'urtoas Fighting Continues on the Italian Front, HARRISBURG lf§l§lll TELEGRAPH QTlje Star-Independent * LXXXVI— No. 20116 PAGES ITALIANS ARE DRIVING BACK ENEMY'S WINGS Gain Further Ground on Both Northern and Southern - Wings; Rapidly Realizing Objectives; Austrian Losses Placed at 30,000; Fighting at Verdun Dying Down; German Attacks on Aisne Repulsed With Losses Italy's great effort on the Isonzo front is meeting with con tinued success Rome reports officially and her troops are pro ceeding toward realization of their objectives. Further ground has been gained on both the northern and southern wings. Aus trian counterattacks of great severity are being repulsed. The Austrian loss in the first two days of the battle are computed unofficially in Italy at 30,000. The fighting on the Verdun front is dying down. The French objectives north of Verdun apparently have been attained, and except for the capture by the French of small forti fied positions no Infantry actions in this sector are reported. Tho num ber of j>risoners has reached 7,G39. The French also have captured 24 cannon and more than 200 machine guns. The Germans continued their at tacks on the Aisne front last night but met with no better fortune than heretofore. Several assaults near Laffaux mill, Allies and Cerny were repulsed. I"-Boat Attacks Fail The weekly report of French ship ping losses shows that live steam ships of more than 1600 tons were sunk by mines or submarines. Four vessels of lesser size were destroyed. Three attacks by submarines failed. The German government has acknowledged at the Vatican receipt of the papal peace note, promising to examine it carefully and to reply after reaching an agreement witn its allies. The Germans are continuing vig orously and successfully their new offensive on the extreme northern | end of the Russian front. Notwith standing the difficulties of the ground over which they are attacking they have made substantial gains along the gulf of Riga. The official re port from Petrograd shows a Russian withdrawal of about five miles along the coast in the direction of Riga. Berlin gives few details of this light ing and it is not yet clear whether the Germans have committed them selves to a sustained offensive in the north. Asserts German Forces Checked For All Time By Associated Press Paris, Aug. 23. —11. Cambon com menting on the British, French and Italian defenses, which he said, had exerted a tremendous wear and tear on the German troops, the quality of which, he added, was inferior to what it recently was. Likewise the check of the German advance in Ru mania reminded him in a measure of the battle uf the Marne where.an apparently victorious advance waa desperately held in check. . All signs point, M. Cambon con cluded. to the indication that the German force which once was called indomitable, has been checked for aIJ time. COUNT BERNSTORFF TAKEN By Associated Press Paris, Auf. 23.—Among the 600 prisoners taken by the French in the hollow recesses of Dead Man's Hill was a battalion commander with his etaff. including Count Eugene Bern-1 storff. the nephew of the former German ambassador at Washington. THE WEATHER] For llurrlxbtiric and \lclnlty: l'n bclllftl weather with occasional shower* this afternoon, to-night j ami probably l'rlduyi nut much ••linnge lit teuiperuture. for lOantern l'eiiny-Ivaulai Oven. MIOIIUI ulianrra to-night ami probably FridaM not much change in tenipcrut ure| gentle soutlieuMt to Mouth wind*. River The Susquehanna river and prob ably all it* branches will con tinue to fall or remain nearly stationary, except heavy local showers may possibly cause ruin* in some streams. A stage of about 4.1 feet la Indicated for lliirrinhurg Friday morning. General Condition* Pressure butt coutlnued to de crease over the eaatern half of the I'nlteil State* and I* lon e*t till* mornliiK over the north* ea*tern part of Minnesota, where the disturbance from ■Western Canada 1* now central, the high pressure area from the North Tactile ocean haa moved rapidly *outhea*t ward, over spreading the Hoeky Mountain* and the Plain* State*, attended by a genera I foil of X to 18 degrees In temperature over the territory under Its Influence. Shower*, mostly light, have fallen In the la*t twenty-four hour* In new Englund and locally In mo*t of the States south and eaat of the Ohio rlveri also In I.oulslunu, Southern Texas, the Ipper Mississippi and Upper Missouri valleys and in Mani toba, Temperature changes, except as stated above, have been unim portant. Temperature t 8 a, m., re. Sum ltUes, 5:21 a. m.| sets, Oißl p. ni. River Stuaei 4.3 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 84. I/Owcal temperature, 08. Mean temperature, 79, Normal temperature, 71, , Zeebrugge U-Boat Base and Other Points of Value to Enemy Bombed By Associated Press London. Aug. 23.