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LXXXVII No. 176 12 PAGES "Scents"'* HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1918. o "™w*VT.!Ka HOME EDITION
GERMANS MAKE MIGHTY EFFORI
TO HALIGREAT
MA Y CLOSE ALL LOCAL SALOONS
GERMANS GIVE
ROYE IN DRIVE;
FIGHT TO HALT
French Gain Steadily, Reach
ing Crest of Hills West ot
Oise; Clear Matz Valley of
Enemy; German Lines in
Danger if French Hold An
toval
Savage Fighting Within Com
ing Day or Two; Paris Re
ports 40,000 Prisoners Are
Taken; Huns Lose 73,000 in'
Foch's Two Great Drives
By Associated Press
TV/TIGHTV efforts are be-,
ing made by the Ger-i
* man high command toj
check the Allies' advance
through Picardy towards
Peronne, Rove and Xoyon.
On the northern end of the
batfleline the British have
not been able to progress
rapidly during the past :
—i->t. although London re-1
ports unofficially that the
village of Bray has been
entered.
With the British Army in
France, Aug. 12 (2.16 p. m.);
—There is an unconfirmed j
report this afternoon that
the town of Roye, which
the Germans have been de
fending so desperately, liasj
been evacuated.
British tanks have been
seen operating a considera-i
ble distance e.ast of that:
town.
In the center strong German!
counterattacks seem to have!
held up the advance against vit
at points along the line. There'
is an unconfirmed report, how-;
ever, that Roye has been aban-:
doned by the enemy.
French Gain Ground Rapidly
On the right the French are!
still gaining ground steadily.
They have reached the crest of
the hills west of the Oise and
virtually have cleared the Matz:
valley of the enemy.
The battle still is confined within
the limits fixed when the French ex-:
tended the fighting area to the Oise.!
It has been cxpecte'd that the com
bat might spread along the line, es
pecially to the northward, but this
development has not as yet been re
ported.
Interest in the Picardy battle now'
centers upon the German efforts to;
stabilize along the line from j
Albert south to Chaulnes and to,
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THE WEATHER
For Harrlxburg and vldnltyt Fair
this afternoon and to-night;
Tuexdny probably nbowera; not
much change In temperature.
For Eaot-- -nnsylvanlat Fair
to-night; Toexday probably
xhon-erx; not much ehnnge In
temperature: light, variable
wlnda.
remperotnr 8 a. m„ 78.
River Stage; 8 a. m., 5.7 feet above
low-water mnrk.
Yexterday'x Weather
Highest temperature. 88.
I.oweat temperature, 68.
Mean temperature, 76.
PERSHING HE ADS
FIRST AMERICAN
FIELD ARMY ON
MARNE SECTOR
Orgaization of Five Ccrps j
1 Into One Unit Has Been
Completed; Divisions For
merly Under French Com
mand Are Included
WILL HOLD AREA
TAKEN FROM HUNS
Formation of Other Armies
Under American Command j
but Subject to Foch's Or
ders Will Be Started at
Once
By Associated Press
W tth the American Army in
France, Sunday, Aug. 11.—Organiza
, tion of the first American field army
;of five corps has been completed.
The army will be commanded by
! General Pershing and it is under
: stood, will operate in an area north
of the Marne from which the Ger
mans have been driven out. The
| American divisions which participat
ed in that drive have been under
| French command, but now are in
cluded in the first army.
Genera! Pershing, who retains his
post as chief of the American ex
-1 peditionary forces, after a time, may
i relinquish the command of the first
army, but possibly not until the or
ganizatlon of a second army Is well
; under way. Meanwhile, he will have
J two headquarters, at the first army
j as well as at general headquarters.
Vnder American Command
The step is regarded as the most
■ important development In the organ
] ization of the American expeditionary
| forces to date. It is looked upon as
I the natural development of the
; 1917-1J scheme of organization and
j training by which regiments after
i training were merged into divisions
. under full staff direction. The crea
! tion of the first army brings great
American forces under American
command, but under the orders of
I the generalissimo, Marshal Foch.
