.. ,g . ...___.— , , . ~ Again After Fourth Es-
Clienfiing Turned Over a For- Promises of England Do Not cape
-- tune a Week in the Distri- Have the Effect of Esslnsi
, l I'M on... w Fiends the Way For Cmfivm. .fifii'; thitherha‘nhnn!
w w .c__
?lllll.lill8fll THREE
summon
' Had $7.500 ill3=Currency in
Satchel and $300 “Pocke
Money” .
.ggmoonronr..awn u.~-Chued by
bilateral. state and county omcials from
n-fian Francisco. to the {Atlantic coast
3" ' , Moaiood‘lee Sing.
It. residing in this. city at 0 Waller
wt. was untested-H the railroad sta-
esrly yasteflay. afternoon by De-
WM Sing is charged
" opium and when taken
1
0
p
731nm small hand satchel in which lie ) Rule. in consequence the situation MIWHY NEW [NfllANfl
also carried 81,600 in currency. . tregnrds Home Rule at present is that
M worth of the forbidden drug
Canmt Obtain Bail.
Mummfinalhm
Oilesasnssaadasssw.
..__-—-—
llll H APPEA
0PP08ED 10
in [Ireland
1|th ISAiiAINST
diminution
Irish Question Should Be
Settled at Once and For
All, Olliclals Say
I LONDON, April 12.-“Promise -of a
cute Rule bu1 by the Government
.ss not had the sllgtest effect in renal
ing the way to conscription in Ire-
.md. according to dispatches from
him. The Unionists will not sit
quiet and allow the bill to be rushed ‘
'through, and the Nationalists. are
lInto ‘, custody yesterday had about rchore concerned in the defeat of con-,
’scripiion than in obtaining Homo
(nobody wants it.
HHME lllllE
EVENIHH Pillllll
Fine Military Spectacle Pre-
sented, by Connecticut
Regiment—Bayonet Stu-
dents Go Over the Top—
Salcm Man Captured
rade at this camp was held here last
evening by the 304th «regiment of lo
fantry. Connecticut's regiment. The
parade was held under command of
Colonel Herron. commanding omcer
of the regiment. All oncers were
mounted and the parade was one of
the finest military spectacles witness-
ed at this camp since its opening.
The regiment. as well as several
others have been holding battalion
evening parades for some time but
this was the first regimental evening
parade held here.
The infantrymen made a fine show-5
‘mg as did the mounted mph. The
lmounted men of the regiment have
rbeen under the instruction of Colonel .
'llerron himself. who. is an ~onpert
.horseman, having at one time been
the commaning olllcer of one of the
cavalry organisations.
(Continued On Page Eight)
Aunt nuns;
a...
ALI.
Li. I
nulls, nan-12. 1m
ENTINEL '
assestarno oases saws mots ALL entire or m'wmo or a sesctat. man an oua own ensures
Unssttlsd. probably snow.
1
Liberty Loan 'Worlters Ap-
pear to .bc Com Over-the
Top, and Reports Today
Are Much More Encourag-
ml
4
new
Tomorrow—All Urged to
Help .‘ i
Norwalk's elcicnt band of Liberty
loan workers are still , over the
flmneushapelnthsmbond
ve.
jibe team captains and the men and
women associated with the- are do-
chtll‘ll today W that
ng excellent work and that they are
oiling up a vast number of subscritr
i tions.
- One thing has been "brought out
ost forcibly in this amigo and
t is that Norwaik possesses a huge
a
First Week of tthrive EMS is president and manager of the con-
SliNliillll nun ‘
Ininth lliilllilllill
t
l
l
New Hartford’s Chief In-
t. dustry Goes Up in Flames
—W mpm
NEW HARTFORD, April 12.——i-‘ire
of unknown origin, which started at
10:15 o‘clock last night in the plant
of the Standard Brush Company, com-
pletely destroyed the two-story frame
building owned by the company. with
the contents. entailing a loss estimat-
ed at between “0.000 and 850,000. The
plant was used in the manutacture of
brushes. the bristles being fastened to
the blocks in this factory. The blocks
were made by the Roger-Rake Com-
pany in Pleasant Valley. also owned
llNE SUllSlllllllEil .-.......
