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3 THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX. WEDNESDAY. JULY 7, 1015. CAPTURE GERMAN TRENCHES i Sir John French Reports Sue : cess on Extreme Left of i . Line Near Ypres. ... 'SAP ALSO IS DESTROYED t Employment of Large Quantitj of '. Gas Shells Declared to Have Been Feature of Recent Artillery Duels. LONDON', July 6. Field Marshal Sir John French, commanding the British ' expeditionary force in France, today reported that his forces had captured 200 yards of German trenches on the extreme left. He also announced that 0 Germans were taken prisoner in the engagements. The text of the com munication follows: July 6 Since the last report there has been no change in the situation on our front. The fighting has been mainly confined to intermittent artil- lery duels, the feature of which has been the employment by the enemy of i a large quantity of gas shells, particu larly in the neighborhood of Ypres. During this period the enemy exploded eight mines at different points on our front without doing any damage. Sap Blown In by Holttr. "On the other hand, on June 30, we blew in SO yards of the enemy's front 'line, north of Keuve Chappelle. On 'the evening of July 4, north of Ypres, a German sap - was blown in by our ' Howitzer fire and a platoon of Infan try advanced to complete its destruc tion. -The few Germans who survived the artillery bombardment were driven out with the bayonet and a machine ' gun in the sap was found to- be de stroyed. Our casualties were insignifi cant and the platoon returned prac tically Intact to its own trenches, hav ing completely succeeded in its mis ' eion. A German wireless report of July 5, asserting that they repulsed an attack with sanguinary loss on the 1'ilkins road, presumably was intended to convey the enemy's version of this affair. 1 Germans Gain and Lone Barricades. "On the morning of July 5 the Ger mans rushed a barricade on the Ypres- . Roulers Hallway, after two hours' ar tillery bombardment, but a counter attack by our troops immediately re captured the position. "This morning on our extreme left north of Ypres we captured about 200 ' yards of the enemy's tarenches, taking 80 prisoners. The French on our left contributed to the success of this en terprise with the fire of their guns and trench mortars." R0SEBURG J3RY ACT VOID Court Holds City Has No Jurisdic tion in Prohibition Cases. ROSE BURG. Or, July 6. (Special.) Judle J. W. Hamilton decided today that the City of Roieburg had no juris diction in prohibition cases. The ques tion arose in the case of the city against Frank Henslee, which was ap- . pealed to Circuit Court. The decision said that local option and prohibition laws are state laws and 14a n not be en forced by cities without special author ity provided in the cities' charters. Henslee was sentenced in police court March 24 to serve 25 days in jail for : carrying liquor on the city streets not in an original package, under a city ordinance passed a short time before. HALL TURRETS YET STAND Continued From Ftrt Fare.) shells, mostly directed at the cathe dral with some of the missiles bound to hit the Cloth Hall. Restoration "ork which age required had Just been . finished on the Cloth Hall before the war began. The people paid for this in their civic pride and let other civic Improvements wait. For the Cloth Hall gave Ypres a civic distinction. It was the historical soul or Ypres. The old frescoes on its walls, told the city's early history. It meant to Ypres quite as much in its way as Westminster Abbey to London or Faneuil Hall to Boston. Every man or woman born in Ypres had been brought up to tell the time of day by the raised gilt figures of the old golden clock face. By February the people's sen.se of horror was exhausted. Destruction of things sacred to them had become rou- : tine. When they heard another explo- Fion and word was passed that the Germans had scored another hit. they went around to the Grande Place to see if the turrets and the gilt clock face were still unharmed. And they tald: "The Cloth Hall still can be re stored" these Etublorn Flemish who would not let shell fire drive them .away from their old town. City Smashed by Sections. - The next time the Associated Press