TJIK HKK: OMAHA, TL'KSDAV, FKUUUAUY '2'J, 1910. FRENCH LINES AT RUSSIAN AND DUTCH STRIKERS AT SIOUX CITY REJECT OFFER Laborers in Packing Houses Decide to Hold Out for Their Origi nal Demands. TWO CHILDREN WHO MET VIOLENT DEATHS Cannaleta John, burned to death while playing with matches, and Edward Jensen, shot by playmate. Ti10JIP5ON-BaDIN6Ca Hi Fashion GsifcrofKce MiddloWesI- " EWhed 1886a YERDDN HOLDING SHIPSJRE SUNK Vessel Captured from Germans Early in War Sent to Bottom by Teutons. I i German! Are Reported Pnihin; the Attack oa Position South &nd Southeast of City. TEUTONS OAIU TS CHAMPAGNE PARIS. Fb. 28. So far s the ' French official report of this after noon shows, the French line In the Immediate vicinity of Verdun are holding firm. The German attack li developing along the front east and southeast. At Fort Douaumont, where the fighting has been heaviest, the situa tion Is unchanged. The fortress It- 'art annarArtfT la atlll IiaM iv the German. In the village of Douau- W, .... - A . IMWUl, m ICW UUUUJ(1I Kl UB (I "111 the fort, there was a furious strug gU last night. The wa office an- aaHHuaa IVai f!lavmaM alfamftii Capture the village reeulted In fail ure. Southeast of Verdun, over the. lines bending sooth to St. Mlhlel, th Qermaria re pressing the attack. The French statement reports a futile German attack against Manheulles, ten miles southeast of Verdun, which may Indicate an ad vance In that' quarter, although the pre cise location of the front in this sector has hot been made known. Ofmii fptar Treaeheo. The text of the communication given out by the Frenrh war office reads: "In Belcium our batteries have bom barded German organisation located op posite Steenstrate. Mn the fhamparne In th region of the Navarln farm, north of Soualn. the enemy was successful by a surprise at tack In occupying certain trenches of our advance line. ..They also took a support ing trench. ''In the region north of Verdun the bombardment has continued with Inten sity,, particularly in the oentral sectors end on our right. There has been no further attack on fh Cota Du Folvre. "Yesterday evening Carman foroes mad several attempts to oocupy the village of Douaumont,' Their efforts were broken by the reslstsnre of our - troops, who withstood the most furious assaults. "There Is no change In the situation at the fort of Douaumont, which still re mains closely encircled. "The fighting is less spirited on the plateaus north of the village of Vaux." Aetl-rlty Aloagr Wwnt, "In the Wosvr district the enemy yes - terday evening and last night assumed sn attitude of greater activity. The rail road station at Elx, captured and recap tured several times by attacks and counter-attacks, now remains In our posses sion. "All the attacks against Hill No. 2CS, southeast of Elx, were futile, falling to dislodge our troops. "Our artillery Is combating with energy the bombardment of tha enemy along all this front. "In tha Vongits wa have bombarded sev eral German barrack m the region of Ban da Sept" Oercsaa Report Vtptertoa. BERLIN, Feb. H. (By Wireless te Cay vlile.V In the Verdun region fresh French "reserves were exhausted in fruitless ef forts against Fort Douaumont The Oer msns advanced their lines further toward Bras and VarherauvlUc- and made fresh gains in the Woevr. It la aald that all French troops have been driven from the Vlause peninsula. The capture ef Paravln farm In the Champagn waa annovaoed by the way office today. French positions en both side of Navarln farm, ever a front of about I.ftOO yarda, were taken. It Is aaid more than l.OOt men and nut machine una were captured. Stag o Coach Bandit Fears Prison Life Will Cause Death PEXVER, Colo., Feb. It-Edward B. iranon, convicted stage holaVop, n a letter to his raptor, James W. Melrose, special agent of the United States bureau of Investigation, tells of illness resulting from his confinement at Lar n worth. Kan., and contains an expres sion tt longing to return to Ufa tn the open hltla. in his letter made public to- ; day Trafton eeya: "I hare seen more sickness here than In tha forty rears I rambled through the hills. I am afraid I caJi't puil through. I miss tha clear, cold eights and the freedom of tha heights. It' tha cnmaie l tiuna. siaybe a Chang te 'shed' In the htll-oountry would take the kinks out of my system and give me a chance to live," Trafton waa recently sentenced by tha federal district court at Cheyenne for the stage holdup in Yellowstone Na tional park July . 1914. House Committee Votes to Report Free Sugar -Bill WASHINGTON. Feb. St. A favorable report oa the administration's bill to re peal the free sugar clause of the tariff law, which would become operative May 1. waa authorised today by nnaaimoua vote of the house waa and means com mittee. The bill will be brought up Thursday. The majority report relteratea that the repesl of the clause Is necessitated by conditions due to the war and estimates the proposed saving In revenue at 144. 000, 0M annually. Tha republican members, while voting for the repeat, probably will state their views In a minority report. jjuma Approves New Loan for Two Billion Rubles LONDON. Feb. .