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GERMAN AR TILLER
WA Y FOR A TTA CK IN FLANDERS
ALLIED LINES NEAR ;
YPRES SUBJECTED
TO HEAVY GUNFIRE
London, May 4. —An intense bombardment was opened by the
(lermans carlv this morning on the Flanders front from Locre to
the south of Ypres. There is great activity also in the sector
between the forest of dc Xicppe and Mcteren, the war office
announces.
Germany's military leaders still
liesitate to renew in force the of
fensive to which they are committed
and the lull in Flanders and Picardy
is still unbroken by heavy infantry
lighting.
The past week has lieen a dis
tinctly unfavorable one for tho
enemy. Alter capturing Mont Kem
mel and heralding it as only the first
step of a victorious blow in Flanders,
the Germans have not been able to
advance either southwest of Ypres
or east of Amiens. Checked by the
heroic defensive of the French and
British in the north they also were
unable to gain south of the Somnie.
French Make Local Gains
In Picardy (hiring the past few
days the British and French, espe
cially General Petain's men. have
made Important loc;il gains anil Ihe
Germans have not reacted In force,
an unusual procedure. The enemy
has made no attempt lo force the
French from Hill Si, near Castol,
and from the new positions around
Hansard. The British and French In
the Villers-Bretonneux region also
have not been molested except by the
German artillery which continues a
most violent bombardment south of
the Somnie and north and .south of
the A vie. •
Intense enemy artillery fire on the
southern flank in Flurtders has not
Tet been followed by infantry light
ing. The Germans also are bombard
ing heavily the British north of Al
bert. Perhaps the enemy may intend
a blow on the Arras salient as these
bombardments have been against
the northern and southern lines of
the saltern. Dispatches from the
British front Indicate the Germans
are making ready for further at
tacks and it is believed they have
not yet had time to complete all ar
rangements.
Allied Airmen Busy
Anglo-French airmen continue to
harass the German communication
lines in northern France and Bel
gium and have dropped thousands of
bombs on railroads, railway stations
and other important targets. Thirty
eight German machines of which
22 were destroyed, have been ac
counted for by the British and
French. On the American front
northwest of Toul, Aviator Chapman
lias met death in a combat in which
he destroyed his adversary, both
machines falling in German terri
tory.
Great Russia rapidly is being cut
off from access to its former .Euro
pean allies. Finland is almost com
pletely under control of the Finnish
government forces and its German
allies, while in the south of all but
the eastern coast of the Black Sea is
in the hands of tho central empires.
The Turks have reached Batoum in
the Caucasus and in the north, Ber
lin claims, the Germans have occu
pied Taganrog, at the mouth of the
Bon river and in the Don Cossack
territory and also a part of the great
Donetz coal basin.
Berlin significantly refers to the
Finnish red guards as the "enemy"
in announcing the defeat and cap
ture of 20,000 of them. Reports that
a German prince will head a mon
archy in Finland again, are being
circulated. These rumors come from
Finnish cities under German con
trol.
German Submarine
Base Still Blocked
London. May 4. Latest reports
show that the Germans are display
ing great activity in endeavoring to
repair the damage caused at Zco
brugge, the submarine base on the
Belgian coast, by the recent British
naval raid. The channel still is
blocked and it is thought likely it
will remain so for a considerable
time.
• Apart from the fact that the en
trance is occupied by two sunken
concrete vessels, the position ot the
sunken cruiser Thetis, which :s at
the edge of the shoals, is likely to ii:-
trease the difficulties of dredging and
prevent the harbor from being clear
ed uP
Admiral Jellicoo has sent warm
congratulations to Admiral Key" l ;-,
who directcdfthe raid. Plans for '.he
enterprise were approved by Admi
ral Jellicoe when he was first sea
lord.
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John C. Motter
Talks Investments Put
THRIFT STAMPS
up to him, and then
buy so many a week
nele Sam will be
glad
Three Persons Killed
in Auto Accident in
l Jersey; Car Turns Over
Atlantic City, X. .1., May 4.—Three
poisons were killed and one badly
injured last night in an automobile
accident near Absecon, across the
meadows from this city. The dead
are: Veletta Bowen, 26, Philadel
| phia; "William Wagner, Camden, N.
j J.; unidentified man, of Camdon.
Mrs. Mary Horn, sister, of Miss Bow
j en, was injured.
