l/ T . S. Government Expects To Have 10,000,009 Men Registered For War Semes ,
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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LXXXVI— No. 133 14 PAGES
FIRST DRAFT WILL CALL
1,500,000 MEN TO COLORS
625,000 MEN TO
GO INTO CAMP
FOR TRAINING
THIS SUMMER
o
Provost Marshal Crowder
Favors Immediate Draft
ing of Eligibles Rather
Than Postponement First
Agreed Upon
CHANGE MADE TO
SEND MEN TO FRONT
First Conscripts Will Be Put
Into Training Camps For
Intensive Instruction by
September 1
By Associated Press
Washington, June 4.—Plans of
the war department to draft
from ''oo,ooo to 1,500,000 men
of the 10,000.000 who it is esti
mated will register to-morrow
for the new army, werq disclosed
to-da_v by Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder to the Senate Mili
tary Affairs Committee. Ex
emptions, he said, probably
would result in reducing the
number to 625.000 men for im
mediate service.
While the War Department
has originally planned to first
select 500.000 men, General
Crowder told the committee the
plans have been revised and ; t
now i> proposed to require 625.-
000. To secure this number he
said it probably will.be neces
sary to draft at least <X)0,000 and
possibly 1.500.000 because of ex
pected exemptions.
General Crowder told tlie commit
tee the additional 125,000 will ho
needed to till up vacancies in the
army of 500,000. and to keep training
vamps in continuous operation.
When the original plan for service
ol a half million men was made, ho
said, the department had not plan
ned to send Amerlcah forces abroad
so soon. Casualties from foreign
service, he believed, sickness, etc..
make necessary a reserve of 125.00)
men, in addition to the duty at train,
ing camps.
Immediate Draft
General Crowder told the commit
tee he favored immediate drafting of
men registering rather than post
ponement of the draft for several
weeks after registration. He regards
it desirable that men drafted may
know and can have a few weeks to
make personal arrangements before
called to the colors.
Details of making exemptions also
were explained to the committee hv
the provost mashal general. He said
the government does not contem
plate any class exemptions but that
all will be personal. Farmers, fac
tory operatives and other special
classes would not be exempted as
such, nor territorially but all exemp
tions will be made individually.
The men drafted probably will be
in training camps by September 1,
General Crowder said, and added
that he favored beginning selections
within two weeks after registration
so that exemption work may be ex
pedited and notifications of final se
lections may be made as soon there
after as possible.
1 THE WEATHER
For HarrUharg and vicinity! Fair
to-night and probably Tumda) |
Marnier Turmlav.
For Raatern l'rnn*yl vanla: Fair
to-night and probably Turxda.% I
warmer Turndoi itrntlr, iar|.
able wind*.
River
Tfce Stmqaebaiina river and all Itn
branrhea will fall alowly. V
ata*e of about R..1 feet la Indi
cated for Harrlnburg, Turadn.v
morning.
Tempera!arei S a. m.. BO defrrrc*.
Sunt Rlaea, 4:'JT> a. m.
Moon: Full moon, June R.
River Stage■ 5.7 feet.
Veaterday'a Weather
HlKheot tempeurnture. 7H.
l.oneat temperature. 4.
lean temperature. 70.
Auraial tempernture, 07. ,
CITY, COUNTY A
NATION READY TO
ENROLL FOR ARMY
Men Guilty of Treachery'
Against Country Will Face
Death on Conviction in
Federal Courts
SLACKERS ARE GIVEN
A FINAL WARNING
Returns Are Expected to
Show Ten Million Men|
Are to Be Subject to Con
scription
Washington, D. C., June 4.—Final
I preparations for the registration of
'more than 10,000,000 voung Ameri
-1 cans next Tuesday for war service i
i and for the prosecution of the dis- I
[ loyal who attempt to interfere with 1
'the registration went forward to-da> I
lat the offices of Brigadier-General!
Crowder, provost marshal-general, j
and Attorney General Gregory.
