THE BEE: MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1918. Yankee Soldiers Aboard Transport at Sea Watch ing Battle With U-Boat PATRIOTISM IS PREDOMINANT AT FALUARNIVAL Allied War Exhibit, Patriotic Pageants and Military Pa rades Will Feature Ak-Sar-Ben. Patriotism wiN play a larger part than ever in Ak-Sar-Ben festivities this year. The big Allied War ex hibit, which has been prcented in San Francisco and Los Angeles, will be shown at the Auditorium the week of September 30 and will be the leading attraction. Patriot!': pageants and floats will predominate through out the electrical parade on the even ing of Wednesday, October 2. If the present number of troops is main tained at Fort Omaha and Fort Crook, Scene of Some of the Heaviest fighting of War rim nr mure Him ur hllilo IS TO DRIVE HONS ISMtWWIsMII N- -v. & J s s ? V A i mmummm in ,w-i" , t . ' ' " ' 1 I h ' :. .---It' ' I . , ' , ' - 'I i ' ' ' ' , ' ' ' ' r ' . , i - ' . J t r." ' ' ft I-, 4 I 4 " 1 ' , 4 ' i , - ' . ! y J ' ? f v V t ' - ' , 1 CONGRESS READY, TO START IN ON GRAVE MATTERS Man Power Bill, War Tax Meas ure and National Prohibi tion to Come Up for ' , Consideration. ' Washington, Aug. 25. Enactment of the man power bill extending army draft ages to 18 and 45 years; launch ing of the 18,000,000,000 war tax meas ' tire in the house and action on nation . al prohibition during the war, are the tasks before congress this week. The draft bill will be transferred : tomorrow to the senate and reported by the senate military committee with its "work or fight" and other minor amendments and substituted for the measure which has been under de bate there. Passage by the senate tomorrow or Tuesday, quick agree ment in conference and transmission to President Wilson before the weck ,cnd is the course planned. to Push Revenue Bill. The reenue till is to be completed .tomorrow by the house committee,! introduced in the house ihursaay and called up-the next Monday. Its pas sase in the house by September 15 is ' expected. , . j ;. , Chairman Simmons of the senate . committee plans a meeting late this week to set a date to begin hearings on the house draft of the measure Ten dftys of. senate committee hear inps are planned and passage of the bill by the senate early in November is hoped for. The war time prohibition bill, un dcr a senate agreement, comes up tomorrow, but leaders have agreed to lay it aside until after disposal of the man powerbill. . Negotiations are on between wet and dry lead ers of the senate toward a Comoro , misc.- As pending, the bill proposes. the country, beginning January 1, . next. Efforts are being made to se cure a respite of several months for the liquor traffic, i 1 S Urge Vote on Suffrage. ' Contests are expected in the sen ate on the amendments to the man power bill affecting youths under 21, and the "work or fight" proposal. De feat ofc all amendments designed to raise the minimum age of 18 or to de , fer service of thse under 21, is pre dicted. - readers say mat me worn ,or fightfamendment will be retained and sent to conference. Agitation for an immediate vote on the woman suffrage resolution is ex pected, in view of the demand voiced . by the republican senators' confer ence yesterday for its early disposal. t meeting vi mc senaiq mines committee is scheduled for tomorrow to report out the substitute for the house mineral control bill. The sub - stitute would authorize the president to t'ortn a minerals purchasing cor poration with a revolving fund of 200,000,000, t stimulate production of minerals which are scarce and needed for the war. r ' -, .Chairman Sims of the interstate commerce committee, has served no tice in the house that he will make jio attempt to bring up his general water, power bill until Tuesday, FOE SWEPT BACK IN NORTH TO OLD HIHD1BURG LINE (Contlnaed From T Out.) i last night and today that it is im possible to be certain where the-front -tines will be located from one hour to the next. The Germans ' exhibit signs of .cracking at some places, but are of fering desperate resistance. Many more guns, some of large caliber, .have been taken, One British corps alone has counted 80 guns. , There is evidence of confusion In .the enemy rear. Units of the same di visions hurled into the battle have (been taken at points separated by .many miles. Quantities of material are tailing into British hands be 'cause the boche has not troubled to apply the torch or explosives. Poiieres Cftptured. - Pozieres, to the north of Albert, tell this morning. British patrols ' swere" seen entering Martinpuich, , where apparently , the boche made good his escape. .. High wood, a strong position near ' Longueval (northwest of Combles) ; is reported captured, while