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1 M Tira MORxryg oREGOXTAy. Thursday, October i, 1914. 3 BELGIUM LIBELED, DECLARES BRITON Under Secretary Replies to Herr von Jagow's Charge Resistance Was Inspired. AGADIR AFFAIR RECALLED Incident Declared to Show That Lit tle Nation Was Prepared to De fend Honor Without Guid ance of Anyone. LONDON. Sept 30. In an interview granted to the correspondent of a Copenhagen paper, Francis Dyke Ac land, parliamentary under-aecretary for Foreign Affairs, denies certain Btatements made by the German Secre tary of State, Herr von Jagow, in an interview recently issued at Berlin "that England has provoked poor Bel gium to make resistance." "This leaves it to be inferred," says Mr. Acland, "that Belgium, if unpro voked, would really have allowed her self to be trampled on. It might have been thought that the nature of the re sistance offered by Belgium would be enough to prevent such a libel on a gallant foe. UelKlum Compela Respect. "An official statement Issued this week by the Belgium Government con clusively proves that no provocation from England or anybody else was needed to make Belgium maintain her rights. The Belgian Government at the time of the Agadir crisis did not hesitate to warn the foreign Ambassa dors in terms which could not be mis understood of its intention to compel respect for the neutrality of Belgium by every means at its disposal." The under-secretary calls attention to Herr von Jagow's statement that Germany did not violate Belgium's neu trality until the night of August 3-4 Germany Asked to Asm. "On August 2, he says. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs, promised the French Ambassador the full support of the English fleet if the German fleet attacked the . French Coast. "The German Minister," comments Mr. Acland, "suppresses the facts that already, on July 31, Sir Edward Grey had asked the French and German governments if they were prepared to asree to respect the neutrality of Bel gium; that France immediately gave the required agreement, that Herr von Jagow said he could not answer ami that the answer ultimately received was 'no.' " DUM DUM USE DOUBTED NOTED HUNTER SAYS STEEL-JACKETED BULLETS ARE TO BLAME. F. C. Selous Cites His Ovrn Experience and That of Roosevelt to Explain Rassed Wounds In Warfare. (Correspondence ot the Associated Press.) LOXDOX, Sept 19. F. C. Selous, the big-game hunter, is inclined to scout the charges made by the warring Euro pean powers that each is using the dum-dum bullet Ragged wounds that have been inflicted he believes were by .the steel-jacketed bullets turning eidewise. To support this theory he citos some of his experiences in shoot ing big game and relates instances-as told to him by Colonel Roosevelt "I think in all probability both the Allies and their antagonists," said Mr. Selous, "have been innocent of the charges made against them in this re spect, and that the serious ragged wounds supposed to have been caused by bullets which have been purposely tampered with, have more likely been due to the fact, which I believe is not generally known, that the new pointed bullet itself a German Invention now for the first 'time being employed in warfare in Western Europe, inflicts at short ranges more grievous wounds than any form of soft-nosed expand ing bullets. , "In 1910, on his Journey through British East Africa and. the Sudan, Mr. Roosevelt used for all game, ex cept the very heaviest, an American Springfield rifle of .280 bore, tak ing the American military cartrid- APPOISTMEXT PLEASES POLK COUXTY REPUBLICANS. t t f ..TV v c tit;,., v i j i -S Mrs. Ella G. Metzger, of Dallas. DALLAS, Or., Sept 30. (Spe cial.) Dallas and Polk County Republicans feel proud of the fact that a Dallas woman has been selected as one of the two members outside of the Cits of Portland upon the woman's auxiliary to the Republican state central committee. Mrs. Ella G. Metzger, of Dallas, the appointee, is one of the leaders among the women in this city and county. She has at all times taken an ac tive interest in public affairs and in politics and has been identi fied actively with the Woman's Club. ges, with the solid nickle-covered, point bullet known in iGermany as the "spitzkugel." These solid, point ed