K WWu'lv A'tdllL:- ITLi t m mmmoF germ an people's' ExtiAumofWvrBrsmM ,( -i .wt BCBSwanEW waUAjlk '& 'fWftj r sa..Wel -., 'tT'r, i 1 1 m.vm&'xti ,m i m 5-r MS 5? im l' F,V' kV IALTY LISTS tY 144 NAMES msylvania Men in of Battle Announced -i Today K' lIK' , f.-. KAdJLJLtU IN ACTION ? V Announces 81, While arine Roll Numbers rartjK fKfri- 63 Heroes sV. 9.9 -., . .. ,B 'rj. KiimRiDn, June ia. itjr-one casualties In the American ltlonary forces were announced by "War Department today, divided ns . -llgMrot kilted In action, ten died nf MlMi, ftlx from disease, one from nc- jttMnt. fifty-two wounded severely and Wr. Wounded, decree undetermined. .(-llA ffinAn Hntlnn,i1 I., ,ha n. wftvjAii... ,i. nvwmuuiy hsi were: ftWn); kii.i.kd in action nt- Captain i ' -1- . . ;WBUl-IAia, JEWETT, Athene. Ql, Ijfi&D died or nnt'Mis .tf?. . WfS" Captain fcirNdDENDOnF. AMRIi FRKT. Snltzer iy,frxl 8EVEBEI.Y VOI'MIKD Lieutenant WSii:JVttf. ntrssrf.r. a Washington KWOCNDED (DEGRRK l'MKTER.MINKIH W'C'?' Lieutenant ikBtVES. ELMER E . Jr.. Wohnrn. Mil" jyjjr'ifhe offlcera In the marine casualty Hat KILLED IN ACTION Lieutenant W ." &HsPBINSON. CALDWELL C, Hartford. L&'CBOWTHEn ORLANDO C Canton. Ill NWHNI8. CLARENCE A . Hai-kensack X J 'S- ' Lleutenanta ', '.KlTTfARD. CHARLES II . Spoksn- Wash WHY. RICHARD w . Oreenaboro. Ala HT. CHARLES I. S.nlcklO. Ta RTON. WILLIAM A . Matapan. Boston H. WON, HAROLD V . North Hreen r.rj. BERTS. CHARLE9 D. Cleeland. O .ii-jvcwib rni.uciLi i itrownsviiip, ix lfc-- J, PfJbUEKS, JAMES MCBKIUK, LXII10I1 Ke. tfnr.T.TriAT'. nAVIS A Marlon K r jjj, aWWliINO, JOHN B., Jr., Upper Marlboro rX 'Tlw army casualty Hat waa aa follows: j;t KILLED IN ACTION p,WJ Captain 'WHjLIAMS. JEWETT. Athens, Ga. i . ;fffi Serf eant IE. HASSO ADOLPH, Rice. Minn. Corporal INCJ. WILLIAM. Cuba. Kan. Private RON. JENE C. Clear Lake. la LLT. THOMAS J. New York city. JOHN C, Clol. Cal. 8. WALTER W . 8-tockton. Cal. WSKI. STANLET, Dtrolt. DIED OF WOl'NDS Corporal THANK. 7!08 Hermltate street. urch. r. rrltatea JOHN. Souin Fork. Ta. K. CLTDE. Excelsior Springs. Mo. DN, THOMAS a . S Medford, Mass. FRANK. Detroit. ALOIS A . St Loula. Mi. (SAN. CO VAN D.. Bernlce. La. LEN. THOMAS J.. Superior. Wio. CLTDE LORN-EX. Elmlra. Mich. ,.1f iKs. m -'teal mil p'aAJ - DIED OF DISEASE ''" erieant WrCKERSON. OEORUE FRANCIS. 255 , ist inatana avenue, i-nuaoeipnia, i'a. $!$ffii r'"'" ST. JAMES F.. Old Forge. Ta. BW, ORVAL. New Gretn. &. J. P.BPA-BT. .TflSKPH. T.ih.rtv. tv'an. '-' a-- ..., ... ...... VVMtKAOE, HENRV, Wynn. Ark DIED OF ACCIDENT j?V. Private aWCPODURAS, JOHN. Zurutolro, Minsk, Ruasla. Xh Sergeant MIEaAX. JAMES J.. 201 East Ninety- kaavonth street, N York city. AtE, CHARLES. Brooklin. Corporals a Tnui. rs nvin H....J .-. Loula. ET, JAMES T.. Charlestoirn, Mass. iRN. CLTDE -H.. Butler, 8. D. nOBERT O., Waycross. Ga. BON. SIDNEY S.. Tarentum. Pa. JOHN B.. Dunkirk. Jf. T. Wagoner "Tfe r ZEmol kh tffJOtX. LESLIE IL, Sallna. Okla. tfi n .'' PrlnlH r lis. MARCE. Manchester. Tenn. KEN. CHARLES, Ironuood, Mich. ITN. WILLIAM C. Crossvllle. Tenn. RTNSKI. WILLIAM. South Bend, Ind. L-KEN. Dorothy. W. VI. ILESKI, JOSEPH J.. Mount Carmel. GHERTT. KENNETH L.. Centervllle. MICHAEL. Elberta. Ala. HBOD. MAX. Newark. N. J. 4E8SY. JOHN V . Rochester. N. T. 18. WALTER EVERETT, cnarlottel- " Hla, Va. i-mgm sLMsii tt.'lUTES. ROBERT O.. Marietta, S. C. '.'JACOBS;- JAMES. Chicago JroSE, CLARENCE P., Raynhara Center, S JHr". L., rxuiirv, aiaranueia. iib. LUR, HOdEA. WUIe Platte. La. DECKER. LEOPOLD. Wan Francisco. ITTON,- LESLIE II . Livingston, Ky. VIS, UHAHLE3 r; , weiser. laano. ICHEHN. LlulntMur., ueiano, -Minn. (KIE. TON I. Chicago. riELu, Uja -N , rark. ind. ARTHUR W . Lawton, Okla. 4L. HARKV A . Sclluate, Mass. ALBERT w , iiuuerviiie. ma. IE, OLIVER. Morton. Mlsj. ID, ALECK. Tacoma. Wash. JALL. BERTIE W . St. Louis T JOHN F., Fall River, Mass. HO. ANGELO. rrassazo. Italy. JAN. ROBERT, Oakland, Cal. .'ROBERT R., 203 Vine street. Johns- Cambria county, ra. MS. JOB. Hughett. Tenn. rSEE. JOSEPH D.. Klnston. N. C. AWALTER M Coal Springs. 8. D. OAKLEY O., Flint, Mich. ADELBERT E.. Norton. Mass. WILBER. Olendlve, Mont. I-BROOK. BOYD. Chesnee. S. C. ,l.liLPLEY. GEORGE. Chlcopce Falls, rMAN. NELSON L.. Alpena, Mich. RE. VERNON J.. Covington. Ky. BED tUEUKKK UAUKTrJHHIEU) ',-, !MV -.' pU Sergeant IT, RUSSELL H Lancaster, Pa, ! Wagoner RD, LKWIO A., uia, m. rrlrale 4ET. MARTIN, Clare. Mich. tt rnarine corps casualty liat fol- ? mivn ik .trrinv :j f3 Corpora! KARL WILSON. Pi-y, O. , Privates r, ktAKviA; vvainuv masr, rttfc J. BERNARD. Blnghamton, N. Y. ff- .i.