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Official Report from Berlin Says
Fierce Ruth Cuts Several of
the Enemy's Trenches
Near Moselle.
TWENTY-FOUR OFFICERS TAKEN
Britiih Unable to Withstand Attacks
Near Ypres, According to
Teuton Version.
RUSS LOSING IN CARPATHIANS
BERLIN, April 25. (By Wireless
to London.) Army headquarters
Rave out today the following report:
"In the western theater of war we
obtained further results at Ypres.
The ground captured on April 23
north of Ypres was "till retained yes
terday In spite of the attacks of the
enemy. Farthe- east we continued
our attack and took by storm the
Zolart farm southwest of St. Julien,
as well as the villages of St. Julien
and Kersselaere, and advanced vic
toriously toward Gravenstafel. Dur
ing these engagements about 1,000
Englishmen were taken prisoners and
several machine guns were captured.
"A British counter attack against our
portions west of Pt. Julian was rfpulwd
earlv this morning -with very heavy losses
to the enemy.
"West of Wlel attempts of the British
to make an attack were quenched , at
every start ty tha fire of our artillery.
"In the Argonne we repulsed an attack
by two French battalions north of Four-De-Paris.
Heavy Defect of French.
"In the Meuse hills, southwest of Com
bres. the French suffered a heavy defeat.
We began an attack at this point and In
the rush broke through many French
linos lying one behind the other. The
French attempted at night to take away
from us the captured territory, but again
failed with heavy losses to them. Twenty
four French officers and 1.600 men, with
seventeen cannon, remained in our hands
after these engagements.
"Between the Meuse and the Moselle
fighting at close range occurred only at
certain places on our southern front, the
fighting at Alllys not having yet come to
a conclusion. A French night attack In
the wood of Lepretre failed.
"In the Vosges a dense mist prevented
all military activity yesterday.
"Eastern theater of war:
"Tho situation remains unchanged. Two
weak attacks by the Russians west of
Clechanow (near the East Prussian bor
der) were repulsed.
"In "reply to bomb dropping by Rus
sians on the peaceful town of Denburg.
the railway Junction at Blalystock was
again bombarded by us. Twenty bomb
were dropped."
Frrach Report Flht lr.r. '
PARIS, April 26.-The following official
communication was Issued by the war
office tonight:
"To the north of Ypres the battle con
tinues under conditions favorable for the
troopa of the allies. The Germans have
attacked at several points along the Brit
ish front from various directions, north,
northeast and southwest, but they wer
not able to gain ground.
"On our s'de we have progressed on the
right bank of the canal through vigorous
counter attacks.
"On the rest of the front there is noth
ing to report."
Austrian Dent Hn-n'imf.
VIENNA (Via London). Aprl. 25,-Tlie
following official communication was Is
sued by the Austrian war office tonight:
' On the Carpathian front. In the Orawa
vallipy, near Kosiowa, we have gained a
new success. After a sap attack, exe
cuted with the greatest doggedntss, our
troops yesterday stormed the height of
Ostry. to the south of Kozlowa. Simul
taneously the Austro-German troopa sue
ceeded In gaining ground on and to tha
south of road 652, which the Russians
had captured.
"With the capture of Ostry height and
Kwlnin rldse, which was taken at the
commencement of April, the reduction of
the Russian positions which had been
stubbornly defended for months on both
sldts of the Orawa valley. Is now accom
plished. "There have been local artillery en
gagements In the other sectors of the
Carpathian front. In Galicla and Peland
it is generally quiet."
Tnhra Tea Million of Honda.
BERLIN, April ?3. (Via London.)
April ".".The Norddeutache Allgemelne
ZelU'.ng officially announces that an
American banking group has taken 110,
().000 uf the nine-months imperial ex
chequer bonds and placed them among
their customers.
The Weather
For Nebraska Cloudy.
For Iowa Fair.
Trsaperatar at Osiilia Yesterday.
Hour. Dec.
