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Look around Omaha at the
firms that advertise. They
are the ones that have
grown from little concerns
to great big ones.
The Omaha Daily Bee
THE WEATHER
PART CLOUDY
VOL. XLVI NO. 28.
OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1916 TWELVE PAGES.
On TrmlM, at lltJ.
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.
VILLA DISCARDS
CRUTCHES AND IS
IN SADDLE AGAIN
Famous Mexican Bandit Re
ported to Be Once More at
Head of Mounted Desperadoes.
OUTLAWS ATTACK TRAIN
Statement Troops to- Quit
the Southern Republic Not
Authorised, it is Said.
Germans Bombard the Forts
and Shipping at Reval Harbor
Berlin, July 19. (By Wireless to
Sayvillc.) The bombardment by
German naval aircraft of the Russian
harbor of Reval, on the gulf of Fin
land, last night was announced today
by the German admiralty. Bombs
were dropped on cruisers and other
warships, numerous hits being ob
served, one submarine being seen to
have been hit four times. 1 lie state
ment says:
"German naval aeroplanes on the
evening of July 18 bombarded enemy
cruisers, torpedo boats, submarines
and military establishments at the
naval port of Reval, Numerous un
questioned hits were obtained on the
enemy's forces. For example, one
POLICY IS UNCHANGED
Columbus, N. M., July 19. A re
port reached Columbus today that
Villa is heading a large party of ban
dits toward Minaca, eighty-five miles
west of Chihuahua City on the line of
the Kansas City, Mexico .& Orient
railway. The rumor states that the
bandit leader has discarded his
crutches and is riding a horse.
Robert Bacon, former ambassador
to France, and Dr. R. P. Strong of
the Harvard Medical school, arrived
here today. They declined to state
the object of their visit. Dr. Strong
is a specialist on tropical diseases.
ViUistas Attack Train.
Chihuahua City, Mex, July 1.9
A band of ViUistas attacked a train
on the Mexico Northwestern railway
near Santa Ysabel, about fifty miles
west of here yesterday, according to
a report to General Jacinto Trevino
today.. The bandits were beaten off
and eight of them, who were cap
tured, were brought here today for
trial by court martial. The band was
said to number less than a score.
Statement Not Authorized.
Washington, July 19. Informal
conferences between Acting Secre
tary Folk and Eliseo Arredondo, the
Mexican ambassador designate, con
tinued today at the State department.
Although press dispatches from
Mexico City have announced the ap
pointment of Mexican members of
a joint comission to u. '..rtake ad
justment of differences between the
two countries, it was stated officially
at the department that no final agree
ment as to the method of conducting
the negotiations had been reached. It
was explained also that if it should
be determined to make a joint com
mission, the American members
could not be headed by Henry F.
Fletcher, ambassador desienate to
Mexico, because Mr. Fletcher's of
ficial position would prevent him
from serving in that capacity.
Waen told about dispatches from
Mexico City saying Special Agent
Rodgers" had informed the Carranza
government that the. United States
troops in Mexico gradually would be
withdrawn, Mr. Folk said Mr. Rod
gers had no authority to ma!:e any
such statement and that the policy
of the American government remain
ed unchanged.
Both Mr. Folk and Mr. Arredondo
after they had talked for half an
hour, said they had made progress.
but had reached no final conclusions.
Rail Magnates Ask
Suspension of Part
Of Anti-Trust Law
Washington, June 19. President
Wilson was asked today by Alfred
P. Thorn, general counsel of the
Southern railway; Robert S, Lovett,
head of the Union Pacific system,
and Frank Trumbull, chairman of
the railroad executives' advisory
committee, to ask congress to have
the operation ot some ot the provi
sions of the Clayton anti-trust
act postponed until the railroad sit
uation is further investigated.
The railroad officials told the
president they considered sections of
the act conflicting. Amendments to
the act have been recommended fa
vorably by subcommittees of the ju
diciary committees oi both the sen
ate and house ana the railroad otti
cials are anxious that action be
taken during the present session of
congress. I he president had dis
cussed the Question before the rail
road representatives and is under
stood to tavor their plea.
