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KOSKIiUlSG, DOt'ULAS COUNTY, OUKtiOX . . TUK81)AV,, JCLV 157, 1015.
No. S27
VOL. VI.
RUSSIANS STOP
GERMANTROOPS
fierce Fighting Still Continues
Near River Bug.
RESULT MAY NOT BE KNOWN FOR WEEKS
Active Fighting Is HesMUiH'd In the
Kustcrn Tb.eutre of Wur
Aeroplanes. Drop Bombs
. On Dunkirk.
PETROGRAD. July 27.-A sharp
repulse of the forces under von Hln-J
denburg north ot Warsaw in heavy
lighting along the Narew front. 1b
Ttmorted bv the war office. South
of Warsaw, the Russians continue to
maintain their positions. Energetic
fighting continues between Bug and
VlBtula, where Mackenzen is endeav
oring to advance, but everywhere
the Russians are holding the de
fenses of Warsaw.
' "LONDON, July 27. Dispatches
that reached London last night from
Petrograd predict that the much dis
cussed climax to the great struggle
in Poland will come within a fort
night, with simultaneous attacks on
the city from the fiorth and south.
In the meantime General von Hue
low's troops, driving south from
Co'urlnnd. are 35 miles southeast of
Shavll, having reached the Zor.lwcsh
railway junction,' linked with the
Dvsnk line, which the German cav
alry is attempting to seize prepara
tory to cutting the mere Important
Kovno-Vilna line. The efftlve
German cavalry in thlB area is esti
mated at Petrograd at 30 000.
Field Marshal Mackenzen' sus
tained effort to throw any consider
able body of Austro-German troops
astride the Lulilin-Cholm railway,
having to date met with no success,
the Germans are now centering their
main offensive north of Warsaw sa
lient, and having crossed the Narew
river alone a 40-mile front, are driv
ing the Russians toward the Bug
where It joins the Narew north of
the Polish capital
Ariillery. Duel on Belglnn Coast.
PARIS, July 27. For the first
time In weeks, heavy artillery duels
are reported on. the Belgian coast by
the war office. The German ' shell-
AGED SOLDIER
Geo. S. Frazier died at the Soldiers
Home today at the age of 72, after
an illness of about a week. Mr.
Frazier was well known in this city,
having come to Roseburg a little over
two years ago and since that time
has made many friends who are
grieved to learn of his death.
He was born In Indiana and mov
ed with his parents when aN child
to. Iowa, where his early life was
spent. He was a successful business
man and for many years was a well
known contractor and builder. At
the time of the Civil war he left his
business and went to tl e defense of
His c-juntry, serving for thrje yars
In Cn. ':. l' i'ic 14"i Iowa infantry.
After the war he agr.ln took up his
work as a contractor, until a few
years ago when he' retired on ac
r . -- oiling' health.
In hope of regaining his lost
rtrength he came to Oregon about
two years ago and entered the Sol
diers Home. He returned to the east
last summer for a visit with his
daughter, hut returned to this city
a few months ago, and since that
time has been falling rapidly in
health. He Is survived by three
daughters. Mrs. J. F. Kels'e- and
Miss Oro Davidson, of this clt. aad
Mrs. E. J. Dawson, of Mason City.
Iowa. Mr. Frazier has been a mem
ber of the Christian church for sev
eral vears, but has never become
affiliated with any fraternal order.
The funeral will be hld at the
shapel of (he-Soldiers Home tomor
row morning at lu o'cloch, R. E.
Jope officiating.
ed Fumes, and aeroplnns droppod
five bombs on Dunkirk, but little
damage was done in the latter place.
In retaliation, the French artillery
bombarded Westonde and Middlo
klrke with effect.
