Foch Strategy Baffles Germans; Hun %est Peace Terms to Spanish Embassy rat Kages I Text Ilk HARRISBURG gfiplb TELEGRAPH M . Btar-3n&epcn&cnt # LXXXVII— No. 160 12 PAGES AMERICANS VICTORIOUS OVER ENEMY IN FIERCE BATTLING FOR TOWNS AND WOODS AMERICANS AND FRENCH POILUS POUN& FOE IN VIOLENT BATTLE Fighting Surpasses Anything Heretofore Experienced in War in Terrible Execution. Paris Learns From Corre spondent at the Front GERMAN MORALE REING WORN TO SHREDS Crack Divisions of the Crown Prince Forced to Give Way to Overwhelming Attacks oT Men Commanded by Persh in gand Petain B), 1 Associated Press With tlie American Army on t#ie Aisne-Marne Front, Tuesday, July 23.—The armies of Petain and Per shing have forced their way through rain-soaked woods and fields farther into the German lines. The strategy of General Foch apparently called for the delivery of smashing blows to-day and at numerous points crack divisions of the army of the Ger man Crown Prince were forced to give ground before the French and Americans. The day closed with the Germans having been pushed well back at many points .bv the Franco-Ameri can a tacks which followed a night of heavy artillery firing. Important Gains Paris, July 2 4.—lmportant gains were realized Tuesday by the allies, particularly by the French troops ■who are bearing seventy per cent, of the effort in which they vie in bravery with the Americans. British and Italians. The Havas correspondent at the front says the French are steadily fighting toward Oulchy-le-Chateau. North of the Marne in an advance of two kilometers (about one and one-fourth miles) the allies took for tified farms and Barbillon wood. Fighting Is Violent The fighting, he adds, surpasses in violence that of the March and May offensives and the Germans rapidly are being worn out. The wild talk of the German official statements, he says, proves more than anything elese the confusion in Germany re sulting from the allied blow. The Germans may delay their retreat by paying a costly price but the neces sity of reconstructing their general resedves soon will oblige them to straighten their front betwen Sois sons and Rheims. Boy Rolled Under Trolley Car When Struck at Play; Use Jack to Release Him Robert Giltner, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Giltner, 1217 Market street, is in the Har risburg Hospital in a serious con dition as a result of injuries suffered when struck by a Harrisburg Rail ways car at Twelfth and Market streets this afternoon. The little boy was playing on a pavement near the corner and lost some of his playthings in the street. When one of the traction company cars passed up the Market street hill, the litlte boy ran behind it directly into the patli of the car coming down. He was struck by the tar and thrown into the air. Land ing on the fender, he soon fell off in front and was rolled some distance underneath the car before the mo torman could stop it. The car was jacked up to remove him. Authorities at the hospital say his condition is serious. He is Buffer ing very much from shock, they say, and he has severe laceration sof the left leg and eye. Apparently no frac tures have been suffered. The More Money You Pile Up to Loan Uncle Sam the Quicker the Boys Will Return £3TTHRIFT STAMPS Help Make Millions THE WEATHER For Harrisburg nnd viclnitn Partly cloudy; probably ■horn era to-night or Thurdiiy; con tinued high trmprrulnrr. For Kaatern Pennsylvania! Partly eloudyt probably nhonen late to-night or on Thursday | little change In tempcratdret gentle to modern shifting winds. Temperature t 8 a. m., 7(1. Sun: Rises, 5:50 a. m.| sets, 8:10 p. m. > Moon: I,ast quarter, July 30. River Stage: 8 a. m.. 3.5 feet above low-water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, I>2. Lowest temperature, TO. Mean temperature, 81. Normal temperature, 75. NEW PEACE FEELER IS PUT OUT BY BERLIN Suggestions For Conference With Allied Powers on the Basis of Victory For the Barbarians—Huns Want a Free Hand in the East By Associated Press Amsterdam. July 24. —Germany has made suggestions for a peace conference to the Spanish govern ment, says the Socialist Vorwaerts or Berlin. The suggestions are: First—Germany wants no annex ations or indemnities in the west. Second —The peace treaties with Russia and Rumania may not be questioned. Third—The principle of self-de termination of peoples has not been DRAFT CALLS FOR AUGUST EQUAL TO NUMBER IN JULY All Local Hoards Notified to Get Their Examinations Completed Quickly Pennsylvania will be called upon to furnish as many men for the army in August as during July, ac cording to a telegram received at state draft headquarters from Pro vost Marshal General Crowder to- I day. | The telegram says that appro*!