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Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15

French and British citizens have
been arrested and the bolsheviki have
announced they would hold them as
hostages because of the attack on the
soviet government by British and
French troops at Archangel.
Safe Conduct Refused.
Members of the French and British
military missions stationed in Mos
COW were refused permission to leave
the country in spite of previous
promise of safe conduct.
It is possible that since the send
ing of Consul General Poole's tele-
grams, which began on July % and
continued until August E, the situa-
ton may have changed, because it is
reported that Lenine and Trotzky,
the bolsheyik leaders. have fled and
the soviet government in Moscow
nav have been overthrowr.
Should the situation be unchanged,
the American consul generals action
in turning his office over to Sweden,
will not affect the status of other
American consuls in Russia as they
have been working with the local
governments throughout Russia
where pro-ally feeling is strong.
Declares State of War.
The story is told in sequence in
the State departments official an
nouncement of its advices from Mr.
Poole. 1t follows:
"The department has now received
several kilograms from Consul Gen
eral Poole at Moscow concerning re-
cent events in that city. Following
is a summary of them:
"One of the kilograms, similar in
character to previous message re-
ceived through other channels, states
that on July %. Lenine declared re-
peatedly before an official gathering
OF the soviets that state of war ex-
listed between the Russian republic
and the allied powers. Because of this
the diplomatic representative in
Moscow of Great Britain and the
consular representatives of France.
Italy and the United States visited
the commissariat for foreign affairs
and inquired if Lenine's declaration
should not be considered a declara-
ton Of war, involving the rupture OF
: de facto relations and the departure
of the consuls. Tchitcherin said that
it need not be so understood, that it
was a state of defense rather than a
Continued on Page Two, Column Tbree.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
AMERICAN LINES
! SHELLED HEAVILY
BY HUN AvIATORS
Troops Stand Up Well Under
Bombardment; Machine
Guns Planted ThickIy
by the Enemy.
BY Associated Press.

With the American Army on the
Vesle, Aug. 14.-From one end to the
other of the Franco-American line be-
tween Scissors and Rheims and far
into the back areas. the Germans
dropped bombs from the air before
daylight today. The remainder of
the day was confined to a sluggish
reciprocal artillery duel. ..
On the fanks of the position,
which are held by the French. light
attacks were repulsed during Tuesday
night. The French also were SUBJ
jected to bomb attacks. At no points
has there been any alteration in the
line.
Not since the, German retreat
halted have there been aerial raids of
the magnitude of the one today. The
Americans stood up we'll under the
bombardment. The front line was
pounded and almost every village and
the roads between we're subjected to
the bombardment, but the great num-
Der of bombs fell on unoccupied
ground. This was taken 10 indicate
that the German air men were strik-
ing more or less blindly. Allied
anti-aircraft guns hampered the en-
emy somewhat. El.t
The present German line, which is
still regarded as only a temporary
one, depends on a defense of ma
chine guns and airplanes. The en-
cmy has concentrated machine guns
at about one for every so yards, a
density rarely effected. Their aerial
defense relatively is far superior to
any established hitherto on this front
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
GERMANS FORCED TO VII
MORE IMPORTANT GRO
Chicagoans Don Australian
Uniforms to Get Into Fight

Washington Aug 14The 16 Chicago boys recently dec
Grated King George for vaor probably engaged the
Fourth Of July fight at Hamme and their aures because
they not to be denied their share of the fighting
known that just before the hour the British
commander felt that of the American troops had
long enough training to the top and ordered them
out of the ne With much protesting of regrets the American
soldiers retired and their Australian comrades with other Amer
leans went and helped take the town.
When the casualties counted American soldiers
found in the dressing stations dressed in Australian uniforms
developed that the Americans after retiring the rear
had found Australian comrades not in the fighting traded uni
forms with them and then worked their back to the Aus
traan units and went the top with them
The troops which performed the heroic feat have fin
ally been identified, but is known that Illinois troops
the fighting that day before Hamme and it is believed that
the Chicago boys decorated by the king probably among
the daredevil heroes who not be kept of chance
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
Captain Fitzmorris,
Noted British Amman,
Dies in Flight in u. S.

