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british RepuIsed on sOmms with
Heavy Loss, says BerliA.

Heavy Loss, says Berlin.
BERLIN. March IL (via Sayville).-
British troops on the Somme front
attacked the German lines yesterday
afternoon and at night in the Ancro
sector. the War Office announced to-
day. They were repulsed with heavy
losses.
The statement reads:
Western Front: North OF Armen-
tlereo British detachments were
driven away by our fire. In the
Ancre sector the British attacked In
tho afternoon without artillery prop
aration between Achietle Petit and
Greyillers. and at night after strong
fire on both sides OF Bucquoy. They
were repulsed with heavy losses and
left fifty prisoners In our hands.
'In the Champagne engagements
south OF Rpont continued with vary
ing results.
ION the east bank OF tho Meuse
advances by the French failed near
st. Mihiel. One of our river posts
was pushed back.
Eastern Front-There has been live
ly activity IN front OF tho lines at
several points between the Baltic and
tho Dniester.
ION the Narayuvka our raiding de-
tachments Btormed portions OF n
Russian position. destroyed extensive
mining establishments and returned
with two officers and 256 men as
prisoners and several machine guns
and mine throwers as booty.
1.-The railroad station at Radzlvillov.
northeast OF Brody. was extensively
bombarded.
Macedonian Front-Several ad-
vances by the French between Lakes
Oohrida and Presha remained with
out results. Strong hostile attacks
northwest and north OF Monastir also
failed. At both places our enemies
suffered considerable losses"
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BRITISH TROOPS ADVANCING;
GENERAL OFFENSIVE BEGUN;
GERMAN ARMY IN RETREAT
Won Hindenburg in Personal
Command on Western Front,
Directing Retirement.
BIG BATTLE EXPECTED.
important Events Now Under
Way on the Somme Front
Being Kept Secret.

LONDON. March H.-Crown Prince
Rupprecht's troops have given up
their main defensive positions on the
heights before Bapaume. The cap
ture OF that town. objective OF the
Anglo French drive on the somme
since July I. 1916. Is expected to-day.
The German army Is in retreat.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has
taken personal command on tho
western front and Is directing the ro-
tirement. How far he will withdraw
ls problematical. Tho British are
driving ahead on the heels OF tho
retiring Germans and infiicting
serious losses.
Important events, which may mean
the prelude 20 . resumption OF open
field fighting. are under way.
A great movement is on along tho
Sommo front. Just what Is happen
ing In being carefully hidden by army
headquarters. Correspondents have
only been permitted 20 say that i'm
portant events" may be expected to-
day.
A German withdrawal on n great
scale is forecast in an Inspired article
by Major Moraht, military authority
OF tho Berllner Tagoblatt. regarded as
spokesman OF the German General
Staff who is quoted In n Rotterdam
despatch to the Daily News. He re-
calls Won Hindenburg's strategy in
East Prussia. where he fell back be-
fore the onrushing Russian hosts and
then wiped most of them out at Tan
nenberg, drowning tho rest In the
Mazurlan lakes,
Mornht reveals for tho first time
that Hindenburg Is now operat-
ing in tho west and says that by
shortening their lines the Germans
arc giving their enemies a desert "a
advance over--a ground as bad as
ever fighting ground was"
Messages from Berlin declare
the great offensive Of 1917 10 now
under way and that humanity
will be staggered by the now dc.
vices supplied by the German
scientists for use by their armies.
The CLOUD OF war" hangs heavy
over the events in France. The Of
ficlal report merely declares that the
Germans have retired near Bapaume
and Commecourt, the Grevlllers and
Loupert Wood have been occupied In
an advance on three and a half
mile front TO the depth OF a mile
and that tho advance Is continuing
with desperate fighting.
Correspondents tell little more.
They say the positions abandoned
by tho Germans were immensely
strong and seemed TO have been
capable OF long resistance.
All the dispatches speak OF i'm
portant activities that are contln-
ulng. The British troops are said
10 be hard on the heels OF the re-
firing Germans and more than keep
ing pace with their retirement.
The writer's evidently are expect
ing the speedy occupation by the
British OF the important town OF Ia
paume. although they stop short oi
actually predicting 1t with certainty
with luck we shall bo there soon.'
says one correspondent. "BApaumC
is now seriously directly threatened.
says another.
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.PAYMASTER SHOT DEAD
BY TWO AUTO BANDITS
They Secure sS,4oo Booty and
Escape From in Front of
Cleveland Factory.

