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VOL. XLVII NO. 140.
OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1917 SIXTEEN PAGES.
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BYM'S MEM IK HE TEUTON TRENCHES;'.
3 'BOLSHEVIKI UMBER GERMAN CONTROL
o, , . ,0
NTENTE PROTESTS AGAINST
MISS PEACE WITH KAISER AS
' VIOLATING LONDON TREATY
German Officers Prime Lenine; New Government Set Up
in Caucasus as Protest to Anarchy; Kaledines
Looms as Anti-Teuton Force; Holds '
Bread and Grain.
(By Associated Press.)
Copenhagen, Nov. 27. -General Dukhonin, the Russian
commander-in-chief, has sent an order to the Russian army
pointing out that the entente had protested to the Russian su
preme command against any breach of the treaty of September
5, 1915 (teh treaty of London pledging the entenjte powers not
to make separate peace) and threatening that any breach from
the Russian side, especially the calling of a separate truce,
would be fraught with serious dangers, according to the semi
official Austrian correspondence- bureau, says a Vienna dis
IT 55. BOYCOTTS RUSS. t
The Russian supreme command has
further announced, according to the
same authority, that the United States
had stopped the transportation of sup
plies to Russia until the situation
cleared and that should the Bolsheviki
retain powsr and make peace with
Germany this prohibition would be
maintained.
GERMANS ADVISE LENINE.
London, Nov. 27. Information was
received here today from Petrograd
tha a number of German staff officers
hate arrived there and are acting in
ani&dvisory capacity to Nikolai Le
nifie, the Bolsheviki premier.
All communication has been broken
between north and south Russia. The
foreign embassies at Petrograd are
unable to establish any touch with
Odessa or other points in southern
Russia. Official, messages, however,
are reaching Odessa by way of Persia.
NEW RULE, IN CAUCASUS.
' Washington,. Nov. 27. The Amer
ican consul at Tiflis today reported
establishment of the new govern,
ment in ' the Caucasus as a protest
. against inarchy In .Russia.
' '. Revolutionists Fail. ,
'. London, Nov. 27. The Russian
revolutionists have made a "ghastly
failure" of their attempt at adminis
tration, according to the Petrograd
correspondent of the Morning Post,
writing under the date of Saturday,
lie adds:
"But behind or beyond all this ap
parently, hopeless chaos the forces
wfcich made Russia anempire are not
idle and tnose who know Russian his
tory understand perfectly well how
matters will end.
"Even as I write the situation is
becoming clear. The elections to the
constituent assembly will take place,
but the constituent assembly will not
meet with success. The Bolsheviki
movement, whatever that movement
may really mean, already has damned
the constituent assembly,
v Gold in Safe Hands.
"Meantime I would call attention
to the following facts:
"The vast gold reserve of the Rus
sian empire, , which was removed
from Petrograd to the, Kremlin in
1913, was later carried still further
into the interior. It is in safe hands.
"General Kaledines, hetman of
uHed Cossackdom, is in secure pos
session, with trustworthy and disci
plined troops of all arms, of all those
regions of European Russia thatvpro
duced a harvest this year, and is
rapidly capturing those remaining
territories upotv which Russia relies
for its daily bread.
"A vast union, under the name of
the Southeastern Union, has been
formed. It includes the Don terri
Contlnued on Page Two, Column Two.)
The Weather
Tempearturea at Omaha Yesterday. ,
Htir. Dep.
5 a.
6 a.
7 a.
8 a.
m. .
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33
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m.
m.
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p.
7 P.
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Comparative Local Record.
' 1917. 1916. 1915. 1H4.
Highest yesterday .. 4J .49 41
Lowest Jtesterday ... 35. - 37 33
Mean temperature .. 39 43 36
rrecloltation 00 .00 .00
47
31
39
.00
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal:
. Normal temperature 13
Excess for the day 6
Total deficiency Finco March J 201
Normal precipitation ,0J Inch
Deficiency for the day 02 Inch
Total rainfall since March 1. .. .21.36 Inches
Deficiency since March 1 6.92 inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 1916. .12.21 inches
Deficiency' for cor. period, 1915.. 1.54 inches
Reports from Stations at 7 P. M.
