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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1918)
TEUTONS SUFFER HEAVY LOSS ON t VERDUN FRONi Germans Advance After Heavy Artillery Bombardment of j; French Trenches; Repulsed : at All Points. (. -t- ' Pan's, Jan. 8. German troops which attempted to advance on the Verdun front after s bombardment were driven back by the French fire last nigtt, it Is announced officially. Heavy artillery fighting continues on the Champagne front, V ' The report follows i "In the Cham pagne there was active reciprocal ar tillery fighting in the region of Heights. ."On the left bank of the Meuie (Verdun front), after a lively bom bardment, the enemy attempted to ap proach the French line in the region of Bethincourt The French, fire broke up the effort, inflicting losses on the enemy., No French Losses. The French, without losses, made a successful incursion into the Cer man lines west ctf Roureuilles. The night was calm everywhere else. "On Sunday French pilots brought down or severely damaged six oer. man airplanes. - French -bombing squadrons carried out several opera tions on Saturday night Chemical works at Ludwigshafen,' railroad sta tions at ' Fribburg-En-Bn'sgau, the aviation ground -at Neubrelsach and factories at Rombach, Maizieres and Hagondajge were bombed with many projectiles' ' Greek Riot Claims Allowed by Committee . Washington, Jan. 8. (Special Telegram.) The so-caned ureeu not claims of South Omaha have been re ported "from the foreign relations committee of the house; allowing claims aggregating $40,000. ;The Aus trian and, Turkish claims were disal lowed. . . . Representative Lobeak has reintro duced his bill for the classification of salaries of veterinary inspectors and ley Inspectors, (grades 1 and 2), em ployed in the bureau of animal indus try. It effects over 200 employes in South Omaha alone and affects 5,000 employes throughout the country.; Cortes May Be Retained i oy apanisn uovernmeni Madrid, Jan. 8.-r-Mrquis Alhuce mas, the Spanish premier, declared to lay that the government had decided to consider the decree dissolving the Cortes as not having been signed. The ministry, he said, proposes to submit a new decree to the king, thus giving him opportunity of studying the sit uation afresh before signing. ' vi.. i ,4 . At.. solving Parliament Thursday and it , was announced elections would be held February 17. Dissolution of Par liament was decided upon by the cab inet early in December. ' 'Increase In Commodity y : Rates Sought by Roads : Washington, Jan. 8.Fif teen per cent increase in commodity rates were sought in an application filed with the Interstate Commerce commission to day by eastern trunk line railroads operating in connection with steam .bin .AMk4n!.. f,im .mm . Va... willy ..vtMvviii. tiuin J ui VII, - York, Philadelphia' and Baltimore to Washington, Richmond, Norfolk, Newport News and other Virginia points, Pinner's Point, Md.,and other points south of these gateways. Chamberlain Guilty and !' Is Sentenced for Life Gothland, Vs., Jan. 8. Dr. Asal vv. Chamberlain today was found guilty of the murder of his brother end sentenced to life imprisonment. , Entente Program :ToEndWorld.War v; J Given by Wilson (Conllnu4 From rf On,) meflts of trade, if it is willing to as sociate itself, with us and the other peace-loving nations of )he world in covenants of 'justice and law and fair dealing. Neither do we presume to suggest to It any alteration or modification of Its institutions. , "But it is necessary, we must frank ly say, jind necessary as a preliminary to any inteliitfcnt dealings with it on ; our part, that we should know whom ' its spokesman speak for when they , VIM, KHVIIVi .V. lilU I man Reichstag majority or" for the military' party and the men whose creed is imperial domination." ' German Challenge. . N The president made clear at the outset that the German statesmen - having again challenged their adver saries to a restatement of war aims, he undertook to respond to it with the utmost candor. The British pre mier's declaration, the president re- (erred to as having been spoken with "admirable candor and in admirable spirit for the people and government of Great Britain." " The only secrecy of counsel," he , added, "the only, lack of fearless frankness, the only failure to make statement oHhe objects of the war, lies with Germany and its allies." , VOICE OF RUSSIANS The voice of the' Russian people, prostrate and all but helpless with power apparently shattered, but souls not subrervient, called for a statement of aims, and, the president added, be responded "with utter simplicity and f rankneia " , . - . At this point the; president went on to enumerate the 14 essentials of his program. ... 