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THE MORNING OREGOXTAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMTlEll 22. 1914. t. r. j part of the -German army proposes to maintain merely a defensive poeition in France while the main body makes a stand on the frontier, bat optimists here believe it improbable that Em peror William's troops again during the present war will assume a general offensive on French territory. They contend, moreover, that a retirement of the German forces from French soil must soon become inevitable unless the offensive, is assumed. British eyes see further encourage ment in the backward movement of the army of Crown Prince Frederick Wil liam, which, it is argued, means the failure to establish .'- for the Invaders new and shorter communications by way of Metz and the Rhine. Dispatches say Vienna newspapers continue silent concerning the opera tions in Galicia and against the Serv ians, but they are appealing daily for more nurses, doctors and medical sup plies to be sent to the front. The Aus trian hospital equipment is said to be woefully inadequate, the wounded often lying on the field from 24 to 48 hours, greatly Increasing not only the suf fering, but the mortality. From Trieste, the principal Austrian seaport on the Adriatic Sea. concerning whose attitude in case of an attack there has been much speculation, came a statement today from the governor that In case of being attacked he would not evacuate the city. "Trieste." he said, "will resist. The Anglo-French fleet, however, before attacking Trieste must deal with the Austrian fleet at Pola." British Ealistaneat CenHnaea. - Throughout the British Isles enlist ment continues unabated and a note worthy feature is the high standard of the recruits. Students and young pro fessional men are conspicuous in every squad seen on the London streets. xi s a long way to Xipperary,- now has become a fixed classic in this war, much in the same manner as "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town To night" swept through the American Army in Cuba during the Spanish American war. Even the German pris oners Interned in England have caught the fever and may be heard singing as well as they can. It was announced that David Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, Is heading a movement to raise a complete Welsh army corpa BATTLE ISXCKEDINGIiX VIOLENT Toll of British Officers Out of Pro- portion to Losses in Ranks. LONDON, Sept. 21. Graphic descrip tions from correspondents hovering in the wake of the armies in France de clare that the past week's battles ex ceeded in violence anything since the struggle at Port Arthur. There are stories of charges unequalled in the annals of British arms since Balaklava, and the casualty lists, which filter through day by day confirm the re ports, which otherwise might be taken as an exaggeration. - The part that British officers are taking is illustrated by bare testi mony of the casualty list.' Seven hun dred and ninety-seven officers are among the killed, wounded and miss ing, which is a percentage out of all proportion to the losses in the ranks. One hundred and thirty officers have been killed, 388 have been wounded an 39 are missing. Many of the misslnir probably must later be recorded as Killed or wounded. Coldstream Officers Rjik tint . ; The Coldstream Guards regiment horns 'the place of honor, with Zl casualties among its officers' corps. The King's Royal Rifles . and the burfolk regiment have each had 25 officers killed or- wounded, the Gordon Highlanders 23.. the Muster Fusiliers 21. Cameron Highlanders and Cheshire regiment each 19. The field artillery nas lost 56 and the medical corps 52 officers. Listed by ranks, the names of colonels and lieutenant-colonels number 32. majors 85 and captains 24$. xne nomes of many of the best known families in the kingdom are ii mourning. Lieutenant Wyndham. o: the Coldstream Guards, killed in ac tlon, was the only son of the late Right Honorable George Wyndham, at one time Chief Secretary for Ireland. Lieutenant Lockwood, of the same regiment, was the nephew and heir of J-ieutenant-Colonel the Right Honor able A. R. M. Lockwood, one of the most popular members of the House of Commons. Saturday's list announced the death of Lord Guernsey, the heir of the Earl of Aylesford, and Lord Arthur- Vincent Hay, heir of Marquis Tweeddale. Captives Semd Letters. The official press bureau issued the following announcement: "It may be of some interest and com fort to the relatives of the officers whose names appear as missing or wounded and missing in the casualty lists issued by the War Office after the termination of the retreat from Mons, to know that letters have begun arriving in London from German hos pitals, in which some of them are said to be lying. Several of them appear to be at Paderborn, Westphalia. -A letter from the chief surgeon of the hospital there to the wife of a wounded officer is given. It says: "Dear Madam Your husband is