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TIIE MOEXIXG OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1915. CRISIS REVEALED BT BRITISH AGENT Mexico City Situation Deplor able, Says Charge in Re port to Ambassador. FOREIGN FOLK IN DANGER Kx-Federal Governor Commended tor Sarins Americans and Brit oiu When Forces of Zapata Entered Capital. Liu WASHIKTO, Jan. B. Brlgadler Ccaeral Scott, Chief f Staff f the I lte J Statra, and General Villa, t'oaimaadrr-la-Chlef f tbe form af fae Catlrrrra Kovrramfnt 1b Mexico, hare arraaiced roafer oa the Inter aatloaal bridge at Kl Faao, with a view te arriving- at aa understanding; that will permanently prevent farther I Ir is V lata America territory by Mexl eaa fartioaa flKhtias along the tater antlonnl llnesw WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. Sir Cecil Fprlng Rice, tbe British Ambassador, transmitted to the State Department today a copy of a mail report from Charge Hohler, of the British legation in Mexico City, saying conditions there a week aero were deplorable. High commendation was given Edu ardo llurblde, ex-Governor of the fed eral district, for his effort in saving the liven of Britons and Americans when the Zapata forces entered the city. Since then Iturbide has succeeded in getting out of the hands of the Mex loan officials who threatened to execute Mm, and according to official reports received today he is now in the United states. Since Charge Hohler s report was sent conditions have improved, accord ing to State Department advices. The 3lcxlcan convention reassembled today and discussed credentials of delegates. Neither the War nor State Depart ment had any further advices as to the situation at Naco. but tbe belief pre vailed that an adjustment of the diffi culties there would be reached on the arrival of General Juan Cabral with ftuno Gutierrez troops. State Department advices today say the only tunnel on the railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and several important bridges on the road, as well as railroad bridges In the State of Oaxai-a. have been blown up. Thft legation at Guatemala City re ported arlrval of many Mexican ref ugees but no Americana. 12-inch guns ot this country's coast defenses, said that foreign guns carry at thir maximum elevation 21,000 yards, while "our 12-inch guns on their standard carriage carry 13.000 yards, but could be mounted so as to carry a similar distance to tnose foreign guns. It would take 10 months to make the change, but it would not necessitate any change In the fortifications." Coast Haa 3i 14-Inch Guns. "The Increased range of the 12-inch guns." wrote the Secretary, "would be accomplished by a slight increase In the capacity of the chamber, which the design of the gun admits of. and by providing a slightly lighter projectile for the extreme range. No change of gun carriage is necessary to obtain this Increased range for the 14-inch guns." Mr. Garrison said there were no 14 inch guns now in the coast defense of the United States proper, but that four such guns were in process of construc tion for installation on the Pacific Coast. He said that there were no guns of a larger size except the 16-inch gun destined for the Panama Canal. He explained that there were two 14-inch guns already mounted in the Panama Canal fortifications and eight mors in the course of being mounted. 634 Modern Guns Ready. "There are now in our possession." the Secretary added, "634 modern field guns and howitzers and 226 additional ones appropriated for and und3r manu facture a. total of 860. We have on hand or under manufacture 580.000 rounds of ammunition for these guns and howitzers. The latest (December 23) estimate of the Frankford arsenal indicates a capacity to manufacturs 35.000 complete rounds a month. I pre sume there has been aome change in tbe facilities of the private manufac turers to meet demand of the forsign trade." . SHELL SHYNESS IS BRIEF BRITOX SAYS FIRST CACSES TER RIBLE FRIGHT. HOSTILE LAWS NOT LIKELY California Legislator? leaders In tend Xc Anti-Japanese Action. WASHINGTON'. Jan. 4. In an official but convincing way, the State Depart mnt has learned there is no intention on the part of the leaders In control of tht California Legislature to bring1 for ward any new anti-Japanese leftism Hon durinir the present session, which bezan today. It has been made plain that the leaders cannot prevent mem bers from broaching measures of their own. but it is understood such meas n res will not receive support of the dominant party. A disposition not to do anything that might Jeopardize the success of the I una ma-Pacific Imposition by curtail lnrf oriental exhibits is understood here t. have been a potent factor In bring irur about the determination to avoid further agitation of the Japanese ques. lion. MUTUAL DEFENSE SOUGHT (Concluded on Pan 2.) and Congress Is rharged by Rear-Ad miral Austin M. Knight. In charge of the naval war college. In a report