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BIG TRANSPORT SUNK FIGHTING 8 U BOATS WEATHER Probably thundtr showers to-nlghtj cooUr. " Happens In New York It's In The Evening World" " Circulation Books Open to AIL" "Circulation Hooks Open to All." PRICE TWO CENTS. Copjrlf.it, 11M8, by The I'rrM IliblUtilnx Co. (The New York World). NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1918. 18 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. JJl EDITION J ALLIES GAIN i S nPMnnPAK iuuimu FOR I Landslide to Aldermanic Presi dent at Convention at Saratoga. SLATE PUT THROUGH. Seabury Creates Stormy Scene by Attack on Tam many. OpecUl From Buff r- -mltnt of Tb T'ta Ins .i.Hd.l SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. T.. July Alfred K. Smith. President of the New York Hoard of Aldermen, to day received the Indorsement of tbo Democratic Convention for Governor. Whatever Influence Wllllnm Ran dolph Hearst may have wielded with Charles V. Murphy, leader of Tam many Hall and head of tho Stato emocruiic iorcca, was nwepi name 1st night when nn ultimatum was srved by leaders of thlrty-tlvc up- state counties that they would or- Kanlzc an open revolt and put a ticket of their own Into the field unless Hearst wus eliminated entirely from the race. Smith' choice was made unani mous, though I'utnam County, the home of William Church Osborn, wns recorded on the roll call as "not voting:." Samuel Seabury cost one half a vote for Mr. Osborn. The rest of tho slato presented to the convention went throufih un.uil mously. It follows: For Governor Alfred. E. Smith of New York. For Lieutenant Govomor Harry C, Walker of Binghamton, For State Comptroller Bird 3. Coler of Brooklyn. For Secretary of State Franklin E. Bard of Gowanna, Erie County . For Attorney General Charles Morschauser of Dutchen County, For State Engineer Dwinht B. Ladue of Washington County, For State Treasurer Jacob G. Cohen of Westchester. The ticket la absolutely void of Hearst Influence. Hlrd S. Coler wan named because John H. McCoocy, Democratic loader of Kings County a Hearst mun, did not want him. (As soon as the convention opened Clerk Van Namce called the roll of counties. The first response, which came from Albany, was made by William V. Cooke, After a lengthy speech ho named Alfred K. Smllh of Now York and tho hall rang with cheers nnd applause. Cooko said the Democratic Party needed a Governor who would enforce tho pledges the party made In last nitrht'H platform. Ho must bo a man of force, ability and Integrity, said Cooke. "Dunne many years at Allium it was m pleasure to wulrh one wn always eommanded the respeet of both friends mid foes, one who wa.s declared l Ivlihu I toot at tho ("cm Mltutmnni Convention lo possess one of tho Keenest intellects on (iovern- CContinucd on Fourth Vatf.) Socliil .Vote. Sir, and Mrs. William Itandolph Hesrit leave for California to-morrow, loto son tot several month. . GOVERNOR UNANIMOUSLY HEARS ENTIRELY NDORS F .NEXT LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE I FROM SEPT, 28 TO OCT, 19 i Treasury Practically Decided on Three Weeks' Campaign for Fourth Issue. WASHINGTON. July IN. The Treasury virtually has decided to hold the Kounh Liberty Loan campaign in tho three weeks' period between Satur day, Sept. 2. and Saturday, Oct., 19,, The length of the drive will bo re duced from tho usual four wcoks, with tho hope of averting the usual slump of ; lnterc.it In the middle of the campaign. , Reasons pronrptmi; nffklals to ehooso thesv dates Included the fact that far ' niers during October probably can make 'liberal subscriptions from harvest pro ceeds and that It wus de.st ruble to end , thp cnnip.tlgn a wn;k or two before tho .November elections, Thou.nds of can didates for office urc expected to en roll as Liberty Loan speakers. SUBMARINES CAN'T STARVE BRITISH, ADMITS A GERMAN Tell People Truth, Says Capt. Persius, Summing Up 18th Month of U