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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1914- SETS OUT PHOTOGRAPH OF FRENCH SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD. t ufaggfcw . ,L i - Buy School Suits Today CAUSES FOR WAR Boys' $6 Norfolk Suits $4.95 Copy of Book Published by Order of King George Re ceived by Consul Erskine. BLAME LAID ON GERMANY BRITAIN Intimation Given That Sir Edward Grey Could Hare Preserved Peace If Kaiser's Government Had Xot Interfered. ' A copy of the famous White Book. Containing the British official version f the diplomatic events that led up to the outbreak of the present Euro pean war, has been received by Thomas Erskine. British Consul in Portland. Accompanying It is a pamphlet con taining statements made Dy Sir Ed ward Grey, Secretary of Foreign Af fairs, to the House of Commons, Au gust 3, together with brief extracts Irom Parliamentary debates of August i and 5. Both documents Tesemble the Con gressional Record in form. The White Book was presented to both houses of Parliament by eommand of the King, Co that the members would know ex actly what had been the nature of the correspondence between their Foreign Office and the representatives of the other governments. The book gives this correspondence from July 20 to August 4, inclusive. On the nature of the correspondence is based the British assertion that the German government Is responsible for the precipitaion of general hostilities. The correspondence discloses that on July 20 Bir Edward Grey, communicat ing with the German Ambassador at London, suggested, concerning the forthcoming Austrian demarche to Cervla, that the more reasonable the Austrian demand co'uld be made, and the stronger the Justification she could how for making the demand, the more chance there would be of smoothing things over. War Evasion Desired. "I hated the Idea of a war between any of the great powers," said Sir Ed ward, "and that any of them should be dragged into a war by Servia would be detestable. "The German Ambassador agreed wholeheartedly In this sentiment," he added. The correspondence is given until July 25, Sir Edward having urged on Germany in the meantime that Ger many, Italy, France and England should work together In St. Petersburg and Vienna in favor of moderation, and on that date the German Secretary of State told the British Ambassador at Berlin that if the relations between Austria and Russia should become threatening he was quite ready to jcon cur in Sir Edward's suggestion. It was reported to Sir Edward, on the same day that the press of Berlin did not seem to be in favor of Servia backing down under the Austrian de mands, which Involved the virtual sur render of Servian sovereignty, and he received a telegram from the British representative in Servia, who said: "1 think It highly probable that Russia has already urged the utmost modera tion on Servia." Austria In lTpbeld. On the same day, July 25, Sir Edward was read a telegram by the German Ambassador from his government which said that while the German government had not known of the severity of the Austrian demands in advance, yet, "when Austria had once launched that note she could not draw back." Russia and England, with Italy ap proving, asked that the time limit set py Austria for Servia's reply be ex tended to give the powers time to ex amine the data to be presented by both Austria and Servia. Sir Edward again proposed his four power mediation conference July 26, Italy and France at once agreeing, but Germany Baying that while she agreed in principle, the plan was "not practi cable." The next day Austria expressed her position to the British Ambassador at Vienna, declaring that "Austria-Hungary cannot delay warlike proceedings against Servia," that suggestions of ne gotiations on Servia's reply would have to be rejected, and that "the prestige of the dual monarchy being engaged, nothing could now prevent conflict." Mediation A grain Suggested. Here intrude discussions of the Rus sian mobilization, Germany declaring that it was a menace to Germany if conducted In the north instead of wholly In the south, where it could be construed as against Austria. Sir Edward has set forth that on July 29, talking to the German Am bassador, he revived his four-power plan. "I urged that the German govern ment should suggest any method," he Bald, "by which the influence of the four powers could be used to prevent war between Austria and Russia. France agreed. Italy agreed. The whole Idea of mediating Influence was ready to be put Into operation by any method that Germany could suggest if mine was not acceptable. In fact, mediation was ready to come Into oper ation by any method that Germany thought possible if only Germany would 'press the button' In the inter ests of peace." Germany Blamed Wholly. With a general European conflagra tion In prospect July 29. Austria hav ing declared war. Germany proposed a neutrality agrement ' with England, whereby England was to stay out If the neutrality of Holland and Belgium should be respected, the latter, however, depending on the action of France. This was rejected, and on the same day the Austrian Ambassador told Sir Ed ward that the war against Servia must proceed, as "Austria could not be ex