The company had large government
orders. on hand. principally for the
navy. and correlated of shoe sets and
scrubbing and makes! brushes fer the
iospltai department. Frederick Jones
(Continued on Eighth Page.)
BOFSSMAN FOR AN
INTERNMENT CAMP
-m...
it is said that Ernest Boessman is
now in the Bridgeport Jail following
his arrest by Department of Justice
oflcials. and that he may be sent to
an internment camp. Boos-man. who
is a naturalized German-mam: into
prominence a week ago. when at work
at the Winnlpauk branch of the Nor-
waik Tire it Rubber Company. At
that time he was asked how many
inn llliliilliN
Attacks Near Nenville-
‘ llllllEll lllll WHElHl,
‘ Evidence Indicates He Failed
to Signal Train Following
t' manor. April 12.:Comner a. a.
Bill. Danielaon. has, begun his investi-
gation of the freight wreck which re“-
BlllllSH HANGING 0N l0 HE
BREAEEH PAlll 0E _
Blll llEllHAHS GAIN ELSEWHERE
Enemy Drives Its Wedge Further Along the Lys Canal
to Merville, But German Attempts to Advance,
Northwest of Givenchy Have Been Repelled
nun cannon inn wnu llllllll «
lllllli n nun than flillliBEliE
British Report That They Have‘Repnlsed Several Strong
"e
rwooa‘am I?
Vitusse, Southeast of Arras
With the British hanging grimly?»
on to the great bulk of Measure... :1
Ridge, their bulwark in Finders, ',
the Germans to the south are push- '
ing their wedge deeper into the» ,
British lines to the east. and north
of Bethune, one of the British
advanced bases. - '
The point of this wedge was
driven 1st night further along the
bye Canal to Merville, two miles
West of Listrnm, which the British
held up to yesterday. The salient/
was extended also slightly to the
north near its tip to the vicinity
of Neuf Berquin, two miles nortlte
,2} Three times yesterday the police| John Dillon. lrish Nationalist leader
,u'raisedflllg’s bail and detectivtnl any lin the House‘ of Commons yesterday.
k that the hall for the release of Singuaid he understood that motor oars.
“will be rsiaedas often as it is oderedfmachine guns and tanks already had
why a bond giver. When arrested yeS- been shipped and were sailing sway
Liberty Bonds he w some, to W- sulted in ii:
and is altered to he" It“? "9"“ men-here Jrrl’lfirfhfi" gill-3::
the Liberty Bond-t to “e“ "0' He is arranging tor the railroad 0:1
them, they won't be worth thirty cents .
when the war is over."As a menthol M "mm” :fll‘obetobelg'xmi
lnumber' of men and When who are
' ‘snaions to/doreverytlilng they can to
'help, the government in the present ‘
prisis. ' -
it has brought fqgth the latent poul-
Angry Pennsylvania Opera-
~. . ,' , ilitles of what may be accomplished out 1 th 3 . . , west of Estaires, another pom y
git-3‘:mtrldddi‘ih‘iii‘i cesarstzmam chat mm Blame .. m mm... . um nuance .. :39: wattage... p.22; gramme ................
Ev'tt was raised again to $5.000. with the,wbat he termed ‘9’“: Government's “new _ and "no“ wm-mwasfihlng but ”it.“ of men and women are said to W‘mhtnam. in“ ‘5 .. . - A» :1
bive'cbssed him s considerable dis-
tance, and llnally under threats of,
something more that more hodllypun-i
iahment msde him kiss the American
flag. and then beat him severelyi
One of firm! "no“ for co“l'centered. whomls 121., goat‘s“ do :31
h e to as ut re
sure“! during the M". WWI“ ”it‘ll: til: response even before the re’o
the New England states. is the fem-tam.“ is made.
our "Prior"! We?" 0' the "10' “1 At the present time there are ass
p is of ugolngtstill higher very 5 I“guillotine methods.
we ball is again onered. . , The manpower lblll entered com-
"" ' "-vv- insides. and an amendment substitut-
ing 48 years for 5! years as the age.
limit, was defeated by a vote of 02
tonight. Coronsr am also... " Germans WM.