-Th flnaaoe com mittee of th Russian Duma, presided over by Premier Sturmer. haa approved the new war loan of 2.00C OjO.Ooo ruble, say Reuters Petrograd correspondent. Th Interest will be hii per cent. The loan will run for tea years, with the same privilege as wer given In connection 1th previous issues. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money If It falls to 'uie. K. W. Grove's signature on each box Sc. Advertise ranl. A Edward cansjw v.v.v- r . ' - , AIRSHIPS DESTROY - MUNITION PLANTS ; " 1 . v -J Berlin Report Says that Zeppelin Dropped Bombs on Factories at Birmingham and Bradford. SPIXNTNO MILLS ALSO WRECKED BERLIN, Feb. it. (By Wireless to 8ayvllle.) On the occasion of the lust Zeppelin raid over England two government factories and two am munition factories at Birmingham and one ammunition factory near Bradford were destroyed by bombs, the Overseas News agency says. The news agency statement, which supplements the account given out yesterday of the damage done by the airship attack on England on the night of January 31-February 1, fol lows: At Birmingham two government fao- triea and two ammunition facto, les were destroyed. One brewery waa damaged at Eoclee ' Kill. Near Bradford one am munition factory and three spinning mills were wrecked. At Partington our bombs destroyed twenty-two houses. On tha Humber a battery waa silenced. the cannon and' searchlights being seatroyad. . At Orlmeby and in the vicin ity of Hull considerable damage waa done as waa also the, oas at Sheffield. "Tha cruiser Caroline and tha destroy- era Eden and Nlth war sunk. The Caro line sank In six minutes, thirty-on mem bers of the crew being killed,, fifiy-elght wounded and forty-seven drowned." A Berlin dispatch en February 10 said that tha three warshlpa mentioned had bean aunk during the Zeppelin raid. This wa denied by the British aovernment which stated that neither the Carolina nor any other Britten warship nor any merchant ship waa struck by a bomb. PLEDGES GIVEN IN LUSITANIA CASE GOOD, SAYS KAISER (Continued from Teg On.) creates tha presumption that tha vessel la armed for offense. It I stated that - a submarine com mander cannot be exiwcted to warn an enemy merchantman which has a right te fir en the submarine which warns It, and th German government set up th contention that equipment and Intention te resist a warning given by a submarine does not com within the definition of defensive armament. otee Valted Btntee, Germany contends that a similar view point was taken by th United States and that It secured assurance from th Italian government that It armed mr onan snips leaving American porta would not fir oa submarines which warned them. The note then sets forth that the Ger man government did not Issue Its new In. tructlon to submarine commanders un til after It had com Into possession of confidential Instructions by th British government to th commanders of Brit Uh merchantman. It la denied that armed British merchant hlp of any descrip tion are peaceful trader, and It la de clared that the armament en beard all or mem u te be used especially for pur pose or attaak. The charg Is mad that Austrian sub marinea also . have been attacked by armed Brttleh merchantmen, whloh th not declare are not conforming, and hava no Intention of conforming to the assurances given to th United Statee by th lirtttsh government In a memoran dum of Agust IS. 114, by 8lr Cecil Bpring Rlc. th British ambassador. Th Qr man government say It cannot see how th American government. In considera tion or thea facta, can regard armed British merchantmen a peaceful trading ships. Sabsearlaea Will Be rarefaL Th not make it clear that tha Ber lin government believe lis new Instruc tion te submarine commander are In aocord with the viewpoint eipressed by th United fltatet In Its memorandum proposing a modus Vivendi to th entente allies for th disarmament of merchant ship. It declares that German submarine commanders bars been so Instructed that they will not destroy a merchant ship on a question of armament, unless It la known positively that such arma ment exists. The declaration that previous pledge will not be revoked also la formally given. Th efforts or th United States to have the belligerents agree te a modus Vivendi which would cause all merchant ships te be disarmed. It is declared, are welcomed by Germany. Then follows declaration that the German government will no longer allow Its submarine to be made the object of attack la violation of the principles ef Carhelita jolw International law and that, therefore, the new Instructions will not be post poned or modified. Twenty Attack Reported. Appended to the communication, which was signed by Count von Bernstorff, wss a list of about twenty Incidents where It la charged , German and Aus trian submarine have been attacked by merchantment armed ostensibly for de fensive purposee.