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10 GET YOUR WANT-AD IN THE BIG SUNDAY SECTION PHONE TYLER 1000 BY 9 O'CLOCK The Omaha Daily Bee j " : VOL. XLVII-NO. 299. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1918-20 PAGES " SMWVrA. TWO CENTS. ' : : -9 - - r--.Zr BOHEMIA N THROES OF REVOLT Austrian Flag .Pulled Down, ..Public Building Burned, News ' paper Offices Sacked; Mar tial Law in Bosnia. (By Associated Press.) London, May 31. Riots and internal disorders of all kinds are 'increasing in Bohemia. A Vienna newspaper says that what is happening today in Bohemia resembles the Lom- bardi and Venetian uprisings ra 1848, except that today the empire is hampered by its en gagements in a war from which it does not see a way to escape. At Chozen crowds, dispersed by po lice brutally, set fire to the barracks nd to the city hall, where the mounted police were lodged. Eight of the officers were burned to death. At Kolin the people pulled down the Austrian flag and raised the Bohem ian flag. Public buildings have been burned at Tabor and other towns in fBohemia'and in Olmutz, Moravia. At Prague the offices of the German newspapers, the Zeitung and Neueste Nachrichten were sacked. Situation at Prague Grave. The Prague correspondent of the . Stuttgart . Neueste Nachrichten tele- - graphed to his paper that the events of last Sunday at Prague exceeded in gravity 'all the previous demonstra tions. The Neiu Freie Prese of Vienna appeals to all conservative elements for the preservation of the Austrian state, asserting that "only the tenacity and union of those who desire the preservation of the state can make the monarchy survive this great crisis." The Croation press reports that martial law has been proclaimed in Bosnia, that rioting has occurred in various towns and that the Italo-Slav entente is daily becoming stronger. Under German Domination. .Washington, May 31. Complete subjugation of Austria-Hungary to German domination and the elimina tion of any hope for even semi-inde-pendence that may have been enter tained by the Czechs, Jugo-Slavs and other anti-German elements in the dual monarchy is seen here as the certain result of the new military treaty between Germany and Austria Hungary. The State department has just re ceived what is believed to be the text of this remarkable s, announcement which confirms the general statements -of its provisions already announced in the press. Among other things it shows that if there ever was a com mon ground upon which the United States might have desired peace with Austria it has disappeared along with what liberty of action had been left to the dual monarchy by its ally. In this treaty as officials here interpret it, Austria-Hungary surren ders to Germany, not only for the pres ent, but for the future as well, the complete control of its military estab lishment, in time of peace as well as in war. This carries with it the right - to organize the Austrian army even to its personnel, which means that the Germans will hold to military service under its own commanders, if necessary, every fit Slav, Czech, Italian, Pole and Roumanian compris ing the population of the Austro Hungafian empire. It follows that there can be no political independence of these people. Germans Try to Deceive Italians With False Story Washington, May 31. A new Ger- man propaganda designed to destroy the Italian people's confidence in the United States was disclosed today in official dispatches saying thousands of copies of German newspapers had been distributed in Italy carrying a story that the recent 'message of President Wilson to Italy was ad dressed in fact to France and that the Italian government substituted the words "Italy" and "Italian." As an explanation of the propa ganda, officials today suggested that the Austro-German authorities might be in fear of an Italian offensive. In ternal conditions in Austria, it was said, make unlikely an Austrian of fensive at this time. Wales' Visit to the Pope " Explained to Parliament London, May 31. Chancellor Bonar Law, spokesman in the House of Commons for the war cabinet, an nounced today that the visit recently paid by the Prince of Wales to Pope Benedict was on the advice of the British government and strictly in ac cordance with precedent, HUNS WOUNDED PINNED IN WRECKAGE DIE AMIDST FLAMES Canadian Red Cross Institution Attacked by Aviators Who Located Mark by Lighting Brilliant Flare; Ameri can Medical Officer Among Those Killed; Heroes Risk Lives to Rescue Patients. (By Associated Press.) With the British Army in France, May 31. Early Thurs day morning German airmen bombed another hospital this time a Canadian institution and exacted a considerable toll of casualties. Among those killed by the explosion or flames was an American medical officer who was administering an anaesthet ic to a British officer in the operatng room. The raid occurred at 12:30 o'clock in the morning. The hospital attacked was a large one and was marked by huge Red Cross signs. O LIGHT FLARE. 