'I7IK M:K: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. DECEVUI: I? 191 1.
YPRES IS LEYELED
BY ARMORED TRAIN
Old and Magnificent City Doomed to
. Destruction When Kaiier Findi
He Cannot Enter It
UNITED STATES DREADNAUGHT MICHIGAN AGROUND It was stranded on tho
tail of the Horseshoe, near the lightship of Cape Henry on the Virginia coast. The Michi
gan is of 16,0C0 tons displacement, has a complement of 8G9 officers and men, and its
armament includes eight 12-inch guns and submerged torpedo tubes.
" : fcO rV : w t Xj-C.
PARIS WAR OFFICE REPORT
FrtHrk Official Statement Asserts
(iencral aitaatlon
Chanced Materially in
lst Few Days.
I'AMS. Dec. 1. The following official
tnlement innwd her tonight:
"A few detal1sbout ht haa occurred
. n the front from November 21 to Nowra
1 er t, inclusive:
The general altuatlon has not ma
terially changed In that period. Tha
enemy hna worked himself out In partial
' attacks, without reiult. .Our counter at
tack have Inflicted on him heavy losses
and have brought some gain to our
selves. From tha sea to tha tho attacks
of the enemy have been fntermltteut.
On the !M and I4th and the Kth the Ger
man artillery in general remained silent
Yprra Doomed.
"Tha old and magnificent city of Tprca
aa condemned to death cn the day when
the German emperor wss obliged to give
up all hope of entering It. The batteries
not, being sufficient for .that work of
destruction, tha enemy took to Houthem
n armored train on the 22d and d
'nder the guidance of a captive balloon.
This train kept up an Incessant tlra of
exploslvea and Incendiary shells. The
athedral belfry and the market build
inrs successively collapsed. On the even
ing of the '.3d the main square of the
city waa nothing more than a heap of
ruins.
"The firing was kept up continually in
order to prevent tha city from being
succored, but our sappers worked under
the ahella and saoeeeded In rescuing
many of the inhabitants, the city records
and a few pictures in the museum.
Gala' Hold oa Yaer.
"On the 84th and 15th we succeeded,
to the south of Dlxmude, in gaining a
foot hold', on the left bank of the Tear.
In spite of the enemy's fire our troops
held the ground without difficulty. .
"Further to the. south a French army
corps advanced 300 metres all along Its
front and haa held Its ground. The shells
of the German artillery, sometimes do not
burst properly. . Our . infantry, In com
parison with the infantry of the enemy,
are very spirited.- They captured on the
25th before Featobart, three machine
guns, a light howitzer, 160 men and three
officers
Itnattoa Very Goo.
"To sum up. our material and moral
altuation from the sea to the Lys la very
good. From the Uya to the Olse the.
enemy has not shown greater activity
than on the northern section. ' There waa
no attack by the infantry. Tfihe attack
by the artillery "were verjr intermittent
and were lacking . spirit. ' Ou artillery
during that week .maintained Its, advan
tage. .-.'
"On the J2d ear Jisavy 'gams" near" La
Basse silenced completely the fire of tho
German batteries. On the Uth'-ln the
same region the result waa, the same. . pn
the 35th we deatroyed .after onr - aero
planes had given us the range, two ma
chine guns. , " '' V
"Our Infantry haa gained brilliant. re
sults. It is to be noted. tha.cverjr d-
v a rice it manes la at uonca definitely
secure! by 'the establishment of en
trenchments. At Uevln on the 21st our
infantry brought to a head -an audacious
operation which had been prepared by
sapping.
lavade Geransm Treaeh '
"Our troops invaded a. German trench,
killed 200 of it's - occupants and Installed
themselves in: the trench, after having
burned. In front of it, two artillery ob
servation stands. .
''With reference .to the ) I strict from
the Olse to the Vosges: la this section.
' the enemyv in -his, statements, claims to
' have given proofs of the greatest activity
and to have gained moat of bia success,
in reality he has been a little more active
than In other- sections, except that be
never engaged more than one battalion
at a time. . .. , . ' .
