• . I No Time Now to Talk Peace, Buy More Liberty Bonds and / f : • i 4 Jfe HARRISBURG lij§& TELEGRAPH M , ®|c 81ar- Jntepenbtiit ▼ / V LXXXVII— No. 224 16 PAGES Da & t M tWftt IIARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1918. ONL * Y sr To c S HOME EDITION CAMBRAI AND 8,000 PRISONERS TAKEN BY BRITISH IN TERRIFIC NEW DRIVE; AMERICANS WINNIN ALLIES STORM FOE ON FRONT OF 20 MILES Bertholet Puts Laon in Pocket; Advance, Along Aisne Is Menace to Hun Troops North of Rheims By Associated Press London, Oct. 9.—The city of Cambrai has been captured by the British. Here and elsewhere 8,000 prisoners were captured yesterday. South of Cambrai the British captured Forenville and reached the western outskirts of Walincourt. Feld Marshal Haig announced the capture of this long resisting German stronghold in his official statement. The attack this morning was on the front of the Third and Fourth armies and began at 5.20 o'clock. The Anglo-American attack was resumed this morning on the entire front south of Cambrai, Field Marshal Ilaig reported; to-day. First reports indicate rapid progress is being made every- t where. American Losses Light The British advance between Cambrai and St. Quentin is proceeding very well to-day all along the line. There is not so I much resistance by the Germans as there was yesterday, probably' due to the enemy having retired during the night.. In the American sector of this front the Germans are resisting! very strongly. The American losses, however, have not been; heavy. The total American casualties is less than half the number i of Germans taken prisoners. Forced from Cambrai, one of the strongest pillars of the Hin-i denburg system, the Germans to-day are being driven back toward j the French frontier under the heavy onslaughts of the Third and! Fourth British armies, aided by American troops. Apparently the Germans now have lost the Hindenburg line; on the front from Cambrai to St. Quentin. Field Marshal Haig, resumed his attack again this morning and reports rapid progress: on a front of more than thirty miles from the northeast of Cambrai! to east of St. Quentin. German Defense System Falls As the German defense system in the center falls to the British; and Americans, the French and Americans on the southern wall j from Rheims to cast of the Meuse are smashing northward, threat- j ening the important junctions on the railways running eastward; from the broken St. Quentin-Cambrai line. East of the Hindenburg line in the St. Quentin-Cambrai area I the Germans are reported to have no prepared defenses until a line immediately east of the frontier is reached. East of this! line, which woud run through Valenciennes, the Germans have the j line of the Meuse. Many Prisoners Taken In capturing Cambrai and breaking through the German de fenses to the south the British and Americans took more than; 8,000 prisoners and a large quantity of guns. Near Fremont the J Americans captured ail entire German artillery position of three: batteries. Before the advancing Anglo-American line lie the railway! junctions of La Cateau Bohain, Guise and Caudry. If the north i and south railways are cut, German communication between the j Laon massif and the Lille salient will be lost. Field Marshal Haig has driven into the German lines a gigan-j tic salient based on Cambrai. This salient is a great menace toj the Lille and Laon positions. The French and Americans on the east an dthc British and Americans on the north rapidly are out-; flanking the La6n massif. Holding at Only One Point German resistance is stiffening along the front east of Rheims but not sufficient to stop the forward movement of Generals' Gourau dand Bertholet. The Franco-American positions in Cham-j pagne and the Argonnc to the Meuse have been improved by the , 1 successful French and American thrust east of the Meuse. The advance there frees the troops west of the Meuse from the menace of German artillery north of Verdun. In the operations on these sectors Tuesday American troops took 3,000 prisoners and a num ber of guns. Along the Ames the French yesterday