- At no place In the communication Is It suggested that American cltlsena be warned to remain off armed merchant ships and the question of what consti tutes defensive armament I not brought VP. although It la admitted In various quarters that such a question probably will be raleed. ' Aaetrl Takes Same View. Raron Zwoldlnek. charg of th Aus trian embassy, called upon Secretary Lansing after Count Von Bernstorff had eft and Informed him that Germany' views, as set forth In. th ' pot from Count Von, Bernstorff, wer Identical with those of his own government, and that Austria, in effect, aecondedi. every thing contained In the German communi cation) ' . - . i , i Secretary tensing is understood to hfcve advised neither ef the Teutonio diplomat what th view of the United State would be toward the communication. It waa understood that th note would be brought to the attention of President Wilson before night, and that nothing definite regarding It would be decided until after it had been submitted to the cabinet meeting. HENRY JAMES DIES A BRITISH SUBJECT (Coutluued from Pag On.) might be. Notwithstanding thla Indtrfev. once he had, particularly among the English people, a host of reader, who virtually formed a cult known as th Jameeltc. Ciosrg Abruptly. One characteristic of Mr. James' novel la that they often closed abruptly, leav. Ing the reader In doubt concerning the subsequent fate of the actors in the story, whore other authors would Invent denouement. Further he boldly attacked visions which to the common eye were past seeing, and In thus attempting what Other writers deemed as the Impossible In literary art. he developed lnterlectual mase and verbal labyrinths that war too deep for th ordinary reader. It appeared to be Mr. James belief that the story that could be told waa not worth the telling, and. It wa his choloe, aa on of his critic declares, "te rigor ously set himself to tell th story that cannot be told." The controversy was a to whether he was successful. He con tended that It was of more Interest to th author to paint th various aimless way In which human being are actually thrown together than to construct an artificial complication of circumstances, and he wa Indifferent as to whether a comedy wa spoiled, or whether a tragedy broke down bfore th tragic crisis. Some ef HI Beka. Mr. James la aaid to have originated the International novel. Ills scenes for stories were laid in Europe and America. and. as the titles show, they covered a wide rang of life. In tha order r their appearance, soma of his more not able book were: "Watch and Ward." "Roderirk Hudson." "Th American." "The Euro Dean." "Daisy MUW rw- Madonna of the Future," "An Interna tional Episode." "Washington Square." "The Portrait of a Lady." "The flesa of London." "Tales of Three Pities." Ph. SoatonUna," 'Tfte Reverberator." "A London Ufe," "Th Tragi Muse." "The Lesson of th Master," "Th Private Ufe," "Terminations," "Th Spoils of Poynton." "What Mats! Knew." "The Two Magic," "in th Ca." "The Awkward Aae." "Tha Soft Hide" "n ftacred Fount." and Th Wing of th Dove." In th New Tear honors, which Kins George conferred in Januarv. 191t ir James was awarded the Order of Merit. The novelist had been from th first a staunch supporter of the British cause In the European war. At the time b took his oath of allegiance t the king. In July, IMS, h was quoted aa discussing th relations between th two great Anglo-Paxon people as follows: "Our whole race tension became for me a sublimely conscious thing from the moment Germany flung at us all its ex rlarattons of Its pounce upon Belgium for massacre and ravage In the form of the most insolent foerauee I choose to ("amn you all," record In history." MAIL SHIP STRIKES A MIKE IXDNDON, Feb. 28. The Russian steamship Pelshonga haa been sunk. Fifteen of those aboard wre saved. The Petshenga was formerly the German steamship Erik Larsen, which wss csptured by the Russians early In the war. It was of 1,647 gross tonnage and was 260 feet long. The steamship Blrglt has been sunk. Seventeen survivors have been landed. The British steamship 8eulver, from New York February 11 for Havre, has been abandoned afjre at sea, according to a dispatch to Lloyds from Inlshtrahull, Ireland. All the members ef the crew are reported to have been taken off by another eteamer. The bodies of right sailors and the cap tain of the Wilson liner. Dido, which wan sunk on February M, war washed nshore today at Donna Hook, Lincolnshire. Shin Lost Off Fleshing. FLUSHING. Holland (Via tondoni, Feb. JT The mall steamer Mecklenburg of the Zeeland Una ran on a mine while on a voyage from Tilbury to Flushing. The vessel was lost. Officials of the line state that th passengers and crew and the mall were aaved. Th passengers, crew and malls of the Mecklenburg were taken off by the Hol land-American liner, 'A'eiterdljk. The Zeeland service ha been provi sionally suspended. Th Dido, a vessel of 4,85 tona, carried a crew of twenty-nine men. The flret re ports cf It sinking said that th captain and two of the crew had been landed by a Belgian steamer. There are three small steamer of th name of Blrglt, according to shipping records, two Swedish and one Norwegian. Th largeat of the three Is 230 feet long and of 1.117 gross