Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1915, Page 3

il 1 OFFICER IS TRAGIC Captain Writes of Awful Effect of French Artillery Fire at Lorette MANY DEMANDS FOR HELP PARIE, June L ~An account of the fight ng in the vicinity of Notre Dame 1) ofette, as written down by a Germar f named Cartain Sjevert in his note the “eve-witness at the front The pur mparison with the meerning I8 10 serve as a ¢ ench official statements ¢ ombats in this vicinity Captain Sievert, the author, wae killed His body war one of 4,000 found on the slopes of Rette and his notebook covers the fighting from May 10, the day after the French attack, up to May 20, the day the captain was killed. An order issued on the evening of Ma provided for the holding of the positions n the plateau of Lorette and along the Ablain-Carency line. To carry out these natructions Captain Sievert had avail- tble only one battalion of 22 men, or one third of its normal fighting strength be fora golng into hattle. His notebook con tains repeated demands for help. Calle for Ammunition. We absolutely need a supply of hand zrenades’” is an entry in the diary under Jate of May 11. The number which Cap- tain Sfevert had was Insufficient and he ould not earry out his attack. Further more the lack of projectiles prevented all hance of success Later there was more trouble for the captain. Orders were badiy given and confusion of seotors made necessary marches and counter marches under French artillery fire. “The way from Souchez to Ablain is impractieable,’” the captain wrote, “exposing us to inces sant artillery fire. Ablain, like Soucher. is nothing but a heap of rulns. Our gulde is unable to lead us further and wet with sweat. wo grope along. The situation is desperate. Our mon decamp at each shell which falls and it is necessary to threaten them with court-martial.” Reinforcements ®ailed to arrive, further aifficulties arose and Captain Sievert wrote that the situation was hopeloss Artillery Fire is Awful. The last page of this dairy was written at 10 p. m. of May 2. In it the captain anid: “The bombardment today completely destroved what remained of our trenches. The men have been without support for | three days. It 1s impossible to hold this | position with such a feeble force. ) nsk | that an officer be sent here to report on the situation. I ask again that the Fourth | company of the Eleventh regiment be | placed at my disposition. Artlllery fire of | ilie enemy Is frightful, especially that of the hvavy guns. We can hear the projec- | ties of this artillery coming slowly through the air. Every man is watchful and tense; he wonders where this par-| ucular shell is going to fall. The parapet trembles and & cloud of earth and pleces n | h o shell rain down on us. How long must | PRZEMYSL FORTS ARE TAKEN i we remain in this rat trap? 1 belleve now that my nerves are gone. The fire of the émemy has attained its greatest violence. Indescribable—"" Here the tragic notes of Captain Sievert come to an end. This dairy, says the eye witness, indi- cates the “great success of the French " artillery and A At the same time it shows the super- human efforts Germany is obliged to demand of Its army, and this even be- fore the participation of Italy, which on a new front will hereafter take part in the siege of German and Austrian fort- resses. TWO MEN ASPHYXIATED IN WELL AT LEOLA, S. D. — ABEURDEEN, 8. D, June 2.--(Special Telegram.)—While digging a well on the farm of Jacob Colum, near Leola, 8. D, Jacob Colum, aged 23, and Jacob Glasier, aged 3|, were overcome by gas when at a depth of clghty feet and both were Kitled. The men left the house &t noon to work on the well and discovery of the accldent was made at 4 o'clock. It s supposed one of them was overcome and the other went down to rescue him and niso lost his fe. In drawing hum to the top the grap. pling hook caught in Colum's shoe, and when he neared the surface the shoe came off fnd the body dropped the elghty feet to the bottom again, but was finally reccvered. Colum was married last January. Glasier was single. AMES WILL SEND TWO MEN TO ILLINOIS MEET AMES, Ja. June 2—(Special)—Ames, having tied with Drake for the high hon- | ors in the lowa state meet, winner of | second place In the Missouri Vailey con- | ferance at Columbia, Mo., last Saturday, | will seng a team of only two men to the | meet uf the Western Intercolleslate con ference meet at Urbana this coming Saturday Coach Merriam was not altogether satis- fiel with the ghowing his men made ¢ the muddy Mixsourt track. ' The two me he will send are Packer, hurdler, and Dickinson, sprinter. Packer, providing he bas gocd luck In drawing a track at Urbana and is in his top form, should maks the big nine hurdlers get right up and move in the 120 highs, thinks Me; riam | Mayser Will Conch Amen AMBS, la., June 2 —(Bpecial.) Charles | W. Mayser, now foot ball coach at Franklin & Marshall, wno was elected by the Ames athletic council to tnke the reins of the Cyclone varsity f bal wam, will leave Franklin & the middle of August, to come tuke hold of the Ames situation, statements given out by Chairma Williame of the physi-al department (o 1oday rshall out to was the Night Couxh Relleved. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey eases your cough, soother the lungs and invites sieep; only 3. Al) druggists —Advertise ment. Departwment Orde WASHINGTON, June L—(Special Telo- | #ram.)—Nebrasks postmasters appointed | Allen, Dixon county, Sterling wart, | vice 1 . Bhackelford, resigned: Zell. Keith county, U. Grant Woolsey, vice “ime paste Dunlap, Brule unlap, Brule county, outh Dakota; s Beeh® dimsoncimaed | Nebruska pensions granted Nency F Duwson, =tardeton 2. Sarah Walker l)_-AhL 12 Zeal . Brigga, West Point Mucy, 812 ‘The comptroller of the granced a Charier t hamk of Mobridge B Harri- { more than two years { Mexico THE BEE OMAHA, THURSDAY, DIARY OF GERMAN President Wilson Sends a Solemn Warning to the Mexican Factions VASHINGTON, In June 2 &, United States instinctively and gen-yof the revolution—constitutional statement to the American people to- | erously sympathized. But the lead-| government and the rights of the day President Wilson served notice|ers of the revolution in the very hour | people. Patriotic Mexicans are sick on the factional leaders of Mexico|of their success have disagreed and|at heart and cry out for peace and that unless within “a very short|turned thefr arms against one an-|for every self-sacrifice that may be time” they unite to set up a govern- | other neceskary to procure it. Their peo ment which the world can recognize “All professing the same objec-|ple cry out for food and will pre the TUnited States will be con-!tive, they are nevertheless unable or | ently hate as much as they fear ever strained to decide what means should be employed by the United States in order to help Mexico save itself and serve its people Notes a Change in President’s Policy. Signalizing a change watchful waiting” policy, which has guided relations with tor the president's from the Mexico statement was regarded everywhere in official and diplomatic quarters as notice of a new and vigorous policy to restore the Rio peace below | Grande Everywhere it # warning that Unfted States is exbausted. What stepe the president is prepared to |take if his warning goes unheeded are not disclosed in the statement In high officlal quarters, less, no doubt existed that he is pre- pared to proceed. The statement, which goes to Car- runza, Villa, Zapata and Garza, the principal leaders, not as a diplomatic | note from the United States, but as a declaration of President Wilson's attitude, expressed in a statement to the American people, as as follows “For more than two years revolu tionary conditions have existed The purpose of the revolu- | tion was to rid Mexico of men who | ignored the constitution of the re- public and used their power in con- tempt of the right of its people, and with these purposes the people of thd GERMANS CAPTURE 300,000 RUSSIANS | Kaiser's War Office Reports Fur- ther Sucoesses in Russian Poland and Eastern Galicia. BERLIN, June 2.— (Via London.) ~~The German army headquarters announced today that more than 300,000 Russians had been captured ships, even if carrying contraband, and | makiug it very difficult for the enemy to An-| that merchantmen which do not resist|bring up fresh supplies. The first: line during the month of May. nouncement also was minde That further Russian entrenchments ne Przemysl had been captured. The statement follows: “Wo shot down a Ziritish flying machine at Bixscoote. The occupants, one Bel glan and one British officer, were taken prisoners. ““The sugar refinery east of Souches, 1 nto which the French penetrateq vester- | day atternoon, has been recaptured by us. An attack begun by the French against our positions and south of Neuville during the ovening was repulsed. Only a small seotion of & trench on the other side of the high roads from Neuville to Fourle was occupled by the enemy. “Fighting at close quartars in the for eat of Le Pretre for the possession of cer- tain portions of the trenches continues Russians Are Defeated. astern theater: Successful ments occurred against minor Russian divisions at Nenhausen, fifty kilometres (about thirty mires) northeast of Libau, and at Shillkl, sixty-oine kilomotres (about 0 miles) southeast of Libau. The same thing happened further south in the district of Shavil and on the Dubysa southeast