THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1915. WAR PLAYS HAVDG WITH ARISTOCRACY Tradition of Noblesse Oblige . Thins British Upper Class Like Wars of Roses. LOWER RANKS COME NEXT Middle Stratum of Society Responds Poorly to Call to Arms Re Tision ol Standards May Come After Peace. BT "WILT- IRWIN. eeeyrlht. 1915. by the New York Tribune. Published by arrangement.) LONDON, March 13. "What are -we going to do ror gentlemen when this war is over?" walled an English aristo crat the other day. He was using the word "gentlemen" in the English sense, not in our sense, of course. Jn those words, however, he called attention to a curious social phenom enon of the great war as it affects England. Whether this be a one-year war or a three-year war, the upper class is bound to find itself at the fin ish depleted as the British upper class was never depleted before. We read In history of the titles finished for ever in the Wars of the Roses, which did such fearful things to the Norman strain in England. But, according to shrewd observers in the upper class, the Norman population of England has been harder hit in the first six months of this war than in all the Wars of the Rosea. Iirlra Titles rail at Front. An American merchant, whose busi ness puts him in contact with every class of Englishman, was speaking of this matter only yesterday. "I know 15 English families of the upper class." be said, "which have lost an eldest son. Seven of them were only sons, and five of these only sons were heirs to titles." For this, in so far as the English are concerned, has been an upper class war. It is this class which has taken it most seriously, which has sent the greatest proportion of young men to the front. To be able-bodied and of military age and not to serve the army in some capacity has become, with the upper class, a disgrace. Oxford is a kind of foreign univer sity in these days. I heard an Edin burgh professor mourning the other day because he was teaching "only lassies." Those old boys of the great public schools who axe of military age and stature have enlisted so gener ously that the exceptions are scarcely worth noting. "Lower Clans' Second In Proportion. The "lower class," and especially the lower class of Scotland, has furnished the second greatest proportion of re cruits. In Edinburgh, for example, the shortage of labor has become an Issue. Long ago Edinburgh would have put women on the back platforms of street railways had not the labor unions, fearing that this was a wedge for cheap labor, protested. All over England farmers are agitating to have the child labor laws relaxed, because there is a shortage of agricultural la borers. The middle class feels the enthus iasm for war less than the classes above and below it. The small shop keeper, as a class, is keeping away from the war. "The villa class what you call 'commuters' feel it least of all," said an English journalist to me. In short, the middle class has re sponded, so far, poorly; the lower class well: the upper class excellently. I wrote last Autumn that the aristocracy was probably in the army '"'up to con script standards." I am forced to revise that estimate upward. So many upper class men who would be exempt under Continental standards of recruiting have entered the army as to raise the : percentage probably above conscript percentages. For example, a certain - English literary man of gentle birth ' Is serving as a subaltern in France. ' He is 48 years old. It happens that he : looks younger than his age and for ' the rest, ho lied. Responsibility In Accepted. This is not, if you please, an exalta tion of the class system. Taken by itself, it is true, the fact arjrues for the uses of an aristocracy, but not when taken in relation to the whole picture. The theory of a social democracy, like the American or the French, Is the ele vation of the entire people. The theory of a social aristocracy, like England's, is to give all the honors and most of the emoluments of life to the upper ; class, and expect that upper class, in payment, to take most of life's respon sibilities. In this pinch the upper class is liv ' ing up nobly to its responsibility. But, in Armageddon, that isn't enough. i:vcry class must feel responsibility. It looks now, so far as we can prophesy, as though the British Empire were go jnir to survive this war. But if it had fallen, it would have fallen because one class alone felt enough responsibility to risk a life for England. Howe-er. the percentage of upper cl.