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f V RUSSIAN'S MAKE BIG 1 GAIN AT PRZASNYSZ i i Much War Material Captured and Advance in Germany Is Also Reported. PRUSSIAN TOWNS BURNED 3;ctaliution at Ratio ot Three to One in Tolaud Is Berlin Plan. Outer Forts of rrzemjsl Fall, Says Dispatch. LONDON, March IS. Marked suc cesses, with the capture of a large quantity ot war material in the region of Prza&nysz. reported in the Russian official communication, and an unof ficial report that the Czar's forces have raptured the outer forts, defending J'rzemy.sl were features of the day's news from the eastern war zone. Minor sains on German, soil between fiorztin and Mewel are also reported in the Petrorad dispatch. Berlin reports "weak Russian attacks on Taurogrgen and Langszarsen." J -ancszarKeu is just within the borders of Kat Prussia, not far from the im portant German fortress of Tilsit, and the presence of Russian troops at this point may mean a new invasion of Uerman territory. Ittuwians Take Several Village. The Russian official communication ays; "In Russian Poland on the front be tween the River Skw and Orzyc, in the resri'Mi of the villages of Serafin, Tii tak, Wack and Ziomek and also iu the region north of Przasnysz the fighting continues. We have seized several villages and heights and. taken five guns, 42 machine guns, many caissons and hundreds of prisoners. "On the risht bank of the Niemen, battles have been fought near Taurogr gen and on German territory on the roads leading from Gorzda to Jlemei. We captured here two guns, four ma chine Klins, two automobiles loaded with ammunition and several prisoners. "On the left bank of the Vistula there has been a violent artillery en gagement, on the Bzura River and in tlic Pilica region near Boguslawoff and upotchno our fire dispersed the troops f the enemy who had opened offensive operations. German Companies Annihilated. "In the Carpathians and Kast tlalicia tliere is no change. Near Oravozil we nearly annihilated three companies of (Germans who attacked us and took the survivors prisoners to the num ber of three officers and 93 men after a bayonet charge." The following is the Austrian official statement: "On the heights west of Labcrozrev an attack by numerically superior lorces was repulsed after a sanguinary battle with great loss to the enemy, several companies being annihilated. "Repeated attempts by the Russians to capture vantage points among our positions by means of surprise attacks delivered by forces out-numbering the iefende.rs also faiied. We captured 2S0 prisoners. irrmnn to Retaliate. The German War Office report fol lows: "Russian attacks on general positions between the Pissa and Orzys rivers, in Northern Poland, as well as northeast of Przasnysz, continued yesterday with out success. West of the ISkwa River we took 900 prisoners of war and east of Skwa 1000 prisoners and four ma chine guns. "Hordes of the Russian imperial mi litia gained a cheap victory by invading the most northern corner of East Prus sia in the direction of Memel. They pillaged and burned villages and es tates. As a rataliatory measure, towns on Russian territory occupied by us were compelled to make payment ot large sums. For every village burned down by these Russian hordes on Ger man territory, and for each estate de stroyed, three villages or estates on Russian territory occupied by us will be sacrificed to the flames. All dam age caused by fire in Memel will be answered by the destruction by fire of Russian government buildings at Su walki and other provincial capitals Id German hands. j LANDLORDS NEEDCHILDREN ; n'ominufri From First Page.) ; lor hardships in the present land ten ; ant system. These witnesses were E. J. i Giddings. an attorney of Oklahoma City, j and Professor Charles B. Austin, of the j University of Texas. ; Mr. Giddings suggested Federal action ; as an effective remedy to reduce usury, t I'escribing conditions in the former ! Indian Territory section of Oklahoma ! as extremely bad for tenant farmers, E he said: "This is not duo primarily to tyranny ! by the landlord, to lack of thrift in ti nanls, but to the inane, insipid and " senseless policy of the Federal Gov- eminent in handling Indian lands." ! Tenant Declared In Bondage. Professor Austin said 90 per cent of t the contracts between landlords and ; tenants in Texas are verbal and 60 per ; rent fT one year only with the result ; that neither tenant nor land owners are ; able to improve agricultural and living " conditions on thousands of