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1 Expose Plot Here for 150,000 German Army Weather Fair) continued warm to-night and to-morrow ' It Happens In Neu) York It's In The Evening World" EDITION " Circulation Books Open to All." " Circulationjlookn Open to All." PRICE TWO CENTS. CopjrliM, HUM, by Tlir I'rrw 1'iiblUhlnr Co. (Tlie New York World). NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1918. 14 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. wmmjA Wow. WW M -- CALL FOR AID BY CROWN PRINCE; 8-MILE RETREAT ABOVE MARNE U BOAT REPORTED SIGHTED 50 MILES OFF FIRE ISLAND Fails to Attack British Ship Heavy Cannonading Heard Off Cape Cod. PLANES HUNT RAIDER. Wo Warning Given Before Submarines Attacked Barges Yesterday. " A? A.TXIANTIC PORT. July 13. A SBrlblfrti steamer arriving hero to-day reported having sighted a submarine fifty milea off Flro Island during the night. "When first seen the U boat tt-as astern. It raadc no attempt to Attack. ..VKOVTNCETOWN. Mass., July 22. Heavy cannonading wan heard off chore hero at 11.45 A. H. to-day. Navnl vessels havo been off this fort hunting German submarines. 3'rovincetown harbor Is closed to all Ships. The firing appeared heaviest off a point between Coast Guard Stations .N'os, 38 and 39. Itc.sldcntM of Cahoon's follow, Nuuset and Wellflect all re ported hearing the explosions. Implosions rcHcmbllng thoso of -Jcpth bombs wero heard shortly after 4 A. M. BOSTON'. July 22. Alt the facilities at the command of the First Naval District woro brought Into play to-day In a search of Now ICngland waters for the German submarine which at tacked and sank threo barges and damaged n tug yesterday off Capo Cod within view of the Orleans shore. I'a trol vessels, larger war craft, airplanes, hydroplanes and submarines Joined In the hunt. Though the port of Itoston was not cloecd, merchant ships mid other un protected craft vvero warned of the danger of leaving the harbor. The submarine was headed south when last Ecen yesterday, but naval authori ties expressed the opinion that t ho boat might bob up again off the New Kngland coast. SUBMARINE REPORTED SIGHT ED ON SATURDAY NIGHT. Heports to the headquarters of the First Naval District here Indicated the presence of the submarine In this vicinity since Saturday. Cnpt. Orrln Hartlett of I'lyruouth reported that about dusk Saturday night he sighted the periscope, of a submarine four mllej off the port of I'lymouth. A feature of tho attack yesterdny near Orleans was tho fact that the mibmcrxlblo nncned lire without warning. In nil other roportcd cases of attack upon un American coastwise boat warning was given. Three w.omen. a young girl and two boyB wero among tho thirty. two perso' . forced to take to smnll boats and run th. rink of the U boat shells. John llotovich. an Austrian, n mem ber of the tug's crew, had hts right arm almost blown off by a piece of bhell. Ho protwiblv will lose tho arm. Cajit. Charles Alnaleo of one of tho barges was wounded In both arms by shrapnel and John Vltz, also a mem ber of tho lug crew had a hand blown off. Tho attack laited for more than an hour and wn.s witnessed by many persons three miles away on tliore. The tug w.i.i the rt i Amwoy, owned by Hie l. lugli i'o.i! mil led of threo empty barges und one Continued on Sixth I'age.) tKNOTII JlUII.niNO FOOD. 703 ttj, JLdrt IPLOT IS EXPOSED 10 RAISE ! GERMAN AMY OF 150,000 HERE TO INVADE CANADA Strentsch, Held as Enemy Alien, Said to Have Planned to Organize Reservists. ALSO AIMED AT MEXICO. Physician Believed by U. S. Officials to Be Unrecognized Brother of Kaiser. Government otllclals to-day seized corrc.pcmdcnco that rcvralcd Fried rich August Richard von Strentsch. an elderly phyttelan held as an enemy alien, headed a movement to organize German reservists In New York State for an Invasion of Canada. Von Strentsch was arrested a week ngo Saturday and Is now held at tho Raymond Street Jail. Government officials said they had reason to be licvo he Is an unrecognized brother of the Kaiser. The Department of Justice said the correspondence showed that the plot extended from Kovombcr. 1915, to April 20. 