I - ■ ■ - - ' wi.' •- - " • ' -.-pi • ' • A™:!' Arrises Surge Forward Against Weakened Htm Resistance; Americans Take 4.000 Prisoners HARHISBURG TELEGRAPH M ®)t Star- In&cpcn&ent I LXXXVII— No. 157 18 PAGES AMERICANS PUSH FOR WARD AGAINST RETREATING FOE ENTIRE HUN IS MEN A CED BY ft A PID PROGRESS Hurriedly Rushed Up German Reserves Fail to Stop Ad- vance of American Troops on the Aisnc and Marne Fronts; Huns Fall Back BATTLE RAGES WITH TERRIBLE VIOLENCE Yankee Guns Blast Enemy When Huns Reorganize For Counterattack; Important Points Are Taken in Con tinued Advance With the American Forces on the Aisne-Marne Front, July 19 (3 p. m.). —Ameri- can and French forces are Continuing to advance their spearhead midway between Chateau Therry and Sois sons. The Americans took several towns in the course of the night. Early to-day the Ameri cans made further progress. During the night Ger man reinforcements were coming from the region in the north, hut the expected counterattack has not ap peared up to an early hour this afternoon. American Fire Hot American troops continue to hold the plateau sojthwest of Soissons where < n Thursday the Germans made their tirst organ ized counterattack. This soon fell down, however, as soon as the American heavy* artillery got into action. This was one of the fiercest stru l es in connection with the Franco-American offensive. The battle raged southwest of Sois sons for some time. It resulted in the Germans falling back fin ally under the rain of the heavv gun fire of the Americans. One of the towns taken bv the Americans last night was Vierzy. six miles south of Sois sons. I'owns to the north and south of this also were taken in the carrying out of the plan to straighten the entire line on the Soissons-Chateau Thierry front. Fined. $lO For Refusal to Doff Haf to the Flag Walter M. Hayes arrested last evening in Market Square because he refused to take oft his hat when the national anthem was played by a hand, was fined $lO in police court this afternoon by Mayor Keister. Hayes' attorney declares that he committed no offense and has asked that the fine be refunded. Mavor Keister refused to do this and the ~ attorney threatens to bring suit to recover the money. THE WEATHER For Harrlslmrg and vldaltyi Fair ntid mrmct to-nisht and Fri day. For Kaalrrn IVnnaylvunla: Part ly cloudy to-nlKht! Saturday fair und warmer: Krntlr, xhift ins wind*. General Conditions Cloudy weather prevail* In the Atlantic Stntea. Temperature: 8 a. m., fts. Sun: Hlr, silH n. m.| nets, 8:44 p. ui. Moon: Full moon. July 23. River StuKe: 8 a. m.. 3.7 feet above lon-water mark. Yesterday'* Weather Hlarhmt temperature, 84. I.owent temperature. IRC. Mean temperature. 73. >ormal temperature, 75. , CIVIC CI.I. B FI.Y CONTEST Civic Club Fly SwattlnK Contest clone* July 31, O a. m. to 12 noon. Five cento a plat for all flies. Prises tw k* awarded. CAVALRY THROWN ] INTO HUN RANKS; U. S. WINS 6 MILES | By Associated Press 1/omlon. July 19. OX THE left wing, which in- . eludes the Soissons sector, the allied troops have cut or have under tire the high road from Soissons to Chateau Thier ry. says a Reuter dispatch from the French front, dated 11 o'clock j Thursday. The railway from Soissons to Villers-Cotterets also cv 11 CUt. At several points infiltration movements have been carried out by cavalry. They advanced through gaps in the retreating enemy lines and established themselves in villages farther ahead. American troops have been re ported unofficially as having i reached Buzancy, an advance of six miles, which would bring them across both the road and the railroad mentioned. P =, Great Allied Offensive to Come in Fall ! J By Associated Press , j Washington, July 19. —Eight divl- 1 ! sions af American troops are believ- j ed to be represented in the allied | fighting on the Aisne-Marne front, j according to information given to- i day to members of the House Mili tary Committee in their weekly con-1 ference with General March, chief . of-staff. i It was stated that the drive now | i;oliig on will not replace nor hinder the preparations for the great allied offeh>i\e planned for later In the S year. Details of the fighting are lackinK | jbecause dispatches from General! I Pershing have been greatly delayed, j I General March and Assistant Secre- j j tary Crowell who participated in the j j '-onference, expressed their gratifica-1. I tion over the part American troops' i are playing. j Shipment of supplies to the Ameri-1 can fighters is progressing satisfac- j i torily General March told the com-1 : mittee and the time made by trans- ■ | porta has materially improved dur- j ' ing the last few weeks. It was made plain to the commit-] tee that while eight divisions prob ably are represented in the fighting, that is not taken to mean that thati number actually is engaged in the j I con)bat. The best trained men, how-, ! ever, are believed to have been pick- ] . ed for the operation, the committee j | was told. British Transport Sunk by German Submarine Off Irish Coast; All Saved By Associated Press Xew York. July 19.