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Daily Bee IHreot from th Battle Arm. The Bee. Real War Photos Beat of Thetu All. HE THE WEATHER. Fair VOL. XhV NO. 208, OMAHA, TUESDAY MOHN1NO, FKBKUAHY ' 1C, 1915 TWELVE PAGKS. 7Tw.'tltdV SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. total P1W Omaha LIVESTOCK PLAGUE BAN EXTENDED TO THE MISSISSIPPI Federal Government Foot and Month Quarantine Over United States Start hof Tennessee and East of River. IS MADE A RESTRICTED AREA No Shipments South or West Except for Slaughter Within Forty Eight Honrs. FEW MODIFICATIONS OF ORDER WASHINGTON, Feb. IB. Foot and mouth, disease quarantine regu lations were extended by the Depart ment of Agriculture today bo as to Include all the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Tennes see In a restricted area out of which no shipments of live stock, except for slaughter within forty-eight hours, will be permitted south or west. All of the treat slaughtering center are located In the restricted territory, and there la little shipping of live cattle out ot It, but the new order waa deemed necessary to protect the stock producing sections from Infection. Two New Rmlea Added. Two Important new regulations were added today, one defining "Iramediote slaughter." as used In existing orders, as "within forty-eight hours," and another prohibiting the transportation ot live stock In any part of the United States after February 17 except in disinfected cars. Owing to the fact that few or no cases of foot and month disease have been found la Vlrglnio, West Virginia, Ver mont, Maine and the District of Co lumbia, stock owners In these Jurisdic tions will be permitted under the revised regulations to ship out stock upon affi davit that It has been on their farms for a certain length of time and has not been exposed to any risk of contagion. Statement of Bsress. A statement Issued tonight by the de partment said: "The recent discovery of a few cases where cattle, shipped from areas where the disease had existed, carried it to previously uninfected sections, such as four oountles In Kansas, convinced the department that no precautions will make such shipments absolutely safe. The new measure, it Is said, should confine the disease to the regions In which it haa already made its' appearance and In which It haa already made tta appearance, and In which the work of eradicating It will be pushed aa before. "In this restricted territory live stock may be moved freely to other points within" the same territory, but con not pass beyondr jhe ' Hmlta of. the. fluarane tinea area, except for immediate slaughter. The regulations governing the are known respectively aa closed,, ex posed aad modified, remain practically the same aa before." Twenty-Three . Americans Hurt ' in Panama Riot WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. One Panama policeman waa killed and twenty-five persona, twenty-three of them Americans, wero wounded in the carnival riot at Panama. Saturday night. Major General Wood today forwarded to Secretary Garrison this report of Brigadier General Edwards, in command of the cone forces: "In a carnival riot at Panma City, be tween Panamanians, soldiers and Ameri cana, twenty-three Americans were .wounded, two from gunshot wounds. One Panama policeman was killed and two wounded," General Edward also reported that he waa Investigating with Panama official and that It was hard to fix the blame. Sarah Bernhardt Taken to Hospital BORDEAUX, Feb. 6.-Sarah Bernhardt, suffering Intensely from an injury to her right knee, was brought to a hospital here today from Arcachon. There haa been no operation yet, A consultation of doctors la to take place today and It is still hoped that an amputation will not be necessary. The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Tuesday: For Omaha, Council Blaria and Vicinity Fair; warmer. Tcnntirra at uml Yesterday. Hour. Dear. It. m Si 0 a. m m 7 a. m 3a 8 a. m 25 a. m 26 10 a. m M V a. m 27 12 m 28 1 p. m U Id. ni il 3 V. m 30 4 u. m :il 5 p. m 30 p. in 28 7 p. m 2S Comparative Local Reoord. " . . . , , SMi. Wl. 1911. 11 Highest yesterday SI 41 ig aa lowest yesterday....... 85 12 8t 19 Mean temperature 28 2i 43 27 Precipitation ; T .00 .01) ot Temperature and precipitation depar tures from the normal: , Normal temperature 34 Kxoess for ttie diy 4 Total soefs since March 1...., 68tf Normal preclpltitlon 02 inch lef lclencv for the day 02 Inch Total rainfall since March 1.... 28. 83 inches .Deficiency since March 1 1.66 Invhes Deficiency for cor. period. 1911.. 6 83 Inches Deficiency for cr. f erlod, 1S12.. 4.J4 inches Reports froa itatlas at T P. sf . Station and UC . Temp. High- Raln nt Weather. 7 p. m. est fall. Cheyenne, clear SS 42 .00 Davenport, clear :0 S4 .