Germans Sacrifice Thousands of Troops in Futile Effort to Destroy British Army West of Armentieres HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH j/L - 3n&cpcnl>ent * * * LXXXVII— No. S? 14 PAGES GERMANS PA Y HE SE VEN A TTA CKS ARE REPULSED COSTLY HUN DRIVE SL O WING UP BEFORE BRITISH DEFENSE SEVEN ATTACKS NET ONLY DEATH TO HUN LEGIONS Strong Attacks Delivered by Germans Find Defense a Stone Wall By Associated Press 1/omlon, April 13.—Seven attacks by the Germans in the Mcrville sec tor of the northern battle front have been repulsed by the British who inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, it is announced officially. The British have lost Neuve Eglise. Southwest of Bailleul the Germans temporarily penetrated the British positions but were driven out by a counterattack. The statement follows: "Severe fighting continued all day yesterday around Xeuve Eglise. After beating off numerous attacks, our troops were in the end compelled to withdraw a second time from the village. Huiis Driven Back "Strong attacks were made by the enemy yesterday afternoon at -a number of other points on the battle front. Northwest of Merville tierce fighting took place, as a result of which tho attacking German in fantry were driven back with great loss. The hostile infantry advancing along the northern bank of the T„ys were caught by ttie fire of our ar tillery and were unable to develop their attack "In the course of the day no less than seven attacks were delivered by the enemy in the Merville sector, all of which were repulsed with heavy loss to his troops. In one case the enemy advanced to the \ assault in five waves. Under the weight of this attack our line was ' restored. "Successful minor operations were carried out by us during the night east of Ilobecq. Several machine guns and 150 prisoners were taken by us. I' ighting also took place earlv \ today south of the Somme, in the neighborhood of Hangard. Our posi tion in this sector has been im proved and a number of prisoners' have been taken. The hostile ar tillery was active last night in the neighborhood of nucquoy." SAVING NICKELS , tor THRIFT STAMPS I will teacli you how to j | PUT DOLLARS INTO LIBERTY BONDS I hey are the best , investments. — ... _______ j THE WEATHER For HnrrUliarc anil vicinity! Fair (O-nllCbt 1111)1 Tllexila}; KilKlltlv warmer to-nlsht, with lo treat temperature about 4." degree* For KaMern Pennaylvania: Fair to-nlKht anil TueNtlay: .-lightly warmer to-niKht; light north wind* becoming south. General Condition* Tempera turea are - to 18 degreea higher than on Saturday morn ing over nearly all the territory rant of the Rocky Mountain*, while Trent of the mnuntalna there ha been a general fall „f 'J to 20 degrees. Temperature: 8 a. m.. 40. Sun: Risen, <1:25 a. in.; net*. 7:33 p. m. Moont Flrat quarter, April 17. River Stase: 5.2 feet above low water mark. Yeaferday'a Weather lllghent temperature, 114. I.oneat temperature. 37. Mean temperature. 80. formal temperature, SO, Americans Do Brilliant Work By Associated Press With the French Army in France, Sunday. April 14. —Ameri- can soldiers did brilliant work in the stiff lighting Friday at Bruel wood. Loi'raine. An account of the engagement shows that at 4.30 o'clock in the morning after a short and severe bombardment 300 Germans attempted to occupy a tirst line trench. Small bodies of famous French troops which formed the advance posts resist • <d the enemy until their ammu nition was exhausted. Then they retired to obtain supplies. The French commander immediately organised a counterattack in ! which American troops joined and I after fierce lighting ejected the enemy. The ground was strewn I with the German dead and the allies took a number of prisoners. _ Shortly afterward groups of ; Germans were seen to he creeping into the first line of the American position, which hail voluntarily been left unoccupied. American i soldiers dashed forward from tlie support line, engaged in gren ade fighting anil hand-to-hand en counters and after a severe en gagement repulsed the Germans. The enemy suffered heavy casu alties and left behind twentv four prisoners. KAISER'S AIM FAILS AGAINST ALLIED HOSTS | | Turning Point in West Being Reached; Teutons Seek Weakest Point By Associated Press Washington. April 15.