JSSWW-il x&f cv h ', i "'r f ' 1 '. R'?iA Vi . Euenina public Sle&cjer THE WEATHER TEMrERATVItE AT CACn noCR Washington, Sept. 11. Increasing cloudiness tonight, followed by rain in early morning or Thursday. I '. B (I 9 1 10 1 11 1 13 I II 2 1 3 5 THE EVENING TELEGRAPH 55 I 59 61 764 I 64 I I I I I w VOL. IV. NO. 309 Published Dally Except Sundy. Subscription Prlcr: in a Tear by lull. Cop)rlaht, 1918. by the Public Ledwr Company. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1918 Entered a Second Clan Matter at the Poilomr at Philadelphia, Ta. Under the Act of March 3. 18?D. PRICE TWO CENTS i Ha TROOPSHIP WITH 2800 AMERICAN SOLDIERS 4M ABOARD TORPEDOED OFF ENGLAND; ALL SA VED ;ss MIGHT CLOSING STOCK PRICES, HAIG PIERCES EHY; FRENCH GAINTRAVECY British Enter Peiziere in A to -! rkYt TlofonQDC ., nwawi " """ww of Cambrai ENGLISH REPEL BLOWS; RETAKE OLD TRENCHES - j 'Allies Gain Above St. Qucntin and Close in on Armentieres POILUS FLANK LA FERE Petain Wins Town Two Miles From St. Gobain's Barrier By the Anociatcd Presi Paris Sept. 11. The vlllace of Trnecv. near the 'southern end of the main Hlndenburg line, has been captured bv the French, according to reports received here. If the French can hold this town the Important enemy position nt La Fere, haAnortherly defense of the St. OVnaln I massif, two miles south of Travecy, rwlll be virtually outflanked. I, By the Associated Prcs Ixmdon, Sept. 11. British tropos today gained a foot ing In Peiziere and Epehy, twin cities Iioh the railroad botween Rolscl and .i.U...6. yy .... """ "- the Hlnaenourg une-opposiie uo uaie- lit The advance was made in tho face of heavy resistance. (The Ger kWjf line liMne-region is part of the defenses of Cambrai in the south). ISIn general the British are contlnu ii( to close irTon the Hlndenburg line I!" by a sories of small actions and maneuvers. The lines In tho north ern part of the battle zone have now been advanced through the village of Trescault, three and one-half miles southwest of Marcolng, to tho eastern r edge of the place, where the troops are actually in tho old British trenches facing the Hlndenburg lino. ' In the south Australian troops have h advanced in the area from Vermand, I" six miles northwest of St. Quentin, to 4he outskirts of Attilly, on the edg of ""Holnon wood .from the other side of l.whlch the whole of the flat country up to the famous German defensive posi tions and tho spires of St. Quentin are f clearly visible. Launch New Attack I' In the center where the British ''have sained a footing In Peiziere and l-'Epehy, an attack was launched this northwest of Peiziere. """iThe enemy positions were stormed k during a downpour of rain. The 5 troops are reported to have gained ifvAM ,nV.A.1.A nWVinurrh thA ndvnnoA ik, The - enemy has delivered several i small counter-attacks. The line west g'ef Qouzeaucourt (north of Epehy) was jACKea lasi mgni out me uuvunciiii. rmans were met wun a wmicnut Lrhlne trun Are and were renulsed Stevervwhere except at one place where -tthey managed to penetrate a British ? post at the cross roads known as Dead .Man's corner, (uouzeaucourt is nine miles southwest of Cambrai). Another party tried to enter the British trenches southwest of Moeuv ; rte, but was. repulsed with compara- tlvely heavy casualties. A Hurricane .Bombardment Iw The enemy delivered a hurricane bombardment in the Sensee Valley lost night and soon after the British posts -.north or Kcoun-Bt. uuenun were at- Stacked and some of them withdrawn, ""'Tho main counter-attack, however, ;wu repulsed In stiff fighting. J,""TJi Germans In an attack near MJfoeuvres, west oi uamurai, succeeded ? tintprlnfir Hrltlsh trenches, hut the positions were recovered In a counter- , thrust. Ttte uerman assault was maae a strong party. Close In on Armentieres m litia rAatnf Trnnlllnirhnm npnt Ar. MV "V- "-. ,-........ ..- .