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3 BRITISH SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS WHO REPLIES TO GERMAN CHANCELLOR. MAIL ORDERS FILLED BY EXPERT SHOPPERS Last Week of the January Sale Last Week of the January Sale Civilians Not So Highly Prized by Military Element, Says ' Writer in Belgium. Phone Marshall 5000 A 6691 THE SIORVtKG OREGOXIAX. TTEDXESDAT. JANUARY 2T, 1915, HUMAN LIFE VALUED AS GRAIN OF DUST il AIR IS CHARGED WITH WAR All Aliens Are Snspected by Ger mans of Being Spies, American Newspaper Men, "Themselves, Becoming JLere Prisoners. BT CHARLES X. WHEELER. 'Staff Correspondent of the Chicago SIR EDWARD GREY. Tribune. Published by arrangement with the Tribune.) LONDON. Jan. 12. The human ele ment is almo'st entirely eliminated from the Belgian war zone. Life and death, every impulse, it seems, is measured on the basis of military necessity and military expedience. This soon was made plain to me after Thompson and I reached the Bel gian frontier town f rom . Hosendaal. A single human life counts for as much as a grain of dust picked up from the earth. The civilian counts les if he sets in the way! Churches, with tne host on their con secrated altars, and even the effigies of Christ himself are smashed and splintered . and blown to atoms with . equal accuracy, as we shall see as we proceed. They simply got In the way and the expedient method was to send an exploding- shell crashing through them and crumble them to earth. Not alone soldiers, but men, women and children, who happened to get in the path of these death-charged projectiles, were blown to fragments. . Noneombatajits Lives Are Fawns. The human blood that is drenchin Europe does not all flow from the mutilated shapes clothed in service uniforms. It was but an imaginary line drawn through the little town and out into the garden patches that separated one from civilization and war. On one side of the barrier the Dutch frontier guards strolled leisurely along, smoking and having their little quips with the heavy-framed landsturms, whose hob nail boots made great noise on the cobblestones and the board platforms. They and the Prussians wore the long "Winter military coats and warm caps. and muskets were thrown over their shoulders. There was a great bustle of soldiers, among whom were several officers, as th. train nlnniwH V HITfl shot in through the Dutch end of the station BELGIUM IN REAL PERIL pSi IUO VUJlultio mi, miu wu. ...v Belgian or German end. We had no sooner taken the one step over that thin line between humanity and inhu manitv. between security and Jeopardy, than we began to feel the thing called war. The air seemed to change. All Aliens Are Suspects. The German soldier, in the presence of his superior ofticers, is not a kindly intentioned being at all. Me is meia mornhosed' into a military automaton, obeying the rules of the Prussian war book with the precision that a lathe resDonds to the cog gearing in a ma- ,'hine shotl. SusDicion of all aliens is the thin that obsesses his very soul. He glowers nrt trrowls and presents a fierce at titude. He is pleased when one is tion of Belgium's neutrality, unless afraid of him. Even his voice drops I waa previously violated by another into a sepulchral growl. power. On no other footing did Bel We got through the customs room I gium ever have any such eominunica and out -on tne Herman siae, siruucu i tions. down the platform, and grabbed two I "in spite of these facts, the Germa good seats in the first coach. Every chancellor speaks of Belgium as havi5; soldier riveted two cold, blue eyes on I thereby 'abandoned and forfeited' hei us. There was a stir among a Knot neutrality, and he Implies that h of officers. Then they stood close to- I would not have spoken of the German gether, talked In low voices for a f ew I invasion as a 'wrong had he then moments, and separated. I known of the conversations of 1906 and Presently, as we were filling our 11911. pipes and expressing ourselves ireeiyi Cardinal Mercler Quoted. about rrussian militarism, ono ui u It would seem to follow that ac officers stopped at our carnage. cording-to Herr von Bethmann-Holl knew Just one