to Stop Headlong Flight of Russ Armies jlk HARRISBURG tfSfllll TELEGRAPH Jok J" ®lje Star-Jn&epcn&ent * * LXXXVI— No. 177 14 PAGES ♦RUSSIAN ROUT UNMATCHED IN WAR'S HISTORY Great Nation Struck Appalling Blow Because of Treach ery and Cowardice on Part of Army Divisions at the Front; British and French Guns and Gunners Un \ able to Bolster Up Courage of Demoralized Troops INFANTRYMEN SHOOT ARTILLERYMEN TO GET HORSES FOR WILD FLIGHT TO REAR Situation Gravely Dangerous With Swift and Decisive Action Necessary to Save Nation; Chaos and An archy if Provisional Government Fails to Meet Successfully Issue Put Forward by German Plotters London, July 26. A dispatch to the Post from Petrograd says that under General Korniloff's drastic measures to restore order in the Eleventh army, one whole division thereof was blown to pieces by their own artillery "to avenge the insults wliich all loyal troops, especially the artillery, have been silently enduring for the past four months from these traitorous rascals." London, July 26. An appalling blow is the description of the Russian collapse given in a dispatch from Petrograd to the Post. Never in the war has Russia put afield such enormous armies. British and French guns and gunners, flying machines, aviators and British armored cars were added to the unprecedented tech nical strength of the Russians themselves to make this particular front equal to anything. The artillery was planted on admirably natural prepared positions. There were places where the artillery lay in absolutely dead ground not 300 yards from the enemy trenches. Big guns were ideally placed, thanks to the character of the terrain. Information regarding the guns of the Eleventh army almost staggers belief. It appears that the infantry shot down their own gunners in order to get their horses or shot down the gun horses in revenge as they retreated, leaving practically all the artillery t>f the Eleventh army in the enemy's hands. As far as artillery and technical ipplianues of the Seventh and Eighth armies are concerned there M also no hope of their being saved The Germans were already a couple 5f days ago across the best road n the shortest line of retreat. The rate of the enemy's advance on the western wing has accelerated and the gun positions are behind the line now occupied by the Germans. It is becoming an exceedingly inxious question whether the Eighth army will succeed in getting iway at all, but it is making the best haste eastward. The situation in Russia, according :o a dispatch to the Times. Is de :lared to be gravely dangerous and .s attributed to the lack of discipline >f the army and German propa ganda. "the impudence of which Is ilmost past belief." Petrograd, the vriter says, is exhausted by the con tinued political excitement and the people are craving a stable govern ment. Decisive and swift action is lecessary above everything else. Feeling of Relief Trial of persons proved to have :onnection with German propaganda with immediate death penalty of :hose guilty of the more severe of fenses would have an immeasurable ►fleet. The government's declaration jf itself as a committee of public iafety has caused a feeling of relief ind a strong handling of the out break in Petrograd caused the ex tremist to vanish but the cancer is jncured. The riots are still there ind a further operation is neces lary. The masses are too much out of land to be deterred by anything but i reintroduction of the death pen ilty. "The problem before the gov srriment is immense." concludes the sorrespondent. "They stand on the jrink of a precipice. If they can lold back the country the situation s saved. If not, the country will •ush into chaos and anarchy." \ FLY MEASURING DAY Saturday, July 28. 9 to 12 noon, 11 North Market Square. T'ne Civic Club will pay o cents i pint and give prizes also for • :hose turning in the greatest ..umber of files. . - THE WEATHER For Hurrifthurg and vicinity. Fair to-nlnlit and Friday. Continued warm. For Knstern Pennsylvania Partly cloudy to-night. Friday fuir. Gentle *outh >vinda. River The SuMquelianna river and all its branched will continue to fall alowly. A Mage of about 4.6 feet In Indicated for Hurriaburg Frlduy morning. Temperature at 8 a. M.i 74 de gree*. Sun: Rlaen 14.52 a. m. Moon: Full moon Auguat 2. River Stage: 4.8 feet. Yeaterday*a Weather HigheM temperature 85. Lowet temperature 73. Mean temperature 70. >oroial temperature 75. Tremendous Losses of Heavy Artillery Marks, New Phase of Retreat By Associated Press Such details of the Russian re treat in eastern Galicia as are now coming to hand do not tend to min imize the seriousness of the situation. Special dispatches report that the losses in heavy artillery will be tre mendous and express doubt as to the