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ITALIANS HOLD FIRM AGAINST RELENTLESS FOE Destroy Six Out of Twenty Di , visions of Austro-Ger-man Troops in Ter rific Battle. Rome, Nov. 27. An entire division of the enemy made an attack yester day in the Brenata valley in an effort to break through the Italian northern front Today's official statement says .these troops, which attacked in massed formation, were driven back. Washington, Nov. 27. Heavily re inforced masses of Austro-Germans, estimated at 20 divisions, vainly try ing (o break the Italian defensive line, have suffered great losses, according to official dispatches today from Rome, and between the Piave and Brenta rivers alone have worn out six divisions. Troops in Good Condition. Italian Army Headquarters in Northern Italy, Nov. 27. During a trip of 100 miles today through the fighting tone in the north the corre spondent met the major general in command of the most exposed front between the Brenta and, Piave rivers, where the pressure has been greatest and the losses heaviest, and obtained from him details of the situation. The general spoke of the condition of the troops and the splendid fight they are making against heavy odds. The general estimated these odds at four or five to one, based on re ports reaching him. Attacks were almost continuous at one point or another, but the Italians were al ways ready to respond, and had not only repulsed attacks, but driven the enemy back after a series of heroic charges. The general summed up the physi cal conditions of the battle ground, which made the struggle particularly trying on the troops, first, he said, there was that terrible strain of en durance and natural fatigue accom panying nights and ' days of cease less fighting with the relentless foe. Then there was the temperature at nights at about 14 degrees above zero. This extreme cold was made worse, he said,. because the men were without shelter, everything having been swept away in the terrific artil lery action and the constant shifting of position. , , v In addition, the general said, many of the commands were short of offi cers, as the continuous fighting had taken a heavy toll. But with all this, the general said, the spirit of the men was unabated in the determination to hold at any cost. Venetian Plains Safe. The fluctuations of the great bat tle have now developed to a stage here the resisting power of the Italian army has been demonstrated to be sufficient to retard if not to prevent any sudden rush through the passes leading to the Venetain plains. i This was regarded as a serious menace six days ago, but as each day has shown the Italian lines hold ing solid against repeated attacks and their defenders ready even to take the aggressive against heavy odds, the feelings- of gravity that ' then pre vailed is changing to one of restored confidence and unwavering determina tion, coupled with a spirit of buoyancy which prevades all ranks of the army and civilian life. There is also the feeling that friend ly allied support is near at a timely moment and that the mingled ranks of gray, blue and khaki will com bine to form the barrier that Italy has sustained alooe until now. Prince of Wales a Mixer. Many British officers were at head quarters today and the streets showed almost as much khaki as gray. The Prince of Wales renewed his earlier visit, going about the streets and mingling with the officers at public restaurants in the most .:, democratic fashion. : , It is reported from the Fruiuli region, occupied by the enemy, that the civil population has been re quired to turn over all copper arti cles, grease and oils in its possession within five days. Emperor i Charles is said to have made another visit to the invaded region, going to the coast cities of Grado ana Monfaloone. Germans Fight Hard as British t Bore Into Lines (Contlao.d from. F(e Ok.) massed enemy attacks. The invaders attempted to rush the defending lines on the left, in the center and on the right of the short front between the rivers, but were crushed everywhere by the Italians. British Close to Jerusalem. British cavalry is now three ana one-half miles west of Jerusalem and is closing in on the Turkish defenses (mm tbir afMirfivct Th TnrVa Mr offering some resistance and are hold ing the Jerusalem-Shecham road to the north in strength. North of Jaffa British patrols have been driven back to the southern side of the Nahr-Et-Atijel. The situation in Russia shows little improvement and ; the country is described as being "on the verge of civil war. Efforts of the Bolsheviki government to arrange an armistice continue and Berlin and Petrograd are reported in communication by wireless, presumably in connection with the peace offer of the Maximalists.