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VOL. LI V. NO. 16,835. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BATTLE SEETHES ALL ALONG LINE Germans Hurl Great Army Against Flanders Front. BRITISH FORCE DECIMATED Attacks From Ypres to Lys Even More Violent Than. Those Nearer Coast. FRESH CORPS IN ACTION From Sea to Vosges Intensity of Struggle Exceeds AH . Events of War. PARIS, NOV. 9. A general battle has been proceeding along the whole front from the sea to the Vosges Mountains for the past three days without the Germans having been able to find a weak spot in the French defenses. However, it Still is in Flanders that I interest in the formidable and seem- ... .... I ingiy iniermmaoiB uuiLie centers. -Lnes2 fifirmftns fl.rA trmpfrtrtitrtr them all a I the men they Can get and Ceaselessly I are hurling them against the allies' I lines. Never has this method been . directed With as much tenacity and fury as now. . British Lines Thinned. The attacks on the line from Ypres to the Lys are more violent even than those directed against the coast road and the passages of the Yser. T. J- at. "o - : ,1- i i J i. 1 i. " "" 1J""ou ucal uiu.uu of these onslaughts. In many places I their lines have become so thin, says - CC' 1 1 1 - 11 i " i an oiiicer wuo juas ueen in mat region the past fortnight, that only by show- ing obstinacy worthy of the tradi tions of "Waterloo are they able to hold their ground. Loss of Officers Terrible. Their losses in officers have been terrible. One battalion of foot Ruards went into action commanded tain cavalry regiments nave lost nail their effective strength. Occasionally, according to this of ficer, the Germans by surprise cap ture some of their trenches, but by vigorous counter attacks the British not only regain these, but win fresh ground. The Indian troops continue to bear themselves magnificently, despite enormous losses. They have proved themselves tha ennui of nnv ntW . l. m. jj j- it, i """f"! uul" " UCJ-c"ui"S weuuuea or in attacking positions. German Casualties Enormous. Compared with the German losses, 11U UiiiUCi tuuwuucs, muse uj. me allies appear almost insignificant. After nie-ht attacks 600 dead, h savs - j v o , 1 ouen aIB J-ouiIU ueiu bingie auies trench. Eecently, according to this! nffiner: n -Rrltiah Wral,' nU 0 ..... Herman ongade in close iormation and slaughtered 4000 of its men in a few minutes. The fight rages with the greatest intensity south of Ypres on the Manin road, the Ypres Canal, the Lys and the plateau crossed by the road from Ypres to Armentieres. Here the of fensive by the allies has been met by violent counter attacks delivered by a German active army corps just brought from Flanders, supported bv the concentrated fire of a great body of massed batteries. Allies Said to Advance. The Germans &o far are said to have achieved nothing more than tempo rary checks, and it is claimed that 6lowly butsuxely the allies creep for ward. In Artois, Pas-de-Calais,- the most important engagements are being fought on the plains of Lens. The ... .. , , Germans are assailing particularly the village of Cambnn, on the road from La Bassee to Bethune. It is even leyuiieu tnau ub muut iuwu is being bombarded. n(!n otlonl-c -o "hoi-,, Ai. ,cv. '"o jrected against AlX-Ie-M OUlette, a Vll- (concluded on Fag 2.) BULLETINS ROTTERDAM. Tim London, Nov. O. According; to the Coarant'a correspond ent, great bodies of German troops are being; withdrawn from BelKlum for nse agalmt the Russians. One correspond ent sayst "Many trains carrying; cav alry, Infantry and artillery, have left Brussels and Louvain for Germany, with the cars marked In chalk to Russia.' PETROGRAD, via London, Nov. The Bourse Gasette's Warsaw corres pondent says that 21 persons have died hospitals there during; the last few days from wounds received from Ger man bombs dropped from aeroplanes. LONDON, Nov. 8. The Bmlajarlan Minister of War has submitted to the Sobranje a request for an extraordi nary credit of 94500,000 to cover ex penditures for the army, according; to a dispatch from the .Sofia correspond ent of Renter's Telegram Company. ABERDEEN. Scotland, Nov. 8, via London. Winston Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, has been elected lord rector of Aberdeen Uni versity In succession to Andrew Car- nrjrie. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 8, via London. The Frankfurter Zeltnng learns from Constantinople that the Russian Black Sea fleet yesterday left Sebastapool, proceeding In an easterly direction. Two Turkish submarines cruised In the Agcu Sea, later returning to Constan tinople without having; sighted any hos tile warships. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 8, via Lon don. The Turkish general staff reports the following;: "A Turkish motorboat cruising In Shat-cl-Arab encountered a British gunboat, with which It ex changed shots, causing an explosion on the gunboat. Tbe Turkish shells set afire a petroleum tank - at A bo -Than. The Turkish boat returned to Basra un damaged." PARIS, Nov. 8v (Special.) The work of destruction In Arras continues. The cathedral has been badly damaged and many civilians have been killed In their " recent DKruincBi me inciii iei ax me race ox minute. BERLTX. IVav. H i vf ft T.nnrlrn t4n, eral von ICluck has published an order h "y embodying the Emperor's m V"1? and d state of the army and the spirit of the troops in the battles along the Alsne Valley. ADMIRAL'S SON BENEDICT Philadelphia Girl Is Bride of Cecil Vavasseur Fisher. PHIADELPHIA. Nov. 3. Admiral Arbuthnot Fisher, the new first sea or r ,tn Admiralty, is the v on November 22. 1910, married Miaa Jane B. Morgan, daughter of Randal Morgan, vice-president of the United Gas Improvement Company, of Phila delphia, Lord Fisher was present at the wed ding, which was held in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church. Chestnut Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher went abroad immediately after the wedding and are now living at their town- house, Kllverstone. Xhetford, England. Cecil vavasseur jrisner is the oldest Rnn tit Lord Fisher, and in A(t vn rn old. Ha joini the Indian civil serv Ice lnl890, and served in Bengal, retir ing in 1906. LOSS SMALL, SAYS BERLIN German Report Declares . Cradock's Fleet Was Annihilated. LONDON, Nov. 8. A wireless dls patch received here by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company from Ber lln says: "Admiral Craddock's fleet has been I annihilated in the Pacific by the Ger mans. The losses on our side amount ed to only a few wounded and the damage to our ships was insignlfican "This engagement was in striking contrast to the British vessels 'coast I Pruisfrq I "On the recommendation of the com mander of the cruiser Karlsruhe Em 1 peror William has conferred the Order ot th6 Iron Crosa on tne commander and all the officers, warrant officers and 60 non-commissioned officers ana mem I bers of the crew of that cruiser, SERVIAN POSITION LOS I Vienna Says Kostajnik, Believed Impregnable, Has Fallen. VIENNA, Nov. 8, via Amsterdam and London. The following official state ment was issued today: "In the southwestern war theater the battle on the whole front yesterday continued with undiminished force. In spite of the obstinate resistance of the enemy, entrenchment after entrench- 5 o'clock this morning one of the strongest points. Kostajnik, which the Servians believed unconquerable, was stormed by our troops. "The number of prisoners and cap tured guns is not known." PRAISE IS GIVEN RUSSIA Kitchener Sends Congratulations on Victories in East. - petrograd, Nov. 8. via London. Grand Duke Nicholas has received from Ear, Kitchener, the British Secretary of State .for War, a telegram convey i?,shconJr,atlatl0"8 of hlmself and leld Marshal French and the British I army on the brilliant termination ot I the second stage of the Russian oper atlons. Earl Kitchener adds: -We are convinced that the Joint ef forts of the allies will result in th final crushing defeat of the enemy.1 ALLIES ASK JAPAN FOR HELP IN WEST Free-Hand in China Of- fered as Inducement. RMY OF 200,000 WANTED Younger Statesmen Jubilant, Elders Are Dubious. RANSP0RT PROBLEM BIG Movement of Great Force Over Sin gle-Track Railroad in Dead of Siberian Winter Would Re quire Until Spring. PEKIN, Nov. 8. (Special.) Inticlng offers have been made to japan Dy gents of the allies in China to In duce the Mikado to throw 200.000 of his seasoned troops into the European cene of war. Following the fall of Tslng-Tau, which releases Japanese troops and warships and