. u. m hi
a. m 1
7 a. m i.... ti
s a. m iv I
9 a. m
10 a. m f9
11 a. in li
12 in 74
I p. m "u
: p. m 7J
S p. m 7
t p. m.... 70
P m Tl
P. m 70
7 p. m. 70
eat meearaU
1915. U14. 191. 1911
Highest yesterday 7." kl tij o
Lowest yesterday , I 5
Mean temperature X 61 tiO
frecipltadon 03 .00 .00 .01
temperatures and precipitation dapcr
turea irom the normal:
Normal temperature
Kxceas for tha day U
Toial excess since March 1 a
Normal precipitation 12 inch
Xeflctency for the day W Inch
Total rainfall since March L...I. inches
Tendency atn e Jiari h 1 i..nt inches
f -flciency for cor. pTlod, 1914. .i Inch
Eaceas for cor period, -I3 J .; Inches
L. WELSH. Local Forecaster.
( oaiaaratlva
GENERAL SIR ARTHUR PAGET, leaving the palace at
Nish, where in the name of King George he bestowed the
Order of the Bath on the Serbian crown prince.
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QUINBY WOULD
ABOLISH SENATE
State Senator from Douglas County
Does Not Have High Opinion of
Some of His Colleagues.
HOUSE IS OF HIGHER TYPE
"I want to conclude by saying that
I am opposed to the system of a legis
lature composed of two houses; I
think the senate should be abol
ished," said State Senator Laurie J.
Quinby In his talk to the Omaha
Philosophical society yesterday after
noon. "Think of the absurdity of one house
going over aU the detail of a bill, with
the arguments and all, and with the
facts and figures at hand, and then think
of that bill belmr thrown " Into" a brand
new house that will go over the eame
ground with it. Think of that bill get
ting into the senate when the representa
tives who Introduced It and knew its
every detail are not able to be present
in the senate to help it along, and then
think of such a measure, especially If it
be a progressive measure, getting up
against a senatorial majority of nineteen
woden Indiana as we had in this senate.
Nineteen senatora there were in the sen
ate, hand-picked and hand-made, wooden
Indians mere cigar signs so controlled
by the corporation Interests that It was
utterly Impossible to get anything of a
progressive nature past them."
Block Proarreaatve I.ritialat Ion.
Senator Quinby talked for forty min
utes, dwelling largely on the Influences
that blocked what he believed to be pro
gressiva legislation. "And all this was
done by means of the nineteen wooden
Indians." he repeated. ' For they were a
majority. They had no mind of their
own. They dared not make a move ex
cept as they were told. They were the
solid nineteen. Sixteen of them were
democrats and three were republicans,
but they were bound together with a tie
that never gave way. The other four
teen senators were free agents, but al
ways the solid nineteen wooden Indians
held the majority."
He pointed out that when' he had. In
troduced a resolution proposing an In
vestigation of certain lobbyists for th
corporations, the next morn'ng a resolu
tion was Introduced to expunge the in
vestigation resolution, and that the nine
teen voted for expnuglng.
Kx posed by the Press.
"And yet these lobbyists, wnom I
asked Investigated, had been freely men
tioned In the dally press as unlawfully
lobbying for the public service corpora
tions and the liquor Interests. They rep
resented the unseen government, the In
visible government. But the nineteen
(Continued on Page Two, Column One.)
Body in the River
Near Bellevue May
Be South Omahan
The dead body of an unidentified man,
about 45 years of age, and supposedly a
resident of South Omaha, was found
floating In tha Missouri river at Bellevue
Sunday afternoon by a fisherman.
(ounty Undertaker Emit Grothe and
lr. Armstrong, county coroner, of Papll
ir n. took charge of the bady and re
moved It to the countyseat. They de
clared that the man had evidently been
dead a week or ten days. No marks of
'violence were discernible, they said.
! Police of Omaha and outh Omaha are
'trying to learn the man's identity and
ithe mode of his death. So far no papers,
rings, teeth fillings or other means of
identification had been reported to them.
The victim of the Big Muddy evidently
professed the Catholic faith, as a tosary
and cross was found about the neck of
the body. Tlila description is given by
Undertaker Grothe:
Weight, 109 pound; age, about 46 years;
smooth face, and short, thin gray hair.
