NIGHT EXT?* York fewr rp - . 'ho Visits Police~W*W* EXIT* 1 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M v ©K otar-Jn&cpcn&ciit •*' ' LXXXVII- No. 77 14 PAGES BRITISH REGAIN LUCE LINE IN BRILUANT COUNTER MOVE //(/TVS FEVERISHLY ENTRENCH AS PRESSURE GROWS German Assaults Show Signs of Slackening, Both in Numbers and Intensity; South of the Somme River the Tide Has Turned, French Forces Making Substantial Gains; The Teuton Peace Drive a Battle of Nations LONDON, April 1. —The Germans made two attacks on British positions on the west out skirts of Albert last evening and in both cases were repulsed, the war office declares. South of the Somme the enemy persisted in his attempts to advance along the Luce and Avre valleys, but made little progress. The immediate objective of the Germans in their attacks below the Somme undoubtedly is the Paris-Amiens Railway, which runs close to the battleline. They continue to push energet ically against the defending wall which checks them in their drive toward Amiens. Along the northern part of the battlefront there has been much fighing, but nothing in the nature of an extended struggle. London, April I.—An attack yesterday afternoon by means which the Germans managed to penetrate to the v.-ood northeast of Moreuil was pressed by forces which moved forward in clouds from the direction of Vrely and Eouchoir, Renter's correspondent at British head qualters reports. The British artillery concentrated on then but their impetus took them into the wood. Since the extreme southerly part of the British line was slightly pressed back on Saturday evening it has apoarently maintained its new position, the correspondent states. The two attacks delivered west of Albert last evening came at an interval of only a quarter of an hour, at 6.30 and 6.45 o'clock. Though the assaults were launched de terminedly they were beaten back with heavy losses. From the Somme to the Ancre it was comparatively quiet yesterday and last night. Southward there was a good deal of desultory fighting, often of violent, char acter. Counterattacking north of the Luce river, the British succeeded in restoring their line between Auther court and Marcelcave. ' German's great drive into the allied lines in northern France seems virtually at a standstill to-day. ller first great onrush appears to have been stemmed, with large gains of territory scored but with final victory no nearer in sight and her resources in men and material depleted. French and British troops beat back the enemy last night in hi- desperate efforts to advance toward Amiens and to pttsii out from the Montdidicr salient. Slight progress in the drive for Amiens along the Luce and Avre valleys is the only forward movement reported anywhere along the line, despite the incessant Teutonic attacks and at least one point the eneniv was pushed back. The most 'letertnined assault- in this effort seem to have been in the neighborhood of Pangard-Eu-Santerre. where Franco- British troops met the assaulting waves. A British counterattack paved the way for an allied victory after the combined forces had broken up the German attack. The French gallantly followed up the advantage and tiie village was recaptured. The setback for the Germans here was most pronounced, as it'ev were established west of Pangard-een-Santerre and were en deavoring to debouch from this position within a scant ten miles of the outskirts of Amiens. They now have been pushed back well beyond that limit. Battle of Nations The German peace drive toward Amiens, Paris and the channel pons is fast becoming a battle of nations. The conflict opened with British and German soldiers the adversaries. Since then the French and American armies have joined with Field Marshal Kaig's forces while Austrians and Bulgarians are aiding the enemy, Canadian cavalry and Australian infantry has been doing much of tlie lighting during the past two days under the British flag. Over the road to the battlefield in motor trucks and on foot 100,000 American soldiers are moving to join the light against the invaders and to drive him back. The American troops are now tr.der control of General l 'och. the generalissimo, but their destina tion in the lighting area has not been disclosed. They are seasoned troops and are reported as anxious to get into the fight. Unable to Make Gains The most intense fighting is progressing south of the Somme where attempt after attempt is being made by the Germans to break the indomitable Fernch and reach the Paris-Amiens rail way line or Amiens itself. Unable to make gains astride the Somme the enemy has made heavy attacks at other points, but with no success. Monuil, the center of the lighting south of the Somme, i-; reported to have "changed hands four times and "is now held by British, Canadian and French troops. Around .Montdidier, where the battle line curves northward ;!i" French have reclaimed Mavencourt and Moncel. Further cast toward in the direction of Xoyon the Germans have been pressed back anil a rounded salient driven into the enemv lines. It is in this region that the Germans arc now digging iii. German attempts to force a passage of the Oise at C'hauncv was LCuntiniicd on I'MRC 10.] HARRISBURG, FA., MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1918 BRITISH HOLD ENTIRE LINE AS ! GERMANS STORM i Last Twenty-four Hours Con tinued Unfavorable to Ag gression of Germans KING GEORGE AT FRONT Visits Riitisli Headquarters and Enters Zone of Shell Fire By Associated Press British Army Headquarters in I Franco, Sunday, March 31. —The last ' twenty-four hours continued unfav orable to the aggressive Germans 1 along the British section of the new ! battle*front and