THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1917.
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BRITISH GAIN ON
FLANDERS FRONT
SOUTH OF YPRES
, .Capture German Prisoners
( When Enemy Attempts Hos
- v tile Raids Near Neuve
: Chappelie.
London, Nov. 23. The British have
' advanced their line slightly in Flan
ders, southeast of Ypres, the Var of-
l fice annohnces. The situation on the
i. Somme front soutftwest of Cambrai
is unchanged.
. The announcement follows:
; "Southeast of Ypres we advanced
our lines slightly during the night,
( Hostile raids attempted in the night
south of Neuve Ghappelle, northwest
'l of St. Quentin and northwest of Pon
, truct were repulsed, leaving prison
jSt rs m our hands.
ft. 'There is no change on our front
f southwest of St. Quentin."
French Hold Gains.
Paris, Nov. 23. Another German
k attempt to 'recapture ground taken
i by the French in their Vecent attack
V on the Aisne front was checked by
i the French fire, the war office reports.
"Our patrols in operations near the
w Ailette brought back prisoners and
inflicted losses on the enemy," the
report adds. "On the right bank of
the Meuse the artillery fighting con
; ' tinned in a spirited manner during the
night." . V
(By Associated rress.)
j Germans Driven Back.
British Army - Headquarters in
France, Nov. 23. The British early
1 - today drove back the enemy at the
- elevation called. Tadpole copse,
, which- dominates a large section of
i the Canal Du Nord and a large part
of Moeuvres, in the Cambrai area.
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Wakeley, George . R.. Stirrat, Arthur
J. Long. Lowell C. . Erskine, Claire
.Young, Paul A. Burke.
Other Nebraskans commissioned
;ire: ' . . '.' ' . , r.f;
Captains of JnfuMly.
0. J. Frankforter ahd C. Wi Taylor, Lin
coln; 0.--U.- LelillKh and Bl M. Ollnc . Ne
braska City;1 (VP-. Shockley; Browfilee; O.'W.
Boberts.on, Wyipore;' K' A. Frlck, Platts
tnouth; H. t M. Anderaqn. . Ko.'fom; H. U.
Hose, Fullertort. , , 1
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G. V. I'.UUr.aa.' A. 'Z: ' Thurber. -R. SI.
Inihody. V'. R. AInrtlTi Vf. 1". Hamilton.
(. B, Grim -ii. L. Hyilo. 1.. W. Hawking,
H. C Hathf.way, 0. J. tuvns. H. J. V.'acht
rr, B. V. r.acii, .-.11 it Li icoln: IJ. W. Klino,
I. 'nivcrity Pis."; I'. ;t. Muiir;, Noriji
Platte; L. W. Weaver. lu.nbus ; (J. Q.
iKinp. Havaioi'ic: V. Hi- Hardy. Norfolk;
If. V. CcnlcUn, Mia:;;; re; K. Toiii-, Flth
Nebraska Intuntr.. : . C V. I'hillliiK. Kails
City; C I.- Andorrs-i. N'oilol!;; K. A. Kun
nell, ttnrvnn4 If. A. Uunder: on. Orofton:
C. P . J'.f'Ud', l;rji- r.ov:; w. jristter.
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. Paul. Emerson; H. .'. ."athrwa. Pcottnbluff;
.('. W. Ilalzor, V; . .uit'no ; li. . A. nutssn,
..'Kearney; V'. L, P" th. .efti; F. Neisou,
Lexington: C. incli.un. Bias Hill; B.
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-Hartlngfdn: Jl'-'J. VM'n, WjTnore; 'K. - J.
N'aush,. Gwitlu; , A. Kew.r.!, Yuik; K. E.
Trloi waller, JJlonmfleld: I'. A. Dohl. Ran
: iolph; W McUtyir.ki, VUsutinc; II. K. Uray-
tian, Belle rue.
Hcriiad Licirienantsi.
i. P. .Tone?, Uneoln'i 'WV P.. Ftift, Cen
tral Ctty; V. W. Wil;rVec, Ltnuoln; J, Jt.
