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TTTE MORXTXO OREGOXUN. 3IOXDAY, OCTOBER 2G, 1914. NEW HOPE LIGHTENS GERMANY'S SUPPLY OF FOOD SUFFICIENT GERMAN CROWN PRINCE AND HIS PERSONAL STAFF. SOMBRE PETROGRAD i War Situation, at End of Sec ond Month, Renews Rus J ; s sian Confidence. Economist Says Nation Can Kill 300,000 Cows and Yet Have Milk to Spare. l . 1 1 ir P ALL CLASSES ARE UNITED LATE PASTURE HOPED FOR t -r v "i 'a - . S H mtVmi? ;:!:::. .-a:-.: i X,. 0: WfjXy, X . &vl i. & ' ' ? TTicli Kcvelers Put Aside Gaiety of Dazzling Midnights and Com mune in Common Sadness With Peasants Reduced to Want. rETROGRAD, Oct. 5. ( Correspon dence of the Associated Press.) The Russian capital, reg-arded as1 a city of dissipated energies and midnight paiety, quickened by the sale of vodka, has become in the first two months of the war as somber initone as Nocturne, The streets are quiet and almost de serted at the hour when the night life used to begin. The Nevsky Prospect no longer echoes with revelry. The cap Hal, like all cities of Europe, is sad dened by its losses and by all the mis ery which ebbs back from the front. In -the general staff offices, which are at one side of the famous Winter Gar den. the daily lists of the dead are posted. In front of the structure line of peasants, their black shawls like blots of ink against the blood-red color of the building, stand helpless and afraid. Some of them have found relatives in the published lists and others, morbidly apprehensive, are trying" to acquire sufficient courage to feo upstairs and look. Rich Connote Paupers. "Women of the better class, dressed In heavy furs, come forth with chalky faces and bowed heads and step into their carriages. There is no sobbing. no outward, protest against the fate which has bereft them. Sometimes they stop and offer money and words of consolation to the peasant women who face the world as paupers. There is the extraordinary spectacle of aria tocracy and peasantry brought to cether in a community of sorrow. But apart from such scenes .as those which abound in the capital of every country at war, Petrograd is alive with new hope and confidence. The end of the first two months of war is the oc casion for the kind of celebration which usually accompanies a great an niversary - or holiday. The Russian papers have assisted in this by careful reviews of the fighting along the Ger man line and the Austrian frontiers. The Novoe Vremya makes the fol lowing comment: "We have now finished the second month of the war. Although we were on the whole fortunate during the first month, we were overtaken by a great calamity. The second month has not been marked by a single failure. Hundred! of Thousandii Captured. "We have not only beaten the Aus trians, but we have seen the conquest of a kingdom Galicia and a duchy Bukovina. We have captured strongly fortified points held by the enemy, as well as great provision depots . a large number of guns, trains, etc "We have hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Aside from the value of those successes from a military point of view, they are significant as a real ization of our national aim, in that they give back to Russia land that was wrested from her 600 years ago. If we are able to hold this land , those "days ii Russian history will be appreciated in the centuries to come." Another Russian newspaper in refer ring to the recent repulse of the Ger mans along the Nieman River, says: "We have now proved the German oliders to be ordinary soldiers and nov the supermen which they have been called." All Classes Are United. The present unity of feeling in Rus sia and the loyalty of a population "commonly thought of as revolutionists pervades every class. Restaurant keep ers whose rooms were converted into military quarters during the mobiliza tion of troops have yielded without hope of compensation. "It is our1 fight," said one of them. "'Why should, we not help to pay for it?" One of the larger restaurants waa fortunate enough last "night to have as many as 20 patrons. It was the same restaurant in which six years ago a Russian officer leaped to his feet and hot dead a student who was dining quietly with his wife. He had neg lected to rise when the Russian na tional anthem was played. On acccount of this and other similar episodes the orchestras in the restaurants had struck the national anthem from their programmes. Last night, for the first time since then, the orchestra played the national air. Every person in the room immediately rose to his feet. CROSSING YSER CONFIRMED (Continued From First Page.) The latter are unmoved and ,wait, steady and ready for the onslaught. "Within a few hundred yards the ad vancing infantrymen fall flat on their