ability of the infantry of the Russian Eighth army to make good its re treat. There.is still an absence of assur ance that the Russian commanders of the armies taking part in the back ward movement have succeeded in getting their refractory troops in hand. Indications are not wanting, however, that the process is well un der way. There comes through Petro grad. for instance, the report that General Korniloff's drastic measures have included the blowing to pieces of an /entire division of traitorous troops of the Eleventh army by its own artillery. Xorth and South Hold What may prove to be a saving feature of the situation is the firm ness of the Russian armies both to the north and the south of the field of retreat. There has been no sug gestion of any yielding tendencies of the Russian forces in Volhynia. just to the north of the affected sector, while to the south the Russian troops are not only standing fast so far as they are able but are co-operating with the Rumanians in a successful offensive movement on the Moldavian frontier. London is sphinx-like to-day re garding the situation along the Fran co-Belgian front. It Is declared in the German reports that one of the most violent artillery battles in his tory has been in progrssr In Bel gium, even last night's supplementary German statement emphasizing the continuation of the heavy firing. All that the British press bureau gives Continued on Page 10 U. S. Soldier Risks Life to See How French Bomb Works; Loses His Hand By Associated Press With the American Forces in France (Wednesday). July 23.—The first near casualty among the Ameri can forces occurred to-day. A sol dier became too inquisitive in regard to the construction of a live French bomb among the supply brot.rht to camp for training purposes. H> ex tracted the safety pin in some ner and very soon thereafter a lo.m explosion occurred. Fortunately fi. the soldier the bomb did not contain a charge of full battle strength, or he would have been blown to pieces. As it was. he escaped with the loss of his right hand. At every vantage point near 'the camp men in khaki and men in blue could be seen to-day drilling, march ing and digging side by side.- Field maneuvers were In progress at sev eral places, while from more secluded spots came the rattle of machine guns. Musketry practice was being held and on every hand waa activity which was most impressive. ELEVATION OF NEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLBUILDING 7p F |j In connection with the preliminary plans for the new Junior High School to be built at Nineteenth and Chestnut streets, which were approved by the School Board last night. C. Howard Lloyd, the architect, submitted sketches showing how the structure will look when completed. The drawing of the entrance in Nineteenth street is reproduced above. The building will be three stories high, with entrances in Nineteenth and Chestnut streets, and in Bellevue Road. CONFEREES WILL KEEP SECRET ITS FOOD BILL WORK Nothing to Be Made Public Until Control Measure Is Complete By Associated Press Washington, July 26.—Conferees' on the administration food control | bill to-day undertook to reconcile differences between the House and Senate with a vigorous light threat ened over certain features of the legislation. Their task was made the more difficult by the action of the House in instructing its conferees to disagree to all Senate amendments. The main contests were expected to come over the Senate's proposals for the creation of a congressional war expenditures committee and a food control board of three mem bers, both of which are opposed by President Wilson. The President wants the war ex penditures committee eliminated because, he says, it would embarrass him in the conduct of the war and also the proposal to have three food commissioners instead of one be cause he wishes to leave Herbert Hoover unhampered in his work. Several Differences The Senate's amendments to fix a $2 minimum for wheat and to per mit continuance of the use of food stuffs in the manufacture of light wines and beer also are subjects of differences to be overcome in con ference. In their first session to-day gen eral sentiment, in a preliminary sur vey by the conferees, was said to be for disposal of the prohibition ques tion first, in order that the finance committee may be advised of any action which may affect revenues in connection with the war tax bill. It also agreed to "expedite the confer ence and hold night sessions. It was announced that nothing would be made public until the bill is virtually completed at least and "solemnly pledged" to secrecy. Gen. Goethals May Go to France as Chief of U. S. Army Engineers Washington, D. C., July 26. —The possibility that Major-General Goe thals may go to