W\ • * F PWF ' ' l - British Thrice Repulse Germans in Three Attacks in Bailleul Sector; British Front Uncha ged jfe HARRISBURG liSpfe- TELEGRAPH Mi LXXXVII— No. 92 16 PAGES . BRITISH FIGHT DESPERATELY EVERY AMERICAN ACTS LIKE A HERO UNDER HUN FIRE, SAYS COMMANDER Hard to Pick Men For Spe cial Honors Where Every Man Does Work Without Regard to Danger PRIEST AND BANKER SHOW YANKEE SPIRIT U. S. Troops Fight Side by Side With French and Go Over the Top to Shorten Lines With the American Army in France, Wednesday, April 17. Commanders of units who pir ticipated in the several days of fighting last week in company with the French in the Apren'.ont wood sector arc finding it difficult to pick out men who especially dis tinguished themselves in the opera tions. One commander said every man acted like a hero and it was hard to choose the more deserving cases. One of the most popular men with the soldiers on this sector is the Rev. Des Valles, a Roman Catholic priest of New Bedford, Mass., who is living with the men in an unofficial capacity, he having come to France as a representative of the Knights of Columbus. Every Inch a Soldier £ When the attacks began Father Des Valles braving the dangers of shell and machine gun fire, \\cnt to the casualty clearing station near the front line to administer to the wounded. He assisted in dressing the injuries of the soldiers and gave each man a word of cheer. He band ed out eigarets to the men who smoked. "He's as.game as they make them and every incli a. soldier." said a doughboy, while other soldiers spoke of the inspiration furnished by the priest. Works Under Difficulty Another popular man is a young banker of Springfield, Mass,, who was pressed into service as a stretch er-bearer. lie was the smallest man in the outfit and after several trips became so exhausted he was unable to hold the stretcher, lie refused to give up and had his companions tic the stretcher on his wrists with rope so as to enable him to hold the [Continued on Pas- 4.] Tabby Back Among Friends in Store, but &ot Alone For several days the store cat at Kresge's Five-and-Ten-Cent store bad been missing. Tabby's habit had been to purr noisily and walk softly in its trips through the store. The salesgirls had come to regard the silken-furred feline with tenderness. Just when they were really warming up to the cat. attracted by its friend liness and beauty. Tabby disappear ed. Search was made 'but without success. The conclusion was reach ed that something had happened and that Tabby was no more. Yesterday Nora Gross reached into a hosiery box in the basement in the lvope that she might find a pair of hose, ail anxious woman was asking for upstairs. Her hand touch ed something silken which moved Nora screamed. Inquiry revealed Tabby curled up and purring and mothering several kittens that were as pretty as their mother. STOREKEEPER REPRIMANDED One of the two Weis p ure Food Stores in the city received a repri mand from the Dauphin Countv Food Administration this morning for dis playing flour in its window, and also advertising the price at which it sells sugar. This is contrary to the regu lations of the Federal Food Adminis tration which forbid the advertis ing of flour or sugar. The other lo cal branch of the Wets stores wis reprimanded for the same violation of the regulation several days ago. THE WEATHER For llnrrlahnre and vlrlnltTi Knln . nnil cooler to-nlgtal nml PrldnT; loivnl temperature to-nlßhi W it hoot 48 <lc green. ' General Conditions It I* 2 to 10 degreeo unrmcr in the Atlantic States from Florida to New York. Temperature: 8 n. m., (10. Suns (line*. 7i03 a. hi.| net*. 7530 P. m. Moon: Full moon, April 26, .1:05 a. m. River Slnne: 12.7 feet above low water mark. Yesterday'* Weather HisHext temperature. 72. I.oweat temperature. .VS. Mean temperature. IM. Normal TO SAVE YPRES SUPPLY BASE Come On y America! GOVT. PREPARES TO BUY PROPERTY AT MIDDLETOWN Real Estate Board's Appraisal; Committee Asked to Do Important Work The appraisement committee of] I the Harrisburg Ileal Kstate Hoard I j has been asked by the United States! j government to make extensive valu ; ations of property in the vicinity of j Middletown in connection with the ! aviation supply depot and the ord | nance depot developments near that j point. The members of the board replied that their committee would be glad to perform the work as a patriotic service and George A. Schreiner, Superintendent of Public Ituildings and Grounds, the chairman; A. C. Young and Kd. Moeslein, former city building inspector, yesterday began I to make the appraisals. The gound to be covered includes the Rife Extension below the avla | tion depot, which the borough