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AMERICANS PENETRATE THIRD LINE OF (MANS Positions Are Strengthened When Americans and French Attack in Face of Violent Artillery Fire.

HUNS LOSE HEAVILY (Associated Press.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wednesday. April 17. On ". the Lorraine sector American troops ' have penetrated to the third German line and are in unmolested possession of No Man's Land. Commanders of units who participated Jn the several days of fighting last week In company with the French to the Apremont wood sector are finding it difficult to pick out men who especially distinguished themeselves in the operations. " One commander said that every man acted like a hero and it was hard to choose the most deserving cases. One of the most popular men with the soldiers on this sector Is the Rev. Des Valles, a Roman Catholic priest, of New Bedford, Mass.. who is living with the men In an unofficial capacity, he having come to France as a representative of the Knights of Columbus. When the attacks began, Father Des Valles, braving the dangers of shell and machine gun fire, went to the casualty clearing station near the front line to administer to the wounded. He assisted In dressing the injua ries of the soldiers and gave each J man a word of cheer. He handed out cigarettes to the men who smoked. "Game as They Make 'Em." "He's as game as they make them and every inch a soldier," said a doughboy, while other soldiers spoke of the Inspiration furnished by the priest. Another popular man is a young banker of Springfield, Mass, who was pressed into service as a stretcher bearer. He was the smallest man in the outfit and after several trips, became so exhausted he was unable to hold the stretcher. He refused to give up and had his companions tie the stretcher to- hla wrists with rope so as to enable him to hold the stretcher on the journeys from the front line to the dressing station. Regain Foe Trenches . Twice in 24 hours an American company has assisted French troops in a neighboring sector to regain trenches temporarily taken by the Germans. The company was led by a captain who took his troops over the top In the face of the most violent machine gun and artillery fire. Each time he succeeded in driving out the enemy and inflicting heavy damage. A most pathetic story from the American lines is that of a young eori poral who was wounded fatally after fighting for four hours. A piece of ' shrapnel struck him in the head. He had a grenade in each hand. Giving tbem to his companion, he said: Don't Waste Them "I guess I'm done. Please write to my mother and tell her how it happened. But here take these grenades and for God's sake don't waste them." The corporal fell in a faint and died in a hospital the next day without regaining consciousness. At one point on this sector there was a space of only fifteen yards between the opposing trenches. A day before an attack of the Germans threw a note .Into the American trenches. It read : "What are you, Canadians or Australians?" . "Come over and find out," was the reply thrown back by an American soldier. The infantryman who related the incident added: "I guess they know who we are now and they will not be likely to forget it for some time." One lieutenant in a listening post with a small party of men was cut off from the remainder of the platoon in Friday's attack. He tried to send up

rockets to signal an American ban age but the rockets failed to work. A private then volunteered to run back with the message. He passed through ' three lines of barrage fire without being harmed, and delivered the message. The American gunners latd down a barrage Immediately and saved the lieutenant and his party from the hands of a superior force of the enmy which was beaded in their direction.

THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair and cooler tonight. Friday partly cloudy. Today's Temperature Noon 61 ' Yesterday Maximum 68 Minimum 62 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Unsettled this afternoon. Probably locat showers. Fair and continued cool tonight. Friday Increasing cloudiness. . General Conditions The storm which baa been moving rapidly eastward is causing unsettled weather over the Lake regions and eastern states with showers and thunder storms in Its path. Richmond la on

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causing strong winds north of the Ohio river. It Is snowing In several places In the northwest and the weather will continue cool tonight, temperatures probably going to 40 or selow.

SchooUT ax Levy Here is Eighth from Lowest of 25 Largest Cities Richmond's school tax levy is the eighth from the lowest of the 25 largest cities la Indiana, according to the new public school bulletin which has Just been published. The tax last year was 95 cents. The per capita cost of Instruction was $59.60. . The report shows that 16.6 percent of pupils graduate. Of the entire population of Richmond, 14.4 percent attend the public schools. Classified expenditures for the past vear are, salaries, except teachers, $18,330.06; teachers' salaries, $123,431.64; expenses of instruction, $6,276.52; expense of operation of plant, $16,422.49; expense of upkeep and repair, $6,397.78; outlays, $2,467.74; new equipment, $4,664.82; indebtedness, $24,925. Receipts for the year were $278,384.01.

