THK BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 191T.
RUSS GOVERNMENT
WILLHOLD FINS
Refuses t( Acknowledge Inde
pendence of Finland and
Orders Landtag Dissolved;
People to Decide.
Petrograd, Aug. 2. (Delayed.) The !
ornvisinnal Government lias refused1
10 acknowledge Finland's independ-
ence law ana nas insiwu j
manifesto dissolving wic wuung
appointing a general election on Oc
tober 1, declaring that the govern
ment when the Landtag meets will
submit its own law regulating Russo
Kinnish relations.
The fate of Finland can be decided
only in agreement with the Russian
people, the manifesto declares.
The minister for Finland took the
manifesto to Helsingfors and deliv
ered it to Governor General Stako
vich, who read it to the senate, after
which he made a friendly speech, in
which he said: . j
To Decide Own Fate.
. "This manifesto is the most demo
cratic action yet performed by the
revolutionary government, for it
makes Finland' people master of
their own destiny."
The Landtag is expected' to decide
its course of action tonight. The so
cialist majority threatens to defy the
manifesti and continue in session,
while the nonsocialists expect to obey
it. It is stated that the members of
the high court have telegraphed to
Helsingfors declaring that they would
refuse to administer any future Land
tag enactments passed under an un
constitutional independence law.
Kaiser Awards Hindcnburg
The Hohenzollern Star
' London, Aug. 3. A Copenhagen
dispatch to Rcuter'g, Ltd., contains
the following message, telegraphed
by Emperor William to Field Mar
shal von Ilindcnhurg:
"It is a need of my heart, my dear
field marshal, at the conclusion of the
third year of this mightiest of all
wars in which you incessantly and
with brilliant strategy and art have
defied the enemy's superior forces
and cleared the way for our armies
to victory to express anew to you
my . inexhaustible thanks. ' I grant
you the cross and star of the high
command of any royal orders of the
house of Hohenzollern. The badges
will be posted immediately."
SCENE OF WORLD'S GREATEST BATTLE The map
shows where the British and French forces are waging the
greatest battle ever fought in their efforts to drive the Teu
tons from French and Belgian soil. The losses in killed and
wounded are reported to be the heaviest in history. If the
Allies succeed the German U-boat base on the Belgian coast
will be wiped out.
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ed wire. This delayed their progress
somewhat but did not save the Ger
mans. Fierce fighting occurred here and
the Austrailians, who were conducting
the offensive, carried the positions
with bayonets, killing large numbers
of the enemy.
One notable incident of the day's
fighting occurred on the Warneton
Gapard farm road 'at a windmill on a
slight elevation, lhis place previ
Victory for Allies in
Sight, Says Head
Of Belgian Mission
Blood and Iron Policy
i Improving Russ Morale
' London, Aug. 3. The Times cor
resoondent at Russian headquarters
on the southwest front, under date of
Tuly 31." confirms reports of improve
ment in morale in the Russian army
as a consequence of measures against
desertions and panics. Disaffected
Russian regiments have returned to
the front.
Emperor William and Field Mar
shal von Mackcnsen, according to the
same disuatch. made a triumnlial en
try into Tarnopbl.i' The weight of
the German offensive, the dispatch
adds, appears to be directed toward
Kamenets Podolsky, enroute to
Odessa.
Dr. Kuhlman Opposed as .'
V German Foreign Minister
Copenhagen, Aug. 3. 'The prospect
of Dr. Richard von Kuhlman, Ger
man ambassador to Turkey, being ap
pointed foreign secretary, is highly
unpleasant to CJqunt von Reventlow,
who, in a pungent article in the Tages
Zeitung, arraigns him for high crimes
as an Anglophile opponent of subnu
rine warfare. ;
Count ton Reventlow says that Tt,
von Kuhlman in the antebellum days
was the leading protagonist of a pol
icy of understanding with England
at the expense of German sea power
and as minister to The Hague he
endeavored to prevent submarine
warfare by warnings of warlike com
Dhcations with Holland. Dr. von
Kuhlman. the article declares, would
as foreign secretary render harmo
nious co-operation between the for
eign office and the navy on suoma
rines out of the question.
There is little doubt, according to
the belief expressed here, that Count
von Reventlow in this article is speak
ing for the naval circles. -.
