Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1915, Page 1

] ( Direct from the Battle Arena. The Bee's Real War Photos Best of Them AlL THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE WEATHER Cloudy VOL. XLV-—NO. 57 OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1916—TEN PAGES. SINGLE JAPAN DECIDES T0 GIVE RUSSIA AID AGAINST FOE Premier Okuma Won't Discuss De: tails, but Intimates Assistance Will Be in Form of Muni. tions Supplies. SLAVS IN GREAT NEED THUS Dispossession o; German Industrial Element When War Broke Out Crippled Country. WESTERN ALLIES“CANNOT HELP TOKIO, Aug Shimbun says: “Premier Okuma states that Japan has decided to give greater assist- 2 The Kokumin ance to Russia to prosecute the war. | He could not discuss details, but al- lowed it to be understood that this| assistance would take the form of the | forwarding of greater supplies of | munitions.” | Russ Position Difficult. The position of Russia in regard to | obtaining war supplies has been one| ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE VICTORIA ¢ ROSS—Photo shows a wounded North Wales soldier in a Croyden hospital reading a letter written by Lloyd-George, in his own hand. ‘'The struggle up to now has been hard and severe, and it is due to the bravery and courage of yourself and tihousands of others that we are not beaten.”’ The letter says in part: of unusual difficulty. The Russiang as a people are not | given to industrial pursuits and| thelr manufacturing plants utilized for the production of guns and am- munition were manned and directed largely by Germans at the time the war began, The dispossession of the | powerful German element in Russia, which occurred in the early period of the war, left the nation unprepared to operate effectively even the lim-| ited number of establishments at m! disposal, i Russia obtained a considerable amount | of supplies from Japan by railroad, but ! this source was cut off suddenly for some time in the spring. The crisis in the relations between Japan and China| became so serious that Japan, foreseeing the possibilities of hostilities, devoted its energies to the accumulation of war sup- | plies for itself. Although Russia hes placed extensive orders in this country it has recelved from the United States little in the way of gune and shells. The shipments to Russia from Pacific ports have consisted principally of supplies such motor trucks and other heavy equipment. | Could Help Little, France and England have found that the unexpected demand for ammunition during the war has strained their re- sources to the utmcst, &0 that they have been abel to lend Russia little assistance in this respect. The inauguration of the great Austro-German movement found | 107 PLAYED WITH MATCHES; DYING Wilfred Riley, Aged Four, Will Be Third Child of Family to Meet Violent Death. MOTHER PROSTRATED BY SHOCK Wiifred Riley, aged 4 years, son of Mr, and Mrs. D. K. Riley, 2675 Cum- ing street, is dying at St. Joseph hos- pital as the result of burns received Baturday in a fire caused by his playing with a box of matches, Wil- fred will be the third child of the Riley family to meet violent death within the last two years. Wilfred , early Saturday morhing got out of bed before the usual hour of rising, found a box of matches on the dresser, went into the bathroom and locked the door, A few minutes later the household was aroused when he cried, “Grandma, grandmg, come quick, I'm burning- upe’ Mrs, Margaret Brown, the boy's grand- | mother was the first to et to the door and she attempted to force it. A moment later George Hale of Lincoln, an uncle ' Whieh he Kad not noticed. R ble t t the emergency |°f the child, who was visiting at the S Ty | Riley home, put his shojder to the panel, (. L. FELT KILLED BY TRAIN AT STATION Council Bluffs Business Man Run Over When He Accidentally Steps in Front of Engine. WELL ENOWN IN MANY STATES Charles L. Felt, 56 years old, mem- ber of one of the most prominent families of Council Bluffs, and resi-| dent of that city for thirty-five years, |was killed early yesterday, when he | was run over by a train at the Rock | 1sland station in the Bluffs. Mr. Felt is a traveling salesman. He went to the station to tdke a train. The | train was late and after walking about | the