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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-06
Sale Of
Canning
Specialties

| You still have to-
! morrow until nj n c
! o'clock in the evening
| i n w h i c h t all
yourself of the special
prices that prevail on
all canning and pre-
serving supplies and
specialties. 1 {
Glass jars or tops,
tin cans, blanch1ng.
| baskets, root beer or
! ketchup bottles, fruit
! jar wrenches, evapo-
r a t ors, ca n n e r S,
jelly strainers and in
n II m e r a b e other
things at reductions
that mean a decided
saving. di /
| BowMAN'S-Basement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
Armies of German Crown Prince
Are Being Holly Pursued
by Allies.
AIsNE RIVER is GOAL
Teuton Commanders Are Striving to
Rally Their Forces at Designated
Point in Order to Avoid Further
Serious Losses.

London, Aug. 5.-With the Allies
everywhere in hot pursuit, the gen
eral retreat continues undated.
Apparently, the situation now has
resolved itself into a race for the
northern bank of the Aisne river by
the Germans, who have been evicted
from strategic positions along the Yes
lie rivers in the center of the line and
directly east of Rheims, which seem
lngly renders necessary that they put
the Aisne between themselves and
their pursuers as quickly as possible
In order to escape further large losses
of men made prisoner.
Both TANKS of the Germans appear
to have been turned. Just how large
the bag OF captives is at present can
not be reckoned, but unofficial advices
from Paris assert that when the fig
ures are made public they will thrill
the Allied world.
American Forces Take fishes.
AFTER hard fighting, the Americans
nave succeeded in taking from the
Germans the important town of Fis-
mes, once Germany's great ammuni-
tlon and supply depot, midway on the
railway between scissors and Rheims,
while to the east at number of places
along the Vesle river the French have
crossed the stream, driving the enemy
northeastward.
East of SCISSORS Allied troops have
negotiated the passage of the Aisne to
the northern bank Of that stream.
where they are in position to harass
the enemy as he endeavors to straight
en- out his line in conformity with that
running northwestward.
So fast has been the retreat of the
Germans in the center that already
some elements of their forces have
succeeded in reaching the northern
bank OF the Aisne and getting num-
bers of their big guns across with
them. All through the salient towns
are still ablaze behind the retreating
Germans, and even corn fields have
been set afire to prevent the Allied
troops from garnering the ripened
crop.
High Water Traps Foe on VesIe.
AhO h6HI1u6 d1On6 CHS VSSl0 TlV0r
was OF a sanguinary character as long
as it lasted. With the river at freshet
and the Germans unable to ford it,
they stood with their backs to it and
gave battle for their lives. A major
ity of them were killed and the re-
mainder were made prisoners.
One of the most important maneuv-
ers north Of the Vesle was the pene-
tration by the French to the village of
La Neuvillette, which releases the
German hold On the northern outskirts
of Rheims and seemingly delivers the
cathedral city from the German men.
ace.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
SACRIFICE TOO GREAT
General Ludendorff Says 0bjec-
tive of Allies Failed.
Commander of German Army Main
tains Withdrawal Is Good
Tactical Move.

Amsterdam, Aug Son July Is
the enemy evaded us, and we there
upon, as early as the evening of the
10th, broke off operations.
1T is always our endeavor to stop
an undertaking as soon as the stake
is not worth the cost. / consider it
one of my principal duties to spare the
blood and strength Of our soldiers"
General Ludendorff, first quarter
master general of the German army,
made this statement to an assemblage
of German newspaper correspondents,
who were received by Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg and himself, accord
ing to dispatches received here.
Declare Foch Failed.
Referring to General Foch, General
Ludendorff continued:
Ellis plan was undoubtedly to cut
off the entire arc Of our front south Of
the Aisne by break-through on the
flank. But with the proved leadership
of our Seventh and Ninth armies that
was quite impossible.
eve reckoned with an attack on
July Is and were prepared for 1t. The
enemy experienced very heavy losses,
and the Americans and African aux
fary troops, which we do not under
estimate, suffered severely
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
MEN FROM NORTHWEST KILLED.
REGULARS AND FORMER MILITIA.
MEN ON CASUALTY LIST.
Latest Army Bulletin Hits Iowa, Min.
nesota, Wisconsin and the
Two Dakotas. H