Boat Warfare. AMSTERDAM, July On the oc casion of the eighteenth month of un restricted submarine warfare, Capt. Persius, writing In the Ilcrlln Tasc blatt, said: "We must admit that the fantastic hopes entertained by soma hae fallen disappointingly short of realization. It is foolish to think our U boats can starve Kngland. We most tell the German people the truth." DEAD AND MISSING ON SAN DIEGO NOW SIX Three Were Killed by Explosion Which Caused Ship to Sink, Says Secretary Daniels. WASHINGTON, July 21. The num ber of dead nnd missing from tho cruis er San Diego, sunk last Friday off l'lro Island, New York, has now been re duced to six. Secretary Daniels said to-day. Three of tho six men wero killed by the explosion which caused tho ship to sink. Tho three men tll mlomng nre Clyde ". Illiilne of !nmltu. C.-il : John I'nul Harris of Cincinnati nnd An drew Mumon of St. I'aul. N. Y. CITY FLYER KILLED ONJALIFORNIA FIELD John Lawrence VkKenna Struck ui Head by Wint; nf Plane as Machine I auds. H.VN DIKGO, Ca. , July ;'l - I'nite John l.iwrenro MeKetina thlrt-fie jeiir old, of New York Clly, ('tilted States Army Aviation .Service, wns killed at North Uland to-da whin the wing of an ulrplnne struck luni on the htud us the machine wuj laiuling. . ron TIH5 NKHVKS - , ., Hprfonl' Acid IMiMuliatu Quick); UiuflcUl for nniUelir. Irrptrmnu, SMITH FORSAKEN Liner Justicia, U. Sunk in Fight With U Boats ; I ... j rfQ NEW YORK WOMAN I AIDING WOUNDED IN PARIS FINDS OWN SON: Mis Cry of "Mother" Gives Her Hirst News That He Had Been Engaged in Battle. PARIS, Tuesday, July 23. ANEW YORK woman attached to tho American Hod Crosi happened to lo In Paris to day and volunteered to help In tak ing care of the wounded coming In from the tmttlelleld. She was work ing busily when btartlcd by a loud cry of "Mother!" Turning. fho saw her own son, n young Lieutenant In the Ameri can Army. Ho hud been wounded in tho leg by shrapnel In the fight ing on Monday. Tho first news sho had had that her son was en gaged in tho battlo wns when she heard his cry. Sho obtained per mission to accompany her son to a hoipltal. After seeing that ho was attended to sho went back to tho station to cheer, as sho suld, tho boys who hnd no hopo of llnd Ing a mother to wcleomo them. Tho mother Is a prominent so. clnl worker In Now York and has been doing Kcd Cross relief work among tho refugees In Trance. Her work usually Ueops her In the south of Franco. BETTING ALREADY ON SMITH Ciiiiinlilntit-r Him iSllt.oiMI nf Tnm liliili) Motif) Tlmt He'll Win. Iere Guard, n handles mmv lug hots on i he einh, ,i he has ln?en lotn nilsslnned h a pimmm nt T. unman. Hall man to iil.no IIO'iuo at eo,i money that Mfrul K Smuh will be tlii next Goernoi of N'e York THE Mdltl.II THAVKI. BimRAD, Xntit. rnlltKr (WorMI IIiUdii, MOB Pw lUm. N. T. CHj, IVMimm Ikrkun 4000. Qck room far busao snd pwotb moa dsr sol ntsht, ,Hntr im s4 Unlin' slwcks U IN BATTLE TO-DAY; AVALRY I S. Troopship, KAISER A WITNESS TO PRINCE'S DEFEAT BY U, S. AND FRENCH Went to Champagne and Saw Mis Son Get Worst Licking Since Verdun. WITH THE HIUTISH ARMIES IN 1'ItANCK. July 2( (United Press). Tho Kaiser saw the German offensive falter bofore tho Franco-American dofenso In tho Champagne, then break up and fall back before the Allied counter-offensive, acvordlnff to information received here to-day. According to the reports, tho Kal.ie.i planned to eo son Fritz well off on his trip to Paris. What he did we was tho Crown Prince getting the worst licking he has received slnco Verdun and morn Americans than he ever wanted to believe wcro In France. NEW YORKERS WOUNDED DOING RED CROSS WORK Two Hit by Shrapnel During the Franco-American Offensive, but Will Recover. PARIS, July 21 Three American Red Cross workers have been wounded dur ing the Franco-American counter offensive. Lieut. J. L. nutterfleld of New York .1 rid W. A. I'm of Iluffulu an .imtiiil tm.e driver, wire hit by shrapnel