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12 THE BEE: OMAha, iumuai, iu AtXii 5, lyib. GREAT BATTLE PENDING ON WESTFRONT Armies of Allies and Central Powers Ready for Perhaps Most Terrific Clash of World War. Washington, March 4. Continued preparatory movements on the part of the Germans along the western front are noted today by the War depart ment in its review of the military sit uation for the week ending March 2. "The momentum of battle is in creasing," the statement declares, cit ing three attempts by the enemy to reach the lines held by American troops as an example of what is tak ing place on a "larger scale along the entire western front" The definite announcement is made that American forces have taken over a sector northwest of Toul and that a number of detached units are in action in the Champagne. i Operations in the eastern theater are expected to affect events in France, through a modification of German plans, the review intimates. Six Teuton columns were operating in Russia and to only one of these the column moving towards Vitebsk j-was any opposition noted. ; Turks Massacree Armenians. " Turkish forces advancing in the Caucasus are meeting with little re sistance and are massacring Arme nian residents of the districts retaken from the Russians. The review? fol lows: "The third month of relative quies cence on the western front has come to a close. During this period both belligerent groups have been massing their forces. "There is evidence thatjhe enemy continues to bring up fresh units. Ow ing to transportation difficulties this has been slow and laborious process. ; "The allied war council is now in continuous session, assuring complete unity and flexibility of .control. "The British have extended , their front. "Our own forces have taken over a sector i.oi'Jiwest of Toul. In addi tion a number of our detached units are in action in Champagne and the momentum of battle is increasing. , : Enemy Driven Back. : "We have but to note the occur rences of the last week in our own .sector in Lorraine in order to gain an idea of what is taking place. Pa trols have been very active. Early in the week the enemy made two at tempts to reach our lines, but was driven off by machine gun fire. On March 1 the enemy developed a sharply driven attack. After a short struggle the hostile detachment was repulsed. , "The Germans are now using gas along our front. ;Our men are being accustomed to this weapon. . "Our gas masks are efficiently pro? tective. Our artillery was very busy shelling enemy positions and in flicted considerable damage on (?un and mortar emplacements. "Important troops movements took place behind the German lines oppo site our front. t ' "In spite of the low visibility, hos tile aircraft continued active and made frequent incursions over our lines. "In the region of the Chemin des Dames lively encounters took piece. A French raid against the German outposts, in which a number of Amer . ican volunteers participated, was successfully carried through. , Americans With French. "On February 24 the French exe cuted a coup de main, destroying hos tile defensive works and shelters near Aspach in upper Alsace. Small raids Daily Matinee 2:15 Every Night 8:15 v For the Merchants' Spring Market Week the special amusement event is to be the evening of Superior Vaudeville at the Orpheum Theater. ' It has been ar ranged by Omaha jobbers and manufacturers that all visiting retail merchants, in order to be adequately entertained Wednesday jevening, must be taken to see the bill of striking excellence, headed by Rutk St. Denis In a Series of ; v . Pictorial Reservations to the chant guests may be shown the right sort of hospitality. An entertainment commensurate with the demands of this special occasion has been planned by the Orpheum. In addition to the artistic stellar event, there are to be two special features : CHARLES WITHERS in 'TOR PITY'S SAKE," and vocalist en tertainer, FRANK CRUMIT, known as "The One Man Glee Club." 'There will also be five other acts, each of them distinctive and diverting. - t School Teacher Passes Spare Time Training for the Ambulance Service Teacher s War Sacrifices Passes all time out of school repairing autos. Gives up lunches. Passes three nights a week learning to speak French. Buys Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps. To drive a Red Cross ambulance in France is the aim of Miss Eula H. Wester, 3710 South Twenty-sixth street, teacher in the Garfield school. One wouldn't dream she is a regu lar school teacher to see her in her overalls and cap, puttering away at the insides of a car or lying flat on her back tinkering with a recalcitrant valve. Miss Wester believes she knows more about the inside of a Ford than Henry does himself, sh.'s worked so hard learning. She works every day after school, sometimes un til far into tht night, and all day Saturdays, in a service garage at V:t.UnMtk A rt KNfUtto flfrAAt "111-' order