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2 THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAN. 3IOXDAT, JUNE 14, 1915. Italians overcome GREAT OBSTACLES Forts Are Thought Impregnable Battered Down on Historic Battlefields. OWN COUNTRY HELD SAFE .Routes for Austrian Invasion Are Declared Closed, but Populace " Is Warned That Task Is Se- Tere and Difficult, Too. ROME. June 12. via Taris, Juno 13. An official note which sums up the first offensive movement of the army fol lows: "In the Trentino zone our forces went resolutely forward, capturing at least In part the strategic points of an un favorable frontier such as were Im posed on us after the campaign of 1856. "Our mounted troops have occupied defiles and summits, the names of which recall exploits by the brave com batants in Trentino half a century ago. A powerful artillery crowns the sum mits ana plateaus from where more vatit operations can be carried out later. It is battering effectively forts of the enemy considered up to the pres ent time almost impregnable, and al ready has demolished some of them. "In the upper (Jadore, recollections of of Kortunato Calvi are evoked by the occupation of Cortina and other im portant points. Thus, not only are closed all routes for invasion of the enemy, but gradually there is being opened the way of an offensive action as soon as this is regarded opportune. '"In the Carnia zone our Alpine troops are solidly established on Im portant defiles, holding them against repeated counter-attacks by the enemy, lik the eastern Kriull zone, our ad vance forces are developing greater contact with the enemy, progressively overcoming obstacles not to be de spised." The note adds that from results ob tained, the excellence of the army must not give rise to optimistic errors of appreciation concerning the present war. which Is severe and difficult. Especially, tiie note says, it must not bo forgotten that tile ground of opera tions is mountainous and prepared by the enemy for defense for a long time and defended by numerous troops hardened by 10 months- fighting. In conclusion, the note declares that the army has decided to overcome at any prion all obstacles, resistance and difficulties. ITALIANS APPROACH GORZ Point l'orts Defending Strategic Are Bombarded. tTDlN'E. Italy, via Paris, June 18. Italian artillery bombarded the fortl fatious of Santa Martel, San Pietro, San Marco. San Lucia and the other posi tions defending Gorz. the capital of the crownland of Gorz and Gradisca, 22 miles northwest of Trieste and 10 miles east of the Italian frontier. Gorz is regarded as of great strategic im portance. The railway lines running north and south of the city have .been interrupt ed and the only communication re maining between Gorz and the rest of the Austrian empire is by a long and difficult mountain road along the Chiapovano Valley. Documents found on Austrian offi cers taken prisoners indicate that It was the plan of the Austrian general staff to prevent the Italians from crossing the Isonzo Kiver between Tol etiuo and Uorz. The capture of Plava by Italian troops, however, upset the Austrian plans for maintaining an in surmountable harrier in that part of the front through the occupation of the town of Gradisca. NEW WAE PHOTOGRAPH OF GREAT BRITAIN'S RULER. y rif a ' ' t I lx j"- . I K : 1 , 'it i f - - ' - - ' , -r. . i 1 X v - - ' X f 4 - - ? e s, - ' " I r r t - " j t 7 - -f - - " : x I 2; , , 4 -'-'v i V J . , ' f x ; - .-'-m - t i PRZEMYSL TORN TO pieces by eia GUNS Effect of Russian Artillery Pinpricks by Comparison With That of Foe PLACE USELESS AS FORT Importance of Recapture Chiefly Political Women Herding Cattle Fields Thick With Dead Give Pastoral Contrast. A 'Ctt .TMMraTi Inn KIT, GF.ORGR. Photo Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. leading Vienna newspaper, the Neue Frele Presse, against America for sup plying war munitions to . the entente powers. Additional Importance attaches to the article, which is published with the full sanction of the government, if it is not directly officially inspired, ft nee the entire contents of the Austrian newspapers are subjected to a triple fop-m of censorship before the forms are put on. the press. Declaring that Americans have sold a billion dollars' worth of munitions of war to the enemies of Austria and Germany, while the ministers of the American churches are praying for peace, the paper says: "Those who bring munitions cannot bring peace. The land where so many voices are demanding the breaking off of relations with Germany can hardly be a Bethlehem from which the world can gain a new salvation. "If America refuses to submit the Lusltania dispute to arbitration she em bitters relations with Germany and raises questions of might. She is pur suing a policy which threatens her neu trality. A munitions war is being waged by America; German soldiers are being killed or wounded by Amer ican ammunition." ORDNANCE EXPERTS QUIT GOVERNMENT LOSES TRAINED EM PLOYES TO PRIVATE -WORKS. NOTED WOMAN DEAD Career of Countess of Cardi gan Filled With Romance. COURT SCANDAL RECALLED IXKT IS TAKEN' RV STRATEGY Hundred Italian!