Into the ol%ce of General Cro>vder ;
will come the reports of the state |
officials who are conducting the titili- i
lary census. Probably by midnight
Tuesday it will be possible to state
' with approximate accuracy the num- j
l>er of men who have presented
themselves during the fourteen hours !
jof registration. A week later the
lists of the registrars will have
! reached Washington und further an- j
j a lysis will be possible.
Traitors Eacc Death
AVith Instances of agitation against
army registration multiplying as the
date for the enrollment approaches,
the Department of Justice has
adopted the policy of fringing the
| charge of treason, punishable by
I oeath, against the persons who most
j flagrantly and openly advocate a re
j fusal to register and h resistance to
, conscription.
Final warning against evasion of
I the draft registration to-morrow or
! attempts to induce others to evade it
| has been issued by Attorney General
j Gregory. He said he expected a few
■ men in each 'community to refuse to
1 tegister, but anticipated no resort to
| force to prevent execution of the law.
"It is the duty of thi'- department
I (o prosecute evaders and it is pro
| prosed to do so," said the Attorney
I General.
"I expect no resort to force to
I prevent registration. It any indl
| vidual should attempt it. he will be
I promptly dealt with,
i "In almost every community there
; will be persons who will attempt to
j evade registration. One class will
| consist of weaklings who lack the
i physical and moral courage neces
sary to face the possibility of a tight,
and another of those under the in
' fluence of men and women beyond
! the conscription age who are en
deavoring to dissuade young men
! from registering. Some of the per
| s,ons exerting this influence are
, i wholly disloyal: others are lacking
j in patriotism or an appreciation of
: the needs of their country, and are
animated by a fear of the possible
. loss of members of their families.
"The young men of the country
i who come within the provisions of
| the conscription act are brave and
I inherently loyal. They are ready and
< willing, in nearly every instance, to
answer to the nation's call and do
: their part in protecting it from a
foreign foe."
Resistor On Homecoming
Tt was announced to-day that the
requirement of the new law that the
j registration cards of men absent
! from their home precinct reach the
I precinct registrar by June 5 would
not be enforced against Americans
abroad. Instructions sent to Ameri-
I can consuls, accompanying resistra
j tion cards, however, ask those who
j fill out the blanks to set them back
I to the registrars as quickly as DOS
| dbte.
The regulations provide that
i Americans returning to the United
States must register witliin five days
| after their arrival at an American
I port. Registration at the consulates
| abroad, however, is purely voluntary
j and cannot be enforced while the
j citizen remains out of the country.
| Four Guard Regiments
Will Go to France
Philadelphia, June 4.—Four Penn
sylvania regiments have been select
[ ed to form part of the forces which
! are expected to serve in France, says
the Public ledger this morning.
These are the First, Third, Thir
teenth and Eighteenth Pennsylvania
Infantry. On July 15 they will re
linquish their present duties, which
consist of guarding rail and water
lines of the state and industrial
plants and leave home for "some
! where at the front." None of the
; commanders knows now just where
they are to be sent, or if they do mil
itary exigencies prevent the an
nouncement.
Their work, which now consists of
guard duty and policing railroad
lines. Industrial and munition plants
and inland waterways, will be taken
over by the home defense organiza
tions throughout the state.
The order to these regiments came
from the War Department Saturday
At the First Regiment armory every
man from Lieutenant Colonel" Brown
down to the humblest private in the
| ranks welcomed the news and their
eyes glisteued at the thought of aet
| lve service In the trenches.
Many Patriots Volunteer to
Help Get Out the "Vote";
Every Barroom in the
City Will Be Closed
NO TROUBLE IS
ANTICIPATED HERE
Nonresidents Made Rush
to Sign Up; Polls Will Be
Open From 7 o'clock Un
til 9 in the Evening
Tlio fire bells of the city will
j strike the hours to-morrow
from 7 o'clock in the morning
until it o'clock in the evening.
'l'his order was issued to all the
lire companies to-day by Fire
) Chief Klndler. The beds will
! recall to all men coming within
the provisions of the conscrib
tion law their duty to appear at
the registration places to l)C en
rolled.
