NIGHT EXTRA—Haig Strikes New Blow Agaiwi Hindenburg Lbpe- -NIGHT EXTRA
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LXXXVTI No. 210 14 PAGES fM., HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1918. °*V lEWSI'/frKH IX SS | l U| , UllßH|l||" ,iS! ' NIGHT EXTRA
GERMANS FIRE TOWN
BEFORE YANKEES IN
One of War's Most Desperate
Battles Waging on Front
Where British Are Astride
of the Hindenburg Line
GERMAN LOSSES TREMENDOUS
OWING TO CLOSE FORMATIONS
By Associated Press
With the American Army on the Lorraine Front,
Sept. 21. —Fires were observed to-day in the town oi
Donmartin, behind the German line on this front, to
gether with a heavy movement of men and wagon trains,
behind the line. These, were taken to indicate a possible
further retirement of the Germans.
A harassing tire was kept up at different points, however,
against the allied line and on positions to the rear.
With the exception of the exchange of artillery tire, mostly
directed at fixed targets, there was little activity.
The Germans are using gas shells to a limited extent, especially
for sprinkling wooded areas. The towns of Yilcev and Xamnies
and the Presle woods, toward the eastern part of the front south
west of Met/., are points that are being more heavily shelled by
the Germans.
London, Sept. 21. —One of the most desperate battles of the
war is raging on a thirty-mile front, from a point north of
Moeuvres, where the British are astride the Hindenburg line, to
south of St. Quentin.
Haig's troops are in the advance zone of the Hindenburg sys
tem on almost the whole of the British front and the Germans are
fighting furiously. Their losses are tremendous.
British and French Forge Ahead
South of St. Quentin the French armies, under Generals Mangin
and Debeney, are making progress against the formidable natural
obstacles blocking the way to La Fere and Laon, the southern
buttresses of the Hindenburg line.
In France the British and French continue with success their
operations looking toward the encircling of St. Quentin and the
breaking of the Hindenburg line between St. Ouentin and Cambrai.
Attack on Three-mile Front
On a front'of three miles the British to-day are smashing into
the German main defenses west of Le Catelet with the object of
getting east of the section of the Scheldt canal between St. Quen
tin and Cambrai. The canal is less than two miles front the
British lines east of Epehy, near Bellcnglise Field Marshal Haig's
men also are working toward the canal which probably forms
an "important part of the Hindenburg defenses in this region.
Around Gauche wood, north of Epehy, the British repulsed Ger
man attacks.
Follow Up Initial Successes
South of St. Quentin the French followed up the capture of
Essigny-le-Grand by forcing the Germans to give up Benay, to thee
southeast, and by making progress to the north of the village.
German casualties in the battle have been most heavy owing
to the close character of the fighting and the sturdy resistance of
the Teutons.
Principal centers o fthe fighting yesterday were around Epehy,
where an Alpine corps continued a stout resistance and between
Gouzeaucourt and Yillers Guislan, where the Sixth Brandenburg
division was raked to shreds by a machine gun barrage.
Scottish troops finally have overcome the resistance of the
Germans still in the village of Moeuvres, west of Cambrai, where
there has been much violent fighting recently, and completely cap
tured the village, according to Field Marshal Haig's communica
tion last night. The text of the statement follows:
Along the battle line in France the
British are still hammering away
at the Hindenburg line north of St.
Quentin and have made gains of
considerable importance. This re
gion is one great fortress and prog
ress must of necessity be slow. The j
success of the British, especially that
of the Australian units, gives reason
for the belief expressed in dispatches
'hat the German lines north of St.
Quentin may be broken by the
Allied onslaught. South of St. Quen
tin, the French are fighting relent
lessly and are making progress In
the region of Essigny-le-Grand.
Fighting along the American front
in Lorraine has been of a minor na- ]
ture since the Germans were forced
, l ack to their lines before Metz.
Allies Rout Soviets
Allied forces in Russia have routed
the Bolshevik army on the northern j
j
END THIS WEEK
f BY BUYING THOSE
WAR STAMPS YOU
FORGOT LAST WEEK
i&if Be Frank About It
and Buy
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THE WEATHER]
For llnrrlabarjt nnd vlelnltyi Fair, j
continued cool to-night and
Sunday; iioaxlbly light front to
night in northeant portion;
gentle to moderate northwest
winds-
Temperature; 8 a. m., 58.
