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HURL HUNS FROM LAST LINE;
CRIPPLES FORCED TO FIGHT
GERMANS FLEE
TRENCHES AND
FIGHT IN OPEN
Men Struggle With Rifles and Bayonets in Hand-to-Hand
Encounters in Fiercest Fighting of War; Cavalrymen
Play Prominent Role; Huns Throw Cripples and Sick
Men Into Battle Line
By Associated frcss
London, Nov. 23.—The British early today drove back
the enemy at the elevation called Tadpole copse, which
dominates a large section of the Canal Du Nord and a
large part of Moeuvres, in the Cambrai area.
British Army Headquarters in France, Thursday, Nov. 22.
The success of the British arms in the Cambrai sector has con
tinued to grow steadily and Field Marshal Haig's troops in a little
more than two days-' lighting have overrun an area equal in size
to that won by the Germans during the first fifteen days of their
spectacular drive on Verdun. British cavalry, tanks and infantry
to-day were battling their way forward along a line which at many
points west and southwest of Cambrai was less than three miles
from that important town. 1 lie advance also was spreading north
ward in the region of Bullecourt and the salient toward Cambrai
was being widened. '1 lie total of prisoners captured must ap
proach the 9,000 mark.
At last the British and Germans are at grips on comparatively
upen ground and some of the fiercest hand fighting of the war has
been going on. The enemy troops were unprepared for the attack,
but they have been putting every ounce of their strength into an
attempt to stem the rising tide.
Slake Cripples Fight I
Troops have been pulled away!
from other points and rushed to i.he
Cambria sector by the desperate!
Germans and so hard pressed were'
they fo> men that two companies ofj
cripples and convalescents were ire-'
fruited hastily at one camp and
thrown into the line in the region of
Masnieres. Some of these pitiful ob
jects are in British hands and arc
receiving medical treatment.
One prisoner was in the last stages l
of tuberculosis and he had to be'
moved to prevent the disease from ;
spreading to the others who were
in a state of cruel exhaustion and
virtually helpless from their valient I
attempts to tight under the lash of
their unrelenting officers.
Cavalry Charges
The great battlefield has taken on'
the aspect of. scenes in wars gone J
by. Tt is no longer a conflict of
trenches and shell holes, but of men I
JOYOUS FRENCH GREET
TANKS AS SAVIORS
British Army Headquarters in
Fiance (Thursday). No. 22 (By The
Associated Press). —The roads every
where for two days have been
swarming with advancing troops and
with prisoners and civilians coming
back from the front. Many rejoic
ing nonconibatants—men, women ani
children—have been pouring out ot
the captured towns under the guid
ance of their deliverers from German
bondage.
This lias been a battle of strange
sights, but no mpre striking specta
cle has been witnessed than that ot
ihese people marching toward homes
and comfort back of the British
front. Through the very gaps which
the tanks had torn in the famous
Hlndenburg line, mothers yesterday
THE WEATHER
For Harrisburg mid vicinity I Fair
mill colder to-night, with ioivrat
tempernture aliout 2S degrees;
.Saturday fair.
For KiiNtem Pennsylvania: Part
ly cloudy In south, probably
snow in northern portion to
night; colder Saturday, fair;;
moderate to fresh north winds.
Illver
The Susquehanna river and all Its
tributaries will rise slightly or
remain nearly stationary. A
stage of about 4.1 feet Is iaill
eated for Harrisburg Suturday
morning.
(•cnernl Conditions
The eenter of the extensive baro
metric pressure covering the
eastern part of the United States
that was central over i.nke Uric.
Thursday morning. I. it* moved
southeastward oil the Middle
Atlantic coast. It has caused
light rain and snow In central
and north districts east of the
Mississippi river In the lant
J twenty-four hours.
There has been a general fall of
4 to 24 degrees In temperature In
the last twenty-four hours from
the Plain* States eastward to
the Atlantic ocean.
Temperaturei 8 a. m.. 38.
Sun: Itlses, 7:0,1 a. m.; seta, 4i41
p. m.
Mooai Full moon, November 28.
Hlver Stage; 4.1 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, SMI,
I.onest temperature, 4a.
Mean temperature, 40.
