®| a Red Cross Expects 5,000 Aew Members at End of S W 1 1| HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M - #nicprn&cnt _ ' |B LXXXVI— No. 97 14 PAGES 'PALL OF SILENCE COVERS CRISIS IN CENTRAL EMPIRES Cutting Off of Communications Serves to Accentuate Re ports of Grave Internal Troubles in Germany and Austria; 300,000 Munitions Workers in Berlin Re fuse to Quit Strike and Return to Work VIENNA STOPS ALL NEWS FOLLOWING PERSISTENT REPORTS OF HUNGARIAN PREMIER'S RESIGNATION Revolutionary Spirit Gives Sensational Demonstration in Sweden; Workers Storm Parliament Calling For Establishment of a Republic; Demand For Food Used as Basis For New Movement A pall of silence has fallen over the central empires, serving to accentuate the reports of grave internal troubles. Despite the assertions of the German press that the great Berlin strike, which involved at least 300,000 workers is over, there is evidence that the agitation is continuing. The Berlin Tageblatt admits that the members of two of the munition workers' unions have refused to return to work and says that those who persist in their refusal will be called to the colors. The meager light which sifts through the veil of the German censorship disappears entirely in the case of Austria. Following persistent reports that Count Tisza, premier of Hungary, and foremost exponent in the dual monarchy of the German idea, had resigned, all information as to conditions in Vienna or Budapest ceased. The one thing that appears certain is that the Socialists and Radicals in both empires have recently drawn much closer to gether and that inflammatory language is being used with an impunity inconceivable in the earlier days of the war. In the meantime, the revolutionary spirit which is rampant throughout Europe has given a sensational demonstration in Sweden. The food situation is ostensibly the cause of the re markable events in Stockholm where a great multitude of workers tried to force their way into the parliament building. The fact that there were unrebuked shouts for a republic and that the ominous word "revolution" was lreelv used gives another aspect to the affair. The Royal Castle is under guard and more serious outbreaks are predicted for May 1. Allies Mass Guns While the revolutionists gather headway and audacity in the mon archical kingdoms of Europe the armies of the British and I-'rene>i democracies are massing their guns and shells for another tremendous thrust against the German lines in France. There is nothing definite to indicate where the blow will fall, but the general opinion in the allied capitals is that General Haig is about to make another great effort to smash his way through to Cambrai and Douai. Pending these deveopments pub lic interest has been keenly aroused by the cryptic words of Lord Curzon, member of the British war council, "keep your eye on Mesopotamia." The uninterrupted successes of the British forces in the valley of the Tigris, who are now some eighty miles north of Xiagdad, have given rise to the hope that Lord Curzon's words are a prediction of some over whelming blow against the shattered forces of the Sultain. The main Turkish forces are at present practi cally surrounded by the British and Russian armies and their only road of retreat lies across an almost im passable desert. New Offensive Begun Ushered in by a prolonged artillery bombardment, a renewed attack In force h®3 been begun by the British on the German lines in Northern Fiance. The new stroke, marking a resumption after a week's interval of the British offensive begun April 9, was given its initial impetus .to day "on both sides of the river Scarpe." The statement, issued at about noon, embodies a report of "satisfactory progress" sent by Gen eral Haig. Besides tending still further to en compass the city of Lens the move ment is directed toward both Douai, the important German distributing point to the northeast and the Hin denburg line keypoint of Canibrai to the southeast. (German I.lne Shattered Every detail of the offensive report the shattering of the last remaining defenses of the Hindenbtirg line north of the Scarpe. This was accomplish- TOE WEATHER For Ifarrlshurg and vlrlnltri Mhonrra thin afternoon) prob ably fair to-night and Tuesday i cooler. For Knstern Pennsylvania! Show er* to-night and Tuesday) cooler to-night and In Mouth portion Tuesday ( moderate northerly win (IM. River The Susquehanna river and nil It* tributaries will probably remain nearly stationary. A stage of about 4.H feet is Indicated for llarrlsburg Tuesday morning. General Conditions The lake disturbance of Saturday has passed aft northeastward. It Is - to 14 degrees cooler In North Carolina, Virginia and Fast Tennessee) over nearly all the rest of the country tempera tures have risen 2 to 20 degrees. Temperature! 8 a. m.. M degrees. Sunt ltlsea, SilO a. in. Moon i Fall moon. May 6. River Htaget 4.7 feet. