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SERBIA PILLAGED BY
TEUTON AND BULGAR
Formal Note Charges Illegal
Economic Exploitation and
Wholesale Seizure of
Private Property.
! Washington, July 24. Serbia in a
forma! note made public at the State
department today chargei Austria
and Bulgaria with an illegal economic
exploitation of occupied province! and
gives notice that it "reserve! the right
of claiming at the time of the peace
negotiations an indemnity correspond
ing to the damage inflicted both on
the Serbian tate and its subject! by
these flagrant violation of public in
ternational law."
The note, giving the first official
glimpse behind the scenes in occu
pied Serbia, claimi that over 100,000,
000 crowni have been illegally ex
torted, a! well as 6,000,000 crowni in
the form of forced subscriptions to
Austrian war loam and the Austrian
and Bulgarian Red Crosi.
Legalized Pillage Ruini Trade.
Serbian trade is stated to have been
uined by the abolition of the Serbian
moritorium for rhe purpose of allow
ing enemy merchant! to collect with
6 per cent interest debts estimated
at 120,000,000 crown!. Failure to pay
is stated to be penalized .by sale of
property at ridiculou! auction fig
ures, which allows the invaders to
make immensely profitable purchase
. . tit j- t jj:
or large siocks oi gooas. in, uui-
tion many shops have been pillaged j
and trade nil uaen on at lean one
half. "By such arbitrary, measures to
wards our merchant! and by means
of this legalized pillage the .military
authorities have attempted to ruin our
trade," the note says. "Austrian and
German firms will take the places of
the ruined Serbians and will io bring
about the denationalization of Ser
bian 'commerce."
: Private Houses Plundered.
All private, housei abandoned by
their owners, including the royal pal
aces, are stated to have been plundered
under the theory that they were "un
owned property" because the owner
was absent The national and the
ethnographical museum! are reported
to have been completely ransacked
by the Austrians; the national li
brary, the library of Nish and the
library of the School of Theology
at Pnzzen by the Bugarians. Books,
manuscripts and art works were stated
to have been carried away as booty.
"The Bulgarians," it is stated, "have
plundered to such an extent and with
such effrontery as to be unexampled
in modern warfare."
s Austria also has placed the assess
ment of all taxation in the hands of
a military committee. In the prov
inces occupied by Bulgaria the whole
Serbian taxation system has been
swept away? 1 ,
Similarly, the note adds, the "mili
tary authorities have ordained that
per cent of its normal value Ser
bian money was taken by force from
private persons and Austrian money
rrivn in vrhan(r at a rate lefts than
half its value. The Austrian! col
lected all our bank notes at a very low
price with the intention of changing
tnem aoroaa ai a nigner rate, '
ALLIED DRIVE ON
. -WESTERN FRONT
' NOW UNDER WAY
(Continued From rats Out.)
the Trotus and Putna valleys were de
feated almost everywhere. Fresh
fights developed today.
Masked Bandit
Holds Up Two Autos
Filled With People
(Continued From Fat On.)
WILSON OBJECTS TO Serb Prisoners in
JOINT WAR BpARD
road and when the car reached Bryant
cr oninir uict nn Washington ave
nue, Wright attempted to turn toward
the police station only half a block
away. The bandit jammed the gun
against Wright's neck and told nim
he would kill him if he tried that
Wright and Young are skilled auto
mobile men and have been taking care
of two cars used in the service by
Captain Howard, and it was at Cap
tain Howard'! suggestion that they
took his car for the Sunday night
ride. One of the voung men is en
gaged to be married to one of the
young women and the young women
have long been intimate friends.
One of the young women in the car
which was held up at Council Bluffs
wai able to give a much better de
scription today of the bandit. She
says he was about 30 years .old, five
feet nine inches tall and weighed
about 185 pounds. He was dark with
thick lips and a rough heavy voice.
The bandit wore a dark cap, light
grey shirt with collar attached and
khaki trousers.
MILLION MEN
WILL BE SENT
ABROAD SOON
'(Continued From Fat On.)
treasury df oartment would favor rais
ing $1,000,000,000 more than had been
planned in taxes, making the tax bill
total $2,670,000,000.
