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"The Stars and Stripes ' Forever." CONSUL GENERAL POOLE PREPARES TO QUIT MOSCOW r. American Official destroys His Code and Records, En trusts U. S. Affairs to Swedish Consul, Demands ' Safe Conduct and Warns Bolshevik Leaders They f Will Be Held Responsible for Reprisals. Washington, Aug. 14. Official dispatches today., from American Consul General Poole in Moscow lifted the curtain for a moment and revealed an amazing train of events in that city. ; "' ' '. N Consul General Poole, after witnessing the violation of the French and British consulates and the arrest of the consuls gen oral and their staffs, destroyed his code book and papers and turned the affairs of the American consulate over to the Swed ish consul, at the same time demanding safe conduct from the country for himself and his associates. been arrested and the bolsheviki have announced they would hold them as hostages because of the attack on the soviet government by British and French troops at Archangel Safe Conduct Refused. Members of the French and British military missions stationed in Mos cow were refused permission to leave the country in spite of a previous promise of safe conduct. It is possible that since the send : ing of Consul General Poole's tele grams, which began on July 29 and continued until August 6, the situa tion may liave changed, because it is reported that Lenine and Trotzky, the bofshevik leaders, have fled and "ine r soviet "tjOTcrniiicu i m musiuw may have been-overthrown. Should fhe situation be unchanged, the American consul general's action in turning his office over to Sweden, will not affect the status of other American consuls in Russia as they have been working with the local governments throughout Russia where pro-ally feeling is strong. Declares State of War. The story is told in sequence in ! the State department's official an , nouncement of its advices from Mr. l'oole. It follows: "The department has now received several telegrams from Consul Gen eral Poole at Moscow concerning re cent events in that city. Following is a summary of them: "One of the telegrams, similar in character to a previous message re ceived through other channels, states : that on July 29, Lenine declared re - peatedly before an official gathering of the Soviets that a state ot war ex isted between the Russian republic and the allied powers. Because of this the diplomatic representative in Moscow of Great Britain and the consular representatives of France. Italy and the United States visited the commissariat for foreign affairs , and inquired if Lenine's declaration should not be considered a declara tion of war, involving the rupture of de facto relations and the departure of the consuls. Tchitcherin said that it need not be so understood, that it was a state of defense rather than a (Continued on Fag Two, Column Three.) Captain Rtzmorris, Noted British Airman, - Dies in Flight in U. S. Cincinnati, Aug. IS. Captain James Fitzmorris of the British Royal fly ing corps was killed just west of this city today when his engine died just after he rose from the grounds of the Western Hills Country , club to com plete the last lap of a journey from Indianapolis to Cincinnati and his plane crashed to earth. American and British aviators planned a gala day. A number of Americans from the Dayton field, led by Major Claud K. Rhineheardt, who had flown from Mineola, were to meet here the British flyers who were com ing from Indianapolis under the lead ership of BrigT Gen. Charles F. Lee. Brigadier General Lee an jounced that Captain Fitzmorris had a total of 29 German planes to his credit. Dur ing the three years of service on the front, Captain Fitzmorris was deco rated'with the cross of the Belgian Legion of Honor and the military cross with one bar added in honor of additional heroic services performed after receiving the cross. i Demonstration . Thwarted By Arrest of 29 Women Washington, Aug. 14. Twenty--iine women were arrested by the po lice in Lafayette square, opposite the White House, ' late today, when a third attempt was made to stage a woman's oaitv demonstration there against the senate's delay in acting on the federal suffrage amendment. The police held the women until 'evening crowds and then released them. ' - . . FASCINATING! The VOL. 48-NO. 50. ttZ2SmSft w OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE REPORT QUICKLY DENIED Washington Officials Declare No Political Entanglements Are Involved in Partici pation in War. London, Aug. 14. According to the Evening News, Lord Reading, the British ambassador to the United States, who is here, will discuss with Premier Lloyd George and Arthur J. Balfour, minister of foreign affairs, proposals for a closer Anglo-American co-operation, both during the war and afterward. The newspaper says the proposals involve an offensive and defensive alliance in which the co operation of other democratic nations will be welcomed. t ' Lord Reading's