rces fake P lers and Severe hn Serior. Between the Avre and^KeW^^r^L HARRISBURG OS&fil ' TELEGRAPH ®l)t Star-2nfccpcnscnt <** ' LXXXVII— No. /S 16 PAGES GROUND RECLAIMED BY ALLIES BETWEEN SOMME.AND DEMUIN; GERMAN ATTACKS ARE BEATEN ARMIES OF ALLIES ARE PREPARED TO COUNTER HUN BLOW Infantry Operations Have Died Down; Teuton Artillery Fire Becomes Weak; General Foch Prepares to Re ceive Another Enemy Blow; Preparations Are Prob ably Under Way For a Counter Offensive BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, April 2.—British stormed strongly held German positions in a wood along the Luce river yesterday. When the enemy withdrew after sharp fighting he left the ground strewn with his dead. The Germans shelled the wood heavily after it was occupied by the British and organ ized two counterattacks for the purpose of retak ing it. Both were caught in the British artillery barrage and broken. Infantry operations on a large scale on tlic Picardv battlefield have died down while both sides prepare for the next move in the yrcat conflict. \ icions local lighting has occurred between Albert and Montdidicr, but the Germans have been checked in all attempts to advance toward Amiens, while the Franco British troops have made small gains between the Somnic and Denutin. Large Artillery Preparations Necessary In the days of desperate and sanguinary fighting since thev Lunched their attack on the line before Cambrai, St. Qucntin and La Fere, the German command apparently has learned that massed infantry attacks without great artillery preparations arc fruitless and most costly. The German artillery fire is reported to be weak, indicating that the enemy has not yet been able to move the big guns across the barren region between St. Qucntin and Albert. Seventy-seven German divisions arc on the battle line waiting for the guns before attempting another gigantic effort to reach ,V\micns. North of the Somnic there arc 40 divisions and 37 are on the line between the Somm cand Chancy. And it is known that the Germans guns have not all been moved forward. Counter Offensive Probable -Meanwhile the allied armies under General Foch arc making ready not only to counter another German blow, which the enemy must make or concede defeat, but probablv also for a counter offensive. American troops not unlikely will participate in the approaching renewal of heavy lighting along most of the line as more than tOO.OOO arc moving toward the battle lines. Some unseasoned American units will be placed side by side with hardened British and French veterans, according to a decision announced in London. The Germans arc reported to be massing troops before Albert where their attacks were beaten back by the British Monday. The British command looks for heavy German efforts north of the Soinme where it is believed the enemy has most of his fighting force, but where there has been no marked activity since the pulse at Arras Thursday. Allies Reclaim Ground Kxcept for the activit yat Albert the fighting has been confined to the line between the Somme and Montdidicr. The allied troops [Continued on Page 12.] ARTILLERY FIGHTING ALONG SOMME HEAVY, SAYS FRENCH STATEMENT Hy Associated rress I'arU. April J.—French and British troops advanced last night between the Homme ami Deinuin. it is an nounced officially. Over most of the front between the Homme and the t>ie the night was relatively calm. Heavy artillery lighting occurred at lit* points. The statement nays: The night was relatively calm on the front between the Olse and the GERMAN ATTACK IS REPULSED AS BRITONS CAPTURE GUNS AND MEN By Associated Press tl.ootfoa. April i.—ln the sector be tween the Avre and laice rivers yes terday the British took tlfty prison ers. the War Office announces. Thlr ten machine guns were captured Near llrbuterne the British made a successful attack, capturing ma hme guns and prisoners. A Uerman counterattack was repulsed. The statement follows: • In the course of the lighting yes terdav In the area between (he Avre snu the l.uce rivers we captured fifty prisoners and thirteen machine guns. A large number of Uerman dead were round on the ground In this lo cality by us. and two counterattacks Pontine. The artillery fighting be came rather heavy along some parts ot' the battlefield. "Franco-British troops made some progress during tlie night between the Somrac and Demuln. In the region of the Colonne trench and at Dan-de-Mapt the French made two successful raids and took prisoners: at Chambrettea a German attack on small French pests was repulsed.'" attempted by the enemy later in the day were broken up with heavy loss by our artillery. A German battery in action in this area was success fully engaged at short rango and silenced by our machine guns. 