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No. 195 12 PAGES Da K? e . p t t? d p a o y B. Ktt'HaSS aM HARRISBURG. PA.. TUESDAY EVENINC, SEPTEMBER 3, 1918. oni nhwhi'apkk tinXUUJSBuW* s 1 two*"Cengs' s NIGHT EXTRA
LXXXVII—
GREAT DRIVE
LENS AND
British Drive Through Hun Positions Distance of 4 Miles
GERMAN ARMIES
REELING UNDER
TERRIBLE BLOWS
OVER 50 MILES
Disaster Faces Huns Who Are
Fleeing in Full Haste in
Hope of Saving Something
of Crushed and Shattered
Forces
STRONGEST DEFENSIVE
LINES ARE CRUMBLING
Fall of Douai and Cambrai
Within Short Period Now
robablc; Magnitude of Vic
tory Too Great For De
scription
By Associated Press
On a front of virtually fifty
miJes from just below Ypres to
a point near Peronne on ( the
Somme, the German armies are
in retreat. This retrograde:
movement is not a voluntary onel
011 the part of the enemy, but'
has been forced by the series of;
u 11 remitting sledgehammer
blows inflicted by Marshal Foch
in the past six or seven weeks. It
now hus been accelerated by the
notable victory won by Field Mar
shal Haig yesterday in breaking
through the strong defensive lines
protecting the railway centers of
Douai and Cambrai, and threaten
ing to outflank even.the main Hin
denburg line south to St. Quentin.
10,000 Prisoners Taken
Already the taking of ten thousand
prisoers by the British in their ad
vance is reported and the German
casualties in killed and wounded are
declared to have been notably heavy,
as their thickly massed forces felt
the force of the British blow.
So pronounced and so speedily is
the German retirement movement
that it seems as though the enemy,
if he has not" met with a disaster, is
perilously on the verge of one-
Try to Escape
In what appears like an effort \o
escape in time, the scope of the Ger
man retirement, which had been pro
ceeding somewhat leisurely both
north and south of the Somme, his
been markedly accentuated north of
that river.
In this movement the important
French coal mining city of Lens, at
the gates of which the British pound
ed vainly virtually all last year, has
been evacuated, the British moving
in.
To the north, in Flanders, the re
treat is continuing, and the British
[Continued on Page 2.]
Explosion at Odessa
Kills Austro-German
Officers and Troops
Amsterdam, Sept. 3. —A Kiev dis
patch received here reports that a
disastrous explosion occurred in
Odessa last Saturday. The dispatch
says a number of Austro-German of
ficers and men were killed and that
a portion of one of (he suburbs of
Odessa was destroyed.
Another Member of the
Old Eighth Wounded
Another casualty among former
Eighth Regiment boys was reported
to-day when the War Department
telegraphed that John Howard
Brownawell, son of Milton lirowna
well. 34 3 Brook street, hud been s. -
verely wounded while in action on
August 8. A former Telegraph em
ploye he enlisted about a year ago
with Company I, of the Eighth Regi
ment of the old Pennsylvania Na
tional Guard at the age of 17 years.
TODAY COUNT UR
WHAT YOU SAVED
ON GASOLINE SUN
DAY itSTPUT IT INTO
THRIFT STAMPS
THE WEATHER
For Ilarrlsburß and vicinity,
Showers this nftrrnoon and to
niuliti Wednesday cooler and
probably fnlr.
FOE IS UNA BLE
TO HOLD LINES
UNDER ASSAULT
By Associated Br ess
London, Sept. 3.—The British have captured'
the city of Lens. The town of Queant also hasj
been taken. Lens was evacuated by the Ger
mans, the British moving in.
In their push beyond the Drocourt-Oueant line the
British have advanced to a point just to the west of
Buissy, two and one-half miles northeast of Queant, and
occupied Pronville, a mile and a half southeast of Queant.
10,000 Prisoners Taken
More than 10,000 prisoners were taken by the British yester
day. Additional prisoners were taken this morning.
Ihe British also hold Doignies, Velu, and Bertincourt and
Rocquigny, representing an advahcc to a maximum dept of four
miles on a twenty mile front effected this morning. In Flanders,
[Continued on Page 2.]
Yankees Bombing Hun Positions
American Headquarters in France, L-wrA great light has
been in progress all day north and northeast of Soissons. The
Germans are defending the Pont Rouge plateau, northeast of
Soissons, and the Laon railway with great vigor, as well as the
line on the right along the north bank of the Aisne.
