Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1915, Page 1

TV Woqy Jo sog SO0y Jup [woy 8,90 oyL WOV SNvH o woay 10enq VOL. XLV-NO. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ & | WEDNE SDAY MORNING, JULY 1916—TWELVE Wotel oto, Bo SINGI On Tral Nown St { CABINET APPROVES PINAL DRAFTOFTHE NOTE 10 GERMANY Members of Official Family of President Refuse to Give Out Anything Concerning Reply. 4] S00N READY TO BE DISPATCHED. President Submits Outline of Pro- posed Answer to Kaiser to His Official Advisers. MEMBERS FAVOR A FIRM STAND WASHINGTON, July 20.—Presi- dent Wilson and the cabinet, after two hours’ discussion, today ap- proved a final draft of the note to Germany. Cabinet officers refused to discuss its contents or to inti- mate how the insistence of the United States to obtain a definite answer to its representations on; submarine warfare had been phrased. The new note will be ready in a day or two for d'spatch to Berlin. Some changes suggested In today's meeting will be in- corporated and after carefy revision by Secretary Lansing it will he cabled to Ambassador Gerard. Publication will be withheld until the note actually has béen recelved in Eerlin. | There were no manifestations of tension $n officlal quarters, the confidence pre- valling that in the absence of any new violation of American rights the situation would not become immediately dangerous. Bome officlals were impressed, however, that the attack on the British steamer Orduna, endangering a score of Amer- fcans, had introduced a new set of cir- cumstances, showing that even on voy- sges from Furope to the United States submarine warfare, as being waged by Germany, subjected neutrals to constant risks. It is not certain, however, that &ny reference to the Orduna case will be made ir the new American note. After the cabinet meeting, which lasted more than two hours, the secre- tarfes left In a group and refused to| discuss the situation. Riot Follows Strike At Bayonne Works; | Big Plant is Closed NEW YORK, July 0.—The Bayonne plant of the Standard 'Ofl *comwlw of New Jersex was closed dowfl today after mearly. 1,00 still cleaners and barrel makers gluuck for.increased wages, and because 4,00 other workmen refused to go to work either through sympathy, as claimed by the gtrikers, or intimidation, the view given by the company officials. The few score of men who had entered the plant willing to work were sent home. 1t was said that the company had suf- ficlent supplies on hand or within reach to permit the plant to lie idle for a year, Some serious rioting, which oe- curred early today, it was sald, was a factor in influencing the shutdown. Several hundred men, alleged to be strikers and their sympathizers, took part in the disorder today. They first tried to stop men who were willing to work from going into the plant and then attacked a detall of police who were on €he ground to prevent disorder. No one was serfously hurt. but six arrests were made. It was stated the strikers would make efforts to have the men employed at the tidewater works and at Bay May, N. J,, joln the movement. Train Plunges 200 Feet Into a Gulch; Three Men Killed DALHART, Tex., July 20.—A 20-foot plunge today into a gulch at Indianole, near here, killed three men and smashed an engine and ten loaded freight cars. | The ' freight was on the Bl Paso and Southwestern rallroad and ran through a bridge over the gulch. The dead are Engineer Brickley, Fireman Rricer and Brakemam Kirley, all of Tucumcari, N M. i | i The Weather till 7 p. m. Wednesday. ;gmhl. roun::'l‘l Bluffs ma’vldnl!y «Fair; slightly warmer. Temperature asnenuniESonaa TEPTPPPEIFPRPER = zzszssss Record. . 1914. 1913, 1912 80 ™ 8 8 s B M. S0 T 0 0! recipitation .mm—t N 8 TEE ine atT P M Temp. High- Rain- o e Raw BeaaBRhzeeRERa RS £ ERR R ON THE SOUTHERN WAR FRONT—Italian cavalry following up Austrians after one of the many little battles on the southern border of the European war. WESTERFIELDLOSES FIVE THOUSAND IN BUSINESS DEALS Companies Which He Promoted and ' in Which He Invested Money Are Involved. WOMEN WEEP AT THE MEETING Ellery Westerfield, missing Dundee t urer, lost large sums of money which he invested in business concerns promoted by him, accord- ing to an investigation of his affairs, which has been quietly made by his friends since his departure from Omaha. At a wmeeting of stockholders of the Omaha Furniture Manufacturing com- pany of Ralston, held in the office of Arthur Pancoast, its attorney, and also attorney for Mrs. Wosterfield, a report was made (hat the company was largely involved in debt and an attempt was made to plan wavs and means to meet insistent deniands of creditors For this purpose a bond issue was discussed. Westertield Endorsed Notes. Mr. Westertield was largely