1017. Thu letters seized exposed n plot with many ramifications against the Allied cause. tSomo of tho lcttcrsiwcre from an American citizen and others were from a wealthy woman. Thoso from tho woman were said to have been of tho most Incriminating na ture. Cermans to the number of 150,000 wero to have been gathered Into a fighting force and were to have been drawn from New York City as well as all parta of the State. They were to have gono into Canada and curry on a guerilla -warfare with the Idea of compelling tho Dominion, to pro tect her own safety, to erase sending troops from Canada. Von Strentsch also planned mili tary nctlon In .Mexico, according to the papers seized, lie was to havo aidnd tho lawless bands that have been making war on tho United States. Part of the plan was tho reorganization of tho Mexicans' ar tillery' forces. As a former officer In tho German Army von Strentsch apparently considered hlmsch fitted for this work. Another part of tho plot was an attempt to get German spies Into tho Government service in Washing ton. Tho investigation Into von Htrentsch's activities wns carried on by officers of tho Naval Intelligence Hureau. One lotter. dated Oct. 15. 151C. reads: "Tho Canadians at Hrldgc burg havo asked for help as they are in fear of Germans In this vicin ity. Hrldgeburg 1 about twenty-live miles from here." This would Indicate that tho corre spondent wns writing from a pl.ico near lluffalo. inasmuch as Hrldgo. burg is Just across tho Niagara River, about seven miles from lluf falo. Hrldgeburg Is tho Canadian terminal of tho International llrldgn, which connects tho United States and C.uiada at this point. Another letter, written a few days later, read: h.ive been thml:i-.' over t! Mtuat.on In Nen York u.d wondering why ou ,ind your ico.uoo men do not go into gut-her .md pir. vent I'.in.id.i l rum -Hiding un- muir men to help the lirltlsh." TIhmo letters were from an Ainer. can woman who, It :a tielievi-d, wis a tool of von Strcnsch In the plot. .(Continued on Second. Pjt.) MERCURY 92 AT NOON; : ONE WOMAN DIES OF HEAT Waithcr Experts Say It Will Be Hotter-Humidity Falls Steadily. Here's tho way tho mercury climbed to. day: Temperature. Humidity. 8 A. M 76 degrees 9 A. M 81 degrees 60 10 A. H 85 degrees 4 11 A. M 88 degrees 4 5 12 Noon 92 degrcra 30 1 1 M 91 degrees 32 1..10 1. !SI 91 degree 32 2 1 3L 92 degrees 30 3 I. St 92 degress 20 Tho sidewalks wero sizzling to-day with the hottest day of tho year, and the hottest July 22 Klnco 1S85. Just tho faintest Husplciou of a breeto fanned tho air. and thu humidity kept going clown an the tnoruury went up, a saving grace from sunstroko and pro-rtratlon. Tho predlctliu wua that thu mer cury would go still higher and put jiMtonlay's hot day In tho shade. The, day isn't tho hottest for July by several degrees. Ixutt year and tho yir beforo tho thermometer re corded 90. Whllo working in tho plant of tho Hoffman Kraft Uhfinlrat Company at No. 538 l'orter Avenue., Williams burg, Sirs. Alice Delaney was over come. Sho died before tho arrival of Dr. Icvy of tho Gretmpulnt Hospital. Mrs. Delaney lived at No. 84 Dt-bo-volso Avenue. Her husband Is an In valid. Dorothy .McGill, four years old, of No. 754 .Manhattan Avenue, wis over como and removed to the Grecnpolnt Hospital. Others overcome by the heat to day were: Robert Glotter, fifteen, a schoolboy, of No. 1316 St, John's Place, dropped unconscious at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. Removed to Hrooklyn Hos Pltal. John Alphonson, forty-two, a car penter, of No. 92 40th Street, ovor como nt No. 3910 Fifth Avenue. At tended by surgeon from Norwegian Hospital and removed to his home. Klizabeth Kearney, tlftey-slx. of No. 2062 Kant 10th Street, fell ascend ing Flatbush Avenuo station of Fulton Street elevated. Token to Hrooklyn Hospital. Frank Sheridan, twonty-soven, a clerk, living at No. 3.11 West 21st Street, was nttended at thu 40th Pre. clnct Station and removed to SL I.aurenco Hospital. Thomas McQuailo, fifty-eight years old, a laborer, living at No. 332 Water .Street, was overcome at No, 130 Jano Street and wan removed to SU Vin cent's Hospital. Jut in slightest breeze tempered tho climbing tncrcuiy. All the cars trolley, rlevated and subway and trains for tho seaside were Jammed at sn early hour nnJ the Ulggost crowds of the year were nt the beaches and In tho park. Six wire drowned yegtenlay while Hfedlni; relief from the heat. They wero rreduri'-k Huff. Stalin Island. .Soatnui .1 1 Ma.' ii" of llio N'.nul Itficrviii , Ulni. r Mr fee, - v eii.. N'.i '.tO'j llrn-j ! I'liarli' ltei.1 evr.teen: Vnlen Iligliv. es.ni. ltihwiv. N