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ALLIES POUR THROUGH BREAKS IN LINE;
AMERICANS TAKE PART IN GREAT DRIVE
FOE, BROKEN BY
SMASHING BLOWS,
IN FULL FLIGHT
Battered Invaders Retreat
Rapidly Before ,
French and U. S.Troops
KAISER'S MEN DEMORALIZED
BY FOCH'S CONSTANT ATTACK
German Lines Turned When Haig Sends
Great Force Through Hindenburg's
Last Defense Into Open Ground
With the Anglo-American
Forces Southeast of Cam
brai, Oct. 10.—British and
American forces continued
to advance rapidly and are
driving the demoralized Ger
■nans before them, according
lo all available reports on
this front. The whole battle
is on a field that was aflame
I throughout the night. The
many fires have destroyed
towns and farm houses com
pletely.
Vigorously pressing the ad
vantage gained by the breaking
of the German line between
Cambrai and St. Quentin the
British. French and American
armies have widened the great
in 'his area to such an ex
tent that the entire German front
from r.heims northward seems to be
collapsing. ,
The dislntefp-aticn of this line *s
being hastened by vigorous strokes
delivered by the French along the
\isne. while farther east the Ger
man left flank in the active battle
area is being hammered hard br
other French forces and the Ameri
can First army, in the Champagne.
Argonne and Verdun regions.
Halg Wins Mighty Battle
Most telling in its immediate ef
fect is the thrust by Field Marshal
Haig southeast of Cambrai. where
American troops also are operating.
The British commander has swung
the main direction of his drive north
eastward and already has pushed to
•within two miles of the important
railway Junction of Le Cateau.
The taking of Le Cateau. which
seems imr.i.nent. will cut the last of
the lateral railway lines connecting
the German northern front with the
great salient of Laon and appar
ently will make inevitable the evac
uation of the entire Laon area.
British Gain lb Miles
Before Le Cateau the British arc
on a line fully ten miles in advance
of the longitudinal line running be
tween Cambrai and St Quentin. hav
ing swept through the great part
of this area in great strides behind
a disorganized enemy. The resistance
of the Germans was reported to be
stiffening during the nieht. however,
indicating that a stand might be
Great American Aerial
Fleet of 350 Machines
Bombs Cantonments
By Associate A Press i
With the American Forces North
west of Verdun. Oct. 10.— (Noon.*
Oeneral Pershing's infantry to-day
again went into action on the left
wing of the Argonne forest front
JHARRISBURG HAS
NEVER SLACKED
IN 133 YEARS
AND IT WON'T NOW!
LIBERTY BONDS
OR W. S. S.?
THE WEATHER
For Hnrrlahurg and vicinity: Fair
fo-nlicht and Friday: not mock {
change la temperature.
The Susquehanna river and all Its
tributaries will fall. V Matte of
about .V 3 feet la Indicated for °
Harrtaburg Friday morning.
made in an effort to save the rail
way junction as long as possible
! from capture. •
Meanwhile, farther south, the
French are pushing toward the Oise
in the general direction of Guise.
They have made particularly notable
progress to the east and southeast
of St. Quentir. where they are closely
approaching the river. Their col
j umns have passed Fontame-Xotre
' Dame, nearly six miles directly east
of St. Quentin. This push is like
! wise having a marked effect in elds
'ing the Laon pocket.
I)ouai Near Capture
j In the north the wedge driven from
Cambrai east already is affecting the
; front north of Lens. The British
, iirst army is advancing in the direc
j tion of Douai, which seems the next
great town along this section marked
j for captuie.
! The American First army under
General Pe-shing is not being out
done by the other Allied forces in the
delivery of hard blows upon the
trembling great German defensive
system. The thrust east of the
Meuse in the Verdun area is being
followed by further attacks which
have resulted in the advance of the
I line here well up toward that won
by the offensive west of the river.
Argonne Forest Cleared
In the Argonne. where a junction
has been effected with the French
at Lancon, thus virtually clearing
the forest of Germans, new attacks
were launched this morning. All
the recent gains of Pershing's men
have been held, despite the throwing
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Blindfolded Yankees Shout
Defiance to Hun Captors;
"Go to Hell," Leader Says
With the Vmerlrnn Force* North
west of Yrrdtin. Wednesday, Oct. 9.
