.. 7 j Teuton Staffs Make Rheims but Smoking Ruins; HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Jok ©K otar JnDcpcnsciil * * LXXXVII— No. 93 22 PAGES ,/ft/TVS CHECKED OUTFLANK LINE ALLIES HOLD FIRM IN BLOODY FIGHT; RHEIMS DESTROYED BRITISH TROOPS REPULSE ENEMY AS FRENCH GAIN Switching of Battlefront Gains Nothing For Attacking Germans ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY Attack Now Directed With View of uTrning Flan ders Front By Associated Trcss Although tlie great German thrust launched last neck against the British lines from Givcnchv to Ypres has bent back the British front badly in this entire area, tire offensive here stainds checked to-day and in imminent danger of utter failure so far as the larger results aimed at arc concerned. Field Marshal Haig's troops yesterday had to meet one of severest tests yet put upon them in withstanding a German effort to broaden out the salient treated before the early impetus of the German drive in the Lys battlefield was spent. They came through the ordeal with colors flying and completely stopped the German onrush. Hurled in Masses From Givench.v to St. Vcnant. an eleven-mile sector on the southerly side of the salient, German troops were hurled in masses on the Brit ish positions in an effort to break through to the southwest behind Bethune and compel the British to fall back from Givenchy and along the front southward towards Vimy ridge and Arras. The defensive line held firm de spite repeated desperate assaults which cost the Germans enormous losses. East night the battle had died down to an artillery duel. German line Exposed Further efforts, probably of an equally determined nature, may be expected from the Germans, -who arc in too exposed a position from en filading gunfire in their narrow salient to rest comfortably where they are. Indeed, they resumed their attacks last night, in the Mount Kemmel region on the northern side of the battlefield, southwest of Ypres where they are finding the British firmly Installed on the dom inating heights. These assaults like the preceding ones, were failures. On the Somme battlefront the French have held to their gains of yesterday in the region of Castel. (vhere they drove the German further from the line of the Parls-Ainiens railway in a spirited local attack. German machine gun nests on the front of this attack were wiped out by the French during the night. The British troops are standing firm before strong enemy attacks on the front north of Arras, while southeast of Amiens the French have driven the Germans back in the region of Caste!. The heaviest fighting on the north ern front is on the southern side of the salient from St. Yenant, west of MervHle. to Givenchy. On this sleven-mile front the Germans are [Continued on Page 13.] I THE WEATHER, I For HnrriftbnrK nnil vicinityi Fair ' to-night and Sniiirdiiv; colder to-nljslit, with frost In expoxe-d •< place*! lowcMt temperature about freezing. For Knntern l'ennylvniiln: Fnlr to-night and Saturdays cooler to-night In Houth portion- IIKIIJ I front In exposed places: light I northwest winds. Temperature! N a. ni.. So. Suns Hises, (Ifll a. m.s sets, 7i30 p. m. Moon! Full moon, April 2(1, 4:05 a. m. River StaKei ll. feet nliove lon nntfr mark. Yesterdnj-K Weather IflfShest temperature, 71. I.oncst temperature. SI Mean temperature, tit. formal temperature, 52. Germans Completely Repulsed in Fresh Attacks on English IXMMIOD, April 19. THE Germans were completely repulsed in the attack they launched yesterday around Glvenchy, on the southern side of the Lys battlefront, the war office announced to-day. When the ;tssau!ts ceased, after heavy losses, the enemy had only been able to secure a limited footing at one or two points of the more advanced British defenses. Six different German divisions,, it has been determined, were en gaged in the unsuccessful attack in the Givenchy-St. Yenant sec tor. Tho enemy launched further attacks last evening south of Kemmel. These were broken up by the British artillery and ma chine-gun lire. Enemy attacks on the British lines in the north ern ;>;ft of ttie Lys battlefield area south of Kemmel were suc cessfully repulsed. CALL TO FIELD OF FRANCE STIRS LATIN PREMIER Troops to Be Sent lo Battle Front, Sealing Union of Allies By Associated Prest WASHINGTON, April in.