J, and J.ni'i IU,'..ic, i, Itamblersvtlle, t. 1 riu; u'otu.ii TitAVKi, nimcAi). An.! Pullur (WwW) IViiiMir, M-m I'M nw, .N. Y. (itj, Tfintmt lliiikmw VXD, Ook urn for Itattv ul mli avm Aw i4 bum. Montr sraen ua uinaa' ttMcsa M ONE MILLION AMERICANS? ACHI TEN MILLION FIGHTING, GERMANS CONVINCED NOW Prisoner Who Was a Baker Here Says Soldiers Have Changed Minds Since Thursday. WITH. THK AMERICAN ARSIY ON TUB AISNI3 FRONT, Sunday, July 21 (Associated Press). A Oennau prisoner captured by tho Amerl cans to-day formerly was a bal;r In New York City and Lebanon, Pa. IIo was asked what tho German soldiers thought about the Amorlcans. Since Thursday, tho prisoner said, tho Gormans bad concluded that tho announcement that a million Americans wero In Franco was falso and rumors among tho Germans on this front are that there aro ten million Americans In France. $145,000,000 MEAT ORDER IS PLACED FOR THE ARMY Qucago to Furnish 99,560,000 Pounds of Bacon and 13-1,000,000 of Canned Products. I CHICAGO. July 22. The Oorern . ment's latest mrt order, received at the stack yards to-day, Is iraJd by I packers to break all records. It calls for 99,CO).O0O pounds of bacon and 1.14,- OW.000 pounds of canned moats for the army. The oart will run twtween IHO.ono.000 and fH5.000.000, it la said, or which fl30, OuO.OOD will go to growers of livestock. Deliveries are to be completed by Jan. 1. LH9. EIGHT HURT IN TROLLEY CAR WRECK IN BROOKLYN Crowded Car Jumps Track on Wallabout Basin Bridge at Hcwes Street and Washington Avenue. Ulght persons were slightly Injured to-day when a crosstown car, north bound. Jumped the rails on tho Wulla bout Dasln Hrldge at Howes Street and Washington Avenuo, Hrooklyn. All were treated by physldana from the Williamsburg Hoeupital and ent to their homes. The bridge had Just been set In plac when the car tried to cross. When It struck tho place where the tracks Join It It Jumped and threw thoee on tho roar platform off the air. Tho oar was crowded at the time. All tho windows of the car wero gnvuihed and the upper part of the car was lifted from the trucks. MARNE VICTORY AT SEA, TOO. Destroyer Slnlta V Hunt an Germans Crass Itlvrr, IX).ST)ON, July 22 The same dv the Germans were driven a cross the Marno (Saturday), a German subma rine was sunk by the lirltlsh destroyer Marne, the Admiralty announces to-day. DAMAGED U BOATS AT KIEL. Ila.r llrporlnl I'lllril Willi III. ii Mr it Craft. GDNDVA. July 22 The submnrine base nt Kiel is filled with submarines undergoing repairs, according to ad vices reaching here from Hamburg, AIR RAID ON PARIS FOILED. fiermnn Mnrhlnr Driven Off In H117 llghl Attarli. PARIS, July 22 A (Jermin airplane I made an unsuecful nt'.empi to rwu h I the legion of Pans to-da It w n I driven off b the 1'rciw.h a nti u 1 1 ruft I fire R A C I N G ESULTS, Paae 2 ENTRIES, Page 6 AMERICANS CUT FRENCH GAIN HERE'S THE GERMAN EXCUSE FOR RETREATING ACROSS MARNE "Object Had Been Attained," Says Cologn6 Gazette "Not Dangerous to Go Back to Save Unnecessary Losses." AMSTERDAM, July 22. "Tho withdrawal of our troops to tho northern bank ot the Marnu came as no surprise to well informed circles becauso tho supremo command had conll dentlally communicated 1U Intention beforehand," says the Cologne Gazette,, and adds: "The object which tho forcing of tho Mama had In view was attained. Thereto It did not appear dangerous to retreat locally In order to savo unnecessary losses." BARBILL0N WOOD CAPTURED BY THE AMERICAN TROOPS; FRENCH ADVANCE EIGHT MILES Stubborn Resistance and Use of Gas Shells Fails to Stop Allied Drive Across Marne and Northward. LONDON, July 22. American troops ytstealay crossed llie River .Marne between Clurtevcs and Gland, east of Chatrau-Thierry, and cap tured the Wood of ll.u billon, according to authoritative announcement made In-rc to-day. (Gland la two miles east or Cliutean-Thlrrry and Charteves la flvu or Blx miles up tliu Marne. 