Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1916, Page 4

| i Al be un 4 E PINSK BRISTLES WiTH FORTRESSES Pripet Swamp Serves as Effectual Check to German Advance and Russian Attacks, POSITIONS ARE IMPREGNABLE (Corrgapondence of the Ame PINSK, Russia, March odd kilometers of the Bave beon forufiegd Wiy ook ie positlon here ber as probably no 1 i Press thirty Pinnk Clated 3. ~The around the Oermun last Maptan) tion on Any onst, Th hich unt of the nre minee other wec cust, west or south Aot awamy on ace i formed u natural barrr Gerinan and Russian lines, ked both the German sdvanoe Russian counter attack Bt Germans have realized that o singh ol enap might make the swamps piiss e, and to foresall such thing, they liwve resorted 1o every known oxpedient fool of thelr positions fm Wl whnter bedween the Pah ehe #nd the 1 " 1o mako every presimbile which Cerman orerown Wussan Isolated on o Vinsk, In aund shout forces nre 1ying iMage of 45,000 lohabltants, tongue of land projecting eastward into the swamps. An Amociated Pross cor respondent, the first pewspaper man o Msit Pinsk since the Gormans ocoupled dt, haw Just returned from m tour of the Yinsk front, and although han prov cinly vimited soveral pouitions in Loth the e of war AN o comtern and wostern thote the Jor vesn-lile nppearance of the "peninsla of Pinsk’’ dmprossed bl remarkably Wl eity te tlanked on the south by th poifL running river Pina. Beyond (h piver les half & mile of swamp, Then women the river Strumen, which, o the warlward, turns graduslly and joins the s, MUl further beyond Lles mers pwamp lands, which extend for sovernl miles o the mainland and the Fussian position, To the northwasd runs the yiver flanked on both sldes by miler of wwimp Lands, on oither cdgn of Iwhich lie the German and Russian forces : Good Defensive Front, | Vortunately for the troops which hold {1l worihern section, the only place where o offonsive can reasonably be expeotsd Tassoldn, the awamp land terminates In dunes whlcll are eanily adupted for defensly purposes, Along his northern pection segiments of cavalry have Inboriously dug themsolves into the ground and have purfectod menns Lo make It Jnpossible for the Iussinns to break through Bhe defonse scheme I8 & series of stuetzpunkie’” or wupporting points, At ong place the supporting point in o vill, Loompletely surrounded by trenchon, shel ters and entangloments, At another it is L sort of fort bullt into the earth, with {aubterranean passages, protected by sand Lhags, earth and wood, and ringed about Lwith hundreds of thousands of ronning fest of barbed wire. Fach supporting polit 16 not over 60 yards Olstant (rom b und they are connected by wire entanglements from 100 to 120 fcet in Iwlath The cavalry regiments that are guard Ing the northern section are among the fnest In the German army. Thelr of ficers Include nome of the greatest nobles 4 the empire, whose names are known all over the world, Tor almost six months now they have lulp in thelr pest glon, Uving alternately In undergrovnd shielters und in the great villa that stands on un elevation plainly tn view of the Russinn positions “How s I, anked the correspondent of Count B, coustih of u famous Cere man nuval commander and ehief of the hirdgade, “‘that the Russians do not shoot your villa to pleces? The nearest Rus plan artillery position fsn't more than six kilometers awny.' Mutunl, Unspoken Agrecment, The count Inughed, “There seems 1o unwrittetn and unspoken agree- ment that we won't touch Kussian head- aunrters If they leave ours alone, They lave umple evidence of the wocuraey of other our guns snd know that we would de- molish thely villa If we wanted to Thanks to the fact that there In an almost unlimited quantity of wood on hand, for Pinsk in peace times 1s one of the (imbe centers of Tussla, the dermans have been able to bulld out Aoross the swamps and i this way to establiah far<flung outposts on every humime g of ground that ia large enough 0 # blookhouse Paralleling the Btru the #outh In #n nurrow beat n half & mile to muddy dike or dam that was bullt some time ago by the Rumain e rily to eheek the swamp wators, and partly as a prospective rail- rond bed. This dam extends te within n few Kllometers of the Russian outpost Poritions st Ljubanskawo and Gornoye With the help of wooden stagings that orisscross the swamp fn almost avery di- the uns have free and oasy (0 thin dike, and have erected on & sevies of blockhouses or supporting Im-lllnn» whieh veritable arsenals ach 18 ‘enuipped with machine guns, ..