TOO EARLY TO TELL
IF CHILD PARALYSIS
WILL AFFECT WEST
submarine was hit four times. Se
rious conflagrations broke out on the
docks.
"In spite of heavy tire by anti-aircraft
guns and enemy aeroplanes, all
the German aeroplanes returned un
harmed to the sea forces that waited
outside the bay Although the Ger
man sea forces were visible in the
clear weather and the aircraft were
able to locate them despite a fog that
came on in the early morning, no se.
forces of the enemy were bserrfN'-
Petrograd, July i9.-(Viat; r'-vUady Appears to Have No
Ine following annnnrt', v. .vfvr .
made here today: c
"Early yesterday nf four
aeroplanes dropped thWlln bombs
on the town of Reval."
ONE CENT PAPER
DOOHEDBYEXPENSE
Cost of Materials Will force
Rise in Price Says Secre
tary Redfield.
PAPER SCARCE AND COSTLY
The Weather
For Nebraska Fair; slightly warmer.
Temperature at Omaha, Yesterday.
Hour. De.
6 a. m 74
6 a. m 74
7 a. m 74
8 a. m 73
9 a. m , 76
10 a. m 76
11 a. m 76
12 m 76
1 P. m 76
2 p. m 77
3 p. m 80
4 p. m 2
6 P- m 84
P. n 83
7 p, m 83
8 P. m m
Cooi para tire Local Beoord.
' 1UI. IBIS. 1114. 1113.
Hijhest Jetterday ..84 73 87 88
4 went yesterday ... 73 12 83 8)
jilcan lcm?eratuie ..78 tu 75 74
ProclplUUun 18 ,00 .00 .00
Temperature and precipitation departures
from tho normal:
Normal temperature 77
U.icess fur the day 1
Total excess since March 1 101
Norma', precipitation 48 inch
biucese for the day 0.00 Inches
Tulol rainfall since March 1... .8.67 Inches
jc (let envy since March 1 7.01 Inches
iix-jew for cor. period, 1918 07 Inch
Deficiency for cor. Iperod, 1914. .8.18 Inches
Report, from Station, at 1 P. H.
0 Weatber. 7 p. ra.
t'hoyenna, clear 7S
Ltovenplrt, cloudy .... 1i
Denver, clou 78
Lie. Moines pt. cloudy. S2
Umlio Clly, clear !
North finite, clear.... 82
Omahr.. clear 'i
I'udble. part oloudy..., 80
tlaiud Clly. clear ...... 80
44. Sail Lake Clly. clear.. 99
Sama To. clou-ly
NKrldwii, jicar ....... 8?
Sioux Oily,- vlenr ...... 82
.aK'Uliuu, ulnar go. az .1
V A. WULSli, AlUeorologuL
High-
eat.
8
82
SO
80
811
Haln
tall. .00
Washington, July 19. "The 1-cent
newspaper will be a thing of the past
within a short time," predicts Secre
tary of Commerce William C Red
field. "Prices have increased all
along the line on nearly all commodi
ties and within the last few months
there has been a steady increase in
the price ot the materials entering
into the making of news print paper
and an increased demand for paper.
Increase is Imperative.
"The indications are that early this
fall, when the new contracts are
made, or before, there will be further
increases in news print paper prices,
and publishers will be unable to get
out 1-cent papers without a loss, ai d
an increase in price will be imperative.
From information which has
reached me I am of the opinion that
advertising rates will have to be in
creased also, as it appears that the
increased cost ot paper cannot be
made up alone by the increase in the
price of the newspaper."
Publishers in Conference.
Des Moines. July 19. Publishers
of Iowa and Nebraska met here on
Tuesday afternoon and evening to
consult as to ways for meeting the
paper shortage, which has come to
be a serious problem for all newspa
pers. This shortage is general over
the country and all- publishers are
acinar the same proposition, not
alone an advance in price of from 50
to u per cent, Put sucn a scarcity
as makes it difficult to get paper at
all.