- The second army on the .Russian northern front has removed. us omcers, agreed 10 wie uotsneviKi armistice proposal and pledged its support to the extremists. The American government has re ceived the armistice note from the Petrograd government and it i under consideration. The ministers of the allied powers in the Russian capital, it is reported unofficially, will de mand their passports if Russia enters into separate peace negotiations. Kaledines Master in Russia. " General Kaledines, the Don Cos sack leader, a dispatch received in London says, is master of the situa tion in Russia. He is in control .of most of the grain growing territory in . the south and is said to hold the Rus sian gold reserve reoorted removed i from Petrograd a year before the war Two Members of Russian Party in Omaha Saturday Of, d Jack Major Stanley Washburn and 10 members of a Russian official party touring the United Slates will be here Saturday night for a public meeting. The details for the meeting have not been completed, but will take place at the Hotel Rome. Major Washburn is an American officer, who has had three years' in timate knowledge of military affairs broke out. The Russian soldiers at the front are reported desperate from hunger due to the exhaustion of food supplies and mutinies are said to have broken out. Entente Protests Russian Treaty With Germany (Continued from 'Fas One.) tory, a great par,t of Little Russia, the lower Volga provinces and Turkestan the area' which feeds all Russia. This union is extending the promises to cover the Siberian corn land. ' ' "General Kaledines. holding the gold reserve and the bread supplies, is master of the situation and those he serves will accept dictation neither from Kerenskv. Lenine nor anybody else, least of all from Germany. ' "The . allies may safely admit a bowing acquaintance with the curious individualities thrown up from the depths 'by internal disturbances, but for intimate friendship and future partnership they must look else where, and in the meantime they must wait unconcernedly until their old friends, reappear above the present towttfl.',' 4 ' ' ' . :. Saya Document Garbled. " "I Paris, Nov. 2a Considerable irri tation is shown by the newspapers over the publication of Russian state secret documents by the Maximilists, who are accused of collecting those which they think most likely to em barrass the allies and supply Ger many with arguments,. ' The note of October 9, written by M. Terestchen ko, the Russian foreign minister, to Secretary of Sts'.a Lansing, thanking the secretary for not having had David R. Francis, the American am bassador to Russia, associate himself on behalf of his government with the step taken by the Italian, French and British ambassadors in demanding the constitution of a firm power to reorganize the Russian army, is con sidered amusing by the Journal Des Debats. "If Mr. Francis did not visit Pre mier i Kerensky with his three col leagues," says the newspaper, "it was only because he received his govern ment's authorization to do so too late." (The Temps refers to the same in cident: ' ' ' "As seeming but falsely however, to put the United States in contradic tion with the other allies." Danish Socialist Leader v Urges New Peace Confab Stockholm, Nov. 27. T. Stauning minister without portfolio in the Danish cabinet and also leader pf thi Danish socialist party, has written Pieter Jelles Troelstra, the Dutch socialist leader, and Camille Huys mans, the Belgian socialist and secre tary of the International Social con gress, proposing the holding of a conference! of the Socialist Interna tionals in1 December with the os tensible purpose of furthering a gen eral peace. M. Stauning says "peace on the east front does not lie outside the bounds of possibility." HJalmar , Branting, the Swedish minister of finance, in his newspaper, the Social Demokraten, criticizes the plan, declaring that it is unjustifiable to engage the services of the social ist internationalism such a proceed ing, which miRht lengthen the war. Given Doped Whisky; Wandered Dazed for Weeks Cedar Rapids, la., Nov. 27. As serting that he had been given doped whiskv at Des Moines which rausrd him to lose all sense of recollection, J. t McDonald, member of Troop A, ivuiu uimca oiar.es cavsiry, wno is stationed at, the remount depot . at Ues a..oines, gave himself up here today to Lieutenant R. E. Munden, after wandering over the state for three weeks in a dazed condition, he said.. : . ... il ; . . British Losses Slump, Despite Cambrai Fight London, Nov. 27 British cas- . ualties officially reported for the week ending today aggregated 30,. 