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 74. I.owest temperature, 84. Mean temperature, H4. Aorinnl temperature, 53. i ed by the taking of the town of Gav- I relle. This capture marked a new ad -1 vance of about a mile for the Brit ! ish. I South of the Arras-Cambrai road the line has been straightened out by the capture of the village of Gue mappe. Already more than I.UOO ad ditional Germans have been taken i prisoners. Meanwhile the French infantry is j being held in check along the Aisne j front and in the Champagne by Gen ! era! Nivelle, while the work of con j solidating the notable gains of the ! past week is in progress. The arttl j lery is busy, however, and Paris re ! ports the breaking up of German I counterattacks at several points. May Attack Itussla While momentous battles are being l fought on the western front a new movement of possible vital impor tance may have been initiated by the i Germans in the eastern theater of war. A news agency dispatch from ; Petrograd to-day reports the depart ! ure from Libau, on the Baltic south j of the gulf of Riga, of German trans ports for an unknown destination. This may mean that the Germans j have begun their threatened opera i tion of making a combined land and sea movement against the Russians t by landing on the g;ulf of Finland in the rear of the Russian northern ; Hank, lighting their way inland an? 1 cutting off Petrograd. In Mesopotamia the Turks are still in retreat up the Tigris, northwest of I Bagdad, before the victorious British. | They have evacuated their Iztablat ! position, ten miles below Samara, and moved to a position six miles nearer | the town. General Maude, the Brit- I ish commander, reports they are now ' heing attacked there. Applicants For Garden Plots Throng Office of Chamber of Commerce Applicants for Chamber of Com j merce garden plots in Bellevue Park I thronged the Chamber of Commerce i office today to receive their assign ! ments. I Superintendent Shirley B. Watts, of the Agricultural Committee, who lias charge of the distribution of the lots assigned fifty-six bofere 2 o'clock this ofternoon anil It was I expected that the entire Bellevue I Park section would be distributed • before night. The Chamber office | will be open until 8 o'clock tonight. Serious Conditions Facing All Newspaper Publishers A. G. Mclntyre, special representa | tive of the paper committee of the American Newspaper I' lblishers As i soclation, which is now'in session at I New York, says df the news print situation: "The United States} is facing an enormous increased demand for print, paper, which the present equip ment is helpless to supply. Publish ers must seek redress themselves in every possible way by selling their paper at not less than 2 cents a ! copy, by cutting out returns, using economical sizes of make-up, and ! in every way attempt io give a ser vice to the public in the most effi cient and business-like way. It Is the greatest folly for publishers to think they can continue selling their commodity to the public at increaa- BRITISH OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE ON WIDE FRONT Big Guns Brought Up to Rake German Defensive Linos | PUSH STEADILY AHEAD j General Haig Forces Gaps on Both Sides of River Scarpe By .Associated Press London, April 23.—After a week's i interlude, during which they had | been busy consolidating the gains of ;the first week's offensive and bring ing up their guns, the British at | dawn this morning began another phase of the operations against the ■ formidable German defenses on the ! front in Northern France. General Sir Douglas Haig reports that the forces under his command attacked 1 on a wide front on both sides of the j river Scarpe where a portion of the Hindenburg line forms a barrier de fending Cambrai and that they are i making satisfactory progress. Further South British troops have captured the remainder of the village of Treacault and occupied the greater J part of Havrincourt wood which i formed a two-mile bulge in their j line. From this point to St. Quentin the line approaches closely the Canibrai-St. Quentin road and canal. The correspondents at the front had prepared the public for the renewal; of the more active operations which have entered a new phase with each succeeding Monday. The British be- 1 gan their great offensive on Monday' a fortnight ago and the French fol- 1 lowed this with their stroke along j the Aisne a week ago. The third Monday finds the British again on the move. A success along the Scarpe not only would threaten the new Ger man line but would further outflank Lens on the south. Russian Peasants Want Land Given to Workers By Associated Press London, April 23. A Petrograd dispatch says that the peasants of Saratov, a Volga government, have elected all the Social revolutionist candidates to the district Zemstvo. Acongress of the peasants passed a resolution in favor of the land be ing shared by everybody on condi tion that each person who takes up a section personally works thereon. Another American Falls Fighting For France By Associated Press Paris, April 23. Sergeant Wil liam Dugan, one of the American aviators with the French army is reported missing. Lieut. William Thaw says that it is feared Sergeant Dugan was one of the aviators who were seen to fall during a battle