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KAISER'S THRONE SHAKY; REPO. R T v The Omaha Sunday NEWS SECTION , PART ONE ONE TO TWELVE PAGES THE WEATHER Fair; Warmer VOL. XLVI NO. 45. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1917 SIX SECTIONS FORTY-SIX PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Bee ALLIES TAKE OVER 33,000 PRISONERS IN DOUBLE DRIVE French and .British Forces Seize 330 Guns and Host of Captives During Great Assault, TEUTONS ATTACK IN VAIN Entente Armies Are Pushing Ahead at Many Points in Western France. CANNON DUEL ON AISNE Paris, April 21. Violent artillery fighting between the Somme and the Oise, particulary south of St. Quen tin, is reported in the official com munication tonight. The number of German prisoners taken by the French and British troops since the beginning of the present operations is placed at more than 33,000 and the guns at 330. French troops made further gains last night in grenade fighting south of Juvincourt and east of Courcy. A German attack against Mont Haut tailed, the war office announces. The artillery was active over the front of the French offensive. The battle of guns raged with particular violence cast of Craonne and north of Rbeims. German Attacks Fail. London,, April 21. A German counter attack against the British holding the village of Gonnelieu was repulsed and many German dead were left in front of the British position, according to the official report from British headquarters tonight Further advances are recorded east of Fam poux and southwest of Lens. British troops last night captured the village of Gonnelieu, on the front between St. Quentin and Cambrai, it was officially announced today. A number of prisoners were taken in the sharp fighting here. The statement reads: "We captured the village of Gonne lieu last night after sharp fighting, taking also a number of prisoners. "An enemy party attempted to en ter our trenches in the neighborhood of Fauquissart, but was repulsed. "Artillery fire continued on ooth sides at number of places during the night." Artillery Duel on Aisne Front - Berlin. April 21. (Via tondod.) "Yesterday afternoon," says the of ficial statement issued today by the German army headquarters staff, "strong artillery firing was com menced on the whole Ainse river front and also in the Champagne. On the Chemin Des Dames and in the Champagne enemy attacks failed." "Between Loos and the Arras-Cam-brai railway line," the statement adds, "there was a gradual increase in the artillery bombardment." Russ Active on All Fronts. Pctrograd, April 21. (Via Lon don) The official statement issued today by the Russian war depart ment says:... "Scouting, rifle firing and aerial ac tivity are reported on all the fronts." Austrians Beaten in Sea And Air Fight Near Venice Rome, April 20. (Via London, April 21.) A sea and air battle near Venice on April 17 is reported in an announcement by the war office as follows: "A number of airplanes, aided by torpedo boats approached Venice on April 17 in order to effect a recon noisance in force. A rapid counter attack by Italian and French airplanes and the fire of our batteries prevented the enemy machines from flying over the city. In a series of aerial duels one enemy plane was shot down. Two Italian hydroplanes have failed to re turn to their bases." Subsea Sinks Norse Ship And Kills Eight of Crew London, April 21. A dispatch to the Central News, from Copenhagen says an official Norwegian communi cation announces that the steamer Bergengut has been sunk by a Ger manlpubmarine and that eight of the crew were killed. It' is also reported that the Nor wegian steamer Norden, 776 tons gross, has been captured by Germans and .taken to Cuxhaven. The Weather For Nebraska Kair, warmer northeast portion. i .Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. Hour. Do. 5 a. m S a., m .... 46 .... 44 .... 46 7 a. m. . 8 a. m . . a. m 64 10 a. m 60 11 a. m..,.. 65 n m 1 p. m..... 71 2 p. m VI 3 p. m 4 p. m G p. m 74 6 p. m 75 7 p. m. 73 Comparative Local Record. 1917. 3518. 1915. 1914. Highest yesterday... . 76 &8 73 81 Lowest yesterday...,. 44 38 65 56 Mean temperature.... 