ALFRED MILNER IS NEW BRITISH WAR SECRETARY Earl of Derby Is Named to Head a Special Mission to France,. (By Associated Press.) LONDON. April 18. Official announcement was made today that the Earl of Derby has been appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary on a special mission to France, in succession to Lord Bertie. Viscount Milner becomes secretary for war, and J. Austen Chamberlain a member' of the war cabinet. f (By Associated Press.) PARIS, April 18. Viscount Milner has been appointed secretary of state for war in the British cabinet, according to Le Matin. The Earl of Derby, who has been war minister; the paper says, will come to Parts as ambassador in place of Lord Bertie, who retires. Premier Clemenceau had a long conference last night with Lord Milner. Alfred Milner, first viscount Milner, has been a member of the British war cabinet without portfolio since" Dec. 10, 1916. The Earl of Derby has been at the head of the war office since the Lloyd George cabinet took office in December, 1916. Previously he had been director of army recruiting and air minister. Announcement .was made - some time ago that Lord Bertie was about to leave his post In Paris, where he has been ambassador since 1905. Lord Bertie, who was raised to the peerage In 1915, entered the ""foreign office in 1913, and was formerly British ambassador to Italy.- He is .74 years old. - " Viscount - Milner has had a prominent career in British politics and was British high commissioner for South Africa previous to 1905 and from 1902 to 1905 he was governor of the Transvaal and the Orange river colonies. He was born In 1854. ROME NAMED FUEL DIRECTOR Guy Robie has been officially appointed fuel director of Wayne county, according to word received from Washington by the Wayne vounty council of defense. The appointment of Robie was recommended to the national fuel administration by the Wayne council. Dennis M. Shea is Released from Prison (By Associated Press) LEAVENWORTH. Kas., April 18. Dennis Shea, former sheriff of Vigo county, Indiana, sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the federal prison here in connection with the Terre Haute, Ind., election frauds left prison today for Indiana, following the granting of his parole. Ho has been working in the prison butcher shop. Don M. Roberts, former mayor of Terre Haute ia the only one of 15 men sentenced as a result of the frauds, to remain In prison. An application for hfs parole probably will come up ai the next meeting of the prison board it is said. Three Italian Ships Sank Daring Week (Associated Press) ROME. April 18. One Italian steamship of more than 1500 tons and two Balling vessels, one of more than 100 tons, were sunk by German mines and submarines in the week ending April 17, One steamship was attacked unsuccessfully by a submarine. Mrs. Oliver Hall of New Paris is Dead NEW PARIS. O., April 18 Mrs. Oliver Hall, 52 years old, died Wednesday afternoon from pneumonia at her home four miles north of New Paris. She Is survived by her husband, a prominent Jefferson township farmer, and one son, Dalton, Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at S o'clock from fhe Christian church In New Paris, followed by burial in Spring Lawn cemetery. WILL CONFER DEGREE. TORONTO, April 18. The University of Toronto will confer the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon the Earl of Reading, British Ambassador to the United States and Elihu Root on My 17. it was announced today.

FRENCH-MADE GUNS FOR THE AMERICAN ARTILLERYMEN RUSHED TO THE FRONT

A big American gun on way to the front. This close-up view of one of the 155 M. M. guns built for the American artillerymen by the French government shows it travelling to the front on a large war truck, where it will give . a good account of itself in the hands of the well-trained Yankee gunners.

