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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
Peace Negotiations
Last Spring Blocked
by Gen. LudendOrf

Copenhagen, Nov. 20. - The
Hague correspondent of the vi
emma Neue Freie Presse says that
unofficial representatives of France
and Great Britain last spring de-
clared that their governments
were prepared to initiate peace
negotiations. The correspondent
gives the following terms as those
acceptable to the allies in return
for a cessation of hostilities:
Evacuation Of Belgium, Ger
many to pay two-thirds of the
damage done in the kingdom; the
question of Alsaee-Lorraine to be-
referred to referendum; southern
Tyrol to be ceded to Italy; Triest
to be made an international por.;
Serbia, Montenegro and Roumania
to be evacuated and Germany's
colonies to be returned. g..
Baron Burian, then Austro- Hun
garian foreign minister, says the
correspondent, was prepared to is
sue an invitation for peace nego-
tiations, but General Ludendorff,
the German chief quartermaster,
intervened, saying: -Let us con-
quer." A day later, the CORE
spondent adds, Ludendorf started
an offensive.
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B'NAI BIRTH GIVES {
GOLD MEDAL TO WILSON.

Washington, Nov. 28.-Oficials of
the independent order of Rnai
Birth presented to President Will
son today the gold medal awarded
him by the society last October as
the man who rendered the most dis
tinguished service to humanity dur
ing the past year.
Adolph Krause of Chicago, presi-
dent of the society read formal
salutation, hailing the president as
champion of permanent peace, the
leader in the fight against militarism.
cruelty and misery, and expressing
the belief that the people of the U. S,
"are fortunate for having at this
time for their leader a man whose
words carry weight, not only with
the allies. but even with the defeat
ed nations"
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ARMIES OF.
SOVIET IN.
les H0N|A.
ADVANCE.
Fate of Volunteer Northern
Army Unknown; British
Reach BeIgjan-Ger-
man Frontier.

Helsingfors, Finland, Nov. Is
Reports from the Baltic province of
Esthonia Wednesday said that Rus
sian bolshevik troops on Tuesday
captured Pskov, 100 miles south
west of Petrograd. The fate of the
volunteer northern army was un-
known. 1t was also reported that
Dunaburg, 10 miles southeast Of
Riga, had been taken by the boil
shevik -forces and that Narva, 81
miles southwest of Petrograd, was
being bombarded.
Britons Hold Hun Guns.
London, Nov. 28.-Advance
guards of the British troops
have reached the Belgian German
frontier in the region between Beho
and Stavelot and are in possession
of more than 1,400 surrendered Ger
man guns, according to an official
communication issued tonight.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
Army Held Loyal.

London, Nov. 28.-"It would be
great mistake to suppose the kaiser
is done with; he has many adher-
cnts in Germany, who are quite
resolved not to take the recent de-
feat lying down." is the opinion
given the Daily MaiPs correspon-
dent at The Hague by Dutch citi-
zen, who spent the whole period of
the revolution in Bremerhaven and
now has returned to Holland.
The returned Dutchman estimates
the proportion of loyalists to revol-
utionists as one to two, and he says
a large number of soldiers are what
might be called "true to the kaiser"
1t must not be imagined, he in
sists, that the German army, al
though smaller than before, has
ceased to exist. On the contrary,
he represents it as very much in
existence and moreover commanded
by general devoted to the former
emperor's cause.
Predicts Counter-Revolution.
The correspondents informant
did not doubt that something in the
shape Of counter revolution would
be attempted before long. He said
the red flag is still freely displayed
in Bremerhaven, but he heard that
it had almost disappeared in the
Rhine district.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Amerongen, Holland, says the
stories regarding the former Ger
man emperor's princely surround
ings and big dinner parties and SINH
lar functions are not altogether true.
The most striking feature of the
daily life of William Hohenzollern,
the correspondent continues, is the
mass of correspondence to which he
Gevotes most of his mornings and
apparently unrestricted by the Dutch
government is kept accurately in
formed of every development in
Germany and elsewhere and is re-
ported to be able to keep in pretty
close touch with the other side of
the frontier.
The correspondent says he learns
on good authority that The Neither
lands government considers the for
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
HUNDREDS DIE
DAILY IN vienna
OF STARVATION
"UnIess Help Arrives Quickly
Hell Will Break Loose"
Wires Correspondent
of London Paper.

