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BRITISH ESTABLISH POSITION L Eye-Witness Describes Sue j cessful Counter-Attack on Enemy at La Basse. TRENCH IS OUTFLANKED 'Slnsnlarlr Gallant' Attack on ; French South of Betliune Koad lectured as Kcsulting Al most in Annihilation. J-OXDOX. Feb. 7. A craphic descrip t on of the trench warfare which has nrevailed on the western front for inanv weeks i jriven by a British "eye- witness" in his description of German Httarks on British lines and British rounter attacks which were made last Mnndav. II a aavs: "The Germans aain attacked south of Lab as see Canal, but not in such trength as n previous occasions. Klflrhtlnir began in the early hours of ihe morning with an assault on a small trench close to the canal. This was successful, two local counter attacks carried out by us failing to regain the ground lost. (.rrtnan Vomt Is Captured. 'When daylight came, however, our artillery -opened such an accurate fire on the enemy that their position be came untenable. A stronger counter at tack then was delivered and our men, rushing forward, drove - the Germans from the trench they had captured and seized their post on the enemy's side nf it on an embankment of the canal. There were a succession of German posts on this embankment: and we had now established ourselves in one of them. "Our supports then camo up and, passing through our firing lines, hold ing the first of the enemy's posts, rushed on to the second, driving out the garrison at the point of the bayo nt. Then our men were enabled to take in tho flank end of the enemy's trenches to the south. Hand (ireiudrs Vned In Attack. "Along this they fought their way- throwing hand grenades, until they had dislodged the Germans on a consider able length. Ve thus en ta bis tied our selves firmly In an advantageous posi tion on the canal bank and in adjoining trenches. During this action we cap tured 14 prisoners, many wounded and two machine guns. Our losses were not severe, but the enemy suffered heavily, especially from our artillery fire." is peaking of three singularly gallant hut unsuccessful attacks on the French south of the Bethune road, the "eye witness" says the Germans entered the French trenches and were literally almost wiped out. 75 bodies being counted in front of the defenders' line. It wan reported that not more than two or three of them escaped. Force of Kxploslves Tremendous. "The enemy's losses in the 1a Bassee area appear to have been heavy," he continues. "The reason, for their activity along the canal was that they had suffered severely from an enfilading tire brought to bear on them by one of our machine guns from a post they at lacked. In two days one of their com panies had lost 30 men from shell fire alone. Giving some instances of the force of modern explosives the "eyewitness' f.ivs a mine which the Germans fired under one of the British trenches hurled a piece of rail weighing -o pounds h. distance of more than a -mile, while the detonation of one of the British shells threw a German soldier across the railway and canal. DEFICIT GIVES CONCERN (fontinne.l From Fir.t Page.) they stand today, indicate that Con gress cannot well cut the appropria tions below the figures submitted by the iserretary of the Treasury, for to io so would be to abolish some of the numerous offices created by this Con gress for the express purpose of pro vidins jobs for the faithful. That is something Democratic Senators and itcpreentatives fo not want to do. Problem la to Raise ReTenue. The problem, then, seems to be one of raisins additional revenue. The Ad ministration practically confesses that it cannot economize further to any con. Kiderable degree and Congress refuses to economise as Mr. Burleson has suff scsted. Among the various schemes proposed for increasing tho revenues, none stands out in a way to win gen eral Democratic approval. Perhaps the most popular sugges tion is that of llr. Broussard of re pealing the free fugar clause, for It is remembered that sugar was forced on the free list by President Wilson ajainst the better judgment of most Democrats in Congress. In proposing the repeal of the free sugar clause of the Underwood tariff act Mr. Broussard denies the assertion of the Administration that the deficit Is caused by "pork barrel legislation." He says that during this Administra tion no public building bill has been enacted and the river and harbor bill was cut from a normal $50,000,000 measure to one carrying only $20,000, l't't and even if the