Germans Throw New Forces Against Allies on the Marne Front; Hun Gtms AdSoe m Flanders Fr<C ** f • • HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M ®l)c otar* Indcpcnscut v W I LXXXVII— No. 156 16 PAGES HUNS SACRIFICE 100,000 TROOPS IN VAIN; AMERICANS AND ALLIES STANDING FIRM German Offensive Is Broken Down to New Series of Heavy Local Attacks STUBBORN DEFENSIVE CAUSES HUNS TO CHANGE TACTICS Enemy Has Made Some Progress But Has Failed to Win at Any Important Point By Associated Press The German offensive is in its third day and, according to the views of Entente observers, it no longer has the character of a general attack. It already, they declare, has worked itself into a series of comparatively local operations. The success of at least one of these operations, however, would amount to a considerable achievement for the Germans, however, much it might fall short of their original designs. Rheims Is Immediate Objective What the German high command intended the offensive to be cannot be surmised. It apparently encountered a defense that was sufficiently stubborn to prevent the immediate achievement of more important objectives, and the Germans have pursued their usual tactics of making the most of local successes at various points along the front. Thus the offensive now appears largely to take on the aspect of a turning movement against the Rheims salient. Huns Make Some Progress Reports from the battlefield show the Germans during the past night made progress in two sectors of the front. South of the Marne they attacked the positions on the heights commanding the river crossings, taken by the French in their counter offensive on Tuesday. The French reached the Bourdonnerie and Clos Milon farms, north of St. Agnan and La Chapelle-Monthodon, but there they encountered fresh enemy troops who appear to have again forced them back. The battle is continuing on the slopes and in the woods south of the heights. Take Some High Ground Further cast the Germans seem, to have made little or no progress in their attempt to debouch from the Bouquigny wood wood and through the village of Nesles. Nearer the Marne the Germans apparently took some ground southwest of Venteuil, near Monvoisin, but a counterattack by the French ejected them from this locality. Nor;h of the Maine the turning movement against Rheims • becomes quite apparent. On Tuesday the Germans had been held up at Chatillon and Rodemat wood. Since that time the Germans have forged forward along the line further to the northeast toward Rheims. Violent Fighting Reported Today's report tells of violent fighting in the Courton wood, but does not tell of the result of the struggle there. The point in this wood where the combat is taking place is not known, but conceding that the enemy has reached the middle of this area of forest land, lie has advanced about four and one-half miles from ,Fere-En-Tardenois, which was approximately the location of the line on Sunday. Here and further west in Rodemat wood the Germans are making the steadiest and most threatening gains, pushing southeast toward Epernay, which liest south of Rheims! Nearer Rheims the Germans have been repulsed at Vrigny and no fighting is reported in the district immediately surrounding the cathedral city. Attack on French Fails East of Rheims the Germans have attacked the new French positions on the south side of the Ves 4 le, to which the French retired on Tuesday. The French official statement reports the attack was a failure. From tihs point eastward there is no report of fighting, the French official statement saying, iowever, that their lines have been maintained intact throughout the region east of Rheims. Unofficial reports from the battle area say the German losses since Monday morning are estimated at 100,000. This slaughter, if the report be accurate, is evidence of the ferocity of the fighting and the mighty efforts being made by each of the contesting armies. Situation Is Satisfactory Reports declare the situation is viewed as being satisfactory by the allied commanders. There will, however, be an anxious period until the German turning movement threatening to pinch off the Rheims salient, is definitely stopped. An interesting feature [Continued on Page 2.] The American By Associated Press Paris, July 17.