- BMQtieres. xney are closing in on JjMRcntteres, the German supply cen ftrin Flanders. , , jjsjriiiin pairuia nave peneiraieu through Pont-de-Nieppe without meet InjjT'Wlth opposition. In this area the Osrroans apparently have withdrawn foe 'some distance. More posts were aMbUshed by the British south of the Sivar i.vj durlner vesterday evening IbJ immt Mlffht J aVmVJf l.lk OKllt la AU1I1I1B WVCI HID iole area and many of the smaller ' atraams have - been flooded. In the . . ... -ln n.ll1 t n11lH ..MM .l.A Flanders,, lowlands tho -ground has be- 0ie almost Impassable. There are t no" signs of the weather clearing. JLucklly in tne eomme region tne Eound made most difficult by the fall " Of beavy rain has been left behind by ' tne aavancing iinuiii, Wl i P ' Vnited Press IMkm. sept, it. Tne KinaenDurg , wve wnoro n is uircaujr in putjocu- 0;iiW'i,,1 " uiiuvr (' urt) Wt WWIHtSiSUM Peace Wails of Central Powers' Mouthpieces "From the banks of the Danube this call ought to bo forth to the world: 'Wake up, wake up from the bad dream of blood and force, for a new and better future must be shaped.' "Count Czernln. "Our adversaries need only pro vide an opportunity In a calm ex change of views of discussing and weighing everything which today separates the belligerent parties, and no further lighting will, per haps, bo needed to bring them closer together." Baron Burlan. "An absoluto military victory Is now Impossible. Conciliation Is now the only way out." DJeman Pasha, Turkish Minister of Marine. 7 CITY SOLDIERS DEAD IN FRANCE Philadelphia Casualties for Day Total 26 Seven Wounded SEVEN ARE MISSING Philadelphia Soldiers in Today's Death List Private John Kcllnr, 1111 Berks street. Private Fred. Jones, 237 South Darien street Private Raymond T. Osmond, 128 Gail street, OIncy. Private Daniel J. Clccone, 422 Wharton street. Private John Wark, Jr., 2508 South Felton street. Prlvato Peter Madsen, 3040 B street. Private Edward L. Basile, 4235 TH8fce7hvenuc. September 11, 1?18 The complrta lint of raaaaltlm an nounced today by the War Department Is printed on page S. Twenty-one Phlladelplilans are added today to the city's list of overseas casualties. Seven of tho soldiers from hero reported in tho official lists have given up their llcs. Iteports of the death of two of them were received here last week. A flrst lieutenant from this city has been gassed during an attack In France and flvo Phlladelplilans have been wounded. Seven local men are reported mlsiing In action, Including three noncommis sioned officers. A soldier from Lanedowne has been killed, and a Camden corporal, who Is only seventeen years old, has been se verely wounded. The two casualty lists mado public to day are made up of 642 names, of which sixty-live are of men from Pennsylanta. The morning neivspaper list, containing 322 names, lists forty men from this State, while the list made public this afternoon contains the names of twenty five Pennsylvanlans. Tho list of wounded and missing fol lows: WOUNDED Sergeant Wladyglow Becika, 016 Wa terloo ktreet. Sergeant Albert D. Horn, 1108 Cantrell street. rrlvate John D. Kelley, S1S6 North Tenth street. Corporal Michael O'Neill, 1S22 Wood treet. ( PrlTBte Charlei Bruce Frlnce, 437 Shur's lane, Roxborough. GASSED Lieutenant Frank I Lynch, 5836 Nor folk street. Private John Roaelll, 1827 Tasker street. MISSING Sergeant John Jonepii Shanahan, 228 North lllcke mreet. Corporal Thomaa John McOraw, 2128 South Fortieth treet. Corporal John Wateho, 2818 Jackion treet. FrlTate Joseph llockl, 983 East Chel ten BTenue. rrlvate Frank J. Naylor, 3811 Melon treet. Frlrate Daniel D. McCloud, 3033 North Fifth street. rrlvate James Joseph Wales, 3001 North Taylor street. FBISONBRS IN GERMANY Frlrate Oeorge W. Sweeney, 1825 Mifflin street FrlTate .lUrry Wilson, 323 North Seventh Btreet. FROM NEARBY FOINTS Private John Krumboldts. 