removes any German menace to Japan's prestige in the Orient, the allies are exerting every effort to bring Japan into the western conflict. A guarantee of a freer hand n the .affairs of China is said here to be the price offered for the Japanese troops. The younger statesmen are aid to have received the proffer with enthusiasm, but the more conservative are dubious. Effect on China Problematical. The effect of such a move on the status of Tslng-Tau is problematical. Japan has insisted that her only inten tion is to restore the territory to China, but this, it is learned, will be done only under a rigid agreement that China shall cede no more territory to any European power. Failing in this understanding from -China. Japan will proclaim her title to Tsing-Tau n perpetuity. Japan's announcement following the fall of Tsing-Tau made no admission of British Influence in the future of the province. - . To carry 200.000 troops to the Rus sian battlefront by way of the trans Siberian Railroad, Japan would have to perforin the herculean task of trans porting them nearly 800 miles across the Sea of Japan to Vladlvostock and more than SS00 miles over a single track railroad. This movement would have to be made in the dead of the Siberian Winter and would require at least until the late Spring to ac complish. British white and Indian troops. which aided in the siege of Tsing-Tau. are to be put in action in Egypt and about the Suez Canal against the Turks. Panama Canal Route Possible. To reach France the Japanese would have to use tbe Panama Canal, as she has a right, for transporting soldiers or warships under the treaty. Japa nese naval operations in the Pacific have been veiled with mystery and ber Concluded on Page 4.) NEVER j, . t INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTER DAY'S Maximum temperature, 46 degrees; minimum, 41 degrees. TODAY'S Unsettled and threatening; south westerly winds. Mexico. Villa's troops take up positions to besiege Naco, Sonora. Page S. War. Allies offer Inducements to Japan to send 200,000 troops against foes in Europe. Page 1. Battle seethes along entire line in Belgium and France. Page 1. Russians cross Prussian frontier. Page 1. German Prince says be saw no dum-dums. Page 4. Kitchener predicts three-year -war and Britain accepts view. Page 1. Closing of universities . to present enemies, especially Japanese, after war is over, discussed pro and con In Germany. Page 3. 3.000,000 Teutons ready to meet Russians, says Berlin. Page 8. Plea is made to all United States to help relieve Belgians. Page 6. Former German, who swore allegiance to United States when taken prisoner Confederate In 1S63, claims American protection in London. Page 2. Tale of Pont-a-Mousson is typical of war. Page 2. - Both Russians and Germans lay wests to crops in embattled areas. Page 2. Bavarians constant source of surprise to Ger man comrades. Page '3. German gunboat Geler and steam schooner LocKiun interned in narnor ol nonoiuiu. Page 8. Turks bombard Russian fort In Black sea. Page 4. National. President expected to reward t defeated Dem ocrats. Page 12. Domestic Babv-savinsr day observed as preliminary to convention on prevention ot iniant mor tality. Page G. Oakland. Cat., police guard against tong war after report of attack In Portiana. Page 8. Rhode Island is eleventh state to be Quaran tined over livestock epidemic. Page o. Hoopsklrt is latest decree of fashlon.Fage 4. Sports. Desert classic for speed kings opens today at Los Angeles. Page 10. Minor league heads gather at Omaha for history-making session, rage i. Northwest football teams In close race for title. Page 10. Portland's new Ice skating rink opens to night. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Senator Chamberlain extols President In Church address, page 8. Twelve vessels pass mouth of Columbia- Page 11. New films at moving-picture theaters are delightful. Page 14. Portland having but two wet New Years' eve orgies left, grill reservations already are made, fage . Auto driver crashes into streetcar to save woman. Page 8. Evan Williams. " American -Welsh tenor, charms in concert at Helllg Theater. Page 7. Final week of Land Products Show to be replete with attractions. Page 14. Louis E. Jackson, sentenced as thief, com piles dictionary of crooks jargon. Page 11. Baker players make big hit with "Maggie Pepper." Page 14. EdIc of youth and age. depicted In "Mile stones," charms Heillg audience. Page 9. Weather report, data and forecast. Page, IX. WOE JAPAN! SAYS GERMAN Mills Will Grind Slowly, but Mo merit of Joy Is Predicted. AMSTERDAM, via London, Nov. g. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, comment ing on the German defeat at Tsing Tau, says: "Germans will never forget the heroic fighting at Kiau-Chau and those who defended the colony. Never shall we forget the brutal violence of the yellow robbers nor England, who insti gated them. We know that we can not settle our account with Japan at present. For years she will enjoy her booty. "Our mills will grind slowly, but even if years should pass before the right moment comes at last, then a shout of Joy will resound through Ger many. Woe to you, Nippon!" SUCH A BURDEN CARRIED BT MORTAL MAN. KITCHENER COUNTS OH THREE-YEAR WAR Britain Accepts View, Preparesfor Struggle. NAVAL ACTION IS DEMANDED Uneasy Nation Nags Con stantly at Mr. Churchill. ALIEN RESIDENTS HARRIED Even Conan Doyle's Appeal for Those Former Aliens Who Are Fathers of English Boys at Front Fails to Soften Views. BY FREDERICK WILLIAM WILE. (Special correspondence of the Chicago Tribune. Publlsned by arrangement wnn the Tribune.) LONDON, Oct. 24. Lord Kitchener, to whom every Englishman now looks up as the savior of the country, believes the war will last three years. He said that privately this week. His observa tions were repeated to me by an unim peachable authority. "K. of K.." whatever some of his com placent countrymen think about the task of beating the Germans, Is under no delusions as to Us magnitude. He looks upon it as a struggle which will strain the resources of the empire as they never were strained before. He harbors no misgivings as to the final outcome. German Machine Kot Underestimated The Kaiser must and will bite the dust, but the man who licked the "fuzzy-wuzzies" in the Sudan, whipped the Boers and hammered the Indian army into shape knows that the ter ribly efficient organism called the Ger man war machine cannot be demolished without a mighty effort- How mighty it must be is indicated by Kitchener's belief that fighting will still be going on in 1917. .Neutral observers like John T. Mc Cutcheon. freshly returned from Ger many, all emphasize the magnificent calm and overwhelming orderliness with which tbe Kaiser's people are waging the great fight. I am sure John T. J will take home with him no less In delible an impression of the marvelous sang froid with which John Bull is girding for the fray. Feeling Not Manifest on Surface. .When I looked at things casually in London I thought there was an atmos phere of awful complacency, of fatal unrealization of the gravity of the situ ation. I was mistaken. I had forgotten that the Englishman feels deeply with out making a fuss about it and doesn't "enthuse" as easily or noisily as we Americans do. He never hustles in peace, so we mustn't expect him to get any indecorous "move on" in war. The essential fact is that he is mov ing moving in his own not very methodical way, but along lines wibch (Concluded on Page 9.) Sunday's War Moves THE German and Austrian armies are on the defensive, both in the east and west. They have, at least for the present, given up their efforts to break through the allied lines around Ypres, in Belgium, where the British and French have taken the of fensive, and, according to the reports from French headquarters, have begun to advance, and in the east they have fallen back to and over their own fron tiers in East Prussia, and in Poland have crossed the border, while the Russian cavalry has penetrated Silesia, to the north of Kalisz, and cut the German railway. The Russians also are following up their advantage in Galicla, and. it is said, have succeeded in cutting the re- biuu, nave succeeded in cutting tne I e- j treating Austrians off from Cracow, and the German army is retiring through Poland. In fact at only one point on the two battle fronts do the Germans assert they have won. That is to the west of the Argonne region, where the German Emperor's forces have succeeded in taking from the French an important height near