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JOL. XLVI.—No. 143.

ALLIED ARMIES AWAIT BLOW WITH CMFDENCE

New Attack In Picardy Expected Soon Will Find Haig's Men Reinforced By French Troops—Allies Prepared

ALLIES ARE STILL INTACT

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LONDON, April 22.—Captain Baron Von Richthofen, the famous German aviator, has been killed, Reuter's correspondent at British headquarters reports.

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PARIS. April 22.—German raids east of the Avre river Rheims were repulsed last night, the war office announces.

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LONDON. April 22.—The British advanced their lines slightly last night in local operations on both of the principal battle fronts the war office announces. A strong local attack by the Germans on the front north of Albert was repulsed after the enemy had captured one of the British advanced posts.

ATTACK IS REPULSED.

LONDON,'April 22.—Early in the night a strong- local attack, accompanied by heavy shelling, was made by the enemy against our positions in the neighborhood of Mesnil, nqrth of Albert. After sharp fighting in the course of which the enemy succeeded in capturing one of our advanced posts, the attack was repulsed.

We improved our positions slightly during the night in the Vil-lers-Bretonneaux, Albert and Robecq sectors. A number of successful raids were carried out by us at different points south and north of -^Lens, resulting in the capture of prisoners and machine grins.

There has been considerable artillery activity ctn both sides oft different sectors of the British front. The enemy's shelling has been directed chiefly against our positions astride the Somme and Ancre rivers, in the Lens sector, in the neighborhood of Festubert.

WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FRANCE, April 22:—On the Picardy and Flanders battle fields the Germans have not resinned their attacks and apparently are waiting for the high command to decide where to strike next while fresh troops and new supplies arc being brought forward.

Meanwhile French reinforcements are pouring in behind the British lines. French troops are now with Field Marshal Haig's men on both the northern and southern leg, the British have driven the Germans from some advanced posts. In this area, where strong German attacks were repulsed sanguinarily last week, the enemy artillery is most active. Artillery duels continued along most of the Pi card v battle front, where the Germans are using guns of the biggest calibres.

Today the German offensive Ijegins its second month without having separated the British and French and with the British army still intact. Where the next blow will fall is uncertain, but the allies are prepared to meet it as they have met the others.

It is probable that the Germans are not willing to end the Flanders attack without making another effort to drive in the northern leg and get behind Ypres. Enemy activity south of Arras also has been noticed.

HAW STRENGTHENS POSITIONS.

While awaiting the next German blow, now momentarily expected, Field Marshal llaig is taking advantage of the comparative lull to strengthen his lines in various spots.

Both north and south of the Somme and on the Lvs battle front the British defensive positions were improved in local operations last night. Similarly, the Germans made an attempt to push forward their lines in the Mesnil region, north of Albert, in which sector thev apparently are preparing for some more important movement. The British offered a sharp defense, however, and foiled the enemy efforts.

Heavy artillery fire is in progress on so many parts of the front that little indication is afforded by this as to the point selected by the Germans for their'renewed thrust. Naturally they may be expected to make further efforts to extricate themselves from the pocket into w hich they have forced therrtselves on the Lys southeast of Ypres. Thus last night the enemy was reported shelling the British positions in Neippe wood, whence lies the route to Hazebrotick, the railway center from which it is well nigh vital for the British to hold him.

QUIET IN YPRES REGION.

There lias been no developments in the region north of Ypres,

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The nature of the ground and the disposition of the opposing "it is highly necessary for all banks forces, however, make it seem probable that a repetition of the attempt is to be looked for.

The situation in the Somme region is being, for the moment, even more closely watched than that along the Franco-Belgian border to the north. Field Marshal Haig reports heavy shelling from the British lines on both sides of the Somme and the Ancre, and correspondents are sending word of German preparations for movement •of some nature between Arras and Amiens, within which the region finder bombardment is located.

MAY ATTACK NEAR AMIENS.

The enemy is known to have brought up some of the heaviest guns to the Somme battlefield, where Amiens is his objective but the entente artillery is matching these and hampering the Germans severely in their preparations for attack. Last night the French repulsed a German raid along the Avre in this region.

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ACTIVE WORK PUNNED FOX CLOSE OF DRIVE

One Million Dollars Must Be Subscribed To Finish Vigo County's Quota.

WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION IS STILL DOING GOOD WORK

Mrs. N. S. Mesirow, Chairman of Women't Division, l« Planning Township Meetings—Catholic

Unit's Sales Reach $100,000.

