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I OPINION IN WASHINGTON TROOPS WILL REMAIN AT PORT. FIRST BATTLE IN NEW REVOLT Carranza Forces Under General Hill Routed by Villa Sympathizers in Sonora. Washington.—American forces will remain in Vera Cruz until the question of authority as between General Carranza and General Villa is settled. This was the consensus of opinion of administration officials al though no definite announcement of the intentions of the Washington gov ernment was made. Secretary Garrison telegraphed General Funston at Vera Cruz not to load any necessary baggage or sup plies aboard the transports, inform ing him at the same time that the Americans would not be withdrawn ^ “for at least ten days" until certain administrative questions concerning the transfer of funds at the customs house could be adjusted through dip lomatic channels. Numerous inquiries were made here and of General Funston with re spect to the date of the departure of the American troops from Vera Cruz. In view of the matters which must be first settled, no date can at pres ent be fixed, but in no event can the departure take place within the next ten days and General Funston was so tdvised. Must Break Kaiser. London.—While speaking at a meet ing of his neighbors held at Oricctetli, Wales, chancellor of the exchequer Lloyd George, declared that the war was quite unexpected. He never dreamed it would occur, he said, until a few days before hostilities began. He never thought any country could be so devilish as to pretend great friendship and at the same time make elaborate arrange ments to attack. Indeed, he thought war was so far away that he had made arrangements to spend August and September at Criccieth. It took fifteen years to break Napo leon, the chancellor continued. He said he did not think it would take anything like as long to vanquish Em peror William, but long or short, England was going to see it through. Mexicans Stone Consul’s Residence. EH Paso, Tex.—Stones were thrown through the windows of the residence of the American vice consul at Parral on September 15, declared American refugees arriving at the border. They told of an anti-American uprising at Parral, a mining town in northern Mexico, in which orators at the town plaza had demanded that the United States withdraw its troops from Vera Cruz. Later the mob, arrivals here said, marched past the residence of the American vice consul and threw stones through the windows of the building. Carranza Forces Routed. Douglas, Ariz.—Carranza forces un der General Benjamin Hill were rout ed by the troops of Governor May torena in the first engagement of the new revolution proclaimed by the state of Sonora in connection with General Villa’s defiance of Carranza. Maytorena has reported that his men had killed seventy-eight of Hill's troops, including two majors and nine other officers. One hundred prison ers were captured with a large quan tity of ammunition and supplies. Admiral Winslow Dead. Washington.—Rear Admiral Her bert Winslow, United States navy, re tired, is dead at Florence, Italy, ac cording to a consular dispatch just received here. The time of his death was not stated. He was in command of the U. S. S. Fern at the battle of Santiago and landed the first detach ment of American marines at Taku, China, In the Boxer uprising. Since his retirement in 1910 he has been living in Cherbourg, France. House Passes War Revenue Bill. Washington, D. C.—The adminis tration war revenue bill imposing taxes on beer, domestic wines, gaso line, and special taxes on theaters, certain dealers, and stamp taxes, all estimated to produce $105,000,000 within a year, was passed by the house. The vote wus 234 to 135. Cut Com nunications. Vera Cruz.—There is no railway or telegraphic communication between Vera Cruz and the capital, the lines having been cut north of Bsperahza. about 100 miles west of Vera Cruz. Only 778 of Crew Rescued. London.—The admiralty has an nounced that only 778 enlisted men on the three armored cruisers sunk by a German submarine were rescued. They were: From the Hogue, 354; from the Aboukir, 236; from the Oressy, 188. Serbs Take Two Cities. Nish.—It is announced that the Ser vian armies have captured Ljuboviya and Sreberenitza, on the Drina river, after bayonet charges and hand-to hand fighting. Former Sultan Urges Peace. Petrcgrad.—Abdul Hamid, former sultan of Turkey, has warned the com mittee of union and progress that Turkey will be lost if it enters upon war against Russia. Word has reach ed here from Constantinople, that Adrianople is short of provisions. Three Generals Killed. Berlin (Via The Hague).—Generals vcn Trotha, von Arbou and von Wroo hem have been killed in action, and Generals von Willisen and von Kuene wounded. ' SCENES AMID THE RUINS OF LOUVAIN L V These photographs, just received from Europe, give some idea of the appearance of Louvain after the destruc tion of that once beautiful Belgian city by the Germans. The main picture shows the students' quarter and the in sert a glimpse of the Place de la Concorde, where were many hotels and cafes. COMBATANTS WIN AND LOSE ALONG THE RIVER AISNE Hundreds Die in Charges Which Really Gain Little for Either Combatant. PARIS CLAIMS GAINS ON WEST German Line Holding Firm, and Even Making Advances, Declares Berlin —Series of Battles Seems Likely to Continue for Some Time—Kaiser’s Naval Victory in the North Sea Something of a Shock to Britain. While the battle of the allies and the Germans continues along the en tire front in Prance there has been relatively no change in the position of the armies. The hardest fighting ap parently is proceeding on the eastern and western ends of the lines, the allies on the west end endeavoring to encircle the Germans and on the east the Germans trying to break through the allies’ lints in the vicinity of Ver dun. In the center a lull in the war fare is reported. On the Battle Front, Sept. 26.