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OF THE USSOCIATEDi PRESS. ated Prew If exclutljwly ie use for republlcatloni of Ited to It or not otherwise caper and also the local herein. of republlcatlon of special ireln also reserved. THE LINCOLN DAILY STAR fclTY A A A TH LINCOLN. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1917.

PAGES TWO CENTS ERMANS ON IN FLANDERS flSH GAIN MORE Ut MILE ON EIGHT QLE YPRES FRONT jnsive in Flanders is Complete Success General Haig's Forces--Bring in Prisoners By Hundreds. (Associated Press.) Oct. their offensive in the Ypres iy the British gained all their objectives on a ,000 yards and to a depth of 2,500 yards, Gen- iriek'B. Maurice, chief director of military at the war office announced today. They also tie village of Broadseinde.

TEUTON LINES. 10NT IN FRANCE AND ct. 4. Field Marshal 1 the offensive began to es this morning in some netrated the German of one mile and have of the Passchendaele hour the Germans were hundreds. already have penetrated le Hamlet of Broad- lie the cross roads ligh ways between Zon- orsled and Passohen- lire.

ie south, Cameron cov- had been much hard ft well in the rear. was along strongholds id the crucially import- German defenses along ele-Gheluvelt ridge. wing of the onrushing was battling forward vithin a short distance it had a footing on the stafel ridge, which juts Passchendaele ridge to ad crushed through the ladseinde ridge, which part of -the Passchen- chain. Congressman Reavis Discusses War At Commercial Club Luncheon. 4.

A successful raid" 3lanes on hostile posi- facedonian front is re- jfficial statement fiom today. The statement es made a most suc- i an extensive scale, enemy's camps and Belaschitza-Plamna. were scattered by ma- and one of several cn- s'hich attacked our for- down. All our led safely." Little Danger In Sending the Troops Across, He Says, Under Armed Guard. igrad Report.

Oct. the the Russian front, in lacobstadt, an artillery cvertty is in progress, fficial statement, inian front, in the Po- ie enemy left his ads and letired to a more "on. rg Calms rs of Germans Oct. Mar- iburg has made a genie congratulations sent i seventieth birthday, ished in the German the form of an appeal people to "remain unit- nble about what may he war because this aiscord into our ranks the hopes of our ene- that Germany will get for her security and id space will be given oaks for free develop- continues. "Keep your id your nerves firm, goal." Funds to neless Chinese Oct.

i at Peking, China, to- Red Cross for $200.000 400,000 destitute Chin Tsin flood district, sdsts, he reported. The council is considering 3 t. Ciptam William son of John E. P.eel- lisa been -nvaided service order for ight of Fcntonilicr J2-I3. 3 is a membor or par- East Tj-rone Redmond of the Rifles, nnd a was killed In a i As high as 300,000 American troops are estimated to have nlrendy crossed the ocean, and from a million to a million and quarter United States soldiers will be over there ready to fight by next spring.

This is what Congressman C. F. Reavis, of Falls City, declared in an this afternoon at the Lincoln 'ijgrjaal'MTeKlb'' Itm'clieon. He said mself would estimate 200.000 men already on the other side of the ocean, with transports loaded with so'-diers departing every day from this side. Apprehension that Grcrnan U-boats may send borne of tiies transports to the bottom was dispelled by tlie congressman, who declared that there very little danger, the transports going- under armed convoy as they are.

He pointed out the Canada has.sent 500,000 troops across and has never lost a man. German U-boats steer clear, said, when battleship cruisers are around, and he quoted his personil conversation with the captain of the Deutschland to prove it. Hammering Away. Speaking of the situation on the western front rolatne to Blitish drives," he said theie was no such thing. "The British and the allies are Pouring shot and into the German lines night and day to wear them out and demoralize their forces.

The 'drives' are of little fi'-icgic importance. "The allies could have had the German army defeated long ago--but at a sacrifice of men that the allied nations did not wish to make. "They are rightly saving their men, and spending more money in ammunition, so that with a weakened morale the Grferman people might come to the realization of the futility of militarism and form a government on which nations could rely." Congressman Reavis declared that the Japanese mission to the United States was with a view to Japan participating actively in the war on the- eastern front, and he forecasted such participation as soon as Russian- Siberian transportation facilities, reconstructed by United Stiles engineers was adequate for the sending of troops through Siberia. Russia To Survive. He said he was convinced that a durable republic would eventually be crystalized in Russia, but he doubted if Kerensky was the right man as since his greatest efforts now jwerc being bent on rectifying socialistic mistakes made at the stort of the revolution.

