MRS. SULLIVAN TO! BE "MOTHER" TO i BOYS IN FRANCE Official Notice if Her Son's : Death Arrives With a Letter From Him TO PACK BOX FOR OTHERS ; Last Word Tells How Much Enjoyment Package From Home Brings Official confirmation of the death of Sylvester' P.. Sullivan, who Satur day was reported killed in France, was received to-day by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Sullivan, 526 North street, from the adjutant gen eral of the War Department. Sul-1 livan's name had appeared Saturday j in the casualty list, but without any j address, and his mother had re- J ■ ceived no official notification from i the war department. i Sullivan was a member of the 1 149 th Machine Gun Battalion. Com pany B, Rainbow Division. He is j the second Harrisburg boy to meet, his death while fighting in .France. | Earl A. Aurand. whose parents re side at 1625 Logan street, was killed trench fighting in France last No vember. The letter from the war depart ment was delivered to Mrs. Sullivan at 11.30 this mornine. With it was handed the mother a letter dated February 24, written by her son before his death. The letter be gan, "Dear mother, I am still safe, sound and contented." A letter oi j more recent date was received a few davs ago from young Sullivan by his sister. Mrs. Charles E. Schlayer. in which he declared himself con tented and safe. Hoped l'or "Goodies' In his letter delivered with the official notification of his death, young Sullivan tells his mother how much he appreciated her gift of. newspapers and "goodies." He ty' s how with sis compan ons he de-1 voured the good things his mother > had sent him and wished for more. ] "I'll never stop sending the sol- j food and remembrances now.' , sobbed the little mother of the sec- ] ond Harrisburg soldier killed on the j Krench battlefields. "I'm going to. pack another box at once for one j of the soldiers I know in France. I - While the blow was keenly felt by j the- mother of the dead hero, she i declared herself filled with the de-; tenttinsttion to help make the lot /of the soldiers as easy as possible. | t The communication from the War : Department is on a printed rorm. with the name and address of the ,<oldier filled in. It gives no specific cause of the young soldier's death, merely declaring that he died in the performance of his duty, and would •be buried with full military honors. Wanted to Be in France "" Sylvester Sullivan enlisted here several days before registration day, and served for a time under Captain Henry M. Stine. In a letter to Mrs. Sullivan Saturday. Captain Stine declared that Sullivan was one of I The best soldiers in his company.' Because of his intense anxiety to go to France, young Sullivan secured l a transfer to the machine gun com- | pany of which he was a member at I the time of his death, and after a I period of intensive training sailed ifor France. One of his laughing declarations before he sailed was | j.hat he • would "march straight; •through Belgium.'' He is survived by his mother.! seven brothers and two sisters. He was aged 22 years, and was widely known in the city. , r Previous to his enlistment he iwas employed by the Harrisburg fipe and Pipe Bending company. Sullivan was a former student at "the Technical High school, and he was a member of the St. Patrick's' Cathedral. He was a brother of Mrs. ; Charles Schlayer, 638 Kelker street.] Han Plans For Victory Fall Far Short, Papers on Prisoner* Show Ixmdon, March 2 3. —Copies of the German plan of offensive taken from prisoners, according to Reuter's cor respondent at British headquarters. Show that the enemy's objectives were as follows: "First day. average penetration fclonsr the whole front of attack, eight kilometers: second day, 12 kilo meters; and on the third day, beiond which the scheme does not appear to be carried, 20 kilometers." The success attained thus far falls piuch short of these objectives, the dispatch states. The correspondent reports that fcmong the captured machine guns are some that were identified as hav ing been used In the Balkans last year. The Germans made attempts on Friday night to cross the Somme, by means of four bridges. The at tempts. however,, were detected and frustrated, with loss by the British artillery fire, his message states. All the roads in the rear of the German advance, the dispatch con tinues, are blocked by columns of troops, guns and transport vehicles, furnishing targets upon which the British artillery is making deadly play. Rough estimates of the casu alties inflicted vary between 30 and 50 per cent, of all the enemy divi sions so far indentified. "I give these figures for what they are worth," the correspondent adds. "They probably are based mainly upon statements made by prisoners." Miraculous,' Cry Berlin Newspapers of War Plan Bondon, March 2 4.