Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1916, Page 1

1 Call Tyler 1000 If You Want to Talk to The Bee or to_Anyone Connected With The Dee, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. OMAHA, ATURDAY M ORNING, FEBRUARY SINGL THE WEATHER. Fair E COPY TWO " CENTS BIG AUTO SHOW | WANTS MONEY BACK |VERDUN BATTLE WILL COME TO A CLOSE TONIGHT Exhibitors at Eleventh Annual Motor Exposition Preparing for Big Rush of Business on | “‘Getaway” Day. MUSICAL NIGHT DRAWS BIG ! Neble's Symphony -O—rchelt.rl and La | Salle Opera Quartet Vie with Each Other for Honors. BUSINESS CONTINUES BRISK Today is “getaway” day at the Auto show. Late tonight the doors will close and the eleventh annual Omaha motor exposition, the great- «st ever held in the middie west, will | he over. The exhibitors are planning for the biggest day of the week. They ex- pect to see all records for attendance thatteéred and confidently anticipate the number of sales to surpass all other davs. Prospects on the verge of buying generaily become con- vinced on the last day of the show that they need a machine and they vut-in their order. Due to the mani- fest interest during the fore part of the week the exhibitors expect the number of buyers today will be ex- ceptionally large, Last night was musical night the show. Verdl and Rossini view with Irving Berlin for the honors and it was & merry battle. The La Salle quartet joined forces with the former while Neble's Symphony orchestra, led by its \yrepressible trap drummer, defended /the latter. Pirst the quartet would sing the beau- titul and melodious score of an impor- ishable opera. Then the orchestra and the trap drummer would tear loose with @ bit of raggedy syncopation far from imperishable, but very much in keeping with the tendency of the times. Audience is Neutral. at | suing to get their money The audience remalned strictly neutral and applauded both. The quartet found sympathy in that part of the nervous system which is alive to the sense of the beautiful, The orchestra found an equal sympathy in that part which com- mands a swaying of the shoulders and a shuffling of the feet, The orchestra was augmented for the occasion, The quartet wasn't augmented becauge it 18 an impossibliity to augment A m:.fit\ ut violating the rules of ! " th ol A at tragtion Was proved the number of ‘-&-m after visits at all the ex- © £ keats in the baleony In ‘ordér sgfix:‘r the inder of the pro- gram. Musical night has always been a big night at the Omaha Auto show and tte bid for honors was in no way injured inst night. Voenl Cherds Objeet. Friday found a few of the automobile men beginning to show the wear and leAr ©f the strenuous week. Vdeal shords_ of ‘the lecturers were perceived to object to the constant work a little and it, was noticeable that some of the salesmen wero beginning to weaken. But ‘for all that there was no lack of ‘enthuslasm, The boys put forth a lttle “effort and went to it with a will. All of which is a positive proof that the elev- enth Omaha motor exposition is a huge success. Ordiparily the auto men would begin to lose considerable of their ardor after five days of conmstant strain. Briskness of business alone will keep their spirits up. And-the fact that every single man at the show was as enthusiastic as ever proves tbat business is good, and that is. what makes an auto show a big success. Two Men Killed in Mine at Auburn, Il SPRINGFIELD, Tl, Feb, 2.—Two men were killed in the Black Diamond mine at Auburn, fifteen miles southwest of here, today when a string of coal cars jumped the track, knocking down many tons of coal. The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Baturday: For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity Hours. Dew 5a m. m . m m m. m & m , Comparative Local Record. Official record of temperature and pre ripitation compared with the eorrespond n the last three years i ot 1916, 1916. 1914 1913 Highest yesterday H H Lowest yesterda b 6 12 Mean ‘temperature " ™% 2 Precipitation (L) 00 w T Teniperature and precipitation depar- ures from the norma Normal lemperature. Excess for the day [ Total deficiency since March | 174 ormaml precipitation 02 inch Deficlency for the day. .02 inch Yotal rainfall since Ma 29.66 inches 1 Deficiency since Marchl. Deficlency for cor. period, 1914 Deficiency for cor. period, 1913 Reports from Stati Tem 0.93 inch 1.18 inches 5.46 inches . at 7 P.M. p. High- Rain- 0. est. fall gather. 7 Cheyenpe, partly cloudy Davenport, clondy....... Jenver, clear. Des Moines. clear North Platte. clear. Jmahs, Rapid Cf Sant Sherid: clear it Fe, partly cl an, clear Sioux City. rain 2 Valentine, partly cloudy. 