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SAMMIES TURN FIERCE ENEMY
DRIVE LAUNCHED NEAR TOUL
MANY GERMANS ARE KILLED,
Heaviest Attack Yet Made on American Sector Dispersed
by Brilliant Work of U. S. Gunners; American
Barrage Catches Teutons Before They
Reach Entanglements.
. With the American Army in France, Wednesday, April 10.
The Germans attempted an attack against the American posi
tions northwest of Toul just before sunrise this morning and
were completely repulsed. ,
Two German prisoners said the enemy planned the attack
with a force of 800 men, but that it was stopped in its full
strength by the effective fire of the American artillery.
The Americans lost no prisoners. One of the German
prisoners died later of wounds.
GERMANS DISPERSED. '
The attack was the heaviest yet
made on an American force. Brilliant
work by American gunners dispersed
the German infantry before they
reached the wire entanglements and
those of the enemy who got into tht
wire were accounted for with machine
gun and rifle fire. '
The German attack came after a
violent artillery bombardment of
three days. A large number of the
enemy are believed to have been killed
or wounded during the attack, which
continued for nearly two hours.
LAUNCH GAS ATTACK.
For 72 hours before their effort, the
Germans had been firing an increasing
number oj shells at the American po
sitibns and making extensive use of
gas shells. .. .
At noon yesterday the enemy began
harrassing fire against one of our
strong points and kept it up through
out the night, dropping hundreds of
shells of all calibers on both front and
rear positions. The American artil
lery replied vigorously, the men in
some batteries working with their
gas masks on for two or three hours
at a stretch. ,
About 5 o'clock this morning Ger
roan infantrymen in the front line sig
naled their batteries for a barrage and
started for the American front line.
The American gunners laid a counter
barrage almost immediately. ,
The attackers, who were especially
trained for this operation, were se
lected from among the best men- in
three regiments; They were preceded
by shock platoons, but the American
barrage caught them before they were
ible to reach our wire entanglements.
A terrific fire against the advancing
enemy was kept up by the American
batteries. The Germans probably suf
fered severe casualties, as several
bodies were seen hanging across the
barbed wire after the enemy had.re
tired. FIERCE GUN DUEL.
The attack was made iria heavy
morning mist, but the American gun
ners did wonderful work, considering
the poor visibility. , 1
As soon as the American barrage
lifted, American infantrymen climbed
from their shelters and attacked the
enemy with heavy machine gun and
rifle fire, driving back those who had
not been dispersed by the artillery
fire. . ' .
The attack was followed by a vio
lent artillery duel, which was still
going on at a late hour tonight.
Bessarabia Votes to
I Unite with Roumania
Basel, Switzerland', pril 11. The
Bessarabian Diet, according to a
telegram from Bucharest, has de
cided in favor of the union of Bessara
bia with Roumania.
The Russian province of Bessarabia
borders Roumania onthe east. The
northern part is almost wholly in
habited by Roumanians and Rou
mania has long desired that these
people should be united with it
The Weather
For Nebraska Partly cloudy Fri
day, probably showers wes portion ;
warmer in east portion.
Hourly Temperature!.
Hour.
Official record of temperature and pre
cipltatloo compared with the corresponding
carlo ot the aat thpree yean:
1918 11T 11 Hit
Hlghsst today 63 67 SI 6t
Lowest yesterday .... 3S J9 48 41
Mean temperature .. 10 41 67 62
PreclplUUon '0 0 0
Temperature and preclpltatlen departure
from the normal at Omaha since March 1,
and compared with tM past two year.
Kormal temperature 4J
T.nceta for the day 1
Total excess sino March 1, 1918 326
Normal precipitation ........ . .10 inch
Deficiency for the day 10 inch
Total rain fall alnce Mar. 1, 1918 .83 inch:.
