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.ALLIED LINES HOLDING FIRM
UNDER THE TEUTON ATTACKS
HUNS NIBBLE AT
ALLIED LINE IN
EFFORT TO FIND
A WEAK SPOT
New Threat May Develop
Into Big Engagement or
May Be a Feint to Attract
Attention
AMERICANS ENGAGE IN
MINOR TRENCH RAIDS
French and British Lines
Hold Firm When Germans
Launch Heavy Assaults;
Poilus' Great Defense
By Associated Press
Checked at most points along the
front from Arras to Courcy north of
Soissons, the Germans are nibbling:
at the allied line in an effort to find
a weak spot. So far the enemy has
been repulsed along the western leg
of the "elbow" salient. In the
Chauny-Courcy-La Fere triangle
along the Oise, on the extreme east
ern end of the southern front of the
battleline the French have retired to
higher ground.
Correspondents at the British
front in France say signs are not
wanting that the Germans are get
ting ready to launch another heavy
attack on a long front in an endeav
or to reach Amiens. Enemy efforts
north of the Somme recently have
been solely in an endeavor to capture
artillery positions but Germans have
not gained their objectives. Aerial
fighting continues heavy. French and
British aviators have brought down
enemy machines while
reports the destruction of
eighteen enemy airplanes.
Petrain Men Stand Firm
From Arras to the Somme the
British lino still stands as it did tcri
days ago. The latest enemy attempt
to attack was made in the region of
Bucquoy, 20 miles north of the Som
me, but both efforts were broken up
by the British artillery fire. Imme
diately south of the Somme there
has been only local fighting with no
change in the position of the battle
front.
General Petain's men still main
tain their splendid defense east of
the Amiens-Paris railway. The Ger
mans have tried to advance north
of the Amlens-Boye road in the rc-1
gion of Hangard, but the French ar-1
tillery fire was sufficient to break up'
the attack.
Berlin claims further advances in
the region norh of Courcy and around |
the lower forest of Courcy. No men
tion of fighting here is made in Paris
south of Chauncy the ground is lowj
and marshy, especially along the!
Oise river and the Oise canal. Folem-!
bray, 65 miles northeast of Paris and j
Pierremande reported captured by >
Berlin, are on the low land between j
the forest of Courcy and the height* j
north of the Aisne.
Await Developments
Whether the German attacks on
the front between the Oise and
Courcy are designed as a feint to I
draw fresh attention from a morel
vital point or are the beginning of a
strong effort to force the French
back to the Aisne, remains for de
velopments to show. Up to the pres
ent the Germans have only gained
the marshy ground along the Oise
and the low lying ground between
Chauny and Courcy as well as the
lower forest of Courcy which was vir
tually denuded of trees in the Ger
man retreat of March, 1917. Facing
them now are the heights on the
line running south of Noyon, through
Courcy to Anizy and thence across
the Ailette to the famous Cliemin des
Dames sector.
American troops on the front
northwest of Toul have successfully
countered German attempts to raid
their positions. Two raids were made
at two different points on Sunday,
but each was dealt with efficaciously
with machine gun and automatic
rifle fire, the enemy advancing no
further than the outposts.
On Friday the Americans also
checked two -raids. The first was
taken care of easily, while the sec
ond time the Americans left the
trenches and pursued the Germans
back to the fire enemy trenches and
drove the Germans into the support
positions. The artillery silenced two
German batteries.
SECOND CITY CLEANUP STARTS
The second round of the city's
ash clean-up started to-day, the Bu
reau of Ash and Garbage inspection
reported. Despite the inclement
■weather teams and men were started
•in the districts but the force was
smaller than had been planned.
THE WEATHER]
For IfnrrlfthurK nnil vicinity; Itnln
to-night and probably Tnrx
•liiyi cooler; lowrnt tempera
ture 10-niKht about .18 degree*.
Trnipf •■turn 1 n. M.i 42.
Sun: nixed, ti. m.) set*. "i2(I
p. in.
Moon: Xew moon, April 10, 11 til l
p. m.
Hirer Stnsei <f.D feet nbovc lon
muter mark.
A Game Every American Can Play With Liberty Bonds
ENEMY MOVE IN
SIBERIA CAUSES
GRAVE CONCERN
State Department Hopes Mili
tary Invasion by Japan
Will Be Denied
By Associated Press
Washington, April S.—The landing
of Japanese and British forces at
Vladivostok and the Bolshevik objec
tion to the move promise to cause
the State Department some concern.
When Japanese occupation of Siberia
was proposed recently th>s Govern
ment withheld approval, and the Ilus
iian National Council of Soviets has
announced its purpose to protest to
the United States against the pres
ent step.