— Italian regiments already arc in France and form the right wing of tile allied armies, the Italian embassy announced to-day. Home. Thursday, April IS.—Premier I Orlando announced in the Chamber | of Deputies to-day that Italian troops ! would be dispatched to the battle ■ front in France. The announcement, | received with a storm of applause, 1 WPS as .follows: "Italy, which follows with admira tion the heroic efforts of the Anglo i'rtnch troops on the western front, ! rould not remain absent from the | Uattle fields of France. She wishes I to bring to her allies tangible proof | of solidarity and very soon the colors , of Italian regiments will fly over the fields of Picardy beside those of the ! French, British, American, Belgian and Portuguese, thus sealing the un ion which exists between the Allied peoples and governments." Teuton Foes March Openly Into Death Before Mount Kemmel By Associated Press Ottawa, April 19. The British battle line is more secure than it mis been for days, justifying the belief the enemy may be held in present positions, says a lteuter dispatch re ceived from London to-day. The arrive! of the French is re garded as most important. They are described as splendidly seasoned men. The sight of the long blue lines marching up the roads heartened the British, giving them a fresh sense of security and the news of the French aggressive stroke south of Amiens still further heartened the pnxious watchers at home. The Brit ish withdrawal east of Yyres was due to the German advance from the south along the Lys valley, threaten ing complications of the Ypres army. Before Mount Kemmel, the rugged wood hill that already has cost the J enemy so dearly, their masses are ad vancing openly and are mowed down.' The enemy here is trying to break a I way beyond Meteren and west of Bailleul. Although we abandoned Meteren and Wytschaete, the enemy position is most uncomfortable. Crown Princess Denies Pardon to Girl Friend of Woman Shot as Spy By Associated Press Geneva, April 19.—When Atiss Edith Cavell was executed in Bel-1 gium by the Germans a girl frieir*, i Miss Julia Wyss. aged 20, of Gen eva was sentenced to 25 years' penal servitude for the same offense. She is now in a Prussian prison. A petition for a pardon, signed by 3,000 women of Geneva was sent to the Crown Princess of German nearly a year ago. A eold. almost brutal reply signed by Baron Von Ttulpen zel, secretary to the Crown Princess, has just been received. It states briefly the petition cannot bo taken ,nto consideration by the crown princess. SI.tGI.H COPY, 3 CENTS ! TEUTON SHELLS MAKEOFRHEIMS SMOKING RUINS Famous Cathedral Falling ; Stone by Stone With Bombs Bursting Around Building AVIATORS SEE FLAMES i Paris Firemen Work Under Fire of Enemy in an Effort to Save By Associated Press Paris. April 19.—Rheims, which | has been on fire for a week, is now i nothing but a great pile of smoking j ruins. During the past week the I Germans have fired more than 100.- : 000 shells into the heart of the city, I according to the correspondent of Le | Matin, and the flames from burning ) buildings can be seen by aviators i sixty and seventy miles away. There are no traces of streets and j thoroughfares which have disap | peared from view under the accumu • lation of debris. Ancient buildings I in the Place Royaie and the market | place and the Musicians House, ; which dates from the Sixteenth een ! tury, have been reduced to dust Q.IKI j ashes. j The vaulting of the famous Rheims i Cathedral, the correspondent says, is | falling stone by stone and soon there | will be nothing left of the edifice; j but the west front and the pillars.! j Shells are still bursting all around! I the building. Withered by War i Notwithstanding the terrible boni-j j bardment forty Paris firemen arej i still in the city working to save thei | furniture and portable effects of the' | inhabitants. Some of them have lost' j 'heir lives. With the Paris firemen | are some local firemen, one of wliom.j | Sergeant Eloi, has been on duty inj ! Rheims since the outbreak of the! , war and has been wounded fourteen j times. Rheims, before the war. a city of more than 100,000 souls, has slowly j but none the less surely been falling i a victim to German hate and spite- | fulness. In their first advance in the ! fall of 1914, the Hermans held | Rheims for several days but the bat tle of the Marne stopped their ad vance and thev fell back to a line a few miles