—"We regret being unable on this occasion to follow the counsels of our masters, the French, hut the American flag haa been forced to retire. This is unendurable and none of our soldiers understand their not being asked to do whatever is necessary to re-establish a situa tion which is humiliating to us and unacceptable to our country's honor. We are going to counterattack." This was a message sent by an American general in command of American forces south of the Marne on Monday afternoon after the Ger mans had succeeded in forcing the Americans back towards Conde-en- Brie. The French commander in formed the American general that the early German success could not have uny great effect on the fate of the battle; that it was understood perfectly that after hard fighting the Americans had slowly retired and that it was not expected that they immediately launch a counterattack. He added that a counterattack could be postponed without risk and it might be better to give the Ameri can troops an hour's rest. immediately after the American general sent the above message, which is quoted by the correspon dent of the Matin, the Americans launched their counterattack and the lost ground was soon recovered, with an additional half mile taken from the Germans for good meas ure. SINGLE COPY •i CENTS WORKERS FORCED BY SCARCITY OF HOUSES TO LIVE IN MERE SHACKS J. Horace McFarland Says Harrisburg Slum Districts Arc as Bad as Any He Knows; Overcrowded Be cause of Bapid Growth EXPEBT ON HOUSING OUTLINES BEMEDIES New and Modern Code to Be Strictly Enforced a Neces sity; Zoning Would Be of Great Assistance in Solving the Problem Here (This Is the third of a series of ar ticles on Housing Conditions in Har risburg. To-morrow a descriptive ac count of Harrisburg slums, showing Mr. McFarland's statements herewith presented to be borne out bv the facts, will appear). Harrisburg has worse slums than are to be found in many larger cities. That is the assertion of J. Horace McFarland, head of the American Civic Association, who has made a painstaking study of housing condi tions the country-over. Mr. McFarland's review of the lo cal situation as given in an interview with a Telegraph representative to day sums up in an admirable manner the grave problem now confronting the city and the means that must be adopted to solve it. Mr. McFarland has been urging the consideration of housing prob lems in Harrisburg ever since the be ginning of the great Harrisburg im provement movement in 1902. As president of the American Civic As sociation he has kept pace with the war development of housing not only in the United States, but in Great Britain and in France. When interviewed Mr. McFarland said: "Nothing more important has been set before the people of Harrisburg in the past ten years than the Tele graph's Saturday statement as to the sheer and definite necessity of atten-l tion to housing if the progress of the city is to be maintained. "Few Harrisburgers realize, prob ably, that we are at present, despite our marvelous progress in parks, playgrounds, paving, and River Front, very much of a slum city. Wo have ill-controlled and most unwhole some districts in which are compell ed to live by economic necessity those whose efficiency is radically decreased through the conditions [Continued on I'orc 15.] German Airdome Burned by Mutinous Fighters in Kaiser's Army; 12 Held London, July 17.—The destruction by fire of a new German airdrome, with twenty-two airplanes, near Nivelles. is attributed to the work of German revolutionists in the army, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam to-day. Nivelles is seventeen miles south of Brussels. Ten Belgians and two German noncommissioned officers have been arrested. The day before the fire, adds the dispatch, a secret meeting occurred in a canteen at Nivelles where the scheme for the destruction of the airdrome was discussed. Concert to Be Given in Park by J. H. Troup Music House The fiifth complimentary concert of the season to Harrisburg music lov ers will be rendered to-morrow even in Reservoir Park by the Municipal Band, Frank Blumensteln, conductor. This concert Js given through the courtesy of the J. H. Troup Music House. Part I —l, March "Premier," M. A. Althouse; 2, Overture, "Zampa," F. Herold; .1, Dances—Spanish No. 1, Spanish No. 2, Spanish No. 3, M. Moszkowski's; 4, selection, "Furs and Frills," Silvio Hein; 6, (a) Patrol, "American," F. W. Meachan; (b) "Dance of the Hours," from La Glo conda," A. PoncheiUi. Part ll—"Rajah's Sunshine," M. A. Althouse; 7, Selection, "Echoes from the Metropolitan Opera House," Theo. Mosses-Tobanl; 8, Overture No. 34, "The Best Yet," M. Witmark; 9. Waltz, "Venus Reigen," J. Gung'l; 10, Grand Selection, "The Fighting Al lies," introducing the National Airs and the dates they entered the war: Servia, July 28, 1914; Russia, August | 1, 1914; France, August 3, 1914; Bel gium, August 4, 1914; England, Au gust 4. 