VOL. I.IV. NO. 16,834. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V TSING-TAU, IN i, FALLS Surrender of Fortress Surprise to Tokio. Is HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED British and Japanese Besieg ing Forces Take Posses sion After Hard Fight. ALLIES' SHIPS TAKE PART Garrison, Much Outnumbered, Long Resists Attack by Land, Sea and Air. ' TOKIO, Nov. 7. It is officially an nounced that the German fortress of !Tsiiig-Tau has surrendered to the Jap anese and British forces. It is farther announced that the first step in bringing about the sur render of the fortress occurred at mid night, when the infantry charged and occupied the middle fort of the line of defense. In this operation they took 200 prisoners. Surrender Is Surprise. The Germans hoisted the white flag at 7 o'clock this morning at the weather observation bureau of Tsing Tau. The quickness of capitulation of the Germans was cause of much surprise and joy to the men of the. army and navy operating against it, and also to the people of Tokio. The charge against the middle fort was a briliant one. It was led by' General Yoshimi Yamuda, at the head of companies of infantry and engin eers. The number of the German and Japanese losses, which were large, have not been announced. j Last Asiatic Possession Gone. The capture of Tsing-Tau loses to Germany her last foot of possessions on the Asiatic mainland as well as her last strategic position outside of the German empire in Europe. For nearly three months the little German garrison, amounting to about 7000 and nearly wholly composed of reservists who were living or doin business in China, has held out against the land and sea attacks of the Jap anese and of certain British detach ments of both white and Indian troops that found themselves in China at the outbreak of the war. What the losses of the garrison have - been are not known, but the official Japanese and British reports have indicated that Tsing-Tau has been taken at heavy cost of men on the part of the allies. Action Begun in August. It was on August 15 that Japan threw herself into the European war as an ally of Great Britain, after de manding that Germany withdraw or intern all German warships in Asiatic waters and relinquish possession of Kiau-Chau. In the statement from Tokio that accompanied this demand, Japan asserted her intentions were purely military and did not contem plate the retention of one foot of ground on Chinese, territory, and later affirmed that she did not intend to extend her holdings in the islands of the Pacific that might fall into her possession during the campaign. Her demands ignored, when the ul timatum expired a week later, Japan proceeded cautiously with plans to seize the German settlement on the Chinese mainland. Modern Warfare Waged. The operations in this isolated Far Eastern theater of the war have been reduced to a scale of some 200 square miles, as compared with the whole continent of Europe; but on that ac count they have been none the less interesting. Aeroplanes and all other accompaniments of modern warfare CHINA BULLETINS LOKDOX, Nov. According to a Central N'enri dispatch from Copen hasn the German Minister there. Count Von Brookdorft Raatun. has categorically denied that the German Crown Prince and Prince Albert were either wounded or,Ji.llled. He aaya both are In the beat of health. LONDON. Not. 6. A diapatch from Stockholm aaya the government haa proteated to Enrland aaralnat the Brlt Inh Admiralty order dosing the North Sea. WASHINGTON. Nov. . Acting; Sec retary LaniiniE today promlaed Senator James, of Kentucky, to reqneat Great Britain to place tobacco In the name claaa with cotton and give aaanraneea that ahlpmenta In nentral vessels to Germany and Australia will not be In terfered with. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. New Zea land haa declared an embargo on wool. tt,t to the allied power. Formal notification waa received today at the State Department LONDON, Nov. 6. A Renter Tele gram Company dispatch from Amster dam sayat "A telegram from Berlin an nounces that the Emperor In a Cabinet order haa promised a reward of 750 mark (about S1S8) for each machine captured." LONDON, Not. 6. A dispatch to the Central News from Salonlkl says that Oiographoa, the ex-Governor of that seaport, haa addreaaed a proclamation to the Eplrotea, Informing; them of the annexation of Eplrua by Greece. LONDON, Not. 6 The Amsterdam correspondent of Renter's Telegram Company says that General Jooat, formerly a commander In the Boer army, haa entered the British a volunteer. AMSTERDAM, Not. 6. The Vosslsche Zeltnns; haa published a dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, saying Tnrklah cmlaers have successfully bombarded the Rat slan fortified aeaport of Datum, on the east shore of the Black Sea. BERLIN, Nov. . (By wireless.) The newspaper Social Demokraten, pub lished in Stockholm, anggeats am eco nomic league of neutral powera against the encroachmenta of England. BERLIN. Nov. ft (By