Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 1, 1915, Page 4

L & DNIESTER PASSED IN THE DARKNESS /Berlin Newspaper Correspondent Describes Rout of Russians at River. FIGHT BREAST-DEEP IN WATER BRERLIN, June 20 (via Londom).| ~-How General von Linsingen's troops under almost impossible con- \ditlons forced a passage across the ter river near Bukaszowice, in iOalicla, and drove the desperately ‘hfllh. Russians along a front sev- eral miles wide on the morning of June 25 is told by Richard Schott, |a correspondent of the Tages Zei- tung. “The Germans,” the writer says, “had to | for the deep, awift river under the merci- |Jesn sharpshooter and machine gun fire, |stoPm abrupt clay cliffs and then charge | i for a mile across open meadows against | the Russtans, who were ensconced in the | desp-wooded helghts. After days of | fighting the Germans had the Russians !n flight and had captured thousands of | men. “On the night of June 35, the corre- spondent says, ‘‘the attack began along |& brosd front in the neighborhood of | Bukaszowice, northwest of Kalosz, Wurt- | | temburgers and East and West Prussian troops took part. The country at this | point offers unusual advantages for de- | fenpe. The high wooded land along the |mouth bank drope off abruptly. “The northern shore has clay banks | several yards high, then open meadows & mile broad shut in by thickly wooded heights, from which the enemy operated | machine guns and cannon at all too great | acouracy. The position appeared untake- ‘able. “The German troops crossed in the darkness and before daybreak the first !linés had begun an advance toward the | woods. “T'he opporients were able to check the . “A soldler in order to shoot had to be |lifted out of the water by others. Even }lh‘. difficulties wers overcome, how- ever, and, notwithstand a flanking fire, this troop omerged and finally reached 'and stormed the enemy's chiet posttion. ““With deltberation and calmness, as it Bukaszowice and its suburbs, ooccupled by the best Russian troops and Finnish sharpshooters, were taken and the Rus- were retreating along the en- ot UMALN MILLERSIIAY, 1, 1915, MISS ELLEN YUILLE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Yuille of Bronxville, who will marry William J, Sturgis of New York. The engagement is an interesting outcome of the wedding of Miss Cordelia Biddle and Angier B. Duke, celebrated in Philadelphia on April 28, at which Miss Yuille was one of the bridesmaids and Mr. Sturgis was best man, L TMiss ELLEN YviLLE | vitterness toward the invaders. \BAVARIAN STRONG ' FIGHTING UNIT Religious in the Extreme and Filled with Love for Country, Home and Land of Forefathers. | { —— |NO FEELING OF RESENTMENT (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) 8T. QUENTIN, France, June ¢ ~For generations the Bavarian soldier has sus- tained the reputation of being one of the best tighting units in the world. He has slways been, in the eyes of his opponents, a very terrible man to be pitted against. His name has been synonymous, with | ntiitary efficlency, and, especially dur- ing the present war, his enemies have | whispered more than that about him. Many do not knmow or will not belleve | that the Bavarian has any other side | than a fierce desire to fight and to win, |at any price. He is at the same time | singuiarly devout and religlous and in this lies one explanation for the present otherwise inexplicable situation. It was no longer hard to understand why there is little feeling om the part of the In- habitants of St. Quentin Food Wflto Germany, Says Dhur (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, June 30.--Enormous quanti ties of foodstuffs are pouring Into Ger- many through Switserland, according to M. Jacques Dhur, international law. It seems that a convention ratified be- tween France and Switzerland on July 26, 1914, provides that in case of war, France shall supply the federal govern- ment of Switzerland with 300,000 tons of cereals a year. According to M. Dhur, 000 trucks each loaded with between twelve and fifteen tons of cereals cross the French frontier every day for the Cornavin station at Geneva, while in or- dinary times the monthly exports did not exceed 4,000 or 5,000 tons. At the same time enormous quantities of potatoes, beans, oil and other vegetable products are passing into Switzerland via Poutar- ler. { relative content of the civil population | of that part of conquered France which lles to the northward. German sysiem, |in taking scrupulous care of the people, has played a large part, but the religious nature of the Bavarian soldier has had & share in the result | Few Traces of Bi{terness. | An Associated Press correspondent who | toured northern France recently listened | with some little degree of incredulousness as German officials insisted that the | population of the occupled country and of the cities were quiet and submissive, | fairly happy, and bore few traces of | ward signs of resentment. Nor would those with whom the correspondent talked | admit of 'harboring ili feelings against | the Germans, Nevertheless it scemed im- { possible that they could be reconciled to | their position. Then there entered into the problem the religious equation— stronger probably in mnorthern France than anywhere else where fighting now is going on. | The people, to be sure, showed no out- | ! omen at Prayer. | Through the wonderful stained glass | windows of the cathedral of St. Quentin ‘Mnera streamed the afterncon sun of an esrly May Sunday-—illuminating the strangest congregation that probably ever gathered in beautiful old Notre Dame. In the great nave there kneit fully 1,000 women from all classes of the population. Three quarters at least wore mourning—mute evidence that they had Jost sonis and husbands, brothers and lovers. The strains of a wonderful organ carrfed far into the street about the cathedral, attracting more and more from outside. At tirst glance we saw only the women in their deep mourning. Then, however, there came into view the drab gray uni- forms of scores of Bavarian soldlers, kneeling, not on the little chairs, but on To prevent commerce In contraband, all merchandise is forwarded to a par- ticular department or province of the Swiss confederation. M. Dhur, in his in- vestigations of this distribution, found that a considerable proportion of the supplies went to Augst, close to the fron- tier point where the German and Swise raillway systems are linked up. After a discussion of varous alleged methods of smuggling supplies through to Germany, M. Dhur adds that Germany has also been able to revictual itself plentifully through Italy Merchandise Was sent from an Itallan port to Swit. #erland, and on its way at Chiasso, be- tween the Swiss and the Italian customs, the word ‘“Transit” was added to its label. In this way hundreds of trains of rice and other products have reached Germany. The Gothard line, by its charter, s bound to give favored treat- ment to goods passing between Germany and Ttaly, and these foods were con- veyed in concealed trucks. The line be- came so congested that the Federal rail- Ways had to make use of the Simplon aystem, PRISONER TRIES TO ESCAPE CONCEALED IN GARBAGE CAN (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, June %0.—An attemst bv a German prisoner to escape by conceal- | a French expert in | ing himself in & can of garbage was dis- | covered at the camp at Lelgh this week. | A farmer who buys all the food refuse | of the camp was carting away a number | of cans. The unusual welght of one of them roused his suspicions. He removed & quantity of cabbage leaves and found a German soldler beneath. A German named Sohmidt was shot jand killed at Leigh a week ago while trying to escape. Rent rooms quick with a Bee Want Ad. WAR HAS ITS EFFECT ON MILLINERY IN ITALY (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) PARIS, June 10.~The entry of Italy into the European conflict has i 'ready shown ita influence on styles. The day after the promulgation of the mobiliza tion order many women were seen wear ing the feathered hat of the ‘‘bersag- Herl"” the Italian light infantry. COATS ful White Sport Coats that Included in the lot are sand shades in corduroy. Remodeling More White We have just received another lot of those beauti- Fabrics are corduroy, in all white; also white boucle cloth, in all white or with black velvet trimming. Sizes 32 to 40, and usually priced at $15.00; now, $8. We Have Enough to Fill All Mail Orders. OMAHA'S FASTEST GROWING STORE. BNSONEER T ORNIHC) 1616-18-20 FARNAM STREET. SA I _E_ 1513 DouglasSt $8 at made such a hit last week. some new rose-colored and ! | 00 ! A. HOSPE CO. R R sjuy CLEARANCE saie ey the stone floor. Some held lttle prayer books and were mumbling prayers German even while the French priest chanted {h his own language. As the music continued more and more soldiers entered the church, and, finding no room among the audience, knelt in the rear until the bullding was packed clear to the doors. ; File Past Conquerors. Suddenly the mass came to an end. The women—but not the - soldiers—rose. By twos and threes they began to' tile out of the cathedral, past the men who had come into possession of their city and who had been responsible for the death of their loved ones. The correspondent scanned each face for some trace of the bitterness e ex- pected to find written