tngusn wora Tass- vega code wronff becomes right if the port" with the accent on. the first party Which Is -to be the subject of syllable. the wrong foresees the possibility and we prraenira pcicww """ makes preparations to resist it. American passports signea oy ins - "Those who are content with older cellency. William Jennings Bryan. and more generally accepted standards Pair Go "TJu the Carpet. I are likely to agree rather with what He motioned for Thompson to get Cardinal Mercier said in his pastoral iiii.iunnwuiinnmiiuiwiiiuniwn jium'uut.ui" j jwuimm 1 xliih.hu.. i. a e " , - - " s t 4 . - - - ' " . " :; 4- - " ' ' ; ! , J u 1 r ' y' r z'f GREY ACCUSES FOE "Wreck of Hopes" Declared Result of Frustrated Plan. I Foreign Secretary Ketorts Truth Was Told In First Statements by Von Bethmann-Hollweg and Herr Von Jagow. (Continued From First Page.'- ' "This fact alone was enough to Justify any communications between Belgium and the other powers on the footing that there would be no viola- it out and follow him. They disappeared through one of the far doors. In about two minutes there was a loud thump on the door of our apartment and I beheld the same ofticers making signs at me. I was escorted to the same door and in- vitiri tn f.ntir. "I won't stand for this!" he shouted. letter: 'Belgium was bound in honor to defend her own independence. She kept her oath. The other powers were bound to respect and to protect her neutrality. Germany violated her oath, England kept hers. These are the facts.' In the second part of the German Th!. 1. n nutraee. an outrage. I tell cnancenors tnesis; namely, that tier- . t , . . j . 1. 1 I ma nv Mnnlr raannnalhllltta. u4 you! iou guys got no ngni to uu mia. i . Why," and down came the walking me neuirai states seriously, ne ai- stick with a tnump tnac maae tne woiu wt.,i.e ojjuno rattle "do you know whom you are iraiiKiy ot tne wrong committea Dy looking at? I'll tell you. Thompson uermany in invading .Belgium. Donald C. Thompson wno nas seen Assent Cirra bv Frinrr. more war than you ever areamea 01. "That a man knows the right while lnompson is my naiuc. . " "f. doing wrong is not usually accepted risrht there!" and he pointed to nis coe-nomen on the passport. "This Is an Insult" he continued with another whack of the table. "Say, as proof of his serious conscientious ness. The real nature of the German view of her 'responsibilities toward the neutral Btates' may. however, be I won t do much to you wise guys when learned on authority which cannot be I see General von cer Qoltz. The officer, recovering from his sur prise at the outbreak from one so small In stature, simply laughed and re marked aside. "Grosstun." He waved his hand. "Kngllsch," he growled, his fnra clouding in an instant. ",o, no; not English," yelled Thomp son, "Americano disputed by reference to the English white paper. If these responsibilities were in truth taken seriously why, when Ger many was asked to respect the neutral' ity of Belgium if it were respected by France, did Germany refuse? France, when asked the corresponding question at tne same time, agreed. This would A guard stooa at haie guaranteed Germany from all inoinpson ana tne omier, bum . danger of attack through Belgium. moment tne jaynawner """s -The reason of Germany's refusal ruueiy escoriea out 1110 r. . was given by Herr von Bethmann- The officer glanced at my passport Hollweg-s colleague (the German For- and smiled, lie was one or tne .tr, eien Secretary. Herr on Jagow). It low otticers 1 encounterea urousnmi may be paraphrased in the well-known jieigitim wno couia nm .ujjiiou gloss upon Shakespeare: 'Thrice is he fluently. Apparently he knew little or nothing of the language, for he did not take the trouble to read a special let ter from Mr. Bryan to Minister Whit lock at Brussels. He folded the ere dnntials all up together, passed them over to a soldier, and dismissed the whole case with a wise chuckle ot dep recation ofall that I had to say. Reporters Are Prisoners of Kaiser, Of course, we were under arrest. Journey to Antwerp Is Made. Thompson and I were guarded by two landsturm on the Journey to Ant werp. One had a bright red beard with armed that hath his quarrel just, but four times he that gets his blow in fust. Truth Spoken la Berfsmlna;. They had to advance into France.' said Herr von Jagow, 'by. the quickest and surest way so as to be able to get well ahead with their operations and endeavor to strike some decisive blow as early as possible.' 