CLEVELAND, o., March IL
Cuyler Mowrey. paymaster for n, J..
Rich q CO., knit goods manufacturers.
was shot ana killed by two automo-
bile bandits IN front OF the Rich fac
tory on East sixty y-hrst Street this
afternoon.
The robbers secured $500 and es-
capped In an automobile,
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FRENCH BREAK Up
GERMAN DEFENSE
At FOUR POINTS
Penetrate to Second Line
Trenches Between the Meuse
and Apremont.

PARIS, March ii.-Another sweep
Ing French victory was announced In
to-day's official statement.
"on Tuesday. south OF 81. Mihiel,
tho French captured Romainvllle
Farm and penetrated AT. four different
points UP to the second lines OF the
enemy between tho Mouse and Apre-
mont, imprisoning many" the War
Once asserted.
AT Butte de Mesnal two very vlo-
lent German counter attacks were
launched on Monday at p. NJ. They
were stopped short. the Germans not
reaching our lines and losing very
heavily.
Around Hin 1856 grenade lighting
continued all night, the French cap
turing new elements and trenches"
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AsauIth 90 Reply 10 Charges iI
Dnrdanelles Report.

LONDON, March h.-Former Pre-
rnier AsauIth announced to-day that he
viii ON Monday or Tuesday make for
mai reply in the House OF Commons
10 some OF the statements criticizing
the policy of his Cabinet made In the
recently published report OF the com
mission which Investigated tho Dar-
danelles campaign.
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CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN
MARET.
WHEAT
Grain Breaks on Account OF Rail
road situation.

CHICAGO. March A-Seriousness OF
the situation in tho railways forced a
break OF "a. cents to 81 7Sls In May wheat
on the grain market here to-day, July
lost l1a cents from the opening, selling
at 1924. September was off ~ cents
from tho opening at l42
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Duchess of ConnauEhrs Condition
Worse.

LONDON. March 1.-THE Duchess Of
CoUnaughts condition was worse to-
day Physicians reported she had n
bad night with Increasing gravity" In
her illness She Is suffering from bron
chial pneumonia.
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ITEMS EoR INVESTORS.

American Tobacco Co., year ended
Dec. 3l.-Net earnings and other In
come. sl2,4l2,624, Increase s91S'6O4
Balance after preferred dividends w.,
1886 O76 equal 10 22.7O per cent earned
an common stock, compared with
90 o. per cent. earned on same stock
In 1915. Profit and loss surplus, SS7,-
Osl SAG: increase, Sl,0S7,594.
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The New Pittsburgh Coal Co. OF
Pennsylvania 10 succeed the old com
pany OF Now Jersey will have author
lied capitalization OF AOOOO,OOO pre-
ferred stock and Ao'OOO,Ooo common
OF which sS6.oOC'7oO per cent cumu-
Iotiye preferred and S32, lG9, 200 COM
mon win be issued. Earnings for
1915 OF $3,l43,926 for dividends were
eoual 20 6 per cent. on new preferred
and about 3 per cent. on new common
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DIED..

FINGER.--On March IT, 1917, GEORGE
II, FiNGER. at hts home. II Highland
av. Nonkers n. Y,
Funeral from ST. MRry's Church on
Thursday, March rs, az 10 A. NJ. In.
terment Holy Cross Cemetery. brooklyn.
n
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DUTCH PROTEST SEIZURE.


stuffs Held in British Ports.
WASHINGTON. March iI.-Holland
has protested to Great Britain against
detention in British ports Of more than
dozen steamships loaded with food
stufrs and supplies for the Dutch Gov
The ships are under Government
charter and some OF them are said to
have been detained six weeks or more.
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New York Central Railroad-Reg-
ular quarterly dividend OF IA per
cent, payable May 10 stock OF record
April 9,
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American Locomotive Co,-Reguiar
quarterly dividends OF S-4 per cent.
on preferred and l IA on common
stock, payable April 8 10 record March
"a. Preferred dividend payable April
u
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KERMANSHkH, RUG CITY,
CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS
Evacuation of Bagdad Admitted BY
Turks, Who Are Preparing
New Defensive.

