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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to take this method of ex-
tending our sincere thanks for the
many kindnesses extended during the
illness and death of our son and
brother, Carl Malone, and for the
beautiful floral offerings.
Mrs. Carrie Malone.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Malone.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. o. Garman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Malone.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

and is an industrious young man of
splendid character.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carson will likely go
to housekeeping on a farm near the
city.
The Democrat joins their friends
in wishing them a life of happiness.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

wounds, but we trust they are not OF
such a nature that he will not safely
recover.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

Join the Red Cross-"A Dollar and
Heart"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19
SALES POSTPONED
ACCOUNT WEATHER

The B. E. Lyle sale has been post
poned until Friday, December 9th,
and the C. o. Davis sale to Tuesday,
December 31st. Mr.. Lyle will hold
his sale as originally advertised, and
Mr.. Davis will have his sale at his
farm instead of in town as stated in
the ad. Remember these dates and
see the bills for further particulars,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Reports of Americans
lin Action on the West
Front Not Confirmed

Washington, March 25.-German
statements that American troops
had taken part in the fighting on
the British front in France had not
been confirmed to-day and officials,
including Major General March,
chief-of-s staff. declined to comment
on the reports.
Although a detachment OF Amer
lean engineers was caught in the
German counterattacks in the Cam
brai salient several months ago, Of
ficers indicated there was nothing
here TO show that any American
troops other than engineers or spe-
cial units had been attached to the
British forces.
News from the front continued to
be the absorbing topic to-day and
official Washington. including Presi-
dent Wilson, anXiously scanned
British and German statements.
Berlin's announcement that Paris
was being bombarded by long range
guns was taken here as confirma-
ton of French reports that rife
shells fell in Paris Saturday and
yesterday.
The range of the new weapon
seventy-six miles-exceeds even the
dreams of ordnance experts here,
but considerable satisfaction was
taken in the Paris accounts of the
bombardment, inferring that little
damage resulted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
HUNS JOIN SLAVS
TO ORGANIZE A
SIBERIAN ARMY.
Army Corps of Teutons and
Russians Will Oppose
Any Advance

Harbin, Monday. March 1s.-Rus-
sian and German soldiers I'M
Siberia are organizing an army corps
composed of one exclusively Russian
division and another which will be
two-thirds German and one-third
Austrian, according to reports reach
ing official quarters at Irkutsk. Four
thousand Cossacks are said to have
Joined 10000 Germans, the COM
bined force being expected to go to-
Irkutsk.
L. S. Gray, an American business
man at Omsk, reports that one thou
sand prisoners with machine guns,
air planes, motorcycles, armored
cars and ammunition, have BEEN
concentrated at Tomsk. At Kras-
noyarsk a passport bureau has been
established and is supplying to AUS
trian soldiers credentials under Rus
sian names. Germans are guarding1
10000 rifles in the arsenal at Irk-
utsk. All these movements, Accord
ing to information reaching here, arei
parts of plan to mobilize along the
frontier and oppose any advance by
foreign troops.
President Wilson's message to the.
All-Russian Congress at Moscow hast
been received with enthusiasm in
Siberia. There is much speculation
as to whether his remark about the.
inability of America to give help re-
ferred to Siberia. The press as a.
whole interprets the message as II
guarantee of Russia's integrity
against all outsiders.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Long Distance Cannon
Pictured in Fiction