0 49 64 6S Temperature and precipitation departure!) irani me normal ac umana: , Normal temperature 63 92 lixet'rWf for the rlay Total Hxcess Htrfce March 1 1817 Normal precipitation D f lolenry for the day Total rainfall ainre March 1.. I tef tden:y ttnt-e March 1 ...... , .10 Inch .10 Inch 3.09 Inches -.26 inch Deficiency for cor. period 1016 l.Sift Inches Deficiency for cor. period, -915.. l.iO Inch ULTIMATUM SENT BY ARGENTINA TO GERMAN EMPIRE Minister Instructed to Demand Full Satisfaction for the Sinking of Sailing Vessel. BREAK 13 ALTERNATIVE Order to Demand Passports at Once if Attempt is Made to Evade Issue. MUST ANSWER AT ONCE Buenos Aires,' April 21. The gov ernment has sent to Germany an energetic note demanding" complete satisfaction for the sinking of the Ar gentine sailing ship Monte Protegido. The Argentine minister is instruct ed immediately to break off relations if Germany attempts to evade respon sibility for the loss of the vessel. The instructions sent to the min ister read that Argentina will permit of no evasion or delay on the part of Germany. He is told to inform the Berlin government that if prompt sat isfaction is not granted Argentina will follow the course of the. United States and Brazil and will arm its ships against submarines. ' It was announced officially on April 13 that the Monte Protegido had been sunk by a submarine off the European coast. The submarine fired on the ship, wounding a member of the crew. Riot Reports Exaggerated. Washington, April 21. Importance of the anti-German rioting in Argen tina 4s minimized in a report from American Ambassador Stimson. ,, In the rioting of April 14, Mr. Stim son reported a few windows in the building where a German newspaper is printed were broken. One Ger man snip was attacked. A counter demonstration on the next night Was of less importance. A meetine bv the "patriotic popular committee" was called for the night of April 20, and another meeting of prominent people had been called for April 22, with the object of expressing approval of the Argentine attitude to ward the United States and the cause of the grand alliance. It was said at the state department today that the government was with out information of the reported rioting in Brazil or the clash between Brazil ians and German colonists in the southern part of that country. Blancett Admits i Killing Armour j While Hunting Santa Fe, N. M., April 21. Elbert W. Blancett, on trial for the murder of Clyde D. Armour of Sioux City, la., last night took the stand and ad mitted killing Armour with a shotgun on the afternoon of October 23. The killing, Blancett said, was accidental, and took place while he was intoxi cated. It occurred, he swore, in some woods twenty miles east of here, while he was on the way from Den ver, Colo., to Fresno, Cal., in an au tomobile with Armour. Blancett testified that he and Ar mour left the car for a short hunt. Armour walked approximately twenty-five feet ahead of him, the accused man said, and when he stumbled the shotgun he was carrying in the hollow of his arm was discharged and Ar mour received a portion of the charge in the back. When he had ascertained Armour was dead, Blancett averred, he start ed for Santa Fe to notify the authori ties, but became frightened at the thought of possible consequences of the affair. Being out of money, he impersonated the dead man in order to secure funds, later selling Armour's autoinobile for the same reason. Army Nurses Teach Maimed Soldiers to Run the Plows (Correspondence cf The Associated Press.) Troyes, France, April 2. What is called a "motor culture" school is beginning at Chapelle-Saint-Luc, out side of Troves. It inaugurated a new era in French agriculture. On the movement depends, perhaps, the so lution of a grave food crisis that France certainly has before it. Fifty army nurses of the older classes are there, teaching maimed soldiers to run automobile plows and (other traction implements of every sort, in lour crews, the pupils in turn drive the tractors in the field, learn repair work at the forge and the principle of the motor in a series of lectures. As soon as they are able to repair a broken part as well as drive a motor efficiently, they are placed at the disposal of the mechani cal cultivating commission 1 and as signed to one of the farming centers that has been provided with motor implements for the common use of the farmers of the neighborhood. GOVERNOR SIGNS PROHIBITION AND SUFFRAGE Ml' Two Measures Stirred State ,Du, ; o lative Session Ar Now on Statutes. PARTIAL VOTE IN JULY Act Will Be in Full Force Ninety Days After Ad journment. DRY LAW HAS EMERGENCY (From a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, April 21. (Special Tele gramsGovernor Neville signed the prohibition bill and the bill granting partial suffrage to women of Nebraska today at 2:15 o'clock. The prohibition measure carries an emergency clause and is in effect on May 1. It was agreed to after king conferences early in the week, t The limited suffrage measure lias no emergency clause and goes into effect in July, just ninety days after ad journment of the legislature. It was passed today by the senate, 19 to 10. The law will give the women of Ne braska the right to vote for president and vice president and for all munici pal and county officials, excepting county judge. Vote On Suffrage. The vote on the bill stood as fol lows: For Adams. Albert. Beal, Bushee, Ben nett, Chaiipell,, Doulhctt, Gates, Haaae, Hairer, Hammond, McAllister, McMullen. Neal, Oberlles. Samuel, . Sandalt, Sawyer, Wilson