north and northeast of the city. Since then the big German guns have been bombarding the city and its famous cathedral. The popula tion of the city until a few months ago was less than 18,'000, but these persons lived in dugouts or in cel lars and the city virtually was dead. Hose Window Gorgeous Art The cathedral was one of the most magnificent examples of early Oothic architecture and was begun in 1212. The west facade has three portals which contain about 530 statues. Above the portals was the gorgeous rose window, forty feet in diameter and one of the finest speci mens of the art of stained glass construction. Up to November 1, 1916, the Germans had fired thousands of shells into the city, one thousand of j which had struck the cathedral. Since then, whenever the German j troops met with reverses, the enemy | guns took up the bombardment j anew. Until the latest bombardment i the cathedral had suffered greatly. The leaden roofs had been destroy ed and the rose window irtually so. Pope Request Denied In January, 1917, Emperor Wil liam, in response to a request from Pope Benedict, said he would per mit repairs to be made to the cathe dral in his endeavor "to preserve from the terrors of war venerable places of religious worship and monuments of art which I consider as the common property of human ity.-' The German military authorities have attempted to excuse the bom bardment of the cathedral on the ground that it was being used for military purposes by the French. This claim lias been denied repeat edly by Archbishop Lucon. who up until a few weeks ago, made his home in his residence beside the cathedral, unmindful of German hatred. TO HAVE SING-SONG SATURDAY York, Pa., April 19. —Beginning Saturday evening thq lobby of the York Y. M. C. A. building is to be a comunitv singing centar, for the male chorus of the institution has created what is termed "Sing-Song Saturday" and every Saturday evening the big chorus will assemble in the lobby and sing patriotic and otber war songs. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1918 CVIVE HIM. SOME OF THAT SAME ' MEDICINE VOU _ ;/• GAVE THE STEEL f~ j BUSINESS >DOC. j 1 J CROWDER PLANS TO REGISTER ALL MEN UP TO 50 New Draft Program Would Give Army Control of Labor Situation Washington, April 19.—Plans for the registration of every man in tho United States between the ages of 21 end 50. under a proposed amend ment of the draft law, have been submitted to the President by Pro vost Marshal-General -Crowder. The execution of such a draft pro gram, it is pointed out. would vir tually place control of the labor sit uation under military authorities and would mobilize the entire manpower of the United States for call to the colors as rapidly as military exi gencies dictate. There has been no inkling from the White House as yet regarding the President's view of the plan. However, the mere fact that It has been forwarded to the Chief Execu tive would indicate, it is pointed out, [Continual on Page 15.] Shriners to Give Patriotic Pageant and Dance For Benefit of Red Cross Fund Through the courtesy of Charles l E. Covert, illustrious potentate of; Zembo Temple, the Shrine will fur- ' nish a patriotic pageant, band con- j cert and a dance at Chestnut Street! Hall next Thursday evening for the i benefit of Harrisburg chapter Amer ican Red Cross. The committee in charge consists of Mrs. Charles W. Burtnett, chair man; Mrs. W. P. Starkey, Mrs. A. H. Bailey, Mrs. S. F. Dunkle, F. H. Hoy Jr. and Mercer B. Tate. The program of exercises will be made up of community singing, led by Mrs Wilbur F. Harris, director of the Wednesday Club Choir, the Zembo Band, under leadership of Cornelius B. Shope, and dancing to Zembo Band music. There will be numerous "stunts" to entertain during the evening, par ticulars of which will be given out later. The entire proceeds from sale of tickets will go to the Red Cross. These tickets have been thoroughly distributed owing entirely to the en ergy of the women in charge. In other years Zembo Temple g&ve an annual entertainment for the Red Cross Christmas Stamp campaign, but this year it was decided that the event should be a benefit for the Harrisburg Chapter, At Last They've Called in a Specialist CLERGY JOIN IN LIBERTY PARADE FOR DEMOCRACY | Coal Miners and Steelwork crs Buy Bonds to Aid in War i Dauphin county (not including | Harrisburg, $242,000. Cumberland