294. They were divided as follows: - Killed or died of wounds: Officers, 269; men, 5,927. ' Wounded or missing: Officers, 896; men, 23,202. ' Notwithstanding the heavy fight ing during the last week in the Cam brai district, the British casualties are less than in the preceding week, when they totalled 32,227. Two weeks back they were 25,065. THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1317. fgffh ' W' ' ) , ft ' iii niin iii- iiirii-iiii-ni-iiiT Ofajot Stanley Wasjtbucx. in Russia. Among others in the party are W. W. Saldatenkov, repre senting the Russian minister of for eign affairs, and A. J. Sack, direc tor of the Russian information bu reau. The Russian party will :ome from Kansas City over the Burlington, reaching Omaha at 3:30 Saturday aft ernoon, remaining until 10:55 at night, going from here to Chicago. WATTLES NAMES MEN FOR COUNTY FOOD DICTATORS Administrators Will Have Final Authority it Community; To Be" Called to Omaha for Conference Dec. 5. County food adminstrators for( Ne braska were oppointed late Tuesday afternoorf by G. W. Wattles, federal iooa 'administrator ior iNeurasna. in cluded in the list are well known Ne braskans, among them Mrs. C C. Ryan of Grand Island. Mrs. Ryan is the only woman in the list, her appointment coming in recognition of excellent work in the pledge card campaign. A meeting of these officials has been called in Omaha for December 5, when Mr. Wattles will outline their duties and give them first-hand in formation of the government's poli cies; A few remain to be appointed, which will be announced soon. They are: County, Town. ' County Administration. Adam. ..... HaMlnfu. ........ .J. R. Corey Antelop.,,., ................ v............. Arthur ..,... ,.: Iimner..,l...Harrinburr..,i,.M. E. Shafto Blaln Roone .Albion D. J. Poynter Bo Butt.... Alliance Hon. I. K. Taah Boyd Butta V. W. Mnhnnnah Brown Alnsworth C Y. Hows Buffalo Elmcreek C. a. Bllu Burt nutler, . . . ., ..Octavla E. A. Rusher Casa Union.. ..William B. Banning- Cedar Coleridge J. W. Llnkhart Chu. . , . . , . Imperial. James Burke Cherry Valentine John M. Lucker Choyenna..,., Sidney. .Hon. E. L. Uptegrove Clay , - Colfax....... Clarknon W. P. Adamek Cumins West Point. ....F. D. Sharrar Custer...,,,, Broken Bow. D. R. Rockwell Dakota, South Sioux, City. .J. J. Elncrs Dawes... i... Chadron C. 8. Hawk Dawson Lexington Isaao J. Nisley Deuel........ Chappel H. R. Busses Dixon Ponca.. A. B, Francis Dodite Fremont B. W. Reynolds Dundy....... Benkelman. . . .Wm. F. Fallert Fillmore..... Geneva Kit. J, Tierce Franklin BloomlnKton. .William A. Cole Frontier Moorefleld.Ex-l.leut. Governor James Pearson Purnaa Holhrook A. M. Kyee Oa( ....Beatrice A. H. Kldd Garden Oshkosh ....J. T. Turford Oarfleld Burwell....F. J. Grunkemeyer Oosper. ...... El wood Andrew Dow Grant...,,... Greeley...... , Hall......... Grand Island. .Mr. C. G. Ryan Hamilton Harlan Alma T. L. Porter Hayes ..Hayes Center.. I. W. Rnyeart Hitchcock.... Btraton C. C. Vennum Holt O'Neill J.. M. Hunter Hooker Mullen John J. Mritte Howard...... St. Paul.,..G. W. McCracken Jefferson Falrbury... E. C. Hansen Johnson. .....Tecumseh. Walter P. Campbell Kearney.... ..Mlnden R. H. McKlnney Keith Orallala 3. 8. Kroh Keyapha....Pprlngvlow... Arthur F. Roby Kimball Kimball.: Will J. Davtes Lincoln North Platte.. B. R. Goodman Lanoaster.... Lincoln.... C. Peters Peterson Logan Stapleton W. H. McLeay Loop ..Taylor...., Robert Rusho Madison Norfolk J. J. Cleland McPherson... Merrick Central City... .James 8tephen Morrill Bridgeport... J. H. 8teutevllle Nance Kullerton.....,...K. B. Penny Nemaha South Auburn.. .Frank Bnyder Nucholla Superior C. H. Malshurv Otoe ...Nebraska City. .A. P. Stafford Pawnee .Pawnee City A. E. Henry Perkins o.N...r6C.ON....cm cm cm m Phelps Venango D. O. Stockton Pierce., ...... Holdrege. ...... .W. M. Bruee Platte........ Plalnvlew. P. D. Corell Polk Columbus.. Clarence L. Cerrard Red Willow.. Osceola C. O. Johnson Richardson... McCook John F. Cordeal Rock... Falls City......... J. E. LeyUa Saline.. ..... .Hansen. .Attorney H. J. Miller Saline....1. ...Friend Frank Ptak Sarpy Crete ...C. L. Aller Saunders Plpllllon.. E. C. McEvoy Scottsbluff... Wahoo W. W. Wenstrand Seward 4 Sheridan Seward. ., .,.TK M. Hlldebrand Sherman. .... Rushvllle..... . ,J. p. Crowder Hloux Loup City. ..Rev. F. M. Steen Stanton Harrison..... F. 8. Baker Thayer...,.,, Stanton.... l.Wm, 3. Bordner Thomas Hebron.... Harlan P. Harding Thurston Pender... E. T. Crellln Valley ...Ord Elgin Clason Wayne .Wayne , J. H. Kemp Washington.. Webster Red Cloud R. E. McBrlde Wheeler Bartlett A. R. Bhapland York Tork William L. White 'To be announced. Looking for work? Turn to the Help Wanted Columns now. You will, find hundreds of positions listed there. Save Gasoline and Oil Get More Power by Installing moriCti HAMMERED - Sixes for All Cars and Truck. Sold by all good garages, repair shops and accessory dealers. Delco Exide Service Station, 2024 Farnum Strt, Omaha, Neb. Wholesale and Retail Distributors for Omaha 1; mm Ilia"1 J J LI 'OUR BOYS' GIVEN WAR CROSSES AND THANKS OF FRANCE In an Impressive Ceremony French General Presents Decorations