-iViU 1'llWlHn Mrlrir. VtClOK 'EDWARD. Cnn; UCVELT WOPNDEU Corporals SMafcri"'LIA: LOUIH. Pittsburgh. Pa. WATJW.V, Snaron, Pa,, W tb 2K Jy's tPBv'aP', "- l " " Jl ' 11 nvi HROTHERS IN SERVICE George, Granville am) William Foy (reading downward I, eons of Mr. Winifred Foy, Nineteenth and Wav erley streets who have answered the call to the color. The first two named are in France. William Foy is a guard at the New Ilrunswick, IV. J., radio station GULLICK. JOHN WILLIAM Brookneld, Mo. PICORA. MICHAEL FRANCIS. Minneapolis. Minn. Privates HOLLINSHED. TEItCY LINCOLN. Delalr. X. J. HAUC.HT. ARLIE. Falrvlw, W. Va. AUL'FF. ROBERT E., Houston, Tex. HOFFMAN, HARRY, Lancaster, O. GLOVER, HRRY LESTER, Hornrll, N. T. MORNINOSTAR, GEORGE KLEEDER, Bal timore. Md RAUSCH, JOHN EARL. Easlon, Pa. WELCIL WILLIAM FERDINAND. Clifton. Ky. MYNATT. Bl'RLIE G . Fountain City, Tenn DAVIS. OI.Al'IB ERNEST. Saginaw, Mich CLAYTON. JAMES ARTHUR, Rushvllle. Va. WOODRUFF WILBERT ALBERT. .Minne apolis, Minn, CHRISTNER EDWARD, Canal Dovr. O SARLE, JOSEPH MILTON. SprlngHeld, Mass BANKS. JOHN. Lnd, Minn. SOUZEC. JULIUS. Oakland, Cal. MILLER. FRANK DONALD. Camden. Mich. STRANGE. CLARENCE ORA, Selma. Cal. JIUMA, WILLARD JOSHUA. Lander, Mich. BAS??, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Collins. Ml as DONALDSON. HARRY HOBART. Cannons- burg. Ta HEINZ. EDWARD LEWIS. Louisville. Ky. LOWRBY. HORACE STEWART, Wllmer. Tex. CROOK FRED. Martlndale, Tex. SIEGERT, HOLDEN EDWARD. Newport. Miss. PIOSIK. ALrilONSUS MARTIN. Chester, 111 GANDT. TONY IX)UIE. Oeorgeto-n. 111. KELLY. JOSEPH BRYAN. Carrollton, 111. HTLAND, DANIEL JOSEPH, Rochester. N. Y BROWN, LEO HERBERT. Tunkhannock, Pa. JUDD. CLARENCE ALBERT. Aleiander, Kan JACKbON, OEOROE HENRY. Jr.. West rark. o. PIERCE. THOMAS FESSENDEN. Somerset, Mass. , SMITH. LUCIUS' HAROLD, Hillsdale, Mich. MARLETTE. CLAUDE HORACE. El Ridge. N Y NELSON. CONRAD OSWALL. Tortland, Ore LAND WALTER E.NGSTROM Chicago. EVERETT, GEOROE ELBRIDOE, Revenna, O. Tail to Save Liner Ascania M. Jiilini., N1. I'., June 15. Efforts to save the f'unard liner Ascania, aground fifteen miles east of Cape Ray, failed toda. She l rapidly filling with water. All hands were saved Hindenburg Plans Meet Bitter Check Ry WALTER DURANTY Special Cable in Evening Public Ledger CoryrloM, 15l, by .Vetc Yorfc Timr Co. With the French Annies, June 15, The war situation today ia a question of time, space and effec tives. Those are the three factors of equation on whose solution de pends the fate of the world, Can the Germans reduce the Allied ef fectiveness in time to strike a fatal blow before the re-entorcements rushed acros's the Atlantic are ready to turn the scale In the At-, lies' favor? The Allies have Just won a great victory In one of the hardest-fought battles of the war, and a carefully ,nlanned move In Hlndenburs's desperate struggle against time has been met and nullified. The Ger mans have also learned to their cost that the American troops are already to be counted with. The enemy, whose morale Is daily weak ening under the strain of unsuc ce3.ses and never-endlne calls pppn his strength, has received a bitter reminder of the American menace, which, more than any .other factor, Is responsible for. his convulsive striving after a fUwedy decision 1 n. I BIG U-BOAT WAR ON COAST SEEN Successes Off U. S. Shorp May Lead to Ambitious Effort NEW ANGLE TO PROBLEM By ARTHUR II. TOLLEN Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger t envrfolif. 0fl. bv .Veic Vorlc Timtn Co. London, June IS. The recent U-boat Invasion of Amer ican waters has been so successful in tonnaRe sunk without nnv npparent compensating loss of submarines that we may he quite mire It will be re pented on n more ambitious scale. We can. I think, he equally sure that the scale cannot be Increased without the rNk. to the U-boats bcInK magnified out of all proportion, for the American navy department will certainly see that coastwise and Caribbean traffic, Is so to speak, canalized, nnd, If neces. slty nilses will extend convoy protec tion to Its more Important units. This Incident lends new Interest to the whole problem of defeating this conscienceless attempt to paralyze the world's traffic nnd once more provokes ui to nsk the question: ( Is the absolute und complete defeat of the submarine it practical possi bility? In spite of what the navy has done, and of the very changed condi tion of things today from what they wete a year ago, the problem Is still intensely serious. Not Menace, Still Nuisance Speaking at Edinburgh a week or two ago the Prime Minister confirmed, with the full authority of the Admir alty, what some observeis had already been rash enough to Infer from pub lished figures. He told us that the Ger man submarine, though no longer a menace, was still a nuisance. Hardly more than a car ago It was a menace of appilllng dimensions The Herman plan and the Herman expecta tion were to destroy a million tons of British shlDPlnir a month and to frighten I all neutral shipping off the seas Kor two weeks In the month of April. 