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VOL. XLVI NO. 13.
ALLIES' DRIVE
CONTINUES WITH
MARKED SUCCESS
Germany Admits Lines Pene
trated at Several Points by
Forces of the Entente
Nations.
TERRIFIC STORM
OF CANNON FIRE
COVERSADYANCE
British Leap From Parapets as
Great Guns Are Turned
Upon Second Line of
Foe Trenches. ..,
LINE IS A HUGE INFERNO
FRENCH TAKE x5,000 MEN
Fricourf Captured by British,
According to Report From
Headquarters.
BUSS WIN IN GALICIA
Paris, July 2. South of the
Somme, the Frehch have forced their
way to the second line of .the Ger
man entrenchmants at a number of
places and have captured the village
of - Frise and the Meraucourt, ac
cording to an Official sstatement is
sued by the French war office to
night. The number of unwounded
prisoners taken in the two days
battle is stated to be more than1
6,000.
Take Five Thousand.
Paris, July .2. In the fighting
south of Arras yesterday the French
took prisoner five thousand Ger
mans, according to the official
statement issued today by .'. the
French war Department.
In the course of the night French
troopes captured the village of Cur
lu, about seven miles southwest of
Albert, a heavy German counter
attack upon the village of Harde
court, 1.8 miles north of Curlu was
repulsed, the sttement adds. After
repeated assaults the Germans were
obliged to retreat in disorder.
Fricourt Captured.
London. July 2. Fricourt a town
three miles east of Albert, the scene
f desperate fighting between the
British and Germans since the en
tente allied offensive was begun
yesterday morning, has been cap
tured by the British according to an
official statement issued this even
ing. The report follows:
' "Heavy fighting has taken place
today in the area between the Ancre
and the Somme, especially about
Fricourt and Laboiselle. Fricourt
was captured by our troops about
two p. m. and remains in our hands
and some progress has been made
east of the village.
' "In the neighborhood of Laboiselle
the enemv is makinff stubborn resist
ance, but the troops are making good
...V.MimHi avar matftrjar haa .fallen .Intn.
our hands, but details are not avail
able.". ' .. . ,;. ......
Berlinr July 2. (Via London.) Id,
the great Anglo-French offensive be
gan yesterday along a front of twenty-five
miles to the north and south
of the river Somme the German offi
cial statement issued today says the
entente allied troops were successful
in penetrating the German first line
trenches at several points.
The German division defending
these trenches, it is added, had to be
withdrawn to other prepared posi
tions. '
From Gommecourt to La Boiselle,
the communication says, the British
vinn nranpn miriinM vru naaw
Tosses and obtained no advantage
worth mentioning.
Suss Take Position. .
Petrograd, July 2. (Via London.)
General Letchistky's army, after in
tense fighting, has taken by storm the
Suatrisan positions in the section
west of Kolomea, in Galicia, says the
Russian official statement issued to
night. The statement adds that up to
the present 2,U00 prisoners have been
taken in this sector.
Thirty-Three Sign
Roll of the Sixth
At Columbus Sunday
Columbus, Neb., July 2. (Special
Telegram.) Thirty-three young men
who had signed the roll for a com-,
I. '-- .1. - : '-
paiiy ui vuiuuiiciB in mc oialu regi
ment this afternoon at Wunderlich
hall were all very enthusiastic with
chances of being called to service.
Officers were elected as follows:
August Wagner, capftin; A. L. Rol
lin, first lieutenant; C. M. Post, jr.,
second lieutenant; Harold Kramer,
first sergeant; Herbert Hahn, quar
termaster sergeant; W. E. Cooper
ind W. J. Callahan, line sergeants;
H. A. tjress of Platte Center, cor
porals. The third corporal is left to
selection. by the Bellwood squad. Joe
Rileywas elected musician and Hen
vy Person, artificer. The petition will
ie left at the recruiting office to be
filled to war strength. Fifty men
uve signed the petition. From the
enthusiasm shown the company will
!e ready in a few days. Petitions will
he sent to surrounding towns in
1'lattc county to organize battalion.
