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6 TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY. "TTO VEHU Kit 5, 1914. GERM VICTORY OH SEADUETQB1G GUNS Secondary Batteries of No Ac , count in Battle Off Coast of Chile. BRITONS ARE OUTRANGED German Fleet Able to Open Fire at Six Sliles Ioss or Wfe, Owing to Fact That Hurricane Was Blowing, Is Terrible. SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 4. No -word came today from the British ships that engaged the German squadron off Cor onel Sunday and the British side of the atory Is yet to be told. cruisers off Honolulu and the great Japanese battleship Kongo, which has a battery of 14-inch gruns. is reported to be between the Golden Gate and Honolulu. It is also pointed out that several more ' British cruisers now operating; around Kiau-Chau could get to this coast as soon as the Germans could get' to Cape Flattery. There Is little chance of the Austra lian fleet's coming: this way, because it would be needed to protect Its own coast. The Straits of Fuca in the vicinity of Victoria have also been mined, it is announced, and it is de clared for this reason alone to be Impossible for any foreign gunboats to get into the Gulf of Georgia between Vancouver and the mainland. GERMANS RETIHIHG ON EAST PRUSSIA a Retreat, According to Russian Report, Is Precipitate on Left Wing. REAR' GUARDS DISLODGED GERMANY SOW HOLDS PACIFIC At Least for Present, Cargoes on Way to Europe Are Affected. . SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4. The bril liant victory of the German squadron over the British off the coast of Chile places a new aspect on the naval situa tion in the Pacific. For the present, at least, it definite ly shifts command of Southern waters to the Germans and until there has been a readjustment of forces will make Itself felt in the movement of all cargoes between the Pacific Coast and Europe. ii'l i .1- . i r . Wfl1 Aloot "J; 'WtVnV but PETROGRAD. Nov. 4.-The follow. they are free . to move northward Ins official communication from the toward the mouth of the Panama Russian general staff headquarters was Canal or to continue southward toward I given out here tonight: the passage tnrougn me toiraiis oi ... udden chn baa been noted Decisive Victory Over Austrians Along Entire Front and Capture of Sandomlr, Important Point, Also Claimed. According to German accounts, their 5isUan and the routo round the since November 3 on the east Prussian armored cruisers Scharnhorst ana I V."ti fi, raa i.neB I front, where the enemy, which recently Gneisenau and the light cruisers Nurn- -Vw.f.-. T,,Ti Km.nrt has been on the defensive almost every- berg, Lelpsig and Bremen escaped un- Orient, already 'heavily policed where, has begun to fall back at cer scathed, while the British cruiser Mon- d le nt.ai are now tain points. This retreat is precipi mouth was sunk, the cruiser Good Hope f 5?"" " rJTi .El tate on the left wing of the enemy rut out of action and the cruiser Glas- ., in. thA npmv which was vigorously thrown back gow, with the transport Otranto, sent wlth a aefinite objective. toward Biala and Lyck. Our troops currying for shelter in the neutral TJje engagement accounts for all took Bakalarjevo, capturing a large port of Talcahuano, where they are Qerman warships at large in the Pa- quantity of arms and ammunition and bottled up by the Lelpalg and Bremen. clflQ and eagt of guez except the Em- making prisoners of a German com- Battle Over in Hour. I den, whose repeated raids on British pany. Ami,-i vnn Sn.. in hiii official re- commerce in the Indian Ocean have German Rearguard Dislodged, port of the battle, which took place late been so costly. "On the left bank of the Vistula the Sunday off the Chilean Island of St- Germans continue their retreat towards Maria, says the action lasted only an Japanese Fleet of Eight Seen. the frontier, their rearguards having hour, being discontinued at nightfall, TT . . ., -T . . been dislodged from Kolo and Praed- when the British were forced to give SANTIAGO, Chile. Nov. 4. A steamer Dorz. Cn tne morning of November 3 way. collier which has arrived at Valparaiso wa HrAVA bftr.lc the Austrians toward - a tt v "woa thn reooris navine ucou oikui. K frt wn ch nlnrA mi r troonn ncfll- .Lueuoua oupf, Tr.Btr Island, in the Pa- "T.V Vi, tI "7 " " . eo badly aamagea tnat sne u-m ".7.