DAY, MARCH 26, 1917
tor, “Palms" and "The
Chord," $1.00, and “Holy
be Evan Williams, $1.50.
Hear Them Both.
E ‘ NNEL oY’S
‘C South Main Street
iodow Draperies
mplete Assortment In
@d'Swiss, Serious and Mad-
»in white, cream and cent.
in K. BANKS
acuemo Hotel Block
South Nnrmal‘k
q
Now
"it the Time to Consider
JRepa‘pering Your Home
"USE PIWNHWNG
Stimates Cheerfully Given
5 Call its—Phone 1446
"J; A. RUBBER
50, Main St. So. Norwalk.
{lira/pier, No. 24, ll. A. 31.. will be
All Wednesday evening,
special meeting oi the Norwalk
1 b will be held tonight. Mul‘eh
30 o‘clock in the court room,
. All members are requested
Bout.
____._____.
. '.conveying the llarnum &
'rcus equipment passed
is city Saturday afternoon,
full of interest to those who
rd automobile hearing Connec-
oense No. 4.“ was stolen in
, rt; last evening. The machine
mil to Tracey .\Iel.ettn. ot‘ Lit
to street, Bridgeport.
it'll reported yestordit)’, that a
yoke had met with a serious no-
at the foot of Westport Avenue
The report, however, could not
rifled. '
Central Fire I'lepurtnu-nt wits
out Sunday afternoon git 3
(5 .light a grass fire in the vi-
ot lower Ely avenue. The tire.
v‘lily subdued.
automobile coming down the
.1: Avenue hill, yesterday after-
‘rnn up on the sidewalk and
"into the stone wall, but es-
damaged. No one in the ma—
ns injured.
downtown police received a
hint. that an unknown party
ties at the Grand Union hotel
The police are ittt'cstignt.
would seem that someone lltltl
go against. the pmprietor of the
, for this very same fitt'. \\ .1: ac-
‘hed last week.
Public Utilities Commission is
to. hearing at, the City Hall, this
n, on the matter of stepping
O'clock train from Dttllblll‘y at
mlk station. The commission
‘to be of greatest service to
has altered the usual proud
(I is holding the meetings here
13 Hartford. All those inter-
‘tbe hearing are present. Cor-
COunsel E. M. LockWood and
Edward J. Quinlan are con-
u‘the hearing for the petition-
m M
ET A KODAK BANK—
YOUn DIMES FOR A
.‘CAMERA
souffo;.vefl-Corporatiou
Galifllecord;
~ Camp, 1'. S. W. V.,- to be held in
'Your Next Step
,your money ladder is within your reach. Will it be up-
or down? Each time you spend—spend wisely or spend
r all. Sumo you deposit at the South No’rwalk Saving:
molmyrufomdrady at your command—cud
are «ruling compound interest. Watch your ‘
fl Savings M» ‘
purchased a Cadillac cabriolet.
t The guests of honor were Mr. and
Idlt‘s. Herbert J. Rayfuse. '
t
' Norman Cambodian, of 118 East
KL’lth street, New York city, was quite
severely cut about the face and head
tSaturday night, as the result of a fall
It‘ront his motorcycle, on Westport
Javenue Hill. The. man was taken to
‘the Norwalk hospital, by a passing au-
‘toist, and his injuries were dressed.
i
E
l it was reported about town this
interning that a movement was no foot
.‘to raise an. infantry company in this
geity. Captain Mossntttn, of the Sixth
Company. C. A. t‘.. expressed no
knowledge of the attempted organiza-
iticn of such at company. but .m the
jcontrary expressed :m «pinion that
jsuclt a company could no: t. :tned
t
he
The Nortt‘allr-Blue Ribbon t: t.» p“ -
posed for Daltbury this Friday t-R’t'lt
ing seems to be practically an ilr‘ultLV
thing. it is understood that 'li
llunbury state. armory cannot he s.-
cured. that the game will be played in
Seifert's old lU‘lIlOl‘y. it is said that,
ltnubttry basket ball thus are wild with
enthusiasm over the contest and that
they will be out for Norwttllt in full
' tort-e.
The local police are working: hard at
:the present time trying to get in all ol’
1the census blanks. Up to the present
titne the police have gone out after the
delinquent people whose names are in
their possession, but in the near future
it s expected that these lute ones will
receive notice to appear at the police
sttttimt and fill out the blanks. Every-
one who has not yet filled out one of
these blanks should make an effort to
do so as soon as possible.
