FIRST AMERICAN
MILITARY FORCE
ARRIVES IN ITALY
Troops Direct From This Coun
try to Supplement Others
! Sent Froin France by
General Pushing.
By Associated Pre.
, Washington. June 29 Sate arrival
!.. nf Vi ftrtt rnntxnoent nf mil
itary force which will represent the
United Statei was announced today
ly General March, chief of staff. Sent
direct from this country, the troops
landed yesterday, to supplement
nthers ordered from France by Gen
eral Pershing.
-Sanitary units compose the greater
part of the first arrivals, but "other
special units" also were Included. Gen
eral March reiterated the statement
that the bulk of the combatant Amer
ican troops going to Italy will be sent
from the western front, their places
being immediately taken by new regi
ments from the United States.
"Xo definite plan for the increase of
'this force from the United States has
been reached," Secretary Baker said
later, in commenting - upon the an
nouncement. "It should have been em
phasized that the shipment of further
increments depends largely upon fu
ture' developments."
Force Materially Increased.
Material increase during the last
week in the force under General Per
shing was indicated by the announce
ment that five American divisions,
which had been brigaded with the
British for training, have been re
turned to the American army: While
the actions along the American sectors
during the last week have been en
tirely local in character, the chief of
staff said the results have shown that
American troops are more than hold
ing their own, and fine examples of
individual valor have been reported.
, Viewing the military situation as a
whole, General March was of the
opinion that it is extremely favorable
to the allies- He said the Austrian de
feat was extremely valuable, both
from a military and psychological
sense. General March had not received
official report of the British and
French successes on Friday, and,
therefore, withheld any comment.
Red Oak G. 0. P. Convention
Decides Against Wilkerson
Red Oak, la., June 29.(Specia1
Telegram.) At the republican county
convention, held here this morning,
the report of the board acting on the
candidacy of J. N. Wilkerson, who
received the highest number of votes
for the office of county attorney in
the June primary election was made,
declaring no nomination for the of
fice, since Wilkerson has not been ad
mitted to the Iowa bar, In the vote
of ' the convention which followed
Oscar Wenstrand, the present county
attorney, received 9S votes and Jv N.
Wilkerson 26. Wenstrand was de
clared the republican nominee.",.
i "
mm
in
CHAPTER XXVIII.
How War Begets Faith.
I have stopped for a wee digres
sion about my fund. I saw many
interesting things in France, and j
dreadful things. And it was imprssed
upon me. more and more that the
Hun knows no mercy. The wicked,
wanton things he did in France, and
that I saw! -
There was Mont St. Qucntin. one
of the very strongest of the positions
out of which the British turned him
There was a chateau there, bon lie
place. And hard by was a wee ceme
tery. The Hun has smashed its pret
ty monuments, and he had reached
into that sacred 'soil with hi: filthy
claws and 'dragged out the dead from
their resting place, and scattered their
helpless bones about.
He ruined Peronne in wanton fury
because it was passing from his grip.
He wrecked its old cathedral, once
one of the loveliest sights in France.
He took away the old fleurs-de-lis from
the great gates of Peronne. He tele
and carried away the statue of S .
Peter, still standing in the church
yard, but its thumb was broken off.
I found it. as I rummaged about idlv
in the debris at the statue's foot.
It was no casual looting that the
Huns did, j They did their work me
thodically, Systematically. It was a
sight to make the angels weep.
As I left the ruined cathedral I
met a couple of French ooilus and
tried to talk with them. But th :y
spoke "very leetle" English, and I
fired all my French words at them
in one sentence.
"Oui, oui. madame," I said. "En
core pomme du terre. Finil"
They laughed, but we did not tret
far with our talkl Not in French.
"You can t love the Hun much,
after this," I said.
"Ze Hun ,Ze bloody boche?" cried
one of them. "I keel heern all my
lifer:
I was glad to quit Peronne. The
rape of that lovely church sadlcncd
me more than almost any si 1
saw In France. I did not care to look
at it. So I was glad when
tored on to the headquarters cf the
Fourth army, where I had th 01
of meeting one of Britain's . -fs
soldiers. General Sir Henry " rwlin
son, who greeted us most cordially,
and invited us to dinner. ,
After dinner we drove on
Amiens. We were swinging ack
now, toward Boulogne, and were
scheduled to sleep that night at
Amiens which ihe Germans held or
a few days, during their first -t sh to
ward Paris, before the Marnc but did
not have time t- destroy.
Adam knew Amiens, and was .nade
welcome, with the rest of us, at
excellent hotel. Von Kluck had made
it his headquarters when he swunn
that way from Brussels, and it ws
there he planned the dinner he meant
to cat in Paris with the kaiser. Von
Kluck demanded an indemnity of
WILLIS
A TTORNE Y-GENERAL STA TE
jmied
' Subject to the
Decision of the Democrats of Nebraska
at the Primaries
His record as Attorney -General of Nebraska
the past four years speaks with greater, more
favorable, force than volumes of printed matter
laffil Laudet?
tfte War- Zone
cS? Zt?tsf?el in France" 7k
experiences ort iAe "Western
' COPVRI&HT 1918 I
$1,000,000 from Amiens to spare its
famous old cathedral.
