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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1914. 3 GERMAN LAMENTS ACT OF JAPANESE Ex-Ambassador to Tokio Says . Nippon Shows No Gratitude for German Favors. RETURN HOME DIFFICULT LATE PHOTOS OF DIRECTING HEADS IN CONFLICT IN FRANCE. Members of Embassy and Consular Staffs In Danger of Being Taken From Xentral Ships Japan Is Mot Excited. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 13.-The steamship Minnesota, which left To kohama, August 30, arrived here to day, bearing- Count von Rex, late Ger man Ambassador to Japan, a big:. ruddy-faced man, wearing: a Texas cowboy hat; the members ot the em bassy staff and the various German consular officers recalled from' Japan, Corea and Vladivostock. Count von Rex said Japan declared war against Germany under pressure from England, and that the Japanese people and Cabinet did not desire war. "There were many urgent telegrams from London, many conferences be tween the British embassy and the Japanese Foreign Office, before Japan entered the fight, declared the Count. Garrison's Plight Hopeless. Being asked what he thought of Japan's action the Ambassador replied "I have no opinion to express. should like to know what the United States thinks of it. You have island In the Paclfio that may be taken over by Japan the next time you get in trouble." Count von Rex seemed to consider the plight of the Klau-Chau garrison hopelesB. "The Japanese," he said, "are free to attack with 200,000 men if they choose, while we have only a few thou sand defenders. Tslng-Tau is- not fortress like Port Arthur. It is not strong place. Its fall is only a matter cf time. What military glory can Japan gain by capturing Tslng-Tau Debt to Germany Recounted. The Count continued: "Japanese military - skill was ac quired from German teaching. We have taught them all they know In medicine, engineering and the higher learning. Japanese students have been welcomed In all our great universities, and this is our reward. Japan turns against us at the first opportunity.1 All the Germans except Baron Schoen are on their way to Germany, but do not know exactly how they will at tain their destination. The Ambassa dor is beyond military age, as he says regretfully, and he probably could reach Italy unmolested, but nearly all the other men are young and eligible for army service and would be taken from any neutral ship that was searched by the British. The travelers are at a hotel here, awaiting orders from their government. They may go East tomorrow. They say they were treated with perfect courtesy by the . people ot Japan, even after war was declared. Germans employed or en gaged in business In Japan have not been molested. Japan Hot Mucn Excited. There were numerous English pas sengers on the Minnesota. They did not mix with the Germans in any way. Through the Strait of Fuca the Min nesota kept on the American side, fearing search by a British warship. Passengers belonging to neutral na tlons agreed that Japan was not great- ly excited over her war with Germany, feeling that It was undertaken from a sense of duty and that it would oo- cupy only a small part of Japan's fighting force. PARTY SHIFTS TAX BLAME (Continued From First Pare.) loss of customs revenues and knew additional revenue must be had to sup port the Government Tax on Freight Protested. The bone of contention la the bur den to be placed on freights. Ship pers are making the protest on the ground they, are paying already ex cessive freight rates. They see no op portunity to pass the 3 per cent adr ditional tax along to the consumer, where most such taxes eventually rest. Railroads are quiet during the outburst. The tax will not fall on them. They Insist freight rates now are too low and the additional tax will educate the shipper to a higher rate, which rail roads may be able to win from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The loudest protest is from the South, and Administration leaders argue they stand no chance of losing Demo cratic Congressional votes from that section, but it will require an effort to get support tor the tax from present Southern members of Congress and to hold the Southern Congressional votes for future Administration "measures. This is the task the President takes up on his return to Washington. Some Insist on Stamp Tax rSeveral Democratic members. Includ ing members of the ways and means committee, already are preparing sub stitutes for the committee bill. Some of them insist that a stamp tax still will have to be accepted. They show that nearly $40,000,000 was raised annually from this source in 1899 and 1909, and -that despite the fact that it caused some general Inconvenience and in volved intricate detail of administra tion it caused no resentment among the people. A stamp tax, they insist, is not so politically Inexpedient as a freight or income tax. Another source of trouble for Con gress is the failure of the Senate com mittee on commerce in its readjustment of the rivers and harbors appropriation bill to satisfy the Republican members who are conducting the filibuster against it. Senator Burton says he will continue to fight against items in the bill which he considers "unnecessary, unwise and extravagant." "I think that I am able to talk at least another month on the bill," said the Ohio Senator. Senators Gallinger, Kenyon and Borah are ready to continue the fight with him. Some Democrats say they would rather let the bill fail than to yield to the demands of the Republicans. : . : . rstfrV . i - :-jv k ' $1 " - - it - s wyw " wwSiMwrimrspiMwiiiiHMmiiM siiiisiiniMinnajaasf tBammmmmmmmmiAmmiimmmmmmmmmBmt . - . .-v , ' - - " Itr&Q.fi K (( I Hi! I - K: it t - - ' IM ... ; ; ram nsBnmnMiiiss TOP, 1.E&T, KAISER WILLIAM AND GENERAL. VON MOLTKE IN F1EI.O RIGHT, GE.lERAL SIRJOHl IKEMH, COXXA.VOER OP BRITISH FORCE 9 BELOW, LKFT, UESEKAL VOJ KL ttK, HUK HUME B1IUH1' OP FIGHTING AFTER EXECUTING BRILLIANT FLANKING MOVEMENT RIGHT, GENERAL JOFFRE, WHO,' IS CREDITED WITH FRENCH VICTORY, AND PRESIDENT POINCAIRE. BRITISH MAN LIEGE 'rofessor Frank Radmaker Says Belgians Were Helped. TROOPS ARE EARLY SENT Mllwaukie School to Open. MILWAUKIE. Or..' Sept. IS. (Spe cial.) Mllwaukie Grammar and High School will open here Monday. The main building has been repainted and etandpipes constructed for fire protec tion. An outside building has been built which will take care of about 40 pupils, releasing space in the main building for the high school .department. The school will open with 12 teachers. Rob ert Goetz Is principal. Russian Alliance Japanese Wish. PETROGRAD, Sept. 13. Japanese officers have told a Russian Journalist that the whole of Japan is In favor of an alliance with Russia, Educator Gets Admissions From In. telligent Londoners That Large Forces Went Across Before War Was Declared. That there were at least 5000 Brit' ish troops in Belgium before Germany declared war on France, , and that a large part of this force helped with the defense of Liege, Is the conviction of Frank Radmaker, principal of schools at Ortlng, Wash., who has Just returned from Europe, and who Is vis iting his parents, Mr. and - Mrs. John Radmaker, of 783 Pacific street. Mr. Radmaker, an American citizen ot German blood, was at Interlaken, Switzerland, when the trouble started. It took him but two days to get to London, and although he was suspected by the French of being a German, he was not seriously molested. Once a drunken French soldier came Into his compartment on the train and ques tioned him. At Boulogne, where he shipped to Folkstone, England he was held ud again but was allowed to pro ceed after Inspection of his passport and transportation. British Send Troops Early. Mr. Radmaker declares that, for all the official British attitude. Intelligent Englishmen In London admitted to him that England, foreseeing that sne would be drawn in, sent her troops into Belgium before Germany assumed aggressive attitude against Bel gium. was talking with tne proprietor of the hotel at which I stayed in Lon don," he said, "and when I pinned him down and asked him if he didn't think there were French and English In Bel-E-lum before the declaration of war be tween France and Germany, he said that there were French "there, undoubt edly. and that he knew that some or the best British gunners were behind the fortifications at Liege. I had asked Im if he thought the Belgians could have put up the defense that was made of the Liege forts." N In support of his contention that England was sending fighting men Into Belgium before the alleged violation that country s neutrality by Ger many. Mr. Radmaker cites the fact that passenger service between Dover ana Calais and Dover and ostena was sus pended July SI. . Straits Closed to Traffic "The reason given for this by British officials was that they, feared. . the straits had been planted with Geraan mines," said Mr-V Radmaker, "but fur ther north, where the sea is much wider, between Harwich and Antwerp, for Instance, the lines were not closed, although the danger would be greater there, if there was danger anywhere, from mines "sown by German vessels." Mr. Radmaker came from London to Quebec on the steamship Lake Mani toba, crowded with refugees. On going aboard his passport was questioned but