Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1916, Page 10

- “BIG POSH” IS ONLY MINOR PART OF PLAN French and English Fighters Meet Death to Gain Ground From Germans. . MANY TEUTONS CAPTURED /Dorrekpondence of. Thé Assocated Press.) French Front, Oct. 12—The tactical offensive of the Franco-British forces on the Somme, although it has en- tered its fourth month and has at- tracted widespread attention, is in reality only a part of | the entire scheme of strategy of the allies’ armies, but its success has given t'hem the initiative in the waf operations, which had for a time slipped from their hands. » A general purview of the theater of operations in_this region shows that the Franco-British front on July 1 ran directly from the west of Thiep- val, a strongly fortified German posi- tion, to Fricourt: There the _allies’ line turned sharply east-south-east- ward and passed fothe north of ‘Car- ngy to beyond Maricourt, whence it once more turned diréctly: south of Maucourt, the extréme end of the of- fensive movement, This was the front, somewhat over forty kilometers in length, chosen by the allies for their forward push. The French were disposed. along about half of the southern end: of: this line and the following details deal solely with:their part in the operations. ¥ 9,500 Prisoners. 4 "_ Th; first %h:!l‘ef‘o'l n;fi bntlie ‘}a:te‘d e days and during this period four Igé o{ German trenches, and in some rlm- five, all constructed ~of orged concrete, were carried b rench troops. - Numibers of villages, iq;iudin Curly, é’e&gmcoum\ Dor pierre, Bussus, "h‘y, u.:illeug court, Herbecourt, ‘Aflemllerl,’ ! en-Santerre, Estry m gnd Har , were ca,? red at the point of * bayonet, after terrific 'bombard- which -1eft ‘only- the outlines of - house foundations still standing. 2‘ attacking French forces were pelled to fight from cellar to cel- lar, in which large numbers of ma- chinie guns had been mounted by the iermans, whtzl“h ‘taken shelter i N & rickwor] by pas- sages. In view of the nature of thig ombat the French losses were very all.. On the other hand, the Ger- l‘y heavy casual- ; dings crashin, ‘them while they were crowd- large bodies below.” Nint thou- rein- the san é ] red officer and men sur- A ring the sécond phase of the of- from July 6 to d nsive; 'wlfkh ‘ln:%d tem| 1 tench progressed e ge, Occupying a very str i wl ‘flle‘Gem:u’n'- l?:fit:::n ‘advantage, the fO88Y | heisland of H L mach| ¢ of the offensive ber 1 with an artil- more violent and’ had ever been used 'fench il!lln!tg be- oSt In'the i 5y po! 4 ,lgpqiotc been i DEATH HEAD HUSSAR NOW \ ' SHOWN HERE. An exhibit of war trophies, which includes over 400 trophies picked up on the battle fields of Europe, is on display on the third floor of the Bran- deis stores. The exhibit is probably the largest one that has been brought to the United States since the great conflict The_trophies were collecte Barker, an ex-officer in ian army, G The feature of the collection is a British scouting aeroplane. It is one of the Caudron models used exclus- ively for scouting. It is a high-speed machine, capable of a speed of 110 miles an hour. ) All kinds of bullets, from the small rifle cartridges to the big artillery shells, are included in the display, as are hand grenades, rifle grenades, aeroplane darts, incendiary® bombs, gas bombs, bayonets and all the other implenients o? war, otographs and documents of ex- rlnnalion add to the exhibit, and a ecturer aecompanying the display explains -the history and use of the trophies. ‘mans to abandon their long and up- essful effort to break through the ench lines at Verdun, while the con- t advance of the allied lroofil despite the desperate opposition of the Germans has.contributed to lower the morale of the troops of the central powers, . ¢ China Doesn’t Know 1t What to Do with Army|, (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Peking, Oct. 3—China's greatest proplem at present is-how to disband the itremendous army which has come into existence during the revolution now drawing to a close. The latest figures compiled by the government indicate that there are 800,000 soldiers under arms. in the various provinces, At least $30,000,000 silver will be re- quired to pay.off these soldiers and cure their peaceful return to their accupatior soldiers are always a in Each province has i own military governor and a distinct military organization, presumably un- der control of the Peking authorities, but actually quite independent in s. . Consequently, the Pe. rnment is forced to deal lomatically with the military ns i | provinces, par- ularly in the remote provinces which “fack adequate means for nadd communical Jheat Ligs & li