Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1915, Page 1

e —————————— ' PART ONE. NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE T0O TWELVE o THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE VOL. XLV—NO. 10. OMAHA, SUNDAY ' MORNING, AUGUST 22, )ITALY DECLARES | WAR UPON THE TURKISH EMPIRE Rome Ambassador Hands Porte Note Saying State of Hostili- | ties Already Existing. | HE DEMANDS HIS PASSPORTS Liverpool for America, only submarine off Fastnet, Reasons Given Are Support by otto-l mans of Revolt in Libya ; Provinoce. RESIDENTS KEPT IN SYRIA BULLBTIN. | LONDON, Aug. 21.—A steffani news agency dispatch from anel‘ says Italy has declared war against Turkey. BULLETY LONDON, Aug. 21.—Italy has de-| clared war against Turkey and the! Itallan ambassador has left Con- stantinople. This announcement is made in Reuter Telegram from Con- Istantinople via Berlin and Amster- ‘dam. LONDON, Aug. 21.—Marquis DI} Garroni, Itallan ambassador to Tur-| key today handed to the Porte a note ! declaring Italy consldered itself in a | state of war with Turkey and de- manded his passports, according to| an officlal telegram from Constanti- | nople received at Amsterdam nnd:‘ transmitted to the Central News. { The reasons given in the note for | Italy's declaration of war were the support by Turkey to the Revolt in, Libya and the prevention of the ae-, parture of Italian residents from | Byria, i " Ruef Serves Half His Sentence.and Released on Parole | T_HE STEAMSHIP ARABIC, bows on, as it sailed from MAY ASK KAISER T0 EXPLAIN THE ARAB.C ATTAGK State Department Intimates that the @German Government's Atten- tion Will Be Called to the Imoident. to be torpedoed by a German LCTION WILL NOT BE HASTY Will Cive Opportunity to Present Mitigating Gircumstances, if There Are Any. |ONLY . TWO AMERICANS LOST WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—It was {announced at the State department | today that Ambassedor Gerard prob- ably will be directed to call the Ger- | | man government’'s attention to the sinking of the White Star llner Ara- bic and to invite any explanation. This was the first indication from | 19156—FIVE SECTIONS--THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES SINGLE THE WEATEER Cloudy - - saseeeseasetce SRS COPY FIVE CENTS. THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY AND HIS FAVORITE HORSE—During the war the kaiser has spent almost all his time with the troops, crossing from one front to the other, according to the importance of the fighting. The figure of the emperor and his splendid mount is familiar to almost every soldier at the front. ‘nrflr(nl source that Germany would have an opportunity to give the rea- | sons for the attack, apparently in dis. regard of President Wilson's solemn warning that sich an act would be | regarded as deliberately untriendly. | The Btate department's attitude fs that | | It the German govornment has any facts | which, in ita opinign, go to mitigate the | circumatances of the attack, the Beriin | foreign gffice should have opportunity to | present them. i Wil Act Deliberntel Today's announcement, moreover, indl- cates that before President Wilson takes | i any action there may be some exchange | | ot etplomatic communication. | Tt is stated that tne State del‘ll\.fl_m"ll'l, policy 1s to show the utmost dellberation consistent with the delicate question and to omit no opportunity of avoldiog & severance with German o long as there | 18 & reasonable expectation that a sut- | flelent excuse can be given for the sink- ing of the Arabie, A"{Sa.nuth it has been reported that the ! Gerndan embasey has evidence that Cap-_ tain Finch of the Arabic had been nrnm* and attempted to escape before the tore pedo was discharged, It was sald at the Btate department that no info on of BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2L.