1,800 RAIL MEN WALK OUT OF R. I. SHOPSATMOLINE Strike to Enforce Demand for Revision of Wage,, Award Begun " in Disregard of Official Appeals. Moline, ,111., May 31. Eighteen hundred employes in the Silvis shops of- the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa cific railroad walked out today to en force a demand to Director General McAdoo for revision of the recent wage award. The men want 75 cents an hour minimum and time and a half for overtime on an eight-hour basis. The wage award fixed a minimum- of 55 cents an hour. Appeals of Superin tendent Mullinix and other officials were of no avail. Monday the men wired demands to Washington. Washington Sends Mediators. Washington, May 31. John P. Kane of Omaha, and John McAnamy of Chicago, superintendent of equip ment for railroad administration, were directed today to proceed to Silvis, 111., to explain the wage situation to Rock Island shopmen there. Claims of machinists and other rail road shopmen for higher wages than were allowed by Director General Mc Adoo's recent order is one of the first questions to be considered by the board oi railroad wage and working conditions when it meets here tomor row for the first time since its crea tion. 'Thousands of railroad men tomor row will receive higher pay. Bee Suriday Features S If you were pleased with The Bee offerings last Sun day, you will be doubly entertained with the budget of features prepared for The Bee's constantly increasing clientele in tomorrow's edition. t WOMEN'S MOTOR CORPS Something new in the war activities of Omaha women their latest innovation in patriotic endeavor. Action pictures in half-tone. JUNE WAR BRIDES Women writers present a real beauty show in June Brides Omaha girls. Feminine loveliness delineated in at tractive photographic art schemes. OMAHA REMINISCENCES Here's a story brimful of local interest that will bring into every Nebraska home a flood of delightful memories. A page picture layout THE WEEKLY BUMBLE BEE Prof. A. Stinger guarantees to chase Dull Care out of house and home. It is a "regular" feature by a "regular guy." Tomorrow, as usual. REAL ESTATE ACTIVITIES Industrial progress, residential evolu tion and civic improvement in Omaha are detailed in breezy style by a reliable staff writer. HOW THE NEGRO IS HELPING UNCLE SAM This is a revelation in Nebraska patriotism the loyalty, energy and bravery displayed by the negro population what the men and women are doing. OUR FUNMAKERS IN COLORS If you wish to meet them, ask any child in the city or state. Tomorrow, Little Jimmy, Happy, Mr. Jiggs and the Katzenjammers with belU on. AN OMAHA BOY IN NEW YORK If you've ever rambled around Luna park or visited the world famous Hippodrome, you've heard of this fellow and he started out in Omaha. IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS The Bee's sporting section is what clean sportsmen stand by. The best, most complete, west of Chi cago, east of Frisco. 1 The Sunday Bee is one of the Sunday EssentialsDon't miss it. AGAIN BOMB HOSPITAL The German airmen, working part ly in the light of the moon, dropped four bombs near the hospital and then, apparently not able to see ex actly where they were hitting, lighted a brilliant flare to -illuminate the sur roundings. As the place was lighted up by this flare they released ajiother bomb or two which dropped squarely on a large wing of the hospital. " ' . , Part of the wing was demolished and many persons vere killed , and wounded when the Building' collapsed and buried them. The demolished wing caught lire and burned fiercely with many victims still pinned in the wreckage. Nothing more awful has occurred in the annals of the hospital service since the war began. Patients Hurriedly Removed. Every available person in the neighborhood was called out to assist in the rescue work. With the assist ance of ladders and other fire appa ratus, the hospital proper was rapidly emptied of patients and personnel. It was a desperate situation. What was left of the big wing was a roaring furnace. Many unconscious forms were car ried out by heroic men who risked their lives to reach them. Excellent work on the part of the firemen fin ally resulted in the fire being extin guished, but there were still many victims, including more than one sis ter, buried in the ruins. There was no hope that they were alive. Airmen Blow Up Powder Magazine at Zoebrugge Amsterdam, , May 31. A long, heavy aerial bombardment was made on Zeebrugge Thursday night and at about 1 o'clock this morning there was a tremendous