Russiam Unable to Keep German Ships From Hango Harbor; Slavs Seek Locatv 4 5 leet Tel HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ®K otar-3n&cpcn&ciit ' LXXXVII— No. SI 24 PAGES FRENCH DEFEA T GERMANS IN MOST DESPERATE EFFORT TO BREAK THROUGH DEFENSES TEUTONS DRIVEN BACK IN ALLNIGHT French Lines Hold Below Amiens;. Germans Defeated With Awful Losses in Struggle to Cut Off Communi cations; British Maintain Steadfast Defense; Armies Fight With Constantly Changing Fortunes Paris, April s.—German forces continued their attacks during the night says the official statement issued to-day by th? war office. Despite the superiority of the German effectives which, thp statement says, were spe.it reck lessly, the Teutons were unable to reach their objective which was the railway from Amiens to Clermont. The French regiments, by their resistance and counterattacks, maintained the line in its entirety, the war office announced- The French troops conquered the greater part of Epi nette wood, north of the town of Orvillers-Sorel. All German efforts to dislodge the Frenchmen were in vain. The French captured St. Aignan farm, south east of Grivesnes. and held it against all assaults. In the north the French withdrew their positions to the west of Castel. They threw back the Germans from Arriere Cour wood west of Mailly Rameval. The French lines have held below Amiens and the Germans have been defeated with great losses in what probably constituted tiielr most desperate effort yet to break in and cut off the com munications of this important base from the south. Similarly, to the cast of Amiens, the British have maintained their steadfast defense and prevented the Germans from making any important headway here. Battle Along Wide Front This battle which raged yesterday and virtually all last night was fought along a line of approximately thirty miles south of the Somme. To-day, according to unofficial dispatches the Germans switched their attack to the north of the river and engaged the British along a front of some 17 miles but again were unable to make any progress except a slight advance near the river. In the great battle to the south of the Somme the contending armies fought with fluctuating fortunes, the French giving some ground in the northerly sector of their battle area, but closing the engagement with their line not only standing where it was along its southerly course but even advanced in one or two sectors where the Germans had been violently thrown back. German Effort Nearly Futile As a whole the entente line may be considered as the French official statements puts it. maintained its entirety. So far as the German objective south of Amiens, the railway line to Cler mont, is concerned the stupendous German effort resulted merely in the projection of the fighting front a distance of probablv not more than 2.000 yards nearer to it opposite Castel. where the map shows the enemy still nearly three miles away. German Advantage Small The British fought yesterday and last night chiefly on slieir southern front between the Luce and the Somme where the battlefront was a continuous one, linking up with the operation against the French. Here the British were pressed back out of a small salient that had projected in the neighborhood of War l'usee-Abancourt, just to the north of Marcelcavc and almost directly on a line east of Amiens. This was the only advantage the Germans were able to gain in the whole sector after hours of very constant attacking in heavy force. I lie British recession was slight and the line they now main tain runs cast of Yillers-Bretonnaux, some 10 1-2 miles frum the center of Amiens and about nine miles from its outskirts. French Repel Counterattacks Un that part of the battlefront running eastward from Mont didier the Trench gave no ground, but on the contrarv drove in [Contained on Page. 11.] AMERICAN TROOPS AT DISPOSAL OF GEN. FOCH ARE SEASONED VETERANS By Associated Press l.ondon, April s.