visit has mainly to do with financial readjustments con nected with the assumption by the United States of responsibility for loans to allied nations heretofore borne by Great Britain, the Evening News says, and with the conclusion of negotiations for certain further loans in which the United States, Great Britain and France are to par ticipate. No Political Alliance Planned. Washington, Aug. 14. It was stated authoritatively today that the subject of a British-American offen sive and defensive alliance never has been discussed or even suggested. The understanding here is that Lord Reading's visit to London is to re port personally upon his work in the United States and to acquaint him self fully with developments at home. Any sort of political alliance with a foreign nation would be contrary to American traditions and officials of President Wilson's administration have been careful always to empha size that nothing of the kind is in volved in the participation of the United States in the world war as a co-belligerent of the nations fighting Prussian autocracy. i Joseph Pulitzer Enlists. St. Louis, Aug. 14. According to a dispatch from Washington, Joseph Pulitzer of St Louis, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has enrolled there in the naval aviation corps', Are 'You Reading Oh, Money! Money! By ELEANOR H.ORTER. Author of "Pollyanna" and "Just David." Today's Installment on Page 12 ' l 1!. Ux:'jf i ' DIVERTING! "OH, MONEY! MONEY!" NOW RUNNING AS A SERIAL IN THE BEE Om 1 : 1 : 1 1 ' NEW DRIVE BY ALLIES IS EXPECTED Initiative Wrested From Enemy by Field Marshal Foch by V Two Blows He Has Already Struck. By Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 14. A new drive against the German positions either at Flanders or between the Oise and Soissons is expected by many army officers here as a result of the slow ing up of the advance in the Picardy theater. Outlining the situation at his mid week conference today, General March, chief of staff, confined his statements to pointing out that the Germans have now been forced back until they are not within SO miles of Paris at any point. The head of the army has previously laid stress on the fact, however, that the greatest advantage won by Field Marshal Foch in a military way is in having wrest ed the initiative from the enemy. N Capture of Noyon, Foreseen. The opinion prevailed among other officers that the present struggle around Roye an a Lassigny would soon terminate in the capture of these points, to be followed by the taking of Noyon. In the course of his discussion Gen eral March said that General Persh ing now has l;25ct000 American troops organized into the first army corps. Presumably the Americans on the British flank in Picardy, identified by the chief of staff as the 131st in fantrv of the 33d (Illinois national guard) division' are among those stiir brigaded for training. It appeared possible to some offi cers that the organization of the first American army might be followed by an all-American attack at some point on the line which it holds beyond Verdun, where there has been no re cent fighting. Paris Freed of Menace. The primary purpose of the two blows that Marshal Foch has struck has been realized. . Both in the Aisne Marne battle and again in Picardy, the attacks were defensive measures to free Paris from the menace of the two wedges the enemy had driven in that direction. The value of the drives in this respect was pointed out by General March today. Officers here, therefore, anticipate a complete change in the character of the fighting in the next phase of the battle, with Foch's armies assuming the offensive in the fullest sense of the word and striking to force the enemy back in such manner that he cannot avail himself of his old Hin denburg line of defenses. It appears very probable to some observers that the Flanders front might see the next blaze kindled with a double drive by British forces to pinch out the salient there as it has been pinched out at the Marne and again in Picardy. Bohemia Is on the Verge of Rebellion London, Aug. 14. Turmoil in Bo hemia has resulted in the execution of 74 Czech soldiers and wholesale arrests in many raids, newspapers of Munich and Dresden say, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Zurich. The Hungarian garri sons have been reinforced and arms are being confiscated. Munich newspapers say it is be lieved that even a slight incident will bring about a general uprising in Bohemia. I Wilson's Principles Adopted I As Socialist Peace Terms New York, Aug. 14. William Eng lish Walling, secretary of the Social Democratic league, made public to night the text of the organization's in structions to its mission now visiting the allied countries. This was done, Mr. Walling explained, because the league had received information that certain statements of members of the mission had beenused by "pacifist fanatics" in Europe to give the im pression 4he American people were not behind the president. The