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Omaha Daily THE WEATHEfc Cloudy VOL. XLVII. NO. 139. OMAHA, TUESDAY v MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.-TWELVE PAGES. O Trtlm, it Hotils. Niwi sunlt. tic. t. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. ALLIED TROOPS KEAGH TO SAVE VENIC ; FAtt OF CAMBRAI BIG GERMAN Bee PIAVE WILL FORCE RETREAT CAPTURE OF BOIIRLON HOOD . IMPERILS CAMBRAI WHICH CIVILIANS ARE LEAVING Bri&h Successes Will Probably Lead to Siege of City, While Armies Continue Pressure on Germans, From Whom 10,000 Men dnd 100 Guns Have Already Been Taken. (By Associated ItM.) v British troops have captured the high ground in Bourlon wood and now dominate the region about Cambrai. This- success came after two days of the most vicious fighting and its im portance is indicated in part by the fact that German traffic southeast from Cambrai has been heavy, the probability being that the civil population of the town has been removed. General Byng's- latest triumph was one of hard and heroic endeavor. In paying tribute to the Third army, Field. Marshal Haig declares that the captures of the Bourlon positions "crowns a most successful operation and opens the' way to the further exploitation of advantages already gained." Apparently the British commander will push his advantage still further and besiege Cambrai, which is three miles to the east. The fall of Cambrai would force a German retreat over a wide area-. Take 10,000 Prisoners. In six days, General Byng and the Third army havex broken the Hinden burg line, taken a score of villages, secured the dominating position west of Cambrai and overrun territory equal in area to that gained in the first three months of the drive in the Ypres salient. Nearly 10,000 prison ers, 100 guns and much war material ha: been captured. More important stifTprobably is the "further exploita-tion-to which Field Marshal Haig refers in his congratulatory message. Around Verdun, the pivot point of the German line in France, there has been fighting in which the French have been victorious. After repulsing a strong German attack, on the right hank of the Meuse near Hill 344, the Frencli- attacked- the-wmyv or a front of. more than two miles in the same region. They occupied the first and second,' German linet and cap tured more-than 806 prisoners Government May Run ' Railways If Pooling Fails Washington, Nov. 26. Government operation of' railways, if the pooling plan does not afford relief from the present situation, was being consid ered here today as the committee of vice presidents of eastern lines gath erifl to perfect general plans to put th pooling arrangements into ef fect. ' Congressional action would be necessary if government operations were to "be decided upon, but that has been discussed by officials who have been considering what steps would be necessary if the pooling plans should not relieve the congestion. The operating committee of vice presidents,, wfiich will serve under the general direction of the railroad war board, met today with:' the board to work out details of the plan of pool ing trackage and equipment of the eastern lines.-' . " Adopted as the most practical sug gestion advanced, the pooling plan will- be operated entirely by the rail roads themselves withoujt government p.jticipation. y Price of News Print Paper To Be Fixed by Government New York, Nov; 26. News print paper manufacturers representing 85 per cent of the print paper output in the country will sell news print to pub lishers at 3 cents a pound until April 1 and after that at a price fixed by the federal trade commissions under an agreement reached, today between the government and - six of seven paper manufacturers charged with violation of the Sher..ian anti-trust law. United States Judge Mayer signed a decree under which the News Print Manufacturers' association, whose executive committee includes five of the seven defendants, was dissolved. This decree, however, does not take away from the defendants the right to co-operate between now and April in placing facts before the Federal Trade commission as a basis fof the prjfe to be fixed. ' Newspaper Women Receive Soldier Boys at Opera Lucius PryoT has asked Omaha Woman's Press club members to act as reception committee for the thou sand Soulier boyj who will be guests Of the San Carlo Grand Opera com pany during the song birds' engage ment in Omaha next week., , The newspaper women will wel comevihe soldiers and further plan to provide 1,000 ; carnations for boutonnieres for the men. The wom en scribes will also have charge of dis tributing printed invitations to the men some time this week. German Insurance Must Close American Business Washington; Nov. 26. Secretary McAdoo today decided that undr Hie trading with the enemy law the business of all insurance companies incorporated in Germany or "ally of eneyny countries"-is to be liquidated with the exception of life insurance companies, which are allowed to con tinue existing contracts' GERMANS GIVE UP BOURLON WOODAS LOST TO KAISER After Being Repulsed by Brit ish Infantry Sunday, No At N tempt to Take Important Position Made. London, Nov. 26.