HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ___ Mtcprnbcnt. LXXXVI — No. 138 14 PAGES HAIG'S ARMY STRIKES HARD NEAR LENS British Troops Penetrate German Lines For a Depth of Half a Mile on a Two-Mile Front; Successful Opera tions Carried on Farther North as Far as La Basse; Work on No-Rest Policy General Haig's evident purpose to give no rest to the Ger mans before the British front in Belgium and Northern France bad a new exemplification last night. His troops struck at the German positions around Lens. On a two mile front south of the Souchez river the enemy lines*were penetrated to a depth of more than half a mile and successful operations were carried on further north as far as Laßass*. The field of this attack lies from 15 to 20 miles south of that of the big drive made by the British in Belgium on Thursday, vvhich resulted in the capture of the commanding Wytschuete- Messines-ridge and the elimination of one of the most annoying salients in the entire line on the western front. Somewhat widely separated as are the two fields of attack, they bear relation to each of constituting points from which the manufacturing district of Northern France, centering in Lille may be subjected to alternating pressure. Expect Fall of Lens Already the Arras battle, of which this latest development is a continu ation, has made serious inroads on the major defenses of this region. The fall of Lens, the great coal city just before the British lines at this point, has long been conceded to be only a matter of time. The movement reported to-day ap parently means that this is near at hand and that another great blow i about to be struck towards clearing the Germans from their long held and much prized French possessions in this area. The success of the British in the Lens operations may well have been due in part to the necessity the Ger mans had been under of making heavy concentrations against the British on the Belgian front. It was during the progress of a desperate German counterattack on the ground won by the British forces in the Wytschtiete-Messines sector that General Haig made his attacks in the more southerly area. Despite the power of the German counter ef- Asks Telegraph's Co-operation In Marine Recruiting To the Editor of Harrlsburg Tele crnphi There are no better soldiers in the world than tho.e In the 1/nlt cil Mutes Mnrlne Corps, familiarly known a* "soldiers of the sea." They have won their place by their • pleiidld bearln*. conranf and brav ery. Always* amons the first and often th.- first to land whenever the country needs trained armed men. they have borne themselves In such a mnnner as to win com plete ndinlratlon and fullest confi dence of the American people. Service In the marine corps I* a bodice of honor and promotion In the cor pa can be attained only by merlt. In no other military service In promotion more certain to a uinn who demonstrate* his capac ity. .lunc 10 to June 10 has been des itcnatcd by the aiarlnc corps re cruiting service a* "Marine Corps Week" and a speclnl effort will he made during thoae days to add four thousand recruits to the marine corps, the number desired to hrlnjs the corps up to the strength lately authorized hy Congress. Young men with real American stuff ready to serve In all part* of the world on land and sea will find It a place where they can serve their country In a way to win its gratitude, with the opportunity of winning distinction for themselves. JOSKPHLS DAN IK I.S. I bespenk your geaerou* co-op eration and support by patriotic organizations, business houses and Influential citizens In making suc cessful this extraordinary recruit ing effort. GEORGE BAHXETT. Major General Commandant I*. S. Marine Corps. ' THE WEATHER For Harrlsburg and viclnltyt Probably showers and thunder storms to-night nnd Sunday; not much change In temperature. For Kastern Pennsylvania! Proli nhlv showers and thunderstorms to-night nnd Sunday; not much change In temperature; moder ate south winds with squalls. Illver. The upper portion of the main river will probably begin to tall to-nißht nnd the lower portion Sunday. All tributaries will prob ably fall, except local rl*es i*ay occur as a result of heavy local showers. Stage of about O.H feet Is Indicated for Harrlsburg sun day morning. General Conditions Showers and thunderstorms have occurred generally In the Ohio, middle Mississippi nnd lower Missouri valleys. Including Ten nessee, western North Carolina and southwestern Virginia, and there have been light, local showers In the Potomac and Susquehanna valleys and In New England and the upper St. Law rence valley. Temperature 8 a. m„ 64 degrees. Sun rises *.27 a. m. Moon rises 11.04 p. m. River stage, 7.8 feet. Yeaterday'a Weather Highest temperature, TO. l.owest temperature, 02. Mean temperature, 01). Normal temperature. 