correspondent went to Ypres there was not a single house left on the grande .place that tesembled a house any more than a rubber bag with the gas out of it resembles a balloon. In the second battle of Ypres, when the Germans had another try for the channel ports, the sensation of their attack with asphyxi ating eras overshadowed what they did with their guns. Heretofore their practice on Ypres had been compara tively teasing playfulness. This time they went at the job of destruction systematically ; jumping from one space on the checkerboard to another, they emnshed Ypres section by section. As they meant to take the town, this seemed poor policy, for they would find no roofs for shelter when they moved in. But their object was confusion for British reinforcements hurrying up along roads crowded with refugees, wholesale death for men in billets in town and destruction and delay lor supplies and munitions coming through the streets. This was excellent the ory which did not work out in prac tice. The British were not billeting troops to any extent in Ypres and you could count the number of ar.nv wag ons hit on the fingers of one hand. One shell in the British trenches accom plished more than 10 in Ypres. Trie main result was that the homes and offices and cafes of 18,000 people were destroyed. 17-Inch Shells lUie Houses. The 42-centimeter 17-in-h mortar) had its part in the work. When a 17- inch fehell struck a. house the remains of the building not distributed on the ""pavement were in an enlarged cellar. Dfebris in the streets rtill remains where It fell. There Is no purpose in cleaning It up in an uninhabited town. Paving stones are scattered about fiom the explosion of a 17-inch siell which struck in the center of the Grande T'lace and made a crater aboi't 15 feet across and 10 feet deep. This 2000 founds of steel and powder did not kill anybody so far as co-jld be learned. Jt would not take a pavingr sin? long to make repairs. .Another which ouid BRITISH have brought down a cathedral tower dus a still larger crater in tne soft earth of the cathedral groumia. Hig shells or little shells, they do nat count umess they hit. C'n the principle that ligntrlnjj neer strikes twic-i in the samu place, prob ably the safest cover it could find in cabe of another bombardment, of Ypres would be to sit in the bottj-n f ere of those crates. Another bombardment would seem a bootless as Hailing last year's straw or kicking a dead d -g. However, the Germans Keep on throw ing shells into the wreckage at inter vals, as if they could never be satis fied that they had proparly UntshcJ the job of chaos. Every standing wall was chipped with shrapnel. If there was a house which looked from the out side as if it were unhit, it woulJ be found that it had been eviscerated by a shell through the root Three Turrets ltnrliril. Yet only one of the figures of that golden clock face had been bent and three out of the four turrets hold their place untouched in relief against a genial afternoon sun of Juno abuva the desolation of that dead city. "Well, what do you think of Ypres as jl. place of residence?" asked an of ficer who rode by. "Pretty rotten." the v.'e.'tins corre spondent replied. , "1 know one that is rotter.nr. he re plied, wltn a suggestive nod back to ward the trench line beyond Yprts. "Were the turrets stil holding out?" The visitors could report that they were. To the German (runners they must be like the high apole on the tree RECENT PHOTOGRAPH FROM V 'ft - . ..." I t .. '.--. .. -"""" " 1 " ,.... ..-I ... . . f... - -.. .. I .... , GERMANS OPERATING A RAPID-FIRE: that will not come down for all the small boys' stone throwing. It muFt have cost about $200,000 in sheila to destroy Ypres by manufactured piece meal earthquake and it w:ll cost rev eral millions to restore it. Occasionally a father of a family ho had to leave the town during fa-; bom bardment is able to secure a cart and permission to return to ine salvage of the remains of his house. He liuds that nothing has been disturbed except by shell fire. Ypres is forbidden lands, where no one may go except on mili tary business. In a sense it is policed, too. in the same way as a rattlesnake's nest. The citizen who r-ot-s t- glean a mattress, a bureau and the family