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DUTCH ENVOY PRESENTS PEACE
PLAN IN EFFORT TO CLOSE WAR
HUNS PLAN TO
STRIKE AT ITALY
AND IN FRANCE
Simultaneous Assaults on Two
Great Fronts Looked
For bv Allies
POSITIONS IMPROVED
Austria Hopes to Quiet Unrest
tit Home With Victory
Beyond Alps
London, Mav 6.—The British
line lias been advanced on a con
siderable front between the
Some and Ancre rivers west
southwest of Morlancourt says
the official statement from Field
Marshal Haig's headquarters
to-day.
The British positions in the
neighborhood of Locon and the
Lawe river, on the southern leg
of the Lys salient in Flanders,
have been improved as the result
of local fighting.
Germany lias not yet taken up the
offensive in the west and probably
another effort against the Allied ar
mies is held in abeyance, to be made
simultaneously with the heralded
Austro-Hungarian drive against the
Italians.
In preparation for further enemy
attacks on the Danders battlefield,
the British and French have been
improving their positions in local op
erations. The Allied troops n an at
tack between Bocre and Dranocourt
have advanced their line 500 yards on
a front of 1,000 yards, gaining posi
tions which strengthen the important j
section of the front between Scher
penberg and Mont Rouge. German
counterattacks were repulsed with |
loss. Berlin, reporting on the same j
fighting, attempts to make out the i
attacks were made in large force. It ]
says they were repulsed and that the I
French lost 300 prisoners.
Artillery Klre Intense
On the soutnern leg of ;he I.ys
salient, which is the one the Germans
must attack if they wish to connect
this battlefield with the one 'n Picar
dy by wiping out the Arras salient,
the Germans have made no further !
attempts to push back the British |
from their gains at Hinges, ic.'lier I
efforts having failed. The artillery I
fire continues most intense oil both j
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Australians Drive Huns
Back on 2,000-Yard Front
By Associated Press
With the British Army in Trance.
May 6.—Last night the irrepresaable
Australians gave the Germans \vst
and southwest of Morlancourt, be-,
tween Ancre and the Somm? rivers,
another drubbing and advanced the
entente line to a depth of 500 yards
along a front of 2.000 yards. The
enemy offered strong resistance. The
losses of the attacking troops were
light.
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Nine Tons of Bombs Are
Dropped on Hun Railways
By Associated Preis
London, May 6. —The official j
statement of aerial activities issuedi
to-night by the war office Announces, j
"Nine tons of bombs were drop
ped on the Chatilnes railway junc
tion on the Bapaume-Armentiers-
Merville and Estaires Saturday.
"One hostile .machine was brought
down by our aviators and four others
were disabled. Two of our machines
are missing. Two of our machines
missing since May 3, have since re
turned.
"In the evening more than thr*e
ions of bombs were dropped on the
Chuulr.es railway junction and on the
Bap&uine. All our machines return
ed."
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William H. Metzger
says
Nickels Put Together
Soon Make Dollars
#3?* THRIFT STAMPS
Help Mightily
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THE WEATHER
Far HarrUburic nnd vlelnltyt Fair
to-nlichlt Tuendny probnbly
•honcru continued nam.
Hlver
The Muqnrliiinnn river nnil nil It*
branches will fall slowly or re-
Main nearly atntlnnary to-nlaht
nnil probably Tueadny. A ataae
of nliout 3.2 (eel la Indicated for
Harrliburg Tuesday moraine. ;
PRESIDENT HAS
ORDERED PROBE
OF PLANE GRAFT
Borglum's Charges of Pro-
German Influence Also
Will Be Investigated
SENATE MADE DEMAND
Department of Justice Ad
vised to Delve Into Accu
sations by Sculptor
•
By Associated Press
Washington, May 6.—A Depart-
I ment of Justice investigation of the
j charges of graft in aircraft produc
| tion made by Gutzon Borglum, the
! sculptor, was ordered to-day by
I President Wilson. Borglum's charges
jof pro-German influence also will
! be investigated. Demand for a crim
inal investigation was made in the
j Senate recently.
| The aircraft situation has brought
repeated charges of inefficiency on
| the part of those in charge of it
I and demands for an inquiry
| prompted President Wilson to name
jan investigating commission headed
by Snowden Marshall. About the
I same time the President authorized
I Borglum to make an investigation.