Anions the oublisheri at the con
ference here were E. P. Adler of the
Davenport Times, D. W. Norns of
the Marshalltown Times-Republican,
S. G. Goldthwaite of the Boone
News-Republican, Messrs. Ashford of
the Cedar Rapids republican and
Mr. Miller of the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette; Lafayette Young of the Des
Moines Capital, W. G- Crourise of the
Omaha World-Herald and C C
Rosewater of The Omaha Bee.
Omaha Papers Pool Supply.
The situation was thoroughly dis
cussed, each publisher recounting re
cent experiences. Mr. Kosewater
told of how the Omaha publishers
have found prices jumped from 2
cents per pound to as high as S cents
for paper purchased in carload lots;
how they have pooled on paper sup
ply, reduced the size of their papers
and how on a number of occasions
they have actually faced the likeli
hood ot aeing compelled to suspend
publication because of having no pa
per on hand.
E. P. Adler said the present paper
situation had forced him to a choice
between increasing his price for both
subscriptions and advertising or ceas
ing to publish. The other publish
ers recounted similar experiences.
Formal action on conclusions
reached was deferred.
German Subsea
Ready to Sail at
Moment's Notice
Baltimore, July 19. Shut off
entirely from the view of the public
at its pier at the foot of Andre street,
the German merchant submarine
Deutschland is believed to be ready
to sail at any moment. Its com
mander, Captain Paul Koenig, is or
dered by his American agents to de-Dart.
There was little activity apparent
about the boat today. All ot the re
turn cargo of crude rubber and nickel
is now in the hold.
Two big tank cars of oil standing
near the pier are said to be for the
Deutschland s sister ship, the tsrc
men. expected to arrive here soon.
Captain Koenig has cancelled all
social engagements and it was also
said that no more of the crew will be
allowed shore leave except for such
distance that they may be summoned
on board on short nonce.
Postmaster at
Pittsburgh Fired
Washinaton. July 19. Postoffice de
partment officials admitted Dr. George
W. McNeil, postmaster at Pittsburgh,
has been dismissed. Concerning the
dismissal, the ofhcial bulletin of the
department says:
"Notice to Postmasters A post
master at one of the most important
postoffices in the United States has
been removed for failure to co-operate
with the department in carrying out
its instructions regarding the conduct
ot the service in his city.
Alexander S. Guffey, acting as
postmaste.' at Pittsburgh, was nomi
nated later today by President Wil
son, tu succeed Dr. McNeil.
HUGHES ASKS FOR -
HARfflONYIH PARTY
Republicans Urged to Bury
Petty Differences and Work
for Success of Ticket.
MUST UNITE TO WIN
New York, July 19. Charles E.
Hughes today told callers that dis
sension among his supporters must
cease; that he expected all factions to
get together, subordinate what he
termed their petty differences and
work for the election of the national
ticket a'nd a republican majority in
both branches of congress.
The success of the party at the
polls, Mr. Hughes declared, depended
in a great degree upon a cessation of
"bickerings" between republicans and
former progressives and between vari
ous local factions of republicans.
Mr. Hughes, who came here today
from Bridgehampton, had a long talk
with Mayor Thompson of Chicago
and other political leaders from
Illinois over the situation in that
state.
Mr. Hughes will meet at luncheon
tomorrow the members of his cam
paign committee and a committee of
five republican senators, who will have
in charge the republican national sena
torial campaign. Members of the re
publican congressional committee also
have been invited, i
Mr. Hughes held a long conference
today with Chairman Willcox, in
which the chief topics of discussion,
it is understood, were the adjustment
of local differences and the program
for the nominee's western trip.
Russian Infantry
Advancing Toward
The Carpathians
Petrograd.. July 19. I Via London.!
