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Evening star., 1917-09-16
Liqhts Blind the AusfriQns
As Italians Trick Enenlu
Daring of Cad0rnas Men in Crossing Is0nzo to
Holy Ghost Land Revealed in Battles
Rage in Picturesque Setting.

the water and were carried instantly
down. The constant cannonade helped
the searchlights in fooling the enemy
and kept the sound of the bridge-mak-
ing from reaching the Austrians ears.
In the morning when the Austrians
realized what had happened, they pre-
cipftated themselves backward a dis
tance OF more than seven miles to their
happened. instead of their successful
retirement to Volnik, was the first sur
render OF an enemy army in this war.
Make Military Highway.
When I arrived at the new foot
bridges I found the engineer corps
still there making stone and concrete
structures, over which artillery trans
ports and my automobile could pass to
tho beginning Of what is really Balm
sizxa. The Austrians had a fairly good
road up behind their old lines to the
top of steep incline. There. where
road making should be simpler than
on the sides of mountains. their road
trickled on into an ordinary Austrian
path. and where I found what seemed
to be thousands of Italian soldiers MAX
ing a real military highway as quickly
as possible.
! Every wounded man is carried by
hand from Holy Ghost Land, and every
bit of food and water is carried in by
night. although water was being piled
up even while we were there. We
climbed to the highest point with a
general of division. He pointed out the
trenches of Nolnik just as the sun was
throwing its last rays across the giant
Termova plateau, that gloomy and
higher tableland surrounded by snow
peaks, and just beyond the land of the
tria are established on the edge of
Termova.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
SHELL MISSES F. B. SAYRE
BY BARELY FORTY FEET
Presidents Son-in-Law and PARTY
in Peril on the italian
Front.

PARIS. September I5.-F'rancis B.
Sayre. President Wilson's son-in-law
has just returned here from trip to
the Italian front with other American n
and British officials of the y. NJ c. A.
after having escaped a six-inch shell by
only forty feet.
The party was motoring up a hill
along the Isonzo valley on September I.
and Austrian observers sighted the Y,
NJ c. A. men as they alighted when the
cars stopped at a bend in the road
Five shells were fired by the Austrian
batteries. believed to be composed of
siX-inch guns.
The first two shells fell 400 feet be-
yond the party. The next two were a
few hundred feet short. The fifth burst
within forty feet of where the PARTY
stood. All the members of the eroun
were covered with dirt and pelted with
the stones thrown up by the explosions
AS speedily as possible they were hur-
ried into the cars by the Italian Off
GERS escorting them and driven out of
the danger zone.
Three days later while they were
climbing q mountain in the Trentino
the aerial tramway cables became tam
gled and the party was left suspended
over a chasm for a half hour before the
tangle could be Strengthened out.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
AMERICA HELPS ALLIES
BY EXPOSING |NTR|CUES
Cableeram to The Sunday Stnr and
New York World. Copyright, 1917.

Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
New York World. Copyright. 1917.
LONDON. September 15.-The Morn
ing Post SAYS in an editorial:
Our debt to America increases day
by day. and not the least for the deadly
effectiveness with which she has let
light into the dark places of German
diplomacy and world policy. America
lifts a stone, and Immediately swarms
of obscene shapes are revealed. scurry-
ing like guilty things Scrprised. to seek
refuge in their native darkness.
The characteristic methods of the
German and his accomp1ices could not
have suffered more damaging exposure
and If America had done nothing more
as an ally, her service would still be
substantial enough to give the enemy
cause to revise his contemptous esti-
mate of her belligerent capacity"
On the subject of Swedens' services to
Germany the Daily Chronicle says edi-
torially:
The Swedish people will see that
evidence against their diplomats con-
vincing them of treacherous unneutral-
ity in matters of utmost seriousness is
now overwhelming. They ought to deal
with them from Admiral Lindman down.
in way which would re-establish
Swedish neutraliy. Otherwise the allies
will have to take action to protect them
selves, and begin by Withdrawing from
the Swedish government the privilege
of sending cipher messages over cables
which we control"
The Morning Post publishes an in
terview given to the Paris Tennis by
Izvolsky the we'll known Russian
with regard to the kaiser
czar intrigue in 1905. This, saws
Izvolsky. "is exactly what happened
at B1orko: William II presented to the
czar a proposal for a treaty of de-
fensive alliance between Germany and
Russia. This treaty was expressly di-
rected against Great Britain, and
counted in the adherence of the French
Republic. 1t left to Russia the task OF
inducing her ally to join the empires.
nicholas II may have hesitated be-
fore signing 1t. OF that we know moth
ing, or almost nothing. The fact is that
he signed at Bjorko the treaty brought
by the German emperor. The car was
not accompanied by his minister for
foreign affairs, and as the German en-
peror insisted on a counter-sfgnature
beside that of the sovereign. the czar
odered an old courtier of his inn
mediate suit, Admiral Birileff, to sign.
Birilen executed the cars order, and
II is even stated the admiral cobld not
read the text of the document;Sas the
covered it with his hand"
Evening star., 1917-09-16
MAY GO TO PACIFIC COAST.
Russian Naval Mission Soon to Ar.
range Itinerary.