province, in which Peking ted, has a greater number of han W other. At present e ate 114,000 men under -arms in ovince. Kwangtung province, tich Canton is the capital, comes second, ‘with 96,000 tro Thi province has been inyco of - turmoil erpl Lung has finally consented to re- tire from military dovemorahip and take most of his soldiers with him\ to inan, This will make ral Lu, the newly mi overnor, to take charge of affairs in Canton and bring the revolutionary ~ movement in Y ng province to a close, hzug coolies regard military lfi:vyic a8 a very desirable billet. Once they are enlisted in the army, it is very difficult to persuade them to r ire, Consequently, they riot and be. i¢ extremely troublesome if an at- -.uryt be made to disband them with- out liheral payment. The command- L ing officers are frequently as mercen- Lary as the soldiers, and civilians have 2 :tnl dread of disgruntled troops. When the government fails to give its goldiers what they regard as adequate it ible for [ pay the troops. frequently become bang t , w‘i‘t’f\ a furtheg 8. * he 6th Berny ¢ &7oup.of prisaner ch_in- On the a brilliant dash ‘captured the of Bouchavesnes, w their march in these two days ers, ten cannon and “syer the top | ite. found: the school its and loot until they have gained ‘the' reward they - feel they d | should have from the governmeht. BritishLearn ' - :.._..ToI‘lyinEgth { {Correspondence of The Associated Press,) Cairo, Egypt, Se‘rl 20.—At a place which “can be designated only as "loqewlnre in Egypt" the British forces ‘are- establishing what will be one of -the largest and most com- pletely equipped aviation schools in ithe world. An Associated Press cor: respondent who recently visited the I was nearing’ completion, and he was told that at least seven thoroughly qualified pu- pils in the art of flying will be grad- uated each week so long as the war lasts, for service not only with Brit- ish forces in Egypt, but elsewhere if thci{lpqrvice as demanded. This part of the world was chosen me’ for the school mainly because it is | rémark th adapted ' climatically to flying the whole year round, and because it is handy to the various theaters of war. identally an observer here might the sands of, the desert also furnish a soft bed for the inex- | perienced to fall u n. The - school wilronccommudlte. in addition to the pupils, fifty officers and 500 mechanics and other work- ers.. Each student will require from four: to ‘s weeks' training. A large aumfi!l: are already receiving instrue- ons, v Of this-country—those who after months, and even ycars of suffering, it Rave: hae X ored to health and y by that good old-fashioned 4 Terb remedy, Lydia E. Pink- - Viegetable - Coumpound,—are who' have spread the good news of health restored, until today 1 there' i ‘hardly a town so small that the woinen Who suffer from female ailments do not depend upon Lydia E. Pinkham's' Vegetable Coumpound to restore dvertisement. d | happens to break within thirty yards THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1916. WHEN ARCHIE SENDS | UP AN ONION, DUCK English Airmen Tell of Perilous Flights in Bomb-Swept COlouds. 7 HOW BB.AV—E_-MEN THINK (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) London, Oct. Z1.—“It's all right so long as you can't see 'enmy or hear ‘em,” said “Tommpy” Brennan, of the Royal Flying corps; “but any man who tells you he can fly over an ‘Archie¢’ and get a ‘flaming onion’ right ahead of him without ducking and wishing they wouldn’t come so close or make so much noise, has never been up in an aeroplane. Take it from me.” “Yes,” put in Gilray, “and every- time you duck your old winger ducks with you. As ‘Bren’ over there says, it wouldn’t be so bad if you couldn’t see and hear 'em, Generally speak- ing you don't hear them unless one or.sp of you. It's when you get down ¢ldse to them and look right down at them spitting fire at you, that's when you have got to have every nerve in yopr body tuned to the minute.” “I'Ill never forget the first time they got close to me,” declared.