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AMERICANS MAKE
BOLD ATTA
LORRAINE
HUNS FLEE FROM 1
TRENCHES AS U.S.
FORCES ADVANCE
Two Attacks Were Made Si- j
multaneously Following
Intense Fire
LEVELED Hl'X POSITIONS
Two Prisoners Taken and Val
uable Documents Secured
bv the Raiders
*
By Associated Press
Paris. Mart'll 11.—American
troops have made a bold raid
into the German lines In Lor
raine, the war office announces.
With the American Army in j
France, Sunday March 10. —Ameri- i
can troops, co-operating with the
French have carried out three raids
opposite the American sector in Lor- j
rainc. Two of the raids were exe- i
cuted simultaneously last night.
The Americans swept past the
German first line and penetrated to ,
the enemy's second line. 600 yards
back.
Simultaneous Ha ids
The two simultaneous raids, one
northwest and one northeast of
(deleted), were made after j
intense artillery preparation lasting
for four hours, in which the German
positions were leveled. At midnight '
two forces, each one of (de
leted). with small French forces on '
their flanks, moved upon the Ger- ,
man objecUves behind a creeping
barrage, each on a front of 600
vards. When the Americans reach- I
ed the enemy first lines the barrage i
was lifted so as to box in the German
positions at both points.
The men dropped into the enemy's i
irenches, expecting a hand-to-hand
light, but found the Germans had 1
fled. Continuing the advance, they i
went forward 600 yards to the sec
ond German line. All the time
American machine guns were firing
on each flank of the two parties to i
prevent the enemy from undertaking ,
flanking operations. One French
flanking party found two wounded j
Germans in a dugout and took them ,
prisoner. The Americans found none. 1
Find Valuable Papers
The Americans found excellent
concrete dugouts, which they.blew
up, and also brought back large
quantities of material and valuable
papers. While they were in the j
enemy lines German artillery began
a vigorous counter barrage. It was j
quickly silenced by American heavy
and light artillery, which hurled
large quantities of gas shells on the
batteries.
An American trench mortar bat
tery participated in the artillery
preparation preceding the raid,
helping to level the enemy positions.
Soon after these two raids had
been carried out the Americans
staged another at a point further
along the line to the right. They
went over the top after artillery
preparation of forty-five minutes, in
which the enemy's positions attack
ed were obliterated. At this place
the dugouts were found to have been
constructed principally of logs. En
gineers accompany the raiding party
completed.the artillery's work of de
struction.
The raids were carried out skill
fully and but for the fact that the
Germans fled more prisoners, doubt
less, would have been taken. The
American gas shells are believed to
have caused many casualties among
the enemy. Xo Americans are un
accounted for.
W. M. Donaldson
says the way
to observe
War Declaration Day
is for everyone
to paste War Stamps
on a Savings card
923* We declared War
April 6
|THE WEATHER
For HarrUburit and vlelnltri Fair
and warmer to-night and Tuea
■f' "wea temperature to
*il®ht ■bout 30 degrees.
Temperature t 8 a. m. v 20.
Sum RlMa, il2 a. m.| seta, 3:48
p. m.
M "t o, n XeW ,n00,,, '°- n, °rrow, 2,52
River Stage I 7.5 feet above low
water mark.
Yeaterday'a Weather
Hlffheat temperature, 52.
lioweat temperature. 25.
Mean temperature, 38.
Aormal temperature, 95.
WOUNDED IN TRENCH,
NOW IN HO
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This is believed to be .tiie first photograph, published or a. returned
wounded soldier from the trenches in France. The photograph was
taken m Lrtited States General Hospital Xo. 2, at Fort McHenrv Md.
the oilier day. The name of the soldier is not given, but he was mighty
glad to be cared-for among his own people.
HOSTILE PLANES
HOVER OVER U.S.
