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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1914. EXTRA STAMPS TODAY Bring This Coupon, It's Money in Your Pocket Pay Ga and Water Bills Buy Car Ticket at Our Postoffice PARIS SIEGE AWAITS COUPON NEW PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE APPOINTED BY POPE BENEDICT XV. ;th a Bring this coupon nn-t get 20 extra "S. H ' Trading Stamps on your first dollar cash nnrrhua and ilnuble DETAILED AS FERRY Tl stamps on balance of purchase. Good on first three floors Satur day, September &th. AMERICAN CRUISER 1 JMG MANEUVER Tennessee Forced by Britons' Oversight to Land Refu gees at Weymouth. HAVRE GROWING UNEASY Fear Impressed Regular Sailings From Southampton May Be Dis continued Delays to Trains Near Paris Numerous. LONDON, Sept. 4. The failure of Southampton port officials to advise the officers of tne American cruiser Tennessee that she could dock there was responsible for the unexpected landing of the cruiser at Weymouth to day with 300 refugees from Havre. Application for permission to dock the cruiser at Southampton had been made and the failure to receive an an swer forced the American boat to se lect Weymouth for the landing of her passengers. The Tennessee now has been ordered to act as a ferry from Havre to Eng land until all Americana have been transferred. The cruiser will bring a till larger crowd of citizens of the United States from Havre to England tomorrow. The landing place Is not yet known, although it probably will be Weymouth. Americans who were brought across the channel by the Tennessee oday adopted resolutions thanking the offi cers of the warship for their thought ful attention and cheered the captain before leaving the ship. Officers sur rendered their rooms to the women and mattresses and blankets were provided on the deck for the men. About 1000 Americans left Havre today. Judge C. B. Howrie and daughter, of Washington, were among those left behind. There is much uneasiness in Havre because of the fear that regular eteamer sailings from Southampton may be discontinued. Many of the Tennessee's passengers remained In Weymouth hotels. The passengers reported that German air chips had been seen over many French cities. They said there were numerous delays of trains near the outside Paris xorts because of the preparations for defense and the tearing down of houses to make way for clear gunfire from the outside forts in Paris. MORE AMERICANS C03IING IN Between 10 00 and 2000 Still to Ar rive In Paris. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. Assistant Secretary Breckenrklge of the War Department, who is in charge of the distribution of relief funds to Ameri cans in Europe, cabled the State De partment tonight from Paris as fol lows: "Colonel Allen and I arrived in Paris on the morning of September 4. Major Logan and Mr. Dodge follow from Geneva today. It is impossible to state the exact number of Americans still in Parts, but it is estimated that there are between 1000 and 2000. Americans are still coming to Paris from the southern provinces and a few from Switzerland." I I U 111 ilrtWS, .mom the State Department tonight as fol lows: The cruiser Tennessee is at Havre preparing to embark 500 refugees. Spe cial trains are arriving daily from Paris, bringing about 500 Americans to the train, making the congestion here very great. The steamship Tour aine sailed September 3 with as many passengers as possible. No Americans are In danger. Sixty per cent of Amer icans about whom inquiries have been made have been found." SWITZERLAND IS VERY QUIET Hundreds of Americans Decide to Remain Until Wur Is Over. GENEVA, Sept 4. The exodus from Paris to Switzerland has begun. A train service three times as frequent as un der normal conditions Is bringing quantities of refugees, mostly women and children, from the French capital. All the trains are overcrowded. Taere are some Americans among the refu gees, who are seeking to return home by way of Italy. Several Belgians also are coming in from France. Switzerland is perfectly quiet. The crops are good and there is plenty of food ami the hotels in the cities are maintaining normal prices. Hundreds of Americans, now that the money question has been settled, have decided to remain in Switzerland until the war is over. GALLANT BRITON IS KILLED Veteran of India and South Africa Among Fallen in France. LONDON. Sept. 4. The War Office issued today another list giving the names of officers killed, wounded or missing in the lighting in France. Among those killed is Lieutenant Colonel C. A. H. Brett, D. S. O., of the Suffolk regiment Included in tlie list are junior offi cers of the Coldstream Guards and other crack regiments. Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. H. Brett was a veteran of the ilazara (British India) expedition and of the South Af rican war. In the latter campaign he was mentioned for gallantry. He was severely wounded in action and re ceived the distinguished service order medal with three clasps. HEBREW SAVES COLORS Student Called Hero and Gets Cross for Rescue of Standard. LONDON. Sept. 4. 9:20 A. M. A Tetrograd dispatch to the Central News says a Jewish medical student of Vil na. named Osnas, received tlie military cross of St. George for saving the col ors of his regiment in the last extrem ity during the terrible flshting in East Prussia. osnas was badly wounded and his commander telegraphed the doctors to do everything possible to save the fife of "Osnus the hero." M. 'reliant Marine Bill Amended. WASHINGTON. Sept. 4. Amend ments to the Administration merchant marine bill, agreed on at a White House conference several days ago, were adopted today by the House merchant marine committee. Ships bought by the Government company would be available as naval auxiliaries. Vessels at present in the Navy and under the control of the Panama Railroad Com pany, which might be available for merchant trade, would be turned over to the new shipping company. CARDINAL DOMINICO FERRATA. POPE NAMES AIDE Cardinal Dominico Ferrata Secretary of State. APPOINTEE IS DIPLOMAT Man, Who Preslded'Over Eucharlstic Congress Last Year at Malta, Chosen for High Position In Vatican Xow. ROME. SeDt. 4. It is officially an nounced that Pope Benedict XV has ap pointed Cardinal Dominico i errata to be Papal Secretary of State. Cardinal Ferrata was born in 1847 in Monteflascone. Italy. His work as papal nuncio at Paris and as prefect of the congregation of bishops in Kome stamped him as a finished diplomat. He presided over the Eucharlstic Congress held last year at Malta. In 1901, when the late Cardinal Kam pollo resigned as papal secretary of state. Cardinal Ferrata was mentioned as a probable candidate for the office. KAISER'S VIEWS SOUGHT LONDON PAPER WOULD KNOW WILHELM'S INTENTIONS. President of United States Styled "Spokesman of Civilization" In Great Conflict. LONDON, Sept. 4. The Spectator, discussing the German operations at Louvain, says: "We venture to take this opportunity of suggesting again that President Wilson should approach the German Emperor and ask him for a plain de claration of what his intentions are with regard to all the treaties signed in his behalf at The Hague. Those agreements have been shamelessly dis regarded, so that no earnest man can now place any trust in German prom ises " The paper says that Englishmen, no matter what Emperor William's an swer might be. would have no thought of reprisals, adding that there must be no policy "of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." Here is Mr. "Wilson's opportunity." the newspaper continues. "The United States is strictly neutral as honestly neutral toward Germany, we are sure, as towards ourselves. But she Is the only neutral great power except Italy left outside of the orbit of war. We earnestly hope that Mr. Wilson, find ing himself in this position particu larly since he represents a nation deeply committed to the principles of The Hague boldly will ask the Ger man Emperor to declare his intentions. "Mr. Wilson can act where no one else can, as the spokesman of civiliza tion. "The question to be put to the Ger man Emperor could be asked in a man ner that would admit of no evasion or misunderstanding. "Does the German Emperor repudiate the Ghent convention, and perhaps even more binding, the common under standing of Europe that has grown in the last two hundred years? Dees he repudiate The Hague conventions? We ought to know. In our opinion the United States owes it to civilization to find out for the rest of the world." CANAL WILL BE MANNED LARGE .FORCES OK TROOPS TO BE SENT SHORTLY. Government Decides to Act In View of Possible Complications Addi tional Recruits Needed. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 4. (Special.) While official orders have not yet been issued, it has been learned that a large additional force of troops, both coast artillery and infantry, will be sent to the canal zone shortly, and that the sending of such a force may mean that to keep the number of men in territorial United States up to the requisite strength all commands will be recruited up possibly to a war footing. The fact that the canal now is in active operation, and in view of possible complications because of the European war. it is considered vital that a force adequate to afford the great waterway some measure of protection should be stationed In the canal zone. It is not at all improbable that the Western department will be called on for men. and particularly coast ar tillerymen. With four regiments of the Western department on border patrol duty within the borders of the Southern de partment, this department could not well spare many Infantrymen, although the department has a fair force of coast defense men, some of whom might be spared at a pinch, in spite of the fact that most of the forts of the Pacific Coast defense district are undermanned. ATTACHE RECEIVES REPORT Russian Weight and Persistence Overcome Strategy. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. A dispatch re ceived here tonight from the Russian War Office in Petrograd by Colonel Nicolai Golejewski, military attache of the Russian Embassy in Washington, is in confirmation of the official state ment given to the press from Petro grad. The dispatch to the Colonel am plifies in some ways the Petrograd statement. The Austrians occupied many fortified posts on the Dniester River, according to the dispatch re ceived here, from which they were able to menace the flank and com munications of the Russian forces. Nevertheless the weight and persistence of the Russian advance were such that the Austrians were unable to make use of their strategic advantage of posi tion. The Austrians were crushed in the battle of September 1 and 2, the cable message to Colonel Golejewski says. It reads: "The main forces of the Austrians oc cupied a strongly fortified position on the line of Kamenka-Halicz, where they were completely routed in the battle of September 1 and 2 along the lower course of the River Gnila Lipa alone, where the enemy's lines were broken on September 3, the Austrians losing 20,000 men killed and wounded. "After the defeat of the Austrians at Lemberg their retreat assumed the character of a flight, during which 200 guns, baggage and prisoners by tens of thousands fell into our hands. "The remnants of the second Austrian army have temporarily lost all fight ing capacity. The forts of Halicz were In the hands of the Austrians up to September 3, when they were taken. On the same day at 11 A. M. Lemberg fell into our hands. With this city we took possession of large military booty. "All the houses were full of wounded who had been abandoned in the flight of the Austrian army." Weather Aids Fire Fighters. The cloudy weather during the past few days has aided in the conquest of the forest fires, according to C. S. Chapman, of the Oregon Forest Fire Association. Although men are still watching the flames, no new fires have started. Forestry officials say that the fires are now well under control. The danger will continue, however, they report, until the arrival of the Fall rains. BULLETINS LOXDON, Sept. 4. The official Infor mation bureau has iitfraed a statement saying: "According to Information de rived from a trustworthy source, seven German destroyers and torpedo-boats have arrived at Kiel in a damaged con dition and It is understood others have been sunk In the vicinity of the Kiel Canal." HARWICH, England, Sept. 4. A British submarine has brought In a German airman and his mechanic, -who were floating on their fallen aeroplane 00 miles off the coast. After rescuing them the submarine sank the aeroplane. LONDOX, Sept. 4. The official press bureau tonight issued the following: statement: "There are indications that a German movement is developing in an eastward and southeastward direc tion."' WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. A message to the State Department tonight from John .MncMnrray. secretary of the American Legation at Pekln, said no word bad been received there from Tsing-Tau today. Communication has been interrupted for some days, the message said, and Pekln was in igno rance as to what was transpiring at Kiau-Chau. LONDON, Sept. 4. A Reuter dis patch from Ostend says that the Ger man Governor of Brussels Is forcing the members of the civil guard who have been disarmed to assist In carry ing out the defensive preparations. These guards are used mainly In dig ging trenches. It Is contended that this Is a violation of the laws of war. LONDON, Sept. 3. The Copenhagen correspondent of -.lie Standard says: "The Germans are mourning 100,000 dead." PARIS. Sept. 4. The Official Journal appeared for the last time In Paris to day before its transfer to Bordeaux. In it appeared a decree closing the regu lar session ef Parliament for 1014. Enveloping Movement of Ger mans Declared Checked by French Forces. CAVALRY BODY REPULSED Capital Considers Surrender, If Outer Defenses Fall, to