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LXXXVTT—i. No. 222 12 I'AGES o.cV e ut HaWSrg 1 " 1 HARRISBURG. PA.. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7. 1918.
GERMAN ARMY IS IN HASTY RETREAT;
PEACE ONL Y IF KAISER SURRENDERS;
INFLUENZA TAKES MANY NEW VICTIMS
ALLIED ARMY
DRIVE SENDS
ENEMY BACK
Germans Caught in Champagne Sector
Between Armies of Generals Bertholet
and Gouraud; Yankees in Battle
By Associated Press
OUTFOUGHT by the French and Americans, the Germans
are retreating on a wide front in the Champagne sector be
tween Rheims and the Argonne forest. The enemy has been
caught between General Bcrtholet's army, on the west, and General
Gouraud's fo'rees on the east, and is retiring northward toward the
Retourne river.
General Bertholet's advance in the Rheims region has gravely
menaced the enemy forces south of the Retourne. The French
apparently have reached the Suippc over a wide fropt.
American forces have been battling brilliantly with Gouraud's
army.
Farther east the Americans, fighting between the Argonne
forest and the Meuse river, .slowly are clearing the Germans from
the area before the Kriemhild line and gathering their forces for
an assault on that powerful position.
From the region of Lille southward to Cambrai the German
retreat is continuing! There is every reason to believe the city of
Lille soon will be evacuated by the enemy.
So far the German line from St. Qucntin south to the Ailctte
and thence eastward to Berry-au-Bac is standing quite firmly.
Italian forces, however, struck at the German jines in front of
Laon, made progress.
German detachments which have been fighting beside the Bul
garian army in Macedonia are being withdrawn, says a Berlin
announcement. Serbian and French forces are reported to have
inflicted a defeat on German and Austrian units near the city
of Vranje.
Laon Fired by Huns Who
Destroy the Countryside
Paris, Oct. 7.—Laon, the strong- j
hold to which the enemy has been j
clinging as the keypoint of his line!
on the southwest, apparently has
been set on tire by the Germans.
The town was reported ablaze yes
terday and tires were still burning
there to-day.
Rheims lia3 been finally and defi- j
nitely cleared from the menace of'
German cannon. The Germans are !
in retreat on the whole front from 1
Haig Takes Many Towns;
Lens Mines Destroyed
Willi the British Army in France,
Oct. 7. —Many towns have been oc
cupied by the British in their ad
vance after the retreating Germans
along the sector from Cambrai to
l.ens. At Abancourt, where the
railroad station was occupied by the
enemy the entire garrison was killed.
American Gains Throw
Huns Into Retreat
. With the French Army on the
Champagne Front, Oct. 7. —Over a
wide extent of territory, outlined by
burning villages, the Germans are
NO CHURCH!
NO RIDES!
MONEY SAVED!
LIBERTY BONDS
OR W. S. S.?
THE WEATHER
For Harrlxhurg nnil vlrlnltyi Fair
anil cooler to-night, with low
eat temperature about 40 de
green | prulinbly light front In
exponril plaeeni Tuesday fair,
continued cool.
River
The lower portions of the \orth
nnd Meat brunches will rlne to
night and begin to fall Tuesday.
Temperaturet 8 a. m., 48.
River fttngrt 4.3 feet nbove low
water mark.
j the Suippe to the Arnes as well' as
| in the region south of Cambrai.
I The peace proposals of the Central
| Powers art. in no way Interfering
with the policy of destruction the
German staff seems to have decided
I upon. Sallaumines, near Lens, is
! burning and fires have been seen
1 west and southwest of Lille and be
! tween Douai and Somain. The
j troops advancing in the Champagne
j found Logent-I'Abbesse, Reine and
j all the villages in the valley of the
1 Suippe in flames.
More ground has been taken
northeast of Cambrai. Hallum, east
of Lens, has been reached and
passed. Many explosions have been
observed in the great coal mining
district northeast of Lens, and pris
oners say the coal mine pit mouths
' have been destroyed.
retreating rapidly before General
Gouraud's troops. They are crowded
by General Bertholet's forces from
the west and in danger of being cut
off by the Franco-Americans who
have crossed the Arnes river.