stay ing in the hospital at Paderborn. He feels well and his wound also is getting on well. As he is a prisoner he is not allowed to write himself. BELGIANS ACCUSED 0FATR0G10US ACTS Mutilation of Wounded Said to Intimate Organization of Predatory Gang. f GIRL OF 16 IS MARAUDER W riter Says Germans Acted . Solely in Self-Defense and Even Then Only Destroyed Property of Those Actually Implicated. Stock of the lonely woman with whom he lodged. Another held the baby in order that its mother might do the cooking. "Such are the Germans here in a hostile country, good - natured and ready to help. What villainies must have been committed to convert these good fellows into raging avengers of their fallen and mutilated comrades. Certainly it was not the will of our soldiers that death and. fire should hold carnival in the houses of civilians. What they did they can answer for, and so can the German nation answer for its sons bearing themselves with honor in this war. BERLIN. Sept. 21. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) "A cry of in dignation has been called forth throughout the world," writes W. Scheuermann, a correspondent of sev eral German newspapers who accom panies the German general staff, "by the so-called cruelty with which the Germans are carrying on this war. "In all countries that get their news through Knerlish and French sources, stories of German barbarism are re peated. It Is therefore doubly the duty for a war correspondent who can BPeak of what his own eyes have seen to report what he saw and what he can answer for before' the forum of his torical truth. "I have spent days in the worst franc-tlreur regions of Belgium and France. My first impressions of the horrors of war were obtained at Bat tice. on the road from Aachen to Liege, where fighting between franc-tireurs and our soldiers occurred. Instead of a flourishing village, with clean houses and neat villages, one sees there today charred ruins stretching along the hisrhway for a mile. "I saw things there that I shall re member as long as I live. Pitiful Sights "Witnessed. "I have passed through a village that was quite burnt out, where only a few German soldiers were standing guard no other living beings visible any where, but when I came to the door way of a house that had fallen I saw in what probably had been the living room a white - haired woman with a kitchen knife .raking the debris. I called to her. She did not hear me. Her face was like a gray stone, and her eyes fixed as"1n death. "In a front garden, which had been scorched by the flames, a woman in a black dress was crouching and weep ing. I have stood at many an open grave, but I have never heard any body weep like that woman. The sound of it will ring in my ears forever as one of the most terrible experiences of my life. ' Cursed Called on Government. "But a curse, and thrice a curse, on those who caused all this misery. For them there is no punishment in this world sufficient to atone for their evil deed. And when they now denounce our brave warriors as the cause of this desolation, this latter slander, shame ful as it is, does not weigh much in comparison with what they . actually did. "Our German soldiers and landwehr men marched into, the country of the enemy with the same order and disci pline that they maintain on tne drill irround and in army maneuvers. Wher ever we came we guaranteed to the inhabitants security for life and prop erty. In Battice the German procla mation promising the Belgians peace and the integrity of their territory was still seen on the walls of the burnt houses. "Now, what happened in Battice, Clermont, Herve, Fleron and other Bel gian places was, 'with singular simi larity, as follows: "The inhabitants let the Germans march in, received them with cringing friendliness, offered them wine in su perfluous quantities and then fell on them at night. It goes without saying for mere self-preservation demanded it that every murdered German was avenged. Where the murderers could be caught they were brought before a court-martial, and if their guilt was evident they were shot or hanged. Self-Control Is Illustrated. "All this was done in perfect order. How far the self-control of our troops extended was proved to me by an ex ample only day before yesterday. -At the entrance to the French fortress of Longwy, just captured, I saw German soldiers bring in a troop of franc tireurs, quite old fellows, and among them a few common thieves scarcely beyond schoolboy age, all of them with criminal faces of the hardest type. Pity that we did not photograph them so that the world might see what hideous scamps are killing our men. v "What did these men do?" demanded an officer. 