dated at Newport, December 1(, and embndtd in the revised record of raval bill hearings made public today by the committee. Admiral Knight was one of the of ficers whom Representative Hobson. of Alabama, vainly sought to have called to testify before the committee. His statement was brought out by tele grams sent by Secretary Daniels to Ad miral Knight and to Rear-Admiral Kltrher, commanding the Atlantic fleet, asking -whether there is lack cf co-ordination in the Administration f the Atlantic fleet and what the Naval War Colic- aas it should ac complish." War ('allege Makes Charge. While Admiral Fletcher reported the s.ime day from New York that he knew of no lack of co-ordination at the present time and believed "that the present co-ordtnation meets with the war college's full approval." Ad miral Knight made this statement: -The War College believes that lack of co-ordination does exist in the fleet, between the Navy Department and the fleet and between the Navy Iepartnient. the fleet aad Congress. "The college doc not regard this as a new situation, although it happens at this moment to be unusually acute. The remedy reota partly with the fleet, where everything that can be done already is in preparation; partly with tM department, where plans already hue been formulated for more ex tensive maneuver than ever before, and chiefly with Congress, where there atread? Is pending a bill for a council of National defense. Crnlaera Deeiared Seeded. "This, more than all other agencies combine,!, would make for a co-ordina-t.un of all the Government agencies, many of which lie far outside the fields ot the Navy and the Navy Department." Admiral Knight cited the diversion of battleships and torpedo craft to uses widely different from that for which they exist, with resulting Interruption of preparation for battle and the breaking down of efficiency. He said this was In many ca.-es the result of lai k vof cruisers and gunboats. uy Coat la Blllloaa. Among other data Just added to the report of the hearing is a statement of ratal expenditures for the current naval year, showing that while the t'nited StatM appropriated S141.8T2.TS0, Great Britain appropriated $.'60,000, MiO: Germany t April to March . 1114. (hiO.OOO; France (January to December), J12t.0ii0.0vi: Russia (January to De cember). lirs.ODO.oijO: Japan (April to March). IM.ono.OO: Italy (July 1 to June 30). $37,000,000. Total appropria tions on account of the Navy In this country from 1TS4 to 1914, inclusive, were shown to aggregate 13.071, 179.- ;. Representative Gardner submitted to the military committee a series of let ters exchanged by himself and Secre tary Garrison during the past two or three weeks. Mr. Garrison, replying to a question as to how much the 14-inch guns of foreign navies outranged the Tenth, However, Is tittle Noticed by Men la Trenches, Although De atrnetlon Is Great. SCARBOROUGH. England. Dec. 16. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) A popular young officer of the Yorkshire Light Infantry writes to his parents a description of the effects of Germany artillery fire. His letter, published In the local newspapers, has a peculiar interest for residents of this city, who have Just been through ttie experience of bombardment. Ho says in part: "I don't believe there is a man living who, when first Interviewing an 11 Inch howitzer shell, is not pink with fright- After the first ten, one gets quite used to them, but really they are terrible. "They hit a house. Tou can see the great shell a black streak Just be fore it strikes then, before you hear the exDlosion. the whole house simply lifts up into the air. apparently quite silently: then you hear the roar, ana the whole earth shakes. "In the place where the house was there is a huge fountain spout of what looks like pink fluff. It is the put verixed bricks. Then a monstrous shoot of black smoke towering up a hundred feet or more, and finally there is a cu rious willow-like formation, and then you duck, as huge pieces of shell, and house, and earth, and haystack, tumble over your head. The broken, pieces of shell are horribly Jagged, sharp-edged missiles whatever they hit they tear, cut, lacerate and destroy. Yet, do you know, it is really remarkable how lit tle damage they do against eartn trenches: they seem much less destruc tive in soft sand or soil than when striking against a building or a ma sonry wall." SLIDES BIG NAVAL MAY- HALT GRUIS E Colonel Goethals Advises Against Internationa! Fleet's Trip Just Now'. GOLD HILL EARTH MOVES TO BE FETED LATER COXSECRATIOX FRIENDS WILL HON OR ORKliON PRELATE, Informal Reception . to Be Given Chicago Wednesday and Port land Clergy Will Receive. CHICAGO, Jan. 4. (Special.) Friends of Dean Sumner In an out of the Kpls copal Church, will give an informal reception on the parlor floor of the Auditorium Hotel on the day of bis consecration as Bishop of Oregon. The reception is in recognition of his large public services and is in the nature of a farewell. It will be held from 4 to 6:30 In the afternoon of Wednesday, and the public Is invited. It is expected that It will be largely attended. 