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The sun., 1918-06-28
EX-CZAR MURDERED,
IS MOSCOW REPORT
Former Ruler IL Not There.
as Germans Stated.

AMSTERDAM. June 21.-Reports that
former Emperor Nicholas has been mur-
dered in Yekaterinburg are increasingly
persistent In Moscow, according to a
despatch from that city tdate not g!ven)
received to-day by way OF Berlin.
The Moscow newspapers, the despatch
states. indicate that the recent where
abouts OF the former Emperor have not
been definitely known. This statement
seems significant, as in conflict with the
German reports of the former rulers
removal to Moscow
WAsHINGToN, June 27,-A report OF
the killing OF Nicholas Romanoff, late
Car of Russia. was received at the
State Department to-day from Stock
holm. 1t was transmitted as a Swedish
press report. which. according to the
Soviets, needed confirmation"
The sun., 1918-06-28
U,S.MEN PRAISED
BY CLEMENCEAU
Chats With Officers and SAYS
American Spirit I'M
presses Him.
PRISONERS ARE STOLID
No Hope for Revolt From Such
Bovine Creatures, Say
Soldiers.
ARE STOLlD

~ "'" '"'
rAo"c Led0e''
opS"o"' 'ss' a" 'I0Hs 'ese'red
L"Sp"S' june Ie'n'er 'efheh-
eeau' accompanied by French General
.o-"a! visited 'he american unit "h'eh
toueh' 80 eaI!anuy yesterday az Beileau
wooo' re s'ooo IN oarh cha'tlhS WIN
'ne american COMMANDER Win sew
er"' younger American oH'cers grouped
ao'u'' -As 'hes take" party OF Ter
man prisoners. captured by the Anneri-
can" yesterday marched past
premier 'lemenceau told the Aneri-
can commander that he came to express
personally MS warm appreciation OF the
oriiliant work OF the Americans,
NJ! coinpa'f'ot referring to the
was peculiarly American in its concep-
uon ana execution. he said Il am
very much Impressed by your troops"
the Tiger. as he is known in France.
adoed afterward that he learned to ap-
preciate the Hght!ng qualities of Ameri-
cans when he was In the United States
as a correspondent during the civil war.
Take Men and Guns.
In ,b. ho,. n. p.r. u,, ,,s
w."
e'"' .hc 'e'cA"s captured seNe"
o'ncers' oio men and ten heavy machine
suns. In addition two German machine
twenty MINUTES las, nigh, the Germans
subjected the newly won American posi-.
t!ons to an intense gas shell lombard
ment. but a. the end OF that time the
hostile bat,er,es v.rs si,.,c.l Va at.
,.r,.,, ,,.s ,,,. ., -.xo'. 49, s,.,ons
-, "' W ''e''" ''' p'1''
'so".'s nave peeh coming N All o"!'
ranging III age from Is 10 90. Amer'-
cans OF German origin take every op-
war, war. su, it ,,, Is difficult to make heaaway
The sun., 1918-06-28
EncircIinR Movement Planned.

From prisoner sources il was learned
that the enemy expected to force his way
across the piave TO line drawn from
Castelfranco to Padua. At the same
time he planned to stream down from
the mountains to line running from
Sastelfranco 10 Nicenza, He would thus
overrun the whole of the extremely rich
plain in northern Italy now waving with
ripening crops, Many towns were In the
direct line OF his proposed conquest. and
Venice would have fallen by encircle-
ment
Verona was the next prize on which
the Austrians mad their eyes. and 1t was
thought by taking these towns they could
compel the Italians either to make peace
or else be driven back Of line from
Mincio to the Po River. shutting them
in back of a diagonal front which would
have lef. the whole OF northeast Italy in
the hands OF the invader.
The sun., 1918-06-28
Major Barracca Self-slain.

A closer examination Of the body OF
Major Rarracca shows that his death
was caused by bullet from the re-
volver which he often said would cause
his death II II ever came to n question
of falling into the enemy's hands. 1t
now develops that the Major. In all prob
ability, shot himself too soon. as his ma
chine was found in No Mans Land at a
point from which II would have been
possible for him to return to his own
lines His machine. II appears. was set
on fire by an enemy bullet. and in his
descent he doubtless thought he was
falling into Austrian territory.
From prisoners recently captured by
the Italians 1t has been ascertained that
the Austrians. egged on by the Germans
back Of them. had long prepared their
offensive. The Italian General STAN
knew it was coming long before the day
II was actually launched and were well
prepared to meet 1t in consequence.
The sun., 1918-06-28
Anxious to Surrendkr.