Deficiency since March 1, li8 ..1.88 inches
Deficiency for cor. pd. in 1917 .81 inch
Efficiency for cor. pd. in 191 1.88 Inches
Cheyenne, Cloudy 44 it .44
Davenport, Cloudy U - 80 .00
, Denver. Cloudy 64 . 68 .00
Oea Moines, Cloudy ...... 68 58 .00
Dodse Cfty, PC Cloudy .. D8 60 .00
Lander, Cloudy 61! 64 .01
' North Platte, Pt Cloudy ,.,6J '64 .00
maha, Pt. Cloudy 60 63 , .00
Pueblo, Cloudy 64 66 .00
Rapid City. Cloudy 60 63 .01
salt Lafcc, Cloudy & 61 .00
Janta Fc pt. Cloudy 46 '6 .06
Sheridan. Cloudy 60 53 .40
Sioux City,' Pt. Cloudy'.... 60 6 J .00
Valentine,' Pt. Cloudy,...'.. 63 64 .00
"T" Indicates trace of precltitation.
-f Indicates belomjtero. L. A. WALSH
Deg
if 'l r 6 a. m 38
I i" s-Ss AS, 10 a. m 44
t i p- 60
,:i msn$K8KSm& v. m 68
SENATE REJECTS
EXEMPTION FOR
WAR STRIKERS
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Bill Providing Penalties for In
terference With War Mate
rials Production Goes Back
to Conference.
Washington, April 11. The confer
ence report on the bill providing se
vere penalties for destruction of or
interference with the production of
essential war materials, containing
the clause giving workmen the right
to strike for better wages or working
conditions, was rejected today by the
senate, 34 to 25.
The vote, taken Immediately today
upon reconvening of the senate and
following yesterday's bitter denuncia
tion of labor's attitude in the war fn
the numerous strikes orf war jobs,
will causejhe house to reconsider the
bill. The senate's opposition was dU
rected solely to-1hel clause providing
that the bill should not restrict work
men from striking.
The bill how goes back to confer
ence. Rebuke to Workmen.
Many senators who objected to the
provision regarded today's vote as a
rebuke to workmen who have struck
at shipyards and factories engaged on
war work. Senator Overman of North
Carolina, who had charge of the
measure yesterday, declared that
should the "senate, defeat the con
ference report because of the labor
clause, the entire legislation would
die." I -
While the senate was rejecting the
much discussed provision President
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor, speaking before the na
tional conference of American lectur
ers here, was denouncing the pro
posal to prohibit strikes and walk
outs. 4
Encourage Lawbreaking.
"As a patriotic American citizen,"
declared Mr. Gompers, "I serve warn
ing on congress not to permit the
deviltry and folly of such a law. It
will serve only to make strikers law
breakers as well. "Nothing .will do
more to create resentment than "to
make it unlawful for men to stop
work."
"Nobody," he declared, "has served
more effectiualty in offsetting the in
fluence of pernicious ' German propa
ganada than organized labor.
"No one has done more than the
representatives f the American labor
movement to prevent enemy propa
ganda from interrupting war indus
tries here," said he.
Income Tax Payments on
Instalment Plan is New Move
Washington, April ll. The treas
ury is considering endorsing legisla
tion to authorize instalment payments
of income and excess profits taxes due
under the present law next June IS,
Internal Revenue Commissioner Ro
peretoday told a delegation of the na
tional conference of State Manufac
turers' associations.
Senator Stone Improved
Washington, April ll. "After pass
ing a fairly comfortable night, Sena
tor Stone of Missouri, who yester
day suffered a stroke of paralysis, was
reported somewhat improved today
and his physicians hoped the critical
period had passed.
Charley Foley Is Convicted of
Alleged Nonpayment of Alimony
Charley Foley, former real estate
and loan man," was convicted for non
payment of alimony by a jury in Judge
Estelle's court Thursday. The jury
deliberated 12 hours. This is among
the first convictions under the law
making nonpayment of alimony a
misdemeanor. It carries with it a
sentence of .from; three to six months
in the county jail. r
Foley alleged the suit was prompted
by malice and attefnpted to introduce
letters at the trial in which he said hts
wife threatened to "get him."
, Divorce was granted Mrs. Foley
after a lone and hotly contested, suit?
Omaha- Rotarians ;Escort Liberty "Tank"
To $2,000,000 K4h West Farnam Street
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124 NAMES ON PERSHING'S
LATEST CASUALTY REPORT
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One Man Killed in Action and TwoJDie ofWounds;
Sixty-nine Americans Severely Wounded ; Four
Missing, Possibly Taken Prisoners '
' By Germans.