LONDON, March H.-Another blow
was struck nt Turkish prestige by the
Allies this afternoon when announce
ment was made OF tho capture by
Russian forces OF the city Of herman
shah. Persia.
Kermanshah Is city OF consider
able commercial Importance as a rug
center, about seventy miles south
west OF Hamandan and about 2OO
miles on the direct road east or
Bagdad.
The British have advanced thirty
miles above Bagdad, II Is announced.
The evacuation OF Bagdad by the
Turks Is announced by the Constah-
tinople War Office indirectly In 2
statement received to-day. The an
nouncement says:
After fighting south OF Bagdad on
March 10 our troops Withdrew ana
| took up new position between BAG
dad and Samara."
Snmara, according TO latest maps,
ia shown as one OF ths termini
OF the Berlin Bagdad railroad plan
The railroad runs from Samara 10
| Bagdad; then there Is gap OF APP
proximately $50 miles to Ras-el- Ain
where the railroad begins again and
runs through.
IL seems probable. in view Of Turk
18Th operations In Mesopotamia, how
ever. that part OF this gap, Mt least
| has already been bridgcd by construc-
tion work undertaken since the start
OF the war.
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United Cigar stores Co.-Sales for
January and February Increased
about 81 10000 900, compared with frst
two months OF 1915.
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IRISH GENERAL CATCHES
GERMANS IN A TRAP
Cough, an Ulsterite, Beats the
Enemy at His Own Game by
ShreWd Tactics.

PARIS. March l4.-GreAt I'm
portance is attached by French
military writers 20 the continued
British successes on the Somme. Re
ports from aviators show that all
along their inner lines tho Germans
are blowing up bridges and culverts,
burning munitions and provisions
while trying 20 mask the withdrawal
OF heavy guns by heavy firing with
field guns.
German Stan Headquarters on the
Somme front Is said to have been
moved back ten miles. The Matln
thinks that the German staff at first
planned strategic retreat so aB TO
delay and upset the British plan OF
attack, but that this scheme was
frustrated by tho tactics OF General
Cough. Instead OF using cavalry
| against his retreating foe General
Cough maintained contact by the
methodicRl and destructive use OF
artillery. The result. according 10
the Matin, was that the Germans were
caught IN their own trap and their
| retreat. which was at nrst Intentional,
| became almost rout under the con-
! tinuous pressure OF an adversary Bu-
| perior In material and initiative,
Gen. Cough. VINO Is mentioned in
the Paris newspapers as the reld
| commander In the British operations
against Bapaumo. is presumably
Major Gen. Hubert de la Poer Cough,
Commander OF tho Third Cavalry
| brigade.
Gen. Cough is an Irlshman and
prior to the war, then a Colonel, re-
| ceived prominence as one OF the ON
GERS who threatened TO resign II Brit
I ish troops we're ordered TO force Ul-
ster into acceptance OF homo rule, In
tho early days OF the war he was
praised by Yield Marshal French for
his conduct In the tghting following
tho battle OF the Marne and was
promoted 10 be Major General In No
Vsmber. lslA
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-20
What Society Has in Prospect.

Miss Marion Kuhn will be hostess
for the Junior Bridge club Monday.
The Spirit of Walden Wood" Mrs
Myron Learned's nature masque, will
be given Saturday afternoon, June 16
i'll the natural amphitheater in the
southwest corner of Hanscom park
| Thomas Kimball designed an attrac-
tive cover for the programs. Com
mlttees to manage the performance
which is given for the Red Cross and
the National League for Woman
Service, have been named and the
cast will be selected by the end of
the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William /. Holman
will be at home to their friends at 304
South Thirty y-eighth street, on Sum
day. May q.
The last meeting of the season of
the Research club will be held Sun
day, May 81.
LIE Mars club will give an outing
dance at Lake Manawa Friday eve
ming
Mrs. Will Hampton will entertain
members Of the w. w. club at
o'slock luncheon at her home We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Rees, jr., will
entertain Monday evening at Ntheir
home the coach, Miss Mary Irene
Wallace, and the cast of Miss Hem
rietta Rees' play, "A Record Ro-
nance" which was presented Tues
day evening at the Blackstone by the
Omaha Woman's Press club. Mrs.
Hazel Smith Eldridge, Miss Madgc
West, Mrs. Harriet MacMurphy, Mr..
Hugh Wallace and Mr.. Roy Sunder-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-20

Mrs. Dan Wheeler, Miss Katherine
Cradle, all the board members and
any number of others will receive the
guests. Miss Arabell Kimball and
Mrs. Louis Clarke are to have charge
at the door.
Tuesday evening marks the begin
ming of congress which is engaging
the attention Of every patriotic Amer
ican citizen and at present tho people
of Omaha particularly. The food
conservation congress will call to-
gether not only the cooking experts,
but women of every rank and class
who are desirous of doing a share of
the national war relief work. Mrs.
Charlie Kountze. Mrs. Howard Bald
rlge or Mrs. Edward w. Nash, for
example, are among the leaders who
have been asked by the mayor to at
tend the conference. What knowledge
they gain there they will use in man
aging their households. War time is
making cooking and economy fashion
able for people who have never been
occupied with such details. You re.
member the actual instances of saw
ing practiced in some fashionable
households Of the city of which we
told you last week. Hostesses are
regretting that they cannot give big
parties because the situation demands
only serious things. This will give
an opportunity to get some splendid
round table ideas about the work and
what it means. Conservation is only
beginning now. When the war is
over we may be the thriftiest persons
imaginable.
Two more country clubs holds their
annual openings this week. Thus the
third c stands for Country clubs.
Field club and Happy Hollow have
both chosen the same night. Saturday
OF this week, for their opening dinner
dances
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Social Calendar

