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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
HUN LOSSES WERE
HEAVIER THAN FOE
WAS ANTICIPATING

Omitted Press Leased Hire.)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN LORRAINE, April 23. - The
American official reprt on Satur-
days engagement northwest of
Toul follows:
1.-THE losses sustained by us
were no larger than could reason
ably be expected.
THE engagement was the most
severe in which the Americans
have partaken.
"The enemy's losses were much
greater than he had anticipated
as is evidenced by more than 800
dead in the American trenches
and in No Mans Land.
THE German wounded were
dragged back to the German
trenches and their number is I'M
known.
Heavy damage was inflicted by
Franco American artillery where
the lines join
Bravery the Rule.
The stories of wounded men re-
| veal the bravery of American
| groups in resisting and driving
off several times their number of
enemy troops in Saturdays en-
gagement.
One "deadman's curve" was de-
Tended by a machine gun squad
under constant and deadly Ger
man fire, keeping the line of COM
munications open.
A grenadier who was in the
front line, asked if he was scared,
replied
Didn't have time; | was too
busy fighting. | had two green
men with me, so | had to set them
an example. They were scared
at first, but | saw them watching
me-. Soon they were fighting like
veterans. We stuck until we were
all wounded"
| Fifty Germans ralded the Amer
lean sector north of st. Mihiel
between st. Mihiel and Verdun
last night.
The American artillery repulsed
the boches as they reached the
American barbed wire entangle-
ments.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
1Unlted Press Leased wire.)

NEW YORK, April 23.-The
Germans are preparing for a
third drive to be launched against
the British between Arras and the
Somme, according to official
British war Office reports received
here today.
THE operations Of the west
front are proceeding according to
plans evolved by Gen. Foch," the
communiQue states.
1T is extremely probable that
the British will have to meet this
third great enemy effort on a
similar scale"
The Teutons still greatly out
number the British, the report
states, adding that on March 81
Germany had SO surplus divisions
concentrated in the angle where
the British and French lines
Joined.
THE enemy is prepared to at
tack both fronts as a consequence
of his central positions and. excel
lent railway system. He can con-
centrate in Picardy against the
British or in the Champaign
against the French quicker than
the allies can concentrate re-
serves, says the reports.
British losses have been ex-
ceedingly heavy, the cable states,
and as result of a months con-
tinuous fighting Haig's army is
very tired"
The exact casualties cannot
he given.' the communique states.
They have fought an entire
month against German fofces
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
WHISKY SEIZED IN
ABANDONED BARN

County dry squad officers Mon
day seceized 70 cases OF whisky
in an abandoned barn near Ar
dena on the Indian reservation.
The booze is estimated to DE worth
more than $4,000 at present
prices. The seizure followed in
vestigation OF wagon seen COM
ing from the vacant barn. The
owners Of the booze have not been
found.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
n WAS ALMOST
READY TO give
UP ENTIRELY
Ernest Edmunds Takes
Tanlac and His Trou-
bles Are Overcome.

