12
J45 NAMES SENT
BY PERSHING IN
WAR CASUALTIES
Killed in Action Overseas;
Pennsylvanians in
the Lists
Washington. Aug. B.—The Army j
casualty list to-day contained 237 |
iames divided as follows:
Killed in action. 131. ~
Died of wounds, 16.
Died from airplane accident, 1.
Died of accident and other causes, j
Wounded severely, 62.
Wounded, degree undetermined,
!2.
The Marine Corps casualty list to- j
lay contained 108 names, divided
ts follows:
Killed in action, 2.
Died of wounds, 1.
Wounded, degree undetermined,
f 4.
Wounded slightly, 1.
Missing, 10.
Killed In Action
Private James G. Fleming. Phila-1
Jelphia.
Private John C. Graff, Philadol-j
phia.
Private Frank Grenda, Dickson I
2ity. Pa.
Private Richard J. Hartley, Phil- j
idelphia.
Private James B. Lenihan, Oil i
2ity, Pa.
Sergeant Raymond O. Fisher, Pine |
3rove. P.v
Corporal Gerald G. Buckley, Car-'
bondale, Pa.
Private Joseph T. Elwin, Pitts- j
t>urgh.
Private John Loudenslager, Beth-1
ehem, Pa.
Private Ralph W. TJhlman, Pitts-1
burgh.
Private John Condel, Oliphant
Furnace, Pa.
Private Fred R. Howard, Sugar
3rove, Pa.
Died of Wounds
Private Ar.dre Dudzinck, Phila
delphia.
Severely Wounded
Private O. Engdall, Olanta, Pa.
Corporal Andrew Baskin, Phila
delphia.
Private David M. Gorsuch, Titus
ville, Pa.
Private Theodore Salvatos, South;
Bethlehem. Pa.
Wounded, Degree Undetermined
Sergeant George H. Fritz, Oak
Ridge. Pa.
Private Talmadge H. Mooret, Phil
adelphia.
Private Charles Santangelo, Nor-!
ristown. Pa.
Marines, Severely Wounded
Private G. Mullen. Avona, Pa.
Corporal Ralph A. Tobin, Phila- j
delphia .
Private Ralph D. Smith, North
Bend, Pa.
Private Howard E. Perry, Can
nonsburg. Pa.
Private Alfred B. Seaman, West
Middlesex, Pa.
QUICK-WITTED YANKEE
TAKES 8£ GERMANS
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them in a shed somewhere, and I'll,
be down and look them over."
Into the Moonlight Road
"I guess I'll have to hire a hall"
was the reply the lieutenant heard
while he adjusted his helmet and
•-'as mask, and he was chuckling at
that bit of Yankee braggadocio as
he tumbled down the stairs and out
into the moonlit road. The road was
crowded. The sleep vanished from
his widening eyes as he gaaed upon
a German company drawn up in
full array, with a beaming Marine
on guard at either end, and Private
Lenert standing at attention, with
his right hand fondling the butt of
a German captain's automatic.
Over his shoulder was slung an
exceptionally fine pair of German
field glasses. He had .just tossed
away a pleasantly flavored German
cigarette. Everyone looked very
happy, including the Germans.
"Where in the name of all that's
wonderful did you get all these?"
"Oh!" said Lenert cheerfully,
"they just came along."
Later, when the prisoners had
been Ynarched down the road to bri
gade headquarters, this account of
the capture unfolded itself from the
testimony of all concerned.
Lenert's battalion had been in the
thick of the fighting, which had been
preceded by a series of hotly con
tested advances since a little after
sundown. He himself, in the height
of the excitement, had got astray
from his company and, confused in
his bearings, he was looking for his
own people again in the darkness
of the woods when he stumbled into
a German company—walked into a
German machine gun. and knew as
much by the way they fell upon
him.
The Boches dragged their lone
prisoner before the captain, who put
him through a hurried examination
—an examination carried on in Ger
man, for Lenert can speak German.
Lenert did not know much, but
he tried a few details on his inquis
itor, and. noting the profound effect
they seemed to have, quite warmed
up to his story. He bent over the
map they showed him. and reluct
antly described the position of the
various American regiments till he
had conveyed the impression to the
already unhappy captain that this
nest of Germans was virtually sur
rounded.
"And I want to get out of fiere,"
Lenert went on, with growing con
viction. "There's a lull now, but
they're going to turn the artillery on
this patch of woods and blow it to
bits. I don't want to be here. I
want to get out right now."