Russian infantry in Galicia is ad
vancing toward the passes of the Car
pathians which lead into Hungary.
Further north, in the marsh region,
the official statement of today savs.
an attempt of Austro-Gcrr..an forces
to take the offensive was broken. In
the Caucasus the Russians have made
further advances. The announcement
follows:
"On the Riga front, trtillery eir
gagem nts continue. At Lake Miad
rial our infantry and lake flotilla, un
der Lieutenant Olschevskv, made a
surprise attack on the Germans in
the night, throwing them into com'
plete panic. Enemy airmen mani
tested great activity from the region
south of the Dvina to the Pinsk
marshes.
"On the Stokhod there was artil
lery fighting at many places.
"We repulsed by our artillery fire
an attempt of the enemy to take the
offensive north of Odzer marsh. Ow
ing to heavy rains, the Dneister has
risen almosf 2.5 meters. destrovins:
Austrian bridges, buttresses and ferry
boats.
"On our, left flank in the region
of the Black and White Tchermosche
rivers, southwest of Kuty, our infan
try is advancing toward the mountain
defiles.
"In the Caucasus on our right wing
in the region of Djivzlik, south of
Trebizond and Baiburt, and west of
Baiburt, we made considerable ad
vances everywhere, dislodging the
Turkish rear guard. In recent days
our columns have captured eighty
five Turkish officers, more than 1,200
men, one heavy gun and five machine
guns."
British Steamship
Taken by Subsea
Stockholm, July 19. (Via London.)
It is reported here that the British
steamship Adams, 2,223 tons, has been
captured by a German destroyer off
Aims, Sweden, while on a voyage
from Finland.
Dr. Clifford Orulee of Chicago
Says Medical Science Baf
fled by Disease Terror
izing the East.
" OFTEN STRICKEN
'
Selection in Types of
Its Victims.
ADDRESS TO SIOUX DOCTORS
The Bee's Fund for
Free Milk and Ice
Somehow, it isn't very hard or ua
to suspend our IS limit rule when
people insist on giving more than
that sum tc the milk and ice fund.
Here is a letter from th president
of the First National bank of Spen
cer, Neb, who writes:
"I am enclosing herewith check or
$10, which kindly apply to your fund
for free ice and milk. Trusting many
others may assist in this good work,
I am," etc.
A woman sends in check which
she calls her "mita toward th milk
and ice fund or the babies."
The .feather may aizxU and burn.
but while people are doing kind deeds,
the helpless little ones will be prop
erly nourished and cared for.
WU1 YOU send in YOUR "mite?"
PrvvlotiHly aekoonledsed S3M.4A
r. tv. Honda, Nueueer, .N" ", (,
m; v ti. i s on
Total.....,...,, Wi.U
Here in the middle west we will
not know how the infantile paralysis
epidemic will affect us for some time
to come, according to the opinion of
Dr. Clifford C. Grulee of Chicago,
who addressed ,the first session of the
annual meeting of the Sioux Valley
Medical association at the Hotel Fon-
tenelle yesterday afternoon. The dis
ease takes three or four weeks to de
velop and people from- New York are
only just beginning to get their chil
dren to the resorts of Michigan and
Wisconsin, fleeing from the epidemic.
Inasmuch as the exact origin and
means of infection of the disease are
unknown it will be difficult or im
possible to quaratine against the dis
ease. It would be impossible to quar
antine against all possible carriers and
direct contact does not always trans
mit the disease. It is known that if
a monkey is infected and the infection
is placed on the mucous membrane
of another monkey, that it will prob
ably induce the disease but the car
rier is unknown.
Many Children Immune.
It has been found in the study of
the disease, said Dr. Grulee, that there
js a high' degree of natural immunity
in;mosT$children, as frequently only
one -iiiiidi'of a group, or family who
havebeenv similarly exposed will be
aeffcted, and the natural bodily
strength and vigor of the child seems
to have very little jfect as regards
its immunity. The strongest child in
the family seems almost if not quite
as prone to attack as the weaker ones.