1917. the enemy attained this rate of destruc tion, and, Indeed surpassed It In the three months April. May, June he sank between 1,300,000 and 1,400,000 tons of British shipping alone, and ery nearly tOO.OOO tons of neutral and Allied shipping. To call this a "menace" only la to understate the case. It was a sentence of death If It could have been con tinued. Today not only Is he sinking much less than half of this, but with American help we are building nearly twice as much tonnage as we were building. The Germans' Immediate strategic aim then is defeated, for Allied tonnage is growing and not diminishing More Than a Nuisance But If the word "menace" understates the position of a year ago, the word "nuisance" understates the present posi tion For In the month of April the world lost oer 400,000 tons of shipping and cargoes to correspond Dcrnburg, In his recent speech, said that the average cargo ton was worth 35 ($175). and that It cost 50 (2B0) to replace a ton of shipping. At this rate the submarine war has already cost the anti-German world more than 1,290,000,000 and must now be taxing us at the rate of over 300,000,000 (Jl, 500,000,000) a year. The economic loss, dislocation of plans and embarrassment to our military action Involved all of these are more formidable disadvantages, and the enemy can still Impose them on us. The nuisance, then, Is, in the vulgar phrase, an "awful nuisance" so bad In tact, that we are compelled to ask If the measures that have ended the submarme as a menace can be expected to put an end to It altogether, or at least 89 great ly hamstring It, if jou can hamstring a creature that has no hind legs, that Its depredations can be made neglglble. To answer this question, lno.es exam ining how the efficiency of the submarine has, In fact, been halved during the last twelve months. We can then judge whether any or all of the methods cm ployed bear In themselves hope for a complete and radical cure of this ghastly evil. Two Sides to Campaign The anti-submarine campaign may be developed into two sides. One consists of measures of defense, an Interposing between the submarine and Its Intended victim, with a view of defending that victim by a sinking or threatening to sink the submarine The other consists of measures of offense, namely, either methods of finding a submarine when at large and then pursuing It till It Is de stroyed or methods, which. If the sub marine tries to get to sea, will auto matically block Its passage or finally stop It from putting to sea. The first Involves tactics of defense, the second tactics of offense. Tactics of defense are made up as follows: First, convoying of ships by destroy eis, sloops, trawlers and submarines; second, arming of merchant ships, third, caieful stowing of cargoes, so that ships, when hit, remain afloat, fourth, camou flage Tactics of offense consist of, fifth, discovering a submarine by aircraft or hydrophone and then running.lt down by destroyers and annihilating it hy depth charges; sixth, stalking submarines at night, when they have to come to the surface to recharge their batteries; seventh, maintenance of mine barriers across routes which submarines must take to get to their field of operations; eighth, destruction of bases from which submarines Issue. Of the first group, the most effective and, If historical precedent should be the guide to policy, the most obvious Is to group ships liable to attack Into sauad- rons and send them through the dan ger zone under convoy of vessels possess ing the right armament for dealing with submarines and speed and handlneas that will enable them to" use that arma ment with the required rapidity. PLANS' CHANNEL TUNNEL Necessary to After-War Railway Line London to rekin London, June 15, The projected tunnel under the English Channel will be taken Up and carried to completion after the war. Sir Arthur Fell, chair man of the House of Commons Chan nel Tunnel Committee, speaking at a meeting In London, explained the Im portance of such a railway between England and "France. He thought it would be practicable for the line to run from London to Constantinople without break or change of gauge. Eventually, whtn normal conditions are 'restored, the line might be extended from London to Calcutta, to Cape Town and Pekln, tie saiu. RILLED IN FREIGHT- WRECK Accident to Freight Train or Philadel phia and Erie Railroad Rldietrar. Pa.. June IE. A freight wreck occurred nn the Philadelphia, ft Erie division of the Pennsylvania Ttallt 3gU- .ndjwo train- RUSSIA HAS NOTHING TO REPLACE SOVIET, IF SHE REBELS, HE SAYS Unrest in Stomach Only, With No Definite Political Program, Correspondent Believes Sees v German Advantage By ARTHUR Special Cable ta Evening Public Ledger Conurlaht. JPi bv Xew York Times Co. Moscow, June 2 (London, June 14). Ambassador Mirbach, admitting that General Krasnoff had asked the Germans for help, has officially Informed the Com missariat of Foreign Affairs at Moscow that Krasnoff's request has been defi nitely refused. From Kiev 1 learn that General Elchhorn la In favor of giving German military help to Krasnoff, but that German diplomacy opposes him. Kome help has 'actually been given. The Germans helped Krasnoff to push back Soviet troops from the rlCersldo suburbs cf Krasnoff's capital Rostov. Kranoff's capital Is no longer under the steady fire from the light artillery of his subjeqts. Soviet circles In Moscow are convinced that there Is cloe connection between Krasnoff's movements on the Don and the action