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1 I) N' v 1 The Start and Stripes Forever." DECISIVE CLASH OF High Commands on Brth Sides May Be Preparing for Combat From Rheims to North Sea. :' , I By Associated Press. v Washington. July 26. Behind the apparent lull in the struggle around the Aisne-Marne salient today, the high commands of the allied and Ger man armies may be setting the stage " for the decisive battle of the war. In that event it seems more than likely to. observe here that the fourth anni versary of the conflict wil see a flame of fighting raging from least of Rheims to the North Sea, but with the crucial conflict in progress some- where just north of the Marne. There is nothing as vet in reports to show General Foch's plan. Flick ers of fighting have occurred to'ihe north that may have more than local significance behind them. There is some evidence of a feeling here that the time has not come yet when a sufficient American army has been as- ' sembled in France to warrant pass ing definitely to offensive tactics. It was recalled today that General March recently indicated to members of congress that this was not to be expected until later in the vear, The situation has changed greatly at the ; front since then, however, and only , developments there will" show what ' decision, has .beeil.ade-?-:--.-;--'W 4; . - Tables Turned on Enemy. . At first it appeared that the fierce .counter attack launched by ; General Foch on the Western side of the sAisne-Marne salient was intended on ly to offset the German effort to en- circle Kheims and turtner exploit me menace toward Paris. As success followed success for the ; Franco- American troops, and as the Italians nd British joined, the nature of the operation changed. It was clear that the tables had been turned on the enemy and that the nutcracker tatics he had (attempted to apply to Rheims were in turn being applied to his armies. 1 , The enemy was quick to realize his ' danger. Behind a stubborn rear guard he drew back across the Marne and today was apparently still struggling northward out of the depth of the oclset in which he had been caught, o save his advanced forces here, re serves have been called to hold apart v the- jaws of the great trap until the armies of the crown prince could es cape. ''' Aims to Clear Pocket. Yesterday the .advance of the Brit ish northwestward from the region of Rheims aroused hope among offi cials here that the allied forces might be able to. spring the trap. The lull today seemed j to -indicate General Foch, was not prepared at this time to. press his advantage t6 his full power in that direction. The pocket is not as yet sufficiently narrowed at the top to prevent -withdrawal of the German, armies falling back from the Marne, officers believe. -That the main pressure of the allied troops today was rather against the blunt apex than against the extended sides of the' salient was taken as an indication that the 1 supreme com mander was bent on forcing his op ponent out of the pocket than to trap him in itv ? Should General Foch feel that he should still await the coming of more" American . troops to give a decided preponderance in numbers, officers anticipated that he would continue to - harry the retiring enemy, flank and front, exploiting his present victories to the fullest possible extent and forcing the enemv to ; decide uponJ making a stand. When that line was reached or approached, however. a sudden transfer of allied offensive tactics to the Picardv or more prob ably, the Flanders front would ..be natural. . , Omsk Provisional Government Annuls , :i Bolshevik Decrees London, July 26 The provisional government at Omsk has assumed su preme 'authority in Siberia and pro claimed Siberia's , independence, ac cording to a Reuter dispatch from . Peking, under date of Tuesday. , The provisional government has an nulled all Bolshevik decrees and' re established the Siberian duma. ' Ap proval .of these actions has been re quested of the Vladivostok govern- went ... ..' Hibernians Trust Wilson. ' . ' ' 'Atlantic City, July 26. Confidence Ipsa situation was expressed m a resolution adopted today by the na tional directors of the Ancient Order 17 AR NEAR l9i Hibernians, in session here GET YOUR The VOL. 