Sun; Rises, ;45 a. ni.; sets, 7;01 j
p. m.
Itlver Stage; 4.7 feet above low
water mark.
front. Petrograd dispatches state
that the Bolshevik retreat was
caused by the treachery of Lettish
regiments, which refused to fight
against the British. The Letts have
heretofore been the staunchest sup
j porters of the Bolshevik regime.
New Blow Expected
There is a belief in official circles
;in Washington that a new Allied
! stroke may be launched soon some
! where along the front in France. The
| plans of Marshal Foch are not
i known, but it is intimated in dis
patches from the capital that an at
| tack from Rheims to Verdun would
' cause little surprise. Such a move
j would probably be the first step in
! the operation of forcing the Ger-
I mans to loosen their grip north of
I the Aisne and also weaken their
j hold on the region west and north
: west of Metz.
F. H. Hoy, Jr., to Direct
Military Training at the
Harrisburg Academy
! Captain F. 11. Hoy. Jr.. commander
lof Company A, of the Harrisburg
: Reserves and drillmaster of the fa-
I mous patrol of Zembo Temple, has
been secured by Headmaster Arthur
' E. Brown, of the Harrisburg Acad
emy, to have charge of the pre
liminary military training at the
Harrisburg Academy. He will as
[ sutne the work next week and the
I Academy students will have drill on
Iflve days each week or every school
| day. It will be a very thorough
course and the. whole school will
take part.
Captain Hoy is a Spanish War
! veteran and has been identified with
numerous marching organizations,
i He was one of the organizers of the
i Reserves and one of the original
i captains of the battalion. This surn
| mer, in addition to his work with
| the Reserves, he has had charge of
the details giving military instruc
! tion to men of draft age in the Mil
| lcrsburg and Lykens districts.
"DECORATED FOR
WORK AS FLYER
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WALTER SHAFFER
CITY HAS CHANCE
TO NAME TANK IN
BIG LOAN DRIVE
_
Honor to Be Conferred Only
if Bond Sales Warrant
Such Action
Secretary J. Clyde llyton at T.ib
j erty Loan headquarters to-day •vas
perhaps the busiest man in Harris
,; burg:. The headquarters for the
| fourth loan are located in the old
1 Gilbert hardware storerooms—and
i' there is plenty of room for the iri
: tricate operations of what promises
to be the most complete Liberty Loan
campaign put on in Pennsylvania.
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SBOO,OOO TO BE
RAISED FOR WAR
' IN THIS DISTRICT
\ City's Portion of Big Sum Not
Yet Determined Upon
M by Campaigners
[' The quota for in the
| United War Work Campaign to be
■ launched in November, will be $20.-
,! 000,000. District six of which Harris
burg is a part, has been assigned a
' quota of ISOO.OOO. These quotas were
announced this morning by Robert
: B. Reeves, campaign manager for the
ten-county district, who has just re
t turned front Philadelphia where he
| attended a conference of workers at
the Bellevue-Stratford hotel yester
i day.
I Harrisburg s quota will be dcterm-
I ined at another district conference
j to be held in this city in the next few
I weeks. At a conference of the thir
j teen district campaign managers of
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Frost Likely Tonight
With Mercury Falling;
Summer Ends Monday
B-r-r-p! Get your heavy clothes
i out: jostle the moth balls. Weather
Iman says it may drop to 42 to-night,
and mayhap, the mountains will dis
play a coat of frost to-morrow murn
] Ing.
i This is in keeping with the usual
shift in thermometer, for according
jto the almanac Autumn officially
, starts Monday next, 3.46 p. m. Pros
; pects are that Autumn will identify
itself with clear, cool weather for
: several days, while the sun keeps
sinking just a few second earlier each
day. There are no signs of immediate
wet weather, although conditions are
; unsettled and a long stretch of mel
j low fall temperature cannot be as
| sured just yet.
Jesse L. Daron Is
Wounded on Battlefield
| Word has been received by Mr and
Mrs. Addison P Daron, of 591 Show-
I ers street,- that their srtn. Jesse L.
! Daron. of Company F, One Hundred
; and Ninth Infantry, formerly of the
1 Thirteenth Infantry, is in a base hos
ipital in France. A letter states that
! his right band is injured. Daron has
I been in the service two years and
j after training at different camps,
j sailed last May for l-'rance.