of the Czecho-Slovaks In seiz ing a number of stations of the Eastern nallway, nlthough they fully recognize that the Czecho-Slovaks probably for the most part are unaware of the ue being made of them. The Czccho-Slovak rep resentative In Moscow admits that the reason for the delny In sending them to Vladivostok was the Semenoff disturb ances on the Manchurlnn frontier and danger lest these well-dlsclpllned troops DEFEAT BEFORE PARIS PROVES ALLIES' STRATEGIC POWERS Continued from Page One are so weakened that the central "coup dc grace" may be launched with better possibilities of success than now? That Is the whole problem to which the com ing weeks will give the answer. Meailwhlle the gaps In the Allied line are being more than filled by the srJ dlers of America, In whose superb spirit and physical fitness Is being added the battle training they needed What does It profit Germany If a hundred square miles of ground are won In a strategi cally unprofitable area' More precious time has been wasted, but the hour for a victorious decision Is no nearer. And Germany cannot wnlt Letters found on the dead and prisoners show that the home population, faced hy three months of starvation, is unimpressed by any victories that nre not the victory Odds Against flermany Yet If Hindenburg decides to concen trate his forces for a last despairing drive on Paris, the odds are against him The bloody check the enemy suf fered In the last week has weakened his morale and steeled Allied resistance. The success of the big French counter stroke points the way to similar opera tions on a vaster scale. In which the lack of modern war training of the Americans will not be a handicap, but an advantage War of movement re quires strong, young, dashing troops, whose accuracy with the rifle Is superior to their utilization of grenades. A leader of Foch's quality will not shrink from a bold course. If the enemy cares to put the matter to the supreme test, It may well happen that the American army will be the big fnctor In his de feat. Kecret of Petain's Success It has been said that the secret of Petaln's rise In three years from the position of colonel to commander-in-chief of the French armies is his knowl edge of when to launch counter-attacks. The ability to select the right place and time for a sudden stroke which nullifies the enemy's gsrins has been the nttrlbuto of great captains throughout history, and Is one of the cardinal bases of suc cessful strategy. In tjiat one word, counter-attacks, lies the explanation nf the triumphant French resistance In the present battle' against vastly superior numbers jthat and the Indomitable cour age of the defenders The master tactician commanding the army whose sector has been assailed has so Imbued his subordinates with his own principles that there Is hardly a position In the whole range of opera tions that the Germans have not been forced to take two or three times over. For It Is not only the counter-stroke on a grand scale, like that which has won back nearly all the Germans' gains on the left wing, which counts in a struggle of this kind, where the losses inflicted on the enemy are far more Important than a hill or a village saved or abandoned. It Is the united change from defense to attack at the psychological moment that has maintained this spirit of the French troops and smashed their weakened assailants Just as they were thinking their success was assured. Again and again a tiny band of de fenders, holding out In a central redoubt of some unshattered house have been encouraged to supreme resistance by the thought that a counter-attack may bring rescue at the eleventh hour. Again and again that counter-attack has succeeded, Just because the enemy was hampered hy their resistance In His midst. Conrcelles Retaken What happened at Courcelles Is typical. The village Is situated on a commanding hill Early Sunday morn ing, after a short, heavy bombardment the Germans advanced up the hillside, green with wheat which Is now shoulder high. The expense presented a splendid "field of fire" for the defenders' machine guns; but the wily boches tied great bunches of grass around their helmets and crawled unseen through the green cover until the Village was almost within their grasp. Then a sudden rush of greatly superior numbers surprised the defending bat talion and captured the position. Be fore they could consolidate their hold the French countered and letook the village at 9:30 o'clock capturing 200 men and two officers. ' Twice more the enemy attacked that morning at 10.30 o'clw-ft and a quarter of an hour later. But now the wheat had become trampled and cut by th streams of bullets which bloodily re pulsed each assault. Again at 3 o'clock came still a stronger attack. This time the slaughter of the assail ants was such that the enemy adopted new tactics, and, leaving Courcelles for the moment, passed on toward Mery and Belloy, whose, capture with that of Tlessons efiabled them to encircle Courcelles, on three sides, Only west ward there remained a narrow