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VOL. LI V. NO. 16,856. PORTLAND. OREGON THURSDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V RUSSIANS STILL EXPECT VICTORY Rennenkampf Loses Com mand for Failure. HEMMED GERMANS POUNDED Destruction Certain, Say Au thorities; Decision Fore cast for Today. CZAR IS TO BE PRESENT Failure of Last Plan Laid to - Non-Appearance of Corps l at Appointed Spot fSpeefal cmbia to the Ntv Tor World. Copyright, 1914. by the Press Publishing Company. Published by arrancement with the New York World.) PETROGRAD, Deo. 2. (Special.) For the third time Emperor Nicho las left yesterday morning for the front. His arrival, it is understood here, will be the occasion for the dec laration of the good news for which the nation has been waiting for a week. The fact that the Emperor has de cided to be present with his troops tomorrow indicates, according to well- informed persons, the completion of the Grand Duke Nicholas' strategic plan for the destruction of the Ger man army and gives assurance of its , Rennenkampf Is Superseded. I hear that General Rennenkampf, whose late arrival with his army at the appointed place, robbed the stra tegic scheme of the Grand Duke of its complete success a week ago, has been superseded in his command. uwing 10 this army coming into position a couple of days after the time set, the ring of steel which should have hemmed in the German armies entirely could not be closed, with the result that a week of heavy fighting with the hurrying up of large reinforcements by the Germans fol lowed. General Once a Victor. General Rennenkampf commanded tae Iirst and second invasions of East Prussia, the latter occurring after he had defeated the Germans in the Suwalki campaign. I have information as to the causes of the failure of this distinguished commander to reach the post of honor assigned to him at the proper time (something evidently deleted by the censor). In any ease, war under such leader as the Grand Duke Nicholas admits of no excuses. The soldiers say of their commander-ic-chief that "he clips the Generals a great de leal closer than he clips us." German Reinforcements Arrive. The German attack on the Russian left with new forces brought up by train from the west developed on Sun day and was delivered with great de termination on Monday, the fighting occupying the entire day. The Rus sians were prepared for this out flanking movement on tbeir left. In the last few days of last week scouts reported the concentration -of German troops in the direction' of Kaliaz, toward Sieradz. The numbers were reported to be considerable and the Russian aviators ascertained they had come to Kalisz by train. On Sunday these new German forces crossed the Warthe River at Sieradz, where two bridges, carrying the railway line and highway, facili tated the crossing for all arms, and advanced by rail and road toward Lask. Russians Delay Resistance. The Russians did not oppose their advance until they had reached a con 1 venient locality, soe.th of Sieradz, where the River Warthe has a sharp bend. The terrain, for about 12 miles, forms a good natural defensive posi tion with ranges of hills and con venient clusters of heights, whence TURKS FORCED TO KEEP OWN PEACE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR SAVES DAY FOR HARRIED BRITISH. Ottomans Want No War "With Ignited States, In -Addition to Present Troubles, So Give In. . LONDON. Dec. 3. The Chronicle to day published a letter from Athena praising; the activity of the American Ambassador, Henry Morgenthau, In Constantinople on the night of Novem ber 1. when the English colony was not allowed to leave the city. The action of the Turks caused a panic among the British refugees, but the American Ambassador assured them he would endeavor to get them away next day. The refugees passed a terrible night of anxiety and be sides the police were harsh and brutal. The Bights he saw made Ambassador Morgentb.au determine to make the Turks respect his wishes. He form ally advised the Turkish government that unless the British colony was al lowed to depart he would demand his passports and take them all as his pri vate guests on his special train. The Turks, the letter says, had no desire to fight the United States as well as the allies, so they gave in, but took revenge by assessing the refugees an arbitrary and illegal tax of from 65 to $100 each. The next day the col ony assembled at the station. Ambas sador Morgentb.au was there and per sonally supervised all the smallest de tails of the departure, even distribut ing candy to the children before the train left. Words can hardly express the grati tude due him, the letter concludes. GRAVE ROME SESSION NEAR Attitude of Parliament Is Awaited With Anxiety. ROME. Deo. 2. The Italian Parlia ment will reassemble tomorrow and its deliberations are awaited with anxietv. as this is considered the gravest moment for Italy since its unification. Four hundred and fifty Deputies and 300 Senators are already in Rome to attend the session. Premier Salandra, in presenting the new cabinet, will maac a statement concerning the ministerial policy. An especially interesting passage will deal with the attitude of Italy with ref erence to the present European war. and the Premier will explain the rea sons that actuated the government in maintaining "armed and watchful neu trality.