V * 11 -• t . - V -i.~ * r. • -' • . rJin :iT EXTRA ...French Armies Face Noyon; British Advance— NlGHT EXTRA /fe HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH a * ®K otar- lni>cp:nbent LXXXVII No. 185 14 PAGES ,, j ( rE\Ts , ' ¥ HARRISBURG. PA., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUS'I 22, 1918. on newspai!ki l NIGHT EXTRA KAISER'S ARMY STAGGERS UNDER MIGHTY BLOWS ON BATTLE FRONT United States Vice FRENCH A ARE STANDING BEFORE NOYON Enemy in Rapid Retreat Before Mangin Whose Men Are Pressing Close on Heels of Huns Thrown From One of LudendorfFs Pivots 100,000 Huns Captured; Six Armies Damaged By Assceiatcd Press PAKIS. Aug. 22.—The allied armies have taken more than one hundred thousand prisoners since June IS, says Marcel Hutin in the Echo de Paris. The allies have damaged six German armies since Jnly 15 and the British now are eating into the seventh, with the spread of the battle northward ami over a front of seventy miles. Whether the enemy is prepared or unprepared, allied efforts have had the samo results, and the Germans have been ont generaled and outfought. The armies attacked and damaged in the six weeks have been those of Generals Von Fine in. Von Mudra, Von Boehm, Von Ebcn. Von Hutier and Von tier Marwitz. Military observers are convinced the Germans will end their defense by falling hack to the old Hindenburg line all along Uie front. By Associated Press Fighting their way forward along the southern reaches of the Picardv battlefront, French troops to-day stand before Noyon. This city has been referred to as the key to the whole German line west of the Somme. Allied blows on the 120-mile front from Soissons to Ypres continue to force the Germans back and the enemy appears unable to stay the attacks which increasingly threaten the stability of his defensive system in France. Positions Partly Outflanked On four sectors the troops under Marshal Foch are hitting the German positions for good gains. Unless the Germans want to sacrifice men needlessly to defend par.tly outflanked salients it would appear the time is close at hand for an enemy retirement. During the past night, General Humbert's men reached the DiVette river for a long distance west of its confluence with the [Continued on Page 2.] WAR NO BAR TO HOUSE BUILDING, SHARON REPORTS Conditions Brought About by Conflict Instead Result in Strong Stimulus (This is the first of a series of three articles dealing; with the manner in which Sharon dealt with a housing problem re sembling that of Harrisburg in many particulars). Special to the Telegraph Sharon. Pa.. Aug. 22. —The war has not been permitted to stand in the way of housing inmprovements iti Sharon. Indeed, the conditions brought about by the war have stimulated rather than depressed building operations in this locality, which, like Harrisburg, has had a wonderful growth directly due to the enlargement of war industries here and the increase of men neces sary to operate them. Sharon felt the need of more houses to take care of its growing [Continued on Page 14.] SALESMAN DIES AT HOTEL Hagcrstowii. Md., Aug. 22.—C. H. Muller. tlfty-three, hair goods sales man, Williamsport, Pa., and mem ber of the York Lodge of Moose, was found dead in bed at Hotel Hamil ton, here, yesterday. Acting Coro ner Ditney decided Muller had died of neuralgia of the heart. SAVE QUARTERS NOWADAYS AND CASH IN STRONG IN JANUARY, 1923 AST A Quarter Starts War Stamps ARMY DESERTERS IN A CLASH WITH W.VA. OFFICERS I Send Warning to Sheriff to Withdraw Posse; Four Killed in Struggle By Associated Press Huntingdon. W, Va., Aug. 22. A troop of militia reserves, assisted by United States deputy marshals and posses from Mingo and Wayne' I counties, this morning were march [ ing into the wastes of Mingo coun ty, where a pitched battle with a | band of Army deserters and slackers |is expected momentarily. In a fight j with the deserters late yesterday i George Dillon, a deputy sheriff, and j William Ellis, a deputized citizen, were killed. ' The* leader of the deserters sent a message this morning to Sheriff ! G. T. Blankenship, of Mingo county, j warning him to draw off his posses I and militiamen, as all of the desert j era are armed with army rifles and j "will fight to the last man before I surrendering." | A message received here at 10 o'clock said two of the deserters had < been shot. The deserters are said to have escaped from A house where ■ they were barricaded and taken ' refuge in a cave which they have j fortified. 