A visit to the Pacific coast probably
will be included in the tour Of the Rus
sian naval mission. A program has not
been arranged. but Vice Admiral Kolt.
chalk, head of the mission, is eager tc
accept invitations from the middle west
and the Pacific coast as soon as con.
ferences with naval officers here are
over, probably in about a week. Lieut.
AIva D. Bernhard. the admirars Amer
lean naval aid. is arranging the trip
Several eastern cities will be visited
1rsf.
Admiral Koltchak said last night hi
will carry back to Russia the message
that American soldiers and sailors. al.
though free citizens of a democracy
obey orders implicitly.
THAT Is a lesson which Russians, with
their new democracy, will have to Learn
from you," he said.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
ACCUSED OF DOUBLE MURDER

SEQUATCHlE. Tenn. September Ii
Charged with the murder of his two
sons. Bob Johnson. Cumberland
county farmer. has been arrested at
Ravenscroft and is now in Jail. ONLY
meager details Of the crime have been
received on account of the remoteness
of the locality. but it appears that John
son had taken his fourteen-year-oId
boy to the woods to cut timber, and
when they did not return at night a
searching party was organized and. 90
ing to the woods, found the body of
the boy with the head crushed from a
blow of an AK. younger son of John
son died suddenly few days ago. and
it is charged that the death was caused
by poison administered by the father.
His wife had become alarmed at the
mans actions and made her escape
from home.
Johnson was taken to Sparta, where
an examination will be made into his
sanity. the man having been complain
ing OF strange sensation in his head
since an attack Of fever some time ago.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
ITALIANS RECTIFY LINE
ON BAINSIZZA PLATEAU

ROME. September 15.-Reporting to-
day the situation along the Austro-Ital-
ian front, the war office statement says ::
There has been artillery activity of
noticeable intensity In some sections of
the Trentino and Julian fronts Near
Log. in the northern zone Of the Balm
sizza plateau. by advancing we rectified
our line OF occupation and captured pris-
oners On the Carso the enemy $ lines
of communication were bombarded by
our airmen with about three tons Of
bombs.
In an aerial combat an enemy air
plane was brought down in flames in the
Auzza torrent at Avscek. The pilots
were killed"
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Luxburg Apparently Got
"Sink Without Trace Idea
From Illustrated Weekly

THE HAGUE, September 15.-The
Times correspondent is informed that
Count LuXburgs recommendation to
trace did not originate with Luxburg.
The same recommendation is contained
in an article published by the Berlin
Illustrated weekly. Die Woche, some
months ago.
The article, written by Prof. Flann,
the shipping construction lecturer of
Charlottenburg Technical High School,
urged that neutral ships and their
crews should be treated with the ut
most severity. the ships and their crews
being sent to the bottom without leav-
ing trace.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
MAINE SLOGAN: FOOD WINS.

AUGUSTA. Me-, September 15.-Plans
to organize a food conservation army
of $4,000 families in Maine for CO.
operation in the national food conserva-
tion campaign for the reduction of
waste and conserving the national food
supply were formulated at a meeting
here today. Gov. Milliken was made
chairman of executive committed
which will direct the work.
Every house in Maine is to be can
vassed, and the slogan of the campaign
will be: Food VIII Win the War.
Don't Waste It., ,--
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Worked Despite Wounds.

