American ShellsHemWßoffitaffi sar \ sfe, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M\ ©be otat- * LXXXVII— No. 112 14 PAGES PREMIER GEORGE LEADS CHEERING OF U.S. SOLDIERS Five Trains Reach London With Yankee Fighters; Cabinet Sees March FLAG INSPIRES CROWD Troops Are Reviewed by the American Ambassador and British King George l>ndon. May 11.—Five trains loaded with American troops ar rived in London this morning. They were marshaled at the Wellington barracks for their march through the streets of London. The troops will be reviewed by Ambassador Page at the American embassy and later by King George at Bucking- | ham Palace. The American troops I came through the archway of the j Horseguards parade into Whitehall to begin the march through the west end streets and then to the embassy and Buckingham Palace. Cabinet Reviews Marchers Members of the war cabinet, in cluding Premier Lloyd George. Chancellor Bonar Law. Viscount Milner and J. Austin Chamberlain, j ; came out on the balcony at the war ' office and watched the scene with ' interest. The Premier, hands in , pockets, looked down intently until i the last American was out of sight. People Take Fp Cheers When the American flag was car ried past Mr. Lloyd George led in the cheers which were taken up by other members of the war cabinet j and by the people in the streets. There were three battalions in line, i The men were brought in from a nearby camp. crowds cheered them in the streets and they were! ' reviewed by King George and Am- ' bassador Page. 1 Shortly before the troops swung ' into view before the palace. King ■ George and Queen Mary walked ' irom the palace to the street before the front gate, where they met ' Major-General Biddle, of the Amer- ican Army. The King carefully ob- ■ served the men as they passed in re- , ' \ iew and afterwards congratulated 1 the genera! on their appearance. He : then inspected the guard, while the ' Queen conversed with Genera! Bid- c die. t 1 Sergt. Empey Sends $25 to Soldiers' Tobacco Fund Sergeant Arthur Guy Kmpey. the author of "Over the Top." who lectur- ' 1 d in Harrisburg last winter. has c sent to the Harrisbure: Telegraph Boys' in France Tobacco Fund, a check - for fSS. The check came through i I.eslie McCreath. of Harrisburg. one 1 of the purchasers of the autographed < opy of Empey'g book, the money from the sale of which went to the tobacco fund. The additional sum will be put into tobacco for soldiers and sent to France. Democratic Candidates to Speak in City Tonight Democratic State Chairman Jo seph F. Guffey, candidate for the Democratic Gubernatorial nomina tion. and his colleagues, will speak at the court house to-night at 8.30. James A. Stranahan will preside and National Chairman Vance C. McCor mick is expected to speak. Prominent Democrats will meet the party on their arrival from Schuylkill county and help fill the hall. i War Savings Stamp Meeting Tonight Everyone Is Invited THERE is an impression in certain quarters that the War Savings Stamp Mass Meeting to be held in Chestnut Street Auditorium this evening is a spe cial occasion for workers in the big drive next week, and that ad. mission will be by ticket. Thi is incorrect. The meeting is be ing held for the benefit of the public in general, and no tickets of admission have been issued. There are absolutely no restric tions; everybody is invited; come: j THE WEATHER] For Harrlshurs and vicinity: Fair, continued rool to-night, with lonMt temperature about M degree*; Sunday, shmveri. and warmer. For Kastern Pennsylvania! Fair to-night; Sundny, showers and somewhat warmer; gentle to moderate northeast and east winds. (•eneral Conditions The storm that was central north of the Great I.akes. Friday morning, has moved off north, eastwurd. It eaused thunder. showers in the last tenty-four hours, with hail in some locali ties In the Ohio Valley and Ten nessee, over the eastern part of the I.nke Region. In the At lantic Stairs from \orth Caro lina Dorthntird and in the St. i.awrence Valley, with strong local sales. River The Susquehanna river and nil Its branches will fall slowly or re main nearly stationary. A stage of about 4.0 feet is Indicated for Ilarrlsbnrg Sunday morning. Temperature: 8 a. ra„ 46. Sun: Rlsea, 0:04 a. m.; sets, 7;30 p. m. .Moon: First quarter. May 17. River Stage: 4.7 feet above low water mark. Vesterday'a Weather Highest temperature, S3, l.owest temperature. 