1 The committee of arrangements con sists of J. Allen Haines. Mrs. John L. Woods and Mrs. F. F. Ainsworth. In the receiving line will be Bishop and Mrs. C. P. Anderson. Dr. and Mrs. V. E. Toll. Bishop-elect and Mrs. Her man Page, Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen Haines, Very Rev. 1L M. Ramsey, of Portland. Or.; Archdeacon Chambers, of Portland, Or.; Dr. A. A. Morrison, of Portland, Or.: Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Lathrop. of Eugene: T. Idea. Dr. Harry Pratt Jud- son. W. R. Stirling, Miss Dorothy Stir ling. Miss Amelia Sears, C L. Hutch inson. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Evans, Joseph H. Defrees. M. J. Collins, presi dent of the Board of Kducation. Mrs. II. Hougliteling. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Walker. Mrs. Carrie O. Meacham, Colo nel Milton J. Foreman, Miss Agnes Foreman. Dr. McCartney, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Murphy. Trofessor and Mrs. Graham Taylor, Mrs. Herman B. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Baldwin. Dr. A. W. Harris, president of Northwestern Uni versity, and Ernest Fox Nichols, presi dent of Dartmouth College, Dart mouth, X. H. Governor of Canal Tells Secretary Garrison lie Cannot Guarantee Channel Broad Enough to Ad mit Great Dreadnoughts. WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. The possibil ity of a postponement of the cruise of the international fleet from Hampton Roads to San Francisco through the Panama Canal, In connection with the nnenlnz- of the canal and the exposition was suggested today In the course of a conferencs between Secretary Garri son and Colonel Goethals, Governor of the canal. Though the great earth slides at Cu caracha have aDDarently been con quered, according to Colonel Goethals' report, the earth movements continue in the neighborhood of uoid mil. -at that point the superincumbent masses of earth on the side of the canal, by their great pressure, are continuously forcing rock and soil in great quan tities Into 'the canal prism. The move ment is sufficiently extensive to re quire the continuous employment of dredges to maintain the channel. While this can be done to meet the needs of the present number and size of vessels that are applying for pass age. Colonel Goethals reported that he could not guarantee that there would be a channel broad enough and deep enough for the great dreadnoughts, which will make up the naval parade by the date they are expected to arrive at Cristobal next Spring. The mastery of the earth movements at Gold Hill is considered only a ques tion of time when the earth must find its equilibrium. Colonel Goethals. how ever, is unable to promise that this period of stability will be attained by the time the naval fleet is scheduled to reach the canal. As the programme of the fleet from the time that it gathers at Hampton Roads to its arrival at San Francisco is prescribed by law,, the officials are now considering whether it will be nec essary to secure special legislation In case it is decided to abandon or post pone the cruise because of the condi tions of the canal. Colonel Goethals arrived In Wash ington today from 'West Point, where he had been visiting his son at the mil itary academy. He will appear tomor row before the House committee on ap propriations to explain the estimates he has submitted for the continuation of construction work on the canal, in cluding drydocks, coal wharves and pockets, machine shops and other es tablishments necessary to the operation of the waterway. BRITAIN'S REPLY FRIENDLY (Concluded on Page 2.) MORE THAST 100 JAPANESE GIRLS AWAIT lll'SBAXDS. t'nited States Detention Station Hansen Nipponese TIU Spoues Come to Greet Them. SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. 4 Seventy picture brides from Japan arrived here today on the Liner Shinyo Maru to meet husbands they have never seen. Fifty more arrived within the week on other steamships. Until the husbands arrive the brides are being housed on Angel Island, the United States detention station. In the eyes of the Japanese law the brides have been married. There haa been an exchange of pictures, an ap proval by the heads of the two con tracting families, and a formal declara tion ot Intention in writing before a Japanese official. The brides come tagged and num bered, are correctly dealt out to the right husbands, and then usually are taken In hand by the Japanese As sociation, which escorts them to the marriage license bureau, after which a religious ceremony la performed, some times by a Buddhist or Shinto priest, sometimes by a Christian clergyman. House Congressional committee today In favor of pending Congressional res olutions to stop exports of war mate rials to European belligerents. Delegations