34 T indicat of pre H, Local Forecaster oudy FOR OIL BURNERS THAT DIDN'T WORK Agent Who Sold Them and Had to Take Them Out Sues for i Reimbursement of His | Loss. | FAIL TO COME —UP TO THE TEST | Smith is Plaintiff and Johnson & Lee Defendants in the Case. PANCOAST GETS A JUDGMENT The troubles of the oil burners| thrown out of household heating plants because they did not come up to prospectus, have now reached the courts with disappointed purchasers back, especlally interesting has just been filed in the district court by Clyde G. Smith, formerly agent for Johnson & Lee, dh(rllm-! ters, asking for $1,315 reimburse- | ment of amounts he had to pay back to dissatisfied customers, as well as| for his own time, annoyance and wasted labor. Smith was engaged to sell the ol burner on representations by John- son & Lee, so his petition says, that it would furnish heat at small cost, with no trouble and complete sat- isfaction, and upon these assurances he sold and installed the burners in the houses of a number of people whose names and addresses are set forth, who, in turn, found after the tifal that the burners were not only useless, but also damaged rugs, fur- niture and their neighbors’ patience. After ¥ain efforts to fix them up 80 they would work, his customers nade Smith take the burners out at his -cost, One case His BIll of Particalars. After reciting his agreement to sell the ofl burners and his success in so doing the petition ‘of Smith, as plaintiff, makes these allegations to sustain his prayer for recovery in the sum of 0 ‘Third—That shortly after the cold weather had necessitated the use of heat in the homes and residences of the cus- tomers who had been Induced to pur- chase said oill burners upon the repre- sentations of fact made by said defend- ants, complains began to come in from nearly all of sald purchasers and this plaintiff, with the assistance of defend- ants and agents of Qefendants, tried in every MEAREF o Jd oil buirners work aa represented, but were unable to make said burners work satidfactorily as represented by sald defendants. “Fourth—That said representations of fact and warranties made by sald de- fendants were false; that sald burners so sold as aforesald did not heat said residencos satisfactorily and sufficiently, but gave off an immense amount of soot which settled in and over sald houses and penetrated the same and gave off a pecullar and disagreeable odor, mak- (Continued’ on Page Six, Column Ome.) Mexicans Seek to Lasso Young Woman Teacher Upon Border BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Feb, attempt by three Mexicans Miss Gertrude McClelland, a young school teacher, on the border road In Hidalgo county, fifty miles west of here, yesterday, nearly led to a lynching last night. American soldiers arrested one of the party before a posse of citizens could reach him. The Americans demanded possession of the Mexican, but were re- fused. The posse 18 searching for the two Mexicans who escaped. Miss McClelland was going home from school when overtaken by the Mexicans. Several attempts were made to lasso her and the Mexicans followed her a considerable listance continuing to harass her. Finally she darted into the brush at the roadside and escaped ZAPATISTAS DEFEATED NEAR MIHUATLAN GALVESTON, Tex., Feb. %.—The de- feat of the Zapata forces which at- tempted & surprise attack upon the de facto government troops at the village of Mihuatlan, near Oaxaca City, is re- ported in a dispatch received here today by the Mexican consulate. The attack- ing force lost near 20 killed, the report says, and a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition was taken by the Carranza forces, whose losses are given at twelve killed and twenty wounded. %.—An to lasso BERLIN, (Delayed. )—The morthward “eb. 24 (Via London) Feb. %, report of German gains of Verdun has strengthened the feeling of confidence here in the ou come of future events. The provoked no noticable flurry where no flags have Naturally it news has in Berlin been exhibited is impossible to hazard a | guess whether the latest drive marks the beginning of a great offensive or is only a continuation of the evident feeling-out process of recent days Except as to the number of prisonera taken, the victory of the Germans is on fourth as great as that achieved by the entente allies in September where thr | ficial Germans B;lieve Verdun Will Soon Be Menaced on All Sides | Janvary days gunfire preceded the attack To the gaing northward of Verdun must be added 300 yards takea by the P | Germans southward of Ypres, Kebruary yards northward of Ypies, Feh 19, 80 castward of Soutchez, Feb | for eighte RAGES IN SNOW, 130,000 PERISH, Paris Reports Gex | tinue with Un but that 1 Break Front. LOSSES OF TEUTONS HEAVY | French Asserts Assaults Cost Kaier Nearly Forty Thousand Men a Day. OFFENSIVE IS 7L0NG PLANNED PARIS, Feb The fighting in the region of Verdun continues un- abated, according to the French gf- communication {ssued this evening, Several infantry attacks launched by the Germans with huge rnumbers of effectives have been re- pulsed The artillery ‘duels are go- ing on with great intensity (the Meuse, despite a heavy fall. “In