"The American nurse. although
struck in the face by a fragment Of
steel from the bomb. refused to be re-
lieved and remained at her task
courageously to the end. A hospital
orderly who worked untiringly was
found later to have been struck in
the head by a fragment and painfully
injured. He had Just tied up his head
and worked on.
In the operating room Capts Hor-
ace Binney and Elliott. with their as
sistants. worked all night long. Sew
eral delicate operations were per-
formed and their task was made all
the harder by the fact that in in
Vulnerable cases the patients were in
serious danger of infection from the
pieces OF wood and nails and dirt which
had been blown into their bodies. Lieut.,
Col. r. L. Patterson. L. S. A.. com
manding officer of the unit, and Maj
Harvey Cushing. head of the surgica
force. the latter being at the front
at the time of the disaster. have ex-
pressed the highest admiration for the
manner in which the emergency was
met Latest reports are that the con-
dition of the wounded is progressing
satisfactorily"
Evening star., 1917-09-16
TO TEACH TELEGRAPHY.
Illinois Business Men Indorse Move
ment to Train 10000 for Army.

CHICAGO. September IL. - The Illi-
nofs Manufacturers Association and
the Chicago Association of Commerce
today indorsed a movement to train
10000 telegraphers for service in the
Signal Corps Of the United States Army
Telegraphy will be taught men OF
military age in public schools of Chi
cago, as we'll as in universities. colleges
and technical institutions throughout
the Central Department of the Army, it
was announced.
Cant. John A. Kirk of the office of
Lieut.. Col Wildman. department signal
officer, is in charge of the educa tional
campaign.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
FOR CATHOLIC CHAPLAINs.
Fifty Mass Outfits Furnished for
Service in Army and NAVY

Fifty mass outfits are to be furnished
for Catholic chaplains in the Army and
Navy by the Ladies' Auxiliary to the
Ancient Order of Hibernians in the
United States. in accordance with in
structions issued by National President
Mrs. Mary +. McWhorter of Chicago.
Each outfit. which contains the sacred
vessels used in the celebration of the
mass and tho vestments for the Off
ciating clergymen. costs 500. The aux
iliary will raise $4,000 for this purpose,
1t was announced. When this work is
complete a fund will be established to
be expended by Rev. Lewis j. O'Hern.
c. S. p. for spiritual and moral upIift
work among the soldiers
Evening star., 1917-09-16
EACH DRAFT DIVISION
WILL ENTRA|N AS UNIT
Divisions l and Z, the First District
Men, Leave for Camp Meade
September 26.

Divisions l and : will be the first of
Washington's eleven draft districts to
send their As per cent quotas to Camp
Meade.
tain number of men on each of the five
days that will be required for getting
the capitals initial increment into
camp. which was the plan originally
contemplated, the divisions will entrain
as units. two or more of them leaving
each day. according TO Information
made public last night
The new plan is being worked out by
d. }. Donovan. secretary to the Com =
missioners and acting adjutant gen
eral for the District. and Edward
Emery, representing the American n Rail
way Association. and will be commu-
nicated to the boards for the several
districts tomorrow.
Division ! will furnish 5s men. and
division :. 2S men as their respective
with total of 81 men. will leave Union
station, via the Baltimore and Ohio. for
Camp Meade on the morning of Sep
tember rs. according to the schedule
adopted.
September 27. according to the sched
ule. division .. with As men, and diyi-
sion 3. with 80 men, total of SO, will
entrain.
September IS. the departing units will
be division s. with SIS men, and IL, with
% men: total, 81.
September %. two more divisions, 5.
with 4o. men. and 10, with As men, Il
total of SO, will pull out for the can
tonmeat
September 80 will witness the en-
training Of the last of the 4lS men
composing the first As per cent incre-
ment Of the Districts quota for the ma
tional Army. On this date, divisions 4
with Is men: s. with "a men, and 9,
with 40 men, total of 79, will depart.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
HAS GERMANY'S REPLY.
Argentina Gets Note on Luxburg AT.
fair-Said to Be Unfayorable.

BUENOS AIRES. September 15.-,
From an authoritative source it is
learned that the reply of the German
government to Argentina's demand for
an explanation of Count Luxburg's ac-
ton in sending secret code messages
to Berlin through the Swedish legation
has been received here
II is indicated that the reply probably
is unfavorable. The Argentine foreign
minister does not deny that the Ger
man answer has been received. although
he refuses to admit the fact.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
HOUSEWIFE SHOWS
WHAT CAN BE DONE
WITH FIFTY CENTS

Here is another food conserva-
ton achievement, this time from
a housewife of Mount Pleasant.
This woman drove out to a
Rockville farm, bought three bas-
kets of peaches for so cents and
with them she
Canned 81 pints of peaches.
Made quarts of peach butter.
Made 8 gallons of vinegar from
the peelinEs,
Cracked the pits and got quart
of kernels, which. when salted.
taste like almonds.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Banks Are Perpendicular.