The Weather
English Front Alive With Furi
ous Shelling After Months
of Quiet.
INCREASES IN INTENSITY
Tlim IIITI
mil HHi'
mm.
MAf!IB
ON SOUTH BORDER
Obregon Strengthens Forces,
While Funston Moves Thou
sands of Soldiers Into
Frontier.
OMAHA, MONDAY, MORNING, JULY 3, 1916.
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SINGLE COPY TWO , CENTS.
MEXICAN TROOP TRAIN Here is a scene of Mexican mobilization. The Mex
icans put their horses inside the boxcars, while they themselves ride on the tops with
their families. .
Temperatures at Omaha Vnlerdar.
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Mean temperature.... 4 64 74 H2
Creclplutlon 00 .10 .00 .00
Temperature and precipitation departures
f'm the normal:
xeemi for the dav
Total eeeen nlnce March 1 11
Nonnal prerlptutlon. ......... ., .Iglnch.
IH?riflency for the day ....... .16 Inch
'I olel rainfall since March 1...., t. 32 Inches
IK'flrlency elm-e March 1 ft. OS Inchea
I tendency for cttr. period, 101ft.. g.KI Inchea
1etlclcncy (or aor. period, 1014.. .43 Inch
British Headquarters, in France,
June 29 (Via London July 2.) i
This week the British front from
the Ypres salient to the Somme is
alive with the most furious gun fire,
in thunderous contrast with the quiet
spring months, when the world was
asking why the British were inactive.
Battery after battery of guns have
been arriving from London and have
been tried out, and this week the cur
tain was lifted on an exhibition of
their power. The proportion of large
caliber guns, which are so useful, is
large.
The correspondent traveled from
the northern to the southern end of
the line with the roar always in
His ear.
Just back of a German first line
trench the village of Beaucourt-Sur-Ancre,
which when last seen had
been unharmed, with its green shade
trees, in a day s time had become a
wreck of fallen walls with only a few
stumps of trees standing, and still
shells belabored the ruins.
Becomes an Inferno.
All the country between Donchy-Au-Bois
and the Somme -was noted
for quiet and where one might not
hear a gun fired for hours had be
come an inferno and the winding river
Ancre, which flowed past Alberton,
the British side, and past Miramount,
on the German side, among ridges
and hills gleamed through the nimbus
of shrapnel smoke.
Whenever one went forward the
scream of shells passed overhead, and
one might judge the caliber by the
nature of the explosion. Those big
white balloon-like puffs over the first
line ground trenches were heavy mis
siles from trench mortars, and those
huge black spurts, colored by the
earth, were eight or ten-inch howitzer
shell fire, fired into the second line
trenches and still bigger spurt, aimed
at the redoubt, . was a fifteen-inch
"hell. . , : V
'"' A mist for a distance oT a hundred
yard! on the front at another point
of the first line trenches meant that
the barbed wire was being Cut '
Gangs were busy, at usual, repair
ing the network of roads, old and new,
built for army purposes to carry the
heavy traffic of caterpillar tractors,
steam and gasoline tractors and col
umns s of regulation motor, trucks
which were bringing up more shells.
"It took time to prepare all of this,
and all of it had to be brought over
sea," said an officer. '
This morning from 6 o'clock
to 7:30 all guns along the twenty-mile
front were firing their
fastest in a chorus of final blasts, cut
ting wires and demolishing trenches.
The rapid fire of the small caliber
weapons resulted in a continuous roll.
The trenches were hidden by a cur
tain of smoke, punctured by vicious
flashes. Toward that cloud which
shrouded every form of destruction
within the power of man, the reserves
were moving forward.; Far above the
observation balloons, motionless in
the still air, a squadron a aeroplanes
was flying to its work spotting tar
gets for the artillery. '
Add Their Shells.
. At 7:20 o'clock the rapid-fire trench
mortars added, their shells to the huge
pouring upon the first-line German
trenches.