London, Nov 28.-The popula-
ton of Vienna is reported in des-
perate condition from lack of food.
according to a message to the Daily
Express from its correspondent in
Vienna, who claims to have had an
official reception there, and to have
been given special opportunities for
investigating behind the scenes.
The correspondents message,
dated November rs, tells OF the
soup kitchens established in the city.
Each Of the 10 kitchens, he says, is
feeding daily 6,000 men, women and
children, who have to stand in line
for hours awaiting admission. /
Each receives less than a pint of
soup made of rotten cabbage ard
-four containing a quantity of saw
dust. On Sunday a little horse flesh
is added.
"All these human wrecks with
bones protruding," continues the
correspondent, exist on this soup.
Hundreds die daily, and are buried
in paper coffins because the wood is
needed for fuel" He says incident
ally that the clerks in the Spanish
embassy are dying Of starvation.
Vienna" the correspondent
adds, SIS in a sullen mood. The
whole of German Austria is afraid
of bolshevism. | understand there
is barely sufficient food here for
three weeks, and only enough coal
for a fortnight. Unless help arrives
quickly hell will break loose. Al
ready the people are buying rifles
and machine guns"
The officials, the correspondent
reports, complain that Hungary has
food, and the Czechs have coal.
but that neither will part with is
supplies. The officials want the al
lies to put pressure on these govern
ments. He adds that the leader Of
the red guard, a young Jew named
Kisch, says he wishes to avoid boil
shevism if possible. Thousands OF
Austrian guard turned to bolshevist
beliefs, and have been dismissed
until now, he says, only 800 remain.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
u S. PEACE
MISSION
LIMITED TO
3 ENJOYS
Speculation as to Personnel
NarroWs Down to Robert
Lansing, Henry White
and Col. House..

Washington, Nov. 2S-The i'm
preston is growing among those
who have talked with President Will
son about the peace, conference that
the American delegation will be linz
tied to three members, and specula-
ton over the personnel has about
narrowed down to these names:
Robert lansing, secretary of state.
Henry White, ambassador to
France and to Italy under the Nc
kinley administration.
Col. EN-. House.
There has been no announcement,
and there may be none before the
president addresses congress next
week, but it was said tonight White
House callers had been given TO
understand that these men would &c
the American ENJOYS. 1t also was
indicated very definitely that reports
of the president having decided to
sit at the peace table himself as a
delegate were untrue. He goes to
take part in the great preliminary
meetings of the heads of the asso-
ciated governments and to see the
formal conferences under way, but
not to serve as delegate.
In addition to the accredited dele
gates there will be large party be-
sides the military, naval, diplomatic
and economic experts, other special
lists in the multitudinous questions
to be dealt with. Among them will
be men of high rank, prepared to
participate in discussions that will
take place outside of the formal
conference and in position below
only the accredited delegates, who,
it is assumed, will take ambassador
ial rank.
The exact time of the presidents
sailing for Europe apparently still is
unknown to anyone except the pres
ident himself. He is expected to
leave the day after he addresses the
new session of congress, beginning
Monday and the address usually is
delivered the second day of the ses-
sion.
Paris, Nov. 2S.-(Havas.)-At a
meeting preliminary to the sitting
of the delegates to the peace con-
ference, it is announced, committees
will be appointed to study different
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
DINNER SERVED NINE
ON AIRpLANE IN FLIGHT. !