crash. Flames rose high and it is supposed that a powder magazine was exploded, according to a Flushing dispatch to the Telaagraf. Knitters Making Rapid Inroads on Wool Supply Washington, May 31. Ten mil lion American women knitting for soldiers are fast knitting away the wool supply, Representative Olney of Massachusetts, told the house to day. The quartermaster general's de partment of the army, he said, had to ask the Red Cross to suggest that women confine their knitting to articles most needed, because of the amount of raw materials used. Mr. Olney said the American do mestic wool supply source had dwindled from 55,000,000 sheep five years ago to 47,000,000 sheep today. BIG STEAMER TORPEDOED ON VOYAGE HOME As Attack Occurred by Day light and Ship Remained Afloat Hour, Casualty List Probably Is Small. , (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 31. Loss of the homeward bound Amer ican transport, President Lin coln, was reported today by Vice Admiral Simms. The mes sage said the vessel was tor pedoed at 10:40 o'clpck this morning and went down an hour later. It made no mention of casualties and did not dis close the position of the vessel. Navy officials feel that as the attack occured by daylight and the ship remained afloat an hour the casualty list would be small. One of 20 Survives. An Atlantic Port, May 31. The American steamer Amackassin, a ves sel of 266 tons gross, formerly run ning between New York and Hast-ings-on-Hudson, was sunk by a Ger man submarine near Gibraltar in the early part of April, with a possible loss of all but one of its crew of 20, according to Edward Madison, the survivor, who arrived today on an Italian ship. Passengers Die Under Hun Fire. Washington, May 31. News of the shelling of the Spanish steamer Maria Pia, which caused the death of her captain and several passengers, reached here today in diplomatic dis patches. The- vessel reached a Spanish port after the encounter. The steamer encountered the U boat off the Chaffarinas island. One shell killed the captain in his state room, as well as one of the crew and wounded a woman passenger. lhe submarine came to the surface and aided in the rescue of the pas sengers. The commander expressed his regrets, asserting that he did not know the steamer was a Spanish boat. Two U-Boats Sunk. An Atlantic Port, May 31. Two of Germany's newest and largest sub marines of the cruiser class were sunk May 17 and 18, near Gibraltar, according to passengers who arrived here today on an Italian steamship. The U-boats were sunk by allied de stroyers and from one of them pris oners were taken, the passengers as serted. The Italian liner was held at Gibraltar, while the sea lane through which she sailed, wa: cleared of the enemy. Recent cable reports carried the of ficial announcement that one of Ger many's new submarines had been de stroyed. A German report subse quently stated that the admiralty had reported that one of these boats was long overdue. Steamer Rams Submarine. An Atlantic Port, May 31. A Ger man submarine lying in wait for transports carrying American troops was rammed and sunk by a large transport off the Irish coast during the second week in May, according to authentic information brought here today by a prominent American re turning from an important mission to England. The ship which sunk the submarine is one of the largest liners known to American and European travelers and hit the U-boat full admidships after a torpedo had been fired and the transport was maneuvering to make way for accompanying destroyers to drop depth charges. It is possible, the American said, that the subma rine might have been forced to the surface by one of the explosions, but at any rate it came up less than 50 yards in front of the liner. In full viw of the soldiers on its deck, the big steamship rammed the submarine and "cut it like a piece of cheese," the American said. ENEMY ADVANCES 26 MILES IN AISNE RUSH IN British General Staff Announces Situation Must Remain Anxious as Long as Crown Prince Has Reserves Available; Fall of Rheims Foreshadowed; German Plans Cannot be Fathomed. (By Associated Press.) London, May 31. The Germans in the Champagne of fensive in France have reached the right bank of the river Marne on a 10-mile front, according to a statement given to the Associated Press today by the British general staff. The statement says that the Germans have not yet entered Chateau Thierry, but that they were attacking heavily thero and to the northward. The announcement, which is said to express the opinion of the general staff, continues: "The situation around Rheims is not quite clear, but if it is not already lost, it seems clear it must fall very soon. P.XTENn RATTTJCFRONT. O "Vesterday the French were driven back to a line from Noyon to Sois sons. "A new development is the German attempt to extend their attacks to the east of Rheims, where they were re ported to be attacking last night, but no further details have yet been re ceived. . 