After ten minutes of this, at 7:30,
the guns lifted their fire to the sec
ond line of German trenches, as if
they were answering to the pressure
of a single button, and the men of
the new British army leaped over
their parapets and rushed toward the
wreckage the guns and mortars had
wrought. Even close at hand they
were visible only a moment before
beinir hidden bv the smoke of the
German shell curtain over what re
in9tnrl nf the trenches. The Ger
mans had to yield to "two years of
our preparedness againsti torty tor
the Germans," said the staff officer,
"and we have satisfactorily started in
onmr first trial of our new divisions
in the team work of a big attack.
Nothing was now to be seen from
the hill except smoke flashes through
wh ch the famous tigure ot tlie virgin
atop the tower at Albert, struck by a
shell early in the war, but still in
place, although tipped at an angle,
showed oimiy.
It was not long, however, before fast
ambulances began corning down the
roads and batches of-half starved
prisoners were being brought in, too
dazed to appreciate their escape after
having -been marooned five days in
their dugouts without food by the
British fire curtain; and into head
quarters, from out of that inferno of
confusion to the eve, came reports
making the whole movement intelli
gible. The progress of the battle has been
marked by steadily increasing in
tensity of the fighting throughout the
day. North of the River Amcre it
has been particularly severe. The
enemy in several villages offered
strenuous resistance, but the gallantry
of the British troops resulted in their
gradually working around various
strong points.
At 6 o'clock toniglH the British
were around Gommecourt and Bcau-mont-Hammel,
and fighting at this
time.was continuing determinedly, the
first stage of what promised to be a
long action developing. . .
Among the troops opposite the
British, it has been found, were the
Prussian guard reserve division which
I fought at Loos "and Neuve Chapcllc.
DAT IS WITHOUT A CLASH
Increased Caution Shown by
San Antonio Chiefs in
Handling Men.
MOBILIZATION SOON OVER
Columbus, N. M., July 2. Ameri
can cavalrymen patrolling the bor
der, three miles south of here, were
fired upon tonight from the Mexican
side of the linev and returned the
fire. None of the Americans were
injured. The persons-who did the
shooting escaped in the darkness.
San Antonio, Tex., July 2. While
the War department today was mov
ing into the frontier thousands of the
National Guardsmen, General Obre
gon, Carranza's minister of war, was
strengthening his border forces.
Minor changes were directed by
him in his. armies, though they are
now quartered in force in almost all
the northern cities except a few that
lie under the American guns, accord
ing to information that reached the
intelligence department at Fort Sam
Houston.
It was another day without news of
any clashes between Mexican and
American troops.
Officers Cautious.
Increased caution was displayed at
army headquarters 'to keep secret the
movement towards the border of the
National Guardsmen. By the end of
the week, those in charge of the
mobilization say that it will be almost
completed. i
The first arrivals, were the Illinois
First regiment to go into camp here
and it was expected that by tomorrow
the Second and Seventh, completing
the first brigade, commanded by Gen
eral P. J. Foster, would be here. The
Seventh, Seventy-first and Fourteenth
New York infantry passed through
San Antonio today on the way to the
Brownsville. The First regiment from
Massachusetts will pass through to
might, and the officials believe that
by Wednesday or Thursday, the New
York movement will be completed.
Completed Soon.
El Paso, Tex, July 2. Mobilization
6f a latw oart of the
organization ordered to El Paso was
expected tonight to'be completed be
fore daylight. Several trains carrying
the first contingents of the Massa
chusetts militia arrived here today,
while railway officials asserted that a
number of trains carrying euardsmen
from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, are expected within the
next twenty-four hours.
Discharged Soldier
Is Beaten and Robbed
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FACES HARD CONDITIONS
Natural Barriers Make Invasion
of Teuton Neighbor State ; ,
Difficult. -
MEXICAN TROOP XRAU1
LIFE HARDLY WORTH
LIYIMG, SAID MARION
Sensational Remark of Poi-
soned Girl to Friend Re
peated on Stand.
HEARD ORPET ENGAOED
Waukegan, 111. July 2. The ap
parently powerful evidence of the
three white spots alleged to have
been left on the overcoat of Marion
Lambert by cyanide of potassium in
solution was the subject of attack at
the trial of William H. Orpet, college
student charged with her murder to
day. ' Two members of the coroner's jury,
Alexander Allen and George L.