- the object of which was to guarantee the supreme interesta or Italy whenever threatened. The leaders of the various groups will make brief speeches and It is expected the Deputies and Senators will unite In showing confidence in the cabinet, with a view to having the Italian Parliament give evidence of its solidarity before the foreign powers. INTERNED SHIP SLIPS OUT German Steamer Leaves Havana In Dark Without Papers. HAVANA, Dec. 2. The Hamburg- American line steamer , Praesident, which formerly plied among the West Indian Islands, but which has been lying in Havana harbor since Septem ber 25, slipped out of port last night without lights or papers. The destination of the Praesident is unknown, but it is expected she intends to communicate with some German cruiser, although she is known to have on board a small quantity of coal and provisions. AUSTRIAN RULER IS FADING Sudden, Early Death Is Reported as Quite Probable. LONDON, Dec 2. Truth says today that news has been received privately to the effect that Emperor Francis I Joseph, of Austria, is In a very feeble state of health and it is thought at Vienna he may die any day, and prob ably quite suddenly. Emperor Francis Joseph has failed dreadfully in every way, the weekly says, since he returned to Vienna, from Ischl, when the war broke out. and he now is described as being In a miser able state of weakness and depression. MONTENEGRINS HOLD OWN Austrian Attempt to Cat Off Army From Servians Is Repulsed. " LONDON, Dec . 8. A semi-official dispatch from Cettinje to the Reuter Telegram Company says that for the past five days the Austrians have made continuous efforts to cut off the Mon tenegrin army from the Servian army. but that the Montenegrins repulsed them, took the offensive and forced the Austrians to retire. The Austrian losses are given as 600 killed and wounded and the Montene grin losses as 33. LYDDITE STOCK EXPLODES British Villages Think Noise Is Made by German Invaders. BRADFORD, England. Dec 2. A large stock of lyddite exploded with a roar today in a chemical works j near this city. Six men were killed and many others injured. Hundreds of windows In Bradford and nearby villages were broken. The people were in great alarm, some of them believing that the noise was the roar of guns of an invading German SATISFACTION WITH PEACE GERMAN AIM Treatment of Subjects Abroad Angers. FURTHER SACRIFICES ASKED World Must Learn Fatherland Protects, Says Chancellor. $1,250,000,000 IS VOTED Great Britain Is Real Cause of War, Declares Statesman In Speech Before Reichstag Anstrlans and Turks Are Praised. BERLIN, via Amsterdam to London, Dec. 2. With only one dissenting vote. that of Herr Llebknecht, the Reichstag today voted a new war credit of S,- 000,000.000 marks ($1,260,000,000). The President of the chamber at the opening of the sitting dwelt in a speech on the unity and patriotism of the German people and commented ap preciatively on the large number of the members of the Reichstag who are now serving the country at the front. In his expression of the progress of the war the president said: Chancellor Wears Army T; nlf orn.. "Japan Joined our enemies from desire to seize as booty the monument to German culture In the Far East. On the other hand, we have found an ally in Turkey, as all the Moslem people wish to throw off the British yoke and shatter the foundations of Great Brit ain's colonial power. Under the ban ner of our army and our fleet, we will continue." The Imperial Chancellor, Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, attended the ses sion dressed In the gray service uni form of a general. All the secretaries of state and Prussian ministers also were present. Many of the members of the chamber were in uniform and wore Iron crosses. In an address to the members of the chamber,. Dr.. Vos. .Bethmann-Hollweg aid: Kmperar Sends Greeting-. "The Emperor is absent with the army, but he has charged me to trans mit his best wishes and cordial greet ings to the German House of Repre sentatives, with whom he knows he Is united until death in stress of danger in common concert for the weal of the fatherland. "Our first thoughts go to the Em peror and the army and navy, who are fighting for the honor and greatness of the empire. Full of pride and with unshakeable confidence we look on (Concluded on Page 2.) THE WAS THE WAR CLOUD'S SILVER LINING IS PLAINLY VISIBLE. J :: ms?i - tv o o 2 t fOTTOH ror. 0rV? 5 ZL raSS INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 