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TITE 3IORXIXG OREGOMAIf, MONDAY, 3IARCII 20, 1916.
GERMANY'S EYES ON
AMERICAN POLITICS
Many of People Believe Elec
tion Will Be Decided by
Teutonic Voters.
INTENSE INTEREST FELT
Even Roosevelt, Say Some, Would
Be Preferable to Wilson Mo
Clure and Llndsey Test Tem
- per of People Toward T.-R.
BT CAROLYN" WTLSON'.
(Correspondent of the Chlea.RO Tribune, re
turned from Kurope. Copyright. 1916, by
the Tribune Company. Published by ar
rangement.) Although I was in. Germany during
the tensest week yet experienced in
diplomatic relations between the United
States and Qermany, I could see no
abatement in the marked courtesy paid
tha individual American marked in
contrast to the feeling of disappoint
ment and bitterness toward the Ameri
can people as a whole.
"We have been Disillusionized about
you Americans," they often say to me.
"We idealized you and expected you to
act differently in this crisis."
When I bring up the Boer and Mexi
can wars as examples of Germany's in
dustry in supplying belligerents with
arms, they throw up their hands and
illogl'cally exclaim:
"But it is not the came thing. Look
at the magnitude of this war. Look at
its destructive ability. It cannot' be
compared with any other. And, any
wav, we expected, differently, of you."
They have ceased to hope for any
sign of "fairness" from the Americans,
and their only expectancy is that ha
tred of British methods and arrogance
will lead the Americans into a kindlier
feeling toward. Germany.
Interest Kelt in Election.
"We do not think America will ever
-favor us from any epirit of fair play,
of trying to see both sides of the ques
tion: but we fancy that when they
have suffered about all they will stand
from the English they'll be more
friendly towards us."
They are naturally intensely inter
ested in the coming Presidential nomi
nations, and show a grasp of our po
litical situation which is surprising,
considering the few American papers
in Germany and the garbled versions
that the English papers give.
Many of them agree absolutely with
the Munsterberg theory, that the German-American
vote will decide the
coming election, and rather than re
elect Wilson the hyphenates wouldn t
hesitate even at Roosevelt, in spite of
his exaggerated hysterics and highlj
colored remarks about the Germans.
It will doubtless be a surprise to
many Americans to know that S. S.
McClure. now editor of the New York
Evening Mail, and Judge Ben Lindsey
were working continually in Germany
to test the temper and. feeling of the
Germans for Roosevelt, and particular
ly to find out how government and
private circles would treat bim it he
were to go to Germany.
He doesn't know the real state or
affairs." they say. "Let him once come
and see them, and he has enough in
tellectual candor and "
come out in the open and admit he is
wVong and take back his former state
ments." Scheme Opposed in, Germany.
I talked to various members of the
foreign office and marine department,
as well as German officers, all of whom
were cognizant of the scheme and dis
approved of it, not from personal or
German reasons, but purely from the
point of view of what it would mean to
Roosevelt.
He can't afford to come over here,
one official said to me. "Suppose he
were to come and be honestly convinced
that he had been wrong about Ger
many. Could he say this before elec
tion without laying himself open to
the seemingly well founded imputation
that he was only trying to obtain the
votes of those friendly to Germany?
Such a course would lose him not only
his old friends but could gain him
no new ones.
"No man running for President in
America today, with the feeling run
ning as high as it is. can afford to
make any move or any statement fav
oring either party. It becomes a sign
of suspicion to his friends and of weak
ness to his enemies. '
"Besides, we should be in an awk
ward position. Colonel Roosevelt has
manv Influential friends here. They
might attempt to get him to six or
seven fronts at once, which is what he
would expect if he came. However, we
could only accord him the same treat
ment as we give to a private individual.
This is war time, and we can't lay
aside war to treat a man as if he were
a king, particularly if this man had
slandered us most unmercifully.
Military Obiection Made.
"If Colonel Roosevelt wishes to come
I believe there would he no military
objection to it. Probably in the circles
in which he would move he would note
no change of attitude, and the papers
might be silent regarding the feelings
of the masses. But he can't afford to
try it, anyway not until the nomina
tions are over."
A former Washingon diplomat was
also asking me about the Presidential
possibilities and said, after making a
minute inquiry Into Hughes chances:
""What a pity it is that a man like
Wilson, with nothing to gain from the.
Presidency, couldn't be content serving
his four years to the best advantage of
America, without any thought of re
flection. "Why can't he be content with
his term as well governed as he knows
how to make it. instead of turning the
last year and a half of it into a political
campaign with an attempt to conciliate
both parties?
"Of course, the real trouble is In the
shortness of your terms. You should
have six years and re-election impos
sible. As it now stands, the first year
is given over to acquiring the routine,
-making appointments. and general
changes and upheavals; the second only
Js of real use to the country, and the
third and fourth are devoted to cam
paigning and ideas of re-election."