Eaucourt L'Abbaye. Contalmaison and Cource lette have been occupied by the 'British. ' " ' Sapignies is completely In British 'hands after hard fighting. At last ' reports a local battle within' the big battle was being fought at Mory and its environs, where the lines run throueh the town St. Leger was captured and left, far behind. After having once been re ported in LrosiHes, the British with drew to the outskirts. The Germans counter attacked heavily and the British retired "to the edge of the town and poured shells into the place, while pressing, forward on the sides. . This practice of withdrawing from , any place where heavy counter at tacks are being delivered, then shell , ing the area and driving past to the north and south, eventually getting ' into position somewhere near, the rear, has given wonderful results, not ' only in saving British troops, but in ' netting large numbers of prisoners or killing oermans. , : Armored Cruiser in Front . At .Neuville-Vitasse and almost up ; to the Scarpe the line, at last reports received at headquarters, ran through ; the outskirts of the villages and se--vere finhtinsr was in nrozress there, The Bapaume-Feronne road . was attacked by British armored cruisers, which, during the last 24 hours, have been performing , wonderful service, ' scouting far ahead of the infantry. Some of them have dashed through i the country, overtaking retreating enemy transport columns and in flicting ' terrible damage upon them and bodies of troops with their ma- rhin awn '' Co-operatmg with the armored cars, jhe tanks again have been in -cijon, some rolling into towns in 4- advance of the infantry, sweeping over debris and finishing off enemy strong points in the face of a perfect deluge of fire. Germans Dread Tanks. Many tanks returned to their line with all their paint shot off their steel sides by machine gun bullets. At some points the Germans approached the tanks as soon as they saw them, with hands high above their heads, fear fully shouting "kamerad." VVhen Thiepval ridge fell into Brit ish" hands yesterday, troops pressed forward at both sides and large num bers of Germans were pinched. They promptly threw aside their helmets and other equipment and, without even guards walked toward the Brit ish rear. In the neighborhood of Thiepval, a British detachment dur ing the early part of the advance managed to reach Pys, but found it self surrounded on all sides by the enemy. i An airplane saw the detachment's plight and dropped a message "Stick it," and soon after heavy British formations attacked at this point and drove off the Germans, relieving their hard pressed comrades. since then iys has been left well behind. Posicres, southeast of Thiep val, fell this morning and later Ma- metz was occupied, as well as Martin puich. There was no sign of the nAffiA mil tiff f itinnmVli o1fViMrrU m VM( kMl llSWVlg I I 11114(1, It just to the south bitter fighting con tinues. . Forty-two Divisions Suffer. British Front in France. Aug. 25. (Havas Agency.) Forty-two German divisions have suffered considerable losses in the present drive, losing 40,- 000 soldiers, including several hun dred officers, in prisoners alone. Shell Craters Give Trouble." Everywhere the boche is taking ad vantage of shell craters, and these ready made strong points have in many . cases caused considerable trouble before being silenced. The craters west of La Boisselle were es pecially troublesome. A large one there, after holding out for several hours, fell during the night, while other smaller holes were silenced at daybreak.: The worst of this shell crater country now is being passed at many points, nowever, and there is a pros- ect tnat the ground may be more avorable to the British. It seems certain that the Germans have brough up fresh troops but it is believed they are still some distance from Jhe rear. It is problematical whether the German high command intends to throw them into battle now or to use them to hold the line to which the enemy .is now being driven. Among the orisoners taken in to day's and last night's fight, which pro gressed under a brilliant moon, are many Saxons. The officers among these, as soon as they got to their cages, stripped themselves and asked for water with which to bathe. Alsatians Embrace Captors. The Alsatians also appeared in the prisoners cages. c Happier men than these it would be hard to find any where. They fell on their captors, embraced them and spoke in French of being "liberated." They pulled pictures of their fathers, dressed in the trench uniform of 1870, from hidden pockets and exhibited them proudly. They said that all the Alsatians had been placed in German regiments. "It goes hard with as if we are caught deserting." said