—The Berlin Vossische Zeitung's war correspond ent, telegraphing from the neigh borhood of the Oise. is quoted by the t'entral News correspondent at Am sterdam as saying: ' "All of our movements have taken place with miraculous exactitude ac cording to the plans of the master who organized the attack. The Eng lish are defending themselves brave ly. but the British command was not equal to the attack, which, although doubtless foreseen, probably was not expected so early." Gray Hair Wknssibi ; A very meritorious preparation for restoring natural color to gray oi* rifaded hair for removing dandruff and a hair dressing. 1b not a dye. Oen <t rous sized bottles at all dealers, rv*dy to use when you gti it. I'HILO HAY CO., Newark. N. J. MONDAY EVENING, HKRRXSBURG fiJUtt TELEGRAPH MARCH 25, 1918. "MONSTER CANNON" DOES NOT A PEOPLE OF PARIS Shell Drops Every Twenty Minutes on French Capital; Ex perts Admire Mechanical Feat and Wonder at Useless Barbarity * Paris, March 24. —The Germans i "monster cannon" which has been i bombarding Paris, has been located in the forest of St. Gobain. west of j Loan, and exactly 122 kilometers | (approximately 76 miles) from the J Paris city hall. The gun, says the Martin is estab lished near Anfzy. in St. Gobain for est. This would place it somewhat further south in the wooded area and it estimates the distance as about 70 miles from Paris. Early Alarm Sounded Palm Sunday In Paris was ushered i in by the loud explosion of one of j the ten-inch shells fired by the Ger- j mans from their new gun, more than 70 miles distant, at 6.55 o'clock this morning. The alarm was sounded immediately. Many people took shelter, but larger numbers ap peared in the streets on the way to the churches, which were almost crowded as usual, the women who sell palm leaves doing their custo mary thriving business. The shells arrived at regular in tervals of twenty minutes at first. The detonations seemed louder, amid the ordinary Sunday calm, than yes terday, but they seemed to have lost their power to disturb the popu lation, which refused to be distract ed from its Sunday habits to any great extent. lire Is Rapid In the absence of means of trans portation, a great many persons were seen in the streets leading to the center of the city, walking to keep their appointments. The rapidity of the fire increased after the first few shells landed, ex plosions following each other every fifteen minutes on the average. Some of the shots came after an interval of only twelve minutes. The comments of the French press | this morning, were aDout evenly di- i vided between the big gun which is bombarding the city from back of I the German lines, and the terrific < battle raging on the British front. J The tone of the comment on the j bombardment is one of astonish- ) ment, at the feasibility of the per- j formance: while as to the battle, the favorable ending of it is confi dently, expected. Cseless Barbarity The newspapers do not conceal their admiration for the mechanical feat of the Germans in constructing their new weapon, but speak pas sionately of the useless barbarity of the bombardment> The Matin says it is consoling to i note that the number of victims is small, but it asks for reprisals on German cities. Professor Paul* Painleve. former premier and president of the Aca demy of Sciences, told the Excelsior that by the use of tungsten in the fabrication of the projectile, the shells would be about half the dia- j meter of steel shells of an even weight, and that therefore, the at mospheric' resistance would be less, accounting for the extremely long range. He also touches upon the YK'sslbllity of a propeller being em ployed on the projectile. Alfred Capus, in the Figaro, al ludes to the making of the gun as a great mechanical feat, but points that as a military factor, the weapon i is entirely inefficacious. A Minor Incident The Petit Parisien comments up on the bombardment, as an extreme ly minor incident, as compared with the gigantic battle in progress on the British front. Le Petit Journal, says, that Jules Yerno, had forseen this gun and it declares. moreover, that it is a French invention. "More than a year ago," itadds, "we discovered the secret of firing our cannon more than 100 kilometers. The secret lies in the greyer suppression of the atmospheric resistance." The Echo De Paris, declares the ! bombardment is designed to give the j impression that Paris is within the I range of the German guns. "It is i a political cannon," the newspaper says. France Is Confident . Premier Clemenceau's newspaper, L'Homme Libre, says that the pass word of the hours is Confidence. "Germany," it declares, "has wished to make it a complete offensive on all fronts—the land, water and air | fronts, as well as the 'front of the rear.' We are facing an enemy who wishes to end it as soon as possible. That suits us. Every shell that falls into Paris, drives deeper into us the ! confidence in an ultimate victory." The newspaper La Journal, in its article regarding the gun, says that the piece of 240 millimeters cali j ber is of Austrian manufacture. It is a very delicate piece of machinery which must be handled by expert mathematicians and