river and harbor bill could be held partially responsi ble for the deiicit, lie points out that sl'O.ooo.OOO is a long way from $70, 000.000. Treaaury Kstlmatrs ProTC Wronir. Mr. Broussard proceeds to show that tlic deficit is partially attributable to erroneous estimates made by the Trea sury Department. When the income tax was imposed Secretary McAdoo esti mated it would yield $70,000,000: it iictually yielded $!8.:53.534 on the first nnnual return and will yield less next year because of the decrease in incomes tiue to business conditions. The war tax was passed, says Mr. Broussard. with the assurance that it would yield J1J7.000.000. and the Secretary of the Treasury, after carefully scanning the situation, reports that the war tax probably will yield only $34,000,000 for the current year. Should the same deficiency occur in 1316 as is pending now," said Mr. Broussard. "there will be added to the S0,OOt.u0O deficiency the further defi ciencies due to the expiration of the war tax law, yielding $54,000,000 and a still further deficiency after May, 1916. of $53,000,000 more derived from sugar duty." Sugar Is to go on the free .list May 1. Sugar Dearer Than Kver. Mr. Broussard points out that on March 1. 1914, Congress reduced the then existing sugar duty by 25 per cent, "and for not a single moment from that day to this lias the con sumer paid aa little money for his sugar as he paid before the reduction. J4e ia now paying practically double what he paid before the reduction. The American consumer and the United States Treasury both have suffered from the reduction," he adds, "and the only beneficiary has been the sugar trust, which has absorbed the entire reduction and multiplied the price of sugar to the consumer. "Under the old rate (the Payne Aldrich rate). which went out on March 1. last, by virtue of the Under wood bill, the Treasury would have col lected to date more than $58,000,000 in duty instead of $13,000,000. so that the sugar trust has absorbed in the past ten months nearly $15,000,000. At the end of 1- months', as the result of this 25 per cent reduction, fully $18,000,000 will have' been absorbed by the trust and will have been lost to the Trea sury." Same Soarar Cheaper lit Europe. Mr. Broussard also calls attention to the fact that the sugar trust today, while justifying the raise in the price of sugar by the war In Europe, is sell ing sugar to Europeans at a lower price than the same sugar is sold in American markets. Concluding his ap peal for restoration of the duty on sugar, and the repeal of the free sugar clause, Mr. Broussard argues that it is better to restore the old duty and turn this revenue into the Treasury than to suspend river and harbor im provements and the construction of public buildings: that it is better to have the Bugar revenue than to burden men of small incomes with an income tax. He argues that it is better to return to the taxng of articles that can bear the duty, "particularly when the re mission of the duty does not cheapen the price to the consumer, aa is the case with sugar." E PRIVATE, XOT HEARING ORDER TO RETIRE, GOES OX. Rapid Fire Convinces Germans They Are Attacked by Strong; Force and They Abandon Poaltlon. PARIS, Jan. 22. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Private Thorel, on whose breast General Joffre in per son recently pinned the coveted mili tary medal, telis the story of his in voluntary capture of a line of German trenches as follows: It was about five miles from Vpres, where the J53d Regiment Infantry was ordered to recapture some lost ground. The first attack succeeded partially, but the second was interrupted because the Colonel found that it could be bet ter executed at night. Thorel. in the first rank, did not hear the order to retire: he went on at double-quick. thinking his comrades were coming after. He arrived at the crest or an abandoned trench before he found he was alone. Further on he spied a de tachment of the enemy. It was too late to iro back, so he jumped into the trench. Sheltering himself as well as ne could, he began firing. One. two, three Germans went down under his fire. He had used three-fourths of his no cart riria-es when he was surprised to see the enemy fleeing from their position to a line of trenches further back. They evidently supposed from Thorel's rapid fire that they had to do with a strong force. Thorel then found his way duck to the French lines and reported to the Colonel that he had two lines oi uer man trenches at his disposition. Th recovered