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Jitwiiiiig: VOL. L.IV. NO. 16,8CK. PORTLAND. OREGON. TffESDAY, OCTOBER C, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VIGOROUS MOVE BY ALLIES' LEFT II E Advance Forces Hurled Back by Germans. BELGIAN FRONTIER IS GOAL Rapidity of French Movements Remarkable. TEUTON AVIATORS BIG AID Solicitations Sent Over Victory by Czar's Army at Angustowo-No One Can Claim "the Result" Yet, Says Battle Expert. " FROM THE BATTLE FRONT (via Paris), Oct. 6, 11:36 P. M. The allied armies, after having permitted their adversaries, as they thought, to ex haust themselves by continued attacks, today took a most vigorous offensive. The British ana French encountered such a strong- resistance, however, that their most advanced detachments on the western wing were compelled to fall back. - Only at this part of the long battle line did the opposing troops actually come into close contact. Many picturesque - villages, around which hundreds of thousands of men occupy positions, have suffered severe ly In the recent fighting and probably will suffer still more before the strug gle for supremacy Js over. Mattlegrround la Flat. The country where the chief fighting is going on is flat and under cultiva tion. In many places It is boggy 'and there are scattered coal mine. The allied armies continually are e tendlng toward the north and bending eastward toward the Belgian frontier, thus compelling the Germans, In order to prevent the crumbling up of their main army, to move large forces from the center and so keep pace with the allies, whose position menaces the in vaders along the whole line. The allies' plan, it is thought, may compel the Germans to release the pressure' on tbe Belgians. The lapidity with which the French change positions is considered remark able. Two entire divisions of Infantry marched nearly 30 miles Saturday and 18 Sunday. The Germans, however, by means of their aviators, who are con tinually flitting over the lines despite numerous casualties, discovered the movements and brought up reinforce ments to meet them. As- the Germans occupy the inside of the circle they are able to reach an, appointed spot with much shorter marches. Aviators Brg Assistance. It was this that enabled them to fore" the advanced guards of the allies to cede a small amount of ground until further assistance came. At one point on the allies' front a French regiment, after three days In the trenches, on being ordered to the rear for a rest, sent a petition through their Colonel to the commanding Gen eral asking permission to remain until the German position facing them was iaKen. NIGHTLY ATTACKS REPULSED French -Military Critic Says End of Conflict Distant. PARIS, Oct. 5, 11:15 P. M. The fol lowing official communication "was is sued by the French War Office tonight: "In the region of the Argonne and on the heights of the Meuso we have re pulsed night and day attacks. Victory Is Announced. ."Grand Duke Nicholas has addressed to the ministry of war, to be trans mitted to GeneTal Joffre, a telegram announcing the victory of Augustowo. '"General Joffre has sent, in his name and in the name of the French army, his warmest congratulations to the ccmmander-in-chlef of the friendly and allied army on the battle won. which is a guarantee of future successes. "On our left wing, to the north of the Oise, the battle continues with treat violence. The result remains in decisive. We have been obliged at cer tain points to yield grouud." French Are Confident. "While the French realize that the battle has not yet been won, it does not seem to many of them that.it can now be lost. If the allies win, no doubt is felt that they will pay for it. the sac'rl fici on both sides already being great. The tone of the official communications has furnished the best reasons for the hope on the part of the French, al though announcement of the visit of President Polncare to the front was an additional factor for the confidence and optimism felt in regard to the intense struggle. His action is gene-ally com mented on as indicating that success Is at hand. End May Be Distant.. Despite the hope of the rench. the military critic. Lieutenant-Colonel r. .usset. declares the battlo can still last for some time, pointing out that j modern encounters last now as iong as certain conditions formerly did. In 1S59 the situation was settled