was a strikingly • good period for the defenders. This ' morning the British were holding their entire line with strength and . they had smashed numerous heavy | German attacks at various points and had taken the initiative at sev eral places successfully. The most intense lighting continu | cd south of the Soinme in the zone [Continued on l'agc 2.] Mail Sack Stolen at Battle Creek Contained Official Correspondence ll.it . and George Huss, Hershey. The [Continued on Page 9.] SOI.DIEHS IN* HARRISBURG Several companies of soldiers: took an "exercise hike." p.s the of-! ficer in charge termed it, in Harris- | burg lust evening during the lay- ■ over of a troop train here. They • marched for a half hour through the!, principal streets and attracted much 1 attention. IT'S 'HALF PAST?, BUT 'PAST WHAT', IS World Is Upside Down For Hi r Man Who Turnrd His Clock i and Didn't Tell Friend Wife Old Sol got tile surprise of liis life this morning—everybody beat| liim to it. The big red robin thatj perches in front of the State Library was furious to see throngs of people] who never appeared so early bustling j into his solitude at an abnormal | hour. The birds really could not : understand it. And the same was true of myriad human being* who con id not resist saying to themselves! that everything was upside-down, j continuing all day to llgure on the hours as they use 1 to be. "Iley, friend, got th' right time?" called ii big husky workman loping down State street with his dinner pail. • It's eiilici live or six, 1 dunno,": DEALERS ACCEPT ORDERS FOR COAL FOR NEXT WINTER Little Fuel in City Now, But! Much Is Expected Dur ing Summer NEW PRICELIST IS MADE' Increased Costs Send l'p Price Per Ton, Retail ers Declare With the supply of coal greatly I limited, city coal dealers to-day be < gan taking: orders for next winter's i coal. By an order of Fuel Adniinis ! trator Garfield, citizens are permitted | to begiu '"lying their fuel supply for the winter on nnU after April 1. Many of the coal dealers report an increase in the number of orders, but very j few of them are prepared to till these j orders. According to reports from several of the city's big: dealers their bins are practically empty of coal but j nevertheless they are booking' orders with the expectation of receiving coal ! from the mines in a short time. No i deiinite time has been set for the i opening of the central coal ordering j olfiee. although some dealers think it will open this week. This matter is in the hands of the county fuel administrator. Prices this year for all grades of coal are higher than asked a year ago although slightly lower than charged a week ago. This recent decrease was ordered by the fuel administrator. By orders from the President in creasing the price of coal from the j operators and levying a tax on fuel ! by increased freight rates and high er wages paid to all kinds of labor, the price of coal was increased heav ily over those of April 1, 191". According to an announcement of the federal administrator every ef fort will be made to supply the peo ple of Pennsylvania and other east- I ern states with fuel during the sum i nier months in order that another fuel shortage such as gripped the country last winter will be eliminat ed. l.ocal dealers are anxiously await ing any order of Mr. Garfield or I State Administrator Potter, which j will increase the number of cars I coming into the city. ! 2,000 CITV I. A IIOIt KitS STKIKI. I liy Associated I'ress I Baltimore. April 1. —A strike of city ' laborers, more than 2.0(H) in number i their leaders said, was begun to-day j to enforce a demand of three dollars per day. The city offered $2.70. GUNMEN AGAIN CLAIM TOLL IN ! N. Y. CLEANUP i "Harry the Yot" Gives Infor-j mation and Pays With Ilis Life F>y Associated Press I Xow York, April 1. --Seven hours j | before the District Attorney's office j was to have been informed by Harry Cohen, also known as "Marry the < Yot," of the name of the "man 1 higher up" in tiie prosecutor's anti- { gambling crusade, Cohen was shot I and killed at G. 30 o'clock this morn- j ins. District Attorney Swann Imrne- I | diately ordered the apprehension of ' Sam Scliepps, who was one of the j prosecution's star witnesses against | Charles Becker, the police lieutenant j who was executed for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, gambler, in 191-'. Cohen it Secret Informer Pending the police search for Schcppa the District Attorney with [Continuctl on Page 6.] shouted back the other. "1 turned on i | our clock an hour yesterday after-! noon, but friend wife gave it another j | turn to make sure. Guess it's about 1 i iiiilf past." "Halt" past what?" implored the) other. "Take yer choice," closed tile i •speeder, wondering if he would be 1 called down for being late or find < : the office empty. Market street was one broad grin: | only one topic, and it was fruitful all | day, for dinner hours cume with! | surprising speed and, say. .1 o'clock, looked very good to the Capitol i employes. Xo one complained and i I every one took the daylight-saving] plan as a personal challenge to brace! ; up and play the game. HUN GOLD DELAYS DRAFI IN SOUTH, OFFICIALS CLAIM Charges That German Money Is Being Used to Encour age Negroes to Evade the Selective Draft Are Made by State Inspector of Exemption Boards; Pastor Preaches Pro-German Sermons and Urges Resistance B.v Associate J Press Jackson, Miss.. April 1. —Charges that German money is being used to encourage Mississippi negroes to! evade the selective draft, are made in a report filed at the Adjutant's General's office to-day by F. K. Ethc ridge, state inspector of local exemp tion boards. The report declares it has been vir tually impossible to get negro reg istrants to respond to the draft and that i". 