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aha Daily THE WEATHER Fair VOL. XLVJI. NO. 132. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1917. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS ACK ON PIAV: IN Pi TROGRAD Om Bee TEUTONS a nrpTtT hd mAa ii JILjI JO o -o REIGN OF TERROR WORKMEN AND SOLDIERS SAID TO BE MOVING OPON "REDS" IN BOSS CAPITAL American Ambassador Asks Safe Conduct for 200 Amer icans in Petrograd to Harbin on Pacific Coast; Berlin Hears Kerensky Bolsheviki Peace Pact Has Been Made (Special Cablegram to The Bee.T Stockholm, Nov. 18. Dispatches received here from Pet rograd by friends of Americans there, through official United States legation sources, indicate a reign of terror has begun in the Russian capital. Women and men wearing furs are forced to undress in the streets, a returning American says. When Lenine drew a check for 100,000,000 rubles the banks of the capital closed. (By Associated Tress.) rt REDS IN CONTROL. . The latest unofficial advices from Russia indicate that Petrograd and Moscow are still in the hands of the Bolsheviki and that Sebastopol, the big naval base and arsenal in the Black Sea, has gone over to the work men's and soldiers' delegates, the sail ors of the fleet having sworn allegi ance to them. The Exchange Telegraph corre spondent at Copenhagen telegraphs to London that the Berlin Tageblatt de clares Premier Kerensky and Nikolai Lenine, leader of the Bolsheviki revo lution in Petrograd, have effected a compromise essentially favorable to Lenine. ' The American embassy at Petro grad, according to a Reuter dispatch, has requested that a train be provided to convey 200 members of the Ameri , can colony in Petrograd to Harbin. TO RELIEVE CAPITAL. Petrograd, Nov. 18. Reports of a lew army composed of various ele ments from the front and the van guard of which is said to be close to Gatchina, have sent a new thrill through the city. If the reports are to be credited, the aim of the new force is to release the city from the control o the Bolsheviki. It is com manded by Staff Captain Pavloff, of the social-democratic ' workmen's party, and already has had brushes with the defending outposts of the Bolsheviki army. According to some versions, M. Kerensky is returning with the army. Still other reports tell of an armored train approaching from the direction of Moscow. All the reports are im possible of confirmation. A report of the inter-frontal can gress for the supply of the armies published today, declares the inability of the congress further to, carry on the burden laid upon it by the general ' army committee and that unless the present situation is clarified it will give up the task and not be responsi ble for consequences. TRY TO RESTORE PEACE. Rolsheviki leaders are endeavoring to effect the resumption of operations by the various branches of the gov ernment, most of which have been disorganized by strikes and the re ntal or employes to worK unaer ine Bolsheviki commissioners. The newspapers which were sup pressed in the early days of the upris ing have in some instances been given permission to renew publication, al though the status of the bourgeois press still indefinite. An order of arrest for M. Neratoff, former minister of foreign affairs, and i other officials of the foreign ministry is reported to have been issued. Capital Is Isolated. Haparanda, Sweden, Saturday. Nov. t.The Bolsheviki were still in com plete military control of Petrograd when a correspondent of the Asso ciated Press left the city Thursday. At that time P,etrograd was complete ly isolated from the rest of Russia by a railway and telegraph strike, called as a protest- against the' Bolsheviki government. Up to Thursday morning no definite success had met e'fforts to organize, an all-socialist cabinet, in which neither former Premier Kerensky nor Lenine would be included. M. Tcher noff. the socialist ex-minister of agri culture, was mentioned as the prob able premier of the cabinet. Though there have been many ni - j - ,nors or tioisneviKi outrages anui rruelfv. the truth appears to be that (C ontinued on rage .Two, Column Three.) r tt . I. The Weather 1 lor Nebraska Fair Monday and Tuesday; rising temperature. i Temperatures at Omnha Yesterday. Hour. Iec: 5 a. in if a. m....'. 40 7 a. in 38 s 9 10 11 m i: ra... 1 p. m 2 p. Ttl ,43 f '44 4 p. m 5 p. m ii p. m 7 p. m ....'is 42 ... 40 .... 33 rmnnurative Ijirel Record. 1817. 191H. 1915. 1914. Highest vesterduy. . .41 6S 41 31 Lowest yesterday 84 31 35 s -Mian tomperature. .. . "9 44 38 23 ITfclpitatlon 01 .90 00 T Temperature and virccipltatlon derrtures f.-om the normal: Normal temperature i Kxeew for the day 3 ToUl deficiency since March 1 256 Normal precipitation I3 Inch efliceny (or the day. 03 inch Tot:tl rainfall silica March 1 ;i.30 Incht-g f deficiency siirre Marijt 1 S.7H IncheH deficiency fpr cor. period, 1!18. .1.13 Inches ! 