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

By advertising in The Bee the storekee THE WEATHER Unsettl.ed r takes his s how window into the home of every reader — o VOL. XLV—NO. 21. FOUR INSTEAD OF TWO SLAIN IN SIAN, DECLARES , HOMAN THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1915—TWELVE PAGES. and at 0P Sraine and v SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. NOTE TO KAISER TO |GENERAL 0ROZCO |ITALIANS MAKE MEET SITUATION r FORFEITS HIS BOND FURTHER MOVE WITH FIRMNESS e cocommr ¢ comt | 70OWARD TRIESTE HAPPY VAN WYCK SUES FOR DIVORCE HOUSE.TO.HOUSE FIGHTING AT NEUVILLE a fea ture of the war on the western front. Daughter of Late Nebraska Senator Files Second Application !n; :i:':hrefi of A!x)n“ Moqin::t s:y- for Decree, Relations Are 8o Strained that An- Case is Called. ‘ er Was Among Quarte o® o swer Will Require Lengthy '3 WA | Reports from Rome Say Substantial Bardored. ¥y Consteitelt FORMAL ~GROUNDS . * o ) i Dt B THREE OTHERS WAIVE HEARING | Rep y Progress Has Been Made in Ef- fort to Invest the Aus- trian Seaport. Happy Theod ner, only ch® ol fl\ yck Ben- o L ate Charles ) Van Wyel States senator trom this s 7 this afternoon filed in district court a petition for di- vorce from Fernando W. Benner of New York City, alleging nonsupport and cruelty. Mrs. Benner is know here to many as Happy Van Wyck Benner. She started divorce proceedings during the fall of 1909, but thet case was dismissed without prejudice, she paving the costs. In the former petition she alleged that after liv- Ing together two years, her husband left her for a period of four years, when a reunion was made. Mrs. Henner was born in Otoe ceunty, r EL PASO, Tex. July 12.—The neutrality cases based on charges filed by United States officials in El | Paso, and growing out of the arrest RUSSIANS ARE ALSO GAINING President and Secretary Preparing|ot General Victoriano Huerta and | Separate Memoranda for Draft |five others, were deferred today to | Austrians Said to Have Lost Entire of the Reply. 'thn federal grand jury for action Oc-| Corps Which Began Advance tober 4. QGeneral Pasoual Orozco on Lublin IT MAY CONTAIN ALTERNATIVE‘!“"“' 18 a fugitive from justice under | gy 2 — |a United States information charging WASHINGTON, July 12.—Thd sit-| conspiracy to launch a new rr\nluflinAw FIGHTING NEAR S0UCHEZ uation between Germany and the|tionary movement in Mexico. His | 2 | LONDON y - v United States has taken on such & bond of $7,600 was declared defeated |, “* "¢ 0N TuY ':'l C“"r‘""‘;““" {serious and critical character that|today when he falled to appear ho-i"‘rn“ with th "p v“rn\n; hK ing the policy of the American govern-| fore George B. Oliver, United States | $ exoeption of the Aus tro-Tt, v |ment will require lengthy and delib- commiseioner, for preliminary hear glen front, where the Italiang claim a substantial advance in their ers’ Gang. FRBASURE SHRINKS GREATLY Reduoed from Original $90,000 to $8,000 or $10,000, According ¢ to Story. GIVES DETAILS OF KILLING DES MOINES, Ia., July 12.—Four men were killed by the counter- feiters’ gang at Siam, Ia,, in Beptem- ber, 1868, instead of two, according | to the statement of Mrs. M. J. Pgase | of Des Moines, la., at the attorney sideration. WILSON AND LANSING BUSY o consideration it may have | ing. general's office here today. ~Her|1t's St ‘.'-':lxn\'-).e;:' :\?m.,:da‘.’,.“ l;:‘:lrm‘;:a‘:u?hlrh.l:&“x"lr‘rum:(nnma (:m‘rn Marcelo Caraveo, Jose E. Yo. | (TIOTt8 to invest Trieste. Petrograd father was among the four. The cat-::"‘r ';:’".\.", “o‘;"’( Sty ;ewlfl %, 1802, | require. savn, Frank and lke Alderets, dofend. | ¢lated at the Russian success over tleman’s son was not killed, but Was gy, pag a son. 12 years of age. This was the statement made today |Snts: WAIved ‘preliminary jexamination, (he Austrians, ‘who are dald to hive yeturned to his home at Weston, Mo.