Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, June 14, 1917, Image 1

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    FULL LEASED
WIRE DISPATCHES
CIRCULATION IS
OVER 4400 DAILY
,
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n . a riwvmi on n'f
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FORTIETH YEAR NO.
S0MEH0RR0RS0F
SUBMARINE WAR
TOLD BY CONSUL
Sufferings of Crews Deliber
ately Increased With..
Fiendish Ingenuity
FRESH WATER AND FOOD
TAKEN FROM LIFEBOATS
Sails Removed to Decrease
Chances of Reaching Land
-It Is Just Murder -
Washington, June 14. Editors', note:
The following interview with Wesley
Frost, former consul nt Queenstown,
gives the first complete comprehensive
j.icture of Germany's horror was as
reflected by the sea graveyard off the
const of Ireland. Frost, moro than any
other American, has 'seen tho fruits of
.mis submarine warfare in twisted
mangled corpses at :lie (Queenstown
mocks ami morgue.
hack home for a rest from gruesome
labors from which he never faltered,
Frost with the special permission of
the censorship has given his story of
his impressions to the nited Press.' The
luted Press, Washington,
- Washington, .Tune 14. "The- subma
Tine war grows more narbnroug every
ilay. It hus now reached the plane of
deliberate murder for every ship sunk
mum win so continue to tho end-. It is
not the fault of (he Germans that ev
ery -torpedo does not produce a Lusi
tania massacre"."
That is the kaiser's unrestricted sub
marine warfare, in the words of the
man who probably knows more about
the human side" of tho gea tragedy than
any other certainly more than any-otc
er American. " .....
lie is Wesley Frost, American consul
t lineenstown, the port on the south
west coast of Ireland, where all : the
Atlantic ocean lanes to Britain come
together. Off the shoros near Queens-
town me thousands or snips which feed
uritain pass oy day and night. -Frost
is in Wasliingaon for a rest.
For over two years ho has been in at
tendance at the funerals of merchant
Bhips struck down by the underwater
terror. It has. "been nis task to collect
the evidence as to sixty five sinkings
in which Americans were imperiled or
slaughtered. He has seen the cemeteries
nn the Irish hillsides dotted with fresh
mounds. He has heard tho shrieks of
jnothers for their murdered babies, seen
men stark mad with the tortures of
liuiwer and thirst brought in from days
and nights in foodless lifeboats.
1 1 was with difficulty that he can be
induced to talk, but when he docs the
full throated indignation of this clean
cut young American is almost terrible
in its intensity.
Guilt is Double
"The German guilt is double," said
'rost today. "In the first place, no
civilized government would have re
soited to such methods, even when it
wns possible to sink ships occasional
ly without murdering non-combatants.
Now that the arming of merchant ships
and the effectiveness of the patrols
iil;es it impossible for the submarines
to risk giving warning, they would
iron it if they. were. 'white.' "
The sporting word he used explains
much of the sort of man Frost is. Born
back in Oberlin, Ohio, his life has been
that of the sturdy younu American
who makes his way in the world by
bard work and fighting fair. It is not
Htrange that he has no use for the so-
(Continued do page four.)
ABE MARTIN
-Th' thing that's allus bothered us th'
mot is how a widower with a string o'
children finds a second wife so soon.
Th ' honeymoon has about run
orse when th' hnsbaad passes up
verandy fer th' corner drug store.
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UNIVERSITY AWARDS
BUILDING CONTRACT
T SALEM BIDDER
' ' ' V '
Dorm y for Women Attend
ing! igene Institution
Cost $50,000
University of Oreeon. Euifene. .Tune
14. Contracts for the new $50,000 wo-
men 'a dormitory building of the Uuivcr-!
sity of Oregon was awarded to Van Pat-
ton & Son, of Salem, by tho board of I
regents oi me university, which met
here yesterday. Construction of the
boating system was awarded to Theo
dore Barr, of tho same city. The Comet
Electric company, of Euirene. will in.
stall the lighting system.
Miss Lillian Tingle, principal of the
girls' department of the Benson Poly
technic school, of Portland, was elected
to head the new department of house
hold arts. She will take up her work
in October.
Decision was made to invest the ...
000 pledged t.nd subscribed for the wo
men's bunding in Liberty bonds. More
than half the amount has been collect
ed.
Military Drill Provided Tor. I
Provision was made for military in
duction at the university next venr.
