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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1914. FRENCH PLUCKY WAR SCENE IN BELGIUM AND TWO GERMAN GENERALS. Free roc DEFENDING PAPEETE Manning's 35c Coffee s.V j Tiny Fort Opens Fire on Ger man Cruisers Before Wreck ing of Island Town. f-Kttr -- r L ACTRESS BRAVES . SHELLS 2 enes 1 ! 'r .Picture Hat Put Above Her Life. Two Killed and Loss $2,000,000. Teuton Ship Unknowingly Sunk, Crew Overlooked. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7. (Special.) Papeete, the capital of French Tahiti, is in ruins, riddied by the projectiles from the German cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, which bombarded the town for three hours on September 25. Two persons were killed, two ships were sunk and the property damagre amounted to 2, 000,000. Two full square blocks in the center of town were burned and the inhabitants, fleeing in terror to the hills, huddled together for days in a squalid native village in hourly fear of capture by the Germans. This is the word brought to this port today by the passengers aboard the "L'nion Steamship Company's steamer Moana, which reached the ruined city two days after the bombardment. American Flag Saves Kuropeans. The hoisting of the American flag over the consulate and on an Ameri can sailing vessel which lay at anchor in the harbor saved the European resi dence quarter from the fire of the Ger mans, say the passengers. Bits of Ger man sheila picked up in the wrecked town were taken as mementos. "it was 6 o'clock in the morning," said a passenger, "when a squad of men at the so-called fortifications above Papeete sighted two cruisers ap proaching. They proved to be the Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst. "The fortifications consisted of four four-inch and two six-inch guns, which had been carried to the hilltop from the dismantled French gunboat Zello. There were but 50 rounds of ammuni tion in all. "As the cruisers approached, the city was stricken with panic. When they reached the outer reef, less than two miles away, the fort fired a shot by way of demand that the cruisers show their colors. The German flag was in stantly displayed and the French re plied by firing on the cruisers. Tivo Vessels Sent Down. "The ' warships immediately replied, shelling the fort, sinking the dis mantled Zelle and the captured German vessel Walkure, loaded with phosphate, which was lying in the harbor. Then the cruisers sent a wireless message to the effect that the city would be shelled at 8 o'clock and that non combatants would do well to move. "The exodus then began. Piling scanty parcels of clothing and food upon every conveyance In sight, men, women and children took to the hills. Only a few soldiers and belated fugi tives were left in the town. On the stroke of 9 the first jet of smoke shot out from the side of the Gneisenau. "This shot killed a native boy in the street. A Japanese chauffeur, who was driving his automobile rapidly to the edge of town, was cut in two by a shell. French Destroy Coal. "The French soldiers burned a bunk er containing $40,000 worth of coal to prevent its becoming of aid to the Ger mans. "The shells set fire to the buildings and two full blocks were destroyed. The damage was J2.000.00U. At noon the bombardment suddenly ceased and the cruisers departed." 13. P. Titchener, one of the passen gers, who reached Papeete after the bombardment, declared that the French were facing tremendous odds and that it was plucky of them to fire at all. "The cruisers sailed away, not know ins that the German crew of the Wal kure were prisoners in the town," he said. "About a hundred shells fell in the town. Many of them were from the eight-inch guns and exploded with terrific effect." Actress Returns for Hat. "Mile. La France," a French actress, told of her experiences. "Every one thought the Germans would land, she said, "and I was afraid they would put us all on some small island and leave us there until the war was over. oing out of the ctiy I was huddled into a small wagon with a dozen Chi nese. Like all the rest. I had been too much excited to remember to bring my clothes, and as 1 sat in the wagon I remembered that I simply couldn't bear to part with a big picture hat of mine. J got out ft the wagon and went back after it. fhen 1 finished the trip in another conveyance. "The natives back in the hills were very hospitable. Most of us camped in the open, as the weather was warm, but some had accommodations in huts." The fugitives are of the opinion that the bombardment would not have taken place had not the fort fired first, but that the town would have been cap tured instead. The Germans did not enter the harbor, but lay outside the reef, evidently suspecting that the port might be mined. SUBMARINE SINKS GERMAN (Continued From Klrst