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Omttt, toft. 30 to Oct. 10.
Xleetrloal Faraae, October 7.
Fraternity Parade. Ootobar .
Coronation Ball, Ooteber .
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1914 AK-SAR-BEN
TO OPEN TODAY;
KINGDOM READY
Arrival of Noon to Mark Beginning:
of Celebration Preliminary
to Coronation.
GLORY OF MONARCH IS THEME
Greater and Grander Festival Than
Any in Past History Prepared
for Thii Year.
GREAT PARADE WEDNESDAY EVE
Plaza of Pleasure, Filled with Mar
vels, Thrown Open When
Noon Arrives.
CORONATION IS FRIDAY EVENING
Spectacular Performances of Bea-
chey Will Thrill Big: Crowds.
PIONEERS TO PLAY LARGE PART
Two Booms in C'oart Hoame Con.
verted Into Sliinin, Whfre Rare
Collection of Xfbrulu A n
flqnea ta Installed.
Dates of Interval.
' Electrical Farads, Wednesday
October T.
Fratarnal parada, Thursday afternoon,
October 8.
Coronation ball, Friday evening, Oo
tober .
Homecoming waak, Ootobar 5 to 10.
Territorial Pioneers Ke union, Septem
ber 30 to Ootobar 3.
In preparation for the coming of his
majesty. King- Ak-Sur-Iien XX, ruler of
the kingdom of Qulvera, this city of
Cibola, greatest i nthe realm, will open
thla fall festival' at noon today. Joyous
celebration will precede the entry of the
monarch into Ms capital city and when
the glorious hour of his advent arrives
next Friday evening he will appear in
splendor and magnificence.
Prosperity and happineaa hav been -na.-
lot or tno miuiona or. loyai uuj
monarch Oils year, so they will herald his I
icemlng accordingly. The featival pre- J
pared for him Is greater and grander
than any of those which have greeted
rulers ot Qulvera before.
Gates of Plaaa Tktona Oara.
Promptly at noon today tlie gates will
be thrown open at the wonderful Plaza
ef Pleasure, the carnival or King's High
way prepared for Royal Ak-Bar-Ben's
welcome. Each day until after his coro
nation as the twentieth ruler of the realm,
tils loyal subjects will make merry there.
On the plasa lying between Sixteenth
and Twentieth streets and centering on
Howard street, dozens of attractions, dis
plays, shows and amusements have Been
gathered. They present in clfncrete form
the wealth and industry of the state, at
tractions from all parts ot the world and
entertainment without limit in qauntlty
or variety.
Nor is the Plaza the only place of
beauty and attraction In the city,
Qulvera' s gateway. Throughout the busi
ness section, the red, green and yellow of
Ak-Sar-Ben ador.is the streets in the
form of tuwa. hunting . und streamers
Thousands if t ole red liguti along the
principal tho.'3iirhfares will make the
king's metropo' bright as night.
As the days pass during the festival
of the king's corning, special events will
occur. The. grand electrical pageant,
bringing the king into the city, will be
held next Wednesday night, and on the
afternoon following, the parade ot
fraternal orders will pass through the
streets. The elaboratee coronation cere
mony and the brilliant ball at the Ak-War-Ben
Den will be Friday evening of
next week.
During th festival, two other big gath
erings will take place. The reunion of
Nebraska's tertrtorlal pioneers will be
held during the same days ss the Ak-
Sar-Bcn festival, and the last six days ,
of the latter will also be home coming 1
week for many former Omahans and Ne
braskans, who will gather here to visit,
renew acquaintances and take advantage
of the attractions and activities of Ak-Bar-Ben.
Kins; of the. Air Here.
Without any other features of the Im
mense assembly of attractions, the thrill
ing and spectacular performances of Lin
coln Beachey, king of the air, In his big
uipiane, will be worth traveling many j
miles and paying much money to see. 1
But his tunts will be absolutely tre to all. j
being performed high above tha curnivai i
grounds.
Actually flying in the face of provi-
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The Weather
Forecaat till 7 p. m. Wednesday:
For Omaha. Council Bluffs and Vicinity
Fair tonight and Wednesday; somewhat
cooler tonight.
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TYPES OF WAR PRISONERS AT THE GERMAN V
has been gathering something
way of prisoners of war taken
English soldiers and on the
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BRITON WOUNDED
IN DUEL IN AIR
Aviator Succeeds in Landing After
Being Shot by German.