48. NO.'34. , liter m ' M Omha EDWIN D. LINDSAY DIES OF WOUNDS WHILE AT FRONT WaannamMBHa t Grandson of J. R. Lindsay Suc f cumbs to Injuries Received in No Man's Land Mid die' of June. Edwin D Lindsay, grandson of J. R. Lindsay, is the latest Coucil Bluffs boy to fall a victim of the Huns. A telegram from Washington re ceived late yesterday afternoon con veyed the intelligence to Mr. apd Mrs. Lindsay that their grandson had died from the effects of wounds re ceived in No Man's land the night of June 20. On that night, after writing a let ter to his grandparents, which he left incare of Lt Robert Decbert of the Fifth battalion signal corps, field EDWIN L. LINDSAY. artillery, to which he was assigned, he was sent with a comrade to repair a telephone line which had been put out of commission The point was under heavy fire at the time and the men were exposed in the open. They had just finished repairing the break when a Hun shrapnel fell amost upon them. Young Lindsay was badly wounded about the legs. He was carried quickly to the field hospital and later transferred to a base hospi tal. Lt. Deckert enclosed the letter the boy had just finished writing to Mr. ;and Mrs. Lindsay in an appre ciative one of his own in which he recounted the story, declaring "I have never seen a man who was more cheerful and courageous than your grantison when we were carrying him in. I'm proud to have men like him in our outfit." i In a letter written for him by a Red Cross nurse at the base hospital he told his grandparents that he had "had an accident" which would prob ably bring him home about Christ mas, and saying that he would not tell what it was because he did not want them to worry. J. R. Lindsay is head of the Lindsay Hide and Fur company, Council Bluffs and Omaha. They live at 948 Perrin avenue, Council Bluffs. Young Lindsay was a member of the Broadway Method ist church.' . O ' 1 ' ' D a German Military Writers Compliment General Foch Amsterdam, July 26. The impres sion that the Franco-American counter-offensive has made on the Germans is illustrated by . an articles written by Deputy Traub of the Prussian low er house, a the paniGerman news paper, the Tageliche Rundschau. Traub fiercely lashjes the croakers who "dare doubt the official headquarters' reports of .victories. He makes a desperate appeal for '!more nerve" and "more faith" and blusters thus: ' . VH- 'Der Alte Fritz' (Frederick The Great), walked thestreets today and saw the people's long faces he would say: Remember, the seven years' war -when -fortune was often dead against us. Why grumble because af fairs on tpe Marne are not going as well' as 'expected? Devil take.youl You ought to be ashamed of your selves!" . ;C"S -:. ' ' The German military commentators have begun complimenting the allied commander,. General Foch, now that they are no longer able to conceal his success from 'the German- public The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin, for instance, refers to him repeatedly as an "able leader," while General Ar- deane, in the, Tageblatt, frankly ad mits that the shortening of the Ger man line had become necessary as the result of the French generalissimo s "impetuous counter-offensive." WANT.ADS IN FOR UMAHA tHM4liM Mttar Mw M, IMM. P. 0. art at Hank I. W OMAHA, Dernburg's Justification of Lusitania Loss Prepared by Dr. William Bayard Hale New York, July 26. The speech of Dr. Bernhard Dern bunr at Cleveland in May, 1915, in which he attempted to justify the sinking of the Lusitania and which caused his ex pulsion from the United States was prepared by Dr. William Bayard Hale, according to ,a statement here tonight by Deputy State Attorney General Alfred Becker. A copy reader for the information service, Mr. Becker de clared, testified the address was "edited and re-edited" by Hale in New York and telegraphed to Dernburg the day it was de livered. Another revelation of the German propaganda activities before America's entrance into the war, included testimony of Dr. Hale that Dr. Edward A. Rumely, arrested recently in connection with the alleged Ger man purchase of the New York Evening Mail, was introduced to him in 1915 as "the special protege" of Dr. Dernburg. The introduction, -he said, was made by Dernburg. The attorney general's office