following were their mstruc tions in regard to the proposed in ternational socialist conference: "1. AH delegates admitted to the conference must accept 'as the min imum peace, terms of democracy the 14 principles formulated by President Wilson on January 8, and the similar peace terms adopted, by the entente socialists and the British labor party at London on February 20. . "2, All delegates must recognize this war as being a war between autocracy , and democracy, and must be doing all in their power to bring about the triumph of democracy. "2. All delegates from autocratic aha Daily Chicagoans Don Australian Uniforms to Get Into Fight Washington, Aug. 14. The 16 Chicago boys recently dec orated by King George for valor probably were engaged in the Fourth of July fight at Hammel and won their laurels because they were not to be denied their share of the fighting. It is now known that just before the zero hour the British commander felt that some of the American troops had not been long enough in training to go over the top and ordered them out of the line. With much protesting of regrets the American soldiers retired and their Australian comrades with other Amer icans went over and helped take the town. When the casualties were counted American soldiers were found in the dressing stations dressed in Australian uniforms. It developed that the Americans, after retiring to the rear, had found Australian comrades not in the fighting, traded uni forms with them and then worked their way back to the Aus tralian units and went over the top with them. The troops which performed the heroic feat have not fin ally been identified, but it is known that Illinois troops were in the fighting on that day before Hammel and it is believed that the 16 Chicago boys decorated by the king probably were among the daredevil heroes who were not to be kept out of their chance. SUBMARINE GAS ATTACK THEORY HELD ERRONEOUS No Explanation Given, How ever, a to Source of the Fumes Which Overcame Washington, Aug. 14. Although final reports of the investigation into the "gas attack" on Smith's Island, North Carolina, last Saturday have not yet reached the Navy department, there were strong intimations today that the "gas" was not from a German submarine, as first reported. No ex planation of the incident has been of fered and none probably will be until complete information is at hand. It is understood there is reason to believe that no submarine was in the vicinity of the island at the time six men in the coast guard station and lighthouse were reported to have been overcome. The theory that a subma rine had discharged gas-laden oil on those waters never was accepted by many naval experts and fishermen liv ing in that vicinity have insisted that no submersible could have approached close enough to the island to dis charge gas that would have remained effective 'until the oil carrying it had drifted in with the tide. The only reports of further opera tions by the raiders now in American waters reaching the Navy department today gave additional information re garding the torpedoing of the oil tank isteamer Frederick R. Kellogg, the name of which was given in naval dispatches as Henry S. Kellogg. Seven men of the crew who are miss ing are believed to have gone down with the ship, which sank in five minutes. The Bee' 8 Exposure of Sen. Norris? War Record Arouses Much Attention ' Thedford, Neb.. Aug. 14.-To the Editor of The Bee: I congratulate you upon your courage in exposing the record of Senator Norris have no personal enmity to Senator Norris, but his record makes him impossible as a candidate. He should never be nominated nor elected. F. M. CURRIE. countries must be using their full power for the immedate overthrow of their autocratic governments." Explaining these, Mr. Walling said: "The importance of these instruc tions are clear when it is realized that without them an international so cialist conference would be com posed of at, least 90 per cent of kaiserists, bolsheviki, pro-Germans, pro-bolsheviki, pacifist fanatics, pa cifist compromisers and neutrals. "And the power and threat of these treacherous forces must not be under estimated even - in England pnd France. Of the 300 parliamentary candidates of the labor party so far chosen some 225 are pacifists. While there is little danger pat a majority of these can be elected, there is grave danger that very many may be. In France two-thirds of the socialist party, led by Longuet, and an even larger part of the unions are in the pacifist camp, in bitter opposition to their own government and anxious to meet any and all enemy socialists the Scheidemann Kaiserists specihcal ly included." 