"Aa regards the results, be obtained
none. ..On the contrary, our artillery
made aubatantlal gains.
. "Some ..of the Infantry actions are in
teresting;. to bote. On the ttd by a
magnificent defense, we maintained all
our positions lh the Argonne, ss well aa
at Aux Eparges, against four exceed
ingly fierce attacks. Also on the 23th
fn all other points, it was we who made
progress.
. Make mm Adraace.
"On the II t to the south of Four-De-Paria.
we made an advance; on the 24th,
one of 600 metres near Berry-Au-Bac;
another the aame day to the eaat of
Rhelmea and In the forest of Bolant, and
on tho 25th still another nesr Souarn.
"In, upper Alsace and m the Vosges, our
Alpine infantry has assumed a remark
able ascendancy over the enemy. Whan
they re confronted by the 'black devils'
the Germane do not leave their trenches.
We, have taken from them all those that
were Impeding us.
"In this region, as also In the vicinity
of St. MiheJ. our heavy artillery has
mado pearly impossible the victualling of
the enemy."
STORM NEW YORK REVENUE
OFFICE FOR WAR STAMPS
NEW TORK, Dei-. 1. A throng of more
than .10,W persons stormed the United
.Mates internal revenue offices In this
city today endeavoring to buy the new
war tax stamps that have to be affixed
to many documents and proprietary ar
ticles. Thousands who had to watt In
.He bocame so demonstrative that extra
police were called to keep them quiet.
Collector Anderson estimated that .eoO
;erons will have received tbe stamps
before night. ,
Because of the Inability of his clerical
force to handle the throng. Collector An
derson issued, a statement announcing a
lay in the war tax penalties "until such
time aa the office is able to handle
patrona promptly." .
The tact that the passengers on two
steamers sailing today for Europe had
engaged passage before the new law went
Into effect, prevented the government
from collecting 17.740 from them under
the new tax. The two vessels carried
2.U0 passengers who had paid more than
JUt each for their tickets and conee
luently wouM have been subject to a
war tax of W each.
Plages Crash wad Braised.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve gives sure relief
quickly heels sores, bruiaea. burns. 25c.
All druggists. Advertisement.
Bee Want Ads froeuoe Results.
V1
I 4! aV 1
'' S a V i
4
IS
Come and Hear
Aviator Smith
Tell you hII aliout lila, flying mi'
chine mid t lie srnsatlon of ridios
uiIJe dowQ and loopinK thft loo;
among the clouds,- Art. Sniltu
haa on our Third Floor. nr thf
Toy Section. Uip very machine In
w hit h b ht liceu flying ovci
Omaha.;
Mr. Smith Will Talk
Wednesday, Thursday
Between tbe Hours of
10 to 11 A. M. and 2 to 3
and 4 to 5 P. M.
On the Third Floor.
Tbe pes Tke
Stores K'tf'Jif Largest
With Ala Display
the diT-; T
Spirit vrrir )qs
B.in; the Children to
T0YLAND
THIRD FLOOR '
Realm
Childhood Jr
Where
Santa
CUu$
It
Kbjj
We hare the largest stock of
IMPORTED AUD :
DOMESTIC PERFUMES
and Toilet Articles
In the West, and
ALL AT CUT PRICES
Our Art Goods Section
On Thr ThrrfT IIoor
la a veritable iroU' nilue of' Idpai
ftr gift HeaujtlfI-ilv to be
embroidered. Kancjr'RIb'bfSn Novel
tloa. Opera Bae'a.t J WeeX-End
Ha gx. M 11 ff-1 lonqers. . J apanese
HaskPtP. Taney Vork.paketa and
thousands of other new and ex
clusive article.
Four Women to Every
Seven Men Engaged
in Professional Work
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. -if ore than
800,000 people, over 10 years of age were
engaged In professional pursuits In the
United States In 1910 than In laoft. accord
ing to figures today by the census bureau.
In 1H10 the number of persons engaged in
professional pursuits wse l.tS.UT. com
pared with l.ttt.MS In 1K. . .