posed to the necessity of mobilizing again and again." The correspondence may be construed from this on to show what Germany was resolutely determined on war, and that even Austria's knees began to weaken before the crash came which Involved all the powers. AM ate as August 1. Sir Edward tele graphed the British representative; la Berlin, telling him to request that the German government allow British ships detained in German ports to pro ceed without delay. The same day he sent another mes age to his representative in Berlin, saying that "things ought not to be hopeless so long as Austria and Russia are ready to converse." The communications toward the close became briefer and briefer. until finally, August 4. Sir Edward told Sir E. Goscheii, British Ambassador at Ber lin, that, should Germany not agree to respect Belgian neutrality, he should ask for his passports. "His Majesty's government," he said, "feels bound to take all steps In their power to uphold the neutrality of Bel gium and the observance of a treaty to which Germany is as much a party as ourselves." TOP SIEGE GUN EN ROUTE. MIDDL BATTLE NOT DECIDED Germans Further South Than Credited When Checked. THREE ARMIES IN RETREAT London Intimates Allies' Advantage Due to Failure of All Invading Forces to Keep Pace With Von Kluck's Fast Advance. LOXDOX, Sept. 11. The battle of Mame. as the French have christened .tmccle which now has been in progress for a week in the territory 1 .. pari. Anrf Verdun, with the allied armies of France ana England on one side and the Germans uu other, has not yet reached a decisive result- i-i,. , i-ifht however, in the face of superior forces and threatened with an outflanking moveemnt, -tlnues to retire to the north along the route over which General Von Kluck made his famous dash toward Paris from the Belgian border alter navins defeated the allies at Mons and again at Cambrai and St. Quentin. Three German Armies Retire. With General Von Kluck, also, ac cording to French official reports, the right wing of General Von Buelow's army, which supported his left, is fall ing back toward the Rivers Alsne and Oise. On Von Buelow's left the army of the Prince of Wurtemberg, which had been trying for weeks td break thrOUgn Uie rmuui nuw, stopped fighting and retired north. The German leit wins, uukbi. timuow of other sections of the Prince of Wur temberg's army and the army com manded by the German Crown Prince, .... 1- ; W.in0 -i.h Mri'lnp RiiorMa still is lismiw - The armies, however, appear to have passed veraun, as xeniu iuiw aj they have been bombarding fortified positions south of that fortress. A comprehensive French official re port issued tonight indicates that Gen eral von Kluck is farther south and east ox 1 ni" 1 - disclosed, so that bis advance was even jr!e?Jn E PEAS ANT WOMAN GIVING WATER TROOPS ON MARCH. faster than he was given credit for making. Both Armies Report Loot. It seems that had the German armies on his left moved anywhere near as quickly as he did, the battle of the Marne might never have been fought. However, faced by a strong British French force, and with another French force advancing from Paris threaten ing his flank and his communications. General von Kluck was compelled to withdraw northward and then fight the French on the River Ourcq. In this fighting, according to the British French reports, a number of German guns, hundreds of prisoners and part of the German transport were taken. The German report, on the other hand, says: "The war booty was repre sented by 50 guns and some thousands of prisoners." As at first received this report said the Germans admitted defeat and the loss of men and guns, but it later was explained that this was a telegraphic error. The English newspapers de cline to accept this explanation and insist that the admission was really made to be withdrawn later by some superior officer. DARING SOLDIER RISES WOUNDED FRENCH VOUTH DECO RATED OJf BATTLEFIELD. Rescue of Superior In Face of Fire and Capture of rise While Injured Bring Rewards. LIMOGES, France, Sept 11. On a train loaded with wounded which passed here today was a young French officer, Albert Palaphy, whose unusual bravery on the field of battle won for him the Legion of Honor. As a simple corporal of the Tenth. Dragoons at the beginning of the war, Palaphy took part in the recent violent combat with the Germans. In the thick of the battle Palaphy's Colonel was wounded. Palaphy hoisted the in jured man upon his shoulder, and, under a rain of machine bullets, carried the Colonel safely to the French lines. That same day Palaphy was promoted to be sergeant. Shortly afterward, although wound ed, Palaphy led a charge against the Baden Guard, whose standard he cap tured with his own hand. With a bul let in his abdomen and covered with lance thrusts, Palaphy was carried from the battlefield during the night and learned that he had been promoted to be a sub-lieutenant and nominated chevalier in the Legion of Honor. This incident of decorating a soldier on the battlefield recalls Napoleonic times. 