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New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Beginning Of
U-Boat Piracy

After long and agitaced waiting, we
received in the last days Of July, 1914,
the command to mobilize. Joyful ex-
pectation was visible on every face,
and the only fear that prevailed was
that those of US who were awaiting our
orders on land might be too late to take
part in the naval battle we were all
looking forward to so eagerly.
A few years ago one of the lords of
the English Admiralty had predicted
that in the first naval battle fought be-
tween Germany and England the Ger.
man fleet would be entirely annihilated.
We naturally only smiled in derision
at these boastful words. The English
newspapers, besides, had for many years
announced that whenever German Of
fcers met together they drank toast,
"To the Day" Although, Of course, this
was untrue, yet we were all burning to
prove in battle what our grea. navy
had learned in long, hard-working years
of peace.
A mighty engagement at sea seemed
to us imminent during these first days
Of war. and we all ]onged to be in it.
was, however, at The moment, among
those unfortunates who were strapped
down to desk in the Admiralty, and
with envy ! beheld my comrades rush
ing to active service, for l had always
hoped to lead my old beloved U-boat
victorious,y against the enemy. We had
all placed strong hopes in the part our
submarines would eventually play in
great crisis, but we never dreamed that
they would SO successfully take the
first role as our most effective weapon
in naval warfare.
With happiness that can hardly be
described | suddenly received the or
der to take over the command Of fine,
new U-boat which had just been built
at kiel. Never before was a pen more
quickly thrown aside and a desk closed
, than when l handed over nv duties in
the Admiralty TO my successor, and
shortly afterward I took possession of
my new, splendid boat, to which J was
going to contidc all my luck and all |
was human]yetapable of doing.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

Copyright. 1913. Houghton. Mifhin 49,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

ately shouts: "Fire..'
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-03

idleness owing to a shortage Of coal as is evident from report Ill the Cologne Gazette of February ?, stat ing that the federal council, had adopt ed regulations providing for the com pensation of men and women workers for idleness caused by the lack ot coal
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-03
MEXICANS LACK SHIPS
 TO TRANSPORT PRODUCTS

MEXICO CITY, April Slack of shipping to move the henneQuen has caused that product to accumulate in the ports of Yucatan. Reports from Merida say the hennequen is even be- ing stored in churches. The govern ment recently sent one of the ships
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-03

commandered from the Mexican Navi- gation Company to take cargo Of hennequen to a United States gulf port.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-03
GERMANY ALSO
 HAS COAL SHORTAGE

NEW YORK, April 2.-German in dustries are occasionally forced toI
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-03

WANTED-one cooper. Gus ohm''
 Blum, o'Neill Go. stor. 2s-tr
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-03

Top Metal Shoes $450 values Womens Slippers Pink Black
 Womens Slipper Evening Pink Blue White
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
Important-Our Semi-Annual
Home Furnishing Sale
See Sunday Papers for Details.

Silk Hosiery
Bargains
There are some wonder
full bargains in these lots
of Women's Silk Hosiery,
so you had better supply
your needs now.
$3.50 a Pair
Women's Pure Dye, Thread
Silk, Also Italian Glove Silk
Hose, in all the new shoe
shades, also black and white;
extra values.
$500 a Pair
Women's High Grade Thread
Silk Hose, in all the new street
shades; in Kayser, Brandeis
Special, and Boyd & Co. makes.
Soc a Pair
Women's Fiber Silk and Silk
Isle Hose, in all colors, also
black and white; seamless;
some extra sizes; good weight.
Children's Hose
soc a Pair
Children's Mercerized Isle
Hose; fine ribbed and quality;
colors are white, black and
Russian calf; all sizes; high
grade, also pure thread Silk
Hose, sizes 6 to 81; fine rib
bed. =
Csc a Pair
Boys and Girls Hose in
| black and white; all sizes and
kinds, in fine and medium rib
bed; good dye; spliced heels
and toes.
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Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
bELCIANS SAVED
BY AMERICANS
SAY REFUGEES
ExiIes Are Returning to Their
Homes in Liberated Sec.
tons; Population in Good
Health with Yank Aid.