—The German offensive was extremely vig orous today at the western end of the long line stretching along the rivers Oise, Aiene and Woevre. The allied troops, whose gaps had been filled with freshly arrived re enforcements, not only repeatedly thrust back the masses of Germans thrown against them but eventually carried out a successful counter-attack which resulted in the gaining of con siderable ground and the capture of Peronne, about which town the fierc est engagement occurred. Machine Guns Kill Hundreds. At one place the victims of the deadly German machine guns were counted in hundreds, especially where the advance was across an open wheat field that recently had been harvested. Some men of a French regiment which was making a dash toward the German position when it was struck by the sweeping fire were found dead in the kneeling posture they had tak en behind sheaves of wheat and from where they had emptied their maga zines, intending to start a final rush and bayonet charge. After the fight 900 dead were buried ?n a single trench eix feet deep, the Germans being placed at one end and the French at the other. Many Germans Near Reims. Further toward the east, near Berry au-Bac on the Aisne north of Reims, there appears to be concentrated a large German force which has stolidly occupied strong intrenchments from which it is most difficult to dislodge them. Hereabouts the fighting has been of a desultory character, with, however, slight advantage in favor of the allies. The men of both armies in this vicinity seem to be enjoying their rest. On the eastern wing the Germans are throwing enormous masses of men against the French troops protecting the line of defensive forts above Ver dun; but up too the present their ef forts, although costing immense sac rifices, have been vain and the French line remains intact. Allies Claim Big Gains. London, Sept. 26.—The official an nouncement regarding the progress of the battle of the Aisne made public in Paris tonight said that the flanking movement of the allies' left wing con tinues to develop and that the town of Peronne has been occupied after des perate fighting with the Germans. This report tends to confirm the ear lier unofficial reports that the Germans had been driven back further on their right wing than had been previously reported and that the main stand of the Germans to the north and west will be made along the line from Cambrai to St. Amend. The official dispatch adds that there has been a lull in the fighting along the center of the great line and that | the German attacks on the right wing J of the allies have been checked. Claims Made by Germans. Ixjudon. Sept. 26.—Messages which come from German sources carry re ports which are diametrically the op posite of the foregoing. These say jthat the flanking movement of the al lies on the German right wing have j failed and that the battle there has come to a standstill. These messages say there has been no fighting on the center, but that the German left has taken Varennes, at i tacked the forth to the south of Ver dun, and repulsed sorties from Verdun and Toul. The Germans are said to be bombarding the towns of Troyon les-Paroches, Camp des Romaine. and Lionville (Lironville). It also is claimed that French troops in French Lorraine and on the border of Alsace have been repulsed. Germans Reoccupy French Towns. Washington. Sept. 25.—That the Germans have reoccupied three towns opposite the French right wing in Lor raine was made clear when the full text of the official statement from the \French war office was read at the French embassy here. The official statement, as given out in Paris, set forth that Domevre, south of Bramont, had been reoccupied by the enemy. The embassy received a statement, however, which contains this phrase: ‘‘On our right wing in Lorraine the enemy have again passed the frontier with several small columns. He has reoccupied Domevre, south of Bra mont, and Nomeny and Dilme, north of Nancy. Von Kluck Driven Back. Paris. Sept. 25.—General von Kluck's harassed German right wing was driven back more than ten miles de spite its effort to hold back the allies in their encircling maneuver, which is fast accomplishing General Joffre’s plan of turning the western end of the invader’s army back upon the center. Violent fighting cdntinued all day i where the rival armies are in contact north of Noyon, and the enemy is fighting with undiminished gallantry against the ever-present danger of be ing cut off. Also there is the growing peril of a stroke from the rear, which unofficial reports declare is being di rected from Amiens, where the French are moving southeast toward St. Quen tin to cut the railroad line of supply of the Germans through Belgium. The allies have gained all along the line, but at terrible cost. i Ninety-Mile Battle Front. At the Battle Front, via Paris, Sept. 24.