Champagne, this morning, we attacked and captured enemy of snow- east an salient to the south of Ste. Marie- A-Py. During this action we cap- tured 300 prisoners, including six- teen noncommissioned officers an\ll five officers. “In the Argonne our destructive fire has been efficacious on Ger- man organizations to the north of RUSSIA'S THRUST TO SPLIT TURKEY--‘‘A’ Point near Trebizond which the Rus- sians have reached in their advance against that town from Erzerum, the fortress recently captured. olas. ANIA —eay ';\RUM BULGARIA POLLARD PULLS Laperazee. ’ “In the region to the north of Verdn» snow has fallen in abundance during the day. Activity of the artillexy on both sides has continued very intense in the whole front, and prineipally to the east of the Meuse, where the fighting goes on with the same tenacity. ‘Several attacks with large effectives have been conducted with unprecedented violence on La Cote du Poivre (about four and a half miles north of Verdun), but were without guccess. “Another attack on our position in the RBois de la Vouche has been stopped. "There has been no infantry action to the west of the Meuse. In the valley of the Fecht, there has been no artillery engageemnts to speak of.” The German losses during the first four days of the battle around Verdun are authoritatively estimated at 150,000, A it Sl B St et S e it o i e A e S S S S Reginning of Offensive. The German offensive is recognized now as probably only ths beginning of a de- termined effort to take the fortress, formerly the key to th (Frneh) front, and compares inviolence and losses to the batle of the Yser. The French as- sume that the batle may eontinue a fort- night. It 18 believed the calm last night was only a lo] required by the attackin forces to bury their dead, carry off the wounded and bring up reserves to take the place of divisions half destroyed by French artillery and machine guns. The German foroes are known to be at least 300,000 supported by numerous fif- teen-inch and seventeen-inch Austrian mortars with all the heavy artillery used in the Serblan campaign and part of that formerly employed on the Russian front. Preparations for the battle were ob- served early In Docember when the first troops assigned to the operations were brought up. Eight divisions that re- turned from Serbla were sent to Belglum for a rest and then transported to the re- glon of Verdun in January. Five army corps in all are known to have been brought up to relnforce two corps which previously held that part of the line be- tween Etain and Van-quers. Best Troops of Army. These were the best troops of the Ger- man army, including, as it learned from prisoners, the famous Third corps of Bradenburg, shpposedly equal in valor to the Prussian guard, and the Fifteenth army corps commanded by General von Delmling, known in France as one of the most brillant of the German general oficers. The determination of the Germans to capture the fortress is explained by the facination that the name Verdun has had on the minds of the German people since 1572, and the consequent moral value of it to all the Germans. This pyschological sason, in the judgment of high official critics, explains the presence of Emperor Willlam behind the troops and the order of the day issued to the army by the crown prince and the generals. The French compare the ground galned by the' Germans in the four days with twice that amount taken by the French in the first two days of thelr offensive in Cham- pagne, together with eight times the number of prisoners. The confidence of the French is unshaken by the flerce at- tacks and the slight bending in the French line. Reluforcements Brought Up. | The military critic of the Temps reports that heavy French reinforcements have been brought up. Lieutenant Colonel | {Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) ruary 31, and 700 yards westward of Held weller on the day of the commencement of the Verdun advance. Thees gains were preceded by large advances at Vimy in German offieials say that the Germana | gaing have ben scored at virtually every | point where an earnest effort at advanc was made end that in no has 1 necessary to precede the attack with a seventy-two-hour cannonade such as preceded the September offensive of the entente allies. The importance of the gains northward of Verdun is evident. It is not alone the strongest French fortress, but it offers direct communication with Parts and has been a thorn in the flesh of the Germana nth months. Military observers co sider that it is now likely that Verdus will be menaced on all sides. T case been | tice 0UT FOR SUTTON Dry Candidate Said to Have Been Outmaneuvered by Backers | of Omaha Man, WANTS PROHIBITION TO WIN A kaleidoscopic view in the re-| publican governorship race has been created by the sudden an-| nouncement from Lincoln of the | withdrawal of HKrnest M. Pollard, | who had been figured as one of the strong