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GUNS B
THRO
OF FOE IN POCKET
Allied Artillery Hampers 52 Germlan Divisions in Salient
North of Marne and Infantry Continues to Advance;
Enemy Expected to Take Stand on New
Line of Resistance.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 27. Harassed on the flanks by allied
infantry and with advanced positions directly north of the
Marne swept oy allied artillery, the German army in the Sois-sohs-Rheims
salient hasretreated to a new line of resistance,
where another attempt will be made to meet the attack of the
French, American, British and Italian troops.
Thus was the German withdrawal, reported in advices from
Paris, viewed by military officials here tonight.
-The retirement of the enemy didO '
' not alter the belief in official circles
that the enemy still contemplates
fighting it out in the region north of
the Marne. Severe rear guard ac
tions, it was assumed, Had been car
ried on by the enemy to cover the
concentration along this line and the
hasty throwing up of field entrench
ments. It was not believed the line
could be definitely located until it
had been reached by the Franco
American advance guard in follow
ing up the retiring eneniyVear guard.
I German Position Perilous.
With 52 German divisions, or one
fourth of the enemy's entire fighting
Strength rin the western front,
massed in the narrow battle area, the
gunshave been called upon to blast
a way through for the allied infantry.
The enemy's situation is regarded as
decidedly untaxable, penned up as
-he is within a narrow salient where
.converging gunfire is playing havoc
ttith his troops as well as with his
communication lines.
One suggestion advanced here is
that the internal situation in Germany
and Austria has forced the general
Staff to accept battle where military
'wisdom would have dictated further
withdrawal
There are those among the best in-i
formed officials here who believe that
if the enemy does elect to fight it
out in his present position, he will re
ceive the mo"st serious defeat of the
war. They are convinced that he will
ACmie, through a stand within the
Aisne-Marne pocket withylosses in
men ana material so serious inac ms
whole fighting machine may be im-
paired.
' - Enemy Hard Pressed.
Secretary Baker said there was no
indication that the vigor of the allied
attack around the salient had lessened,
and there was every sign the enemy
was being hard pressed and harassed.
General March in -his talk with
newspaper correspondents drew atten
tion to the--inner' pocket of the sali
ent, where the recent British advance
southwest of Rheims threatens a new
pincer movement. Enemy troops
south of this advance, between the
British and the Marne, are in jeopardy
and the French, today's official reports
show, have already made progress in
( hammering at the southern flank of
this inner pocket by their advance
just below ChatillOTi. i
1 Two New Corps Formed.
No additional American forces have
been thrown into the Aisne-Marne
battle as 'yet, he said, although he an
nounced the formation of two addi
tional American -rmy corps, the
Fourth and Fifth, " commanded 'by
Maj. Gens. George W. Reed and Omar
Bundy. He explained the assignment
of the 30 divisions which-compose the
five corps now organized to their re
spective higher units, did not mean
the corps had been ctually drawn
together. Many of the divisions are
still with the French and British
forces for final training.
Members of tin senate military
committee learned . from General
March that1" the July movement of
tryoops to France probably would
reach a total of 300,000, making a new
record. Incidentally tlfe movement
last week,was put at ,50,000 men, or
about one-half of what has been the
rule for some weeks past.
.. Troops Arrive in Italy.
- In the course of his remarks to the
correspondents, General March said
the first American fighting troops had
begun to arrive in Italy. They are
part of the small force of trained men
sent by General Pershing and for. the
. (Continued on Page Two, Column Six.)
Strikers to Return to
Jobs i,i Paper Mills
Albany, N. Y., July 27. Represen
tatives of employes of the Interna
tional Paper company of several
New York arid New England cities,
who have been idle for several days
because of differences ""with the cor
poration over an interpretation of an
award of the federal war labor board
and whose idleness has curtailed the
output of the plants by about 75 per
cent, voted, tonight to instruct the
workmen to resume work Monday,
THE BEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN
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VOL. XLVlti NO. 1 X"Z7 'ZZSftuM !m OMAHA,
LAST WA Y
UGH MASSES
BALLOON DUTY
OVER THE HUN
FIRING LINES
Grannie Description of Air
Experiences of the Boys
With the Sausages
Over There.
A special correspondent of the New
YgrkJTimes with the American army
on the Marne tells of jthe thrilling
experience of the balloon corps men.
