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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. F SCENE OF FIRST BATTLE IN MEXICO SANK FRENCH LINER GRAPHIC STORY OF GARRANZA HOSTILE AMBUSHED TROOPS GERMANS CAPTURE TRENCHE8 NEAR VERDUN AFTER TER. RIFIC FIGHTING. COMMANDER OF U-BOAT, VISIT ING SPAIN, SAYS HE DE STROYED 51 SHIPS. ADMITS ANIMOSITY IN NOTE TO THE UNITED STATES. Surviving Trooper Tells of Fight of Tenth Cavalry. WILSON SENDS FIRM REPLY PARIS REPORTS HEAVY LOSS 3,000 PERSONS LOST LIVES DRIVE Teutons Are Now Within Three and 1 One-Half Miles of City Proper Take First Line Trenches and Thlaumont Work. Paris, .Juno '-'(). Tho Gorman tiro nearer Verdun limn tlicy have been nt ,nny time since the grout drive for tin fortress marled months um. Terrific lighting to the northeast of the city on Friday gnvo tliotn pomich slon of the llrKt lino trenches of the French between the hills i!0 and !ll!L They also captured tho Thlaumont work. The attack carried them ro the village of Floury, which Is only UVj miles from the city proper, hut a counter-attack forced them to give homo ground there. The olllclal Htatemont referH to the Gorman losses as "enor mous." Following In the text of the olllclal statement issued by tho ministry of war: "On tho right hank of the Mouse, following violent artillery preparations last night, tho Germans made n series of attacks on a large scale on the front of I If 1 1 H21 to tho cast of the Uemloup buttery. Attacks with heavy explosives followed each other with extreme stubbornness, notwithstand ing tho enormous losses which our lire Indicted on tho enemy. Between Hill 1121 and Mill IKtt) the Oormnns succeeded In carrying pur first lino trenches and tho Thlaumont work. "A powerful Oerman attack, which has reached as far as the village of Floury, was repulsed by u violent eoun ' tor-attack. "Attacks directed on tho woods of Vnux, Chtipltro, Fumln and Chcnols ' and on the Domloup battery wom , broken by our tiro nnd completely re pulsed." The Germans also have launched a heavy attack In the Champngno dis trict. Three violent assaults on tho French trenches In tho region ,of .Mont Totu were repulsed, according to the afternoon's statement. Berlin, Juno 20. The text of Fri day's statement dealing with opera tions on tho western front follows: "Hast of Ypres an attempted, enemy attack failed. "Three attacks by tho French against trenches wo had taken west of Fort Vnux were repelled. Hero since tho 21st of Juno wo have taken 21 olll cers and -100 men prisoners." RUSH GERMANS TO EAST Troops Shifted From French and Ital ian Fronts to Fight tho Russians. Pctrograd, Juno 20. That tho ccn Iral powers aro hurrying troops from tho French and Italian fronts In an effort to stop tho Husslnii dash through Bukowlmi nnd for tho passes of tho Carpathians Is Indicated In dls patches from tho sceno of action. Tho war olllco announced the cap turo of three villages west of Itadautz, W miles south of Czernnwltz. lilght hundred prisoners were taken. Tho villages aro aurahumora, Straizla and Snruech. Tho Husslans also hnvo taken Vis iltz, on tho border between Gallcla and llukowlna, !i!i miles southwest of Czernowltz. Herlln, vln London, Juno 21. Con inued progress for General von Lin silngen's forces In fighting west and louthwest of Lutsk, desplto repeated counter-attacks by tho Husslans, was innouueed by tho war olllco. Itusslnu ittacks In tho direction of Hrody were opulKcd. NO SHIP FOR AMERICANS Refugees Crowd Vera Cruz Awaiting Opportunity to Leavo Mexican Port Many on Warship. Vera Cruz, Juno 21. Veru Cruz Is tilled with refugee Americans await' Ing opportunity to leavo for tho United States. Every train arriving hero brings from 50 to 100 men, worn rn and children, who expect to embark on hoard transports, hut no steamships arrived, with tho result that tho hotels and rooming houses are tilled with Americans. Many ifb quartered on board tho ouuiesiup iseorasKa, wnero lliey tiro awaiting transfer to the Mrs! avail- able steamship. A special train of ten box cars, enr ylug from f00 to 000 refugees, was expected here during the night. As nil available rooming space Is oren pled, many of these persons will ho compelled to walk the streets. Dies as Martyr to Disease. Kansas City, Mo.. June 2(1. Dr. Paul Ptiquln, city health director, died hero from tubercular meningitis. Ho became paralyzed and partly nllml from the disease to overcome which he hud devoted his life. Harvard Wine Boat Race. New London, Conn., Juno 20, Crim son oarsmen Mvopt the course on the Thames river In tho tlrst two ruces of tho annual Yule-llurvurd regatta. "Harvard took both the freshmen eight jind varsity Junior eight races handily, I- Detachment of American cavalry umliushed bv Mexicans at