00. British War Commission Passes Safely Through Submarine Blockade Way lloftie v fort it failed of any success. The Germans were completely repulsed, the British holding fast to all the ground they won in Thursday's great push. On the front held by the French ; there also was hard fighting during j the night. The Germans attacked at j several points along the Chemin des j Dames, in the Aisne area, from Filain |to east of Cernv. At one point north- I east of Cerny they made four succes sive attacks. They failed to gain anything and suffered heavy losses in ! all these thrusts. Death Takes Terrible Toll of Aviators Copenhagen, June 9. The death I notices in the German papers indi cate what a terrible toll the. western battle is taking among German avia ! tors. Scarcely an issue of the Ber | lin, Hamburg or other papers which I circulate among officers, appears, ; without at least two to three and of ! ten eight or ten notices of deaths in | the flying corps. Death notices of submarine offi ' cers are as rare as those of flyers are I trequent. For several weeks none | has been noticed in the Berlin and i Hamburg papers and it is possible I that the admiralty has prohibited I their publication. Bulgaria Staggers Under War Costs B }• Associated Press j Copenhagen, June 9. Premier j Radoslavoff, of Bulgaria, arrived last night in Berlin, accompanied by I Director Stojanoff, of the commls i sion on public debt. The presence jof M. Stojanoff is interpreted as j meaning that the Bulgarian pre mier's mission, in addition to a dis cussion of peace terms with Chaneel j lor Von Bethmann-Hollweg and Count Czernin, the Austrian foreign minister, has to do with the German | subsidy to Bulgaria. Germany has been advancing her southern ally 40.000.000 marks a month. This sum is believed to be I inadequate to meet the increasing war cost which Bulgaria, like the j other belligerents, is staggering un der. Gen. Pershing Received by King George at Buckingham Palace By Associated Press | London, June 9. —General Persh ing was received this morning at I Buckingham Palace by King George. He was presented to the king by Lord Brooke, commander of the Twelfth Canadian infantry brigade. General Pershing was accompanied to the palace by his personal staff of j twelve officers. After the audience jthe officers paid a formal call at the United States embassy, j Detailed stories of" the landing of ! General Pershing and his party at ! Liverpool and the arrival in London fill a large part of the leading news columns in the morning papers. Ar rangements for the stay of the Amer ; icans in England, plans for the fu ture, biographies and portraits of the American general and pictures of his i reception in Liverpool crowd the news from the front into second i place. i The editorials, while welcoming General Pershing personally, dwell particularly upon the significance of ] the arrival of the American advance I guard as a symbol of "perhaps the | greatest of all the great events in the midst of which we are living—so vis ibly great that none can pretend to foresee what the full harvest will be for the English-speaking world and the sacred doctrines it accepts." Emphasis is also laid on the cer tainty of ultimate victory which American co-operation is believed to tinsure. A typical expression of this confidence reads: "Ours is the burden of to-day, but the burden is made light by the knowledge that the co-operation of the United States insures the glory of the two." N. R. BII.LER HOXOREp BY NATIONAL CONVENTION By Associated Press Providence, R. 1., June 9.—Bray ton A. Round, of thir citv, was elected president of the National As scclation of Fisheries Commissioners jin session here yesterday. Other of | fleers were: N. R. Buller. Harris *'urg, Pa , vice-president: Howard G. j Marshall, New Haven, Conn., secre j tary, and John Craft, Mobile, Ala., | treasurer. SAN SALVADOR CATHEDRAL AND VOLCANIC MOUNTAIN f ' > -r" ■- - - - '*■ ■ - , ' i ■ ■';••• ! ... '• ; • •,* • .