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3 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1914. TSIH6-TAU TAKEN BY Daring BRAVERY Final Assault by Japanese Marked by Customary Dis regard of Danger. MOON LIGHTS BATTLEFIELD JTapan's Announced Intention of Re storing Territory to China Said to Be "Unchanged, Though ' Loophole Exists. commonest living: creatures is the mon strous crab, which Uvea on tne cocoa nuts, and in some places also there are great quantities ot the pomegranate crab. The group was visited by Dr. H. C. Forbes in 1878, and later, at the ex pense of Sir John Murray, byDr. Guppy, Mr. Ridley and Dr. Andrews. The object of their visits was the in vestigation of tire flora and fauna of the atoll, more especially of the forma tion of the coral reefs. Dr. Guppy was fortunate in reaching North Keeling Island, where a landing is possible only in the calmest weather. The island he found to be about a mile long, inclosing a small lagoon about three feet deep at low water, with a small opening on its weather side. A dense vegetation of ironwood and other trees and shrubs, together with a forest of cocoanut palms, covers Its Bur- face. It is tenanted by myriads of. sea fowl, frigate birds, boobies and terns, which find here an excellent nesting place, for the island is uninhabited and is visited only once or twice a year. The Islands were discovered In 1609 by Captain William Keeling on a voy age from Batavia to the Cape. In 1823 Alexander Hare, an English adventurer. settled on the southermost island with number of slaves. Some years later a Scotchman named Ross, who had com manded a brigade during the English occupation of Java, settled with his family, who continued in ownership, on Direction Island, and his little colony was soon strengthened by Hare's run away slaves. The Dutch government had in an in- BRITAIN AWAKENS BUT REMAINS GAL, People Deeply Sensible of Pa triotic Duty but Cheering Is Never Heard. ' SOLDIERS ARE EVERYWHERE GERMAN WARSHIPS RECENTLY DESTROYED OR BOTTLED UP IN FAR EASTERN WATERS. TOKIO, Nov. 10. An official account of the operations before Tsing-Tau has been made public. It is couched in modest terms but it shows that the storming of the German stronghold was characterized by the same recklessness and disregard of life that the Japanese soldiers evinced in the war with Russia. Led by a detachment of engineers who exploded a power magazine of the enemy at heavy cost in lives, the Japanese mounted the German parapets in a deadly rain of bullets from the machine guns. They were blinded by the illuminating shells exploded by the enemy to reveal their position. Encounters In Streets Prevented. The account lays emphasis on the stubborness of the German defense. and dwells on one fierce engagement fought by the light of the moon. After Fort Moltke had been captured, the order was given to halt. Thus deadly encounters in the streets of the city were prevented. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. The sur render to the Japanese by the Germans I of the fortlrtcationa at Tsing-Tau and the surrounding territory of Kiau- Chau has not altered Japan's announced intentions of eventually restoring Kiau-Chau to China, it was announced todav at the Japanese Embassy here. Technically and legally it was said, I as Japan had demanded in Its declara tion of war that Germany surrender the fortress of its own accord and as Germany did not accede to the demand. but resisted, it was pointed out that I Japan was not absolutely bound to I restore Kiau-Chau. China's Friendship Desired. It was said, however, that no definite or positive announcement would be made at this time in regard to Japan's ultimate decision. It is known that strong influences in Japan are at work toward the maintenance of friendly relations with China and it is be lieved that Kiau-Chau will be returned at the end of the war. That Japan would assume the offen sive or send troops to Europe unless requested by Great Britain to do so was not thought probable unless Ger man successes against the allies should I endanger or threaten the life and ex-1 formal way claimed the possession of Suffrage and Home Rule Forgotten ," Topics of Debate Gay Llfe Van ishes Rich Give "Cp Luxur- ies Without Demur. LONDON, Oct. 30. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Two months ago a London newspaper described England as "a nation half awake" and 'immMMmmmmmmmmmMmmmmmm v-'-:; M ' WtiJa,;.v..VJA;:,.:;y" and other pleasures without a grumble. London was a city of restaurants and theaters, of dinner-giving and recep tions. All this life has vanished. Half the theaters are closed. Most of those which keep going are giving American plays, and others are producing re vivals of old successes because tney cannot afford to spend money in mounting new plays. Many have re duced their prices. "Society" has disappeared. There is no dinner giving and there are no balls or shooting parties on country estates. Following the hounds has .been aban doned. There Is plenty of money yet, but there is no desire to spend it