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TIIE MORXISO OREGOXIAX. FRIDAY. JULY 23, 1915. r TEUTON ARMIES AS MAP SHOWING COURSE OF GERMAN MOVEMENT ON WARSAW, j j vsicsitioiniists J IN POLAND BY OWN ARTILLERY take a Talking Machine and latest records to the country with you from Eilers Music House. Offensive Now Entering De structive Stage, With Stra V tegic Cities as Prizes. Losses Suffered by All Armies Through Errors Known to Have Been Heavy. BATTLE FRONT SHORTENS REMEDY IS NOT FOUND 0 DOWN lAfll MUWbU MACHINE I 4 S t t v. A list ro-German Advance Eiccu ted Under Unfavorable Conditions, i Russians Lack Munitions, Of ficers and Heavy Gnus. AUSTRO-HTJNGARIAN HEADQUAR TERS. July 21, via London, July 22. The offensive of the allied armlei In Poland is proceeding' with machine like regularity, and now has entered the destructive stage of the struggle in South Poland, namely a battle for the possession of the important rail road line connecting Chelm, Lublin and Ivangorod and other strategically im portant cities. The Russians, although clinging des perately to every undulation of the water course in the broken, sandy country, have been driven from one advanced position after another and forced to fall back on their last and main line of defense south of the railroad. The long battle line has been shortened considerably owing to the northward movement of the armies, and the Russians thereby have been enabled to concentrate in heavier force. But the same factor frees consider able masses of the allied troops to be used for a concentrated attack against the new line. The advance had been executed un der highly unfavorable conditions. The allies have had to force their way through a wide belt of sandy country, interrupted with frequent swamps. The Russians could entrench in this coun try with lightning rapidity, while the Austro - German artijlery could be moved through the deep sand only when double spanned and with the gunners putting their shoulders to the wheels. Also marching and the obser vations for the artillery were ham pered by wet weather and fog. Munition and Officers Lacking. The opposing Russian troops are of the first quality. They are handi capped, however, by a lack of artillery and ammunition, and particularly from a shortage of officers, the battalions Bometimes being commanded by a sin gle commissioned officer. The advance is proceeding in three columns. The objective of the easterly column is the Russian barrier south and southwest of Chelm. An Austro German army is almost in touch with It. The Austrian Archduke, Joseph Fer dinand's army, operating against Lu lin and over which the Russians re cently attempted to claim a victory . near Krasnik, has passed already the furthermost line reached by the Aus trian General Dankl's army last Aug ust, and is steadily pushing back the Russians. Before - Ivangorod the Russians are fighting furiously in positions barely 10 miles southwest of the fortress, ap - parently attempting only to cover the - retreat on Ivangorod. This position : -already has been broken at one point, ' and its abandonment is imminent. Ivangorod from this side is strong, and an attack against it difficult, but it is less defensible from' the east, and the Archduke's advance from that re glon is its main danger. - Bukoniu Fight Desperate. :. Comparative quiet prevails along the Bug River. The Austrians, by forcing a passage of the river at Sokal and ' to the northward, have secured a flank , against any attempt at envelopment. Desperate fighting, although on a ' smaller scale, is in progress on the Bukowina frontier, the Russians mak ing vigorous attempts to break the "northeastern front. An attack the - night of the 20th northeast of Czerno witz, delivered under cover of dark ness and in a heavy rain, lasted five hours before the Russians were re pulsed with heavy casualties. The can nonading in this battle was plainly heard at Czernowitz. lVAXGOROI) FORTRESS TAKES AVindau Is Burned by Russians Be fore Retreat. BERLIN, via London, July 22. The "War Office today announced that the Austro-Gcrman forces which are driv .