one vouth. "If it ij ever found out that anybody deserts his family is punished, and even his female relatives are sent to dig in the 4 front line and other trenches." One of the prisoners said he was carrying food in an advanced post when, the British appeared. He cried "we surrender," and he and the men in the post gave themselves up. Prisoners taken when Miraumont fell, after a brave resistance by its garrison, said they had been fighting tor tnree days without food. .The high ground east and north west of Bray has been captured and the Australians here are pushing for ward. Une torce is now nearing Longueval, and more Germans may be penned in. High wood, a strone position in this general locality which was lined with machine guns, has been reported captured, probably by a nan King movement and a large num ber of machine guns have fallen into British hands here, as well as many at other" places. Many thousands of machine guns have been taken away from the Germans during the past two days. Pastor Russell's Temple To Be Made War Plant New York, Aug. 25. The Russellite temple in Brooklyn, used as headquar ters by the follower! of the late Pas tor Russell before the cult attracted the attention of the federal authori ties and eight of its leaders were sent to the penitentiary for conspiracy to defeat the draft law, has been sold to a firm which will use it for the manufacture of war munitions, it was learned here tonight. Walter E, Spill, acting prcsiaenc oi mc organization t announced new headquarters ' would be opened in Atlantic. Hungarians Put Heavy, Tax on Jews and Drive Them Out of Country Amsterdam, Aug. 25. Jews for some time past have been rounded up by orders of the government in var ious parts of Hungary, according to a Budpest report to the Jewish cor respondence bureau. Streets were barricaded and Jews are dragged to prison. These measures especially were directed against the Jews in Galicia from whom large sums of money were taken by the police as a special tax after which they were es corted to the frontier. In a recent debate in the Hungarian parliament Wekerle attempted to justify the means by declaring that he had given orders for the imposi tion of the tax on Galician Tews and their expulsion from the country be cause they were undesirable foreign ers. Experts Figure Total Taxes Under New Bill At $8,100,000,000 Washington, Aug. 25. The $8,000, 000,000 revenue bill, providing for the greatest tax levy in the history of the United States, will be agreed upon finally by the house ways and means committee Monday, reported to the house Thursday and brought ud for consideration Monday, September 2. I his program was announced today by Chairman Kltchin of the house ways and means committee with the prediction that the house will pass the bill after a week's consideration. ' Final estimates submitted to the committee by the treasury experts today made it unnecessary to con template necessity of resorting to consumption taxes or any new devices or plans for raising additional revenue beyond those already in the measure. These estimates give $8,100,000,000 as the total probable annual yield of the bill. ' Situation Between Germany and Spain Declared Critical London, Aug. 25. German news papers say that the situation between Spain and Germany is critical, but that Germany can make no conces sions with regard to her submarine warfarey says a dispatch to the Ex change Telegraph from Copenhagen. lhe Taeglische Kundschau admits the beginning of a conflict which may affect the position of both Mexico and Argentina. "The complaints of bpain mean an admission in favor of the entente powers," says this news paper, "and Spain's threat means a step away from the path of neutral ity desired by the Spanish people. The Spanish note must be considered by the German people as an un friendly act." The Lokal Anzeiger says that Spain must acknowledge the condi tions which compelled Germany to resort to submarin' warfare. Spain and United States Negotiate Commercial Loan Madrid. Aug. 25. El Liberal, today announced that negotiations were proceeding for a commercial loan be tween Spain and the United States. Spain, the newspaper says, is opening a credit of 300,000,000 or 500,000,000 pesetas, the United States giving as a guarantee the signatures of American firms exporting cotton to Spain. With this credit the United States will be able to obtain in Spain some of the products necessary for its army in France, without the ne cessity of changing dollars into pese tas and this avoiding the reduction in exchange. Ambassador Willard and other American officials have had several interviews with the members of the Spanish government and it is be lieved that the basts of an agreement has been reached. The interest pay able on the' loan has been the subject of discussion, the United States ob jecting to pay 3 per cent 'America offers to pay the balance remaining of the loan in Mexican gold on the day of liquidation." The Weather pi pltntlon compared with the correipdhdlnc period of th put thrw yean: 118. 