The Omaha Daily B
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PART TWO
EDITORIAL SECTION
PA(JeS 11 TO 18
VOL. XLVII NO. 227.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1918
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11 KILLED IN TEUTON AIR RAID UPON LONDON
GERMAN FLIERS TAKE
HUGE TOLL Of LIFE IN
BRITISH CAPITAL CITY
Eleven Killed and Forty-six Injured in Last Night's Raid;
People Scurry to Subways, Some Too Late to
Escape Falling Shrapnel; First Air
Attack Made In Dark.
(By Associated Press.)
London, March 8. Eleven persons were killed and 46 oth
ers were injured in last night s airplane raid on London, ac
cording to the latest police reports, says an official announce
ment today. ,
It is feared that an additional six bodies are in the ruins
tf houses wrecked.
The official report reads:
"The latest police reports state that 11 were killed and 46
were injured in last night's airplane raid.
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Russ "Battalion of Death" Called by
Bolsheviki to Defend Petrograd
"It is feared that in addition to the
above, six bodies are still buried in
ihe wreckage of houses. All the cas
ualties occurred in London."
Seven or eight German airplanes
made a raid over England. One of
(hem reached London and dropped
tombs in the northwest and south
vest districts of the city.
Houses Are Demolished.
Another raider dropped bombs in
Ihe northern district of London, de
molishing several houses. The fol
lowing official announcement was
Yiade:
"Last night's air raid appears to
have been carried out by seven or
eight enemy airplanes, of which two
reached London. The first two raid
crs approached the Isle of Thanet at
about 10:55 p. m. and proceeded up
the Thames estuary. Both were
turned back before reaching London.
Third Flyer West.
"Meanwhile the third raider came
across the Essex coast at 11:20 p. m.
and steered west. At 11:45 p. m. it
was reported over East London. A
few minutes later it dropped bombs
on the southwestern and northwest
ern districts.
"At 11:50 p. m. the fourth raider,
which had also come across Essex,
dropped bombs to the north of Lon
don and then proceeded south across
the capital, dropping its remaining
bcmbs on the northern district be
tween 12:20 and 12:30 a. m. The re
maining enemy machines, all of which
came across the Essex coast, were
turned back before they reached Lon
don. "A certain amount of damage was
caused to residential property in Lon
don. Several houses have been de
molished." Flee to Subways.
The greatest damage in London was
inflicted in the northwestern section,
where four bombs demolished several
houses. All the damage and casual
ties in this district were confined to
two parallel streets, although as usual
windows were broken for a radius of
several blocks.
A single raider appeared over this
area. Hundreds of persons were just
prcparting to desert their home, most
of which are threC-story buildings,
for the more substantial shelter of the
two nearby subways when he bombs
began to tall.
Through Two Floors.
The first bomb made a square hit
on a three-story dwelling of concrete
and brick, crashing through two
floors before it exploded. While the
, police, special constables and volun
teer rescuers wee busy there three
more bombs fell near by in quick
succession.
Ambulances arrived speedily, and,
notwithstanding the confusion,, the
rescuers worked effectively under the
anti-aircraft barrage. For 20 minutes
after the bombing of this district the
barrage was continued.
The raid demonstrated that German
aviators no longer depend upon
moonlight. It was the first time the
enemy had attempted a night raid
over London when there was no
moon. The stars were out, however,
and there was little wind.
Londoners were taken by surprise
when the warning signals were
sounded. The theaters were just clos
ing. The streets were soon cleared.
The warning to avoid danger from
shrapnel was generally heeded, every
one taking cover. For a time the gun
, fire was heavy.
Several persons were killed by the
destruction of private houses in
northeastern London. The house of
a vicar was partially v : ecked, but the
clergyman escaped. He is a special
constable and had left home for duty
when the warning came a few nun
utes before the explosion which dam
aged his residence. The vicar worked
throughout the night, assisting the
wounded and homeless neighbors.
HUGE STOCKS OF
GRAIN ON HAND,
SAYS 01 REPORT
Government Announcement
Shows Great Quantities of
Corn and Wheat Now
Lie on Farms.
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Wk II Iff $L2 S ,9.o ill
Class Five in Draft for
, Agriculture Seniors
Washington, March 8. Governors
were notified today by Provost Mar
shal General Crowder that all students
in land agricultural colleges whose
class standing places them in the up
per third of the senior class may en
list in the quartermaster's reserve
corps and will be placed by local
boards in class five.