Vienne-le-Cljateau. Elsewhere the French troops have made progress and retaken the posi tions which they had lost in the course of the week. This Is notably so in the Aisne Valley around Soissons, where they have regained the ground which the Germans by fierce assaults had taken from them. The Belgians, who are holding the line reaching to the coast, have also made progress, and - it would thus seem that the Germans are still wait ing for additional reinforcements be fore renewing their attempt to smash through to the French seaports. The fighting was carried on yester day in a fog, which interfered with the work of the airmen, and likewise with the artillery. While the reports of the allies' of fensive in the west have given hope In London that the Germans will fall back to a line farther removed from the sea. not all uneasiness has passed, for they have previously shown won derful recuperative powers. The pres ence of the Russians in East Prussia and Silesia, however, although the lat ter are only cavalry, it is believed, will prevent the Germans from fending any more troops to the west, if it does not compel them to withdraw some of their troops from the front. "The roads in Russia are hardening with the frost, and armies can now be moved more quickly, although the Rus sians do not possess the strategic rail ways that the Germans do. Silesia, too. with better going for the horses, offers an excellent field for the use of cavalry, in which Russia has proved herself superior, both in numbers and efficiency, to the other nations at war. The Cossacks are regaining the reputa tion they lost In Manchuria, and the raid they have already made into Silesia, it is expected, will be repeated many times. The Austrians have apparently sent stronger forces against Servia and have driven the Serbs out of Slavonia. Of what is going on in Bosnia, which the Servians and Montenegrins invaded almost to the capital, Sarajevo, nothing has been disclosed for weeks, but the operations against their northern border must have had an effect on the Servian plans in Bosnia. Nothing of first moment has oc curred up to the present in the Near East, but Turkey is being attacked in isolated spots by the Russians and British, and the Turks are apparently coming close to war with Greece, the situation having been aggravated by the sinking of a Greek steamer by the Turks and the threatening of Greeks In Asia minor. Neither Bulgaria nor Roumania has made any move as yet. The Union defense forces continue to round up the rebels in South Africa. Those in the northern part of Cape Province, which have been a worry to the government, have been completely broken up, while those in Transvaal, where another 400 have been captured, are scattering. In Orange Free State, however, sev eral small commands are showing ac tivity and have been looting towns and damaging- railroads. FRENCH " TOOL IS SHIELD Canadian Troops Introduce War Novelty to Englishmen. BASINGSTOKE. England, Oct. 14. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Canadian troops arriving at Salisbury Plain carry an entrenching tool that Is novel to the Englishman. It is capable of being used as a shteld and Is slung across their shoulders In a leather case. The tool is a spade weighing about four pounds, and con sequently can be carried at all times. Tbe spade has an oval hole in the center of It, through which a gun bacrel can be thrust. The tool thus serves both as a rifle rest and a shield to the soldier In tne trenches. AH the spades have been subjected to heavy fire and tne metal In them Is practically bullet-proof. At a dis tance of 200 yards heavy ammunition only cracks the shields and does not penetrate them. BLOCKADE RUN BY GERMAN Steamer Slips Through British Guard and Enters Xew York Harbor. NEW TORK. Nov. 8. The third or German merchant vessels to run the British cruiser blockade at the en trance to New York harbor, the Ger man iron full-rigged ship Indra, reached this port today and anchored safely in the upper bay. On June 11 she set sail from Taltal, Chile, for Dunkirk, France, and had been on the high seas continuously until, under tow of a tug which this morning picked her up south of the Scotland lightship, she entered port. dodging the British guard outside. RUSSIANS GROSSING PRUSSIAN FRONTIER