Washington, April 41. w
ican expeltl Wonaryftr byie ; war. department
contained Jhe names: of 234 men kuied, wounded or missing in
action and dead, from wounds, accidents and disease. The
first, made public this morning had 124 names, and the second
given out late in the day, had 1 10 names, including those of 22
men killed in action, the largest number so far reported at one
time by, General Pershing. '
ENGINEERS PROMINENT. O
Fifteen officers were named in the
two lists. Three .lieutenants were
killed in action, a"' major died -from
wounds, a captain is missing in action,
a lieutenant and two cadets died from
accidents, a lieutenant died from dis
ease and ano ther lieutenant was
wounded severely and a lieutenant
colonel, a captain and three lieuten
ants were wounded slightly.
I nthe absence of definite infor
mation it was generally believed here
that the unusually large number of
men reported killed in action were
mostly railway engineers, who, with
the Canadians, assisted the allied
infantry in the first days of the great
German drive in Picardy.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J.
Rogers, Captain Richard F. Meyers
and First Lientant Daniel F. Chris
tie are among the slightly .wounded.
Kollowing is the full list of those
killed in action.
LIEUTENANT PERRY S. ' GAS
TON. '
""LIEUTENANT ALFRED S. MIL
LIKEN. I LIEUTENANT . EDWARD H.
PERRY.
SERGEANT ARTHUR' J. Mc-
GEE. ;..
SERGEANT GRAY SWINGLE.
MASTER ENGINEER CARL1 A.
WOLINE.
COOK ROBERT C. FOSTER.
COOK FOLKE PETERSON.:
COOK LESTER F. WHITE. '
PRIVATE FREEMAN W.
BOWER. . - - -PRIVATE
VICTOR DANIELS.,
PRIVATE FRANK J. . GOLD-
CAMP.
PRIVATE LEWIS W. HERN
DON. ' i ' . ,
PRIVATE EARL F. HOWE.
PRIVATE THOMAS H.
NEDY. ' . ' '
KENy)
PRIVATE ALBERT J. KERN.
PRIVATE MICHAEL NARISKY.
- PRIVATE LEONARD W." RIP
TON. PRIVATE NAPOLEON J. VIAU.
PRIVATE NATHANIEL
WEEKS
PRIVATE EDWARD R. " WIL
SON. (Continued an Pace Two, Column Three.)
and she was given the custody of the
three children. Foley has been recent
ly a tire salesman in Fort -Madison,
la., and was arrested on her com
plaint when he came" to. Omaha on
business.
Letters written her by Foley from
Chicago were read at the trial .in
which he accused her of ruining his
life, and stated that, as 'she was be
ing wined and dined by other me'n,"
he was also going to have a good
time. He : further stated he was a
physical and financial failure. Foley,
while in business in Omaha, was con
sidered wealthy. He resided in Flor
ence following his marriage. ,
GEKMAN WIRELESS
WORKS ON SLY IN
SOUTH AMEIR0A
Buenos Airesf-April 11. What is
considered evidence that there is a
hidden wireless plant somewhere in
South America is the fact that a Ger
man newspaper, in Buenos Aires daily
receives at 3 o'clock in the afternoon
the, German communication which ar
rives at midnight by cables.
These dispatches de said to be re
ceived from the west coast and the
authorities express the belief that
there is a wireless station somewhere
in the Andes mountains. ,
'Montevideo, Uruguay, April 11. El
Telegrafo today charges that an in
fluential business han at the head of
the oro-German . movement', in Uru
guay is in close communication with.
the German authorities and that dur
ing the recent.' German, offensive he
has been advised . of. German suc
cesses, in advance of. information
reaching the newspapers. The news
paper asserts that it: is believed the
advices are received through secret
wireless stations. .
Socialist Found Guilty
Of Espionage Offense
Minneapolis, Minn.," April 11. J. O.