As to the tax sources to be tapped
to. meet the new estimates, the first
disposition of the committee was to
turn to new taxes on war excess
profits and incomes. A meeting will
be held immediately after the new es
timates are submitted.
A resolution was adopted today,
calling for submission of new esti
mates by all departments, so that the
whole war expenditure program may
be considered in connection with the
nendinor war tax legislation. The $5,-
000,000,000 army increases, Secretary
McAdoo informed the committee are
lartrelv to nrovide for the second
draft army of 500,000 men to be called
while the first 500.000 are under train
ing. The $5,000,000,000 would provide
for expenditures until July 1, 1918.
During today's debate on the rivers
and harbors bill, Senator Smoot pre
sented statistics to show that appro
priations of the war session already
aggregate y,b,vw,vw, so mar, me
new estimates would raise the total
for the first year of the war well
above $14,000,000,000.
Platte County Farm Hand
Accused of Counterfeiting
r.rand Island. Neb' Tulv 24. fSoe
cial Telegram.) Joseph Bohman, a
farm hand Irom the viciniiv 01 -0-
Itimhm. was hroucht to this city
' t a . a
today, and arraigned neiore unttea
States Commissioner cieary on tne
charge of counterfeiting. Owners
nf n nirniV runrt. near Columbus
called Shady Lake, recently found
several pewter dollars in tneir tin. a
few days ago they found Bohman
had cashed another dollar Just like
the predecessors. For further proof
they toiioweo mm, aner ne was ois
covered, and found six more slmiliar
dollars along the trail. Commissioner
Cleary after a hearing Douna conman
over under bona oi ,vw.
President and House Leaders
Are Striving: to Elminate
Sections Put Into Food
Bill by the Senate.
BULLETIN.
Washington, July 24. Repub
lican Leader Mann prevented the
food control bill going to confer
ence today because he could not
get assurances that the house would
have opportunity to vote separately
on the senate amendment to create
a congressional war . expenditures
committee, which is opposed by
President Wilson. The bill will be
sent to conference tomorrow under
a rule to Instruct the house con
ferees to disagree to all senate
amendments.
Washington, July 24. When the
food control bill was taken up in the
house today administration leaders
were determined to send the measure
to conference if possible, with in
structions to have stricken out cer
tain features objected to as rewritten
in the senate. These are the pro
visions for the creation. of a congres
sional committee on the conduct of
the i war and for a food--administra-tion
board of three members instead
of a single member.
It was expected, however, that at
tempts would be made to have tne
house instruct its conferees to con
cur in all the senate amendments, but
the leaders apparently are certain that
they will be able t6 prevent this.
Strong Protest by Wilson.
In their efforts to have the proposal
for a war committee eliminated the
leaders have the backing of President
Wilson, and there were indications
also today that they would be backed
by the president in the attempt to
knock out the tood board teature.
President Wilson s attitude oh the
war committee teature was maae
known in a communication to Chair
man Lever of the house agricultural
rnmmittee. in which he said that Such
a committee would be likely to har-l
rass those directly responsible for the
conduct of the war. He would, he
added, interpret the retention of the
provision as signifying a lack of con
fidence in him.
v Oppose Liquor Section.
, Vigorous opposition is developing
along the senate liquor and $2 a
bushel wheat amendments., Prohibi
tion advocates in the house want to
force acceptance of the house bone
dry provision or at least to compro
mise on a provision giving the presi
dent some control over the light
wines and power to commandeer dis
tilled liquors either in or out of bond.
A large group of house members' are
opposed to leaving any minimum
price for wheat in the bill.
Dry Motion Throws
Moose Into Uproar
Pittsburgh, July 24. John M. Ford
of Philadelphia was elected supreme
dictator of the supreme lodge, Loyal
Order of Moose, at an executive ses
sion of the twelfth annual interna
tional convention of the order today.
Other officers elected today were:
Vice dictator, Charles A. A. McGee,
San Diego, Cal., and supreme prel
ate, William Broening, Balitmore, Md.