\.A from caeh axtends mwnys to “Hor rection, Ge never It are ARaln on the staktngs fposten''~listening nen 1y positions No togethor neas are the hiockhouges care b to] sweep ofe With the artillery of the other 'n vent sugh paintod wlans hav has 1o axarcised not o Al Ogourrence great boen erected In front of ench hlockhouse, Indicating how fur 1o right or left the maehine guns of any one fort may swing without brinwing o | nelgliboring fort under German fire Almost dye t [ the farthest sy e, whioh 1s sald to be the most wlthon whioh the Germans e the Russlan pesitions, st ™ t ahout MO et Hotw N TR0 He 8 sories of hay plles or staeks, | N & hefore Hay Pk | % \ Wiy . . ' MOP 1ALNS, AN slae the ¥ th uides graw rest " AN Intere “" Porlant pasition Ih the warfare st Finsk f Bach thme (hat & frosty nigh e the swa & b, betk |lu.‘ Sltman sentrios make for the pilsa of Bey W an effw N oarey ol 4 IH(IQ By on the o Band, and 1o take The Nusslans thus far have oat ot B ose far s the ¥ 0 conserned, P 100 s Are wearer (ham, bt \he Oer AR Cialm Uhe reserd for patiols wiped UL e apereed e of the | inen of defense ling Pk il One sirest 10 4 low trene Py 1or Inatant sosupaney, and the Bouans (WAt line the streats are barn aded with sand bagn and carthwors 08 sirent, an wall ae the ontien towi, Somaianily patrelied and W would be wnly B Batinr of minuies in case of an atiach Befirn (b whols seelion would » with wen Thaugh the methods of defonse 0 the Al i naeah of Plask, and the sy Hall, vary ounsiderably, (he marhine gun PANS A% Umpertant part ever wheie THE Here is a Bird Who Refuses to , Work Except in the Forenoons BEE: Henry Copley I» studying bird life vessels iu thel thing's eye and It pays When Copley 1» not selling Jewelry over |no attention 1o me. 1t knows # friend the counter he s at home, 131 North | when It sees one Thirty-elghth street 5 he dx not | “'1 have watched that bird bring atick member of the Audubon soclety, either, | and str and then sound the brick Maybe he does not even know of the|wnil for many minutes In senrc n Avdubons place to stick the end of the straw, It But he does know how a roblu bullds | will poke wnd poke that straw at the Itw newt, what dind of straws and sticks | wall for an indefinite Ume, untll it finds It usen wnd exnctly how It wenves them | & Httle hole or weuk place in the mortar tosethor where It can thrust the end in and meke A robin has made 8o bold as to build |1t stick. Then It commences it woaving e nest on the lodge of the window of | “And at noon this bird quits work Mr. Copley's den “Thiw blamed robin | That s the strangest thing about it all in 0o more afreld of me than 0 s of |1t tolls hard all forenoon and as aire as u Tishworm ways Oopl It bullds | the noon whistle blows that Vird quits thit nest widle | sit directly inside the | operations and Is never seen around there window and smoke und watch it Why, in the afteruoon I wit wo clppe that 1 can count the blood | It sure must belong Lo the unien HILLS ONE WASS OF HOLES ™ One Detachment of Soldiers lhy‘ A practienl riner in privete iife, T cfalire e ! his kind of work work i often wuddenly stopped and (he enomy’s operations checked al the WORK GOES ON NIGHT AND DAY | time “The sappers are digging, shoveling In shlence, when muddenly one of them stops | be has heard o hollow wound in the soil two or thres mors sirokos being sl further modified by these tun | neling end mining operations Denerihed by & Mine npe (Correspondence of the Associated Press ) BARLADUC, France, March 1b.