He describes incidents around the big
sausage balloon (the kind the boys
are training with here in Omaha) as
it is on the firing line: ,
The scene is the headquarters of
an American unit. It is what war's
ravages have left of an ancestral cha-
teau with all its past grandeur and
present pathos. Grouped about the
big house are a ,dzen or more sta
bles and barns and outhouses, each
of which now harbors Americans bus
ily engaged, in thwarting the sworn
purpose of the Hun to carry his
hatred and hating into the capital of
France. Talking to one of our gen
erals, I am standing by the side of
an old stone fence watching- a herd
of cows chewing their cud, while a
few kilometers away the boom of the
guns is constant. The day is beau
tiful, with here and there a patch of
white clouds floating lazily across the
heavens. Were it not for the ncer
ending boom and the ugly shell holes
here , and there, the scene would be'
peaceful. '
"And then from behind a clump tf
trees rises slowly a complicated look
ing shape which shows itself soon to
be one of our observation balloons.
As the cable unwinds slowly from a
windlass on the back end of a motor
truck the sausage goes up and up
and up while from the depending
basket two young officers, who a lit
tle more than a year ago were stu-
dents at Columbia university, wave ;
a greeting to their general. Up and
up they go at the end of their tether,
and while they are going up and up
a soldier arranges a field telephone
with a little box on which rests a
pad of paper on which he is to write
(Continued on Tags Two, Column Four.)
Ak-Sar-Ben to
Songs Try
"Say, pal, I want-a ask y'u all.
about Nebraska," says one Yankee
soldier' to another in a new popular
song written by Miss Beatrice Al
derman of Fremont, Neb. . j. ,
An American soldier- on 'tis first
day in France, happened to see anoth
er Yank write the address, "Neb.," on
a letter he was sending home. He
says:
"Say, pal, I want-a ask y'u
All about Nebraska,
For I sear you come from there. . .
I want-a see those Bad Lands
Once again and get the glad hands
That are waiting for us everywhere.-
These French maids may be pickins,
But the little Prairie chickens ;
Are the ones we're wishing for. .
So, pal, I want-a ask y'u , .
in anout jeDraska.
. For I, too, hail from there.
Miss Alderman has 'dedicated, the
song to the Nebraska Hospital unit
No.-49. She is also the author of
three other patriotic songs. All four
songs will be sung by the home guard
quartet of Frempnt at the Ak-Sar-Ben
deri, Monday, July 29.
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! fjpgssk EH? AiRnwr, Wff 1
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NAME DELEUATES I
TO REPUBLICAN
STATE MEETING
- H i 4
County Convention Held Satur
day Expedite and Har
monious; Party Victory
Looks Sure Thing.
The republican county convention
held in the county court room yester
day afternoon was expeditious and
harmonious, probably being one of
the shortest on record and indicating
a lack of serious differences in the
party.
The was none to start any rumpus,
because there was nothing to start a
rumpus over and the feeling was gen
eral that republican victory in Doug
las county is a foregone conclusion.
F. S. Howell, chairman of the coun
ty central committee, sounded the
keynote of the gathering in a few
well-chosen words, which brought
hearty cheers at the conclusion. Mr.
Howell spoke as follows:
"Republicans, and all other patriots,
are opposed to any politics in the
war.
"We, as a party, are as much op
posed to delaying the election of a
republican congress until after the
war, as 'we were opposed to delaying
the war until after Mr. Wilson's elec
tion. "From now on you will hear every
phase of opposition to republican
(Contlnnrd on Page Four, Column Five.)
Have New
Nebraska
Girl
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THE BEST CITY IN
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SUNDAY MORNING, JULY
American Prisoners
JZHo H tin htt
Refusing Information
Geneva, July 27. '"Ask Persh
ing;" "Cable Wilson." These are
some of the answers given by
American prisoners to German offi
cers .who question them on naval
and military matters,
The German officers are furious
at the American prisoners for their
refusal to divulge any information
whatever and the coldly sarcastic
manner in which the men almost
invariably reply to those seeking
information.
DRUGGIST SHOOTS
WHEN ORDERED TO
THROW UP HANDS
Man From Buff Jo, N. Y., in
Hospital as Result of At
tempt to Jtob Frank
W. Fogg.
Shot in the attempt to hold up
Frank W. Fogg in his drug store at
124 North Twelfth street, Stanley
Grabowski, 300 Broadway, Buffalo, N.
Y., lies at the Lord Lister hospital
4vith a bullet wound through his
shoulder from -Mr Fogg's revolver.
A companion 'escaped.
Early Sunday morning, as Mr.
Fogg was counting his change in the
rear of his pharmacy just before
closing up, Grabowski and another
man entered the store and stood at
the cigar counter. WhCn the drug
gist went behind the cigar counter
to wait on them they asked for
cigars. As Mr. Fogg stopped and
pulled a cigar box from the case,
Grabowski shouted,' "Throw up your
haadsl"'
But instead of complying, Mr. Fogg
dropped the box and, whipping a re
volver from his hip pocket, shot
Grabowski through the left shoulder.
Grabowski fell and Mr. Fogg called
the police, without being able to
catch the other man.
