Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1915, Page 1

The sure way to satisfy your wants is through -ise of the want ad pages of The Bee. Try a Bee want ad. ———— XLiV—NO. VOL. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE WEATHER Fair I & 1 1915 - FOURTEEN PA( 1. R DETERMINED | 10 GO AFTER AND DESTROY WILSON .Witness Says Colonel, Feeling 1912 | Issues Dead, Resolved to Tear President to Pieces. at Vauzier, New York Lawyer Asserts Other Agreed with Him that it Was Time for New Deal. NO ROOM FOR BARNES AND HIM | SYRACUSE, N. Y., May Charles W. Hutchinson, jr., a New York lawyer, declared on the witness stand, in the trial of the Barnes- Roosevelt suit, that in July, 1914,] Theodore Roosevelt had told him that he agreed that the issues of \ 1912 were dead and that he would | “go after” President Wilson in his| Pittsburgh speech and “tear hjm to! pieces.” Mr. Hutchinson quoted Colo- | nel Roosevelt as saying, however,! that after what happened in Chicago | in 1912, the republican party was| not big enough for both him and Mr. Barnes. Wounld Go Mr. Hutchinson Colonel Roosevelt in New York, July continued: “The conversation was in regard to the gubernatorial nomination. 1 told Colonel Roosevelt that the lssues which divided the repulbican party in 1912 were dead. He said that was right. He said he would go after President Wilson in his Pitteburgh speech. He said he was the man to do it “He sald that after what happened at Chicago the republican party big enough for himself and Mr. On cross-examination the ‘witness said his purpose in seeing Colonel Roosevelt was to get some information as to just what he intended to do. Should Reunite, “Did you tell Colonel Roosevelt thought the progressive party through and might as well die.” “No, I told him I thought we should get together—that is, the two factions of the republican party.” “What did he say about Wilson?" “He sald he would go after him in his Pittsburgh speech and tear him to yieces and that he was the only man who could do it. Clearing House for Crime Located by (Gotham Officers YORK, May 12.~The twelve | 18 After Wil told of a talk with in the Harvard club 15, 1914. The witness Tennis Champion Killed in Attack on Dardanelles NEW YORK, May Anthony F. Wilding, the New Zealand lawn terinis | champién, whe was killed in the allied attack on the Dardunelles. played his last matches in this city before he went :om- « join the troaps -sent by New caland to aid the mother coun Wit Norman Brooks, he -i-u&mn & Australiasian team which just year car- ried the Davis intériational cup back from the Unfted States to the antipgdes, Wilding was born in' New Zeiiand fn’ 1883, From the age of 16 years he won a suc- cession of todrnaments in’ the British isles” and at onme time or another held every jmportant championship. . By many blarket indictments- voted yesterday |y. . rated us the greatest player the against thirty-four men. charging them|g.,nq aver has produced. He first ap- with various crimes, rom rioting and | Loored in the Davis cup matches in 1905 you was | | | NEW assault to flrst degree mruder, In €ON- {4, {n 198 with Brookes successfully de-! nection With the garmen workers strike, | fonded the tropiy in Australiasia. rounds the death knell of the Now /York | After Great ‘Britain captured the cup gangster and are the forerunner of other and it was won in turn by the United wholesgle arrests, according to Listrict | States, Wilding und Brookes came to Attorney Perkins, At the 'district at-ithis country last summer and met Mc- torney's office It was said today that de- | Langhlin and Willlums, representing the tectives had found a “clearing house” for | United States in the finals at the West crime, run by gangsters of this city and |Side Tennis club, Long Island. On that that every gang leader operating in New |occasion Wilding defeated Willlams and York had been eliminated. | Bropices lost to McLaughlin, dut together Nine of the thirty-four indicted men |the Australasians captured the doublés were arralgned today en warrants charg- and the trony : ing variously assault, sttempted extor- ' Wilding at the time of his death was a tion, riot, injury to property and firat de- | sccond licuterant in the Royal marines. gree murder. With the exception of the | ! one charge of murder, bail was sct at Papllllon Man in Canadian Army from 32,000 to $5,000 in each case Teutons Lose 165 000 Since First of May ! { OTTAWA, Ont., May 12.