- i mately 25.000 white men and a pro- I portlonate number of colored men will be called and Immediately upon its receipt Major W. G. Murdock. the state draft officer sent word to all boards to expedite examinations so that needed men will be in sight. All further releases of registrants to the Navy, Marine Corps and em ergency fleet corporation, will be stopped at once. "Boards have been ordered that [Continued on Page B.] " CITY TO STRUGGLE ALONG WITHOUT LIGHT TONIGHT Drastic Fuel Saving Order Goes Into Effect For First Time Street lights glimmering through the darkness will constitute the only outside illumination in the city to night. Hereafter Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights will be lightless, and continue so throughout the summer and winter. [Continued on Page B.] $30,000 Fire Loss at Cramps Shipyards By Associated Press Philadelphia. July 24. Fire be lieved to have been of incendiary origin partly destroyed the black smith shop of Cramps Shipyard early to-day. Officials are investigating. Soldiers on guard at the plant pre vented the flames from spreading to the larger shops. The loss is about $30,000. GERMANS RETREAT JUST TO SEE YANKEES CHASE 'EM Huns "Win" Marvelous Victories Over Americans, So Cor respondent Telegraphs Home From the Front Amsterdam, July 24.—Telegraph ing, from the Aisne-Marne battle front under date of Tuesday evening the correspondent of the Wolff Bureau, the semi-official German nev. tsagency, says: . "C'oiiiinuing their attack between ths Aisn<? and the Marne the Krench for the first time employed Ameri can cannon fodder In comparatively large numbers as an addition to their Senegalese auxiliaries. "Dense masses of blacks and Americans were hurled against the German lines. They '>aid for it in some hundred thousands of killed negroes- and Americans. At pome places they advanced to the attack sixteen waves deep. One wive af'cr another was broke down by the German artillery and machine gun fire. "Next day they renewed their us sault seven time* with gradually lessening force. _ SINGLE COPY S CENTS discussed, but may be settled at the peace conference where the fate of Belgium also is to be settled. Fourth —The Balkan question is to be settled around the conference table. Fifth—The freedom of the sea, the dismantling of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal and the right for Germany to use coaling stations. Sixth—The colonial question is to be settled on the basis of the status quo. The Vorwaerts considers this a \ery reasonable peace program. ! HOUSING HERE IS BAD AS REPORTED, SAYS PHYSICIAN Dr. Crampton,First Sibletown Investigator, Endorses the Telegraph's Campaign "The colored people of Harrisburg desire to thank the Telegraph for the effort it is making to Improve housing conditions in the city," said Dr. Charles H. Crampton, well known colored physicjan, to-day. Dr. Crampton has been interested in housing for many years and as far back as 1910 was appointed by the late Dr. J. C. Hutton, then health officer, to conduct a thorough inves tigation of the Sibletown district, and it was through his efforts at that time that many reforms were made in that district and conditions there have been steadily improving, al though bad enough still In some quarters. The draining of cellars and the rehabilitation of some of [Continued on Page B.] SEASON'S CROPS BURNED DURING THUNDERSTORM Hershey Rarn Destroyed by Fire After Lightning Strikes Structure Hershey, Pa., July 24.—The larsre barn near the Hershey Industrial School owned by M. S. Hershey, was completely destroyed by fire about 9 o'clock last evening. The loss will likely exceed SIO,OOO, covered by in surance. The barn was struck by lightning during the thunderstorm which pass ed over this section last evening. Mr. Kupenhaver, manager of the [Continued on Page B.] 1 AMERICAN AVIATORS TAKE BRITISH POST Somewhere in England, July 24. i American aviators yesterday took | over from the British one of the most important seaplane stations on i the English coast, from which they 1 will <Jo continuous patrol duty over 1 a large area of the sea. I "On the third day the American infantry began to halt at the first rush, throwing themselves down as soon as- the German artillery com menced. When the firing continued they retired rapidly so that at times their attack became a hurried flight. "On many occasions the German infantry stoo'd up in the trenches and while standing there received the American with salvoes of rifle fire. "In the attack on July 21 Ameri can battalions of the second division, advancing through the ravine of \Ssioneux -were caught in the fire of German machine guns which cov ered the ravine from the sugar works at Noyant. They immediately turned about and fled. "American casualties on July 19 and July 20, especially officers, were exceptionally severe. Prisoners say cam* regiments were annihilated." HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1918 ALLIES HAMMER GERMAN LINES FOR NEW GAINS Counterattack of Huns Near Rheims Is Beaten Off by French FOCH TURNS THE