made public code letters writ ten to persons in Germany by George Sylvester Viereck, editor of the former pro-German Fatherland, now called Viereck's Weekly ' ' 1 The letters were intercepted before the American declara tion of war. Since that time, according to Viereck's own admis sion he has sent mail to Germany through neutral countries. This action, according to authorities, is a violation of the trading with the enemy act. The Viereck code letters, some of which were dated in 1916, apparently were innocent communications on family and personal subjects, but, according to Becker, they contained in formation of political conditions in this country. (Continued on Page Two, Colnmn Two.) HUNS DEFEATED IN ATTEMPT TO RETAKE fdETEREN Regiment Wearing Special "Kaiser Karl" Shoulder Straps Mauled Severely by Britishers. By The Associated Press. - With the British Army in France, July 26. The German attack this morning near Meteren had even more disastrous results for the enemy than was first believed. The Germans intended to reach the Gaza road to the south of Mete ren, where they could menace the town. They sent over two companies from each regiment of the 12th di vision which has just replaced other troops who had been badly mauled during the month. The 12th division came up from Italy. One regiment wears special "Kaiser Karl" shoulder straps, won for its services in the Italian theater. This regiment will get no decora tions for the deeds performed today. Scotch troops inflicted heavy losses and prevented the Germans from get ting anywhere near their objective. The Germans managed to get , one small outpost; that was all. In the same locality the Austral ians are busy knocking the Germans about. Their shells have chewed up nearly all the cross roads, dumps and other targets within range. The rain of i the past few days has muddied this : front of swollen ' rivers and streams, making the low ground ex tremely soft and mushy. ' If the .Ger mans have planned to attack to the north it will not require much more rain to require a change in them. All the German newspapers speak of the recent operations as a "de fensive battle'? and General von Ar denne credits! General Foch with a plan to extend his line northward with thev object oiattacking the crown prince's army in the rear as well as on the flank. This, coupled with the difficult zigzag formation of the Ger man line, where the fighting is pro ceeding in the wooded wilderness to the southwest of Rheims, he says, makes a concentration of the German forces advisable.. The commentator goes on at great length to explain to his German readers that this means nothing serious and, if any ground is yielded, it is sf course enemy ground. In Vorwaerts, Col. Richard Gaedke pays a handsome tribute to General Foch for profiting by past experience and gaining his end by launching a flank attack. , ,"He .succeeded," Col onel Gaedke says, and he adds, what for a German is an astounding admis sion, "mainly because, the armed as sistance of the Americans proved ef fective." ...... . f :, "Tonnage and measures of safety at sea seem to Have been provided in sufficient measures for the bringing of hundreds of thousands of Ameri cans across the ocean,", continues this writer." THE BIG S UNDAY BEE BEFORE 9 O'CLOCK TONIGHT D SATURDAY, MORNING, JULY attorney general's inquiry into HOWELL CALLED BY NAVY TO JOIN SERVICE AUG; 15 flmaha Candidate for Nomina tion for Governor Says This Will Prohibit His Making Campaign. From a Staff Correspondent Lincoln, Neb., July 26. R. B. Howell, candidate for the republican nomination for governor at the forth coming primaries, announced tonight that he had received orders to report for active service in the navy August IS. Mr. Howell, who is 54 years old, holds a commission in the navy and has been on reserve. He refused to say what effect the call would have on his candidacy. Mr. Howell is re publican national committeeman for Nebraska. He served on an auxiliary boat during the Spanish-American war, Afr. Howell spoke to a small audi ence at the Lindell hotel tonight along lines with which the people of Nebraska are familiar and at the close of his address made the an nouncement that he had been accept ed for service in the navv. Name Booster Committee. The