Cincinnati, Aug. 15.-Captain James
Fitzmorris of the British Royal fly
ing corps was killed just west of this
city today when his engine died just
after he rose from the grounds of the
Western Hills Country club to COM
plete the last lap of a journey from
indianapolis to Cincinnati and his
plane crashed to earth. .-
American and British aviators
planned a gala day. A number of
Americans from the Dayton field, led
by Major Claud K. Rhineheardt, who
had flown from Mineola, were to meet
here the British flyers who were COM
ing from Indianapolis under the lead
.rship of Brig. Gen. Charles F. Lee.
Brigadier General Lee announced
that Captain Fitzmorris had total of
% German planes to his credit. Dur
ing the three years of service on the
front, Captain Fitzmorris was deco
rated with the cross of the Belgian
Legion of Honor and the military
cross with one bar added in honor Of
additional heroic services performed
after receiving the cross. -
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15

Unofficial reports have announced
the capture Of Lassigny by the
French and of all the German posi-
tons between the western outskirts
OF Bray-Sur-Somme and Etinehem by
the Australians.
Allies Held Back.
From the Somme to the Oise, ex-
cept in the. latter region where the
French have made further gains, the
Germans seemingly have had further
success il, holding back the allied
troops and still are in possession Of
Chaulnes and Roye, upon the capture
of which the efforts of the British and
French have been conferred. On this
central part of the battle front the
enemy continues to deliver violent
counter attacks and also has further
reinforced his line with men and guns
and is using them without stint to re-
tain his positions, realizing that
their capture would spell disaster.
The giving up of front line trenches
north of Albert may mean the Ger
mans foresee the ultimate success OF
the American and British operations
along the Somme. In any event the
retrograde movement seemingly indi-
Gates that the 10-mile salient between
Beaumont -Hamel and the Bray on the
Somme, with Albert its apex, now
must give way in order that the Ger
man front here may come into align
ment with that in the south across the
Somme. Probably the Germans pur-
pose to readjust their front from the
Somme to Arras.
French Gain Important Route.
The capture OF Ribecourt BY the
French marks an important epoch in
the offensive which has for its imme-
date purpose the freeing of the re-
gion between the Somme and the
Disc. As gain from the strategic
standpoint it ranks with the taking by
the French of the forest and hill po-
sitions between the Matz and he
Ose, which has brought the French
almost to the gates of Lassigny.
Through Ribecourt lies an open route
up the Oise valley to Noyon--a route
by rail and the big national thorough
fare, not to mention the canal which
parallels the roadways for the
greater part Of the way. Noyon is
only a little more than six miles
northeast of Ribecourt.
Although they are still encounter
ing violent resistance, the French are
continuing to make progress through
the wooded and hilly country between
the Matz and the Oise, where. the
Germans from recesses in the forests,
on spurs and in the canyons are using
machine guns innumerable. Gas also
is being loosed in great quantities by
the enemy. Almost entire control of
the Thiescourt plateau and the other
high ground on this sector is now in
the hands of the French.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
Russians Impressed
Into Kdiser's Service
By Flying Columns

London, Aug. 15.-A dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Vladivostok
dated Sunday says the Germans al
ready are conscripting Russians on
a small scale.
According to stories of prisoners
taken by the Czecho- -Slovaks," says
the dispatch, German flying col
umns are impressing males from Is
to As years Of age and are bringing
those who disobey the mobilization
order before Germanized revolu-
tionary tribunals. which condemn
them to death.
"These conscripted units have
German company and platoon COM
manders and are stiffened by 20
Germans or Magyars to every 90
Russians
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
Bohemia Is on the
Verue of Rebellion

London, Aug. 14.-Turmoil in b.
hemia has resulted in the execution
of "a Czech soldiers and wholesale
arrests in many raids, newspapers Of
Munich and Dresden say, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Zurich. The Hungarian garri-
sons have been reinforced and arms
are being conhscated.
Munich newspapers say it is be-
lieved that even a slight incident will
bring about a general uprising in Bo-
hemia.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
Sneak Thief in Hotel
Gets SaIeSman'S Gems

A sneak thief entered the apart
ment of N. C. Baum, a travelling sales
man, at the Claremont Inn, forced
open a grip and took diamond stick
pins, cuff buttons and rings to the
value of $500. Edith Sears, negro, an
employe of the inn, was arrested on
suspicion. The woman, it is said,
telephoned to a male acquaintance in
Council Bluffs she was going to give
him some pretty shirts and wanted to
see him before she left the city.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
FOE RETREATS ON
FIVE MILE FRONT
NORTH OF ALBERT
Trenches Found Untenabe in Face of British Activity;
French Fight Their Way Forward Toward Lassigny
Massif and Thiescourt Plateau and Further
South Capture Ribecowt.
Thermometer Readings
By Associated Press.