! The party was on the way to At
lantic City and in turning out to
avoid a collision with another auto
mobile their car turned over, pin
ning all but Mrs. Born beneath it.
The gasoline exploded and set fire to
the woods, necessitating: tho calling:
out of the Absecon fire department
! to extinguish the flames.
Germans Are Sending
Youths in Alsace-Lorraine
Ppjptg to. Front Lines
By Associated Press
liSenevn, May 4.—The German mili
tary authorities are sending direct to
tin* front linos all youths from the
H'sorve depots in Alsace Ijorraine, ac
cording: to an Alsatian chemist, who
has just arrived here from Mulhtusen.
The chemist already has lost four
sons, the latest aged 18, having* been
killed at Locre, in the Flanders bat
tle
"The Hermans are omplo\ ing their
last reserves," said the Alsatian, "es
pecially the soldiers from Alsace Lor
raine. It is the German manner of
settling the question of the two prov
inces. If a referendum is t;t£cn after
the war onl\ a few Alsatian electors
will bo left."
Trains Full of Wounded
Germans From Battle Front
Counted on Nemur-Liege
Ry Associated Press
\ iitKleriliini. May 4. Two hundred
I and sixty-live trains full of wounded
soldiers, returning to Germany from
the battle fronts in l'ieardy and
Flanders, says the newspaper Lcs
Nonvelles of the Hague, were counted
in the daytime on April 9, April 11 nnd
April 12 on the Nemur-Liege Railway.
The transports were so crowded that
the Germans were even using coal
cars to carry the wounded.
Hospitals, convents, schools and fac
tories in Belgium, the paper adds, are
ali packed with wounded.
Germans Take 20,000
Finnish Prisoners
I Berlin, via London, May 4.—"ln
! southwestern Finland we have ovvr
| wlielmlngly defeated the enemy dttr
| ins a five days' battle' near Lakhti
! and Tavasthus, capturing 20.000
prisoners," says the German official
| communication issued to-day. ,
"in Ukraine our troops marched
from the Ekatlerinoslav-Kharkov
line into the Donetz. region. We oc-
I eupied Tagenrog, on the Sea of
j Azov."
Britain Is Ready to
Meet Peace Drive
l.oudoii. May 3. — In tho personal
opinion of Lord Robert Cecil, Min
ister of Blockade, tho failure of Ger
many's "knockout offensive" on the
Western front will result in a big
peace offensive, directed mainly
against Great Britain ahd possibly
made in an attractive form, but
j which will not afford any terms the
j Allies ran look at.
| In this opinion, made in a state
| ment to The Associated Press, Lord
i Kobert expressed tho further belief
j that the new peace offensive would
be largely for German consumption,
because "the rulers of Germany
know that If they have to rely on
their own resources they cannot hold
; out much longer."
Overland Records Prove
Physicians Use Closed Cars
i A study of the sales records of
' Willys-Overland, Inc., reveals many
j interesting facts in connection with
I the growing business uses of the nio
i torcar. It is an established fact that
the farmer has been one of the larg
est purchasers of the automobiles
and now it has been conservatively
estimated that fi3 per cent, of the
automobile ownership is confined to
the rural districts including towns of
less than 5,000 population. Hut
there were other trades and profes
sions which have founil tho automo
bile to be indispensable in the ef
fective handling of their business.
SI.MiI.IC COPY,
a CENTS
Her Cooking Economy Appeals to War Savers
.
V;'
• MRS. KATE BREW VAUQHtt
Many endorsements arc given popular cookery teacher, who returns to Harrisburg next
cek to conduct her famous series of war lectures and demonstrations.
YOUTHFUL RED
CROSS WORKERS
TAG THOUSANDS
City Combed From End to
End by Children For
Patriotic Cause
Eighty thousand Harriaburgers
played in a game of "tag" to-day.