1914; Italy, May 23, 1915; The United States, April 6, 1917, M. L. Lake. ROO DIK DAILY TS PETROGRAD lx>n<lon. July 17.—Some tlve hun dred persons die of cholera daily In l'etrograd, according to travelers ar riving in Copenhagen, says a dis patch from the Danish capital to the Exchange Telegraph Company. At Saratov thousands of persons are suffering from the disease The malady has spread to Finland. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1918. QUENTIN ROOSEVELT IS SHOT DOWN IN BATTLE A Son of Former President, Who Had Been Flying Over American Lines, Reported Killed in Action With Hun Aerial Squadron—Cousin Saw Fight Which Sent Hero Hurtling to Earth By Associated Press Paris, July 17.—Lieut. Quen tin Roosevelt, youngest son of the former president, has been killed in an air fight, the semi official Havas News 'Agency announces. His machine fell into the enemy lines. Philip Roosevelt, Quentin's cous in, witnessed the air battle in the vicinity of Chateau Thierry, in which Quentin was engaged, and saw the machine fall, but did not know un til later that the airplane was that of his cousin, Le Journal says to day. Huns Turn on Roosevelt Lieutenant Roosevelt was last seen in combat on Sunday morning with two Inemy airplanes about ten miles inside the German lines In the Chateau Thierry sector. He started out with a patrol of thirteen Amer ican machines. They encountered seven Germans and were chasing them back when two of them turned on Lieutenant Roosevelt. Reports of the fight say the Ger mans appeared to be shooting at the lieutenant from the rear. The three machines were close together. Then SHIP BEARING SPANISH ENVOY IS TORPEDOED Huns Take Advantage of No tice Given Berlin by Neutral Country By Associated Press Athens, Greece, July 17.—1t is announced from a Spanish source that a Spanish steamship on which Minister Lopez de Vega was return ing to Spain has been torpedoed by a German submarine. The ship flew the minister's flag. The diplomat and his family haVe been rescued. The German government had been notified of the minister's departure a week in advance. INDIAN SCHOOL AT CARLISLE IS GIVEN UP BY U.S. Big Building of Famous Insti tution to Be Used For Wounded Soldiers By Associated Press Washington, July 17.—The Carlisle Indian school has been permanently abandoned and turned over to the War Department for hospital pur poses and for the rehabilitation and re-education of sick and wounded soldiers. Announcement to-day by Secretary Lane that the plant, orig inally an Army barracks, assigned to the Interior Department until again needed, has been returned back to the War Department, was stated by Cato Sells, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to mean that the famous school would cease to exist and its [Continued on Page 15.] NO MORE WILL TRUSTY RAZOR . BE WIELDED Barbers to Be Taken From Trains as Jobs Are Considered As Nonessential to the Winning of the War Ye Harrisburg travelers who have great regard as to their facial dig nity and who are especially opposed to appear in public while looking at the world "from ambush" may well be in a stage bordering on hysterics to-day. Kaiser Bill and his Hohen zollern cohorts have been doomed many times to perdition and numer ous decidedly unpleasant localities during the day. it's this way: The Government has become somewhat unfeeling as to the welfare and happiness of those travelers in Pullman cars. It lias decreed that shaving In motion is unnecessary and that all Pullman barbers must find occupa tions. And so the weeping and gnashing of teeth in the ranks of Harrisburg's male travelers to-day. one of the machines was seen tumb ling- through the clouds and a patrol which went in search of Lieut. Roosevelt returned without a trace of him. He appeared to be fighting up to the last moment. One account of the combat says the machine caught fire before it began to fall. London, July 17.