I'nrruiil while on way to Villa Ahutnada, bloody light resulting. '1 Itouto taken by tho scouting party from Colonla Dubbin. AA General Pershing's col umn and lino of communication. ASKS TWO WARSHIPS WILSON WANTS TWO DREAD- NAUGHTS AND SIX CRUISERS. Secretary Daniels Requests More Men to Give All Vessels Full Crews. Washington, Juno 22. President Wilson wants a bigger battleship building program authorized by tho present session of congress than that provided In the house navy bill which Is now In tho senate committee on naval affairs. At u coliforenco with Secretary Dan iels and Senators Tillman and Swan son ho Indicated ho would approve a program of eight capital ships, two (Ireaduiiughts and six battle cruisers. Tho house hill provides for live bat tle cruisers and no dreaduaughts. Tho three additional ships would add at least $00,000,000 to the heavy navy budget. Senators Tillman and Swanson agree with the president and tho senate committee Is certain to add at least two dreaduaughts to the house program. It Is believed tho house committee on naval alValrs and tho house Itself, la view of pres ent conditions, will agree to the en larged program. Following the conference with tho president and Secretary Daniels. Senator Tillman, chairman of the naval affairs committee, held a meet ing of his committee and tho navy bill was referred to u subcommittee consisting of Senators Tillman, Swan son and Lodge, all big-navy men, for consideration and u report to the general committee. This subcommit tee Is expected to get the bill out with llttlu delay. The senate committee also ap proved the house hill authorizing contractors who aro building Hoot sunmurines 10 uiru mem out with a maximum speed of 10 Instead of 20 knots an hour. Secretary Daniels, backed by the ad ministration, urged congress to author tzo a sulllcleut Increase In tho enlisted personnel vol' the navy to permit tho manning of every war vessel now In reserve or out of commission. GERMANS HALT RUSS DRIVE Teutons Check Line North of Lutsk, But Slavs Continue Advance Toward Lemberg. London, Juno 22. Tho Husslan drive westward from Volhynla and northward from Czernowltz swept the Austrlans farther hack, crossed tho Screth river at several points and brought new peril to Lemberg with the capture of three cities on tho way" to the Gallclau capital. Gllhoku, .udovu and Stroglnetz fell before the Russian hosts, hut north ward from Lutsk the Husslans suf fered the tlrst serious setback of the present offensive. Tho defeat of the Huss came at the hands of the Germans. The German successes wove won between the Ko- vel-Lutsk railroad and the Turin river. German Generals Removed. London, Juno 20. A report that General von Falkeuhayn and Field Marshal Conrad von llootzoudorf have been removed from their posts as chiefs of tho German and Austrian general staffs was received hero. British Seize Steamer. Amsterdam. Juno 20. It was nn ufltinced hero that the small steamer Pu, carrying 400 tons of rlco and 150 cases of cocoa, bus been seized bv a Itrltlsh warship ou tho ground her car go was destined for Germany. PUSH GERMANS BACK REPULSED BY RUSSIANS ON THE STOKHOD RIVER. Kaiser Rushes Six Divisions to Aid Austrlans Czar Takes 174,484 Prisoners. Pctrograd, June 2.'l. The war olllco announced on Wednesday that the number of men captured by tho Bus sinus in the offensive In Volhynla and Gallcla up to Thursday of last week was 174,481. The olllclal announcement says that In a severe engagement on the Stok liotl river German troops which uiiulo an attack In massed formation were epulsed mid took to lilght. London, June 211. Six German divi sions 120,000 men have been hur ried eastward to check the Husslun of fensive bearing down upon Lemberg. Geneva dispatches reported. I'wo German divisions are en route to the Lutsk-Kovel front. Four Gor man divisions aro being rushed Into action on the HO-tnlle front from ISrody southward to a point east of Przomys- lany. Herlln. June 22. Itusslan forces which crossed the Styr river west of Kolkl were driven back by a counter attack, tho olllclal statement of the war olllco announces. "Near Gruzlntyn the Husslans lost about 1.000 men who were utade pris oner. We are aluo advancing south of the Turlna. "With tho Austrian rear guard close ly engaging them, the Husslans have crossed the Hlver Seretb, the Austro- Hungarian war olllco announced In Its report of Juno 20." HOUSE CONVICTS MARSHALL New York District Attorney Will Flc Sentenced Today for Critlciz ng Committee. Washington,. June 22. Tho house by a vote of 20S to So on Thursday found District Attorney U. Snowdon Marshall of New York guilty of con tempt of the house of repivH-ntntlves because of Marshall's criticism of n subcommittee of the Judiciary commit tee