SOCIETY FOR DEMOCRACY IN GERMANY PLANNED HERE

A branch of the organization of Friends of German Democracy will be organized in Richmond soon as the result of the visit of George S. Shauer of Indianapolis, secretary of the Indianapolis branch of the organization. Mr. Schauer has been travelling over the state in the interests of the organization, and while making a short stop here Thursday between trains interested several persons in supporting the movement toward establishing a branch of the society. John Zwissler, restaurant proprietor, who was visited by Mr. Schauer, has expressed willingness to aid in carrying on the movement here. Will Arrange Meeting. A committee will probably be appointed here to arrange for a meeting, to which persons of German birth or descent will be especially invited. Mr. Schauer or Carl Winter, president of the Indianapolis . branch,- will deliver an address. , w The Friends of German Democracy is an international organization which has for its purpose the furthering of democracy by aiding the people of Germany to establish in Germany a government responsible to the peopled Its headquarters are in Paris, and representatives are stationed in every neutral country. ;' ;' V : At the head of the organization, with his office in Paris, is Dr. Frank Bohn, brother of William Bohn, who has been active in the society of the United States: Mr. Bonn works in connection with the American aviation service and has been carrying on the propaganda of the society by sending out literature which Is dropped behind the German lines by airplanes. The German government is decidedly antagonistic to the society, and recently shot the representative in Holland when he ventured across the line. Several Thousand In Capital. ' The organization is open to persons of German blood or those of German descent, and according to Mr. Schauer has been instrumental in arousing in Make First Plans for Fourth Liberty Loan (By Associated Press "WASHINGTON, April 18. First preparations for the fourth liberty loan to be held next October or November, were made today and consisted of an effort to save for war purposes the celluloid and steel which now go to the manufacture of liberty loan buttons. . Frank R. Wilson, publicity director for the loan, wrote badge manufacturers for suggestions concerning a paper mache or pasteboard substitute for the present buttons, twenty millions of which have been bought for the third j loan campaign. Celluloid Bhould be saved for explosives and steel for munitions, Wilson believes. Health of U. S. Troops Continues Good, Report (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 18. Health of all troops in the United States continues good, the wa, department announced today in a report covering j the week ending April 12. Both hos-j pital admission and death rates were; lower than in the preceding week.' The highest rates were at national i army cantonments, probably because of the mobilization of large numbers of drafted men. The total number of deaths at all camps was 285 as against 2S0 the week before. Pneumonia continues in all the larger northern camps with some increase in the number of new cases reported. No other disease is classed as generally prevalent. Attended Wounded Until Overcome by Gas Fumes (By Associated Press.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, . Wednesday, April 17. j Lieut. George Patton, of New Yorkj city, of the American army medical : corps, has been awarded the French ' cross for courage in treating wounded ! men while without a gas mask during! a heavy bombardment of gas shells. I The lieutenant found, it was impossi-j ble to treat the wounded while wearing his mask. He took it off and continued to work until overcome by gas fumes.

the large German population of the United States a realization of the stand of this country in the war, and the loyalty that should be due the land of their adoption. There are several thousand members of the organization in Indianapolis. In an interview here Thursday, Mr. Schauer accused certain members of the German-American organizations of using their influence in the service of Germany. "They, work on our love for our German land and German language in an attempt to make us betray the land of our adoption," he said, "I have had people in this country tell me that the United States would not dare Continued On Page Nine. MINES WILL GET EQUAL NUMBER OF RAIL CARS Government Forced to Pay $40,000,000 More for Railroad Fuel. ; (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. ADril 18 Railroads hereafter will, purchase their coal at the full market price, and cars will be evenly distributed at all mines under an arrangement reached by the railroad and fuel administration. The plan was accepted after President Wil son intervened to settle differences be-! tween Fuel Administrator Garfield and ! John Skelton Williams, director of purchases for the railroad administration. The fuel administration objected to sales of coal to railroads at prices less than those charged other consumers and to the system whereby railroads gave a 100 percent car supply to mines j supplying coal for railroad use while; other mines suffered from car shortage. One effect of the arrangement it! was pointed out today, will be that all consumers will share alike in coal distribution. The higher prices the government will pay for coal for the railroad will mean that about $40,000,000 more will have to be spent for railroad fuel than under the old prices. This sum, it Is understood, the president indicated, may be made up In increased freight rates if necessary. Canada Must Keep Up Strength Says Premier (By Associated Press.) OTTAWA. April 18. Regard'esn of pacrifices. Canaia must keep her fighting divisions on the western front up to full strength. Sir Robert Borden, premier, stated during a secret session of the .house of commons yesterday. An official account of the meetin? was made public here today.. Canada also must so organize her remaining human power as to maintain and if possible Increase agricultural production, Sir Robert said.

