GROCERS PREPARE FOR BIG OUTING Have Lively Program For To morrow's Picnic at Hershey; Hold Big Auto Parade Thousands of people lined the streets last evening to see the big "booster parade" of more than one hundred automobiles carrying 800 Harrisburg grocers and their friends. The parade marked the completion of final plans for the ninth annual •.Grocers' picnic, to be held at Hershey Park to-morrow. Illuminated floats, and decorated autos and delivery trucks made the parade attractive. To-morrow morning special trains will leave at 8 o'clock and in the af ternoon at 1 o'clock for Hershey Park. Returning the trains leave the park at 7.30 and 10 o'clock. The program of the day includes a ball game at 9 o'clock between the Hill and uptown grocers, with sport ing events at 10 o'clock on the ball grounds. Dinner will be served at noon, with a free performance at 1.30 o'clock in the Park Theater. This program includes music by the Munic ipal band, The Rays; Charles Thomp son, International comedy juggler; Tirolo and Bennett, musical artists; Ross and Stuart, vaudeville; Charles Carlos & Co., with "Jess Willard," the bucking mule. At 4 o'clock the Municipal Band will give a concert and at 6.30 o'clock the Hershey Band will play. Sporting events include: 100-yard race for clerks; race for girls under 16 years; race for married women; ladies' esg race; 100-yard race for men; fat men's race: quarter mile for grocers' clerks; quarter-mile for grocers un der 35 years; quarter-mile race for grocers over 35 years; tug-of-war for ladies; running jump for men; run ning jump for women; running Jump for boys under 12; running jump for girls under 12; 100-yard shoe race, free-for-all; salesmen's race; hobble skirt race for women; dressing race for men; marble hunt for children; three-legged race for all; candle race for women; running race for girls under 10; running race for bathers; tug-of-war for men bathers; ladies' race l'ree-for-all 50 yards. Judges of all events are: Augustus H. Kreidler, C. B. Shammo, M. A. Morrison, J. S. Miller, H. E. Crown shield, F. G. Martin. George E. Run kle, A. P. Kitchen, W. M. Runkle, J. A. Orr, Sam T. Kinsinger, E. L. Mar zolf, F. F. Foerster, C. W. Fisher, H. H. Bower, C. F. Motter, L. G. Orr, starter. ALL CROPS ARE HEAVILY DAMAGED fContinued From First Page] yesterday in the August crop report of the Department of Agriculture, was reported to-day. Corn has deteriorated steadily in most sections of the important grow ing States of Oklahoma, Missouri, Ne braska, and Kansas, since August 1. Local showers caused some improve ment in corn in parts of lowa. Illi nois and Tennessee during the week which ended yesterday, according to the Weather Bureau's weekly an nouncement made to-day. The crop, however, now is reported in very poor condition in most sections of the four first mentioned States. Damage by rust and blight con tinued in the Spring wheat areas, to day's report said although the spread of black rust was checked to some ex tent in Minnesota by slightly cooler weather. Rust and blight damage in Xorth and South Dakota are very ex tensive and there are many fields that will not be harvested. The oats crop was unfavorably af fected by high temperatures in the extreme northern districts during the week. White potatoes were damaged by the hot dry weather in nearlv all central districts and by high tempera ture in the northern part of the coun try. ' Toss Coin to Decide Marriage; They Wed San Francisco.—Miss Laurine Mich aelson, Seattle society girl, and Ralph S. Montgomery, an advertising man of tan Francisco, have just started on a honeymoon trip to Coronado. The toss of a coin plays an important part in their marriage. The couple were un decided as to whether they should wed, so they tossed a coin. Heads were up and the wedding followed. The couple left on their wedding journey to Southern California. Mr. Robert E. Williams ARCHITECT 26 So. 3d St., Harrisburg > —> Prospect Hill Cemetery ' HAHKET AND 2HTH STRBRT* This cemetery is soon to be en larged and beautified under j>lanr prepared by Warren H. Manning. Lota will be sold with the per petual cure provision. Prospect Hill Cemetery Co. Herman P. Miller. I'rexldebt LOCUST AND COURT STHEKTI BELL PHONE 1385 CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY THINGS YOU WANT AND WHERE TO GET THEM Artificial Limb* und Truaaea Braces for all deformities, abdominal supporters. Capital City Art. Limb Co 412 Market St. Bell Phone. French Cleaning and Dyeing Goodman's, tailoring and repairing all guaranteed. Call and deliver. Bell phone 3296, 130t>% N. Sixth St. Fire Insurance and Real Estate J. E. Glpple—Fire Insurance—Real Es tate —Rent Collecting. 