British Hold Line as German Drive Stalls in Picardy
Germans launch major assault from Givenchy to St. Venant in a bid to break the British line and threaten Bethune but are repelled with heavy losses. French and British forces hold ground along the Lys sector while mounting attacks shift to Castel near the Somme. Continuous artillery duels persist as front lines remain precarious south of Arras and toward Ypres.
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Givenchy
Ypres
Field Marshal Haig
Lys
St. Venant
Salient
Bethune
Vimyridge
Arras
Mount Kemmel
Somme
Castel
Paris-Amiens
Amiens
Merville
Weather Summary for Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania
Fair to night and Saturday with colder conditions and frost in exposed areas. Eastern Pennsylvania sees cooler night and Saturday with light frost in exposed places. light northwest winds. Temperature readings include 82 maximum, 50 minimum. sun rises 6 21 a m sets 7 30 p m. full moon April 26 at 4 05 a m. river at 11 6 feet above low water mark. yesterday highs 71 and low 56. mean 64, normal 52.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Germans Repulsed After Fresh Attacks on Lys Front
German forces were completely repulsed in attacks around Givenchy on the Lys front. Six divisions pressed the assault with heavy losses but made only limited footholds. Further attacks south of Kemmel were broken up by British artillery and machine gun fire as northern Lys lines remained in British hands.
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London
Givenchy
Lys Battlefront
War Office
Givenchy-St. Venant
Kemmel
Lys
Call to Field of France Stirs Latin Premier
Italian regiments already are in France forming the right wing of allied forces per the Italian embassy. Premier Orlando announced in the Chamber of Deputies that Italian troops would be dispatched to the battle front in France. He said Italy would stand with the Anglo French troops and soon Italian colors would fly over Picardy with French British American Belgian and Portuguese units.
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Associated Press
Washington
France
Rome
Orlando
Chamber of Deputies
Italy
Teuton Foes March Openly Into Death Before Mount Kemmel
Ottawa reports a Reuters dispatch from London stating the British battle line is more secure and the arrival of French troops is seen as crucial. Allied observers note fresh security from the French advance south of Amiens and German pressure along the Lys valley near Meteren and Wytschaete while Mount Kemmel remains costly for the foe.
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Associated Press
Ottawa
Reuter
London
Amiens
Ypres
Lys
Mount Kemmel
Meteren
Bailleul
Wytschaete
Crown Princess Denies Pardon to Girl Friend of Woman Shot as Spy
Geneva reports Miss Edith Cavell was executed in Belgium by Germans. Miss Julia Wyss, 20, of Geneva, was sentenced to 25 years penal servitude for the same offense and is in a Prussian prison. A petition of Geneva women for clemency was refused in a brief reply from Baron Von Trulpenzel.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Edith Cavell
Belgium
Julia Wyss
Baron von Trulpenzel
Rheims Cathedral reduced to smoking ruins by shelling
Rheims on the verge of collapse as German bombardment fires more than 100000 shells into the city. Aviators report flames from burning buildings, with the cathedral losing its stonework while firemen continue daring efforts to save occupants' belongings amid ongoing shelling.
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Paris
Rheims
le Matin
Place Royale
Market Place
Musicians House
Eloi
The
Marne
Sing Song Saturday at York Y M C A Lobby
Beginning Saturday evening the York Y M C A lobby becomes a community singing center as the male chorus launches Sing-Song Saturday singing patriotic and other war songs each Saturday evening.
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York
York Y. M. C. A
Crowder proposes universal draft registration plan
Washington reports Provost Marshal General Crowder sent to the President a plan to register every man aged 21 to 50 for a national draft. The measure would place labor under military control and mobilize manpower for rapid military needs. No White House position announced yet.