, The executive: session of the con
vention was thrown into an uproar
when Mark Anthony, a delegate from
San Francisco, gave notice that some
time during the convention he would
introduce a motion to put the order
on record as favoring prohibition.
Austria Dying of.
Fever and Famine
Salonikf. Greece. Tune 26. (By
Mail.) Private reports received here L
state that many tnousanas ot serDian
civilian and soldier prisoners in Austria-Hungary
have perished from ty
phoid fever, other diseases or famine
in the concentration camps or while
laboring behind the Austro-Italian
battlelines, according to a Reuter cor
respondent He Quotes "a person of
position who has closely followed the
lives of Serbian prisoners" as assert-
in?- . .
At the concentration camp oi aiat
thauson in Hungary 12,000 prisoners
died of typhoid fever and other con
tagious illnesses. At Nazymager be
tween 10,000 and 12,000 succumbed
from the same causes, while at
Heinesgraene, in Bohemia, there only
remain a few thousand survivors, who
are suffering from tuberculosis.
"The largest number of prisoners,
interned at Cachack. exceed 10,000 and
form the center of the labor supply for
the Italian front Every fortnight a
special train brings back from the
Italian front exhausted or wounded
Serbian laborers and returns with
fresh contingents. In the course of
the last six months over 20,000 Ser
bians died in this locality alone.
"When taken from fatigue duty the
men rush like famished beasts to the
refuse heaps and ravenously seize
bone and other scraps of food, with
which to satisfy their hunger. The
unfortunate prisoners are frightfully
emaciated from prolonged famine, are
clad in rags and wander about like
ghosts."
Can Almost Hear Lions
Roar as Circus Day Nears
You can almost hear the lions roar
as circus dav sets nearer and nearer.
The performances of the Barnum &
Bailey circus to be given in Omaha
next Monday raises the question of
what this season is to bring forth that
will not bore the circus devotee of ten
of twenty seasons' standing, and what
will make the circus worth while.
The heralds announce many Euro
pean novelty acts, all of which are
described as sensational and thrilling.
A beautiful spectacular pageant en
titled "Aladdin and His Wonderful
Lamp," wilt serve to open the per
formance. Many new equestrian fea
turea have been added. The 'clowns
have been working overtime in creat
ine new oantomimic stunts, ana tne
animal trainers have, during the win
ter months at Bridgeport, developed a
number of interesting and amusing
new anical acts. Altogether the pro
gram promises a performance of rare
attractiveness. -
Bandit General Who . !
Robbed Train is Taken
Nogales, Aria, July 24. General
Fernandez Espinosa, pursued as the
leader of bandit! who held up a pas
senger train at Wamoa station, Sina
loa. Mexico, last Saturday and robbed
a Wrlls-Farsro exoress car of $20,-
000 and took $4,000 from the station,
has been captured with some ot his
men, according to word received here
today, the greater part of the money
being recovered,, . ; .
The capture was effected by sol
diers under General Flores, who wnt
irom Mazatlan, Sinaloa, upon hearing
if the holdup.
Ten of Espinosa's" men were re
ported killed in a pitched fight with
the soldiers.
Paul Hertz, a German, was re
ported as one of the Espinaso men
captured.
General Espinaso was defeated at
the last election for the office of gov
ernor of Sinaloa.,
BLOOD AND IRON TO
SAYE RUSS UNITY
Premier Kerensky Announces
Heroic Policy and List of
Ministers Who Will
Help Execute It.
Petrograd, July 24. A "blood and
iron policy" will be put into effect,
if reeded to save Russia, by the gov
ernment of Premier Kerensky, to
which unlimited power has been
granted. In an Interview today the
premier said:
"Relying upon the confidence of
the masses and the army, the gov
ernment will save Russia and Rus
sian unity by blood and iron, if
argument and reason, honor and
conscience are not Sufficient
"The situation at the front is
serious and demands heroic meas
ures,, but I am convinced the or
ganism of the state is sufficiently
vigorous to be cured without a par
tial amputation."
New Cabinet Completed.