of Frontier. Total, 19. Against Buhrman, Doty, Henry, Kohl, Lahners, Mattes, Morlarty, Spirit, Tanner, Wilson of Dodge. Total, 19. After the bill had passed Mrs. W. E. Barkley, president of the State Suf fragist association, gave each member of the legislature an orange to which was attached a yellow flower and a yellow ribbon carrying the words "Votes for Women." Later; Mrs. F. M. Hall, Mrs. L. W. Pomerene, Mrs. T. J. Doyle and Mrs. JvW.' Girard brought to each house a large bouquet of roses which were presented to each body while Miss Dorothy Doyle sang a verse of "America,", the members standing. Provisions of Dry Law. The prohibition bill in brief pro vides: Against sale and manufacture of all intoxicating liquor. Against sale and manufacture of "near beer." ; For possession of liquor in private homes for personal use, provided it is purchased before May 1. Against sale by retail drug stores of any intoxicating liquor but alcohol. Cities and counties liable for dam ages from illegal sale of liquor where shown officials are lax in law enforce ment. When complaint is made possession of liquor by person complained of re garded as prima facie evidence of in tent to violate law. That all liquor dealers and manufac turers must dispose of stock by May 1. Governor responsible for enforce ment of law and will have $50,000 fund for this purpose. Fine of $100 or thirty days in jail or both, for first offense; thirty to ninety days in jail for second offense; imprisonment in penitentiary not more than . two years for all subse quent offenses. Emergency clause', making bill ef fective May 1. German Destroyers Sink During Kaid On Coast Near Dover (By Associated Press.) Two, possibly three, of five Ger man destroyers that attempted a raid upon Dover, England, and upon Brit ish shipping there, were sunk by two vessels of the British patrol on Fri day night, the engagement lasting only five minutes. The British losses were slight. The London admiralty reports the number of Germans saved as 10 of ficers and 108 men. Secretary Baker Sees Army Airplane Crash Into Tree West Point, N. Y., April 21. An army aero- lane, containing two sig nal corps captains, Walter G. Kilner and Harold S. Martin, who had flown here from Long Island to attend the United States Military academy grad uation yesterday, later crashed into a tree at the edge of tl ; parade grounds and fell about thirty feet. Neither officer was injured. The machine was wrecked. The accident was witnessed by Secretary of War Baker and Major General Hugh Scott, chief of staff. Oregon is First State To Enlist Its Quota Portland, Ore., April 21. Oregon, it was said today, is the first state to fill its required quota ot enlistments, the last of the 800 men called for in the twenty days ending April 20 hav ing been sworn in to the federal serv ice. It was announced today that an in formal canvass just completed indi cated that Oregon ship yards can fur nish to the government 150 wooden ships annually of an average tonnage of 3,000. .J 1 4 Play Ball! Conditions of the Contest! K For the best and cleverest answers, not exceed- words, The Bee will give jAinerated. Address Picture Puzzle Editor, The ee. Answers must be in by Wednesday, April 25. Awards announced Sunday, Aprrt z. Award and Bast Answers in Last CltLES BLOMBERG KILLEDBY AUTOIST Telephone Company Foreman Struck Down While Leaving Street Car Near Home. HERMAN CHESTER DRIVER Charles Blomberg, Nebraska Tele phone company foreman, aged 52 years, 2876 Titus avenue, was in stantly killed at 4:50 o'clock yester day afternoon when he was struck by an automobile at Thirtieth and Titus as he was alighting from a street car. I The auto was driven by Herman Chester and was occupied, besides himself, by J. C. Wheeler, De Soto, Neb., and E.'E. Wunri, 3305 North Fourteenth street. On the street car following the one on which Blomberg took his last ride, was Mrs. Arthur Blomberg, who, by a peculiar circumstance is both his daughter-in-law and step daughter. She fainted when she stepped to the center of the crowd to see what drew the crowd. Her mother married Blomberg re cently, and a week ago she secretly married Arthur Blomberg, her step brother. She is employed by the metropolitan water district. Blomberg had been in the employ of the telephone company twenty-six years. Will H. Parry, Vice Chairman of Trade Commission, is Dead Washington, April 21. Will H. Parry of Seattle, vice chairman of the federal trade commission, died it a hospital here late today from the effects of an operation performed a week ago. Great Britain Offers Safe Ctinduct to Tarnowski Washington, April 21. The Brit ish government has formally notified Ambassador Page in London that it is prepared to grant safe conduct to Count Tarnowski, Austrian ambassador-designate, from the United States to Austria. Arrangements for his departure