—The recent visit' of Newton D. Baker, the American; Secretary of War, the Daily Mail] says, was an historic one and trlil leave a lasting impression on Anglo-1 Franco American relations, as It' was then decided that American reg<- I ments should bo brigaded with Brit ish and French troops on the west-! ern front. Premier TJoyd George, It yays, hc- j quainted Secretary Baker with the situation and expressed the :!vely desire of the British government for, the immediate employment of the; American fighting forces; Secretary Baker was much impressed and went' to France the next day and saw, General Pershing. | "The American commander in chief," adds the Daily Mail, "in that spirit of soldierly generosity and sportsmanship which characterized j him in his subsequent pronounce ment to General Foch assented un -1 hesitatingly. "To General Pershing belongs the credit for the prompt adoption of the scheme now in effect. In conclusion the Daily Mail says: j , "It only remains to be said the American troops at the disposal of j Gencrsil Foch are seasoned vttqr ; ans of the regular United States , Army. They are troops of the same hardy fiber as the Immortal Uritish j first hundred thousand." SI.VUI.K COPY. 2 CUNTS "Outwitting the Hun" WHY "PAT" O'BRIEN IS IN THE UNIFORM OF ENGLAND Beginning Tomorrow Lieutenant O'Brien Will Tell His Own Story Daily in the Telegraph But on the cuff of his right sleeve there is a tiny flag: that bears the Stars and Stripes. And though he doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve, it's with that tiny flag! He's proud he is Irish, is Pat O'Brien. I won der myself who. but a happy-go-lucky Irishman could have gone tumbling out of the clouds, tobogganing eight thousand feet—(from Seventy- Second Street to Times Square; Manhattan meas urement!) wake up in a German prison hospital with a few "friendly" souls probing his throat for a neat little made-in-llunland bullet, and be here to teil about it' But when they called him Trlsh- American on the praters advertising his lecture, what did Pat do but make them erase Krin's title to him. Whv* "I'm American, thert can't he anv hvphen* now," says Pat simply. Vet when his leave is up he is going back to fly for Kngland. Again we chorus exclamation points and question marks And here is TatV wh-- and wherefore: A Bit Shaken I'p ou know a tumble iilse mine shakes vou up a bit. The doctors say that when I get back mv lost fifty pounds, the straying organs will roam back where they belong But in the meantime we have a prettv rigid physical examination for fljing folks to pass here in America. So I'll stay where I'm 'in' already and don't have to prove my rights to get in! "After my second 'dive.' this one through the window of a train carrying nie into Germany's heart < and my hide-and-go-seek escape through Holland. I finally got back to England met the King and incidentl.v the news that I was a 'Hero' and had a few months - leave pre sented to me. And I 1 ad to face the fact that I'd never have leave to fly again in France. "Von see to send an escaped prisoner back to fight the German-? is just to give Germany a little target. She knows them when she sees them—and she shoots them when she gets them. When my leave is ovti they'll send me to Egypt BIG STOCK OF WHEAT LOST AS OLD MILL BURNS Arson Suspected in Blaze at Historic Point Along the Yellow Breeches Fire which started at 5 o'clock this morning completely destroyed the historic Olmsted mill, situated along the Yellow Breeches creek, near Kberly's Mill. Only the stone walls of the building were standing at 10 o'clock this morning when the tire was finally under control. Fifteen thousand dollars' worth of grain was destroyed by the (ire. That which the lire did not reach was [Continued on Page. 11.) Governors Soon to Get Orders For Mobilizing of Second Draft Men Washington. April s.—Orders for the mobilization of the lirst large number of men of the second draft will go out to the Governors of the states very soon. Fifteen thousand men of the second draft are now mobilizing, and the April call about to go out will represent probably ) more than the month's proportion of ' the 800,000 men who it previously I has been announced will be called ! during the remaining nine rninths of the year. To call the 800,000 in equal monthly increments would mobilize them at about a rate of 90,0,08 a month. However, there is no assur lance this will be a fixed figure. The ' flow of men will be determined by jthe needs of the Army in France. As General Pershing may call for 'specially qualified troops, an average l of 90,000 a month may be much exceeded or much decreased. It has been announced the men ' will be drawn as gradually and in 'as small numbers as possible so aa ! not to dislocate industry and, par- I ticularly, agriculture. So far as pos •sible this plan will be followed. The immediate need of increasing | the American forces In France, liow ' ever, to' meet the German drive in !the west, is likely to result in calling the men faster than first supposed, i l-'or that reason the April quota j undoubtedly will exceed its normal average. In fact, if the need is press, ing, the entire 800,000 might bo 'called in much less than the nine months originally planned. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1918 Across the broad shoulders there is a bar that reads "England." On his feet there are good looking brown shoes that they gave him in Holland when he ar rived, unshod, ,unshorn and pretty much un everything—as any re cent "guest" of the Huns would be! Tbere is a light in his Mue gray eyes that says "Ireland." THIRD LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE IS NOW UNDER WAY Preliminaries to a Thorough Canvass of City Are Completed First SIO,OOO Gained in Liberty Loan Drive When the Xew York Life In surance Company to-day notified Mayor Daniel L Keister that it had allotted SIO,OOO toward the llarrisburg Liberty Bond sales, tlie first large subscription for this city was recorded. Hamsburg representatives of foreign firms doing business in this city are urged to call to the attention of their houses the ac tion of New York Life. Mayor paniel L. Keister's efforts to secure for llarrisburg this city's rightful share of the Liberty Bond 1 subscriptions made by the firms from] New York, Philadelphia and Chicago which do business in llarrisburg are meeting with success. One of the first replies to letters sent out by the Mayor was that of the New York Life Insurance Company, which in formed Mayor Keister that it was [Continued on Page. 11.] School Teacher Flags Train With Coat; Averts Wreck of Troop Train By Associated Press Toledo, Ohio, April 5. —Discover- ing a tie spiked across the Baltimore and Ohio track, ten miles south of Toledo, near Perrysvllle, last even ing, Grace Doyle, 20, a country schoolteacher at Roachtown, ran down the track, removed her coat and with it flagged a train, approach ing rapidly. It was a freight, followed closely by a heavy troop truin. It took the freight crew twenty-five minutes to remove the obstruction. Federal authorities have been noti fied. to buzz around over a few Turkish heads. _ There's a place for me yet in the old Squadron." "You want to fly again?" I asked, thinking that one such tumble from the clouds as Pat had had would satisfy most people to leave further aviation to swallows and eagles. The grey-blue eyes looked at me searohingly— almost reproachfully. "Why not? The \Vorld needs men. The men who don't feel tt their duty to go don't seem real to me—they just glide by like a panorama, a picture, not a part of life at all! I must po back to help. I know it's the right thing for me to do—and I have to do what I think is right no matter how anyone else feels about it It is right for me to fly again." How Pat Look.® I can visualize Pat O'Brien strapped into the aeroplane bird-body that matches the ardent young soul of him. His hair blazes up with an almost audible crackle. A black crest upsweep ing from a tan forehead; below it, gray-blue eyes, wide apart, under sturdy brows that some woman will sooner or later waste a lot of time on trying to brush smooth. A purposeful, inquiring slim nose, whose general outline carries a bit of justification for his bird-lilcc propensities But it is a very good nose and I'm not calling It a beak! A sensitive, thin-lipped mouth under a little red-brown moustache that camouflages the scar of the bullet that felled him. And then six feet-two of slim boy-man-bird extending down to earth! That's how Pat looks —super-dreadnaught in the upper part of his f<ice and pleasure yacht from the lips down! Man and fighter; friend and lover. And this is how Pat is—English as to uniform, Irish as to smile, but so honestly American as to heart that our Allies 'will know they have n bit of the spirit of "All-America" when they wel come him back. I have heard rumors—of course I can't believe them—that some of our boys are seeking exemp tion on physical grounds. But this is the first time 1 have discovered a lad seeking exemption from his "physical grounds"! Pat O'Brien might nor get by the medical board and in*-> the Amer ican Aviation Service—and that ,s why ho wears the uniform of good old England. Tommy Atkins His Pal Ho was dreaming hlr-jelf bnciv into the days of his old Squadron of the R. F. C. on the day I met him and looking • forward to the eight o'clock train to Toronto which he gallantly as sured me was the only thing that need punctuate [Continued on Page ".] RUSSIANS SINK SHIPS TO AVOID CAPTURE BY HUNS Slav Fleet Unable to Keep Germans From Mango Harbor By