Minneapolis, Aug. 5.-Heaviest cas-
ualties yet reported among northwest
soldiers in France, including many
killed in action, sent out from Wash
ington, showed that regulars and for
mer guardsmen from Minnesota, the
Dakotas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa,
and Montana are paying the price ON
French battlef1elds.
The National Guard regiment identf
fed by its casualties is the former
First North Dakota Infantry, now the
164th Infantry. Total casualties re.
ported today were 206, OF whom 112
were killed in action.
Northwest men reported in the last
casualties follow:
Killed in Action-Corp. Vincent
Grantvalley, Minneapolis. Privatess
T. H. Irwin, Calva, Iowa; M. Matu-
siewicz, Detroit, Mich; W. r. Miller,
Plainwell, Mich; L. S. Ripley, Lohr.
vile, Iowa; L. e. Cline, Fortington,
Iowa; K. M. Ednor, Campbell, Mimi;
w. Evans, Cambria, Mimi; Orville F.
Ballard, Waupaca, Wis; Glover Blew
ms, Pay Coulee, Mont; Richard o.
Burns, Beeton, Wis; Harold F. Can.
field, Traverse City, Mich; Keith M.
Edner, Campbell, Mimi; Evan Evans,
Cambria, MINI; Frank B. Holicky, La.
kota, N. D.; Walter r. Miller, Plain.
well, Mich; Axel e. Nelson, Little
Falls, Mimi; Clarence G. Paff, Chip.
pewa Falls, Wis; Paul Pecher, Grand
Forks, N. D.; Raymond Stake, Surrey
N. D.; Arthur r. Stanley, Nebish,
Mimi; o. F. Ballard, Waupaca, Wis;
J. G. Blevins, Bay Coulee, Mont. |
Died of Wounds-Private Harry T.
Lalone, Midland, Mich. /
Died of Disease-Joseph Anawesld,
Bay Shore, Mich; Philip Steen, Due
1uth; Nemoy B. Turpin, Whitcombi
Mont {
Died from Accident and Other
Causes-Corp. Benjamin Dechyk, r.
D. No. 8, Duluth; Priv. Otto F. Schau'
naman, Sisseton, S. D.
Wounded Severely-Sergt. Carroll
w. White, SCOTS, Mich; Mechanic
Edward Joholski, GAINESVILLE, Wis;
John Besteland, Carpo, N. D.; Samuel
Healy, Faribault, Mimi; William
Richards, Butte, Mont I
Missing in Action-Priv. Wayne
PietiIa, White Point, Mich.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
Wants Congress to Amend Law
Making Men From 10 to
45 Years Eligible.
TO CALL YOUTHS LAST
Secretary Of War Asserts Department
Has in Mind Simply to Secure a
Large Enough Army TO Con-
quer Germany.

Washington, Aug. 5.-In discussing
the war departments recommends
lions to Congress Of draft ages from
18 to 40 years, Secretary Baker said
there was no intention of calling to
the colors youths between Is and 1S
until the other classes have become
exhausted
This policy was decided on, he said
in order to give the youths an op-
portunity to mature before they join
the army.
After formally announcing the new
draft ages, Secretary Baker said all
the possible combinations of age limits
were carefully studied and it was
found that to get the men into class
1 for the program proposed, Is to As
was necessary.
To Hold Young Men.
He said, however, that the bill as
read to Congress, will contain pro-
vision authorizing the president to
call men out of class 1 by classes &C
cording to age, so that if it is found
possible the men between 18 and 10
Will VIC Cdl1Cu OQL ldLCI LudA LnC O10OA
men found eligible to class l.
The War department program, the
war secretary said, is purely mill
tary one and cannot be called a con-
scription of labor, although 1t natur-
ally will have the effect of putting
at useful labor or in the army all
able-bodied men within the age limit
as they finally will be fixed by Con-
gress.
In recommending this extension OF
the age limits, Mr.. Baker continued,
the department had it in mind simply
to get for the army the number of
men believed necessary to defeat Ger
many.
Mr.. Baker gave it as his opinion
that so far, about 100000 had been
drafted out of class from the ex-
listing list
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria Re.
treats Before British and
French.
KEEPING Up PRESSURE
Entente Armies Force Germans Across
Avre River Southeast of Amiens
and Also Compel Retreat in
the Region of Albert.

