United States Engineering Regiment Carries Am UwJc' HARRISBURG |§i|i|i TELEGRAPH 'Mk _ ®)c otar- Jnscpcnknt * J LXXXVI— No. 226 GERMAN LOSS IS ENORMOUS IN GREAT BATTLE British Hold Positions Taken in Great Drive in Bel gium; Counterattacks Repulsed After Teutons Throw Away Many Lives; Late Reports Show Haig's Vic tory Is Better Than First Supposed London, Sept. 21.—Field Marshal Haig in later reports re garding the British offensive on the Belgian front to the east of Ypres yesterday when the British troops pushed through the German lines for a distance of more than a mile say that the completeness of the British success is confirmed by detailed accounts of the battle. It is now established that in the many counterattacks delivered by forces of the enemy during the afternoon and evening his casualties were unusually great. The obstinacy with which the enemy constantly repeated his attacks only added to his losses without recovering for him any of the valuable ground which we had won. "Exhausted by his previous efforts the enemy made no counter attacks during the night and our troops were able to consolidate the positions undisturbed. Strong Positions Taken by British on Wide Front in Hard Fighting By Associated Press British Headquarters in France, Sept. 21.—The British offensive which began at dawn over a wide front east of the Ypres salient, found the attacking forces late to-day, holding many positions of vital im portance and continuing the fight in German territory along a line which at many places represented an aver age gain of a mile in depth. Such redoubtable strongholds as Nun's wood, Glencorse wood, Inver ness Copse and Shrewsbury forest, which have withstood numerous fierce assaults recently were entirely overrun by the British who reached points well beyond them. Heavy fighting was continuing at close range at various points and the Germans Iwere massing troops with the evi vent intention of delivering a coun terattack. It has been a day of great success for the British arms, for the possession of the wooded heights which they captured east of Ypres unquestionably is of crucial importance since these dominating positions form the keystone of the [Continued on Pafie 12] Three Trainrobbers Escape After Blowing Express Safe By Associated Press Jackson, Tenn., Sept. 21.—Armed posses were aiding police and sheriff's deputies to-day in search ing for three bandits who late last night held up a Mobile and Ohio passenger train thirty miles south of this city and dynamited the ex press car safe. Local railroad offi cials say the bandits got little of value. FEDS WANT 8900,000 By Associated Press Washington, Sept. 21. —Suit was filed by the Baltimore Federal League Baseball Club in the district of Columbia Supreme Court to-day against officials to the American League, the National League and others for $900,000 damages under the Clayton law. THE CIVIC CLUB'S SECOND FLK—MEASURING DAY SEPTEMBER 29 9 to 12. Prizes awarded: 5 cents a pint for all flies. THE WEATHER For Hnrrlsburif anil vicinity! Fair to-night nnl Saturday; cooler to-nltiht with lowest tempera ture about sft cleicrceH. For Hanteru Pennsylvania: Part ly cloudy and cooler to-nlKht{ probably local Rhowem la north portion; Saturday partly cloudy; cooler in southeast portion; gentle to moderate neat to northueat Minds. River The Sunquehanaa river and all Its branches will fall slowly or re- I main nearly utatloaary. A stace of about 3.(1 feet In Indicated for Hnrrlsburg Saturday mornlnK. General Conditions The dlsturbaace that was central near Chicago, Thursday morn lnK, has moved northeastward and apparently merged with the low pressure system over the northeastern part of the United States. It has caused light, local rains In the last twenty four hours In the Lower Mis souri, Middle Mississippi, Ohio and I pper St. Lcwrence val leys and In w England. A* a result of westerly wlads from an extensive area of high barometer moving dowa from the Northwest and now central over the lower Missouri Volley, temperatures have fallea 2 to 12 degrees over the Great Lakes, the Lower Ohio, Middle and L'pper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys. Temperature; 8 a. m., 66. Sunt Klses, 5iS2 a. m.; sets, 0:05 p. m. Moont New moon, September 27. River Stagei 3.7 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 80. Lowest temperature, 58. Mean Normal temperature, 6i 20 PAGES British Army Blasts Way Through Difficult Bit of Ground in New Push By Associated Press British Headquarters in France, Thursday, Sept. 21.