Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 11, 1915, Page 1

1o YWRUSSIANS HALT The sure way to satisfy your wants is through -1se of the want ad pages of The Bee. Try a Bee want ad. f U.S. Note to German THE OMAHA DAILY BE is Given QOut THE WEATHER. Cloudy VOL. XLIV—-NO. TEUTON ADVANGE ON EAST FRONT Wearied Muscovite Forces in Ga- licia Seem to Have Succeeded in Gaining Breathing Space. RUSSIANS HOLDING DNEISTER Claim from Petrograd Contradicted by Berlin, Which Reports Cap- ture of Stanislau. FRENCH ADVANCING SLOWLY LONDON, June 10.—Careful read- | ing between the lines of the various| officlal announcements of the last twelve hours leads British observers of the situation on the continent to the belfef that the wearied Russians have been successful in gaining a breathing space along the eastern front. Furthermore, evidence of the stubborn opposition which ahe Aus- tro-Germang are said to be meeting rear the center of the line in Galicia is declared here to exist in the state- ment from Petrograd that 2,000 Austro-German prisoners have been taken in a series of counter attacks near Frzemysl. According to Russian reports the Austro-German offensive . In southeast Galicla has not been able to cross the rivet Dnelster at any point other than Zurawna, which is forty miles from Lemberg and which they reached last Sunday. Berlin contradicts this with the state- ment that the right Wing of the army under General Linsingen has advanced ten mifles further and cccupled Stanis- lau, an important railroad center. French Advance Slowly. In the west the French make thelr usual report of slow progress, gaccom- panied by the repulse of German counter- attacks, The French claim and Berlin admits that the French now are in oc- cupation of the entira village of Neu- ville 8t. Vaast, while only a fraction of “The Labrynth” is left in German ‘hands. From other portions of the French front come reports of mipor advances. According to Vienna the efforts of the Itallans to cross the river lsonzo near ‘Cotigia . have beén repulsed after & serfous engagement. [t would. appear evident that the Itallans have net the first aifficult problem of their invasion of Austria in thelr endeavor to cross the Isongo, although they claim to have a foothold at some places on buth banks, * Fremeh Official Report. PARIS, June 10.—3:3 p ' m)—The French war office this afterncon issued & report on the progress of hostilities, reading: ““There was all last night a very violent artillery. engagement in the region be- tween Lorette and the sugar reéfinery at Souchez. At 9 o'clock at night the enemy delivered an attack which was, how- eyer; at once repulsed. “The Germans bombarded Neuville St. Vaast, but they made no endeavor to recapture it. We made further progress yesterday In “The Labrynth.” < “In the vieinity of Hebuterne we main- tained all our advance on a front of 1,60 yards long and for a depth of about 1,000 yards. “There is nothing firther to report from the remainder of the front.” Berlin Admits Loss of Colller. BRRLIN, June 10—(By Wircless to London, 8:88 a. m.)—Only one German ship, & colller, was gunk by a Russian submarine in- the. naval engagement of June b in the Baltic sea off the Gult of Riga, according to reliable information obtained here. It Was stated that a Ger- men vessel that was saillng by the side of the collier was only slightly damaged by the asme torpedo, but was able to K rt. m:m:m‘;ow-- made of a yeport published in the Army Messeager at Petrograd that there were explosions on other ves- rels attacked by Russian submarines or that any other damage was done, The Weather. Council llilufll Ilnd Vicinity lightly cooler. . ‘hnfly a Yesterday. B AT laddddd, 13 1 8 9 10 1 12 1 2 3 4 13 8 b § 8 Comparative Highest yesterday rda State h- ‘ the: est. ) loudy. vE e 3 clear v.l H K Part i k) o Clear no® ® el g £ Valent cloudy . . " M T indicktes trace of precivitation. L A WELSH al Forecaster. . 307. OMAHA FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1915--TWELVE PAG On Traing and at Hotel News Stands, So SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. l l—Br—yan Asks the Pass Judginent on Him| WASHINGTON, June 10.—The many. We do not only desire it, hut: text of Mr. Bryan's Statement fol-| with equal fervor we pray for it, but lows: | we differ “To the American people—+ Jneans of securing it. If it were “You now have before you the text merely a personal difference it would which it would have been my official | the presumptions are on his side— duty to sign had 1 remained secre-|the presumptions that go with power tary of state. I ask you to sit ln‘und authority. judgment upon my decision to nulgn‘ I am a private citizens without office rather than to share responsibility for | or title—but one of the hundred mil- it. T am sure you will eredit me with | lions of inhabitants. honorable motives, but that is not “But the real issue is not betweeén irreconcilably as to the| | of the note to Germany-—the note | be a matter of little moment, for all | He is your president, | KAISER MAKES NEW | SEA LAW T0 APPLY! 