In foolish ways. All the restaurants, fashionable and humble, close at 10 o'clock. Drinking champagne is as strictly taboo as car rying golf clubs. Millionaires and Dukes appear at dinner in public, when they appear at all, in khaki or old clothes and drink whisky and soda in stead of their favorite beverages. Older Men Help Refuses. The Duke of Norfolk, Lord Gladstone, Lord Robert Cecil, clubmen and mem bers of Parliament, wno are too old for military duties, spend their time at the railway station and refugee head quarters, meeting frightened and dirty Belgian peasants, giving them coffee and sandwiches . and - distributing clothes. Others are looking after re cruits and wounded soldiers arriving from France. St. James' Palace Is the center of Red Cross work and a fleet of motorcars donated by individuals surrounds it day and night. The country house of the Duke of Devonshire Is a Red Cross office, and wooden buildings filled with uniformed men and women with the Red Cross on their sleeves fill the town. Castles and country houses throughout the kingdom are given over for wounded soldiers, British, Belgian, Indian and French. Every regiment has a headquarters in London, where workers are supply ing its wants in the line of comforts and luxuries. Among the women of the country there is a fierce campaign of knitting. Socks, bells, mittens, muf flers are being turned out in prodig ious quantities. "How to help", is a standing head line in all the newspapers, and no pages are read more eagerly, If the letters which come to the newspaper offices are any test of popular feeling. 800 HORSES AREBURNED CAPTAIX OF BRITISH STEAMER SUSPECTS GERMANS OF ACT. 1 mm iim x imiiiww in ii i ii n Yunnan ii ti mini t.tmmmmmmm mill uu t m -tyu" nuw.ii! ajp -" a ' in Theater HOME OF THE FAVORITE PLAYERS 11A.M. TO 11 P. M. Presents A Rampant Sensation Entitled' Above Cruiser Kradf n. Driven Aibor e on Island In Indian Ocean. Below Crnlaer Koenlgrsbergr, Reported Imprisoned In Shoal Water Off East Africa. lstence of Japan. WAR, MADE OX 'WORIiD OF HATE' Kaiser Says Tsing-Tau Brings New Laurels to Germans. , BERLIN, Nov. 10. (By wireless.) Johannes Kaempf, president of the Reichstag, has received the following dispatch from Emperor William: "The heroic defense of Tsing-Tau, that model settlement of German cul ture built with the labor of many years. brings new laurels to the spirit of faithfulness unto death which the Ger man people have so often shown since their army and their fleet have been In defensive warfare against a world of hatred, envy and covetousness. war which, if God wills, will not be in vain." GERMAN TERROR ASHORE (Continued From First Page.) the various ships which have been dis patched to the scene. "With the exception of the German squadron now off the coast of Chile, the whole of the Pacific and Indian Oceans is now clear of the enemy's warships. Churchill Praises Australians. "The First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Spencer Churchill, has sent the following message to the Sydney and to the navy board of the Aus tralian commonwealth: " 'Warmest congratulations on. the brilliant entry of the Australian navy Into the war and the signal service rendered to the allied cause and to peaceful commerce by the destruction of the Emden. An immediate effect in London of the capture of the German cruiser Emden. which during her career as a com merce destroyer has destroyed British shipping estimated to be worth J10, 000,000. was a drop of 50 per cent in the insurance premiums on vessels bound to points east of Suez. Search of Seas Rewarded. Telling of the bottling up of the Koenlgsburg. the Admiralty says: "After the whereabouts of the Koe nigsberg had been indicated by the at tack on the Pegasus, on the 19th of September, a concentration of fast cruisers was arranged by the admiral ty in East African waters and a thor ough search was made by these ves sels. "This search resulted, October 30, in the Koenigsberg's being discovered by K. M. S. Chatham, Captain Sidney R. Drury-Lowe, hiding in shoal water about six miles up the Ruflji River, opposite Mafia Island, German East Af rlca. Owing to a greater draught, the Chatham could not reach the Koenigs borg. which probably is aground ex cept at high water. Part of the crew of the Koenigsberg has been landed aid is Intrenched on the banks of the river. "Both these intrenchments and the ' Koenigsberg herself have been bom barded by the Chatham, but owing to the dense palm groves amid which the thiD lies it is not possible to estimate the damage done. Pending operations for her capture or destruction, effect ive steps have been taken to block the Koenigsberg by sinking colliers In the only navigable channel to the river. EMDEX LIES ON TIXX ISLE Coco Group Is Remotely Situated 50 Q Miles South of Java. The Keeling, or Cocos Islands, on ene of which the German cruiser Em den is beached, are a group of coral islands in the Indian Ocean, 500 miles southwest of Java. The group fur nished Charles Darwin with a typical example of lagoon or atoll. There are