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i Stoning The News For Results If you have lost or found, If yon want to buy or sell, If you want work or workers. Use The News Classified Ads. Daily Weather Report ' Fair Tonight . and Saturday. Highest temp, yesterday ...96 Lowest temp, last night ...56 VOL. VI. ItOSEIlL'ItG, UOVGLAS OOUNTV, O KKUON KH1DAY, Al'Cil'ST 20, 1013. No. litK AMERICAN LIVES LOST ON ARABIC All Missing Passengers Citizens of United States THE SURVIVORS SAW NO SUBMARINE Official Washington Withholds Judg ment .Situation Considered Serious IK'tuils Awaited. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 20. Not a single survivor of the Arabic who has been Interviewed, saw the sub marine which sent 'the Arabic to the bottom. Several snw the U boat which torpedoed the British steamer Dunsley nearby, and believe that it was the same vessel which dealt the death blow to the Arabic, 'but all are agreed that 'the first warning of their disaster was the sighting of the white streak marking the track of the torpedo. The ca:m which was maintained by .Captain Finch and bis crew, impressed all passengers, especially several who in other dis asters saw lives lost through panic. The passengers and members of the crew who were drowned are said to have been in the two boats which capsized upon striking the -ater. Some of the crew are also supposed to have been blown to pieecs by the explosion of the torpedo. Two Anirirans Lost on Arabic. That two Americans were lost when the Arabic was torpedoed by a Cerman submarine without warning, was practically ncce,: this jafter noon. Hope Is all but abandoned that Mrs. Josephine Brugulere, of "New York, and Dr. Edward Wood, of Janesvllle, Wisconsin, are safe. A thorough search of Queenstown has failed to reveal a trace of either of them. It Is believed ' hey were drowned when one of (he boats low ered from the Arabic capsized. American Consul Frost, of Queens town, has officially reported that they are the only .two Americans missing. The White Star line re iterated their accounting of passen gers and crew of the Arabic, show ing that 32 are missing. Of this number, six are passengers, the rest members of the crew. The Naval attache of the American embassy has gone to Queenstown to aid the con-. sul in obtaining the affidavits of the American survivors. Six American 1'H.ssi'ncrs 1.01. LONDON. Aug. 20. American Consul Frost, of QueenFtown, re ported that Mr. and Mrs. Durgess. .1. K. Kellett, Miss T. Moore, American passengers aboard ,Uie Arabic are missing. He previously reported that Mrs. Brugulere and Dr. Woods, were the only Americans unaccounted for. If the latter four are lost. It would appear that all the missing passen gers are Americans. W'ashinffton Awaits Facts. WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. The ad ministration Is keeping its mind op LONDON, Aug. 20. On the heels of the submarining of the Arabic, the German FUbmarines have dis played an Llmost unprecedented ac tivity during the past 18 hours. The reports of four vessels having been sunk and one damaged, reached here today. Six, in addition to the Arabic, were sent to the bottom yesterday. The largest ship reported as being torpedoed and sunk today. Is the White Star freighter Bovle. The .Leyland liner Nlcoslan was torpedoed and damaged, but made port. The British steamer New York, was tor pedoed and sunk, all aboard saved. The other vessels reported as hav ing been destroyed were the Spanish steam, Pena Castillo,' and the Glas gow steamer Baron Irskine. Three men from the Castillo were saved. Two of the crew of the steamer Duns ly. torpedoed shortly before the Ara bic, were drownd, the rest of the crew landed here today. en regarding the sinking of the Ara-j blc by a German submarine. Noth ing will be said or done officially, it is stated, until all the facts are in. The outlook is deemed extreme1 ly serious. Personally, some offi cials said, they had no doubts as far as the reports Indicate, that the sink ing of the Arabic with Americans aboard, could only be deemed as deliberately unfriendly,". In accord ance with the warning given Ger many in the note. No Official Intimation. The attack on the Arabic came without official intimation from Ber lin thalt. mbmarlne commanders would persist in torpedoing ships without warning, and In the face also of constant reiterations in German quarters here that in the future pas senger vsesels would he given due warning. The incident, therefore, caused