Just as the land battleships" of
notion have become reality in the
trench-leaping, shell-defying, DEATH
dealing British tanks, so the relay
gun, the greatest of all guns de-
scribed by Arthur Train in his story.
The Man Who Rocked the Earth. -
has been realized, if it is true that
the Huns have shelled Paris from
distance of more than seventy
miles.
Mr.. Trains book, published a year
after the war began, tells of the in
Vention by the Germans of an enor-
nous artillery piece which is capa-
bic of firing a projectile fifty to sew
venty-five miles. This shell of fiction
is % centimeters in diameter and
Is In reality series of projectiles
within a projectile.
Rified like a mortar. this huge
shell is timed to explode twenty
miles from the gun at the top of its
trajectory, hurting forward another
pro1ectile contained within il with
the added velocity of 1000 feet per
second. This process is repeated sew
eral times, the final or core shell.
800 pounds in weight, reaching its
destination one minute and thirty
five seconds after the discharge of
the gun. The gun, nicknamed
''Thanates" in Mr.. Trains narrat.,,.
is automatically reloaded and fired
every ten seconds.
The gun with which the Germans
are said to have shelled Paris. in
dispatches received last night, is de-
scribed as firing a shell 240 milli-
meters in diameter (25 centimeters,
or about ga inches) from a point
in the German line nearest to Paris.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Gains of Germans Only
Normal, Says Lauzanne

New York, March %. - In the
opinion of Stephane Lauzanne, editor
of lie Martin, there is no occasion for
concern at the early success of the
Germans in their attack of the last
two days on the British front. He.
said yesterday:
There is nothing about it to shake
our confidence in the ability of the
British to resist. The enemy will not
be able to break through. These,
first gains of ground and the tax
ing of thousands of prisoners look
serious in the headlines of our news
papers on the day they appear; but
experience has taught us that they
are the inevitable results of an often
sive, whether begun by Germany or
by ourselves. The immediate re-
suits of the present are such as were.
to be expected"
Lieutenant James w. Rice, of the
United States Medical Corps, who
was incapacitated by shell shock ut
Ypres while attending British
wounded in the field, said that when
he departed recently from France
the British had reserve trenches fif-
teen miles back of the first lines:
that their morale was excellent and
that there was no reason why Amer
lea should feel distressed about the
result of the German drive, the Brit
ish being quite capable of holding
their reserve positions and of driv-'
n1lF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Hun Plans For Victory
Fall Far Short, Papers
on Prisoners ShoU

London. March 25.-Copies of the
German plan of offensive taken from
prisoners, according to Reuters cor
respondent at British headquarters,
show that the enemy's objectives
were as follows:
First day, average penetration
along the whole front of attack, eight
kilometerS: second day, IL kilo-
meters; and on the third day, belond
which the scheme does not appear
TO be carried, 90 kilometers"
The success attained thus far falls
much short of these objectives, the
dispatch states.
& The correspondent reports that
among the captured machine guns
are some that We're identified as hav-
ing been used in the Balkans last
year.
The Germans made attempts on
Friday night to cross the Somme, by
means of four bridges. The at
tempts. however. were detected and
frustrated, with loss by the British
artillery fire, his message states.
All the roads in the rear of the
German advance, the dispatch con-
tinues, are blocked by columns of
troops, guns and transport vehicles,
furnishing targets upon which the
British artillery is making deadly
play. Rough estimates of the casu-
alties inflicted vary between so and
80 per cent. of all the enemy divi-
sions so far unidentified.
Il give these figures for what they
are worth" the correspondent adds.
They probably are based mainly
upon statements made by prisoners" ;"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Another Verdun Is
Seen by Tardieu

New York, March 25.- There is
nothing in the current news from
overseas to warrant any disquietude
on the part of the American public
or dny of the nations allied against
Germany, in the opinion of Captain
Andre Tardieu. French high COM
missioner in the United States.
Germany's long-distance bonn
bardment of Paris can have no sig
nificance from a military viewpoint,
Captain Tardieu asserted. The dam
age resulting from this gunfire, he
said, evidently had been even less
than incidental to an aerial bomb
attack.
The British retirement near st.
Quentin, on the western front, the
high commissioner believed, was a
move paralleling that of the French
during the first two days of the bat
tie af Verdun.
Captain Tardieu advised that
Americans be critics of the war news
and warned against the forming of
conclusions until the net result of
the new German move was deter
mined
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
German Feat Possible,
Hudson Maxim, Great
Ordnance Expert, Tells

