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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LIV. XO. 16,821. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BRITISH WARSHIPS SHELLING GERMANS Fighting Continues on the Yser Canal. BERLIN REPORTS SUCCESSES Enemy Declared Driven Back s Along Entire Line. TORPEDO-BOAT IS STRUCK Germans Make Violent Attack on Environs of Ostend, but Flush ins Dispatch Says Belgians f Were Victorious. LONDON. Oct. 23. "Victory is with the allies. Seventy thousand men have been taken prisoners between Chalons and Longwy. Three suns and 31 flags have been captured." This telegrram from the Burgomaster of Wenduyne, Belgium, is given in an Amsterdam dispatch to the Central News. Wenduyne is a province of West Flanders on the Belgian coast. Chalons .and Longwy are. respectively, in the French department of Marne and Meurthe-Et-Moselle, nearly 200 miles southeast of the Belgian province from which the above dispatch emanates. BERLIN, Oct. 22. via Amsterdam and London. The German War Office makes public the following dispatch received from general headquarters of the army dated today: "The fighting on the Tser canal con tinues. Eleven British war vessels as sist the enemy's artillery. "East of Dlxmude the enemy was re pulsed. Our troops have advanced sue-, cessfully in the direction of Ypres. Battle Severe Near Lille. "The battles to the northwest of Lille re severe, but the enemy is slowly re treating along the whole line. Fierce attacks from the direction of Toulon Heights, south of Thlaucourt, were re pulsed with heavy losses to the French. "The fact is that the British Admiral commanding the fleet off Ostend want ed to bombard the town, but finally was persuaded by the Belgian author ities to abstain." Warships Also KnaKf d. The official report, issued late to night, says: ' "On the Yser Canal heavy fighting is still in progress. The enemy was reinforced by artillery fire from the eea at a point to the northwest of Nieuport, but Ui the engagement a British torpedo-boat was put out of action by our artillery. . - "fighting continued to the west of Lille, and here also our troops have as sumed the offensive and have repulsed the enemy at several points. British Lome Machine Cons. "The English have lost several ma chine guns." LONDON, Oct. 22. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Flushing says: Wednesday night and today the Ger mans made a violent attack on the environs of Ostend, which was re pulsed by an energetic counter attack by the Belgians. "Eleven British warships fired on the Germans again this morning. Gen eral von Trip and his staff, who were together in Leftinghe, near Middel kerke. were killed by British naval guns." BATTLE OF COAST COXTIXtES Germans Do Not Abate Vigor of Pre vious Day's Attack. PARIS, Oct. 22. The continuation of the great battle between the sea and La Bassee, in which the Belgians and the allies are holding their ground was officially reported by the French War Office tonight. Between Arras and the Oise the Germans are declared to have met with strong opposition. The text follows: "The activity which the enemy dis played yesterday did not slacken today. Between the sea and La Bassee the bat tie has continued with just as great violence, without the Germans being ahle to force back the Belgian army or the French and British troops. "Similarly, between Arras and the Oise the enemy has made determined efforts, which have at no point been crowned with success. "In the Argonne region we have made progress between Stubert and Le Four de Paris. "To the north of Verdun we .have pained ground at Haumont and Brabant on the Meuse. In the Woevre region we have repulsed an attack on Champion." The text of the afternoon official an nouncement was: '"On our left wing. German forces In considerable strength have continued their violent attacks, particularly in the vicinity of Dlxmude, Warneton, Armentieres. Radingham and La Bas see, but the positions occupied by the allies have been maintained. "On the rest of the front, the enemy has delivered only partial attacks. These all have been repulsed, particu larly at Frlcourt. to the east of Albert; on the plateau to the west of Craonne; in the region of Souain, In the Argonne district: at Four de Paris, southwest of Varennes; in the region of Malancourt, in the Woevre district: in the direction of Champion, and at a point southeast of St. Mihiel, in the forest or Ailly. "We have made slight progress in the Argonne district and in the southern part of the Woevre, In