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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
PEACE PROPOSAL TO RUSSIA
A Real Polish State
Should Be Erected
by Allies as a
Barrier in =.
East
Copyright, lsl7-The Tribune Associations

rnhappily, the world, which is beginning
to understand the peril of the German am
billions with respect to the perpendicular
expansion of Mtteleuropa, still remains
uncomprehending while confronted with
the even greater danger Of the lateral ex-
pansion-the expansion which aims at the
Pacific through Siberia rather than the
indian Ocean through Mesopotamia and
Persia.
To-day the fate of Turkey at least
threatens Russia. And if the Bolshevih
succeed, as they may succeed, in destroy
ing all governmental unity in that vast en-
pire, we shall have not one but dozen,
perhaps score, of fugitive states incapa-
bic of defence against Germany. We shall
face the possibility of gigantic extension
Of Teuton supremacy over the Slav, with
the erection of a new state resembling
Austria Hungary State ruled by a mi
nority, but this time state which eX-
tends from the Rhine to the Pacific Ocean.
Against such peril Poland is the sole
barrier in sight, and to be barrier Poland
must be restored to her frontiers of the
eighteenth century, must be a state con-
tanning the twenty-odd millions of Poles
now scattered under three flags, and must
also include other peoples, of kindred race,
cnce united 10 Poland
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
An Official Description of Germany,
Special Storming Troops

A few weeks ago printed in these col
umns a translation of an order issued by
a German general describing the organiza-
ton of the so-called Hindenburg elastic"
defence, which was furnished by the
French General Staff. Equally interest
ing, think, is the following description Of
how the Germans organize their special
storming troops. This also comes frori
French official source, and was contained
in captured German orders made puoic
by the French War Office. Troops of this
sort were used by the Germans in their
recent successful counter offensive at Cam
brai, as on all other occasions when they
have undertaken any offensive operation.
Instruction of Troops Of Assault in the Field
Recruit Stations.
(Depots situated behind the front and at.
tached one each TO a diyision)
In the month of May, 1917, when the
field recruiting station of the 58th Divi-
sion was situated at Mons, each company
had formed two storming sections of ten
men each. They were specially recruited
from young conscripts who had not yet
been TO the front.
When the 5Sth Division was transported
to Russia these storming troops wereI
formed into regiments, organized as storm
troop battalions.
"School of Combat While the 5sth.
Division was on the Russian front there
was created, in June, 1917, divisionI
School of Combat"
This unit of instruction had almost as
many cadres as a normal company. Each
company of infantry of the division sent
to it four men for each period OF Instruct
ton, lasting month.
The purpose of the school Of Combat
was double one:
To exercise the men in the methods Oh
attack, in the style of forming attacking'
forces, broken to all difficulties (thc clearA
ing away of obstacles, progress in field
cut up by shell holes and the cleaning urS|
Of trenches).
To instruct the men in the handling Of
the numerous instruments which constii
tute the present-day armament of infanI
try: hand grenades, machine guns. ligbf
and ordinary; grenade throwers, light
weight mine throwers and even famt
throwers.
The School Of Combat was dissolved
some days before the departure from Rus
STA. The men on instruction there rejones
their units.
Since their arrival on the Western frou
there has been constituted division dc
tachment of assault (Sturm-AbteiIungl
There are effective for combat 10 d
100 men who have been arranged in IN
proportion Of four or five men per con.
pany in the three regiments Of the div
sion. These men were chosen from thos
who had been instructed in Russia in m
division school Of Combat" or who ha
served as battalion assault troops.
The personnel which formed the cadr{
Of the School Of Combat" has been maid
tanned by new attachments and AugmentS
by the dispatch of three supplemental
lieutenants, one officer per regiment.
Armament-These weapons which sert
for instruction at the School Of Combat
remain with each storm detachment
Three ordinary machine guns, four iig}
machine guns, one light mine thrower I'D
two grenade throwers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Germsny's Plan