widespread surprise, especial ly since tile shi pwas bound for the United States and had no contraband. In some quarters there was adispo sltlon to think, the German subma rine commander might have exceeded his orders or made a mistake. The general immunity which pas senger liners of belligerent flags car rying Americans seemed to have en joyed In the last few weeks had de veloped a feeling of confidence that the German government would avoid, France. Boiled down these stories any incident that might intensify j llave (t that thesB regments turned feeling in the United States and bring j and nA ln disorder immedlatly when the relations of the two countries they folln(1 themselves under fire, nearer the breaking point. For thisl thal thu happened more than once reason along with Information as to but that the guilty rCgments had what exactly occurred when the Arab- been bagiy puni8hed. Ic was attacked, the viewpoint ofj Is lt true ,hat Frenchmen fronl the German foreign office Is eagerly I southern France make bad soldiers? awaited. To the neutral observer this would President Wilson was startled by not appear true for four of France-s the news. He spent the entire after-; greatest generals hall from that cor noon and evening trying to get de-j ner of the c01lntry. These are Gen talled Information. Though obvious-; eraI Joffrei General Gallienl, General ly worried, he took the position that Focn and Generni Castelnau. judgment should he withheld until. Between (northern and outhern official details were received. France there has always been a fued What the course of the United . not unlil(e that wnluh exists or did States would be no official would j exist between the North and the predict because of the absence of de- SolMl ln tne united States. So far tailed information. It must be es- as outsders are concerned. France tnblished authoritatively whether is France without distinctions. as to any warning was given and whether tlle paI.tC11iai. Fart 0r tne country the vessel attempted to escape. If one cialms Bs home. But among no American lives-were lost, lt was themselves (the northerner looks' thought In most quarters last night down on the southerner and vice' that drastic steps were improbable. versa. both ciallll t0 be the real andj but in. the event Americans wero (rlle French, both the speakers of drowned, a rupture of diplomatic re- the lrest language; both fclalm lations was everywhere discussed as chivalry ns their own particular I likely. TEXAS DEATH TOLL OVER 200 ' GALVESTON, Aug. 20 It is now' estimated that upwards o.' two nun- dreds perished throughout the entire Texas storm district. Between 14 and 20 are from this city. Total property damage has probably reach- ed fifty millions. 'GERMAN TROOPS AND SUPPLIES POUR 7. I . - . - ,:X-. - H , a.' t' I -I l"S- ' " ,j :Xy ' in r - - - ST R BET SCENE IN WILKOWISZKI. KUSBIA. WHERE GERMAN TROOPS ARE GOING ON INTO THE HEART OF RUSSIA AND RUSSIAN PRISONERS ARE PASSING THROUGH TO OKRMAM PRISON C.AMTa FRANCE FIGHTS NATIONAL U ED Bitter Feeling Exists Between North And South. CLAuM YELLOW STREAK IN SOUTHERNERS Southern France Has Produced of tlio KnnkiiiK Generals In The French Army. Ily Wm. Philip SiinniH. (United I'ress Staff Correspondent.) PARIS, Aug. 3. (By mail.) Northern France accuses southern i France of lacking courage, of pos I sessing a yellow streak, of talking a ' whole lot and' doing little In the way of slaughtering Germans. Since the very commencement of the war stories have been going the rounds concerning the behavior of certain regiments, said regiments be ing recruits In the Midi-Southern birthright and so on up and down the line. I asked a highly educated soldier belonging to one of the regiments which are said to have distinguished . themselves by bad "morale" under, fire, what was In the story. He re-J plied: j "We are blamed for what has hap-' pened In every war since wars began; we ran but we only did what the best poldlers In the world .would j have done, and would have done' ag::ln under similar circumstances, j "The wnr broke out suddenly. A1-: most without a warning we weiV hustled out of offices, from behind counters, from desks and studies i Into uniforms and rushed into trains. Our trains went directly upon the battlefield and we were detrained actually under heavy fire. We did p fcnvo Hto to assemble, to get bur bearings, anything. We got off the train to be shot down. Somebody ran. Somebody else followed. Two more followed the first and the oth