"A republic will be formed, but probably at the expense of counter revolutions and assassinations, but when it is once established, the United States can rest assured that her loans of confidence will be repaid every cent." This government has already loaned $100.000,000 to Russia and sent over 20,000 American engineers to reorganize railroad service, he declared. He related how a Russian surgeon and an American correspondent from Russia told a group of officials in Washington that early in the war an army of 112.000 Slavs poorly armed and equipped was reduced to 6,000 between on Say and Saturday night. This was to show that Russia was American Forces In Europe Will Take Advantage of Entente Experience. Yankee Ingenuity Not Forgotten, But Will Not'Be Relied Upon Entirely. AMERICAN TRAINING QUARTERS IN FRANCE, Oct.

3, The Associated carry on for the next six months or a year with the best that the French and British have evolved as a result of three years war experience, and to do our own experimenting entirely on the side" is the svist of the policy which has been largely adopted by the American army now in France and recommended to Washington. This policy applies to material and various instruments of war as well as to tactics and methods of handling men in the trenches. While many of the more serious students of war among the American officers believe beneficial improvements can be worked out by American ingenuity, inventiveness and resourcefulness, they roplize the most important problem just now is to get on with the war. They believe America can most quickly become a striking 1 force in the war by taking the best of what the British and French have proved to be useful and effective, and basing all building programs of the near future thereon. In the matter of tanks, for instance, officers who have mrule a special study of the there is much to be said in favor of both the giant British tanks and the smaller and faster French tanks.

They believe the American army should adopt both styles as an emergency measure building them immediately while American engineers are working out what may prove to bo a vast improvement over any tank now existing. There has been some disposition on the part of certain critics to belittle tanks because the Germans have made little use of them. Tho tank, however, is distinctively an offensive weapon while Germany on the western front is fighting- a purely defensive campaign. Both Great Britain and France seem to be putting every possible facility at the disposal of Americans who are studying both styles of fighting tactics. The fact that these styles arc changing constantly is one of the fascinations of the great game of war.

Airplanes albo are engrossing the attention of the army in France. The great weight of the Americans in air- i plane construction is expected to be felt eventually in this branch of the service. Report That Regiment Has Received Orders to Entrain for New York City. Reports have reached Lincoln that the Fifth Nebraska regiment, under Colonel H. J.

Paul, has received orders leave shortly for New York city where it will tako transports to France. According to the report, the Fifth is the first of the national guard organizations at Camp Cody, Derning, NT to receive its instructions. The Fifth, with an Iowa regiment, the only two national guard organizations which were not split up in the reorganization plans of the war department. With, the accession of guardsmen from other regiments it is now at war strength and in shape for service. GERMANS CRUMBLE BEFORE HAIG'S NEW DRIVE EAST OF YPRES.

-j General Haig has again hurled his forces ngiiinst the Gorman lines cast of Vprcs (1) and is meeting with complete suci-css according to latest reports from the battle front. The new gains of the British ncriously endangers the important railway line fiom Lille (2) to Ostend (3). WEATHER CONDITIONS. LINCOLN, Oct. Forecast till 7 p.

m. Friday: For Lincoln and vicinity: Fair to. night. Friday and Saturday; cooler tonight. For Nebraska- Fair tonight, Frl- Friday and probably Saturday; cool- er tonight.

The temperatures: 7 a. Co 111 a. m. -m. ,1 OS 1 'i 9 H.

G-l 10 a. 71 1 p. n.m UIT TEST Sim mm P. Todn--KoUitive midity -nas CO. More Litigation Over Potash On Sheridan Co.

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t.State Will Resist Attempt to Take Potash From Briggs Lake. Extra Tax for Men Making More Than $6,000 During Year WASHINGTON, Oct. and professional mrn and salaried men as well who have incomes Of more than $6,000 a year, face war profits tax of Per cent, in addition to the income surtaxes under the provisions of a section which has been discovered in the war tax bill. The section was not introduced on tho floor nor discussed either house of congress but was inserted by the confereps while they wore working in secret session to bling out the perfected bill. The war profits tax section of tho bill las a tax of 8 per cent on the net income of a "business or trade" when it exceeds $3,000 a year in tho case of a corporation, and $6,000 in the case of a partnership or an individual.