NATION'S DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, July 27. Secre
tary of War Garrison lias called into
conference with his, Asisstant Secre
tary Breckenrldge, General Scott
and General Bliss, to go over the
tentative drafts of the army reorgan-,
lzation plan, which he expects to sub
mit to the president upon the return
of the latter to Washington. De
spite v the protest of Garrison that
no "hurry up" program of national
defense is in view, thore are lndl '3
tlons that the department is losing
no time.. Persistent rumors that an
extra session o (congress is to be
called are unverified, but It Is be
lieved that the president desires di
gress to convene about the first of
October, In order , to get an early
start, working out the defense prob
lems. T
E
WASHINGTON, July 27. Great
Britain Is .preparing a supplementary
note to the United States regarding
the blockading of neutral ports by
the British. The British minuter
of foreign affairs notified Lansing
that such a communication was being
framed, and would be ready next
week. Grey asked that the publica
tion of the note received yesterday
be withheld until the supplementary
communication is received. This will
be done.
LONDON, July 27. The British
losses in killed, wounded and miss
ing, in both the military and naval
forces, now total 330,995, a state
ment from Premier Asquith announc
ed. The statement was puni'Bned In
response to inquiries made In. the
commons.
W. C. Ball, wife and child, who
have been visiting with M. F. Mont
gomery, In (this city, returned to
their home at Red Lodge, Mont.,
this afternoon.
- I IF? I ,
' ?iw tK v J A x Ks" i ; ft X
-dt.,, r.,E ?o T.7;!.K p,'ACi: IN' BERLIN WHFKE THE PRUSSIAN DEATH LISTS ARE POSTED 'the!
DA LY LOV mVlVTI.VAQ"ARTEHa 0N TI,E WALLS OUTSIDE AHK POSTED ALMOST
of'e vhTf"l "bat?leAININ0 THE NMi- """"S" 0 addrkbs
ALLIES HAVE TEN
MILLION IN HELD
English Fighting On Battle
Front of 40 Miles.
'.
FRENCH GIVEN CREDIT FOR SAVING PARIS
In Battle of La Bnssee Hie French
Soldiers Fired S,(HH) High
Explosive Shells' In
Ono Hour
lly Ed. L. Keen.
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
LONDON, July 27. After a year
at 'war, the British Empire has
somewhat less than three quarters
of a million troops in the field; Us
allies have approximately ten million.
. The British front In the western
theatre Is about 40 miles in length;
the lines of the other allies east and
west, including Serbia and Monte
negro, cover some ItiOO miles. As the
ratio of troops employed Is one to
' 1 and. t.he ratio of mileage 'is one to
4 0, there appears to be some justifi
cation for the complaints recently
made quite unoficially, of course
both In France and Russia that Eng
land is not doing her share of the
work.
' But the question as to' whether
England Is fulfilling her obllgatloiiS
should be considered In the light of
her' promises. On this basis, sho
- delivered more than was specifi
ed In the contract. There were two
clauses in the secret agreement made
with France long before the war
started:
England would take care of the
Beas.
She would send an expeditionary
force to France of 120,000 men.
That's all there was to it. She car
ried out the first clause to the letter;
she has sent nearly Blx times as many
men to the firing line as she bar
gained for, and she Is still sending
them as fast as they can be trained.
Only the other day, the Temps of
Paris in an obviously inspired edi
torial commenting on recent tributes
paid to Franco by the British press,
made these significant remarkB:
"Frankness should be mutual.' If on
the land the support of our British
allies Is still only limited, we must
not forget that on the seas It is they
who hav, had much the heaviest
task. If at the beginning of the
war we were able to completo the
equipment of our army with a rapid
ity which was not one of the German
staff's least surprises, we owe It to
the fleet which rendered us masters
of the seas." The Temps then ad
mits that t this capital support on
the sea, the British Empire has
brought its Industrial and financial
resources, "while its military effort
BERLIN'S WAILING PLAGE!
1 .
has really surpassed all fore
casts."
There probably always will be
some difference of opinion as to
whether It was British valor or Ger
man blundering that saved Paris In.
the early days of the war. Perhaps It
was the two. Anyhow, Paris was
saved, the Britishers at least always
will give the lion's share of the credit
.to Field Marshal French, his gen
erals and his soldiers. But oven if
the salvation ot Paris was not due
to the British, there Is riS' question
that they and they alone saved Calais
and the other channel ports. Of
course In accomplishing this, Eng
land has don9 herself a greater ser
vice than she has the French.