1251 Market St. Bell phone. . Photographer Daughten Studios—Portrait and Com mercial Photography. 210 N. Third St. Bell 3583., Tntlora George F. Shope, Hill Tailor. 1241 Mar ket. Sprint goods are now ready. Tailoring, Cleaning, Pressing. Ladies' 1 work a specialty. Steve Wugrenec 207 Locust. Signs and Enamel Letters Poulton, 307 Market street. Bell phone Prompt and efficient service. Upholsterer—Furniture Repairer Simon N. Cluck, 320-326 Woodbine ~St~ Bell phone 1317 J. ■ . WEDNESDAY EVENING, GROCERS HAVE MANY AUTOS IN LINE WWWWWHBBBBBBHWPIW^^^iiiwP^'-^^i>iiE^^WßßlWi^^ : One of the features of last evening's parade of grocers was the squad of delivery wagons of the various bakingcompanies. In the above etching is shown one of Bernard Schmidt's swift buses decorated to draw attention to the big picnic at Hershey Thursday. RAILROAD RUMBLES VETS, ANNUAL OUTING TO BE HELD AT R Program Includes Athletic Events .-Baseball, Dancing and Free Rides For Kiddies; Business Session in Afternoon mm i '* ■ wk. ■ " ... : 1 SI ■., mm mm. ' Jhh Wm. > JHB JJHHH ML SUPERINTENDENT W. B. M'CALEB Will Meet Veterans at Lancaster, Tuesday, August 22. Time Tuesday, August 22. Place Rocky Springs Park, Lan caster. Event Twelfth annual reunion and basket picnic of the Philadelphia Division Veterans' Association. There will be no postponement thiSj time. Everything was arranged yes- ; terday at a meeting of the executive committee'with Charles T. Jones, who j is the director general of arrange- ! ments. Two special trains will be run from 1 Harrisburg. One leaving at 8.15, and the other at 8.20, in the morning. : The second train will go via Columbia. A third train will leave Philadelphia j at 7.40, Cars will be waiting at the j Lancaster station to take care of the j picnickers. The cars will be parked i on the right side of the train. It is j expected that 2,800 will attend. Superintendent McCaleb Coming Superintendent William B. McCaleb of the Philadelphia division will be on his vacation at Eaglesmere but will make the trip to Lancaster to meet the Vets. He never misses a gathering of this kind. There will be other prominent officials present in cluding General Superintendent George W. Creighton, Superintendent N. W. Smith of the Middle Division and others. The Enola band will he a part of the program. Selections will be play ed at Harrisburg and Lancaster sta tions, and a series of concerts will tie given at Rocky Springs Park. The Philadelphia orchestra will furnish music for the dancing. Kiddies Get Free Rides The kiddies will start off the big bill. Fj-om 10.30 until noon they will be given free rides on the flying horses. Starting at 11 o'clock the athletic events will be held. The Enola band will head the procession of athletes to the field, leaving the park at 10.45. The events will include: Potato race for boys up to 16 years of age; three legged race for men; bag race for men; smoking contest for men; and dressing contest for men. There will be an intermission of one hour for luncheon. In the afternoon the kiddies will have a peanut scramble. All contest ants must be five years of age and under. A flag race for little folks under 5 years of age will follow; and then will come the girls' candle race. Event No. 9, will be an egg race for women and girls; and the final con test will be a shoe shuffle between women and girls. Two prizes will be awarded in every event to first and second winners. A special feature In the afternoon Chicago Wheat Shoots 8 Cents a Bushel Upward on Report of Crop Damage By Associated Press Chicago, Aug. 9.—Wheat prices shot upward eight cents a bushel to day at the opening of the wheat mar ket. The December option touched $1.45 on first trading as against $1.37 at yesterday's finish. Sensational crop damage confirmed by the government report was the cause of the extra ordinary advance. So much excitement ruled in the pit that transactions in many cases jumped three cents. The initial range on December varied from $1.42 to $1.45. Jumps in the value of other options than December, although radical were not quite so severe. Taken as a whole, the market opened five to eight cents CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears _ _ Sifnatur. of will be a baseball game between the Construction and Transportation de partment teams of Harrisburg and Paoli at 3.30 o'clock. There will also be dancing programs from 2 to 3.30, and from 4.30 to 6 p. m. The band concerts will be given at various places in the park. The business ses sion of the Veterans' Association will be held in the Auditorium at 2 o'clock and will last one hour. Other details will be announced later. Standing of the Crews HARRISBURG SIDE Philadelphia Division. ll6 crew to go first after 3.30 p. m.: 118, 122 121 130, 102, 102, Jl9, 115, 101. Kngineers for 122, 102. Firemen for 116, 119, 115. Conductors for 130, 101. Flagman for 101. Brakemen for 116, 115. Engineers up: Supplee, Gable. How ard, Grass, Smeltzer, Bruebaker, Lay man, Sellers, May, J. Cable, Hogentog- Firemen up: Brymesser. Gillums, !