The size of the army has not been
announced beyond the indication that
1 it contains five corps commanded by
| Major Generals Liggett, Hullard,
1 Bundy, Reed and Wright.
Formation of Corps
Each corps is composed of several
! divisions with each division including
30,000 troops of all arms, while the
! corps in addition will have its com
plement of auxiliary troops, supply
1 troops, air squadrons, tanks and
heavy artillery. It is understood
' other armies will be formed shortly
| in view of the recent Washington an
| nouncement that 1,300,000 American
! troops already had sailed for France.
Car Crashes Into Auto;
Man Dragged Half Block
Harry L,. Cleaver, of Third and
; Vaughn streets, suffered contusions
j of the left hip this morning -when
! the automobile he was driving was
! struck by a northbound trolley car
i at Meunch and Fourth streets,
j He was dragged a half block by
I the force of the collision. Witnesses
i said that he was driving across
! Muench street at Fourth, alone in
j the automobile, when a street car
j struck the. side of the auto. The
1 man was tlirown to the pavement
I and the automobile was badly dam-
I aged.
The hospital ambulance was sum
| moned, but the one owned by Hoov
er & Sons, undertakers, hurried the
vicitim to the hospital before the
hospital car arrived. Mr. Cleaver's
left hip was badly bruised.
British Put 61 German
Machines Out of Action
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 12. —The official com
munication dealing with aviation, is
sued this evening, says that forty
one enemy machines were destroyed
Saturday and twenty were driven
down out of control.
Even the Kaiser Succumbed to Toothache
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DR. ARTHUR N. DAVIS
"Rook here., Davis, yon must do something for me. I can't fight the whole world, you know, and have
a toothache."
1 That's what the Kaiser said to Dr. Davis, his American dentist He said a lot of other things to Dr.
| Davis and Ex. Davis is repeating them in the Karrrisburg Telegraph. Read liis story, "The Kaiser as I
Knew Him For Fourteen Tears." on Page 5.
LENINE AND TROTZKYJ
PRUSSIA'S BETRAYERS,
FLEE TO KRONSTADI
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Men Who Negotiated Brest-Litovsk Peace
in Flight to Petograd; Japan to Enter
Siberia; Large Force Needed
Against Bolsheviki
f :
! London, Aug. 12. —Pre-'
,; mier Lenine and his chief |
: assistant. Leon Trotzky/;
11 have fled to Kronstadt, the;
■ naval base near Petrograd.;
according to a dispatch sent:
J. out by the semiofTicial
! Wolff Bureau of Berlin and
in Zurich ne\vspa-i
ypers, says a Havas report
! from Taris.
i Reports received in Rondon Sun
• ; day that the Bolsheviki leaders in-j
' tended to flee to Germany lend color'
' Ding-Dong Battle
*j Raging in Drive;
Americans Near Bray
9 i I
s ! By Associated Press
i| 1/ondon, Aug. 12. —Only slight
r changes in the line as a whole are
e | reported in dispatches reaching
t London this afternoon, but a ding
- riong battle is raging all up and
I down the northern section of the
- i present battleline.
-i American troops are in the sub
ejurbs of Bray to-day, fighting a con
c i tinuous battle for the outskirts of
sithe little French city.
Western Union Grants
1 Wage Raise to Employes
New York. Aug. 12. Announce
. ment of a general increase of 10 per
. I cent. in wages to all employes of the
. Western Union Telegraph Company
I belonging to the association recently
• organized by the company, was made
[• j here to-day. The increase, retroactive
"I from July 1, applies to about 45,000
' workers.
I to the German report that they al
ready have gone to Kronstadt. Co
i penhagen dispatches Sunday said
i that the anti-Bolshevik movement in
j Russia was growing rapidly and that
; the Bolshevik government virtually
; had gone to pieces. These reports
: were taken from the Russian news
j papers.