Heap Big Powow
With this final piece of information
to consider, the captain withdrew a
little and held great powwow with
his three lieutenants. The council
of war did not last long, and very
likely was the concluding session of
one held a little earlier, the matur
ing of a plan already considered. A
moment later and Private Lenert
was startled and a little embarrassed
by having the German captain for
mally surrender to him. He took
the proffered automatic, flourished
it several times, and jStuared his
shoulders.
"Throw down your arms," he said,
boldly, and the soldiers, who were
entirely in sympathy with the pro
ceedings. discarded their weapons
with alacrity. There were 78 of
them.
"Any more?" Lenert asked.
The captain admitted there might
be a few more left, but they were
stowed away In dugouts and out
posts, and would have to shift for
themselves. There was no time to
lose.
Leading His Flock
"Come on, then," said the Marine,
and, In scandalous contravention of
the approved methods, brandished
his newly acquired pistol, and led
rather than drove his prisoners
forth. His sense of dlreetiqa had
THURSDAY EVENING
FOUR YEARS OF TFIE WORLD WAR
GREAT BRITAIN'S GREAT SHARE IN IT
' * ★
i * The following nccount of Great *
★ Britain's participation in the war *
★ was written by Louis Tracy, a *
I ★ member of the British War Mis- ★
★ sion, to commemorate the fourth ★
i ★ anniversary of our Ally's en- ★
j * trance Into the war. Mr. Trncy *
I * is widely known throughout the *
★ United States as a novelist, be- *
★ lng the author of "The Wings of *
j ★ the Morning" and some forty *
j other novels. *
I * *
i By LOUIS TRACY
New York, Aug. 3.—Tomorrow, Au
gust 4, a stricken world will have en
dured four years of war and enter on
★ fifth. How many more years will
the human race be called on to suffer
J this agony? God alone knows. But If
\ It be not Impious for a mortal man to
dare Interpret the decrees of the Al
piighty I do now most solemnly say
that, although this carnival of woe
may be permitted by Providence to
Bcourge'us for months or years yet to
j come. It cannot cease till Germany Is
j beaten to her knees. And why d) 1
dare in the same breath proclaim that
j the issue rests in the hands of the
j Lord of Hosts and yet that I am con-
I Tinced in my very soul that the only
I outcome can be Germany's defeat?
! This is my answer: If I believed oth-
I erwlse I would cease to be a Chris
! tian; If I admitted the possibility of a
Prussian victory I would never again
believe that He who gave us the Ser
mon on the Mount riled on the Cross
of Calvary for man's Redemption. I
would know, perforce, and go sorrow
ful to my grave with the knowledge,
that Might is more potent than Right,
that the ethics which brought France,
Britain, Italy, America and even poor,
torn Russia into the conflict, the prin
ciple which led Belgium to risk and
lose all, the sheer sense of justice
j which has ranged twenty other na
tions on our side, were nothing more
noff less than foolish, even grotesque
j blunders. Yet I laugh to scorn the
| notion that I shall ever accept any
J such theory—no, not till Milton's re
i Incarnated self declares him a disciple
j of Lucifer, not till Shakespeare rises
from his grave and scoffs at the beau
| tlful England he loved so well- not till
: Lincoln's Gettysburg speech is proved
a sham and a fraud. Some miracles
| do happen, but not such miracles as
these. I have lost everything I valued
I in the world. I walk hand in hand
with tribulation, but there Is a great
Joy In my heart that comes to my aid
even In those dreadful watches of the
nigh): when memories of the dead
drive almost to frenzy those who
loved them and still live, because I
know—yes, I know —that my country
ia fighting for the right, and not my
own dear land alone, but her kith and
been improved considerably by his
study of the map, and when he be
came confused once on the way back
the captain proffered his compass,
and they soon had their bearings
again.
It was like that all the way
through—an affable party, with the
Germans doing double time every
once in a while when they feared
they might not get as thoroughly
captured as they had decided, by
this time, they wanted to be.
The first point they struck was the
headquarters of another regiment,
for Lenert did not know his own
command had vacated their prem
ises and moved on elsewhere. He got
his new directions and started on.
any guards?" they asked
respectfully.
"Don't need any guards," he re
plied. "but I'd like a couple of
guides."
'•I Got Some Prisoners"
So his staff was increased by two,
and off down the road the strange
procession moved. A little later and I
he was roaring the announcement: I
"Say," come on down; I got some '
prisoners. I have."
They were patting Lenert on the '
back, not under any delusion that he
valiantly ran down and captured sin
gle-handed S2 stubbornly resisting
soldiers of the enemy, but because
he apparently was quick-witted
enough to give the final fillip to their
impulse to throw up their hands,
and because he had himself nego
tiated the surrender.