Uryden. Barnam: f. (. Gfimin, Wllber;
V. V. fitruun, Mah:-sku; J. J.. )"!rown, Ruh-
ville; M. Fi Fuson, Ord; J. Klaney, button;
-O. H. Martio. Blue. "Hill ; R. C Hibben,
'.Fremont; .1. h. Curley. Btrrling; C. H.
Brown, Wneoln; A. O. UeekBtrom, Lincoln;
1. H. Thlesen, WvSt Point.
" Provisional Second I.'ieutenanta.
R... Chuman. IWllevuei J. Mocliart, MB(l
non;' R. -'Dlnsmore, Lincoln; J. Latis, Lin
coln: H. ftem, Hastlngrfi; U Cook, Halting;
L. W. Colyer, Lisbon; jS. Spa'.z, Falrtteld.
The following Council Bluffs men
received commissions as follows:
( First Lieutenants.
John ST. Craig. Robert O. Wise, V. A.
(Morgan and Donald VV. ManKae.
Second- Lieutenant.
Tred Rey"mer ani Elmer B. Minnie'.:. ,
whose gross sales do not exceed
$100,000 annually, v
Poultry or egg packing plants with
gross sales of less tnap $50,IXX) an
nually. ; Manufacturers of maple syrup,
maple sugar and maple compounds. .
Dealers in cottonseed products
with yearly capacity of less than 150
tons.
Germans Rush .
Troops to Stem
British Tide
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ground and some of the fiercest hand
fighting of the war has been going
on. The enemy troops were unpre
pared for the attack, but they have
been putting every ounce of their
strength into an attempt to stem the
rising tide.
Troops have been pulled away from
other points and rushed to the Cam
brai sector by the desperate Germans
and so hard pressed were they for
men that two companies 01 cripples
and convalescents were recruited hast
ily at one camp and thrown into the
line in the region of Masnieres.
Some of these pitiful objects are in
British hands and are receiving medi
cal treatment. One prisoner was in
the last . stages of tuberculosis and
hp had to be moved to prevent the
disease from spreading to the others,
who were in a state ot cruel exnaus
tion and virtually helpless from their
valiant attempts to fight under the
lash of their unrelenting officers.
Like Wars of Old.
The creat battlefield has taken on
the aspect of scenes in wars gone by.
It is no longer a conflict of trenches
and shell holes, but of men struggling
bitterlv with rifles and bayonets over
a virgin battle ground, while the long
neglected cavalry sweeps in pictur
esque charges against the enemy posi
tions over the wide territory in
volved.
, The roads everywhere for two days
have been swarming with advancing
troops and with prisoners and civ
ilians coming back from the front.
Many rejoicing noncombatants, men,
women and children, have been pour
ing out of the captured towns under
the guidance of their deliverers from
Gerrnan bondage. '
Enslaved Civilians Released. ''
This has been a battle of strange
sights, but no more striking spectacle
has been witnessed than that of these
people marching toward homes and
comfort batk of the British front.
Through the very gaps which the
tanks had torn in the famous Hinden-
burg line mothers yesterday' and to
day were pushing baby carnages con
taining infants or tramping happily
along with their babies clutched to
their breasts. Beside them toddled
other youngsters, many of then, car
rying their treasured dolls and not a
few clinging determinedly to squirm
ing puppies which they dared not
trust to run on the groui.d. Old
men and women were bringing away
all the household effects they could
pack on pushcarts or carry on their
backs.
For three years they had been in
c'aptivitv and some of them in slavery.
They had been subsisting on the
bounty of the American relief com
mittee, which furnished them vir
tually the only food they obtained.
Hard fighting has taken place to
day at Crevecoeur, southeast of Mas
nieres. The British were holding a
high ridge in front of this place and
some troops had forced an entrance
into the western part of the town.
The Germans werC'still holding the
eastern section. A German battery
here which had been giving trouble
was charged and captured by dis
mounted cavalrymen. The battery
was surrounded by heavy barbed wire
entanglements, precluding the use of
horses, so the soldiers stormed the po
sition on foot and annihilated the gun
crews.