wireless.) General Pearson, who served as 4uar termaster-General In the Boer army In 1808, la now In Berlin. He has said In an Interview that there was no doubt that the Boers would now throw off the British yoke forever. WORLD'S BIGGEST GUN SET United States Secretly Constructs and Completes Monster Rifle. WASHINGTON, Nov. . The largest and most powerful naval gun ever de signed has just been completed for the United States Navy. It Is a 16-lnch rifle, which. It became known tonight. has been constructed without publicity at the Washington Navy Tard and is now being put through tests at the In dian Head proving grounds on the Po tomac, below this city. If the new weapon proves to be the success Its trials promise, In all prob ability It will be adopted for the main battery of the three dreadnoughts au thorlzed at the last session of Con gress. These vessels will be larger by several thousand tons than any ship now afloat. It is said the 16-inch gun will have a range of 15 miles and at least twice the penetrating power of the famous German howitzers. MANILA ISSHIP REFUGE Harbor Reported Full of Interned Vessels of German Flag. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. . (Special.) The harbor of Manila is full of Ger man merchant vessels Interned in the American port for protection from seiaure, according to advices received here by mail. Because of the proximity of the Jap anese fleet, the Germans will be unable to get away from Manila for an in definite period. Money is said to be tight in Manila, out cusiness continues good in many lines. At Colombo the British turned several big German steamers, which they had. captured, into colliers, and British skippers for them were at premium. In the absence of captains with master's papers the berths went to third mates from Pacific, Oriental and British India vessels. VILLA "MAY BE PRESIDENT Provisional Executive of Mexico Re ported to Have Resigned. SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Nov. 6. Ac cording to advices received tonight from Aguas Callentes by a San Antoni newspaper. General Eulalio Gutierrez has resigned as provisional president and may be succeeded by Villa himself. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Nov. 6. Gen eral Villa two days ago wired General Carranza proposing that in order to settle the question of peace in Mexico that both he and Carranza be executed, according to A. Dittman, a photograph er, who returned today from Agua callentes. General Carranza did not answer. 'THE NUDE' BARRED IN MAIL Chicago Also to Prohibit Painting' Display In Windows. CHICAGO, Nov. 6. The denied today to copies of ' the painting which won Palmer prize of $1000 at malls were The Nude, the Potter the annual aioiuiuan ul American paintings at the Art Institute here. The work of art was described "purely vulgar" by C. A. Angler, post office Inspector. Copies of "The Nude" will be barred from store windows. Major M. L. Funkhouser. second deputy chief of po BATTLE FORGED BY I DEFEATED ADMIRAL radock Unmindful of Foe's Superiority. ACTION DELAYED BY GERMANS Favor of Setting Sun Awaited by Larger Squadron. BRITON BELIEVED ASHORE Ship Reported Beached on Chilean Coast May Be Monmouth, and Rescue of Crew Will Be At tempted One Escapes. LONDON, Nov. 6. It was the British cruiser Good Hope, Rear-Admlral ' Sir Christopher Cradock's flagship, which foundered after being set on fire by shells from German warships, in the naval battle that took place off the Chilean coast last Sunday. A dispatch from Lima, Peru, says the cruiser Glasgow has arrived at Puerto Moutt, Chile. The British cruiser Monmouth, which the Germans said they had sunk, was badly damaged and it is possible that she is the warship which was reported today to be ashore on the coast of Chile. So far as is known none of the Good Hope's crew survived. Britishers Choose Battle. Thla was the news given to the Brit ish public by the Admiralty tonight. Just as the people were beginning to think that the German accounts of the result of the battle .In the Pacific had Deen exaggerated. The only bit of satisfaction for the British is that their little Pacific fleet had itself chosen to give battle to a much stronger squad ron and had not been overwhelmed un til the last possible shot had been fired at the enemy. The British cruiser Glasgow, which was with the Good Hope and Mon mouth, also put up a fight against the two German cruisers Leipzig and Dresden, and when her bigger sisters were put out of action managed to escape. Foe's Strength Not Considered. Rear-Admlral Cradock lived up to his reputation of being one of the fol lowers of that naval Bchool which be lieves that the enemy should be en gaged, no matter what his superiority. According to the Admiralty it was he who brought about the action, for the German squadron was at first disin clined to give battle. It was only when dusk came on and the light was In their favor that the Germans engaged the British, who were three to their four, while superiority in number of