Borglum's report never was made
! public formally although enough of
| its contents became known to show
j that the sculptor had made charges
against those in control and alleged
there was jrraft in production of
planes.
Borkluin Not Official Prober
At the same time the order for
investigation was announced, Presi
dent Wilson's correspondence with
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, who
[Continued oil Page 10.]
j BRITISH WITHDRAW TROOPS
By Associated Press
l.ondon, May 6.—The British have
'withdrawn their troops from Es Salt,
i east of the Jordan, in Palestine, the
! war office announces. Nearly 1,000
Germans and Turks and 29 machine
guns have been captured in the last
few days.
ONE OF EVERY 6
PERSONS IN U.S.
BOUGHT A BOND
Actual Total May Run to Four
Billion Dollars, Is
, Belief
Washington, May 6.—An analysis
of Liberty Loan reports yesterday
showed that probably 17,000,000 per
sons bought bonds in the campaign
which closed last midnight—7.ooo,-
000 more than in the second loan,
(Continued on Page 10.]
Get After Pro-Germans,
Beary's Advice; Tells
of Pa.'s Part in War
"Every American who cannot go
to the front should constitute him
self an agent for the suppression of
German propaganda in the United
States," Adjutant General Frank D.
Beary told the members of the Har
risburg Rotary Club, whom he ad
dressed at a luncheon in the Y. M.
C. A. to-day. "As yob pass along the
streets you sometimes hear remarks
favoring Germany or derogatory to
the American soldier. Whenever I
hear such talk, whether I am known
or not, 1 step right in and correct
the misinformation and find out who
is responsible for it. You and every
other American should do the same."
General Beary predicted that be
fore the end of the year at least 3,-
000,000 more men will be called to
the draft. He said there are at pres
ent stiir in this country about 1,-
200,000 men underarms and a large
number in France or on the way
over, concerning which he was not
permitted to speak. Of the men in
the American Army now, Pennsylva
nia has contributed 125,000, 16,000
from the* National Guard, many
more as volunteers and the remafn
der as drafted men.
"To feed 100,000 men," said the
Adjutant General, to give his audi
ence some idea of the task confront
ing the nation, "would require 20fi
cars of 20,000 pound capacity each,
every ten days." and he outlined the
various items of the rations neces
sary.
"Pennsylvania gives ten per cent,
of the men. 65 per cent, of the
Army's clothing, 70 per cent, of the
munitions required, and 70 per cent.,
of everything else needed by the
Army," General Beary said In out
lining the state's part, and he con
cluded, "Colonel King, chlef-of-talT
of the Keystone division, told me
recently that there is no division in
the, whole Army the equal of that
from the Keystone state."
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•i CENTS
CITY'S HOUSE
PLEASED WITH WAR
COOKING ECONOMIES
Large Audience Greets Fir st 'Lecture in Y. M. C. A.
Given by Noted Culinary Expert Whose Receipts Have
Gained Wide Favor; Mrs. Vaughn Gives Valuable
Hints That May Be Used in Any Kitchen
Mrs. Kate Crew Vaughn, house
hold economic expert, who is well
known and much beloved by the wo
men of Pennsylvania, s opened her
lectures and demonstrations on war
cookery to a large and representa
tive audience this afternoon at Fa'n
nestock Hall.
Daily Lectures
Sirs. Vaughn conies to Harrisburg
for a series of six lectures and prac
tical demonstrations on fodd conser
vation and there will be a session
each afternoon this week. Those
who have experienced trouble with
flour substitutes, due to lack of
knowledge in proper handling of the
ingredients, will be shown the most
effective method of utilizing bran,
cornmeal, oatmeal, corn flour, jye
flour, buckwheat flour and other
staples in the place of wheat. M.*s.
Vaughn promises that samples of all
foods will be served and for this
purpose each woman attending the
lectures is requested to bring along
in her handbag a small butter plate
and spoon.