15, 1918. WiiWSTmJST SS": TWO CENTS. MRS. HERDMAN SAYS LIVED IN CONSTANT FEAR Wife of Former Supreme Court Clerk in , Divorce Pleading Tells of Husband's Work as; Lobbyist. Listening toecret and mysterious political plots' in the dead of night. when large sums of money were handled and discussed, was the lot of Mrs. Kathryn Herdman when her husband, R. E. Lee Herdman, now! an Omaha lawyer, was a lobbyist in the legislature , at Lincoln, according to allegations in her amended petition for divorce filed in district court Wednesday. Mrs. Herdman is asking divorce and custody of two minor children. ' The political activities referred to occurred at the Herdman home in Lincoln, according to the allegations in the petition. ' Mrs. Herdman alleges that a year or so after her marriage to Mr. Herd man in June, 1902, he quit his posi tion as clerk of the supreme court in Lincoln to take up the "business" of lobbying in the legislature. She alleges he informed her at the time that "lobbying was dangerous busi ness. Lived in Constant Fear. She alleges that she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown at the time, following the birth of a child. but the nightly sessions were forced upon her and that she constantly feared that something might happen to bring disgrace upon the family. Mrs. Herdman alleees that her hus band at all times since their marriage was particularly cruel and harsh and because the two children were girls, he was continually angry, saying "girls are no good." she says following the birth of the two children she was in poor health, but Mr. Herdman objected strenuous ly to having a doctor for her, saying "there is nothing the matter with you," and that he informed the doctor he would not pay the bills. She al leges that he was parsimonious in money matters and never took' her to places of amusement, never accom panied her to church or introduced her to his friends. She alleges he told her that he was used to associating with senators and bankers and could not take her into this high class of people. She alleges that she upbraided him for not quitting the lobbying business and finding real work and that he said people thought him rich and he would not humiliate himself by work ing. Mrs. Herdman alleges that her hus-' band is now in possession of $35,000 worth of money and property find asks for suitable alimony. Two Divisions Sent To Kaiser s Aid When 20 Were Demanded Geneva, Aug. 14. Twenty divisions of troops were demanded of Ger many's allies by General Ludendorff during the retreat from the Marne, according to. the Democrat, which re ceived the news from German sources, Austria-Hungary refused, but after General Ludendorff had made threats. Vienna sent two divisions to the west em front. Schooner Is Safe. Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 14. Owners of the fishing schooner On Time, previously reported sunk by a German submarine, said today the ves sel was safe in an Atlantic port. B EE FOE RETREATS ON FIVE-MILE FRONT NORTH OF ALBERT Trenches Found Untenable in Face of British Activity; French Fight Their Way Forward Toward Lassigny Massif and Thiescourt Plateau and Further South Capture Ribecourt. . . By Associated Press. North and south of the Somme the Germans have lost fur ther important ground. In the former region they have evac uated their positions over a five-mile front to the British north of Albert, while in he latter they have been beaten back in the" hill and wooded district just north of the Oise river by the French. j:r,N.;;i German front lino tronrViM of Rtgiimnnt.u.,,.1' c.. Puisieux-Au-Mont and Bucquoy have been found untenable by the enemy in the face of the recent activity by the British all along the line from Albert to Arras, while the French have persevered in their violent attacks against the Germans on the sector which dominates the lower portion of the Picardy plain and the Oise valley, and have encroached further upon the Lassigny, Massif and the Thiescourt plateau and farther south have captured the important town of Ribecourt. B a . . A AnltlduAN LINtb SHELLED HEAVILY BY. HUN AVIATORS Troops Stand Up Well Under Bombardment; Machine Guns Planted Thickly by the Enemy. i By Associated Press., With the American Army on the Vesle, Aug. 14. From one end to the other of the Franco-American line be tween Soissons and Rheims and' far into the back areas, the Germans dropped bombs from the air before daylight today. The remainder of the day was confined to a sluggish reciprocal artillery duel. Un the flanks ot the position, which are held by the French, light attacks were repulsed during Tuesday night. The French also were sub jected to bomb attacks. At no points has there been any alteration in the line. Not since the German retreat halted have there lie en aerial raids of the magnitude of the one today. The Americans stood up well under the bombardment. The front line was pounded and almost every village and the roads between Were subjected to the bombardment, but the great num ber of bombs fell on unoccupied ground. This was taken Jio indicate that the German air men were strik ing more or less blindly. Allied anti-aircraft guns hampered the en emy somewhat. t v The present German line, which is still , regarded as only a temporary one, depends on a