Station and State Temp. High- Rain-
of Weather 7 p. m. est. fall.
s. Cheyenne, cloudy 22 32 .20
o Davenport, cloudy .... 36 S6 .02
Dnnver, clear 34 44 .00
' Des Moines, cloudy ... 38 40 .00
.' Dodge City. pt. cloudy.. 34 48 .00
- Lander, clear ...30 38 .16
North Platte, cloudy... '9 42 .00
' Omaha, clear ..... 36 45 .00
1 Pueblo, clear 36 ' 43 .00
. Rapid ClU', clear 42 . .- 52 .00
T Satflt.nke City, clear... 42 . 46 .00
. Satu Fe, clear 36 44 .00
Sheridan, clear ! 62 .00
Sioux Cltyj clear 52 36 .00
' Valentine, Vloar 34 48 .00
L. A. WELSH, Meteorologist
RUSSIAN ARMIES
LACKING BREAD
THREATEN FLIGHT
Have a Scant SupRly of Army
Biscuit and" Railroad
Tracks to Capital Are.
- Torn Up.
London, Nov. 27. The Russian
army on the northern front' has had
no bread for, several days, according
to reports "received in Petrograd and
transmitted here,, and only7 two ' or
three days' supply of 'army biscuit Is
on hand. The army delegates are re
ported to ., have--' recommended i the
withdrawal of "the troops in order to
prevent a general flight, with its con
sequent excesses. Instead of A hun
dred cars of food arriving daily at the
Dvinsk front, only twenty have beeii
received.
Large numbers of troops being
moved to different places have been
stopped by the removal of sections of
railroad track to prevent their reach
ing Petrograd. They were stopped at
towns where food could not be ob
tained. Moratorium Declared in Petrograd.
London, Nov. 27. The council of
people's commissaries, according to a
dispatch from Petrograd dated Sun
day, has declared a two months'
moratorium from the day of the be
ginning of the recent revolt.
Elections Now Being Held.
Petrograd, Sunday, Nov. 25. Elec
tion of delegates, to the constituent
assembly began today and will con
tinue through Monday and Tuesday.
Nineteen lists representing various
parties, factions and organizations
are in the field, including two wom
en s leagues. The Moscow metropolitan-
committee has announced
that the elections there have been
postponed for a week.
The ' American Red Cross relffef
train arrived at'Jassy, Roumania, on
November 18. It consisted of SScars
ot hospital supplies from America
and foodstuffs.
LIEUT. SETZ, STAR ON
CREIGHTON" TEAM
L. W. Setz, an attorney of Omaha,
who received a commission as second
lieutenant at Fort Snelling training
camp, is a graduate of Creighton Law
school ' and Iowa State university.
While attending Creighton he was
one of the shining lights qi the Blue
and White gridiron team, especially
in 1915, when that school had one of
the best teams in its history.
Setz declares the life at Fort SnelM
mg was great,"if one doesn't weak
en," and wijl be detailed to assist in
the training of drafted men about De
cember 15
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Pondepowr -
Fc.'k-Brftmash
The HindenburgMine has fallen. In
nearer the goal. This picture, taken
CONGRESSIONAL
PARTY RETURNS '
FROM WAR ZONE
After Trip to Battlefields of
Flanders and Belgium, Rep
resentative Stephens Ar
rives inWashington.
(From- Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, D. C, Nov. 27. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Representative Dan
V, Stephens returned to Washington
lasVN,mght' iir company 'ith other
congressmen from the battlefields of
Flanders and Belgium. This morn
ing Mr. Stephens received a group of
newspaper men . and described
graphically the sights he had wit
nessed during 11 days spent in and
about the first line trenches in north
ern France and Belgium.