The committee
Masquerade ' Bull
in charge of the
of Wm. McKinley
the
Artnot'y,- Easter Monday. April 9th,}
are cotttplxetin: arrangements. $1.5 in
cash prizes will be divided among the
nutsquemdes a'td there premises to
he st‘mtt- strong competition. The com-
mittee his been advised that there
will be many new and novel groups in
evidence. The camps from Stamford,
Bridgeport and Dunllury have been in-
vited and each has promised to send
a large delegation. The advance sale
of tickets is pleasing. This is the in-
lllill mash ball of the mum) and the
committee in charge is making efforts
to male.] this ball a crowning success.
St'ec's full orchestra will furnish the
latest music for dancing and arrange—
ments are in tho works for Special
trolley t‘nl‘s on all lines after the ball
is over. Duneinu front 8 o'clock until
1 o‘clock. The judges awarding the
cash prizes to the dancers will be one
member from each of the following
fraternities: Elks, Red Men, Eagles,
Knights of Columbus, Moose, For-
rester: and Odd Fellows.
HOSPITAL NOTES.
Net-mun Ourobcdiun, of 118 East.
filth street, New York city, was ad-
n2ttted Saturday.
Miss Catherine ilettly, of Stevens
street, \VlLS admitted yesterday.
‘Mis‘é‘ Mabel Rixbu, of at South Main
street. was admitted yesterday.
Charles B. Schock, of 59 Winfield
street, was discharged today.
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rttt ” it It
. - lllillt tots
Rheumatic sufferers are highly sen-
sitive and easily affected by any
change in the weather, “they feel it in
their bones.“
permitted
Samuel Lynes, of West avenue, has GERMANS ARE MAKING. rights and privileges and to pm.
DESPERATE RESISTANCE
TO ATTACKS OF THE
FRENCH»
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BERNE, Switzerland, via
Paris, March 26.——"If peace‘ne-
gotiations were begun today,"
says the Journal de Goneve,
which does not reveal the source
of its information but declares it
is absolutely reliable, “Germany
would offer to restore the terri-
tory who occupies in France, ex-
cept in'thc mining district of
Briey, in exchange for a Channel
port, Calais or Dunkirk, and an
indemnity of 15,ooo,ooo,ooo francs
($-3,ooo,ooo,ooo).” .
“Germany would also offer,"
says the newspaper, “to restore
the territorial integrity and the
sovereignty of Belgium on can-
:lition that Belgium would not be
allowed m maintain a national
army and that Germany would be
H garrison Namur.
Liege and Antwerp perpetually.”
It is added bvl the newspaper
that Germany must be given con-
trol of the Belgian railroads and
ports and be favorably treated in
an economic treatv. This is not
,the program of Pan-Germans but
lthe actual terms of the German
government, the journal dc
Geneve declares.
OTTAWA. March a6.—It was
officially announced here Satur-
day that the following Canadian
Overseas troops, numbering 1.359)
men, had arrived safely in Eng-
land: i78th French Canadian Bat-
talion; lewish Company of Mon-
treal; drafts of 63rd, 64th, 68th,
76th, 77th and 78th Batteries:
Army Military College drafts
i from London, Toronto and Kings-
,.
THE scum Nonwnm stimulus suu’rium.
~—- >4- .... -_..V_._. m,
other points within the German
lures. The Germans left many
relics behind to show their oc‘
cupancy of the French military
barracks. In some of the roomfi
Christmas trees, gaily decorated
With tinsel, were still standing.
It was strange to find in some of
the shattered and partly burned
nouscs remnants of children’s
toys, including doll carriages and
bits of dolls“themselve5. Thesc‘
toys had been left behind with
'all other household belonging;
when the French inhabitants first
mote new shipbuilding compan-
res.
LYNN, Mass, March 26.—-—
Commodore William R. 0016, of
the Volunteer Yacht Club, last
night telegraphed President Wil-
son offering the clubhouse as a
rendezvous for the Naval Brigade.