in two I months, which in 1S70 it took 13 weeks, the fighting after Sedan and Metz be ing merely a contest for honor. In the furious fighting now going en, Lieutenant-Colonel Rousset says. Concluded on Fas 2.J AD BULLETINS ROME, via Paris, Oct. j -Lieutenant TaiuwDl, Under Secretary of State far War, has resigned, owing" to a din agreement with General Grand I, the War Minister. LOWDOlt, Oct. 5. A Petregrad dis patch to the Telegraph, dated Satar day night, says that nothing is ascer tainable there of the reported battle at Cracow. News haa been received at Petrograd, says the dispatch, that Archduke Frederick haa been replaced as eommander-ln-ehlef of the Austrian army bjr the heir presumptive to the Austrian throne, Prlnee Charles Francis. LONDON, Oct. 5. A dispatch from Petrograd to the Central News states that n member of the Russian Duma, who has just returned from Gallcla, declares that the Russians captured the heights between four, and five miles from Prsemysl and that the Aus trian have several times vainly at tempted to retake them. LONDON, Oct. 5. Telegraphing from Ostend, the Exchange Telegraph cor respondent sayst "The steamer Ard- mount, loaded with grain, which left Dover at 6)30 o'clock this morning for Zebruge, Holland, struck a mine. Her crew of 35 were saved."9 The 'steamer, a vessel of 3510 tons, commanded by Captain Ronald, sailed from Galveston September 8. The Ardmount was owned by the Ashmonnt Steamship Company, Glasgow. ROME, via Paris, Oct, 5. The French fleet in the Adriatic la again bombard ing the Austrian port of Cattaro, a cording to the Corrlere d'ltalla. LONDON, Oct. 5. Letters received la Iondon by commercial firms with in terests in the Belgian Congo report that French and German traders have clashed at a number of places, with some fatalities. The Belgian govern ment, the letters add, haa placed guns on the boats on the Congo in order to resist German attacks. FIGHTERS' NEEDS ARE FIRST British Woolen Factories Must Sell Entire Output to Government. LONDON. Oct. 5. According to the Yorkshire Post, the War Office Is taking drastic measures to obtain an adequate supply of hosiery, under clothes, gloves and other woolen goods for the Army and Navy. All the manufacturers in Leicester, the chief center of the woolen In dustry, have been informed that their entire product of heavy goods must be placed, at the disposal of the War Office, and that if a single garment is withheld by a manufacturer or is supplied to any firm whatever, the War Office will at once take over tbe factory and run it. giving the firm a. fair percentage of the' profits. : AMERICAN HOSPITAL BEST "Women's War Relief Ftind Institu tion Held Efficient in Britain. Correspondence of Associated Press. LONDON, Sept. 25. The Red Cross hospital of 200 beds, established by the American women's war relief fund, near Torquay, is the best equipped and best arranged war hospital in Great Britain, according; to Sir Frederick Treves, the distinguished surgeon. This organization, which has for officers Laay Paget. Mrs. John Astor and other well-known Anglo-Americans, has also appropriated $25,000 for motor ambulances to be used in con veying the wounded from the ships to the various hospitals. Funds have been -collected suffi cient to maintain the hospital for one year. "GENERAL" KELLEY FREE Ex-Leader of Army of Unemployed Converted Whllo in Jail. SACRAMENTO, Oct. 5. "General" Charles T. Kelley, who started to lead an army of 1500 unemployed men to Washington last Spring, and whose fol lowers were dispersed in Sacramento by police officials and a fire hose, was released from the county jail yesterday after completing a six months' sen tence for vagrancy. Kelley was arrested just before . his army was put to rout by the police. He says , he became a Christian while in jail. ALLIES SEEK AID, CHARGED Germans Accuse British of Trying to Influence Scandinavians. ROME, via London, Oct. 5. The Ger man press, according to communica tions received here, thinks Great Brit ain is using pressure to induce the Scandinavian countries. particularly Denmark, to abandon their neutrality and participate in the war against Ger many. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung of Ber lin says it is rumored that many hos tile ships have bsen seen in the Skag errak and the Cattegat, and added: "If these ships are British It shows an- intention to make a threatening demonstration against the Scandinavian states, particularly Denmark." 