It was late when we arrived, ut be
fore I slept I called for the booti
and ordered a bottle of ginger ale. I
tried to get him to tell me about oia
Von Kluck and his stay, but he
couldn't talk English, and jvas busy.
anyway, trying to open the bottle
without cutting the wire. dam and
Hogge are fond, to this day, of telling
how I shouted at him. finally:
"Well, how do you expect to open
that bottle when you can't even talk
the English language?"
Next day was Sunday, and we went
to church in the cathedral, which
Von Kluck didn't destroy, after all
There were signs of war; the windows
and the fine carved doors were bafiked
with sand bags as a measure ot pro
tection from bombing airplanes.
I gave my last roadside concert on
the road from Amiens to Boulogne.
It was at a little place called Ouct
and we had some trouble in finding it
and more in pronouncing its name.
Some of us called it Off. some Uwt! I
knew- I had heard the name some
where, and I now was racking my
brains to think as Johnson set up our
wee piano and I began to sing. Jus:
as I finished my first song a rooster
set up a violent crowing, in competi
tion with me, and I remembered 1"
"I know where I ami" I cried. "I'm
at Egsfl"
And that is what Oeuf means, in
English!
The soldiers were vastly amused
Thev were Gordon Highlanders, and I
found a lot of chaps among them trae
far awa' Aberdeen. Not many of them
are alive todayl But that day thev
were a gay lot and a bonnie lo. There
was a big Highlander who said to me
very gravely:
"Harry, the only good thing I ever
saw in a German was a lint sh bay
onetl If you ever hear anyone at
hame talking peace cut off their
headsl Or send them out to us, and
we'll show them. There's a job to do
here, and we'll do it.
"Look!" he said, sweeping his arm
as if to include all France. "Look at
yon ruins I How would you like old
England or auld Scotland to be look
ing like that? We're not only going
to break and scatter the Hun rule.
Harrv. If we do no more than that
it will surely be reassembled again
We're eoing to destroy it."
On the way' from Oeuf to Boulogne
we visited a small, out of the way
hospital, and I sang for the lads there.
And I ' was goinar around, afterward
talking to the boys on their cots, and
came to a chap whose head and face
were swathed in bandages.
"How came you to be hurt, lad?" f
asked.
"Well, sir." he said, "we were at
tacking one morning. I went over
the parapet with the rest, and got to
the German trench all right. I wasn't
hurt. And J went down, ot) feet deep
into one of their dugouts. Yon
wouldn't think men could live so-?
but. of course, they're not men
Democratic Candidate
for
Steles
ititi OMAHA SUNDA MM: JUMi
s If is ZPersoxal
3?igAiinG tfOftr
AAj
they're animalsl There was a lighted
candle on a shelf, and beside it a
fountain pen. It was just an .rdinary
looking pen and it was tair loot i
thought some chap meant to write
letter, and forgotten his pen when
our attack came. So I slipped it in
my pocket.
I wo days later I was going to
write a few lines to my mother and
tell her I was all right, so I thought
I d try my new oen. And when I un
screwed the cap it exploded and
well, you see me, Harry! It blew
half of my face away!"
The Hun knows no mercy.
I was glad to see Boulogne again
the white buildings on the white
hills, and the harbor beyond. Here the
itinerary of the Kev. Harry Lauder.
M. P.. lour, came to its formal end
But, since there were many new ar
rivals in the hospitals the population
of a base shifts quickly we were
asked to give a couple more concerts
in the hospitals where we had first
appeared on French soil.
A good many thousand Canadians
had just come in, so I sang at Base
Hospital No. 1. and then g.ve an
other and farewell concert at the great
convalescent camp on the hill. nd
then we said goodby to Captain God
frey and the chauffeursand to John
son, my accompanist, ready to go
back to his regiment now. I told
them all I hoped that when I came
to France again to sing we could re
assemble all the original cast, and I
pray that we may I
On Monday we took boat again for
Folkestone. The boat was crowded
with men going home on leave, and I
wandered among them. I heard many
a tale of heroism and courage, of
splendid sacrifice and suffering n bly
borne. Destroyers, as before, circled
about us, and there was no hint of
trouble from a Hun submarine.
On our boat was Lord Dalmeny, a
king's messenger, carrying dispatches
from the front. He asked me how I
liked the "show." It is so that nearly
all British soldiers refer to the war
They had earned their rest, those
laddies who were going home to Bri
tain. But some of them were half
sorry to be going 1 I talked to one of
them.
"I don't know. Harry," he said. "I
was looking forward to this leave ror
a lone time. I've been oot twi years.
My heart jumped with joy at first at
the thought of seeing my mother and
the auld home. But now that I'm
started, and in a fair way to ge there.
I'm no so happy. You see every
voting fellow frae my toon is awa
I'm the only one going back. Many
are dead. It won't be the same. I've
a mind just to stay on London till mv
leave is up, and then go back. If
I went home my mother would but
burst out greetin', an' I think I could
no stand that."