In caao a government officer cannot
be obtained, the executive committee of
ina board of regents has authority to
Illl-A rinmA ntlmi inatvnnln,
Charles H. Fisher, regent: President
r . . ... - - -
P. L. Campbell and L. H. Johnson, con
(roller, were appointed on a committee
to purchase $5,000 worth of equipment
for the journalism school laboratory.
A. C. Dixon, member of the board,
was elected viee-presideiit. He is ab
sent in the east at present.
The quarterly plan of the college
year was adopted. Amount of work
or time will not be lessened; the term
will merely be divided into three parts
instead ot two. The tirst session will
open in October.
C. C. Jerminh was elected to fill the
vaenncy in the school of commerce
made by tho resignation of Professor
J. Hugh Jnckson, who will study in the
east. C. C. Ednionds was chosen to fill
the place left in the same department
by Allan C. Hopkins, -who in tkei.
officers' training camp at the Presidio.
Miss Callie Beck, of McMinnvilIo high
school, was elected to a position ia the
university junior high school, G. M.
Huch, a 1914 graduate of tho univer
sity, was ctectod to succeed B. W.
Broecker, iustructor in tho high school.
Mr. Buch has been teaching at Ashland.
In his report to the board, President
Gampbell said that 125 students would I
be serving in various branches or rue i
army and navy before the-end of the dia of the world's production of rub
summer; about GO of the number will ber for several years to come indicate a
60 with the Second company, Oregon constant increase, passing 200,000 tons
Coast Artillery, which will be mustered
into service on July 15. 1
Annual Convention of the
Oregon State
Held at Astoria This Week
Astoria, Ore., June 12. The 44th an
nual convention of the Oregon State
grange couveued yesterday morning
with all the counties of the state repre
sented, with tho exception of Baker,
Des Chutes and Jefferson. Delegates
are present trom lzl subordinate
granges, with other delegates arriving
on the later trains and boats.
Seat Pomona Orange Delegates.
A new feature is the seating of
delegates from the various Pomona
granges of the state, Clackamas, Co
lumbia, l.inn, I.ane, Marion, Mult
nomah, ' Polk, Tillamook, Josephine,
Douglas, Lincoln, Hood River, and
Washington Pomona granges having
representatives.
About SOU grangers, delegates and
visitors, filled the Moose hall to ov
erflowing, with the first order of
business being the report of the cre
dential committee.
Canneries Present Badges.
Mrs. Helen , Hurlbutt, lecturer of;
Pacific grange and member of the
local entertainment committee, re
ported that the nnique metal badges
representing a salmon, were donated by
Columbia Kiver Fishermen ' Union,
while the business men of Astoria had
been very liberal in contributing to the
entertainment fund, and suggested that
the visitors patronize those stores dis
nlavinv. the cards which indicated mer-
fund. She also urged the visitor to em-
ploy the boy seeuts at ay time, as
tie
rce. boys bad enlisted for this serv-
Fire Insurance Head Reports.
The report of Jacob Voorhees, sec
retary, of the fire insurance branch
of the order, showed that there was
now in foree risks to the amount of
2,338,619, a gain of over $100,000 from
last year.
State Lecturer Minnie E. Bond, of
Eugene, announced that the lecturer's
program would be made a feature for
Wednesdav evening.
North Dakota Grange Head Here. .
At the opening of the afternoon ses
sion. State Master C. E. Spencer eallcd
its jupen Bay McKaig, master of the North
ta, Dakota state grange, who made a hum
orous address, promising later to go into
SALEM,
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Xenia Ousts German Language..
By United Press)
Xonia, O., Juue 14. Spanish
and French language will ro
place German ia Kenia's public
schools at the opening of the
' next term it was announced
here today.
PRIVATE SECRETARY
PUTNAM JOB
Tenders Resignation to Take
Effect August First
Governor Accepts It
George Palmer Putnam, private sec
retary to Governor Withycombe, has
resigned his position in the governor's
office and will leave Salem for a pro
posed business trip east. The resignation
takes effect August 1. During the time
the position is unfilled. Miss Esther
Carson will act. as secretary. Miss Car
tary Putnam was absent on the ta
i unn filln1 tlitn nntntim wnila tafrAtflw
Putnam was absent on the Mexican bor-
.... -
der last year with Company M,
It is the intention of Mr. Putnam to
make a business trip east some time in
August, but he will say nothing regard
ing the matter. It is expected he will
return to Bend where he has a news
paper, and other interests that demand
his attention. He says that the matter
of his leaving the office was arranged
with Governor
Withycombe some
says he is sorry to
months ago. Ho
leave the work as it has been interest
ing and tho associations very agree
able. Governor Withycombe issued a state
ment regarding the matter as follows:
"I have accepted Mr. Putnam's resig
nation with, sincere regret," said Gov
ernor Withycombe. "His work has been
entirely ' satisfactory and at all times
our relations have been most pleasant.