faces as our men open fire and retire under cover of their artillery fiJe. their ranks sadly thined. Shell and shrap nel has done its deadly work in our ranks and the score is a heavy one. In spite of it, we have driven back the enemy and penetrated their lines." CET.JUX FORCES FLOODED OUT Cutting or Dikes Said to Have Re sulted in Drowning 5000. LOXDOX. Oct. 25. The cutting of the dikes in the low country southeast of Dixmude flooded out a large Ger man force, says the Sunday Observer's correspondent in France. Some esti mates place the German losses there at 5000 drowned, besides 30,000 killed and wounded. This may give some hint, the dispatch adds, as to what is meant when it Is declared that the lighting in this region is the most des perate of the entire war thus far. A large number of women spies have boon captured and promptly shot in the vicinity of Dixmude. In some cases the women declared they have been terrorized into practicing espion age. Almost without exception they had no kiea of the risk they were run Iiinir or the penalty for their offense. The Belgian field army is doing staunch work around Dixmude. Four times on Thursday the Germans charged the Belgian trenches with bayonet along the whole front. Kach time they were repulsed with heavy loHses. Regarding its local aspect, the Ger man retreat toward Thlelt after the repulse at Dixmude may be described as a rout, for although the retreat was covered by German artillery, the French took more than 1900 prisoners. Including TOO wounded. Speaking about the aerial flight around the world, our advice is to emu late Jules Verne and 'do it with a type writer. Boston Transcript. Li I - i -1 " " I II- I FREDERICK HEW TRADE SOUGHT Commercial Leagues in Eng land Devising Means. MANY FIELDS INVITING Banking Situation, However, Which Prevents Discounting of Bills, Said to Be Serious Ob stacle to Eacportlg. LONDON, Oct. 15. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Commercial leagues and associations throughout England are making much ado. about capturing German trade. Manufac turers declare 'that the banking situa tion Is so unfavorable that English firms cannot be expected to attempt an aggressive export business. At a recent meeting called to dis cuss extension of foreign trade one manufacturer produced letters from his banker which are said to be typical of the position of London banking houses. The manufacturer had asked for a cash advance on a shipment to a foreign customer with whom the manufacturer had dealt for j-ears. The bill of ex change, the goods and the good name of the manufacturer . were all offered as security, yet the banker replied that, his institution did not care for that sort of business. Diacounttns of Bill Essential. If British manufacturers cannot dis count their bills they say a curtail ment rather than an expansion of for eign business will be imperative, and the London Board of Trade has been so advised by scores of manufacturers. Still the manufacturers have not. been discouraged by the unfavorable finan cial conditions and are endeavoring to duplicate articles which have hitherto been supplied by the Germans and Austrians. At present a glass and pottery ex hibition is in progress under auspices of the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade. Samples of all sorts of pottery and glassware for merly sent to England from tne two countries now at war with Great Britain are on exhibition. This exhi bition is primarily for the benefit of English manufacturers who are sup plied with full information as to the quantities of such ware Germany and Austria have been selling to English subjects. Pottery Field Inviting. A similar exhibition was held at which toys and games formerly sup plied to England by its enemies were shown. But the pottery and glass rield is a more Inviting one and the English factories are already trying to duplicate many of the wares Aus tria and Germany have produced in great quantities for foreign trade. The shortage of potash is s serious handicap to the production of test tubes, flasks and other glass equip ment for use in laboratories. Strange ly enough England has relied almost exclusively on Germany for such ma terials and has never tried to produce them. English manufacturers of glassware have specialized in the production of expensive cut glass and have allowed Germany to monopolize the production of cheaper grades. As a consequence there is a shortage of. skilled labor in England for glass working. Dolla Made at Home. Several English firms have already entered on the manufacture of dolls' heads with considerable success and are said to have produced samples far superior to those manufactured in Photo Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. WILLIAM