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THE MORXTNG OREGOTflAJT. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1914. 5 ROADS AND RIVERS CHECK JAPANESE Advance of 3000 Men on Kiau Chau Limited to 10 Miles in Two Days. TSING-TAU STRENGTHENED Germany Serves Notice on China Tliat Country WED Be Held Re sponsible for Permitting Sol diers to Cross Territory. WEIHSIEN. Shan - Tung Province, China, Sept. 7. Reports have been re ceived here that the Japanese advance iruard of 3000 men, which Is proceeding against the German territory of Kiau Chau from Lung-Kow, has succeded in covering only ten miles in the last two days, because of the poor condition of the roads In Shan-Tung Province. At this distance they came to a swollen river which the artillery could not cross, and the guns are now returning to Lung-Kow. Some of the Tsing-Tau forts have been made bomb-proof. The Governor cf Tsing-Tau grants the garrison one flay In three for liberty in town to promote the health of the men. Almost all the Gorman reservists are living in rf.snrted nrivate residences in Tsing- Tau. The shops and restaurants of the tort have reopened and there are music and moving-picture snows every nigm. According to the news received here, the bombs recently thrown Into Tsing Tau from Japanese aeroplanes were In effective. PEKIN, Sept. 7. Protesting to the Koreign Office against its note of Sep tember 3. addressed to the diplomatic representatives in Pekin, and referring to the transgression of Chinese neu trality by the landing of Japanese troops at Lung-Kow, Baron von Malt 7.an, the German Charge d'Affalres, asserted today that Germany would hold China responsible for permitting Japanese and British soldiers to cross her territory. The Chinese are unwilling to attack the Japanese, who have landed troops in Shan-Tung; nevertheless, they fear that Germany. may ultimately make re prisals on them. The Japanese legation here has been endeavoring to assure the Chinese au thorities that the activities of Japa nese troops are directed only against Tsing-Tau. AMERICAN SHIP WAR PRIZK Hanamet, at Hongkong, Suspected of Carrying Contraband. SHANGHAI, Sept. 7. Hongkong re ports the arrival there of a number of prizes, including the American steam ships Hanamet and the German steam ships Paklat, Frisia and Rajaburian. The prize crew of the Paklat held the German engineers at work for three days at the point of revolvers and frustrated an attempt to disable the engines. The American steamship Hanamet is 2703 tons burden, and Is owned by W. K. Atz, of Shanghai. The Paklat and the Rajaburian are owned by the North German Lloyd, the former being of 1227 tons burden and the Rajaburian 1189 tons. The Frisia is a ship of 3150 tons. Both the Hanamet and the Frisia have previously been reported as hav ing been seized. The Hanamet Is sus pected of carrying contraband. Her owner has appealed to the American Consul at Shanghai for indemnifica tion. Japan Passes Big War Fund. TOKIO, Sept. 7. The House of Repre sentatives today unanimously passed a war vote of 63,000,000 yen (about $26, 800,000). BELGIUM TAKES ON VIM ARMY REPORTED TO BE IN BETTER SHAPE THAN EVER. of Americans by Germans, emanating from English and French sources, are absolutely false. "Travel through Germany, as far as the extraordinary circumstances per mit, was altogether safe, as officials and' all classes of the people were, without exception, very friendly and helpful. "No well authenticated atrocities were perpetrated by the German troops. "All of the German official bulletins regarding the progress of the war were in every case subsequently con firmed, and thus the reports coming from English, French and Belgian sources, disproved. "In our Judgment the distorted re ports which have reached America were sent out with the deliberate pur pose of deceiving Americans and thus creating sentiment in favor of the powers now arrayed against Germany. "We ask all Americans to suspend Judgment until they have had oppor tunity to make an Impartial investiga tion of the causes which have led to the present conflict and especially to study the diplomatic correspondence. It is our conviction that Germany has not been the aggressor, but that the war has been forced upon her by the envy and greed of those nations that are Jealous of her growing industrial and commercial importance, and for this reason are ready and anxious tb destroy her as a power. "We hereby request the Associated Press to forward a copy of this paper BRITISH SEIZURE OF RESERVES UPHELD Taking of 40 Germans Off American Liner Manchuria Declared Legal. BATTLE REPORTS DIFFER Passenger Cruisers, Says He Saw Battered but Captain and Pur- Say , "No" Hongkong Harbor Is Mined. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7. Great Britain acted wholly within her rights. Experienced Women Advise Mother's Friend Because it Is so perfectly safe to use Rnd has been of such great help to a host of expectant mothers, these wo men, experienced in this most happy period!, advise ha use of "Hother'a Friend." Applied externally to the abdominal muscles its purpose Is to relieve the undue tension upon lha cords and ligaments resulting from muscular expansion. Beneath the sur face is a network of fine nerve threads and the gentle, soothing embrocation, "Mother's Friend." is designed to SO lubricate the muscular fibres as to avoid the unnecessary and continuous nagging upon this myriad of nerves. Applied to the breasts it affords the proper massage to prevent caking. There Is scarcely a well-stocked drug I store anywhere but what you can easily obtain a bottle of "Mother's imena - ana In nearly every town and village is a grandma who herself used it In earlier years. Expectant mothers arc nrged to try this splendid assistant. Mother's Friend has been prepared by Bradfleld Regulator Co., 810 Lamar Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.. for nearly half a century. Send for valuable tittle book to expectant mothers. PRESENT HEADQUARTERS OF FRENCH GOVERNMENT. Dispatch From Ostend Says Loss of Life Not Large Compared With Germans' and Allies'. LONDON. Sept. 7, 1:40 P. M. A dis patch to the Evening Star from Ostend says: " " "The different units of the Belgian army have been collected from all over the country, even from Namur and south of the German line. The volun teers have been reorganized, better officered and better armed. "The total losses of the army have not been published, but except at Liege these were not large in comparison with the losses of the German, French and British armies in France. The total force of the Belgians, taking into consideration the toughening which the men had during the last month, now Is possibly more fit for better serv ice than It was at the beginning of war. The morale Is still unimpaired. "The burgomaster of Liege is still demonstrating his inability to pay the fine levied by the Germans by trying to find the money In Brussels and elsewhere, while the richest men In Brussels continue to act as hostages for the payment of the demand on the latter city. This situation Is proving more embarrassing to the Ger mans than to Burgomaster Max, who continues to protest the inability of the city to raise the fund." 6ERMANY IS EXTOLLED PASSENGERS ON HOLLAND-AMERICAN LINER PROTEST. Petition Denies Brutality an Assails HI- Reports of War Plea Is Made to Send Paper to Wilson. NEW YORK. Sept. 7. SeveTal hun dred passengers of the Holland-American liner Rotterdam, which arrived from Rotterdam today, slxned a state ment declaring false the reports that Americans had been Ill-treated In Ger many. The statement closed with the request that a copy be forwarded to President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. The statement follows: "The undersigned American citizens, passengers on the steamship Rotter dam, all of whom were In Germany during the present hostilities, ask the Associated Press, through its various channels, to give publicity to the fol lowing statements: "That reports regardis m-treatxent Photo by Bain News ENTRANCE AT BORDEAUX. . to the President of the United States and the Secretary of State." GOVERNMENT AT BORDEAUX CAR RIED ON UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Ink Resrarded as Priceless and Officials Carry on Business at Kitchen Tables, Scantily Equipped. BORDEAUX, (Via Paris. Sept 7, 6:50 A. M.) The installation of the govern ment administrations is rapidly near lng completion. The officers occupy all the city buildings, including the uni versity, in which the War Department is housed. Most of the offices are equipped in an exceedingly scant manner. One leading official in the Foreign Office, after many exertions, succeeded in ob taining a kitchen taoie, two piam v,ir iiTd .i tien and pencil. There Is little ink and the fluid is regarded in official circles as almost priceless. The foreign embassies are lodged In mansions provided for them by the French government in various quarters of the city. The embassies still re maining in Paris are represented here by secretaries of embassies. John W. Garrett, the United States diplomatic representative, has been allotted a house in the ouiSKirts oi me cn.j. The lamps appeared last night for the first time. It printed a single sheet, preserving, however. Its charac teristic aspect, several oiner r-ariau papers also are being printed here In the office of. one of the principal local newspapers. The work of effecting an adequate organization of the French Govern ment in Bordeaux is proceeding unre mittingly. Governmental documents are arriving from Paris by the van load. Several vans came In this morn ing and were drawn up In front of the new war office. It was rioted with interest by the crowd that they bore the names of firms engaged in the moving business in Colmar and Muel hausen, Alsace-Lorraine. The vans had been captured by the French in the early stages of the war and sent to Paris. FRESH TROOPS 2,(XX000 600 Trains to Recoup Hermans Cross Hblne in 19 Days. LONDON. Sept 7, 2:50 P. M. A dis patch to the Evening Star from Rot terdam says that during the first 19 days of the war more than 2600 trains, bearing 2.000,000 troops for the western theater of the war, passed over the five bridges over the Rhine at Cologne. Notwithstanding this enormous army, reinforcements are ' still being hurried to the front not only to take the place of the huge number killed and wounded, bH to carry out the German plan that so far as possible, fresh troops be hurled at men who al ready have borne the burden of the day. In addition to the tremendous siege guns of the Germans, ordinary field pieces have been hurried forward. An American who has Just arrived from Cologne, continues the Star's cor respondent says that he met a wound ed German officer, who told him that the success of the Germans was due entirely to the faot that the troops always had a rest after an engage ment The Army Corps were being used In shifts to keep them fresh. "Quo Vadls" Author Urges Poles. PETROGRAD, Sept 7, via London. 