—Abraham Ruef, once a power in San Framcisco politics, serving & fourteen-year sentence for offering & bribe to a San Franciseo sul , wae paroled today from San Quentia penitentiary by the State Board 'REED HOLDS RAIL - , BOARD IS LLEGAL Ruef's parole provides that he shall go | Attorney Gemeral, in Message fo Mendocino . coun ‘where he has a & b Yanoh, and remain ihore ninety davs | Governor, Says His Duty to Ruef requested that this condition bo; Appoint Three New Men. made so that he might not be cha | with renewing activity in San Francisen' politics, where a municipal election cani- | NO* BONDS m NOW ON FILE palgn {& under way. | —— Ruet probably will not leave San Quen- | (From a Staff. Correspondent.) Ruef has spent four years, five months Members of the state railway com- and fifteen days behind prison walls. He wissjon, Henry T. Clark, H. G. Tay- was sentenced to fourleen years' Impris- jor and T. L. Hall, have no right to that kind had been recelved from the 4 WARSHIPS LOST i ™ 72 IN-RIGA GULR FRAY wois o i it (. g g One German ' American Battle Oraft Sunk in Olash of © | 1t was m W the Whlte! Housb s Stato ‘department that further informa- Baltio Fleets. |Hon fegarding the ainking of the Arablc ; | would be secured before the president de- TWO TEUTON BOATS CRIPPLED : Continusa pn Pagedws, Colomn e LLETLN. Arabic Situation |\ Causes Further “PETROGRAD (via London), Aug 21.—A British submarine has tor- pedoed a German crufser in the Bal. tic sea. This statement is made in an 110 DECLARED 'NOTICE ON KAIS Britain in Announcing it Says <" Action Will Be Taken to Miti- : gate Distress Cansed. * |oIvIL UBERTY FoR GERMANS|pp,yos CE WILL DO THE SAME BERLIN, Aug: 31.—(Vla Londpn;) " WAR CONTRABAND & onment for having offered a bribe to Supervisor J. J. Furay. His convietion was one of fhe results of the famous Ban Framolsco graft prosceutions. With full credits for good behavior his fourteen-year sentence was automatically reduced to eight yvears and ten montha, ! ‘He has served haif of this, the minimum requisite for parole. But in acdition to his prison term Ruef spent three years' in the Francisco county jall after his firet Indictment in November, 1806, | on a charge of extortion, which was! quashed, ; All Americans | On Arabic Except ' ! Two Accounted For ] QUERNSTOWN, Aug. 2L—(Via Lon-: don,)—After“ checking up all lists of Americans on the White Star line steamet | Arsble, torpedoed Thursday by a German submarine, the United States consulate | fill their positions, hold office and it is up to Governor Morehead to appoolnt tthree men to acording to an opinion of Attorney Geperal Reed. The democratic official in a message to the . go or alleges that the .commis- sloners have rever given W bond as ro- auired by tre stetutes, and consequently are deprived of' the right-to hold ‘th oftiges. ' This may or mey not invalidate all acts of the commission in the past, the attor- ney gencral not being prepared to give an opinjon on that point. ‘ Needs Court Decisions. Governor Morehead would have little | to say regarding the letter of Attorney General Reed after recelving it. To rews- paper men he simply sald that he would do nothing for a time, but intimated that | the att: to bring spme court decisions before the executive would take any action. The attorney general is of the opinion there Iy nothing for the governor to do y general would be required ! reports that the only Americans missing now, but to appoint successors to the are Mrs. Josephino L. Brugulere and Dr. ' present commissioners. Edmond T. Woods, State Treasurer Hall says he will con- 3 - T g B tinue to pay warrants presented by lho‘ Nlnfl Auto Pal’tles commissioners for salaries when they Robbed in Butte| | come to him. Text of Opinton. Following is the attorpey general's opinjon to the governot: BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 21.—City and; “Under the constitution the state rail- county officlals are searching today for way commission consists of three offi- five highwaymen who held up and robbed cers elected by the people. At the pres- nine successive automobile .parties in cnt time Henry T, Clarke, Jr, H, C. Butte last night. Estimate of the losses Taylor and Thomas L. Hall are attempt- | of the motorists in cash and jewelry ap- Ib§ to act in the capacity of officers of proximates $,000. The victims, several the state rallway commission. Whils.| of them women, were arranged in a row ©ach has taken the oath of officerneither | and forced to hand pyer their valuables. Of them have ever given a $5,0.0 bond vs | Irequired by Bection %, artiele 5 of the | (Continued on Page Two, Column One. \Four Liners Sail for Europe with 2,000 Passengers The Weather For Omaha, Councll Bluffs and Vicinity «~Fair; not much change in temperature. Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. | Hour. Deg, Sa m.. $a m. TEEeFre NEW YORK, Aug. 2L—Recent activi- ties of German submarines had no ap- 73 | barent effect on salings of trans-Atlan- (79| tic ships from this port today. Four - 80 [ liners flying American, British, French % | ana Itallan fiags, with more than two 78 | thousand passengers on board, in ad- 7 | aition to full dargoes of exports, salled ™| or prepared to.sall before night. - The Cupard liner Orduna, with 275 pas- 9% | sengers, of whom seven are Americans, | o | left port at 10:® a m. for Liverpool, | 78 | The Americen line steamship New York was to sall at noon with 0 passengers. "| The French line steamship La Touralne with 220 passengers was to leave at § 4| p. m. for Bordeaux, and the Ttallan liner Btampalia with 1087 passengers will lot &0 its line st 4 D. m. The passengers on the Stampalia include more than 1,000 in the third class, the majority of whom are men goins ta Italv to enlist for the w l } | 3 wam mueeleBSen- vepoOps m m Loea] Comparative Highest yesterday Lowest y'e.-un!ly Mean temperature Record. 1915, 1914, 13 2 9 e ® W » = A0 tation cf i o [3 n 00 ip official announcement, o Bref.i in Stocks —In the course of & debate today in the Reichstag Dr, Eduard David, the BERLIN, Aug. 21.—Three Rus- ;. NEW YORK, Aug. 2L.—The possibility, | socialist leader, sald: ¥ sian.darships and one German war- ship, all small vessels, have been 8. was made today. ‘ ' Two other German warships were put out of. commission during the engagement.. One ran ashore and the other was damaged. . . '.The Russian vessels which were sunk were the gunboats Sivutch and Koreets, and a torpedo boat. The Gérman ships sunk or put out of ecommission were all torpedo boats. The damaged boat was escorted to port. Are Sister Ships. Sivutch and Koreets were tons displacement. ey thirty-six feet beam armed moted in high banking circles, that ex- isting relations with Germany may neces- sitato the flotation of a large domestic At the outset only the specialties were materially, affected, but later when It be- came known that the Arabic had not been under convoy, the entire list began to weaken on heavy offerings of atand- ard shares, Losses of 2 to 3 points were begistored by Union Pacific and Reading, and United mm.-mmulumtha In the'early dealings, soon declined to Increased weakness was shown in the istration probably would make representa- tions: vegurding the Arablc incident throukh its ambassador at Berlin. Steel, Union Pacific and R ading were 3 | '“There lives in the hearts of th German people, as in all other peo- mk in ‘the baftle in the Gulf of loan to meet porsible emergencies oaused D¢, & longing for the day of restora- Announcement tto this effect further unsettiement i the stook market tion of peace. It were i1l for human- ilty it it were otherwise. The Huro- pean peoples are bleeding from thou- sands and thousands of wounds, Every day of the wer wmeans further frightful destruction of values. “Therefore, 1 point again to the declaration of our party made in the Reichstag. We adhere to the prinel- ple declared on August 4, 1914, that an end must be made to the war as soon as our enemies are inclined 1o make peace. Lust Must Not Prevail, “Lust for oconquest must not prolong this war unnecessarily. Emperor William LONDON, Aug. 21.—Cotton has been declared absolute eontraband by Great Britain, accordin to a state- ment issued by the foreln office this afternoon. The statement declares that the overnment proposes to initlate meas- (CZAR'S ARMIES FAIL TO CHECK ~ TEUTON ONRUSH Only Check to Invaders is at Osso- ! wetz Where They Are Un- [ able to Make Use of Their Heavy Guns. SRMAN FORCES EAST OF BUG | Russian Defense Along Bailystook- | Brest-Litovek Line Now Vir- tually Impossible. FRENCH LOSE NEAR ARRAS nu BERLIN, Aug. 2{.-—~(Via Lon don.)-~The Germans have captured the Russian town of Bielsk, twenty- five miles south of Blalwstok, aad have driven the Russians over the Biala river, acording tp an official announcement given out by the Ger many army headquarters staff. LONDON, Aug. 21.—The Russian fleld armies are fighting desperately, but vainly, to check the onrush of the Germans and Austrians. Novo- georglevek, the last Poligh fortress tor hold out, has fallen. Ossowelz, to the north of Poland, ha invaders thus far only h wirshy natuwre of t) conntry, which preven s rom empioying thelr hasvy i o ¢ leetively. jouth of Breot-Litovek, iield Mar +hal Von Mackensen's forces limye penetrated far beyond the Bug. Other (ierman armies east of that river ron: der a serious Russian defense nlong the Bialystok-Brest-Litovek line vir. tually impossible. 