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, WHITLOCK TELLS
' BELGIAMORRORS
German Soldiers Weep and
Officers Ashamed When
Deeds of Cruelty Per-,
petrated.
BISSINO POLICY 'TOO MILD'
Washington, April 22. A bitter in
dictment of German brutality in the
deportation of conquered Belgian for
forced labor written from behind the
German linei by Brand Whitlock.
American minister to Belgium, was
made public tonight by the State de
partment. It came in a confidential
, -eport last January when the United
States was protesting vainly to Ber
lin against the treatment of the help
less people, but the department did
not dare publish it at that time or un
til Mr. Whitlock was safe on French
soil.
The report begins with a story ot
what happened immediately after tin
German army overran Belgium, ot
arrangements by the Belgian govern
ment to continue the wages of civil
ians thrown out of work and of the
conquerers' determination to put these
men to work for them.
Say Billing Policy Mild. .
"In August, Von Hindenburg was
appointed to the supreme command,"
says the report "He is said to have
criticized Von Bissing'i policy as too
mild; there was a quarrel; Von Bil
ling went to Berlin to protest, threat
ened to resign, but did not. He re
turned and a German official here said
that Belgium would now be subjected
to a more terrible regime, would
learn what war was. The prophecy
has been vindicated. -
"The deportation began in October,
in the Etape, at Ghent and at Bruges.
The rich industrial districts of Hain
aut, the mines and steel works about
Charleroi were next attacked, now
they are seizing men In Brabant, even
in Brussels.
"The men,-shivering from cold and
fear, the parting from weeping wives
and children, the barbarities o? brutal
Uhlans all this made ' the scene a
pitiable and distressing one. I am
constantly in receipt of reports from
all over Belgium that tend to bear out
the itories one constantly hears of
'brutality. and cruelty. A number of,
men sent back to Mons are said to be
in a dying condition, many of them
tubercular. At Malines and at Antwerp
returned men have died, their friends
asserting that they have been vic
tims ofneglcct and cruelty, and cold,
of exposure, of hunger."
Knights of Columbia ! 4
Take ta'New Members
Degrees were conferred by the
Kights of Columbus on forty-four
members Sunday afternoon at Metro
politan hall. The first order of the
prcram for the day was attendance
at Holy Family Catholic church at
V:,10 a. m. A dinner was served down
town. '
Degree teams of Omaha and Lin
ro'n presented the ceremonials at
Metropolitan hall. The banquet,
which was to have been held, was
postponed on account of the death of
T. J. Mahoney. Honors were con
ferred upon the following:
P. H. WUlamt
.1. F. Hymn
,T. J. BehnHdt
I'. I I MMir
A) .in Ho;fmn
F. M, WBimmi
K, A. BRrit
P. J. ailllMn -J!Ufi
O'lury
.1. W. Knowlfit
K. la, Iluugh
J, W. Sheahan
J. J. FraT
.1. W, Wllilnmi
Jfihn l'Rrk
Robrl Park!
C, J, Burn)
J. J. Farrfll
J. B, Howlev
F. .1. Hohleltr
C. R. Wlr
Ktlnaond Porin
H. A. Larkln "
W. h. Carey
r. T. Murphy
D. J. Ryan
R. F. Renarrt
U J, Wa-dlnn '
O. A. Ronard
M. E. Darg-acsewakt H. F. Graham
Albert HotTl Edward Walah
J. J, DonohU J. C Brtca ,
R. 1. Dolan ' F. J. Lry
J. It. Muvan M. C Laiiiinn
T. 3. Ktnaii . J. KrtQRbaum
Thomas Bylvi W. F.1 Morrla
Investigate Reports Flag
Taken Off School House Wall
Fall City, Neb.. April 22.-(Spe-
ctal.) bheritf Katektn and county
Attorney R. C James went to School
District No. 38. west of Humboldt,
where Miss Vera Biggs teaches, to
investigate a complaint of Albert
Smith .that the flag and picture of the
oresident had been taken down from
the wall of the school room where.
they had been placed by the teacher.
It is said the teacher bought pic
tures of Washington, Lincoln and
Wilson and had placed them on the
wall and draped them with a flag. The
school board, composed ot td Knv
sey, John Glather and Walter Sar
torius, ordered the teacher to take
Wilson s picture from the wall.