interested in promoting this company and had in- vested $4,000 in its mtock. vealed Monday that an Omaba bank holds . $.000 of its notes, . endorsed oy Mr. Westerfield. The company’'s books show that it owes Mr., Westerfield $200, money advanced by him. * Another Omaha eoncern has personal notes of Mr. Westerfleld to the amount of $3,000 It was sald on excellent authority that | Mr. Westerfield lost between $,00 and $5,000 1n the defunct Nationa! Box com- pany, which he helped to promote. Mrs. Mary A. Ward, a .idow, and her daughter, Miss Edith C. Ward, who invested $3,500, all they recived from the estate of the husband and father, in the Omaha Furniture Manufacturing cow- pany, at the soicitutivn of Mr. Wester- field. wept at tho stocknolders’ meeting Monday when they learned that the company's affaif® were more badly in- volved than they had hoped. Mr. Wester- fleld was their attorney. Whas Here Sunday Night. Westerfield is on his way to Portland, Ore. He was in Omaha Sunday night and met a man who was interested with him in a furniture company. A member of the city legal department, who wiwhes his name not used at this time, says he has rellable information concerning Westerfield's presence here and as to the destination of his ticket. ‘The story of Westerfleld's stop-over Sun- day night was printed exclusively in The Bee Monday. “Westerfield was here two hours Sun- day night, from 11 p. m. to shortly after 1 a m. A friend of mine saw hls.ticket as it was punched by the depot gateman and it read to Portland,” said this mem- {ber of the city legal department. Commissioner Butler says he has in- formation that an effort is being made by friends of Westerfield to make good any shortage there may be In Ids ac- ocounts. No shortage has yet been of- ficlally announced. The city accounting department ls nearing the close of the check. Zapata's Forces Reoccupy Capital of Mexico Sunday WASHINGTON, July 20.—Dispatches to hie State department from Mexico City vite today announced that Zapata forces ‘eoccupled the capital Sunday, following the evacuation by the Carranza army under General Gonzales. Zapata officlals were said to ha re- sumed full control of the city from which they had been driven ten days ao by Gonzales, who now has gone north- ward with his troops to meet an advanc- ing Villa force. Leo M. Frank is Slowly Improving MILLEDGEVILLE, Ge., July 20.—Phy- siclans attending Leo M. Frank, whos: throat wes cut by another convict at the prison farm here Baturday night, said today that Frank had passed a restful night and that they considered his con- dition good under the circumstances. He is able to take nourishment, but attend- ants have difficulty in preventing him statement at § a. m., saying Frank's tem- perature at that hour was 100, pulse 80 and respiration 20. Frank today was removed from the prison hospital to & privete room. He Stood the trip well, according to the doe- tors. It was re- | OIL MEN STRIKE Walkout at Bayonne Ties Up Barrel | and Can Shipments of 0il and Naphtha to Europe. | MAY AFFECT TIDEWATER PLANT NEW YORK, July 20.—Virtually every workman employed by the Standard Oil company at its Consta- ble Hook plant of Bayonne went on strike today. There are now about 5,000 men aut, At the adjoining Tidewater oil plant the men still are at work, but | they are said to be restless and the strikers say they will shortly joln= them. If they do the entire produc- tion of oils and gasoline and naphtha, as well as the by-products will stop. There was some disorder at the Stand- ard Ofl plant this morning, when a few | of the men insisted upon going to work. | Some shots were fired, but apparently | they were intended only to add to the noise and excitement, as none was re- ported hit. The police made six arre May Call More Police. Director of Public Bafety Henry Wilson of Bayonne sent almosi the entire police force of the city to the plant. If there is further disorder Mr. Wilson will ask his fellow commissioners to vote money for special police. The strike trouble at the works first appeared last week, when the still clean- !ers, n comparatively small part of the | working force, went out because their de- mand for an 11 per cent Increase In wages | | was not granted. ‘They were followed by | | the men in the barrel shops, 89 in num- | ber, who had asked for 15 per cent in- | crease. Today the rest of the employes refused to §o into the works, Stops Shipments to Europe. The strike puts an end for the time | being to the loading of case and barrel | joll for Europe. There are six steamers {now tied up at the plers in the Kiil Von Kull, which skirts the plant. They prob- | {ably will be towed out into the stream | {and anchored off Tompkinsville if the Istrike continues. They are in various | stages of loading. All six are sald to be destined for England. The men who struck today made no de- | mand for Increased wages, but it s | thought likely they will do so before they | return to work. At present their strike is of a sympathetic nature. G, B. Gifford, chalrman of the manu-/ facturing board of the Standard Ofl com- pany of New Jersey, announced today that the company will shut down the plant at Bayonne rather than accede to what the company belleved to be the unjust demand of the strikers. i ‘Orduna Incident | Formally Before the Secretary of State WASHINGTON, July #.