QUINCY, Mass, March 26.—
Rev. Carl G. Horse, who was a
echoolmate of Emperor William
of Germany, at the Academy in
Case], led members of his congre-
gation at the Wollaston Unitarian
Church in pledging allegiance to fled before the German invaders.
the American flag at services last In some of the finer residences the
night. Colonel Warren E. Sweet-Ilibraries had been wrecked, the
ser. commanded an escort whichlbooks torn to pieces and scatter
dedicated =-. flag raised in the ed in the streets.
church. The Germans had left several
MADRID, March 24, via Paris,.foot bridges across the Somme'
10:20. a. m.—-Under a decree is-‘which were apparently intact,
sued today, the Spanish govern— but on closer examination showed,
me-nt take" over all maritime war that false sections had been in—‘
risks. The state furnishes insur- serted which gave way at the
wee up to eighty per cent. of first foot pressure. The correspon-l
maximum value against the cap- dent, investigating one of these}
tut-e or eeizure of cargoes, acci— bridges too closely, had an icy‘
dents, wreckages or any loss;bath in the Somme. 0n the blank,
whatsoever due to the war sus~;walls of the city there were manyl
tamed by shipping under the pripted proclamations to the sol-i
Spanish flag or merchandise un- dlers, including the entire text of
der any other flag destined for
. ‘ some of Chancellor von Beth-
Spatsh ports. The protection is mann-Hollweg's later speeches in
etxended also to crews of Span-
_ . the Reichstag.
1511 Ships. At a Chateaux just outside Pe-
Eighty—five per cent. of the in-, ronne the Germans had killed
lsurance monev will be paid with- two magpies and std'ck them on
tin eight days after verification and the sharp points of the iron posts
jthe remainder upon the owcr of at either side of the Entrance. “I
tthe lost or seized ship buying or suppose that signifies some Ger‘
'arranging M construct a vessel man curse or sign of bad luck,’
treplacing the loss. lsaid :2 British subaltern as he
3 FROM A STAFF CORRES-‘y’lt whistling gaily on his way
tPONDENT op THE ASSOCl-l 0 find. as he said, “where the war
,ATED PRESS, British Head- has taken itself off to." ,
quarters in France, March 19, via! PARIS, March 26, 12:05 a. nil
éLoudon, March 20, 1:45 a. m.—-’-——The battle of St. Quentin con~‘
The deliberate character of the tinues to rage with unabated fury.
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lton; draft of the 65th Battery of destruction wrought by the Gen The honors cf the last twenty-:
Woodstock. and a heavy trigadetmaus before. their withdrawal four hours' fighting have been
draft of Montreal.
PETROGRAD, March 26. via
London (British Admiralty per
Wireless Press) .—Under pressure
of German attacks against the
Russian positions between the
Rivers Silcha and Chavanics, on
the Romanian front. say the of-
ficial statement issuer] Saturday
by the Russian War Department,
the Russian troops withdrew to
the next line of defensoaabout two-
thirds of a mile to the eastward.
BERLIN, March 26, by Wire-
less to Sayvi118.—Gcrman forces
under command of Archduke
Joseph yes‘tcrday stormed the
Russian positions on the Ruman-
ian frontier ridge between the
Sclyomtar and Czobanos Valleys,
according to Saturday's official
German statement, and captured
500 Russians. .
BERLIN, March 26. by wire—
less to Sayville.—-British and
French advancing forces and Ger-
man reargnards are battling daily
E on both sides of the rivers Somme
land Olse, in Northern France.
1says the official statement issued
Saturday by German AmyHead-
quarters staff. In those engacze-
ments. the announcement adds.
the Entente forces have sufiered
,heavy losses.
French attacks against the
German outposts west of La Fere
and along the Ailette lowlands as
well as near Neuville and Margi-
val, it is officially declared were
repulsed.
PARIS, March std—The
French continue to push forward
in the region south of St. Quen-
tin, in which heavy fighting has
beon in progress for several days.
They reached ‘the west bank of
the Dirac north of La Fete and
gained additional ground east of
the Ailette River. ’
BOSTON, March 26.—The
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,from Peronne is‘painfully evident with the French, who are pushing
in the once beautiful avenue of forward steadily, taking all the
trees leading to the railway sta—iprecautions that the nature of
tions. These. trees were untouch- the operations calls for and in the
ed by shellfire, but each one was face of desperate resistance by the
hacked in two with axes and the Germans. The advance necessar-
gashcs and chips show that the ily is slow. owing to the capture
work was done within the last of the ground. j
few days. The beautiful gardens St. Quentin is. protected on the
of the outlying houses were also northwest by the Omignon River,
wrecked and every fruit tree with-f which, although only a brook,‘
in several miles of the town wasdike most of the Somme tributar-l
sawed two-thirds Of the waylies, runs through a broad valley;
through and then broken down. [full of swamps and clumps of
The correspondent of The As-‘trees which greatly increase its
sociated Prers was,.,among the defensive values. To the west thel
first visitors to Peronne in theyapm‘oaches to the city are over
wake of the English troops, whota bare, flat plain devoid of any
now have swept wellvbeyond that . natural obstacle and with but few
place. It. was necessary to passivillages. Here the French ad-t
through ball a score of ruined vance naturally is most rapid,
villages which only a'few days, but the plain narrows and ends in
ago were within the zone of in«;a sharp point at St. Quentin. At?
