French Expanding Their lines Along Somine Take Powerfully Fortified German Win*
HARRISBURG liSiflll TELEGRAPH
LXXXV — No. 177
BERLIN ADMITS
NEW PUSH OF
ALLIES IN WEST
Both French and British Make
Gains Along Somme
Front
QUIET IX THE , EAST
Italian Airships Drop 4 Tons of
Explosion on Submarine
Works
New advances along the Somme
front in northern France have been
made by both the French and the
British.
The French gain, the more impor
tant. is admitted by Berlin. It was
effected between Hem wood and
Monacu farm, near the river, where
a strongly-held German work was
captured. The German trenches, says
the Berlin report, had been com
pletely demolished.
The British made their progress
east of Pozieres as the result of hand
to-hand fighting. The Germans were
on the aggressive west of High wood
but were unable to get beyond the
British fire barrier in an attempt to
recapture lost ground.
Little indications of the progress of
the events on the Russian front is
contained in to-day's official report
frooi Petrograd which records merely
rifle and artillery duels at various
points and the repelling of minor at
tacks on Russian positions. The Ger
man war office declared that several
Russian attacks in the Stokhod were
beaten off.
Before Verdun where the Germans
have been violently attacking east of
the Meuse. they have captured a
height northwest of Fort SouviHe. The
French admit the forcing back of
their lines for a short distancfe.
An Italian aerial squadron dropped
four tons of high explosives on the
white head torpedo and submarine
works west of Fiume, in Hungary, yes
terday, seriously damaging the plant.
In air fighting along the Somme
front, where 33 aerial engagements
took place yesterday the French
claim notable successes. Fifteen Ger
man machines were driven out of ac
tion, seriously damaged by the French
airmen, according to Paris, one of
these aircraft being seen to fall in
flames.
Middletown Telephone Co.
Stock Sale Is Approved
Directors of the Middletown Tele
phone Company met at Middletown
this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and ap
proved an order for the sale of the
company's stock to the Cumberland
Valley Telephone Company. The sale
was to have been ratified yesterday,
but absence of several stockholders
prevented a meeting.
Negotiations for the purchase of
this stock were closed yesterday
morning. The Cumberland Valley
Company authorized the purchase at
a recent meeting. Tie Middletown
line is to be a part or the improved
system of the Cumberland Valley Tele
phone Company now in course of con
struction.
AGED MINISTER IX HOSPITAL.
The Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Billheirner,
a retired member of the Gettysburg
Luthern Theological Seminary faculty,
and one of the most widely known
ministers in the country, was "admitted
to the Harrisburg Hospital yesterday.
The aged clergyman has been ill for
some time and was advised by his
family physician to come to the local
institution. Dr. Billheirner retired
three years ago after having taught
about fifteen years at the Seminary, as
head of the Department of Homiletics.
THE WEATHER.
For Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair
and warmer to-night and Thurs
day.
For Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair
to-night and Thursday; warmer
to-night in north and treat por
tions; warmer Thursday; light
south winds.
River
The Susquehanna river and all Its
tributaries will probably con
tinue to fail slowly. A stage of
about 3.8 feet is indicated for
Harrisburg Thursday morning.
General Conditions
The high pressure area from the
Lake Region has reached the At
lantic coast. I'nder its Influence
temperatures have fallen 2 to 14
degrees in the last twentv-four
hours generally throughout the
Atlantic States and from the
Ohio river southward, the most
decided fails occurring in the In
terior of Xew York Mate. Over
nenrly all the remainder of the
country there has been a generui
though slight rising tendency In
temperatures, exefpt In I'tah'and
Southern Colorado and a fen
other widely separated points
where slightly lower tempera
tures are reported.
Temperature: 8 a. m., AO.
6un: Rises, 5:05 a. m.; sets, 7:18
p. m.
Moon: First quarter, August 0.
0:04 p. m.
River Stage: Four feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, SO.
Lowest temperature, 72.
Mean temperuture, 70.
-Normal temperature, 74.
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ter where you are.
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VIRGINIA FARMERS WHO ARE TOVRINC PENNSYLVANIA TO STUDY IMPROVED
METHODS OF AGRICULTURE AND STOCK RAISING EMPLOYED IN THIS STATE
v . 1
Some of the 300 Virginia farmers who with their wives are touring Pennsylvania to make a first-hand study of the agricultural methods employ
ed ir this State. The photo shows part of the tourists snapped in front of tne State Capitol building where they attended a meeting yesterday afternoon
to hear about Pennsylvania's good roads campaign. To-day they are touring Lancaster and York counties. Yesterday, after touring through the
great fertile Cumberland Valley they motored over Reservoir Park and then wfnt to inspect the farms at Bonnymeads, Hershey and on the Masonic
home land at Elizabethtown.