• inkenbender, Everhart. Earhart, Bak er, Peters, Swarr, Newhouser, Cover, Acky, Cook, Finnegan. Conductors up: Looker, Mehaffle, Horning. Flagmen up: Swope, Brown, Mar tin, Mophsker. Brakemen up: Wiebner, Wilt, Bal tozer, Essig. Middle lilvlHlon. —— 242 crew to go first 2 p. m. after 2.45, 224, 216, 217 23. 19, 112, 20. 108, 22, 24. Four Altoona crews to come in. Engineers for 23, 22. Firemen for 20, 22. Flagmen for 17. 112. Brakemen for 23 (2). 24. Engineers up: Shirk, tTlsh, Baker, Bowers, Briggles, Burris, Doede, Dor man, Harris. Albright. Fireman up: Learner. Conductor up: Fagan . Biakeman up: Klick. Adams, Reed S. Schmidt, Powell, Kestler, Prosser. \ ard Crew*— Enginers for Ist 8, 4th 8, 18. 20, 2nd 22, 3rd 24, 36, extra. Firemen for 2, Ist 8, 2nd 8, 16. 2nd 24 26. 36, extra. Engineers up: Runkle, Wise, Watts, Seller Cleland, Goodman, Warling, Say ford, Landis. Hoyler, Biever, Snyder, Loy, Leiby, Fulton. Firemen up: Snyder, Desch, Graham, Fry, Eyde, Ewing, Hitz, Peiffer, Snell, Jr., Fleisher. Bure-er, Richter, Keiser. Ferguson. ENOLA SIDE Philadelphia DlvlHion 233 crew to go first 3.45 p. m. after 2IS. 208 202 230, 231, 222, 211, 237, 206, 232, 201, 23-1, 243. 224, 236, 214. 240. for 208, 211, 201 Firement for 20S, 230, 222. Conductors for 08, 13, 24, 32 43 Flagmen for 08. 11. Brakemen for 06,fi 32, 34, 38, 43 Conductors up: Deivers, Walton Thomas, layman, Pennell, Hooper. So per„ Murlat, Carson. Brakemen up: Seabot. Yost, Mvers, erts, Mumma, Qpentzler, Hevel, Felk er. Williamson. Shade. Middle Division 248 crew to go first 1.45 p. m. after 227. 247. 225 451 ->22 218. 228, 120. 110, 1 18, 107,109. 'Five crews laid oft at Altoona. Fireman for 109. Conductor for 1 20. Flagmen for 110, 118. \arel Bulletin The following is the standing of the yard crews after 4 p. m.: Engineers for Ist 124. 3rd 124, 110 Firemen for 2nd 108, 134. 132 I]f Ist 102. 3rd 102. Rider. Hill, Boyer, Kling, Smith. Branyon, Bretz, Reese, Troup. Anthony ,-., p , lr, t! nen "P ; Sellers. Bickhart, Brown' Eichelberger, Smith, C. H. Hall. THE READING Hnrrlsburii Division The 17 crew first to go after 1.45 p. m.: 12. 10. 5, 19, The 57 crew flrst to go after 1.45 p. m.: 54, 70, 52. 66, 60. Engineers for 60, 66. 70, 1. 4 10 1' Firemen for 60. 61. 1, 4, 5 7 12 Conductors for 54, 1, 4. Brakemen for 54. 57, 66. 70. 1 4 lo 12. 17. 19. ' 1 Engineers up: Merple, Massimore, Bonawitz, Wyre. Firemen up: Stephens, Kroah, Brickley, Flicker. Conductors up: Alleman, Daub. Brakemen up: Mort. Cocklin. Siler, Ensminger. Mullen. Parmer, Tavlor vv oland, Guinther, Hershev, Davis' Creager, Seighman, Kapp.' Duncan. ' higher and when relative Rteadiness was established showed 5% to 6% gains as compared with yesterday's close. In later dealings the May deliveries rose to the phenomenal price of $1.50 a bushel, an extreme ascent of B>4 over yesterday's final figures and 46% up as compared with the price at the corresponding time a year ago. Wildness of buying by wheat trad ers to-day exceeded any similar dis play since the outbreak of the Euro pean war. The majority of specula tors here were decidedly Incorrect regarding what the government re port would indicate and their belated efforts to acquire holdings were made difficult by like attempts on the part of foreigners and by shorts who were caught by the sudden upward whirl of the market. Despite lively profit taking, the offerings continued inade quate. Alarming reports as to a further spread of black rust in Canada added to the strength. Lost City Records of 49 Period Are Found San ]' rancisco.—When Harry Meiggs, the arch swindler of San Francisco's pre-Y Igilante days escaped through the Ooiden Gate In a ship for Chile, October 6. 