Renine and Trotzky have been In
power since the overthrow of the
Kerensky cabinet last November
They negotiated the Brest-Ritovsk
j peace.
Amsterdam, Aug. 12.—The posi-'
; tion of the Soviet government in
Russia is considered very serious by
the Moscow correspondent of the
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Senator Sproul's Son
Gassed in France, Maj.
M. C. Kennedy Cables;
By Associated Press
I Philadelphia, Aug. 12.—First Lieu
| tenant John Roach Sproul, son of
I State Senator William C. Sproul, Dela
ware county, has been in
France.
Word to this effect was received
by Senator Sproul to-day in a cable
gram from Major M. C. Kennedy,
woh is on the staff of Brigadier Gen
eral W. W. Atterbury, former vice
president of the Pennsylvania rail
road, now in charge of American rail
roads in France.
The message said the lieutenant
was gassed on the Marne sector "a
few weeks ago." He has been in a
base hospital.
ALLIES FALSE IX DRIVE
By Associated Press
With the British Army, in France,
Aug. 12.—The allied forces, however,
having gained a great success seem
to be pausing, at least temporarily, i
'B.F.MEYERS DIES
! AT 85; LEADER IN
STATE POLITICS
Funeral Services to Be Held
i For Prominent News
paperman
BENJAMIN F. MEYERS
Funeral services for Benjamin F.
I Meyerij, prominent newspaperman,
! publisher and political leader, will bf
! held at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
j at 10.30 o'clock Wednesday morning,
j The Rev. Rollln A. Sawyer, rector,
. will officiate. Burial will be In the
| Harrlsburg cemetery, where services
l will be in charge of Perseverance
j Lodge No. 21, F. and A. M., of which
I Mr. Meyers was a member.
Mr. Meyers died shortly after noon
yesterday. His death came suddenly.
While it was Indirectly due to ail
ments of long, standing It was has
tened by an attack of acute Indiges
tion Saturday night and Sunday
I morning.
Mr. Meyers was born on the home
farm In Milford township, Somerset
county, July 6. 1833. He attended the
scHoois of New Centerville, Somer-
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U-BOA T SINKS TWO
STEAMERS AND SMALL
CRAFT IN SEA RAID
ARMY MAY
MAKE THIS
DRY TOWN
Five Mile Limit Likely to be
Imposed on Harrisburg,
Middietown and Steelton
POLICE ARE BLAMED
Representations Made to
Washington; Government
Officer Assaulted Here.
Harrisburg, Steclton and Mid
dletown may be closed to the:
sale of intoxicating liquors |
within the next forty-eight:
hours, or at latest the coming !
week.
Lieutenant Colonel Neilsen.j
ranking United States army of
ficer of this district, stationed - at'
Middletown aviation plant, said;
this afternoon that he will take!
this matter up during a visit to
Washington this week.
The United States authorities!
have the right to close drinkingj
places within five miles of any
government reservation and
Harrisburg is within five miles
of the quartermaster's develop
ment at New Cumberland.
The result of action of this
kind on the part of the govern
ment would be to close all
saloons and drinking places
within five miles of Middletown
and New Cumberland.
Major Gray has caused repre
sentations to be made to Wash
ington of the conditions here. l
The Major has had little or no 1
co-operation on the part of the:
Harrisburg police and there has:
been much boot-legging and sale <
of liquor to government em
ployes and soldiers, resulting on
Saturday night in trouble with
enlisted men and workmen and
the beating up of a government
officer by John Murnane, Har
risburg, Harrisburg city detec-i
tive. Charles Mack was arrest
ed at the Middletown works
trying to smuggle -whisky to
the reservation. He had bought it
in Harrisburg. This was the
culmination of the trouble which
led to the forwarding of a re
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SENATE CALLED
IN DRAFT LAW
Washington. Aug. 12.—Steps
to reconvene the Senate so that
the administration power bill ex
tending draft ages to 45
can be taken up without delay
were taken to-day .by Senate
leaders, who ordered telegrams
sent to all absentees asking them ,
to be present next Thursday
when the bill is reported to the
Senate.