London, Aug. 5-Eyes are being
turned to the regions in the north
west on both sides of Amiens, now
that the Germans have been thorough
ly vanquished thus far on the Sois-
sons-Rheims salient.
Here the French and British are
keeping up their hard pressure against
the armies of Crown Prince Rupprecht
of Bavaria and have forced them on
two highly important sectors to re-
treat.
Southeast of Amiens on the old
MOntdidier sector the Germans have
fallen back across the Avre river over
wide front, while northeast of
Amiens, in the region of Albert a
similar retrograde movement has been
made across the Ancre.
Germans Face Greater Retreat.
The German official communication,
in admitting the withdrawal near
Albert, declares the maneuver was
carried out without interference by
the British.
Just what bearing these new Of
fensives will have on the fighting front
to which the Germans ultimately re-
treat for a stand in the Aisne region
cannot yetebe forecast, but should the
Allied troops be able to press back the
line for any material gains eastward
it is not improbable that it would dis
locate the entire German line in the
south.
Enemy Retires on 1o-MiIe Front.
The retirement of the Germans be-
tween Montdidier and Moreuil is over
a front of approximately 10 miles, On
the southern half of this front, Ameri-
can contingents have been stationed
for some time. Along the northern
half of the line the French, on two
occasions, have driven into the Ger
man lines so that their front before
the present German withdrawal began
ran along the hills dominating the
Avre river from Castel to .Aubvillers
This withdrawal, taken in conjunc-
ton with the German retirement
across the Ancre, from Dernancourt
to Kamel, about IA miles to the north,
may mark the beginning. of German
strategic retreat" which may have
been planned to forestall British at
tack which London dispatches had in
dicted was imminent in this sector
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
Electric Lines to Move Troops.

Washington, Aug. 5.-Concentration
of draft troops hereafter will be ac-
complished by way of electric rail-
ways wherever it is possible. In an
swer to appeals from the trolley lines
for government aid the railroad admin
istration has shifted the Transports
ton of drafted men to the electric
lines. This action was taken after a
conference between the railroad adj
ministration officials and representa-
tives of Provost Marshal General
Crowder, it became known through of.
fetal channels.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
WILSON MAY TOUR COUNTRY
President Plans to Aid Fourth Lib
erty Loan Drive.

Washington, Aug. Sit is believed
here that President Wilson is contem-
plating a nationwide tour during the
next Liberty Loan campaign, which be-
gins Sept. 2S, and that if the program
is finally carried out it will include a
visit to Minnesota.
The President wrote letter to Rep
resentative Charles G. Randall, Prohi-
bitionist, of California, indicating that
he would like to visit California in the
next few months. Mr. Randall had
written to the President asking him to
visit California in October, and while
the invitation was not accepted Meth
er was it refused.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
ASSERTS PERIOD or
CRISIS HAS PASSED
Field Marshal Haig Comments on
Situation as Fifth Year of
War Begins.

London, Aug. 5.-Field Marshal
Haig, commander-in-chief of the Brit
ish forces in France, has issued q
special order of the day to the British
troops, dated Aug. 4, the anniversary
of Great Britain's entry into the war
The order say, in part:
"The conclusion of the fourth yeaH
of the war marks the passing of the
period of crisis. We can now with
added confidence look forward to the
future.
"The revolution in Russia set free
large hostile forces on the eastern
front, which were transferred to the
west 1t was the enemy's intention ia
use the great numbers thus created
to gain decisive victory before the
arrival of American troops should give
superiority to the Allies"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
TWO POWERS TO ACT
America and Japan Only win
intervene in Russia.
other Allied Nations Assent in Prln
cIpIe to Policy Which viii
Be Pursued.

Washington, Aug. 5.-The plans for
extending military aid to Russia in
Siberia will be undertaken by the
United States and Japan alone, with
the other Allied co-belligerents assent
ing in principle, according to Official
statements by the American and Jap
anese governments, made here.
The United States and Japan will
each send "a few thousand men" To
Vladivostok to act as a common force
in occupying and safeguarding the
city and protecting the rear of the
westward moving Czecho-Slovak army
The numbers of the American troops
and from where they will go may not
be discussed.
To Send Aid to Murmansk.
While the United States and Japan
are extending aid to the Czecho-Slovak
army in Siberia the United States will
continue to cooperate with the Allies
operating from Murmansk and Archan-
gel. To what extent and in what ma
ture is not announced.
The only present objects Of the jap
anese-American forces will be to give
such aid and protection as possible to
the Czecho-Slovak forces against the
armed body Of German and Austrian
prisoners of war and to steady any eff
forts at self-government and self-de-
Tense in which the Russians them
selves may be willing to accept assist
ance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
Yankees Master War Game.