45 degrees; minimum. degree. TODAY'S Rala;t southwesterly winds. W-vr. Russians expect to destroy surrounded 0r - mans today. Page X. . James O'Donnel! Bennett describes Kaiser at church. Page 1. Turkey bows quickly when American Am bassador delivers ultimatum, rage x. Germany, after war, to get satisfaction tor treatment of subjects by xoes. page x- Amerlcans gaining enormous trade as result 01 war. page 8. Anstrlans occupy Belgrade and Servian re treat continues. Page 2. Western hemisphere neutral sone plan 1 evolved by United States. Page 2. Schwab on carpet over submarine deals. Page 4. Mexico. Mexico students overawe mobs while trans fer of authority Is being accompiisnea. Page L National. President praises Funston and men, for con duct at vera crux, page o. - JDomestlc Colorado Governor-elect suggests remedy for strike evils. Page 0. Girls making $6 week must go hungry when c tomes are needed, tney leu invwusa tors. Page 6. Moose conference decides to continue party In existence. Page 5. Sports. Hoppe runs away with British billiard cham pion, playing balkllne game. Page 12. Seals' ramshackle ball park Is regular Jinx. Page 12. . St. Louis Federals grab Bddle Plank. Page 18. Pacific Northwest. Governor West commutes sentence of Lloyd H. Wllkins to prevent his being xreeo. Page 7. Increase In area of pear cultivation recom mended in Oregon. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Free movement In Pacific Coast hop mar kets. Page 17. Strong foreign demand lifts wheat at Chi cago. Page 17. Better inquiry for short-term notes at New York. Page 17. Pasteur virus being tried on grain docks as rat exterminator. . Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Great need ' for generous contributions to relief fund shown. Page 11. Records show Secretary Lane's -approval of $450,000 irrigation programme. Page 14. Elaborate preparations made for Livestock Show to prevail from December 7 to 12. Page 17. PUtrah Home makes appeal In new crisis confrontlnT it. Page 0. Warm municipal campaign out at MSlwau- kle. Page 2. Eastern Oregon lumber mills plead for railroads to widen market. Page 11. Coroner's Jury finds that Mrs. Ronnlng was driven to suicide by C. P. Kirk land, who Is ordered held pending further. Inquiry. Page 4. New plays jt movlng-plcture theaters are lifelike, 'page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. BRITISH COLLIERS FINED Question of Neutrality Avoided by Canal Zone Commanders. PANAMA, Dec 2. The British col liers Klrnwood and Roddam were fined $25 each today for not having health certificates on entering an American port. The two colliers were held up at Colon several days. ago. The de cision of the court was rendered In order to avoid the Question of neu- 1 trallty. The colliers must now depart from the canal zone within Z4 hours. The Klrnwood and Roddam, a dis patch from Panama announced, sev eral days ago, would be permitted to pass through the canal on bond and a shipping report Tuesday said the ves sels had gone on to Balboa, there to await orders. The canal tolls, it was said, would be paid by the British Admiralty. CLOUD'S SILVER LINING IS PLAINLY VISIBLE. H'-, &3t9k MEXICO CITY MOBS AWED BY STUDENTS Order Kept While Wait ing for Zapata. v LOOTING HELD TO MINIMUM Police Force Reorganized by ex-Governor Iturbide. GENERAL QUIET RESTORED Single Tragedy Storks Transfer ot Rale in Capital, When Firemen, Slistaken by Soldiers, Are " Massacred by Troops. MEXICO CITT. Nov. SO via El Paso Junction Dec 3. Delayed by censor.) Calm prevails in Mexico City, following the transfer of authority to the forces of Francisco Villa and Emillano Zap ata. But for the activity of the students of the city, however, the change would not have been accomplished as peace ably as it developed. When it became known that General Carranza bad ordered botn oenerai Obregon and General Blanco to leave the city with all their men, huge moos began forming In front of the National Palace. It was evident that serious trouble was brewing, and the streets were cleared of all save the rioters. With cries of "To the arms stores there are no police." the crowds ran from the open plaza to the places des ignated on the Avenue lstn of Septem ber. Ammunitlo. Store. Looted. Here the leaders forced the doors of one of the largest establishments sell ing arms and ammunition, and handed out the weapons to the waiting throngs. With these the rioters rushed down the streets, firing as they went. The telephone lines connecting the capital with the suburbs had been Dusily working, - however, and the Zanata forces on the outskirts were asked to come into the city without re gard for the arrangement they had made with th. northerners..The Zapata troops responded promptly. Meantime the students of the city had met and had decided to arm themaelves and disperse the mcbs if no assistance came from the besieged soldiers on tile outside. The crowds heard of