—Not a moment's respite was given to the German forces entrenched along the ninety-mile front running along the rivers Aisne and Oise and extending into the Woevre district. The batteries of the allied forces never ceased tiring, although their ac tivity diminished after sundown. The Germans occupying the trenches kept constantly on the alert but' until two o'clock in the moraine no aggressive move was started from he allies' lines facing tiiem. to open fire together and every point Then all the allied batteries seemed along the front became active. At the western end of the line the allied infantry gathered iu the trenches and simultaneously at va roius points crept out and advanced cautiously in wide open lines towards the German positions. The French and British on several occasions succeeded in surprising and driving back the occupants of theGer man trenches, but only after the most stubborn fighting and after heavy losses both to the attacking and to the defending forces. In every in stance the allied troops retained the ground captured and immediately dug themselves in. Further east the Germans them selves developed a strong attack, but were beaten back with the bayonet, only to return again and again, to be finally driven off to their original po sitions. GENERAL NEWS OF THE WAR Germany Wins Naval Victory. Three cruisers of Great Britain, car rying a complement of more than two thousand one hundred men, were tor pedoed and sunk in the North sea, off the German coast, by German subma rines. These cruisers, the Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy, have been reported as very active in scouting close to the Helgoland coast in an effort to locate the main German war fleet. The magnitudeof the disaster struck home to England when it was learned that only 1,067 survivors, offi cers and sailors, had been accounted for. The missing number 1,133, the three ships having carried 2,200 sail ors and officers. A Berlin official dispatch received at London by Marconi wireless says: "Not a single shot was fire- by any of the three British cruisers sunk by the German submarine U-9. The ma jority of the British sailors were in their bunks when the attack was made. In recognition of their services the Iron Cross has been bestowed on each member of the crew of the sub marine. “The U-9, in charge of Lieutenant Commander Weddigen, escaped un hurt after the sinking of the Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue. “An official statement says that the British cruiser Pathfinder was sunk, not by a mine, but by the German submarine U-21. This submarine also escaped unhurt.” Notwithstanding that the British and German naval authorities an nounced that one submarine was re sponsible for the destruction of three British cruisers, Albert Dougherty, chief gunner of the Cressy, as quoted by the Chronicle’s Chatham corre spondent, insists that he saw five sub marines, one of which was sunk. Galicia Occupied by Rust. A Central News dispatch from Pet rograd to London says: “The Russian advance guards al ready are before the Austrian fortress of Cracow. "All of Galicia, except Przemysl and Cracowi has been cleared of Aus trian troops, and the Russians are massed far west of Tarnow. Russian cavalry has penetrated to every part of Galicia, meeting practically no re sistance. “The Germans are rapidly retreat ing from East Prussia, and the Rus sians, pursuing, have recaptured the town of Soldau, and have established a firm line from Warsaw north to the Baltic. “In Galicia the Russian advance forces have already reached Cracow, Przemysl is invested and is being bombarded, and Cracow at the worst cannot do more than engage a por lion of the Russian forces.” Canadian Troops on the Way. The major part of Canada's latest contingent of 32,000 men for service fn Europe is already on its way to the front in 20 transports heavily armed and guarded by British men of war in sufficient force to prevent any attack i by German cruisers. NORTH SEA WELL GUARDED British Precautions Declared Absolute, Though German Submarine Did Break Through. London.—A “solid wall of warships” .is thrown across the northern part of the North sea, according to the cap tain of a British trawler who has just arrived from Iceland. The skipper said it was “absolutely impossible for any foe to break through undetected,” so constant and thorough was the patrol to the north. It was his own experi ence to be halted and -searched, and after being released his boat was fol lowed by two torpedo boats until it reached its destination. The thoroughness of the patrol was further testified to by another North sea skipper. His trawler was lying along shore, when shortly after mid night it suddenly found itself hemmed in by a huge black object which proved to be a British cruiser. Its officers seemed to have had cat’s eyes. From the dark a voice demanded to know the identity of the trawler. It was promptly shouted back. “ ‘The name is quite correct, sir’— came another mysterious voice astern of us,” said the skipper. “A sub marine had crept up behind us and read our name. Although ell of our crew had come on deck to see what was happening, not one of them had seen the submarine appear. Instead of trying to get even with your enemy, get ahead of him by mind ing your own business. INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT Includes What Is Going On at Wash ington and in Other Sections of the Country. WASHINGTON. Protests believed to be inspired by Governor Colquitt of Texas, against the proposed removal of troops from the Mexican