North and south of the Somme the Germans have lost fur
ther important ground In the former region they have eyac-
uated their positions ve-me front to the British north
OF Albert while latter they have been beaten back in the
hill and wooded district just north of the Disc river by the
French.
German front line trenches at Beaumont amel Serre
and Bucquoy have been found untenabe by
the enemy in the face of the recent activity by the British all
along the line from Albert to Arras while the French have
in their violent attacks against the Germans on the
sector which dominates the lower portion of the Picary plain
and the Disc valley and have encroached further upon the
Lasgny Massf and the Thescour plateau farther south
have captured the important town of Ribecourt
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
Two Divisions Sent
To Kaiser S Aid When
20 Were Demanded

Geneva, Aug. 14--Twenty divisions
of troops were demanded of Ger
many's allies by General Ludendorff
during the retreat from the Marne,
according to. the Democrat, which re-
ceived the news from German sources.
Austria Hungary refused, but after
General Ludendorff had made threats,
Vienna sent two divisions to the west
erp front
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
The Bees Exposure of
Sen. Norris War Record
ArOuses Much Attention

Thedford, Neb., Aug. l4.-To the
Editor of The Bee: I congratulate
you upon your courage in exposing
the record of Senator Norris have
no personal enmity to Senator
Norris, but his record makes him
impossible as candidate. He
should never be nominated nor
elected. F. M. CURRIE.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
Demonstration ThWarted
By Arrest OF 29 Women

Washington, Aug. 14.-Twenty-
-iine women were arrested by the po-
lice in Lafayette square. opposite the
White House, late today, when a
third attempt was made to stage
woman's party demonstration there
against the senate's delay in acting on
the federal suffrage amendment.
The police held the women until
after the streets were cleared of the
evening crowds and then released
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
CONSUL GENERAL
POOLE PREPARES
TO QUIT MOSCOW
American Official Destroys His Code and Records, En-.
trusts U. S. Affairs to Swedish Consul, Demands
Safe Conduct and Warns Bolshevik Leaders They
Will Be Held Responsible for Reprisals.

Washington, Aug. 14-Offcial dispatches today from
American Consul General Poole Moscow lifted the curtain
for and revealed amazing train of events in that
city.
Consul General Poole after witnessing the violation of the
French and British consuates and the arrest of the conus gen.
ara and their a destroyed his code book and papers and
turned the affairs of the American consulate to the Swed
;sh CONSUL at the time demanding safe conduct from the
country for himself and his associates.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
Joseph Pulitzer Enlists.

St. Louis, Aug. l4.-According to
dispatch from Washington, Joseph
Pulitzer of St. Louis, editor of the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has enrolled
there in the naval aviation corps,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
Schooner Is Safe.

Gloucester, Mass, Aug. A.
Owners of the fishing schooner On
Time, previously reported sunk by a
German submarine, said today the ves-
sci was safe in an Atlantic port.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-15
ANGLO:AMER|CAN
ALLIANCE REPORT
QUICKLY DENIED
Washington Officials Declare
No Political EntangIements
Are Involved in Partici-
patton in War.

London, Aug. 14.--According to the
Evening News, Lord Reading, the
British ambassador to the United
States. who is here, will discuss with
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-13
KNITTING SOCKS DURING
THE CIVIL WAR