(Br Associated Press.)
Washington, March 8. Only about
three-fifths of last year's record
breaking corn crop is merchantable,
the Department of Agriculture's grain
report today indicated. Not since 1883
has the percentage of the crop mer
chantable been so low.
Large quantities of the corn was
so soft that it had to be fed to live
stock at once to prevent total loss.
About 1,905,723,000 bushels of the 3,
159,494,000 bushels of crop is all that
could be offered for sale, placing the
quantity lower than that available
from the smaller 1915 and 1916 crops.
Supply Is Smaller.
While the supply of wheat last year
was a 100,000,000 bushels less than the
orevious vear stocks held by farmers
March 1, totalled 111,272,000 bushels,
or 10,622,000 bushels more than held
on March 1 last year.
Grain in farmers' hands on March
1 as announced today by the Depart
ment of Agriculture was:
Corn, 1,292,905,000 bushels, or 40.9
per cent of the 1917 crop.
Wheat, 111,272,0000 bushels, or 17.1
per cent. i
Oats, 595,195,000 bushels, or 37.5 per
cent.
Barley 43,404,000 bushels, or 20.8
per Cent.
The percentage of the crops which
will be shipped out of the counties
where grown was announced as fol
lows: Corn, 21.9; wheat, 51.2; oats,
i; barley, 38.8.
About 60.3 per cent, or 1,905,723,000
bushels of the 1917 corn crop, is re
ported as merchantable.
Stocks of wheat were larger by 10,
622,000 bushels than they were last
year at this time, while stocks of corn
KAISER'S PROPERTY IN U. S. IS
FIRST TO GO UNDER HAMMER
The famous women fighters of Russia, members of the "Battalion of Death," have been
called upon by the Bolsheviki government to defend Petrograd.
Soldiers who doffed their uniforms with the demobilization orders are flocking back to the
government's cause by the hundreds. The photo shows the famous women's battalion in
camp near Petrograd.
making beer in Chicago, lead pencils
in New Jersey and conducting ' all
these concerns, many of which are
making enormous profits by reason
of the very conditions for which the
enemy is responsible war conditions.
If I must simply sit here, with the
possibility of returning both principal
and profits to the German owners at
the end of the war, I am doing a
tremendous favor to the German em
pire, our enemy.
"The desire is that the title as well
as possession shall be permanently
taken away from the German owners."
American interests in Germany are
negligible, compared to German in
terests here, Mr. Palmer said.
"It is now doing with us exactly
what we are doing with it, he added
It is his intention to use the pro
ceeds of enemy property to buy gov
ernment bonds.
A.
Mitchell Palmer, Custodian of Alien Property, Leads
Attack On Outposts of "Kultur;" Would Tear Out
Insidious Grip of German Capitalists.
m larmers hands were the second
largest on record, being exceeded only
by the holdings of 1906.
Stocks of corn on farms by im
portant states (in thousands of bush
els, i. e., thousand omitted) follow:
Ohio. 61,541: Indiana. 85.443: Illi
nois, 192,280; Iowa, 151,959; Missouri,
1U5.8W; Nebraska. 139,709: Kansas.
35,892; Kentucky, 55,282.
Of wheat: Ohio. 9,051: Indiana. 4.-
675; Illinois. 4,256; Minnesota. 13.-
912; North Dakota. 11,760: South Da-
ifii; Oklahoma, 1,782; Montana,
2,515; Washington, 3,506.
Russ Still Hold Kiev
Despite German Claims
London. March 8. Kiev, the caoi
tal of ihe Ukraine, is still in the hands
of Russian revolutionary troops and
has not been occupied by the Ger
mans, accocling to a statement is
sued Wednesday by the Russian offi
cial news agency in Petrograd. The
previous mrssage saying Kiev had
been lost to the enemy, the statement
adds, was dus-. to the receipt ot a wire
less message which must have origi
nated from ii-emy sources.
The German war office in its official
itatement oi March 3 said that
Ukrainian and German troops had
captured Kiev Since then, however,
there have been no claims of any ad
vance beyond Kiev by the invaders.
Spanish Cabinet Resigns.
Madrid, March 8. The Spanish
cabinet, recently reconstructed by
the Marquis De Alhucemas, who, in
addition to being premier, held the
portfolio of foreign affairs, resigned!
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Revise Wheat Standards:
Grain Trade Gets Hearing
Washington, March 8. Tentative
revised standards for wheat under the
grain standards act were announced
today by the secretary of agriculture.