—The turn j ing print in the battle on the west I front is being reached, says the War Department's review of the military ! situation for the week ending April 13. published to-day. The Germans have failed in their purpose to achieve victory in the field, the state ment continues and will soon be forced to resume their old tactics. "We must bear in mind," the re view says, "that the enemy is waging a battle of annihilation to achieve ! victory. He is fighting to-day with the sole aim of annihilating the Brit [Continued on I'age 10.] Emperor Also Wrote Peace Note to Pope Home, April 15. —The Italian press, commenting on the controversy that has arisen between the French Pre mier. M. Clemenceau, and the Aus tro-llungarian Foreign Minister, Count Czernin, insists that at the time Emperor Charles wrote to Prince Sixtus of Bourbon, another letter was sent to the Pope. The Idea Nazionale says the sec ond letter was designed to complete, as ielating to Italy, the first letter as relating to France, and had for its object invoking the intervention of the Holy See in favor of peace. The Tribuna says that it was all a part of a vast "pacific offensive on the part of Austria ant! Germany and that it was a joint movement to de ceive both France and the Vatican." According to another source, the letter to the Pope was written by Empress Zita. Body of Unidentified Man Found in River The body of an unidentified man was found floating down the Susquehanna river this afternoon, near West Fair view. by Horace Myers and John Rhiver, of West Fairview. The two West Shore men were out on the river, several hundred yards from the shore, when they discoverer! the body floating along. The brought it to the shore, and notified Isaac \V. J. Matter, justice of the peace. The body was found in the Dauphin coun ty portion of the river near the west shore low watermark, and Coroner Jacob Eckinger, of Harrisburg, was called. A hasty examination of the body by the two men who found It, dis closed no marks of violence. A more thorough examination will be conduct ed by the coroner. No marks of iden tity could be found. GIVES I P PART OF HER HOUSE TO All) BOND SALE Daniel 8. Culp, office secretary of the Central Y. M. C. A., is willing to stake a new hat on the fact that Harrisburg women are not unpatrio tic when it comes to buying Liberty Bonds. This morning he was seated at his desk when a woman called, asking that lie take her address. I want to rent two rooms to two nice I young men, preferably members ofj the Y. M. C. A.," the woman said. "I j never rented any rooms before, but would like to rent these and use the money to puy u.Liberty Bond." "That's whut I call patriotism," says' Culp. SIXUI.B COPV, J CENTS HAIG'S ARMY IS HOLDING FAST IN GREAT BATTLE ; Heroic Haiul-to-Hand Fight ing Marks Desperate En counter in Flanders By Associated Press Fighting heroically in hand-to hand engagements to British troops * have checked the German drive in | the region west of Armentieres and I enemy effort, like the one in Picardy, i seems almost definitely stopped. The ; Germans have spent thousands of i lives in reckless and insistent attacks i through the British lines or to de- I stroy the British army, but the cf ! fort has been without the result de | sired. Against the American sector south . of Verdun. German storming troops i hurled themselves Sunday. Ameri- I can infantrymen beat back the : enemy in hot fighting. The enemy withdrew to his trenches with the ' loss of nearly 100. North of Toul, ' the Germans have not repeated the I attacks which cost them 400 casual ties. l ighting Is Desperate All around the sweeping semicircle created by the enemy attacks to the I southwest of the Messines ridge posi tions he was fought to a standstill ] yesterday and last night and in some localities the British positions were j improved by counterattacks. At only one point did the defense give way. I This was at Xeuve Eglise. on the ex i trerne edge of the Messines spur, where the British finally withdrew 1 after beating off attack after attack. The probabilities seem to be that i the German tenure of even this small bit of ground will be a short lived ; one. The village has changed hands repeatedly during the fighting of the