Bible from the debris of his roof takes time to see If the turrets and the cIk-1; face of the old Cloth Hall are still holding out. 6ERMANSTAKE U. S. SHIP STEAMER AND Oil. CARGO FOR SUEDES ARB HELD IP. Platoria, of Standard CmsaaTs Fleet Is Forced t Kaiser's Pert by Wr Vessel. BERLIN", via London. July . The American consular asrent at Swinen- munde. Prussia, reports that the American steamship Platuria. from New York with a cargo of petroleum consigned to a Swedish port, has been held up by a German warship and brought into Swinenmundc. NEW YORK. July 6. The steamship Platuria is one of the Standard Oil Company's trans-Atlantic fleet. She sailed from thl.s port laden with pe troleum June 3 for Karlshamn and Oscarhamn, Sweden, and was Inter cepted by British war vessels, taken into Kirkwall and held there for two weeks. She was released from Kirk wall July 1. A representative of the Standard Oil Company said that the company had received no word from the vessel since she left Kirkwall. It was the first time, the representative said, since the war began that one of their vessels had been held up by a German war ship. GERMANS TRIED IN ITALY Espionage Is Charged Against Of ficers of Detained Vessel. VENICE. Italy, via Paris. July 6. The trial before a military tribunal of captain Uebsicher and three members of the crew of the German steamship Lemnoa, under detention at Ancona since the beginning- of the European war, was opened here today. The charge is espionage. The police authorities say It Is gen erally believed that the accused men acted as spies in the interest of Ger many before Italy entered the war. It is alleged they sought information regarding Italian batteries and sub marines, but the chief charges are di rected against the captain and Machin ist Willy Hoppe. who are said to have signaled to the Austro-Hungarlan navai iquaoron wnen 11 attacked the port of Ancona. May 24. Both deny the charges and say they were not even aware that Italy had declared war on Austria-Hungary at the ttme of the bombardment. The case has aroused great interest In Ancona. During the shelling of that place, the Lemnos was sunk by the Austrian) warships, supposedly to pre vent the vessel being captured by the Italians. DARDANELLES MAZE OF DEATH TRAPS Allies Mowed as by Scythe in Landing, Says British Commander-in-Chief. MUNITIONS USED UP EARLY Glowing Tribute Paid and Much Credit Is Given Xavjr for Co-operation Turkk Defenses Called Inventions of Satan. IOKDOX, July . "Throughout the events I have chronicled the royal navy has been father and mother to the THE EASTERN WAR ZONE. Photo by Bain. Cl'X AAI.ST Ill JSIAXS. army. Not one of us but realizes how much he owes to Vice-Admiral Cts IJo beck; to the warship. .French and British: to the destroyers, mine sweep ers and picketboats. and to all their dauntless crews, who took no thoughts of themselves, but risked everything to give their soldier comrades a fair run-in at the enemy." Thus General Fir Ian Hamilton, com mander of the allied troops, at the rar daneiles. pays tribute to the navy at the end of his first full report describ ing the days of the larding on the Gal lipoli Peninsula, The commander-in-chiefs dispatch to the War Office Is of great length, but most of the events had already been chronicled In other official dis patches from him. Having reached the conclusion after witnessing the bat tle between the warships and the land fortresses that It would require the whole of his strength to enable the fleet effectively to force the Iarda nelles. General Hamilton prepared to fling all his troops rapidly ashor. Senior Officer Loss Is Heavy. General Hamilton admits "it was touch and, go." many time before the Invaders eetabllshed a footing. In sev eral instances half of the landing par ties were killed or wounded before they could reach even the alight shelter af forded by the etmly bank of the upper part of the beaches. A great major ity of the senior officers either were killed or wounded. The Turks had turned the landing places Into death traps. There were wire entanglements the whole length of the fhore, with a supplementary barbed-wire network concealed be neath the surface of the sea. I.and mines and sea mines were everywhere, and machine guns, tucked away in