range guns was also in favor of the Germans. The battleship Canopus, which was (Concluded on Page 4.) AND I INDEX OF TODAFS NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 62.0 degrees; minimum, oegreea. TODAY'S Probably fair, variably winds. moatly southerly. War. , Belgians holding both sides of River Taer. Pass- S. United States probably will build more sub marines. Face 1. -Tslns-Tau surrendered by Germans. Page 1. Britain suapects Italians of aiding Germans to obtain contraband, rage . Bpeedy, decisive victory over Teutons is Russian prediction. rage z- German artillery reported bogged In Iioou- ed area In Flanders. Page i. Kronprlnzeasln Cecllle tranaferred safely to Boston under American convoy. Page X. Battle off Chilean coast forced by defeated Britishers. Page i. Starvlnc Belalans are saved by American food. Page 4. Elections. Arizona brewers will make near beer Page 8. Washington Republicans will have majori ties In both houses. Page o. i Reault on one California seat in Congress in in doubt. Paei 8. Lair H. Thompson probable president oi Oregon Senate and Ben selling uv SDeaker of House. Page 1. Liquor law date of enactment pussies Wash ington. Page 9. Amendment abolishing capital punishment appears to have carried. page 11. Domestic. Kansas City stocKyards afire; thousands ot hogs doomed. Page 2. National. Livestock epldemlo reaches Massachusetts and Iowa. Page 6. Pacific Northwest. Newberg man hacked with hatchet during (lght near Salem. Page 4. Sports. American Leaguers leave big problems un solved Page 14. Columbia defeats Jefferson, 12 to 2. Page 14. Idaho stronger than many think, .says Coach Stewart. Page 14. Clabby wins decision over George Chip. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Sharp advance in wheat prices In country markets. Page IB, Damage to Argentine crop affects wheat at Chicago. Page 15. Interest rates st New York are declining. Page 15. Grain ships leaving and connderce in clear course Is expressed. Page 15. Portland and Vicinity. Public schools to take part In today's Land Products Show programme. Page 10. Judge McGinn arm In stand that women shall not hear Immoral cases tried. Page 7. Veterans' patrlotlo programmes draw crowds to Land Show. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11. 433,247 ALLIES CAPTIVE Germans Report Number of Prison ers Held in Prison Camps. LONDON, Nov. 6. A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Company from Am sterdam says that advices received there from Berlin say that up to last Sunday the" ' German concentration camps and hospitals held the follow lng prisoners; r'French, SI 38 officers and 188.018 men; Russians, 8121 of ficers and 186,779 men; Belgians, E37 officers and 84,907 men; British, 417 officers and 15,730 men. The correspondent adds that the Berlin, dispatch says these figures do not include prisoners not encamped. GERMAN VESSEL HITS MINE Large Steamer Sinks by Explosive Placed by Teutons. COPENHAGEN, via London, Nov. 6. A large German steamer has been blown up south of the Danish Island of Lang land, in the Great Belt, by a mine said to have been placed by the Germans. Several of her crew were lost. NO ONE ATTENDED THE FUNERAL. UNITED STATES TO BUILD SUBMARINES Second GreatSeagoing Diver Asked For. DEPARTMENT IS IMPRESSED Sacrifice of Battleship May Be Considered in Congress. MORE TORPEDOES NEEDED Secretaries of War and Navy Discuss Lessons of European War More Men in Both Arms of Serv ice Are Required. WASHINGTON, Nov. S. Both Secre tary Garrison and Secretary Daniels will lay before Congress, in their an nual reports, soon to be made public, the lessons they believe the Army and Navy of the United States should draw from the war in Europe. No extraordinary expenditures have been asked for by either the War or Navy Departments in the annual esti mates already filed with the appropria tlon committees of Congress, but the two Cabinet heads will discuss In de tail the best method of obtaining a mo bile and adequate Army and a power ful and efficient fleet. Secretary Garrison will endeavor to concentrate the attention of Congress and the country on the necessity of i definite National military policy, ex tending over a period of years. Interest In Submarines Renewed. Secretary Daniels will recommend two battleships, but probably will ask Congress to give the Navy authority, as it did last year, to expend a lump sum for submarines without fixing the number. The spectacular raids of submarines in the European war have drawn at tention to the fact that last year Con gress .appropriated an . aggregate of mora than $4,000,000 for the building of submarines and specified that on of them should be a seagoing vessel. practically twice the size of those used in the coast patroL Such a submarine, according to the explanation made by naval officers at the time to Congress, will be the larg est and most powerful in the world able to accompany the fleet every' where. European submarines have been able to make only, comparatively short voyages