ground was occupiea at once and the previously projected nlirht attack assured a iurtner suo- stantial gain. EXPLORER IS HEARD FROM (Contlnncd From First Page.) BECOMES S NSANITY" E RIOUS Effect of Modern Warfare on Nerves More Marked Among Officers Than Men. MENTAL AGONY INTENSE their whole time with the dogs, which know them and are amenable to them. Men Are A.1I Good Workers. All but Macklin, who is the surgeon. have done a lot of sledding. Macklin is a splendid, strong fellow and a good companion. Hurley is a good worker, and I tninK it will be a good stroke to take him, for he has a splendid camera that is right for 1000 feet of film and never have moving pictures been taken on such a journey. The other men are all good, keen workers. Clark, biologist; James v. or die, the geologist, and li. W. James, the magnetician. have been doing much work here Important to science, which will make an interesting record when it comes to be written. Future Course Outlined. One notable thing that has been done s the erecting of a set of true meridian posts, so that tne si wnaiers aim uiuer steamers which use the island can cor rect their compasses. This was badly eeded, and the Information will be of merest to the Admiralty. Now, rs to the future. What I ex pect will happen is this: We shall sail from here about De cember. That will give a chance lor the ice to be breaking up In the south. nd we ought, with luck, to get a land- about the end of the month. If the ice had been up north we could have landed about the beginning of December. Ship Permitted to Freexe In. We shall at once investigate the roda to the south, and if Filchener's landing place proves to be any sort of harbor suitable for the ship I shall put down both anchors and wait for her to freeze in. Then I shall know that the ship -will be handy to take off the remainder of the shore party about February 1, 1918. 1 am not going to risk them later. The ship will go north tnen to ijouin Georgia. As we are not too well off for coal during the Winter, our hands will be employed in skinning seals and taking blubber, which will be put in empty boxes and this will be used to stoke the boilers. Trip to ConsDme Four Months. On the way up the cross-country party will have their depots laid out nd be ready to start about .November next, and we ought to cross in four months and be met on the other side n February. So far for my hopes. What God may arrange no one can say. l nmgs nave not worked well so far, as the ice con ditions are so bad. but that is a mat ter wnich it is impossible to foretell from year to year. Live Shells Loom Large in Xight-mare-Ridden Dreams and Extreme Terror Posseses Men Who Are Brave in Action. LONDON', Jan. 12. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) The number of English soldiers and officers who have suffered nervous breakdown more or less approaching insanity as a result of the strain of war, has shown such increase that some of the leading med ical journals are pleading for special consideration and treatment for this class. "Some cases." says the Lancet, " are certainly hopeless, but there are others and happily these are in preponderat ing numbers where there are good grounds for believing that they may again become useful citizens. The effects of warfare on the nerv ous system are more marked in the case of officers than in the case of en listed men. the latter in many cases of "trench insanity" recovering "tone after a continuous sleep from 24 to 48 hours. Officers similarly afflicted are generally sent to special hospitals for a rest of a week or ten days, but if they fail to show satisfactory progress after that time, they are invalided home on the ground that it is improbable that they could be again employed on ac live service. Somnambulism Ia Developed. "The powerful effect which modern warfare has on the mind is shown. writes a surgeon attached to a British ambulance, "by the dreams and night mares which disturb soldiers' sleep in dangerous positions. Nervous subjects react in a most striking way to the shock of explosions in their immediate -vicinity. Some develop a tendency to sleep-walking and are found wandering about the premises with faces express ing the utmost terror and anxiety. In the soldiers' dreams, the dread of los ing contact with his fellows seems to be felt with extreme frequency, and the horror of isolation constitutes the com monest nightmare of men in the fight ing line. "They dream that they are wander ing through endless trenches as com plicated