the forest of Mortxnare." . t BULLETINS LOSDOX, Oct. 2 Westminster Ab bey has been insured for S75O.OO0 against damages from aircraft attacks. BERLIN, Oct. 22, -via wireless to Lon don. The commander of the Seventh German army corps has declared that a general calling out of the landatnrm Is unnecessary as enormona numbers of the laadwehr are still available. He adds that it Ja also unnecessary to call on volunteers. LONDOV, Oct. 23. The British tor pedo smnboat Dryad Is reported ashore at Klrkvrall la the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland. Her crew Is said to have been saved. LOSDOS, Oct. 22. A Norwegian steamer which arrived at Los Palmas, Canary Islands, according to n dis patch from that place to Renter's Tele Arrant Company, reports that ahe waa visited by a German cruiser whose captain declared he had sunk 11 British and French nnd one Italian steamer. BERL1.V, Oct. 22, via The Hague aad London. It Is announced that the Krnpps are making over for the use of the German army GOO cannon that have been captured from the enemy. TOKIO, Oct. T The Germnn gov ernor of Jalult Island, which has been occupied by the Japanese, baa ar rived nt Yokohama on n Japanese war ship. The American Consul will ar range for his return to Germnny BERLIN, Oct. 21, via The Hague nnd London, Oct. 22. A German casualty list Issued today contains the nnmes of about 11,500 killed, wounded and missing. LONDON, Oct. It Is learned In metal circles that the steamship Trollas, aunk by the Germnn cruiser F.mdrn, carried, among other thlnga la her cargo, TOO tone of tin, valued at nearly a half million dollars. It was consigned from the "Straits Settlement to London. LONDON, Oct. 22. The Austrlaa troops have made further advances In Bukowlna, according to Budapest news paper advices, says Renter's Amster dam correspondent. After driving the Russians out of Sereth, 24 miles sonth eaat of Cabernowlts, these advices say, the Russians went on to Csernowlta, where they were again forced to retire In n northeasterly direction toward the Russian frontier. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 22, vln London. The Germans nre retreating from Mld delkerke on the North Sea, between Ostend nnd Westende, according to the Telegraf. LONDON. Oct. 22. "Reports from the industrial districts show that the Ger man mining Industry again la in Jail swing and that often it is necessary for the men to work overtime," says a dispatch received here tonight from Berlin by the Marconi Wireless Tele graph Compaay. LONDON, Oct. 22. A dispatch from Veaice says n company of Italian marines landed nt Avalona today an I that the Italian Forty-Seventh la fantry, now at Lecce, is ready to em. bark for that port. GERMANS LOSE SUBMARINE British Report Sinking Vessel In Shetland Islands Group. LONDON, Oct. 14. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) British war vessels have destroyed a German sub marine near one of the inhabited rocks of the Shetland Islands in the North Sea, according to a report from Scot land. It is said that there was a large stock of oil, battery plates and extra torpedoes stored there for submarines Btriking at the North Sea fleet. Another report confirms a German wireless station near Loch Lomond. Messages nave been intercepted con stantly, but all efforts to find the ap paratus have failed, so the rumor runs. Some shipping men believe a story that the Oceanic was struck by a tor pedo from a submarine and ran on the rocks of the Scottish coast to save her crew. Such reports spread always during war times, but the suppression of nows by the British censors leads to more than the customary crop of rumors." MINISTERS' TOUR HALTED Eugene Men on World's Jaunt rind War Interferes. ALBANY, Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.) Their tour of the world interrupted by the European war. Dr. J. I Hill, of this city, and Rev. Elbert H. Hicks, former pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Albany, are yet in East Africa, according to word received here. They left here several months ago for Australia, intending, after visiting that country, to visit h.gypl ana me Hoiy Land and 'then tour hurope. They visited Australia but their schedule was interrupted because of the war and they went to East Africa. A card received here yesterday con tained the information that on Septem ber 13 they were at Beira. Portuguese East Africa, and yet hoped to visit the Holy Land. It is probable though that they will be forced to return home across the l'acinc BERLIN TO