16 Oak BTe nue, East Lansdowne) killed. Corporal George A. Morrison, 946 Cedar street, Comdeni wounded severely. SKETCHES OF HEROES First Lieutenant Frank L. Lynch, 5826 Norfolk street, has been gassed In ac tion and Is recovering in a hospital be hind the lines in France, according to Continued on Page Two, Column Three GOLOSHES I Thi cloud due tonight Mean rain in the morn. ' TVindt, moderate, lUoht, , AMERICA DEAF TO PEACE PLOT BURIAN VOICED Uriited States, Committed , to Military Victory, Knows' No Compromise I ALLIED. VIEWS ALIKE , Germany Bleats of "Impossi- ble Victory" as Exponent of Defeats By CLINTON W. GILBERT Staff Correspondent Kfeiiliio PliUlc f.rrfocr Copirtoht. mis, bu Public Lttloer Co. Washington, Sept. 11. Baron Burlan's pcaco suggestions fall upon deaf ears here In AVnshlng ton. The Administration Is committed in fact, if not theory, to a peace based upon victory. And tho same situa tion appears to bo developing In Al lied capitals, where war administra tions now have the upper hand over those elements which have been In clined to listen to appeals such as the present one from Austria. Noth ing is heard now from Lansdowne. Tho labor party in England Is averse to trying Issues with Lloyd George at the polls. Marshal Foch's victories have hardened the minds of all the Allied peoples and certain diplo matic developments, while not chang Ing the war alms of this country and the Allies, have altered tho prospects of their accomplishment by anything short of a military victory. V. S. Demands Victory Public opinion In America, as it is reflected here in Washington, is com ing to the conclusion that the only way to make the future sate is by defeating Germany, teaching her by a bitter lesson that militarism does not pay. A great many of the ideas with which we Entered this war have been abandoned, and among them the idea that any way exists of making Ger many safe to llvo with, short of de feating her decisively. Out of such an exchange of views as Baron Burlan suggests would come, In the opinion of tho country, a com promise that would leave in Germany's hands some of her ill-gotten gains, some slice of the East, some profit to whiah hei military rulers could point as an evidence of their services. Dare-Faced Propaganda With the Allied world swinging to the belief that It can have, and must have, a military victory, It Is natural for Aus tria and Germany to suggest the Im possibility of such a victory. They speak, so they will try to make the world believe, from experience. They hae tried, the greatest military nations of the world, and know the emptiness of faith In arms. Germany began say ing what Austria now says. A propa ganda Is on. (lie purpose of which Is to suggest to the weaker Bplrlts In the war worn countries of the Allies that If they follow this wlll-o'-the-wisp mllltnry Mc tory, they will waste a million more Continued on Face Nine. Column Qne NEW BODY NAMES GUDEHUSATONCE Vare's Ex-Secretary Placed Hour After Mayor Picks Play Board NOT ONE INDEPENDENT Major Smith this afternoon filled four vacancies on the Board of Recrea tion, and the board, meeting an hour afterward, Immediately elected Edward R. Gudehus as supervisor of play grounds. Qudehus had been prhate secretary to Senator Vare, and the plan to gle him the playground post caused resig nations making the vacancies on the board which the Mayor filled this after noon. The new board members are: Thomas Meagher, attorney. Edwin O. Lews, former reform mem ber of Councils from the Twenty-seventh Ward and president of the Phila delphia School of Design for Women. Judge Raymond MacN'ellle, Municipal Court. Louis N. Goldsmith, newspaper writer and member of the board of managers of the Amateur Athletic Union. Lewie Moree Klectlon I The new board was conened shortly before noon and elected Judge Mac Nellie president, then choosing Gudehus. Mr. Lewis moved to name Gudehus, declaring he was not Interested In fac tional politics, but the progresswif the board His motion followed discussion whether any charges had ever been made against the candidates character or whether his ability to fill the place had been questioned. He said the old board, in refusing to name -Gudehus, had made no such charges. Dr Ernest L. Tustln. former president of the board ; Sophia L. nosa. and Dy Henry Berkowtts were removed because f .heir-refusal to elect Gudehus, E. J. Laffsrty sad William- Pweher, ofter ?M MF"-f' FLAMES RAGING IN SLAV