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3 VERDI OUTPOSTS III SERIOUS PERIL German Bombardment of En emy Positions in Northwest Indicates Further Move.' FRONTAL ATTACK AVOIDED Berlin Declares Itself Satisfied AVith Month's Progress Artil lery Used Vnsparingly to Save Losses in Infantry. KteKLIX, March 23, via London. March24. (Special Cable.) The right wing of the German army attacking Verdun has again advanced toward Ksnes, thereby becoming 'a serious menace to Forts Bourrus and DeMarre, the northwest outposts of the Verdun forts. f The German bombardment, with the heaviest artillery of the French posi tions at Ksnes, as well as those on Hill 304, north of Esnes, indicates a plan for a further movement in that direction. If successful this would make untenable the French "positions ir the triangle. Esnes - Bethincourt Chattancourt. This triangle, project ing into the German lines, is so heavily entrenched that the Germans have not attempted to storm in a frontal at tack. It is threatened by the German positions on the bloody height of Le Mort Homme, which impinges on the east line of the triangle, just as Hill C04 covers the west line. German Infantry Quiet. Although heavy artillery operations against the Verdun forts continue in the region east of the Meuse, including the Woevre plain, the German infantry work there is temporarily quiet. The French, not knowing where the real assault will be made, because of the vast extent of the attacking lines, must be ready through the entire front from .Avocourt to St. Mihiel. The Germans regard as excellent the rrogress made at Verdun in the last month. They explain the slowness of the general assault by pointing out that long artillery bombardments save infantry regiments. The artillery work so far has brought the greatest results. The Germans also declare that the French counter attacks have been futile, except that resulting in the re capture cf Vaux. Therefore they ask: "Why should we storm forts as long as we can batter them to pieces with artillery and get them with relatively little loss of life on our part? If the French can get any satisfaction out of this they are welcome to it. We have moved forward steadily for a month. We might have accomplished the same result in two weeks, but it would have cost us more lives. y Ammunition I'xed to Save Men. "We have sufficient artillery and more than sufficient ammunition, and. therefore, we use them instead of sac rificing our men. Meanwhile, French attacks against our lines have been fearfully costly to the French army." Although the Russian attacks against Von Hindenburg'H army are growing In intensity, as well as in " the extent of the territory covered, Germany seems to have full faith in the ability of its favorite field marshal to hold off the new Russian armies without calling on the west front for aid. Reports from the east continue to declare that all the Russian attacks have been futile, and that the assailants have been beaten off with terrific loss. Because of the effectiveness of the trench ar tillery of the Germans, which figures largely in driving back the assailants, the German losses are said to be small lomtared to the losses of the Russian attacking columns. (JERJUX LOSSES IIKL1J HUGE Trench War Office Points to Enor mous Sacrifices Near Verdun. PARIS. March 24. "The Germans would have it believed that their losses before Verdun were not greater than those of the French army," says a semi-official note issued today. "The following example will show how great the German sacrifices were: "On the forenoon of March-9, the first battalion of the Nineteenth Regiment of the Fifth German Army Corps at tacked Vaux in columns of fours. The French allowed the first company to penetrate the village, where it was sur prised by a violent machine gun fire and then charged with bayonets. , The survivors those able to do so took rtfuge in houses, where they fell. This company, the Thirteenth, was annihil ated. "The next day. March 10. the Sixty fourth Regiment of Infantry of the .Sixth Division of the Third' German Corps replaced, to the north of Vaux, the decimated Nineteenth Regiment, but the Sixty-fourth sustained such loss by the fire of artillery that the attack which began was countermanded. "During their last attacks the Third Corps companies only counted about 120 rifles, instead of 200. "These facts are a sufficient reply to the German allegations. Moreover, it must be admitted by any one that resolute, well armed troops, installed jndefensive works with numerous ma chine guns and supported by an extra ordinary quantity of artillery, as was the case with the French, are able to inflict the greater losses upon an as sailant who constantly attacks in com pact masses and whose chiefs are not dismayed by the bloodiest sacrifices." OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS h Y Bronchial TROCHE? New 10c Trial Size Box . , . , , 7 .. .. uea reuei irom irritating coughs, hoarseness and tickling in the throat. Contain no opiates. Reg ular sizes 2jc, 50c and $1. At all druggists. If your dealer ranrtot tup- T-V you. u.