With only a little over $1,700,000 subscribed out of a minimum quota of $2,700,000, the executive committee of the Vigo county Liberty Loan organization prepared today to take more energetic steps to secure tlie sale of tho amount of bonds a?ked by the government. fifteen days remain in which to do whatever selling con be done in t!i:s county and it is planned to make ese «la\s count as largely as possible. It developed today *that the minimum quota will not. be all that is expected of Indiana. "Word came from the state headquarters that the secretary of the treasury had asked all Indiana counties for an oversubscription of fifty per cent, which means that there will have to be more energetic work done in the future i.him has characterized the pant two weeks.

James S. Royse, chairman of the Vigo county committee, will call a meeting of the executive committee in the next day or so when plans will be made to push the selling work. Numerous committees will be created ar.d every branch of industry will bo intensively solicited. It is realized that there will have to be more, momentum back ot the campaign and- no time Is to be lost in providing for this.

Up to the present time, the bulk of the selltnjr has been done by the women's organization which has recorded sales in excess of $1,000,000,

Not all of the farmer subscriptions are coming through the women's or gsvization. but most of them are and with the exception of Prairieton and Linton townships, these sales run up into considerable figures.

Tn the city, the Catholic unit of the women's organization has increased Its sales to over $100,000. The Second vard sales today stood at $145,450, while the Fifth ward had secured subscriptions of $314,850.

Vigo county sales have been proceeding at about the rate obtaining in other large communities of the state and they are far ahead of the first two weeks of the second Liberty Loan. However, there was a noticeable slump last week that it is felt that new life will have to be put into the seiling organization if this county is to keep pace with the others.

BANK QUOTAS RAISED

INDIANAPOLIS. April 22.—In order to speed up tha sale of third Liberty bonds in Indiana- and make up the fifty percent increase in the allotment, i notices were sent out today to ail hanks i of Indiana in the seventh federal ra-

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i.'s quota was originally fixed at $675,000. This organization is now at work recanvassing the city, but the fruits of its work in the country are only j'nsl beginning to appear. During this week it is expected that very large sales will be recorded in the townships, all of which are now organized and in mrst of which several meetings have been held. "These township meetings are producing wonderful results," said Mrs. N. S. Mesirow, chairman of the women's committee, today. ""We find that v. hex-ever we have a good meeting, the sales begin to appear in increasing volume. The farmers are subscribing wherever they are approached and especially when they have attended one of these township meetings. We are planning to have more of them."

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t'j hold themselves in readiness to underwrite their quota to the limit ordered by the secretary of the treasury," continues the letter which was sent out today from the state headquarters of the Liberty Loan.

COAL OUTPUT GROWS.

WASHINGTON, April %%.—Production of bituminous coal took a jump during the wefk ending April 13, the United States geological survey announced today, and showed an increase of 1,630.000 net tons or more than 3 7 per cent over the production of the previous week. The total production was estimated at 10,947,000 tons as compared to 9,317.000 for the week ending April ». "VK" .. "T ...

THE TEBRE HAUTE TRIBUNE

GIRL SLOWLY DYING FROM DRUG EFFECT

Victim of Attempt at Double Suicide Cannot Recover From Bichloride of Mercury Taken Saturday.

DISCLOSES STORY LEADING UP TO TRAGIC CONCLUSION

Miss Evelyn Holmes In Ward at St. Anthony's Hospital Tells Tribune Reporter of Relations

With British Soldier.

With 30 grains of bichloride of mercury performing their sluggish but deadly function, Evelyn Holmes, pretty and just 21, is slowly dying in St. Anthony's hospital. In Chicago, reports from physicians say that Sergeant John McD. Henry, a young Canadian soldier who has seen three years service in the trenches in France, and who is connected with the United States British recruiting mission, cannot live and that the end is but a matter of days. So ends a sordid tragedy of love, of which the last act was staged Saturday in the Hotel Deming.

Sergeant McD. Henry and Miss Holmes swallowed a, quantity of the deadly poison Saturday afternoon at the Hotel Deming, following the former's arrest and while he was held under a military guard on a charge of misappropriating funds.of the ifc-itlsh government. Sergeant McD. Henry iiad bem in Teire Haute about one week in connection with the BritishCanadian recruiting work. The woman accompanied him herq.

Girl Tails Her Story.

JThe girls own story uas told to a Tribune representative Monday morning as phc: lay in a small white bed on the third floor of the hospital, in a semi-conscious condition, and aroused at momentary intervals to tell of a love greater than life, and a love that could not endure the strain of separation.