Associated P: ess PetrogTail, Thursday, April 4. The German warships and several torpedo boats have lauded troops in Finland and occupied the town of Eknes, southwest of Helsingfors. Several Russian warships, including four submarines, were powerless to prevent the entry of the Germans into the harbor of Hango and the sailors sunk three of the ships in the harbor to prevent their capture. The commander of the Baltic fleet has sent a communication to the German commander concerning the German aims and protesting against the entry of German warships as a violation of the Brest-Lltovsk peace treaty which guaranteed the secur ity of the Russian fleet. The arrival of the German fleet off the Finnish coast threatens safety of the Russian fleet at Helsingfors which, for lack of an icebreaker, [Continued oil Page 2.] City Completes Repairs at Water Pumping Station Repairs to the two old pumping engines at the city pumping station which were used continually from November until late in February be cause of a break in the 12,000,000 gallon pump, have been started. Commissioner Samuel F. Hassler said to-day. The work on the pumps will be completed in about three weeks. Because of slight trouble with the mechanism of the electrical pump a number of readjustments are being made. At present it is not neces sary to use this unit it was explained, as the big steam nump is keeping the water level in the reservoir above twenty-four feet. The trench which was dug to place the sixteen-inch line connecting the electrical pump with the big serv ice main running south In Front street has oeen closed. The Park Department has completed the cleanup of the dirt which was not tilled into the trench again. oxi.Y EVKMXU ASSOCI ATISI> IMIUSS XKW SPAPKH IX II AIIIIISIIIItG ANGRY MINERS LYNCH GERMAN IN ILLINOIS Following Address on Social ism Alien Is Taken From Police MADE SLIGHTING REMARK Compelled to Walk Streets in Bare Feet, Waving an American Flag By AsscciatcJ Press ColllnsviUc, 111., April 5. —Kneel- j ing with his arms crossed, Robert P. i Prager, who was lynched by a mob | last night at midnight for alleged disloyal utterances, prayed in Ger jman for three minutes before he was istrung up, according to statements to-day by members of the lynching party. Prager was a coal miner and yes terday at Maryville, 111., in an ad dress to the miners on Socialism, is said to have made remarks deroga >ry to President Wilson. Miners •re became angry and when they eatened to do him bodily harm V, i escaped to Collinsville, his home. ! Some of the miners, however, fol lowed him, collected a crowd, took j Prager from his home and led him I barefoot through the street waving an American flag. ; The police, fearing violence, took ; Prager from the crowd and placed j him in the city jail. Later a large ; mob gathered in front of the City ; Hall and .demanded the man. Mayor J. H. Siegcl counseled calmness, but the police force of four was over powered and Prager was found hid i ing in the basement of the hall. He was dragged at the end of a j rope -beyond the city limits. As the mob prepared to hang him to the limb of a tree he was asked if he I had anything to say. His answer I was to drop to his knees and, with arms crossed, to pray in German for three minutes. AVithout another word he was pulled into the air. The mob then dispersed. The police said Prager, while in ! their custody, had stated he was a registered enemy alien, that he was born in Germany but that he had taken out his first naturalization pa pers and hnd hoped to become an American citizen. Collinsville is twelve miles east of St. Louis. Wrote lo' Parents Before the rope was placed about | his neck Prager wrote the following (note in German: 'Dear Parents Carl Henry [■Continued on Page 22.] i ~~j OUR CITY SCHOOLS teach thrift as a CARDINAL VIRTUE and daily urge THRIFT STAMPS ItW Ask Prof. Dibble About It. I THE WEATHER For tinrrlaliurs nml vlrlnlty; Fair, continued pool to-nlKht, with lowfut temperature about freez ing; Saturday (air and Hllghtly narmrr, For Fimtern I'rnnsylvaniai Fair fo-itiulit and Saturday; con tinued cool to-night; Kllghtl.v warmer Saturday; light, north wind*, beeotulnic variable. River The main river will rl*e nlonh. The l.ower North llranch will ri*e MllKhtly to-night and fall xlowly Saturday. All othrr it renin* of the Suxquehanna H.vMtem will fall Klowly or re main nearly xtationury. A Htaice of about 5.0 feet In Indicated for IlarrlNburK Saturday morning. General Condition* lnder the influence of the xtrons high |irekure area from the >'orthwe*t. which now cover* the eastern half of the country with It* center over Michigan, temperature* have fnllen 2 to 2S degree* over nearly all the territory *outh and ea*t of the Great l.nkex. It I* 2 to 20 decree* warmer over nearly all the western half of the country. Temperature; N a. m., 34, San; ttlaea, S;3H a. m.; net*. 