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ALL ITALY WATCHES
BATTLE OF VE
Historian Says Sentiment for
Greater Participation in
War Grows.
ALLIES EXPECTED TO WIN
Conflict of Ideas Growing: From Ti
tanic Straggle Counted on to
Retard Progress More TTian
Material Losses.
BY JOHN" R. BASS,
"af correspondent of the Chicago Daily
News. By special cable.
MILAN, Italy. March 7, via Londan !
March 8. The-w-hole of Italy is hangr- i
tng breathless on the battle of Verdun, j
Popular feeling is increasingly favor-
able to France,-and thpre is a growing
pressure felt in political circles for a 1
wider participation of Italy in the war. j
This is seen in the Chamber of Depu- !
ties, which recently reassembled, in the
coalition among the smaller parties to i
obtain from the government wider I
action in conjunction with the allies. I
The majority of the Deputies belong
to the Gioliti party, which prior to the
war favored neutrality, along with I
certain Germanophiles. The govern- j
merit, although dependent on the
tendencies of this majority, is inclined
to meet the popular demand for Itsrly'a !
close co-operation with the other mem- j
hers of the quadruple entente. !
Italy Watches Frfnoh Straggle.
On this subject G.uglielmo Ferrero,
the famous historian, said to me in an
interview today:
"Italy is watching with strained
anxiety the result of the present con
flict in France because it is known that
the welfare of Italy is inextricably in
terwoven with the success of France,
Britain and Russia. The relations be
tween Italy and France since the be
ginning of the war have been cemented
into a friendship that I believe will be
permanent- These relations prior to the
war were not good, owing to the triple
alliance treaty, which, though its con
text is still secret, I believe was broken
by the central powers when they en
tered upon a war of aggression and
conquest without consulting us, thus
treating Italy like a vassal state.
Allien Expected to Win.
"To my mind there is- no doubt that
the quadruple alliance will win. The
only question is: To what extent will
Germany and Austria drag down the
rest of Europe in their fall? It will
take Europe at least 50 years to re
cover. The material loss is a small mat
ter. The institutions of Europe, like
a badly constructed building, are
crumbling under the effects of the war.
- There will be after the war a terrible
conflict of ideas. In this conflict our
generation will be sacrificed.
"France will come out of the war the
greatest European nation, for she has
aRtonishedthe world by the magnitude
of her efforts against her powerful
enemy, compared with which the ef
forts of the rest of the quadruple en
tente are Insignificant. .
"Italy's participation In the war was
induced by the demand of the people
who believe Italy was betrayed by the
central powers because she had been
told that the triple alliance was made
to prevent, not to make, a European
conflict. From the logic of the situa
tion Italy must make every effort with
the rest of the quadruple entente to
bring the war to an end. I believe the
new coalition of parties, backed by pub
lic opinion, will bring about a wider
participation in the war, and that be
fore long there will be a declaration
of war against Germany.'
German Diplomacy Skillful,
Commenting on Germany's manipula
tion of American internal affairs, es
pecially concerning the new submarine
policy, just at a time when action by
the American Administration might ef
fect the Presidential primary and ejec
tion, Signor Ferrero said:
"This is a part of Germany's ably or
ganized interference In the internal
matters of aH neutral countries. In
the Balkans she operates through in
fluences of German origin; in the
lTnited Stales through the influence of
Americans of German blood. Every
where she has reached out tentacles
hungry for power. The American peo
ple rightly resent this interference.
"I cannot say that should like to
pee the United States enter the war.
You could not furnish an army, and we
lo not need a fleet. Besides, we are
going to pull through without help.
However, as an Italian, I should liave
liked to Fee a breaking of diplomatic
relations with Germany by the United
States, for the moral effect would, be
great and this moral effect is one of
the powerful weapons of the war. Be
cause of it I believe Germany does not
desire a break with the United States."
PARTIAL TAXES OFFERED
Clarke County Treasurer Refuses
Timber Company Tenders.
VANCOUVER. Wash.; March 12.
(Special. The Clarke County Timber
Company and the Weyerhaeuser Timber
Company, both controlled by th same
company, have tendered to the County
Treasurer, 1 G. Conant. taxes on the
basis Of the assessment made by the
Assessor in 1914.