2,500 More Men Called For General Service j Twenty-five hundred white men ] were called from Pennsylvania to go i to Camp Forrest. Lytle, Ga., In the ! four days commencing September 3 j according to a telegram received at J state draft headquarters to-day. : These men are to be capable of gen eral military service. Over 13,000 ad ; ditional men are to go out in the ' same period to Camps Dix, Meade, Greenleaf and Sherman. The quotas I for the September movements are I now being made up at the state { headquarters and train schedules for i the movements to Camps Lee and I Greene are ready. Consul Closes Consulate at Petrograd BRITISH ARMIES CROSS RAILWAY LEADING INTO BAPAUMEBASE Marshal Haig's Men Attack in Great Force Between the Somme and Anere Rivers, Taking Several Thousand Prisoners in Dash FOE'S COUNTERATTACKS ARE TOTALLY DEFEATED Heavy Fighting Continues Throughout Night, While Enemy Launches Unsuc cessful Local Attacks in Ef i. fort to Stop Allied Armies Py Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 22.—Brit ish forces attacked this , morning between the Somme and the Anere river, \ sat*s to-day's war office state j ment. North of the Anere, the I statement continues, the Arras | Bapaume railway has been ; crossed in spite of strong enemy | resistance. j Between two and three thous . and prisoners were captured by ; the British in yesterday's opera ' tions, the statement adds, j In the Flanders battle area the | British last night attacked and j captured a German position north of Bailleul according to advices from the front to-day. It is reported that a strong local I counter-attack made yesterday 1 morning against the Locre hos pice, was repulsed after heavy j fighting and that sharp combats j took place during the night in ! this sector. British troops have reached ; the village of Neuf Berquin, j northeast of Merville, the state ment says. Fresh German counterattacks are reported to have developed j cast of Miraumont and Irles. i The hostile artillery is said to ! have been very active during the ' night and to be continuing its | heavy fire this morning. ; American Army Supply Ship Is Sunk in Foreign Waters Washington. D. C., Aug."22.—The American steamer Montana, of 6659 tons gross, was torpedoed and sunk in foreign waters August 16, with the probable loss of three members of the civilian crew and two mem bers of the naval armed guard, the Navy Department last night an nounced. Eighty-one survivors were landed. The Montanan was in the service of the Quartermaster's Department of the Army and was used as a j supply ship. SWEDISH TREATY SHOWS NEUTRALS FAVORING ALLIES Entente Gets 400,000 Tons of Shipping, Cutting Off Vast Importations of Munitions a nd Goods Going to Germany at the Time When The y Are Most Seeded Xcw York, Aug. 22. Terms of the commtrci&l treaty recently sign ed by the allies and Sweden, and which is expected to diminish the sending of supplies to Germany, were made public here to-day by Alex K. Nordvall, head of the special com mission of the Swedish government to the United States. It gives to the allies 400,000 tons of dead weight shipping and 2,000,000 tons of Swe-: dish iron ore. Swoden also agrees to license the export to the allied governments of wood pulp, paper, iron, steel, etc., and to grint to the allies suitable credit In Sweden for the purchase of Swedish goods during the con tinuance of the present unfavorable monetary exchange. FRENCH CRUSH HUN POSITIONS FOR 20 MILES IN NEW ATTACK German Armies Forced Back by Battling Poilus Two Miles From Lassigny to the Ailettc River During the Night FALL OF NOYON NOW INEVITABLE, IS REPORT Important Towns and Enemy Bases Taken; Poilus Keep in Close Touch With Re treating Enemy; Humbert's Army Makes New Gains By Associated Press Paris, Aug. 22.—General Humbert's army has made a great advance between the Matz and the Oise rivers and has reached the Ailette river. The French military men say this makes the early fall of the town of Noyon inevitable. From the heights of Le Plemont on the Oise front, the French troops now are watching the Germans in their retreat to ward the north. . London, Aug. 22. —4 p. m.— The French army under com mand of General Mangin in its attack on the Oise front to-day has reached the line of the Ailette river, according to re ports reaching London this aft ernoon. The possession by the French of the whole line of the Ailettc, according to London military experts, means that Marshal Foch's design to drive a big wedge between General Won Boehn's army and the forces of the German crown prince has been successfully accomplished. Also that the Germans have been placed in a position of the ut most difficulty north and south of the new French salient Paris, Aug. 22.