station platform for a time, Mr. Felt stopped at the lunch counter and pur- chased a glass of milk. A moment later he stepped onto the ralldoad track, di- rectly in front of an aproaching train. The engine passed sver the body. Mr. Felt had a business reputation as him known in many states. Tlo was at one time a parther In the oid firm of | GERMANS ENTER 0SSOWETZ.UPON HEELS OF SLAVS Teuton Troops Ocoupy Great Ri sian Fortress After It Is Evacu- | ated by Forces of Czar Nicholas. |IS LAST WESTERNMOST WALL Fall of Stronghold Expected as Muscovite Retreat Almost Iso- lated Garrison. |army headquarters announced today, The text of the statement issued today regarding war operations is as | follows | “Early this morning an enemy | fleet, consisting of about forty ships, {appeared before Zeebrugge and | steamed away again in a northwest- erly direction after having been bom- DEFENSE OF THE FIRST CLASS | BERLIN, Aug (Via London.) ——German-troops have occupied the |fortress of Ossowetz, which was | evacuated by the Russians, German | ;lmrded by our coastal artillery | | “In the Vosges and north of Muen- | | ster, batties are raging on the Linge- | kopf - Schratzmannele - Barrenkopf ' line., Strong attacks by the French ' i partly penetrated our positions last {nlxhl. Counter attacks drove the | enemy back again on the Lingekopf. On Schratzmannele and Barrenkopf, fierce fights at the trench sections | lasted throughout the night. About thirty mountain chasseurs were taken prisoners, HITS MOREHEAD Governor Morchead and Entire Staff of State Officers Put in Pickle by His Action. EXECUTIVE MAY LOSE HIS JOB (From & 8taff Corpespondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 23.—(8pe- cial.)—Is Governor Morehead and Flying Machine Brought Down, “At Wastrin, southeast of Lille, an Eng- | lieh flying machine was shot down. lastern theater of war: On the Bobr we occupied Ossowotz fortress which was evacuated by the Russians, “North and south uf Tykooin successtul | engagements took place. Tykocin wns other state officers holding office taken. On this occasion 1,20 prisoners, without authority of law, is a ques-including eleven officers and seventy- | seven machine guns foll into our hands. | tion which is belug discussed oD &C-| Tupyouperaie Russian counter attacks count of the ruling of Attorney Gen- cast of Jielsk falled with very consider- eral Réed that because the members |able losses to the enemy and we advanced of the railway commission have given "’.f;:“ of l':"r‘""" 3 s no bond, they have no right to hold SVRp. . FH08 LASROIE Af ‘Baviei Engaged In stubborn fighting this army office and, therefore, thelr Officés nay crowsed the Kiessose and Leranza. are vacant, | Mne and is engaged in further favorable If the interpretation of the comstl-| attacks. We took 3,00 prisoners and ale- tutlon by the attorney general is cor- 1 teens maechine guns were captured. “Army of Fleld Marshal Von Mackens rect, Governor Morehead has no au- thority to appoint a new commission |an expert in the iron trade which made | and Lieuienant Governor James Pler- son of Morefield is the governor of Nebraska by succession and will have | sen: The crossings over a tribuntary of i the Pulva have been captured after fierce resistance on the front between Bazna ‘and the mouth of the river. An attack |across the Bug above the wributary of the Pulva is making progress. | { with any such array of guns and shel as were possessed by its opopnents. Rus- sian military experts attribute to this | fact the rapidity of the Austro-German | advance, stating that the fall of Warsaw, a8 well as the events which preceded it, was brought on largely by this state of affairs. Advices received by the y sAsoclated | Press from Viadivostok several weeks | ago sald that great amounts of supplies were recelved there fop transportation to the Russian front. Word was received | from Toklo early this month that Japan | had stripped large coast guns from i's | fortifications on the northeastern coast | and had shipped them to Viadivostok. | Stock Market is g Extremely Feverish/ NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Stocks were | again very much unsettled after open- ing with some degree of steadiness. Nervousness resulting from the Arabic | incident was the chief