'Germany s real attitude toward Belgium was thus frankly given by the German Foreign Secretary to the British Ambassador and the German Chancellor tn his speech to the Reichs tag claimed the right to commit a mustacne mil t;uru u V 01 lima t. iu ma i e . v, n,1M(o n eyebrows. He. looked for ail the world I , , ,.i,i. hi. -a Ji ZC , , , . . . . . f city ot hacking his way through the like a Japanese mask. He had a squint in one eye. and I could not always tell whether he was scowling at me or Thompson. He wouldn't have smiled for Sl.00v.00u. The other was a pleasant looking chap for a German soldier. He was told and noncommunicattve at first. but we managed to thaw him out a little during the two-hour journey with our sign language and a few German fentenccs that I had remembered from the school days. But the squint-eyed, red-bearded gent he was a bundle of icicles. And just to make things pleasant now and then he would put a fresh supply of cartridges in his rifle or let the stock fall with thud. Tie fourth article of C -tries will appear tomorrow.) treaty which forbade the wrong was by comparison a mere scrap of paper. The truth was spoken in these first statements by the two German min isters. All the apologies and argu ments which have since -been forth coming are afterthoughts to excuse and explain away a flagrant .wrong. Moreover, all the attacks upon Great Britain in regard to this matter and all talk about 'responsibilities towards neutral states come badly from the man who on July 29 asked Great Britain to enter into a bargain to con done the violation of the neutrality of Belgium. - . Germany Makes Price for Peaec. . "The German Chancellor spoke to the American correspondent of his 'efforts! for years to bring about an understand Ing between England and Germany' an . understanding, he added, which would have 'absolutely guaranteed the peace of Europe. "He omitted to mention what Mr. Asquith made public in his speech at Cardiff, that Geimany required as the price of an understanding an uncondi tional pledge of England s neutrality. "The British government were ready to bind themselves not to be parties to any aggression against Germany. They were not prepared to pledge "their neutrality in case of aggression by Germany. "An Anglo-German understanding on the latter terms would not have meant an absolute guarantee for the peace of Europe, but it would have meant an absolutely free hand for Germany, so far as England waa concerned, for Ger many to break the peace of Europe. Shipwreck of Hopes Explained. "The Chancellor says that in his con versation with the British Ambassador in August last he 'may have been a bit excited at seeing the hopes and work of the whole period of his Chancellor ship going for naught.' Considering that at the date of the conversation. August 4, Germany had already made war on Prance, the natural conclusion is that the shipwreck of the Chan cellor's hopes consisted not in a Euro pean war, but in the fact that England had not agreed to stand out of it. "The sincerity of the German Chan cellor's professions to the American correspondent may be brought to a simple test, the application of which is more opposite because it serves to re call one of. the leading facts which produced the present war. Herr von Bethmann-Hoilweg refused the pro posal which England put forward, and in which France, Italy and Russia con curred. for. a conference at which the dispute would have been settled on fair and honorable terms without war. If he really wished to work with Eng land for peace, why did he not accept that proposal? He must have known after the Balkan conference in London that England could be trusted to play fair. Herr von Jagow had given testi mony In the Reichstag to England s good faith in these negotiations. Conference Proposed by Grey. The proposal for the second confer ence between