TEUTONS SUFFER
HEAVY LOSS ON
t VERDUN FRONi
Germans Advance After Heavy
Artillery Bombardment of
j; French Trenches; Repulsed
: at All Points.
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' Pan's, Jan. 8. German troops which
attempted to advance on the Verdun
front after s bombardment were
driven back by the French fire last
nigtt, it Is announced officially.
Heavy artillery fighting continues on
the Champagne front,
V ' The report follows i "In the Cham
pagne there was active reciprocal ar
tillery fighting in the region of
Heights.
."On the left bank of the Meuie
(Verdun front), after a lively bom
bardment, the enemy attempted to ap
proach the French line in the region
of Bethincourt The French, fire broke
up the effort, inflicting losses on the
enemy.,
No French Losses.
The French, without losses, made
a successful incursion into the Cer
man lines west ctf Roureuilles. The
night was calm everywhere else.
"On Sunday French pilots brought
down or severely damaged six oer.
man airplanes. - French -bombing
squadrons carried out several opera
tions on Saturday night Chemical
works at Ludwigshafen,' railroad sta
tions at ' Fribburg-En-Bn'sgau, the
aviation ground -at Neubrelsach and
factories at Rombach, Maizieres and
Hagondajge were bombed with many
projectiles'
' Greek Riot Claims
Allowed by Committee
. Washington, Jan. 8. (Special
Telegram.) The so-caned ureeu not
claims of South Omaha have been re
ported "from the foreign relations
committee of the house; allowing
claims aggregating $40,000. ;The Aus
trian and, Turkish claims were disal
lowed. . . .
Representative Lobeak has reintro
duced his bill for the classification of
salaries of veterinary inspectors and
ley Inspectors, (grades 1 and 2), em
ployed in the bureau of animal indus
try. It effects over 200 employes in
South Omaha alone and affects 5,000
employes throughout the country.;
Cortes May Be Retained
i oy apanisn uovernmeni
Madrid, Jan. 8.-r-Mrquis Alhuce
mas, the Spanish premier, declared to
lay that the government had decided
to consider the decree dissolving the
Cortes as not having been signed. The
ministry, he said, proposes to submit
a new decree to the king, thus giving
him opportunity of studying the sit
uation afresh before signing.
' vi.. i ,4 . At..
solving Parliament Thursday and it
, was announced elections would be
held February 17. Dissolution of Par
liament was decided upon by the cab
inet early in December. '
'Increase In Commodity y
: Rates Sought by Roads
: Washington, Jan. 8.Fif teen per
cent increase in commodity rates were
sought in an application filed with the
Interstate Commerce commission to
day by eastern trunk line railroads
operating in connection with steam
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York, Philadelphia' and Baltimore to
Washington, Richmond, Norfolk,
Newport News and other Virginia
points, Pinner's Point, Md.,and other
points south of these gateways.
Chamberlain Guilty and
!' Is Sentenced for Life
Gothland, Vs., Jan. 8. Dr. Asal
vv. Chamberlain today was found
guilty of the murder of his brother
end sentenced to life imprisonment.
, Entente Program
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(Conllnu4 From rf On,)
meflts of trade, if it is willing to as
sociate itself, with us and the other
peace-loving nations of )he world in
covenants of 'justice and law and
fair dealing. Neither do we presume
to suggest to It any alteration or
modification of Its institutions.
, "But it is necessary, we must frank
ly say, jind necessary as a preliminary
to any inteliitfcnt dealings with it on
; our part, that we should know whom
' its spokesman speak for when they
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man Reichstag majority or" for the
military' party and the men whose
creed is imperial domination."
' German Challenge. . N
The president made clear at the
outset that the German statesmen
- having again challenged their adver
saries to a restatement of war aims,
he undertook to respond to it with
the utmost candor. The British pre
mier's declaration, the president re-
(erred to as having been spoken with
"admirable candor and in admirable
spirit for the people and government
of Great Britain." "
The only secrecy of counsel," he
, added, "the only, lack of fearless
frankness, the only failure to make
statement oHhe objects of the war,
lies with Germany and its allies."
, VOICE OF RUSSIANS
The voice of the' Russian people,
prostrate and all but helpless with
power apparently shattered, but souls
not subrervient, called for a statement
of aims, and, the president added, be
responded "with utter simplicity and
f rankneia " , . -
. At this point the; president went
on to enumerate the 14 essentials of
his program. ...
1 Significant Incident. . .
, The whole incident is full of sig
nificance. It is also full of perplexity.