MAYOR TO "JITS";
STRIKERS' PARADE
Organizers in Town; Company
Puts Old Employes on
Many Cars
Emphatic declaration by Mayor E.
! S. Meals that jitney drivers will not
! be permitted to overcrowd their cars,
j overcharge for fares, or refuse to carry
; passengers to th«<r destination.
I Arrival at the headquarters of the
State Federation of Labor of J. E.
Roach and Emanuel Jacobs, repre
sentatives of the American Federation
of Labor.
Completion of plans for to-night's
big parade of striking trolleymen svm-
I pathizers and ether labor organiza
! tions.
j Announcement by the Harrisburg
I Railways Company that its restored
[ service is being continued, that it op
erated forty-two cars to-day with old
| employes or new ones who were not
iof the "strike-breaker" class; that
i forty-two of the "strikers" have thus
far returned ij work; that five more
went back to-day.
Briefly these were the high lights in
to-day's story of the trolleymen's
strike.
The National Representatives.
The arrival of the national labor
representatives had been looked for
ward to for some time in local union
circles, ever since announcement had
been made that a "whirlwind" cam-
I paign to organize all forms of labor
i had been made. Mr. Roach was held
i up for a day or so, however, by the
| wedding of his only daughter. "Had
it been cne of my four boys," smilingly
explained the organizer," I probably
wouldn't have waited; but the only
girl- -well, she wouldn't have per
! mitted her dad to leave on the eve of
| her wedding, that's all there is to it. Al
.Tacobs came here to-day from Al
! toona. He is an organizer for the jour
i neyman tailors' union. What their
! plans will be neither could say. "We're
j in the hands of our German friend,
Mr. Quinn. secretary ot the State Fed
eration," Mr. Roach explained.
The big parade will assemble to
night at 8 o'clock st Front and Mar
ket streets and march over a route
that will include the principal streets
in the business section. Hugh L. Mc
| Laughlin has the arrangements in
' charge.
Company Demands Property.
Cap number, badges, "punches."
j packs of transfers, revenue stamps,
J merchandise checks, switch-keys and
other equipment were turned in by the
I strikers to-day upon written demand
|of the company. In some instances,
the strikers said, constables presented
the orders from the Railways Com
pa. Ny
Some quaint stories of how the
"strike-breakers" are handling the
company's tickets, fares, etc., were re
lated by the strikers. In one instance
! a man on a Hummelstown car col
lected the list of tickets to an amount
: representing $2 85—and cooly sold
I them to a passenger for 87 cents.
Ac yesterday's meeting of the union,
Roger L. Keifer applied for assistance,
1 according to Vice-President J. J.
: Thorpe, and he was granted a check
j for $lO to pay his rent. He imme
(Otlier Personals Page 2)
Nationwide Organization
of Trolleymen Is Plan;
New York Strike Serious
New York, Aug. 2. New York
State and city authorities are prepar
ing to-day to deal with a strike of
street railway employes which, if be
sun, is expected to tie up virtually the
whole street railway service of the
city. Officers of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street Railway Men who
are in charge of the efforts to organ
ize the employes in order to enforce
a demand for recognition of the union
and an increase in pay, said to-day
that they were nearly ready to present
their demands to the New York Rail
ways Company, operating most of the
surface lines in the borough of Man
hattan.
Officers of this company are pre
paring to resist the demands of the
men and are establishing dormitories
and are training new employes in the
operation of cars to take the places
of strikers.
The lirst step toward organizing
the 7,000 employes of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company, was taken
last night and continued to-day.
Mayor Mitchel having failed to in
duce the disputants to arbitrate, the
Public Service Commission intervened
to-day by summoning representatives
of both sides to a hearing.this after
noon, so as to bring out all the facts
and submit them to public criticism.
The threatened tie-up of every car
line in Greater New York is to be
only the first step in a nation-wide
strike of street car men in order to
win the union's dimand for the right
to organize everywhere, it \vas stated
to-day by Louis Frediger, counsel for
the union organizers.