It is said one of the members of the
board is a socialist, another a rtpub
lican and the other a German dem
ocrat. Some young men in the neigh
borhood heard ot the incident and
went to the school t night and
placed a flag over the school building
. and another in the school and left a
notice to the school board that on
account of their disloyalty to the
American flag they had better reform
or resign. '
, The board had the picture of Wit
.Son replaced. The board members
satisfied the officers that they intend
ed no ii"espect either to the flag
or to the president. A patriotic meet
ing in the school house the next night
was held to prove the loyalty of the
citizens.
. Russian Soldiers Swear to
- Expel German Invaders
Petroerad. Aoril 22 (Via London.)
The congress of delegates from the
armies ODened at Minsk today and is
being attended by more than 1,200
representatives of the soldiers and of
ficers and workers engaged in nation
al defense work. M. Rodzianko, presi
dent of the Duma, and Minister of
War Guchkoff i era present. -
A private soldier named Sorokolet
oflF was elected vice president. The
latter on mounting the tribune in his
field uniform and armed with a rifle
was received with a atorm of cheers:
Deputy Roditcheff, governor general
of Finland, urged all the armies to
unite into one force to conquor the
enemy of Russia. Koditchett conclud
ed by crying:
"We believe you are going to drive
the enemy out ot Russia.
The assembly responded by shout
ing: ' - . .
"We swear it." .
FOUR OF THE COMMANDERS OF UNCLE SAM'S BAT
TLESHIPS Captain H. B. Wilson it in command of the
superdreadnought Pennsylvania, Admiral Mayo's flagship.
Captain Rolland Welle i in command of the superdread
nought Oklahoma, Captain W. H. G. Bullard in command of
the Arknnsas and Captain J.' D. McDonald in command of
the Arizona.
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venation on the various phases
of
American participation.
Un all sides it was reiterated that
the British had come in a spirit of
service and appreciation and that it
was their hope that the lessons they
naa icaxnca hi me war ai sucn coai
might be of ase to this country in
avoiding similar mistakes.
bimilarty, as one omcial explained
it, the commiesioa was moved by ex
actly the same feelings which raised
the Stars and Stripes to the flag tower
of the Parliament building in London
for the first time' a foreign flag ever
has flown there in history.
secretary Baliour, a tall, slim,
white-haired man of (9 years, who has
held the highest posts in the empire
since he first entered Parliament forty-
threa years ago, saw today the com
pletion of one of his life hopes, ex
pressed under vastly different circum
stances on January IS, 18w, when he
was largely instrumental in averting
war between England and America
over the Venezuela dispute.
It cannot but be." he said, "that
those whose national roots go down
into the same past as ours, who share
our language, our literature, our laws.
our religion, everything that makes a
nation great, it canpot but, be that a
time will come when they will feel
that they and we have a common duty
to perform, a common office to fulfill
among the nations ot the world.
Not Her to Make Speeches.
While unable to grant an extended
interview before presenting himself
to President Wilson, Mr. Balfour
willingly consented to say a few
words as to his general hopes for
the conference and. the fundamental
purposes behind it A verbatim copy
follows: '
'Alt will agree that my first duty
as head of a diplomatic mission is to
pay my respects to the head of the
state to which I have been sent, and
no public expression of opinion on
points of policy would, I think, be use
ful or even tolerable until I have had
the honor of conferring with your
president and learning his views.
1 have not come here to make
speeches or indulge in interviews, but
to do what I can to make co-operation
easy and effective between those who
are striving with all their power to
bring about a lasting peace by the
only means that can secure it, namely,
a successtui war.
- Expression of Gratification.
"Without, however, violating the
rule I have just laid down,, .there are
twoMhings which I may permit my
self to say: One, on my own behalf,
the other on behalf of my country
men in general.
"On my own behalf, let the express
the deep gratification I feel at being
connected in any capacity whatever
with events which associate our coun
tries nv a common effort for a great
ideal.
On behalf of my countrymen, let
me express our gratitude for all that
the citizens of the United states of
America have done to mitinate the lot
of those who in the allied countries
have suffered from the cruelties of the
most deliberately Cruel of all wars.
