i HARRISBURG ifllSli TELEGRAPH M ■ otar- In&cpen&ent I LXXXVII— No. 166 14 PAGES YANKEE BLOWS OPEN WAY TO i ALLIES IN ONWARD ADVANCE I AN K EES 1-MILE WEDGE INTO H thing's Veterans Overcome Best of rown Prince's Troops in Desperate Battle For Important Positions in the Marne Salient INCH STRIKE A HEAVY BLOW By Associated Press th the American Army on the Aisne-Marne Front, 23 (by The Associated Press). —Efforts made by Germans to advance their lines against the Ameri- Dn this front last night and this forenoon were fruit- The Americans, for their part, were, content to their positions along their slightly advanced lines he time. The German line, however, is reported tally giving way both to the right and left, ere was hard fighting throughout the night, but •ncentrated attack in force by either side. Jrinjj the night the Americans made a pretense of retiring i part of the town of Scringes. The Germans advanced e town un observing the supposed evacuation. Two com of Americans then closed in and enveloped the Germans wide area. Ie air forces on both sidles were busy this morning. One American observers caped and returned to his base. inging northward from Sergy American troops have made ant and important advance in desperate fighting and appar have opened the way fur further successful operations t the Germans in the Marne salient. * emv resistance of the stouter character was no obstacle for mericans and they now are on the Fere-en-Tardenois lges highway just south of the forest of Nesles. The ad ,by the Americans late Tuesday measures a little less than ties. French troops on the wings'also moved forward and allied pressure on the west and east (Janks of the pocket is being maintained with force. Drive Deep Wedge Into Enemy In their advance the Americans drove a new wedge into the enemy line and the allies are now in a position to drive the Ger mans back by flank movements both east and west of the head of the apex which lies near Nesles. Most exposed is the German line from the Nesles region southward through Cirges to Roncheres. The line is about four miles in length and offers an opportunity to drive the Germans from the region southwest of Ville-en-Tardenois without frontal attack against the hills to the south. In spite of the tremendous efforts put forth bv the Germans to check the relentless pressure of the Allies north of the Ourcq river to-day finds the German positions there in grave danger. French British and American troops fighting their way forward to the c-ast of Fere-en-Tardenois, have driven a wedge into the enemy's line and seems to be in a position to compel a hurried retreat from Roncheres and St. Gemme,. at the extreme bottom of the salient between Soissons and Rheims. In Dominating Position The allied line to-day runs south from Soissons to Grand Rozoy and then it begins to turn to the east. It passes just north of Fere-en-Tardenois and continues to the apex of the wedge at the village of Nesles, where it turns sharply south toward Ron cheres. The allies' advance in this region seems to have placed them in a dominating position. All around the salient there has been a continuous battle during the past two days, with the Germans launching repeated counter attacks against the allied lines. They have all failed and.the allies have gained important ground at vital points. Must Retreat to the Vesle Immediately south of Soissons and west of Rheims the German lines are strongly held, but enemy efforts to improve his position in the latter region have broken down. There now seems to be little doubt that the Germans will retreat to the Vesle river as soon as possible, any possibility of making a stand north of Ourcq being seemingly gone. Against the new British positions at Merris, in the Lys salient, where the Germans were driven back by a surprise' attack on Tuesday, there has been a heavy bombardment. Strong efforts have been made by the enemy to check the allies on the flanks and seemingly they have heen successful. Attempts to drive the French from St Euphraise, an im portant port southwest of Rheims on the eastern flank however, were defeated with losses. Berlin says the fighting front was quiet Tuesday | and that allied efforts Monday wore; repulsed everywhere. Rest Huns Had Some of Germany'* supposedly j beat divisions, the Fourth Prussian! guard and a Bavarian division, wer opponents of American t>oys from the middle west and eastern states. I The Americans had outfought them Monday in the battle for Sergy nnd defeated them badly Tuesday, al though the enemy fought valiantly. The Germans were driven over the ridge north of Sergy and out of the villages of Serlgnes-et-Nesles and Nesles. Bitter fighting took