'They put on Red Cross scarfs, then went on the battlefield and mutilated our wounded. We caught them in the act,' was the reply. Young Girl Is Shot. "The reader should know what was the character of this mutilation. The eyes of our wounded men, lying help less in their pain on the battlefield, were cut out with knives. But this was not by far the most cruel thing these beasts invented. Old and young men and women were caught as hyenas of the battlefield and they received their reward. "At Vise a 16-year-old girl had to be shot because she was caught in the act of mutilating our wounded. "There is no mercy-for such deeds and there can be none. "Beyond all doubt this franc-tireur warfare against us was organized. Otherwise it would be impossible to ex plain the uniform character of the mutilations, attacks on field hospitals. where physicians, the wounded and even the nurses fell victims of these predatory rascals: in the attacks in villages and cities, the same tactics were repeated over and over again. Suddenly the entire village is in pos session of arms, and. in two cases, even of machine guns. Priest Around Armina; Klock. "In Etalle, between Arlon and Sedan. the priest was caught in the act of distributing arms and ammunition to his parishioners. In Clermant, on the other hand, the priest tried in vain to dissuade the citizens from listening to the Mayor, who was giving them arms and instigating them to fall on the Germans from ambush. But even where, the people fired from the rear on our columns as they marched through we did not make the whole village responsible, but only stormed and burned the houses from which shots were fired. - "In Herbe, Fleuron and other. villages there are houses standing between others that were burned down. On their doors are written in chalk such words as these: 'House searched, everything in order; 'Good people, upare them"; 'inmates absent, spare house': 'husband is soldier in the field, spare house.' "Such chivalry is practiced towards an absent enemy. Inhabitants of houses which did not rise against us are enjoying security. Our landwehr men." billeted upon the inhabitants, sit before their doors and chat with them, or play with their children and think, ... doubtless, of those left at home. I "saw one of our; soldiers feeding the "SUSPEND JUDGMENT." IS PLEA Women Ask That Reports of Cruelty Be Discredited Until Proved.. LONDON, Sept. 21. "Suspend judg ment on reports of the alleged cruelty by enemies of Great Britain, and do not engender hatred and vengeance!" is the gist of a resolution adopted by the executive committee of the Na tional Union of Women's Suffrage, a non-militant body. "We earnestly deprecate all speech and writing tending to stir up ungov erned and indiscriminate rage and vengeance against the people of na tions with whom Great Britain U at war." reads the resolution. "Judgment should be suspended until there is an opportunity of subjecting the alleged instances of fiendish cruel ty and barbarity to careful Inquiry." Battlefield of Europe Re veals New Heroes. General Nell Doasrtas Findlay, Jat Before Death Comes, Approaches ReKimeitel Chaplain and Kneels Beside burner Soldiers Fight hy Kight and Sonne! of Dram. L DNDON.' Sept. 21. The correspondent of, the Daily Mail In France de scribes the death of General Neil Douglass Findlay, of the Royal Artil lery, as follows: "When at down, on Saturday, the British advance Ncontinued toward Soissons, the enemy was fighting an exceptionally fierce rearguard action. A terrible shell fire was directed against our artillery under General Findlay, temporarily situated In a val ley by the Village of Prise. It seemed a matter of moments when we should have to spike our guns, and General Findlay saw the urgency for action. 'Boys,' his voice echoed down the line, 'we are going to get every gun into position ' Then ' deliberately the General approached the regimental chaplain, kneeling beside a gunner. " 'Here are some of my personal be longings, chaplain. See that they don't go astray.' "One by one our guns began to blaze away and the General had a word of encouragement and advice for every man. In vain his staff tried to per suade him to leave the danger zone. Our range was perfect, the German fire slackened and died away, and with a yell our men prepared to ad vance. The outburst came too soon. One parting shell, exploding In a con tact with Findlay s horse, shattered man and beast." CONCRETE HOLDS GERMAN ARTILLERY Kaiser's Army Chooses Posi tion Long Before Re treat, Is Belief. TEUTONS LOSE IN SORTIES ONDON, Sept. 21. The correspond- ent of the Times, at La Ferte-Milon. under date of Friday, gives a descrip tion of the ' German counter-attack, made on Wednesday, to recover ground lost on the Alsne. He says: , "They came on singing, with their drums beating behind them. Even at night they had their band to play them to the attack. we met tnem in me holes they had themselves dug, and, as a French soldier, who told the story. said: " 'You know In a fight like that we had them at an advantage, for our bayonets are longer than -theirs, only these straps about our chests and shoul ders get in our way and hinder our movements. The Germans are better off in that respect and so are your soldiers, as they can use their arms freely. The