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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.