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t . ' . : " ' 1 ' THE MORNTXfl OTTEOOXTATV. SATTTT?nAV. nrrnnrn ? ion ins TWO OF FORTS OF PRZEFilYSL TAKEN Russian Headquarters Says It Has Silenced Several Aus trian Batteries. POSITION IS SURROUNDED s rjuuaM)' at iconic Announces Germans Have Suffered Crushing Defeat In Lodz and Suwalkl, j Kusslun Poland. LONDON, Oct. 3. Reuter's Rome cor respondent says news received in the . Italian capital from the Russian head quarters is to the effect that Przemysl, Galicia, has been attacked by the Rus sians on all sides. , Two of the forts. it is said, already have been taken and from these the Russians have been able to silence several Austrian batteries. A dispatch to the Central News from Rome says; - "The Russian Embassy here has Is sued a communication which announces that the Germans have suffered a ter rible defeat in the provinces of Lodz and Suwalki, Russian Roland. Cannon Left in (iuagmire. "The Germans., the communication says, were attacked with extreme vio lence and compelled to flee from SuT walki, Sostrowlec and ' other towns, leaving- behind them great quantities of transport and guns. Their troops threw away their rifles and baggage. Numerous cannon were abandoned in the quagmire." Other telegrams from Petrograd, the Central News correspondent at Rome says, assert that the Germans have lost 30,ono men in killed and wounded and iO.OOO taken prisoners. An official Petrograd dispatch says the Russians have been victorious at all points of contact. The Germans are declared to have retreated north from Ossowetz, and they were defeated in a hand-to-hand conflict south of Augut towo, and also northwest of the forest of Augustowo. Terrific battles are reported in prog ress over an extensive front from a point near Mariampol to a position south of St. Shutshin, and on the left bank of the River Niemen at Gretch. The Germans are said to be suffering- great losses in their attempts to concentrate troops from four directions on the southeast Polish frontier. (Germans Seek to Unite. The main German army which started from Posen is proceeding to Join the united German southern and Austrian armies at Cracow. A Nish, Servia, dispatch relayed from Paris says the Austrians have been stopped near the Drina, on the Bosnian frontier. They are awaiting reinforce ments from the north, and the Servians say they have defeated an attempt to reach their right flank on the .north, after bloody battles. The Servians and Montenegrins are reported advancing toward Sarajevo, after overcoming stubborn resistance. PARIS. Oct. 2 A dispatch to the Havas Agency from Petrograd gives the following official announcement: "A division of Russian cavalry has gained a brilliant success against the advance guard of Germans leaving An. drejew, government of Kielce, Russian Poland, in the direction of the City of Kielce. The enemy, surprised, threw down their arms and ammunition and lied, while the Russian cavalry cut up a laggard detachment "The German forces in Russian terri tory have nearly all failed, their artil lery being defenseless on the roads which are not macadamized. Most of the batteries become mixed as soon as they leave the principal routes." ESCAPING PRISONERS KILLED Russians Dash in Storm; Berlin Says Antwerp Churches Fortified. LONDON, Oct. 2. The following of ficial statement lias been received from Berlin by wireless: "Russian prisoners at Crossen, Prus sia, attempted to escape during a thun der storm. The sentries opened fire, however, and three Russians were killed, eight severely injured and sev eral slightly hurt. "It is reported from different sources tliat the Belgians already have placed machine guns in church towers of Ant werp. The siege of that city is mak ing progress. V The Germans have occupied Malines, and strict orders have been given not to bombard the town, so that the cathe dral may be spared. "It is officially announced from Vi enna that the attempt of the Servians to cross the River Save has resulted In a failure." JAPANESE RESPECT MISSION .Many Chinese Troops Are Gathered at AVel-Hseln. NEW YORK. Oct. 2. The Presbyte rian mission in Wei-Hsien, about 75 .miles northeast of Tsing-Tau, China, did not suffer from the operations re sulting in the occupation of that place by the Japanese recently. This was made known tonight by the following cable message from Shanghai, given out by the Presbyterian Board of For eign Missions: "Japanese occupy Wei-Hsien. Com munication by mail interrupted. Mis sion unmolested." The board gave out at the earns time a letter from the mission In Wei-Hsian, dated August 2S, describing the recent work o the mission's medical depart ment In the daily clinics, of which it is said 20.000 treatments were given last year, while there were S00 in patients. The letter adds: "As this letter goes to post our hearts nre full of the terrible tidlnss of war. Kvery inn and temple in Wei-Hsien City is crowded to the limit with Chi nese soldiers. Our nearness to Tsing Tau and the certainty of fighting there may -lose our schools and the college, but the medical work will be larger than ever." 54 SHIPS ARE REGISTERED Additions to American Merchant 31a rine Aggregate $15,000,000. WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. Fifty-four