500,000 SWEATERS NEED Great Britain to - Buy American Product Used In Army. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 5. Agents of the British government, it was reported here today, are securing bids from local knit-goods manufacturers for 508,000 sweaters similar to those recently fur nished the United States Army. Yarn dealers have been asked to quote figures for the necessary yarns. Prominent Maritime Man Dies. S.iN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5. A. G. D. Kerrell, for many years general pas senger agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and one of the best known maritime men on the Coast, died at a hospital here yesterday after a long illness. He was 48 years old. ANTWERP'S DEFENSE PIERCED, SAY FOES v. - Attack on City Now De clared Possible RUSSIAN REPULSE ASSERTED Portuguese Troops Expected to Join Allies. PRIEST KILLING IS DENIED Russia Issues Securities or $3 75, 000,000 and Berlin Specie Is $10,000,000 GreaterBelgium Says Conditions Unchanged." BERLIN, Oct. 5, by wireless to Say vllle. An official report from the Ger man .army headquarters says that in the siege of Antwerp the forts- of Llerre. Waelhem. and Konigshoyckt and the intermediate redoubts, with So guns, have been taken. "Thus a breach has been made In the outer circle of forts," the report adds, "rendering an attack on' the inner cir cle of forts and the town itself possi ble." Russian Defeat Asserted. "Near Augustowo, the Third Siberi an and parts of the Twenty-second Russian army corps, composing, the left wing of the Russian army, on crossing the Nieman River, were defeated after a furious battle lasting two days. More than 2000 unwounded Russians were made prisoners and a large quantity of machine guns were captured." Other press matter given out In offi cial quarters says 'The force of native troops from British India, recently landed at Mar seilles, has left that port for the northward. "British ships have arrived at Lisbon and probably are destined to transport Portuguese ..troops. ' Portugal's co operation In the war Is Imminent, the mobilizatfon of the Portuguese forces. It Is believed, having been ordered on the demand of the British government." Holland Ports Strengthened. "The Roumanian Crown Prince has been strongly rebuked for his Russo phile agitations. The leaders of the Roumanian parties have declared them selves in favor of continuing the neu tral policy of the Roumanian govern ment. "A manifesto issued by the Rou manian Socialist party assumes that the neutrality of the country will be preserved, condemns the Russophile propaganda in certain newspapers and (Concluded on Page 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. - YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, . 63.5 degrees; minimum temperature, 52.5 - degrees. TODAY'S Probably fair; variable winds, becoming- southerly. War. Germans threaten to blow up bridges If Japs do not confine march tu Kiau-Chau territory. Pars 1. Germans' retreat before Russians . turned Into rout with all arms abandoned. Page 1. Allies' western wing beaten back by Ger mans. Page 1. Germans say forts at Antwerp are. being taken. Page L Czar takes field and Kaiser appeals to troops. Pago 2. German Ambassador confers with Bryan on arbitration treaties. Page 3. Relief of Americans In Turkey vital prob , lem now. Page. 2. Mexico. Another American shot at Naco by Mex icans and protection is asked. Page 6. Rational. Democrats In Congress to caucus today to try to agree on legislation. Page 5. Domestic. Coos .Bay-Rosebursr land litigation case'jost by 113 plaintiffs. Page 6. McAdoo's "dabbling" In New Pork polities causes trouble in Democratic Administra tion's plans. Page 0. b Port a. Portland team has hard row to hoe. begin ning with Venice series. Page 12. Duckhunters hare successful day on down river places. Page 12. . Pacific Northwest. Roseburg votes for l..00,00ft bond Issue to build railroad to Coos Bay. Page 7. Commercial sad Marine. Over 1500 bales of Oregon and Washing ton ' bops are sold. Page 17. Diouth damage in Australia cause of higher wheat market at Chicago. Page 17. Active trading In livestock at North' Port land yards. Page 17. - Captain Benders-"!