tenseartillerv fire, before rcach«iSavy. the most favorable point,’
ing the banks of the Somme.‘the Germans have built their
Crossing that stream on an im- main defensive line.
proviscd bridge and trudging The German right runs 'from
through Hallo, Peronne was the Omignon Riven at Vermand
reached over a road which had to the Holnon Wood and their
been . re-constructed wtthin center is ptSavy. Against these
twenty—four hours over succeed-itwo sections the French so far
ing rows of German trenches and have made little headway, but on
through recurring maze; of rust-; the German left they have can
ed barbed wire, somé of these be- ried the strong key position on the
ing at least eix feet in height and plateau nf Essigny and Benay.
fifty feet in width. lThis section, extending from the
In the outskirts of the city Somme north of Scrau Court to
English Tommies were encount- the Dine at Vendeuil, runs
cred wearing German “pickle” through a gently undulating
helmets and grinning from ear to country which offers admirable;
car. In the great square of Pe- fields of fire tothe defender.
tonne, which is surrounded by‘ The center region is a wide
melancholy ruins, was the Brit- hillock 360 feet high on which,
ish lieutenant who led the first stands the village of Essigny. It,
patrol into the city. He wadis flanked on the southeast by a5
mounted on a splendid little Ger—‘l similar eminence near Benny, and
,man pony, which he captured the definite loss of this strong
with its full equipment. Several position, French military critics
iother officers arrived during tho claim, would, force the whole Ger-
lmoming and begged for the privi-lman wing backon the Olse, ex-
lege of taking a. cantor about the; posing St. Quentin to the south
Rheumatism is the too which steals . committee on public safety, by:place on board this prize of wantond imperil the rest of the line as
away the joy of life.
“Neutrono Prescription 90,” the dif.
ferent remedy, has banished winter
I terrors for all,
Each week more and more. sufferers
.in' all walks of life lake “Neutrone
lProscription 99" and every week adds
Entore names to the long list of per-
'mttnenl cures. Go to your druggist.
itodny and get 3. 60¢ or $1.00. bottle. It
twill repay you many times in health.
Eldail orders filled on 81.00 size. For
isal-e in South Norwalk'by H. A. Mead.
—Adv.
:means of first page advertise-
ments in the newspapers, today
appealed for recruits for the Na-
tional'Guard.
“We ant,” says the anneal,
“men .0 believe in combining
readiness to serve with willing-
ness to serve, and we want them
now.” . . .
PARIS, March 26, Noon.—'—-Not~
withstanding the bad weather andl
the difficult state of the ground,
the French continued last nicht
to advance south of the Disc. The
War .Office announces that
French patrols reached Folem-
bray, south of the forest of Coucy.
HALIFAX, N. 8.. March 26.—-
A bill authorizing measures to
develop , shipbuilding in Nova
Scotia has? been introduced by
Premier Murray in the House of
Assembly. The bill provides for
the appoinfinent of q commission
of five members to inmtigat‘orhe
{militia wining withln‘the. poo»
loco for me building“ rhino and
to molar sou-odour
the adoption of mystical Muh-
fio utilisation
‘ There was a ghostly silence in'far‘ as the Omignon. It is consid-i
most sections of the city. No and certain. therefore, that the
sound of war was to be heard ex- , Germans ’will make determined
.cept once when a prying German. efforts to retrieve their failure“
airplane scudded over in the ShEI-l here. .r’ !
ter of the high fleecy clouds and: The French also made an im-‘
antioircraft guns opened, driving pression Sunday on the bulge in;
him to quick retreat. British of- their line formed by, the lower
ficers pointedaout building alter Coucy forest. Troops - which
building where apparently the "crossed the Ailette and attacked,
total damage had resulted fromithe salient at its apex succeeded int
interior explosions- In manyestablishinga‘footing on the Sols-
cases walls, facingaway. from the sons-St. Quentin high road. at
line of British and French fire.lFolernbray and Coucy—lc—Cha-
had great squares blown through’teau. ‘
them. differing strikingly froml WASHINGTON, March 26..—'
the round holes made in other “Germany’s clear violations? of
buildings by shells. the treaties 051799 and 1828, and
l»
tending to the German
‘The beautiful- old sixteenth
century church of St. Jean was
a pitiful mass of ruins, but one‘of
'its oil paintings still hung on a
bitfo‘f,wall in the transept land
was miraculously untouched. The
statues oi -- Catherine ’-D"evoix,
which;- hnd: adorned. .the gmat
squarephadgheon. taken away‘by.
