Americans Advance on Lorraine Front Under Fire of Guns From Mdz Fortress. * * V 1 * ja' w J* - ■ ■ - % * HARRISBURG ifSlSfli TELEGRAPH Ak ®jc otar- Jnsepcnbcni , ' LXXXVII Xo. 205 14 PAGES Ual Matier e ! th" d poi nHhrrrsb*>:re *"* HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EN ENING, SEP 1 EMBER 16, 1918. 11 * NKW SIMI' KH l\ "haII h'iSIM l'l S SI TW'O i CENTS s HOME EDITION HEAVY GUNS ACTIVE ON AMERICAN FRONT; SERBIANS IN ACTION - C Yankee Infantry Rests After Shattering German Lines; and Advancing to the German Threshold METZ FORTRESS TURNS HEAVY ARTILLERY ON PERSHING'S MEN By Associated Press With the American Army in Lorraine, Sept. 1 6. —Activity of the German artillery increased somewhat during the forenoon to-day. No in fantry attacks, however, were made. French and American forces to-day were in contact with the Kriemhild defenses, which are of enormous strength. Net it may be doubted whether the enemy feels safe in these entrenchments after having been driven in a day from some of the strongest natural posi tions on the whole front. These positions withstood some of the fiercest as saults of the war. Long Held by Bulgarian Army hAliied troops are on the offensive on the Macedonian front. Reorganized Serbian forces, aided by the French are attacking Bulgarian positions in the mountain on the Serbo-Greek border east of Monastir. - Three important hill positions which had withstood allied •efforts through several years, already have fallen to the Serbs and the French. The heights are Sokol, Dolbro Polie and Teak Yetrenik. Sokol is twenty miles east of Monastir. The captured positions are about midway between the Cerna after it makes a wide curve southeast of Monastir. Several hundred prisoners have been taken in the advance, which continues. French and British Push Forward Meanwhile, the French and British troops on the main battle front in France continue their progress. Between the Oise and the Aisne the French are pressing on. North of the Aisne they have taken the town of Yailly and nearer the Chemin des Dames have stormed Mont des Singes, an im portant hill position. Astride the Scarpe the British have pushed forward new posts, while along the Ypres-Comines canal, southeast of Ypres. they have advanced on a front of two miles. West of Cambrai and around St. Quentin the activity has died down after the British capture of Maissemy. No Infantry Attacks Develop The aerial and artillery arms have been active on the new American front southwest of Metz. The enemy guns have been hammering the American lines but no infantry attacks have de veloped. Allied aviators have bombarded railroad centers and other military targets in the Metz area while enemy airmen have bombed some places within the American lines, including St. Mihiel. Yankees Vnder Fire Along the batUe line. American attention is directed chiefly at the front in Lorraine, where the Americans are under flre from the fortress of Jletz and apparently are making ready for a drive against the "Kriemhild" line, to which the Ger mans withdrew their shattered col umns from the St. Mihiel salient. Along this front American forces are on the threshold of Germany. The victory of General Pershing's men has had more than a merely SEPTEMBER IS HALF OVER NOW • WAR STAMPS WILL COST 1 CENT MORE OCTOBER 1 £irAsk Arthur D. Bacon About It THE WEATHER 1 FOR Harrlxbarg vlelaltyi (load? to-nlKbt naif Taexday. probably rala; cooler Tacxdny. For Eastern Penaaylvanlai ( loudy to-night and Tuesday, probably ralnt coaler ta-nlgbt in north portion; coaler Tarxday: gentle, shifting winds, becoming north neat. River The loner portion of the mnin river will rise xlonly to-night and probably fall slowly Tues day. All other streams of the system will probably f„l| xlonly or remain nearly stationary. A stage of about 4.0 feet la Indi cated for Ilarrtaburg. Taeaday morning. Temperatarei 8 a. m., SO. >m 1 Risen. dtM a. m-i sets, 7.08 p. m. Moos i Fall moon. September 20. River Stogei A3 feet above lon water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperatare, 7*. lowest temperatare, S2, .Mean temperatare, <l3. Normal temperatare, 03, local effect. German lines to the a I southeast have been weakened by '• the terrific blow dealt along the c heights