Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1915, Page 2

—— “ANY WORKS OF ART SAVED Relics Estimated to Be Worth Many Millions Are Preserved in Towns in the War Arena, MILLIONS ALSO ARE LOST (Cotrespondence of the Assoclated Prese.) FURNES, Belgium, July 8.<The lttle Flemish towns that loafed for centuries | on the banks of the Yeer befors being reawakened to give thelr names to the history of some of the most dramatio | eplsodes of the war<Nieuport, Dixmude, | Ypres—counted ltle commercially, and only Tpres figured much in history., Wuars | had reduced the former proud capital | of Flanders tc a droning town of less | than 20000 inhabitants, of whom virtually | only the Valenctenes lace makers worked. The men were called “‘tournesols,” which may be translated either as “sunflowers’ or “shadeseekers’: they earned the name by shifting thelr lounging pliaces on the | Grande Place o a8 to keep in the sun! when the weather was oold, end to keep sut of it when it was hot. The remalning mportance of the piace, was, as that of Dixmude, Nieuport and Furnes, chiefly its treasures of art. Those of Ypres were mostly gathered In the Merghelynck ! museum and have been practically all| saved, including pletures by Snyders, Van Oost and van Thulden, with rare speol. mens of wood carving, Spanish leather, Jewels and manuscripts. While the Ger- mans were approaching the line of the | Yeer, Monsieur Henrl Dommartin, state | librarian at Brussels, transferred the museum intact to Dunkirk and from there to Havre. The most precious work of art in the entire region, “The Adora- tion of the Wise Men of the Hast,” by Jordaens, valued at 4000000 francs, was lost at Dixmude. It had been removed from the bombarded church to & theater for satety; the theater was caved in by a shell and the picture destroyed. Other Relles Saved. A numder of other works of art, in- oluding rare specimens of Cordovan, velics of the Spanish occupation of Flan- ders, were saved here by Monsieur Dom- | martin and Monsieur Eugene de Groot, deputy for Furnes and Dixmude. | When the French troops went through Loo to meet the Germans along the Yser, they saved a valuable picture, *Christ Between the Tws, Thieves,” by Van Bock- horst, pupll of Rubens. Other objects of tesser value were left, but afterwards |in the Des Moines automobile race today, some question raised about his being per- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BE 'RUSSIAN ARMY I8 STILL IN DANGER OF ANNIHILATION (Continued trom Tage One.) foatility of Sweden, which has never for- given the loss of Finland, has become | strongly developed, Considerable prepara~ | tion for warlike contingencies have been made in North Sweden and the Swedish | army i8 fully mobilised. If Sweden per- | sists in its unfriendly attitude toward | Russia, it may rapidly drift into a war | which would inevitably be a great obstacle | to ita future progress.” The Times, In & long analysis of the Swedish situation, says the war party has lost its importance and the people gener- ally accept neutrality as the wisest | course | Frenoh Offiel Report, PARIS, Aus. ‘The French war offics this afternoon e out & statement on the progress of hostilities In FFrance, read- ing | “Last night passed quietly on the west- orn part of the fromt. “In the western section of the Argonne there has bean a continuance of the very | spirited fighting with grenades and bombs. An attack of the enemy in vieinity of Hil) No. 513 has been repulsed. “In Lorraine & strong German recon- naisance has been dispersed by our fire At a point mot far from Leintrey. “In the Vosges there has been nothing to report.” COOPER KILLED ON DES MOINES | BOWL; 2 MAY DIE _ | et BTSH STIGK 100 LONG G Donnell and De Palma were four and Will Fight It Out in First Trench five miles henind Mulford. OIICAGO, Aug, 7.~Jos Cooper, killed Instead of Falling Back and Covering Up. , REASON FOR HEAVY LOSSES (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) LONDON, July 22.—The British stick to their trenches to the last man, hence their heavy casualties. The French, the Gernfans and Balgians have no senti- ment about ylelding ground, if to their military advantage to do so, especially was one of the younger generation of | automobile drivers, having taken his first mount about four years ago. He bears no relationship to Dar; Cooper Cooper’s variiost experience was on dirt roads and he has done little on tracks or speedways. He drove a car in the sweep- stakes at Indlanapolis this season and although he qualified well above the lmit for the Hoosler trophy there was mitted td start becmuse of inexperience. FRc g e S e Dr. Miyama Would | Have Japan Secure Trade of Philippines| (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) TOKIO, July 8.