farms. The custom of tenants, he said, in mortgag " ins their crops aJiead on notes which nearly all fall due in October and No vember meant their "economic bond age." Pat Nagle, of Kingfisher. Okla.. editor of the Tenant Farmer, described con ditions in his state, where he said there were 104.000 tenant farmers. He "said that of S5.0JO farmers owning their farms. SO per cent had mortgaged their land. To a system of alleged control by commercial interests of small towns. Mr. Nagle charged, was due to the fact that 0 per cent of the farmers of the county were mortgaged. Most of The other farmers, he said, escaped mortgages by making extra money through side-line activities in addition to farming. JITNEYS GAIN 300 WEEKLY ian Francisco Bus Line Gives Trans ; Icr to City Streetcar System. SAN' FRANCISCO. March 18. Nearly 300 licenses a week have been issued to drivers of 5-cent-fare automobiles here in the last three weeks. The po lice license bureau today gave tie total number of licenses in force as 2781. February 24 there were 1900. One automobile line, of the double deck type, has arranged a transfer cystem with the municipal railroad. A marked increase in automobile ac cidents, according to the police, is due to the increased number of automobiles. The ratio of accidents to automobiles Is no greater than formerly, they eay. Pari ha iwued a mp showlngvlwber. Win In Its timiiN the tango may and iay not IMS danced. BELGIAN NURSE WEARING COAT SHE WORE IN TRENCHES AND . DECORATION GIVEN BY KING. r? - i V2? iW MLLIi. JKANMJ GIRL IN TRENCHES Belg ian Nurse Comes to Amer ica to Make Appeal. CRIMES LAID TO GERMANS Mile. Fericho'n Tells Experiences at Front and Narrates Details of " Horrible Savagery She Lays to Invaders. NEW YORK. March IS. Tt was Mile. Jeanne Perichon who answered a ring at the door when an interviewer called. Before the visitor stood a cheerful, smiling girl, with large blue eyes which at once revealed a sympathetic heart and a frank, unassuming manner. SheHs only 23 years old, as her pass port showed, but that mere slip of a girl has accomplished more good and has seen more misery than men ana women four times her age. for Mile Perichon was a Belgian Red Cross nurse. She has the distinction of be ing the only Belgian woman whom King Albert has decorated with the military order of Leopold and .ne medal on her bosom was pinnea tnere for conspicuous bravery which has seldom been equaled even by men. CJlrl Only urc In Trencnea. Mile. Jeanne is the only Red Cross nurse who has actually done work in the trenches at the front. She felt she couM accomplish more good there by administering first aid to the wounded than by simply doing her regular duties in some field hospital, and by special permission she was permitted to go with the surgeons to me uauie imcs. h iu in America as the secretary of the Countess L. de Hemptinne, to aid in the Countess appeal to Americans for help in rebuilding Belgium. "Yes. I have seen the war at close quarters," she moaesuy repiiea to questioning. "I have been grazed by bullets and shrapnel many times and I have seen bursting shells fall in the midst of my soldier comrades, tearing their poor bodies to shreds to release their heroic souls." Health Breaks Down. "Jeanne has seen actual fighting in towns that were sacked and fired," the Countess explained. "At ort w aet- GREATEST FLEET IX HISTORY IS BATTERING AWAY AT TURKISH FORTS. Gathered in the waters in the vicinity of the Dardanelles and the coast of Asia Minor, battering its way foot by foot to the Golden Horn, is .the greatest fleet Joined in action in the history of the world The number of units, including the destroyer and submarine flotillas and the supply and other non-fighting vessels, totals more han 8i representing Great Britain. France and Russia, with Vice-Ad- , miral Sir Sackville Hamilton Carden. of the British navy, in supreme command. Two of the great .ships engaged would practically balance on the scales the entire 132 ships, with their 69,190 tons, composing the fa mous Spanish armada. Following are the important fighting ships of Vice-Admiral Car den's fleet, with their main and secondary batteries: GREAT BRITAIN. Vessels. Main armament. Secondary. Superdreadnoughts Queen Klizabeth .-. 15-inch 16 6-inch ' Warspite (reported at straits) 8 15-inch 16 6-inch Battle Cruiser Inflexible 12-inch 16 4-inch Battleships Agamemnon 12-inch 10 9.2-inch Lord Nelson . . .-. 