Ihe Americans are bombarding the German positions from
the south and west. The lines of the enemy for hours have been
a seething inferno of smoke and dust. The village he has been
holding are burning like vast torches.
Smoke from the conflagrations is boiling up from the valley
and over the hills.
I he Germans at one o'c'ock drenched the American positions
on the Juvigny plateau witn gas .but in retaliation an American
barrage silenced bis guns for the moment. §
RED CROSS TURNS
OUT AN IMMENSE
AMOUNT OF WORK
Thousands ol' Articles Made
by Loyal Harrisburg Women
For Men in U. S. Service
During the month of August 28,-
430 articles were produced by work
ers at the Harrisburg Chapter of the
American Red Cross. This total is
contained in the monthly report of
the Woman's Bureau of the local
chapter made public this morning
by Mrs. G. H. Orth, executive secre
tary. Included in this is the total of
the workrooms under the direction
of Mrs. Mercer B. Tate. Splendid
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CITY COUNCIL
TO CONFER ON
BETTER HOUSING
Measure Drawn by Dr. Rauli
ick After Many Confer
ences With Experts
Council will confer to-morrow
evening on the housing ordinance
which has been prepared after care
ful study by Dr. J. M. J. Raunick,
city health officer, and other city and
state officials interested in the hous
ing situation. An effort was made to
introduce the measure at. to-day's
council meeting but when some of
the members objected. Commissioner
S. F. Hassler suggested a conference
so that the ordinance could be pre
pared in proper form for first read
ing.
Commissioner, E. Z. Gross made a
request at the session to-day for per
mission to purchase coal for the var
ious tire companies in the open mar
ket as no bids were received when
they were asked. Council decided to
wuit until he submitted an estimate
of the amount needed and the deal
ers from whom it would be pur
chased. Commissioner Gross also an
nounced the motorized chemical
wagon for the Paxton Eire Company
will be delivered soon and will be
painted and ready for service shortly
alter it reaches the city.
COSTS GERMANS
10,000 PRISONERS
CZECHO-SLOVAKS
RECOGNIZED AS
ALLIES OF U. S.
Masaryk, Commander in Chief
of Armies, Advised by Lan
sing of President's Action
By Associated Press
Washington, Sept. 3.—The United
States has recognized the Czecho
slovak peoples as a cobelllgerent na
tion in the war against Germany and
' Austria-Hungary.
Professor T. G. Masaryk, president
of the Czeeho-Slovak national coun
cil and commander-in-chief of- the
Czeeho-Slovak armies lighting in
Russia. France and Italy, met Sec
retary Lansing at the State Depart
ment at noon to-day and was form
ally notilled of President Wilson's ac
tion.
ECONOMY URGED .
BY DR. DOWNES
ASSCHOOLSOPEN
Crowded Conditions in Vir
tually Every Ruilding; 800
Enter Central and Tech
Conservation of fuel, paper and
supplies and a continuance of the
war work in schools during the year
which just opened to-day are meas
ures urged upon teachers as their
part in winning the fight against au
tocracy in a letter sent to them to
day by Dr. F. 15. Downes, city school
superintendent.
"There will he no dlminition of
war work in the schools during the
coming year," Dr. Downes asserts.
"In fact, it probably will be intensi
fied; and I am sure that we shall
take pleasure in performing any duty
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U-noAT SINKS FRENCH SIIII*
By Associated I'rcss
Paris, Sept. 3.—The French steam
ship Pampa was sunk by a torpedo
on the night of August 26 while on a
voyage from Btzerta to Saloniki.
Four Serbian soldiers out of the .153
persons on beard ure missing.
POLITICS SEEN
BACK OF WILSON
AND COL HOUSE
BY SEN. SHERMAN
President Is Accused of Build
ing Up Democratic Machine
Under Cover of Necessities
of War-Time Legislation
ADVISORS CRITICISED
FOR MANY FAILURES
By Associated Tress
Washington, Sept. 3.—ln a lengthy
prepared uddress on what he tailed
"unofflciul and personal govern
ment," Senator Sherman, of Illinois,
Republican, made a scathing attack
in the Senate to-day on President
Wilson and his administration and
particularly Colonel E. M. House, the
President's personal friend and ad
viser.
With ironical references to the
President's recent statement that pol
itics is adjourned, the Senator assert
ed that, having elected the President
"almost singlehanded," Colonel House
and a coterie of Texas politicians
"are in the saddle and they are du
'ftig* politics in the same old way.