gunners, the newspaper adds, as the loading and pointing is a difficult task. It de clares that each shot costs about $4,000. "This is a new conception of our enemies." the newspaper comments. Shell Every 20 Minutes The ordnance experts were not ready last night to commit themsel ves as to whether the shell was a I sort of aerial torpedo driven by j propellers: whether an inner pro jectile contained in the original shell is released by an explosive after the shell has traveled a certain distance from the gun, or whether the ori ginal projectile itself reaches its destination, propelled perhaps, by an explosive of a force hitherto un known. In yesterday's bombardment twenty-four shots in all were fired from 7.20 to 3 o'clock p. m., a shell i dropping every twenty minutes with 1 monotonous regularity. The bom | bardment presented all the charac teristics of a bombardment by heavy artillery, there being regular Inter vals between the shots and the shells falling within a restricted area. Enemy aviators who flew high over the city, during the early hours of the bombardment, regulated the fir ing. The subways and tramways be gan running again before noon to day, and in the afternoon, the streets were in a still greater state of ani mation. May Have Two Guns The government has decided that the bombardment of Paris by long distance guns, shall not Interrupt the normul life of the capital, but that the population shall be warned of the bombardment by distinctive means, differing from the usual warning for an air raid. Drums will be beaten 'and the police will sound whistles. The public services, the trains in the subways, the tramways and th<j automobile busses will con tinue to be operated normally. The new warning is to be known as Warning No. 3. It will mean that any formation of crowds in the streets is prohibited, and that all shelters except the subway stations, | will be open. The end of any kind | of a raid will be announced, as be fore, by a special trumpet call and i the ringing of the church bells. It is believed in military circles ■ that the Germans are using two long distance guns against Paris. The "all clear" warning was sounded at 3.30 o'clock, showing that the bombardment was over. German Feat Possible, Hudson Maxim, Great Ordnance Expert, Tells New York, March 25.—"When I first heard the report that Paris was being bombarded from a distance of more than sixty miles and was asked if the thing were possible, I told my interrogator there was a possi bility, and whether or not it were a mere probability or a fact would depend upon the purpose of the Ger mans," said Hudson Maxim in a statement issued yesterday. "I understand that the projectile is virtually of nine-inch caliber. With a nine-inch gun from forty to fifty feet in length and with a max imum elevation of forty-five degrees a projectile may be thrown to a dis tance of more than twenty miles with the ordinary pressures at pres ent employed in the powder chamber of the gun. "Now, if we double the caliber of a gun we quadruple the area of the .base of the projectile. If we were to make a gun of eighteen-inch caliber and shoot a nine-inch pro jectile from that we would have four times the propelling energy on the base of the shell during the entire flight of the projectile through the bore of the gun. "But it would be perfectly possible to employ a gun for such purpose of twenty-inch caliber throwing a sub oaliber projectile of nine inches. Then we would have a good deal more than four times the area upon which the powder gases would push against the projectile. "There is nothing new in this idea 1 of a subcaliber projectile. Subcali- I ber propectiles were used in the old j fifteen-inch Zalinski dynamite gun 1 in order to get greater range. "Two rings were provided one near the forward end of the pro jectile and one near the rear. The rear ring carries a driving band for giving the projecUle rotation, and back of that is a gas check. The gas check is independent, in this case of the driving band. The rear rider ring, or support, for the projectile must necessarily be made very strong to stand a pressure of 35,000 pounds to the square inch. "When the projectile escapes from the gun these rings part comrunv with the projectile and fly off, leav. ing the projectile to proceed by it self. "With a gun of twenty-inch cali ber, made from 80 to 100 feet long, it would be perfectly possible at maximum elevation of 4 5 degrees, to get the range attributed to the Germans." Long Distance Cannon Pictured in Fiction Just as the "land battleships" of fiction have become realitv in the trench-leaping, shell-defying, death dealing British tanks, so the relay gun, the greatest of all guns de scribed by Arthur Train in his story, "The Man Who Rocked the Earth." has been realized, if it is true that the Huns have shelled Paris from a distance of more than seventy miles. Mr. Train s book, published a vear after the war began, tells of the in vention by the Germans of an enor mous