America's attitude drew expres
sions of satisfaction from the Rus
sian official press, but developments
in Vladivostok have changed the sit
uation. In the past the United
States often has asserted its right to
land naval forces to overcome con
ditions of anarchy existing at some
foreign port where American lives
and property were involved. In
Vera Cruz large military forces were
used for this purpose without violat
ing the general principle of inter
national law.
Assuming that the American con
sul's report that Japanese citizens
M-ere killed and wounded at Vladi
vostok by unrestrained Russians is
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Calls on Mother Here
to Find Her Dead
Arriving here yesterday to visit
her mother, who was Mrs. Annie
Hold, 2227 Jefferson street, and
learning that she has been dead
since Christmas, was the experience
of Mrs. Caroline Shoudy, of Ridge
wood, N. J. Mrs. Shoudy was ac
companied on her trip here by her
15 months' old daughter.
Mrs. Shoudy had never heard a
word from relatives and friends here
regarding the death of her mother.
When she arrived in the city yester
day morning and called at the form
er home of Mrs. Hohl, she received
her first intimation that her mother
had died. She was without a friend
with whom to stay after her long
journey to the city with her little
daughter.
Mrs. Shoudy called upon the po
lice department to secure news con
cerning the whereabouts of two sis
ters, Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Kraliek,
who were also thought by Mrs.
Shoudy to reside in this city., The
police could not locate 'either woman.
SIMUI.E COPY,
2 CENTS
O'Brien Is Late;
All Meetings Off
Except Tonight's
LIEUTENANT PAT O'BIUEN,
R. l'\ C.. to-day wired Hen
derson Gilbert, of the lib
erty Loan Committee, that he had
missed the train on which he
hoped to reach Ilarrisburg at 4
o'clock his afternoon.
Consequently the committee
called oft the five outside meet
ings arranged for the lieutenant,
and he will speak only at Chest
nut Street Auditorium, at 8.15 to
night.
An overflow meeting will be
helil if it is necessary.
Admission to the auditorium Is
by ticket until 8 o'clock. After
that hour the doors will be
thrown upon to the general pub
lic.
WINTER WHEAT
CONDITION BETTER
THAN LAST YEAR
Indiana Makes Best Showing,
Reports Nation's Depart
ment of Agriculture
Washington, April B.—Winter
wheat production this year will be
about 56,000,000 bushels, the De
partmen tof Agriculture estimated
to-day in its report showing the con
dition of the crop on April 1 to l.e
73.0 per cent, of a normal.
itye production will he about 86.-
000,000 bushels, its condition April
1 being 85.8 per cent, of a noma'..
Condition of winter wheat in the
important growing stales follows:
Ohio. 80; Indiana, 91: Illinois.
SS; Missouri, 92; Nebraska. 15;
Kansas. 67; Oklahoma. 63.
Winter wheat production last year
was 418.070,000 bushels and the con
dition of the crop April 1 was 63.4
per cent, of a normal; 1016 pro
duction was 4 80,553,000 bushels and
the April condition 70.3, while the
ten year average April condition is
93.6 percent. The crop's condition
on December 1 was 79.3 per cent, of
a normal.
I.ast year's rye production was I
60,145,000 bushels and the condi
tion on April 1 was 86.0 per cent,
of n normal; the 1916 crop was 48,-
862,000 bushels and the April con
dition 87.86 per cent, while the ten I
year average April condition is UO.U
, per cent.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1918
BRONZE NYMPHS
TO GET SUITABLE
SETTING IN PARK
j Reservoir Said to Have Sev
eral Good Spots For the
Fountain Statuary
City officials and others interested
in public improvements in Harris
lmrs to-day expressed opinions urg
ing care in the selection of a site in
Reservoir Parle for the Donato
fountain, "Dance of Kternal Spring,"
presented to the city by M. S. Her
shey, the "chocolate king."
Among Jhose to give their views
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Superintendent of County
Schools to Be Elected
at Directors' Convention
School directors of the county dls-l
t tricts will meet to-morrow morning'
in the courthouse for the election of!
a county school superintendent and I
an assistant. It is understood both I
Professor F. E. Khambpugh und W.
R. Zimmerman, the present officials,
will be rc-elected for four-year
terms.
The question of a salary increase
for both of the superintendents will
be brought up by a number of dr-1
rectors it was reported to-day. Sev
eral directors have said they favor
gianting each a SSOO increase t;n
nually because of the traveling ex
penses which must be paid in order
that Professors Shambaugh and
Zimmerman can visit schools.
The city school board will meet in
special session to-morrow afternoon
at 3.3 0 o'clock when Dr. F. E.
Downes will be nominated for re
election.
Wild Mexican Is Shot
to Death on Pennsy Train
j, > O.v Associated Press
Pittsburgh, April 8. Carmino|
Carizo, a Mexican, was shot audi
killed in the Pennsylvania station!
here to-day by a railroad policeman,
after he had terrorized passengers
on the Chicago and Pittsb-irgh ex
press train over the Pan Handle
railroad.