as an artificial maze, or an picking their way through lonesome forests. The slightest noise during sleep calls up visions of exploding shells or the tramp of armed men throwing them into a frenzy of shout ing terror, to the indignation of their resting fellows. , Men Brave in Real Danger. "Another common night terror is the dream of a sudden call to arms and the inability to find some indispensable ar ticle of attire or armament, a concep tion productive of intense mental ag ony. Live shells naturally occupy a large share of the soldiers' attention in dreams and an exasperating night mare is the supposed discovery in one's bed of a shell ready and willing to burst, associated with the usual night mare incapacity to execute the neces sary movements to get rid of it. Sev eral men have had dreams centering around the inability to withdraw the bayonet from an enemy s body when urgently required for self-defense. "Yet these nightmare-ridden men are as brave as the rest in the face of ac tual danger." BELGIAN HOSPITAL BEST X-RAY ROOM IS MOST COMPLETE OF KIND IN FRANCE. Freedom to all coal scuttlers! You often see queer old plows, bed-warmers and other ancient relics carefully preserved in the museums. The exhibits will be incom plete if they don't soon show the rapid extinc tion of the coal-scuttle race, the men and women who so long have submitted to self torture the back-straining, dirty, unnecessary lugging, lifting and sifting of coal and ashes. History does not show any greater, single instance of a people freed from slavery than does the vast emancipation of houseworkers so rapidly being brought about in many nations by the labor-saving heating of ; -- -T-TTT-k. ft a , ft n IERICAN x f? A 1"T ATAP C. 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IDEAL Boilers and AMERICAN Radiators are rapidly supplanting all other methods of heating with thinking people who want to save money, have a healthy, happy home, and heat their houses and other buildings at a desired temperature from cellar to garret, automatically regulated to produce day and night just the volume of heat necessary to meet severe, moderate or mild winter j - rzt. jiL-.-rjr We make IDEAL SMOKELESS Boilers for soft coal or lignites, IDEAL Boilers for hard -Tl rnal IDEAL Wood Burning Boilers, IDEAL Boilers for gas or oil. They get the utmost heat from the fuel burned. They are absolutely tijht. hence .end no con! I.r. fume., joot or ".Vl-? ihealth. . They Ir e a permanent i-"'"'- to J" We cordially invite the Inquiry of those interested in store. and IDEAL Boilers AMERICAN Radiators change any house into a home. until ready to start fire in the IDEAL Boiler. schools, CD aSSSSidSSSd5SS Better art noanikh "the .cuttle and the ash-panl Why not write today? 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Michigan Ave, Chicago No exclusive agents Sold by all dealers ruuiesi.., new urieao.. uuuu.po pj.j Toronto Brantford (Oat.). London, Pari.. Brunei,. Berlin. Colotae. Milan. Vienna AUTO RACER IS INJURED Jack Callaghan's Car Goes Through Fence at Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES. Feb. T. Jack Calla phan. automobile race driver, skidded through the fence In a 100-mlle sanc tioned ajitomoblle race at Ascot Park today. Impaling himself on a board. Two" ribs were broken and a large hole was torn In his chest. He Is reported to have an even chance for life. Callaghan was running third at the twelfth mile -when the accident oc curred. His mechanician. Victor Wella. was unhurt, and. seizing- the wheel, brought the car to a stop without dam age to it. Callaghan's teammates, Eddie O'Don nel and Tom Alley, finished first and second in the race, with times of 1:41:15 1-5 and 1:11:31. Apparatus. Gift of Due de Vendomc, Permits Inatantaneona Takins of Photographs of Wound.. LONDON, Jan. 22. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) A medical expert, who has been inspecting tne various field hospitals of the allies In tho western theater of war, describes the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Calais as the best of them all. The hospital is under Belgian controj. and the patients are all Belgian soldiers. "The X-ray room is one of the most completely equipped of lis kind In France." said the expert. "The appa ratus was the gift of the Due de Ven dome. brother-in-law of King Albert, who is himself a well-known scientist and bacteriologist, and who is person ally attached to the lnstituticn. a "The apparatus consists of an elec tric installment of enormous power, so