-Names of sev- {eral officers are contained in the casualty |Nst for the Canadian contingent issued tonight by the militia department Captain George W. Jameson, Winnipeg. formerly reported wounded, is now re- ported wounded and missing. Lieutenant Thomas Downie Lockhart, Berlin, Ont., and Lieutenant Alfred . Bastedo, pre- viously reported wounded, now re- ported killed in &vtion. Privates Edwin John Davis, Cavington, | Va., 1s given ms killed in sction, and G Campbell, Papillion, Neb,, wounded. GENEVA, May 12 (via Paris).—A dis- yateh from Cracow to the Journal De Geneve says that the losses of the Aus- trians and Germans since May 1 amount | 1o 165000 officers and men. Losses of | the Russians In prisoners are placed at The dispatch says the Russlans are; holding firmly the principal strategic positions and that both sides are recelv-| ing heavy reinforcements. - The Weather PAPILLION, Nebh., May 12.-(Special Telegram.)—George Campbell, also known = o B etk as George Alden, left here about eighteen Formeian bharcn Tutt and Vienity { months ago for Canada. He wrote friends Fair; slightly cooler. | here that he had enlisted in a Canadian Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. ! yghjander regiment.” He s about L years old and served two years in United States army. Body of Mrs. Charles " Plamondon Found May 12.—The body 9| Charles A. Plamondon, for 8 retatives 1 been searching since . steamship Lusitania was torpedoes Record, {found today in one of the 1016, -914, 1912, 1912, | Queenstown, Ireland, according to a ~ 64 | cablegram received today by 1 John pay, [ 4 ,‘: B. Murphy. whose wife sister L oy gy o % .10 |Mrs. Plamondon, from the American cons Temperature and precipitation depar- | sul at Queenstown. ures from the normal Normal {emperature 6l g BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MEETS IN DENISON Bxcess for the day tal excess since March | | May 1 Normal precipitation | 1719 Inches | apnual scssien of the Des Moines Deficiency for the du) Total rainfall singe March 1 5= eyt oo o b stk a r.AL the CHICAGO, of Mrs which the was ve 3 morgues Compar “ 0 Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday is a 1 n i - .16 inches Deficiency since March 1 Deficiency fcr cor. neriod Excess for cor vd, 191 {in this city, beginning Tuesday evening NRain- | There is representatlons from churches fall. oliccated in western towa, from Missourl Valley to Boone, and north to Fort Dodge, and south to Herlan and Perry The leading Baptist workers of the state will be present, snch ss i Wil- | cox and Prof. Lapham. President Farl of the Des Moines universiiy. The, scssions ast until Thursday night, with & strong program. Reports from Stats Station and State . ar np. Figia Cheyenne, Davenport Denver, part « 5 o ¢ - 0 " w 0 ma “ Rapid City, clouay she part cloudy Siowx Citg. clear Valeatine, pert cloudy L, A. WELSH, wh % 2 Local Forecaster EMPEROR WILLIAM, surrounded by his personal staff Report has it the Kaiser is again at the front. AUSTRIA- ORDERS SHIPS IN ITALIAN SEAS T0 RETURN | Vessels Instructed to Proceed at | Once from Such Waters to { Trieste or Pola, Says Geneva. | {ISSUE UP TO KING AT ROME |King of Italy Has Power to Act Without Consulting Ministers or Parliament. ANTI-AUSTRIAN RIOTS IN ROME GENEVA, May 12.—(Via Paris) ~—The Austrian government has is- !uuod an order that all Austrian ships {in Ttallan waters proceed at once to | Triest or Pola. Germans arriving in Switzerland from Italy say it is no longer safe to 4 gpeak German on the streets of Mi- {lan or Turin. They say that several | Germans have been handled roughly | | by crowds, wo are reported to have {been nearly lynched at Brescia Border Towns ln Panic LONDON, May 12—The Evening News {has received a dispatch from its corre {spondent at Lugano, in Switserland, not [far from the Itallan fromtler, who says {that scenes of indescribable panic .!01 occurring on the border. Several thou- sand Italians are walting for trains to take them back to Italy. In Udine, northeastern Italy, the mayor of the vity lie providing temporary accommodations | for the increased population. | Itallan steamers, the correspondent | continues, are bringing from Zaba, in Dalmatia, hundreds of Austro-Ttallans | who are fearful of reprisals at the hands iof the Austrians. Troops Protect Germanas. Switzerland, May 13—The i Swiss government is sending more troops toduy to points on the southern frontier, especially to Lugano, because of anti- German demonstrations. It 1s estimated that 10,000 Germans from Italy are in and Germans Capture East of Ypres and Bombard Dunkirk BERLIN Germar Ma 12<(Via London.)