New York, March 25.-"When I
first heard the report that Paris was
being bombarded from a distance Of
more than sixty miles and was asked
| if the thing were possible, 1 told
my interrogation there was a possi-
] bility, and whether or not it were a
7 mere probability or a fact would
| depend upon the purpose of the Ger
| mans" said Hudson Maxim in a
statement issued yesterday.
Il understand that the projectile
is virtually of nine-inch caliber.
With a nine-inch gun from forty to
| fifty feet in length and with a max
imum elevation of forty-five degrees
projectile may be thrown to a dis
tance of more than twenty miles
with the ordinary pressures at pres
ent employed in the powder chamber
of the gun.
Now, if we double the caliber of
a gun we quadruple the area of the
base of the projectile. If we were
to make gun of eighteen-inch
caliber and shoot a nine-inch pro-
| jectile from that we would have four
! times the propelling energy on the
base of the shell during the entire
flight of the projectile through the
But it would be perfectly possible
| to employ gun for such purpose of
! twenty-inch caliber throwing a sub
caliber projectile of nine inches.
! Then we would have a good deal
more than four times the area upon
| which the powder gases would push
| against the projectile.
There is nothing new in this idea
of a subcaliber projectile. Subcali-
Der propectiles were used in the old
! fifteen-inch Zalinski dynamite gun
in order to get greater range.
Two rings were provided. one
near the forward end of the pro-
! jectile and one near the rear. The
rear ring carries a driving band for
giving the projectile rotation. and
back of that is gas check. The gas
| check is Independent, in this case,
( of the driving band. The rear rider
ring, or support. for the projectile
must necessarily be made very
strong to stand a pressure of $4,000
pounds to the square inch.
When the projectile escapes from
| the gun these rings part comrany
with the projectile and fly off. Ieay.
ing the projectile to proceed by it.
self.
With a gun of twenty-inch cali
ber, made from so to 100 feet long
it would be perfectly possible a,
maximum elevation of As degrees
to get the range attributed to the
| Germans"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Reach Old Battle Field

Sunday the fighting forces in the north reached the old battle
field of the Somme from which the Germans retreated
Again Bapaume and Peronne the of the bitter
fighting Bapaume the key position between Aras and Albert
and Berlin reports that gigantic struggle being made for its
possession The capture Peonne claimed by the Germans
but heavy fighting taking place north of and southwark along
Somme Between Bapaume and Peronne the Germans
have reached the Transoy Maurepas line where they
are held up by the British
Win 10 Miles of Ground
the southern end Of great battle line where the Germans
have reached Chany important point the Disc river south
of La Fere Here however their advance has been
great directly of St Quentin where they have progressed
than miles The British and French battle lines
near Chauny French along
advanced Compegne Paris But Com
Americans Aid British
The intensity OF the struggle shown by the official
that British aviators Saturday brought down hyfour
enemy machines The British lost only nine In addition
ryng their work in the fighting British airmen again
have dropped bombs successfully Mannheim Germany.
Begn claims Fanco-Amecan detachments aided the British
the fighting Saturday but the identity of the American units
have been learned 1t possible American and French
from the Chemn have moved the Disc
north of it, but probable that American engineers with the
British army concerned Berlin also has announced the
capture Ham, between Peronne and Chauny and claims that
the number of prisoners has increased to $4,000.
There has been little artillery fire activity the
mande of the British front and the French and American
The German artillery fire has been violent along the
Observation-Disclosures in the Champagne northeast of Verdun and
in Alsace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Bombardment of Paris
by Long Range Gun
Resumed This Morning
By Associated Press

Paris, March 25.-The long-range
bombardment of Paris was resumed
at $50 o'clock this morning, but was
interrupted after the second shot.
After a brief interval two more
shots were fired. The bombardment
again was suspended at 9.10 o'clock.
AS was the case yesterday, the
people did not take to shelter. Gel
lars which were filled on Saturday
remained empty this morning. Little
interest was shown in the bonn bard
ment.
Soon after they were awakened by
the first shot the people were
brought to their windows by the rat
tling of drums. Policemen circulated
through each quarter of the city, in
Producing the new system of alarm,
which is distinguished from the
alarm in the case of air raids.
Work was resumed under normal
conditions. All transportation lines
were running. The streets We're full
of people whose sole subject of con-
versation was the new battle of the
Somme, which generally is compared
with Nerdun,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25