to get the practical experience necessary to qualify for the motor driving service of Uncle Sam in France. She does all sorts of repair work, overhauls engines and can tackle any job in the mechanical line. "Grinding valves is pretty hard on the finger nails, but I'm willing to sacrifice them for my country." was the laughing reply of Miss Wester when questioned about the difficulties of her man's-size-job. "The exhaust smoke, too, gets into my hair so bad ly, but otherwise there are no hard ships for any girl who is strongly in Champagne and Lorraine were also recorded. . "The enemy also was driven back while attempting to react in the vi cinity of the Butte da Mesnil and the boldest enterprise undertaken by the enemy during the week took place north of Dixmude. Here, after pro longed artillery preparations, the enemy endeavored to throw a bridge across the Yser. The Belgians suc cessfully prevented, six consecutive attempts to push this operation to successful conclusion. "The new trend of events in Russia has no doubt modified German plans to a certain degree. For the time be ing the enemy continues to advance eastward. Following the highways and failroads six columns of invasion along a 700-mile front are operating in careful co-ordination. Germans In Russia. "In Esthonia the enemy has reached a point approximately 100 miles from Pctrograd. In Livonia, Jurjev, 160 miles east of Riga, has been entered. The column moving on Vitebsk is ad vancing at an average rate of 16 miles daily and has passed beyond Pskov. This force has met with some opposi tion. After the capture of Minsk the hostile army operating in this area continued its advance and is appar ently headed for Smolensk and its ultimate objective, should it continue to find its course unimpeded, would be to cut off and possibly occupy Mos cow. . , A.- "The fifth column, operating in the PrJpet sector, is also converging on Smolensk, with Moscow as a final ob jective. The sixth column, composed of Austrian forces operating in Vol hynia, owing to the favorable recep tion the .Austrian have received at the hands of the Ukranians, has been able to advance more than 200 miles into the interior. , "In the Caucasus the region from the Lake of Van to the Black Sea is again in, Turkish hands. In the dis tricts reoccupied by the Turks it is stated that they are massacreing the Armenians. ... . "In Palestine the British are in close contact with the Turks, who are retreating northward through the valley of the Jordan. In Meso- T Superior Vaudeville l i i J f !Y"l v and Dramatic Dances number of 1,500 have been made," to the end that the mer in ' ' J. " ' f Aih o . J Y R f'P it t V 'ViV built and in good health." Miss Wester has been working in the garage since shortly after war was declared. One night last week when the energetic young teacher wished to treat herself to some real recreation and pleasure, the went to the auto show! Autos are her hobby, she frankly confesses, and if Uncle Sam takes too long to decide whether he wants women in his ambulance-driving service, Miss Wester plans to enlist in the British or Cana dian service, which is accepting wo men more readily. potamia the British are advancing up the Euphrates and have arrived in the vicinity of Hit, which is reported to have been evacuated by the Tuiks." Eight Army Nurses Will Report at Post Hospital Major F. H. Poole. Fort Omaha post surgeon, has received word from VVashington that eight army nurses will report for duty at the post hos pital. Only five names are known to Ma jor Poole. The nurses arc. not Red Cross nurses. The government uses the latter only for service abroad. They are all sworn into the regular army. They are Mrs. Roslyn Chambers, Los Angeles; Miss Carrie Kinley, Sibley, fa.; Miss Cora M. Kelly, Shamokin, Pa.J Miss Harriet B. Foulk rod, Kane, Pa., and Miss Ida M. Mar tinson, McPherson, Kan. Fort Omaha hospital has been without any assigned nurses. There are 66 boys there now. War Work Canvass Board To Meet Tuesday Night Those who will canvass Omaha with cards to learn for the State Council of Defense just how much and what kind of war work each and every family has done to date will meet at the Omaha Chamber of Com merce Tuesday night at 8 o'clock for further instructions. The County Council of Defense has already organized the work in half the wards in the city down to pre cincts and blocks and the other half remain to be worked out at this mcet- Approximately 40,000 Income Tax Returns Made in State Approximately 40,000 personal in come tax returns have been made in Nebraska, according to Internal Rev enue Collector Loomis. This is a lit tle more than half the total number expected by April L which is the limit of time. No corporation or ex cess profits tax returns have been re ceived in the state yet. Phone Douglas 494 Merchants' Market Week ..' ; 1 It being a fact well established that the Orpheum affords vaudeville entertainment of a standard