“Boy” Tylie. “My only thought was that I would never ghoot a pheasant again, I knew exactly how a bird must feel when a hunter opens fire.” Brennan’wore upon his- left sleeve the gold stripe of the wounded.”"Gil” had been on the official list of the killed in action some weeks ago, but somehow or other came back to life. When Brennan was “hit” and finally came down safely within his own lines, it was found there were no less than eighty perforations in his wings, *° Gets Too Low. “I was so interested in- looking over their trenches I guess l.got a little too low,” he explained. - There is nothing more interhfing in all London than to sit through a| long autumn evening talking to the youngsters of the wonderful aviafion service Great Britain has almost mi- raculously bdilt up since the war be- an, “We've got the Germans now where they have to fire blindly or shoot by the map,” these intrepid men of the air will tell you. “Of what use are their wonderful guns if they don’t know what they are shooting at? They don’t dare send a plane over our lines. They don't even dare approach. The minute they show themselves we have an overwhelming number of machines to send~after them and they beat it for home again as fast as they can go. They can't take a photograph of our new positions. Their batteries have been driven from the heights and they can't observe. It is a big difie\',ence from the first' days of the wart." Associating ‘much with Britain’s fiying men oge will soon learn that an_"Archibald,” usually called “Ar- chie” (Pr short, is an anti-aireraft gun, " Fi Archie Barks. “‘Archie’ barks at you,” said Bren- nan, “He pgoes ‘woof, woof, woof. He. isn't comfortable to listen to, cither, but its when you get down a little nearer to earth and the machine guns get to working that you feel you have got to do what you set-out to do right quickly and get started to some Tlfieter spot just as fast as, the air will get out of your way and let o4 you through. You can’t imagine how much that old atmosphere gets in your way when you are really in a hyry.” V\/Ken you get on speakirg terms with a machine gun you kapw that it talks with a “putt, putt, putt.” The ordinary hand rile, which) often takes ‘a shot at you when you ges too close to the trenches, goes “crack, crack, ‘crack,” just as everyone ex- pects a rifle to go. s “A flaming onion? Well, that looks for all the world like an eight-candle= power electric light ‘bulb’ coming at ou. = Then all of a sudden it breaks to nice little ribbons of fire that dart apd float through the air lise so many blazing serpents. They.are very disng‘jeeable, these onions. Their one desire\in life is to'set you ablaze and exfllode your petrol tank.” One thing the American always has to re- member_over here i that gasojine, or just plain “gas” as the motorists and flying men call it at home, has no place in the English lexicon, It is ‘“petrol,” just as lieutenant, al- though spelled lieutenant, is pro- nounced “leftenant.” When Shell Bursts. | Several ‘of the young “wing" sub- alterns were waiting for the “Hickey-~ boos” to come over the other night when they fell into a heated discps- BELL-ANS Absolutely -Removes 'Indigestion. Onepackage provesit. 25cat a}}l druggists. ASTHMA SUFFERER Write today, I will tell you, free of charge, of a simple home treatment \for asthma which cured me after physicians and change of climate failed. I am so grateful for my resent good health, after years of suffer- , that I want everyone to know of this wonderful treatment. 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Bathing the fuce in this every day for a while spon relleved the condition most won- dertully.—Advertisement. \ sior as to whether you would rather have a shell right ahead of you, righltj %rcath you or right over you. There tre those who contended it was better to have it break right in front, for'then the explosion would spread the fragments and let you pass safely through the spot where “the hlooming beast cracked.” , | The others contended that a shell breaking on the level with you in-‘ | bucked and finally stopped. And me miles across the line. 1 knew it was | something wrong with the carburetor lor the ignition, for I had enough petrol to go a hundred/miles or more. ‘ln the higher altitudes wates. often gets into the mixing chamber, :So,| first of all, I joggled that old ear- buretor for all she was worth, Then I gave the old boat a little tilt down- ward, she cranked herself as she dicated that “Archie” had his fuscs;dip ed and old Johnny Eng{'ne was timed just a bit too accurately to ‘take chances from the fragments coming from beneath or above. This was one discussion in which the in- nocent bystander had no part. He learned, however, that shrapnel from an “Archie” jumps at you with a “bang;” that it looks like a white puff ball as it breaks in daylight and like the starry shower of a rocket as it explodes by night. Might Capsize You. When a “shrap” explodes beneath the tail of your machine you feel as f you were going to loop the loop in the wrong direction. When it breaks in front, you feel as if you very much wanted to do a “Slipflop” backwards in the most improved style. Whea you get it under the winfs the con- cussion almost capsizes you and you feel as if the old “joy stick,” or guid- ing lever, never will put her back on| 