-, Protending to Be Battalion, Overawe Austriuns. VKKONA, Italy, Via Paris, June 13. Tetails of the capture by Italians of Montezugna, situated approximately four miles northeast of Ala, reached here today from the battlefront. The position whs strongly fortified and surrounded by strong wire entan glements und three lines of trenches. A platform had been built on it for can non. The position comprised also two large barracks, which are reported to have cost SS00.000 and which pos sessed the most "modern equipment. An Italian renitinuisance platoon, oeint; that the fortifications were un dermanned, deployed in several de tachments, pretending to be a battalion instead of a contingent of fewer than 3 )0 men. The Austrian garrison sur rendered and the mountain was occu lied without a sincle Italian casualty. Montczug-na commands the town of Ro Verto and is within sight of Trente. BERLIN COMMENT VARIES (ContfrnH Kroin F!rst Pap;?.) ere not now disposed to believe tJia, but will await events." Note Not l!lun, as Expected. The Boersen Zeitung says: "Bryan's resignation has been inter preted as indicating that the note would be rather blunt, which, however. Is nowisj the case. The note shows, on the contrary, an outspoken tendency to reach an understanding with Germany on the issues involved. If. therefore. Iryan desires to be the representative of peaceful efforts In opposition to the jingoistic tendency of the American :o eminent, we really io not know on what ground he will base his asser tion." The Boersen Zeitung terms Mr. Bry an's proclamation to the people even harder to understand than is his resig nation. The Tageblatt suspects that practical political differences played a part in the resignation of the Secretary, saying: it may De sarely assumed that Bryan did not leave office In order to withdraw himself from political life." the Keichsboic, commenting on the American note, says: "Either the tone was subdued follow ing Bryan's sensational resignation or Bryan desired to take advantage of an opportunity to escape easily from a sit uation which no longer was pleasant." The Deutsche Rundschau says: "After seeing the note It must be said that Mr. Bryan either was hasty or else other reasons yet unknown decided his action. Higher Pay Offered by Holders of Con tracts With BelllKerenta and Remedy Is Belne Soaght 'WASHINGTON', June 13. Ordnance officials of the United States Artillery, It was learned today, are faced with a serious problem because of the num ber of highly-trained civil employes at Government arsenals who have gone to private arms and ammunition factories since the European war began. These men have received offers of extraordin ary advances in pay from holders of huge contracts with the belligerent governments and several commissioned officers experts in ordnance manu facture have also gone into private em ployment. The result has been to threaten serious embarrassment in keeping the American Army properly supplied. Officials of the Department, It was learned, have been looking over the law to see what can be done to retain its trained men. The officers, of course. can be held by not accepting tneir resignations. It Is also found that in 1S00. when complications with France threatened, a statute was enacted pro viding a fine of $50 and imprisonment for three months for any person seek ing to Induce an employe of a Govern ment arsenal to leave that employe- ment during, the life of his contract with the Government. The statute never has been repealed. but no attempt to invoke it has been made within tlie memory of any llv ing man. Army officials are said to feel that it may be necessary to bring It to bear to protect the Government's own supplies of arms and ammunition. BAGGAGE IS EXAMINED VISIT ASHORE AT PANAMA RE GARDED AS FOREIGN TRIP. Clitonu Officials Require Declaration From Passeng-era Returning; From Fair by Way of CanaL AUSTRIAN OPIXIOX IS HOSTILE Article Officially Sanctioned Com plains of Munition Exports. JURICH. via London. June 1J. Of ficial opinion in A ustrla, which lat terly has been none too friendly to the Vnited States. Is manifested In a ve hement attack which appears In the NEW YORK. June 13. (Special.) Passengers returning from the Panama Pacific