Recall that Poland was partitioned at
the suggestion and under the direction
of Frederick the Great originally, and
that Prussia was a partner in each OF
the two succeeding partitions. Recall that
to-day Germany-that is, Prussia-holds
four million Poles in slavery of a sort far
more intolerable than that of the people
of Alsace-Iorra and it is possible to
understand how much Of sincerity there
is in the new German plea for the Polish
people-of Russian Poland.
There was once an American politician
who defined the attitude of his class to
the public by the aphorism Give the peo-
nile the laws which they want, but make
them unconstitutional" German policy
now proposes to bestow certain blessings
upon the Polish people Of Russia, but to
bestow them in such shape that they will
not benefit the Poles and will lead to the
ultimate ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Germany
She is seeking TO create about her num-
ner OF small states, incapable of indepen-
dert existence because they have not the
necessary organs, and, having created them,
70 swallow them, one by one, as one eats
an artichoke, leaf by leaf. This is what
she is doing in Belgium, where she is
seeking to set the Fleming against the
Walloon. with the foreknowledge that il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

economic subserviency to the nation hold
ing all the sea front from Pernau to
Stettin.
On the other hand, it is beginning to be
clear that there are grave doubts in Ger
many as to the ACCESSIBILITY of giving Po-
land even this semblance of autonomy-in-
dependence is not even suggested in the
German plans-and there is growing
Junker demand that some other and less
dangerous solution be found, some solu
tion that will not awaken dangerous aspi-
rations in the hearts of four million Poles
who are, and in the German scheme Of
things must forever remain, German sub
jects.
A New Sick Man of Europe
This, then, is what the German policy
means. 1t makes use of the formula of the
Bolsheviki; it makes use of the Allied pro-
lOf iltclHS pCOPiSy puI oSNN-
ally it contemplates so dividing the peo-
pies on the eastern frontier of Germany
that they cannot achieve national unity, so
that they cannot escape the German domi-
nation i'm the future, when Germany is
ready. Meantime, Austria, which is al
ready a shadow rather than fact, is to
he used as cover, and there is to be new
partition of Poland, and the Poles of Aus
tria, politically powerful now, are to be
thrust out, that the Germans Of the Haps-
burg empire may regain control of the
northern half. Later they will be disposed
cf as the Germans Of Germany see fit, in
the time when the Germans Of Austria
have followed those of Bavaria and Saxony
into the Hohenzollern empire.
Now, against such programme there is
no protection in Russia. Lithuanians and
Poles arc outside the calculations Of the
Bolsheviki; they are outside the knowledge
Of the millions who make up the inert mass
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

such division be achieved there can be
no Belgium and she will ultimately be
able, as the champion of the Fleming or
the Walloon, as the case may be, to annex
all of Belgium.
The Belgian example is an admirable
parallel, for something Of the same an
Gent jealousy exists between the Lithua-
nian and the Pole, who are racially and
Iinguistically nearer kin than the Fleming
and the Walloon, but have ancient grudges
and contemporary rivalries. If Germany
succeeds in creating these two separate
states, both will be in the end her vassals
and her victims. And her policy is the
policy of both Russia and Austria in the
Balkans for half century: both sought
to keep the Balkan states weak and d.
vided by mutual jealouses, that all might
in time fall to their share. Russian treat
ment of Bulgaria and Austrian treatment
of Serbia both rest upon the same essential
doctrine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

lldS UetH SCIeppcu, JHe ny nasty ciiihiiI"'NN
by revolution, Germany is prepared with
a policy, while all her enemies have neither
a policy nor a comprehension of the exact
situation on which to base policy.
This German policy is quite patent:
what Germany seeks is to accelerate the
pace of the disintegration, to encourage
the several elements that seek indepen-
dence not alone in getting independence,
but in dividing and subdividing until the
Eastern World is transformed into a
series of totally divided races, mutually
hostile, reduced TO anarchy and capable of
offering no resistance to German penetra-
ton, whether peaceful or otherwise.
And since there is one people in Eastern
Europe capable of supplying new unity,
possessing the cultural and the political
capacity for creating strong and united
state, the German policy is predicated
upon the decision that this people must
not be permitted to achieve this unity.
And this people, of course, are the Poles.
Twenty-odd millions of Poles inhabiting
the Russian, German and Austrian terri
tories about the Vistula, Joined with the
several million Lithuanians, once included
within the Polish kingdom, and the several
races in whole or in part dwelling also in
lands once Polish, might easily, given
unity for brief period of years, build a
Polish kingdom or republic as large as
Italy or Prussia and bar the road to Ger
man lateral expansion. More than this,
were such state to develop without the
German Poles, it would unquestionably
draw the German Poles to it and thus
threaten to undo all the long centuries
Of German work along the Eastern
marches.
Given this situation, then, it is possible
to- understand the first German proposal
to Russia for the making of peace. Ger
manyis prepared to make peace with the
Russians on the Bolshevik basis Of mo an
nexations and no fndemnities," but with
certain qualifications; Poland-that is,
Russian Poland-must be permitted to
seek its own form of government in ac-
cordance with its own traditions. So must
Lithuania. But if the Lithuanian be sepa-
rated from the Pole, then there is no
chance of development of real Poland,
for Lithuanians occupy all the Baltic
shores of the ancient Polish state not
actually included within German frontiers,
and the neY Polish state without a sea
front would be economically at the mercy
Of the state which held not merely Dan
zig and Koenigsberg, but also Libau and
Riga. But Lithuania without a hinter
land would be equally handicapped, would
be merely an insignificant state, dependent
upon Germany for its existence, since it
would alike bar Poland and what was left
Of Russia from the open sea.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
The New Lithsunis