to Americans Who Withstood Raid.' (By Associated Press.) With the American Army in France, Monday, Nov. 26. An im pressive ceremony marked the pres entation of the French cross to the American soldiers who withstood the first German raid early this month. Fifteen officers and' men, cited with their company by the French general commanding the sector, were deco rated today. It was late in the afternoon when the regiment to which the company which suffered the casualties is at tached marched to the top of a big grassy hill. There, under skies threatening rain and with the cold, wintry wind blowing, they formed three sides of a hollow square. At the base of the square the regimental colors and the Stars and Stripes cracked in the wind. The regiment was called to attention as the gen eral commanding came up and took his position in the open side of the square. Congratulates Company. The general first read the citation for the whole company, which was standing near the colors, breaches in the ranks showing where tjne men now prisoners in Germany or in hos pitals had formerly stood. Then he congratulated the company and pre sented the company's citation and cross to the lieutenant commanding. Next the three lieutenants stepped from their positions, saluted and re ceived their individual crosses. The general congratulated each.. Next the noncommissioned officers and men marched up, were congratulated on receiving the honor and then re lumed to their places in the ranks. The company lieutenant was given the cross and citation for a corporal who was unable to leave the hospital because of a severe wound. To the regimental colonel the general en trusted the decorations awarded the three men killed in the raid, asking him to see that they were sent to the next of kin in the United States. Daniels Opposes Decorations. Washington, Nov. 27. Decorations ot any officers or men of the Ameri can navy by foreign governments for war services will be opposed by Sec retary Daniels. He declared today that if asked for an opinion he would advise a strict adherence to the. pro vision of the constitution which pro hibits it. Italians Threaten Life Of Milwaukee Attorney Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 27. Another bomb plot has been disclosed in Mil waukee. This was made known today when a death letter was opened at police headquarters and the new de velopment may lead to the discovery that a combined plot had been made. The letter had been written to At torney Thomas J. Mahon, who de fended the three deputy, sheriffs and federal agent -in the suit started by former Sheriff E. T. Melms, charging them with unlawfully disturbing a peace meeting in Bayvievv. 'The let ter had been mailed from Bay view Saturday night. It was written in Italian and was signed "Deo" and said: "Prepare for death. You have been marked." Attorney Mahon's home is being guarded. Chief of Police Dunn III With Ptomaine Poison i Chief of Folice Henry Dunn, 3611 Mason street, is critically ill at his home with ptomaine poisoning, and Tuesday night was reported by attend ing physicians as being very low. Chief Dunn was attacked several days ago, and has not before been considered by physicians as in a dan- 1890 1917 Diamonds An element of faith is required in the pur , chasfi of a Diamond. Few can tell the fine points that constitute the exact difference in grades. That v know ledge is just as im portant a . factor as honesty. Why not buy diamonds of a firm who for the past 27 years has been tested and tried and not found wanting? IV-H& DODGE DR. McKENNEY Says: "We make over, free of charge, any work of our not satis factory." v Heaviest Bridge Work, per tooth, $4.00 Wonder Plates worth SIS te 25, $5, $8, $10 Best Silver Fill- 75c Best 22-tt Gold Crown a l $4.00 We please yea or refund your money. 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Judge Holmes accused Hall fii "using Allen like a dog," in his lusion to a conference had by Super intendent Allen of the Rock Island, with Chairman Hall some time ago. "If we can't get the approval of this commission to take off those trains, we'll take 'em off anyhow, shouted Holmes. ' "Try It and See." "Tnct trv it and see what will hap pen," Hall retorted. - . j "Don't you say things to me again like you have been saying," shouted Judge Holmes, as she shook his fist under the probocis of the chairman. "You're not big enough to say 'em, and nobody else is big enough to say 'em. I'm not going to come up here and be insulted by you." "Maybe I ain't big enough, replied Chairman Hall, "but the state of Ne braska is, and I want to say that two little dinky railroads, one of which you represent, have caused this com mission more trouble and annoyance per mile of track than all the other railroad in the state combined." 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