Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, September 26, 1918, Image 1

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    Bulgarian War Crisis Impends; Complete Change in Foreign Policy Cabinet Session 1
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M
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LXXXVII — No. 214 16 FAGKS HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 191& OM mwsp*peh in i*\iwsmiiir S 'tu-'o^cknts' & HOME EDITION
AMERICAN ARMY JOINS FRENCH
IN MIGHT Y CHAMPAGNE BLOW
FOCH STRIKES
HEAVILY WITH
LARGE FORCES
Tremendous Blow Struck
With Good Results From
Rheims to Verdun
SEEK TO CUT GERMAN ARMIES
ASUNDER BY NEW OFFENSIVE
By A A uccimitd Press
Paris, Sept. 26.—French and American
troops attacked this morning on the Champagne
front at 5 o'clock, according to a statement issued
by the War Office to-day.
The statement says the French attack was
launched in the Champagne in co-operation with
the American Army, which is attacking farther
to the east.
The statement reads:
"Retween the Ailette and the Aisne the Germans re
newed their attacks last evening in the region of Alle
mant and MoulinLaffaux. The enemy succeeded at the
latter point in penetrating the French lines, but an ener
getic counterattack re-established the situation.
"Farther south the French have enlarged their gains
cast of Sancy and have taken prisoners.
"This morning at 5 o'clock French troops attacked on
the Champagne front in co-operation with the American
Army operating further to the cast."
Renewed German attacks north of the Aisne have been
repulsed. At one point, where the Germans gained a
foothold upon the French positions, they were ejected by
a counterattack. ,
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN FRANCE,
Sept. 26.—French troops to-day attacked in the Cham
pagne in a thick fog after a period of artillery preparation
which terminated in an hour of most intense gunfire.
The early indications were that the attack was pro
gressing most favorably.
The Franco-American attack on the Champagne front is the
first Allied thrust made on that sector since Marshal Foch
assumed the initiative in July and is the logical result of the Allied
success in Picardy in driving the Germans back to the Hinden
burg line from Arras to Laon.
A drive northward in Champagne threatens the communica
tion lines in the rear of the Hindenburg defense system, where
the Germans are struggling to keep the British and French from
breaking through. While the length of the front of attack is not
disclosed it is probable it extends a great part of the distance
from Rheims to Verdun and probaljly beyond.
An advance of some distance east of Rheims would outflank
Laon and possibly St. Quentin. The communication lines easj
v.ard from Laon, the pivot of the German defenses, between
Rheims and Ypres would be severed. An Allied break through
might separate the German forces in the west into two groups.
Foch Seeking Big Game in His New
Drive Against the Enemy Center
French and American troops to-day are storming the German
positions in Champagne and farther "east in what apparently is
another major stroke by Marshal Foch. The new offensive is
progressing favorably according tc early reports. *
The new allied thrust in the west comes on a front which has
not been very active since the Germans failed to in
S* Champagne in the defeated offensive of July 15 last and west of
Rheims. French soldiers are attacking" in Champagne, which
runs from Rheims eastward to the Argonne west of Verdun. The
Americans are moving forward east of the Champagne simul
taneously with General Petain's men.
Expect Great Possibilities
Great posib'ilities might result from a successful Allied
advance on the front east of Rheims, as the German communica
tions would be severed and the formidable enemy position from
Arras to Laon endangered with the important southern end out
flanked. The length of the attacking front is not disclosed but it
may possibly be from Rheims eastward past Verdun to southwest
of Metz.
In Macedonia the Allies are advancing all along the 130 miles,
V-shaped front between Monastir and Lake Doiran. The Bul
garian first army on the Allied left has been placed in a dangerous
position by the cutting of the Prilep-Veles road at Izvor, while
the Serbians are in the outskirts of Ishtib, eighteen miles east of
"Veles, and one of the .bases of the Bulgarian second army.
Apparently the Veles-Ishtib line, the most formidable for the
enemy south of Uskub, will prove untenable.
BULGARS ASK FOR AID
By Associated Press
PARIS, Sept. 26.—"Fresh dispositions made by General Frunohet
d'Esperey, who lias passed through Prilep, justified the belief that
there will be an energetic exploitation of the great inter-allied vic
tory In Macedonia," says Marcel Rutin, editor of tlie Echo le Paris.