county, $796,500. Perijy county. $109,300. Juniata county. $55,650. No exact totals were procurable for Harrisburg to-day-, in the matter of Liberty Bond purchases, 'jut the returns from the balance of the dis trict show that it is coining strong. The Dauphin county returns shown above do not include tho big sub scriptions in Steelton or Halifax; and the showing for the four coun ties is that of 5 o'clock Thursday eve ning. Harrisburg banks last evening re ported $50,450 bonds purchases, and this figure Is exclusive of the more than a million dollars' worth of bonds sold to the workers and the employ-' [Continual on Page 15.] Workers in Dry Campaign Plan For Victory at a Big Noonday Luncheon Members of the Dauphin County Ratification Committee of the Anti- Saloon League of this district held a noon luncheon to-day at the Y. M. C. A. to make plans for the cam paign to elect candidates to the leg islature fiom this county who have pledged themselves to support pro hibition. Eighty members were pres ent at the meeting. J. Horace Mc- Farland making tho principal ad dress. Ho declared prohibition was! decidedly the best way to win the | war, and said that it would also promote industry, good citizenship and save tood and fuel If the sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquor wcro stopped. Following the luncheon a meet-1 ing of the executive committee was! called. The members were in ses- 1 sion late this afternoon, completing! plans for the crmpaign. ANOTHER 100 PER CENTER The fifteen employes of the State Banking Department have made a 100 per cent." subscription to the Third. Liberty Loan, it was an nounced to-day. Every employe of the department signed the subscrip tion card, according to D. H. Lafean. State Banking ryfrrar ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH IS TO BE SET APART Bishop McDcvitt Will Have Help of Clergy at Con secration Services j Transformed, as with a magician's I wand. St. Lawrence's Roman Catho- I lie Church, once a landmark on the j .site of the new Capitol Park exten ( sion, now a magnificent structure and model of .modern art in State I street near Front, was ready to-day I for solemn consecration ceremonies to-morrow and on Sunday. All morning and afternoon the rich, beautiful and spacious auditorium resounded with the chants of chil [Continued on Page 16.] Harrisburg's First Wounded Soldier at Home Port The first Harrisburg soldier to ar rive from Franco with experience in tho recent furious battles will be i Arthur M. Eckert, 36 Balm street, | whose father received word to-day j that the wounded hero will arrive | this evening at Newport News, ! where Mr. Eckert will hasten to take i care of bis patriotic son. Young j Eckert entered the engineer service and as the cable stories tell, this unit of America saw some of the severest lighting in the present gi gantic operations. The report of Ec.K ert being wounded came in about one week ago and tho speedy journey back to "God's country" was very gratifying to tho soldier boy's par ents and friends. He will most like ly reach Harrisburg on Monday. Boy Burns to Death When Country Home Is Destroyed Chambcrsburg, Pa., April 19. Gerald Patterson, aged 6, son of Mrs. Ira Patterson, of Harrisburg, was burned to death this morning ! when the double stone house of Mrs. ' Mary Patterson in Roxbury, the old | Pomery Mansion, was totally de [ slroyed by lire. Thfe boy's aged grandmother was rescued with difficulty from the second-story window, but- the little boy, who slept with her, perished as he was stupefied with smoke. The fire is said to have caught from a defective flue. Mrs. Patter son and her daughter. Mrs. Jacob Letiman, and family each occupied a half of the mansion, and both fami lies were iryrrtnC tmt. ONI.Y KVH.MSii; ASSIICIAIIiII I'llbM NEWSPAPKIt IN llAltlllSltlHin MEN CALLED FOR NATIONAL ARMY GET SUMMONSES Scores Who Leave For Camp This Month Officially Notified by Boards SCHEDULES ANNOUNCED Draftees to Entrain in City and Elizabethville For Meade and Lee County and city draft boards this I morning received instructions to announce their quotas for the move- I ment of white and colored men to . Camps Meade and I-.ee." Two hundred and seventy-six men ! in the city and county are effected by the call of registrants to Meade and Lee. The colored men who will So to Meade will entrain Friday, April 2ij, on the same