over the German lines. Dr. Edmund Gros, one of the organizers of the American squadrilla, thinks how ever, that there is a possibility that the sergeant was taken a prisoner or even landed in the British lines. Sergeant Dugan was 27 years old and was born at Patchogue, Long island, but lived latterly in Roches ter, N. Y. Bulgaria Declares It Will Stick to the End By Associated Press | Amsterdam, via London, April 23. I—A semi-official Bulgarian state ment which has been received here, I referring to the manifesto of the Russian provisional government of : April 10 says: "The Bulgarian government is al ! ways ready to support steps cal culated to secure peace. On the I other hand it is tirmly resolved. In I union with its allies, to continue the i war to a termination which shall [ guarantee to Bulgaria the complete j union of all her nationalities." Despondent Man Kills Self With Towels Fran kIC. Taylor, aged about 65, committed suicide, the police say, this morning in his room at 15 North Fifth street. Me had tied two towels together and then tied the one end around the top of a closet door after it had been firmly knotted about his i neck. He evidently jumped from a chair, and then held his feet from the floor until death came by strangulation. Taylor came to t'he boarding ouse of W. H. Lindley about three tveeks afco. Since that time he has heen soliciting for the Curtis Publishing Company. For several days he has been acting despondent and was last seen about 9 o'clock last night. MAY TRY TO FILL VACANCY Council may make another effort to-morrow to elect a successor to Councilman Harry F. Bowman, al though nobody cared to-day to say who the candidates might be. There is little likelihood of an effort to choose a Mayor to till the vacancy although it is the opinion of City Solicitor Fox that the new law per mits council to elect a Mayor as well as counclLoieu in case of vacancies. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, A PRIL 23, 1917. CITY PLEDGES SELF TO BACK SACRED CAUSE OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD The etching shows Thomas P. Moran. originator of the Everybody's Patriotic Parade Idea: Captain E. lAuben stein, t aptain Henry M. Stine, Captain William I. LaubenstHn and Commander Kdward Dapp. To these men is much of the credit due for the success of the demonstration. Ihe other picture shows the boys of 'Tti, who led the Harrisburg TELEGRAPH cont ingont.in the parade. Back of them inarched men attired in the uniforms of the War of IS 1J and other conflicts in which the United States engaged up to the present. Cily Proclaims Us Readiness to Sacrifice lis Lives and Its fortunes Fur the Sacred Cause of Universal Peace and World-Wide Freedom i n Patriotic Patjeant; Men, Wo men and Children A'ever Falter as Rain Ponrs Down The great, patriotic heart of Har risburg beat true to the Flag Satur- I day when, shaken to its very founda-1 tion by the mighty tread of 14,000 [ marching patriots, the thunderous j cheering and applause of countless 1 other thousands and the blare of two i scores of bands, the city made public | profession of its loyalty to the Na- i tion. It was a fervid yet solemn pro- ' claiming of the city's ardent devo-; tion to the principles upon which' t this Nation was founded and of its I willingness to sacrifice its lives and j its fortunes for the sacred cause of j universal peace and world-wide free- { dom. Throughout that gigantic column | TURKEY BREAKS OFF RELATIONS WITH AMERICA Ottoman Government Follows Example Set by Dual Monarchy By Associated Press Washington, April :!3. —Official no titiiation of the Turkish government breaking off diplomatic relations with the United States was received to-day by the State department in a dispatch fiom American Minister Stovall. at Heme, Switzerland. Chester's Town Hall Oldest in the State, to Be Kept Forever By Associated Press Chester, Pa.. April 23. Chester's j ancient town hall, said to be the old est building in Pennsylvania, is to be preserved as a public building, forever. At tlds morning's meeting , of City Council it was voted to ac- i cept a proposition from State Sena- ! tor William C. Bproul to restore the-, structure to its original appearance at his own expense* and fit up the I interior as it was in Colonial days j under an agreement with the city; that It shall bj inalntaihed with suitable surroundings for public use for all time. The modern buildings around it will be removed and a plaza formed, at the rear of which will be erected a new city hall, also' of Colonial pattern. The town hall i was built in 1724, during the reign! of George I of England. . of marching hosts tind among the ' multitudes that crowded the streets j along the line of the procession i there was one premominate thought ! that was voiced by a rain-soaked, j bare-headed woman, well past 40 ' years, as she struggled resolutely on : ward with the downpour at its worst, when she called out: ; "We'll do our bit though heaven ! falls!" Will Be long Remembered "Everybody's Patriotic Day" will | be remembered alike by the gruy- I haired veterans of many