of the Mouse, while to the - j northwest, the Germans are forced e to adapt themselves to the new p menace which has taken from them the cornerstone of their positions to e the east of Verdun. -i British Near Himlcnburg Line Slowly the British are creeping nearer the Hindenburg line in Pic ' ardy. Maissemy, northwest of St. e Quentin. has been taken from the Germans, who also were forced out 3 ; of Holnon Wood, farther south, f i The German retirement in the Flanders area still is going on. the British pressing closely on the heels of the enemy as he extricates his ; forces from the perilous into which he rushed last April. East of the Ailette and sovjth of the Aisne close contact with the enemy is being maintained by the alies. Bolshevik! Helpless Nikolai Lenine and Bolsheviki premier of Russia, has sent a note to the People's Commissaries and ! Soviets announcing that the Bol sheviki government is helpless and that it must form a defensive and offensive alliance "with another power." He adds that the Russian j people must not "recoil from an ■ j alliance with imperialists." i Bolsheviki Government I Seeks New Alliance, Is Petrograd Information By Associated Press Amsterdam, Sept. 16.—Hints that j the Bolsheviki government of Russia may seek alliance with other powers j are contained in a note addressed to I the people's commissars and Soviets jby Nikolai Lenine, the Bolsheviki I premier, printed in the Pravda of| ■•Petrograd and republished in the: Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin. The note reads: The position of the Czecho-Slovak 1 front is becoming more dangerous 1 dally. We are daily becoming in-, creaslngly convinced that alone we: are powerless. For the Soviet govern-' ment there is only one way out,! namely to conclude a defensive and offensive alliance with another' I power, "In order to save the power of the workers and peasants, wo must not j e|ren recoil from an alliance with lm j perlallsus." Huns Threw Clothing Away to Escape Yanks . By Associated Press WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OX THE I.UKRAINE FRONT. Sept. 16.—Only tliv shuttered and battered remnants of towns stand to-day in the lesion front whieh the (icratans were expelled. The appcaranee of tlie country bears testimony of the confusion with whieh the Germans fled. Tlte mods thronshont the entire section still arc littered with every conceivable article of wearing apparel discarded in frantic haste. Several thousand sweaters were captured in one town alone". Helmets by the hundreds were thrown away by soldit"rs too heated by the retreat to continue wearins tliem. WORLD MARVELS AT EFFICIENCY OF U. S. ARMY, SAYS BAGN ELL Harrisburg Minister Returned From Front Declares War Will Be Won Xext Year; Boys Xot Angels, but They Are Leading Clean Lives "It is safe to say the war will be over by next year. The offensive has definitely passed out of the hands of the Geripans and definitely into the hands of the Allies. There never will be a time again when the Ger mans "will be able to resume the offensive. As the movement pro gresses, the Americans will play a commanding part in the great struggle." This is the cheering mes sage Dr. Robert Bagnell, pastor of the Grace Methodist church, brought to employes of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending company with their families and friends, at a huge patriotic meeting held in Chestnut street hall. Saturday, evening. The address was the first public speech made by Dr. Bagnell since his re turn from France where he was en YANKEE FIGHTER FROM HOME TOWN IN REAL BATTLE Sergeant Edgar Williamson. Reily Street Youth. Back For Treatment First Sergeant Edgar Williamson. Company F. 110 th Infantry, aged 17 years, 312 Reily street, arrived home yesterday from the Plattsburg, N. Y. base hospital, after spending a month there, recovering from gassing and wounds received on three sectors of the western front. Sergeant Williamson, who is one of the youngest soldiers in the army, has received ten wounds been gass ed. bayoneted and shell shocked [Continued on Pago 12.] "Hinky Dink" Kenna and "Bath House John" to Be Partners in Ice Cream Chicago. Sept. 16.