'A successful local enterprise car ried out by us in the neighborhood of Hebuterne resulted in the capture of seventy-three prisoners and three n achlne guns. .Many Germans were k'lled In this operation also and a hi stile counterattack during the aft ernoon was completely repulsed. "On the remainder of the front successful raids. In which we secured several prisoners and killed a num ber ot the enemy, were carried out. SIVGI.K COPY, li CEJiTS A Little Problem in Mental Arithmetic MORE POLES TO COME DOWN AS WIRES ARE LAID City Electrician Has Force of Men at Work on Cable System With the laying of a cable from police headquarters to Court and Lib erty streets the entire police and fire alarm telegraph systems running ncrth in Court street will be placed i ndcrground and more than twenty poles removed, among them several at the corner of AValnut and Court streets. City Electrician Clark E. Diehl put a force of men to work yesterday stretching the cable through con duits. The materials for the work were ordered several months ago, but Government priority orders for cabin lor the cantonment camps necessi tated a delay in filling the order for Harrisburg. The underground sys tem will be complete in a few days and connections mad'' from it to-the various alarm boxes attached to the Ccurt stree'. circuits. As soon as this Is done the overhead wires will be removed and the poles taken down. Another big improvement which is expected to be completed this sum mer in the removal of the tall poles of the American Telephone and Tele graph Company in Walnut street. These are used for scores of long distance lines, which are to be placed underground. Materials for the change will reach the city in a few ii.cnlhs, it was said to-day. Paris Again Raided by German Airmen By Associated Press I'arls, April 2.—An air raid warn ing was sounded at 3.13 o'tlock this morning. Anti-aircraft guns began to fire Immediately and a continuous curtain of fire was placed around the capital. At 4.25 It was announced all Ci-tigcr was over. The night was calm and the moon gleamed fitfully through the light and fleecy clouds, amid which glided the twinkling lights of the French airplane!: defending *'aris. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1918 Amiens Won't Fall, Says General Foch l.ondon, April 2.—General /Foch-. the new allied commander in-chief, has stated that Amiens is covered and that he Is prepared to guarantee it. This has . come as a strong tonic, because the British public appreciated fully the serious consequences which "would follow its loss. The appointment of Foch as generalissimo te now accepted in quarters formerly violently op posed to any step toward placing the British Army under a French comnmder-in-chlef. ■V J COMMUNITY SONG TO BE FEATURE OF FREUND MEETINGS Revised Programs For Meet ings to Which Public Is Urgently Invited No tickets. No admission. Everybody invited. That's the way the committee in charge of the big meetings to be held in Harrisburg in connection with the visit of Dr. Freund, the noted musical writer and speaker, who comes to Harrisburg to-morrow for three days' stay, announced the programs for the gatherings in the hall of the llouse of Representatives on Capitol Hill and in Chestnut street auditorium. Dr. Freund, president of the [Continued oil I'ngc B.] Premier Clemenceau Has Narrow Escape When Huns Shell Automobile I'nrlx, April 2.—Premier Clemen ceau, while making his daily'visit to the front yesterday, ventured so near the Hrst line that his automobile was shelled vigorously by the German ar-~ tillory. All the windows were broken, but M. Clemenceau was not hurt. Tne Premier .returned to Paris en thusiastic and full of confidence in ilia favorable issue of the present battle. „• VOTERS MAY PASS ONLOANFOR NEW CITY HOSPITAL Council Sees Need of a Gen eral Contagious Disease Hospital Commissioner Samuel F. llassler reported to the other members of City Council to-day that the state ments of ill-treatment of patients at the sanitary hospital where small pox victims are kept, were exagger ated. He said one of the boilers used in connection with the sanitary plant is out of order but that repairs would be made as soon as possible, I [Continued on Page o.] Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert's Sister in Paris Hotel Wrecked by Bombs Word has been received here that Miss Helen Cameron, of Petersburg, Va., a sister of Airs. Lyman D. Gil bert, 203 North Front street, was In a hotel in Paris recently when a German bomb destroyed the front pillars of the building. Miss Camer on was not injured. Colonel M. C. Kennedy, president of the Cumber land \ alley Kailroad Company, who Is in an official position in France now In the railroad service, rushed from his office to the hotel to in quire about Miss Cameron when he 1 eard of the air raid. Miss Cameron is widely known in Harrisburg. be ing a frequent' visitor at the home of her sister. She is engaged in war wi rk in France. Carlisle Castle Is Sunk by Submarine By Associated Press Boton, April 2. Sinking of the British steamer Carlisle Castle, pre sumably by a German submarine while on a voyage from this country for a foreign port was reported In shipping circles here to-dav. Boston exporters notified marine underwrit ers they had been advised of the loss of the vessel, but had no Information regarding the fate of the crew. The ship was under charter to the l Canard liae iuid cwle.4 war supplier GERMAN PLAN TO GAIN IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES FAILS Main Result of Fighting Is to j Swell Great Total of Casualties LOSSES ARE ENORMOUS Avalanche of Steel Unloosed on Hordes Advancing in Close Array By dssccialcd Press j British Army lleadquurtcrs in ! France (Monday), April I.—The German attack along; the Scarpe river on March 28 had as its objec tive the city of Arras and the for midable Viniy Uidg'e. Careful plans I were laid to carry out this ambition and the attack was supported by a heavy assault south and southwest |of Arras, units of at least eleven j German divisions being employed ! here. it may be seen, therefore, that the German plans were far-reach ing, but the main result achieved was to swell the already great total of their casualties. At' about 3 o'clock on the morning of the twenty-eighth, German ar tillery of all calibers opened a ter rific bombardment against the Brit ish positions. It was obvious the enemy intended to attack and at (j.40 o'clock the British gunners un loosed an avalanche of steel against every known place of assembly the Germans njlght be using. In Full Marcliinx Orilcr Shortly after 7 o'clock the enemy advanced, lie came forward slowly and deliberately in full marching order. Each infantryman carried rations for six days, two blankets and an extra pair of boots, indicat ing the attack was in deadly ear nest. The company commanders were mounted and the infantry was followed closely by the artillery. On the extreme north the storm center lay between Gavell and. Oppy, the Germans pivoting on Oppy. The Germans lost terribly in the heavy lighting, which lasted all day, during which the British fell back to a line between Bailleul and Willerval. The German attacks against these po sitions were futile. Elsewhere north of the river the British stood their ground and pushed forward slightly Friday and Saturday. South of the Scarpe the Germans were held up for a time by a divi sion which had been engaged against them for the previous week. After the first day the division retired somewhat and later was compelled to fall back "behind Ncuville-Vitasse on account of pressure to the south. Engineer Run Down and Killed in Pennsy Yards I Charles A. Martz, aged 3D years, SOT Emerald street, engineer in the local yards of the Pennsylvania rail- J road, was struck by an engine and instantly killed early this morning, llis body was found along the tracks between Maclay street and Reel's lane towers shortly after 5 o'clock this morning. Engineer Martz quit work shortly after 11 o'clock. lie started for home shortly before midnight and in or der to reach Macl&y street was ohiigea to cross a network of tracks, j'There was only one freight engine icoving over the tracks where the | body was found. He had a large j hole in the side of the head and his skull was fractured. His wife, Mrs. Maude Mart*, sur l vlves. Mr. Martz