took six hundred prisoners. THERE is every reason to believe that the great offen sive of the Allied armies in France has reached a climax and * that the next few days may wit ness events which will mark an epoch in the history of the war. THE WEATHER For HnrrlNhiirir and vicinity! Fair to-night nnd TlioriMlnyi nomr whnt nnrmrr to-night, with lowrrat trnipcrntare nhout 30 <le greeM. For EiiMrrn I'mii* jl vmiln i Fair tn-nluht and Tharndnyi nllghtly warmer tn-nlglit: front In ex ponrd plnrrnt gentle went wind*. Hlver The Sunquehannn river nnd nil It* hranrhea trill fnll, except the lower portion of the main river will remain nearly ntatlonnry to-night. A "Inge of nhout 0.8 feet la Indicated for HarrUbnrg On a front extending fromj Roulers, on the north to Verdun,i far down toward the other end] of the battle line, the Germans are being battered by successive blows and in some of these sec tors they seem to be in a very serious position. Strike Blow South of Cambrai British and American forces struck a blow south of Cambrai yesterday that apparently shat tered what remained of the great | enemy defensive system in that region. Over a twenty-mile front the Allies stormed ahead and at nightfall appeared to he out in the open country and moving toward the Cambrai-le-Chateau road, which is the only avenue [Continued on Page 13,] 1 HINDENBURG LINE 1 NO MORE; ALLIED! ATTACKS SHATTER FAMOUS BARRIER Anglo-Saxon Forces Storm; Last Remnants of Maze of Defenses Set Up by Hun' War General in France ALLIES NOW THREATEN | BOHAIN; YANKS NEAR Laon - St. Gobain Massif Is in : i Danger of Capture by the j Americans and French; Ap-| j proach Hunding Line By Associated Press Paris, Oct. 9.—The Hindenburg i 'line no longer bars the path of the Allies. The definite rupture of It was J achieved on the first day of the! ; fighting in the new development to wards the north of the great battle now raging from the Escaut to the Meuse. Enemy I-osscs Heavy j To Anglo-Saxon forces went the I honor of storming the last remnants |of the extraordinary maze of de i lenses, in some places twelve miles [in depth, between Cambria and St. Quentin. Apart from this achieve intent the results of the day's fighting were notable in that the enemy's i j losses must have run into tens of 'thousands during the day's fighting lin the various sectors of the long j | battle front. In addition Important I ;. strategic objects were attained. Allies Threaten Bohain j The allies now are in the open] j country on the Cambrai-St. Quentin | 1 front and are threatening Bohain,; an important unction of roads and! j railways, the Americans last night ; having pushed within two miles of J [that place. j Once the masters of Bohain, the j 'Allies, should they push towards; i Guise, would take in the rear not I only the Laon-St. Gobain massif] | hut the positions along the river ! 'Serre, duhbed by the Germans the j | Hunding line, which joins at Chau-i inont-Porcien the Brunhildo line ; I running along the Aisne. The Germans were so confident in I jthe strength of the Cambria-St. j 1 Quentin front that they neglected to ; ( organize the rectangular position j j bounded on the north by the line of ! I Cambria and I.undrecies and south j ■by the Serre position of which Guise j approximately is the center. As a ; result, all the German positions par- , [cllel to the German frontier, starting [in the east and running as far as La j Capelle, Vervins and Marie, risk i j being raked in. I The other arm of the trap which | jis closing relentlessly on the Ger- I mans that operated by General | ■Gouraud has also secured import-I a,nt results in the teeth of desperate j j resistance. I To complete the day's work i Franco-American forces moved up (on the right flank of the Meuse, won I iback places famous in the Verdun' struggle and got in line with the j Americans on the left bank, who are j thus relieved of the galling flanking I fire which had prevented them mov ilng forward. JAMES H. TROUT KILLED AS PENNSY TRAINS COLLIDE ! Passengers Escape Injuries in Wreck of Flyers Near Longfellow A rear-end collision