Ploying to Politicians
Under pretense of war powers, he
said, the administration is placing
control of the country in the hands
of a few politicians and labor lead
ers, to be used relentlessly for the
i election of party candidates now and
a president in 1920.
"1 denounce," he said, "a political
! autocracy covertly engaged when the
nation is in the stress of war in un
dermining institutional civil liberty."
Colonel House was characterized by
Senator Sherman as "this alleged,
unelected, unofficial assistant presi
dent." The Senator gave an anal
ysis of a novel said to have been
written by Colonel House, which he
described as an autobiography tell
ing u tale of politics, civil war and
rContinued on Page 10.]
Children Playing With
Matches Set Fire to Home
While Mother Is at Store
Two hundred dollars damage was
caused by the tire in the hack bej
rcom on tho second floor of the
two-story frame dwelling at llti Dock
street, occupied by Frank RUSH. Tho
fire started when the children, who
had been locked in the room whils
their mother went to the store to
purchase some groceries, began play
ing with matches, accordng to Fii-e
Chief Kindler.
Tho ilro was confined to the sec
ond Hoof room, and the bed cloth
ing and furniture which was de
stroyed constituted most of the loss.
Mr. Russ was not at home, hav
ing left for work at tho Central
Iron and Steel Company, where he
is employed.
HARRISBURG LIEUT.IS
HOME FROM FRONT;
HUNS ON RUN, HESA YS
Lieutenant James T. Long, formerly
of Company D, Eighth Infantry, and
lately of Company M. One Hundred
and Twelfth Infantry, arrived home
last night, from France on instruc
tion duty. He was in the thick of
the tights from Chateau Thierry to
the Vesle river and says that the
regiment displayed magnificent cour
age and that the Harrisburgers want
to go through to the finish. He will
go to Camp lJix as an instructor.
Lieutenant Long was gassed in the
middle of July near the Marne.
Lieutenant Joshua W. Swartz, Jr.,
of this city, came home with him. He
was In the same regiment and will
also go to Camp Dix.
The four National Guard divisions
that are in this sector with the Al
lied drive took 34,000 prisoners and
between 600 and 700 guns, millions
of rounds of ammunition.
"We have the Germans on the run
and are going to keep them going"
said he.
Tells Thrilling Story
How the Americans in the Cha
teau Thierry sector ÜBed up thirty
German divisions and made possible
the great a'lied offensive which is
to-day knocking at the doors of the
Hindcnburg line if it is not already
across the threshold, is told by Idea
tenant Long. It is a thrilling tale.
The Keystone Division is made up
of the One Hundred Ninth, the One
Hundred Tenth, the One Hundred
Eleventh arid the One Hundred,
Twelfth Divisions, the One Hundred
Tenth being made up mostly of thol
AUGUST WAR COST
TOTALS $1,714,000,000
By Associated Press
Washington, Sept. 3. —Govern-
ment war expenditures In Au
gust broke all monthly records by
more than $100,000,000, amount
ing to $1,714,000,000 on reports
up to to-day. Later reports may
raise this by $50,000,000.
Ordipary war expenses totaled
$1,408,000,000, or $200,000,000
more than last month's high rec
ord. This did not include out
lays of last Saturday yet to be
tabulated. Loans to allies were
reported as $244,000,000, not in
cluding Saturday. *
IN BITTER FIGHT
BRITISH CAPTURE
HUN POSITIONS
Drive at Fast ace in Direction
of Canal <lu Nord on
Sonunc Battlefield
HARD FIGHTING IS IN
PROGRESS AT NOREUIL
Enemy Hurries to Get Behind
Remnants of Defensive
- . v -
Line Near Beugny
By Associated Press
With the British Army in France.
Sept. 3.—ln heavy fighting last night
beyond the Drocourt-Queant line !he
British are reported to have made
further progress on a front of 13,000
yards.
The village Etaing, two miles north
of Dury, iell late yesterday at about
the same t.roe the British further
south wove capturing Villers-lez-
Cugnicourt. These captures were ef
fected after some bitter lighting.
The villages of Saudemont and Re
court, more than a mile and a half
beyond Dury, the capture of which
was announced last night, are re
ported to have been taken to-duy.
nritisli Return Fire
The enemy was in force at the
last reports, tc the southwest and to
the nort of Queant. Fro mthe rirlgeß
he was pouring a heavy machine gun
Hre at the British, who were return
ing the lire r nci ggining ground at the
same time.
on the Somme buttleiield the Brit
ish are driving at u puce generully
fast in [he direction of the Canal du
Nord, where the Germans have erect
ed wire. Their trenches here, how
ever, only have been half dug, it is
rumored.