191T.HU. his. Hlrheat ytsterday .... St ti 1i Lowect yesterday ....71 - IT M ti Mean temperature ....TI 70 74 . C4 Precipitation 00 T T Temperature and precipitation departures from the normal at Omaha since March 1 hand compared with the paat two yean: isormal temperature TI Excem for the day Total, excess sinee March I,, HIT...... TBI Normal precipitation .11 Inch Deficiency for the day ..........It inch Total rainfall since March, lilt. 10.4S Inches Deficiency since March 1. 1111, 10.10 Inches Deficiency for cor. period HIT. l.TI Inches Defirlenry lor cor. period 1S1I, S.tt Inches "T" Indlcntes trace of precipitation. U A. W-KLSH, Meteorologist. a military parade will be held on the afternoon of Thursday, October o Gus Renze, official Ak-Sar-Ben arti ficer. is now working on a large num ber of rloa.s for the e'ectrical parade. The promise is that this year's night parade v 11 excel all p evious efforts in this line. Brilliant light effects and a large number of floats will make the oarade more dazzling than ever.' Over 400 soldiers from Fort Crook will be special guests of honor at the den show Monday evening. IJad Weaver, J. E. Davidson and Robert Manley made a trip to Fort Crook Thursday and through the co-operation of Major Hamilton, two-thirds of the soldiers at the suburban post will be granted furloughs for the evening. The street car company has agreed to furnish four street cars to leave the fort at 7:00 o'clock and to haul the soldiers directly to the den. Soldiers Like Show. Another special contingent of men from the balloon school at Fort Oma ha, will also be on hand Monday even ing. The show has made a big hit with the men in khaki this season and the crowd from Fort Omaha is al ways the most enthusiastic part of the audience. Only one more show will be given after next Monday night's perform ance. That will be on Monday even ing, September 9. when the out-of-town visitors to Merchants Market week will be taken to the den, under the direction of Joe Kellcy of the M. E. Smith company. No show will be given the evening of Labor day, September 2, because of the other at tractions in the city that day. A crowd from Lincoln will also be guests next Monday evening. Be cause so large a number of the younger business men from Lincoln have gone to'war and because so many of the older men are busy with war activities of varied sorts, the dele gation from Lincoln will not be so large this years as previously, but W. S. Whitten, secretary of the Lincoln Commercial club, has informed "Did" Weaver that he will nevertheless hpve a large number of visitors from the capital city. The board of governors will enter tain several officers from Fort Crook at the regular meeting of Monday evening. Contracts for building the entrance arch, fences and other carnival con struction work have been let again to Lee McGreer, for the last 20 years official Ak-Sar-Ben carnival carpenter. Permit has been granted by the city commission to close Capitol avenue from Twelfth to Fifteenth streets, Fourteenth street from Dodge to Davenport streets and Thirteenth street from Dodge to Davenport streets during the Ak-Sar-Ben festi val period, from September 25 to Oc tober 5. The street car company will reroute its cars as sus'ial. ' Jap Mariner Kills Himself After Losing Ship on Reef A Cuban Port, Aug. 25. A United Fruit company steamer arriving here has brought 61 survivors of the crew of the Japanese steamer Kaakamu Mru, picked up off the coast of Nica ragua August 20. The men were res cued from their small boats, which were towed by a gasoline launch manned by .he lost ship's captain. The crew took to the boats when their steamer struck a coraf reef. y As soon as his crew were aboard the liner the Japanese captain re turned to his doomed vessel, where it is believed he committd suicide as he failed to respond to repeated calls from the officers of the liner to save himself. ing Attract if you eat NCR- 3CE.tE. Of t MivtSK orrcctfW. ntou When Marshal Haig opened his present drive on the western front, the fighting near the River Ancre was probably the most deseperate of the war. The Germans had strongly fortified their positions there, and it was only the indomitable fighting GERMANY LOSES SPIRIT SHOWN IN EARLY STAGES (Continued From Page One.) em France and even negotiate the Alsace-Lorraine question. ' Treaty a Mistake. They are generally unanimous