- v ! j*,• . X ] , . • ; . . x | - - ' ■ .. • , - ♦ '• I ■ - ' - _Jy The photograph shows the new cathedral, one of the most imposing structures in the city of San Salvador. Central America, destroyed Thurs day night by earthquakes or volcaniceruption. In the background, three miles from the great church, is the mountain of San Salvador, a volcano, which was responsible for the disaster. The city, which has suffered several times from earthquakes, is in a valley 2000 feet above sea level and lies at the base of the mountain. 35 DEAD AND 137 MISSING IN MINE EXPLOSION Spreading Gas Believed to Have Taken Heavy Toll of Lives By Associated Press Butte. Mont., June 9.—With at least thirty-five men dead and 167 others missing as the result of a fire which broke out in the Speculator copper mine last night, Butte wres tled to-day with the worst mine dis aster in its history. The fire broke out in the lower levels of the mine late last night, starting from a broken power cable that carried electricity to the under ground pumps. Lower levels of the mine quickly filled with smoke and gas. There were 415 men on the night shift. Of these 213 escaped through levels connecting with other mines. The gas spread to the Diamond mine, and it was feared took a further toil of life in that property. Helmet men, mine rescue crews and safety first squads from all ths mines in Butte undertook to pene trate the gas-filled working of the Speculator, the Diamond and high ore mines in the hope of rescuing other miners. Officials said that if the 167 missing miners had been able to.make their way to the high ore mine workings there* was yet a chance to save them. Kaiser and Hindenburg Narrowly Escape Bombs Dropped by Airmen By Associated Press London. June 9.—Emperor William was with Field Marshal Von Hinden burg, Prince Eitel Friedrlch and.oth er members of the German Emper or's staff, inside the St. Peter's sta tion at Ghent, Belgium, when it was bombarded by allied entente airmen the other day, according to a dis patch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from a Dutch frontier cor respondent. The Emperor's party was unhurt, but three army officers nearby were killed. DYNAMITE TRAIN Laredo, Texas. June 9. Eight persons were reported killed when jured on May 28, when a party of unidentified Mexicans dynamited a passenger train near Uruapan. State of Michoacan, Mexico, according to arrivals here to-dav. r \ Exclusive News In The Telegraph Only YESTERDAY San Salvador, a city the size of Harrisburg, , and a half.dozen nearby towns, were destroyed by a vol cano explosion, the first since Mont Pelee. YESTERDAY the HARRIS BURG TELEGRAPH was the only newspaper printed In Har risburg or In the whole Central Pennsylvania field to publish this item. Up to this afternoon no Har rlsburg newspaper carried one line of news about this great dis- The TELEGRAPH Is the only afternoon newspape:- in the Cen tral Pennsylvania field served by the Associated Press, the greatest news-gathering organization In the world. The TELEGRAPH prints . the news when it Is news. Others follow. Read the TELEGRAPH. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1917. SAN SALVADOR IS STILL CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD By Associated Press I I Corinto, Nicaragua, June 9. —[ Telegraphic communication with Sal vador is still cut off and no authentic' information is available here as 1o the loss of life and property caused by the earthquake and storm on Thursday night. Such advices as have reached Corinto indicate that! great property loss was occasioned.! It is reported that Santa Tecla has been destroyed and the surrounding: ! countryside for a radius of thirty 1 miles devastated. The city of Sail; | Salvador has been damaged badly, according to a current report, t The earthquake occurred at 3 ( o'clock Thursday night. It was ac-1 ■companied by a high wind and &i j heavy rain. i Dispatches yesterday from San! Juan said San Salvador, Santa Tecla! and neighboring towns had been do- j stroved but that the loss of life Wasl small. Information was received from San Miguel that only 100 houses were BOY SCOUTS TO GIVE VACATIONS FOR BOND SALE Local Troops Will Participate in Nation-Wide Patri otic Effort Beginning Monday night, a drive will be made by the Boy Scouts of the city for the sale -of Liberty Loan ; bonds. This is part of a great na- | tional canvass in which more than at quarter million Scouts will partici pate. In many cities Boy Scouts have been j called to the assistance of the volun- | tter canvassers and they are meeting with much success. Recently a Boy Scout called on