Statement after statement Is
now being made about Tanlac, the
medicine that is being SO widely
discussed and distributed thruout
the country, and which is accom-
plishing such surprising and graf
flying results in this city and VI
entity. Ernest Edmunds, who re-
sides at SO Cedar street, Seattle,
Wash, made special call at the
Bartel Drug Store, recently, to tell
of the wonderful results of Tanlac
in his case and said:
Il don't believe anybody ever
suffered worse from stomach
trouble than I did before | began
taking Tanlac- l have had 1t so
bad at times, during the past three
Or four years, that l thought l
would go distracted. simply
couldn't digest anything and what
little | did manage to eat, would
lay in my stomach like lead. My
food would invariably sour and
the gas formed by it would rise
up into my chest and almost
choke me, and the pain would al
most draw me double. Sometimes
when these spells struck me
felt like l could never pull thru.
couldn't half way do my work,
ard was barely able to pull thru
the day. Fortunately for me my
Job is one where I can work three
or four days and then lay off sew
eral days, otherwise | doubt IL |
could have held up as long as l
did. | slept so poorly that l got
NO rest and felt so bad, that
was just about ready to give up
entirely"
THE day my wife brought me
my first bottle of Tanlac 4 was
lying on the bed almost doubled
= up with pain. The first few doses
made me feel better. have TAX
On two bottles now, and have never
found anything like it, altho |
have tried about everything | ever
heard Of. have not had pain or
. sign of indigestion since / fin
ished my first bottle, my appetite
Is geat and | can eat and digest
anything | want. | sleep like a
rock every night and can do my
work as well as | ever could.
don't know how much I have
gained in weight but 7 do know
there's a wonderful change in my
feelings, and l am telling all my
friends what Tanlac has done fol
me. So | am speaking from ex.
perlence, when l say Tanlac is the
best medicine out, and | recon-.
mend it because | believe 1t will
help anybody who gives it a fail
trial"
There is no season Of the veal
when Tanlac can be taken to bet
ter advantage than right now. Ii
re spring-time all mankind, aft
Eweathering the storms Of win
ter, is in need Of an upbuildine
tonic. There is nothing more in
vigorating to a run down system
than Tanlac. 1t is not only sue
cessful in the treatment of trou
bles like Mr.. Edmunds suffered
from, but will prove invaluable t.
persons who are suffering from
the after effects of pneumonia
lagrippe. catarrh and bronchia
troubles. Tanlac is a powerful
reconstructive tonic and Away,
roduces most gratifying results.
Tanlac is sold In Tacoma b,
French Drug Co., under the per
sonal direction OF a special Tan
lac representative. - Advertise
ment.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
HEAVY CASUALTIES
AROUSE GERMANS

(Uhfted FrcsH Lensed Wtre.1
THE HAGUE. April 23.-The
German provincial towns are
greatly disturbed over the enor-
nous casualties resulting from
the west front offensive. The
papers are filled with obituaries.
As an example, during the first
five days of the offensive the
small frontier town of Bentheim
had 81 dead and Gronau had %.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
RICHTOFEN DOWNED
IN A titanic FIGHT

vorable position.
Richthofen ''flattened out"
about 500 feet over the British
lines. Rifles and machine guns
blazed away from the ground.
The baron's machine crashed to
the earth.
The Germans Immediately put
down a barrage around the plane.
continuing II all afternoon.
The British lieutenant who
crawled thru the barrage found
the body sitting upright in the
machine, bullet thru the heart.
Richthofen was buried last
evening with full honors.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
TWO DIE IN ACTION
(United Press Leased wire.)

(UnIted Press Leased wire.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 90.
Two killed in action, one died
of wounds, four died of disease.
nine wounded severely and 81
wounded slightly, made the total
Of 43 casualties reported to the
war department by Gen. Pershing.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16
Police Commissioner
Wants to Join Police
Public Safety Union

Organization OF the Omaha po-
licsman's union has proceeded to
the point that an application for
membo. lip has even come from
Pc".ce Commissioner ]. Dean Ring
err. But Ringer will be unable to
become a member because he has
never been regularly enrolled as a
patrolman.
Seventy of the l6S police officers
in the department have already en-
rolled with the new organization,
witch is to he known as the Omaha
Police Public Safety union. All
mc.,bers o. dice department
from tie chef downward viii be
eliE". e. 1t is planned to affiliate
with tic h--rerican Federation OF
Labor and to obtain charter from
that body. Police officers describe
the union as a mutual welfare"
{ on.
A meetn g to perfect the organiza-
ton will be held at the Labor tenn
pie on "Wednesday evening, Sep
TENDER 8. Four patrolmcn on duty
Fl IN 4 until midnight, an ear Ter
meeting will be held Wednesday
in tie Labor temple.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16
DRAGNET CAST
FOR COLORADO
AUTO BANDITS
Eastern Half Of State to Be
Covered in Search of
Men Who Shot Six
Officers in Fights.