The possibilities of America as a
peacemaker are "ganz ausgeschlossen,"
as they say. Any country guilty of
such partiality, not only in words but
In deeds, cannot be called in as a fair
minded arbitrator.
Possibilities In China Studied.
They look, of course, with a certain
pleasure at the transfer of the money
market from London to New York, but
they are seriously troubled at the
strides American commerce is making
while theirs is at a standstill.
"We can make things cheaper, better,
and more quickly than you can," they
eay. "so that once we get Into our
stride again after the war you will
lose your artlfically Increased trade in
Europe, where our delivery is quicker
and cheaper. As for China you think
you are going to work up a big trade
there but wait we are working, too."
Gaffney Denies Charges.
WASHINGTON. March 19. T. St. J.
Gaffney who resigned as American
OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS
French.
PARIS March 19. The text of the
French official statement issued to
day is:
"North of Rheims our artillery car
ried out a defensive fire on the ene
my trenches at Neuville and the Godat
farm. There was marked activity of
our batteries in the region of Ville au
Bois.
"In the region to the north of Ver
dun the bombardment slackened ap
preciably during the course of the day.
The enemy made no -attempt to at
tack. "Northeast of St. Mihiel our heavy
artillery cannonaded revictualling de
pots of the enemy at Varvarinay. There
is nothing to report on the rest of the
front.
"Adjutant Navarre brought down his
seventh German aeroplane in the re
gion of Verdun. The hostile machine
fell inside our lines."
Russian.
PETROGRAD. March 19. (Via Lon
don.) The following official communi
cation was issued today:
"Western (Russian) front: In the
Riga sector, the enemy opened a lively
artillery fire on the Ikskull bridgehead
and farther south. In the Jacobstadt
section there has been an artillery duel
in the northern division. In the Vidza
region our artillery cannonaded Ger
man trenches. The enemy attempted
to take the offensive near the village
of Medziany and south of Everecz, but
was repulsed.
"The enemy artillery was active in
the vicinity of Storgonne. Our skir
mishers took some enemy trenches in
the upper Stripa region and repulsed a
counter-attack. In the same neighbor
hood we repulsed an enemy effort to
approach the village of Yuzefovka.
"In the Black Sea. near" the Bul
garian coast, our torpedo boats sank
a steamer loaded with benzine. They
were, thereupon, attacked unsuccess
fully by enemy aeroplanes, which threw
eight bombs. This did not prevent our
lorpeao ooats rrom taking the steam
er's crew aboard. '
"Caucasian front: We captured two
additional cannon while pursuing the
Turks in the region of Mamahatuan."
German.
BERLIN, via London, March 19. The
text of today's official report is as fol
lows: "Western theater: Northeast of Ver
melles, southeast of La Baasee Canal,
after effective artillery preparation
and five successful explosions, we re
captured from the British some little
gains they had obtained In mine fight
ing on March 2. Of the British occu
pants, the majority of whom were
buried in the flatened trenches, we
captured 30 survivors. A British counter-attack
failed.
"The town of Lens was again bom
barded by heavy British artillery.
"While yesterday passed without
special events on the left bank of the
Meuse, French attempts early this
morning against Le Mort Homme and
East thereof failed from the begin
ning. On the right bank, artillery ac
tivity temporarily increased on con
siderable violence. At the same time,
hand-to-hand fighting developed at
several places southward of Fort
Douaumont and' westward of the vil
lage of Vaux, for small defense works.
This fighting is not yet concluded.
"The French yesterday were driven
by German detachments out of the
positions at the forestry house of
Thiaville, northeast of Badonviller.
which we left to them on March 4.
After destroying their dugouts, our
men remained in their own trenches
with 41 prisoners.
"Mutual -aerial activity in reconnal
sance and attack was pronounced. Our
aeroplanes attacked railway buildings
on the lines from Clermont to Verdun
and Epinal, Lure and Vescul and south
of DijonL J
"In an enemy aerial squadron, which
attacked Mulhausen and Habshelm,
Consul-General at Munich, Germany, on
request of the State Department, filed
with the department today a general
denial of the charges which led to his
removal. He declared he never had
been guilty of unneutral acts or utter
ances, never had criticised Secretary
Bryan or other State Department of
ficials and had given British subjects
under his protection every attention.
He attached a letter from the British
relief committee in Munich, commend
ing his conduct toward the British.
"The Truth Society." a pro-German
organization, never had held any meet
ings at the American Consulate as
charged, he declared, and he never had
distributed pro-German literature.
LOAN TO ALLIES DENIED
J. P. MORGAN SAYS NO NEW AD
VANCE IS CONTEMPLATED.
