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FRENCH NEAR MARNE HALT GERMAN RUSH TOWARD PARIS Allied Troops in Counter Attack, Drive Enemy Back to Other Sections of Battle Field. ' STAND GROUND FIRMLY

(By Associated Press) The German rush toward Paris between the rivers Marne and Ourcq was halted last night, according to today's official statement from Paris. French troops stood their ground firmly at the point of greatest impact, near the Marne, and in dashing counter attacks drove back the enemy in other sections of the battle field to the northwest. The main force of the German blow was directed along the road that runs from Chateau-Thierry to Paris. The French met it astride that road, to the southeast of Bouresches within less than two miles of the river and broke the assault by their fire. Huns Give Ground. Heavy fighting continued all night

on the whole front northwestward to the Ourcq,. a . distance of about 15 miles, the French driving home numerous counter attacks with the results that the Germans were forced to give ground at several points. Prisoners by the hundreds were taken by the French, who likewise cut the Germans up severely during the various engagements. Apparently the Germans made no further progress' during the night in other sectors neither on the other Bide of Chateau-Thierry along the Marne nd to the northeast, or in the Soissons and Noyon region to the north, as the, French are reported holding their position? grry why H?n - min T With thi exception of the gain of some ground by the British on the northern side of the Flanders salient there have been no events of moment recorded on the other part of the front. ' Poorest Day for Foe. Bitterly defending every barrier in enemy's path, the French resistance on the western eide of the Aisne salient is Increasing. Sunday apparently was the poorest day the German advance has had since the offensive was renewed a week ago today. Although able to push back the French line between Soissons and Noyon. the Germans have been unable to break it and, while continuing their strong attacks, there, are making most violent attempts from the line of the Marne to north of the Oureq. The intention probably is to outflank the northern sector by forcing back the sector south of Sjissons to west of Vil-lers-Cotterets. Heavy fightinir continued all day Sunday east of Villers-Cotterets and the forest of the same name east of the town. Late Saturday the French had retaken four towns in this region. Under the enemy pressure, the French again were compelled to give up Faverolles. about three miles southeast of , Vlllers-Cottereta. Assuming th initiative west of Neuilly-St. Fron. the French recap

tured Passy-en-V nlols. southeast or Faverolles. and hill 163. near by. Ger. man attacks elsewhere southward toward the Marne at Chateau-Thierry were repulsed. Paris reports. Held at the Marne. The Germans have not crossed the Marne and apparently have not made verv strong effort to do so. They now hold a creator part of Chateau-Thierry, with the French maintaining a foothold in the western section.

On the eastern wire: tne oprmans. who crossed the Dormas-Rhe!ms road end took Vi!le-en Tardenols, have ben driven from Champlat. Around Rhfims the situation is unch.incd. the Germans probably hopin that their advance from VilJe-en-Tardenois will outflank the allied troops in the Rheims sector. H seven days the Germans have driven a rfansierous salient In the allied line anc hav met with some sue cess in attempting to link the new salient with the one driven toward the'r other captures, the Germans took huse amount of Franco-American stores at Fere-cn-Tardenois. the booty Including 500.000 artillery shells, much listeria! ?'-a 1.000 vehicles. There has been little activity elseMarne to north of the Ourcq. The lnhc American sectors. British airmen continue their bombing raids and ave accounted for 25 more German irplanes. On the Toul sector In a ombat between four American airlines and tix German machines, one nemy biplane was shot dowp and one American machine was sent down in lames. German airmen again have dropped bombs on hospitals behind the British lines. The raid lasted two hours. One hospital . was demolished and a large nvmber of patients and workers were killed or wounded.

47 Million Americans Contribute $166,439 ,291 to Second Red Cross Fund (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 3. Forty-seven million Americans contributed 166,439,291 "mercy dollars" to the second war fund of the American Red Cross, according to a report by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, published today. Final reports are expected to show, said Mr. Davison, that a total of $170,000,000 raised.