The brightest spot in the heroic and
amazing story of the now famous
"lost battalion," which belonged to
the Seventy-seventh Division, was the
climax to the fourth day of the
troops' beleagurement in the Argonne
forest. An American who had been
I aken prisoner by the Germans sud
ieniy appeared at the little camp sur
rounded in the valley.
The man had been sent blindfolded
from the German Headquarters with
a typewritten note to Major Whittle
sey. reading:
"Americans, you are surrounded on
all sides. Surrender in the name of
humanity. You will be well treated."
Major Whittlesey did not hesitate a
fraction of a second.
"Go to hell!" he almost shouted. His
men cheered so loudly that the Ger
mans heard them from their observa
tion posts. '
after a violent artillery bombard
ment lasting all night.
The Germans are throwing in re
serves on their left flank which now
has been exposed in the Argonne
pocket. The enemy also is endeav
oripg to withdraw his troops at other
points so as to restore the line.
Yankees Drop Bombs
An American bombing expedition
consisting of more than 330 machines
yesterday dropped thirty-two-tons of
explosives on German cantonments
in the area between Wavrllle and
Dnmvllers. about 12 miles north of
Verdun.
The American bombing exploit
marks one of the high spots in the
air fleet operations of the war. in
the expedition were more than 200
bombing alhplanes, one hundred
pursuit machines and fifty triplanes
The bombing machines were given
splendid protection during the aerial
battle which took place during the
operation. Twelve enemy machines
were destroyd. Only one Entente
plane failed to return.
In addition American airplanes
yesterday destroyed or brought down
five German machines nnd one bal
loon. They also took a great num
ber of photographs and dropped
newspapers to the American troops.
How Much Are You Helping?
CREST OF INFLUENZA
MAY NOT BE PASSED
UNTIL NEXT WEEK
City Prepares to Open Eme rgcncy Hospitals at Country
Chib and Masonic Temple; Volunteer Nurses Needed;
Stores Asked to Close Saturday Evenings
Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health
officer, this morning requested all
merchants to close Saturday evenings
at the same time as during the re
mainder of the week, as a further
precaution against the spread of
Spanish influenza.
Realizing the potent danger of
the crowds who till the downtown
stores Saturday nights, in many
cases unnecessarily. Dr. Raunick is
trying to impress upon businessmen
the necessity of relieving the city of ,
that added menace to the present
influenza sitaution.
Hint Stronger M cast ires
The closing edict this morning was
in the nature of a request. Stronger
measures may finally become neces
sary unless it is observed, for that
reason it is thought merchants gen
erally will be glad to comply.
A few of the_ merchants who were
seen this morning expressed their I
willingnes to co-operate by clos- ;
ing. They also saw the advantage
of allowing their clerks that chance
for respite from the Saturday night j
rushes, feeling that with the present I
CLEAN FURNACE j
WILL SAVE COAL.
SAYS COMMITTEE
Harrisburg Asked to Join To
morrow in City-wide
Drive on Soot
To-morrow is "Clean the Furnace
Day."
It Is just as imperative and pa- I
jtriotic, C. M. Kaltwasser. chairman'
iof the .Dauphin County Anthracite ;
j Conservation Committee, said, to
iclean the furnace to-morrow so as'
to guard against waste, as it is to j
make a noise on the Fourth of July j
lor to make speeches on Lincoln's!
| birthday.
j In an effort to have .the furnaces ;
j (}f the city in such perfect condi
| tion that the consumption of domes
; tic sizes of anthracite will be re- '
j duced to a minimum. Mr. Kaltwas
; ser and the Dauphin county fuel ;
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BEI.GICM CARDINAL I.ACDS V. S.
New York, Oct. 10.—An autograph
message to thhe American public
j from Cardinal Mercier, of Belgium,
: expressing his admiration of "the
1 powerful assistance" given by this
| country to the Allied armies, was
i brought here yesterday by Paul
Vandenven. director of the Belgian
j official Information Service, with :
' headquarters at Washington. j
, influenza situation, it is to their in
terest to preserve the general health
of their help.