''This is to be a country-wide affair,"
Mr. Frediger declared. "The organ
izing of street railway men is pro
gressing rapidly. Attention is to be
centered first on New York City."
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING , AUGUST 2, 1916.
WILSON FIRM ON
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Flatly Refuses to Change Posi
tion That Question Should Be
Dealt With by States
By Associated Press
Washington. Aug. 2. President
Wil#on has not changed his position j
that the woman suffrage question j
should be dealt with by the States, it j
was announced to-day at the White 1
House. The statement was brought j
forth by the announcement yesterday
of Charles E. Hughes, the Republican 1
nominee that he favored an amend
ment to the Federal Constitution giv- j
ing the vote to women.
A delegation of suffragists saw the
President yesterday and afterward in- j
dicated they believed he would make
a statement on the question before the j
convention of the National American j
Woman Suffrage Association in Sep
tember. At that time the policy to
be pursued in the political campaign
will be determined by the National
Suffrage organization.
Refusal Is Final
To-day Secretary Tumulty discussed
the question with the President, and
afterward announced that Mr. Wilson's
position on the subject was unchanged.
This position, as outlined several times
to suffragist delegations, within the
last three years is that while he favors I
votes for women, he is opposed to fed- |
eral action.
The President voted for woman's j
suffrage in New Jersey last year.
It was indicated that to-day's an- I
| nouncement was final. I
Third and Verbeke Stores
to Be Open Saturday
i The stores of the district centering j
; about Third and Verbeke streets will
remain open on Saturday afternoons
1 and evenings. The businessmen of j
that section announce that after care- j
fully considering the demands of local
trade conditions, and with the desire
i to serve the best interest and greatest j
convenience of their customers, they i
! have decided tc continue the same <
practice that has previously governed !
with regard to closing hours. Oonse- j
. quently the stores of that section will j
be open for business on Saturday aft- .
ernoons and evening, and those stores
which have been in the habit of clos
ing on Friday at noon will continue
, doing so during the remainder of the
| season.
These merchants state that they are j
led to this decision through the re
quests of many of their patrons who
combine their week-end shopping with
their Saturday afternoon and evening
I marketing at the Verbeke street mar-
I ket.
An innovation in the vicinity men- I
tioned will be the free band concert j
which is to be given on Saturday
evening between the hours of 7:30
and 9 at the corner of Third and Ver
beke streets through the courtesy of
the businessmen of the vicinity.
$90,000 Market St. Real
Estate Deal Completed
I One of the biggest real estate deals 1
lin many months was completed this j
: afternoon wnen Athens George, pro- 1
&rietor of the Victoria Theater, and K. |
amawi, manager of the Crystal Hotel,
i purchased the four-story brick building
at 221 Market street from Mrs. Annie !
1 Einstein for J90.000, through the Com
monwealth Trust Company. The 1
. building has a frontage of twenty-five*,
fet in Market street and extends back ,
I to Blackberry alley. Extensive im- 1
provements will be started in the near '
future which will make the Victoria
: one of the largest fire-proof theaters i
: in the .State.
Danish Authorities Do Not
Confirm Sale of Islands.
By Associated Press
London. Aug. 2. Messages received i
here to-day from Copenhagen say the i
Danish authorities have not confirmed
the reports of the sale of the Danish !
West Indies to the United States. The
newspaper Politiken says the Rigsdag
i will hold a secret session on Friday,
i when the Government will answer
questions on the subject.
The newspaper Koebenhavn has
started a campaign against the sale of
the islands. The Danish officials are
all reticent and a censorship on mes
sages is being maintained.
SINK DUTCH SHIP
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 2. The South
Shields Gazette says the Dutch steam
ship Zeeland while on her way from
a Scottish port ot a foreign port has
been sunk by a German submarine
after the crew had been ordered to
take to the boats.
The Zeeland was of 1293 tons gross 1 '
and was built In 190". She was 231 1
feet long. 34 feet beam and 14 feet J1
deep. Her home port was Rotterdam. <
'BAN MUNITIONS j
FROM STORAGE
As Result of Big Tom Explosion
Arms May Not Be Sent
Through Jersey City
By Associated Press
Jersey City, N. J., Aug. 2. Agents
J of the city commissioners were sent to
j day to the terminals of all railroads j
| entering this city to put into effect the j
order of the commission placing a ban |
i on the storage of ammunition in cars
: upon piers in this city and upon its:
shipment through this city to steamers |
going to Europe. This action was
j taken because of the great explosion of
ammunition at Black Tom Island, Sun
day morning.