Washington, Aug. 5.-The American
forces in France have reached such a
high stage of training in the new meth
DDS of warfare that they are to fur
nish instructors for the new units be-
ing organized in the United States.
No additional instructors from the Al
lied armies will be asked, except pos
sibly in special technical cases. Ii
was learned officially that the War de-
partment has ordered number of
officers back from France to command
brigades in the IL new divisions now
being organized
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
Ordnance Men Going Overseas.

Washington, Aug. 5.-Under an or
der of the chief of ordnance, service
in the enlisted personnel of the Ord
nance department except at arsenals
and proving grounds will be restricted
to men physically disqualified for gen.
eral military service. All men now
serving in the Ordnance department
at Washington and at ordnance depots
and contract plants in the United
States who are physically qualified for
general military service will be sent
overseas for duty in the ordnance ser.
vice of support.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
To Increase Coal Production.

Washington, Aug. 5.-Plans for con-
Quoting an intensive campaign to in
crease bituminous coal production
were announced by the fuel admins
tration. In each district production
manager will be appointer, while at
each mine a committee of six-three
representing mine workers and three
of the operators-will be selected to
stimulate patriotism and arrange for
local meetings at which need for in
creased production as means of win
ming the war will be brought home to
the men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
MAY Seize Foe Cyanide Process.

New York, Aug. 5.-Secret processes
for manufacturing cyanide which were
owned by the Scheide Anstaldt COM
pany of FRANKFORT, Germany, and used
in several subsidiary factories in this
country may pass into the hands of
the United States government Under
suspicion that transfer to Americans
of a majority interest in three chem
icaI companies was subterfuge to
preserve control for the German stock
holders, the alien property custodian
continued his inquiry into the affairs
of the corporation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
ASKS 1000 NURSES WEEKLY
Red Cross Needs That Number for
Next Two Months

Washington, Aug. 5.-An urgent call
to the American Red Cross to enroll
1000 nurses a week for the next two
months for immediate duty with the
army nurse corps was issued by Sur
geon General Gorgas.
With the American armies overseas
entering more and more into the fight
ing, the surgeon general said, the
need for additional nurses becomes
imperative.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
CAPTURE 8,400 PRISONERS
American Troops Also Take 1873 Guns
From Germans.

American Troops Also Take 1873 Guns
From Germans.
Washington, Aug. 5.-Allied troops
in the Aisne-Marne salient repeated
"the full fruits Of victory on Sat
urday, when the enemy who met his
second great defeat on the Marine was
driven in confusion beyond the line of
the Vesle," General Pershing reported
in his communique received by the
War department. American troops
alone have captured 8,400 prisoners
and 1873 guns.
"Our troops have taken Fismes by
assault and hold the south bank of the
Vesle in this section" a later COM
munique from Sundays fighting said
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
THREE FISHING BOATS SUNK
German Submarine Destroys Ships Of
Nova Scotia.

Halifax, N. S., Aug. 5.-Three Amer
lean fishing schooners were sunk by
German submarines off Seal Island,
Yarmouth county, on the Nova Scotia
coast. The crews landed on the Nova
Scotian coast.
The commander of one submarine
told an American skipper that he had
sunk more American schooners sailing
from Boston and Gloucester He did
not give the names of the vessels nor
mention what became of the crews.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
. THE WEATHER.
Fair and somewhat cooler to-
day; tomorrow unsettled.
+ \ 4
Gathering German Helmets.

With American Army on Aisne-
Marine Front, Aug. 5.-Every Ameri-
can postoffce near where the fighting
troops are camped is filled each day
with German helmets addressed to.
relatives and friends in the United
States. officers and men, members of
the Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross and, In
fact, everyone appears to be sending
helmets. These trophies are found
along roads, in forests and in fields,
wherever the Germans retreated. Hell
NETS with large bullet holes particu-
larly are in demand.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
GEN. CARTER WILL COMMAND
Selected to Head One of the New
Army Divisions.