Prevent Destruc tion of Property, and Wound ed Are Removed. ( Continued From First Page.) station were somewhat confused. The Intelligible portions read as follows: "The Austrian center completely de feated the Russians, taking 160 guns. The Austrian right wing, near Lemberg. struggling against superior Russian troops, was relieved. "All of the French forts in Northern France were taken without a fight. Only Maubeuge holds out. German cavalry and artillery makes raids as far as Paris. The German army has crossed the Alsne and is advancing on the Marne, where already siege guns have arrived; French army retreating behind Marne near Verdun. "The victory of General Hintenburg's army is increasing every day. Number of Russian prisoners now 90,000. "A memorial of the German Catholic cardinals to the conclave at Rome at tacks foreign lies about the German army. Germany is at war not for con quest, but Russia was a real aggressor, and a Russian victory would do the greatest harm to the Catholics in Russian-Poland. "The town hall at Louvain was not damaged, nor was St. Peter's Church, and all treasures were saved." WAR IS 0N MILITARISM Sir Edward Grey Gives Reasons lor Briton's Entry Into Fray. LONDON, Sept. 5. In a letter which was read at a meeting of his constitu ents in Berwick last night. Sir Edward Grey, Minister of Foreign Affairs, made the following report on the war situa tion: "When our sincere and strenuous ef forts to prevent a European war failed we would gladly have stood aside had it been possible, but we were bound to make the observation of Belgian neu trality one of the conditions of our own neutrality. The German govern ment asked us to waive that condition and condone the violation of a solemn treaty. There could be but one honor able answer to such a request. Had we sat still and ignored Belgium's ap peal we should indeed have been de tested by our friends and despised by our enemies. "The progress of the war has re vealed what a terrible immoral thing German militarism is. It is against German militarism that we must fight The whole of Western Europe would fall under it if Germany should be suc cessful in this war, but if, as a result of the war, the Independence and Integrity of the smaller European states can be secured and Western Europe liberated from the menace of German militarism and the German people itself freed from that militarism for it is not the German people, but Prussian militarism which has driven Germany and Europe into war if that militarism can be overcome, then indeed there will be a brighter, freer day for Europe, which will compensate us for the awful sac rifices which war entails." REGISTRY LAWIS RELAXED President Suspends Requirement as Inducement to Owners. tit a oLirvnTHM Kent 4 The final Y .lOIll'" u J- - step in opening registry to foreign built merchant craft was taken at the tirui.. IT ,nnjrht Whf.il thfi PreSl- waiLe nuuoo ,u...es..v .. dent signed an executive order suspend ing from operation sections ui navigation laws, as authorized by the -i-i -i. km: TiiAsf. reouire Ameri can watch officers on American ships and that inspection a.nu for ree-istrv shall be made by United States officials. At the Marine insurance Bureau, which was open for business today, .. ,.ni r-A t ii in s for chanse 11 was cjuj.t" - of registry and for war risk protec tion would lonow quicitiy on l.id ing of the suspensison order. c imoriitiTi rnmnanies which operate fleets of steamers have already signified tneir liiiemiuii i':'s -American flag hereafter. Their ships number more than 200 and with the suspension order in enect it is expecieu their application will be received within a few days. By the President's order the sections of the navigation laws requiring in spection and measurement by United States officials is suspended for two years. The section referring to watch officers is changed to permit foreign .j- oar-vinp- nn shins seekine DUtuua w . ...c r- - American registry to hold their posi tions tor Seven ..