—"Hinkey Dink" Kenna, for forty years noted as the dispenser of the "largest and cool est" beers in Chicago to the motley of the First ward and widely known, with "Bath House John" Coughlin. as political czar of the First ward, will open an ice cream parlor next year when the country goes dry. Pat O'Malley, his principal rival in the saloon business, will open a flow er shop. HOMELESS SOLDIERS ARE ROYALLY ENTERTAINED AT CITY'S HOSTESS HOUSE Weekend Enjoyed by Scores of Lads Who Stopped Over in Harrisburg; Real Home-cooked Food Provided For Boys Who Are "Mothered" by Patriotic Women A band of stalwart soldiers, "chin close to neck," a swagger to their step, bright eyed, resolute, were marching past the Civic Club yester day, strangers In Harrisburg, but Americans to the bone and sinew and you could see that they hungered for a peep Into a real home. To one who has traveled and mayhap met with adventure, no memory in after years is so sweet as that of hospital ity offered unexpectedly in a foreign place. These chaps looked longingly at the Civic Club and at the com fortable homes thereabout and at this moment along came Mrs. Ed ward F. Dunlap, who happens to be chairman of the hostess house of the Civic Club. *'boldier boya," said she, amlllng her welcome, "won't you come In our house and rest; there are cookies by the ton and irood coffee, a Vlctrola with the latest records and writing rooms, and—and—" i gaged in lecture work under the | joint auspices of the Y. M. C. A. War ' Work Council and the Committee on j Public Information. Optimistic of Future Every word of Dr. Bagneli's lec • ture was optimistic. His talk was j full of human interest tales of the i boys across the seas and their brave I work for the cause of Democracy land Human Liberty. During his j visit to the Western Front he visited j forty Y. M. C. A. centers of activ ! ities, talked to hundreds of men of i all types from every state in the j Union. "I always found a sinion • pure brand of Americanism that rose | above all else and made these boys i what they are." High praise of Britain and France • was accorded in the -first part of [Continued on Page 12.] COAL MINERS IN SHAMOKIN FIELD ARE ON STRIKE Advised Wage Differences Will Not Be Adjusted Until They Return Slianiokin. Pa., Sept. 16.—Eleven thousand miners in the Shamokin and Mount Carniel district of the an thracite region suspended work to day in conformity with the decision of a mass meeting held here Sun day. The Richards colliery of the Sus quehanna Collieries Company was the only colliery in operation to-day. District President Matthews wired from Washington that until the men return to work 'the federal fuel ad ministration will refuse to consider an adjustment of the anthracite [Continued on Page 12.] Crowder Calls 29,016 Negro Registrants to War Washington, Sept. 16.—A draft call for 29,016 negro registrants from thirty-three states, qualified for gen eral military service and to entrain for National army camps September 25-27 was issued to-day by Provost Marshal General Crowder I "Say," interruped a big fellow with moist eye, "you look like a regular! mother." In two shakes, as the saying goes, that squad of Uncle Sam's fighters entered the portals of the Civic Club, and it is safe to say that when they | have finished the great adventure and lean back to reminisce, not the! least sincere of their narratives will I be that of the day when Harrtsburg made them feel "at home." Enjoy Hospitality "It would have done your heart good," told Mrs. Dunlap. "to see' those splendid fellows turning In to help us with the canteen, for they l had the freedom of the whole house,; even the 'galley,' as one called It, and 1 thought to myeelf, here is the mis- ; sion of the Civic Club this winter, to make it a real home for soldiers of [Continued on Page : "SIMPLE," SAYS M'CREATHOFHIS HEROICEXPLOIT Modestly Tells Rotarians How- He Won French War Cross ! at Chateau Thierry : SAVED SELF AND DETAIL Recommended For Second Decoration in Helping Halt "Last German Offensive" ; ! "It was very simple." Thus modestly and after repeated urgings Captain William McCreath, just home after stirring service with ' the American Expeditionary forces' in France, told members of the | Harrisburg Itotary Club, whose guest he was at luncheon "to-day, how he won the French War Cross and