—The scene of the present British offensive includes one of the most important and strongest parts of the German line in this section and has been marked by I ome of the most bitter fighting of | the war since the Allies seven weeks I ago began their drive, which has be- I come known as the Battle of Flan | ders. The wooded elevations east |and southeast of Ypres, among which are such dominating positions as | Glencorse wood and Inverness copse, were the vital points and the Ger- I mans had made their defense here as nearly impregnable as they were able, being determined to retain them without regard to the cost. The bat tles of the last two weeks bear wit ness of the strength of the defensa at these two points. The crucial sector may be said to begin with the ridge known as Anzac, which lies about a mile southwest of [Continued on Page 12] Pressure on Lens Slowly Driving Out German Army B;, Associated Press ] Canadian Headquarters in France, | Sept. 20.—Pressure on the defense ! of Lens is unrelenting and the Ger mans are being literally squeezed out iof the town. Posts have been push j ed out into No Man's Land in the ! region of St. Laurient. and tho | ground, in defense of which the Ger mans fought fiercely a month ago, ; lias been occupied by us, almost j without a struggle. If credence can be placed upon the reports of German prisoners the gar- I rison would welcome the order to evacuate. Enemy orders, however, j are to hold on at all costs. Blackbirds Make Life Miserable For West End Residents It isn't necessary to journey to far j country places these days to inhale ; the fragrant odor of the potato, the j pumpkin an*V FARMERS HERE ASKING WILSON FOR EXEMPTION j Bcscige President With Peti tions to Reverse District Board Decisions ! CREASY THEIR CHAMPION Majority of Claims Evasive; Names of Men Called by Paxtang Board j The farmers of Dauphin county i are beseiging President Wilson -with petitions to reverse the decisions of the appeal board of the Middle Ju dicial district. This information was received at the Capitol this morning. A large majority of the farmers of this coun ty when passed as physically (It for service in the Army by the local I exemption boards immediately filed j claims for exemption on the grounds |of agricultural enterprises. These claims were acted upon by the ap peal board, and in the larger num ber of cases were found Improperly presented. Later when further in formation was received from the claimants the board turned down all but a few. As a result the majority of the farmers of Dauphin county who were drafted were certified for the Armv. Several days ago William T. Creasy came to the headquarters of the board and stated that the farmers throughout the country would suf fer a great loss if all the men draft ed were taken. He also stated that since the first of the year the per centage of the farm help available had decreased from 65 per cent, to 25 per cent. The appeal board in its action on the various claims for agricultural enterprise investigated each claim thoroughly, and each claimant was furnished with Indi vidual forms which he was required to iill out. The claimants were also required to file affidavits and to give [Continued on Page 12] Man and Wombn Posing as Husband and Wife Killed by a Bomb By Associated Press Huntingdon, Pa., Sept. 21. ' Through the agency of a powerful! bomb a double murder was com-l mitted at Mount Union, near here ' the victims being Toney Sala, a! Greek, and Mrs. John Ramsey, an l American woman. Mrs. Ramsey had left her husband in a distant part' of the state and had lived with Saia representing herself as his wife, ac cording to the authorities. There was a terrific explosion at the Saia home a few minutes after an automobile containing three men was seen to hasten away from tho house. The explosion wrecked the rooms of Sala and Mrs. Ramsey whose bodies were found in the wreckage. A family comprising a mother and seven children in an adjoining sec tion of the house were not injured. The authorities are making every effort to apprehend the perpetrators of the crime. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. j'YOU'RE YELLOW' j IS EPITHET CAST I ONLAFOLLETTE ; Killing of Americans on" High Seas Insignificant, Says United States Senator By Associated Press St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 21.