-ing at Warsaw from the south had compelled the Russians to retreat into ythe fortress of Ivangorod, about 56 """ miles southeast of the Polish capital. The fortress is now closely Invested. J Before evacuating "Windau, the Rus- 1 sians applied the torch to the city and X the harbor works, according to ad- vices received at Libau. The greater sr part of the city is said to have been n destroyed. The Russian troops also are . reported to have fired villages and farmhouses in other parts of Courland in accordance with the provisions of a recently published army order. t BECKER SEEKS WITNESSES Friends Xot Wholly Discouraged by Words of Governor. NEW YORK. July 22. The lawyers f Charles Becker, the ex-police lieu, tenant, who is sentenced to die next Wednesday for instigating the murder t Herman Rosenthal. the Rambler. while disappointed at Governor Whit man's announcement that Becker's recent appeal to him has nothing new in it that would cause him to change his judgment, are not discouraged. . They held lengthy conferences today attempting to obtain corroborative witnesses to Becker's statement regarding the 16000 fund said to have been collected by one of the chief r witnesses against Becker for the pur 1 pose of inducing Rosenthal to leave the city. This money, it, is said, was collected from East Side and Harlem eamblers. and it is believed that if - some or these men come forward and , substantiate Becker's statement in this regard an important point will have been gained. 'Tc' A curious means of communication la the ; -arum lanaruag-e- or a trio, in tiva Congo. ThM people by this mum converge with each otner at considerable aistancea The curve of the battle line from the Baltic provinces to the Rou manian border, as shown in the above map, indicates' the co-ordinate movements of all the Teutonic armies in the general direction of Warsaw. While the Germans due west of the Polish capital still hold their lines along the Bzura and Rawka rivers, in which they have been In trenched for months, the forces in the north are evidently working their way southward, as well as westward. In the southern theater this movement is still more plainly seen. The lines of the opposing armies follow a general northwesterly trend from the region of Czernowitz along the Gnila Llpa and the Bug to a point within Russian Poland. In the sector between the Bug and the Vistula the front swerves so that the invaders' Impetus is carrying them northward. The direction of the advance, indicated in the map by arrows, shows that a consummation of the Austro-German strategic plan would isolate Warsaw as well as clear the southeastern corner of Gallcla of the Russians. WAR STUFF AMPLE German Crops Assure Suffi cient Food for Nation. METAL SUPPLY IS LARGE Country Has Enough Material to Continue Hostilities for Years. Russian Machine Gun Loss Is Placed at 15,000. pfri.iv .Tiilv 22. (By wireless to Sayvllle, N. Y.) The Overseas News Agency today gave out me ""'""'"s- -rfri.l Investigations nave c- tikii.hi fhf, fact that Germany is amply provided with all raw material necessary to continue mo w "r ir lang time to come. Good crops are furnishing sufficient quantities of breadstufls, vegetables and potatoes, even permitting a considerable Increase in. cattle and swine, the number of which has been"-artlflcially decreased to guard against a scarcity of potatoes and fodder. The production of meat is thus increased. There are plenty of vegetable substances to produce all necessary oils and tats. Reserves of Metal Large. nr crreater importance is the cer tainty that Germany is producing enough lead to satisfy all demands. Besides the large reserve stores, mere are immense quantities of lead pipes, which are easily replaceable with iron. "The stores of copper are large enough to manufacture all shells and sharpnel far beyond he probable dura tion of the war. Even if the predic tion of Germany's enemies that the war will be of long duration should prove true, the copper now in private use could be replaced easily with other materials. Statistics show that the amount of copper used In roofs, house hold utensils, pots, plates and boilers Is -more than 200.000,000 tons, wnicn is sufficient to continue the war for many years. ' Russians Lose many bnu. "According to a newspaper dispatch from Russian headquarters which was passed by the censor, the Russian armies have lost 15,000 machine guns, the greater part, captured by the Ger mans and Austrians and trie otners ruined by the technical incapacity of the men. "The Russian, government has pro hibited the mailing of official casualty lists of officers to foreign countries." TAXES TO BE EXTENDED ASftllTH AGREES