The enemy is not only hastily
abandoning the salient south of the
Suippe but is retiring north of the
river toward the Retourne river. In
spite of the risk, however, he is tak
ing time to continue the useless de
struction that has been character
istic of his retreat all along the
front from the Avre to the Meuse.
By the advance of the Americans
in the direction of St. Etienne on
the Arnes,.all the German positions
westward on the line between St.
Etinne and St. Marie-a-py were
taken in flank and and menaced
with a turning movement. The con
sequence of this was the general re
treat of the enemy toward the north
east over the entire front from the
Suippe to the Arnes west of St.
Etienne.
General Debeney's troops, north
cast of St. Quentin have taken sev
eral Important points on the Hin
denburg line after violent engage
ments, and have completely broken
through the enemy's defenses here.
The Germans counterattack several
titnes unsuccessfully. Further suc
cesses were obtained on the Hinden
burg line east of St. Quentin.
BUT ONE ANSWER
By Associated Press
T TNCONDITIONAL surrender" is the answer
of the American press to the appeal for
peace made by Austria and Germany. It is re
ported that the attitude of official Washington
does not encourage the hope of the enemy that
the Allies can be induced to enter into negotia
tions at a time when Germany's armies are in
retreat.
The French and English press consider the
enemy's effort a new maneuver which promises
but little more than might have been expected
from the former peace proffers made by the
Central Powers.
V J
KAISER'S PLOf~TO
GAIN PEACE IS
CERTAIN TO FAIL
French and English Press See Nothing
Tangible in Latest Bid For Ces
sation of Hostilities
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By Associated Press
Washington, Oct. 7. —The newest peace proposal of the German)
government as quoted in dispatches from Amsterdam differed
from the proposition emanating from Vienna in tone and wording,
but not in substance. Both governments accept President Wilson's
principles, not as a basis of peace, but simply as that of negotia
tions.
in advance of the arrival of the notes through the Swiss lega
tion, no* statement as to how the enemy proposals were regarded
by the United States was to be expected. On their face, however,
the offers do not meet the requirements laid down by President
Wilson and the spokesmen for the Entente governments. In the
opinion here, Germany eventually will make a peace offer worth
considering. That the war may not be prolonged unnecessarily,
no' proposals from the enemy arc to be rejected without exam
ination.
This is Germany's first formal offer of peace. It was noted
that it was made to the President with a request that lie invite
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CITY TO ANSWER
HUN'S PEACE PLEA
WITH MORE BONDS
Harrisburg's Patrotic People
See But One Way to Re
spond to Kaiser
"Patriotic Harrisburg men and
women will pay no attention to the
latest German peace proposals.
There will be no peace on terms
such as are proposed by Prince Max.
The United States in this instance is
much in the same position as the
policeman who comes upon a man
who has just burned down an or
phan asylum. The murderer may
ask the policeman to excuse him—
that he won't dd it again—but he
goes to jail just the same. So patri
otic men and women of the Harris
burg district will buy Liberty Bonds
as usual." ,
This statement was made this
morning by Chairman Andrew S.
Patterson of the Harrisburg Liberty
Loan district.
Against German Terms
"The vast majorjity of the per
sons with whom I talked to-day were
absolutely against considering the
German terms for an instant," con
tinued Chairman Patterson. "But I
have been told that in scattered in
stances some of the solicitors have
been naked by unpatriotic citizens,,
'Why should we buy Liberty Bonds
when peace seems so near?'
"Peace is coming, it is true —but
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Court Adjourned Until
Dec. 2, by Epidemic
President Judge George Kunkel
and Judge S. J. M. McCarrell this
afternoon signed an order continu
ing the September sessions of crim
inal court to the week of December
2, and directing that a new petit
jury of seventy-two men be drawn
to serve at that time. More than
thirty cases on the calendar which
were not disposed of two weeks ago
were continued, including those of
Vasll Dundoff, charged with the
murder of James Welly, colored,
September 13, and Hardy Dlckedson,
chnrged with the murder of Wil
liam Leitzer, both colored, on the
night of May 19.