In Washington
Mrs. Vaughn has recently spent a
short time in Washington where she
went to study first hand the aims
and objects of the Food Administra
tion and she is therefore prepared
to speak authentically about the
needs of the times as applied to the
matter of fopd. The proper propor
tion of each food constituent will be
explained so that the housewife may
be able to serve a "balanced ration"
and so not only conserve the nation's
food supply but also keep the mem
bers of her family in the best physi
cal condition.
DILLON'S VOICE
RAISED AGAINST
CONSCRIPTION
Good Humor and Enthusiasm
Mnrk Irish Demonstration;
15,000 in the Audience
By Associated Press
I.ondon, May 6.—Anti-conscription
speeches were made from the same
platform by John Dillon, Nationalist
! leader, and Prof. Edward De Valera,
f head of the Sinn Fein, yesterday at
| Bellaghadereen. in Dillon's constit
uency of East Mayo. Good humor
i and enthusiasm, characterized the
| demonstration which was attended
, by 13,000 persons.'
Mr. Dillon said that if the Irish
kept united and determined for an
other two weeks they would defeat
! conscription. It was an atrocious
1 form of oppression to try to compel
| a people to fight for a country not
, their own. He personally opposed
! conscription, whether in Great Brit
[Continucd on Page 10.]
Teutons Fill Letters
From Prisoners With
Death-Laden Fumes
By Associated Press
Paris, May 6.—Germans are credit
ed. in reports which have reached
here, with injecting asphyxiating gas
into letters sent homp by prisoners
in their camps. A woman living in
the. village of La Sicotlerie recently
was ill for several days after open
ing a letter from a French prisoner
in Germany.
On the same day, it is said, another
woman received a letter, also con
-1 taining poison gas. from her husband,
j a captive in Bavaria. Other cas'is
i have been reported.
German Airmen Seek Advantage
Over Americans By Low Tricks
By Associated Press
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE (Friday), May 3.
—German aviators now art; resorting to unsportsmanlike tricks in
an endeavor to outwit American filers. The trickiness of the Ger
man soldier afoot is emulated by enemy airmen who arc marking
Uieir machines to make theni look as much like allied markings
as possible.
The Germans linve taken to rounding off Uie corners of the cross
on the wings or their planes to make them look like allied Irndges.
The game of the German airman Is to play around, get In u shot if
he can and then run. American fliers for fear of attacking a prob
able friend must get close to an enemy machine, usually alter con
siderable maneuvering, before opening tire.
HARRISBURG, FA.,MONDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1918
Program For
Tuesday Afternoon
lecture Subject
"What Do sfou Know of Foods?
Introducing the Jones Family."
Menu:
Cheese Croquettes
Piedmont Sweet Potatoes
20th Century Mayonnaise
Corn Biscuits
Cocoa Jelly
Doors open I.3o—musical con
cert at 2 p. in.—lecture at 2.30
Fahnestock Hall. Y. M. C. A.
building. Free to everybody.
Will Give Receipts For War Foods
War-time economy In the kitchen
will be stressed throughout the
course and in her work along this
Hine Mrs. Vaughn has the fullest ap
proval of the Food Administration.
I She will give the cost of all foods
I she prepares, the time involved in
production and what they are worth
after they are made. Every receipt
Mrs. Vaughn prepares will be strict
ly practical—the kind of food you
can use every day on your table.
There will be no receipts of a fanci
ful or unusual nature used. ' The
country is making every preparation
for a long war and the use of wheat
substitutes and other similar re
quirements will become more ri.nd
more widespread as the war goes on.
[ It therefore behooves every house
wife to familiarize herself with the
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TEUTON AIRMEN
FEAR AVIATORS
- OF ALLIED FOE
Member of Squadron Says It
Is Hard Work to Get
Germans to Fight
By Associated Press
I.ondon, May 6.—Wounded British
airmen back from France report that
the squadron operating in an impor
tant sector on the Amiens front
probably Has established a record by
bringing down 106 enemy machines
in six weeks, including twenty-ona
on one day.
The only member of the squadron
known to have been wounded up to
the time this man return?.! to Lon
don said it was hard work getting
the German airmen to fight. Virtu
ally' the only times they woulJ come
out. he said, were when the glare
of the sun would be in our faces and
in the evening. Even then ihey
would slip away if they had half a
chance.