Page.) Harwich. England, says that a rumor is in circulation there of the sinking of a German cruiser in addition to the German torpedoboat destroyer. SIX AUSTRIAN WARSHIPS LOST Rome Report Says Most of Men in Crews Victims of Mines. LONDON. Oct. 7. A Rome dispatch 6ays that four Austrian torpedo-boats and two Austrian torpedo-boat destroy ers have been lost off the coast of Dalmatia. as a result of coming in con tact with mines. It is said most of the men in the crews of the six ves sels were lost. A dispatch from Ostend says the survivors from the sunken British steamship Ardmount, on arriving at the Belgian port today, declared their ves sel was struck by English mines. The Ardmount. they say. did not sink until the had struck a third mine. At the first explosion a lifeboat took off the crew of 35. GERMANS RETIRE ON EAST fContimied From First Past.) near Tarnobrzeg (Tarnovezeg). The defeat of the Russians in the Car pathians is complete. "COUNT BERCHTOLD." . The foregoing is confirmatory of of ficial advices received by cable from Vienna embodying the statement of General Von Hoefer. Washington now permits parking of auto mobiles uu pecuiel streets. ill l-. BUS t f - x. . Jf-&. f V 1 r ;X fitT Wj-Ci i. liyjxw S "i'siGfe rnsooa fAo j- "' -" Photos by Underwood & Underwood. TP 'BlS'an Salving Abandoned German Gun From Swamp at Termoude. Below (Left) Duke Alhrecht of Wur- tembnrs. Cavalry Commander, and (Rlcht) tieneral Von Hausen, -Commander of Amy No. 3. BRITISH TO GET 110 MERCY. WRITES FOE German Officer Tells Mother of Bitter Hatred He and Comrades Hold. HAM IS FEAST AT FRONT Dry Bread Often Only Food Eaten. Five Frenchmen Shot, but Their "Kirst-Ciusw" Horses Spared. Peasants Agreeable. ROTTERDAM, Sept. 19. (Corre spondence of the Associated Press.) The following letter of a reserve offi cer to his mother, published in the Co logne Gazette, on September 16, throws an illuminating light on subsistence conditions in the German forces now in France: "As I already told you, the commis sary officer of our battalion and I went to the same college. I have been obliged to pay for this happy coinci dance with many a bite I needed my self. But yesterday he told me that he had managed to get two honest-to-goodness, real and otherwise bona tide hams. I lost no time accepting my share it was fine and will last until tonight. To the great surprise of the Captain I managed to get one-eighth pound, of butter from a farm. Com missary bread," ham and butter what a Lucullan feast 1 had last night! But there is nothing to smoke. Kindly send me a few cigarettes and some pipe to bacco. "The owner of the farm where I got the butter is a woman, 32 years old and rather wealthy. She left the place, not because she feared the Germans, but the French, as her manager told me. 1 wish these people had sense enough to remain on their farms.. We do them no injury and pay for every thing we take, while the property of those who run away is naturally with out owner and thus not protected. Peasants Are Agreeable. "There is no evidence here of volk skrieg' (war carried on by the popu lation, as in Belgium). The people are rather' afraid and do everything to get along with us. Everything is upside flown nowadays, dear mother. Master alone is the soldier. Right and wrong are matters which he rules on. All power and responsibility has been placed on his shoulders. I thank God that our hands are clean and that our officers' conduct Is beyond criticism. In I asked a woman whether she had a complaint to make against our soldiers, and she said: 'No, the German soldiers are good lads. "But with this the burning of vil lages has nothing to do. Most of them are set afire by artillery shells, and when they are burned down purposely It is done because the inhabitants have fired upon our soldiers. In the villages and no stone remained in place. Some of ouv hussars entered them and were treacnerously shot down. The example has brought good results. We regretted that we had to do it, and now that the people have been brought to their senses, further measures of that sort have been pro hibited. Fearful Priest Doffs Hat. "In the village of I saw -an old man sit in a bouse which had been it- : V- S . 'T X H -x-:'-.J- . -3Mbv ' . v. ' yi,.:. 'i -' a-K It. "jf "S. c. vjL- I destroyed. In front of him stood a venerable gray, old man the priest who had surveyed the remnant of his congregation with sorrow. 