will leave for overseas very shortly herre belley aged 17 and andrew belley 19 sons of l c belley ad vocate of this city enlisted with this corps last week this patriotic french-canadian family now has three members in the service an elder brother being over there with the royal flying corps for some time drove back germans british recapture advance potts near bethune london april 22.—the british troops near robecq northwest of bethune today drove out the ger mans from some of their advanced positions according to reid marshal haig's statement issued by the war office aside from artillery l engage ments thete was kttle other activity along the front sunday munitioneers thanked by king more serviceable guns in field now than when germans launched drive against allied lines ondon april 21—the minister of munitions has received the king's command to convey to the officials of the ministry to the employers and to the munitions workers throughout the country both men and women his majesty's high approval of the exer tions made during,this critical time and his satisfaction at the remarkable results achieved the king has learned from the mil itary authorities that practically all the losses and expenditure during the battle have already been made good without any undue depletion of the r l reserv out of resources which have been held in readiness and by the additional effort which has been made there are now actually more ser viceable guns machine guns and aeroplanes with the british armies in the field than there were on trre eve of the german attacks other sup plies of all kinds are forthcoming in abundance minor enterprises british advance line slightly and take few prisoners london april 20.â���”there was no fighting of great importance on the british front today according to field marshal haig's report from head quarters tonight successful minor enterprises were carried out by us this morning south of the scarpe river we advanced our line slightly and captured thirty-seven prisoners and three machine guns the hostile artillery has been ac tive in the neighborhood of ay«tte and south of labassee canal ' * ,' the hottest region on eartitsfe along the persian gulf ...... ~ - gas shells are used to strafe foe lines canadians catty out ter rific bombardment of german petitions in re gion of lengfc pepper tllfc huns with explosives twelve hund drums of deadly gasi^ire project ed against seines held by germans fanadian headquarters in ** france via london by w w allison special correspondent of the canadian press)-rß>uring the past ten hours the canadran's have carried oat the biggest ccfrnbined projector gas and shell bombardments in the history of the west iforqnt from early last night till early this morning our heavies and howitzers rained shells upon the hostile battle positions and used lethat gas arid lachrymatory jas and high explosives while at 2 o'clock a.m today 1200 drums of lethal gas were hurled against the enemy trenches and support areas in an intensive concentrated bombard ment of the lens area immediately north of lens bom-1 bardment followed bombardment atj greater and lesser intervals in a scien [ tide carefully and thorough program | ot destruction to silence the enemy guns and kill the gun crews or make the operations of their batteries lm the success of the bombardment was early seen in the lessening of the enemy fire while some estimate of the damage caused may be seen from a similar enterprise on april bth in which 22 of 32 of the enemy batter ies were put out of action and have t not since fired a shot strong german attack beaten foe driven back in as saults on positions held by american soldiers in the sector at toul with the american army in " france april 20 â��” twelve hundred german storm troops the largest number ever concentrated against the american troops for an offensive operation were hurled against the american positions on a mile front west of renneres forest northwest of toul today after a terrific bombardment of gas and high explosive shells the enemy succeeded in penetrat ing the front line of trenches and taking the village of seicheprey but after furious hand to hand fighting which was still going on at nightfall the americans recaptured the lage and most of the ground lost in the early fighting three germans were taken prisoners german airplanes flying at a low altitude attempted to disorganise the i american fighting men but two en i emy aviators were brought down and j the others driven off the germans [ suffered heavy casualties and the . american line remained virtually in tact slight british gains lines are advanced thro local op erations on major fronts london april 22.—the british ad vanced their lines slightly last night in local operations on both of the principal battle fronts the war office announces certain liveliness displayed by naval forces in north sea british squadron of light warships operates un der heligoland and clashes with huns americans'beat . back foe attack belgium overflowing with german wounded cas ualties of great attacks on lines of entente london april 22.—the german high command having been un successful in piercing the british front in flanders and in separating the british and french armies es sayed a stroke against the americans and french>northwest of toul and here also seemingly failed utterljr to bring its plans to fruition al though the germans attacked in waves y«ilh greatly superior numbers ] of men the americans and french • men have held all their positions and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy what gains were made in the initial onslaught have been , entirely re trieved and sunday night saw the j american and french lines restored the latest berlin official report as rerts that in the drive 183 americans " were taken prisoners and 25 machina guiis were captured by the germans who cut their way for a mile and a : quarter ir.io the american lines at siechcprey there has been no con j firrrration of this report or of the 1 added claims that the americans *<] sustained heavy casualties it seems j evident however