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Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
HAcckLAUREATE SERMON
 AT WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Was Delivered Yesterday by President
 William A. Shanklin.

Middletown, Conn, June 1s.-The world has at hand at last the means 10 give the vision of lasting peace prac- tical form. said President William A. Shanklin of Wesleyan university in his baccalaureate sermon today to the se- nior class. Dr. Shanklin, who has just returned from six months work among inc American troops in France and England, spoke on The Promise of the Coming Days" The world has had many visions of lasting peace. he said but we now see clearly that endur- ing peace win come only with the vic tory of the forces of right and liberty over those of might and military des- potism-
 Tt will be he opportunity of the enlightened nations, France Great Britain. Italy and the United States to form a nucleus of a, league of peace destined to replace the alliance of war. This Is the mission of the states al- lied in the cause of right. May Amer ica earn her place in this confederation by giving her means and her men to her last dollar. her last man and her last drop of blood if need be, for the victory which is indispensable.
 The perversion of the moral de- velopmenI of Europe by the mental and material was the fundamental cause of the great war. In the develop ment and inevitable confusion of the revolutionary influences of discoveries in the physical sciences came the struggle between the two types oi ihought-the one continuing to lool for guidance and support of God. as Ht is revealed in Jesus Christ. the othel solely to the trained mind, with th' latter morality losing it's control O conscience"
 Urging upon the members of thu class the preservation of high stand ards of living he said:
 The imperative heed of this darl day and of the coming days of recon struction is of men, the urgency o whose spirit leads them to eonsecratiol duty. service
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
 AT TRINITY COLLEGE
Delivered Address Under the Campus
 EIms at Sunday Service

Hartford Conn, June 16.-ColoneI Theodore Roosevelt told a throng of '5s000 persons under the campus elms at Trinity College at the Sunday ser vices of the commencement exercises here today that the censorship, "un- pleasant as it has been at times" should be extended to put a stop to 'grandiloquent statements" of what Americans were going to do in the war. He urged that words be trans lated into deeds and declared that the Gettysburg speech had been made, possible only by the men who had fought there. He charged that the boast that America would have 20 GOO airplanes by this spring with Persh- ing's men had stimulated Germany to
 build and not to brag
 He urged Americans not to deceive themselves with the notion that they had done their duty. The war had just begun for America. Profiteering he said had been wiped out ninety pei cent. of it at least had stopped wher the United States became an active i belligerent. Nearly all profiteering, he said, had taken place during the years | of our ignoble neutrality Colone 1 Roosevelt sharply attacked all pacifists | I. w. WIS, Bolshevists and sentimen.
 talists He favored the deportation
 of non-alien anarchists.
 | T have been accused of liking tt
 preach" he declared. q do. My tex for today will be from First Kings XX:ii in which the King Isarael tolt
 Ben -Hadad: Let not him that girdetl
 on his harness boast himself as h.
 that putteth it off"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
o'LEARY IS BEING HNRRIED
 AcoRss THE CONTINENT
Arrest Was Effected After Three Shots
 Had Been Fired.

Portland, Oregon, June 16.-Jeremiah A. O'Leary, president of the American Truth Society, sought since May last in every corner of the United States following his sensational escape on the eve of his trial on charge of pub fishing seditious articles and who was arrested last Thursday a few miles from Portland. Oregon, is now being hurried across the continent to New York under heavy guard.
 O'Leary's arrest took place at Sara Washn., fifteen miles north of here, was effected in a dramatic manner only after three shots had been fired Government agents with strong posse made the arrest, it was learn ed here tonight. O'Leary's whereabouts had been made known to the federal officials by a man who had worked with him on little chicken ranch that O'Leary had tenanted. To this man the fugitive revealed his identity. The fed eral authorities acted promptly and without enlisting aid from the county or state authorities.
 News of the capture leaked out when a man who had participated came to the office of Sheriff Bert Biesecker 1t Vancouver, Washn., and told about it. l This witness. according to J. J. John son, deputy sheriff of Vancouver, said man had taken the chicken ranch to
 operate it few weeks ago and had
 hired the witness to work for him. A few days ago, the narrator said, the owner told him he was called east and that his brother in law would take charge. The brother in law arrived
 and he was the man arrested later as O'Leary. Thursday afternoon the new
 conner was underneath an automobile repairing it when eleven men broke
 from the woods about the cabin anc
 advanGed. Several shots were fired but
 whether O'Leary did any of the shoot.
 ing could not be learned. Soon O'Lear,
 was handcuffed and taken away.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
GERMAN SHOCK TROOPS
 ATTACK AMERICAN LINE
Got Into the Village of xivray-Later
 Were Driven Out.