—German troops were forced back over a twenty mile front to a depth of from one to two miles from Las signy to the Ailette river dur ing the night, says to-day's war office statement. French troopS maintained con tact with retreating enemy be tween Matz and the Oise and east of the Oise during the [Continued on Page 2.] The Stockholm government, ac cording to Mr. Nordvall, has given satisfactory guarantees that no goods •Imported to Sweden from allied countries or any nations whose ship ping the allies control, will be ex ported to any of the Central Pow ers. In exchange for these commodi ties, facilities and guarantees, the allies have agreed to ship to Sweden cereals, coal and coke, mineral and edible oils, sugar, rubber goods, cotton and cotton goods, hides, leath er and tanning materials, cofTee, co coa, tobacco, copper, ferro-alloys, tin, tinplate, nitrate of soda, raw phosphates, sulphur "and other goods and materials necessary for Sweden's economic life." Imbrie, U. S. Envoy at Petrograd, . Lowers Flag and Closes Consulate Places Affairs of United States in Charge of Norse; Warns Americans to Leave Coun try; One Arrested, and One in Hiding By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Because the Bol shevik government declared a state of war between Russia and the United States, Vice Consul Imbrie has lowered the United States flag over the con sulate at Petrograd, closed the consulate and placed the affairs of the United States in charge of the Norwegian government. Americans in Petrograd, of whom there are approximately twenty, have been warned to leave the country by the vice consul. Their houses were searched, one of them is under arrest and one is in hiding. This information reached the State Department to-day from Mr. Imbrie in a telegram dated Au gust 2. The consul said until he received instruc tions from the United States State Department he would remain in Petrograd. It is thought here that this incident may have resulted from the situation that arose in Moscow at about the same time and which caused Consul Gen eral Poole to close the American consulate in Mos cow. At that time, after Lenine, the Bolshevik pre mier, had declared a state of war existed with the British and French governments, Tchitcherin, the foreign minister, explained that it rather was a "state of defense" on the part of Russia. The Thirty-first Regiment of United States Regulars has arrived at Vladivostok from Manila, Secretary Baker announced to-day. R. W. MOORHEAD ASKS DIVORCE FROM HIS WIFE General Manager of Big Knit ting Company Charges ""Wilful Desertion" Robert W. Moorhead, general manager of the Moorhead Knitting Company, brought suit to-day for divorce front his wife, Esther P. Moorhead. They were married No vember 20, 1907, and he alleges she left him July 5, 1911. The suit is one of five divorce actions begun to-day. Subpoenas were signed by Judge McCarrell and forwarded here from Eaglesmere, where the judge is spending the summer. Moorhead charges his wife "wil fully and ntuliciously deserted him and absented herself from his home and habitation without reasonable cause." Sheriff Caldwell is directed to give the respondent notice of the action and to make a report of the result to the court on September 23. Desertion is charged in two of tho other four cases. They are suits of Wallace S. Strawser vs. Etta Stiaw ser, and Pearl Sherk vs. Henry R. Sherk. In the Strawser case it is stated that the couple were married on February 13; 1913, and that they separated on October 14, 1911. In the suit tiled by Pancy Swarez against Eugene Swarez, the wife mentions Laura Geesey as core spondent. Jessie M. McCormick declares in her suit that a core spondent has been the cause of the. trouble between her and her hus band, George H. McCormick, but that she does not know the core spondent's name. American Flyers Bomb Flabeuville; Escape Guns of Huns; Misty in Woevre With the American Army In France, Aug. 22. —American avia tors bombed Flabeuville, in the De partment of Muertbe-Et-Moselle Tuesday afternoon and secured many hits, some of them direct ones on the railroad tracks. The air planes return safely, notwithstand ing the heavy anti-aircraft fire directed against them. The bombers originally purposed to attack Longuyon, northeast of Verdun in the Woevre, but found It too misty to make military targets certain. J MUST REGISTER TO CAST BALLOT AT ELECTIONS Voters Must Be Assessed to Take Part in Guberna torial Contest City and county voters may not vote at the November elections un less they are assessed and the city voters must be assessed before they can be registered and the County Commissioners issued special notices to-day urging voters to be assessed on either September 4 or 5, the final as sessment days of the year. In the country districts the asses sors will sit at the polling places but in the city the voters will have to go to the assessors' homes to