—The British j i transport Carpathia, 13,603 tons; gross, has been sunk by a German: submarine off the Irish coast while j outward bound from a British port. [ it was learned here to-day. So far. l as known here, no lives were lost. I The Carpathia was oWned by the ' Cunard Line. Prior to the war she! was engaged in trans-Atlantic serv-! j ice. ! Although in the service of the | British government, for several i ] months, the Carpathia has been used j i as an American troop transport. Her j last departure from an American! i port was in June. The Carpathia was built in 1903 j ' at New Castle, England. It was the Carpathia which an- j i swered the wireless S. O. S. call of the White Star Einer Titanic in j | April. 1912, when that vessel hit a submerged iceberg on her maiden ( voyage to New York and was sunk ' with heavy loss of life. The Carpathia up and landed at New York 86ti survivors of the Titanic. The Carpathia also was one of the first merchant steamers to appear in American waters armed against submarines. Austrian Press Admits American Participation in War Is a Calamity The Hague, July 19..—1n outspoken , comment on the growth of Amer ican strength in France, the Social ! ist,' Arbeiter Zeitung, of Vienna, says there is no doubt more than a mil lion American troops already have | arrived in Europe. It declares this i is a feat of organization as amazing j as the creation of the British army. | "American participation in thej i fighting," it adds, "increases the : German task to one of gigantic mag-j nitude. It is easily understandable: that the German command Is lrying| this year to reach a great decision. before the full weight of the United i States is felt ] SIKGI.K COPY a ( EM'S Many Prisoners and Much! Booty Falling Into Hands of French, Who Continue to Make Advances Into Torn Ranks of Retiring Roches ITALIANS TAKE TOWNS IN DRIVE ALONG MARNE j Fresh Gains by Petain's Vet- | erans Imperil the Entire Line Held by the German Crown Prince; Retirement May Follow LONDON, July 19. —The French again are advancing and it is probable that the Ger mans will have to make a big readjustment in their line unless they can immediately throw back the French, ac cording to advices re ceived here to-day. Paris, July 19.—0n the front j between Rheims and the Marne j the French have recaptured Montvoison and made progress in the Roi wood and the Courton wood, capturing four cannon and 400 more prisoners, between the Aisne . and the Marne, in, i spite of new arrivals of German reinforcements. , The Allies are making sensible! progress and are capturing a, .large number of prisoners, ac-; : cording to the official statement j | issued by the war office to-day. | South of the Maine, by a, i vigorous attack, the French have ejected the enemy from the out-! j skirts of Oeuilly. Along the whole front between the Aisne and the Marne, the battle con i tinues with violence. Between Rheims and the Marne Italian troops have taken ! Moulin D'Ardre south of Mar faux and northwest of Pourcy. The Oflicial Statement The text reads: "Betweeir the Aisne and the Marne our troops, surmounting the resist ance of the enemy which was m- I creased by the arrival of new re ! .serves, realized sensible progress at I the close of yesterday. The nun ' ber of prisoners counted is being j eugmented. The battle continues with violence along the whole front. "West of Rheims and south of the i Marne our troops yesterday, by a I vigorous attack, retook Montvoisin ! and threw the enemy out of the out- I skirts of r.euilly. Take Guns and Prisoners "In the north of the Marne we ! have made progress in the Roi wood and the Courton wood and carried | our line a kilometer to the west ' ward. "Further north the Italians have | taken Moulin d'Ardre and conquer ed ground in the region of Bouilly. "In the course otf these actions the French have captured four cannon, thirty machine guns and 400 prison ers. "Between Montdidier and Noyon and also in the Woevre region In raids against the German lines, we captured one hundred prisoners." World Labor Leaders Endorse Peace Theme of President Wilson j By Associated Press Paris, Juiy 19. The Congress of General Confederation of Eabor, after a long and animated discussion last night, adopted by a vote of 908 to 233, a resolution approving the adoption by the leaders of the Confederation of the eace principle enunciated by President Wilson. ! JiEPPEUX IN FLAMES FALLS NEAR DALHEIM I By Associated Press Amsterdam, July 19.