The Board of Equalization raised the
assessed valuations on these figures.
using the disputed timber cruise as a
basis. s?o the Treasurer has refused to
accept the part payment. -
The Clarke County Timber Company
tendered a check for S12.734.38, while
the tax rolls, under the raised valua
tions. show it should be 117.087.14. The
other company offered $624.74 in pay
ment for the assessment of $1196.18.
ST. PAUL SLIDES CLEARED
Xortliern Pacific and Great North
ern Trains Itunning on Time.
SEATTLE. Wash.. March 12. The
Chicago, Milwaukee &. St. Paul Rail
way, which has been blocked by mud
and rock slides in Central Washington
since Thursday, cleared its line to
night and resumed the movement of
transcontinental trains over its town
track. The Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern reported their lines
open and traffic moving regularly. Re
ports from the -districts where floods
were causing trouble said the rivers
were receding rapidly. It snowed in
'th Cnsoade Mountains tAdfty.
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LOS ANGELES
NEW YORK. March 7. (Special.)
YORK, March 7.-
Park caused many of the curious to
rythmic motions with no care for wind or weather. For protection from wintry blasts they had nothing but the
gossamer cloth that all ancient Greek and Roman dancers wore. Yesterday's exhibition in the drifts consisted
of interpretations of various Gjreek and Roman dances. The girls went through the figures with the utmost aban
don for cold and snow and frolicked and gamboled as if dancing on the velvety grass.. The girls are members of a
school of Los Angeles, Cal., and have given exhibitions in dancing schools and private parties.-.
VERDUN IS NOT KEY
Northcliffe Calls It "More In
teresting Than Important."
SLAUGHTER IS ENORMOUS
Briton Pictures Germany as in Po
sition' 'of Besieged City, Strilt-
ing'Out Blindly Attaclt by
Sea Is Predicted.
LONDON. March 12. Lord North
cliffe, who has Just visited the Ver
dun battlefield, in a message to the
Weekly Dispatch, declares that Verdun
a great deal more Interesting tnan
important. The newspaper publisher
continues:
'It does not need a-personal visit to
the battlefield to realize this. If the
Germans ttiink that an attack on the
unarmed and dismantled forts of Ver
dun opens the road to Paris, they have
a faint notion of the French prepara
tions and the French power of resist
ance.
Comparing the present German troops
with those who fought early in the
war, .Lord Northcliffe says:
"Last week I saw Germans prisoners
ho had escaped the hellish fire of
the French 75s at Verdun. Where had
gone those splendid stalwarts captured
at the battle of the MarneT Much of
the rank and file now left of the Ger
mans is undersizea ana Daaiy aressea.
with face that bear a look of fright
that seems as if it would last a lifetime.-
' Me Declared Weary of War.
Their appearance lssuch as to move
heart of stone. With two exceptions
among those with whom I have spoke.,
all were utterly weary of warfare and
begged to be told vhen peace could be
expected. " " .
The fact about .the whole war Is
Chat Germany is In the position of a
besieged city, and she is striking out
Mindly by land at Verdun. She will
presently, t am convinced, strike out by
sea:' .
Turning to the actual fighting: at
Verdun, Lord Northcliffe says:
"Not a word is hinted in anything
sent out from Germany of the horrible
slaughter to which the German troops
have been subjected this week. Thurs
day was a black - day for Germans,
when, drugged with ether, the men
came out in mass formation, to be
mowed down by the French 75s and
machine guns, as usual.
Crown Prince Gambles In. Lives.
"Reports published in the English
newspapers from Paris are, to my per
sonal knowledge, on the . whole most
accurate, and they show that for one
or-many reasons the Crown Prince is
gambling with human life to an extent
unprecedented, even in this war."
Lord Northcliffe asserts that "if the
Germans possess a number of guns of
greater caliber than those used by the
English and French, they have no
weapons in their army equal to the
French 75, or gunners at all comparable
to the Frenchmen.
Disscussing the western theater
a whole. Lord Northcliffe says that the
"allied defensive wall right across
Franco, insofar as attaining any def
inite military position is concerned, is
absolutely Impregnable. This remark
may equally apply to the German line
across trance ana Belgium.