holes In the cliffs, were able to con verge their fire on the wire entangle ments. "So strong, in fact, were the de fenses." says the General, "that the Turks well may have considered them impregnable, and it is my firm convic tion that no finer feat of arms has ever been achieved by British soldiers, or any other soldiers, than the storm ing of these trenches from open boats from the morning of April 25. Men Mowed as If hy Key the. General Hamilton speaks of long lines of men being "mowed down as if by a scythe" while destroying wire en tanglements. He writes: "Again the heroic wire cutters came out. Through the glasses they could be seen quietly snipping away under the hellish fire aa if they were pruning a vineyard." Of the Australians he says: "Like lightning they leaped ashore and each man who did so went straight at the enemy with his bayonet. Ho vigorous was the onslaught that the Turks made no attempt to withstand it and fled from ridge to ridge, pur sued by the Australian Infantry." A shortage of ammunition nrvnt the allied from gaining the hoped-for "Had it been possible," -ys General Hamilton, "to push in rein force men t of men. artillery and munitions Krl thla should have fallen and much sub sequent fighting for Its capture would have been avoided." Machine l.in "Devil's Invest las." "Up to May 1." he continues, "the net result of the operations was the repulse of the Turks and the inflic tion on them of heavy losses. At first we had them fairly on the run. and had it not been for those inventions of the devil bachlne funs and barbed wire which suit the Turkish charac ter and tactics to perfection, we should not have stopped short of the crest of Achi Baba." General Hamilton pays high tribute to the Krench forces, who lost heavily. He reports the British louses during the period between April IS and May aa 177 officers and 190 men killed. . r-r- : 412 officers and 7107 men wounded. 13 officers and 3(50 men missing. COLUMBIA HIGHWAY OPE.N (Continued From First Fas-) Llghtnvr and Holman, Road Fupervlsor Yeon. H. U Pittock. 6am Hill. Judge C. H. Carey, Mayor Albee. John F. Car roll. Amos Benson, Julius 1a Meier. Lockwood Hebard and Mrs. Hebsrd. C. H. McKlnstry, Engineers Lancaster and Bowlby, Frank Terrace. J. L Kelly. J. C. Potter. R. C. Johnson. K. L. Morlarty. Captain T. H. Crang, Fred lanen. Herman Hawkins, J. B. Yeon. Br.. Mitchell Waymouth and Addison Bennett. The party occupied eight machines, which did not assemble in one group until shortly after 7 o'clock, when a stop was made at Crown Point, 23 miles rrora Portland, for breakfast. Hotel Above Rooster Rork- At that place there Is a hotel owned and managed by Mrs. M. E. Henderson, which she calls the Crown Point Chalet, which Is located at one of the most sightly places along the Columbia River, being about 750 feet above the water level and apparently directly over Rooster Rock. Mrs. Henderson Is called the "Mother or the Columbia Highway." While she is rather young for such a title, she apparently de serves it. for aha was the first person to erect and operate a hotel along the old road. Chantlcier Inn she called her place. Later she owned Falls Chalet, which was burned last Winter. Her house is altnated a few rods from the great three-quarter circle made by the highway as It winds from Its great eminence to lower ground near Latourelle. This point is one of the great sights of the highway, one for artists to rave over and travelers to marvel at. Our next stop was made at 10:40 o'clock at the summit of the Cascades, reaching a point never before traveled by an automobile. In the leading ma chine were the following: Governor Wlthycombe. Simon Benson. H. I Pit tock. Sam Hill. Commissioner LJght ner and J. B. Yeon. Ovensloa's Intnortaaee Felt. There was no ceremony attending this real opening of the highway be tween Eastern and Western Oregon, but as the party assembled on the great rock that may well be called the southern pier of the Bridge of Ood. no doubt every member of the party felt that it was an occasion of the greatest moment to the entire state, as Indeed it was. The next halt was at Eagle Creek, where a temporary wooden bridge is In use until the One stone bridge now be ing built Is completed. Then we cams to the line dividing