past few days and the British were once before definitely out of it, only to recapture it in a counterattack. This morning the British again were back at the Germans here and \ve;"e reported to be giving them a hard pounding. Although they have been but a little more than a mile from Bailleul, a valuable position, for two days the Germans have not been able to ad vance more than several hundred yards. West of the town the Ger mans have been repulsed in heavy attacks and south round Morris their efforts have gone for naught. Americans l ight llard Their effort on the remainder of the battlefront in Artois has brought no change. Near the apex of their salient at Merville the Germans at tempted an attack but were dis persed by artilery fire. In Flanders anil along the Messines ridge there have been no further actions and the British still hold the heights on the south unchallenged. On either wing of the sharp salient arouml St. Miliiel, the American troops in the past few days luive been meeting antl beating o(T in line fashion strong German attacks. The enemy has not followed up his ef forts northwest or Toul and east of St. Mihicl where he was repulsed in two days hard lighting by the Amor cans in Aprcmont forest. The ar tillery tltii-i there is heavy, with Un- American gunners keeping up their end of the exchange. Sunday's attack on Ihe American sector between Verdun and Ct. Miliic! came after a violent bombardment and was made by picked enemy trops. Prisoners were captured by tho Americans and thirty-four Gor man dead and ten wounded were found in the American trenches, while just beyond them were 30 more enemy dead. The Americans with hand grenades and bayonets' wont out of their positions to meet j the* oncoming Germans. Two Amer-' ioan aviators have brought down I two German fighting airplanes, the' enemy flyers being captured. , Czernin Resigns There has been no activity on the Picardy battlefront and on the re mainder of the western front except for artillery duels. Count Czernin, Austro-Hunarlan foreign minister has resigned, and Emperor Qharles has accepted the resignation. The steps leading to the count's act are not disclosed as yet but the publication by the French government of the emperor's peace offer letter to France early in 1917 probably hastened his withdrawal. Semiofficial attempts still are being made to deny the letter, but neither the emperor nor Count Czernin has denied flatly the existence of the letter which was not only a peace move but divulged damaging evi dence concerning intrigue against Serbia HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 1?, 1918 "Et Til, Brute" %# GERMAN TONGUE DYING NATURAL DEATH IN CITY ; Even the Old Singing Soci eties Are Passing by For True Americanism "In less than ten years no Ger- I man will be spoken in the city of i Harrisburg." This from one of the German pt- I oneers, a son of the Fatherland who fought over the very ground where [ gigantic battles are now being stag ed. in the campaigns of the Franco- German War, fifty years ago. It was indeed significant that M. E. Moeslein, for forty years leading spirit in the Harrisburg Maennerr-hor Society, and staunch American, should have been very busy at Llb [Continued on Page 2.] British Pound Teutons in Intense Battle About Neuve Eglise; Allies Firm By Associated Press Willi tlic British Army in France, 4 pril 15.—The battle about Neuve Kglise, near the Belgian border, which has been retaken by the Ger mans, continued to rage this morn ing with the same intensity that has marked it for days and the British are pounding the Germans hard. Another assault on Bailleul, four miles west of Neuve Eglise, is ex pected momentarily. The latest re ports this afternoon showed the British line was strongly held as a whole in this northern zone and in some instances had been consider ably improved by efounter strokes. The British last evening followed up .their success of Saturday when they pushed the Germans back from Robeoq, on the Clarence river. Local counterattacks delivered on the Ger man positions 3,000 yards to the east of this town were completely suc cessful and the enemy again was forced to retire somewhat. The British in the course of the afternoon also pushed out several ! posts north of the canal between the La we and Clarence rivers. These operations indicated the of- 1 fensive of the allies has stiflened. CENTRAIi BOOK STORE JOINS 100 PER CENTERS, j Each of the nineteen employes of the Central Printing and Publishing House and the Central Book Store. 