place in both places but when night fell the only Germans remaining in ihe villages were dead, victims of their own valor. Very few prisoners ware tAken, so desperate was the combat which raged throughout the entire day. Yankee Rear Up rndw Fire Nesles forest probably will be de fended as stoutly as was the ground already taken by the Americans. Machine gun and artillery fire forms I the main part of the enemy defense. J German shell flre from the forest, | however, has had little effect against | the Americans. The allied positions I about Sergy also was improved by the capture of Hill 212 to the south east and which cofnmands Cierges. ' Determined countering by the en emy during the past forty-eterht hours may indicate that the Ger- I man Crown Prince believes he has withdrawn far enough and is pre pared for heavy fighting before again moving northward. It is not Improb able, however, that the allied prat sure has been so forceful that he [Continued on Fge 13,] IINOLP COPY 2 CENTS CITY ASKS U. S. FOR ONE OF FOE'S CAPTURED GUNS Mayor Keister First to Put in Request For Bit of Hun Artillery Mayor Keister to-day made appli cation to Washington for one of the captured machine guns which are to be sent to the United States from the western front and distributed among American cities. The fact that various pieces of the ordnance captured during.the Amer ican operations in France are to be sent to this country and distributed among American cities was hardly more than announced until the Mayor this morning declared his in tention of making every effort to secure one of the history-making [Continued on Page 12.] Nicholas, Given but Two Hours to Prepare For Death, Collapsed at End Amsterdam, July 31.—Given two hours in which to prepare for the end, Nicholas Romanoff, former Russian emperor, was taken out by his executioners in a state of such collapse that it wa necessary to prop him against a post, says the Lo kal Anzeiger of Berlin, which claims to have received from a high Rus sian personage an account of the emperor's last hours. Nicholas was awakened at 5 a. m. on the day of his execution by a pa trol of a noncommissioned officer and six men. He was told to dress and then was taken to a room Where the decision of the Soviet Council was communicated to him. He was informed tne execution would be carried o'ut in two hours. The former emperor, It Is added, received the announcement of the sentence of death with great calm ness, then returned to his bedroom and collapsed in a chair. After a few minutes he asked for a priest with whom he was allowed to re main unattended. Subsequently he wrote several letters. When the escort arrived to take him to the place of execution, Nich olas attempted to rise from his chair but was unable. The priest and a soldier were obliged to assist him to stand. The cjnaemned man descended the stairs with difficulty and once he fell down. As he was unable to stand with out support when the place of exe cution was reached, he was propped against a post. He raised his hands and seemed lo be trying to speak, but the rifles spoke and he fell dead. Local Draft Boards Are Called Upon to Send 72 White Men on August 8 The three city boards and first and second county boards this morning .received orders to send 72 white draftees of the 1917 registration to Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. August 8. The men are to entrain at the Pennsylvania station at 9.10 In the evening. The remaining boards will an nounce their quotas to-morrow. The call is for 49 men from the city and 23 from the county. The Ellzabethville county board will not ' have to furnish a quota under the call, which is part of the five-day movement beginning August 5. City board No. 1, will send eight men; No. 2, twenty-seven men; No. 3, twenty-four men; county board No. 1, at Steelton, fourteen men, and county board No. 2, the Paxtang board, nine men. City board No. 1, notified its men to-day to report Thursday, August 8, at 4 o'clock, for final instructions. The men announced are: Joseph Stickney Armstrong, 124 Vine street; Charles Powell Tenant, 1504 Penn street; Hiram Ludwig Stebbins, 1519 South Cameron street; Ralph Waldo McCord, 606 North Second street; Domenico Fortuno, 114 Dock street; Wilbert Luther Nunemacher, 613 South Front street; Simon Lutz, 12 4 Boas street, and Charles Forster Hippie, 1404 North Sixth street. 10 PER CENT WAGE GIVEN BETHLEHE Announcement by President Grace Affects 7,000 Employes at Steelton Plant; Central Iron and Steel Com pany Hears of Increase Bcthlefacm, Pa., July Sl.