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LXXXVII— No. 173 16 PAGES
FOCH STARTS FRESH DRIVE
PICARDY SECTOR; HAIG IN COMMAND
SCENE OF NE
SET WHERE GERMANS
SCORED S
ALLIES GAIN IN
JOINT MO
KAISER'S ARMY
Franco-British Troops Start Offensive at
Daylight Southeast of Coveted Town;
Attack Develops Under Favorable
Conditions, War Office Reports
By Associated Press
GIVING the Germans no time to catch their breath after their
crushing defeat o nthe Aisne-Marne front, Marshal Fofh
has launched a fresh blow against them in a new sector.
I he attack started at dawn to-day on a wide front in Picardy,
and southeast of Amiens. I lie French first army and the
British fourth army are engaged in thir- new offensive, which is
under the immediate direction of Field Marshal Ilaig, the British
commander in chief.
Drive Starts Satisfactorily
Both the Paris and London official statements announce the
opening of the attack and report satisfactory progress in its early
stages.
According to advices received in London, the French
and Brifish forces which attacked this morning in the
Picardy sector have advanced at some points to a depth
of more than three miles.
I lie field of the fighting is the scene of the most pronounced
German success in this year's series of enemv offensives. It was
in the first German blow, delivered against the British front be
tween (. ambrai and La Fere on March 21, that the enemy broke
into the allied lines and was not stopped until he had pushed the
head of his assaulting columns down to the region of MontdidierJ
He swept over a wide stretch of territory, including the dis
tricts the Germans had devastated in their retreat of March, 1917,
and established the vast salient that has since stood virtually in
tact, with its apex at Montdidier and its base roughly extending
along the line from Albert, near the Somme, on the north, to
Noyon, on the Oise on its southern side.
Drive 20 Miles in Length
1 he front under attack is not definitely defined, but it seems
probable that its length is at least twenty miles from the Somme
south to the Montdidier region.
Marshal Foch's object in striking here may well have been
based upon the idea of breaking up the enemy line between Mont
didier and Soissons before the Germans had time to stabilize the
Soissons-Rheims front.
French Follow British Attack
German positions just south of the Ancre river were heavily
attacked by the British. 1 heir assault extended to the south where)
their right wing joins the French lines. Three quarters of an!
hour after the British attacked the Germans, the French took uni
the battle. 1 j
Tanks Clear Way For Drive
The greatest secrecy surrounded plans for the attack. During
the night the Germans heavily bombarded the British lines, but
their shells were ineffective. An extraordinarily large number of
tanks accompanied the storming troops, clearing the way for them
points ht ° f daW " a ' ld h ° lpin to overcome enemy strong
London, Aug. B—Xews from the Soissons-Rheims front this
afternoon is that the Germans are holding the north bank of
the \ esle in considerable strength with a large number of guns.
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HAIG TAKES H
AND GUNS IN DRIVE\
By Associated Press
On the French Front in France,
Aug. 8. (11 a. m.)—A combined at
tack by the French and British was
begun at dawn to-day along the
front between Albert and Montdidier.
Satisfactory progress was made de
spite strong enemy resistance.
The assault began exactly at dawn
along a front of between 40 and 50
kilometers and a success was scored
Immediately. The British advanced
toward Cerisy-Gailly, on the south
British Take Hahner and Dodo Woods
With Uie British Army in France,
Aug. B.—ln their offensive on the
front east of Amiens to-day the
British have taken Hahner wood.
Dodo wood and probably have pos
session of the towns of Marvelcave
and La Motte-en-Kanterre.
The line attacked this morning
extends roughly from the neighbor
hood of Marlancourt, about three
miles and a half southwest of Al
bert, to the Avre valley south of
side of the Somme east of Sailly-
Laurette and Marcelcave. The French
advanced at the same time in the di
leition of Deniuin and Aubercourt.
Around Morisel and Moreuil the
German resistance is terrific.
Along the French front the artil
lery preparations lasted forty min
utes. after which the troops left their
trenches with wonderful dash, tie
fore 8 o'clock considerable progress
had been reccrded and all the first
objectives had been attained.