these , preparations and, broke up into small parties, spreading out orer the entire city. Stndeata Gur Principal Streeta. When the Zapata forces entered Mex ico City the students, armed with all sorts of ws-ipons, from pistols of small caliber to old muzzle-loading, double barreled shotguns, already bad taken (Concluded on Pace 2.) Wednesdays War Moves BELGRADE, which until the out break of the war was the capital of Servla, was yesterday occupied by Austrian troops, the Servians having previously evacuated the city. Thus, on the 66th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Francis Joseph, who again is reported seriously ill. and four months after the outbreak of the war, his generals report one of the most important successes they have obtained. Belgrade was frequently under bom bardment early In the war and but for the general European conflict, which compelled Austria to send her troops against Russia, must have fallen an easy prey to Servla's big neighbor. Ap parently Austria miscalculated the na ture of the Seivian opposition and only after Bosnia was Invaded did she send a sufficient force airalnst the Servians to driv. them back.. Now they are being forced backward and are eagerly looking for the advance of the Russians into Hungary to af ford them relief. Russia has been sending Cossack raiding parties through the Carpa thians with the object of diverting Austria's attention, but the dual mon archy seemingly is determined to fin ish with Servla first. This, however. Is only a small affair compared with what is going on in North Poland. There the German army. which, with the aid of reinforcements, succeeded in escaping from the ring the Russians had forced around it, has formed a new front and at some points has resumed the offensive. The Ger mans assert that in this series of man euvers by which they were able to check the Russians they made 80,000 prisoners. The Russians, on the other hand, in a statement issued through Rome, say their captures greatly exceed this num ber. All agree that the loeses uave been enormously heavy and that the battle still is undecisive, as it probably will be for some days. For a moment the allies are some what disappointed that the realization of a great Russian victory is denied them. They take some consolation tn the fact that the Germans' attempt to pierce the Russian lines has failed and that, suffering from heavy losses, the Germans are compelled to weaken their armies elsewhere. The Russian report says that the fighting has lost some of its violence and indicates some progress for the Russian troops south of Lodz. It is unofficially reported that the Russians are "nearly In Cracow." While there is every Indication that another big battle is imminent in the west,' there is no evidence that it ac tually has begun. Thero has been fighting in Flanders. . but this doubt less is the result of an attempt by the allies to take some advance positions. There are also reports that the Ger mans have evacuated several villages on the Yser Canal and are concent rat ing on new positions. The British have taken over com mand of the Yser region and. like the French. have been strongly rein forced. It is believed that on the first sign of a German movement to the east in any considerable force the al lies will take the offensive In the west. DENMARK HERE TO TRADE Business Formerly Held by Germany to Come to America. ' NEW YORK. Dec. 2. Denmark's ex port and import trade ' with Germany which has been partially destroyed by the war will be turned to the United States, according to Eigel Hallager, a merchant of Copenhagen, who arrived here today on the steamship Frederick V1IL Mr. Hallager said he came to this country for the purpose of making ex tensive purchases of goods for export and to find a market for gloves, $8,000, 000 worth of which Germany annually purchased in Denmark prior to the war. PRO-GERMAN IRISH HALTED Newspaper at Dublin Is Raided by Authorities. DUBLIN, via London, Dec 3. The police have raided the office of the Irish Freedom, a monthly newspaper which has been opposing enlistment and expressing pro-German sentiment. All copies of the newspaper on news stands were confiscated. The police also have prevented the distribution of another newspaper of similar tendencies. There has been widespread agitation In Great Britain for the suppression of these and similar Irish publications. BELGIAN BOYS TO BE HELD Germans to Arrest All Liable to Mil itary Service in 1915. LONDON. Dec 2. It is reported by the Amsterdam correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company that Major-General Keim, German military governor of the Belgian Province of Llmburg. has ordered the arrest of all young Belgians in that district who are liable for military service In tbe army .class of 1915. This action, it is said, is to be ex tended throughout Belgium. CITY TO BUY NO NUDES Chicago Art Commission Avoids Horrifying