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CONSIDERATION OF
PROPOSAL OF PEACE
Government Wants Time to
"Digest" Pontiff's Proposi
tion; French Papers Call
Suggestions Vague.
BULLETIN.
London, Aug. 18. The allied gov.
crnments will discuss Jointly the
peace proposals of Pope Benedict
and a reply will be issued in due
course. Lord Robert Cecil told The
Associated Press tonight. . Whether
the reply will be a joint note or, as
suggested in some quarters, through
the medium of the United States or
by some other manner will be de
cided later.
In an interview, Lord Robert
Cecil said:
"In writing this note the pope
obviously felt the importance of
not taking sides and of maintaining
an absolutely impartial- attitude.
Yet I cannot help feeling surprise
and sorrow that the note says noth
ing of certain outstanding out
rases committed in this war which
have done more than all else to
make it impossible for Germany's
en:mies to trust her or to treat with
her."
Officers of 'Fighting Fourth'
Ready to Start for Deming
By Atsociatrd rr.)
Washington, Aug. 18. That the
government is determined - to give
. Pope Benedict's peace proposal the
most deliberate and painstaking con-
sidcration before framing a reply,
was evidenced yesterday by devel
opments both at' the White House
and State department.
The cabinet, holding its first ses
sion since the note arrived, avoided
any general discussion of the subject
because President . Wilson is under
stood to feel that there must be a
searching anaylsisof the questions
raised before such discussion would
DC HU!I14UIE, ''''
Secretary Lansing and his advisers,
on whom most of the responsibility
for making this analysis will rest,
continued' their study of the 'pontiff's
suggestions with every indication that
it probably would' be several days
before any concrete step could be ex
pceted. ! i i ; ,
Meantime, however; the undercur
rent of. offieial thought manifestly
continued to trend toward a convic
ts tion that the grand alliance will find
some of the proposals in the Vatican
note very diflicult.to accept.
Minute Analysis Essential. "
As the1 declared purpose of the pon
tiff's note was to present a concrete
basis for peace negotiations, it is re
garded as highly essential that the
exact meaning of every' phrase be
carefully weighed, keeping jin mind
concludes to tntertain ,thc proposals,
it will find itself irrevocably commit
ted in the negotiations by the con
structions given at present.
It was said' at the State department
that the peace proposals were being
quietly "digested," a process which
would not be hurried and that it was
' not passible to. predic t when an
answer could be returned. .
, Within a few days exchanges be
tween Washington and, the entente
capitals and perhaps between Secre
tary Lansing and the diplomatic rcp
s resentatives of these powers here will
be made. Official opinion inclines to
the belief that there will be a separate
reply from each, nation, rather than a
joint response, as forecasted in some
foreign dispatches. There are peculiar
conditions, some of them political,
some semi-religious, in most of the
entente countries, which it is believed
will make it desirable for each of the
governments to use its own processes
of logic in its reply.
French Reception Cool. -
Paris, Aug. 18. The peace pro
posals of Pope Benedict have met
with a cool reception in the French
press, which complains that they arc
vague and essentially political. News
papers, which, without being clerical,
are Catholic, are not satisfied.. The
Eclair, strongest clerical morning pa
per, limits its comment to speaking
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Left to RightCaptain Miller, First Lieutenant Wilber
and Second Lieutenant Mast; All of Company G now en route
south. '
enthusiastically of the clauses in re
gard to arbitration and a society of
nations. The Figaro says the pope's
note will, eventually cause the central
powers to set forth their war aims,
those of the' entente being already
sufficiently well, knbwh..'
The Matin concludes its comment:
"What the pope has transmitted tb
us are the peace offers of the central
powers." '
i The Petit Farislen, the most vtidely
read morning newspaper, says the
note is even more vague than was
said by the forecasts. It expresses
astonishment that .crimes of the ar
are not denounced.
' f Word From Vatican.
Rome, Aug.' '18. A semi-official
statement issued today says the Vati
can considers the reproach of a por
tion of the press that the holy see
has not condemned violations of law
such as atrocities committed, is un
just, since Pope Benedict, faithful to
his principles of impartiality, in his
note had the intention of acting as
peacemaker and not as judge. No
peacemaker, til e statement adds,
would have the, faintest chance of
success if he began by trying to prove
which side is right and which , is
Wrong.
The pontiff went as far as possible,
the statement continues, to make un
derstood what his feelings are with
out risking the failure of his pro
posal on the rocks of Austro-German
ill-feeling. Besides it concludes the
papal proposals were in solemn con
demnation of those responsible for
the war methods adopted and the
barbarities committed. ' ' -
Born Fined $100 and
Sent to Jail by Judge
The first conviction of a man 6n
the second offense clause of the pro
hibition law was tecured by City
Prosecutor T. J. McGuire Saturday.
Guy Born, 1208 South Fourth street,
in whose possession was found over
thirty gallons of whisky, following
confessions of witnesses of the Mc
Carthy murder, was convicted on
two offenses.
About July IS, 1917, he was found
guilty of selling one-half pint of
whisky to Bonny Walters. He was
found guilty, on the second offense
of illegally having intoxicating, liquor
in his possession.
Born was fined $100 and costs for
the first offense and given a sixty-day
jail sentence on the second. He im
mediately filed a bond for appeal to
the district court.
E. F. Fassett, Arlington
Editor, Dies in West
Arlington, Neb., Aug. 18. (Special
Telegram.) Edgar F. Fassett, 61
years old, died at Colorada Springs,
Colo., yesterday. The funeral will be
held Sunday at 2 o'clock in the after
noon at his home in Arlington. x
Two years ago Mr. Fassett gave up
management of the Arlington Review
Herald, and went to Colorado Springs',
because of lung trouble.
Besides his widow, Mr. Fassett
leaves these children: Fred L. of
Auburn, Dale of , Coloroda ; Springs,
Mrs. H. L. Andrews and Mrs. Conrad
Schmehl of Arlington.
Laboring Men Told to Play
, Part in War by Loyalty
Indianapolis,. Aug. 18. A call to la
boring men to play our part in the
war manfully" with "unstinted loyalty
to the United states, was issued
here tonight in a statement on "Labor
Day. 1917'' by John P. White, inter
national president of the United Mine
Workers of America.
' "The government is demanding co
operation organized' effort between
employer, and employe, to meet the
country's war requirements," Mr.
White said. "The eves of the world
are'focUscd to see how quickly and
efficiently the governments demands
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Two Former Omaha Physicians
Commissioned in Medical Corps
Dr. Henry A. Johnson and Dr.
J. Karl Painter, formerly of Omaha,
have received commissions in the
medical reserve of the United
States army and have been ordered to
report to Fort Riley, Kansas, for
training. Dr. Painter is now located
at Schuyler-. . .
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and was graduated from the Central
High school, where he held a com
mission in the hospital corps of the
cadet battalion. He afterward went
to Creihton, where he received his
medical degree. Dr. Tainter was
given his degree at Rush Medical
college, Chicago. . .'
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home. They married prominent ,
Omaha girls. Fay and Edna Townes.
Suspected Slacker is .
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Bruno Sphatofft of , Chicago, sus
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U. S. Ships From Submarines
Washington, Aug. 18. Apparatus
for creating smcke screens for pro
jection from submarines is to be pro-
vided soon to every American mer
chantmen entering the war zone.
A Department of Commerce circu
lar, just issued, says preparations are
being made to use not .only smoke
p'roducing boxes, but smoke funnels
and phosphorus for supplementing
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cent phases of the mass movements in
India arc to be shown at the Walnut
Hill Methodist church, Sunday night
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