LINES AT FRONT
Hardly a Moment When an
Enemy Airplane Can
not Be Sc£n
By Associatei Tress
With the American Army in
France, March 10.— (Evening.—
The American artillery in the past
twenty-four hours has bombarded
vigorously certain towns in the rear
areas, roads and communicating
trenches of the Germans opposite
the Toul sector with excellent re
sults. They shelled a number of
buildings in one town where enemy
troops were billeted. They sprinkled
with shells a road being used tor
transport and scattered the Ger
mans in trenches which were knock
ed in.
An American combat patrol early
to-day was discovered by the enemy
in front of his wire and subjected'
to machine gun tire, but all the pa
trol returned safely. An unusual
number of enemy machine guns
have been in action all along thei
line, but they did no damage. The
German artillery bombardment at
several points also• was without re-!
suit.
Sniping continues to be most ac-'
tive. One enemy post was found in!
a tree and was driven out by Amer
ican sharpshooters.
There has been increased aerial
activity and there is hardly a mo
ment in the day time when a hos
tile plan is not in sight. Two en
emy airplanes flew over the Amer-j
ican front lines this morning and'
spattered the ground and trenches j
with machine gun bullets, but with-'
out doing any serious damage. t
One German airplane was brought j
down out of control within the'
American lines by a French antiair-j
craft gun, a shell from which burst
near the plane while it was high
the air. The enemy aviator's ma
chine gun was put out of commis
sion and he was forced to land.
American Poetess and
Son Dead in Hun Raid
By Associated Press
Ijondon, March 11.—The bodies of |
Mrs. Lena Guilbert Ford, an Ameri
can poetess, and her son, about 3" '
years old, were discovered to-day in
ihe wreckage of a house in which 1
twelve other persons were killed in
the German air raid last week.
Mrs. Ford formerly lived in El- i
mira, N. Y. She was author of "Keep 1
the Home Fires Burning." one of thei
most popular of the English war j
songs. Her mother. Mrs. Brown, of -
Elmira. was extricated on Friday I
from the wreckage of the house and j
taken to a hospital, seriously in
jured. J
HARRISBURG, FA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1918.
THOUSANDS FACE
HOARDING CHARGE
ON FLOUR CARDS
[Food Administrator Finds
74,165 Pounds Held
in Excess
With but two more days in which
to register. Dauphin county house
j holders have not turned in half the
Hour cards that should be in the
hands of the Dauphin County Food
1 Administration when the rcgistra
j tion is completed.
To date about 14,000 flour cards
I have been returned. More than 33,-
I 000 householders should report their
Hour supply to the local food ad
ministration. Householders must
make the report, and those that do
not will be roundod up by the food
j administration representatives.
"I don't like to think people in
Dauphin county are hoarding, and
yet if they do not return their flour
reports it seems like a confession
of hoarding" Is the way the local
food administration expressed the
opinion formed by the reluctance of
more than half the Dauphin county
householders to make the required
i returns.
The total amount held'in excess'
:is 74.1 •5 pounds of flour.
Of the cards turned in, 10,407 I
! which have been computed show no 1
; signs of extreme hoarding. Ten :
thousand Dauphin county house- j
! holdeis show an excess of little more i
! than seven pounds of flour to the
household. One out of every six fam- '
ilies has a litle excess, while the ;
average of those holdin gexcess sup- ;
j plies is pounds each.
1 The flour cards will be printed ;
i in the Harrisburg Telegraph for two
j more days, at the end of which time I
j everyone is expected to have mailed j
his flour card.
Victory Bread
"
Save the Wheal
1
What do you do with stale
bread? Do you know that bread
j crumbs can be worked into the
bread dough? Remember this
j receipt. It's thrifty and It's good.
Broad-Crumb Bread
I 1 quart lukewarm water,
i 1 or 2 cakes compressed yeast.
4 teaspoons salt.
2 tablespoons molasses.
4 cups fine bread crumbs.
8 cups flour.
Mix as follows: Soften the
; yeast in Vi cup of water. Add to
the rest of the liquid <1) the yeast
mixture (2) the salt (3) the mo
i lasses <4) the crumbs and (5)
I floor to make a stiff dough. Fol
low directions for kneading, rising
j and baking given for potato
bread.