A subsequent section just discovered declares that a trade or business includes "professions and occupations." If this interpretation stands, professional business and salaried men will pay two taxes on their incomes. Another complication affecting tho state's control over potash, oil and gas found upon it.s school lands, which will noccssitutc additional litigation to clear way, lias arisen in Sheridan county where a single lake spreads out over parts of three sections nf land, on; of belonging to the A polahh producing company Lakeside is i in a pipe lino to this l.iko, the purpose of ing the water to its plant. Attorney General Reed is jusd back from an inspection i to the locality, and he expects to file an injunction suit i i fow dnys to prevent water being from the lake until the stntc's rights have been determined. Joseph Brice, on whoso land a small part of the lake Is i ated, takes tho same attitude as tho stale docs and will resist the effort, of the potash company to the water i paying for the valuable it contains. The company engaged in this under- I i is controlled by Hebei Hord, of Central City, who is 'also the prln- stockholder in the Lakeside Ranch company.

It owns the section of a where most of the ncreage covered by the lake Is located. This section is between Brico's and the one TKe ummarize Striking again on a wide front oast of Ypres, tho British this morning began nnother drive at the German linos in Flanders. PTWd Marshal Haig in his early report announced that satisfactory progress was being made. Already a stream of German prisoners is being sent to the British rear. The renewal of tha Flanders drive comes after an eight day interval.

On Wednesday of last week the British swept forward over ground on both sides "of the Ypres-Menin road, advancing from a half mile to a mile at various points along the line. Some of tho heaviest fighting in tho war on the western front followed, tho Germans making assault after assault in desperate attempts to regain the valuable high ground they had lost. Almost every inch of it, however, was held in tact by the British, who meanwhile were preparing for tho next forward push. With today's renewal of the drive, the battle of Flanders is growing moro and more to resemble last year's battle of the Somme, which was followed by the memorable Hindenburg "strategic retreat." Tho same general tactics now being pursued of persistent driving at the same point in tha line are evidently expected by the British to achieve a similar result. This time, however the ground whicr would have to be abandoned w'ould be far moro valuable to the entente and its loss a correspondingly heavy blow to the Germans for the German-held Belgian coast line with its submarine and aerial bases is at stake together with the qroat French manufacturing city of Lille and wale stretches of territory in northern France and Flanders.

Today's attack followed sharply a last despairing effort of the Germans to stave it off. Crown Prince Rup- procht struck at tho British line yesterday at its most vital points--between Tower hamlets and Polygon wood, but his troops again wore mowed down by tho British guns, the assault making no impression whatever on tno British line or affecting tho British purpose to attack today. Tho French fighting front has been comparatively calm except for intense artillery activity northeast of Verdun. The French air forces have been busy again at reprisal work, however, visiting the Prussian city of Frankfort once more and also bombarding Rastatt, a city of 14,000 population in Baden. Tho force of Field Marshal Haig's drive today aparently was greater than that of last week, for tho early press dispatches I-ported advances of a mile or more in places as tho British advance swept ovor tho crest of the Passchendaele-Gheluvelt ridge.

Completion of the capture of this ridge is the immediate objective of the British. Possession of it will open up tho level Flanders plain to them. French Aviators Again Make Raid On German Cities PLOTS II PEftCE TIES Investigation of Bolo Pasha's Activities Here Complicate Ex-Ambassador. German Diplomat Advanced Huge Sums of Money Through Y. Banks.

PARIS, Oct. aerial raid over Germany was made last night by French aviators. The cities of Frankfort and Rastatt were bombed. The following official announcement was given "In reprisal for the bombardment of TJnr-Lo-Duo aviators bo'mbarded i a and Rnstatt," Negro Women Officers From Attack By Suff Sentinels (Continued on Page Four.) WASHINGTON, Oct. silent sentinels of the woman's party, doing time in the Occoquan workhouse for picketing the White house, nre bruised and scratched today as thp result of a free-for-all scramble late yesterday when the authorities removed one of their number to the hospital without giving notice of her destination, and the other pickets formed a flying wedge to rescue their comrade.

During the melee, it is said, some sixty negro women, also prisoners in the workhouse, came t'o the rescu of the keepers, and details of the battle as it was waged vary. The mixup has resulted in new charges being laid by the pickets against the conduct of the One account of the melee New York Honors Nation's Patriotic Red Cross Nurses NEW YORK, Oct. York today- honored heroic war nurses who have already seen service behind the battle lines in France, and others who are soon to go over seas to care for wounded United States soldiers by turning out in thousands to cheer a great Red Cross parade. Led by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, and Major General AVilliam C.