Carizo was a passenger in a day
coach out of Chicago. At Steuben-
Vllle, Ohio, lie brandished a long
knife and ran through the train driv
ing lialf-dressed persons from their!
berths. As the train entiered ihel
Pittsburgh yards a policeman enter
ed an end door and in the struggle
) which followed the Mexican was
shot dead.
TERRIBLE TOLL OF
BOCHES TAKEN BY
FRENCH
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Petain's 75's and Machine Guns Cut Lanes Into Deep j
Masses of Men; Commanders Are Unconcerned as to
Losses; Poilus Not Worried at Task of Facing Odds
of Three to One on Plains of Picardy
By Associated Press
Germany apparently is preparing for another big
effort on the wide battlefront in northern France. Heavy
drumfire, such as usually preceded an attack, is reported
along extensive sector* held by the British, while the
Paris war office also announces violent artillery actions
along the French front. The most intensive German fire
seems to be in progress south of the Somme, where the
direct aiive toward Amiens is on, and north of the Scarpe
river towards the British left flank. In the Somme sector
the British have evidently been trying to better their
position in anticipation of the next German push, and
field Marshal Haig reports to-day a slight advance of
his line on the south bank of the Somme, ca<-t cf Vaiic
Sous Corbie.
By Associated Press i
Willi tin- French Army In France,
Sunday, April 7.—Twenty-live divi
sions have been used by the Ger-1
mans in the last four days in efforts!
to break through the French line and !
reach the railroad running soutli j
from Amiens. All attacks have been
checked by the wonderful resistance
of the French.
The Germans are obtaining only
insignificant results in their at
tempts to advance compared with the
number of troops engaged, which is
at least throe times the wumber. of
the French defenders.
Terrible LlxrttiUon
The confidence witn which the
French troops go into action is most
remarkable. They make light of the
German superiority in nuivtirers. The
French command continuei to work
on the principle of using the small
est possible number of troops to stay
the German rush, thus retaining the
reserves for possible attacks some
place else.
Tlie Germans are resuming massed
Otttcks, in which their men come
ruder the direct lire of French ma
chine guns, rille grenades and 755,
which indict terrible losses. The 7">s
do terrific execution, cutting wide
lanes through the enemy ranks.
Slaughter I itnotleed
The enemy commanders appeared
to pay little attention to this
slaughter, their aim being to reach
BRITISH POUR WITHERING
FIRE INTO HUN MASSES AND
LINE HOLDS UNDER ATTACK
Willi the llriliNli .* rmy |n France,
Sunday, April 7.—At ks and coun
terattacks continue to spring up at
various points along the British bat
tlefront. While none of them lifis
seemed large as compared with ihe
intense conflict waged in the first
days of the German offensive, yet all
of them are important that they rep
resent the foundation tvor I '. of bigger
events to come.
Twice last evening and again this
morning the Germans undertook to
advance their lines at points ir> the
sector north and south of Albert and
each time they foiled. At 8 o'clock
this morning a considerable enemy
force advanced for an attack In the
vicinity of Bucquoy, north of A'bert.
The Germans were seen coming
while they still were a .itlle away
and the British artillety ani machine
guns put down such an intense bar
rage among them that the projected
assault was stopped. Some time aft
erward the enemy reformed his
forces and made another effort, but
'his was checked without the use of
infantry.
When You Hear the
Court House Bell
Ring" for Noon
COUNT WHAT YOU
HAVE SAVED FOR
THRIFT STAMPS
Quarters make j
dollars rapidly.
the objective, whatever the cost.)
Late last ifight the enemy again at
tacked in the region of Grivesncs,
but were repulsed sanguinarily and
forced back to their own lines with
greatly diminished numbers. Further
south, in the vicinity of Noyon, they
ut llrst succeeded in entering the
I'rench positions. Later, after the
most severe fighting, they were com
pelled to retreat.
Mont lienaud, near Noyon, saw re
peated attacks front the Germans
throughout Saturday, but ail were
equally futile. This hill was the first
point where the French barred the
German advance through the Oise
valley towards Compeignc and Paris.
When the Germans first swept down
front Noyon the hill changed hands
repeatedly. The ground thereabouts
shows striking evidence of the fear
ful nature of the battle in the num
ber of German bodies that can be
seen.
llolfl I,lite Firmly
f-ince March :!0 the French have
not budged. In fact, they have
gained some ground on the northern
slopes of the hill. The Germans oc
cupied two hills overlooking Mont
lienaud,
Further eastward, along the Oise
the French fell back Saturday from
the dangerous salient north of
Amigny. Fighting all the way they
retired to better posiions. which had
been prepared along the course of
the Ailette river.