CAPITAL AS RIOTS GROW American Legation Report's Petrograd Alaze in 12 , Different Places j MASSACRE IN PROGRESS Indiscriminate Butchery of Citizens and Pillaging of Homes in All Parts of City By the Associated PrcM Washington. Sept. 11. A dispatch from the American lega tion nt Christlanla todnv said rpfl.ililp Wiformntlon had reached there that Petrograd was burning in twelve dif ferent places and that there was In discriminate massacre of people In the streets. Secretary Lansing, in announcing I receipt of the message, said It did not Indicate whether tho massacre was or ganized or merely was a result of a general state of anarchy. Theie was nothing to show wirnt part tho Bol shevik authorities were plajing In the situation. Stockholm, Sept. 11. Vologda, a town on the Vologda Jllxer, 110 miles north of Yaroslav, Is reported In dispatches from Moscow to have been captured by Russian White Guards, consisting chiefly of peasants, who approached the place from Perm. Before lealng Vologda, the Ilusslan Tied Army Is said to have burned the town. Nlzhnl-Nogorod, a town on the Volga. 2G5 miles northeast of Moscow, which was recently taken by tho Russian White Guards, was represented by the Itolshe lltl to bo one of their strongholds, as It is a large Industrial center. The workmen there, howoer, the adIces say, were disaffected because of food conditions and unemployment. Recently there were many strikes at Nlzhnl No gorod. Reprisals Threatened Dispatches recehed from Itussla an nouncing that the neutral ministers have protested agalnBt the wholesale shooting of political prisoners and threatened to expel the Bolshwvlkl from neutral coun tries If the political executions continue, caused no surprise to travelers recently returned from Russia, who were In Mos cow and Petrograd when tho wild taking of hostages begun. Ten thousand officers of the old army, who were ordered tc register In Moscow, were held prisoners for nearly a week, almost without food. Cholera broke out among them because of the crowded and Insanitary conditions of tselr quarters. Leon Trotsky, the Bolshell; secretary of war, wired General Alexleff, commander-in-chief of the antl-Bolsholk forces, that an officer would be shot for every Bolshevik killed by the Czechs or White Guard. Alexleff Is reported to have replied that If officers were stiot he would not Btop reprisals until eery Jew In Russia was quartered. Finally, n majority of the officers, half of them from Moscow, weie released, but hun dreds of officers aro missing and are re ported to hae been shot. Many thou sands of officers of Moscow refused to Continued on race lire Column One CUBS SEND TYLER AGAINST RED SOX Left-Hander Makes Tliir,d I Appearance, This Time Opposing Carl Mays DAY COLD, CROWD SMALL Official Line-Up for the Sixth Game nosTON Hooper, rf. Shean. 2I. Rtmnk. rf. rihltrman. If. Mflnnli. lb. Hrott. b. Tliomnd. 3b. Hrbanc. e. Main, p. CHICAGO Flack, rf. Ifolloeher, an. Mann, If. 1'ANkert, ef. Mrrkle. lb. I'lrk. 21.. Pfal. 3b. niurier, Tyler. r. I. Dy ROBERT W. MAXWELL Fenway Park, Boston, Maae,. Sept. 11. Frigid weather conditions prevailed as the world series opponents took the field for the sixth game of the title fray here this afternoon. An Arctlo blast that reached every corner of the field and stands caused the spectators to shiver and shake. Conditions were Ideal for football but not for the diamond game. The cool weather kept the fans away and the smallest crowd of the series was present. George Lefty Tyler came 'forth for his third trial of the series, and the moment that Mitchell announced a lef-hander would perform. Manager Barrow stated that Babe Ruth would decorate the bench and Whiteman again would labor in left field. Carl Mays, the underhand speed artist, was opposed to Tyler, Mays kept the ball closely around the batter's knees and the Cubs failed to do much In the first Inning and re tired the side In order. Tyler also was in form. He blanked the.Red Sox, but jt was noticeable that Amos Strunk oa.me to life, long enough to reach the cyb soutntMtw.ior.a sarety,, .