will be made at once. Ambassador Page added that the British government had taken similar action with -cference to German offi cials stationed in China who arc to return to Germany, passing through the United States. OMAHA'S MUSTER ROLL. Today. Total. Army 32 956 Navy 6 390 National Guard 2 '276 Marine Corps 0 34 Totals :.y 40 1,656 ' V . ' a' ' What Says the Base Tan First Prize Second Prize Three Prizes Five Prizes Answers mar separate ahaat of prizea as here Week's Contest Are to bo Found on Last Balfour and Party '" " -Land Safely in U. S. Washington, April 21. The safe landing of British Foreign Minister Balfour and hit party was an nounced today by the State department. The official announcement said : "The Department of State has been advised of the safe landing of Mr. Balfour and his party." BOMB IN OAT GAR SENT FROM OMAHA . f Authorities Find Explosive in Grain Shipment From This Place at Denver. DROPPED INTO THE PLATTE Denver, Colo., April 21. Federal authorities are investigating what is believed to be a plot to destroy grain elevators by means of bombs, it was announced here today. Investigation was begun following the discovery yesterday of what is believed to be a nitroglycerine bomb in a carload of oats received by a large local grain firm from a grain company in Omaha. The bomb was dropped into the Platte river by a police officer. Federal authorities believed the plot wa&directed against an Omaha grain elevator. Farmers Must Grow All Their Land Can Nourish (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) London, March 30. Full powers to deal with farmers who do not culti vate their land to its full capacity have been granted to the board of agriculture under the defense of the realm act. The new regulations provide that the board of agriculture may, at will, terminate a farmer's tenancy and ar range for the cultivation of the land by some other person, It may also take possession of any farm machin ery, produce, stock or animals which are required for the cultivation of land or the increase in the food supply- ' Russia to Raise Opium As Government Monopoly (Correspondence of The Assorfated Press.) Petrograd, March 31. The Russian government has arranged for the ex tensive cultivation of opium at Tash kend, the former capital of Russian Turkestan. The product will be the monopoly of the department of health, which is to manufacture it solely for uiediciual purposes. Growers are to be required to hand over the entire crop to the government agents at a fixed price under heavy penalties. Ball Fan? Prisas for Bast Answers. f 2.00 in Cash .... The Original Picture - (each) 2 Orpheum Tickets - (each) A Popular Novel be written In blank spss In picture or on paper, as preferred. Pasjo of Today's Featura Section TURKEY BREAKS .WITHJMERICA Ottoman Government Notifies U. S. Embassy of Severance of Diplomatic Relations. FOLLOWS ALLY'S EXAMPLE Basel, Switzerland, April 21. Via Paris.) A dispatch from Constanti nople dated today says the Ottoman government has notified the American embassy that following the example of its ally, Austria-Hungary, it has broken diplomatic relations -with the United States. Break Semiofficially Told. Amsterdam, April 21 (Via London). Semiofficial advices from Constan tinople today announce that Turkey has broken off relations with the United States. Relations Are Severed. London, April 21. The Turkish government on Friday evening offi cially informed the American embassy that diplomatic relations with the United States had been broken off, according to a Berlin dispatch for warded by Rcuter's correspondent at Amsterdam. American Ambassador Elkus, who is suffering from typhus fever, the report adds, will have to remain some time in Constantinople. The ambas sador's condition has shown some im provement. Belgian Relief Ship Konsti Sunk; . One Man Missing Amsterdam, April 21 (Via London). The Belgian relief ship Konsti has been sunk by a mine or submarine. One member of the crew is missing, the remainder having been rescued. The Kongsli was hit while in the so-called safe zone on Friday night. The missing man is the second mate, a Norwegian. The others who were on board, thirty-four in number, of whom nineteen are Americans, have been landed in Ymuiden. The vessel was struck on the star board side. Because of the dark ness the cause of the explosion re mained undiscovered. The crew was rescued by trawlers. Another Belgian relief ship, the Norwegian steamer Ringhorn, has been sunk. American Fined for Entering Japanese Wireless Station Yokohama, Japan, April 21. Ralph Huyt Thayer, formerly of Utica, N. Y., was convicted here yesterday of violating the law for the protection of military secrets and fined 20 yen. The judge found that Thayer had no in tention of violating the law. Thayer was arrested :n January on the charge of having entered with out