| She inherited the estate of her father, In high official quarters. Secretary ::'L“\flr':m"'“fi '.:"'1:;: rv:!;:if:rn:z:fl:v::; lost one of the three corps which be- The cattleman's name was Willlam &::t:“‘&:-:‘:;::; on‘m:)t:"':o:':lr); “l: Lansing, after taking several ays to |was placed under S0 boad and the gan the advance against Lublin, The Smith, &8 entente allies are feminded, however, { that this is only a local triumph on Hedrick, not Nathaniel heretofore believed. three other defendants under $,000 bond |each. Barring the possibility of addi- |examine the German reply, may not | o to Cornish, N, H,, after all, to con- was at one time well known sociall and she has many acquaintances in this |tlonai arrests for the alleged conspiracy |forty miles of a tho d- ease real cstate v ~ . E Y of a usand-mile front Mra. Pease is the wite of a ate | eity. fer with President Wilson. The Ori&-|today's action disposes of all the Bi Paso | A @enler here and was about 8 years old | She figured in a romance which had p x | ustran operations against the e > . (inal plan, it was explained, was for | charkes until the federal grand jury | .. Kkilled its denouement in Washington City be- b o © | Wursaw railroads have been checked Whia hee Sathec wes Aitlec fore. her, marriage o, Benner the, president and Mr. Lansing to convenes in October. W \ . e ) " : New bonds were furnished by Joseph |if DOt thwarted, which means that Was Making Tour. In the petition just filed Mrs. Benner jconter and thei .ave the secretary of iy "y oy Armendaris, ke, Frank |(he threatened advance on W i 4 p Loraya, N v L i Vi ce 0 saw | According to her story, her father was |gtates Nebraska Is her present home. state draft a note to be submitted o |ana Benisio Alderete. | on Warsaw is i engaged in the horse breeding busine and at the time of his murder he was taking his annual tour of Towa and Mis- | sourl. According to the woman's story, three other men, named Collins, Cole and Harmon, ajso met death at the hands of the gang. The $0,000 glleged to have been in the possession of the murdered man dwindlod 10 from $,000 to $10,000 when Mrs. Pease told her story, “My father had bLetween $8,000 and $10,000 on his person,’ she said. “The other men had considerable money and between the four of them they must have had £15,000, “l was 8 years old at the time, and while I do not remember much that oc- curred at the time, I have a distinct | recollection of some of the incidents that | followed the murder of my father. “We lived in Westboro, Mo, at the| time. My brother, smaller than myself, ran away with my father and the other men and was with them at the time of the murder. It is not true that he was killed. For some reason members of ihe sang saw fit to spare his lfe; he ve- turnéd o fow days later accompanled by ® man. 4 Wore Father's Coat, “The stranger who brought my brother home wore my father's coat. He led the way through the gate up to the front door. “'When mother answered his knock he held out & belt and said, ‘Here's your boy.' The belt contained 31,000 and a note which read, ‘Take this and get out of the country.’ “I have lost all trace of my brother. 3 have not heard from him in years and | of course my mother has been dead for some years.” Mrs. Pease announced her willingness | to be of all possible assistance to the | state and declared that if any of her| father’'s money has been found she will| @sk that it beturned over to her. Not Same Case. OLARINDA, Ia, July 13—~W. W. Bul-| gman, special attorney assisting in the | Bedford muwder case, declared this after-| moon that the murders referced by Mrs, | M. J. Pease of Des Moines were not| those upon which he is working, although | they are believed to have been committed /by the same gang. He sald Hedrick and companions were lilled at about the threée years prior to the time Smith and his son were killed. sald, was before Jonathan Dark the gang. Bulman came here today with Colling Porter, the chief wit- in the Bedford hearing tomorrow. He declared the cases of Willlam Hed- wick, father of Mrs. Pease, and Smith {Cantinued on Page Two, Colynn Five) | The Weather i Forecast till 9 p. m. Tuesday: For Omaha, Council Bluffs and vicinity «Unsettled, not much change in tem-; perature. 3 i 4 .g g s a : -] SSICQE‘ CEEEEEEEELEEREES ZRERERR2BA | Comparative Loeal Record. i 1915 1014 1918 19 Highest today .... 88 Lowest today Le 80 6l ! Mean temperature ... 6 9 7 Precipitation 284 .0 .00 .02) Temperature and precipitation depart- | ures from the normal at Omaha since March 1, and compared with the past two years: Normal temperature - . Deticlency for the day ... sessiensll Total deficlency since March 1 oo 1 1} Normal precipitation N ) Mxcess for the day ...