Denver, Sept. lS.-While the Den,
yer police prepared tonight to cope
with another possible outbreak OF
terrorism by the automobile bandits
who engaged the police of Colorado
Springs and Denver in five gun
fights yesterday afternoon and last
night, killing two officers and
wounding four, Superintendent
Frank Adams of the state constabu-
larry arranged dragnet to cover the
eastern half of the state and prevent
the escape of the bandits, who are
sought in connection with the rob
berry on July 10 OF Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas train at Koch, Kan.
Rendezvous Watched.
In Denver guard of detectives
was maintained about the house on
Capitol hill believed to be the rem
devious of the bandits while special
details were scattered throughout
the city. At police headquarters
four automobile loads of policemen
armed with rifles were held in readi-
ness for any emergency.
Superintendent Adams ordered
two companies of constabulary, one
stationed on the Coiorado-Wyoming
border and the other on the New
Mexico Colorado border, to begin
an encircling movement of Denver
so as to prevent the alleged train
robbers, who still are believed to be
in this vicinity, from escaping.
Four of the alleged bandits still
are believed to be at liberty in the
vicinity of Denver and Chief of Po-
lice Hamilton Armstrong expressed
the belief that with the coming OF
darkness they would emerge from
their hiding place and resume their
mad automobile dashes which ter
rorized the city last night.
Seven in Custody.
Seven persons, four men and three
women, are in custody as a result of
last nights clashes with the police.
They are:
Frank Lewis, arrested early today
while speeding toward Colorado
Springs in a taxicab.
Roy Sheriff., captured early today
after a gunfght with a posse south
of Denver.
Eva De Morris, sister of Lewis,
arrested with Sheriff.,
Lloyd Dale, arrested today at Sc
dalia.
John Babb, stepfather Of Lewis,
arrested last night in a raid of a
house on Capitol hill, Denver.
Mrs. Babb, mother of Lewis, arr
rested with Babb.
Mrs. Frank Lewis, arrested with
the Babbs.
Dale, according to the police, was
released this summer from the Mis-
souri, penitentiary, where he was
known under the name Of Erdway.
my mother (Mrs. John Babb,
who is held in Denver for investiga-
tion) is innocent of any knowledge
of my waywardness. She was a good
woman and knows nothing of these
things"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16
Casualty List.

The following casualties are re-
ported by the commanding general
of the American expeditionary
forces: Killed in action, 4; missing
in action, 80; wounded severely, IS;
wounded, degree undetermined, 5;
died from accident and other causes,
2. Total, 80.
Killed in Action.
1t. Emil H. Lauterwasser New York,
n Y.
Joseph r. Desmarias, Fall River, Mass.
Lawrence S. Rawdon. Malta, Mont.
Vernet Durward Salsgiver, Pittsburgh.
Died of Accident.
Charles H. Hill, Lambertvllle, n. ].
Harold Charles Hubert Shreveport. n. 7.
Wounded Severely.
1t. Harold E. MCGlasson, Lincoln, Neb.
Wounded, Degree Undetermined.
Charlie r. Bonham. Beaver City, Neb
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16
NC CORM|Ck HAD
LIVED IN MISERY
SIXL0NG YEATS
Finally Takes TanIaC and flc:.Y
Feels Fife Gains IS
Pounds.

II have actually gained Is
pounds since l started on Tanlac
and never felt better in my life
than l do today" said Frank Nc
Cormick, decorator and paper
hanger living at 1861 South
Nineteenth street, Omaha, the 9TH
er day.
"For six long years." he contin-
ued, ~ had been going down hill
and was soon in such a dreadful
condition that I don't know what
l should have done if my cousin in
Lincoln hadn't told me about the
good Tanlac had done her. My
stomach was in such an awful fix
that everything I would eat seemed
to form a hard lump, then it would
sour and bloat me up with gas that
pressed so on my heart / would be-
come alarmed at the way it would
flutter and palpitate. In fact many
a time my heart acted so strangely
that | was afraid I should die Of
heart trouble. My liver was inactive
and my tongue was furred over like
a piece of velvet. I would get 50
dizzy at times that I couldn't see
straight, and would be so nervous
and restless at night that could
hardly sleep; many a time I would
roll and toss all night long without
once closing my eyes and l would
feel worse in the morning than
did on going to bed. I went down
till | lost 35 pounds and was simply
miserable from one days end to
another.
"After / got hold of Tanlac
soon saw that it was just what
needed. Before l had finished my
first bottle my appetite picked
right up and l could eat anything
| wanted and all wanted, too. My
digestion improved, and as I kept
on taking the medicine that gas
stopped forming, those dizzy spells
passed off and my heart quit pal
pitatirg and never bothers me now
at all My liver is active, my
tongue has cleared off and when I
60 to bed | sleep sound as log all
night long. AS | said before I have
gained Is pounds in weight and
feel so full of energy that have
concluded that Tanlac is the best
medicine in the world for people
who have troubles like ! had.
Tanlac is sold in Omaha by Sher-
man & Mcconnell Drug Co., cor
ner 18th and Dodge streets; 18th
and Harvey streets; Owl Drug Co.,
18th and Farnam streets; Harvard
Pharmacy, oath and Farnam
streets; northeast corner 10th and
Farnam streets; West End Phar-
macy, 49th and Dodge streets,
under the personal direction of Q
Special Tanlac Representative, and
in South Omaha by Forrest 4
Meany Drug Co.--Advertisement
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16
ALLIES WILL REFUSE
ENEMY'S PLEA FOR
ROUND TABLE TALK
Continued from Page One.)