—"BExpand Japan's| trade In the Philippines” Is the message which Dr. K. Miyamna brings back to his follow countrymen after an extensive | business trip throughout the American archipelago. He sums up his impressions | in an article which he cally “Japan In the | Philippines.” RAILROAD BRIDGE AT WARSAW OVER THE VISTULA-—Not the least important strategic value that the Polish capital will give the kaiser’s army are the railroad facilities out of Warsaw to the east, north and south, permitting it to bring its munition and supply trains into the city to mainain a garrison there and headquarters for the army it will send out against the Russian position farther east -/ RAILWAY \: BRIDGE OVER VISTULA AT WARSAW £, o e s o RIS s tion of pearls the Japanese lead as they are the most fearless and skilful divers; indeed they now almost monopolize Llls enterprise. One big Japanese company has forty-three boats and fishes by ma chinery. But the business is now suffer- ing from depression caused by the war | in Burope. Kramer Injured Under Motor Car FALLS CITY, N Aug. 7.—(Special | Telegran.)—A. J. Kramer, while return- ing from Verdon Friday evening, lost English Museum Gathering All Available Data on the Confliot Going on in Europe. BOOKS OF ALL THE NATIONS (Correspondence of the Aesociated Press.) LONDON, July 16.~The British seum plans to have the finest collection in the world of the war literature pro- duced during the present conflict. Not only English booke, but publications in French, Russian, Malian. German and other Buropean Ianguages, are being ob talned from every avallable source. “We shall not _expeot or desire to ob- tain every war book published,” explained | of | the head of the library, “for many them are of course valueless, And we cx- erciwe the same discrimination In pur hasing & book about the war as we do In buying other works. the cream of the world's literature, but we want none of the trash. Of forelgn war-books generally we are taking aboul two or three out of a dosen We have already wecured a fairly good oollection of what has been published In Germany and Austria since the beginning of opern- tion Bxperts Write Books on War. ‘We have nat added any experts in military literature to our staff. We have our own experts who devote their ener- #les each to the literaturs of a particu- It is for them to deal with | lar nation. the war books of the. nation comcerned, “Germany seems to be very prone to | religious works on the war. We have quite a number of German theological war books, although we have received no German books for about ten weeks. We | shall have to complete our collections of | German works after the war, although in the meantime we shall pick up what we can as opportunity offers.’” The British museum's library is admit tedly the greatest and most cosmopoliten in the world. It has the best French library outside of France and the best Russian library outside of Russia. Its collection of Italian literature is unex- | celled except for that in the vatican. Sn ‘fhr as French literature is concerned, it even in | has books which do not exist France, owing to the revolution and wars of 148 and 1870. Refugees of the French revolutionary perfod brought many va | able works to the great nglish library Staff of Museum Depleted. “Have the Belgium refugees of the mu- | We want all | OMPLETE REGORD ON WAR APPEAL OF THE NAYY LEAGUE Urges that All Vessels of the Enemy | Detained in British Ports Be | Seized and Held. ? i ‘CITFS DUTY OF GOVERNMENT | (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, July 15.~The Navy league, through its executive committes, has published an appeal to the government to seize all German, Austrian and Turk- | tsh merchant ships detained in the ports of the British empire as a bet-off, in | some measure, against the destruction of British merchant vessels without warmn- ing by German submarines. The appeal states that 119 German, twenty Austrian and eleven Turkish ships were detained in British ports at the outbreak of war, and there were also cighteen German and three Austrian ships detained in Egyptian ports, making a total of ships detained in all. In addition, 119 German ships, seven Aus. trian and five Turkish have been béised on entering British and colonial ports or upon the high seas, making a total of 302 enemy vessels in the possession of | the British government. The ocaptured vessels are, of course, subject to prize | court decisions, but the detained vessels | are apparently being held up pending the | concluston of the war. Duty of Government. “Surely It is the obvious duty of the government to turn to practical acoount | every vessel in their hands for the ben- efit of Dritish interests” says the ap- pedl. “The destruction of British mer- chant vessels in violation of the laws of war offers complete vindieation of this form of reprisal. Whatever a prise court decision may be as affecting cargoes of vessels which have been seized, there should be no hesitation on the part of the government to confiscate enemy ships as an act of reprisal for British merchantmen which have been sunk. “In the present exigencies of the na- tion, every enemy merchantman in sea- worthy condition should be actively em- ployed as part of the British mercantile The tmmediate value of the ‘indopuon of such a policy would be to { convince Germany that it must pay In | kind and at once for its lawlessness at | sea, and In the second place to assist in | considerably modifying the quotations | for shipping freights by stimulating a de- | marine. Cooper appealed to the contest board of Pointing out that after the United|control of lis automobile a mile out of Present era brought many gifts to the the American Automobile association and States comes Hngland and then Japan in | the town. As he went down the incling |MUseum?” the director was asked. | chants. point of trade, the writer remarks that|to & bridge his automoblle struck the | A few.' he replled. “But unfortu-| ' vove eague, therefore strongly notwithstanding Japan's geographical ad-| rall, which gave way and precipitateq Dately their departure was generally 80| o " pot ‘his majesty’s government vantage over its rivals, it has been able|the car and occupants to the bottom of hurried that they had little opportunily | , s st once follow the example of to surpase only Germany and China In|a small strcam about twenty feet below. |t0 bring such things with them.’ | our latest ally, Italy, in confiscating at trading with the islands. The Chinese, he | Kramer's right hip was crushed. Ray | The staff of the museum has been de- |, L "0 "0y olent of enemy ships to when they can draw the enemy on to | mand for the use of these ships by mer- marked ranges. But the tradition of sticking it out to the last, born of the shown by the fact that he was forced out | days when man was pitted against man, of the race, his oar crashed Into the |instead of man against machine, s 30 wall. Cooper also dfove a car in the Chi- | etrong In the British army that one of cago speedway dedicatory race June 9, [the most Important lessons of the war pleted about 3 per cent by enlistments. (i LR i i : i : ii i ; i ! | | i g j § £ ) § Hi il il i i e i? i ! g E; -y 'E i';":" Eiité il il ¢! g : i n?g it sk 1! t E:%gs i £ ! ¢ ; § ! % o 1 & gll’ Fsavt bighhi: JF E ! i it SEER i 2 g ! 3 i i ;t 1 hili ! 4 i Anffnl @ fe o has yet to be learned by it. These are the observations of & made & close study of the different fight- ing methods, According to his account, the French and German, unlike the British, lay no stress on holding their front line of tenches. In case of an attack they with- measured range, the enemy in taking the first line gets into a wasp's nest. The French, with a marvelous accuracy, pour both shrapnel and high explosive shells thelr famous 75 field guns. When they dssume the offensive and capture @ German trench, they protect their men m-motnnumrm" 3 but if its ocoupation seems y to prove h:mmwnnm'.m ground as best as they can in thelr mtmwrumctmmu es. Bomewhat the same tac- ywed by the Germans, who, machine guns instead of canhon., But the British hold on to front trench when attacked, and the captured trench when attacking, & courage unexcelled in history. they act with more courage than in- ce, #ince they play into the hands by their very stubborness. have almost all been due i j i gé giife L B i i 5 ‘ i g Z 1 I B | : i % | H FH g i g: fn‘ ] i i 1 it !iz LM iy 1] i i B it i i i iz T o ’ _!l' t! | H LE i | 411 i i [ I | : i £} HE [ 8 i i i i : : it { A8 !l%gg 1 1 says, are especially strony in the interior, | but he thinks the natives have little re- | spect “for the cunning Chinese whose | ways they do not like.” | As for anti-Japaness sentiment, Dr.| Miyama is happy to say he found none at all. He says: “The natives, suffering | to some extent from white opprossion, | have little real respect for thelr masters. | In fact there seems everywhere to pre- vall & warmer friendship for the Japan- ere than for any other race, even the sav- ages showing them kindness.” Both the Amerfoan authorities énd the natives, he declares, welcome the Japanese and treat | them with due consideration. ‘“The authorities are specially anxious to introduce more labor from Japan as the Japanese prove more satisfactory in this respect than do the natives. The white hemp companies utilize Japanese labor as far as they can with very satis- factory results. Thus the demand for Japanese labor in the Philiprines s al- most unlimited at present. New planta~ tions are.always being created: and the nmew industry of abaea promtses a phe- | nomenal development that will still fur- ther increase the demand for labor. Dr. Miyama notes that tn the produc- Burge, the other occupant of the car, was slightly injured. SAMUEL WINDHAM CHOSEN TO BE WEST POINT CADET | FALLS CITY, Neb, Aug. 7.—(Special | Telegram.)