'ficiencv for cor. period, lS'lS.. .1.33 Inches 1.. A. W FL.SU. MtteorolotrlM. W A i $r iEATLESS AND EATLESS DAYS TO BE ENFORCED Hotel Committee of Food Ad ministration to Check Every Place During Jhe Week. A check of hotels, restaurants and clubs serving foodstuffs will be made Tuesday and Wednesday by the ho tel and restaurant committee of the I food administration. Through vari ous agencies, including the inspectors of the Pure Food department at Lin coln, with state wide membership, re ports will be made of all food dis pensers who are observing meatless and wheatless day; also of those who are not observing these days. "The purpose of the check," says J. F. Letton, chairman of the state committee, "is to develop information so a definite report can be made to Washington." Mr. Letton has been requested to forward the names of those observing the regulations with specific instructions to name those who arc not. Canvass to Be Thorough. The canvass this week will be thor ough, according to the officials. Es pecially in Omaha and the immediate vicinity will the check be to the last ditch because of many reported in fractions of the regulations. The Om aha Hotel Men's association will take the initiative in the city work, accord ing to Mr. Letton. Richard Kitchen of the P'axton ho tel is the chairman of the district, composed of Douglas, Washington and Sarpy counties. "We propose to see that Omaha and its environs are a unit in this patriotic work," declared Mr. Kitchen. ""Of I the nearly 400 people -who serve foods, we already have the pledges of more than 90 per cent that they will observe meatless and wheatless days. We do not propose that -this great body of patriotic men shall be made to suffer for the infractions of a few. We will check every one of them. Should Be 100 Per Cent. "There is no good reason why the meatless and wOieatless days should not be observecrlOO per cent. Every man in business here now is familiar with the requirements and has had ample notice of what meatless and wheatless days mean. Letters have gone out to them, explaining in de tail what is expected. "Early in the campaign there wras a misunderstanding which came from the confusion of beefless and wheat less days, but that has all been ex plained. Beefless has given way to meatless and meatless means meatless insofar as beef, mutton, pork and their byproducts are concerned. In their stead we should, and will, use fish and fowl of all kinds." At a meeting of more than 100 res taurant keeners in Lincoln ;iturdav. Mr. Letton was pledged the co-oper ation ot all. J hey also staced that the chairman could count on the other Lincoln men who were unable to be present. s Funeral of E. 3. Rood Will Be Held Tuesday The funeral of E. S. Rood, who died Saturday will be held Tuesday, No vember 20, at St. Barnabas' church, Fortieth and Davenport. Friends are invited. Burial will be private. President Emphasizes That Unity Of Action Vital to Lasting Peace (Hy Associated Pre.) London, Nov. 18. Colonel Edward M. House, head of the American mission, has received a cablegram from President Wilson stating em phatically thas the United States government considers that unity of plan and control between all the allies and the United States government is essential in order to achieve a just and permanent peace. President Wilson emphasizes that this unity must be accomplished if the great resources of the United States are to be used to the best ad vantage and requests Colonel House to confer with :-he heads of the al lied governments with a view to achieving the closest-possible co-operation. President Wilson has asked Colonel House to attend the first meet-' ing ofthe supreme war council, with Genera, Tasker H. Bliss as military adviser. ' . It is hoped that the' melting will take place in Paris before the end af the month. Furnaces of America Must Win This War By Giving to Hard Pressed Fighters Sorely Needed Heavy Cannon. Clemenceau Selected to Be New French Premier. GEORGES CtiMENCEAU Georges Clemenceau, the French statesman, who was sleeted to succeed Premier Painleve. GERMANS WORRY AS JEWS UNITE IN ZIONIST MOVE ii i n r Charles Rothschild, Head of Great Banking House, Favors Plan Which Is Now Favored by British Government. London, Nov. 18. -At a reception given here by Lord Rothschild in celebration of -the, official, declaration by the British "government in favor of a Jewish home land in Palestine, Lord Rothschild announced that his younger brother, Charles Rothschild, has joined the Zionist movement. The late Lord Rothschild left the bulk of his estate to Charles, who thereby has become the financial head of the British banking house of Roth schild. Baron Edmund de Rothschild, head of the French branch, has also joined the movement, Lord Rothschild an nounced. Well informed Zionists here believe that Russia will urge the inter-allied conference, to be held soon, to give its approval to the Zionists. The Zionist movement is worrying the Germans. The Berlin newspaper Germania urges the kaiser's govern ment to take steps against the alliance of Great Britain and the Zionists. A league of British Jews has been formed to combat the view that the Jews form a nation as indicated in the British government's declaration. The league, however, : will assist Jews to settle in Palestine. LLOYD GEORGE AS MILITANT TODAY FACES COMMONS London, Nov. 18. The parliamentary correspondents of the Sunday news papers are unanimous in their an ticipation that tomorrow's