—Lieut. Quentln Roosevelt, Coronel Roosevelt's young est son, who had been attached to the American line forces on the Marne front, was killed at Chateau Thierry on July 14,*teays a dispatch from Paris to the Exchange Tele graph Company. Lieut. Roosevelt, the dispatch says, was returning from a patrol tight when he was attacked by a German squadron. It was seen that Roosevelt sud denly lost control of his machine, probably having received a mortal wound. Oyster Bay Y... July 17. "Quentin's mother and 1 am very glad he got to the front and had the chance to render some service to his country and to show the stuff there was in him before his fate befell him." This statement was issued by Col. Theodore Roosevelt to-day " after press dispatches had furnished con firmation of earlier reports that his son, Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, had been killed in an aerial battle in France. ' CITY DETERMINED TO PROSECUTE YOUNG ROWDIES Six Youths Arrested by Police Charged With Start ing Fight Each of the six lioys arrested last evening for rowdyism on city playgrounds were fined $5 by Mayor Kclstcr in police court tills afternoon. Six boys, the oldest 17 years of age, were arrested by city police last night on charges of disorderly practice because of a fight between boy rowdies who have been annoy [ Continued on Pago 15.] FRENCH TRAITOR, DUVAL, DIES IN VINCENNES WOOD Director of Bonnet Rouge, Germanophile Newspaper, Shot in Early Hours By Associated Press . Paris, July 17.—M. Duvjil, director of the Germanophile newspaper Bonnet Rouge, was executed early to-day for treasonable actions against the government. The execution was carried out promptly at 5 o'clock in the Forest of Vincennes. The condemned man die dalmost instantaneously with the command to fire. The execution of M. Duval is the second growing out of the German propaganda of "Boloism", or "De featism" in France. The first to face the firing squad was 8010 Pasha. Soon after his execution the trial of [Continued on Page 15.] Henceforth when Harrisburg men would a-traveling go they most ac cept one of several other conditions. Ihey must either condescend to shave themselves, must get shaved before they start or submit to the torture of railroad station barbers. That many intend to accept the first condition was evidenced to-day by I the unusually large sale of safety j razors and safety razor blades by I Harrisburg dealers. The Pullman barber, much berat ed and seldom praised, however was regarded as an evil essential to the peace and happiness of many a trav eler. His A5-miie-an-hour shave oft en enabled a traveling salesman to arrive at his destination looking fresh and youthful. But alas! it's all ended. YANKEE FLYERS DESTROY 5 HUN BATTLE PLANES AND A BALLOON American Birdmen Have Busy Time Back of German Lines Where New York Gets Two Machines in One Flight; Others Mentioned ALLIES RAID GERMAN CITY BACK OF LINES Big Munitions Plants Dam aged by Bombs Dropped From Air in Retaliation For Raids Over French and British Cities * By Associated Press With the American Forces in France, July 17.—Five German air planes and one balloon were destroy ed by American aviators in the light ing over Dormans, on the River Marne. Zenos Miller, of Wooster, Ohio, brought down a balloon and fought off three Fokker machines. Charles Porter, of New Roehelle, N. Y., knocked down a German whose ma chine fell a thousand feet. Francis Simmonds, of New York City, brought down two German machines in the same flight. Arthur Jones, of Ha#wards, near San Francisco, brought down one airplane, and Ralph O'Neil, of Nogales, Ariz., de stroyed a two-seater. German Cities Raided Amsterdam, July 17.—Thirty-three air attacks were made during June by the allies against German towns and cities, according to a statement issued at Berlin. The report admits slight damage was done to blast furnaces in the Saar<bruecken region and at Lud wigshafen, while the damage to private houses is said not to be in considerable. Thirty-four persons have been killed and thirty-seven se verely injured. Thirty-five others suf fered slight wounds. British Drop Bombs Ijontlon. July 17. —British aviators again have attacked Offenburg, near Karlsruhe, and Thlonville, near Metz says the official statement frGm the air ministry issued last night. Good bursts were observed at Offenburg and a fire, followed by explosions, was started at Thionville. The official statement on aviation to-day reads: "Six hostile machines were brought down by us yesterday. One of our machines is missing. Over four tons of bombs were dropped on the Seclin railway station and on hostile billets early to-day. All our machine* returned." 35 AMERICANS ARE RESCUED AT SEA Ijondon, July 17. Thirty-fifive Americans, constituting the crew jot the former Great Lakes Steamer George Eliot, have arrived in Lon don. Their steamer foundered at pea in a storm. They got r*vay in the lifeboats and were rescued some iime later by a warship and were brought to London. AMERICAN LEADERS ARE DECORATED London, July 17.