who stand behind him is to convince
the Austrian and German people
that their governments really desire
peace, a course made necessary by
the highly dangerous and rebellious
state of mind in Germany, and par
ticularly in Austria.
This could be accomplished speed
lily and effectively, it is pointed out
by officials. here, by an open deciar-
ance by Berlin and Vienna of the
IA points laid down by President
Wilson as a proper basis of peace.
But this would sound the death
alton of full and unqualified accept
knell of pan-Germanism; would
mean the disagreement of huge
tract of territory, enormous indem-
mites and valuable privileges and
monopolies which the predatory
central powers have wrung from
Russia, not to dwell upon the recess
sation of Alsace-Lorraine, whose
wrongful seizure half century ago
President Wilson has solemnly de-
clared must be righted.
Another purpose to be served by
such discussions as Baron Burian
proposes, it is considered, has been
detected and exposed in almost
every one of the preceding Ger
man peace moves. While the word
discussions" has been substituted
for the conference" originally
proposed, officials here without the
slightest hesitation, identity the pur-
pose as another round table" con-
ference, such as at Brest-Litovok
marked the ruin of Russia. Dis
cussions" with all the delegates as
sembled in one place and open to
close personal influence and address
would not differ very much from a
formal gathering around table and
in fact might be more dangerous.
So it was declared today that
the United States would have none
of them at this stage of the war,
or at any other, in advance of bind
ing acceptance by the Germanic
powers of the conditions proposed
by President Wilson. With that as
a basis, there would be no objec-
ton to any proper consideration
and discussion of even highly i'm
portant details of the peace agree
ment.
With much interest the govern
ment here notes the statement that
the vatican and all neutral nations
would be notified of the peace offer.
Officials here presume that this is
an attempt to enlist sympathy for
the peace movement in those quar-
tiers, as the fact is recognized that
this proposition. which amounts to
invitations to the vatican and the
neutral states to participate in the
peace conferences, would be fatter-
ing to their pride. The attitude of
the Catholic elements of entente
populations might we'll be regarded
as potent.
Ostensibly the aim of Baron Btu
rian is to reduce the war issue to
the simplest form by a process of
elimination of many points of only
sentimental importance, and by
agreement upon certain broad altru-
istic principles of self-evident pro-
pricty and wisdom as affecting in
ternational relations. But officials
who consider themselves acquainted
with the methods of German diplo-
macy say they recognize concealed
design to include some very substan-
tial doctrine in some apparently
harmless and highminded state
ments of principle.
It is known from more or less Of
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16

