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g . TITE aiORyiXG OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1915. Minpim nmroTO ! 0F5CEXE 0F RECENT q Imippimio nr iicim ,, . ill OPEN Daily: Noon to 11 r. M. Sunday: 10:30 A. M. to 11 r. M. PARK-STARK-WEST PARK Any Seat in House 10 Cents Von Hindenberg in Royal Cas tle in Real Touch With Fighting Line. Kaiser's Army Is Being Swept Back in North Poland, Says - Petrograd. III SECLUSION JNoCu GERMANrS BBHDER gp lglD fe-S- I A5533 Lki PARK-STARK-WEST PARlTLflJ t- ii i ' x. t . v ri.-f "I-. zLir r. i. ni i - i ssasasassssssasaasas . jwiMJKb ' raaa i r-r ii ,. -viaaiari prx ' iff . nmtctoyr WIRES CARRY STRATEGY German Commander Better In formed or Every Detail at Front Tlian T1msc Who Have Taken Part In Actual lighting. BT JAMES O'DOJfNELL. BENNETT. (Copyright. IMS, by James O'Donnell Ben nett. Pubil!ihel by arrangement with tne Chicago Trlbune. GENERAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE EASTERN GERMAN AEMY, Feb. 6. I have said that when General von Hindenburg was having his dollar din ner in the corner of the Hotel de I Jn!nl,.rnnm 1 1 W&9 Sitting within 300 feet of the building in which. he was born in 184i. That structure must have been re modeled, for it does not look to be nearlv 70 years old, nor anything like that. "A large part of the ground floor is occupied by an extensive furrier's i I i. turn ni 1 rp UDDflr flOOrS MIU)J omi i.o . . " - ' i.n 01.1 tin into aDartments and i tanHa nn ihft southern corner 01 T'cr.toua whr Tie re: s t rasse come .... .nm th Mat to meet the broad .iiii-aniri vi I halms trasse. Berg trasse ends there. . and its junction with Wilhelmstrasse forms an irregu lar square that Is bordered by shops. I'leturr Not ia Polliih Stores. Across the way from the furrier'i shop and on the west side of Wilhelm .... i. - Polish bookstore, the win dows full of portraits of Napoleon and . . i hi. 1 ; fa o n H jSesVgrnOT an -the village of at. across i ,.. hutnrv nf PnlAnd. There portraits, too, of the Polish novell Slenkiewicz. who wrote Quo Vadis i .ii h Himlav not one picture the great man who was born across the street. This is surprising until you remem ber that it was at the non-Polish book . . 9 Tnt.i that VAII SAW the Win' iviea vi ....... - . -i ,,11 r nnr-traits of the field marshal. In the center of the litUe square perform and who have Pjcked up Rus- .nH tho irav Friessnit memorial fountain surmounted by a bronze fig lire of Hygeia. a sitting figure of i j n-mt. n On the nedestal is I bronze medallion portrait of the good Viennese physician wnom in Bient commemorates. , It commemorates, too, the gratitud wt.A riiti nnt fnrcret his doc tor as soon as the need of his services was past. The story is not generally known and is worth retelling. rc.lada o Pfayaleiaa Sfcowi Many years ago 70 or 80 I think the son of Count toouara nitii-'. then head of the great Polish house of that name, was sincnen : ui. wni ri:naired of. bu was saved by the application of the simple remedy known to this day as iimahia? or comDress. a method of cure discovered by Prlessnltz himself and. in tne case oi i n .rtiiiiiiv aDDlied by him. Soon after the boy's recovery the grateful father presented to the City of Posen the fountain wmi.ii stands in front of Von Hindenberg s birthplace. It was the intention of th.e donor that the lofty stone pedestal hnuM he surmounted by a figure of For this "Hygeia" the boys mother posed, and the figure had been cast In bronze when the Countess died. In ... h.uino' th bronze set up on the pedestal the Count placed it above Poland, and for many years the Pness nitx memorial remained Incomplete. A few years after his wife's death the Count himself met a dreadful end. His reason unbalanced by some unsuc cessful movement in behalf of Poland, he loaded an old cannon which stood on the shore of a little lake on his ar.aA kimsif in front of the muzzle, applied the match, and got bimself blown into eternity. Story Ha Happy Eadlng. The story of the statue has. however, a reasonably happy ending. Seven or eight years ago the devoted municipal architect of Posen, Herr Taubner, began an inquiry as to the fate of the old models and drawings of the statue of "Hygeia." That statue Jiad been designed by the gifted Albert Wolff a pupil of the great Rauch, whose' glorious statue of Frederick the Oreat adorns the lower end of Unter den Linden. In Berlin. Fortunatelv the director of the foun dry at which" the original "Hygeia" had been