Believes Physicians Up to Age of 45 Years Will be Conscripted

A letter has ben received fcy The Palladium from Lieutenant W. L. Misener. a member of a medical covpi now in training, for war service at Camp Greenleaf. Ga. Lieptenant Misener is one of the five Richmond physicians who enlisted for service in the army following the outbreak of the war. His letter follows: "Arrived here O. K. and was enjoying my work much until I took a severe cold. l am now laid up in bed at my barracks but will be out again in a day or so. When I arrived here last Wednesday it was snowing though' it was warm when I left home. We have about 1.E00 doctors in ramp. The last of the reserves are here and the doctors have just reported as they were in from lectures, that they were instructed to write home notifying the hone doctors that mere must come) ;

Forecast Curtailment of Production of All Building Materials ( Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 18. Eventual curtailment in the production of all building material was indicated in orders of the fuel administration published today, cutting the manufacture of ten principal clay products from fifteen to fifty per cent. The order, which will further restrict the country's less essential industries and will limit non-war building operations, provides for a rearrangement and division of clay products manufacture and puts the Industry on a war basis. The order also provides that parts of the plants affected will be converted for war industries and men, materials and transportation will be made available for war production. Clay products and other building materials, the fuel administration's statement said, are a greater tax on transportation and fuel than any ether commodities and reorganization of the industry is' deemed essential. The action of the fuel administrattion, which was approved by the war industry board, is regarded as a forerunner of a similar curtailment of virtually every Industry not considered vital to the , war program., Board of Works Asks : Richmond to dean Up . Monday, May 6, was the date decided upon for the inauguration of a week's cleanup campaign in Richmond, at a meeting of the Board of Works Thursday morning. This Is to be known as Cleanup Week, and is in line with a national movement to beautify municipalities all over the country. Everybody is urged to clean up the streets in front of their homes and to see that their front and back yards are in presentable condition. All refuse will be hauled away by the city street cleaning department. Other business before the board included improvement work in various parts of the city, and it was unanimously decided to provide a cement roadway in the alley between South Second and Third streets, from South A, north to the first alley south of Main street, then east to Third street and west to Second street. North Second street will also be improved, and North Third street will be widened. Will Offer to Convey Body on U. S. Warship (By Associated Pr9) . WASHINGTON. April 18. While arangements for the funeral of Senor Dch Santiago Aldunate. Chilean ambassador to the United States, who died here last night, after a stroke of apor.lexy. had net been completed today the United States government will follow precedent and offered to convey the body to Chile on a warshio. The ambassador was stricken while out for a walk and was removed to a hcsnital where he died without regaining consciousness. He was 60 year old. . ' Lenrcot Sworn in As Member of Senate 'WASHINGTON, April 17. Reresen'itive Irvine L. Lenroot, of Wisconsin, Republican, today was sworn in as a member of the senate as successor of the late Husting, Democrat. and will be sent out just as soon as we get our training. New men come in and advanced ones are being 6ent cut every day from here. Some go straight to France while some are left here as instructors. According to this I am placed now but won't know until my orders come where I will do service. "The officer this mojning was pleading for more doctors. , I personally believe that it will come to a draft up to the age of 45 years for doctors. "All 1 can do is state the facts and as 1 couldn't write each doctor, I take this method of letting them know. We have doctors here from all over the U. Sv A., and they all say Camp Greenleaf is he finest of them all. "Yours respectfully, v . , LIEUTENANT MISENER, -, C'pno Grcfn!f C

Anti-Draft Meeting in Ireland Broken Up;