(4 Denver, clear 44 48 .Or) North Platte, clnar 32 4o .oj Omaha, clear 28 31 T Slow City, clear 22 tt .ot Z Indicates trace of precipitation. U WELSH. Local Forecaster. HEIR TO AUSTRIA'S THRONE VISITS KAISER Francis Joseph (with sword), nephew of the emperor of Austria, as he appeared on the occasion of his recent visit to Berlin. . s r- It x L 1T It ,j i i ! P it XW 111 v " w 4 ' PREACHERS WOULD CONYERT DAHLMAH Omaha Ministerial .pinion Suggests Mayor Be' ConTert'ed During the Billy Sunday Revival. : - . ' " WOULD J SAVE '"50,000 OMAHA NS Mayor Dahlman is going to be con verted by Omaha ministers during the Billy Sunday revival campaign next fall if the preachers have their way. At the monthly meeting of the Ministerial - Union at the Young Men's Christian association . prayers were said for the conversion of the mayor. ,..'.;... "Let us make prayer lists of 10, 000 or more Omaha people whom we want to convert during Sunday's cam paign, and let's head the list with Mayor Dahlman," Rev. A. B. Mar shall, president "of the Presbyterian Theological seminary, urged ' during an address. - During the prayer service that closed the meeting several fervent prayers were uttered for the evangelization of the city's chief executive, the ministers read ily taking up the suggestion that they capture Omaha for Billy Sunday by first converting, tho mayor. . , . , "There are 60,0110 adult people In Omaha who are not Christians," Dr. Marshall de- i c!ared In his talk. "We should bring them 'all to the faith' when Billy Hunday comes to town. A list of books on Hunday school work ! will be suggested to the public library board by a committee 'of ministers ap pointed by Rev. A. C, Douglas, president of the union, at the request of the library board. Those appointed were Rev. 11. E. Hess, C. N. Swihart and Rev. Adolph Hult. ... ' - Expressions of sympathy of the min isters were conveyed to Rev. E. J. Kall ina, a Bohemian Presbyterian pastor, because of the death of a baby In. his family. Harman Defends Stock Food Bill (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Keb. 15 (Special. )-Food Commissioner Harman has risen to the defense of 8. F. 139, which provides for the registration and inspection of stock foods, stock tonics and remedies. The bill Is now in the standing committee and has come in for several vigorous attacks. WYOMING WOMEN OBJECT TO EASY DIVORCE LAW CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 15.-6peclal.) Representative Morna A. Wood of Crook county, the only woman member of the Wyoming legislature, Saturday afternoon received from the Laramie Women's club a petition protesting against house bill 2flt, by Representative iQraveraon of Sheridan county, which provides that a residence of six months shall be sufficient to establish the right to sua for divorce. The petition Is strongly worded and signed by scores of the most prominent womea f Laramie. Petitions similar to that of the Laramis Women's club will be sent to 'Repre sentative Wood by other women's or ganisations and the women of the stats will o-operate In a determined fight against the Oraversos bill. mst Mm Jv ... SENATE OPPOSES TEACHERS' TRUST i ,v,...nv"i '. ... ' r. Committee. -of . the While in -Upper Chamber Takes favorable Action Upon Wilson-Henry Bill, WOULD .KILL. INNER "RING". . fM- . (Prom a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Feb." 15. (Special.) The alleged school teachers' trust came in for a scoring in the senate this afternoon, when the committee of the whole took up and recom mended for passage 8. F. No 237, In troduced by Wilson of Dodge and Henry of Colfax. . There was hardly a dissenting vote. - Senator Henry said that the .situa tion had become such that it was al most an impossibility, owing to the activity of certain teachers' organiza tions, for well qualified teachers not in the good graces of this organiza tion, to secure. positions. The bill makes it a misdemeanor for any teacher to' belong to any such organization. No organizations are earned.. The. bill. is supposed to be di rected at the inner . ring of the Schoolmasters'' club. Cashier Miller to ' Be Called to Stand For the Third Day When It came to checking up Matters' debits in the Sutton bank. United Htates Attorney Howell suggested yesterday afternoon, during the trial of .T.. H. Mat ters in federal court, that the defense and prosecution check up the figures and eliminate all those on which they both agree. It was done. It took three hours, but Mr. Howell declared it had saved the work of two days. Cashier Theodore Miller, who has al ready been on the witness stsnd two days, will be called back this morning to lie cxmained on those items In the debit account about which the two sides do not agree. . The morning was occupied In compar ing the records of the Merchants' Na tional bank of