"To name no others, the efforts of
Mr. Gerard to alleviate the condition
of British and other prisoners of war
in Germany, and the administrative
genius which Mr. Hoover has un
grudgingly devoted to the relief of
the unhappy Belgian! and French in
the territories still in enemy occupa
tion will never be forgotten while an
inexhaustible stream of charitable ef
fort has supplied medical and nursing
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CATT WIKSeW.
skill to service of the wounded and
the sick.
Day of Neutrality Over. 1
"These are the memorable doines
of a beneficent neutrality. But the
days of neutrality are, I rejoice to
think, at an end: and the first Dace
is being turned in a new chapter in
the- history of mankind. Your presi
dent, in a most ar t and vivid phrase,
has proclaimed that the world must
be made safe for democracy. Democ
racies, wherever they are to be found.
and not the least the democracies of
the British empire, will hail the pro
nouncement 83 a happy augury.
"That self-governing communities
are not to be treated as negligible sim
ply because they are small, that the
ruthless domination of one unscrupu
lous power imperils the future of civ
ilization and the liberties of mankind
are truths of political ethics which
the' bitter experience of war is burn
ing into the souls of alt freedom-loving
peoples. That this great oeoble
should have thrown themselves whole
heartedly into this mighty struggle,
prepared for all the efforts and sac
rifices to win success for this most
righteous cause, is an event at once
so happy and so momentous that only
the historian of the future will be
able, as I believe, to measure its true
proportion. (Signed)
"A. J. BALFOUR."
Rev. 8. D. Baltzly Says
God Should Be First
"Put God first in your lives," said
Rev. O. D. Baltzly in his morning
sermon at Kountze Memorial church
Sunday, "How often do we see a
young woman who has been faithful
to the church who become careless
about it when she begins to keep
company with a young man who does
not care-, about the church. When a
young man asks a young woman to
go to the theater on Sunday evening
instead of to her church, that young
woman is not doing her duty by her
God if she does not answer 'No, I
cannot sacrifice my God to do a thing
like that."
"Some of us put business above our
God. I think I am disclosing no se
crets when 1 say that some in this
congregation this morning have been
thinking about their business, instead
of thinking about God. Some of
you have been thinking of the din
ner. But I say put God first in your
heart all the time. If God cannot go
with you in your pleasures, then your
pleasures are not right." The sermon
was the first in a series, announced by
Dr. Baltzly a week ago, on the ten
commandments,
A whole row of pews in front was
occupied by soldiers of the Fburth
regiment in uniform. This had no
military significance, as the soldiers
were all comrades of "Pete" Balser,
who was confirmed in Kountze church
on Palm Sunday, and who had in
vited them to attend worship with
him.
Omaha Presbytery Names
Delegates to Assembly
Lyons.' Neb., April 22. (Special
Telegram.) The Omaha presbytery
closed a successtui spring session
here. There were over forty Presby
terian ministers present. ' Robert
Demoster. of the First Presbvterian
church of Omaha, was elected mod
erator.
Rev. M. C. StonecvDher. of Cres-
ton, and Rev. C. H. Mitchell, of Oma
ha, were elected as ministerial com
missioners to the general assembly
which" convenes at Dallas. Texas, in
May. P. C. Brandt, of Tekamah, and
C. F. RoWl, of the North church of
Omaha, were chosen as lay commis
sioners.
The presbytery adopted a new code
of standing rules among which was a
change from two sessions a year to
four. .
Arrested When They Won't
Stand as U. S. Anthem Sung
Chicago, April 22. Three men who
refused to stand when Ihe star
Spangled Banner" was played at
concert of the Chicago Symphony op
chestra tonight were arrested.
OMAHA, MONDAY, APRIL
FIGHT OVER DRAFT
IS ON JOARNEST
Big Battle Will Begin Monday
in Both Houses Over Manner
of Raising Troops.
WAY HAS BEEN CLEARED
, Washington, April 22. President
Wilson's fight to organize a war
time army in accordance with the
advice of the War department and
the army general taff will begin
in earnest Monday in both houses
of congress.
In senate yesterday the administra
tion bill, supported by Senator Cham
berlain, chairman of the military
committee, and a majority of the
committee, was started on its way to
a vote. There was some debate, par
liamentary tangle were disposed of,
and the way cleared for uninterrupted
consideration of the measure.