—The German submarine attack on the Cunard liner Orduna was formally brought to the at- tention of the American government today by Wilkam O. Thompson, counsel for the Industvial Relation commission, who was a passtager on the ship. Secretary Lansing took Mr. Thomp- son's communication to the White House with him when he went for some time | {before the cabinet meeting for an early |conference with 'President Wilson. It was sald Mr. Thompson's statement did | not add materially to the evidence, as he | was not a witness of the attempt to |torpedo the liner and did not reach the shelling it. It will, however, serve as the basis of an investigation to be con- ducted by passengers and crew British War Fund is Five Billions LONDON, July 20—A new credit of £150,000,000 (§750,000,000) was in- troduced today in the House of Com- mons. This second supplement vote will bring the sum actually appropriated by parllament for war expenditures to the total of £650,000,000 ($3,250,000.000) during the current financial year. With the smount voted between August 5 and | vote of ($5,060,200,000). | The amount thus provided will tide, over the period of the forthcoming par- | lHamentary recess. The vote of credit| does not involve & new loan, but merely | sanctions expenditures out of funds on hand POR SAENGERREST Soloists and Instrumental Already Here Rehearsing for the Big Event. ALL OMAHA IN GALA DRESS The advance guard of the army of | singers which is moving on Omaha for the great national Saengerfest has arrived. Henrl Scott, the famous bass of the Metropolitan Opera com- pany, and Enrico Palmetto, the cele- brated Danish lyric tenor, are in Omaha. Other will soloists arrive s Are| 'RADON CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS, ' VIENNA ASSERTS Capital of Province of Same Name, Fifty-Seven Miles South of Warsaw, Taken by Teu- tonic Allies. { FURTHER PROGRESS ANNOUNCED Other Forts to North of Polish Cap- ital Fall Into Hands of Invaders. RUSSIANS ARE IN RETREAT NULLES VIENNA, July 20.—(Via London) of Radom, lies fifty-seven miles south of Warsaw, was cap- tured today by the Teutonic allies, according to an official communica- N which tion issued here this evening BERLIN, July 20.—(Via London.) Further progress in the great Ger man drive toward Warsaw from the north and south was announced offi- { clally here today. The German war | office réports the capture of Ostro- |lenka, on the Narew river, about | sixty miles north of Warsaw. In the | south the Russians are in retreat. The text of the statement foilows | Hooge, east of Ypres, (he Britlsn made an attack on both sides of the road from Chateau Hooge to Yprosx. Thelr attack |rlllll|wu\<| before our nositions. /#t some points the attack, within range of our {artillery, could not be carrled tirough. The British ¢ ipled an excavation made by an explosion, “Near Souches, an atlack with hand grenades was repulsed. After vigorous | tighting near Albert, the ¥rencn atteraped !during the evening an attack against our positions near Fricourt. Thoy were | repulsed “Bastern theater: In Courland the | { thi® Rugsians were repulsed near (rossch-|Pombarding and seriously damaging the “After blowing up mines near Chateau | £ COPY TWO CENTS. | - LINE INTO AUSTRIA Dispatches to Geneva Tribune Re- | port Gains in Cadore, Carnia and Along the Isonzo. GENEVA, Switzerland, July 20. (Via Paris.)—Dispatches to the | Tribune say that large gains have | been made by the Itallans since July 16. According to these advices the Austrians have lost more than five miles in Cadore and lesser distances {in Carnia, at Hochspite, Gradine, | Dodero and Kellerwald, the Isonzo. The Austrians have recap- tured two positions near Tolmino and north of San Lucas. The Tribune also publishes a dis- patch from the Russian front saying that on the night of July 17-18 a fierce hand-to-hand encounter curred near the Rawka river, in Rus- slan Poland. After fifteen hours of fighting the Russlans forced thelr opponents back several miles, cap- ‘(urinx several hundred prisoners. on | oc- 1 1t an Offieinl Report, | ROME, Monday, July {July 2)-The following statement was given out at the ministry of marine hers today “Since the last statement