-The army headquarters today gave & report on (he progress of hostilities, whicn reads Western thcater. Aviators of the en emy yesterday dropped bombs on Brug without from a mill- tary point of view “Hast of Ypres hill tiilery A Rritish fiving machine Trenches taken by the French durthg the last few dave between Carency and Neuville, rorth of Arras, are still in thetr Otherwise all the tempts of the enemy made vesterday to break through our lines were in vain His attacks were confined chiefly against our_positions to the east and southeast Vermelles, in the Lorette hills, and the villages of Ablain and Carency, well a8 ukainst our positions to the east and southeast of Arras “Other advances broke down heavy losses to the enemy by our opponents to take Weilerkopf again resulted in is & fact that after vigorous doing any Jdamage we took an important Bast of Dixmude we shot down poasession at at as with Hartmans. fallure. Tt preparations hot- now nn- cipat tles of the war thus far der way. The Belg in the 1t thelr tatheriand bold, are pushing forward, coenn. nan attempt to plere Hne. Between thewe two @ the Germans are on the affensive, pressing againat the Britisxh army with great foree. ANS ADMIT fuvther Gallela, althongh denying Austrian and German reports of » complete rout. RE RTS FROM ALL sounrvees fndle eate that the loss of on the Galllpoli peninsula han been wes vere. THE COURSE | I ETALY In w near Lugano. Local agitators have marched In procession in front of the Lu- Gunmen Used by i o 1 Both Sides During | Germans. cuing out to them iuiing |phrases. 1he Lufano police aparently |are finding difficulty In dealing with the crowds. Labor DisputesI WASHINGTON, May 12 —Gunmen 'and | gunwomcn have been used by both strik- ers and employers In industrial disturb- ROMBE, May 1L—(Via Paris, May 12)— Final decision as to whether Italy shall declare war or maintain neutral rests dectded, ¥ to have almost given up hope that Italy will vemain at peac LIFEBOAT FROM Dunkitk was bombarded by our ar- | An attempt | ances Yolice Commissioner Woods of New York. told the industrial Mm' commission today. The commissioner re- LUSITANIA FOUND Small Craft Containing Bodies of with King Victor Emmanuel. The Ital- fan constitution gives to the sovercign alone authority to “‘declare war, make iES SINGLE COPY TWO CENT 'WILSON WRITES * STRONG NOTE T0 GERMAN KAISER President Formally Demands Strict Accounting for Loss of Ameri- can Lives in So-Called War Zone. Important Hill French Do the urs ted | ) by | penetrated artillery Alpine Ausse blockhouse situa top of the hill, but they | mediately thrown out again. Eastern tieater: The battie at Shavii, in Courlam still Is raging without any result having been reached On the Baura a Russian battalion which made an attempt to cross the | | river was annihilated | Southeastern theater: Out pursult be- ' tween the Carpathian mountains and the Vistula river is still in full swing and further heavy demage has been inflicted | upon the enemy along this entire front. | For example, a battalion of the Fourth Foot Guards regiment alone took four- toen officers, including a colonel and 4,500 men prisoners, and at the same time cap- tured four cannon, one machine sun com pany, with horsea and one bagkage co! umn “Forces of the Teutonie allies have | MEETS crossed the San river, between Sanck |and Dinow. Further to the northwest'| they have reached the region of Raeszow- nelso Troops fighting in the Carpathians on both sidex of the Stry yesterday drove the enemy out of his positions. NEW ANGLO-FRENCH | OFFENSIVE STARTS Allies' Armies Sweeping Northward | from Arras on Long Line Cap- ture German Positions. on were im- READY FOR ANY EVENTUALITY Note, While Friendly in Tone. is Phragsed in Unmistakably Ed- phatic Language. VIEWS OF ALL ADVISERS WASHINGTO! May 12.-—The ! United States government, in a note to Germany today, formally demand: of the Imperfal government a etrict {accounting for the loss of American lives in the sinking of the Lusitama and violations of American rights in the war zone. It also asks guaran- tees that there will be no repetitin: of such events or practices. With the plain intimation in it that the United States is prepared tc meet any eventualities that may arise from a noncompliance, the communi- | cation, phrased in ummistakably em- phatic language, was prepared to be cabled to Berlin by nightfall, Written by President Wilson and an proved unanfmously by the cabinet, ! note was being cargfully examined by Counsellor Lansing and the law offices of the government at the State depart- ment today to make sure that its phrage- ology covered every point of law involved Statement for atdent. The White House officially announced the fact that the president had finalty determined the course of action to be pursued In the following statement issuec TEUTONS RUSH MEN TO FRONT | LONDON, May 12.