- wit J mail any pon receipt of price. 4k V.-"-' JOHN I. BROWN & SON. Boston. Ma I "tL. fc. Jk r- T" A. I r g i Up, METAL POLISH Cleans more bra siera. zino signs, braa railings, door knobs And door plates than all other polishes com bined, because it is the quickest and safest to use. Sold by all Gxooery. ardmr and Iras Stores. Look for Photo enOn f7 llPPr" PARKERS V-M HAIR BALSAM '--Sf A toilet preparation ot merit. . Jf Helps to eradicate dandruff. ( i For Restoring Color and - " 5 l-A BeaatT to Gray or Faded Hair. -ulJ t--SsA an'l St.ftO at rmge-1ts. German. BERLIN, via London, March 24. The text of today's official report of the War Office is as follows: "The violence of the artillery duels increased considerably at times in the Champagne, on the Somme-Fy-Souain high road, and in the Argonne, and -In the Meuse district as far as the Moselle. "Following up our successes, of Wednesday, we occupied another cou ple of trenches west of Haucourt On this occasion, the number of prisoners increased to 32 officers and 879 men. "Eastern theater While during the day the Russians collected their forces only for a strong advance against the bridgehead at Jacobstadt, east of Buschhof. they undertook during the night repeated attacks north of Mitau Jacebstadt railway, and an attempt to take us by surprise south of Dvinsk, and exhausted themselves in uninter rupted fierce storm attacks against our front :i-rth of Widsy. All their attacks broke down with heavy losses in men, under our fire or before our entanglements in cases where they ad vanced as far as that. "Farther south, there were no fresn 8, t 1 &Ct S "Balkan front During the last few days artillery duels of no great im portance developed repeatedly on botn sides of the Vardar in the neighbor hood of Gievgeli. "An aeroplane belonging to an en emy squadron, which attacked Volovec, west of Lake Doiran, was shot down after an aerial battle. The machine fell into the lake." French. PARIS. March 24. The text of to day's official statement by the War Office is: "In the Arjronne our batteries last night cannonaded with energy the en emy positions in the wood of Malan courL Near Hill No. 285 we caused the explosion of a mine and occupied the resulting crater. "West of the Meuse the night passed quietly. East of the river there was intermittent bombarding in the vicin ity of Douaumont and Damloup. - "In the Woevre there nave oeen out bursts of artillery fire in the sectors of Moulainville and Eparges. botn sides taking part. "There has been no other aeveiop- ment of importance on the rest of the front." The supplementary report, issued, to night, eays: , "In the Argonne. following the ex plosion of one of our mines at Vau- quois, the enemy attacked and succeed ed in momentarily gaining a footing in one of our firet-line trenches. We expelled him at once through counter attacks in which we took about 30 prisoners. m The activity of our artillery con tinues intense against the German lines of communication in the Eastern Ar gonne, and also on the woculs of Malan court and Avocourt. "In the region to the north of Ver dun no events of importance occurred during the day. "To the northeast of St. Mihiel the fire by our long-range pieces on the Vigneulles station gave good results. A warehouse was demolished and a train which was in the station was blown up." Friday's War Moves TTTITH many passengers, probably VV some of them Americans, and a crew of about 60 on board, the cross channel steamer Sussex, plying be tween Folkestone. England, and Dieppe, France, is in distress in the English Channel off Dieppe. Unofficial reports say that the vessel was torpedoed. At last reports rescue boats were stand ing by. The British steamer Englishman, a vessel of 5i!7 tons, which plies be tween Portland, Me., and Avonmouth. has been sunk, but whether by a mine or a torpedo has not been told. Sixty eight persons on board were rescued. Whether this number constituted the entire ship's company is not known. It is still in the Frencn and Rus sian war theaters that the heaviest battles are in progress, but fighting also continues in the Austro-Italian zone, in Serbia, near the Greek frontier and in Asiatic Turkey. The French are keeping up their vigorous bombardment of the woods of Malancourt and Avocourt, northwest of Verdun, which are held by the Ger mans, and also are hammering away with their guns at German lines of communication in the easterl fringes of the Argonne forest. To the north and east of Verdrin an intermittent bombardment by the Ger mans and French second line positions is still going on