329 Market street, has subscribed to bonds of the Third Llbertv Loan, adding another Arm to the 100 per cent, clasa. POLICE MATRON IS AGAIN URGED BY CIVIC CLUB Many Activities Reviewed in Report Read at Annual Meeting A summary of the work unrter , taken and accomplished by the Civic I Club of Harrisburg, endorsement of the municipal collection of ashes and | garbage, a recommendation for a ! police matron, and endorsement of ! community singing, were included in i the report of Mrs. William Hendsr i son. president of the club, which was read at the annual meeting for ihe : election of officers and reading of i the report at the clubhouse this af i ternoon. Mrs. Henderson, president of the club during the past year, will be re-elected president for the coming j year. The election of officers is to , take place late this afternoon. , The report gives a very compre : henslve idea of what the club stands I for, and has been able to do for the [Continued on Page 7.] Soldiers Victims of Wreck; Three Killed, 45 Injured By Associated Press New York, April 15.—Three sol diers were killed, ten seriously in jured and thirty-five slightly injured early to-day in a wreck on the Long Island railroad near Central Islip, N. Y. All of the dead and Injured are said to be stationed at Camp Upton, at Yaphank, L. I. A car near the middle of the thirteen-car train jumped the track taking four others with It. Liberty Editorial By Rabbi Louis ,T. Ilaas, Ohev Nholom Temple TIME FOR ACTION THE Third Liberty Loan drive Is now on and every American! citizen, regardless of race or I creed, is afforded an opportunity to' display his or her patriotism. 'Tisi not enoiigh merely to feel patriotic' or to talk patriotism. We must act 1 patriotically. We must manifest our! patriotism by our deeds. Our actions I must express our patriotism. And' during the next few weeks the su preme patriotic duty of each and every Amerlcun is to subscribe to the iContinued on Page 14.] BIG PROPERTY LOSS FOLLOWS GREAT SLIDES Dwellings Badly Damaged j When Tons of Hock Are Loosened by Rain The protracted rainfall of last week caused the collapse of three stone retaining walls at widely sep arated parte of the city, entailing considerable property damage and narrowly averting serious injury to i residents of the three neighborhoods. Shortly after 7 o'clock Saturday evening a lifteen-foot retaining wall separating the backyards of the properties facing Atlas street be tween Woodbine and Kmerald streets and the backyards of the properties facing North Fifth street between these .two streets collapsed with a report like a dynamite blast, carry ing tons of concrete, stone and earth ir.to the backyards of the properties at 2211, 13, 13, 17 and 10 Atias street. Another slide was In the Johns town road where It passes under Walnut street near North Twelfth 'street.- This slide occurred shortly j before 3 o'clock this morning. It [Coniinucil on Page 12.] Draft Headquarters Wants Mors Men Now State draft headquarters has sent out hurry calls for thirly-three men who must be either meteorologists, physicists, civil or mechanical engi neers. These men are to be sent this week to the science and research divisio not the aviation section of the Army at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, and if there are not enough voluntary applicants the men will be drafted. The men are to be entrain ed between April 13 and 20. This | call is believed to be the first of a , series which will be made for spe i cially qualified men in the next few weeks. The draft headquarters is issuing I warnings to local boards to get their lists in shape for calling of men not only for the drafts made this month and t obe started next week to the camps, "but for future calls and also to prepare lists so that when the drive to round up slackers starts there will be no mistakes. The adjutant general's office has asked that all men who served In the National Guard in the Mexican bor der service and who are not now in the military service make application to the department offices in the Cap itol for the Mexican Border Service medals. These applications are now being made by companies in the Keystone division at Camp aHncock and from other camps, while some are coming from France. OM.V KVKNINU ASSOCIATION IMtKSS SUWSI'AI'KII IN IIAItIUSHIIItU EVERY EFFORT IS BEING TURNED TO AID BOND SALES Look Willi Suspicion on Men and Women Who Refuse, to Do Anything EMPLOYERS ARE HELPING l irst Report of Totals to Be. Given at Session This Evening Harrisburg employer.