The body was clothed In a blue serge
suit bearing the trade label of John
Flynn, a bouth Omaha clothier. Black
shoes, tight shirt with soft collar, and
a red necktie, completed the attire.
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JESS WILLARD NOW
OUT AFTER CASH
Champ Pugilist Who Put Johnson to
Sleep is to Put His Money Into
Farms and First Mortgages.
APPEARS BEFORE FULL HOUSE
Joss- Willard, in Omaha for ex
hibitions at the Oayety until Wednes
day afternoon, is tending strictly to
the business and financial perquisites
of the world championship heavy
weight title, now that he has dis
charged his duties as a candymaker
by making the chocolate drop.
"I started out to bring the title
back to white men." asserted Wil
lard, "and now, that la dona, I'm
going to make all I -ran and put It
Into farms, first mortgages and real
estate, where it can't burn up, or
blow way. ' '
"Jack Johnson advised me to save my
money, and I've been getting lots of other
advice, but I've gone flat financially two
or three times, and don't need advise
any more on how to keep my money."
llaaales Smile Well.
Always milling, except when, he lets
his w inning smile wane to replace It with
an even brighter one, Willard waa met
by a reporter before his first Oayety
exhibition, and he affably leaned over to
greet the mere mortal, after first ducking
through' his dressing room door to avoid
the atare of admiring chorus girls. Then
he draped his six-feet-six of giant muscle
over one ertde of hla room, and smiled.
Jonca a 4'baiun Maker.
Since Jess is not much of a talker, he
gets help in that line from hla manager,
Tom Jones, who wears a braided suit, a
silver headed cane and a big diamond.
and la far famed himself as the maker of
three champs Billy Papke, Ad Wolgast
and Big Jess. And Jones makes no bones
of the fact that Jess Is entitled to make
all he can get, while the making Is good.
In carrying out the Idea, Willard and
Jones cleverly left admirers "holding the
sack" after the show, by leaving the
Gayety by way of the front door, after
allowing a big crowd to gather in - the
rear alley around an auto placed there
as a "stall. ' The seekers of a free look
didn't tumble to the situation until long
after Jesa and Jones had run out of the
lobby, down the street, around the corner
and had then hot-footed it to thrir quar
ters at Hotel Rome.
The Willard party, which also Includes
Walter Monahan and Tex Dowd, trainers
and sparring partners, and George Creel,
a newapaper man, was given a warm re
ception at the depot upon its arrival from
Kansas City Sunday morning. A good
sised crowd also greeted the champ and
his associates at the hotel, around the
theater and wherever elce he appeared
during the day. A capacity audience saw
his exhibition last night.
The giant Kansaa cowboy spent the
morning in an auto tour of the city and
visited the South Omaha horse yards,
watching French buyers inspect animals
for war use.
Willard didn't meet his family In Kan
aaa, as originally planned, so still Bays
"Hello" to Ms wife by frequent tele
grams. He will meet them In California
in July. He Is quite peeved that pictures
of his family were secured free, aa he
believes in getting all the money that
can possibly be attached to his newly
won title. He says he would like some
local ring talent to play with, but since
whipping Johnson no Omaha glove art
ists have volunteered to be toyed with.
Manager Jones says that Willard will
promptly meet anybody for the title, If
there is aa much money in it as In ex
hibitions. In his three-round sparring exhibition
with Walter Monahan, Willard ahowed
that he is much quicker, more aiy and
more skillful than when he showed in
Omaha last February.' Monahan la half
an Inch taller, haa one and a quarter
Inrhea more reach and weighs seven
pounds lighter than Jack Johnson, ao his
go with Willard gives a good Idea of
how the two fighters compared at Ha
vana. Their stunt includes a reproduc
tion of the close of the fsmous twenty -sixtn
round, when Wiilaid ucd a left to
hhs stomai h and a right to the Jaw tu
put the black to sleep.
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ENGLISH OFFICERS
PLACED BY KAISER
IN SOLITARY CELLS
Ten Thus Imprisoned in Germany ss
Retaliatory Move for Extraor
dinary Treatment of Sub
sea Crews.