the connties of Multnomah and Hood River, which la marked by a great hemlock tree. It should be noted that when we left Portland It was raining rather hard and we had a little too much mud In spots. Still, tho pleasure-seeker need not hesitate to take an automobile over the road in rather wet weather. Of course, when the hard-surfacing is completed the weather will make no difference. Several Gn at Work. Several gangs are at work on the Sandy road, over which we passed, and between one and two miles is already completed and the work will be rushed from now on. For some distance we found the road in Hood Itiver County about the same as that in Multnomah, but soon we had to take the old country road, which we found good, but with some stiff grades, which did not bother us, as the rain had ceased aa we passed the Cascade summit. We reached Cascade Locks to find the people of that charming little town out in force to welcome us. They looked upon our advent as' visual evidence that their day of dell veranee ,had come; that they were to be no longer shut ins, but hereafter were to belong to tho world at large. Here Mr. Brnon gave the party a patriotic aspect by purchasing the entire stock of Amer ican flags in town, with which he dec orated the machines and their passen gers. Lunch la ferved. We were then escorted by roslmss ter Adams to the residence of Mrs. Frank Walt, where a fine lunch was served, the following women assisting onr hostess: Mesdames Adams. Brolller, Madden and Swaneon. I know of old that there Is no better housewife or cleverer lady in Oregon than Mrs. Walt, and the lunch served us and the cour tesy shown us fully upheld her reputa tion. An we were about to leave Gov ernor Wlthycombe and Judge Carey were called upon to return our thanks and to felicitate the good people of Caxcade l.ocka upon the advent of travel Into their town. At the old station of Lindsay, on the O.-W. It. &. N-. which is now railed Sonnv. we came to the crucial point In the Hood Itiver division of the road, known as Mitchell Point. Here a tun nel 400 feet long is being bored, which will be completed by the first of next month. At the tunnel we were met by a large delegation from Hood River. Messrs. Hellbronner. Butler. Postmas ter Lucss. and in tact some 2S of the leading citizens of this fine little city, welcomed us. Most of our party walked around the tunnel with the Hood niver contingent, and the machlnea were taken over the point. It Is some climb, the grade in one place being 23 per cent. But ma chines not heavily laden ran make It all right. Then we came on here In a sort of procession, with horns tooting, rises waving, voices vibrant with wel come. Indeed. It waa rather an Im posing parade s we passed along the streets lined with people, for this 1? an epochal day for this city and valley. This Is the day of automobiles, and Hood Itiver is no longer shut off from her western friends and neighbors for the lack of a wsy to reach here by this new mesns of transportation. COLUMBIA HIGHWAY TOIR ON IS Autos Leave for Hood HWer on Trip Marking Iload's Opening. Fifteen automobiles poked their noses up the Columbia Itiver at 8:30 o'clock yesterday morning, and started on a Journey marking the formal opening of the Columbia Itiver Highway connect ing Portland with Hood River, and. In cidentallyconnecting Southern Califor nia with the Inland Empire. The party was headed by Roadmaster Yeon and S. Benson. At 7:30 A. M. the pioneers breakfasted at Crown Point, where, sitting in a big bay window of a new chalet, they could see a stretch of the Columbia River 70 miles from horizon to horizon. These were the first automobiles to cross the. Multnomah County line Just beyond lionnevllle, near the legendary Bridge of the Gods. This section of the road was completed only Monday. At the county line, however, it con nected with the Hood River road. In tbe afternoon the party was to tour Hood Itiver Valley, returning to that city at night for a mass meeting at which some of the highway enthu siasts were to speak. This morning they will proceed to The Dalles. They will cross the river, visit Maryhlll, where Samuel Hill's model road Is lo cated, and return to Portland on the north bank of the Columbia River, stopping en route at many of the sta tions on the Washington side. Woman Mayor May Lectnre. WARREN. 