Belgian Headquarters in Flan-
ders, Nov. |. - (By Associated
Press)-After four years of exile.
the residents of the now liberated
sections of Belgium are returning
home. On all roads peasants carts
and other vehicles loaded with
household goods are moving north
and east of the rear of the old
battle line. The returning ones ex-
hibit no exhilaration, merely plod-
ding on behind their carts silently,
apparently unwilling to rejoice be-
fore they had seen their villages
and knew that their homes we're
intact.
Young men and middle-aged men
were on the roads, but they were
moving toward the south. Being
of military age, the men were going
to join the Belgian army. They had
succeeded in escaping deportation
by hiding in cellars and elsewhere
when the Germans departed.
The population does not appear
to have suffered physically during
the German occupation. The women
and children appear to be healthy
and many declared they had suf-
fered NO actual privation.
But it was due to the American
food commission" they added.
Had we been at the tender mercies
of the Germans, we should have
starved"
The American Red Cross and the
American food commission already
are extending relief. The recon-
quered country is badly in need of
food of all kinds.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
keep LOOKING YOUNG
It's Easy-If You Know Dr.
Edwards Olive Tablets

The secret Of keeping young is to feel
young-to do this you must watch your
liverand bowels there snoneedof hav.
ing a sallow complexion dark rings
under your eyes -pimples-a bilious
look In your face-dull eyes with M
sparkle. Your doctorwill tell you ninety
per cent Of all sickness comes from In.
active bowels and liver.
d.. Edwards q ell,known physician
In Ohio perfected a vegetable com.
pound mixed with olive oil to act ON
the liver and bowels which he gave to
his patients for years
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the sub.
sttute for calomel, are gentle in their
action yet always effective. They bring
about that exuberance of spirit, that
natural buoyancy which should be en-
joyed by everyone, by toning up the liver
and clearing the system Of impurities.
You will know DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets by their olive color. l0c and
Csc per box. All druggists
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
Big Request for Charity
Made by Theater Magnate

Boston, Mass, Nov. l.-Theaters
at Lewiston and Bangor, Me-; Man
chester N. H.; Montreal, Que, and
St. John, N. B., controlled by A.
Paul Keith. are bequeathed to Ed
ward F. Albee of New York in Mr..
Keith's will filed for probate here
today. Mr.. Keith died in New York
yesterday.
Mr.. Keith's holdings in the B. F.
Keith Theaters company, Connec-
ticut corporation, are to be distriby-
ted among Mr.. Albee. Walter P.
Cooke of Buffalo, Maurice Goodman
of New York. f. NJ. Robinson OF
New York. Robert G. Larsen OF
Boston and John J. Murdoch of New
York, while all rights in the Bijou
theater in Philadelphia are left to
the same persons.
The will contains requests to
other persons amounting to more
than $3.50 900. The residue of the
estate is left to Cardinal O'Connell
OF the Roman Catholic church. to
DC used for charitable purposes, and
10 Harvard university in equal
shares.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
Fury Of Huns Vented
In Italy as in France
By Ahocious Crimes

Washington, Nov. 1.-"As the
italian army prosecutes its vic
torious advance" says Rome dis
patch, most deplorable evidence is
coming to light of atrocities by the
enemy during the period OF inva-
sion. In Italy, as in France. the
fury of the barbarians has been in
tense against things and persons.
Such fury has been witnessed not
only by Italian soldiers, but by rep
resentatives of Italian and allied
press accompanying advancing col
umns.
Everywhere there are tokens OF
willful. useless destruction and bru-
tai robberies. Terrihed-eyed wit
aesses narratc horrible scenes.
THE Italian government, the mill
tary authorities and the allies will
not fail to carry out rigorous in
uuiry regarding denominations COM
mitted. of which the enemy must
give an account.
Italians found in freed zones are
in terrible state. They lack every
thing. because the enemy during q
year of occupation destroyed
burned, sacked and carried of
everything"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
SLOAN HOPES TO
Make WAR RISK
BUREAU CHANGE
'lebraska Congressman Intro
duces Bill Which Would Re-
Iieve McAdoo of Bio .
Department.
Washington Bureau Of Omaha Bee.

