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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1914 4 THREE BLOCKS IN THE DALLES BURNED Three Fires Appearing in Sep arated Sections of City Be lieved to Be Incendiary. WATER ALMOST USED UP Everything in City as Dry as Tinder and Entire Business Section of Place Is Threatened Flames Cross Second Street. ' THE DALLES. Or.. Aug-. 30. (Spe cial.) Three entire blocks of this city were swept away by fire last night, the result of three blazes started with in a few minutes of each other and aupposedly from the torch of an In cendiary. The total loss Is estimated at $110,000. In less than two hours fully a dozen stores were raxed by the terrific flames, the postoffice was destroyed, several hundred pounds of mall going up in smoke, and for a time the en tire city waa imperiled, the water supply falling short when the flames were at their height. That the eastern portion of the city was saved is due to the fact that three walls of the Oddfellows' building re mained standing and served as bar riers keeping the fUmes in check, i nurirrn Places Burn. T he complete list of the destroyed structures is: Postoffice and Brill's dry goods store both situated in the Oddfellows' brick building, a two-story structure which housed the lodge and clubrooms on the second floor. Baldwin Opera-House. landmark ci The Dalles, totally consumed. The Dalles cannery. Sumner commission house. Louie Comini's residence and marble T irk.-. -J. Welch & Sons second-hand store. Great Northern furniture store (cor rugated iron). Midway saloon. Groehler's bakery. Wtlehart barber shop. Bonbonlere confectionery. Cohen clothing store. Three Fires Started. Base for the report that the fire is ef incendiary origin is found in the act that Hie first blaze started In old Indian huts west of town at 8:30 clock, and when overybody seemed to have rushed to that scene the second blaze appeared in the old Baldwin Tiieater. The third and most Insistent tire was started in the cannery. When the three fires had been raging but a few minutes the electric light wires fell and. save for the flashes of flams in the three sections of the city. The Dalles was in darkness. This proved hampering In the general rush of aid and on top of that inconveni ence the water supply dwindled fast. Had it not been for the three standing brick walls of the gutted Oddfellows building the firelighters would have been unable to cope with the triple blaze. Rail Service Halts. Railroad traffic was tied up com pletely for four hours, O.-W. It. & N. train So. 10 finally getting through at 11:30. After that hour the train service was restored and soon after midnight the fire was under control. The Golden Rule drygoods store was saved after the flames had apparently enveloped if- Determined fighting halted the licking tongues of fire, however, before that store was dam aged and the water loss here will be comparatively small. If any. The lire In front of the Great North ern furniture store became so hot that It literally burned the hard-surface pavement. The store building was of corrugated iron, and there were so few vents that the Interior became a roar ing furnace, the fire eventually forc ing its way through the hot molten corrugated Iron and with a terrific "whoof" jumped across the street. The fire was put under control shortly after midnight, but not before the water supply began to show signs of failing. The fire came when the bupply was low, and had the fire fighters been 15 or 20 mi mtes more In controlling the flames, it is believed the town would have gone. The Dalles not having had any rain for months, the roofs are as dry as tinder and the flames leaped from one structure to another with amazing rapidity. SLIM WOMEN NOT STYLISH London Beauty Specialist Says "Slinker-Slouch" Is Passe. LONDON, Aug. 2. The slim woman Is doomed today. Fashion has decreed her passing and bones are to vanish before plumpness and bonniness. Wom en cheerfully now own to a waist of from 36 inches to 36 Inches. In fact, the very slim, "slinker-slouch" woman is now considered ugly and deformed. The craze for slimness. a beauty specialist said, produced the Irritable woman, the neurotic woman, the nerv us woman and the poseuse. "To be healthy," said the specialist, "a woman should, as everybody knows, have a full bust and an uncramped waist. If a woman adopts the kind of "slinker-slouch" figure her chest con tracts and nothing is worse for the general health than a contracted chest." FUTURIST PLAY ACCEPTED Young Leipzig Poet's Characters Seen From One Point of View. LEIPZIG. Aug. 24. (Special.) A young poet named Hasenclever has written what be and his friends de scribe as the first Futurist drama, which has been accepted for produc tion by Dr. Max Relnhardt in Berlin. The play is entitled "Der Sohn" and described the natural antagonism be tween the old and the new generation. The oeculiarlty of the play, and that which Is supposed to give it a Futurist flavor. Is that all the characters are intentionally sketched only from th point of view of "the son," who repre sents the young generation. GERMANS REPEAT