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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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