t 11 • I? i r\tr • r i i> v T • • - • Lull m toch Offensive Employed by Bombing of Huns in Marne Pocket by Land and Air Forces * • i 4 i • 'Jfc HARRISBURG tlllpilp TELEGRAPH ®)c Star-Infrcpcn&ent W t' LXXXVII— No. 163 14 PAGES DAUPHIN MEN ARE PLACED IN NEW STH ARMY CORPSAT FRONT Soldiers Who Trained at Camp Meade Are Assigned to Their Work in France, General March Announces SEASONED TROOPS ARE DISPATCHED TO ITALY Million and a Quarter Amer icans Now Overseas; Three i Hundred Thousand to Go During July By Assceiated Press Washington. July 27. Trained combatant American troops from France have begun to arrive in Italy.. General March announced at his regular conference with newspaper men. 1 Neither the number nor the place* where they are to be used has been communicated to the War Depart-1 ment, he said. Two additional American Army ■ corps have been organized in France. General March announced. They j are the Fourth and Fifth, command ed bv Major General George W. R?eJj and Omar Bundv. respectively. Withdrawal Continues Summing up the battle situation on the Aisne-Marne front. General March said it had resulted accord-j ing to official advices, in forcing the Germans back eleven miles farther; from Paris and shortening the allied line by ten miles. The positions on the flanks o? the falient near Soissons and Rhelms are relatively unchanged. General March said. The German withdrawal from Chateau Thierry toward the center of the saJient continues and the lm- i portant center of Fere-en-Tardenois j now Is within three and one-half; miles of the allied lines and under • constant shell fire. Yankee Move Forwanl The most striking advance In?e last Wednesday, which General March noted was by the British forces Just west of Rheims. This ad-1 vance of a mile and half on a four- j mile front ,he said, marked a spe-! cial course of danger to the enemy. j placing his forces to the south in i an ;iw!i\vard position. The German attack at Epieds only ■ delayed the American progress and, these troops again are moving for ward. As a result. General March raid, j the French already are beginning to advance northward from the Marr.e against the enemy forces in tho pocket on that side of the salient. Two New Army Corps The French advance from Dor mans. northward on the Marne. the chief of staff pointed out, is across precipitous and wooded terrain, making progress necessarily slow. In announcing the formation of two more corps General March ex plained that the divisions compris [Contlnnod on Page 12.] Pennsylvanians Named in War Casualties Overseas; 180 on Two Cabled Lists Washington. July 27.—Pennsyl vanians named in the Army and Marine Corps casualty lists, which totaled ISO. are the following: Army—Killed in action —Sergeants William C. Arnold. Harrisburg; Clay ton D. Sweetser, Scranton; Corporals : John W. Hardman, Johnstown; Ray- 1 mond Wholohan. Boothwyn; Wag-j oners Joseph Bowe, Port Carbon; Paul V. Mease, Lebanon; Privates Lowell S. Brown. Easton; Francis X. Conahan. Hazleton; John W. Crane, Pottsville; John Klymasjwki. Pittsburgh; Sherman W. Leifer. York; John B. Lynch, Easton; August J. Scholz. Springdale; John L. Smith. Shippensburg; John W. Sholly. Lebanon; Finley R. Taylor. Trainer. The Marine Corps list contained 12 names, divided as follows: Killed in action, 1; wounded severely, 7; missing, 4. One Pennsylvanian was named. Private Michael Hardos. Dumore. being reported as missing in action. Harrisburg Is Not Buying Enough War Stamps £sg=Do you need an air raid to wake you up? THE WEATHER For Harriabure and vlrialtri Partly rloudy tn-nleht and San da?; not much chanter in trm perntttre. For Eastern Pennsylvaniai Partly cloudy to-night and Sunday i little rkanKe In Krntlr, nhlftlne wind*. River The Saaqaehannn river and branchea will fall alowly. General Condition* >- Important changes have occur red In temperature* over the eastern half of the country. Temperature! 8 a. m., 74. Sum Rlaea. .1:32 a. m.j seta, S:OS p. m. Moon: Last quarter, July 30. River Staxet S a. m., feet above low-water mark. Yeaterday'a Weather Hishest temperature, S. Uoent temperature. 70. Mean temperature. 