in agreeing that annexations thus far made and the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty were a great mistake, but think they cannot withdraw from Russia in the present condition of affairs there. They are aware that the American armv now has assumed very for midable proportions and thjre is a general admission of the seriousness of this factor. The submarine campaign they can not refer to without gestures of im patience. Air Service Inefficient. Captured noncommissioned officers attribute recent German defeats to the inefficiency of their air service and more especially to the inexperi ence and lack of stamina of the latest recruits who are most inadequately drilled and trained and who are physically incapable of sustaining the heavy strain of defensive war fare. The mere presence of these" new recruits, they say, produces in a comoanv a demoralizing effect upon the older men because it indicates to what straits Germany must be re duced to employ such poor material. Knights Take Tobacco To Troops in Front Line New York, Aug. 25. With the ad vance of the allies, the Knights of Columbus have put into operation a motor delivery service between ports of debarkation and the front line in France and this service will be ex panded as rapidly as possible, ac cording to announcement made here tonight after conference between the Knights Overseas commissioners and a commisson on war activities. Deciding that men in the vanguard required tobacco, chocolate and other supplies more than men in training, the commissioners pressed into serv ice all forms of motor vehicles and are now operating, on an express schedule, a fleet of heavy and light motor trucks. ( Filed Dy Mistake. Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 25-(Special.) Intending to file his accept ance of the nomination for the state senate, but in error really filing as a democratic candidate for the United States senate, John W. Fisher, an obscure school teacher in the tiny hamlet of Millburne, Wyo., lacked but 1,134 votes in the recent state primary of being elected the nominee of his party for that exalted office. com BREAKFAST ive and pleas to a degree neVer before realized M MM fle - l&NW ttCiHttKCSi avn.uao er itciu spirit of the British "Tommies" that broke the enemy line, The breaking of the enemy line on the Ancre re suited in the present retirement of the Huns. The photo shows a sec tion of the Ancre over which the allies are chasing the fleeing enemy. Yankee Heroes Abroad Decorated for Bravery By French Commander With the American Army . in France, Aug. 25. Fifty-five officers, non-commissioned officers and men of a certain American division were awarded the Legion of Honor, the military medal, the war cross or dis tinguished service cross this morning at the most brilliant decoration cere mony the American army has held in France. Decorations have been awarded 72 others now in hospitals. Most of the awards have been made for gallant conduct in the Marne battle. The decorations and medals were given personally by General (name deleted. Perfect weather added to the joy of the occasion and the sound of the guns of the airplane battle ov erhead gave just the proper dramatic touch. The Chevalier of the Legion of Honor was given to Major D'Alary Fechet, infantry, of Eustis, Fla.; Capt. E. A. Cook of New York, Capt. Arthur R. Threr, Lieutenants Rich ard S. Heventor, infantry, and Harry W. Caygill, infantry, and Chaplain Hirrisa Darche, who was absent. Lt. Louis Viaud of the French army was awarded the- distinguished service cross for gallantry, coolness and bravery during a raid in which he led a Franco-American detach ment. Sixteen noncommissioned officers and 79 officers and men also received the war cross. U. S. Navy Men Interned in Constantinople Well Treated Washington, Aug. 25. Officers and enlisted men of the United States ship Scorpion, interned at Constanti nople by the Turkish government since April 11, 1917, are being ac corded excellent treatment' and all are in good he..lth, the Navy depart ment announced tonight upon re ceipt of a report through the Swedish legation at Constantinople. Among the interned men are R. W. Longworthy, East Cedar Rapids, la., and D. L. Lotts, Independence, la. Want Herd Law of State Of Wyoming Repealed Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 25l (Spe cial.) The resistless tide of western settlement threatens to soon mark the passing of Wyoming as one of the great open range states of the union. A lengthy petition, signed by settlers in various sections of the state, has been presented to the Na tional Defense league, praying for the protection of crops from wandering range cattle and demanding the re peal of the Wyoming