One of the .attacks last evening
vas delivered southwest of Albert,
whrro the enemy had been battling
so determinedly to get a strong hold
on the Albert-Amiens railway. Un
der cover of a heavy machine gun
barrage the German Infantry surged
forward against the British line, but
was met with such a withering rifle
and machine gun lire that it was
compelled to retire.
The other onslaught was attempt
ed near Serre, soutli of Hebuterne.
Two short but intense periods of
barrage tlr 0 were put down on the
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Contributions Coming in
For Big Rummage Sale
Contributions to the big rummage
sale collections for which are being
made to-day will continue through
out the week. A great assortment of
odds and ends are expected to be
gathered together and sold for the
benefit of the Hairisburg Hospital.
Mrs. Herman Astrich to-day con
tributed a big show case for the dis
p'ay of women's goods at the sa'e.
The case is forth several hundred
dollars and will be sold on the last
day of the sale. Harry and I ..eon
Lowengard, of the Courier Publish
ing Company, contributed a printing
press. Another man gave three
bushels of onion sets.
Local Draft Boards Are
Ready to Fill New Quota
The three city and three county
draft boards to-day were busy with
their HsB preparing for the call that
Is to come for men to til! the con
tingent of 11,000 men to go to Na
tional Army Camps by April 2(1.
While the quotas have not been
announced, it is estimated that the
city and county together will Jit lose
many more than fllty men,
ONI.Y KVUNIMi AWMICIAfISU I'ltKiS
KBWSIMPKK IN II \ lilt IMIIIKi
CITY'S PURSE TO
OPEN WIDE AT
NATION'S CALL
llarrisburg Determined lo Do!
lis Share and More For
Liberty Bonds
SUBSCRIPTIONS STARTED!
Everything in Keadiness For
Capitul City's Reply lo
the Barbarian
ITKADY! SETS CJO!
Tlarrisburg's Liberty Loan cam
paign begins to-morrow morning*
This city is called upon to sub
scribe for $:;,500.000 Liberty
Bonds.
What will r>on,ooo do?
it will ouy the following:
Fifty combat airplanes; pistols,
titles ami luvif a million rounds of
ammunition for ten infantry regi
ments: rI il" fur iir*v-Hi\ ir.fantry
battalions; live base hos|.it;>t> with
a total of 500 beds; supply live
infantry brigades with pistols.
All that can be bought with the
$::.500,000 bonds llarrisburg will
buy. '
BUY YOUU BONDS!
Workers to-morrow morning begin
canvassing that portion of the lii.OOO
■"'age and salary workers of Harris
lurg which Is employed in the indus
trial plants and the stores of the
city, and when returns are reported
ar headquarters to-mcrroiv night it
is believed the first day's showing
will bo a remarkable one.
Members of the executive commit
tee held a meeting .it headquarters
in the Dauphin building this morn
ing and wore much entluidcd over
the outlook.
Headquarters, iiiei Icntolly, was a
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I)R. liAl XICIi IMPROVES
Dr. J. M. J. Itaunick, city health
officer, who had been ill for sev
eral months and was ot,it of the city
I while convalescing, returned to-day
' and will resume his duties within a
few days.
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HOME EDITION
RIVER COAL IN
GREAT DEMAND
THIS SUMMER
Shortage of Anthracite Makes
Manufacturers Eager For
Susquehanna Supply
MANY DREDGES AT WORK
Price Soars as More and More
and More Calls Arc Re
ceived For Fuel
One effect of the shortage of an
thracite coal will be to increase
shipments of river coal dredged in
llarrisburg to outlying points. This
is certain to come unless there is a
material increase in the supply of
anthracite during the coming
months
Between 12fi,000 and 150,000 tons
of coal is dredged from the river
every year, according to C. M. Kaltj
wasser, manager of the llarrisburg
Light and Power Company, whose
company conducts extensive dredg
ing operations on the river to supply
its own fuel. Hitherto all this coal
has been used by four or five large
industries in the city and vicinity.
River coal is used by the Central
Iron and Steel Company, Bethlehem
Steel Company, the Capitol, the Pipe
and Pipe Bending Works, and the
City Water Power Company.
Shipped Out of City
Hitherto the river coal mined here
has been largely diverted to these
industries and a few others. Since
I the shortage of anthracite, firms out
side the city have been ordering
large amounts of the coal and it has
been shipped out of the city in largo
quantities. It is thought that the
amount of coal shipped to outside
points will Increase as activities on
the river increase.
One effect of the coal shortage and
the outside demand for river coal,
lias been to increase dredging activi
ties on the river. The great demand
:of river coal last winter, which
caused it to double in price within
a few months, caused a large num
ber of now boats to be put on the
river this spring and it is likely that
the amount of coal dredged this year
will be far greater than ever.