'urtoas Fighting Continues on the Italian Front,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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nearly $2,000,000 it was obliged to depo6 : .t with she 4*
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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.