border were placed be fore Secretary of War Garrison. • * • It lias been officially announced at thi} White house that there will be no change in plans for removal of Amer ican troops at Vera Cruz by reason of the present trouble between Villa and Carranza. • c • Postmaster General Burleson has under consideration a project to cut pcstoffice expenditures $20,000,000 a year by perfuming the rural mail serv ice by contract, as is now done on the so-called star routes. * * * • The state department has ordered Investigation of evidence laid before it by British Ambassador Spring-Rice of alleged unnatural activities of Ger man societies in western cities, in cluding Chicago and Cincinnati. * * • Secretary Daniels, of the navy de partment, has made it clear that he does not propose to allow litigation In the courts to interfere with the en forcement by tlio United States gov ernment of neutrality at all wireless ntations. • » • A warning to national banks which have received government funds to aid crop moving or which have re ceived emergency currency not to charge excessive interest rates or to rfefuse legitimate credits was given by Secretary McAdoo. Reopening of tlie advance freight rate case, under the specific limita tion that consideration be given to new matters, which eastern railroads contend have arisen since the original case was decided, was granted by the Interstate Commerce commission. * * * By a vote of 27 to 22 the senate has returned to the commerce committee the rivers and harbors appropriation bill, with instructions to reduce the total from $34,000,000 to $20,000,000 and directing that the money be ex pended at the discretion of the war department. • • • President Wilson has refused to change his attitude toward the Colo rado strike situation, and indicated that the mine operators must accept the basis of the settlement aiready agreed to by the miners or stand re sponsible before the country for the result. • • • Officials expressed the view’ that Russia's expressed modification of stringent regulations against the Jews, because of their loyalty to th< government in its struggle in the present European war might pave the way for an understanding for a new treaty. • • • Russia’s manifestation of friendship for the United States expressed In the announceed intention of signing a peace commission treaty may lead to negotiations for a new treaty of com merce and navigation between the two countries to replace the one abrogated during the Taft adminis tration. DOMESTIC. The administration of President Wilson was warmly endorsed by the Maryland democratic state convention ut Baltimore. • * • Twenty-two hundred bales of cotton were subscribed for by New York merchants to foster the ‘‘buy-a-bale of cotton” movement. • * • France has claimed part of the cus toms collections at Vera Cruz as se curity for a loan made by French bankers to Huerta when he was dic tator. • • • State wide prohibition does not go into effect in Virginia until November l, 1916, affording reasonable time to adjust the classic thirst of the Old Dominion to new conditions. • • The record of being the most re liable washerwoman in this country is claimed by Mrs. T. H. Bailey of Atchison. Kan., who has completed iier fiftieth consecutive year as the washerwoman of an Atchison family. • * 0 Three men robbed the Baxter Springs (Kan.) National bank, obtain ed $8,000 and escaped. The bandits entered the buiiding, drew revolvers ind forced Frank h. Brewster, assist int C3shie'r. and H. M. Mitchener and IVilliam Murphy, customers, into the bank vault. * • • More competition between the rail roads would result in better service o the public, is the opinion of rhomas B. Schumacher, chairman of :he board of directors of the Chicago, lock Island £ Pacific railroad. • • • Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in ad dressing the convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters of Amer ica in Indianapolis, said the present European war is "the most brutal and inholy war in the history of man kind.” • * • Woman suffrage gained another vic tory In Chicago when Judge Owens in the county court ruled that the newly enfranchised voters are enti tled to vote for county commission ers. Forty warships have been destroy ed, badly damaged or otherwise lost ! to the European powers since the war began. • • * The first international convention of pliotoplayers (moving picture ac tors and actresses) will be held in San Francisco March 1-14. * * * Receivers were appointed by the Philadelphia common pleas court for Irish Bros., wholesale dealers in coal 1n that city. The assets are estimated at more than $1,000,000 and the in debtedness about $750,000. • • • The national convention of the United Irish League of America, which was to have opened at New York on September .10, has been post poned to November lo in order to as sure the attendance of representatives of the Irish parliamentary party. * » * Most of the eastern railroads try to put their California fruit through Chicago and tiiis augments the busi ness of the Central Pacific, according to testimony given at New York by William Ii. Sproule, president of the Southern Pacific Railway company. • • • The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows at its session at Atlantic City declined to adopt, a resolution de claring for the restoration of peace in Europe. Those opposing the resolu tion held that members of the order in both England