Every man and woman in the
street WHS "It" and every youngster
was chasing him or her. "Buy a
tag!" You .had to do it to-day or
you were in trouble. The proceeds of
tho sale are to go to the Junior Red
Cross and the buying of supplies for
the thousands of school children who
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ASK HARRISBURG
FOR VOLUNTEERS
TO GO TO FRONT
J. William Bowman, Chair
man of Committee to Rc
crujt For "Y" Service
"Wc hope to have Harrisburg rep
resented in France in the Y. M. C. A.
work," said ex-Mayor J. William
Bowman, chairman of the recruiting
committee to-day. "Indeed it la es
sential that every city the size cf
1 lari'isburg send a number of men
to France to help In the great work
being done by the Y. M. C. A. for
our soldiers. After hearing of the
needs of the service at the meeting
yesterday I have been more than im
pressed with the importance of 'he
work.' We must provide not only
dollars but men, and there is op
portunity for men of many qualifica
tions. The committee will get to
work Immediately and we hope to
have many volunteers from Ilarris
burg and vicinity.
Mr. Bowman was appointed chair
man of the committee to recruit .ol
[ContinucU on Page 10.]
V. S. AND NORWAY SIGN
TRADE AGREEMENT
Washington. May 4.—Signing .of a
general commercial agreement be
tween the United States and Norway,
the first agreement of the kind to be
entered into by America with one r.f
tho no.-th European neutrals, Y.'IIS
aifciounccd la.-t night by the
Trade Board.
HARRISBURG, FA., SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1918,
YANKEE BIRDMAN
FLAMING VICTIM
AFTER AIR DUEL
American and Toulon Pour
Lead at Each Other;
Planes ftpin Down
By Associated Press
Willi tlio American Army ill
Franco. May 3.—Charles W. Chop
man, Jr., of Waterloo, Towa, an 3 a
German pilot plunged to the carta
inside the German lines, both their
machines wrapped in flames, follow
ing a battle over the American li.ies
northwest of Toul to-day. Four otn
er American machines returned safe
ly after driving an equal number of
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NATION TAKES ALL
STEEL AND IRON
FOR WAR ON HUN
By Associated Press 9
Surplus After Needs Are Met
to Be Given to Peace
ful Industries
nxlilnKton. March 4.—Every ton
of stee. and pigiron in the country
vitrually lias been commandeered by
the Government for war purposes and
any surplus remaining after war
needs are met will be distributed to
non-war Industries under strict Gov
ernment supervision.
This was learned yesterday fol
lowing publication in New York of
minutes of a meeting there last Fri
day attended by the chief stcelmen
of the country and J. Eeonard He-j
ploglc, director of steel for the Wa:
industries Board.
Eight thousand tons of pigiron
were taken yesterday from a large
mill engaged in less essential work
and shipped to a steel mill doing war
work which was about to close down
because of pigiron shortage. Similar
action has been taken more than once
during the past few weeks, and the
practice will be continued whenever
steel mills nnd plants engaged in
lion-war work have steel and pigiro.i
needed at turn in?, out rurc-l I'm j
the Government's war roiui.crticnt. . j
RUSSIA TO SEND
40,000 TEUTONS
HOME WEEKLY
3.000.000 Prisoners to Be Re
patriated Through New
Arrangement
Moscow, Saturday. April 27. —The
exchange of prisoners with Germany
will'soon begin. A special commis
sion charged with this work has ar
rived here with Count von Mirbach,
the new German Ambassador to
Russia. There are 3,000,000 Rus
sians in German hands, while 1,-
000,000 Germans are held in Rus
sia. The first fo be exchanged will
be women, boys under sixteen and
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U.S. NAVY TO
HAVE 500,000
MEN THIS YEAR
America Has 170 Warships,
Manned by 40,000 Sailors,
in Foreign Waters
Vork, May 4.—The United
States Navy will br increased to
nearly 600,000 men before the end of
the year, declared Franklin D. Roose
velt, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy., in an address last night at
the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion in Brooklyn. He added that,
whereas there were only 75,000 men
In the Navy at the beginning of the
war, there are now 370,000.
.Speaking on "ThA Navy," Mr.
Rooaevelt said that "It Is somewhat
difficult nowadays to talk of the
Navy, but he added that he was giv
ing away no secrets In stating that
the United States now has 170 war
ships, manned by 40,000 sailors. In
foreign waters.
Dully Addition to Fieri
"Hardly a day passes in which we
do not add a ship to the American
Meet in Europe," he continued, hut
warned Ills audience that we may
"lose a transport In these C-hoat at
tacks."
Asserting that Germany cannot be
beaten by "words, starvation or by
hoping for a revolution In Austria,"
he continued:
"We must \>ln this war by light
ing Germany on the field. No man
has llie light t> If optimistic and
>.a,. '*r .He '• I.■ in vvi.i this war."