Blanchard, testified with regard to the
coat today. They impeached to an
extent the testimony of Fred Wenban,
the undertaker, who cared for Man
ion's body. '
Freshman on Stand
H. J. Carlin, investigator for the de
fense, and Miss Dorothy' Mason, a
school girl friend of Marion's, also
were witnesses todav. and Irwin N.
the NatlonatuinClowraJrear-pld high school fresh
man to whom Marion occasionally
wrote notes, also appeared for a few
minutes.
Miss Mason, a pretty girl, with
"bobbed hair," confessed to a conver
sation with Marion without, which,
according to one of the two theories
of the prosecution, there might have
been no tragedy in Helm's woods last
winter..
"My mother," said Miss Dorothy,
"had been at River Forest visiting my
sister who is married to a brother of
Celestia Youker. Mother told me
that Will Orpet was engaged to
Celestia.
Repeats Marion's Words.
"A few days before Marion's death
I was talking with her in the wash
room at school, and mentioned what
my mother had said. We were look
ing out of the window at the time, and
we noticed a poor crippled old woman
hobbling along."
"What did Marion say?" asked At
torney Potter.
"She said 'is that so.' Then she said,
'Do you know what I think? Some
times I think life is not worth living.'"
Fearfully beaten and in a pitiful
condition, James Kelley, 34 years of
age, hailing from Philadelphia, was
found Sunday locked in a boxcar at
Sixth and Jones streets, where on
Thursday night he had been lured,
strongarmed and robbed by four
men. Kelly was recently discharged
from the army at Jefferson Barracks,
Mo.; and was just recovering from
an attack of pleurisy when he ar
rived in Omaha Thursday evening,
on a freight train. Shortly after his
arrival Jie met two white men, who
were later joined by two negroes.
Kelly accompanied the quartet to
Sixth and Jones, where they sud
denly ' sprang upon him, and after
administering a terrible beating, took
$20, his hat, coat and shoes, threw
him into a boxcar and fastened the
door. It was. here he was found
more dead than alive, by a car
checker, Sunday morning. After re
ceiving medical treatment at the
hands of Dr. Barney Kulakofsky,
Kelly was removed to St. Joseph's
hospital, where his condition is re
ported to be decidedly serious.
Fero Wires Lobeck
Spanish Vets Ready
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, July 2. (Special Tele
gram.) Representative Lobeck was
advised today by telegraph by a
gentleman signing himself "Fero"
that 1,400 members of the Spanish war
veterans were ready to enlist when
.i.A .a:,iA a t-
u. T i I. ; 'j
air. luucck was overjoyea to re
ceive the news of the loyalty shown,
but could not place "Mr. Fero," the
author of the message. The Omaha
city directory fails to identify.
Kinked to Atlantic City
By the Doctor's Orders
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, July 2. (Special Tele
gram.) Representative Kinkaid was
on the floor of the house today look
ing very much his old time self. On
the advice of his physician he went to
Atlantic City today to remain over the
Fourth.
Representative Lobeck today pre
sented the name of Clate Nichols to
be postmaster at Valley.
American Flour Sold at
Auction at Rotterdam
Kottendam, July 2. (Vis London.)
A series of publiosales of American
flour in which about 100,000 barrels
will be disposed of was begun yester
day by a committee of grain dealers
acting for the government, A great
crowd o( buyers gathered.
The minimum price for sound pat
ent flour was 20 florins, per 100 kilo
grams The highest grade brought
florins. ,
Hughes Starts Upon
First Real Vacation
Within Ten Years
Bridehampton, N. Y., July 2.
Charles h. Hughes, the republican
presidential nominee, here on his
first real vacation in ten years, today
took a motor drive and spent the re
mainder of the day just lolling abouC
The justice had few callers. To
those who saw him. the nominee
made plain his intention of spending
all the time he could beiore the cam
paign in relaxation. Preliminary
work will be concentrated into two
or three days a week, which he will
spend in New York.