Normal temperature, 3D.
struggling bitterly with rifles and
bayonets over a virgin battle ground,
while the long-neglected cavalry
sweeps in picturesque charges
against the enemy positions over the
wide territory involved.
liard lighting has taken place to
day at Crevecour, southeast of Mas
nieres. The British were holding a
high ridge in front of this pla< e
and some troops had forced an en
trance into the western part of the
town. The Germans were still hold
ing the eastern section. A German
battery here which had been giving
trouble was charged and captured
by dismounted cavalrymen. The
battery was surrounded by heavy
barbed wire entanglements preclud
ing the use of horses, so the soldiers
stormed the position on foot and
annihilated the gun crews.
In the region of Rumilly heavv
machine gun and rifle lighting was
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and to-day were pushing baby car
nages containing infanta or tramp
ing happily along with their babies
I'lutched to their breasts. Beside
them toddled other youngsters, manv
ot them carrying their treasured
dolls and not a few clinging deter
minedly to squirming puppies which
they dared not trust to run on the
ground. Old men and women were
bringing away all the household ef
fects they could pack on pushcarts
or carry, on their backs.
Ofllcer Swearing Mud
For three years they had been In
captivity and some of them in slav
ery. Tney had been subsisting on
the bounty of the American reliet
c< mmittee, which furnished them vir
tually the only food they obtained.
Among the prisoners taken by the
British were some officers who were
caught in the regimental headquar
ters. The regimental commander
was captured and it is reported that
his advent into the British lines was
a particularly humorous spectacle.
He came tramping back clad in an
elaborate fur coat, followed by two
servants who carried more of his
llnery. He was swearing mad at the
turn of events. The sight of a com
pany of British cavalry threw him
almost into a frenzy and lurid lan
guage which he directed at the Brit
ish drew a smile from even the hard
ened Tommy, who has a somewhat
picturesque vocabulary of his own.
Itejolce at Freedom
C'villans who wer§ released from
Masnieres to-day told something of
their experiences in the last three
years. They tejolced at their new
fcund freedom, and many of them
to-day Still wept with joy when the
subject of their deliverance was
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Heavy Snowstorm
in New York State
Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 23. West
ern New York awoke to-day in the
grip of a heavy snowstorm, the first
of the season, that came out of the
North in the night. Six inches had
fallen at 8 o'clock and the storm
showed no signs of abating. Traffic
on steam and electric roads was de
layed.
Ogdensburg, N. Y„ Nov. 23.
Northern New York was covered
to-day with a blanket of snow, the
first heavy fall of t.he season. The
weather is cold ond sleighs are in
use ,
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Starting with a surprise attack Tuesday, November 20, the third British
army, in a two-day battle, plunged forward toward Cambrai for the big
gest gain of any single action on the western front. More than a dozen
towns and villages and many thousands of prisoners have already been
taken, with the British still pressing on. The insert map shows (1) the
British drive at Cambrai, (2) scene of pretentious French attack at Cra
onne. and (3) the Verdun sector, where lively fighting is also reported.
GOVERNOR WOULD
SAVE HARD COAL
GAS NOW WASTED
Calls Meeting of Anthracite
People to Consider Great
Conservation Scheme
Representatives of boards of trade
and similar organisations in the an
thracite coal region of Pennsylva
nia were to-day urged by Governor
Brumbaugh at a meeting at the Cap
itol to work for conservation of life
anil natural resources and at the
same time to lend their influence to
maintain the peace and good order
of their communities.
The primary purpose of the meet
ing was to obtain ideas to use the
\tfaste gases of the hard coal mines.
"If we can harness this power we
cai change the complexion of youi
industrial life, ship coal and receive
more money," said the Governor.
The Governor said 72,000,000 cubic
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Wage Scale Boosted by
Harrisburg Railways Co.
Motormen and conductors on the
lines of the Harrisburg Railways
Company will be given a bonus of
I>4 cents an hour, beginning De
cember 1. This ifnnouncement was
made to-day by F. M. Davis, super
intendent of transportation.
The present scale of wages is 26
cents an hour for the first year, 28
ccrits for the second and third years,
29c for the fourth and fifth years,
and 30c after five years.
Keister Spent $217.24 to
Be Elected Mayor of City
Daniel L. Keister, mayor-elect, to
day filed his expense account for the
Keneral election, with l'rothonotary
Henry F. Holler. The total expenses
of his campaign as reported in the
account were $217.24, much of which
was spent for advertising purposes.
Capps Resigns as Head
of Shipping Corporation
By Associated PrcsA
Washington, Nov. 23.—Rear Ad
miral Washington U Capps, chief
constructor of the Navy, has asked
to be relieved as general manager
of the shipping board's emergency
i fleet corporation because of ill
j health and probably will be succeed
ed by Homer L. Ferguson, now pres
ident and general manager of 'the
Newport News Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company. Mr. Ferguson
has been asked to take the place.