70 THE FRYE CASE Rejoinder to Note Claims Right to| Destroy Any American Ship Car- rying Contraband if Dam- i ages Are Paid. ‘ | secretary of state. {TWO POINTS ARE REJECTED ‘Gemnny Insists that Case Must Go to Prize Court for Determina- tion of Faots. PRESIDENT WILSON, who has phrased the note to Ger- many as he wants it, notwithstanding objections, of his enough. Good intentions could not atone for a mistake on such a time, on such a subject and under such ecir- cumstances. If ‘your verdict Is against me 1 ask no merey; I desire |none if 1 have acted unwirely. A man |in public life must act according to his conscience, but however conscien- tiously he acts, he must be prepared to accept without complaint any con- demnation which his own errors may bring upon him; he must be willing to bear any deserved punishment, from ostracism to execution. But hear me before you pass sentence. Agree in Purpose. “‘The president and I agree in pur- pose; we desire a peaceful solution of the dispute which has arisen be- tween the United States and Ger- | persons; it is between systems; and I rely for vindication wholly upon | strength of the position taken. “Among the Influences which gov- ernments employ in dealing with each other there are two which are pre- eminent and antagonistic—force and persuasion. Force speaks with firm- ness and acts through the ulti- | matum; persuasion employs argu- ment, courts investigation and de- ‘pend. upon negotiation. Force rep- resents the old system—the system ‘lhn( must pass away; persuasion rep- | resents the new system—the system that has been growing, all too slowly, it is true, but growing for 1,900 years. In the old system war is the {ehiet cornerstone— vhich at its best (Continued on Page . Column One.) MERGER MANIFESTO ARRIVES IN OMAHA Governor Morehead’s Proclamation Handed to City Clerk by Mes- senger of Postoffice. IS EFFECTIVE AFTER TEN DAYS At 4.21 o'clock yesterday Messen- ger George Lyon of the postoffice handed to City Clerk Flynn the Greater Omaha proclamation, signed and sealed by Governor Morehead. = At the expiration of ten days, ac- cording to the merger law, the con- golidation of Greater Omaha will be in legal operation, but as the tenth day from the receipt of the procla- mation by the city clerk happens to be Sunday, June 20, the city com- missioners will not attempt to exer- cise their jurisdiction over the an- nexed territory until Monday morn+ ing, June 21, The proclamation iseued by the gover- mor is a formal typewritten document, setting forth the law and quoting ‘the election commissioner's certification of the vote cast at the Greater Omaha elec~ tion on June 1. . The ecity clerk has filed the proclama- tion with the city records and will pre- sent it to the city councll next Monday morning at the regular meeting of the committes of the whole, unlesss the city legal department should advise holding a special meeting to take cognizance of the govérnor's official declaration. Tuesday morning the governor's office telephoned the city clerk that the procla- mation had been mailed., The clerk sent a special delivery stamp to the post- office with a request that the letter be hurried along to its destination.s Within forty minutes after the train reached Omaha the proclamatoin wag in the hands of the ctly clerk, Rumors reached the city hall during the afterncon that further atempts will be made by South Omaha men to get the consolidation case into the courts, but none of the rumors appeared to have any substantial foundation. WKennedy Given Degree. GALEEBURG, IlL, June 10.—The degree of docter of laws was conferred on ex- Congress:nan John L. Kennedy of Omaha at Knox college commencement today. ITALIANS 0CCUPY MONFALGONE GITY Important Point Near Gulf of Trieste and Near Port is Captured After Battle. MORE FIGHTING ALONG. ISONZO ROME, June 10.—(Via Paris.)