58. Vlrun temperature, 70. .Normal temperature, 00. THOUSANDS OF JOIN IN PATRIOT HARRY A. BOYER To encourage the sale of Thrift and War Stamps in Harrisburg and as part of the big campaign to be stased in the city and county for th.it purpose next week, the school bovs and girls of Harrisburg will join in a monster parade Monday afternoon, moving at 1.30 o'clock over the fol lowing route: Down Front to Market. Mar ket lo Fourth. Fourth to Wal nut. Walnut to Third, Third to Xortli, North to Sixth, sixth to Roily, Roily to Third. Third to Boas. Boas to Second, Second to North. North to Front. Front to Market. Market to Market Square and mass for patriotic songs. Chief Marshal Harry A. Boyer, who to-day made 1 üblie his o3lcml orders for the parade, has had ex perience with school parades and he predicts that the procession of Monday will be the largest ever held in Harrisburg. The pupils of the eighth grades of the public schools, the Central High school, the Technical Hish school, the Parochial schools and the Harrisburg Academy will march, many of them carrying their flags and banners and not a few appro priate inscriptions have been work ed out byway of bits of advice to the spectators. The boys of the Technical school have been drilling under a competent officer and other- [ wise preparing to show up well, 1 while the Central High school has! also been getting in readiness. Scouts in Kino One of the big features of the pa mde will be the Boy and Girl Scouts of the city and vicinity in uniform.' WAGE INCREASE HOLDS NO LURE FOR ONE CLASS Railroader Delves Into Fie i ° ures and Discovers Revis ion Works Downward j Since the publication of the pro -1 posed increase of wages of railroad men by Secretary MeAdoo's organi zation the average railroader has been doing a lot of figuring to dis cover just where he particularly will 'be affected by the proposed new : schedule. One railroader said to day; "The proposed increase in wages jas outlined in the report of the Wage Commission made public on May 8. will not to my mind, amount ! to as much as the public .iks. The report says: "Advances pro posed, however, will be fcubject to deductions for any increases which | may have been granted by indi vidual roads since December. 1915. In some cases deductions will al most. if not altogether, cover the in creases suggested according to the report. The roads themselves in 1916 and 1917 increased wages an amount equivalent to $350,000,000 ; if applied to the present number of their employes. As to those who have received such increases, the re port says we advise no other course than that the scale be adhered to." "According to the above, a man who was receiving $l5O per month in 1915 and his salary was increased to S2OO during 1916 and 1917, would \ receive fifteen per cent, increase on , $l5O, which would amount to $22.50 Sand which added to $l5O would amount to $172.50 or $27.50 less 1 than he is receiving at the present time." This same railroader suggested that a large doubt was arising in the minds of many of the men as i to whether the proposed changes were all that had been anticipated, especially where the revision 1? downward. Brotherhood Men File Protest With McAdoo; Appeal For Freight Side By Associated Press Washington, May 11. —The first formal protest against the recom mendations of the railroad wage commission was tiled to-day with Director McAdoo, by the Brother hood of Railroad Station Employes. "It will be absolutely impossible for the railroads to maintain a per manent force of freight handlers at the rates indicated in the recommen dation." the protest says, "in view of the fact that they have not recom mended the basic eight-hour day." UXGUD COPY, : cum np^ | FRANK C. SITES I | Schools to Enter Great Pa geant That Is to Be Part of • Wonderful Demonstration in Thrift Stamp Campaign ' those of Lemoyne, Camp Hill aivl , other nearby places having accepted i the invitation of the scouts of Har risburg to take pari. They will navej a division all to themselves in line of march and are expected to, show up well. Chief Marshall Boyer will have as, his immediate assistants P. D. Hint-. : melbaugh. C. Floyd Hopkins, Hen . I derson Gilbert ar.d J. H. Wallazv., j 1 and directly in the rear of the aids ■; will march William M. Donaldson,; 1 chairman of the general W. S. S. > committee of this county, accompan l, ied by the members of his campaign i committee, and the first division will 1 be marshaled by Frank C. Sites, post- Ij master, who also will have in line: i the Harrisburg Post Office fctce, •j every member which is a skilled and: . enthusiastic War Stamp salesman. Plenty of Music There will be plenty of music for J i the parade, the services of the Com imonwealth, the Scotland Orphans j ■'School Band, the Municipal Band,' the Citizens Band of Millersburg, the! ■! Iroquois Band of Palmyra, the Sins-j l er Band of Mechanicsburg, the iSteelton Band, the Elizabethvilie! ! Band, the Spring Garden Band of ! York and the famous Carlisle Indian \ School Band have been engaged for lithe occasion. The committee in charge express-' BLUE DEVILS OF ! FRANCE TO HELP CITY'S RED CROSS Most Famous of Allied Sol diers to Appear in Har risburg Tuesday TO TELL OF FRANCE'S PART IN GREAT WAR "lns.de stuff," as the baseball players say, will play a big part in the mass meeting to be held at the -Vuditorium to-night. no person in the L'nited States to-day can tell a story of Hun atrocities and Hun cruelties with more personal knowledge of what the Germans (lave been doing for four years :han Chaplain Sauvage. who is an intimate friend of Bishop I'. It. McDevitt of the Harrisburg diocese. And no soldier in any army lias been nearer "the valley of the | shadow ' than Major Hedges, who will tell his personal .experience to-night; and a story of what is now going on in Europe. To-night's meeting is free to I Everyone. It is not for Thrift Stamp sellers. It is a mass meet j ing for Harrisburg in general. No , tickets are required; no seats are II reserved. . Reformed Salem Church was en gaged th's morning for the overflow meeting Tuesday night, when Chest -1 nut Street Auditorium will be all too small to contain the audience which will gather to see the "Hundred Blue Devils" and Miss Kathleen Burke, world-famous Red Cross worker The "Hundred Blue Devils" and fContinu'.tl on Page 10.) Wekerle Heads New Hungarian Cabinet; Workmen May Vote By Associated Press Budapest, May 11, Via London.— A new Hungarian cabinet has been formed with Dr. Alexander Wekerle as Premier and Minister of the In terior. Premier Wekerle has stated that the government intends to in troduce various small amendments to suffrage proposals based on com promise, that will make the accept ance of the proposals possible. The Premier added that workmen will have the right to vote. The exten sion of the suffrage will be carried out forthwith and the government will maintain its social and economic program and its plan of army re form. „ _ HARRISBURG, PA.,SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1918 F. E. DOWNES cs the hope that residents along the route of the parade and o\er the city generally will decorate with llags and bunting. The Roy Scouts will meet' early and will be lined up at 1 o'clock in Market Square for a picture, it was understood to-day. The women teachers will ride in automobiles and the men will act as assistant marshals for their divi sions. Orders in Detail Chief Marshal Boyer to-day made public the following full and offi cial orders for the demonstration: WAR SAVINGS DEMONSTRATION PARADE DETAILS Place of Formation Chief Marshal and Aids —Front and Pine streets. First Division—Front street, right resting on Pine street. Boy and Girl Scouts —Front street, right resting oil South street. Parochial Schools—Front street, right resting on State street. Academy—Front street, right rest ing on North street. Central High School—North street, right resting on Front street. Eighth Grade Pupils from Dis tricts of Messrs. Thomas and Kob— State street, right resting on Front street. Eighth Grade Pupils from Dis tricts of Messrs. Brehm and Goetz— South street, right resting on Front street. Eighth Grade Pupils from Dis tricts of Messrs. Heighes and Ja cobs —Pine street, right resting on Front street. [Continued on Pago 2.] TERRIFIC STORM CAUSE OF MUCH PROPERTY LOSS Houses Unroofed and Trees and Poles Torn From Ground Thousands of dollars damage was done by the fury of rain and wind which flayed the city for ten rnin j utes late yesterday afternoon, it was i estimated this morning. Trees, roofs, poles, windows and | wires suffered equally under the on • slaught of the wind. During the ; storm all traffic was suspended and I the streets were c leared of pedes i trians. The rain fell so furiously it ! was impossible to see across a city street. The roaring of the wind and rain was regularly punctuated by tile crash of faliing trees. A\ orkmen are busy in bvcry part of the city to-day clearing up the debris occasioned by the storm. From Riverside Park to Allison Hill, the grown is strewen with uprooted trees. Capital Park was covered with the huge branches of trees torn off by the wind. Three of the largest trees in the park were uprooted dur ing the storm. Seven trees in a row were uprooted in the extension zone. House* Unroofed Much of the city was in darkness last night, and street car traliic was seriously handicapped by falling poles and trees. As the wind blew down trees and poles, wires were pulled down and in some parts of the city, connections were not made all j night. Hundreds of homes and busi ness houses did business by candle' light during the evening. High ten sion wires torn down by the falling i trees and poles made