while at tending wounded iirid..r shcllllro. The were taken t) ''luntill. h"Miul an I Hill re. .vor Capt. Geo-ge K im iv wuin1rl u. verci) III the lup iI.iiihk an air i.nd D AGING lXESULTS, Pago 2 ENTRIES, Page 2 I nnnilfl A UC, KM lftiy BEYOND THE TOWN OF U. S. TRANSPORT SUNK AFTER 19-HOUR FIGHT WITH 8 ENEMY SUBMARINES World's Fifth Biggest Liner Was Returning After Land ing 10,006 Americans. LONDON, July 24. Tho giant Whlto Star liner Justlclu, says a Hclfast de spatch to-day, was sunk off the m-rth Irish coast on Saturday morning lust. The Justicia carried a crew of be tween COO and "00. Three toritdoes struck tho White, Star liner Justicia Ik.-fore, sho went I down, It wus learned to-day. J The bio steamer fought eiflht Ger man submarines from Friday after , noon until she sank Saturday morn inj. Might U boats attacked the Justicia ut 2.10 Friday afternoon. Two tor- pedoo, of Hoven llred, struck the ship, but she kept on her course. Tho attack was renewed Saturday morning. Three more torpedoes wero llred. One of them struck her at 9.J0 and started her sinking. Tho Justicia wns formerly the Dutch steamer Stntendam, which was taken over by the Hritfih Govern ment on the stocks at Hclfast when she was nearlng completion, Bhc wns a vessel of 32,2.14 tons gross. One of the crew of tho Justicia Is quoted by the Holfiut Telegraph as iiiwertlnK that of ten torpedoes fired four wero exploded lay gunfire from tho ship. FIRST TORPEDO FAILED TO SEND 8HIP DOWN. The Hclfast Telegraph adds that land had just been lost sight of when a terrific explosion shook the Jus ticia. The crow was speedily mus tered on deck, but It was soon ns eortainot that tho datnago was so trivial that the liner would remain afloat for a sulllclent period to cn ablo hor to bo towed to port. A tug pulled alongside tho liner for this purpose when two more tor pedoes were fired by a submarine which had not been sighted. Further attempts wero madi by the submarine to torpedo the Justiei.i during Friday night, but all failed, nnd It was not until Saturday morn Ing and after the submarine had ex pended numerous torpedoes that t.i destruction of tho ship was accom plished. Then a torpedo struek the engine room, causing a violent explosion. The liner did not sink until 2 o'clock In the afternoon, und tho e was plenty of time to transfer the new to other tesculng ships. AN IRISH PORT, July 21 (by the Associated I'ress). Four hundred of Hie crew of the lorpedovd llnur Jus tin. i hae been landed oeie. The) report that the liner was sunk after ,i twentj-four-huiir light with sub. ni.irlnoH. N.j passengers were lost md onl ten uf tho crow were killed. The first torpedo struck the engine room und the ship then htopju'd. Several other torpedoes were llnd, (Continued oa Second I'ugc) T TTlAAnc inn nnnrPM 1 KUUr 15 10 CHECK ALLIES Area Lost by Foe in Week, Says March, Equals Flan ders Gains in April. WASHINGTON, July 2(. The ad vance of tho Allied and American forces around the Alsnn-Marno salient has been practically steady for the last two days, Gen. .March, Chief of Staff, said to-day, despite th) fact that fifteen fresh divisions of Herman troops havo boon thrown nto the fighting at Solsson.i and on the line south of there, On tho ithelms side of the salient official reports show the enemy bus been thrown back nn avorago dis tance of a mllo and a half on a ten mile front, despite heavily woodei' country and high ground to aid his defense. The area lost by tho Gormnns dur ing tho last week, tho General su'd, about equals that gained by them on tho Flanders front In April. Tho Gcrmani are lighting desperate ly to retain the slnglo railway lino re maining In their hands over which heavy material can bo removed us they retreat, 5n. March said. If that railway, running from Fl.suicM to Fere-en-Tardenols, Is reached by the Allied troops, (icn March said, German forces remaining in the salient will bo pocketed. Tho French