THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 4, 1917.
TIRED WOMEN GO
MANY MILES FROM
ADVANCING HUNS
(By Aaaoclated Pre.)
Italian Headquarters in Northern Italy, Nov. 3. The im
mensiiy of the convulsion through which the Italian army is
passing makes individual impressions count for little. Yet, as
an eye-witness at the extreme front up to the day of retirement
and then as a participant in the retreat to the new position west
ward, the correspondent's experience is typical of those hun
dreds of persons that the army removed from the danger zone.
CADORNA FAMILIAR FIGURE. munition, supplies and artillery,
It can be stated that we are situ
uated with General Cadorna and the
general staff. His sturdy figure was
often seen as he went to and from
the front where the Duke of Aosta,
commander of the third army, and
General Capello, commander of the
second army, were in personal charge
of the wall of steel that the Italians
had erected inside Austrian territory.
SOLDIERS SWARM CITY.
Nearby at that time was the official
station where our dispatches were
rigidly scrutinized.' The whole, city
was given up to the supreme military
administration with the streets crowd
ed wth all rank- of soldiery.
This gives a glimpse of the scene
which changed with such suddenness
,when the crisis came last Friday
(nijrht. From that hour, the corre
spondent tried to make frequent notes,
'from which the entries should give the
(main sequence of events. . M,
r Air Raids Descend.
At noon Friday there was a suc
cession of air raids. The alarm was
sounded by triple gongs, followed by
sirens and bells. The streets were
cleared, the shops were closed and
business was suspended.
The first definite, information was
thus given that the Austro-Germans
had crossed the Isonzo in a huge of
fensive. Friday night the gravity of
the situation led to the consideration
of a retirement of the army and the
-emoval of the soldiers westward.
JThe commander of the troops in this
section read to them with emotion
General Cadorna's stirring appeal to
the soldiers to stand firm and all
joined in loyal shouts of "long live
Italy."
t Move Headquarters.
Saturday morning, the correspond
ent was summoned at daybreak and
informed that all must leave at once
as the headquarters had been-re-moved.
The railway was given over
to troops, artillery and stores. Pri
vate trains and the telegraph had been
-suspended.
i All sorts of vehicles snd horses
ywere impressed for military requlre
'ments. Throngs, of persons were
(walking along ' the roads and the
refugees, men, women and children,
iwere carrying the pitiful remnants of
wheir household goods salvaged in
Sgteir light before the invaders.
Boriion Ablase With Firs.
The correspondent succeeded Jn
carding an automobile of the last
Iritish Red Cross unit to leave, a
nal look at midnight from the top of -he
Red Cross buildine found that
;teie eastern horizon was ablaze with
. A.tm. A TA.HkM
(continual explosions as me iwmiu
iblew up munition depots and bridges
to impede the advance of the enemy
and screen their own retirement. A
fierce bombardment was punctuated
with star shells from either side while
the gunners attempted to discover
their opponents' position.
Civilian Crowds Imped.
At daylight Sunday the vast traffic
of the retiring multitude clogged the
roads fpr miles. The Red Cross auto
mobile party expected to make 30
miles inside of two hours, but it de
veloped that it would take at least two
dp- ; to achieve this distance.
iht withdrawal of tht heavy guns
and the munitions supplies" revealed
a military genius of the highest or
der, but the civilian crowds added to
the difficulty of the huge military re
moval. A torrential rain increased the
hardships of the soldiers and added to
the misery of the women and children
who had walked seemingly endless
miles over the roads and through the
fields all night.
Camouflage Monster Guns.
Sunday morning, at a railway cross
ing a steady succession of flat cars as
sisted in the removal of the artillery.
The monster guns were mounted on
double cars with a covering of
boughs as a screen against air raiders.
The rain was providential as clear
weather would have permitted the
enemy airplanes to bombard the
roads and block the withdrawal
Along the lice of retreat were many
wounded being carried on litters
thmiiirh the deluze of rain.. The Red
Cross car took aboard one soldier
with a shell wound in his arm. Sun
day night this car made only IS
miles. In 24 hours it reached a town
where the wounded man was taken
to a hospital. '
No Food Nor Lodging.
I The military occupied the town and
there was no food - nor lodging to
be had. The mayor had posted a
proclamation . ordering strangers
awav.
An Italian officer offered to permit
the correspondent to sleep, on the
straw at the barracks, but later a place
was obtained in the stall of a stable
adjoining a hotel.
Monday morning the Red Cross
party reached the Tagliamento river
which at this point is about 500 yards
wide.
Men Soaked But Cheerful
Another IS miles consumed 12
hours of riding through apparently
unending masses of soldiers, horses,
cannon and the impediments of the
army. The men, soaked and bedrag
gled, but calm and cheerful, were not
heard to utter a single word of coin
plaint since they begn their exodus
through IS miles of moving masses.
All telegraph facilities were closed
along the road.