Washington Bureau Of Omaha Bee.
Washington, Nov. l.-(Special
Telegram.) - Congressman Sloan
has started something today in the
house that bids fair to rival a snow
ball-the more you push it the big
ger it gets.
He introduced bill to transfer
the administration of Article 3, or
the compensation for death or disa-
bility of the war risk insurance act,
to the pension bureau.
The pension bureau, according to
Mr.. Sloan, has all the machinery,
equipment and experience, as we'll
as the clerical, legal, medical and
administrative talent, to take over
the work,
A leading federal official, speak
ing of the bill, said that such a law
would increase the efficiency over
the new organization SO per cent,
and effect a saving of 80 per cent,
which would amount to $8,000,000
or Sl0,000,000 annually.
The present compensation div
sion was placed in the Treasury de-
partment at a time when it was
highly fashionable to grant to Sec
rotary McAdoo all the power and
jurisdiction he asked.
Will Start Fight.
Further, it was granted largely in
response to prejudice of the appro-
priation subcommittee of both
the houses. These Subcommittee
members are Martin of Virginia,
Overman Of North Carolina and
Robertson of Arkansas Of the SEN
ate. and Byrne of Tennessee, Sisson
of Mississippi and Buchanan OF
Texas in the house.
The bill will undoubtedly create
no end of debate, as the friends Of
Secretary McAdoo will endeavor to
keep the war risk bureau as at pres
cnt constituted. 49,
Congressman Sloan believes that
he will have support of the invalid
pensions committee of the house, to
which it has been referred. In any
event, he proposes, in the interest
of economy and efficiency, to have
the war risk bureau merged with
the pension bureau.
Hitchcock Aids Senator Salisbury.
Senator Hitchcock will go to the
aid of his friend, Senator Salisbury
o. Delaware, who is in extreme dan
ger of defeat, by making speech
for him at Newark, Del, tonight.
The senator will go to Nebraska
Saturday or Sunday.
Senator and Mrs. Warren left to-
aight for Cheyenne, Wyo.
Representative Mondell whose
entire family has been i'll with the
influenza, hopes to leave for his
home in Newcastle Saturday.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
Front Extended.

With the British Forces in Bel
GUM. Nov. l.-(Reuters)-As the
result OF operations of General
Plumer's army, in conjunction with
the Belgian forces. there has been a
great extension of the allied front
northward along the Scheldt river.
The obstinately defended town of
Journal is beginning to figure as
the apex Of . large salient.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
Drugs and Toilet Needs
Very Special Offering

1t is wise thing to stock up with the things that
you want in the way of Drugs and Toilet needs, espe-
To-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
Garros, Great French
Filler. Reported Killed

Geneva, Switzerland, Nov l.
The American Red Cross announces
that Roland Garros, the famous
French aviator and one of the pio-
neers in flying in a heavier than air
machine, was killed October 5 and
buried at Nouziers.
-~ Previously it had been reported
that Garros was wounded.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02
81 Corduroy Pants,
$1.5O

Dark drab color. Good substan-
tial Corduroy Knickerbockers
that are very reasonably priced,
even at $500. Belt loops and
waist bands on the small sizes.
Belt loops and suspender but
tons on larger. Plenty OF
every size, 6 to II years. Buy
these in twos and threes.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02

It is a wise thing to stock up with the things that
you want in the way of Drugs and Toilet needs, espe
cialy at these low prices
Bromo Setzer, Coo size at. ..................4 9c
Danderne 60c size at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9c
Glycohymoline, 30c size, at.................22 &c
Sal Hepatica, SOC size, at. .................2 &c
Milk Magnesa, S-oz. bottle. ...................16 Ice
Fluid Extract Cascara, aromatic, 3oz. bottle Ice
White Pine Cough Syrup, Csc size, at. Ice
Peroxide Hydrogen, 1907 size. ............... 23c
Stillman's Freckle Cream, SOC size at........39 c
Malvna Cream, soc size, at. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9c
Homs Frostlla, Csc size, at. .18c
Cream Roses, Csc size, at. .19c
Derma Viva Liquid Face Powder, SOC sze at 39c
Ponds Vanishing Cream, 25c size, at. Ice
Pebeco Tooth Paste, SOC size, at............ 33c
Santol Face Powder, 35c size, at. ............19c
Mavs Talcum Powder ........................1 Ice
Djer Kiss Perfume the z.....................9 CSC
ALL White Rose Glycerine Soap, at. ...........15c
woQuart Fountain Syringe $1.19 value, at. 79c
Kinks Olive Soap, at. &c
Physicians and Surgeons Soap, at.............7c
Large Roll Toilet Paper, at. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Koko Palm Soap, special at SC
Old English Elder Flower Soap, at. ...........1O c
Bath Tablets, assorted odors, special at
Two-Quart Maroon Hot Water Bottle for. SEC
Sempre Giovine, SOC sze at. ................,4 9c
Mkweed Cream, SOC size, at ...................39c
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The Snowflake herald., 1918-12-20