Monday
Monday Bridge Luncheon club,
Mrs. H. S. Clarke, hostess.
Evening party for Press club
players, given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Rees, jr.
Junior Bridge club, Miss Marion
Kuhn, hostess.
Tuesday
Creche benefit card party at Fon-
tenelle.
Backlund- Haze wedding at First
United Presbyterian church, s
p. M.
Wednesday,
Omaha Whist club luncheon at
Fontenelle for Mrs. F. V. Krug.
Mid-week dinner dance at Country
club.
w. w. club luncheon, Mrs. Will
Hampton, hostess.
Thursday
Donovan Bennett wedding at St.
Johns church, 9 a. m.
Original Cooking club, Mrs. Sam
uel Burns, jr., hostess.
Friday
Seymour Lake club preseason
dance.
Apron shower for Miss Margaret
Parks, given by Misses Mae,
Clare and Anne Dworak. i
All Saints Parish Aid, dance at
Parish house.
Child Conservation league, North
Side circle, Mrs. J. P. Sheeran,
hostess, 2 p. m.
lie Mars club, dance at Lake
Manawa.
Saturday,
Dinner dance at Country club.
Opening dinner dances at Field
and Happy Hollow clubs.
Luncheon for Brownell Hall
r seniors, given by Misses Edna
Birss and Alma Michenor.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-20

TNERGETIC young women who
H. have been stationed here, there
IL and everywhere at Red Cross
booths this last week are very,
very tired. They have worked early
and late, that's a fact, for their work
ing days have begun when the stores
and business places opened and have
continued after those long-houred
workshops have closed. If it was
next to impossible before to reach
someone that you wanted badly to
speak with, this week it has been
without the range of human posi-
bility. The leaders have fitted in and
out of all the hives, steadily carrying
the amount of money raised up to the
present grand total.
1t really wouldn't be bad idea to
have those pretty young> people
around the downtown districts all the
time. They have furnished the cheer
lest, brightest sight on every corner.
If "really truly" nurses look half so
bewitching on the field of service as
these young Omaha women, they
must be better than tonics or stimu-
lants for wounded soldiers. Everyone
exclaimed over little Mrs. Ervine
Brandeis when she wore her nurses
costume with veil, cap and a real
military cape of nurses blue buttoned
down the front Mrs. Fred Hamilton,
Miss Meliora Davis, Mrs. Billy Leet
and a number of others looked per-
fectly fetching in their white cos
tunes with caps and wells. The
weather was ideal for the wearing
of white and all the nurses pro TEN
took advantage of their opportunity.
Mrs. Guy L. Smith, Mrs. Edwin r.
Swobe, Mrs. c. A. Hull, Miss Alice
Carter, Mrs. William Leet and Miss
Emily Keller made up a particularly
attractive group the camera caught
as they started on the big member
ship drive. No one could resist the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-20
Cupid's Darts

Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Levin an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Nell, to Mr.. Will Boas-
berg of this city, formerly OF Min
neapolis. AS yet no date for the
wedding has been set.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Yocum an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Marguerite, to Mr.. Emil
Hoffman, son of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
B. Hoffman. The wedding will
take place June 4 at St. Patrick's
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. S. Charles of
Tekamah, Neb., announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Cell
NJ. Charles, to Mr.. r. NJ. Mitchell
of Omaha. The wedding will take
place in June. The bride-to-be is
a teacher at the Miller Park school.
The marriage of Miss Gertrude
Kopald, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. N. Kopald, to Mr.. Max L. Low
enthal of Buffalo, N. Y, has been
set for Thursday, June ID. Rabbi
Louis ]. Kopald OF Buffalo, a
brother of the bride, will oficiate
at the wedding ceremony,
Announcement was made at
pretty luncheon Saturday of the
engagement of Miss Ruth Peters,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. George
l. Peters, and John Buchanan Will
liams, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James
L. Williams of Chicago. Miss Pc
ters is Sigma Chi Omicron girl
froirr,> the University of Omaha.
Her fiance is a Delta Chi from the
University of Chicago. The we'd
ding will take place this summer.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-20
Brigham-Wentworth Nuptials.