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TEUTON DRIVE ON
KEMMEL FIERCER
THAN AT VERDUN
German Gunners Placed Ten ;
Shells Per Second on i
Crest of Hill
FRENCH USE GAS MASKS j
i
Large Part of Fighting in j
Drive For Channel Was i
With Machine Guns
By Associated Press
Willi (lie llritinh Arns}' in Franco,
Firday, May 3. —Vcteians of the de
fense of Verdun predominated
among the French soldiers who so
gallantly defended Kcmrael hill
against the Germans. Many of them
had fought at Fleury, but declare
Verdun was nothing compared to
what the French troops experienced
during the German drive against
Kemmel. The French troops took up
positions about Kemmel on April 22,
relieving the battle-weary British.
Throughout April 23 and 24, before
the attack, the Germans maintained
a tremendous bombardment and
threw hundreds of thousands of gas
shells mixed with ordinary explosive
shells.
Ten Sliollk Per Seeonil
On the morning of tho attack on i
Kemmel the German gunners placed |
ten big shells per second on the crest
of the hill and during that day tho
French put on their gas masks fifty
different times, for as fast as the
wind cleared the gas away another
deluge of the poinosomis vapor |
poured over the hill. Part of the
time the pollus had to sleep in their
gas masks. Despite the great |uan
tlties of gas thrown,' the French had
'tinTy' twelve casualties from It, ac
cording to the latest reports.
A large, part of the fighting was ,
with machine guns, of which the
Germans always had great numbers,
and at times the German enfilading
fire was terrific. The French artil- |
lery and machine guns, however,
reaped a great harvest from tho
enemy. Tho German losses in many
instances are placed as high as forty
per cent.
The rationing of one famous regi
ment which fought at Verdun was a
great feat. It always had been noted
for its fine rations, and the comman
der decided nothing should deprive
the men of their accustomed fare.
It was Impossible to use tie trans
port because of the artilery fire, so
that rations were brought forward
on machine gun carriages under a
heavy fire. The regiment bad Its
beefsteak. and wine every day and
furnished neighboring regiments as
well.
Teuton Plane* l*our Firf
German airplanes were put in
force. They Hew at an altitude of
100 meters and used machine guns
continuously against the infantry.
Son Turns Alien Father's
Property Over to U. S.;
$40,000,000 in All
Washing-ton, May 4.—George Kh
ret. .la., of New York city, upon
learning from the State Department
i that his father, George Ehret, Sr..
had been living in Berlin since the
declaration of war, has reported .ill
of Ills father's property to the alien
property custodian as of enemy char
acter and announced liis readiness to
turn over to the custody of the gov
ernment real estate amounting to
$25,000,000 and personal property
amounting to $16,000,00, or $40,-
000,000 in all.
In announcing Mr. Ehrel's netiin
last night, A. Mitchell Palmer, ti'.c
alien property custodian, said no
change in the management of this
property was contemplated.
Nurse Held as Slayer
Burns Self to Death
Sprjn niclil, Mass., May 4.—Miss
Minnie I.* Butterworth. a 1 Holyoke
nurse, who shot and killed George
A. Elliott, a Holyoke druggist In that
city on April 5, committed suicide
this evening In the York street Jail
by wrapping herself in blankets and
setting lire to them. The act was
committed in the bathroom of the
jail. She died at a hospital two
hours later
Two women inmates smelled smoke
and rush d to tjie bathroom, where
they discovered Miss Buterwortli
Vrapped In the blazing blankets.
Officers at the jail summoned med
ical attendance, but it wan impos
sible to save her life. She hnd been
despondent and nervous all day, duo
to brooding over her coming appear
ance before the grand jury next
week.
Miss Butterworth fired five shots
at Elliott on the Holyoke street on
April 5, one shot proving fatal. She
attempted to commit suicide by turn
ing the revolver upon herself, but
jwns prevented by men who grappled
! with Miss Butterworth was
j twenty-nine years old.
T.IIT "MATCHES WILSON";
BUYS A ItONI* AT RALLYj
Elizabeth City. N. J.. May 4.—Wil
liam H. Taft "matched President
Wilson" hfre last night In buying a
SSO Liberty Bond. Mr. Taft mud"
ihe purchase at a loan rally, tvlirrc
lie was the principal speaker, i
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