a man who had already subgaribed for j $50,000 worth of Liberty bonds. Kx- j perienced bond salesman had attempt [Contlnuod on Page 5] To Recruit First Truck Company For National Guard in Harrisburg The first truck company of the National Guard oX Pennsylvania will be organized here next week. Ad jutant General Stewart announced to-day that the War Department had authorized the formation of a truck company to be a part of the supply train of the National Guard division. The company will be composed of fifty-four men and at least forty will be chauffeurs. General Stewart said that he had been advised that if the company was formed promptly there would bo prompt furnishing of trucks. There will be twenty-seven trucks, one automobile, two tank trucks and one repair truck. Lieutenant J. B. Wheeler. Eighth Infantry, Harrisburg. has been de tailed to recruit for tho truck com pany and will establish stations Mon day in front of the Courthouse and in Market Square. Ileft standing in San Salvador. A dis | patch from Panama last night said reports reaching there indicated hun j dreds of lives had been lost in San Salvador. Shocks Cut City Off From All Communication San Juan Del Sur, June 8. San Salvador, capital of the republic of Salvador, has been cut off from wire communication byfthe disturbance of an earthquake shock, apparently ac companied by volcanic action. At 7 o'clock last night the telegraph | operator at Tegucigalpa. Honduras, I reported that the operator at San Sal | vador had informed him tnat earth- I quakes had been felt, though the I shocks were also felt at Tegucigalpa, 'where the operator at 7:4f> p. m. lost communication with San Salvador on j all wires. ! From Sensuntanppque in north cen- I tral Salvador, flames weie seen aris ing apparently from a volcano in the neighborhood of San Salvador. OFFICER FROM HARRISBURG IS WITH PERSHING Volunteered in Signal Corps Reserve When Call First Came First Lieutenant Rexford Milton Glaspey has arrived safely in Eng land with General Pershing's staff, | and will soon be in France. A na- I tive of Bayside, N. J., Mr. Glaspey has been in Harrisburg for several [years as transmission engineer for | the Bell Telephone Company. At jthe first call for volunteers in the i Bell Telephone Signal Corps, Mr. ! Glaspey-offered his services and be -1 cause of his engineering knowledge ! and ability, was appointed to the [place of first lleutenon-t. He ha 3 been for some weeks stationed at Governor's Island, and it was not ' until cables were received from Eng [ Continued on Pago 5] 'Veterans of City Grays Will Hold Meeting Captain K. Laubensteln. command ing the veterans of thp City Grays; with Sergeant Philip German. Ser geant Christian Nauss, K. C. Humer and Fred Huston, acting with him have called a meeting of the City Grays' Veteran Association for Mon day evening to form a provisional company to replace companies D and I which will be called to the front within the next few weeks. The meeting will be held at the armory, at Second and Forester streets, and all the former.members of the two companies composing City Grays' Association are urged to be present. TO ORGANIZE GUARD The meeting to permanently or ganize the Harrisburg association for home defense will be held at the Courthouse to-night at 8 o'clock. The committee In charge of the draft of the plan of organization will make a report. The idea is to incorporate BALFOUR, HEAD OF WAR MISSION, SAFELY AT HOME Newspapers Co-operate Loy ally to Keep Secret Under Voluntary Censorship London, Jun£ 9.—Foreign Secre-! tary Balfour arrived at British port j this morning on his return from his I trip to America at the head of the , ! Ijritish mission. Mr. Balfour at once departed for London, arriving here this afternoon. 1 Washington. D. C.. June 9. —The | safe arrival of British Foreign Sec- i retary Balfour at a British port brought deep satisfaction to officials I here, who surrounded his visit to this country with greater precautions and secrecy than probably ever pre vailed before. The newspapers especially, though fully aware of Mr. Balfour's move- J ments, co-operated loyally under vol- > untar.v censorship to allow no men-1 l lion of Mr. Balfour's routes or times j lof departure to he published. Newspaper correspondents knew, ' but did not disclose Mr. Balfour's de- I parture from the continent. * Russia Threatened by a New Cabinet Crisis Over Prison Scandals Petrograd, June 9.