Details of the fighting are coming
to the rear slowly. "Going fine,"
constitutes the best available infor
mation. The British launched their
attack in a mist after only three
minutes of artillery preparation.
The British attacked over a
twelve-mile front on both sides of
the Somme. They gained all their
objectives within four hours and
have captured a considerable num
ber of prisoners and guns.
SIXGI.E COPY
a CENTS
FIELD MARSHAL HAIG
SIB DOUGLAS iIAIG -i
<>/9vr/. r/tAf ,
English Battle Chief in Charge
New Franco-British
Offensive
85 FROM CITY
AND COUNTY TO
LEAVE TONIGHT
Will Train at Camp Wads
worth; Practically All 1917
Class One Men Called
Eighty-five men from the city and
I county will leave at 9.10 this even
ing: for general military service in
I the National Army. The men com
j prise the quotas the three city boards,
and first and second county boards
were called upon to furnish during
the August sth five-day movement.
They will go to Camp Wadsworth,
Spartanburg, S. C„ for training.
The cjuotas were notified to report
at 4 o'clock this afternoon for final
instructions and fo'r their final pa
pers. They will go in a special .rain
from the Pennsylvania station.
While no formal arrangements nave
been made for a celebration for the
fmen, most of them not desiring it,
I it is certain that they will be accom
| panied to the station by hundreds
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Attack Aims to Wipe
Out Hun Position in
and About Montdidier
By Associated Press
Paris, Aug. B.—Franco-British
troops at 5 o'clock this morning be
gan an offensive in the region south
east of Amiens, the war office an
nounces.
The attack is developing under fa
vorable conditions.
An attack southeast of Amiens
probably is aimed at weakening, if
not to wipe out, the German position
in and around Montdidier, where the
j battle lint- swings to the north. The
British troops hold a sector south
lof the Somme which joins up with
the French lines south of Villers-
Bretonneaux. Late last week the
Germans withdrew to the east of the
Avre in the region west and north
west of Montdidier. Since then the
P'rench have been gaining ground on
the same front.
A line from the Somme to the
Avre and thence south along the
river faces fairly open country and
the region of Picardy in front of it
is part of the region devastated by
the Germans in their retreat from
the Somme in March, 1917. A break
through in the Montdidier region
would have a menacing effect on the
German lines from Rhelms to Ypres.
American troops have been hold- j
ing part of the French line at I
Cantigny, west of Montdidier.
Russia and England Are at
War, Announces Hun Paper
By Associated Press
Stockholm, x Aug. 8. —The Russian \
government has issued a declaration
that a state of war exists between
Kngland and Russia, according to a
dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger of
Berlin, which prints it "with reser-
alien."
HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1918.
AMERICAN GUNS
AND BAYONETS
SCATTER ENEMY
WEST OF FfSMES
! Stiffest Resistance Faces Yan
kees From Knoll North of
Bazoches, Where the Huns
Cling Desperately to Hill,
Despite Fire
BOCHE MACHINE GUN
COMPANIES ACTIVE
In Bitter Fighting Men From
Overseas Use Bayonets Ef
fectively on Foe Under
Heavy Fire Take Prisoners;
Huns Betire
With the American Army on the,
Vesle, Wednesday, Aug. 7 (10
P. M.)— The river Vesle was cross
ed east and west of Fismes late to
day by additional American infan
trymen. West of Fismes the Amer
icans are breakiiig up counterattacks
by German infantry and are holding
their ground despite the enemy ef-!
forts.
In support of the Americans who!
had crossed the river during Turrs-'
day night and Wednesday morning a
detachmc-nt of infantry crossed The
Vesle under a Franco-American
barrage just before noon to-day. Two
other detachments reached the north!
bank during the afterrjoon.
Shatter Counterattacks
The Germans counterattacked the
Americans west of Fismes this cf
ternoon but were scattered by the
American artillery fire. The Amer
icans have advanced under a heavy
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GROCERS' PICNIC
TAKES THOUSANDS
TOHERSHEYPARKi
No Special Trains Because of
War, So Crowds Use Trol
leys and Automobiles
Every street car moving toward
Hershey this morning was filled with
Harrisburgers bent on'attending the
annual Grovers' picnic which is being
held at Hershey Park. Thousands
upon thousands of picnickers throng
ed the beautiful park with the sole
purpose of forgetting for a moment
all other troubles while merriment
reigned.
