While Germans Delay New Move in Offensive Allies {ft ■ HARRISBURG ifSllil TELEGRAPH M • ' - - otar-3n&cpeni>cnt J f LXXXVII— No. 143 24 PAGES " , J°ckkt C s opy ALLIES ADD TO BIG BAG OF PRISONERS BY QUICK THRUSTS German Command Worried at Constant Losses Occas ioned by New Tactics That Have Permitted the British, French and Americans to Take 6,000 Captive in Week MAY HAVE DELAYED PROPOSED OFFENSIVE Italy Does Its Share in the Fighting by Pressing Hard on the Heels of the Aus trians; Berlin Bolsters Spirit at Home by Fake Reports of Allied Failure By Associated Press Harassing of the German lines in tlie west shows no signs of icttini, lip, and the allies continue to gain {■• round here anl there and bring in iarge batches of German prisoners. The game of striking the enemy a solid blow .in a small sector now has been taken up on the Biitls-'li front and an advance of a mile arid a half on a width of four miles, with tiiy c.'ifture of 1,500 prisoners t-oulb of the Somme, testifies to the biuing powers of the Australians, aided by American detachments. German ef forts to hold the attacking Austral ians and Americans, who have ap peared on this part of the line for the first time, were in vain. Last night the British had so well established themselves in their new positions that when the Germans delivered a counterattack it was easily repulsed, in addition to the prisoners taken a German field gun and more than 100 machine gnna were captured. Trench Get Another 1000 JA.Between the Oise and the Aisne, Sphere the latest French blow gained considerable ground and more than 1,000 prisoners, the Germans have not attempted counter thrusts. Hei;e also the enemy artillery has been the only means of retaliation for the ground and prisoners lost. The Germans have given up their coun terattacks and heavy gunlire against the new American positions west of Chateau Thierry, but are bombard ing the village of St. Pierre Aigle, aou.'h of the Aisne, gained by the French Tuesday. In the thrust south of the Somme the allies recaptured the village of Hamel and the Hamel and Vaiie woods, south of the village. The woods are on high grounds. The French gain at Autreches also takes elevations from the Germans. Along the Ancre Australian troops pro gressed 500 yards on a front of 1.200 : ards. #,OOO in a Week through the successful and suc cessive thrusts in the past ten days e.r more, the allies on the western front have taken from the GerruaKb positions which would have been very useful in future offensive opera tions. Whether the policy of nib bling is holding back a renewal of I heavy enemy attacks is not known, but 1 here can be no doubt thi- by j pushing the Germans out of locally Important positions here and there I between Ypres and Rhcims, General !• och is giving the German command somthing to consider seriously as to the effect on German morale. The number of prisoners taken in the past week is nearly 0,000. Almost without exception Berlin has declared officially that the al lied attacks were repulsed. It claims that the French thrust north of the j Aisne was broken up in the from j line, while it described the thrust on I the Somme as "patrol attacks" ' which were frustrated. Italy Forges Ahead On the Italian front General Diaz • has been successful with his local j attacks and his captures of prisoners i since last Saturday is now Well over 4.800. The Italians continue their operations near the mouth of the I Pia.ve and rapidly are driving the I Austrians back to the line of the old river bed. American Independence Day on the American sectors passed off with only normal activity. If there were any anticipations that the Germans might seize upon the Fourth of July as a day upon which to strike a blow against the Americans, they did not materialize. It was a GLORIOUS In dependence Day. Remember it by Buying i WAR STAMPS. I mean MONEY you may need. ITHEWEATfi^j For HnrrUhurK n n H vlrlnltyr Partly cloudy to-night an<l Sat urdnji probably hoivrr Satur day; not much change in tem pernturr. Temperature) 8 a. m., 04. .Sun: Hlaetti 5i37 a. m.| acta, Bi!3 p. m. Moon i Kew moon, July 8. River StnKci 8 a. m„ 4 feet above low-wiiter mark. Yesterday's Heather Highest temperature, 81. I.oweat temperature. 110. Mean temperature. 70. .