- of A. M. Simpson, to be tried at Marshfleld Monday. Page It. Portland and Vicinity. Votes for recall candidate to be void unless majority favors recall. Page In. Mr. Booth will confine efforts principally io Aiuitnoman bounty until election. Page 11. J. M. Shelly tells why lie refuses to sup port Senator Chamberlain. Page 11. Economy budget may result In lowest tax of years. Page 17. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. PRAYER GIVEN FOR AUSTRIA Koman Catholics Beseecli Virgin of Rosary to Intercede. ROME, Oct. 5. (Special.) The feast of the Virgin of the Rosary, which was established to commemorate the battle of Lepanto, was celebrated with the greatest devotion in all Roman Catholic churches here today. There were num erous processions and prayers to the Virgin were recited, invoking her in tercession for an Austrian victory. Some of the .prayers were those re cited before the naval battle of Lepanto, which took place on October 7, 1571. In that battle ships of the Holy League, which were furnished by tha states of the Mediterranean, which had become alarmed over aggressions of the Turks, badly defeated the Turkish squadrons and dealt a blow to the naval power of Turkey from which It never recovered. STORK TO VISIT ROYALTY Accouchement of Italian Queen Ex pected In January. - ROME, via Paris. Oct. 6. Official an nouncement is made here that the. ac couchement of Queen Helena " is expected next January. .. - .. - The King and Queen already have four children one boy and three girls. IN THE WAY. JAPANESE WARNED - TO STAY INSIDE LINE Germans Threaten to Blow Up Bridcrfv AIM IS TO STOP MARCH WEST Neutral Republic, However, Not to Oppose Invaders. PROMISE MADE CHINESE Mikado's Jlen Say Only Few Troops Will Hold Railroad and That Em plojes May Stay Cavalry "' Now at Tsing-Cliow. . ' PEKIN, Oct. . S. The Japanese cavalry, the Japanese advance guard of the troops that are occupying the German-owned railway connecting the German leased possession of Kiau- Chau with Tsl-Nan in the west of Shan-Tung, has reached Tsing-Chow, 35 miles west of Wei-Hsien. - The Japanese Legation has promised the Chinese Foreign Office that Japa nese would occupy1 the railway with the fewest troops possible, who would remain close to the line, and that civilian railroad men would be brought from Japan to displace the soldiers- as soon as possible.- Further, all the Chi ness railroad employes would be con tinued in the service. ticrnan Opposition CoHtlnnes The .Chinese government, however, will continue its diplomatic efforts to cause the Japanese to withdraw to the vicinity of Kiau-Chau.. The Germans threaten to dynamite all the bridges and burn all the stations on the line if the Japanese continue their march westward. A correspondent at Taimo, north of Tsing-Tau, who was compelled to leave that town because of illness on September. 26, has arrived here. lie reports that he saw no siege guns in the neighborhood of Tsing-Tau. The Japanese tre - proceeding leisurely, , he says, which supports the general understanding here that they are not ready to attack the formidable Una of the German defenses. - Chinese Accept Situation. Although the Chinese authorities continue- to hope that the Japanese will permit them a measure of control over the Shan-Tung Railroad, they have Informed the Japanese that they will not 1 oppose the military occupa tion of the line: This Is the railroad which runs from Tsing-Tau westerly (Concluded on Page 2.) Monday's War Moves VI with troops from the German cen ter, continues to make a determined stand against the attempt of the allies to outflank him. 1 The French, who yesterday officially reported that all German attacks In this region had been repulsed and that all J e allies had resumed the offensive, nouueed today that the battle to the north of tha Oise. which commenced seriously about September 25. continues with great violence with no decisive result, and that at certain points the French troops have had to yield ground. . The Germans In their report issued last night say the battle Is proceeding successfully for them. Both in London and in Paris there is tha greatest confidence, although some surprise is displayed at the sac cess of the Germans in preventing the outflanking movement. There Is a feel ing, however, that the Germans cannot extend their lines much farther north without weakening them at some point. Along the rest of the line, the French communication says, there has been no change. Therefore, the progress in the regions of Solssons and Woevre, re ported Saturday night, either has satis fied them for the moment, or .they have been checked by the Germans. Of the fighting here, as on their right, the Germans report It Is pro gressing favorably for the German arms. - Progress by either side must be ex tremely slow.