~....... 3.20 inches Precipitation #ace March 1...14.48 inches | Deticlency since March 1 ...... 1.28 inches | cy for cor. period, 1914. 1.21 Inches | Deficlency for cor. period. 1913, 1.42 inches @s..v........hibi.... Totalp Reports from Stations at 7 P .M, Station and State of Weather. ghne venport, Temp. High- Rain- Tp. m. est. fall part cloudy [ clear . 823 clear p . part, cldy. BesieResss é‘! £33 333 43 |gram.)~B. E. Gillesple .of Lincoln and Her husband is said to be living in New York City at the present time. Mrs. Benner is now in Omaha. Copenhagen Depot For Feeding German Army, Says Carson LONDON, July 12.~On behalf of the crown the attorney general, Sir Bdward Carson, today asked the prize court to cqndemn the Norweglan steamers Alfred Nobel, Kim, Bjornsterne Bjornson and the Swedish steamer Fridland, which have been detained for some time by the | British authorities. The attorney general asserted these vessels had been carrying | absolute and conditional contraband from.| America, intended for German consump- tion, In opening the case Bir thirty-elght other vessels cargoes had been captured. Copenhagen, he declared, had virtually been turned into a depot for feeding German troops. The cergoes {n question consistsd for the most part of farm produce, meat from the great American packing houses and lard, which 1s used extensively in Ger- many In place of butter. There wers many cases 6f products used in the man- ufacture of German sausage. Altogether no less than 23,274,580 pounds of meat and meat products were included in the cargoes. On the Kim and Fridland were quanti- ties of rubber, listed as gum. Campbell Will . Case Contestants Denied _New Trial BT. LOUIS, July I12~The contestants of the $16,000,000 will of the late James Camp- bell, traction magnate, were refused a new trial of the case in the circuit court here today. The suit, in which several nieces and nephews of Mr. Campbell tried | to break his will, by charges that Louise Campbell, now Elsie Burkman, was not his child and that he was of unsound mind and unduly influenced, recently was won by the defendants, Mre. Burk- ham and Mrs. Florence Campbell, widow of the financier. The decision of Cirouit Judge Kinsey today follows: “At the suggestion of counsel for the defendants, the so-called brief filed by the attorney for the plaintiffs, June 18, 1915, is stricken from the records on the ground that therein are used expressions most insolent and insulting toward the court and the opposing counsel.” | Nebraska Merchant Wedded at Denver DENVER, Colo., July 12.—(Special Tele- Edward sald ‘with similar Isabel M. Coons of this city were married here this evening. The ceremony was per- formed by Right Rev. John Davis of Han- nibal. Mo., an unele of the bride Both the bride and groom were gradu- ated from the University of Nebrask She 8 a member of the Alpha Beta so- rority and the groom belongs to the Beta Theta Phi fraternity, where he is engaged in busine Among the Nebraskans attending the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. C. A, Coons, Mrs. Sam Watt and Miss Lenore Fits- gerald, all of Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. D: C. Gillesple, Republican City, and Miss BEva McNamara of Nebraska City., Tom Allen to Become | District Attorney (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, July 12.—(Special Telegram.) —Tom Allen, brother-in-law to W. J. Bryan, will be the new ited States dis. trict attorney for Nebraska, according to HOLE IN DUNDEE " STRONGBOX GROWS Property of Treasurer-Transferred to His Wife on the Day of the Merger- NO WORD FROM WESTERFIELD “Although nothing further has been heard from Dundee’s missing treas- urer, Ellery H, Westerficld, and the comptroller’s clerks, who are check- ing the books, refuse to talk except to say that the accounts have been correctly kept, report has it that the| discrepancy between the books and | the cash 18 growing and that instead | 0£e$15,000 nearly twice that sum will have to be forthcoming, in addition | to the amounts on deposit in the banks. When questioned, City Commissioner Butler, who s In charge of the check- ing, declared his