— Efforts of Italian trbops to force a passage of the Isonzo river are being stubbornly contested by the Aus- trians, but are meeting with success, according to a statement signed by General Cadorna, chief of ‘the gereral staff, igsued at the War oftice last night. ’ The conimunication follows: “With the object of - repulsing the enemy from the dominating positions he still holds on the right bank of the Isowso and establishing strong positions at the passages/of tht river, we continued our operations on Juhe 7 and 8. The enemy offered a determined’ resistante, favored by the lay of the ground and strong for- tifications. Our passage was made more difficult by numerous obstacies placed on the bridges and in the roads and also by the flooded ground along the lower course of the river. Monfaleco: “Bverywhere our troops fought with ardor and tenacity and succeeded in tak- ing important positions, which enabled us to occupy the city of Monfalcone. The fire of our batteries considerably dam- aged the encmy's artlllery at a number of points. “In the difficult region of Monte Nero, a successful attack on our part led to the occupation of positions from which the Austrians fled, leaving 100 bodies, which we burled, and sixty wounded. “Near Caportetto seventy Bosniah sol- diers purrendered. “In other regions along the Isonzo we made over 400 prisonebs.. Our losses were unimportant. Prisoners say the Austrian losses were cunsiderable, “On the Tyrol-Trentino frontier our forces continue in close co-operation in their action against positions which must be occupied in order to force the enemy to disclose his defensive preparations and permit the development of ulterior oper- etions, “Notwithstanding the determined re. sistance of the enemy ous troops have approached beyond the frontier close to (Continued on-Page Two, Column Three.) s Captured. Greater Omaha Proclamation ‘Whereas, In keeping with and as directed by the provisions of the [Foe B Wor e law of the State Nébraska, I, the undersigned governor of the State of Nebraska, did on the 26th day of April, 1915, {ssue a proclamation calling a speclal election fo be held on the 1st day of June, 1915, in the metropoli- tan City of Omaha, and the city of South Omaha and the village of Dundee, at which election the question of the consolidation of said cities and vil- lage would be submitted. And Whereas, a copy of sald proclamation was filed with the election commissioner of the county in which said metropolitan city is located, pro- viding that at said election there would be submitted the question to wit: SAYS TREATY NOT VIOLATED‘ WASHINGTON, June . 10.—Ger-| wany's latest note to the United Stateg on the sinking of the Amer- ican sailing ship Willlam P. Frye by the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, received| here today, makes the far-reaching| claim of a right to destroy any Amer- | fean vessel carrying contraband, while agreeing to pay damages for the act. Two points made® by the United States are rejected by Germany, One was the statement of the American government in its note of April 28 that prize court proceedings meant | unnecessary delay, all matters con-| cerned being susceptible for prompl: settlement through diplomatic chan- nels, and the other was that the de-| struction of the Frye was “unques- tionably a violation of the obligations | imposed upon the Imperial govern-' ment under existing treaty stipula- tions between €He United States and | Frussia.” 0 Under the Prusslan-American treaty of 188, the binding force of which was ud- mitted by Germany in its note of April 6, the right of citisens of either country to ship arms and ammunition, as well as all other kinds of comtraband, in their own vessels was granted in timeé of war, but each party *has the right to detain such contraband and make payment for 1t it confiscated. Enlarges Treaty of 1838, The note from Germany today énlaties upon the treaty of 1828 by claiming that o the trea m%mflv por- t the destru ship, deveiive- lews, if its ‘contraband could not be stopped in any other way, it could “in the extreme case be effected by the de- structiori _of the contraband amd of the ship carrying it.” The effect of Germany’'s answer today, it its assertions are accepted by the (Continued on Pago ¥ive, Column Two.) GERMAN TACTICAL REVERSE the Baltic provinces of Russia indicated by the flelal state- ment today from B It in sald the Russians brought reinforce- ments in the district south of Shavli and that the wing of the forces which had been at- encireling movement er was with- drawn. REPORTS FROM Paris and Berlin respecting the situation in the west sliow that a series of sporadic engagements is in progress. Om minor successes hi ITALIAN ARMY which is invading Austria in the direction of Trent has made a further advance. The Austrians destroyed and evacuated a fortress south of Rovereto. FIVE MORE BRITISH VESSELS, which four were trawlers, arines. General Oadornia, I statf, reports that occupled after » along the Isonzo river. cone lles three miles east of the was Monfal- north of the sixteen miles northwest of the eity of Trieste, UNINTERRUPTED SUCCESSES for the Austrians and Germans in Ga- Meln are claimed in Vienna, where GERMAN SUBMARINES have sunk The two more British trawlers. erews of both vessels were rese: BERLIN