strip of communication between the garrison and their comrades. At 1:30 o'clock Monday morning the enemy attacked, after an other violent preparation. The fighting waa furious and nrolonged, but at 5 o'clock the assailants gave way reluct- antiy ana 11 w& uui uhui .w, ... a half later that the outer defenses were finally cleared. ah the morning the Germans tight ened their net around the beleaguered irnn.hold and in the afternoon at tacked three times, at 2:30 o'clock, 7:30 and 10. . A attempts failed, though the last penetrated the village, but was thrown out again by the dash of the French grenadiers. On Tuesday the big French counter trok on tlx left developed, Ud by tanks, The 'huge machines, rolling and ,i3 RANSOME should be used on their arrival In the east against the Soviets. Certain officers tried to stir up dissat isfaction, for example, over the fact that Czecho-Sloval: council troops were requi sitioned for Moscow. Then there was the conflict between the Czechs and Magars at Chelyabinsk, after, which came the demand that the Czechs should, to nvolt further Incidents, travel un armed, except for ordinary guards. The strategical significance of their action Is the temporary cutting off of Ttussla from the Urals, but at Ufa they have already been disarmed, and com plete liquidation of the affair Is exV pected within a few days. French of ficers arc to sit on the commission of Inquiry, , The political significance of these In cidents Is an Indirect Increase In the difficulties) of food transmission. This, cf course. Is directly to the advantage of Germany, because, unlike prevlos Fcontents. such as the Bolshevist dis content of last summer, the present un rest has as Its basis the stomach only, and carries with It nn definite political movement. Its object at Icnst the ob ject -with which It Is fanned by the counter-revolutionaries Is to throw out the Soviets. It has nothing with which to replace them. After the Soviets the deluge, and after the deluge teactlon nnd Germany working from Kiev. all the world like battleships In a rough sea with n flotilla of attendant destroy ers. Before noon the Courcelles de fenders were delivered and the enemy was forced back from the ground he had paid thousands of his dead to win. It Is but one such Incident of many, but I have told It In detail to show just' how the French are holding the road to Complegne. The utmost efforts, of the enemy have brought him along the Matz vnllek to Mellcocq, but ho can get no further. Further cast the line of re sistance has been straightened by the abandoning of Carlepont wood and) Ours camn forest TKe French are back on their old positions of before the spring of 1915, whose strength has been proved by many a hloody fray. Ourscamp Is so low and swampy as to be useless for artil lery positions, and even the higher ground on the right Is dominated bv Saint Mard wood, which Is held by the French F.nemy Dispirited The new attack on the north of VII-lers-Cotteret forest meets with small success. The enemy Is fighting desper ately, but flesh and blood cannot stand such pressure, and there are signs of weakening. Sometimes French counter strokes have met but feeble resistance; and. once at least, the enemy voluntar ily came forward from his defenses to surrender. German prisoners appear dispirited, and seem to be realizing that the Allies are too strong for them. The work of our aviators has had a prodigious effect. Enemy masses are never safe from their nerve-Bhatterln bombs Night and y, rtoye. Lasslgny. Montdldier and the. roads leading from these centers to the front are raked with aerial destruction. French battle planes unlike those of the enemy, who scarcely cross the line at all harass the German Infantry Incessantly and break up many attacks almost before they are launched. At one point a German battery of heavy guns was put out of action bv the air bombers a feat hitherto unpar alleled who flew intrepidly to drop charges right on the guns themselves. TURKS STARVE BECAUSE OF GREED OF GERMANY a j . j Washington, June IS. A detailed survey of the food sltUa- n in llormanv Auei.u it.. tlon Bulgaria and Turkey during 1917 has lusv.bef,n Published as Bulletin 242 UnlteS VIfaU Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. TvL.?ePeral; 'I1.6 hUrvey shows that Turkey is actually starving because of Lin gArf.e? i' aermany; that Germany and Austria are not starving, but are having a very hard struggle to feed themselves; that Hungary Is In better shape than either Germany or Austria, and that Bulgaria, so far as food Is concerned. Is suffering the least of all the countries covered. GUNFIRE ON ALPINE FRONT, VIENNA SAYS , .,,, .. Amsterdam, June 15. Artillery dueling Is taking place along the Alpine section of the Italian front, the Austrian war office announces, ac' cording to a dispatch from Vienna to 2ay' , J".e bl8r w flBhtlng however, waa described as "moderate." Along the lower reches of the Plave Itlver Italian reconnoitring detach ments were repulsed the statement ad ded. i-'?r,iMsh a.lrm.an encaged with others in attacking the Austro-llungarian naval base at Cattaro wao shot down, It was claimed. A supplementary statement dealing with operations In Macedonia said that a French attack of twelve hours' dura tion, north of Devolio In Albania, was repulsed. 