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Washington
United States
Crowder
White House
Harrisburg's First Wounded Soldier Returns Home
Arthur M. Eckert 36 Balm Street is identified as Harrisburg's first wounded soldier from France. His father received word he will arrive tonight at Newport News where he will meet and care for him. Eckert served in the engineer unit and faced severe fighting in recent operations. He was reported wounded a week ago and is expected to reach Harrisburg Monday.
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Harrisburg
France
Arthur M. Eckert
Balm Street
Newport News
Eckert
America
Dry campaign luncheon plans victory through prohibition pledge
Dauphin County Anti-Saloon League members held a noon luncheon at the Y M C A to back pro prohibition candidates for the Legislature. J Horace McFarland urged prohibition as the best way to win the war and aid industry, citizenship, and fuel and food conservation. The executive committee met afterward to finalize campaign plans.
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Dauphin County
Anti- Saloon League
J. Horace McFarland
State Banking Dept Goes 100 Percent in Third Liberty Loan
The fifteen employees of the State Banking Department each signed 100 percent subscription cards for the Third Liberty Loan. D. H. Lafean, State Banking Co., said all department staff demonstrated full support by subscribing.
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State Banking Department
Liberty Loan
D. H. Lafean
State Banking Co
Boy Burns to Death in Roxbury Mansion Fire
Gerald Patterson six, son of Mrs Ira Patterson of Harrisburg, burned to death when the double stone house known as the Pomery Mansion in Roxbury, Chambersburg, caught fire from a defective flue. His grandmother was rescued from a second story window as the blaze destroyed the two half houses.
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Chambersburg
Gerald Patterson
Ira Patterson
Harrisburg
Mary Patterson
Roxbury
Pomery
Men Called for National Army Entrants to Camps Meade and Lee
Draft boards in the city and Elizabethville announce quotas for white and colored registrants to join Camps Meade and Lee. Two hundred seventy six men affected. colored entrants to Meade depart Friday April 26, white quota to Camp Lee departs Tuesday April 30. Harrisburg entrants depart on a 9 45 a m special. final instructions issued morning before. All men to report to Red Cross for comfort kits prior to departure. Attorney J Dress Pannell of Steelton, a noted young lawyer, is referenced next.
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Meade and
Lee
Meade
Harrisburg
Exemption Board
Camp Lee
Red Cross
J. Dress Pannell
Stéelton
Fire Drives 12 Families From Saylor Apartments
A blaze in Reading Pa at 3 am gutted three stores and damaged another in the Saylor apartment block, threatening the six story building. More than forty people from twelve families lost their homes sleeping in nightclothes. Estimated loss placed at fifty thousand dollars.
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Associated Press
Reading
Saylor
All Disorderly Houses Close in Anti-Vice Drive
Harrisburg launches clean up aimed at curbing vice and disorderly resorts. Mayor Keister reports urgent guidance from the U S Department of Justice to make the city safe for military personnel and workers tied to nearby camps and projects.
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Harrisburg
Keister
United States Department of Justice
Middletown
Department of Justice
Harrisburg Reserves Meet to Expand Civic War Efforts
The Harrisburg Reserves will gather at the Courthouse at 7:30 p.m. to widen their activities beyond military duties. They aim to form a local civic body promoting patriotic service, enforcing food and fuel laws, and suppressing disloyalty, reporting laxity to authorities and boosting war work. Jesse E. B. Cunningham, ex deputy attorney general, will give a patriotic address.
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Harrisburg
Jesse E. B. Cunningham
Loan Subscriptions Grow to 1 161 510 050 in Third Liberty Drive
Treasury reports the Third Liberty Loan subscriptions total 1 161 510 050 after additional tallies. A Chicago rail robbery saw an armed thief in a soldier trench coat steal 236 dollars from a dining car doctor on a Michigan Central train near a suburban station. Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge William T Wheeler was indicted on embezzlement charges for allegedly misappropriating 50 000 from an estate.
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Washington
Treasury
Chicago
Michigan Central
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Elizabethville
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Iyor Keister
U.S. Department of Justice
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Martinique
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