Financier Understands Mobilised Se
curities W ill Be Handled in Way
Not to Hurt Market.
NEW YORK, March 19. J. P. Mor
gan, head of the banking house of J.
P. Morgan & Company, who arrived
here today from Liverpool on the
steamship Philadelphia, reiterated the
denial recently issued from his office
here that a new credit against Ameri
can securities, said to have been
mobilized In London, had been ar
ranged by him for the entente allies.
lie asserted that he knew of no new
loan to the .allies contemplated now.
and asserted that the resources created
by the last loan were not exhausted,
supporting his assertion by reference
to the steadiness of the exchange mar
ket. As to the reported mobilization
in London of American securities held
in Great Britain and France, Mr. Mor
gan said:
"I understand they expect to handle
these securities as they have been do
ing in the past and they will be taken
care of in a way that will not hurt
the market."
Asked as to what impressions he
had gathered while in Europe as to the
progress of the war, he smilingly said:
"I am not a military man; hence I
cannot discuss that question. I did
not observe, however, any signs of
weakening."
Mr. Morgan sailed from New York
on February 2 and it then was re
ported he had gone abroad in connec
tion with a new French loan. This re
port was denied by Octave Homburg,
of the Anglo-French commission, the
government's financial representative
here. Later reports from abroad were
that his mission had to do with Ameri
can securities.
AMERICA INTERESTS SPAIN
Exposition of Goods Made Here Is
Proposed for Fall.
PARIS, March 19. Dr. C. W. A.
Veditz, American commercial attache
at Paris, who has gone to Madrid to
strengthen Spanish-American commer
cial relations, telegraphed today to his
office here that an Important group of
Spanish merchants, financiers and pub
lic men Is planning to organize an ex
position for American goods.
Preliminary meetings were held this
week under the auspices of Dr. Veditz.
It is proposed to hold the exposition
! next Fall.
four aeroplanes were shot down In an
aerial fight near Mulhausen. The occu
pants of the machine were dead.
"At Mulhausen seven civilians were
killed and 13 wounded. At Sabsheifn
one soldier was killed.
"Eastern war theater: The expected
Russian attacks on the front of Dris
visty lake and Poltavy and on both
sides of Narocz lake began with the
gtireatest violence, but the enemy was
everywhere repulsed with extraordi
narily heavy losses. Before our posi
tions on both sides of Lake Naroca we
counted 9270 dead Russians. Our losses
were small.
"South of Wiscniew lake there is an
increase in the artillery activity.
"Balkan war theater: The situation
is generally unchanged.
"One of our airships, the night of
March 17-18, attacked the entente fleet
near Karaburun, south of Saloniki."
Belgian.
"PARIS, March 19. Today's Belgian
(iff i .i .. .
"There was great activity on the part
of artillery, especially in the region of
Dixmude and north of Steenstraate."
Sunday's War Moves
WITH the slackening of the fight
ing around Verdun, the Russians
have started a big offensive movement
against the Germans on the eastern,
front. A raid by German seaplanes on
the east cost of England and by French
airmen on Metz and other German
towns, the sinking of a French tor
pedo destroyer by a submarine in the
Adriatic and the reported torpedoing
of an Austrian hospital ship by an en
tente underwater boat are recorded in
official and unofficial communications.
Berlin chronicles an attack of great
violence by the Russians around
Driswiaty Lake and Lake Narocz, but
says the Russians were repulsed with
great losses, 9270 Russian dead having
been counted in the Lake Narocz re
gion. The Germans in the Vaux-Damloup
sector, northeast of Verdun, began an
other spirited attack against the
French, but were driven back. The at
tack was not pushed again during Sun
day and only intermittent bombard
ments took place.
Berlin reports the recapture of some
ground from the British northeast of
Vermelles. in the region of La Bassee,
and the driving of the French from a
position northeast of Badonvillers. In
the Vosges. London admits the cap
ture by the Germans of three mine
craters at the Hohenzollern redoubt.
The French guns have been busy
bombarding German trenches in Cham
pagne and German depots northeast of
St. Mihiels. Five French aircraft
dropped bombs on Metz, ammunition
depots near Chateau Salins and the
aerodrome at Dieuze, while 23 other
machines attacked the aviation camp at
Habsheim and the freight station at
Mulhausen. In battles in the air which
followed, the Germans and the French
each lost three or four machines.
A German aircraft attacked the allied
fleet south of Saloniki, but with what
result does not say.
Three officers and 44 men of the
crew of the French torpedo-boat de
stroyer Renaudin were lost when a
Teutonic submarine sent the vessel to
the bottom of the Adriatic.
In a raid by four German seaplanes
over Dover. Ramsgate and Westgate,
at leasti nine persons were killed and
Si injured. One of the seaplanes was
brought down 30 miles at sea by a pur
suing British aviator. The German ob
server was killed.