Exposition at San Francisco late today on the steamship Finland, of the Panama-Pacific line, were taken by sur prise when customs officials demanded that they make out baggage declare tions as though they had come from a foreign port and prepare their baggage for examination. Customs officers, it was learned, are acting under a special order from the Treasury Department in ashmgton, under which all vessels coming through the Panama Canal which allows pas sengers to go ashore, even for a few hours, will be treated as vessels coming from a foreign port. In the case of the Finland, which la typical, passengers embarked at an American port (San Francisco), and they were allowed to go ashore at Balboa, in the Canal Zone, also an American port, for a few hours. The reason for the new regulation Is that these passengers were "exposed1 to a foreign country; that is. they bad time, if they hurrted, to go across the line and purchase dutiable articles in the Republic of Panama. To have their trunks exempt from examination, passengers through the Canal Zone must have them sealed in San Francisco. Husbands Included Soldier Who Led Charge at Balaklava and Dis raeli Was Among Suitors. Memoirs Sensation of Era". LONDON. May 20. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The Coun tess of Cardigan, whose death, at the age of 91 years, was announced here recently, had a remarkable career. She saw as a child much of the court life of King William IV., heard Tom Moore sing his own songs and knew the Mar quis of Hertford, the original of Thackery's Lord. Steyne. Her matri monial experience included the Karl of Jardigan, wno led the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava and, after his death, a Portugese nobleman. but she i-lso received proposals from the legitimist heir to the Spanish throne, whom she narrowly missed Harrying and from Disraeli, a warm suitor, Lord Sherborne, the Duke of Leeds. Pince Boltykoff and the Duke of St. Albans. Her name will go down in history as the author of a book of memoirs exposing all the scandals In high life during the Victorian era. It was not until the Countess of Cardigan was 85 years old and almost forgotten that she startled England with her chronicles of aristocratic scandal under the title of "My Re col lections,' in which she concealed noth ing to save her own reputation or others. Many heroic figures of his tory, - such as Disraeli, emerged from her book considerably shrunken. Young Woman's Views Advanced. The Countess's father was Spencer de Horsey, M. P., and her mother the daughter of the Earl of Btradbroke. From childhood, Adelaine de Horsey moved in the highest society In Eng land. The Duke or Wellington was one of her father's Intimates. The young woman s views were de cldedly advanced for her time, and be cause she was not allowed a latch key she left home and got a house of her own in London. It was at this time she met the Earl of Cardigan The Earl possessed brute courage and nothing else and failed of promotion to a generalship on this account. He had made an unhappy marriage with the divorced wire of a brother officer, from which he was released bv her death. Her Intimacy with Cardigan in his wife's lifetime offended Queen Victoria. The result was she was practically ostracized by her own class because or the royal snub. Queen's Displeasure Braved. WJth Iron courage she went to gar den parties, alls and functions in which she sat absolutely alone and ignored. Her husband's cousin. Lady Ailesbury. the social dictator of that time, came into ner power, however, because of her knowledge of a scandal ous chapter in that lady's past. When after being widowed she was married to the Count of Lancaster Portugal, she gave fresh offense to the Queen by taking the title of Coun tess of Cardigan and Lancaster, fo the Queen was in the habit of calling herself the countess or Lancaste when traveling incognito. Her gifts of mind and her beauty made the Countessise leader of aristo cratic Bohemia. She entertained large parties in the line old Tudor mansion left her by her first husband. Critics charge that the Countess wrote her recollections to revenge her self on those who refused to receive her. on BT KARL. H. VON WIEGAND. (Btaff Correspondent of ths Ke York World. Copyright, 1915, by the Press Pub lishing Company. Published by Arrangement with 4&6 Word. J PRZEMYSL, Friday. June 4. CBy courier to Berlin and from Berlin to London, via The Hague.) For the sec ond time within 10 weeks the once powerful fortress of Prremysl has fallen, brief news of which will reach the world long before this dispatch will get through the various . stages of couriers, telegraph and ' the cable. From