\*rnial temperature, 74. I WAR CROSS FOR ! YANK WHO GOT HUN GUN CREW By Associated Prc&s With the American Army in France, Thursday, July 4. —For capturing a German gun and its | crew single-handed, Private Ku koski has been awarded the Dis tinguished Service Cross. In ap prising Kukoski of the award. General Pershing wrote him as follows: "I have just heard of your splendid conduct on June 6 when you alone charged a gun and captured it and its crew, together with an officer. I have awarded you the Distinguished Service ('ross and congratulate you." U.S. AVIATORS BRING TWO HUNS DOWN IN FLAMES New German Division Is Op posing Yankees at the Marnc By Associated Press j With the American Forces on Ihe | .Marnc Front, July 5. American aviators on this front are reported ! this morning to have brought down ) two German airplanes aflame. In a small patrol encounter last I night two Germans were captured j and another of the enemy was lsill ! Ed by an American detachment. This skirmish developed the fact I that another new German division is I now opposing the the Americans in | this sector. j The Fourth - of July was an un usually quiet day in the normally ir.-j 'active sectors occupied by American! i troops from the Woevre to the Swiss.l j border. Even the artillery and air: {services were less busy than usual,! I cloudy weather and poor visibility i hampering them. ! Yankees Decorated by Pershing and Emmanuel For Bravery on Front By Associated Press With the American Army in ! France. Thursday, July 4. —Acts of, j gallantry in the lighting at Bourchesl | and in the wood of the Americans! | (Belleau wood) on the Chateau! Thierry sector have been recompens-j ed by General Pershing with the I award of the Distinguished Service Cross to thirty-two officers and en-1 listed men of the marine corps. Three of the crosses were awarded posthumously while the others went to eight officers and twenty-one non i commissioned officers and men. Italian Army Headquarters, Thursday, July 4.—Five American aviators attached to the Italian Army] were decorated with the Italian war| cross to-day by King Victor Emman- j uel. The decorations were bestowed ! during a review and in the presence! of General Eben Swift, head of the! American military mission. Police and Military Prevent Bloodshed in South African State By Associated Press j I*retorla, July 5. Premier Botha, j of the Union of South Africa, has la* ] sued a statement showing serious unrest exists in South Africa. Strong | police and military measures are be | ing taken to cope with the situation. Premier Botha said that had not prompt and effective military meas ures been taken the situation would have culminated in a grave disturb ance and probably serious loss of life. Celebrated in France as National Holiday I'aria, July 5: France yesterday \ was aflutter with the Stars and Stripes and American Independence ! Day was observed as a national fete i day. Schools were closed. Parades, ! public meetings and various other kinds of celebrations were held in all the other important cities of the coun- i try. Several cities, such as Lyons. Brest and Paris, named avenues and squares after President Wilson. I Parisians took the holiday more i gayly than any since the beginning jof the war. All government offices, [ banks, the Bourse and private houses were decorated with the American colors. The music halls had special American numbers and in the res taurants American dishes predomi nated. The day in the capital was crowded with organized public mani festations. The newspapers were filled with ar ticles and pictures explaining the meaning of the Fourth of July and expressing the admiration and grati tude of France to America. Belated Fireworks Set Fire to Dwelling's Roof Fireworks, thrown from the win dow of an adjoining house by youngsters, set firq to the roof at the home of Harry Dewes, 1111 Plum street, this afternoon, causing slight damage. Alarms were sent In from two boxes in the vicinity, but a chemical stream was all that was needed to extinguish the blaze. BRITISH TAKE 4,300 HUNS IN SOMME SECTOR ■ Repulse German Counterat , xr . ; tack on .New Position on Amiens Front 100 MACHINE GUNS LOST Successful Raid Carried Out by Allied Force on the Hamel Sector By Associated Press lioihlom, July s.—The Germans j last night delivered a counterattack j upon the new positions gained by j the British on the Amiens front, to the east of the village of Hamel. The war office announced to-day that the enemy had been repulsed in this attempt and left prisoners in the British hands. More than 1,300 prisoners were taken by the British forces in yes terday's operation in the Somme ; area. In addition 100 machine guns and a number of trench mortars were captured. The text of the statement reads: "The total number of prisoners taken by us in yesterday's successful operations on the Somme exceeds 1,- 300. One German field gun, in addi l tion to over 100 machine guns and a number of trench mortars have so I far been counted. "A hostile counterattack against our new position east of Hamel last night was easily repulsed, a few prisoners being left in our hands. "A successful raid was carried out by us in the Beaumont-Hamel sector. An attempted hostile raid in the neighborhood of Strazeele (Flanders front), was