1 Preparations for any antidraft reg
istration campaign, announcement
j that all local bars will be closed to
j morrow in compliance with the re-
| quest of Mayor Charles A. Miller, and
i offers from many residents of the
i city and county to co-operate wher
| ever it is possible were the final de-
I velopments as city and county regis
jtrars and registration boards prepar
jed to enroll the men between the
i ages of 21 and 30 years, inclusive.
| City and county officials do not an
ticipate any uttempts to escape regis
; tratlon or any refusal, but intimated
that should this happen, stringent
measures will be adopted and arrests
I made at once.
Heady For Returns
Arrangements have already been
I started at the Courthouse for the
returns from each city and county
i district so that the tabulations can
Ibe started early Wednesday morn
ing. Need of personal workers, au
tomobiles, interpreters and clerks by
i the city and county resulted in some
1 volunteers offering to serve, but
many more can be used.
Final instructions with orders for
slight changes in some of the forms
tor tabulation and in the require
ments of the registrars were receiv
|ed and will be transmitted by the
local boards at once.
Bars W ill Be Closed
Stanley G. Jean, secretary of the
Dauphin County Liquor Dealers' Pro
tective Association, announced last
| night that the licensed dealers of
the city and county will close to
morrow during the bonis of enroll
! ment. It is understood also tjiat a
number of licensed clubs throughout
the city and county will take similar
i action.
Want Men Exempted
In the churches yesterday pracli
; cally every Protestant and Catholic
minister called the attention of the
I congregations to the registration to
| morrow. Special sermons and pa
triotic services in the morning and
i evening voiced the co-operation of
.the clergy of the city and county.
| Among the pastors who spoke at
length on the draft were the Rev.
1 Dr. George Edward Hawes, of Mar
ket Square Presbyterian Church; the
I Rev. Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker,
Stevens Memorial Methodist: the Hev.
Dr. Robert Bagnell, Grace Methodist,
while other ministers brought the
! question into their sermons indi
; rectly.
Efforts of the Bell Telephone Com
jpany and the Western Electric Com
[ pany to win exemption from con
scription for all their employes has
been submitted to the Department of
Justice at Washington. Form letters
i have been sent out to employes of
I the companies named, instructing
; them how to answer questions 7, 8
and 12, pertaining to employment
and exemption claims. A somewhat
I similar move, it is understood, will
jbe made by the Harrlsburg Pipe
! and Pipe Bending Works, where
| hundreds of employes are at work
| making shells.
Long Une to Register
| To-day was a record-breaker at
the office of City Clerk R. Ross Sea
j man ofr signing up nonresidents and
persons who will be out of the city
j to-morrow. Long before the office
opened the men lined up in the hall
and during the morning City Asses
sor James C. Thompson, with a num
ber rf clerks of city offices, Mercer
! B. Tate, J. William Bayles and B.
I Frank Nead, of the subboards, as
j sisted in the work. Another crowd
I kept County Clerk Ed 11. Fisher, of
the county board, with assistants,
j working during the day.
Few of the men registering claim
led exemptions, many of them not
i even answering question 12 on the
! registration card. One of the men,"
| signing up early in the morning,
I claimed exemption because he hail
j been given a dishonorable discharge
I Continued on Page 3]
PATIENTS REGISTERED
During the day C. F. Snyder, as
j sistant clerk to the county commis
sioners, took the registrations of a
! number of patients in the Harrlsburg
I Hospital.
IIARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1917,
GERM AN IA AT PEACE
1 (fiovr
"Germany after the war will be at peace, and with folded arms
will be borne upon the shoulders of her present enemies."— From
a speech by Bethmann-Hollwcg.
10,000 PROSPECTS
UNDER WATCHFUL
EYE OF SALESMEN
Surrounding Towns Arc Ex
pected to Buy $535,000
Worth of Bonds
Lists of prospects numbering 10,-1
000 are practically completed at the j
headquarters of the Liberty Loan in:
the Board of Trade. Salesmen con-1
fident in the success they have been j
experiencing will start out Thursday
morning for the greatest drive of the
campaign to round up the two million i
dollars which is Harrisburg's allot- j
nient of the two billion required for j
the loan.