During his stay in Europe he and
his colleagues, who were shown ev
ery courtesy on the part of British,
French and American officers and
permitted to get first hand informa
tion of the tremendous fields of car
nage now in the highlights'bf Europe,
rode 1,500 miles in automobiles and
tramped many weary hours through
rain and mud looking Upon scenes
that are indescribable.
Cannot Wipe Out Stain.
"There are not enough years in all
eternity to wipe out the stain that
the German army lias put upon
France and Belgium and the atrocities
committed in the name of the un
speakable Hun will never all be told.
My admiration for the French, the
Belgian and the British soldier has
increased a ' thousandfold. The
countless thousands of men whom I
saw in the eleven days spent upon the
battlefields of France and Belgium
represented dogged determination to
drive the Boche back upon his own
country and even, if possible, to
thunder at the very gates of Berlin.
"There is not reparation enough
that can be done on the part of Ger
many to wipe out the awful deeds
which the German government,
through its military, has committed,
and when I looked at the order and
the discipline erected by General Per J
shing and "the officers under himmy
veins seemed to burst with patriotic
ferever, for where I expected a good
deal of confusion about general head
quarters. I found complete co-ordination
and complete unity and as an
American to look upon the splendid
army which Pershing has already in
Europe touched me as I never have
been touched before.
Praises Spirit of Army. ,
"I cannot help but speak in the
most extravagant words of praise of
the spirit of our army in France and
its morale and the health of our boys
over there is perfectly splendid. We
may well be proud of the vanguard
of the thousands who will be called
upon to do their part in forever ex
tinguishing the impossible Hun. I
cannot find language descriptive
enough to tell of the cruelty to non
combatants, old men, women and
children, and the dismembered arms
and torsos, legs and sculls which I
saw uncovered by the rains as they
washed down the hillsides tore at my
heartstrings."
Mr. Stephens looks very tired. The
congressional party encountered
rough weather, both going and com
ing, being eight and a half days out
on their return trip. Mr. Stephens
stated in the course of nearly two
hours' interview that the United
States army had 11 division headquar
ters in France and he believed that
there were in that country between
250,000 and 275,000 soldiers' of all
arms of the service and more going
every day. Mr. Stephens leaves for
his home in Fremont tonight to spend
Thanksgiving with his family. He
does not expect to return to Wash
ington until after the Christmas holi
days. Ross Hammond, who accom
panied Mr. Stephens on his visit to
France and Belgium, returned at the
same time with Mr. Stephens and will
go to his home in Fremont from New
York. .
, Mble Tanks
of Hindenburp: Line
from the Hearst-Pathe News, shows
Plowed through the enemy s trenches.
Are Sermons in Stones?
Ask,City Commissioners
Are there sermons in stones?
The city commissioners wish to
know. .
Representatives of Parkvale Pres
byterian church and North Omaha
Methodist church made simultaneous
requests of the city council for old
paving stones to be used in founda
tions of new edifices to be used by
these congregations.
The Parkvale people ask for 25,000
stones and the Methodist church asks
for 13,500 stones.
The requests were referred to the
committee of the whole for consider
ation rext Monday morning. Com
missioner Jardine of the public im
provement department said he be
lieved the requests may be granted.
BALLOON CORPS -SAYS
FAREWELL
TO FORT OMAHA
Five Hundred Members of Sec
ond Squadron Entrain for
Atlantic Port After Months
of Training.
Five hundred Fort Omaha bal
loon soldiers, members of the United
States signal corps, left Omaha late
Tuesday afternoon for "an Atlantic
port, somewhere in America."
A large- crowd of Omaha people
gathered at the station to say good
bys to the squadron members,, who
had won their way into the hearts of
many Omaha girls. They were taken
to the station in special street cars
and 'they left on 'trains of. several
sections. '
Ready for Service.
Made perfect in the art of bal
loon work and ready for service in
foreign lands over the sea, these men
are the last word in training which
they have been receiving for the last
six months at the local fort, the only
one of its kind in the United States.