Tarnow. where the Prussian Guard, under Prince Eitel' Frledrich, broke- through the Russian lines on May 2, to Jaroslaw, which was taken on May 14, Germans under Macken ben had covered 90 miles and had fought daily. Between Jaroslaw and Priemysl the retreating Russians fought from trench to trench, which were located every few hundred yards. Five miles from Przemysl we came upon scenes of the last two days of fighting, where the Bavarians and Si lesians stormed the works on the north side of the city. Along the road here and there dead Germans and Russians were jumbled up in rifle pits. Dead Russians Lie in Heaps. On a little rise to the left near Fort No. 11, where the Russians repeatedly counter-attacked, dead Russians lay in small heaps where they had been mowed down by machine guns and shrapnel. Russian prisoners were engaged In the work of -burial, carrying their dead comrades in blankets to graves. On the way toward Fort No. 10 the dead were scattered in single pairs and In three and fours on the green grass, some doubled up as if they had died In agony, some lying on their faces, others with blank eyes staring heavenward and their faces turned coal black by the torrid sun. Farther up the ridge a number or badly-wounded Russians were still ly ing on the field in the blazing sun, and it requires no imagination to conjure their sufferings. The Germans were removing the wounded as fast as pos sible. Cows Pastured on Battlefield. At the edge of a green field on both sides of the road where death's targets were lying, more than a score of bare footed women and children, each with one Or two cows on ropes, were pastur Ing the animals, lending a peaceful. pastoral touch to a scene where a few hours before battle raged. So peaceful was the scene before us that it was difficult to believe the bun dies of dirty looking clothes dotting the green were men, and that the moving figures, one at each end of a blanket. were dragging the head to holes in the ground. When, four hours later, I repassed the field the wounded were removed the dead burled and searching squads were picking up rifles and stacking them in pyramids, which dotted the fields like shocks of grain, all with Ger man characteristic economy and thor oughness, even to the picking up of every cartridge clip. Front Crashed by Artillery. Turning through a village on the right, we went up toward Fort No. 10 and met two wagonloads of wounded coming from the fort. Reaching the girdle of forts, which was adjoined by redoubts and trenches, we saw a repeti tion of the terrible effect of German and Austrian heavy artillery, as at Tar now. On the heights at Tarnow the German and Austrian artillery had sim ply crushed in the Russian front with the weight of metal and had turned the heights Into an Inferno that human nerve could not stand. Firing from a distance of nine miles the 42-centimeter guns, with incredible accuracy placed shell after shell that effaced trenches and threw up huge cra ters. The edges of these craters often overlapped, and many were used for graves. One contained 20 Russians. An officer told me that at Gorlice 600 Ger man and Austrian guns concentrated on the Russian- position and kept up a rapid fire for more than two hours. Slaughter Is Enormous. I have seen the effect of big guns In Belgium and in front of Rhelms and was present at artillery duels in the Argonne, In East' Prussia and on the Rawka, near Warsaw, but never saw anything like the wholesale slaughter from the fire of heavy guns at larnow and Przemysl. Against this the Rus sians were helpless, the effect of their own artillery on the German positions appearing like pinpricks in compari son. Forts 10 and 11 and the connect ing works received the concentrated fire from the big guns. Coming into Przemysl I passed two skoda 42's and two huge cannon, ap parently 20 or 26 feet long, of the coast defense type, mounted on trucks drawn by immense motor traction engines. One 42 shell struck the edge of the turret In Fort No. 10. The resultant explosion threw the huge armor plate top of the turret 60 feet away, wrecked the turret and shattered six feet of cement walls, which were then stormed by one company of Bavarians. Big shells tore huge gaps into the barbed wire entanglements. One shell landed back of the fort, its force tearing out two large trees by the roots. A 30 centimeter shell landed In the trenches of the second line defense back of Fort No. 10. amid a group of Russians. Twenty men were killed Instantly. In a redoubt to the left of Fort No. 10 I stumbled over several dead in a dark bombproof. Around Forts Nos. 11 and 10 the dead were lying in small groups. General Walts for Heavy Guns. General von