has been recommended for a second dec. oration by the French government. Caption McCreath was the guest of | Shirley B. Watts, who introduced I him to the club after the Rev. Dr. I Clayton A. Smucker. pastor of j Stevens Memorial Methodist Church, I had delivered an address on his work iin the naval training and military I camps of the Rake region, and Nor. I ris S. Longaker. chairman of the • entertainment oemmittee, had un ! veiled the club's service flag con ! taining eight stars. The addresses ■ of both Dr. Smucker and Mr. Long j aker were of a patriotic and im . pressive character. Capt. McCreath Speaks ; Captain McCreath told the Ro ; tarians of what he termed "the last ' offensive the Germans ever will ; make," on the night of July 14. i but he modestly refrained from re- I citing his own part in that heroic J defense or how he won his cross at I Chateau Thierry until the club had ; made it plain it wtuld not let him go until he did. Captain McCreath said that during ; the Chateau Thierry light he was [Continued on I'agc 12.] City Far Behind in Giving Old Rubber to Red Cross; Auction Near From the size of the old rubber j pile at Third and Walnut streets, this morning. Harrisburg is far below thr | class of Sunbury. Reading. Nazareth I and Bath, when it comes to giving rubber to the Red 'Cross. The pile I may sell for a paltry $5OO when the auction is held to-morrow morning. Reading bold $1,700 worth. Sunbury, j small town though it is, collected and ; sold over $l,OOO worth of rubber, j "The trouble in Harrisburg," said I Mercer B. Tate this morning, "is that jwe haven't got our old rubber to | gether—that's all. We're like the j Johnstown Tri-State catcher who | would have been in the big league. J if only he could have hit the ball and I had a good throw to second. We're j good—but we're not working at it. llf this campaign was one which I would hold out money on the Fourth Liberty Loan I'd say we could under stand why the rubber is slow coming. ! But here's something that costs no , body anything—and we're not get • ting the old rubber." I The city has the remainder of this ! afternoon and all of to-night to give J old rubber to the Red Cross. HOUSING EXPERT TO STUDY CITY'S I MANY PROBLEMS Lawrence Veiller to Report to Chamber of Commerce Friday Noon Lawrence Veiller. of New York, who will make a study of housing conditions in this city Thursday and Friday and report the result of his observations to the Chamber of Com merce members at a luncheon meet ing Friday noon in the Board of Trade building, will make a trour of the congested parts of the citjS to ascertain actual condition there. It is possible that a committee will be appointed from the Chamber of Commerce membership to accom pany him on his inspection tour. His visit has been arranged by the Chamber of Commerce in order to find out what can be done to relieve the present inadequate housing ac commodations. A National Figure Mr. Veiller is secretary of the Na tional Housing Association* and the foremost authority on housing in the country. He is* the author of the "Model Tenement House Law" and: the "Model Housing Law," on which most of the housing legislation in the country is based. He is the author also of "Housing Reform," and co-i author with Robert W. DeForest, of the "Tenement House Problem," the| [Continued on Page 12.] VOTERS MUST REGISTER The second of three rcgistra- i ' tion days so that voters may be listed and can ballot at the No vember election will be to-mor row. Registrars will sit at each poll- j Ing place in the city from 8 a. m. i to 1 p. m., 2 to p. m. and 7 to j 10 p. in. Voters who registered earlier in the year for the May election j must register uguln In order to vote in November. Hallotc will 'e cast for gov- j ernor, congressmen and state and legislative officers. Register to-morrow. AUSTRIA ACTS FOR KAISER IN MAKING NEW PEACE OFFER I 0 | Allied Capitals Unanimous in | Characterizing Effort of the | Kaiser to Get Out of War i With a Whole Skin GROWING WEAKNESS OF HUN ARMIES IS SEEN ; "Peace Offensive" Cannot Be j Fruitful With Entente in : Full Knowledge of Plans of Central Powers i ; ; By Associated Press While Austria was preparing ; her note to the belligerent nations, proposing that they meet