-UTSH uajratv, awawues Draft Age of 45 Includes Men Up to 46th Birthday Every mnn who has reached his eighteenth birthday and who has not passed his forty-sixth birthday must register for tho draft to morrow If not already registered. Every man born after September 12, 1872, and on or before Septem ber 12, 1900, must register. Following is from the statement of tho Provost Matshal General, Is sued becnuse of the confusion In some minds: If his nge Is forty-iUe ears niul 3G4 days on September 12, lie mnst register. 125,000 IN CITY FACE FIRST CALL Half of Men to Register Tomorrow Are Under 36 Years JAM AT CITY HALL "I want fiery fill nUnu and every band plnilnK " reslstratlnn 1h." rnorosT marshal (Jb.vbrjl CHOWDER. ltcntxter enrlv. It will prevent ron fitalnn anil nld til draft lionrd. major w. g. .vrnnorK, STATU SUPERVISOR OF DRAFT. More than 125,000 Phlladelplilans half tho number who must register to morrow are within the prescribed ages from which tho flrst men of the new draft will be called to tho colors State draft headquarters today esti mated thift approximately 600,000 Penn sylvanlans are within tho ages nine teen to twenty-ono and thirty-two to thirty-six. Inclusive which Proost, Marshal General Crowder announced should be classified ns rapidly as pos sible, as they would bo nmong the flrst to Join the colors. Tho older men who are not given de ferred classlficatloit are to be Inducted without delay and sent to cantonments next month. Many cf tho nlnctccn-to-twenty-one registrants will be nccepted for tho students' training corps. Last minute preparations are being completed by the fifty-one local boards In this city for tomorrow. It Is esti mated that about 4500 clerks will bo on hand at the 1303 registration bureaus. Jam at (IfJ Hall Tho general draft registration brard, 630 City Hall, was today swampeJwlth ccn a greater number of meJ' than jesterday. When the office opfted to day for the registration of oyf-of-town men and those who will be away from Philadelphia tomorrow, a line n half block long stretched down the corridor. Before noon the queue was more than a block long, and downstairs on tn; fifth floor, at the office of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, there was a crowd half the sire of the one on the sixth floor, all waiting to learn how old they aro. The crowd became so large by noon that It was necassary for the draft offi cials to ask for additional space. Mayor Smith was summoned and he turned oer the reception room of his office to the registrars. He also granted a request for the release of twenty-fie city clerks from their regular duties to help with tho registration. The congestldn led Albert II. Ladner, chairman of tho board, to issue a warn ing to Phlladelplilans that it will do then no good to go to the general board tomorrow. They will hae to go to the registration places In their neighbor hoods. The general beard office In the City Hall will bo open tomorrow morning at Continued on raw Mne. Column Three KAISER'S TALE OF WOE I Deplores Foe's "Reprehensible Methods" in Desperate Appeal By the Associated Press Anmtrrilam. Sept. 11. Emperor Wil liam on replylne to a message from the Uerman National Soldiers' Union, Is quoted by the Cologne Onzette na saying: "I am firmly convinced thnt the mem bers ot the German Soldiers' Union will exert all the poers of their perxonnl Influence In support of tho home front nnd. like our Blorious comrades In tho field, will not In the ilclssltudes of war let themselcs he turned from their will to Itory and steadfastness by the enemy's superior forces and reprenen- slble methods ot comoai. The mllltnry and moral strength nnd tho unanimous determination of the German people must nnd will succeed. with God's help. In breaking the more and more openly manifested will to, de struction of the enemy, who Is charging upon us from all parts of the earth, nnd In safeguarding for all time the freedom of our dear fatherland." FALES BELIEVED STILL ALIVE No Official Confirmation of Lieu tenant's Reported Death