Mackensen, the German coramander, waited for the arrival of the big artillery, which couldn't come up sooner because of a destroyed rail way. The big guns got In action on the 30th and the storming began on the 31st by a Bavarian divlsioin and one Silesian regiment against Forts Nos. 10 and 11. on the north. Simulta neously Emmich's corps and a cavalry division operated northeast against the Russians holding an open gap in the ring Coward Lemberg, an Austro-Hun-garian corps under Arz von Straussen berg protecting - the flank, while the Austro-Hungarian army formed a semi circle from the south. The Russians threw three regiments from Lemberg into the combat to keep the gap open. They assumed the of fensive against Emmich from the north and the Anstro-Hungarians from the south. The Russians attacked again and again, and their loss was the heav iest on two sides of the trap, where the dead were thick. On the night of June 1 the Russians, who. according to prisoners, had orders to hold Przemysl as long as possible, withdrew the larger portion of their forces, estimated around 40,000. At noon on the 2d Fort No. .10. the last of the forts on the north side, was stormed and taken. The same evening the Rus sians from the second lice attempted to recapture the position, -but were thrown back by the Germans, who fol lowed with a counter attack, taking the positions, -together with 2000 pris oners. By 3 in the morning all posi tions on the north side were in German hands. The Russians withdrew from their positions on the south side, the Germans and Austro-Hungarlans enter ing the city itself about the same time. Capture Important Politically. While no official figures have been. given out here, I am told by an officer in a position to know that approxi mately 7000 prisoners were taken. I saw probably 2000. all splendidly equipped, well nourished men. whose appearance gave -not the slightest in dication of suffering or lack of food. The majority were of excellent physique. Even the German officers commented on the good appearance of tne prisoners. Speaking of the German losses 'at Przemysl. an officer said to me, "Uhey I are small compared with the results I achieved." , With the forts practically 'demol-1 Ished the military value of Przemysl comparatively small, but the re capture is of the utmost importance politically and to the spirits of the Austro-Hungarian people. The city tnself Is undamaged and looks peace ful, with the children swimming in the river and the women in fine clothes. The Austrians probably will take over the civil administration of the city tomorrow. BOY FREED, STEALS, JAILED Lad Released at Albany Slakes Rob beries In Six Honrs. ALBANY. Or, June 13. (Special.) Released about noon yesterday' from two charges of theft, Clarence Bever- Idge. a 16-year-old boy from Cliffs. Wash., was back in jail six hours later on a charge of having robbed three houses in the Interim and attempted the robbery of a fourth. The boy ap pears to be a kleptomaniac. He had just been released from the Oregon In dustrial School and had been paroled to his father. After his release the boy is said to have entered the residence of Robert L. Burkhart just east of town, but was seen by Mrs. Burkhart and ran. He is accused then of breaking into a Greek section-house. Officers were notified, but while they were surrounding the house he darted out in his stocking feet and outran them. Before he was cap tured complaints were made that he had entered two farmhouses near Albany. DO NOT MISS Mary Pickf ret In the Best of All Screen Successes The Dawn of a Tomorrow AT THE PEOPLES THEATER TO DAY- EXTRAORDINARY ANNOUNCEMENT MARIE DORO, in the Greatest of All Photoplays The Morals of Marcus ADDED ATTRACTION Jefferson High School Track Meet bsES SWEDEN WATCHES SHIPS STROSG PRECACTIOSS TAKEN TO CHECK CONTRABAND TRADE, CROPS IN AUSTRIA SUFFER Heat Causes Anxiety in Military j and Agrlcnltnral Circles. ZURICH, Switzerland, via London, June 13. The Intense heat prevailing In Austria-Hungary, added to the drought suffered since the end of April, is occasioning much anxiety in military and agricultural departments of the dual monarchy regarding har vest prospects. The fear Is expressed that, unless rain comes soon, the grain crops will suffer considerably. Serious riots, necessitating the inter vention of the police, have occurred in the Budapest markets, according to re ports from that city. The public, angered by the prices demanded, at tacked butchers and provision shops, it is said, and beat the dealers and trampled their stocks under foot. The price of flour and meat in Hun gary are higher than id Vienna and Berlin. Beef has quadrupled In price and costs 80 cents