He took -up the matter of leaving just
after ,the legislature. At that time I
suggested he postponed a trip he fe.lt
he should make, which he did. Mr. Put
nam has proved himself thoroughly ef
ficient and competent and I dislike
losing him. He will always have my
-warmest reenrd and best wishes."
1
Semt-ofticial estimates made in
In-
in 1919. but never equaling the de-
mand.
G range Being
details concerning
league of his state.
the Non-Partisan
After the seating of the delegates
through the report of the creden
tials committee, reports from the of
ficers of the state grange were called
for, and State Master Spence said in
part: "Our nation is now at war, and
it became our first duty to so manage
our work that the demand for food sup
plies will be met. Our county agents in
form us that there has been a large in
crease in the acerage planted.
Big Shoitage of Farm Help.
"There is already a great shortage
of farm help- While the deficiency
may be partially supplied from the
cities, untrained help is unsatisfactory,
while the importation of oriental labor
should not be considered.
"If farm labor and the farmers
are not as well paid as those en
gaged in other industries, much of the
labor and many of the farmers will drift
to those industries that pay most. Then
in another year tho nation will pay the
price. ,
war Is social Enterprise.
"This was is a great social enter
prise. For some the duty is to fight;
ror others to Tarnish money. The citizen
who contributes his entire income, be
yond what U necessary for subsistence
itself, does leas than the eitizen who
contributes himself to the nation. Onr
soldier and sailors will fight loyally
more indomitable if they feel that every
man fco stays at home is serving the
country to the utmost with his suB
stance. ...
"An America in which every citizen,
without discrimination, is called upon te
do and to givo all that he can, alt that
his powers permit, will be a united Am
erica, and a united America is bound to
be victorious. We now have conscrip
tion of men; why not conscription of
wealth f
Spence Explain; Bond Opposition.
"The Oregon Htate grange having at
the last two sessions gone on record as
opposed to bond issues for road building
as a principle, thu six million dollar
road bonding wss opposed by me in the
legislature, and during the campaign.
(Continued en Page Two.)
OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1917
GERMANY'S ACTS
TOWARD AMERICA
HELD UP TO LIGHT
Denied Us the Use of the Seas,
and Tried to Incite Nations
Against Us
FILLED LAND WITH SPIES
AND SPREAD SEDITION
Now Using Austria-Hungary,
But In the Outcome Plans
to Destroy Her
Washington, June 14. America, is at
war "in defense of our ritrhts as a free
Ppie ana or our honor as a sovereign
J mwnmmanl II
6. t
President Wilson this afternoon thus
stated why America is fighting in a
speech solemnly vibrant with warning
of the blood and suffering the country
must endure, but deep with the convic
tion that the nation fights for the right.
The president's address was a re-consecration
of Flag day. It was a speech
that stung in the bitterness of his ar
raignment of Germany not of the Ger-j
man people, but of Germany's autocrats.
He pictured Germany's "military mas-j
ters" in a sinister plot for years of in
cubation reaching out, corrupting, in
triguing, scheming to deceive their own
people and master the people and pow
er of other small nations "to throw a;
bread belt of German military power
and political control acrsis the very
center of Europe and beyonrl the Medi-,
terranean into the heart of Asia."-
The president named Austria-Hungary
as the dupe of Germany's "autocrats; ":
Bulgaria and Turney, tneir catspaws.
He earnestly inveighed any considera
tion of alleged German peace feelers
put out now by these who, having set
their not and reached the scnith of their
domination, now see their power slip
ping and their sinister plans about to
come to naught. iiicewise, ne oiueny
assailed German propagandists in the
United States who are seeking by in
sidious means to undermine the nation
here at home.
America, the president said, wars for
the first time across the seas because
the principles for which she now fights
are exactly those for which she has
waged every other victorious war in her
history and because she was forced to
fight "in defense of our rights as a free
people ana or our nonor as a suvuieigu
government."
"For ns there is but one choice," the
president solmcnly concluded.' We have
made it. Woe to the man or group of
men that seeks to stand in our way in
this day of high resolution when every
principle we hold dearest is to be vindi
cated and made secure for the salvation
of the nations. We are ready to plead
at the bar of history and our flag shall
wear a new lustre. Once more we shall
make good with our lives and fortunes
the great faith to which we were born
and a new glory shall shine in the face
of our people."
