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NATION HAS SENT
1,450,000 TROOPS
AWAY FOR WAR
Eighty Divisions to Be in
France by July Next,
March Says
18TH BOYS IN FLANDERS
28th Division Held American
Center During Crossing
of the Ourcq
Washington, Aug. 17.—More
than 1,450,000 Yankees embark
ed from the United States, Gen
eral March, chief of staff, said
to-day. This includes men sent
to Italy and Siberia, as well as.
tcv France.
General March was talking
to newspaper correspondents in
his semiweekly conference He
said official reports through the
Spanish embasy give 110 evidence
that American prisoners in Germany
are singled out for mistreatment as
has been reported. Very detailed
reports including the daily menus
are received and show the question
of the treatment of prisoners has
largely been standardized.
Further Withdrawal Probable
Discussing the battle situation in
France, the chief-of-staff drew atten
tion to the fact that the Germans
now have voluntarily surrendered
. portions of their lines at four dif
ferent places. He placed no construc
tion of his own on this, hut it was
taken as an indication of an expected
further withdrawal by the enemy. In
a general way, the lines generally
are stabilized on a front closely fol
lowing 1916-1917 positions in Picardy
and along the Aisne-Vesle line to the
south.
Speaking of the American pro-
gram. General March said it is pro
* posed to put eighty divisions into
France by June 30, 1919, if it is pos
sible to do so as shown in the Senate
Military Committee report on the
manpower bill.
General McCain Rewarded
General March announced thut j
"""Major General Henry B. McCain, ad-|
jutant general, as reward for effi-1
< ient work in that office, had been
assigned to command the Twelfth di-j
\ Ision now being organized at Camp i
Devens, Mass.
Brigadier General Peter C. Harris
will he made acting adjutant general.
He has been responsible for a great
reduction in paper work in the de
partment. including the abolishment
of the old muster rolls which tended
"to cut away unnecessary red tape.
Coming Home For Host
Announcement was made that Ma
jor General George B. Duncan, one
of the first American officers to win
the French war cross for distinguish
ed gallantry in action, was being sent
home for a rest. General March.said
the case was typical' and showed the
tremendous strain under which both
officers and men work at the front.
He indicated that a number of cases
similar to that of General Duncan
would follow.
•JHtli Division in Center
Answering a question, General
March said the losses of the 110 th
Kegiment, (Pennsylvania troops), of
the 28th Division probably were pro
portionate to the heavy fighting in
which that division had been engag
ed. He gave no figures but pointed
out that the 28th Division had held
the American center during the
crossing of the Ourcq and again was
in line along the Vesle where further
sharp fighting had occurred.
French Applaud Yankee Valor
On the Vesle front, where the
American troops are in line, only ar
tillery fire and raids have been re
ported, General March said. He read
a French divisional order paying
high tribute to the valor and ef
ficiency of the Second artillery brig
ade of the Second American division,
which aided the Twelth French In
fantry in two days' of fierce fighting
at Chateau Thierry.
18th Division in Flanders
As to the location of other divi
sions, General March said the 18th
Division (Pennsylvania and Virginia
troops), was training with the Brit
ish in Flanders; that the 88th (North
Dakota, Minnesota, lowa and Illi
nois troops), was in process of em
barkation, and that the 82d (Ala
bama, Georgia and Tennessee troops)
was in line north of Toul where it
arrived early in July. Reports do not
show that the 82d Division, he said,
has yet been engaged.
IN TWO WEEKS
WAR STAMPS
GO UP ONE CENT
a AST $5.00 Is Value in
1923
THE WEATHER
Far Hiirrlnhgrg and vicinity! Kulr
to-night and Sunday; not much
chnngr In temperature.
For* Knntern Pennsylvania! Fair
and continued cool to-night and
Sunday* light, northeast winds.
The Susqnehnnnn river nnd all Its
trlbntarles will probnbly con
tinue to fall slowly. A stage of
about 3A feet Is Indlcnted for
Hnrrlsburg Sunday morning.
Temperature! 8 a. m., .
River Stngei 3.0 feet above low
water mark.