altogether 23 small islands, nine and one-half miles being the greatest width of the whole atoll. The lagoon is shal low and the passages between many of i the islands are fordable on foot. An , opening on the northern part of the ! reef permits the entrance of vessels 1 Into the lagoon, which forms a good harbor known as Port Refuge or Port Albion. The cocoanut, as the name Indicates, ia characteristic of all the islands. The f. flora is scanty .in species. -One of the I the islands since 1829. but they refused to allow Ross to raise the Dutch flag, and accordingly the group was taken under British protection in 1858. In 1878 It was attached to the government of Ceylon and in 1882 placed under the Governor of the Straits Settlements. The ownership and superintendency continued under the Ross family, of whom George C Ross died in 1910 and was succeeded by his son, Sydney. VOX SPEE'S JIBX DECORATED Karlsruhe's Crew Also Honored for Darjng Exploits on Sea. BERLIN, Nov. 10, via The Hague and London Admiral Count von Spee, com mander of the German squadron in the South Pacific which encountered a Brit ish fleet off the Coast of Chile Novem ber 1, has been decorated with the Order of the Iron Cross, first and sec ond-class, for this exploit. A large number of these decorations also have been awarded to officers and men of the squadron as well as to the captain and crew of the German cruiser Karlsruhe. There Is no present way of communi cating news of these honors to the men, and they probably will first hear of the distinctions accorded them when they get newspapers from home. The German Admiralty has issued an unofficial report on the naval engage ment off the.Ciiilean Coast, which con forms In rafe Apart to the accounts cabled from Valparaiso. EMDEX 'S LOSS HELPS AMERICA Bag Industry Will Be Revived, Saya St. Louis Manufacturer. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10. The destruction of the German cruiser Emden means a revival in the manufacture of bags hi America, according to J. S. Bemls, a St. Louis bag manufacturer. In a statement today he said, that the ship ment of burlap from the Orient to the United States almost entirely ceased after the Emden began its raids on British commerce. This cutting off of raw material re sulted in the reduction of working forces in bag factories throughout the United States. AT LEAST 23 SHIPS DESTROYED BY "3MDE.V BEFORE HER DEFEAT. Toll taken by the German cruis er Emden before she met her fate includes the following ves sels: Steamship Indus, 2110 tons. Steamship Lovat, 3376 tons. Steamship Kllltn, 2257 tons. Steamship Diplomat, 4873 tons. Steamship Trabboch, 2539 tons. Steamship Craftsman, 4030 ton (unofficial). Steamship Clan Matheeon, 3053 tons (unofficial). Two other steamships (unoffi cial). Steamship Tumeric. Steamship King Lud. 2334 tons. Steamship Ribera. 2244 tons. Steamship Foyle, 2690 tons. Collier Bursk (new). 3244 tons. Steamship Chilkana, '?824 tons. Steamship Troilus, 4806 tons. Steamship Benmohr, 8110 tons. Steamship Clan. Grant, 3948 tons. Steamship Exford, 2804 tons.' Dredger Ponrabble. Steamship . -amlgasakl Maru, 11?8 tons. Russian cruiser Jemtchug, 31 20 tons. French torpedo destroyer, 600 tons. No accurate estimate .can be made of the value of the vessels destroyed by the Emden or of their cargoes Shipping men have variously placed the extent of the damage at $4,000,000 to $21, 000,000. These estimates are based on the vessels known to have been sunk by the Emden, but it is not unlikely that addi tional ships, whose loss has not been reported, were sent to the bottom by the Gerrsan crulBor. contrasted the unruffled aspect of Lon don life with the transformation that war had cast over Paris and Berlin. Since then England has become a na tion fully awake. This awakening has been more of an Inner than a surface change and only those who know Ens land can realize how great the change nas Deen. , Excitement "Wholly Absent The most remarkable feature of re cent British events has been the entire absence of excitement with which the country has passed from a condition of profound and thoughtless peace to a military status which pervades all the activities of life. Sports, politics, so ciety the three absorbing interests of the population three mpnths ago have disappeared from the columns of the newspapers, from the talk of the peo ple, and have almost vanished from ex istence. The contentious word "suffrairette" has disappeared from the English vo- caouiary. The suffragist bodies have turned their efficient organizations to tne care of Belgian and other war vic tims. "Votes for women" is no longer thrust into the face of passers on every corner by young women wearing tri- colored ribbons of purple. Kreen and white. - Suffragist Papers Suspend. The suffragist papers, like many others supported by special interests. nave suspended publication. PeoDle read nothing but war news. Home rule is a forgotten text for debate. All that is left of the absorbing passion for sport is the football games, and a num ber of the first-class professionals are