So much for the German policy. Now,
what does the German proposal mean in
terms of immediate fact? First of all, it
means the creation Of a small state join
ing the old Russo-German frontier north
of the Niemen and occupying all the terri
tory between the Baltic on the west, the
Gulf of Riga on the north, and, on the
east, the line of the Petrograd-Warsaw
finally, the southern boundary
might conceivably be the Niemen River.
This would mean including the Russian
governments of the Courland, Kovno,
wilma, Livonia and at least portions OF
Grodno and Suwalki.
This new Lithuanis would have an area
of some $4,000 square miles, containing
population of approximately seven mill
ions, less than three millions of these be-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-17
Winners of ThursdNs's
Want-Ad Contest

FIRST PRIZE
Eva Hamand, 5912 Leavenworth ST.,
Omaha.
SECOND PRIZE
Scout Peter Gepson, Troop 16, 1918
Grand avenue, Omaha.
THIRD PRIZE
William G. Gluck, 1924 Douglas St.,
Omaha.
HONORABLE MENTION
Mrs. W. NJ. Pike, Gordon, Neb.
Karl Kharas, 1927 Harvey street,
Omaha.
Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Apartment 8, The
Howard Apartments.
Mark Balroi, 1910 South Thirteenth
street, Omaha.
Mrs. ]. J. Wilhelm, 1924 Larimore
avenue, Omaha.
Giltner Hill, 4216 South Twentieth
street, Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-17
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If Photographed or Displayed In Larger
Type:
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ALL FOREIGN ADVERTISING UNDER
HELP WANTED CONSIDERATIONS
&c per word... INSTRUMENTATION one time
1ho per word. two or more consecutive
insertions
SPECIAL COMBINATION RATE.
On Land, Poultry and Other Advertising.
THE OMAHA BEE lover $4,000 daily.l
BOTH CENTURY FARMER lover 10000
weekly
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Special Reg.
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Q Insertions in Omaha Bee and
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SPECIAL NOTICES

SPECIAL -NOTICE-ALL MEN WHO REG.
lSTERED ON JUNE 5TH IN GREATER
OMAHA ARE REQUESTED To REPORT
WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY IN PER-
son AT OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS OF
THE SIXTH NEBRASKA REGIMENT.
FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT
THIS REGIMENT SEE Me PERSONAL
1,Y. LIEUTENANT KENWORTHY, Of
FICER IN CHARGE.
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What heads the list of INVESTMENTS REAL ESTMTEg
LoST..FOUND..REWARDS

OMAHA 4 CUUNcL BLUFFS STREET
RAILWAY COMPANY
Persons having lost some article would
do well TO call up the office Of the Oma ha
6 Council Bluffs Street Railway Company
TO ascertain whether they left Il In the
street car
Many aft!cles each day are turned In
and the company Is anxious to restore
them to the rightful owner
LOST--rail light and Nebraska number
plate, No. 12SsSo Finder phone South 4Sl9.
LOST-Bunch keys. between Blonde and
Lake ST.. Call Webster 5s27
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SWAPPERS' COLUMN

HAVE Elk stickpin set with small pearls
solid gold mountings: valued at $40
What have you? Box 1895, Bee
FILMS developed fress one-day service
kase Kodak Studio. Neville b.. 18th
and Harvey.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-17
observation-disclosures