—General John J. Pershing has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and General Tasker H. Bliss, American representative at the Su preme War Council, has been given the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. This was officially announced to-day. DAUPHIN COUNTY'S HARVEST TIME IS ABOUT OVER Are You Garnering in THRIFT STAMPS AST You can start Today THE WEATHER] For Harrlsburir nnd vlclnltyi < loudy and somewhat pooler tn nlßThti Thursday partly cloudy. For Kaatern Pennsylvaniai Cloudy nnd allghtly cooler to-nltrhti Thursday partly cloudy. Temperature 8 a. m., ttß. Sum ltlses, 5,44 a. m.| net*. HMO p. m. Moon ■ Full moon, July 23. Hlver Main 8 n. in. 3.0 feet above low-water mark. Yesterday's Weather Hlfcheat temperature, INI. I.oweat temperature, (K. Mean temperature, 70. Xormal temperature, T5. CIVIC CLUB FI,Y CONTEST Clvle Club Fly Swattlnß Contest cloaes July 31. U a. m. to la noon. Five cents a pint for all fliea. Prises to be awarded. ONLY EVENINU ASSOCIATED HHESS NEWSPAPER IN HAIIRISBURG French Losses Very Small in Resisting Greatest of Hun Efforts in War FIVE ATTACKS ARE REPULSED ON THE CHAMPAGNE FRONT Smashing Counter Attacks Bring Poilus Within Easy Gunfire of Pontoons Across Marne By Associated Press London, July 1/. —Casualties sustained by the German troops in the offensive up to the present are estimated at 100,000, accord ing to news received in London to-day from the battlefront in France. * The position for the allies at the present stage of the German offensive in trance is said to be distinctly satisfactory in advices received to-day. The French losses are stated to have been very small. They have lost no gains, the reports declare. French Deliver Smashing Counterattack General von Kinem's army, which now has been definitely engaged on the German left wing in the Champagne, yesterday delivered live attacks between Suippe and Massigncs. All attacks were repulsed with heavy losses. French counterattacks have brought the German bridges over the river Marne under the tire of the French artillery of "medium caliber. Crown Prince Advances Forces of the German crown prince advanced another three miles down the Marne vaPley yesterday. This makes a total pene [Continued on Page 2.] tHririr i & ■f ' T j MRS. ANNA B. SNODGRASS DIES If* * Harrisburg—Mrs. Anna B. Snodgrass, 82 years old, * X widow of ths. Lite William T. Snodg: •>•. well known in § J Mairi ;mrg, died late to-day at the home of her daughter, J £ Mrs. Isaiah Reese, 1527 North Sixth street. Funeral ar- { X £• 2 jTangements wll be announced later. X X UUNS KILL 94 WAR PRISONERS ? X jj Pari:,—Ninety-four Germans were killed and seve, ty- £> l*P four v.-ounded on the night of July 15-16 when five Ger- * | *§ X man aviators bombed a prisoners camp in the region of A Xi Troves. The atrial bombardment lasted one hour. Two jf* 4* -<f the canip guard were wounded. £■ X DEMOCRATIC STATE CHAIRMAN IN ARMY X X I X' iP Philadelphia—George McLean, of Wilkes Barre* re "r p H L cently elected chairman'of the State Democratic Com- a Xiinittec over Henry C. Niles, of York, has been commit. ; Jsioned a major in the Army. His appointment wijl ncccs- {* ■ • m 'sitate ' i ::vrg of another state chairman and this, JL Xpo] "-ill reopen the fight between Eugene C X t"! VBonii'wci: :A. Miuhe! Palmer, national committeeman. |t | ] T WOMEN TAKEN IN LABOR RIOT X T E.ist Hampton, Mass.—Rioting by a crowd of Polish JQ X women occurred this morning at the plant of the West X T Boylcston Manufacturing Company when men employed JL to take the [lace of the striking weavers went to work jl X <md .!!•;:)n at noon. The police wttc unable to cope with wj the disorder .. nd K. Company, 20tli Regiment State Guard, X X Captain W. C. Tanner, was called out and charged the *jj X crowd with fixed bayonets. One woman wa . hurt. Thirty- X three women were arrested. * Tq T HUN SINKS NORSE SAILER 21 An Atlantic Port—Word reached here to-day that the JJ IX Norwegian sailing ship Marosa, 1,882, loaded with coal, JW X had been sunk at sea by a German submarine and that 4 the crew, was landed at Canso, Nova Scotia, yesterday. *jn j FOUR SOLDIERS CAUGHT IN EXPLOSION X <l* Washington—Word was received here to day that Xj X Private William T. Lusby, of Washington, was killed and vf 4 three other soldiers wounded at the tank training camp Xat Gettysburg, Pa., yesterday by a premature explosion. X t MARRIAGE A* . •J 0 ' 1 ?. I , " kfr nell. Jr., Harrlßburit. imil Mary Janr nwd, !*MI- . F Harry A. Noll, Seeltn. and KlUubeth A. Reed, len brook i "4* ®3* M. henowetli iind KHnn J. Bailey. HnrrUbursi John McK. £ i Gilbert and Margaret C. Snyder, Harrlaburir. HOME EDITION
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