78. Normal temperature, 75. Making Sure of Enough to Effect a Complete Cure ) MIX CJP ANOTHER. HH. - \ I bottle while WfL~\\ I R YOU'RE ABOUT IT, a A v \ i ICg ]/VRI AKD I'LL CALL \ FOR IT IN THE- ' ' PiPi H ■* Housing Conditions Menace To Welfare of Harrisburg Dr. McAlister, Beviewing Problem, Says Many Epidemics Have Started From Bad Home Surroundings "The housing condition in Har-ll risburg is becoming a menace," said j: Dr. J. B. McAlister. former pres:-'i dent of the Pennsylvania State Med;- j < cal Society, and one of the best .verged physicians on housing prob-J ! ieins with relation to disease in the . commonwealth. Dr. McAlister, commenting upon:, the Telegraph's housing campaign. I declared that physical fitness is e- 1 pendent to a very considerable de-' gree upon proper housing and that ; "our city cannot hold industrial! supremacy if its people are debili tated and physically unfit. "The housing problem," continued Dr. McAlister," is an important one CITY SELECTED MEN GREATSENDOFF Thousands See Lads Off to| Camp Lee After Im promptu Parade ! Two huhdred and ninety-seven '< more Dauphin county youths to-day are numbered in the great National Army which is preparing to get in ■ condition to continue a greater series of offensives against the Hun scourge ' in late 1918 and 1913. Given farewells, sad but proud and enthusiastic ones, and receiving wishes of godspeed and good luck [Continued on Page 12.] KEREN SKY NOT COMING Paris, July 27.—The Temps says It | understands that Alexander Keren ' sky, the former Russian Premier, ■will nqt make a trip to the United j States, as he had irttended. MAJ. ENSMINGER TO GIVE UP PICTURESQUE SHOP Oldest Business House in City to Pass t)ut of Hands of Aged Proprietor; Ancestors Lived to Be a Hundred This was "Old Harrisburg Day 1 i at the corner of Second and Cheat nut streets. One of the city' 3 an-: clent landmarks was changing hand.*, the venerable Ensminger building, jammed and stuffed with furniture of days gone by. stuffed with such a variety in fact so thnt; the owner, J. T. Ensminger, declar-j ed the patron of the sale to-night, could get anything "from a needle to an anchor." All day Harrls:>urg- 1 ! crs with a love for traditions of ihe j and thp flavor of history, flocked j IINOLK COPY I CENTS i in all cities and has become a serious matter in our city. Indeed, Is be- j coming a menace. The Anglo-Sax on's proud boast that his house is j his castle, should not be lost in Harrisburg. It seems that the. ! people at large have not as yet j waked up to the tremendous import- I , ance of sufficient housing conditions. ! i The average citizen takes but a 1 languid interest, as if the matter jis of no immediate importance of | sufficient housing conditions. The 1 average citizen takes but a languid interest, as if the matter is of no immediate importance, and yet many j [Continued on Page 4.] STARVING HUNS ROB WEAKENED RUSSIA OF FOOD I _____ Both Nations Suffering Actual Want For Necessities of Life By Associated Press Washington, July 27.—The food situation between Germany and Rus sia has reached an acute stage, ac cording to advices received to-day at the StE-te Department. There is not enoush ford for both countries and the question as to who will get what provisions there are has reached a critical stage. High-handed methods have been adopted by the Germans, it was said. Soldiers with threshing machines are sent into the grain countries and the grain requisitioned. The Russian peasants are allowed only such amounts as the soldiers decide they need. to the historic spot, identifying this or that which they wish to bid for at the sale which is to start at 7.30. Back in the little office sat Major Ensminger and Mrs. Ensminger, de scendants of an ancient line who made Harrisburg their home far back in the last century. The Major never moves without his sturdy crabapple walking stick, for jus* two days before he moved into this five-story building, way back in {Continued on Page 4.] ( HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1918. FIRST CASUALTY IS REPORTED FOR 28TH DIVISION William C. Arnold, of Har risburg, Killed in Action in France Word was received here last night of the first death to be reported from among the ranks of the men who marched away with the old Eighth Regiment of the Pennsyl vania National Guard last Septem ber. William C. Arnold, formerly of 1110 North Front street, was re ported as killed while in active service July 15. The word was re ceived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold, 