competitors in the field. The Pollard announcement is coupled | with a lengthy statement of the| reasons and the declaration that the withdrawal is in fayor of former | Judge A. L. Sutton and in the in-| terest of the dry campaign in Ne- braska, By wsubterranean, however, comes a rumor that the elmination of Pellard is | the result of a deal and one in which charges of bad faith are already enter- ing. Btforts have been in the making for some little time among the so-called drys to rduce the number of dry candk dates for governor In the republican pri- marys with a view to centeting the dry votes, and Mr. Pollard was left under the impression that he was the preferred cholce of the engineers of the dry ma- chine. In this way he was prevailed upon to join with Judge Sutton in an agreement to submit to a committee of mutual friends the que@fon of which should withdraw in favor of the other and this committee Is sald to have been lined up against Pollard by the pressure of outside Influence on one or more of the men on whom he relied. Pollard's Statement. Outside of the statement issued Mr. Pollard will say nothing, but there is a feeling among his friends that the inside story may come out later which may clarify the proposition and that it will NEW AUTOMOBILE |AMERICAN NAVY 50 ROAD PROPOSED Meeting Called for Omaha to Con- sider Highway Cross Country from Savannah to Seattle. MANY nmmss EXPECTED | The convention which will effect # working organization for the new highway which it is proposed to run from Savannah to Seattle passing through Omaha, will be held In this city April 24-256, This was declded at a meeting of a joint committee of the Commercial club and the Auto- mobile club Friday noon. Principal cities along the way will all be asked to send delegates to this convention and two deegates from each place will have the power to vote, It is belleved that practically every city (invited will send a delegation. Some twenty cities have already con- sidered this highway and are fh favor of pushing the road, as It covers s new territory, extending from the southeast to ‘the northwest. 1t was left to, the Omaha committes to settle on he date of the convention, As there are roads connecting all of the towns which have been developed as state or sectional highways it s as- serted that it will only take an effective organization, with road marking, and some improvements, to make the pro- posed road one of the best cross-country highways in the United States. The towna on the road as originally laid out tentatively, and which will re- celve invitations, are: Seattle and Bpokane, Wash.; Livings- ton and Butte, Mont.; Cody, Wyo.; Dead- wood, Mitchell and Sioux Falls, 8, D.; Stoux City, Ta.; . Atchison, Kan.; Kansas City, $t. Louls and Oape Girardeau, Mo.; Memphis, Tenn.; Decatur, Ala.; Atlanta and Savannah, Ge, The following Nebraska towns will be invited to send dolegates It was decided not reflect credit on the manner in which | At the meeting yesterday: Fremont, the deal was put over, although they be- | Columbus, Norfolk, Neligh, Long Pine, lieve that Mr, Pollard had no hand in the |Chadron, Blair, Tekamah, Oakland, matter, Following is the statement made by Mr. Pollard as it came up from Lincoln: “For the last two months all republi- (Continued on Page Four, Column One.) Justice Hughes Once More Says He | Is Not a Candidate NEW YORK, Feb. %Z—In a letter to Henry A, Wise Wood, former member | of Secretary Danlels naval advisory | board, made public here today, United States Supreme Court Justice Charles Hughes relterates his declaration that he s not a candidate for the presidential nomination. Mr. Wood bad requested a statement s to Justice | Hughes' position on preparedness. Ju-~‘ Hughes replied In part “In view of my judicial office I du: not feel that I have any right to take | part In any political discussion or to | make statements of the sort that would | be ed from not a expe I am tacitly office actively candida tor candidate or Santa Fe Earnings Show _Big Increase CHICAGO. 1L, Feb, 2.—An increase in the gross operating revenue of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rallway | system of $6,1%.000 during the last seven months of the fiscal year of 1915 over a | similar period in the preceding year is | shown in a report issued here today Operating expenses during the sa period Increased $3,200,000, Hundreds Attend Funeral of Wallace DES MOINES, of friends today Feb. %.—~Hundreds their respects to Tn., paid Henry Wallace, editor and agriculturist, who died Tucsday even The body lay in state from noon until 2 e'clock German line of communic north o Verdun has B d been ity Improy the thme Nirthodist of the funeral, In the First hurch Lyons and Cralg. Sutton Minister Tells About Axe Murders (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Feb. 2. -—(Special Tele- | kram.)