With whom are the Russian represen
tatives dealing? For whom are the
representatives of the central empires
Jspeaking? Are they speaking for the
, majorities of their respective parlia
ments or for the minority parties, that
military and Imperialistic minority
which hst so far dominated their
whole policy and controlled the af-
fairs of Turkey and of the Balkan
states, which have felt obliged to be
come their associates in this war?
The Russian representatives have
''nsisted, very justly, very wiseiy and
n the true spirit of democracy, that
the conferences they have been hold
ing with Teutonic and Turkish states
men should be held within open, not
closed doors, and all the world has
been audience, as wis desired.
To whom have we been listening
then? To those who speak the spirit
and intention of the resolutions of
the German Reichstag of the 9th of
July, last; the spirit andjntention of
the liberal leaders and partTes of Ger
many, or to those who resist and defy
that spirit and intention and insist
upon conquest and subjugation? Or
are we listening, in fact, to both
unreconciled and in open and hooe
less contradiction? These are very
serious and pregnant questions. Upon
the answer to them depends the peace
of the world.
But whatever the results of the par
leys at Brest-Litovsk, whatever the
confusions of counsel and of purpose
in the utterances of the spokesmen of
the central empires, they have again
attempted to acquaint the world with
their objects in the war and have
again challenged their adversaries to
say what their objects are and what
sort of settlement they would deem
just and satisfactory. There is no
good reason x why that challenge
should not be responded to, and re
sponded to with the utmost candor.
We did not wait for it. Not once,
but again and again we have laid our
whole thought and purpose before the
world, not in general terms only, but
each time with sufficient definition to
make it clear what sort of definitive
terms of settlement must necessarily
spring out of them.
No Confusion.
Within the last week Mr. Lloyd
George has spoken with admirable
candor and in admirable spirit for the
people and government of Great
Britain. There is no confusion of
counsel among the adversaries of the
central powers, no uncertainty of
principle, no vagueness of detail. The
only secrecy of counsel, the only lack
of fearless frankness, the only failure
to make a definite statement of the
objects of the war lies with Germany
and its allies.
The issues of life and death hang
upon these definitions. No statesman
who has the least conception of his
responsibility ought for a moment to
permit himself to continue this tragi
cal and appalling outpouring of blood
and treasure unless he is aure beyond
u peradventure that the objects of the
vital sacrifice are part and parcel of
the very life of society and that the
people for whom he speakc think
them right and Imperative at he
doec.
There is. moreover, a voice calling
for these definitions of principles and
of purpose which is, it seems to me,
more thrilling and more compelling
than any of the many moving voices
with which the troubled air of the
world is filled. It Is the voice of the
Russian people. They are prostrate
and all but helpless, it would seem,
before the grim power of Germany,
which has hitherto known no relent
ing and no pity. Their power appar
ently is shattered and yet their soul
is not subservient. They will not yield
either in principle or in action.
"""" Conception of Eight
The conception of what Is right,
of what it is humane and honorable
for them to accept, has been stated
with a frankntss, a largeness of view,
a generosity of spirit and a universal
human sympathy which must chal
lenge the admiration of every friend
of mankind; and they have refused
to compound their ideals or desert
Others that they themselves may be
safe. They call to us to say what
it is that we desire, in what, if in
anything, our purpose and our spirits
diner from theirs: and I believe that
the people of the United States would
wish me to respond with utter sim
plicity and frankness.
Whether their leaders believe it or
not it It our heartfelt desire and hope
that tome way may be opened
whereby we may be privileged to as.
tltt the aople of Russia to attain
their utmost hope of liberty and or
dered peaee.
It will be our wish and purpose that
the processes of peace, when they are
begun, shall be absolutely open and
that they shall involve and permit
henceforth no secret understandings
of any kind. The day of conquest
and aggrandisement it gone by; to it
also the day of secret covenents en
tered into-4n the interest of particu
lar governments and likely at some
unlooked-for moment to upset the
peace of the world.
It is this happy fact, now clear to
the view of every public man whose
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SHIRTS
Sale Starts Wednesday,
Jan. 9th, 1918.
Regular Sale
Price Price
$2.00 $1.65
$2.50 $1.85
, $3.00...... $2.15
$3.50...... $2.85
$4 & $4.50.. $3.15
$5.00 $3.85
$6 & $6.50.. $4.85
$8.00...... $6.35
$10 & $12.. $7.65
, $13.50 $8.35
Our Half Price Sale on
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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1918.
thoughts do not still linger in an age
that is dead and gone, which makes it
possible for every nation whose pur
poses are consistent with justice and
the peace of the world to avow now
or at any other time the objects it
has in view.
Why United States is at War.