-«The mining operations on some sections of the | under bis plek IFreneh front ressmble vamt rallroad tun- | and his instinet of an old miner reveals neling enterprines. All wlong the slope of | Lo bibm. that (here 1a & hole under the ils where the summits alone separate | kallery; he strikes again, tha point ol the combatants, there nre mouths of tun- | the plek penetrates; there ls no mors nols framed with timbers, such s sup- @eubt twt that s Cerman blusting hole port the gallerion of conl mines. ANl duy |exists undernenth, Ty small strokes i wll night soldiars wheel earth out of |Mowly with Infinite precaution the sap by apening, then aided those tunnels to platforms, where dump. Der enlarges the are On & SUEALORIC narrow-gauged refh- | his comrades, lata himself down into roud are waiting to carey I off te be |the hols with revolver in his fist, It used In the wrading of new stratogls |10 Indeed (erman biasting bole that 1nen he has discovered with a gallery at the A study of the official communiques | N4 The question is whether it Ts oceupled {mpossible ta tell; the enemy perhaps will appear and rish npon the intruders; no one comes, the mine is empty, leaving a watehman, the sappers and miners s cend Into the Franch gallery, and go and report thelr dipeovery Lo the captain who Kives only wight indications of the ob Joot of all this netivity, What it means depends wpon the lay of the land; In some camen | amounts to nothing less than the blowing off of the tops of hills, Thers are places whers the Germans hold the i i " the 1) ;‘n m l“.m he Y::ml'l u;o g I:'»hnn the ‘ degldes to profit by the occasion to play lope; there are othars where neither the | 00 LEUTULL 0y Garmans, While Vronch nor Germans have been ablé to | he nelghboring ‘o the summiL’ excepbing. in smalh, | Ontinulng to work [h She DelgTERK A "”'”I Aoy, Y IH o | mines to geceive 1he wdversary, sappors woln advance poats LAt Are annle | G0 T0 Ll of the infantry are put Idlated at intervals, and here it s neces. | ly to work stuffing with explostves vary 10 blow the top off the height bo. | Hlently to ve 0w | the old German bissting hole which com fore an imwie can be roached | municates with the gallery leading to Work Goes Right Os, | the German esrthworks and to n Iittle This tunneling las bean golng on for | ocouphed post more than a yesr In some places, but “Wveryone works unceasingly Whast publie evidences of the extent of It date | & good Joks we are golng fo pluy pon only trom thie beginning of the yesr them,’ overyene suys, The Germans at the other and of the gallery are on the watch, and we have been on the watch for them to mee that they dld not sur- prise our plans, for the siightest slip or A bungling movement with Mg mines nre wide thowe " not oxploded every day in honeycombed hills, whers At for the Frenchman's tunnel o run into & German underground gal Tare lory. If they mest before the mine i | awkwardue rondy, it 15 A “camouflet” or a small | the tools might give the alarm. IMinully, Dlast, that In set off by the adversary [ ot dawn the work s done. The entire that locates the other follow fitst. 1t 1y | German gallery at the end where It com auickly dome with an American pneu- | municates with our excavation fs noth [ing but & vast eannon stuffed with ched dite; il the men are at their post, & sig- | nal 1s given, the tuse lighted, and In an | Instant the earth cracks, It s safe to | rnine . head above the surface now, for the enemy s too much oceupled to fire, [ e trench 1n entirely unheaved, and the matie ool that bores u hole in the dir; thon from which comes the tell-tale siund of the plek. A charge of dynamite, 1yd- Aite, melinite is stuffed in and the hole s plugged, so that the mine is safe and the foree of the explosion all turned mwnfd the adversary's gallory BPaing is sometimes done ulwo 1o | Jermana fly in the air, some of them hasten