Even where pontoons were flung across
in single night to permit the passage
Of the Italian army. the river banks are
perpendicular granite cliffs quite forty
feet high Then there comes a thin ledge
where Infantry can find safe footing and
where the straight line from the water s
edge changes to an incline leading to
Bainsizza, another thousand feet up.
Months ago the Italians attempted to
cross the river at some of these places
but were stopped by the Austrian fire.
The troops who managed to climb that
forty-foot precipice were slaughtered and
their bodies lay out on top OF the ledge
until they became skeletons.
The Italian trenches We're just at the
same level on the near side of the river.
The lines of tho Austrians were several
hundred yards up an incline. looking al
most straight down on the rivera series
of perfect natural fortresses made of solid
granite. They never expected the Ital-
ians to try again. or If they did try, the
Austrians believed it would be only feint
to cover operations farther south in front
of Hermada mountain. which has barred
the road to Trieste. / say has barred,
but that is a story to tell later.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
DISCARD MILITARY RULE.

CableRram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
TOXIC, Japan, September 13-It is re-
ported that Japan viii soon substitute
for the military rule of Tsingtao, cap
tured from the Germans in 1914. civil
government under DIR. Masanosuke
Akiyama, senior counsellor of the
Chosen administration and an auth6r-
ity on international law.
Regulations for the civil administra-
ton have already been drawn up and
they have received the approval of the
cabinet and will be promulgated by i'm
perial ordinance.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Cadorna's Biggest Scheme.

When the Italians did try again. and
this time succeeded. it was the big
gest scheme ever inaugurated by the
silent wizard Of the Italian armies
-Cadorna. AS said in previous
dispatch. its very audacity contribut-
ed to it's success. When dawn fol-
lowed the night of the crossing. the
Austrians could scarcely believe their
eyes An army stood in front of them.
ON the bridges, const over that
terrible gorge between darkness and
dawn, an army corps had passed with
scarcely the loss of a man.
And it was done chiefly by putting
out the Austrian eyes. On the hills
opposite the Austrian positions, and at
exactly the same level. the Italians had
been concentrating searchlights for
DAYS. There seemed to be miles Of
them. on the night when the pom
tnons were to be thrown across they
were turned full on the Austrians for
,he f1rst time, dazzling them to such
on axtent that they could see nothing
Of the work going. on under their noses
and only q few hundred yards under
at that. IT was almost as near as if
bridges were being thrown over Broad
waV while an enemy with preventive
,maans was on top of the Times build
ing and searchlights Were on the Hotel
X nick er booker.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Must Summon Five Alternates.

Under the regulations, each board
must summons alternates to take the
place Of any of the 45 per cent men
who for any reason, might be pre-
vented from going with the initial in
crements- Each board also will select
one of the registrants to take charge
OF the men from its district
The revised plan will reduce greatly
the work of the boards as under the
arrangements originally proposed it
would have been necessary for each
board to consume five days in getting
its increment to Camp Meade, whereas
now but one day will be required
Secretary Donovan was at the Dis
trlct building until a late hour last
night working out final details prepare
tory to issuing instructions to the
boards tomorrow, while Health Officer
Woodward, secretary of the board of
appeals. also worked late. preparing for
the issuance of a large number of Ger
tifcations this week. Although John
Joy Edison, one of the members, is out
Of the city. the board will meet tomor-
row and expects to put in a busy week
on the appellate docket 1t has some
thing like 700 appeals in dependency
cases made on behalf of the provost
marshal general to consider, besides a
large number of other cases appealed
by registrants. There is little likel-
hood that the boards work can be fin
ished before October. if by that time.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Crossing Complete Surprise.