—A Zeppelin fell in flames at the German fron l tier near Dalheim on Monday even i ing. the Rotterdamsche Courant an j nounced to-day. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1918. °%W!SK PMo 1 " "What Will We Tell the Folks?" * .d PRETTY SOON ? y COMES •WILHELM L J-., u. /vl (T C-OOD fy fcSf -j> ' f jyl >&h as JS& ,C3W< I - m'p> ■ tef l '""- -Siw ~#■• MEN WHO TRAINED 1 AT CAMP MEADE ARRIVE IN FRANCE Dauphin County Lads Go! Overseas With Major General Kuhn Hundreds of Dauphin county ! youths have landed safely in France i to give the Germans a further taste ] of that which they received more j than they could swallow yesterday ' and from which to-day they are 1 showing such ardent desire to with- i araw. Most of these scions of Dauphin j county stock are enrolled on the rec ords of the Three Hundred and Six teenth Infantry, which had been lo- j cateo at Camp Meade. Others are j included in the membership of the * Three Hundred and Fourteenth In- j fantry, the Twenty-eighth Engineers ; and other units, composing the Sev- | enty-ninth division, notice of whose j arrivals has just been received. Ma jor General Kuhn is in command of this division. Practically the en tire membership of the division is made up of Pennsylvanians. The Seventy-ninth departed for France several weeks ago. An nouncements of their arrival, how ever, have just been received in of ficial . headquarters. Most of the stalwart Dauphin countians have been training for the grim duty of war on the other side since last November, although some of them have been drilling and per- | forming all duties required in the making of a soldier a less period of | time. This division now composes i one of the best trained to be sent \ across to help whip the Hun Into submission. Foch Feat in War Stirs French Capital to Praise By Associated Press Paris, July 19.—The liveliest ad miration is expressed in competent circles over Thursday's feat of arms and every credit is given the officers who carried out the attack. General Foch has so husbanded his troops that while continuously fighting defensive battles he always has found men with which to deal; a counter stroke at the right place and time. Usually, it is declared, the generalissimo has surprised the Germans who had underestimated the Frfench reserves. BACK UP CHEERS WITH WAR STAMPS, IS MAYOR'S ADVICE •T WANT everybody who pa- I raded last night and all those who took their en thusiasm out in . cheering the marchers to go to the post office to-morrow and back up the boys over there by. the purchase of at least one' War S ings Stamp." That is Mayo, '"eister's prac tical idea as to low the city tihould celebrate the American victory in France. "Let us stop 'passing the buck,' " said the Mayor to a Tele graph representative to-day, "and each one show his patriotism by buying War Savings Stamps to back up our soldiers in France. "Anybody can cheer. Cheering is cheap. So is parading. But the man who backs up his cheering and his parading by the purchase of a War Savings Stamp is a patriot and is entitled to as noisy a celebration of our victory as he desires." "I hope." continued the Mayor, "that this War Savings Stamp celebration will be as successful as the impromptu jubilee last evening." YANKEES IN WAR DRIVE PLAY BIG PART IN ATTACK Americans in Helping to Stop Huns Are Steady, Cour ageous and Skilful With the American Army in France (Thursday, 6 p. m.), July 18. -i-With nightfall of the fourth day of the battle east and west of Itheims a feeling of confidence per vades the allied lines. After eighty hours of asshult along lines of hit* own selection, the enemy's offensive seemingly has tailed. He - still is be hind the objectives set for the first (lay's attack. Furthermore, his gains during the entire operation were considerably smaller than those of tiny of his previous offensives dur ing the present yei t. Elicit French Commendation While the American force en gaged is sma-11 in comparison with (Continued on Page 2,] ALL HARRISBURG LOSES SLEEP TO CHEER VICTORS Whistles and Bells Bring Out People and Impromtu Parade Besults Not since the night following the day on which Schley smashed up the Cervera's Spanish fleet at Santiago, back in 1898, did Harrisburg have such an impromptu celebration as i that