of Kielmy and between Uglamy engage- and Bjargula. At Shavit we took 0 prisoners. “‘Southeastern theater: Further Rus- slan entrenchments situateq around Dun- kokicskl (near Przemysl) were taken by storm yesterday. After the victory at Stry the allled troops advanced yesterday in the direction of Melenice “In the month of May 83 officers and | 268,500 men were taken prisoners in the southeastern theater of war, while 251 canhon and machine guns were cap- tured. Of these numbers the capturing of 40 officers, Including two generals, 165,254 men, 160 cannon, Including twenty- clght heavy ones, and 48 machine guns 8 o the credit of the troops under Gen. | #4ke, Without remedy for the present oral Mackenzen. Including prismers| @04 In the future for attacks on Amer- taken in the castern theater of tho war, | 181 Vessels. The opinion was general as well as those announced yesterday, | (M8l the United Btates would restate dur- the total number of Russians who have | !P® the course of its note that the Lusi- slion 1o the hands of the Geimanie] !IA Was unarmed and would ignore allled troops during the month of May|®UCh Questions whether the carriage of amounts to about 1,000 officers and more | 2MMUNition is a violation of American than 300,000 men Vreneh Official Report. FARIS, Jung 2.-The nch War office his afternoon gave an official re- | port on the progress of hostilities reading: In the sector to the north of Arras the was interpreted as| the patience of the| | neverthe- in! unwilling to authority of Mexico City is no sooner co-operate, A central {86t up than it is undermined and its | authority expected to support it ‘ Mexico is apparently nearer |a of its tragical troubles | than it wag when the revolution was | first kindled | eivil ‘r't"lvrn\v-d. its flelds lle unseeded, its {work cattle are confincated no solution It has been swept by war as if by fire, its crops are for the use of the armed factions, its people flee to the mountains to escape being ldrawn the blood | shed and no man seems to see or lead {the way to peace and settled order. There 18 no proper protection either for its own citizens or the citizens of other nations resident or at work Mexico in starv- ing and without a government into unavailable within its territory | United States Must | Take Some Hand. | and government of the United States cannot stand indifferently by and do nothing to serve their mneighbors. Mexico. Least of all do they desire to settle its affairs for it or claim any right to do so. But neither do they wish to see utter ruin come upon ft, and they deem it their duty as friends and neighbors to lend all aid they properly can to any instru- mentality which promises to be effec- tive in bringing about a settlement denied by those who were | “In these circumstances the people | They want nothing for themselves in | which will embody the real objects i man in their country or out of it who stands between them and their daily bread Peace Must Be Had Without Further Delay. “It is time, therefore, that the gov ernment of the United States should frankly state the policy which in these extraordinary circumstances it| becomes its duty to adopt. It must {presently do what it has neither| dong or felt at liberty to do——iend its active moral support to some man | 'or group of men, if such may be, found, who can rally the suffering people of Mexico to their support In| an effort to ignore, if they cannot unite, the warring factions of the country, return to the constitution of the republic so long in abeyance and set up a government at Mexico City which the great powers of the world can recognize and deal with, |s government with wh:_un the pro- gram of the revolution will be a bus iness and not merely a platform. 1 therefore publicly and very solemnly | call upon the leaders of factions in| Mexico to act, to act together, and to act promptly, for the relief and re- demption of their prostrate coun-| try. 1 feel it to be my duty to tell| them that if they cannot accommo-| date their differences and unite for | thig great purpose within a very short time this government will be| constrained to decide what means| should be employed by the United | States in order to help Mexico save | BERNSTOREF HAS HALF HOUR TALK | WITH PRESIDENT 'Belgian Guns itself and serve its people.” i | | Destroy Several (Continued from Page One.) tion of the merchantman with American Mves, The questions of fact ralsed by Ger- many were regarded as irrelevant at this The trend of opinion was that the | United States must inquire and obtain an |early answer whether Germany intends to recognize the hitherto accepted prin- ciple that neutrals may travel anywhere | {on the high seas on unarmed merchant | capture must be visited