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The News For Results min Daily Weather Report l air Tonight and Sunday. Highest temp, yesterday ...9T Lowest tomp. last night -. . .69 If you have lost or found. If you want to buy or sell, If you want work or workers, Use The News Clamlfled Ads. VOL. VI. ROSEBURU, DUl'GLAS COUNTV, OREGON SATUKUAV, Al'Gt'ST 21, 1015. No. 219 Til GIVEN FOR 3 German Side of Arabic Story Wanted in Washington 'f WILL ISSUE NO STATEMENT UNTIL THEN White Star Line Officials Claim That Only Two Americans Were' j , Anion); Tims') Who ! Perished. ': WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. Tension increased In official quarters last night when consular messages; for warding affidavits of American! sur vivors of the British liner Arabic brought definite information . that the vessel was torpedoed without warnlne and that probably some Americans had been lost. It seemed that but one pclnt re mained to be cleared up whether the Arabic had attemptd to ram the submarine or whether a change of the liner's course to assist the already sinking British steamer ' Dunsley nearby was misinterpreted by the Orman submarine commander as a hostile, approach. The attitude of the American government for he moment is receptive, anxiously await ing accurate details and reserving judgment as to whether the action was "deliberately unfriendly." The final decision rests with President Wilson. 1 ' - ' 1 J .- Waiting for German Statement. In addition to awaiting informa tion from the American' survivors, the embassy In' London, and Ameri can consuls, officials expect some word from "Ambassador Gerard at Berlin to indicate whether the at tack without warning on the Arabic -anetlon of the German gov ernment. Should Germany offer an explanation, asserting there were qualifying cir:uml&nies, such os an attempt by the Arabic to escape or Tarn the submarine, the dlsnr' on Germany's .part to . discuss the case would In all likelihood be con strued here as a disavowal of any In- i-- n violate the principles for which tho United States has con tended. Officials here have found it dif ficult, to reconcile the, act with" pret vIoub declaration from Germany that the purpose of the submarne warfare was to prevent the carriage- of muni tions of war to the allies; The Ara bic was bound for an American port, and therefore carried no contraband. The censorship in Great Britain of press dispatches .on the disaster created tho Impression that perhaps fads were being withheld which might affect the casq vitally. ; Official (messages', however, are not subject to censorship, and con fidence1, prevailed, that within.'an other 24 hours the ,clrcumstances of the torpedoing would be definitely TWO KILLED IN PORTLAND WRECK PORTLAND, Aug, '21,' H. P'. Best, a conductor, 'and lJV E Potter, a brakeman, were instantly killed at 6:30 last night, when a Southern Pa cific freight train collided with a light engine near Uivera, about four miles south of Portland. J. B. Thatch er, a brakeman, was seriously Injur ed. He is at the- Good Samaritan hospital. Best and Potter were members of the freight crew. The train was car rying a load of logs to, Hlllsboro. They were tproceedlng backwards with the Idea of turning arrfund'at the Oswego bridge. The conductor and brakeman were riding In the caboose, which was the head end of the train, and were crush ed between the timbers of the car. Conductor Best and Brakeman Pot ter were both well known in this city, a both of the men had worked out of Hoseburg on the Southern Pa cific. Mr. Best was at ope time a fireman, 'but had resigned this po sition In order to enable him to gain further promotion In railroad circles (PLANATIONS learned. Arabic Xot Convoyed. For awhile today some officials, hearing that the Arabic was convoy ed for a time on her outward jour ney from Liverpool, .' thught this might have caused the German sub marine to disregard the rule of visit and search and the giving of warn ing. Later, however, the statement of an American survivor, transmitted officially, told how the life boats drifted for hours before being pick ed up. This was regarded as de stroying the theory that convoys could have been anywhere In the part way It would not affect her stnt- Even If the Arabic' was convoyed part way it would not affec ther stst us, In the opinion of lawyers of the state department. The theory that the Arabic may have attempted to ram' the German submarine was scouted by naval of ficials of high rank, who said the prevailing Impression that a large passenger vessel could ram under water craft' was erroneous. The sub marines ' can maneuver about so qjulckly,' they explained, as to be able to torpedo the larger vessels without trouble,. Officials, also thought that no vessel of large ton nage, especially those with passen gers aboard, ever would take such a risk. . , Officials Hope For No Break. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 Threat ening as the German-American sit uation was, tlie officials are still hopeful that the sinking of the Ara bic 'with the' loss of two Americans, would not lead to a break with Ger many. Although the unofficial re ports now Indicate 'that the Arabic was tbrre" '"hrit warning, ex planations from Berlin are expected. The .attitude. -of. the .administra tion is nor jrrcconcllable, a high of ficial and authority said, and while the United States wt,ll not submit to a slap in (he fnceK there IB no Inten tion of dlregardlng lhe"German for eign office, If it has anything td say. No further details of. the sinking have been received. AMERICANS LOST LONDON, Aug. 21. While the casualties surrounding the attack on the Arabic are' still surrounded In mystery, the details of the sinking of the . ship with !the loss of Anjerlcan lives, are promised as soon as tue captain makes his official ..report' Consul Frost, ; bf Qiieenslpwn, has finally conlirmed the 'report thai Mrs. Josephine 'Brugulere and Dr. Ed ward Woods are .the only American passenger missing.. The White Star officials issued; another statement that only two Americans are miss ing. The statement declared that 12 passengers In addition ' to the two Americans are unaccounted for, and that forty members of the crew are missing. No dispatches bave been received indicating whether any pre cautions had been taken to guard agalns't an attack upon the Arable, j LONDON, Aug. ,21. The, liner Arabic ' was not being convoyed by war ships when she was tonwdoed and sunk by a submarine. This statement has been passed by the press bureau and Is said to be auth orized by the admiralty today. Misnq l'nseugeir of Arabic 'Found. fWfASllINGTONi Aug. i2t-tAnieri- can Ambassador Page informed the sta'te department that Mr. and Mrs. Fred BrugesS and J. Kellett, Ameri can passengers 0 nthe Arabic are ac counted for. This leaves two Ameri cans missing, as previously reported. ICANE TAKES CHICAGO, Aug. 21. Cracking Its way northwNrd, like a giant whip un folding, the hurricane which swept Texas Has struck northern' Illinois and Wisconsin, and Is wearing itself out on Lake Michigan. The fury of the storm broke over St. Louis where ten perished, and six are missing. From St. Louis to the lake there arc no deaths repbrted, but the property damage is heavy. SUBMARINES uETMANYSnlPS Three More Vessels Reported Destroyed in 24 Hours LAPLAND WITH 31B PASSENGERS MISSING Shipping ' Interests Show Great Anxiety and Itbiny Wild Ru mors Are Jleing Circulate,;. LONDON, Aug. 21. The;report that the steamer; Bovlc has been sunk is untrue according to the Press. As sociation which says the steamer ar rived at Liverpool yesterday and pro ceeded to Manchester. Fourteen steamers with a total gross tonnage of 47,698 have been sunk in the last 4 8 hours by German submarines. This toll, which estab lishes a record for so short a period, was more than twice as heavy as that levied by underwater craft In the : preceding week. Three other vessels reported torpedoed may add another 26,965 tons to tho aggregate destroyed In the past two days. So far as known there has-been no loss of life, except in the sinking of the White Star.liner Arabic. ' The recrudescence of submarine ac tivity began August, 12 and in the week ending August 18 the British admiralty reports officially 13 ves sels of a total (onnage of 22,970 wero sunk, 11 of them by underwater craft and two by mines. . This makes a total known loss of 70.66 8 tons of shipping In nine days. ' ( Ten Vessels British. , Ten of the vessels sunk in the past two days, were British .three were Norwegian and ono was Spanish. The total tonnage known Jo have been lost Friday was 26,674 and Thurs day it was 21,021. ' ,' j i The largest vessel, whoso loss has been confirmed was the Arabic of 