The actual campaign probably will
begin the latter part of August.
In framing his speech of acceptance,
on which he worked for a time today,
Mr. Hughes has at his disposal the
views of virtually all the chief party
leaders and progressives with whom
he has conferred since his nomination.
Suggestions from Roosevelt, Taft,
Root, Wickcrsham, and others, jotted
down by the nominee while they
were fresh in mind, have neen placed'
on a portfolio for. use. They will be
consulted and from selections which
he makes Mr. Hughes will frame his
speech, adapting them to his
ideas. ...
Cook Is Overcome
By Heat and He Is
Kmedby a Fall
Nels Norberg, aged SO years, cook
in a saloon at Fourteenth and How
ard streets, was overcome by the heat
Sunday afternoon, and fell in a door
way at 422 South Thirteenth street,
fracturing his skull. He died while
en route to the hospital. Relatives
have not , been , located by the cor
oner, who took the body. Me was
formerly assistant cook at the Merchants.
JUNE GOOD FOR
STATETREASDRY
Collections Amount to Eight
Hundred Thousand More
Than Disbursements.
BALANCE IN ALL FUNDS
(Prom a Staff CarreessaJent.)
Lincoln, July 2. (Special,) -June
was a ' pretty good month around
the Nebraska state treasury, the coU
lections '.amounting to something
like $800,000 more than the disburse
ments. The total amount in the
treasury at the close of the month
amounted to nearly $2,400,000: ,
The report .given out ' by , State
Treasurer Hall, shows a balance in
every fund. The sttement of the
treasurer shows that the state holds
bond investments amounting to
$9,672,268, which makes a showing
with fnuds on hand indicating that
the state educational fund will run
up to about $10,000,000.
The conditions existing is the re
sult of compelling county treasurers
to remit monthly, which keeps the
state treaslury in a condition to meet
obligations promptly. However,
there are four counties which the
report shows are delinquent. Ar
thur county for May, Blaine for
April and May, Sarpy for May, and
Valley for May. The treasurers of
these counties are thus liable for the
ten per cent penalty for failure to
remit.
Washington Democrat Sees
Trouble Ahead of Senator
(From a Staff Correspondant.)
Washington, July 2. (Special Tele
gram.) A straight political appoint
ment" was the way the democratic
members of the house from Nebraska
designated the nomination of Charles
E. Fanning to be postmaster at
Omaha.
None of the democrats was con
sulted by Senator Hitchcock over the
right of naming the postmaster for his
nome town, but the senator has laid
up for himself a "bunch of trouble" as
one democrat expressed it today,
"when he nominated Charles Fanning
to succeed Wharton.
Drug Store Soda Clerk -
Joins Militia Aviators
From the prosaic job of head soda
clerk at Beaton's to a membership in
the Nebraska National Guard aviation
corps is the metamorphosis achieved
by Harry Wendell, 3622 Hawthorne
avenue.
He joined last week and yesterday
jerked the throttle of the carbonated
water tank for the last time before
joining the army as a flyer
Miles of Meat Hanging on
The Wire Fences in Mexico
Nogalcs, Ariz., July 2. Miles of
barhed wire fence decorated with drv.
ing beef from thousands of slaugh-
trH ratrl urprp rjnnrti1 tnrlau Ku
own Mexican railroad employes arriving
I trom riermosillo.
Germany Sees Long-Expected ;
British Qffensive Has Begun
Berlin, July 2 (Via London.) Pri
vate advices from the front indicate
that the long-awaited British of
fensive on the west front finally has
begun. The earlier activity of the
British had' a more or less "feeling
out" character and left it uncertain
whether General Sir Douglas Haig
was in earnest or merely endeavoring
to hold the German forces on his
front. But today it is fairly apparent
that the new movement is the be
ginning of a serious offensive.
The headquarters report . today
speaks of heavy artillery fire, gas at
tacks and the explosion of mines as
preliminaries , to strong reconnaiS'
tancei in force along the Anglo.
French front. These, it is declared,
were everywhere repulsed.