FORTY-NINE IN THE BARRACKS
List Supplied to American Ambas
sador Gerard by the Imperial
Government.
SEVERAL OF ELEVATED RANK
LONDON, April 2 5. There was
received here today a list of the
thirty-nine British officers placed in
detention barracks, ten of them In
solitary confinement, by the German
government in retaliation for the
declination of Great nrltain to ac
cord honors of war to crews of cap
tured German submarines. This list,
which was supplied to Ambassador
Gerard at Berlin by the German gov
ernment, consists of the names of
seven captains and thirty-two lieu
tenants. Included in the list are the names
of Lord Garlies, Alexander Fraser,
master of Saltoun; Lieutenant
Goshen, son of Sir William Edward
Goshen, former British ambassador
to Berlin; Robin Grey, a nephew of
the British foreign minister, and
many sons of peers. Nearly all the
prisoners belong to crack regiments.
40 Thousand Exiles
From Belgium Thank
The American People
THE HAGUE, April 2T..-Vla Ixindon.)
A memorial addressed to President
Woodrow Wilaon, signed by about 40,000 ,
Belgian refugees now in Holland, ex
pressing gratitude for the aid which
America has extended to the Belgian
war sufferers, whs mailed to Washington
today. It read as follows:
"Profoundly touched by the marks of
sympathy which the American nation un
ceasingly haa showered upon the BpI-
ninn twnnln ilnm thn liirlnnlncr nf tha
..... .
war, and especially moved by the good !
works of the American Commission for
Relief In Belgium, which haa Insured the
existence of the entire people, the Bel
gians now In Holland beg you to accept
this expression of their gratitude. ' Cer
tainly the Belgians In their days of pros
fertty loved and respected- the noble
American people, but only grievous cir
cumstances such aa those In which we
now alive could mske fhore certain the
full extent of the friendship which noth
ing can terminate. We hope this humble
testimony may be the guarantee of grati
tude without bounds, until the moment
when we may attest upon our liberated
soil that the Belgian people do not for
get." Women of Trieste
Rebel When Men Are
Ordered Off to War!
ROME, April 25. (Via rarls.l-Dts-j
patchea front Trieste, telegraphed from 1
the frontier, Oally are growing more J
grave, in their reports of the situation
there. One-tenth of the population are
serving under the colors. Including men
SO years of age. The calling of men of
thla age into the army haa caused a re
bellion among the women, who Invaded
tho railroad station when the troops left
and tried to prevent, by violence, their
departure, crying: - "Down with war! re
turn to ua our old men!"
Besides making many arrests the po
lice have prepared lists of prescriptions
and thus all the pec pie are lllng In
dread.
Serious riots are reported at Goers and
Ir many other parts of Austria, and espe
cially In Vienna, while Prague conditions
are reported to have assumed a revolu
tionary character. Military trains loadcj
with bread and flour have been pillaged
and a Bohemian regiment la reported to
hive mutinied.
Emden Daredevils
Escape from Prison
RKRMN (By Wireless to London!,
April . The ciew of the llnrnuin "mar
ship' A) alia, composed of men who
escaped when the cruiser Emden waa
aunk by an Australian warship in the
Indian ocean November 10, have escaped
agnln from allied patrol ships and ar
rived at the Arabian harbor of I.ldd on
March 27. They covered by sea the SiO
miles from Hodehia to I.ldil.
After reaching the coaxt the aailora at
tempted to continue their Journey over
land, but were attacked by Arabs aup
posedly at the Instigation of the Ktiallsh.
After three days' stubborn fighting th
attacks were repulsed and tliey reached
the road to Hodachaa, where the railway
was open. The adventurous Germans suf
fered heavy losses.
One Death from Heat
In City of Detroit
DETROIT. April a Retard breaking
warm weather for tills date was respon
sible for at least one death here today
and two prostrations. In the afternoon
the efflclal temperature waa HI. which
was said to be the highest for any April
24 since the local weather bureau waa rt
tabllahed. Thomas Klomoxlch, one of the
first persons overcome by the heat, died
shortly while being taken to a hospital.
