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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
KAISER'S PLEA WILL NOT
LESSEN REMOVAL DEMAND.

London, Nov. 4. - The German
socialists are not satisfied with the
emperor's proclamation issued Sum
day, according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Copenhagen.
The Vorwaerts says:
The manifesto will NOT in any
way change the standpoint of the
socialists nor weaken the demand
for abdication."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
RIOT ENSUES WHEN
GERMAN LACKS PEP"

Chicago, Nov. A scene bor-
dering upon = riot broke up re-
hearsal of the Chicago Grand Opera
company orchestra today, inter
rupted an impromptu celebration OF
the Austrian surrender, and resulted
in the arrest of William F. Lange,
a naturalized German, who had been
playing the fourth French horn.
Italian and French members of the
orchestra attacked Lange when, it is
charged, he did not put enough en-
thrsiasm into the playing of the ma
tional anthems of the allies. He
was turned over to the federal au-
thorities for investigation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
President Wilson Will Not
Cast His Vote This Election

= Washington, Nov. 4.-President
Wilson tonight cancelled his plans
for going to his home in Princeton,
N. J., tomorrow to cast his vote in
the congressional election. The
decision of the president was made
known by Secretary Tumulty.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
WAR PROJECTS GO ON
DESPITE MUCH PEACE TALK.

Washington, Nov. 4.-The War
department today authorized the
construction division to proceed
with war projects estimated to cost
$6,630,000. They include IS bar
racks and three buildings at the
coast defense station, San Diego,
Cal,.- and six warehouses at the
Preside of San Francisco, Cal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
NEW YORK CELEBRATES
SURRENDER CT AUSTRIA.

New York, Nov. 4.-Sirens set up
to give warning of enemy air raids
led to a chorus of victory here to-
day when factory and steamboat
whistles and bells on churches and
public buildings Joined them in cele-
bration of the official announcement
that Austria was out of the war.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
IoWans Return Home,
Many of Them Wounded
Before Chateau ThierrU

Des Moines, Nov. 4.-(Special
Telegram.)-Showing results of
severe fighting, 1876 wounded men,
many of them members of the
l6sth Iowa regiment, reached
Fort Des Moines hospital today.
Not few of the men returned
with arms and legs gone. Others
are suffering from gas and shell
shock. The Iowans in party were
most Of them wounded in fighting
around Chateau Thierry.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
IN R | E F
I3siSz1 5 ! {; : ! y
BITS OF NEWS
UKRANIANS TAKE OVER
GALICIAN ADMINISTRATION.

Amsterdam, Nov. A Lemberg
dispatch by way of Vienna reports
that armed Ukrainian forces occu-
pied the Lemberg public Offices.
took possession OF the railways and
the telephone and telegraph serv-
ices and disarmed the soldiers of
other nationalities.
The Ukranian national council,
il is added, states that it has taken
over the administration in eastern
Galicia.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05