the excavating work, bul most of | Whole and some of them in parts. the Algwing roquiring discretion 18 the P work of the American pneumatic drill Bitten by Golf Wuw. George Purns, the Tigers' first base and preumatic pick working by alr con- | , in the last member of the Jungle pressors brought up to the foot of the " 4% e S8 MU L R olfing bug e e e The toresta of the Argonne all along | Zum with Newark. L y b, I and Outfielder Bddle Zimmerman slgned the front have been razed by shell and | CEERSE, Glrk®olub of the Initernas shrapnel: apd the aspect of the hills s tional league Easter Footwear AUTHENTIC DEPENDABLE BI"\'HON & THORNE styles: bloom fresh every season, but the quality is ever steadfast and true to the principles that have established our record for rellability Women secking Vaster footwear, elther for their children or for their own wear, should think first of this store for hoth extreme or staple styles A Special Value in Low Shoes Princess pattern, made from extra seloct qual Ity patent kid, with neat finiah collar, Goodyear Hght-welght ouk leather soles. Hund Louls heels, Champagne colored welt sewed, finished leather kid quarter lning and suede “never-slip” heel lining, with short throat and high waist lines which give a closo-fitting top Worth $6.00 $4.00 Stylish Silk Hose--- -~ for Women Fitfel pattorns, just areived, (n strip ol and wanted co sieh s brown, flesh, groys, $1.19 In faney siriped boot siiks that fol w fanh s fancies, at J0¢, Do Your Chiidren run throush hoss and shoes quicker than sulta effects; new your purse? This s our special iblem- < Hone o1 Rhoos we M salved 1t In buying N fontwear seleud Whe hoal Inoking” and at the same time nslst on (hat oatrs wearing quality, vwhich means = Startright Shoes Pony BINSONEERIHOKNIH 1516.18.20 Farnam Street. } SATURDAY OMAHA, TIGRIS NOW AN [MPORTANT RIVER British and Turks Alike Using It for Communication Main Line ANCIENT CRAFT IN COMMON USE WITIE THE BRITIBH ARMY IN MEBOPOTAMIA, Mureh % (lritish Of flalnl Bye-Witnes Ihe Tigres river worve nw the line of communications for hoth Turks and Writish alike In Meso potamis, The British have & cortuin ad vantege in thin respect, for they, with Aconss 10 the sem, can Inoresss and re plenish their river (ransport fueiiities Indefinitely, whereas (he Turks must be satinfled with thelr sresent fleot The oarrying enpactty of the Tigrin ent Tiritioh flaet 1n not equal with stoek, hut on 1o e The Fritish 40 mil with fts pre to that of u single line of rallway an average supply of rolling i vejopment of th Ineroasing ir the Ine of nho long mostly paddle font of " o lghter attachad with the bigade han it steamars drawing ah four with " and from parent by “mahaiian make # pletureny i forwnrd Inntasn and water, snch vonrd and port pace hunk ship Thie o on the onch which It draws sup phien aip b, In tur pited oraft high der, potnted ke the Aemignm orencent the rodine, ground of groen These loenl rl flaet with thelr huge rud CULBWAY PrOw Tl palntod it b sloping masis el b rbed wnd Chinone Ith A and nnd Junk torm, | star and of bk oharn flunre 1l white red and yullow Ix woner on n Nome in We for the of the Ar The Arab nams honts NArrow couptry, the Basra, s the bellum, Tt in The officinl dispatehes referred hel ardinnr loni eanos-shaped gondoln of poled or paddled have ocoamlonally Tums'’ which maored with lron piates veying the onamy's position Yo mipploment dle stonmers of the Tigrls the gathered (he most helrogeneois of scrap irom and s of traffie, taxing the resources of India's inland navigation from Whamo to Bind HWow ernft over thetr knows, 1o "war bellums ar god for eon of the nre undl ault infantry to " ng ¢ han oleetion pad been the melf-respec Thene found wn over the ocean only providence hont on the Aerial,” hinlf hotise The most remarkable In one known us (he boat and half The hull 1s Brahmaputrs and 1t Is fitted with an s propeller and a fift It mekes battle, 1t owner und aroplane from horse power sngine modery