—The progress of the allies’ offensive in Flanders | |and northern France has given rise | to the hope here that one of the really momentous phases.of the war is in process of a solution vhlchi would be regarded as favorable from the British point of view, Berlin recognizing the importance of the by secretary Tumuity after a conterence new turn of events. German news- with the president: apers emphasizé in large headlines| "The course of the president has bee: :Ih: be, lnnvlnx of the mew Anglo-|dotermined. It will be snmounced just 8! an aoon as it {s proper to publish the French offensive. noto now in preparation.” German reinforcements rushed from| This was taken to mean that the Lens and Doual thus far apparently have [American government, observing the usual falled to eheck the dash of troops which, | diplomatic amenitios, would await the re- sweeping northward from Arras have |oeipt of the communication in Berlin be- captured German positions. The German |fore making it public, At first there was war office states that progress has been | some suggestion that the communication made against the British line east of |'be sent personally the prosident to Reported Wounded| peace and conclude treaties, / There 1s' & diversity of opinien in the capital, however, as to whether aetion by, h mwny should purely formal t indictments r ) the New ¥ork ‘county :ri'-rmm * of “’h’ sccbrdance ik e aecaion [ ““Tiiln investigation,” waid Commissionoy | ¢ACHed, by ‘his minlsters. Thoss who Woods, “has shown a large employment | fVor mhking his constitutional preros of wuninen_by strikers and a somewhat|!!’é More than a matter of form, are employment of gunmen by employers, urging that as soon as Austria makes its Noj only gunmen, but in strikes involvs | final decision regarding territorial con- ind wemen workers, gunwomen have|cessions, the cabinet shall ask the king bebn sl to take supreme command and rely upon Comimlssioner Woods dld not believe the | bs Judgment. present industrial system was the cause| Apparently, however, a majority of the of the growth of gunmen as an institu-|PeOPle believe the cabinet must assume tlon. The employment of gunmen in|the responsibility one way or another, strikes, he belifeved, merely fncidental towith the certainty that its decision will the géneral life of crime led by the be sustained almost unanimously by Par- sapgster. {lament and the country. The status of Stephen ~ 8. Gregory' of Chicago, a | Parllament ix to remain uncertain. It lawyer, decried genéral use of injunctions may or may not be asked to express an in labor disputes and boycotts, he thought, opinion as to the wisest course to pur- were often justified. He proposed exten- | sue. slon of the control of all industrial or- ganizations hy tho federal government. | Troops were called out tonight to dls- Prof.. Héhry ‘8. “Seager of Columbliyerse a great crowd of war enthusiasts | university declared that “ac falr-minded | wio paraded the -principal streets cry | Ptpoon can derly that the courts of the lyng “Down with Austria! Down with land do act with a-decided blas towhrd! Giolitty, " and oheering for Premier | employers . as against jabor.” He TeCOM-{galundra and Minister of Forolgn Af- |talre Sonnino. Most of the persons In iated: gdotails. ot an, “of | Imafe-lm-of . Hw'lfiw m “Dopey--Benny." which culminated yes- {terday in the return Anti-Austrian Rtots. Three Women and Two Boys Drifts Ashore. FEW BODIES ARE IDENTIFIED QUEENSTOWN, May 12.—A Lus! tania lifeboat bearing the bodles of three women and two boys, which has been adrift since last Friday, Is reported ashore today near Baltl- more, on the south Irish c There were no American first tabin passengers among the seven- teen dead brought into Queenstown this morning. The bodles of nine men and eight women who perished when the Lusitania sank, comprising those brought ‘ashore at Baltimore and other Irish coast points, arrived here this morning aboard a tus. The only body of a first class passenger which was promptly identified wus that of Percy Secombe of Peterborough, Ont., son of the late Captain C. W. Becombe of the Cunard line. His sister, Miss Eliga- beth Secombe, still is missing Slow progress 1s velng made in the work of identification, few relatives of passengers are now here and the au- thorities are relymng only upon papers and trinkets found on th ebodies. The names James Harrtson and A. P. Norris were found on papers in the pockets of two of the men, while that of K. Hick- was found on Ahe body of one man. Three of the dead were mem- bers of the Lusitania's crew. On the body of Mr. Harrison was found @ card of the Young Men's Christian as- soclation of Bridgeport, Conn. Ro: cked Up Off Fastnet. diplomats ac- at | o mended a permanent industrial commis- sion to harmonize mnmc‘flu Intereats of | 1o throng apparently felt the