AD TWO OF HIS OFFICERS AFIELD. Austria. Before Christmas England will doubtless have a good supply of dolls free from the stamp "Made in Austria" now so distasteful to English children and adults alike. Sir Richard Winfrey heads the com mittee which is organizing the British Toy Association for the purpose of dis placing Austrian and German toys per. manently'ln English territory. BERLIN YET UNTOUCHED Continued From First Page.) families of the wealthier classes are also taking into their homes poor wom en and children for one good meal daily, and there are organizations of women to find such dispensers of charity and supply them with mouths to fill. Another function of the charity or ganizations is to collect books, pictures and newspapers for the military hos pitals, of which there are several in the suburbs. There is even a society of British citizens in Berlin which sends its agents now and then to American families to ask for American magazines and books for the English prisoners at Doeberitz, a few miles out of Berlin. Theater Attendance Falls Off. The theaters and concert halls are all open as usual, but the attendance is not large. The war figures largely in the light musical farces and in the produc tions at the variety theaters, and the moving picture places present military films of many kinds. There are sham battles made in very close imitation of real war, but a proposal to take mov ing pictures of real battles, or at least battlefields, did not meet the approval of the military authorities, as the Ger man government makes it a set policy to spare the public the useless emo tional excitement of seeing and reading about the horrors of the battlefield. The theaters and concerts rlve evi dence of the high wave of patriotism on which Germany is now riding. Be tween the acts at the playhouses' the latest war bulletins are read. There Is loud applause over victories and patri otic songs are sung. Concert pro grammes also show a strong leaning to patriotic music Comic War Postcards Fall Flat. Some of the people, however, fail to catch the spirit of deep seriousness in which most Germans are now living, and picture postcard-makers recently have tried the experiment of getting out comic war .postcards. These, Sow ever, have fallen flat when sent to the front. Word has been given out by the military authorities that the soldiers now doing hard fighting are in no mood to enjoy these ill-timed efforts at fun, not a few besides being in bad taste, and the newspapers have requested their readers to refrain from sending such missives to the front. The play Impulse in Germany, how ever, has by no means been suppressed by the war. The other day a Berlin football team went to Vienna and played a match game with a team of that city. Of course, the German children are waging war with a zeal hardly less intermitting than is shown by the sol diers in the field. Wherever a group of them- get together they soon divide into two armies and proceed to enjoy the delights of bloodless battles. The boys like to congregate, especially on vacant lots, where they can dig en trenchments and build forts. Lads of a more serious bent fiock at the "Zeug haus" to see the collections of artillery and other military equipment. Western Congressmen Leaving. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Oct. 25. Representative Haw ley, of Oregon, and Senator Jones, of Washington, left tonight for home, each planning to make as many campaign speeches as possible after arrival. Rep resentative Sinnott, of Oregon; Repre sentatives Humphrey, La Follette and Falconer, of Washington, and Repre sentative Smith, of Idaho, will leave for home tomorrow. SERVIANS' TAKE FOES Montenegrins Win and Retire, Reports Ally. MANY GUNS ARE CAPTURED Balkan Forces Cllam All Attacks Re pulsed on Bosnian Front Day Before- Austrian Officials Report Defeat of Enemy. NISH. Servia. via London,' Oct. 25. The Servian War Office has issued the following: "On October 19 a detachment of the enemy advanced from Modropolje north of Kalfnovik, Herzegovina, against the flank of the Montenegrin troops' east positions at Kalinovik. A Montene grin detachment from Borivatz, per ceiving the enemy's movement, at tacked their flank and defeated them, capturing a mountain gun, nine cais sons and a large number of rifles. "On October 21 a battle took place an along the Bosnian frontier, both Servians and Montenegrins taking part. The Balkan artillery repelled all at tacks, and took 200 prisoners, including one iieia oiricer ana rour subalterns. "In view' of the enemy's severe at tacks, the Montenegrin troops have Deen compelled to fall back a little be yond their positions." An official statement issued at Vienna-on Friday said that Servian and Monteegrin forces which had pene trated the Southeastern Bosnian fron tier were defeated on October 22 after a battle of three days. E SHORT TRUCE DECLARED WHILE FAMISHED FRENCHMEN EAT. Sisht of Enemy on Way to Field Kltrn- tu Sets Flag f Trace Waving on French Entrenchment, BERLIN, Oct. 14. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) A unique dinner party Is reported in a soldier s letter from the front. At a point where the German and French lines approached to within a few hundred feet from each other. apparently to the west of Rheims, the fighting Btopped at about nightfall. and the Germans were just going to their warm meal at the nearby field kitchen, when an officer was seen to mount the French intrenchment wav ing a flag of truce. A German officer went out to met him. The Frenchman, who turned out to be the captain of a company, explained that his men were hungry, having had nothing to eat for several days, and asked whether the Germans would not give them something. "How many men have you?" he was asked. "About a hundred," was the answer. "All . right, call out your men," said the German. The company thereupon laid aside their arms and came over to the Germans, where they sat down and ate their supper with their enemies. The captain is reported to have said that his men were so famished that they would not be able to continue fighting without something to eat. People Rated as Heaviest Mcat-Kat-ers in Europe Surplus of Rye and Wheat After War Is Over Is Predicted. THE HAGUE, Oct. 15. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) Confi dential Councillor Ruebner, founder of what is known as the physiology of nutrition and a German economist of wide reputation, publishes in the cur rent issue of the Medicinische Wochen schrlft a survey of food conditions in Germany. The writer deals with the assertions of the foreign hostile press that Germany, due to its partial Isola tion in the present war. would In little time be without sufficient food. Among the items which be speaks of is milk. Germany has at present. Bays Coun cillor Ruebner, about 11,000.000 milch cows, producing about 1150 cubic cen timeters of milk per capita each day, while ' the average consumption per person is only 341 cubic centimeters In Germany, in addition to 18 grams of cheese and 7.8 grams of butter. 3OO.0OO Covra Can Be Spared. "It is plain," says the writer, "that we have a superfluity in this class of food. In case the consumption of but ter is reduced by one gram per per son the saving would amount to about 25,000 tons of butter a day, equal to about 750,000 tons of milk. In view of the fact that each milch cow pro duces annually about 2500 liters of milk, or about two and a half tons, about 300,000 animals could be killed for food purposes without interfering seriously with the milk supply of Ger many; After asserting that the Germans are the biggest meat-eaters in Europe, Dr. Ruebner gives the following table of meat consumption per capita per an num for Europe: ' Kilograms ! KUojrrams. Germany 5l!.3;Austrla-Hnngary IJS.Oi England 47.ertula 21.8 Franco Italy 10.4 Holland. Belgium 34.31 ' Late Winter Will Keep Forage. Germany's demand, the' writer as serts, is covered fully for the period of the war and, while forage is none too plentiful ordinarily, he believes that there will be no difficulty feeding the stock, especially if a late Winter makes it possible to pasture the animals longer than is usually the case. A long detailed inspection of Ger many's grain supply brings Dr. Rueb ner to the conclusion that in this re spect Germany is far better off than has been hoped by her. enemies. There ia enough wheat and rye to meet Ger many's demands during the war, and instead of present conditions indicat ing, as has been said, a shortage, there is every reason to believe that the sup ply on hand is great enough to leave a surplus. CIVILIANS LEAVING POLA Food Price Rise sand All Ordered to Iay in Six Months' Supply. POLA. Austria, via Venice and Paris, Oct. 25. The prices of provisions here have increased greatly. Bread costs 20 cents a Kilogram (2 1-5 pounds), more than double the ordinary cost. The civil population has been told that it must lay in food for six months or leave town. Already hundreds of per sons have departed. Trieste and the surrounding country are exceedingly quiet. The people gen erally seem greatly deprssed. Trelste has only enough imported coal on hand to last until December, after which time it must burn Styrian coal, which is of poor quality and is useless for gas manufacturing purposes. The streets are only half lighted in order to save gas. The police have1 adopted the severest measures to prevent Italian newspapers