1854, he carried with him twenty-six precious records of the pro ceedings of the San Francisco city council from 1850 to 1854, recording to a discovery announced by Clerk John S. Dunnigan of the board of super visors. HARRISBTJRG J TELEGRAPH SEES REVIVAL OF AMERICAN SPIRIT [Continued From First Page] wife standing: beside him. He ex pressed gratification in the interest of the crowd which had brought them so early to the station and continued: "I have found this interest prevalent wherever I have gone and to me it is. a very hopeful sign. It means that we want in this country a revival of the true American spirit. It means that as we look to the future we want to safeguard all the Interests of this country by wise upbuilding and poli cies. "I represent here a reunited Repub lican party ready to meet these ex igencies as they arise. Dedicates Himself to t'nited States "I look forward to an America tested as America has not been tested before, when she has to stand in the competitive strain that will come when a new Europe issues from this war. And I desire that North and South, East and West, every part of this country, shall be benefited by an administration that knows no mere partisan policies for the purpose of paying political debts but an adminis tration that is devoted solely to the upbuilding of this country and the conservation of its vast interests. Mr. Hughes declined to-day to comment on the telegram sent him yesterday by Acting Secretary Sweet of the Department of Commerce de nying charges made in the nominee's Detroit speech with reference to the retirement of E. Dana Durand, of the Census Bureau, and "an eminent scientist" of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, who, Mr. Hughes asserted, had been displayed by "an excellent stock breeder and veterinary surgeon." Members of the nominee's official party said he probably would reply to the telegram in a speech. Brought Country Near War Charles E. Hughes last night told an audience that crowded Chicago's great Coliseum—the hall where he was nominated ofr the presidency—what he would do if elected President of the United States. Mr. Hughes charged the present ad ministration with waste, extravagance and vacillation. He declared that It had not kept mo country out of war, but that it had fought an ignominous war in Mexico and had withdrawn from that war ignominously. He charged the administration with hav ing brought the country much nearer to participation In the European war than the country would have been had the administration "stood for American rights." He declared that It was no more possible to expect tariff protection to American Industries from a Demo cratic Cosress than it would be to get "a revival sermon out of a disorderly house." Will Stop "Pork" Business The nominee assailed the adminis tration also for Its appointments to office and declared that if elected he would appoint to office only men who were well qualified. Democratic expenditures for rivers and harbors were attacked by the nominee. "I propose that we shall stop this pork business," he said. "I propose that we shall have government in a businesslike wav. We won't have any more, if I can stop it, of these 'kiss me and I'll kiss you' appropriations in Congress." The nominee said he stood for a businesslike, responsible budget, based on facts. "I don't want any hot air In mine," he added. The Democratic party, Mr. Hughes said, was approaching the idea of a protective tariff "like a skittish horse to a brass band." In 1912, he added, the Democratic platforpi had said in effect that a protective tariff was un constitutional. "They say in effect now that the European war has changed the Con stitution of the XTnited States," he con tinued. "But do you think they are converted? Don't you trust them a little minute with protecting American industry. They haven't got it in their bones." Mr. Hughes reiterated much of his Detroit speech regarding the adminis tration's Mexican policy. "I had no right," he said, "to com mit this country to a course of conduct which, landed Mexico in anarchy, left our citizens a prey to the ravages of revolution and made our name a word of contempt in a sister republic. "We have gone forward," the nomi nee said in speaking of the adminis tration's Mexican policy, "with a de termination to be destructive, not con structive, to destroy all they had." As to the administration's foreign policy Mr. Hughes said: "We have allowed our words to be eaten up by hesitation, by delay. AVe have somehow or other convinced the world that our telk is cheap. "1 propose thai we have a new birth of American purpose and courage. We have no occasion to fear war in the as sertion of those rights, which all rec ognize and only respect us for main taining. But if we are glib in speech, if we indicate that wo are now ready to meet the full responsibility that our words imply, we are pushed a little further and a little further, until