Offers Church to City
The liev. William J. Lockhart,
I astor of the First Baptist Church,
Second and Pine streets, this morn
ing offered the church for use as
an emergency hospital for the treat
ment of influenza sufferers. The
Health Department now has four
similar offers, the others being the
Harrisburg Country Club, at Fort
Hunter; the Masonic Temple, Third
and State streets, and the open a.r
school at Fifth and Seneca streets.
Dr. John M. J. Haunick. city
health officer, said this afternoon
that with the co-operation of the
Harrisburg Chapter of tlie Red Cross,
the Hoalth Bureau Is ready now to
open an emergency hospital in any
I one or all of those places at a
moment's notice.
The emergency hospital in the
George Saltzman pome. Riverside,
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FIRE EATS WAY
INTO 10,000 TONS
OF BITUMINOUS
Steel Plant Fights Big Blaze,
Raging Now For a
Week
Fire raging in a huge pile of bi
ituininous coal at the coke plant of
the Bethlehem Steel Company in
Steelton to-day is beinfe fought by a
large number of men in the hope
of stopping the loss which has been
going on steadily for more than a
week.
No estimate of the loss could be .
given to-day at the steel plant al
though it was suid that many hun
dred tons of coal have been burn
ed. There are approximately 10,000
tons of the best grade of gas bitumi
nous ih the pile.
The tire started in a small way
and before it could be checked had
I spread with great rapidity along a
large portion of the pile. The diffi
culty of getting a hose line stretch
ed aided the Are in gaining head- '
way.
WhHe the loss in money has been 1
considerable, officials of the plant
said to-day they nre more concern- :
ed over the difficulty of having the!
1 burned coal replaced. >
POLICE HAVE
LITTLE WORK
I WITH LIQUOR
SALES STOPPED
Few Arrests Made Because of
Sobriety of Men and Wom
en Who Have Furnished
*
Most of the Criminal Cases
EVEN PAWNBROKERS
; DOING LITTLE BUSINESS
No Reason Now to Pawn Coats
i Off Back to Get Whisky;
Patrolmen Satisfied if Har
risburg Remains "Dry"
With the first week of the
enza quarantine ftearinß its end, of- (
ficials of the Harrisburg police de- 1
partmcnt are elated over the de
creased amount of crime durinß the j
i shutdown of all saloons and liquor
j dispensaries.
Only three arrests have been
j made durinß Harrisburg's first week
;of prohibition. Vnder normal con
j ilitions, that many are arrested ev
iery day. and generally twice as
] many, or even more every night,
j Drunkenness and disorderly con-
I duct on the street also has been re- J
duced almost to nothing. Police are
! enthusiastic in their praises of the
j elevation of moral conditions in
'hitherto incorrigible neighborhoods,
j which have been affected by cutting
off the liquor supply. Liquor is ac
countable, according to the police,
for most of the petty criminology in
the city.
A pertinent effect of the benefit
accruing from the order forbidding
j liquor sales is seen in the pawn
sheets turned in by pawnbrokers
jand second-hand dealers. Dozens of
i articles usually are listed on these
i sheets every day. During the past
week no sheet has contained more
! than three or four items.
| "Which shows," said Karl M.
i White, secretary to the chief of po
lice, who has charge of this depart
j ment of police activities, this tnorn
j ing, "that the city's inebriates are
' not pawning their watches, cloth
\ ing and other possessions to buy
; drink."
Yesterday there was only one of
| fender arraigned in police court, and
1 the day before there was no police
t court at all. Usually there are ses
| sions of police court lasting an hour
or more every day, and drink is the
; basis of more than seventy-five pt>r
I cent. of the arrests, police say.
i Monday usually brings the largest
I quota of cases, owing to Saturday
night celebrations, but last Mondty
! there was but one case.
/ 1 1
Forging Ahead Slowly
FIRST SECOND THIRD
DAY DAY DAY
ROBERT McCORMICK — Amount. Amount. Amount.