-.we,- . -I. etw-vr hftrpnftftr enmloved on such ships may serve for two years. BRITISH GUNS ARE DEADLY Enemy Drop by Hundreds, but Still More Come On. LONDON, Sept. 5. English soldiers tell some wonderful stories about the terrific execution done by their ma chine guns on the advancing Germans. "We took up a position on the road side and waited for them to come,'' said one of these soldiers. "When they are 200 or 300 yards away we are eager to fire. Says the Captain: 'Wait a bit till I make sure they are not British.' -He looks through his glasses and then says: 'Let them have it, boys ' "Off it goes and you see 50 or SO drop. But it make little difference; others come on and then we move our guns." British Communication Menaced. LONDON, Sept. 5, 3:11 A. M A dis patch to the Daily Mail from Antwerp, timed Friday, says: "There has been fighting since morning at (name de leted), where the Germans apparently are threatening our communications." Montavilla Board to Elect. The Montavilla Board of Trade will meet Wednesday aF 8 P. M. in the Hamilton Chapel. East Gllsan and East Eightieth streets. The election of officers is among the important busi ness to come up. AW 8u4"iJJJuoiJO-iondssiuvssn Drink Old Master" Coffee free with us. First floor demonstration. A most deli clous blend the world's fin est coffee. Steel Cot, Hoastcd. la Sealed Packages. Pound. 45": 2 for 850 : 3 for SI. 25 Cucumber and Elder Flower Cream without question the finest Complexion Cream ever pre pared; -' sizes, 50c and 75c. Popular Patents at Less Prices 50c size Blsurated Magnesia. 40f 75c size Jad Salts t5c $1.00 size Plant Juice.. 85c 11.00 size Fulton's Dia betic Comp gl.35 11.00 size Wine Cardui.. 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There were virtually no speculators who were hardy enough today to op pose the advance. Profit-taking sales by holders turned out to be altogether insufficient to act as more than a tem porary check at times on the violent upturn. RUSSIAN MOVE KNOWN EMBARKATION FURTHER CORROB ORATED BY AMERICAN. Dr. Daniel Elliott, Back From England, Estimates 70,000 of Czar'a Army Laud in Scotland. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Further cor roboration of reports that Russia has been landing troops on Belgian soil by way of England and Scotland, reached New York today, when Dr. Daniel Elliott, of Newark, N. J., a passenger on the steamship Cedric, de clared he witnessed a movement of troop trains conveying Russians through England. The Cedric arrived from Liverpool with 1460 passengers. Mr. Elliott estimated the number of the Russians at more than 70,000, and said they had come by way of North ern Scotland and were on their way to the English Channel to embark for the Continent. Mail advices from London told today of 80.000 Russian troops haviug reached France. LONDON, Aug. 27. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Reports reach London from Liverpool that Eng land has placed more than 80,000 Rus sian troops in France by means of transports sent north of the Scandi navian Peninsula to Finland, where the Cossacks embarked and were safely landed at French ports. A constant stream of empty ships has been moving south from Liver pool ever since the declaration of war, but there has been no observation of ships northward-bound, and the ru mor that England has helped Russians Into France has given rise to much speculation as to where the ships sailed from. BRITISH TROOPERS ESCAPE Prisoners Surprise Captors After Celebration of Feat. LONDON, Sept. 4. The Ostend cor respondent of the Chronicle quotes one of the officials at the American con siiiatn as the authority for the ac count he sends his paper of the escape of a party of British troops wno were captured by the Germans. "Seventeen British troopers were cap tured near Waterloo," the story runs. "The Germans marched them to the nearest cafe, where the prisoners were made to wait while the Germans par took of food. The celebration over the capture became a debauch and most of the Germans became intoxicated, whereupon the British fell on the Ger mans, took away their arms, killed sev eral and then fled." DUTCH ARE NOW MOBILIZED Neutrality to Be Preserved and Steps On to Send Reservists Home. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Arrangements to send Dutch reservists back to the Netherlands to preserve the neutrality ot that country were begun today by Count De Beaufort, the Netherlands' Minister to the United States, who ..- mm Washlnirtnn last niffhL "While our country is absolutely j neutral." said the Minister, we nave mobilized our army as a measure of precaution. Cave-In Imprisons I 1 Miners. M'ALESTEK. Okla., Sept. 4. Eleven miners are imprisoned tonight in the mine of the Union Coal Company at Adamson. Okla., aa a result of a cave- PAINT We have it ready for the brush. S. & Ii. the best made. Any quantity from liiO up. Thermos Bottles A new stock. Sl.SO OpcpiAl A Rubber Rose Cor OrCulnL sage Bouquet with each Bath Cap purchase of SOc or over. (One to a customer.) Ear Stopples prevent drowning SOc RI BBKK-I.INK.O BAGS FOB BATHING SUITS 25c. SOr. Sl.OO. CPPPIAI A Bauv Rattle with OiCulnL each purchase of 50c or over of Nursing Bottles or Nipples. A Complete Line of TonrlMts' Hubbrr-Llned Traveling Base. 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