—Preei-. | dent E. G. Grace of the Bethlehem ! Steel Company r.iade the following; announcement to-day: "Effectiva August 1 an Increase of 10 per cent, j | will be made In the general l&bor rate. Adjustment will also be mado in the rate directly affected by the j increase in general labor rate as well; as In other posticus." Since August,! 1916, the liethlenem Steel Company' has granted eight Increases In wag, rates or more than 100 per cent. 1 over the rates In efTect In July 1915.1 More than 7,000 of the 8,000 em ployes of the Steelton plant o£ the HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1918. KILLING OF MEN NOW IS SOLE OBJECT OF BIGMGRNE German Field Marshal, Uk raine Commander, and His Adjutant Assassinated by Social Revolutionist While Riding in a Carriage in Kiev CRIME IS PLOTTED IN MOSCOW BY RUSSIANS Bolshevik Regime Nearing End Say Reports Reaching Stockholm; Masses of Peas ants and Workmen Said to Be Rising in Arms By Associated Press Amsterdam, July 31.—Field Mar shal Von Eichhorn, the German com mander in the Ukraine, and Captain Von Dresler,' his adjutant were wounded seriously by a bomb in Kiev Tuesday, says an official an nouncement received tyere from the Ukrainian capital. The bomb was thrown at the men while they were driving to their headquarters from the casino. A later message from Kiev an nounces that Field Marshal Von • [Continued on Page 6.] MAKE NEW HOUSES OUT OF OLD, BIG PROBLEM FOR CITY Philadelphia Octavia Hill As sociation Points the Way to Harrisburg One of the big problems Harris burg will have to face In the hous ing campaign it must undertake If it wants to grow, is the remodeling and rehabilitation of a large number of down-at-the-heel, unsanitary dwellings. The housing fault in Harrisburg lies not only in a scarcity of houses but in the character of many of the houses now offered for rent. Many of them ore not fit for human habitation. These are mostly houses more than twenty years old. Most of the more recently Duilt houses are of better type and are kept in bet ter repair. "Housing," said a write® in the Tel egraph the other evening, "is not a mere matter of building houses," and again, "if a big building pro gram Is not wise at the moment, at least we should make the best of what we have." But owners of these tumbledown structures will not repair and there is now none to com pell them to do so. One remedy lies in a proper housing ordinance and another In the organization of such a body here [Continued on Page 10.] BROKEN FLANGE CAUSE OF WRECK ON PEXNSY When a flange on one of the cars broke und overturned on one of the rails at noon to-day eleven cars of a draft being transferred from the Pennsylvania yard tracks near Union Station .to those of the Philadelphia and Reading, were derailed. One car, loaded with soft coal, was over turned near the Mulberry street bridge and narrowly escaped strik ing the Mulberry street tower. No portion was hurt. I Bethlehem Steel Company will bei affected by the new wage Increase I announced by President Grace to t!ay. Figures on the amount .of i money to be paid to employes in i increused pay were not available to day. When told of the announcement | of Increased wages to be paid to em-! ] ployes of the Bethlehem Steel Com-! 1 pany, President Robert H. Irons, of! ■ the Central Iron and Steel Company, I said that he did not know what the; course of action of his company! ! would be. He had not driven the mat-1 ter any previous consideration, hel said. - -. f YANKEES HOLD PLACES TAKEN IN HOT FIGHT By Associated Press Paris, July 81. American troops maintained their position in the region of Seringes-et-Nes les, which they carried after vio lent fighting, according to an of ficial statement from the war of fice to-day. The Germans made four at tacks against the new French po sitions east of Oulchy-le-Chateau. They were* l repulsed and the French line was held Intact. The French and the Germans carried out raids at a number of points on sectors east and west of the Marne salient, but there was no change in the general sit uation at these points. Drops 800 Yards With 12-Foot* Umbrella to Test Parachute For Airplanes With the American Army in France, July 31.