A soon as he had scrambled into the
German trench Iennart said the occu-
pants threw up their hands. individually
and collectively. in token Of surrender
He protested at first, thinking they had
some German trick up their sleeves. and
when they positively insisted upon being
made prisoners. Lennart says he tried
to explain to them that he did not know
The sun., 1918-06-28

0o~t'~StS on ssoo~d Ps0s.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
ALDERMAN ADDS
TELEPHONE CALLS
AS MILEAGE
Autoist at Police Station Paps
Same Bill Second Time
as Additional"

Police court hearings are still con-
Quoted by Alderman Caveny. wirh
Mayor Keister sitting in attendance.
The Mayor yesterday would set no
date when he will begin to conduct
the hearings, but said sometime this
month"
Costs in the petty cases arising in
police court are at the same time
being imposed IN the same bewilder-
ing manner that has always marked
the administrations of aldermen in
police court. According to explana-
tions secured from police officials,
the secretary to the Mayor. and the
alderman Yesterday, the city is loc-
ing money and the defendants are
at the same time being soaked
double when their fines are imposed.
E. L. Goehler, 1117 Market street,
was fined $5 in police court the other
day for parking his car in front of
a market street department store.
In addition costs of 1915 were i'm
posed Alderman Caveny, who was
sitting, said the costs were imposed
because warrant was served. The
Continued on Page 1871
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
CITY MAY PAY
FOR WHEATLOST
BY NEGLIGENCE
Officials Now See Error of
Indifference When Airplane
Landing Site Was Selected

Indifference on the part of city
was selected for the landing of Lieu
tenant Georges Flachaire's airplane
last week has caused the loss of the
major portion of the harvest from
a large wheat field, it was learned
to-day. To make partial amends city
officials this afternoon took steps to
see that the farmer be reimbursed
but there is no way to meet the
loss of the wheat now so badly need
ed because of the war.
According to. the police to-day
Lieutenant Flachaire and a press
agent appeared at the Mayors office
last week and asked for police pro-
lection at the landing point. pa
trolman was sent out with the men
and the press agent picked on the
wheat field. His action was sane
toned by the patrolman. An ada
cent field with nothing in it was
passed up because it was too
rough"
The field selected is a part of the
Mccormick estate, farmed by f. T..
Meals. The farmer was not consult
ed and his first knowledge of the
selection was when he saw the great
crowd pouring across his valuable
wheat field.
The murmuring protest of Satur-
day against the destruction of the
wheat field to-day grew until there
was citYwide criticism of city of
ficials who did not take the trouble
to determine what was going on.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
Monster Parade Against
Rum Traffic Is Planned
Night Before Primaries

Plans for monster parade of Har-
rlsourg voters who are in opposition
to the rum traffic were announced
last night following a meeting of the
Dauphin County Ratification Commit
tee. The parade will be held Mon
day night, May 20, on the eve of the
primary election. Hundreds of vot-
ers will be in line and a number of
bands will march with the temper
ance workers
The parade is planned as a formal
protest against the liquor traffic. 1t
VIII be the means of voicing a de-
mand that dry" men be sent to the
Legislature and that the federal pro-
hibition amendment be ratified. 1t is
promised that the parade will be one
of the biggest formal protests
against the liquor traffic this city
has witnessed in years.
Mems Bible classes, ministers and
church members, temperance workers
and all who are in sympathy with
the abolition of booze will be in
line for the big affair. Detailed
plans will be announced later. It is
already assured that a number of
churches will cooperate and that
clergy will be in the parade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
Intrepid French Flyer
Makes 5-Minute Record;
One Sundays Work

Paris, May 9.-Within five min
utes on Tuesday Sublieutenant Nun
Sesser, leading French aviator,
brought down his thirty-third and
thirty-fourth German machines and
damaged another, which undoubtedly
will be placed to his credit. On
Sunday he knocked out two other
enemy airplanes. which have not yet
been officially recorded. Sublieu-
tenant Nungesser, during three years
of air fighting. has been wounded
seventeen times and has served on
ffty-two bombing expeditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
Yankee Audacity
Wins Praise From
the French officials