Behtall," socialist candidate for' governor,-was
found guilty on two counts
of violating the espionage act by a
jury in federal district court here to
day. The maximum -penalty pro-
viAA fnr vintatinn nf ihim arf ia ?H
years' imprisonment and a fine of $10,-
000. ' He will be sentenced next Fri
day. Bentall now is under one-year sen
tence in the Crow Wing county jail
for obstructing the draft.
Slayer's Life Spared.
Springfield; 111., April 11. Governor
Lowden today commuted sentence of
"Chicken Joe" Campbell to life im
prisonment on recommendation of the
decision of pardons and paroles.
Campbell was convicted of ihe murder
of the wife of former "Warden Allen
of the Joliet pentitentiary and was
sentenced to be hanged at Joliet to
morrow. , .,
Iowa First State
. To Fill Loan Quota
Chicago, April 11. Iowa is
the first state to fill its quota .
of the third Liberty loan in the
, Seventh federal reserve dis
trict, it was officially announced
tonight. .
In Chicago subscriptions suf
fered a slump and up to tonight
only $2,500,000 had been report
ed as the day's progress, mak
ing a total of $26,532,000.
RUSSIA GIVES UP
THIRD OF PEOPLE
IN GERMAN PEACE
56,000,000 Slavs Go Under
Teuton Domination; japs In
sist Action in East Merely
:F0r,Self-PrptCtioni
Petrograd,. Wednesday'" April 10.
Under the terms of the peace treaty,
the commissioner of, commerce an
nounces Russia has lost 780,000 square
kilometer of territory, with 56,000,
000 inhabitants, or 32 per cent of the
entire population o the country. ,
' Ultimatum to Chinese.
London, April 11. The Russian
foreign minister, M. Tchitcherin, has
informed the Chinese government,
Reuter's Petrograd correspondent re
ports, that the Russian soviet govern
ment will regard relations betweenr'
the Chinese authorities and former
Russian diplomats as interference in
Russian internal affairs and as as
sistance to the enemies of the council
of people's commissioners.
The Russians referred to are rep
resentatives of the former Russian re
gime, who are supporting the move
ment in eastern Siberia and Mongolia
to overthrow the bolsheviki.
Due to Anarchy. '
The foreign consul in Vladivostok
officially have informed the president
of the local Zemstvo that the landing
of allied marines there was due to an
archy and. that the fprces.will be
withdrawn' as -soon as the consuls
consider that order has been restored,
according to a Vladivostok telegram
received in Petrograd and forwarded J
oy neuter s correspondent.
A dispatch from Moscow to .the
Izvestia says that the bolshevik gov
ernment has opened negotiations with
Berlin for a temporary suspension of
the Brest-Litovsk treaty as regards
the article on demobilization of the
Russian army "in view of the possible
necessity of defending Russian terri
tory against foreign invasion.
MOB LEADER IN .
PRAGER HANGING
' CONFESSES DEED
. Collinsville, 111., April II. Hie in
quiry into the hanging of Robert P.
Prager by a inob here last Friday
morning probably will be concluded
tonight, according to Coroner Roy A.
Lowe, who is in charge of the inquest.
It is possible the arrests may be
ordered immediately and indictments
asked.
Developments at the inquest, thus
far, which has been aecret, are said
to indicate that at least one partici
pant in the hanging has confessed.
Joseph Riegel, 28 years old, a Col
linsville miner and an honorably dis
charged United States soldier, is said
to have told the coroner's jury yester
day that he was, the leader of the mob,
that, he and, another man dragged
Prager from the basement of the city
hall and that although he did not pull
the rope that hanged the man, he
looked on while the deed was done.
He asserted that the dying wish of
Prager was that he be buried in the
American flag. ..
. Funeral services for Prager were
held in St. Louis. His request that a
flag was buried with him was com
plied with.-
Woodmen Circle Pledges
$250,000 Liberty Bonds
The emergency fund committee of
the Supreme forest, Woodmen Cir
cle, met Tuesday and pledged Lib
erty bonds to the amount of $250,000.
ALLENBY PUSHES
FOR HUGE GAINS
AGAINST MOSLEMS
Overwhelming Gas Attack i' Drive British From Arrnerv
tieres in Picardy; Messinet Ridge Recaptured By
Allied Troop After Desperate Jland-to-Hand
Fighting; Italy Repulses
Hostile Artillery.