TARLES Each Day Brings Further Evi dence of Genius of Commander By Associated Press With the American Army on the Aisne-Marne Front, July 24. —Along the line north of Chateau Thierry the Franco- American forces have driven the Germans out of nearly all of the Chatelet forest. The aflied advance was made in considerable jumps in that area, the Germans continuing their rear guard fighting and de pending much upon their ma chine guns. Yanks Us Cavalry Further to the west the Amer icans gained the ascendency over the Germans and drove through beyond the town of Epieds. American cavalry was used at one point in the operations north of the Chateau Thierry line. To the northward the most in tense resistance was offered along the extended German right flank, but the reports are that the allies have made gains and that the Germans have been' unable to halt the movement! towards their lines of supplies, a. m.). —The French, the BriUsh and With the American Army on the AJsnc-Marnc Front, July *24 (7.30 [Continued on Pago B.] Minight Intruder at Colonial Acres Calls Neighbors to Search 1 The population of Colonial Acres and that neighborhood searched fruitlessly Monday night, seeking a man who, Mjss Lillian Hauft says, entered her first floor bedroom win dow. Miss Hauff says she was awak -1 ened near the middle t the night by a noise in her room. Half asleep she saw a man entering the bedroom window. Her screams of fright awakened her father and roused t'ne neighbors. The intruder jumped out of the window to the lawn at the side of the house and ran up the road toward Shoop's Church. Neigh bors were hastily summoned to Join the search for the fugitive, but to no avail. C. T. Hauff. father of the girl and a Pennsylvania railroad machinist, sa wthe man running to the roid. : The father said: "From the glimpse I I caught of him in the moonlight he I is about five feet tall, rather sto.it | and was hatless and barefooted. \Ve found his footprints around the win dow." Neighbors believe the man either demented and an inmate of the State Hospital who has scaped or that he was bent on robbing the house. "I'd just like to lay my fingers on | that man," Hauff said to-day. "I'd | show him a thing or two." Board of Trade Building Bought by H. C. Claster Henry C. Claster, the Market street jeweler, has purchased the Board of Trade Building, in Market street, from the Commonwealth Trust Company. Announcements to I this eflfect were issued today. The purchase price was not made public and Mr. Claster was not ready to day to announce his plans for the future use of the building. The property was purchased from the trustees of the old Harrisburg Board of Trade when it went out of existence several years ago by the Commonwealth Trust Company for the Valley Railways for terminal purposes. Since then, however, i the traction company has ac- I quired sufficient property in Wal nut street to care for Its needs, and i the Board of Trade property re mained in the Trust Company's hands. It has been on the inarket for sonie time. British Troops Raid Foe's Lines and Take Prisoners Ixnidon, July 24.—Raids were car ried out by British troops last night in the region south of Bucquoy and northwest of Albert, says to-day's war offlv-e report. A few prisoners were taken. A Herman raid on the British fines lurtheast of Bethune, on the Flanders front, was repulsed. RUSSIAN ARMY BEGINS . MOBILIZATION, MOSCOW SAYS Amsterdam, July 24. Gen-ral mobilization of the Russian airpy began on July 7, according to Mos cow advices received her*. FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN WILL START ON SEPTEMBER 28 ! By Associated Press Washington, July 24. The Treasury virtually has decided to hold the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign in the three weeks period between Saturday, Sep tember 28, and Saturday, Octo ber 19. An announcement is expected this week in order to permit Lib- [ erty Loan yorkers and business interests to arrange for the cam paign. The length of the drive will be reduced from the usual four weeks as recommended by many Liberty Loan yorkers with the hope of averting the usual slump of interest in the middle of the campaign. SIXTY WOMEN ASKED TO ENLIST FOR WAR SERVICE Red Cross Calls For Nurses Who Need Rut Little Experience An imperative call has been re ceived at local Red Cross headquar ters in the basement of the Public Library, asking that Harrisburg as sist in furnishing a quota of sixty nurses aids for overseas and home service. The workers are asked to enlist immediately and leave as soon as possible. Mrs. James I. Chamberlain has been placed in charge of the oam ! paign in the Harrisburg district. | She has issued a statement setting I forth the qualifications demanded of the Nurses Aids. "Washington has just wired division headquarters to recruit at once sixty womin to go abroad to serve as aids in France," says