12-inch 10 9.2-inch Pwiftsure 10-inch 14 7.5-inch Triumph 10-inch 14 7.6-inch Cornwallis -"- 12 f-tnch irresistible 12-tnch 12 6-inch Canopus 4 12-inch" 12 6-inch Ocean 12-inch 13 6-inch Vengeance 4 12-inch 12 6-inch Ma?et1c .. ." , 12-inch 12 6-inch Prince George 12-inch 12 6-inch hTustrious .V. 12-mch 12 6-inch EuVvUaTuTi7! 9.2-inch 12 -Inch Dublin .... 8 6-inch Sapphire 13 4-jnch FREXCH. Battleships . . , . . . iiffren ' 12-inch 10 6.4-inch GaJlots IS-inch 10 5.5-inch Charlemagne J2-inch 10 S.5-inch Bouvet 12-inch , 8 5.3-inch 2 10.8-lnch Cruisers . Jauregniberry 2 VVilinch D Entrecasteux 2 9.4-inch 12 6.5-inch RUSSIA". Cruiser - . Askold - 12-,nch ..... " FERICHON. hera, Antwerp, during the siege, and for two weeks she was with the soldiers in Uie trenches east of Furnes, until her health broke down. She was strick en with fever and had to be carried off to London, from where she accom panied me here because she. thought she could help by collecting funds." A determined flash gleamed in her eyes when Mllo. Perichon was asked whether there was any truth in the charge of atrocities. Her smiling coun tenance disappeared and the expression on her face was that of a resolute and earnest woman. And she told a har rowing tale of pillage, ruin, destruc tion; how civilians were arrested; how women were shamed and how towns were destroyed. Detail Are Horrible. She had been an eyewitness of the German invasion and the details she related were too horrible to be put in print "Until the Germans are driven from our land no proofs can be offered," she added. "It is to my wounded at the front that I shall return as soon as I am strong enough again," she concluded. "There are plenty of nurses to tend the women, plenty to tend the wounded in the hospitals; but at the font, you see. I am the only woman nurse, and there, perhaps, I may be a little more helpful than elsewhere." E SOTE IiEFT BV FORMER TEACHER BLAMES DOMESTIC LIFE. Mrs. Jack. AVcnandy Ko and Dead at Bend While HuHband Ik Away. Auto Driver Invetleate. LA PINE. Or., March 18. (Special.) Mrs. Jack Wenandy, formerly a teacher near here, committed suicide at her home in Bend early today. Domestic difficulties are blamed in a note. Mrs. Wenandy was well known throughout Central Oregon. She was a bride of only a few months. Previous to her marriage she was Miss Iona App legate. When L. D. Fox, an auto driver, re ceived no response to his rap, he en tered the house because prowlers in the vicinity had been numerous. He found Mrs. "Wenandy in bed, dead, with a note tightly clutched in her hands. Jack Wenandy Is the president of the Bend-La Pine Automobile Livery and until recently had the stage mail contract to all interior points between Bend and Silver Lake. He is in Port land at present. All efforts to locate him have proved unsuccessful. L Strassburg Forts Strength ened, Valleys Defended With Trenches and Wires. BOMBS FALL ON CALAIS French Report Minor Advances ia Champagne and Say Belgians Are Continuing Their Progress on Banks of Yscr. PARIS, March IS. While the official reports of the War Office today, told of minor advances made by the French troops at various points, dispatches re a,iti.rland tell of exten- -r" " ".-. bein made by the rv7'-x.;im. nf the frontier. t... io.;fi-oTt In the opinion of French army officers, is the news from Basel that the Germans are construct i wn new strategical railroads on (k. iiw.i.nrralne frontier. One runs between Strassburg and Molsheim and the other from Strassburg-Neudorf and Grafenstadten to Koenigshofen. Both lines are to strengthen the Strassburg system of fortifications. rinrman troops guarding the Danish ..!,. .nritinf to another message reaching Basel, have been sent to the 'ran-n-Rr fish front ana repiaceu l.j Alsatian reservists. Valley of I-argnee Fortified. A dispatch to Geneva from Lousanne says that German troops have been en ergetically engaged for the past few fnriifvinir all the valley of the Tjirtrn between moos. ri. 1 " " 1 i ,.Ta,.h a mm d Heated system of horhort wire entanglements has been niaj-ei. The environs of Volkensberg and Ferrette are defended by entrench ments and blockhouses. The combat at Carnoy, which began the evening of March 14 by the explo sion -,f n. heavilv-charged mine in one of the French advanced trenches, was vain and costly tor the Germans, ac cording to an official note issued by the War Office today. "The battle lasted until the 17th, the note adds, "and was marked by shadp lighting, numerous counter at tacks and systematic bombardments. The German offensive was finally re pulsed and the French succeeded in making a slight gain on this part of the