ho convinced the ship's officers that ha was an American citizen, as the passport said. The ship waa dirty and rat-ridden, he says. She carried two six-inch guns. On the ship were a number of Eng lishmen who were going to Canada and Australia to try to Interest capitalists and manufacturers in taking up the manufacture of goods formerly import ed from Germany. These men were told by Canadians that they might, not succeed, as manufacturing was in its infancy in the Dominion, and they re torted that if they couldn't interest anyone in Canada, they would "go to the States." Liner Unloads Hastily. "Coming up the St. Lawrence, we passed the steamship Megantlc, sup posed to be loaded with Canadian troops for Europe, but we saw that she was empty. When we got to Quebec we were told that she started out with the troops, but hearing of a German cruiser, came back and left them.'' Mr. Radmaker attributes the ease with which he came from Interlaken to London to his knowledge of the coun try and the fact that be was traveling alone. For several years be has been making a European trip annually, and has brought back an extensive collec tion of wood-carving from the Black Forest of Germany. He says he believes that two cases of carving shipped by him last Summer will come through all right. POPE WRITES KING WEALTHY FUGITIVE CAUGHT Eugene Hewlett to Return to Los Angeles on Fraud Charge. DEMING, N. M., Sept. 13. Eugene Hewlett, reported to be a wealthy club man for whom the police of LOB An geles have been conducting a search for several days on the charge of ob' taining fraudulently money and prop I fx s v, (.(,0"." it' JuA , rA. . J if ' A-1 J Frank Radmaker. nr -m ifiHiti uri -"I unii of Ortlng-, Wnah., Who Has Just Returned From Europe. erty amounting . to $34,000, . was ar rested today at Rlncon, Dona ' Ana County, New Mexico, by Sheriff Dwlght Stephens.' . - . Financial operations by Hewlett ag gregating nearly 31.006,000 are under Investigation. The prisoner, it is said, will not oppose extradition. Man Falls Dead on Street. MARSri FIELD. Or, Sept. 13. (Spe cial.) William Davis, a resident of this city for a number of years, diet on the street last night of heart trluble. He was 65 years old. - Britain Called Guardian of Peace, Master of Justice. REBUFF IS REMEMBERED Pontiff Displeased by Refusal of Prussian and Austrian Ambassa dors to Give Safe Conduct to Belgian Cardinal. ROME, Sept. 13. A dispatch to Turin quotes the Stampa as saying that Car dinal Bourne, archbishop of West minster, is delivering from the Pope to King George a letter which Is filled with sympathy for the British nation. which is described as the "guardian of peace and master of Justice." The Stampa adds that the Pope askeH the Austrian and Prussian Ambassadors to irive safe conduct for the return of Cardinal Mercier, primate of Belgium, to Belgium. This was refused, where upon the Pontm answered -tnat ne would remember the unpleasant re fusal. A telegram from the Austrian fron tier says that among the killed in the Austrian army were many of Italian birth. Word from Brindisi says that the United States cruiser North Carolina is coaling there. Prince .Louis Kapoieon, whose swora was refused by France, is awaiting in structions to Join the Russian army. A Belgian commission similar to that which has gone to the. United States to protest against alleged German cruel ties is expected here. BATTLE IN AFREGA NEAR BRITISH DISPATCHED TO MEET STRONG INVADING FORCE. Germans Renorten Retreating on Tsalo Rlveri Officers and Native Troops Are Captured. LONDON, Sept. 13. A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Company from Narl- obi, British East Africa, says a strong force of Germans from German East Africa crossed cue border at Mohoru and occupied Karacgu. and Is now ad vancing on Kisii. British forces," the correspondent adds, "have been dispatched from Kl sampu and from Port Florence, on the northeastern shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza, to check them. The German force on tne Tsalo Klver is retreating, and Is In conflict with troops sent from Bura and Mtoto and Andei. Full details of the fighting are not yet obtainable, but the capture of two German officers and some native troops is confirmed. Another German officer has surrendered. v Details ot last Sunday's action also are not yet to hand, but the wounded have been brought to Nariobi. They re port that the British were subjected to the fiercest machine gun ore. In a gal lant but unsuccessful effort to reach the machine gun by a bayonet charge. the Twenty-seventh Punjab regiment suffered heavily." : - j M H R ULTNOMA COUNTY FAI Gresham, Oregon Sept. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 BIGGER AND BETTER EXHIBITS Livestock, Poultry, Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers, Domes ' tic Science and Art, also Grange and Juvenile Displays. Horse and Driving Races. Full Line of Amusements Citizens of Portland Attend Our Own County Fair "Meet Me on the Furrow Rovnr-Trln Fare 3S Take Car at First sad Aider SLAVS HEAR 4 TONGUES SPEECHES RESULT IJf DONATIONS OF S260 TO RED CROSS. Patriotic Addresses Made to Portland Society by Bohemian, Serb, .Russian and Briton. At a meeting of the Slavonlo Red Cross Auxiliary yesterday In Danla Hall on Russell street, speeches were delivered in . Bohemian, Servian, Rus sian and, English, resulting in dona tions to the amount of 6Q for the Red Cross fund. The addresses were in patriotic vein, nrging subscriptions to the fund for the relief of their countrymen in Europe. V.' Kremar, president of the society, was the first speaker. He discussed the purpose of the meeting and Introduced B. Pekich, secretary, who read a report of the work, accom plished by the Red Cross Auxiliary. A. Chotenovsky next spoke in ' Bo hemian, telling of the conditions of the Slavs in Austria-Hungary under the Austrian rule. His hope was for a confederated Slav nation. He said that while Germanic races looked down on the Slavs as half -civilized people. If half the reports of German actions In the war were true they would show what civilization can do in warfare. Joseph Ugarkovick spoke In Servian about the conditions of the southern Slavs, in the Balkans, under Turk ish rule and later under Austrian rule. He said that while Turkey persecuted them for their religion, and the Aus trians do not, that the educational fa cilities- provided by the Austrlans are no better. Russian 'rule is not as bad as it is I painted, according to I. Esman, the next speaker, who talked In Russian. F. M. Cuba spoke in English, point ing out that 90 per cent of the people in the warring nations are opposed to war, but were led into the conflict by emotional speeches, which roused their spirit, and by martial music. He said it was his belief that the downfall of Germany was necessary to the promo tion of the peace idea. He concluded with showing the necessity for a per manent organization to offer financial aid to brethren in the east. B. Pekich again spoke, treating the democracy existing between officer and private in the Servian army, and M. N. Pekich spoke of the need for forgetting past differences and of or ganizing the branches of the Slavlo people. GERMAN GAIN REITERATE! Crown Prince Again Reported to Have Taken Fort Xear Verdun. . LONDON, Sept. 13. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Rome says that it is officially an nounced in Berlin that the army of the German Crown Prince, Frederick Will iam, has captured a fortified position southwest of Verdun, and "It is now beginning an attack with the heaviest artillery pieces on the forts south of Verdun." (The capture by the Germans of a fortified position southwest ot Verdun was reported in news dispatches Sat urday.) ' Famine in Turkey Reported. PETROGRAD, Sept. 13. Travelers from Constantinople and Sofia bring the report that there Is a famine In the Turkish capital. UHLANS SCARCE IN LILLE ADVAXC1XG FORCE OK GERMANS . PASSES TOWN BY. Inhabitants Resigned Is Situation, Realising Own Ssfrly Lira la Doing as They Art Told. LONDON. Sept. 13. The Boulogne correspondent ot the Times has visited Lille to ascertain the truth of the statement that a German army corps was marching southward to reinforce the main army. The inhabitants of Aire knew nothing of such a movement and there were no Uhlans In that town. Their attitude wu one of resignation; they had come to understand that so long as they remained quiet and sat isfied the demands of the unm-elcome visitors they would not be hurt, Betrrune also was open to the visitor, but no Germans were In that town. Only a dozen Uhlans were present In Lille. They had ridden In that morn ing to ascertain whether the district was quiet and left early, proceeding In the direction of TorunaL It was thought that these Uhlans comprised one of the patrols of the rlgh wing of the reinforcement. Aocordlng to reports received in the town, the advancing force of Germans, which would pass but would not enter the toWli, was 60.000 strong. At Dun- ' kirk the correspondent found a motor car armed with a mitrailleuse, which had Just returned from a Uhlan chase. At Calais he was stopped by sentries guarding a atron-ly entrenched position. Australia has gn.2tt3.68s iihep. 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