ENGI.ISH HERO PROMOTED
London, Nov. 23. —King George
has promoted Lieutenant General
Byng to the rank of general, in rec
ognition of his distinguished service
in the field In the recent operations,
it uia* nfflrlnilv announced to-dav.
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HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1917
FUSS AND FRICTION
IN WAKE
The fuss and. friction which al
most wrecked the Sons of Rest at
the Penn-Harris corner yesterday
morning, the trouble,arising over the
date on a land turtle's shell, was as
naught, one might say, compared
with what happened to-day when
the enemies of toil got together.
It seems that the official Sons of
Rest reporter in his account of yes
terday's disturbance said that a ter
rapin belonged to the "bicuspid"
family. It might bo said in passing
—or en passant, as they say in the
trenches—that in 'steen thousand
families last evening the family dic
tionary had the dust blown from its
cover for the first time in weeks,
while the other several thousand
families which read the Telegraph
didn't look up the word because
they knew instantly—or thought
they knew, that the official reporter
was wrong.
The Sons of Rest, however, seized
the opportunity for another argu
ment, and the heavyweight corner
cop at Third and Walnut threatened
several times to pinch the whole
R.R. MEN TELL
WILSON THEY
WONT STRIKE
Labor Unions Place U. S. First
in Wartime Request
For Increase
Washington, Nov. 23.—President
Wilson, in a statement Issued yes
terday, declared that the railroad
brotherhood representatives had
agreed ni the conference yesterday
to stand patriotically by the govern
ment and to consider any proposed
solution of the wage dispute in "a
spirit of aefcommodation," and were
not inclined to contend for anything
which they did not consider to be
necessary for their welfare.
The railroad brotherhood chiefs,
in a statement after the conference
with President Wilson, announced
that any suspension of transporta
tion would be avoided, and declared
their willingness to discuss and ron
sider any suggested solution of the
difficulties.
The statement of the brother,
hoods, signed by the four chair. ien,
Messrs. Ntone, Lee, Carter and Uar
retson, follows: .
"The men who comprise the rall
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ALASKAN LINEH ASHORE
l!y Associutra i-ji'u
A Pacific Port, Nov. 23. The
Alaskan liner Spokane of the Paci
fic Steamship Company Is ashore
to-day oft the British Columbia coast
but wireless reports indicated ner
passengers were not In Immediate
danger.
ITALIANS HOLD
PIAVE VALLEY
IN FIERCE FIGHT
On Monte Fontana Italian Forces, After Inflicting Heavy
Losses on Enemy, Make Retirement; Situation Is Be
lieved to Be Improved; Venice Not Yet Safe; British
and French Reinforcements Expected Soon
High military opinion, recently expressed that the chances
of the Italians holding the Piave line and saving Venice are in
creasing hourly, seem likely to be strengthened by the tone of
to-day's Italian official statement, showing continued successful
resistance by the Italians to the furious attempts being made by
the enemy to pierce their northern front.
The Italian First and Fourth armies, defending the northern
line, were the defensive forces that added to the record of their
already notable achievements. An encircling movement in the
Monte Meletta region, northeast of Asiago, was completely frus
trated by the First army, although great forces of Austro-German
troops were employed in the attempt. All the Italian positions
remained in the hands of the defenders.
The Fourth army holding tho
front to the east, between the Brenta
and the Piave, was compelled td
contend all day with a series of at
tacks in the Teutonic effort to turn
the flank of the Piave river line by
pushing a wedge through in the
Monte Grappa region. The battle
tide ebbed and flowed throughout
the day, but when night came the
Italians had retaken all the positions
they had temporarily lost and a final
counte: attack clinched the victory.
Italian Headquarters in Northern
Italy, Thursday, Nov. 22.—(8y the
Associated Press) —Heavy fighting
continues on the northern lines, cen-
outfit. This here, how, Vendig, he
said a "bicuspid" was the French
name for the brass hickey you spit
in. .John Newton said it wasn't any
such thing—that the thing you spit
in is a humidor, while "bicuspid"
is Italian for three buttons. The
Hon Edmund James said "bicuspid"
means a tooth that has been filled
by a painless dentist. That in itself
started an argument, because several
of the Sons were willing to bet that
a painless dentist can keep your
tooth from hurting only till you get
half a block away from his office.
At noon to-day the Sons of Rest
were still arguing.