that the fight was j bitter and that it was the ambition j of the better-trained germans to ! crush the americans everything the enemy had in stock was brought into play in the fighting which last ' ed from saturday well into sunday shells of all calibres including gas missiles were used prodigiously but the americans notwithstanding these and the greatly superior forces ar rayed against them fought tenacious ly and gave ground by inches and then only when they had exacted a tremendous payment for in germans killed and wounded enemy repulsed although the enemy was able fcoi reach the shell torn village of sieche ; prey the americans rallied and in bloody hand-to-hand fighting re j versed the situation and regained the i town likewise all the terrain i which the french in this region were i forced to give up temporarily has { now been retaken the german official in what is § seemingly a half-hearted report says . i that the attack was repulsed and the 3 americans lost what they gained it j also says the germans after the de j struction of enemy works returned fj to their lines of departure just what the germans are plan j ning for the future on the long lino i northward from laßassee to ypres | where they have met during the past i week wkh a stone wall resistance has i not yet become apparent nowhere i have they thrown down the gaunt j let and offered further battle against 1 the staunch line that is facing them i they have however in many sec § tors rarried out violent bombard 1 ments but in those they have beea f answered shot for • shot drove back enemy i the only fighting in which infantry 1 of either side left their trenche was 1 near robecq northwest of laßassee j whe f 3 field marshal haig's men °| threw out the enemy from several i advanced positions the losses the germans have sus a tamed in the new offensive daily 1 are becoming more apparent in j addition to the reports of the num a bers of dead which strew the battia field advices from berlin through , | holland sources are to the effect i that hospitals monasteries convents j and e.dhools in belgium are ued to 1 overflowing with wounded and tha.t even private homes are being re j quisitioned for use for hospitals cattle cars in which hay is placed for bedding are being used to trans | appeals for help nfld regiment needs re inforcements at once to make good casualties of recent heavy fight ing the militia department has received the following appeal from the officer com manding the second new foundland battalion y'haye received urgent appeal for strong reinforce ment of ist battalion to re place casualties in recent heavy fighting unable to meet demand absolutely imperative to maintain im mediate and continued drafts of recruits 1 m • say the enemy shall not pass vrench press unanimous in optimism over result of any blow huns may deliver daris april 21.—the great ger man offensive on the western front has now been going on for a full month and the french press is unaniraous in its optimistic attitude the temps says the formidable assaults which for a month past hindenburg has thrown against the british army have not succeeded in breaking our allies resistance they have given ground but germany's soldiers al ways find confronting them ' lines which may have been bent but have not been broken after a month's operations the enemy with the bat tlefields everywhere strewn with bodies of his soldiers is compelled to abandon the attacks the intransigeant says the struggle is entering its second month calm reigns the third attack is be ing prepared perhaps as tremendous as the previous two but our optimism is reasoned-dnd justified they shail not pass lieut.-col roussell in the liber te says where will the enemy strike now all the roads leading to the objectives desired are ba-rred the essential thing is not to waste precious reserves which may turn the tide at any moment earthquake fatality man trampled to death in panic due to serere quake at santa monica los angeles april 22.—a severe earthquake of approximately 20 seconds duration * shook the entire southern portion of california at 3.30 pjb today dozens of plate glass windows in los angeles stores were broken and many women were injured in a panic in a theatre the damage was quite extensive one fatality was reported a man trampled to death in the rush of a crowd on the municipal pier at santa monica at rose blanche and vicinity fish ery prospects continue good the boats getting from three to five quin tals daily when weather permits go ing on the grounds several of the schooners which were fishing at rose blanche have lately gon-e to codroy i «» » a case of smallpox was reported from cookstown road yesterday and a case o fdiphtheria from waterford bridge the former patient was re moved to the signal hill hospital and the latter the fever hospital continued on page a y 9 n . for'all we have and are * . * by rudyard kipling " tv for all we have and are * . for all our children's fate stand up and meet the war * the hun is at the gate * * our world has passed away * ' • in wantonness o'erthrown . ' . n there is nothing left today * but steel and fire and stone "" though all we knew depart the old commandments stand in courage keep your heart * . . in-strength lift up your hand once more we hear the word that sickened earth of old no law except the sword unsheathed and uncontrolled once more it knits mankind once more the nations go , to meet and break and bind * a crazed and driven foe . i * comfort content delight * the ages slow-bought gain "* they shrivelled in a night "" only ourselves remain to face the naked days "" in silent fortitude • "*â–  through perils and dismays renewed and re-renewed though all we made depaifc p the old commandments stind in patience keep your heart * * in strength lift up hand "* * \, i no easy hopes or lies v j shall bring us to our goalx but iron sacrifice * of body will and soul * there is but one task for all — ' for each one life to give * who stands if freedom fall * who dies if england live this space donated to royal newfoundland regiment by bowering bros ltd