The misinformation he gave the
j German captor was not such a great
stretching of the truth, for. as a
matter of fact, that little group of
Germans were gone geese that even
ing. If they had been so minded,
however, they could have made a
company of Yankees pay dearly for
that bit of woods. But the Amer
icans. when they pushed forward
later to take the nest at whatever
' Co: t. found that nest empty. The
birds bad flown.
They did not learn till later that
they had flown with Private Lenert.
FIRST TROOPS AT
MARSH RUN SEPT. 1
[Continued from First Page.]
of at least 400 troops, including an
Infirmary, officers' quarters, mess
halls, kitchens and baths. The build
ings will be heated and there will be
hot water for the men. Several of
the big warehouses, for the storage j
of perishable goods, also will be j
heated but for the most part no heat I
will be required.
Eleven Miles of Sidings
The railroad yards now under con
struction will include about eleven
; miles of spurs and sidings an£each
' warehouse will be flanked on both
sides by tracks running close to long
concrete platforms for loading and
1 unloading purposes, the platforms
being Just as high as the floor of a
| boxcar.
Two million-gallon reservoirs are I
being erected, the water to be sup
plied by the Riverton Consolidated
Water Company. It is Altered and of
1 guaranteed purity. Trench diggers, j
like those used in France, are used •
for digging the trenches for the lines |
1 of water and sewer popes. These are ]
operated by steam and can dig from i
500 to 1,300 feet of five-foot deep 1
trenche'. a day. Machinery Is also
' used to fill the ditches.
Finished in October
The work, which is under % the dl
' rectlonof Major Morava. is being
done expeditiously by the James
kin In every clime where the English
tongue is the speech of the p>ple.
We have dared all; we shall gain all.
So If you have read into this preface
the meaning I have striven to convey
you will understand that In the re
mainder of tills brief essay I shall tell
of the glory and the Immensity o*
Britain's achievements in this war not
to flaunt her deeds In the eyes of the
world, but as an earnest of the self
same sacrifices and Ideals that shall
flow from this great nation of tin
West In an ever-increasing and irre
sistible stream. That is my purpose,
and I want to declare It now. Britain
has done much and, though weary and
blood-stained, will do more, but the
measure of her heroic effort can sure
ly be applied to the determination of
the splendid country in which I write
tlffese lines. Why, to mix with you
Americans on the days when the news
seeiiiS bad, when some disaster at sea
or some reverse on land chills the
blood and adds a fre&h burthen to an
overladen heart, is the best of all
tonics for an Englishman. 1 have
gone out to address audiences of an
evening when my soul was heavy
within me. when each mouthful of
food in a well-appointed club or hotel
had almost choked me by contrast
with the privations better men than 1
were enduring with steadfastness.
But the first sight of an American au
dience, the first ringing cheers evoked
not by my oratory, but my theme,
brought a healing and a strengthening
altogether Divine in their efficacy, for
here. Indeed, In the truest sense of the
phrase, the voice of the people became
the voice of God.
Well, the record has many items.
Let es begin with the worst, the Ir
remediable, the tax levied by death.
It is a sad showing. The British cas
ualties in officers and men are as fol
lows:
August, 1914, to the end of
1915 550,000
In the year 1916 650,000
In the year 1917 800,000
In six months of the preser.t
year (estimated) ~. 500,000
-,500,000
Of these at least one-fifth must be
counted among the dead. So half a
million gallant men of the British Em
pire are lying in their graves all over
the world or hidden forever in the
terrible and mysterious depths of the
sea, while more than another half mil
lion are so maimed and broken that
they can never again be counted as
useful citizens of a world wherein a
man must work if he would eat and
therefore live. New York and many
other great cities In the United States
love a procession, and It is a startling
fact to note that If the dead and whol
ly war-shattered youth of the British
Empire could march down Fifth ave
nue in platoons of twenty men in a
rank the r~Md host could not pass
Black Construction Company and
Bates & Rogers. The warehouses,
more than 1,000 feet long and over
one hundred wide, are going up at
the rate of one each week, which is
marvelously rapid work. More than
1,000 men are at work on the job,
although twice that number were
employed in the beginning and there
is still more room for many un
skilled laborers. Indeed the work is
being held back by lack of ordinary
labor, skilled workmen being com
paratively plentiful.
Cement roads will be laid through
out the development as there will be
much hauling to be done from one
warehouse to another. The goods to
be stored there will be of every kind
required by the quartermasters de
partment and will be assembled
here and shipped abroad as rapidly
as needed by the armies in Prance.
The development will run well up
to $12,000,000. it is understood.