Washington, Aug. 5.-Selection Of
Mai. Gen. Jesse Mel. Carter, now serv-
ing as chief of the militia bureau and
commander of the United States
guard, to head one of the new divi-
sions to be formed in this country
was announced by General March,
chief of staff.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
SENT 100000 DURING JULY

War Department Makes Record Ship
ment of Troops.
Washington, Aug. 5.-Gen. March,
chief Of staff, has issued the follow
ing statement:
1.-THE number of men embarked dur
ing the month of July, just closed, was
over 100000. That breaks the record.
The previous high record was in the
preceding month, when we reached
$4,000. The number of men embark
ed to France is now over 100000"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
SHIP LAUNCHED IN ~ DAYS
Oakland (CaI.) Yard Claims to Have
Broken All Records.

Oakland, Cal, Aug. 5.-Built in "a
working days, the steel cargo carrier
Invincible, $4,000 tons capacity, was
launched in Oakland harbor from the
Alameda yard of the Bethlehem ship
building corporation. This is claimed
by the yard managers as a worlds
record
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
COLLECT STEEL MILLINERY
Yankees Sending German Helmets to
Friends at Home,

Yankees Sending German Helmets to
Friends at Home.
With American Army on Aisne-
Marine Front, Aug. EVERY Ameri-
can postoffice near where the fighting
troops are camped is filled each day
with German helmets addressed to
relatives and friends in the United
States.
Officers and men, members of the
Y. M. G. A. and Red Cross and, in
fact, everyone appears to be sending
helmets.
Helmets at one depot form pile
larger than an ordinary bungalow
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
100000 IN FIGHTING ZONE
Gen. Pershing Now Commands Over
One Million Men.

Washington, Aug. 5.-Gen. March,
chief-of-staff, announced Gen. Pershing
now has more than a million men IN
der his direct command Sin his own
area" Presumably he referred to the
section of the front from north of
Verdun to the Swiss border, where
American troops have been rapidly
taking over the line from the French.
Eight divisions of Americans, or
about 100000 men, are now in the
fighting zone.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
BLAMED FOR MARINE DEFEAT
Rumored That Gen. Won Ludendorff
Will Be Dismissed.

VII &c DIStIIISSCU'
Berne, Switzerland, Aug. General
Won Ludendorff is universally blamed
for the West front disaster, according
to advices from German sources,
which declare he will be superseded
by Field Marshall Won Mackensen,
who has been summoned to imperial
headquarters from the East
A Zurich dispatch says that Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg participated
in a recent conference at headquar-
ters and accused Ludendorff of mis-
management and imprudence, Luden-
dorff placed the responsibility on his
subordinates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
GERMANS SHIP HOME
WHEAT FRENCH GREW


Harvest Operations in the
Grain Fields.
With the American Army on the
Soissons-Rheims Front, Aug. 5.-Thou-
sands of bushels of French wheat have
been shipped home by German sold.
iers. The French and Americans dur
ing their advance of the last few days
have discovered that systematic plans
had been laid by the Germans for
reaping the harvest in the country
from which they have been driven.
The territory stretching nortSward
from the Marine. is virtually one great
wheat field, broken by forests here
and there. The wheat was sown by
peasants before the Germans adj
vanced from the Aisne late in May and
early in June and began ripening
early in July.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
WORKMEN STARvE TO DEATH
Enormous Loss of Life Occurring in
Dual Monarchy.

Washington, Aug. 5.-Austrian work
men, dying of starvation, official dis
patches received here say, recently
Vienna.
The delegates declared that in GER
tain provinces the population was dy-
ing of hunger. The death rate is
enormous and epidemics were raging
throughout the country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
THINKS KAISER FRIGHTENED
Lord Robert Cecil So Interprets His
Proclamation

London, Aug. 5.-Lord Cecil, assist
ant secretary Of state for foreign af-
fairs, declared in an interview that
the kaiser's proclamation to the Ger
man army and navy shows he is be-
coming frightened.
He talks with consideration, said
Lord Cecil. Owing to the Germans
temperament it is necessary to beat
them before they will talk in reason
able terms.
Il deplore Lord Lansdowne's letter
because the Germans will think the
English are weakening, which is not
true"