HISTORY Navy May Be Bottled Like Those of Spain and Ku.ia. England may he asking the same question respecting the German fleet that Americans were asking In June, ISfS. about ths Spanish fleet bottled up at Santiago, and that the Japanese In 1804 were asking about the Russian fleet at Port Arthur will It come out and fight? Or, it there is a German battle fleet eomewhere roaming the high sess will it show Itself to the English, and fight? . The Spanish fleet did not come out until It was forced to. The army hav ing overcome the defenders of San tiago on the land side, the harbor was no longer tenable for the enemy s ships. The situation was the same a3 Be tween the Russians and the Japanese, except that Port Arthur was practical ly Impregnable to attack from the sea, and the bottled-up Russians were cor respondingly more secure at their an chorage than the Spaniards. The fleet came out after Port Arthur had been reduced from the land side. Like the Spanish fleet, it did not come out to fight, but to run away. The desire to avoid a fight in both these instances invited no criticism. In the present instance, the German sea strategists are entitled to adopt any course that seems to them wise, with out prejudice. If the Kaiser's fighting ships are at their base on the Baltic, Kiel, or at the one on the North Sea, Wilhelmshaven. tney are secure. In these fortified harbors they cannot be damaged by the British dreadnoughts. Yet it is difficult to believe that the German navy will be satisfied to re main inactive. Though their fleet is vastly under-sized by comparison with the British, a fight in the open sea should not result in their humiliation. Thsv ouarht to be able to inflict a vast deal of damage on the enemy be fore the issue Is concluded. Most likely, they would come oft with vic tories in detail ship to ship or squad ron to squadron even if the main mystery of the mastery of the sea were settled against them. It Is not known, of course, except to the governments concerned, whether or not the Germans are at their bases. It may be that a considerable force was In the North Sea at the time the mobilized British fleet put out from its bases which, as will be recalled, was some days before the declaration of war. If thus outside, they will have to fight sooner or later. That, wher ever they are, they do not menace the traveled routes is attested by the mes sage England has Just sent to Den mark that their Intimate traffic across the North Sea may be resumed without fear of molestation. Den mark Is the great dairy for England. It Is almost as necessary for England to keep the road open to Denmark for butter and eggs as to keep it open to France for the transport of troops. DEFEAT MEANS RUIN SAYS LORD ROBERTS Field Marshal Makes Candid Appeal; Says Hundreds of Thousands Needed. WOMEN URGED TO HELP BRITISH CAPTURE APIA GERMAN SEAPORT IN SAMOAS ISLANDS SURRENDERS. Expeditionary Force From New Zea land Taken Territory It Was Feared Japan Might Acquire. LONDON, Aug. 30. The official in formation bureau announces that Apia, a seaport of Upolu. Samoan Islands, and capital of the German part, of the group, surrendered on the morning of August 29 to a British force from New Zealand. Germany's Samoan territory has been considered her most strategic posses sion in the Pacific. Following tne dis solution of the agreement of 1S89 by which the United States, Germany and England joined in guaranteeing the neutrality and independence of the Sa moan group, a party of partition was signed in Washington in 18D9. By this treaty all three powers con tinued to enjoy equality of commerce, but Great Britain's territorial claims were extinguished and the Islands were divided between the United States and Germany. Meridian 171 degrees west was recognized as the dividing line. The two largest islands, Upolu and SavaiL with some smaller members of the group, passed to Germany and Tutuila and others came under Amer ican control. Tutuila is considered the strategic key of the group. At Pago-Pago, a splendid land-locked harbor, the United States has a naval and coaling station. Apia, seized by the British, Is the commercial metropolis of the group, contains numerous fine churches, schools and residences and Is the seat of the training college of the London Missionary Society. Robert Louis Ste venson, the novelist, made his home on Cpolu for the last years of his life and la burled on one of the mountains. When Japan entered the European conflict by her declaration of war on Germany and before her explicit dec laration that her operations would be confined to the China Sea. the appre hension that she might seize German Samoa and thus gain a foothold be tween Hawaii and her own coast, gave rise to much speculation respecting Washington's attitude in such an eventuality. BOMBS FALLING IN PARIS REPEATED ATTACKS BV AERO PLANE ARE MADE. London Dispatch Tells of Three At tacks, Paris of One More No Damage Done, Is Report. LONDON, Aug. 30. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Paris says that about 2:S0 today an aeroplane appeared over Paris and dropped three bombs near Qua de Jemmapes, Rue Ricollet and Place de la Republlque. No damage was done. PARIS, Aug. 30. a German aero plane flying at a height of 6000 feet over Paris at 1:30 P. M. dropped a bomb which landed near L'Est railway sta tion, off the Boulevard Magenta, which was so named from the battle of Ma genta. The bomb did no damage. Though startled by this threatening occurrence. Parisians remained tran quil. All have been gradually accus tomed to consider much more serious events as possibilities, and the people of the capital are equal to either for tune hard-won success in the north or a temporary reverse. The territory over which a German aeroplanist tlew Is in the northeastern part of Paris and scarcely a mile from the heart of the city. In this district are the big military hospital, the Hos pital St. Louis, St. Lazare prison for women, the Church of St. Laurent, which dates from the 16th century; the North railroad station, the magnificent Church of St. Vincent de Paul, the Larlbosiere Hospital, one of the largest In Paris, several colleges and several theaters. War Held Cartoon-Inspiring. Will the war in Europe inspire local artists to choose battle themes for pic tures this season? C. E. S. Wood, at torney and artist, thinks not. "While the war will furnish ample material for cartoon work, I doubt if It will be the subject of many serious studies," said Mr. Wood yesterday. "It Is my theory that to present a scene properly an artist must be stimulated by bis sur roundings." Jt a beea estlmutsd by the nationsi Board of fire underwriters that four-fifths of the annual fire losses In the United titatM could be avd if firsmen could reach I lrs In one-half of tho tim now required. Appeal Made to Wives and Mothers Not to Stand In Way of Duty of Husbands and Sons Strug gle to Death Is On. LONDON, Aug. 30. Field Marshal Lord Roberts, addressing a meeting last night to obtain recruits for the army, declared that the country was in great danger. There was no use in mincing words, he said, defeat would mean ruin, shame and slavery. "Our soldiers are fighting bravely," said Lord Roberts, "but they are la mentably few and It is the duty of every able-bodied man to see that the army Is maintained at its full strength. The women must not stand In the light of their sons' and husbands' duty." Lord Roberts also made the state ment on the occasion of the review of a new regiment of 1300 London busi ness men yesterday that Great Britain in the present war would require uuu thousands of soldiers pick of the natio He dreds of added: highly-educated business men. You follow various professions, and you are doing exactly what all able-bodied men in the kingdom should do, no matter what their rank or station in life. My feelinsr toward you IS one oi mien admiration. How very different your action than that of the men w ..... M11 rrr, nn nla V!I1 T Cricket 3 football as if the existence of the coun try were not at stake. "We are engaged In a llfe-and-death struggle, and you are showing your determination to do your duty as sol diers and by all the means in your power to bring this war a war forced on us by an ambitious and unscrupu lous nation to a successful result." britonTSuSs-like WHISTLING "I WANT A GIRL," TROOPS GO TO WAR. n's se la ho and Men la Ranks Leave for French Soil Without Knowing Where They Were Going. NEW YORK, Aug. Ci. Without a band or martial music of any kind, but merely whistling and stepping along to the tune of "I want a girl, Just like the girl that daddy had." the first Eng lish troops marched from the docks at Havre Wednesday afternoon a week ago. They had come from Southamp ton. In the course of the four days fol lowing 11:5.000 of the fine-looking fighting men of the King arrived In this port. The business-like way of it all im pressed every one. There was no beat ing of drums, no sounds of the bugle call. It was the business of war and thero was much to do. In one day a base of operations had been established at the docks of the .French line and a hospital of 600 cots arranged in the center of the city. On the hills back of town a rest camp was established to take care of 40,000 men as they arrived before departing for various points on the frontier. It seems the English war department is not given to informing the troops in any way as to their destination, "for," as the Lieutenant said, "England learned the value of ricrecy as to her military operations during the Boer war, although at a great cost" It was a strange sight to see the London bus filled with English troops in Havre and then, too, 100 London taxicabs with soldier drivers who know a lot more about taking a fare.o Picca dilly circus than they did to any point in Havre, but they wero all part of the war preparations. These 125.000 soldiers were properly primed, eager for the fight, for an al leged statement of the German Ambas sador before leaving London had been published to the effect that England could go ahead and tako her troops to France and elsewhere for they were so few they would hardly count for much. This was all that was needed properly to arouse the English fighting spirit. "See this bullet?" said ono English trooper. "I have it marked with a cross. It alone shall bo used for one of the German Emperor's family." Each had a similar story. These Eng lish troops were moved at once to vari ous points on the frontier and we were not allowed to ask questions as to where they wero going. 