"While 1, have not taken evidence. g what appeared wibe..the§r
enoulh yet to make an oasis! finding. heaviest pressure in this. region"
safaraalhavegoneits re s' .
“M “u "a“ n. «.va “1'. and had made some progress when .
(Continued On Page Eight) 3
éiiunloun
Alfred T. Bishop, Who
Horse.
‘ ; Panes Away) of Internal
. l WTBishail who was
“titted.” a Horse yesterday morning.
“died at her home in l-Iuflbutt street,
.~..
11..
P to 152.
ministration. according to a represen-
loyal workers engaged
in obtaining
Boessman is alleged to have made a
I
The Convention did not find it possl-g
this to overcome the objections of the!
,Uhter Unionists, nys Sir Nautical
_A malority of the Nationalists. all the
Isouthern Unionists and five of the
{seven labor representatives agreed
pon a scheme of lrish self-govern-
.ment which is given in the conclusion
‘reached which by the majority. he
tative of the Bommerset Countv op'lsnbscrlptions for the Third Liberty
erators" Association. A signed state-(ml They are working day and
ment by that association. published “3m. giving up their time had money
in the "Connellsville (Pa) COurlel'."’(° help the cause. There are many
for April 2, scores the sdminlstration'om‘n anxiously "mung the all to
for its favoritism. calls the prioritlfmmy,
order ill. M110 OI All coal districts . When the “mm”! 1“ fly", or
a: clhsrsfs diMi-t 311le f0": hailnntsed. it was- thought that there
it srgcy vo 0- 9W "0 , it in securing work-
.‘states. should be enacted into law. mince. thus reducing the will“! oldglndaiif fliggptyislte has been prov‘
. III bl! letter, which ll “WM ‘0, coal for public distribution. infamous . a true. There are workers galore in
frontier LION Gnome. the CWUnlnlis rather the adjective ,to describei llrwalk. mg. “a women who are ac-
id the customs question became "‘91 these priority orders. according to the ,lually fighting to be of mm to the
,-of the vital points, and that gnpon Ilangry independent operators. whammy”, Loan committee which has
{decision regardtnl ‘1 “Pond“ the 9" do no not hesitate to intimate "““charge of the work.
tent 0! an agreement which could “.membera of the fuel administratione, it is most “mm“, The people
lreached. The geographical Wilmnghave "put private business before [la-Um3 ”a“. 'They realise that they
of Ireland imposed restrictions re- trlotism."
number of pro-German utterances and
have committed several proilerman
'acts before this time. The treatment
oi Bousman and his subsequent an
real should be a lesson to all who
have any proGermau sympathies that
they should keep them to themselves.
Special» Department of Justice Agent
Charles 1!. Lane refused to discuss til;
case yesterday at Bridgeport. but it
ws's generall yunderstood that Boess-
man was “in bad."
RIVER AND HARBOR
APPROPRIATIONS
WASHINGTON. April 12.—River
I
l
Wilton. early last evening form an in-‘
.ternat rupture following her injuries. infill“ “3"“ “d ““1“"? “"1" Mill
.c.._
must help and they are helping. They
|l:now the‘ United States is at war and
i... ' Quiet'old Wilton; which has been in l the claim for (tome Rule was concen-i ..
i the limelight for .. the past vtreoltjm“ed on the ‘19de “’7 unrestrict-SEEK HIDDEN CAUSEE l '(Contlnned on Page Inn.) .
is through a snooeselod of exciting hep-led decal ”we”- 0F GREENWICH FIR St
The Nationalists made a strong
twasaainar‘dhthe; . . ‘
‘W'w' g me y “'9' for such tlscal powors, ““1 were' Aroused by the series of mysterious‘
rpeculisrlly pitiful circumstances of'
this. fatal acciden ‘ l
. The Bishopis a 7 most respectabley.