--The Germans have not repeated their attacks on the Bourlon position west of Cambrai since thdir failure of yesterday, Field Marshal Haig announced today. The statement issued by the war office reads: ' "On the Cambrai battle front the enemy has not repeated its attacks on the Bourlon position since . the failure of its attempt at midday yes terday and the situation is unchanged, i "Northeast of Yores there. was con siderable artillery activity on ' both Bide early last ieht in the Passchett-AthWMh. daele sectors 4Bf no? Iflfantfy action developed, ' :.'V;---.WW' itoeir. V British AVmy v Headquarters ! m France, Sunday, Ndv. 25-This morn ing, found the line of battle of the weary but determined British troops stretched in a semi-circle about Bour lon wood and Bourlon village, which nestles at the northwestern edge of the forest. It was a line which had been established in the face of dogged resistance on the part of the Germans, who had fallen back step by step, fighting with the fury of despair. All day the opposing forces strug gled bitterly at close quarters for possession of the little village from which the British were iorced Friday after, gaining a footing in tha rush that took them through Bourlon wood. Nightfall still found waves of infantry surging back and forth through the streets of the hamlet and among the houses, their crimson bayonets telling the story of the ter rible conflict being waged- Gradually the Germans fell back, the British pressing forward with grim persist ence, which the enemy, could not withstand, and the hamjet was finally cleared of the major portion of the German troops. - Mopper Up SquacUBusy. Today some few of the enemy still remained in Bourlon to be mopped up, but all the main streets of the place had been cleared and it was surround ed by a-strong force of British sol diers. A little to the southwest of here an other intense' struggle .was being staged in the village of Moeuvres, into which the British had battled their way with rifle and bayonet and pushed the Germans out of the south ern half, "ilsewhere along, the Cam brai front there was no infantry ac tion of importance. Prisoners continue to arrive at the British cages from the front. Nearly 10,000 captives thus far have been counted, including 200 officers. Wants to Fight the Kaiser; ; Uncle Sam Won't Let Him , Carl Offe of -Wall Lake, la., was the saddest young man in' Omaha Saturday, afternoon. He came here from his Iowa home to enlist in the marine service of Un cle Sam, "but learned that an unfor tunate circumstance of bis life pre vented that service. Offe is 18 years of age,' was born in Germany and came to this coun try when he was 8 years of age. His father died in Germany. His mother, who lives at WJl Lake, has not been naturalized and the son. declared she has pro-German sympathies, while he is r,eady and anxious to do his bit for this country. - He wanted to be sent to the Great Lakes naval training station. "You can just ask the boys over at Wall Lake if I haven't been Ameri can through and through," -he said when ..e was told of the regulations which prevented his acceptance into the service at this time. Even the recruiting officer and others r.t tht naval station sympa-. thized with this husky Iowan who was so anxious to enlist in the navy. CANADA'S DAD TRMIPFR : ML? AT rue hi unit Repeat Charge, of the Light Brigade and Fight Their Way Back on Foot With Prisoners. Canadian Army Headquarters in France, Nov. 26. Canada was splen didly represented in the great British advance of November 20, which broke the Hindenburg line and drove the enemy back on Cambrai. For the fjrst time since the German retreat from Bapaume last spring the Ca nadian cavalry went into action with the horses. After waiting a long time opposite the village of Masnieres for the signal which sent .them into action, the "Hell for Leather" Fort Garry, gal loped to the attack. They succeeded in crossing the Lescaut canal and penetrated the enemy's country. Another Balaclava Charge. What followed equals anything in cavalry exploits in the history of the empire. A single squadron found it self all alone. Racing forward, with the enemy to the right and left of them, the Fort Garrys galloped in sec tion over the crest of a hill conceal ing the enemy's guns. ''Advancing down the slope they found themselves facing a battery of four light German field guns. Charging straight for the battery, sabering everything as they came, the officers and men raced to the guns. In line of troop