■ Auk v Aim leij hotuhnrds Town Within German tc Trenches Jfe HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M otar~3n&cpen&eiit ■/ T.XXXVII— No. 71 16 PAGES ALLIES HOLD SOMME DEFENSES; FRENCH AND BRITISH JOIN TO STEM TEUTONS ON WIDE FRONT HUN ATTACKS REPULSED IN BITTER FIGHT Allies Battle Together Against Onslaught of Common Enemy; British Hold Line of the Somme, and Also in Region North of Bapaume; Germans in Latter Sec tions Reach British Trenches at Only One Point; En emy Crossing River Between Licourt and Brie Is Driven Back to Eastern Bank LONDON, March 25. —Fresh attacks by the Ger mans have developed northward and southward of Ba paume. the war office announces. The British repulsed powerful attacks yesterday aft ernoon northward of Bapaume. The British drove back to the eastern bank of the Somme bodies of German troops which had crossed the river between Licourt and Brie, south of Peronne. Th; statement follows: "The battle continues with great violence on the whole front. Powerful attacks delivered by the enemy yesterday evening north of Bapaume were repulsed heavily. Only at one point did the German infantry reach our trenches, whence they were thrown out immediately. Elsewhere the enemy's attacks were stopped by rifle, machine gun and artillery fire in front of our positions, and his troops were driven back with great loss. "During the night and this morning fresh hostile attacks again have developed in this neighborhood and also to the south of Bapaume. • "South of Peronne bodies of German troops who had crossed the river between Licourt and Brie were driven back to the east bank bv our counterattacks " London, March 25. —The British this morning were counter attacking between Nesle and Ham, Reutcr's correspondent at British headquarters reports. The French also were in action- North of Bapaume, he states, the Germans were attacking in considerable force at dawn but did not get through the British barrage. Rely Upon Sheer Weight The Germans, says the correspondent, are replying upon sheer weight of numbers in their heavy attacks on the British lines, re lieving their tired troops by fresh divisions which press forward without waiting for artillery support. The enemy all day yesterday and through the moonlight last, night, continued hammering British positions, the message states,] but the British troops resisted with valient stubborness. The Germans are employing many small bodies of Uhlans* mainly as cavalry patrol it is added. The spear head of the German effort still is directed against the old Somme battle ground. The British troops have been fall ing back slowly upon new positions under tremendous pressure, ocstioy'ng everything which might be useful to the Germans. Hostile airmen were active throughout the night bombing the British communications but showing little inclination to compete vith our flying men after daylight came. , France has thrown the weight of her forces into the great battle raging with unexampled intensity on the western front and the British and French armies arc now battling together against tt*e onslaught of the common enemy in his desperate attempt to break through the allied line. The British armies arc holding fast along the line of the Somme and also in the region north of Bapaume, Field Marshal Haig reports to-day. The Germans in their thrusts in the latter section reached the British trenches at only one point and there they were immediately ejected. Their assaults elsewhere were smothered by the British fire with great josses to the enemy. On the Somme line bodies of German troops which had suc ceeded in forcing their way across the river between Licourt and Brie, south of Peronne, were driven back to the easterly bank. On both sides of Bapaume the German attacks were,resumed to-dav. Heavy Fighting in Noyon Region The greatest danger point at present seems to be further south, where the Germans apparently have driven--through the-greater width of the region they devastated in retiring in 1917, as the Paris statement to-day reports heavy fighting in region of Noyon. This town, itself, is some ten miles-to the west of Ghauny, in the region of which Berlin yesterday reported the, repulse of Franco American reserves, but the. German advance probably has been met eonsicki ably short of Noyon- • '1 he w.'flge driven into the allied line is evidently a deep one, however, as the French troops arc reported by Paris to be con testing for the heights to the north of the Ois with important German forces. The Oise on this part of the front runs southwest past Chauny and passes to the south of Noyon. Persistant attacks with strong forces