Elizabeth, N. j., Nov. 28.-The
first aerial banquet in history was
held today on an airplane $500 feet
above the new flying field of the
United States air mail service here.
A few minutes after the mail plane
in charge of Pilot Maxmiller, left the
field at 1910 p. m., a big Handley-
Page machine rose. under control of
Capt. f. B. Waller of the Royal
Flying forces. and during flight Of
% minutes above the grounds real
Thanksgiving dinner was served to
nine persons. Among the guests
were Capt. Benjamin B. Lipsner,
superintendent of the air mail serv-
ice, and Allen R. Hawley, Augustus
Post and other officials of the Aero
Club of America.
Speaking of the proposed nation
wide extension of the mail service
Capt. Lipsner said:
we will have machines which
will carry a ton and halt of mail
and the days of freight and parcel
post by airplane are coming"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
COUNTER REVOLUTION
ALREADY NFULL SWING,
SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
Bear Hunt in Park
Most Thrilling Event
of HOLIDAY in Gotham,

New York, Nov. 28.-An i'm
promptu bear hunt in Central
park was the most thrilling event
of Thanksgiving day in New
York. In the excitement of the
chase, an assistant keeper of the
200 dropped dead of heart dis
ease. a patrolman lost chunk
of flesh through bite in his
right calf and a soldiers left
thumb was bitten off while he
was pursuing bruin up a tree.
There is reason to believe the
bear would have escaped had it
not got in the path of an auto
mobile. 1t was staggering across
a road in the direction of the top
most tree in the park, when the
motor collided with it. The car
was considerably damaged and
the cubs spirit was broken.
Bruin had only strength enough
left to reach the top of small
tree, the eighth it had climbed
since the chase started, and there
it was lassooed by mounted po-
liceman and dragged back to the
cage in the zoo from which it had
fed.
The cub was mascot of the
Twenty-second United States III
fantry until it became too bois-
ferrous for the barracks.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29

The governor said there were
certain features connected with the
case which convinced him that the
sentence of death should not be ex-
ecuted. For this reason, and be-
cause of the earnest request" of
President Wilson for commutation,
he did not believe that the extreme
penalty should be paid. Governor
Stephens said he accepted full re-
sponsibility for the wisdom and JUS
tihcation for the action"
Finds Justification,
In reviewing the case, Governor
Stephens said his action was taken
after a painstaking survey of the
evidence produced at MONEYS trial,
hut because of certain new develop
ments following the conviction" T"
which could not be considered by
the state supreme court, to which
the case had been appealed, he found
Justification for setting aside the
death sentence.
"In arriving at this conclusion"
the governor continued, II have
exercised that caution which must
be observed in weighing evidence
presented outside of established
legal procedure. By Communication
to life Imprisonment Moneys case
will be in the same status as that
CT Warren K. Billings, who was con-
victed of the same crime and re-
ceived sentence to life imprison-
ment."
Il refuse to recognize this case
as in any fashion,, representing a
clash between capital and labor"
the governor said, and he charac-
terizes as absurd the propaganda
that would make Mooney appear
as martyr to the cause of labor.
In support of this statement he
quotes letter from Alexander
Berkman, outlining the plan adopt
ed for the Mooney campaign. He
denies that Mooney is a true friend
Of labor and characterizes his pre-
vious record as such that it does
not enlist faith in him among law
CONTINUED on Pare Two, Column Two,)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
CAPTIVE BR|TON
C0FF|NED ALIVE
BY HUN SOLDIERS
Inhuman Treatment Received
in German Prison Camps
Related by Prisoners
Freed by ArmistiCe.

