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

ADVERTISING IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE SPOKEN EVERYWHERE BY BUYERS AND SELLERS. THE WEATHER. Cloudy TWO CENTS. VOL. XLV—NO. T74. Cory VIENN] ADMITS FORCES HURLED PACK BY SLAVS Austrian Official eport Tells of ' Sunday Preaches on the Evangelistic Church and Knocks Fads and Isms “BILLY" GRABS THE WATER PITCHER—Tt was hot in the tabernacle yesterday and the speaker just ‘‘ran with sweat.”’ In the midst of his prayer he stopped to take & rooling drink out of the pitcher. [ CONSIDER PLAN T0 TAKE SUBSEA VERBAL HOT FIRE. ~ GASE TO HAGUE : |gloves and called a spade a spade tan fclence Declared to Do Issue with Germany Becomes Less Mr. Sunday's text was 11 Timothy, SUNDAY SCORES - VARIOUS ISMS IN / ¥ In his sermon Don't be a fool and try tell him how to run his business. yesterday morning “Billy” Sunday handled the new thought people and those who have deviated Assalls New Thought People. rom the evangelistic church without kid | We have been getting away from | spiritgel things. The spiritual seems 11, (80 unreal. We want gold we can | 15: “Study to show thyself approved unto |touch. And these new thought people to e s S Ninety-One Parts Humbug in Morning Address of Evangelist. PEOPLE DAFFY OVER UPLIFT Need of Present Time is Revival | of Doctrines of Salvation | and Hell. TAKES RAP AT SCHOOL BOARD “Billy"” Sunday startled his Sunday | morning audience of 5,000 persons | three times. This is what he said and | did: Predicted the near approach of the end of the world, saying, “If I read the #igns of the times aright, and 1 know I do, we're living in the end of | the big toe of the existence of the/ world.” Among the signs, he said,| were ‘‘wars and rumors of war”, Interrupted his prayer which be- gan, “Well, Lord,” with the excla- mation, “Whew—gosh, I'm getting! tired;’ seized a water pitcher umli drank from it and finished the prayer holding the vessel in one hand and | a sweat-soaked handkerchief in the! other. | Remarked in a discussion of Chris-| tian Science: “If old Mother Eddy crawls out of her grave before the resurrection, I'll eat a polecat for| breakfast and wash it down with, whisky.” | The prediction of the end of the world | was interpolated in a discussion of pres- ent-day evils. “I will preach to you some time about it and show you,” he said. It Was a Hot Time. It was fearfully hot in the tabernacle, perspiration drops fell in tiny showers from “Billy" Sunday's face when he leaned from thé rostrum toward the audi- ence, His clothes were soaked with mols- ture, although he put but little acrobatic exercise into the sermon. It was only at the close of the sermon after he had mounted a chair,and had be- &un his prayer that he gave any indication that he felt the heat. Sunday assailed vigorously ministers and church folk who are willing to compromise on differences in beliefs and attacked churches which, he sald, denied the divinity of Christ. - Attacks Christinn Sclence. He almed a severe verbal unult? against Christlan Sclence, which, he said, | was made up of three parts mental sug- | gestion, three parts Hindoophitls, three | parts of religion and ninety-one parts pure humbug. Sunday’'s opinion of social reforms which, his critics have said, he has falled to give proper consideration in his work of saving souls, was expressed as follows: “Some of us are going daffy over wel- fare work and uplift schemes which are all right, but are all wrong when they try to be a substitute for salvation. The pressing need of the times is a revival of the doctrines of repentance, salvation, heaven, hell and a personal devil.” Who Are Heathens? “A man that doesn't belleve in God in Omaha is a bigger heathen than a black man in Malay,” declareq Bunday. “So you old heathen, listen to me,” he con- tinued, addressing whomsoever might take the title to himself. A remark which was interpreted as a critielsm of the Omaha school board, by | many who recollected the opposition of a majority of the members to work by the evangelist in local schools, was made in | connection with a discussion of immigra- (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) Gives Birth to a Child Soon After Leaving Tabernacle Mrs. B. V. Landon, Glenwood, Ta., was | removed from the tabernacle at 11:30 Sunday morning to Lord Lister hospital and gave birth to a baby boy that died a few hours later. Mrs. Landon came to Omaha on an | early train with her husband, intcnd- ing to return after hearing the moraing mervice. She Is 23 years of age and has | two children at home. When Mrs. Landon grew faint in the | tabernacle she was| taken to the hos- | pital department and attended by Dr. J. H. Vance, who realized her seriouz con- dition and suggested removal to a place ' where she could have corfpetent care, Her baby, was born an hour after she was | taken from the tabernacle. | The Weather | For Nebraska—Cloudy, cocler, H Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. Deg, 2 62 .6 [ & end one of those crooked-handled dinge- [of 64 to 14, Al % 7 n | the king ripped it open. i servant. | Christian Science, which amused him as SIN SCARS MAN LIKE LEPROSY “Billy” Sunday Describes How Evil Scars Souls of Those Who Yield Lives to It. OMAHANS FINE, TELLS GOD MONDAY PROGRAM. . meetings im dq the ‘weekly rest day of Mr. and the party, He and Mrs. Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver and G. A. Brews er wil go to Lincoln in the morning, where the evengelist will preach twice. Completing the first week of hls§ Omaha campaign, “Billy” Sunday was at his very best Saturday. He “called a spade u spade,” he took off his coat, wher his shirt was sweated through and his collar hadl. given up in despair and wilted down | to hig shirt band. He gave the ex- pectant audience all the slang it| could possibly want and he related one of the finest Bible incidents in decidedly modern language. ! This was the fine old story of| Naman, who went down from| Damascus to Jerusalem to be cured ot his leprosy. “Billy” told it like this; “When Naman came to King U. §. WILL ACCEPT CARRANZA TERMS American Allies Will Meet Accord- ing to Wishes of Constitu- tionalist Chief. HIS RECOGNITION MAY FOLLOW WASHINGTON, 8ept. 12.—Gen- erat Carranza's counter proposal to the Pan-American diplomats for a conference with him over interna- tional phases of the Mexican problem probably will be approved, accord- ing to opinions expressed here to- night by officials in touch with the administration, Although Carranza refused to yleld to the appeal of Secretary Lansing and representatives of Latin-Ameri- can republics that he join his adver- saries in a peace conference, it was pointed out here that military condi- tions in Mexico had undergone marked changes in the last few weeks and in some quarters it was con- tended that Carranza's claim for recognition was entitled to investiga- tion, Since the Pan-American appeal was issued Carranza's armies have pressed pacification of territory in Acute During Day as Proposal to Arbitrate is Dis- ~ussed. TWO FACTIONS IN WASHINGTON One Set of Officials Opposes Move as Surrender to Kaiser, While Other Favors It, N FEEL MUCH MORE OPTIMISTIC WASHINGTON, Sept, 12.——The is- sue with Germany has become less acute during the last twenty-four hours through consideration of the proposal to take the dispute in the questions of fact in the Arabic case UM& he likes if he goes to church on | to The Hague. One set of officials belleves to do 80 would amount to arbitrating the principles for which the States has been coniending and would open the way to practically unlimited submarine operations, with disputed questions of fact and arbi- tration in each case. Another set of officials believes that without taking in the principles in- volved, The Hague might properly be allowed to decide, not whether the submarine commander thought he was justified in sinking the Arabic because he believed it was about to ram him, but whether the liner a tually was attempting to resist or es- cape, and if so, whether that justified the commander’s action in interna- tional law, Lansing Is Stlent. | Both sets of views are being urged on | President Wilson, who will decide what shall be done. Secretary Lansing refused !today to Indicate his view. The course {to be pursued may not be determined for |a day or two. Generally the indications |in official quarters were more favorable. | Despite the fact that all officials con- sidered the German explanation unsatis- factory and disappointing, there appeared to be more of a prospect for finding some ground on which the two countries could meet. Another note reported to have been de- livered to Ambassador Gerard by the Berlin foreign office last night falled to arrive today. Secretary Laneing sald he “no officlal knowjedge or Intimation that another commumication was coming or what it contalned. At other sources it was reported that the note is Germany's explanations of the unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Cunard liner Orduna on July 9, when a submarine sent a torpedo within ten yards of the ship't stern, then unsuccess- fully shelled it until it was out of range. The Orduna was on its way to the United States and had twenty-two Amer- fcans on board when attacked, Not an Issue, In the Orduna case there s a conflict of statements, whether the ship had warning or was trylng to escape, It is not an fssue between the United States and Germany, and is not likely to by !come one. The Germ note 18 in re- /sponse to inquiries made by Ambassador partment. It is not regarded as having any bearing on the present situation un- less it contains some declaration of prin- ciple not to the controversy. -‘ll that in the Arabic case the danger of break grows less as the hours pass without aotion, i Joram and showed him the letter,| central and northern Mexico, “"": In the case of Dr. Dumbe, Captain | Magnates, on the grounds that a meeting | strengthened Instructions, issued to Then he began pacing the floor very excited and he said: ‘ ‘They're trying to put one over on us. Don't fall for it, boys. This 18 a military ruse.’ Then he sent him to Elisha, who lived in the sub- urbs of the city.” Acts Part of Elisha. “Billy" acted out his conception of the bowing servant coming into Elisha's hut and telling him his master's mission. Then he took a chair to his pulpit and | sat on the chair back with his feet on the seat to represent Hilisha sitting on a high stool “writing with a reed pem on papyrus.” Elisha, according to the “Billy-lan" interpretation, stroked his whiskers and spat before answering the Then he said, “What's the mat- ter with you? What do you want to let & little thing like that get your goat for?" What answer the servant made, “'Billy* said not, but the servant went out and told Naaman “Elisha 1s home, but he's a queer duck.’” Here “Billy" injected some sarcasm ¢n much as it did the audience. He rolled with laughter as he pointed out that Elisha didn't tell Naman that he didn't have leprosy and didn't offer to give him absent treatment. New Deal for Naman. Next he depicted Naman at the Jordan, where the prophet had commanded him to wash seven times. “Naman wasn't used to this thing." sald “Billy.” “At his home up In| Damascus he had a porcelain bath tub end Pears' soap and Ivory and Cuticura | ramuses that you scratch your back with,' i And sc he continued the narrative with | consummate acting end soaring imagina- tion, even to Naman slipping on al some reports to the State department disintegrating. Frank von Papen, the German military Should not be called until after the Na-| have declared that Villa's forces are attache,”and Alexander Nuber von p,,.f tional assoclation meets, This refusal to | From authoritative ked, Austrian consul general in New God a workman that needoth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of {truth.” He said | We seem to be living In a new era | A great political, moral, soctal, I nomieal Whether we have scparated or combined in our ment 1 am not going to discuss in de- twil, but I think it behooves the church of God workmen not to forget that we |are facing the powers of darkness and jopposition as never before in the his itory of Christignity. | There never has the people were eco. era been advance been a time when more self-satisfied, | self-complacent, self-centered than they are today. Some imagine God Al mighty will condone what evil they do. The Average man as soon as he get a bank. account, puffs up ltke a po soned pup and thinks he can do any- a Sunday apd sings hymns and puts col lection In*the plate, I tell you the man's a fool who thinks he can square himeelf by appearing good on Sunday United A4 cheat his neighbor the rest of the [ ..o week, Why, all the can’'t counterbalance you do., Some lives a do evil good one you can bit of people think that a man who fairly good life, goes to church |18 true to his marriage vows, will stand |Just as goog a show of going to Heaven as the man who has been on the firing line and has been bullet meat and has worked and fought against the stoical indifference of the people of today. And then there's a whole lot of non- sense being passed around these days. They say that a man should think good {thoughts, read good books and,be with |k00d people if he will go to heaven. They convey the Impresslon nowadays that no man will ultimately go to hell. {1 tell you that all the good books, and | good fthoughts in the world, taken alone, will not send you to heaven, but to hell. Say, God knows his business MAGNATES SWING * KXE ON O'NEILL {Club Owners Demand that Prexie Tip Resign and Turn Funds Over to Hanlon, NEW BOARD OF FIVE SELECTED Six club owners of the Western league meeting at the Fontenelle hotel yesterday afternoon decded to demand the resignation of Norris L. O'Nelll, present president of the | Western league, and written notico ! of this demand which orders O'Neill [to turn over all money, records and ! the like of the leageu to Ed Hanlon, | vice president, will be served immed|- tately. he magnates? who attended of Sloux City, Pa Rourke of Omaha, ' Jimmy McGill of Denver, John Savage |of Topeka, Hugh Jones of Lincoln and Buck Ebright of Wichita, The club owners announced that the | 'demand for O'Nelll's resignation was due Gerard at the direction of the State de- t© his lack of interest in Western league | aotyal damage to Americans, affalrs. It was asserted that O'Nelll was requested, to call a meeting this month 80 that the club gwners could assemble to talk over the last disastrous season done In the waywof planning for 1916 so be a fallure. declare the that that season would not This O'Nelll refused to do, obey the wishes of the owners prompted the Omaha meeting were Ed Hanlon | into an | fsms