' . "grand: nt‘pudilyflm
my left in. unread r. '
her _"disregard of the canons of
international "courtesy” were as- j
signed by the United States as,
reasons {or refusal to reaffirm or.
extend these agreements. The
not: of refusal to Germany trans,
mitted through, Dr. Paul Rittcr,
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vessels and thirty-seven trawlers, almost stink, the estimate on
with an aggregate gross tonnage this his m be $5,009 ions.
of 80,0oo, in the last few days. isI COMM in: results obtain'
announced by the Admiralty. ted, asamailby :the Admirals
WASHINGTON, March 26.——‘ty, is my p:- m’higher than
The American Liner St. Louis,lmighthmhmu§ectea.
first armed American ship to, ‘Tradetlflr’firports in jan-
cross the Atlantic, has arriveduary,” 93:: h: GVDSEKS News
safely at: her destination, Secre» Agencywuffiiia‘lfrerman news
tary, Daniels announced today. bureau), My amounted to
Information as to the arrival of 9,500,099”, of which z,5oo,oou
the steamer came to the Navy'was mural. Emily eighty per
Department from the offices of cent. of mi! tonnage kept
the American Line in New Yerk..away in My, the reduction
The company wished to makelin tonnage mu: to thirty per
known the fact to relieve thelcent. The tonnage sunk in that
anxrety of those having relativesmonthuztlisfififish ship-build—
or friends on the vessel. Score-ting forafiailgrfi. which-amount-
tary Daniels approved suchl ed to ml", m £0138?
action. l 51‘. man: Idiq., March 20.
l’tlo details of the trip were giv-3 —-—News “Marlins been active
on :n the companys report. :discussiorc fin Rewioundland re-
NEW YORK, March zit—The? cently or so: unusability that af--
St. Louis, owned by the Ameri-‘ter the war not; French colony
can Line, left an American port might. 5!: order! by France to
on March 17 with thirty-one pas‘ Great Britain and annexed to
sengers, of whom fourteen were Newfmflanzl has been received
American citizens. Among her here with "ammo. Many of the
crow ‘ of 391 persons were xgricolonistsflmwever, that the
Americans. lchang: in; White.
LONDON, March 26, 1235 p.i They point Lathe fact that the
Ins—Russian detachments in Per-lfisherits quarter] from these
Sta, pursuing the Turks, have'islands. an: my important to
cr0sscd the border into the Tur-l France. It is rmdersrood that af-
ktsh vilavet of Mosul, according ter thewai'kast a hundred
to an official annOuncement as steam Mrs will be sent here
forwarded in a Renter dispatch from Worms to participate
from Petrograd. 'in the who. and will new St.
PHILADELPHIA, March 26.,Picxrcasmliitradquarters.
—-The seven hundred members of The W also is expressed
theorews of the German auxiliary, here that m for sentimental
cruisers Kronprinz Wilhelm reamifhmoflivr, would hesi—
and Prinz Eitel Friedrich, intem-, tale to git-cup?!“ last colony in '
ed at the Philadelphia Navaardl this pom-E“ Atlantic Ocean.
last October, started today undert 305mm arm—“Educa—
n heavy guard of marines forltion AMWWar," will be dis—
Fort Oglethorpe and Fort Mc—lcussod Hypo-mitt» educators at
Pherhon, 6a., where they will beithe min“ of Frank P.
kept until further orders from'lSpears as: Mom of North
Washington. leastun mgr, Which has been
BERLIN, March 22; by wire-lset forwan. President 10hr!
less to Sayville.-—Commenting onl N. Fink, «E fist University of
the Admiralty announcement thatt the Stab d" m York, has at-
merchant ships of an aggregate cepter! a Win-on to partici—
gross tonnage of 781,500 were de-= pate.
strayed in February as a result of cm Mum this subiect
war measures of the Central Pow— will be M £1. Moore, profes-
ers, Berlin newspapers say thet so: of m at Harvard Uni-
sinking oPonly 600,000 tons per'vcrsity,uflht:sident—elect of the
month had. been thought probable,tLos Haggis Normal 81511001:
and that this estimate was basediHowofi My, oi the Connecti‘
upon the surmise that only particut She.- Emu oi Education,
of the neutral shipping would and mmfim of the Ver«
cease trading with the Bntisnlmonr MM oi Education.
Isles. Neutral trade with Great
Britain having been interrupted (meo‘amth‘l’ased
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