-.ss men in the army does n. in it- self, account for the great draft on aristocratic blood which has been such a phenomenon of this war. By English custom, the army must be officered, mainly or wholly, by gentlemen. And the loss of officers, especially of Inferior offtctrs. has been appalling. The life of a subaltern is as short in this war us the life of a horse. Valor ot Question of Class. That tradition of taking your offi cers solely from one group is. of course, a restriction on ability in the army. Had we always insisted on pick in? our officers from the leisure class we should have fought our Civil War . without Grant. Sherman or Stonewall - Jackson. Valor and military talent are not the ole possession of any one class. By and large, the French have probably - the most able body of officers in the world. And this Is so because the - French army is absolutely democratic: a man of real military talent may enter ' the corps of officers without regard to : the circumstances of his birth. Yet it is the only system the English know, and they must do their work now with what tools they have. You can't trade horses while crossing a stream. Ad a matter of fact, the rank and file would probably accept no other ystem. So thoroughly is the idea of caste ingrained in the English that the navvy or shopkeeper In the ranks will follow a gentleman pray note I em using the word in the Uritiah ' tense to death wiere he would not I CHRONOLOGY OF CHIEF EVENTS OF WAR TO DATE. PROGRESS OF THE PAST WEEK. March 21 British steamer Cairntorr sunk by German submarine.' March 22 Austrian fortress Przemysl and about 120,000 men sur render to Russians. ' , , , . March 23 Turks routed near Suez by British. Russian Black Sea fleet sinks Turkish transports and colliers and bombards forts. March 24 Part of German cruiser Emden crew raid Dutch port in Sumatra. ' . March 25 French woman shot as spy by her countrymen, com mission for relief in Belgium extends work to 2.500,000 French; Dutch steamer Medea sunk by German submarine. March 26 Durazzo, Albania, attacked by 60,000 rebels. EARLIER EVENTS OF THE WAR. June 28 1914 Grand Duke Francis Ferdinand, heir to Austrian throne, and his wife assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, as result of Pan-Slavic propaganda, July 23 Austria sends ultimatum to Serbia: 28. Austria declares war on Serbia. Russia mobilizes against Austria; 29, Austria bombards Bel grade; 31, Germany demands that Russia demobilize. Belgians and Ger mans order mobilization. ' August 1 Germany declares war on Russia; 3, German troops enter Belgium; 4. Great Britain sends ultimatum to Germany demanding re spect for Belgian neutrality; Germany declares war on France and Belgium; Great Britain declares Btate of war exists with Germany; 6. Austria declares war on Russia; 7. French enter Alsace: 10, France declares war on Austria; 12, Montenegro declares war on Austria, Great Britain announces state of war exists with Austria: lo. Japan sends ultimatum to Germany demanding that she withdraw ships and evacu ate Kiau-Chau, China; 17, Belgian capital moved to Antwerp; 20, Ger man army enters Brussels; 23. Japan declares war on Germany; A Austria declares war on Japan: 28, British fleet victor In sea fight in Heligoland Bight. Germany losing cruisers and torpedo - boat de stroyers. , September 5 Great Britain. France and Russia sign agreement to make no peace save together; 21, German submarine U-9 sinks British cruisers Cressy, Hogue and Aboukir in North Sea. - ' October 9 Antwerp capitulates to German forces: 17, four German destroyers sunk by British cruiser in North Sea; 20, Japanese occupy Ladronne Islands, In Pacific Ocean; 27, British super-dreadnought Au dacious, third in tonnage and .armament in British navy, sunk by tor pedo or mine off north coast of Ireland; 31, Turks annex and invade Egypt; German submarine sinks British cruiser Hermes. ., ' November 1 British squadron defeated by German fleet off Chilean coast; 3, Great Britain and France formally announce state of war with Turkey; 7, Tslng-Tau, German stronghold in China, falls; 10, Ger man cruiser Emden destroyed by Australian cruiser Sydney, German cruiser Koenigsberg bottled up; 26, British battleship Bulwark blown up and sunk near mouth of Thames from explosion of own magazine. December 8 German commerce destroyers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipsio and Nurnberg destroyed off Falkland Islands by British fleet. Cruiser Dresden escapes; 16, German fleet raids east coast of England. Hartlepool. Scarborough and Whitby bombarded, 84 persons, mostly civilians, killed. 1 January 1 1915 British battleship Formidable sunk in English Channel by German submarine: 19, German fleet of airships raid Sand ringham and other cities in England; 24, German cruiser Bluecher sunk and three sister ships damaged trying to raid English coast. February 3 British route first Turkish force reaching Suez Canal; 12 British fleet of 34 aeroplanes raids German bases in Belgium; 18. German submarine blockade of British waters begins; 19, Nor wegian (neutrals) and French merchant vessels sunk by German sub marines; Great Britain Justifies use of United States flag by British merchant vessels; United States steamer WUhelmina taken into British prize court: 20, British merchantman sunk in Irish Sea by German sub marine without warning to crew; United States steamer Evelyn sunk by mine off Germany; 22. Zeppelin airship raids Calais. -France; 23, United States steamer Carib, Norwegian steamer Begin (neutral), and British collier sunk; Kaiser and all Germans go on limited bread allowance; 24. British steamers Rio Panaro. Oakby and Harpalion sunk by sub marines; 25, Anglo-French fleet begins destruction of Dardanelles forts; British steamers Deptford and Western Coast sunk by submarines; 20, Boers invade German Southwest Africa: 27, American steamer Dacia captured and taken into French port; Russians capture Przanysz, North Poland, and Stanislau, East Galicia, March 1 Great Britain declares absolute blockade: 4, allies fleet bombards coast of Smyrna; Germans offer to recede from "war zone policy if permitted to import food; 5, Dutch steamer sunk; 9, subma rines sink three British merchantmen. 