of July 7, {navy has intensified its action in |operadton with the aerial service against the enemy's coasts in the lower and upper Adriatic. The following operations on the sea were carrled out “In the Dalmatian archipelago: tng cables near islands which, count the co- Cut- on ace of their proximity to our coasts, constituted effective centers for observa- tion for the enemy; destruction of depots |tor revictualing barracks, factories and {torpedo boats on one of the islands, and the eapture of a few prisoners. “At dawn on the 15th a division, com- posed of the old crulsers Varese, Fran- |cesco Ferrucio, Gluseppe Garibaldi and Vettor Flsanl, approached the waters of Cattaro, manifesting its presence by morning as will also many speclal traing parden, onst of Tukum and near Gruen- | "A1r0ads of the locality, while another bearing the thousands of singers. Georgo dorf and Usingen. East »f Kurgnany the | |warship acting against Gravosa, de- H. Kileck of Milwaukee, secretary of epemy also is retreating befors our at- | Stroyed a muchinery depot and several the saengerbund, is nere. Decorations of the city have been com- gala dress for w long time. | tack. | “North of Nowegrod on the Narew, | pleted and Omaha has not bsen in such | German troops captured enemy position ' G1UPPana island. Enemy crul All the 'north of the confluence of the Skroda | hAd taken refuge at the Cattaro base, {other military bulldings and landed a party, which made a recolnnance on s, which main streets are festive with flags and and Plssa rivers. Fresh landstrum tmnp-}“"‘lf!‘- although of obselete type, could bunting and signs of welcome. The pub- lic bufldings and scores of places of time, North which were under fire for the fir especlally Olsunguished themselves |have offered opposition to our old cruis- ers, dld not come out from the port, but, business and office buildings are gay ©f the mouih of the Skwa we roached |nNeVertheless, kept up steam. While our with the signs of festivity. Decorations Completed. Decofation of the home of the Omaba | Musik verein, Seventeenth and Cass streets, was completed when Chief Deco- [the Narew. ‘The permanent fortifications of Ostolenka on the northwest bank uf the river, were occupied. “Houth of the Vistula our treeps ad- | vanced into hostile positions to Blonls jand Grojec (l3lonla I8 meventeen miles {Ships were drawing off, they made an attack by submarines, and the Glusseppe | Gartbaldl, aftor avolding the first attack, was struck by a torpedo and sunk, “The crew preserved dlscipling and be- | haved with goolness, shouting wevoral rator Gus Rense placed several allekor-|west of Warsaw and Grojes twenty-six |times ‘Long lfve the king!' befors jump- fcal figures, of musical significance, at the main entrance, The auditorium, where the concerts will be held, 18 a place of beauty. Flags and bunting streamers have been used here with admirable taste. The great tiers of seats on the stage, extending up to the very roof, have been com- pleted. The' sight of 2,000 singers up there with the great orchestra in front will in itself be worth seelng. Add to this the wonders of the mighty melody ard a faint idea of the great musical event is realized. Orchestra rehearsals started Tuesday morning under direction of Prof. Theo- dore Rudolph Reese, all the musiclans having arrived from ®t, Paul, Minneap- olls and from Chicago, the latter being | plcked members of the Chicago Symphony | orchestra. The orchestra rehearsals con- tinue all day Those who heard the rehearsal of the great children's chorus or 2,00 volces under direction of Prof. Stedinger Tues- day morning were enthusiastic over the astonishing performance of these nationality under the sun. They sing both German and Englisn songs. Final detuils of the saengerfest were gone . over at the luncheon of Ahe saengerfest directors at noon. Reports of committees showed that all is most promising for the success of the big “‘feast of 9inging."” Wilson to See Miss Addams About Peace WABHINGTON, Jury 0.—President Wil- son will discuss with Miss Jane Addama of Chicazo Wednesday the outlook for Ppeace In Europe. Miss Addams recently returned home after visiting the principal officials of many of the belligerent and neutral nations road as the representa- tive of a women's peace movement. The president has been informed from other sources that there is little prospect of an early peace In Europe. . T. D. FOSTER, HEAD OF PACKING COMPANY. DIES ! OTTUMWA, Ta., July 20.