PROHIBITIONISTS
SEE HOPE IN NEW
REGISTRATION
Look Upon Vote Enrollment
as Sign of Interest in the
Coming Election
Party leaders and officials interest
ed In the ratification of the prohibi
tion amendment expressed much
satisfaction to-day when from com
plete reports of registrars, filed at
the county commissioners' office, it
was learned that 12,018 voters had
registered this fall, only 1,026 less
than in 1917.
According to a number of work
ers the total is an evidence of the
interest of the citizens in the No
vember polls, as with more than 2,-
000 men from the city in army serv
ice there is only a decrease of a little
more than 1,000 in registration,
showing that few who remained at
home shirked their duty while others
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DEATH TOLL GROWING
AS INFLUENZA CLAIMS
MANY SCORE VICTIMS
Tent Hospitals to Be Erected
if Epidemic Spreads; Sa
loonmen to Be Prosecuted;
Volunteer Nurses Needed to
Care For the Sick
More than 3,000 cases of influenza
with 323 reported since yesterday by
only 13 of 131 physicians in Harris
iburg, indicate according to Health
j Officer J. M. J. Kaunlck, that the
epidemic is still spreading. Over
the week end therp were eight
deaths from the disease, six of them
developing Into lobar pneumonia.
Since Saturday morning with only a
small percentage of doi .ors making
reports, 683 cases have been re
corded.
Dr. Ttnunick declared that it is
very urgent that doctors phone In to
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TWO INJURED
| WHEN TROLLEY
CARS HIT AUTO
Small Touring Car Crushed
hike Eggshell in the
Collision
|R. W. JONES BADLY HURT
Machine, Struck Second Time,
Is Ground to
Bits
i Two persons were injured, one
j seriously, and a Ford touring car
• was completely demolished shortly
j after 11 o'clock this morning:, when
a southbound Second street Harris
burg railway car plowed into an
automobile after it already had been
struck by a northbound trolley car
and dragged for some distance along J
the street. The accident happened
at Second and North streets.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard \V. Jones,
1417 Liberty street, are the injured
couple. Mrs. Jones sustained severe
bruises and cuts, and Mr. Jones sus
tained a fracture of three ribs, a
fracture of the pelvis, cuts in the
head, cuts of both hands and both
kneecaps, and cuts of the head. His
condition is serious.
The fender of one street car was
I torn off in the crash.
Officials of the Harrisburg Rail
ways Company say the touring ear
was crossing into Second street on
North. As it got across the track
in front of a northbound track, they
say, the - auto stopped. The trolley
car caught it up on the fender, push
ed it along the road, and was Just
turning it turtle, when the si uth
bound car crashed into it. The spial)
touring car was caught by the fender
1 of the second trolley car. pushed be
tween the two cars, and crushed like
jan eggshell. The doors were torn off,
j every wheel was wrenched off while
! the spokes snapped like tinder, the
| windshield was splintered and even
-I the seats and tonne.) 11 crushed out
:j of shape. The machine is a total
| wreck.
i So tightly was the automobile
, ! caught between the two trolley cars
, it was necessary to hack to the monu
| ment at State street, \\ tiere the two
j tracks diverge, to liberate it.
i After the secuhd crash, which
'knocked both occupants from the
: I car, Mrs. Jones was picked up off the
I pavement, and Mr. Jones extricated
| from under the automobile. Mrs.
I Jones was riding in the back seat of
i the machine. Dr. C. M. Rhode,
j whoes office is at 300 North Second
; street, took the injured mail and wo-
I man to their home in his automobile,
j and treated their injuries. The com
| pletely wrecked car was moved to
j one side of the street, and traffic on
I the Second street lines resumed.
Master Lists in Army
Draft Are Received by
Pennsylvania Boards
| Complete master lists of the serial
I numbers which will determine the
order in which- registrants of Sep
tember 12, 1918, will be called to
service have been received in the
j state Thd- rules given the local
draft boards to determine the order
numbers cover seven pages of the
publication, while the master num
bers are printed on sixty-nine pages,
five columns on each page, and fifty
numbers in each column. While in
11m> cily and county districts a num
ber of men have received serial
numbers, other as yet have not bean
listed the officials said.