It is doubtful whether flies are the
carriers of this disease and verv lit-
Hle is known of the carrier. In a re
cent epidemic in Europe, careful study
of the cases showed that the children
of miners seemed to be more suscept
ible than other classes, which .gave
risa to. the thsjory, that the 'Miners
carried it in the dust of their clothes.
Another class of families particularly
affected were those wliere the father
was. a shoe repairer, . . : -Avoid
Cats and Dogs.'
', Infantile, paralysis has. also been
Connected with the disease of cats
and dogs known as distemper, and as
a precautionary measure it is well to
keep children away from cats and
dogs. In the case of children who
have been affected by the disease, Dr.
GruUf advised physicians to allow the
Child to rest for a long period after
the dangerous stage had passed and
allow the natural recuperative ability
of the body to get in its work. This
might be assisted by careful and ju
dicious massage.
Dr. J. G. Parsons of Sioux Falls
mentioned in the discussion, of the
paralysis that study ot numerous
eastern cases as reported in one of
the medical journals had shown that
children in small towns and even on
farms where sanitary conditions were
supposed to be almost ideal had been
found to be as prone to the disease
as in the cities and that it seemed
to be an ailment on which crowding
and housing conditions had very lit
tle effect
Not Most Serious Problem.
Dr. Grulee made the rather sur
prising statement, m view of the gen
eral fear of infantile paralysis, that
it was not nearly so serious a prob
lem to the medical profession as is
the proper treatment and cure of
summer diarrhoea in infants. He ad
vocated three general things which
the physician must observe in the
treatment of the disease:
First, a stoppage of all irritants, in
eluding both food and cathartics and
other medicines.
Second, a prevention of desiccation
which may require in extreme cases
the use of stmulants, but more usu
ally is better accomplished by injec
tions ot water.
Third, the prevention of starving,
No child should be allowed to go
without food for more than forty
eight hours under any conditions of
the disease. After this time food must
be injected, and the child brought
back to a normal balanced diet as
rapidly as his condition will allow.
1 he point most emphasized, however,
by the doctor was that the child
should not be dosed with medicine,
which would usually serve to aggra
vate the complaint.
Use of Anesthetics.
Dr. M. A. Stern of Sioux Falls ad
vocated an extended use of local an
esthetics in preference to general
anesthesia in an increasing number
of major surgical operations which
have previously required ether or
chloroform administration. He re
ported very successful results with
novocaine injected under pressure,
and recommended its use e .cept in
cases of extremely nervous patients.
Dr. F. E. Coulter of Omaha ana
lyzed the different varieties or causes
of headaches and urged the physi
cians to be careful in their diagnonis
and not attempt to give temporary
relief and trust to the patient's natur
al recuperative powers to pull him
through. A careful diagnosis will
usually bring out a reason for the
headache, which, if remedied, pre
vents the recurrence of the trouble.
Last evening the association 'en
joyed a smoker at the Fontenelle.
'1 he election of officers, postponed
from yesterday morning, owing to
tlic poor attendance until afternoon,
is scheduled for tliib morning.
BRITISH ADVANCES In the offensive carried out up to
the end or last week the British captured Bazentin-le-Grand
and Bazentin-le-Petit (1), passed beyond Longueval (2),
and occupied all of the Tronea wood (3). Their position on
July 1 is shown by the heavy line.
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R1LROKOS i ' R.OKOS
RUSSIAN ARMY
IS DAY'S MARCH
INTO JUNG ARY
Dispatch from Petrograd Says
Osar's Troops Are Threat
ening Rear of the Aus
trian Army.
ITALIANS IN NEW MOVE
S 0
nORMER BMTI.G. UNE. .
- PRESENT BKTTUE LtMBL
SCALl Of MILKS
HARMONY SLATE
FORJOWA G. 0. P.
Contests in Districts and Over
Planks of Platform Are
.. Settled in Caucuses.