1327 North Sixth street. He had been in France little more than a month, and his wife had received but one letter from him, which told of his safe arrival in France and that he enjoyed his trip overseas. It was officially announced by General March that the Keystone, or Twenty-eighth division, made up of the old National Guard of Pennsyl vania, is taking part in the great Foch offensive. So far no Intimation has been given of the extent of the division's participatl->n nor of any casualty list. Arnold's parents live at Dillsburg. His mother was prostrated by the 3hock when she received the news last night, and has been unconscious since.' The wife of the dead soldier, and his brother, Bruce Arnold, who works at the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works, went to the stricken mother's bedside this morn ill. It was reported here that she would not survive the shock. Arnold enlisted in Company D of the old Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guard in June, 1917, and encamped on the Island until September, when he went to Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga„ with his company. When the old Eighth was broken up. Arnold was transferred first to the fine Hundred Twelfth Regiment of the Keystone Division, and then to the Field Signal Battalion of the One Hundred Third Regiment. He was a member of this command when he met his death. * Arnold was a little over 21 years of age. Before his enlistment he had been employed as a lineman on the Pennsylvania Railroad in this city. He lived at 224 South street until his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Snyder, 1110 North Front street, soon after his enlistment. U. S. Aviator Shoots Down and Captures German Ace With tho Americans at the Marnc, July 27.—Walter Avery, of Colum bus, 0., an American aviator who has scored several brilliant successes, yesterday shot down and took pris oner Captain Meinkopf, one of the leading German "aces," who had six teen aerial victories to his credit Avery's feat occurred near Chateau Thierry, AMERICANS PRESS WITH ALLIES IN A STEADY ADVANCE AGAIN 30,000 HUNS GATHERED IN ALLIED PRISON BAG; BIG GUN BASE TAKEN Americans Find Emplace ments in Captured Town, j Built For Artillery Used in Bombardment of Paris at Long Bange FOE PUSHED BACK TWO MILES FROM POSITIONS | Paris, July 27.—The number of I German prisoners captured by the j allies since the beginning of the | counter offensive is placed at 30,000 ■ by the Havas Agency. ! American troops have discovered ' at Brecy, north of Chateau Thierry, ! emplacements of German super cannon which bombarded towns be ; hind the front and, perhaps, Paris. i Brecy, where American troops j have found emplacements of Ger man super-cannon, is a little more than seven miles directly north of | Chateau Thierry, which is 45 miles | east-northeast of Paris. It would be j possible to bombard Paris from French Gain Ground in New Attack South of Marne Military Experts Believe Crown Prince Is Getting Beady to Launch Great Counteroffensive Near Bheims By Associated Press Shifting their blows to th* south ern arc of the sector between Sois sons and Rheims, the French have struck the German line at Port-a Binson, on the north side of the Marne and about a mile south of the village of Chatillon. It is offi cially reported from Paris that the French lines were advanced at that point. Farther east, on the Champagne sector, the troops of General Gou raud have by a local operation south of Montagne Sans Kom (mountain without a name), pressed forward over half a mile along a front nearly two miles. The advance east of Rheims seemingly was for the purpose of restoring the allied line in that sec GERMANS SLOWLY RETREATBEFORE AMERICAN FIRE Yankees Forge Ahead Under the Enemy's Heavy Ma chine Gun Fire By Associated Press With the American Army on tle j Atsne-Marnc Front, July 27, (3 I p.m.)— The Germans were slowly ] yielding at midday along the south j ern arc of the Marne salient. The j American troops in this sector con tinued pressing forward, with artil- I lery support, against a heavy Ger ' man machine gun tire. The French ! also have moved their position? ahead somewhat, with every indica | tlon that their progress would con j tinue. I The Germans still were occupied ! to-day. in shifting the main body of ' their forces northward. i Yankee Troops Let Up For Breathing Space; Enemy Burns Supplies By Associated Press London, July 27.