This company engaged in drilling Section 81 Township
North Range 10 East The selection of ground for this well
made by Geologs Charles E. Major after panstakng
study of the Great Hobrook Ancne He had the whole field
to pick from and settled on this section.
The Hop Oil Company controls nearly Ten Thousand
the Great Hobroo Ancne in the heart Of the choicest
territory Those desiring should Immediately apply
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Oh, Indeed! The Soldiers
" Must Have the Cherries

The Berlin city authorities are a fore
sighted group of men, and they had made
contracts for cherries for the citizens
long before the season. Some of these
contracts were placed in the province of
Silesia. But when the cherries ripened
there the Berliners learned to their sor-
row that no shipments could be made.
Why so? The military declared an en-
barge upon the entire crop, which was
taken for the army.
The fruit crops of Germany this year,
as shown by an investigation carried out
by the German Pathological Society, are
very unsatisfactory. 1t was found that
night frosts, insect pests and disease of
various kinds had done much damage to
the growing fruit. A producer in the
Duchy of Anhalt wrote that the hopes
for a good fruit yield had been dashed;
leaf lice of all sorts had attacked the
trees in such number as he had never
seen. Another orchard owner reported
that he had suffered loss of $4,000 on
his fruit crop. He said that the fruit
growers did not have the materials or
the labor to make war upon the insects.
A man in Posen wrote that his orchards
had been stripped quite bare by cater
pillars. Drouth also did great damage
in many parts of the country. Alto
gether, therefore, the outlook for fruit
was regarded as very bad
The shortage of vegetables is no less
keenly felt than that of fruit There was
such clamor at Berlin for these much
missed food commodities that Herr Won
lilly, the director of the Imperial Bureau
for Fruit and Vegetables, received the
members of the press on June 18 to en-
Tighten them as to market conditions.
His remarks are summarized by the "Vos-
sische Zetung" as amounting to claiming
that the principles of the bureau were all
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
\ II the Brains of the Country
n Were Thrown In

"Lensch attributes the German success,
first to the fact that Germany was really
producing "a ripper and higher form of eco
nomics; secondly, to the very fact that the
movement started from such small begin
nings and apparently hopeless prospects,
and Germany positively profited from her
political backwardness, which caused all the
brains of the country to be thrown into
economic organization, while other coun-
tries were spending their brains and activ-
tiles upon politics.
"For him all that is necessary is for Ger
many to break down old-fashioned political
barriers in her stride toward world power
through ever greater state concentration.
He is satisfied that the necessary amount
of freedom will be granted to the German
people, simply because that will be
essary relief from the ever tighter domina-
ton by the state. For example, the Prus-
sian franchise will be reformed because it
has become the interest of German finance
to remove such obstacles to German pres
tige abroad!
What, then. is the new revolution. the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

have been directed to proceed with vigor
against boarding cure guests"
A Berlin paper, which prints this no.
tice, ironically calls attention to one point
in which it shows gratifying difference
from similar notices of the Middle Ages:
it does not threaten the poor summer
visitor with having his head chopped
off!
A notice Of this kind might decide the
Berliner to go north instead and try one
of the seaside towns on the Baltic. But
there he will meet with similar Difficult
ties. Not long ago the Landrat of the
Usedom- Violin district, Of which Swine
miinde is the chief town, posted this
warning to the "cure-guests and bath
guests" and it differs from the Freuden-
stadt notice only in being little more
polite. He promises not to exercise his
right to restrict the stay of visitors so
long as the visitors keep within the food
regulations and do not jeopardize the
supplies of the residents. Yet if any Wis
itor-quite contrary to his expectations
should be caught buying food in illegal
ways he would be expelled from the dis
trict within forty-eight hours and his
name printed in the newspapers. The
food thus illegally bought would be con-
tiscated and the culprit would have to
stand trial. Moreover, the police would
keep sharp lookout at railway stations,
ferry houses and postoffices to see that
there were no unlawful shipments of
food
Meanwhile the scarcity of food con-
tinues to swell the criminal records of
Germany A month ago a Socialist speak
er quoted in speech in the Prussian
Chamber figures compiled by the Minis
ter of Justice which showed that there
were 487,722 convictions for infringe
ment of the food regulations from Sep
tember, 1916, to November, 1917. The
police authorities of Cologne, too, recent
ly contributed their mite to the statistics
of food swindles. They reported that
their seizures for food infringements Of
the regulations during single month in
cluded 2,212 pounds Of meat, butter and
lard, 2 cows, 2,766 pounds of grain and
legumes, Ills of bread and flour, So 900
of sugar, 3,545 of potatoes, 3,139 of mar
malade, besides much other stuff. This
was all taken in the so-called "sneaking
trade" which is the German conception
! Of illicit dealing.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
THE Courts Are Full of
i Food Squabbles