Gorgas, surgeon-general of the United States army, the huge column of marchers, largely composed of women, swept down Fifth avenue as the throngs lining the thoroughfare greeted them with an ovation of cheering and flag waving. It was estimated that there were nearly 20,000 marchers in the pageant, 1,500 of whom soon will be "doing their bit" for humanity. Girl Anxious Recruit Women as Soldiers Emma LeClair, te about obtained General Butler Ames, ie Massachusetts state lal commission to re- a company of girls In company of tho First orks in a hosiery mill, of her jrirl friends have work since the cla.rod wnr. Biit' many of Iheir male ief work lost much of lien developed her plan to form a girls' company to be imi- lormeu, armed and equipped as nearly as possible like the state guart 1 companies. Miss Dorcnda Davison, a Boston girl whose two brothers are in the Prince Edward Highlanders "somewhere in France," netltloned the Black WAtch British recruiting officers here for the privjjege of raising" a "death command." a'Canadian woman's legion of honor.

She says she wants women who will fd Into battle, lust as do the Russian Amazons. But she adrts that it will not bp noces- sary for her IrRlnn to flcht Pho It to encourage enlistment and to shame slackers. is that it verged on being a race riot. Fine Large French Shfo Sunk During Week By Siibseas PARIS, Wednesday, Oct. wooklv report of losses to French shipping by submarines and mines shows that five vessels of moro than 1.GOO each nnd fiv6, of less than that size Oostroyed.

Four of the smaller ships wore lost In the preceding week. Five vessels were attacked unsuccessfully, oho of them in previous week. Six fishing vcHnels wore sunk, two of them in the preceding week. Mother Amputates Child's Arm to Lessen Suffering PIERRE, S. Oct.

J. B. Clarkson, of Harding county, was forced to declOe whether to amputate the arm of her little daughter, or allow the child to suffer with her arm crushed in the machinery of a power wrshing machine until she could go a long for help. She decided that as the "afn was so badly mangled that i would'have to be cut off, she perform operation. With the implements' at hand she cut the and hurriedly getting a.

team, ready, took her to the nearest physician, where tho injured stura'p' was properly cared for. The child, had 'been left alone In a shed where a poweC washing machine was running and becoming frightened at a dog attempted to go around tho ma- and her arm wan caught In the cogs (Continued on Pnge Pour) a is a town of 147000 in Baden, fourteen miles of Karlsruhe This is second attack on Frankford In tho last week the French i a i a their policy of reprisal raids. Artillery Active. PARIS, Oct. night was calm," says today's official statement, "except on the right bank of the Mouse, where tho artillery on both sides was active." England Decides Upon Policy of German Reprisals Lfl FOILE'ITE Senate Committee Postpones Action On Petitions to Expel Senators.

LONDON, Oct. to the ISandard a policy of reprisals for Ociman air laids has been decided upon. That a decision has been reached by the British government was indicated by Premier Lloyd-George's statement on Tuesday thai On a would bo bombed with compound interest. (Associated 'Pross.) WASH1NGT9N. Oct.

as to what action it shall take on petitions demanding expulsion of Senator LaFollette was again postponed today by the senate privileges and elcctios committee. Another meeting will he held tomorrow, when it is hoped to determine whether any action shall be taken and if so whether before or after adjournment of the present session. The committee is considering various courses. Today the question of a formal investigation and Senator LaFollette's hearings speeches upon and statements was discussed. Several senators wore said to favor a resolution deploring his attitude and censuring him.

More drastic action, such as expulsion or Impeachment, it was said, is' not seriously considered. There was some sentiment In the committee toward recommending investigation of Senator LaKoIIette's speech before the non-partisan league at St. Paul. The committee virtually decided that there was no prima, facie basis for extending any investigation, if one should be decided upon, to Senators Stone, Gronna or others named in the petitions. It was decided that the committee has authority to recommend such an investigation without having any expulsion or other formal resolution before It.

Would Deport Senator. COLUMBUS. Oct. of United States Senator Robert M. LaFolletlft and his supporters throughout allies lines to Berlin because of "treasonable utterances" wnH urged In resolution received today by fiovernor fox from the executives' club of Toledo.

(Af-socinted Pross.) YORK. Oct. in- dicalinn a German funds held by New York bank.s for the Deutsche JTank of Berlin mul which were employed to pay Holo Pasha, German spy uul pence propagandist, were plnco.l ot disposal of Count von HernstorfC by rclfiiM messages from the German foreign office wan obtained today by -Uateo Attorney General ilerton E. lMVl.S. This i vldoncp conclusively proves, x'onliiiK to tin- iittnrnev genoiu! that Count van BornstoifC had a direct hand in i i tho of Bolo who is now under arrest in Paris.