At the hospital, Grabowski told
Policemen Wright and Coffey that he
had just arrived in the city Saturday
from Buffalo.; He knew nothing of
his companion, he said, save that he
had just 'met him Saturday and that
his first name was George.
Capture of La Charrc.Ms
Announced ny Pershing
Washington, July 27!--The capture
of Le Charmef by American forces
in their advance" between the Ourcq
and the Marne is reported in General
Pershing's communique, received to
day at the War department.
Edward A. -Rumely
Life Story of Man Who Bought
New York. Mail for the Kaiser
on Page Nine-C of This Issue.
Something Doin'
THE PROSPEROUS
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UNDAY'
"28, 1918. ."isi
PEOPLE URGED TO
PREPARE TO GIVE
THEIR ALL IN WAR
1
Eighteen Billion Dollar Army
Bill for 1919-20 Forecast
by Representative Kahn
in Speech.
By Associated Press.
'Cleveland, O., July 27. An ,18-btl-lion
dollar anriy bill for 1919-1920
was forecast by Representative Kahn
of California, in an address here to
day before the League of Republican
Clubs.
"This means additional Liberty
bonds," Representative Kahn said;
"it means additional taxation; it
means, if it means anything, that the
American people must be prepared
to give their all, if need be.. Perhaps
the time will come when everv indi
vidual in the United States will have!
to content himself with the barest
necessaries of life, ,and surrender ev
erything he possesses or earns be
yond those bare necessaries to aid
the governmqpt.
"We have not begun to make sa
rifices in these United States. We
do not yet know the pinch of hun-ger-I
hope and pray we may never
know it but we will be the better
prepared for possible eventualities if
we begin now the practice of self-denial."
One More Star is Added to
Service Flag of The Bee
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MIDDLE-WEST
BE
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f.8 FIVE CENTS,' '
GERMANS
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ESCAPE FROM TRAP
FOCH MAY SPRING
Crown Princfe and His Generals Begin Move to Extricate
Their Troops From Dangerous Position; Allies
Will Endeavor With
' to Drive In on
, i By Associated Press. -....
The Germans are in retreat along the entire frotit north
of the Marne. Thils part f the front in the Aisne-Ma?he salient s
is about 20 miles across and the advance of the French and .
allied troops on the arc constituting the bottom of the $ack has . r
averaged oevveeri two and three miles beyond the line officially
reported a day or two ago. V
HUNS MOVE
HEAVY GUNS
TO NEW LINE
Blow Returned for Blow r on
; Flanks in HopeMain Body
of Troops Can 3 Safely
Withdrawn.
V By Associated Press, ,' -.
With- the American-Army On The
Aisne-Marne Front, July 27. The
French and Americans have continued
their rapid advance to the northeast
and "the forest of Fere was cleared
of the enemy this afternoon. The
allied force are losing contact with
the Germans.
The progress made by the Franco
American troops on the Aisne-Marne
front is considered eminently satis
factory by the commanders and the
failure of the' Germans to employ ar
tillery extensively has tended to con
firm the belief that their heavy guns
on the greater part of the field have
been moved far back, perhaps to a
position which may mark a new line.
Hammer Enemy Flanks, t
While stp.idv pressure is beinc
naiitfained on the .arc forming the
bottom of the sack, the'allies are de
terminedly hammering the flanks
where Von Boehm and Vdtj Eben
hav concentrated their armies, re
turnmg blow for blow in the hope
that they can hold out until the main
body of the Germans can be with
drawn with a minimum loss.
- Aerial operations were again of less
importance today on account o the
weather. It was cloudy all day and
there were numerous showers, making
it impracticable to keep up the ob
servation balloons which usually mark
both linesT Occasionally both the
allies and the enemy attempted to use
planes but' these in most cases were
forced to descend on account of the
rain.
There is a growing belief that the
enemy will make no effort to stand
on-the Ardre river. Fere-en-Tarde-nois
and even Villeven-Tardenois, di
rectly east, ire already under heavy
fire from the flanks and the south line.
I Dna rttitA e tf Y i e Kaon A A n A fn
The Bee's service flag.
-Walter Krelle, for 11 years an em
ploye in the composing room of
The Bee, reports , at Fort Omaha
Monday morning for duty in the bal
loon school. ,
Krelle entered The Bee composing
room when a boy. He learned the
typographical trade in The Bee shop
and worked his way up from galley
boy to the position of head letter mn
and copy cutter, which he held when
called to the colors. ,
Krelle lias a brother, Bert Krelle,
who is in France with the American
Expeditionary Forces.
I his latest Bee man to enter serv
ice is wellknown in Omaha. He was
formerly president of the Christian
Enchiavor of the Castelar Presbyter
ian church.
He lives at 1813 Center street.