department had becn unable to Becure the records of the treasurer of Dundee prior to 1011, He also declared he is not ready to make report on the cas Deed Filed on Date of Merger. According to the register of deeds’ of- ! fice, Ellery H. Westerfield op February | 11, 1910, transferred to his wife lots 10 and 11, block 24, Carthage addition, which | description is the site of the Wester- tield home. On June 10, the very same day that Governor Morehead signed the | merger proclamation, Mr. Westerficld | went to the court house and had the | deeds registered In the name of Elizabeth O. Westerfield, his wife. The deeds, after being reglstered, were malled back to Mr. Westerficld's office, #0 the records show, It is noted that the transfer, though | made in 1810, was not recorded until five | and one-half years after the deeds were | On the application for the bond of 32,000 furnished by Mr. Westertield to the vil- lage of Dundes his home 1s valued at $6,000. There i & mortgage of $1,500 against the property. Mr. Westertield owns lot 19, block 1, Creighton Park addition. Dr. Flint, Alienist, Says Thinky Harry Thaw Insane Now, NEW YORK, July 12.—-At the after- | noon session of the Thaw trial, Dr. Austin Flint, an allenist, told of the many times he had geen Thaw since 1%6. He sald he had observed Thaw's ap- pearance during the various times he has been in court and that he had paid par- ticular attention to his manner, actions and demeanor on the witness stand dur. ing the present proceedings. “From what you have sen and heard have you been able to reach an apinion | as to his sanity?' Dr. Flint was asked “I have," replied the allenist, “I think he is insane.” In reply to a question as to whdt he belleved was the character of Thaw's “mental troubles” the witness sald that he had ‘“parancia or constitutiontal in ferfority, with a paranoiac trend.” Sultan of Turkey is R@_rted Dead PARIS, July 12—La Liberte says that' the Idea Nazionale of Rome has received the following note vized by the censor: “News from Athens and Sofia advise information glven out tonight, which s considered reliable, although not official. Mr. Allen will meither deny or affirm the rumor, when asked about it, but it ie said the appointment will be made. TEN CARS ON FAST TRAIN DITCHED; NO ONE INJURED CHILLICOTH®, Mo., duly 13—One of the ten cars of train Neo. 25, Southwest | Limited, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & | mits a Berlin dispatch announcing Paul railway, left the track because | birth of a son to the wife of Prince Oscar, | Bt us that the sultan has been dead several days and that the young Turks are hid ing the news, fearing political complica- tions." EMPEROR WILLIAM HAS ANOTHER GRANDSON LONDON, July 12.—~The correspondent at Amsterdam of the Central News trans- | the of & washout at Ohula, near here. early | fifth son of Emperor William. The prinos today. No one was injured. None of the cars was overturned. ‘ was married last August to Countess Bassewitz-Levetsow. { 4 ety \ TURKISH WAR OFFICE records the GUAYMAS LIMITED Protest of Admiral Howard Against Indiscriminate Firing on City is Effective. ESTABLISH BLOCKADE OF PORT GUAYMAS, Mexico, July 11,—(By Radio to San Diego, Cal., July 12.)—| A general bombardment of Guaymas by the Carranza gunboat Guerrero, planned for Monday, has been pre- vented. After a strong protest by Admiral Thomas B. Howard of the United States cruiser Colorado, and forelgn consuls, the Guerrero com- wander agreed to Aire only upon fouthern Pacific traine entering or leaving and the Mexican steamer bouita, anchored in-the inner harbor. | The commanding officer of the Guer- rero sald the trains and the steamer Bonita would be fired upon because they have been uscd by the enemy in the transportation of troops. He agreed not to open fire upon any other part of the Many forelgners and forelgn prop- | erty would have been endangered by, & bombardinent. * The plan for thé general bombardment was only prevented after Admiral Haw- ard and the French, German and British and Ttallan consuls called upon the Car- | ranza commander on the Guerrero and {Continued on Page Two, Column One. | The Day’s War News HMEAMNY Y L dGan L ING pre of the front in Kgance has re-| sulted in a change