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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAy. TUITR SPAY, OCTOBER 29, 1914". 3 BRITISH AT YPRES DRIVE ENEMY BACK Crown Prince of Bavaria Re ported to Have Been Wound ed in Severe Battle. NIGHT ATTACK REPULSED Buslies Soaked With Petroleum Sud i dcnly Burst Into Flames, and Men Hidden in Beet Fields Make Gallant, Futile Charge. LONDON,' Oct. 28. The correspond ent of -the Times In Northern France sends the following regarding the fight ing in Belgium under Tuesday's date: The British fire at Yores, after a glorious stand for five days against overwhelming odds, drove the enemy IS miles. The German forces were commanded bv the Bavarian Crown Prince, who, it is reported, has been wounded. "The British forces captured Lange- marck. five miles northeast or xpres, on Friday, Inflicting enormous losses on the enemy. "At night, after the roar of the cannon had ceased, there was suddenly a. shrill whistle and bushes soaked in petroleum broke Into flames, throw- ing a glare over the scene. Germans Charge With Yell aad Sons "Masses of men sprang up from the best crops within a few hundred yards of our trenches and with bugle sound, yell and song they came dashing for ward to our position. "Though taken by surprise, our brave men were .not unprepared. Tney toon their Dlaces in the trenches and held them, pouring a terrible fire into the advancing hosts. "Answering rifle and machine gun the enemy advanced, still with the bugle playing and amid shouts of 'Hoch! Hoch!' They were in dense masses, and they fell by the hundreds. They got within 30 yards of the trenches when they recoiled. Neither Side Gives Uiurter, "Then came three blasts of a whistle, Bounding the retreat. Our men sprang from the trenches and went in among them with the bayonet. The slaugh ter was terrible and there were many hand-to-hand encounters. "In the dim glare of the burning bushes some of the enemy threw down their arms and pleaded for mercy. No Quarter, -however, was given on either side. The work was too desperate for that. Bayonet and bullet did their work and the enemy was driven back on Koulers. "A battery and several machine guns were captured and thousands of pris- oners were taken, including .a General and several other officers. WAR EXTENSION FORECAST Adventist Says Conflict Indicates Second Coming of Christ. - WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. Support for the movement to raise SIOO.OOO for for eign mission endeavor next year, was pledged by the 'general conference of Seventh Day Adventists here today. Bishop Underwood, of Nebraska, urged the conference to prepare "to meet the conditions arising in the mission fields from the European war and decided that next year would be "tenfold more horrible than the present." Bishop Underwood said he felt that other nations would be involved be fore the struggle closed. He referred to the war as one of the surest evi dences he had seen of the second re turn of the Lord. BELGIAN COAST IS QUIET British Between Ages of 1 6 and 60 Years Ordered to Jjeave. I AMSTERDAM, via London. Oct. 28. The correspondent at Sluia of the Tele grraaf reports that remarkable quiet prevails along1 the coast of Belgium. The German garrisons at Bruges, Heist and Knocke, he says, are not large. The -German commander at Bruges has published a proclamation ordering all British subjects between the ages of 16 and 60 to leave Belgium. As the railways are occupied with the trans portation of German troops, the exodus of the Britishers is proceeding slowly. FOUR DAYSi. BATTLE WON (Continued Prom Kirst Page.) - Jevo. Repeated attacks have all been repulsed. -"The success which we have won to the south of the Piliza, the result of which was the retreat of the enemy on the main front, Is of the greatest Importance." The Austrian attempt to envelop the left flank of General Brussiloff, the Russian commander, according to semi-official announcement issued here today, finished badly for the Austrlans. un uctoDer zt the Russians sur rounded an entire cavalry division, to gether with some landsturm troops, 14 miles south of Sambor, and, with lew exceptions, annihilated them, cap turing 20 guns and a train of ammunl tion. BERL1X ADMITS WITHDRAWAL Kusslans Outnumber Combined Enemies in Poland. BERLIN. Oct. 28 The German and Austrian troops In Poland, according to an official announcement issued in Ber lin today, have been forced to with draw before fresh Russian forces ad vancing from Ivangorod, Warsaw, and Novogeorgievsk. after having repulsed all former Russian attacks. The state ment continues: "At first, the Russians did not fol low and the withdrawal of our troops took place without difficulty. The re serve troops will change their forma tion according to the situation." Austro-German official reports from the eastern theater of the war in dicate that severe battles are raging along the Vistula and San rivers. The Germans apparently are engag ing numerically superior Russian forces and the battle is attracting equal at tention with the struggle in France and Belgium. The bulletin Issued last night by the Austrian War Department says the Austrianii, southwest of Ivangorod, are combating numerically superior forces of Russians. Further Russian corps, whose cross ing of the Vistula River north of Ivan gorod has been mentioned in the earlier German reports, seem, accord- lTT to MioT- Mprsh nfltttr'- rnr... spondent of the Berliner Tageblatt, to Do directed against the "German