The majority and minority reports
were presented from the house mili
tary committee and the bill will come
up Monday, with Representative
Kaltfl. ranking republican, leading the
committee minority' fight for the ad
ministration plan unamended, while
Chairman Dent, heading the majority,
directs the opposition, urging trial
of a volunteer system before resort-
frig to the selective draft. .
Baker Against Compromise.
The minority .report, signed bv
eight of the committee, rests for au
thority on a letter from Secretary
Baker to Chairman Dent, declaring
than any compromise on the depart
ment's plan, "would be attended by
unfavorable results.
The majority report, signed by
Chairman. Dent and eleven others,
says in part:
. "The bill authorizes but does not
direct the president to issue a call
for a volunteer army of 500,000 in
the first place anf of an additional
force of 500,000, if necessary, under
the law now in existence.
"The bill further authorizes the
president to proceed at once with the
registration of all male citizens be
tween the ages of 21 and 40 years
as provided in the plan of the War
department for a draft. So that all of
the machinery authorizing the draft
of 500,000 for the first force and of
the additional 500,000 will be put in
operation at once.
President Ha Choice.
"It will require at least three
months and probably longer to com
plete this registration. In the mean
time if the president sees fit he is
authorized to call for volunteers, and
upon the completion of the registra
tion he has the absolute power to de
cide whether he will take an army of
volunteers or organize one by draft.
"Both the volunteer and the draft
features of the bill authorize' the
president to refuse to accept either
by enlistment or draft the services of
persons needed in the industrial Bur
suits of the country."
Of the eight members signing the
minority report condemning the vol
unteer system, five-have seen military
sesvice.
Wall Paper Manufacturer.
Praises Omaha's Progress
Among. Omaha's important visi
tors yesterday were George Tait,
president and general manager of the
Imperial Wall paper company, Glen
Falls, and the William Campbell Wall
Paper company, Hackensack, as
well as numerous auxiliary com
panies maufacturing products that are
used in connection with wall naoer.
He was accompanied by his son-in-law,
Carter Hall, treasurer of all of
these companies, and Harry Webster,
manager of the Chicago branch.
Mr. Tait and associates are finan
cially backing the Yetter-Moore Wall
Paper company of this city, distribut
prs of their products in western terri
tory, under direct charge of W. L.
Yetter, as president and general man
ager.
Although he has visited Omaha an
nually for a number of years. Mr.
Tait was much surprised to note the
improvements of every character here
and declared that Omaha appeared
the most prosperous of any city of
its size he had visited on his trio.
He was also much impressed with
the patriotism evidenced on all sjdes.
In Mr. Tait's opinion the war will
end before the first of January and
the American manufacturers will have
heavy demands from the foreign
countries for years to come for re
building the devastated districts.
WiH Call Officers for
Duty at Training Camps
Washington, April 22. Line officers
of the army reserve corps will be
called ior duty at the fourteen train
ing camps, which will be opened, on
May 8, for instruction, and will be put
on the same status as regular army
officer with respect to pay and al
lowances. ' EVery applicant who has
been recommended for appointment
will be commissioned in due time un
less some, vital defect prevents and
will receive pay and allowances ac
cording to his grade,
Hoover Says Americans ,
Must Not Be' Wasteful
London, April 22. The first and
most important duty of the American
people to their allies is to economize
on foodstuffs. This is the appeal of
Herbert C Hoover, chairman of the
American commission for relief in
Belgium, and recently appointed head
of the American food board.
"If we do not do it, he declared to
day, "we stand a grave chance of los
ing the war, because our allies cannot
fight without food. Our enemies are
calculating that America will fail in
this and our allies will need to give in.
America can upset these calculations."
Standard Oil Company
Buys Down Town Site
The - Standard Oil company has
purchased the , lot at the southwest
corner of Eighteenth and Howard
streets. Mr. Giesing of the W. Far
naru Smith ctmpany represented the
Standard Oil company, and A. P.
Tukey & Son represented the Sterling
Realty company in the deal. The
property brought $25,000. It is 58x80
23, 1917.
MUCH SUGAR HELD
WHILE PRICE SOARS
Assessor Fitzgerald Discovers
15,000,000 Pounds of Public
Necessity Stored in Omaha.