FINNISH ARMY TO BE GIVEN OVER TO HUNS

(By Associated PresO LONDON, Juna v3. A secret convention exists between Germany and Finland, which la kept secret from the Finnish diet, by which the Finnish government undertakes to establish a monarchy under a German dynasty and to place the Finnish army under German leadership, according to a dispatch to the Times from Stockholm, quoting the Socialist newspaper Politiken which has sources of information among the independent Socialists in Germany. ' Finland, it is added, agrees also not to cede the Aland islands to Sweden, and to allow Germany, to use the islands for a naval base. Germany further will be permitted to use Finland as a passageway through to the

Arctic ocean. Finland agrees to take

efficient measures to combat anarchy

Germany will have the right to maintain a military force in Finland

until all the conditions are carried out

German Pleasure Bombing French Rest Gamp

COUNTER REVOLT INVOLVES LARGE rtRijyussiA Bolshevik Declare State of Siege in Moscow Many Arrests Made. i (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Wednesday. May 29. A counter revolutionary plot which involves a large part of Russia has been discovered in Moscow and Petrograd. A state of siege has been declared in Moscow and many arrests have been made by the Bolshevik government. Some important railway lines and junctions have been captured by mutinous Czecho-Slavak troops, while in the south the Kuban and Don Cossack districts threaten revolt. The food situation in northern Russia is 6aid to be serious now that the Ukraine is in German control and the Kuban and Don districts are being harassed by counter revolution organizations. The section of the Mourmans coast which Russia is preparing to cede to Finland is small, stretching from the town of Kirvatunturl north to the Arctic ocean and east to the 1vers Pachenga and Tutovka. The greatest width is about 45 miles. The port on the Arctic which the treaty gives to Finland is about 70 miles from Kcla, which is the only ice free port Russia possesses.

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French Soldiers Fighting Fire in Rest Camp, and One of Guns Used to Down Hun Planes. Hun aviators apparently get considerable pleasure out of soaring over the rest camps, built behind the lines by the French troops, and dropping bombs on the buildings in which the French boys are recuperating from long hours In the trenches. The upper picture shows some of these French lads fighting a small fire started In one of the camps by a bomb from a German airplane. The other picture shows one of the "Archies," the guns used by the French to bring down the air raiders. The guns are doing good work.

No, American Troops

Haven't Reached BerlinYet

No, gentle believer of wild-eyed rumors, the Americaus have not reached Berlin yet.

-; Many j-exciUd - p?rsonBeJepBo!ned-

tne Palladium office Monday morning asking official confirmation of the "latest" grapevine, the 'steenth in the last few days. "I wish you would tell me If its true, because my boys are with them over there," said one woman, forgetting in her excitement to tell what "choice Ff l news it was that she wanted S'te'ffmed. She waS told that it was only a rumor among rumors. Later it developed that the "latest" flloated into Richmond from Boston, via the C. & O. railroad offices at that place. Inquiry at the office in Boston developed that an operator had passed the "news" along. Asked where he got the "news" the operator said: "I read the headlines of a Muncie paper."

A dispatch from Moscow dated Sunday said that the Russian ind German governments according to announcement by the Russian foreign minister, had agreed to the proposal that Russia

cede the west port of Mourmansk to

Finland. Ino and Raivola which Rus

sia receives, are in the province of Viborg. Finland, and Russia has prom

ised not to fortify them.

CHILD LABOR LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, June 3. The federal child labor law of 1916 forbidding interstate stipment of products

RIO STEAMER SENDS S. 0. S.; ATTACKED BY SUBMARINE

BULLETIN (15y Associated Press) . NEW YORK, June 3. A wireless S. O. S. from the New York and Porto Rico line passenger steamship Carolina saying that she was being attacked by a submarine was received here today. The Carolina with 220 passengers aboard and 120 in her crew, was bound for an Atlantic port at which she is this afternoon twelve hours overdue. Her wireless call for help was received at, 7 o'clock last night. Shipping authorities estimated that when attacked she was in about the same position as the schooner Edward H. Cole when that vessel was destroyed by a submarine. The Carolina was commanded by T. R. D. Barber. The fate of the Carolina is not. known. No further wireless calls were received after the call for help. A United States guard ship was one of the vessels which got the call. The Carolina, a vessel of 3,125 tons, has been long in the New York Porto Rico trade. She was built at Newport News, Va., in 1896. The New York and Porto Rico steamship company was advised this afternoon from Washington that the Carolina had been shelled by a submarine and that the passengers had taken to the boats.