Of .those, engaged In professional occu
pation in 1910, l.lri,70 were males and 673,
41S fomalea. This compares with KT7.M1
males and 430,597 females in 1900.
During the decade the proportion ot,
males decreased In the professions front
BS.s to 3.t per cent, while that of fenvilea
Increased from 84.8 to S. per cent. In
110 thre wore four women to every seven
men engaged in profesmonal service, a
larger proportion of. the women being
teachers.
6ome ot. the most noteworthy Increases
follow: .
Architects: M.-Oes, 110.5; females, .?.
Literary and scientific persons: . Males.
MM; females, 131 Actors: Males, K.s;
females, -88.1.
Fhe smallest Increase is in the number
ef lawyers, males being 6.1 and females
830.
Church Merger is
Declared Legal
J EFFERSON CITT. ' MoV: Dec. Ur-The
consolidation of the Presbyterian church
(north) and the Cumberland Presbyterian
church is valid, according to a decision
of tbe Missouri supreme court today.
The property of the Cumberland church
at Marshall. Mo., under the decision of
the court, becomes the property of the
Presbyterian church, regardless of the
fact that It was paid for by members of
the old Cumberland church.
The decision waa on a case appealed
from the circuit court at Marshall in
which the Cumberland church sought re
covery of Its old property, claiming that
the consolidation of the two branches of
the Presbyterian church was Illegal.
The supreme court ruled that civil
courts have no right to Interfere with
the decision of the highest tribunal of
the church In purely ecclesiastical af
fairs.
Charles Parks of
Mondamin Kills Wife
IX)OAN, Ia. bee. i. (Special Telegram.)
-Charles Parks, formerly of Kansas City,
but for some tlms workman on the Jor-
dene farm near Mondamin, ahot and killed
his wife at 8 o'clock this morning, . fol
lowing trouble over a letter. Parks noti
fied Sheriff Rock and a neighbor, and
shortly after the shooting came with his
neighbor to 'Logan and surrendered him
self, turning over his revolver and cart
ridges. He says he bought them in Omaha
yesterday for hia own protection. Parka
la cool and collected and declines to talk
other than that he admita the shooting
and says that the letter tamed over to
tbe officers explains the cause. The con
tents of the letter have not been made
public. There are two amall children.
Von Moltke Better
and Back at Front
AMSTERDAM. Dec. 1. (Via London)-
Ueutenant General Count von Moltke.
aays a Berlin dispatch to the Telegraaf,
has recovered his health and la return.
Ing to the .front. ,
Count von Moltke had been 111 for sev
eral weeks, during wh'.rh time various
reports concerning him were circulated.
It waa said he had been aurceadad as
chief of the'.Jerman general ataff . by
Major General Fnlkenhayn. Tma report,
however, was not confirmed, it being
aaid In Berlin that General Palkenhayn
waa merely acting aa chief of staff dur
ing tha illness of General von Moltke.
J. Borden Harriman .
of New York is Dead
Hanrlman or New York died tire today
ttfter lingering III new.
Hundred and Eleven
Hunters of Big Game
Killed, 162 Injured
vn
CHICAGO, Dec. 1 One hundred and
eleven dead and 163 Injured Is the hunt
ing toll in seventeen states and Ontario,
Canada, for the season which ended yes
terday aa compared with US dead and 128
Injured a year ago. Int year'a statistics
were gathered from twenty-one states.
Wisconsin, and Michigan furnish the
greatest number of casualties, the former
with- a total of thirty-three doa and
thirty-all wounded, and he latter
with twenty-seven dead, and forty-two
wounded.
Accidental dlaohargee of guna claimed
thirty-five vlctlnie, twenty-four men
were ahot for game, dragged guna ac
counted for twelve, and the remainder
slipped and fell, were cleaning guns or
wore drowned, eight meeting death by
tbe last named way.
ftp.rTTian Serves for
Weeks With British
Army on Continent
LONDON. Dec. l:-8legfried Schneider,
a German, startled the officials and spec
tators at the Bow Street police court to
day by calmly admitting that be had
eerved for some time in the British army
. . . hkl everybody in the Red
111 A I n'J. .'"- -
tross ortw to which he-wee attached
waa ivarv i
The prisoner waa dreased in the regu
lation khaki uniform. The charge agalnat
him is that he failed to reglater as an
alien and traveled more than five miles
without a permit. He waa arrested at the
general military hospital in Boulogne,
where be was serving aa a member of the
staff, under the name of Frederick
Taylor.