STATEMENT BY WAR OFFICE
Further Deaerlprto of Operations
Lt Week Alons; Line of Hattle
la Xorthwentrta -Krance i
LONDON. Bept. 29. (3:18 p. m.) The of
ficial press bureau today gave out a
statement, ' which says:
"The following descriptive account,
which has been communicated by an eye
witness at present with the general head
quarters, continues and supplements the
narrative published yesterday of the
movement of the Brltlfh force and of
t Vi t Vmnrh nrmUi In fmmpillnt tnlleh
with it. !
"Wednesday, September 23, was a per
fect autumn day. It passed without in
cident as regards major operations. Al
though the enemy concentrated its heavy
artillery on the plateau near Passy, noth
ing more than Inconvenience was caused.
"The welcome absence of wind gave our
airmen a chance, where they took full
advantage by gathering much Informa
tion. Unfortunately one of our aviators
who had been particularly active in an
noying the enemy by dropping bombs,
was wounded in the air. Being alone on
a single seated monoplaue, he was not
able to use hta rifle, and while circling
above a German two-seated machine In
an endeavor to get within pistol shot, lie
was hit by the observer of the German
machine, who was armed with a rifle.
He managed te fly back over our lines
and by great good luck he descended to
a motor ambulance, which at once con
veyed him to a hospital.
Bomb Dropped Among: Horses.
"Against this may be set off the fact
that another of our flyers exploded a
bomb arnong some artillery horses, killing
several and stampeding others.
"On Thursday, September 24, the fine
weather continued, as did the lull in the
action, the heavy German shells falling
mostly near Targnan, twelve miles south
east of Laon.
"On both Wednesday anoTThursday the
weather was eo fine that many flights
were made by the aviators French, Brit
ish and German. These produce a corre
siionding activity among the anti-air
craft guns. So still and clear was the air
towards evening on Wednesday and dur
ing the whole of Thursday thyt to those
not especially on the lookout, the presence
of aeroplanes high up above them was
first made known by th bursting of the
projectiles aimed at them. The puffs of
smoke from the detonation shell hung in
the air for minutes like balls of fleecy
cotton or wool before they slowly ex
panded and were dissipated.
"From the placea mentioned as being
the chief targets for .the enemy's heavy
how User, it will be seen that ths Ger
mans are now Inclined U concentrate
their fire systematically onNjeflnite areas
in which their aviators think they have
located our guns or on villages where It
is Imagined our troops may be billeted.
The result will be to give work to local
builders.
Battle Hearsnblea Hlege.
"The growing resemblance of this bat
tle to siege warfare already has been
pointed out. The fact that the later
actions of the Russo-Japanaae war as
sumed a similar character was thought
by many to have been due to exceptional
causes, such as the narrowness of the
theater, operi.tlons between the Chi
nese ffuntler on the west and the moun
tainous country of northern Korea on
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Promise of Autonomy to Poland
is Revoked, Says Berlin Statement
BERLIN. epl. 25.-(Vla Wireless to
Saville, 1.. I.) The German report on the
sinking In the North Sea of the British
cruisers AbouVlr, Cressy and Hogue by
the German submarine V-9 declares thst
the entire engagement lasted one hour.
The brltlsh cruisers did not fire a single
shot. Contrary to ' English reports the
V-9 Was alone in this engagement The
, British ..destroyer cTTased flie"T7-9 unlit
( darkness fell, but were not successful In
catching it.
News ha been given out that the Ger
man cruiser Kmden, after sinking five
UrltlHh merchant steamers in the Gulf
CZAR'S FORCES
' ENTERHUNGARY
Official Communication from Buda
pest Says Enemy Has Succeeded
in Penerating Ung District
GALICIA IS PRACTICALLY CLEAR
Sorrtea by tiarrlaoa of Prsemyal Are
I naaceeaaf ul and Many Prla
oners Fall Into Hands of
the Rasalana.
LONDON, Sept. 29. An official
communication Issued at Budapest,
according to a Rome dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company, ad
mits that the Russians have suc
ceeded in crossing the Hungarian
frontier at BOveral points in the Ung
district, despite the fact that rein
forcements have been sent against
them.
Ung is a county in the northeast
ern part of Hungary.
allel Nearl Clear of Auetrlaae.