With the American Army in France, June 16.-(By A. P.).-About 500 Ger man shock troops attacked the Am erican first line positions at the will lage of Xivray, in the Foul sector, early this morning. Some of the enemy got into Xivray but were soon driven out. At other points the Germans were badly beaten.
 The attack began at three o'clock in the morning after an extremely violent bombardment of the front line, American batteries and villages far in the rear. The Germans advanced swiftly to the attack, but were met by heavy fire. Those who penetrat- withdraw and elsewhere the enemy was completely repulsed in hard fight ing lasting more than two hours.
 According to reports the objective of the enemy to take American pri- soners. This object failed, as no Am erican is reported missing. The Ger mans. evidently angered by the fail ure of the attack, continued an inter mittent smelling of the village in the rear throughout Sunday. Some of these points were not less than eight miles behind the line.
 The American troops. engaged at close quarters the small German force that entered Xivray. There was severe fighting with bayonets and clubbed rifles. The Germans left nine dead ir the streets, and six prisoners were
 taken, two of them officers, one ot l whom was wounded.
 The prisoners came from the thirty sixth Landwehr. They said that some troops of the Twenty Second Regi 1 ment, Eighth Bavarian Reserve, alsC participated in the attack.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
Army Motor Truck Fell Through Bridge
FELL IN RIVER IS MILES NORTH
 WEST OF ATLANTA, GA.
FOUR SOLDIERS KILLED
Seventeen Men Were Seriously In-
 iured-The Truck Dropped About
 Forty Feet and Most of the Men Were Pinned Under It.

Atlanta, Ga, June 16.-Four sol- diers were killed and seventeen oth- CTS were seriously injured today when an army motor truck fell through a bridge into the Etowah river. in Cher olzee county. Is miles northwest of At lanta. All the men were from Camp Gordon.
 The Men Killed.
 The men killed were: Samuel L Smith, New York city.
 Ernest Rheinsmith, Trenton, N. J
 A. L. Masguise. address undeter- mined.
 Harold Secor, Watertown, N. J.
 Four Perhaps Fatally Hurt.
 Three of the injured are believed tC be fatally hurt. They are: Sergean Harry E. Burton, New York city Corporal E. F. Brindley, address un. determined: Private A. J. Tripp, O Riehmondville. N. Y. Fell About Forty Feet. eral agents, were en route to tn northern part of the county to rount up draft evaders. When the trucl reached the middle of the bridge which was a wooden structure, tn supports gave way. The truck fel about forty feet and most of the me were pinned under it. There was onl about four feet of water in the river | Work of Rescue. 1 Federal authorities and civilians wh were riding in automobiles behind tn l truck rescued the injured men and re covered the dead bodies. The seri ously injured were placed in automo i plies and taken to hospital at Ma l rietta near this city.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17

Fighting in France Sinners Down.
 With the commencement of the long expected Austrian offensive, the fight ing in France has simmered down all most to sub normal, except southwest of Soissons, where the French have delivered several violent attacks against the Germans holding territory captured last week. Where the enc my week ago was throwing thou sands upon thousands of men against the allied lines between Montdidier and Noyon, Sunday saw him worn out with his useless efforts and his forces sad ly depleted through men killed and wounde, unwilling or unable further tC give battle.
 In the famous St. Mihiel sector where the Americans took over theil first sector of the battle front, the Ger mans have delivered a stroke and were rewarded by being able to gain the village Shortly afterwards. however they were expelled and the position regained Prisoners were taken from the Germans, who in their anger throughout Sunday 'strafed" villages in the rear with their artillery.
 American Troops in AIsace.
 Probably having in mind Presiden wilson's promise that the war should not be ended until wrongs of Alsace- Lorraine are righted, forces of Ameri can troops now are occupying sectors in the picturesque territory of Alsace They have been there since May 21 and possibly sensing the importance of the move, both from the strategit and moral standpoint, the German already have delivered an attacl against them. The American casual ties were light.
 5ombardments in Macedonia.
 In Macedonia the operations dail increase in importance. Along tn greater patr of the front there hay ! been heavy reciprocal bombardment and Bulgarian troops several time have. endeavored to penetrate the al lied lines. All their efforts, howeve met with i'll success.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17