traffic In the! city highly dangerous after the! storm and policemen and residents in : the neighborhood of these wires did i good work warning jlrivers and ped estrians away from the dangerous areas. besides the damage to trees, which made the city look last night as though it had fallen across the path of invading vandals, property dam age was in some cases appalling. The loss in property occasioned by broken windows and ruined roofs, is almost impossible to estimate. The roof at the Harrisburg Boot and Shoe Com pany was partly blown off. The roof of the building above the reservoir was torn away. Horse Killed In Twelfth street near the Jones town road an entire row of houses was unroofed. At 513 North Thir teenth street, the house tenanted by I. B Dickinson and Benjamin Straw was unroofed. The roof on George'* drugstore, at 1306 North Third street, was blown off. The roof was blown off the stable of the Schmidt bakery and a horse killed in the crash of the falling debris. The bakery was held up for hours while wire repairs were made. Numerous signs were torn down by [Continued on I'agc 2.J | SUGAR CARDS PREPARED FOR CANNING SEASON Housewives to Be Limited to Twenty-five Pounds at a Time | MOVE AGAINST HOARDING No Family Expected to Buy More in 1918 Than Was Used in ltM7 SUGAR PURCHASE C 1: RT I F I C AT F. FOR HOME PRESERVING 1 hereby declare to the United ■States Food Administration, that 1 desire to purchase from j ! pounds of sugar for my own use. for canning and preserving purposes. 1 agree not to order sugar un der this ruling, from any source, in excess of my requirements for this purpose, or to use the sugar so ordered for any other purpose han that here speeitied. I have on hand sugar to the imount of pounds. 1 used for canning and preserv ing in 1917 pounds. Xante Town Street or R.F.D Grocers will forward weekly all certificates received during the previous week to the Dau phin County Food Administrator, Dauphin Building, Harrisburg Pennsylvania. !' Sugar for canning eau be secured j by housewives this year only by thel • use of a "sugar card." j This was announced through the' ! Dauphin county food administration! 'this morning. In addition, plans for: sugar rationing during the canning; season which will make hoarding j impossible, were outlined by the food ; administration. For canning purposes housewives will be allowed to purchase sugar in lots of twenty-five pounds. This rule goes into effect after next Wednes day. They will be allowed to pur chase this sugar only after they have t signed certificates stating the amount | desired, the amount of sugar on | hand, the amount used In 1917 for | canning and preserving and a pledge I to the effect that the family agrees I not to order sugar for the purpose ' of canning in excess of the amount | actually needed for canning pur i poses. Prepare Blanks It was pointed out that for pur poses other than canning, sugar will i continue to be sold in quantities of | two to five pounds to the family in I city districts, and live to ten pounds j in rural districts. \ The blanks are being prepared and distributed through the Harrisburg | Grocers' War Association, which is | co-operating with the local food ad | ministration. Thirty thousand of ; these blanks are being distributed ; throughout the city and county. The i consumer when ordering his canning | supply of sugar will sign the card at I the grocery store. ! The food administration has taken this method of supplying housewives ! with sugar during the canning sea • son as the only possible means of .insuring an equitable distribution of | the sugar supply throughout the | country. It was pointed out that only j by a just and proportionate distribu-' i :ion of the sugar on hand in the na tion can the normal amount of pre serving be accomplished this year. HARRISIU RG RAILWAYS CO. CHOOSES ITS OFFICERS At the annual meeting of the Har-I risburg City PassengerßailwaysCom-j | pany on Thursday the following otli-; j cers and directors were elected: Pres- I ident, George W. Fieily; vice-pr<jsi j dent, Horace B. Mitchell: treasurer, i W. 1,. Gorgas; directors, Edward Bui- j j ley, J. T. Ensminger. David Fleming. I George A. Gorgas, Henry A. Kelker, Jr., Fred Kelker, A. C. McKee, Les-' I lie McCreath and Frank Musser. | 'NEW WAV TO MAKE ALCOHOL BEING TRIED I Berne, April 20.—A process of I j producing alcohol for industrial pur- i ! poses from calcium carbide is to be j tested on a large scale by a Swiss company at Visp. A plant Is being 1 erected capable of producing 2,000,- 000 pounds of alcohol yearly. If the Swiss plant proves successful sim ! ilar plants are to be started imme ! ditely in Norway and Sweden. U. S. WILL CALL MORE AND MORE MEN IN SUMMER By Associated Press Washington. May 11.