Since the failure of the Paris at
tack, Germany's main effort has been
concentrated In the direction of
Calais, and that Is the reason why,
until he has received sufficient re
inforcements, General Frenc -hwlll be
unable to extend his front. The fntt
of the British Empire rests upon the
holding of those " "--
All idea of the "big Springe drive"
upon which the military writers had
fed the Imagination of the British
public for months was abandoned at
Neuve Chapelle, when at the cost ot
13,000 men; the British barely made
a dent In the German line of highly
fortified trenches. In what was ac
complished the Neuve Chapelle of
fensive was In a sense a victory; In
what It failed to do, It was a defeat
for Lille was the objective and the
... aim firmly planted
Lille.
Then after the second , battle of
Ypres, In which th0 Germans first
(Continued on pa ire 4.1
LINER ESCAPES
LONDON, July 27. By putting on
full steam and taking a zigzag course
the liner Baltic from New York, es
caped from a German submarine
which (jursned her off Fastnot. last
Friday. The Baltic arrived safely
at Liverpool today, and several of
her passengers told of the unsuccess
ful attempt of the submarine to ov
ertake the liner.
WANTED HERE
SALEM, July 27. The supreme
court remanded back to -the circuit
court tho suit of the Jitney drivers
against the city of Portland officials,
to enjoin the enforcement of tho cg
ulatory law. The court held th'it the
city council had no power to submit
to a vote of the electorate an orilin
ance not passed by Itself.
1
ONE YEAR 0
EUROPEAN WAh
As Seen By The Germans In
Germany.
KAISER HAS INSPIRED HIS PEOPLE GREATLY
English Are No Longer Hated, But
Are Held In Great Con
tempt 1 By Tho
Gemiuus.
lly Curl W. Ackemuui.
BERLIN, July '27 The Kaiser
will go down 'In history as William
the Great, if the events of the first
year of the war appeal as vividly to
the Imaginations of future Germans
as they do to the generation that is
living through the present world con
flict. Frederick the Great held Europe
at bay, and saved Prussia through
seven years of strife. His descend
ant, who now holds the Hohenzollern
throne, has more than equalled Frod
erlckB' task, because Frederick had
England with him, and tnere was
then no United States to furnish Ger
many's enemies with munition. N
body expectB the present conflict to
run seven years, but if the allies can
stand a war of that duration, so can
Germany with the Kaiser at the head
of affairs. When the war started Em
peror William had fallen Into dis
favor with many of his people for a
number of reasons. Some believe he
was too autocratic, others thought ho
was too well disposed toward the
F.'rlsh, and sMU others thought he
was afraid of the military machine
Germany .had developed and was too
prejudiced In favor of peace at niy
price evor to permit the machmo to
test Itself. The early dayB of the
war, when enemy after enemy took
the -Hold against Germany, penpl?
talketl dlBparlngly of the emperor.
aB an incompetent, who had played
his cards badly and had overestimat
ed Germany's strength.
But when victories began lo be
won, and when the enemy first here
and then there was rolled back the
po,piilar opinion of the Kaiser begun
to change. People confessed they had
misjudged him. The bitter, criticism
of Germany's .enemies directed
against the Kaiser, and the comments
of neutrnl nations, added to his pop
ularity at home, until now, the KalB-
er 1b thn Idol of his nation. HO Is
regarded as the embodiment of Ger
man virtues, the representative of
German might and power. The na
tion agrees he has not abused the
absolutely autocratic power he has
wiolderl since lsst August, but hns
used his authority to meet every
crlsiB confronting Germany In a man
ner that wins unanimous approval
jr tha nrn nti.lc tindnr nnn illMnnn i.il.
.!
ngly that th0 Kaiser, who Is now re
sponsible for all things In the Empire
must be given the title of "The
Creat".