Omaha v.lth those of the First National bank of Sutton, in an ef fort by the defense to bI. w that Matters was not credited by the Sutton bank with the money which he ent It for his ac count. In the month of January, IMS, the defense showed three Items aggregating IIJ.OGO. purporting to have been sent by Matters for which he wu not given credit on the books of the rkitton bank. The prosecution showed by the books of the Sutton bank that Matters' account waa overdrawn on 1W daya In the course of less than two .years. Copper Packed in Casks Marked Sugar COPENHAGEN. Feb. U-Via Loudon.) -A large shipment of copper, packed in casks which were labelled "sugar" and put aboard the steamship Carmen, was seised here today. The roooer . un signed to a German firm. The shipper aaa tne captain or the vessel were arrested. GERMAN REPLY IS FIRM IN TONE, BUT FRIENDLY IN FORM Kaiser's Answer to American Note is Said to Be Couched Pleas antly, but Conceding Nothing:. WARNING OF MINES IS GIVEN Von Bernstorff Tells of Intention to Plant S;a About Britain with Bombs. PRUSSIA CI EARED OF THE RUSS WASHINGTON. Feb. " 15. Ger many's Intention of sowing mines In the waters around the British Islea as a part of its submarine warfare against belligerent merchant ahlps was announced In the note delivered to the Ptate department today by Count von Bernstorff. Hel la Firm. ' BKHI.IN, Keb. 15. (By Wireless to Sayvllle, I,. I.) The German re ! ply to the American note Is reported j to be firm in tone, though friendly I In form, says a statement iseued to j day by the Over-Seas News agency. Among other Items given out by the ajrency are: ! "Prussia Is now cleared of the enemy, j Indications point to a German-Austrian ; offensive from Bukowlna t the . Baltic. ! The Russians are being rolled up In ! many portions of the line. I Drive Hark British. ! ' Turkish advance guards drove beck ' Rrltlsh divisions across the fluea canal !at Ausum and Serpeum. .Senussl Bedou I Ins Invaded Kgypt and occupied the Wva : oasis. ! "Turks depeated the British at Kurmai ! Mesopotamia. j "Negotiations between Austrian and : Hungarian ministers resulted In the dec laration that there Is sufficient corn and ifloiir for both countries, especially since HunKsry will give Austria Its superfluous stocks. "Dutch ' shipping companies have de cided to suspend commercial communica tion with Kngland from February 1, ex cept mall steamers." iWar to Cost Allies Ten Billion Dollars for Current Year LONDON, Feb. 16. In a statement ex planatory of the arrangement made at the recent conference between the finance ministers of France and Russia and him self in Paris, David Lloyd George told the House' -of Commons, this- afternoon, that the expenditures of the allies on the war would be 2,000.0(iO.OOO during the coming year, of which Great Britain was spend ing more money than were its two allies. The present war, Mr. Lloyd Oeorge said, waa the most expensive in material, men and money that had ever been waged. Great Britain, the chancellor of the ex chequer told the House of Commons, could finance the war for five yeara out of the proceeds of its investments abroad. France was able to do so for about two or three years, with something to spare. Russia, he said, although prodigiously rich In natural resources, waa In a dif ferent position. N Mr. Lloyd George said that it was de cided at the conference of the finance ministers In Paris not to issue a Joint loan. Buying for Export Runs Up Price of ' Wheat Few Cents CHICAGO, Feb. 15. -Renewal of Eu ropean purchasing amounting to millions of bushels ran up wheat prices today with a celerity that was a reminder ot Saturday's owtft decline. Before the ses sion waa half over today more than S cents had been added to the final values of last week, Msy rising to tl.S9 as Sff'Unst tl.M'i at the close on Naturray. July, which haa become the leading op tion In point of activity, mounted 4 cents to ILSTs. Mexico City is Without Flour MEXICO CITV, Feb. 16. -There is no j flour In Mexico City, State department : advices say today, and bread la being jmade from cornmeal. Carransa forces 1 there disclaim any intention of ev&culat Ing the city. Zapata forces still hold 1 some of the suburbs. General Gutlerres, who fled from the capital. Is reported j with General Blanco at Valles, fifty Inrtlea west nf Tanmlrv, .with 3(100 4rnkna Russians Will Now Conduct Defense Campaign on Own Land PETROGRAD, Feb. !.'.