CHICAGO. April 2.".-,hlcago sweltered
Vxley In summer heat, the maximum
temperature reaching (17. within one point
of the city's record for April In the forty,
four years the l al weather bureau has
been in existence.,
Popular move to urge the Gov
ernor to save Leo M. Frank
from death penalty is spread
ing. Nearly everybody is signing The Bee's petitions asking the Gov
ernor of Georgia to save Leo M. Frank from the death penalty, and
very few refusals to sign are reported. Harry Brockstein has filled
several blanks with autographs of prominent business men, and prides
himself on having secured the Mayor's signature. Requests upon The
Bee for petition blanks are being constantly supplied.
Former Senator William V. Allen sent his appeal to Governor Sla
ton, as subjoined, by telegraphic night-letter. Through the initia
tive of James Richardson, former member of the Omaha School
board, nearly all the resident Cornell alumni in Nebraska and ad
joining towns have joined him in a petition, which is also given
below:
Ra-Senator tllrn'a Me
MADISON, Neb. April
e.
23. To
the Governor, Atlanta, Ga.;
As a i
i former colleague of the late Senators
Colquitt. Gordon, Walsh, Bacon and
Clay of Georgia, and as one strongly
opposed to race prejudice, 1 respect
fully request you to give to young
Frank's case the deliberate and pa
tient consideration Its importance
demands. WILLIAM V. ALLKN.
Appeal ky Cornell tlamnl.
OMAHA. April 2 4. Hon. John
Slaton, Governor of the State of
Georgia Your Kxcellency: We, the
undersigned alumni of Cornell uni
versity, believing that there exists
more than a reasonable doubt as to
the guilt of Leo M. Prank, who has
been condemned to death by the
courts of your state: and desiring to
subserve the ends of Justice, that no
man may be condemned whose guilt
has not been absolutely proven, re
spectfully petition that you either
pardon said Leo M. Frank or com
mute the death penalty assessed
against him.
In spite of the decision of the su
preme court of the Vnited States we
are of the opinion that there Is a
strong possibility of local prejudice
and Influence having had some ef
fect on the Jury In this case.
Therefore, we take this action and
GIBSON BOOSTERS
ENDORSETHE "INS"
Anti Candidates Put on the Pan by
City Attorney and the
' ..Mayor..
RYDER POLITICAL ORPHAN
At a largely attended open-air
meeting of the Gibson boosters at
Second and Hascall streets Sunday
afternoon Mayor Dablman and bis
running mates were endorsed, the
anti candidates were excoriated In
dividually and collectively by the
various speakers and the exuberance
of the meeting was declared by the
administration people to be an Indi
cation of sentiment In that whole sec
tion of the city.
The gathering was marked by aeverat
unique featurea, one being the appear
ance of Commissioner J. J. Ryder as first
speaker and who defined nlmaelf as the
political orphan of the campaign. The
crowd was seated on long benches under
an ominous sky snd ranged on a pretty
bluff which overlooked the Missouri
river. A large white bulldog took evi
dent pleasure In barking lustily every
time the crowd cheered. E. A. Bchork
presided and all of the present city com
missioners were present, with Edward
Hlmon as their ally. After his few re
marks Ryder retired from the scene in a
horse-drawn buggy, while the other
speakers tode In automobiles. ,
Hn Wain Warm.
The concluding address of John A.
Rlne, city attorney, was stopped by rain,
but Mr. Rlne had progressed far enough
to say, "The men who are behind the
opposition are either nondescripts, nin
compoops, never-was-es, has-beens, 1o
nothlnvs or prohibitionists. The squint
eyed, narrow-minded ticket la" (rain)
Mr. Rlne had also previously said that
D. ('. Patterson, vice chairman of tha
antls, ia sore becsuse the city won a tax
case from him and that the memory of
falling to be appointed rlty attorney docs
not set wtlt upon Judge A. L. Button, the
generalissimo for the anils.
Mayor Dahlman let out a few links
and promises more during the week. A
few of his characteristic remarks are
given: "I have been mayor for nine
years, which ia quite a stretch, boys. I
(Continued on Page Two, Column Two.)