A baseball game between the hill
and uptown grocers started the morn
ing's round of festivities. Grocers
fat and thin scooted around the dia
mond, trying to emulate the immortal
Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins and Christy
Matthewson. "Makes me feel like
a boy again." puffed a stout and
perspiring member of the association
as he' finished a hairbreadth slide
to the home plate. He expressed the
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QUICK-WITTED YANKEE
TAKES 82 GERMANS BY
RUSE IN
(From the Stars and Stripes)
The Stars and Stripes is the of
ficial newspaper of the American
Army in France, and is publish
ed at one of the great military
bases in that country entirely by
soldiers. The accompanying ac
count is therefore to be regarded
as official and true in every re
spect, remarkable as it may ap
pear.
This is the story of Private Frank
Lenert, a sleepy-looking, flat-footed,
19-year-old Marine from Chicago,
who emerged from Belleau Wooi.s
with 82 Boches as his personal pris
oners.
It happened on the night the
Americans in that sector rounded
out their possession of the woods,
V
Huns Delude French Peasants With
Idea of American Cruelty
By Associated Press
With the American Army on the Vcslc, Aug. 7 (Wednesday).
—French peasants found by American soldiers in a cave near
Ville-Savoye, just south of the V'esle, had been told by the Ger
mans that if the Americans discovered them the men would be
killed and the women mistreated. The Germans gave them a letter
dated "Fismes, August 2," addressed to French army headquarters
and purporting to be signed by "The Artillery Commander. The !
letter said in part:
"We have received the announcements from airplanes. Thanks
We are not Russians, however."
A reference to the American troops was contained in the letter
and was written in French. It said:
"Do not count on the Americans. They will be your masters
Germany has so many soldiers that you never will win by force of
arms. On the othei hand, Germany is ready to make peace with
ra "®? at any tim ®- France Is her enemy which merits it the
—J;
FIRST TROOPS AT
MARSH RUN WILL
ARRIVE AT BIG
CAMP ON SEPT. 1
Big Warehouse There Near
Completion; Civilians Are
to Be Employed; Enlisted
Men Will Do Most of the
Trucking
RAILROAD SPURS TO
REACH BUILDINGS
Reservoirs With Million-Gal
lon Capacity in Course of
Erection; Development to
Reach Nearly $12,000,000;
Lack of Labor Delays
The first of the great warehouses
of the quartermasters department of
the United States Army at Marsh
Run is practically completed and
will be in fuli operation about Sep
tember 1 when 400 or more soldiers
will be detailed to the development
there for guard, police and fire duty.
Most of the trucking will be done by
enlisted men but the warehouse work
will be largely in the hands of civil
ians.
There will be in all ten ware
houses. each 1,060 by more than 100
feet, one-siory, built of tile, concrete
and steel, with loading platforms on
each side and railroad spurs running
into them. Only one of the ware
houses will be of temporary con
struction, and even it will be built to
stand wear and tear for twenty
years.' In addition to these build
ings there are barracks now nearing
completion for the accommodation
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SUGAR SURVEY
SHOWS COUNTY
WELL SUPPLIED
More Than 500 Grocers File
Cards; Large Wholesale
Stock May Be Shipped
The survey of sugar conducted by
the food administration of Dauphin
county is nearly completed with more
than 500 cards in the offices in the
Dauphin building. Five hundred and
eighty-two of the grocers are regis
tered, and 503 of them had returned
their cards to the offices before noon
to-day.
It is thought that sugar purchase
certificates may be issued to the gro
cers following the completion of the
registration. Many of the grocers
are already without sugar, not hav
ing been able to secure any during
this month.