BRITAIN HAS NOT GONE FAR ENOUGH. Increased Levy on Imports Considered, and Premier Says Exports Most Be on Increased Scale. LONDON. July 22. In the present ex ceptional circumstances the question of further taxation on imports needs serious consideration and the govern ment and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer will give the matter early at tention, said Premier Asquith today to a deputation of bankers and mer chants. The premier fully concurred in a suggested wider application of the in come tax. and in tentative form in dorsed the idea of broadening the basis of direct taxation. Premier Asquith said he was 'in full agreement with the deputation that the country had not gone far enough In t providing additional resources for tax ation for carrying on the war. He for a long while had been of the opinion that the - present income tax was ar bitrary, and that it ought to begin at a lower scale. As to indirect taxation, it was obvi ous that if credit were to be main tained and the pecuniary resources needed for the effective conduct of the was procured, consumption of imports must be diminished and export trade maintained on an increased scale, he said. The question would be dealt with as a whole and not by piecemeal In the budget, the Premier added. SHOW SHOCKS DR. AKED Indignant Pastor Protests to Mayor That He Has Seen Too Much. SAX FRANCISCO, July 22. (Spe cial.) Rev. Charles P. Aked. former pastor of Rockefeller's church in New York, was so shocked at a "leg show' trimmed with rough dialogue at a San Francisco playhouse that he left the place in disgust last night. He later expressed his indignation to the Mayor and the Police Commissioners for per mitting the show. "To what state of soul must people get into," said Dr. Aked. "to find pleasure in such filth. The horror of it lies in the fact that boys And pleasure in it. "Think of the state of soul into which they have fallen when this seemi to them 'seeing life." They suppose that this is what it means to be 'a good sport. " . DEAF MUTES NOT BEGGARS State Laws to Punish Frauds Urged at Convention of Shut-In Ones. SAN FRANCISCO. July 22. State laws to penalize street beggars who impersonate deaf mutes to trade on public sympathy were recommended to day by James F. Meagher, editor of a mutes paper of Vancouver. Wash- in an address before the convention of the National Association of the Deaf. "Those of us who are deaf and dumb never beg," he said. "Reak deaf mutes are not idlers. They work." The address was in the finger lan guage. Mr. Meagher said such laws as he recommended were already in force in seven states. HEIR TO $15,000,000 DIES Entire Arbnckle Estate of S3 0.0 0O,- 0 0 Ultimately Goes to Another. NEW YORK, July 22. Charles Jameson, one of the two ultimate heirs to the $30,000,000 estate of the late John Arbuckle, died today in Roosevelt Hospital after undergoing two opera tions for intestinal disease. Mr. Jame son was 45 years old. The entire estate will now go to William A. Jameson, in case he sur vives his mother and his aunt. Senator Chamberlain at Burns. BURNS. Or.. July 22. (Special.) United States Senator George E. Cham berlain arrived here at noon today. After a meeting with citizens at the Ponowamma Hall tonight Senator Chamberlain will leave for Baker. $75,00 0 Left by Late Archbishop. CHICAGO, July 22. The will of Arch bishop (Julgley. of Chicago, who died at Rochester. N. Y., July 10. disposed of personal property and real estate val ued at $75,000 and was filed for pro bate here today. Most of the estate was left to the immediate relatives. Statisticians Study In Vain Effort to Obviate Needless Losw TnJ- forms Xot Distinctive and Firing Range Is Long. BOULOGNE, France, July 4. (Cor respondence of the Associated Press.) There is no doubt that the losses suf fered by the attacking armies from the shell fire of their own artillery have been severe in the present war. Naturally, few references to such losses are found In the official dis patches, but men returning from the firing line frequently give accounts of such accidents, a noteworthy Instance, as is well known, being at Neuve Chapelle. where in one . attack the casualties from this source are said to have reached many hundreds. Lxperlenced military observers de Clare that such losses must, in the nature of things, be frequent in mod ern warfare. In the old days, when the uniforms were