King Eerdinund of Bulgaria has asked Field Marshal Maekenscn,
who is now In Bucharest, to take tlic command of his armies so as
to block the advance of the Allies in Old Serbia and preserve Bul
garia from invasion, according to information received here from
Switerland.
I/ON BON, Sept. 26.—The Fourth Turkish Army on the Palestine
front virtually is surrounded in the region east of the Jordun and
faces annihilation by General Allenby's forces, to-day's advices show.
The total of prisoners already taken was inci-cascd to-day to -15,001).
'llic annihilation of the Fourth array, now hoped for, would
complete tho cleaning up of Ule Turkish forces in Palestine, account
ing for about 80,000 men.
ALLIED ARMIES ARE
INVADING BULGARIA
British and Serbian Troops Send Foe Reeling Back Into
Territory Long Held by Teutons; Enormous
Quantities of War Material Taken
Saloniki, Sept. 26.—Bulgaria
has been invaded by Allied
troops, according to a British
official statement issued here
to-day.
British troops entered Bul
garian territory opposite Kos
turino, about six miles south of
Strumitsa, tHe enemy base in
this region.
London, Sept. 26. —Reports in offi
cial quarters here indicate that the
Prilep-Veies road has been cut at
Izvor, isolating the First Bulgarian
army from its main line of com
munication and placing it in a
BRETZ INDICTED
BY GRAND JURY
| ON FOUR CHARGES
Little New Testimony Offered
in Trial of William
Evans
j Harry M. Bretz, lawyer and inem
-1 ber of the firm of Bretz Brothers.
' hardware dealers, has been indicted
I by the grand jury on four charges
| of embezzlement by attorney. Wil
j nesses were sent before the grand
i jury this afternoon in other cases
| against Bretz. Two of these are
' false pretense charges and two em
• bezzlement suits and two more em
] bezzlement by attorney prosecutions.
The four cases in which indictments
I are returned are prosecutions
. brought Franklin H. Wertz. Dis
j trict Attorney Michael E. Stroup
said he will probably start the trials
to-morrow.
Other prosecutors of Bretz are W.
I H. AVindsow and Catherine E. Mil
! ler. In all of the cases it is alleged
i the attorney received money for a
I certain purpose and did not use it as
| intended.
Murder Case Under Way
| In Courtroom No. 2 before Judge
j A. W. Johnson, specially presiding,
William Evans, colored, is on trial
on a charge of murdering Rufus Oil
lam in Steelton, February 15. This
is Evans' second trial and the evi
dence submitted by the witnesses
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Robert A. 801 l Critically
111 With Pneumonia in
Marine Corps Hospital
Private Robert A. 8011. Company
C. 11th Infantry, of the Marine Corps,
is seriously ill with pneumonia in
the embarkation camp at Quantico,
Va., with little chance for recov
ery, it was learned from his father,
Charles S. 8011. 2029 North Second
street, who returned • from his son's
bedside last night.
Private Boll's wife and mother
still are with him. They were call
ed to the camp by telegram from
the commanding officer Tuesday, as
Boll's condition had become' so seri
ous. The doctor at the camp said
his recovery is unlikely, unless his
vitality pulls him through.
Private 801 l visited his wife on a
furlough at their home, 239 Wood
bine street, September 7 and 8. Soon
after he returned to catnp he was
taken ill with Spanish influenza,
which developed into pneumonia. He
has been sick for ten days. His
regiment had been' moved from Paris
Island after a six weeks' period of
intensive training, ahd was to have
sailed overseas this week. The epi
demic of 9panish Influenza, however,
became so serious it was necessary
to postpone the sailing.
Private 801 l enlisted in the Uni
ted State Marine Corps at Washing
ton more than six weeks ago. Jle
was sent to Paris Island for train
ing. Before he enlisted he was
manager of the Landls Christmas
Savings Club Company, of this city.
precarious position. The first army !
is on the allied left.
Serbs Advancing
Serbian troops reached the out
skirts of Ishtib, an important Bul
garian base, Tuesday, says a Serbian
official statement dated Wednesday.
Elsewhere east of the Vardar thei
Serbians have made important I
gains.
The Serbs also have captured j
Gradsko station, southeast of Uskub. '
It was defended by German troops, j
An enormous quantity of supplies, j
including nineteen guns, were cap-!
tured by the Serbians.