train with the white quotas for Meade. Har risburg men will entrain at 11.50 I' riday morning. They have been ordered to appear at their exemption board headquarters Thursday for flnal instructions. The -quotas of white men for Camp Lee will entrain Tuesday, April 30. Harrisburg men will en train on a special at 9.45 a. m. They will- receive tlnal instructions from their boards the morning before. All these men will be notified to up pear at Red Cross headquarters for comfort kits before their departure. Attorney Is Called J. Dress Pannell, of Ste'elton, widely-known young attorney, and [Continued oil Page 10.] Reading Has Fire in Business Heart Oy Associated Press Heading, Pa.. April I.—Twelve families, comprising over forty peo ple. were driven i.ito the street in nightclothes from their homes ;n the Saylor apartments, in llie busi ness heart of the city at 3 o'clock this morning, by a tire which gutted | three stores, damaged another and threatened the entire apartment building which is six stories high. I The loss was estimated at $50,000. -? & 4* 4- 4 LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS $1,161,510,050 X 7 '■-: t i'.:.i" .> T 4* <4* 4* L j '-' 1 • the Treasury. X J • ROBS TRAIN , CONDUCTOR, 5 § >L Y cap '. .. J a Michigan' Central passenger train last T,j 4 A T* *! 4 co X 4 X 4 X 4 .HAKES MARTINIQUE i ejs [J-j de France Martinique- Slight earth shocks hava X fm | after noon Sunday and continued until 2 o'clock this X T afternoon. J*'s 5 U. S TAKES MAGNETO PLANTS X X • Washington—The government has taken over the big "P 4* lemy-owned plants of the Bosch Magneto Company #j X Spring field, Mas-.;-, and' Piainfiel'd, N. J., and. director! | 4 • will I Alien Property Custodian Palmer. ■ + $ " + J J SENATE WILL AGREE TO $2.20 WHEAT J * * believed the 5 * X ' * dent Wilson, when the bill is sent from conference. Tht •§►'* ' * X *; r, v * '' '•H • ** i h , her price. g -J i * TEUTONS BOMBARD COAST J Amsterdam—German torpedo craft bombarded i ▼, , cc ccn Dunkirk, and Nieuport behind the allied 2 jL lines in Flanders yesterday morning, says an officia, 3?' * statement from Bcrlin.'to-day. • ** Z MUN!CI PA L COURT JUDGE J N DIC~ ED X T * j Wiihani T Wheeler, T, |t 4* Z of embezzlement, So far as; known, Judge Wheeler ha*. X * * n-r • resignation would be ..-At in ret i'■ t , Gv c Brumbaugh.' The jurist is accused of having <{• * J misappropriated $50,000 from an estate. JT. 9 * * ** MARRIAGE L €w M| X Joufph J. W>lty ">"• Only M. * Motrin. HnrrUhuret flaudr W. "T" nankin and Alice .V. X. StM-le. Strrllong Wnlkrr C. Knmirv. p„|_ •?< mjru, nnil Mary K. Malty, Itoynlton; John J. (iroiipe and li.lnn T. t Kurta. Mlddlrtonn. f HOME EDITION ALL DISORDERLY HOUSES CLOSE IN ANTI-VICE DRIVE Mayor Kcister Acts at Sugges tion of l\ S. Department of Justice SUSPECTS ML'ST LEAVE Proprietors of Alleged Resorts Told That Law Must Be Obeyed Harrisburg is being "cleaned up." so far as vice and disorderly resorts are concerned. Mayor Keistcr this week received an urgent communication from tlio United States Department of Justice, informing him that the city must be made safe for the men in uniform who come into the city for furloughs or in passing through to their camps. In addition, the Mayor was told that the city should not be a harbor for disorderly houses for the patron age of the military camp at .Middle town, and the great influx of labor ers who are carrying on the building projects near the city. Complying with the instructions of the Department of Justice, Mayor Keister at once called Chief of I'o [OonUiuied on' l'agc 20.] Reserves Enlarge Work to Suppress Disloyal and Enforce the Laws The Harrisburg Reserves will meet in the Courthouse at 7.30 o'clock this evening to discuss plans for widening the activities and enlarging the scope of the work of the organ ization. It is the purpose of the organization, aside from its military efforts as a home guard, to consti tute itself a local civic body for the promotion of patriotic, service, the enforcement of food and fuel laws and the suppression of disloyalty. The Reserves will see to it that ail cases of disloyalty or laxity are re ported to the proper authorities and will endeavor in every way to stimu late war work in Harrisburg. Jesse K. B. Cunningham, former dtputy attorney general, will de liver a patriotic address.
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