- Via London.) The forced retirement of the Russian army from East Prussia Is expected to result In a reversion by the Russians to their original plan of conducting a de fensive campaign on their own territory. It Is pointed out here that this would re sult In an advantage to the Russians, In that Germany will be deprived of the transportation facilities which it was able to use with great effectiveness during the first campaign within our borders. When an offensive campaign was un dertaken and the Russians Invaded East Prussia and Galicla early In the war, the Germans were forced to withdraw a large number of troops from ths west. This was considered here to have contributed largely to the German revenue at the battle of the Mai no. rtussian officers say that the object of their offensive campaign hss been ach'eved and that the disposition now is to fall back to their original plan of defensive operations on Streams of Burning Oil Launched Against Russ Bayonet Attacks PKTKOCRAP. Feb. 14.-lliiisn staff officers assert today that notwithstand ing the inoccupation of the crown lands of Hukowltm by Austrc-Oerman armies it d"CM not constitute a menace to the Russian flank or to the Husslnn poaition about the town of Lomherg. This la due to the fact, the Ttusilana Maintain, that to the north and south are mountain ranges which render that section of the j country isolated and because the Russian positions In tho Humid ranae on the south preclude the possibility of a successful attack. In the mountain passes, where much flghtlnK at close raruse. Is taking place, the Urmnns have produced new fight ing machines In the shnpe of bomb throer and fire spoilers. ITALY CAN GET BITE OF AUSTRIA FOR AID Germany Would Give Rome Strip of Ally's Territory for Help in the War. PROPOSAL WILL BE MADE LATER ROME. Sunday. Feb. 14. The Naslonals, a newspaper published in the Interests of the Nationalist party, in Its issue today publishes a forecast of Germany's proposals to Italy, which reads as follows: "Before the end of FeBruary. Prince Von Buelow, the German ambassador to Italy, will present to the Italian govern ment a concrete proposal for Italian par ticipation in the war on the side of Ger many. This consists of the cession by Austria of the Province of Trent and the rectification of the eastern Italian fron tier by the addition of a atrip of land going aa far as the Isonso river. In addi tion Germany will pledge Itself to con clude a new treaty with Italy which will afford protection to Italy's Medllerrsnesn Interests. "In exchange Italy Is to tske pert at onc In the wsr. It will occupy Tunis and help Turkey drive tho English from Egypt which will return under the do minion of the sultan of Turkey. In addi tion the Italian fleet will stuck the Anglo-French naval force in the Medi terranean." Continuing the Idea Naslonale says that Prlnoe Von Buelow, referring to Trlest, made this statement "11 Is impossible to give Trlest to Italy because this seaport is the lung not ot Austria, but of Germany." At the conclusion of one of his con versations with the Italian statesmen Prince Von Buelow, according to this newspaper, made use of this phrase: "Either Italy will be friendly towards us or wa will treat It worse than we are treating England." ; NewibrkStarTs Inquiry Into Rise in Price of Bread NEJW YORK, Feb. IB. -To determine the causes for the Increase In the price of bread la the object of an Inquiry by the attorney general's office, beginning here today, at which commission men, dealers in flour and wheat, and wholesale and retail bakers, will be subpoenaed aa wit nesses. Alfred L. Becker, deputy attorney gen eral, who haa been conducting an Inves tigation preliminary to the referee's In quiry, said the Inquiry would first Inves tigate conditions in the wholesale and retail baking trade to determine "whether a rise in the pries of bread has been Junstifled by a bona fide Increase In the price of flour and the depletion of the stocks of flour purchased by the bakera at a lower price." Russian Losses in Third Battle of Lake Are Enormous BERLIN, Feb. 15,-(By Wireless to London. )The following announceent waa made today by the Over Seas News Agency: "Field Marshal von Hindenburg's third battle of the Masurian lakes will prove more disastrous to the Russians than the other two, from the present Indications. It ta believed that 40,000 Russians were captured." Retake Gun Lost in Franco-Prussian War PARIS, Feb. 15. A company of Infan try which, after a sharp bayonet attack, successfully occupied some German trenches, found there a French mortar which had been captured In 1S70 and which had been used with great ef fectiveness In ths present struggle. Russian soli, along a line from the Nie man river on the north through Ostrol enka Raigrod and on to Oraevo. With tliia program In operation, Rus sian observerd say. It probably will be possible to retard the German advance and at the same time defensive operations will be essler because the Russians will be harrarsed no longer by the lightning changes along the German front. In the southwest ths Russians are hold ing the Carpathian passes of Wlskow and Nadworna against the