ers seeing some running away, fol lowed suit. It is a psychological fact that tli I a Is what happens al wavs under these circumstances. "We should have been halted a mile to the rear, assembled and marched, In orderly fashion, into the firing line. In that way we would have had time to look around, to see where we were, to catch courage onei from another. Wake the boldest man from heavy sleep. In the dead of night, and let htm have a great dan ger to face. He will he afraid pro viding ho Is not too stupid to have any sensations at all. Wake him up and give him a few minutes time to get himself together, then let him face the danger and he will meet Jt as a brave man should. "So it should have been with us. I H was bad leadership to precipitate1 men who had never been under fire, men fresh from the arms of wife or nuL'Liit!ui i ni iii.Jiiiei. imu uviii'ii jii such sudden fashion. Men who have once faced bullets can be handled that way but not raw recruits." The story that soldiers from the South of Franco lack courage Is no doubt a slander. Generni Joffre comes from Rivesaltes, In the Pyre nees; General Gallienl from Saint Beat, also ln these mountains; Gen eral Foch from the village of Valen tine, Ufewlse of the mountains be tween France and Spain, while Gen eral 'Castelnau calls Garldech his home, this little town being on the plains about Toulouse. Vheso soldiers have already won places ln history by their Iron cour age; they are the men in whose hands the fate of France rests, they are the commanders in chief of all the French and thus far the wholej world agrees they have acrcmpllshed wonders. Yes they are from the Ml.ll. Tne Southern Frenchman does not lack courage. Nor does he lack pat riotism, lie Is different, yes, from his northern French I rot her, bill ho is ull these Just the "nine. He tnlk3 differently, eats differently, thinks differently, dresses differently, lives differently, so why should he not fight differently and in tills great war die differently? A petition was filed with the coun ty court today asking that Mrs. Alma F. Bloom beappointed administratrix n fthe estate of Chas. T. Bloom, de I ceased. The edition has a will tached which was prepared by M Bloom before his death, leaving his property to his widow. N. Jacobson, of Portland, Inspec tor of the O. and C. R. It. grant and fire patrol, is In the- city today at tending to business matters and visit ing with officials of the forest Ber vice. INTO RUSSIA! n L Will Make Personal Visit to Russian Front GREAT ARMY SURRENDERS AT NOVO German iliuncellor Creates Great Sensation in Itetchstafr Sliced! Denounces Kngland. BERLIN, Aug. 20. The capture of Novo Georgiewsk, the fortress west of Warsaw, ,1s officially an nounced. It Is believed that at least 40.000 Russians were captured, and It is likely that numerous cannon were tnken. Novo Georglowsk, which ls twenty miles west of Warsaw, is the last of the Vistula fortresses held by the Russians. The Germans have now made a clean Bweep of the cn- i "re lln0. reducing Kovno. Ostrelenka, Novo Georgiewsk, Lomza, Ivangorod and Luhlln. It is announced that the Kaiser has departed for Novo fficorglewsk to congratulate person ally General von Beslor upon Ihe capture of the fortress. ' 3reat Army Cntiirel. BERLIN, Aug. 20. The wnr of rice announces that six generals and 85,000 troops were made prisoners when Novo Georgiewsk was capitu lated. Chancellor Creates Sensation. BERLIN, Aug. 20. Dr. von Beth-mnnn-Hollweg. the German imperinl chancellor, in a speech yesterday at the opening of the Reichstng, after a receBs since May 30, in a sensa tional statement quoted the words which he declared Sir Edward Grey, spoke to the German ambassador at London when the latter took leave of the British foreign minister after 1he beginning of the war ln August, 1914. "Sir Edward Grey," Bald the chan that war between the two countries eellor, "emphasizing his words, snid would make lt possible that a't the conclusion of peace he could lender us more valuable services than had England remained neutral." ' IteichHtng is Startled, The chancellor explained that he Interpreted these words to mean that England desired the friendship of a CEREMONIAL IS That tlie ceremonial hold at Craler lalto wan one of tho groat est of It h kind over hold In tho stato wan tho report of Attorney 0, K. Hopkins, who returned home thla morning. Mr. Hopkins states that there were In attendanre between hree and four hundred Knights besides ladies representing 40 cities