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Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
WOOD BIDS
G00D.bYETO
HIS DIVISION
''0rders Stand; We Must All
Help Win the War;" He
Tells Men He Has
Trained.

An American City, June 2-"These
orders stand and the only thing to do
is to do the best we can--all of lis
to win the war" were the words Of
Major General Leonard Wood in a
farewell address to the officers of his
late command, the 89th division of the
national army, which he trained at
Camp Funston, for overseas service.
General Wood had expected to go to
France at the head of this division,
but at the last moment was ordered
to Camp Funston to train another
division.
At the request of the troops, it was
learned today, General Wood, before
departing for Camp Funston, review
ed the division at an army camp here
and made a brief speech to the
officers.
Expected to Lead Division.
81 will not say good bye" he told
them, and those who heard him said
his voice trembled with emotion,
"but consider it temporary separa-
tion-at least I hope so. I have
worked hard with you and you have
done excellent work. | had hoped
very much to take you over to the
other side. In fact, l had no intima-
ton, direct or indirect, of any change
of orders until we reached here the
other night.
"The orders have been changed
and l am to 60 back to Funston. I
will leave for there tomorrow morn
ing. | wish you the best of luck and
ask you to keep up the high standard
of conduct and work you have in the
past. There isn't anything to be
said.
Ready to Obey Orders.
"The orders stand and the only
thing to do is the best we can-all of
us-to win the war. That's what we
are here for; that's what you have
been trained for. l shall follow your
career with the deepest interest, with
just as much interest as though /
were with you. Good luck and God
bless YOU"
Those who witnessed the review
said the troops were never more on
their metal and gave an exhibition
of perfect marching for the benefit of
their former commander.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
Aviation Camp Adjutant
Instantly Killed in Fall

Indianapolis, June 2.-Captain Ed
win P. Webb, adjutant OF an aviation
camp here, was instantly killed and
Major Guy Geaheart, commandant Of
the camp. was slightly injured, when
the machine in which they were maxi
ing fight fell this afternoon. No
cause was assigned for the accident.
Although officers of the camp re-
fused to assign a cause for the ac-
cident, spectators who viewed the fall
say the men, who were circling above
base ball park and dropping base
balls with ribbons attached, dropped
one, the ribbon of which caught in
the mechanism of the machine. The
plane then went into a spinning nose
dive and could not be righted in time
to avert the fatal fall.
Toronto, June Cadet Hector
Strathy Miller of Winning was in
stantly killed in collision in midair
between two biplanes near the Lea
Side airdrome today.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
HUN PEACE
OFFENSIVE
IN OFF|NG
Even Pan-German Press Now
Advocates Statement Of
Terms Urged Formerly
Only by Radicals.

Amsterdam. June 2.-"Is new Ger
man peace offensive coming?" is the
question now being asked i'll political
circles. What has often been advo-
Gated in German socialistic and rad
ical organs, namely, that Germany
should clearly and unequivocally state
the terms upon which she would be
willing to make peace is now urged
even by the pan-German Kreuz lei
tthlg, which judges the present mo-
ment as most opportune one.
Urges Public Proposal.
The newspaper says with emphasis
it is not peace offer, but a peace
offensive that is wanted, and it be-
lieves the present German military
successes cannot fail to add weight
to any concrete proposal Germany
may make now, only, the newspaper
adds, it should be made publicly.
There need be no apprehension, the
newspaper declared, that peace Of
fensive would weaken Germany's po-
litical position, and it argues that
those who would leave the entire issue
TO the sword take too narrow view
of this war and show no understand
ing of its political consequences.
Threatens Internal Unity.
The Kreuz Zeitung goes on, point
ing out that the absence of a definite
government peace program is destroy
ing internal unity while the lack of
political activity in the interval be-
tween battles tends to hamper the
confidence of the war and to all sorts
of rumors about dsagreements be-
tween the government and the army
commanders.
The government is called upon by
the kreuz Zeitung to appoint imme-
diately committee consisting of a
leading economist, a colonial expert,
representatives of the army and the
navy and an international jurist under
the presidency, of an able diplomatist
to work out a complete peace pro-
gram; but it urges that time presses
and that it must be done quickly.
Demands Peace Offensive.
Amsterdam, June 2-Vorwerts,
commenting on the Kruez lettings
peace offensive manifesto, complains
that it is a pan-German attempt at a
favorable moment of military success
to tie the German government per-
manently to the pan-German an
nexation program, and adds:
"Neverthless, we also demand from
the government peace offensive and
an immediate announcement of its
concrete war aims. We are not ami
mated by lust of conquest and demand
that the governments copditions shall
be of such nature as can really forth
with lead to peace. namely, that they
shall convince Our enemies that they
have no oppression, violence or sever
cnce of national territory to fear from
a victorious GERMANY"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
GERMAN EMPEROR
VISITS HIS ARMY
NORTHOF RHEIMS
Field Marshal Won Hndenburs, Recently Reported Dead
or Gravely ILL., Accompanies His Sovereign on In
spection of Defensive Positions in Terri
. tory Recently Captured.
(By Associated Press.)