Thousands of Bales
Of Cotton Held Up
WASHINGTON, April X.-The fact
that American cotton h'pments totaling
thousands of bslrs and all destined to
neutral ports, are being held up by the
allies, ia giving cotton exporters great
was lesrned here tonight that tha
Ktate department haa bten requested to
make special efforts In the raae of five
steamers now detained in Kurnpnan ports,
gome of these were bcund for Sweden
and others carried cargoes consigned to
Bwttserlsnd. The latter have already been
the subject of protest by th Kwl.a gov
ernment, which sought the good offices
of the I'nlted states at I-onrton and at
Rome, to obtain the release of the ship
ments. American ambaeeadore have been
instructed to preaent tns 8 wise views.
with great hope (hat your excellency
' will recognise the Issues involved in
the rase and take this reasonable
j doubt Into consideration, we are,
yours respectfully:
A. C. WAKKLKY, 7S.
DR. II. GIFFOIID. '"!,
C1IARLICS L. S.U'NDKRS. S1,
A. C. DAVENPORT. '81,
MRS. A. C. DAVENPORT. '83,
AS EL STF.F.RE. JR., '85,
SAM L. ETNYRE, 'S8.
E. C. PAGE, '89.
E. S. WESTBROOK, '89.
JOHN W. BATTIN. '90.
DR. K. C. HENRY. '3.
SHERMAN G. PETICOLA8, 93.
WILL F. 8EIDENTOPF. '91.
El'NICE 8TEBBINS, '97.
ARCHIE W. CARPENTER, '98.
JAMES RICHARDSON, '01.
J. O. CLARE SMITH. 03.
A. II. BANNISTER, '04.
W. HERBERT PRICE, '04.
ROY F. WILCOX. '06.
CHAUNCEY L. WILTON. '08.
DR. A. A. JOHNSON. 12.
FRANK L. SELBY, 'IS.
NEWMAN COMFORT, '13.
HARRY CARPENTER, '14.
DR. F. II. 8CHAEFER. '14.
BLAINE WILCOX. 15.
F. W. KOENIG, 'IB.
W. C. SELBY, '17.
J. J. HANNIGHAN. '18.
ARNOLD C KOENIO, 95.
WILL QUERY T. R.
ON RISE OF MOOSE
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Barnes' Counsel to Question Colonel
About Matters , Leading to
Forming: of Party.
WITNESSES THRONG SYRACUSE
SYRACUSE, N. Y April 23.
Theodore Roosevelt spent today In
resting up from his four strenuous
days upon the witness stand and pre
paring for further cross-examination
when the trial of William Barnes'
suit against him for alleged libel is
resumed on Monday.
The colonel held a short confer
ence with his counsel yesterday and
then took a long automobile ride Into
the country with his host, Horace 8.
Wilkinson, a progressive leader.
I.oae Tim to Uo.
After a series of conferences, attorneys
on botli sides gave It aa their opinion to
night that because of the great amount
of evidence yet to be presented It was
doubtful whether the raae would teach
the Jury4aalda of two weeks. If even then.
Syracuse hotels are crowded with wit
nesses. Borne have been here since the
trial began, others arrived today and
still more are expected tomorrow or Mon
day.
Despite that Justice Andrews has ruled
that a legislative committee, dealing,
among other things, with vice In Alnany,
was not admissible, a number of de
tectives who assisted in an investigation
for the committee were in Hyraeuee to
night with subpoenscs.
Tu Make Strong S'.ffort.
It was said that a Strang effort would
be marie by the Roosevelt attorneya to
get at least a part of their testimony be
fore the Jury.
Mr. Barnes is expected to return here
lomoirow from Albany, where he went
after the week-end recess was declared
yeetcrday.
Bar lies' counsel compiled a aeries of
uadltlonal questions to put to the former
prtsldunt when his cross-examination Is
resumed on Monday. Many of the ques
tions agreed upon have to do with eventa
leading to the eatabliahment by the
colonel of the progressive party,
SCOTT TO BE MADE
MAJOR GENERAL SOON
WASHINGTON, April 2B.-nrigadler
General Hugh L. Bcott. chief of staff if
the army, will be advanced to the grade
of major general next Thursday upon th
retirement, for age, of Major General Ar
thur Murray, commanding the Western
department at Han Francisco. Colon.l
Frederick B. Htrong of the coast artillery
at Charleston. H. C, will be advanced tj
the brigadier generalship made vacant
by General Scott's promotion, and win
be assigned later.