Here is her' story "My home is in Eau Clair®, Wisconsin, anil hack there I have two Of the finest parents that ever lived and I know they will forgive me for what I have done. I met Mr. McD. Henry in Superior, Wis., last September. We v^ere mutually attracted to each otner and when he left on a tour ot tVo United Stater, in the interest of the British recruiting mission went with him. He gave talks all over the United States and made friends by the hundred wherever we went. He was always good to me and. promised to marry me as soon as he could get a divorce from his wife in London. At that time did not know that he had taken funds from the British government at the Superior office of which be was in charge. While we were in Superior, I went to a business college to learn typewriting so that I could assist him in his work.

Csms From Chicago.

"We came to Terre Haute from Chicago one week ago and he registered at the Hotel Deming for both of us as man and wife. We were to stay here about two weeks and then go south for a short, tour. But last Saturday morning the secret service men came and placed him under arrest. At that time I did not know hs was wanted by them for anything. "With the separation staring us in

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TEEEE HAUTE, IND., MONDAY, APRIL 2*2, 1918.<p></p>MANY

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TEMBPRATIRE ItEroRD APR11- Xt. 6 a. 41 A'oon 62 9 a. 50 S p. tn. ......63 Relative humidity, 2 p. m„ 43 per cent.

LOCAL COSDITIONS AT 8 A. M. APK1L 22. 1»18. Station pressure. 29.16: temperature, 43: highest temperature yesterday, 41: lowest temperature last night, 4^: precipitation, trace: direction of wind, southwest: velocity of wind, 10 miles per hour state of weather, clear relative humidity, 81 per cent.

FORECAST.

TKRRE HAl'TK—Kair tonight and Tuesday. INDIAN"A—Fair tonight and Tuesday cooler tonight in north portion.

ILLINOIS Generally fair tonight and Tuesday »or so much change in temperature.

OTHER LOCAIi REPORTS. Temperature by Buntin's thermometer, a. m.. 44: 2 p. m. 84.

F'.iver stage 10.1 teou Sunrise, «:»3: sunset, hii.

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SAN JACINTO, Calf April 22.—Two mora earthquakes shocked Hemet and San Jacinto at 9:13 and 9:15 this morning. The earth movement seemed more pronounced at Hemet than here. Loose brioks, tottering walls and wreckage hanging precariously were loosened by the new shocks and fell, adding to the general ruin in the business districts.

LOS ANGELES, €al., April 22.— More thazi one-third of the business district of San Jacinto and a smaller portion of that of Hemet, both in Riverside county, about 70 miles east of here, were in ruins today and scores of residences in the two little towns were wrecked by ft series of earthquake shocks which caused all of southern California to tremble late yesterday afternoon. The property damaged is estimated from 1100,000 to $150,000 in the two places. Half a dozen other towns and cities, including Los Angeles, suffered minor damage confined mainly to plate glass windows and shattered cornices. Four blocks of San Jacinto's business streets were wrecked and one block at Hemet. Three distinct shocks were felt at San Jacinto. The first three threw to the ground a number of persons and horses. At the second shock all the buildings on the south side of the main street began to collapse and the third shook down those on the north side.

Electricity failed immediately and within ten minutes the breaking of the gas mains made it necessary to shut

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TELLS STRIKE THREAT

WASHINGTON, April 22.—A movement by Seattle, Wash., labor leaders to call a general strike May 1 as a protest against alleged persecution of Thomas Mooney, and others, convicted of the bomb conspiracy at Kan Francisco. was reported to the senate today by Senator Poindexter, of Washington, who denounced it in vehement terms as "blackmail" upon the government. sedition and treason.

Senator Poindexter submitted a ter from Secretary James A. Duncan, of the Seattle Central Labor Union, saying a referendum on the strike was being circulated. He also presented a resolution of Seattle trades unions declaring a "widespread suspicion" exists among workmen that 'he bomb riot convicitnos were an attempt to discredit organized labor.

Freedom's "Men of the Hour' Wear Smiles That Mean Victory

General Foch, nprrme eonmudrr of the allied armies (left)* and General Pershing commander-in-chief of the American (orcra tn France. At the present time, when all the al- I victory, the photograph above is of the lied armies have been brought under rarest interest. This is porhaps the the single command of Europe's great- 1 only picture yet made of these two men est strategist, and the American forces together and upon whom depends so abroad have been sent into history's much today. Their smiles express the greatest battle to insure Freedom's calm confidence that brings victory.

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DAMAGED BY QUAKE

Lost of Life and Property Follows Earth's Tremors On Pacific Coast.

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OVER MINES IN THIS DISTRICT

Coal Operators Begin To Believe Agents of Kaiser Are Applying Fire Brand To Tipples.