—The important submarine base of Zeebrugge and other military objectives in Belgium, were attacked yesterday by British airmen, the admiralty announces. "A bombing raid was made by navar airmen Wednesday morning on the Zeebrugge mole, shipping and bat teries," the statement says. "Some hits were obtained. The Ghistelles airdrome was also bombed. There were explosions near the western shed and a fire started. All the machines returned." Allies Take 25,000 Prisoners in Three Days Along Front in West By Associated Press London, Aug. 23.—"1n the past three days the entente allies on the western front have taken 25,000 j prisoners and since July 31 they I have taken 32,500 prisoners," said Major General Frederick B. Maurice, j rhief director of the war intelligence I office in his weekly talk to-day with | the Associated Press. "I am confl | dent," he added, "that before the end i of August we will have topped the j figure of 40,000, which the Germans claim to have taken in a month on the Russian frorit, although their total undoubtedly is composed by at least half of mere stragglers from the mutinous and disorganized Rus sian units." ADVANCE I/INES By Associated Press London, Aug. 23.—The British have advanced their lines southwest of Lens, the war office announces. An attack east of Langemarck was repulsed. British posts in the neigh borhood of Langaertzyde, Belgium, were raided by Germans. INCREASING PRICES By Associated Press Washington, Aug. 23.—Germany Is Increasing her economic pressure on Holland and now refuses to let steel go into the Netherlands for ship building purposes unless the Dutch agreed to devote the ships to German uses for a period of five years after the war. Secretary Lansing said to day he had received unofficial ad vices to that effect, also that Ger many has refused to let Holland have more coal unless Dutch miners are sent to her mines to get it out. Appeal Board Will Take Up Exemption Claims on Monday The appeal board of the middle district, of which Harrlsburg Is a part, will start work on exemption claims next Monday morning. All boards of the state met at the Capitol yesterday and received in structions from the provost marshal general's office. The local board then adjourned until Monday morning at 10 o'clock, s - George H, Stuart, Jr., of Ship pensburg, tendered his resignation yesterday as a member of the board. He Is Bubject to the draft himself, not being over 31 years of age. His successor will be named within a few days by President Wilson upon the recommendation of Governor Brumbaugh, The board has opened offices In the caucus rooms of the House of Representatives, Robert Free has been elected as clerk to the board and an additional bookkeeper will be hired to assist in handling the ex emption appeals. By Associated Press SOMERS HEADS G. A. R. Boston, Mass., Aug. 23.—Orlando A, Somers, of Kokomo, Ind., was elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the closing session of the annual en campment to-day, There were no other candidates and the election was by acclamation, DISCOVER COAL FIELDS Amsterdam, Aug. 28.—Vast coal fields have been discovered in Silesa, according to German reports. In some places the vein is 22 metres thick. CO. D FINDS GEORGIA CLIMA TE DELIGHTFUL . jp^;. ' J|' "'*<" *' '■ v j * *.;*'• I ** 4 Company D, Eighth Regiment, National Guard of the United States, which spent its first night in Camp Hancock, Ga., last night is finding the climate splendid. While the camp is far from completion the bovs are finding the arrangements satisfactory. Above is shown a new company street with the mess halls, a battalion canteen and men at work on a railroad spur into camp. THIRTEEN MORE DO NOT ASK FOR EXEMPTION Others Will Be Called For Examination if More Sol diers Are Not Obtained County draft boards continuing: their examinations to-day of men called for the National Army, accept ed thirteen who did not claim ex emption. Eight of these are in the third division and were examined at Elizabethvllle, and five in the first division, examined at Steelton. Members of the first district board stated to-day that unless many mom men are obtained in the 400 addi tional ones called next week, calls must be sent out for hundreds more to fill the quotas. It was also re ported to the board that a number of young men, who are married, are having difficulty in obtaining tiffidn vits from the head of another family t Continued on Page 5] Discussing Payment of War Debt by War Profits and Millionaire Incomes By Associated Press ■Washington, Aug. 2i, —Making war profits and millionaire incomes pay the greater part of the war's cost engrossed the Senate to-day in its consideration of the war tax bill. Although yesterday's amendments restored the House amendments for higher rates of income taxation and ran the tax on millionaires up to 67 per cent.. Senator LaFollette's pro posals for still further higher rates came up to-day. By these amendments the "Wiscon