front." Zeppelin Drops Bombs on Calais. The official communication issued to night says: "A Zeppelin airship has dropped some bombs on Calais, aiming at the railway station. No serious material damage was done, but seven employes were killed. "In Champagne we have made sensi ble gains to the west, to the north and to the east of Ridge 196. northeast of Les ilesnll. The enemy made a coun ter attack, but was repulsed. Our gains extend eastward into a ravine which runs from Ridge 196 In the direction of Beausejour. "In the wood of Consenvoye, north of Verdun, we have carried two German trenches and made prisoners. "At Hartmann's Weilerkopf we have gained a little ground in relation to our previous position. The enemy's losses were heavy. His trenches were full of dead." The report issued earlier in the day said: "The Belgian army continued its progress on the Yser. Its artillery bombarded one of the enemy's convoys on the road from Dixmude to Lessen. Action Limited to Artillery. "From the Lys to the Oise there was artillery action. The enemy bombard ed in particular the spur of the hill at Notre Dame de Lorette and the villages of Carnoy and Maricourt. "There is nothing new in the opera tions in the Champagne. "In Lorraine there was an artillery duel. One of our aviators bombarded the railway station at Conflans." BOMiBS KAXIi OX SEMINARY Berlin Says French Aviator Killed Two Children, Wounded Ten. BERLIN, March 18. The German War Department gave out the follow ing report today: "A French advance against our po sition on the southern slope of the Lorette hills was repulsed. "Partial French attacks in Cham pagne, north of Le Mesnil, were brought to a standstill by a counter at tack. A fresh French attack which was begun there last night has been repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. "In the Argonne yesterday the fight ing abated. French aviators threw bombs on the undefended Alsatian town of Schlettstadt. Only one bomb took effect, falling on a seminary con ducted by a woman teacher, killing two children and severely wounding .10. In reply German aviators last night dropped bombs of large size on the fortress of Calais." ANSWER NOT' CONSIDERED (Continued From First Page.) cargoes even when consigned directly to German ports. Nor can foodstuffs or conditional contraband be justly in terrupted unless proved, though con signed to Germany, to be detained lor the nse of its belligerent torces sou not its civilian population. , In the same circumstances, too, there is no legal basis for detaining cargoes consigned from the United States to the neutral countries of Europe, if con taining cotton or non-contraband goods, irrespective of ultimate destination. Similarly the allies cannot under the previously accepted principles of in ternational law interrupt shipments of foodstuffs and other conditional con traband en route between the United States and neutral countries unless clearly proved to be going eventually to the belligerent forces of Germany and not Its civilian population. Neutrals May Declare Embargoes. 3 v.tmi countries of Europe may declare embargoes on re-exportation of contraband or non-contraband, thus preventing supplies from reacning Ger many. With this sovereign right the United States does not take issue, but it will insist on its right to ship to neutral countries, placing the burden of stopping further progress on the latter nations themselves. In considering the foregoing propo sition, officials realize that Great Britain and her allies have set np the claim that their actions constitute retaliatory measures against Germany, hut this, in the view of the American Government, does not affect the statns of international law as between me United States and the belligerents. American Position Xot Chameed The American attitude has not been changed materially as a result of the exchange of notes with ureal Britain and France. In whatever communica tion or protests are made ny the Wash ington Government to sareguard tits righto there will fee s lattaration, it GERMANS DIG FRONTIER RAILWAY is understood, of the questions asked by the United States irtjt3 identical in quiry to Great Britain and France. In this the allies were asked whether the rules of blockade or the rules govern ing contraband and non-contraband were to be followed, application of both together being viewed "as having no precedent in international law." "The paradoxical situation thus created," the American note observed, "should be changed and the declaring powers ought to assert