—More than 1.300,000 men have been called in the draft so far and are either in France, in camp or un der call to go into service before June 1. The total of 1,300,000 includes all men summoned In the May Contingent. There is every indi- i eution that even a larger incre- j ment will be summoned in June j than was summoned in May, and | a progressive monthly mo'biliza- I tlon continue through the sum- I mer and fall months as the can- j tonments are expanded. It is expected that at such a rate the | Army will reach a full strength i of well over 3,000,000 within the J next twelve or thirteen months. j It Is possible, some officers say. that the number will be closer 1 1 to 5,000,000 than 3,000,000. 1 GERMAN ATTACKING TROOPS BEIN READY FOR BATTLE BRITISH BRAVED HEAVY FIRE TO ! BOTTLE U-BOATS Old Cruiser Now Lies in Nock of Osleiul Harbor Channel By Associate,! Press London .vlay 11.—It is doclured on unquestionable authority that the sunken cruiser Vindictive lies in tlie neck of tiie channel at the entrance to Ostend harbor at an angle of | about forty degrees. It is obvious j that a vessel 300 feet long at this i angle docs not effectively block a •channel some 320 feet wide, lut a very useful purpose has been served, j A partial and very serious block jade has been achieved and under, the | conditions of tide and rapid silt pre | vailing on the Belgian coast, the ob- I struction will certainly tend to in | crease. It is not claimed that the sunken cruiser will prevent the I egress o- submarines or even entirely I stop that of destroyers. However, jit will materially hamper both and . that is important. German light | craft wi! not be able when pursued ! by British forces to rush full speed i into the barbor as they have done | heretofore. I'Vscc TcrrilTlc Fire j The old cruiser Vindictive went to her last berth, 130 to 200 yards i within the piers forming the en j trance to the harbor of oStend. one ] j of Jie German submarine bases on I | the Boigiaa coast, under a terrilic I lire from the German naval guns and ; machine guns on the shore, accord ! ing to the Central News. Preparatory to the raid into Os- I tend the naval air force bombarded I the town and dropped bombs con [ tinuously on the harbor works, caus | ing lires. Later the airmen were as- I sisted by destroyers and monitors lin bombarding the enemy positions ! heavily. t'scd Smoke Screen | The entire operation was carried out on lines similar to the raid of I April 23 when concrete laden ! cruisers were sunk in the harbor of j Zeebrugi-e the most important Ger j man submarine base. For the sec i ond time in a month a smoke screen i was used successfully. About two i o'clock in the morning a large force |of destroyers and coastal motor [boats steamed up toward the shore, I the motoi boats going alongside it. | The weather was everything desir able until fifteen minutes before the \ indictive was sunk when a sea fog drove in short and reduced the visibility to a range of between 300 and 400 nards. The A indictive experienced the greatest difficulty in finding the en trance to the harbor. The enemy employed star shells and searchlights extensively and for twenty minutes the vessel was In full view of the enemy batteries. As she cruised up and down seeking the entrance she was hit repeatedly and several cas ualties were sustained. It was 2.20 o'clock when the piers were sighted almost alongside and then the Ger man machine guns opened lire. Having found his bearings, the captain called his crew from the en gine room and stoke hold and* then set off the explosive charges. Paul Kister Dies After Being Crushed Between Cars at Marysville I Wormleysburjf, Pa., May 11.—p au i Kister, aged 21, a brakeman in the tnoia yards was almost instantly , killed early this morning when he | was crushed between two cars at i Marysville. He was picked up by several railroad men and taken to the Harrisburg Hospital Where he died a few minutes later. \oung Kister was the son of Mr and Mrs. Vernon Kister, well-known residents. Vernon Kister is secretary of council, and Mrs. Kister is chair man of the Red Cross Auxiliary, and are both active in social and welfare work in the borough. Paul Kister attended Central High school for two years. He was em ployed at the Enola yards for about five years. He was married less than six months ago. His wife and par ents survive him. ASKS FOH "SKIP STOPS" The borough council of Sew Cum berland to-day passed a resolution requesting the Valleys Railway Com pany to discontinue stops at Second Third, Fourth and Fifth avenues at Eighth and Tenth streets, in order to save fuel. Council maintains that eliminating these short stops will be