, •- - • • ' V M • -- • .--FT >• : , •. ;• • ' •" . *\\ . ' " ''• : - - * -- -~ *7 M 1,., | Taken by German Submarines Makes Shipping Problem Serious For Entente and the United Stalei lit HARRISBURG lpl§& TELEGRAPH Mk Siht* ** LXXXVI— No. 219 14 PAGES KERENSKY GETS UPPER HAND IN RUSS REVOLT Gen. Korniloff's Army Believed to Have Been Outma neuvered and Its Advance on Petrograd Checked; Many Offer Support to Provisional Government; Gen eral Bruyovitch Appointed Commander-in-Chief Petrograd, Sept. 12. The Associated Press was in formed unofficially early this morning at the Winter Palace that Premier Kerensky was about to assume the position of commander-in-chief of all the Russian armies, at least until the revolt had been crushed. • Petrograd, Sept. 12. Major General Bot 'i Bruyovitch las been appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian army in accession to General Korniloff. The provisional government to-day declared that a state of var exists in the town and district of Moscow. The Associated Press was personally informed late yester lay by Minister of Finance Nekrasoff that the forces of General vorniloff in the direction of Pskoff and at Dno, which were narching on Petrograd, had been outmaneuvered by the troops oyal to the provisional government and that their retreat had jeen cut off. While the Kerensky leaders are unable to report the final overthrow of General Korniloff they are optimistic concerning he general situation. Unconfirmed reports say that a part of ieneral Korniloff's army is surrendering to the government. While unable yet to report the Final overthrow of General Kornilolf, members of the Russian _ provisional government in conversation with the Associated Press this evening sum med up the situation optimistical!}'. The new commander-in-chief of the Russian armies, Major General Bonch-Bruyovitch, who formerly was attached to the staff of General Brus siloff, one-time cpmmander-in-chief, has from the first been devoted to :be provisional government. An unconfirmed receipt at the capital is to the effect that part of Seneral Korniloff's army is surren dering. Commanders Loyal In an Interview Vice-Premier and Minister of Finance Nekrasoff in formed the Associated Press that General Sprjevulski, commander on the Caucausus front, and Lieutenant Seneral Dmitri Stcherbatcheff, com mander on the Rumanian front, had definitely declared'their allegiance to the government. From General Staeduyeff, the commander on tha western front, no one has been re ceived but from his attitude there is reason to believe he remains loyal. The attitude of General Klem bovsky .commander on the north [ContiiMied on Page o.] Sweden Will Not Recall Minister From Argentina Stockholm, Sept. 12. —Baron Low ;n, the Swedish Minister to Argen ina, will not be recalled, according o a statement made to the press last night by Admiral Liniman, Minister >f Foreign Affairs. The Foreign Minister told the lewspaper men that Baron Lowen uras not blamable for the tenor of he messages which passed through he Swedish Legation, sent by the Jerman charge to the Berlin For sign Office, and as he had acted in ;ood faith and did not know the con ents of the dispatches, he would not je recalled. THE CIVIC CLUB'S SECOND FLY—MEASURING DAY SEPTEMBER 29 9 to 12. Prizes awarded: 5 cents a pint for all flies. THE WEATHER For Harrisburg and vicinity! Fair and narmrr to-night and Thursday) lowl temperature to-nlgbt about 4H dftcrrn. For Kastern Pennsylvania! Falp to-night nnd Thursday, with rising temperatures gentle to moderate ' winds, becoming south, ltlver The main river will remain nearly stationary. All tribu taries will tall except the lower Went Branch, which will rise slightly this afternoon and begin to fall to-night or Thurs day. A Mnge of about 4.4 feet Is indicated for IlarrisbiiYg ThurMiliiy morning. (General Conditions The high pressure area covering the eastern half of the country continues to move slowly east ward. I'resnnre has diminished decidedly over the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Fair weather ban prevailed over the eastern halt of the country dur ing the Inst twenty-four hours, except In Northern Florida, where rain fell. It Is slightly cooler In the Gulf States, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee, while In the Rocky Mountains and thence west word to the Pacific ocean there has been a general fall of 2 to 20 degrees In temperature, be ing most derided In Wyoming. Temperature! S a. m., 44. Sum Rises, !li4 a. m.| seta, OilS p. m. Moon! New moon, September 27. River Stagei 4.4 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest teiriperature, 02. I'Owest temperature, 40. Mean temperature, 51, Normal temperature, 60. ALLIES FACED DISASTER UNTIL U.S.ENTERED WAR Entente Was in Dire Finan cial Straits, Admits British Chancellor of Exchequer By Associated Press London, Sept. 12. Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the ex chequer, speaking to-day at a luncheon given by the Empire Parliamentary Association to Medill McCormick, Congressman-at-largd for Illinois, said: "In every thing connected with the military arm the Germans have shown remarkable resistance, even genius. But in dealing with ques tions of human nature they have repeatedly made mistakes which have been the salvation of the entente allies. No mistake they have made will be so great in its consequences as that which drove the United States into the war. "The Germans lately," Mr. Bonar Law continued, "have been saying that the entente allies were relying on the United States as their last hope. I want to say to you that we do rely on the United States. "As Chancellor of the Exchequer I am ready to say to you now what I should have been sorry to have had to say six months ago, namely, that without the United States' financial assistance the allies would have been in disastrous straits to day." Harrisburg Knights of Columbus in Camp Get Home Comforts Harrisburg Knights of Columbus who have gone to the front and are located in the various training camps will be in close touch with their lo cal officers and members at homo. Leo C. Gainor, of Harrisburg Coun cil, Knights of Columbus, is in al most daily communication with coun cils and members at every point where Harrisburg soldiers are now encamped. Previous to the departure from this city Harrisburg Council provided all members in the army with com fort- kits, religious literature and other matter. They hav-j already sent tobacco and other supplies. In addition to this members of Knights of Columbus in the South have been furnished a complete list of names of the Harrisburgers and will give them personal attention. Rooms have been opened and in vitations given all Knights to call at anytime. All visitors will be regis tered and reports made to Mr. Gainor at intervals as to the welfare of the soldier boys. The Knights of Co lumbus have placed a committee at each camp and everything possible will be done for the soldiers The Knights of Columbus elected the following officers last night: Grand knight, Leo C. Gainor; deputy grand knight, R. J. Seitz; chancellor Joseph A. Duchene; financial secre tary, A. S. Banmlller; recording sec retary, M. J. Tetter; treasurer, C. X. Lawrence; warden, G. A. Morrlssey; advocate. H. B. Strickland; trustee, H. L. Morrlssey: Inside guard Wil liam Dowling; outside guard, M A Dailey. THIEF GETS S3OO During the absence of the family yesterday afternoon, a thief broke into the home of A. R. Calder, 2200 Bellevue road, and stole Jewelry val ued at nearly !||o. A watch valued at i 100 wafltak"ci. SMOKES FOR THE BOYS IN THE TRENCHES ffy /'S SOMME VETERAN TELLSHARROWING TALE OF TRENCHES Man Who Fought in Fiercest Battles of War to Make His Home Here Wounded when the Canadian troops made their famous charges along Vlmy Ridge early this year. Sergeant John Henry Leaman, of the Ninety-Seventh Oversees Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, was later taken prisoner by the German army, released in an exchange of prisoners, returned to Canada, re ceiving an honorable discharge, and is now in Harrisburg with his fam ily. Sergeant Leaman has been in th r ee branches of United States Army ser vice for almost seventeen years. Shortly after the outbreak of the present war he enlisted witli Cana dian troops and was sent to England for training. Upon the expiration of his term he re-enlisted and was sent at once to France with the Ca nadian Expeditionary forces. At present Sergeant Leaman !s visiting at 17 North Seventeenth street with his family. He was a [Continued on Page 9.] Mistaken Report Gave Country False Thrill in Submarine 'Victory' Washington, Sept. 12.—Jubilation over the official report as first issued yesterday that six German subma rines had been sunk while making an attack on a number of merchant ships underwent measurable subsid ence at a later announcement by Sec retary Daniels that but one of the hostile U-boats had probably been destroyed. Secretary Daniels explained that a typographical error in the cablegram describing the encounter between the steamer Westwego and the subma rines accounted for thg earlier er roneous report. Richard J. Beamish, writing: for the Philadelphia Press from Wash ington, to-day says: "Intense anxiety has overspread the Navy Department as a result of to-day's news detailing the sinking of two merchant vessels on Septem ber 5, off the coast of Krnce by Ger man submarines. The fact that the ships were heavily