11. Mason, pastor of a negro church at l.exington. Miss., known as "The Church of.God in Christ." has been preaching pro-German ser- TWO SLASHED TO DEATH IN RAZOR FIGHT AT LYKENS Benjamin Johnson, Alleged to Have Been Gambling, Gives Up Self l.ykPns, Pa., April I.—Benjamin Johnson, better known as "Preach er," a negro living in Polish Row. Wiconisco township, cut the throats and fatally wounded two brothers as the result of a dispute over a game of "crap" on Saturday night. The men are all negroes and were em | ployed at the Summit Branch Col ' liery of the Susquehanna Coal Com- I pany here. They had returned home at 11 o'clock. Saturday being pay I day at the mines, they entered into a game of crap, which lasted well in ; to the early hours of Easter morn ing. About 2.30 o'clock an argument arose between the three whereby ' "Preacher" Johnson was accused of [Continued on Page It.] White Star Liner Celtic is Tproedoed; No Passengers Aboard New York, April. I.—The steam ship Celtic., one of the big Whit 1 Star liners, was attacked and tor pedoed by a German submarine during a voyage frciin England to America, according to reliable in formation received here to-day in marin circles. Efforts are being made to save the vessel, which it is believed, car ried no passengers. The Celtic had a gross tonnage of 20,904 and has for many years been one of the largest steamships in trans-Atlantic service. She was built at Belfast in 1901 and flies the British flag. Washington, April I.—lf there were any American soldiers at all on the Celtic, it was said here to-day they were very few in number and carried as "casuals" returning home. It was stated there were no sick or wounded on board. 35,000 Affected by New "Dry" Zone Near City of Baltimore /?/; . Issociated Press Haliimnre, April I.—l Ugiiiand to wn and Canton, suburbs, with a combin ed population of 35,000. adjoining" the '■astern limit* of lialtimore city, have been placed in a "dry zone" by order oi the War Department, it was an nounced to-day. These places lie; within a radius of five miles of a quartermaster's repair shop unit. A number cf pleasure resorts along the risers in the neighborhood are also affected by the order. Kansas City Bakeries • Close in Sympathy Strike By Associated Press KIIIIMIIN City. April 1. —With virtual- ; ly every bakery closed to-day as u result of the union bakers partici- j nation in the sympathy strike which iias been in effect here for severali days, the Inconvenience of doing; with out bread was added to the list of! closed barber shops, laundried, res taurants and uncertain transports, j tion service. Guarded street cars continued to I run ou some lines to-day, , mons and advising negroes to le gist the draft. State draft officers to-day declared that from reports at hand the move ment of drafted men to Camps l_.ee | and Meade was under way satisfac- j torily. Over "50 men started to-day j to Camp Bee and, to-morrow 1,51:0 i will start for Camp Meade, fromj eastern and central counties, and 1,-j 240 to Bee. The I-.ee movement will! continue Friday, tinue until Friday. State officers said they knew of; no trouble among drafted men siioh as had been reported from other I states which could be traced to Ger man influences. GERMANY HAS STAKED ALL ON I SPRING DRIVE Will Force Decision or Ac cept Defeat, Is View of War Department • Washington, April I.—Germany has staked its fortunes on the spring | campaign the War Depart- j ment's weekly review of the military j situation to-day and the allies and j the United States must be prepared I for fresh attacks at new points if the Teutons fail to achieve victory in the present fighting. "As the German higher command," continues the statement, "appar ently is determined to force a. deci sion or prove to its own satisfaction that it is unable to do so. we must be prepared, in case of his failure to obtain major results in the pres ent theater of operations, that he will attempt further offensive as saults in adjacent areas. "But despite the successes gained by the Germans," says the review, "the enemy has been unable to force a decision and so long as the allies | are able to maneuver with the con- j sistent unity and fleribility which i they have shown during the engage-; ments of the past week so long will i victory elude the enemy." The placing of American resources unreservedly at llie disposal of thej allies is noted and the statement] announces that "such of our troops j as have received sufficient training i will assume a share of the burden now so valicntly borne by the French and British armies." The review also mentions that American troops are taking their place in otner -parts of the line, thus! relieving veteran French units for! emergency service. Strike at Norfolk Navy Yard Spreads Rapidly to Other Skilled Workmen By Associated Press \orfolk, Va„ April 1. • A strike of union carpenters employed on Gov ernment construction work at the Army and Navy base here, called this morning, spread this afternoon to the navy yard at Portsmouth oiul the aviation field at Hampton. Most of the carpenters employed by the Gov ernment in the entire vicinity are out. Other classes of skilled labor also began to walk out. At the Bush liluff Army base, 500 carpenters and the entire force of electricians, plumb ers and sheet metal workers quit work. All carpenters working for contractors at the Portsmouth Navy Yard went out. THE WEATHER] For llnrrlslmrK anil vicinityi I-'nlr ! to-nlttht; lowfut temperature, no licureeiij Tuesday colder, . probably rain. 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