1 C. C. Fitch $12,450 $1,350 $5,300
2 H. M. Stine 18,950 5,950 22,400
3 J. A. Brandt 53,300 20,000 36,850
4 George W. Barnes 66,600 16,560 54,250
a W. M. Essick 13,500 14,350 21,150
6 M. H. Taylor 13,500 84,500 3,300
Totals $178,300 $142,700 $143,250
ARTHUR D. BACON—
-7 M. W. Fager $21,050 $10,950 $35,450
8 W. M. Robison 2,750 47,150 5,250
9 C. H. Kinter 5,900 3,900 11,600
10 J. N. Kinnard 7,550 7,850 19,600
11 E. J. Lewis 10,00 6,800 5,750 .
12 A. H. Armstrong 6,500 12,300 *7,300
Totals $53,800 $46,500 $84,950
CHARLES H. HOFFMAN—
-13 Wm. Strouse SIO,BOO $10,450 $7,050
14 C. W. Burtnett 4,050 7,100 16,600
15 W. Frank Witman 21,600 9,400 3.900
16 D. L. M. Raker 5,650 7,600 3 ,f50
17 ,T. T. Olmsted 4,450 45,70,0 6,250
18 L. M. Keiffer 4,650 2,34)0 7,550
Totals $51,200 $82,580 $45,600
JOHN F. DAPP—
-19 B. F. Blough ......... $178,350 $25,500 $61450
20 A. S. Allen 14,900 95,350 47*200
21 C. E. Landis 8,000 4,250 8 450
• 22 H. P. Miller 12.000 55.250 13*750
23 Andrew Redmond .... 12,700 7,450 • 4*750
24 Bij. Strouse 22,050 48,650 45^350
Totals $248,000 $236,450 $150,350
CHA9. H. HUNTER—
-25 J. C. Stevens $5,400 $8,250 SOOO
26 J. C. Johnson 5,050 2,700 7 7Kn
27 W. I. Cozolli 10,050 7,250 2*300
28 M. A. Seely 4 100 3,150 4 700
29 W. R. Repp 12.550 6,800
,30 J. S. Mac Donald 1300 $ 900 .
Totals $38,450 $30,050
CHAS. E. PASS —
32 C* O MUler *6-'>,600 $86,050
33 W 8 Schell 3 ' 6o ° 8,150 8.250
34 RR. Seaman *!!!!!.' .*! |'® * 2.700
35 H. A. Boyer 2.150 10,600
36 H. B. Saussaman •? 13.G00
10,400 . 11,100 9,600
Totalß $38,950 $99,300 $731,800
Tota,s $608,700 $535,150
Total, Hpmes
Total. Industrial
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BIG SPURT NEEDED
IF DISTRICT IS TO
MEET BOND QUOTA
Salesmen Hard at Work in |
Effort to Bring City Into
Honor Class, but Mark Will
Not Be Reached by Evening,
I as Was Hoped
FAMOUS FRENCH UNIT
j TO BE HERE TOMORROW
FIGURES TO DATE
Source Wednesday Thursday
Industrials ... $2.<>5.350 $75,000
Homes 1.200.150 001,600
Dauphin
iCounty (out
side city) ... 1.218.050 71,150
Perry County 110,100 16.550
Juniata County 64,050 2.050
f Totals $1,707,200 $770,250
GRAM) TOTAL, DISTRICT ,
Previous Sales, $1,707,200
* To-day 770.250
j Total $5,177,150
CITY TOTALS
Previous sales, $3.30 1.800 I
To-day 676,600
Total* $3,081,100 j
; District quota $10,108,130
I Bonds sold 5,477,450 j
I Shy $1,721,000 |
City quota
.Bonds sold 3.081.100
Shy $2,152,240
The people of the Harrlsburg dis
j trict were to-day making a big. ef
| fort to redeem their failures of the
I last week, hoping that it would still
ibe possible for the tri T county dis
] trict to purchase the over $10,000,000
'worth of-Liberty Bonds alloted.
[ I The declaration by the Liberty Loan
! Executive Committee last night that
' | evidently pro-German propagandists
• had been at work in the Harrisburg
' I district, or else the bond salesmen
! had not been as vigilant as they
■ | might be, was met to-day by con
' | stderable of a spurt—but not enough
■ iof a spurt to secure the sale to-day
' |of the $2,828,840 necessary to bring
- ' Harrisburg into the hundred per cent.