Italians Rejoice. -
In decreeing Austria's surrender
terms, the supreme war council at
Versailles has followed this outline
closely, but have enlarged on it.
Right of occupation of these vacated
provinces is stipulated; but it is to
be noted that for the time being
civil government is to be admins
tered by existing local civil authori-
ties in cooperation with occupying
garrisons. This means the whole
question of final disposition of the
territory involved is left to be set
tied at the peace table.
Italian military officers here
thrilled with pride tonight over evil
dence of final victory contained in
the armistice program.
1T is a triumph" said General
Guglielmotti, military attache at the
Italian embassy, (which hardly 10
days ago seemed far distant, but in
which Italy and her soldiers have
always had an unshakable faith,
even in the saddest moments of last
year, when they were compelled to
give way before the crushing su-
periority of the German, Austrian,
Bulgarian and Turkish forces.
How Accomplished.
From a purely military point of
view three causes have, in my opin-
ion, especially contributed to the tri-
umph sof today, the choice of the
right moment, the efficient direction
of the attacks, and rapidity of exc
cution.
The happy successes of the allies
on the French front, the withdrawal
Of Bulgaria and Turkey from the
war, left Austria, although with
forces greatly superior, alone
against US. The bad weather and
the snow had already begun to
make the movements and the pro-
visioning of the armies in the noun
tain zone rather difficult. The same
effect was produced in the plains
near the sea by the violent rains,
which caused the streams to rise
and overflow the lowlands.
Such conditions narrowed the
Italian front of attack and, if in a
general way they favored the de-
tense, in the concrete case they
made the attack easier because such
difficulties made it impossible for
the enemy to counter attack sue
cessfully on Our flanks and gave
US an opportunity to concentrate
greater forces in narrower space.
From the very first moment the
intention had been evident of divid
ing the Austrian army in such a
way as to separate the mountain
section from that of the plains and
possibly cut the retreat of the Aus
trian troops. Hence the rapid and
vigorous push towards Vittorio
Veneto, Ponte Nellie -Alpi, Longa-
rome, which promptly attained { e
first aim. Hence the rapid advance
in Val Sugana, Grigno and Castel
Nuovo. k
"On the 24th of October the mi
tial bombardment was begun. To-
day, November 4, the Italian flag
flies over the castle of Trento and
on the tower of St. Guisto a,
Trieste, and at 3 o'clock this after
noon an armistice became effective,
the clauses of which mean the un-
conditional surrender OF the
enemy"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
TRAITORS IN AUSTRIA
TO BE GIVEN FREEDOM.

London, Nov. Avery person
imprisoned during the war for Sc
ditious utteranees against the state
and the conduct of the war and for
high treason and rebellion will be
released, it is officially announced
in Vienna, according to Central
News dispatch from Amsterdam to-
daY.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
Planes Attack Huns
HanqarS East of Metz

London, Nov. 4.-Railways and
airplane hangers in the region east
of Metz were attacked today by the
British independent air force. says
an official statement issued this aft,
erroon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
Italians Have Landed
Men at Zara, DaImatia

London. Nov. 4.-The Italians
have landed at Zara. Dalmatia, ac-
cording to dispatch to the Central
News from Rome.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
TERMS FOR GERMANY Y
Wilson Sends Cable
To Italy Rejoicing
OUer Great Victory

Washington. Nov. 4.-President
Wilson today sent the following
message to the king of Italy:
MAY l not say how deeply and
sincerely the people of the United
States rejoince that the soil of
Italy is delivered from her en-
emies. In their name I send to
your majesty and the great Ital-
ian people the most enthusiastic
congratulations.
WOODROW WILSON,"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
THE WEATHER.

For Nebraska: Showers Tues
day with cooler in west portion;
Wednesday unsettled and colder,
probably rain in east.
Hourly TemnernImren
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05

reports tonight.
The line of the Sambre canal was
stormed and the British made an
advance of more than three miles
beyond it to the east.
By Associated Press.
with the American Army on the
Sedan Front, Nov. AIN the face
of stubborn opposition the Ameri-
cans took and held firmly the wood
ed heights south of Beaumont, the
last German stronghold west of the
Meuse. The advance carried the
lines forward for an average gain of
five kilometers.
The forces on the heights are
now only about seven and one-h:. #
miles from Carignan on the Mesie-
res-Metz railroad and about nine
miles from Sedan, bringing both
places within range of the allied
shell fire.
The days work may be said to
have been complete 1t was the prin-
cipal phase of the American opera
ton since the neck of the German
Literal communications between the
armies to the north and west was
narrowed to the strangling point.
Strike Lines Apex.
The attacking forces to the right
and left advanced with less speed
than at the center, where an Am
erican division crashed through des-
pite the most stubborn opposition
offered by the Germans since the
beginning of the offensive. The
apex of the line was driven to the
heights, which are vital, affording
dominating positions for the artil-
lery.
Patrols went into and beyond the
town itself, but its possession is
unnecessary as long as the hills are
held by the Americans. The Ger.
mans cannot fight over the terrain
north-northeast because of the lack
of communicating lines there. They
must fall back as soon as the Am
erican artillery breaks up the re-
naming railroads, even if the main
lines from Sedan to Metz are not
smashed first.
The military authorities were
overjoyed with the results of the
days fighting, declaring that it may
even spell the end of the present
operation and that any others to
the north, westward or directly
eastward would constitute entirely
new operations.
On Verdup Front.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05

Full text of armistice terms
will be found on page IL.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
CONDITIONS FOR ARMISTICE WITH
TEUTONS MADE BY ALLIED NATIONS
Means Complete Surrender; If Ac-
cepted Will End Conflict; Sub
stantially Wilson Terms.
BY Associated Press.