army. It is to be hoped. Major Moraht says, that the leaders of the allied Austrian and German armies will be able to co-operate fully against this Russian movement. The bravery of the, allied troops gives ground for the ex pectation that the advance against the Russian positions on the Vistula will be renewed." The military expert of the Lokal An- zeiger points out that the Russians, with the Vistula In their rear, would be in a bad position if they received a check. The situation in Galicia, the writer says, is unchanged. RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN POLAXD French Embassy Reports Repulse of Austrlans in Carpathians. WASHINGTON. Oct. 28. An official dispatch made public today by the French Embassy said of the battles In the East: . In Poland the progress of the Rus sian., continues. A vigorous combat took place in the region of Jorzow rawa. In the direction of No- Alexan dria Zevolen the enemy beat a retreat leaving the Russians 50 officers, . 3000 men and several mitrailleuses ana cannon. To the south of Zoletz the Russian troops crossed the Vistula, taking eight officers and 800 men. "In the Carpathians the Austrlans were thrown back on the railway near Staromiesto-Turka. In East Prussia violent German attacks were repulsed." COTTON SHIPS WANTED AMEKICAN VESSELS SOUGHT TO CARRY PRODUCT TO GEUMANY. State Department Plans to Have Sj Steamer Bring Back Dyestaffs and Cyanide Cargoes. NEW YORK, Oct. 28. The British Government having assured the State Department at Washington that cotton, not being contraband, would be allowed to go through to Germany and Austria, American vessels are being sought in this port to carry abroad the first shipments. Robert K. , Rose, foreign trade adviser of the State Department, in making this announcement here to day, said that the " cotton would be landed either at ports In Holland and transported into Germany by rail, or would be shipped direct to Germany. It is planned to have the vessels bring back dyestuffs, cyanide, cheml cals, medicines, sugar beet seed and potash.- - Although Germany has lifted the embargo on these products, it has been stipulated that cyanide and dye- stuffs must be carried in American bot toms. For that reason American ves sels are being sought to carry cotton abroad . The Matanzas, the first steamer laden with dyestuffs from Germany since the embargo was lifted, left Rotterdam for New York today and the Sun. an Amer ican steamer, will leave Rotterdam No vember 1 with the first cargo of cyan ide. It is estimated that the prosperity of 600,000 American textile workers de pends upon the free movement from Germany of dyestuffs and it is said that the owners of American gold and silver mines depend upon German cyanide to extract those metals. BERLIN, via The Hague and London Oct. 28. James W. Gerard. American Ambassador to Germany, has succeeded In obtaining from the German Govern ment the lifting of the embargo placed on 1000 tons, of potash destined for America. COPPER CARGO DETAINED American Steamship Rroonland Held by liritish. at Gibraltar. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. The Amer ican steamship Kroonland from New York, bound for Naples and-. Greece, with a cargo of copper, has been de layed at Gibraltar by British authori ties, according to a report to the State Department today from American Con sul Sprague. Consul Sprague did not report the reason for the detention of the Kroon land, but as copper is listed by the British Foreign Office as conditional contraband, it is assumed that the British government s attitude will be similar to that in the case of another American ship which carried copper to Holland. In that case, when the Dutch Government gave assurances that cop per ' cargoes would not be re-shipped from Holland, the British government withdrew its objection. 0STEND CONSUL REPORTS American, in First Slessage Since Seizure, Tells of Sea Attack. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. State De partment officials heard today from American Consul Henry Albert John son, at Ostend, for the first time since the place was occupied by the German forces. Consul Johnson's message dated Octo ber 23, by way of Holland, said shots were exchanged that day between Ger many artillery on shore and British warships at sea. The property of the Hotel Majestic was destroyed and sev eral persons were wounded. WILSON IN THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION SAYS UNITED STATES CAN FEED "ALL. WHO NEED FOOD." WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. President Wilson : today designated Thursday, November 26, as Thanksgiving day. The proclamation said: ' "It has long been the honored custom of our people to turn in " the fruitful Autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Al mighty God for his many blessings and mercies to us as a Nation. The year that is now drawing to a close since we last observed our day of National thanksgiving has been, while a year of discipline be cause of the mighty forces of war and of changes which have dis turbed the world, also a year of special blessing for us. "It has been vouchsafed to us to remain at peace, with, honor, and In some part to succor the suffering and supply the needs of those who are In want. We have been privileged by our own peace and self-control in some degree to steady the counsels and shape the hopes and purposes of a day of fear and distress. Our people have looked upon their own life as a Nation with deeper comprehension, ' a