artillery piece which is capa ble of firing a projectile fifty to sev venty-five miles. This shell of fiction Is 9 5 centimeters in diameter and is in reality a series of projectiles within a projectile. Rifled like a mortar, this huge shell is timed to explode twenty miles from the gun at the top of its trajectory, hurling forward another projectile contained within it with the added velocity of 3,000 feet per second. This process is repeated sev eral times, the final or core shell, 300 pounds in weight, reaching its destination one minute and thirty five seconds after the discharge of the gun. The gun, nicknamed "Thanates" in Mr. Train's narrat' \ Is automatically reloaded and fired every ten seconds. The gun with which the Germans are said to have shelled Paris, in dispatches received last night, is de scribed as firing a shell 240 milli meters in diameter <25 centimeters, or about inches) from a point in the German line nearest to Paris. General White Minimizes New German Offensive St Louis. March 25.—Minimiz ing the results thus far obtained by the Germans In their offensive on the western front, Brigadier General W. A. White, in charge of the British re cruiting mission in the United States, in an address last night declared r.s his belief that the lines of the en tente powers will stiffen and check the German drive. General White is a veteran of the war and has been invalided home several times. "By mere passing of men and ar tillery." he asserted, "it was com i paratively easy for the Germans to destroy first-line positions, and the withdrawal of the British was to be expected. I can see nothing to en courage the Germans in their be lief that 'a considerable portion of the British army has been beaten." " To Cnrc a Cold In One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets). It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. 10. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 30c.—Advertisement. Gott Gets Half Credit With Kaiser For 'Victory' Amsterdam, March 24.—The German Empress, says a Berlin official dispatch, has received the following telegrAm from Emperor William: "f arn pleased to be able to tell vou that, by the grace of God, the battle by Monchy. Cambral. St. Quentin and La Fere has been won. The Lord has gloriously lided. Slay He further help." Do You Think You Can Break Through, William? HUN ATTACKS ARE REPU LSED BY BITTER FIGHTING IN FRANCE [Continued from First Page.] to their posts and impeded the German advance. The British have made few counterattacks, but every one attempted has been successful. British efforts are centered on withdrawing as occa sion requires and permitting the enemy to wear himself out before the British defense. Reach Old Battle Field Sunday the fighting forces in the north reached the old battle field of the Somme from which the Germans retreated a year ago. Again Bapaume and Peronne are the centers of the most bitter fighting Bapaume is the key position between Arras and Albert and Berlin reports that a "gigantic struggle" is being made for its possession. The capture of Peronne is claimed by the Germans, but heavy fighting is taking place north of it and southward along the Somme river. Between Bapaume and Peronne the Germans have reached the Transloy-Combles-Maurepas line where they are held up by the British. Win 10 Miles of Ground On the southern end of the great battle line where the Germans have reached Chauny, an important point on the Oise river south west of La Fere. Here however, their advance has hot been so great as directly west of St Quentin, where they have progressed more than ten miles. The British and French battle lines meet near Chauny and the French lines along the Chemin-des-Dames and eastward toward Rheims would be menaced if the Germans advanced as far as Compeigne, on the road to Paris. But Com peigne is a good 20 miles southwest of Chauny. Americans Aid British The intensity of the struggle is shown bv the official announce ment that British aviators on Saturday brought down fifty-four enemy machines. The British lost only nine. In addition to car rying out their work in the fighting zone, British airmen again have dropped bombs successfully on Mannheim, Germany. Be,slin claims Franco-American detachments aided the British in the fighting Saturday, but the identity of the American units have not been learned. It is possible American and French troops from the Chemin-des-Dames sector have moved up to the Oise or north of it, but more probable that American engineers with the British army were concerned. Berlin also has announced the capture of Ham, between Peronne and Chauny, and claims that the number of prisoners has increased to 30,000. There has been little except artillery fire activity on the re mainder of the British front and on the French and American sectors. The German artillery fire has been violent along the Chemin-des-Dames, in the Champagne northeast of Verdun and in Alsace. STREWED SHELLS SYSTEM, Si4yS Amsterdam, Sunday, March 