between two westbound express trains on the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Eongfellow, Pa., at about 6.45 o'clock this morning re sulted in the instant killing of James H. Trout, aged 52 years, of 2148 North Sixth street, this city, engineer of one of the colliding trains. ! Train No. 53, an Adams Express, and train No. 37. known as the Iron [City American Express, figured in the accident which scant details [coming into the offices of the Phila | delphia Division early this morning | ascribed to a dense fog. i The dead engineer held the throt tle of train No. 37, which ran into [Continued on I'uge 13.] Prisoners Will Turn County Bridge Builders This morning the County Com missioners approved a plan to send half a dozen prisoners to Millers burg to help repair the bridge over Dittle Wiconisco creek. Twenty Dauphin county convicts are work ing daily on a state highway back of Inglenook. The bridge? workers will be taken to and from Millers burg dally on the truck that con veys the road workers to Inglenook. They will begin work to-morrow on the bridge. Nation Warned Liberty Loan May Fail Washington, Oct. 9.—At the present rate of going and with the present average per capita, subscriptions," said a treasury loan review to-day, "the Fourth Liberty Loan may not reach the desired goal within the allotted time." v PRESIDENT MEETS HUN STRATEGY BY COUNTERSTROKE Wilson Lays Trap For Ger man Governmental Heads in Note to Prince Max LEAVES PEACE WAY OPEN Compels New Chancellor to Render Explanation to the World in Latest Move IJOIMIOII, Oct.. 9.—Pi(fsident Wilson's reply to the peace pro posals of Prince Maximilian, the Imperial German Chancel lor, is regarded In diplomatic circles here as clever and log ical. Washington, Oct. 9.—By an adroit diplomatic move, President Wilson has laid a trap for the German gov ernment heads if the peace proposal made by Chancellor Maximilian was in the least insincere. This was the view of officials to-day as they stud ied the communication addressed by President Wilson yesterday to the German chancellor. Confronted by the strategy of Ger man diplomacy, the President in the view of officials has countered with superior strategy. And yet he has left open the way to peace. The President, by calling upon Prince Maximilian for information as to whether he represents the Ger man military masters conducting the war or the whole German people, has compelled the new chancellor and those associated w'ith him to render to the world an explanation of' their real position. Through the commu nication sent yesterday, the last hope of the German militarists to point to the Allies as waging war of ex- [Cont in tied on Page 13.] Turkish Cabinet, Friend of German Kaiser, Falls London. Oct. 9.—Talaat Pasha, the Turkish Prefnier, has resigned and has been succeeded by Tewfik Pasha, former Premier and ex-Am bassador at London, according to advices received here, Enver Pasha, the Minister of War, also has re signed. CITY AND COUNTY SOLDIERS ARE TO ENTRAIN OCT. 23 70 Men From Harrisburg and 82 From Districts Outside Go to Camp Greenleaf Harrisburg and Dauphin county boards this morning received no tices to induct quotas of general ser vice registrants for duty at Camp Greenleaf, Lytle, Georgiu, to entrain during the five-day movement begin ning October 23. At the same time they received the induction notice for tifty-flve colored men, qualified for limited service for duty in the Navy. It is the first induction call for the Navy and the first induction call for limited service of colored registrants. The boards were not informed of these quotas. They will entrain for Norfolk, October 23. The call for Camp Greenleaf is for 152 men, 70 from the city and 8 2 from the county. The quotas are us follows: City board No. 1, 11; No. 2, 28; No. 3, 31; county No. 1, 23; No. 2, 26; No. 3, 33. Train schedules will be announc ed later, it was announced by state draft headquarters. Quotas of nearby counties are: Cumberland, No. 1, none; No. 2, 21; Juniata 9; Perry. 