The Kaiser, in particular, has In
spired Germons with confidence 'nl
the outcome of tho war. His calm
assertions of victory have been fol
lowed by deeds substantially his
words bo often that ho Is not only
the ruler but also the .prophet of his
people. When the war began, few
Germans, deep down In their hearts,
believed the Teutonic Empire, had
even a fair chance of succeeding.
That Is why there was so much hy?
terla last August, and why the de
parting subjects nf tho enemy pow-j
ers wero so frequently" insulted. That
Is why also th Germans lout their
heads In Belgium nnd adopted a sys
tem of terrorism. That is why, too,
tho hymn of hate directed agalnxt'
England was so popular.
'-w. howover, after a year of
strife, Germany has recovered the
confidence, and believes In the Kais
er. The fear of last summer has de
parted and the Germans are no long
er saying "God punish England"
Instead of the former hatred of Eng
land there Is now developing a cur
ious kind of contempt, mingled with
self-amaiement that the Germans
should so badly have mlsjulged the
English. Nothing more remarkable'
stantlally sa thev are now. Germany' snnB who are determined to prevent
will have saved herself, and will have tho supplies from reaching tho al
demonstrated her powers so convlnc-1 lies are responsible. Th.' PaJ;etts
lias happened In Germany during tha
past year than the change of popular
opinion .concerning England. The
might of the British Empire wait
magnified quite out of proportion to
Its actual power, the Germans w
vare saying.
this, war was worth the fighting
so the Germans say. If only, becausa
It has pricked the bubble of British
strength, England will never again
occupy her old place In the world.
The ancient spirit of the English,
which the world has long been aijj
i customed to taking at If J own Valua-"
Hon. has been found to be no longer
existent. England has lost thB war
for the allies, In the opinion of Ger
man militarists, and by doing so, has
Irreparably stained her own pres
tige. The past year's events say the Gor
(Continued on page 5.)
TRAGIC STORY OF
CHICAGO, July 27. MoBt of tho
victims of the Eastland dlsas'er
whoso bodies are still imprisoned in
the ball room of the steamer are
women and children. While the div
ers are bending every effort to pene
trate the hulk of the steamor this
fact was established through the
testimony of Robert Moore a sur
vivor, who appeared as a witness
at the Inquest. The Btory of Moora
was a gruesome story, of scenes of
terror aboard the Eastland He de
clared that the ball room was pack
ed with women and children so that
he could not make his way through
this part ot the steamer. Then came
the sickening list, the rush of wat
ers, then death. Moore said he went
aboard the Eastland at 7 o'clock,
and that two minutes later he no
ticed the Bteamer listing. But he
declared that the list wbb not due to
the excursionists crowding to the side
of the boat, because they wer9 pack
ed no tightly that they were neces
sarily divided evenly about the bWv.
LIFE THREATENED
DALLAS, Texas, July 27. J. D.
Padgett, president ot the Padgett
Brothers Company, manufacturers
of saddles, whose home was threat
ened' by dynamite last night, said
he would quit making saddles for
the allies. Bombs wero .'oi ml un
derneath his home after he had beau
warned that they would ba exploded
unless the wnr orders were cancell
ed. W. L. Moore, foromn.i of the
Padcett Brothers Co.. wa-- nriibnh'y
fatally injured and bis son hurt lust
night, when a bomb wrecked his
hmo. Tho police bollevo Hint pei-
were filling a million dollar order
fur the French and British armies.
IIS BOY
PORTLAND, July 27. Harry
Turtledove, aged sixteen, while rld-
J truetlun of a Norwegian hark by a
1 automobile driven hy Hurley Humil
! Ion, of Oakland, Oregon, and In-
siantly (killed. Iliinillton was ar
reted charged with Involuntary man
slaughter pending the Inquest by (lie
coroner.
SUBMARINE GETS
A NEUTRAL BOAT
IXJNDON, July 27. -Dispatches
from Amsterdam reported tho des
truction of a Norwegian bark by a
German submarine. Tho crew were
given ten minutes to take to boats.
and the vessel was then sunt.