- for after every advance, no matter how slight, the. troops mak ing it must entrench themselves for protection against the shells from the enemy's guns posted in strong positions J irom one ena oi ine line to me oiner. The defeat of the German army which invaded Russia from East Prussia ap pears, from Russian accounts, to have been even more decisive than previously stated. . According to the Russian Ambassador at Rome the Germans were completely routed with a loss of 70,000 men, and have been forced to abandon everything. The Russians are now moving for ward with the object again of Invading East Prussia. The victory, if it Is as complete as reported, is of the greatest' importance to the Russians, as it will prevent the Germans from undertaking land and sea operations, which would have compelled Russia to turn at least a part of its attention In this direction. General Rennenkampf apparently drove a wedge between the two Ger man forces which were advanced upon Druskeniki and Ossowetz and broaght about the battle of Augustowo, which resulted in a Russian victory. If the Germans have not retired already from the left bank of the Niemen Klver at Druskeniki their defeat at Augustowo must compel .them to do so. The moral effect of another Invasion of East Prus sia also will be of importance. No news has been received today fro.n the Silesian and Gallctan battle fields, and probably the main armies hare not come together there. A big battle cannot be delayed much longer, however, as on their Silesian frontier both armies are moving forward and will meet in Russian Poland. Before the Russian advarfce In Gar lieia the peasants are fleeing the coun try, and it is reported that 20,000 of them have reached Bohemia : The sanitary department of Vienna reports that four cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred among the troops returning from Gallcla, but that all have been isolated. Fighting continues also In the Near Bast, and the Anglo-French fleet has succeeded in destroying Lustlca, an outer defense of the Austrian seaport of Cattaro. While the Servians and Montenegrins are. attacking the outer fortifications of Sarajevo,' Belgrade, which so often has been under tire, has not been bom barded for several days, probably as a result of the reoccupation of Semlin by the Servians. ' Skirmishes have occurred . on . the Anglo-German frontier in Last Africa as the result of German raids into British territory for the purpose of cut ting the Uganda railway. All these raids, according to the British official report, have been repulsed.-. While the routine life in England is not seriously upset by The war, the regulations sin many respects are be coming more stringent. An ffc stance of this Is to be found in the action of the authorities, who, in order to keep the army provided with warm clothing, have commandeered large quantities of woolens In Leicester, a step which is likely to be followed elsewhere. As yet the situation surrounding the forts at Antwerp which are under bombardment by the Germans has not been definitely cleared up. The Ger mans still claim they have captured several. of the outer fortifications, while the Belgians declare the. defences re main intact. . A. report from Berlin that British ships have arrived at Lisbon, and that Portugal's co-operation with the allies in the war is Imminent, brought forth a statement' from the Portuguese Min ister at Washington that his country was prepared to take such a step whenever Great Britain should - call upon her to do so, under the treaty of mutual protection existing between the two countries. Great Britain is investigating coal shipments from the United States, under the suspicion that the cargoes. Instead of reaching the ports to which they are consigned, reach German war ships at sea. The Prince of Wales' relief fund now has reached J15.000.000. QUAKE KILLS THOUSANDS Asia Minor Catastrophe Said to Have Numbered 2500 Victims. ' LONDON. Oct. 5. An official anes- sags from Constantinople transmitted from Amsterdam t