contributing | factor. United States Steel was the pivot around which the market revolved, that| stock becoming increasingly weak on| heavy sales, which forced the price down | 10 66 In the firet hour, against Saturday’s! closing price -of 70%. The list as a whole later recovered from 1 to 2 points, but trading continued ex- tremely feverish. The Y!eather Forecast till 7 p. m. Tuesday For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicin- ity—Cloudy, cooler. | | those opinions were but before the lock could be forced, ac- cording to Mrs. Brown, the little fel- low turned the key and opened the door himself. His night dress was burning. Hule tore off the blazing garment, and in so doing was severely burned about the hands. From the residence the boy was carried to a mearby drug store and from there to the hospital. Ruth, a sister, aged 3 years, died just a month age frem poisoning caused by ocat- | ing canned peaches. Two years ago, Mary, aged 2 months, succumbed to the same sort of poisoning, resulting frem being fed condensed milk. The Riley family have one child living, John, aged 11 months. Mrs. Agnes Riley, the mother, who s employed In a downtown restaur- ant, appears to be dazed from the shock. The father, an insurance agent, is equally as grief stricken. Mr, Bryan Issues Statement About Sinking of Arabic CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—William J. Bryan, | former secretary of state, last night gave ont a signed statement in low: “I have read the editorial opinions coa- cerning the rinking of the Arabic, as reproduced ‘in Sat- urday morning's papers, but they seem to me to aveld the most important ques- tion. The real guestion 18 not whether American citizens have, under interna- tional law, a right to travel through the danger zono on the ships of belligerent nations. That is admicted. The question Just now should put his cenvenlence or even his rights above his nation's welfare. If part, as fol- is whether an American citizen | Keeline & Felt, formerly wholesale hardware dealers of Council 13lufts, He was a brother-in-law of George | Keeline, his wife having formerly been Miss Cora Keeline. Mr. Felt s sur- vived by the wife ana (weo da ghters. Serbia Agrees to l Meet Italy’s Views | Regarding Albania | MILAN, Aug. %.~(Via Parls)—One of the main difficulties in the way of a solution of the Balkan problem favorable to the entente allies has been settled, ac~ cording to an interview with Premier Pachitch of Serbla, published in the Corriere Della Serra. The premier is quoted as saying that Serbla has given way to Italy regarding Albania. | Premier Pachitch, according to the newapaper, went over several phases of the present situation as well as declar- ing that Avstria had tried several times since the beginning of the war to con- clude a separate peace with Serbla, but met with refusal from the Serblan gov- ernment. ““The tnaction of the Serblan army," the premier gaid, “was due to sanitary con- | ditions and the necessity for re-organiza- | tion and the accumulation of war sup- plies. When the moment comes, ho de- ¢lared, the Serblan army will fight stead- | fastly and in accord for the Balkan people. “Serbia has been endeavoring ever since the beginning of the war to reach an agreement with Bulgarie and in trying to do so now," the premier said, “on a basis conserving the vital interests of both countries.” So far as concerns Al- | bania, the premier 1s quoted as declaring |Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. { American citisens refuse to consider their Hours. Deg. |own safety or the safety of ahtion, then [ Serbla bows to the decision of Burope 5a m %/ 2 second question arisos, namely, whether | and wishes a friendly solution of the E:- = ** ! the government should permit a few per- | Adriatic question with Italy, acknowledg- Sam .. 7 sons to drag the whole country into this | ing the preddminant position of Italy in g m nparalled war. that field. 0 o m A Mam N g ol 12 m. kil i A | ty-Five Dying Daily From » Twenty-Five Dying Daily fnm 7 S ion in City of Mexi tha x tarvation in City o exico 7p. m .0 jliscsodve PR Sp.m Comparative Local Record. { MEXICO CITY, Aug. 13—(By Courler employes of the central charity organi- 1915, 1914, 1913 1912 | 1, Vera Crus, Aug. 16, via New Orleans, | gation were among those who have made Fighest yestariay % % & Aug. 2)-Deaths by starvation continue | application to the Red Cross for assist- Mean temperature .. T “' Tin this city and most conservative esti- | anc: Precipitation 5 28 .00 00 5 NS venty-five a day. | sSuch o B uwe and srectpitation depar-|mAtes place them at twenty-five & day. | | supplies as were brought In by PR gy g e | A visit to the various hospftals by & |Genezal Gonzales when Carransa forces Normal temperatu | representative of the American Ited Cross | reoccupled fhe capital on August 2 are Deficlegoy (o (he dayl.... 08| disclosed that for the first three days of | nearly exhausted. The situation i much | Novmat precipitation - {iinch |August, twenty deaths from starvation |that only large supplies of provisions | Oxcess for the day i . 92: hes | Were recorded. This number did not in- | from outside the capital can prevent an | Togg ruinfall sin e March 121,58 nches | FO0 T who died in the streets [Increase in the number of deaths from Deficlency for cor. period, 1814, 5.2 inches | [ 1om lack of food. Yesterday six death |Starvation and allay the misery among Detlclency for cor. period. 1913. 534 inches | o 1\ricates attributed starvation as the fhe lover clasms Sad oven the middie Reports from Statlors at 7 P. M. | o " nung the month of July, 1,86 | Classes. Station_and State Temp. High-Rain- {stered in Mexico City, | A comparison of prices during July, of Weather. Tpim. est. fall |deaths were reg A2, o | 1914, and July, this year, shows the fo!- Cheyenne, *rain e & 8| According to Charies J. O'Connor of the |, o B00 SH% ¥ : B s Soudy § 84| American Red Cross, § per cent of the | "o, sy nor cent; heans, 2000 per cent Des Moines, cloudy - T | deaths occurring in Mexico City are due | .o 190 per cent; flour, 900 per cent. ;\,0". }()l:.ll,‘_.“.q;-‘.r‘ s }u; to starvation. The increase in price of corn, the only Omaha, clear &2 15| Notwithstanding the fact the authori-|gpgojutely emsential staple for the Mex 5"'}% nm'i [ 2 | tjes may be sincere in their motives 10 |jcan people, has made it prohibitive to N ey St ‘cicudy 8 1 0l relieve the distress, their work up to now | the poor and many cases have been die- Valentine, ‘clear . vh | 0 00| has been of little or no effect. School | covered of entire families who have been TR e of Pregpitation. | seachers, government employes, and even | compelied to live on herbs. l “On beth sides of Svitjoze und at Ple- | zoza, evst of Viadiva the enemy was | |defeated yesterday and driven back to- ward the northeast. the power to appoint a mew commis- | slon, Basis of Reed's Opinton. H In his message to the governor the at- torney general based his grounds for his | Lost Western Foriress, opinton - prineipally tn. ‘Section 3 | The fall of Ossowets deprives the Rus- ot | ; .| siansof the last of thelr westernmost Article § of the conatitution' which reads: | o\ 0 op, ™ 1¢ i situated -about twenty “The officers mentioned in this article shall give bonds in not less than double miles inside the Russian frontfer, opposite the Bast Prussian border and the Ma- the amount of money that may come into their hands and in no case less than the | SUBMARINE ZONE OFF Marked where the Lusitania Arabic, torpedoed and sunk, | surian lake country. Its fall had been o it e mrastaions. s ty | eXPected inasmuch aa tho rotreat further sum of $60,000, w ch sureties and ‘;"u“""r""‘:: ":";r::éh‘;:n:’:’lnnml almost {solated the garrison. the '“"'"“‘“’_ :b:"‘“‘l‘ _vhw,, | Ossowets, a first-class fortress, derives ":r:'e";,;?‘.:w'i”ud'd o In the above| tratesio importance from the fact that same article and are the governor, 0k and tho great Petrograd-Warsaw lieutenant governor, secrotary of state,| tFunk line. y ney general and land commissloner. An' G. y E p e Tooestliutios 5. 4w AOTINIAN, Xpreses | years ago made the three members of the | i officers and the code committee which, P prepared the statutes placed the amended | | ONDON, Aug. 2.—A dispatch to section under the head of executive of-| Reuter's Telegram company from Copen. graph as Section “I9A." | ““The German government has expressed t for the torpedoing and sinking in Constitation Amended. 2pgre 8 However, the proposition which sub- | the North Sea on May 26 of the Danish o ote 14 mot amend the apticle, but Dess to pay compensation for the loss of y the steamer. amended the cc@stitution, so that it 1s he . s claimed that the new matter in the con-' ‘It 18 claimed by Germany that the finder the executive head, but at the end Mark denoting Danish nationality on the 20 $h> caamtiiaaits ¥ | steamer and assumed from the route the However, the appearance of the railway ' 8sel was taking that it was going to into the proposition of the validity of the CFulser: bonds given by the governor, secretary of state and treasurer. Under the read- sald state officers must give a bond in double the amount of money coming into their hands. ent state officers show that the governor, as dairy, food and ofl commissioner, re- ceived in fees §U78,000. As hotel commis- fish and game commission he took in 365,000 As head of the fire commission he took in 326,00, As head of the state Under the interpretution which the at- torney general gives the constitution, the governor should have given a bond for at eastward of the great bulk of the Russian soctiod’, are’ nembd in. Seotion 1 o€ thel it guards the rallway approach to Blaly- auditor, treasurer, superintendent, attor- ! e e e e e e Dogret to -Denmark| ticers in Article 5, designating the Para-| hagen says: mitted the amendment to the people for Steamer Betty and announced ita willing- Stitution &hould mot have been inserted Submarine commander falled to see the commission amendment does not come Joln the British fleet as-an suxiliary ing of that section of the conatitution the The last biennial reports of the differ- sioner he took in $11,00. As head of the veterinary department he took in $40,000 least $360,000 or the bond would be of no (Continued on Page Two, Column One | Here are the dates for our coming Ak - Sar-Ben events: Sept. 29, Carnival begins Oect. 5, Floral Parade Oect. 6, Electrical Parade Oct. 8, Coronation Ball || Oct. 9, Carnival Ends the bottom. In this region seven ships have been attacked: The Falaba, sunk; the Cushing, attacked by aeroplane; the Gulflight, torpedoed; the Lusitania, sunk; the Ne- braskan, torpedoed; the Armenian, shelled and sunk; the THIRTY MILLIONS FOR GOTTON FUND McAdoo Will Place That Sum or More in Gold in Southern Reserve Banks if Needed. RESULT OF ALLIES' ACTION WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Treas- ury officlals tonight made public an announcement by Secretary McAdoo that in view of the acttion of the allles in putting cotton on the con- traband list, he wouid, if it became necessary, deposit $30,000,000 or more in gold in the federal reserve banks at Atlanta, Dallas and Rich- mond for the purpose of enabling the reserve banks to rediscount loans on cotton secured by warehouses re- ceipts made by national banks and state banks belonging to the federal reserve system, One Fatally Hurt in Motor Car Upset | FAIRBURY, Neb, Aug. (Special elogram.)—eGorge Johnson, a young bachelor living near Jansen, is lying near death as a result of & serfous accl- dent four miles northeast of here last night. Johnson, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, who work for him, were hurrying toward his home to escape A rainstorm, when the machine upset, shocking and badly injuring the occu- pants Mrs. Davis was made unconsclious. A fow minutes afterward and before Mr. Davis could flag it another ocar ap- proached at a high speed and crashed Into the wreckage. Johnson sustained a broken arm and serfous internal injurfes. The Injured people were taken to the nearby farm- house of James Amos and medical treat- ment was summoned from Fairbury. Johnson is in a critical condition tonight. A car containing two Jefferson county teachers and a young farmer from Har- bine ran off a bridge northeast of Falr bury this morning and rolled down an embankment. The occupants escaped with few injuries. U. 8. to Decide as Soon as Eacts Here WABHINGTON, Aug. %.~Officlal an- nouncement was made at the White House today that as woon as all the facts regarding the Arable are ascer- tainable our course of action will be de termined, This officlal announcement was given out today by Secretary Tumulty after a conference with President Wilson. Mr. Tumulty said the statement was all he was authorized to say. German Torpedo Boat | is Sunk }jq@r Ostend | PARIS, Aug. 2.