—Senator Robert M. Lafoilette, of Wisconsin, told a large audience gathered at the closing session of the Producers and Consumers' Conference last night that he was opposed to war, that he thought Germany had been rather rough with the "technical" rights of American citizens, but that he did not think the exercise of these tech nical rights in traveling on belliger ent merchantmen laden with muni tions was worth going to war about. Ihe delegates to the conference, mainly farmers, frequently inter rupted his speech with applause. There were a few in the gathering, however, who did not approve all the sentiments expressed by the speaker. When the Senator, in explaining his declaration that the United States should never have entered the war sought to defend the sinking of tho Lusitania there came cries of "you're yellow." Instantly there was confu sion but above the uproar the Sen ator shouted "any man who savs that in an audience like this is yel low himself. I'll take care of any man who interrupts me if you will give me a chaxicc." "What about tho Lusitania?"! somebody shouted, and Governor Frazier, of North Dakota, the chair man, had much difficulty in quelling i the disorder that ensued. "I was not in favor of beginning' this war. We had no grievance. The! German government had interfered with our rights to travel on the high I seas as passengers on munition ships —of Great Britain. On these griev- 1 ances which were insignificant, con- \ sidoring the rights and consequences i involved, we went to war." Fathers Forbid Their Sons to Go to Camp Meade Lewistown Pa., Sept, 21.—When tho ! first contingent of sixty-two youths of the first draft left for Camp Meade, j Maryland, yesterday morning, eight! listed upon the roster failed to an-I swer to their names when the roll j was called. Two of the men, Seth S. ! Yoder and Orrle G. Pcachey, of the | Bil Valley, are young Amishmen whose fathers on Wednesday served personal notice on members of the draft board that they would not per mit their boys to take anv part in the present military mbbilization. Tho fathers declare that firm religious! convictions have caused them to take this stand. KILLED IX BLAST - London, Sept. 21.—An explosion I has occurred in a munitions factory j in Ireland, It was officially an nounced to-day by the British War Office. Nine persons were killed The number of Injured has not yet been ascertained. WAR BILL PASSES Washington. Sept. 21.—The eleven billion dollar war credits conference report was adopted to-day by the House and the measure sent to the White House for the President's sig nature. The Senate acted yesterday. KING SELLS PEARLS Amsterdam, Bept. 21.—The king of Bavaria has sent pearls to the value of a half-million marks to neutral countries for sale, accord ing to the Berlin Lokal AazeJser. WARRANT SWORN OUT FOR MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA Charged With Conspiracy Along With Police Lieu tenant and Councilman MURDER STIRS UP CITY Accomplice of Gunman Will Confess All to Save His Life By Associated Press j Philadelphia, Sept. 21.—Mayor T. B. J Smith, Police Lieutenant David Ben nett and Isaac Deutsch, a common j ccuncilman, accepted service early to-day of the warrants sworn | out last night charging them with | conspiracy in connection with the killing on Wednesday of a policeman | and the assault made upon two other ! men by gunmen alleged to have been | fcl ought here from Jersey City by one | of the rival factions in the contest | Fifth ward. \ They will be given a hearing next | Tuesday. Ihe warrants, which were sworn i out by Isadore Stern, a member of j the State Legislature, charge the I three men with "maliciously and un- I lawfully combining to interfere with [Continued on Page 7.1 I Hope to Complete Official I Count of Returns Tomorrow or Early on Monday I County Commissioners C. C. Cumb | ler, H. C. Wells, Solicitor Philip S Moyer, Chief Clerk Kd. H. Fisher, to gether W nh tho clerks in the county commissioners' office and a number | of assistants at noon to-day took the! ; oath of office as the tabulating and : computing board for the primary | election returns. i The tjoard was divided into several ( groups, each one taking part of the j work. It is hoped to complete the computing of the returns late to | morrow or on Monday. Because of the elimination of two precincts in the Eighth ward and the addition of the Fourteenth ward, there are fifty three districts in the city, instead of fifty-four. In the county no changes have been made. The official count is not expected to make any changes in the nomina j tlons for the