(F'rom the Boston Transcript of Mo-
vember 81, 1861
Click, click, click! how the needle go
through the busy flngersEto and fro!
With no bright colers of Berlin wool. 4
Delicate hands today are full;
Only yarn of deep, dull blue
Socks for the feet of the orave and true. II
Yet click, click. how the needles go.
IT'S a power within that nerves them so
In the sunny hours of the bright spring
day,
And still in the night time far away. ,.
Maiden, mother, and grandame sit II
Earnest and thoughtful While they knit.
Many the silent prayer they pray,
Many tear-dropS brushed away
While busily on the needle GO
Widen and narrow, heel and toe
The grandame thinks with a thrill o.
pride
How her mother, knit .anc spun beside
For that patriot band In oIden DAYS
Who died the Stars and Stripes" to raise
Now she in turn knts for the brave II
Who's die that glorious flag to save
She is glad, she says, ''the boys' havd
gone
It's Just as their grandfathera would
But she heayes a sigh, and the tears vii
start n
For the boys" were the pride of gran.
odAIe = neaFt.
The mothers look is calm and high:
God only hears her sour.s ceep cry.
In Freedoms name. at Freedoms call
She gave her sons, in them her all.
The maidens cheek wears a paler shade
But the light in her eye is undismayed
Faith and hope give strength to her sight
She sees a red dawn after the night.
Q soldiers brave, win 1t brighted the day
And shorten the march on the weary way.
To know that at home the loving and tru
Are knitting and hoping and praying 70
you? 81
Soft are their voices when speaking you.
name, ID
Proud are their glories when hearing you.
fame,
And the giaddest hour in their lives Wi
When they greet you after the victory.
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CONGRESSMAN TESS
AT LANCASTER

1 Congressman S. D. Fess, who spent
| Monday and Tuesday at Camp Hancock,
is a man OF rare attachments and of wide =
| interests. Congressman FesS is a mem
| Der of the committee on foreign relations
| of the United States congress and one,
! of the greatest historians of the presentk-
day. In civilian life he is president OF
| Antioch College, Ohio, a capable success
or OF HORACE Mann in this position. Cons
gresham FeSs has delighted large audi
ences throughout the North and our boys
will have rare treat in listening to him. a
Mr8 Fess was called to Lancaster on
Washington's birthday d, speak to a large
audience assembled to do honor to the ,
memory of our first President. ,
The eongressman's appointed theme was
THE True Greatness of Our First PFesi-D
dent He termed the Father of His
Country" the strongest politician of his
time in moral greatness and declared that
in that respect he lowered head and
shoulders above all his fellows He quoted
great European soldiers and statesmen 4
who gave him credit for generalship and
craftsmanship superior -, that of any of
his contemporaries u
Perhaps the one thing in which WASH
ington performed the greatest service for
his country, thought DIR. Tess was thatR
he was able to make use of nlen-just aSE~
did Lincoln-who were superior intellect II
ually to himself. AS examples of this he
cited Thomas Jefferson and Alexander,
Hamilton, leaders of entirely different
schools of politics and bitter personal en-
emies who avoided meeting each other on
the street yet whom Washington VASE
his cabinet DR., Tess -,ctured Hamilton,A
author of the Constitution of the United
States, as the exponent of power, and
Jefferson, author of the Declaration of In
dependence, as the exponent OF liberty.
He showed the value of power as neces-
sary for central government and the va
lue of liberty for local government. He
said that Hamiltonianism is incomplete
without Jeffersonianism, and vice versa.
This Washington saw and brought about
in most remarkable fashion He accom-
plished the Welding of the two most mas
terfu1 when he presided over the delibera-
tions of the body which framed the Com
stitution that for more than a century and 4
quarter has been the governing instru-
ment of people that have grown in size 4
from 100000 to 10000, 000 La
This effective union of power and lib-sa
erty Congressman Tess vermed Washing \
tonianiSm and declared the chief monu- 4
ment to the Father of His Country" The u
speaker showed how too much liberty is
dangerous and results in Bolshivism
whereas too much cen;ra. power is aise
dangerous and results in Hohenzollernisni
America has struck the happy medium
and maintained it, said he. &
Turning to the pres( AZ war issue, Con-
gresham Fess emphasized most forces
fully that no matter what happens in the
eastern or Russian front, America must
hight the Hun to the end, even were Eng
land and France to be humbled. We dare
not tax peace or allow others to talk
peace to US y8
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GREENFIELD SAYS
.wET'S STRANGLE
LIQUOR TRAFFIC"