German assault and, according to reports reaching her are daily rapturing German and Austrian prisoners and g'ins. Another battle, in which bayonet at tacks were made by the Russians, Is re ported from Hmolnlka. Luring the night the Russ'ans sur rounded an Austrian position and took prisoner ten officers and 1 .10 men. Bat tles have occurred also at Kurlmka, near Dukla. and at Bellgrod. The former contrivance consists of a small apparatus capable, of being carried by two men. It throws a thirty-pound bomb for a distance of t or 800 yards Into the lines of their opponents. It Is used mhen artillery Is not avsllable. The other contrivance consists of a tube through which a stream of burning oil Is forced for a distance of eight yards and which covers with flame everything It touches. This apparatus la reported to he employed against bayonet charges, a favorite mode of Russian fighting. Austrian prisoners relate that the Aus trian forces lack horses. On the left bank of the Vistula river there Is. evidence that the Germans are regrouping their forces and they evi dently are 1 reparlng a new attack In that region. TIBER FLOODS RISE TO MAXIMUM HEIGHT Property in Rome Damaged by Tur bulent Waters of River Caused by Heavy Rains. PEOPLE TRAVEL ABOUT IN BOATS ROME,' Feb. 15. Information from the upper reaches of the Tiber Indicate a further rise in the flood waters of a few Inches, after which unless there should come more rain the waters undoubtedly will begin to go down. The great atalrcase of 300 steps In Rome, leading from the Trastevere station to the Monteverde section, a hilly quarter of the city, is at this hour threatening to collapse because of undermining by the waters. ROME, Feb. 2. The Tiber continued to rise today and reached a maximum height of fifty-seven feet. The rain rain stopped at noon and the sun cam out, Hope began to Increase thst the worst wss over. It waa argued that the extraordinary rapidity of the current of the Tiber would subside rapidly to reduce the flood stsge. At several street crossing around the Vatican soldiers had built temporary wooden bridges. These, with the pass ing of boats up and down the flooded thoroughfares ' completed the Impression that a aeotlon of Venice had been brought up to Rome. There Is much anxiety concerning tha embankment on the right side of the Tiber near Bant Angelb bridge, which la showing several oracks. Thte embank ment la closed to tho public and guarded oy troops. . Kins; Visits District. Klpg Victor Emmanuel visited toe Hooded district today and gave instruc tions thst tho need of those suffering from want of food be supplied. He also motored out to the country districts, where many people had taken refuge on the roofs of their homes. , Many cattle have been drowned, but up to the present time there haa been- no report of the loss of human lives. Tho embankment near tha military col lege, which was still in course of con struction, collapsed this afternoon. Flood A boat St. Peter's. The flood watet In the streets around St. Peter'a have risen to a height of four feet and eleven Inches. Several walls have collapsed, but without serious conse quences. In the low-lying quarters, the people have been driven from their homes or are prisoners in the upper stories of their homes. The military authorltlea have taken cognisance of the situation and troops have been sent to aid in rescue work and to provide food to sufferers out off from so p pi lea In Rome the river Tiber Is mora than fifty feet out of Its normal banks and la rising at the rate of two inches an hour. Tha one bright spot m the situation la that the weather rlv InHav .hn signs of clearing and' this gives hope that the waters wilt soon recede.. Vatleaa Q Barters .Flooded. Ths Leonine City, as tha Vatican quar ter of Rome Is called, la In tha lower part of the town, and .this section is generally flooded. The water, however, has not reached tho Apostolic palace or St. Peter'a. Pope Benedict Is taking a sympathetic interest in the situation and has Instructed all tha parish prlasta to display the greatest energy in aiding their distressed parishioners. Tha pope himself spent a good deal of hla time Sunday In watching tha rising waters In the quarters Just below the Apostollo palace. Two hundred patients In the hospital of Santo Splrlto, near the Vatican, have been removed to upper floors ot tha build ing because of tha flood. Some fear la expressed that the rising water may cause the building to collapse. The authorities have closed the road from Rome to the aea, in which there are several deposits of carbide and lime. Some of these, through Influence In fll teratlon from the flooded Tiber, have al ready exploded and caused nearby build ings to collapse. Fortunately there were no victims, as the people, foreseeing dan ger, had left tha place. Ueea Saow la Northern Italy. TURIN (Via Rome), FeB. IS. Tho snow fall In the Pieimont region this winter Is heavier than any heretofore known, ao cordlng to available records. This is es pecially true In the Alps, where all the wires wers down and even tha telegraph poles are Invisible because of the depth of anow. At tha famous St. Bernard Hosploe ths snow Is mora than twenty five feet deep. Masked Men Rob Trolley Terminal WASHINGTON. Feb. 2S.