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5 GERMANS CONTINUE ATTACKS ON CANAL Determined Fighting on East ern Bank of Yser Without ,u Result in 36 Hours. REST GIVEN TO CANADIANS Destruction or Ypres Complete, Fa mous Cloth Hall Succumbing at Last Germans Say They Have Captured Sixty-Three Guns. LONDON'. April 29. "During the last 86 hours." says the Times correspond ent in Northern France, "the Germans have attacked our lines east of the Year Canal with redoubled violence in a last desperate attempt to gain a foot ing on the western banks. They ex pended their force In vain. The allies Blill hold firm on the western side. "The British now hold a new line of trenches north and northeast of Ypres. The Canadians, worn out by four days and nights of unceasing struggle, have been relieved and re tired to the rear of our line for a much-needed rest. They retired cov ered with glory, but their ranks were aadly thinned. Rattle Kiel-cent of "Wbole War. "The second battle of Flanders was fought over a front of less than five miles and endured only five days, but the fighting probably ha3 been more furious than on any other occasion since the war began. The Germans threw shells and high explosives into Ypres and covered with a curtain of lire every avenue through which our reinforcements might pass. "In this bombardment the destruc tion of Ypres has been completed. The famous Cloth Hall is gone and scarcely a house In the town is left standing." The official reports issued today at Paris were both brief. Tonight's re port said: "The day has been calm. During the night of April 28-29 two German at tacks the one against the Belgian troops to the north of Ypres and the other at Los Eparges were easily re pulsed." Earlier In the day the following was Issued: "In Belgium we have continued to progress in conjunction with Belgian troops in a northerly direction. On the. right bank of the Yser Canal we took 150 prisoners as well as two ma chine guns. "There is nothing new on the heights of the Meuse nor in the Vosges. Zeppelin Damaged by Artillery. "The enemy has bombarded by means of flying machines, and using incen diary shells, the open town of Epernay, occupied exclusively at that time by hospital detachments. "Definite information which has come to hand sets forth that the Zep pelin airship which eight days ago threw bombs on Dunkirk was seriously damaged by our artillery. Finding it impossible to navigate further, the ma chine was wrecked in the trees between Bruges and Ghent." Belgian military headquarters also Issued a short summary of the situa tion saying "Several points on our front, such as Ramscappelle. Pervyse, Lampernlsse and Osvleperen, have been repeatedly bombarded. The Belgian artillery has vigorously co-operated with the French in their attack against Steenstraate. Our aviators have shown great activ ity." Grrmani Say They Hold Ground. The report of the German war office, received from Berlin by wireless, dealt with operations of yesterday. It said: "Our positions on the west bank of the canal north of Y'pres and on the Yperlee Brook, near Steenstraate, were attacked yesterday without interrup tion but without success. Eapt of the canal an attack by French, Algerians and British troops failed, with heavy losses to the enemy. The number of guns captured north of Ypres has been brought HP to 63. "The enemy unsuccessfully exploded mines on the La Basse-Bethune Rail way, north of l-.es Mesnil in Cham pagne. At Lea Mesnil French night at tacks against positions which we had taken were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. French soldiers taken prisoners by us here were in a lament able condition. They trembled with fear, as their officers told them they would be killed if captured by the Germans. "On the heights of the Meuse. aouth of Verdun, we carried our positions for ward some 100 metres and entrenched them." BRITISH ACCOUNTS DEVI ED German Says He Traveled In Terri tory Claimed by Enemy. BERLIX. by wireless to Sayville, N. Y.. April 29. Wilhelm Schefmann, a well-known German war correspondent, has sent the following report to his paper: "When one compares the German general staff report with that of the British, there is an Irreconcilable dif ference. In my trips along the front by Neuve Chapelle and Givenchy, I have travelled much of the time in ter ritory, which, according to reports and maps published in English newspapers, is in possession of the British troops, but in reality I did not see a single Knglishman on the road, not even a prisoner. "Since the preceding day had been quiet, I entered upon the field of bat tle at a spot which, according to British representations, was part of the gain, in the battle of Neuve Chapelle According to British reports and maps the next village must be In British hands, but it did not look so; every house was flying the Bavarian flag, made by tearing the superfluous red stripes from the French trl-color." TEACHERS J0 GO EAST Four to Be Exchanged Are Chosen by Superintendent Alderman. Four teachers have been selected by Superintendent Alderman to be ex changed for four teachers of the Brock ton, Mass., schools for one year. They will demonstrate the Portland system In the East. They are Miss Maybelle E. Ross, sev enth grade teacher, Holman School; Miss Rozene Epple, primary teacher, Eliot School; Miss Halite Thomas, pri mary teacher, Kenton School, and Miss Nora B. Green, eighth grade, Ladd School. Miss Thomas is the retiring president of the Grade Teachers' Asso ciation. FRANCIS JOSEPH WELL Austrian Huler Is In Better Health , Than for Years. VIENNA. April 15. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Notwith standing the labor and ceaseless anxie ties caused by the war. Emperor Fran cis Joseph is said to be in better health and physical condition than for years past. He has gone through a trying Winter without the least trace of a cough or cold, and his activity and enormous capacity for work astonish his Ministers and others brought in contact with him. Rising every morning soon after 4 o'clock, the monarch, now in his 85th year, devotes practically the entire day to the affairs of state: examining and signing papers, or receiving high mili tary officers who bring him the latest and fullest news from the seat of war; and Cabinet Ministers coming for in structions on matters of foreign or do mestic policy. The intervals for rest during the day are short. Only meals and a walk in the private garden, adjoining his apart ments in the castle of Schoenbrunn, will draw the Emperor from his desk. His appetite is excellent, and for the first time in some years he is showing an interest in the menu, and frequently orders special dishes. Much to his disappointment, the court physician has ordered him to stop his visits to the wounded soldiers in the Vienna hospitals. But there was al ways the danger of the venerable ruler getting Into a draught, or being over taken by a shower and so It was deemed best to confine his outdoor go ings to walking in the Kammergarten. REPORTS STILL CONFLICT BRITISH AND TURKS ASSERT AD VANTAGES IN CAI.LIPOLI. Constantinople Says Landing Forces Have Been Driven Into Sea London Claims Victory. . LONDON, April 29. Reports from the Dardanelles continue to conflict. The War Office is silent, but a dispatch from Athens dated today says that fierce fighting throughout Wednesday on the shores of Suvla Bay. en the western side of the Gallipoli peninsula, 18 miles north of the southern ex tremity, resulted in the success of the allies. The losses of the Turks were serious, according to this report. One entire battalion was captured by the allies. Another dispatch says that the British have landed 80,000 men on Gal lipoli Peninsula, while the French force is taking care of the Asiatic side. A dispatch from Constantinople, dated Tuesday, however, says: "The enemy, who landed near Kaba Tepeh, endeavored to maintain their position under cover of their ships, but early in the morning our troops stormed three positions and forced the enemy back along the whole front, in flicting severe losses on them. Part of the enemy fled in the direction of the sea and, taking their boats, disap peared. Those unable to escape 'raised the white flag and surrendered in masses. ' "A transport of the enemy was sunk off Aviburn. "Later reports say hostile forces, estimated at four brigades, have been driven into the sea on the coast at Kaba Tepeh." BUDAPEST, via London, April 29. The Pester Lloyd prints a Dardanelles dispatch which says that the Turkish batteries at Kaba Tepeh sank 12 sloops in which the allies were landing corps which were retreating. GIRL, 4, IDENTIFIES BOY MESSENGER THEN ADMITS HE IN JURED BABY'S SISTER. Orriion City Child Recognizes Beads on Hat Worn by Rider at Time Accident Occurred. OREGON CITY, Or., April 29. (Spe cial.) Identified by 4-year-old Char lotte Hyde, who recognized three col ored beads in his hat. Frank Miller, a Western Union messenger today con fessed that he was the bicycle rider who struck and seriously injured Mary Hyde, 12. last night. Mary Hyde and her little sister were standing near their home at 616 Twelfth street last night when the elder of the two girls was hit by a bicycle coasting down Twelfth street. The rider left immediately. Chief of Police Shaw took young Miller to the Hyde home today. The officer led the boy before the 4-year-old girl. "Is this the boy who hit your sister?" the chief asked. "Yes," replied the baby. "How do you know?" queried Chief Shaw. "By these beads on his hat," prompt ly answered the girl, as she pointed to three ornaments on the boy's hat. The police have not determined what will be done with Miller. He is not un der arrest. Mary Hyde is Improving. SMALL LOANS AID KAISER More Than 3,600,000 Subscribe for Total or $2,157,000,000. BERLIN. April 15. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The great loan just brought out by the German government called out the small capi talists in numbers never heretofore heard of in the flotation of a public loan. When more than 926.000 Germans offered subscriptions of 2000 marks (M76) and less for the September loan, this was regarded . as especially elo quent testimony to the patriotic en thusiasm of the great masses of the German people. But the March loan has a far more remarkable participa tion of the small capitalists. Not less than 2,113,220 subscribers to it are taking amounts of $476 and less, and 452,000 of these made subscriptions of $48 or under. The total number of subscribers to the loan was 2,691,060; and as the total amount of money subscribed was $2, 167,000,000, the average subscription was ?801. MRS. UPTON SINCLAIR SUES Report of Arrest In Xcw Tork, Pub lished in South, Declared Libel. JACKSON, Miss., April 29. Mrs. Mary Kimbrough Sinclair, wife of Up ton Sinclair, filed suit today against the publishers of the Jackson Daily News for $25,000 damages. The suit grows out of a report published in the News that Mrs. Sinclair was arrested in New York April 29, 1914, in connec tion with a demonstration in front of a building in which John D. Rockefel ler has offices. Mrs. Sinclair says that such a report was false and that it caused, her un pleasant publicity in her native state of Mississippi. COLUMBIA, S. C, April 29. Mrs. Mary Sinclair today filed suit against the Record Publishing Company, pub lishers of the Columbia Record, for $10,000 damages, alleging that a report of her arrest in New York, published in the Record a year ago, was false. There are 432.000 acres of forest in Corsica, Young Men's Clothes You young men will be interested in this unusual ex hibit of young men's clothes, because it shows the fabrics and the models that young men are wearing from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Fine Tartans, Glen Urquharts, Checks, Stripes, Mixtures; moderately priced $15, $18, $20, $22.50, $25, $27.50, $30 Second Floor. BEN COMMONS DIVIDED OH 'LIQUOR ISSUE Lloyd-George's Proposal for IncreasedTax Faces Prob ability of Defeat. IRISH RECORD PROTEST O'Brlenites Vote 'Xo,' Nationalists and Unionists Abstain From Votings Split Is llrst Since Beginning of War. LONDON, April 29. The proposals in troduced in the House of Commons to day by David Lloyd George, Chancel lor of the Exchequer, to double the duty on spirits, quadruple the duties on wines and to Institute an increase by graduated tax on beer to encourage the use of lighter beers were strongly opposed, and it is generally believed that the new taxes will have to be modified before Parliament will accept them. The O'Brienites, as a protest against an additional taxation ' on Irish whis kies and beers, brought about the first division in the House since the out break of the war by taking the unusual course of voting against the provisional resolutions bringing the taxes into force at once to prevent withdrawals from bond while Parliament Is dealing with the matter. The resolution re lating to spirits was adopted by a vote of 8! to 5, the minority composed of O'Brienites. Votes Are Withheld. The Nationalists also protested againot the measure, but did not vote. The Unionists, who withheld criticism until the facts could be placed before them, also abstained from voting. Usually these provisional resolutions fire carried without division, for should Parliament refuse to sanction the taxes they are refunded to those who may have paid. The Laborites promised to reply to the Chancellor's charges that a mi nority of the workmen, lured away by drink, were not putting their best into the work of producing material which is so greatly needed by the soldiers at the front. The extra taxes will be included in the budget which Chancellor Lloyd George will introduce Into the House of Commons on Tuesday next, and the bill, which is an amendment of the de fence of the realm act, will be pro posed for the second reading at a later date, when the debate on it will take place. Chancellor Promises Report. Before that time the Chancellor has promised to place in the hands of the members a series of reports of inde pendent investigators, on whose find ings the Government decided to take the action it has taken. Besides the Irish opposition to the spirit duties many members oppose the new wine taxes on the ground that they strike at France, Australia and South Africa. The proposed appoint ment of a board of control and the pro posal to take over for canteen purposes the saloons in the munitions of war areas and to compensate all interests are generally approved by the members. Mr. Lloyd-George announced his plan to the house at the opening of the ses sion today. He proposed, he said, a heavy surtax on both spirits and beer containing more than 7 per cent oi proof spirits. He did not propose, he said, a change in the tax on beer up to 43 specific gravity. . The purpose of a tax above that point, he explained, was to discourage heavy brews. This tax would rise to 36 shillings a barrel. The duties on wines would be quadru- AVOID SPRING ILLS Parity and Build Vp the Blood With Hood's Saras pari 11a. In the Spring your blood needs cleansing and enriching. Ton feel poorly, and there is more or less erup tion on your face and body. Your ap petite is not good, your sleep is broken, and you are tired all the time. You need Hood's Sarsaparllla. It la the 'one safe and effective tonic that has stood the test of 40 years. It makes the pure red blood that will make you feel better, look better eat and sleep better. It is the old standard tried and true all-the-year-round medi cine for the blood and the whole system. Ask any druggist for Hood's Sar saparllla, and insist on having it Nothing else acts like it. for nothing else has the same formula or ingre dients, and so there is no real sub stitute. Get ii today. Adv, AAA .,. lr-it 5M V" 1 -.. 