1 5, 181 tons. Reports that the Lapland of 17,640 tons and the Nlcosian of 6,369 tona'have been sunk have not been verified. The fate of the Duns ley, 2,956 tons net reported torpedoed i just before the Arabic s sunk has, . . . not been definitely determined. ' Mr. and Mrs. Enrl Altrs and son. Submarines torpedoed 'Friday, -the: Romnlne, and Mrs. Mary B. Buenp, British steamers dlestormel, 2,118 , - "VMicka. Kara., who have been vis tons; Baron prsklnet 5,685 tons; I King for several .days In this city, New York City, 2,190 tons; Samara left this mornlng'for Snn Francisco, 3,173 tons; Gladiator,; 3,359 tons; ' and San Diego, where they will at Bltternj 1,797 tons, and the Ben tend the two expositions before Brachle 3,908 tons, a total of 22,72,9 '"llllMI -ffS-LJln: stll.'-Jn-l .w . SAVAGE, WHY DO TOU STARE? ' ' ' tons. The Norwegian steamers Sver- resborg 674 tons and the Bras 1,351 tons, as well as the Spanish steamer Perlacastlllo 1,920 tons, also were sunk,' making a grand total of 26,674 tops. , . , , The vessels sunk Thursday were the Arabic 15,801 tons; the Grod no, 1,965 tons; ,the Serbinq 2,205 tons and the Magda 1,063 tons, a total of 21,02,4. All those vessels were of British registry except the Magda which was Norwegian. Shipping Offleiuls Kept op Keen Edge ,NEV YORK, Aug. 21. Messages from England to the White Star of fices pere apparently suffered from tho English censorship Only one dispatch, detailing cer tain changes In previous lists of sur vivors and missing escaped the cen sor's blue pencil. , , The lack of definite news from abroad was balanced by a host of ru mors that tried the nerves of officials and left them In a keen state of Ap prehension as to the fate of ut least one more large steamer in or near the war zone, the Lapland, which i snned August 12 from this port for Liverpool with 318 passengers, in cluding 13 Americans, and a capacity cargo of, war munitions nd other .U'vi'.'B... , , , , : , t . Among these was the, report that the liner Bovic, a freighter, depart ing from New York, August 8 with a big. cargo, but no passengers, tor Manchester, had met the Arabic's fate. Word that the Bovlc had been sunk was received in. a. nress des patch here from London at 5:36 p. m. yesterday. Nearly four hours pre vious a private shipping firm In this city had received cable advices re porting , sinking. A later dis patch , said, the steamer arrived at Liverpool and proceeded to Man chester.' ; ' f ' ' ABE RUEF GIVEN t PAROLE AT LAST SAN QUENTIN, Cul., Aug. 21. Abe Ruer, the noted politician has been paroled from the United States prison on the condition that he would not return to San Francisco for three months, but be exiled to Mendonino county for the first three months of his liberty. ". ' ,, turning to their home Doabr Im CXmUmi risia IHalrr TURKISH POLICE VERY ACTIVE Constant Surveillance1 Over All Foreigners. SLIGHTEST SUSPICION LEADS TO ARREST Notations '' Between Germans And Turks la' Ilecomlng More" Strained Every Day, ' Officials. Declare. . ; i By Henry Wood. " , (UnltedPress Staff Correspondent. i CONSTANTINOPLE, (By courier to Dedeagatch and' thence by mall) More 'and more, as the existence of the empire becomes menaced more and more does the Turkish police' de partment the one and only depart ment of government for wblch the Turk has ever shown a real genius, Increase Its activities. The Turks say they have a million and a quar ters of men under arms. One would be tempted to believe they were re ferring to the number pf ijpollce-mpn- , , ., , , : . . , Recently complaint; was made to Enver PaBha that there was too much surveillance of the Scorpion, the Unit ed States ship now anchored In the BoBphorus at the foot of the Ameri can; college, for girls.' : I; "But It Is the duty of the police to watch everything, to watch every body." replied the' 3 3-year-old minis ter of'wart "Every 20 minutes of the day and night a patrol boat passes my house. il am watched like all the rest.'1' ' ' '"I This sensation of being constantly under the eyes of the police pro duces on the part of the 'foreigner here a degree; of caution. He sever knows at what instant a chance word he may utter may be overheard by' a secret policeman, 'in' consequence of which he 'may be charged wllh the utterance of treason. "' 1 ' 1 Only a few days' ago Cononel Lelp- slg, the military attache of the Gor man embassy Was killed.' Hawas'a magnificent' type of the Gorman of ficer, over six feet tall; a gentleman both In appearance and in 'actuality, known and loved by everyone. ' Tho official - announcement1 said that while changing from uniform to civil Ian dress In a :llttlo railway stntldn upon hlsteturrt from the Dardanelles, his 'revolver hnd been accidentally discharged, the ball ehterlng bls'fore- head. " ' ' 1 There was scarcely a fdrolgher In all Constantinople whri did not see In this mysforious death the culmina tion at least In part of his convictions that Boriner or later the Turks wfll SIX OFFICIALS ; , FOUND GUILTY POKTLAXI), Auk. 21.