15; Franklin] No. 1, 23; No. 2, 12; Fulton, 7; Lan custer city, No. , 18; No. 2, 22; No. 3, 18; Luncaster county, No. 1, 18; No. 2, 34; No. 3, 7; No. 4,' 22; Lawrence, 11; Lebanon, No. 1, 27; No. 2, 26; Mifflin 38; Northumber land, No. 1, 26; No. 2, 28; No. 3, 39; No. 4, 16; Snyder, 16; Union, 7; York, city board No. 1, 12; No. 2, 14; county No. 1, 25; No. 2, 23; No 3, 20. ISO VETERANS OF FRANCE'S NOTED FOREIGN LEGION | WILL VISIT CITY jTo Drill in Harrisburg Friday in Interest of the Liberty Loan Sale; Saw Much Ac tion at tlje Front SALESMEN DOING BIG WORK IN HOME CANVASS City Cannot Let Up Pace For a Minute if Quota Is to Be Reached; Two-Thirds of the Amount Yet to Be Raised Complete reports of Har risburg's Liberty Loan drive for to-day were not available up to 3.30 o'clock this aft ernoon owing to the fact that many bond salesmen had not turned in their ac counts of the day's twork at that hour. At headquarters however, it was announced that bond sales in the dis trict outside the city aggre gated a total to date of $1,402,400 while the total to date among the city's indus trial plants amounted to $2,095,350. To-day work on behalf of the Liberty Loan in Harrisburg industries netted $181,450 in bhnds. Four score members of the famous Foreign Legion of France—not the Blue Devils—will be in Harrisburg all of Friday. Announcement to this ef fect was made this morning by Hen derson Gilbert at Liberty Loan Head quarters. Arriving here at daybreak Friday the members of the Foreign Le gion will spend the entire day cam ' paigning for the Liberty Loan: and j will leave at midnight for New York, j where a big reception has been ar | ranged for them Saturday morning, j "No body of troops in the world is surrounded with the romance and | glamor which envelop the Foreign [Continued on I'agc 13.J HOW THIRD AND FOURTH LIBERTY LOANS COMPARE FOURTH LOAN FOURTH LOAN First Day Second Day. ROBERT McCORMICK — No. Amount. No. Amount. 1 C. C. Fitch 55 $12,450 21 2 H. M. Stine 74 18,950 50 5,950 3 J. A. Brandt 76 53,300 83 4 George W. Barnes 56 06,600 38 5 W. M. Essick 51 13,500 22 6 M. H. Taylor 38 13,500 36 54,500 Totals 350 $178,300 250 $142,700 ARTHUR D. BAC'ON— -7 M. W. Facer .......... 90 $21,050 41 $10,900 8 W. M. Robison 21 2,750 30 9 C. H. Kintcr 46 5,900 2b 3,900 10 J. N. Kinnard 63 7,550 67 ,80 11 E. J. Lewis 168 10,000 56 6,800 12 A. H. Armstrong 4 9 6,500 80 72,300 Totals * 377 $53,800 300 $46,550 CHARLES H. HOFFMAN— -13 ffm, Strouse 10.4 $lO,BOO 52 *10.450 14 C. W. Burtnett 55 4,050 <4 (.100 15 W. Frank Witman 215 21,600 ol 9.400 16 D. L. M. Raker 33 5,650 54 ~600 17 J. T. Olmsted 50 4,450 .. •••'•• 18 L. M. Keiffer 27 4,650 J_6 2.300 Totals 484 $51,200 JOHN F. DAPP— -19 B. F. Blough 419 $178,350 130 $25,500 "'0 A. S. Allen 52 14900 39 95,350 21 C E. Landis 18 8,000 60 4,250 22 H. P. Miller 36 12,000 53 55,250 23 Andrew Redmond .... 75 12,700 53 7,450 24 Benj. Strouse 48 22,050 94 48,650 Totals 648 $248,000 429 $236,450 CHAS. S. HUNTER — 25 J. C. Stevens 47 $5,400 41 $8,250 26 J. C. .Johnson 46 5,050 39 2,700 27 W. I. Cozolll 100 10,050 24 7.250 28 M. A. Seely 47 4,100 36 3,150 29 W. R. Repp 107 12,550 ' .62 6,800 30 J. S. Mac Donald 11 1,300 *3O 1,900 Totals 356 $38,450 232 $30,060 CHAS. E. PASS— -31 A. L. Holler 110 $13,050 .. 32 C. G. Miller 57 3,600 52 $8,150 33 W. S. Schell 52 3,600 52 3,650 34 It. R. Seaman 33 5.150 12 2,150 35 H. A. Boyer 115 • 3,350 47 8 650 36 H. B. Saussumun 50 10,450 11 11,100 Totals - 253 $38,950 Totals 2,568 $608,700 YANKEE INFA DEMORALIZES FOE BY HEAVY ATTACK I Rapid Advance of Anglo- American Troops Throws Germans Into Confusion; Enemy Lines Crushed Over Front of Twenty Miles HUN AIRMEN ARE SWEPT FROM SKIES With the Anglo-American i Armies Near St. Quentin, Oct. 9., —Heavy fighting continued throughout the night on the Cambrai-St. Quentin front and the British and Americans continued their progress of Tuesday under a heavy protective fire from the Brit ish artillery. The defeated enemy was almost smothered under the great deluge of steel and explosions. A large number of guns have boon captured by the British and Amer icans, in addition to the great batches !of prisoners which