the powers was made by Sir Edward Grey, with the same straightforward desire for peace as in 1912 and 1913. The German Chan cellor rejected this means of averting the war. He who does not will the means must not complain if the con elusion is drawn that he did not will the end. The second part of the interview with an American newspaper corre spondent consists. of a discourse upon the . ethics of the war. The things which Germany has done in Belgium and France have been placed on record by those who have suffered from them and who know them at first hand. After this it does not lie with the Ger man Chancellor to read to the other belligerents a lecture upon the conduct of the war." CENSUS OF IDLE WANTED FIGURES FROM ALL CITIES TO ASKED BY 'WASHIXGTOX. Knraber of Unemployed Is Decreasing, Thinks President Wilson, Who Sees Bnslness Improvement. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. The census of unemployed begun In New York un er the direction of the Department of Labor will be extended to all other cities if arrangements can be made. President Wilson today told callers that, so far as possible, the detail work of the census would have to be car ried on by local municipal authorities. because the Government had no special appropriation for the work and he did not expect to ask congress tor one. The President expressed the opinion that the number of unemployed was decreasing because new avenues of em ployment were being opened. Esti mates on the number of unemployed In the country were largely guess work. he thought, and in many instances ex travagant. The President Deiieves there is gen eral betterment in business conditions. He said there was no depression in the West and that the situation the .South' and East was improving. WAR SAVES BRITISH EYES Occulista Say Darkening- Streets Is Having Good EITect. LONDON, Jan. 16. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The war time custom of darkening streets and houses 1 wherever possible to avoid The Spring Number for 1915 Of the Fashion Book Illustrating the Celebrated Pictorial Review Patterns Also the New Patterns and Fashion Sheets -Ready for distribution and sale. Second Floor Kimonos Most Important Sale CREPE AND FLANNELETTE KIMONOS Selling to $3.00, at $1.59 Selling to $3.50, at $1.95 Kimonos of serpentine and plisse crepe in light and dark colors. Empire style or Japa nese draped styles; trimmed with satin, lingerie collars and cuffs. In lavender, pink, light blue, cadet, navy and gray. Some of cotton challie, having sailor collars and cuffs of satin. $1.75 Japanese Kimonos for $1.19 $3.50 Japanese Kimonos for $2.59 This includes our regulation Japanese kimonos in fancy figured crepe and plain crepes with hand-embroidered designs. With large sleeves and sash to match. In pink, lavender, maize, rose, green, cadet .and white. All Our Fine Negligees Reduced Of albatross, challie, French flannel and silk. In Empire and loose-flowing styles. $4.00 to $7.00 Negligees at $2.98 $7.75 to $9.00 Negligees at $3.98 $10.00 to $13.50 Negligees $5.89 Week ( jCJf ) the Great White Sale of Lingerie Gowns Skirts Combination Suits Gowns of crepe and long sloth. Shirts ivith embroidery flounces. Combinations in princess style. 79c Each . Selling Regularly at $1.00 to $1.25 Corset Covers and Drawers Of Crepe and Long Cloth 59c Each Regular Prices Were 75 c Fesi-th Floor All French and Domestic Underwear Marked at From One-Fifth, to Half Reduction All Crepe de Chine Underwear One-Fifth to Half Regular Prices Fourth Floor Fourth Floor From the Third, Floor Final Reduction Sale of Women's' Apparel Every Garment Reduced Below we list a few of the extraordinary reductions now in force on women's ready-to-wear garments. Suits and Coats for $5.00 That Sold Regularly Up to $30.00 Coats for $7.85 That Sold Regularly to $27.50 Tailored Dress Skirts $3.00 That Sold Regularly at $6.50 to $10.00 Silk and Serge Dresses $8.95 That Sold Regularly at $18.50 to $30.00 . Waists for $1.00 That Sold Formerly to $2.50 Waists for $1.50 That Sold Regularly to $3.00 Waists for $2.95 That Sold Regularly to $6.50 Sale of Guaranteed "Royal" Dress Shields "Royal" shields are the best dress shields jt made, and carry the strongest guarantee ofjvjP m any make. Made of the best Para Rubber, f'j without any injurious material. They are odorless, and will outwear any other shields, tr' Nainsook Crescent Shape Wedn'sday Notion Sale Shields on .... 