YANKEE TROOPS
IN WORLD'S WAR
0VERT,750,000
News Front All Fronts Dur
ing Week Continues Good,
Says General March
NEW 20-MILE U. S. LINE
Americans Are Midway Be
tween Metz and Conflans,
in Lorraine Sector
j Washington, Sept. 21.—Embarka
i tion of American soldiers for all
fronts overseas now has passed the
1.750,000 mark. General March an
nounced to-day. He said military
j news during the past week form all
j fronts has been continuously good.
Yankees Make New Line
j On the Lorraine front where Gen
j eral Pershing's lirst American army
■ has completed its operation to elim
| inate the St. Mihiel salient, the sit
| nation has become stabilized with
the enemy hurriedly perfecting a
new line in front of the Americans.
J This lino stretches for twenty miles
i from Maizcray to the Moselle at
{ Vandiercs. The Aemricans now are
ton miles from Metz and an equal
distance from Conflans.
British General Praises Americans
General March read a cablegram
citing a general order issued by Ma
jor General H. L. Reed, commanding
the Fifteenth Scottish division, Brit
ish army, praising the First Artillery
t Brigade of the First American di
vision (regulars) for work in co
operation with the Scots.
The order said the Fifteenth had
never received such perfect assist-
I anoe in "taking over" operations,
' although it was realized that the
American division at that time must
I have been under severe strain and
] had suffered severe casualties.
J BOLSHEVIK DEFEATED
. By Associated Press
London. Sept. 21. —Entente naval
|! units and Allied troops operating
II along the river Dwina, in northern
• | European Russia, have sunk two en
ii t-my ships and have captured three
[j guns, says a British war office state
. ment to-day. Heavy losses were in
flicted on the Bolshevik forces by tne
I Entente lilies.
PUBLIC SERVICE
BOARD RULES IN
RAILWAYS CASE
Passengers Must Stay Off the
Front Platform; Courtesy
and No Flat Wheels
The Harrisburg Railways Com
- ' pany was to-day directed by the
j Public Service Commission in an
j opinion by Chairman W. D. Ainey to
I rigidly enforce the rule against per
t j mitting passengers to ride on the
.! front platform and to issue an order
j with respect to courtesy on the part
i of its employes as well as to prompt
! ly remove cars having flat wheels, as
! the result of a complaint made last
winter by George A. Herring. Mr.
Herring, who was prominent in labor
circles, has since entered the army
and the opinion states that other
matters mentioned in his complaint
are embraced in a proceeding now
pending wherein the larger question
of service is being considered. At
tention is also called to the fact that
in incidents complained of the com
pany has remedied conditions, no
tably in the matter of additional
cars.
As to the conditions at rush
hours on which there has been much
complaint in this city, the opinion
says it is "more frequently experl-
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Lawyers Meet Daily to
Aid Men in Filling Out
Draft Questionnaires
Attorneys of the city are meeting
daily, except Sunday, in the City
Council Chamber, second floor of the
Courthouse, to aid registrants in
tilling out questionnaires. The hours
are from 11 o'clock in the morning
until 1 o'clock in the afternoon; 4
to t; o'clock in the afternoon, and 7
to 9 o'clock in the evening. Men
from the three city draft boards and
the second county board, who desire
aid in tilling out the answers are re
quested to come to the council cham
ber during these hours. Committees
of lawyers of the county bar have
been named by the three legal ad
visors in the city. President Judge
George Kunkel, A. Carson Stainni
end Charles C. Stroh, president of
the Dauphin Courity Bur Association.
Each day one of the committees
serve and will continue to so until
all the questionnaires have beenj
mailed out by the draft boards.
IN RIGHT
LORRAINE
Serbs Move Rapidly
Forward on Wide
Front, Taking
Many of Foe
TURKISH ARMY
IS IN FLIGHT
Allied Armies Are
Winning Ground
on East Front
By Associated Press
Driving northward on an ever
widening front the Serbian and
I-rench forces in Central Mace-'
donia now menace the entire
Bulgarian position from the]
Adriatic to Saloniki.
Serbian infantry is moving]
rapidly toward the highway fromj
Prilep to the Vardar river and
eight miles southward parallel]
the road on a front of more than]
fifteen miles. At Drogojel, north ]
of which the cavalry arc operat-j
ing, the Serbs advanced twenty
miles from the Sokol positions.]