debate in the House of Commons on Premier Lloyd George's Paris speech will clear the air and end the controversy which has been raging during the last week. They picture the premier in a most militant mood and welcoming the opportunity of defending Ins plan for an allied war council against his critics represented as an irreconcil able combination of radicals, pacifists and militant conservatives. It is expected that Mr. Lloyd George will clear away any miscon ception that his remarks in Paris were intended as a reflection on army lead ers. President Appreciates Work of 4-Minute Men Washington, Nov. 18. President Wilson in a letter made public to night expresses his appreciation of the patriotic, work being done by the Four-Minute-Men, a govern ment agency of 15,000 volunteer speakers who present war time mes sages of the administration to theater audiences' throughout the country. 5 " ! Medill McCormick, Fresh From Front, .Says French Beg Quick Aid, Lest None Be Left to Succor. (By Associated rresn.l Chicago, Nov. 18. Russia's collapse and the unreadiness of tne United States make hopeless any thoughts of peace before 1919, in the opinion of Medill McCormick, congressman at large from Illinois, who has just re turned from a visit to most of the im portant fronts of the European battle line. . Mr. McCormick said: "The Germans are not winning the war. "Neither are we. RUSS AT STANDSTILL. "The war today presents a stalemate from which we are unable to extricate ourselves, because of the collapse of Russia and the unreadiness of the United States. There is practically no hope that Russia can he in any sense useful during the year 1918. From the most responsible persons I heard a disheartening talc of Russian inef ficiency, corruption, inendiarism and murder. Teutons Are United. "Russia is so disordered that it can not make war. Happily, in all prob ability, neither can it make peace. Germany might propose concessions and indemnities in the west and to re coup itself in the east. What would the European democracies do under these . circumstances? The principal public men with whom I talked were not all agreed upon the answer to that question. "Since the German high command controls all the central powers from the Bosphorus to the Baltic, they act with greater energy, unity and skill than their enemies. So they made a seemingly successful drive into Italy. The real object of their political foray into Venetia was partly to make cam ouflatte on t grand scale to. conceal their steady losses- from-i-Verdun. to . PssicheViWera and partly, to .provoke revolution ki Italy. ; ' V , ' - " ? . Italians Under-Gunned. '"While I was in the now conquered Italian territory a Jittle while ago, the Italian command expected an attack in the neighbbrhood of Asiago. The Italians were under-gunned, neither had they enough ammunition. The margin of sustenance in the country is so narrow that it must affect the morale of the population. But even so, the Italians could not have been driven' back so, far as they were if two or three divisions, holding an al most impregnable point, debauched by the excellent spy system of Germany, had not thrown down their arms. The Italians had defeated the Austrians. It was German divisions with artillery from the eastern and western fronts which restored the morale of the Aus-tro-Hungarian troops and themselves led the successful thrust. "The French and British have a moderate preponderance in guns, and man for man they outfight the Ger mans. Washington to Win War. "All of the German class of next year, boys of 17, are in the army and many of 16, whose tear-stained faces among the prisoners wrench the hearts of the Tommies and the poilus, who show them a shy, tender and clumsy kindness. Plainly the re sources in men and material are run ning low. While there are still ex cellent German divisions in Flanders, there was an appreciable diminution in the morale and the physical quality of the German trsops on the French and British fronts during the 10 weeks in which I was in Europe. Germany everywhere had lost the offensive. "The issue of the war will he de cided not on the Isonzo or the Piave; not on the Meuse or the Rhine, but in Washington and by the furnace of America. Need Engines of War. "This war must be won, if we are to win it, by the manufacture in America of thousands of engines of j war. Men cannot win the war. The splendid little American army which already has crossed the seas rendered a great service when the echo of the first American feet upon the soil ofj France carried to every home which has sacrificed (and almost all French j homes have sacrificed) the promise 1 that strength and still more the in I dustrial genius of America -would ! bring succor to France, j "One of the greatest of French ! generals, perhaps the greatest, with the burden tf the long front upon his shoulders, said to me: 'Thank God for your little army. It buoyed our j falling hopes, but its present growth j costs us material. Send .us cannon i ! and ammunition now, and more of j them, lest there be none of us left j 1 when you really get here.' i Let the Furnaces Toil. "VVc cannot hope to have a vast j army in France