ships aggregating nearly a quarter of a million tons and worth approximate ly $15,000,000 have been added to the American merchant marine since the now ship registry law went into effect. Although the vessels previously tailed under British. German or Bel gian flags they were really American owned and had foreign registry only because they were foreign built. As sistant Secretary Sweet, of the Depart ment of Commerce, said today the question of prises was not involved In any of the transfers. SCENE IN BELGIUM'S LAST STRONGHOLD, WHICH GERMANS ARE NOW ASSAILING, AND MAP TTO TTtlTlTOT10 "OF -"wr .;-: n r f - r HA f i 4 ft The Kaiser and the Czar S7L-,"2 ". "SSsL., - I It 14 SlfiO ttY 44 w4 "i I o --ALLW00L)jr I) VviNEyS7 should admit that the peace movement is a step in the right direction. As 60011 as a concerted demand for it is made by men in all walks of life peace and plenty will be your portion. And even the most skeptical are now. "admitting that this concern, by its con certed actions, its concentration along high-grade tailoring line is delivering some unusually good Suits and Overcoats mada to measure on an economical basis at v2 Others $18.50 to $40 " 200 agents represent us in the -well-dressed com munities of the West. Men's Balmacaans for Ladies $15 to $25 : O J.LBOWMAN & CO. WHOLESALE TAILORS P0RTLAKD, OREGON. Third at Stark Ready for imme diate wear made during the quiet period Suits and Overcoats $15 1 94reat Light Way O GERMANS DROWNED ODT WATER PCHPED BY FRENCH INTO TRENCHES ABOVE RHEIM9. Photo by Bain Devi Service. View of Antwerp City Hall. Besldra Korta Shown In Slap, Entire Territory Beyond Outer Circle la Honeycombed lth Concealed Mines. IVIre Entanglements and Trous de Loop. Outer Forts Are Connected With Each Other by Intrearhments. With Emplacements for Artillery and Parapets for Infantry. Thus Fornlne a Continuous 1.1 nr. Inside Are Other Forts and on Ieft Bank of Scheldt a Powerful Bridge-Head Called "Fort de la Tete de Flandre." to Protect Brldse Across River. Lmr Force of Troops Can Take Refuse Within Outer Circle of Forts. City's Ramparts Are Eight Miles Lonir nnd Composed of Powerful Parapet, Surrounded by Deep Moat. Filled With Water. If Necessary Entire Country Can Be Flooded. FRENCH LINE HOLDS Germans Contiiiue Furious At tacks on Entrenchments. FIELD OF ACTION EXTENDS Berlin Account fSajs Germans Con tinue to Hammer Enemy's Posi tions at Yarlo"s Points With Heavy Artillery. Continued From First Page.) back. a. little toward the east and north of that city.--- "North ofji-Sorame we have made progress in "front of Albert. Between Roy e and Lassisny the enemy has di rected violent attacks, which have broken against our resistance. "Second Quiet prevails along the rest of the front. It 1s reported that in the neighborhood of St. Mihiel (de partment of Meuse, 20 miles southeast of Verdun) there remains no enemy on the left bank of the Meuse." Flghtlngr Terrific Near Roye. -The official statement issued earlier in the day said: "On our left wins the battle con tinues with terrific fighting, notably in the region of Roye, where the Ger mans appear to have concentrated im portant reinforcements. The action ex tends more and more toward the north. "The front of the battle line is now extended into the region of Arras. "On the Meuse the Germans at tempted at night to throw a bridge across the river near St. Mihiel. The bridge was destroyed by our guns. French Offensive Continues. "In the Woevre district our offensive continues and progresses step by step, notably in the region between Apre roont and St. Mihiel. "On the remainder of the front there have been attempted only partial op erations here and there.". - BERLIN, Oct. 2 (By wireless to Say ville, L. I.) According to announce ment made in Berlin today, the great battle in France is still undecided. The Germans are described as ham mering the French positions at numer ous points with their heavy artillery. The attempt of the allies to break through the German lines have been repulsed. The heaviest losses have been in the Argonne region. The Germans continue to make steady progress. In the fighting before Antwerp the German artillery has silenced two of the Belgian forts. German troops cap tured SO aeroplanes sent from France to Belgium. GERMAN AVARXS COIXTRVJIES Retirement to Belgian Frontier, but Final Victory Held Likely. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 2. (via London.) A dispatch from the German capital says that the Berliner Tagebltt prints a significant article by Its military correspondent. Major Moraht, who, while asserting confidence that there will be a fresh German advance on Paris, is careful to add: "But there is another possibility which must command the conscientious attention of calm observers.of the fluc tuating struggle. What would be gained by the allies it they force back our right wing to the Belgian frontier? Nothing but the passing success which would be the beginning of the end of the Franco-British presumption of vic tory." Major Moraht then explains that the farther the allies move from Verdun and Toul, which, he says, form their last great .strongholds, the longer is the distance they must travel back when the stream of German armies, broad and unhindered, flows