North of Prilep the Serbians are 1
pursuing the Bulgarians who are in
complete retreat and are approach- (
ing Izvolr, midway between Prilep:
and Veles. *
PREFERS BRIDE
OVER CHANCE OF
BEING MONARCH
Rumania's Crown Prince Says
Thrones Are Unstable
Nowadays
Amsterdam, Sept. 26.—1n answer
to pleas that he desert his bride of
humble birth, Crown Prince Charles
of Rumania has replied that thrones
are so unstable nowadays that ho
preferred the certainty of having the
wife he wanted to the chance of
losing the succession.
The escapade of the crown prince!
in going to Odessa and marrying Ce
cilte Lambring, a daughter of a ma
jor in the Rumanian army, reopens'
the question of the Rumanian dynas-j
tic succession. When King Ferdi-i
nand heard of the marriage he or
dered that the crown prince be;
given seventy-five days solitary con-1
flnement for absenting himself with
out leave from his garrison.
King Ferdinand also sent an emis-1
sary to Bender, Bessarabia, where I
the young couple are spending their!
honeymoon, with instructions to try
to undo the nuptial knot, but to no
avail. Tbo bride refused to part
with her wedding ring and the crown
prince declined to leave her.
Crown Prince Charles has not yet
voluntarily renounced liiH rights of
succession and the king is reported
to be very angry. The Rumanian con
stitution does not contain a clause
barring a morganatically married
crown prince from succession to the
throne.
Should Crown Prince Charles re
nounce his rights of succession, his
brother Nicholas would become the
heir apparent. Nicholas is fifteen
years old and physically weak.
FOUR BATTLEPLANES
TO ENCIRCLE THE CITY
Great Patriotic Mass Meeting
Called For Reservoir Park
Sunday Afternoon, . When
Dr. Bagnell Will Speak
More interesting facts of condi
tions which he found on European
battlefields will be related by J>r.
Robert Bagnell, pastor of Grade
Methodist Church, at a big Libert v
Loan mass meeting at Reservoir
Park on Sunday afternoon. Dr.
Bagnell's talk together with the
presence of the famous "Allen
Squad" of the United States Army,
promise to draw thousands of peo
ple to the park.
Features of. the afternoon arc to
be:
Dr. Bagnell, who will speak on the
subject, "He That futteth His Hand
to the Plow and Turneth Not Rack."
The "Alien Squad," with complete
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NEW DRAFT CALL
TO DEPLETE THE
! ELIGIBLE LIST
Dauphin County to Send 26i5
Men to Camp Lee
October 7
FEW LEFT IX 1917 CLASS
Local Boards Working Rap-
I idly to Complete Status
of New Registrants
Harrisburg and Dauphin county
draft boards were notified to
day to send 236 men to Camp Lee,
Petersburg. Va., for general military
service. The men will entrain during
the five-day movement beginning
October 7. It is part of the call for
9,000 men from the state.
City and county draft board of-|
ficials announced this morning that,
tho quotas to be sent to Camp Lee,
Petersburg, Va., l'or general military|
service during the five-day move
ment, beginning October 7, will de-i
plcte the men of all registrations!
previous to September 12.
The quotas from Harrisburg are:
No. 1. 20 men: No. 2, 39; No. 3, 49;
Dauphin county, No. 1. 36; No. 2,
42 and No. 3, 40.
18 For Limited Service
j Eighteen men will be sent from the
| city and county to Fort Thomas. Ky.,
| Monday, for special limited military
service.
I Four of the boards announced
j their quotas to-day. The quotas are
city board No. 1, four men; No. 2,
I three men; No. 3, four men; county,
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I
High Cost of Living in
Philadelphia Jumps 67
Per Cent, in 4 Years
By Associated Press
Washington. Sept. 26. —The cost
I of living investigators of the Bureau
|of Statistics working in the
i principal cities reported to-day that
j costs in Philadelphia have increased
j 67.17 per cent since December, 1914.
I Clothing increased 108.12 percent.;
I furniture, 105.76 per cent.; food.
' 68.09 per cent.; housing, 9.69 per
cent., and fuel and light, 31.65 per
cent. The Increase was 13.36 per
cent, since December, 1917,
BIG STORES TO
BE OPEN ONLY
FR0M9T05.30
Shorter Business Hours De
cided Upon as Matter of
Patriotism
Beginning Monday piany of the
merchants of Harrlsburg will observe
a business day beginning at 9 o'clock
in the morning and ending at 5.30
o'clock -in the afternoon. Saturdays
they may remain open until 9 o'clock
in the evening.