of last night. j The Telegraph gave to thousands lof Harrisburgers first knowledge that the Americans were attacking successfully and the news kept filt -1 ering in over the wires until about 10 o'clock it became apparent that the Americans and French together had achieved a great victory. Then the railroad whistles cut loose, bells were rung and the fog | horns on the munitions mills roared out their alarm. Hundreds of early : sleepers roused from their slumbers thought it was a tire until a jocund I yard engineer unable to restrain himself and seeking an outlet for his feeling through his whistle ro;>e, I went out across the river tooting something like this: - "Root-i-toot-toot! Root-l-toot toot! Root-l-toot-toot," which warf taken up by other whistles and o!d sttakers who had heard tire whistle* on many occassions decided against any such explanation, concluded [Continued on Ptagc 18.] HUNS TO HIDE U-BOAT VICTIMS FROM PEOPLE Washington. July 19.--An official dispatch made public here to-day said that in an effort to hide from the German public and the crews of submarines the extent of submarine looses, the high command has issued an order forbidding the statement in death notices that the deceased wis a member of a submarine craw unless the loss of ttfte submarine has been officially announced. HARRISBURG probably has 750 of its boys in France M'BUY W. S. S. to back them up. YANKEES PRESS ON IN FA ENEMY American and French Troops Advance Steadily For Fresh Gains; Huns Give Up Booty and Prisoners PRESSURE ON RHEIMS RELEASED By Associated Press American and French troops still arc advancing along the line from the Aisae to the Marnc. where on Thursday morning they lau.'ched a e.mnter offensive of large proportions. German reservr. hurried up to meet the threat against the enemy's right flank in the Soissons-Chateau Thierry-Rheiuis salient, are engaged in the struggle, which is raging with great \iolenre along the whole front. Italians Hit Hard Blow The reaction of the allies is not restricted to the line from the Aisnc to the Marne. South of the Marne, at the point where the Germans had made their greatest advance during the first three days of their offensive, the French have retaken Montvoisin and | ejected the enemy from the outskirts of Oeuilly, two miles to the i westward. North of the Marne and between the river and Rheims, I the French and Italians have struck back at the German forces. [Continued on Pajrc 10.] ®4*4 m 3* *3r3*=2**2r •iSHHH* O •-* * -r IC 1 OI:i; AMERICAN FIGHTERS ♦ With the American Army in the Aisne-Mame Front.— *€ t *v* AC. •... greatest surprises for the Americans in the | T opening of the offensive was the flight of the Germans *T 4 *V -4 the k. At two villages c:i the southern por- T tion 01 the lrne the hands of the clocks had been stopped JT *• 1 ' c •. v lock, indicati he time the allies t k, -.ci their 1 i>ardmcnt cn 1 .uv-A&y morning. A . _ lad who had left a Chicago school to join the army was Ji X wounded in the'leg sOon after the .start of the attack. T J tii. chief worry seemed to be that his cprarades who had 4* would feair he had been killed. t > J, X PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS IN OFFENSIVE • ? *?!• ® 4*' ;ton —American troops engaged in the grea< offensive include the New England, rainbow and sunset J** T* divisions of National Guardsmen and selected men from 't|i * . . * Michigan, Wisconsin, New York, Kansas, Missouri, Ala- jr bama, Georgia', Tennessee, North and South Carolina 2 X District of Coluir' and Penfiy" nia. These would 4. 4 lition to'other .National Guardsmen and regulars. JT | *r 4* 4* SOISSONS FALLS TO ALLIES J? X WASHINGTON— WHILE NO ANNOUNCEMENT 2 ;J OF THE CAPTURE OF-THE CITY OF SOISSONS { X HAS REACHED THE WAR DEPARTMENT. SEC ; T RETARY BAKER TO-DAY 1 HAT THE FALL £ OF THAT CITY SEEMED TO BE INDICATED BY ]f ;T DESPATCHES. J .| . H(JN V ) ! A'! SINKS OKUNGA • 1 J London—The British transport has been J* * ink'by a submarine, the admiralty announced this aft Xft ;v.i- I'hcvc v/ i no casualt <T * BASE: A" L IS NON-EScENTIAL '3 £ Washington—Professional baseball was held a non- rX T e.-scntia! oc< pu\ , ulc: tin: work ■ , fight order to-day |T* 4* by Secretary Baker. „ |S t ALLIES GET 16,000 PRISONERS , iT L->nd< July 13.—French troops in their counter i ffoi ' en the ■ !e zone between the Aisnc and the T* Marre captured 1' 30 prisoners yesterday, according to f r.crrachtng Lor. ion this afternoon. - M I .. _ . .. .X I MARRIAGE LICENSES 1 Grorgc W. Graham and Mabel M. Row, \\ llllamatown. ; HOME EDITION
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