westward from Lorraine. AIR SCOUTS PROLONG FIGHT Old Element of Surprise Lacking In Battle of Aisne. BORDEAUX, France, Oct. 2. The concentration of Germans in great strength at Roye, as mentioned in the War Office's statement issued today, is explained here by the ease with which the commanding generals discover the dispositions of the enemy through aero plane scouts. An important factor in winning battles is surprises. The avia tors in the present war have made this factor a negligible one. For this reason the battle of the Aisne is continuing for an unprece dented length of time. The public, not familiar with all the strategy? is in clined to be impatient of lighting with out an end, but those who know de clare themselves perfectly satisfied with the progress being made by the French armies. EMPEROR VISITS WOUNDED Physicians Fear Effect of Emotion of Francis Joseph. ROME, via Paris, Oct. 2. A story has reached Rome from Vienna describing a visit paid by Emperor Francis Jo seph to a local hospital, in the course of which His Majesty spoke to every body in the institution. The Emper or's doctors are now urging him to spare himself and not to visit the hos pitals filled with wounded, as they fear the effect of emotion on a man of such advanced years. It is declared that the Emperor was greatly fatigued after an inspection of the Red Cross hospital in a girls' school in Hegelgasse. He insisted on seeing each wounded man and ad dressing him in his mother tongue, German, Hungarian. Polish. Slav, Bo hemian or Italian, as the case might be. Furthermore, His Majesty insisted on speaking personally to every mem ber of the organization. I. W. W.'S ORDERED TO PAY Massachusetts Court Suspects Graft in Handling Relief Fund. BOSTON, Oct. 2. Industrial Work ers of the World leaders who handled the money contributed for the relief of the strikers during the industrial conflict in Lawrence in 1912 were or dered by Judge Hammond, of the Su preme Court, today to return $15,000 to the court within 10 days. Today's action is understood to be preliminary to the ordering of con tempt proceedings. The court ruled last March that the defendants had failed satisfactorily to account for the money which they received as trustees of the relief fund and ordered them to return $15,000. Britain to Issue Short Loan. LONDON, Oct. 2. Tenders will be re ceived by the Bank of England next Wednesday for treasury bills to the amount of 15,000.000 pounds sterling ($75,000,000) in amounts of 1000 pounds sterling. 5000 pounds and 10,000 pounds. The bills will be dated October 10 and wijl be payable in six months. French Bar Surfers Heavily. PARIS, Oct. 2. The French bar has suffered the fortunes of war. In open ing the sessions of courts today the public prosecutor. Jules Herbaux, an nounced that three judges of the Paris bench had been killed, while a list of dead issued by the war office contained the names of many lawyers. COLONY PUZZLE BIG What Will England ' Do With German Lands Taken? . MISTAKES ARE PROFITABLE In Letter to London Papers A. Wyatt Tilby Decries Anti-Expansionists Germans Fail to Grasp Opportunities in Possessions. LONDON, Sept. 18. What will Eng land do with the German colonies if she captures them? Does England want more possessions? Could England ad minister German African colonies more successfully than Germany has? These questions liave been propound ed and answered in the English press since the war extended from Europe to Africa and the South Seas. Some writers have stated the German colo nies practically are worthless and take the position that Great Britain needs no more territory, especially such as semi-arid German Southwest Africa. As the missing link in the Cape-to Cairo Railway, German East Africa seems to be regarded more favorably even by the most rabid of English anti-expansionists. Because of its great strategic value Samoa is looked upon as territory worth having, but the Kameruns and the German Congo are in less favor. Aati-Expanslonlats Are Decried. In a letter to one of the London pa pers A. Wyatt Tilby decries the anti expansionists, and likens them to Amer icans living on the Atlantic seaboard who laughed at far-seeing men who moved west of the Alleghenies and claimed the great American granary, which was then regarded as a hopeless wilderness. With the prospect that 1.000,000 Eng lishmen will be under - arms In the present contest, Mr. Tilby says: "After the war, too, we shall have numbers of men trained to arms to whom the civilian life the are aban doning no longer offers attractions. Many a Canadian and South African city or township owes its origin to such disbanded legionaries: and, after the present war thousands of those who are now raw recruits being taught their first drill will take their chance of a scheme of. settlement in the an nexed colonies if they are given. an opportunity. Mistakes Prove Profitable. Commenting on reports showing that Germany has not done well with its African colonies, Mr. Tilby says the failure of Germany to get sufficient colonists into Africa to make the de velopment of its extensive territory possible is not unlike the first ex perience England had with Nigeria. He believes .England would never have succeeded as a colonizer if it had not profited