1 entered the villas at the head of two bat talions, and when the old priest saw me he looked at me in a way that cut into my very soul. Then with the sud den motion of fear he took off his hat and held it in his hand until the last man had passed him. I think he fearedi that a refusal to greet us would be taken as an offense. What went on in the mind of the old priest would be interesting to know. But this is war. and we did not want the indescribable misery which it has brought on. "Last night at rollcall we heard the news of the German victory over the English, French and Belgians. We es pecially appreciated the news concern ing the English. Our hate for those perfidious fellows is universal, and much greater than our feeling. against the French. Everybody wants a chance to get at them, and God have mercy on them should they get before our rifles from us they need expect none. "At seven in the evening we heard the news of the Russian defeat. I hope that the good tidings will be confirmed. Ve are advancing every where. Horses Spared, Men Shot. While the officer is on outpost duty he continues the letter. "Well, I am out in the field. In front of us the territory is occupied by the enemy. War is a terrible thing. This noon -while I was inspecting the outposts five French chasseurs on pa trol work advanced towards our posi tion. We were in the woods. Fire was opened on them at 200 meters. I re gretted having to give the command. The officer, 26 years old and married two days before mobilization, as I learned afterwards, was killed. The others were wounded and taken pris oners. We did not aim at the horses they and the saddles are first class, and now five of us will ride. To have to do that sort of thing is distressing, but what is to be done? C'est la guerre! "We are here far from human aid have no tents and are not permitted to make a fire. My meals so far have consisted of dry bread and I feared that my supper would be again dry bread, but, oh, Joy!" one of my. men arrived with a slab of bacon which he has found somewhere. My orderly managed to get a few onions, and we have succeeded in gathering six cigar ettes. What a glorious supper! "The field kitchens are a fine insti tution. We officers get our food from them together with the men, and I will say that usually It is quite tasty and well cooked. You would appre ciate the field kitchen if for three weeks you had been obliged to eat the stuff cooKed on a field fire. MARKET CHANGE PROPOSED Amendment Would Make Hich Charge Grounds for Expulsion. If amendments to be proposed by City Commissioner Blgelow to the ordinance regulating the public market are adopt ed by the City Council, charging of ex orbitant prices will be grounds for the expulsion of any producer using the market. This provision and one fixing a penalty of $-50 fine and 60 days in jail for any one but farmers caught selling in the market were decided on at a meeting yesterday of the Public Market Board Various plans to prohibit excessive prices in the market have been sug gested from time to time and - the method of forcing the high-rate pro ducers off has been decided upon as the most effective. Up to this time the maximum penalty for commission deal, ers in the market has been a fine of 550 and five days in Jail. It is felt by members of the Market Board that this penalty is not sufficiently severe. Jamaica has been keeping a record of all incomine letters having shortage in postage and found that the United btates was the chief offender in this respect. t4 "Sr-1 COTTON PLAN iS UP President Party to Tentative Arrangement for Relief. QUICK SENATE ACTION AIM Wilson Also Approves Movement for Bankers $150,000,000 Pool to Be Loaned to Producers. Egypt Also Has Problem. WASHINGTON. Oct. 7 Tentative plans for the relief of the cotton ait uation in the South were mapped out today at a conference between Presi dent Wilson, members of the North Carolina Congressional delegation and officers of the North Carolina Farmers Union. The President agreed to support an effort to get action in Congress this session on the Senate bill to provide for Federal licensing of warehouses, which the House recently refused to consider. He also approved the move ment started in St- Louis for launching a bankers' pool to raise $150,000,000 to be loaned to cotton-growers on ware house certificates. Egypt, as well as the United States, is facing a serious crisis be cause of her inability to market her cotton crop. Paul Knabenshue. United States Vice-Consul General at Cairo, in a report to the State Department, says Egyptian banks, which in normal times import from $50,000,000 to $75,000, 0J0 in gold, have been unable to. obtain specie to finance the crop movement, and the government has made notes of the National Bank of Egypt legal tender with the same value as gold. To ease the cotton situation it has been decided that the National Bank advance money to cotton growers on all cotton offered, storing the lint as security, and thus protecting small cul. tivators from forced sales at sacrifice prices. Large cultivators are ex pected to hold their product them selves. To prevent a surplus" next year, the Minister of Agriculture already has formulated plans for reducing the area to be planted by about 60 