France to head the American army engineers is fore most among the developments which have followed President Wilson's re organization of the Shipping Board. There is nothing new in the gen eral's wish to take up active service at the front; it was foremost in his mind when the President called him back from the retired list of the army to take up the shipbuilding program. The general frequently has expressed his wish to close friends and even to officials of the War Department. As a retired officer IIA is subject to any duty to which the President may assign him. The probability that he would be as signed to service at the front has been recognized ever since it be came apparent that he would leave the fleet corporation. Forty-six Bodies Taken From Blasted IWine Sydney, C. 8., July 26.—Officials of the Dominion Coal Company to day said they had been unable to determine the cause of the explosion in the company's mine at New Wa terford yesterday which caused tho death of sixty-two men. Forty-six bodies had been located early to-day. Officials said there was no fire in the mine. When the explosion occurred 260 men were under ground. Rescue parties to-day were making rapid in vestigations, having in view the pos sibility that some of the men im prisoned might yet be saved. The explosion was at a point 2,100 feet down the slope. Gas fumes were responsible for a number of tha deaths. Norwegian Mission to U. S. Arrives Here Safely By Associated Press An Atlantic Port, July 26.—The s.eamship bearing Dr. Frldtjoff Nan sei. the Arctic explorer, and six oth. r prominent Norwegians recent ly anpointed by their government as numbers of a special commission to tht United States on the food supply question, arrived here to-day. The ;commission, according to a cablegram from Christiania the day it gailed. was sent to "discuss question* of importation and expor tation, aid to inform this govern ment of oxisting conditions in Nor i way." HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1917 DECIDE TO HOLD BIG CONVENTION IN HARRISBURG Council Agrees to Arrange For Sessions of Third Class City League City Council decided last night to hold the annual convention of the League of Third Class Cities in Har risburg August 2S, 29 and 30, as sug gested by officials of the organization, when it was learned that the sessions could not be held at Hazleton. City Clerk R. Ross Seaman was authorized to prepare a program and arrange plans for entertainment of speakers and delegates. A number of prominent men will probably be listed at once as speakers at the busyiess sessions. In additio* a dinner will probably be held; the visiting officials will be entertained Continued on Page 10 Willard and Buffalo Bill Wild West Show Here For Exhibitions Jess Willard, heavyweight cham pion of the World, in flesh and blood, is in Harrisburg to-day. He came here with his Buffalo Bill Wild West show for two performances, this aft ernoon and evening. The big tents were pitched at Twenty-first and Greenwood streets. The show came from Lewistown, arriving late. Just what delayed the big show was not announced officially. It was said there was to be a wedding. Whether the bells rang out beforel or after the parade is not known. It ] is known that two of the members' of the Willard show were granted a I marriage license at the courthouse this morning soon after the show reached Harrisburg. They, gave their occupations as "showman" and "showgirl" respec tively. The applicants were: Hank Lewis Durnell, Stockton, Cal., and Magdalen Almon, Boston. Both are 21 years old. Whether it is Willard or the Wild West show that attracts the crowds, the new circus aggregation is doing big business. This afternoon the audience was large, and based on the favorable criticisms received of the show another large crowd is due to-night. Of course the one big fea ture Is the appearance of Jess Wil lard. He appears in a boxing exhi bition at every performance and no extra fee is charged to see him. This won hearty approval from the pa trons, as on his last visit it was nec essary to pay an extra quarter to see the champion in action. He is his own manager now, and the pa trons get the benefit. The parade late in starting, found thousands lined along the sidewalks throughout the route. The proces sion was a long one, and Included cowboys and cowgirls, ten bands, Japanese, Indians, Mexicans, Arabs, Cossacks, artillerymen, the proverb ial old stagecoach and prairie wagons, and many other attractive features. Appropriation Bills Will Be Completed by Governor Tomorrow Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh will complete work on the appro priation bills to-morrow and the bill for landscape and grading work of the Capitol Park extension will be approved