The men composed the second bal
loon squadron, Companies A. B, C
and D, with five lieutenants and a cap
tain in each company. Many of these
officers have been commissioned at
Fort Omaha in the reserve officers'
balloon schoolV
Short Stay in East.
Soldiers in the aviation and balloon
branch of the service are sent to
Fort Omaha from every state in the
union for their final -training, and the
men leaving expect to be dispatched
over the seas after a short stay in
the east.
Thanksgiving day plans in hundreds
of Omaha homes will be upset by the
departure of the soldiers, who had be
come extremely popular with Oma
ha folk. The signal corps, which en
listed men declared to be the flower
of the whole service, are permitted
to dress as near like officers as posis
ble, with the exception of braid and
shoulder straps.
Upsets Dinner Plans.
Hundreds of invitations, extended
to members of the squadron through
The Bee, will have to be resent, mak
ing a vast amount of work.
Everything was in a bustle at the
local fort Tuesday morning. The de
parture of the contingent will some
what alleviate the crowded condition
at the fort, here more than 300 men
are attending the officers' reserve
traiivnor1 school.
Leave From Freight Depot.
The troop train left Omaha at the
freight denot, Sixteenth and Leaven
worth. Although efforts were made
liv !i;e ani'v trs to keen the move
ment semi-secret, hundreds of Oma
ha people gathered to bid the men
a final good-by.
The 41st regimental band, now
statinf-ed at Fort Crook, ivas on hand
to endeavor to cheer up the soldiers,
as weil as their fair companions, who
insisted on talking to the men, even
while the sergeants were calling the
final roll call.
Pave Way
Picture shows the camouflaging
which concealed its approach until
fairly on top of. the hostile forces.
AUTHOR SHQOTS
SELF ON KNOLL
IN CEMETERY
John T. Oyler Commits Suicide
Near Graves of His Two
Daughters; Leaves
Note to Wife.
John T, Oyler, author, poet and
philosopher, ended his own life on a
knoll in West Lawn cemetry yester.
ray mornmg. .'t VLTrv ' '.V,,
inTlis" pocket was a copy of his la't
est book, "Thoughts for the Thinker,"
written in verse and prose.
ILL HEALTH CAUSE.
A note addressed to his wife, Mrs.
John T. Oyler, 4828 .Warwick ave
nue, Chicago, was found beside the
body. It read:
"Dear Wife:
"I am unable to stand the torture
any longer. Forgive me. Ill health
and lack of decent treatment drive me
to desperation. May God . and the
public forgive nie. I know no other
courle to pursue. Goodby to all."
Revolver Beside Body.
Oyler had shot himself through the
head. A revolver, one bullet fired from
the chamber, was clutched in one of
his hands. .
The author committed suicide, on a
grassy plot underneath an evergreen
tree not far distant from the graves
of li is two children, Catherine L.
Oyler and Corrine Oyler, who died
in the same month in 1916. Corrine
died January 14 and Catherine Jan
uary 19.
The copy of "Thoughts for Think
ers" had this inscription on the cover:
"Nature Drops Acorns So Careless
ly. Only One of Many Becomes a
Tree."
Te evergreen tree under which
Oyler killed himself is one of the
most beautiful in the cemetery.
Was Well Dressed. ,
The suicide author, although
dressed in clothes' of fine quality, cut
in the latest style, had but 38 cents in
his pockets.
A grave digger discovered the body
shortly before noon and notified the
county attorney, ex-officio coroner.
No one saw .Oyler enter the ceme
tery. The author is known to have been
living in Omaha for several weeks.
The family formerly lived at 3003
Franklin street.
Police notified Mrs. Oyler in Chi
cago. ' It was learned last night that on
the previous day Oyier called up the
Jackson undertaking establishment on
(he telephone and asked where the
Oyler children 'were buried Forest
Lawn or West Lawn.
The attendant at the undertaker's
looked up the records and found that
the children were buried in West
Lawn cemetery. Oyler thanked him
for the information and hung up the
receiver.