in informal discussion of 1 peace terms in a neutral country.! j Germany was making ready to make another offer of separate j peace to Belgium. It is an-j nounccd that the Belgian gov-i eminent has been approached '.with a proposal that if she will remain neutVal during the re mainder of the war, Germany is i ready to withdraw to the fron tiers that were violated in | j August, 1914. Austria Acts Alone :J It is affirmed from Berlin that! i the Austrian government acted • on its own initiative in sending r out its peace proposals, but the ' offer of Germany to Belgium i points to what may be said to! i be more than a coincidence, and probably a desperate "peace of • fensive" now is well under way. 1 ! If official sentiment is reflected j Iby newspaper comment at the] I Entente capitals the effort of the j v Central Powers to reaqh a peace. , by negotiation are doomed to fi failure. In London and Paris * | the offer of Austria was very! coldly received while at Wash-j [ ington it is pointed out that the ! United States will not entertain | any peace tentatives that can, at - j best, bring about only a tem porary respite from hostilities .land will leave Germany and J Austria free to break the peace . jf the world at any future date. 1 British Foreign Secretary Flays Kaiser's Peace Plot . | By Associated Press London. Sept. 16.—A. J. Balfour, ijthe British foreign secretary, giving i i his personal viewpoints on the Aus ' trian peace note to visiting journal- HIGH SCHOOL BOYS HOLD FIRST DRILL; TECHNICAL NEXT ] Officers of Harrisburg Rc ! serves Put Senior Students Through Their Paces i Drilling of the students of Harris j burg's high schools was begun to i day under the auspices of the Har j risburg Reserves, the first drill being : of the seniors of Central High School. ; To-morrow morning military instruc ' tion of the seniors and juniors of ' Technical High School will start and j on Wednesday afternoon the Central | juniors will begin their drills. Each ' group will have a drill once a week ! for the present. j Principal Severance, of Central, • turned his boys of the senior class j over to Major Henry M. Stine, com- I mandant of the Reserves, this morn- I ing at 9 o'clock and RosS A. Hickok, ; county fuel administrator and an of- ' j fleer of the Reserves, gave the stu ! dents a short talk on what the in struction means and the part they 1 will have to play. Major Stine, wtjo : wa s assisted by Captain J. J. Hart- ■ j man and A. Boyd Hamilton, then be | gan division of the class Into squads. I six of the students being found to ; have ha'd military experience. They , will probably be made noncommis sioned officers. The Reserve Instruc tors were L V. Harvey. Thomas B. Caldwell,- A. Iteeder Ferrldav, H. B. McClure, J. J. Conklin, Paul Kurzen knabe and Claude Stroup. Captains Hoy and Harvey will se lect men for to-morrow's Technical high Instruction, a meeting of offi cers of Company B being fixed for to-night at the Y. M. C. A. George N. Barnes will assist Major Stine at ; the Wednesday drill at Central. Students wishing to learn the bugle calls will be given Instruction at the Reserves Friday night drill at the armory by Paul Kurzenknabe. Captain F. H. Hoy detailed the following men from Company A to assist at >ho drill to-morrow morn ing: Keller, W. H, Miller, R. G. Miller, Ibaeh, Haldenian, Lowthci, Strouse, Herman, Hatched and Mc- Cullough, The Company B detail will, be made to-night. KAISER MAY HAVE PEACE ON OUR TERMS | By Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 16.—Austria's j invitation to the belligerents to meet in informal peuee discus sions is given a warm roeeption by the lyondon morning newspapers. The warmth, however, is not that of cordiality, but of indignant re pudiation. The note is set-n by commentators as a German trick in which Austria Is made the eatspaw in an endeavor to gain time to enable the German high eomtnanad to reorganize Its shat tered troops. The offer or peace to Belgium Is regarded as a shameless insult. "Our peace terms have been made abundantly clear," says tlte Tost. "When Germany and Iter dependants are ready to accept thorn tliey can let us know. There will be no abatement to them. Germuny must lie beaten, and must recognize that site is lieatcn."' V J ists said: "It is incredible that any thing can come of this proposal." Coming after the recent speech cf Friedrich Von Papen, the German imperial vice chancellor. Mr. Balfour said, "this cynical proposal of the Austrian government is not a genu ine attempt to obtain peace. It is an attempt to divide the allies. "I cannot honestly see in the pro posals now made to us. as I have been able to study them, the slight est hope that the goal we all de sire—the goal of a peace which shall be more than a truce—can really be attained." -Vo Basis For Peace in Latest Kaiser Plan Washington, Sept. 16.