from their bases, and the great cruiser submarine planned by American naval officers, bids for which are soon to be opened, will eclipse any of the kind seen in the present war. Two-Battleship - Plan Adhered To. There is every likelihood that Sec retary Daniels will ask for money enough to provide a second submarine (Concluded on Paaa 2.) Friday's War Moves ACCORDING to an official report from Tokio yesterday the Ger mans surrendered the fortress of Tsing-Tau, the fortified point of Kiau Chau, China. Japan declared war on Germany on September 23 and a week ater had taken possession of the heights commanding Kiau-Chau. From that time on the siege continued, al though the actual Investment of the fortress was not completed for some time. The battle was fought on land and sea and in the air. Both sides lost hips and men. The crew of an Aus trian warship aided In the defense British soldiers fought with the Jap anese and a French warship aided in the blockade of the port and the bom bardment of the position. Recently fighting had been incessant. Tsing Tau was strongly fortified, but its gar rison was relatively small. The principal military advantage gained by the fall of the fortress will be the release of the blockading war ships, which It has been said would proceed to the task of protecting the allies' trade routes in the Pacific as soon as they were free to do so. The Russians report that,- having driven the Germans back to their bor der in the north and forced their cen ter to retire from the Vistula to the Warthe River, the Russian general staff has turned its attention to the Austrlans, who have been so stubborn ly holding their positions along the San River in Galicia. According to a telegram received from Grand Duke Nicholas, the Rus sians have won a victory more import ant than any preceding it. The Rus sians say they have again occupied Jaroslau, north ot Przemysl, capturing 5000 prisoners and much war material. It is believed, however, that there will have to be another big battle on the Warthe, before the armies of Empror Nicholas seriously threaten Silesia. In the struggle between the Germans and the allies in the west there has again been little if any change. The Germans, twice balked In their attempt to reach the French coast, are prepar ing for another attack, which, like the last, is directed at the line held by the British on both sides of the town of Tpres, where for a fortnight some of the most sanguinary fighting of the war has been in progress, and where the casualties on both sides perhaps have been larger than those on such restricted front in any previous battle. A Berlin official report says that the Germans have made progress here, but this is in direct contradiction to the claims of the allies, who say that they are holding all their positions and have made some advances. Reports come from the Dutch fron tier that the Germans are making prep arations for retirement, but military observers 'say that from the fact rein forcements are being brought up it is certain they have not yet despaired of breaking through the -allies', front and reaching either Calais or Boulogne. Elsewhere along the great front there has been a repetition of isolated en counters, which in the French official communication are referred to as minor affairs, but which in ordinary wars would be considered fair-sized battles. The British fleet, according to unof flclal accounts, again has taken action along the Belgian coast and been bom bardlng Knocice and Zeebrugge, where the Germane are supposed to be organ izlng bases for their submarines. Except for the Russian announce ment of their invasion of Turkish ter rltory from the Caucasus, silence pre vails as to the operations In the Near East. For the present Interest is centered in the poslbilltles that the Balkan states will become involved in the war. Greece, it is said, has annexed. Eplrus, which was denied her by the London conference after the first Balkan war. It is also said on good authority that negotiations are proceeding for an ar rangement by which Bulgaria will re ceive Macedonia, which is largely Bul garian. If she will consent to give her active support to the allies' cause. Servia, who won Macedonia by the sword, hesitates, it Is said, to give It up, but it is thought here she can hardly turn a deaf ear to Russia, who entered on the war on her account. Further, It is said, she would receive compensation in Bosnia, through which she would get a route to the sea. TRESPASSERS ARE WARNED Germans Issue Proclamation Threat ening 'Death if Unheeded. LONDON. Nov. 6. A dsipatch from Flushing, Holland, to Reuter's Tele gram Company says: ' "The Germans have issued a new proclamation prohibiting an approach on the waterways ' at Bruges. Tres passers are warned that they may be shot. "Heavy guns have been mounted on the sand dunes along the coast from the north of Ostend to the Dutch fron tier. Trenches have also been dug in the neighborhood of Heyst. Further reinforcements have reached the