of infantry and lavish use of artillery have not enabled the Germans to break through the British defense and, after four days, the great offensive blow in Northern France has not yet brought a decision for the at tackers. , Ileavv lighting is in progress around Bapaume, near Beronne and where the French and British fronts join. l'ield Marshal Haig's withdrawal, previously planned in case of a heavy enemy attack, has been executed in a manner described as masterly and great credit for its success is given to the small units which, sometimes outnumbered eight or nine to one, clung [Continued on Pago 11.] a\Gi.K corr* - ., •J C.ESTS Where Huns Are Making Supreme Effort of War. BRITISH LINE WEDNESDAY••. I X BRITISH LINE TQ-D/1Y , mmmmmm 1 J x^JJl'il/ersen^iehiX >^\i^' A, w/is-toje: fit>sH TNfc®niisiJles p tf?vx\_ l\ \* \ ]rKs. / fixft S \/ r Lieftotbyrt 1 N \ J^c>y_-J Ctmmtctuno U^! a 'W eS (UWV , ♦#. //^X* =s Os \\ \L N /tfoyefie HtMerne A JfKZMnneu* hi/ VSJ \ V\ ,o r 8 B So*\rSM&<£6S V 4 Y'W" fa ° v y^^4->YZ" >a Albert// ComblesJß / rrk(i'itn* Ufi£/ *~*\ 1. PMofsUtng JrVentiufew' 6 3 1 £ yx /-W \ I '/ I f • V Monbrchjii |Q. o fM.Lrcuxr^^~V— P y^/^s o~ ,Oisclr t.- fresnov-te G'oJ ~~4j I 1 *~5 { ri\L~~ f fr,3e „. V\ 0 f\ rresnoy/t o.y i Lavaquw.esst / / ytfarcwrt f ygrn^\ Ns' \hrQUENTIN^Wo y \ \* 3urj ' : ' |m| Stt£s/AMuyjjus *""' "** ^ p ! crrt fi^^gs. WHERE 1 \ urO? AMERICANS o \vsv ß a 'A^W^"^\ V F*frV? T-f' Moutin-.ttiusTiur—iii o —r —r-®- . |1 ' V ; 't'TS ~— . . . \ oerrnh&i' . 45,000 MEN GUNS CAPTURED IN BATTLE,HUNS CLAIM Progress in Face of British Opposition Is Reported in Ber lin's Official Statement; Important Towns Fall Before Berlin, March 25. — (British Ad miralty Per Wireless Press) —The Germans now are standing to the north ot the Somme in the middle ot' the former Somme battlefield, says to-day's official statement. Bapaume was captured in night fighting. In the evening Nesle was taken by storm, the statement adds. Brit ish, Americans and French were thrown back through a pathless wooded country, byway of Ville quier-Aumont and I.a Neuville. More than 45,000 prisoners and more than six hundred guns have been captured, the statement says. Guiscard and Cliauny were captured in the evening. Violent fighting developed for pos session of Combles and the heights west of the town. The enemy was defeated, the statement says. FRENCH TROOPS ARE RUSHED TO AID OF BRITISH FORCES By Assotialed Press Paris, March 25.—The French on Saturday went to the assistance of the British and took over a sector of the battlefront, the war office an nounces. in the region of Noyon and on the right bank of the Oise heavy fighting with the Germans is in progress. "French troops began to intervene on March 23 in. the battle now being fought on the British front. They re lieved' certain of the allied forces and took up fighting themselves on this sector of the front. "At the present time they ai-e en gaged in heavy fighting in the region FIGHT WAY TO MAIN BODY WITH• ONLY A FEW LEFT London, March 25. —The Germans swarmed over- No Man's Land n such great numbers in their first at tacks that it was impossible f6r the! British gunners to miss them, tele-' graphs the correspondent at British headquarters in France of the Dalty. Express. Two batteries at Epehy' fired steadily with open sighs at four hundred yards for four hours. Tell ing of the thrilling exploit of Lei cestershire troops, the correspond ent says: IiARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1918 Costly Smashing Tactics of Kaiser's Legions Bapaume is on the northern part of the battlefront, where the British line for the most part has been held. It is one of the larger towns on the fighting front from which a number of roads radiate. The official Ger man statement of Sunday night said a gigantic struggle was taking'place for the town. It is thirteen miles below Arras. Nesle, Guiscard, Chauny, Ville ciuier-Auniont and La Neuville are in the sector west of the Somme, south west of St. Quentin. It is there that the French troops were thrown in. This is the second report by Ber lin of the presence of American troops on that part of the front. Combles is six miles northwest of Peronne. of Noyon, and they are disputing the heights of the right bank of the Oise with important German forces. "Northwest of Kheims there has been a violent artillery action in the region of Courey and Loivre. In the Champagne two German surprise at tacks east of Suippes resulted in failure. French patrols took some prisoners near Tahure. "There was much artillery activity between Arraeourt and the Vosges. At daybreak German forces attacked the French lines