and made to | | have transtormed angel of light | schlsms and ne | fool the elect the flr\ll with their wthought all And the devil likes it |1t doesn’'t always suit his purpose to {be painted black. It hurts him. The | devil's a pretty smooth guy. He knows | | his business. | 1 think one of the biggest curses that | ever came to America was the congress | of religions, held in Chicago during the | World's Falr. There were there Chris tlan men sitting In with mutts like Hin | dus, followers of Zoroasters, Shintolsm, Paraseos, Confucius—they had thelr pa- | godas and joss houses and temples, and | there were sun worshipers In Chicago, who bullt a high wall around a little | jolnt—they built the house with glass | ana went in there to worship so that the | sun would ellminate sin | Can Tmprove on | Any man that thinks he can improve ! |on God is a fool, ms big a fool as the | man who thinks Lo can make honey bet ter than the bees. And we have all these There s the crowd that tries to drive the devil out by some sort of a hypodermic needle. And then there s Blavatskyism, which holds thiat life s a | dreamlike, cosmic esn. And they're all trylng to keep men and women away ! from Jesus Christ. And 1 tell you it 1s my business to fight anything that is fighting Jesus Christ, and 1'll do it in} spite of anybody this side of hell. Now thia Blavatskylsm tries to find in everything on earth the relncarnate form of an earlier existence, They sce you on in another form called you. They tell you net to shy a shoe at the tomcat rousing the night on the back fence, for neighbor who used to tuke music lessons, | forces,” | announcement of the Austrian war the streets of Omaha and they say it is | somebody else who lived long ago and | that temeat s the daughter of your| label it Chris-| Armies Withurawing in Gaticia Before Superior Enemy Troops. SKIDEL TAKEN BY GERMANS Western Front Scene of Much Activity, Presaging Beginning of tmportant Fighting. 2,600,000 TEUTONS IN EAST Sept. 12.—(Via Lon- don.)-—Austrian forces that have been engaged with the Russians along the Sereth river, south of Tar- nopol, in eastern Galicia, have been withdrawn to the heights east of the Stripa river “before superior enemy it is stated in the officlal VIENNA, office today. Wentern Armies Active. LONDON, Sept., 12.—The western front, with continuous artillery en- gagements, occasional infantry at- tacks and the probability that im- portant events now pending, will soon begin, attracts almost as much attention as the eastern battle fields, where the Russians and Austro-Ger- mans are contending for the mastery of railway lines, the posession of which will make the victors more se- cure when the time comes to go into winter quarters, Ruxs Offensive Strom, For some time yet, however, the | east Is likely to be the scene of the BERLIN HAS NOTHING ON HESPERIAN CASE Foreign Office and Admiralty State They Have No Information at All. THINK U. §. NOT CONCERNED BERLIN, Sept. 12.—(Via Lon- don.)——The German foreign office and the admiraity stated today that they had no news regarding Hespetian Incident, concerning which }Amblundor Gerard asked Informa- | angwer to Washington, it is sald. vessel bound from a British to a | Canadian port, the Germans are in- clined to hold that the question on its merits {s one concerning chiefly Great | Britain and Germany and that Ameri- | can interests can be based only on This | view is as yet largely academiec, for | Germany thus far has nothing to in- | dicate that the ship was not destroyed The view of the closest observers here 8N tentatively consider what might be by 4 mine insterd of a submarine, it | Is stated. ! In view of the reiterated and submarine cohmanders, there is little inclination here to accept the as- sources advices have reached Wash- | York, there was no change. The United the demand for his resignation, say the| sumption that the ship was tor- ington that it would be difficult to conduct a convention to select & pro- | States still 4 waiting for Austria's reply |to the request to withdraw Dr. Dumba. | Whether the other men are sufficlently moguls, | New Roard of Governers. A new board of governors was also visional government in Mexico with-|involved in Dr. Dumba’'s offense to make chosen. On the new board are Hanlon, out the participation of Carranza and 'he'r remaining In the United States im- Rourke, McGIll, Savage and Jones. Hero- his military commanders, who claim now to control nearly all Mexican territory, Secretary Lansing would not indi- cate today how the Pan-Amerigan conferees would act on Carranza's proposal. It was understood that would be determined at a meeting next week. It has been learned that some of the Latin-American diplo- mats are inclined to give Carranza a hearing, PAWNEE COUNTY FAIR POSTPONED FOR MONTH TABLE ROCK, Nab., Sopt. 11, - «Epecia.) ~—Announcement has iuat been made by the management 7 the I'wwnee connty fair that it has veen postponnd fr..m Sep- fember 15-16-17, .until October 13-14-15. The change was necassitated hy the fect that twenty-two Nebraski counties are hoilding thelr falrs next wesk, which made It impossible ic ire entries for the races and athe~ amuimient featuree, At a speclal elocton held in DuBols for the purpose of votiag » nda fur the construction of an tem the propositHa carriel ny a vote It s sald a transmission line is to be from the Pawnee City plant, and work wili hegin as soom as the bonds can be ¢lapossd of, Fred Hayek of Table Rock and Miss Gladys Johnson if Pawaee City were 73 wmooth stone and the goose pimple that |married at the court house in Pawnee 1915, 1914. 