The order becomes effective to-mor
row afternoon. All the railroads hav
ing terminals here have received no
tice to discontinue moving the war ex
plosives through this city The order
directs '.hat every freight train com
ing into Jersey City must be halted at
the city line where the conductor will
be required to show his manifest and j
if this •-eveals that any of the cars con
tain explosives, these cars will be ex-1
eluded.
It was said to-day that the Lehigh !
Valley railroad and the Central Rail-1
! road of New Jersey, the chief shippers
i of the interdicted freight, had placed j
i an embargo on further shipments of |
i explosives. Otficials of some of the J
i other ailroads threatened to obtain j
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Harrisburg Chosen as
Lutheran Headquarters
On September 1 the Board of Edu
cation of the General Svnod of the
1 Lutheran Church will locate the office
j of its general secretary in Harrisburg.
| The Rev. Charles Stelling Bauslin
' was elected general secretary of the
t board on May 1 in succession to the
! Rev Frederick G. Gotwald, D. D., of
i York., who is now editor-in-chief of
| the Lutheran Work and Observer, the
; official organ of the General Synod
of the Lutheran Church.
Harrisburg was selected as the of
| ficial residence'of the General Secre
| tary because of its central location in
! the eastern section of the Church
i and its unusual railroad facilities.
The Board of Education of the Gen-
I eral Synod has general direction of
; all the educational work of the body,
! and sustains close relation with insti
tutions in Pennsylvania, New York,
Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska,
Germany, Guntur and India.
ASQUITH TO RETIRE?
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 2. Some of the
morning newspapers attach great im
portance to the remark of Premier
I Asquith in the House of Commons
1 yesterday when replying to an in
| quiry regarding certain routine mat
ters at the autumn session of Parlia
| ment, he s^id:
i "I don't know who will be respon
-1 sible for the conduct of the business
: at the next session—l have not the
, faintest idea."
"This," says the Daily Graphic,
I "may be a preliminary hint that he
| intends to retire."
GERMANS WILL NOT MOLEST
SHIPS WITH FOOD FOR ENGLAND
> By Associated Press
London, Aug. 2. The German
i government has given a pledge to Hol
land not to destroy or molest Dutch
| ships carrying foodstuffs to England
I according to a Copenhagen dispatch
|to the Express. This decision is the
] result of a visit to Berlin of Cornelius
(J. K. Van Aalst, president of the I
Overseas Trust and another Dutch '
■•commissioner.
FIX I) TYPHIS CURE
By Associated Press
Paris, Aug. 2. A cure of eruptive
typhus, the disease which made such
terrible ravages in Serbia, has been
discovered by Dr. Nicoili and Dr.
Blaisot. It Is a serum which they
found after exhaustive experiments.
THOMAS H. MXGLE
Funeral services for Thomas H. Lin
gle, aged 59, who died yesterday after
noon at his home. 1643 Fulton street
will bo held Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock. He Is survived by hins wife
three daughters, one brother and one
sister. Burial will be made in the
Prospect Hill cemetery.
BRIDE KILLED BY HUSBAND
Special to the Telegraph
Ktttanning, Pa., Aug. 2. Mrs. An
drew Crazener, a bride or four months
was shot and killed by her husband ;
In their home here late yesterday fol
lowing a quarrel. Crazener surrender
ed to the authorities.
RUSH TROOPS TO
REPEL INVASION
Hundred Mexicans Reported
Across Border to Avenge
Deaths of Cattle Thieves
By .Associated Press
El Paso, Tex., Aug. 2. Troops E
and H, Eighth cavalry, left here hur-
I riedly early to-day in a special train
. for Fort Hancock. A company of in-
I fantry in motor trucks and a motor
cycle corps left a short time before,
also_ for Fort Hancock.
There had been various rumors here
through the night of bandit activities
in the neighborhood of Fort Hancock,
One version had it that a bcyfjd of a
hundred or more Mexicans crossed the
line to avenge the deaths of the Mex
ican cattle thieves shot down Monday
night in the light with an Eighth
cavalry detachment about six miles
from the fort.