London, Nov. 2S.-(British Wire
less Service. IAN official statement
issued today says that since the
armistice was signed 444 British Of
ficers and $3.50 men of other ranks,
former prisoners, have arrived 1T
Hull from Holland and Germany,
S. officers and S,2l6 men of other
ranks .at Dover and 500 at London.
The statement says the protest of
the British government, with regard
to the i'll treatment of British prison.
ers, has been communicated to the
German government and the Ger
man authorities replied that the Ger
man high command was doing all
in its power to deliver prisoners in
good condition.
Sick Men Beaten.
One sergeant who had been a
prisoner for seven months spoke bit
terly of an enforced march after his
capture. For four days, he said, the
prisoners had virtually no solid food
and when they arrived at camp they
we're put to work burying men who
had died from starvation. In one
week IS out of 100 died. No pity or
leniency was shown to men who
were unable to work through sick
ness. Only blows and the usual
punishments of half rations we're
given them.
A noncommissioned officer of the
royal army medical corps said that
the worst sight he saw was near
Scissors. He was working in a
hospital where English prisoners
were suffering badly from dysen-
terry. While living, man was put
into a coffin, and some German SOL
diers were preparing to nail the lid
of the coffin down.
II protested" said the officer, "that
the man was not dead, but / was
laughed at and pushed to one side.
The Germans went on with their
gruesome task and afterwards in
formed me they had nailed the coffin
lid down with four six-inch nails"
Murdered by Sentry.
Another man who said he had
been captured eight months ago, de-
scribed the murder of an officer in a
prison camp near the Aisne.
I'm the camp one day." he said,
II saw British officer being bullied
by German sentry. The German
soldier was demanding the officers
boots. but the officer refused to part
with them. After a little further ar
gument the German soldier shot the
officer and took the boots from him
as he lay dying on the ground" .
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
Potash Problem Turned Over
by War Industries Board

Washington Nov. 28.-The prob
lem OF increasing potash production
in the United States so that the
American farmer maybe permanent
ly freed from the grip of Germany's
monopoly on the worlds supply of
fertilizer materials" was turned
over to the Interior department to-
day by the War Industries board.
President Wilson directed that the
Interior department take over this
work from the chemicals division of
the board as a part of the program
of definitely continuing necessary
work started by agencies created
during the war.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
PERU TO DEMAND
INDEMNITY FOR
|QU|QUE RIOTS
Cabinet and Senate at Lima
Back Foreign Minister'S
Protest to Chile; No
Apology Sent. ;

Lima. Nov. 28.--The cabinet and
senate have approved the action Of
the foreign minister in strongly
protesting to Chile against the anti
Peruvian riots at Tquique. It is an
uounced that Peru will demand
idemnities for these incidents. The
entente ministers at Lima called
separately upon the foreign min
lister yesterday.
The Chilean consul here will leave
for home late today or tomorrow
having been recalled.
No Apology Received.
Santiago, Chile, Nov. 2S.--No
communication has been received
from Peru since the protest of the
Peruvian foreign minister against
anti Peruvian riots at Iquique,
Chile. and attacks on Peruvian con-
sui, it was said at the foreign
Office today. 1t was added that the
announcement of Crlos Castro Ruiz,
Chilean consul general in New York
that the difficulty between Peru
and Chile had been settled by al,
apology on the part of the Peruvian
government was evidently due to a
misunderstanding.
Breach Reopened.
New York, Nov. 28-Carlos Cas-
tro Ruiz, Chilean consul general
here, asserted tonight that his re-
cent statement, announcing settle
ment of the differences between
Chile and Peru, was correct at the
time he made it. He said later de-
velopments had caused reopening
OF the breach. ;.
Mr.. Ruiz said he considered a
rupture of diplomatic relations be-
tween the two countries possible.
but declared there was no likeli-
hood Of war,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
Week Set Aside for Food
Conservation Campaign

aside for special feature Of. the
campaign.
"The conservation week cam
paign," said a food administration
statement today, will bring out the
need for saving food and sharing it
with the allies and the liberated ma
tions.
THE coming year we must send
100000 tons of food to Europe
practically the limit of loading ca
pacity at our ports. The magnitude
of this undertaking may better be
understood in comparison with our
pre-war exports of less than 100000
tons per year and export last year
Of only II, SEC, 900 tons"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
Col. Hayward Cited
for French War Cross
for Bravery in Action