there. Not one woman in all the audience of 1,000 cast even a resentful glance at the soldiers. Instead there was almost universal ap- proval as the French women walked by the rough German wsoldiers—peasants mostly~and saw their devotion, The an- tagonism that was to be expected seemed to have been banished by the bond of a | common religion and a common devotion. Mass Sald in German, Hardly had the women left the church than a German priest entered and began & mass in German especlally for the sol- diers, who gradually filled up the body of this church just vacated. The organ pealed again and this time the men, and not the choir, took up the refrain, and sang until the whole building reverberated with the melody. Half an hour later the soldiers were seen on the streets of San Queatin, chat- ting. laughing, greeting here and thero some Frenchman whom they had come to know during the months of occupa- tion. The brief episode in Notre Dame, whoily commonplace in many ways and yet given to so few to see, had put an entirely different complexion on an Theso. show that England and 1ts allion lost 20,000 tons of maval fighting costing approximately $100,000,000, while the Teutons and Turkish losses total 140,00 tons, worth about 960,000,000, ~The figures also show that the mis- cellancous losses officlally recorded are approximately the same on both aides, While from torpedo, gun and mine thoe British and their aliles have lost nearly double the tonnage that their opponents g Eight o'clock Thursday morning will mark the commencement of the Beaton & Laier Co. GreatJuly CLE AR ANCE Saleof Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, Rugs, Wall Paper, Draperies and Sheffield Silver Ware. COME PREPARED TO BUY or you will wish you had—when you see the prices. Liberal terms of Credit will be extended if you wish. We won't attempt to list items here. The above is ‘‘enough said. ’’—You know our record when we say sale. Service at Front Spoils Laborers (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) PARIS, June 3.~—Service at the front soems to Indispose men for work in the flelds. The military authorities gave & great many leaves to reservists to permit them to do the work of seeding: they e i ¥otho tame chute. By torpedo |yere obiiged later to ask the local wu- . are ten thmes more than |, ijee to send back to the front all | |those of the other side, which shOWS|,.en who neglected the work for which | :-.;r'!r how important & part that weapon |00 ore lent home. sttt i An ‘employment bureau organized to In gunfire England has established a long lead chlefly because the German recrult farm help to replace the men at whips large the front succeeded in placing only 3,600 . when war was declared |, ¢ ey from Belglom and northern France. Spaniards, Kabyles from "Al- geria and Moors were tried unsuccesa- fully, yet, thanks to the women, the total wheat acreage Is 11,4626 against last year's 12,996,000, of which 606,204 acres | were In invadede territory. Reports from the eleven reglons into which France ls divided for purposes of statistics glve the wheat crop prospect as averaging 72, which is considered quite satisfactory. This sverage is about the same as last year. Bight departments show up better than last year and eight not so well. The departments that were invaded and are still partially accupled show the astonishingly high percentage of 76. The cash wheat market in France is paralysed by the government's require- ment that no wheat be shipped from one department into another, unless there is shipped back In return an equivalent quantity of flour. Barley, oats and nearly all other crops promise as well as wheat. HEM i H H ¥ £ H 2 ] 2 " jelass the nét register tonnage of allled report adds, “that | shipe destroyed amounts to 9,000, while unfavorable if this { the German, Austrian and Turkish struggle is not | losses stand at gpproximately double that | figure. The total financial loss in this | instance amounts to about $16.000 00 Thus, ten months of skirmishing and preliminary actions, leading to no definite result so far as the question of naval supremacy I8 econcerned, has brousht About the destruction of about 400,000 tons of warships, costing $175,000,000. LONDON PREPARES FOR ] 'MORE ZEPPELIN RAIDS (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, June 10—All police stations in London have beon equipped with res- pirators which will bo served out to pa- trolmen and special constables as a pro- fection against gas bomba in case of & “eoppelin rald on the metropolis. | Remember this is a ‘‘One- Time-a- Year’' Sale. We promise the biggest ever attempted, THIS YEAR. 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