Amsterdam, June Paul Rosner in the lokal Anzeger
says that Emperor William visited the German army north of
Rheims Thursday remaining until evening" working with in
dydua commanders and receiving reports from the battlefield
London June 2(Britsh Admiralty, per Wireless Press-
Field Marshal Hndenburg recently has been reported dead
gravey ill., but Paul Rosner special journalistic attendant of
Emperor William writing in the Lokal Anzeger says that
the battle front at Craonne last Tuesday Emperor William and
Hndeburg took long walk between the trenches caters
entangements and shell holes and inspected the defensive
positions of the Chemin Des Danes.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
United States Navy
Expects Early Clash
With German Fleet

New York, N. Y, June 1.-The
United States now has a large num-
Der of first class battleships "pre-
pairing side by side with the best
ships of the British navy for an en-
gagement on the high seas. which is
expected to occur at any time with
the German feet" according to a
statement made in an address here
tonight by Rear Admiral Albert
Gleaves.
II am not going beyond the
border line of secrecy" declared Ad-
miral Gleaves, when / say that a
few days ago there came an alarm
to the heads of the British navy
that the German battleships were
about to come out for the expected
engagement on the high seas. l
know that the British navy heads
gave the first class American battle
ships post Of honor in preparation
for the attack"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
WESTERN union
FLIES IN FACE OF
FEDERAL BOARD
Refuses to Submit to Jurisdic.
tion Of War Labor Body as
to Employees, Taft
Reports.

New York, June 2.-The Western
Union Telegraph company has de-
clined to submit to the jurisdiction of
the National War Labor board which
sought to adjust the differences be-
tween the company and those of its
employees who are members of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union oil
America. ....4- ts.. as,t
The Western Unions declaration
became known when the report of an
executive session of the war board
held here yesterday, was made public
tonight. It embodied report by w.
H. Taft and Frank P. Walsh, joint
chairmen of the board, who con-
ferred with Newcomb Carlton, presi-
dent of the Western Union, in an
effort to compose the difficulties be-
tween the company and those of its
employees who had been dismissed,
it was charged, because they joined
the Commercial Telegraphers' Union
of America.
Taft and Walsh Investigate.
Complaint against the company's
action was taken to the war board
and Mr. Txft and Mr.. Walsh made
an investigation, they then submitted
proposition in a nature of COM
promise based on the principles
underlying the work of the war
board This platform recognizes the
right of men to organize and holds
they should be discharged for men,
bership in trades unions or for legit-
innate union activities.
This compromise under which the
Western Union was not required to
Recognize the union and by which
the union was bound not to use the
strike as a weapon, was submitted to
Mr.. Carlton, but he declined posi-
lively to permit employees of his
company to join the union unless a
referendum of all the company's
workers showed that majority of
them favored such step.
Submit Their Report.
Correspondence between Mr.. Taft
and Mr.. Carlton followed with the
result that the joint chairmen ended
their report to the board yesterday
with this statement:
"In view of the correspondence, it
does not seem useful to further pro-
long the mediation. The construc-
tion of our principles as set forth in
Mr.. Taft's telegram to Mr.. Carlton
leads to the conclusion that the
Western Union Telegraph company
should accept this compromise. =" 1t
declines, however to do so, or to
submit to the decision of this board
and no further action of the board is.
therefore, recommended, except the
CONTINUED on Page Two, Column One.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03