battles and | tlie fresh, snappy hosts of Boy Scouts I as one of the greatest events of their j lives. The old soldiers were spared i to see the banner they fought under ! tor the preservation of the Union [Continued on Page 12] PARK EXTENSION BILLS WILL GO IN EARLY THIS WEEK Brunner and Manning Will Explain Plans For (lie Great Improvement The two bills prepared by City Solicitor John E. Fox, on behalf of the city of Harrisburg, and Deputy Attorney General W. H. Keller, on behalf of the State, which provide for the co-operation of the Common wealth and the municipality in de velopment of the Capitol Par., ex tension will lie submitted to the Legislature this week. To-morrow night Arnold W. Bruisaer, of New York, and Warren H. Manning, of Boston, the architects in charge of the landscape work will explain plans recently adopted by the Board of Public Grounds and Muildings for the monumental Capitol Park im provements at a special session of the House Appropriations Commit tee. The bills which will be presented this week will provide for the de velopment of the park extension un der direction of a ±;tate commission, similar to that which handled the [Continued on Piigje ] ISITIiD STATES GETS .Vs MASK By Associated Press . Washington, April 23. Experts of the Bureau of Mines are designing n apparatus to combat noxious Bases, which it is declared, promises to be superior to any now In use on the Kuropean battlefields. Details of the invention, however, are being withheld for obvious reasons, ASK ENLISTMENT OF 5,000 BEFORE | END OF WEEK | Red Cross Housc-to-House i • Canvass to Start; 185 Signed Since Saturday "Unless the enrollment In the Hjir risburg Chapter of the Red Cross goes over the 5,000 mark before the end of the week, the membership committee will be greatly disappoint- I ed. But no one at Ked Cross head [ quarters today hesitated to predict that the total membership next Sat i urdav night would be far in excess j of 6,000, at the same time voicing [Continued on Page 11] CONGRESS TAKES IP ARMY BILL FOR LAST DEBAI| Leaders Work to Save Selec tive Conscription Claus'jfp From Defeat By Associated y Press • Washington, April 23. The'jijJ ministration bill to create a big | army by selective draft was u i debate in both houses of CongfAs t/7 ! to-day. It was taken up in the tfOHSe i for the first time and in the Senat" | debate was resumed. j The House bill, ns reported b^a-ji j majority of the committee, lij^- vided for volunteer enlistment with ! conscription only as a last resort and I the tight for this measure was-led-by ! Chairman Dent of the Military Com mittee, whose supporters felt surtL that'they would make a good show-J I Ing. A strong element In the House, j however, backed the selective eon j scrlption plan advocated by tfce army general staff and recoramend • ed by the military committee minor j ity led by Representative Kahn, of I California, a Republican. I In the Senate the bill under cf>u sideration was the genoral staffw ' measure. In the House the bill was taken-up. I under an agreement providing for IS j hours of general debate to be follOw i ed by five-minute talks. Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDI COUNTRY PAYS HONORS TO ITS BRITISH GUESTS War Commissioners Visit U. S. Cabinet Members on Formal Calls TO DINE WITH WILSON Balfour Pays First Visit to State Department and Mr. Lansing "Washington, April 23. Calls ot' courtesy filled part of the program to-day of Foreign Minister Balfour und other distinguished members of the British commission who arrived here yesterday to confer with Am erican officials on the nation's joint task of beating Germany. To-mor row also the visitors will be enter tained with all the honor the nation can show to guests of such high rank, 011 a mission of such tremen dous significance and then will come series of official conferences for the (Continued an Puge 5) Infernal Machine Burns Four in York Suburb York, Pa., April 23. Four persons were injured this morning by an In fernal machine left on the porch of the suburban residence of Wade W. McClune, former reputy prothonotary uf York county. McClune and Charles 11. Still, a your.g attorney, who re sided with the family, are in the York hospital, the latter In a critical con dition. Both of the men, as well as McClune's wife and his (laughter, Jes sie, suffer from burns, as the bomb was evidently loaded with black powder and flared rather than ex ploded. A package bearing a* scrawl "To Charlie From Bill" was discovered this morning and carried into the house where it was found to contain a ci garbox which McClune and Still were opening when it went off. Jessie leap ed through a window and Mrs. Mc- Clune fainted. I*l. n A .. .. _ - " W • y 1 ARD BILL KEADY '||H 4 I ST I -"*4rtg th<- l Nat- H 1 • u-ill be- Introduced to-M^^H | h tis of infii it/ . nd one regi- 1 it: >ns of which have not betfft I I -INQ SPgCTFICATiy^S v , fWi £ tWms f'*>T ing the ;'E 1 *? in tht Park , > 1 I'b'- -d to T ( ">no as jpp Hdg will . •■s! ; | £1 , that th* k Mart 1 ' 1 J | t CD FARMER. 1 . 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