As a matter of fact, a terrapin
dQes not belong to the "bicuspid"
family at all. A "bicuspid" is a
tooth found to the left of the six
year molars. In rare cases, the of
ficial reporter reports, "bicuspids"
occur on the right hand side, but
only where the possessor is atavistic
in his tendencies. At any rate, the
Penn-llarris Hotel is being built de
spite the argumentative tendencies of
'the Sons of Rest.
METHODISTS GET
READY FOR BIG
SCHOOL DRIVE
Campaign to Aid Dickinson
College and Seminary
With Needed Funds
I The educational campaign of the
| Central Pennsylvania conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church Is
getting into a most hopeful stride.
Every day the reports from over
the territory indicate that the min-
Istrj and the laity are putting their
shoulders to the wheel *nd making
headway. To date there is in sight
nearly $200,000 in subscriptions
These subscriptions are to be paid in
five annual instalments.
Dickinson College is to get $125,-
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U. S. Troopships Safe
After U-Boat Attack
•A French Port. Nov. 23.—The latest
American transports to reach hero
had an exciting trip through the sub
marine zone. The first night in the
zone two transports collided. One
was slightly damaged while the other
had a small hole torn in her bow and
a few projecting guns damaged.
Temporary repairs were made and
the ships proceeded.
The following night a submarine
attacked the transports. The wake
of a torpedo was seen off the bow
of one of the vessels, but no cunning
tower or periscope was visible.
The transports raced ahead and
succeeded in reaching port safely, and
the collision damage was repaired.
tering along the low mountains
above Monte Grappa. These . uc
cessive mountains are proving the
same kind of natural barrier to he
enemy's swift advance that the suc
cessive rivers interposed before the
Piave was reached. Before the enemy
looms snow-cappd Grappa, held by
the Italians which would be a really
formidable obstruction should tho
lower ranges be taken.
The name of this mountain in
spires a feeling of security among
The fighting to-day between the
Piave and Brenta rivers, while
heavy, brought no material change
in the positions of the opposing
forces.
YANKEES AGREE
TRENCH FIRE IS
IDEAL TRAINING
Officers Who Have Served
Turn Hold Meeting and
Compare Experiences
With the American Army In
France, Thursday. Nov. 22. — (By
the Associated Press) —The enemy
artillery firing is more active along
the American sector. Shells in more
normal number are falling on the
rear areas. No new casualties have
resulted.
In reprisal for the shelling of the
town in which the American head
quarters is located, during which a
shell fell on an American regimental
headquarters, American guns sent
an equal number of shells into the
corresponding town behind the Ger
man lines the next day.
Patroiing operations continue with
nightly excursions to the vicinity of
the German wire defenses, but the
Americans have failed to encounter
any Germans and no further casual
ties have been reported. '
The officers who have served their
turn in the trenches with the bat
talions already relieved have held
a meeting with the commander of
the first contingent and discussed
their experiences. All agreed actual
training in the trenches under fire
is the ideal method of acquainting
officers and soldiers with fighting
methods.
U. S. Officer Rescues
Lost Private Under'
Hail of Hun Bullets
With American Army in France,
Nov. 23.—The American Army was
thrilled to-day by. the heroic action
of a young lieutenant in saving the
life of a soldier. A private, a menr
ber of a patrol, lost his way and
went to sleep in a shell crater in No
Man's Land last night. The patrol
returned and It was found he was
missing.
At daylight the Hermans saw the
American soldier near the line and
opened fire with flfles and grenades.
The soldier remained in the crater.
A lieutenant, whoso home is in
in danger of immediate death and
went out over No Man's Land through
a hail of enemy machine-gun bullets
several hundred yards, got the sol
dier and led him back to the Ameri
can lines amid cheers.
After being rescued, tlie soldier
said that when lie looked over the
I top of the shell crater the enemy
saw him immediately and the first
bullets and grenades nearly got him.
The attention of the lieutenant was
attracted by the firing and through
field glasses he saw the shrapnel hel
met of his man in the crater. He
gave orders for no rifle or machinc
gun Are on the enemy lines and then
started out, making part of the way
through a depression in the ground.
The Germans turned their attention
to him and for some minutes bullets
whizzed on all sides, but none hit
him. The soldier said that hn did
not know In what direction liia own
lines were, otherwise he would have
tried to set to them himself.
Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION
CONSUMERS SAID
TO BE WORST OF
FOOD HOARDERS
Mad Rush to Get Sugar and
Salt Responsible For the
Present Shortage
PLENTY OF SALT IN U. S
Unusual Demand Makes It
Impossible For Railways
to Carry the Supplies
"The greatest speculator in the
count!" is the public. It it were
not for the government supervision
sugar would now be 40 or 50 cents
a .pou id. The people made the
shortage of sugar themselves, like
wise the shortage of salt. If they
will or.iv co-operate and buy in (he
same quantities they are accustomed
to we will have comparatively little
trouble with food supplies."
This was the opinion expressed
to-day by an official of the Witman-
Schwarz Cfcmpany where efforts are
being made to meet what might be
called a mild panic over the sup
posed shortage of food supplies.
And this is all uncalled for, ac
cording to the various city whole
salers, who assert that the mad
strugglo to fill to overflow the In
dividual commissary is • responsible.
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WAR IHSK KATE REDUCED
By Associated I'ren
Washington, Nov. 23.—0n account
of the reduction in ships torpedoed
during the past few weeks the war
risk bureau to-day lowered the in
surance rate on vessels passing
through the submarine zone from 5
to 4 per cent.
REDUCTION IN RUSSIAN ARMY
By Associated Press
Petrograd, Nov. 23.—A reduction
of the Russian armies, beginning
with the class conscripted in 1899,
has been proclaimed by the Bolshe
viki leader, M. I.enine, an official an
nouncement to-day states. The or
der is to take effect immediately. ,
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? BRITISH ADVANCE LINE 3
X London, Nov. 23.—The British have advanced their T
▼ line slightly in Flanders, southwest of Ypres, the war <•
-4* ccs.. The situation on the Sommc fro*
T scut Invest of Cambrai is unchanged. t
EX-GOVERNOR PEABODY DEAD J
j C \'ov - fames Hamilton Peabody, J
J* >lorado, during the "Cripple Creek strike'' J
*P ir. ibo l was 65 years old. 2
been ill several months. I
4 ITALIANS HOLD PIAVE X
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* k was at- jj I
X yesterday by the Austro-German forces against •
Tl ii ii i
the Italians held all the positions, it | £
t iced to-day by,the war office. Throughout Ijj
X in positions be >
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e|i vers. Several positions • .
4* all 11
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£* it Italian countei a 9
T ely stopped the Austro-Germahs.- * *
J j A. O'LEARY INDICTED |
I New York, Nov. 23.—Jeremiah A. O'Leary, president J
Tof *! American Truth Society and editor of "The Bull," *
T ' $
I :
1., the postal laws. *
J* DRAFT BOARD CHANGES J J
Hamburg—National Guard officers who have been *|j
in charge of the state draft headquarters in this city sin X 1
T spring will retire fijoni supervision of its affairs within a J j
short time and the work will probably be directed by i
X W. G. Murdotk, of Milton, the present disbursing officer, J j
5?. with from the Adjutant General's Department * *
Col. Frank G. Sweeney, of Chester, will retire next month ft
J t ,
|t after service since Aprjf and Col. J. Warner Hutchins, [
I of Philadelphia, in charge of the distribution bureau, will * ;
J retire to-morrow, after several months' service. '
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DEMOCRATS ASK •
COURT TO THROW
OUT SOLDIER VOTE
Seek to Turn Close Election
by Disfranchisement of
Men at Camps
IS ORGANIZATION PLAN
Stranahan Makes Protest For
Candidates, County and
State Committees
Objecting to the computation ol
the returns of the soldier vote, James
T. Stranahan appeared to-day before
Judge George Kunkel in Dauphin
county court just as the returns were
about to be opened, stating he repre
sented the Democratic county and
state committees, and Dr. G. Willis
Hartman, Democratic candidate for
coroner.
Mr. Stranahan was Instructed by
the court to appear this afternoon
and present the objections in writing.
Mr. Stranahan stated in addressing
the court that he based the objec
tions to the computation on two
points, first that there was no au
thority for the soldiers voting
municipal officers as there is no act
of assembly authorizing such a vote;
and second, that the soldier vote i;i
Pennsylvania is different to-day front
that of 1864, as thp act of that year
provided for taking the vote cf
Pennsylvania soldiers while now tha
men were in United States service.
Judge Kunkel in answer to the ob
jections stated that the probable re
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WII.I; PROPOSE RUSSIAN PEACE
By Associated I it
Stockholm, Nov. 23.—According to
the Tidningen, a Russian diplomat
left Stockholm yesterday for Petro
grad with orders to hand to the
Russian revolutionary government,
proposals for peace by the central
powers.