"Nearly all the machines we
brought down were two-seaters. In
fact, few of the German airmen will
fly anything else.
"The pilots like a man with a gun
behind them."
Airmen said the German infantry
was bombed and machine gunned by
the aviators four times a ilay regu
larly and that when the enemy came
forward in masses they were caby
prey tor the air forces.
. "We would swoop down while fly
ing at a speed of 120 miles an hour,
firing our machine guns all the
white. Sometimes we came within
fifty feet of the ground, going so
fast they could do nothing with us.
Their machine gun lire from the
' ground did little damage."
ALLIED SPIRIT
HIGH AS GERMAN
PLANS HIT SNAG
Entente Realizes Every Day
Brings More Americans
to Battle Line
HUNS ARE DISCOURAGED
Prussian Commanders Work
Desperately For New
Offensive
By Associated Press
\\ ith the British Army in France,
Sunday, May 5. —Luck seems to be
going against the Germans along
the crucial northern battlefront.
Sunday still found the Prussian
commanders working desperately
to whip their organizations Into
shape for a renewal of the delayed
offensive.
The allied artillery has been main
taining an incessant bombardment
of enemy territory and Friday night
before the projected Geri an atttack
the French and British gunners
played havoc with the German prep
arations. The allied troops also have
been successfully carrying out local
operations.
Hun Assault Repulsed
Yesterday the allies occupied a
large number of important positions
at various points along the front of
four thousand yards west of Kem
mel. The British also made an ad
vance of 500 yards along the front
of 1,000 yards northwest of Locon.
This morning the Germans tried to
•regain some of these positions but
were repulsed. An enemy attartrye*-
terday morning in the Locon area
under cover of a heavy barrage like
wise was smashed.
On the southern battlefront the
British last night near Sailly Le Sec
advanced their line in a minor oper
ation without casualties. The Ger
man prisoners taken in all these lo
cal engagements male a consider
able total.
The spirit of the allied troops re
mains at the highest pitch. They
know that every day's delay is In it
self a victory for them. Each twen
ty-four hours that slips by makes
America loom larger on the horizon
and brings the much needed over
seas troops nearer the hattlc lines.
Complain at Home
Interesting comments by German
have been furnished from
an enemy mail bag captured by the
British before it was delivered to
the soldiers along a section of the
Flanders front.
One letter said:
"Peace does not seem to he com
ing along as we fondly hoped. All
this in the west is too wicked for
anything. Four years of it now and
no sign of the end. We hope every
day it will conic to a decision and
that the British will be driven into
the North sen, hut they stand firm."
This letter was from Berlin and
dated April 25.
Tanks Unwieldy
Further details now are available
from various sources regarding the
new German tanks, several of which
made such a poor showing at Villers-
Bretonneaux on April 24. The ma
chine weighs forty-five tons and is
so unwieldy it is unable to negotiate
broad trenches and cannot move
over ground torn heavily by shells.
The tank is pointed at both ends. It
Is approximately twenty-three feet
long, nine and one t lialf feet wide
and eleven feet high. The armor
is of poor quality of steel and varies
in thickness up to thirty milli
meters.
' The armament consists of a 2.2-
Inch gun forward which fires high
explosives and case shot six heavy
machine guns, two on each side and
two in the rear. It is equipped with
two 100-horsepowcr four-cyllndei
poppet valve engines with an elec
tric starter and one man can con
trol and drive it easily. Its top speed
on good ground is ten miles an hour.
A crew of nineteen is carried, con
sisting of one officer, three gunners
for the forward gun, two drivers,
two mechanics, ten machine gunners
and one signal man.
Colored Y. M. C. A War
Secretary 'Lost' in City
Nelson M. Willis, colored, gradu
ate of the University of Law School
in March, who was rejected by the
Army because of an injured foot,
and now with the V. M. C. A. de
tachment in charge of colored
troops from Camp Taylor, Kv„ was
"lost" in Harrisburg for a time this
afternoon. He left a troop train here
to buy candy for colored soldiers on
their way through and the train
pulled out while he was gone.