1913. 1912 8 & ] 7 g8 8 e | 0 precipitation depart- Precipitation .... ‘rfiponmu and ures from the normal | al o 464 out n day 1 March 1. aches oy arch 1 54 inch aflr'c:g ::: ::; pe::g m: ;.Wlnche.v E L 1913. 7.0 Y AT Lo 0 o Rl aones | Ao A. WELSH, Local Forecaster. | since M came upon him. The rest of the dra- n:atic story, the Joy of “Mrs Naman and all the little Namans" when they saw him cleansed of his leprosy was so splendidly done that many were wiping thelr tears “Moral Lepers” was the title of the sermon. And a score of times through- | the discourse those five fateful | words rumbled lugubriously from the | depths of the evangelist's throat, “But | he was a leper.” ! He described the horrors of the disease, (Continued on Page Five, Column Four.) City Wednesday afternooa, County Jucge McNair officlating. LOOKS OVER REGAL AGENCY FOR OMAHA AND VICINITY J. H. Reeve, assistant manager of the Regal Motor Car company of Detroit, Mich., In charge of eastern territory, has spent the last week In this territory tak- ing qare of the state fair exhibit and | completing the detalls of the arrange- ment with Phil McShane for the handling of Regals in tols territors ¢ ] clectriz Mghting sye- | | possiblo will be decided later. Puamhe Prow en Statement, LENOX, Mass., Sept. 11.—Dr. Constantin {'T. Dumba, ambassador of Austria-Hun- ' gary, whose recall has been requested by Preaident Wilson, arrived here today from New York, accompanied by his secretary, Prince Alfred Zu Hohenlohe. Dr. Dumba. told newspaper men that he would give out a statement in two or three days. After luncheon with Mme. Dumba at the ambassador'’s summer home, Dr, Dumba and Prince Zu Hohenlohe drove to the embassy at Lenox village, where they were met by Baron Erich Zwiedinek, | counsel of the embassy, and Stephen Henry de Hedri, one of the secretaries. | Later the ambassador returned to his residence. All Russian Army Lacks is Officers Guns, Ammunition BBRLIN, Sept. 12.—(By Wireless to Tuckerton, N, J)—Travelers who have just returned from a trip to Russla, con- tribute to the Neue Zeltuwr of Zurich ticles concerning their Impressions of the conditions under which the Russian {armies are fighting. These articles are summarised as follows by the Overseas News agency: “Russia has enough soldiers in the field and sufficlent food supplies, but has no arms, officers or ammunition. The army {units vary, Some of them are equipped | excellently and make a good Impression. | Others are just to the contrary. The men wppear unwilling to serve, and enthusiasm |18 seldom noticeable. The soldiers are interested only in the prospects of peace. “The lack of officers is particularly noticeable. “The scarcity of ammunition s still more marked. Only three small munition | factories have been operating since the largest Russian plant was destroyed by an explosion. | conomic conditions are very {tofore the board of directors has con- | sisted of but three owners. The present board is Rourke, Frank Isbell of Des Moines and Jack Holland of St. Joseph, Isbell and Holland were not re-elected because of their oppositron to the meet- ing here The meeting was originally suggested by a petition. was slgned by the six owners who met hero yesterday, Holland and Isbell re- fused to sign it. Then last Thursday the cali went out for the meeting by order of ifanlon, as vice president; Rourke, as dircctor, and Savage as a club owner. Holiand and Isbell'dil not attenl, so they frozen off the board. Chivington, president were Tom of the Chivington Considered, | American assoclation, was suggested as |a possible man to succeed O'Nelll. No |other man was considered. ! The club owners believe that a proposi- |tion could be made Chivington which he {would consider more favorable than his ! present job. Also Chivington is at pres- ent encountering several difficulties as executive of the assoctation, and it iw thought he would welcome a chance to become president of the Western. | Auxiliary of the | Letter Carriers | Endorses Suffrage | Mrs. Mary Carmack, acting president of the City Central Suffrage organiza- tion, addressed the Ladies’ Auxillary of the National Association of Letter C riers at the Hotel Fontenelle Frid evening and secured the endorsement of woman suffrage by the convention. The resolutions committee was made up of the president, Mre. Caroline H. Stein of Rochester, N. Y.; Mrs. Anna Callaher of Pittsbuigh, Mrs. Minnle Scoggins of Oak- ‘llnd, Cal., and Mrs. Elizabeth Johnston of Columbus, O, Mrs. E. M. Fairfleld, president of the bad. | lgcal suffrage organization, 18 expected The petition® pedoed, | Nebraska Hard Hit In Call for_rTeachers | KEARNEY, Neb, Sept. 11.