defense of . ma-i chjne guns and airplanes. The en emy has concentrated machine guns at about one for every 50 yards, a density rareljr effected. Their aerial defense relatively is far superior to any established hitherto on this front. Sneak Thief in Hotel Gets Salesman's Gems A sneak thief entered the apart ment of N. C. Baum, a traveling sales man, at the Claremont Inn, forced open a grip and took diamond stick pins, cuff buttons and rings to the value of $500. Edith Sears, negro, an employe of the inn, was arrested on suspicion, The woman, it is said, telephoned to a male acquaintance in Council Bluffs she was going to give him some pretty shirts and wanted to see him before she left the city; Russians Impressed Into Kaiser 8 Service By Flying Columns London, Aug. 15. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Vladivostok dated Sunday says the Germans al ready are conscripting Russians on a small scale. "According to stories of prisoners taken by the Czecho-Slovaks," says the dispatch, "German flying col umns are impressing males from 18 to 45 years of age and are bringing those who disobey the mobilization order; before Germanized revolu tionary tribunals, which condemn them to death. "These conscripted - units have German company and platoon com manders and are . stiffened by 20 Germans or Magyars to every 60 Russians." j THE WEATHER Nebraska Partly cloudy to day and Friday; warmer today Thermometer Readlncti S a. in.. 1 p. m. S p. m. S p. m. t p m. 1p.m. m r..'.. ...... 7 ;.m 81 .83 83 . m..,. ., V p. m R p. m....... . m..,.. . ..7 .67 .68 .76 14 B. Rl ......7S 11 a. m 75 o p. m. ...... .78 13 in ..,..78 I P. m ,... SO T Unofficial reports have announced the capture of Lassigny by the French and of all the German posi tions between the western outskirts of Bray-Sur-Somme and Etinehem by the Australians. v --y Allies Held Back.. From the Somme to the Oise, ex cept in the latter (region where the French have made further gains, the Germans seemingly have had further success in holding back the allied troops and still are in possession of Chaulnes and Rove, unon the canture of which the efforts of the British and French have been centered. On this central part of the battle front the enemy continues to deliver violent counter attacks and also has further' reinforced his line with men and sruns and is using them without'stint to re tain his positions, realizing that their capture would spell disaster. The giving up of front line trenches north; of Albert may mean the Ger mans foresee the ultimate success of the American and British operations along the Somme. In any event the retrograde movement seemingly indi cates that thi 10-mile salient between Beaumont-Hamel and the Bray on the must give way in order that the Ger man front here may come into align- WWl-ll-lV. TVMS fHUVl S. Ita ' BUAi IIU W mem wiin mat in ine soutn across tne Somme. Probably the Germans pur pose to readjust their front from the Somme to Arras. - v French Gain Important Route. The capture of Ribecourt by the French marks an important eooch in the offensive which has for its imme diate purpose the freeing of the re gion between the Somme and the Oise. As a gain from the strategic standpoint it ranks with the taking bv the French of the forest and hill po sitions between the Matz and he Oise, which has brought the French almost to the gates of Lassignv. Through Ribecourt lies an open route up the Uise valley to Woyon a route by rail and the big national thorough fare, not to mention the canal which parallels the roadways for: the greater part of the way , Noyon is only a little more than six miles , northeast of Ribecourt Although they are still encounter ing violent resistance, the French are continuing to make progress through the wooded and hilly country between , the ,Matz and the Oise, where , th Germans from recesses in the forests, on spurs and in the canyons are using machine guns innumerable. Gas also is being loosed in great quantities by the enemy. Almost entire control of the Thiescourt plateau and the other high ground on this sector is now in the hands of the French. , -' . 1 , . ..''-. Eleven-Year-Old Girl May Die as Result Of Auto Accident Harriett Barrows, il-year-ol' daughter of H. W. - Barrows, 261 Camden avenue, was run down and seriously, if not fatally, injured at 8 o'clock last night at Twentieth street and Grand avenue by an automobile driven by Miss Gertrude Curtis,, 1701 Davenport street, Miss Curtis was placed under arrest after she had taken the injured girl to the Swedish Mission hospital. The little girl on roller skates had attempted to cross Grand avenue just as the Curtis automobile swung around the corner. A rapidly moving auto came up on the other side of the Curtis car, and in operating her cV. in order to avoid a collision Miss Curtis struck-the girl. A hast examination at the hos pital showed that the girl suffered in ternal injuries from which she may die. Miss Curtis was released on $1,000 bonds, : 1