repulsed." Little Fulton Leads in State Drive For Stamps; Over $4,000,000 in Week The per capita sales of War Sav ings Stamps in Dauphin county in last week's drive reached the 41 cent figure, latest reports received at the State Headquarters show. Ful ton county leads the state with a sales of $3.66. Pledges have been placed in that county in excess or the S2O asked of each inhabitant. Records of nearby counties last week are: Union, $2.49; York, $2.34; Mifflin, $2.02: Cumberland, $1.3 3; Juniata, $1.85; Lancaster. $1.08; Adams, 34 cents; Perry, 99 cents. Robert K. Cassatt, director of fhe war savings campaign for Eastern Pennsylvania, to-day expressed him self as very well pleased with results of the week's work in his territory. He sent telegrams of congratulations to all the chairmen. "We sold more than $4,000,000 in stamps during the week, breaking all records," said Mr. Cassatt to-day. "Our per capita for the week exceeds seventy cents. We have only to do a little more than half as well to meet our quota of S2O a year for each inhabitant. I have wired the county chairmen that we must all keep our shoulders to the wheel and make every week a rec ord-breaker if possible." Steeplejack Hassler Conies to Take Acorn Off Church Next Monday, "Steeplejack" Hass ler, of Philadelphia, the daredevil who does high and difficult work, will be in Harrisburg to remove the "acorn" at the top of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church for repairs, in addition to making other repairs the steeple. Hassler previously has done work in this city on the Market Square Presbyterian Church on the Zion Lutheran Church steeple and on the water tower of the Pennsyl vania Railroad. SPARKLER" KILLS CHILD By Associated Press Lancaster, Pa., July s.—Margaret, 10-year-old daughter of B. Frank Kready, a prominent lawyer of this city, died to-day a.s the result of a Fourth of July accident. Tlie child's clothing was ignited by a ''sparkler" she was holding. Four other per sona were burned in an attempt to save the child. CROWN PRINCE TELLS HIS PAPA OF KULTURED FROGS Croaked and Croaked and Croaked So That Germans Could Launch Attack Without Being Discovered; Even Drowned Roar of Machine Guns By Associated Press Amsterdam, July 6v —Karl Ros ner, a newspaper correspondent who frequently Is termed the German Emperor's press agent, describes In the Lokal Anzeiger a conversation which he says took place between Kmporor William and the German Crown Princo, In which the son told his father a story of the "frogs nt the battle of the Chemin des Dames." The story was told,, says Rosner, as the father and son stood on a hill In the battle sector of the army HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1918 The Man Who Was Going to Eat All We Could Cook $ ill a QUESTIONNAIRES NEARLY ALL IN BOARD'S HANDS Number of Registrars Who Seek Exemption Is Large, Officials Believe With a few exceptions the ques tionnaires of the 1918 class have been returned to the draft boards. The city boards reported that nearly all the questionnaires are at their offices. The county hoards likewise are nearly ready to begin classifica tion. t'lassifieatlon will likely not begin until Monday, as legally the regis trants who received their question naires last are not required to have them returned to the boards before that time. The questionnaires must be returned within seven days of the date they are mailed, holidays not counted. As the last questionnaires were mailed last Thursday, two Sun days and the Fourth of July came in the seven days. The registrants who received their questionnaires last therefore have ten days in which to fill them out. No Trouble In Plac ing Data The registrants had no trouble tilling their questionnaires out promptly and returning them prop erly signed. Members of the legal ad visory board were on hand in court room No. 1 to help the registrants. As nearly all the registrants have al ready filled out their questionnaires, there was no need for the legal aid this morning. The concensus of opinion among local draft board officials is that the number of registrants who ask ex emption is large. Marriage, industrial and agricultural claims are the rea sons on which the youths base their requests for deferred classifications. While it has been said that a large proportion of the men are married, the fact that recently promulgated marriages will not be a reason for exemption, is expected to lower the number of deferred classification. It is aimed to have the men classi fied before the end of this month. group of General Von Krancols on June 3. The Crown Prince said: "It was when the Germans were preparing to storm the Chemin des Dames. The frogs, which, were found in millions in the marshy Ailette river region, croaked in such a deaf ening fashion that they enabled the Germans to bring up batteries, am munition and columns without dis covery, and when the attack actually was launched the deafening concert of the frogs prevented the enemy from discovering the positions of the German machine guns." Record of Greatest World Launching HERE is the approximate rec ord, regional and statistical, I of the greatest ship launch ing day in history: WOODEN SHIPS' Deadweight j Tons. Ships. I Gulf yard 54,000 14 Atlantic Coast... 