The marriage of Miss Emily Went
worth, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lew
Wentworth, to Mr.. Norman Reed
Brigham, son of Mr.. C. R. Brigham
of Warsaw, Ind, took place Friday
afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home OF
the brides parents. Only relatives
and very intimate friends witnessed
the ceremony, which was performed
by Rev. G. A. Hubert. Mrs. Brig
ham is a graduate of Omaha High
school, a pupil of Max Landau and a
graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of
Music. Her husband attended Ann
Arbor and did graduate work at the
Columbia School of Architecture. He
is a member of Sigma Nj fraternity.
The wedding had been planned for
June, but unsettled war conditions
hastened the date. The house was
decorated with palms and llacs. The
bride wore a stylish suit of dark blue
with tailored hat of white Milan
straw and a corsage of Ward roses
and sweet peas. The brides cousin,
Miss Riddles Baiger, attended her and
Mr., Will Wentworth was best man.
Miss Sophie Naimska and Miss LII
ella Anderson furnished the wedding
music.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brigham have gone
to Oberlin, Cleveland, Warsaw and
other Ohio points for two weeks
visit. They will be at home after
June | in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-20
Fair Red Cross Nurses Capture
Hearts and Purses of OmQhons

opportunities of the two charming
Kopald sisters, who go to Buffalo as
brides in just little while. Mrs. E.
S. Westbrook of the motor drivers
section saw to it that every machine
parder in the downtown district, was
nit Frrd -or limousine, bore its Red
Cross placard.
/ Here and there about the booths
one saw the maids of Ak-Sar-Ben
than whom none were prettier. Miss
Mona Towle was fitting about down
at the federal building buttoning the
loiterers in those cool corridors. Miss
Grace Allison was doing a big bust
ness at Thompson & Belden's store.
Miss Carita O'Brien in the booth at
the Brandeis stores was one of the
most charming sights of all. One day
as she passed with group of girls
from her car to the entrance the eyes
of more than one passerby was at
tracted by her fair face.
People who have watched closely
the progress of the work cannot
praise too highly the work of Mrs.
SAdl lSS L NOulllZC, MiS. IlOWdIu II.
Baldrige, Mrs. o. c. Redick and the
other women who have devoted al
most their whole time to Red Cross
work this last week Before 9 o'clock
in the morning they have been at their
stations. All day long they have kept
up the grind and even in the evenings
they have given up their recreation to
go about at gatherings where women
might be interested in their good
cause.
We, ourselves did a slight service
for the Red Cross last week. Don't
think that we wish to take any undue
credit to ourselves, but still we can
not but mention it. A member of the
booth committee in driving her limou-
sine to the curb late one afternoon ex-
pectng to park it, chanced TO get the
front mudguard and wheel locked in
the rear wheel and mudguard of
large car, the owner of which had
vanished completely. Madame was in
distress. She dared not move for
ward nor back. Just then we ap-
peared. We helped to lift the mud
guard away from its captor, we stood
watching the wheel and directing her
movements until finally she had COM
pletely extricated her car.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-20
Warm Breezes Suggest
Summer FIittinq Near

The first warm weather breezes
waited in our direction bring GOSSIP
of summer plans. Mrs. Charles H
Brown has taken a house for the
summer at Great harrington, Mass
She leaves about the first of June
with her children and her aunt, Mrs
Clayton.
Miss Martha Folda left last week
for her summer home at Ephraim
Wis, where she will be joined later
by her brother and his wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. F. Folda.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Tukey expect
to go up to the Hilman ranch in
Wyoming i'll July for month.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Burgess plan
to leave here in short time to motor
to California, stopping enroute at diff
ferent places. They will remain all
summer in California.
Mrs. John N. Baldwin and her
mother, Mrs. Holcombe, expect to
leave next week for Waterville, N.
Y, for the summer
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles D. Beaton
have taken a cottage at Nagawicki,
w 49,, lol tuC oullllllCl, dllu expect TO
go there the middle Of June.
Mrs. Joseph Baldrige expects to
leave in about two weeks for Rock
land, Me-, to spend the summer as
us.al at her fathers summer home,
Clifford Lodge where her son,
Grafton, and daughter, Gwendoline
will be with her,
DR.. c. c. Allison and his family
stopped in Washington on their way
home from the south. The Allisons
will remain here until warm weather,
when they will go 10 Wyoming or
Colorado
Miss Hanna Kopald plans to go
east to spend the summer with her
sister, Gertrude, whose marriage in
June will take Eer to Buffalo to live.
Miss Hannas engagement ato Mr..
Richard Dcsbccker was announced re.
Gently