FINED FOR VIOLATION

T. A. Cooper was fined $1 and costs, Monday morning in police court on charge of operating his car without a license.

Every Farmer Urged to Build Silo on Farm Harry Macey of Economy, county leader in the silo campaign being conducted in Wayne county this year, addressed a meeting of farmers and township leaders at the court house Saturday afternoon urging that every farmer build a silo on his farm this year if he does sot already have one. Macy explained the statewide campaign that is now on for the erection of 10,000 new silos on Indiana farms this year.

THE WEATHER 1

For Indiana by the United States

Weather Bureau Probably fair to

night and Tuesday except showers Tuesday in extreme north portion. Today'a Temperature Noon 82 Yesterday Maximum 75 Minimum 60 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and probably Tuesday, followed by unsettled weather. General Conditions The weather has now cleared over the central states and the hot wave is broken as far south as the Ohio river. The storm over the west Is moving slowly eastward. . Temperatures are now near normal east of the Mississippi river.

WASHINGTON, June 3. Atlantic coast naval stations were directed by the navy department today to send vessels to the as-

of child labor was today declared un- sistance of the steamer Carolina in response to S. O. S. calls sayconstitutionai and invalided by the su- ing she was bemg attacked by a submarine. The S. O. S. calls PThe cmw lsbor if? was enacted mj were received at. the Arlington naval wireless station here. 191S and forbids interstate shipment j AN ATLANTIC PORT. June 3. A, gated thoroughly a report that a transL k u , prouuets from plants miBrltlsn steamsn!p hich came into port had been torpedoed.

' " ' " ' 1 - " v.. " " " - - - " ' ing pickel up wireless appeals for help noon.

from two American lank ship steam- . Narragansett bay had been closed ships which were being attacked on I earlier and every precaution against

the New Jersey coast. Both tankers reported they were sinking.

are employed, or in which children

over 14 but under 16 years of age work more than eight hours a day or more than six days a week. The law was declared unconstitutional by the federal district court in North Carolina when Roland H. Dagenhart secured restraining orders to prevent the government from enforcing the act, and the Fidelity Manufacturing? company which operates a totton mill at Charlotte, from complying with the act by discharging Dagnhart's two minor children. The gov

ernment appealed the decision to the

Supreme Court, where the case was hard in April, 1918. Th measure Is of the utmost importance to labor all over the United States, government attorneys pointed out In the argument, though the immediate effect of its enforcement would be chiefly felt in soutehrn states, a-d particularly in the cotton mills. Existing laws in a number of states forbidding the employment cf children would be threatened, the government contended if the law were held invalid bcause manufacturers without child labor would have difficulty in competing with manufacturers in states which allowed it.

County Agent Has Seed Corn for Distribution J. C. Kline, "Wayne county agriculture agent, has two bushels of seed corn at his office for farmers who are desirous of replanting any of their crop. Some farmers have had to replant a part of their fields as grub worms have created some havoc in the corn. The corn is in excellent condition, Kline said, and any farmers needing it can get in touch with the county agent at his office. . h