6:22 p. m. Moon: Xew moon. April 10, 11:34 p. m. Itiver Stage: t.N feet nbove low water mark. Venterday'* Weather lllghext temperature. 30. l-swent temperature, 37, Mean temperature, 41. Normal temperature, 40. SONG FESTIVAL TO CLOSE WITH GREAT CLIMAX City's Musicians to Take Part in Housing Mass Meeting This Evening DR. FREUND TO SPEAK Singing of Heart Melodies to Mark Closing of Big Event The climax of three days' sonpr fes tival is coming this evening with the great mass meet in Chestnut Street Auditorium and the nev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, of the Tine Street Presbyterian Church, an en thusiast for community singing, will preside. Bishop McDevitt, of the Roman Crtholic diocese, will make the pray er and the singing will be led by Paul E. Beck, state supervisor of music. On the program will be special se lections by the P. it. n. Glee Club, directed by Ira Behney: tiie solo choir. Frank A. McCarrell leading, and Alfred C Kuschwa at the piano; the Wednesday Club chorus. Mrs. Wilbur F. Harris, director. Dr. John C. Freund. president of the Musical Alliance of America, will speak on "The Musical Independence of the United States."' Church choirs will occupy seats reserved for them and [Continued 011 Page 18.] XOKWAY'S SLIII'PINC; LOSSES UIIOW IT Arini.V By .Associated Press Washington. April 5. Norway's shipping losses through German sub marine ruthlessness and other war op erations continue to grow. During March nineteen ships of 3-1,991 tons were lost, according to cablegrams made public to-day by the Norwegian legation here. During the month forty-four seamen -lost their lives, while twenty more men are missing. The total value of Norway's ship ping losses since the beginning of the war amount to 715 vessels with an aggregate tonnage of 1,101,815 valued at $330,000,000. Norwegian seamen to the number of 986 have lost their lives in the sinkings. **♦ - ' '£ I i *§ JL 1 II 3 1 i ■•£ $ IX M x 1 i t I , I IT • <<■:,. * ji • l # t I % *r i SI X *¥ • 4 lcad * T rootr * $ 1 i i It $ I l I , X 1 s T ' T # I 4 ' rrut X \t ' y m 1 X • *r !*§* )uiti <* jtk, <4 ' ei ' i. 2 president of the Swiss confederation apologizing fo; f ' ; '4K' z* ! iris *i~ -h 4> 4 -•'* a, |t • CuflSrd Line steamship Valeria. X 2 --1 .i ni-r ir. the tR y H* *7* r\ in- *§ JU ' 1 ' :li , X T T * --o . • p< * 2! t T * j •* MARKIACt Warren K. Mrturdy and Tlllle M. Tobliia, liurrUburg. 'T HOME EDITION IMMENSE THRONG GREETS STARS OF FILMDOM HERE Thousands Wait Patiently in Streets When Train Is Late WORK FOR LIBERTY LOAN* Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks Win by Old- Time Smiles Thousands of enthusiastic moving picture fans almost swamped Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks when those two favorites arrived here this afternoon. As the movie stars came out of the station, hundreds pushed and swirled around the three motors that took the party to the square. Railroad and city police were powerless to hold back the crowds which poured over the station steps, and even on to the fenders and steps of the motors. A cheering broke out when the crowd tlrst caught sight of DOUR —not a photo-Doug:, but the real fellow, spread his face geniully ami gave the folks a view of his teeth. Poor Char lie, instead of wearing his funny littlo moustache, the funny fellow turned out to be a real nice looking man, who didn't even walk differently from other people. Mary Plckford was unable to brave the crowd and stayed on the train. Market Square Packed As the cars were pushed and maneuvered through the cheering throngs at the station plaza by per spiring chauffeurs, the word went down Market street that the great ] folks at at last arrived, and the ma [Continued 011 Pagfc 22.] Jail German After Tar-and-Feather Dip I'lint, Mich., April s.—Frederick Wilhclm Gustav Ehlen, representa j tlve of a Minneapolis merchandise brokerage concern, who was given a coat of tar and feathers near here, I was in custody to-day' at the county jail. It was announced that he was detained so that Investigation could be made of certain documents found in his possession.
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