British Officials Reach Paris.
Paris, Nov. 27. David Lloyd
George, the British premier, accom
panied by. Foreign, Secretary Balfour
and other British"' officials and Pre
mier Venizelos of Greece, arrived
in Taris tonight.
Federal Officials
Woman Caught
Mrs. Elmer Huse, woman arrested
with 64 men when Industrial Work
ers of the World headqtiarers in
Omaha were raided three weeks ago,
was discharged Tuesday after being
questioned by Assistant United States
Attorney Saxton and Chief Eberstein
of the bureau of investigation.
Mrs. Busc was in charge of the re
freshment stand. She declared she is
not a member of the organization and
says she does not believe her hus
band is.
Albert Walkins, 20 years old,
whose home is in Sidney, Australia,
GERMANS FIGHT
AS BRITISH TROOPS BORE
HOLES IN HINDENBURG LINE
Engagements at Close Quarters Result in Favor of British,
- Who Capture Support Trenches, Forcing Enemy
Withdrawals; Machine Guns Blaze From
Windows in Village of Fontaine.
BULLETIN.
British Headquarters in France, Nov. 27. The, British
have made another advance in the Cambria area, and, accord'
ingi to the latest reports, have worked their way forward
through the northwestern part of Fontaine Notre Dame, which
they captured at the beginning of the attack last week, but sub
sequently lost. They are now said to have advanced almost to
the main street, which runs east and west through the center of
the village. "
GERMANS YIELD 200 YARDS.
s By Associated Prwi.)
British Army Headquarters in France, Monday, Nov. 26.
The British troops last night continued to bore their way for
ward through the Hindenburg support line west of Moeuvres.
There was vigorous fighting at close quarters in this re
gion, and as a result the British today were in possession of a
further section of support trenches 2,000 yards long, running
east and west, just south of Pronville and Inchy-En-Artois.
TORPEDO SINKS
0. S. VESSEL OFF
SPANISH COAST
Twenty'Qne Survivors Arrive
"at Port; Three BiatfW'itlr
of Crew
' Still Missing.
(By AMoelsted Prtwu.)
Londan, Nov. 27. The American
steamship Actaen was torpedoed on
Sunday. A dispatch from Corunna,
Spain, reports 21 survivors have ar
rived at Port Camarinas. Three boats
with the remainder of the crew are
missing.
New York, Nov. 27. Fifty-eight
men, including 26 American citizens
and five naturalized Americans, com
prised the crew of the American
steamship Actaeon.
A London cablegram made no men
tion of United States naval gunners
aboard, nor do the names appear
in the records' of the United vStates
commissioner here. It is assumed
there were some on board, inasmuch
as the vesel was controlled by the
United States shipping board.
Formerly German Ship.
v Formerly the German ship Adam
strum, of 5,000 tons gross, the Ac
taeon left New York early in October,
carving government supplies for Bor
deaux. It is believed it was on the re
turn vovage when sunk. The vessel
was built in Germany in 1909 and was
seized by this government after the
war with Germany began.
The citizens on board included,
G. A. Jensen, Ferndale, Cal., and
T. A. Atkins. Hood. Cal.. wireless
operators; Louis R. Carson, cadet of
ficer, Los Angeles and Thomas K.
Correro, seaman, no aifdress, born in
California, ' .
CORONER'S JURY
ASKS HOLDING OF
LEADING DOCTOR
Kearney, Neb., Nov. 27. (Spc'cial
Telegram.) A coroner's jury tonight
returned a verdict in the Rosella May
case, finding that she came to her
deatii as a result of an operation per
formed by Dr. Tupper Kirby of this
city. In connection with the verdict,
the jury also recommended the hold
ing of J. C. Saylor, city attorney, and
Mrs. C. M. Corbin, wife of a local
osteopath.
The coroner's jury was composed of
men of high Standing in the com
munity and they deliberated and took
evidence at sessions which occupied
in total more than 48 hours before
bringing in a verdict. All of the parties
implicated are well known, not only
locally, but over the state..