some fine day events occur which arouse an implacable resentment from one end of the country to the other. That is the danger of war. "This administration has come nearer to landing us in war by its weakness than it would ever have come had it stood faithfully for Ameri can rights and had let it be known that they would be defended. "I believe that with our peaceful purposes, our just purposes, we have no occasion to he drawn into strife, if we are prepared, if we are dignified, If we show that we mean what we say. "One of the very serious charges which must he laid against the present administration is the charge of putting incompetent men into important po sitions. That is not for the benefit of Democracy. And I now. in this place where I was nominated, without any regard to political future, say this: That if I am elected President of the TTnited States I propose that every man that X put in charge of an im portant department shall be a man eminently fit <o discharge the duties of that department. "I propose that in diplomatic service training shall count something. I pro pose that when a man goes from this country to represent the great Ameri can people in cnother nation—and I do not care whether it is a small na tion or a big nation, for we want our influence in small and great—l pro pose that that man shall be a worthy representative to whom the people whom he is accredited to will look with respect and esteem, seeing in him the efficiency of the great United States." Suffrage Stand of Hughes Is Approved by Roosevelt j New York, Aug. 9. —ln a letter to Miss Alice Carpenter, of the Woman's Committee of the Hughes Alliance, Col onel Theodore Roosevelt yesterday gave his indorsement to the formation of an organization especially establish ed in the suffrage States to obtain the passage of a Federal amendment pro viding for woman suffrage. The letter, which was in reply to one 'addressed to the former President ask ing his views on suffrage, said that "the time Is ripe for the passage of such an amendment. Mr. Hughes has unequivocally taken the right posi tion," the letter added. Cabinet Denies Charges Made by Mr. Hughes Washington, Aug. !>. Statements made by Charles E. Hughes, Republi can nominate for the presidency, in speeches at Detroit, were characterized The Most Talked-Of BOYS' STORE Is The New Store o£ WM. STROUSE Special August Reductions on Every Garment in the Boys' Departments Wash Suits Boys* $5 Palm Boys' Straw Reduced Beach Suits Hats all at ARE NOW (J»Q QC P p i r p SI.OO Wash Suits 75$ Ages to 18 years, $1.50 Wash Suits $1.15 Many with two pairs of \AT • 4. $2.00 Wash Suits $1.45 trousers. P $2.50 Wash Suits $1.85 Pa i m Be ach and Kool Kloth *ll 1 "^ ntS $3.50 Wash Suits $2.65 Suits, single <£ Q f-fl reduced ill OUP $5.00 Wash Suits $3.65 trousers Allgjust Sale THE NEW STORE OF WM. STROUSE as "false as to facts and of misleading substance" in telegrams sent by Ad ministration officials last night after a long discussion of the subject by Pres ident Wilson and his cabinet. The charges related to changes in the coast and geodetic survey and the census bureau. Secretary Redfield, in Binghamton, N. Y., telegraphed to Secretary to the President Tumulty denying the charges made by Mr. Hughes, and later sent s. similar telegram to Mr. Hughes. Ed win F. Sweet, acting Secretary of Com merce in Mr. Redfield's absence, also telegraphed Mr. Hughes, giving a de tailed refutation of the charges. Mr. Hughest cited the retirement of E. Dana Durand as director of the cen sus and the appointment of William J. Harris in his place, and the replace ment of O. H. Tittman as head of the coast and geodetic survey by Dr. E. Let ter Jones. White Supremacy in South to Be Assured by Suffrage Special to the Telegraph Washington, Aug. 9.—Maintenance of white supremacy in the South is dependent on the enfranchisement of Southern women, according to Mrs. Helena Hill Weed, research chairman of the Congressional Union t'pr Woman Suffrage, who offered statistics to prove it. This was in answer to a statement which President Wilson is reported to have made to a group of Demo cratic women who called on him re cently at the White House to the effect that it was not the question of State's rights, but the negro problem that kept him from declaring for Federal woman suffrage. ALLIES FIRMLY HOLD NEW GAINS [Continued From First Page] declared to have been repulsed. Northeast of Verdun the bitter struggle for the Thiaumont work and the village of Fleury is continuing. The Germans have driven further into the Thiaumount positions and only its