PROBE PRICES Government Asked to Fix Maximum and Inventory Stocks. , LONDON, Oct. 22. A Reuter dispatch from Berlin, forwarded from Amster dam, says the municipality 'of Berlin has decided to ask the government to fix maximum prices for potatoes and to compel retailers to give an account of their stocks and to sell supplies which have been held to influence prices. -Prohibitive prices for meat, butter and lard also are being investigated. The municipality of the suburb of Lankwitz. which bought great quanti ties of flour before the artificial rise in prices, is now supplying its bakers at the purchase prices. RUSSIANS HASTEN TP SAVE WARSAW Siberian Regiments Are Sent to Front. BAYONET CHARGES EFFECTIVE Village Taken and Retain in Hand-to-Hand Fight. GERMAN CORPS REPULSED Petrograd Says Great Battle South of Przemysi Has Been In Prog ress Six Days and Austrian Loss Is Large. PETROGRAD, Oct. 22. The official news bureau, in a statement reviewing the fighting around Warsaw, says: "The Russian troops displayed ex ceptional energy In coming to the de fense of Warsaw and saving the city from a German bombardment. The Rus sian concentration was effected with greater swiftness than was called for by strategical reasons. "Documents taken from prisoners who were captured in the fighting near Warsaw show that the Germans were confident of entering that city between October 15 and 17. Siberians Sent to Front. "The Siberian regiments arriving at Warsaw were immediately sent to the front, but not before they were warmly hailed by the population, which was greatly impressed by the martial ap pearance of these young soldiers. In their bayonet charges at night. In the forest of Motchidlovskj the Siberian soldiers took many prisoners belonging to the 21st German corps. "The 17th German corps and some of their reserve troops, who attempted to push forward in the region between Blonie and Frouschkotf," suffered se verely. It was there that the Siberian troops, together with other Russian forces, inflicted terrible losses on the enemy. Many villages in the vicinity were taken and retaken . in hand-to-hand fighting. Caucastana Show Great Courage. "In engagements near Kozienica the Caucasian regiments also gave proof of extraordinary courage. For eight days these regiments were fighting on the left bank of the Vistula in the marshes, where the trenches were con stantly under water. Here they sus tained the fire of the enemy's heavy artillery, but all the German attacks were repulsed. "Several regiments suffered severe losses and one regiment had three com manders seriously wounded, one after the other. "The direction of the great battle going on to the south of ' Przemysi. which has been under way for six (Concluded on Page 3.) WELL, HEBE WE ABE! j .............. ................ . . t m m m ......... INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWi The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 65.4 derreea: minimum. 42.7 desreea. TODAY'S Probably lair; easterly winds. ' War. British warships shelling Germans alone Yser Canal; Berlin says liermans nave pushed enemy back. - Page 1. British ships once in critical situation . In naval battle off Heligoland.- pace Chinese leaving Hongkong on - account of war. Page 1. Russians make quick move io save Warsaw. Page 1. Belgian postal clerks refuse to work for bermam. Page &. x Pacific Coast fugitive is hero in war sone. Page tt. Navy balloons aid in bombardment of Ger man positions. Page 2. Britain concedes right to carry oil. Page 2. National, Cotton Senators filibuster prevents adjourn ment of congress. Page X. Battle of Eastern lines for higher freight rate will be completed today. Page . Domestic Mrs. Carman makes sweeping ' denial of murder charge. Page 7. Steel men proud of Gary dinners. Page 6. William Lo rimer and 12 associates indicted. Page 5. Sports. Aggies make auspicious start for Pullman to meet Washington State College. Page IS. Cinching pennant establishes Pacific Coast record., page 18. Coast League results: Portland 8. San Fran cisco S; Venice 6. Los Angeles 1; Missions 7, Oakland 0. Page 18. Pacific fforthweat. Sedro-Woolley bank robbers fall into trap and two are killed. Page 8. Stefanason's aide is on way to Ottawa to report on expedition. Page a, Oregon City merchants wield shovels as street crew. - Page 6. Royal welcome given R. A. Booth in Bend. Page Commercial aad Marine. German bark Dalbek goes into dry dock for repairs. Page 22. Twentj-cent advance in local flour prices. Page 23. Exporters buy wheat in East at