Ger man fighting line during the present week." GERMANS ARE SUFFERING Russian Winter Starts and, Enemy Commandeers Available Clothing;. LONDON, Nov. 6. The correspondent of the Chronicle at Petrograd tele graphs the following: "Winter began officially with the closing of navigation on the River Neva Wednesday. Snow covers the ground all along the frontier, and the Germans are suffering Intensely from cold. They are commandeering all the available clothing, furs, sheepskins and leathers. At Lodz and S'nerardow. where there are great cloth factories. the Germans are working the employes THOMPSON Id LINE FOR SENATE HEAD Ben Selling Is Likely Speaker of House. PROGRAMME STRICT ECONOMY Eugene and Portland Out for Honors, Also. LIQUOR LAW BIG PUZZLE To January Legislature Is Left Ac tion That Will Fix Penalty for Violation of Prohibition Enact ment Just Passed by People. FACTS ABOUT OREGON'S NEXT LEGISLATURE. Miss Marian Towne, of Talent, Jackson County, will be first wo man member of Legislature in Oregon. She is a Democrat. Senate will be composed of 28 Republicans and two Democrats. House will be composed of 67 Republicans, two Democrats and one independent. Many Republi cans also indorsed by Progres sives. Probable President of Senate Lair H. Thompson, of Lakeview. Probable Speaker of House Ben Selling, of Portland. Other candidates for Speaker of House Allen H. Eaton, ot Eugene; Vernon A. Forbes, of Bend; Conrad P. Olson. S. B. Huston and E. V. Llttlefleld, of Portland. Five members have been re elected to Senate; 14 re-elected to House. Fifteen members of Senate hold over. Senate will have 10 new mem bers and House 46 new members. Legislature convenes Monday. January 11, 1915. Newly-elected members of the 28th Legislative Assembly chosen by the people last Tuesday now are beginning to give their attention to the business of making laws and to the prelimi naries of organization. Since the complexion of the next Legislature has been determined and since the individual members seem to be pledged to a programme of strict economy, members are beginning to discuss the various candidates for the Presidency of the Senate and the Speakership of the House. It is generally understood that Lair ' H. Thompson, of Lakeview, one of the holdover Senators, will be elected President of the Senate and that Ben Selling, of Portland if he wants it will be elected Speaker of the House. Others May Be Candidates. Allen H. Eaton, of Eugene, will be a candidate, and it is probable that S. B. Huston and Conrad P. Olson, of Portland, will be in the race. Olson was a mernoer oi me last .legislature and now is actively in the field for the Speakership. Some of the Multnomah County dele gation also are urging Judge E. V. Llttlefleld as their choice for the Speakership. Vernon A. Forbes, of Bend, who also was a member of the last Legislature, la understood to be a candidate, too. Further than this, no definite legis lative plans have been made. Some of the members have ideas of their own, all of which are designed to "benefit the people," but few of such ideas have developed past the embryonic stage. Liquor Lan to Be Enforced. One piece of legislation, howevet. that will have serious attention fron. the start will be that providing en forcement ot the prohibition law adopt ed by Initiative vote on Tuesday. This law will not go into effect until Janu ary 1, 1916, but it remains for the next Legislature to take action that will fix a penalty for violations. Members of the Portland delegation declare that they will support the ex pressed will of the people by enacting the strictest kind of legislation against the liquor traffic. They insist that, since the saloons have been voted out of business, they do not propose to have the traffic pass on into the hands of convenient drug stores. It is a significant fact that nearly every man elected on Tuesday is pledged to an economical administra tion. In his pre-election campaign Governor-elect Withycombe likewise declared for strict economy, so it is certain that there will be thorough agreement on this point. Radical Changes Made. So far as membership of the two houses is cpneerned it has undergone a radical change since the last session. The law provides that members of the Senate are elected for four-year terms. One-half the membership of 30 is elected each year. Members of the Senate who have been re-elected are: H. Von der Hellen. of Jackson; C. L. Hawley, of Benton and Polk; Walter A. Dlmick. of Clackamas: C A. Barrett, of Morrow, Umatilla and Union, and J. N. Burgess, of Umatilla. W. H. Strayer, a Democrat, replaces Claude C. McCulloch, a Democrat, who now Is a. resident of Portland, as Sen ator from Baker County. In the Linn County district Milton A. Miller, a Democrat, has been replaced by S. M. Garland, a Democrat. Miller now is collector of internal revenue la Portland. He served in th State Sen ate for 12 years. A number of Democrats in the lower (Concluded on I'a 6., lice, asserted. day and nigb . (Concluded on Fac ,j 107.5v