Highest temperature, M.
I.oweat temperature, (11.
Mean temperature, 72.
Normal temperature, 72-
SLASHED THROAT
TO ESCAPE ARMY;
IS UNDER ARREST
Ernest K. Burtnett,* Harris
burger, Held by Military
Authorities
URGED TO COME HOME
Youth Stayed Quietly in Bed
For Hours After Wound
ing Himself
Krnest Kimball Burtnett, 315 Ham
ilton street, was taken into custody
by military authorities this morning
and will be returned to Camp Lee,
Petersburg, Va., where he is said to
have deserted following his discharge
from the hospital in which he under
went treatment for a razor slash
across his throat, which he inflicted
himself.
Sergeant Wilkinson, of Camp Lee,
took charge of the man this morning.
He was arrested at his home, where
Sergeant Wilkinson said his mother
offered a bribe of {IOO to allow her
boy to remain. The young man is
33 years old.
He had been in Camp.Lee only 11
days when he cut his throat, officials
said. His dislike of the military life,
and fear of overseas duty, is said to
have been the cause.
He deserted following his release
from the base hospital. Sergeant
Wilkinson said that if he hud not
deserted lie would have received liis
discharge from the army.
Traded Safety lt.i/or
Burtnett was employed on govern
ment work at Marsh Run until June,
when he was sent to Camp Lee by
City Board No. 3. He admitted at
tlie "police station to-day he traded
his safety razor for a straight one
belonging to a fellow soldier, and
cut his throat shortly after midnight
and laid in bed without medical help
until reveille at 5 o'clock in the
morning. Ho was sent to the hospi
tal and discharged August 5. He then
deserted and came to this city.
At his home he said he had been
abused and maltreated at camp.
Sergeant Wilkinson said, but at the
police station following his arrest
he admitted he had not been mis
treated. It was said letters from
his mother urging him to come home
at any cost prompted his move.
"God has sent my boy home to me," I
is said to have been written by his I
mother after she learned of his com
ing.
His father is employed by the Har-|
Yishurg Pipe and Pipe-Bending Com
pany.
v
Ten Pennsylvanians in
the Overseas Casualties;
One Killed in Action!
Washington, Aug. 17.—The army I
casualty list to-day contained 90 I
names, divided as follows: Killed in I
action, 17: died of wounds, 1; died of I
accidents and other causes, 2; wound
ed severely, 31; wounded, degree un
determined, 20; missing in action, 19.
Serfceant Brewster C. Schoch, of
Selinsgrove, Pa., is reported killed In!
action. Ten Pennsylvanians are j
named as follows:
Dleil of Accidents nml Other Causes
Private Andrew Hess, McKees' 1
Rocks. I
Wounded Severely
l.ieutenant Dudley K. Bell, Bristol. !
Private Samuel Barn hart, Curtin.
Private Samuel Humphrey, Logania. '
Private J. R. Hoik. Reaver Falls.
Missing in Action
Private Harry Atlas, Philadelphia. !
Private George W. Corr.v, Philadel- '
phia.
Private Leslie H,."Crabtree, Phila- ;
delphia.
I Private Angelo D'Alessandre, ■
Philadelphia.
| Private* Nelson Boyer. Trevorton. j
Spain Notifies Germany
, She Will Make Reprisals
For Future U-Boat Losses
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 17*—Spain has notl
■ tied Germany of her intention to
compensated herself for future out
| rages against Spanish shipping by
| confiscating a corresponding amount
of tonnage from German shipping
I that has found refuge in Spanish
; ports, says a dispatch to the Times
' fiom Santander. There are about
I ninety German steamers voluntarily
i interned in Spain.
| _ |
Burning Rubbage in New
Penn-Harris Causes Alarm
An alarm was turned in from box
4, Third and Market streets, at 5.48
this morning, by a member of the
Allison Hill fire department, who
saw a blaze on the fifth floor of the
Penn-Harris hotel.
Fire Chief Kindler said a bunch of
rubbish on the fifth floor too big to
he sent down the shute to the
ground, was laid on the fireproof
floor by workmen and burned, giving
the aspect of a fire in the building.