a pound. Veal and pork are equally dear. Attempts to Carry Cargoes for Purpose of Having Taem "Seized" by Ger mans Are Prostrated. STOCKHOLM, May 21. There has been much discussion about the smug gling of contraband from Sweden to Germany, though It is well known that the customs officials have been alert to prevent it. The suspicions were justi fied apparently in the case of the steamer Solve, which left Stockholm in January loaded with plaids, copper, rubber tires and a miscellaneous cargo of other articles. She was bound for Korrkoping, where additional cargo was to be put aboard. Then it was in tended to have her go to Malmo and off the coast, where It would be outside Swedish waters, have the ship seized by Germans. The authorities took the ship in Korrkoping harbor. In February there was another at tempt. Three big steamers loaded with maize came into Landscrona harbor, the bills of lading signed to order. A Ger man presented himself as the owner and ordered the ships on the same day to go to Korrkoping, around Falsterbo. evidently with the Intention of being taken by Germans. The government de clared that the ships must unload in Landscrona. In the first week of April there was another striking case, when the steam er England, belonging to the recent Swedish Minister of Marine, was cap tured on Falsterbo and brought to Stettin, where much of the cargo was unloaded as belonging- to a German. It WILSON'S DESIRES IGNORED (Continued From First Pass.) it embarrassing for Germany to meet the American position in a way satis factory to her own public opinion as well as the United States. The Important things which officials thought they gleaned from the press comment ana other utterances was the fact that the German government was no more desirous of adding the United States to its list of enemies than the United States was of participating in the European conflict. With a growing understanding In Germany that the United States is anx ious for peace but will Insist on her rights, and the conviction here that the German government will not miscon strue the American demands into any effort to interfere with the operations of submarine warfare, if these can be made to conform to the accepted rules of international law as they affect neu trals, the chances for a peaceful out' come of the present difficulty were be lieved in well-informed quarters to be improving daily. Signs of Abatement Noted. An abatement of submarine warfare on passenger ships would contribute materially toward a peaceful settl ment, and some officials professed to see already signs of restriction of the activity of the German submarines to craft of such size as to make it readily possible to save the crew a The fact that the German press is divided as to the policy that ought to be pursued Is regarded hopefully here. It is pointed out in diplomatic quar ters friendly, to the Germanic cause that with the arrival in Berlin of An ton Meyer-Gerhard, personal messen ger of Count von Bernstorff, the Ger man Ambassador, a full statement of the state of American public opinion and suggestions for a compromise will bring about a better feeling in all quarters in Berlin. Sunburn, Tan and Freckles Prevented by timely nse of Santiseptle. Instantly rliTes Bunburn. Cools, sootbes and beals skin. SOc. All druggists. Take it oa your outioca. was another cargo of maize and came from America, being under the author ization or the Swedish government for use In Sweden. During the journey one of the interested firms sold its part of the cargo to a Stockholm firm, which in turn sold It to the German govern ment. As a result of such attempts the Swedish authorities now demand that every vessel bound for the east coast shall call at Malmo for Inspection. It may be that some tons of copper may have been smuggled across the frontier, but there has not been any systematic trade in contraband. COSSACKS CHARGE WORKS Russians Gallop to Trenches, Dis mount and Rout Turks. PETROG RAD, via London, June 13. Official reports received here from Russian headquarters in the Caucasus say that the Russians are pressing the Turks back in the direction of Oltl and are occupying the Turkish positions. A heavy counter attack made by the Turks at Zinatchor was repulsed. The dispatches say that in a success ful engagement in the Valley of the Ol tichai 200 Cossacks charged on horse back to the trenches, where they dis mounted and put the Turks to the sword. TRACTiON MEN ON STRIKE (Continued From First Page.) moned for duty. Special efforts will be made to prevent wrecking of elevated trains and all surface cars will b manned by detectives or patrolmen. 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