Navy Not in Need of
Men Now, Chief Says
By Associated Press ' .
Washington, Aug. B.—Extension of
the draft system to the Navy is not
regarded as necessary at this time by
the Navy Department. Rear Admiral
Palmer, chief of the Bureau of Nav
igation, told the Senate Military
Committee to-day the Navy virtu
ally has all the men it needs and that
enlistments would not be affected by
changing the Army draft ages.
DECK CHEWS TO HAVE
FOrR ORDINARY SEAMEN
By Associated Press
Washington, Aug. B.—With the
view of building up the crews for
merchant ships. Chairman Hurley of
the Shipping Board, to-day ordered
that the deck crews of vessels oper
ating from Atlantic and Gulf ports,
shall be composed of four ordinary
seamen, graduated from the board's
training service to every six able sea
men. .
CALLS 50 FROM STATE
WaNhinßton, Aug. B.—Limited ser
vice calls for white registrants is
sued to-day by Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder, included: Seventy-flve
auto repairman. Maryland and New
Jersey each to supply twenty-tive for
service in aircraft production bureau
at Washington; entertainment Au
gust 20. Fifty clerks and stenog
raphers from Pennsylvania to report
to division of military aeronautics.
Washington; entrainment August 8.
YANKEE FLYER
FINDS GRAVE
OF ROOSEVELT
By Associated Press
With the American Army on
the Vcslc, Aug. 7 (Wednesday).—
On a wooden cross at the head
of a grave at the edge of a wood
at Chamery, east of Fere-on-Tar
denois, is .this Inscription:
"Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt,
burled by the Germans."
German newspapers announced
several days ago that Lieutenant
Roosevelt, who disappeared dur
ing an aerial combat on July 17,
had been buried by the Germans
at Chamery, but until to-day the
grave was not discovered. It was
found by an American aviator.
The inscription is in English.
HARRISBURG %$&&& TELEGRAPH
from Central Park to Washington
square in ten long summer days. Amer
ica Is proud, and very properly proud,
of the great army she has poured into
France. It Is a million, In round num
bers, a million of first rate fighting
men carried In British ships with ab
solute safety across perilous seas.
But Britain has already lost a mil
lion In dead and grievously wound
ed, while two and a half millions have
been smitten by the pestilence called
Germany. I have not exaggerated
GREAT BRITAIN'S LEADERS
BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
these figures. They are official. We
know some of the details with a
mournful exactitude. During one
month In France in 1917 we had 27,000
men killed. In the first twelve months
of the war we had 0,660 officers and
95,000 men killed. During the month
of April of this year as the result of
the great battles which 'began on
March 21, 1918, we had over 10,000
casualties among officers alone. Of
course we have killed and wounded
many Germans. But chat does that
matter? What does It matter how
many of the brutes are killed? It Is
our duty, a duty put on us by ' he laws
we live under, obey and swear by to
ALLIES GAIN IN JOINT
MOVE ON KAISER'S ARMY
[Continued From Page One.]
They are believed t</ have destroyed some of the bridges over
the Aisne and to have taken some of their heavy guns across
that river. ,
In the district north of the Somme the Germans are reported
to have launched two counterattacks. The British arti'llery fire
broke them up. The prisoners taken by the British are so
numerous that they are having difficulty in handling them.
London, Aug. B.—Several thousand prisoners have been taken
by the Franco-British forces in their offensive in Picardy, the
Evening Standard learns.
According to reports. received this afternoon the allies have
captured the town of Moreuil, Demuin, Ablancourt, and Morlan
court, the heights west of Cerisy and the heights south of
Morlancourt.
British and French troops attack
ed this morning from Albert, north
east of Amiens, to Montdidier, on the
Ave, southeast of Amiens, the front
of attack being approximately twen
ty-eight miles.
Meager reports from the field In
dicate ttiat the allies have advanced
to a depth of about two miles south
of the Simme, and probably have
taken the villages of Mrcelcave and
La Motte-en-SenteA-e.
Americans Not In Drive
It is reported from Washington
that it is not believed American
forces are engaged in the present
fighting. Americans were holding
the line at Cantigny, some time ago,
i but were withdrawn and sent to the
Aisne-Marne salient, where they par
ticipated in the recent victory over
the Germans
This new attack, launched lust
thref weeks after Field Marshal
Foch's masterly countey offensive
against the western side of the Sois
son-Rheims salient, has been ex
pected since the Germans were
driven back to the Aisne and the
Vesle. It was not believed the allied
commanders would permit the ini
tiative to pass to the enemy after the
j stunning defeat administered to him
along the Marne. Foch is known to
be an offensive fighter and it has
been predicted that a new blow
would fall on the German lines be
fore they had time to reorganize their
| shattered divisions behind the Veslo
and the Aisne.
