NORWALK EVENING SENT I ASSOCIR‘TED PRESS NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BY A SPECIAL WIRE AND OUR OWN OPERATOR l ISTABLISHID 1870 Intern! at the South Norwclk Post as Second Club Matter. sepia NOBWALK, 00“.. wanimsnlv, WES-5, 1918 Fill; tonight and Thursday. AIIIEIl DEFENSIVE MEASURES RREAH IHE EORRE 0E lHE HERMAN REEENSIVE IN SRHIH EEEIIRISER RUSH Enemy Now Engaged in Strong Local Attacks, Which Have Not Resulted in Any New Advance Since May 27th IIEAVI EIHHTINH NEAR THE MARNE ,.— -. iAnierican Troops Engaged I on. Four Sectors and Pre- ‘ I paring to Enter Front Line at Flanders Allied defensive measures have Iiroken the force of the German offensive in the salient south of the Ailette and the enemy is now making only strong local attacks. iAIthoIIglI recording 'suIcessful engagements" III its latest report Berlin, for the first time since M213 27 does not claim any new ad- 'VIIIIC‘CI‘i li‘oiled by the French in their efforts to overcome the barrier of the Retz forest, east of Villers- Cot florets, by frontal attacks, the Ger-i mans attempted to outflank the po hition by assaults north and south of it After slight gains the French stopped them on both flanks, American tIonps takin nix mart in the fighting around Cha i turn Thierry, where the western .wing of the battle ront joins the 'Marne Between the Oise and the Marne, iihefighting continues heavier than elsewhere. on the new salient. North of- Moulin-sous- 'l‘ouvent,I northwest of Soissons, the Freuchi have improved their positions . gaining some hotly contested ter- rain from the Germans attacks against the Retz forest al- though strong, are being localized. Near Longpont, the Germans were able. to penetrate French coun- ties-attacks threw them out. if they follow the tactics em played in the Picardy and Flan- ,dcrs battles, the Germans probably ,‘will make very strong eflforts to improve locally important posi .itions hefIire they finally give up their eEorts to advance. The enec I Enemy , I I I my artillery fire is very heavy from } north of the Aishe to the Oureq,§ on the west wing, and aroundi Rlieims, on the east, which still holds out. in addition to the present battle IAmerican troops are aetivcl3 en v gagged on four sectors and prepar-i mentioned“ On Page Eight) * EHEHIHI RATE RAISE Ill HE HHHIEIEH Flood of Complaints From Shippers W ill Cause Chan- ges in Schedules—To Save Difi'erentials—One Cent a ' ”Mile Railroad Fare for Soldiers In Furlough Goesi , Only 26, 000, 000 for Domestic Consumption Until New Into Efiect WASHINGTON. June rum the freight rat es 25 per cent. cm IIN to provide for retention of dif- term-title and to remove provisions discriminating against certain bull puss interests or localities were ink- on 'ronturdny’by the Mixed Admin- Mutton My came: m3 be and. boron Jpn 25 when the higher rum an to We strewn They will not. how "scalar-t materially this amount of the lama (W i" h. m b u How Agencies Are Endeav- necucut ‘ Agricultural part. as follows : — the county farm bureaus and the 5.~——Steps looking to modification of the orderl EHHR PHHHUEIIRN “ oring to Supply Farm. Hands—Getting Ready f or , Year’s Spraying—Hints a ,i to Reduction of Cost of Cultiv ation The weekly bulletin from the Con-i College is inI State Produces The agricultural departments of county agricultural agents are devot- growers of food who have taken up pIoIluction rom patriotic motives are coming to the county agents in. increasing numbers tOI help and guidince in their crop production en teiiirises I (Continued On Page Elva) IIIIII Ammo EHURT REEIREHS IN THIS BRUNEI Rollin U. 