3.: r: truest: mist: an .... .. .4... ...
e‘ r 'of wealthy est 0 men n reen-
hard-working f and the fact thul.‘had come ‘0 “'0" 55¢" autonomy. lwi‘ch, Conn. causing the loss of one
they were short of food: and other-i A majority of the Nationalists andlilfe and hundreds of thousands of dol-
lleoaaslties. rather than ask for assiat-l"t “19 Southern Unionists 33"“ l“ tars, the National Board of Fire Un-
auca‘ from their many "friends and'ol'd" that a parliament "“3“ b9 9" derwritcrs. of No. 76 William street.
0 .
, . 185“th at 0309- ‘0 W‘Wne the ‘5' New York. has undertaken an inves-
(Continr On Phse Eight)
,cision in 1'98“"! to "‘9 control 0' the n ligation to determine what n'ze'ncles
:QLPRIVATE RUSSELL
. snt'rn. WOUNDED
l'PlNd to 93"“ 1° "'99 trade '"h En". have been sent to Greenwich to as-
.‘llfld- but the Southern Unionists 10"”: certain whether incendiarics have
,ed the Ulster Unionists in opposing it been conducting a “mpaggn of da-
aee'parate system of custom3 control «traction or whether the fires were of
“We. had every reason to believe the; accidental origin.
Government contemplated immediate; Underwriters here said there w“ a.
legislation “9°" "‘9 results °' °‘"' '3" strange similarity in the tires which
bor.’ 'says Sir Horace “The work "'ldostroyed the homes of lrv|n Bach-
ll‘ifih settlement. “ l9 “0" Mb ad“ll“;eller. the author; John McE. Bowman.
of no further Mlvonment- In the president of the Biltmorc Hotel: wu-
dominions and the United States as liam J_ ”Barker. who to." 1,1,. life, and
Mrs. E B. Close.
Continued on fifth page.
LOCAL BOYSTOPARKER
MEMORIAL scaoor.
List of men inducted to Parker
Memorial School. Boston. Mass. April
15. 1918. as given out by the Norwalk
Exemption Board. is as follows:—
tensions. The Nationalists ""9 "9’. are responsible for the tires. Agents
l
i” lira. Sarah A. Smith. of No. 96 Elyl
and!“ yesterday received a mes-
sage from the onloe of the Adjutant-'
Ellen“ of tile United States army,
D. 0., that her son. Rusn
11. lmnn had been slightly wound-
{dd‘ln action on the French fighting:
. No other particulars w_ere giv«
, . and it is presumed that Private,
‘Srdlth is ‘itt‘one of the base-hospitals"
.tindergoingvtreatment for his injuries.' - ‘
He enlisted nearly a year ago, when,
the bridges were being guarded in;
Norwalk by the New Haven Blues , “ER“ES IN FRANBE
,4,
i i
______,.. _
and other orgatilaatlons of state millv!
”its. and has boen‘in France for several‘ .
”IL-mills with the regiment.
M..- _... ‘ 1136 SillL 4er B. Garfield, Nor-grail; has bee l t it i
‘ - 1327 see-11 H. nanun. out years n a prom non gpre n
AUTOMOBILE BANDIT One Killed In Battle. An- Non... 30?... , - a. business, an... educational, ..
1N TOLEDO KILLED other Badly Wounded,,1353 sea—water c. Cowlng, South
Nev-walk. .Conu.
1479 saw—Harold C. Friend. Glory
Cheshire Institution Learns‘
'lllllfillll’Hl HF *
A. I}. Will
Written
by Editor E.
. Thomas for the Knight
Templar 1918 Year Book
in the 1018 Year Book of the Grand breakwaters at
.J.
and Harbor appropriation:- as agreed
to in the House during the reading
'clude Stonington and New London
ibarbors, Conn: Pawcstuck' River,
Rhoda island and Connecticut; and
Mystic and Thames Riven. Connecti-
improvement of Paw-
cut; continuing.
catuck. River. ”.500. Connecticut
River above and below Hartford.