1 Significant Incident. . . , The whole incident is full of sig nificance. It is also full of perplexity. With whom are the Russian represen tatives dealing? For whom are the representatives of the central empires Jspeaking? Are they speaking for the , majorities of their respective parlia ments or for the minority parties, that military and Imperialistic minority which hst so far dominated their whole policy and controlled the af- fairs of Turkey and of the Balkan states, which have felt obliged to be come their associates in this war? The Russian representatives have ''nsisted, very justly, very wiseiy and n the true spirit of democracy, that the conferences they have been hold ing with Teutonic and Turkish states men should be held within open, not closed doors, and all the world has been audience, as wis desired. To whom have we been listening then? To those who speak the spirit and intention of the resolutions of the German Reichstag of the 9th of July, last; the spirit andjntention of the liberal leaders and partTes of Ger many, or to those who resist and defy that spirit and intention and insist upon conquest and subjugation? Or are we listening, in fact, to both unreconciled and in open and hooe less contradiction? These are very serious and pregnant questions. Upon the answer to them depends the peace of the world. But whatever the results of the par leys at Brest-Litovsk, whatever the confusions of counsel and of purpose in the utterances of the spokesmen of the central empires, they have again attempted to acquaint the world with their objects in the war and have again challenged their adversaries to say what their objects are and what sort of settlement they would deem just and satisfactory. There is no good reason x why that challenge should not be responded to, and re sponded to with the utmost candor. We did not wait for it. Not once, but again and again we have laid our whole thought and purpose before the world, not in general terms only, but each time with sufficient definition to make it clear what sort of definitive terms of settlement must necessarily spring out of them. No Confusion. Within the last week Mr. Lloyd George has spoken with admirable candor and in admirable spirit for the people and government of Great Britain. There is no confusion of counsel among the adversaries of the central powers, no uncertainty of principle, no vagueness of detail. The only secrecy of counsel, the only lack of fearless frankness, the only failure to make a definite statement of the objects of the war lies with Germany and its allies. The issues of life and death hang upon these definitions. No statesman who has the least conception of his responsibility ought for a moment to permit himself to continue this tragi cal and appalling outpouring of blood and treasure unless he is aure beyond u peradventure that the objects of the vital sacrifice are part and parcel of the very life of society and that the people for whom he speakc think them right and Imperative at he doec. There is. moreover, a voice calling for these definitions of principles and of purpose which is, it seems to me, more thrilling and more compelling than any of the many moving voices with which the troubled air of the world is filled. It Is the voice of the Russian people. They are prostrate and all but helpless, it would seem, before the grim power of Germany, which has hitherto known no relent ing and no pity. Their power appar ently is shattered and yet their soul is not subservient. They will not yield either in principle or in action. """" Conception of Eight The conception of what Is right, of what it is humane and honorable for them to accept, has been stated with a frankntss, a largeness of view, a generosity of spirit and a universal human sympathy which must chal lenge the admiration of every friend of mankind; and they have refused to compound their ideals or desert Others that they themselves may be safe. They call to us to say what it is that we desire, in what, if in anything, our purpose and our spirits diner from theirs: and I believe that the people of the United States would wish me to respond with utter sim plicity and frankness. Whether their leaders believe it or not it It our heartfelt desire and hope that tome way may be opened whereby we may be privileged to as. tltt the aople of Russia to attain their utmost hope of liberty and or dered peaee. It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind. The day of conquest and aggrandisement it gone by; to it also the day of secret covenents en tered into-4n the interest of particu lar governments and likely at some unlooked-for moment to upset the peace of the world. It is this happy fact, now clear to the view of every public man whose Sale Prices -for- MANHATTAN SHIRTS Sale Starts Wednesday, Jan. 9th, 1918. Regular Sale Price Price $2.00 $1.65 $2.50 $1.85 , $3.00...... $2.15 $3.50...... $2.85 $4 & $4.50.. $3.15 $5.00 $3.85 $6 & $6.50.. $4.85 $8.00...... $6.35 $10 & $12.. $7.65 , $13.50 $8.35 Our Half Price Sale on NECKWEAR Still Continues. 511 SO. 16THST. Her Grand Bldg. THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1918. thoughts do not still linger in an age that is dead and gone, which makes it possible for every nation whose pur poses are consistent with justice and the peace of the world to avow now or at any other time the objects it has in view. Why United States is at War. We entered this war because vio lations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible, un less they were corrected and the world setured once for all against their recurrence. What we demand in thit war, therefore, is nothing pe culiar to ourselves. It it that the world be mads fit and safe to liv in: and, particularly, that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation, which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealings by other people of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All tbe peoples of the world are, in effect, partners in this interest and, for our own part, we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us. The pro gram of the world's peace, therefore, is our program, ana that program, the only possible program, as we tee it. is this: 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understand ings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed Always frankly and in tbe public view. 2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas outside territorial wa ters alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement ot international cov enants. i. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the es tablishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations con senting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance. 4. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments - will be reduced to the lowest point consist ent with domestic safety. 5. A free, open minded and abso lutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in de termining all such questions of sovereignty the interestt of the popu lations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title it to be determined. EVACUATE RUSSIA. 6. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a tettlement of all questions affecting Russia at will se cure the beat and freest co-operation of the other nationt of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of 1 sincere wel come Into the society of free nationt under institutions of her own choos ing; and, more than a welcome, as sistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of the comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent aiTd unselfish sympathy. 7. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and re. stored without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which the enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which thev have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with orie another. Without this healing act, the whole structure and validity of international law is forever im paired. RESTORE ALSACE-LORRAINE. 8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portiona re stored and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 Tn the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which hat unsettled the peace of the world for nearly 50 years, thould be righted, in order that peace may once more be made tecure in the interest of all. 9. A readjustment of th frontiers bf Italy thould be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nation ality. 10. The peoples of Austria Hun gary, whose place among the na tions we with to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous develop ment. 11. Roumania, Serbia and Monte negro should te evacuated; occupied territories restored, Serbia accorded freendsecurcces8 to tjiejejij Over foe Topi" he goes, on high and he couldn't have done It without a set of , They are positively guaranteed to increase your motor power 10 to 30, to cut down gas con sumption 25 to 50, to decrease your oil bill 50, and to elim inate carbon, spark plug,, and smoking troubles. American Hammered Piston Rings are mad in tlsee for all cars. All good strict and accessory dealers tell them. If your dealer cannot supply you see 11a. Delco Exide Service Station Wkobute and SaU Dwtributura 2024 Farnaa Straat, Omaaa, Nab. Paaaa Daug. SSS7 X Vu 1 A . ttdtuinifh 1 I Die ATI I? TlSaV" Stmni. Lrmw and the relations of the sevsrsl Bal kan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and na tionality, and international guaran tees of the political end economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into. Turkish Sovereignty, 12, The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now un. der Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, 'and .the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees, ' 13. An independent Polish - state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisput ably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by in ternational covenant. 14. A general association of na tions must be formed under specific covenant for the purpose of afford ing mutual, guarantees of political in dependence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. In regard to these essential recti fieationa.of wrong and assertions of right we feel ourselves to be intimate partners vf all the governments and peoples associated together against tne imperialists, we cannot oe sepa rated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end. . .Willing to Fight. ' For such arrangements and cove nants, we are willing to fight, and -to continue to fight, until they are achieved; but only because we wish the right to prevail and desire a just and stable peace such as can be se cured only- by removing the chief provocations to war, which this pro gram does remove. 