Allotments to the nearby towns'
have been made as follows: Hersliey,
SIOO,OOO of which $30,000 has been j
subscribed: Hummelstown, $75,000;
Millersburg, $75,000; Halifax, $25,000;
New Cumberland, $50,000; Dillsburg,
$50,000; Middletown, $75,000; Le
moyne, $35,000.
Flavel 1,. Wright, assisted by Ed- i
ward B. Miller and T. Clancy will I
speak to a public meeting to-night !
at New Cumberland. Percival Hill. I
of Halifax, and Hay W. Brown, of 1
Millersburg. were at headquarters i
this morning getting information on
how to conduct an effective campaign i
in their respective towns.
Slight changes have been made in i
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TO STANDARIZE THI CKS
By Associated Press
Washington, June 4. Standard i
dimensions for motor truck engines |
and transmission machinery under!
army requirements have been agreed |
upon by leading manufacturers it |
was announced to-day by the Society ]
of Automotive Engineers, following)
a series of conferences with army
officers and the council of national
defense. 1
ID TO
A -*■ Registration Day
X JUNE >5
ONE MILLION men in Pennsylvania are
privileged to write THEIR own names into
AMERICAN HISTORY to morrow.
And to ONE man in each district goes the
glory of being FIRST to sign up.
WHY NOT BE THAT MAN YOURSELF?
"The manhood of the country shall step forward in one
solid rank in defense of the idesls to which this nation is
consecrated." PRESIDENT WJLSON.
"ALL MALE PERSONS" AGED 21 YEARS
AND NOT PAST 31 MUS T REGISTER.
AMERICAN WAR
MISSION IS SAFE
IN RUSSIAN PORT
Arrival Is Announced in Capi
tal by Committee of Public
Information
i Washington. June 4. The Root
I mission is safe in a Russian port.
Announcement to this effect was
, made to-night by the committee on
I public information on the basis of
I official information received by the
| ftate Department. The announce
| ment follows:
| "The American commission to
| Russia, headed by the Hon. Elihu
j Root, arrived safely at a Russian
port this morning. The Navy De
partment, Secretary Daniels stated,
received a dispatch to-day announc
ing the safe arrival of the vessel
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INVENTS NEW AIRPLANE
By Associated Press
Paris, June 4. Santos Dumont,
j the pioneer Brazilian aviator, has in
| vented a powerful type of seaplane
sor fighting submarines according to
! a Turin dispatch to the Petit Journal.
: The dispatch says that the new ma-
I chine will be manufactured in the
| United States and supplied to. all the
ELKI'S ON WAY HOME
By Associated Press
Berne, Switzerland, June 3, via
I Paris, June 4. Accompanied by his
i family and his office staff of twelve
i persons, Abram I. Elkus, formefr am
] basador to Turksy, arrived here this
j evening on a special sleeping car.
) Mr. Elkus went to a hotel where
j rooms had been reserved for him.
He will rest in Berne for several
1 days before proceeding to Paris.
PETROGRAD IS
THREATENED BY
NEW REVOLT
Sailors From Garrison An
nounce Warship Will Join
When in Rioting
CITY IS ALAH ME D
Want Provisional Govern
ment to Hand Over Ex-
Czar to Them
By Associated Press
Petrograd, Sunday, June 3, via
London, June 4. Sailors from the
Kronstadt garrison which recently
declared its independence of the cen
tral government arrived in Petro
grad early this morning with the
announcement that warships at
Kronstadt would come to Petrograd
immediately and land men to make
demonstrations. Later it was re
ported that sailors had landed at
Gutuyeff Island, port of Petrograd,
and begun an attack. A visit to the
Gutuyeff port quarter showed the
story of the landing and attack was
untrue. However, it was sufficiently
alarming to provoke intense excite
ment in the city and cause the dis
patch to the spot of a military force.
Petrograd waited to.day 'for the
threatened demonstrations by the
Kronstadt warships and as the time
passed with no such incident the an
nouncement of the sailors who re
ported here last night came to be
regarded by a majority to be merely
boastful talk on the part of ex
tremists acting in defiance of the
orders of Anatole Lamonoff. presi
dent of the Kronstadt council of
workmen's and soldiers' deputies.