—President Dan Morris of the State Normal board exprepsed deep regret today when Inter- view@l relative to the possibility of in- members, that the board could not mect the salariep offered In other states in order to retain instructors who were called from the Nebraska schools, “Nebraska has built for itself an en- viable reputation for schools and Peru, Chadron and Kearney schools have developed an efficlency which placed (them amang the best in the countmy,” \sald Mr. Morris | *““The schools have extensive been benefited by legislative Wppropriations for (buildings and equipment and they are | fof the most modern in every respect !But the one greatest essential, that of the selection of instructors of proven ability, has suffered because of the lack ©of meeting salaries _offered in other states. After Nebraska®has developed her faculty members many are called to |other states where they 'make good' at |m great increase in salary. The result ia that Nebraska is hit in the most vital spot in the seat of learning. “The fact has been pointed out on varl- ous occasions, but mow with the loss of Professors Neale, Benson and Richard- #on, three of the most capable Instructors fn the Kearny school, all of whom hay been called to other states, ths fact felt more keenly than ever." {VILLA CHIEFTAIN FLEES OWN TRONPS FOR THE U. S. DEL RIO, Tex., Sept. 1lL—General Silva, in command of the Villa garrison at Las Vacas, across the river from here, fiea from his own men last night and today was interned. Tuesday night 200 of Sliva's men de- serted, leaving his command reduced to 40, Yesterday Colonel Carlos Fills s said to have mutinied and declared for Carranza. Sllva's court martial is sa1 to have sentenced Filis to death, but thy | Large stores of grain are decaying inipcme Monday from the east, where she majorily of the troops supported Filis warehouses while the people go hungry. | The famive in coal is simply & calamity.’ has spent the summer In conference with castern suffragists. l and Siiva became a refugee. Fills is no ¢ in command ag Lus Vaces the ! tion recently, The question whether | Americans lost their lives when lhe;rmm this point southeastward to Rovno, Hesperian was blown up will pro- similar contests are taking place. The ably have a bearing on the ultimate | AUstro-Germans are trying by every | Since the steamer was a British| | | crease in salary of State Normal faculty | the | more sensational actions. The Rus- | slang are putting forth a strong of- fensive on elther wing and are mak- ing an equally stubborn defensive in the center, where Austro-Germans, although gaining ground daily and coming closer to the Vilna-Rovno rallway, are meeting with lacreasing opposition, Flghting in Streeta. Each village street and road s proving the scene of a sanguinary engagement. For example, Skidel, & town immediately east of Grodno, which at last has been |captured by the Germans, was the center |0f & battle laating several days with al- ternating success g The Germans ‘attacked the town again and again, massing heavy artillery for the purpose, and, according to the Berlin officlal statement, did not succeed ia {overcoming the Russians until last night, Throughout the great marsh dlstrict means In thelr power to force their way through to the Vilna-Rovno rallway be- fore the heavy rains set in, and put an end to the fighting for the time being. In the narrow strip of Galicla between the Bereth river and the Bessarablan frofit, the Russians have been strongly reinforced and are apparently well sup- plied with guns and ammunition. They report their third victory here over the Austro-German forces, bringing their {total of prisoners captured during the week up to 22,000, without mentioning the loss of men and guns. Austrinns Admit Setback, The Austrians admit that they have wuffered a setback in this region, in the statement that they withdrew their front on the Sereth to the helghts east of the Stripa river ‘“‘before superior enemy !-(ol'c.'.' y On the northern end of the line, south- east of Riga, the Russians also are on the aggressive, with the result that the Germans have made no further progress against the Dvina river line. Some of the British military writers be- lleve that the Austro-Germans have reached the limit of their penetration of (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) ur customers you b — W SRy WiEE ANy e AN S WANT Al Try a classitied &n fall season and w: 3 you will be your venture, and FUT IT IN T OMANA nE%,