Many New Prisoners
Additional villages have been]
liberated. A large number of!
prisoners has been added to the!
5,000 already reported.
The Serbs are approaching the !
Vardar river and the main rail-]
way south from Uskub. The I]
British and Greeks continue
their pressure around Lake:
Doiran.
IxiiKlon, Sept. 21. The Serbian j
troops east or Monustir have adva'W- I
ed more than nine miles in one day j
and are now less than eight mites
from the main highway connecting!
Prilep with the Vardar river. I
DEMOCRATS FAIL
IN WAR CRISIS;
LEADERREBUKES
Gillett Points to Opponents ol :
Battle as Weaklings in
Great Program
By Associated Press
Washington, Sept. 21.—Represen-'
tative Gilieit, of Massachusetts, act-;
ing RepubHcar leader in a speech'
in the House to-day, attacked the i
war records cf the Democratic ma- 1
jority, contrasting with it that of the'
Republican minority. He said thej
election of a Republican House this
year would bring no encouragement
tc the Kaiser, "for he knows who!
have been his fiercest foes and who!
he had most reason to fear."
Unfair Criticism Charged
Speaker Claik. Democratic Leader ;
Kitchln and Chairman Dent of the]
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West Virginia Paper
Asked to Suspend to ;i
Help Win the War
By Associated Press
lluutinatoii, IV. Va., Sept. 21.
Huntington's youngest newspaper,
the Evening Journal, to-day was re
quested by Thomas 11. Donnelly, chief
of the pulp and paper section of the
War Industries Boad, to suspend pub
lication for the duration of the war.
It is owned by the Huntington Herald
Company and was first issued on
June 3.
On August 24 regulations were is
sued that newspapers could not be
started during the period of the war.
The company indicated its Intention
to comply with the request. Publi
cation will be resumed at the close
of the war, it was stated.
Can Name a Tank
It will be possible for Harrisburg to be represented on
the French battlefield by a tank bearing its name.
It will be fine business, some of these days, to pick
up a copy of the Telegraph and read a special like this:
With the American Forces in Germany, Dec. 11.—The
tank "Harrisburg" this morning in the vicinity of Schlettstadt
(10 miles east of Markirch) singlehanded routed a German
regiment.
That is what can very easily happen,
Harrisburg may name a tank if during the coming Fourtli
Liberty Loan its bond purchases total a certain percentage
in proportion to its population. Just how many bonds this
means will be announced later.
SHAFFER WINS
WAR CROSS FOR
DOWNING PLANE
Dauphin Flyer Decorated by
French Army For His
Work in the Air
IS GIVEN A PROMOTION
Two-Seated German Airship
Sent Crashing to Earth
by County Man
Sergeant Walter Shaffer, the Dau
phin boy who is lighting as an avia
tor for France, brought down a Ger
man two-seater airplane, according
to a letter received by his parents.
He was decorated with the French
War Cross anc. made an adjutant in
recognition of the feat.
| Shaffer's adventures.and career as
a flying student and then as a flyer
over the battlefields in France have
been described vividly in his letters
printed in the Telegraph. He has
had numerous encounters with the
Booty; airmen and lately wrecked an
observation balloon.
Details Later
Shaffer was a companion of the
late Lieutenant David E. Putnam,
flying ace of the American forces,
and they bunked together for a
while. They were in the same squad
ron together until Putnam was trans
ferred to the American forces. Put
nam and Shaffer made many flights
together.
The decoration given Shaffer bears
two palms, an honor given only for
unusual work at the front. The air
battle is described in detail in Shaf
fer's letter and will be printed next
week in the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Scores Killed When
British Monitor Sinks
By Associated Press
London, Sept. 21.—A British mon
: itor was sunk on Monday, as she was
lying in harbor, the admiralty an
; nounced to-day. One officer and nine
teen men were killed and Hfty-seven
! men are missing and are presumed
I to have been killed.
VEILLER ASKED
FOR REPORT ON
FINDINGS HERE
] Chamber of Commerce Secre
tary Says Many Were Con
verted by Expert's Talk
j "We have asked Mr. Veiller to
! give us a digest of his address be
; fore the Chamber of Commerce yes
j terday and of his findings as they re-
I late to the housing survey in Har
i risburg as the result of his brief
' visit here," said Warren H. Jackson,
j secretary of the Chamber to-day.