Germans Get Foreword
The Germans seem to have had
I knowledge of the plans of the allied
j commander-in-chief for during the
| past ten days they have carried out
local retirements in the northern
sectors of their line—two of these
withdrawals being in the Picardy sa
lient, one on each side of Albert,
along the Ancre river, and the oth
er along the Avre river, north of
Montdidier. In each case the enemy
retired to positions before which
rivers form partial protection.
The fighting in Picardy recalls the
great offensives carried out there by
the British and French in 191(1, and
the German "strategic retreat" to
the Hlndenburg line in February and
'March, 1917. The British had forc
ed their way during the fall eastward
from Albert to the neighborhood of
Grand Court, west of Bapaume, and
the French were before Noyon, al
most directly to the south, when in
the early months of 1917, the Ger
mans discovered that the allies had
massed guns and materials for a
major offensive. They ttaei> retreat-
keep on killing them till they cease to
plague mankind. I have.no concern
for Germans. You Americans have a
frontier proverb, "A good Injun Is a
dead Injun!" Until Germany casts
out the devil of Kalserism and goes
back a hundred years to the race
which prpduced s&roe decent and use
ful members of ihe body corporate I
shall believe most firmly that the best
German Is a dead German. What does
grieve me most profoundly is the
knowledge that Britain—and every
word 1 have written would be stulti
fied if you did not realize that 1 am
proud of my own folk—lias lost the
flower of her manhood, just as you,
my honored friends tn America, will
lose a stock hard to replace if the mil
lion of your magnificent youth in
Franc; and the other millions you will
put In the field until there are enough
dead Germans are fated to show a cas
ualty list comparable with that of
Britain. But do not misunderstand
me. My faith in the destiny of our
joint race# It supreme. Are not our
ncad the best warranty of the past
and the brightest hope of the future?
They are our very •oxvn, flesh of our
Ed to the Cambrai-La Fere line,
which they occupied until March 21,
1918, and from which they launched
their first great offensive of the pres
ent summer.
Battle Ground Familiar
The field over which the British
are fighting: to-day is familiar ground
to them, but to the south the French
must force the enemy back from ter
ritory newly occupied during the
March offensive. Six miles to the
eastward (they will tome to the
old battle ground of Picardy.
When the Germans withdrew in
February and March, 1917, they de
stroyed every house and building in
the evacuated area, cut down every
tree and, in the words of a German
military critic, "prepared the ground
for future operation." It is over
this battlefield that the Germans
again must rtetreat if the allies are
successful in their present attack.
Germans Face Costly Rout
Viewed on the map, the front over
which the new attack is being made
was chosen because of its strategic
relations to the German positions to
the north and south. If the assault
is successful the Germans, to the
north, must drop back over the.
ground they won at an immense cost
in lives in March. To the south,
their positions southeast of Montdi
dier, taken by them in the terrible
battles early in June, when they were
foiled in their efforts to reach Com
piegne will be in Jeopardy.
Indirectly,'an allied victory from
Montidier northward would weaken
the line along the Atsne, to which
the Germans seem about to retire
after their defeat north of the
Marne.
Pari*, Aug. B.—Reports received up
to mid-afternoon indicated the of
fensive was progressing favorably.
The average advance was approxi
mately two and one half miles on a
front of slightly more than 25 miles.
The allied advance at some points
was more than three miles.
Important material has been cap
tured by the advancing troops.
London, Aug. B.—British troops
launched an offensive east and south
east of Amiens this morning, says a
statement from Field Marshal .Halg
to-day. Early reports indicate the
attack Is progressing satisfactorily.
The attack is under the command
of Field Marshal Haig and Is on a
wide front, .the statement adds. The
troops engaged, British fourth army
and the French ttiat army, advanced
at dawp
flesh and bone of our bone. They are
at once our tribute and our inspira
tion. We who gave this holocaust
must be worthy of It. We who are left
must be more resolute, more knightly,
more grandly indifferent to loss or suf
fering, than those who have gone.
How can it be otherwise? The cross
they bore, the sacrifice they made, is
all the lighter for us because of their
example. The blood of the martyrs Is
the seed of the Church of Christ? The
blood of our dead Is the seed of a race
which shall transcend tn power and
greatness the wildest dream ever
dreamed by enthusiastic Pan-German.
It must be so. It is a deduction based
on the soundest theory of life, the
very essence of all that science has
taught us either of men or of the low
er animals. But J cannot blind my eyes
to the immediate gaps in our ranks.