for the whole amount of $■350,000 and enough will be allowed for purchase of a site for the Camp Curtin memorial and for the parking of It. These are projects to which the Governor has given hearty ap proval. The outlook for the Millersburg bridge Is not so bright. The Governor has been laboring on the bills for three weeks and has considered in approvals for charities such matters as the increased cost of maintenance and supplies, the revenues of the state applicable to appropriation, the needs of the in stitutions and their relation to their communities, the character of the communities. Industrial or otherwise, and the type of management of the establishment. KILLKP TX FALL TO ROOF While helping to tear down a smokestack at the electric light plant of the Harrisburg Light and Power Company, Ninth and Walnut streets, Henry Strickler fell on the cement roof of the plant and received in juries which resulted in his death at the Harrisburg Hospital shortly be fore noon to-day. He was employed by a subcontractor of the Harrisburg Manufacturing and Boiler Company. Hir skull was fractured as a result of the X&U. COMMEND LOCAL RECRUITING IN SPECIAL LETTER Captain Harrell's Office Is Praised by War Depart ment For Enlistments A letter commending the work of the local army recruiting office was received this morning by Captain Harrell from the Secretary of War. The office, was inspected recently by a Federal officer who at the time de clared it to be the best organized one he had visited. The letter com plimented the local ofilce not only on organization, but the way in which advertising campaigns had been managed and interest in recruiting stimulated since April l. Army of ficers say that a letter from the de partment commending the men for good work is exceptional. The entire state of Pennsylvania yesterday Was credited with a total of 210 recruits. Of these the Har risburg district sent 118. The office force at the station worked last even ing until the last train west had left at midnight and fifteen men still re main to be examined and furnished with their necessary papers before being sent to central posts. To have so many recruits on one day that the office force could not handle them has been the ambition of Captain Harrell. He admitted this morning he almost reached that mark yesterday bu the greater num ber of the men reported late in the evening or otherwise the Harrisburg Continued on Page 10 Col. Roosevelt Given a Big Reception by Moose; Plan For War Relief By Associated Press• Pittsburgh, Pa., July 26.—A recep tion said to be more enthusiastic and greater than any accorded Colo nel Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsburgh, was given the former president when he arrived here to-day to deliver an address at the biennial international convention of the Loyal Order or Moose. Crowds lining the downtown streets cheered loudly as Mr. Roose velt was escorted by a reception com mittee of city and Moose officials from the station to his hotel and later to a flag raising at the quarters of a division of the Pennsylvania National Guard. The former president was the guest at noon at a luncheon given by the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, but made no address. He will address an open-air session of the Moose con vention at 5 o'clock this afternoon, speaking on "Americanism." Colonel Roosevelt is an honorary member of the Moose, an international conven tion of the order held in San Fran cisco several years ago having voted to make him a member. At a session of the Moose conven tion to-day. a plea for a fund of sl,- 000,000 for war relief was made by James J. Davis, director general of the order. Director Davis proposed that the fund be raised by an assess ment of one dollar upon each mem ber of the order and that It be used to provide a Moose Red Cross ambu lance and for the support of depend ants of members of the order who enlist or are drafted into service. No action wap taken on the proposal to day. Pershing Meets Military Chiefs For Conference By Associated Press Paris, July 25.—While the princi pal delegates to the conference of the entente allies to-day discussed political questions, Major-General Pershing, commander of the Ameri can expedition; General Sir William Kobertson. chief of the British im perial staff: General Smuts, minister of defense of the union of South Africa; General Foch, chief of staff of the French ministry of war; Gen eral Count Cadorna, chief of the Italian general staff, and the other military representatives conferred lengthily on the military situation. ' Can Aid Lonely Soldiers Owing to the war conditions existing in this country to-day. nearly every bridge, viaduct and tunnel throughout the country is guarded by our soldiers, who have little or no chance to buy a daily paper or reading matter of any kind. If you will throw this pa per off to one of them when you are through with It, or a maga [ stlne you may have read, we feel I sure 'hat It would be much ap preciated. PHYSICAL TEST TO COME FIRST IN ARMY DRAFT Claims For Exemption on Any Ground Will Then Be in Order TO PREPARE A KEY LIST Table Will Show Men First Drawn How They Stand By Associated Press Washington, July 26.