next year. But Amer- : ica. whose furnaces can forge as much steel as the furnaces of all Europe, can produce the annon 25,000 can non. "We must have greater co-ordination of effort than we have now. . We must have more powerful (direction, greater unity of effort, a true war council such as does not exist in Washington a council of men, who, irrespective of faction and party, represent in the greatest degree the energy and the gf uius of America. We . I 1 ll A- 1 - ' iniisi ucnu an our energies to maxe the great industrial effort in time. It j will be fruitless it we are ready late." GERMAN SHIPS FLYTOSAFETY; SOME DAMAGE Cruiser in Flames, Mine Sweeper Lost, Another in Flames, as British Pursue Teuton Squadron. (By AaMelmted rren.) London, Nov. 18. German light cruisers, which fled through Helgo land Bight yesterday before British warships of similar type, were pur sued to w ithin .50 miles of Helgoland, w here they came under the protection of the German battle fleet and mine fields, the admiralty announced today. One of the German light cruisers was observed to be in flames and the machinery of another seemed to be damaged. One German mine sweeper was sunk. The British light forces returned without losses, with but little damage to the ships and slight casualties among the personnel. . Repulse, Says Berlin. Amsterdam, Nov. 18. Strong Brit ish naval forces for the first time since early in the war attempted to break into the German Bight (Helgoland) on Saturday morning, says a licrlm dispatch today, quoting an official statement dated Saturday. , ' The British were located by the German guard ships on the Horn Reef-Terschelling line (about 60 miles out from Helgoland Island) and the advance German naval forces, by a speedy counter thrust, easily repulsed thenij it is declared, without losses pn the German side. 1 " r - r- More Than -21 Millions In Farm Loan Bonds Sold Washington, Nov; yi. During the last year $21,500,000 worth of farm loan bonds were sold, the federal farm loan board announced tonight and additional bonds are being issued at the rate of approximately $3,000,000 weekly. They bear 4;4 per cent in terest, are entirely free from taxes and arc secured by first mortgages on farms for which loans are made". Mrs. Patrick Foley Has Chance of Recovery Mrs. Patrick Foley, who was shot and seriously wounded by her hus band at her home Saturday night, is reported as being slightly improved. She has an even chance to live, physi cians say. . General Pershing Visits Graves First U. S. Dead With" the American Army in France, Nov. 18. General Pershing oma trip to the front visited the newly-made graves in which lie the bodies of the three victims of the recent trench raid. They are on a green hill, overlooking a small vil lage. General Pershing showed espe cial interest in the simple markers upon the graves, recording the name, company ani regiment of each of the Americans buried there and in a wreath of native flowers hung within the enclosure, upon which had been placed in French the following inscription: "Here lie the first soldiers of the great republic of the United States who died on the joil of France for justice and liberty, November 3, 1917." Teutons Reduce Distance Between Piave and V enice - it?..- .iMiL ;hV.r.?'lKcw'3& Bmf:!Pmm'S-:?mm'St SCALt OF MictS - RMtROAOS iO 15 -BATTLE LIME. By forcing a crossing of the Piave river four miles from its mouth, the Teutonic invaders have cut down their distance from Venice by five miles. They arc now only 17 miles away. The ROMANS IN DEATH GRAPPLE TO STOP GERMAN 0NRVSH Annihilate Austro-German Trops That Cross Piave at Zenson, Capturing 2,000 Prisoners and All But Crush Invaders, Who Still Hold West , Bank of River at Grisolera. T (By Anaoelated I rem.) All along; the Piave river the Italians are holding the Ger man and Austro-Hungarian armies in check. Nowhere have the invaders been able to cross the stream, and at several places where they had gained access to the western bank they have been brilliantly counter attacked and forced to withdraw to the river's edge. The Italians have captured considerably more than 2,000 prisoners and taken 27 machine guns. In the Fa gare zone the enemy has been completely vanquished and forced to give up his position. GREAT BRITISH GUNS PRESAGE ANOTHER DASH Heavy Artillery Bombardment Indicates Field Marshal Haig Plans New Swoop Toward Roulers; Jaffa Taken. . (By AiKnolnted I' rem.) Again the artillery duel on the Flan ders front has reached tremendous proportions, and it is not unlikely that Field Marshal Haig has in prepara tion another dash forward from the region of Passchendaele toward the town of Roulejj-jjd,llisJbttPortaut railway lineVe"rving the German front from the Norjh Sea southward. The Germans, anticipating another ot the irresistible operations of the British corumander-in-chief, are di recting their heavy gun fire on the positions in the neighborhood of Tas schendaele and Langmarck and south of the Polygon wood. To the south the big guns of the French and the Germans also are active, along the Chemin dea Dames, and the present week doubtless will witness another attempt by Gener al Petain's army here to press