decline Page 23. Money rates in New York are easier. Page 23. Portland and Vicinity. European trade in grain and flour runs into millions. Page 1U. Flying squadron due today to aid prohibi tion cause. Page 7. Plans made for installation of memorial organ in Reed College chapel. Page 19. Arson case may reach jury today. Page 11. McArthur"! record in Legislature cited to disprove Mr. West's charges. Page 11. Mrs. Vaughn, expert cook, addresses 3000 women. Page 19. Big vote urged at recall election. Page 1ft. Commercial Club to Invite every member by - telephone to at tend' Manufacturers and Land products Show at Armory Monday night. Page 11 Mr. Moores asks Mr. Chamberlain to answer list of questions. Page It. Non-Partlsan League urges voters to rebuke recallers. Page 13. Mayor's secretary scores recallers and asks sharp rebuke. Page 24. Candidate Huston makes reply to "corpo - ration" charge. Page 23. SENEGAL IS BLOODTHIRSTY Black. Troops Said to Kill .Prisoners. Despite Orders. WASHINGTON, Oct.- 22. A wireless message: from Berlin to the German Embassy says that the Rome newspa per, Tribuna, publishes an Interview with an Italian deputy Just returned from France, who expresses his admir ation for the Indian troops he saw at Marseilles. The Senegal troops made the best impression, he- says, although they were so bloodthirsty . that the French army commander waa often prevented from sending them to the front. These negro forces often killed Ger man prisoners without the knowledge of their officers and he says that once these Senegalese murdered all the Ger man war prisoners in a railway transport. CHINESE ABANDON HONGKONG IN HASTE Alarr.? opreads as War Preparations Begin. TROUBLE WITH JAPAN FEARED Extraordinary Rumors of Pil laging Are Rife. FEELING IS PRO-GERMAN Chinese Believe Setback to Britain and France Will Make Own Na tion More Secure Busi ness Near Standstill. CANTON, China, Sept 21. (Corre spondence of the Associated Press.) A noteworthy exodus of Chinese hs taken place from the British colony of Hongkong and since the end of July there has been a steady influx here. In the ifrst week in August the news of war that reached Hongkong of prepar ations for the defense ofthe colony, the proclamation of martial law, the mob ilization of volunteers and the swear ing in of special police, with a simul taneous rise in tho prices of commodi ties, convinced the Chinese that trou ble wan coming and the exodus began. Caatoa la Overcrowded. Canton, and particularly the Eastern suburbs, the great residential section of the city, are overcrowded and rents have risen 20 and 30 per cent. The most extraordinary rumors were current early this month of German attacks and pillages of Hongkong and of all sorts of impossible victories and reverses. These have now toned- down, though the news Jn the native papers is almost without exception pro-German and public opinion believes in Ger man present and ultimate success. This may be due to the fact that probably 90 per cent of the Chinese who know or care anything about what is-going on axe hopjnsiardeotly for German success, the 'idea being that ,a decided setback to the British and French would make China's future that much more secure. Price of Silk Drop. Business is nearly at a standstill. The river and coast steamers are in many cases running at a loss. The price of silk has dropped approximate ly $150 gold a bale, with few buyers, and this with an unusualy fine year for the silk crop a bumper fifth crop having been secured and a record sixth crop being, expected. The other ex ports, including matting, tea and gin ger, are faring similarly. Foreign banks are open only half the day, as they have no business and the money market is nearly paralyred. Local exchange on the Hongkong dol- (Concluded on Page 3.) Thursday's War Moves DESPERATE fighting continues in West Flanders and Northern France between Germany's armies, reinforced by virtually all her forces in the occu pied portions .of Belgium, and the French, British and Belgian troops, aided by British warships. Along the coast the Tser River still divides the contending forces. Neither side, apparently, has been able to ad vance, but in the interior, according to a German report, the allies are re tiring from several important positions, j .This statement of the Germans Is contradicted, however, by the French communication, which says the allies have not been moved, despite violent attacks of the invaders. All along the front from the North Sea to the. Swiss border, in fact, each side says