LOOKING FOR.. TRANSPORTS. WASHINGTON, June 3. Naval officials said that after the time Associated Press dispatches telling of the destination of American shipping off the New Jersey coast by German submarines were received in Washington the navy department had no positive information of the presence of enemy raiders in home waters. , , The submarines undoubtedly were looking tor American transports. Having been checked by the American destroyer flotilla in the war zone the Germrui admiralty apparently has concluded to carry the submarine warfare to th3 doors or America in hope of stopping the flow o.f troops which will turn the balance against the Central powers on the;,; western battle front. . ' y . REPORT NOT CONFIRMED. CHATHAM, Mass-": June 3. A report is current on the cape that a ship has been torpedoed; off Nantuckett shoals. No official confirmation of the report is obtainable. BAY IS CLOSED. PROVIDENCE, R.: ti June 3. Nar-' ragansett bay was closed to out-going vessels this morning 1y order of the commandant of the naval station at Newport. !?.' PORT OF BOSTON CLOSED BOSTON, June ,3. Jt was stated at the office of the commandant of the first naval district, today that there was no truth in the report that a vessel had been sunk toy t submarines off Nantucket shoals. - The office investi-

the appearnce of German U-boats on the New; England coast was taken Among 'the many reports received here today was one that a German submarine after sinking four vessels off the New England coast was captured and was being taken into New York. Local navy officials denied any definite knowledge of the matter.

MRS. BERTHA JORDAN DIES SUDDENLY

Mrs. Bertha P. Jordan. 42 years old, wife of Charles W. Jordan, president of American Trust and Saving bank, died Sunday afternoon at 12:20 o'clock at Reid Memorial hospital. Mr. Jordan's mothei, Mrs. Susan Jordan, was buried Friday. ? Mrs. Jordan's death was not unexpected as the had been ill only for several days. Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Forest W. Jordan, of Richmond, and Robert G. Jordan, of Columbus, O., and one daughter, Mrs. C A. Davis, of Anderson, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Chenoweth of Richmond " Funeral services wll be held at Whitewater, Tuesday afternoon. " The funeral cortege will leave the home, 41 South Eleventh street, Tuesday afternoonrat 2 o'clock and procede to Whitewater, where the services will b y held in the Christian church there. Rev. J. J. Rae of the First Presbyterian church ; will have charge of the services. . Burial will be . In Whitewater cemetery. Friends may call at ar.y time. -

HUNS CARRY SUB WARFARE TU SHORES OF AMERICA; 15 SHIPS PAY BE SUNK Two Foe U-boats of New Type Engaged in Campaign, Aimed Chiefly at American Transport ServicePorts of New York and Boston Closed to Outgoing Vessels Washington Officially Confirms Loss of Three Ships and Announcement Says Navy Is Taking "Necessary Steps to Safeguard Shipping." i . (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 3. This statement was made by the committee on public information: "Secretary Daniels states that the navy department is taking the necessary steps to safeguard shipping along the coast."

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, June 3. Germany has carried her unrestricted submarine warfare to this side of the ocean and at least three vessels have been sunk by submarine attacks off the Atlantic coast. Some reports say the number of victims already has reached 15. Although the presence of German undersea boats had been reported in American waters for several days the first definite news that they were operating off this coast came today when the crew of one victim, the schooner Edward H. Cole, was landed here. Their vessel was sunk Sunday off the New Jersey shore. Two U-Boats Used. It is known that at least two U-boats are engaged in the campaign which is assumed to be aimed chiefly at the American trans port service. A report that besides the attack on shipping off the Jersey coast a submarine was operating off Nantucket and had torpedoed a ship in those waters was not confirmed. , Presumably the Germans are employing the new cruiser type of U-boats with a long steaming radius for these operations. The port of New York was closed to out-going shipping as soon as the news of the presence of hostile crafts outside was confirmed. Meanwhile, advices from Washington, after officially confirming the loss of three schooners declare that measures already in operation and others that will be added will deal with the new submarine menace.

Kaiser OrderP'tiattonaV'

Edition of Shakespeare

(By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM, May 25. The German emperor, as patron of arts, has ordered the production of a great "national", edition of the works of Shake

speare, whom the Germans profess to

regard as more German than English. The preface to the new work is written by Gehard Hauptmann, and occupies a volume by itself, under the title "Visions."