whether they rely upon the rules governing a block ade or the rules applicable when no blockade exists. "What Uwl' Ia Asked. Alter inquiring what would be the disposition of various kinds of ship ments, the American Government asked: "Upon what principles of inter national law would it restr And "upon what rule, if no blockade is maintained and declared," it continued, "could the cargo of a neutral ship sail ing out of a German port be con demned. If it is not condemned, what other legal course Is there but to re- le3reat Britain's answer has indicated that the cargo and ships diverted into British ports and owned by neutrals will not be contiscated but restored to their owners, but this will not affect the insistence of the United States on the legal right ot its subjects to ship cargoes of a non-contraband character to and from neutral countries without interruption and regardless of their destination. Civil War Decision Accepted. During the Civil War the United States enforced a rigid blockade of the Southern states by stopping cargoes while plying between neutral ports, but in the famous Matamoras cases finally ruled upon by Chief Justice Chase, of the Supreme Court of the United States, the rule of blockade and continuous voyage in shipments between EnglAnd and Mexico were not held to extend to goods of a non-contraband character. state Department officials, recalling this case today, pointed out that non contraband goods were released and permitted to be forwarded to their des tination in the Confederate states. These cases have formed the precedent for American practice ever since, and the decisions were accepted by Great Rritain at the ti-'e as equitable. The interpretation which the allies now have placed on the continuous voy- aee theory is that cargoes destinea um mately to at enemy must be stopped in European waters, even tr ot a non-con t rahand character. Officials are prepar Ing to combat this with an array of precedents showing that "the rules of international law generally accepceu have been in accord with the American doctrine. Note to Allies Hot Drafted. High officials said today that no communication to the allies had been finally drafted, but that memoranda on the subject were being prepared. It was declared at the State Department that althojgh the word "blockade is used by Great Brit ain in describing the object of her new measures, the American Govern ment considers that a blockade is a question of fact and requires certain advance notifications to that effect, which have not been given. The order- in-council, it was pointed out, did not mention "blockade" nor was any exact "radius of activity" given, limiting the area of operations, the announcement merely confining it to "European waters, including the Mediterranean." The belief of high officials is that Great Britain, to continue her outlined course, will be obliged finally to admit that there is no legal basis for her ac tion and that it is solely a retaliatory measure resulting from the exigencies of war. Should such an admission be officially recorded it might have a vital effect, it was said, on the-'Ameri-can interpretation of international law in the future. Some officials thought, for instance, that it no longer could be- charged as an unlawful act to levy an embargo tn supplies to the belligerents, should Congress bestow that power on the executive. BANKERS ARE VISITED RUDOLPH SPRECKLES CONFERS RE GARDING RAILWAY PURCHASE. Governor Says Electors of California Would Have to Indorse West, cm Pacific Purchase. NEW YORK, March 18. Rudolph Spreckles, of San Francisco, arrived here today to confer with banking In terests regarding a plan to have the State of California purchase and op erate the Western Pacific Railroad, which recently went into the hands of receivers. Mr. Spreckles is said to have submitted the proposed terms of purchase to New York financiers. SACRAMENTO. March 18. No terms for the proposed purchase by the State of California of the Western Pacific Railroad, now in the hands of receiv ers, have been formulated, according to a statement made tonight by Gov ernor Johnson. "Any future proposed plan looking to the acquisition of the railroad by the state first would be submitted to the people," the Governor said. "Even this." he continued, "will not be done unless, after thorough investigation and mature deliberation, it be demonstrated that the plan to be proposed is feasible, will not overstrain our finances, and. further, that the road could be op erated profitably by the state. Every thing thus far is wholly tentative." 