2 4. Describing the first day of the bat tle on the western front, the cor respondent of the Vossische Zeitung says the British arUllery was held with "uncanny precision" and its counter efforts became ever fainter and less systematic. "The British strewed their shells without system over the wide zone of attack," he adds. "Our guns, sup ported by cannon and howitzers of our Austrian-Hungarian aliies. had cleared the way for the Infantry. The German storming troops swung over the ramparts punctual to the minute which had been fixed weeks ago and made a great push into the enemy territory on the same giound over which the Von Hindenburg re treat took place a year ago. "The attack westward now went BRITISH DEFENSE . UNGRUDGING ADMIRATION I<oulon, March 25.—The British it is added splendidly sacrificed it in their retreat defended every hill, self in covering the retreat, the bat ridge and fortification with the teries only breaking up when the greatest stubbornness, say messages German storming troops arrived from the German war correspond, within a few hundred yards of the cnts on the western front, according positions. The British gunners then to a Central Nws,.dUpatch from tired ther last ammunition and rc- Amsterdam. The British artillery, tired. forward with the offensive spirit of 1914. Our battalions stormed over the ground and broke the enemy re sistance along the entire line. It is declared unanimously that the Brit ish fought bravely, but their leader ship was not equal to the mighty blow. By evening the British front had been pushed back on the whole broad battlefield. "A thick mist during the morning hours considerably disturbed our operations. Curtains of mist gather ed so thickly that the men serving the field artillery, which advanced immediately behind the infntry, hardly could see'their horses. The batteries had to take their new ob jectives under "fire without direct observation and the infantry labori ously had to win positions and sec tors In the fog and without any methodical artillery preparation." Bombardment of Paris by Long Range Gun Resumed This Morning By Associated Press Paris. March 25. —The long-range bombardment of Paris was resumed at 6.30 o'clock this morning, but was interrupted after the second shot. After a brief interval two more shots were fired. The bombardment again was suspended at 9.10 o'clock. As was the case yesterday, the people did not take to shelter. Cel lars which were filled on Saturday remained empty this morning. Little interest was shown in the bombard ment. Soon after they were awakened by the first shot the people were brought to their windows by the rat tling of drums. Policemen circulated through each quarter of the city, in troducing the new system of alarm, which is distinguished from the alarm in the case of air raids. Work was resumed under normal conditions. All transportation lines were running. The streets were full of people whose sole subject of con versation was the new battle of the Somme, which generally is compared ; with Verdun. Another Verdun Is Seen by Tardieu New York, March 25. There is nothing in the current news from overseas to warrant any disquietude on the part of the American public or ilny of the nations allied against i Germany, in the opinion of Captain j Andre Tardieu, French high com-1 missioner in the United States. Germany's long-distance bom-i bardment of Paris can have no sig \ niflcance from a military viewpoint, j Captain Tardieu asserted. The dam age resulting from this gunfire, he said, evidently had been even less than incidental to an aerial bomb attack. | The British retirement near St. Quentin, on the western front, the high commissioner believed, was a move paralleling that of the French; during the first two days of the bat tle af Verdun. Captain Tardieu advised that i Americans be critics of the war news : and warned against the forming of conclusions until the net result of the new German move was deter mined. Haig Congratulates His Commanders in Field ljondon, March 24.—The following telegram, dated March 21, has been sent to the general officers com manding the third and fifth British army corps: "The field marshal commander in-chief sends his congratulations to the troops of your army on their splendid defense to-day. He relies upon their continued steadfastness and valor to crush this new attack and with it the enemy's last hope of success." Words Fail, So Kaiser Is Forced to Attack Washington, March 25.—The Ger man offensive, says the War Depart ment's weekly communique, proves that the German militarists, no long er able to control the German peo ple by political maneuver, have been forced to attempt a gigantic feat of arms to maintain their dominations. French Line Holding Intact, Says Report Paris, March 25.—A semi-offi j sial note issued yesterday warns the public against pessimistic re ! ports that the Germans have I broken through the front and thus are able to bombard Paris | from close by. "The French front Is intact; any assertion to the contrary is a j lie," the note reads. Wilson Predicts Final Victory For Allied Armies Washington, March 25.