convoyed when the attack was made, is responsible for the existing depression. "The news Is taken by every one in the Navy Department, from Sec retary Daniels and Admiral Benson down to the newest clerk, as a dem onstration to the United States that Germany can and will attack suc cessfully American transports voy aging to France, no matter how strong the convoy? may be. It Is the forerunner of a campaign by super submarines that, according to high naval authorities, will probably ex tend into' mid-Atlantic. "This is the third cablegram that has come to the Navy Department within a week tolling of sinkings of convoyed merchantmen by sub . marines." HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1917 WILL YOU HELP CHEER MEN • IN TRENCHES WITH "SMOKES" Some of America's soldiers and sailors already are in France, train ing for war. As soon as they ara in trim they'll go into the trenches, in the slippery mud and the sweltering heat, to fight for democracy. Many of them will die there, many will be carried back wounded. All of them will undergo hardships beyond imagination. The Red Cross is taking care of the wounded, kind hands furnish our men with socks and shirts. The United States government clothes and feeds them. But there has been no means for iurnishing tliem with tobacco. Un less their friends at hotne help them, the soldiers must sit in the trenches with empty pipes, longing for a puff or two that would bring untold com forts. The Horrisburg Telegraph has taken up the work to help provide tobacco for America's fighting men. We are going to do our bit to fill up the tobacco boxes. We are ready to receive contributions for "Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund" for which we have been appointed official col lector in this city. We want dollars, tens and hun dreds of dollars for this work. "Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund" is a patriotic organization. All supplies and labor ore contributed so that every cent you yive goes for tobacco, which is bought practically at cost. Every dollar pays for a bundle of tobbaoo that would cost SI.BO if bought from a retail dealer. WHEAT SELLS FOR $2 BUSHEL UNDER U.S. PLAN Local Elevators Arc Now Op erating Under License From New Corporation Local wheat is Worth $2. The grain elevators in this section are now operating under a license from the Grain Corporation, or gov ernment commission, and Pennsyl vania wheat of a good, sound milling condition, this year's crop, is worth $2 per bushel. The largest buyer in this section is the Paxton Flour and Fed Com pany. This tlrm controls a number of elevators, and an independent li cense is required for each elevator. Under the rulings of tht corporation, each elevator is required to make a report of the week's business every (Continued on Pago 11) Germany to Accept Pope's Peace Program in Full Amsterdam, Sept. 12. —The Weser Zeltung says the German reply to Pope Benedict's peace plea will con tain no details, but will accept in principle the Pope's peace program. The paper adds that the reply will not be submitted to the main com mittee of the Reichstag. DOUBLED PRICE OF GRAIN Petrograd. Sept. 12.—The govern ment has Issued an order doubling the fixed prices of cereals. The or der also provides for Increased re muneration for freight on these foodstuff*. i ©K Stor- lnDcpcn&cnt The tobacco you buy for the sol diers and sailors will be divided into packages costing the fund twenty five cents each; with a retail value cf forty-five cents—enough tobacco to supply a soldier for a week. In each package that you pay for is inserted a postcard, addressed to you. In accepting the tobacco, the fight ing man agrees to write on the card a message of thanks, which he will mail to you If he keeps his prom ise you get, your receipt from an American soldier in France. The Americans in France need to bacco. They can buy French brands if they have the money and are in cities, but at the front tobacco is a scarce article, even the French kind. The Secretary of War and Secre tary of Navy have endorsed this plan. Army officers greet it enthusiastically and the 30ldlers are wild about it. There's nothing like a good old pipe to make a soldier forget his troubles. Imagine a bunch of fellows you know, sitting in a trench at night, waiting, whispering, wonder ing what is going to happen next, longing for a smoke to soothe them. And all they can do—unless you help—ls to sit there disconsolately and finger their empty pipes or draw in vain on a briar that had served them so well in days gone by. Send in your money. Fill up these pipes. The Ameriean sol diers in France are asking for a smoke. Mill you pass them by? DEALERS WORK OFF COAL AT HIGHEST PRICES Dr. Garfield Advises Phila delphia People Not to Buy Until Later Harrisburg consumers of anthra cite coal will be more than Interested In the situation created In Philadel phia during the past few days when retailers in that city announced an increase in the price of their prod uct. making the new price for pea coal $8 per ton. Other grades were (Continued on Page 11) Hard Coal Shipments Breaking All Records Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 12.