of ground at ong important point, where the Germa: won & victory. They| ured the cemetery at Souche posseasion of which has long bee: contented. | in weversl s the cabinet on the president’s return | to Washington. Now the belfef is that the president and Mr. Lansing, working independently, will prepare memoranda and confer after ideas have matured Count von Bernstorff, the German am- | bassador, has askea Secretary Lansing it/ he wished to see him, and the secretary is understood to huve replied that he does after he pad carefully examined the sit- uation. he ambassador is seeking In-| formation on the attitude of the Ameri- can government toward the German re- ply. After Mr. Lansing has consulted | President Wilson it la not unlikely that some intimation will be glven to the German ambassador of the serfousness ' with which the United States go®ernment ' regards the crisis Becretary Lansing has begun work on | (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) | their | Boxcar Excursions ! Proposed for Moving | Men During Harves WASHINGTON, July 12 — Becretary Wilson today had under consideration plans for further co-operation of the fed- eral lubor authoritiessand the Industrial departments of the various states out- lined in & conference with Commissioner | Caminettl and J. T. Fitspatrick, secre- | tary of the Assoclation of Government Labor Officials. | These plans which had for their pur-| pose the promotion of the efficiency of | state labor laws and which dealt chiefly | with the unemployment question, will be | discussed at the congress of the state | commissioners in Ban Francisco August | 2. Secretary Wilson and other members of his department are planning to attend, One of the most important questions ' concerning the means of securing work | for the unemployed was the matter of transportation of seasonable laborers. | Steps will be taken to coordinate the | slack periods in the factories with the when one party harvest season in the west. ! Another scheme for relleving the un-| employment situation provides for “boX the factions to get military supremacy DAVINE launched a large car excursions” when the railroads are| sending empty trains westward for grain. These excursions would make cheap ! transportation possible when the working Court Roo mis Filled. Rumors that Orozco would appear were current in El Puso untll just before the | cuses were called. As a result the ‘court room was filicd. A few Americans were noticed among the Mexican spectators. |No worien were In the court room in con- trast to the scene attending the rearrest of Huwrto July 1. Among the spectators were Generuls Ignacio Bravo and Ed- uardo,Caus, under bond In similar cases brought by Ban Antonio officials. The agreemient to walve preliminary hearing was reached at a coiiference at- tended by Commissioner Oliver, R. F. Crawford, assistant United States district attorney and counsel for the defendants, held just before the hour set for hearing. American Reported Kidnaped. It was reported to federal authorities today that Castulo Padilla, un American citizen, had been kidnaped by Mexicans and is being hold a prisoner somewhere in Juarez. An Investigation s being made. Three Mexicans and two Amerl- cans in an automobile are sald to have appeared at Fadilla's farm near the in- ternational’ Loundary line Friday night, handeuffed him, and forelng him into tho oar, carried him into Mexico. Padilla is an old man who has lived on jis farm forty years. General Tomas Ornelas. commander of the garrison in Juares, denied that Padilla was a prisoner in Juarez. 'He professed to know nothing regarding the alleged kidnaping. Famine in C tal Relleved. WASHINGTON, July 12—Rrief dis- patohes reached the State department from Mexjm City, dated before the oc. cupation of the capital by Carranza forces, describing food conditions as al- most intolerable, but officials belloved the aftuation either had heen relleved al- ready by the chanze of authority or ‘would be remedied as soon as transporta tion with Vera Cruz was resumed Btate department offic when asked today whether the occupation ‘of Mexico City by Carranza would affect the ques- tlon of recognition, declared no definite consideration had been given to the sub- | ject. They