—Activity at j points occupied by the American j troops slackened considerably Frl ! days, says the correspondent of the • Daily Mail with the American troops jin France. Time for a breathing 1 space has arrived, he adds, and both ! sides are recovering fro mthe ex > haustion of their first efforts. In the Fere and Ris forests, north i of the Marne. the Germans seem to be blowing up considerable quanti ties of munitions and supplies. COUNT U XBI'RG IS "SPURL-OS VERSENKT" By Associated Press ' London, July 2 7.—Emperor Wil liam has refused to receive Count Luxburg so that the former German minister to Argentina might justify himself, says, an Exchange Tele graph dispatch from Amsterdam. The count handed in his report on his mission to Argentina to the for eign office Thursday. He has with drawn from the diplomatic service, it to said. GOTT MIT UNS By Associated Press Amsterdam. July 27. EMPEROR WILLIAM, who, according to his favorite correspondent, Karl liosner, watched the battle of from a tower which gave him a good view of a wide sector of the front, sent to his troops from this vantage point, Rosner reports, i the following telegram: "His Majesty informs his troops | that he has arrived behind the front lines of the attack and shall watch the battle from a tower. His Majesty's good wishes ac company his troops. His Maj esty's word to his troops is: " 'With God for the Emperor : and the Empire!'" Brecy as the Germans tired shells about 75 miles from the forest of St Gobian, when the big guns were first used to harass the French j capital. ! It is possible the emplacements found by the Americans were used I by the Germans in the latest bom | bardmcnt of Paris. The enemy is i now two niles north of Brecy. tion of the battlefront. The attack ut Port-a-Binson, however, had an other object. German troops were reported early in the week at Mar faux and Pourcy, northeast of Cha tillon and south of the western spurs of Rheims mountain. A considera ble success near Chatillon wouls put them into a pocket within the larger pocket and tend to force their withdrawal to new lines farther back toward the middle of the Ger man salient. Night Was Quiet West of Port-a-Binson the Ger mans hold the north bank of the Marne for a considerable distance and the French apparently have struck at the angle between the German line along the river and [Continued- on Pace 10.] ALIEN ENEMIES TAKEN TRYING TO BOMBFACTORY Reichelt, Patent Attorney, Is Held in *IO,OOO Under Es pionage Act at Newark By Associated Press Newark, N. J.. July 27.—An at ! tempt this morning to blow up the i plant of the Gould and Eberhardt 1 Machinery Company at Irvington, | near here, was frustrated by the vig- I ilance of the factory guards. Two i men. said to be Germans, were ar j rested. One of them, it is alleged, j was caught in the act of igniting i a bomb. At the point of a gun he i was forced to extinguish the fuse, j which already had been lighted. The plant is working on government con tracts. Bruno Reichelt, a patent attorney, was placed in custody, arraigned be fore a United States Commissioner and held in SIO,OOO under the i espionage act. | The other men arrested are Fred erick W. Bischoff, a skilled chemist, of Irvington, N. J., and William Heineman, who were arraigned and held in $20,000 bond each on charges of violating the espionage and I sabotage acts. Bischoff. according to the federal i authorities, was interested in the (compounding of high explosives and | was arranging with Reichelt to ctr ! cularize the country with German propaganda. The three prisoners had been under surveillance by gov ernment agents for some time, it was stated. Showers to Break Hot Weather in Coming Week By Associated Press Washington. July 27. —Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday issued by the Weather Bu reau to-day ;ire: North and Middle Atlantic states: Showers Tuesda* or Wednesday and again toward end of the week, other wise fair. Temperatures above nor mal. 59 VICTORIES FOR FONCK Paris, July 27. —Three new aerial victories for Lieutenant Fonck. bringing hit total to fifty-nine, are j reported. Newspapers say Adjutant I Ehrlieh has won ten aeriat victories I An twenty-flve days. ' ONLY