Scour Country For Bandits
Tw .° tjoops oi;, the Eighty caxftiQ'
under command of Captain William
1 Jr., are scouring the gulches
\ and canyons between Flnlay, Texas,
; and Fort Hancock about 70 miles east
)of here in search of bandits. The
; cavalry is supported by a battalion
: of the 23rd infantry rushed from El
Paso to Fort Hancock early to-day in
response to reports to General George
Bell, Jr., commanding the El Paso
military district that bandits in large
numbers had crossed the Rio Grande
in that vicinity.
First reports to General Eell from
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Preponderant Number of
"Big Four" Brotherhood
Men in Favor of Strike
New York, Aug. 2.—When 200,000
of the 400,000 ballotc cast by mem
bers of four brotherhoods who are
voting on the question of calling a
general strike cn 225 railroads had
been counted at noon to-day, it was
announced that "a preponderant num
ber of the men are in favor of a
strike,"
The ballots counted to-day are
mainly votes of the Eastern and
Southern members of the "Big Four"
railway brotherhoods. It is expected
that the lowest number of votes cast
in lavor of the btrike will come from
the Eastern members. No matter what
what the number of votes cast against
the strike by the Eastern men, there
is practically no doubt that the ma
jority of them favor the strike, it
was asserted.
Thus far the largest number of
votes in favor of the strike have been
cast by the members from the South.
One of the Southerners who is in
| touch with the vote counting predicted
to-day that the vote from that section
would run approximately as follows:
Engineers, 96 per cent.; trainmen, 9S
per cent.; firemen, 99V4 per cent., and
conductors. 94 per cent.
GOLF MATCHES POSTPONED
A big flag-raising event at the Lan
caster Country Club will prevent the
Lancaster Golf team from coming here
Saturday, August 5, and the team
matches scheduled for that day with
the Colonial Country Club will be de
ferred to a later date.
In the summer handicap tourna
ment which is on at the Colonial 'Coun
j try Club for the beautiful Elliott
| Fisher cup, points for week ending
July 29 were awarded as follows; Hart
v Ogelsby, 5; Owrey, 6, and M. S. Kelley,
PI.AGI'E TAKES HEAVY TOM
New York, Aug. 2. i-orty-ona ohit
drun died and 166 were stricken in the
greater city during the last twenty
i tour hours in the epidemic of infantile
| paralysis. The seat of the plague
! shifted to Manhattan Borough to-day
| and there were more deaths and new
cases reported in that borough than at
any previous time since the inception
|of the plague. Jersey City reported
three more deaths and two cases, and
• reports from other nearby cities inii
| cated that the epidemic was far from
j being under control.
HARRISBURG WATER MARK
The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce has caused to have manufac
tured a writing paper for business
! purposes bearing in the center of each
sheet a Harrisburg water mark. It
bears the words "Harrisburg, Penna.,
The Heart of Distribution," and a pic
ture of the Capitol. The process is
new and the marking is invisible ex
cept when the sheet is held to the
light.
WANT K. OF C. CONVENTION
Davenport, la., Aug. 2. Old Point
Comfort, Va.. and Buffalo, N. Y., are
the strongest contenders for the privi
lege of entertaining the supreme con
vention of the Knights of Columbus in
1917. About 4,000 members of the
order and visiting ladies had gathered
for the convention to-day.
12 PAGES
HUGHES TELLS
WOMEN THEIR
VICTORY IS SURE
Anthony Amendment Should
Be Submitted and Ratified,
He Says . j
i COMMENT OX SPEECH
Republican and Moose Leaders
Pronounce It "Masterly
Arraignment"
New York, Aug. 2. ln an address
late yesterday to the Woman's Roose- j
velt League for Hughes, Charles E.
Hughes declared that the question of
I woman suffrage "ought to be promptly j
j settled," and that there was "danger '
| to our security, our unity, to our prop
! er attitude toward political questions, 1
j in deferring it."
j Mr. Hughes's address in part was as
j follows:
I "It is an especial pleasure to meet j
| you this afternoon and to recognize
]the very deep interest that you feel j
lin this campaign. I am particularly !
I glad to have the support of this or- ;
| ganization. It bears the name of a i
I great American. It bears the name
j of one who has very recently brought'
the whole country to a sense of its
obligations and aroused a very deep
feeling with regard to some of our |
I most important concerns. I welcome
the support of the Roosevelt League. !