by its early mistakes and he does not regard Germany s failures in Africa as a safe basis for the condem nation of the resources of German colo nies in Africa. Germany's rapid industrial aeveloo ment and the absorption of the surplus population of all sections of the new industries checked emigration to such an extent that Mr. Tilby holds Ger many really had little need for an im mediate outlet for her people. Conse quently they failed to avail themselves of opportunities which awaited them in German colonies, opportunities which Mr. Tilby believes Englishman would be glad to grasp. Wounded Found Lylna; In Filth In Mini ature Porta When Troops Retire. Chalons, Evacuated, Rejoices. LONDON. Oct. 2. The correspondent of the Times, writing from Chalons, France, under date of Monday, says: "The Germans are gone and Chalons is rejoicing In the good news. The latest reports seem to indicate a gen eral retirement from the strong line of defense which the Germans concen trated to the north of Rheims and to. the east and west. n. -."Their trenches on this line are won derful works of art. Dug to a depth of six feet, they are covered and pro tected In many cases with layers of reinforced concrete. This work was executed by the forced labor of the in habitants to form a defensive position tn case of need while the troops were still fighting on the Marne. "Up to this line the French worked their way foot by foot until in places their front was not' 100 yards from the German trenches. The condition of these undrained trenches when exam ined will be found to be terrible. The wounded, as well as the dead, lie where they fell amid wet and filth. The French in the advanced trenches could hear cries at night when the firing paused coming across the narrow belt over which the two armies fought. "In some of the trenches on the heights above Rheims the French' had to drown the Germans out. Lines of hose were laid from the town and the fire pump worked until the water stooS breast high. "Chalons suffered little from the German occupation." birth, and those who held what are known as residence privileges, to leave the city within 24 hours. The order was attended by wholesale arrests of naturalized German business men. who were told that their property would be confiscated, along with that of German subjects, because of the fines levied by the Germans on the various Bel gian cities which they had occupied." DELEGATES EN ROUTE HOME W. C. T. tT. Workers Expected From The Dalles Convention Today. Portland and Willamette Valley dele gates to the state convention of the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance Union will return to Portland this morning in two special oars attached to tho train arriving at the Union De pot at 11:40 A. M. The convention, held st The Dalles. ended last night. Plans were made for the work for the Oregon dry fight, in which the organization has taken a marked interest. In addition to the state officers, all of whom will travel to Portland. Mrs. Cornelia Templeton Kitcher, president of the Alaska W. C T. U.. and Mrs. Mary Harris Armour, of Atlanta, Ga.. will be on tho train. Italy May Stop Cablegrams. NEW YORK, Oct. 2. The Commer cial Cable Company announces today that the Italian government, referring to the articles of the international con vention which empower a state under certain circumstances to stop the trans mission of telegrams, had given notice that it reserved the right to stop any cablegrams without notice. No claims on account of such stoppage will be considered. The atmosphere of Paris is said to have rd(i!h tiny. GERMAN NAME MENACES EVEV BELGIA.V-BOR.V CITIZENS SUBJECTED TO ABUSE. Intense Feeling Against Foe Now Ex pended to Residents of Long Stand ing, Says Refugee. ROTTERDAM, Sept. 17. (Correspondence- of the Associated Press.) Antwerp has been made decidedly un comfortable for those who cannot es tablish a Belgian nativity beyond dis pute, if one may believe the story of a refugee, who, with his family, ar rived here today from the temporary capital of Belgium. The abuse that was centered on Ger man residents when a German army invaded the country was later extended to Germans who had been naturalized and even to natives with German names, according to this man. "On September 5." he said, "some 300 Belgians with German names, who had volunteered for service in the army, were disarmed and placed in detention at Bruges, where they are treated as prisoners of war, although they were born in Belgium and some of them have taken the fire of Germans on three or four occasions. ' "The military government on Sep tember 7 put in effect an order re quiring all residents having German names, naturalized Belg-ianw of German If all the water power in the United States were developed electrically it would save the handling ot 2&0,O00,VOO tons of coul a year. Manning's 35c Coff ee Manning's Coffee Store Jones' Market Fourth and Alder IT IS THE TASTE, THE FLJiVOH OF E Cocoa aker s That Makes It Deservedly Popular An absolutely pure, delicious and whole some food beverage, produced by" a scien tific blending of nigh-grade cocoa beans, subjected to a perfect mechanical process of manu- Registered V- 8. Patent Office TaCtUre. 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