10, Arrival at Newport News of German raider Prins Eltel Friederich discloses she sank United States ship William P. Frye in South Atlantic January 28. 11. sub marines sink British collier Buyano and torpedo two merchantmen. 12 four British steamers torpedoed. 13, Swedish steamer and British collier sunk by German submarines; 14, French steamer sunk by Ger man submarine; 15, German cruiser Dresden sunk after attack by British squadron in Chilean harbor, Britain declares blockade against all shipping to and from Germany; 16, British liner flies American flag; 17 Russians raid German Baltic seaport Memel; German Consul ar rested at Seattle on charge of trying to buy submarine information, German submarines sink three British steamers; German cruiser un officially reported sunk by hitting reef in December. 18, two British battleships and one French battleship sunk by mines while bombard ing Dardanelles; 21, Zeppelins raid Paris:' American forts at San Juan. Porto Rico, fire on German steamer to prevent escape. budge for one of his own class. Usual-j ly, indeed, ne resents omeriy um ma., who has- climbed such a man to him is a snob. But the gentleman by all the sacred laws of his code, the gen tleman is to be respected and obeyed instinctively. A few generations of changed conditions after the war may change this. But it cannot be changed in the brief Winter which fate has given England to raise a mighty army. Noblesse Oblige la Expected. i In the early days of the war the upper-class men without military train ing enlisted in great numbers in the ranks. Duke's son died with a musket in his hands beside cook's son on the retreat from Mons. But the new "Kitchener army," or "King's army." brought a great demand for officers. Almost any able-bodied and fairly in telligent gentleman of good athletic experience could get a chance to be educated for a commission. Around such men England is building the new army. Now, here is another subtlety of the class system in Great Britain: Your Tommy of the lower orders expects from the aristocracy a living-up to the tradition of noblesse oblige. The under officer must take chances with the men must, in fact, take greater chances than the men or the Tommy follows him but grudgingly. And this example may drive the principle home: I heard yesterday news concerning the death of a certain second lieuten ant. He was working in a city office when the war broke out, and he en listed with a commission. His regiment went to the front in October. He had been 12 days on the line when he was sent forward with a platoon. They came to a wood. He halted, uncertain whether to turn to right or to left- "I will go forward and take a look." he said. He did go forward; suddenly out of the wood came a volley; he fell dead. Now. he could not have done otherwise and kept the respect of his men. But the case illustrates the great mortality among the sub-officers, and it shows, moreover, why this war is so reducing the Norman strain. BRITISH LOSS IS HEAVY COST TO TAKE MILE FROM GERMAN'S MORE THAJf WATERLOO'S TOTAL. Public In England Prepared for Worst When Report of Casualties at Stove Chapelle Fight la Received. LONDON. March 19. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) The British public is not deceived by the lack of definite reports as to the British losses in the Neuve Chapelle tight in France. The official announcement that the British had taken 1800 prisoners and the official estimate that the Ger mans must have lost 18,000 men in the terrific bombardment prepared the public for heavy loss on the British side. Rumor ran that the total loss to gain about a mile of territory was in the neighborhood of 13.000 men. Already there are about 300 officers named on the casualty lists as the result of the battle. Since it takes so many men to win a mile of French soil from the Germans, more than the losses at Waterloo, the British public is perfectly aware what the cost will be before the invaders are driven out of France and Belgium. Meanwhile the recruiting advertise ments are pointing out that the Ger mans, being at Ostend. are already nearer Iondon than Manchester is; some of the daily papers are editorially preaching conscription and there is an urgent call for more nurses and hos pital facilities. Ttoscburg Artillery Inspected. ROSEBURG. Or., March 28. (Spe cial.) The first quarterly inspection of the current year of the local company. Coast Artillery, was held at the new Armory Thursday night. The