tonnage. The vessel file th Swedish flag. Th Mecklenburg waa 2.8 tona groas and was built at Glasgow in 1909. Tha vessel waa 840 feet long, forty-two beam and sixteen feet deep. Families of Euss Jews in America May Join Them NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Th Russian government ha granted permission to th wives and daughters of men who came to America before th war to leave Russia and loin their relatives In Amer ica, says Leon Sander, president of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant So ciety of America. The news cam In a message from Isi dore Hershfleld. a lawyer, who was sent by th society to glv relief te th Jew ish war sufferers In Poland and Qallcla. Tha rnasaag was forwarded by Ambas sador Gerard at Berlin to Secretary of Stat ' Lansing In Washington, who transmitted tt tn Mr. Sander. Th society has been trying for a long tima to obtain thla permission. Mr. San ders said that there wer many Russian Jews who cam to America before the war and who now hava the means to support their families here, but who had bean unabl to bring them over be cause heretofore the Russian government would not permit them tol eav. DODGE ESCAPES FROM IOWA PENITENTIARY BURLINGTON , la., Feb. Smith. Dodge of Burlington, serving a thirty years' sentencs for murder tn th state penitentiary at Fort Madison, escaped last night Dodge had charge of th wagon gat of th prison and slipped out under cover of a military wagon. H wa sent down from Burlington In De cember, 1911, for stabbing a man In a drunken row, H 1 regarded a a des perate criminal. PROVEH SWAMP-ROOT AIDS WEAK RIDilEYS Th symptoms of kidney and bladder .trouble ar often very distressing and leave th system In a run-down condi tion. Th kidney seem to suffer noit aa almost every victim complains of lam back and urinary troubles which should not be neglected, aa these danger signals often lead to dangerous kidney troubles. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, which soon heal and etrengtheng th kidney. I a splendid kidney, liver and bladder rem edy, and, being an herbal compound, hai a gentle healing effect on th kidneys. which I almoat immediately noticed in most oases by those who us It. A trial will convince anyon who ma be In need of It. Better get a bottle from your nearest drug store, and start treat ment at enoe. . However, If you wish first to test this great preparation, send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer A Co., Blnghamton, N. T.. for a sample bottle. When writing be sura and mention Th Omaha Dally Be. Photo Engravings I Not hew cheap, bat how rwl. Ton rroosbly have experienced a trrln errrument with your orlnter over the faulty arir ance of some crlntlnr work you war Interested In having a Bear Perfect aa possible. A printer cannot obtain su perior results from Inferior photo engraved pistes. We make the very boat plate for all kinds of printing that equipment, high priced labor snd car will produce. Bee Engraving Dept. Tylsr 10. Bee Building. Omaha. Neb. 4. ni WILL TRY TO EXTEND STRIKE SIOUX CITT. Ia., Feb. 28. No signs of peace In the packing house strike. Involving 2,600 men, were in sight today. On Saturday It was believed the men would be back at work today, but over Sunday the breach widened, the men turning down the terms of the packers 21 cents an hour for common laborers and deciding to hold out for 22 Vk cents an hour for all common laborers, which Is 3 cents above the present scale. A pro portionate advance Is asked for skilled men. The strikers declare there will be no settlement unless their demand Is met. It Is said by the strikers that they are making efforts to call sympa thetic strikes In the packing plants in other western cities. Knight Explains Plans for Largest Navy in the World WASHINOTON. D. C. Feb. 2S.The navy general board's conception of the needs of the United States as a naval power were outlined to the house naval committee today by Rear Admiral Aus tin M. Knight, president of the Navy War college. In formulating th policy that the navy should equal th strongest afroat by 193. ha said the board had In mind the establishment of two fleets, one in the Taclflc powerful enough to overcome any enemy there, and th other In th At lantic, where It would be exceeded In strength only by the British fleet. A total force slightly In excess of the strength of the British fleet, ha said, would accomplish this purpose and In sure th country against ninety-nine out of a hundred possibilities of International complications. AMVSEMRMTS. Dare She Harry? Would present happiness pay for a llf of misery or sadden deatnT Oaa sin be hidden from tha eyes of man and never oome to light Wby did aha not think of the evil tongned man whoa hat was dead lier than th bit of a snakeT We arc all human, and prone to srr. Boat Judg hr hastily, rirrt se KITTY GORDON '. ..!.. v . "As in a Looking Glass" Boyd Theater TODAY, Wednesday and Thursday Ualcony 5c Xxmer Floor 10c Continuous 1 to 11 P. M. 1 i JBHIIFi Wl RRAIJDEIS tonight as u TKZATsa Wednesday. 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