The alarm was tapped off at 5.58
when the cause was discovered.
It is the second alarm of fire at the
Penn-Harris. Last winter steam
fnom the street where a pipe be
neath the pavement heated the wet
asphalt was the cause for an alarm.
French Cruiser Sunk;
13 of Crew Missing
By Associated Press
Purls, Aug. 17.--The old French
cruiser Dupetit Thouars has been
sunk by a German submarine, it is
officially announced to-day. Thir
teen of the crew are missing. Amer
ican destroyers rescued the remain
der.
The Dupetit Thouars was co-oper
utfng with United States naval forces
in protecting Atlantic navigation. i
LIEUT. DOWDELL TELLS HOW U. S.
REGULARS SMASHED PRUSSIANS
HMHHHHL IjHgL
m - Sa ||
* Large picture is that of Lieutenant Marcus Dowdell,
Harrisburg officer, who picked the photograph (small)
of young German officer up on the battlefield of France
where Company of the Thirty-eighth United Mates
ißsf Hegulars almost wiped out a battulion of the Prussian
Mjm:S Guards, capturing fifty-six machine guns. The little diary
WNmE** (small etching) and the Identification case (large etch
' ::| ' v jnß ) bearing the Prussian coat of arms. This case is
made of shoddy, showing the straits to which the Ger
mans are put for material. Oases captured early in the
war were of leather. . ..*
ALDERMAN GIVES
NO DECISION IN
MURNANE CASE
Major Gray to Protect Offi
cers With Detachments
of Military Police
Detachments of military police
hereafter will accompany govern-:
ment officers to Harrisburg when
prisoners ore being brought to the
county jail <o 'protect them from as
sault, Major William B. Gray, com
mandant of the Middletown Ord
nance Depot announced to-day when
Alderman Hilton "took under ad
visement" the charges of assault
and battery brought by a Middle
town officer against John Murnane,
a city detective.
Alderman Hilton declined to ren
der a decision in the case after
hearing evidence submitted by both
sides over the course of two hours.
It was shown that Murnane struck
the Middletown officer with a black
jack when the former was taking
several men to the county jail while
Murnane claimed it was a case of
"mistaken identity."
It was alleged at the time (he
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Need Not Submit
Registrars' Names
; State Draft Headquarters to-day is
: sued notice to local hoards that it will
i not he necessary to send lists of reg
i istruts for the registration of August
24 to state headquarters for approval.
"The selection of these registrars is
left to the judgment of local hoards."
says the notice. The questionnaires
for the next registration will he sent
out Monday. It is believed hero that
I the registration on August 21 will he
' approximately one-fourth of that on
j June 5.
] The returns of local hoards on the
! number of men remaining in Class 1
j for general military service after
Camp Lee calls are filled, show a total
i of 21,940 white and colored, divided as
follows: White, 1917 class 1,940, 1918
class 17,450, total 19,396; colored, 1917 |
I class 749, 1918 class 1,795, total 2,544.
New Week Is to Bring
! Temperature Below Normal!
By Associated Press
Washington, Aug. 17.—Weather
j predictions for the week beginning
Monday, issued by the weather bu-
I reau to-day are:
j North and Middle Atlantic States: I
Fair with temperatures normal or'
slightly belo<v, first of week. Show-1
ers about Wednesday and rising tern-1
perature. Temperatures slightly be
low hormal. [
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PRESIDENT SAVES LIFE OF MAN
WHO DESERTED IN THIS CITY
Private Herman Ladenson Has Sentence Commuted to Fif
teen Years at Hard Labor After Court-Martial's Decree
Private Herman Ladenson, ot
Camp Meade, found guilty of deser
tion and disobeying an order of an
officer, was sentenced to death by a
court-martial, but President Wilson
has commuted the sentence to fifteen
years at hard labor. Ladenson de
serted the service at Harrisburg,
March 24, and was apprehended on
April 26, at Philadelphia. The sen
tence read: "To be shot to death by
musketry," and General Joseph A.
Gaston, camp commander, approved
it in his capacity of reviewing au
thority.