coun j cil of Middletown has agreed to va [Continued on Page 2.] Donald Johnston, an Aviator of This City, Falls at Camp Hicks First Lieutenant Donald Johnston, j of this city, a brother of Paul andi : Walter Johnston, of the Johnston | j Paper Company, was injured in al • fall at Camp 1 licks, Texas, yesterday. ' The first telegram stated that he had j been injured, but it was thought not; I seriously and another dispatch this' | morning was to the effect that: his' condition was greatly improved. Inj response to the first message, Paul i Johnston started for Texas last night.! Lieutenant Johnston enlisted In the' aviation service about a year ago. Particulars of the accident are awaited with anxiety by his friends here. SELL MUCH CHEWING (,I.M Governor and Mrs. Martin G. Brumbaugh assisted in a sale of chewing gum to-day which totaled more than $250 for the American Red Crgss. Up to noon about $l5O was the total and it was estimated that by night the sum would reach the higher total. The Governor and Mrs. Brum-] augh, assisted by a number of other [ workers, held the record for thcl day's sales, their booth having a to-1 ■ la I of SSO up to noon. Girls in Red! f'ross uniforms sold much. SI.NGI.I: COPY, •J CENTS CHILDREN GIVING PENNIES AND ENERGY TO UNCLE SAM Boys and Girls Subscribe Heavily in Baby Bonds, While Nimble Fingers Give Up Ploy So That Fighting Men Abroad May Get Necessities Throug lied Cross Mia mfej ALFRED BECK j This is the best story out of Har- I risburg since the war started. No. it 1 has nothing to rlo with trench, air-} ship or submarine. It is just tliei plain, homely narrative of - child-1 hood patriotism, as illustrated in Ihe Webster school building, Thirteenth ] and Kittatinny streets. You. Mr. and Mrs. American Citi zen, who may not have done one| thing for your country, read the an-J nals of just one school in Harris-! burg: Liberty Bonds. 07, $4,850. Baby Bonds. 270, $1,104.09. Junior Red Cross, 544 members, j 100 per cent., $136. Senior Red Cro.'s, 72 members, $72.! Red Cross Christmas seal salej $179.65. Soldiers' Liberty Fund. $21.00. ! ; Thrift Stamps and small sums con- i tributcd, sl3. Total. $6,376.34. | These are the activities of Wcb-j ster school In its efforts to make the: world safe for democracy. Think of this lad, Alfred Beck, a pupil in Miss Sweeney's school. Grade I. He owns thirty-eight Baby Bonds. Helen Ilichardson, of tlie same school, owns HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1918. HELEX RICHARDSON* twelve and is buying Thrift Stamps for another bond. And the cold cash contributions tell nothing of other work accom plished in ihe Friday afternoon per iod. In (his teachers and - pupils have knitted, and made robes, sweat ers, wristlets, socks, scarfs, rest pil lows. sunshine bags, Belgian blankets and shawls and layettes, all of which will be shortly put on exhibition. Wool is now the commodity most' needed. Through the generosity of A. Carson Stanim, SIOO was added to the funds of the Junior Red Cross, and SSO of this will be used bv Web ster for purchase of that necessity. PATROLMAN DRAFTED Patrolman Alexander D. Bibb, 631 Boas street, of the city police fa|lc, has been called for selective service by the board for the third city dis trict. He wag appointed to the force more than a year ago by the late Mayor E. 8. Meals. Tie will be the fourth man In the department to go to the service. GREAT BATTLE GOES ON WITH RENEWED FURY French Troops Come to Assistance of the Hard-Pressed English While Fighting in Flanders Goes on With Un diminished Intensity; Wave After Wave of Enemy In fantry Beaten Back With Sanguinary Losses KAISER APPALLED AMSTERDAM, April 18.—Empcrorr William recently imulc a visit to the battlefield near Qucunt, west of Caiubrai, a war corre- i spondent of the Berlin l.okal Anzeiger writes. "His Majesty's silence was broken only once."' lie says, "when lie remarked to an officer who stood lieside him: 'What have 1 not done to preserve the world from these horrors?' j London, April 18-—Southeast of Kemmel hill on the northern; battlefront, the Germans pressed back the British line slightly, j but the situation was restored by a counterattack, the war office ! announces. During the night there was no change in the British j front. In the Bailleul sector the Germans made three attacks before! noon yesterday and in case suffered a complete repulse. The Germans opened a heavy bombardment of the British positions on the southwestern part of the Lys battlefront between Locon and Robecq, during the night. The bombardment was still in progress at dawn to-day. The text of the statement reads: Bombardment Is Heavy "There has been no change on the