— The shipments of anthracite coal for Au gust, are reported to the anthracite bureau of Information, conducted by the coal companies, amounted to 7,- 013,996 tons, the second time in the history of anthracite mining that the shipments in any one month exceed ed seven million tons. The August figures are within 35,041 tons of the highwater mark made in June of this year. Compared with July the shipments of last month show an increase of 289,744 tons and exceed the ship ments of August, 1916, by 1,482,199 tons. The shipments for the eight months of 1917 amounted to 51,405,- 341 tons, an increase of 7,019,001 tons, or almost sixteen per cent, over the corresponding period of last year. The total shipments to dale are 1,- 474,925 tons in excess of the ship ments in the first nine months of last i -vaax. SHIP SHORTAGE GROWS SERIOUS FOR ENTENTE Allies Must Put Forth Great Effort to Supply Neces sary Vessels SUPPLIES BADLY NEEDED Transportation of U.S. Troops and Supplies, One of the War's Big Problems By Associated Press London, Sept. 12.—1t 'ts learned here that the entente governments have agreed that the Shipping situa tion is the most serious problem of all those facing the entente at the beginning of the fourth winter of the war and every effort will be made during the coming months to im press the people of England and America with the fact that the greatest effort of the whole war will be necessary to solve it. A govern ment official informed the Associated Press to-day: "As Britain's great effort of the first year of the war was to create a huge army, as her great effort for the second and third years was to create an inexhaustible supply of muni tions, so, the great effort of the fourth year must be, not only in Great Britain, also in America, to create a merchant navy to replace [Continued on Page 11] Two Student Aviators Crash 1,500 Feet on Air and Fall to Deaths San Diego, Cal., Sept. 12.—Two student aviators of the United States Army fell to their deaths over the North Island aviation Held this morn ing when two biplanes they were driving collided about 1,500 feet in the air. Immediately after the accident, patrols Weer placed about the island by the military, juitiiorities and no person Was allowed to approach. All informatics regarding the accident, including the names of the dead air men. was refused by the officers at the field until an investigation had been made. Argentina Dismisses German Minister For Treachery to Nation By Associated Press Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 12.—The Argentina government at noon to-day sent to the Ger man legation passiJorts to be de livered to Count Luxbiirg, the German cliarge d'afTairs in Buenos Aires. The whereabouts of Count Luxburs; still is un known to the Argentina govern ment. The Argentina Foreign OHleo to-day sent a communication to the German Foreign Ministry demanding an explanation of Count Luxburg's action in send ing the secret eode messages to Berlin through the Swedish le gation. American Birdmen Bring Down German Airplanes By Associated Press Paris, Sept. 12. Word reached Paris late last night that Corporal Andrew Courtney Campbell, Jr., of Chicago, living with the French squadrilla No. 65, had vanquished two German machines in aerial en gagements, says the Paris edition of the New York Herald. It was also reported that Corporal Walter Lovell, of Boston, a member of the Lafayette squadron, brought down his third victim on Monday. A member of the Lafayette squad ron on leave gives the following ac count of the aerial operations: "The Lafayette pilots were engag ed with an enemy formation of equal strength. Pilots of squadrilla 66 hovered nearby, refraining from in tervening out of sportsmanship, but a fresh batch of German aircraft ap peared and attacked the three Amer icans. The aviators of squadron 65 then hastened up and helped to drive off the Germans. It was during t.hta brush that Corporal Campbell bag ged his two Germans. Kills Self Rather Than Be Drafted in Army By Associated Press Covington, La., Sept. 12.