to sign at Brest-Litovsk afforded the
populations Of Ardahan, Kars and
Batum the right to decide their own
destinies. Events now taking place in
these regions show that the policy of
determination of the Armenian people
which has been applied for sope 10
years still continues.
Russia was successful on the
Turkish front and was forced to re-
linquish Ardahan, Kars and Batum
simply because Turkey had Germany
as an ally. The responsibility for
cruelties against the Armenian popu-
lation in the regions now occupied by
the Turkish troops thus falls also on
the German government, which en-
abled Turkey to take possession of
these districts,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
FIRE IN ARSENAL
BELIEVED TO BE
OF ENEMY ORIGIN

St. Louis, June 2-Army officials
tonight expressed the belief that the
mysterious fire that did $l,000,0OO
damage at two warehouses at the
United States arsenal here early today
was of German origin.
Anton Ronjack, % years old, an
Austrian enemy alien, was arrested
shortly after the fire started when he
attempted to cault the fence sur
rounding the government reservation.
He denied knowledge of the fires or
igin and, said he attempted to climb
the six-foot stockade towatch the
blaze.
The warehouses are used for the
storage of goods ready for immediate
dispatch overseas. Both buildings are
electrically wired and army officers
are of the opinion that the fire was
started automatically by means Of
these wires.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03

Washington, June 2.-"Mass MUIR
der" committed by the Turkish army
advancing in the Caucasian districts
has brought sharp protest from the
Russian commissioner of foreign af-
fairs to the Berlin foreign office, ad-
vices today to the State department
said. Responsibility for the crime, the
protest said, falls on the German gov
ernment, which enabled Turkey to
take possession of Ardahan, Kars and
Batum provinces after the Russian
armies had driven out the Turks.
THE advance OF the Turkish army
on the Armenian front was accom-
panied by mass murders and women
and children were killed by thou
sands" said the protest.
The treaty which we were forced
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03

CLIMB HILL TOGETHER.
70 a question as to whether the
elm bing of a hill was not too much
for him, Won Hindenburg smilingly
said to the emperor: 1T is very good
for me to get little exercise, your
majesty"
The military correspondent Of the
British Wireless service writes as fol
lows concerning the operations on
the western front:
although the fighting has been
severe on the Aisnc front, particu-
lar1y between the Oise and the
Marne, there has been no very pro-
nounced change in the situation. The
main pressure of the enemy is still
directed westward, where he is still
trying to widen his flank in the di-
rection Of the forest of Villers-Cot-
terets.
German Lines Advanced.
yesterday he made advances here
Oh front between Vaurezis, west of
scissors, and Bouresches, west of
Chateau Thierry. By the end of the
day his front ran from Vaurezis
through Saconin-Et- -Breuill, Chadun,
Longpont, Corey and Faverolle to a
point near Chezy and then bent east
ward through Ley to Bouresches.
Thence the line runs to the Marne,
passing north of Chateau Thierry,
which the French hold.
Heavy fighting has taken place
on the ground west of Soissons, won
back by the French in their success
full counter attacks. In spite of the
enemy's efforts the allied gains have
been maintained.
"On the Rheims flank there is very
little change. The enemy made a
very powerful attack with tanks
northwest and north of Rheims and
succeeded in making little progress
at Fort De La Pomelle. A counter
attack Immediately restored the line,
the Germans being thrown back with
loss of 200 prisoners and four of
their tanks"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03

my hand. Advancing a few steps, l
stumbled on the trap, which had been
released by the pressure of the cane.
On examination I found the trap set
to catch scouts, and chained to stakes
in the ground. l loosened the chain
and brought the trap to our trenches.
The contrivance is three feet long and
has jaws l8 inches wide with teeth
two inches long. 1t is designed to give
the victim great pain and make him
call for help. This attracts his COM
rades who become tragets for Ger
man machine gun fusillade which re-
suits in the annihilation of the entire
party"
The trap is in the Paris Young
Mems Christian association and will
be shipped to America as a trophy.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
HUN MASSES HURLED BACK.
Huns Again Bomb
British Hospitals;
Sister Among Slain