tind sev en state. Seventeen wero residents of Roseburg. The ceremonial opened Wednesday morning in the Crater on Wlsard island. At this time about .10 candi dates took degrees, among tliem be ing John M. Scott, general passen ger agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and Will C. Stool, superintendent of the Crater lake na tional park. To roach the place of meeting It, was necessary to descend a long cliff, to the bike and then up an eleva tion of about 800 feet to the top of; Wisard Island and then the descent into the crater, the entire trip tak ing several hours. A great many of the Knights made the trip by automobile, !)K of them stopping at the government camp on Tuesday and 30 more on Wednesday. The Hearst Selig Motion Picture Company had an operator on the scene- who took a number of flash light pictures of tho camps and also motion pictures of the procesHlon des cending Into the crater on Wizard Mand. The government also had. an operator present who took pictures to be used In advertising the park. The Medford band made the trip to the lake with the Knights and played the first hand music ever to bo heard on the shores of the lake. KAISER WIL CONGRATULATE beaten and weakened Germany as counter influence against powerful Russia. England would be ready to use such a Germany a weak coun try without Industry and without & navy. The chancellor's report of this scene In London caused a profound, sensation ln the reichstag. The chancellor enumerated all the cases where he found that England had violated the right of small na tions, citing the Boer republic, Egypt and Persia. This, he said, was the same England which In 1914 declined a German guarantee of Belgian in tegrity In case of England's neutral ity, replying that Bhe could not traf flco in Belglnn neutrality. Tho chancellor summed up this phnso of his Bpeech ln these words: "A country whose policy wus and Is Bitch, has no right to accuse of war lust or barbarism, or of a de sire for conquest a country that pro tected European peuce for 4 4 years; a country that lived only for peace ful evolution while others went to war and conquered other countries; a country that now, menaced by half the world, fights for Its own life. Such an accusation ls hypocrisy," Germany First Attacked. Commenting on the documents re cently published, declared to be so crot reports of Belgian 'diplomats, tho chancellor declared they proved that Germany hud been attacked aft er long and careful preparation by others for war. The chancellor concluded; "Germany has never aspired to Eu ropean hegemony. Her ambition was to excel all others in the works of civilization amidst the peaceful com petition of large and small nations. This war has brought to light the greatness of the attainments made posslblo by our own moral strength. We cannot use this force for free dom's sake. "We do not hnto the nntlons driv en Into wnr by their governments, but wo have forgotten our former sentimentality. W shall continue to fight until these nations ask peace from their own guilty governments and until the road la free ror a new Europe, delivered from French in trlgueB, Muscovite love of conquest and Brltlah tutelage." ST LOUIS HAS ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20. Ten per sons are believed to have perished, and five hundred are marooned at their homes or stranded on street cam, In St. Louis and the surround ing territory, as the result of a ter rific rainstorm last night, and today. must! si) LONDON', Aug. 20. --The llrltlsh submarine U-13, enrouto to the Ilnl tlc, went uground yesterday off Salt chulin Island, the adinlrnlty announc ed. Fifteen of the crew are missing and 1 5 aro saved. (Ji:it.M.NS XtVTK V citi;nrr ok two mi, i. ions Socialist Party Supports (government McnMirc When the Iteich.sluK Met Yesterday. HI'.HI.IN, Aug. 20. A majority ,of tho socialist members ,of Reichstag voted ln favor of a new credit of over 2. 000,000, 000 when that body convened yesterday. This support of the government was given, it Is stated despite tho opposition of Dr. Carl J.lehkneclft, ,the socialist leader. Dr. Llebknecht will ask the gov ernment regarding terms Germany would consider toward reaching a peace agreement. It Is expected he will ho given support by some mem bra of hln party, who may quit the Reichstag as a silent protest against tho war. The labor element In Germany Is Insisting upon action against food speculators and opposing certain landstrum orders which have been issued.