Amsterdam, Sunday. March "a
Describing the first day of the bat
tie on the western front, the cor
respondent of the Vossische Zeitung
says the British artillery was held
with "uncanny precision" and its
counter efforts became ever fainter
and less systematic.
The British strewed their shells
without system over the wide zone of
attack" he adds. Our guns, sup
ported by cannon and howitzers of
our Austrian Hungarian allies. had
cleared the way for the Infantry
The German storming troops swung
over the ramparts punctual to the
minute which had been fixed weeks
ago and made a great push into the
enemy territory on the same ground
over which the Won Hindenburg re-
treat took place a year ago.
The attack westward now went
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
More Than a Million
Men We're Engaged

Washington, March 25.-Describ-
ing the great struggle in France, the
Havas correspondent says:
''The British retired in good order,
ceding ground foot by foot, to strong
positions prepared months ago.
I'm the latter stages of the battle
ninety-seven German divisions were
engaged. Thus the German COM
mand concentrated against the Brit
ish front half of the forces at their
disposal on the whole western
front"
rBased on 10000 men to a Ger
man division, the number of Ger
mans engaged, according to the
Havas correspondent, was approx
mately 1,164, ,000.l
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Perfect Health IS Yours
If the Blood Is Kept Pure

most serious are Rheumatism, with
it's torturing pains; Catarrh. often a.
forerunner of dread consumption;
Scrofula, Eczema, letter, Erysipelas
and other disfiguring skin diseases:
Malaria, which makes the strongest
men helpless, and many other dis
eases are the direct result of impure
blood.
You can easily avoid all Of these
diseases, and rid the system of them
by the use of S. S. S.. the wonderful
blood remedy that has been in cons
slant use for more than fifty years.
! S. s. S. cleanses the blood thor
oughly. and routs every vestige OF
impurity. 1t is sold by druggists
everywhere.
For valuable literature and med
ical advice absolutely free, write to-
day to the Medical Dept, Swift
Specific Company. 437 Swift Labora-
tory. Atlanta, Ga
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
fMiraculOus,' Cry Berlin
Newspapers of War Plan

London, March 24.-The Berlin
Nossische Zeitung's war correspond
ent, telegraphing from the neigh
borhood of the Disc. is quoted by the
central News correspondent at Am
sterdam as saying:
"All of our movements have taken
place with miraculous exactitude ac-
cording to the plans of the master
who organized the attack. The Eng
-Ilsh are defending themselves brave
~, but the British command was not
equal to the attack, which, although
doubtless foreseen. probably was not
expected so early"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Haig COngratulates His
Commanders in Field

London, March 24.-The following
telegram, dated March 21. has been
sent to the general officers COM
manding the third and fifth British
army corps:
THE field marshal commander
in-chief sends his congratulations to
the troops of your army on their
splendid defense to-day. He relies
upon their continued steadfastness
and valor to crush this new attack
and with it the enemys last hope of
success"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
STREWED SHELLS WITHOUT
SYSTEM, SAYS GERMAN PAPER

forward with the offensive spirit of
1914. Our battalions stormed over
the ground and broke the enemy re-
sistance along the entire line. 1t is
declared unanimously that the Brit
ish fought bravely, but their leader
ship was not equal to the mighty
blow. BY evening the British front
had been pushed back on the whole
broad battlefield.
"A thick mist during the morning
hours considerably disturbed our
operations. Curtains of mist gather
ed so thickly that the men serving
the field artillery. which advanced
Immediately behind the infntry,
hardly could see their horses. The
batteries had to take their new OBJ
jectives under >fire without direct
observation and the infantry labori-
ously had to win positions and sec
tors in the fog and without any
methodical artillery preparation"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Almost Every Human Ailment
Is Directly Traceable to I'm
purities in the Blood.