—Receipt of the official text of the Austrian peace proposal was awaited to-day by of ficials here, but unless the communi cation is couched in terms radically different from the version contained in press dispatches, it was felt that the entire plea could he eharacter [Continued on Page 6.] E! # 1 PORTUGUESE STEAMER U-BOAT TCTIM A Canadian Atlantic Port—The Portuguese steamship : Leixees Was torpedoed in the north Atlantic five day 6 ago, | according to sixteen members of the crew who arrived | here to-day. They had spent the interval in an open boat. I It is feared 35 others in three boats may have been lost. PENNA. MEN IN CANADIAN CASUALTIES Ottawa—Lieut R. J. Reegar, of Philadelphia, was | killed in action and E. O'Neill, of Wilkes-Barre. Pa., was j wounded. * COAL EXPERT HERE TODAY Harrisburg—T. Ellsworth Davies, Scranton, a coat [ expert is conferring this afternoon with bounty commis , sirners of Dauphin county on plans to fix the valuation of : fcoal lands. RYAN PLEASED WITH AIRMEN Paris—On his return from a tour near the battle | front, John D. Ryan, American assistant secretary of wir I in charge of air service, declared he was much gratified by [ the work done by the aerial force of the American army. HUN PROFESSOR IS PRISONER With the American Army in France—Among the cap | rives taken by the Americans at was Profes- I sor Otto Schmeernkase, the exploiter of ehlorine gas as a [ form of ftivilired torture. ; BAKER ARRIVES IN LONDON London—Newton D. Baker, the American Secretary : of War, arrived in London to-day from Paris. MOONEY APPEAL DENIED San Franciscc—The California Supreme Court to-day ; denied Thomas J. Mooney permission to seek a writ of | error in the United States Supreme Court. This was said j to be the defense's last move in the state courts. Mooney ! was sentenced to be hanged following his conviction for : murder in conection with a boipb explosion here two years ago. LLOYD GEORGE IMPROVES London—A medical bulletin issued at midnight said : Premier Lloyd George's temperature had fallen and that there was a great improvement in his condition. MARRIAGE LICENSES Wlllih Raymond and Hlniite Shiitton, < nrllxlos George C. . AVtafleld nnd Ethel I. Tndor, I'rternhure, Vn.i Thomna 1.. Ilevlne i and Ada SI. Kepler, Lrirlttona. CHILDREN AND WOMEN SUFFER MOST IN ATTACK 189 Lives Lost in Piratical Sinking of the Galway Castle LIFEBOATS ARE CRUSHED Heartrending Scenes Mark Landing of Survivors; Babes Cry For Dead Parents By Associated Press Plymouth, England, Sunday, Sept. 15. —Heartrending scenes were witnessed here when hun dreds of survivors of the tor -1 pedoed steamer Galway Castle • were landed at an early hour j Thursday morning. The pas j sengers were mostly women and ' children, and it is believed whole faniiles have been lost. I Among the survivors were i little tots scarcely able to walk, I crying in vain for their parents. | Parents were searching in all directions for news of their chil dren and women were seeking vainly for their lost husbands. | There seems no reason to | doubt that the vessel was tor pedoed without warning. The | explosion occurred between the [Continued on Page 12.] iNo Prohibition Against Purchase of New Shoes A rumor gaining currency in this city during the last few days t.o the effect that Harrisburg feet will have to go "shoeless" so far as new footgear is concerned by reason of a government edict suspending the sale of the same, was denied on every hand by local shoe dealers to-day. As a shoe-yarn it's a "shoddy" joke according to Harrisburg dealers who profess not to know how the rumor started.
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