outskirts are now held by the French, says the official statement from Paris. In the Fleury sector, however. General Nivelle's forces have been more suc cessfully accomplishing some progress in the village. The driving of the Austrians from the Gorlzia bridgehead marks only the beginning of the Italian offensive along the Isonzo according to Italian expectations. At last accounts Gorizia itself was being heavily shelled. Fire Caused by French Bombardment Threatens to Wipe Out Historic Peronne By Associated Press German Great Headquarters, via Berlin, Aug. 8, and London, Aug. 9. Since yesterday the famous old French city of Peronne has been un der French artillery fire, resulting in a great conflagration which threatens to wipe It out. Already the fine col lection of paintings of Italian and Flemish masters has been destroyed by shells which landed squarely in the city hall where the most valuable art objects from the Museum had been housed for protection. "In addition to the paintings which were torn to shreds, the shells de stroyed unreplaceable collections of medieval Germanic silver and semi precious stonework, Celtic coins dating from the time of the Roman Invasion, and medallions. Houses In some streets have been reduced to ashes. It is considered doubtful whether Peronne's celebrated wood houses in the late Gothic style and the cathedral of St. John can be saved from the flames. DRIVE TURKS WAY BACK By Associated Press London, Aug. 9.—Pressing the ad vantage won by the defeat of the Turks who attacked the British forces near the Suez Canal, the British have driven back the Turks to a line 15 miles east of Katia. Turkish Army Suffered Great Hardships in Retreat By Associated Press London. Aug. 9.—The Turkish army which was routed br the British at I Bomanl, east of the Suez Canal, suf fered terrible hardships In their inarch across the desert, according to a Rou ter's Cairo. dispatch quoting stories of Turkish prisoners. The dispatch says that batches of prisoners continue to arrive in Cairo. Lack of water was one of the prin cipal causes of the suffering of the AUGUST 9, 1916. Turkish troops. In some cases they suffered so frightfully from thirst that they killed their camels and drank the blood. The prisoners says the Turkish los ses were exceedingly heavy as they attacked in mass formation in Ignor ance of the strong defenses of th§ British. The devastating machine gun fire with which the assault was met was the first indication the pri vates had of the task that confronted them. According to one of the troop ers, a Turkish detachment which sur rendered, first killed their German of ficers. 5,000,000 Prisoners Are Confined in Prison Camps; All Get Good Treatment By Associated Press New York. Aug. 9.—More than 5,- 000,000 prisoners, double the number of men (engaged in any previous war that the world has known, are con fined in prison camps of the belliger ent nations according to Dr. John R. Mott, general secretary of the Inter ational Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, who arrived here to-day on the Danish steamship Oscar 11, from Copenhagen. Dr. Mott left here in May for Russia and has visited the prison camps of near all the countries at war. Dr. Mott said that of the prisoners, Germany has the greatest number, ap proximately 1,750,000. Russia, with 1,500,000 comes next, then Austria with 1,000,000, followed in order by- France, Italy, Great Britain and Tur key. Russia's prisoners, he added, are rapidly increasing, more than 400,000 having been added to the caihps since the beginning of the last Russian drive. In six weeks, Dr. Mott added, 230,000 passed through Kiev. "I found," Dr. Mott said, "that re ports as to the treatment prisoners of war were receiving have been greatly exaggerated. In all of the countries the prisoners receive virtu ally the same food and eare that the armies of respective countries do. Everything is done for their comfort and health." Methodical Offensive of French Nets Them Trench After Trench on Wide Line By Associated Press Paris, Aug. 9. General Joffre's methodical offensive continues relent lessly its slow pressure on both theaters of the western front. On the right bank of the Meuse General Neville has extended his of fensive to the Vaux-Chapitre-le- Cheners region where he has gained a local success. In the Fleury-Thiau mont zone he is more than holding his own. In the latter district the Germans are concentrating all their efforts and exceptionally strenuous fighting continued there throughout the night and day. The Germans suc ceeded in once more getting a