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LAUNDRYMEN GIVE NOTICE
Tacoma Residents Warned Againsfr-j
Buying Colors That Will Run..
TACOMA. Wash., -March 12. (Spe
cial.) Tacoma laundrymen do not pro
pose to allow the makers of dyes which
will not stay put to shift the blame on
them, so a warning has been sent to all
customers against buying colored goods
in the future.
"As long as we have been unable to
find a means of keeping fugitive colors
from running away and no way of as
certaining whether or not the dyes are
fast until the clothing' is washed, we
tttr moivktsg OTCEOOXTAN, MONDAY.
GO EAST TO DANCE AND FROLIC
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GIRLS TRIPPING .LIGHT FANTASTIC IX CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK.
The sight of six perfectly moulded
linger, shivering and chilled, and watch
cannot be responsible when these goods
fade, as some of them surely will," said
the raundrymen'6 notice.
GERMAN MUTINY REPORTED
Petrograd lias Report of Trouble in
Garrison at Sliavli.
PETROGRAD, March 12. Telegraph
ing from Dvinsk. the correspondent of
the Boerse Gazette reports that a muti
ny has taken place among the men of
the German garrison at Shavli. a
town in the Baltic provinces, owing,
it Is 'said, to insufficient food.
The mutiny was suppressed by caval
ry, the correspondent adds, after 'one
officer and three soldiers had been
killed and a large number of men
wounded. Nine of the leaders of the
movement are said to have been triei
by court-martial and executed
Sunday's War Moves;
EXCEPT for infantry action, the
fighting In the Verdun region vir
tually has ceased for the moment. To
the 'north and east of the fortress there
has been no infantry engagement since
Saturday, when the Germane succeeaea
in reaching a small JTencn irencn m
the north of-Elx.
On both sides of the Meuse from tne
northwest of Verdun, along the entire
(runt nronnH to the southeast of tne
fortress, the .artillery on both sides has
continued the tremendous shelling that
has been in progress for days.
The Germans say they have captured
in the fighting around Verdun this far
26,472 unwounde'd French oncers ana
men ana ioj guns ana mniiiunQ
guns.
To the south of the Somme River in
the Argonne" forest and in the Ban-de-
Kant sector of the Vosges tne t rencn
guns" have heavily bombarded German,
entrenchments.
The Russians have captured trenches
from the Germans in the Dniester
region of East Galicia, and have made
further progress against the Turks in
Persia by taking the town of Kirind.
The Russians admit the sinking or a
Russian, .torpedo-boat destroyer by a
submarine of the central powers in the
Black Sea off the- Bulgarian port ol
Varna. Part of the. crew of the de
stroyer was rescued.
Desnite the unfavorable weather con
ditions in the, mountains, the -Italians
are continuing their operations against
he Austrians. -They also ate intensely
ombardlng the Isonzo fronts The town
of Gorizia has had to sustain another
hail of Kalian shells. , .
The'British fleet auxiliary Fauvette,
a vessel of 2644 tons, has been lost, toe-ether
with 14 members of her crew,
by striking a mine orr ma coast ot
England. - . .'.
A Paris dispatch says that testimony
given the American Consul at Havre Dy
the seven Americans on board and the
members of the crew of the Norwegian
bark Silius. which was sunk off the
coast of France, is that the bark was
torpedoed by a submarine and without
warning.
"BIBLE HAS 1000 JOKES"
51. A. Berger Says Humor Has Much
to Do With Life of Scriptures.
The need of humor for literature to
endure was-emphasized by M. A. Ber
ger. assistant editor of the Jewish,
Spirit, in an address on wit and humor
before the Yiddish Literary Society at
the Neighborhood House last night-
Mr. Berger said that the Bible owes
its existence greatly to the fact that
it nm-flefies humor.
"This humor." he said, "Is especially
noticeable in the Talmud. Accordlns
to Mark Twain there are only 25 origi
nal Jokes. The Bible, however, has at
least 1000 original jokes."
ITALIAN SLIDE BURIES 252
Several Houses in Agordo District
Also Covered by Avalanche.
VENICE, via Paris. March 12. An
avalanche has buried several houses
in the Agordo district.
The victims so far reported number
:52,
IN THE SNOWS.
damsel dancing in the snows of Central
the barefoot girls go through their
Austrian Gunboat Attacks
Steamer; Several Killed.