The first charge against Ladenson
referred to desertion and that
President disapproved of. The Presi
dent'-* order in full follows:
Stopped Drive in Its Tracks,
Capture 54 Machine Guns
and Mow Germans Down by
the Hundreds; Ditches Are
Piled Full of Dead
MEN ABE IN HIGH
SPIRITS OVER SUCCESS
How G, of the 28th
United States Infantry, Regulars,]
smashed up the 17th Battalion of thel
famous Prussian Guards, admittedly
.Ihe best troops in the German army,
and stopped the German drive at j
Mezy and halted the drive for Paris
in that direction, is told in a graphic
ly written letter from Lieutenant
Marcus P. Dowdell, who has been as
signed to that company after a
period in the hospital, to take the
place of an officer lost in battle.
Lieutenant Dowdell is a son of
Ralph W. Dowdell, of Harrisburg,
local manager of the Burroughs Add
ing Machine Company, with offices
in the Telegraph building, and until
he went to college at Swarthmore,
was himself a salesman for his
father's company, with headquarters
in Harrisburg, where he is well
known.
With his letter he sends back home
the picture of a boyish German of
ficer picked up on the battlefield, to
gether with the officer's ' Te cal
endar and dairy and the pouch in
which he carried them. This pouch
is made of pressed shoddy, from
which the clothing of the German
soldiers is now being made due to
scarcity of wool and cotton in that
country. It is poor stuff and could
be easily pulled apart.
Story of the Battle
Lieutenant Dowdell's letter fol-l
lows:
"We are back in rest camp after
taking part in the counterdrivo
against the Huns. At present 1 am
writing from the edge of a trench!
leading into my dugout in a patch of
woods near Alezy, where Company G,
assisted by the remainder of the]
Second Battalion of the Thirty
eighth stopped the drive in its tracks.
I This morning I went over the bat
j tie ground a half mile ahead of this
position and saw how the battle
raged from the piles of dead which
, still lay there ten days after the bat-i
| tie. This grounVl has been so fierce
| ly fought over that neither side could
bury any dead until yesterday when 1
| most of the Americans were buried.!
j Details were finishing that thisi
I morning, while Hun prisoners were
putting away the astonishing piles
of their brelhren.
. Demi Tell tlic Title
"The piles of dead tell the story,
j There is no shadow of a doubt but
| that one company demoralized the
I whole German drive and wiped out
| the Seventeenth Battalion of the;
I Prussian Guard. The sectors to right l
I and lift of this little band were!
i comparatively free of dead, but
i on the G Company sector they were
idled up indescribably. A number
of ditches ranged across the river
end of the battlefield and these wcro
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"In the foregoing case of Private
Herman Ladenson, Twenty-third
Company, One Hundred and Fifty
fourth Depot Brigade, the finding of
guilty of charge two and its speciflca
cation is disapproved. The finding of
guilty of charge two and its spefica
tion is approved. The sentence is
confirmed and commuted to dishon
orable discharge, forfeiture of all
pay and allowances, due or to be
come due, and conflnemeni at hard
labor for fifteen years. The execu
tion of that portion of tht sentence
adjudging dishonorable discharge Is
suspended until the soldier's release
from confinement. As thus com
muted the sentence will be carried
into execution.
"WOODROW WIJLSQN."
WAVE OF PETTY
LAWLESSNESS IS
SWEEPING CITY
Drunkenness Gives police
Much Trouble; 83 Ar
rested in Week
Police records for the past week
indicate that petty lawlessness is in
creasing at an alarming rate in Har
risburg.
Sixteen arrests were made by po
lice last night. It was only an ex
ample of the disorderliness that is
increasing nightly on the streets,
and in some of the more or less
troublesome neighborhoods of the
city. Seventy-three arrests have been
made this week alone. This does not
set a record for the local department
for the number of arrests, but it is
the greatest number arrested any one
week without any big raids being
made, and when no holidays oc
curred.