unsurpassed, the visiting merchants are certain to be admirably en tertained. . t : Stars seen elsewhere at $2.00 a seat, are seen at the Orpheum at prices ranging: from 10c to 75c. For instance, Rutl St. Denis comes this week, and next week the brilliant prima donna, FRITZI SHEFF, will appear. It would be hard to find any Oma ha girl who is making more war sac rifices than Miss Wester. She has gone without lunches since Septem ber to conserve food. "Two meals a day are enough for me," she said. Then she studies French three nights a week at the High School of Com merce, instead of resting or going to the movies, and, of course, she has bjniRht Liberty bonds and, Thrift stamps. She attended the University of Ne braska, working her way through school. Clyne Calls McDonald Dangerous Extremist Chicago, March 4. Declaring that J. A. McDonald of Seattle, editor ot the Industrial Workers, is a "dan gerous extremist," Charles F. Clyne, United States district attorney here, today opposed a motion for a reduc tion in bail in the cases of McDon ald, Charles Achleigh, San Francisco, and A. D. Kimball, Phoenix, Ariz. The men were among the 106 mem bers of the Industrial Workers of the World who were indicted for sedition and disloyalty. They are held in jail because unable to raise the $10,000 bail aemar ded of each. Mr. Clyne handed Judge Landis a letter written by McDonald, in which the latter said he was amazed that any member of the Industrial Work ers of the World should desire to be come a citizen of the United States. Attorneys for the men claimed that jail life was breaking their health, es pecially McDonald, who, they said, is suffering from tuberculosis. Judge Landis took the application under ad' visement. Hawaiian Isle Dry. Washington. March 4. At the re quest of the War department and be cause of its military importance President Wilson, by executive order, has put prohibition in effect in the Isl and of Oahu of the Hawaiian group. - COMPENSATION OF ROADS AGREED UPON New Plan Will Save Nearly Ten Thousand Tons of Coal Per Month. Washington, March 4. Agreement on compensation of railroads while under government control, based upon the average of their net income for the three years ending June 30 last, and substantially in the form approved by the senate, was reached today by the conferees on the administration railroad bill. The house conferees accepted the senate provision providing that no al lowance shall be made for money spent on improvements during the last few months preceding federal control. This would reduce the com pensation about $6,500,000 annually. Subject to final approval, the sen ate conferees agreed to include all short line railroads under the act in stead of only competing short lines. These settlements leave only two important points still in dispute rate making and period of government control. Competing trains at approximately the same hours will be eliminated and railroad administration officials give assurance that the public will not be seriously inconvenienced. It is esti mated that the new schedules will save 9,538 tons of coal a month. Freight traffic also will be improved. Railroad tickets will be good on any line. Further removal of com petitive trains west of the Mississippi is expected soon. 10,000 Machinists Called To U. S. Aviation Service Washington, March 4. Call was is sued today for 10,000 machinists, mechanics, chauffeurs and other skilled workmen ' needed at once by the aviation section of the signal corps, it was stated, and announce ment was made that additional incre ments must be obtained from the same classes in the near future. . The degree to which the aviation program of the army depends upon highly skilled labor is shown by the statement "that "98 of every hundred men in the aviation section must be skilled in some branch of work." "Men registered in the draft," said the announcement, "may be inducted into this service by applying to their local draft board. Men not regis tered may enlist at any recruiting of fice." - "Feei Bully," Says T. R. After Long Siege of Illness New York, March 4. Theodore Roosevelt left the hospital today after four weeks of convalescing from operations. As he walked to his automobile the former president ex pressed his satisfaction in response to greetings given him by a small street crowd and his negro chauffeur. "Oh, I feel bully," he said. "My goodness, it feels good to be out." The coloned paused, breathed deep ly of the fresh air, and, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt entered the ma chine, which took them to the Hotel Langdon. There the colonel will re main a few days before going to Oys ter Bay. An Invitation v ". ' ; Is Extended to Visiting : to visit the Union Stock Yards During Merchants Market Week March 4th to 9th See Our $1,000,000.00 Steel and Concrete Hog Barns The Second Largest Live Stock Market in the U. Alas! 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