'The situation is a very anxious one, not only, because the Germans have made' such npid progress an ad vance of 26 miles in four days but also because they still have such large reserves available to be thrown into the battle at any point. Crown Prince Uses Up Reserves. "Our transport of reserves has worked very well and there is reason to hope that the Germans wilt not make any further progress, although the situation must remain anxious as long as they have plenty of reserves. The immediate future depends on what course the enemy takes. The crown prince has used up virtually all his own reserves and some from the army groups to the eastward, but the great bulk of the German reserves are to the north. "The attack durng the past week has not been so serious as other at tacks at other points" in the allied line because we have more room for maneuver and can better afford to fall back, Another thing that must al ways be considered is that the Ger mans are rapidly using up tneir ef fectives. Thus far they have em ployed probably 45 divisions in, the present attack. German Plan Secret. "The question has been much dis cussed in the past few days whether this German attack was a surprise to the allies. It' cannot be called a complete surprise because of the fact that enemy concentrations in the Laon area were known, but until a day or two before the battle we had no indication that any attack on a big scale was intended. .The Ger mans deserve full credit for maintain ing secrecy of their plans. The main masses of men were brought up to the actual front lines only on the night before the. attack, which was preceded by only two hours of bom bardment for the purpose of cutting wire entanglements, rlie Germans are not making the same use of artil lery as herefore. "Is this the enemy's main attack? "He probably did not know when he initiated it whether it would prove to be a subsidiary or leading opera tion. It must be remembered that the enemy has three great geographical objectives as means toward his great separation of the allied armies by an attack through Amiens, and an at tack on Paris. "In the present operations he is do mg all possible to develop his initial success by attacks both on the center and on the flanks of the salient. He has achieved considerable success in the center, 6n the flanks the French are holding well on the heights west of Soissons and the Brit ish are similarly fighting hard on the heights around Kheims. GERMANS SHELL PARIS DURING FESTIVAL OF CORPUS CHRISTI (By Associated Press.) London, May 31. A wave of indignation is sweeping over the coun try, aroused by the German response to the British consideration for the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christ! at Cologne'. The Pall Mall Gazette says: "The least one could have looked for was that the German government should observe toward Paris on the feast of Corpus Christi the same consideration as had been solicited on behalf of Cologne." The Star says: "In Germany yesterday the festival of Corpus Christi was celebrated without disturbance. Although weather conditions were suitable, there were no allied aerial attacks in any Rhine towns. The promise of the British government was kept. "In Paris the festival of Corpus Christi was celebrated under a bom bardment of German long range guns. A church was hit and 18 persons were injured during the day" FOUR DAYS CONFLICT NOW ALMOST PORELY INFANTRY FIGHT Allies Fan Back Slowly as Fresh German Divisions At tack; Thrust South of Soissons Foiled. (Br Auoclated Freo.) . With the French Army in France, May 31. Fighting has been begun on a new sector of the battle line in the region of the Ailette river between the Aisne front and the front of the German attack in March. The fan-like formation of the enemy movement was pushed out on the sdies and in the center yesterday, cov ering more territory. The allies are falling back slowly before enormously greater numbers. Fresh Divisions in Attack. Aviators report activity along the rear of the German advanced forces, as fresh enemy divisions are hurried forward to take the place of exhausted units. In the central part of the battle front the enemy, finding that before him were only tired troops which had fought day and night since Monday, was able to make another leap for ward toward the Marne by penetrating the thin allied line with small bodies of selected men armed with light ma chine guns. The battle has now developed al most purely into an infantry fight. The artillery in action appears to be only of about the same