42,000 12 Pacific Coast 90,000 20 Totals '..186,000 52 STEEL SHIPS | ulf 3,500 1 | Great Lakes .... 37,000 11 I Atlantic Coast... 85,000 12 1 Pacific Coast 157,700 17 ! Totals .... 283.200 41 | Grand totals. ... 467,200 93 SKIP-STOP ORDER MUST BE PUT INTO EFFECT JULY 15 Government Orders Trolley Companies to Lose No Time in Arranging Schedules E. L. Cole, <iirector of conserva tion of the federal fuel administra tion, has notified Frank B. Mugger, president of the Harrisburg Railways Company, and Charles H. Bishop, president of the Valley Railways Company, that the "skip-stop" plan announced some time ago by the federal authorities must be put into effect by July 15. This means that after July~7s, street cars will stop eight times to the mile in cities, six times to the mile in the suburbs and four times to the mile in the rural districts. The street railway authorities have been holding off as long as pos sible on the order, because they real ize the public dissatisfaction that may' result and the difficulty of ar ranging the stations satisfactorily, [Continued on Pago 10.] Important Third Street Realty Sale The second purchase of a business property in the busy Third street section by the M. E. Olmsted Estate within a short time was announced to-day. The Commonwealth Trust Company, acting for the estate, has purchased from the heirs of Gillard Dock, the property No. 9, North Third street, at $33,000. The estate recent ly bought No. 7, from the 13. F. Etter estate. The property was bought for in vestment and has a frontage of twenty-one feet with depty of fifty two and a half. The holdings of this estate in the neighborhood now in clude twenty-four and a half feet on Market street. No. 302, with depth of I#T, and Nos. 3. B, 7 and 9 North Third street, aggregating eightv feet, abutting on the Market street property and having a depth of tiftv two and a half feet along the line of the building now occupied l>y the Western Union. ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED I'HESS NEWSPAPEII IN HAIIHISIIOHG BAN ON BEEF TO REMAIN IN FORCE ! DURING SUMMER Order Will Not Be Lifted Here as in Phila delphia i The revised beef order which took ■ effect in Philadelphia Wednesday, al j lowing the sale of beef indiscrimi j nately in restaurants, hotels and I boardinghouses until July 13, will not ■ be issued here, Donald McCormiek, : Dauphin. County Food Administrator, | said to-day. j The ban on the beef restrictions I was lifted in Philadelphia because of the accumulation of large stocks of j beef in the coolers of large nieat- I shipping and distributing Arms | there. The tact that these condi tions do not prevail in Harrisburg, according to the opinion of the local Food Administrator, is the reason for not lifting the ban in this city. The .regulations in effect here, therefore, provide that beef shall not b e served in any form in hotels, res taurants and clubs during the sum mer months. Householders are limit ed to four beef meals per week. The rush on the local office for sugar-purchase certificates by groc ers, canners, manufacturers, drug gists and eatinghouse proprietors continues, with more than 300 issued to date. The certificates will be is sued until July 15, and the reports made by the grocers and proprietors now cover their needs until October. Any sugar user, except the ordinary householder, who does not make a report and secure sugar-purchase certificates before July 15 will find his sugar supply cut off after that | date. Soldiers See Assailants Who Attacked Girl Put j to Death at Camp Dodge j By Associated Press Camp Dodge, lowa, July 5. —Three negro soldiers, convicted by court | martial of attacking a 17-year-old white girl on the cantonment grounds the night of May 24, were hanged here to-day with virtually the entire division witnessing the executions. Johnson and Tramble were de clared by military police officials to have confessed tholr complete guilt, while Allen, while admitting his presence when the crime was com saulted the IglrU Three negro soldiers among the spectators fainted when the men dropped to their death and another ran amuck. He started on a dead run directly toward the scaffold but guards overpowered him. A white soldier also fainted. Four negroes were urrested the morning after