The agreement was reached by a
committee appointed by the mer
chants which conferred with the
Dauphin county fuel administration.
The decision of the committee was
set forth in a set of resolutions. The
limited closing hours were adopted
at the suggestion of the fuel adminis
tration as a fuel conserving measure.
An effort has been made to see
each merchant personally regarding
the closing hours, but bemuse ojf
physical limitations it has been im
possible to approach all the mer
chants. A list of merchants who have
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Aerial Pilots to Drop Propo
ganda From the Sky at 9
O'clock in the Morning;
Landing Place Kept Secret
Along about 9 o'clock to-morrow
morning three Havilland war planes
will be ducking and twisting in the
sky above Harrisburg, scattering
Liberty Loan literature and doing
many marvelous areial evolutions.
Then they will whirl through various
sections of the, Dauphin-Perry-'Junl
ata district, and farmers In the midst
of fall plowing will see loan circu
lars whirling down from a vast
height. * ' "
The coming of the airships to
morrow Is Just one of a number of
features arranged by the Liberty
Loan committee In charge of the
campaign In the Harrisburg dlst^i^.
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CHAIRMAN HAYS
PLEDGES PARTY
IN LOAN DRIVE
Meeting of Republicans Shall Have Success of
War Uppermost National Leader Asserts
in Statement to Country; ''Every
thing Else is Chores"
By Associated Press
New York, Sept. 27.— Chairman
Will H. Hays, of the Republican na
tional committee last night issued a
statement directed to state, district
and county chairmen and all Repub
lican workers saying that "the suc
cess of the Fourth Liberty Loan shall
be the Republican party's supreme
motif of thought and action until
that objective is attained." He
pledged the Republican party work
ers to the policy of 'no geography,
political or physical, in the patriotism
of this country" and declared that
everything else than making certain
the oversubscription of the loan "is
chores." The statement follows:
"The mission u America is ribout
to be accomplished.
"American soldiers in France are
at this moment demonstrating to the
world the reason for America and
the stuff of which this republic is
made. '
"Their complete success and the
consequent eternal establishment
everywhere in the world of the in
tegrity of American rights, interests
and honor and the right of men to
govern themselves, are all assured
with the proper performance of the
plainest duty of the citizenry at
home.
' The Fourth Liberty Loan is our
next objective.
"There is no geography, political
or physical, in the patriotism of this
country. Democrats and Republicans
alike love their flag and are ready
to die for it. We continually insist for
all parties that the war be kept out
of partisan politics and that parti
sanship be kept out of the war.
"Just as in Congress the Repub
licans led the fight that made pos
sible the passage of the great war
•measures, so now the party member
ship and organization has an imme
diate. definite war task in the ac
complishment of which it can fully
function. 1 repeat, let there be no
contest in this country as to any
thing that touches the war except
WEST SHORE ASKS
COMMISSION TO
KEEP FARES DOWN
Seven Complaints Are Filed
Against Increase From
Five to Seven Cents
Seven complaints, the largest num
ber ever entered against' a single
company in one day, were filed at the
Public Service Commission offices to
day against the increase in rates of
the Valley Railways Company, op
erating from Harrisburg into Cum
berland and Perry counties. Vhey
also include attacks upon capitali
zation, conditions of roadbed, car
service, coal charges as a reason for
advance in fares and one man de
clares that the advance is going to
have a serious effect on housing con
ditions. The complaints will be sent
to th\ company Immediately for an
answer within ten days.
The first complaint against the
Valley Railways is made by the West
Shore Firemen's Association, J. F.
Hummel, secretary, which charges
that the advance from five to seven
cents fare is unjust, that travel has
increased lately and that there is no
justification ' for the advance under
conditions whether of wgges or coal
supply as .the company's plant uses
river coal. The association also at
tacks the condition of the roadbed
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The harvest is past,
the summer is ended.
HAVE YOU STARTED
TO SAVE W. S. S.?
THEWEATHE^
For Harrisburg and vicinity!
Partly cloudy and cooler to
niKht, with linvcnt temperature
about 4t< deKreeai Friday (air
and cooler.
Temperature t 8 a. m., 58.