In the region of Rumilly heavy ma
chine gun and rifle fighting was pro
ceeding, last night and this morning.
est of Cambrai tanks, cavalry and
infantry were pressing the attack vig
orously about Fontaine Notre Dame
and the strong position in Bourlon
wood. Fontaine Notre Dame has not
been officially reported captured, but
the story goes that tank crews were
served with hot coffee by the civil
ians in that plase this morning.
(Field Marshal Haig's official report
Thursday night said the Germans had
retaken Fontaine Notre Dame.)
Further north, near Bullecourt, the
British were in possession of the en
tire underground fortification known
as the tunnel trench, which had been
famed for its supposed impregnabil
ity. At least five determined coun
ter attacks have been smashed in this
region. Southeast of Bullecourt hard
fisrhting occurred at Moeuvres last
night and a strong counter attack was
repulsed.
Last Line Broken.
The last line of trench defenses in
the region of Cantaing has been
broken and the British today were
firmlv established at many points in
the Masnieres-Beaurois line south
west of Cambrai.
German resistance on-the first day
was comparatively weak as a whole
and they surrendered freely in many
places. Yesterday fheir lines stif
fened and hard fighting followed.
German reinforcements from Lens
and the two companies of invalids al
ready mentioned were thrown into
the line.
Counter Attacks Stopped.
' ' The first counter attack came over
the ridge from the northeast of Mas
nieres. The enemy advanced in
massed formation as in the early days
of the war. The British had concen
trated a large number of machine
guns at this point and were hoping
for a counter attack.' They permitted
the enemy to advance to within a
thousand yards of the line before they
opened fire. Then the machine guns
and artillery were turned on the Ger
mans and they were smashed m a
withering storm.
At 7 o'clock an attack on Marcoing
was attempted by the enemy; but, as
in the former case, they were caught'
in a heavy artillery and machine gun
fire and they turned back after suf
fesing severely. '
An hour later another body of Ger
mans advanced on Noyelles, ""which
was held by one company of British
troops. Here some of the stiffest
fighting of the battle took. place at
close quarters. Both sides rushed up
reinforcements and for two hours the
battle surged back and forth through
the streets and among the buildings.
It was a melee in which the bayonet
played the principal part. The Ger
mans fought well but they were not
good Enough to withstand the fury
of the British assault and gradually
they were forced . back across the
canal to the east.
Angry German Prisoner.
Among'the prisoners taken by, the
British were several officers who were
caught hr-the regimental headquar
ters. The regimental commander was
captured,- and it is reported
that , ,the sight of ; a company
of British cavalry threw him almost
into a frenzy and the lurid language
which he directed at the British drew
a smile from even the hardened
Tommy, who has a somewhat pic
turesque vocabulary of his own.
Civilians Welcome British.
Civilians who were released from
Masnieres today told something of
their experiences in the last three
years. They rejoiced at their new
found freedom and many of them to
day still wept with joy when the sub
ject of their deliverance was brought
up. Ihey had their first sight of the
advancing forces at the bridgehead
and saw coining with the attacking
troops strange monsters which they
never dreamed existed. They were
the' great tanks and the people stared
in amazement, as these mighty en
gines plowed their way forward.
Only 380 Germans were holding the
town and all except a few left in
the cellars withdrew five minutes be
fore the British entered. With the
civilians who greeted the British
were two German soldiers, one from
Alsace and the other from Lorraine,
who had deserted and were waiting to
give themselves up to the British,
with whom they sympathized.
During he three years of their cap
tivity the civilians were fed by the
American relief committee. All other
food was requisitioned by the Ger
mans, who placed heavy penalties on
those who concealed any. For in
stance, the secreting of a bottle of
ordinary wine called for a fine of 10
francs or a long term, in prison and
there was twice as severe a penalty
for hiding a bottle of champagne.
Many persons served terms in jail for
alleged violations of the orders. They
were well fed, however, owing to
American relief, and all appeared
healthy.