columns they advanced, coming on so quickly that the enemy bad no time to man two of his guns. One other was cut off and put out of action. The gun ners attempted to blow up th. fourth. The cavalry wiped out that .battery with this word. Themajority of the enemy gunners attempted to flee, and only a few brave men stood at atten tion beside their cannon. On swept the little squadron. The retreating enemy's infantry were engaged Cut Their Way Back. , Dusk found the cavalcy two miles inside the enemy's territory, com manded by a lieutenant, A defensive position was essential. With, sword the horsemen fought ' their way . .ta'juwjien ' rpa4.4.T-b.ve thefy "Dismounted, , Twe messengers sent back to report theifbdsitioiu Tiad their , horses shot tinder them, but struggled back to the lines. Darkness was falling. The gallant band was isolated. Stampeding their horses to divert the enemy's machine gun fire, what was left of the squadron pre pared to return. As they had galloped forward, using the saber, they now fought their way back on foot with the bayo net. The retirement was a succession of hand-to-hand struggles. Four times the little party met enemy working parties with the bayonet and dispersed them. Midnight had passed when they reached Masnieres again and fought their way through the enemy infantry in the town to a wrecked bridge, where they crossed to safety.- Forty-three of the men-canfe through unwounded, and they brought back their wounded and over a dozen prisoners. Members of Metal Trades Begin Convention at Buffalo Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 26. Fifty men representing the metal trades depart ment of the American Federation of Labor began a three days' session here today. Unsatisfactory condi tions in plants having to do with the manufacture of material for war and in the" ship yards, it was said, would be taken up and the opinion of the United Metal Trades 'formulated for submission to the adjustment board of the National Council for Defense. Machinists, boilermakers, black smiths, molders, pattern makers, elec tricians, sheet metal workers, plumb ers and stationary engineers were represented each by five delegates and the international presidents of the va rious metal trades unions identified with the federation. Today's session was short, adjourn ment being taken immediately" after the appointment of committees. " CARL OFFE. IDI1HI f 2 r 1 ? 1 1 "" 'r ' i 'Something to NO RESTRICTION OF LIVE STOCK ON OMAHA MARKET i Measures " Takeaat 4 Kansas - City to' CphKShipents to Certain Days-Not -Necessary Here. ; , There is no Immediate necessity of restricting live stock shipments from any part of the stafe to given days on the Omaha market, as has been necessary in Oklahoma and Kansas with regard to the Kansas City mar ket, according to Everett Bucking ham, general manager of the Union Stock yards. . Oklahoma and Kansas have been divided into zones. Certain zones are allowed to ship cattle to Kansas City on given days, while another set of days of the, week are set apart for shipment from the other zone. Thin has been, done by the federal gov ernment in order to prevent the glut ting of the market during the first days of theHweek and the dearth of consignments on the latter days of the week. , , No Crowding Here. 'There is no necessity for this in Omaha yet," said Mr. Buckingham. "Omaha is a four-day cattle market and a six-day hog market. The stock does not tend to crowd in here the first of the week and show a dearth the rest of the week as it does in some other markets." On the Kansas City market the sit uation is different, partly for the rea son that so many of the cattle are range cattle, and the tendency is to load them at the shipping points on Saturday nights and Sundays, which throws them all on the market Mon day and Tuesday. bo much is this the case that on September 24 ' and 25, the first two days of that week, Kansas City had 80,000 cattle, while the following four davs of the week brought in a total of only 15,000. The federal food administration through its live stock'conimittees has arranged that southern Kansas and western Oklahoma shippers may sell on the Kansas City market Monday and Wednesday of the week, while northern Kansas and eastern Okla- l.oma may sell on the Kansas City market on Tuesday and Thursday. This is expected to bring about equalization of receipts and stability of market for four days of the week and prevent the glutting on a few days. In Omaha, on the oher hand, cattle have always tended to arrive on the market in a pretty steady stream for the first four days of the week. This is shown by the receipts of last week: Monday w 21.000 Tuesday. 