Premier Kerensky has completed
the constitution of the new provi
sional government. Like the minis
try of his predecessor, Prince Lvoff,
the cabinet is a coalition, but is lim
ited to ten members. Five of the
ministers belong to the socialist
group and five are members of non
socialist parties. The. other offices
of state will be directed not by min
isters, but by unpolitical directors of
departments who are not members of
the cabinet Following is the list:
Socialists:
Alexander Kerensky, president and
minister of war and marine.
M. Tzeretellt,,minister of posts and
telegraph.
M. Skobeleff,, minister of labor.
M. Tchernoff, minister of agricul
ture. M. Piesvheh6noff, minister of sup
plies. Non-socialists:
N. V. Nekrasoff, vice president, with
out portfolio.
M. Terestchenko, ministor of for
eign affairs.
I. N. Efremoff, minister of justice,
(M. Effremoff is a member of the
Duma's temporary committee).
Nicholas Lvoff, procurator of the
holy synod.
M. Oodneff, controller of state.
Department Directors.
The directors of departments so far
named are:
M. Prokopovitch, progressive mem
ber of the Duma, department of trade
and agriculture.
A. A. Barishnikoff, a member of the
Duma and a Moscow manufacturer,
department of -social tutelage.
The headauarters of the provisional
government has been transferred from
the Marinsky palace to the Winter
palace.
Editors Asked to Help Cut
Red Tape that Delays War
New York, July 24. Letters to the
editors of 1.400 American newspapers
known to favor aggressive prosecu
tion of the war were sent today by
the National Security league, asking
,them to appeal to their readers to
write to senators and congressmen
urging the speeding up of the war
program.
"Red tape and personal jealousy are
delaying the efficient conduct of the
war." the letter says in part. "Two
weeks' delay lost the Gallipoli fight.
Every hour wasted imperils . our
cause." .
Bee Want Ads produce results.
Gogebic Iron Ore Miners
Demand Dollar an Hour
Ironwood, Mich., July 24. A gen
eral strike on the Gogebic iron range
was threatened today when miners
from two pits struck, demanding a
$6 wage for a six-hour day. The
workers, it is claimed, are being or
ganized by the Industrial Workers
of the World.
North Island Aviation
Bill Passed by House
Washington. July 24. The bill to
permit the government to take over
North island in San Diego harbor
for an army and navy aviation train
ing station recently passed by the
senate was passed today by the house.
It would permit private claimant! to
the land to take their cases into court.
1
a renewed offensive over the Germans
on the Franco-Belgian front.
Allied Artillery Active.
.There has been notable .activity of
la,te by both the British and French
artillery. The situation on the Aisne
front appears to show that the crown
. .i - it- .
prince tears renewal oi inc r renin a
offensive, his countless attacks being I
rnncii4i-f1 in maiiw auartera an at- 1
temot to forestall it On the British
front intense aerial and artillery ac-
tiyitles presage important move
ments. .
The main infantry movement of the
last twentv-four hours was again, in
the Craonne sector, where the crown
prince launched another attack on the
French "lines without achieving any
success. An attempt to advances was
also made north ot Sancy. This was
likewise frustrated. Frequent dispO'
sition ot tne torces opposing xncm.
' Frora Baltic to Black Sea.
Berlin, July 24.-(Via London.)
' Th German forces in Galicia are ad
vancing from the Sereth river to the
wooded Carpathians over a iront j
miles wide, says the official statement
issued by the German army head-
Quarters staff. ' Several German di
visions, the statement adds, report
that they have each taken 3,000 pns
oners. Numerous heavy Russian guns
have been captured and also much
bootv has been taken by the Germans.
Over the entire eastern front from
the Baltic to the Black Sea bitter
fiahtiiifir is oroceedinsr. The state
ment says great successes have been
obtained by the German and allied
arms.
-The Germans have" advanced be
vond Podhaiie. Halicz and the By
stritza Solotvina river and have
crossed the Sereth south of Tarnopol,
the war office reports.
' , Russians Take Offensive.
Berlin. Tulv 24. (Via London.)
The Russians have taken the offensive
on both ends of the front in the
regions of Jacobstadt and Dvinsk and
in the Roumanian line. The announce
ment says that offensive operations by
Russian and Roumanian troops in
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