Charge. Philip Kennedy
Drove Family from Home
Philip Kennedy, 1122 Castelar
street, was arrested Friday night on
complaint of his wife and daughter.
He is charged with being drunk and
abusing his family. His tamily allege
that he has chased them out of the
house for several nights and other
wise abused them.
THE WEATHER .
For Nebraska Generally,
fair; cooler west and north.
Thermometer Kn1)nic: "
Dm- : . ',. . Org.
5 a.m. .. 77 1p.m. ...... ..,,
a.tn 7j ip. m. 97
7. m 7 Sp. m .'....OH
S . in. .......... ft I 4 D. m.
9a.m. ,.h 83 1 5 p.m.
. 98
. .98
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10 a. m. , M I p. m.
a, m .H8I 7 d. nv.
J2m ....911
SEEKING,
All Their Resource! V 4
Enemy Flanks. "
O This means that the German crown .
prince and his generals are extricating
their troops from dangerous positions ,
as best they may, Keports from.
French headquarters have indicated
that the Germans were carrying out .
extensive preparations for the evacuJ.
ation of the territory between the
Marne and the Ourcq and it is un-'
doubted that. the allies will endeavor,
with all their resources to drive in on
the enemy flanks. . , (
" Large Area Retaken. ' '
Bruyeres, which lies a little more
than three miles to the northeast of i'
Armentieres, is atone end of the new
fllicd positions and Chaumusy, south- ?
west of Rheims wood, lies at the ;.
other.' Here the new line unites .ith '
the old. ' ' ; - I
Chateau Thierry, which was qnce a
pivotal point of the German advance ;
in the recent offensive, .is now ten
miles- or more to the sVuth of the -'
allied front. All this territory, run
ning .northward from Chateau Thier
ry, asMvell as to the east and west, has
been retaken largely by the French
and American troops.
Both Sides Weary.
The battle between Soissons and
Rheims, said by eye witnesses to be
the greatest of the war on the western
front, seems to have been fought with ;
such ferocity that both sides are, for '
the moment, apparently exhausted. s
Since the French and Americans," ::
struck the German lines from Fon
tenoy to Belleau a week ago last
Thursday, the Germans have been
forced to reform their lines and pouf"
into the salient south of the Vesle , '
river many divisions of fresh troops
which probably were intended for use
elsewhere along the front. V .-.
Ihe effort of the enemv to stahilizi" "
his line has brought about what for ' -the
time beine is a virtual Hearilnrlr
but over the situation there hangs at : .
all times" a possibility, and a probafcili--,-.
ty, mat some new blow would be' -"
struck by either side. : "','
Pushed Back 11 Miles. ;
So far as shown bv official state. v. '
ments the allies have pushed the Ger--
mans soutnl of ioi$sons back to an
extreme depth of over 11 miles, Oul-
cny-e-cnateau being the ooint of
(Continued on Pare Two, Column Xwo..
William Wigton Dies From . -Injuries
in Auto Accent ;;
William Wigton, secretary oihe
Omaha Life Insurance Co., who was '
injured in an automobile accident
Tuesday night in which Everett A. "
Weathers was instantly killed, -die .
Saturday morning at the Swedish V-.'
Mission hospital. '
Mr. Wigton is survived by a widow
and four children, William," jr.; Matt "
narrison, kuui and tarpl, the oldest
only 8 years old. Dr. H.. A. Wigton'
is a urotner. ""V
The funeral services for Mr- Wig
ton will be held at the First Pres- j
byterian church, Thirty-fourth and :
Farnam streets, this afternoon at 4"
o clock, Rev. Edwin H. Jenks offi--1
ciating. Interment will be in Forests
Lawn cemetery and will be in cliarge
of Capitol lodge No. 3. Masonic or
dcr. , . .
Iiinna Rinrthom Drutnlinn V
Five-Miilion Dollar Leaacv
Louisville, Ky., July 27. Reports' .
published here today are to the ef
feet that Judge R. W. Bingham of,
Loutsville, in New York today, wts
paid a legacy of $5,000,000 from tbe"
estate of his wife, formerly Mrs..-"
Henry 11." Flagler. . : ' . t
Coupled with the report was a pub-
lished statement that Judge Bingham"
had purchased the Louisville Times ,
and Courier-Journal and allied prop-'
erties for $1,500,000. ,
The corporation which Owns the"'
papers, however, declared Jndge .
Bingham merely had an option to '
purchase them. ' y "
Home Guards to Have Rifles.2-,' .-
Washington July 27. The order pt
the adjutant general prohibiting the'.'
issue of rifles to hqme guard organi- V
zations until the quota for the. na-"; .
tional guard has been filled was modi
fied today so that the home guard may
be supplied where the rifles are not ;
actually needed for national - guard .
units already organized. .
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