'The mysterfous naval battle In the Guit of Rig: still In progress at the tima of ‘the latest report from Putrograd. which, however, gave wo detalls ns to the magnitude of the mction. Along the other front no important changes are recorded, with the exception of the French admission of inability to hold the Lens-Arres crossroads recently | captured. Balkan States May Join Allies. The diplematic problem tn the near east has been brought appreclably pearer Lt Venixelos and the | “Atter torty-sight hours of unusualuctiy- |1ty, resulting in & heavy toll of merchant- .men traversing the naval war zone, Ger- |man submarines apparently have been withdrawn to thelr bases. Bellef is ex- pressed that the White Etar liner Bovie ]u safely in port. It Is now definitely es- tablished that only two Americans who .l::nmou o Arable are miss. Fremch Ofiecial Report. X PARIS, Aug. 21.—The French war office this afternoon gave out a atatement on the progress of hostilities which reads: Last night saw continued severe artil- lery fighting in the Artols distriot be- /[tween the Olse and the Alsne, in the Champagne district and In the Voages, - In the Argonne fighting with mines ures Yo relieve dopro..}nn thet miht continues at Cortes Chausees and at St. t i temporarily distress thé cotton mar- ket because of the coptraband order, It was learned upon inquiry at the foreign office that the French gov- ernment will issue similar notice early tomorrow. | "ime Annoumcement. The announcement fillows: /(Hls majesty's government has de- clared cotton absolute contraband. While the - clroumstapces might have justified #uch action at an earlier period, his majesty’s government are giad to think that locel conditions of the American Interests Iikely to Be affected are more | ern coast of the ‘gulf. | on account of man squadron was engaged in an at- decline at 146% was 2 tempt to force an entrance to the Guif War stocks were the of Riga for the purpose of mssisting the ers with recessions of 3 to 11 points, Beth- German army, which occuples the west- lehem Steel losing the maximum amount The Russians as- 8t 274 General Motors fell 9% to 0, serted that they repelied on August 8 and New York Alr Brakes 6% at 126%; an attack delivered by nine German Minimum prices prevalled at the feverish battleships, twelve crulsers and ‘a large 04 excited close. number of destroyers. | sald we.were waging no war of conquest |favorable for such a step than they were and the chancellor's speech yesterdey a year ago, and moreover, hiy majesty’s supplied further proof. Unfortunately | government. contemplates intation of Germany’s enemies are not yet inclined |measures to relleve as far as possible to peace, notwithstanding their severe lany abnormal depression which might defepts. Their leading statesmen only |temporarily disturb market conditions.” Fecently asserted the dgtermination to ( continue the war until Germany was | crushed and their plans for conquest are | realized. They are still looking for allies | (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) | Germany Expects To Collect Cost of Later the Russians anmounced that ! their warships had been drawn in closer the superiority - of the German squadron and an officlal com- | munication received last night from Pet- | rograd said that a German fleet had ! renetrated the gulf and engaged the Rus- | sian vessels. f Not In Gult, | PETROGRAD, Aug. 21 (via London). —THe newspeper Russky Invalid states that the chief units of the Russlun Bal- NEW YORK, Aug. 71.—Passengers and crew of the White Star lner Cympio | asserted upon thelr arrival here today that the Cymsic had been convoyed for after leaving Liverpool, August tio Gest are uot In the Guit of. Risa. | s by relaye. of British warsniss. five where u German fleet has entered and | iy gumber, and that it had not been nkaged Russian navaldefenders. The | permitted to sall unsccompanied until GUIE of Rigs the newspaper declares, | e war sone had been ift behind. Sov- is defended "by mines and small war- passongers sald the periscope of . & submarine had been seen, but officers » - of the Cymric declined to discuss this Juror in Lawson assertion. The Cymric took virtually the same course as the Arable, which was sunk Thureday by a German submarine. The { Cymric carried 18 passengers of whom 106 were. in the steerage. When the steamer left its dock the bigh flag pole recently erected at the mouth of the Mersey, where all outgoing vessels could not fall to see it, dleplayed the warning that Geraan submarines were lurking In nearby waters This wi the passengers sald, was in the form of & big black ball holsted distriet court at the top of the pole. It had been Farrar, It m::“:, agreed among abip owners at Liverpool by Hall, Incorporated In Law-|'t ‘Was sald, that the black ball was to new trial, in which ! be the sign” of danger when the ad- been coorced by | miralty's warning of nearby submarfnes to & verdict of | came to port too late to warn outging craft by messenger or telephons, Be- Case Arrested on - Perjury Charge TRINIDAD, - Colo., Aug. #.