'only demonstration; declares sea lord I.nnHnn lima IK The enemy has merely made a dem onstration with the hope of causing us to decentralize our efforts to put down the submarine," declared Sir Rosslyn Wemyss. British first tea lord. In an lnturvl.ew Published here, regarding the r-bnat activity, off the American coast. "This development should not be la" pry seriously,-' he lam. "If I were Inclined to bet. I should say there has not been more than one submarine off the American coast. I my u wrung, out tnai is my impression I have formed. Th Germans cannot hope to maintain c.ything hi the char acter of a blockade. The distance Is too great from their bases. "The object Id to frighten the Ameri can people lb. the hope that they may exert their Influence on their naval au thorities. Any concentration of effort Is essential to BUccess.'J BRITISH AND SCOTCH RAID NEAR BETHUNE , I.nndon, June 15. in a successful Jocal oneratlon In the sector of Bethune (Flanders front) the British captured s'hty prisoners the war office announced today. The text of the 'statement follows: "A successful local operation was carried out latt night by English and Scottish troops north of Bethune, over sixty prisoners were captured. "A few prisoners and three machine guns were captured also last night aa J;..!"""",); of successful raids In the Vlllero-Bretonneux sector, "An attempted enemy raid on a post In Aveluy wood was repulsed. - nere ywas local ngnting at. certain PRUSSIAN HOUSE AGAIN REJECTS VOTE REFORM Fourth Failure to Redeem ' Kaiser's Promise Causes In creasing, Political Chaos By GEORGE RENWICK Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger CoiiiHofit. I91S. bu Sew York Times Co. Amsterdam, June 18. Jhe political chaos Increases In Ger many. The 'Prussian lower house's fourth rejection, by a bigger majority than ever, of the democratic franchise reform for Prussia propil'cd to the peo ple by the Kaiser Is having a serious effect on the whole German political sit uation and threatens to result In the disruption of two great political parties. The fifth reading of the Prussian Franchise Reform bill must take place In twenty-one days, but It la highly Im probable that any other result will be obtained. The most serious split Is that In the National Liberal party. It threa ens to fall Into two parties, the rrfore democratic section being slightly larger. This will be the third disruption suffered by the party which has-been steadily losing- ground since the flourishing times when It was Bismarck's Instrument In forwarding someof the worst features of his policy. The rtomnn Catholic Center party, to which the Chancellor belongs. Is simi larly threatened. About one-third of It is against the franchise reform, though In this case Vie cement of religion may prevent a wide breach in the ranks. From all parts of the country protests are flowing In upon he executive of the nartv against the attitude of the reac- tlonary-wlng. Thd, center's situation Is made all the worse by the result of the recent by-election In the Glenwltz con stituency of Upper Silesia, where a strong Center (candidate, standing for an nexation, was defeated by a majority of nearly 5000 by a democratic Pole In a constituency where as recently as 1898 the Polish candidate could not ob tain fifty votes. Center papers !n East Germany frankly and disappointedly ad mit the defeat was owing to the candi date's annexationist attitude. The nucslon Is, "What will be the course of action of the Prussian Govern ment, which promised to stand or fall by the equal franchise?" Count Hertllng said recently that he already possessed the Kaiser's mandate for the dissolution of the Prussian Par liament. Will he make use of It? As far as can be seen he Is hesitating to come out definitely on the democratic side, and It Is unlikely that he will do an thing much before the end of this 5 ear Th4 famous democratizing of Prussia need not therefore be talked about for some time. 800,000 American Soldiers Abroad Cnntn.aed from rate On six more miles of front between Rhelms and the sea than they did on the 21st' of March. The German advances. General March declared, have stretched the Allied line nn extra sixty-six miles. Because of this, "the-Importance of getting Amer icans over Is pre-eminent. We have now passed the 800,000 mark In troop ship ment overseas. The 800,000 troops In clude combatants, medical service, serv ice In the rear all the units which go to make up nn army. Any announcement from the War Department will Include all kinds necessary for the army. "The number of troops being sent across now," he added, "Is limited only by the, capacity of the boats to carry them, and we Intend to keep that up." "The four drives starting March 21. April 9, May 27 