east of Bleneroy and east of Badonviller. The Ger mans were • repulsed with he?.vy losses." "Perzieres was held for a time by two companies of Lelcestershires as sisted by two tanks. The enemy kept pressing, however, find one company was completely cut off. Instead of surrendering, they held to the village until only a few men were left. Then t|ie surviving of ficer led them in charge through two lines of Germans and they fought their way ba<k to our.main body." , _. * BRITISH FACE ODDS OF 8 TO 1 AT SOME POINTS American Engineers Are in Throes of Desperate Bat tle, London Reports By Associated Press [ British Army Headquarters In France, March 25. —A further ad vance late yesterday by the Germans at some points along the battle front is recorded. American engineers have again been in the throes of lierce conflict, in which they have done excellent work In transportation. The presence of the American en gineers on the battle front long has been known. They were praised highly for their gallantry in the bat lie of Cambrai last fall. Huns Use Cavalry German cavalry in small numbers has been in action, but thus far it has been used merely to harrass the British during their withdrawal. The Germans have been pushing forward by sheer weight of num | hers, with the assistance of little ar tillery. In the region between Bapaume and Peronne the British fell back again somewhat in the lighting late on Sunday. This marked the main success of the enemy, Svhose pro gress -is being contested bitterly step by step. l T se .Massed Infantry u to-day the Germans again hurled great numbers of infantry [Continued on Page ll.] I'KLVCK IIKNItY KILLED fly Associated Press London, .March 25.—Prince Ilenrv of Keuss, head of the younger branch of the Keuss family, has been killed in the fighting on the western tront, says a Central News dispatch quoting advices received from Ber, lln. * Take a Shot At the Kaiser We in this country can't help the struggling Allies In France. We have no opportunity of help ing to stop the German rush. TJie Allied armies must do that. Hut we have our long range guns and they are Liberty Bonds. Every Liberty Bond pur chased Is a shot at the Kaiser. April 6 the campaign opens. Be ready to lay in a supply of am- J munition. ENEMY PLANE DROPS NEW BOMB ON U. S. LINES Flyer at Great Height "Kills" Engine and Scatters Gas Shells YANKEES BOMB ENEMY Many American Shells Fall in German Trenches; Lines Abandoned With the American Army in France, Sunday, March 24. American artillery on the Toul sector continued to-day to shell effectively enemy first line and communication trenches, the town of St. Baussant and bil let sand dumps north of Boquc teau. Many of the American shells have fallen in the German trenches nnd the first two lines in at least one place have been vir tually abandoned. Patrol Inspects Lines One American patrol freely in spected this point in the enemy line without molestation last night and this morning and remained there several hours. There have been no contacts between the infantry dur ing the past 24 hours. For the third successive day Ger man artillery to-day bombarded heavily with gas shells a certain town within the American lines, in two periods, each a half hour in length. Muny gas shells and a few high explosives shells fell on the | American positions. . Drops Gas Bomb An enemy airplane early this morning cut oft its engines at a great height over the American lines northwest of Toul and planed down. When close to the ground, it dropped a quantity of bombs. Some were of a new variety which exploded in midair with a bluish-red flash and give off a cloud of mus tard gas. Being heavier than the air, the mustard gas quickly de scended towards some of our bat tery positions and a road. After the machine disappeared, the German shell bombardment be gan. Another enemy airplane hov ered over the town while the bom bardment with gas shells was in progress. The weather was especially suita ble to-day for aerial work and the Germans took advantage of it. On one portion of the sector fourteen enemy airplanes crossed between noon and six o'clock in the evening while four friendly ones were over the American line in the same pe riod. One group of seven enemy machines, apparently on a bombing expedition, was discovered at mid night and driven off by the rapid lire of American anti-aircraft guns. Secure Valuable Papers An American patrol has brought in quantities of valuable papers from the bodies of live Germans killed in a sliellhole by American artillery (Ire a few clays ago. Among the papers taken from an elderly soldier was a letter from his daugh ter in Berlin, saying: "We are being told now that peace will surely come in July or August. Everybody was highly "elat ed when the news of the Kussian peace was received." The entire American front, from generals to privates, eagerly awaits news from the British front. All are confident that the Germans will eventually be defeated severely, even if they should strike hard at the outset. The German offensive is the sole topic of discussion on the American sector. Official commu nications are Caught by wireless op erators and newspapers are circu lating rapidly along the front. SATURDAY Boy Scouts Start THE W. S. S. DRIVE I Are They Going to Tag You? . THE WEATHER For ItnrrlHburK nnil vielnltyi Fair to-night and Turitilnyi not much ehanKe. In Irmprrnlurr, lohml to-night nliout 35 de grtn. For Kaatern Pennaylvanlai Fnlr to-nlaht and Tueadari little <-hnnnc In temperature) gentle, I northncat to north Triads, I J ONIjY KVUNIIMM ASSOUIA l'fr;i ritl.SS NttWKI-AI'KII t> II A IIIIISIII] III* BEIDLEMAN OUT FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNORSHIP Dauphin County Senator Will Run For Second Place on State Ticket URGED RY MANY FRIENDS Central Pennsylvania Deserv in of Place in Government, Says President Pro Tcm. Senator Edward E. Beidloman, of this city, president iiro teni. of the 1917 Senate, to-day announced that he would he a candidate for the He publican nomination for Lieutenant Governor. Senator Beidleman is serv ing his second term as a Senator, having previously served two terms in the lower branch of the Legisla ture. He is a native-born Harrlsburg er and a High school graduate. The Senator has just. returned from Philadelphia where ne was in conference with Senator Penrose and other Republican leaders and when [Continued on Page 2.] German Occupation of Petrograd Is Predicted Within Next 24 Hours Washington, March 23.—German occupation of Petrograd within 2 4 hours, was predicted by American Consul Tredwell in a dispatch that reached the State Department to day dated March 20. Virtually all Americans have left the city, the dis patch said: The consul reported from Moscow after returning from a trip to Petro gr;id. The commissary of the city, he said, had told him that he expected tlje establishment of German control within a clay. Another consular telegram from Moscow continued the report that the patriarch of Russia refused to sanction the German peace treaty and strongly condemned it. t t <s ■' : r ] i i'tON TIMBER - X i !3* I •iVviUt *l* !4* com- X 'At X and the + mm T ' S X I I* % 7* if "^d X *** | ± <s T 4* X f I I draft T 7* > >viTl X t ' I T' 4 T if I it T it ~'v t I 4 |> j 1 Von . Z *f*' I m by th< X ! attle X I '5 |J WBARDMKNT OF PARIS f f : ' rt.fr'- Jj jb t to-day the bombardment X long range by the Germans.' He forwarded t..„ *2 f h tb | DC f SSE CONTINUE PREPARATIONS *' J Ifr " Telegraph Company dispatch w 14* Pawl 'of'the chair of in X SJ sage'fl declared'thp Japanese government re-' f on as sufficiently grave to war £ X * i t i r >s ? MARRIAGE Stltl nnnlel K. I .kc and K.illl. I. I "unliiry. t uikL T : ... \ " 1 irViifli HOME EDITION SPROULSQUARELY FOR PROHIBITION AND SUFFRAGE Candidate's Platform Greeted Willi Enthusiasm All Over State NEIGHBORS HONOR lIIM Dr. Russell Conwell, Presi dent Swain and Licut.-Gov ernor McClain Speak Special to The Telegraph Swartliinore, Pa., March 25.—Sen ator William C. Sproul's gubernator ial platform as enunciated here Sat urday night, has excited enthusiastic I comment not only here, but all over j the state and the Senator has been I almost swamped with letters and j telegrams of approval and promises of support. Unqualified declarations in favor ' of the adoption of the National Pro i hibition amendment as well as that j tor woman suffrage were striking ! features in the platform announced | to one of the most remarkable gath | crings ever held in Pennsylvania, I in a political canvass. I It was a tremendous ovation to t'he | favorite son of Delaware by his [Continued oil Page 12.] American Injured by Shell From Big Gun in Paris Paris, March 25.—An American corporal of marines was struck in the chest by a splinter of onp of the first shells which fell during Sat urday's bombardment of Paris, lie was wounded seriously, but his life probably was saved by the deflection of the splinter by a cigaret case. So far as has been reported, he is the only American victim of the bom bardment. The Matin says one of the shells J fired in the direction of Paris yes terday struck a church in the su- I burbs. Several of the persons who were attending a Palm Sunday serv -1 ice were killed.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers