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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1918)
A i i 2 A THE ouiftAi dxuxu: makuh Zi, Wis. NEBRASKA MILLIONS OVER MARK Late Returns in War Savings Drives Show That State Pledged More Than $30,00O,O00.x Nebraska has pledged more than 430,000,000 in war livings stamps, inougn trie quota tor tne state was only 126,00000. The 130,000,000 is carefully estimated by State Director Ward M. Burgess from the reports that have cone in from all but about IS counties. These reports showed early that all counties averaged 20 per cent in eiceis of their quotas. OMAHA "GOES OVER." Omaha's pledges for 1918 are now estimated by the Omaha committee as $J,548,000, which is $48,000 more than the quota for this tity. The windup campaign in the 57 school houses of Jmaha Friday night brought in pledges totaling $300,000 in round numbers. At JJundee school $25,000 was raised. Saunders school raud $18,732. 1 he patrons of Far Dam school pledged $18,000. Loth rop school patrons pledged $16,531. : Pledge $300,000 at Schools. Th SJO0.0OO rAnAarA at th. artinnl house meetings in Omaha, committee members say, totaled about what was expected. The"amount sold and pledged in Omaha up to March 1 was $2,400,000. In the state the school house drive wis conducted is a single effort, whereas in Omaha It was merely sup plementary to the established machin ery of (tamp selling which was In augurated in January, when stamps totaling $1,250,000 were sold pr pledged. Insurance Men Score. In the intensive drico in March the Insurance men of Omaha sold $125,000 worth' of stamps. The Boy Scouts irive ii estimated at $35,000. The r men's activity la estimated at $98,000, l he , Metropolitan Life Insurance rompany drive is estimated at $50,000. The city schools have uncollected pledget amounting to $40,000, which nave not been included In other totals. The quota fixed for the 25f war savings societies already eataMUhed In Omaha totals $500,000, whl.l the societies are expected to reach be' ore , November 1. After reviewing the returns from Omaha and the state, Ward Burgess, stall director, said: "I expei tew that we will sell a total of $40,000 000 in stamps beforeX the close of the year. The sales, even before the school house campaigns, have syer aged $1,000,000 week in Nebraska for thi lest several weeks." Counties: Swell Totala. Some of the counties out lr the state went as much as $100,000 ever nJSot. Cass county'i quota was f "SP Cuming county's quota was f5 ,nd U "P"d ; of The amounts subscribed In the 57 school house meetings in Omaha fri- day night, totaling 5300,000 in frvnd numbers, were as follows: Pledges in Schools. CoStral HIsU ...A f I.OJI Hifh 8nool of Commarc...... 1.J74 Mouth lllsb , J.0IT liancrolt 1,111 tioala Mil lietvlder 1 ? H.nion Central I,1J Knaon Wt i.Ut Brawn rrk 1,(04 (' , 1.160 fu.tcUr 4,l Central .H (antral Park S. ( 1 Clifton Hill - Ul Columbian W Comnnlua fill CorrlKan ........................... 1,711 LMinrfre SMM DruldMllll 1,101 llUp.rllt ... tlH KdaraM Hoarwattr S.009 Far nam , , in. 000 Flnrrnc 1,100 Fort 301 Franklin M3 Garfield ,.,,.,.,.... S.C00 Mlirliland , MOO Howard Kennedy 1,100 JunKinann , 1,00 Kllnn , ; I14 jk ,too .Inwiln , Ml in ... 7,(00 Uithrop 14 KS I Mad I mm , on (.000 Miliar I'ark (.000 Monmouth I'ark . ...i,.... 1,UA BRITISHER SAYS GREAT BATTLE IS 'THE REAL THING' Sir John Foster Fraser, Omaha' to Lecture, Com ments on Present West . Front Struggle. in U. S. Euehes Word To Pershing to Hasten News (Comli94 Ttvm Fc On.) opportunities for cotmter blows on a major scale. In seeking the strategic purpose of here noted I'a.-Hlo Farli Hoa Hill Haratoea Huunrtitra Sherman Houth Cantral Houth Lincoln Train Vinton Walnut Hill Wobil.r W.at fid WinflAr , a, 009 Klald S.10I CHfion Hill Annas 41) School dlalrlat No, (1 J 1,363 Hchool dlitflr No, 41 , 1.00K ...... .y.f 1.C0 11,714 d. IT . U.W Ml 1.151 10.(00 i.m 4.7JI 4.MJ 7,10 MIT King Range of German Guns Is Cause to Manrel (CaaUnind From faa-a Om.) on reflection concluded that even had the German troops suddenly rushed forward, it would have been impossi ble to bring up and emplace heavy ong range guns in such a short time, Avert German Shells. American officers here recti1 that wnen tne uermans produced the sun that would throw a shell 22 mile into uunkirK, tne French 'soon Jojnd a way to meet the attack, partialis at ICBSl. , t A French wireless station, it L said is located at point in the ground not far from the gun emplacement, ana at ts position the concussion can ie recorder wnen the shell -leaves the gun. It takes something li'ce 60 seconds tor the shell to travel to Dunkirk, but a wireless . signal is recorded in .the city, a warnirg Is sounded, and the inhabitants take to dugouts, generally ' reaching slither before the shell strikes. Mayor Harm Addresses Polk Patriotic Meeting Tolk, Neb., March 22. (Special.) Mayor Harm of Bloomfield addreiied a patriotic mass meeting held in the auditorium Thursday night, After the address a' telegram was sent to President Wilson, assuring him of the loyalty and support of this com munitv. .- - In the war savings' drive,' Pplk sub scribed ' - ' Looktne for work? Turn in rha Help Wanted Columns now. g. a comment of Sir John Foster Fraser, K. G. $,, chairman of the national war lecturers committee or Great Britain, on the great battle now be ing waged on the 'Western front. Sir Fraser will speak tonrght at Universit) club on "The Checker board of Europe." He is familiar with the ground on which the cen tral powers and the allies are now itriiKglintf. "The German army has been de creasing in quality and the British has been increasing all of the while and we will be at the top of ouri strength this summer. We are past the Hag-waving v and band-playing stage and are down to grim deter tfiiAation." he stated. Three times last year he was in the first line and was in the Hin denburg trench, which the bodies gave up at the time of the HirdenA burg "stragctic retreat." Optimistic Over Outcome. The liritish visitor attaches siKnifi cance to the fact that the German em peror and Hindenburg were reported as being at the front. He is optimistic over the ultimate outcome and would think of nothing but an allied victory. lie stared that Great Uritam is en thusiastic over what the United States will do. You will grow serious and realize tne stern realities ot war when your casualty lists come in." he added. "Just think that during time of com parative quiet alone the front our death list funs into thousands evejy day and at this time in all probability we are losing from iu.uuu to zu.uuu day." y SENATOR DECIDES BEST STAY AWAY' PROM LEGISLATURE ' ' . i in I, (CentUuae From Tt Om.) develop to two of the governor's specified subfecta for the German drive officials that the British press had already suggested a 'possible solution. A rupture of th British lines in the vi cinity of St. Quentin, it' has been said. might leave the French left en the Aisne front unsupported. Retirement there would bring the battle lines closer to Paris. Thousands Taken Prisoner. German reports that 25,000 prison ers had been taken were regarded aa not at all improbable. The capture of certain points on the first defensive system probably was what made the sector of the line abandoned by the British tyite&able. and started the withdrawal Presumably the 16.000 men said by the Germans to have fallen into their hands yesterday are included in their new figure of 25,000 prisoners. The first captures un doubtedly were made when the front lines were breached. The remainder probably is composed of rear guard units leftin position to hcjM off the enemy until the British withdrawal under fire bad been accomplished, then to surrender. ' The Germans themselvea . lost 50,000 or more prisoners to the KFreneff and British in the withdrawal on the Somme alone, and a great number also were taken in the retire ment from the Marne during the first year of the war. Officials were hopeful that tomor row's retiort would show clearly the German objective and steps to offset it. They are beginning to look for counter blows by the allies on other Sectors. N)w that the Germans are so deeply involved in their enterprise in the at. Quentin region it is thought they could not spare large to face attack elsewhere checking their own advance. reserve without Germans Shell Paris From New Battle Front (CntrnB4 From Pf 0a.) everyone I saw pretty confident At first tbey did have a hard job to meet the masses of Germans who came on in denser formation than ever before, yet all reports show that they fppght magnificently. Germans 600,000 Strong. "For example, south of St. Quentin one of our divisions had to bear up against the repeated assaults of no fewer than six German divisions, pos sibly 90,000 men, and only when the assaults ceased with darkness did our troops withdraw to strong positions behind the canal system between M Quentin and the Oise. "It isestimated that altogether nearly 600,000 Germans participated in the offensive. The enemy fought well and his gunners did good service. The quickness with which the gma were brought forward -into No Man's land after the':infantry.Hadaflvanced was marked. : He had jrunarjy places the advantage over usjrj positions and he was at all points largely superior in numbers." Throughout the night the battle front extended southward and it was reported this morning that the French army was now engaged. - The most intense fighting appears to have been around Roisel and Trin court The slaughter in the enemy ranks was appalling. 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