military bullets, Mr. Roosevelt told me, although they never broke up on striking the animal, inflicted more ser ious wounds than any kind of expand ing bullets he had ever previously used for big game shooting. "It would certainly seem that these pointed bullets turn sideways on strik ing an animal, for although the hole of entry is always small, round and clean-cut the skin is often torn open where they pass out on the other side. "I cannot help thinking, from my own experiences in big game shooting. that accusations that dum-dums are used will always ' be made on one side and the other in all future wars, whenever the shooting is at fairly close quarters, as long as pointed bul lets aie used." Station K Contract Stands. WASHINGTON, Sept 30 The Post- office Department has refused to re open the case of Substation E, Port land postoffice. Postmaster Myers re quested that the contract . with the owners for the new station be an nulled, but the department refused. From France comes a new perpetual calendar by which can be determined without calculation the week day on which any date has fallen or will fall. TRAGIC TALES TOLD British Make Extracts From German War Chronicles.- MEN OF VILLAGE SLAIN Artillery Officer Quoted as Describ ing Vengeance on "Stupid Peas ants" Who Shoot Troops From Lurking Places. LONDON, SeDt 30. German tales of tragic episodes of the war were issued by the Official Press Bureau tonight The stories were taken from a book called "Kriegs Chronik," which was seized from aliens entering English ports. The volume consists, according to the bureau, "partly of a highly un trustworthy chronicle of the war, and partly of soldiers' letters from the front." "As showing the methods, of thought of the enemy, these last have consid erable value," continues the bureau. "It is not the truth or falsity of the tales that matters, but the applause and self-congratulations of the writers on deedaof gross treachery and cruelty said to have been done by themselves or comrades." Belgian Villagers Exterminated. The narrative of an artillery officer on the extermination of a Belgian vil lage, as given out by the bureau, fol lows: "The countryside was full of our troops. Nevertheless the stupid peas ants must need shoot at our men as they marched by from lurking places. Day before yesterday morning the Prussian troops surrounded a village, put the women, children and old peo ple aside and shot all the men. The village was then burned to the ground." The story of the shooting of a boy scout is given as follows: "A traitor has just been shot He was a little French lad belonging to one of the gymnastic societies which wear the tri-colored ribbons, a poor young fellow who, in his infatuation, wanted to be a hero. Boy Faces Death Bravely. "As the German column was passing along a wooded defile he was caught and asked whether the French were about He refused to give any in formation. Fifty yards further there was fire from the cover of the wood. The prisoner was asked in French if he bad known that the enemy was in the forest and he did not deny it "He. went with a firm step to a tele graph pole and stood against it, with a green vineyard at his back, and re ceived the volley of a firing party with a proud smile on his face. Infat uated wretch. It was a pity to see such courage." TEACHERS DROP EARRINGS Ridiculing of Baubles by Eugene . Superintendent Like Ban. EUGENE, Or., Sept 30. (Special.) Eugene school teachers are discarding earrings. Disapproval of earrings by C. L Collins, Superintendent of Schools, has been announced, and, although no or der against the wearing of earrings has been issued, the effect has been similar. "The war has put Paris out of. com mission as the world's fashion center, but we seem to have taken to import ing from Zululand," says the Teachers' Bulletin, issued by the Superintendent of Schools. "The hideous, barbarous, disfiguring ear baubles of the most savage races are all the rage. May the Lord deliver us from noserings and tattooings." rpHE men who make Stein Bloch clothes may or may not have a college degree, but they're Masters of Art in the fash ioning of gentlemen's apparel. Buy Stein-Bloch clothes for style, for fabric and, above all, for thorough workmanship. $20 to $40 I'-rjfcK-i. l .