'Men of Camp Hancock will be in
terested in letter written the Lon
don Times by DIR. Wilfred L. Grenfell
of Labrador, in which he pays high
tribute to the moral principles OBJ
served by the soldiers of the United
States. He cites the fact that they
are free from drunkenness and that
along all lines they are clean.
Several times the conversation has
in my presence turned on the subject
of the markable-indeed. almost alb
solute-freedom from drunkenness
and the smalls amount of immortality
among the soldiers here, and then
comes always the turn to 1t which
brings a flush of shame. l confess, to
my cheeks, as an Englishman, when
clean American officer turns round
and says. 'Ah, but they will get all
the alcohol they want and the danger
that comes with it as soon as they
get to England and France
1.-THE question today is one of deeds,
not words of facts, not OPINIONS,
When is our beloved Wonderland go
ing to believe the facts-that ruling
out the temptation to drink by clos
ing down on the sale of liquors OF an
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Greenfield Knows.

For over thirty years 1 have lived,
sir, among sea-fearing men in fishing
vessels on both sides of the Atlantic,
and in many winters in the bitter cold
of the northeastern coast of Ameri-
ca, and as medical man capable
of observing facts, know the indi-
vldual is far better able to withstand
hardship and is far filter without any
of 1t, and also that prohibition of it's
sale has been of immense value.
Can you not find space to express
the opinion of an Englishman who
loves England as his life, and who is
hurt every time he has to listen to
the facts of wasted food and degrad-
ed manhood and wasted efficiency just
because we won't tackle the strang-
ling liquor traffic as we do the Huns
namely, by force?"
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Y O u
IN HER THOUGHTS.

After the ball last night, when I home
stood before my mirror, and took note
OF all that aaIl beautiful Delight,
Keen delight possessed when
My reflection smiling there.
Because your eyes, through all the swirling hours
And in your slow good mis- 1t, had made fact
OF what before 1~fancied might be SO;
Yet knowing how lie by look and act
/ still had doubted. But doubt
I know you love ma love And [ feel
Your satisfaction in my loneliness.
Beauty and youth, good health and willing
A spotless reputation, and heart
Longing mating and for motherhood.
And lips unsullied by another's kiss
These the riches | can bring to you.
But T. sit here thinking of it all
In the clear light Of morning, sudden fear
Has seized upon Wha has been your past?
the jungle of old reckless years,
Nav serpents crawl across path day
And pierce us with their fangs? Oh l am not
A prude bigot; and have not lived
A score and three full years in ignorance
OF human nature Much l condone
For well I kinshp TO the earth
And all created things. Why even l
Have felt the burden of Yirginity,
when flowers and birds and golden butterflies
In early spring were mating; nd know
How loud that call of sex must sound to man
Above the feeble protest OF the world
pI+ T can hear from. depths within my soul
The voices of my unborn children cry
FOR rightful heritage MAY God attune
THE souls of men, that they hear and heed
THAT paintive voice above the call of SEX
And may the worlds weak protest swell into
A thunderous dapason--a demand
For cleaner fatherhood)
oh love, come near;
Took IN nv eyes, and say need not fear.
BY Permission of Ella .Whee'eF WILCOX
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LITTLE PICK-UPS
AMB. CO. No. III

Corporal B,nar has been nickname
Serg. Empey since he told his HON
town folks that he is a perfect speci
man of soldier ready to go over tn
top.
The most popular man in our mids
is Private Turner Cyril is seen wit
as many as three fair ones at tim,
Some class to this boy.
What we would like to know is VIII
Pat Yackley goes to a certain littl
tea room close by camp every nigh
It's feared that eats alone is not tn
attraction.
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LOST
WALTER B.

WAITER B. 1SDELL LOST A DIS
charge on account of disability. Finder
please return to him at 1918 Battle Road,
Augusta, Ca.
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Nick HAS NEW SCHEME.

Baseha'- VIII be nIaced- on a co-opera-
tive Dr~6+-sh9T'"T ~
Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athlet-
les of the American League if the play
a.
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Intoxicating nature as beverages is of
vital Importance?
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Like Joshua. the British are now
sitting down before Jericho. But. we
guess that they won't use Joshua's
cute little plan to break into Jericho.
Petrograd newspaper opinion as to
Germany's intentions is divided, says
a cablegran. There are editors over
there who can't tell a cleanup from
a crap game