KVfcIMNCJ ASSOCIATED I'liblSl NBWSPAI'EII IN HAltltlsninit; Heavy Artillery Fire Punishes Enemy Constantly; German Rear Guard Defense Is Stubborn in Hope of Saving Army's Retreat SUPPLY BASE NEAR CAPTURE By Associated Press With the American Army on the Aisnc-Marne Front, July 27. —I he Franco-American forces on the front northeast of Chateau Ihierry have driven the Germans almost entirely out of the wooded a*va which they have been so stubbornly de fending. Tht allied pressure is being constantly maintained, and early to-day the punishment of the enemy t>y artillery fire WHS resumed with added vigor. Under the cover of the guns the ! I'ranco-American troops again began crawling forward. 1 he advance is bringing the allies still nearer to the important ! road junction of Fere-en-Tardenois. It is being carried out through the remainder of the dense woods in this region and over the rain-soaked fields and hills on their outskirts. Slowly retreat ing, the Germans are fighting stubbornly as they retire. Trys to Protect Flanks Persistent as was the German rear guard defense, however, the enemy's most intense efforts to hold his lines still are being put forth on his flanks in the Rheims and Soissons regions. German soldiers who have deserted into the American lines on the Lorraine front have made disclosures indicating that news of the great American effort is slowly filtering intft some sections of the German army, despite the official effort to belittle American participation in the war. One prisoner said he had heard there were only 300,000 Ameri cans in France. Others, however, declared they"knew the figure [Continued on Page 12.] £i~ * .• v- J MOONEY REPRIEVED UNTIL DEC. 13 ? £ | I- > A :c.os.—Governor William D. Stephens/ an- tw T day that he had decided to pram a retrieve •. ♦ to Thomas J. Mooney, which will operate as a/stay of / X execution until December 13, 1918. The governor an- ! X.' Hr n rnnced he took this action that all persons throuircut *b K t| untry might be assured the iullest consideration ? .: en the case by the government of California A ' I L.I ON AND DEMPSEY MEET TONjJJfIT ' X 1 New York—Fred Fulton and Jack Dempsfcy' the lead- 'X 4r tenders for the title now held by Jess Willard, will !*fr <d m< cf night in an eight round bouts at the Federal X T l-t ball *.rounds at Harrison, N. J. A decision with:.- *f* + "he .. .t ei-;ht rounds set. by" the boxing law of Nc j T Jersey is expected.' .Jr X FLYERS' INSTRUCTOR KILLED • I* 4* . . X W.:i ~ Texas—Second Lieut. Clarence H. Wintt; cf Fort Collins, Colo., an instructor at Rich field, was killed *r 5 f to-day six nines west of . here when his airplane fci A *f IP '• ,4, cadet with winter was not injured.- X i ; 2 X NAHMA PLUNGER INTO MUDBANK * T Ntw York—When the 7,500 ton freight ship .Nahma Jv 4* nar !by Mr;,. Woodrow-Wilson was launched her t ♦£ V day the controlling ropes broke and the vessel -ped for- X waid IJOO icct and plunged her nose into a rnudbank but X * •fr' ' vas not damaged. • t ROMANOFF'S FAMILY SAFE IN SIBERIA / J X London—The family of Nicholas Romanoff, the former ♦ 2J Ku: ian emperor,is safe in a Siberian monastry at Abalak, X a, according to a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam. * t* This town it, on the Irtish river is a noted place of 4 pilgrimage. ( This report seems to dispose of the rumor £ * X that Grand Duke Alexis, the former emperor's son, had * * * 7 died of exposure following the execution of his father.) % KILLED IN PLANE'S FALL • ' T Hempstead, N. Y.—Lieut. C. H. Haynes, of Gloucester, * A Mabs, was killed here to-day when a giant Haviland „ , 7 battle plane he was piloting fell 100 feet. His neck was * ' 2* brokeui. His mechanic Private Miriard S. Moist, su ► 4 3 leg and brolun 6Uarbanc. * | i MARRIAGE LICENSES X AM In J. Wrmllntt, Hlithaplre, and Vlrslc Hebel, Mlddletowni Cfcarlea E. Camel nnd Stella M. Caley, HurrlnburKi Roy B. Keller, Hnrrlabursr, and Marxaret K. Miller, Urvlllri Ivan Maljevae nnd i y Mary I- llljovlch, xteelton: (ha*. H. Fortney, MontKamery'a Ferry, : <4# nd Smuii J. Raher, Hnrrlaburgi J. Herman Hnlnea, We*t Urah, and J Ketnrah r. Jefferl*. Nteelloni Frederick M. Bei-k nnd Klate M. • ; *f* KunOelmnn, Enola; Harry B. linker nnd Marthu 1,. Burtnett, Me- *. I tjf cbanlroburK. HOME EDITION
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