There is no uneasiness manifest
here in military circles familiar with
the situation, though it is evidently
realized that this is only the be
ginning. Coincidentally ; with the Anglo
French offensive, fhe Turkish second
army has launched a general offensive
against the Russians in Persia on a
front extending from Kermanshah to
Lrumiah lake.
HAHER GIVES THE .
RECRUITS ADVICE
Suggests All Who Have En
listed In Proposed Sixth to '
Change to Fourth or Fifth.
WANTS TWO FILLED UP
ENVOY PAGE SAYS
ITALY NOT SILENT
PARTNER IN WAR
American Atnbassador to Rome
Asserts Quirinal Govern
ment Doing All It Can
for Its Allies.
TO CORRECT FALSE IDEA
(From a Staff Camapoadrat.)
Lincoln, July 2. (Special.) See
ing the need of hustle in order that
Nebraska troops may not lose out
in the movement "of men to the bor
der, Colonel John G. Maher, who
recently called for the organization
of a sixth regiment, hat issued a
statement urging all mea who have
enlisted in the proposed regiment
to change their enlistments to the
fourth or fifth regiments where they
are needed to get those organizations
in shape. "'. ' !
He sayt that there it need of men,
and where they will do the most
t-ood. and he wants -to tee those
regiments filled up at once. , .
' Sent to Every Town.
Recru)ting officers will be ten to
day to every tovn in the state which
has" .sent '. guard '"company to the
mobolization camp to enlist men to
fill the : compapies. While the two
regiments -will prbably be moved to
the border this week recruited to the
strength first required, it will be
necessary to keep on recruiting in
order that they may eventually reach
war strength, so that the work will
go on from now on as rapidly as
possible.
Men in other towns than those
having companies who desire to en
list, can do so by coming to Lin
coln, or by reporting to the muster
ing officers of the nearest towns. ,
800 Participate.
feeligous services at the camp to
day were especially 1 - interesting.
About 800 soldiers participated and
when Chaplain ' George A. Beecher
led in the prayer, most of the sol
diers joined in the words.
Bishop Beecher was attired in the
purple robes of his office, present
ing an impressive appearance. 1 He
reminded the boys of the obligation
they owed their country as soldires
and trusted that everyone of them
would not be recreant to the trust.
He wanted ill of them to conduct
themselves as men and hoped that
the two ' regiments would vie with
each other to bring credit to the
great state they represented. -
Before beginning his talk ' he
Called upon Chaplain J. M. Leidy of
the other regiment for a short talk
and as the Omaha preacher stepped
to the platform he received a strong
round of applause from the men,
his brother chaplain leading. The
services closed with all joining in
the song, Onward' Christian Sol
diers." . - -
. Omaha Visitors,' '
isitors who had .arrived at .the
camp at noon today from , Omaha
were.Mr. and Mrs. John T.' Yates,
Dr. and Mrs. McMullin, Mrs. Lieu
tenant Crosby, Mrs. Parks,- mother
of Sergeant Parks, Mrs. Hislop,
mother of the Hislop boys in Com-
fiany C, with other members of the
amily, Mrs. Hedges, Mrs, Dunlap,
Miss Katie Clark, Miss Ileen Dugan,
Mr and Mrs. E. C. Wilber, parents
of Lieutenant Wilber and Sergeant
R. T. Wilber.-with little Harold Wil
ber, Mrs, Major Elsasser and child
rci, Red - Crosby,- -Francis O'Neill
and Harold Dickinson of Council
Bluffs, Mr. and, Mrs. L. Kneeter,
Mrs. C. A. Cook, Mr. McGill, father
of Sergeant, McGill,' Mrs, Lovelady,
R. - G. Hamilton. Others were ex
pected to arrive on the afternoon
trains. .. . . . : . ,
New York, July 2. Thomas Nelson
Page, American ambassador to Italy,
sailed on the steamship St Paul to re
turn to his post. He said upon his
departure to an Associated Press rep
resentative: 1
"In reply to your question which .
indicates what I have so often re
marked, the want of general infor- .
mation in America as to the part .
which Italy haa taken in the struggle ;
on the side of the allies. 1 would
say that nothing has surprised me
more than the idea to which you
refer that Italy has taken a less active
part than the other members of this
alliance in the serious operations of
the war.