ANOTHER BOOST PREDICTED
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having sacks of sugar at this time
whereas ordinarily they would have
only a few pounds. We sold 15 per
cent more sugar during the first four
months of this year than we did last
year. If the consumers would sit
steady there' would be no trouble.
They are making unusual demands on
the retailers, who, in turn, are mak
ing abnormal demands on the whple-
salers.
"The refiners ar trying to equalize
their distribution. One might call it
a run on sugar. You should bear in
mind that Omaha is a great distribu
ting point for states north and north
west. We had no quotations today
from the Omaha jobbers, but I saw
one of $9.25 from Kansas City. The
price to the Omaha retailer today was
$9.60." , .
Cuban Crop is Short;
Charles Pickens, general manager
of the Paxton-Gallagher Wholesale
Groceries company, reviewed the
labor troubles in the refineries of the
east and said in the Cuban revolution
mills were burned and growing crops
destroyed.
November 1, he said, Guma, the
Cuban sugar statistician, estimated
the growing crop at 3,600,000 tons,
which was 600,000 tons more than the
crop of 1916. His estimate last week
was reduced to i,7W,VW, a decrease
of 900,000 tons. And now it is re
ported the rainy season has started
earlier than usual and is interfering
with the harvest.
During the strike the western
beet refineries marketed their sugar
in the east and practically sold out.
The eastern refineries are now melt
ing 60,000 to 65,000 tons per week,
which is almost up to normal, but
they are all the way from four to
eight weeks over sold, and prices
quoted today are for delivery any
time within sixty days.
Out of Raw Material.
The western sugar refineries
which obtain their raws from Hawaii
are out of raws and cannot get ves
sels, owing to the submarine scare,
tigether with the fact that the ship
owners are able to obtain higher rates
for higher class tonnage. I do not
know a single refinery today accept
ing orders for anything like prompt
shipment.
i am ot the opinion, however, that
many retailers and consumers in the
last sixty days have bought sugar
in excess of their requirements. The
probalities are as soon as the eastern
refineries can take care of the do
mestic trade they will accept busi
ness for export, which they have been
declining since early in the year.
Ihree months ago we would sell
a retailer carload lots. I wo weeks
ago we cut down the maximum, to
fifty bags. Last' week and this we
are limiting them to a maximum of
ten bags. ' ,
"We cannot get the sugar here
from the refineries. We dare not sell
more to any one retailer for fear of
running out and not being able to
supply the trade."
Louis Simon of Simon Brothers,
wholesale groceries, said: 'When
the embargo went on I had 17,000
bags. Now I am practically out, and
the refineries' representatives say
they will probably let me have a lit
tle Monday. A few days ago I tried to
get them to sell some and they
wouldn't give me a single bag. They
said I had some yet. They keep a
check on my business some way, and
know just about how many bags I
have on hand as well as I do.
Retailers Are Scared.
"It is true that the retailers and
the consumers have both been get'
ting scared and have bought more
than they needed. The retailer who
would in ordinary times buy one bag,
began a week 6r ten days ago to buy
twenty-five bags at a time. The re
tailer, who would ordinarily buy
twenty-five bags, began buying 125 to
150 bags at a time. The refineries
have some sugar stored in Omaha, but
they will not put it on the market,
because they say if they did, they
would be cleaned out in twenty-four
hours.
The president of another big whole
sale grocery house here, who
fused to Dermit his name to be used.
said: "We cannot get the supply. There
is no speculation so tar as the fac
tories are concerned. They went off
the market a week ago. They decline
to sell us. 1 think the speculation
so far as the majority of the people
are concerned, is over. The demand
is beginning to ease up a bit. At
least that is what' salesmen say. The
consumer is not speculating on it as
much as he did. So far as we are
concerned, however, we can only get
a carload at a time from the refin
eries, and it is difficult to get that.
Can't Count the Sacks.
The foreman of the Omaha Ware
house company, in the absence of of
ficers of the company, said the books
were in the safe, but he knew there
was much sugar in storage.
"Oh, you just couldn't count the
sacks, there are so many. They are in
three parts of the house. The sugar
is owned by the Great Western
Sugar Refining company. It is being
shipped in and out all the time.
H. J. Holmes, president of the
Holmes-Wildhaber-Hobart company,
said tnere is practically no sugar mar
ket m Umaha now.