4 h ' -jf "mt.t : f & r ta k w-yg ika ;Va5 &rf 4 tw - ISO tM fc-4 wi -' r 6 I A K KMV M up 4 I aXiVM tm Ml . Ij-- I B MM .. ." i ap " -it itfsvn t a J5 pn xm- r,w . rtbu. iw it hi n a ti V scsj -n r.i(i t . n 94 Vf f fc-r '. nnsjs 4 a jttr- M ft"-' f. i - b "- ff M fcwl " - KM fii SELLING Morrison Street at Fourth pled. Sparkling wines would be taxed 15 shillings a gallon. Chancellor Admits Difficulties. The Chancellor Indicated at the out set that he had met difficulties in solv ing the problem. He added: "After weeks of trying to And a solu tion, I am willing to take a pledge never to touch drink again, 'politi cal ly.' " When the time came to drive the Ger mans out of Flanders and France, he said, the expenditure of ammunition and other war material must be on a greater scale and of a more sustained character than anything yet witnessed in any war. The Chancellor laid particular em phasis upon these remarks for the ben efit of those who might object to his present proposals. "These are necessary," he declared, "to Insure victory; not ultimate victory, but victory soon without unnecessary loss of life." Oealing with excessive drinking among some workmen, the Chancellor of "the Exchequer remarked: "Everybody, agreed on the existence of this evil until the remedies were foreshadowed." Mr. Lloyd-George said also that the slackness in some British shipyards was causing serious anxiety to those in command of the fleet. The Chancellor estimated that the double duty on spirits would yield the same revenue as heretofore, allowing for decreased consumption. Beer, he believed, would contribute 1, 600, 000 and wine 1,500,000 extra. Prohibition to Be Last Resort. Continuing. Mr. Lloyd George said the Government had concluded it was not justified in instituting prohibition until it had tried everything else, tt would be too serious an interference with the habits of the people. The Government, therefore, had adopted the plan of restricting as much as pos sible the sale of spirits and most al coholic beers. The time lost by drinking, the Chan cellor said, was equivalent to the ser vices of 150,000 men. and the whole community was being asked to make sacrifices because of the weakness of a section of the workers. Remarking that total prohibition had increased the productivity of labor in Russia, Mr. Lloyd George concluded by expressing the hope that although the Government's proposals were not so heroic as Miose of Russia they would be effective and no further measures would be required. John Ttedmond, leader of the Inde pendent Nationalists, condemned the Chancellor's proposals as prejudicial to fie trade of Ireland. Mr. O'Brien declared that the Chan cellor was killing the trade of Ireland by inches. If he succeeded in his taxes the results would be as horrible for Cork as if that city were sacked by the Germans. The only just and log ical course was to exclude Ireland al together from the operation of the plan, he declared. KAISER'S KIN ARRESTED Three Other Germans In Canada Are Accused of Ypres Celebration. VANCOUVER, B. C. April 29. Four prominent German residents of Van couver were arrested today charged with taking part last Sunday night with other Germans in a celebration of the German victory over Canadian troops at Ypres. The men detained are Paul Koop, capitalist; Baron von Lutto witz, a relative and intimate friend of the Kaiser; Dr. Otto Grunert and Fred erick Strltzel. A long list of Vancouver men killed and wounded reached here Sunday Your Future Success will undoubtedly be influenced by your bank ing connections. A good banking connection, steadily maintained, will mean prestige, credit, convenience, accommodation, sound advice and a hundred and one little helps .which a courteous organization can give you. Let us open an account for you. 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Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the colonies, was asked in the House of Commons today, "whether any means can be adopted to prevent this person and his American negro supporters from propagating their doctrines in the British protectorate." The Colonial Secretary said: "Steps now are being taken to meet the situation." Dealers Wanted Everywhere in the Pacific Northwest to handle our stand ard line of Player Pianos and Pianos, consisting of Sohmer, M. Schulz, Behning, E. II. Holt and many others. Prospective retail buyers who live in a locality where the above is not represented, write today for prices and terms, and buy direct of a wholesale con cern, thus saving $100 to $200. E. H. Holt Piano Co. 333 Morrison SL, Portland, Or. Children's 75c Shoes 49 Children's $1.00 Shoes 590 Children's $1.25 Shoes 790 Children's $1.75 Shoes 980 Friday and Saturday. WRIGHT'S Corner Fourth and Alder. 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