Hit Police With Stones (By Associated Preaa) LONDON, 'April 18. Rioting attended the breaking up of an anticonscription meeting In Belfast yesterday, according to a dlstpatch to the Daily News. Revolvers were used and baton charges were made by the police, who were pelted with paving stones. Virtually every plate glass window in the street was smashed. Fifteen thousand persons participated in the meeting which was called by the labor party. The trouble was precipitated, the dispatch says, by two hundred young ship yard workers. NO CHANGE IN PRESENT POLICY OF AUSTRIANS Change in Foreign Ministers Will Not Affect Action, Premier Announces. (By Associated Press.) AMSTERDAM, April 18. Dr. von Seydler, the Austrian premier, is re ceiving a delegation of deputies who called attention to the pronounced agitation, recent political events had caused in German circles, said he was aware of this excitement and greatly regretted it. He was emphatic in declaring that neither the foreign nor the home policy of the government was affected in the least by the change in the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, says the Vienna dispatch reporting the incident. He added that according to the unalterable views of the crown, with which he was completely acquainted those who looked to the entente for salvation would always be regarded and treated as enemies of the state. The Budapest newspapers in commenting upon the appointment of Baron Burian as foreign, minister lay emphasis upon the statement that unyielding loyalty- to the alliance with. Germany is the main feature if this policy. They declare that AustriaHungary's foreign policy will not be altered in the least. This view is echoed by German newspapers received in Amsterdam which welcome the appointment of Baron Burian who they point to u a convinced supporter of the policy of an alliance with Germany. . - AMSTERDAM, April IS. Tbs Htmgarian ministry has resigned, a dispatch from Budapest reports. -'A' Copenhagen" dispatch" tut. tstgni said Premier Wekerle had decided to resign owing: to dissension in the ministry over the suffrage reform bill and that King Charles was expected to request him to form a new cabinet, excluding the ministers who oppose a compromise on the suffrage measures ' The decision of the Hungarian cabinet was reached at a meeting yester day morning at which Premier Wekerle presided. All the members of the cabinet were present except Count Szyerenyi. minister of commerce, and Count Zychy, minister' of court, who were absent from Budapest. After a short conference all the members present signed the document tendering their resignation. TORNADO SWEEPS TRAINING GAMP HATTIESBURG. Miss.. April 19. Private Vaughn Beekman, of Marion, Ind., Was killed and a score or more soldiers and civilian workers were injured, some seriously, late yesterday when a tornado struck Camp Shelby near tiere. The men injured were struck by flying debris. The tornado swept a path 70 feet wide through the camp, leveling small buildings and inflicting property damages estimated at several thousand dollars. The ordnance building of 151st Infantry, a Y. M. C. A. hut and partly constructed wing of the base hospital were destroyed according to reports given out Is.st night. So far as can be learned no Richmond men were injured in the tornado which swept Camp Shelby Wednesday nl-ght. Reports from the camp were meager, however, due to the fact no doubt that wire connections have been damaged, and definite information is not obtainable as yet. A complete list of the injured probably will be received within twenty-four hours. 13,000 Chinese Laborers , Shipped to France (Associated Press.) PEKING, April 18. About 13,000 Chinese laborers have been shipped to France, according to the Shun Tien Shih Pao, a Chinese daily newspaper. Their wages are from $30 to $40 per month. Thirty thousand more men are needed and will be recruited by French agents In Shantung, Chihll and other northern provinces. Brave Jack Tars are Praised by Daniels WASHINGTON, April 18. Five members of the naval armed guard on the American steamship Actaeon, sunk November 24 last, off the European coast by a German submarine, were commended today by Secretary Daniels for bravery and devotion to duty. The are: John A. Cr-rrolL Washington, D. O; Osmond Park Erskine, 7 Gerald street. Bath, Me.; William J. Hennessey, 39 Winter street, Cambridge, Mass.; Henry E. Earl, 14 Union street. Hopedale, Mass.; and Albert Ferdintfnd Samuelson, 3100 ThlrtAOTith ve.. Minneapolis. Minn.