12:45 P. M. Henry Slenklewlcz, the Polish author, has Issued an appeal to tha Austrian Poles to fight with Rus sia, He is the author ot " jjuo .Vadls," as defined by the State Department, when she detained 40 German reserv ists, taken at Hongkong from the American steamship Manchuria, of the Pacific Mail fleet This was made clear in the detailed report brought to shore by officers and passengers of the Pacific Mail liner China, which arrived here today from Hongkong, Yokohama and Hono lulu. The Manchuria was boarded by the port authorities within the three mile limit Previous dispatches from Honolulu had not made clear whether she had been searched on the high seas or within the treaty limits of a British port Austrian Not Held. The Manchuria arrived at Hongkong August 9, two days out from Manila, where the German reservists took pas sage from Germany via the United States. Port officers lined up all the saloon passengers, picked out the Ger mans from the purser's roll and sent them to the detention station on Stone cutters' Island. No Austrians, as re ported from Honolulu, were held. JVar between Great Britain and Austria had not then been declared. Ludwig Relchert. an Austrian mer chant In the Philippines, who also is a private In the Austrian reserves, gave an unsupported identification to day of the two bttittered and blood stained cruisers whlal have been vari ously reported at Hongkong in Shang hai dispatches as German and English warships. Two Differ as to Battle. Relchert said they were the British cruisers Lancashire and Hampshire, which had been In .battle with the Ger man cruisers Gneisenau and Scharn horst In the South China Sea. His information came from the Austrian Consul in Shanghai, he said. Captain Hans Thompson and C. M. Landers, purser of the China, said no battle-scarred cruisers whatever were in Hongkong at the time the China left there, August 12. They reported the harbor heavily mined and search lights playing over It all night. No shipping was permitted to move after dark. All business men were compelled to take their turn standing watch at different points of vantage. All re liable news was being suppressed by the authorities and the newspapers, issuing extras every two hours, were filled with rumors which kept excite ment alive. Much the, same news conditions were found to exist In Japan. Foodstuffs there already had advanced in price. The China brought a cargo valued at $2,500,000, including 6400 sacks of refined sugar from Hongkong. LEIPSIG BOBS UP AGAIN GERMAN CRUISER TAKES WIRE LESS PLANT OFF FREIGHTER. British Tramp Chartered Under Kaiser Is Boarded .by Warship, Which Takes Two Teuton Sailors. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 7. The Brit ish freighter Cetriana, under charter to the German government, was stripped of her wireless by the German cruiser Lelpsig- August 5 off Magdalena Bay. Lower California, and her cook, a Ger man, and one other German reservist were taken aboard the Leipzig. This was the word brought by Cap tain Minister, of the British naval reserve, commanding the Cetriana, which arrived here today. The Cetriana left here July 24 laden with 900 tons of coal consigned to the Leipzig. The two vessels met In Magdalena Bay and the Leipslg was coaled August 4, the day war was declared. Not until some time later, through Rear-Admiral Howard, at Mazatlan, commanding the American Pacific fleet, did the Cetriana learn that war had been declared. Coming north, the vessel hugged the three-mile limit SEATTLE, Sept. 7. The German cruiser Lelpsig is believed to be work ing her way to the Atlantic Ocean by skirting South America. She can ob tain coal and shelter there, and If chased into port by a superior force she can dismantle and tie up. The British Admiralty has positive infor mation that the Lelpsig has left the North Pacific, and to show its feeling of security it has given up Its charter of the fast Grand Trunk steamship Prince George, which was used as a scout ship when It was feared the Leipslg was bound north. Transports are reported to be on the way from Australia with Australian and New Zealand volunteers, who will be landed at Vancouver and transport ed to the Atlantic Coast by rail. The cruiser Nurnburg Is the only German warship In mid-Pacific. She coaled at Honolulu recently. It is assumed that the Nurnburg also will make for the South American coast. The Japanese cruiser Idzumo, whose base is Esquimau, is guardship off the California coast. The British cruisers Newcastle and Rainbow are protect ing the entrance to the Strait of Fuca. SOCIALISTS UPHOLD ITALY Neutrality Is Approved at Meeting and Entente Favored. PARIS. Sent 7. (11:35 A. M.) A dis patch to the Havas agency from Rome says members of the Italian Socialist Reform party met in Rome last night and adopted resolutions approving the declaration of Italian neutrality in the nrpfipnt war. The meeting recordedits opinion that the victory of the Triple Entente, Great Britain, France and Russia, would not Peat Lubrtca-ttp; LENE die Standard Oil &r Moior Qrs It keeps the motor cool by perfect lubrication. Dealers everywhere. Ask our nearest agency about delivery in bulk. Standard Oil Company (CALIFORNIA) Portland Come On, Boys-It's Your Store W This Is Boys' Week at Ben Selling's This week we're going to celebrate the opening of school by a monster SALE OF BOYS' SUITS Hundreds of new Fall suits just received and placed on sale! 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