from New York. Phil adelphia, Chicago and Baltimore, among them representatives of the German-American Alliance and the An cient Order of Hibernians, appeared in favor of the resolutions. C. J. Hexamer, of Philadelphia, pres ident of the German-American Alli ance, presented memorials adopted by that organization in many states, urg ing the adoption of one of the resolu tions. These memorials Included a letter written by Mr. Hexamer to President Wilson, dated December 9, "in the in terest of neutrality," saying that one of the nations engaged in the war -could get munitions from this coun try." "Our failure in keeping strict neu trality becomes thereby." the letter con tinued, "an unfriendly. If not Inimical, act against one particular nation. . "You cannot imagine. Mr. president, he wrote, "with what chagrin and bit terness it fills the American of German descent to see the resources of this great country which they have helped to build up placed at tne disposal of enemies who, with their overwhelming forces, have proclaimed it their avowed purpose to crush our ancestral home. "Since the attitude ot our govern ment enables England to cut on, against our own interests, even tbe most necessary supplies from the civil population of certain countries, do you think, Mr. President, that thereby the assertions that the neutrality of tne United States Is only a matter or lorni and does not exist are Justified?" Addressing the committee, Mr. Hex amer said: "The principal evil growing out ot the situation is the damage being done to our commerce. We should have an Immediate inquiry by a special com merce commission into our trade with European countries. We should de mand that our neutral trade be allowed to go on without interference and that England be not allowed to prevent us from sending articles that are of no direct use in war to Italy. Holland, I Denmark. Norway and Sweden, Switz erland or any other country that de sires to buy our goods. Some way should be found to raise the embargo mposed by England on the re-exporta tion of our goods from these countries to the civil population of Germany and Austria. "But the first thing to be done Is to prohibit the exportation of arms and munitions. Only England and her friends can benefit by our unholy com merce In war materials. Every dollar made by a few manufacturers of war supplies is tainted with blood from the field of battle." A Sale of Sales ! Three Sales Merged Into One Launched Yesterday Overtaxed the Combined Regular and. Special Sales Forces TODAY Every Sale in Force Yesterday Will Prevail An Astounding Sale of Women's Apparel Suits, Coats, Waists, Dresses, Furs - AT COST MANY HALF PRICE AND LESS French Hand-Embroidered and American Lingerie In a Sale So Tempting, So Unprecedented in Economies That Scarcely More Than One-Third of Our Patrons Were Served, Despite the Fact That 20 Extra Salesmen Were Available TODAY the Same Specials Are Obtainable The Entire Stock One-Fifth to Half Off DAY Important Linen Sale Yearly Corset Sale Traveling Bag Sale Men's Shirt Sale Boys' Suit Sale AY Interesting Dinnerware Sale Annual Lace Sale Hosiery and Underwear Sale Millinery Sale Women's Shoe Sale A History Making Sale of Silks and Dress Goods Offering the Most Beautiful Silks at Half Price Arid Every Yard of Newest Dress Goods Reduced RED CROSS HEADQUARTERS FOR OREGON O. Merchandis erit Only" ' RED CROSS HEADQUARTERS FOR OREGON KIN6PIQUESICELAND Disputes Arise Over Proposed Constitution and Flag. DESIGN OF EMBLEM ISSUE DENTIST HELD FOR MURDER Coroner's Jury Holds Tliat Illegal Operation Was Performed. SAX FRAXCISCO. Jan. 4. Dr. J. J. Leek, a dentist, was charged today with the murder of Mrs. Ella A. Bruce by a Coroner's jury. He is under ar rest. Mrs. Bruce was found dead December 18 in the ofTice of the dentist. An autopsy showed that an illegal opera tion had been performed, according to the Coroner's jury. SWEDISH STEAMER LOST Carina, With Crew of 0 Men, May Have Struck Floating Mine. LONDON. Jan. 5. According to ad vices received here from Stockholm the Swedish steamer Carma has been lost in the North Sea with her crew of 20 men. It is presumed that the Carma struck a mine. Danish Ruler Is Not Sure Taste of Island Minister Is Representa tive of Subjects Meeting to Settle Points Is Likely. REYKJAVIK. Iceland. Dec. 4. (Cor respondent of the Associated Iceland is in the throes of a political crisis and the people are hugely en joying It because it provides them with something to talk about these ong. cold Winter nights. It is a Quarrel be tween the Liberal party, which is in the ascendency, and His Majesty the King of Denmark, the ruler of Iceland has led to the resignation of the Prime Minister. Eggerz, but he has consented to remain in office for the present, and if matters are. arranged to his satis faction, he will no doubt withdraw his resignation altogether. There are two points of disagreement with the King. The first concerns the