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TEUTONS PROJECT
NEW KIND OF GAS
AGAINST U.S. LINE
American Guns Score Heavily
When Night Party Is
Found in Field
By \ Associated Press
With the American Army on a
French Battlefrout, May 4. —What
is probably a new German liquified
gas was.projected yesterday morning
against the Picardy front, whiere
'' American troops are fighting. The
gas is in glass' bottles. When these
burst a fluid is' released from which
heavy, transparjents fumes continue
to arise for -livet minutes.
No detonaaionl was heard as the
bottles were hunled through the air
and apparently they were thrown
by a spring. 'Clue gas caused nau
sea, sneezing and coughing, but did
not harm any of I .the Americans.
(>uns Smother German Attack
The Germans vto-day again at
tempted to occupy one of the for
mer Americaji trenches in the Bois
Brule, west of Apromont, in the 'l'oul
sector, >vhich was the scene of the
•fighting pn April 10 and 12. Soon
after midnight the American patrols
discovered .that the Germans had
crept into tlfte position with a large
number of machine guns and tools,
apparently intending to consoldate
the trenches" with the German sys
tem.
The American artillery got into
action quickly, sweeping a high ex
plosive barrage back and forth
across the nffwly-ocoupied ground.
The guns rainl steel on the Ger
mans until neiarly daylight and
when the patrols went out to inves
tigate they found not a single en
emy. Soone material, however, had
been lett behind.
There appeared to be reason for
believing, at one time, after the
Germans were discovered, that an
other attacki on the Americans was
about to be Jaunched, probably to
cover the conaolidajion effort. Only
quick action by, the >artillery smoth
ered it.
The Germans .seem determined to
carry out their, designs against this
position, and it js not unlikely that
more sharp lighting will be seen
here, for it Is valuable to the enemy,
although not very valuable to the
Americans because of the nature of
the terrain.
One of the American patrols in
the Luneville sector entered the
hamlet of Answervillers early this
morning and penetrated the Ger
man lines to a distance of 300 yards.
On the way back the patrol dis
covered an enemy observation post
in which were a corporal and six
men. The Americans promptly at
tacked, killing three of the enemy
and taking the other four prisoners,
one of them in a wounded condition.
The first the Germans knew" that
the American patrol was near was
when a shower of hand grenades,
followed by bullets, hit the post.
The patrol ceased firing when the
enemy cried "Kamerad!"
Captor Is Captured
Friday night an enemy sergeant
major and eight men attempted to
raid one of our forward posts, con
sisting of three men. The Germans
captured one of our men, but he
escaped before he could be taken
into the enemy's line.
In attempting to recover their
prisoner the Germans strayed into
the American lines. They were at
tacked and the patrol leader was
wounded and captured. He belonged
to a reserve Saxon regiment.
One of the American patrols en
countered a superior enemy force of
twenty-two men. Fighting as they
went, they made their way back to
the American lines without losses.
During the past three days the
American guns in the Luneville sec
tor have completely chased the Ger
mans from their front positions and
have wiped certain sectors of the
targets in the enemy rear area off
the map. This is the same artillery
that not long ago gave a similar per
formance in another Lorraine sector.
On the present occasion, so far as
all investigation shows, the Ger
mans have entirely abandoned the
territory at least as far back as a
point beyond their second line. The
only signs that they are there at
all are a few machine-gun posts
hidden in out-of-the-way places in
the back areas which cut loose when
the opportunity offers. Just now
the German first and second lines
are in about the same condition as
Xo Man's Land, in which latter area
the Americans are working more
freely than ever before.
Fire Does Terrific Havoc
The sections affected by the work
of these American artillerymen are
the lines south, southwest and south
east of Halloville. (This town Is
approximately thirteen miles almost
directly east of Luneville and about
six miles from the German border
at its nearest point, to the north
east.) The American raiders have
found that the shells had worked
terrible havoc at many places plainly
visible where the big projectiles
from the heavy guns had fallen.