Germans would break for a while and go back, but as soon as we sent them running another lot would come on, and so it went time after time.' " BORDEAUX, Sept. 21. "We are hold ing our own but at what a cost!' declares a letter to the editor of the Temps today from a friend at the front. "For four days we have been fight ing without stopping and sleeping so little that this morning I fell asleep in an automobile and bursting shells in the road hardly caused me to blink my sand-laden eyelids." This letter continues: "All the horizon is In flames: all the villages within 25 miles are burning and the night sky seems glittering with sparks. The noise is such that one ceases to perceive it. We live in the '"'midst of death. Today two big shells fell on the house in which I was quartered. The structure burst into flames. Captain A , to whom I had been speaking, fell for ward ' dead, and Colonel B , who was entering the room, also was killed instantly. Three other officers were seriously wounded." ijonaon correspondent iveporxs tap-( tare of Guns by British, bat Ad vance on Enemy Likely to Be Slow, as Ground Is Bad. LONDON. Sept. 21. The Daily Tele graph's correspondent behind the Allies line along the Alsne. in a dis patch dated Saturday, says: "The bulk of the fighting on the line held by General French's command has been done In inclosed country, where there are many woods that afford cover on every hill. The armies are dug in. Consequently it has been for the most part an artillery battle. "The German 'positions evidently were chosen long ago and the work of entrenchment was begun before the Germans turned away from Paris. One indication to support this view Is the fact that most of the German heavy artillery is planted on concrete founda tions, which would require several days to set and harden. Artillery Advantage With Germans. "So far the Germans have had the advantage in heavy artillery, but. the British have captured three of. their large guns which were mounted In concrete emplacements and French guns of big caliber have been hurried to the front. These probably are in action now, and the Allies soon will be superior., in artillery. The German batteries have-ranged beautifully. When the range was picked up thory poured in a fire at a high rate and the Infantry simply had to bury itself in the trenches to avoid annihilation. The casualties from shell fire have been heavy on both Bides. Sorties - Cost Many Lives. "Military men do not think that the Allies' left will move up the valley of the Oise until the German front to the north of Soissons has been driven back. The Oise Valley is marshy, and after the copious downpour of the past week, the river is swollen and the roadsand fields are heavy. "Moreover. General Von Kluck has taken pains that the high ground be tween Noyon and Cbauny is so strongly held as to dominate the whole valley. The Germans have made three day light attacks in an attempt to break the Allies' front, where it stretched east and west along the Alsne. All three attacks have failed, with losses so enormous that the ground in front of the Allies trenches is strewn with the enemy's dead and wounded. Bayonets Repel Night Attack. "The bad morale of having to pass so many bodies of their dead prompted the Germans to make their fourth at tack Friday in the night time. The night was black and rain was falling heavily when the Germans sought to pierce the lines along Soissons with an attack covering a wide area.- - The Allies . received timely warning from the outposts and repulsed the attack with a withering fire, followed, by a bayonet charge. "The rains have made traffic on the roads impossible and motorcycle de spatch "riders are working under diffi culties. The German artillery has made the work of the signal officers at British headquarters exceedingly dangerous. xneir observers keep a lookout for the heliograph and as soon as the mirror begins flashing they train" their guns on the instrument. The wireless poles too, are constant targets. "One shell fell in a British field hospital, wrecking it. As shells con tinued to fall in the neighborhood the medical corps, after heroic efforts to rescue the wounded, were compelled to abandon the ten most serious cases. I like that suit -It has lots of style but no freak fads. ROSH HASHANA OBSERVED Jewish New Year Ushered In by Blowing: of Ram's Horn. In the synagogues of Portland yes terday morning was heard the Shofar or ram's horn, blown in keeping wita the custom which Jewish' records say was first sounded 5765 years ago ia the temples of Israel, ushering in Roeti Hashana, or the Jewish New Year. This is the month of Tishri. the first on the Jewish calendar. Rabbi Jonah B. Wise was speaker at the Synagogue Ahaval Sholom yes terday morning in a special service in honor of the day. C. W. Robinson will lecture at 11:30 o'cock this morn ing at the Sixth-Street Synagogue. - 250,000 ARE PUT TO ROUT (Continued From First Pace.) the general basis of the campaign as worked