—Captain Sarret, a French aviator, has carried out the first experiment on record of falling from a moving airplane with a para chute. He dropped 800 yards with an umbrella twelve yards in diam 'eter and landed safely. READING DEPOT MAY BE CLOSED DURING THE WAR Regional Director Consider ing Joint Operation of Pas- • senger Stations Here That the railroad administration Is considering not only the closing of the Reading freight station In this city and its joint operation with Pennsylvania freight station in the lai'ge new building now being erect ed by the Pennsylvania south of Mul berry street, but that the combina tion of the railroad passenger sta tions for the period of the war Is also under discussion, was disclosed to day. For some time It has been known the regional director has been ob serving conditions along all of the lines of the railroads throughout the Fast with the idea of concentrating terminal and station forces where ever possible, but it was not believed that this would affect the passenger end of the business to any extent. Word was received from Philadel phia to-day, however, thdt this will be taken up within the next week or ten days at a general meeting of railroad officials and the federal ad ministration heads to be held in [Continued on Page 11.] Camp Meade Soldier and Sweetheart Swallow Poison in Suicide Pact By Associated Press I.anoastcr, Pa., July 81.—Cleve N. Parr, of Cleveland, S. C„ a soldier from Camp Meade, Is dead and Car rie Hill, of this city, is in a critical condition, the result of a suicide pact. Parr came here Saturday to visit his.sweetheart and yesterday, having overstayed his leave, the local police received instructions to send him back to camp. The soldier besought the girl to marry him but unsuccess fully and obtaining canboltc acid he ended his own life the girl also swallowed sufficient to prove fatal. Italians Surprise Enemy - Advance in Daone Valley By Associated Press Rome, July 31.—An official state ment issued to-day by the Italian war office says: "In the Daone Valley our troops! have surprised an enemy advanced! post and captured its occupants. "In the Brenta Valley the enemy launched on Attack in force against our line on the Corone. After brisk hand to hand fighting the enemy wa forced to retire, loslhg machine guns and flame projectors. A tew prisoners remained in our hands. , "Five hostile airplanes have been; brought down," Both Sides Continue Terrific Fighting With But One View, General March Ex plains in Semi-Weekly In terview to Correspondents GERMAN RETREAT HAS REACHED U MILES Hope of Allies Bagging Large Number of Prisoners Dissi i pated by Flattening of the Salient; Form Six New Di visions For Training By Associated Prttt WnnhliiKton, July 31.—The sole ob ject of the allies and the Germans in the Solssons-Rhelms salient now is to kill as many men as possible, General March, chief of staff, said to-day at his semi-weekly confer ence with newspaper correspondents. Whatever objective either side had at the beginning, 'the general said, has been submerged by develop ments in the fighting. General March pointed out that the salient has been greatly flattened, thus virtually dissipating any hopes of the allies bagging large numbers of the enemy. The German with drawal since last Sunday, he had reduced the length of the line another ten miles to 54 miles. The maximum German retreat in the center, Is 14 miles. Rainbow In Battle Arrival of the 42na (Rainbow) di vision and Its participation In the fighting east of Fere-en-Tardenois. was announced. The third regular division also was Identified as In ac tion t Sergy and Cierges, where the crack German guard divisions have been defeated in recent fighting by American troops. General March announced the formation In the United States of six more divisions, numbered from 15 to 20 and to be located at Camps Logan. Texas: Kearney. Cal.; Beauregard, La.: Travis, Texas: Dodge, la., and Sevier, 8. C. As in the case of the six divisions announced last week, these will be built around two regu lar infantry regiments in each case. Cavalry Made Artillery General March announced also the conversion of fifteen national army cavalry regiments, numbered from 310 to 315 into field artillery. These will comprise part of the artillery units for the new divisions. General March had nothing to re veal as to the extent of the casualties sustained by the American forces in the recent fighting. He said, how ever, that General Pershing had been ordered to cable the casualties an received and that these would be given out here at once. He added that there would be no distribution of casualties over a long period here after. The chief of staff said that In car rying out the new policy of "on army" the war department intends to put the letters "U. 8." heretofore reserved for the regulars on the collar of every man serving in the military forces of the United Staes. I The sub-designations of "N. '!." for National Guard, or "N. A." for National Army, will be abandon*.). In the same connection. General March announced (hat the twelve major generals and the thirty-six brigadiers necessary for the new d'v:sions will be selected from ull elements of the service. This statment was taken to mean that both National Guard and Na tional Army officers hereafter will r>< for