Monday night the Red Cross car ar
rived at the new headquarters. Here
the Correspondent's notes must end
as all subsequent movements of the
army are not to be described for the
present, owing to military necessity.
The correspondent's recital is only
one chapter and thousands of other
persons had similar experiences in the
withdrawal. Howeyer, above all the
hardships and terror of the incident,
the fact stand out that the Italian
army succeeded against terrible odds
in saving the larger part of its am
is
well as virtually the entire personnel.
Children Separated From Mothers
Rome, Nov. 2. A correspondent
describing the exodus of the fugitives
says they comprised people of all
classes in automobiles, in vehicles of
all epochs and oxen drawn carts.
Some persons transported their be
longings in hand carts while others
carried them. There were women
with half naked children in their arms
and others crying or beating their
breasts because they had lost their
chidren in the confusion. '
In Various Apparel
There were wounded and ' there
were aged or sick being carried by
relatives. Some of the carts bore all
the humble furniture of a household.
Here and there a donkey or mule
passed, loaded with all the kitchen
utensils of the family. The girls of
some families carried with the great
est of care their shoes in baskets,
tramping along in the wooden clogs
that are worn in these parts. Here
was to.be seen a man running away
in full evening dress, there a woman
in evening toilette, wearing white
evening slippers.
A heavy rain added to the miseries
of the refugees. Foot passengers
made quicker progress than those in
motor cars as the latter about every
ten yards were forced to stop half an
hour owing to the crush. After six
long, weary hours the band of refu
gees with whom the correspondent
was proceeding had only made six
miles in a rain and a strong cold wind
which chilled everyone to the mar
row. Carry Pets with Them
Many persons carried pets with
them. Dogs and even cats frequently
were seen and a soldier was observed
who, with great difficulty was keeping
his cloak about hire, sheltering a tiny
puppy. Some women in ox carts had
geese and other fowl with them.
. Crossing the Tagliamento river, the
fugitives reached Pordenone, where
there was nothing to eat and nowhere
to sleep until a stable boy took the
correspondent and some of the fugi
tives to his home which was three
miles from the town. Next morning
only black coffee was to be had. No
bread or eggs and still less, butter,
could be purchased. After a long
search, some small tablets of choc
olate were discovered for which the
party paid 75 cents for each little
packet and a half dozen biscuits at 25
cents each,
Clearing HouseJo Aid
Unemployed of New York
A clearing house for noncommercial
employment offices, or those not con
ducted tor profit, will be established
in New York City this week, under the
supervision of Henry D. Sayer, mem
ber or the state industrial commission
snd head of the industrial division of
the Council of National Defense. The
bureau, more or less of an experiment,
will be financed for one year by a
fund made up of $10,000 appropriated
tor the purpose by the legislature at
its last session, and by a contribution
of $5,000 from the women's committee
of the mayor's committee on national
defense. There are about fifty of
these bureaus in the city.
The clearing house will be under the
direction of Charles B. Barnes, di
rector of the state bureau of employ
ment," and will be managed by Maurice
JU trust, ot the law firm of Green
baum, Wolf & Ernst, who is giving
up his practice of law for the dura
tion of the war to lend his assistance
to the establishment of the bureau.
"The function of the bureau," Mr.
Barnes said, "will be the bringing to
gether of firms, factories or individuals
seeking helpers in all parts of the' city
with persons looking for employment.
It frequently happens, for instance,
that an employment bureau in one
district of the city will receive an
order for ten carpenters and not be
able to fill it. There may, perhaps, be
only two or three carpenters on its
list of job seekers, while a bureau in
some other district may have a dozen
carpenters seeking employment, but
no orders calling for them. Through
the clearing house method those car
penters in the one district will be put
German 4 ' Ace" Killed in Duel
High Above the Battle Front
i ! vSSRl 1 1 1
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Captain Immelmann, until his re
cent death Germany's premier air
man, who was killed in a specially
arranged air duel by Captain Ball, an
English pilot
Notes dropped in the opposing lines
arranged the meeting to take place in
the air high above the German lines.
The two planes soared into the air
while the guns in the British and Ger
man lines ceased firing.' Soliders of
the two forces lay down their arms
and watched with interest the ma-
nouverlng of the fighters. Before Im
melmann could get into firing posi
tion Ball looped and let go with his
machine gun, smashing the aero. The
German machine burst into flames
and dropped to earth.
Captain Ball then flew back to the
spot over which the German fell and
dropped a huge wreath of flowers.
Four days later Captain Ball- fell
after a battle with four German
planes which he fought single handed.
Before he dropped he sent three to
earth.
Grayheaded Garibaldi VetetansBeg
to Go to Front and Fight Huns
' (By AMoclaUd PreM.) .
Rome, Thursday, Nov. 1. Italy is undergoing a rebirtn of patriotism.