" Can Correct Impression.
"It is not for me to discuss either
the policies or the parts that dif
ferent members of the alliance on
either side have played in this terrible
contest, but certainly I can correct
an impression as erroneous as that
which I find quite general 'in this -country
as to the point you mention,
for the facts are no secret among
those who have had opportunities for .
knowing them.
"I may not give my own opinion
on policies, but it it certain that the
Italian statesmen felt that the vital in- '
terest of Italy demanded that it
should at whatever cost of blood and
treasure take its stand with the allies
and that on this depended not only its v
present, but its future. It is also the
conviction of alt who have had oppor
tunity for observation that no coun
try haa put forth greater efforts in
proportion to its strength than Italy,
or has met the losses and borne the '
sufferings which the war has caused
with greater fortitude. ' '
: Difficult to Penetrate.
i "A, glance at the map and even a -little,
knowledge of the history of the
relations between Italy and its chief
ODDonent. show anv nn tha avtra. .
ordinary difficulties which Italy hat
tyttrmount to make any--evert the"""
least advance" in the mountain region
in which Austria fixed the boundaries -between
them when it turned Venice
over to France after the ; battle of
Sadowa. ; No more difficult region to ; '
penetrate exists along any front.
"Of one thing you may be certain, :
Italy like every other country in the
war feelt its vital interest one might
say its very life to be at stake, and '
it putting forth every effort that it.
it capable of in the fight Of ita cour
age and its endurance and fortitude
there can be no question if one con
siders the history of Retorgimento
than which there is no more glorious
page in the hittory of the world.
"And it is not only the men, but the
women of Italy also, who are doing
their utmost. Thert is not a woman '
in Italy, to far at I know, of high or
low degree who is not doing her part
for Italy."
'President Needs You,'
: The Call on Posters ,
Lincoln, July 2. "President needs
you to protect rights of American citi
zens on the Mexican border. Enlist
now." .
Posters bearing this inteription
were received today from the office
of Adjutant General Hall and dia-l
played conspicuously at the Nebraska
mobilization camp. This action was
deemed necessary in the face of the
many guardsmen eliminated by reason
of physical disability and discharged
by order of Governor Morehead.
' In the meantime enlistments are go
ing forward with considerable energy
at the state fair grounds camp. In
order to hasten filling out the com-
?anies' complement two enlisted men
rom every company that is short
were ordered today to their home
town to secure recruits. Unless an
emergency call should come from the
War department, the two Nebraska
regiments will make no effort to move
for the border within five days.
Continued Progress for the
Italian Army Is Announced
Rome, July 2. (Via London,)
Continued progress for the Italians in
their offensive, notably in the Posina
sector, in the Trentino, is announced
tonight by the war office. The ad
vance continues along the entire Po
sina line and also in the Arsa valley. - '
Nebraska Editor on Visit
; To the National Capital
(From a Staff Corrtapondant.)
Washington, July 2. (Special Tele
gram.) F. O. Edgecombe, editor of
the Geneva Signal with his wife and
son returning from New York and
Philadelphia, were in Washington to
day the guests of Representative
Sloan. They went west tonight.
P. H. Carney of . Sutton was in
Washington today. '
Villa Reported Operating
With 1,200 Men in Durango
El Paso, Tex., July 2. Francisco
Villa with .1,200 followers is in the
state of Durango near the' Zacatecis,
according to' a report made to Gej).
eral Bell by a" scou', "who reached'
the border today after a month's in
dividual pursuit of the bandit chieftain.
PHENOMENAL
SUCCESS
For the 18th con- ,
secutive week Be
n Want-Ads have mad . '
a gain of over 1,000
PAID ads over stun -.
period of 1915.
1316
MORE PAID
Want-Ads for the
' Week just, , ended Y ,
. 7-1, than same week ' j
' v one year ago.