FOUR LAKGE SHAFTS SHOW TRACES OF INCENDIARISM

Burned Mine# Find Difficulty In Getting Material With Which To Rebuild—Frequency of Fires

Noticeable.

Are Germans plying their nefarious trade of destruction right at our rery doors?

There are those who believe they are. Among them are C. H. Jones, of the Calora Coal company, which recently iost a mine by Are east of Jasonvillo. Investigation of the fire which destroyed the mine more than a week ago have been under way and some interesting developments may be given out later. The loss sustained at the mine is not exactly known py .Jones, but it is likely that it will figura between $15,000 and $20,000. "The fire broke out shortly after five o'clock on Sunday morning. April 7th," he stated. "That was an ideal time for the person or persons responsible to do their work. The night shift quit work at 4:30 a. m. and had washed and left the mine by 5. There was no day shift on Sunday, the nigntwatchman had left, so the coast was clear for the work. The Are broke out in the middle of the mine, a very unexpected quartev, nnd spread in every direction. We have every rensoi to believe it was the work of Germans."

The Calora mine will be out of commission for some time. The greatest

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WILSON OPPOSES BILL

WASHINGTON, April 22.—President Wilson came out today in opposition to the Chamberlain bill which would try violations of the sedition laws by courts martial and in a letter to Senator Overman, of North Carolina, declared his belief that the measure is unconstitutional.

If enacted, the president declared the bill would place thel'nited States on a level with its enemies. Tho measure, he said, is opposed to the "pint and purpose of the espionage laws.

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AMERICANS FACE HEAVY ENEMY EKE

Specially Trained German Forces Sent Across No Han's Land la Waves of Great Numbers

ARTILLERY CONCENTRATES

ON COMMUNICATING LINES

Treachery of Germans Shown In At* tempt To Explode a Bomb Among Americans After Surrender-

Airplanes Brought Down.

LONDON, April 22.—Berlin, in it» official statement, describes Satur» day's action lengthily* Admission ii made that the lighting was severe and it is claimed that 183 Amer» icans, including fire officers and 2$ machine guns, were captured. Heavy losses, it is said, were inflicted by the Germans. That the effort failed of its purpose is indicated by the announcement that the attackers

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turned to their own positions under cover of night, Berlin makes no men# tion of French troops having been ear gaged in tlus region.

WITH Till UIKRiCA^ ARMY IN' FKWtE,-April —Having: withstood a violent German infantry attack in forcc!, the American troops on the seer tor northwest of Toul have driven the enemy from the po» si lions- h«T pained Saturday and4 have restored the situation completely. The American main positions held out against l'n« enemy but he occupied advanced elements from which he tvas cjected Sunday by the Americans in a counter attack. To the east the French lines also have been re-established.

Indications are that the Germans intended to make the attack the start of an effort to separate the American and French troops and perhaps wipe out the* American sector. General Pershing's men, however, fought desperately and only retired from Scicheprey before overpowering numbers. The cnemv was not able to hold the village and soon evacuated it.

After the Americans had driven th* Germans from the occupied advanced posts the enemy did not attack a^xin and Sunday was comparatively q^ir" east of St. Mihiel. The German offtnsive which persisted througnnnt tb« day and into thf nijjht, was preceded! by most, violent artillery fire, but tho Americans were undismayed and sfick. to their guns and trenches to meet th« enemy storming troops.

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN 1- RANGE, Sunday, April 21.—(By Th* Associated Press.)—Two !ow-flyin* German airplanes were brought down Saturday by American machine gunners during the German attack In and, about Seicheprey, northwest of Toul The machine gunners who ba«i?ed th# Germans ha^l been ordered to retire, but they remained in their position nnd.-"

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CHINA IS SETTLING HER OWN TROUBLES

A PACIFIC PORT. April t'l,—China is solving her internal troubles and Japan will not Interfere with Chinesn aTnirs, declared K. Debuchi, who is here today on htn way to WashinRton. to become secretary of the Japane^rt embassy and who was first secretary of the Japanese Ugation at Peking. "The internal troubles between north and south China have been grave," paid Debuchi, "but the menacv of the Germans in the west seems to be aiding in a consolidation of the peonies of China. Japan will not interfere with China. No other govern* ment fcbould. There hftve been men in Japan who have said Japan muat settle China's troubles, but China is settlir.K them. It may take some tim® befor? there is a union, but I believe it iu sight. "There are very few H-rmin's fn ,* China now. The'r propaganda is n«i"^ as serious as it v?a* before Chi ia uetf,. the C,'ini.m minister away and cutty his agent.*."

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