had been in the company's service about eighteen | years. He was a member of the | Brotherhood of. Kailroad Trainmen I i nd Pennsylvania Kailroad Relief De- I partment. Funeral services will be held at his late home at 507 Emerald ! street Friday aftel-noon at 2 o'clock. I THE WEATHER, J j I l'°or llurrlsbiiric nnd vicinity: Oen ernlly fnlr to-night nnil Wed nesday! ill in'll cooler Wednes day; lowest temperature lo nlKlit, iiliout 4.1 degree*. I For Eastern Pennnylvunltii <.on i ernlly fair to-nl|cht nnd Wednes days much cooler Wednesday: moderate, nest to northwest winds. General Conditions There hnn been n Kenernl' fall of 2 to IK degrees In temperature over the western hnlf of the country In til* Inst twenty-four hours, while enst of the Mis sissippi river n general rise of 3 to 10 decrees has oeeiirreil, i except In Western w York, I where It Is somewhat eooler. Temperature: 8 a. m., AS. Muni ltlses, st4'J a. m.t sets, oi|B I p. in. Moon i New moon, April 10, 11i34 p. m. Itlver stngc: 4.0 feet- above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 411. i l.owest temperature. 411. Mean temperature, an. normal u OXI.Y EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPEIt IX II All HI SB Lit U CITY SENDS ITS FIRST QUOTA TO NATIONAL ARMY Mothers, Sweethearts and Friends Cheer Contingent j on Way to Camp Meade GIVEN QUIET FAREWELL Local Men Have Special Train and Kitchen Car For Comfort A calm determination to acquit themselves honorably and return with well-earned laurels, marked the attitude of the first draft quota to be sent by Harrisburg into the Na tion"! Army. The departure of the men was witnessed by hundreds of j friends and relatives at the station, i who furnished numerous scenes of the hardship of departure, and the j trials which must be borne by those j who "remain and wait." j Forty-eight youths from Dauphin county entrained for Camp Meade lat noon to-day. The men were taken I on a special train to the camp, where | they will be sworn into federal service. Harrisburg will then have its lirst official draft quota in the great National Army. Twenty-two of the men were fur [ Continued on Pago o.] 5,000,000 Bottles of 'Pop' to Be Sent to France By Associated Press Now York, April 2.—Five million bottles of "pop" will be sent over seas this month to the American j soldiers in France, it was announced | here to-day by the Young Men's I Christian Association. The soda ( water will lie part of n shipment i which will include ten million sheets of note paper and five million en j velopes, two million pounds each of I sugar and Hour purchased through {"Federal Food Administrator Hoover. I two million live hundred thousand packages of chewing gum. two hun dred moving picture machines, one I hundred talking machines, two ! thousand five hundred records and coffee. crackers, condensed milk, shaving sticks and tooth paste. A< - ■ ■ • a^i T M-YSTL'RIOUS- EPIDEMIC AFFECTS EMPLOY® j p Detroit —Officials of the Ford Motor Company t £,l S f"n:c a :<"poit. that mqre than n . jt J 4< been affected daily by a mysterious epidemic resembling 4|j| j£ has been prevalent'in the plant. J T 4* * ar >|i 4 BALTIMORE CITY LABORER STRi KE 41 *v* -e was named to met t. J 1 c;:tcrecs tc work ov> differences on the agruu: arc ... 4jj '| propru' i bill t'. : c v r.iet point at issue b< ~i tfr' '-\ <•! Jjp tfsion increasing the.wheat price, 3|fil i • 2 4* L —— X J MARRIAGE LICENSES . rry *. shooi.. I'roiirc** n. H | Allrp Hirrixbnrci *f* rr* l.orruxu l. Iliirhrr. Hi.rrUhiirn, nn perished. No lurid descriptions, no nightmare fustian; Just the simple j narrative of an American lad of 24 who enlisted in the United States 1 [Continued on Page o.] 5 Pro-German Physician i Is Ducked in Canal and Others Receive Warning By Associated Press l.n Snllo, Ills., April 2. Pro-Ger manism was silenced here last night, when a crowd of 400 citizens duelled I Or. .1. O. Biennenian, a physician, in :a canal, and ordered him out of town. Biennenian. after his involuntary cleansing, was made the center of a battery of automobile headlights in the downtown section and forced to i kneel and kiss the flag. The crowd then daubed the stores of Regas Brothers and Henry Mueller with yellow paint. The proprietors , of the former, a confectionery store, ' agreed to close up. Mueller, who is a • watchmaker, was warned "to watch his tongue." ,