fuller realization .of their responsibilities as well as of their bless ings and a keener sense of the moral and practical significance of what their part among the nations of the world may come to be. . "The hurtful effects of foreign war In their own Industrial and commercial affairs hav made them feel the more fully and see the more clearly their mutual interdependence upon one anther and has stirred them to a helpful co-operation such as they have seldom practiced before. - They have . been quickened by a great moral stim ulation. Their unmistakable ardor for peace, their earnest pity and disinterested sympathy for those who are suffering, their readi ness to help and to think of the needs of others, has revealed them to themselves, as well as to the world. "Our crops will feed all who need food; the self-possession of our people amidst the most serious anxieties and difficulties and the steadiness and resourcefulness- of our business men, will serve other nations as well as our own. "The business of the country has been supplied with Instru mentalities and the commerce of the world with new channels of trade and intercourse. The Panama Canal has been opened to the commerce of the nations. The two continents of America have been ' bound In closer ties of friendship. New instrumentalities of inter national trade have been created which will be also new instrumen talities of acquaintance, intercourse and mutual service. Never be fore have the people of the United States been so situated for their ' own advantage or the advantage of their neighbors or so equipped to serve themselves and mankind. "Now, therefore. I. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 2fith of No vember next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease from their wonted occupations and In their several homes and places of. worship render thanks to Almighty God." MINE DRAGGERS HIT Loss to Japan So Far Is Two; Another Is Damaged. RESCUE SHIP IS BLOWN UP Several Thousand Explosive Ma chines Are Laid in Waters Off. Their Possession of K-iau-Chau, in Far East. TOKIO, Oct. 6. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Two Japanese steamers have been blown up thus far and a third has been damaged while engaged ln removing German mines, several thousand of which were laid off the German possession of Kiau-Chau. The first, vessel to suffer, was the small steamer Wakamiya Maru, which with others was clearing mines from the gulf of Lao-Chan, northeast of Tsing-Tau, off the point . where the second Japanese expeditionary force was landed. A tremendous explosion occurred beneath the Wakamiya Maru. Water rushed Into the engine-room and extinguished the fires. Realizing that she had struck a mine, the captain ran his vessel full speed intoshallow water, closed the water-tight compart ments and finally beached the ship. The explosion killed one man and wounded seven. Another mine-dragger, the Nagato Maru. saw the accident and. was hur rying to render assistance when her nose touched a mine. Her bow leaped into the air in a column of smoke. Falling to the water, the ship settled and sank. Three seamen were killed by the explosion and eight men, in cluding two officers, were wounded. The others jumped and were rescued. The loss of the Koyo Maru October 1 occurred in about the same manner. A detonation shook the engine-rooms. All officers and sailors on the upper deck were thrown overboard by the force of the explosion. Everybody in the engine-rooms was either killed or wounded. The bow of the vessel rose in the air and the ship sank in three minutes, stern first. Two other ships hastened to the rescue. They picked up the wounded first and then the commander and other officers and the men. The cas ualties numbered nine. MASS FORMATION GOES GERMANY TO TRY TO AVOID DIS COVERY BY AIRMEN. Marked Losses Inflicted by Preach Artillery Accredited to Quickness -In Iocatlne Batteries. - LONDON, Oct. 28. The correspond ent of the Daily Mailin Paris, in a dispatch to this paper, "gives a copy of the German order on avoiding aero planes. It says: "According to the report of aero plane observers, our troops are easy to discover in spite of their gray uni forms, because of the density of their formation, while the French know how to protct themselves perfectly from aerial reconnalsance. "During a fight our troops must make use of the narrow files among trees at the edge of villages and near the shelter of houses, avoiding mass formations. Above all, absolute still ness must be maintained in exposed places. At the approach of an aero plane all movements should cease and it is also necessary to avoid all move ments of - batteries when aeroplanes are surveying. A single man moving will betray a battery. There should also be no firing, for the flash of a gun betrays Its position to the air squadrons. "The success of the French artillery, which has caused such marked losses, is due first to their quickness in de termining the positions of our bat teries." EFFICIENCY EXPERT HERE Irving E. VInlng'Will Speak at Y. M. ' C. A. This Morning. Irving E. Vining, efficiency engineer and instructor in business efficiency in several New York Young Men's Chris tian associations, will . speak at the Portland Y. M. C. A. at 10:30 o'clock this morning. The leaks In business that often wreck firms on the rocks of bankruptcy and the methods by which they may be stopped will be discussed at this morn ing's lecture. Mr. Vintng's name is a household word among the large busi ness firms