ohtiat animosity toward former Premier Glolitts, Many K]“ed and veace party. ‘An attempt was made to 2 < {storm his residence, but It was frustrated Hurt Dur]ng Rlot |by soldlers. The crowd jeered as it In Gonstantino lel Demonstrations similar to that in the P18} capia are odsurring 1 the larger towns fobrs s ythroughout the country. Clashes with Journal De Geneve has recefved a dis- |prevented several times by the Interven- patsh from Saloniki saying that many ' tion of troops and the police. persons have been killed or injured in| Every precaution has bben takem by Mobs numbering thousands, the news- | Austrian and German paper said, plllaged the shops! The sul-'credited both to the quirinal and vatican. tan guard has been called out The final Austrian counter-proposals | Palace hotel, the largest and most Pre- (na. will satisfy the demands of the tentious European hotel in the city, capinet, which insists upon the cession \was sacked, The police were OVer- ,r ,i territory either racial or strategic- Food prices in doubled and there is widespread misery among the lower clasmes. The hospitals capital and labor. s/ Who 'is. regarded as the leader of the | passed the'German nccleslastical college, GENEVA, May 12.—(Via Paris)—The |those Wwho favor neutrality have been the course of riots in Constantinople. |the authorities of Rome to protect the According to this information the Pera | .re expected soon, but it is not believed whelmed rally Italian are crowded with wounded soldiers tantinople have Pope is Much Dep: SAN SEBABTIAN, Spain, May 11.—(Via| Paris, May 12)—-Fope Benedict s greatly depressed by the trend of events in Italy | and believ the intervention of that| country in the war is only a question of | days. according to apparently authentic information received here. The pontiff 18 reported to be greatly concerned regard- | ing the possible effect war would have | on the relations tetween the Quirinal and | the Vagican. He has d to ‘invite Eaveria Vaticar | Germans Will Wear l . Green Uniforms | | Ao THE HAGUE, May 11.—(Via London The, German troops will be clothed | gruss green uniforins during the sumums months, according to private information ! retelved here from Ghent. where a large factory s sald to be working day and night makiug the new clothing. - Field gray will the color worn again in not only | Austrians and | ided, it iw said here the Germans ambassador to leave Rome, 1 ninelog from which would he hostile to Italy but to withdraw ey redited to the | the courts of | LONDON, May 12.—240 p. m)— Lioyds have a lifeboat of the Lusitania, and two children, which was picked up bottom up yesterday, seven miles off stuet. The boat was towned Into Long Island bay and the bodies taken by the coast yuard to Skull, Fastnet is four miles from Cape Clear Seventy Inspectors Visit German Ships Interned at New York NEW YORK tors to the numbér of seventy went in two boats late today to the North Ger man Lloyd and Eteamship company plers in Hoboken, where many Cerman steamers are tied up, Including the glant steamship Vater- und, ostensibly on thelr regular monthly trip of inspection campa makir BYOF L OFF winter en. for which the are irreat preparation according to the storics of riving In Holland The German serted, has materia) | entrenching tools the end of De of Berlin, it | campaign wouid lest in A t of persons a tepartment kind edical st sutfi i yrde many of new s luding s and - GATE-CITY-OF THE-WES' Omaha's new million dol- lar court house would bz an ornament to any city. For architectual beauty, artistic finish, and practical ar- rangement it is unsurpassed as a public building of its and will well repay inspection of visitors. n last unt iginal belfe? wes that the mcluded at the lat ear |BELGIAN RELIEF FUND REPORTED AT LINCOLN Following is » st of the Belgian relief fund reported at | eoin Previously regorted itizens of Cordova. by L R. Lull | | s subscritions to | Lin- T | the 819 2 Ordinarily the squad of inspectors con- (sists of about twelve men. The unusual |size of the detall today gave rise to re- {ports that the visit was more than a mere inspection and that the big vessels | would searched throughout It rumored that the visit was made upon i telegraphic instructions from Washington, North Russian Port of Arclgnp;el Open WASHINGTON, May 12.<The Russian port of Archangel is open, the American ¥ d today department nn-government goods officially restrioted export be was consulate at & cablegr: Transportation to the Thore has bee embargoes. trograd announce ) to th in State interiog s n no change in the Ypres, but Sir John French's laconic | Emporor Willlam, but|Mr. Wilson deter- ish tield marshal that u‘m-fi addressed not. to German govern- ) to the German ritlon trobne’ ardtLing gt g % ' in the direetion of Lflle. The aituation on the huge nm AN oy AT .