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SINGLE cor* ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATE!! CHESS LXXXVII? No. 182 12 PAGES > TEXTS HARRISBURG, PA, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1918 NEWSPAPER IN H AttltlSlll'ltG HOME EDITION
MARRIAGE ALONE CENTURY-OLD KUEHLMANN TO BRITISH TAKE < FRENCH ADVANCE TWO MILES LEAD IN WEST WILL EXEMPT WELL IS FOUND By Associated Press 500 PRISONERS, NOT Lomlon, Aug. 19. ?A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from AND TAKE 1,700 PRISONERS Amsterdam, quoting a report re- MEN FROM ARMY AT COURTHOUSE ceived from Berlin, says Dr. REPULSING FOE Richard Von Kuehlmann. former German foreign secretary, has re- to to Location (German Heavy Counterattack Way Win War Is Pusli, Know Where the Is? Closed and Forgot- ported to the military authorities. Smashing Victory Anybody Fire-Escape The dispatch adds that it is ex- Beaten Off Great It to Quick Conclusion, Is ten Many, Many pected they will give him a com- With Ago mand in the west. He is a major Losses Says Baker Won Between Oise Years in the Bavarian Cuirassiers. YOUTHS ARE TO GO LAST and the Aisneon STILL HAS WATER IN IT HAIG IS HOLDING FIRMLY Wide Front Positions Overlooking Boys Between 18 and 19 Not Workmen Make Discovery WARM WEATHER Ground to Fight Until Services Are While Digging to Make Held by Enemy in Brit- Absolujely Needed FOE RESISTS Sewer Repairs WILL SOON MAKE ish Hands By Associated Press DESPERATELY City highway department work- By Associated Press Washington, Aug. 19.?Eighty men making an excavation in front With the British Army in to-day so that re- ITS APPEARANCE of the Courthouse France, 19. British American divisions of 45,000 a in- Aug. Objectives, pairs could be made to sewer Otter- men each, General March told Import ant let there, found an old well opening Temperatures to Come Back troops after capturing the House Military Committee ; which had evidently been closed Normal by Tomorrow, steen ridge, in front of the town 1 Taken in Assaults for many years, and was built scores to to-day, "should to by Merris, have beaten off a be able bring of years, a century, ago. Is Forecast the war at Night jossiblyf in- to a successful con- Begun An old resident of the city vol- vicious counterattack and clusion in 1919." That is the unteered 'ho informatibn to-day The cool weather that has been flicted heavy losses on the number the War Department By Associated Press that when he came to Harrisburg in present in Harrisburg is scheduled to pass away Cool weather enemy. plans London, p. 1859 an old stood in front of to-morrow. to have in France by next Aug. 19-4.45 m. pomp will continue to-day and to-night, where the More than 500 Germans were Juue 30. ?French troops penetrated the Courthouse, about but the mercury will rise to-mor- The eighty division plan, Cen- into the village of Le Hamel, present foundation stands. The well row morning, official weather reports captured. which the highway department em- say. The low temperatures to-day tral March said, depended on on the hills west of the Oise past days The was captured by the ployes found is just a few feet east and the several has not ridge been so low nor so extended that shipping facilities, but he added: and northwest of Ribecourt and is probably the yesterday and the Ger- of the fountain damage of any extent has been suf- British "1 might say here,! to advices crops. as well right to-day, according one which was in use at that time. fered by the late growing mans counterattacked last night frankly, During the In digging along the edge the that the program of Mr. from the front. of The weather yesterday was nine and this morning. Schwab will take care of the fighting to-day the French Courthouse pavement the workmen degrees below what it normally is at struck rusty pieces Re- this time of the year. The mean The position, which over- aymy program and on it." were on the aggressive but some of iron. gain i moving a number of these and much temperature for the day was but 63 looks considerable ground held Exemption of married men simply some slight headway of the dirt the well opening, about degrees, while the normal tempera- because of status made by the enemy in the direction of their married is against determined German five feet in diameter, was found. ture for August 18 is 72. Not even contemplated by the War Depart- The well now is about twenty-live did the highest temperature reach Bailleul, now is firmly in British ment