—While local selection boards were at work to day assembling men of the si active draft iorces, officials of the provost j marshal general's office began pre-1 paring a new publication to furnish j registered men with an easy method I of keeping track of their status in i j their districts. The new list will be issued with j [ cross reference by number between | i the red ink and drawing numbers. It j I will be possible for those, supplied; I with the lists to inform any man al-' : most instantly in what order he was! ! drawn when he furnished his red I ■ ink number. Presumably these lists j will be placed in the selection boards'. j headquarters so that registrants may j [ tind out quickly where they stand, j If the master list is used for this i purpose it might be necessary to read I over several thousand numbers be -1 fore a registrant could tind his own j number. To Give Instructions A careful outline of the process I to be followed both by the selection I is also being prepared for publica- I tion. Registrants and their relatives ! are worried over action they should take and the object of the statement j will be to answer their questions i fully. The only thing registrants who j expect to be called in the lirst draft ! can do now is to watch the selection board headquarters so as to know I immediately when their names are ! posted. The da.te when they are to J report for physical examination will Ibe shown at the same time. There is nothing else for registrants to do and j in fact nothing that they can do un j til that examination has been held. Even the question of dependants | will not come up in any way until j a report on a man's physical condi tion shows him to be suitable for military service. When that has been j received the selection board will be prepared to receive affidavits on de ; pendants the prospective soldier has. ! The forms of the affidavits will be 1 shown by the board. Similar forms for applications for exemption on industrial grounds or for appeal from the ruling of the se lection board will not be available until the time for their use comes. The purpose of the plan is to avoid ' the piling up of documents and to ■ provide that the boards will have be- I fore them at any time only the pa ' pers of cases in process of hearing. ; That is the only way, officials be- I lieve, in which rapid action can be assured. May Send Packages Now to Friends in Service With Troops in France Washington, D. C., July 28.—Par cel post packages may be sent to | soldiers of the American expedition ! ary force at the rate of 12 cents a | pound, but may not be registered. insured or sent C. O. D., the Post j Office Department announced to-day. ! The wrapper should bear the name j and address of the sender and the ' name of the addressee should be I followed only by the name of the ! unit to which he belongs, with the words "American Expeditionary ! Force." Postmaster Sites received the new regulations this morning and posted them in the local office. At inter vals since some of the local boys landed in France friends and rela tives in Harrisburg have made in quiries how they would send pack ages to the "Sammies" in France. | Postmaster Sites was unable to help them out under the old regulations. Holland to Send Mission Here Because of Embargo The Hague, July 26.—"We are going to America to clear up what we believe is a misunderstanding of I our position," said J. B. Van Der I Hftuven van Cordt, member of the mission which is being sent to the I United States to plead the cause of j Holland in the export question, In a statement made here to-day. He is former vice-president of the council of the Netherlands and the East Indies and former under secretary for the colonies. "We shall go prepared to show the United States government and people by facts and figures the real sit uation," he continued. "I believe it is in the interests of America and her allies that our traffic with Amer ica shall continue. For instance, I sixty.or seventy Dutch ships are now in American ports. That alone is a big disadvantage to the allies in view of the shortage of cargo space." Hurley to Rush Work on New U. S. Marine Washington. July 26.