Germans Dislodged in Region of Wirballen. ADVANCE IS AMAZINGLY RAPID Rear Guard of Retiring Army Pressed at Lyck. TEUTONS IN GOOD ORDER Czar Credited With Plan to Break fp Austria-Hungary and Estab lish Russian Capital at His- 1 torlc Constantinople. PETROGRAD, Nov. 8. The official statement was issued from general headquarters today: "On the Eastern Prussian frontier our troops have dislodged the Germans from the region of Wirballen. which was strongly fortified, and have progressed as far as Stalluponen (16 miles east-northeast of Gumbien). In the region of Rominten forest and Lyck our troops continue to press on the heels of the rear guards of the enemy. Cavalry Penetrates Germany. "On the left bank of the Vistula our cavalry has penetrated German terri tory, damaging the railway near Pleachen station, to the northwest of Kalisz. "On the road to Cracow, on Novem ber 6, we attacked the Austrian rear guards along the Nida River, and the next day were operating on the River Nidzlca. "In Galicla our troops are continuing their offensive movement. In the lat- est engagements on the San River we captured 125 officers and 12,000 sol-. diers, as well as rapld-firers and muni tions of war. South of Przemysl, on November 6, we took more than 1000 prisoners." Rapidity of Advance Amazing. The rapidity of the movement on the battlefields in Poland have been un equaled since the days of Napoleon. Deducting the time spent in actual fighting the Russian pursuit has been pressed for more than a week at a rate averaging 14 miles a day over the ' Polish roads, which are heavy after the rainy season. There is believed to be no doubt that the Germans in their retreat passed Czenstochowa without stopping. The troops of this column, which apparently were marching in good order, were probably the first line of the German divisions extricated from the dis astrous fighting in Poland at the cost of the reserve troops and the allied Austrians. Germans Saving: Best Troops. Similar tactics seem to have been em ployed on other points, with the object of preserving the best troops. This would appear to indicate that the Ger mans have given up their Russian ad venture and will once more concen trate against France and Great Britain in Belgium. Clearly the Russians, who have cut the railway at Pleschen, are sending along forces with great rapid ity on both flanks of the positions on which the defeated Germans are re treating. Grand Duke Nicholas' reference, in dispatches announcing his victory, to the new task of opening a new period of the war is taken to mean that Rus sia will now turn her main attention towards the settlement of the Eastern question. This means, first and fore most, the breaking up of Austria-Hun gary, followed by the expulsion of the Turk from Europe and possibly the re construction of a new Armenia among other rearrangements of the Balkan states. No Russian doubts that Constanti nople is the natural capital of the Kua slan empire and no sacrifice will be thought too great for the attainment of, this historical goal. BEKLIX COCXTS OX VICTORY 3,000,000 (Germans and Austrians Keportcd Ready to Crush Enemy. LONDON. Nov. 8. "It is asserted in Berlin that Germany and Austria Hungary now have concentrated about 3.000,000 soldiers on the line from Thorn to Cracow, and this is consid- . ered sufficient to crush the Russian forces," says a dispatch from . Copen hagen to the Times. The message con tinues: "Military authorities declare that the result of the coming battle is not in doubt and that the Russian army will be completely destroyed. They ex plain that it is necessary to allow the Russians to advance to the frontier, In order to prevent them from making a good retreat after their defeat. "The present retirement of the Ger mans is necessary, they say, in order to have the railways Immediately be hind the army for the approaching . main battle." The Rome correspondent of the Weekly Dispatch sends the following: "According to the Russian Embassy, the Russians secured 200 guns, six trainloads of supplies and 40,000 rifles from the enemy in a victory on the San River, Galicia. The victors took 30.000 Austrian prisoners. The Russian at tack on Przemysl has been renewed violently. "On the East Prussian front thou- (Concluded on Page 2.)