—Chief Detective MacDonald has | letters from a physiclan at Sutton, Neb., saying that Rev. George J. Kelley has confided to him he was present at Vil lsca, Ia., when the Moore family and two guests were murdered in their home in June, 1912, The letter states Kelley related many. incidents of axe-murderers MacDonald thinks the evangelist 1a under & delusion SUTTON, Neb,, gram.)—Rev J the First Congregational clty. He heen in months. PORTUGAL SEIZES GERMAN SHIPS AT ST. VINCENT Feb. 25.—(8pecinl Tale- Kelley is pastor of church of thia has Sutton for four INT, Cape Verde Islands, % ht German steamers, lying in harbor h were taken In charge eaterday by officials of the government Portugese Germans Have Dress Rehearsai 6f : Battle Under ‘‘B'’ Lake Van district, now wholly occupied by the forces of Grand Duke Nich- : ‘0’ Diarbekr, about 100 miles from Bitlis, and now the objective of the Russians, |/ ‘D"’ The Bagdad railway, which the Russians want to cut. Y PERSIA sAel'?Ao \ | YEARS BEHIND BEST Winslow Says it Would Take Half | Century to Put U. 8. Alongside Britain on Sea. | DECLARES SYSTEM IS WRONG 26, - WASHINGTON, Feb, The United States navy's whole system of government and operations, from education of officers to questions of ship and gun construction, was sharply criticized before the house naval committee today by Admiral Cameron McR, Winglow, comman- der-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, Without radical changes, the ad- miral declared, a fully efficient fight- ing force, comparable to the British navy, could not be produced in fifty HOUSE IS STRONG FOR ARMED SHIP WARNING MOVE Clark, Ktchin and Flood Tell Wil- son Resolution Will Pass Two to One if It is Brought to a Vote, PRESIDENT 1S STANDING PAT Leaders Told Congress Should Not Embarrass Executive by Action Now. GERMANY MAY DELAY ACTION WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Presi- dent Wilson reiterated his opposition to any action in congress warning Americans off armed ships in a con- ference early today with Speaker Clark, Majority Leader Kitchin and Chairman Flood of the house foreign affairs committee, and they in turn told the president that if such a reso- lution were brought to a vote in the house now it would pass by a major- ity of two to one. The president was unshaken in his position that congress should take no action embarrassing his conten- tlon that the rights of Americans on the seas must be upheld at any cost and repeated what he had written ast night to Senator Stone. The house leaders went away telling the president nothing would be done to- day, but they ventured no predictions for the future. They admitted that the sit- uation was gerlious and could not yet tell how far the sentiment In congress would he swayea by the publication of the president's views in his letter to Senator Stone. spenker Makes Statement, When the conference was over Speaker Clark sald there was a rumor that Ger- many would postpone the beginning of the new submarine campaign until April 1 or the middle of March. He would not say whether he got his Information from the president. “The sum and substance of the con- ference,” Speaker Slark sald, “outside of an explanation made as to the temper of the house regarding the diplomatic situation with Germany and some argu= Senator Stone's letter to the president and the president's letter to Senator xplained to the president how years. Yesterday Admiral Winslaw told the committee the establishment of a general staff composed of active line officers was a vital necessity. Today he amplified this view, de- claring the system of education at the Annapolis Navy academy WwWas wrong. He urged restoration of the old grade of midshipmen in the fleet. Should Euter at Fourteen, Boys should enter the service at from 14 to 16 years of age, he sald, spend two years In preliminary schooling ashore, then go to sea to acquire the “‘sed habit" from actual contact with things of the sea before compleating their educations ashore. 'The polytechnic education now given midshipmen at the mcademy is ut- terly unsuited, the admiral declared, to the training of men to handle ships and combinations of ships at sea. He could #ee no value to be gained from making all navy officers experts in higher mathe- matics, and thought constructors, engi- neers and ordnance experts should be trained as specia and never be called upon to command ships. From the d boys enter the academy, the house felt, in our judgment. I the president that this wa resolu- ton would carry to to one If they ever got a chance for a vote. Some enthu- slastio gentlemen I eald thought it would carry three to one. “Of course, there was a great deal of talk about international law regarding the rights of Americans on the seas and precedents, At the conclusion of the conference it was very clear to all that the president stands on his letter to Senator Stone. Germany May Postpone Action, “But there are rumors which were dis- cussed that Germany may postpone