- - -.7 r th vu" to resist and could only maae ner es- '"p - ----- I umcinno guns. -o r.n,,.A h rbntn. unnean coast. tamer uwu "The Monmouth, under identical con- "'"""- dltions. tried to escape, but was roi- lowed by a small cruiser and was sunk with a few shots. Owing to tne nurn- cane that was blowing no boats could be lowered and consequently there was terrible loss of life. Escapes Are Due to Speed. The German Admiral In noting the esca.De of the Glasgow and Otranto ays it was due to their speed and to the darkness. GOLD DRAIN IS AVERTED "On the, same day we won a decisive victory over the Austrians along the whole front from Kielce to Sandomlr. The enemy fell back with all speed. Our troops took Sandomir, which is an Important strategic point. Cannon and Machine Gnna Taken. "In the region south of Kielce during , . -!: yttiW the past week we have made prisoners BRITISH FINANCIERS CONCEDE lf 2QQ officer8 and 1500 soidlers and CONFERENCE- IN WASHINGTON. ' have taken a large number of cannon. as well as machine guus. During the night of November 3 the Austrians Details of the fight, picked up from I P.ol of 9100,000,000, New York City I made a series of attacks, which were conversations with German officers who came ashore from the warships, chow that the Germans, owing to the superior range of the guns on the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, opened fire when six miles away. Syndicate and Crops Expected! to Discharge all Debts. fiery, but futile, and they retreated. Our troops took a firm footing In the region of Nisko and Rudnik. The Turkish fleet Is concentrated In the Black Sea. with a base on the Bos- WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. Sir George 1 phorus. Apparently they are trying to The Monmouth was built in 1900, the 1 Patsh and Basil B. Blackett. of the I avoid a fight with our forces." Good Hope in 189S and the Glasgow, Brltlsn treasury, have practically end no iieweci wl uia ckriiiBu hiiius. iu iao. .. . - , , , , . n j. i Th. Krh.rnhnr.1 and Gnelvwaau. of e we mission wnicn-Drougni. mem lu TDAWCI IMfS M A M v. n !. .ulthe United States and as a consequence I HM V UUIHU mrtla VJCl HiaU Z4 c0Os I of their conferences witn tne. E eaerai KILLED on Way Home From Trip. . tr.Aaw Vi .Dtlmataa nf 1QrtK Tha "nrn , berg was built in the same year. The Reserve Board and New York bankers Auto Crushes Chest of S. D. Williams Ieiprig and Bremen were built in 1902 lt was indicated tonight that no fur 2w t-i ther steps need be taken for the pres The Germans were able to oppose 16 . " . 8.2-inch guns against the Good Hope's ent to arrange ror snipmenis or Amen- WEISER, Idaho, Nov. 4Speclal.) two 9.2-inch main battery, which were can gold to Europe. S. D. Williams, traveling salesman for the only guns of large caliber in the Tho conferences here and in New the Shapleigh Hardware Company of British squadron. The 82 6-inch guns York have brought the conviction that St. Louis, was instantly killed this of the British cruisers were opposed to American debts abroad will be adjusted morning when his automobile turned 12 6.9 guns of the German cruiser. through the natural avenues of trade tur"ea"a .hr curvfe X""t s,,l- n.,.r T ,, ,hr,,rh th mrhliirv al- of thl3 city- His chest was crushed by In the engagement, of which few de- ready set up. The 100.000,000 gold u"nf,ger "Sv the Coroner adhls tail have been received, it is probable pool, the New York City syndicate and bI,"f" h"eQ X "'. ! ine seconaary- oaueneB oi me vessels i uiij Auiwanu A-j tif ied oia not count, tenner is n yei c ear latLe Mr Williams' headquarters were in wnetner torpeaoes were orougnt into aeDan8. um, Uo mi .ui Boise and he was returning to that city P'ay- to De adjusted. There is still the fear frnm of hl reB.uiar trios through It is said the British cruiser Bristol that if the London Stock Exchange ""ff idoHdinm the clr also participated in the fight, but no opens again for business thousands