With the British Army in France,
June british Red Cross hospi-
tails have again come under the Ger
man bombing scourge. This latest
attack began at 1890 o'clock Friday
night and the hostile airmen raided
the same group of hospitals which
suffered May le. Several hospitals
were hit, and the casualty list among
patients and workers is consider
able.
One hospital was almost demol-
ished when an enemy aviator
dropped an explosive on it after
getting his bearings by letting fall
a brilliant flare which lighted up the
whole district. One sister was killed
at this place and several others
wounded, one of the latter prob
ably fatally.
In one hospital. ward was de-
stroyed and two other wards were
damaged. Several attendants were
killed.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03

Paris, June 2.-The latest German
barbarism consists of man trap SIM
liar to a bear trap discovered in No
Mans land by Corporal Leonardo
Manser and Sergeant Victor L. Vau-
pei. United States engineers.
Corporal Manser, after bringing in
the trophy to the trenches, told how
he came to discover it. He said:
1--WE were in the trenches on the
right Of May "a when Sergeant Vau-
pei and myself decided to go on
scouting expedition. We crept care
fully over the top, making our way
through the barbed wire entangle-
ments and into one shell hole after
another.
after we got half way across No
Mans land, my cane was jerked from
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
REVOLUTIONARY
PLOTS F0MENTED
ALL over RUSSIA
Counter Movement Unearthed
in Petrograd and Moscow
Attributed in Part to
Czech-SIav Mutiny.

London, June 2.-The discovery in
Moscow and Petrograd of large
counter revolutionary plot, which
stretches throughout the whole of
Russia, is announced in a Russian
wireless message received here to-
night. To this plot is attributable in
part the mutiny of the Czech-Slovak
troops, which have captured several
important railway functions and lines.
The Soviet executive decided May
% to undertake the partial calling to
arms Of several classes of workmen
and the poorer peasants i'll Petrograd
and Moscow and the Kuban and Don
regions.
Moscow in State of Siege.
At the same time Moscow has been
declared in state of siege. Counter
revolutionaries have been arrested in
considerable numbers and energetic
measures have been taken against the
press. These measures are necessary,
it is announced, owing to the situation
in which the Russian revolution has
been placed.
The question dominating all others
is that of supplying the people with
bread, now that Russia has been de-
prived of the Ukraine granary. The
Kuban and Don regions are, accord
ing to the Russian scheme, menaced
by a counter revolutionary band,
which hopes by means OF compli-
cations to provoke Intervention by
foreign powers and thus drive the
Russian masses toward famine.
Owners Conceal Flour.
In some regions the large owners
are mobilizing the well-to-do peasants,
with the object of resisting the efforts
of the government to commander the
-four depots and are trying to conceal
their stocks for purposes of future
speculation and finally agents of the
counter revolution in the various
cities throughout the country, says the
"are seeking to excite the
starving masses against the Soviet
government"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
Thousand Unregistered Men
Rounded UD in Tucson

Tucson, Ariz., June IA posse
composed of members of the One
Hundred Per Cent American club,
numbering 59o, under the leadership
of United States Marshal Joe Dillon,
Saturday night rounded up nearly L.
600 young men who could not show
draft classification cards. They were
taken to the city hall for examina-
ton by the draft board.
The registered men we're separated
from the draft evaders and deserters,
there being few of the latter. Some
pool halls were emptied by the raid.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
MAY FORD RIVER.