Neutral Zone Up to
the Belligerents
WASHINGTON, Deo. 1. Eatabllahment
of nuetral aone for shipping in the weat
em hemisphere, as proposed by several
South American countries, must be en
tirely voluntary on the part of the Eu
ropean belligerents, in the view of Presi
dent Wilson. He told callers today he
had dlacuased the question briefly wfch
Secretary Bryan and Acting Secretary
Lansing of the State department, but no
conclusion had been reached.
The American countrlea naturally would
have no control of the waters outsids of
the threc-mlle limit bordering on1 their
territory, the president said, and could
place no restrictions on the operations of
the fleets of other nationa except within
the three-mile limit.
New York Gunmen
Kill Each Other
NEW YORK. Dec. 1. Two gunmen,
leaders of rival gasga, fought a revolver
duel to death on the utreet In the con
gested foreign quarter of Brooklyn last
night. The men met by chance and one
accused the other of being a "sqiiealer."
Then guns were drawn. So deadly waa
the aim of the duelists that none of the
aeven shots fired went wild. One man
received four bullets In his body aod the
other three. Last Wednesday in this
same precinct. Frank Defonle, an Italian
merchant, was killed by gangsters.
Canadians to Slow
Up Liquor Traffic
WINN1PKG. Man.. Dec. l.-rremler Kir
Rodmond Roblln announces In a long
statement that the Manitoba government
has decided to take drastic action In cur
tailing the liquor traffic during the wrr
period. The forthcoming session of the
legislature 'will be asked to pass a gov
ernment bill giving municipalities the
light" to limit by a majority vote tho
number of licenses, and a clause will h.i
Inserted giving the government special
powers to curtail the hours at which
liquor may be sold In times of public
stress.
While the government hss not these
powers now it proposes to Invite sll re
tall liquor dealers In the province, as
Well as social clubs, to close bars and
the sale ot liquor at 7 o'clock in the even
ing Instead of 11 as at pres-nt. and the
wholesalers to' close at o'clock. ,As the
government controls the licenses. It Is
thus practical ,y certain that early clos
ing of the bars will be come general
throughout the province Immediately.
We have bought an Immense Stock of Women's and
Misses' High Grade Coats, Suits, Dresses and Furs from a
New York manufacturer who was hard pressed for ready
cash and made us an extraordinary price concession
. Tho jfooiis aro on tho way and as n"h as posiMo tliry .
will ffo on Bale at values that will be really astonishing.
Watch the papers nml our windows for further particulars.
flvrt
BOOKS
Give Books This Christmas,
and Do Your Christmas
Buying Now.
' Hooks are inexpensive ami
when happily chosen become
treasured possessions which
never fail to awaken pleas
nut memories of their givers.
is very easy to make
a happy selection from the
largest stock in the west
with the help of oar ex
pert salespeople.
Rich Laces, Trimihings Etc. 'jj
Actual
Values
Famoua New York Dretmakr A
Import ert' Stocks Bouehtat About
We could not brxln to quote all of the remarkable, bargain i ,
that came to tin In then purchased. It is a ale that verjr woman
ouRht to attend for yoii cannot bu then fine material, regularly
for Iom than double, ilrone sale prlcea. JnH a few examples: t
Talaee ' o
$l.t far
Blaok and White Chantuly noanotngs Fleautlfut new de-'
slans. IR and 27 In "lies wide
Bmbrotdered tt Top jriouaclngs Plack and whits. Splen
did line 1 to 54 Inches wl'le
rurored Bllkv Chiffons Tor Waists Beautiful colors. 4Z
Indies "wtrle. Kirfv itvl
Blak Ilk, Allov, Hets-1 3 tnrhna wide
Original Designs In Oriental Tlounclngs Whits and cream.