of wUn hi e8caped f rom the wreck un- other mention has been made of that dollars of American securities will be injurea Where the tragedy occurred snip ana ner presence seems unimeiy, on me marsei at oargain prices, uuunu jg a narrow bridge over an irrigating In view of the fact that on September 5 I to attract American investors. Such a ditch.. After crossing this in a heavy sue was repurieo as uauiy uamaeu in auiapiuK ui Auiciiuau n Luvna win scuu fog the car went off the grade. a iignt with the uerman cruiser K.arls- I the American balance on tne wrong i Williams was one of the popular rune oil. me coast oi nam. ii me i siae oi me leager, swinging up attlu galeiimea covering .this territory and a vtrengm or. me nristoi is aaaea to- tne I to tne point wnere jagiana mignt leei i member of the Elks. Jjritisn squadron, nowever, it gave lt I tnat sne must ask ror casn. a ship of 4820 tons of 24 knots speed I It was suggested that the co-opera- and carrying two 6-inch and 10 4-inch tion of American bankers would tend Arts and Crafts Furniture Reduced at Jenning's Removal Sale We axe exclusive Portland agents for Limbert's Holland Dutch Arts and Crafts Furniture This fine -furniture is always sold at one uniform price, which never varies. Only dur- it at a price far be low the normal. After, the sale is over, normal price will be restored The sale includes Dining-room and Bedroom Furniture as well as pieces for the living-room ing this sale will the opportunity be given to buy or library. Buy now at a saving of 20 to 33 1-3 Note the Deep Reductions on These Beautiful Pieces $12.50 Quartered Oak Library Tables, Early English, round top, a handsome 50 $27.50 Solid Quartered Oak Rockers, with high back, fine Spanish leather auto- 1 C OC seat cushion . ., P A 00 $32.00 Quartered Oak Morris Chairs, extra large and roomy, finest Spanish leather (i o a bag seat and back cushions. ... . P O.Ovf $14.50 Ladies' Solid Oak Rockers, furnished with best grade of Spanish leather auto-seat cushion ,. $16.00 Solid Oak Arm Chairs, large and roomy, genuine opamsn leatner auto cusn ions . . ,. . $7.50 Desk Chairs, finely built from &a rpj selected quartered oak. .,. .,. j)Tr O $9.60 and roomy, $9.85 A Rug Buying Opportunity Axminsters Greatly Reduced One of our buyers recently bought 80 bales of high-quality Axminster Rugs, in newest patterns. They have just arrived from the mills and go on sale with the balance of our Rug stock at removal prices. Now is you opportunity to buy the newest Rugs at an immense saving. $25.00 Arminster Rugs, 9x12 feet S17.50 $25.00 Axminster Ruga, 8:3x10:6 S16.45 $ 5.50 Axminster Rugs, 36x72 inches S 2.95 $ 3.50 Axminster Rugs, 27x54 inches 1.75 A large number of Superior Axminster Rugs, size 9x12 feet, in discontinued patterns; every pattern a good J?" A CA one. Regularly $27.50 to $30. While they lastPAU Remember We Islove to Our New Location, Holtz Bldg., November 15! The Home of Good Furniture JENNING & SONS Cor. Second and Morrison Streets guns. Germans Show Encounter. The Gneisenau and the Nurnberg ar rived Bafely at Valparaiso, although to make it hard for prospective buy ers of Buch stocks to get loans here for this purpose. The Federal Reserve Board also may omewhat the worse for the encounter! fIn a Pw?rful levfr ln thJf currency ROBBERS FIRE WAREHOUSE Blaze at Albany Likely Followed Vain Attempt on Safe. with tho Britishers. ALBANY. Or., Nov. 4. (Special.)- act itself. It permits any Federal re- .r.n.-t v,.o n-' v, ra.. I serve bank to discount notes, drafts badly damaged, arrived in Coronel Bay! and bills of exchange of member banks That the fire which destroyed the of while the Otranto escaped to Puerto where they are Issued or drawn for fice and warehouse of the Red Crown Montt. It has been Impossible to de- agricultural, industrial or commercial mill here last night was Btarted incl termine the exact movements of these purposes, or the proceeds of which dental to an attempted robbery de two vessels following the naval action, have been used or are to be used for veloped today. Whether th burglars Despite the fact that the British had such purposes. This definition, the