Everywhere men are clamoring to go to 'the front. Eveft the Garibaldi
veterans have marched in a body to offer their livtfs on their country's
altar. Thousands of younger veterans of She present war, interned in
hospitals or invalided home, are Insisting on returning to their commands.
The new ministry is busy organizing the country oh a better war
basis. The fact that King Victor Emmanuel has returned to the army
shows how confident he is in the spirit of the country, since he always
remains in Rome during critical politcal periods.'
' The entire country today is placarded with anncomcemtnts from the
ministry, calling upon citizens for their aid' and askmg the women to
help to support the morale of the soldiers.
RELICS OF THE WAR
ARE ONEXHIBITION
Trophies From the Battlefields
Are Shown Behind the
British Lines in
France.
(Correspondence of Th Axsoclatod FrM.)
Behind the British Lines In France.
Oct.! 10. In a quaint old place some
miles behind the battle line are housed
many interesting souvenirs of the
great war, curious relics from world
famous battlefields and illustrations
of phases of daily life in the trenches,
German trophies for the most part.
Many of these exhibits are destined in
due course to form part of the nation
al war museum. The old First corps
flag carried by the heroic and ill-fated
Gough at Ypres is one of the notable
relics.
Here also one may see the carved
oak table from shelled Arras used by
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig at
his headquarters throughout the bat
tle of the Somme. There is the First
corps headquarters flag which he car
ried in the ons retreat, his first flag
as commander of the First army.
There are several other flags of great
interest of which one must not for
get to mention the first tanks flag
the first Portuguese flag in the
trenches, the first American flag to
fly in France after the American dec
laration of war.
There Are German Flags.
There are German flags, too. as for
instance, a large one unearthed in the
Hotel de Ville Peronne, another from
Beaumont llamel.
After flags, which are but symbols
of our army, come captured guns. But
there is only room here for the small
er engines of war, such as trench
mortars, mine throwers and grenade
throwers, with a few machine guns
damaged in battle. There is a great
ungainly minenwerfer captured at
V'imy by the Canadians.
There are shown two German para
chutes, souvenirs of a brilliant battle
in the air and dozens of enemy rifles,
inscribed with the names of villages
in the Somme or Arras region where
hand-to-hand conflicts were waged.
German material is here in profusion,
shells of every calibre, shell cases
and basket carriers, flammcnwerfers,
bombs, axes, knives, pistols, wire cut
ters and a unique collection of trench
clubs, including one with a flexible
handle and a heavy steel head posi
tively devilish in its ingenuity.
Scattered through this museum are
life-size mannequins attired in enemy
raiment. One affords a striking rep
resentation of a medieval warrior,
even though lie is clad only in the
steel armor ?nd casque of A. IX, 1917.
Over his shoulders he carries a cross
bow which discharged grenades in
the winter of 1914-15, while behind
him is a British catapult which saw
service at Neuve Chapelle.
There are the German proclama
tions on the walls, German prints i
depicting our soldiers, enemy maps
captured on the battlefields and some
times stained with blood, German of
ficers' note books and sketch books.
Nor can the realistic models of the
battlefields now no longer of direct
military utilityfail to enchain atten
tion from the one of Neuve Chappelle
to the latest miniature.
The collection is only a recent vn
drrtaking when it comes to find a
resting place in London it will bring
home, as thousands of pager, of his
tory books could not, the ferocity and
the kindliness, the brutality and
poetry, the humor and tragedy and
all those thousand little unremeni
bered acts which made up for millions
of Britons the daily life in the
trenches and billets of France and
Flanders.
company early today did $200,000
damage, 200 employes working in the
night shift escaping without casual
ties. Firemen were able to keep the
flames away from the explosives.
Spontaneous combustion was thought
to be the cause. Almost simul
taneously a second fire broke out in
another part of the city, causing $65,-
000 damage to a drujgojicern
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Fire in Munitions Plant
Does $200,000 Damage
Toronto, Nov. 3. "ire in the forg
ings plant of the Cliff Ammunition
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Warrant Out for Russian
Pacifist; Guard increased
Petrograd, Nov. 2. -The minister of
justice has issued a new warrant for
the arrest of Nikolai Lenine, the
pacifist agitator. According to the
Russkaia Volia, Lenine addressed the
central council of the Bolsheviki urg
ing them not, to hold the demonstra
tion set for today, which did not take
place. The Cossack guard in Petro
grad was doubled today.
Youths of 17 Eligible
For Marine Corps Now
New York, Nov. 3. The minimum
age limit for enlistments in the Uni
ted State marine corps has been low
ered from 19 to 17 years of age, it
was announced here tonight. Prime
physical condition and the consent of
the parents for youths under 21 are
essential for enlistment.
DON'T FORGET THE BIG
SOLDIERS' DANCE
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Saturday Evening, Nov. 10
I want everyone to know who buys a ticket for this
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a ticket. The worst may yet come, I hope not. Company
F needs fifteen men to fill up the company to maximum
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