1 We have no jealousy of uerman greatness, and there is nothing in thit program that impairs it. , We grudge no achievement or distinction of learning or of pacific enterprise such as have made its record very bright and very enviable. We do not wish to injure it or to block in any way its legitimate influence or power. We do not wish to fight it either with trmt or with hostile arrangements of trade, if tt it willing to associate itself with us and the other peace- loving nations of the world in cove nants of justice and law and fair deal ing, we wish it only to accept a place of equality among the peoples of the world the new world in whwh we now live instead of a place of mastery. Neither do we presume to suggest to it any alteration or modification of its, institutions. But it is neces sary, we must frankly say, and nec essary as a preliminary to any intci- January Have Arrived They Were Delayed In Transit, but are cites 15th and Harney Douglas 1662 of disfiguring blemishes, by quickly , purifying the blood, improving tne cir culation, and regulatiig the habits with UTf,SJ Mel la tka WarU. H aarwra, babasx, IO.,2Sa. The new Records on Sale Bilicltes RiathtiSIdn 1 PUS" ligent dealings with it on our- part, that we Should know whom its spokes men speak for when they speak to us, whether for the Reichstag majority or for the military party, and the men whose creed is imperial domination. Concrete Terms. 1 We have spoken now, surely, in terms too concrete to admit of any further douht or- question, An evident THdMPSON,BELHN - CO. 7Ae fashion Center JorWbmat J17XTI I J.YJLJU IN : li V a m 1 Annii4 vouui-miiiuai ajcuc Manhattan Shirts Commences Wednesday Be on hand early ao as to choose from the best selec tion of patterns and colors. Soft and stiff cuff styles, sizes 14 to 18. 1 $1.75 Manhattans, $1.35 $2.00 Manhattans, $1.65 ' $2.50 Manhattans, $1.85 $3.00 Manhattans, $2.15 $3.50 Manhattans, $2.85 $4.00 Manhattans,. $3.15 ; $5.00 Manhattans, $3.85 $6.00 Manhattans, $4.85 $6.50 Manhattans, 4.85 The Man's Shop To th Uft as you entar Children's Muslin Underwear In a Sale Wednesday Mothers will appreciate this op portunity to buy undermuslins for little folks at such interesting low prices. CHILDREN'S GOWNS and SKIRTS, reduced from $1 to 79c, $1.85 to 96e, $1.65 and $1.75 to $1.29, $2.25 and $2.35 to $1.69. CHILDREN'S DRAWERS are re duced from 20c and 23c to 15e, 25c and 30c to 19c, 35c, 40c and 45c to 23c, 60c' and 60c to 39c, 85c and $1 to 69. CHILDREN'S SKIRTS reduced) from $1.50f $1.69 and $1.75 to 98c, $1.35 to 69c, 75c to 49c. Third Floor CoatsSuitS"Dresses Everyone in Stock Reduced Saying suff iciently Important to make Wednesday shopping WORTH WHILE Get Your Free Copy of The Navy Art Calendar Today The Omaha Bee is sending free to its readers a beautiful pa triotic Art Calendar. The illustration on this calendar, the work of a well-known artist, sums up in a striking poster the War Spirit of America. . It shows the figure of. Liberty with drawn sword pointing the way to a staunch American sailor, while over them both wave the folds of the Stars and Stripes. There is no adverting matter on this calendar. It is a work of art, intended to serve as an ornament and a patriotic inspiration through what may wejl prove, to be the most trying year in Ameri can history. The calendar itself, is practical and made for service. It is of the form which has a separate leaf for each of the twelve months, and a complete calendar for 1918 on the last leaf. x . This is the American calendar for 1918. To get your free copy, write your name and address plainly on the attached cou pon and mail with a 2-cent stamp for return postage to The Oma ha Bee Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. : i : .- ' 1 i THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU Washington, D. C j . please send : Name 11 principle runs through the whole pro gram I have outlined. It is the prin ciple of justice to all peoples and na tionalities and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak. Unless this principle be made its 1 foundation no part of the structure of international jostles tan stand. The people of tht United January Sale of Skirts The thirty-eight separate skirts remaining in, stbckwill be sold at two prices, $7.95 and $15. Skirts priced $10.50 to $1.50 will &7 QC be sold for'0 A small charge for alterations. All sales final. Linens at These Low. Prices , Find Buyers Rapidly Pattern Cloths $4.00 qualities for $2.98 $4.50 qualities for $3.75 Napkin Specials $4.00 Napkins, $3.75 a dozen $8.75 Napkins, $5.00 a dozen $6.98 Napkins, $5.38 a dozen $2.50 Pillow Cases T Wednesday, $2 a pair. Hemstitched and embroidered Wednesday Special H. S; Huck Towels, 29c. ' Women's Wonderful Values t 1 Wednesday, V $3.85 Pr. Most of these shoes are of black kid nd patent leather. The stylet are good, nothing unde sirable in the whole assortment. Not every size in each style. - "' i Formerly eold up to $7 a pair. Wednesday, $3.85. During the January Sale you'll find extra values in all of our best shoes. Enclosed find a two-cent stamp, for which you will me, entirely free, "The Navy ! Street Address. .... i - i City. .State..... i L.--- v----Jjr; States could act upon no other prin ciple and t the vindication of this principle they are ready to devote their lives, their honor and everything that they possess. The moral climax of this, tV culminating and final war for hums if' erty,-he come, and they are read) j) put their, strength, their own hlgh 4 t purpose. W !'rn in tegrity anl devotion to t tt Skirts priced $22.50 to $35 will-$15 be sold at v Linen Guest Towels 50c Guest Towels, 39c 75c Guest Towels, 50c 85c Guest Towels, 65c $1.00 Guest Towels, 85c Huck Toweling By the Yard. 50o (15-inch) Toweling, 40c 65e (15-inch) Toweling, 55o 75cj (15-inch) Toweling, 61c 75c (18-inch) Toweling, 65c 85c (20-inch) Toweling, 75c $1 (22-inch) Toweling, 90c All Fancy Linens . Go at Va Price High Shoes Calendar tt m 1 1 V ,!rl if