111.. July 3. Mayoress Canfleld is being urged by citizens of this vlllsge to go on the lecture plat form. She has about decided to do it and says she will speak on topics rela tive to cleaning up vice. Notwlthwtsnfltns hlser prlr. tho tTi1tJ Ktnrdnm liyiport4 larr quantities of lufir, las, coCci sad cocoa ll )car tbaa la Uli. MEXICAN FIELD IS STREWN WITH DEAD Sanguinary Battle Is Opened With Machine Gun Fire; Cavalry Charge Follows. CARRANZA'S MEN RETIRE Lo of 60 0 Dead and Twice aa Many Wounded Admitted, bat Assertion Made That Villa Suffered Kren More. LAREDO. Tex.. July . Additional reporta from yesterday's battle be tween Villa and Carranza forces near Villa Garcia, midway between Paredon and Xlonterey. In which 600 Carran troops were killed, say that fighting began at 6 o'clock in the morning and continued furiously until 2 in the afternoon. The battle opened with a terrific machine-gun fire on both sides. About noon Carranza commanders ordered a cavalry charge and hand-to-hand fighting continued two hours be fore the order for a retreat was sounded by Carranza chiefs. The bat tlefield was strewn with desd and wounded, but most of the latter were carried from the field to special trains and taken to Monterey. In Nuevo Laredo tonight Carranza authorities were reticent, but It was learned they admitted the loss of (00 dead and probably twice that number wounded. They assert, however, even more serious losses In desd and wound ed had been inflicted on Villa forces an that the Carranza retreat waa for strategic reasons pending tho arrival of reinforcements. Ten thousand Villa and 1000 Carran za troops are estimated to have been engaged. Many of the dead on both sides are said to have been camp fol lowers who have been advanced near the firing line. Unconfirmed reporta tonight were that another battle was being waged somewhere near Paredon. the Carranza forces having been reinforced by sev eral thousand men. LARSEH UNLOADS TODAY niSCII AHGIMi OF MYSTERIOUS AM. MI.MTIOX CAROO TO IlEGIX. Disappearance of Charterer Msapllfles Matters for Federal Officials at Hoajulass. HOQUAM. Vih. July . (5peclaU) Work of discharging 4000 rifles, with as many bells and bayonets and a mil l.on rounds of ammunition, the mys teroius cargo of tho schooner Annie I.aren. which arrived at Iloquiani lsst cek. will , begin tomorrow under the direction of Ieputy Customs Collector R. I- Kehsstian- The cargo will -e placed in a w arehouse here and will be held until the Government decides what dlspoaltoin It will make of it or until the case Is settled. The escape of Walter Page, or Oth mar. as his name Is believed by Gov ernment officials to be. simplified tbe question of the disposition of the cargo. The customs officers considered lent week the qurstlon of discharging It and storing It until the caae Is settled. 1. ui as the status of I'sge had net been letcrmlned at that time, and as he was the rhsrterer of tie I-ari"en and the nt for the owner of the cargo, ac tion could not be taken until his case bd been settled. As tbe Government offlclls shd found no specific charge against Page. Mr. Sebastian had determined to release hl-r. Monday. Since his escape early Monday morning no effort has been made to rapture him, and Mr. ebas tlsn ssvs that none is planned at this time. Now that he Is gone, nothing stands In the way of discharging the cirso. No word bss been received thus far frc-m tho owners of the I.arsn. Cap tain Paul II. Sclilntrr la having repairs made to the versel while she Is laid up h re Great northern Burlington FJorfhsm Pacifis Burlington Hlgh-Ctass Through Trains The Oriental -Limited Great Nwrebwa fUatbtg-tca Throogh train "da luxm" for Chicago cUyttkt ride .Jon side the majestic Mississippi, "Where Nature smile threw hundred miles" the water-grade route of smooth operation. Atlantic Express Nariliani P.ici c BnrtstMi Throask Chicago train via the Twia Cities, arririn Chicago at noon, for connection with all son-excess and limited trains to the East. Mississippi Valley Limited Northern Pacfflc Cawtaagtow Through train over direct Southeast main line via Billings, for Denver, Omaha. Kansas City, St. Louis through the heart of the Corn Belt a thousand-mile