and Germany might, misunderstand the proposed action. • » • The supplemental report of tax ap praisers reappraising the estate, of Jo seph Pulitzer, publisher of tlit* New York World and the St. Louis Post Dispatch at the time of his death, made public at New York, fixes the gross value of the estate at $20,355, 085 and the net value at SIS,637,545. • • • That the handling of the antl-trus: law of recent years has been a dis tinct failure because of a tendency to ward ineffectively attacking big in dustries, which have done wrong, while harrassing honest business ef fectively, was charged by Theodore Roosevelt in his speech at Springfield, Til • * • The Colorado Fuel and Iron com pany of Denver, in a letter to Presi dent Wilson, made public, expressed unwillingness to employ all strikers wbo have not been convicted of crime as suggested in the three-year truce proposal prepared by Hywell Davies and William R. Fairley, mediators ap pointed by the secretary of labor. • • • Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore and Cardinal O’Ccnnell of Boston, return ing from Rome, where they had hast ened to attend the papal conclave ar rived at Boston. “Pope Benedict XV, the new pontiff, has a great love for America and Americans, looking up tp our government as a model to all and an example of the best of this earth.” FOREIGN Pope Benedict has asked for a re port on the destruction of the Hheims cathedral. • • • Carbajal and Felix Diaz are said to be ready to support Villa in his re volt against Carranza. • » • Sir J. M. Barrie, famous British au thor, who has arrived in New York on the Lustania, blames the war upo.? militarism. • • • General Francisco Villa has declar ed his independence of the central government of Mexico under General Carranza. • • • A FYanco-British blockading fleet is said to have isolated the Austrian seaport of Cattaro and to be bom barding the town, assisted by big gum from Mount Lovchen. • * • In the far east a British force cf 1,200 men has landed at Laoshan, Chi na, and is expected shortly to attack the outer defenses of Tsing-Tau in conjunction with the Japanese. • • • The German cruiser Emden, which recently sank a number of British merchantmen ofT the coast of India, has thrown shells into Madras. Slight damage is said to have resulted. • • • Fighting on land has given way for the moment as a news factor to the daring raid in the North sea by five German submarine boats, which tor pedoed and sunk three British ar • • • . The German submarine 17-9 credit ed by Berlin with having, unaided, de stroyed the three British cruisers off the Hook of Holland, has returned un damaged to a German port. * • • Peking reports that 25.0''') Japanese have landed on the Shan-Tunk penln sula, and that Japanese troops ar6 passing toward Ping-Tu, about forty miles north of Kia-Chow, the German protectorate in China. • • • Subscriptions thus far received to the German war loan have assured the brilliant success of the war loan plan. One paper in Berlin speaks of 1 the public response as the “victory of those at the Somme.” • • • Because of his disapproval of the action of the Britis'h government in seeking the conquest of G mman South west Africa. Brigadier General Bey ers, commandant general of the Union of South Africa's defense forces, has resigned. , ? • • • More than 2,500 children of striking miners in the eastern Ohio coal dis trict are unable to attend school be cause of lack of clothing, according to J. M. Roan, state mine commissioner. Miners have been on a strike since March 31 last. * * * Russian successes in Galicia were due largely to their knowledge of Austrian mobilization and campaign plans, bought two years ago from Colonel Alfred Redi, chief of the Eighth Austrian army corps genera? staff, it is declared at Vienna. Nebraska Directory DEFIANCE STARCH is constantly growing in favor because it Does Not Stick to the l!ron and it will not injure the finest fabric. For laundry purpose sit has no equal. 16 ox. package 10c. 1-3 more starch for same money. DEFIANCE STARCH CO.. Omaha. Nebraska BUSS & WELI.MAN Live Stock Commission Merchants £54-256 Exchange ItulldiiiK, SoutLi tmiahx All stock consiirned to us is sold by members of ibw firm, and all employees have been selected ana trained for the work w bleb tbej do. Wrlt»-i>k««*-aki*» THE PAXTON Booara from f 1.00 up single, 75 cents up double CAFE PRICES REASONABLE Activities of Women. Queen Eleanore of Bulgaria baB served in two wars. England and Wales have 94,841 women farm laborers. Germany has more women than men by over eight hundred thousand. Belgian women are learning to shoot with rifles. In order to get at the true condi tions first hand. Miss Elizabeth Wat son engaged herself as a worker id the oyster canneries of the South, where she found the children stunted from overwork. Thousands of women In France will be given employment during the war time through efforts of America amounting to $60,000,000. Lady Cook is endeavoring to raise an army of 150,000 English women, which she plans to drill and train to act as a home guard. She plana to have regiments of women wearing khaki uniforms, just like men The Heroes. "I'd like to rent your hall, please ‘ "What for?" "Well, you see, we’re organising a fraternal society called the Sons or Moving Picture Veterans of the Mexl can War.”—Musical Courier. Johnstown, Pa., has 10,574 factory and shop workers. 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