—Work on America's new merchant marine. It was said to-day, probably will be gin soon under the guidance of Ed ward N. Hurley, whose appointment as chairman of the shipping board to succeed William Denman has been ratified by the Senate. Senate action on the nomination of Bainbridge Colby, of N*w York, to succeed Captain John B. White, was being withheld to-day pending the result of an Inquiry concerning his political status by Senators Wadsworth and Calder, of New York. The resignation of Theodore Brent, vice-chairman of the board, still was before the President. It prob ably will be accepted. White House officials said a successor was under , consideration but would not reveal 'his name. Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION CHESTER QUIET AFTER A NIGHT OF RACE RIOTING National Guardsmen and State Police Aid in Re storing Order FIFTY ARE UNDER ARREST Four Men Shot and Many Hurt in Street Rattles By Associated Press Chester, Pa., July 26.—Chester was calm to-day after race riots had laged between scores of white men and negroes in the river front section lrom 8 o'clock last night until 1 o'clock this morning. Four men, one of them a negro, were shot; a dozen were otherwise hurt, and about fifty whites and blacks were arrested, charged with inciting to riot. The outbreak was the sequel of an affair Tuesday night, when Edward iUcKinney, 21, was stabbed by two (Continued on Page 6) Siam Interns Germans Resident in Country By Associated Press Bangkok, July 26.—The machinery of the Austro-German steamers which were seized after Siam had declared war against the central powers July 22, was found to be damaged. All male subjects of enemy coun tries have been interned and all en emy business will be wound up. line steamers, aggregating 19.000 tons, were seized by the Siamese government with its entrance into the war. They were owned chiefly by the | North German Lloyd Company. I CHESTER HtO.TERS HELD ut ' Jul Thirt ■ persoi '-ft" ;;ivcn ahe . :r. bv Map ■ • • Leary t ny. . -ere .held in : ; *n§m>.; ft ! ito $2 ."'WO on vanha'ges; otli- were <■ ,-nt t< • til for ten or .thirty day/ and still others were held for further hearings. C 1-KM Aft ;i CAiMURE OALICIAN C/'IIES i'o ■ German t: . •, hav: aptured t (< vt: •ci i: xacr, Tlun.a Ottynio .•; i>< i iyn, sa\ ;r• tf* lal ;ta nc, issued t .lay by the German 11 < • .;an.v also arc . id to ■ se .rt in flhe uircctiun of. Czernuwitz, the capital of Bukowina. GERMANS PAY HEAVY PRICE P-' is, July 26. - German ■ 'aults v.*ere reopened l last along a front of about to miles • i the Anne. ■" !'(onc ..i state: nt '.•••• ic : • ' day >vtys it .• : 1 : . U'., 1 .. t'i e C !an V. I're ni ,:nts o: he I mch line trenches. HURLEY TAKES HIS NEW PLACE * V-. ,h ton, J.! • . :>. Ed-v. rd D Hurley, • f Ch• v ■>:, ■ -o . ti: 3 membe. of the shi' png 'i to -u> . : William Jenu.an, who resigned a! the request oi si-i.-mt Wilson. Mr. Hurley will be el -. ted chair man at a later meeting of the board MANY RUMORS ABOUT KAISER Amsterdam July 26.1 The Zeitung, of Brt;uen, ; > -.nts pr-minentlly "stories, with more or irss ela: orate particula. s, than have gained Currency of an :■ tc • tr ■ Ue hf Emperor Wil The >i>.•• ai 1 1 ■in'.lud: on< report that the Emperor's jaw wat> smashed. j GOETHALS MAY GO TO FRANCE Washington, July 26. The possibility that Major General Goethals rr.iy f ,o to France to head the Ameri can a!.■ iy engineers • foremost among the tt-vulopments which have followed P sident Wilsons srorgariiration of the shipping board. ~ MARRIAGE LICENSES Hank Lewis Durneli, Stockton, Cnl., and Magdalen Vlmon, Bos- c,tyi ic ° A%m ' ch "-1 , (J . - --i--- _~ j- T im BERLINS WORLD CONQUEST DREAM NOW SHATTERED Newly-Captured Peasants Do Not Know America Has Entered the War SAY THE KAISER IS SAFE Teutons So Used to Monarch That They Refuse to Depose Him • \ r By Associated Press London, July 26.—Germany's dream of world conquest has been shattered and the belief among all classes there now is that the war must end through diplomacy rather than by a brilliant victory, according to the German prisoners in Engird. A representative of the Associated Press who has Just returned here after a visit to the large internment camp at Dorchester, where approxi mately 1,900 German prisoners are quartered, is enabled to present many interesting sidelights on the German viewpoint as represented by men of (Continued on Page 6) Private Decorated For Rescue of Drowning Child By Associated Press Paris, July 26.-r-The newest member of the Legion of Honor is Private Charles Caulet. who, despite the am putation of his leg, risked his life to save a child who was drowning when the steamer La Madjerda was tor pedoed. Caulet plunged into the wa ter. rescued the child, and, by his coolness and courage, set an example for others that materially aided the rescue work.
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