bt its in mere nolss han onen navigator plied in Assam, had o happy FOLITICAL Senator Shumway Will Receive a Big Vote in Northeast Nebraska. ADVERTINING, Of &l the names that will appesr the primary ballot of any party the possible exception of Presidont son, who s unopposed, not probability will recelve o Aorsement fn northesst Henator Shumway, who Is 4 candidate Ldsutenant Gavernor Menator Bhumway's eandidac alver a cordial weleoms throughont nactlon of the Btate where known and newspapers. party affiliation, have favorably on his entrance This ls dus In large measiire to 11 ator's well-known reputation of hoing eloan-out man of excellont principles and Ideals and his cordial affabllity with al men on All occaslons. But there | more to Benator Bhumway than this, He has demonstrated that " man Achlevement, of ldeas an well as And he possesm & faguity of careyin out his idean with tact and persistence Senator Shumway s pocullarly fitted for the distingulshed offies which moeks. Hin three terma in the Ntate ate, In which he ranked wir ors of that hedy, [l " wit Wik al one In heartier Nebraskn than has re h he in be regnrdless o commented mont Into the rece on Idenl, wlde ng the and thorongh experie I leginlative procedure and qualifies him withou question for the position as President o the Menate. Moreover hin kindly and gen erous political toleration, which has cn abled him to work with ease, and wit out frictlon, with his amociates of a dif forent politieal faith, an well an e his own, Insures that he w I presid with abaolute fustice and falrness to a And yet In amatters strictly polition Senator Bhumway (s & slaun Hepubli oan and his pa need have no unce tainty aa to his remaining 1o politieal eonviotions as well a connclence. ~Walthill Times h‘ml" Ihrm s John B. Barneu Candidate For Justice of the Supreme Court Whe Has basn & W Conrt e Nopt 1 e well ta reed APRIL | | 15, 1016, spiration and this miracle of private ime to the islanders, It points out that the land. Meanwhile the American amba provisation i now the offiels recogs | Plllpinos have been enjoying progress |sador to Turkey has heen wakod 1o um nizsed hospital ferry, plying between the|and prosperity to u considerable degree | hin Influence ec that the Kras flold hospital static and maln ho inder Ameriean adminigtration, and 18 | not disturbed pitsl eamp. inclined to foel that it may ve too sarly Hetore Gallipoll was avactinted the to wive them indepsndence, The Journas | slanting of wattle trees around the buria Anclent Type of Crufi Used, oneludes with the opinion that 1t would | pounds had alrendy hen decided on, and hoat Indigenons to the TIEris 18 the |y, e parmanent benefit to the Islanders | quantity of youns trees were sant from wildron-like “gufar” of Bagdad, probe| . semain under American rule mtralia for this purpe The with . % s Australl ably the oldest vessel in the world ——————— ) . Arawal of the Dritish troops stopped tha rinl” offers & atridng pletire In the| T gy en’ BY WATTLE TREES | The wattie trees are now being trendad o g pe g, Kudas A Tigypt, pending the tima when the kot with-wooden stays, plastered v < (Eres i Medle Samiiuted’ Slase piteh from the bitymen el of | (Correspondence of The Assoc fated ¥ rrl;’v an be plan n r oApp P! i1, Herodot seribiod them a8 “‘sound Iy 1 " /e ik WIAKITE fo Memphis, an bueklers,” apinning down sirenm with a4, ho graves O 4 . gih | Eare Midkiff, who managed the Louls rehandine from o Wabylon In Gadlipol) are to be marked WIth | i e lanain [ant year, has baen relnssed Vaeh gufs wrtled ‘6 donkey troos brought from thelr native | ¢, (he Mamphis Bouthern leagus club | was navigated by *wo men Arrl - - in Wabylon and the mershandise ol > . widnys one 11eat mects these oraft & 5 Armrn while thel northernmonst Hmit he Turks have five Inrge tonmer north of Kut el-Amara, bt these en only ko ax far as the Turkish base a . shimian, whenes supplien nre conveysd | Child was Badly Constipated | o tha troops by camels or donke ] L ' |‘, g (! ' Turks, 1 Until Mother Tried 11y In nearly self-supporiing Troops an Simple Remedy pment are carried down sream b s o Bagdad from Mosul on Kelloks, the xreat| 1 #pite of aver SRS Ao whin rufin of the Tigrie, Those are brok. | et fidren are very Apt to becoma 10wt Nagdad and the skins wold or | conmtipated, a condition responsiblo for sonvoyed hack by land many iis In after e unless mptly PAPERS OF JAPAN NOT FOR | rlievea INDEPENDENCE OF FILIPIND |, i O W W o Tonn., | l her baby bo Corvespondence of the Associated Premm.) Woodrow ntl hie oard of Dr. Cald TOKIO, Apri] B.