New York Nov. 2S-Col. Will
liam Hayward, commander of the
Thirty-Sixth Infantry, formerly the
18th regiment New York National
Guard, who was wounded in the
Champagne offensive last September
with his regiment, has been cited
for the Croix De Guerre for gal
lantry according to information re-
ceived tonight.
Colonel Hayward though wounded
insisted on leading his men into
battle displaying marked gallantry,
the citation says. He was formerly
secretary of the republican national
committee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29

that the monitor Glatten, was ablaze
in the harbor. !
1t is stated that Admiral Keyes
boarded the Glatten, and, realizing
the catastrophe, both to the city and
the other warships in the harbor,
that would result if the Glatten's
magazines exploded, ordered air
raid sirens to be blown to clear the
streets.
Orders were also given to sink
the Glatten.
The destroyer Broke succeeded in
hitting her with three torpedoes in
a part away from her magazines
thus sinking her and saving Dover,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
American Airmen Honored
by Their French Comrades

Paris, Nov. 2S.-(Havas. AT a
dinner given last night by American
aviators in honor of their French
comrades in the air service, it was
announced by the er-secretary of
aviation that of 240 American pilots
in the Lafayette squadron, 90 lost
their lives. Many of the most noted
French \airmen, including Rene
Fonck and Captain Heuteux. as we'll
as Italian aviators, were present at
the dinner.
The French Aero club on Thurs
day, December 5, will give a ban
quet in honor of allied airmen who
have escaped from German captivity.
On the same evening a medal will
be presented by the club to Ga
brielle D'Annunzio, the Italian au-
thor aviator,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
Naval Base Near
Destruction by Explosion

London, Nov. 28.-Via Mon
treaD-The latest interesting war
time happening now released for
publication, is story of how Dover
narrowly missed being blotted out
just prior to the last Belgian Of
fensive.a
The harbor was crowded with
war vessels of all descriptions, in
cluding four monitors about to start
out for the Belgian coast to CO.
operate with the land offensive.
Suddenly an explosion shook the
town and soon it was discovered
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
GOVERNOR REDUCES
SENTENCE IMPOSED
FOR BOMB MURDERS
In Granting Commutaton Requested by President Be.
cause of International Interests Involved, Cali
fornia Executive Declares Absurd Propaganda
Making Condemned Man Appear as Martyr.

Sacramento, Nov 2S-Cov William D. Stephens
muted tonight life imprisonment the of death
imposed Thomas j. Mooney for murder growing Of
the Preparedness day bomb explosion in San Francisco
July 1916 when 10 persons killed and 40 others
injured 49,
In lengthy statement given the public, outlining his
for committing the sentence Governor Stephens said
MONEYS case largely paraeed that of Warren K. Billings
another bomb defendant who is serving life
tence in the Folsom, CAL, penentary
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
Governors Conference
Will Meet at Annan0Iis

Madison, Wis, Nov. 28.-Re-
construction problems will be con-
sidered at the annual conference Of
governors, which has been called to
meet at Annapolis, Nd, December
IL and Is. Former Gov. William
Spry of Utah, chairman of the con-
ference, issued the call for the meet
ing, and it is expected that nearly
every state in the union will be re-
resented.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29

Washington. Nov. 2S.-A cam
paign to bring home to the American
people the need for food conserva-
ton so that 300,00O,0O0 hungry peo-
pie in Europe and the near east
may be fed, will be conducted next
week by the food administration.
Beginning Sunday, when mes
sage from Food Administrator
Hoover will be<read in the churches
all over the country, every possible
medium will be used to awaken the
nation to its opportunity for re-
newed service and sacrifice for re-
lief OF. millions released from the
German yoke"
Each day Of the week will be set
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-29
MISS CARNEGIE WILL
MARRY ROSWELL MILLER.

New York, Nov 28,-The engage
ment OF Miss Margaret Carnegie,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie, to Roswell Miller of this
city, was announced tonight. Mr..
Miller is son of the late Roswell
Miller of New York and Chicago,
widely known railroad man who. at
various times, served as president.
general manager and chairman of
the board of directors of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail-
road company. Recently he has
been in the United States submarine
chaser service.