with the French reply ing energetically. The only infantry encounter along the western front took place in the Argonne forest, where the Germans gained a portion of a French first-line trench, but were expelled from it by a counter attack and lost some 30 men taken prisoner. All along the Russian front from the region of Friedrichstadt to the district around Vilna, the Russians and Ger mans are hard at grips. Petrograd says that near Vv'idsy, between Dvinsk and Vilna, the Russians forced all the German lines and barricades and re pulsed a vigorous German counter' at tack. Berlin, hewever, says that here the Russian attacks failed with heavy losses before the German entanglements. Bad weather prevails in the Austro Italian theater, but notwithstanding a blizzard the Italians have attacked and occupied Austrian positions in the Cor devole Valley. Berlin reports that in the region of Gievgeli. on the Serbo-Greek frontier, artillery duels have been in progress. The statement does not give the nation alities of the batteries. The defeat of British forces that at tacked a Turkish position on the right bank of the Tigris, near Felahie, is chronicled by Constantinople. The re port also says that Turkish airmen have again dropped bombs on Kut-el-Amara, where a British force is under siege. ALLIES REJECT PLAN Lansing's Proposal to Disarm Is Declined. ALL ARE POLITE BUT FIRM Formal Jiesponses All Received In Washington Alleged German Contempt for Treaties Made the Basis of Refusal. WASHINGTON, March 24. All of the entente powers through their embas sies here have handed to Secretary Lansing formal responses rejecting the proposal made by the State Department in its circular memorandum that they enter into a modus Vivendi and disarm all of their merchant ships with the understanding that the United States Government would endeavor to secure from the central powers n pledge not to attack such unarmed ship without warning and without providing for the safety of the passengers and crew. Soon after ,the proposition was broached, through interviews in the press and otherwise, responsible offi cials of the entente powers indicated their decided opposition to such a plan. It was generally believed here that this unanimous expression of disapproval inspired the German government to promulgate the new order which now is in force for attacks without warning by submarine commanders on any armed belligerent merchantman. Allies Polite in Dlentlng. While Secretary Lansing said today he had not had any opportunity as yet to consider the formal replies, it is known that, though based on different lines of reasoning, each of the entente powers has with polite expressions of regret declined to accept the proposal. The nature of their objections was in dicated in the unofficial statements of various officials when the American memorandum was submitted, and it is understood that they have simply been elaborated in the communications be fore the State Department. It was contended In the unofficial discussions that Germany's contempt for treaties and other formal stipula tions as evinced by her treatment of Belgium had made it unsafe to rely on any German pledge. The fundamental object urged, however, was that there should be no change in the principles of international law during the prog ressof hostilities such as would be involved in the acceptance of the mo dus Vivendi at this time. Move by Allies Discussed. It has been held by some officials of the allies that any attempt by the United States to change the limitations on the extent of the defensive arma ment which a merchant ship may carry would be violative of the spirit of neu trality and justify the allies in remov ing their shipping completely from American waters, trusting to nearby Canadian ports for the facilities neces sary to loading the munitions of war and the raw material of American ori gin required by the allies. No indication was given at the State Department of the next step to be taken. BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE ASKED Democratic Senator Inquires About Polish Relief Situation. WASHINGTON. March 24. Senatot Hitchcock. Democrat, today introduced and had referred to the foreign rela tions committee a resolution request ing Secretary Lansing to furnish the following information if not incompat ible with publio interest: - "Whetner Great Britain will permit food supplies to be sent - from the United States to Poland through neutral ports without interruption. "What limitations Great Britain makes or what guarantees she requires from Germany. "The extent of relief work in Poland and whether negotiations by the United States with Great Britain would pre vent or delay Polish relief at this time." GERMAN PARTY IS SPLIT Eighteen Socialists Form Xew Rad ical Faction. BERLIN, March 24. by wireless to Tuckerton, N. J.. The