nearest Mr. Howell . came to giving a hint of what he would do was just before he read his an nouncement. - After outlining his platform, he said: "If vou believe in these things, I would like to have your support." t 11 It is the general opinion among Mr. Howell's followers that he will stick in the race and leave the cam paign to his friends. At the close of his address a com mittee, the membership of which will be given later, was authorized to see (Continued on Poire Two, Column Howard Sawyer Dies in Hospital of Fall , From U. P. Freight Car Howard Sawyer, 2252 North Twenty-fourth street, Union Pacific switchman, was killed by a fall from a moving freight . car in the South Side railroad yards Friday night. He struck the grotirid head first, crush ing his skull. He was rushed to the Swedish; Mission, hospital, where, he died about midnight. I As nearly as could be ascertained, Sawyer was knocked from the Car by a wire stretched between two posts across the track. The accident hap pened about 9:30 p. m. Sawyer was unconscious when picked up1 and re mained so tip until' the tare of his death. , . ... . ... He had been in the employ of the Union . Pacific, as switchman since a year ago. Before ' that time he had worked for the Missouri Pacific and C. M. .& O. railroads, putting in alto gether 15 years. . For several years he was a patrol man on the Omaha police force. Sawyer was 40 years old and is sur vived by his 'wife, Catherine, alid a 14-year-old daughter, Rhea. Mrs. Sawyer is a daughter of John Brady, night turnkey at the city ail AILY 27. 1918 tally Su.. J; outiltt Mill ( jmr)i Otlly. STRIFE ON LESSENS Allies ' Steadily Force Enemy Back; Big Guns Placed for Attack on Fere-En-1 Tardenois. By Associated Press. The ninth day of the allied offensive in the Soissons-Rheims salient saw a lessening in the intensity of the battle along the western side of the salient. Only mutual' bombardments were in progress. Along the Marne and southwest of Rheims the allied troops were still at deadly grips with the enemy. The Germans strove hard to hold back the French and allied troops in the forest north of the Marne, de bouching from the. woods in strong counter attacks. The enemy every where was forced farther back and the forests have been almost entirely cleared of Germans. French Push Northward. . Southwest of Rheims heavy rein forcements have been thrown along the front. In the region of Reuil, where the battle line, turns sharply toward Rheims, the French have cap tured several points of vantage, in cluding the village of Reuil. They have advanced northward, notwith standing the violence of the counter mow. - .' I -' ' " ' ; ' ": .. .. . , ; Td the norttiii's;vwIlhef mans are facing the British, the Ger mans have recaptured Mery and Hill 204, but the British have retained their hold on Vrigny and most of the other territory taken in that region. Eastward from Rheims in Cham pagne the French have now regained nearly all their old line positions and daily are harassing the Germans with counter attacks. Before the fighting died down along the western side of the Rheims-Sois-sons salient the villages of OulchyLe Chateau and Villemontoire were cap tured by French and American troops, who advanced their lines eastward of Oulchy gives the allied forces the key to the heights dominating Fere-En-Tardenois. which lies only a short dis tance to the east.' At Oulchy 40 guns and hundreds of prisoners were cap tured. Big Guns Pulled Up. Big guns have been pulled up for the capture of Fere-En-Tardenois when the time is ripe. Gun,s con tinue to throw shells from all angles into the1 German forces inside the big bag. While there has been no attempt by the Germans at a general retreat, an indication that a retreat is pur posed is shown by the fact that the enemy is using comparatively small forces of infantry on various sectors, depending mainly on his machine gun ners to retard .the progress of the allies. . In France and Flanders the Brit ish have been compelled to withstand several violent attacks by the Ger mans near Hebuterne and in the vi cinity of Meteren. The enemy in both sectors was repulsed with heavy casualties. - " On the other battle fronts the mili tary activity is nominal though con siderable fighting continues