The standards are less exacting, es
pecially with reference to moisture,
mixtures ot wheat of different classes,
inseparable ioreign material and rye
mixtures than are the present stand
ards. Before final action is taken
upon the standards five public hear
ings will be held to afford the grain
trade opportunity to discuss the pro
posed stantaids. The hearings will
be held as follows:
March 14 Philadelphia; March 16,
Indianapolis: March 18, Kansas City,
Mo.; March 18, Spokane; March 21,
Minneapolis.
German Equal Franchise
Wins Liberals' Favor
London, Thursday, March 7. The
central committee of the national lib
erty party, says an Exchange Tele
graph dispatch from Copenhagen
quoting Berlin advices, has declared in
favor of equal franchise by a majority
of 19 votes.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, March 8. Property In
the United States owned by the kaiser
himself, former Chancellor von Beth-mann-Hollweg,
the German "junkers"
generally and the German govern
ment itself will be the first to go un
der the hammer under the plans of A.
Mitchell Palmer, alien property cus
todian, to sell German-owned property
here to the highest bidders.
AIM AT "KULTUR." '
Mr. Palmer's testimony to the sen
ate appropriations committee, in
which he proposed necessary legisla
tion, which was made public today,
makes plain that properties of mere
ly minor individuals probably will not
be sold, but that the direct purpose of
the move is to break up the outposts
of kultur in America.
"The time has come," Mr. Palmer
told the senators, "when the owner
ship of some of these great German
properties should be permanently
separated from German capital and
that the enemy might as well know
that the connection which he has been
able to maintain with American in
dustry and commerce is broken, not
simply during the war, but broken
never to be restored.
"The German empire, through its
financial operations, has put an in
dustrial and commercial chain all the
way across ihe country and through
our insular possessions. We have be
come thoroughly convinced that it
would be wite and highly desirable at
it.' . e .1 T r
mis time u tre ownersnip oi some ot
those properties could be permanent
ly taken away."
Hits "Junker" Class.
If the legislation be adooted. Mr.
Palmer stated, it was his intention to
sell principally the enemy orooerties
in this country in which the German
government and the "junker" capital
istic class are interested and not dis
turb that of minor individuals.
The Hamburg-American and North
German Lloyd wharves and docks at
Hoboken, N. J., Mr. Palmer told the
senators, are "a part of the German
empire's commercial grasp upon this
continent."
Senator Owen of Oklahoma said he
understood part of their stock is
owned by the kaiser, represented by
HerrBallin.
"There is no earthly question about
the intimate relationship of some sort
between the German government and
the Hamburg-American ' line," Mr.
Palmer told the committee. "Neither
is there any doubt about the relations
between the German government and
a large number of other great indus
trial enterprises in this country which
have come within the control of the
alien property custodian.
Make Post War Plans.
Plans of the German shippiing lines
to hold their dock properties for ex
tension of German commerce after the
war were disclosed by Mr. Palmer.
who added:
That is a fair indication of the hone
and purpose of enemy capital that not
a day shall elapse when the war is
over before they again put their grip
upon the commerce and industry of
America. You cannot strike a heavier
blow at the enemy today than to make
him understand that he has lost his
connection with the industry and com
merce of the American continent.
"These large enterprises are closely
affiliated with the German govern
ment. Where a German subject has
an investment over here of a private,
individual character, we ought not to
disturb it. But these great industries,
these great concerns financed by the
Deutsches bank, supported by the
junker class; are the kind we ought
to Americanize."
In one city Mr. Palmer did not
name, he said seven or eight great
mills were entirely German-owned.
End German Profits.
"It is a part of the German trust in
this country," he said. "Germans are
making chocolate in Connecticut, rails
in Pennsylvania, woolens and
worsteds in New Jersey, chemicals in
New York, lumber in Florida, raising
sugar in Porto Rico and Hawaii, to
bacco in many states in the south,
Funny Man of Movies
To Speak for War Loan
Washington, March 8. William J.
Bryan and Charlie Chaplin were
booked today for Liberty loan speak
ing tours.
The former secretary of state will
speak at the opening of the campaign,
April 6, at Little Rock, Ark., and
spend two weeks in the west. The
moving picture star expects to devote
two weeks, beginning April 15, to a
tour of the south.
William S. Hart, another movie
actor, will spend two weeks speaking
in the west.
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