did not mt each other. The speakers
spoke over one another's head.
misunderstanding Created.
"On the other hand was the pub
licity and the ground of these dis
cussions, which robbed them of the
possibility of fruitful progress. In
all public statements of this nature
a form of eloquence is used which
reckons with the effect at great dis
tances and on the masses.
Consciously or unconscjously,
however, one thereby increases the
distance of the opponents concep-
ton, produces misunderstanding,
which take root and are not re-
moved, and makes the frank ex-
change of ideas more difficult
Every pronouncement of leading
statesmen is directly after its publ
cation and before the authoritative
quarters of the opposite side can
reply to it, made the subject of
passionate or exaggerated discussion
OF irresponsible elements.
But anxiety lest they should en-
danger the interests of their arms
by unfavorably influencing feeling
at home and lest they premature
ly betray their own intimate inten-
tons, also causes the responsible
statesmen themselves to strike a
higher tone and stubbornly to ad-
here to extreme standpoints.
Suggests Exchange of Views.
"If, therefore, an attempt is made
to see whether the basis exists for
an understanding, calculated to de-
liver Europe from the catastrophe
of the suiciday continuation of the
struggle, then. in any case, another
method should be chosen which
renders possible a direct, verbal dis
cuSsion between the representatives
of the governments, and only be-
tween them. The opposing concep-
tions of individual belligerent states
would likewise have to form the
subject of such a discussion for mu-
tual enlightenment, as we'll as the
general principles that shall serve
as the basis for peace and the future
relations of the states to one anoth-
er, and regarding which, in the first
place, an accord can be sought with
a prospect OF success.
AS soon as an agreement was
reached on the fundamental prin-
ciples an attempt would have to be
made in the course of the discussions
concretely to apply them to indi-
vidual peace questions and thereby
bring about their solution.
I'VE venture 10 hope that there
will be no objection on the part of
any belligerents to such an exchange
of views. The war activities would
experience no interruption. The dis
cussions, too, would only go so far
as was considered by the pa. tici-
pants to offer a prospect of success.
No disadvantages would arise there
from for the states represented. Far
from harming, such an exchange of
views could only be useful to the
cause of peace.
What id not succeed the first
time can be repeated, and perhaps
it has already at least contributed
to the Qualification of views. Noun
tains of old misunderstanding
might be removed and many new
things perceived. Streams of pent-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16

fetal German declarations that the
central powers are willing and
anxious to enter a league of nations
to make future wars impossible, and
also to guarantee the freedom of
the seas and the right of self-deter-
mination of oppressed peoples and
immunity from seizure of private
property at sea.
But all these altruistic principles,
it is expected, would be bent to
serve German purposes, if the dis
cussions" were to bear the fruit ex-
pected by the authors of this latest
peace offensive. The league of ma
tons involves international disarma-
ment according to the German idea
under scale proportional so that
the central powers would continue to
be dominant from the military point
of view. The freedom of the seas
from the German view would in
volve the abandonment by Great
Britain of Gibraltar, Malta and Suez
and other great naval bases and for
tiHAatioIo upOH WiiSIi uSpChuo tllS
life of the British navy and the Sc
curity of the British lines of COM
munication with India and her other
colonial possessions. The immunity
from seizure of merchant shipping
would make impossible such d splen-
did blockade as the British.
Finally it is considered that the
sole purpose of the apparent accep-
lance of the principle of the right
of self-determination of small ma
tons is to accomplish the defeat of
that proposition, Germany, officials
feel, does not contemplate a relin-
quishment of her control of Alsace
Lorraine, nor Poland, nor Schles-
wig-Holsten, nor even the border
states which she has wrested from
Russia ,>and she feels that the surest
way to maintain her hold is to de-
feat this proposition of self-deter-
mination by making the indepen-
dence of Ireland and India a con-
dition of its acceptance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16
il'e Perfect Baby
Of The Future
Asirnple Method That Has . Wonderful
Influence upon The Future Infant.

Before the arrival Of baby knowing women
for over half . century have used with
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Mothers Friend.
Here Is most wonderful application for
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By Its use the anxious weeks OF pregnancy
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BY the regular use Of Mothers Friend
during the period the muscles expand easier
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Mothers Friend Is prepared after the for.
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Book" There Is a wealth of instruction
and comfort to be derived In reading this
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only for yourself but will make you helpful
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bottle Of Mothers Friend from the drug
gist, and thus fortify yourself against pain
and discomfort.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16
Red Cross Will Support
Captive American Nurses

Washington, Sept. l5.-American
nurses captured by the enemy will
be supported during captivity by the
American Red Cross it was an
nounced today at headquarters of
the organization here.
This decision was reached, it was
stated, after the War departments
announcement that under the law
army nurses, if captured, could not
he paid, because technically they
are not on duty.