To Sway Klcction
The Kronstadt sailors who came to
Petrograd said the demonstrations
would be for the purpose of bring
ing about new elections of members
of the council of workmen's and sol
diers' delegates, whose present mem
bers were denounced as bourgeois.
The sailors also demanded that For
mer Emperor Nicholas be handed
over to them. At street meetings they
expressed dissatisfaction with War
Minister Kerensky and the whole
provisional government, particularly
for abolition of tho death penalty,
which they characterized as prema
ture."
On visiting the Gutuyeff quarter
the correspondent found that a vast
fire had been burning for some tinle,
having been partly extinguished. A
) large quantity of sulphur was afire.
| There were evidences of a violent ex-
I plosion. Windows at a considerable
distance were broken.
I'lys Kctl Flag
It appears that at !i o'clock this
j morning the ice breaker Oranien
baum, instead of the Kronstadt war
ship arrived off Gutyeff. It was fly
ing the red flag. On it were sailors
and workmen who were singing the
hymn of the Bolsheviki extremists.
The icebreaker steamed up and
down opposite the wharf, took on
board a party of Petrograd work
men and departed.
Simultaneously seven large cases
of phosphorous on the wharf ignited.
The fire extended to a quantity of
salts, causing a violent explosion,
after which the stores of sulphur
I caught fire and were consumed. No
! one was injured, and buildings close
J by were undamaged, except for the
J destruction of glass. Inquiries show
that it is altogether improbable that
| anyone landed from the icebreaker.
[ The conflagration apparently was
! Caused either by incendiaries from
| quarters other than Kroristadt or, as
! official investigators on the spot sug
| gest, by spontaneous combustion of
I phosphorus exposed to damp and
i heat.
Mayor Miller and Head
of Local Safety Committee
Pleased With Bar's Action
Mayor Miller and William Jen
nings, chairman of the local commit
!tee on public safety, are more than
! pleased with the favorable response
| of the Liquor Dealers' Association to
I their request to close all bars to
! morrow during the military registra
tion. All driking places will be clos
ed tight, it is hoped, and while this
| association has no jurisdiction over
j the social clubs with sideboards the
! authorities are earnestly urging such
i clubs to show their patriotism by
making Tuesday an absolutely "dry"
I day. Clubs which refuse to close
i their bars or sideboards will deserve
j public condemnation.
Italian War Mission
Delayed by Illness;
Visit Here Postponed
J The city's reception to the Prince of
I "dine and the Italian party may be
i postponed because of the delay in the
i start of the party. Signor Marconi
lias been ill for several days and the
1 Prince of I'dine became ill yesterday,
i The party did not start from Wash
ington to-day. as had been planned.
The tour, as planed, would have
inken nlp.e days, and included Atlanta.
Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis,
St Louis. Burlington, lawn. Chicago,
Pittsburgh. Marrisburg, Xew York
find Philadelphia. It was expected
that the party would arrive In this
cltv. June IJ. and whether the party
will omit part of the itinerary could
not be lee rued to-day.
SOCIALISTS ARRIVE
Py Associated Press
Stockholm, vlu London, June 4. ]
The delegates of the German ma
loiity Socialists to the Socialist con- '
fercpee have arrived here. headed
by Philip Schiedemann. T. Statin- i
ing, Danish Sociullst minister, with
out portfolio, accompanied the dele
gates from Copenhagen.
TKI'TONS CI,AIM SI CCIJSK
H v .4isoitat l'tt Press
Sofia, June 3. via Amsterdam to
London. June Continued efforts
• y the French and I'rU.ish to advance'
on the Macedonian front arc report- I
ed in th" official statement Issued I
by the War Office Sunday. The re-i
pulse of all uttucks is claimed. k
Single Copy, 2 Cents
KAISER PREPARED TO
PAY ANY
IN MEN TO HOLD ON
Germans Continue to Throw Great Armies Against the
Allied Lines in France in Bloody Attempts to Regain
Ground Lost in Recent Battling; Crown Prince Meets
With Some Success
By Associated Press
There seems ample evidence that the Germans arc prepared
to go to almost any length at present in sacrifices-of men to hold
the situation on the western front in hand.