cast discovered the old models. This fact was made known to the pres ent head of the house of RaczynBki and he expressed his desire to give the money needed for the casting of a new "Hygeia" for the old fountain. His offer was accepted, and In 1908 the Irlessnitz memorial, finished at last, mas for the second time dedicated. Walk a few paces south out of the square which the Hindenburg birth plare overlooks and you come to St. Martlnstrasse, a long street of busi ness houses. It runs westward three quarters of a mile straight to a vast, towered Romanesque building of stone which is surrounded by gardens and high walls and guarded by sentries at every entrance. In the square next to it rises a statue of Prince Bismarck. Behind it stands the monumental municipal theater, where the best Polish actress in Posen used to refuse to play, but where she r.as appeared since the war began, for the war has drawn the Poles and the Oermans closer together, a result dis tinctly outside the ante-bellum cal culations of Russia. Field Marshal I.Ives la Seclusion. In the garden behind the Romanesque building, which commands an extensive group of other governmental buildings in surrounding squares, there often walks of a morniug -a silent, medita tive old soldier who is getting almost the only exercise he permits himself in the course of his long days. The soldier is Field Marshal von Hindenburg. The building is the royal castle or residens schloss of the pro vince of Posen. and from its acres of offices and corridors and halls of state the war against Russia is being di rected. It was five years a-building. and was completed only in 1910. In it Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. returning to his home town from Han over in his old' age. has established himself to crown his life work. When you read the dispatches con cerning operations around Mlawa or Bolimow. in Russia, and see the field marshal's name mentioned in them, you doubtless think of him as with the troops. In a real sense he is. In another he is not. The telephone and tHa telegraph keep him in hourly and quarter-hourly touch with them, but the wonderful old brain that directs the movements is busy in the residens schloss. The state of the weather at the front tbe condition of the road that leads out From Kovno in Russia, on the extreme north, to Czernowitz, in Burko wina, on the Roumanian frontier, in th south, the Germans recently have made advances, and the shaded line shows virtually their new battle line. This includes Plock and Lodz, in the Warsaw district, and Czentochow and the Nida Valley, in Southern Poland, and Tarnow, in Galicia. The Germans also claim the practical occupation of all the Carpathian passes by the com bined German and Austro-Hungarian forces. ' v th. nncttmn nf certain Russian guns beyond the Rawka, the execution per formed by the two Austrian 30-centimeter guns that flank the high road leading into Bolimow are facts vastly h.lla. Irnnwn tn all ttlAir HAtftUa and angles to the soldier who walks in the quiet garden at Posen than they are to me. who have gone plunging through the snow to see the Austrian guns sian cartridges on the Rawka bridge. Precautionary Defenses Going; Ip. And wind-swept, snow-banked Boli mow is ten hours by fast auto lrom that Posen garden. ThA castle towers command leagues unon leagues of the wide, white plains of Poland. From them you can look down on the suburb of St. Lazarus and see little specks moving over tne snow. They seem like ants caught in the WinlAr lima with tsslra that Should have been done in Summer and so try ing frantically to make up for lost time. They are civilians working on the nn...tnn-.. fn.tiriratlnna with which dozens of cities in the easterly prov inces or Germany now are oeing girdled Leagues of municipal forests throw patterns of dark green over the white landscape. Two hundred reet below stairs, in . V. ri& at.a niA hall nf t Vl A foetlA the ceiling is black with strands of newly installed telephone and tele graph wires, filaments, you mignt say, 1ml. timer Ilia PinilAnhnrv hrflin with other brains out on the Rawka River and at Lodz and Lowicz and Mlawa. Silent orderlies are sort-stepping through the ball. The place is as quiet as a church. The castle is full of staff officers and generals and princes, but nobody pays much attention to them. The castle houses the tremendous personality of Hindenburg, and that, to the world outside, is all it means. BELGIAN ESCAPES CAPTORS Fisherman Divnlges German System of Defenses at Ostcnd. DITCKIRK. Feb. 15. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) A Belgian fisherman, eluding the vigilance of the German sentries, succeeded in escap ing from Ostend to La Panne, near Fumes, by sea in a dory made out of an old packing case. "Night and day," he says, l was erapwywi win. -Dtn.lr.na J I I r 1.1 T trAtirhr. X and IClSaua around Ostend and digging ditches for the burial of the German dead brought by train from the front along the Yser. The streets oi uswau, "e uuus, 'a f a nnthinr hut a succession of trenches, strongly -fortified. A great many cannon or large canoer aie in position and a desperate defense has v. Ari7.nl7l " Other details of the defense, the number of positions of I J 1 hA hajl German troops, ne uecmiw, ben forbidden by the Belgian stair to divulge. - Ordered not to leave the limits oi the town, he decided to risk getting .... t... oao All hosts hnvinsr been taken by the Germans, he improvised a bark OUt OI a pa.cn.ins a.a auu ... .v.. BitnnAi .9t ih. sentinels along the beach and then drifted ashore near La Panne. BOTH SIDES ELATED Minor Successes Reported by French and by Germans. PRISONERS ARE CAPTURED Attacks and Counter-Attacks He- pulsed Along Western Front. Artillery Duels Only Sign of Activity Near Coast. PARIS. March 7. The following of ficial communication was issued today by the French War Office: "To the nortn of Arras, at Nptre Dame de Lorette. the Germans at tempted a counter attack which did not succeed. Subsequently they delivered three counter attacks, which also -failed. "In Champagne, to the west of Perthes, we gained a footing in a strongly fortified wood and captured prisoners to the north of the same village. ,'' "We repulsed a counter attack on tne ridge to the northeast of Le Mesnil. Ground was gained and -we carried an other trench to the north of Beause Jour. "In the forest of Consenvoye, north of Verdun, we ' repulsed counter at tacks. progress Reported in Mountains. t th. Vmcnii wa mada. rtrogress on the flanks of the Reich Ackerkopf and took Drisoners at nartmann- vtcuti kODf. attacks. sum. "We continued to gain ground to the north of Arras. In the region of Notre Dame de Lorette, where our counter attacks resulted in the seizure of several trenches, the enemy's losses were important. "In Champagne we progressed slight ly north of Perthes and northwest of Beausejour.' "In the Vosges we captured suc cessively west of Munster two summits of Little and Great Reichdakerkopf. The enemy twice counter-attacked from Muehlbock and St. Ollfwehr, from tbe south and north. These attacks were completly repulsed. v Village of Imbera; Seized. "Moreover, on the right bank of the Fecht River we seized the village of Imbere. on- kilometer southeast of Fultzer. '. -This success was completed further north by the capture of Hill 856. south-of Hauteshuttes. Finally, at Hartmann-Weilerkopf, we Tepuilsed a counter attack by a German battalion, which lost heavily and left many pris oners in our hands." RAWA RESULT IS REVERSE Thirty-Four Hundred - of Czar's Troops Captured, Reports Berlin. . ."Annihilation" or Austrinns ' Goes On in Carpathians. i-ONDON, March 7. Great Russian forces in North Poland again' are near ing the East Prussian border and are ,sweeping the Germans oeiore mem northwest of Grodno-ana tne same eq uation obtains in the Mlawa district. - j i . . v. .. .ffi.lai r.nnrt from according . - - Petrograd, "while Berlin reports an im portant local success near ma j:wi- River, saying 3400 prisoners and 17 ma chine guns were taken. The Germans also say the operations northwest of Grodno are proceeding as had been planned. In the Carpatnians tne jiussiaua tuu tinue to annihilate Austrian detach- cava. thA. TAtmcrrad. dispatch. which speaks of the enemy still being on the offensive. The Vienna report says the Russians were driven from several positions Dy ariiuery me. Russian Attacks" Succeed. The Petrograd official, report fol lows: ' "st.,- nffanoivA "nntinues on the leit bank of the Niemen and in the district northwest of Grodno. Our troops drove thi. OArmans back behind the front of Sopotzkin-Lypskow, and then pushed on vigorously. "In a similar manner in me district, our attacks were crownea with success. We took about 500 pris oners, including seven oiricers, ana also three machine guns. - -!.. ih. iaft hnnir of the Vistula, in the region of the Pllica, the fighting is assuming tne Character ui a. , battle. in thA Tamkthians. between