Total casualties reported to date B. os5.
 More Than soo,ooo Overseas.
 With more than 500, 900 soldiers sent overseas, officials pointed to the small number, 291, lost. through operations cf German submarines as showing the effectiveness of the convoy sys- tenn. The men lost were on the tor- pedied British steamers Tuscania and Moldavia. The former was taking troops from America to England and the latter from England to France Small Number Dying From Wounds.
 The comparatively small number Of men dying from wounds is pointed to as indicating the efficiency of the ann bulance and hospital systems. while the fact that only 1,234 men have died of disease is accepted as proof of the excellent physical condition of Amer ica's fighting men. @
 High Percentage Return to Duty. Another satisfying consideration is l that of the wounded men a very high percentage return to duty at the front | in less than six weeks.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
STEAMSHIP OUTRAGED A
 GERMAN SUBMARINE
In a Three Hour Stern Chase Of the
 Virginia Coast.

An Atlantic Port. June 16.-In a three hour stern chase off the Virginia coast, a steamship from South American ports outraced a German submarine early Friday morning, ac- cerding to officers and passengers of the vessel, which docked here today.
 A ligEt close to the water, was sighted in waters near where the Nor wegian bark Samoa was sunk by a
 Teuton invader six hours later, as an- rouneed today by the navy depart ment. The ship turned about, and
 with her engines driving at full
 speed, headed toward mid ocean while the low-lying light followed
 The liners captain, confident that the pursuing craft was U-boat. od- dered all passengers on deck and equipped them with life belts. The boats were swung oversidc and the women and children grouped near them.
 | For three hours, the passengers said. the unseen ship, with it's single lighe, trailed the speeding liner. When l it dropped steadily asten and finally
 disap ppeared. the captain zigzagged hie
 vessel back to it's formr course. l Aboard the steamship was an at i tache of the American transport ser
 vice who was on the New York an6
 Porto Rican liner Brazos when that | vessel received a wireless call fol 1 help from her companion ship the l Carolina. which was sunk June by z 1 submarine. The Brazos. he declared l put on full steam, drafting every bod 1 fed man in the ships company fol 1 furnace room duty. and raced for : 1 Porto Rican port,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17

Washington, June 16.-Seven hun dred and seventy casualties reported among the American expeditionary forces during the week ending today brought the total since American troops troops first landed in France nearly year ago to S0S5.
 The second weekly summary of cas- ualties issued today by the war oe- partment, shows that the total num- Der of deaths from all causes is 3.192, while 4.547 men have been wounded in action and 346 are missing in action, including all men he'd prisoners in Germany
 The Summary.
 The summary, which includes to- days list. follows:
 Killed in action Cincluding 291 al sea) 1,172.
 Died of wounds 364. Died of disease 1,2S4. Died of accident and other causes 422
 Wounded in action 9,547.
 Missing in action Gncluding prison ers) 346.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
PRESIDENT HADLEY DELIVERS
 BAccALAUREATE SERMON
Points Out Lessons We Have Been
 Taught by the War.

New Haven, Conn, June 16.-Amer- ica has risen to the defense of Chris tan ideals, President Arthur T. Had ley said in his baccalaureate sermon today to the senior classes of the uni versity. 'We have been taught" he said, ito believe in the Christian vir- tues of sympathy and courtesy and truthfulness A great nation. which we have hitherto respected. claims the right to ignore such obligations in time of war, and to build up other standards of character and achieve ment which must result to a consid d ble extent -suppresSing them in times of peace. The very essence of Christianity, as we have understood 1 it. is threatened and threatened by a people whose discipline and endurance and technical intelligence however is highly developed.
 America has risen to the defense of these Christian ideals. We have ambitions and political rivalries. We are prepared to squander our treas ure and sacrifice OUT life blood for the things that we have believed to 1 be right.
 | Germany, whatever her faults has her ideals as a nation and has shown 1 the power to pursue them consistent i ly in the face of adverse circum-
 stances. If we are to win this war
 and prove the superiority of our ideals
 to hers, we must not only, feel them
 with equal intensity. but pursue them
 with more than equal constancy."
 The baccalaureate service, marked
 the formal opening Of Yale's com
 annual meeting of "Ya1e in China was held, with addresses by Rev R1ownel Gage. dean of the college al Chang Sha, Chang Boiling of Tier
 Tsin. and Dwight H. Day. treasurer
 of the Presbyterian mission board.
 Dean Gage reviewed the situation ir
 China. referred to chaotic conditions
 resulting from civil strife there an(
 urged that steps be taken by Ameri-
 ca to offset the campaign for th'
 spread of German culture and inf1u
 ence throughout China. which he saiC was now being planned The severa
 thousand German prisoners now il Jap pan captured at Tsing-Tao, he said were making themselves ready fo
 this campaign. spending all their ire time in the study of the Chinese Ian guage so as to be prepared when SC , free This he said lent point to tn suggestion of Minister Reinsch tha l Amedica should send over regimen
 of business men trained as legatiol
 guards to relieve the guards TOW ol duty at Peking. While doing this. h r said the business men could study tn . Chinese language and market so as | further American business when tn l war is over and offset the German ef
 forts to gain aseendency in the coun
 try.
 { MT. Gage sails soon to oreani7e edu : cational work among the Chinese la l horers in Europe, behind the F1'enc I ard British lines. D Tomorrow will come the meeting T
 the alumni advisory board and th
 meeting of the Yale Corporation. o s Tuesday the chief feature will be V big patriotic meeting with addresse : by President Hadley and others.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17