HUNS THREE EES NORTH OF IMPORTANT RAIL CENTER Haig Reports Line on Lys Front Is Intact No Ground Lost Yesterday. BATTLE TfiH RAGES

IBy Xaaoclatad Press) v WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE. April IS. An effort made by the German army which holds the enemy's right flank to the sea, to drive in the front of the allies from the coast was extended yesterday to the Yser region held by the Belgians. At 8:30 o'clock in the morning: after an all night bombardment the Germans attacked on a front of four miles between Langemarck "M Kip-pe- . . The Germans sained a. fnnHytg in the. Belgian advanced position and they were thrown ant ftr & rtwht lastinr nearly all day. The Belgians tooK boo prisoners, iniiifnC many officers belonging to seven, different regiments which renreaented one RaTarian, two Prussian and one Hw infantry- dl visions (Br Associated Press) Field Marshal Haiar todsT wmwrrtu his line on Lys battle front standing intact last night as it existed yesterday morning following the British retirement east of Ypres, no ground having been lost in the battling of yesterday despite the heavy German attacks during the entire period. just ror the time at least in fmnt of the strong British positions dominated by Kemmel Hill on the north ern, portion Of this front the Germans are turning their attention to the southwesterly sector of the battlefield. A heavy bombardment at th Tfet. ish positions between Laeoa and Bobeeq. was reported fa nrograaa thia morning. . The enemy is ftnmtrm tmmit cramped on. the southerly site of the weoge ne nas poshed into the Brttiah tines and seems on the eve at as cf. fort to widen tt omt aersw "Tl 'Till sTitfi Farthenaoee at Locotv fto Qerv mans are only some three mOe north of Bethtme. aa important railway center, and at Robecq are within six miles of LiUers. a mnetton tnmt m the railway from Bethune to Haze Drones. The British have been holding this sector of the front as utmnrtr tttav are the northwesterly edge ot the sal ient wnere iney nave held up the German attentat to surras fur4fc a. wards Hazebroeck. as was Indicated anew m tne repulse of fresh German attacks last night in the Merris sector, along the BaiReuMIazebraiik railway, It seems not ttnlikelr that th n. tente high command has forecast . possible larger German purpose to drive determiningly southward, en velop Bethune and nnah on ia a. mint where they can comnell the Rritfah tn fall back from Givenchy and the regn nonn oi Arras, wnere the dominating Vtmy ridge is the German obJ jective. French Troops Come Up Undiminished tn Intensity, th cnoaf battle in Flanders and south, across the French, border goes oik Having retired east of Ypres, the British are now putting up a most desperate resistance to the (Vrmii Yprea and Hazebrouck, the Important suppiy oase to tne southwest. French troops have come to Field Marshal Haig's assistance and are fiehtinr sMa by side with the British in stemming the enemy tide east of Hazebrouck. During the past 24 hours the "heaviest fighting has been along the Lys on a front of 15 miles from west of Merville to Wytschaete. The British took the offensive and regained Wytschaete and Metern, 6ix miles northeast of Hazebrouck Wednesday but the Germans in strong counter attacks, forced them to retire again. Along the remainder of the front the enemy threw wave after wave of attackers against the Franco- British defense, but it did not falter and the Germans gained nothing in payment for sanguinary losses. Although the retirement east of Ypres was to be expected for strategical reasons, the fact that It had been carried out, has caused sentimental regrets. Langemarck, Passchendaele and Poelcapelle, which Berlin reports the Germans have occupied were scenes of desperate encounters in the hard-won British advance of last summer and fall, when they gained the entire Messines-Passchendaele ridge. Correspondents report the British are retiring to prepared positions along or close to the line from which the offensive was launched In 1917. This would place the new line probably near Boesslngbe,-Wiettje, Hooge and Hill 60, southeast of Zillebeke, and about two miles east of Ypres. Berlin's official communication attempts to make it appear that the Germans gained towns , on the old Flanders -battlefield after fighting. The British retirement was carried out Monday and British guns reaped a heavy , harvest In the enemy ranks when the ' Germans , penetrated the abandoned positions. Use Large Forces. Wednesday, the Germans gained no new ground from east of Merville lo Wytschaete, but "were compelled to use large forces in recapturing Wytschaete and Meteren. The German pressure east of Hazebrouck shows the enemy still desires the capture of this base in the probable hope of forcing , . i (Cont'vd r Tff . N'r.)

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