'l‘yler of Haddam waslv named as state's attorney of Middle-' s’ex county to succeed Frank D. Haines b3 the judges of the superior court who had their annual meeting yesterday for the making of appoint- ments and allotments MI. Haines on Aug. 30 becomes a judge of the su- . perior court. as successor to Judge Edwin B. Gager. who on that day be- comes a judge of the supreme court by the retirement of Judge Milton A. I 'Shumway by reason of his reaching! the age limitation of 70 years. (Continued. on Page Twelve) SIX YALE RIIIIERS 5 MAY IHSE UNIEHRHS- Judge’s Action Followed by ilamented the fact that EINEHRIIIIHAIHII, Dean’s Hint Students May Forfeit Reserve Rankings each by Judge Hoyt in the Sixth City Court Judge Hoyt ‘severely scored the students for their bolster ous conduct, which be cold Was no- thing short of an otcll I'y riot. and. e was able to} punish only six of the young man IIIIIIIIII MEN III IIIIIIIIII IIIIIIII gRemarkabiy Accurate Fire Directed by 303d Gunners at 1,800 Yards--Advancing Infantry Perfectly Cover r- oil—New Haven Lieuten- ant Gets Two Years tori Passing Worthless Checks‘ CAMP, DEVENS. Ay er. Massqdune: S—Barrage fire by machine gunsI was used in the maneuvers at the field combat range yesterday for the. school of field and staff offcers. The tire was directed by B.Company. 3’03rd Machine Gun Batialion.’ made up of Hartford men. indirect tire I THREE HIIIEHEEN ; ' EIIINII HEIRS IInstructor Loses Life at San Diego—Two Fatalities in I Texas‘ SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 5.——Civilian Instructor Stanley Coyle, 27 years old. of Coudersport, Pa. was killed, and Flying Cadet Elwyn Chapman, 26 of Brookline. Mass. was badly I l in which they were flying with another machine about 200 feet (Continued On Page Six) iVITAL NEEH HRH ERR WHEAI SAVINII Crop' Is Harvested tion of wheat products mus! b. cop- dat by the special survey of when! Administrat‘ on Sum u of June I and or this can cmrtcd. . imam.“ . Incessant hail all during the firing. The advancing infantry were covered ; injured yesfirday when the airplane collided' That rigid economy in me consump- tinued for a while longer in mode are supplies just completed by the Food ha been prep-rod and distributed by It In litlmaxed cluithc United Sme- lump of film i there are about 50.000900 burial: ofltlun lit-Idol attention ii “In “It? when! In all postdoc: at I» Unit-d sold to M plum W no ms mm mm be 30.00”“ mm leaving “.0“ W was used as the target for the hail of bullets Was out of sight of tha- lgunners The firing was extremelyI accurate and excellent from ever3I IOIIlel‘ point of view. A range of 1.800‘ ‘AI'IAIJHEH HER Zatuwiek. aged forty-four. shot and fatally Zlatlnpotnlok. aged twenty- four. of John thlznotnick. and. then killed himself, during last night. man died this morning She had re- ceived two bullets through the breast. The man ended his life with a single bullet through. the heart. notnick flat on the second floor of RHIIH WELFARE Child Welfare Department of the Connecticut War Bureau gratefullyI Iacknowledges contributions from the. followtng named numerous anonymous donors: United Sta cs Navy Will No Mailer llow III This Coast lbc Flow of Men and Munilions lo Europe Will Continue Many Enemy Submarines lEIIEHEAHIH lug every moment at this time to Boarder in “in helping the farmer find the labor , ugehofl 'and the seed which is essential if aloffilfiytgAXIEr’ 3011‘?" .iltune 15‘;st no maximum crop of food is to be grown I who were “12;“ [Rorerrslot’ins ‘E em; and Himselfh use She! this year in many cases also they city streets hero on the pi btgoana Refused‘nis Attentions are meeting requests from farmerslzo d _, 8 y __________ . lOl advice as to methods. manage were Ifnvlcte yesterday after- ment and sources of supplies Nowinoon and ined them ”0‘ E° “00 IIIIII IIIIIII RIHIRAI VI. who had participated in the actual HUSH!!!“ was AWE Work. Mill! 0 . , . “$333th um u: gagimmshogm Mixi- not mannered “escapism: be we ville tothe "Hospitlb Near Bur- (“Emu 0n M ) sommsoros, Juno 5-.»Semon “won wounded Mrs. Steamship wife I HISIAHEN HHHERR RIVER A8 BAHRE Passenger Train was to. Have Been Held While Work Train ‘Went By BURLINGTON, Vt, June 5.—A col- lision between a local The wo The affair took place in the Zlailz (Continued on Page Two) laud Winooskl today drilled five per- Isons and injured several others Sev- erelporsonswere taken to hospitals. None of the dead were passengers. The Finance Committee of the when the southbound local Cambridge, for as from‘ light as well was due to a mistake in ”.0rders W. H. 'Ahrens . (continued on Page Three) work engine had passed north passenger train and I. work train on the Centi‘oi IVermont Railroad between this city The accident occurred in a tunnel from Burlington crashed ‘headon into a work engine running It is claimed that the accidetnt 01' the passenger train which shoald have been held at Winooaki until the - Submarine on Sunday1 Survivors oi Torpedocil- Slil Tell Thrilliug Stories of?" Mack and Rescue. Daniel“ .