no hardship to passengers. This movement started in Mechanicsburg and has now been taken up by Wornlleysburg and Shiremanstown. Eight Drown When Skiff Overturns in Monongahela Monogahda City, Pa., May 11. Eight men were drowned and eight others narrowly escaped the same fate last night when a skiff In which the men were crossing the Monon gahela river near here was over turned. The bodies of the men have j been recovered. ONI.Y KVUMK ASSOCIATED PRESS NHWSfAI'UK l\ HAHKISUIJItU French Advance Lines Despite Desperate Teuton Re sistance; Enemy Heavy A tillery Seeks to Clear Path Through Allied Front For the Advance of Infantry; American Gunfire Levels Villages Ry Associated Press Germany's attacking troops are still held in leaa'i while the big en emy guns bombard heavily the al lied lilies on the Flanders and Somme battlefield. Southwest of Ypres the Germans have not attempted to re peat the futile attack of Wednesday against the French and Uritish be tween Voorniezeele and La Clytte. The German artillery tire along this line however, is violent. On the southern leg of the Lys sa lient the Germans are bombarding the Robecq sector and also are pay ing attention to the British positions about Vimy Ridge, on the Arras front. On the Somme battlefield the British have engaged in some local lighting around Aveluy wood, be tween Albert and Arras and Berlin claims the repulse of a local British attack here. Allies Arc Prepared Whatever big move the Germans may be preparing for on the west ern battle front they are tinding an active and alert foe confronting them. The French official statement In particular, fairly bristles with ac counts of intensive artillery and raiding activities and more impor tant minor thrusts against the Ger mans in various sectors. In addition the latest British aviation report in dicates such thorough command of the air that in one day's fighting twenty-seven German machines were brought down while the British losses were only six machines. French troops figured in the most telling strokes delivered by the in- t ▼ "IE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE- 3 T* *&> T ? T FRESH DIVISIONS INTO THE LINE 'M I FACNG AMIENS, INDICATING PREPARATION! X X FOR ACTION IN THAT LOCALITY, BUT THEY T GER- '9 ?' S SUFFERED A SHARP LOCAL DEFEAT AT # X *l® J £ IX .4 i* .OPED AND THE FRENCH ORGANIZED .1 -*♦ ELVES IN THEIR NE X £ f ? P ' X Z Washington The largest pension bill in the nation's 9 J X f X jl r y reported by ,he House e - ? 4 X \4* X IONAL WAR BOARD STEPS IN L 14* s> T X X .. rovtrsy bet- '.■ ohen*., J iny and its employes at South Bethlehem and jl 1 X Allentown, Pa., in an effort to settle the strike that has * since 'May 1, ! J PRINTERS COME FOR CONVENTION £ X Harrisburg—Delegates to the Eastern Pennsylvania .fl * L X b' 1 *rr ir th • c-mon for the j§| T "get-together" meeting'to-night in Labo held i X ▼ K. Hall, beginning at 1.30 to-mo 4* lister i:, to welcome the delegates. NITRO-GLYCERINE PLANT EXPLODES J S* Wellsburg, W. Va.'—A number of men aro reported ❖ ' s* y ad in an explosion at a nitre w| Jju les from TJ re. Eight men, according to the report, were at worl | ! ng when the explqsion occurred- 4 4 * f MARRIAGE - 4u JL, J. Kdmird Itlitrr imil Snrn A. I.oiilirnrrkrr, llliitiiplre: Hoy Sil- ™ ™ del, lliinimrl\vn, mi,l Cliirn Annn 4'olilr, Mlildlctomit ICiltvlnl.lnu cil Arnolfl and llenrlrttn Mny llnrrlxliiirKi (iarlr ||. Smith, .A ltoynllou. ami lOtlirl Mny Holier*. Hlichxplr*. HOME EDITION fnntry last night, both in Flanders . and south of the Sommc. French Make Gains In the former area an operation ' was carried out which advanced the French line somewhat in the region east of Locre, an important holding point against Hanking operations directed at Mont Rouge. British troops made a successful raid near i Merville, to the west of this area. On the southern liattlefront, be. . sides carrying out several protltable [Continued on l'age 2.] ; American Batteries Fire Villages Back of Hun Lines; Patrol Repulsed By Associated Press With the American Forces oil flic French Front, Friday, May 10.— American batteries bombarded the enemy lines heavily last night, the shells causing fires in the village of Cantigny and Mesnil St. Georges (west of Montdidier) held by tho Germans. German patrols continue active along the front. One attempted to rush American oul posts but was driven off by brisk rifle lire. An American outpost caught a German trench dog. The pouch about his neck contained a message that the German retaliatory fire was fall i< ing short and that many of their own shells wcrclandlng in Cantigny. This confirmed previous information re ported by American outposts.
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