We entered this war because vio
lations of right had occurred which
touched us to the quick and made the
life of our own people impossible, un
less they were corrected and the
world setured once for all against
their recurrence. What we demand
in thit war, therefore, is nothing pe
culiar to ourselves.
It it that the world be mads fit and
safe to liv in: and, particularly, that
it be made safe for every peace-loving
nation, which, like our own,
wishes to live its own life, determine
its own institutions, be assured of
justice and fair dealings by other
people of the world as against force
and selfish aggression.
All tbe peoples of the world are, in
effect, partners in this interest and,
for our own part, we see very clearly
that unless justice be done to others
it will not be done to us. The pro
gram of the world's peace, therefore,
is our program, ana that program,
the only possible program, as we tee
it. is this:
1. Open covenants of peace, openly
arrived at, after which there shall be
no private international understand
ings of any kind, but diplomacy shall
proceed Always frankly and in tbe
public view.
2. Absolute freedom of navigation
upon the seas outside territorial wa
ters alike in peace and in war, except
as the seas may be closed in whole
or in part by international action for
the enforcement ot international cov
enants.
i. The removal, so far as possible,
of all economic barriers and the es
tablishment of an equality of trade
conditions among all the nations con
senting to the peace and associating
themselves for its maintenance.
4. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national armaments - will
be reduced to the lowest point consist
ent with domestic safety.
5. A free, open minded and abso
lutely impartial adjustment of all
colonial claims, based upon a strict
observance of the principle that in de
termining all such questions of
sovereignty the interestt of the popu
lations concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claims of
the government whose title it to be
determined.
EVACUATE RUSSIA.
6. The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such a tettlement of all
questions affecting Russia at will se
cure the beat and freest co-operation
of the other nationt of the world in
obtaining for her an unhampered and
unembarrassed opportunity for the
independent determination of her own
political development and national
policy and assure her of 1 sincere wel
come Into the society of free nationt
under institutions of her own choos
ing; and, more than a welcome, as
sistance also of every kind that she
may need and may herself desire. The
treatment accorded Russia by her
sister nations in the months to come
will be the acid test of their good
will, of the comprehension of her
needs as distinguished from their own
interests, and of their intelligent aiTd
unselfish sympathy.
7. Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and re.
stored without any attempt to limit
the sovereignty which the enjoys in
common with all other free nations.
No other single act will serve as this
will to restore confidence among the
nations in the laws which thev have
themselves set and determined for the
government of their relations with
orie another. Without this healing
act, the whole structure and validity
of international law is forever im
paired. RESTORE ALSACE-LORRAINE.
8. All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portiona re
stored and the wrong done to France
by Prussia in 1871 Tn the matter of
Alsace-Lorraine, which hat unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly 50
years, thould be righted, in order that
peace may once more be made tecure
in the interest of all.
9. A readjustment of th frontiers
bf Italy thould be effected along
clearly recognizable lines of nation
ality. 10. The peoples of Austria Hun
gary, whose place among the na
tions we with to see safeguarded and
assured, should be accorded the freest
opportunity of autonomous develop
ment. 11. Roumania, Serbia and Monte
negro should te evacuated; occupied
territories restored, Serbia accorded
freendsecurcces8 to tjiejejij
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and the relations of the sevsrsl Bal
kan states to one another determined
by friendly counsel along historically
established lines of allegiance and na
tionality, and international guaran
tees of the political end economic
independence and territorial integrity
of the several Balkan states should
be entered into.
Turkish Sovereignty,
12, The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman empire should be
assured a secure sovereignty, but the
other nationalities which are now un.
der Turkish rule should be assured
an undoubted security of life and an
absolutely unmolested opportunity of
autonomous development, 'and .the
Dardanelles should be permanently
opened as a free passage to the ships
and commerce of all nations under
international guarantees, '
13. An independent Polish - state
should be erected which should include
the territories inhabited by indisput
ably Polish populations, which should
be assured a free and secure access
to the sea and whose political and
economic independence and territorial
integrity should be guaranteed by in
ternational covenant.
14. A general association of na
tions must be formed under specific
covenant for the purpose of afford
ing mutual, guarantees of political in
dependence and territorial integrity
to great and small states alike.
In regard to these essential recti
fieationa.of wrong and assertions of
right we feel ourselves to be intimate
partners vf all the governments and
peoples associated together against
tne imperialists, we cannot oe sepa
rated in interest or divided in purpose.
We stand together until the end.