constitution. Icelanders want an up-to-date constitution, and in the last session of Parliament various changes in the old constitution were agreed uoon in accordance with the popular demand. But when the Prime Minister sent them to the King for his signature, without which they tould not become effective, he refused to affix it. is maintained that the constitution of Ice. land could not be changed without the sanction of the Danish Parliament. The sturdy Icelandic Liberals, on the other hand contended that their own Parlia ment was quite competent to fix up their constitution, and that the Danish Parliament had no business to meddle with It. - The other point at Issue concerns the flag question. Iceland for some time has been anxious to have a flag that it could call its own. and the King, it is said, promised that its desire would be gratified. The Liberal majority in the Parliament here, having complete faith In the patriotism and good taste of the Prime Minister, autnonzea mm iu b im a flae and settle the matter per sonallv with the King. But the King refused to consider the design submit ted bv the Prime Minister, alleging that there was no evidence that it was the sort of flag the Icelanders really wanted. The King has announced that he will summon before him some of the lead ing politicians of Iceland to see if some satisfactory settlement of the disputed matters cannot be arranged. "OPEN SHOP" IS EXPECTED Eastern Operators Likely Will Cease Negotiations With Miners. CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 4. Eastern coal operators, it is believed, at an ad journed meeting tomorrow, will decide formally to break off all negitiations with the United Mineworkers' Union. That they plan to evict striking miners because they have paid no rent since the strike was called the 1st of April last, and will decide to make overtures to miners as individuals to work "open shop" under the scale re jected by the miners' organization, was the belief expressed tonight by those in touch with the situation. CUSTOMS REVENUES DROP Receipts last Six Months $50,000, 000 Less Than Previous Period. WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. Customs revenues for ' the six months ending December 31 last, amounted to J107, 732,934, compared with $158,357,918 for the last six months of 1913. At the office of Assistant Secretary Peters, in charge of customs, these figures were said to confirm the Treas ury Department's estimates and to show the necessity of the war revenue law. Wilson Appointee Held Ineligible. WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. Oliver P. Newman, chairman of the Board of Commissioners which governs the Dis trict of Columbia, was held by the Court of Appecls today to have been ineligible for the office because of questions of his legal residence when President Wilson appointed him in 1913. The case will be carried to the United States Supreme Court. STEIN BACH IS TAKEN Germans Finally Lose Town in Upper Alsace Region. OTHER WORKS TWICE LOST Battles Waged Violently for Posi tions, Which Change Ilands Fre quently Artillery Engage ments Are Terrific. PARIS. Jan. 4. The following offi cial communication was issued by the War Office tonight: "The only reports which have been received up to tho present have refer ence to Upper Alsace, where engage ments of a very violent nature con tinued in the region of Cernay (Sen nezim). "Last nieht our troops lost, then re gained the territory around the church at Steinbach. This morning they occu. pied tbe entire village. Tne German woras to me wei. v Cernay, captured by us yesieraay, were lost for a brief period following a very violent counter attack, but the Germans were not aDie to maintain iu and this position remains in our hands." The official statement given out in Paris this afternoon shows that the artillery fighting along the front Is proceeding intermittently and at some points with particular violence. There seem to have been few Infantry attacks recently. The French admit failure In an effort to occupy a German position in the Meuse country. They claim, however, further progress In . Stein bach. The text of the communication follows: "From the sea to the Olse the day passed in almost complete calm. The weather was rainy. There were artil lery exchanges at some points of the front In front of Noulettes our heavy artillery reduced the German batterlea to silence. "On the Alsne and in t.'liampaijne the cannonading was particularly violent Our batteries showed their superiority and brought under their lire reserve forces of the enemy. We became pos sessed of several points of support held by the Germans in the region of Perthes and of Mesnil-Ies-Hurlus. "Between the Argonne and the Meuaa,, as well as on the heights of the Meuse, there was intermittent cannonading. An effort made yesterday morning by our troops to occupy floureullles did not succeed. 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