attack of yesterday north of Montdldlcr on tho Plcardy front Is viewed, Gen. March said, as a local operation not directly in volved In the stratugy of the Ai.ine Mar no battlefront. It has great value, how over, ho said, as It serves to keep tho Germans guonnlng. The t'hlcf of Staff s.ild the Ameri can divisions mentioned last Satur day us involved in thu lighting still constantly onua'-i-d, He added n additional American units to those already known to be on the linn in this region. Gen. March announced that lie hail urd'ti'd six new infantry divisions oianUcd In thli countr) during July, Mlntioiied rcspeetlvily at Camps Huveiis, Mass , Mi ado, Mo ; Sheridai., Ala ; Custer, Mkli : Fiinston, Kan s.ih and t. win, Washington Two Itegiilar Infantry regiment, will form the nucleus of curb ne v division. Iloiiin Guards have re pi, lied Regulars at inteilm ;iiarl posts for this purpose, and the lligu lars aii now moving to the cam designated. Gm M.ireli iuid. sid" from tho two inftinir) regiments f Kegulars, the divisions will lio com posed uf National Army troops. o Advtcs to tho.. wbo .nt la sell Ihilr I.IIIKI1TV IIO.Nl Don't. Adulfo to tho who mini Mil Oa to ttlux JIulx A Co,, Si U j a4 bruxjKs-Air. UTICA NEW DIVISIONS OF GERMANS FAIL ACTION IC Utl V CVS Chatelet Forest, Also on Line North of Thierry, Cleared of Nearly All Enemy Troops, While to North ward Resistance Is Being Over come by Franco-Americans. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON'THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July 24 (Awociated Pre) Along the line north of Chateau-Thierry the Franco-American forces have driven the Ger man, out of nearly all of the Chatelet Forest. The Allied advance was made in considerable jumps in that area. The Germans continuing: their rearguard fighting and de pending much upon their machine guns. American cavalry was used at one point in the operations. Tii.i Is the first time American cavalry has been reported In this war. A dosputch to tho United Trcsd says cavalrymen arc aiding as Grenadiers nn horseback. , Further to the west the Americans gained the ascendancy over the Germans and drove through beyond the town of Epied.i. To the northward, the most intense resistance was offered along the extended German right flank, but the reports are that the Allies have made gains and that the Germans have been unablo to halt the movement toward their lines of supplies. STAND ON PRESENT LINE ORDERED BY CROWN PRINCE; OUTFLANKED NEAR OULCHY Further Allied Successes in That Region Would Imperil the 400,000 Germans in the Rheims-Soissons Pocket. PARIS, July 24 (United Press). French and American troops, overcoming bitter resistance, are progressing northeast of Chateau-Thierry and south of the Ourcq. The enemy position at OuIchy-le-Chatcau (which already is reported to have been rendered untenable by the Allies) is out flanked. It is reported thnt the Crown Prince has suddenly changed his plan and ordered the retreat to stop. He will, with fresh troops, attempt to make a stand on his present line. Further Allied successes under these conditions would im peril more than 400,000 Germans in the Soissons-Rheims pocket, as their forces within the salient have grown to that figure. GERMANS ATTEMPT DRIVE SOUTHWEST OF RHEUMS, BUT ALLIES FORCE THEM BACK Artillery Action Between the Aisne and the Marno and in Neighborhood of Rheims. FRENCH REPORT) I'AKIS July 2t. The tk'riiians lust night delivered a counler- attack upnn the Allied lines in the vicinity ot Vrignv, live miles southwest of Klieims. The War Oilice announced to-day that the attack had been repulsed. There was great activity by the artillery during the night along the from between the Aisne and the Marne and northeast toward Rhclnis, Pnllnudno' U Hll lvl rf ihm rtnnri !ccn i li Ua Wir OlTi-. . w,.w ,- W, .,v IV'UII UJ III. ,U SIIHW . "1 hi- nlp-hf W!t mirVivl tiu EPIEDS irrl 9rtlllrvni-tlvltu l-uliur.n V, r