Conn; continuing improvement and
for
Conn: containing improvement and
for maintenance below Hartford.
816.000. Duck island, Branford. New
Haven. Milford. Five Mile River, Stam-
ford and Greenwich harbors. West-
port harbor and ‘Sangatnck River..
New Haven and
Ccmmandry. Knights Templar of Con- Housatonic River. Conn: for mainte-
necticut is found the following hiogra- nnnce, 822.000.
phy of A. C. Wheeler of this city who
was R. E. (tend Commander. in 1917.
The biography is written by Sir Ed-
ward J. Thomas, editor of the Norwnlk
"our. and follows:
Arthur Candeld Wheeler was born
in Norwalk. Connecticut. August 26. tion for the gateways of Alaskaby
1355. “d ll“ 01'0” “V94 in N5 adequate coast and. harbor charting
ni'tive ciy.
PROTECTION FOR
ALASKA GATEWAYS
' /
WASHINGTON. April ' l2.——-l”rotec-'
was urged in a special bulletin issued
i'Ml'. Wheeler WEI married June 30, lloday by the CORHH 3nd Geodetic 8“!"
1880. to Miss Susie Cousins and h“ vey. With more than 26.000 miles of
two children. Erna-t Cousins Wheeler detailed coast line. Alaska cannot be
and HaroldArthur Wheeler. both grad approached without ‘ plying
dates of Yale University.
Mr. Wheeler in one 0' the he‘ll“ gigantic mountain ranges. that may
citiaens ,of Norwalk. and for many never be surmounted by ram-amt,
(Continued on Page ems)
rowed, 0.. April12.—-Kenucth n. b a. Com ‘
ones. 11.. automobile bandit. is dead: » ‘ “ 192? ”gm...” .1 Mm”, mlGERMAN LONG RANGE
. esley Worden. zo. alleged to have, The director- 01 the Connecticut . mug, Conn. . , . CANNON KILLS THREE
Reformatory held their monthly meet-
lnl yesterday. .There were 274 in-.
mates at that date, though the meet-9
ing paroled a number and discharged
. early t alumna-ed two othera, who had gone a year on parole
« an automobileptsallng'asb fiflfifmllf reports M good I!"
r v ‘
cutter snd the Inca lama. ' fill
. a tank. A b . _. , .
m hm.” l'vlswoftbssonditlouoftheeounv
that true , .0 '
“in, w s .
n his companion, has a ballot
rod in the knee. and Pstmlnlnl
C. be h. 20. wounded
times. is bellyzved to be dying.
Lat. yesterday afternoon the Incal
exemption board has received a spec
cia: telegram for lnducting any regis'
trsntia Class 1. term/mine
meteorologist. sr ts or any.
{mechanical “.0...“ engineers at self
ease and uneven divislosin avian
ties signal . .- '- M“
h .
1w” silo
PARIS. April 12.—At hhell. ilred by
the German long range cannon yester- 7 0.35! worth of goods was sent out oi
day struck a foundling asylum in the the territory whichoriglnslly cost the
see do in Oracle. in the lontrosgs government. ”$00,000. ,imports to
district. at the southern outskirts oi Alaska in 60 years have amounted to
11.000.000 showing the VM'IIIIOIM
. ‘ ‘ ,u m ,
W3 “53’... wounded °'. withing territory
tiers
wig” carried
vii-sinus“ ‘ by venue-
the wa-
ters that nearly surround it. because
r the path to the east.