herd law. OUT OTRUSSIA Statement of Lenine and Trotz ky Flatly Contradicted by Allied Governments of Northern Rsgion. By Associated Press. Archangel, Aug. 22. An official an nouncement issued today' by the al lied governments in the northern re gion of Russia denied the statement recently made by Lenine and Trotz ky that Great Britain, France and the Uniteif States were enemies of Rus sia. The allied military action, the announcement added, was aimed at the expulsion of the Germans from Russian territory and the suppression by force of arms of the Brest-Litovsk treaty. The statement follows: "Lenine and Trotzky declare that the British, French and Americans who disembarked at Archangel are brigands and they call upon the Rtis? sian proletariat to fight against them as enemies of Russia who attacked her without, a declaration of war. Are Allies of Russia. "We declare to all Russian citi zens for whom, the welfare of Russia is dear, that this is not true, lhe British, French and Americans at Archangel are the allies of Russia. They were invited to make a landing here by the legitimate government and with the complete and unanimous agreement on the part of the popu lation. The government of the northern region is composed ot memDers oi the constituent assembly which was elected by the whole people of the northern border, which comprises ako representatives of the Zemstvos and municipalities 'elected by universal suffrage. 1 Aimed at German Expulsion. "This government had been formed and was overturned by the illegiti mate bolsheviki government before the descent of the allies. It was formed on the initiative of the league for the regeneration of Russia, which reunites representatives of . all po litical parties, recognizing the con stituent assembly as the only rightful Russian government "The allies then were called to Russia by the only legitimate and representative authority for the pur pose of military action in common, aiming at the expulsion of the Ger mans and the complete suppression by force of arms of the Brest-Litovsk treaty traitorously signed by the bol sheviki. But they were called on the distinctly specified condition that they must not mix themselves in the internal affairs of the government of Russia." "IT'S THE GRANDEST ON EARTH" DECLARES MRS. BERTHA STINE Gains Twenty Pounds By Taking Tanlac and Her Troubles End. "I've gained twenty pounds on four bottles of Tanlac and I think it's the grandest medicine on earth," de clared Mrs. Bertha Stine, of Spring field, Neb., a few days ago. "I suffered from stomach trouble, and asthma for a year," she contin ued, "and I can hardly begin to de scribe the agony I went through with. I had no appetite at all and what I did force myself to eat would sour on my stomach and cause gas to form that pressed around my heart until I could hardly breathe. Sometimes it was so bad I would faint away, and I have lain unconscious from one of these spells for as long as an hour and a half. I suffered with pains from the back of my neck all the way down my spinal column, and my head ached almost constantly. My nerves were on edge, and I could hardly slep at night; would just roll and toss and then doze off a little toward morning, only to wake up feeling all tired out and not fit for a thing. I got worse as time went on', and lost fifteen pounds in a few weelcs. Oh, I tell you I was miserable, and just didn't know what to do as nothing seemed to help me. "Finally some one urged me to try Tanlac, and I began to improve right away. Tanlac and Tanlac Tablets soon completely restored my health, and I found I'd gained twenty pounds since I began the treatment. Now 1 am eating anything I want; meats, vegetables, in fact, everything, and it ' all tastes so good, and doesn't hurt me a bit. All the aches and pains' are gone. I don't have any more fainting spells and my nerves are in fine shape. I go to sleep at night early and when I wake un next morn ing I'm refreshed and full of energy. I just can't say enough in praise of Tanlac. It's the best medicine I ever heard of and I'm glad of this chance to tell what it did for me." Tanlac is sold in Omaha by Sher man & McConnell Drug Co., corner 16th and Dodge streets; 16th and Harney streets; Owl Drug Co., 16th and Farnanu streets; Harvard Phar macy, 24th and Farnam streets; north east corner 19th and Farnam streets; West End Pharmacy, 49th and Dodsra streets, under the personal directioi of a Special Tanlac Representative and in South Omaha by Forrest i Meany Drus Co. Advert;s?mcnt LetCuticuraBe YourBeauty Doctor All drug girts! Soap S, Ofotment S ft SB, Takaa SS. guple wck trot of "Oitmrs, DfX. B, IwOi" Be sure you are registered so that you can vote Not. 5. JEFFERfS FOR CONGRESS ; J