BRITISH THROW
GERMANS FROM
COVETED RIDGE
First Counterattack Fails; |
Second Is Entirely
Succcssfrtl
HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE
——
By Peculiar Freak, Three Di
rect Hits on Headquar
ters Building Fail
With the British Army in France
and Belgium, Sunday, March 10. —
Heavy artillery lire was proceeding
at various points along these British
and German battle lines to-day but
there has been no infantry action of
importance since yesterday morning
when the British in a violent coun
terattack hurled the Germans from
the posts they succeeded in captur
ing in the region of Poelderhoek
ridge Friday evening.
The British defenses here and
south of the Houtholst forest, where
the Germans also seized six posts
Friday morning, have been re-es
tablished completely after severe
fighting in which the Germans lcist'
heavily.
Thursday the British gunners put;
down a terrific barrage and the Ger- j
mans did not attempt to advance, j
Friday evening, however, they
moved against Poelderhoek ridge :
under a smoke barrage and to the
accompaniment of a heavy bom
bardment of the British positions.
The enemy occupied a number of
posts along a narrow front and a
hard fight followed. Early Satur
day morning the British organized
a counterattack, which although ex
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[Continued on Page 5.]
WILL RUSH WORK
ON IMMENSE WAR
BUILDINGS HERE
Army Officers Placing Orders
For New Cumberland and
Middletown Developments
The Army officers in charge of the
big construction work here are plac
ing orders and planning for work for
the proposed quartermaster's depot
and the ordnance warehouses at Mid
dletown. The New Cumberland site
will require more grading and con
struction work than at Middletown
and work will be started there as
soon as arrangements can be made.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
already has laid out a yard and sig
nal system to take care of the traf
fic to and from this city from the
quartermaster's depot and to take
care of at least 150 cars at one time
on the New Cumberland site, which
extends all the way from New Cum
berland to Marsh Run, more than
800 acres.
Major Grey will have direct charge
of the New Cumberland and the Mid
dletown developments, except the
aviation depot, which will be in
charge of Captain Kramer, who has
arrived in Middletown to take up
the work, which is ready to be
started as soon as the contract is
let. James Black, of St. Louis, orig
inally recommended for these two
warehouses, will not build them.
They will be erected most likely by
Wells Bros., of Chicago, who have
been recommended but the contract
may not be formally approved until
to-morrow.
The aviation development will re
quire about eight more acres than
was originally thought necejsary and
this land has been taken over by the
government from the Keystone In
dustrial f'orporation.
The ordnance depot will be erected
on land of the Keystone Company
just north of the aviation tract. It
will be on high land in no dangei
of flood and well located from a
railroad and trolley standpoint. It
is said that grading already done
on the ground can be utilized by the
government.
J. Purviss and E. J. Weaver, rep
resenting Wells Pros., are in Harris
burg to-day going over the Middle
town site. They are prepared to
start work in twenty-four hours once
the contract is let, which may be to
morrow.
Plan to Establish Morgue
at County Almshouse
An offer was made to the county
commissioners to-day by the Direc
tors of the Poor to furnish room at
the county almshouse for use as a
county morgue, as recommended by
the Grand Jury of the January ses
sions ®f criminal court. Should the
Grand Jury next week make a sim
ilar recommendation the commis
sioners are required by law to pro
vide for the morgue.
The probable cost of purchasing a
site for a building and for the con
struction of the morgue was consid
er torday by the officials when the
offer was made by a representative
of the poor board. It is likely the
commissioners will inspect the quar
ters which have been offered and
then provide the equipment which
will be needed.