Itlver (StiiKC! 8 a. m., 4.8 (eet above
low-water mark.
Yenterdny'a Weather
Hlghrst temperature, 70.
Loneit temperature, 63.
Mean temperature. 01,
Normal temperature, 63.
that contest—who best can serve,
who most can give.
"The success of the Fourth Liberty
Loan shall be the Republican party's
supreme motif of thought and action
until that objective is attained.
"Wherever Republicans are to
gether, by two or two thousand it
shall be a win-the-war meeting. Just
as the Republican party's every ac
tion at all times has been and shall
be determined solely by how we can
contribute most to the war's success,
so now our every thought and action
shall be determined entirely by how
we can make certain the quick over
subscription of the Fourth Liberty
Loan.
"This is a united country's next
message to Germany.
"The entire Republican organiza
tion in every voting precinct in this
country shall be a fighting force in
this Liberty Loan drive.
"This is the Republican organiza
tion's business.
"This is the real business of every
man, woman and child in America.
"Eevery thing else is chores.
' Signed,
"WILL H. HATS."
T LA FOLLETTE HEARING GOES OVER A
1 .'
St has been decided to postpone further V;
1 - • -n 5
1 ( i
A illette became of his St. Raul speech, until aftc £
I the election, owing to the ahsenee from the city of manj I
* members of the committee. 1
1 PRO-GERMAN- MOVEMENT FAILS < '
| Paris—Pieter }. Troelstra, the Dutch Socialist leader,
\ , fail* rt to" create an Internat ialist (
T Bureau with headquarters at Beme. Prp-German agents
I the 1 have been approaohed by the* JEf
?buret*u, 't is said.
1 ?
1 TURKISH PRISONERS NUMBER 42,000 *
* Paris—The number of Turkish .prisoners taken in 1/
m Palestine now aggregate 42.000, according to the latest fc
5 |
1 neaday reported 40,000 Turks and 265 guns had been cap- vH
i tared. f
I STATE MEN IN BRITISH CASUALTIES j[
T w
I names of the following penrlaylyanians: Killed in action ?
y M. McG- Wounded—C. H. Dur
I |
* Barre; W. C. Wilson, Pittsburgh. 1
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6 "Y" WORKERS SAFE IN RU J
1 New York—Representatives of the American Y, M
£
!1" Bayard H. Chris* V
' e of the rganization, wh : arr ■ f
Russia by way'of a Norwegian p;rt 5
PRESIDENT NAMES REApING MAN
Washington—Lot W. Rejff, of Reading, Pa., was n. W'dJ
hulled by President Wilsoft-'d*y to be naval office ( tv
Cu-.i rus. Collections District Nil T,'
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,■ MAKKiAob LICENSES f
1 Horry A. ('riot, lump lutoii. find Klliuibrtli 11. Klolier, Ilorrlo- ft
hiirKl John A. Duukluk unit Kultirr .>l. Mntrheti. |liil*rlKbiirwi Jiu-ob I
. K. Mnrtln, Lnrknoiv, and Mnry (1. Kiiliik. ItnrrlwburKi I hiirlm 11. f
' Weill*. Jr., WaHhlnKlon, D. C., and Kiln V. Joyce, t.oner Hrnncb, S. C?
, 1 J.) Dnnlcl C. I rich, llnrrlahuriC, and Jgsrjbint
RAUNICK WARNS
AGAINST SPREAD
OF INFLUENZA
City Health Officer Gives Sim
ple Rule For Pre
vention
DISEASE GAINS GROUND
Many Cases of La Grippe Un
der Care of Local
Physicians
"If thou wouldst safeguard
thyself against the close rela
tives, Spanish influenza and la
grippe, and tho possibility of a
subsequent attack of pneumonia,
keep thy nose and throat clean."
Tl#s is the substance of the ad
vice of Dr. John M. J. RaHntdh, city
health officer, to Harrlsburgers that
they may not fall victims of the
threatening epidemic. He is a fii. i
believer in this little formula as a
preventive measure. Frequent ap
pliances of antiseptics will act : t
further safeguards, in his estima
tion.
If those who fall into the clutch' s
of these afflictions would be caret I
about their sneezing, would cover
their nose and mouth every tint#
they feel a tickling sensation tor
telling a sneeze, and would catch 'ho
germs with their kerchief, there
would be many less victims, the
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