As soon as the local draft boards
receive official copies of the master
lists they will eliminate all numbers
higher than the last serial number
in thcier respective districts, and thus
determine the order in which to call
registrants.
Public Utilities Suffer Because
of Labor Shortage Due to
Illness; Business Houses
Feel Loss; Traction Com
panies Shorlhanded
The large industries in the city
are beginning to feel the effects of
the Spanish influenza epidemic,
which is rendering hundreds of
workmen unfit for work. Smaller In
dustries as well are feeling the pinch
of the largely increased absentee
ism among the workmen.
The Bell Telephone Company is
seriously crippled and to-day issued
a statement requesting patrons to
use the telephone only on occasions
of absolute necessity, as the force of
workmen, has become too small to
tuke care of the usual amount of
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ONI.Y 10 VIC MM; ASSOCIATED CHESS SINGLE COPIES MAUr rniTlflN
NEWSPAPER IN ItAltltlSIIUItU TWO CENTS llUlflll. E.UH IV/1S
HOUSE-TO-HOUSE
DRIVE IS BEGUN
TO SELL BONDS
Patriotism of Harrisburg's Men and
Women Appealed to in Effort to
Bring Sales Up to the Quota
Influenza and the fear that a gather- |
ing even of Liberty Loan workers I
might euuse a spread of the conta- |
gion, has resulted in the calling off |
of the noonday luncheons which were I
to have featured this week's drive on ]
the homes of Jlarrisburg and. the
district.
The big drive on homes began to
day, and several hundred men were
canvassing every section of the city,
in other campaigns reports were
' made at luncheons each noon. There
will be no 'feeds" this time. But with
the entire district having been ap- j
pointed a committee to go after the ,
Liberty Bond sales, and with daily
reports of the sevcra* dozen teams
posted in front of the courthouse,
interest will be maintained despite
the "flu."
Hand Will IMny
The Liberty Band is to play in front
of the courthouse each afternoon
from 2 to 1 o'clock, while the paint
ers place the returns on the big bulle
tin. While this may draw a crowd it
f will be in the open air and little or
no contagion can result.
Team workers who started on the
homes drive to-day will report di
rectly to their captains, before t
o'clock Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. The captains will report at
headquarters before 2 o'clock. Theh
tVie returns go on the board.
Delancy Make* Ropiest
Treasurer John M. Delaney, who
has "kept tab" in all the Liberty
Loan campaigns to-day urgently re-
I quested all workers to write plainly
| in the space at the left of every ap
plication the name of the bond buyer.
I In past campaigns names have been
I so miserably written that great con
fusion resulted. It is also necessary
to write on the application the name
of the bank to which it goes, even
thougii the purchase be for cash.
Young I.adieu Sell Bonds
In the window at Liberty Loan
headquarters to-day were two Girl
Scouts who sold bonds to many per
sons who went in to headquarters.
They were Evelyn DuPree and Flor
ence Burtnett of Dogwood Troup, No.
2, Girl Scouts; and many passersby
in Market street stopped to watch
the two young ladies knitting be
tween bond sales.
"Shinny on Your Own Side"
It is urged upon members of teams
that they stay in their own districts
in their bond sales. Crossing borders
will result In confusion and bud feel
ings it was pointed out.
Team captains are requested to
keep after their men. so that they
will report promptly.
It was announced to-day that Dau
phin Deposit Bank employes have
bought J3,D00 worth of bonds. • Every
employe is a buyer; and the bank is
100 per cent. line.
Harrtsburg Silk Mill has done re
markably well again. After a very
successful Liberty Loan meeting an
nouncement was made that perfection
percentages as to bond purchases
are as follows; Broad silk weaving,
| trvln Poorman, captain, 8.1 pet' cent.;
ribbon weaving Kobert Boylcs, eap
| tain. 70 per cent.; warping depart
| ment, Clarence Grim, captain, 89 per
! Country Faces Great
Task in Second Week
of Fourth Loan Drive
Washington, Oct. 7. —With the
opening of the second week of the
Fourth IJiberty Loan campaign the
managers face a most tremendous
task. From now until the close of
the campaigm, October 19, daily sub
scriptions must average J316,000,000,
if the entire *6,000,000,000 is to be
disposed of during this period. The
statement is based on sales reported
by banks and trust companies.