Father Thomas Connors
Of Creighton to Marquette
- Milwaukee. Wis.. Aug 3. Rev,
Thomas Corners of Creighton uni
versity, Omaha, . will come to Mil
waukee as instructor1 in the depart
ment of arts and sciences in Mar
quette university, according to the
announcement of Rev., Herbert
Noonan. president. of the university
Rev. Father Conners will succeed
Rev. John O'Connor, who leaves here
to go to bt. Mary s (tUn.) college.
Ten men were sent Thursday from
the United States navy recruiting sta-
tion in Omaha to the hospital corps
at San-. Fransisco. Three of these
were Omaha boys, including Benton
Stephenson, from St. Joseph hospital,
Ralph Pflasterer of 540 North Twenty-fourth
street and Clayton Sanborn
of 3114 North Fifty-seventh street.
Three men attached to the Omaha
station were ordered to sea. .these
were J. B. Zimmerman, stepson of
Lounty Clerk uewey, frank r.
Moore and A. Balaz. Zimmerman is
chief in the quartermaster's division,
Moore is chief machinist s mate and
Balaz is the first clerk of the quarter
master's corps.
1 he . navy recruiting station in
Omaha lias a waiting list of more
than four hundred who will be sent to
the naval training schools as soon as
there is room for them. ,
Lieutenant Hart of Omaha and
formerly of Schuyler is in charge of
an expedition of the Sixth Nebraska
that goes to Doming to prepare the
training camp for the regiment- He
heads the sanitation department.
Omaha is Supplying Men for All
Branches of the Military Service
Beginning August 5 the regular
recruiting department in Omaha will
also make enlistments tor the m
tional Guards under the same condi
tions as exist for regular army re
cruiting. Officers and enlisted men of
the Guard will be detailed to assist in
the recruiting.
"We will probably have to divide
our work into two divisions in this
building," said Sergeant Hansen. "We
will have two officers here in the
Army building, one for a National
Guard recruiting station and one for
the" regular army entistments. Men
enlisting will he given the choice as
to which thev ioin.
Twenty-eight men were enlisted
Thursday for the regular army by the
recruiting omcers in umana.
Twentv exoert wireless telegraph
ers are wanted immediately in the
rectilar armv. A teleeram from Lieu
tenant Colonel Wildman of the signal
corns central office in Chicago to
Serjeant Hansen of the recruiting of
rice in the army building here said
any radio operator enlisting would be
detailed at pnee tor immediate special
5CI VIV.C. .
AUSTRIAN TROOPS
ENTERBDKOWINA
Scene of Some of Most Bitter
Fighting of War Changes '
Hands for the Tenth
Time. " - ,
Vienna,' Aug. ' 3. (Via Amster
dam.) - Austro-Hungarian troops
have entered Czernowitr, the capital
of the crown land of Bukowina. 1
. Czernowitz has been the scene of
some of the most bitter fighting of
the war and the Bukowina capital
has changed from Teuton to Russian
hands altogether ten times.
Czernowitz was first captured by
the Russians from the Austro-Hunga-
rians on September 4, ,1914, only to
be evacuated a few weeks later. In
November of. that year the Russians
again occupied the city and .held it
until February,. 1915. In the follow
ing month the Kussians again re
turned to the attack and after a ter
rific battle stormed the capital and
drove the Austrians out. This time
the Russians held the position for
only two weeks: twice in January.
1916. the seat of the crown land
changed hands and in June of that
ear it was again captured oy me
'ussians and held until the present
time.
Czernowitz is situated on a nil
south of the Fruth river and is about
140 miles southeast of Lemberg, th
caoital of Galicia. Before the war it
had a population ot about u,uw,
Action on Executive's
Impeachment Postponed
Austin, Tex., Aug. 3. Actual start
of the investigation into the charges
preferred by Speaker O. F. Fuller in
an attempt to impeach Governor
lames E. Ferauson today was post
poned until lU o ciock, axonaay
morning.
British Front in Flanders and Bel
gium, Aug. 3. Artillery duels of con
siderable intensity continued last night
along the battle front in Flanders, but,
generally speaking, the German guns
were less active this morning and the
situation was un hanged. At ' y
break the Germans concentrated a
heavy gunfire on the newly acquired
British positions in the area south of
the Ypres-Menin road, and they have
been actively shelling these defenses
since that time.
During the night the enemy
UnnrhvH 9 rminter attack on a Small
part of the front held by the Aus-j
tralian and New Zealand troops in ;
the Hollebeke-La Basseeville line, but j
were forced to retire by the British !
artillery. j
The Germans yesterday auernooiii
conducted a fairly heavy bombard-
em against the French on the tront
line ' betwee Koorteker and iJix-
schoote, but this ceased in the early
evening, ana no imanrry auacK mi
lowed. .
A nrotracted rain still is falling, ren
dering infantry operations of all kinds
most difficult and observation work by
the air service precarious, lhe en
tente allies have continued to consoli
date and arrange their positions de-
pite the handicap of the weather and
now are strongly enircnmcu aiuns
the new line.
(By Auorlated Vrr:)
British Front in France and Bel-
gium, Aug. i lueiayea. jhc cru
sh and rrencn ana tne uermans aims
along the front of battle in Jr.landers
still held their positions laie ioaay
in the bogland produced by the tor
rential rainstorm which has been
deuling the Lattle line from Tuesday
evening until today, when it showed
signs ot moderating.
Bevond artillery operations, wnicn
are continuing with great intensity,
thrm i little activity with the excep
tion of one or two points, ana tne
Fri-nrh and British are resting m
consolidated and strong organized po
strinn commandinir the territory
which they captured from the Ger
mans in the first lew hours on
slaught. ,
St. Julien today continued to ne a
storm center, the artillery oi Dotn
sides pounding steadily at their op-
onents positions aoouc uus indie,
'he British were again in possession
of the 300-yard front just north of
Frezenberg, which tne uermans
wrested from them in a counter at
tack late vesterday In a sharp drive
last night after heavy artillery prepa
ration the British forced the Germans
from their strong position and nave
held it since. This was the only
counter attack ot any consequence
delivered by the Germans since late
Wednesday.
Detailed reports of luesday s battle
show that the front between Holle
beke and . La Basseeville was the
scene of some of the heaviest fighting
of the day. the Australians and Eng
lish charging along this line swept
over large numbers of Germans lying
in shell-holes who were overlooked
in the semi-darkness.
Immediately after the British troops
had gone beyond those holes the
Germans began sniping' at the rear of
the advancing forces. These snipers
were eventually dealt with and the
shell-holes clearred. The morale of the
German troops in this section is said
to have been good and they made a
stiff fight for the positions which they
finally had to relinquish.
In th6 ruined village of Hollebeke,
the British were faced with large
numbers of secret dugouts which had
no surface entrances but which were
approached by tunnels. The attacking
troops forced their way into these
strongholds which contained large
numbers of men and blew them to
pieces with bombs. This underground
tunnel is still filled with German
bodies.
Just north of Hollebeke two
strongly held German positions were
occupied without a stop. On the
ground overlooking Wytschaete the
RritUh encountered shell-holes, cam
ouflaged with wire netting and hedges j
which had been interlaced wun earn
Boston. Aug. 3. Victory is in
sight for the allies, now that America
has bared her mighty arm, Baron
Mnncheur. head of the Belgian war
ously had been bitterly contested be-1 miss'on, said in addressing the mem
cause it overlooks the surrounding! bers of the constitutional convention
country, which is very flat. The Aus-I todav.
tralians took the place in the early! This being the third anniversary of
morning, but the Germans regained i the violation of Belgium by Germany,
it the same night. At mianignt tne the baron referred to the events im-
Australians charged the position with
bayonets and ejected the Germans
after sanguinary fighting. La Bassee
ville was also the scene of severe
fighting and here, as at Hollebeke,
were found concert dugouts, which
are now filled with their dead defend
ers. As- the tractor pulls the plow, so
advertising in The Bee pulls the
business.
mediately Dreceeding,
"Three years ago last night," he
said, "my government received a most
insulting communication from the
German government demanding that
we allow German troops to pass
through our land and offering a
bribe. King Albert Summoned his
cabinet at once and there was not a
dissenting ote to the reply that
Belgium sent that very night.
"Since that fateful day my, coun
try has been ravaged by fire and
sword. Old men, women and children
have been deliberately and ruthlessly
massacred. Our war materials and
our crops have been seized without
payment; our factories have been de
stroyed, our machinery stolen and
sent into Germany and crowning in
famy of the centuries, our workmen
have been torn from their homes and
sent into slavery.
"The Belgian people still stand
caged behind steel bars formed of
German bayonets. Those who have
escaped fire and sword and other
nameless evils are still hungry, fam
ished and enslaved, ground down be
neath the heel of the tryant but then
courage remains unbroken and unbreakable.
American Honored by
Aero Club of France
Paris, Aug. 3. Colonel William S.
Mitchell, head of the American aero
nautic mission to France, was official
ly received last night at the Aero
Club of France and was presented
with a silver plaquette.
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