Our universities are empty. Oxford
and Cambridge gave eight thousand of
their undergraduates to the army in
the first year of the war, and, be It re
membered, no matter what view may
be hek", as to the value of a university
education, these young men were the
future rulers of the British Empire—
THUNDERSTORM WILL
END THEJIEAT WAVE
[Continued from First Page.]
MERCURY AGAIN
CLIMBS UPWARD
Hour— Taes. Wed. Today
8 a. m. 79 81 70
9 a. m 81 85 80
10 a. m 89 88 79
11 a. in 92 93 83
12 m. ...... 9t> 00 84
1 p. m 97 100 87
2 p. m 101 101
3 p. m 102 103
4 p. m 104.4 104.3
5 p. m 103 101
p. m 103 101
7 p. m 100 80
8 p. m 97 80 ...
9 p. 91 80 ...
and Harrisburgers went home early
to rest. For the first time in several
days coverlet;*, thin though they may
have been, found their places on
Harrisburg beds.
Temperatures throughout the early
morning to-day were considerably
lower than yesterday, but the city
was experiencing little less suffering
than yestercJ&y. The comparatively
high humidity was the cause. On
Tuesday and yesterday during the
tropical heat, the humidity was
standing at a rather low figure, rang
ing between 34 and 44.
To-day, however. General Humid
ity took a jump and at 9 o'clock w?
at the 81 mark, at least counterbal
ancing the five degrees drop in to
day's temperatures. The first read
ings of the thermometer at the Har
risburg Weather Bureau to-day
showed the mercury standing at 76
degrees at 8 o'clock. One hour later,
the 80 degree figure had been reach
ed with the mercury climbing stead
ily.
New Record Yesterday
Yesterday's temperatures averaged
considerably higher than Tuesday,
despite the fact that the highest
temperature, 104.3 degrees, recorded
at 4 o'clock, was one-tenth degree
lower than Tuesday's unprecedented
high temperature of 104.4 degrees.
Conditions yesterday were consid
erably worse-than the previous day.
Temperatures throughout the morn
ing averaged four degrees higher and
in the afternoon with temperatures
approximately the same as those of
Tuesday, the conditions were aggra
vated by a ten-degree rise In the
humidity. Yesterday's mark was 44
and that of Tuesday but 34.
Yesterday a new record in the an
nals of the Harrisburg Weather Bu
reau was established —the mean tem
perature, the average of the highest
and lowest temperatures of the day.
yesterday was 92 degrees, de
grees higher than the previous rec
ord. Tuesday's weather had tied this
record. The old record had been
made on August 9, 1900.
Three More Deaths
Three deaths are reported In to
day's lists. Two of them occurred at
the Harrisburg Hospital.
Five-months-old Leo Dingier,
whose mother lives at Oberlln and
whose father hospital authorities say
Is in France with the American Ex
peditionary Forces,-died as the result
of intestinal troubles, which were
said to be the result of the heat. The
child was admitted to the hospital
four days ago.
Park Proxell,' 26 years, of Ly
kenß, was the fourth victim to die
from the heat in Harrisburg. He had
AUGUST 8, 1918.
It* prime ministers, its secretaries of
state, Its judges, Its gcrernors of far
off lands. Its parliamentarians, law
yers, professors, scientists, its un
doubted leaders in every branch of
human thought and endeavor. That is
part of the price asked of us for
cuooslng to support Right as against
Might, and it Is a heavy impost in it
self. Again, we have lost nearly every
officer and man of that small but su
perbly efficient army which we threw
Into France early* In August, 1914.
It has been estimated that Britain
has fought on seventeen fronts during
the past four years. One can readily
enumerate most of them, for her troops
have been to the fore In Belgium,
France, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Russia,
Palestine, Mesopotamia, China and
North, East and West Africa, to name
only the main theaters of the war.
She and her Colonies have raised
7,500,000 soldiers, and of this total
England's (not Great Britain's) pro
portion Is 60 per cent In this regard
I must remove a misapprehension, or,
to be candid, nail down a Hun lie,
which has found credence in some
quarters. I shall not labor the point.
It should suffice If I state with abso
lute authority that one man In every
seven and a half of the population of
England is in the army. The same
ratio holds good of Scotland. Wales
has contributed one man in every ten
and a fifth, Ireland one man In every
twenty-six and a third and the over
seas dominions one man in every fif
teen. Those are the cold, hard facts
as to man power In the army, while
the following table tells Its own story
and refutes another Hun lie:
Relative proportions of men In Brit
ish forces and of casualties suffered
by each port of British empire, exclu
sive of India, Africa, etc., to Novem
ber, 1017:
Per Cent Per Cent
of Armed of Casu-
Forces. alties.