OARBKTT. IS , QUOTES
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Des Moines, la, July 19. (Special
Telegram.) Horace M. , Havner of
Marengo, was. nominated candidate
for attorney general on the first bal
lot over George Wilson, Polk county,
at the republican convention today.
John A. Gulher at Winterset was
nominated railroad comisioner.
Des Moines, la., July 19. An un
compromising declaration in favor of
prohibition was made in the address
delivered today to the Iowa state re
publican convention by Burgess W.
Garrett, temporary chairman of con
vention and clerk of the Iowa su
preme court Cheers greeted his
statement that "no act of the repub
lican party ever will bring the saloon
back to Iowa." The speaker also de
clared for a stronger foreign policy
both as regards Mexico and the rest
of the world, for good roads, amend
ment of the primary law, for women
sufftage and against militarism.
It was said at the opening of the
convention that most of the contests
to be fought out in the district cau
cuses had been settled and that ar
rangements were complete to rush'
through a harmony slate.
The platform was expected to in
clude planks providing for prohibi
tion and good roads, with emphasis
placed on a proposition to leave the
initiative in tlie matter of good roads
to the farmer tax payers.
A delegation from the Iowa Equal
Suffrage association visited the repub
lican committee this afternoon and
asked the insertion in the platform of
a suffrage plank. I
Nate Kendall of Albia, former con
gressman, was named by the perma
nent organization committee as
permanent chairman.
NEW STATE BANK
AUTHORIZED HERE
American State Bank Secures
: Charter Held by Old Qcr
. man-American.
They Advance Through Posina
Valley and Take Positions
On Corno Del Ooston,
AUSTRIAN ATTACK PAILS
BUVS THE GUARANTY PUND
; The American State bank of Omaha
will open iot business at 1801 Faruam
Itreeabout August!, permission 'ia
ing granted yesterday by the state'
banking board at Lincoln. ,' "
The ew institution buys the $8,000
guaranty fund of the old German
Americs.ri state bank, which was ab
sorbed by the City National bank, and
with it secures the charter. The capital-stock
is $200,000. Officers are:
President, M. F.. Shafer; vice presi
dent; J. F. Hecox; cashier, L. M.
Swindler.
Application was made originally in
the name of the Commercial State
bank, but the new name of American
has since been chosen.
Nebraska's bank guaranty law con
tains on provision for the .return of
any state bank's share in the fund
on liquidation or disposal, and the
money has been lying idle since the
German-American bank went out of
business a year and a half ago. The
new bank made its deal with Dr.
Baker, former president of the German-American,
and other stockhold
ers of that institution,- with the con
sent of the state banking board.
West Indian Storm
Moves Northward
Over Eastern States
Washington, July 19. Another
West Indian storm like that which
recently struck the gulf .coast at Mo
bile and Fensacola. today is moving
northward over the Atlantic, 350
miles directly east of Charleston, S.
C. It may sweep the coast from
Virginia to Maine, should it continue
in its path with its present intensity.
Blacklisted American Importers
To Appeal to State Department
New York, July 19. With very
few exceptions all the business firms
and individuals placed by the British
government on the black iist under
the trading with the enemy act, have
their headquarters in New York City.
Most of these merchants expressed
no surprise today over the action of
! Great Britain. J. A. Kal,l, an ex
porter and importer, said:
"This Mack list has been in the
hands of bankers all over the world
at least a year, to my personal
knowledge. 1 have known for more
than a year that 1, for one, have been
blacklisted. 1 am and have been for
twenty years an American citizen.
Not only has my business, which
was mainly with China, Japan and
far eastern countries, been broken off
completely by seizure of goods, but I
have been unable to buy bills of ex
change or in any other way settle my
affairs. Others have been unable tu
get bills of exchange through me."