continue to ar rive at the cages. The American troops alone captured iwo complete field batteries and a battery of heavy artillery. Yanks Tnke Guns The Americans captured these guns Tuesday afternoon when they suddenly outflanked both ends of the valley south of Premont, oap jturing all the German guns there. I German reinforcements have ar -1 rived but as these troops have been j engaged several times recently their I presence merely adds to the con- I fusion in the enemy ranks. Enemy in Confusion ! Throughout Tuesday and last night jthe British had complete control of ! the air. Itoads, barracks, massed | troops and batteries behind the Ger ' man lines all were targets for the busy British bombing airplanes. ; In aerial fights a considerable number of the enemy were brought down. j There is great confusion within | the enemy lines. On the front ]of the two British armies engaged ■' twenty-nine enemy divisions have I been identified along the twenty ] mile fighting line. Some j>f these ' divisions have been engaged almost I continuously since August 8 and I many are mere shadows of the old I organizations U. S. ARMY IN A STEADY ADVANCE IN VERDUN AREA By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Amer ican and French troops arc stciul lly driving tlic enemy from the scene of the desperate struggles for Verdun, General Pershing re ported in liis communique for yesterday, announcing an advance 011 both sides of tlic Mouse and tlic capture of more than 3,000 prisoners during tlic day. lie also reported the capture of Gorany against stubborn lighting in the continued advance in the Argoiuio forest. The communique adds: "We captured Gornny and against stubborn lighting contin ued our advance in the Argoiuic forest. East of the Meuse, French and American troops serving with the Eirst Army made a brilliant attack in the vicinity of the Hois des Caurese and tlic Hols d'llau mont. Tlic villages of ('onsen voyc, Brabant, Hnumont and Beaumont have been occupied, and the enemy has been driven well beyond them.'' V WANDERS IN DKLIRIUM Miilnuioy City. Pa., Oct. 9.—Found wandering aimlessly around the street at night by Chief of Police Mc- Laughlin, Mary Zuhura, 40 years old. died of influenza wgen taken to the police station for treatment. I 1 HELD AS DOPE PEDDLER . j i. 1 [this city, wa? held for the Federal Grant} Jury this after- 1 < 1 ' 1 1 ,ped y dopt. ' A I FOR STATE REPRE j ' ' are considering the eatab- ' • < •nte;est3 of Pennsylvania soldiers and sailors. Details ' are being discussed by Auditor General Snyder, State ] (Treasurer ' LIBERTY BOND SALES 1 1 HarJ.- : ; T' '1 r.>. T ' '' ; '? -1 an J t 1 • -y t j r V •' 000. I DECREASE IN NEW YQRK | ■••.j ■ • j K ) .no- ■ : *• -4 K 1 ' { < •' ■ ( 1 I I —The State Health Department f I acked for three details of Boy' Scquts of three boys each j '" ? A call for -00 boys to give a | |tht also was P f nuttec. § I 11 T-'TUT Peter Kohlman, sl • ':c*y. - r, ar.'estc:- I •for violation of influepza quarantine ruling waived hear- m *T-o 'r a. ir rushed $3OO ; htu appearance in f lj. : , ... ... rt , * MARRIAGE LICENSES ~ I ' John Kdvi\rd Smith nnd A*nf Sterner, Harrlaburgi C'harlea B. M ? Anderaoa and Sarah 10. Cnrnon, Harrlnbars. s ay"*—•*- ..MV HOSPITALS FOR GRIPSUFFERERS TO BE OPENED BY HEALTH BOARD Open Air Refuge For Influ enza Victims to Be Opened in School at Fifth and Sen eca Streets; Directors Agree RED CROSS WORKERS GIVING ASSISTANCE Harrisburg Families Offer Homes in Crisis; Health Bureau Seeks Halls and Au ditoriums as Shelters Simultaneously with the announce ment by City Health Officer Dr. John M. J. Raunick at noon to-d'.V that the number of influenza en 1 s has reached 4,000 in this city, ca'> e the companion announcement fret the same source that Harrlsburp's first emergency hospital to combat the disease and care for its victims will be opened in a day or two in the city's new open air school at Fifth and Seneca streets. Between 100 and 150 patients, it Is estimated, can be accommodated in the school. # [Continued on Page I I.] ,
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