per cent. Cultivators -will be instructed to grow corn, rice, beans and other grain and food crops instead of cotton. ZEPPELIN RAID PLANNED COUJfT HAS NOT "FORGOTTEN ENG. LAND" AND MAKES THREAT. Kaiser Said to Have Offered Post of Commander-in-Chief of Air Fleet for Expedition. LONDON, Oct 7. In a dis patch from The Hague, the corre spondent of the Dally Express says Ger man newspapers reaching there indi cate that Count Zeppelin is now at Wilhelmshaven, on the North Sec, with his staff. Wilhelmshaven is the point from which the great air raid on the British Isles is expected to start. One of these newspapers publishes an interview with the Count, in which he is quoted as saying that he had not forgotten England and - would prove it soon. . ' It is also reported, the correspondent 23 Manning's Coffee Store Jones' Market Fourth and Alder of the Express continues, that Count Zeppelin was summoned recently by Emperor William to Mainz. His Majesty said to the Count that he re lied on him for a great work, and of fered to make him Commander-in-Chief of the German air fleet. The Count smilingly refused, but said he would accept the title when he returned from England. The Zeppelin staffs are working day and night at Wilhelmshaven and an other station is being established at Emden for other types of airships. DISCIPLES CONDEMN WAR Divided Church Declared to Blame for Strirc in Kurope. ATLANTA, Ga.. Oct. 7. A divided church is responsible for the war in Europe, declared Dr. Hill M. Bell, of Des Moines, president of the interna tional convention of ' the Disciples, of Christ, which was formally opened here tonight with 11.000 churches in the de nomination represented. Pleas for unity among Christian sects and nations, and cunueinn&tion ui tne strife across the seas characterized the addresses. Dr. Robert E. Speer. of New York. secretary of the board of foreign mis sions oi ihe Presbyterian Church, de clared the co-operative work of re ligious denominations in the foreign field demonstrated the feasibility of Christian union. "Foreign missions," he said, "illus trate the method by which union can be achieved by working together in a common task and by transcending our differences instead -of trying to com pose them." 752 REGISTER .'lN DAY Record Set but Office Will Hold Open Late for Tardy Ones. Registration yesterday was the big gest of any single day since the books have been opened this Fall, numbering 752. Changes of address numbered 236. The registration office was an exceed ingly busy place and will be durinz the single week remaining before the books are closed. ISext Thursday will be the final date upon which to register. County Clerk Coffey will keep the registration office open, starting (Satur day, until 3 o'clock each night until October 15. i The total registration in the county is now 80.516. Men registered number 50.49a and women 30,017. HOCKEY CLUBS TO FORM Enthusiasts Organize Tonight at HipMdrorae to Enter Leagues. Hockey enthusiasts will meet to night at the Ice Hippodrome, Twen tieth and Marshall streets, to form clube to enter the Portland Inter Club Hockey League or the Bankers' Hockey League, the two major organ izations now being formed. At a meeting last Thursday in the Multnomah Club, an executive board representing Multnomah, Waverly. Har riman. University, Armory and the Portland Rowing clubs was chosen. The board will meet tonight also. Both meetingsaaarin be held in the ice rink and are scheduled for 8 o'clock All hockey players have been Invited to attend. , ROYAL ENGINEER LEAVES D. 3. .Humane. ex-Employe of County, En Route to British Array. Commissioned by King Edward, of England, as a member of the Royal Engineers of the British army, D. J. Murtiane, a nephew of M. J. 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Murnane, have served A STATE SCHOOL CLOSED "J - - M .-. '- i . - "i 5 i - V.-- Southern Orm Stats LET US BE PROUD OF OREGON Oregon Is the only state !n the Union that has at any time reduced the num ber of Its normal schools. Everywhere the movement is for more normals, & score of states have from three to fifteen. California has eight; Washington has three; even Idaho has two. Consider: only five states have a .smaller equipment for normal schools .than Oregon would, were all three of Its schools running; and, eighty per cent of the applicants for teachers' certifi cates in Oregon last year had received no training above the eighth grade. Cannot Oregon, like other states, pro vide that her common schools shall have competent, efficient teachers? The Legislature has referred to the people a measure providing a small, but ample maintenance fund for the South ern Oregon State Normal School a school that was conducted with marked success for fourteen years. (Paid Adv. by Alumni Assn. 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