distinctive and the range of guns was far less than that of ordinary eyesight, there was not so much likelihood of the gunners re maining ignorant of the exact where abouts of their own troops. Yet in the wars of Napoleon there were many such mistakes. Attacks Made by Schedule. In modern warfare, however, uni forms are seldom distinctive except at close sight, and attacking troops try by every means to make themselves in visible. When an attack is launched. gunfire is concentrated on the point decided upon and is continued up to an agreed hour, when the infantry charges into the gap made by the artillery. Thereupon the range of the guns is lengthened to strike at the enemy's second line. From the moment the attacking force reaches the enemy's first trenches the difficulty of accurately placing the gunfire increases. especially with smoke and dust hiding the progress of operations even from the aeroplane observers. The gunner should be able to keep partially acquainted with the ituation through his telephone, but almost invariably many of the impor tant wire connections are cut off by the enemy's shell fire. Complete Remedy Never Found. If the attackers gain an easy vic tory in the first line trenches, they are likely to rush into the second line while their own artillery is still play ing on these positions. In one terrible instance on the German front, the at tackers found themselves pressed against the German barb-wire en tanglements at a point which the pre liminary artillery failed to clear away, and the troops in front of these en tanglements were mowed down as they struggled to break through the barrier. Every device known to the textbook has been tried in efforts to obviate the danger of guns pouring shrapnel or shell on their own men, but wlthcut any complete success. The losses of the Austrians are said, in the French press, to have been the heaviest from this cause of any of the belligerents. AIR TERROR INVENTED AMERICAN ADMIRAL PERFECTS FLYING TORPEDO-BOAT. Device Will Make Passible Attacks oi Enemy Kleet Even Wlthla Limits of Laad-LMked Harbors. WASHINGTON. July 22. Plans for an aerial torpedo-boat capable of launching; a monster Whitehead tor pedo were shown tj be on the way to completion by Admiral Flake. T. S. N., now attached to the naval war college, when a patent on the principle in volved was Issued by the patent office today. A ' monster aeroplane. especially equipped, is designed. The aircraft can fly far above gun ranee, and, set tling: down to a point within a few feet of the water, will launch its 2000 pound missile from a distance up to five miles from the object of attack. Aeroplanes sufficiently large for this work already have been perfected. It is said to be possible that a type of radio-controlled torpedo might be em ployed, one aeroplane carrying the tor pedo and another the wireless machin ery to control the missle'a flight through the water. It 4s pointed out that Admiral Fiske secured patents on such a methoc of control in 1900, when he was a Lieutenant-Commander in the Navy. "My invention, says the application filed by L,leutenant-Commnder Fi.ke before the battle of Manila was fought. "is especially applicable to automobile torpedoes and makes it possible to con trol the movements of a torpedo from ashore, the deck of a ship or the like." ORDUtJA SAILS WITH 135 SEVEN AMERICANS MAKE VOYAGE ON RETURNING CUNARDER- raasensers Shonr Ne Fear That Vessel Will Be Attacked oa Way Eaaland hy Snbmarlae. NEW YORK. July 22. With 195 pas sengers on board. Including seven Americans, and with 10.000 tons of general cargo, the Orduna. of the Cu nard line, sailed today for Liverpool. There was no attempt to prevent friends of departing passengers from going on board before the steamship departed. All baggage was examined and the band baggage brought by the passengers underwent a close exam lnation before it was brought on board. There were no Americans In the first cabin; but In the second cabin were Mr. and Mrs. George Dean, of Wor cester. Mass.. who are on their way to visit relatives In England, and Hilda D. Hogr. a young woman of Lawrence, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Hart ley, a young English couple, also from Lawrence. Mass.. had their lo-montns old -baby girl, who was born in this country. The other Americans, three women and a man, were in the steerage. None of the passengers showed any fear that the Orduna would again be attacked by a German submarine. A ' HERE ARE SOME USED ONES: Several, regular price $23.00, re duced to $18.60 Reduced price includes one dozen of the best records (24 selections). One, regular price $105.00, with $20 cabinet, reduced to $73.50 Reduced price includes S6 selections of best records. An elegant, regular price $200.00 machine, reduced to $124.75 Reduced price will include 75 selections of records. Also quite a number of others, some old style ones, but good, for $8, $10 and $12, records included. 