Mrs. Chamberlain. "The need for their service is so great the first group will be expect ed to sail in August and more in September. "Washington asks only for those women who have completed the Red Cross course in elementary hygiene and care of the sick. The women must be at least 25 years of age and not have a father, husband, brother or son in the service." As a means of sounding the call for the nurses aids, publicly has been given to a statement issued di rectly from the Pennsylvania-Dela ware division headquarters. The statement follows: "Are there any women in Harris burg over 25 years of age who have taken the Red Cross course in ele mentary hygiene and home care of the sick who want to go to France at once and serve as nurses aids? If so they should get an application blank from Mrs. James I. Chamber lain at Red Cross headquarters, fill it out and forward direct to Miss Susan C. Francis, director of the Bureau of Nursing, Pennsylvania. Delaware division of the American Red Cross. Philadelphia. Those ac cepted will be assigned to duty in France as nurses aids, or in canteen service, at rest stations, hospital hut stations, and other places where a little knowledge of nursing might be helpful. "While it is to be hoped that these women will enroll as volunteers for the above service, the Red Cross will, in exceptional cases, meet all neces sary expenses and in addition pay a small salary not to exceed S3O a month. Applicants must he at least 25 years of age, and without a hus band, father, brother or son in the service." Every resource and every nerve of the entire Pennsylvania-Delaware division will be strained to the ut most to meet this demand of na tional headquarters, Mrs. Chamber lain said. Harrisburg district went over the top nobly in the recent campaign for nurses. We -want to keep our flag flying in this new cam paign and I hopp that there will be no capable Red Cross worker who I falls to aid In the drive. MICHAEUB LEADS HUNS By Associated Press \ With tlie American Army in j France, July 24.—Dr. Georg Mi'chae- I lis, the former German imperial I chancellor, is reported by a prisoner | to be :iow commanding a German I army brigade on the western front. 180,000 DEAD, WOUNDED AND PRISONER, IS KAISER'S PRICE Allied Armies Have Another Successful Day With Small Losses; Americans Make Gains in Heavy Fighting By Associated Presi With the French Army in France, Tuesday, July 23.—Tuef.<iay was another successful day for iije' allies along the entire active battV front. The bag of prisoners captured by the French northwest of Montdldier numbered more than 1,500. The: victory was gained with very slight! lossc s. Further southward on the nort-i ej-n side of the Morne American and French troops met several atrongi Herman attack* to which they re-; •-pond6d with vigorous counterat tacks as a result of which the allied, JUSTICIA, WHITE STAR LINER, ON WAY HOME, IS SUNK BY U-BOAT Ten Members of Crew Are j Dead; Torpedoed Saturday Morning; Was Dutch Ship Statendam, Seized by Rrit ish at Relfast ON WAY TO U. S. PORT WHEN HIT RY TORPEDO With Capacity of Retween 7,000 and 8,000 Men the Rig Transport Had Delivered a Large Contingent of Troops For War By Associated Press An Irish Port, Monday, July 22. The giant White Star liner Justicia has been torpedoed and sunk. The Justicia carried a crew of be tween 500 and 600. Ten members of the crew are dead. The Justicia, says a Belfast dispatch to-day, was sunk off the north Irish coast on Saturday morning last. Four hundred of the crew of the torpedoed liner Justicia been landed here. They report that the liner was sunk after a long fight with submarines. No passengers were lost and only ten of the crew were killed. Had Hard Fight The first torpedo struck the engine room and the ship then stopped. Several other torpedoes were fixed but only two of the missiles were effective. London, July 24.—The Justicia formerly was the Dutch steamer Statendam, which was taken over by the British government on the stocks at Belfast when she was nearing completion. She was a vessel of 32,- 23 4 tons gross. Try to Slake Port The Belfast Telegraph says land had just been lost sight of when a terrific explosion shook the Justicia. The crew speedily was mustered on deck, but it soon was ascertained the damage was so trivial that the liner would remain afloat for a sufficient period to enable her to be towed to port. A tug pulled alongside the liner for this purpose when two more torpedoes were fired by a submarine which had not been sighted. These missiles missed the mark, passing between the liner and the tug. - Time For Rescue Further attempts were made "by the submarine to torpedo the Jus ticia during Friday night, but all failed and it was not until Saturday morning and after the submarine had expended numerous torpedoes that the destruction of the ship was accomplished. The final attempt was made at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning when two torpedoes hit the ship. One struck the engine room, causing a violent explosion and the other pene trateda forehold. The liner was in tow at the time and as she did not sink until two o'clock in the afternoon there was ample time to transfer the crew to other rescuing ships. New York, July 24.