A Bitter Arraignment.
The president said:
My Fellow citizens: we meet to
iplntirflt0 Fluff dav
necause mis nag
ohii tinnnr nnd under which we
serve is the emblem of unity, our powpr, 1
our thought and purpose as a nation. I
It has no other character than that
which we give it from generation to
ceneration. The choices are ours. It
floats in majestic silence aDove tne
bosts that execute these choices, wheth
er in peace or ia war. And yet, though
silent, it sneaks to us speaks to us
of the past, or the men and women who
went before ns and of the records they
wrote upon it. We celebrate the day of
its birth and from its birth until now
it has witnessed a great history. It has
floated on high in symbol ef great
events, of the great plan of life worked
out by a great people. We are about to
carry it into battle, to lift it- where it
will draw the fire of our enemies. We
are about to bid thousands, hundred of
thousands, it may be millions of our
men, the young, the strong, .the capable
men of the nation, to go forth aad die
beneath it in fields of blood far away
for what For. some unaccustomed
thing? For something for which it has
never sought the fire before I Amer
ican armies were never before sent
across the sea. Why are they sent now
For some new purpose, for which this
great flag has never been carried be
fdre, or for some old, familiar, heroic
purpose, for which it has seen men, its
own men, die on every battle field on
which Americans have borne arms since
the revolution
Were Left Ko Choice.
"These are question which must be
answered. We are Americens- We in
our turn serve America and esn serve
her with no private purpose. We must
ose her flag a she has always used it.
We are accountable at the bar of his
tory and must plead in utter frankness
Pershing Will Work
With General Petain
Washington, June 14. General
I'ershing will operate under General
Petain, the French general, and not
under the British commander. What
portion of the French front the first
American contingent will take ui will
! not oe Known ror some tune.
i General Pershing's headouarters at
the French front will be in direct con
fidential communication with the war
department here- Arrangements have
been made, it was learned today, for
precedence to be given his dispatches
and the department's messages' to
Pershing over the Atlantic cables.
what purpose it is we seek to serve.
"It is plain enough how we were
forced into the war. The extraordin
ary insults and aggression of the Im
perial German government left us no
self respecting choice but to take up
arms in defense of our rights as a iree
people and of our honor as a sovereign
government. The military masters of
Germany denied us the right to be neu
tral. Ihey filled our unsuspecting com
munities with vicious spies and consip
rutors and sought to corrupt the opinion
of our people in their own behalf. When
they found they could not (Is that, their
agents diligently spread sedition
amongst us and sought to draw our own
citizens from their allegiance and
some of these agents were men connect
ed with the official embassy of the
.German government itself in our own
capital. They Bought by violence to
destroy our industries and arrest, our
commerce. They tried to incite Mexico
to take up arms against us and to draw
Japan into a hostile alliance with her
and that not by indirection, but by
direct suggestion from the foreign of
fice in Berlin. They impudently denied
us the use of the high seas and repeat
edly exocuted their threats that they
would send to their death any of our
people who ventured to approach the
coasts of Europe. And-many of .our
own people were corrupted- Men began
to look upon their own neighbors with
suspicion and to wonder in their hot re
sentment and surprise - whether there
was any community iiv which hostile
Intrigue did not work. What great na
tion in such circumstances w.ould not
have taken up armsf Much as we de
sired peace, it was denied us and not of
our choice. This flag under which we
serve would have been dishonored had
we withheld ' our hand.
Not Enemy of German People.
"But that is only part of the story.
We know nir as clearly as we knew
before we were ourselves engaged that
we were not the enemies of the Ger
man people and that they are not our
enemies. They did not originate, or de
sire this hideous war or wish that we
should be drawn into it; and we are
vaguely conscious that wo are fighting
their cause as they will some time see,
as well as our own. They are themselves
in grip of the same sinister power
that has now at least stretched its ugly
talons out and drawn blood from us. The
whole world is at war . because the
whole world is in the grip of that power
and is trying out tho great battle which
shall determine whether it is to be
brought under its mastery or fling itself
free.
"Tho war was begun by the military
masters of Germany who proved to ih
also the masters of Austria-Hungary.