inspec tion was oonducted by Adjutant-General White, of Portland, and Captain Collins, of Eugene. Following the in spection the members of the company held a banquet. The officers of the company were entertained prior to the inspection, the following being pres ent: Adjutant-General White, of Port land; Captain Collins, of Eugene; Col onel May. Captain Buchanan, Lieuten ant Vincil and A. C. Marsters. of Rose burg. WARRENTON BONDS VOTED Issue of $25,000 Is to Erect School on Sew Site. WARRENTON, Or., March 28. (Spe cial.) By a majority of 16 votes, the school bond issue of 825,000 was carried Saturday. The voters recently cast their ballot in favor of purchasing the Harvey tract, consisting of 9.6 acres, for $8600 for a .school site, anJ since then the t. , ,i ; t n ,qva 'J rlmilpH nlftnK for liUIIUUl UIIrLuio - " , . a school building at an estimated cost of 115,000. 1 ne Done issue iwiaj wis to provide funds to purchase school Bite, build and furnish school building. TIDE OF GOLD TURNS TO UNITED STATES Trade Balance Mounts to $578,000,000, Fast Liqui dating Indebtedness. OTHERS MUST PAY CASH Billions of Dollars' Worth of Manu factures and Products of Soil Are for Sale, and Foreign. Demand Is Increasing. CHICAGO. March 28. (Special.) The United States is now a creditor nation in the strict sense. The world ta hPErinnine to oav in cash for the immense volume of products bought in this country. Thn nation has naid our foreign debts, or rather our enormous exports have liquidated them, and now the credit balance in its favor is beginning to show tangible results. . ia fi.-iwinr ateadilv into the United States. Nearly $41,000,000 has been received since January l. unc fourth of this amount came in last w.ir and continuous stream of the precious metal means ultimately the greatest era of prosperity this country has ever known. Floodgates of Gold Opening. TTrti. weekn thft srreat banks of the old world have been throwing safe guards around their gold supplies ana until recently they succeeded in pro tecting it, despite the fact that foreign exchange rates fell to almost the lowest levels in modern history. nf urn total receiDts of gold. $9.- 300,000 came from Ottawa, $5,700,000 from China, $3,500,000 from Japan, 050,000, from London direct, $1,000,000 from South America and $300,000 from nnmark. The inevitable appears to be at hand. American securities held abroad are no longer being liquidated. In fact, they are being bought by foreign investors. Obvious evidences nt this VI' 1' T"t noted in the securities markets of the United States last week, and without the selling of stocks and bonds as an offset, Europe must now nnv th TTnited States in gold for mer chandise, foodstuffs and everything that has been taken In enormous vol ume. Trade Balance Now 578,000,000. The trade balance in favor of the United States up to the close of busl oaa Xfwrf.li 27 Rnnroximates $578,000.- 000. This is tne amount other coun tries owe the United States in excess of imports, however the difference may be settled. When the war began in August it was variously estimated that the United States was InueDtea to r.u rope even more than the present credit balance. Astute bankers and economists see in the- change that is aproaching an opportunity for the United States to become the world's banker. The coun try now has billions of dollars worth ,.t awrifuitiiral and manufactured prod ucts to sell. Other great nations, crip pled by war. want these products ana must pay for them. Besides, during the war and after the war, much financing will be necessary. Foreigners must look to the United States for help in nearly every form. FRENCH DESCRIBE FIGHT (Continued From First Page.) ueror proceeded in person to Thielt and Courtrai to exalt by his presence the ardor of his troops. "Finally, at the close of October, the entire German press incessantly pro claimed the importance of the battle of Calais. It is superfluous to add that events in Poland explain in large meas ure the passionate resolve of the Ger man general staff to obtain a decision on the western theater of operations at all costs. This decision would be ob tained if our left were pierced or driven in. To reach Calais, that is. to brea our left: to carry Ypres, that is. to cut it in half; through both points to menace the communications and sup plies of the British expeditionary force, perhaps to threaten Britain in her island: such was the German plan in the battle of Flanders. It was a plan that could not be executed. "The enemy who had at his disposal a considerable quantity of heavy ar tillery, directed his etfort at iirst upon the coast and the country to the north of Dixmude. His objective was mani festly the capture of Dunkirk, then of Calais and Boulogne and this objective he pursued until November 1. Enemy Checked Along Coast. ".YDres was solidly covered and the connections of all the allied forces were established. Against the line thus formed, the German attacK was . . . 