LONDON. Kept. 2.-A Petrograd dis
patch to the Reuters Telegram company
states thst an army messenger has an
nounced that the Russians have almost
completely cleared Galicla of the enemy,
who has taken refuge In the passes of
the Carpathian mountains. The same
source confirms the reports of the pro
gressive destruction of the Austrian
army. -
An eye witness states that two German
army corps took part In the battle of
Jaroalau. According to the same dispatch,
Ruasians had to take moat of the ene
my's trenches at the point of the bayonet,
(rraisii I'ae BIsT (sane.
PETROGRAD, Bept. .-The following
official communication from the chief of
the general staff, regarding the Russian
operations, has been given out here.
"Ruealan troepa are driving fast on
the offense in the forests of Agutstow In
Russian Poland, province of Buwalkl.
(Continued on Page Two. Column Four.)
French Deny the
Sinking of Warship
by Forts of Cattaro
WASHINGTON, Hept 29. -Official de
nial of the ainklng of a Franc, h warship
by the Austrian forts at Cattaro was
made today by the French admlrallty,
through the embassy here.
The French secretary for ths navy has
made known that this news Is entirely
false and theie is nothing to Justify such
report. "Cp to dste (September is), no
French warship has been touched by sn
Austrian projectile, - snia the admiralty
statement whli h attributed the report to
the Cologne CiSKvty:.
ENTRATION CAMP AT DOBERITZ The German army
he Concentration Camp at
ias encountered in battle. On
have been captured
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aw
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of Bengal, destroyed naval nil tank
steamers st Madras.
Other Information malTepubllc In Ber
lin declares that the commander-in-chief
of the Russian forces (Grand Duke Nich
olas) has revoked the government's prom
ise of autonomy for Poland, giving as
his reason the fact that the Polish rifle
men fought on the Austrian side In the
battle of ( Lemberg. It is explained by
the caranandr4n.TChlef .that , a . pollehJ
constitution waa to be granted only under
the condition that all Poles were loyal. J
tlon that Emperor Nicholas' manifesto
to the Poles was worthless because It
was given out without his signature.
STEAM ROLLER OF
RUSS THREATENS
German General Staff Realizes
Must Win in West Now to Pay
Attention to the East.
it
NOW UP TO THE INFANTRYMEN
If Groins la Won the Snceeaa Will
Be Doe. to the Men ha Foot
Honkers la the French
Line Pierced.
LONDON, Sept '29. In his review of
the situation of the battle In northern
France the Paris correspondent of the
Times says:
"The German center still holds strongly.
In fact It seems clear, as pointed out by
Colonel Rousset, the military critic of
the IJberte, that the Germans have re
ceived orders to break through the French
line anywhere and at any coat. Tho
Russian ateam roller has come too close
to be any longer disregarded and it is
felt by the Germao general staff that a
decisive success must be won against the
allies In the western theater of war in
order that Germany may be able to turn
Its attention, with soma assurances, to
the victorious advance of the Russians.
Ilealataare la Kwrlona.
"The enemy continues to fight with
great fury at certain points of the line,
though the action Is generally less in
tense along the Immense battle front. A
narrow strip of territory, which they
succeeded in gaining as the result of
violent attacks, was Immediately rewon
by the allies, who captured cannon, pris
oners and flags.
"The French left continues to make
progress. On the other hand the Germans
have attained lio appreciable advantage
from their success on the heights of the
Meuae. The breach they made la too
narrow to permit of the paesage of the
Meuae by forces In sufficient numbers.
"Nothing decisive hss yet occurred, bgt
the scanty newa available ia certainly to
the advantage of the allies rather than to
th enemy. The furioua battle of the
Alsne is a soldiers' battle in the sense
that if ground Is won the final victory
must be attained by the courage and
tenacity of the Infantry. On no point
along the gigantic line has the Anglo
Fren;h Wall been pierced."
Price of Mileage
Books Increases
WASHINGTON. St. 2.-Increases of!
one quarter cent per mile In the cost or
railway mileage books will become ef
fective on October J. The tariffs pro
posing an advance will not be suspended
by the Interstate commerce, but may be
investigated later iute feffecUt.
pm
3
Doberitz, near Berlin, in the
the left-is shown a group of
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MAN ARE CRUSHED
IN TUBEJISASTER
Three Collision! df Subway and Sur
face Cars in North Side of
Manhattan Island.
TRAFFIC IS BADLY CONGESTED
Terns of Thooaanrts Are DrlwyeO on
Wr o work Smoke Povri
from getaway for Dlatnaee
of Tea Blorka.