Alfred Richter, a trader with Chin
ese and Japanese merchants, made a
similar complaint. "My goods have
been seized at Hong Kong and else
where regularly," he said, "until 1
stopped doing business. My mail to
mi agents in Canton. Ticu Tsen and
other cities were returned to me. The
reason, so far as 1 can guess, is that
once, almost thirty years ago, 1 was
connected with a German firm." Mr.
Kichter said he had been a citizen of
the United States for twenty-five
years.
John S. Scully of Zimmerman &
Forshay, prominent German bankers,
said : "All the officers of our com
pany are American citizens. Of
course, much of our . business has
been done with Germany, naturally,
but for years we have had business
relations with England and many of
its' colonies, as well as other coun
tries now included in the war and
those which have held aloof."
"We are considering means of tak
ing the matter up with the State de
partment within a day or two," said
Oscar L. Gubelman of Knauth, Na
chod & Kuhne, bankers. "We feel
that we have been unfairly discrimin
ated against, We have information
that many of our cable: were inter
fered with."
Charles Hardy, a metal importer,
said the Only reason he could think
of for the presence of his name on
the list was that lie had been cabling
money to reatives in Germany.
London, July 19. Tht British
troops have recaptured in the village
of Longueval and Del'villle Wood
most of the ground taken by the Ger
mans Tuesday night, according to
British official communication issued.
today. Hard fighting is still in pro
gress in this region.
London, July 19. The Russians
have crossed the Carpathiana and
have penetrated a day's march' into
Hungary, according to a dispatch to
the Star from Petrograd.
The dispatch says the Russians are
threatening the Austrian rear in the
mountains.
The advance is being made, accord
ing to this information, by the arm-
ie of General Letschitzky, which are'
again on the move after an interval
of quiet.
Italians in New Movement
Rome, July 19. (Via London.)'
A new advance for the Italians in the
upper Posina valley, where they suc
ceeded in capturing positions ' oh
Corno Del Coston, was announced
tcday by the war office. A strong at-,
t: ck by the Austrians on the Italian
lines in the 1'asubio sector was re
pulsed, . ,
The statement follows:
"On the night ot July 17 there as
intense artillery fire in the Ledro val
ley. "Strong enemy detachments at
tacked our line on the Pasubia, but
were repulsed with heavy loss. The
enemy's artillery yesterday kept our
positions in the Lagarina valley un
der its fire, but it was etfectivel) an
swered. .
"An . enemy aeroplane dropped
bomb on Marostica (northeast of
Viccnza, in Yenetia), a result of
which there were some victims and
slight damage." ;
Allies Oocupy More -.
. . Towns In German
. Eastern Africa
London, July 19. The following
official report in regard to the cam
paign in German East Africa was is- -
sued today:
"Telegraphing July 18, General
Smuts reports that the enemy forces
which endeavored to operate against
his communications north of Handeni
and on the Usambara railway be
tween Korogwe and Tanga have now
been driven down the Pangani river,
abandoning a field gun. , Clearance of
this area is progressing satisfactor
ily. "On the southern- shore of Lake
Victoria the force under Brigadier
General Sir C Crewe, having disem
barked at Kongoro, occupied Muanza
during the night of July 14-15. The
enemy evacuated the town after
slight resistance, leaving many rifles,
a portion of a supply column and a
naval gun of the cruiser Konigsberg
in our hands. A majority- of the
German ' Europeans embarked on a.
steamship and fled southward by
Stuhlmann sound, pursued by our
armed lake vessel." , ., ,
Armstrong, Short v
Line Engineer, to
The Union Pacific
Effective August 1, J. B. Armstrong
of Salt Lake City, connected with the
engineering department of the Ore
gon Short Line will come to Omaha
to reside, he having been appointed
chief engineer of maintenance of way
for the Union Pacific system.
The office of egineer of mainten
ance of way existed for a long time
in connection with the affairs of the
Union Pacific, and then it was abol
ished, the work going out from the
chief engineer's office and being dis
tributed to the resident engineers.
With the appointment of Mr. Arm
strong, this office is re-created and
he will be in charge. . . .
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