started the fire accidentally or ma only three fighting ships as against law specifically says, "shall not in- liciously after failing to secure booty five of the Germans, the decisive de- elude notes,""$raf ts or bills covering is not known. feat of Rear-Admiral Cradock's sauad- merely investment securities, except The loss is estimated at about $12,- ron appears to have produced a pro- bonds and notes or tne (government oi round impression. The battle took the United States. place in a heavy sea. The Germans TRADE BALANCE GROWS SCALE TTJRXS 0,000,000 IN FAVOR OF UXITED STATES. CATTLE EPIDEMIC BAD aUARAXTIXB LIST. opened fire at ten kilometers, and fori a time all the British shots fell short. Later, when they got within range, their guns scored a few, but only a ''yew hits, and the casualties among the vernan 'crews were said to consist or a "-IiRlf dozen wounded. German Fire Is Excellent. The German fire is described as hav ing been excellent, although at the long range it required 400 hits to put niT,., -., , . ,, . th- Prituh.r r.r ih. fiht I Officials Unable to Estimate Extent The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau came from AustfUlia, calling: on October 14 at Easter Island, where they took on large quantities of provisions. British mall steamers in Chilean waters are Failing under the protection of Chilean torpedo-boat destroyers. 000, though no statement of insurance has been given out by the Portland Flouring Mill Company, owner of the property. The burglars knocked the handle off the safe and had endeavored to drill around the combination, but did not succeed. A hole in the top of the safe, the result of a robbery a few years TWO STATES ADDED TO FEDERAL ag' WaS SVere4 "ly WltQ PaPer but to "Will eta Food Supply of Conn- try 'Will Be Affected. CANADA TAKES KING ADDRESSES TROOPS Canadian Rally to Empire's Call In spires British Ruler. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. The worst LONDON. Nov. 4 King George and outbreak of foot and mouth disease Queen Mary, accompanied by a small ever known in the United States Is the suite, today visited Salisbury Plain. PRECAT7TIOX Department of Agriculture's estimate wn u v T7k -I . ,, , . . , . troops, who have been encamped there I of the livestock epidemic which has I . , -n.- Measures to Protect British Colum- forced Federal quarantine over six King expressed pleasure at having the I states and tnreatens a temporary re-1 opportunity to welcome to the mother M Coast Considered. duction of the Nation's food supply. country this body of soldiers. nrTiwi nn -vr.r a Tk...... An emergency appropriation Dy jon-1 ineir prompt rauy 10 me empires of five German warships in the Pacific Kress may be required to finance the call." said King George, "is of ines otf the coast of Chili and the proba- T11 ,, s,uPprf,s.s he epidemic, timable value both to the fighting bllity that two more, the Dresden and "-""V . " " " . .V the Emden, are on their way to join wek . etorf, ney culd forecast the deuce lt gives of the solidarity of the them, created considerable apprehen- ?xten to J"1 tne foof s,u.ppLy two"ld empire. The general appearance and eion here for the safety of Canadian ., o-u - k r,iA rr I lieve, however, that the shrinkage will units are highly creditable and I am the situation, the naval authorities at n0ti be lB?S' 1.nBPite of th" incon: U1'4 ' hear o the serious and earnest ntts, wc wr n M. venience to which stock growers and spirit which pervades all ranks." Measures of some sort, lt is said, will 5a5.Ker8 .wl.Ue 8UWe0,t61 unU1 tno has not been determined. The fact that the German warships October Gain Is 44,O0O,.0OO Over Sep- temker Rapid Increase Is Shown by Figures of Each Week. WASHINGTON. Nov. 4. Commerce Department officials estimated tonight that October's export balance in favor of American trade would amount to $60,000,000. That would be an increase of $44,000,000 over September's balance. The department officials based their estimates of October's exports on re ports from New York, Boston, Philadel phia. Baltimore, Galveston, New Or leans, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit and Buffalo, which handle about 80 per cent of the country's total. Ex ports from these ports amounted to, for October, $162,620,000. while the. im ports about 85 per cent of the Amer ican total were119,170,000. Figures for the first three days of the month were estimated. The rapid ity of the exports' growth during the month is shown by the weekly figures. For the week of October 4 the exports were $34,890,000. ' In the following week they decreased by $6,000,000, but In the third week they Jumped to more than $38,000,000 and ln the last week of the month tbey reached a total of $49,900,000. EXPLORER BELIEVED SAFE Captain Bartlett See No Reason Why Stefansson Should Fall. OTTAWA, Ont., Nov. 4. Captain Robert Bartlett, commander of the Stefansson ship Karluk, which was lost in the Arctic, arrived here today. . Ho said there was little prospect that the eight missing members of the expedi tion, who left the main party soon after the ship sank, would be found alive.' Stefansson, said Captain Bart lett, was Undoubtedly safe. "There is no reason," said Captain Bartlatt, "why Stefansson should fail to reach Banks Land by crossing the ice of Coronation Gulf, as he planned." Captain Bartlett willgo from here to New York. E!IL'0h"1. ?0.r' 7m. INTERCLASS DEBATE DUE to remove handicaps upon the move J 1 ment of livestock. The quarantine does Vlr-l Z IVsZ H?tit tT.8 nt Prevent the shipment of stock from Students of St. Johns High School to taken Hero as a clear Indication that I ij jlcf..t . . , , ""-"-uf.'Sl"?; within the-nuarantined area, and there hat little -n,ilH k. rfnn. In t "'1'"'"- m. .;i t t dressed meat. for coaling the fleet and lt was felt Meet Tomorrow. ST. JOHNS. Or Nov. 4. (Special.) New York and Maryland were added I An interclass debate will be held in to the list of quarantined states to-1 James Johns High School tomorrow, day. A Department of Agriculture The' debaters will be: Freshmen. statement announcing this said: IWyeth Jayne, Miss Margaret Nelson I n. V. It.. r.r a a.A., n-wwr I 3 111 l". 1 J I ' I T . . . V. i . . . . . . . J no iint i "iui-uu uwn iiuaiaiuniDU ana 1U1SB uiuriva noun , ouyuuiiiuiva, ? !J .?,?.Vf. JiV T,f IIlinola and Pennsylvania. In addi- discussed will apply to school govern- would be subject In carrying out such Uon restrictions have been placed on mat, r " ;f ':;. ',.' ' r" . T interstate shipments from Ohio, al- Free lessons in fancy work given at this fleet until British and Japanese warships now at Tslng-Tau are re lieved. It is feared that the German fleet may steam north and under threat of be an attack from the two submarines though, no cases have as yet been Couch & Co.'s store have been arranged th. tvT"'V VTJ ro ound ,n tnat state- Tnere l reason so that on Tuesday from 3:30 to 6 P. M. . ,0pe",inf0'?J!!aran?T.h.lch.,are to fear, however, that infected stock children only will be taught. Thurs- may have been sent into Ohio. If this I day from 2:30 to 5 P. M. lessons will is found not to have been the case the I be sriven to women only. These lessons VANCOUVER. B. C Nov. 4. No ap- embargo will be lifted." I aro growing in popularity among prehension Is felt here of a raid on I This outbreak, which is the nrst ln I women and girls and tho classes are Victoria and Vancouver by the Ger- tne umtea & t-at.es since ius, is re- being qvercrowded. TnjLn wmkina which unnamiiiv tcnri-ri I garded as the most serious of any that I i VXC1TZJ: enced:nUed " " Cottage Grove Honor, Militiaman. sides the Japanese cruiser Idzumo, the British cruisers Newcastle and Swift- COTTAGE GROVE, Of., Nov. 4 Th KkuTiic brinira anmiaJlT ti the trao-1 (Special.) Le Roy Woods has been sure, as well as tho Canadian cruiser I per of tba United Statea about f3.000.000. 1 elected captain of the Sixth Company, Rainbow are attached to tho Esqul- It etanda aecond in importance only to the q - x. B, Ho will take the necessary malt station. ESTST... f a rtSS .icin e rt.lui examination shortly and after passing j.aeT9 axe at ioaot. two Japanese i market avarasas from 2i oenta to $3.60. Itnat AO wiu receive aim commission. BR? mm Boyor-Giri? 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