the Central News says that the victims of an earthquake In the Province of Konia. Asia Minor. Saturday night are estimated at 2600. TEUTONS BEATEN IN EAST, SAYS SLAV Russians ReportVictory Most Complete. GERMAN LOSS PUT AT 70,000 Two of Czar's Armies Advance Toward Allenstein. CARPATHIAN LEGEND GOES That Kastern Range of Mountains Is Impregnable Proved Myth by Onward March or Slav Sur rounded Battery Drowns. ROME, via Paris, Oct. 6. The Rus sian embassy here tonight made public an official communication received from the Russian headquarters staff, saying: ' "The defeat of the Germans is com plete. Their retreat Is changing into a rout that is so disorderly and precipi tate that they are forced io abandon everything. "Two Russian armies are proceeding, one from the west and another from the south, toward Allenstein (in last Prussia, 60 miles southeast of EIbing. "The German losses have not yet been officially, ascertained, but it is estimated that they had 70,000 men disabled. RUSSIANS CROSS CAR PATHl.WS Legend of Impregnability of Moun tains Declared Destroyed. LONDON, Oct. 5. 11:50 P. M.- A Reuter dispatcb from Petrograd says: "Side by side with the official ac count , of the German defeat on the Russo-Prusslan frontier, details are published of the Russians crossing the Carpathians, which, as one writer says, destroys the legend that tha Eastern Carpathians art impregnable. Before attaining Uszok Pass the Russians successively captured, by a w-lnding flank movement, three well masked positions which were strongly defended by guns. Each time the Rus sians charged the enemy fled, and the Russians followed up the Austrian re--treat with shrapnel and quick fire, in flicting heavy losses. "During the Russian retreat through the Mazur Lake district, in Bast Prus sia, a Russian battery was' surrounded on three sides by the enemy's quick firers The infantry was on the other side of the lake and the Russian am munition was exhausted. In order to avoid being captured the commander ordered the battery to gallop over the declivity into the" lake. His orders were obeyed and he himself was among the drowned. "During an assault on the fortress of Ossowetz. a German column got into a bog. The Russians shelled the bog and the single road crossing It. The Germans, in trying to extricate them selves, sank deeper into the mire and hundreds were killed or wounded. Of the 'whole column unly about 40 sur vived." GERMANS RKSISTING RUSSIAN'S Petrograd Says Retreat or Foe Con tinues, However. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. Colonel Gol ajewski, military attache of the Rus sian Embassy here, has issued the fol lowing official statement received to night from Petrograd: "In Bast Prussia the retreat of the Germans continues. They are. how ever, making attempts- to offer resis tance in previously selected and forti fied positions on a line from Werjbo lowo to Lyk." . Russians Invading Hungary. ' LONDON, Oct. 5. 10:10 A. M. A dis patch to the Star from Rome, speaking of. the Russian invasion of Hungary, says: "Having captured all the Car pathiaa passes, the Russians have com menced the invasion Of Hungary, ad vancing to the south, and they have Occupied Hosszumezo. Then the Cos sacks effected a daring coup. They ' crossed the river and cut the railway at Cziget. thus isolating the remainder of Hungary." GERMANS ARREST PASTOR Boston - Minister, Taken as Spy at Brussels, Saved- by Mr. Whitlock. LONDON. Oct. 5. Rev. Albert A. Williams, of Boston, has reached Lon--don after arrest and imprisonment in Brussels at the hands of the Germans on a charge of Deing an English spy and with trying to buy information concerning the movement of German troops. Notes made by Mr. Williams in a French dictionary for a sermon on the horrors of war fell into the hands of the Germans when he was arrested. A German Lieutenant thought they con stituted code messages.- because of the abbreviated form In which they had been put down. Mr. Williams was ar rested at the Metropole Hotel In 3rus sels and taken to military headquar ters. He was held with SO other pris oners, mostly Belgians, and put through a drastic examination. He was not per mitted to communicate with Brand -Whitlock. American Minister in Brus sels. Finally he persuaded a German student that he was not a tpy and be managed to get a letter to Mr. Whit lock. who brought about his release'