—7. D, Fo-ur“ {deck until after the submarine had begun | Packer of International fame, dled here | night aboard the new dreadnaught Okla- today after a year's {liness, Mr. Foster was head of the Morrell Packing com- United States. THE GATE CITY-OF THE-WEST Omaha's wide str.ets and capacious sidewalks always give an expansive feeling to visitors as compared with other cities liid out on cramped and narrow lines. Omaha bas been built with a view to growth and is growing, all the time. [miles wouth cf the eity). In rear guard fighting the Russian last 560 prlmnl‘rll and two machine zuna. “Boutlieastern thedter: German lund- wehr and reserve troops of the army of General Von Woyrich repulsed superfor forces for the enemy from thelr positionas at llazanka. All counter attacks made by the Russian reserves, which were brought up «quickly, were repulsed. We captured more than 5000 prisoners, (ur troops closely pursuing the enemy. Our cavalry already las reached the rallway (lino from Radom to Ivangorod | "Between the Uprer Vistula and the | Bug we are following ths retreating | enex 'Mysterious Fires Start On Unfinished Warship Oklahoma PHILADBLPIHIA, July 20—~Not until the flooded compartments of the battle- | Juvenile singers drawn from nearly every ship Oklahoma had been emptied and a | carerul examination 1nade, as to the ex- |tent of the damage caused by three | mysterious fires aboard the vesscl last night at the yards of the New York Ship Bullding company, {n Cumden, would be known. Firemen from this city and [Camden continued until an early hour | today to pump water into the compart- ments, from which dense colums of black | amoke issued. The first smoke was seen hortly after the workmen had left the yards, at 6 o'clock last night. The fire apparently was quickly gotten under con- trol, but more smoke was observed three hours later. After the second fire was finally extinguished, smoke was dis- covered In another part of the vessel at midnight. Mr. Knox, president of the company which constructed the new superdread- naught, was unable to explain the origin of the fires and declared that a rigid in- vestigation would he made. | The Oklahoma was launched on March 123, 1914, and was about ready for a trial |u|p, preparatory to being turned over to the United States government in | Soptember. It eost 34,0000, and its |armament, which includes ten fourteen- noh guns, an additional $2,000.000, WASHINGTON, July 20.—The fire last | homa is belleved to have originated in | wooden supports and other inflammable the Treasiry department, ' Peny of Ottumwa, Ia., and Liverpool, | material in the magazine space between which will. gather affidavits from the | England, with brlm’h‘(-l throughout the | the two forward turrets. Reports reach- | ing the Navy department today sald of- ficers thought it likely a cigarette stub or burning match had started & smol- dering fire which was not discovered until night. It may, however, have been due to electricity. Naval officers do not belleve there ia anything to indicate the work of an incendlary either in the fire aboard the Oklaboma or in recent fires on the New Jersey and Alabama. French Aeroplanes Bombard Colmar PARTS, July 20.—(Via Londou—The ef- | ficlal announcement from the war office !this afterncon says that & squadron of | #ix French aeroplancs bombamied the station at Colmar, capital of Upper Alsace. The acroplanes returned un- . ' |Ing Into the sea'in obedience to orders, Most of them wero saved. “Among the most romarkable | aerlal | cperations must be cited the bombardment by one of our dirigibles on the 17th at Trieste. The technical establishment was {badly damaged in the previous rald of the 4th. This time bombs thrown on |thege Important workshops started a fire bu extensive as to be visible twenty miles away, | "Our seaplanes dropped bombs vn Aus- {trlan destroyers protecting Fasana canal near Pola. Two other seaplanes bom- |barded the battery near the Salvower lighthouse on the 14th. One of our dirig- ibles bombarded with excellent results the \Trignano station and Trieste railrond vards at Monfalcone on the 16th, | "On the 17th, an enemy' seaplane be- longing to & small quadron which flew over Harl and Barletta, was ocaptured with two officers.” Garibaldi Brothers Return. UDINE, Italy, July 19,~(Via July 20)—Colonel Peppino Oaribaldl, his four brothers and a number of other of- ficers who served with him In the resi with the French army in the Argonne carifer In the war, have reached the Itallan front in the Carode region. They have been attached to the Alpine brigade formed by the grandfather of the Gari- baldl brothers, the famous Itallan patriot, In the war against Austria in 1865, The Garibaldians have taken an oath to de- feat the Austrians or dle in the attempt »Freighf Rates on Illinois Soft Coal to Omaha Advanced WASHINGTON, 10 per cent in the joint rate of the South ern rallway and the Wabash railroad on bituminous coal from the Belleville dls- trict in Illinols to Omaha and points in the same group, were allowed today by the Interstate Commerce commission Local coal order from the Interstate Commerce com- mission, as they say they cannot tell from the dispatches just which of the several cases pending s here referred to. One case, affecting Omaha to some ex- tent was brought by some St. Louls con- cerns and is known as the Southern case. Another brought by western coal men af- |fects Omaha somewbat, and still an- | case, ‘Rotary Clubs Make New Code of Ethics SAN FRANCISCO, Jul.y 20.