-Two masked robbers entered a trolley terminal not far from the capltol today, held cashisra at bay with revolvers and got away with 12,000 In cash, but overlooked 15,000 more In their haste. While one of the robbers held the clerks back the other went through the rssh drawers and scooped Into a sack the coin turned In by con ductors and rolls of bills reaCy for the bank. . BRITAK1T0TAKE FURTHER STEPS TO STARVE FOE Churchill Announces in Commons Nation to Act Still More Dras tically Against the Germans. REVIEWS THE NAVAL SITUATION Subjects of Enemies Will Be Seized on Ships Entering Colonial Ports. TO KEEP ALL FOODSTUFFS OUT The Day's War News AI STRIIW Ft.F.KT has bombarded. the Montenegrin port of Antlvsrl and two Austrian aeroplanes at' larked with machine sinns the pal are, In which were Klnst Mlcho las and the other members of the royal family. DF.CIMVR ntTTLE In northern Po land Is looked for when tho rt treating; Rnaalans reach positions oa which they decide to make their stand. In Bafcowlaa Rn slana ore making another stand. Both sides claim aaccess ta tho Carpathians, while Vienna reports! that the Aastrlaae are still ad-t anrlng la the tlakowlna r rows' land. GERMAN NEWSPAPERS contlnne to comment on the American aote, some of them taking? the stand' that this foantry's representations ' to Great Britain are less rtgoronai than those) to Germany. ROME DISPATCH states that Prima, Von Bnelew, Germany ambassador' to Italy, shortly will make proV poaaia sor tne Intervention of Italy In the war on the side of Ger- many In rctnrn for tentorial con cessions. GHRMAN TROOPS are advancing rapidly everywhere la East Prus sia, the Berlin war office says in He statement Monday. In northern reported. PRTROGRAb MILITARY coalmen tatoro assert that Russia will -atn aa adrantare In falling; back te Its own territory by depriving; I Germany of tha wse of tho rail-! road, which It employed ef fee-' lively n transporting; troops alonarl tho front when tho fla-htlngr waa on German soil. 1 GKRMAIf GOVERNMENT, In n not presented to tho American Btato department mt Waehlaarton, ... nooneed It. wtUI a,,... , alder Its plan to attack merchant-, men, troMlagi England woald dr. alst from efforts t prevent food. Staffs from reaching the civil pop nlatlon of Germany. r BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 Greaf Britain notified the United State through the British embassy here that aubjects of Its enemies, whether crew or passengers, of vessels enter ing the principal British colonial ports will be liable in the future ta removal and detention. 1 LONDON, Feb. 16. In a state ment to the House o Commons to-, day Winston Spencer Churchill, first, lord of the admiralty, intimated that further action would be taken by the! allies to prevent the importation ofjj foodstuffs in neutral ships to Ger many. ; Mr. Churchill gave a review of the, naval altuation In introducing tha navy! estimates. He said that at the outbreak:, of tha war, the supplies of ammunition, men and oil were complete. Every ship1 In the navy which waa fit for service, aa well aa new ships which were being bulU, for foreign governments, and armed mer-; chsntmen had been fully manned. "In fact the German army waa no more, prepared to attempt war on a glgantia scale than was the British fleet for na tional defense," ha said "After six months of war, with new dangers and dlN flcultles coming Into view we have every right to be content with the results o( our labors In making provision for the navy." After referring to the naval battles off. the Falkland Islands and In the Nortf, Sea, Mr. Churchill said: "Only two small cruisers and twa armed merchantmen remain of all the (Continued on Page Five. Column Two.) His Life's Work Where to Choose The young man of ambition whtj looks with longing eyes over the) field of business activity In Omaha, knowg that his energy and abilities, are wanted by employers well worth; i while to work for. The question with him la .' where to fid them to get hold of the position that will give him the beat hance to develop and to make the moat of himself. Anyone who believes that per sonal solicitation are the only ways to secure a good position Is invited to look over the offers of employer advertised every. day in the "Help Wanted" columns of The Bee. Telephone Tyler ' WOO THE OMAHA BEE