12 tit il ii hea wine. .
rtjursd lists 42 Inches wlilr.
Blaok BUk Polka Dot and.
t,mn (iiiHlliy
ilk JCbantUiy and Shadow tare Tlounelngs Willie,
w Pie
iiid flcsli.
black
. s
7S Inches
mid crenm. .12 'to. 3' Inches
plesdld.Btrona; Sdning Hsts Wlilte s
.wide. : -
Krai Irish Xca Xdgss and Insertions, to 2 Ins. wide. . .
All X.laea Cluny Xrftee Bdgss and Insertion to 4 inches
Wide . .', . .,.., , . i ,
All xanen rllat Sdges and Insertions 2 to t Inches wide.
allies up Ho vuc a vara
98c
Tard
Talaee as
B1.SO fo
59c
Tard .
35c
Tard
A nw Idea the efoeAs
bulldog hmndlm, with sztra
weight, different grip, sal-'
ance and swlnf to the
stroke. Equally welcotne :
to new Gillette user and
old. Triple Silver-plated
Rasor, and two Blade
Boxes with 12 double'
edged GUlette Bladsa (.34
enernrf eo'g'es). Cass
and Blade Boxes el ir
Oray Antlsjn W
teather.
With Gold Rasor, (S. x
w.- J , s-i-..
FORMER IOWA FARMER DIES
- IN BUZZARD IN CANADA
l fA S.X .'V
m a. X. w
tit
fa.
KNOWN THE
w i swur MM VMlMWMm , v si ai . 1 . UatJ
u ry w ' jsasy
.'aT
f -Tia.'
1ST .
i
n a -
' lT -
' .'IT
.
. JO j'
WORLD OVER
ae''
ohv
. 1
K1DNKT, Is-. Ueo. 1. Bpial )-
ton C'Hirtls, a former resident of Thurmarx.
la., lost hla Ufa In a Canada brlazard.
Jlr,'' .Curtis left Thurnian several weks ;
ago for Canada, where he owns a farm.
While .out at work be got lost, in a bill
iard and waa not found until the next
day, and ha died from the effects of the
cold. Ills fauiHy recently left Thurman
to Join him in the Canada home, and ar
rived there Just In time to ae the hus
band and father before hla death.
evea Hart 1st Aato Collision.
YANKTON, 8. D. Dec. 1. (Special.)
In head-on collision here between the
cars of Conrad Madaon and Ernest ls!I
seven people were more or less shaken
up and Elsie Madson, aged U years, is In
a doctor's care with a very badly cut
faoa, the nose especially being very seri
ously cot. Two miles north of Yank inn
a cow crossed In front of the csrs as they
nee red each other. The Isell car In dodg
ing the row ran Into the Madson car ami
both aulos were reks In a moment.
HENEY FILES CAMPAIGN
ACCOUNT AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1-Francls Hen y,
progressive candidate for '.'nttid r-ta'es
senator. In California, filed his fln.il ca
pons account today, ' showing contribu
tion of fl2,KC and rspcnUltures of M.iSOi
. . .ij
Tus Day at Shenandoah.
SHBNANIMJAH. la., rec. 1. -(Special.)
-In tha first tag day tl at waa evet held
In Shenandoah Katuiday, the f(rty-aix
women workers rsined $21.43 for the city
t.nrpltal fund. It a a novel eirxrienre
to many of the people of the ton never
having been ,t!,l" before, but they
j'took Kindly to tuo l.lca.
WONDERFUL how muck can be expressed
by a well chosen gift! For a man, jwhat
more in keeping than a Gillette Safety Razor?
It is a world-wide success. Efficient. 1 Practical.
The quality gift Stands for the things that the
right land of man is daily trying to live up to.
' Dealers all over this city. Buy where the chok is good
Find exactly the set you' want for him at $5 to $50.
GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY. BOSTON
.ii
"ih'.-r
if'
VI 1
-A 1
..... . i . .ii