and June 9 are all parts of a common bcheme of an of fensive," he said. "You see a succession of attacks, the first being thirty-six miles In ricardy, the next thirteen miles In Flanders, the third thirty-eight miles to the Marne and the present, between five nnd a half and six miles. "One of the many striking features of this whole advance Is the 'extent of the front which the Allies have had to cover as a result of the German prop rcss. The total stretching of the line from Rhelms to the. sea Is slxty-slx miles. In order to hold that extra line the Allies had to have more troops than at the start. "In these two drives there were two obvious objectives. The first) was to reach the channel ports, thus compelling the Kngllsh. In shipping troops to go further out to sea, making the journey longer and more dangerous, "The second was Paris, which, because of the sentimental attachment of the French for It, was of strategic Import ance. "All these drives have been stopped. Trying to Straighten Line "The last advance l more a straight ening of the German line than a military movement with a definite objective such as Paris. Along this line waH a re-en- ptrant angle, from which could be made dangerous attacks on me uise nanus. For this teason It was most advantage ous for Germany to get the line straight ened out. "According to the1 last Information w. had. the Germans were still attacking west of Solssons. endeavoring to straighten out alone the general front. "In such a case, where there Is a lnneer line and such strong attacks, the importance of getting Americans over Is pre-eminent. "The matter of the numbers of enemy troops on the western front is a ques tion that niust be considered with ref erence to the divisions which have 'been known to be there all along and also with reference to the potential divisions which might be brought from the east front. It Is impossible 10 preaicv wuy when a mastering superlorltyvwlll be In the hands of the Allies. But' the number of troops we are sending across now Is limited only by the capacity of the boats to carry them and we intend to keep that up." , . . The last drive, beginning June, had (,. w. im thn straightening 01 ine German line between the apex of the Amiens salient and the ape xof the Marne salient. This orive nau un stopped, the .General saia, ana ne sug gested that Hlndenubrg could have no more Important orwk Immediately than .finishing up. the straightening out of the line. The reasons General March gave were defensive. The bulge in the Al lied line there afforded an opportunity for counter-attack. But there Is also an important offensive reason for this. Hindenburg will want to carry his latest drive further forward. When the line is straightened there, the Amiens tri angle and the Marne triangle will both be thrown Into, one deep inaenianun uivu the Allied line. I'arts of Big OfTensire .General March's review of the war since the Amiens drive began was In teresting, especially because he treated atl the German efforts as parts of one great offensive. There was evidently no disposition on Ills mind to regard the Germans as making drive here and then a drive there, as the oppor tunity arose. They 'had made four drives, but those four drives were all part of one single plan, which had two nhl,ivMvB nn, Ia fflnDle 'England by the taking of the Channel porta, and. the other to flanfrjn " "-":v"f France by the UklfPf-the .capital ofl Kaiser's Best Badly Beaten by Americans Continued from Pace One ber of prisoners from the Twenty eighth German Division. The report said: "American assistance, which was un derestimated In Germany because they doubted Its value and Its opoprtunlty, worries Tfie German high command more than It will admit The officers them selves recognize that among other causes It Is the principal reason for which Ger many hastens to try to end the war and Impose peace. They believe that If we succeed In holding on for the rest of this year the German cause will be lost. But they say that until the end of the yeat they will allow us no respite In their ef fort to break our morale and our will to conquer. They hope t,hat fear of devas tations and the terror caused In Paris, as well as continuing attacks of the German army, determined to end the war, will get the best of our resistance before American aid will .become truly effective. "All agree'd that the war Is reaching the supreme crisis at this moment. They all declare that the offensives will be renewed and prolonged In view of this decision until the German forces are ex hausted. "In addition, the prisoners did not conceal their great surprise at the train ing and quickness that 'the Americans have shown against (hem nor for the good work accomplished by the artillery, which for three days engaged In cutting off tall food supplies and alt re-enforcements and causing them very heavy losses virtually all of the officers and twenty-five of the men were killed or wounded In a single Infantry company and twelve In a machine gun company, of which the ful quota was seventeen men." Especially Important In this report coming from the French army, not be cause the Americans would emphasize such statements by prisoners, but be cause of the probability that the Ger mans might be rather praiseworthy of Americans when questioned by our offi cers with a view to getting better treat ment as prisoners of war. There Is no question that this document speaks the truth. A letter written by a GernvaA tJfllcer and found on his body said; "The Americans are so courageous that they don't allow themselves to be made prisoners." Another letter written by a German private called the Ameri cans "devil hounds." 