NEW YORK, 8ept. 29. Three collisions
of subway and surfaca cars sent eighteen
persons, more than half of them' women,
to hospitals today. Two of the injured
were said to be mortally hurt.
Four persons were Injured in a crash
between subway trains at One Hundred
and Forty-second and Lexington Avenue.
The subway was blocked snd tens of
thousands of persons were delayed on
their Way to work.
Mis Persons 'Victims.
Six persons were the victims of a col
lision between surface cam In the center
of the One Hundred and Forty-fith street
bridge over the Harlem river. One car
that had been struck, deeterted by crew
and passengers and not held by Its brake.
then shot down the Incline of tho bridge
and crushed another trolley car at the
end of the bridge.
ICight more persons were later taken
to hospital as the result of thla accident.
The traffic congestion that followed
the collision In tho subway was the worst
in the history of the city. At several
stations more than 6,0K persons crowded
on the platforms snd thnee nearest the
rails were forced entirely off snd. In
some cases, walked along the tracks be
tween stations In nerll-jus proximity to
the deadly third rail. Surface cars were
crowded till passengers sat In tho win
dows. Milk wagons, trucks and delivery
carts of all descriptions were hired by
the thousands waiting to get down town,
and a y-ily stream of these vehicles,
laden to overflowing with men and
women, rolled south through the chief
thoroughfares during the early af lei noon.
Fire Adda to Difficulty.
VAddlng to the difficulties of the situa
tion was the stubborn fire that blazed
up when the trains crashed. For ten
blocks along I-enox avenue every man
hole belched billows of black smoke.
Firemen tried to fight the blase by plac
ing their hose through these thirty-Inch
openings, but made little headway. The
underground fire raged fiercely fur more
than two hours.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT CLASSES
AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Classes in civil government and hlhtory.
Intended especially for foreign born resi
dents who are preparing to take citizen
ship examinations, will be started at the
public library Friday evening. The course
of Instruction has been conducted free
each year by the library board and proves
a great help to would-be citizens. Meet
ings will be held weekly on Friday eve
nlngs at 7:90 o'clock.
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War Summary
The terrific batt, now In Its
eighteenth day, In the Aisne dis
trict, to tho north of 1'arlH. ton-
tlniiea to rage, but lis violence 1
generally held to portend a de
cisive result in the near future.
Furious hand-to-hand fighting la
going on and the losses to both
the allied and Oertnan armies are
enormous.
Several times the (lernians have
UmI their innssed troops gainst
the French left win, but In ev
ery case they were repulsed, ac-
tirdliig to the official statement
Issued by the French war depart
ment this afternoon.
In tln tenter, It Is asserted, a
;'.y cannonading is going on
u! tU-'.i between the Argonne
forest and the river Mense the
allies have made some progress.
The Herman general staff, Ber
lin advices say, claims that the
sit unt inn on French soil has not
changed nnd It Is emphatically
denied that the hattle at any
point of the line is going In favor
of the allies.
(ialiria has been almost cleared
of Austrian, according to an an
nouncement at Petrograd, and
the Russians, crossing the Car
pathian mountains, have entered
Hungary and are driving hark
'lie Austrian reinforcements sent
v, against them. The Invaders
wept across the mountains Into
- -r ,,,. district, which Is
ahout 180 miles northwest of
.mlnnest, the Hungarian capital.
Germans estimated to number
1. ".0,000 are reported from Uot-
tiIiuii to be preparing for a siege
of the Belgian fortress of Ant-
iverp.
The Japanese are drawing the
nllltary cordon rloHer around the
German territory of Klao Chow,
In the Chinese province of Shan
i'ung. An official Japanese state
ment today announces that ' the
Japanese are driving the Ger
mans toward Tslng Tau and that
'he Japanese fleet, aided by the
army, haa bombarded the litis
"o.'t.
- Russia nag extended the sus
pension of specie payments for
another month.
Austria Denies
Report of Russian
Victory at Galicia
HF.RL1N, Sept. 29.-(Via Wireless to
Hay villa.) Information given out In Ber
lin today declares that tho Austrian gov
ernment under date of yesterday denied
Kusalan successes near the fortress of
I'rzemysl. It Is further declared that the
situation "on the River Have la unchanged.
Attention is called here to the Dally
Citizen, a workman's paper published In
London, which criticises Great Britain
sharply for accepting help from Japan In
the present war. This paper, It Is said,
predicts unfortunate oonsequenoes for
Australia and America from this move
snd says that 100.090 Japanese are ready
to embark for India.