forward toward Laon. The British troops in Palestine are giving the Turks no rest. Jaffa has been captured by them, the Otoman forces offering no resistance. It is stated that the TurJ-s arc in retire ment northward.' Voluntary Manslaughter Verdict in Enyart Case Ordway, Colo.' Nov. 18. A verdict of voluntary manslaughter was re turned today by the jury in the case of A. F. Enyart, banker of. this citv, charged with the murder of J. W. Black, an attorney of Nebraska City, Neb,, at Ordway, February 25, of this year. The case was given to the jury shortly after midnight last night. The trial lasted a week. Judge C. S. Essex of Pueblo allowed the defense ten days to prepare argu ments for a new trial. British Take Jaffa While 1 Turks Still Retreat London, Nov. 18. The city of Jaffa, on the Mediterranean coast, was taken by the British army in Pales tine yesterday. The Turks, who ap parently ate continuing their with drawal northward, offered no opposi tion. - LOWLANDS crossing effected at Grisolera, between the village of Piave Vecchia and the Adriatic, is barely maintained by a few troops on the river bank. The in vaders crossine at Zenson were repulsed. ' FIERCELY WAGED BATTLE. On the northern front from Lake Garda to the region south of Feltre violent Austro-German attacks have been repelled,' according to the Rome war office, although Berlin asserts that northeast of Asiago and between the Brenta and the Piave rivers the Italians have been driven from strong mountain positions. No advices have come through to show that the British and French rein forcements have reached the Italian line in any considerable numbers, but the "few days" which, ir was an nounced last week must intervene be fore they could stiffen the front line arc at an end. Therefore, it is pre sumed that, with the Italians having borne the brunt of the Teutonic-allied attacks during the last week unaided, the present week, with the aid of the allies in their line, will turn the bal ance of the scale in their favor. FRESH TEUTONS IN RUSH. Italian Headquarters in Northern Italy, Nor. 18.-On the northern lui and along the PiaveViver above Zen son the, fighting , has assumed ex treme severity. The enemy has thrown fresh divisions into the battle in a supreme effort to break through. The Italians are resisting with des perate tenacity, using hand grenades to meet the Infantry rushes; following artillery and machine gun fire. It is one of the bitterest struggles of the war and the losses are heavy. On the Piave river the enemy got across at two points, Follina and Fagare, a few miles above Zenson, but those at Follina were annihilated by artillery and hand to hand fight ing, while those at ' Fagare were driven back to the western bank with heavy losses and many captured. The Italian lines are holding in the main,-but the fury of the enemy assaults renews the gravity of the situation. " Navy Taking Part. The Italian navy is doing splendid service, seconding the army in the bombardment of enemy positions to ward the mouth of the Piave river. Near Revedoli, an Italian marine battalion repulsed on Saturday a rush made by an Austrian storming party and Italian torpedo boats off Porto Di Cortellozzo drove off an attack of an Austrian torpedo fleet , This latter action was accompanied by op erations of a fleet of Italian hydro planes and seconded by Italian coast batteries. On the middle Piave river, where' the Austrians succeeded in gaining a foothold on the west bank, near Zenson, they are held to the water's edge and their only communication with the east bank is at night, when a flat boat is dragged from side to side, bringing a small stock of sup plies. , Further north, where the front turns westward from the Piave river across the Asiago plateau, General Ritter yon Krobatin, former Austrian min ister of war. is driving his Austrian forces, together with one Hungarian division, in an attack which may be the turning point of the whole opera tions. It is here that the Piave front and the Trentino front meet, and Gen eral von Krobatin is throwing all his pressure on this point, so as to force a wedge between the two Italian armies. Vital to Stop Wedge. What this success would mean ?s fully realized, for should this wedge come through it would not only sep arate the two Italian armies, but would require the consideration of re treat from the Piave river, as it would not be possible to maintain a posi tion on the Piave with the left flank thus menaced. General Armando Diaz, commander-in-chief of the Italian army, was able last night to announce the solidity of both main fronts and to give merited tribute to his men. The righting, while desperate, has not yet developed the enemy's full power, and it is still to be shown where he will strike his greatest blow. But his first shock has been met and checked and the Italian arms have gained new lustre. , Red Cross Rushes Food ' To Stricken Italians Washington. Nov. 18.' "emporary organization of Red Cross agencies in Italy to meet the present emergency has been perfected at Rome and Carl Taylor has been installed as general manager. Edward Edwire Hunt has been appointed at the head of the civilian relief deoartraent.