With the American Forces on the
French Front, May 9.-The official
French report of the patrol action
in which American troops in the
Lorraine sector of the battlefront
carried out a brilliant little opera
ton on May in the vicinity of the
hamlet of Amservillers shows the
wonderfully enterprising spirit of
the American troops.
The report says the Americans,
whose activity never relaxes and
whose audacity is remarkable, want
ed to see what the Germans oppo-
site them were doing. At 8 o'clock
in the morning of May 5. without
artillery preparation, three Ameri-
can patrols left the village of An
servillers, which is in the Entente
allied lines.
Two of the patrols took a position
on the right and left flank, while
the third, composed of eight men
under Lieutenant Cassidy. executed
a clever turning movement and en-
tered Anservillers hamlet from the
rear and fell upon the German ad-
vanced post
The patrol fired only one shot
and then attacked the Germans with
trench knives. A fierce struggle en-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
GERMANS SUFFER
HEAVY LOSSES IN
COUNTERATTACk
British Eject Huns From Po-
sitionS Gained in Costly
Day Assault
THE ALLIED LINES HOLD
Kaiser's Legions Held in Check
When Two Divisions Fail
to Make Progress
BY associated Press

London, May BY u counter
attack delivered last night by British
troops the Germans were driven from
the positions of the allied front line
they had entered on the Flanders
front in the La Clytte-N -Noormezeele
sector, the war office announced to-
day.
A new German attack was made
this morning on the Flanders front
north of KENNEL. The enemy
pressed back the British line slight
Iy at one point. the war office an
nounces
Further progress was made last
night by the British on the front
east of Amiens, between the Somme
and Ancre rivers.
Yesterdays attack on the Fland-
ers line was carried out by two Ger
man divisions. Heavy casualties were
inflicted upon them by the British
forces.
The statement follows:
Successful counterattacks launch
ed by British and French troops
Yesterday in the La Clytte-Noor-
mezeele sector drove the enemy
from the portions of the allied front
line in which he had gained foot
ing during the morning, and re-
esta blished the positions originally
helu bN US W. '"F''''' 80 - O.
prisoners.
Enemy Attacks Again
This morning the enemy again
attacked north of KENNEL and sue
Ceeded in pressing back our line
slightly at one point where the fight
ing continues.
Troops of two German divisions
took part in the enemy's attack yes
terday morning. Heavy casualties
were inflicted on them by our ar
tillery fire as well as in infantry
fighting, both during the attack and
in the subsequent counterattack.
Local fighting took place also
yesterday at Bucquoy. in the course
of which we captured thirty pris-
oners. During the night further
progress was made by us between
the Somme and the Ancre. Our new
positions in this sector were i'm
proved. Several prisoners were taken
by MS.
Hostile raids were repulsed in
the neiGhborhod of Lens and Mer-
ris. The enemy's artillery develop
ed considerable activity during the
night in the Albert sector"
In Flanders the Germans have re-
turned to the attack but apparently
only in a strong local attempt to
outfiank the positions of Locre,
Scherpenberg and Mont Rouge which
Continued on Page III
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
GOOD THINGSTO
EAT TO HAVE AN
EXTRA INNING
Noted Cooking Expert TO Give
Popular Lecture Tomorrow
at the Y. M. C.. A.
TELLS A MORAL LESSON
Every Woman Is Invited to
the Famous Mrs.
Jones' Party"

The laws of nature are the
thoughts of Cod" said Mrs.
Vaughn this afternoon, "the
body is the highest gift of God
for the vehicle of the soul the
proper care of the body is an
important factor in the Makers hap
piness." Teaching the facts of life
to children Mrs. Vaughn advocated
through gradual instruction, COM
mencing from the earliest years. The
speaker said impressively that the
mother is Gods agent and it is her
work to make the body a fitting
vehicle for the soul, with which
should go her willingness to give her
time to this duty" Another potent
fact to be remembered in this mat
ter of providing for Il family is not
to permit fads in food among chill
dren. Also the habit of comment
upon food at the table was a factor
in making children obstinate in
opinions formed on the food ques-
ton.
1t was a straight from the shoulder
talk TO women and she urged moth
ers to gain the confidence of their
uduSnterS In early childhood and
never tell them lies. Mrs. Vaughn
referred to the Santa Claus myth
and the ''stork" story as something
imported from Germany that we
might well forget and abandon in
giving children their impressions
To say that Santa Claus is the
Christmas spirit that comes to us
about three weeks before Christmas
and goes away about Christmas
night along with broken toys is all
very well but to lie to the little
ones about it is entirely unnecessary.
The birth of Christ in the stable
at Bethlehem is good enough for
me to teach my children" said the
speaker. She explained the ruling
motive of curiosity as the basis of
so much sin and evil and explained
the ease with which children's
curiosity may be satisfied from their
earliest years until subjects that
might lead to harmful results be-
come commonplace and, therefore,
not a menace.
Dress Said Immodest
The speaker spoke of the camps
Tor soldiers and what the various
communities are doing for the bows.
She arraigned the shamelessness of
Continued ON Page 4.1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
LLOYD GEORGE
RULE LIKELY
NEAR ITS END
Indications Today Were Brit
iSh Government Would
Weather the Storm
BY associated Press