The Italian and allied armies are brsvely sustaining the weight of the Austrian forces which are attacking along the front of the Italian theatre from the northfest of the Asiago pla- ieau eastward to the Piave river and thence along that stream to where it joins the headwaters of the Adriatic sea. a front of nearly i0e miles.
 Having made extensive preparations for the drive by bringing up strong endorsements in men and guns, many of them brought from the former bat tle line in Rumania and Galicia as a result of the debacle in the east, the enemy is using them without stint in order to debouch from the mountain passes and cross the Piave river and gain the Venetian plains.
 Austrians Captured Several Positions.
 Everywhere the fighting is of an ex- tremely ssnguinary chaarcter, especi- ally east of the Asiago plateau, in the Rrents valley and on Monte Grappa. In the initial struggle the enemy suc- ceeded in capturing several front line positions in the mountain region from the British and also in crossing the Piave. Counter attacks. however, have restored all the positions in the noun tains. including territory to a depth of 900 yards along a 2.50o yard front captured from the British. At last accounts the allied troops everywhere were strongly holding the enemy and King Victor Emmanuers men were gailantly striving to throw back the invaders across the Piave. The Ital- isns have taken more than 5000 Aus trian prisoners. among them ss off cers.
 As vet the Vienna war office has given only brief mention to the battle saying that the Austrian armies had invaded the Sette Comuni plateau, ly- ing at an altitude of 3,400 feet north west of Asiago, and that up to noor Sunday more than 10000 Italian, Eng fish and French soldiers and a con. siderable number of guns had beer captured.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
GOVERNMENTS FINANCIAL
 POLICY FOR FOUR MONTHS
Fourth Liberty Loan to Be Floated
 Probably in October.


 Washington June 16--The govern ment's financial programme for the next four months. was disclosed today by Secretary McAdoo's announcement that in preparation for the fourth liberty loan to be doated probably in October, about $6,0O0,000 certificates Of indebtedness will be issued They will be offered in blocks of $150,000,- = 900 each. every two weeks beginning June p.
 Every national bank and trust com pany is asked to assist the govern ment by subscFib4Ag- per cent. of it's gross resources monthly. The cer- tificates will bear 4 1-2 per cent. in terest like those preceding the third Liberty loan. and will have varying maturity periods. none exceeding four months.
 In addition, an undetermined quan- tity-perhaps s2,O00 900. .O00-of tax certificates will be issued during the summer for use in paying taxes a year from now.
 The announcement of this pro- gramme indicated that the fourth Liberty loan will be for at least $6.- 900, 00o,0 900, the exact amount depend ing on government expenditures in the next few months. The treasury already has estimated these roughly at about $12,OOO. 900 900, between July and next January 1.
 The sale of certificates under the nlan in effect during the past veal amounts virtually to borrowing in ad- vance from banks on projected pop ular war loans on tax collections, anC periodically refunding these shor term obli@ations in long term Liberty bonds Depository banks make ? l.! per cent net. the difference betweel the 1-2 per cent. interest paid b.
 the government. and the ? per cent collected for deposits.
 The future financial programme wa
 announced at this time to enabl
 banks to prepare for the governmen
 demands
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
FIFTY SEVEN NAMES IN
 ARMY CASUALTY LIST.
 ts- Twenty seven Men Were Killed iH Action-Thirteen Died of Wounds