Through the kindness of Edwin
F. Brightblll, who acted as guide,
Willis was put in touch with the
passenger trainmaster's office and
given a ticket to meet his men in
New York. He was intrdouced to W.
•Tustih Carter, colored lawyer, who
turned out. to be an old friend and
entertained until tralntlme.
PRESBYTERIAN MKRG/R LEGAL
Washington. May 6.—Merber in
1906 of the Cumberland Presbyter
ian ehurrh with the Presbyterian
church and consolidation of their
property was declared valid to-day
by the Supreme Court.
TERMS OF PEACE
ARE OFFERED BY
DUTCH EMISSARY
Include Restoration of Bel
gium, Renunciation of Ger
man Claims in West
WASHINGTON SKEPTICAL
Balfour's Statement to Com
mons Place Situation Be
yond Consideration
By /Associated Press
liOiuloii, May 6.—A Central News
dispatch from the Hague says the
Dutch intermediary is reported to
be Jonkheer Colyn, former minister
of war. The proposals made by Jonk
heer Colyn, the dispatch from The
Hague reports .are said there to have
been as follows:
1. Germany to renounce all
claims In the west.
2. Restoration of Belgium.
3.. Alsace-Lorraine to he au
tonomous, within the German
Toleration.
4. The status in the cast to re
main as at present.
5. Austria to make certain
concessions to Italy In Uic Tren
tino.
. Balkan questions to be solv
cxl by an international conference.
7. AU colonial questions af
fecting Africa and Asia Minor
to be settled by a conference of
all the belligerents.
8. Germany to abandon all
claims to her former Chinese
protectorate of Kiaochau, but In
exchange to receive certain eco
nomic concessions in China.
Washington, May 6. —Officials and
diplomats here on reaching Ger
many's purported peace terms, as
outlined to-day in dispatches from
London, recalled th!t British offi
cials recently predicted a "peace of
fensive" and said furthermore that
the yexpected that terms to be of
fered in been promptly branded by
the allied statesmen as subtle propa
ganda to show dissension and dis
cord among the allied people,
weaken th#ir resistance and lead to
what has been characterized as a
German-made peace.
Foreign Minister Balfour's posi
tive statement in the House of Com
mons that no suggestions of peace
negotiations had i'ome to Great
Britain tliroug ha neutral, seemed
to put the situation beyond the
realm of serious consideration.
German Monarch Speaks
of Strong Peace Treaty
Amsterdam, May 6.—"The last few
months have brought us successes
which will materially influence the
world's development in the next few
decades," says a telegram sent by
Emperor William, in reply to an ad
dress of homage from a convention
of German Chamber of Commerce.
"They insure our right to a strong
peace which will open new roads to
German commerce and give us com
plete freedom for the development
of our industries. Our sacrifices of
blood and treasure shall not bo made
in vain."
Field Marshal Von Tiindenburg
also sent a message saying:
"If all the German people stand
united, a peace will be won which
will assure fresh prosperity for com
merce and industry."
Highest Court Decides
Guardsman Is Rightly
in Service in France
Washington, May B.—Federal
Court decrees dismissing habeas cor
pus proceedings sought by Robert
Cox, of Missouri, a member of the
National Army, to prevent his be
ing sent to France, were sustained
to-day by the Supreme Court.
Cox, who later was sent to France,
claimed under the constitution a
man could not be drafted for for
eign service. This was denied by
the government.
The court refused to consider mo-
I ttons to have Major General Leon
l ard Wood, commandent of Camp
Funston, declared in contempt of
court for permitting Cox to be sent
to* France while his appeal was
pending.
Senate Not Ready
For Woman Suffrage;
Motion Lost by One Vote
By Associated Press
Washington. " May 6.—By a mar
gin of one vote, a motion proposing
that the Senate proceed next Fri
day to consider the House woman
suffrage resolution to the Constitu
tion was defeated in the Senate to
day, The vote was 40 to 21, .iust less
than the necessary two-thirds, . j
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T MINIMUM PENSION $25 PER MONTH J
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; X pension of $25 a month to Civil War Veterans was passec.' j
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