2n even keel, ’ The “Hickey-boos,” .it develops_in the course of the conversation, are the Zeppelins. Where they got the name no one seems to know. It is the exclusive language of the flying corps, “Archie” is the name of the home defense aircraft guns as well as those of the Germans, for, gener- ally spcp:mg, all such guns are the natural ‘eiemy of th¢ airman, whether he -be chasing a “Hickey-boo” over London or taking observations at the front. They are always threatening himi with an unpleasant end. Night flying is no easy task at best. “You feel like the man in the song,” said Sammy Sampson, a midget of the corps, “you are all dressed-up and no place to go,” % 7 It is simple enough to go up at night, and sjgtple " enough * to sail away, but it 8 something else again to come down without taking off a clumnei’ pot or “strafing” a big oak tree, In ordinary times' there is a flare to guide you safely back'to the aerodrome, but on. “raid nighgs,” when all is dark, and when”the “Archies” are barking at the “Hickey- boos,” and the “Hickey-boos” are “putt, putt, putting” at you with their machine guns—then night flying is surely enough a real man's job. Many Pilots. The Royal'l’lying corps is proving most~attractive to young Canadian officers, They are qualifying as pilgts- by the score. Some who came over from the dominion in-khaki ate now in the deep blue of the Royal Waval Air service, but the great majority who have taken to the air are stiil in_ khaki with the white insignia of widespréad wings on the left breast of the tunic. “I had my first real thrill the other day,” “said one of these young Cana- dians, just back from the front, “T was ‘way inside the German lines, having the time of my ‘bright young life, when suddenly I" heard a miss- fire. No matter how many cylinders you have got whirring in front of you the -instant one misses your heart hears it even before your ears do. for| pleasure flying and that it was safer; 1 pufring away in a moment jdst like a contented tabby cat in an old maid’s lap. I had enough of Germany for that day and set sail for home in a line that would make a crow's flight look like a seipentine dance.” eres—— Sloan’s Liniment Relieves Congestion. As soon as you apply Sloan’s Liniment the congestion disappears and your pain is gone, Bodily warmth is renewed, 26c. All drug- gists.—Advertisement. - England Prepares For After the War (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Londap, Sept. 28,—England's/dt- termination to provide the best pos- | sible housing accommodation for the ! soldiers on their return to civil life is reflected in plans formulated to set aside as a beginning, $100,000,000 of government money as advax;les to | local authorities and other ageéncies, | to provide houses for the working ‘classes at reasonable rent: Mr, Long, president of the local government board, told a deputation that the plans actually before the board represented but a small beginning. He added: “It would be a black crime to let our soldiers come back from water- logged and horrible trenches to some- thing little better than a pig-sty.” He LU “ had told a_ deputatiorf representing the housing and town-planning con- gress some time ago that the 20,000, 000 pounds asked for by them should not represent even an index of what might be required. He emphasized that if the government came to the aid of the local authorities in the mat- ter, it must be' on liberal lines. He also said it was vital to the future of the race that there should be pro- vision for as many as possible in those districts in order to keep the land occupied. The move is one of many indicating that, in the estimation of the govern- - ment, nothing is to be too good for the men who helped in the war on their. return. It is a harbinger of the social revolution that has been so fre- qently predicted and which affects all classes, ) Omaha real estate is the best-fnvestment you could make. Read The Bee real estate columns. == | | | That old engine of mine jumped and | ---for ---for Misses & _-for { ==-for An exhibitionto be held in the Dress / i Section, Second Floor, | Tuesday, \the 31st of October, at 10 to 11 A. M..and 2 to 3 P. M. Showing {he modes :)f the moment for every hour of the day on . Living Models ! from simple street dresses and hats at little prices tumes by famous designers = with hats to correspond. -, You are invited Women Girls - Tiny Tots to elaborate cos- to be present and choose your apparel for the winter season. Burgess-Nash Company . | < and - 1tus Lowe e Congresman J, E, Meeker IWi“ Debate: | ; ~ “The Proposed Prohibitory - Amendment” TONIGHT—8 o'Clock At the AUDITORIUM Admission _, F ree—No Collections | N \