Wholesalers Have 1-argc Stock
The wholesalers have a large stock
of sugar on hand, but as grocers can
not purchase their supplies without
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killing, capturing or driving out the
remaining German machine gun
companies that had clung stubborn
ly to their final strip of the debat
able forest. It was a little after
midnight, and the intelligence offi
cer at one regimental headquarters
had turned in with full pack on for
an hour's sleep when he was awak
ened by the voice of a private calling
out his name under his window. The
voice went on in what its owner
fondly believed to be a stage whis
per, but which was really a sort of
muffled roar.
"Say, come on down; I got some
prisoners, X have. "
"Well," said the lieutenant, "stick
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TRIO OF SOLDIERS
FROM STATE
FALLEN
MESSAGE LISTS
SERGT. RUSSELL
AMONG MISSING
Parents Notified That Their
Son Has Not Been Located
After Recent Fight
His father born in Germany, Ser
geant F. J. Russell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frederick Russell, 1530 Fulton
street, is reported missing in action
in France. Official notice was re
ceived by his parents last evening,
but his name has not yet appeared
in the casualty list. He had been
attached to Company M, One Hun
dred and Ninth Infantry.
Tiring of German autocracy, the
father left Germany some forty odd
years ago and to-day is very proud
of what his boy has done in the
tight for democracy, waged against
his fatherland. With impressive
stoicism, he said: "I am very, very
fire and in bitter fighting in whicn
the men from overseas used their
bayonets effectively. A few Ger
mans were taken prisoners, while the
others retired.
The stiffest resistance now facing
the American infantry north of ihe
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THUNDERSTORMS
WILL END HEAT
WAVE, FORECAST
Weather Man Promises Relief
For City; Moderate Tem
perature Tomorrow
Thunderstorms which may reach
the city late to-day will end the heat
wave of the last few days which
caused a total of six deaths, scores
of prostrations and much suffering.
E. R. Demain, local government fore
j caster, predicts fair and slightly
cooler weather • to-night, with to
! morrow partly cloudy with moderate
I temperatures.
I Three deaths were reported to-day
making a total of six since the wave
began earlier in the week.
Storm Sends Mercury Down
The windstorm with its light
showers last evening brought decided
relief to the blistered and swelteiing
city. The showers scheduled fol
iate to-day will give an opportunity
for the sears of the citizens to heal
up somewhat.
Wearied Harrisburgers last even
ing enjoyed their first real rest for
several days. Unheralded southwest
winds caused a sudden drop of tem
perature about 7 o'clock last evening
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150 IXJURKD SODDIKKS ARRIVE
1 By Associated Press
Washington, Aug. B.—Sick and
wounded soldiers landed in the Unit
ed States from the American Expedi
tionary forces and sent to various
army hospitals during the week end
ed August 2, numbered 159, the sur
geon general to-day announced.
r STEELWORKERS "
Put Your Extra Earnings
Into War Stamps Now
itSTWatch 'Em Grow
By 1923
iTHEWEATHrgj
For Harrlfthurg and vicinity i
Thundershower* thin afternooni
fiilr and slightly cooler to-iilfdit; j
, Friday partly clou.ly, „lth mod
_ ernte temperature.
For Enwtprn I'eiuinTlvuniui Thun
ders how er* this afternoon; fair
and slightly cooler to-night i
Friday partly eloud.v. with mod
erate temperature) light, went
winds.
River
The upper portion of the main
river will rise slightly thin aft
ernoon and to-night.
General t oiidltlmis
Thiinder.Nboivern hate caused
some moderation In tempera
tures over the <;reut l.nkes and
generally In the Middle and
*orth Atlantic state* and the
Upper Ohio Valley, here rails
running from a to 10 degrees
hint* occurred.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, JO4.
I, OK est temperature. 70.
Mean temperature, 08.
•Normal temperature, 74.
ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PKESS
NEWSPAI'KH IN || AMUISHIIItG
Brookville Soldier Utters Words of Burial
Service With Fellow Townsman and
Pottsville Fighter Standing By in
Unforgettable Picture
By RAYMOND G. CARROLL
Special Correspondent of the Public Ledger and Harrisburg Telegraph.
Officially Accredited to the American Expeditionary Forces Abroad.
Special Cable Dispatch.
Copyright, 191S, by Public Ledger Co. and Telegraph Printing Co.