leading city and county offices, but may change some of the | nominations in a few county districts i where there were close contests for | local offices. Summer and Autumn Will Merge Gently Weather forecasts to-day Indicated that summer would linger In the lap of fall. According to figures worked out by astologlsts and revised by weather prophets and observers, fall or autumn begins at 10.09 a. m. Sun day, September 23, Summer is ex pected to pass out quietly. In fact, according to to-day's weather map, there is not likely to be any evidence of fall at tho heglnning f the leaf dropping season. Cooler weathe"r is booked for to night. which may continue until to morrow. Local showers are expected In the northern part of Pennsyl vania. lis. ENGINEERS FIRST AMERICAN UNIT UNDER FIRE Operate Trains Carrying Tons Upon Tons of Ammunition to Front Lines WORK DAY AND NIGHT Attacked by Machine Guns and Bombarded by Airplanes By Associated Press American Training Camp in France, Sept. 20. By day and by night the men of an American regiment of engineers which has taken over an important line of French strategic railways are hauling tons upon tons of ammunition and other supplies to the French army units operating against the Germans. The American regiment has been turned over as a unit to the French and is getting all its supplies except clothing from the French govern ment. The officers and men entered upon the work with the greatest enthusi asm and they already have been under German bombs and machine flre from airplanes. Within the past few nights a heavy train of supplies hurrying toward the front was attacked by several enemy planes. None of the bombs fell dangerously close, but every time the lirebox of the engine was opened for stocking the planes swooped down upon the train and spattered it with steel-lacket bullets. The fire got so hot that eventually the train was stopped, the crew tak ing refuge beneath the engine. Re lating their experience afterward, the trainmen rather "swanked" about it over their inexperienced brothers. Russian Amazons Turn on Commander in Riot; Kill Government Agent By Associated Press Petrograd, Thursday, Sept. 21.—A small riot occurred yesterday in .the ranks of the women's battalion drill ing at Moscow and it resulted in an attack by girls upon Vera Butch kareff, the twice wounded girl offic er. who initiated the woman suffrage soldier organization. According to the Bourse Gazette an infantryman rescued Commander Butchkareff aft er some rough handling from the in furiated girls who resented some atcs of their leader not clearly defined. As a result of the affair many of the girls will be sent home and only 250 will be permitted to go to the front. A second riot of more serious con sequences is reported to have follow ed an attempt by a crowd of women to take away from one woman a small quantity of cloth which she had purchased at the market place. Militiamen tried to defend the wom an and they in turn were assailed. Mounted militia and Cossacks dis persed the rioters but not until they had wrecked the militia headquar ters and had beaten to death a gov ernment agent who had shot into the crowd. 6,000 Regular and Selected Men Pass Through This City Troop traffic over the Pennsy last night and to-day was rather heavy. llt is said that during forty-eight hours, commencing yesterday at 4 | o'clock, between 4,000 and 6,000 sol'- j diers would pass through Harris ] burg en route to the seaboard. This afternoon a special train carrying selected men was sent south to Camp Meade. On board were men from Perry county and points along the Middle division between Tyrone and this city. Others came from the north. The trains stopped here to al low the men to be served with lunch eon and hot coffee. In the Perry county contingent were fifty-eight selected men. They were given a rousing sendoff at Duncannon. Before entraining each was presented with a comfort kit by j the Duncannon auxiliary of the Red I Cross, and each Duncannon man re ceived a wrist vatch, a gift from the citizens of that town. It was expected that ten more of , the Quartermasters Corps located at the State Arsenal would leave here some time late this afternoon for Camp Hancock. Bids For Work on New Open Air School Opened by Board The City School Board met at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon, when bids on the general contract, heating, plumb ing and electrical wiring in the new open air school were opened. C. Howard Lloyd is the architect