Along the line held by the French the efforj is taking the
| form of almost ceaseless counterattacks both in the Aisne region
jand in the Champagne. Although suffering a sanguinary repulse
jon Sunday in repeated attacks on the Vauclcrc and Californie
'
| plateau, they made a new thrust last night further west, near
j Froidmont farm, along the Chemin Dcs Dames plateau. The
j Paris report shows this to have some measure of success, the
| Crown Prince's troops forcing their way into some advanced
| French positions.
The British on their front, have not been so frequcnty counter
! attacked, but whenever recently they have essayed an advance
they have evidently found dense masses of Germans opposing
them.
To-day's British official statement I
does not mention any further lighting
in the vicinity of Lens anil apparent
ly General llalg has not pressed fur
ther the attempt to advance made
there yegterday which was checked
by violent counterattacks with heavy
forces.
In an independent operation further
south, near Cherisy, the British last
night recaptured the post taken from
them by the Germans in an attack
on Saturday night.
The situation In Bnssia continues
extremely uncertain. While better re
ports have come from the army at the
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MAYOR NOTIFIED OF UPINE'S ILLNESS jLW
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from Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, this nffernoon [
notifying him cf the illness of Prince Udine and calling | ;
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I through Harrisburg. If his health impro'veß sufficient- ;J I
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I • Harrisburg.—The stockholders meeting of the Har- 'll
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improv , |
Company cut off steam heat from the city mains Sntur- '■ £
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! RUSSIA GETS WILSON'S MESSAGE 1
Washington, June 4. President Wilson's com- ~S|
munication to the new Russian government on the war j
aims of the United States has been delivered at Petro- | '
grad by Ambassador Francis, but will not be published j<■ '*
: for .. 1
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1 under S3OO bail at a hearing before Alderman eDShong lis
this afternoon. He is a logger at 116 Sylvan Terrace 1 *
PENNSYLVANIA LEADS RECRUITING 1
Washington, June. 4. Regular army recruiting " 1 R
fc r
! of new enlistments prill. Pennsyl a
4 ' i £■
S* 54. New Yor: nd with 290; < ;
I thin'! i urt r. • ! fifth ■J |j
i with 179 and 177 respectively. ' '
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
\\ 1111 ii in Henry Lola, HnrrlxbiirK, mitl lllanrbe Cecelia Wilton, En- I
hnuti Harold Klnoud Karp. Wanhliiulon, U. ('., and Alva Vloln Mhoop,. I
tliirrlaburiti Floyd Uenley l.utc nnil Mary Ktilhryn Uunklr. Harrla-* I
burm I'ururll Quick, W T lulrr <tro\f. Md.. and Kdnn I.OUIHC Janea,
I'll in l> HI II i Holier! \\ llllnni I lurk. llarrlHhnrK. mid Sadye Marlon Zeld
era. Mrt|iorli I.OIIU Itoburli mid SUHIIII ROMII I'arllrr, Slerllon; ( haun
eey Arnolt (ruin, \obleavllle. I ml., and Miiry Kllxabeth Heekert, Mil.
lerxbiiri;: Hnrvey Aaron Homnaii and Carrie K. Ilott man. Halifax town-a *
xblpt Ha., ml Cb:irle llolVmiin nnd ilerlba Irene llonmna, Halifax" >
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HOME EDITION
i front. Minister of War Korensky de
claring it constantly increasing: In
power, conditions in Petrograd ar(
becoming still move unsettled. The
declaration of independence b>
K ronstadt, tlie naval fortress neat
Petrograd, has been followed by a
threat to send sailors from the gar
rison of Petrograd for demonstration?
against the present council of depu
ties. It was even reported yesterdaj
that a force of the sailors had land
ed at Outuyeff island, the port of Pet
r<*Rrad, and begun an attack. Th'
was Inter found however, to be ill;-
true-