the Ondawa and San rivers, the Austrian ..t..lr.' .nnl nnp SnUtnffeSt OI JLtULU- BLUH.HJ .u. wisko, the enemy tried to cross to tne right bank of tne Ban, out in a rami tar-attoclc Saturday night the Austriai units which had succeeded in crossing the river were annihilated. AA-mans Sit Plans Carried Out. Th German War. Office said today: -.... in.ntinns northwest of Grodno ..n.init tn our nlan. A Russian niht ottanir rn Moearee. northeast of UmiaL .was reDUlsed, as were strong Russian attacks west of Przasnysz. - -.1, . .nnthABBt of thA RaW i lini.a r. v ....... . RivAr ware successful. We took 3400 Russians and 17 machine guns were captured." , . , The following is the Austrian official communication: "In Poland lighting continues i 11411 1 I'.li 1. 1 t. .j . rr-i. ... ..;... waia rnmnel ea Dy nn- srtlllerv to evacuate uvni;c positions in the Carpathians, Where at several points fights for favorable heights continue. The Russians have suffered considerable losses. "Night 'attacks by the Russians were everywhere repulsed. Five . off icers and 5 men were capturea. "In ..Northeast Galicia, calm con tinues." GERMANS NOT - BELITTLED (Continued from First Page.) Great Feature Week! Today and Tuesday Her Martyrdom Three Acts Starring Arthur Johnson and Lottie Briscoe MISSION OF MR. F00 A Dramatic Novelty HEARST-SELIG WEEKLY Events of the World Over in Picture Tomorrow the Channel boats to trance will be jammed with Americans wn have business on the continent am prefer to sail while, the seas remaii safe. . . Whether the German talk or z,ep ii. attanii- ami nf submarine am mine blockade be sincere or a bluff to i-nira terror. I must say mat xney risoners at liartmann-vv eiier-1 have dramatized tneir caiupisii it ..niilaail tlVA CHIlnt AF I mi. " ..11. h.inn SL SThOStlV OTYOT nerc wo icpuoku - i i 110 ut.n.... - - - o , . - . .1 fivj timA for the aerial .tacts. . , nicy Dei - - tha rnnrt issued earlier in tne aay I ottaclr. They surrounaea it wim tin BtmnanhArA nf mvsterv. It mignt . ., timA tmisv. tomorrow UUIIIO a-i. A.11J rf. - lext week. They harped upon tnis string until fill England grew pnuo Li.ni Vnv thAV nwiinn tneir iae BUirunm. i.w.. . j - . .. . n.t.i. timA thAv cAt a oav tne UCS. Xiuo Hi -1 day" for England, and bid the British populace watcn tne- cures, """""o inexorably toward the hour of doom. rLAi-inans Talk Submarines. First and last, there is a good deal a n I o n travel hur t and forth be- een England and Germany in these days. ScaToely a May passes out one our fellow countrymen wno nas inn rAimanv nn business drops to that saloon lounge wnero Amei T Cora A M in One Day. Take LAXATIVE! BHOMO QUININB Tablets m-..ta rufund miODCV If it falls to cur. B. txr .(h;B"C .Ipnatnr m on each box. SOO. tw of be leans most resort. The recent comers give the same old picture or tne Ger man people a nation united in a kind . fanaticism nf Datrlotism: a nntinn a little mad. too, with wishes which ar father to the thought. Last Fall, -according to these messengers frnm the. hostile country, all the Ger mans were talking Zeppelins. The Zeppelins were going to de t nminn hv rivnamlte and fire bes-eed them not to v. n that ilnnmpil citV. Which might any day vanish from the face of the earth, with an tne peopin m " i: ? asaasmisawMAAiT-" i is I f If ft 1 o ' V1 f fb t. i III 4 f i 11 A M mf to WZ&tb 11 P. M. 10c i NCE asrain The Ster Theater has a great big, marvelous novelty. gloriously beautiiui ieaiure mm inai. ueuguui It Brings Broadway to .Portland. IT gives you a chance to see at little prices what New Yorkers afe , digging up $2 a seat to see. Brown- and Dolly, Broadway's highest salaried dancing Stars, are now the big feature in Geo. M. Cohan's "Hello Broadway," the greatest theatrical attraction of the season in New York. . . ' ' " , , i Everybody in Portland will be captivated by the marvelous dancing, the grace, beauty, superb costumes and elegant settings of this su premely fascinating novelty. . .' ' " ' . Brown and Dolly world favorites, are in "The Crinoline Polka, . "The Walt Classique," "The Habanera Hesitation," and "Chopsticks a Chinese Fantasy." Costumes by the celebrated Lamberti. Special music for each dance by Gene Schwartz. . - , Also on the programme: The Lost -Ledge A thrill a second, featuring Marie' Walcamp in a hunt for treasure in Mexico. Where the Forest Bads A Pauline Bush Part A great oouDie-6ianaa.ru piaj. . jew Pal A uiuie .i.ill-iiio iumouj. -We Turned Them Away Yesterday. Bill', Till Tuesday Night $50 