1000-FOOT FALL BRUISES New Tork Aviator Drops Wliile in Loop, but Bones Not Broken. NEW YORK, Aug. 24. Albert Fileux, a New York aviator, fell 1000 feet in his monoplane on the Hempstead avia tion field at Mineola recently and lives to tell of it, He Is badly bruised and somewhat lacerated by the fall, but at the Nas sau Hospital it is thought he will re cover. He suffers mostly from shock. It was said at the aerodrome that Fileux is not the correct name of the young man and that he is a member of a wealthy Manhattan family. He ascended to "loop the loop." He went up to a height which observers calcu lated was 1000 feet. The engine stopped dead Just as the nose of the car was pointed down ward in the course of the first turn of the loop. The machine fell like a plummet and the onlookers could see Fileux making frantic efforts to right It. Then he swung himself into the cockpit of the machine, evidently to avoid being caught under the engine. The aircraft struck the ground on the front wheels. These collapsed and the machine turned over, landing upside down. Men from the hangars rushed to the wrecked machine ex pecting to find Fileux dead. They found he had no broken bones. FOOD SPECULATION IS HIT Representative Sees No Cause for Boosting Prices Here. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25. Repre sentative Michael Donohoe, represent ing the northeastern section of the city, has called for concerted action against speculators in this country who would make "exorbitant profits In food, stuffs and other supplies." Mr. Donohoe said there was no real merit in the ar gument that the European war would, by causing a scarcity of supplies, necessarily and for economic reasons produce an advance In prices. The Congressman also called atten tion to another phase of the war. "Bet ter," he said, "than a high tariff is this war in the way of keeping out foreign manufactures. The war will stimulate our industries so that we should quick ly work ourselves into a dominant posi tion in the race for commercial suprem acy. Even if the war lasts only a short time, it will take the foreigners a considerable length of time to re gain the time and place they will have lost. Meanwhile our wheels of commerce will be whirling as never before, and we will have enlarged our trade relations and also entered new fields, notably at this time, the rich South American territory, which here tofore has been occupied largely by European interests. In preparing for this greater commerce we will also supply all of our own needs, so that It will not be necessary for domestic prices to advance." Mr. Donohoe added that there had been some question In governmental circles as to who should pay for the cost of the cabling necessary to reach Americans across the water. Mr. Donohoe argued that the thing to do was to find and supply Americans with their needs and talk about the cost afterward. L0UVA1N IS EMPTY SHELL (Continued From First Page.) city to the outskirts, street by street and from house to house. In each building, so the German soldiers told me, they began at the first floor, and when that was burning steadily, passed to the one next. There were no excep tions. Whether It was store, chapel or private residence, it was destroyed. People Warned to Flee. The occupants had been warned to go and in each deserted shop or house the furniture, was piled, the torch was stuck under it and into the air went the savings of years, together with sou venirs of children and of parents 'and heirlooms that passed from generation to generation. The people had time to only fill a pil lowcase and fly. Some were not so for tunate, and by the thousands, like flocks of sheep, they were rounded up and marched through the night to the concentration camps. We were not allowed to speak to any citizens of Louvain, but the Germans crowded the windows boastful, gloating, eager to interpret We were free to move from one end of the train to the other, and for the two hours during which it circled the burning city war was before us in Its most hateful aspect. In other wars I have watched men on one hilltop with out haste and without heat fire at men on another hill, and in consequence good men were wasted, but in those tights there were no women or children, and the sheila struck only vacant stretches of veldt or uninhabited moun tain sides. At Louvain it was war on the defenseless, war on churches, col leges, shops of milliners and lacemak ers; war was brought to the bedside and the fireside, against women har vesting in the fields and against chil dren in wooden shoes at play in the streets. British Prisoners Are Lonely. Of 50 British prisoners all were erect and soldierly. In the ocean of gray the little patch of khaki-clad men looked" pitifully lonely, but they re garded tho men who had outnumbered, but not defeated, them with calm but uncurious eyes. In one way I was glad to see them there. Later they will bear witness as to how the enemy makes a wilderness and calls it war. It was a weird picture. On high ground rose the broken spires of the Church of St. Pierre and the Hotel de Vllle, and descending like steps were row beneath row of houses roofless and with their windows like blind eyes. The fire had reached the last row of houses those on Boulevard de Jodigne. Some of these were already cold but others sent up steady, straight columns of flame. In others at the third and fourth stories the window curtains still hung and flowers still filled the window boxes, while on the first floor the torch had Just passed and the flames were leaping. The fire had destroyed the electric plant, but at times the flames made the station so light that you could see the second-hand of your watch and then once again all was darkness, lit only by candles. You could tell when an officer passed by the electric torch he carried strapped to his chest. In the darkness the gray uniform filled the station with an army of ghosts, you distinguished men only when pipes hanging from their teeth glowed red or their bayonets flashed. Citizens Shot an Warning. Outside the station in the public square the people of Louvain passed in unending procession, women barehead ed and weeping, and men carrying the children asleep on their shoulders. All were hemmed in by a shadowy army of gray wolves. Once they were halted and among them marched a line of men they well knew, their fellow towns men. These were ou their way to be shot. The better to point the moral, an officer halted both processions and climbing to a cart explained why the men were to die. He warned others not to bring down on themselves a like vengeance. As those being led to spend the night in the fields looked across to those marching to death they saw old friends, neighbors of long standing and men of their own households. The officer bellowing at them from the cart was illuminated by the headlights of an automobile; he looked an actor held in a spotlight on a darkened stage. It was all like a scene upon the stage, unreal and inhuman. You felt it could not be true and that the cur tain of fire purring and crackling and sending up hot sparks to meet the kind, calm stars was only a painted back drop, that the reports of rifles from the dark rooms came from blank cartridges and that these trembling shopkeepers and peasants ringed in by bayonets would not In a few minutes really die, but that they themselves and their homes would be restored to their wives and children. You felt it was only a nightmare, cruel and uncivil1"13- r Then you remembered that the Ger man Emperor had told us what It Is. It is his holy war. ANCIENT TURTLE CAUGHT Jamesport, L. I., Reptile Bears Date on Shell of 1803. PITTSBURG, Aug. 24. Edmund H. Reeve found a turtle in Jamesport, L. I recently which bore upon Us back the initials, "H. N. A., 1803." The rep tile was of the kind frequently seen in the woods which are reported to attain an age of 200 years or more. Consultation by Mr. Reeve with some of the oldest residents of Jamesport re vealed the fact that they remember a man named Harry N. Aldrlch, who lived near Jamesport GIRL RULES WHITE HOUSE Miss Margaret Wilson Mistress of Presidential Home. WASHINGTON. Aug. 25. The set state functions at the White House may be canceled this year on account of the mourning of the Presidential family. This report gained currency here with the return of the President, al though the White House was silent on the subject. These Are Everyday Savings You can always save real money and get your stamp beside. 65C for $1.00 Listerine. 40? fr 50c Formolid. 39? for 50c Sal Hepatica. 83C for $1.00 Gudes' "Peptoman." $1.25 for 3 Blair Kidney Pills, $1.50. Delicious Ice Cream served free with our 25c lunch today. your choice of our 1.00 Shur Edge Pocket Knives for 83 Look at the price savings shown in our Alder and West Park windows. ,Let us develop your films today. Expert work quick service. 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Wear a pair of our Rubber Ear Stopples Keeps out the water, makes swimming safe. LEIPZIG TAKEN, REPORT RUMOR OF WAV AIi BATTLE HEARD AT VANCOUVER. Naval Officers Deny Story, But Belief Is German Cruiser la Elim inated as Menace. VANCOUVER, B. C Aug. 30. A newspaper extra reports that the Ger man cruiser Leipzig has been captured by the French cruiser Montcalm and the British cruiser Rainbow off Van couver Island, after a light in which 120 men were killed and wounded on the Leipzig. . The Leipzig Is on the way to Esquimau, according to the paper. The Esquimau naval station refused to give any information concerning the capture, but did not make a denial of it. It Is expected that the announce ment of the fight will be made In Lon don. SEATTLK, Aug. 30. When the Van couver story of the capture of the Leipzig was repeated to officers of the Esquimau naval station it was pro nounced a fabrication. It is evident, however, that the Leip zig has been eliminated as a hindrance to commerce in the North Pacific Ocean. GERMAN SEA LOSS IS 670 (Continued From First