sin Senator proposes to increase the income tax return of the bill to more than $7000,000,000 a year in addi tion to the present law. Senators Vardaman, of Mississippi, and Trammell, of Florida, spoke In favor of the LaFollette substitute. Charges that those opposed to the war were attempting to Impose on the present generation the full bur den in an effort to make it as un popular as possible were made by Chairman Simmons, of the Finance Committee, in opposing the LaFol lette proposal. Senator Simmons, declaring that FaLollette's plan would take only 44 per cent, of the Incomes of the Rockefellers and the Goulds, charged the substitute was an "ingenious scheme" to lighten the burden of the rich and place it on the poor and defied LaFollette to demonstrate that it was not. Senator LaFoJlette Immediately made an Impassioned reply, protest ing against questioning the loyalty of men advocating his plan,. He de clared 350 leading economists of uni versities had filed a petition with the House ways and means committee advocating Immediate taxation to pay all war expenses. • P. \V. GERARD ILL Chicago, 111., Aug, 23. —James W, Gerard, former ambassador of the United States to Germany, was still In bed with a case of lumbago this morning. He Insisted, however, that if he were able to get on his feet In time he would fill his speaking en gagement at Milwaukee to-night, ARMED MERCHANTMEN TO GET MORE SHELLS Washington, Aug. 23.—As a result of the official report on the sub marine destruction of the American tank steamer Campana, which said the gun crew's supply of shells ran out In the midst of the fight, the amount of ammunition supplied to armed merchant ships will be doubled. The Campana had 180 shells. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1917 CO. D FINDS CAMP HANCOCK FINE COMPARED TO BORDER Harrisburg Boys in Final Training Before Embarking For Trenches of France Well Pleased With Camp Site; Work- on Cantonment Rapidly Nearing Completion Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., Aug. 20.—With the arrival of the first contingent of Pennsylvania sol diers which includedCompany D, of Harrisburg, Camp Hancock, at Au gusta, Ga., may bo said to have be gun its actual existence. "It has Chickamauga backed clean off the block," was the comment of an officer who visited Camp Han cock for the first time; "Oglethorpe is not in it with this camp." "It looks like paradise compared with our camp 'on the border,' " was the comment of an officer of Com pany D, Eighth Regimolit. Camp Hancock is far from com pletion; but its site and its climate and its soil are known quantities, and in the opinion of experts these are ideal. Pennsylvania soldiers who come expectig to find everything in complete readiness for their occu pancy will be disappointed. There is much remaining to be done, and it will be like a family moving into a new house before the carpenters have gotten out. Augusta was first to have a can tonment, and then the number was cut down from thirty-two to sixteen, and for several weeks it was unde cided whether Augusta would have a camp at all, and then when a tent British Home Defense Keeps German Raiders From Bombarding Towns By Associated Press London, Aug. 23.—Reports from places raided by the Germans concur in the efficiency of the gun and air craft defense, the enterprise of the German raiders being balked and thei casualties minimized. Owing to the clear weather, the air operations were visible from long distances and were watched with excited Interest by crowds of visitors at Deal and Folke stone, as well as by the people of the towns attacked. In the fight over Dover, spectators say, the airplanes were so Intermixed that It was Impossible to distinguish friend from foe. Similarly, the airplanes fought fiercely off Kamsgate, while shells burst all around the machines, some of them being hidden In the smoke clouds from shrapnel. The maneu vers amazed the onlookers, the ma chines seeming to be all topsy-turvy. There were cheers from the crowd when a raider was seen to wobble and burst Into flames, diving helplessly to the farth, The papers, commenting on the raid, declare that the defending forces are not large enough and must be increased to overwhelming dimensions so that it may be impossible tor any raiders to return home, Plan to Make Beans as Cheap as Possible Washington, Aug. 2S. —Bean grow ers and dealers after a two-day con ference with the food administration announced to-day that they would co-operate with the government in seeing that the public receives as largely a supply of beans as possible at a reasonable price. They pledged themselves to carry out any regula tions the food administration may prescribe for the conduct of their business and recommend a discon tinuance of future trading in beatyt, camp for a division was decided on, only a few weeks remained before the time at which it was wanted. Gigantic Task To clear off a tract of land two miles square; make miles of streets; lay miles of water pipe; stretch miles of electric wire and lights; build spur tracks in from the railroad; assem ble material from many quarters; construct over eight hundred frame houses for commissary warehouses, mess halls, headquarters, latrines, etc.