** of men and women are 100 per cent, in their at titude toward the Third Liberty Loan. Headquartei s in the Dauphin building; this morning declared that business establishments of this city are giving: them every hoip. The employers are going over their lists very carefully, and in very numerous instances where they have found .••ten and women unable to buy Bonds they liave given them an increase which permits them to buy a Bond "on time." The "on time" method rnables ninety-nine out of every 100 of the 35,000 wage and salary-getters in Harrisburg to buy Bonds. During the remainder of this week George S. Reinoehl's industrial com mittee will complete its canvass of [Continued on Page 2.] Foch Gets the Title of Commander-in-Chief of Allied Armies in France Paris, April 15.—An official note issued last night says: "The British and French govern ments have agreed to confer the title ol' commander-in-chief of the Allied armies in France on General Foch." Since General Koch's elevation to chief command of the Allied armies "for the period of the present opera tions" there hits been some doubt as to his exact standing, and the question has been raised as to whether his powers were executive or advijjry to Petain or Haig. The above statement disposes of the mat ter. General Foch is to be General lissimo with all that the command implies. 1 ! !* ADIAN OFFICER TO SPEAK X t 1 f !T $ • 1 5 • • f ad * S:1 f 4 ll* 'v I t | | z I £' I t ; l ' t X tip £ f tl X i g | 1 { ! JL Mr *4* ! 'yf* *w T• " % T* A jj • S GIVES WAGE INCREASE J ".ted to T | 4* ■ .C' L * € f* ?* jb pam ic ;.]< i -ncnt ves the T 2! *s* -?• ' i >K £. | X v ' v; 'i • :f ,-;med t : IX X i to ! <s y 4 tj ! : 4 i, u T T taraperin: the trial cf meve than 100 1. W. W members S 'he '*£ <# ' " # l *s X - 31 s $ ""*••• h i* ' subset for : 100, COO of Third Liberty Loan bonds, |l ► 4* L bein f ; the unexpended part of the $250,000 which the '| , ▼ stockholders appropriated last year for the purpose of * ' 4 purchasing news players and otherwise strengthening X "the team. •' jjr J t ' * t S; MARRIAGE LICENSES ± l.ewter l„ .lone ml lluih 11. Oinrr, HnrrUburKt Wllliitm L. W. T Fltsiiernld ami (.rncr K. Weaver, Kteeltoo. HOME EDITION CZERNIN QUITS CABINET UNDER PEACE STRAIN Publication of Appeal by the French Press Potent in Causing Resignation SPEECH TONE MODERATE j Clcmenceau's Denial of Aus- Irian Minister's Assertion Heightened Situation Amsterdam. April 15. —Count Czernin, the Austro-llungarian for eign minister lias resigned according to a dispatch from Vienna. Emperor Charles accepted the resignation and entrusted Count Czernin with the conduct of foreign affairs until hia successor is appointed. The recent publication by the French government, of the futile I peace appeal sent out hy Emperor I Charles, of Austria Hungary, in March 1917. and the efforts of the 1 emperor and the Austro-Hungarian | foreign office to explain his letter to [Continued on Page 11.] Hopes of Victory Wane in Germany Berne. April 15. —"If you talk j about democracy in Germany to-day, : they put you in jail. Public opinion | in Germany is beginning to change !as a result of the offensive. While | at the beginning every one believed in success, (he feeling is now divided, i Only officials hold the victory theory, I white the masses are skeptical." Joseph Denz, of Philadelphia, the ' American inventor of a hydraulic press, who before the war had big business interests in Lyons, France, | and has just escaped from Germany, I made this statement to-day. Long Range Gun Kills Paris Woman Paris. April 15.—The bombard ment of the Paris district by the I German long range gun continued to-day. Ono woman was killed.
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