Reward for best title for "Photo-play Without A Name" at the Ster next Sunday. FATHER'S NEW MAID Comedy TOMORROW (TUESDAY) And Every Day for Balance of Week Charlie Chaplin The Most, Popular Movie Comedian in the World. His Latest Essanay Comedy. A Shriek of Laughter the Whole Way Through The Champion BRAND NEW 2 Acts Pronounced by All to Be Funnier Than Ever Wednesday and Thursday CHARLIE CHAPLIN and " : THE ACCOUNTING Three Acts ' Francis X. Bushman Prize Photo Play and Others Friday and Saturday CHARLIE CHAPLIN and THE SIREN OF CORSICA Featuring Luhin Star Players and Others Now, these American travelers say, they hear little of Zeppelins. All the talk is about submarines. England s merchant shipping will in a few months be under water, anc England, starved, will be suing for peace at any price. And the Germans are begging their American friends not to go home in English ships, because every British keel which ventures into either Chan nel is doomed. SUGAR MEN URGE DUTY Delegation to Be Appointed to Con fer With PresldenfWHson. . it tt.i- a Tuv-Tsrvv March 7. The ap pointment of a delegation to go to Washington to petition President vv son to take sugar off the free list or to modify greatly the present sugar tariff will probably be the first work of the United States Sugar Manufac turers' Association, which convenes here tomorrow. The first exhaustive lata on "free sugar" collected by the association will be made public, according to nn announcement by Secretary I'Hljnor to day. Representatives of ::ti Ix-t-t puar factories of America urriviil today. Philadelphia uses nn uccuiatc tc.-tiii-plant carried on an automobile to a certaiu if its various forms of street lights are maintained at contract standard. "GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE" PACKS PEOPLES THEATER If you were not one of the onrvrrYimis t,hron?S - inai packed the Peoples Theater yesterday to see v ueuue man of Leisure," which will be shown there till Wednes day night, when it will be succeded by that great spec tacular railroad drama, "Rule G," make a special nmnf nf lipinfr at the PeOPleS today, tomorrow or Wednes- day- , Of course, you know the Ppnnlps Thpatfer now makes two changes a week, every Sunday and every l nursaay. "A Gentleman of Leisure." with Wal lace Eddinger in the title role, tells the story 'of a rich young man wno nas wagered that the can commit a bur i hi... a i-esl burcrlar to help him with the unaccustomed job. ,. This real burglar has just been 4lnna "ntt in an AAKV t h I n ff" bV a man whom he supposes to be a friend but this easy tning wnen tne men ut to "crack" it. turns out to oe tne ouse of the Police Commissioner him self. - :r. .- I And,, to make matters stilU worse if possible, the rich young man V in love with the Commissioner's daughter. There is almost a continuance of laughter in this great faroe. "A Gentleman of' Leisure" ran for more (than a year on Broadway when it was first produced. "The funniest play ever seen in New York" is what one of i the most re nowned 'dramatic, critics of America said. ' V , ' pi. iri?mint was confirmed by an engagement which continued ..for more than a year to overwhelming business and also by The success of the play when orrerea on tour. .. One of the many unique qualities In iu. n.iuiii.tlAn .nf ' X fentlAmnn of Leisure'- is that this picturesque pio turization, though roaring comedy. - in character, also contains a moral. At one period of the action the society mnn uiirtfcoH a In hrihinur the Police Commissioner, whom he hopes to make his father-in-law. And, in tne ena. ir. Commissioner has to promise to touch j more .tainted money. Portland people are strongly urged to see the picture. I old-fauihioised I ,7 Tha hnittrt-lMsM I J esr- US Good friends, don't you KNOW the cigarettes you've been smoking are as much alike as old-fashioned carpet tacks were alike? What became of the old-fashioned carpet tack when the new, bright headed "Utterly Different" carpet tack was offered in its place ? That's what makes the world move the old, just-the-same-things giv ing way to the new and "Utterly Different" NEEJO plain end is the "Utterly Different" cigarette, offering new en joyment, new satisfaction, new value. Hasten to try them. GUARANTEE If after smoking half the package ofNEBO nlnh 2 youarc not delighted, return balance of package to P. Lorillard Co., New York (Estab lished 1 760) and receive your money back. kS m N l b4 mm CIGARETTES UeHyT)ffiwritl $a .Tl (..A-:Y,Vr:'i..if