it has repulsed the attacks of the other or to have made slight progress at various points. The con tending armies seemingly are so near ly equal in strength that neither can force the other back, pierce the front or get around the wings. "The shells of the allies are raining down upon the Germans at Ostend and Nleuport, causing terrific destruction." the Telegraars Antwerp correspondent reports. "The battlefields are covered with bodies." the dispatch continues. "but fresh German troops continue to arrive. Since morning the Germans have retreated slightly. A French squadron is supporting the English warships, which, the German gunners have difficulty in reaching. The Ger man cavalry is useless and the men and horses alike are being mowed down. "The allies' positions are strongly fortified by entrenchments and inunda tions of territory. The allies, in addi tion to Ostend and Nleuport. also are firing in the direction of Jabbeke about seven miles southeast of Bruges, in order to destroy the rail way line between Ostend and Bruges. In Poland th preliminary battle, at least, has moved a little more swiftly. The Russians report that they have been able to drive back the first Ger man offensive move against Warsaw, the Polish capital, and the fortress of Ivangorod. All the Russian accounts! refer to this as a great victory. They declare the Germans, besides losing many prisoners and guns, have left large quantities of ammunition and provisions in the trenches they had prepared for their defense. German hWidquarters heretofore had made no reference to this struggle, but it now says that, after several days of battle no decisive result has been achieved. Apparently there has been more fighting on the East Prussian frontier, where the situation has been quiet for some time, as the German report says: "Our troops are pursuing the retreating enemy In the direction of Ossowets. "Ossowetz is the fortress which was in range of the German guns several weeks ago when their advance on the Niemen failed. The battle ' around Przemysi and south of that city ' still is going on, but still farther south the Austrian say they have cleared the Russians out of Hungary and are advancing toward Bukovina, a crown land in Eastern Galicia. with the same object in view. , Lord Crewe. Secretary of State for India, officially disclosed in a speech delivered last Tuesday, but made public only yesterday, that the Indian troops In France have not yet taken part in any of . the battles. The men and their horses required considerable time to become acclimated, but the belief here is that they soon will be ready to take the'.r places at the front.' The hospitals have been advised to get ready next week for their wounded. It was repQrted again yesterday that Italy had landed marines at Avlona, Albania. Such a step, it is generally believed here, would not be resented by any power at the present moment, when the situation in Albania is so serious because of the warring tribes and the strife between the contenders for the crown of the new nation which was surrendered recently by Prince Wil liam of Wied, who ruled for a few months. In an address before the Prussian Diet yesterday Herr Del Brueck, the Imperial Vice-chancellor, after declar ing that Germany had been forced into the war by the hatred and envy of her neighbors, said that "Germany will not lay aside her arms untit she has gained a victory that will guarantee lasting peace." Large numbers of Germans and Aus trians have been taken from London and interned in the detention camps, and an echo of the threatened invasion of the British Isles by Zeppelin balloons Is found in the fact that Westminster Abbey has been insured against damage from airship attacks. A private letter received fn Amster dam says that Lieutenant-General von Moltke, chief of the German general staff, is dying. MOLTKE REPORTED DYING German Retreat I -a id to Staff Cillers Retirement, Says Writer. LONDON, Oct. 23. Lieutenant-Gener al Count Helmuth von Moltke. chief of the German general staff, is dying. the Exchange Telegraph Amsterdam correspondent says a private letter received in Amsterdam from Berlin re veals. VEvery thing." the correspondent adds, "is being done to keep the news secret. General Von Moltke Is suffering from an affection of. the liver. The cure he was undergoing was interrupted in July by the German mobilization. He has now bad to leave Emperor William's headquarters. General Von Falken hayn. the Prussian Minister of War, being left in charge. "Many German officers ascribe