Little Protection Likely
The Germans, it seems to bo ex
pectcd, will offer determined resist
ance along this line, us they now are
doing in front of it and then retire
hack of the canal, if necessary. With
their lines at the canal in surn an
embryo state, however, little protec
tion will be afforded the enemy.
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' M.
% ; *•
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LIEUT. JAMBS T. LONG, JR.
old Third and Tenth National Guard
Regiments and the One Hundred
Twelfth of the old Sixteenth arid
Eighth Regiments of the Guard,
[Continued on l'agc 10.]
BARBED WIRE AND
ENEMY TRENCHES
FAIL TO HOLD UP
AMERICAN DASH
Position After Position Cross
j ed by Yankees Under Ter
rific Fire of Shells and Ma
chine Guns From German
Lines
BEST OF KAISER'S MEN
DECISIVELY DEFEATED
With the American Army in
France. Monday, Sept. 2.—After four
days and nights spent in an obser
vation post in the region of Juvigny, i
Sergeant Ira Croshaw, of Grand
Rapids Mich., returned to-day to
American division headquarters aft
er having witnessed virtually all of
I the American daylight action since
the attack on the plateau began last
Wednesday morning.
The hill where the observation
post is located commands a view of
the country for miles around, the
Germans having erected a shell
proof tower of concrete and steel
rails with a roof six feet thick Andj
the sides font feet. In addition to a
telephone, Sergeant Croshaw had
seven runners. The tower exit faced
the German lines and the enemy
machine gunners opened Are every'
time an individual was sighted, but
none of the runners was lost.
Crawls Over Dead Body
When Sergeant Croshaw reached
the tower he found a dead German
i at the entrance, but before he could
bury the body the shelling started
The first day the American runners
crawled back * and forth into tnc '
tower entrance over the body of Lnc I
dead German, the Americans finally
burying it beneath the entrance.
I Sergeant Croshaw witnessed the j
I Americans cross the veritable sea of
! barbed wire network on Sunday aft
| ernoon while the Americans we* - '- ]
I eastward bound. He saw his coun
trymen fcross trench after trench by
bounds until he wondered how In
fantrymen stood the strain of shells
and machine gun fire pouring upon
the plateau.
Cut Through Wire
Time and again advancing infan
trymen were compelled to halt and
cut or break down wire entangle
ments to get through. Men ahead
were supplied with wire cutters to
complete the fob started by the ai j
tillery. Muny trenches crossed were
so wide that ibe advancing soldiers I
were compelled to take them on a |
running jump or go down on o.;a |
s'dc ar.o up the other.
Defeat Mower of Hun Army
North of Soissons General Man- j
gin's troops after three days of furi- !
ous com ha iv. in which positions
were taken and retuken several
times, have pushed forward on the
plateau that overlooks the valley of
the Ailctte behind Chemin des
Dames and from where the citadel
of Laon, one of the stoutest pillars
in the German secondary line may
plainly be seen.
The French and Americans met
around Juvigny the elite of the Ger
man army, grenadiers of the Prus- I
slan guard, picked storming bat
talions and hardy mountain Infan
trymen. They defeated them de
cisively, taking an enormous death
roll from their rnks and sending
a goodly number of captives to the
rear.
Use Swift Tunks
The Americans co-operated in the
attack on Juvigny with the type of i
tanks which the French have named i
"chars d'assaut," or shock cars. |
These engines of war have been '
called "armored tnfntry." They have j
all the suppleness of troops afoot
and they advance readily into the
enemy's positions, dealing death with |
gruesome profusion from their
quick-firers and cannon. One of j
these cars manned by a French lieu- i
tenant killed 200 Germans before
Juvigny.
Very severe fighting has been go-' 1
ing on also north of Noyon, along !
the Meve river and the Canal du |
Nord and around Nesle. After fore-. I
lng the last fortified centers of re- I
sistance around Roye and Chaulnes. '
the French arrived at these points, !
confronting natural obstucles which i
the Germans utilized to best advgn- l
tage.
Tho French succeeded in forcing
a crossing of the Ingon between
Qulquery and Rouy-le-Petit last
evening, slipping through the
enemy's advanced positions to the .
edge of the plateau extending toward !
Hani and were attacking Hill 77 ut j
last accounts.