from circulating in Trelste and the vicinity. Persons found in possession of the forbidden papers are sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. Scarcely any teachers, police or fire men are left In the town, nearly all having gone to the front. The schools are open only two hours a day, the students acting as firemen. DR. NANSEN IS ANGERED Explorer Says Remarks on Norwe gian Armament Were Misquoted. BORDEAUX, Oct. 25. (Special.) Dispatches from Christiania say that Dr. Nansen, the explorer, is angry at the German newspapers for what he calls the travesty presented in their reports of a lecture delivered by him regarding the military position of Norway. Dr. Nansen in his discourse depored the policy which has resulted in Nor way's being left unarmed and unde fended since its secession from Sweden. The lecture was favorable to the points of view of France and England, but there was no direct reference to those countries as far as the present war affects them. The explorer has protested against the false interpretation given to his words by the German correspondents. especially - the correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung, and has brought tne suDject to the attention of the Nor wegian government through the for dism minister. 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THE HAZELWOOD CONFECTIONERY AND RESTAURANT 388-390 'Washingtoa Street. INVASION RIGHT UPHELD GERMAS SAYS LANDING IX CANADA WOULD VIOLATES NO RULE. Temporary Foothold la American Con tinent -Declared Compatible With Monro; Doctrine. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 Germany's right to land troops in Canada, if pos sible, and thus secure at least a tem porary foothold on the American con tinent, was upheld today by Count von Bernstoff. German ambassador here, who declared that this would not be violating: the Monroe doctrine. The Ambassador suggested that as Canada was sending: soldiers to Europe to fight asainst his country, the United States should not consider it in any way an infringement on the Monroe doctrine if Germany should land an armed force on Canadian soil. Discussing his now much talked of note of September 3 to the State De partment here, explaining the attitude of the German government toward the Monroe doctrine and giving assurance that Germany was not contemplating any South American colonization schemes in event of victory over the al lies, the Ambassador said only South New Through Sleeping Car Service VIA. Great Northern Railway PORTLAND TO VANCOUVER, B. G. KORTHBOUKD THAIS HO. 4S LeaT-fmjr Portlna S P. M. Tlally. Now Carries Tfcroaicli tmadar Sleeptaar Car, Arrl-rlaa? Vaacoarrer, ' B. C, 7sSO A. M. This la a very desirable train for busy business mea and others, as practically no time ia lost. Excellent Dining Car Service, Similar Service Returning Two otaer trains leavo Psrtlaaa Daily 16 A. Sf r sad IIlSO Mldalsat Fv Tsrsma. Seattle. Tat All trains from NORTH BANK Tickets, parlor and sleeping-car 41 Washington street (Morgan S. DICKSON C. P. A T. A. Telephones MsranaU 371 A 225 BEER IS NOT ALCOHOL Beer is the combined extract of malt and hops Malt builds up tissue Hops is an invigorating tonic. Beer contains natural carbonic acid gas, which gives it sparkling effervescence. Beer contains 32 to 4 per cent of alcohol developed by natural fermentation, just enough to pre serve it. Phones; Main 72, A 1172 Henry Weinhard Brewery Portland, Oregon and America was. referred to at that time, because there never had been any ques tion raised as to possible German at tempts to seek colonization in any other part of the American hemisphere. Count von Bernstoff asserted that Great Britain had officially called the attention of the United States State department to reports that Germany might attempt, if successful in the war. to colonize in South America. Officials at the department said later they did not recall that Great Britain had made any such charge but the Ambassador explained today that his notes had been intended largely as a reply to this ac cusation by Great Britain, as well as to reports which that country had been spreading in other ways that Germany had designs on South America- Kaiser's Relative Sent to Belgium. BERLIN. Oct. 25. (Via The Hague and London.) Duke Ernest Gunther. of Schleswig-Holstein, brother-in-law of the German Emperor, has been ap-. pointed assistant to the Governor General of Belgium. The Duke is well acquainted with Belgium, as he spent a long time in that cvuntry years ago. Echo Salono Is Burned. ECHO. Or., Oct. 23. (Special.) The interior of the Jordan saloon was com pletely destroyed and the building gut ted by fire at an early hour this morn ing. 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