promotion "to the r n\- <-.f p,-n. '-> i r.Ylcers even in regular army divisions. ji. renponno in a question, Gen eral March said that where a division commander was selected to a tejn -1 orary corps commander the com mand of his division passed to the senior brigadier. State Balances Drop Because of Payments 1 Heavy payments . during July caused the balances in the State Treasury at the end of this month to drop below the total at the close of June and to almost meet the fig ures at the end of May. The statement of the operations of the Treasury during July shows: July receipts. $2,543,797.40. July expenditures, $8,726,629.17. July 31 balances, $9,429,616.50. June 30 balances, $10,612,448.27. Detail -of balances general fund, $6,698,228 3; sinking tund. $651,, 110,02; school fund (uninvested) $25,235.72; motor vehicle licenses, $1,356,292.60; game fund. $242,- 690.74; county fund, $167,832.73; fire Insurance fund (uninvested), $91,889.75; prison manufacturing* fund $96,187.57; Ash propagation; fund $4,644.95; federal vocational aid tund $95,484.06, ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PKESS irewsi'APEH (N HAHRISBIIRG I LATE NEWS | { ALABAMA FLYEI >MATAL 1 ALL fc T. Foyt Worth.* Texas -Fljiißg iSdet' William V.inn T 4* Weir, c Gahden, Ala , was'frilled aft noon tu-day when A Ws' ph c crashed to earth at wruthrcs fieki V € X AUSTRIA'S POT v) CRISIS ENDS |I X Air.&tercJnm -The food a; in~Auhtria is nearly over- •!,' nreKumabYy never -jt-ill re ir, say;, Food Minister |4- ' to 'the ,e Fiess. tif Vienna. He jX T : ' h ■■nrtsx r-!.:*pect;,,.%n ■ -dsing and that the -itua- •4* tfar 'i;' >■ to foddti better than tin. previous <2 II X * X MARKE7 f: LS STRONG •£ T N • '"■.- LVudrrii vci <• bctl.u; ed § ir. vt 'in the final h*>\ "he dosin , is strong. L X 1 '• J :v.i I V • 95.02 to 95 s;. St.tcs Steel* or n.- <fk * H > 1 rport, contributed 50 per T cfth cf to-dfcy's moderate Palings at an extreme Jjt f rd'.: nc •: • •.•.nv. i*<.-d ?.50.060. shire* T J •• \-:MUIU WAGE ) •\l ABANLONi'D 's, * 'n- A miniiv. ~ /t. beappited through* T 4 ,? * not !l * est.. :>.Ucd at *hts time by the m T ' I . ;d. In, >■ ..'i- : .s announce"- i.t.h day, X 4 i said ••• ;>;,e cs '-'ill be . aisadercd in- J >'■ ••i : y as heretofore. li tings qa'ihe quc-.tion of a Z * &inuu Wage bad been held and the btferd was ex- T X -d-lish a rmr.in be near f-tu- 2 T GTLVLK ENVO ' ACH PARIS T X Pr> r . T'.v Gr rr.cn G. ;<• ir. ' $ li t* ' J the .t; I jt • *r '** 5 hey ill leave oon for Ai , % T NO PEACE OFFER c AYS BAt, OUR !4* London—Speaki ig in t .use of Common-, to day '*%* X Arthur J Balfour, the British ■ ei.;n Secretary, aaid ho T *emy go\ eminent had appr the Kntmte allies rc- *" l gairj' 'Negotiations lot if i • T LIL'NS DECRY YAfKKL DENTISTS J A .m—The fact th :• 'here -tre til! a number of *£ X American dentists practicing ip Germany is 'lie subject *Of angry comment'in kiters t \* Cologne Gazette. The X think t r ' .mdalova" that American f i T den'is- i S c.uld be perirutt ' r tend "the injured jaws X + oi Gi- soldier? •f* & *Z X £ IP PLEAD N r GUILTY .T 2 N< Yi'.-rk-—Eighteen |<i nb. indicted for aileged fe,, X t '> c •■ 0 beef from the aaptermaeter's department, w V plead*d not guilty in the Ful- 'a! Court to-day, Isidore !*p *{- fl tank, declared by Fedcto orneys to have been the * ring jeadei of the • conspu'.- gave SB,OOO in X X Boiv ; ay bail. , *F f[ WIRE OFFICIALS k. IAIN IN CHARGE 4j W; hinjtoii—CJnder th< nn vision of a special corn L . mittce frcm the postofficc dvj '.rent the <Vire system of T j*p the nation will be operated \><- nin'g at midnight, present officials continuing as government employe;, until further Jr j riotice from the department, '>• |Jp BORIS DANSKIO EICHORN ASSASSIN Jjp |J* Amsterdam—A Berlin -tispatch regarding Field ..jjjjb * Marshal Von Eichhorn's death i.ays that, after he had 2 2H rc. •:••. d ,cvrre wounds or ;t side, heart stimulaots J-. • only i.ave temporary relief. Captain Dressier, it is_ i announced, died from loss of blood. The assassin call" U ! . T| himself Boria Danskio , STRIKE, BKLTBVTN& FOREMAN PRO-GERMAN 3 I i i 'Chambecsburg— The 20<J of big Byron Tan * * riery, at Mercersburg went on -.triKC this morning because ,J * their demands that Sqperinfennt Herman Hundbotisen. * ' * -* V- J* ' < ( I 4* whom, they BUcgt to be pn -German, deposed wet noi k - * * With Their has been no disorder and it is 1, <>3 * * w . . ' * to idji.'st tins difference-. • M ► MARRIAGE LICENSES Ii . Hll| SpUavlc anil Mrr MefHom Mlltttln JananJ* 9 , M and Sophia Skehon. I 1 * J.AJLLJJt.JL.I.I.J * b m m -9 a. it .f., ,f. y % ffivT.'i. i 'f i" rt 'iV #"U V ® , NIGHT EXTRA .
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