BULLETIN
Harbin, April 11. American marines have been landed at
Vladivostok, as well as British and Japanese forces, according
to advices from that place. The Americans are in control of this
docks, while the Jpanese are guarding the railway and ammuni
tion depots.
London, April 11. British troops on April ,9 advanced
their line north of Jerusalem, in Palestine, to a depth of on
and a half miles along a front pf five miles1, the British war office
announced today.
Notwithstanding the stubborn resistance of 'the Turks, the
British captured the villages of Rafat and El Kefr.
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With the British Army in France and Belgium, April 11.
The fighting was continuing this morning north pf Armentieres,
with the British still holding Messines ridge and Wytschaete,
which yesterday changed hands several times. . ,
During the day the enemy succeeded in entering not only
these positions, but La Creche, Nieppe and Hollebeke. Vig.
orous counter-attacks forced the enemy from all these places.
O rtJTPMANS ATVVANPF.
GERMAN TROOPS
IN BATTLE WITH
FINNISH 'REDS'
Finns Declare Assistance Asked
Merely to Restore. Govem
rnsnt Authority; No Teu-
a " ton Vassalship Implied.
Stockholm, April . Ik German
troops numbering 15,000 are ''now
operating' along the southern coast
of Finland, where they already have
had several small battles with .the
Finnish rtbels, according to informa
tidn received by the Swedish govern
ment, x
Entente diplomats here have re
ceived reports that 30 to 40 Russian
submarines and destroyers and lour
or, .five battleships are still off Hel
singfors, the capture of which is
probably part of the German aim. It
is believed, howevar that the war
ships have all been rendered unserv
iceable by their crews.
Germans Not Masters.
American Minister Morris has had
a conversation with M. Linda, a Fin
nish capitalist and a brother-in-law
of General Mannerheim, military
leader of the, 'Finnish government
forces. The minister asked M. Linda
what America should consider as the
attitude of Finland toward Germany.
M. Linda declared emphatically that
the Germans merely had been asked
to , assist in restoring the govern
ment's power and that no vassalship
was implied. He said:
"Our whole history has bee'n one
long tale of (hardship and bloodshed.
Now, when freedom is in sight, ifo
body, Germany or any other country,
will be "permitted to dominate Finland."
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The Germans this morning were in
possession of about half of the villagt
of Phaegsteert and Ploegsteert wood,
on the Flanders front, just to the
north of Armentieres.
BRITISH WITHDRAW. i
London, April 11. The British havt
withdrawn from Armentieres, on the '
northern battle front, tht war office
announces, ,
Violent fighting continues all
along the ffont from LaBassee canal
to the Ypres-Comines canal. .
, On the front north of Armentieres
heavy fighting was continuing late
last night. There was little change'
in the British, positions. V ' ,
: ,The Aiciat statement -says:
"The. battle is continuing oh the
whole front from LaBassee canal to
the Ypres-Comihes canal. - .
"Revere fighting has taken place in
the neighborhood of the Lawe and
Lys canals, from Lestrem to Armen
tieres. Our troops have bejrn with
drawn from Armentieres,,. which is
full of gas.". '
Germans Make Advance..
"North of Armentieres there is little
change in the situation. Heavy fight
ing was continued at a late hour last
night in th? neighborhood of Ploeg-.
steert, MeSsines aW Wytschaete."
The Germans pushed on yesterday
from Croix du Bac, southwest of Ar
mentieres, and parties of them are re
ported in the neighborhood! of Steen
werck (about five miles west of Ar
mentieres), Reuter's correspondent at
British headquaters reports.
Yesterday noon the enemy occu
pied Lestrem, but in the course of
the afternoon, the British drove him
out and across the River Lawe.
Italians Repel Foe.
Rome, Wednesday, -April 10. -The
official statement from the Italian war
office today tells of artillery activity
throughout Wednesday between the -Asticc
and the Brenta. . " '
"At Asiago enemy patrols, faced by
patrols of .the allies, were turned
back," the statement y5.
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