-J-The Jii- In tho federal court returned a -Verdict of guilty in Utc chho of tdx form er officials and salennion of tho Unit ed Suites Cflffililer Co., who 'have been on trial for several week rharKd with a ' fraudulent use of thfe malls. The ronvieted men am: FrKnk Mene foo, C. A. Campbell, F. MJ 1. onion, 0 B. Gernert; n. F. ' nenevell and H. M. Todd. The men 'face two years' Imprisonment or a fine of $10,000 or both. The motion for a new trial will ho heard In ten days. E A . 1 : i BERLIN, Aug. 21. The forces un der General von Gullwllz havecai turcd the city oMllulsk It I announc ed from the war 'office. The capture, of Bielsk cuts the communications of tho Russians between the fortress of Grodno and Brest-Lltovsk. South of Blelsk, the official statement said that von OallwIU drove the Russians across the lllala and Jesla rivers. ' , I I EVENTS IN THE WAJt ( ONE YH.Ut AGO TODAY 4 Allies and Gerpiant battle on 20-mlle front from Charleroi to Naraur. , German troops shatter French advance east of the Vosges mountains. Russia continues advance on Germnn and Austrian borders. .Four-day battle on the banks of the Drlha ends In defeat of Australns by Serbs, who took many prison 'rs Brussels . treasurer refuses German demand, for $40,000,- . French troops ara driven out of Lorraine and battlo at Muhl- 4 hausen Is expected. Italy reported to have decided od general" mobilization. 1 i . turn on the German officers pow sta tioned at Constaotlnojjle.j But not a single person fin all Constantinople once expressed this suspicion. "hoy say It was accidental," is what everyone said to bis most inti mate friend and to this remark si lence alone followed. A word more uttered might have been overheard by a secret police and the Individual hauled up for peasonj That the position 'of jthe Germans at Constantinople Is- becoming dally more delicate there can be. no ques tion. I know personally, that even In the case of the death of Colonel Lelp slz, the Turkish censor insisted that' the official announcement as prepar ed by the German ambassador be submitted befbre' being telegraphed to Berlin 'and that the original text was altered. Many German officers after their day's work at' the "Quar tler Oeneral" fc-hange to' Civilian's dress before appearing oh the streets In the evening. German and Aus trian civilians are leaving by every train. Part of those wHo left on the same train1 I did, left Curding the country 'which' had Jolried them In war. One German correspondent representing oils of Germany's great est pahers the BerHner'Tageblatt wnS expelled because 'ho saw things as they actually' were and not as the Turks wanted him to see them. But thore'is every Indication that the Germnn soldiers, sailors' and, of ficers how In Turkey will Bta'y to the end.' Whatever the fnte of Turkey may be there Is evry Indication that not a' man wfll hesitate to share It 'and ,lf trie Turkish empire 1 passes Out ' of ' existence 'it Is llkclj1 these men will paBs with It. ' TAFT COMING TO BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 21. Ex-President Taft spent a quiet day as tho guest of" Calvin Cobb, publisher of the Idaho Statesman. 1Mb only pub lic appdarance will be at tho Commer cial club reception 'this afternoon. He leaves for Portland tonight. ' U, PF,0. RECENT SALEM, Ore., Aug. 21. The gov. ernor has appointed ftay Ooodrich, of Eugene, as a regent of tho University of Oregon, to succeed the late S. HI t rlendly. -Mrs. halter Singleton and "son and Mrs. .1. L. Anderson left this morning for r.f" "- where th'y will visit at the hpine of. J. W., Mar tin. i 1 ' ' ' J BIG WAR LOAN IS IV:R1IN, Aug. 21. Tho (Reich stag has unanimously passed the war loan of two and ono half billion (lul ls rs.