Berlin newspapers have expressed ap
preciation of the protest of Lord Bel
borne, former British colonial secretary,
against what are characterised as the un
true reports of German atrocities, pub
lished In the London Times.
Seven members of the'Krupp firm, now
in the war cone, have been decorated
with the medal of the iron Cross for the
splendid work of the Krupp howltsers.
''
Britons and Germans
Begin Exchanging
Lists oi Prisoners
LONDON, Sept. 29 The British and
German governinenta have begun ex
changing lists of prisoners of war. This
Is being done through Walter 11. I'age,
the American ambassador In Ixjiulon, and
is preparatory to arranging an actual
exchange of prisoners.
The first lists passed through the
American einbusxy today. They were
not very extended, but additional lints
are expected shortly. I'p to the present
time thoxe exchanges have been arranged
only for women and children and men
over EU years or less than IH years old, or
those physically disabled.
The war office promises a epeedy pub
lication of the, liata of English prisoner
in Germany to relieve the anxiety of rel
atives. Italians Warned to
Keep Out of Armies
of Nations at War
ROM K. Sept. . (Via Paris, 4:lu p. in.)
The Official Uaxette haa published a
warning Issued by the government -.o
Italians who have taken or Intend to take
service In the army of any country now
at war.
This action is against neutrality and
punishable under article 13 of the penal
code with from five to ten years In prison,
or sixteen years In case Italy becomes
Involved. Article 13 also deprives any
Italian who engagea in military aervlce
abroad of hia Italian cltlacnahlp without
exempting him from military duty at
home,
END MAY BE NEAR
OF THE TITANIC .
BATTLEOFAISNE
All Indications Point to an Ap
proaching Finish After Eigh-
teen Days' Battle.
FIGH.TTN0 IS HAND-TO-HAUD
With Such Fury is the Mighty Con
test Wag-in; that Issue Slay
Soon Be Decided.
HUMAN BARRIER IS INTACT
British and French Armies Consist-
ently Throw Back Masses of
Attacking Germans.
LOSS
COMBAT IS C0LL0SSAL
Gruesome
Picture of Thousands
Lying- in Fire-Swept Zone.
RUSSIANS SECURE A FOOTHOLD
Now Seems Certain They Have
Crossed llnnsrarlan Frontier la
, Considerable Stre.agta, with
Ko Farts Now Ahead.
BIXIRTIN.
LONDON, Sept. 30. A Paris dia-
patch to the Exchango Telegraph
company says: "I tls stated here to
night (Tuesday) that tha German
right has been entlre'y broken and
la now being pursued by the allies.
All the automobiles in northern
France have been requisitioned for
the purpose of pursuit.
BILLETIN.
PARIS, sept. 29. Tha French
official communication Issued to
night aaya: "
"There la nothing new In the sit
uation."
OIXLUTIN,
. LONDON, Sept. 8. ( 3 :' 2 pi ji J
In, a dinpatch from Antwerp the
correspondent of the Evening Newa
aaya the aliening of Mallnes, Bel
glum, by the Germans continued
throughout last night. Moat of tha
streets are encumbered with the
wreckage of burned buildings.
Cardinal Mercler left Mallnes at
6:30 yesterday evening. The few
remaining Inhabitants also Isft the
city yesterday.
LONDON, Sept. 2. The eigh
teenth day of the battle of the Alsne
thus far haa brought no decisive re
sult, but all Indications continue to
point to an approaching end of the
Homeric struggle.. Hand to . hand,
fighting, now raging with aucn fury,
la bound, It ia generally held, to de
cide the Inane.
Meanwhile, the fog which the
French official report yesterday an
nounced, had prevented operation!
in the Woevra district, "covers meta
phorically the rest of "the long baN
tie line.
All that the publio Is permitted to know
from the allied side is that so far the
British and French armies have held
their grip on their positions and have
consistently thrown back the masses of
Germans who have been bravely and in
cessantly hurled on them in an effort to
break through tha human barrier.
In Berlin It Is asserted that there has
been no change In the situation, and
that the scales have turned slightly la '
their fsvor is stoutly denied.
The losses of the opposing smiles in the
last few days of the combat have been
colossal. Kven the official reports con
tain a gruesome picture of thousanda of
dead and wounded lying In the fire
swept gone between the two armies, and
(Continued on Page Two, Column One
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