appointed to investigate Impeach ment preceding against liliu. Speaker Clark will Issue n warrant today for Marshall's arrest, and he will be brought before the bur of tho house to receive Mich punishment as the house shall direct. The ease grew out of tho neutrality investigations coudiictid by Miirshali. NOTED GERMAN AIRMAN SLAIN Lieutenant tmmclmann Killed. Dls. Patch From Berlin Says De stroyed 15 Enemy eroplanes. London. Mine 2,'t. A Herlln dispatch to 4.he Copenhagen correspondent of the London Telegraph states that Lieu tenant lmuielinann. the dining avlntor who on, the 17th of May brought down his fifteenth aeroplane, was killed while reeunuolterliig on the western front ou Tuesday. Professor Hoxle Kills Himself. Chicago, Juno 24. Hubert F. Iloxlo. professor of political economy at tho University of Chicago, killed himself In his Inane by cutting his throat. Con tinned Illness Is said to have been tho cause of Professor lloxlo's act. Greece Yields to Entente. Athens, June 24. Greece has ac cepted demands made by the ontonto powers. This decision was communi cated to tho French legation by M, Zalmls, to whom tho formation of u now cal Inet has been Intrusted. German Submarine Brings Auto graphed Letter From the Kaiser to King Alfonso Vessel Carried Hos pital Stores for Teutons. Cartagena, Spain, ' June 21. The German submarine U-153, which ar rived In this port on Tuesday, sank tin French liner Provence In the Medi terranean a few months ago, with u loss of more than II.OOO lives, Comman der Arnault said before the vessel de parted. Besides tho Provence, 30 other Anglo-French ships have been sunk by tho IKI'i in the Mediterranean, mem bers of the crow said. Madrid, vln Paris, June 24. The German submurine U-!l." arrived on Wednesday at Cartagena. The olllcers disembarked and left for Madrid with a confidential letter to King Al fonso. The secretary of the German em bassy at Madrid loft Immediately for Cartagena to receive an autograph let ter from the Germnn emperor to King Alfonso, supposed to ho thanks for a reception given Interned Germans from Kaniertin. Tlie submarine Hrst anchored along side the Interned German steamship Komu, but the port authorities re quired her to move and take up anchorage near the Spanish cruiser Ciitaluua. The secretary of tho Gorman em bassy arrived at Cartagena on a spe cial train to receive the letter. Ac companion by the German consul, ho went on bonrd the submarine and vis ited the commander. The submarine departed from the port shortly before daylight. The newspaper Pals says the diplo matic representatives of certain for eign countries have asked the Spun Isli government for further particu lars In regard to tho visit of the U-83. London, Juno 21. A news agency dispatch from Cartagena says the Gor man submarine U-.'r left that port at three o'clock In the morning, traveling In nn easterly direction. In addition to tho autograph letter from Emperor William to King Alfonso the subma rine brought hospital stores for the Germans Interned In Spain. The commander of tho submarlue Is quoted as having said lie had destroyed f0 ships, Including the French liner Provence, which was sunk In tho Medi terranean last February, while serving us a transport, with the loss of several hundred lives. As the U-y."i left Cartagena her crow gave cheers for Spain. The vessel was accompanied beyond Spanish wa ters by Spanish destroyers, as it wus reported allied warships were waiting for her. Newspapers of Madrid stated last month that King Alfonso might lnl tlato peace negotiations In the near future. The king entertained tho Greek ambassador to Spain at dinner a fortnight ago. and a few days be fore tho dinner Emperor William re ceived the Spnnlsh ambassador to Germany. 0. K. FORTIFICATIONS BILL Measure Carrying Appropriation of 34,300,000 Passed by the Houso Vote 165 to 9. Washington, June 21. The forttllca tlons appropriation hill, carrying $84, IIOO.oOO for defenses nnd for both coast and field artillery ordnance and am munition, kas passed by tho houso on Thursday, 103 to S). Its total is an Increase of about $17,000,000 over last year's bill. An amendment by Hopro sentatlve Tuvenner of Illinois, do signed to abolish stop-watch systems and to prevent the payment of bonuses to labor In government arsenals, wna carried. 