"These men have never regarded na
tinn as nconles. men. women and chil
dren of like blood and frame as them
selves, for whom governments existed
nnd in whom governments naci mra
life They have regarded them mere
ly as serviceable organizations which
they could by force or intrigue bend or
corrupt to tneir own puipuKr.
garded the smaller states in particular
and the peoples who could be over-
helmed by force as tneir nemrai hmjib
and inutmnicnts of domination. Their
pUrp0ge has been long avowed. The
statesmen of other nations, to whom
that purpose was incredible, paid mtic
attention; regarded what German pro-
feasors expounded in tneir class room
on,l Hpminn writers set forth to the
world as the goal of German policy as
rather tho dream of minds detached
from practical affairs, as preposterous
private conceptions of German destiny,
then as the actual plana of responsible
,,ir; hut the rulers of Germany them
selves knew all the while what concrete
plans, what well advanced intrigue lay
back of what tue proiessors aim ;
writers were saying and were glad to go
forward unmolested, filling the thrones
of the Balkan states with German prin
ces, putting German officers at the serv
ice of Turkey to drill her armies and
make interest with, her government, de
veloping plans of sedition and rebellion;
ia India and Egypt setting their fires
in Persia. -The demands made by Aus-j
tria upon Herbia were a mere single
step in a plan which eompressed Europe;
and Asia, from Berlin to Bagdad. They
hoped these demands might not arouse
Europe, but they meant to press them
whether they did or not for they
thought themselves ready for the final
issues of arms.
Planned to Control Asia.
Their plan was to throw a broad belt
of German military power and political
control across the very center of Europe
and beyond the Mediterranean into the
heart of Asia and Austria-Hungary was
to be as much their tool and pawn as
K-rhia or Bulearia or Turkey or the
rn,i. .(Ate. of the east. Austria-
Hungary, indeed, was to become part
(Continued on Page Two.)
PRICE TWO CENTS P.tb s ajtd xsws
Portland, Or., June 14. Ore
gon has subscribed 11,370,0K)
between two and three mil
lion more than her quota up
to noon today. Portland alone
subscribed $700,850 this morn
ing. The Portland Flouring
Mills today placed $100,000 in
Uncle Sam's anti-kaiser fund.
LIBERTY BELL RINGS
FOR THE THIRD TIME
"Make Liberty Secure, Bujr
A Liberty Bona Was
Its Message
Philadelphia, June 14 Old Liberty
Bell rang out at noon today for the
third time since 1776.
Its alarm was reverberated back from
the deep throated tongues of thousands
of bolls throughout tho nation.
"Buy a Liberty bond. Bcpel the Ger
man menace. Mnke liberty seoure in
the land for which our fathers died,"
was is message. -Thousands
crowded Independence
Square. They weve not holiday makers.
They represented the mass of the na
tion its aspirations, its hopes, its do
termination to bring to a successful con
clusion the death struggle between au
tocracy and democracy.
The bell the relic of liberty, symbol
of freedom stood silent in Independ
ence hall since 1835. Its brazen side
was split.
Around its girth steel bands, typical
of tho unification and solidarity of
these United States, entwined. It were
sacrilige to ring it except in just
cause. v
Today that cause came, and it was
with reverence that Mayor Smith tap
ped it softly with a silver hammer- . .
"Buy a Liberty bond" was tho mes
sage of the bell. With its stroko, tele
phone bells shrilled, tolegrapn
hummed.- The message had been carried
to every rea oiooaea oiuzen
United tatcs.
of
PROUD REGORD MADE
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16 Women, 26 Children and
Score of Old Mer and
Cripples Their Victims
By Ed Ii. Keen.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
London, June 11. For pure fiendish
ness of purpose and in the ghastly toll
of Innocent women and children and old
men, Germany's air raid on London of
yesterday was the most murderous .of
all the aeriul piracy which England
has seen.
New destructive and pain making
missiles were dropped by the invaders.
Most of the injured suffered terribly
from acid fluids contained in many of
the bombs. The children and women
writhed in hospital beds today from
great burng caused by these murderous
missiles.
Germany will report '8UCce99" 'n
this air raid. Hero is the total of thut
success, as compiled from official dats
today:
Killed, 97.
Children, 20.
Women, 10.
Men. 55, including a score of feeble,
aged men and cripples.
Injured:
Children, 94; women, 122; men, 223.
School Houses Attacked.
Tho buildiDgs damaged were of an
utterly non-artillery character. School
houses were included in those struck.
Tiny bodies were still buried beneath
the wreckage today, it was believed.