authority the wireless station zone Yokosuka, an important naval sta tion three miles southwest of Yokohama RIOTS THREATEN TO END MILITARY RULE IN PRUSSIA German Empire is Said to Be Facing a Great Eoonoraio and Political Crisis at Home. STRIKES IN MANY CITIES Tieup of Muntion Plants May Have Far-Reaching Ef fect on War. CLASH IN MAGDEBURG By Associated Trail. Interest in the great French of fensive on the Aisne has given way today to the startling news from the interior of Germany. Veiled thouah the situation. In the midst of a rigid censorship and ob scured by the shackled condition ot the German press, sufficient has leaked through to indicate that the German empire is facing a great economic and political crisis. Ten thousand striking munition workers have engaged in a bloody not in the great Prussian fortress town ' of Magdeburg and were only pre vented from burning the city hall after a sharp clash with the military. This story comes from the Dutch frontier with sufficient detail to make its claims to authenticity impressive. On its heels arrives the account of demands made by leaders of the Ber- -lin strike, demands of such a revolu tionary character that compliance with them would mean a sudden ending to the militarist regime in the German empire. Demand Release oi Socialists. Similar demands have not- been voiced publicly in Germany since the . imprisonment of Dr. Karl Liebknecht on a charge of treason. It, is sig-' mhcant that they include a requisi tion for the release of political pris oners, which would include, of course, the noted socialist leader. The exact nature of the strike move ment in Germany is not known, but it is certain that a considerable portion of the munition workers have been affected. There are reports of a new strike at Essen, and Magdeburg is the site of an important branch of the great Krupp establishment. Hindenburg Tikes -Hind. An Indication of the seriousness of the situation is afforded by the fact that Field Marshal von Hindenburg has considered it necessary to make I -personal appeal ,to the workers, in which he denounces strikes as inex. cusable crimes against the 'fighting forces. ' In the meantime General Nivelle maintains his unrelenting pressure - against the enemy at the most vital . point of his defenses the sharp an gle at which the German line, run ning south from Lens, turns east to ward Rheims. That General Haig is preparing for another tremendous smash is taken for granted, and London believes that this blow will not be long withheld. ' ' State of Siege at Magdeburg. London, April. 21. Ten thousand strikers, mostly munition workers, , tried to burn the town hall at Magde-'. burg on Friday, according to a dis- ' patch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Oldenzaal, Holland. Soldiers fired on the rioters, killing and wounding many, and the town now is in a state of siege. Dispatches from Amsterdam quoted the Dusscldorfer General Anzeiger as saying that a mass meeting of Berlin , strikers adopted resolutions demand- " ing peace without annexation, aboli-, tion of compulsory, service, liberation of political prisoners, complete politi cal freedom and general, secret, equal and direct franchise throughout the empire. Lady Mackworth Head of Big Business in Britain (Correspondence of Tho Associated Preafe.) ' London, April 2. The first woman director of a shipping company is 1 Lady Mackworth, daughter of Lord" Rhonda, the Welsh coal magnate. In addition to the shipping directorate she is director or chairman of twenty- nine limited companies in all of which Lord Rhonda was interested when he resigned to take up the presidency of the local government board. Lady Mackworth, a charming Welsh woman, easily approachable by he humblest member of any of the staffs she controls, first acquired a practical knowledge ot commercial work in the offices of the Cambrian Coal combine, of which her father, hen D. A. Thomas, was head. When Lord Rhonda went to the United States soon after the commences nient of war, Lady Mackworth ex tended her grasp or commercial en- , terprises and concluded several deals so successfully that she was easily able to perform the duties of which the twenty-nine companies entail. bhe has inherited a very large propor tion of her father's organizing genius and is married to ir Humprdcy Mackworth, who has been on active service since the outbreak of war. Crippled Soldiers in Italy Learn New Trades (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Rome, March 31. Crippled soldiers in Italy have been taught a number of useful trades, among them the making of artificial flowers, baskets, the cutting of cameos, leather work, book binding and many other things. These objects have found such a ready sale in the .larger Italian towns that several American women are forming a committee to forward them to the United States )