sald, however, that it always seemed more favorabla for recognition In the conflict becomes dominant. The American government has been waiting for many months for one of Ing promise of stabliiity. tates now will watch carefully the at- titude and policy of the Carranza puthor- GERMAN HEADQUARTERS reports| man can find & ready market for his|ities in Mexioco City, but there will be no @ surprise attack near Altkirech, in Alsace, resulting in the cap- ture of a French position 500-yard front. The captors ulti- | mately retired voluntarily to their | old line o trenches, the official tement sayw, taking some pri oners with them. GERMAN ATTACKS which followed | olent cannonading in the Woevre | reglon were repulsed, Paris re. ! pgets. ! TEUTONIC AND_ RUSSIAN armi are in apparent deadlock south of | Lublin, where t northw wweep the Austro-Germans was halted last week. Petrograd re- ports continued fighting along the | front extending from Jowefow, on the Vistula, to Byehaws, approxi- mately fifty miles to (he eantwird. The Austrians have again become aggressive here, according to the Russian statement, but thelr at- tacks were repulsed. SEVERAL SUCCESSES along the Austro-1 front are reported by Itallan army headquarters in | the districts where the forces are engaged in an effort to elear the road to Trieste, unter attacks by the Austrians in Isonzo valley have been repul it in declared. hombardment of Gaba Tepe the tip of the Gallipoll penin by m cruiser, presumably English, All the delegates to the big W. O. W. convention at St. Paul have stopped off in Omaha. And now they know why Omaha points with pride to the handsome W. O. W. building that houses their home offices. r labor on the farms. opening of federal lands or the fusue to further a “back to the soll"} movement also has been considered by ! the department in Washington, | The creation of an inter-related labor exchange between the states which will gecure the necessary co-operation for ef ficlent tramsportation of labor is also | under consideration. H Armenian and Greek | People in Turkey | Are in Great Peril LONDON, July 12—The peril of .he Christian popuiation in Turkey 1s dis- cussed by the morning Post Athens cor respondencé on information derived from Americyns e curning in ditferent parts of Turkey. “Chilstl huve never bean in such! peril,’ rays the correspondent, nar- ticutarly Arm-nians and Greeks, who are being sys'» nutically Ljprooted from thelr homes and driven into distant provinces. ) whers they are scattored in small groups among Turkish villages. For example, | 56,000 have thus been evicted from the Dardanedes Gistrict’ 15000 froa the | Prinkipo Tsland * (one of the prince's group on the Sea of Mormora); 10,000 | from lsmid rrevince in Asia Minoy, and 16,000 from Tirves.” The correspondent adds that the able- rdled men are drafted Into the army nd their fawilles broken up and that the reprasonciiives Jf the forel, ) | owers haye been unable to interefere because all #tdps nave heen taken on the ples of military necessity. Death Sentence of Bulger*is{ Affirmed DENVER, July 12.—The Colorado su- prenfe court today affirmed the death sen- tente of Colonel James C. Bulger, soldfer i of fortune, convicted of the murder of Lloyd L. Nicodemus, a Denver hotel manager, In Denver, May 17, 1914, Bulger is sentenced to be hanszed in the week beginning October S decision it I8 belleved for some time as |to any change of policy on account of ong a|buying in of idle districts under bond |the pressing nature of ihe German situa tion, Heretofore, possession of Mexico City has not been regarded of much fmport- nce by oficlals, because of the frequent hanges in authority, but there are now indications that if General Carranza can better his position by further acquisi- tion of territory north of the capital and reopen communication with the Amer- ican border, his chances of obtaining the moral support of the United States will materially improve, 'Body of Archbfiop Taken to Chicago On Special Train ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 12.