DISPFATCH concedes Germans lost one vessel, a collier, in the Baltic engagement of last week and that a destroyer was “Shall the city of South Omaha and the village of Dundee be consolidated with the metropolitan city of Omaha.” The ballot providing in the usual manner for a “yes” and “no" vote. And Whereas, the election commissioner bas filed in the office of the governor of Nebraska the return of said election, as follows: I certify that the combined vote in said citi nd village, in favor of said proposition by voting “yes” on the proposition voting * Yokin no” was 1,685: The majority in favor of the comsolidation was Witness my hand this 2d day of June, A. D, 1915, HARLEY G. MOORHEAD, Election Commissioner. Now Therefore, 1, John H. Morehead, governor of the State of Ne- braska, pursuant to the power in me vested by law, do hereby declare and proclaim the consolidation of the cities of Omaha, South Omaha and vil- lage of Dundee, ps one city, the sald consolidation to take effect and come operative ten days after this proclamation is filed in the office of the eity clerk of said City of Omaha. % Given under my hand and the great seal of the State of Nebraska, this the 10th day of June, A. D. 1916. (Seal) JOHN H. MOREHEAD, Governor of Nebraska. Attest, B CHARLES W. POOL, Becretary of State. damaged. It s naserted ln Petro- Text of American Note To German Governmen —_— WASHINGTON, * June '10.~The/ascape by fiight when ordered to Aakt of “the American rejoinder to the Gérman government’s reply to the note following the sinking 6f the Lusitania follows: i “The secretary of state dd’ fiterim to the American ambassador to Ber- lin. “Department of State, Washing- ton, June 9, 1915—"American Am- bassador, Berlin: “You are instructed to deliver textually the following note to the minister of foreign affairs: “In compliance with your excel- lency's request I did not fail to transmit to my government immedi- ately upon its receipt your note of May 28 in reply to my note of May 15, and your supplementary note of June 1, setting forth the conclusions 80 far as reached by the imperial Ger- man government, concerning the at- tacks on the American steamers Cushing and Gulflight. I am now ® | instructed by my government to com- municate the following in reply: Notes with Gratification. “The government of the United States notes with gratification the full recognition by the imperial German government in discussing the cases of the Cushing and the Gulflight of the principle of the free- .| dom of all parts of the open sea to neutral ships and the frank willing- ness of the imperial government to acknowledge and meet its lability where the fact of attack upon neu- tral ships “‘which have not been gullty of any hostile act’ by German aircraft or vessels of war is satis- factorily established; and the gov- ernment of the United.States will in due course lay before the imperial German government, as it requests, full information concerning the at- P tack on the steamer Cushing. “With regard to the sinking of the steamer Falaba, by which an Amerjoan citizen lost his life, the government of the United States is surprised to find the imperial Ger- man government contending that an effort on the part of a merchantman to escape capture and secure as- sistance alters the obligation of the officer seeking to make the capture -passengers or crew. ‘ment of the United States, however, |in respect of the safety of the lives {of those on board the merchantman, |although the vessel had ceased its ! | | | attempt to escape to escape when torpedoed. These are not new cir- cumstances. They have been in the minds of statesmen and of interna- tional jurists throughout the de- velopment of naval warfare, and the government of the United States does not understand that they have ever been held to alter the principles of humanity upon which it has in- sisted. Motive of Germany. ~ “Nothing but actual foreible re- Mlll\t. or continued efforts to stop for the purpose of visit on the part of the merchantman has ever been held to forfeit the lives of its The Rgovern- does not understand that the im- perial German government is seeking in this case to relieve itself of lia- bility, but only intends to set forth the circumstances which led the com- mander of the submarine to allow himself to be hurried into the course which he took, “Your excellency's note, in dis- cussing the loss of American lives resulting from the sinking of the steamship Lusitania, adverts at some length. to certain information which the imperial German government has recelved with regard to the char- acter and outfit of that vessel and your excellency expresses the fear that this Information may not have been brought to the attention of the government of the United