Taxpayers. CHICAGO. Dec 2. The nude in art will receive no encouragement from the Dew Chicago Art Commission appointed to spend a city appropriation In the purchase of works" by local artists, ac cording to an announcement today. Members of the commission agreed that the taxpayers would be horrified if city money ware spent for nudes. KAISER IS'GOfiMDE' AT CHURCH SERVICE Writer Describes Em peror at Devotions. FACE IS GRAVE, NOT WOFUL Beholder Moved Not So Much to Sympathy as Awe. WAR SERMON IS PREACHED Ruler Beats Time With Rlk Band and Urges More Fire From Brass Instruments aa Val iant Hymn Is Sung. BT JAMVS CDOXNELL BENNETT.' (War correspondent of th. Chlcar Tribun.. Mr. Bennett is th. only Amertcuu correspondent who ha aeen the Emperor of Germany since the war becn. GREAT HEADQUARTERS GERMAN ARMY, "Nov. 12. This morning the Em peror went to church, coming by motor car from the vlllla in this town, where he has been in residence for several days. At church I sat IS feet from him and watched him as sharply as de cency would permit. I took no notes, but during such parts of the sermon as I could not understand I went over the details of the scene and of the bearing of the principal figure in it and etched them on my memory. I write while the impression Is still fresh. Face Solemsi and Anst.re. This, thought L as the Emperor seated himself in a drawing-room chair before the improvised altar, is the sad dest face 1 have seen in my life. Not the saddest, either, nor yet the most careworn, but the gravest. In that countenance was no woe, but a solemn ity so profound and austere that it moved the heart not to sympathy so much as to a kind of awe. I think that I may say that this man looked his part in the present tremen dous drama. He looked not only the warrior-king but the anxious head of the state, and you said to yourself, as you studied the reflective eyes and the motionless lips, "The burden of empire is upon him." For seconds upon seconds it was like a face of marblo undis turbed by so much as the quiver ot an eyelid or the parting of the lips. Profoswd Gravity Impressive. The eyes held me with a peculiar fas cination, and when, as the Emperor turned a little to tbe right, I had an opportunity to look almost full Into his face, the conviction of the sadness of -the face would come over me again, and I was minded of the expression you catch in certain portraits of Lin coln the reflective, far-off look as if the brain behind the eyes were busy with mournful things not yet borne in on other men. 1 Anyway, this impression of a some thing in the Emperor's countenance that was more poignant and more hu man than solemnity and that still waa not quite equivalent to sadness was the dominant impression ot what waa to me an exceedingly Interesting hour. And so. my first impression of the German Emperor was the impression of profound gravity. That expression of his made him seem an older man than I had expected to find him. He looked every one of his 55 years, and more than looked them. Youth Seems to Retira, We of America, I am sure, always -think of him as a young man. hardly realizing that he has been 26 years on the throne and that he Is a grandfather. And yet, half an hour after service, he seemed young again and there were moments when there was a look of al most boyish happiness in his eyes. He was standing then by the roadside after the ceremony of "parademarsch." when 2000 of the landsturm had passed in review before him. A glittering staff was grouped around him. Old men and young bent very low over his hand, but always he deftly turned their greeting from what I supposed was going to be a kissing of the hand into a handshake. He speke with animation and It seemed to me that he must be speaking of pleasant matters. With at least four of the officers he laughed a great deal, showing his white teeth as he did so. He laughed with his shoulders, too, the way a stout man laughs, though the Emperor is not stout, and once he laughed so heartily, but not loudly, that his cheeks became for an Instant quite rosy. Preacher's Voice That of Warrler. To return to the religious service The preacher walked back and forth in front of the altir during the half hour before the Emperor's arrival. He was Pastor Goerns, ono of the court chaplains. His countenance waa mild, but he had the voice of a warrior. He wore a black cassock and over it a gray military cloak. His cap, al though it was simple, somehow re called by Its form the more ornate headdress of the Biblical priesthood. Its color was black. At his breast hunK a large silver cross. He was a cheerful cleric and he beamed with an equal eye upon the officers, young and old. saluting tt-em with the mil itary salute a5 they took their places. And so we waited, the hall not buzz ing, but only sibilant with the sub dued conversation of tbe princes and dukes and generals and other officers. (Concluded on Fase Coaeludd .a Pas. army.