-Congressman Reavis was called upon to name a cadet to the United States Military academy at West Point, N. Y., and has chosen Samuel C. Wind- ham of Plattsmouth and as alternates, las B. Mansfield, Lincoln, Neb., and Willam T. \Johnson, jr, Pawnee City, Neb. — Wreek on Manbattan Line. BEATRICE, Neb., Aug. 7.—(Speclal ‘Telegram.)—Union Pacific freight train No. 88, en route to Topeka, went into the diteh a mile south of Beatrice today. Six care were piled in a heap and the track | badly damaged. The Beatrice-Manhattan passenger train could not get through om account of the wreck and the motor was run to those which have been destroyed by German submarines; and further employ and museum attendants are serving as | All enemy ships for the purpose of Brit- noncommissioned officers or in the ranks. | 1*h sea commerce upon such terms and The work of those who remain is partly | under such conditions as may be deemed lightened by the fact that the number of | Advisable.” visitors and readers has falled off nearly | RECORD PRICES SECURED 60 per cent during the last year. SWEDEN WILL REMAIN ‘ FOR FINE.CLIP OF WOOL NEUTRAL, SAYS WRANGEL| neLue FourcHE, 8 D., Aug. f— | (Special.)=With & total product of 1,400,000 LONDON, Aug weden's decision | pounds, the wool season for 1916 has to rema'n hetural is as firm as ever, was | closed here after a most successful year, the reply today of the Swedish minister | Record prices were obtainéd, the high- in Londom, Count Wrangel, to rumors|est being 28% oents a pound and the published in London newspapers this| ) west, 211 cents, making an aversge morning of the possible participation Of | yale price of 2% cents, against 17% cents the Scandanivan kingdom In the War. | joe year, Tt had been expected that the “There is no foundation for the Yu-|i,i" might reach 2,000,000 pounds this mors,” the minister said, “and the Sug- | o, ¢ the cleanness of the wool from | Beveral of the official staff are officers | |in the new armies, while the library | gostion that Sweden contemplates acUon | iy, ysug| dirt, due to the extreme rainy ::rr r ;:‘z::‘)nr?: .p’;:cr:ld " :Murr:;up‘; sesin, made it liehter Wbd the Mgher e . prices obtained more than eatisfled the Duma on Sunday clearly indicates ""’l.h P owne of this I ity. During Lincoln in its place. Soft track caused the accident. Rent rloras quick with a Bee Want Ad relations between Sweden and Russia | friend) " the last ten years over 16,500,000 pounds a4 6 s ,| of wool have beon marketed from this The THOMPSON-BELDEN STO HOWARD AND SIXTEENTH STREETS Linens Cost Much Less | During This August Sale | Bleached Table '$1.25 Bleached Table Damask $1.00 yard $1.50 Bleached Table Damask, $1.10 yard $1.76 Bleached Table Damask, $1.25 yard $2.00 Bleached Table Damask, $1.50 yard The August Towel Sale 45¢ Turkish Towels 50¢ Turkish Towels - - 75¢ Turkish Towels $1.00 Turkish Towels $1.50 Turkish Towels - - 150 Huck Towels 25¢ Huck Towels 35¢ Huck Towels 45¢ Huck Towels 75¢ Huck Towels $1.00 Huck Towels - - $1.50 Huek Towels Rent rooms quick with a Bee Want Ad. | locality. All Imported Wash Fabrics $1.00 to $3.75 Values Go Monday at Next-to-Nothing Prices A n Event Really Extraordinary in Importance 2,500 Remnants—Mostly Dress Lengths Many patterns for misses and children. will hav Those who come early e fine choosing. Read over the following items and note carefully the unusual character of the reductions in price. FRENCH Damask CREPE D FRENCH VOILE M 25¢ each - 39¢ each - B50¢ each 75¢ each $1.00 each - 10¢ each 19¢ each 25¢ each 29¢ each 50¢ cach - 75¢ each SA We | | | | *’_ NOVELTY RICE VOILE—New green, Pompadour figure, 6 yards - IMPORTED NOVELTY-—Hello Volle, embroidered in self t;no‘:, ;3‘5-0 PARISIAN FLOUNCING—White, witn dainty colors, 4 PARISIAN BROCHE NOVELTY-—For evening coats and suits, 42 inches VOILE DE PARIS—Self color, in Rice volle effect, 40-inch, ql OREPE DE CHINE NOVELT THE SALE WILL INCLUDE HUNDREDS OF OTHER EQUALLY GREAT VALUES. COREPE NOVELTY—40 inches wide, new blue color, ra“hr- $1.00 $1.25 quality, 3 yards - SILK AND COTTON NOVELTY-—Dainty blue with white stripes, B. yd?l.. y STRIPED VOILE (Black and White)—10 inches wide, 53§ yards PARISIAN NOVELTY-—Embroidered in self tones; color, new blue; 40 inches wide, $3.50 quality, 5% yards in the remnant for- Wl a $4.89 \ quality, 6 yards for - ® e E PARIS—White ground, with.beautiful broche figures in color, $3.00 quality, 4% yards for - VOILE BROCHE—White, embroidered in maize and quality, 53 yards groen, $3.00 - $3.98 $3.98 wide, $3.00 quality, 6 yards for - - - $3.31 ESADORE-——White, with embroldered figures of Belgium blue, $1.50 quality, 6 yards in the remnant for - $2.19 .50 $3.05 $1.98 6 inches wide, $2.50 quality, 6% yards - . uality, 5% yards for Y—White ground, with dainty flecks of color, 53 yards for LE COMMENCES PROMPTLY AT §:30 A. M. MONDAY. 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