BOX FOR
MOST FOLKS,
BUT ONLY
FIVE FORME"
GIVE ME
SOME MORE
POST TOASTIES
BIG U. S. WAR LOAN
IS OVERSUBSCRIBED
First Amount of American
Securities Put Out Do
Not Last Long.
FIGURES NOT AVAILABLE
Washington, April 22. The first
offering of American securities in any
form, $200,000,000 ini treasury cer
tificates, has been hivily oversub
scribed. How great the over-subscription of
ficials were unable to say tonight, as
many of the banks before which the
offer had been placed informally
through the Federal Reserve board,
:ial not been heard from.
The certificates were offered only
to financial institutions. The response,
officials say, presages a patriotic out
pouring of funds to an extent unpar
alleled in the history of any nation
when the $5,000,000,000 bond issue is
placed before the general public.
Offerings of the certificates was
made informally, because the $5,000,-
000,000 finance measure is not yet a
law. i
Creighton Mobilizing
, Strength for Nation
Creighton university is gathering
data from its professors, students and
alumni relative to the most efficient
service each individual will be able to
offer the government. A detailed
questionnaire has been issued to gath
er the necessary information and from
the responses to the inquiries the
physical and intellectual strength of
the university can be tabulated for
the benefit of the government. It is
understood that by filling in the in
quiries of this questionnaire one does
not thereby volunteer his services,
but simply tells what he will be able
to do if his country's cause demands
his sencVe.
The questionnaire calls attention to
the fact that the success of our cause
will not depend upon our fighting
force alone, since only a slender pro
portion of our men are fit for the
firing line, but practically all can ren
der service, trained or untrained, pro
fessional, commercial or mechanical.
Great Britain Offers Safe
Conduct to Tarnowski
Washington, April 22. 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 -iJerence to German offi
cials stationed in China who are to
return to Germany, passing through
the United States.
Omaha in Fourth Place as , i
Western Recruiting Center
Chicago, April 22. Kansas City
hold first place as a recruiting center
in the central department, according
to the figures for the period, Minne
apolis being in second place and Chi
cago third. Omaha is in fourth.
In twenty days Kansas City se
cured 835; Minneapolis, 558; Chicago,
549, and Umaha, J4&
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BARRISTERS' CLUB
HAS BJGJOHEST
Prominent Citizens Toasted
and Roasted When Mem
bers of Bar Gather.
PATRIOTISM IS RIFE
Merrymaking shared honors with
patriotism at the first annual gridiron
dinner and jollification' of the Omaha
Barristers' club at the Hotel Fon
tenelle Saturday. Toasts were drunk
to the "president of the United States"
at the beginning and close of the din
ner. One hundred and fifty of the
younger members of the Omaha bar
attended the affair. Lincoln and
Council Bluffs lawyers were guests.
Several well known Omahans were
gridironed. There were speeches by
"John Lee Webster," impersonated by
United States Commissioner Mc
Laughlin, "Victor Rosewater" (R. M.
Crossman), "R. Beecher Howell"
(Clint Brome), "Judge Estelle" (Wal
ter Hoye) and others.
A "bill" was introduced to "annex'
Lincoln and Council Bluffs to Oma
ha. It "carried." "Telegrams" were
read from celebrities in all parts of the
world.
.The committee in charge of the
dinner was composed of William J.
Hotz, chairman; R. A. VanOrsdel,
Herbert J. Connell and Arthur Rosen- '
blum.
R. M. Switzler was toastmastcr.
The main ballroom, where the affair
was held, was decorated with Ameri
can flags and patriotic favors were
at each plate.
The guests stood and sang the na
tional anhem several times during
the evening.
Pancho Villa Reported Shot
Through Both Legs this Time
El Paso, Tex., April 22. The as
sertion that Villa was wounded in the
recent battle between his own band
and government forces under General
Murguia at San Miguel De Babicora
is made in today's issue of El Heraldo
Del Norte of Chihuahua City, copies
of which arrived at the border today.
Private reports have been received,
the paper says, that Villa was shot
through both legs and was only saved
from capture "by a miracle," as a
flanking column of Yaqui Indians un
der General Fabela had almost formed
a circle about Villa's personal escort.
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