ride on a smoothly-handled train over the well-operated Burlington Route. The Southeast Express ' Grwat Northern eurliaartoa Through train over the BURLINGTON'S direct Southeast main line via Billings to Kansas City, Oenvtr. Omaha, Iowa. Nebraska and Missouri 'tis "travel education" to ride a thousand miles on the BURLINGTON. All Through Trains Elertrie-TJrfhUd, Bloclc-Prtcted Have your ticket read "BURLINGTON; utilise Its various matin lines in your travel plans. The Burlington maintains passenger service of ever 43 7HfSP9B MURALS' tSan IVancisco 191,5 - ZEROtEN'E OILS & CREASES cmxm GASOLINE The Exposition jury found Zerolene first in lubri cating efficiency; Red Crown, first in cirburering qualities, in punty and uniformitv. A victory for Standard products made from California crudes, in competition with other gasolines and automo bile oils! Standard Oil Company (California) WRECK PROBE IS BEGUN JOIT KST 1IKLD AT R AIM Eft. BIT BLAME IS OT Kll:l. flew ttevond Ac-rtsrat Was Barely Averted Is sewa Kazlartr Is Blamed by Plagssaa. OLTMPIA. Wash.. July (. Special.) At the Joint formal Investigation and inquest at llalnter today by the Inter state Commerce Commission. Wash ington Public Service Commission and Thurston County authorities of the Mil waukee wreck of last Saturday. In which three persons were killed and 10 injured, the blame for the accident was not nxed. Northern Pacific trainmen and em ployes of Porter Bros., Portland con tractors. Inflated that all proper pre cautions had been taken In shipping the steam crane, which worked loose and wrecked the Milwaukee trestle, causing the passenger train which cam later, at 60 miles an hour, to plunge earthmard. K. J. Campbell, foreman of the car department of the Milwaukee, said thst tbe crane hsd been fastened Improperly and should have been rejected by the Northern Pa cific. Frank Russell. Northern Paclne btakeinan who stood on top of tbe damaged trestle, attempting to flag Milwaukre trains In both directions, said t.'iat notwithstanding his failure to go back on the Milwaukee track. W. If. t"Lueky" Baldwin, the engineer of that train, who was killed, should have seen his flag a half mile assy. Other brskemen were all at the front end of the Northern Pacific freight trnln. which was not stopped Instantly aftrr wrecking the trestle. One point brought out was the narrow margin by whUn another wreck waa avertrd. tiolng toward the Milwaukee trains himself. Prakeman Itui-sell also gave a red Itag ti John Burke, watchman of porter Hroi. equipment, who had been riding In tbe caboose but a short time, sending him to guard the rear of the Northern Pacific train. Burke was barely In time to fag an approaching clrest Northern freight, five minutes behind Ihe Northern Peclf.c. PROPOSAL NOT APPROVED (CostlDoed Krom First ! chsrscter of such vessels, and an In spection Insuring their non-carrlsge of munitions of wsr. President Wilson hes before him t.e views o fseveral Cabinet officers, some of whom believe thst it Is essential to have Ambassador Oerard make clear to tho r,ririn l"rrlrn Off'es thst the TJirougn trains a day between the Great Cities of the Middle West. Let us tell you about them. n. W. FOSTER, General Agent. 100 Third St, Portland. Or. Telephones Main 868 A 1245. f-t-O L'nlted States can make no concession from Its position ss based on the ac cepted rules of international law and the naval prize cod is of civilised na tions. WJiether the President docs or docs not finally decide to have Ambassador tierard tell the Uermsn government in formally the views of the United States on Ihe rough draft submitted, it was clearly apparent today that Important chsnges would be necessary in Ger many's attitude before it could be rea sonably hoped that the formal reply would remove from the negotiations Ihe critical aspect thev hsve assumed. SIP A 1Q 11 " A 11- LL PARK AND WASHINGTON If Yon Only new what s Mine of Laughter was bound up in "Chimmie Fadden" our Victor Moore comedy offering today only you would not lose s single hour in getting here. It's One of the Decided Hits of Our Season. COMING THURSDAY, THE WOMAN ALWAYS PAYS Smoker of Turkish Trophies Cigarettes fifteen years rngv are smokers of Turkish Trophies Cigarettes today t Wirntua Cfrraa to oVBsn lw J