The Germans stripped all the houses
of the town of their furniture as soon
as they entered. Among the houses
thus pillaged were five magnificent
chateaux. All men of military age
were arrested and sent to Germany.
Women were compelled to do all man
ner of work, such as sweeping
streets, washing clothes of (Jerman
officers and waiting on officers.
One refugee declared his belief that
Germany was actually starving. He
said there seemed to be no doubt that
the civilians in Germany were under
going great hardships.
Hid in Cellar Three Years.
Among the most interesting of the
refugees was a man of military age
who had hidden in a cellar for three
years to escape the Germans and had
been fed by his wife with an extra
ration of food allowed her because
she had a baby. This man is 35 years
old, and in the ordinary course would
have been arrested and sent to a
prison camp as soon as the Germans
entered the town. He did not "want
to leave his wife and baby, and so hid
in a secret place in the cellar, there
by makintr himself liable to the death
penalty if detected. German officers
came to live in his house, and daily
he heard them tramping about above
him. In accordance with the custom,
this house and all others were
searched every little while to see if
anyone was concealed, but the Ger
mans never discovered his hiding
place. F-ach day while the officers
were away his wife smuggled his lit
tle store of food and water to hnn.
When the British entered the town
the wife, after making sure that they
indeed were British, went home and
broueht out her husband, who had
his first glimpse of the outside world
since August, 1914. . The Germans
were to have searched the house again
the day the British captured the town.
This, refugee seemed to be in fair
health, notwithstanding tiis confine
ment, but his nerves were badly shat
tered and he wept continually today
as his story was being related. He
was clinging to a bag containing sev
eral hundred francs which he had car
ried with hirrt into his cave. '
. Aviators Aided Attack.
London, Thursday, Nov. 22.The
official statement on aviation activi
ties tonight read:
"Further details received show that
attacks made Tuesday on the enemy's
infantry and transports by our low
flying pilots, including pilots from the
Australian squadron, were most suc
cessful. On Wednesday the weather
was even more unsuitable for flying
than on the previous day, but a num
ber v of successful reconnaissances
over the enemy's tynes were carried
out, and very endeavor was made to
keep in touch with our infantry. No
enemy airplanes were encountered.
None of our machines is missing.''
CENTRAL POWERS
SECRETLY OFFER
PEACE TO RUSSIA
(Continued From Tag One.)
form of a council of national com
missioners. The head of this gov
ernment is Vladimir Ilich Lenine.
The direction of the foreign policy
has been entrusted to me, in the ca
pacity of national commissioner for
foreign affairs.
' No Annexations.
"Drawing attention to the text of
the offer of an armistice and a demo
cratic peace on the basis of no annex
ations or indemnities, and the self
determination of nations, approved by
the All-Russian congress of soldiers'
and workmen's delegates, I have the
honor to beg you to regard the above
document as a formal offer of an im
mediate armistice on all fronts and
the immediate opening of peace nego
tiationsan offer with which the au
thoritative government of the Russian
republic has addressed itself simul
taneously to all the belligerent peo
ples and their governments.
"Accept my assurance, Mr. Ambas
sador, of the profound respect of the
soldiers' and workmen's government
for the people of France, which can
not help aiming at a peace, as well as
all the rest of the nations exhausted
and made bloodless by this unexam
pled slaughter.
(Signed), "L. TROTZKY.
"National Commissioner of Foreign
Affairs."
" ' v German Papers Skeptical.
Amsterdam, Nov. 23. The German
newspapers as a rule discuss the Bol
sheviki peace proposal noncommit
tally. The Lokal Anzeiger remarks
that if it proves true that the Russian
army, in the nane of an authorized
government, has made an offer, it will
be examined seriously by the German
authorities, , although an armistice
could be agrted to only if acceptable
as regards the entire military situa
tion. ' ,
Satisfaction at the proposal is ex
pressed bythe Vdssische Zeitung. It
says, however, that the Russians must
clearly realize that Germany's mili
tary position is not such as to compel
it to concur 1n the armistice proposal,
the acceptance of which depends en
tirely on technical conditions.
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