British front during the night. "The hostile artillery has shown great activity on the southern portion of the Lys battlefront from Givencliy to cast of Robccq. A heavy bombardment of our positions between Locun and Robccq was still continuing at dawn. "Local attacks were repulsed by our troops yesterday evening in the Mcrris sector. Losses Are Heavy "More detailed accounts of the lighting of yesterday on the forest of Nieppe, Wvtschactc front established the severity of the enemy's losses. Southeast of Kemmel hill the German in fantry attacked in three waves, and at one point pressed back our line slightly. In this locality the situation was restored by a counterattack and shortly after midday the attack had been re pulsed at all points. In the Bailleul sector the enemy attacked three times before midday and in each case suffered a complete repulse. "Our line of yesterday morning was reported intact on the whole front." HUNS TRY TO DRIVE WEDGE INTO BRITISH Undiminished in intensity, the great battle in Flanders and south across the French border goes or. Having retired east of Ypres, the British are now putting up a most desperate resistance to the Germans menacing Ypres and llazebrouck, the important supply base to the south west. French troops have come to Field Marshal Haig's assistance and are fighting side by side with the British in stemming the enemy tide east of Hasebrouck. Line Still Intact Field Marshal Ilaig to-dav reports his line on the Lys battlefield stand ing intact last night as it existed yes terday morning following the British retirement east of Ypres, no ground having been lost in the battling of yesterday despite the heavy German attacks through the entire period. Checked for the time at least, in front of the strong British positions dominated by Kemmel hill on the northeast of this front, the Germans are turning their attention to the southwesterly sector of the battle field. A heavy bombardment of the Brit ishi positions here between Locon and Robecq was reported in progress this morning. Jjook I-'or New Battle The enemy is finding himself cramped o nthe southerly side of the wedge he has pushed into the British lines and seems on the eve of an effort to widen it out here.. Furthermore, at Locon, the Ger mans are onJy some three miles north of Bethune. an important railway center, and at Robecq are within six miles of Lillers, a junction point on the railway from Bethune to Haze brouck. The British have been holding this sector of the front as strongly as they are the northwesterly edge of the salient, where they have held up the German attempt to advance further toward Hazebrouck. as was indi cated anew in the repulse of fresh German attacks last night in the Merris sector, along the Ballleul- Hazebrouck railway. German Plan Known It seems not unlikely that the en tente high command has forecast a possibly larger German purpose to drive determined southward, en velope Bothune, and push on to a point where they can compel the British to fall back from Givenchy and the region north of Arras, where the dominating Vimy ridge is the German objective. Whether indeed this be the larger German strategy has not yet been shown. The development of the en emy demonstration on the Locon- Kobecq line, however, will be fol lowed with close attention, in view of this possibility and its bearing upon the. great struggle on the Sonnne front to the south, where the firm hold ol the British on the Arras re gion and the line south to Albert has held up the enemy push on Amiens. During the last twenty-tour hours the heaviest fighting has been along the Lys on a front of fifteen miles from west to Merville to Wytsehaete. The British took the offensive and regained Wytsehaete and Meteren, six miles east northeast of Haze brouek, but the Germans, in strong counterattacks, forced them to re tire again. Along the remainder of the front the enemy threw wave after wave of attackers against the Franco-British defense, but it did not falter and the Germans gained nothing in payment for sanguinaiy losses. [Continued on Page 2.] Doctors Fail to Stop Hiccoughs, Which May Cause Man's Death John H. Cassell. aged 76 years, for many years a well known real estate man, is in a criUcal condition at his home, 1423 Swatara street, the re sult of hiccoughs. Mr. Cassell has been in bed ten days. The attack started twenty days ago. Two phy sicians have been unable to give permanent relief. For three days his condition has been growing worse and it is said death will come shortly unless the coughing is stopped. With the at tack came small lumps over the body. It is said that when these lumps, referred to frequently as "shingles" affect the