in Mace donia and Albania with the allied troops holding the upper hand, i Nine American While Leading With'the American Army on the Aisne-Marne Front, Wednesday, July 24. Col. Hamilton Smith of the United ' States army, died July 22, within a few hours after receiving a machine gun wound below the heart. Colonel Smith was making observa tions after a morning attack, in an tipation of improving the American positions south of Soissons, near Missy-Au-Bois. LtCol. Clark Elliot was killed by machine gun fire in the same sector while, inspecting the American front lines. ' ' ,.., Maj.'J. M. McCloud was wounded while leading his men when the Amer icans crossed the Soisson3-Arras road' during the offensive. He was wound ed in the left arm and in the left side by machine gun bullets, but after re The major was killed soon after wards by a high explosive shell. Soon after Major McCloud died, Lt James C Lodar was killed by machine gun fire near where McCloud fell. . v ... , '. H; On different days the following cap tains were killed by machine guns and shells, all of them leading their men when they fell: ; . James A. Edgerton, Julius A. Mood, WEST LINE tt Bee N. ) aitrt. 4.M Sooty. IZ.Mi TWO CENTS. ALLIED ADVANCE SLOWS DOWN BUT MEETS NO CHECK Ouchy-Ie-Chateau Captured and Fere-cn-Tardenou'Made Untenable by Artillery Fire; Fire and Explosions : Destroying Teuton Provisions and Other Stores ; Presage Withdrawal of Enemy Northward. : By The Associated Press. Paris, July 26. (Havas Agency.) .The latest news from ihe A!onQ.MaiTtfl 1o441a Imam 4a mamaIJamaJ U il. M4.MM.M newspapers to be particularly favorable. The entente allied progress, it is believed, has not yet come to an end.: Despite stubborn resistance the Germans have been obliged to give up Oulchy-Le-Chateau and it is thought that the Teutons cannot long hold Fere-En-Tardenois. i - x1 . ; ? ; La Liberte says the Germans must be considering a retreat to the banks of the River Vesle as fires and explosions areinul. tiplying in the German lines and" the Teuton provisions and other stores are in flames. The Germans, the newspaper adds, either must retreat or face disaster. v ' CROWN PRINCE HAS EXHAUSTED HIS RESERVES sixty-tive Divisions used on Champagne Front; Allies ' :iv'v Success Changes Situa t tion in the West. By Associated Press. ; ; London, July 26. As a result of the past week's activities the whole situa tion on the western front has been transformed. The Germans, accord ing to dispatches from the front, have used 65 divisions on the Champagne front, and the whole of ths crown prince's reserves have been exhausted. The only fresh reserves remaining to the Germans are less than 30 di visions attached to Crown ' Prince Rupprecht's armies. Last week it appeared certain that Prince Rupprecht would be called up on to launch an attack on the British front, but the enemy put off this at tack and the psychological moment for it probably has passed, for the German appear committed to the great battle in progress and cannot afford to start heavily on a dubious operation in another part of the front, according to the view of British ex perts. German Situation Not Untenable. ' The German situation in this sali ent, although awkward, is not unten able. The enemy's difficulties are not greater than those in which the Brit ish army was placed for many months in the Ypres salient, before the cap ture of Messines Ridge. The Ypres salient was five miles wide and five miles deep, and was dominated by the enemy. The present German sa lient is now 20 miles wide and 20 miles deep, and, similarly, is domi nated by the allied artillery.. Maxim Gorky Dying. Stockholm, July '26. (British Ad- mirality, per Wireless Press.) Max im Gorky, the Russian novelist and revolutionary prbpagandist, is dying, Officers Fall Men in Battle Alfred R. Hamel, James N. C. Rich ard, and James H, Holmes. Lieutenant Lodar. Captain Holmes and Major McCloud were buried at a crossroads in' a wheat field, two kilometers southeast of Missy au Bois. Colonel Smith was buried -t Orry la Ville, near Luzarches, and other officers were interred on he spots where they fell. , ,': ceiving first aid he continued fighting. Col. Hamilton A.