—Pres ident Wilson to-day cabled Field Marshal Haig congratulating him on the British stand against the German offensive and predicting a final allied victory. The President's message read: "May I not express to you my warm admiration of the splendid steadfastness and valor with which your troops have with stood the German onset and the Perfect confidence all Americans feel that you will win a secure and final victory. . London, March 25. King George to-day sent the following message to Field Marshal Haig: "I can assure you that the for titude, courage and self-sacrifice with which the troops under your command continue so heroically to resist gi'ently superior numbers are realized by me and my people. The Empire stands calm and con fident in its soldiers. May God bless them and give them srength in this tune ci' trial." * BRITISH FACE ODDS OF 8 TO 1 AT SOME POINTS [Continued from First Page.] against the British line near Kryillers but at the latest reports the onrush lug troops had been unable to force their way through the intense artil lery barrage which the British main tained. A heavy battle also has been pro ceeding to-day on the British .right flank, where the enemy had suc ceeded in forcing liis way across the Sommc and the canal south of Ham. The allies were delivering counter attacks with the purpose of push ing back the invaders across the waterway. British Army Headquarters in ' Franee. Sunday. March 24. The main thrust on the British right flank by the Oerifians Thursday morning was south of St. Quentin and the enemy used a division for every 2,000 yards of the front, there being approximately one. , German ! division against every British bat talion. The purpose of the attack here was to capture Urvillers and Essign.v-le-Grand and thereby ac quire high ground for a further ad- ' vance. It now is possible to give more details of the early stages of this and other Tights. On the extreme right of the Brit ish army the enemy crossed the river Oise at two places. One body of troops came out of La Fere and swung north, while another army crossed at Moy and turned south to form a- junction with the La Fere group. Throughout the day the bat tle raged in the lowlands about the Oise. Hold Until I.ost At Vendeuil, a group of British held out until 4 o'clock Friday af ternoon. A little further north the Germans stormed Urvillers and Es signy. Just west of St. Quentin the I British were forced to fall back but throughout the duy they clung to the Holnon wood, a little northwest of the city. South of St. Quentin a number of strong British redoubts made a gal lant defense and it was nightfall be fore the last of them, with their ma chine gunners, had been reduced. The end of the first day found the British behind the St. Quentin canal. Renew Desperate Fighting morning the enemy re-1 newed his assault with increasing vi-1 gor and after desperate fighting in the region of I,a Fere, succeeded in getting across to the British side. Further north the British also withdrew from the Holnon wood.) The Germans then drove at Ham, which had been cleared of civilians, and Saturday morning, after obtain ing a crossing of the canal, drove southward into the British posi tions. in the other main theater of op erations—between Arras and Ba paume—the Germans made their first drive against the high round; between the Cojel and Sensee rivers. The German preliminary bombard ment was ternftlc and their infantry outnumbered the British eight to one in some cases. ltot B'oint at Mory Early the Germans began attack-1 ing southward into Bullecourt and the British withdrew in a line cover ing Vaulx-Vrancourt, Morchies and Baumet;! Les Cambrai. The hottest and most disputed point was Mory, I which the Germans occupied only I | yesterday. During Friday the (Germans over ran St. Leger, Vaulx-Vrancourt and Henin. <>ne company of machine gunners on Henin hill held up the German advance for a long time, doing deadly execution in the densely formed ranks. The Germans have been bringing up artillery in the most able man ner behind their shock troops and have been making full use of this arm as the advance continued. German Emperor Confers i Honors on Hindenbarg Amsterdam, March 2s>.