—Two hundred I girl students of the Petrograd tech-j nical institute have entered their, 'unies on the rolls of ,a female regl ! ment which is being raised by Ensign 1 ] Butchkareff. The aim is immedi- j alely to start to the front and to fight ] in al! respects under the same con- i cHlons as men. Srores of girJs and women, anxious i to fight, appealed at the offices of I the League of Equal Rights for ! Women, which has expressed Us ap- j prcval of Lieutenant Butchkareff's j plan. Last n'ght the women war : riors held their first meeting. They | were addressed by Colonel Popoff, o f [ the Twelfth Army, who appealed to j the women to shame male strikers J and to admit to their hearts only | suitors who have actually helped to defend the fatherland. PUBLIC EXECUTIONER By Associated Press . j Copenhagen, June 9. Prussia, wnlch for a year has had no public executioner, has appointed a new headsman named Paul Spaete. j Spaete was formerly assistant to | executioner Schwietz, who accumu- j latcd a compency and retired. M'GRAW SUSPENDED By Associated I'ress | New York, June 9. President ITener, of the National League, aii-i jnounced to-day that he had sua ipended John J. McGraw, manager of' the New York Nationals, for an in definite period as a result of the lat ter's attack upon Umpire Byron in Cincinnati yesterday. HOME GUARD TO MEET A meeting to perfect the organi- j zation of the recently-formed Home (Defense Company will be held Ip the| main courtroom this evening at 8 | o'clock. Permanent officers will bp selected and n report wil be made by the committee in charge of thej bylaws. TORNADO KILLS TWO Memphis, Tenn., June 9. Two) persons weer reported killed when five houses were destroyed by a tor nado at Kerrvillc, Tenn./ fourteen • miles north of the city last night .Several persons are mluslnc. Single Copy, 2 Cents HARRISBURG'S LIBERTY LOAN IS $3,605,030 All Records For United States Broken by Campaigners Here; Plan May be Followed Elsewhere; Set Out to Get $2,000,000; Advanced Goal to $3,400,000 and Surpassed That; More to Come Harrisburg and allied towns have subscribed $3,605,030 to the Liberty Loan. Setting out to run the total up to $2,000,000 in three days, the campaigners ran far above that sum the first day and then, at the suggestion of Chairman Donald McCormick, took the Federal Reserve's estimate of 10 per cent, of all the assets of the banks in the district, which is $3,400,000 and topped that by nearly a quarter million mure. J his is the only campaign of its kind waged in the whole of the United States, according to Frank A. Vanderlip, of the Nat ional City Bank, N. Y., and by far the most successful. If other j districts match up with it the loan will be heavily over-subscribed. Hut even as it is the campaigners, while not acting as an organization, will go right along soliciting sub scriptions, ami it is believed the ' grand total when the time limit ex pires. will be nearly $1,000,000 for Harrisburg and the district, or twice \ the amount originally requested by j the government. A I .<>oa 1 Idea j The idea of the campaign originat- I ed with Donald MeCormick, the j Clearing House Association, and the committee of the Rotary Club and !' J j I a I •• r % ' • J \ % c ) I a J J 9 ■ I | i C ■ C ived here I 7 I ( ( I . I I , : mi'toi !and Mr* Silas C. Swallow, will be dedicatr t I ■ . i attend the exrrt'ses, * V } MARRIAGE I | Gyvila Lugyak and Murunret Torma*l, steeltom Marlon Laurence # G,, rdiicr unci Mary Hare I Smith, Harrlshurm David Wilbur KcitNlaver m | and Jlar.v Florence ForreMtrr, Ml. Union* Roner Commltiß Mummii, J I litarrlNhurK, mid Lena llrckmnn, Hoekvlllet Tomo Suter and Rarharfl I I iilrhnak. Stceltoa; NHnon Carter Brook* find Verlnda Catherlenu 1 1 rmuKoii, Steel (OIK William Kuhn, Jr., and Hnnnah Thelma Neuhaam. 1 | Steel tout W. Warren Shoemaker. llurrislmrK. and Ruth Knox, Rlalni I Karl Heaver* and Km ma Reckwlth. Washington, W. Va.| Norman B. 1 I Strnuiier and Irene M. Musner, llumflitoun. # HOME EDITION Chamber of Commerce acting with the banks. They procured the serv ices of Edson J. Hockenbury, a pro fessional campaign manager, of Har risburg, who save his services free, and the teams were organized under his direction. It is understood that Mr. Vanderlip will suggest that this plan be followed elsewhere, in com munities where there is danger of falling behind. Mr. Hockenbury has gone to Milwaukee, where he has under way a big Red Cross c&m --[ Continued on Page 6]
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