long-expected split m the German Socialist party as the result of the political situation created by the submarine warfare con troversy in the Reichstag, occurred to day. A new party, consisting of 18 Socialist members, was constituted by the Radical wing after a Socialist cau cus had decided' to exclude Deputy Haas for a breach of discipline. The Socialist caucus was held after cloture had been applied in the Reich stag by the president. When the reso lution was reached to exclude Deputy Haas, for the same reason that Deputy Liebknecht was excluded from the or ganization, the minority assembled and resolved to leave the party. The total number of Socialist mem bers in the Reichstag is 100. The dis senting minority on the last vote con sisted of 30. Old Linn County Resident Dead. ALBANY, Or., March 24. (Special.) Zachary Gilmore Hays, a resident of Linn County for 52 years, died yester day at his home at Tangent at the age of 58 years. He was born in Missouri and came to Oregon when 6 years old. He is survived by his widow arid five children. W. F. Hays, C. B. Hays. Z. G. Hays, Jr., Mrs. Wallace Truax and Mrs. George Mangas,- STEAMSHIP IS SOI GROSSING CHANNEL Sussex, Probably With Ameri cans Aboard, Is Reported Torpedoed Off Dieppe. ALL ARE REPORTED SAVED American Consul-General Says He Tin h Vised Many Passports Re cently for Americans on Way to France. LONDON. March 24. The cross-channel steamer Sussex, from Folkestone to Dieppe, was sunken the channel, some where off Dieppe, today. The Central News Agency says she was torpedoed. American Consul-General Skinner said today that he believed there were sev eral Americans on board. The news agency gives the number of passengers as 380, a few of whom were British. Another report gives the number of "civilian passengers" as 240. The crew of 60 men is said to have been largely French. It is presumed from the discrepancy in the passenger estimates that there may have been some soldiers aboard. The continental traffic office of the Brighton Railroad reported tonight that all on board were saved. The Sussex was said to have been still afloat at 10:30 P. M. "I think it probable that there were several Americans among the passen gers of the Sussex," said Robert P. Skinner, the American Consul-General, in reply to a question by the Asso ciated Press, "because in the last few days my office has vised passports for many Americans going to France." At both the American embassy and the consulate general there were ru mors that the Sussex had been . tor pedoed, but " neither had received any details. The Sussex left Folkestone at 1:20 o'clock today flying the French flag, and met with her mishap at 7 o'clock tonight. When the alarm was sent out several vessels in the vicinity hastened to her assistance, while others rushed under full steam from Dieppe harbor. The Sussex is owned by the French State Railroads, but is managed by the Brighton Railroad. Before the war she was employed In the night service be tween New Haven and Dieppe, but after the outbreak of hostilities her run was changed from Folkestone to Dieppe. STEAMER ENGLISHMAN SUNK Vessel Bound for United States to Obtain Horses for Allies. LONDON. March 24. The steamer Englishman, of the Dominion line, has been -sunk, according to Lloyd's. It is said that thus far 68 survivors have been accounted for. The last record of the steamer Eng lishman shows that she sailed from Portland, Me, February 17, for St. Na zaire and Avonmouth. The English man was a vessel of 5257 tons and was owned by the Mississippi & Dominion Steamship Company, of Liverpool. -She was built in 1892 at Belfast. PORTLAND, Me.. March 24. The Do minion line steamer Englishman, which was reported sunk in a dispatch from London tonight, was bound from Avon mouth for this port to obtain horses for the entente forces. The 68 men reported saved, in the opinion of the local agent, constituted mct, if not all, those aboard the steamer. TRADE PERIL IS FEARED BRITONS WARNED OF GERMAN COMPETITION AFTER WAR. Commercial Conquest Plana More Dan gerous Than Big Guns, Is Vis count Haldane's Opinion. LONDON. March 24. "Great Britain and her allies will face a new peril after the conclusion of the present con flict in an industrial war for whicn Germany has long been preparing by the creation of a new and formidable class of highly skilled workmen." This statement was made by Vis count Haldane, ex-Secretary of State for War, in an address at the Uni versity of London last night. "I want to sound a warning of what is in store for us," he continued. "I am more afraUl of an engine for conquest CMercrandis of cV Merit Only I Art Needle Work Contest Silk Embroidering I Cotton Embroidering 9 Cotton Crochet and Knitting I Wool Crochet and Knitting 9 Open to the Public j Cash Prizes Given in. 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