heart region, death follows. This afternoon mem bers of the immediate family were summoned to the bedside. Mrs. Cas well who has been at the bedside of her husband constantly, is threaten ed wHh a breakdown. OSii.Y KVIOM.MtJ ASSOCIATED I'ItKSS NEWSIMPCIt IN HAIIIIISIIIIIiU CITY MUST WORK HARD TO REACH LIBERTY QUOTA Big Task Ahead if District Is Not lo Be Shamed Be fore Nation AS THEY DO IT IN BLAIN Blain. Perry county, has a population of 324—and that in cludes every man, woman and child in the town: Blain was asked to buy |7,000 worth of bonds. Up until noon to-day it has pur chased $8,850 liberty Bonds. And that isn't the finish—Blain is going- to buy more bonds. As they do it in Blain, Pa,, so should it be done in Harrisburg Harrisburg approaches the last week of the Liberty Loan campaign contident that while it will require the hardest kind of work the <-itv will buy $3,500,000 of Liberty Bond's at least—and the district ihe full Quota of $7,500,000. The quota for the district, inciden tally, is the third largest in Pennsyl vania, being surpassed only by the quotas for Philadelphia and Pitts burgh. No figures had been received from [Continued on Page 4.] Foes of Conscription Pelt Belfast Police With Stones; Smash Plate-Glass Windows By Associated Press London, April IS. Rioting at tended the breaking up of an anti conscription meeting in Belfast yes terday, says a dispatch to the Daily Xews. Itevolvers were used and baton charges were made by ihe police, who were pelted with pav ing stones. Virtually every plate glass window in the street was smashed, fifteen thousand persons participated in the meeting which "was called by the labor party. The trouble was pre cipitated, the dispatch states, by two shipyard workers. ± * i+ + $ SENATE CALLS.FOR NAMES | It 4- I -and-adopted 1 X T T \: •* !f & J been usued hut who have hot been placed t * *s♦ t W <* ev T T T 4 Z j ! t * IT ' " A A X £ 14* • i v: > va T IT Set announced to-day include the assign- * ' 4 J* £ • IX A C littee. ** L 4 IMPORTANT FLEET UNITS SAFJ 2 I I A T T 4* ? iispatches received here to-day • *£ I 4 4 T * T ,\Y LY V. A ♦i -4 X I $ i?I r . . .!% lh IX ' ttle area. say* a dlspatcfy .from Londan *l* 4 WILL SPEED UP TANK CORPS 2 , s " X ■- *** , ™ v* Hp Corps was ordered accelerated to-day by the War Depart- {Hfe j *§• ♦£ IL ment. Announcement was made of the appointment 'of, X 157 second lieutenants for the corps. !$ ; PRICE COAL FOR railroads J 1 • i.i t n —Railroads hereafter wHJ purchase their,.JF 4* t •" hc :;! .1 .iri-.et price and car. will r.v c .-only db- 4 4i . reached b A ? dfuel r.iii;trations. O • :T T J. ent, it was pointed outto-day; w2f he that al m T 'lil'-c in ¥ . SCHWA*} GOES TO WASHINGTON 3* 4 .'! X Washington to asniMe the post.of director of &hip- .▼ *7* *• t T 4* * * | MARRIAGE £ *7* Forrnt !•'. .lour* miiil Hrrlhii >l. Ilnkl. Sfrrltum Charlra E. Mil- *4* <4* ler nnd Irene V. I nnper, Harrlaburgi Salomon M. Kmiinuel and # vL f Kllth J. Flakier, Hnrrlabnrci Hrrmnn (i, I ons and Ida ,U. Htlflmtr, T IP HarrUburg. HOME EDITION DRAFT BOARDS CALL MEN FOR ARMY SERVICE Registered Men Skilled in Many Trades to Get a Chance to Enlist LEAVE FOR CAMP APRIL 26 Quotas For Camp Lee and Colored Contingent Not Yet Made Local exemption boards through out the stat£ this mor-iing received orders from state draft headquarters to notify their quotas of white men for Camp Meade to be in readiness to entrain for camp on April 26. The Harrisburg boards will s r nd their men at 11.50 Friday morning, April 26. At the same time the chairmen of the local boards were notified that registered men will be given a chance to enroll for skilled work with the view to be inducted into the Army for the service in which they are efficient. Twelve thousand of these enrolled men will be called next month, and the quotas will be [Continued on Page i.] Germans Pillage Russ . Village, Kill Fleeing Women and Children Moscow. April 10, Wednesday.—• Because the peasants in the village of Novoselki in the government oC Mohilev resisted an armed requisi tion of money by German troops and killed an officer in the resulting scuffle, the Germans burned the vil lage and from machine guns placed around it fired upon the inhabitants, including the women and child r-?U, who tried to escape, killing many of them. A protest against this atrocity has been communicated to the German government by M. Tehitcherin, Uus sian minister of foreign affairs. The minister also mentions the fact that the Germans killed an entire family, even the little children, when th.-y were informed that one member had participated in guerilla warfare against them.
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