Naturally the Austrians must have
known something was going on. There
Vas considerable firing, and one bridge
was damaged. But for the most part
The crossing Of the Isonzo was a COM
pIete surprise.
While the searchlights streamed con-
stantlv overhead, the Italian engineers
worked below in pitch dark. They had
70 drop their pontoon boats down that
forty foot wall on wooden skids. then
ioin them across the rushing water,
nIank them over so that the troops
could walk. and provide ladders for
them to climb up the precipice on the
Austrian side.
Time and again the current swept
boats away before they were properly
Soined up. Frequently workers fell into
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Sees Answer in Elections.

says SWedenS best and Surest answer
is in the elections" A disastrous defeat
of the conservatives at the polls must
bring with 1t consequences which will
give Sweden's foreign policy a new
democratic direction and thereby in
vest Sweden's policy of neutrality with
an unconditional and trustworthy char
acter.
So much for the present superficial
aspect Of the cipher telegram affair"
OF which the inside political conse-
erals and socialists are beginning to
exploit American ammunition In the
present political campaign: their at
tacks on the government in general
gross Incompetence are becoming
sharper At the same time there is a
growing feeling that the reform of the
upper house of the diet must be put
through in the near future.
In fact. the cipher telegram affair"
appears to be materially aiding the
cause of democrats in Sweden. AS of
great symptomatic Importance must be
cialists are calling for the immediate
convocation of the diet, which nor
mally would not meet until January
There is no reason. however. to be-
lieve that this call will have material
results. More important are the big
popular peace demonstrations called
for tomorrow by the Branting social
lists, into which the American crisis
will be injected an issue. These
mass meetings intended originally to
urge world peace have suddenly re-
ceived an inner political twist and
Will protest against the present gov
ernment for having no definite foreign
policy.
The mass meetings for a world peace
are being turned into mass meetings
for demonstration. The liberal press
too. is growing most sarcastic at the
expense of the present government
whose incompetency is shown UP by
the Dagensnyseter in an editorial of
which the headline is Cipher Diplo-
macy" 1t says:
Swedish experts on foreign policy
are good fellows, but bum performers"
Evening star., 1917-09-16
(CableSram to The Sunday Star and
New York Times. Copyright. 1919

|
New York Times. Copyright. 1879
WITH THE SUPREME COMMAND OF
THE ITALIAN ARMIES, September IA.
II am the first foreign correspondent in
the war to cross the land Of the Holy
Ghost. Holy Ghost land is Bainsizza
an ace of bagging an entire Austrian
army and forcing it's surrender.
They came so near and yet so far by
the superlative bravery Of their infan-
that awful land-and by their engineer
ing feats. too stupendous for the Aus
trian mind or almost any mind to grasp
fully. Americans always like to know
about engineering fstunts." so those OF
the Italians may be interesting to read
about.
I crossed the land Of the Holy Ghost
on road now being built by the ltai-
ians under Austrian shell fire. I don't
know why they call it Holy Ghost Land.
The Austrians named it that and
didn't meet those Austrians to ask the
reason. I saw some dead ones and
prisoners, but I was too busy listen
ing for that dread whine announcing
the arrival of high velocity Austrian
shells to waste time with questions.
Is Land of Mystery.
But aside from the explosions of
shells and shrapnel the land OF the
Holy Ghost might be a scene from the
Bible. 1t is land of mystery, OF won
drous beauty and of fear At times the
artillery fire would die completely out
and the silence of the hot summer dusk
would become profound. Then ones
Imagination could really travel back
through the ages-something impos-
sible in bustling cities no matter how
crowded with history they may be.
The land is too high for the smiling
colors of the landscape. but too low for
only the bare granite OF the mountains
about. 1t is land between. where veae-
tation, although green, is thin and with
great white rocks bobbing up everywhere
In gathering dusk they looked like giant
tombs. AS / sat in the great silence to
wait for prosaic automobile to convey
me back to the world I know. 1 had a
feeling that the land of the Holy Ghost
was the only name that fitted.
Coming down a great sward of hill a
quarter of mile in front, could yisu-
aliZe a shepherd with patriarchal beard
stepping out of the Old Testament. fol-
lowed by i.is sheep and goats. 1 could
legs. AS he blew his horn the sheep
clustered and crowded about and he dis
appeared in a narrow rocky defile be-
tween small mountains.
High on another hill l could imagine
figures in flowing white robes sitting
and standing in group of small cypress
trees They might have heen the apostles
at communion and prayer, but they were
only the giant stones-grave slabs of
ghosts.
Yesterday ] cab1ed a general descrp-
tion of the entire front of the present
battle, which I call the battle of the
Julian Alps That front. stretching from
Tolmno to the Adriatic. is nearly forty
miles-a greater distance than any other
continuous offensive of the war. In that
sector there are now grouped more SOL
diers of actual fighting units than have
ever been comprised in an army OF
shock"