of New York and his repu tation in his particular line of work Is national. Mr. Vining will speak to the Mothers' Congress this afternoon. He is in Ore gon to visit his mother at Ashland. A CALL HUMANITY IN SUFFERING Official .Station for the American Red Cross for Receiving Subscriptions and Supplies Has Been Opened in Portland at thie Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Store. Red-Cross , .Booth At 5th -Street Entrance KING'S COUSIN DIES British Royal Family Suffers First Loss in War. PRINCE MAURICE KILLED King and Queen Condole With Prin cess Henry, His Mtother Two of Brothers Also Have Been Servlns at Front. LONDON, Oct. 28. Prince Maurice, of Battenburg. a 'cousin of Kins George and a eon of Princess Henry of Batten-burg-, has been killed on the battlefield In France. He was an officer of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Prince Maurice Victor Donald of Bat tenberg was the youngest son of Prince Henry of Battenberg, who married Princess Beatrice, a sister of the late King Edward. The Prince was the brother-in-law of King Alphonso of Spain. He was 23 years old and since 1911 had been a second lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Field Marshal Sir John French, the commander-in-chief of the British expedition ary force in France, in his reports to Minister of War Kitchener, given out on October 18 last, mentioned the Prince for meritorious . service in the field. Prince Maurice was the first mem ber of the British royal family to be killed In the present war. It was re ported that the Prince was not actually killed on the field of battle, but that he died afterward of wounds received in an engagement. King George and Queen Mary visited Kensington Palace today to condole with Princess Henry, his mother. Two brothers of Prince Maurice also went to the front Lieutenant Prince Alexander, of the Royal Grenadier Guards, and Lieutenant Prince Leopold, of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Prince Leopold was invalided home recently, suffering from an injury to his knee, the result of a fall. Prince Henry, of Battenburg, father of the three Princes, died from typhoid fever while on service In the Ashanti. HINDU DEPORTER SHIFTED Canada Fears Official at Vancouver . May Be Killed. OTTAWA. Ont.. Oct. 28. Immigra tion Inspector Malcoln Reid, of Van couver, who had charge of the oper ations which prevented the landing of 400 Hindus from the steamship Kom agata Miru af Vancouver, has been transferred to an Eastern post. The government decided, it is said, that Mr. Retd's life was In danger as long TO THE RED-CROSS COLORS NOTE This is an official station of the American Red Cross authorized by the society. The fact is stated here because the American Red Cross is pro tected by an act of Congress, and stations may not be opened except by permission. 4 Money, of Course, Is Preferred . Contributions and subscriptions, however small or large, received at our Red Cross station. Twenty-five cents will give an hour of a nurse's care. Even J 0 cents will buy enough ether or chloroform to provide a painless operation. Checques should be made payable to American Red Cross. Supplies The Red Cross asks us to state that "supplies" does not mean old clothing, and that only new garments and only those new garments ap proved by the Red Cross can be received. Garments such as pajamas, nightshirts, convalescent robes, nightingales, knitted woolen socks and knitted caps. These can be made at home. Our Delivery Wagons Will accept such supplies on their routes or will call within our delivery limits in response to 'phone'" messages. A Letter From Lipmait, Wolfe & Co., . Portland. Or. Gentlemen: Having had mp attention called to your efforts to aid the ttorfc of the American Red Cross Society I wish to commend the good jork Jou are doing and assure Jou of the hearty co-operation of our office. (Signed) OSWALD WEST. October 26, 1914 Governor. as he remained on the Pacific Coast, as several attempts to assassinate him have been reported. Since the immigration officials re fused to permit the landing of the Ko ma sat a Maru's passengers, three government employes in British Co lumbia have lost their lives in mys terious ways. Cold: Weather Blocks Bis Race. KALAMAZOO. Mich.. Oct 28. A match race between the pacing stal lions Directum I and William, which was to have been run here this after noon, was called off because of cold weather. The race was to have been for a purse of $5000. Cholera Reported at Lisbon. LONDON. Oct. 28. According to a Central News dispatch from Copen hagen, the Cologne Gazette reports that an epidemic of cholera, has broken out at Lisbon, and that the Spanish government has stopped all commun ication across the frontier. Texas Horses Sent to War. FOR WORTH. Tex.. Oct. 28. The first shipment of 3000 horses purchased here for use in the European war by repre- Suffered Twenty-One Years - - Finally Found Relief Having suffered for twenty-one years with a pain In my side. I finally have found relief in Dr. Kilmers Swamp Root. Injections of morphine were my only relief for short periods of time. I became so sick that I had to undergo a surgical operation in New Orleans, which benefited me for two years. When the same pain came back one day I was so sick that I gave up hopes of living. A friend advised me to try your Swamp-Root and I at once com menced using it. The first bottle did me so much good that I purchased two more bottles. 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