CITY TO BUY IMV Kit CO AI,
Bids for furnishing 4,000 tons of
river coal for use at the pumping
station were opened to-day by Com
missioner Hassler, two proposals be
inc received, both Ht $2,20 a ton. The
bidders were Ray E. Stewurd. holder
of the contract last year, and Jr H
Steward. Commissioner Hassler said
he would submit the bids to Council
to-inorrow.
j |
Noted Food Economist
to Give Talk on Cooking
pi
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HHk
MRS. ANNA B. SCOTT
I The National War Aid, Mrs. Wil
liams Jennings, president, has se
cured Mrs. Anna B. Scott, widely
| known cooking expert, food econo-
I mist and writer, "to give a talk on
j "War Cooking" to-morrow evening
; at 7.30 o'clock in Fahnestock Hall,
to which all women are invited.
Housekeepers who cook are espe
cially invited to be present. Mrs.
Scott is connected with the Woman's
Committee of the Council of Na
tional Defense. Mrs. Scott has had
long practical training. There will
be chorus singing and Donald Mc-
I Corrmick. food administrator, will
i give a four-minute talk on "Food
Conservation."
CITY HOPES TO
SET PACE FOR
j WAR LIBRARIES
j,
k
Bov Scouts to Canvass Town
i
For Benefit of Training
Soldiers
ANY BOOKS?
WHILE the national cam
paign for "books for sol
diers" does not begin until
i next week, as does that of Penn
sylvania at large, llarrisburg is
going to set a pace for the bal
ance of this state: and it will
do its book-giving this week.
But it won't be necessary for
llarrisburg book-givers to "tote"
them to the library.
Twenty-one troops . of Boy
Scouts next Saturday will canvass
the town, house by house, and
collect the books.
Have yours ready! is the ad-,
vance word of the . Boy Scouts.
There lurk in the corners of every
house in llarrisburg—and there are
approximately 15,000 families here
—books which have served their
; usefulness in that particular house-
I hold, but which are good as new
and will be mighty interesting to the
'men in Uncle Sam's Armies and
j Navy.
j In thirty-four of the, big training
i camps there are library buildings,
j These buildings contain thousands
|of books, but thousands more are
j needed. In every camp eight or ten
| branch libraries arc maintained. The
j expeditionary forces have their li
j brarians and their libraries. In all
500,000 books are needed. llarris
burg can supply 30.000 of this total.
Old books are not needed, because
a tattered and torn volume is as dis
pleasing to a soldier as to any other
person.
Current fiction is good stuff—but
the donors should carefully refrain
from giving anything like "Elsie"
books, or "Five Little Peppers," or
books prepared and written specially
for women.
Miss Eaton, of the Public Li
brary and Miss Mac-Donald, of the
State Free Library Commission, are
directing the compaign in Harris
burg. They are being ably assisted
by J. A. Stine. chief of the Boy,
Scouts in this city. There are ap
proximately 500 Boy Scouts, inci
dentally. Each of them has prom
ised to gather books next Saturday.
During the week they are preach
ing the doctrine of "Have yours
ready!"
Fifteen Teams Start on
General Ash Cleanup;
New Water Rates Ready
Fifteen teams started on the gen
eral cleanup of the city to-day, it
was announced by the Bureau of Ash
and Garbage Inspection, the entire
force starting in the uptown district, j
Both inspectors of the bureau
worked with the forces directing the
men so that each district will be
covered as fast as possible.
As a letter has been received from
J. W. I.iedoux, of Philadelphia, stat
ing his report on the water rate
schedule and other improvements
was to be mailed today. Commis
sioner Ilassler is planning to pre
sent it to Council to-morrow.
The new schedule will be based
on an estimate of the cost of op
erating the water supply works and
allowance for depreciation of the
equipment,
SLOT MACHINES
EAT UP MANY A
NICKEL IN CITY
"Social" Clubs Make Money
by Devices Sprinkled Over
Town and County
NO CHANCE TO WIN
"Fifty-Fifty" With Owner and
"House," Little For
Player
Investigation of gambling activi
ties to-day showed two score slot
machines in the city and county on
which a man gets a "chance" to win
anything from a dime to $3 by drop
ping a nickle in the slot.
The machines mostly are located
in "social" clubs, several of ihese
organizations having two and three
of the machines.