amount as is usual on a quiet sector. Halted at Soissons. South of Soissons the enemy at tempted a renewal of his push, but came in contact with French troops, which thrust failed notwithstanding his use of numerous tanks. The French here executed a vigorous (Continued on Fago Tour, Column Four.) GREEKS CAPTUEE 1,500 PRISONERS ON MACEDONIA FRONT London, May 31. More than 1,500 German and Bulgarian prisoners, among them officers and a large quan tity of war materials, have been cap hired by Greek troops, supported by French artillery, on the Macedonian front, according to an official com' munication from Saloniki tonight. The strong enemy positions o Srka Di Legen, on the Struma front, on a width of 12 kilometers and to a depth of two kilometers, was cap tured, it was announced. mum PARISH FORESEEN Occupation of Chateau Thierry Thought to Mark Beginning of Turning Movement To ward French Capital. (By Associated Press.) - ' Plunging southward with its momentum still unspent, the German war machine has driv en its wedge into the allied lines along the front until? its apex has reached the Marne river south of Fere-en-Tardo- nois. The desperate efforts of the French and British to stem the tide against the invaders have served only to slow down the ' rate of speed of the German advance ; the defenders of the heights north of the Marne seem to have been swept aside in the rush of the enemy toward the road to Paris. LAUNCH NEW ATTACK. - Aside from the movement of the German armies southward, two other significant incidents of the tremendous battle have occurred. Qne is that the S Germans have extended their attack to the northwest" along the -Ailette river, from which the French have fallen back for some distance. The other , is. that the battle has err nded. to tke ,-east of Rheims,' which "city, . -during the first few days of the battle, formed the extreme eastern end of , the ? line of battle. - Along the sides of the salient formed by the rapid German advance to the Marne, the French and British have been holding their positions gal lantly. South of Soissons the French have defended ' their line , with such vigor that the Germans have not made much impression upon it On the other side of the battle area, the British are still holding the fort! of Rheims and positions just west of that war stricken city, Paris Turning Movement Foreseen. : Between the extreme sides of the salient the front sags toward the south, the line from Rheims to the Marne running to the 'southwest at s gentle angle, while the French are holding a front at right angles to the direction of the German advance. " , The occupation of Chateau Thierry marks the beginning of the expected turning movement toward Paris, which the Germans were believed to have planned. If the town has been taken in its entirety the Germans miv be expected to move down the Marne. General Foch. commander-in-chief of the allied forces, has not as yet brought- hja reserves into action. AH . reports from the field of battle tell of the allied forces being vastly outnum. bered. Americans in Action. - i American soldiers are in action in the Picardy and Toul sectors. At Can tigny they have repulsed repeated German counter attacks to oust them from the positions which they cap-" tured early in the week, while in the Toul sector they have attacked the German positions, penetrated them to a depth of almost a half mile and de stroyed the German defenses.' German airmen have been adding horrors to the fighting by their delib erate attacks on hospitals back of the allied lines. One large receiving sta tion behind the American positions ' in Picardy has been bombed. A Ca nadian hospital also was attacked and partly burned by another German air raiding party. Disorders in Ukraine are reported. It is stated that several villages near Kiev were drtnehed with poisonous gas by the Germans and whole com munities asphyxiated. Kentucky Will Receive Harkness Estate Taxetf New York, May 31. Transfer taxes on the greater part of the $100,000,- , 000 estate of Lamon V. Harkness, Standard Oil magnate, will not be as " sesspH in Kfvu Ynrlr ctaf a runli , of a decision by the appellate division ; of the New York supreme court here . today. i The California courts finally de-' cided Harkness was not a' resident of that state and today's finding, reA, versing the surrogate's decree, holds he had no claims to New York citi zenship, but that Kentucky was his legal abode. ' Senator Johnson Deplores -Order Holding Wood in U. S. " Washington, May 31.--Senator . Johnson of California, in the senate today deplored orders holding in this country Major General Leonard Wood. '" "It is with sorrow in this day when " politics is adjourned," he said, "thst I ...J n( .Via nrda.i read of the orders," i i.