London, May 9.-Moving a mo-
tion in the House of Commons this
afternoon for the appointment of a
select committee to investigate the
charges made by General Maurice,
former director of military opera
tions at the war office, eX-Premier
Asquith said he thought it was not
the business of parliament to con-
stantly inquire into the conduct of
successive phases of the war. The
House of Commons, he added, bad
more than enough of such inquiries
already.
Former Premier Asquith made de-
nfal that his motion respecting the
Maurice affair was designed to OBJ
tain a vote of censure of the govern.
ment, saying it was absurd to de-
scribe 1t as such. Should he find it
his duty to censure the government,
he said, he hoped that he would have
the courage to do so in direct and un-
equivocal form.
Although the indications are that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
PROTEST RAISED
AT DESTRUCTION
OF STREET PAVING
Public Aroused at Indiffer-
ence of Property Owners,
Corporations and Officials
MUST CURB PRACTICES
Heavy Trucks Responsible
For Rapid Deterioration;
Replacement Cost Big

There is a rising tide of public
protest against the misuse of the
paved streets of the city. On every
side there is heard the most drastic
criticism of the destruction of fine
asphalted highways by the heavy
motor trucks which are permitted
to run without let or hindrance to
the absolute destruction of the paved
streets. 1t is believed that unless
the city authorities Immediately take
this matter up and enforce without
delay strict regulations the enormous
cost of replacement will stagger
Harrisburg.
City Commissioner Lynch is not
unaware sof the conditions and is
to-day at great expense repairing
large sections of paved streets which
would have lasted in good condition
for ten years more had there been
some reasonable regulation regard
ing the sort of vehicles which would
be permitted to use the highways.
When trucks weighing with their
loads twelve to fifteen tons run up
and down the main streets of the
city daily, it is not surprising, ac-
cording to those who are familiar
with highway conditions thats the
base and the surface are deteriorat-
ing so rapidly.
Situation Needs Courage
IF one corporation is permitted
to use enormous trucks without OBJ
lection" said a business man to-
day 'it is not likely that others will
feel that they have not a similar
right. l want to say that another
year or two of such indifference will
about complete the destruction OF
streets which have been paved by
all the people at great cost and the
story of a city's pride in its paved
streets will be but a memory
This is sample of the general
GContinued on Page rs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
STORY OF FRANCE
TO BE TOLD HERE
FOR FIRST TIME
French Army Chaplain to Re-
veal Condition of Great
Sister Republic

When DR. Savage, the French
army chaplain, talks to the audience
that will greet him at Chestnut
Street Auditorium Saturday night,
Harrisburg will again have an op-
portunity to hear a first-hand story
of conditions in France; and this
time from q man of a nationality so
far not heard in this city. There
have been English takers, and
Canadians, and Belgians, and Amer
leans, but no French. DIR. Savage,
who was formerly one of the faculty
of the great University at Washing
ton, has been on the French front
almost continuously since the battle
of the Marne; and in the more than
forty months since then has seen
COntinued on Page )
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
First German
American Spy Is
Captured in Camp
BY Associated PresS


With the American ARMY I'm
France, May 9.-The first German
American to be caught spying on
the Americans is safely in custody.
Behind the characterization of
traitor to his country, contained in
the report of his arrest, is the story
that he aided a German prisoner to
escape.
Both men donned American Of
ilcers uniforms and entered the line
from the rear in the late afternoon.
They said they were studying the
ground between the lines with a
view TO using tanks and asked to
be allowed to cross the lines.
The officer to whom they made
the request soon discovered the ruse
and ordered them escorted to the
rear. There it was found that one
of the men was a German and that
the German-American was his oc-
complice
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
Motor Messengers of
Red Cross Will Meet