The figures quoted above by the Social
ist suggest that the courts are over
worked with food cases; and the columns
of the newspapers fully bear out this
presumption. A single paragraph in one
of the Berlin newspapers recently emu
merated the following convictions Of food
swindlers: Honey-cake manufacturer at
Thorn, fined 5,648 marks for selling sugar
at 200 marks per hundredweight which
he had bought two years ago at $3.50
marks; Max Herzberg, merchant at
Brombesg, fined 10000 marks for extern
sive illegal operations in grain; Heinrich
Simon, merchant at Coburg, fined $4,000
marks and his profits of 26,000 marks
confscated for selling willow twigs and
reeds above the maximum price; Max
Klingen, merchant at Duisburg, fined 49,
900 marks for charging above the maxi
mum price for grain. And those are only
part Of the matter in that paragraph
The trials of these food swindlers bring
out at times some interesting evidence
In June one Of the Berlin courts tried
and sentenced to six months in prison
Herr Won Eberstein, farm overseer to
Prince Friedrich Leopold, who is cousin
of the Kaiser. The charge against him
was that he had sold twelve hogs clan
destinely, charging at the rate Of 2S0
marks per hundredweight. 1t was shown
in the trial that the hogs were sent away
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

right, but the actual conditions were
mightier than the official regulation Of
the market. The small deliveries of fruit
and vegetables were explained by the
director as due to reduced imports and
bad harvests at home. The imports from
Spain, France, Italy, North Africa and
other countries were very large before
the war; but now they are completely
lacking. Consequently imports are now
only one-sixth to one-fifth of what they
were before the war. He said the home
crops were not good and in many parts
of the country they were late in matur-
ing. On the other hand, the demand for
fruits and vegetables had enormously in
creased. There was, therefore, absolutely
no prospect that the Imperial Bureau
would ever be able to make such deliv-
cries of them as were demanded. Such
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

was the cold comfort that he had to give
to the press.
With his bread ration recently reduced,
with few or no vegetables or fruits in
prospect, and everything else eatable or
drinkable scarce to an alarming degree,
the hungry Berliner who has money
enough naturally is planning to go off
somewhere for the summer where he can
get rid of that hungry feeling. But the
news that his morning paper brings him
must convince him that his feeding will
be most rigidly scrutinized and regulated,
wherever he takes his vacation.
He has read, for example, of the
action taken by the Town Council of
Freudenstadt, little summer resort
near Tubinger, in Wurtemberg. The
council is determined that every sum-
mer visitor, or "cure-guest,' as the Ger
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Germany's Socialism of the Sword

essentially German-tworld revolution?
For Lensch it is this: The economic course
of the war has destroyed the middle classes
as a distinctive factor raised the 'proe-
tariat,' and welded the whole population to-
gether and the whole population with the
state. THE state says Lensch, has passed
through process of socializaton, and the
social democracy has passed through
process of nationalizaton.' The aim of
German Socialism is no longer to over
throw the existing state and the non-So-
cialist classes, but to permeate all classes,
to become itself the state, and to carry
forward the world revolution,' which is
Germany, to the overthrow Of all counter
revolutonares,' Of whom the chief is Eng
land. The obsolete ideas of Liberalism
and democracy were mere borrowings
from English indvidualism,' and, since
what is wanted is not weak state, but
strong state, the revolutionary character
of particular country has nothing to do
with the question whether its constitution
is liberal and republican, or monarchic
and autocratic.'"
The writer, concluding his analysis,
says this OF the work.
"The Importance of Lensch's book lies in
its candid, if boisterous, expression Of
what the ordinary German Socialists think
but do not dare to say. and in its pene-
trating analysis of the economic founda-
tions OF militarism. Lensch regards Eng
land as the one great enemy, and he ex
poets that England after the war will adopt
protection and be 'rejuvenated by faith
full imitation of the whole Prussian state
system, economic and military. What he
has never attempted to face is the possi-
bility that Germanys enemies will achieve
real economic unity and destroy the Ger
man system in the only way by which it
can be destroyed-by the destruction of its
economic foundations"