60s. Photo by Bain News Service. TO SOLDIERS. BELOW FRENCH STRAGGLERS IN SOON 4000 or More British Are Ex pected to Return. ELEVENTH HUSSARS MISSED To Say That Regiment Met Annihi lation la Stretching Imagination, Says Correspondent of London Dally Mall at Rouen. LONDON. Sept 11. The correspond ent of the Daily Mail at Rouen has great hope that many of the British numbered In General Sir John French's list of casualties will turn up again. He has every ground for expecting, he says, to see 4000 or more of these men soon back on the firing line. "For the past two days," he says, "I have been Informed, while on a journey towards Paris, that the Eleventh Hus sars no longer exist, yet it is certain that half of their 700 soon will appear. "At nightfall of September 2 the Eleventh Hussars, exhausted after four days' fighting, slackened rein near Com piegne. They had experienced ill-luck early in the day when taking 50 Uhlans prisoners. Through this they had ex pected to get some remounts, but the Germans were worse off than they. "The Eleventh were to have a night's rest, screened by 10,000 fresher troops, but at 5 o'clock in the morning, without warning, shells burst over them and their horses stampeded; but to assert that the regiment was annihilated Is to stretch the imagination. The same ap plies to the Dorset regiment. "Meanwhile, many hundred stragglers are giving good accounts of themselves. At Chantllly 60 of them, of all regi ments, laid a quick-firing trap for a patrol of Germans. The enemy was al lowed to pass one Maxim concealed in a hedge and to ride on to the muzzles of two others ahead. They were caught between two fires and the British mowed them down. The survivors were taken prisoners." The correspondent quotes other inci dents to prove that stragglers are a force to be reckoned with. Ontario has an Indian population of 23.04. BEN SELLING Morrison Street at Fourth The store will remain open this evening until 10 o'clock NO MERCY SHOWN SNIPERS IN WAR Playwright in German Army Tells of Youth With Gun Being Shot. FATHERS IN FIRING SQUAD Stern Men Do Xot Flinch From Duty, Though Family of Doomed Viola tor of War's Stern Rules Plead in Vain. LONDON, Sept. 12. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) One f the most vivid accounts of an episode of war comes from the Lokal Anzeiger of August 24. It Is a !etter from Paul Hoecker, a Berlin playwright, now serving as Captain of the reserve. His play, "A Nation In Arms." Is being giv en at the Berlin Opera-house. He describes a mission on which he was dispatched to search for arms in Belgian villages in which shots had been fired by civilians on German troops. His instructions were to sum mon the villagers to deliver up their arms and those in whose possession arms were found after they declared that they had none were to be Instantly shot. Execution of Youth Described. Describing a visit to Jungbusch, he says that at one house were found an old man, a woman and a girl of 13. H- adds: "Then a terrible thing happened. A Sergeant and a private dragged a young .fellow out o. the house. They had found him hidin- among the straw in the loft. He had in his hand a Belgian rifle loaded with five cart ridges From the opening of the roof he may have aimed at many a hon est German. The youth had to put his hands up. Stammering and deadly pale, he stood. j . '"Who is this youth?' I asked the old man. As if struck by lightning, all three fell on their knees, walling. The woman groaned. 'He is my son. For God's sake, you are not going to kill him?' And the little girl sobbed as if her heart would break. The pris oner tried to escape, but was put up against the wall by the men. o Compassion Shown. "I had to picture to myself by force the German patrols riding through the night with the bullets of treacherous snipers whistling round their helmets, and think of the tall figures and bright eyes of our good German fellows, in order to master my nerves in face of this sorrow and fulfill my orders. "He has to be shot. T: 'ee men. Three men! Ready!' "The three men commissioned, who were fathers of families, two from Berlin and one a farmer, did not turn a hair. This is Just business. We had got a ruffian who merited no compas sion The volley rang out. The trem bling body collapsed to the ground and did not move again. Three holes were visit - in the blue blouse. The boy's eye. were closed. His face had not changed its exprclon. Death by our rifle is painless. "We ought to burn the old man's house over his bead." said one of my "Quick march!" I ordered. The three peasants are still kneel ing on the ground; the corpse lies up against " e wall." FRENCH DEW SNIPER STOR "Demonstrably False," Is Embassy's Reply to German Charge. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. German statements that snipers had been or ganized by the Frenah two months be fore the war were denounced tonight at the French Embassy as "demon strably false." Several other German Statements were denied In the state ment. which said: "The news from Berlin announced yesterday that Maubeuge had been taken, with four Generals. 