Washington, Nov. 4.-Terms which Germany may
obtain immediate armsce and end the completed
and signed today in Paris Secretary Lansing announced
the fact tonight in brief statement adding only that
plee diplomatic harmony had been achieved by allied and
American conferees at Versailles.
1t be stated authortatvey that the TERMS yet
given out for publication, follow closely those under which
AuraHungary surrendered today and passed of
war; leaving Germany to stand alone against the world.
SOON GOES TO GERMANY.
Presumption in official circles here tonight was that the
spulatons would be in the hands of the German govern
ment in less than "a hours they accepted reply
settling the issue of further fighting also be
received within that time The uncertainty caused President
Wilson to cancel his proposed trip New Jersey to vote liz
the congressional elections. #s
Although the complete text of the historic Versailles
document probably is only the cables for Washing
ton its substance reported fully and approved by the
president before the final draft prepared.
Secretary Lansing announced the agreement tonight
OF what would be required to preserve the supremacy Of
American and allied and render Germany powerless
to renew hostilites.
SUBMIT TERMS AT ONCE.
Secretary Lansing made this statement
According to official report received this evening
the terms of the aristce be offered to Germany have
sentaves of the allies and the United States in Paris The
report further states that diplomatic unity has been COM
petey achieved under the conditions of utmost HARMONY
1t is understood the terms be submitted to Ger
many Immediately and that their publication in full will
follow shortly The statement has been authorized that
the drastic conditions under which Austria dropped out of
tne war today furnish accurate indication of their nature
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
On Verdun Front.
By Associated Press.

On veTQun FROM.
With the American Army North
west of Verdun, Nov. 1.-The Amer
ican troops late this afternoon ad-
vanced their lines both east and
west, occupying Laneuville, direct
ly opposite Stenay, and taking Les
Grandes Armoises, on the left.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
YANKS in HOT BATTLE:
HAIG CAPTURES 10000
Americans Hold Last Enemy
Stronghold West of Meuse;
British Battering 30
Mile Front.
BULLETIN.

London, Nov. 4.-Breaking deep
ly into the enemy positions along
the 30-mile front today, the British
captured more than 10000 prisoners
and 200 guns, Field Marshal Haig
reports tonight.
The line of the Sambre canal was
stormed and the British made an
advance of more than three miles
beyond it to the east.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Enforce the E.ight-Foot Law!

If there is one law or ordinance more
dlsregarded than any other in the entire
category of regulative measures, it is the
so-called eight-foot law requiring drivers
of automobiles or horse-drawn vehicles to
stop or give a clearance of at least eight
feet when passing streetcar taking on
or discharging passengers. Any traveller
around this city is lucky not to find in
his personal experiences violations of this
each day
Magistrate House, who presides over
the traffic court, has done we'll to call at
tention to the violations proved by the
records. There is no reason save habitual
carelessness or direct and definite refusal
to obey the laws why this wise and proper
measure should not be lived up to. The
person boarding or getting off streetcar
in tangle Of traffic is particularly help
less. Hurried, perhaps confused, there is
scant chance for him TO guard himself
against the motorcar coming up from be-
hind. The driver, on the other hand, who
can look ahead, has all the advantage
and all the duty to protect the pedestrian
and himself from accident
The question presented is one of a few
seconds delay for the vehicle, contrasted
with loss of life or limb for the unfort-
unate streetcar passenger. Only the
most careless or the most callous driver
can hesitate when faced with such a
choice. The law is good enough, sound
enough, desirable enough to be more thor
oughly enforced than it has yet been.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Cast-of Clothing Wanted