Gamblers placing ho machines
h'lve a "fifty-fifty" contract with the
club managers. The •! u0 gets naif
the amount logt by the members
who play and the "gambler" ~cets
the other half. There :s no danger,
it is said, that the "house" will lose
anything tor the machines don't
work that way.
Makers of the slot machines have
so arranged them that the player by
mathematical calculation absolutely
has no chance to win if he plays
more than a few • times. The in
dividual, it was pointed out to-day,
may win a dollar or so but the
wheel is so arranged thi'.t only n
small part of each dollar playtd is
returned to the players \n prists.
Investigators to-day declared tl.ey
Will call ilie attentio > of the police
r.r.d the district attorney's off:ce to
v acliines.
DISMISSAL OF
TROTZKYDUETO
PEACE QUARREL
Bolshevik Minister Held That
Peace Had Been Ex
torted by Force
By Associated Press
London. March 11.—Leon Trotzky
was dismissed us Bolshevik! Foreign
Minister by Premier Lcnine owing
to a quarrel over the German peace
terms, says a dispatch to the Morn
ing Post dated Saturday in Petro
grad. Trotzky held that the peace
had been extorted by force and that
no law recognized promises made
under duress as obligatory. There
fore, he is reported to have said, ia
was Russia's duty to fight, if only
guerrilla warfare, and the German
treaty should not be ratified.
Premier Lenine on the other hand,
held that the treaty must be ratified
and carried out on the theory that
disastrous treaties do not neces
sarily annihilate nations, as Prussia
had proved several times.
Lays Trotzky' s Fall
to Taking Hun Bribe
| New York, March 11.—Casimer
; Pilenas, who, as agent of the British
| government, followed Leon Trotzky's
j movements in America, said last
J night that in his opinion Trotzky's
j resignation as foreign minister of
j Russia came as the result of news
I filtering through to Petrograd that
Trotzky, in New York last March,
had publicly announced the receipt
of SIO,OOO "from German comrades."
Pilenas said that while this might
seem trivial in the face of repeated
charges that Trotzky was in German
pay, it was sufficient to cause the
fall of the ministry, which had al
ready lost its hold on the Russian
masses. ,•
Heavy Fighting in
Finland Is Reported
By Associated Press
Stockholm, March 11.—Heavy fight
ing is continuing in Finland between
the Finnish White Guard and the
Russian Red Guard troops, says an
official statement on Saturday from
the headquarters of the White Guard
at Vasa. Violent encounters are re
ported on the Satakunta and Savala
ko fronts. Sanguinary fighting is
proceeding by day and by night with
out interruption at Ahuola. in Kare
lia. The statement announces that
the Russians, despite enormous losses
in the Ahuola fighting, continually
j throw fresh forces into the fray.
Eight National Army
Men Sentenced to Long
Terms For Disobedience
By Associated Press
. Camp Dodge, lowa, March 11.—
Found guilty by a general court
martial of refusing to obey orders,
eight National Army men from St.
Paul, Minn., all professed Socialists,
have been sentenced to long terms of
imprisonment In the Leavenworth
penitentiary. It was announced to
day. A. S. Broms was given twenty
years, and the other seven were sen
tenced to twenty-five years' conilnc
meut, ail at hard, labor,
Single Copy, 2 Cents
APPEAL BOARD IS
DOUBLED TO SPEED
UP CLASSIFICATION
War Department Asks That Work Be Completed at Once
to Clear Way For Next National Army Call; Central
Pennsylvania Counties to Have First Class Men Ready
For Service Within Few Days
Six new members to-day were
added to the District Appeal Board
to rush through the classification of
some 20,000 cases so that the work
may be completed in the shortest
possible time. This action was taken
at the instance of the Federal War
Department, which asked that the
classification work be completed by
April 1 so that the way may be
cleared for the calling of the next
National Army.
The new members more than dou
ble the size of the board, which con
tains five members. Sessions will tie
held e\ery day, Saturday excepted. In
the House caucus room of the Cap
itol.