—Funeral services for the Most Rev. James Edward Quigley, Cathollc archbishop of Chicago, who dled in this city Saturday, were held today in St. Patrick's cathedral, where a pontifical mass of requiem was celebrated by Bishop Thomas F. Hickey of Rochester. \ A detegation of 100 priests and a number of laymen from Chicago nttended, as well a8 priests from Buffalo, eastern dioceses and from Canaca, members of sister- hoods and delegations from various Catholic socleties. Absolution was read over the body by four visiting bishops nd Bishop Hickey. The body was to be taken to Chicago this afternoon on a special traln of ten cars and accompanied by Bishop Hickey end clergy and a special guard THOMPSON OWNS MANY MILES OF COAL LAND UNIONTOWN, Pa., July 12.—Josiah V. Thompson, whose affairs were placed in the hands of recelvers when the First National bank of Uniontown, of which he was president, was closed last Janu- ary, owned 141413 acres of coal lands, valued at 365,467,785, according to the re- port of the appraisers filed in court here today. Mr. Thompson sald the total value of the estate would not be snnounced for several days | a littie less dangerous than when the Austro-German attack began, A disppteh from Austrian headquarters in Galicla explains the apparent lull in the Austro-German advance by assert ing that the Teutonic allles fixed Lem- berg a8 the objective of the present cam- paign with the idea of establishing them- selves in strong defensive positions to the northward in order to use part of | thelr troops elsewhere. It is claimed that this has been accomplished by establish- Ing lines along the rivers Bug and Zlota Lipa and the Krasnik ridge. It is further explained that the Austrians pro- ceeded beyond Krasnik, but encountering unexpected opposition, retired on the positions originally selected, where they ‘have resisted all further Russian at- ’l‘fkl. Lemberg Gont of Campaign. AUSTRIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN GALICIA, July 11.—Via London, July 12,)~The relative subsidence of activity om the part of the Teutonic allies during the last week may be explained by the fact that the goal mst for the Lemberg | campaigm has already been attained, This was the recapture of the city and the securing of strong defensive D\*luen- alofi the line of the %iota Lipa and Bug rivers and the ridge to the northward of Krasnik. / The Russians attempted a counter of- | tensive from Lublin against the Austro- German - positions nerth of Krasnik, bringing up heavy reinforoements for !this purpose. Owing o this movement, Austrian troops, which had rushed be- yond the positions originally selected, | withdrew to the ridge, where they have |been successfully resisting all Russian attacks. They feel secura In thelr present positions and it is believed here they can be casily held against whatever forces |Russia can throw against them, Indications now point to a period & {auiet along the Russo-Galician fronmt, while the Teutonic allies are preparing | for operations in other quarters. French Official Report. PARIS, July 12.—-The French™war de- partment today lssued the following statement : “There was great activity during the night upon various portions of the front, /Tn the sector of Arras the enemy, after number of na set up a provisional governmant giv. ASPhYXiating projectiles attempted toward The Uniteq | Midnight to the south of Bouches an at- tack which falled. A second fittack about 3 a. m. permitted him to oocupy the cem- |etery ana some sections of the trenches | Advertised in The Omaha Bee. | A second hand car, and cheaper immediately adjacent. A very desperate battle with hand grenades took place in the closely sit- vated trenches to the southeast of Neu- ville-8t, Vaast without appreciable gain on either aide, “Upon the plateau to the north of Olse (reglon of Quennevierres and De Nouvron) the bombardment on both sides was particularly violent. “In the Argonne there was fighting (Continued on Page Four, Column Three,) l THE WANT-AD, WAY I Johnnie O'Neil saw an automobile by far v Than most of the new ones you see. He bought the machine, “. he may be seen Riding round both at work and at play. g He's sure mighty glad he saw that want ad., And he's strong for the classified way. Are you looki for ? N to th "x o1 A il B LA find the best bargains of the day fered there. Do you want to sell? 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