With the American Troops Under
Focli, Aug. 8. —In successive relays,
after the fashion in which the mail
was carried by pony express, so has
victory been tandemed by the French
and Americans north and northwest
of Chateau Thierry until our lines
no.v press upon the south bank of
the Vesle, our patrols having crossed
streams over quickly built foot
bridges at various points.
The Vesle cannot be forded like
the Ourcq, having an average width
of fifty to seventy-five feet below its
deep banks. Your correspondent
reached the edge of the ancient town
of Fismes, leveled flat by artillery
tire, with the same hardy lumber
jacks who had taken their first bite
of triumph over the enemy back at
Cierges, their subsequent special
chain of progress, with the French
on the right and other Americans on
the left, including the capture of
Bellevue farm, the hill denominated
230, Ruddy farm and the towns of
p" m " UJ<JUin T f \1
\ SECRETARY WILSON HERE
Harrisburg : Secretary Of Labor William B. Wilson
I was in Harmburg for several hours to-day on his way
| home from Washington to Ticga county by'automobile.
| The secretary expressed the gtcatest satisfaction at the
I IVogrcss ci the A lied oft t day hut declined to di
I cuss the situation in the anthracite coal mining field.
| FEDERAL CONTROL OF MEATS NEXT
| , Washington—Govern! quisition and control of '
I all the principal stockyard:;, cold storage plants and warc
| hou;, and both refrig<; . nd cattle cars has been
I recommended to the President by the Federal Trade Coriv
| mission to dc.'Toy am< ■ : "which it declares Sv. ift
I and Company, Armcur and Company, Morris and Com
| "panv, Wilson and Company, Inc., and the Cudahy Pack- j
1 ing Company exercise not only over the meat of the
| country but other necessary food supplies.
2 Harrisburg—The mcicur, stood at 92 degrees at 3
| o'clock this afternoon weather bureau officials reported, j
| At 2 o'clock it was 88 degrees. f i "
WILL TRY FOR GUN
| Harrisburg—Mayor Keister, who applied for one of
| the guns captured by Americans troops for exhibition i
I purposes in Harrisburg, to-day received a reply from the '
I War Department that these trophies would be turned .j
I over to the Treasury Department for Liberty Loan pur- j
| POWS. Mayor Keister will ask to have one sent here in !
time for the next Liberty Loan drive. "I think Harris- j
burg should have one of these guns and I shall do my
best to procure it," said the mayor to-day. ii
LOUISIANA VOTES "DRY"
Baton Rouge, La.—Louisiana has ratified the federal
prohibition amendment. Ratification was voted to-day
by the House, 69 to 51, following favorable action early j
in the week by the Senate.
COLUMBIA PR ESI •> MT INAUGURATED l|
Bogota, Colombia—Mi:i • iel Suarcz was maturated 1
president of Colombia to u <• ith imposing ceremonies, j
It i; reported there is ?! increasingly favorable senti- j
mcr.t toward the allies throughout Colombia.
i
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Robert Bruce < rumllch. Steellon, and i'hrlntlne Naomi Relfle, 1 ]
IMlddletown; ThomaM JefTeriton (nufTiiian, Steelton, and Florene
Pearl Peter*, Dauphin George Price, Steelton, aad Mary Etter
ToganN, HurrUburff.
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HOME EDITION
Chaunery, Coulonges, Cohan, Dra
vegny and St. Gilles.
Their Path a Mile Wide
Their particular path in the drive
had width of close to one mile and
a depth of twelve and a half miles
in continuous fighting lasting four
days and nights, going one period
forty-eight hours without cooked ra
tions •• .
Ruddy farm has- particular inter
est, having been tne field headquar
ters only a week asto of Prince Eitel
Frederick, son qf tihe kaiser. It was
taken by the Americans under the
leadership of Major (deleted). Dra
vegny fell before another group of
heroes led by Captain Roland B.
Lindbaum. of Whitewater, Wis.
During the tight at close quarter:-
at Hill 230, Sergeant Henry P. Dex
heimer, of 1403 Second avenue. Mil
waukee, with a rifle in one hand Jind
a trench knife in the other, stood
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