WAR MAPS ARE SENT
TO THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON April 2S.-Mapa pre
pared hy the war college showing (he
war sones of Kurope in great detail wer
sent to the White House today for the
president's convenience. I'p to the pres
ent the progress of the war has been fol
lowed by the president with pins, de
noting the positions of the armies on .-r-dlnary
maps bung ln the cabinet room.
GERMANS POUR
FRESH ARMIES
INTOJFLANDERS
Teuton Forces Surge Forward to
Press Attack Against Allies'
Line in Effort to Take
Ypres.
LIVING AND DEAD EXCHANGED
Trains Bear Soldiers to Front,
While Others Carry Wounded
and Slain Away. '
CANADIANS COME TO RESCUE
The Day's War News
IIHITISII THOOI'S) la welawbor
howtl of Vre are sttll aaatalataar
hravjr attacks hy ' German
forces, to watch they have replied
with enaater attacks. The I'rfsrh
aait Itelalaas are aiaklaat alow ad
vances alaaar the same llae,
where they ape esses varlnar to
win hack the territory which they
lost when a heavily reinforced
Grrman army( urcparlasi the way
with artillery fir aad siaaeoaa
homha, pressed them hark In the
last day or two.
A I.I.I KM II K.I'OHT a considerable
amoant of this around has hern
retaken and field Marshal French
himself aires areat credit to tho
Canadian contingent.
TIIKftK IS HKKKWKn activity In
he flnhtlna; ln the Carpathians.
The Anatrlana were repnlsed with,
enormous losses on the helshta
arm pled by the Rasalaaa In tho
vicinity of Polea, arcordlaa; to a
Itnaalan official atatemeai.
II K A V V ARTILLERY ensaaemeata
are proceedlaac at some points near
the I ssok pass. It la nnaonnced
from Vienna. Raaalna Bight at
tarka along the Tarkg road aad
weal of It failed.
LONDON. April 25. The Ger
mans are pouring troops into Fland
ers to press the attack which, at the
beginning has forced the allies back
to the Yser canal to the north of
Ypres.
This movement, according to re
ports reaching Holland, has assumed
even greater dimensions than those
which preceded the battle that raged
for more than two weeks ln thig same
region last October. On that occa
sion the operationg ended in the dis
comfiture of the Germans, who had
declared their Jn.tentlon of pushing
their" way" through to Calais.
Vprea the Goal.
. It appears that the Germans have
a similar aim today and have set out
to capture Ypres, which Is described
as the key to the French coast' porta.
While the attack originally met with
considerable success, due, according to tha
allied reports, to the use by the Germans
of asphyxiating gases, it la said to have
been already checked. The Canadlana.
who held the extreme left of the Brttlah
line and were forced to retire when the
rest of the front was pressed back, mad
a brilliant counter attack, regaining
most. If not all, the ground which they
had conceded and retaking four g-una.
which they had left In the hands of the
Germans. In the words of Sir John,
French, they saved the situation.
The British report doea not eay how
much ground ,hey recovered, but the
statement in the Beerlln official report
that a Rrltlah attack at St. Julien waa
repulsed shows that thsy are well back
In their old positions, for this town,
which Is on the main road between Ypres
and Poe.lcspi.rlle, a Immediately aouth
of Langemarck. from which point the
German attack waa launched.
ttalatala Their Hold.
The Germans' howevet, still maintain,
their hold on . the Yser canal further
north, for they speak of storming the
tillage of Liserne. which Is across (he
canal between the towns of Steenstraate
and Hot Haat. which they took ln their
flrt ru-.li. The Oerman attack to the
south of Ypres, which was made simul
taneously with that to the north, ap
parently lias tailed entirely.
Theae attacks are believed to be the
commencement of another big kettle
which, with both sides strongly n
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