400 guns and 40,000 men. "The capture remains unconfirmed. Forty thousand men could not In any case have been made prisoners, for the garrison is less than 20.000. "If France's tireurs (enlpers) had been organized "two months before the war.' some trace of them would prob ably have been found since, and none has The truth is that neither before nor after Germany declared war on France was any such corps organized. Since every Frenchman able to bear . aa a fPIIIllftr tO the arms is 1 - colors, one can scarcely imagine whati Second Floor those corpe would have been made of. "The statement is demonstrably false." PHARMACY STUDY PLANNED Y. M. C. A. Course to Open Septem ber 21, With Work In Evenings. The College of Pharmacy at the T. M. C. A. will open on September 21. The classes will be held during the evening hours only, to enable the students to work while attending school. The course covers four years. The text books necessary for the course are the Hemlngton Practice of Pharmacy. Cob lentz Volumentlc Analysis, the United States Pharmacopoeia, and Culbreth's Materia Medlca. The officers of the school are: Rob ert C French, educational director; W. S. Ladd. president; H. W. Stone, gen eral secretary; Murray Levy, dean of pharmacy and chemistry; Dr. A Q. Bettman, materia medlca and botany; Dr. John M. Connolly, of the University of Oregon medical department, profes sor of toxicology and Jurisprudence, and W. V. Green, professor of mathematics. AMERICAN JOINS FRENCH Wife Also Offers Service as Red Cross Nurse During War. PAN A, 111., Sept. 5. A message re ceived today by F. W. Anderson, a banker, from his sister. Mrs. Julia Wll lems, wife of Henry Wlllems, both of whom have been In Paris for several months and where Mr. Wlllems Is en gaged In business, Bald that Wlllems had left his wife In Paris and had gone to the front in the European war as a private in the French Infantry, and that Mrs. Wlllems had enlisted as a Red Cross nurse and been assigned to duty In the regiment of which her husband is a member. Mrs. Wlllems' message adds, "Mr. Wlllems welconed the op portunity to light for France." Before Wlllems went to the front he worked night and day with his auto mobile in the commissary department of the army. Redmond Banks May Unite. SALEM, Or., Sept. 11. (Special.) State Superintendent of Banks Sargent announced today that a movement was on foot looking to the consolidation of the State Bank of Redmond and the Redmond Bank of Commerce. He said that he had outlined a plan for the consolidation and that he had submit ted it to the officials of the two Insti tutions for ratification. The business of the town does not Justify the ex istence of two banking Institutions. Yukon Closed) to Allies' Foes. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 11. Of ficials of the White Pass St Yukon Railway have notified Germans and Austrlans in Alaska not to attempt to pass through the Yukon on steamers of the company. The Canadian gov ernment, according to thevarning, la taking as prisoners of war all Aus trlans and Germans passing through the territory. If you would avoid the evils of con stipation, take an occasional dose of Chamberlain's Tablets. They are easy to take and most agreeable in effect. They only cost a quarter. 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Trousers are full-lined and have taped seams. Every suit silk-stitched. A special price on the best school suit you can buy Leading Clothier BODIES LITTER ROAD Germans Terribly Harassed by Artillery on Retreat. DISTANT FIRE IS DEADLY Clamps of Wood Intervene Between Gunners and Their Targets, but Officer Mile Distant Gives Range by Telephone. PARIS, Sept. 11. Some Idea of how the Germans were harassed by artillery fire during their retreat was obtained on a visit to the fields near Meaux. the scene of a severe fight yesterday. The German Infantry had taken a position In a sunken road on either side of which were stretched In extended lines hummocks, some of them natural and some the work of spades In the hands of German soldiers. Besides many bodies were 40 or (0 emply cartridge shells, while fragments of clothing, caps and knapsacks ware scattered about. This destruction was wrought by batteries a little more than three miles distant Scattering clumps of wood Intervened between the bat teries and their mark but the range had been determined by an officer on an elevation a mile from the gunners. He telephoned directions for the firing and through glasses watched the burst ing sheila The sunken road was littered with bodies today. The road Is lined with poplars, the branches of which, severed by fragments of shells, were strewn along the road. In places whole tope of trees had been torn away by the artil lery fire. TALK ON WAR IS TONIGHT Colorado Society Also to Launch Campaign for Visitors. The meeting of the Colorado Society which will be held at Library Hall In the Public Library building tonight at 8 o'clock will not only be Important as affording the people of Portland first opportunity to listen to the full text of the address by William D. Wheelwright on the European war. but will launch an active campaign for . routing Panama-Pacific visitors by way of Oregon In 1916. The lecture to be given by Mr. Wheelwright will be: "The Situation. With Some Personal Reminiscences, and the Duty of the Hour." The occasion will mark the beginning of a eerie of entertainments by the Colorado Society. As a matter nf fart It la her right and her duty to enjoy perfect health and strength to be just aa strong and healthy aa man Derhans mora so In view of who bnnss into the world th offspring.