Page.) then German cruisers came out. The British light cruiser Arethusa, after a sighting shot, got her range splendidly nnd hit the foremost gun of one of the German cruisers, demolishing It. The Arethusa then tired a lew oroaasiaes at the enemy. Her practice was ex QhA hit a. German cruiser. which at once burst into smoke and tiame, but soon arterwaras a uornian shot did some damage to the engine room of the Arethusa. British Ships Also Struck. The destroyers Liberty and Laertes t V, o .rrnnrt E-ht A Shell bfOUfTht down the mast of the Liberty. The Laertes was nit amiasnips. a nuio wu shot through her funnel, her forward rinmnirri and she received also a shell in the dynamo-room and a shot aft wrecked ner camn. It was hot work, but at that moment Prituh iin-ht cruisers and battle cruisers appeared. It was the moment for which they naa Deen waning aim their execution was deadly. The first shot from one or the liruisn dsiuu cruisers sank a German cruiser which had been battering a destroyer. Fleeing Ships Overtaken. The German fleet then turned and fled in tho direction of Cuxhaven, but was pursued by British destroyers, which did terrible execution with their four-inch guns. Many of the Germans landed after the battle from the British ships were wounded by revolver bullets. It Is de clared the revolvers were used by Ger man officers to prevent their men sur rendering to the British boats which had put off to save their drowning op ponents. Some of the boats lowered to the rescue of the Germans, it is said, were fired upon by German cruisers. Berlin Minimises Battle. A dispatch received here by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company from Berlin gives an official state ment concerning tho naval battle off Heligoland. It says: "The naval engagement near Heligo land is treated by tne press as being without significance and as an occur rence which cannot affect the general situation. The fighting took place apparently within range of the Heli goland forts, which, however, wero unablo to use their guns on account of thick weather. "The German Emperor and Empress met at Bad Nassau yesterday at the residence of Baron von Stein. Their majesties spent some time visiting the wounded and expressing their sympa thy with them." AT LEAST FIVE GERMAN'S SUNK Boat Given 30 Prisoners anil They Are Sent to Home Shore. LONDON, Aug. 30. An official state ment issued tonight, in describing the action between the British and Ger man warships off Heligoland, says: "The principle of the operations was a scouting movement by a" strong force of destroyers to cut off the German light craft from home and engage them at leisure In the open sea." After briefly describing the sinking of three German cruisers the Mainz, Coeln and Ariadne the statement con tinues: "Although only wo of the enemy a destroyers were actually observed to sink, most of the other IS or 20 boats rounded up and attacked were well punished and only saved themselves by a scattered flight. "The superior (fun power and strength of the British destroyers, ship for ship, waa conclusively demonstrat ed. The destroyers themselves did not hfsitate to engage the enemy's cruisers, both with puns and torpedoes, with hardihood, and two or them , got i i. A .,',,. in thf. nrnress. "Intercepted German aignals and! other Information from German sources confirms the report of Admiral Beatty as to the sinking of the third German cruiser, which now appears to have been the Ariadne. "The British destroyers exposed themselves to considerable risk in en deavoring to save as many as possible of the German sailors. British officers present vouch for the fact that German officers were firing at their own mtu In the water with pistols and that sev eral were shot before their eyes. "Under these peculiar circumstances a destroyer was actually picking up wounded with her boats when she was driven off by the approach of another German cruiser and had to leave two of her boats containing one officer and nine men behind. It was feared that these would be made prisoners, but happily a submarine arrived and brought the British party home. "As it was not possible to accommo date the 30 Germans in the submarine, they were allowed to return home In the boat In charge of a Lieutenant who was not wounded. "The complements of the five Ger man vessels known to have been sunk aggregated about 1200 officers and men, all of whom, with the exception of those 30 and 300 prisoners, wounded and otherwise, perished. "Besides this, there was tiie loss which must have been severe aboard the German torpedo-boats and other cruisers which did not sink during the action. "The First Lord of the Admiralty has telegraphed the American Ambassador at Berlin, desiring him to inform Ad miral von Tirpltz, the German Minister of Marine, that his son had been saved and had not been wounded." FIGHT GLORIOUS. SAYS BERLIN Account of Battle Says German Ves sels Were Overpowered. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 30. A dispatch to the Wolff Bureau from Berlin says: "Yesterday forenoon during partly foggy weather several small British cruisers and two flotillas, comprising about 40 destroyers, appeared in the North sea northwest of Heligoland. A desperate isolated engagement en sued between them and our small forces. Small German cruisers steamed westward and on account of the short distance came into contact with several largo English cruisers. Thus the cruiser Ariadne was attacked at short range by two large cruisers of the Lion class and sunk after a glorious fight. The majority of the crew, numbering 250, were saved. "The destroyer N-87 was bombarded by a small cruiser and ten' destroyers and sunk. She went down firing In r guns. Htr captain, who was squaaron commander, was killed. The small cruisers Koeln and Mainz are missing, and according to the Router dispatches, were sunk after an engagement with an enemy of superior force. Of their crews eight officers and 91 men appear to have been saved by British war ships." GERMANS GAIN ADVANTAGE One Craft Keep Two Cruiser From Firing by Going Between Tliem. HARWICH. England, Aug. 30. The attack ou the German fleet off Heligo land was Initiated by British destroy- wn.-rii. o an ni-r-mintM riven bv the crews of the vessels which took pail. The destroyers got fairly close to the German ships before they were dis covered. Then a cannonade from the German ships and forts was opened on them, and they gradually drew tho German cruisers toward the sea. For a time the Germans were In a position which gave them the advan tage. British destroyers having to bear the brunt of the battle. Luring one f the hottest phases of tho fletht. two British destroyers got in between two German cruisers, which feared to fire upon the Britishers lest they hit each other, while four other destroyers en gaged a third German cruiser and put her out of action. Finally the British battle cruiser and light cruisers arrived on the scene and quickly put an end to the fight. BEARS IN BERRY TRACTS Woman Feeds Beasts Wlien They lit Moment Como Toward Her. KANE. Pa., Aug. 25. While Mr.-. Earl Davis was out picking blackber ries In the wilds surrounding Lay City she was horrified to see two black bears coming down the mountain to ward her. Too frightened to run, she took a handful of berries from her pail and held them out to one of the beaiB. Bruin sniffed a couple of times, nte the berries from her hand, licked his chops and walked away, followed by the mate. podium, on the four sides of which are placed bronze relief panels, depicting the expedition. The whole monument is placed within a square raised upon steps, the total height being about 37 feet. ' TAX PAID; 9CENTS LEFT .Minnesota!! Shows Asesment on Ills Money Takes Nearly All. ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 25 James Suydam. 429 Holly avenue, who was assessed 1600 for moneys and credit', wrote to the Board of Equalisation In closing the tax, $1.80, ml InclosltiK also bank slips showing that, "after this tax is paid," to use his own lan guage, "I have Just canta In th" bank, the total of my moneys and credits for May 1. 1014." The assessment was stricken. MM Shot hy WHe Mefe SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. 30. (Spe cial.) Joseph J. Hogan, doortender al the Orpheum Theater, who was shot by his wife last night after a quarrel at the doorway of the playhouse, died tonight. The woman Is held In Jail. DO YOU NEED BUILDING UP? There are conditions of 111 health in which no one particular organ appear:' to bo at fault, yet the patient Ir miser able and unable to pursue the activities of dally Hie with vigor and enjoyment, sometimes the cause Is attributed to the Imagination but the patient knows that the debility Is real. The remedy evidently Is a medlrlno that will benefit the whole system rather than a part. The blood reaches everywhere and an Improvement in Its quality Is quickly followed by an Im provement In the whole organism. Dr. Williams' Pink FI1H make a visible Im provement In the condition of the blood. The microscope will frerlfy this Im provement but the patient can see it in tho mirror as shown by Increased color In cheeks and lips and added brlghtnesn of the eyes. There will also be a new elasticity In the step. These things record an Improved tone in the body and It this tonic treatment is persisted in for a reaxonablu length of time, de pending upon the degree of debility, the condition of ill health will be removed. Those who are Interested may obtain the pamphlet "Buildlug Dp the Blood" free on request from the Dr. William Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. V. All druggists sell Dr. William' Pink ilia. Adv. The Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company of Mew York. Organized 1863. OREGON AUTOMOBILE DEPARTMENT Statement January 1st. 1014: Capital $1,000,000.00 Assets 14,878.222.8.1 Surplus to Policyholders. $2,010,557.50 New Amsterdam Casualty Company Surety, Casualty, Liability Lines. Complete Service). W. J. CLEMENS MANAGER Oregon Department. Commercial Club Building, Portland, Oregon. AGENTS WANTED Live for Your ountr. Kxchange. A man can lead a double life without having two lives to give for his country. 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