'ow or Nerer With Kaiser It Is now or never with the Kaiser and he knows It. That Is why every soldier, 1 every gpn, every airplane that America can put 'In France In the next four months will be needed as It will never be needed again. Every resource, every ounce of strength that the German high command can .send against the Allied lines In the next four months will be hurled forward. , The Allied armies must from now on face offensive a,fter offensive until the German army Is exhausted. It Ib definitely known that the leaders of GermanyiTiave reached this decision. Their armies have been placed In one giant system of attack and rest and at tack and rest so long as It can last. The Kaiser has staked all on beating the Allies before winter, for he kriowa he cannot do It next year, when 2,00(1,000 Americans will face, him, 2,000.000 of the hardest fighting men his soldiers ever met Captured German officers ,say, and they are supported by captured docu ments, that the Immediate German plan Is to make one straight line from Mont dldier to Complegne to Chateau-Thierry, A glance at the war map shows that to do this they must take from the Allies a salient about fifty kilometers acroia the base and twenty deep at Its deepest point. When this Is done their plan ! to hammer and hammer until Paris is reached. It Is an out-and-out fight for the next four months, probably the hard est fighting the world ever saw. (jarmany Fears America It Is the Allies' task to hold the Ger mans during those four months. The Americans will play an important role in ,that task, fighting with the aim of holding the boche until they get after him overwhelmingly next year, Germany fears America, and that fear Is growing. At first the high command told their officers, and the officers told the soldiers, that the Americans could not get to France because the U-boats would stop them. Then the German fighters began to One? Americans appear ing against theni here and there, and finally at many points. Then the of ficers told the German s61dlers tlfe Americans Would not fight. Now the German soldiers know the American can and will fight; and more and more of them are learning It every day. There Is no lack of evidence that the German populace fears American power in the war, and no question that the German high command is seriously perturbed at the results when tho real news of the Americans' fighting gets back to the people. WILLOW GROVE PARK AMERICA'S SUMMER MUSICAL CENTER Last Week of s Arthur Pryor and His American Band FOUR CONCERTS DAILY AFTERNOON AND EVENING QmniQTc FLORENCE CAVANAUGH, Soprano . auiAJia ia j lSABEL BRYLAWSKI, Violiniste THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH MAY FESTIVAL CHORUS Juniors Sing 4:30 P. M. - Seniors Sing 9:45 P. M. Accompanied by Arthur Pryor'a American Band H.C. LINCOLN, Director HIGH-CLASS AMUSEMENTS , : 5 r- COMINGy-SUNDAY, JUNE 23D VICTOR HERBERT AND HIS ORCHESTRA The House of Taylor I HOTEL SHn KaaMI "T, aaa , -II)'W." I HOW SOON WILL U.S. WIN? QUESTION NOW Answer Dependa Unon Quick- . ness "With Which Americans , Outnumher Enemy Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Comirlaht. lilt, bv Xew York Tlmei Cn, Fnrls, June 15, America Is a country of Indispensable last things. Hoover used to say the last bushel of wheat would -win the war. Others said that victory would depend on the possession of the last dollar. But a more tangible way In which the thing Is expressed In the face of the presents German drive toward Paris Is that side . which can keep coming with the reserves will win. That surely Is the side on which America fights. These reserves are pouring In now. Tho roads from Parlslo tho north are filled with Jong lines of American soldiers and their stlpply trains going up to take their places on the front. The big military question Is not what village changes hands In the fighting of the day or what river the enemy or the Allies cross. The question Is: First. How soon will the coming of the Americans put the Allies on even terms numerically with the enemy? Second. How soon will we outnumber the enemy nnd win? Nothing else matters. It is a simple problem In arithmetic, with the" answer plainly In sight, Today's War Names Following are today's war names as nearly' as they can be phonetic ally expressed. The names are In general unac cented: Olse '. 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