—accommodations for more than 30,000 men—is not the job of only a few weeks. To assemble the needed number of carpenters, pipe layers, electri cians and common laborers and or ganize them into a working machine is In itself a big undertaking, when uncomplicated by delays in getting lumber and water pipe, naturally resulting from the demand created by the building of many camps at the same time. No Delay in Work There has been no delay in the work at Camp Hancock. Material has been promptly assembled, and [Continued on Page 5] Voters Must Elect Someone to Council For Six-Week Term Much surprise was expressed throughout the city to-day when it was learned that at the November election the voters must elect some one to serve as City Commissioner from about November 14 until the first Monday in January, a six-week term. There are two candidates for the short term—Fred L. Morgen thaler, 213 Hamilton street, and John G. Marks, 1637 North Fourth street According to the new law pre pared by City Solicitor John E. Fox and passed by the Legislature, when Council appoints a successor to nil an unexpired term tho commissioner who Is named can only serve until tho next general municipal election. This will mean tliat as soon as the election returns are certified In No vember Commissioner Samuel F. Dunkle will no longer be a member of Council. He was named to take the place of the late Commissioner Harry A. Bowman. The same rule applies In the case of the mayoralty. Whoever Is elected In November becomes Mayor as soon as the returns are certified. Should It be Commissioner Gorgas, who is now acting Mayor and a candldute tor the office, a vacancy will exist In the Council again, as Mr. Gorgas is superintendent of accounts and finance, The one elected as Mayor will serve until January 1920, The new turn in councilmanlc af fairs is creating much comment, par ticularly in official circles. Russian Hooligans Attack U. S. Consul By Associated Press Odessa, Aug, 23.—During a mani festation here yesterday a number of the Bolsheviki attached American Consul Ray and knocked off his hat, whereupon a number of hooligans surrounded the consul and declared they would shoot every one who fail ed to take off their hatß In their presence, The publio intervened in defense of the consul and the dis turbers disappeared, FIFTEEN TONS OF POWDER USED IN GIGANTIC BLAST Bethlehem Steel Company Engineers Tear Out 132,000 Tons of Rock After eight weeks of preparation, during which thirty-nine holes, each five and one-half inches in diameter, and ranging from 60 to 120 feet deep, were drilled, to contain tons of powder, 132,000 tons of rock and dirt were blasted from a large lime ftone cliff below Chambers street, Steelton, last evening by Bethlehem Steel Company engineers. The width of the strip of rock torn loose by the blast is approximately twenty-four feet wide. The signal for the blast was given by steel com (Continued on Page 11) J. H. Mcllhenny Leaves $160,000 Estate in Trust For Daughters and Sisters The will of John H. Mcllhenny, well-known politician and business man of the c'ty, was filed to-day with Register of Wills Roy C. Danner. The bulk of the estate, including real estate and personal property, is left as a trust fund for his daughter, Es ther Mcllhenny, and his seven sis ters, each of whom is to receive S4OO each year. They are Sarah R., Cath erine A., Susan S. and Minnie C. Mcllhenny, Mrs. Lydia A. Lyme, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Balthaser and Mrs. An te M. Smith. The balance of the trust fund placed with the Common wealth Trust Company is for his daughter. William A. Mcllhenny, warden of the Dauphin county pri son, a brother, is named executor and will receive $5,000. George W. Mcllhenny, the other brother, is to receive SI,OOO. The home and per sonal property at 132 4 Derry street, with the exception of securities, bonds and notes, and $3,000 in cash are given to the daughter during her lifetime. funds of SIOO each are bequeathed to ten nieces and nephews and SSOO to a grandnephew, Ceylon A. Mcllhenny. A trust fund is also established for the maintenance and care of the graves of the parents. Men Accepted For New National Army Need Not Register For Camp State draft headquarters to-day announced that a ruling had been made that notices mailed to men who had accepted after examination for the draft to go to mobilization camps need not be registered. The ordinary mailing of such notices will be deemed compliance with the law, notwithstanding previous an nouncements. In relation to inquiries as to re jection for "flat feet" the headquar ters gave out a ruling of tho sur geon general that "a broad flat sole Is common in laboring classes, particularly among negroes, and Is in no way disabling." This notice was also sent out "Any of the physical deficiencies must be present in such degree as to clearly and unmistakably disqualify tho man for military service before he can be found to be physically de ficient and not physically disquali fied for military service." GOAL PRICES EFFECTIVE Washington, Aug, 23.