- Smith and Lt. Col Clark R. Elliott who were killed in action in France had both served many years in the army. - Colonel Smith, a native of Wiscon sin, was a West Pointer, . On receiv ing 4iis commission as a second lieu tenant he was assigned to the Fifth infantry, serving later with the Third and 21st. - He attained field rank in 1912. and was made a colonel in the reorganization that followed the ex pansion of the regular army. He was 49 years old. - Lieutenant-Colonel Elliott, who was born in Ohio in 1872. began his career ' as a trooper , in the Third cavalry serving in the Spanish war as a second lieutenant in the 15th Min nesota infantry. ' Later he went to the Philiooines with the 35th infantry United States volunteers, and became J a major in the Philippine scouts. THE WEATHER For Iowa Fair j . . extreme west portion.2 Thermometer Readings! ' m. ...... tt i p. m. a. m 71 t p. m. 7 a. m..... It s p. m. S a. m. ......... 73 4 p. m. a. at 77 ( p. m, 1 a. m 79 p. m, 11 a, in 81 T p. m. IS Boon 81 m. m warmer i. . t ......... 8i ! 88 ......... 88 ......... 88 : T 88 j 8 . M ' V ' Yield Cantured Ground. ,1 London, July 26. The Germans to day retain virtually nothing of the ground they conquered in their great attack of July 15, along the Marne, says Reuter's . correspondent at French headquarters. East of Rheims, the correspondent adds, General Gouraud's army, by a series of brilliant local operations, has expelled the enemy almost every where from the narrow belt he occu pied in Gouraud's advanced tone. . Woods Cleared, of Enemy. With ths American Army on the Aisoe-Marne Front, July 26, 8 p. m. The allied offensive has slowed down, but has not been checked. Franco American, troops today forced back the Germans a bit farther north. The greater part of the fighting is taking place in the big forests north of th Marne and along the western flank of the salient. . " ' . The Germans ; with . artillerv aiwf machine gunsand strong: infantry de tachments left the northern edge of me rere, lournelle and Ris forests and battled cleverly and stubbornly to hold the advancing' allies until more progress couid be made in the transportation' "of their supplies, guns and general stores.' ; But despite the opposition some ground was gained. , The woods tonight have almost been freed of Germans. The Fere- En-Tardenois road extending from the front already is under such a' fire from the artillery as to make it use. less as , a supply artery.: , r With a slight push forward, by the : allied troops Fere-En-Tardenois will be- come untenable. Villemontoire has been restored to the allied, line, and from if ti aitia4 firf.'tls... -:(.. reach the Germans near Fere-En-Tardenois. v . . . Germans Using Gas. The Germans are usinc hah v. plosives, mixed : with sa shi-11 Americans estimate that 40 per cent of the German shells which fell on Thursdaynight 'and today contained gas. The German machine gun nests are numerous in the forests, hut the allies are gradually-tearing them to pieces with heavy shells! The bom-' bardment of the German ; lines con tinues mercilessly. " : , , There is little change in the ooera- tions on the southern arc of the salient south of Soissons. To. the west Oulchy-Le-Chateau - has been taken on. the north . bank of the Marne, ,- i ( ( The French and American troops are advancing further in La Fere for est "Ths Germans keep up a heavy fire, especially from their heavy guns, against the French and American lines, but their efforts are Ineffectual.' 2,000 Germans Dead in Small Area. The American troops advancing, along the Marne have discovered hun ( Continued on P Two, Colnmn Seven.) rnnce.vonDueiows Nephew Captured in ' Aisne-Marne Battle Paris, July 26. Among the prison-; ers captured in the Aisne-Marne bat? tie was a nephew of Prince von Bue low, the former ; German imperial chancellor. vt , . K The officer, who was a battalion commander, was astounded to hear' that there was a large American' m m mm . - army in France. . He said he had; been convinced, as had all Germans that the American soldiers in France did not exceed 50,000, T ; Among the heroes decorated by President Poincare in his present visit to the battle zone was a nephew, of Premier Clemenceau. . , Edward A. Rumely Life Story of Man Who Bought New York Mail for tht Kaiser on Page Sixteen of This Issue l A t 4 A