1 -- VnL-amh.r ' nuriea irom uciouei - . ' ' 1 2. to the north, the east and south of Ypres. From October 26 on. the at tacks were renewed daily with ex traordinary violence, obliging us to employ our reinforcements at the most threatened points as soon as tney came up. Between October 30 and November 6. Ypres was several times In danger. The British lost Zandvorde, Ghelluvelt, Messines and Wytschaete. The front of the allies, thus contracted, was all the more difficult to defend, out aeienuea it was, without a recoil. The arrival of three French divlsons in our line en abled us to resume, from the 4th to the 8th a vigorous offensive. On the 10th and the 11th this offensive, brought up against fresh and sharper German attacks, was checked. Before it could be renewed the arrival of fresh rein forcements had to be awaited. These were dispatched to the north on Novem ber 12. By the 14th our troops had again begun to progress, barring the road to Ypres against the German at tacks and inflicting on the enemy, who advanced in massed, formation, losses which were especially terrible in con sequence of the fact that French and British artillery had crowded nearly 300 guns onto these few kilometres of front. 40,000 German Corpses Found. "Thus the main mass of the German army sustained the same defeat as the detachments operating farther to the north along the coast. The support which, according to the idea of the German general staff, the attack on Ypres was to render to the coastal at tack, was as futile as that attack itself had been. "During the second half of November the enemy, exhausted and having lost in the battle of Ypres alone more than 150,000 men, did not attempt to renew his effort, but confined himself to an intermittent cannonade. We, on the contrary, achieved appreciable progress to the north and south of Ypres and insured definitely, by a powerful de fensive organization of the position, the inviolability of our front." The compiler of the report here adds a footnote saying that more than 40,000 German corpses were found on the bat tlefield during these three weeks of battle. The report next proceeds to summar ize the character and results of the operations since the battle of Flanders; that is, during the period November 30 February 1. It says that since the former date the French supreme com mand had not thought it advisable to embark on important offensive opera tions. It has confined itself to local attacks, the main object of which was to hold in front of us a large number of German corps as possible, and thus to cover the withdrawal of the troops which, "to our knowledge, the German general staff strongly desired to dis patch to Russia." As a matter of fact the numbers transported to the eastern front have been moderate. Aid on Eastern Front Minimised. "Of the 52 army corps which faced us on the western front, Germany has been able to take . only four and one-half corps for the eastern front. On the other hand, climatic conditions the rain and mist were such as to dimin ish the effectiveness of offensive opera tions and to add to the costliness of any undertaking, which was another reason for postponing them. "Still another reason." he says, "lies in the fact that from now on the allied forces can count on a steady, expand ing growth, equally in point of num bers and units as of material, while the German forces have attained the maxi mum of their power and can only diminish now, both in numbers and in value. These conditions explain the character of the siege warfare which the operations have assumed during the period under review. "Meanwhile, it is by no means the case that the siege warfare has had the same results for the Germans as for us. From November 15 to February 1 our oDDonents. In spite of numerous at tacks, did not succeed in taking any thing from us, except a few hundred "It's great to be pirate king And raid the pantry shelf! And when I swoop on CampbtlTa Soup That's just my kind of pelf I" Here's Where Coffee Belon Trii. arrive nrinr.mle in coffee is caffeine. anrl druggists and physicians put it in the medicine case along with other drugs. 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He continues: To complete the balance it must be added that: 1. The German offensive in Poland was checked a month ago. 2. The Russian offensive continues in Galacla and the Carpathians. 3. A large part of the Turkish Cau casian army has been annihilated. 4. Germany has exhausted her re sources of officers (there are now on an average of 12 officers to a regi ment and henceforth will only be able to develop her resources in men to the detriment of the existing units. 5. The allied armies, on the con trary, possess the power of reinforcing themselves in a considerable decree. "It may therefore be declared that In order to obtain success it I suf ficient for Franco and her alfes to know how to wsit and to prepsre for victory with indefatigable patience," he says. KIDNAPING CHARGE DENIED Man Accused by Wife llound Over to Grand Jury at Murshfleld. MARSHF'KLU. Or., Mann 2S. (Spe cial.) Charlemagne Tower, charged with kidnaping his wife. 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