- ;'u.:'m field :; L °m"°""' 3 mt.“n.': dorrid nflfi \ “financial reparation that t) : /ot ox| ut protost name o o yhog e oo Lung 'y -&mm bovwib oy 180 pokay law, and h to obtain Pétroktad and Berlin are so divergent, o guarantee that such will not repéated however, ‘that miiitary experts aro Joath |ne g 20 D g on e to commit themselves. batants ssorificed. French Ofticial Report. The communication lays stress on the PARIS, May 12—The French war office | Inhumanity of the attacks without warn- this afternoon issued the following state- (IN& on merchant vessels. It reviews in a ment on the progréss of hostilities: genéral way every case in the war zone “In the sector to the north of Arras, [in which the rights of American citizens we have maintuined our gains, excepting |have been transgressed—the sinking of fn front of Loos, where a night counter |the steamer Falaba, with the loss’ of attack remulted in taking from us a part |Leon O. Thresher, an American; the at- of the terrain we captured in the day |tack by German airmen on the American time. steamer Cushing: the torpedoing of the “On the west front yesterday saw ar-|American steamer Guiflight white flying tillery engagements.” the American flag and finally the destruc- Russtans Cheok Teuton Advance. z:;:;::m"" "“:““:'::‘:‘:‘n PETROGRAD, May 12.—(Via London.) 3% Tt Amfl:’n‘:‘h —~While admitting that the Austro-Ger- | Tl (b0t G CTa T L nd potnted, does man movement from Cracow has met |, e syundin tones of friendiiness, giving with a degree of wuccess, Russian |,om for o disavowal by Germany of its mititary authoritios asserted today that|yoes o an abatement of fts practices. there was no possibility of a further ad- | mniy |y intimated in the suggestion that vance, with {ts consequent menace to|the German government and the German the security of ‘the Russian position in|people could certainly mot have intended the Carpathians. to sacrifice American lives in the pur- In semi-official comment today upon |suit of thelr maritime warfare, this situation, it was said the sucoess of | 4 gyertisements Not Recogmised. the Austro-German forces was due to| Attention is called ‘to the faect that their overpowering numbers. They ad-|while advertisements of . warning' ap- vanced along & Une of about thirty |peared in the newspapers, the United miles, stretching northward from Nowy |States government was never officially Handec and pushed on to points as far|informed of it, but irrespactive of that, enst as Stryzszow and Drsosow, the lat- | the position is taken that the serving of ter being within less tham thirty miles | notice to do an unlawful act neither jus- of Przemysl. It is sald here that the |tifies it nor makes it lawful. Fyissian forces have now been re-| The note calls for an explanation from grouped in such a way as effectually to|Germany of its past and future course oppose this movement. and leaves open the steps the United In meeting the Austro-German on-|States will take to compel an acquiese- ence in its position. slaught, the Russian generals were able to bring up only about one-fifth of their | Cabinet officers knewn the advo- | May 12.—Customs inapec- Hamburg-American forces ranged along the %0-mile front. | Gontinued on FPage Two, Column One) The Germans and Austrians, however, are reported here to have concentrated thirteen divisions along a sixteen-mile front in the district of Krosno, just | northeast of Dukla and they have ocom~ |tinually rushed in fresn reserves | Nothwithstanding thelr numerical in- ferlority, the Russians were able to re- |tire in good order to more favorable positions. They destroyed the roads as they went and brought off thelr guns, |ammunition and other stores, Germans Plan Air Raid Upon London LONDON, May 12.—American residents of Berlin who had planned tfips to Lon- {don have been warned by high officials lagainst going to England during the oming fortnight, as Important Zeppelin {ralds are planned, according to a Rotter- {dwmn dispatch to the Mail. German of- |fictals are sald to have explained that | recent Zeppelin raids were mere recon- | natsance to test the strength of the Brit- |1sh merial defenses |CLASS PLAY TO BE GIVE BY BENSON HIGH SCHOOL The “‘Seniors’ Jubilee,” & minstrel, will | be presented by the senior class in the ning, as the { 044 Fellows' hall Friday e class play of the Benson High schoel, will hold its annual commence- ment exercises on the evening of June 10 in the Methodist church. The class will be the largest in its history, twenty- five boys Class colors are green and | | which "y t nan