The Germans, however, still have in
their possession the village Of Vaur-
ezis. west of Soissons, and further
south Saconin Et Breuil, Chaudun,
Ley and Bouresches, the last named
directly west of Chateau Thierry. A
little to, the southwest of Chateau
Thierry the enemy has reached the
Marnc. .l.
Nowhere has there been any at.
tempt by the invaders to cross tha
river, and at all points east of Cha
tcau Thierry they are hugging tls
northern bank of the stream. It il
not improbable, however. that ths
tactics of the Germans have in view
the fording of the river when thd
time is more propitious, for in tho
center of the line between Chateau
Thierry and Rheims they have pushed
back the allied front across the
Rheims-Dormans road between Olizy-
Violainc and Villa En- Tardenois and
are pressing onward toward the
Marne. This is the only point on
their left wing, however, where the
enemy has been able to make fresh
gains, notwithstanding the tact that
he has thrown new isiiofs into the
battle, some of them the best trained
troops in the German army.
Aim to Outflank Rheims.
Having failed in all their efforts to
outflank Rheims by direct assault it
now seems to be the intention of the
Germans further to widen their oc-
cupation of territory lying south of
the Rheims-Dorman road and there
by outflank the Cathedral city and
bring about its capitulation.
In the fighting in the immediate VII
cinity of Rheims the enemy won Fort
De La Pompelle, but his tenure was
short-lived, for the French in coun-
ter attack reconquered it.
Taken all in all, the seventh day OF
the new battle found the allied line
from Scissors to Rheims, although it
had been bent back at various points,
not so hard pressed as on previous
days and seemingly more capable Of
resisting the enemy's onslaughts.
The British in the region OF Arras,
Lens and Bethune are keeping up
their trench raiding operations against
the Germans.
AS yet the expected great battle has
not broken in the Italian theater.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
Finland Must KneeI to Kaiser
For Licenses on All Imports

Stockholm, June 2.--How little
independence remains to Finland and
how completely the Germanization
of Finland has been effected is in
dicated by an announcement today
that all licenses for import into Fin
land must be approved by German
officials.
The Deutsche bank has established
a branch Office at Helsingfors t.
the control Of financial operatioaA
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
d ARE MISSING
FROM TORPED0ED
US. TRANSPORT

Washington, June -Four officers
and 20 men are missing from the tor
pedoed American transport President
Lincoln, the Navy department was ad-
vised today by Vice Admiral Sims.
The message, which said that no
authentic list of the missing was yet
available, did not specify whether the
men were OF the army or the navy.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
Former Standard Oil
EnpIoye Held as Spy

New York, June 2.-Agents of the
military intelligence service brought
here from Croton, N. Y, today Hans
Lentz, a German and former en-
ploye of the Standard Oil company, in
whose possession they said were
found papers taken from the files Of
the company, on which were listed all
the Standard Oil ships with those that
have been torpedoed checked off,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
U. S. to Send Hospital Ship
Over Seas Without C0nVoy

Washington, June 2.-The naval
hospital ship Comfort, formerly the
Ward steamer Saratoga, has been
selected to serve as ambulance ship
between this country and the Ameri-
can naval base abroad. 1t has been
specially rehtted to bring home sick
and wounded sailors and marines.
The present plans are to send the
Comfort across without convoy, noti-
flying the German government of its
intended voyage and it's purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
Kaiser to Withdraw Troops
From Ukraine to West Front

Stockholm, June Germany is SO
well satisfied with the progress of
events in the Ukraine that she has
decided to withdraw two-thirds of
the German troops now in the east.
The troops withdrawn will be used
on the western front and they will
be replaced in the east with Austrians.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
FOCH,S RESERVES
BLOCK ADVANCE
OF FOE ON PARIS.
French Forces With Terrific Smashes Recaptre Vantage
Points in Center of Battle Line; Germans Make
Small Gains on Left Wing; Attempt to
Ford Marne River Foreseen
(By Associated Press.)

The strength of General Fochs has been felt by
the armies of the German prince in the "bae for Paris
East of the line running from scissors to Chateau Thiey
where the Germans Saturday. in continuation of their mighty
strokes gained several additional villages and then attempted
proceed further westward magnificent opposition in
terposed by the newly strengthened lnes and with terrific
smashes the French forces recapured Longpot Corey Fave
os and Troesnes vantage points in the center Of the line
leading the of Vers Cotteras which the
ntnhia Of he
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-03
Eighteen Be|gians Executed
In Fortress of VieUx Dieu

Washington, June IA cablegram
received at the Belgian legation said
that Is Belgians confined in the fort
ress of Vieux Dieu had been shot.
1t said also that Able Englebert, rec
tor of Comblain Au Pont and Alder
man Strauss of Antwerp, had been
deported to Germany.