for the school, which Is to be built at Fifth and Seneca streets, with ac commodations for 160 pupils. It was expected that an effort to have the erection of the building postponed for the present because of war con ditions would be opposed by the con trolling members of the board. Dr. F. E. Downes, city superintendent of schools, also is anxious to have the new building completed because of the conditions now existing at the Lochiel open air school, which will bo abandoned. FIRST ACCOUNT FILED William J. Maglauchlln, defeated candidate for nomination for city councilman, was the first to file his election expense account with Pro thonotary Henry F. Holler. He made an affidavit that the total cost of his campaign was less than S6O. W. Frank Whitman, Republican nomi nee for city school director, filed a similar affidavit. Single Copy, 2 Cents PLOTTERS IN U. S. PAID IN KAISER'S GOLD Von Bernstorff Used $50,000 at One Time to Bribe Or ganization Supposed to Have Inflence With Members of Congress; State Department Shows Up Treachery of German Government Before War Was Declared Washington, Sept. 21.—Secretary Lansing to-day made public, as an astounding addition to the series of disclosures covering German intrigues in America and elsewhere, a message sent by Count: von Bernstorff in January of this year to the Berlin Foreign Office requesting authority to pay out $50,000 to influence Con gress through an unnamed organization, apparently known to the Berlin authorities. Count Von Bernstorff indicated in his message that money .iad been paid this organization on former occasions to perform the same work. The text of the message, made public without comment, follows: The message, dated January 22, 1917, follows: "I request authority to pay out up to 50,000 (fifty thousand) dollars, in order as on former occasions to in fluence Congress through the organi zation you know of, which can per haps prevent war. "I am beginning in the meantime to act accordingly. "In the above circumstances a public official German declaration In favor of Ireland is highly desirable in order to gain the support of Irish influence here." Unearth Duplicity Whether tha State Department is in possession of other evidence in dicating the ambassador's activities has not been revealed but the extra ordinary disclosures already mad<3 has fixed the belief that agents of the United States government have col lected and compiled the entire story of German duplicity and intrigue and i I • X PLAN BIG WAR SUPPLY DEPOT ♦ • T* \ Sep 21 —More than $40,000,000 for b 4 supply depot, telephone sydt+Jj#'. •§ < | T JO SPEAK [ ' nbe < - | n li < • X held next Wednesday. Mr: rcnutation will touch on the new J i* For the first time since Liberty > s 4 * * X * ■ 4* ' f premium during the initial *•s they went above par to-day *,'f i*- * 1 and one of $513,000, th • it ' * v *** I :- -4 * e $ |D ' *;• * ver j* * ' Austria have demanded mrli- ♦p • t Has refused. On the ether hand • u < . ,*• ft # • * have r/efu :d '*>.* Washington. Sept. -M —At a joint, session of the' Sen * • ■ ..-.ittee • *•' • * ■ # ■ . tent.. ■ :v It. . * pjance of British and French invitations, • V # . • * V 1 ; post a* chief o; the general staff under Premier Kercnsky, -'jl, < the commander-in-chi< of the Russian armies. Tfp resip- *tt * * ji nat:.-5n is sai ibe ue to differences'with tfyft premier 2; •the latter insisting cp the removal from headquarters 5* I T ' tf all on ispicion of complicity with Gen .#* * General Kormloff . Z' ! f I' MARRIAGE F _ Rlp' l E. l'rdj and Amelia M. Conrad, liarrlsburgl Clayton v ■f* R. Nf ind Berikn E. Hbuman, Lancaster. A" HOME EDITION that additional chapters will be add ed. The reference to avoiding war i. taken as an indication that Ambas sador Bernstortt had prior knowl edge of his government's intention to proclaim a merciless widespread sub marine warfare and that he wa equally confident that the Unites States government could not be ear, ily placated by mere promises. Th< German announcement of its inten tion to expand its submarine activi tips was not made public until Janu ary 31, when the world was startle i not only by the determination to re move all restrictions but by the stat< ment that it would become effectu <• the following day. Three days late ■ the United States government h 1 expressed its disapproval by severir.., relations with Germany. Used as Bribes That the German ambassad'- know of his government's intenth was assumed by some officials, a.- [Continued on Page 15]