LATE NEWS
MARKET CLOSES STRONG
New York—Another snirited advance in U. S'. Ste<; 1
and t five point gain in Hide and Leather preferred wore
the 11 riking* features of tlie active firial hour. The clcs
;; was strong. Fir. 1 prices on Liberty Bond.. •
wtic: 3 l-2s, 101.89; first con. 4s, 94.50; second 4s. 94.4 4
first con 4 l-4s, 94.46; second con. 4 1 -4s, 94.46: thir
I-4 ,'95.06. Stimulated by further favorable war ne • ,
broader buying for both accounts attended to-day's c in
sistently strong' stock market, important rails and in
dustrials making high records of the year. Sales'appro;
mated 500,000 share*.
CANADA RAIL MEN GET RAISE
Montreal—Wage increases vggr?: ..i'ting $" VW. 1 '
annually will be granted to 30,000 men in railroKl di ; ,
thr jghout Canada, affecting all the railroad in the
dor mion, under an agr.eety.ent, announced li • •
Tlr r.ward is the ..ante a* that given to railway rmpb- ••
in the United States by Director General McAdoo.
REFUGEES GRANTED SAFETY
Washington—Safe conduct for passage through Fin
land has been granted citizens of allied countries seekirv
to leave Russia, the Ge/tnan authorities dictating the
P II y of the Finnish government having made no -ob
jection to the arrangement,' Special trains will be pro
vided for the. refugees, who include some one hundred
Americans, to carry them through Finland 'to the nearest
Swedish port to embark for their homes.
| GIRL'S NECK BROKEN IN AUTO CRASH
I Reading.' Pa —An automobile late last night s c6ftid< '
' relic; <: - O S l -. ever
by £. • ncck .be g broken. esdaped injur:
LIEUT. J. G. SWAKTZ HOME FROM WAR FRONT
- i-mburg Lieutenant J. G. S vsi:,, who in thr
battle around Chateau Thierry has just arrived from thr
fro: ! and is speeding 'several clays with his father, J. W.
1511 North Second street, on his -way to Camp
!- where he will be a:i instructor. He was with the
11-Ah Regiment, Keystone Division.
BERLIN TAKES NOTICE OF ATTACK
Berlin—French forces, supported by American and
Moroccan divisions, after several hours, of artillery prepar
ation yesterday, attacked the German positions between
the Oise and the Aisne rivers, Ir'tie German war office an
nounced to-day.
NATION WANTS SURPLUS STEEL
•■.hirgtan- M * than 40,000 manufacturers using
steel i i their products have been called upon by the War
I ' :> i Boa;. • i vi.ikr. complete reports of "' eir eel
Kocks, down to the smallest holdings, preparatory to cditl
n ■: ruin;, for war use I'll surplus Supphes of steel.
TAILOR RESISTS TELEPHONE WQKKMF.N
Harrisburg—Louis Begelfer, tailor, of 4'3 North
Third with the small tee of his left foot almost
severed, was treated at the Keystone Hospital this after
v.- v. Asked tc r.-.plain the -accident, Begelfer •end that
BeJ] Telephone Company employes were endeavoring to
pi. p:de on a narrow pavement at his property at He.rr
and Grape streets. He interfered and one of the men, he
said, plunged .a digging iron at his foot. S. M. Palm,
Superintendent of Methods of the Bell Telephone Com
pany said that he knew nothing of the accident.
33 WOODEN VESSELS IN AUGUST
Philadelphia—Amesifan shipping was in- eared l
thirty-three wooden vessels during .August.
BRITISH TAKE HAMBLAIN-LES-PRES
London—Carrying their attack to the northeast of
#
Arras the British to-day.captured the village of Hamblain
les-Pres, just to the squth of the Scarpe, in the direction
Uiniai. '
MARRIAGE LICENSES
John A. Henr, Sbermanndule, nnd % I rule H. YeltM, Hernhey |
Snmuel A Utile uml Mnr> K Thompnon. llnrrlnbarKl Hnrrj- R He
huek nnd Jnlln It. Willlnni-. I.enlntnnnt rhnrlen A. Stroll. Camp
MeArthar. Tcmh, and Helen M. fl'Brlen, llnrrtnlmrKl Runnel! John
non, Mteelton, nnd Uladyn C. Ulb'tenn. Hnrrlnhurici Hnrrj E. Smith,
HnrrlnburK, nnd Carrie B. Binan. Ken-porti filenn 11. Horn. Mlddle
tovt n, nnd Anna M. I'rennlt, Meadvllle. •