IL YOU lose anything and will advertise II
here you will surely recover It II found
by an honest person. II you find anything
of value. the honest way 10 to advertise
for tho owner.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-17
Want Ad Rates

Use THE rELEtH HONE II you ,cannbt con-
veniently brins D. send n your ads. Ask
for Want Ad Taker and you will re-
cetve the SAM good service as when de-
livering your ad at this office
PHONE TYLER 1000.
WANT AID COLUMNS CLOSE
EVENING EDITIONS. ,....,,,...l2:O0 NJ
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DEATHS & FUNERAL NOTICES,
CARD OF THANKS.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS,

z. l.. DODDER CO, Funeral Directors
r. Z. Zero. Mgr, 23d and Cunning SITS
Phone Douglas GIT. Auto ambulance.
HULSE & KIEPEN, undertakers and EN-.
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DUFFY & JOHNSTON. enba liners, and fu-
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JOHN A GENTLEMAN. undertaken and
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FLORISTS.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS

Births-Mr. and Mrs. David Wilson, 1907
Burdette, boy; Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel W.
Lewis, Fifty-frst and Francis, boy.
Deaths-Cecil c. Coleman. Glib Mckinley,
two days; Mrs. A. N. Swan, E71s Garfield,
IS; Peter s. Hammond. Thirty-eighth and
Cummins, s.; J. W. Dohnelly, Thirteenth
and William. %: Charles Betf. Twenty
ninth and Dewey avenue. As; Ida Fox, SO7
North Twenty-seventh avenue 49, Lizzie
Diamond, 2116 Cass, 81; ]. b. Bowman, hos
ptal. SO; Angela Tarslkes, 5203 South
Twenty-fifth. months.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.
BUILDING PERMITS.

Joseph Elkin. l719 North Twenty cigh.n,
$500: Consumers Refining company, 20O4
Sprague. $500.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-17

WE want live statesmen now calling on fur
niture and department stores to sell our
wonderful talking machines as side line.
Libsral commissions. State territory you
cover. Address Sales Manager, 81 S.
Latin St, Chicago,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-17
HELP WANTED--MALE
Statesmen and Solicitors.

speciality man for Ne.
brasks' staple line on new and exceptions
al terms: vacancy now; attractive com.
mission contract; S36 weekly for expenses.
Miles F BiXler Co. S2l24 Carlln Bldg.
IlnNnla M nhIn
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-17
FARM TRACTOR COMPANY,
EONn Dill Lao WIS

A GOOD OPENING FOR statesmen.
II you arc a worker--have about 800
capital and possess sales ability you can
earn from $4,000 TO 5000 per year with
us, organizing local agencies In an exclu.
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first day you start to work-you get
profit on 81 sales made by all agents you
appoint. You will in addition to earning
an immediate good sized income be build.
Ing business that will Yield bigger
profits each year. Write for this propost-
tlon-not an experiment An honest, seri-
Gus. dependable. dignified, profitable bust
ness. Rex Typewriter Company, 1870 N.
Wabash Ave- Chicago
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Statesmen and Solicitors.
Statesmen WANTED.
AL SALESMAN

Wanted-one Who 10 thoroughly &C.
quainted in the automobile or farm ma
chinery business, to establish local agen-
Giles throughout the state of Nebraska for
IA farm tractor attachment for Ford ears,
selling at $3.50. Our national advertising
campaign Is now In full bloom. Convinc-
ing sales arguments. The man we want
must be thorough business man, capable
OF doing big things. Salary and expenses
In replying state age, territory now cover
Ing and enclose references All inquiries
strictly confidential.
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BUSINESS CHANCES

GOOD ROOMING HOUSE.
rooms, modern, lis s. 9tth St. new
furnace. light good condition; $50,
GLOVER & SPAIN, (Realtors),
pouglaa Sg69 1880 city National
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Accordion Pleafinp.

ACCORDION. side. knife sunburst boz
-pleating, covered buttons. all sizes and
styles. hemstitching. picot edging. eys-
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IDEAL BUTTON AND PLEATING CO.,
Opposite BrandeiS Store.
S00-S0s Brown Bldg Douglas 1885
VAN AMMAN Dress Plea Ting and Rnilnn
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PART THREE.

Want-Ad Section
PAGES ONE TO EIGHT
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Agents and Canvassers.