Much Drunkenness
Most of the arrests are for drunk
enness and disorderly conduct. Fines
ranging front $lO to $25 and jail sen
tences ranging from five to thirty
days, are in most cases imposed. Nu
merous arrests are for lighting on
the streets, many for drunkenness,
while a large proportion of the men
and most of the women arrested
were for more serious charges. Cow
den and North Seventh streets, as
usual, figure largely in the reports.
Police officials this morning de
clared the presence here of large
forces of laborers who work one or
two days and spehd their money for
drink and "celebrations" are in most
cases responsible for the disorderli
ness. Marsh Run is the principal res
ervoir of the disorderly characters,
police say. Middletown and the mu-
I nitions plants in the city also con-
I tribute a large part of the rough
element.
Four women were dVnong those ar
rested last night. Emma Hender
son was arrested at her house, 510
Strawberry street, on a serious
charge. Agnes Thomas was arrest
ed at Cumberland and Monroe
streets because she was too drunk
to take charge of police say.
Maud Baker was arrested on the
charge of hanging around the
streets in the vicinity of Broad and
Cowden streets until 2 and 3 o'clock
every morning. Marie Thomas was
arrested on a serious charge. She
was arrested at the notorious No. 18
Cowden street.
Nine men were arrested on dis
orderly charges. They are: E. R.
Beshore and D. W. Slosser on the
charge of fighting on the streets;
John Williamson, on a disorderly
charge; Albert Thomas and Samuel
Lawrence on the charge of fighting
at 1121 North Seventh street; H. B.
Mills for dtsorderliness on the
streets; William Fiynn and James
J'ones for disorderly conduct with
Marie .Flynn.
American Killed in
French Battle Plane
Pnrbi, Aug. 17.—Sergeant William
MoKerness, of Wallingford, Conn., at
tached to the Lafayette escadrille,
was killed In a fight with eight en
emy airplanes on Thursday, according
to the Paris edition of the Chicago
Tribune. The sergeant was flying
with a French pilot and their machine
was accompanied by two French air
planes. Eight German machines ap
peared and the French airplanes
boldly attacked them. They kept up
the unequal fight until the machine
in which McKetpess was flying crash
ed to the ground In flames. The
bodies of McKerness and the French
pilot wore picked up within the
French lines.
CANARD AS TO TRANSPORT
New York, Aug. 17.—A rumor
was in circulation here yesterday
that a transport, one of the great
liners formerly owned by a German
company, had been torpedoed. In
vestigation showed that the rumor
was utterly false.
NEW HINDENBURG LINE
BEING PREPARED FOR
ANOTHER HUN RETREA T
Germans Expected to |
Retire From Whole
Salient Dominated
By the Allies
ROYE VIRTUALLY
IN FOCH'S GRASP
By Associated Press
Paris, Auf,. 17.—The Germans are i
preparing to evacuate the Roye-Las- I
Mgny-Noyon salient, says the Echo j
Be Paris. 11 is indicated, the paper
adds, that German pioneers and lab- j
borers are at work behind the Ger
nrtn front l nes on a new Hinden
huig line.
The German position in Roye is
serious Not only are the allies a
mile and or e-quarter west of the.
town but tr-e roads leading out of it
tow; rd l'cronne, Nesle and Noyon i
aie under the fire of allied guns.
London, Aug. 17.—'In Picardy Brit- |
lsl troops have made additional pro- |
gress, says Eield Marshal Haig in
his oflicial statement to-day. The
British lines have been pushed east
ward north cr the Amiens-Roye road,
and north of the Ancre.
British troops have gained more
ground in the neighborhood of Vieux
tleiquin, at. the apex of the Eys sa
lient, say- the official statement from
Field Marshal Haig to-day.
Paris. Aug. 17.—1n the region
truth of Roye French troops have
made more progress in the I-oßcs
v.ood ani. have reached the outskirts
of the wood on the east says the
War Office statement to-day.
There was heavy artillery fighting
west of Roye during the night.
Northwest of Ribecourt the French
have repulsed two strong German
attacks.
Roye, the central bastian of the
German defense line from Peronne
to Noyon, which has withstood allied
thrusts for nearly a week, is men
aced seriously by advancing French.