States. It is stated in the note that the Lusi- tanja was undoubtedly equipped with masked guns, supplied with trained gunners .and special ammunition, transporting troops from . Canada, carrying a cargo not permitted under the laws of the United States to a vessel also carrylng passengers and serving, in virtual effect, as an auxillary to the naval forces of Great Britain. Fortunately these are matters concerning which the gov- ent of the United States {s in a on to give the imperial German rament information.” Of the facts alleged in your excellency's note, if true, the government of the | United - States would have been bound to take official cognizance in performing its recognized duty as a neutral power and in enforcing its nationdl laws. It was its duty to see to it that the Lusitania was not armed for offensive action, that it was not serving as a transport, that it did not carry a cargo prohibited by the statues of the United States and that if in fact it was a naval ves- sel of Great Britain It should not re- celve clearance as a merchantman; and it performed that duty, enforced its statutes with scrupulous vigilance through its regularly constituted of- ficials, Berlin Misinformed. ‘It is able, therefore, to assure the imperial German government that it has been misinformed. If the imperial German government should deem {tself to be in possession of convineing evidence that the officlals of the government of the United States did not perform these duties with thoroughness the government of the United States sincerely hopes that it Will submit that evidence for consideration. “Whatever may be the contentions (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) t 0.8, ASKS BERLIN T0 GUARANTEE SAFETY ON SEA Note to Kaiser, Made Public, Friendly in Tone, but Insists on Demands in Original Communication. LUSITANIA PASSENGER SHIP Faot that it Was Torpedoed With- out Warning Stands Out Before All. HUMANITY IS THE KEYNOTE WASHINGTON, June 10-The United States in its latest note to Germany, made public tonight, for- mally asks the Imperial government for assurances that measures here- after will be adopted to safeguard “American lives and American ships on the high seas. The alternative in case of refusal is not stated. It was this note to which Willlam Jennings Bryan refused to attach his signature, resigning instead his portfolio of secretary of state and thereby precipitating a dramatic cabinet crisis. Robert Lansing, secretary of state ad interim, signed the communica- tion which went forth with the ap- proval of President Wilson and his entire cabinet, Friendly terms characterize the docu- ment, which renews representations made in the American noto that reached Ger- many May 15 after the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk with a loss of more than 100 American lives. The German government, it o declared: ‘"Must have been misinformed’” when it assumes that the Lusitania carried guns, as official information is at hand to corroborate the original contention of the ‘Washington government that the Lusi- tania wes an unarmed passenger ship, which, since it did mot resist eaptpre, could not be sunk withowt transferring Passengers and crew to a place of safety. The comm informs a8 well as upon the mzn n ) b Simply Passenger Ship, Oprortunity is .given to Germany tos submit any evidence that American of- ficlals did not execute their taske thor- oughly in inspecting the Lusitania beforo it salled but the cardinal fact—that the liner w : given no warning and made doclan . “throws into the background any o tal clreumstance of detall and lifts ... case out of the class of ordi- nary subjects of diplomatio discussion or of International controversy.” ‘The issuance of another statement by former Secretary Bryan cofncident with the publication of the note today added to the aurprise in officlal quarters at the charecter of Mr. Bryan's arguments, High officials said the note employed the very process — persuasion — which Mr. Bryan coadvocated and did not neces- sarily lead to war. Bryan's Former Secretary is Dead ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., June 10« Harvey B. Ferguson, 67, former congress- man from New Mexico, who recently re- signed as private secretary to Willlam J. Bryan, dled at his home here today of apoplexy. Mr. Ferguson served as dele- gate In congress from New Mexico in the fifty-fifth congress and was the first congressman from New Mexico following admission of the state in 1911 He was re-elected for the sixty-third congress in 1912 and defeated for re-election n 1918 At the conclusion of his term he became private secretary to Mr. Bryan, s post he held only a few months. —TH! WANT-AD WAY. s.llznvgxuwon to_turn to mns o read the various