'SLAVER' APPEAL IS LOST Conviction or Diggs and Caminetti , Affirmed on Appeal. SAN FRANCISCO. March 18. The conviction of Maury I. Diggs, ex-State Architect, and F. Drew Caminetti, son of Commissioner Caminetti, of the Fed eral Bureau of Immigration, was con firmed today by the United States Cir cuit Court of Appeals. The men had been found guilty under the Mann "white slave" act and sentenced, to im prisonment and fined. Judges Gilbert and Wolverton, both of Portland, affirmed the conviction, while Judge Ross, of Los Angeles, dis sented from the decision. The only re course of the defendants now Is to the United States Supreme Court. HAVE GOOD HEALTH Take Hood's Sarsaparilla, the Old Re liable Spring Tonic. Don't let the idea that you may feel letter In a day or two prevent you iiom getting a bottle of Hood's Si'saparilla today from any drugstore a'd. itarting at once on the road to health and strength. 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Even the theater feels HOT while that fire is on; it is that real. There is real PUNCH to "Sunshine Molly." ."31 i.?. 1 10 Cents Next Sunday Edith Wynne-Mathison "The Governor's Lady." SERBIA'S NEED SORE Doctors and Red Cross Work ers Fall Before Plague. TYPHUS TOLL IS DEADLY Rockefeller Investigators Say Situa tion Can Bo Remedied Only by Co-operation to Secure Sanitary Control. LONDON. March IS. An appalling story of conditions In Serbia was re lated today by Ernest Blcknell and Henry James, Jr.. of the war relief committee of the Rockefeller Founda tion, on their return to London after a tour of inspection through that coun try. They said that several diseases were epidemic in Serbia. Typhus, the most deadly of these, already has caused the death of 60 out of 400 native doctors of the country.- The Foreign Red Cross units have suffered great losses. Two Amer ican units and one British unit have been compelled to suspend their regu lar work because of typhus. Nine American nurses and two physicians have contracted the disease. , The Serbians assert that typhus-was introduced by Austrian prisoners of war who were permitted to wander over the country and infected the pop lation by spreading vermin which caused the disease. The commissioners went first to Nlsh, then proceeded to Belgrade and left the country by way of Uakob. thus visiting the three most populous towns. During their tour they learned that typhus, typhoid fever, cholera, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever and recurrent fever are all existing in more or less epidemic form. The largest number of cajes Is of recurrent fever, but this disease seldom is fatal. Ty phus is particularly deadly. Smallpox and diphtheria are diminishing. No figures are available aa to the number of cases, but the commissioners believe the mortality is so heavy as to bring the situaUon within their pur view. 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One thousand cakes of Swift & Co.'s famous Leather Renovator (it is to clean all kinds of leather) will be given absolutely free to the people in attendance at this marvelous shoe sale. Simply ask for it. 244 WASHINGTON ST., BETWEEN 2d AND 3d 11:30 A. M. to 11:30 P.M. A.. ., ., MAJESTIC THEATER . Now Playing Elinor Glyn's "THREE WEEKS" Starting at 10:30 A. M. Daily equipped with medicine and alno with furnishings for their living qurter It would be unwise for thi-m to go to Serbia, since they probably would fall victims to the dlKeaoe. Mr. James said that the situation could be dealt with effectively only by a Joint organisation of medical unit operating under a system whereby strict aanltary control could be en forced, riome plan must also be de vised for placing Austrian prlslonerx In camps. The Serbian govirnmnt has been unable thus fur to provide guards for concentration camps snd prisoners at present are permitted to wander freely about lhe country. Mr. James sills for New York on Saturday to make a report to th Rockefeller Foundation. Sanitary CommiKitlon to Ho Sent. NEW YORK. March IS. The Ro ke feller Foundation ynnounct-d today that It has made a contribution of $25,000 to the American Ked Cro toward the cost of vending a special sanitary commission to Herbla to aid the Serbian government In controlling epidemics of typhus and typhoid fevrr and possibly of choUra. From papr Triad rf IVia flb.r of Ihf mill berry lre a Japan.tw naval offlr.e hax In vented a lifeboat thai can ba ftiluwl Into a pjpaf of whmit a rnM t"ot. THE CUSTOMERS THE WRIGHT SALE