~dnpaness papers that | well's Byrup Pepsls writen, “I can comment on the bill befors the American | safely say 1. Caldwell's Syrup Papsin ongress Kranting eventual independence |1 the host remady of ita kind on earth 1o the Phillppine Islands generally ome | It acte so gently and yet so sursly. Lt pross the opinton that the best interests [Le Woodrow was very badly constipsted of the Vilipios would be served by re- [and we could find nothing that gave 1o | malning under the rule of the United |ilef until we tried your Syrup Pepsin, | i Hintos vertheless the American pro- | which gave immediate ralief WOODROW WILEONW jnct has induced no very wide discussios ‘ Dr. Caldwell's Byrup Pepsin 18 & oom In Jupan pound of simple laxative herbs, fres [conts a hottla in any well-stooked drie The JUA thinks that independence for | froin aplates or narcotie drogs, mild in | sore trinl bottle of Dr. Caldwell's the Phillppines might serve to remove | netion, positive in effect and pleasant to | Syrup Pepsin can be obtained, fres of r»wrh"lfiv of Japan held by some people |, - ., It has besn presoribed by | charge, by writing to Dr, W, B, “ald In the United Btates, but doubts whethor | o0 coia0aii for more than & quarter of | well, 4 Washington #t, Monticel's Independence would be of ‘real benefit |, " oniiny and enn now be had for fifty | 1iinels, Tailored Suits You could pay $10.00 more for your Easter Suit, and not obtain an, smarter style or better value than we omr Batur u{ flII. dmrrmt models of ‘‘Juliws Oridin’’ Hallored ts At this price are Smart Tailored Models and Swagger Sport Models, each revealing some new charm. Serges, (iab- ardines, Popling, Serge and Taffeta Combinations, ete, in all oolors—also Black and White Worsted and Velour (‘hm-k; (hoose your suit from this tremendous assortment Values to $19.50, Twenty Models to Choose From, On Sale Saturday, at $12.50 Smart styles for strest or balted and half-belted affects, in Poplins hooks, Rarges, Mixtures, Golfine, ste,, ote for women and misses Velov Spring Top Coats are deeid vear's cont will by showing a decidedly exhaustive that should fashions at a priee Stunnfffg N y Shik, Georgette and Crepe de Chine Blouses at $2.25 to $5.00 Pistinetive siyles with tuohiad sallor collare the naw shades henatitehing Wifes Piain or hand smbmidered I mdemen’ and all women's siees S1.60 Fancy Volle & Lingerie Blauses Noaren of o Arrivala In Paney Velles Ovgandios and Lingerie e, I white and colors, novelty affecta, olo some am s == hroddarad same adorned with laes trtm ooplas of high prived o Iar TLE0 waluan on sale Baturday ot FLN, SITRR DR DRI IR ISR I 57T 2707 57 5707 57 57 97 PLNNN, L’ = 4 RN DD RNODODDNODODNDONNNY Better Quality---Better Style---Better Values 1508 - 1610 Douglas St. Pre-Easter Specials{ That Will Interest Fashionable Women L New Spring Coats § dress wear in flared, no means do ew SIIk Dresses, $13.75 and Up L) edly different this year, and In this sale we are array of all the newest soat Attract every prospective ew Skirts The separate Skirt has achioved & popularity this seanon beyond that of previous vears. The de smariness of line and beauty of materials make the modals smarter than aver before aturday we offer twenty styles In Cohoks, Gab “ ardine Popling, Rerges, Awning Stripes, Corduroys oo, In & s, with new helt etfects, novel pockets 5 | n NS, ¢ value 1o 010.00, on sale \ )