AuENIs ana Demonstrators--A new. won
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stantly, Easily demonstrated, ana dem
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IGNITION REPAIR PARTS.
BRUSHES FOR STARTERS AND

BRUSHES FOR STARTERS AND
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selling the above lines to jobbers or deal
ers and are looking for an exceptional
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In strict confidence stating territory you
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two responsible business men as character
references. Address J. N. Brown. Sales
Mgr. 1906 Schiller Bldg. Chicago, III.
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FOR AUTOMOBILE Light.
Wanted, live wire In each city 10
open an office and manage sales force
for the new Controllite Lens; every auto.
mobile a, probable customer. $3.50 to $4,000
required, according to territory; clean,
legitimate, money making opportunity for
any man who can qualify. Write only.
Super Lighting Co., Inc, 1894 Broadway,
N v
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soMb good reliable live wire automobile
salesman to sell one of the fastest sell
ing cars Only experienced salesman need
1870. Bee ava
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WANrED-Traveling shoe salesman, mostly
city trade. State age and experience Box
1888. Bee.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-23
TALE OF SINKING
 OF A SUBMARINE
Continued From Page one.)

long. The torpedo struck us on the port side. a glancing blow amidships right near the engine room. Our ship was emptey and we all thought she had exploded from the terrific noise she made when she hit.
 Signal to Abandon Ship.
 Simultaneously the ships whistle blew short and successive blasts, which was the signal to abandon ship and man the Hfeboats.
 '1 then sent out a signal of distress, which was picked up by the Manchest- CT Port.
 'T was then ordered to my position in the starboard boat.
 "The officers in charge of the life boat on the port side had difficulty in lowering the 1ifeboat on account of boiling hot water coming from the ships exhaust which partly filled the boat. The crew of this boat were most ly foreigners and were greatly excit- ed. An officer ordered them at the point of a gun to be quiet and sit down. Otherwise both port and star board boats were launched clear of falls without incident.
 Torpedo Failed to Explode.
 The captain, who had remained on the ship. found the torpedo had failed to explode. All hands were then or dered back on ship. We were lying perfectly still for at least an hour.
 When the commander of the sub marine saw our crew coming back from Hfeboats and climbing upon the deck he immediately gave up his chase
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-23
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
MARKET WAS CONFUSED.
War Shares Were the Most Conspiou-
 ous Feature of the Session.

| New York. June 22.-Recoveries from | the general reaction of the early week made further progress today, although trading was of a tentative character and more circumscribed as to the va riety of issues dealt in. War shares were once more the conspicuous fea- ture but rails gave promise of furth--
 CT improvement. Gross gains of one to five points were considerably reduced in the later profit taking. The mone- tary situation continued a restraining influence. call loans, which hold over the week, being made for the most
 part at or within a fraction of six
 per cent. Time money was in scant
 supply, local institutions making few
 offerings
 Forecasts of the weeks money move
 ments favored a cash gain although the
 banks of the clearing house have de-
 rived little direct benefit from the
 heavy gold inflow by way of Canada
 This was augmented by today's addi- tional consignments of nearly SPA. 5oO,-
 900, making an aggregate of almost
 $73.000, 900 for the week.
 Movements in the foreign exchange
 market were somewhat conflicting fires recording further reaction and francs making up part of their recent Russian bonds were only nominally quoted until towards the close of the market, when they rose a point.
 The inquiry for war stocks was ac- cOmpan1ed Dy pool activities In related issues. United States Steel at one time showed an exereme gain of 1 Is points, most others of that division rising 1-2 to about 3, but in almost every instance much of the advantage was forfeited. The more distinctive equipments and motors gained to 3 points~at their best with feathers, while Texas Company led the oils at an ex- treme rise of 1-2 points
 Metals and inactive speciaities inn proved an average of a point or two with sugars. Industrial Alcohol finish ed at a point gain after having risen over 3. utilities. mainly gas shares, 1 were higher by 2 to , points and rails | in general lost much of their 1 to l point advance. Total sales amounted l to 635,000 shares
 All classes of bonds were heavy, inn l portant railway issues yielding with | issues. Total sales | (par value) aggregated S1,So0, ,o00
 Liberty 1-2's ruled at par but Unit ed States registered and coupon 3's of | 1946, registered and coupon As and Panama 3's were 1 to per cent low CT on call.