—Two French torpedo boats encountered and sank a German torpedo toat destroyer oft Ostend (Bel- glum) last night, says an announcement made here today. The French hoats were undamaged INTERNED FRENCH AVIATOR SUCCEEDS IN ESCAPING PARIS, Aug, 23.—BEugene Gillbert, the French aviator who was obliged to land in Switzerland, June 27, through an acci- dent to his motor, after bombarding the Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen, and was interned near Bt. Gothard, has es- caped. M. Gilbert arrived in Paris last night and reported for service at ‘the French ministry of war today. SEVENTY-SEVEN U. S. MEN ON TORPEDOED SHIP LONDON, Aug. .—There were seven- ty-Beven Americans In the orew of the steamer Baron Frskine, which was sunk by a German submarine last week. Tho Americans who wera horse tenders, were landed safely with the rest of the crew. | ne ment Orders, WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-—(Boeclal Tel- egram.)—Mrs. Della J. Henderson was appointed postmaster at Angorda, Mor-| rill countv, Nebraska, vice H. J. Wals- worth, resigned. Rural letter carriers appointed in Ne- braska: Columbu Andrew C. Hrb; Pustis, Bugent G. Link: Meaduws Grove, Oliver O, Maurer; Wisner, Howe, COAST OF IRELAND— and the Arabic were sent to = TWO CENTS. ALLIES REJOICE OVER EXPLOIT OF RUSS WARSHIPS Disaster is the Greatest Suffers by the German Navy Since the Begining of the Great Confliot. OFFICIAL REPORT IS MEAGE) Says One Dreadnought, Two Cruis ers, Eight Torpedo Boats and Four Transports Destroyed. ARTILLERY DUELS IN WES] coOPY LONDON, Aug. 23.—The capital of the entente allles are jubilan tcday over the unexpected naval vie tory which the Russians, accordin( tn thelr accounts, have won in th( Gult of Riga. England had mor( than a sympathetic Interest in th( battle, as a British submarine ao counted for the German batth cruiser Moltke, the loss of which added to the destruction of twq cruisers, eight torpedo boats and four transports, constitutes th¢ greatest naval disaster suffered by Germany during the war. For the last week both Petrograd and Berlin have been sending meager report: of naval operations in the Gulf of Riga, which were interpreted to inean that Germany was attempting to land forces for the purpose of supporting the left flank of Field Marshal Von Hindenbury In his efforts to overrun the whole of Courland and thereby establish his ar- mies along the coast route to the Rus. slan capital, The official report, claiming a decisive victory for the allies, together with the expulsion of surviving units of the Ger- man naval foroes from the gulf, contains few detalls in addition to an enumeration of German losses. It s assumed that, inasmuch as Petrograd announced sev- eral days ago that its large warships had retired from the gulf, the mosquito flo- tilla, awsisted by submarines and land de- fenses, worked unexpeoted destmuction on a part of the German fleet and the transports. Mora) Effect Large. The moral effect ot this action on the R n people, is expected in London, to be great and will probably do much to aliay the deprepsion incident to the continued Russian retreat, which has been arrested nowhere except in the northern sector, from Riga to Kovno. British military critics regard the Baltle sdvance of the Germans as of supreme importance, it the invaders really con- template marching on Petrograd. On (Continued on Page Two, Column Two) GERMANY'S NAVAL LOSSES 1| recent operations in the Gul Riga and in the Baltic were “one of the most powerful dre of the German fleet,' admiralty Rus- n loss mentioned in Petrograd acount of the Guif of Riga en- gagements was that of the gun- hoat Sivateh, GERMAN TORPEDO boat destroyer was sunk off Osteag ay night by two FKremch torpedo bonts, which escaped undamaged, Paris nannounces. BRITISH GOVERNMENT fssued o denial of the report that the atea Dunsley, whi was tor- ed shortly before the sinking t the Arable, was a. trol It was an w peaceful trader, it in declared. PLANS FOR JOINT by Italy, Englan. Russin against Turkey were ar- wed in July = 1y be put into execution, advices from Ttaly declare. THE WANT-AD WAY, LS nouncement about your 1 classified columns of THH BEE, . Telephone Tyler 1000 &n@ PTT IT TN THE OMAHA BER, SRR S,