footing in the Thlauraont work, but all their efforts to capture the French trenches on the commanding positions to the northwest and south proved in vain, in consequence their position became untenable and a well-directed counter attack forced them back, leaving the French again in possession of the work. North of the Somme from the river to where the French line joins the British, General Joffre, acting in close relation with General Haig, has made systematic progress. In the last three days the French have won trench after trench along: a line four miles in length and have not pushed forward their whole line for a distance of half a mile. Italians Capture Gorizia Bridgehead, Take 10,000 Prisoners and Shell City London, Aug-. 9. The Italians have struck their blow in the great allied offensive. Assailing the Isonzo line on the 60-mile front from Tolmtno to the Adriatic, Cadorna's troops have captured the Gorizia bridgehead and bagged more than 10,000 Austrians. A Skin Like Velvet if jl Use the exquisitely fragrant cream of r" T> T/ It*" T7' WJ© Jpi the beauty flower of India and be VJ Jll. Hi ITJL J2J JL-J YJHVK complimented on your complexion, -ni* nA«r * Your dealer has Elcaya or will get iu LLCAI A. London sees in Cadorna's offensive one of the most significant and en couraging signs since the war began. Not only does it give evidence of the regularity and the solidarity of the allies' scheduled advance, but it shat ters all hope of an Austrian offensive on the Trentino front. It is fresh, proof that the initiative has been wrested definitely from the Teutons and that the power of the allies' strokes gains daily. Menace to Trieste The Italian successes nave created a very serious menace to Trieste and prepared the way for an Invasion of Austria. In fierce fighting in the last two days Cadorna's men captured Monte Sabotino, north or Gorizia and Monte San Miechele, on the Carso Plateau, lying to the south. This gives them control of the Gorizia bridgehead, one of the most important Austrian defenses along the Isonzo. Against the weakened Isonzo line Cadorna attacked last Friday. The first success was won on Sunday, when, in the Monfalcone zone, south of Gorizia, the Italians made notable progress and clinched the hold on the Carso Plateau. The time had then come to renew the frontal attack on Gorizia, aiming the blow at Podgora, directly west of the stronghold and the heights guarding it on the flanks. The battle for these salient points has been raging for the last two days, with the Austrian line crumbling gradually before the unrelenting blows. Regard Italian Gains as Start of Great Offensive fl.v Associated rress Rome, Aug. 9. The successes won by the Italians on the Isonzo front are regarded in Home as marking merely the beginning of the new campaign. Although the news Is received with, great satisfaction it had been long ex pected, and no surprise is expressed, nor have there been any unusual public demonstrations. The attack was to have been inaugurated earlier in the summer but WM delayed by the Austrian offensive. "At last our waiting, planning and steadfast faith are bearing fruit," says the Giornale D'ltalia. Athletes Polishing Shoes on Coast-to-Coast Tramp Charles Rose and Phil Keating, of the Irish-American A. C. t left New York city August 1 on a coast-to-coast hike. They arc polishing shoes to earn their way and arrived in Harris burg to-day. Roth are athletes and plan to stop in the capital city of each state, arriving In San Francisco in February, 1917. Keating was champion 'cross-coun try runner in 1914 and won the five mile run March 17, 1914, held by the St. Patrick's A. A. Rose won the one mile walking contest championship of New Jersey in Newark in 1915. Judge Refuses to Let Girl Marry "Big Man" Special to the Telegraph Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—When Anna Mi,tch, a little girl with hair hanglnjr down her back appeared at the court house with Joseph Bossert, twenty-one, and sought a marriage llsense, Judge A M. Kreas, of the Orphan's Court, was called upon and he decided that the couple should not wed. The girl was accompanied by her parents and they were willing that she wed. They claimed she was sev enteen years old, but to the judge and others she appeared to be about thirteen years of age. She innocently declared that she wanted to marry Joseph because he was a "big man" and could protect her 'Judge Freas ordered the parents to take the girl home and keep her fro mmarriage foi two years at least. Try Telegraph Want Ads
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