But, as for me, I was glad, though
I was sorry, too, to be going home
I "wanted to go back again. But I
wanted to hurry to my wife and tell
her what I had seen at our boy's
OF NEBRASKA
email
MEED
SO, 1918.
erave. And so 1 did, so -oon as 1
landed on British ground once more.
I felt that I was bearing a i. essage
to her. A message from our boy. I
felt and I still feel that 1 could tell
her that all was well with him, and
with all the other soldiers of Britain,
who sleep, like him, in the land of the
bleeding lily. They died for human
ity, and God will not forget
.And I think there is something for
me to say to all those who are to
know a grief such as I knew. Every
mother and father who loves a son
in this war must have a strong, un
breakable faith in the future life, in
the world beyond, where you will
see your son again. Do not give way
to grief. Instead, keep your gaze
and your faith firmly fixed on the
world beyond, and regard your boy's
absence as though he were but on a
journey. By keeping your faith you
will help to win this war. ror f
you lose it. the war and your oersonal
self are lost
My whole perspective was changed
by my visit to the front. Never
again shall I know those moments of
black despair that used to come to
me. In my thoughts I shall never be
far away from the little cemetery hard
by the Bapaume road. ' And life would
not be worth the living for me did
I not believe that each day brings
me nearer to seeing him again.
I found a belief among the soldiers
in France that was almost universal.
I fpund it among all classes of men
at the front; among men who had,
before the war. been regularly religi
ous, along well ordered lines, and
among men who had lived just ac
cording to their own lights. Before
the war. before the Hun we.it mad,
the young men of Britain thought
little of death or what might come
after death. They were gay and care
less, living for today. Then war
came, and with it death, astride ot
every minute, every hour. And the
young men began to think of spiritual
things and of God.
Their faces, their deportments, may
not have shown the change. But it
was in their hearts. They would not
not show it. Not they! But I have
talked with hundreds of men along
the front. And it is my conviction
that they believe, one and all. that if
they fall m battle they only pass on
to another. And what a comforting
belief that isl
"It is that belief that makes us in
different to danger and to death," a
soldier said to me. "We fight UTa
righteous cause and a holy war. God
is not going to let everything end for
us just because the mortal life quits
the shell we call the body. You may
be sure of that."
And I am sure of it, indeed!
(The End.)
Finn's Band Will Give Two
Concerts at Manaaw Today
Finn's band concerts this afternoon
and evening at Lake Manawa include
en arrangement of popular songs com
posed by Mr. Finn and also a patrio
tic march, "Freedom For All For
ever," written by Cogely-Bock, Oma
ha men. Although the war songs pre
dominate in the program, - several
dance songs and classical airs are in
cluded. Killed in Aerial Combat.
Paris, June 29. Capt Marcel Dou
mer. commandant of a French esca
drille, was killed during an aerial
combat at Villers-Cotterets yesterday
He is the third son of Senator Paul
Dnumer to fall in action.
OF
Bill of La'dina With First
Load of Freight, New Order
niirnr in Helav resulting from vio
lating nf this rule. Omaha railroads
after July 1 will refuse to accept ship
ments ot outbound treignt trom uma-
ha merchants unless tne tirst ioaa
delivered at the platform is accom
panied by a bill of lading.
Fancy Stationary Taboo
In United States Mails
Fancy stationary and odd-shaped
envelopes will not be tolerated in
:ptj&4tf
lip? f FV?
fyft '$ 1
and Careful Dressers
WHETHER it be a flannel shirt for
general all-round comfort, indoors
or out, or a neck band shirt for dress or business,
for long wear and satisfactory service, the Racine
Label is your safest guide.
She Knows His Choice
A distinctive shirt all good grades and all good
shades. Collar attached, or neck band. Every
Racine shirt is good, or we make it good.
1KeChas.4lshtd6rf.CQ
Soft
Shirt
Specialists
for 34
Years
If yoj do not find the Facine shirt promptly, write and tell ut
the name of your favorite dealer and we will tee that you ars
supplied. Insist on the Racine.
Union Mads
fc-W V." ' M
. I a t At ::'
I i
Sjumnn ntmmt wmn'l , ir lift r,V'" '" B
Hi ...in ii mi mi i ii iii irir rr n yw mwwif'wro-ywwff u i mn.ir
n q i wm iiiwwiiiia MwiirtiinimiMitfiiiwnninr i ai iirrrrrrrffi awnrnirtnyiwiii ftwniiw mmnm
STRICTLY AN
AM-ERICAN
. ' I T?n!tl StatM nntal
war times aim
officials have asked that only stand
ard sized white envelopes be used for
mailing purposes.
Addresses on colored envelopes
especially dark tints, are hard to reac
and because of heavy mails and thc
war shortage of labor it is a patriotic
duty to do everything possible tc
facilitate the work of the Postoffict
department.
Extremely small or odd-shaped en
velopes hinder the work of stamping
and stacking the mail. Patriots art
asked to curtail their whims in regard
to individual style of writing paper
until tne war is
Keen Buyers ,
Soft
Shirts
For Dress or Sport
ft
V