—Eleven ‘commandments,” a ‘“‘code of ethics" for business men of all lne: ere adopted today by the sixth annual convention of the International Assoclation of Rotary Clubs., The code contains the abstract ideas of “scrvice” advanced by Rotarians as & broad rule of business conduct, based on the Golden Rule and expressed In the phrase “he profits most who serves The code sets up as ldeas to advance the fellow man, a scorn of illegitimate success, equal obligation to those not members of Rotary clubs and appreciation of friends as the greatest of assets. 19.-<(Via Paris, | Paris | ment of Itallan volunteers which fought ! jother Iy known as the general advance |ITALIANS PUSHING [RUSS PROBABLY WILL ABANDON WARSAW SO0 }DIRIGIBLES ATTACK TRIESTE Teutons Menace the Capital of Po- land from Three Sides and Czar's Communication is in Danger. GERMANS CAPTURE WINDAU (It Will Be Made Base of Operations Directed Against the Port of Riga. |SPORADIC FIGHTS IN THE WEST | iy | BULLETIN, LONDON, July 20.—The upper« most question concerning the east- ern campaign now {s when Warsaw | Will be evacuated, rather than | Whether it will be given up. With | virtually all of Courland in the | hands of Field Marshal Von Hinden- berg and with the Austro-German | forces across the Bug, continued oc- { cupancy of the Polish capital exposes |the Russians to the danger of dis- aster. Through Copenhagen comes a re- port of the occupation of Windau by |the Germans, This menace to the [Russlans from the north is paral- leled from the southeast by the ad- vance of the Teutonic allles on the Lublin railroad, one of the chiet arteries of communication with War- saw, The wisdom of abandoning the Warsaw ‘nnlh'nl In favor of a stralght Russian line dally becumes a more lefinite subject of #peculation among the allles and Russian retirement from the capital before it is {Invested completely is predicted widely. From Windau the Germans are reported to be advancing toward Riga with the Intention of seizing that port and clear- Ing the nearby meas of mines, thus ob- taining another naval base. All the glory {has not gone to von Hindenburg, as his im"“"" IMeld Marshal von Mackensen {'s credited with the capture of Kras- | noslav. On the western front the Germans ap- iparently are content to maintain a series of sporadic attacks on various portions of the line. Paris claims the Germans suf- fored severe losses in an unsuccessful as- #ault on the helghts of the Meuse. The conl strike situation is described In dispatches from the mine flelds as being more hopeful today, .. German Offiolal Report. BERLIN, Ny 10.—Via Amsterdum and | London, July M)—Important successes for the Teutonie allles all along e batile (lne in Russia from the Baltic sea to | Bukowina are claimed in an official statement {ssued today at the German war office. The army of General von Galiwitz s eald to be standing in force on the Narew line wouthwest of Nowa Georglevek. one of the girdle of fort- ressds which protects Warsaw, and only ten milos from the Polish capital, | With the capture of Windau the Ger- mang have come into possession of an- other weaport on the Baltic and are within a few miles of Riga, seat of the governor goneral of the Baltlc provinces. The German rnd Austrian forces are said to Lave taken prisoners 4,000 Rus- slans. The communication follows: Western theater: In the district of ! Bouches, after a comparatively quiet day, | flghting became more spirited during the |night. A French attack against Bouches {was repulsed and attacks south .of Bouchez were prevented by our fire. l “On the front begween the Olse and {the Argonne there was viclous artillery and mine fighting Weak enemy attacks in the Argunne forest were unimportant. On the Meuse helghts southwest of Eparges and on the Tranchee, the fight- ing le precesding with alterpats successes. {Our troops lost minor locul advantages | Which thoy had gained on the 17th, but jeaptured three officers and 300 men. | Tukum and Wirdau Taken. | “Russian war theatert German troops and captured Windau. aport in Courtland on | the Baltic mea st the mouth of the Win. dau river, 100 miles northwest of Mitau), L | | | occupled Tukur | (Windau iv o Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) gy o g << s | THE WANT AD WAY, July 20.—Increases of | men are walting for the ' ad Telonmone B