the check to the German advance to the forced retirement of General Von Moltke," FILIBUSTER STILL HOLDSjJONGRESS Quorum to Adjourn Be lieved Lost. . COTTON SENATORS HOLD OUT President's Dash in Auto to Sign Bills Fails to Save. HOUSE IS KEPT WAITING Democratic Deficiency Measure Is Law Scores of Members of Both Houses Leave Capital on Early Trains. WASHINGTON, Oct. " 22. Filibuster ing of Southern Democrats who are lighting for legislation to relieve finan cial stress in the cotton states upset carefully-laid plans for adjournment of Congress at 6 o'clock tonight. Led by Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, the cotton belt members at the last moment prevented action in the Senate on a Joint resolution to adjourn sine die, already passed by the House, and it appeared tonight that unless an agveement could be reached tomorrow for a recess until after the November elections. Congress would stay in session indefinitely, with out a quorum of either house in Wash ington. Wllaoa Makea Dash la Aula. The collapse of the adjournment programme came after every hope for its success had been held out. and supreme efforts had been made to ac complish the conclusion of the ses sion after adoption in both houses of the conference report on the war revenue bill. A spectacular feature of the situa tion was a dash by President Wilson in an automobile from a golf course to the Capitol to reach there in time to sign the war revenue bill before ad journment. The President rushed into the Capitol followed by Secret Service men at S:45 o'clock. Attired in his golf clothes and without his reading glasses, he hastened into the Presi dent's room, where the revenue measure, signed by Speaker Clark and Senator Clarke, president pro tempore of the Senate, awaited him. Borrow ing glasses from Senator Hughes, of New Jersey, the President signed the bill and several others which were waiting for hlro. Filibuster la Malatalaed. Senators ran in and out of the Presi dent's room, holding their watches while Senator Martin vainly sought to have passed the resolution which the House bad passed early In the day. providing for adjournment sine die at 6 o'clock tonight. At every turn he was met by the filibustering tactics of Senator Hoke Smith, who demanded successive rollcalls on motions to adjourn until tomorrow, to recess until tomorrow, and to proceed to consid eration of executive business. This kept the Senate busy until 6 o'clock, the clock In the House having been turned 'back meanwhile in the hope that the Senate might pass the resolu tion. When 6 o'clock arrived Democratic Senators who had been fighting for ad journment gave up. The House resolu tion had automatically died and Senator Stone moved that the Senate go into executive session. Majority Leader Underwood then hastened to the House with the an nouncement that there was nc hope of adjournment. The House had been wailing some time without a quorum trcscr.t and adjournment until tomor row was ordered. (taenia. Bellevcil Improbable. Representative Underwood said later that he did not believe it possible to get another quorum to pass an adjourn ment resolution until after the elec tions. Before 6 o'clock had arrived, in fact, scores of Representatives and Senators had left town and otheis took later trains. Majority Leader Kern and other Democratic Senators were equally dubious- of any adjournment this Lime, but it was said that a rec-s plan might be agreed to by members from the cotton states, with the understand ing that bills calculated to relieve the cotton states would be taken up after election. Senator Smith and ills colleagues filibustered all day. ouc after scveial houri yielded long enics"h fjr a vota on the war revenue conference report, which was agreed to by a vote of 35 to 1L Adjoarameat ta Blorked. An effort was then inado to izec up the adjournment resolution, Dut this was blocked on a motijn to table made by the Senator from O-iweia. Immediately a point of no quorum was made. In the meantime the House was without a quorum and Representa tive Underwood conferred with Senate leaders and prevailed on them to recess until 5:30 o'clock before attempting to adjourn, because it was necessary for .the House to have a quorum present so Speaker Clark might sign the war revenue bilL The House quorum final ly was rounded up but when Ahe Senate reconvened at 6:30 the southern Sena tors resumed their filibuster so de terminedly that hope of adjournment was soon abandoned. The House after a vigorous struggle 1 (ConcluacU, on page i)