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: There is one feature of the distress
caused by the present zero weather that is. l
am afraid, much overlooked l refer to the
appalling need of clothing tkat the poor are
experiencing.
We Of the Bowery Mission come especially
into contact with this particular feature be-
cause of our continued efforts in the direc-
ton of getting men work. The fact is album
dainty proved that the great majority of men
Will work if they have opportunity, and it
is within our personal knowledge that at the
present time there are hundreds of men
working at outside jobs insuficiently clad.
Many men are wearing cast-otf summer cloth
ing and underwear, and some have no under
wear at all. The result, of course, isf in
many cases, physical breakdown and a visit
to the hospital.
trouble you with this communication be-
cause it is within the power of so many of
your readers to assist us in overcoming this
difficulty without in any sense diverting help
from the various funds for war sufferers a
thing which is uppermost in all minds at the
present time. They can do so by sending us
mems clothing of all kinds that they have no
use for any longer. We shall be glad to
send to any part of the city for parcels of
this kind Our address is 227 Bowcry, and
our telephone number is Orchard 3073
If your readers have no clothing of this
kind, then, of course we shall not object tn
money, but we would prefer the former.
J. c. HALLIMOND, Superintendent
New York, Jan. 3, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Home Rule for Lithuania

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Please allow me a little space to tell
your readers truth about Lithuanla and
Lithuanians. The letter of W. O. Gorsh, a
Polish national leader Of America, which ap-
peared in the columns of your paper on De-
cember %, is full o. misstatements.
According to Nh Gorski: "Thc statute of
Lubin of 1862 ratfying this union was
sanctioned by representatives of both coun-
tries. 1t is therefore ridiculous to state that
it met with opposition in Lithuania. History
does not make any record Of any annulment,
or even attempts at annulment, of the Volun-
tary Polish-Lithuanian union"
This is not fact, but only a Polish saying.
History shows that Llthuania and the Lithua-
mans, being united with Poland, were forced
by the Polish government and the clergy to
use the Polish language in Lithuanian
schools. In those centuries Lithuania was
Polandized. When Lithuania fell into the
hands of Poland she was forced to build Pol
sh schools. Because of the persecution Of
the Lithuanian language most of the talented
Lithuanians, like Adom Mckevez, Lindvik
kondrotovicz and Teodor Narbutas, cont
pelled to write in the Polish language. Take,
for instance the great soldier Rascinszko.
He was Lithuanian son. w. O. GOrskl ought
TO know that the Polish Bishop Brztovsk ad-
dressed letters to all Lithuanians in 1894
Prayers and anthems in the Lithuanian lam
guage were prohibited.
The Poles always their utmost efforts to
diminish the power of Lithuania; are. .trying
to convince the American press, with the aid
Of their most influential men, that there is no
such nation as the Lithuanians; that the
Lithuanians are the same people as the Poles
and that Lth,.anans should live friendly to-
gether with them.
We Llthua4..ans are the people of sep
arate nation, the uphoders of the famous old
Sanscrit tongue in Europe. We have our own
part, tradition, songs, history; we are not
Teutons nor Savs. Lithuania and Ithua-
Lithuania wants it's freedom. Furthermore
it wants to be free state.
In accordance with its historic principle the
United States expresses its profound SYM
pathy with the aspirations OF the people OF
Lithuania for the complete home rule Of thei,
country. AS we'll stated by President Wilson
every nation or people has right that is in
aicnablc to govern itself and to determine
what shall be the form of government. W,
also express the hope that at the congress O.
nations which must follow the close of tn,
present war the demand of the Lithuanian
people for home rule shall receive recognition
and approval. MICHAEL STAKENAS,
| The United Lithuanian press correspondent
Brooklyn, Jan. A. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07

attempt to establish a new and better
league of nations after the war.
We have got to fight the German until
he abandons his prey, until he quits his
attempt to enslave the Frenchman, the
Belgian, the Italian, the Pole, the Serb
and the Lithuanian. TO stop fighting now
is to surrender, as the Russian has found
out to his sorrow. We are all of US fight
ing for our lives, and our lives were never
in greater danger than at this precise
moment. 1t may be necessary to stop
fighting and explain why we are defend
ing our lives, but the delay makes neither
for effective fighting on our part nor tor
weaker efforts on the part of our foe.
We are not going to conquer or cure
the German by words. If we win at all
it will be by our artillery and not by our
phrases. Mr.. Lloyd George has done well
what he should never have had to do,
and what it never should be necessary to
do again.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Why We Are at War

