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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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, COMMISSIONER YOUNG DIES j?"
* * Harrisburg. Robert K. Young, State Public
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i # Auditor General, died to-day in the Blossburg State V
* * Hospital in Blossburg, according to a telephone message <|<
t (Teceived at the State Treasury. Mr. Young was in- %'
J i urcc * sev " rs ' weeks age while on a fishing trip. Robert V
t I Keinedy Young, son of Hugh Young, legislator and 1
' I banker, was born in Wellsboro, June 14. 1861, and served *•
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as member cf the House of Representatives in the scs
e> 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
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* An Atlantic Port, Sept. 12. Right Honorable
' Viscount Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England, ar- |
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A rito-day on an American steamship-from Great • 2
4 Z.Britain He is accompanied by Lady Reading. |
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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 '*
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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. .
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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
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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.