Discharge
in . W. W. Raid
was also .discharged. He said a dele
gate visited him in a Kansas wheat
field and induced him to join. Wat
kins said he was charged $2.50 initia
tion fee and 50 cents a month dues to
belong to this "poor man's organiza
tion." In return for this $8.50 a year
he received nothing except his mem
bership card.
"We will weed out those that seem
harmless and then file informations
against the local ringleaders some
time this week, either here or in
Chicago, probably here," said Assist
ant United States Attorney Saxttrn, ,
SAVAGELY
V T TMP Tnn MAT
WW 4IV
The British advance in the last few
days had made this section of the
line virtually untenable and the Ger
mans were forced to withdraw when
pressed by new attack.
lighting was renewed today be
tween Bourlon wood and Cambrai
about' Fontaine Notre Dame, where
the Germans were still installed and
continued to work machine guns
from roofs and windows. West of
here, at Botirlowwaod snd Bourlon '
village the. .situation . jemainedttwK!
as it was last night after the Ger- .
mans had foreedjthe British out of
most of the village irt. a fierce counter"
attack which, involved 'still more
furious hand to hand fighting through
the streets. The battle continued
here today. . x
. Back to Old Warfare.
' The fight for Bourlon wood and
village will long be remembered as
one of the most bitterly contestd and
sanguinary yet fought along the Brit
ish front in France. American of
ficers visiting the Cambrai sector
have been thrilled at this renewal of
old type of warfare, and with one ac
cord ray: , J
"That's the kind of fighting Ameri-
can troops would like to be in, for
you are in the open where you can
get at the enemy with cold steel."
The Germans have been concen
trating ajl efforts in the attempt to
oust the Britisr from this elevation,
which is vital for the enemy to hold
if he is to maintain in the present
positions farther north and north
west. . v - " . . .
(Dy Auoctatcd Frets.) .
London, Nov. 27. British troops
have repulsed another German, coun
ter attack in the nof.li east corner of
Bourlon wood, west of Cambrai, ac
cording to an official report today
from Field Marshal Haig. .
New German attempts to drive the
British from their positions in Bour
lon wood and the high ground domi
nating the Cambrai region have failed.
General Byng's men have repulsed
another enemy counter attack at the
northeast corner of the wood. There
was much severe fighting Monday
around Moeuvres, west of the Bour
lort wood, and in the outskirts of Fon
taine Notre Dame, immediately east
of the wood and toward Cambrai.
German artillery, however, has been
active in the pres and Verdun
regions. In Flanders the British po
sition at Passchendaele, the northern
part of the Passchendaele-Gheluvelt
ridge, are being bombarded heavily by
the enemy, but Crown Prince Rup
precht of Bavaria has not attempted
infantry attacks.," "
GERMANS CHECKED.
On the right bank of the Meuse.
where the French gained the first and
second defenses on a two-mil. front,
German efforts have been checked by
French artillery, while the , enemy
guns have hecn bombarding the new
French positions. The activity of
the big guns also has been violent in
Belgiunrand north of the Chemin des
Dames. ' ,
(By AMorlated Press.)
Allied Soldiers in Italy.
French and British soldiers have
reached the fighting zone north of the
Venetian plains to ai4 the Italians in
their brave defense against the in
vading Austro-German forces. Be
tween the Brenta and the Piave the
Italians are withstanding successfully
(Continued on Face Two, Column One.)
Cleveland Police Work on
- $20,000 Diamond Robbery
Cleveland, O., Nov. 27. Cleveland
police and detectives today were
working on the theft from the crowd
ed lobby of a prominent hotel of a
registered mail package containing C
diamonds valued at $20,000.
Although the theft was committed
last Friday evening, no word of it
became public until today. The dia
monds, said to be 65 in number and
unset, were the property of Yank
haucr, Newit. and riatt Jewelry .com
pany. New York. , v .
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