2d Floor Eilers Bldg. Broadway at Alder Portland, Or. AID OFFERED HUERTA Letters t From President Are Guatemalan Published. OFFICIAL PLEDGE GIVEN Suggestion Made That German Offi cers Be Named mn Instructors, as Effective Means of Es tablishing Arniy. GALVESTON. Tex, July 22. Support from President Manuel Estrada Cabrera, of Guatemala, for the plana of General Victoriano Huerta and associates for re-establishing control of affairs in Mexico, was pledged as early as last February, according to LA os ae ia Revolucion, a newspaper of MerWa. Mexico, copies of which were received today. This publication prints what mirnorts to be letters from President Cabrera to General Huerta. In one of these letters President Cabrera is quot ed as saying: "It does not appear dlrricult to me to conciliate the revolutionary elements so worthily personified In you. as ruler and In -my private capactty. you mav count on my aid In any possible way to trannuillise Mexico. I am aure you will meet o opposition In Chiapas or Tabasco In carrying out this great business." Grm Instructors Suaa-eatc4. Another Cabrera letter, addressed to Jorge Vera Estanol at Los Angeles, after outlining offers of assistance similar to the foregoing, says: "Permit me to suggest that a num ber of German officers be named aa instructors, as I have them here, and which, in my case, were effective In establishing the nucleus of an army." The paper also publishes a letter from General Huerta dated New lorn. April 12, and addressed to Estanol, and says: "While I was in Europe l was m active correspondence with the Presi dent of Guatemala, who seems disposed to aid our cause." Posscaalon of Letter Vaexalalacd. The Merlda newspaper gives no ex planation of how it came into posses sion of the correspondence. LOS ANGELES. July 22. Jorge Vera F-stanol. secretary of the interior while Victoriano Huerta was president of Mexico, denied today that he had ever received from President Cabrera, of Guatemala, or anyone else letters sug gesting interference with Mexican ar fairs or the employment of German officers as Instructors of an army for Huerta. "I left Mexico to get away from revo lution and politics." said Eatanol. "and I am here practicing law." FOREIGN RELATIONS CUT (Continued Krom First Pa. chants suffered heavy losses, was re ported to the State Department to night. Quiet waa restored and order enforced, the report said, the follow ing day after Carranxa's army under General Calles had occupied the town. The reports that the Carranxa gov ernment would cut off communication with nations which had no diplomatic agents accredited to him at Vera Crux created Interest and surprise In offi cial and diplomatic circles, particu larly in view of the general under standing that foreign governments were awaiting action by the United States toward Mexico before recognis ing any government in the republic It waa announced recently that Great Britain definitely had determined to extend no recognition until a govern ment had been recognized by the United States. Military Sltaatloa t'BCertala. In official quarters the opinion pre vails that the military situation In Mexico just at this time is too uncer tain for any new step en the part of the United States, and the outcome of the approaching conflicts between Car ranza and Villa forces in Central Mex ico La being awaited wltn considerable Interest. Charles A. 