Washington. June 16.-The army casualty list today contained 57 names, divided as follows: Killed in action, 27 died of wounds 1S; died of acci- dent, 1; wounded severely. Is.
 Lieut. Whitney w. Stark, Brooklyn. \. Y. severely wounded, was the only officer in the list. The list follows:
 Killide in aetion-Sergeant Charles E. Bonn, Portsmouth, O.; Sergeant William A. Williams, Lindley, x. Y; Corporal Cecil R. Secor Winnewood, Okla; Corporal Frank Topinka, Chi cago; Corporal Homer E. Weatlers, Cache Okla: Privates: George Bald win, Chicago; John H. Barnes, St. Paul, Ind; Leonard William Beck, Buffalo, x. Y George H. Blyler, Ran shaw, Pa; Clarence J. Cowgirl, FL wood, Ind: Howard S. Ehrie, Phillips burg, N. J.; George H. Foster, Fair mount, Ind; John L. Gardner, Totten vile, N. Y; Herman Goetz. 62z Robb avenue. Johnstown, Pa; Richmond Hall, Grand Forks, N. D.; George ". Hill, Burr Oak, Kas.; Antoni Kisilow- ski, New York; Lloyd A Long, Fort Wayne, Ind; John J. Loudon, Spring field, Mass; Robert R. Parks, Kansas City, pas; George M. Klicht, Milwai1- kee, Wis; Frank Skelly, Toledo, O. William H. Stone, ogden, Kas.; Roger 1 Sullivan, Perry, Me; Floyd H. Sy- monds. Woodruff, N Y; Joseph A. Veillette, Lowell, Mass; John W. | Vogel, Tell City, Ind.
 | Died of wounds-Sergeant Edward Harding. Cambridge, Mass; Corporal | Samuel W. Myers. IS East New street, Lancaster, Pa; Wagoner Dewey ". Fink, Grand Forks, N. D.: Privates:
 Ernest Godreau, Derry N. H.; Harvey l M. Husted. San Francisco, Calif {; Frank J. Kroutch, Rio Vista. Calif.;; l Francesca Lucchessi, Oakland. Calf. :; Frank c. McClenahan, Brentwood, Tenn. John F. Miller Michigan City.
 Ind: John M Musser Lincoln. Pat William H. Noon, New Bedford, Mass. i;
 John C. Trooper, Grasemont, Okla; Oliver R. Smith, Ipava, Ills.
 Died of accident: Private Owen Fl. Johnson, Waterville. Washn.
 Severely wounded: Lieutenant Whit
 ney W. Stark, Brooklyn. N r; Cor
 poral Bernard J. Igo, West Somerville
 Mass; Cook John 4. Laudolf, Fond
 du Lac, Wis: Privates: Joseph F
 Curtik, Lawrence, Mass: Charles B
 Dempsey. Trumansburg, N. Y; Stanis
 c. F'libbert Worcester. Mass; George
 S. Forbes. Hoboken. N. J.; Charles Halfhide, Menonie. Wis; John B Kearney, Worcester. Mass: James L Mackav. Oakland Calf; Andry Max.
 arewech. New York; George H. Nun , der New York: Fred J. Polk. Char, , lotte. N. C.; Abraham Schriber, St } Louis: Joseph Stefanek, Russia; Johr R, Williams, New Pork.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
HAS INVITED AMERICAN AND
 GERMAN SOCIALISTS TO CONFER
Pieter Jel.es Trolestra, the Dutch So.
 eiaIist Leader.

Amsterdam, June 16-vienna news papers received here say that Pieter JeIles Trolestra, the Dutch socialist leader, who is going to England short lv to attend the annual conference of the British labor congress, has invit- ed Austrian and German socialists to confer with him before he departs.
 The newspapers add that the Aus tro-Gernan socialists have selected Karl Seitz and Wilhelm Ellenbogen. members of the German social de- mocracy in Austria. for this purpose and that they are leaving immediately for The Hague.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
THE AUSTRALIAN PREMIER :
 HAS ARRIVED IN LONDON
William Nj. Hughes is to Attend the
 Imperial Cabinet.

London, Rome, June 16.-(British Admiralty, Per Wireless Press.)- William M. Hughes. the Australian premier. arrived in London Saturday to attend the imperial cabinet. In an interview he said: Ii
 "All things were going we'll in Aus tralia for the allied cause when I left the shores Of that country. The feel ing now is what it has ever been one of. staunch IoyaNy to the mother country and to the cause for which I-an tite allies are fighting Recruits are rolling up and we arc able, l am thankful to say. to keep a continuous flow of men to the seat of war;