■ I class.
' lAs for the district outside of Har
risburg, the towns of Steelton and
• ! Marysvijle .are the only two which
1 1 have bought their bonds. During the
- I third campaign 35 or 40 towns hall
■ honor Hags at this stage of the game'.
" Steelton and Marysville are very
i lonesome. Purchases by three other
" towns are: Linglestown, $5,000 ;*Pax
tonla. $5,000; Piketown. $4,500.
1 The great numbers of men seen on
r the streets daily without Liberty
' Bonds buttons is<evidence that pur
chases are individually less than in
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Bonds, Taxes or Defeat!
Our government can raise
money in only two ways-—one by
borrowing from its people, the
other by taxing its people.
; If our people loan their money,
they get the best security in the
world and the highest interest
ever paid on such security.
Whut the people do not loan
they must make up by taxation.
Money paid in taxes is not re
turned.
The war must go on to victory.
The government must raise the
necessary funds.
Shall it be by loans or taxa
j tion?
Our patriotic duty is to make
it a maximum of loans and a
minimum of taxation.
Shall a hundred million Amcr
. leans stand on the graves of four
! million dead men and tell them
they have died for nothing?
j other campaigns, while the total of
! the bonds may be larger.
I-eiclonitlrra Here To-morrow
j The French Legionaires, to the
: number of nearly 100, arrive in the
j city before 6 to-morrow morning.
Loan headquarters are map
| ping a schedule of activities for the
| day, which includes a short parade
] through the down town streets at
j noon, and truck trips to big manu
■ facturortes. The French Legion, as is
i well known, is composed of dare
l devils of all nations.
Booth In Post Office
; A booth for the sale of bonds was
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cign Legion will, arrive in Harrisburg, to-morrow morn- |
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*RF VISITS ST. QUENTIN ■
-Williani Graves Sharp, the American anibasifcr *
- • ■i: v•' the captured , ity c r
" 9 Quen ; after the mayor. He also paid visits to i
' • r * . ; . ons.
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U. %. STEAMER DEEPWATER JS SUNK ; {
■ I New York— I The American steamship. Deepwater, ,
8,500 tons gross register, has been sunk, presufnably by Mlj
an enemy submarine, according to information received 1
"in shipping circles here to-day. " I
< CANADIANS HOLD CAMBRAI %
With the Canadian Forces in France—The Canadian I
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are in complete possession of the |
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' BLAINE'S GRANDSON DIES _ J
. Chicago—Emmons Blaine, Jr., son of the late Emmons I
• 'Blaine, and grandson of the former Secretary of the states, J
James G. Blaine died of pneumonia yesterday at Lam- i
< >downe, Pa., according, to Word received bv relatives here. ®
] M ARR I A(j f. UCENSES \
nnvid P. Itojrrr* nnd lifrfrmlr M. Krll. Hnrrlxtiurk'i Albert 11. i
C stmjrer nnd llliinrhr K. Krrpi. Mldillrton ni Wlllltun Hnrro nml -■}
fc" I'nrollir
BRITISH TROOPS
SWEEP FIERCELY
AGAINST ENEMY
CAMBRAI LINE
King George's Fighters Meet
in Center of City nnd Finish
Kaiser's Forces; Huns Hide
in Cellars
ALLIED FORCES TAKE
VILLAGES IN DRIVE
Fast "Whippet" Tdnks and
Cars Deal Death to Foes of
Entente Warriors; Tom
mies Occupy Bertry
By Associated Press
Willi the British Arii% 011 tluw
Canibrat-St. Quciuin Front, Oct. 10.
—By Tuesday night the British and
Americans had reached a point
where it was certain that the Ger
man lines could be cracked.
The Third and Fourth armies
agaih attacked yesterday) morning
i south to the front held by the
i French. Simultaneously Canadian
land English troops launched a pow
erful attack extending several mil s
north from Cambrai.
The Canadians swept on after an
nihilating the Germans who tried to
check them. Together with the Eng
lish, they hurried eastward, smoth
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