England and Wales 70 76
Scotland ........ 8 10
Ireland 6 6
Dominions and Col
onies 16 8
I do not apologize for reverting to
the casualty Il?t. It is essential that
these statistics should be made known.
It is difficult tn a short article to con
vey any fair picture of Britain's work
In other fields. In heavy guns alone
she manufactured during the third
year of the war twenty-seven times as
many as in the first year and two
hundred and twenty times as much
; ammunition. The expenditure of rifle
ammunition per week Is now sixty-five
times greater than the average weekly
expenditure during the first ten
months of the war. The output of ma
chine guns has Increased thirty-nine
times. Two thousand miles of railway
track, one thousand locomotives and
many tens of thousands of wagons
have been shipped abroad. The Min-
been at the Harrisburg Hospital for
several days with appendicitis, but
yesterday's hot weather overtaxed his
strength and he died when the ther
mometer was at its highest in the
afternoon. His wife survives him.
The third death within the past
twenty-four hours Is that of L. Culic,
915 South Front street, Steelton.
Culic, an employe of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, in its Steelton plant,
was stricken about 6 o'clock last
evening and died within a short time.
Many Prostration*
Prostrations as a result of the
tropical heat were many. Men em
ployed on the railroads and in in
dustrial plants, suffered much. Many
railroaders were overcome by the
heat and compelled to go to their
homes. Few plants had their men
working at full speed.
At the quartermaster's depot, at
Marsh Run, seven men were over
come by the heat yesterday. None of
them are any the worse to-day as the
result and all of them are back at
work. Two horses were overcome
during the day and died from the ef
fects.
Small Child Overcome
Naomi Blackwell, of Steelton, was
admitted to the hospital late yes
terday, overcome by the heat. Her
condition is not serious and she was
permitted to go home this morning.
J. C. Firestone, of Washington
Heights, a car repairman in the
Rutherford shops, was overcome yes
terday.
Jacob German, 66 years old, a
Pennsylvania railroad car inspector,
was one of the oldest heat victims.
Many unusual incidents have been
reported as a result of the intense
heat. Crockery and glassware and
window panes in many sections of
the city were cracked. Asphalt of
street has been decidedly affected by
the temperature. Pedestrians cross
ing the streets can feel it give under
them and horses are making deep
cuts in the streets.
Exceptionally big demands have
been made in Harrisburg during the
past two days on ice cream parlors
and soda fountains for their prod
ucts. Practically every one in the city
experienced unequaled demands for
ice cream and cool fountain drinks,
a great many of which they were un
able to supply. Approximately 13,000
gallons of ice cream is believed to
have been consumed in the city dur
ing this time, but no estimate of the
amount of fountain beverages used
has been made.
Penbrook Citizens to Act
on Water Supply Trouble
Officials of the Hummelstown Con
solidated Water Company expect to
have the several breaks In the piping
system entirely repaired before even
ing. The pumps of the company have
been shut oft for a period of two
hours during the day while repairs
were being made.
For some time there has been con
siderable difficulty with the Penbrook
water supply, due to breaks in the
piping system of the water company.
Officials this morning said that after
these repairs have been completed,
they believe the dlfllculty will end.
Penbrook citizens are somewhat
displeased, however, with the incon
venience that the water supply has
occasioned here. This evening they
are scheduled to hold a mass meeting
in the town hall to discuss the situa
tion. They 'intend to take some
measures to prevent a recurrence of
the troubles.
istry of Munitions handles 50,000,00(1
articles per week and sends abroad
-60,000 consignments per week. In acff
dltion to over ninety national arsenaiSf
Great Britain has now 5,046 govern*
ment controlled factories, all working '
day and night on munitions and sup<
plies. Women do 60 to 70 per cent, oi
all the machlne-'work on shells, fuses
and trench wurfare supplies and hav<
contributed 1,450 trained mechanics to
the Royal Flying Corps. In one wa>(
or another about 5,000,000 British w&
men are working for their country
her need, many of whom never worke<|
in their lives before. i
Turning to the fleet, what shall
say, what can I say that will be at all
adequate to the theme, of the worlf
done by the British Navy? It would
be almost ludicrous In a review of!
Britain's share In the war to dismiss
In a sentence the absolutely vital part
borne by the fleet did I not feel as
sured that svery intelligent man and
woman In the United States knows as
well as if not better than I that the!
civilized world owes its existence t<k
day to the unparalleled services rerw
dered by the Navy.