New members who assumed their
duties to-day are Charles A. May.
York; John C. Orr, Harrisburg; Pro
fessor H. H. Shenk. Danville; A. H.
Bailey, Paxtang; R. P. Wilson. York,
and Charles 11. Clippinger, Charn
bersburg.
Tracy Is Chairman
The five old members of the board
which will retain its present organ
ization are: David E. Tracy, Harris
burg. chairman; H. H. Longsdorf,
Dickinson, vice-chairman: H. E.
Butz, Huntingdon, secretary: H. Y.
Snyder, Lebanon, and Dr. John A.
Shower, York.
The board announces that before
the end of the present week every
registrant in Class A-l will be defi
nitely established. Every local board
throughout the entire district will
then be able at any time, within a
few days, to answer a call for men,
or furnish a quota for the next Na
tional Army.
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|T HARRISB.URG—REPRESENTATIVES Ol? A 816 J
'"l* JSTRIAL CONCERN WILL VISIT HARRIS- I
Z LLKG TO-MORROW LOOKING FQR A 3,000-ACRE X
T ■ ■ ' PON WHICH TO ERECT A BIG PLANT ***
4 W Y GOT INTO CON J
X TO-DAY DECLINED TO GIVE ANY IN- J
T FORMATION OTHER THAN THAT IF THE SITE X
XIS SUITABLE A PLANT RUNNING UP INTO THE JJ
J MILLIONS WILL BE ERECTED THEREON. IT IS ?
• X
J J SAID-TO BE WELL FINANCED AND WAS A X
J TRACTED TO THIS CITY BY THE DECISION-OF
! ! THE WAR DEPARTMENT TO ESTABLISH BIG
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J J 414 LICENSES GRANTED IN BERKS * I
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'f.Y, J?;
1 * REDMOND WOULD SUCCEED FATHER *l'
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* * Captain William Redmond has become • *
4 * made * I
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MAY ACQUIRE STEAMSHIP DOCKS ' *1
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| ord vote an amendment to the Urgency Deficiency Bill t
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| and piers owned by the North German Lloyd Company * 3
' * and the Hamburg-American Company at Hobokcn, N. J : 3
<• DIES IN STATION 4
\ J .Ilarrisburg—-Harry P. Miller, aged 75 .years,' ar<
4 • tired railroad employe, of Newport, died Suddenly at tftt I *■
i | Pennsylvania Railroad Station this afternoon.-Death was * I
4 * due to a heart attack. Mrs. Sara Woojdward was taken I J
e * • i
. ill at the came time and was sent to the Hairrisburg Hos "ft
, # piral where she is in a critical condition. Her residepc £
* jj is unknown. *
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f MARRIAGE LICENSES 5
* Jack C. Smith nnd Mary A. Hlnklr, Harrlsburß. ' r "l" "! " I 3|
HOME EDITION
The board has jurisdiction over
seventeen counties, including thirty
three local boards. Every agricul
tural and industrial claim Is consid
ered and classified by the appeal
board. Every appeal from the de
cision of the local boards is also
reconsidered at the district appeal
board. In addition to this, the gov
ernment appeal agent of the district
reports all cases on recent marriages
on the part of registrants, and the
classifications are made by the ap
peal board after a careful consid
eration of the circumstances.
Many Appeals
The report of the seventeen coun.
ties under the jurisdiction of the
district appeal board, with the num
ber of appeals and agricultural and
[Continued on Pace 10.]
Church Services Held Up
by Smallpox Scare
Church services were halted last
night in two colored churches be
cause of the discovery of several
cases of smallpox in the vicinity of
Cameron aud Cumberland streets. At
bust 200 churchgoers were, vaccinat
ed before services proceeded and
several hundred more persons who
came in contact with the church
members went through a similar op
eration.
The smallpox victims are: William
Smith, 49. 1242 North Cameron street:
Miss Etta Yates, 1172 South Camer
cn street, and Mrs. Sunday, 409 Ham
ilton street.