in preparing for the proposed resistance between Lassigny feet deep und has several feet of wa- the normal temperature, the mercury ages, Secretary hands. extension of draft the Oise. ter in it. It is believed that it was only scaling the heights of' 68 de- Baker declared to-day in a statement: and probably deeper years ago grees. lowest temperature re- the military much The CZECHOSLOVAK FORCE before House commit- when it was first opened but that corded last night was 58 degrees. The STARTS FOR HARBHV tee on the new administration man-; London, Aug. 19.?The stones from walls from mercury this morning at eight o'clock power French. the and dirt bill. the top fell into it. registered only 60 degrees, so weath- Aug. (Delayed).? Mr. Baker said his previous Tenth army, which attacked; Tokto, IS. re-! City highway department officials er Just as cool and even is forces from the mari- marks on this subject had been mis- soon cooler I Czecho-Slovak the German positions between decided not to till it in and as prevailing throughout Central Penn- time provinces of Siberia loft for construed, and that married men | as necessary repairs are complet- sylvania to-day. I Clii- who all Harbin on August 8 over the do not support their families and the Aisne ed will it aguin, replace the The temperature prevalent in this ! officially and the Oise last; cover nese Eastern Railway, it is who are not engaged in useful dirt which was removed and relay section are from two to six degrees occupations will to be call- night, penetrated to an announced. continue has ex-j the pavement along the curb. It is lower than they were on Saturday Along the Ussuri front, where tho ed. believed by officials that the pump morning. Only a few sections of the forces number strong, Ought Kiglit trenie depth of nearlv two miles.' enemy 100,000 to I was and well closed in country report rises in temperature. quiet prevails, it is said. Boi- are many married men removed the The "There in enemy machine gunners are the early sixties when the Court- Only a few weather bureaus in the sheviki and Austro-Germans are the country ought to go and The who house was rebuilt. far west and extreme north report visibly affected by the arrival of Al- tight as freely as single men," he resisting desperate';, and the lower temperatures than do Harris- lied troops and the number of de- added. burg. Harrisburg's temperatures their ranks is incrce s- Secretary, with air service also is very sertions from The War General German Former Governor Prouty, are the coolest for this latitdue. ing, it is reported. March and Provost Marshal General Crowder appeared before the House active. of Vermont, Killed When committee at opening hearings to St. Mard-les-Triot, a little over i reiterate their explanation given the Train Hits Automobile Senate that immediate enactment of a mile southwest of Roye was the manpower bill is imperative in Shcrbrookc. Que., Aug. 19.?For- order to carry out the enlarger war taken by the French yesterday, mer Governor G. H. Prouty, of Ver- program. according to reports from the mont, was killed when the automo- : MAY "There are two ways of prosecut- bile in which he was riding was hut.'" wrnii.'i'.'.T FR*ORE ing'thls war," Mr. Baker said, front. The French also struck by a Trunk train near way battle Grand !'Carlepont and finally | MIND TO WITHDRAW .FROM THE PRESENT and for deferring calling them wegian bark Nordhav was sunk by a "as far as practicable" of FOR S. CASUALTIES until after joins the old line north A RETREAT U. U. S. HISTORY German submarine 125 miles off the FRONT. INTENSE SHELLING AND BOMBING others in class one had been exhaust- Tracy-le-Val. The French now Virginia capes Saturday. Her crew I ed. escaped in small boats and have been is a hold rather important high Retirement Because C ENEMY REAR AREAS CONTINUES. AT NO "There sentiment in this com- Necessary Many Pennsylvanians Listed Company Loses AH but 32 brought into an Atlantic port by an | OF ' mittee." said Mr. Baker, "I American warship. know don't ground to the south of Andigni- how large, against calling men of Foch's Masterly Blows Among Heroes in Men and One of Its to Navy Department POINT HAS THE ENfcMY ATTACKS as young court. Advices the 1 ORGANIZED as IS unless it is absolutely to-day announcing the sinking did necessary. I think the of Against Hun Lines France Officers not say whether the bark was tor- sentiment Aug. the | EVEN AGAINST THE NEW OUTPOSTS OF THE the country is to get all the men Ihtris, 