Two German airplanes were
brought down yesterday. Four more
aerial battles were reported to-day
by American airmen flying in the
sector northwest of Toul. All of
the combats were indecisive, al
though one of the American ma
chines returned with bulletholes in
its wings and two others with holes
torn by fragments of shells from
anti-aircraft guns. How the Ger
mans fared is not known.
lhe first report was from the pilot
of a pursuit airplane, "who encoun
tered the enemy over the lines at
a height of nearly three miles. The
pair fought a duel several minutes,
the German finally turning quicklv
and. running into the direct line of
the sun in his homeward wav iret
ting clear.
Later one of the American photo
graphing machines was attacked by
two enemy airplanes. The American
observer emptied one of his guns
into one of the enemy machines.
Then the American pilot exercised
discretion and turned homeward.
The Germans remained in pursuit
until the American anti-aircraft guns
picked them up. Then they turned
and went home. The American air
plane circled once or twice and then
went back over the lines and calmly
resumed the photographic opera
tions where they had been left ofT
J.scapes Amid "Flying Onions"
Another report now available re
lates a somewhat similar incident,
except that this time three of the
enemy attacked two of our machines
which were working with the artil
iery.
In the fourth engagement a Ger
man sailed up in the direction of
one of the American photographic
planes, but one of the fast American
fighting machines rushed in, causing
'he German to turn tall and flee
toward home. The German anti
aircraft pieces got busy at the same
time and broke out numerous "flow
er pots." or as the British airmen
call them, flying onions." This Is
an "Archie" shell, whir-h when it
bursts throws out in all directions
smaller projectiles, each of which
also bursts.
MONDAY EVENING,
! VATICAN DENIES
! PEACE STEP BY
i POPE BENEDICT
Church -Leaders 3ay Favor
able Occasion Is Not
Even Near
Rome, May 6 (Delayed).—No fa
vorable occasion for a further peace
move by Pope Benedict has pre
sented itself, nor does one seem near,
it was asserted at the Vatican when
inquiry was made regarding the re
port that His Holiness would make
a new peace offer on WhEtsunday.
"It is no secret," replied the Vati
can authorities to the correspondent,
"that the Pope, since the beginning
of his pontificate, has interested
himself regarding three great Issues
concerinng the war: First, to main
tain absolute Impartiality; second, to
limit as much as possible the extent
of the conflict and its horrors: third,
to work In every way, on every pro
pitious occasion, to restore concord
and brotherhood among the peoples.
"CHven this program, it is only nat
ural that should a propitious occa
sion arise, the Pope would do his
best to carry it out.
"It is an easy task to prophesy
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from time to time, within a few
weeks or months, some new action
on the part of the Pope which may
occur at any moment, if a favorable
occasion arises, which, however, has
not yet occurred; nor does it seem
near."
The original report of the immi
nence of a new papal peace move
came from a German source, in the
shape of an article In the Neueste
Nachrichten, of Munich, late in April.
This newspaper was quoted in Am
sterdam dispatches as saying the
move would be made "as soon as the
western offensive assumed a new
phase," and that it would take the
form of "a word of warning: ad
dressed to the universal conscience."
Cologne newspapers have been
quoted later as asserting the Pope
intended to make a new peace offer
on Whitsunday (May 19), the docu
ment to contain concrete offers of
mediation by the Pope, it was said,
with the possible co-operation of
neutral sovereigns. Berlin was re
ported to have received sympathet
ically similar information as to the
Pope's- supposed intentions.
CONSUU AT MOSCOW DIES
Washington, May 6. —The leath
of Maddin Summers, United States
consul general at Moscow, was an
nounced yesterday in a cable mes
sage to the State Department. Mr.
Summers collapsed under the strain
of long months of overwork, the
message said, and was ill only one
day.
HARRISBURG TELEGRXPH
STATE'S SAVINGS
GROW $38,000,000
SINCE MARCH 1917
Deposits ,in Banking Institu
tions $1,308,093,207.54,
Show Big Increase
Pennsylvania thriftiness is shown
by the fact that savings fund de
posits In banking institutions under
supervision of the State Department
of Banking increased over $23,000,-
000 between the middle of last De
cember and the middle of April and
are greater by $38,000,000 than in
March of last year, according to a
summary of the reports of the 52 9
banking institutions of the Keystone
state as of April 15 just compiled
by Daniel F. L,afean, state commis
sioner of banking. The total assets
of these institutions are shown to be
over $1,700,000,000 and the total
number of depositors almost 2,900,-
000, while deposits are $1,308,093,-
207.54.