—Secretary Tumulty to-day Btated that President Wilson had authorized him to say that the bituminous coal prices fixed by the President would become ef fective at once. Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION FIVE WOULD BE MAYOR; 21 FILE FOR CITY COUNCIL Among More Than 1,000 Can didates For Offices Eleven Are For School Director MANY IN THE TOWNSHIPS Three to Run For Prothono tary, Five For Coroner and Five For Poor Director Five candidates for Mayor, twenty, one for two-year terms in City Coun cil, two for the unexpired term which Commissioner Dunkle is filling, and eloven for city school director have tiled nominating petitions with the County Commissioners and will have their names on the official primary ballot. More than 1,000 candidates for city, county, borough and township offices have filed papers, many of them coming in at the last hour yesterday. For the important county offices there are three for prothono tary, five for coroner, three for con trollers and five for director of the poor. Candidates for Mayor are: •William L. Gorgas, George A. Hoverter, Dan iel L. Keister, Thomas G. George and Patrick J. Kenny. For two-year terms In Council: Charles W. Burtnett, Howard W. Jones, John K. Royal, William J. [Continued on Page 16] . < yes- '•f' X f I f tnts at J X Margarte, Ramsgate, and Dover were bombarded sue-. ? J essfully. the war office announces. In numerous aerial T. I . machine*. | J , ~Cp.a„„ ha £ ■7* a I ; f J. ! "* r I t # l r 4* * I It ,k J, BIG LINER SUNK BY U-I T T Boston, Aug. 23.-—The Leyland liner Devonian, ft* ■w T X stated they had received no word as to the safety of X z X BRITISH SHEEL ZEBRIJGGE BASE T Amsterdam, Aug. 23.—British warships last evening '§ X bombarded the German submarine base at the Belgian 4* port of Zebruggfe, according to the frontier correspondent V V At to d ,-jraaf. T p• R- R. FAILS TO GET MONEY BACK T ! A:.. gfr. ▼ Railroad Company to secure the return of a fund of X nearly $2,000,000 it was obliged to depo6 : .t with she 4* X Federal Court here to pay bondholders of the Pennsyl- J t \ania Canal Company, a subsidiary, failed to day tHfough 4* a decision of Judge Dickinson, in United States Court L I h T 1 J f MARRIAGE LICENSES t * + r* JJ'lHlam T. Jones and Adallne Dtiffln, York; Ckarlea R. Scott* Oil City, and EUe B. Whleldon, Kcncrdelli Charles H. Chubb and J I Caaala Elisabeth Sampson, Baltimore, Md. x ® -f-f,g-t-g.g-g ® LATEST RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENTS CAUSE ANXIETY Mystery Surrounds Official Dispatches to U. S.; May Mean New Revolution ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED German Intrigue Relieved to Re Working to Unseat Kerensky Washington, Aug-. 22.—The sltu tlon in Russia continued as the center of war interest here to-day with the mystery surrounding the nature of official dispatches the Government has received from Petrograd within the last forty-ei;j't hours still undis pelled. To-day's cryptic news dispatches from the Russian capital referring to speculation in Petrograd and Moscow newspapers concerning "expected dra matic announcement of events" and expressing the view of the press that "if no agreement is reached between the contending gi-oups open conflict must follow," were taken to support the unofficial interpretation of the Government's dispatches as relating to political conditions within the pro visional government and probably un dercurrents of German intrigue work ing for the unseating of Premier Ke rensky with either a counter revolu tion seeking to re-establish the autoc rocy or the breaking down altogether of the provisional government and re sulting chaos. Whether the official advices deal with an alarming need for immediate physical support of new Russia by her allies if she is to con tinue in the war in the face of. a men acing military situation was not es tablished as officials continued in their refusal to discuss the situation. Nevertheless, it is known that the need of sending immediate and ade quate physical assistance to Russia has been urged upon the Government by all the members of the American mission recently returned from Petro grad. This has not applied to the sending of troops, to which a majority of the mission is opposed, but to send ing supplies and principally transport facilities, sorely needed to maintain the efficiency of the armies at the front.