ITnder the unanimous consent
agreement by which the recess
was taken, three days must elapse i
before any business can be trans
acted after a quorum has been
called, and as a result the bill '
will be taken up next Bfonday. j
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Attacks Fishing Fleet, Sending 9 Boats
Down; Sixty Fishermen Afloat in
Dories Off Georges Bank
Washington, Aug. 12. ;
/~*ERMAN submarine
raiders off the North J
Atlantic coast have de-j
stroyed three more vessels, i
the Navy Department to
day announced.
Idle British steamer Pen-1
istone, of 4,139 tons, was'
torpedoed KX) miles east of j
Nantucket lightship yester-j
day morning; the Swedishi
steamer Sydland, of 3,031
tons gross, was sunk by I
I
WOUNDED T N FRANCE j
I] ; Hummelstown. —Herbert Frederick Gebhardt the third 2
mj son of Harry T. Gebhardt, Hummelstown, has been K
wounded in France. A telegram to that effect was re- a
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I j ceived by the it. Other sons who have
; ; fallen are Harry Richard Gebhardt, who was killed and
j| Bugler Walter Gebhardt, who was wounded. •
j j. FEDERAL COURT IN SESSION
I] Harrisburg.— I he Feder Grand Jury met this after- .
jji noon to take ac.ion on a number of cases charging men
j: : with the sale of liquor to sc Kiicrs, and also on the prose- 1
J| | cution of "Dick" Allday, Chambersburg, charged with 8
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] | BOLSHEVIKS TO QUIT MOSCOW |
|| j The Bolshevik government shortly will leave Moscow jj
I' I for Kronstadt, cal Anzciger states to-day 8
| | Premier Lenhte' and Wbj Minister Trotsky already have 1
; | reached there, the newsp per adds. 8
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II; ENGINEER KILLED BY GERMAN SHELL |
1 : With the American Army on the Vcsle.— Lieutenant |1
|j j Theodore Kirk, of Los Ar.gelcs, was killed by a German ||
j: ; shell near Sergy, on July 28 while marching forward'with jj
8 a detachment of bridge builders. No one else in the IS
g J f.J
8 command was injured. Lieutenant Kirk was one of the en- j
; |j gineers,who assisted in the construction of Fort McArthuf si
. j|| at San Pedro. ||
!| THREE HUN GENERALS CASHIERED |
I London. —Three German generals recently com- . I
■ |||| manding near Montdidier have be4n cashiered for neglect j
|l|| of duty, according to Belgian reports receievcd in Ams- |
| | terdam and transmitted by the Exchanged Telegraph 'j
. || Company. A large number of soldiers were courtmartial- - j
j||| ed at St. Quentin Saturday for high treason.
j ! GERMAN AIRSHIP DOWN IN FLAMES ij
lljl London.—A German airship has been brought down in
i| | flames north of AmcJand, on the northen Dutch coas>. |j
Ml the admiralty announced to-day. ' * I
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
|j| Harry Jacob Knnuh, DltlaburK, unit Mn.y Theresa Boyle, Hur
|; j; -IM*"X4U George Sukl- and Mary Wlack, Steelton.
iTii- " r —FTriirtrt'iHinnmii]
| bombs August S. 100 miles
southeast of Nantucket;
| and an American schooner
| reported as the Herman
i Winter but whose identity
has mot been dlinitelv es
tablished was destroyed by
; gunfire yesterday, 200 miles
: east of New York. All
members of the crew of the
I Sydland were reported as
! saved, but the Navy dis
patches did not clear up the
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