/
Sir: 1t seems to me that we are befoggino
reason for entering the war We are
not in it from altruistc motives or for the
salvation of democracy, the restitution of
Alsace-Lorraine to France, the preservation
of the British Empire, the punishment of
Germany for the rape of Belgium Poland
and Serbia, or for its atrocities, for we paid
no heed to such humane considerations for
more than two years, and could we have saved
ourselves from war by binding ourselves to
what was being done in Europe against all
the laws of God and man we would have
done and have "kept out of the war"
1t only when our own safety and
existence were seen to be in danger that
we declared war against Germany. We are
fighting for right to exist and to pursue
our business the high seas without sub
lection to piracy, murder and interference
from any power claiming such right. Our
peaceful existence depends upon our enforce
ment of this right. Otherwise only by the
maintenance of vast naval force and an
army of such size that invasion would no
impossible could our safety and the freedom
to live wish be guaranteed Only nv
the complete defeat of the powers claiming
the right of piracy and murder on the high
seas can we hope for peaceful future.
CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.
Bristol. Il. l., Dec. %. 1917.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-07
Germany:s Appeal to Science
Outbreak Of Prussanism Rcuersion Law Of the Jungle

tive struggle, detectives. unfertunat.. 4
handicapped fall out
The law Of variability. wfateva.
cause, never ceases 20 act Those ths. ..N "a
in the wrong direction suffer and fail. -. ~
that vary in the right direction nross wy
and the more they vary in this direct;as " g
more they prosper. But variation in ~ ~
brings IN new problems and new facto,.~-
is no longer question Of the surv;v.,
brute force, but one of force armed ~
the moral consciousness. The question. -, :.
fraternity, equality, liberty play pron;..'
parts Selfshness IS tempered by altr.~'
instinct is guided by reason, power is -
ded to conscience, and the strong ia
iong run prevail in proportion to the;, =
herencc to justice and truth.
The Fruit of Material Efficiency
During the last half century or NOR. a.
Germans have yared or developed ren,s
ably in the direction Of organization Il
material efficiency, state supremacy, and Il
on. but they have varied less than o..
neiGhbors in the direction OF true culsn~
of humanism, altruism, refinement Of su;,,
political liberty and Of the other yrss
that make for. 4 noble, dsinterested peos.
Hence their advantage in THIS war, 20 4,
as military efficiency is concerned, and IN,
disadvantage, so Ear as the sympathy ,,s|
good opinion of the rest Of the world ~
concerned. They are the fittest to sur..
by reason of sheer power; they are the lsss
fit by reason Of sheer brutality-their MI
ancc upon the predatory methods and 4.
lower aims Of earlier times. They have "a.
forth to battle in the spirit of their 4,
cestral Huns, and in many ways in q ws,x
spirit-without dccency, without honor, y;s
out manlness, without true valor ard VII.
all the vices of towards and assassins ajL
den under the mask OF an efficient mlihr
system. military expedicncv,' what erms
are committed in thy name BY this sir
they conuuer--crush shing the weak, def;,,
the pure, destroying art, plllaglng treasuris
Wreckers of cathedrals, destroyers Of lbr]
ries despoilers of cemeteries. slayers Of d
men and women and children and priests sr]
nuns. barbarians by instinct. pirates al
incendiaries by practice, terrorists by tran
no. slaves by habit and bullies by prosessie
void of humility, void Of spirituality, resours
ful but not inventive thorough but rot o,s|
nal. docile as individuals but brazen and 4
FAINT as a nation -ravishing. manning, poispl
ing. burning, sufocating, deporting, enslsl
inc. murderers Of she very soul Of a pecps
so far as it is in their power-the NJ
of the world can live on terms Of peace az
good viii with them only after they hsH
drained to the dregs the bitter cup OF nL,
tary defeat They have put such hidsoEs
such a hellish face upon war that the Gs'
man government should henceforth be des
mated, not By the adjective Imperial butt
i the adjective .'infernal."