It was obtained, he sukl, from Hugo SchmkK, agent hero of the noutscho bank, whom ho examined y. Subpoenaed to appear before the attorney general today, Schmidt produced tho text of eight wireless telegrams in code exchanged between him and Gcrm.in foreign office in March and April, IDlfi, while Bolo was In i country. Tho messages authorized Schmidt to place at thuj disposal of Count von Bcrnstorff more 1han $1,00,000 held In the Guaranty Trust company to tho, account of the Drutschn bank. In these messages von Bornstorft referred to an Charles Gtadhill; the Gorman foreign office was bnown aa William Foxley, and the Guaranty Trust company was called Fred Hooven. i The messages, said Air.

Lewis, cervert as links In a chain of evidence showing how German money was on Page Four.) English General Declares Britain Will Repay Kaiser'In Own Kind. fAssocliited Pro.ss.) L.ONDON. Oct. the principle of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a wo are most re- luctrintly forced to apply to the Pnemy the bombing policy which ho has applied to IIH," I i General Smuts, former oomm'ander of the expedition against General Enst Africa, today declared in an address to the presidents of the chambers of commerce of the United Kingdom. "Defeated on battlefield and balked in the submarine campaign, Germany is now In Impotent rage more and more striking at us through our non-oombntants, through our women and children." Aerial warfare against the defenseless was the new ho said, and predicted it would not only fail but would prove to be a terrible boomerang.

Continuing, General Smuts said: "Last month our naval and military airplanes dropped 207 tons of bombs behind the lines of the enemy. In the same period he dropped four -and one-half tons of bombs on London. In that month we bombed him on twenty- three days' and on nineteen nights, chiefly attacking Tils aerodromes and as the figures show, damaging his machines and pitting his airdromes with shell holes. We also bombed his billots, trains, transports and railway stations, causing him the heaviest losses." Pershing Watches Sibert's Battalion During Training AMERICAN TRAINING QUAR- Sometime ago the American TBRK JN FRANCIS "Wednesday, Oct. 3.

authorities decided to devote mu army TBRK JN FRANCIS "Wednesday, Oct. 3. authorities decided to devote much (By The Associated Press)-- Major to mus ketry, but neither the French nor the Briish instructors are a mand as stormed and took three sup- inclined to spend much time on that posed enemy trenches, which had been phase of warfare, having become ac- named Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt for to the tactics of attacking tho occasion. The exercise was part solely with bombs, bayonets and ma- of a program of battalion problems chine gun. American soldiers always which is being carried out daily and have been fine marksmen, however, will bo developed gradually into regi- and the officers still believe in rifle fire mental, brigade and divisional attacks, 'for both offensive and defensive pur- In addition to General Pershing, sev- poses.

cral French officers witnessed today's The practice attacks today wero maneuvers after which they were criti- made under theoretical creeping bar- cised by American and French observ- rages timed to move forward, at a givers, and by the general himself. He en pace. The men used live bombs as said that in taking tho three trenches, 'they advanced. The Wilso'n trench the soldiers, he noticed, did not use proved very easy, only six casualties their rifles. This he thought a mis- being cleared from the field, during its take.

"You must not forget that tho occupation. A green rocket announced ritle Is distinctly an American wcnp- 'success and then the attackers rushed on," said the general. "I want to see forward against the Taft trench. Here it employed. There surely will be plen- 'again success was achieved quickly be- ty of opportunity for its use and if you lug signalled by a red rocket.

It re- are unfamiliar with the weapon you 'quired a second wave af attackers, who will lose those opportunities. Bayonets over tho troops holding and bombs are all right nnd very vn.1- the Tatf. trench, to take the Koosevelt trench and the two flanking this final objective. A three- starred rocket announced the, fact that the uablc, but rifle fire still has a place In modern war." The general said he had heard of sol dlers In this war who had been' chaw- Roosevelt' trench had fallen- nnd tnrvt Ing Germans a hundred yards or moro the position hnd been consolidated witn tor nn opportunity to bomb or bayonet "inchine guns i position tlicm. If they had though, they might have stoppc-d and shot them wltla the rifle.

for a flanking fire to beat off counter easily aUrck.s. The operation required just tun hour..