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State Department dispatches from Vera Crux say Carranza authorities there predict they will reoccupy Mexico City within a week. R4 Crooa Maaaaer to See WIIbob. Chaotic conditions in Mexico which led Red Croas officials to abandon their campaign for the relief of non-combatants will be pictured to President Wilson tomorrow by Brigadier-General DevoU general manager of the Red Cross: Ernest Bicknell. National di rector, and Miss Mabel Boardman. member of the central committee. General Devol who went to Mexico to direct the relief work, will report to the President the condition he found, and his Inability to secure any kind of agreement between the various leaders to facilitate the task of feeding the starving Mexicans. Technically the subject will be taken up tomorrow with Mr. Wilson in hia capacity as president of the Red Cross. All Information given, however, will be utilised by him In his study of the Mexican question as President of the United States. He will be told that conditiona are even worse than they were when he Issued his last warning to the military factions that they must compose their differences. TWO MORE MEN ARE KILLED (Contlnufd im Klrt Pt l the situation w-as beyond hia control, he telephoned for troops and to Wash ington for mediators. Later In the day guards within the Tidewater worka fired on a crowd of 150 peraons out aide the worka and the latter replied with revolvers. No Injuries were re ported. Fighting began early tonight In a crowd near the plants and a man sus pected of being a guard rescued, by flee motorcycle police. Examina tions at a hospital ehowed the man's condition to be serious. There waa an outbreak of fires around the plants today. These men aced the large oil tanks, but were eas ily extinguished. Several Tkonaaa Made Idle. Sheriff Kinkead tonight swore in 30 additional deputies to guard the Stand ard and Tidewater plants. Although the actual number of men on strike is not believed to be more than 1500, it waa said there were be tween 6000 and "000 employes of the oil company temporarily out of work. The Tidewater Company issued a state ment in which It was said there was no strike in Us plant, but that the men had been laid oTf until they could have protection li entering and leaving the worka Superintendent Hennessey, of the Standard plant. Issued the following statement: "No strikebreakers have been Im ported and none will bee. Constable Hook (Standard) plant has been shut down. It is our belief that shutting down the plant will have a quieting effect on the men. Favorable Reeommeadatloa Promised. "As to the demands which were made for a 15 per cent increaese, I advised the men to return to work. I said If they did I would make favorable recommendations to my superiors, and that I felt sure such recommendations would be favorably enteretained." The strikers, at a meeting today, heard their committee reeport that it had beene unable to meet the officials of the Standard Oil plant- They de cided to continue on strike. Efforts by members of the "irtustrlal Workers of the World to address the strikers today were unsuccessful. Frank Tannenbaum. an I. W. W. leader, waa howled down by one crowd. MEXICAN LOOTERS SHOT Carranza General Confirms Reports of 50 or 0 Executions. DOUGLAS. Aria. July 22. General P. Ellas Calles, Carranza commander in Soivori, confirmed today previous re ports that his soldiers had executed between 50 and SO Villa troops caught looting stores and residences at Cananea. Calles also reported that his advance guard was within IS miles of Nogales. where Governor Maytorena has con centrated all available Villa forces. MAIL TODAY KAISER TOLD FOOD UNFIT CAPTIVE KRKNCII MCRCEAM" EX PRESSES SELF TO COMll KROR. Emperor A 111 lam Conpllnarata I'rU- oaer'a Rrgliurat, aad I a Dorr Kore- rait of Rrlrka for Dirt. PARIS. July 22. Albert Avelline. a member of the Paris Opera Company, has Just returned from Germany, hav ing been taken prisoner while acting as a atretcher bearer. He teila of a collo quy which he aays occurred between Emperor Willl.im and a captured French Sergeant. Perceiving the num ber of the Serpeant's reslment on his collar, the Emperor praised the regi ment, saying: "I know it very well and I think mom highly of It." "Not more than I do." replied the Sergeant. The Emperor then asked what the Sergeant thought of the food supplle-t to the prisoners. "We are provided with absolutely un eatable i.tuff at present," Avel'.ine aays the Serjeant responded. "Later on, 1 suppose William 11 will give us nothing but bricks." The Emperor's suite. M. Avelline says, was horrlned at this remark, but the Emperor, unperturbed, passed on. A ynunp strlMan virtim or ratalepiy haw ti at ilffcrm llin- for r:r!il. 1 in.) e en moniha al a p:-et-h. 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