and searched and | {the passengers and crew transferred to 1. place of safety before the vessel is | destroyed. | What it Would Lead To. ‘l An unfavorable answer to this inquiry would lead, it was predicted in officlal | auarters, to a severance of diplomatic | relations on the ground that the United States could not continue intercourse wjth & government which repudiated | these principles. Steps then will be taken to Inform Americans of the dangers to which they are exposed as a result of this action and such measures as neces- ! sary adopted to safeguard the lives and interests of citizens of the United States. Should Germany accept the principle |in & way that would constitute a guar- | antee for the future, the American gov- | ernment would reiterate its demand for | | “strict accountability” for violations of | | this principie and the killing of Americans in the torpedolng without warning of the | Lusitanta The decision to base the American note on the principles of internationsl law to obtain an affirmative or negative reply, and not enter into & technical discussion of detalls, raised in the German com- munication, which avoided the main fis- sues, was the single development of the cabinet council. View of Some Members. One cablnet officer verteved the Amer- | ican goyernment should enter into an in- vestigation of the points raised by the German answer, submitting its proot and siving the German government an op- portunity to do likewise. Others, how- ever, declared that such a process would cnly mean delay, and, in the event of & deadlock on facts, would leave the United States, which had already as- sured itselt of the authenticity of its In- formation and whose sod falth was at aw British Steamship Saidieh Torpedoed; fighting ontinued last night 1 the tabyrinth (o the souneast of Neuvmte| ~ 50VEN Are Drowned further lsoners Fhe total numher af LONDON, June 2 The British amer isoners made at this point since Mon- | Saidy from Alexandria kLgypt, for Gay night is over 4. AL Neuville itself | Liverpoo!, wus torpedoed vesterday mi we ok possession of 4 group o houses |the North Sea. Seven menabers of the | | where we wmalntained oursclves in spite | orew, ne ing a stewardess, were o1 several counter attacks. drowned Forty-one survivors were On the other parts of this province, |landed today at Chatham. | particularly at Loretta, there was fight-| The Saidieth had a crew of forty-eight sterday Greeks, a British commander and eight g the nainder of the front there |passengers of different nationalities. The othing (o report, with the exception |loss of iife was the result of the jam- | two bombardinents of Rheims, and [ming of davits while cne of the boats | articularly of the cathedral in that (ity.” |[was being lowered. The occupants of | —— this boat were thrown into the water. TWO MEN ARE KILLED BY | Those in the other boats were picked a trawler. They assert that no ACCIDENT AT CHARLES CITY MASON (ITY, la, June (Special Telegram )--Arthur Regel fell from » tree while cutting limbs and was in stantly killed. Walter Barney's car up et and he was lled instantly cldents yecurreg at Charles City Both ac Apartments. flats, houses and cottapes ean be rented auickly sand cheaply by a Bee “For Rent” Ad . jup by | warning was given before the vessel was sank fifteen minutes after {terpedled. Tt the explosion The Saidieh was owned by thé Khe- | dival Steamship company of London. Tt was formerly the steamer Pretorie n wilt In "Dumbarton, Wwhs Sev. nd, In f 198 tons and n Hee Want Ads Pr German Defenses 1 HAVRE, France, June 2.—The following | official statement was issued last night| regarding the operations of the Belgian army: { “A tierce artillery duel marked the day | of May 31 along the Belgian front. Bel- | glan guns of all calibers massed their fire, | blowing up the enemy's trenches and accessory defences at a number of points. : “All the roads bevond the German front | are commanded by the Belglans' fire, of Belgian troops by a continuous fire prevented German troona from .d\-.m,.’ ing." ! i AMERICANS IN URUMIAH. PERSIA. ARE REPORTED SAFEE WASHINGTON, June 2.—Americans at Urumiah, Persia, where Americans and other foreign missionary schools recently were attacked by Turks, are reported safe in a dispatch today from American Consul Paddock at Tabriz. He reported that & relief expbdition with food had set out from Tabriz | The Turkish government, at the request of Ambassador Morgenthau, recently sent troops to the scene. Urumiah since has been occupled by Russian troops. | | 2] | A Trustee Should Have - not only legal knowl- edge, but the exper- | ience, resources and fa- cilities to properly exe- cute the trust. 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