19.?Between Oise pedoed or was a necessary. shelled. She vessel But from the beginning und the Aisne French troops attack- By Associated Press By Associated Press Philadelphia, Aug. 19.?Bright will pf 2,623 net tons and sailed on June 1 have planned as a of regu- a BRITISH. matter ed at 6 o'clock last night over a Paris, Aug. 19.?The press Washington. Aug. 19.?A 15 from Buenos Aires. Captain lation, to men from 18 to German total of ! be the praises in the history of the have 19 746 names to-day is contained Berntsen was master of the bark. put in a separate class, with a view front of tifteen kilometers between is attempting to reassure its public in the I great war of Company C, of the | BRETZ CREDITORS MEET to deferring Carlepont about four east of that a general necessary double casualty list, making the their call until it is nec- miles retreat is largest 110 th Regiment, a unit in the Key- essary." and Fontenoy, approxi- on the western front allow American total since the be- Ribecourt to General ginning stone Division heav- Troops Are ; Harrisburg-7-Croditors of the Bretz Brothers were that this preference mately six miles west of Soissons. Ludenorff room to maneuver and of the war. In addition thir- that has suffered American He added ty names in might well be left to They advanced an average to assume the initiative on a vast a Marine ily in the great Yankee offensive. executive regu- distance Corps Great Help in France meeting in the bankruptcy proceedings against them this lations, but he would no of two kilometers over the whole scale, the newspapers report. A list. Particularly bright will praises I have ob- Ger- Army be the jection to having a specific provision front, according to the official state- man retreat, the newspapers say, showered Beaver, Aug. 19.?Credit to The following -casualties are re- on the Philadelphians for the written the bill. ment issued by the war office. would a result of re- American troops is given by Briga- ! afternoon. In the examination of Harry. M. Bretz it was . :j into be direct the ported by the Commanding General the part they To Quick Training There were artillery ac- cent allied successes. The newspapers have taken. dier General H. W. Thornton, of the Get violent this unit As to how long before men called tions north and south of the Avre assert that even if the Germans re- When was thrown in to royal engineers of Great Britain, in | revealed that he had not included in the statement 06 his under the new across, [Continued on Page 12.] help law will go river during the night, says to-day's check the great tidal wave of a letter to Colonel Samuel Moody, of * Baker said not more than six war office statement. [Contiiiuod on Page 12.] !' . LIEFT. FROEHLICH Germans across the Marne on the Beaver. months' training given at The French have occupied the PROMOTED going very this would be morning of July 15, it 224 "Things are well at home. plateau west of Nampoel, about BONDS REACH NEW LEVEL Lieutenant Samuel S. Froehlich, of numbered moment in the war, and a large part .York, members, I liabilities a $lBB check mad# payable to the city of Har- In extending the draft ages. Sec- seven miles northwest of Fontenoy. New Aug. 19.?Liberty Harrisburg, has been promoted to 219 privates and five of- of it is due to the magnificent per- Bonds, 3%5, ficers. Four retary Baker said, suspension of and the edge of the ravine south of opened on the Stock battalion adjutant of the Three Hun- days later. Lieutenant of the American troops," Exchange 101, a new high Seventy-second Infantry Jay A. Smith, sole surviving formance risburg for which he did not have sufficient funds in ?; academic education is an "unsolved Andignicourt, two miles and a half at record 1 dred and the com- says General Thornton. "All my Eng- I problem" of the situation, and that east of Nampoel, according to the by one-half of one per cent. now serving in France. missioned officer, with 32 men, re- joined lish military friends tell me they are joint it would be most unfortunate to have Nouvron-Vingre cap- the regiment. Twenty-one men ' bank, and a $lO,lOO note in which he is a maker and statement. was splendid. You may also be broud of \u25a0 nil collegiate were killed in action, he reported, education stopped. He tured. Seventeen hundred prisoners, the fine work being done by the believed there still would while five were wounded with the extent $3,600. be many including two battalion commanders, American railway men in France, ; liable