Lieutenant Thomas B. W. Fales, nephew of John Wanamaker and well known crlcfceter. reported to have been killed In action In France August 31 and burled the following day, is still belleed to be with his regiment. Whe Bureau of Statistics in Paris and the committee on public Information in Washington hae absolutely no word of hla death, or even of wounds he was reported to have receUed. The faith held by the1 Fales family In the denial that the lieutenant was killed haa prompted a further official probe Into the report of the death of Lieutenant Edward B. Coward, former ly a newspaperman of this city, who waa said to have met dea,th with Lieutenant Falea. r f DEPTH BOMB BLOWS U-BOA T FR OM WA TER; TRANSPOR T BE A CHED EXTRA INNINGS SCORE CHICAGO... 0 0 0 10 BOSTON 0 0 2 0 For Boston Mayb-Schauj;. Foi Cucngo Tylci-Killcter. Dm nireb Behind tho plate, Owens,; tir&t base, O'Dny; becoud babe, Hildebrnud; third base, Klcm. ADDITIONAL DETAIL OF PLAY THIRD IN.VING CHICAGO Deal Hied to Whiteman. Scott thiew out KiUefei and Tyler. No runs, no hits, no eiroi3. BOSTON Mnyi walked. Hooper saciificed, Tylei to MciUlo. Shean walked. Pick thiew out Strunk. Mnys nnd Shenn scoicd when Flack dropped Whiteman's liner. Whiteman was out, Hollocher to Merkle to Deal on Mclnnis's single. Two uins. one hit, one error. FOURTH! INNING CHICAGO Flack singled. Hollochci out, Mclnnis, unassisted. Mann was hit by a pitched ball. Mann out, Schang to Mclnnis. Paskert walked. Flack scored on Merkle's single. Pick lined to Hooper. One mil, two hits, no errors. BOSTON Scott singled. Thomas saciificed, Deal to Meiklc. Seining -Walked. Mays singled. Hooper forced Scott, Mcikle to Klllifer. Shean forced Mays, Deal unassisted. No uins, twj. hits, no error. FIFTH INNING CHICAGO Mays tossed out Deal and Killefer. Shenn tossed out Tyler. Xo runs, no liits, no enors. ARGENTINE HAS HUGE GRAIN SURPLUS BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 11. Anuouncemtnt has been made by the Ministiy ot Agiicultuie that Argentinn still has for ex port 2,000,000 tons of wheat fiom the last ciop and 1,000,000 tons of other ceieals. This is in addition to the 2.500;000 tons bought by the Entente Allies in the ginin convention nivl nhendy shipped. AUSTRIANS BURN BUTCHER SHOPS GENEVA, Sept. 11. A mobA armed with lcvolvua and clubs, sacked and buined a number of butcher shops in Will.ich, Austria, nccoiding to a dispatch leceived heie today. Tut- ling leadeis weie ariested, but weie ideased after being threntcned with death. FOE LEAVES 500000 ON BATTLEFIELDS; 300,000 DEAD LONDOON ,Scpt. 11. During two mouths the Gcimnns have Ictt 500,000 men upon the battlefields, of which 300,000 wttc dtad, tho Talis correspondent of the Exchange Tclcyiaph Co pjnyt stiiiKttcd today. Restoring Ruins Next Task Confronting Haig Engineers and Pioneers Work Hard in Rain and Mud to Accomplish Big Job. Must Provide Shelters By PHILIP GIBBS Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger CODirloht. ntS. by the Ntto York Timt Co, With tho British Armies, Sept. 11. Rainstorms, very heavy while tney last, between short spells of wind swept sunshine, have fallen along the front and our men are having a wet time on those old battlefields, which again stretch for miles behind our lines our recovered ground; good to us not because of any beauty, for there Is none, but because it Is the wide area for which our men fought through these"years of war. Their chief labor now Is to' mend the roads which strike across tha desolation and to make easy the lines of communication which are the arteries of our material body of war, and to make some form ot habitation in this wilderness so that men may get shelter from wind and the head quarters staffs of divisions and bat talions may have dry places In which to spread their maps and write their orders. It la an enormous labor, and our engineers and the pioneers and labor battalions jre hard at, work In" OF SIXTH GAME 0 forming a sludge nil over this ground, making old dugouts habitable again, draining old trenches, putting up new huts In