The German Admiralty officially de
nies that a German submarine was re
sponsible for the sinking of the Dutch
passenger steamer, Tubantia.
VERDUN HELD FAST
France Regards Campaign as
Complete German Defeat.
MILITARY MEN CONVINCED
Drive Held to Have Represented
Utmost Possible Output of Prus
sian Machine in Ideas and
in. Material of "ar.
PARIS, March 19. (Special.) That
the battle of Verdun must now. after 24
days of fighting, be reckoned a French
victory, is regarded here as beyond all
doubt. France by herself has defeated
the strongest force her enemy can send
against her.
As a sheer trial of strength between
major adversaries, it is the clearest
result of the war yet given.
. The drive on Verdun represents the
utmost possible output of the Prussian
military machine in ideas, in men and.
above all, of material of war. Months
were devoted to the preparation for the
attack. Every resource of the empire
was called In play. The allies of
France did not attempt to interfere.
General Falkenhayn and his aides had
complete liberty in the choice of their
objective. Paris now asks: "Is the
enemy capable of another offensive,
and, if so. will his remaining reserves
be used In this way or to prolong a
defensive campaign?" The battle of
Verdun, on which Paris can now look
back more coolly and with fuller in
formation, offers some Indications that
are not without value, though they do
not warrant any positive answer to
these questions. The substance of the
French victory consists In the over
whelmingly heavy enemy losses, prob
ably now amounting to 250,000 hors de
combat. For, if military victory con
sistsalways and solely in destroying
the enemy army, it matters not
whether this result be obtained by of
fensive or defensive tactics.
In a defensive operation the seal of
victory is the breakdown, not of any
particular attack as at Douaumont, but
of the total plan of attack, and the
plan of the attack on Verdun Is cer
tainly in ruins. Of this French military'
critics are convinced.
BOMBARDMENT IS SLACKENED
Germans Make 'o Further Attempt
to Attack Near Verdun.
PARIS. March 19. The bombardment
in the region to the north of Verdun
materially slackened in the course of
the day, according to the official state
ment issued- by the French War Office
tonight. No attempt to attack was
made by the Germans.
BERLIN, via London, March 19. A
successful attack against the British
lines northeast of Vermelles. in which
the Germans regained ground they had
lost In mine fighting of March 2, was
announced today by the War Office.
In the Verdun region, French at
tempts against Le Mort Homme and
east thereof were stopped at the outset.
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WORLD'S ORDER SOUGHT.
National Convention, Over Which Tart
Will Preside, Not ' to Consider
, Ending; of Present War.
NEW YORK, March 19. The first
National convention of the League to
Enforce Peace will be held at Wash
ington on May 26 and 27, it was an
nounced here today. Ex-President Taft
will preside. The call for the meeting
has been sent out in the name of Mr.
Taft and more than 200 other prom
inent Americans, including the Govern
ors of several states.
According to the announcement, the
"express purpose of calling the Na
tional assemblage at this time Is to de
vise and determine upon measures to
give effect to - the proposals for a
league of nations to enforce peace."
Emphasis is given to the assertion
that it is not the purpose of the or
ganization to propose measures for
stopping the present war in Europe or
to combat the preparedness movement,
but to outline a "practical plan looking
toward futur world peace."
BABE LEFT ON DOORSTEP
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not see anyone, but I heard a baby cry
and found the bundle on the steps.
"The baby was wrapped In the bun
dle, which contained also some clothes,
a sort of outfit that the mother had
made, probably, for it before she, de
cided to give it up. On the bundle an
Easter greeting postcard .was pinned
with a message, ostensibly from the
baby, asking for a home and kind
treatment."
Miss Therkelsen called her mother,
who was In another room, and the
helpless waif soon won the two femi
nine hearts. Thereafter they were
planning eagerly for the welfare of the I
little stranger, ana in an tneir tuture
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The baby wore clothing' of good
quality when found, and the postcard
message was weli written in a. woman's
hand. Its message bespofce a cultured
and educated mother. Who she might
be members of the Therkelsen family
have no surmise. They are glad,
though, that their doorstep was the
one selected.
Mr. Therkelsen is the son of a pio
neer Portland family that is well known
locally. HeIs a representative of the
National Auto Company with the Dul-mage-Manley
Auto Company.
BANKER GORE CANDIDATE
President of Medford National Is
Legislative Aspirant.
MEDFORD, Or., March 19 (.Special.)
W. H. Gore, president of the Medford
National Bank, and one of the largest
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Prince of Wales In Egypt.
LONDON, March 19 The Prince of
Wales has arrived In Egypt on ap
pointment as staff captain to the gen
eral officer commanding the Mediter
ranean expeditionary force, says an
official statement issued tonight.
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