1 The capture of Barbillon Wood means that the Americans have ad vanced between three and four miles from their old position on the Marne. On every front the Germans are resisting desperately and are mak ing violent counter attacks. Nevertheless, the French troops yesterday made progress along llie Uiver Maine to a maximum depth of eight miles. llie Germans stubbornly resisted the French crossing of the river, but the French succeeded in getting two elements over at Mezy and Courcelles, which arc constructing foot bridges under heavy fire. The Germans are using gas shells In large numbers. Between the Ourcq and the Aisne the Germans again are making violent counter attacks, but the French are maintaining their lines. The object of the enemy counter attack probably is to expedite the withdrawal of his troops from the pocket between Soissons and Rheims. Meanwhile German troops on the southern end of the pocket must be experiencing great difficulty in getting supplies. Southwest of Rheims there has been heavy fighting and tlie F'rench have made progress. Between the Ourcq and the Marne itivers the French yesterday took -1oo prisoners. HONDURAS DECLARES WAR; -23D GERMAN FOE Decree Issued on July 19, Legation at Washington An nounces. WASHINGTON'. July 22 -Ilnmlurai riiflan-d war cm (ii-rmany on July 10. the legjtlon nmiiiiinerd to-day. Hu'idii'M !. 'lie twrnty-t.i id nation to deciiire ir on i ii'iin.in . MrrlllnK Itrturn In llnllra Aflrr III lllnr.. j AMSTU'II'A.M. July 3:- -Vtrjnt vo-i Ilertllng. the Jerman Imperial (,lia-i-cellor who has been In Inn c.iro of phy sicians at main headquarters, ha. re covered from hi lndiMisliion and liai fully ruutntl his duties. "WE GLORY IN DEATH," CHANTED 300 CZECHS ON WAYJTO EXECUTION Soldiers Taken by Austrians in Fighting With Italians Defv Captor to lind. BIlHN'i:, July 22 Tilt en hun dred t'ri!is i.ipiured by the Austrinns In the rieeut fighting with the Italians wero exocuted by shooting, ndvlces re celved llro (date. "Wo go to our death calmly and gladly, glorying In It," they chanted as they went to their execution. RAILROAD; NEAR SOISSONS Fighting Grows Heavier Each Hour, but Heavy Concentration of Troops Fails to Stop Progress of the Allies Number of Unwound ed Prisoners Greater Than Total Allied Casualties. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE FRONT, July 22 (Associated Press). The Germans nre clinging desper ately to the line south of Soissons in an effort to protect their flanks. Tho Americans, fighting on this front, have completed the cutting of the narrow guagc railway to Chateau-Thierry. PARIS, July 22. Pushing in south of Soissons, the French have crossed the Soissons-Chateau-Thierry Road, north of Ville montoirc, opposite Ru.nncy, the Temps announces. Villetnonloire is five and a half miles south of Soissons. Buzancy is about a mile and a half northeast of Villcmontoire, on the easterly side of the SoLssons-Chatcaii-Thicrry mad.l The Allied advance is approaching this road still further to the north. On the front to the west of Soissons the situation has remained stationary. Tlie Germans are offering desperate re sistance to the Allies in the entire Soissons area, as the grave con sequences to them of a withdrawal from tho town are apparent, and the struggle is continuing with great severity. CROWN 1'KINCE GETS AID FROM THE NORTH. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, July 22 (Asso ciated Press). Frederick William, the German Imperial Crown Prince, has been obliged to call for help from his cousin, Crown Prince Rupprccht of Bavaria. German divisions from the army in the north have been hurried down to protect tho western flank ot the defeated army which has been driven back over the Marne and ejected from Chateau-Thierry by Franco-American troops. Despatches from London show that American troops have advanced three or four miles from the Marne and that the French advanced to a maximum depth of eight miles. The region immediately south of Soissons forms the key of the German position, and here the enemy has concentrated heavy forces for the purpose of holding hack the advancing tide of the Allies. The latter continue their progress, although tlie fighting is becoming heavier each hour. They have taken many prisoners, the number being more than has been announced, and new batches of captives are arriving. The number of unwounded prisoners alone far exceeds the total casu alties of the Allied troops since the victorious advance began. AMERICANS DRIVE AHEAD OVER HALF MILE AN HOUR NORTH OF THE MARNE RIVER U. S. Guns A re Firing On Soissons and Oulchy-Le-Chateau Has Been Reached Allied Artillery Also Across Marne. Willi THti UkKK: U.vilt:s l MtWCE. July 22 (United Press). The Americans continue to advance from the Mirne, and are beyond BzihSt. .Germain k(five miles northeast of Chateau-ThlenyX 'as cm 1 i 4'