get their names, on the assessment books. Those voters who were a sessed and voted last spring need not bother about ' getting assessed this fall, but those who moved from one election district to another or who were not assessed before the primary ought to make arrangements on Sep tember 1 or 5 to get their names on the rolls. After the city voters are assessed they will be required to register. Old registrations will not be good for the fall election. Everyone must register anew and three days have been fixed for the registration, as follows: Sep tember 5, September 17 and Oc tober 5. Sons of Veterans Discard Iron Cross By Associated Press Niagara Falls, N. Y., Aug. 22. Because its name and design are too much like the decoration be stoWed by the Kaiser, the Iron Cross worn by past commanders of the Sons of Veterans was offi cially discarded at the thirty seventh annual convention here last evening. The convention ap pointed a committee to nelect a new design for the insignia. Those officers were elected: Commander in-chief, Captain Francis Caila dine. Chicago; senior commander in-chief. Elmer B. Perry, Burre. Vt.; Junior vice commander, H. Blssell. Southington, Conn. LATE NEWS !' I FLYER'S WOUNDS ARE FATAL With the American Forces in France—Lieut H. T. 3akcr, of Williamsport, Pa., a member of the American •. lying, corps, died on August IS from wounds received hree days oarlier when his reconnaissance plane was st acked by a German aviator. . ROAR OF,WAR HEARD IN PARIS Paris—The sound of heavy cannon firing was heard dearly in Paris early to-day. FRENCH CRUISER AT VLADIVOSTOK Paris-—The Franck crnißer Kersaint has joined >ther allied warships at Vladivostok. / McCAIN TO BE MADE MAJOR GENERAL Washington—Brigadier General Henry P. McCain, recently transferred from the office.of adjutant general | to command a division, has been nominated to be a major general for the period of the war. • ' PITTSBURGH SOLDIER KILLED IN ACTION Ottawa, Ont.—J. Clancy, Pittsburgh, and' R. Lavery, ' Hartford, Conn., are reported in to-day's casualty list as .j having been killed in action. 10 SHIPS ADDED IN WEEK Washington—Teh ships with a total dea- weight toil- *j nage of 51,700 were added to the American merchant 'J| mas ine in the week ending August 15, the Shipping Board ? to-day announced FINNS SEEK-CROWN BEARER IN GERMANY j London--A Finnish delegation has left lielsingfors for Ccrmary to offer the crotfm of Finland ' a German • ; , who probably"will be Duke Adolph Friedrich of j "c ienburg-Schwerin, says a dispatch from Copenhagen -> to thr Exchange Telegraph Company. . FINAL LIBERTY BOND PRICES New York—Final prices on Liberty bonds were 3 l-2s, .'•* 1( .20; first con. 4s 94.16; second 4s, 93.70; firsts con. 4 1 1s 94.16; second con. 4 l-4a, 93.64; third 4 l-4s, 95.02. Specialties yielded with more important issues in the stag nant final hour. The closing was irregular. Further cur- j iailment cf loans, effected an extreme recession of 1 to 2 1 : points in to-day's very nominal stock market. Sales approximated 185,000 shares. MOONEY TO APPEAL TO HIGHEST-COURT •.San Francisco —Thomas J. Mooney is to appeal at once to the United States Supreme Court for a reversal of j his conviction for murder in connection with a bomb ex- •; \ '.on he;. - , officials of the International Workers' De fense League announced to-day. AUSTRIAN LOSSES 20,000 IN MONTH London—Austrian losses on the British front in Italy between June 15 and August 15 were 20,000, according to advices received here. British casualties in the same period*totalled 2,500, it is said. NEW CALL IS MADE i Harrisburg—Quotas for the calls for men to go to Camp Dix, Meade and Greenleaf were completed at State Draft headquarters late this afternoon and show that Dauphin will sen'd the following: Camp Dix, all white men—Harrisburg—No. 1, 10; No. 2, 11; No. 3, 11; Dau phin, No. 1, 5; No. 2, 5; No. 3, 5. Camp Sherman, all colored men—Harrisburg—No. 1, 3; No. 3, 3. Camp Greenleaf, all white men, Dauphin No. 1, 40; No. 2, 321 No. 3, 21. Harrisburg—No. 1, 16; No. 2, 28; No. 3, 25. i DAVID K. STROUSE DIEJS York—David K. Strouse, sixty years *old a former ' locomotive engineer, of Harrisburg, died at 100 West Jackson street, this city, this morning. He had been sick < for the past year or more. His former home was Har risburg." Hie body will be buried in the Harrisburg cemetery. . - - • j • MARRIAGE LICENSES Richard R. Thomnx and I,evenla K. Coleman, Torki Kdrd Blnat and Dnlny Bennet, Harriakarci McHrnrjr Crowley nnd Mar rrlla Hall. Harrlahara, Charlra P. Ferrer, Harrlnbnra, and Rnchnel E. Baker, Cower Pnxton town* kip; Clarence E. Walter* nad l,ovle K. Wancr, l.eatoyne.
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