en- forcement of the new admiralty order to sink all armed ships from March 1 either to April 1 or the middle of March, I think the chances amre that Germany will postpone this threatened performance, This will give more tims for consideration of this matter. “We told the president that in the event . of such a postponement all action in congress certainly would be postponed. Meantime, these resolutions would re- main in statu quo." Regarding the policy of action in con- gress in case Germany adheres to its an- nouncement that the admiralty order will he sald, n system of selection should be applled to govern promotions, eliminat- |ing men unfitted for the daring nerve- !racking tasks that would be theirs in | war. He added that fellow officers should determine these qualifications and that & plan of this sort was being worked by the Navy department. | No Time for Hesttation, With opposing fleets swoeping toward single forenoon 7 this, he declared, represented only on the road toward complete efficlency and application of such intensive meth- ods to the fleet as a whole could ne be accomplished unless men lected to command the ships fitness, not because of senlority Asked how many flag officers in the navy he thought were capable of devel opment and complete fitness for high the witness said | I do not think any of us In the upper | grades have had sufficlent experience (Continued on Page Two, Col@mn One.) Direction of Kaiser each other over the sea for an acticn {to be carried out a speed of twenty | knots or more, the admiral Insisted, | there would be no time for hesitason | by any ship commander, He told of how | he tralned a squadron of four dread naughts he commanded two years ago until his orders were carrled out within | six seconds of the time he gave them, sixty maneuvers belng carrled out in & ncouraging progress” | be made effective March 1, Speaker Clark salg it would be difficult to got the warn- ing resolution out of a committee for action, and that there was no way for the issue to get before the house today. “Of course,’ he conttnued, ‘‘someons might try unanimous consent, but that would be ridiculous, because there would be many objections to such a course. ““It iw obvious that it would be impossi- ble to get unanimous consent for con- sideration of a warning resolution, 1f the resolution should be reported from the forelgn affairs committee it would take on the calendar unless the rules should Interfere. The reso- lution Is in no way' privileged and it would o to the foot of the calendar. That would mean we could not get to it its pla imittee | (Continued on Page Five, Column One.) The Day’s War News 12 PARIS L statement, n the other hund, says the Ger- mans have halted in _aelr offens the moment nt least. No made during the on the French lines, says announcement, and the artile lery fire has minished in vie. | lemee. TRATIONS IN OTHER war flelds overshadowed by the great night there Is interest n the Turkish an- nouncemnt of anothr attempt by l-Amnra, on the T tucking forces were repulsed ,with heavy losses, Constantinople de- ENCH HAVE BEEN forced back further on the defenses of Feb. 2.—The Petit Parisien's of the Germans. The German artillery correspondent at the front says tbat the | Preparation, which reached its height or ¢ Tuesduy, was of unparalleled violene great German offensive againat Verdun|p .. “non e ground was searched out is under the personal direction of Em-| ... point where it was thought gums peror Willlam, who arrived at g ral | t exist was littered with shells, but headquarters on Saturday last and who, | the French infantry was so well shel In order that nothing might Ko wrong, | tered under the ground and the French \mmediately ordered that a sort of dress | guns were so well hidden that when the rehearsal of the coming attack be ‘held.| German batteries grew silent and the At a given wlgn the says, every Infantry man and gunner took the post assigned to him in advance end the motions of & general attack were gone through behind the lines, The the word to begin the offensive on Sat- urday night The ¥ ins'gnificant h losses are declured to he comparison with those n correspondent | n infantry advanced to the attack hmen sprang up from the holes in ground and opened a deadly fire achine guns, while shells from illimeter guns blew overhead mowed down wave after wave of Germans as they plodded doggedly the snow-covered ground, urged on the correspondent adds, by revolver in hand. the | with the emperor seerningly was satisfied und gave| and the over trom behind, thelr offlc rs, . Verdun in the face of the great German drive for the fortress. The German war office today an- nounces the capture of all Fremeh positions north of Verd the ridge of Lo The mber cen increased by more " of Beaumont. the (hun 7,000 to more tham 10,000, The fortified villages amd farms mont, Heaumont, Chumbrettes and Ornes have fallen hands, It says,