In 50 years. the Coast and Geodetic
Survey has hall less than $4,000,000
to spend in Alaskan waters on worlt
"‘that should invariably precede do
velopment of the new country." EX. ,.
ports from Alaska through these we
,terways have amounted to $100,000,000
in 00. years. reaching
nual amount last year when ”l.-
of the bill previous to its passage in-
maintenance below Hartford:
the greatest 3
are of the brakeman ,on the head-
f lthrow out any sigma to the train
' o
ling very slowly. and it appears that
no signals were given to warn the our
gineer following. Whether any other
factors entered into this failure on
the noon omcial report tvas issued.
ight train. going towird Putnam, in London. ' " ‘
The southerly side of the In-
lowins. The heed train was now lient, as it runs southeast tow‘ , .. ‘ ,
uGivenchy, is, being strongly he 7 "
by the British. They were stand-('1.
ing firm today at Doisne, threc' -
his oart will undetermined at the in« miles northeast of Bethune, and
quest." u:
: The brakeman on the can [reagent
was 9'. B. Johnson. of Boston, whol
was killed.
The injured men taken to the bes-
,pital will all recover. one of them
having already left the hospital.
lililllliNlNll . '
u. 3. columns;-
‘ Hillill nun
Ruiz Demo His Men Fired
Across ‘ Border —' Three
Americans Released
| SIERRA BLANCA, Texas, April 12.
i—A parley between American and
Mexican commanders was held late
yesterday at the 'Santo Nlno ford.
,thrse miles from here. Colonel Mar-
tinez Ruin. commander of the Moxie
can forces encamped opposite here,
and Colonel George T. Lsngborne,
commanding the American troops in
the Bighond district. met under a
cottonwood tree on the American side
of the Rio Grande and discussed the
situation onthls sectOr of the border.
Warsaw.)
GREENWICH CASE «'
i IN SUPREME COURT
'Arguments were made before the
l
I
Supreme Court of Errors yesterday in.
‘tho case'of Edward Strosuzck or new
Haven, against the Connecticut Co.
an action involving a suit for dam-
aacs for an accident in which the
plaintii! appealed from the firms-rim-
Court. There are several, technical
questions involved in which attorneys
for Strolniclt allege the court erred.
The hrs Fairlield county case tale
on up was Nehemiah L. Bitch, of Siam-
fprd. against Albert W. Johnston. at
Greenwich. defendant's appeal .from
Court of Co moo Pleas. involving a
balance of M.“ alleged to be dnt
verdicttorths
log me. in the trial More the Com
“WW‘lM-O!‘
for work done for the dewsudant. dur- ‘
‘aiong the line northwest to; the?
lMerville region. Further ‘souillét
east, they repelled a German at”.
tempt to advance northwest “9"
o
flank before Bethune.
lient from being materially widen;
ed, as the tip cannot be pushed in.
much unless they succeed in broad—
ening their advance front. ,0
Northwest of Armentierco,
steert, whence they fell back, light}.
ing to the vicinity of Neuve Eglifl,’
close to the southerly end of Men-
siues- Ridge, which protects their
new positions.
The British litres apparently as!
being firmly maintained along that"
high ground in the Messines and '
Wytschncte regions alldt‘ttt the“
'llOl'lll toward Ypres. No mdteria!‘
:changc in the situation ' reported
here. The battle, however, is con."
itinuing along the whole'ylront from
La Ilassoc Canal north to Ilollc- "5
lbeko,’ the Germans hammering.
than] in their desperate
inil something substant" ‘out 0‘
this new ambitious ciYort of theirs;
So far its only dcfinite i’esnlt but
been the piling up of casualties on“
1both side/t, notably t ir own.
i
has been no resumption of infantry
engagements on a lugs
to strong local attacks near Nelle,
ville-Vitassc, southeast 0! Arms,
all of which they repulsed. The a:
tillcry is reported increasingl sat-
tivo‘in the vicinity of the 8 mo.
rwhile Paris ammuneeu a. rather"
Givenchy, the high gnound abort“ . ,
which protects the British right; ' '
(d h, I
The British task here patently .. a
is to prevent the sides of this an» "‘
abandoned yesterday by. the Brit. 0 5
lab, the line was straightened out ‘
by their withdrawal from P103.
mpttnr".
On the Smume butt eflold thero’ ‘ '
l . The
British, however. were ”ablated
heavy bombardment 'ong M.
French line to the , ant 4
Amlens, in the viclnR _ II“-
srd. . .
’ Having pushed
Norwalk Chronicler