11c 5c Tauntan Binding, yd. 3c 20c due kh. ..ze 2. speca . 5c gc Hfoka an(J c(J 3c 25c sh.e ds. size 3. .peci. . 18c 5? wifg Coat H 3c 30c shield,, size 4. Spec.al. 21c Sc Aabestos ron Holders 3c Nainsook Regulation Shape 5c Domino Corset Laces 3c Shields c Asbestos Table Mats 3c - iic 5c Colonial Safety Pins 3c 20c shie ds. size 2. spec.a . 5c JQc BeUlng y. 5c 25c h.e ds. size 3. special. 1 8c 5c DfM Fa,Un a 30c shields, size 4, special. Zlc dozen 1c 35c shields, size 5. special. 26c ,5c suk nfV g' fl Wainsook Detachal le Shape bolt 12c Shields 10c Covered Collar Sup- 20c shields, size 2. special. 15c Ports c 25c shields, size 3. special. 18c rMf? Cjiak,OX ?C 30c shields, size 4. special. 21c 1Sct Pearl-headed Hatpins for 7c 45c Royal Garment Shields 50c Self-Heating Curling Special, 38c lron : ' : 33c 10c Wire Hairpin Cabinets 60c Royal Garment Shields for jc Special, 50c First Floor Third Floor This Whittall Rug Sale Teems With Rare Economies For every rug js new and absolutely perfect. Every pattern is most attractive. Every rug has the name "Whittall" woven in it. " , Every saving is absolute and substantial. The name M. J. Whittall vouches for their quality; these comparative prices show the importance of the occasion. $45.00 and $50.00 Whittall Wilton Rugs $32.45 $63.00 Whittall Wilton Rugs for $43.50 An absolute saving of from $12.50 to $17.50 on each i i . f e f . ruoan event wmcn you cannot air or a to miss. Fifth Floor , AGENTS FOR FREE SEWING MACHINES aeroplane attacks, however inconven ient, is having at least one good ef fect, according to occulista. who main tain that the eyesight of the residents is-being preserved. At least one writer avers that the darkness is having a decided effect from a social standpoint, and that singing and games are increasing in British homas. just because of the con trasted cosiness with 'the gloomy streets. 'GOVERNORS' CHAIR' READY Material Is Contrlliiited ly Execu tives of Each of United States. RED BANK, N. J., Jan. 26. A chair made from pieces of wood sent to him by the Governor of each state in the Union Is to be shipped from here next week by I S. Chasey for exhibition at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The exhibit, which will be known as the Governors chair, is of rustic de sign, each piece of wood being in its natural state and on each is a silver plate on which is inscribed the name of the Governor who gave it. Each state exhibit will have the use of the chair one day. after which it will be on exhibition in the New Jersey sec tion.' Kitchener Looks Like Trofcssor. LONDON. Jan. 16 (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Lord Kitch- j ener, when he appears before the House of Lords, looks more like a col lege professor, as he reads his type written speech through his huge, gold rimmcd spectacles, than the stern mili tary figure of the steely blue eyes, who is the K. of K. of popular con ception. Speech making appears to bo &n unpleasant ordeal for the British war lord. He reads his paper rapidly, as if in a hurry to get through with it. Acid Given for Medicine Kills. BURNS, Or., Jan. 2G. 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She recently gave birth to a child and was being cared for by a nnrby woman honieptnder. who mixed the medicine bottles and administered tho poison by mistake. It H e'tlmftted tha there nre in u in tlio United States shout tuO.000 elaborate electric? protective systems against crime, a'.xrut ::H.ono smaller s)stem and some firm f'fin mfror rlcilres Dining Service Our constant aim is to satisfy the particular diner, and Te do. The Imperial Hotel Grill is the favorite dining place of discriminating men and women ; those Dio have the taste and appetite to appreciate that rue serve only the best edibles, in a most satisfactory manner at a nominal cost. Lunch, 12 to 2, 35c and 50c ' Dinner, 5:30 to 9, 75c Sunday Dinner, One Dollar, Music MM