TROOPS DEFEND "VESSEL
Array Expected Soon to Join . Cause
of Allies Following Loss of
Life in Spirited Engagement.
Crew Rushes to Shelter.
LONDON. March 13. rSnecial.1
There is little'doubt remaining that
Roumania is about to enter the war
on the eide of the Allies. For several
days her armies have been mobilized
and everything in readiness for the
beginning of hostilities. Yesterday, ac
cording to a dispatch printed this
morning in the Daily Mail, an engage
TtTent in which several Roumanians
were killed took place in the Danube
River when a Roumanian steamer was
fired on by an Austrian gunboat.
The engagement took place near
Rakova. which is 23 miles east of
Rustchuk. While the Roumanian ship
was loading from a barge in the Rou
manian sone of the river, the Bulgarian
frontier- guard on shore opened fire
Instantly the Bulgarians : signaled to
an Austrian gunboat which was at
anchor down the stream. The warship
responded instantly and ordered the
Roumanian merchantman and the barge
to the Bulgarian shore.
The commander of the-vessel refused
to comply with- the order. .A-few min
utes later a broadside was, fired from
the Austrian gunboat. Few of the shots
took effect and the gunboat followed
with a heavy . fire from machine guns.
Rifles in the hands of seamen were
also fired at the" crew1 of the . Roumanian-
steamer' as they scurried to
shelter, about the deck: -
Roumanian -troops on the shore of
the Danube brought up a machine gun
battery and returned the fire. A lively
engagement, lasting several minutes,
followed: The steamer returned to the
Roumanian shore. Several were killed
on, both sides. '-" 'v
PRIMARY DUE TUESDAY
MINNESOTA TO VOTE FIRST
TIME
- FOR DELEGATES.
Cummins ana' Estabroolc Named by Re
publicans and Third Candidate Is
W. G. Webster, of Cbleagro.
ST. PAUL, March 12. Minnesota's
first Presidential preference ' primary
election will be held next Tuesday,
when delegates to the Republican,
Democratic and Prohibition National
conventions will be chosen. The Pro
gressives have filed an unopposed list
of candidates, who will be certified, on
the ballot as elected.
President Wilson Is without opposi
tion on the Democratic ballot, and the
Progressives are without a candidate,
although the delegate candidates on
this ticket express a preference for
Governor Johnson of California,
The Presidential candidates have
filed on the Republican ticket, but the
candidates for delegates have named
only two as tnelr choice. They are
Albert B. Cummins and Henry D. Es
tabrook, of New York. The third can
didate is William Grant Webster, of
Chicago.
Two women are among those seeking
selection" as delegates on the "Prohibi
tion ticket, which has Eugene N. Foas,
ex-Governor of Massachusetts. and
William. -Sulser, ex-Governor of . New
York, as Presidential candidates.
Dakota Men Buy Into Bank.
ETLVERTON Or., March 1J (Spe
cial.) T. T. and T. P. Risteigen. cap
italists from Grand Forks. N. D., bave
purphased the stock in the People's
Bank, held by O. L. Hatteburg and L.
Ames. T. T. Risteigen, who has bank
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and Silverton. At a meeting of the di
rectors Saturday afternoon, the follow
ing officers were named: President. E.
S. Porter; first vice-president, J. W.
Hyett; second vice-president . - and
cashier, T. T. Risteigen.
Infected Dog Gets Wild.
GATEWAY, Or.. March 12. (Spe
cial.) A coyote with the rabies and a
Scotch collie belonging to C P. TJ'Ren
have been causing considerable com
motion di and about l?askela for the
last month. Some time ago the collie
fought with a coyote. This coyote bit
several sheep of the Conley band that
wintered at Jersey. The sheep went
mad and bad to be killed, and the
coyote was also -shot.
Last Sunday the animal visited sev
eral neighbors, bit a dog and a hog
and killed several chickens. - He alo
attacked bis master and was promptly
killed.
Jitney Firm Incorporated.
ALBANY, Or.. March 12. (Special.)
The first corporation to be formed in
Linn County to handle the jitney busi
ness was organized yesterday. Articles
of tncorpo-ation - were filed in the
County Clerk's office tiers .r the Leb
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