the assault, which oc curred shortly before midnight. May 24. One suspect was acquitted when I It was established that he was uotl near the the uriw< '< BLOOD OF EVERY RACERUNSQUICK UNDEROLDGLORY Foreign-Born Residents of Twenty Nation alities March Shoulder to Shoulder With Americans of Many Generations PATRIOTIC FEELING CITY'S GREATEST JULY 4 PAGEANT Harrisburg had a glorious Fourth. That doesn't begin to describe it, but glorious, at all events, is the word. For East is East and West is West And never the 'twain shall meet.' sang Kipling, but they did meet yes terday in the great Americanization parade, anu South met North, too, and they all mingled together as brothers and sisters of one blood beneath the red. white and blue of Ihe Star Spangled Banner and t&- gether before the doors of the great stone Capitol that symbolizes the government of the Keystone State of the union, the assembled thou sands recited the American's creed: I believe in the United States of America, as a government of the people, by the people; whose just powers are derived from the con sent of the government; a de mocracy in a republic; a sover eign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon this principles of freedom, equal ity, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. 1 therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to sup port its constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its Hag and to defend it against all enemies. From livery Clinic From every clime and strand Uiey came—native born whose family strains run back to the Mayflower 011 these shores, men who have fought and bled for the perpetuation of our liberties, women who lived through the anxious days of the six ties, these stood aside to give place of honor in the line to thousands of more recent comers who yesterday 1 •* X IX w *3* 4* nesting the President to issue a pr >clatl Tthc America*} people t T ♦ day. It how. goes to the House. Senator Phfclan of Call- 4 ' f i jK ■ | jF |L A thought." BUT ONE LANGUAGE FOR HUNS * 1 4* " x aiu fl juage Germany can understand —from tiie mouth of * 1 Zthc b:„ iu w i-.ie ' the ,ht urttii £< • J crttary Lane said here to-day, i talifying i I Jv.lt.: C!V.i it .', Ci 2': iljthe 1,000,000 already in France, if needed year from -jft 1 4. uow ' £ I? $ 1J? ton —President Wilson ha: signed the threi *l* IT f t! *s* t ' + 23 NAMES IN WAR (CASUALTIES X X Washington—The array casualty list to y >it jinc X Killed in action, 5; Died Jlfc' J* of .T * IN EXPLQSION AT POWDER PLANT jS £' npany's plant <Bj T al Kcns'il, N. J., to-day. ? 4- X L 7 7 •Pitoxi sen driven out of the region last of Lake | X 7 them great quantitic. food. PRESIDENT URGE&/WIRE SEIZURE'* Mt Washington—president Wilson informed Coi X 7 ddy that, he w6uld like to see the resolution authorising 7 l him to take over telegraph and telephone lint. ;■ ...cd br.- £ X fore the ffopo:rd ree.es>: ! Cf>ir;i' jt, — S MAKMAGL ULcNSES £ Harry M. Hiirtninn. HnrrlNburK, tinil llelrn C. IJnnlel, Hrrr.ru- tXm . hurKl Alfred K. NlioemHker and Amir, M. Hull. HnrrlHhtirgi Harry i It. Mateer, I'ronre**, and Anna 10. I'orter, IVnbruok i Carroll H. •>T" -it (tuliclr.v and Marian A. Alrinniirr, ICnolni Mudilax J. Hornier and Zrttn M. Wflxiind, l<aneater. ™ HOME EDITION vowed anew their fealty to the free land of their adoption. German and Austrian, Serb and Croat, Russian and Rumanian, Italian ind French man, English and Canadian, Hun garian and Bulgarian, Greek and Bo hemian, Japanese and Chinese, white and black, these and a dozen other races and nationalities, creeds and religions ranged themselves yester day in unbroken ranks, erect of shoulder, starry-eyed and stalwart of purpose beneath the banner that is the hope of freedom and the standard of liberty the world around. What It Mount If the old Beast of Berlin could only have seen that great spectacle —the marvel of the melting pot of America boiling merrily, the pledge of a united people to a great cause— he would have grasped the futility of the contest in which he is en gaged. What did it all mean? If you saw it you do not neWsto. be told. It meant that the great experiment of Washington and his compatriots has not failed. It meant that it Is .• possible to bring liberty loving men and women from all parts of the world and weld them together so lirinly into one great whole in the brief space of a generation or two, that not even the damnably etlicient propaganda experts of the black hearted German spy system can rem! them asunder. It meant that it Is possible to make an honest, true blue American citizen out of the crude material of southern Europe almost over night, providing the heart is right. It meant that these newcom [Continued on I'affc - ]
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