107 to 113. after a hard light Tho amendment bus been urged tiy la hor organizations. ONE DIES, TWO HURT, IN FIGHT Mine Battle at Virginia, Minn., Begun by Woman With Repeating Rifle, Officials Assert. Vlrdula. Minn., Juno 21. one man was killed and two wounded In a fight here between a squad of spoclnl po lice and n crowd of 1. W. W. .strikers who were on their way to picket the Alpena mine of tho Oliver lion Mining company. A woman armed with a re neiitlni: rifle and who stood on tht porch of a mlntr'ii house tired at run dom. Accounts of tho nfinir differ hut it Is charged by otllclnh? that Mrs. Nick Hosendlcli, tho woman who used tho rltle, started the shooting. Sends Messaae to Knlser. Geneva, via Paris. Juno -tl. A spe cial messongor currying an autograph letter from the king of Greece to the Gentian emperor has passed through Lugano, Switzerland. The- messenger was accompanied by tvvo otneers. Would Lift Blockade. Athens, via London, June Tnero Is general satisfaction over tho result of the ultimatum sent to King Constan tino by tho entente. The teprcsouta thes of the allies have recommended immediate lifting of tho blockade. WERE OUTNUMBERED 5 TO 1 Caught by Mexican Machine aunt Which Opened Fire at Signal From Gomez Horses Were Shot Down or Broke Away. El Paso, Tex. One uf tho most graphic stories In tho history of the American army Is that told by one of tho four couriers sent by the command ing olllcer of tho ambushed troops of the Tenth cavalry when he reached General Pershing's headquarters with his appeal for relief for his comrades. The following Is the story bo tells: "tVe had been manmlng since early Wednesday morning when wo reached the neighborhood of Carrlz.il. Cupt. Charles T. Boyd wus riding ahead of the column. Just behind him was Capt. Lewis S. Morey, Lieut. Henry H. Adair was further back with the column. There were 05 men In the troop. Outnumbered 5 to 1. "From our position we could see some Mexican soldiers In the village. Cuptiiln lloyd sent forward a messen ger under u flag of truce to nsk permis sion to enter the town In search of tho bandits that we were huntlug. Gen. Felix Gomez sent back word giving permission to enter. 'Gomez himself rode out to meet Captain Boyd. Captain Boyd guve tho word for the column to advance. Wo were Just sturtlng forward when we noticed Mexican troops pouring out from behind different kinds of shelter adobe houses and tho like and de ploying to tho right and left. It was battle formation. From the first glance we saw that they outnumbered us ut least five to one. "Captain Boyd noticed their move uent. To any soldier that sort of thing can mean only that nn attack Is about to be made. 1 saw Captain Boyd mo tion to the Mextcr.us and make sonio remark about It to Gomez. Gomez wheeled his mount around and sig naled with his hands. Then he made a dash for his own lines. "At the same time a couple of ma chine gnus, one nt each end of the Mexican line, opened up on us. Wo were caught in our saddles in easy range, and we were good turgets. I saw Captain Boyd fnll. A moment later Captain Morey was wounded In the shoulder. "Lieutenant Adair gave us the order to dismount. We got out of our Bud dies lu u hurry. Then lie told us to throw ourselves on our faces und re turn the fire. Someone got Gomez Just as ho was reaching his line. Tho next minute Lieutenant Adair was tilt. Both ho and Captain Boyd are dead; I believe. Horses Going Down. "The machine guns were still going. I could hear the bullets whizzing over us. Because of Lleutenunt Adair's or der we saved u lot of men. But the horses did not have the sumo luck. Tho bullets started to hit them, and they wore going down as If their legs were suddenly cut out from under them. "The others, stung by tho bullets and kicked by the dying horses, began to rear and plunge. The men In charge tried their best to hold them ,but they broke away. Some of tho meu were killed trying to save their mounts. "When the horses got away we were marooned. Wo fought hack and pre vented the Mexicans from advancing In splto of their advantage in numbers and the machine guns. Wo began to fall hack toward the hills as well as we could. "We recovered four horses anil then the four of us were sent hero to re port. We left the rest of tho troops In the hlls. Tho retreat was slow because of the wounded. Tho Mexlcnns kept firing, but were kept awuy by tho ac curate rifle lire of our men." Nervous Apprehension. "They are not going to cut me up If I go to the hospital, are they?" "Of course not. when you're going Just for a rest. What makes you think they are?" "Because when 1 called up the hos pital a voice said 'Operator.' " transcript. Frightful Prospect. Miss Fadde I'm sure you'll sign this petition we're getting up to end the war. Heggit Bah Jove, I'll go you 1 They say that if It lasts much louger we'll have fiOccnt gasoline. Life. Very Serious View. "Do you consider It proper to bet on un election?" "Certainly nor. An election com pels you to take chances enough on your prospects of prosperity without risking ready money on it. Wrong Position. "You've gone and put the prize fighter's picture at the bottom of the puge." "Well, what of It?" "If yon have any