PREDICT ALLIED OFFENSIVE WILL BE OPENED SOON

(By Associated Press! PARIS, June 3. An allied offensive maneuver Is predicted by Le Matin and the Petit Parisien. They express the conviction that Generals Foch and Petain, who proved themselves good offensive men in subordinate commands, will display the same qualities in the supreme commands of the allied and the French armies. All the newspapers, according to a Havas Agency review, believe that the equilibrium seems . to have been reestablished on all points of the front and that the fluctuations are growing less in extent. The German assaults are still furious and violent, while the French resistance is fierce and energetic with numerous strong counter attacks. Sunday the French held the enemy in check and even forced hi into withdraw from some points.

12 FISHING VESSELS SUNK OFF IRELAND

LONDON, June 3. Twelve of a fleet of thirty or forty fishing vessels which left Irish ports on the night of May 30 were sunk by a German submarine, says a Belfast dispatch to the Daily Telegraph. The submarine suddenly appeared in the midst of the fleet and ordered the fishermen to take to the boats and tow ashore. It then sank the vessels by shelling them. The fishermen say the submarine was interrupted in its work and submerged, which probably prevented destruction of the entire fleet. The fishermen lost all their gear, but there were no casualties.

CANADIAN ROADS ASK RATE RAISE

WASHINGTON, June 3. Canadian railways today asked permission of the interstate commerce commission to raise rates on business done on their lines within the United States to the level provided by Director-General McAdoo under the recent rate orders for American railroads. -

U. One- report received at tne Harlthne exchange here indicated as many as fifteen vessels have been sunk. According to the survivors the Ed ward H. Cole was sunk 75 miles oft the Highlands of New Jersey yesterday afternoon. Attacked During Night. The other ships were attacked some time during the night, according to information which was received here. Details were not immediately available. The port authorities barred the departure of outgoing ships this forenoon and it is presumed here that the submarine or submarines are now being dealt with by American destroyers. The attack upon American shipping almost at the very entrance of New York harbor is taken to mean that Germany has at least Inaugurated a submarine campaign to break up transport o ftroops to France. Rumors of the presence of German submarines off the American coast have been current for the past two years, the reports telling of one or more being sighted in southern waters. NEW YORK, June 3. Two more American vessels, the Hattie Dunn and the Samuel W. Hathaway, have been sunk by German submarines. Details of the additional sinkings had not been received early this forenoon but the report was that they had fallen victims to the enemy somewhere off the New England coast. Within the last week a South American ship arriving here brought reports of the presence of two German submarines in the vicinity of Bermuda.

The reports that 15 vessels had been

sunk seem to indicate the presence of

a number of submarines and that the

enemy has inaugurated an attack in force. First Attack en this Side. Although there have been frequent rumors of sumbarlnes having crossed the Atlantic since American entered the war, none has actually before attacked American shipping on this side

of the Atlantic. In October 1916. the German submarine U53 after visiting

Newport, R. I., lay in wait for British

shipipng off Nantucket light ship and got 6ix victims.

Two submarines attacked the Ed

ward H. Cole, according to the com

mander of the vessel. Captain Newcomb, i They appeared simultaneously, one on each side of the vessel and signaled the captain to heave to. The captain of one of the submarines then boarded the schooner in a small boat and gave the crew ten minutes to leave the shin. The crew took to their own boats immediately and the German sailor then planted bombs on the vessel and blew her up. - American Steamship Appears. Just before the explosion occurred an American steamship appeared in the offing and the U boat immediately gave chase. The last Captain Newcomb saw of the steamer she was making off at fullspeed. ; . The crew of the Edward H. Cole was. subsequently picked up by an Ameri-' can auxiliary naval vessel brought to an Atlantic port. last night and then sent here by train. They were taken in charge by naval officials. - OFFICIAL REPORT RECEIVED. WASHINGTON. June 3. The navy department later announced that it had received an official report that three American schooners had been sunk off the coast by subzmarines.