And, alas, how can t deal with tho
aid given to the motherland by
ada, Australia, India and South AM
rlca? The requisite tribute were it tflj k
be rendered adequately would need 4
volume. <
No review of our four years' flgh|
can omit a brief reference to that ill*
omened word Kultur. According td
the Hun, the whole quarrel hinges ofl
the refusal of the democracies of tha
world to accept Kultur. Very well<
What Is Kultur? I have here a tnbla
of the worst forms of crime committed
in Germany and England during thg
ten years 1897-1907:
Germany. England
Murder 350 ,97 j
Incest ....••••• 573 56
Rapes 9,381 216
Unnatural Crimes. 841 200 t
Malicious and Fe- , fc
lonious Wound
ing 172,153 V 1,262 ■
Malicious damage "
to property .... 25,759 ?5S
Arson 610 278
Total 209,667 2,557
People of America, you fathers ani
mothers, wives, sisters and sweet'
hearts of the men you have sent M
France, I ask you to study that table *
Kultur should be known by its results
i and if benighted England can shon
i such a case against enlightened Ger
many is it not worth four years, or, 1!
i need be, forty years of war to keel
s your country and ours clear of
' virus of Kultur? The answer is beinj
i given today wherever the Hun stand!
■ up against our soldier*. It is beinj
! dinned into his ears Dy high explosive*
r and driven into his carcass by keel
I bayonets. When he heeds we will qui!
s and not until he does heed—on hi
- knees.
Heavy Clubbing in the
Junior League Battll
JUNIOR LKAGUE STANDING
W. L. Pel
Summit 20 1 .951
Swatara 14 8 .631
Albion ..' 7 15 .311
Monarch 3 18 .161
A big crowd saw Swatara fall t<
Albion last evening. Temperature ol
100 did not stop the rooters wh
follow keenly the doings of thi(
league, and they saw some battle thil '
time. The sensational feature wal
Hocker shooting the vacuum cleanel
over the bases via a home run. Swa>
tara tried hard to come back and
so over, picking up four runs, a total
of twenty-four hits being registered
To-morrow Albion meets Summit)
The score:
ALB IONS
AB. R.H. O. A. 13
Ben<ier, c 6 2 2 7 0 i
Sersch, ss 6 0 0 2 2 (
Shell, 3b 6 1 2 2 1 J
Hocker, lb, p.. 6 3 2 6 1 <
Harbolt, 2b... 6 0 1 3 2 J .
Clay. If 5 2 1 1 0 i K
Fox, rf 5 1 1 1 0
Mcssimer, cf ... 5 0 1 0 0 (
Heagy, p, lb. . . 5 2 3 5 1 C
Totals 50 11 13 27 7 1 *"
SWATARA
AB. R.H. O. A. E5
Michlevitz, cf :. 5 1 0 1 0 I
Hess. If 5 0 1 1 0 0
Kunoff. 3b ... 5 1 1 2 2 1
Sliover, ss, p... 6 1 3 4 1 0
Geopringer, 2b . 3 1 0 3 2 0
McKeever, rf .. 5 3 2 1 0 0
I ertz. lb 6 2 2 6 0 fl
Matchett, c ... 3 1 1 6 0 0
Nye, p. ss .... 5 0 1 3 1 (I
Totals 43 10 11 27 6 2
Albion 01010022 S—II
Swarara 00420000 4—lo
Yankee Troops Gain
Rheims-Soissons Road
WnNhlnEton, Aug. 8. Genera)
Pershing's communique for
day received to-day says:
"East of Bazoches our troops hav*
crossed the Vesle and gained th 4
Rheims-Soissons highway. Hostile
counterattacks broke down under ou|
fire.
Ruth Mell Tells of
Mother's Discovery '
Wants Others to Know of Miraculous
Change Tanlac Promptly f
Brought About
"My mother's health has showfl
such a wonderful improvement since
she has been taking Tanlac that 1
feel It my duty to let others know sol
that they may profit by her experU
ence," says Ruth Mell, an attractive
young woman of Monticello, neal
Reading, Pa.
"Mother had a torpid liver and a* V
a result she was tormented witli
stomach trouble. She started In on
Tanlac on the advice of a friend.
The results have been really mlracu*
lous. for now she has a wonderful
appetite and can hardly wait for
meal times, she feels brighter and
stronger and rests beautifully at
night.
"My sister has been taking Tan
las, too, and they are both enthusl
astlc over it for the help It has beet)
to them." v
Tanlac, is now being introduced
here at Gorgaa' Drug Store. —Adv.