—The Justicia, reported sunk apparently somewhere oft the coast of Ireland, was return ing to an American port after de livering a large contingent of Amer ican troops, it was learned liere. The Justicia had a troop carrying ca pacity of between 7,000 and 8,000 men. Her crew numbered about 500. The Justicia In size and tonnage nearly approached the dimensions of the great steamship Vaterland now in the service of the American government and being used for a carrier of American troops to Europe. She was designed as a mod ern passenger liner for the trade between New York and Rotterdam, but never entered the service. After being completed at Belfast the Gunard Steamship Company turned the Justicia over to the Brit ish admiralty and the vessel for some time was used as a transport of troops and supplies. The Justicia was 740 feet long, 86 feet beam and 43 feet deep. line again was advanced. The Amer icans made gains In heavy fighting In the vicinity of the Barbillon wood. On the eastern side of the salient the French nnd British advanced on average of one kilometer. The Brit ish Increased the number of prison ers taken hi three days to 1,100 by capturing 200. Approximately 180,000 (lead, wounded- and prisoners have been lost by the Germans since July 15. The enemy continues to burn •stores and munitions within the salient, evidently beint; fearful that the fu ture will see him driven back much farther. ONLY EVEMJiO ASSOCIATED PItHSB nreW'SPAPEH IN HARKISRDRR Yankees Ousted From Hamlet Regain All Ground In Big Counteroffensive LAST OF HUNS DRIVEN FROM LINES IN BARBILLON WOODS With French, Pershing's Veterans Capture Number of Important Villages From the Foe By Associated Press London, July 24.—There was fierce fighting Tuesday between the Americans and the Germans along the crests northeast of Chateau Thierry, says a dispatch from Reuter's correspondent on the French front. In the morning the enemy retook Epieds and the hamlet of Trugny, a mile to the south. The Americans counterattacked and re-entered Treguny and continued to press back the Germans, who still held Epieds when the dispatch was filed. In the region between Mont St. Pere and Chartreves the French and Americans pushed forward two miles,, capturing a number of fortified towns. The Americans completed their occupation of the Barbillon wood. A number of fires are visible from behind the German lines, At some places the enemy is burning his stores while elsewhere they have beon set on fire by allied shells. A grat fire has been burning in the important base of Fere-en-Tardenois since Monday evening. * X HUM CLAIM YANKEE PRISONERS ARE TAKEN IN EPIEDS FIGHT * AMSTERDAM—AMERICANS LOST HEAVILY JIN THE FIGHTING AT EPIEDS ON JULY 22, AC- . 4 CORDING TO THE WOL'FF BUREAU CORRES- i JPONDENT AT THE* FRONT. HE SAYS THAT J AFTER A DESPERATE STRUGGLE, DURING J WHICH THE VILLAGE CHANGED HANDS FRE- i jjQUENTLY, THE GERMANS WERE VICTORIOUS. IEIGHT AMERICAN \ OFFICERS AND 130 MEN | J WERE TAKEN PRISONERS BY THE GERMANS. - XIIE ADDS, AND 12 AMERICAN MACHINE GUNS |X ALSO WERE TAKEN. I |X CROWDER CALLS FOR AIRCRAFT MEN |fe Washington—Provost Marshal General Crowder to- X'day issued- a call for 624 registrants qualified for limited • [♦service, for work in the aircraft production bureau, six < • tr- n A . u ! for Kelley Field, San An- Itonio, Texas, and 24 to entrain August 2 for Washington 1 Xfor service at bureau headquarters. V X MOONEY TO PLEAD FOR LIFE j X San Francisco—Thoma >J. Mooney is to petition the 4btate . ■■ .',c court for rehearing ... it:, decision last XM, ', : < y ; ,u ,t .lining a superior court order denying him .a "t . i: vis announced here to-day by Maxwell Mc •Pl Nu c un..ci of record for Mooney. Mooney is awaiting Thangwi., in S.ui Quentin penitentiary. • j J BOSTON SUMMONS "LEFTY" GEORGE 4* York, Pa—Pitcher "Lefty" George, formerly of the A Columbus American Association team, was ordered to-day , to report at once to the Boston Nationals. George has 4*!bcen at his home here since the American Association i'League closed. ;£;''3 % : 4> FIRE AT NORFOLK NAVAL BASE X Norfolk, Va.—Fire which started shortly after noon J 4 to-day in an immense hangar at the naval base here J CM X threatened to destroy the structure. Help was summoned | T* from Norfolk. ' T —1 5 r ± MARRIAGE LICENSES T „ William W. Hock, Waynnhoro, and Minnie O. Scliwliier, Pea ■ * Mart Ueerse L. Wlntermyer. Marsh Hun, and Mae 1.. Hale, Ll- I feurni Harry H. Danley am l Florence M. Smith. Harrl>bar(. HOME EDITION
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