You cannot overestimate the i'm
portance of keeping the blood free
of impurities. When you realize that
the heart is constantly pumping this
vital fluid to all parts of the body,
you can easily see that any impurity
in the blood will cause serious COM
plications.
Any slight disorder or impurity
that creeps into the blood is a
source of danger, for every vital
organ of the body depends upon the
blood supply to properly perform its
functions.
Many painful and dangerous dis
eases are the direct result of bad
condition OF the blood. Among the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Wilson Predicts
Final Victory
For Allied Armies

Washington, March 25.-Pres-
ident Wilson to-day cabled Field
Marshal Haig congratulating him
on the British stand against the
German offensive and predicting
final allied victory.
The Presidents message read:
May 1 not express to you my
warm admiration of the splendid
steadfastness and valor with
which your troops have with
stood the German onset and the
perfect confidence all Americans
feel that YOU will win a secure
and final victory.
London, March %. - King
George to-day sent the following
message to Field Marshal Haig:
Il can assure you that the for
titude. courage. and self-sacrifice
with which the troops under your
command continue so heroically
to resist Greatly superior numbers
are realized by me and my people.
The Empire stands calm and con-
fident in its soldiers. May God
bless them and give them Strength
in this tune CT trial"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
DEFENSE WINS
UNGRUDGTNG ADMIRATION 4

London. March 25.-The British
in their retreat defended every hill.
ridge and fertilization with the
greatest stubbornness, say messages
from the German war correspond
cnts on the western front, according
to u Central News dispatch from
Amsterdam. The British artillery
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Words Fail, So Kaiser
Is Forced to Attack

Washington, March 25.-The Ger
man offensive, says the War Depart
ment's weekly communique, proves
that the German militarists, no long
er able to control the German peo-
pie by political maneuver, have been
forced to attempt q gigantic feat of
arms to maintain their Nominations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
German Emperor Confers
Honors on Hindenburg

Amsterdam, March 25.-Emperor
William at German main headquar-
ters on Sunday, according to an Of
fetal announcement at Berlin, con-
ferrerd the ion cross with gold rays
on Field Marshall Won Hindenburg,
and the grand cross of the Order
of the Iron Cross on General Won
Ludendorf. The emperor also gave
various decorations to departmental
chiefs, along with a signed photo
March 21-23.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
French Line Holding
Intact, Says Report

Paris, March ga semi-offi-
cial note issued yesterday warns
the public against pessimistic re-
ports that the Germans have
broken through the front and
thus are able to lombard Paris
from close by.
THE French front is intact:
any assertion to the contrary is a
lie," the note reads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
Gott Gets Half Credit
With Kaiser For Victory

Amsterdam. March 24.-The
German Empress, says a Berlin
official dispatch. has received the
following telegram from Emperor
william:
Il am pleased to be able to tell
you that. by the grace of God. the
battle by Monchy. Cambrai. st.
Quentin and La Fere has been
won. The Lord has gloriously
aided. May He further help"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
'"MONSTER CANNON"
DOES NOT ALARM
PEOPLE OF PARIS
Shell Drops EUery TDenty Minutes French Capital Er
perts Admire Mechanical Feat and Wonder at
Useless Bdrbdriy

shelters except the subway stations,
will be open. The end of any kind
of a raid will be announced, as be-
fore, by special trumpet call and
the ringing of the church bells.
1t is believed in military circles
that the Germans are using two long
distance guns against Paris.
The "all clear" warning was
sounded at $50 o'clock. showing
that the bombardment was over.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25

it is added splendidly sacrificed it
self in covering the retreat. the bat
teries only breaking up when the
German storming troops arrived
within a few hundred yards of the
positions. The British gunners then
fired ther last ammunition and re-
tired.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-25
CITY TAKES MANY NOTES

Approximately $2.000,000 of ths
short term treasury certificates have
been subscribed through local banks.
the Liberty Loan committee an
nounced last night OF this total.
nearly 100000 were of the issue
which closed last Friday. These
short term certificates are exchange
able for Liberty bonds.