A special meeting of the Motor
Messenger Corps of the Harrisburg
chapter, American Red Cross, will be
held in the basement of the Public
Library tomorrow afternoon at 4
O'Clock. A number of matters of
vital interest to the members of the
organization will be discussed. Mrs.
S. F. Dunkle is captain of the corps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
YANKEE PATROL
SAMBUSHED BY
ENEMY FORCE
Germans Lie in Wait For
American Workers i'm
No Mans Land
NOT A SHOT WAS FIRED
Huns Used Gun Butts and
Bayonets to Slay Small
u. S. Force
BY Associated Press

with the American Army in
France, May S.-An American patrol
on the Toul sector fell victim to a
silent enemy ambush some time last
night. The Germans evidently used
bayonets and the butts of their rifles.
The Americans went out early in
the evening and nothing further was
heard of them until another patrol
happened to cross the spot where
the others had been ambushed
Not one shot was fired during the
encounter as far as was known,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
WAGE RAISE FOR
RAILROAD MEN
DUE in 10 DAYS
Director General Expected to
Announce Decision on Rec
concentrations Shortly
By associated Press

washington, May 9.-In recon-
mending wage increases of $500
100000 annually for all railroad en-
ployes whose wages were less than
$3.50 month in December. 1918.
the Railroad Wage Commission
made several original and far-reach-
ing suggestions on the problem of
railroad labor which attracted the
close attention to-day of Director
General McAdoo and other govern
ment officials.
Mr.. McAdoo is expected to an
nounce his decision on the recon-
mendations in about ten days. There
are indications that he will not ac
cept them in their entirety. Some
union officials already have express
ed dissatisfaction with the amounts
recommended for the men of their
ORGANIZATIONS. the increases ranging
from 4.3 to AS oer cent, the high
est paid men receiving the lowest
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
WOMAN HONORED
BY 3 COUNTRIES
HTOSPEAK HERE
"Pound-a-Minute" Burke Has
Proudest Medals of the
Allied Governments
Pound Minute

"Pound-aMinute" Burke is com
ing TO Harrisburg.
Who is he?
"Pound-a- Minute" Burke isn't
he at all. She is Miss Kathleen
Burke, a young Irish woman who
has been decorated by the English,
French and Belgian governments;
and she Is to speak at the huge Red
Cross meeting to be held in Chest
nut Street Auditorium the night
of May IA.
This meeting is to be one of a
preparatory series of gatherings held
prior to the opening of the Red
Cross drive through which Harris
Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
City Selected as Central
Office For Boy Scouts

III. M. Butler. national field secre-
tary of the Boy Scouts, to-day was
notified that Harrisburg had been
selected in preference to Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh. for the perma-
nent headquarters for the Third dis
trict, comprising all of PennsyIva-
MIA and Delaware. Mr.. Butler will
continue his offices in the Calder
building.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

1t was a German submarine that
two years ago last April landed Sir
Roger Easement on the Kerry coast
OF Ireland. Easement was appre-
hended by the government authori-
ties taken to London and after be-
ing incarcerated in the Tower of
London, was charged with "high
treason without the realm" After a
sensational trial Easement was con-
Victed and hanged in PentopvilIe
prison on August 3, 1916.
The arrival of Easement in Ire
land from Berlin was the prelude to
a revolt against British sovereignty
which broke out in Dublin on Easter
Sunday, in 1916. According to wit
nesses who testified at the trial, Sir
Roger was to have led the uprising
and was to have utilized the arms
which he had imported from Ger
many,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
HOLE IN STREET

The asphalt paving between the
car tracks at Second and Walnut
street, caved in this afternoon MAX
ing hole more than a foot in dia
meter and about three feet in depth.
1t may be necessary to rope off a
section of the street until repairs are
made.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
TeutOn U-BOat Envoy
Landed on Irish Coast
Captive in London Tower
By Associaied PrcsS

London, May "a German
submarine recently landed a
man on the Irish coast where
he was arrested by government
officials. James MACPHERSON,
parliamentary secretary to the
war Office, announced in the
House OF Commons to-day that
this man was in the Tower of
London and would be court mar
tailed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
[Continued OH Page 1871
DEFEATS OVERDRAFT

SENATE DEFEATS OVERDRAFT
Washington, May "a bill to reg
ulate the allowance of overdrafts by
national banks, the first of twenty
measures proposed by the Treasury
to strengthen the federal banking
laws. was defeated without a record
vote in the Senate yesterday.