—William Bradley, a young farmer, one of the "number 258 men" in the draft, who fled to the woods and swamps of St. Tanimany parish last Friday armed with two rifles and a quantity of ammunition, to escape being drafted, was found dead to-day with a bullet from his own rifle through the heart. The authorities are con vinced that he shot himself. Bradley was a member of a re ligious sect opposed to war. ARRESTED IN MIDLAND Nick Marovic. wanted here on a charge of carrying concealed deadly weapons and indicted by the grand jury In January, was arrested In Mid land several days ago through the work of the White Detective Agency, HarrisbUTg. Marovtc was brought to the city to-day. JOINS REGULAR ARMY William D. Focht, 126 Hogan ave nue, was recruited for the infantry at the regular army recruiting head quarters yesterday. Ho was sent to Gattvsburx. Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION Two Great Features "The Truth About Ger many," the revealing, highly instructive, sensational and thrilling- narrative of a Pitts burgh girl in Germany. Food Riots; Unrest Growing; Rich Live Well; Poor Long hor Peace. Begins in the 1 larrisburg Telegraph Satur day. The Macauley Cartoons- America's Spirit in the War will be the subject of a won derful series of cartoons by C. R. Macauley, the cartoon ist who did more than any other one man to make the New York World famous, to appear in the Harrisburg Telegraph, beginning Mon day next. Company I Reaches Camp Hancock This Morning at 10 O'clock Mrs. Maurice E. Finney, wife of Colonel Finney, commander of the Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, which left Monday afternoon for Camp Au gusta, Ga., received the following telegram from Colonel Finney this morning: "Organization arrived at destina tion at 10 this morning. All well" Mrs. Finney at once called the Har risburg Telegraph, giving the mes sage, realizing the interest of every one in the city in the safe arrival of the regiment because of the Har risburg troops who are included in its roster. * ' r • r" ■ 4* ~ • J. I # , COMMISSIONER YOUNG DIES j?" * * Harrisburg. Robert K. Young, State Public € . |P# sions of 1897 and' 18 one of the prominent in- *y 4dependents; was elected Auditor General in 1906 and A $ State Treasurer in 1912, being appointed Public Service V * * Commissioner by Governor Brumbaugh just before the <• < t, close of the recent session of the Legislature. 2 T LORD CHIEF JUSTICE HERE € * * An Atlantic Port, Sept. 12. Right Honorable ' Viscount Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England, ar- | € I# A rito-day on an American steamship-from Great • 2 4 Z.Britain He is accompanied by Lady Reading. | I GERMANS ATTACK BRITISI/ LI&E '♦ * * London, Sept. 12. German troops this mo; ! • 4# -attacked the British trenches east of Hargicourt, Field • | € * Marshal Haig reported to-day from the British head- (darters in France. The assault was launched .under .J ■ over of a heavy barrage but the advancing waves were "* H * met by rifle and machine gun fire and the Germans were £ jt, repulsed '* K Paris. Sept. 12. French troops last night attackc a , , the Germar trenches in the region of St. Souplet, in tht .* * J Champagne, and succeeded in smashing the first two Gem d position. All the * *Jj German troops garrisoning these trenches, the French <1 war office announced this afternoon, were either killed •: efr * JL or taken pi oner. * Berlin, Sept. 12. Russian prisoners captured by • , , the Germans in the battle of Riga numbered 8,900, ac- < , # cording t. the official ani.„uncement issued to-day by the * C o Blfcii. Xue Germans also took 325 ! * L cannon. . < ? . / t MARRIAGE LICENSES T* K " Philadelphia, nnd Stella M. Brown. HOP- * ' 4i> Jameii l,ee llrnnnrn. Cnnor I'reek, nnd .Mary M. Dodwn, * r X !!?iL yfiS' * , *£! ,k W. Holtiman, WellaTllle, K. V., and Hen- , trice M. Ciordon, Wa.vnesboro, . ■ CITY NOW HAS 1,000 MEN UNDER ARMS IN CAMPS Departure of the Governor's Troop Last Evening Brings Total to eNarly Regiment HELD UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK Railroad Unable to Make Up Trains on Time; Held in Yards When Troop C left Harrisburg yes terday evening for Camp Hancock the members of that body carried with them recollections that will not soon be forgotten. Seldom if ever has this city ac corded her sons such a spontaneous outpouring of admiration and ap proval. Despite the fact that there has been parading and marching almost every day for weeks past, the crowd that witnessed the departure of the Governor's Troop ytsterday was one of the largest ever seen upon the streets of the city, and was exceeded in size only by the assembled thou sands on Monday. In point of en thusiasm, it is doubtful if ever a Harrisburg contingent on its way to [Continued on Page 11] BREAD CARDS FOR ITALY By Associated Press Rome, Sept. 12.—Giuseppe Can epa, the Italian food controller, tc day ordered the introduction < bread and flour cards throughoi . Italy after October 11.