place of those which have been burned or destroyed by shellflre. Here and there the enemy's retreat has been too hurried for him to In dulge In elaborate destruction. We found large numbers of new German dugouts, very deep nnd well timbered. Recent captured orders from army generals forbid German officers to let their men use dugouts more than eight steps down, and instructing them to board up or otherwise destroy the deeper kind, In which their men have been too often trapped by our at tacks. The rain that is falling will Increase tho discomfort of our men In tlje open fields now that we have to go long Continued on Fut Nine, Column Four Don't be a Blacker and disgrace the name of America. This meant, that you must be ens of the first to register under the new tfrat taw tonrrmf(,,. ; Attack Made WhUe Ship Was Under Convoy TROOPS AIDED . ' BY DESTROYERS Men Clamber Down Ropes From Vessel to Save Time CALM SEA MAKES OPERATION EASY Officers Gratified at Admirable Bebavior of Men. No Panic NO ONE EVEN INJURED Survivors at Inlnnd Rest Camp None tbe Worse for Experience Iondon, Sept. 11. ; A troonshln with 2800 American Ml. dlers on board has been tnrnednit. All ' -fe iitwiui weie uaveu. ine iroopsmp waa wj beached. ' t 7m In order to save time, inalonfl nt Ti launching the boats, the men clam-. ri.re.A rtmm rnn. fn'ilABf.niw. wrtnt. swarmed around the stricken vmil j3 and came close alongside. This odsi. ,( Hon was greatly facilitated by the fact that the sea was not rough. , Tho troopship wbb a member of a large convoy approaching the English1 i coast. The vessel was torpedoed 200 miles from shore at 3 o'clock on Fri day afternoon. Xo One Tnjured The transfer of the American soldiers from the stricken vessel to' escorting British and American torpedoboat de"- stroyers wos quickly made without in- , jury to any one. Tiey all escaped Injury when the tor- ' pedo exploded, and they were soon on fii their way to a British port. There was no sign of panic on board, and the admirable behavior of the men was especially gratifying to the officers. Many of the troops came from Chi cago and Cleveland, and a large per centage of them were factory hands of foreign extraction. Their behavior proed that they had assimilated the true spirit of the American soldier, t Illrw U-boat Out ot Water Several soldiers told the Associated Press that they saw the German subma rine lifted clear out of the water after one of the depth bombs exploded and then entirely disappear. Something had gone wrong with the troopship's engines, which compelled her for a time to lag behind the rest of the. conoy, but the trouble had been fixed up and she was fast catching up with the other transports when a torpedo bit her Just forward of the englneroom. Did Not Walt to Dreii The vessel at once began to sink by the bow. Many of the soldiers at the time were taking baths. They did not wait to dress, but made for the deck with what little clothing they could hastily lay their hands "on. The water was rushing in at such a rate that it was thought the steamship would quickly founder. To the surprise of most of the soldiers, the troopship did not sink. Some means apparently were found to check the In rush of water and she got near enoughi to the shore to be beached. It Is hoped! that the veseel ultimately can be saved I An Inland licit Cmp In England. Sept. 11. The majority of the 2100 American soldiers from the troopshbj which was torpedoed last Friday off ths English coast but was not sunk and upon wnicn mere were no uaauaiuca, have arrived here none the worse for their thrilling experience. The men are rinding some consolation for the loss of their vessel In the assur-'-i," ance that the submarine that attacks i it her sutlered a far worse rate at tM) hands of the avenging destroyers, whl9kr U-boat with depth charges. t T mo am in uiiiiis iur uio men ncrv itwv. American uea urasa rugnea in ittrmm i quantities of supplies from London. , VI x. SUBMARINE SINKS SHIP IN CONVO$;Y ; ,, London, Sept. IV. 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