British and Canadian troops and Its
fall would appear to be a probability
of the next few hours.
With the town in allied hands the
southern end of the German line at
I least undoubtedly would have to re
tire, although the northern end
through Chaulnes to Peronne also
would be affected. The allies now are
but a scant one and one-quarter
miles west of the town, while tbey
ire pressing eastward in the north
and in the south.
Win on 9-Milc Front
Along a front of nearly nine miles
north and south of the Avre. which
Hows through Roye. the allies have
pushed hack the enemy in stubborn
lighting. The most notable advance
was made on a front of three rniles
in the center by French and Cana
dian troops who are now fighting on
a line through Goyencourt, St. Mard
les-Triot and Laucourt. St. Mard is
west of Roye and they are no villages
in the intervening mile and a quar
ter. 1
French troops on the south have
forced their way almost through the
Loges wood which borders the Roye-
Lassisny road on the west. The wood
is five miles directly south- of Roye
and it would appear that a further
advance might enable the French to
outflank both Roye and Lassigny and
force the Germans to readjust their
lines eastward toward Noyon and
probably beyond. North of Goyen
court British forces, after having re
pulsed an enemy attack on Darnery
in which 250 prisoners were captur
ed, are pushing eastward with
French units toward Fransart and
Fresnoy-Les-Roye.
Berlin Says Little
Artillery activity continues on the
remaining sectors of the main battle
front between the Ancre and the
Gise. The British on the northern
end and the French on the southern
maintain their newly gained positions
ahd the enemy has shown no dispo-
I sition to attack.
Berlin reports officially that allied
attacks on both sides of the Avre on
Friday failed. The German war of
fice has nothing further to say of the
i withdrawals in the Lys salient and
along the Ancre. Admission of the
loss of Attiche farm, southwest of
Noyon, to the French is made, but it
is said six French attacks against
Lassigny on Thursday were repulsed.
American and French troops along
the Vesle have undergone an attack
in which the Germans used gas, ar
tillery and bombing aviators. This
attack followed an incursion by
American aviators who heavily
bombed German bridges over the
Aisne and discovered enemy artillery
and machine gun nests. Three Ger
man airplanes were brought down by
American airmen Thursday. British
and French airmen on the same day
put thirty-two enemy machines out of
action, while Berlin reports the de
struction of twenty-four allied air
planes.
Italy, Stunds Firm
Italian troops in the Tonale re
gion, northwest of Lake Garda, and
along the southern Piave have with
stood Austrian attacks against their
new positions on these sectors. Other
wise the situation is unchanged in;
Northern Italy.
Spain, which recently sent another!
note to Germany protesting against |
the destruction of Spanish merchant-!
men by submarines, is reported to!
hgve notified Berlin that hereafter |
the Spanish government will make i
up losses sustained through U-boats
by seizing German shipping in Span,
ish harbors. German vessels to the
number of ninety have found refuge
in Spanish territorial waters.
ALSACE CHATEAUS
SOLD TO GERMANS
By Associated Press
Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 17.
Under forced conditions and at
nominal prices, the Germans are
selling many beautiful French
chateaus and homes in Alsace.
Prince William of Hohensol
lern has just bought the chateau
of Tharon de Hussiere, near Mul
hausen.
The German Crown Prince al
ready has bought two places at
ridiculously low prices and is said
to be negotiating for another.
WAR PROFITEERS
GRAB MOST FROM
FOOD AND DRESS
Treasury Analysis Lays Bare
Gains From 100 to
8,000 Per Cent.
By Associated Press
Washington, Aug. 17.—War prott
teers in 1917 were most numerous
in business devoted to food produc
tion and distribution, cotton and
woolen manufacturing and dealing,
coal mining, iron, copper, aluminum
and other metal production and oil
production and distribution, accord
ing to a treasury analysis of income
tax returns. In addition, thousands
of small concerns in a great variety
of industrial and commercial classifi
cations made profits ranging from
100 to 3,000 per cent, above their
normal profits for pre-war years,
which even then were considered
high.
