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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,
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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
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Tthc America*} people t T
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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
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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*
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+ 23 NAMES IN WAR (CASUALTIES X
X Washington—The array casualty list to y >it jinc
X Killed in action, 5; Died Jlfc'
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£' npany's plant <Bj
T al Kcns'il, N. J., to-day.
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7 them great quantitic. food.
PRESIDENT URGE&/WIRE SEIZURE'*
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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,
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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
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