—Grover Hall, & member of the jury which on May 3 convicted John R. Lawson, inter national moember of the United Mine Workers of America, of first de- §rée munder ‘tuday was a-remted at Ra- ton, N. M. on a charge off perjury. ‘s arvest was on information Liner Cymfic Convoyed Through War Zone by Relays of Battleships BERLIN, Aug. 2.—~(Via Amsterdam and London.)—Dr. Karl Helfferich, sec- | retary of the German imperial treasury ! spuaking In the ‘Relchstag on the second fore the Cymric was out of the Mersey, | reading of the war loan of $2,600,000,000 sailors provisioned life boats and swung sald: - “Untll now. twenty billion marks them outward. The passengers were as- have been woted and our éstimates of sembled and assigned their repective war needs still are exceeded by real ex- places Jn the boats so that there might Penditures. The expeaditure in one be no Sonfusion In emergency. month is higher by one-lhird than When clear of Liverpool harbor, the |the total expenditure for the war of 1570, Cymric sighted & small crulser, former- DUt every German knows that the ssori- ly & converted yacht, whicll steamed 008 will not be in vain. The grant of new milllons means a guarantee of un- silently alongside, some times approach- | movable determiination on the part of the ing as close as 30 yards, tili nearly | oot iR C R sunset when the second relay, & (a8t huring the war we will not Increase vessel of the destroyer type, was sighted | (ne gigantio burder of the peopie by new shesd! apparently awalting the Cymric's |taxation. A tas on.war profits can only arrival in its sone. be raised at the conclusion of the war, The crulser dropped behind and the The heavy burden of thousands of mill- destroyer took its piace. That night |llons will be borne through decades by all lights, except candles, were extin- | the instigators of the war and not by us" guished and every port hole was blan-| Continuing, Dr. Helfferich declared keted. The passengers slept with life | SPeculative business which already had belts at hand, revived, had to be M:fl as l.ll,l'lll- contl able money was needed by the father- r:q’: n;::n:’-nmmw""m?.m :.:: land. Subscriptions to the third war loan, one to another, each warship apparently | 1% 9844 cOUId be made through the post- office and small subscribers for 1,00 patrolling & certain zone and acting as marks or less would be permitted to pay the liner's escort through its patrol. The in instaliments. destroyer, sccording (o the! Cymrio pas- | 1y “rcicterioh, discussing the wer ex- sengers, darted back and forth ' and | pengitures of various powers sald: around the ship, eircling frequently. | «Urp to the present the German expendi- Some time during the night of the | tures have been highest, but they are now twelfth the destroyers ceased their | heing exceeded by Great Britpin. Coall- solicitude over the liner and dropped be- | tion of our enemies now is bearing almost hind two-thirds of the total cost of the wan'" | - } War from Enemies' | i | Fubert, where we have occupied and consolidated the crater made by & mine exploaion. ““T'wo weak infantry attacks on the part of the enemy, one at Frise-Sur- Soi and the other in the forest of Parroy in :;rnh-. were completely repulsed e Austrian Airmen Defeated in Fight by Italian 'Planes PARIS, Aug. 2.—Itallan aeroplanes de- feated an Austrian alr squadron off the | Adriatio coast, according to a dispatoh to the Figaro from Turin. Three of the Avstrian machines were brought down ;ud theilr crews were either killed or made prisoners. The Figaro's correspond- ent says that the Itallan squadron forced an engagement upon the Austrians after a long, stern chase, The Itallan avia« tors returned to thelr base without loss or injury. BRITISH GOVERNMENT teoday of. ficlally declared that the White Star Muer Arable, sunk by a Ger- man marine, was not holng convoyed when it was torpedoed, stinking of the Armbio, with th of two American Mves, are & gath. ered by the Washington govern- meunt, which has not as yet offi. clally commented upon the disas- ter, FORBIGN MINISTER SONNING has reported to the Itallan cabluet on g;;u i 25 b £ ’ |