13,000 Wednesday 11,000 Thursday'. ,000 The last week of October this vear showed the stability of receipts in Omaha from day to day also as fol lows: Monday . la ono Tuesday 13,000 Wednesday 10,000 Thursday ., j.ooo C. F. Clark to Enforce Explosives Law for State Washington. Nov. 26. Insnectors for forty-one states and Alaska t6 enforce the federal explosive law un der supervision of the bureau of mines, was appointed todaj by PresU dent Wilson. Those for the other states will be named in a few days. Charles F. Clark. David City, was appointed for the State of Nebraska, and John J. Hughes, Council Bluffs, for the State of Iowa. Crow About 1 OcWia MRS. DE SAULLES TELLS HER STORY OF INDIGNITIES Husband Ridiculed Her Small Fortune, jp6ni.e.;dnly' at ' Week-Ends ajid ,- Carried Another Woman's Picture. ; (By Associated Press.) Mineola, N. Y., Nov. 26. From the witness stand in supreme court here today Mrs. Blanca De Saulles. told a story upon . which may depend her conviction or acquittal of the charge of murdering her husband Tohn L. Dc Saulles at his Long Island home me nignt or August o. , It was a tale in which pathos and humor were mingled. There were moments when the Dale. 23-vear-old Chilean .heiress smiled broadly at a part ol her own grim narration and when the spectators who crowded the court room laughed so loudly it was necessary for Justice David F. Manning who is presiding, to rap for order. But the greater part of the story was so deeply pathetic that jurors ana spectators were visibly affected Crowds Seek Admission. The long corridor leading to the court room was jammed with per sons eager to gain admission long be fore the morning session began. The crowd Was s dense that court attend ants, witnesses and others connected with the trial had to be conducted through r..i underground passageway m order to rencn tne trial chamber. Mrs. De Saulles testified that in early childhood she fell while playing in her aome, striking her head airainst a fireplace. Next, in reply to ques tions, sne tow ot her meeting with De Saulles at a race meeting near Santi ago, Chile, in 1912, . nd of his subse quent visits to her mother's home, Vina Del Mar ("The Vineyard by the Sea"), near Santiago, and of their brief courtship and marriage in De cember ot th esame,year in Fans. Mrs. De Saulles said she inherited securities worth $100,000 from her father, who died when she was a child, and that shortly after her mar riage she gave these to De Saulles, Ridiculed Her Fortune. "What did he say to you when you - i-: .. . t . ijave nun inese. secuntiesr asKea Uternart. "He said, 'Why, that's nothing; it's absurd to call you an heiress.'" re- plied Mrs. Dc Saulles.- The witness then told of her return to the United States with De Saulles and of his buying her a revolver while they were residing at Larchmont, N. Y. She said her husband told her thafsince she would be alone at home a great part of the time, it would be best for her to have the revolver for her protection. Mrs. Dc Saulles identified the weapon, the same one previously in troduced as an exhibit by the prose cution, as the revolver with which De Saulles was shot. Continuing her story, she said they next went to South Bethlehem, Pa., where her liusband's parents,' Major and'Mrs. Arthur B. De Saulles resided, and where her son, John L. De Saulles, Jr., 'was born on Christmas day. "Were you happy there?" she was asked. "It wasn't very nice," was the answer. "Was your husbani with you there much of the time?" asked Uterhart. "He spent eek-ends with us," said Mrs. De Saulles. ' Reaching the narration of events (Ootlneifd on Pan Tiro. Column On.) REINFORCEMENTS REACH ITALIANS AFTER 8 DAYS' TRIP Solid Ranks of Franco-British Infantry and Artillery Ar rive Within Sound of Battle on Piave, Where Auitro-Germans' Advance Has Been Checked in Severe Fighting. BULLETIN. (Br Associated rress.) Italian Army Headquarters in Northern Italy, Sunday. Nov. 25. Solid ranks of Franco-British infantry with artillery and supply trains were seen' by the correspondent today within sound of the battel on the Italian northern line. They had been on an eight-day march. BRITISH AIR MEN BATTLE WITH GUN CREWS AT 30 FEET New, System of Warfare is Initiated by English, Who Engage Teuton Infantry Almost Continuously. Behind the British Lines in Flan ders, Sunday, Nov. 25! There have been almost continual battles between German infantry and British airmen flying as low as 30 feet above the ground. Never before has this kind of warfare been carried Out on such a large scale. Pilots attack infantry and gun crews indiscriminately wherever they encountered them, and have inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy with bombs and machine guns. The nature of the fighting can be seen from the experience of a British pilot whose machine .was literally shot 'to: pieces by rifle-and machine gun fire and who tonally crashed down IbebiSd bia'own lines with ten bullet 1 1.4.. ' it.. . LI. . f iioica inrougn ma cioinmg, aitnougn he