“ g: 3) J \ WASHINGTON. June 5. —-Whalever the Aim the submarine raid on the Atlantic co number of submarines hereafter may c" -I'Mn s! tions to France. Secretary Daniels said today. “The area duty of our navy.” said he.“ is to keep open the door * ' France. to carry our men and munitions to the battlefront. and to ward food supplies for our co-bellill e.nts That has been accomplished thus far. and we 4 continue to keep the road open.” The Navy Department had no further advices at n today from the patrol fleet hunting down the Subm that was last heard from olf the Virginia coast. NEW YORK." June 5. —The American auxiliary schooner Samuel C. Mena'el' Is another victim of submarine.“ attack. She was sunk Sunday afternoon. 175 miles” " New York. and eleven men of her crew were bronchi 7 today by a Danish steamship. The Mouse] according to the crew. was on her way ‘ New York with a cargo from the West African coast. vessel was sunk by bombs after the men had taken to I. i iyards was used. So well did the men have the rangei down that the bullets spatterede against the side of the house in an I. l INIIUSIRIAIPLANI IIIIIIII. IIIIIIsI-is Special Observance—0n June '14th Requested by State Council of Defense INDUSTRIAL-30 PT. ' HARTFORD. June S-The publici- ty committee of the Connecticut State Council of Defense today endorsed the plan of the Council of National Defense and the United States 'BuI mu of Education for Flag Day exer- cises in industrial plants on June It. A Flu Day program for exercises during the noon hour in Industrial pinata. particularly than which are counting I- government contracts. and womaottm m It in mm that tho «new Mi um I I -- TO THE MOTHERS. FATHERS. TEACHERS. PHYSICIANS. NURSES AND ALL OTHER CITIZFNS OF CONNECTICUT. As the war progresses it is borne In upon us more and more forcibly that it is not enough to provide for the coming month or the coming vear. We must take account of the needs of the future. . . IOur problems are not peculiar to us. our allies share almost ' : all of them and have considered them well. Not the least is that of the man- power of the next generation—the citizenship of that democracy for which we are expanding every effort. England expresses this In a. single sentence: "There Is no waste so irretrievable as that of a nation which ' is careless of its rising generation.” From France comes the message: < “Double will be tomorrow the tasks of the pupil of today-— 1:31]? as intense, therefore, should be their preparation for this t ‘ I ! While our own records show that one-third of the men ex- amined in the first draft were not physically fit, may of them for causes which would have been remediable had they had proper care in childhood. “gram the Fathers, lathe". My Iwonld. madman! W-vw l boats at the. command of the U-boat commander. The Samuel C Mencel was a vessel of 915 gross tone and was built' In 1916. at Bath. Me“ her ownersof reel) being the Axim Transportation Company. ' NEW YORK. June 5 .—-A schooner. carrying C Barbour and 156 passengers and 94 of the crew o , . steamer Carolina of the New York and Porto Rico L which was sunk by a German submarine last Sand or rived here earlv today. ” All but ten of the 218 passengers aboard the New York and Porto Rico Liner Carolina. sunk by a Submarine. have been accounted for. officers of the line announced ,, morning. ' . A These figures were arrived at by checking up lnames of the passengers who arrived here today . . I schooner and those who reached Lewes. Deb. and AH I'M ‘ City. N J .. yesterday. with a list of passencers furni iby Captain Barbour. commander of the vessel. The h of the missing. it was said. would be given out later. Names of the crew are also being checked on. WASHINGTON. June 5 .—Submarine dancer is sulilcient at this time to instil'y advances in my . . marine insurance rates. the Tram “pounced . muteoflifcinsunmforolceucndcnwsof . utmhmucdinmflcthrmbthewum reduced today from twenty-live cents to fifteen ‘ .iMurou-nepdcdbdmthcmm‘ ,.