-'.V-i'3 V Ben Selling- cfoS Morrison Street at Fourth DON'T MISS THIS!! "A Modern Rip Van Winkle" Better Than the Original A IVoBdt-rfut Two-Reel VbnallM tioB of Every Human Emo tloa by mm .All-star Cm-t. AT THE WASHINGTON STREET AND BROADWAY TURKS IN GREW MUTINY WAR RUMOR MAKES TROUBLE FOR BRITISH SHIPMASTER. Remarriage is more widows than widowers. frequent among Attempt Made to Murder Captain and His Family Penalty Is Death Under British Lin, NEW YORK, Sept. 30. A tale of mu tiny on the high seas by Turks who had heard that Turkey had declared war on Great jBritain was told in the Tombs Court today by Captain Stew art, of the British tramp steamer Isle of Mull, which arrived yesterday. This vessel left South American ports about three weeks ago. A stop was made at Barbadoes and there the Turks in the crew received news that their country was warring on England. They refused to work after the ship got under way again, according to Cap tain Stewart, and held whispered con sultations in the forecastle. One night the master frustrated an attempt to murder himself and his family and seize the ship, he said. He locked his wife and children in the cabin and made for the nearest port, Charleston, S. C. There the immigration authori ties would not let him land the bellig erents. Captain Stewart testified, so he placed the ringleaders in chains under guard of a Charleston police detective, who accompanied the ship to this port. As the mutiny alleged was not com mitted within the three-mile neutrality limit, the Turks arraigned today were ordered kept in a court prison until the case should be brought to the at tention of the British Consul-General here. Captain Stewart said he would ask the Consul-General to have the Turks transferred- to one of the British cruisers off this harbor for trial on a charge of mutiny. The penalty for conviction of mutiny under the British naval law is death. Union Fair Stock to Be Transferred. LA GRANDE, Or., Sept. 30. (Special.) In order to clear the way for the taking over of the Union County fair by the county, JS0 shares of fair stock, representing a value of $7500. will be surrendered by the fair backers, who have signed an agreement to that ef fect. A petition to place a question. providing for an extra tax for county support of the fair on the ballot has been liberally signed and promises to carry by a big majority at the coming election. SUNDAY SCHOOLS GATHER Hayesvillo District Convention Is Held at Church Xear Brooks. BROOKS, Or., Sept. 30. (Special.) The Hayesville district Sunday schools, numbering 21. met in convention Sun day at Pioneer Church, near Brooks. About 400 persons were present. Ad dresses were made by State Sunday bcnool superintendent Phips, Dr. H. C. Eppley, Rev. Mr. Summerlin. Rev. Mr. Jasper, Luther D. Cook. Lloyd Holdi man and Gustav Anderson. The banner for the largest attend ance was given to Waconda. Brooks was selected for the next quarterly convention. Vale Prisoner Kills Self in Jail. ONTARIO, Or., Sept. 30. (Special.) E. S. Pak, a Corean, bound over Mon day on a charge of horse-stealing. A Mre A "Features a "FATTY AGAIN A Keystone Comedy Tor Grosrhr People Kstlj" Is Tkat l'buaar, Paat Phellar. TEE HARVEST OF REGRETS' A Slnnrle-Reel Problem Play. PATHE DAILY "All the War Pictures and Xeira That's Fit to Show." MATT DENNIS Incomparable Baritone Two New Songs. 3Days Only 3 Today Friday and Saturday. 1 0c-Always-1 0c IK MOTIOX-PICTVRES TTl'RT VOI R KYKS CflMB TO THIS SI' Si SET THEATER. "There's a Reason" committed suicide in a Jail cell at Vale last night by strangling himself with a small cord. The man was evidently a drug fiend. Kittitas Teachers in Session. ELLENS BURG, Wash.. Sept. SO. (Special.) The annual session of the Kittitas County Teachers' Institute opened here today. The sessions will close Friday, the last day being known as peace day. Those on the programme are: Dr. G. "W. Nash, of Bellingham; C. A. Sprague, Assistant State Superintend ent; F. J. Dollinger, of Seattle; Mrs. C. C. Thomas: E. J. Klemme, J. H. Morgan, Miss Mae Picken and. E. K. Kooken, all of Ellensburg. Entire Stock Pallay's Haberdashery, One of Portland's Highest-Class and Most Exclusive Stores Must Go Now! . 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