regard for tho fit ness of things make It an upper cut" Chip Off the Old Block. Mrs. llowells Your baby resembleu his father very much, don't you think? Mrs. Growells Yes, In both looks and acllons. Why, be evi n cries for the uionn In the daytime IhmiuiI of nt night. Just to be contnwy. Do Facto Chief Informed Carrlzal Fight Was Result of Own Orders. Prisoners Must Be Released. Washington. A demand for the Im mediate release of tho American troopers taken prisoners at Carrlzal, coupled with a stem notification that tho Unted States expects nn early statement of the purpooc of tho Car ranza government were telegraphed to Mexico City Monday by Secretnry Lansing. The note discloses that the State department received on June 24 a communication from tho de facto gov ernment stating that the Carrlzal fight was the direct result of orders to attack American soldiers moving otherwso than toward tho border, personally Issued by General Car tanza to General Trevlno and by the latter communicated to Gen. Pershing. Text of President Wilsons demand upon Carranza: "Mr. Arredondo on June 24 deliver ed to this government the following communication: 'I am directed by my government to Inform your excellency, with refer ence to tho Carrizal Incident, that the chief executive, through the Mexican war department, gave orders to Gen eral Jacinto B. Trevlno not to permit American forces from General Persh ing's column to advance further south nor to move either east or west from the points where they are located, and to oppose new incursions of American soldiers into Mexican territory. These orders were brought by General Tre vlno to the attention of General Persh ing, -who acknowledged the receipt of the communication relative thereto. On the 22d Instant, as your excollency knows, an American force moved east ward quite far from Its base, notwith standing tho above orders, and was engaged by Mexicans troops at Car rlzal, state of Chihuahua. As a result of the encounter, several men on both sides were killed nnd wpunded and seventeen American soldiers were made prisoners.' " 'You aro hereby instructed to liand to tho minister of foreign rela tions of the do facto government tho following: ' 'Tho government of the United States can put no other construction upon the communication handed to the secretary of state of the United Stntes on the twenty-fourth of June by Mr. Arredondo, under instruction of your government, than that It Is intended as a formal avowal of de cidedly hostile action against tho forces of tho United States now in Mexico, and of tho purpose to attack them without provocation whenever they move from their present position In pursuance of the objects for which they were sent there, notwithstanding the fact that those objects not only involve no unfriendly Intention to ward tho government and people of Mexico, but are, on tho contrary, in tended only to assist that government in protecting itself and tho territory and peoplo of the United States against Irresponsible and insurgent bands of rebel marauders. " 'I am instructed, therefore, by my government to demand the lmmedlnto release of the prlsonors taken In tho encounter at Carrlzal, together with any property of the United States taken with them, and to inform you that tho government of the United States expects an early statement from your government ns to the course of action It wishes tho govern ment of the United States to under stand It has determined upon, and that it also expects that this state ment be made through the usual diplomatic channels and not through subordinate military commandora.' " Outnumbered Eight to One. Columbus, N. M. Klght to one, theso are now said to be tho odds at which tho Americans-fought Carranza soldiers at Carrlzal. A survivor of tho engagement, Sair II. Harris, a colored private of Troop C, tho Tenth cnvalry, was brought to tho border, suffering from wounds in his left shoulder and arm. From him camo tho assertion, that pitted against tho eighty-four men of the American detachment were fully 700 Mexicans. Estimates of tho number of Amerl cans killed still stands nt thirteen and seventeen made prisoners. Virginia Bank Robbed. Wytliovillc. Vn. Bank of Crocketts, at Crocketts, seven miles west of here, was robbed by two men of $-1,400 Seize Ammunition For Allies. Shamokln, Pa. Sixteen carloads of ammunition, consigned to the Now York port for the allies, were requisi tioned In the Northumberland yards by army oillcers of the United Slates. The cars were Immediately rerouted lo Buffalo, to bo sent to Texas. Physicians Offer Services. Cedar Point. O. Tho National Eclectic Medlcnl association has notiiled President Wilson that t'u er vices of more than 2.000 nh -it ians and surgeons aro at his di"i oeal i i T