out. Colonel Redl was found guilty of be ing a traitor and on the advice of brother officers, committed suicide. Austrian official reports continue to give only scant details .of fresh fight ing in Galicia. Refugees Rnsh to Vienna. There is a constant flow of Polish refugees into Vienna. Several train loads arrived here Saturday and more are reported to be on their way. The municipal authorities are experiencing great difficulty in finding accommoda tions for the destitute, who already ag gregate 100,000. Farmers are unable to procure suf ficient labor for their Autumn plant ing or to carry new grain to the mills, which are besieged with orders for flour. Consequently the price of grain has advanced 25 per cent. The tempor ary suspension of import duties on grain, fodder, cattle ana meat is prov ing futile, owing to the opposition of the agrarian- party in .Hungary, which is contesting the admission of foreign provisions. A shortage in the supplies of raw cotton threatens to bring serious losses to cotton spinners. The spinners are endeavoring to procure supplies from the United States through Italy. Italy prohibits the exportation of cotton, but it is thought she will permit supplies to pass through her territory. GERMANS MAKING GAINS 1 (Continued From First rage.-) check what must have been terrific pressure from the British and French left. Gersaan Offensive Held Unlikely. Naturally there has been no corrob oration from German sources of the reports that a comparatively small . HOW TO PROSOUKCE NAMES OF EUROPEAN PLACES WAR HAS BROUGHT TO PUB- , LIC ATTENTION. German. Pronounced. Mulhausen. ... Muil-hous'n. Carlsruhe. .... Carls-roohe. Freiberg Fry-bearg-- Aachen Ah-hh'n. Altkirch Ahlt-kirjh. Zabern Tsa-bairn. Pforzheim ..... Pforts-heim. Weisbaden Vees-bahd'n. " Coblenz. . . i . . . Coh-blents. ; Mainz. ........ Mynts. j Neuss . Noice. Magdeburg. . . . Mahgde-boorg. Stettin Steh-teen. Hadersleben . . . Hah-dehrs-lalb'n. Breisach Bry-zahh. Ulm Oolm. Hanau ........ .Hah-now. Om unden Gm(ui)nd'n. Gottlngen G(oe)tting'n. Leipzig Liep-tsik. Saarbrucken. . .Sah'r-br(ui)kn. Gebweiler Gehb-vieler. French. Luneville L(ui)ne-ville. Verdun Vair-dohn(g). Toul .Tool. Longwy Long)-vee. Givet .Zhee-veh. 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The inter nal revenue war tax plan, designed to raise $105,000,000, framed by the Dem ocratic leaders in Congress and- ap proved by President Wilson, was laid before the House today by Democratic Leader Underwood. - A call was issued later for a meeting of the ways and means committee to morrow morning, when the Repub licans, caUed in ' for the first time. will record their opposition. The bill will -be voted out of committee- favorably tomorrow and wiU be taken up In the House Thursday, under a special rule to Insure expedi tious consideration, despite solid Re publican opposition. FILIBUSTER WINS OUT (Continued From First Pare.) from Congress control of the public funds. "This bill," he said, "has been more misrepresented than any other measure that has come before the Senate during my services. There is not a single item in the bill that cannot be defended and that Is not a proper and just appropria tion of the public money." Prior to the introduction of the Bank head motion the Senate voted down, 39 to 11, a proposal by Senator Borah to strike the appropriation of $165,000 for the Trinity River in Texas out of Sena tor Burton's substitute for the bill. PRISONERS WELL TREATED Katinga (last reported at Calcutta September 3) was sighted and an armed crew placed aboard her. Two hours later the ICifltn was captured and an armed crew took possession of her. During the night three ether vea sels were sighted by the Emden. but not pursued. The crew placed aboard the Killin was later taken off and she also was sunk. POISON OAKT mi Use Santiseptlc Lotion. Instant relief. Druegists refund money if it fails. eOc Adv Men From Six Vessels, Five of Which Were Bunk by Emdtn, Arrive at Calcutta and Make Light or Captors' Marksmanship. CALCUTTA, Sept. 21. The crews of the six British steamers captured by the German cruiser Emden in the Bair of Bengal, five -of which were sunk after the men had been taken off. ar rived here this afternoon and spoke well of the treatment accorded them by the Germans, though they make light of the German shooting. George Read, second officer of the Indus, says his vessel was intercepted on the morning of September 10 by the Emden as she was coming up the bay. The Germans had intercepted all wireless dispatches reporting the move ment of vessls, and so knew the posi tion of all the vessls in the bay. The cruiser fired ten 6hots at the Indus, which, however, was not sunk until more than an hour after the attack be gan, the German marksmanship being poor. The next aftJrtioon the British ship Lovat was sighted by the Kmden and the same programme was followed in her case, the crew being transferred and the vessel sunk. 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