"This is a campaign in which I am !
sure women cannot fail to take a very !
profound interest. They, if there can
be any comparison in such a matter,
feel more keenly perhaps than any
one else with respect to the national
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N. Y. Publishers Agree to
Cut Down Size of Papers
Special to the Telegraph
New York, Aug. 2. Publishers ot
daily newspapers in Greater New York
at a meeting yesterday afternoon. tooK
action which will result in a decrease
of the number of pages in their morn- 1
ing. evening and Sunday issues of 121
pages a week.
The reduction of so many pages is
a step to relieve the news print paper
situation,, which is regarded bv the pub
lishers as very serious. Action was also
taken to eliminate returns of unsold i
'copies.
T ll ' 1 FEW*"DA
y Governor Brumbaugh surprised people at the Capitol »
f to-day by dropping into the city at 12.45 o'clock this | >
? afternoon. The Governor caine from Maine to spend a few j
1 days and will return before the end of the week.
fp The Governor spent the afternoon at the mansion |
J g°i n g over matters with Private Secretary Ball and saw I
, b few people. He will be at the capitol. It is believed the ?
1 Governor's presence here at this time has to do with the X
i filling of vacancies on the Hill. |
T SUES STEEL COMPANY 1
X' Suit for i-'.OOO damages has been filed against the Penn-
I T Mary Steel C. mpany, holding corporation for the Steclton J
j I piant of the Bcthiehem Steel Company, by Frank Palundo < I
j for injures to his arm.
J Harrisburg. The New High School Committee of the S
& School Board met this afternoon in executive session to ( T
1 consider the recently submitted report of rg's i.
schooi needs. The report will be made public when sub- 1
4 niitted to the Boar dat its next regular meeting.
! 1 CASEMENT DIES TO-MORROW *
| London, Aug. 2.—Lord Robert Cecil to-day authorizec 9
* the Associated Press to state that Roger Casement will bt f
executed tomorrow. There will be no reprieve, Lord 3
1 Robert declared.
J * WHEAT TAKES BIG JUMP S
Chicago, Aug. 2.—Jumps of more than seven cents a I
i bushel in the value of wheat took place as a result of word i
tT that black rust damage in Manitoba amounted to a calamity. I
I 60 CARRANZA TROOPS KILLED L
? Nogales, Ariz., Aug. 2.—The explosion of a carload of ' i
# dynamite killed sixty and wounded forty Carranza soldiers
9 at Empalme. ' *
i 500 DEAD IN BUSH FIRES ' »
Toronto, Ont., Aug. 2.—Estimates to-day of the num
, ber of dead in the bush fires in Northern Ontario, Saturday' *>
and Sunday, are put at 500. i
f "
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; ■ MARRIAGE UCENSES ' 1
0 Harry Catberman Landla and Caroline Rutfa Zieflrr, city.
CITY EDITION
DEUTSCHLAND
FEELING WAY
THROUGH CAPES
Last Heard of at 6.30 This
Morning Sixty Miles
Up the Bay
ONLY ONE WARSHIP ?
Some Think U-Boat Will Seek
Quiet Cove on the
Inlet
Fortress Monroe, Va., Aug. 2.
Eighteen hours after the German mer
chant submarine Deutschland sailed
from Baltimore on her return voyage
j to Germany, she had not been sighted
i from the Virginia Capes or in Hamp
j ton Roads, and nothing had been
\ heard from her since 6:30 o'clock this
| morning when she was reported off
Tangier Sound, about sixty miles up
Chesapeake Bay.
Although last night she was said to
be making 16 knot 3 she apparently
| has been proceeding since at a much
slower rate of speed. On the trip up
i the bay after her arrival oft the Capes
j only 17 hours was required for the
run from Hampton Roads to Baltl
' more.
Much surprise was occasioned here
I by reports brought by passengers on
! an incoming coastwise steamer that
1 only one allied warship was on hand
' to-day off the Capes.
The sailing plans of the Deutschland
were a carefully guarded secret, but
when she left Baltimore there was
a belief that she would proceed direct
to Newport News. On the other hand
there was an expectation in some quar
| ters that the submersible would seek
a quiet cove or inlet somewhere in
I lower Chesapeake Bay and there await
a favorable opportunity to make a
dash through the allies' blockade off
the Capes.
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS
Special to the Telegraph
Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 2. A com
parison of last month's receipts of
| the Ninth Internal Revenue District
with those of a year ago shows a
healthy improvement in business.
Last month's total receipts were
$340,042.95, and from cigars alona
$184,046.36. In July, 1915, the total
j receipts were only $287,204.77 and
I from cigars alone $159,048.69.