Detaileu information on the ex
tent of war-profiteering has been giv
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NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
Copenhagen—The Norwegian government has sent a
protest fo Berlin as a consequence of the sinking of the
Norwegian freighter Sommerstad off the American coast
cn' August 13, according to the Norges Siofarstidende of
Christiania.
PRESIDENT OF URUGUAY FIRED AT BY ASSASSIN
Montevideo—An attempt wa3 made to assassinate Presi
dent Viera, of Uruguay, on Tuesday afternoon during
rioting. The President was standing on a balcony when
fired at and the bullet missed him by a narrow margin.
AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE .TO BE KING OF POLAND
The Hague—Archduke Karl Stephen probably will be
named king of Poland, Germany approving Austria's sug
gestion that an Austrian archduke be niade the Polish
ruler.
' GERMANS SEIZE KRONSTADT, NAVAL POFT
Pat i—Reports arc in circulation in Finland that the
Germans have seized the Russian naval port of Kronstadt,
according to a Stockholm dispatch to La Matin.
* SOVIETS BOMBARD KAZAN
Amsterdam—l£azan, an important city in the Volga
region, has been surrounded and is being bombarded
by Soviet troops, according to a telegram received from
Moscow byway of Berlin. Bolshevik troops, advancing
\ 4
toward Onega Bay, ha e occupied Kirilov, east of
Petrograd.
TWO VESSELS LAUNCHED TODAY
Philadelphia—Two more vessels were launched in the
Delaware River to-day, the Buhisan a 3,500-ton wooden
ship, which dipped into the water at the Traymore Ship
building Corporation at Cornwell's, Pa., and the tanker
E. L. Doheny, 3rd, which made its plunge at the New
York, Shipbuilding Company's yard, Camden, N. J.
WOMAN COLLAPSES IN COURT
New York—Sentenced to a year and three months im-,
prisonmen for attempting to sell defective bags to the
government, Miss ißabell Fcdcr collapsed in the Federal
* Court in Brooklyn to-day. ,
MARRIAGE LICENSES
I.ouln H. Strnu I Urnce SI. Herahfclil, 'lnlt Imorr, Md. Kn|ter
Kraft ami Katie Shoaenuir. stffHiini William H. I.ux ami Haannh
M. I.eho, Knhnut t Kilnnril 11. I'crkliiM. Heyttavllle. >ll.. anil Ilonoro
U. Wnlah, Brooklyn. N. V.i Harry C. Holnry, Hummtliilvnn. anil
Mather K. l.umllH, Hiillierfortl llelKhtM ,lnhn l.eaher nml l.ottle J.
OauKler. Vorthiiiiilirrland i l.evl W. Flatter nnd ICliniilieth A. Aclien-
Inieh, Hunimelatonn.
Allied Airmen Drop
Tons of Bombs On
Enemy Works in
Daily Raids
AIR FIGHTING
WORST OF WAR
By Associated Press
London, Friday, Aug. 16.—Meas
ured by the number of machines en
gaged, the intensity of the lighting
and the magnitude of the losses in
flicted on the enemy, the fighting in
the air during the past week was the
most formidable of the war.
Some of the most severe conflicts
occurred on August 8 in the sector
between Albert and the Amiens-Roye
road where the German air
forces were increased considerably
soon after the opening of the allied
offensive. The air fighting resulted ill
the destruction of 48 enemy ma
chines, while 17 others were driven
down out of control. Fifty British
machines did not return.
During the six succeeding days 185
enemy airplanes were destroyed and
89 driven down out of control, mak
ing a total of 339 German machines
for the week compared to 123 Brit
ish airplanes missing.
In the same period British bomb
ing squadrons continually attacked
enemy airdromes, railways and other
military objectives, dropping more
than 640,000 pounds of bombs and
causing great damage. Dow flying
scout machines raked the enemy 'a
congested roads of retreat with ma'-
j chine gun lire, inflicting many casu
alties.
A notable feature of the aerial
operations was the virtually continu
ous night and day bombing of the
enemy bridges over the Somme. This
greatly hampered the supply and re
inforceme. of the German troops.
The week's work also included a
number of destructive raids into
Germany.