—Emperor William at German main headquar ters on Sunday, according to an of ficial announcement at Berlin, con ferrerd the ion cross with gold rays on Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, and the grand cross of the Order of the Iron Cross on General Von Ludendorf. The emperor also gave various decorations to departmental chiefs, along with a signed photo graph with the date of the battle, March 21-23. E. St. ELMO I.KM is lIKHK E. St. Elmo Lewis, advertising and pales expert, was a Harrlgburg vis itor to-day. registered at the Senate Hotel. Mr. Lewis is the atuhor of a number of books on business effi ciency and advertising. He is a con tributor to many of the large maga zines. Mr. Lewis was here in con ference with officials of the Elliott- Fisher conyjany. Perfect Health Is Yours If the Blood Is Kept Pure Almost Every Human Ailment Is Directly Traceable to Im purities in the Blood. You cannot overestimate the Im portance of keeping the blood free of impurities. When you realize that the heart is constantly pumping- this vital fluid to all parts of the body, you can easily see that any impurity in the blood will cause serious com* plications. Any slight disorder or impurity that creeps into the blood is a source of danger, for every vital organ of the body depends upon the blood supply to properly perform Its functions. Many painful and dangerous dis eases are the direct result of a bad condition of the blood. Among the HUNS JOIN SLAVS TO ORGANIZE A SIBERIAN ARMY Army Corps of Teutons and' Russians Will Oppose Any Advance Harbin. Monday, March 18.—Rus sian and German soldiers lnl Siberia are organizing an army corps composed of one exclusively Russian division and another which will be two-thirds German and one-third Austrian, according to reports reach ing ofllcial quarters at Irkutsk. Four thousand Cossacks are said to have join>ed 10,000 Germans, the com bined force being expected to go to Irkutsk. L. S. Gray, an American business-* man at Omsk, reports that one thou-i sand prisoners with machine guns, air planes, motorcycles, armored cars and ammunition, have been., concentrated at Tomsk. At Kras noyarsk a passport bureau has been< established and is supplying to Aus-| trian soldiers credentials under Rus-i sian names. Germans are guarding 10.000 rifles in the arsenal at Irk-; utsk. All these movements, accord-' ing to information reaching here, are. parts of a plan to mobilize along thoi frontier and oppose any advance by foreign troops. President Wilson's message to the All-Russii<n Congress at Moscow liaH* been received with enthusiasm in Siberia. There is much speculation) as to whether his remark about tho inability of America to give help re ferred to Siberia. The press as a. whole interprets the message as a guarantee of Russia's integrity against all outsiders. Reports oI Americans in Action on the West Front Not Confirmed Washington, March 25. —German statements that American troops had taken part in the fighting on the British front in France had not been confirmed to-day and officials, including Major General March, chlef-of-staff, declined to comment on the reports. Although a detachment of Amer ican engineers" was caught in the German counterattacks in the Cam hral salient several months ago, of ficers indicated there was nothing here to show that any American troops other than encrineers or spe cial units had been attached to the British forces. . News from the front continued to be the absorbing topic to-day and official Washington, including Presi dent Wilson. anxiously scanned Britisli and German statements. Berlin's announcement that Paris was being bombarded by long range guns was taken here as confirma tion of French reports that rifle shells fell in Paris Saturday and yesterday. The range of the new weapon— seventy-six miles —exceeds even the dreams of ordnance experts here, but considerable satisfaction was taken in the Paris accounts of the bombardment, inferring that little damage resulted. Gains of Germans Only Normal, Says Laazanne Xcw York, March 25. ln the opinion of Stephane Lauzanne, editor of Le Martin, there is no occasion for I concern at the early success of the I Germans in their attack of the last | two days on the British front. H®. 1 said yesterday: j "There is nothing- about it to shako j our confidence in the ability of the | British to resist. The enemy will not be able to break through. These. I first gains of ground and the tak ! ing of thousands of prisoners loolc serious in the headlines of our news papers on the day they appear; but experience has taught us that they are the inevitable results of an offen | sive, whether begun by Germany or iby ourselves. The immediate re | suits of the present are such as were I to be expected." Lieutenant James W. Rice, of the United States Medical Corps, who was incapacitated by shell shock at Ypres while attending British i wounded in the field, said that when I he departed recently from France I the British had reserve trenches fif- I teen miles back of the first lines: j that their morale was excellent and | that there was no reason why Amer ica should feel distressed about the result of the German drive, the Brit ish being quite capable of holding I their reserve positions and of driv i ing the Germans back. More Than a Million Men Were Engaged j Washington, March 25.—Describ ing the great struggle in France, the Havas correspondent says: "The British retired in good order, ceding ground foot by foot, to strong positions prepared months ago. "In the latter stages of the battle ninety-seven German divisions were engaged. 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