himself was unhurt. , ; Shot Down Three Tlmea. ' , Jv Another ' young airman yesterday presented hirhself at headquarters after having been shot down for the third time within two days. He was delighted Over his experience and im mediately applied for another ma chine so that her might go out again. One aviator attacked a column of German Infantry marching in close formation and hurled two high.power bomba directjy aniong them. The troops scattered and, as the airman whirled away, he saw two heaps of dead about huge craters which the bombs had torn in' the road. There were innumerable cases of airmen sue cessfully bombing airdromes, troop transports and gun crews. A large number of artillery crews have been wiped out cither by machine gun fire at close range or by bombs. Many Pay Penalty. Naturally, many of the airmen had miraculous escapes from death and some, of course, had paid the full price and have gone to swell the toll of brave men who have given their lives for the king and country. Among the hairbreadth escapes reported is that of an aviator whose machine was torn to pieces while he was fighting Ger man Infantry with his machine gun. He was caught in the shell fire and att the wings of his machine were shot away. Fortunately he was flying only 20 to 30 feet above the ground and close to his own lines. He crashed in No Man's land and found himself un- (Contlnned on Pago Two Column One.) A Service Flag for Every Household That Has Given a Soldier to the Country. The Bee has secured a limited supply of handsome paper service flags in correct colors, 11 by 18 inches, with from one to five service stars, to be pasted on the window pane. They are of the same quality and workmanship as the American flag which we distributed in the at any of our otiices by our attached coupon. " Omaha Bee Service Flag Coupon. Good for one service flag when presented with 3 cents at any of the following offices: ' Omaha Office, Bee BIdg. Ames Office, 4110 N. 24th St. Lake Office, 2516 N. 24th St. Walnut Office, 819 N. 40th St. Park Office, 2615 Leavenworth St. If to be sent by mail wrapping and postage. O Fiehtin Severe. The correspondent was on a tonf of the northern fighting front, where the great battle is continuing with unexampled violence, Major General Giorgio was found commanding the extreme left of the Fourth army at a point where tlie fighting was heaviest' Throughout yesterday and today the battle in the mountains has de veloped in a steady succession of heavy attacks aud counter attacks, with occasional brief intervals for re forming the lines and reorganizing new positions. Twelve different enemy assaults have been made with in a few hours preceding the corre spondent's visit to headquarters on the field, but the Italian lines had not yielded a foot of ground and General Giorgio, while grave because of the terrific struggle his men were making against (tremendous odds, was calm and confident that the defensive line would hold until reinforcements swer swung into the fighting. " Return to Fight. Staff officers from headquarters were taking the trip along the line and the route lay straight north into the fighting zone. Soon there were evidences of a bitter struggle just ahead, for along the route long lines of Italian infantry, decimated in the last few days, were- reforming to -e-tntu'to the fight-.'They showed the fearfiil - strain they had been under, bvlt there was o trace 'of wavering and the ltfng-lints breathed a spirit of eagerness. . , ,,..- ..; j ;. : ' - t .. ; Allies Appear. , In' . another zone , 4' sight which stirred the blood rwas when solid ranks of allied rcinforcenleuts crowd ed 'the roads. Already they were wirflin sound of the rumble of the guns and the boom from the battle off in the . distance could be heard above the gallop of. the; cavalry the tramp of the infantry and the clamor of -the batteries and supply trains. It was a dark day with a gray aky, but the whole scene seemed to lighten up as the color of the Italian gray was tinted everywhere with ; British khaki and French blue. They had been on the march eight days, making more than IS miles a day, . Italians Still Hold. (By Associated preuj From Lake Garda to the Adriatic the Italians continue to hold the Aus-tro-Germans in check. Finding it im possible to break through the line di rectly west of the Piave river, the enemy has beer, making very strong attacks on the Asiago plateau, where it was defeated last week in an at tempt to encircle the important Monte Meletta position. The fighting has been most severe, the Italians meet ing attack with counter attack. - East of the plateau between , the Brenta and the Piave only artillery has been active. Along the Piave the Germans are showing signs of activ ity, but their efforts have not ben fruitful. 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