drilling In the territorials and Kitch ener armies. It would be a brave man of military age who would be seen carrying his bundle of golf sticks on tne streets these days. Streets and trains everywhere are filled with soldiers. Military equip ment and uniforms fill the shop win dows: recruits are drilling in all the parks. In public squares and in all the little open spaces available. Small boys accoutred with wooden guns and tin drums also are everywhere. Com panles of recruits, some fully uniformed ana shouldering their rifles, others 1 civilian clothes and bare-headed, with blankets slung over their shoulders, march about the streets. These squads usually sing as they march. Traffic Is held up while they pass. but. strangely enough to the American spectator, there is never any ' cheering. ine jesriton nas sentiment, but he con ceals It carefully. - People Always Reserved. The reserve battalion of the London Scottish, the most popular volunteers In London and the first to be put in the field In France, kilted and with bag pipes playing, marched through a thick crowd around Victoria station tonight and never raised a shout. There is another side. The wealthy classes have given up their luxuries Vessel Catches Fire 200 Miles Virginia Capes, With Cargo of Animals for Allies' Armies. NORFOLK, Va.. Nov. 10. Virtually all of the 800 horses on board the tsntish steamship Rembrandt were burned to death when the ship took fire off the Virginia capes yesterday, according to information reaching here tonight. The Rembrandt was bound from Baltimore to St. Nazaire, France, and the animals are under stood to have been intended for the armies of the allies. It was reported here tonight that Captain Edltn of the Rembrandt had notified officials of the Lamport & Holt line, owners of the ship, that he had reason to believe the vessel was fired by German spies who were mem bers of the crew. The captain is said to have asserted that threats against the ship were made before she steamed from Baltimore Saturday. Jno confir mation of these reports was available. The Rembrandt was 10 milos off Cape Henry tonight, disposing of the carcasses of the horses. She will pro ceed to .Newport. News for repairs Forward compartments of the ship are reported badly damaged. When- the fire was discovered the ship was 200 miles off the capes. The smoke was so dense that thu crew ft o o o o o o o o o o o Q o Washington Street and Broadway. o a , o o Q00008000000Q The only Western Theater Using Translucent Film Interior LightingSystem Good for Weak Eyes. We Offer Today and the Balance of This Week a B-Part Pathe War .Drama a Stupendous Success Fresh from the Lexington Theater. New York City's $1,500,000 Photoplay Palace. THE. LAST VOLUNTEER A Stirring. Thrilling Mas terpieceSome of it Taken on the Present Battle grounds A Superb- Dra matic Triumph Starring Eleanor Woodruff, Paul Panzer and Irving Cum mings Don't Miss It. A RIotonK Keystone Farce, with. "FatO" Arbuekle The Incompetent. Here" It's a corker, and a splen did combined scenic and educational film and them the Tramp tnartet." A Broadway Vitagraph All-Star Feature Including Anita Stewart, Harry J. Morey, Julia Sway ne Gordon -sen World's Latest Events g Weekly Arthur Johnson and Lottie Briscoe in a One-Act Drama "Lord Cecil Plays a Part" lOc Admission lOc in could not reach the flames and the stampeded animals were left to their fate. The ship s hold was nooaea ana the hatches closed, smothering out the fire. Mill at Kelso Is Enlarged. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Nov. 10. (Spe cial.) The J. N. Moore shingle mill at Kelso resumed operations yesterday after a week's shutdown, during which time an addition was completed to the added, greatly increasing the mill's plant and two new upright machines I capacity and efficiency. I0c -ALWAYS 10c TODAY AND REMAINDER OF THIS WEEK "Sh A James A. Hearne's True New England Classic In Five Acta . A STORY OF THRILLS AND HEART THROBS An All-Star Feature "With CHARLES A. STEVENSON IN THE LEADING ROLE Next to the Last Episode of "THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY" The Thrill of Thrills ' TEN" CENTS ANY SEAT TEN CENTS Complete Change of Pro gramme Today TODAY, THURSDAY, FRI DAY, SATURDAY EDWARD ABELES Noted Comedian in James Montgomery's Great Play, eady M oiaey A famous inter national success FIVE ACTS 321 SCENES A Brilliant Paramount Picture Continuous Performance, 11 :30 A. M. to 11 :30 P. M. lpc ADMISSION lOo NOOJC TO 11 P. M. THEATER BEATS 150O Park. Stark. West Park Phone Mar. S533 Portland's Latest and Most Beautiful Photo -Play Theater 4 Days Only Starting Engagement Extraordinary TODAY In a 4-Act Comedy, WINOQSOME WIDOW A Broadway Success. The New Magdelan Two-Part Biograph Drama THE NATIONAL TRIO Refined Song Hits. Carney and His Orchestra TJnequaled Excellence Features of tHe Theater Children's Playground Maid always present. Next Satur day afternoon, 3 to 4 o'clock, 'Kiinnriinft Sufi" serif's of Mezzanine Promenade ij stories win begin. Ladies' Rest Room Smoking-Room 10c-General Admission 10c