planned as to'permit the taking of in stantaneous X-ray photographs by the mere manipulation of a lever and In the space of a fraction of a second. This Is especially useful in the case of a patient who is in great pain, or is unable to remain quiet in one position. He is detained In the X-ray room only a second or two, but a beautifully clear print is secured. Moreover, the danger of burns to the operator is minimized, because there Is no pro longed exposure. So instantaneous Is the operation that it Is impossible to detect any lighting up of the X-ray tube. . "A stereycope Is fitted in the room f " Dr. JPAUJL J. YAl ta TES YEARS OF HO.VEST DES. T1STHV IX PORTLAND. P o R T L A N D Jk s v x I O ' R IS 3k I Have Cut Prices I will save you 5u cents on every dollar on the best dental worn made by human bands and without Dai n. My offer Is for you to go to any dental office and get prices, then come to me and I will show you how to save a dollar and I make a dollar on your dental work. My Price Will Surely Suit ton My Work Will Surely Pleaae Yon ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Paul C Yates DENTIST Fifth aaa Morrison, Oppoalte Poat- office. . and affords a moEt interesting demon stration of the application of scien tific principles to modern science. By the use of this, t-vo X-ray photographs are taken simultaneously, and on look ing- at them through a specially ar ranged stereoscope apparatus, a per fect stereoscope picture is seen. In this, bones and foreign bodies, such as bullets and pieces of shell, stand out in perspective, making it possible to determine their relation to one another in a manner which is instructive from the point of view of the operating room. The surgeon is able to gauge the depth of a bullet as well as its position. "A second interesting departure at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital is the ultra- vlolet-rays water sterilizer. This puri fies water through the use of the ultra-violet-rayc of the spectrum, which pos sess a burning power that rapidly de stroys living organisms. This steril izer has the advantage that it requires no attention, does not boil the water, and does not alter its taste. More over, by a clever device, the water is cut off at once should the electric cur rent which generates the rays fail." Bee Colonies Vleld 8 Tons of Honey. KELSO. Wash., Feb. 7. (Special.) John Heilman, a successful "beeman" of Oak Point, a few miles west of Kelso, on the Columbia River, has found the production of honey a highly profitable business. He began last year with 100 colonies and increased them during the year to 136. His total output of honeycomb from this number of stands was more than eight tons. POSTOFFICE LOOT IS FOUND Children In Kugene Park Vncovcr 500 Letters Burled Jn Leaves. EUGENE, Or., Feb. '1 (Special.) Children playing in Rlvervlew Tark late today uncovered more than 500 letters stolen irom the Junction City postoffice on November 20. Tney were wrapped in an old sweater and hidden under some leaves within a few blocks of the business .'enter. ('hecks In the letters were not re moved, though many of the letters hud been opened. The recovered mull will be sent to' Postal Inspector Johnson in Portla.irt Train load of Cattle Shipped. GATEWAY, dr.. Feb. 7. ( Special. I A trainload of sheep and .-nltle front the McDowell ranch passed through Gateway Saturday morninir en route for the Portland and Seattle markets. These markets are largely supplied from the ranges throughout tho iteschules Val ley. Gateway alone shipped SO carloads of stoek durlnq- the pnst yesr. LAST CALL! LAST WEEK!! LAST CHANCE!!! YOUR LAST and GREATEST OPPORTUNITY to Buy a t the Sale of Worrells Bankrupt Stock WOMEN'S COATS Values to $20, di QC cut to yl.VD WORRELL'S STOCK MUST BE WIPED OFF THE EARTH That's the order therefore values or former prices are not considered. Our only aim is to distribute this stock. Everything goes but the four walls! WOMEN'S SUITS Values to $20, cut to $3.85 WOMEN'S COATS $3.75 Values to 25, cut to LADIES' WAISTS 55c Values to $2.50, cut to SILK WAISTS Values to $10, cut to $2.95 WOMEN'S SUITS Values to $30, cut to $5.85 WOMEN'S COATS Values to $30, cut to $5.85 NEW SPRING DRESSES Newest f QC Spring styles never before shown WJ9xJJ in Portland. Values to $40.00, now cut to WOMEN'S SUITS $8.85 Values to $35 cut to WOMEN'S COATS Values to $35, cut to $8.85 CHILD'S MIDDIES $1.50 values, cut Doors Open at 9 A. M. Today SAMPLE CLOAK AND SUIT HOUSE Sixth and Alder Doors Open at 0 A. 31. Today