Only scattered reports reached the
Treasury Department to-day. Both
Cleveland and San . Francisco dis
! tricts announced that they had pass
i ed the J100,000,000 mark.
"Clean the Furnace"
Day Named For City;
Oct. 11 Set Apart
C. M. Kaltwasser, chairman of the
Fuel Conservation Committee an-
I nounced this morning that October
| 11 has been set apart as "Clean the
| Furnace Day.". On this day, citizens
|of Harrisburg will be asked to co
operate in cleaning out all furnaces.
Stress was made by Mr. Kaltwasser
' on the fact that in cleaning out all
furnaces, many hundreds of dollars
will be stricken . from Molhoi Har
ris' coal bill. "We expect the loyal
support of every. townsman," he
stated.
BILGARS GIVE WARNING
Amsterdam, Oct. 7.—Bulgaria on
Saturday notlfled ihe ppwers with
which she had been allied that they
must quit Bulgarian territory within
a month, says a Sjfla dispatch of the
Berlin Tageblatt.
cent.; winding department, Harry
Maul, captain, 65 per cent.; quilling.
Miss Anna Householder, captain, SO
per cent.; picking department. Hays
Eisenberger, captain, 100 per cent.;
twisting department. Harry Maul,
captain, 100 per cent.; machine shop,
Charles Davidson captain, 77 per
cent.; office, Harry B. Orr, captain,
100 per cent. The total average at
the time the report was made was S6
per cent, and the total subscriptions
over $36,000.
Insurance Men to Give
Free Advice to Soldiers
At a meeting of the Central Penn
sylvania Underwriters' Association
to-day plans were made to give free
information to all desiring it the
rules and provisions of the soldiers'
insurance act. It was found at the
meeting that many soldiers and their
dependants do not fully understand
the act which provides protection
both for scidiers and their imme
diate dependants. A resolution was
therefore passed to give this infor
mation free to all who may desire it.
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DEMANDS-FULL .SURRENDER BEFORE ' 1 ; I
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WHICH WAS REFERRED THE FQREIGN RE- ®
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FORE • ' "'MTTED STATES AGREES TO ANY S
ARMISTICE, GERMANY MUST DISBAND HER '
ARMY. SURRENDER HER -NAVY, ARMS AND 1,
MUNITIONS AND AGREE TO pXy FOR DAMAGES J|
ro CITIES AND COUNTRY DEVASTATED, RE- W
STORE ALSACE-LORRAINE TO FRANCE TO- f
3ETUFR WITH THE PENALTY EXACTEi> FROM M
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aeen dinging as the keypoint of his line on the southwest, r
ipaprently has been set on fire by the Germans. The town It
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LT.VONBEREGHY
FALLS IN ACTION
ON FRENCH FIELD
Harrisburg Officer Commend
ed by Major Killed in
Action
COMPANY LOSSES LARGE
Battle Takes Heavy Toll ol'
Men of Men of Com
pany M
Professor and Madame Julius Yen
Bereghy, of 224 North Fifteenth
street, late last night received a
telegram from the War Department
announcing the death on September
6 of their son, Lieutenant Marcel
Von Bereghy, who was wounded on
Ilia' same day. Since receipt of the
first news telling of his being
wounded, the parents and Lieuten
ant Bereghy's wife, who was Miss
Beatrice Focht, of Lebanon, had
lived in hopes, inasmuch as the dis
pateh said "wounded."
Without a word during the month
to tell them whether he was
mortally hurt, in what battle he fell
01 at what hospital he rested the
death message eame saying "died
on September 6 of wounds received
September 6," and that is all Iho
family have heard..
On Saturday, November IS, 1917,
Lieutenant Von Bereghy was mar
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