. .Willing to Fight. '
For such arrangements and cove
nants, we are willing to fight, and -to
continue to fight, until they are
achieved; but only because we wish
the right to prevail and desire a just
and stable peace such as can be se
cured only- by removing the chief
provocations to war, which this pro
gram does remove. 1
We have no jealousy of uerman
greatness, and there is nothing in thit
program that impairs it. , We grudge
no achievement or distinction of
learning or of pacific enterprise such
as have made its record very bright
and very enviable. We do not wish
to injure it or to block in any way its
legitimate influence or power. We
do not wish to fight it either with
trmt or with hostile arrangements
of trade, if tt it willing to associate
itself with us and the other peace-
loving nations of the world in cove
nants of justice and law and fair deal
ing, we wish it only to accept a
place of equality among the peoples
of the world the new world in whwh
we now live instead of a place of
mastery.
Neither do we presume to suggest
to it any alteration or modification
of its, institutions. But it is neces
sary, we must frankly say, and nec
essary as a preliminary to any intci-
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ligent dealings with it on our- part,
that we Should know whom its spokes
men speak for when they speak to us,
whether for the Reichstag majority
or for the military party, and the men
whose creed is imperial domination.
Concrete Terms. 1
We have spoken now, surely, in
terms too concrete to admit of any
further douht or- question, An evident
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choose from the best selec
tion of patterns and colors.
Soft and stiff cuff styles,
sizes 14 to 18. 1
$1.75 Manhattans, $1.35
$2.00 Manhattans, $1.65
' $2.50 Manhattans, $1.85
$3.00 Manhattans, $2.15
$3.50 Manhattans, $2.85
$4.00 Manhattans,. $3.15
; $5.00 Manhattans, $3.85
$6.00 Manhattans, $4.85
$6.50 Manhattans, 4.85
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To th Uft as you entar
Children's Muslin
Underwear
In a Sale Wednesday
Mothers will appreciate this op
portunity to buy undermuslins for
little folks at such interesting low
prices.
CHILDREN'S GOWNS and
SKIRTS, reduced from $1 to 79c,
$1.85 to 96e, $1.65 and $1.75 to
$1.29, $2.25 and $2.35 to $1.69.
CHILDREN'S DRAWERS are re
duced from 20c and 23c to 15e,
25c and 30c to 19c, 35c, 40c and
45c to 23c, 60c' and 60c to 39c,
85c and $1 to 69.
CHILDREN'S SKIRTS reduced)
from $1.50f $1.69 and $1.75 to
98c, $1.35 to 69c, 75c to 49c.
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Important to make
Wednesday shopping
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principle runs through the whole pro
gram I have outlined. It is the prin
ciple of justice to all peoples and na
tionalities and their right to live on
equal terms of liberty and safety with
one another, whether they be strong
or weak. Unless this principle be
made its 1 foundation no part of the
structure of international jostles tan
stand. The people of tht United
January Sale of Skirts
The thirty-eight separate skirts remaining in,
stbckwill be sold at two prices, $7.95 and $15.
Skirts priced $10.50
to $1.50 will &7 QC
be sold for'0
A small charge for alterations. All sales final.
Linens at These Low. Prices
, Find Buyers Rapidly
Pattern Cloths
$4.00 qualities for $2.98
$4.50 qualities for $3.75
Napkin Specials
$4.00 Napkins, $3.75 a dozen
$8.75 Napkins, $5.00 a dozen
$6.98 Napkins, $5.38 a dozen
$2.50 Pillow Cases
T Wednesday, $2 a pair.
Hemstitched and embroidered
Wednesday Special
H. S; Huck Towels, 29c.
' Women's
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Most of these shoes are of black
kid nd patent leather. The
stylet are good, nothing unde
sirable in the whole assortment.
Not every size in each style.
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Formerly eold up to $7 a pair.
Wednesday, $3.85.
During the January Sale you'll
find extra values in all of our
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States could act upon no other prin
ciple and t the vindication of this
principle they are ready to devote
their lives, their honor and everything
that they possess. The moral climax
of this, tV culminating and final war
for hums if' erty,-he come, and they
are read) j) put their, strength, their
own hlgh 4 t purpose. W !'rn in
tegrity anl devotion to t tt
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to $35 will-$15
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Linen Guest Towels
50c Guest Towels, 39c
75c Guest Towels, 50c
85c Guest Towels, 65c
$1.00 Guest Towels, 85c
Huck Toweling
By the Yard.
50o (15-inch) Toweling, 40c
65e (15-inch) Toweling, 55o
75cj (15-inch) Toweling, 61c
75c (18-inch) Toweling, 65c
85c (20-inch) Toweling, 75c
$1 (22-inch) Toweling, 90c
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