The public believes its aerial patrols
and anti-aircraft guns .drovo off the
Germans before they could do more
killing over the capital city. There was
no disposition va crmcisu im ...-
.iinai Ktivland realizes that the
only way to stop the Germans entirely
would be to cordon tne air wuu n ,.
fleet of patrol aeroplanes. , But this is
exactly what the Germans want. With
draws! of machines from , , the front
would probably take away .'
complete aerial supremacy in he west
ern front, blind Field Marshal Haig's
"eves" and may seriously hamper the
... . . Kai'a i.u
success oi mi greuv --
the publie realizes this, it. was deter
mined to bear such losses of yesterday
with fortitude... in an tne
discussions, however, there . was ine
prayer expressed thai "
L; a tautre aerial fleet overseas.
The sooner American airmen get into ac
tion on the western trom, u
- '. - '. ' alnnnwl. in
can uermsny s air "-i-r-
the public view. -
EXTORTERS MAT COMBINE
Washington, Juno 14. The house this
aftornoon passed tho Webb export bill
norTnittintr American exporters to com
bine in violation of anti-trust law to
gat foreign trade, 20 to t9. ...
GERi IAFIS FORGED
10 QUIT SECTIOIIS
OF FIRST LINES
Domination of Messises Ridf e
Gives British
Big
Advantage
RETREAT TODAY MEANS
ABANDONING TRIABLE
Big Zeppelin, the NEctetcA,
Is Brought Down la North
Sea by Airmen
London, June 14 Abandonment ef
important sections of first lines be
tween the Biver Lys and 8t. Yves by
the Germans because of the tremend
ous pressure of the British advanco
east of Mcssines, was announced by
Field Marshal Haig today. - r
'Our further advanee to the east ef
Messincs, combined with our pressure
to the south, compelled tho enemv ta
abandon important sections of their
first lino between the Lys and St.
Ives." tho British commander in ehicf
asserted. '
In addition to the British
this withdrawal of the Germans fro
their first linos between Ht Vv ih
the Lys, Haig also reported.
r.ast or iloegstcert wood we fol
lowed tho enemv closely ami cnn.i, dr
ably progressed. In the neighborhood
of Gapaard we gained ground at night'
The victory thus gained by the Brit
ish forces again emphasizes th domi
nating strength of the Wytscbaete
Messines ridgo, taken in last . week '
great assault. Th territory surrender-
...I A . u :.: . .k. j. .
icel to the British forces , poshed the
the.viermans still further back in l.hn tri
angle formed by the river Lys and tho
Vprcs-Lillc canal, the point ot which.
ia nt t I. ., . V - - .
v-v""-, vr ma two water
ways join., The enemy position in thi
to the river and the canal hampexng
rapid operations' on their part and mil
itary - observers here today . expressed
the belief that evacuation of the en
tire triangle might be foreshadowed by
the first line withdrawal reported bv
Field Marshal Haig.
Zeppelin Is Dentrovad
London, June 14. The German -Zeppelin
L-31 was destroyed early today
over the North sea by British airmen,
Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law
announced in the house of commons- '
The above is the nineteenth Zoppelin
which official statements have an
nounced have been destroyed by Brit
ish force. According-to the count of
unofficial, but apparently reliable list
ings, published recently by the London
Times, the L-31 is really the thirty
fifth German dirigible destroyed aineo
the beginning of the war.
The last Zeppelins officially report
ed destroyed were shot down Novem
ber 28, 1910, over tho V or k shire coast.
Peace ia Impossible) -I'aris,
June 14. "Peace is impossi
ble now; we will go on to the bitter
end declared Vice Premier Viviani
in tho chamber of deputies today.
Premier Kibot, relating tho abdica
tion oi King Coustnntine of Greece, as
serted that all the allies were' united in
the action taken.
German Attack Fall
Paris, June 14 "1'ttor failure" of
small German attacks around Braye,
norm of Craonne, north of Hhoims and.
on tne left bank of the Meuse, was re
ported in today official statement.
The assaults followed a bombardment
of those positions. - ,
rreneh rorees carried out a success
ful raid, cleaning up a German trench
east of Navaring farm and taking tea
prisoners. ' " - " - v .
WANT DOC-TOE FIRED.
San Francisco, June 14 r Letter
nurnortina to have been written u
Miss Daisy Sinkons by Dr.-William H.
Harrison, assistant surgeon or tna een- .
tral emergency hospital service,, were,
placed before Mayor Bolph today by
he voung woman's sister, Mrs. Virgi
Rue Brown, 'with - the demand that
the physician -be discharged as uafts
to be in public. . ' ,s .
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