"Members of the Chamber of
Commerce, who brought Mr. Veiller
! here," continued Mr. Jackson, "were
ivery much pleased with his address
|of yesterday. Many of them who
j were skeptical as to the advisability
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Crowder Rules Draftees
Sept. 12 Who Married
After Aug. 5 Must Fight
WaMlilngton, Sept. 21.—New edt- i
tions of revised selective service reg
ulations issued to-day by Provost 1
Marshal General Crowde - fixed August I
5 as the date from which draft boards'
shall disregard marriages of men ,
who registered on September 12, as
ground for exemption.
Orders also were issued to draft
boards to cease accepting cards of:
belated registrants on Monday, thus
allowing tile attaching of serial num
bers to the registration to be com
pleted. The date for the order of call I
drawing thus "an be fixed by General i
Crowder next week.
LATE NEWS
TWO ENEMY SHTPS SUNK BY ALLIES-,- '
London—Entente naval units' and Allied trcops along
the river Dwina, in northern European Russia have sunk
two enemy ships. Heatw losses were inflicted on the
Bolshevik fr -ces by the allies.
TWO SOLDIERS KILLED
loon school at Arcadia, near heree, were instantly killed
Canadian casualty list are: J. Ewart.-of Fair Haven, Pa..
.... vy LAGS REPORTED BURL' • G
Farlev was borne yesterday from the arch-episcopal resi
until it- 5 < it< m.bed- Tuesday in the cathedral ' T'r.
New ; " sr. of Education to-day passqf, resolutions
flags on all city schools be placed at half-mast Tuesday
GERMAN CRISIS NEARS DECISIVE STAGE
Amsterdam—The government crisis in Germany is ap
proaching a decisive stage/according to the Leipzig Tage
blatt, and a majority of the parties are firmly resolved to
forrr parliamentary government without delay—a gov
ernment which- in entire independence of main headquar
ters will pursue a policy made accessary by the seriousness
RULING AFFECTS Y, M, C. A. WORKERS
Washington—Tn view of the extension of the draft
ages members of the Senate Military Committee were in
fer -v the War Departrftqpt officials 37 years is to
be made The minimum age upon men going abroad for
BRITISH MONITOR SUNK IN HARBOR
Lar.'dsr: - A British monitor was sunk •* Monday as
she was lying ia harbor, the admiralty announced to-day.
One officer and It men were killed and 57 raissiag are pre
sumed t* have been killed.
PLUMBER CHARGED WITH DOUBLE MLRDF.R
' Wilkes-Bai're, Pa.—Sevea hours after Mrs. JosepJunc
Jacobs, ei 65. an ciher daughter, Mw... Jamrs O'Malte,
aged 34, were shot and killed in their home in this city
Luzerne county detectives in Port Jervia. N. Y., on an
other wrested Joseph Gir&rd, aged 4? r plumber,
charged with murders. The detectives say Girard con
fessed to the murders.
BRITISH WAR CASUALTIES OF WEEK
London--British casualties fer the week ending to
day follow: Officers killed or dead of wounds, 487; men,
3,153. Officers wounded cr missing, 1,916; men, 17,2(36
RUMANIAN CROWN PRINCE FLEES
Copenhagen—The Rumanian Crown Prince has fit-,
from Rumanian territory and arrived in Odessa, accorc'w.
to the Ukranian newspaper Krewskaya Myrsl.
PRESIDENT NAMES HOOSIER
Washington—G. I. Christie, of Indiana, was nominate i
to-day by President Wilson to be assistant secretary of
agriculture.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
John C. Gardner, I'erdlx, and Klale F. Smith, Enoln; Fred Dlf
fenderfer and Marlon l„ Baker, Hnrrlaburßi Albert K. I'eehette and
Nellie Stevennon, l.onic Inland t'ltj, 3i. %'.| Herbert Smith and Mnr-
Karet I. KlnK, I'enbrook; Karl Trnjer and Cerelln K. Shellelinmer,
HnrrlnburKi FdKnr 1.. Ilauberman and Hath M. Ualtoaxer, l.ykena;
Mark W. Schrelfer, Mllleraburv,nn.e - -j Kllnarr. I.(k~n*.