The statement on the sa%'lngs
funds shows $560,873,434.86 in such
deposits in trust companies, state
banks • and savings institutions on
April 15 against $537,438,879.40 on
December 11, 1917, and $522,663,-
535.57 on March 22, 1917.
the summary on assets shows
this contrast between the years:
April 15, 1918. March 22 1917
Class:
Banks —
$271,715,283.89 $256,849,536.94
Trust Co.'s—
-1,148,333,532.22 1,078,819.192.55
Savings Ins.—
totals 80 ' 930 ' 9 " 2 ' 85 280,399,532.65
1,70#,979,788.96 1.616,068,262.14
There is a decrease as compared
with December 11 of $6,494,320.
The trust fund statement shows
bis jumps. Tlie trust companies re
port on April 11, $1,414,051,533.85
of such funds and the banks $7,873,-
629.68 while a year ago the trust
companies had $1,296,491,866.97 and
the banks $6,615,945.10. There Is a
gain of over $118,000,000 in a vear
and $42,736,876.80 in four months.
Deposits show an increase of $46,-
377,931.49 in a year, but a decrease
of $4,418,179.99 as compared with
the call taken just before Christmas.
The total on April 15 was $1,308,-
093,207.54 against $1,261,715,276 05
on March 22. 1917. The average
deposit in the 529 institutions is cal
culated at $467.95.
The number of depositors shows a
gain of 142,855 in a year, but a loss
of 85,326 as compared with the mid-
December report. The figures show:
Class Ap. 15, 18 Dc. 11,*17 Mr. 22'17
Banks . 748,545 769,158 697.534
.TfUstC's 1,530,439 1,589,023 1,421 545
Sav's In. 514.481 520.609 531*331
Totals .2.793,465 2,678,790 2,650 610
EX-CZAR IN NEW
PRISON; DOUBT
AS TO HIS SON
Nicholas, Wife and Daughter
Have Been Removed
From Siberia
Moscow, May 6. (Delayed)
Nicholas RomanolT, the former Em
peror, together with the former Em
press and one of their daughters,
has been transferred from Tobolsk
to Ekaterinburg (east of the Urals,
but west of Siberia and 170 miles
southeast of Perm, according to a
Societ announcement. The transfer
was ordered'because of the alleged
efforts of peasants and monarchists
In the neighborhood of Tobolsk to
promote the escape of the prisoners.
The announcement does not men
tien the former heir apparent, the
young Alexis Romanoff.
I/ondon, May 5.-*-The general com
manding the Petrograd garrison has
issued a statement declaring the city
now free from any direct menace
and that the populate has no cause
for alarm, says a Reuter dispatch
from Moscow under date of April 27.
MAY 6, 1918'.
"All measures for defense have
been taken against possible Finnish
attacks," says the general's an
nouncement. "Some fighting has oc
curred at a point nea rthe Russo-
Flnnish frontier between White nnd
Red Ouards, but as soon as combat
ants crossed the Russian frontier
both sides were disarmed."
Moscow, April 26—(Delayed).—
the Finnish coast ceded to Rural i by
manded the surrender of a fort on
the Finish coast ceded to Russia by
the Finnish Bolshevik government,
constituting part of Kronstadt de-
TETLEYS
f India and Ceylon TE)
Purity, plus quality and scientific
blending, have made it popular
ONE LITTLE TEASPOONFUL MAKES TWO CU.
fenses. The Kronstadt work
and soldiers' deputies have r<
to comply with the demand ar
organizing resistance, co-ope
with General Schwartz, the ]
Brad commandant. The Russiai
disarming all Finnish Red 0
crossing the Une.
WILMINGTON PAPKns ADVJ
Wilmington, Del., May 6.—Bi
the Wilmington afternoon ne
Pers —the Every Evening and
ing Journal—have increased
selling price from one cent t
cents a copy and abolished a
turn privileges.