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r THE MORXINO OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1916. VERDUN NOW SAFE, FRENCH BELIEVE City Is Mass of Ruins, but Foe's Attack Is Gradu ally Diminishing. GERMAN LINES MOVE BACK ROUMANIANS QUEEN A ROYAL BEAUTY. I I ' Intermittent Bombardment Still Con tinues Fleury, Key to Citadel, Firmly In the Hands of Gallic Troops. VERDUN, via Paris. Sept. 4. Under the escort of General I , commander of the citadel of Verdun throughout the bombardment, the correspondent of the Associated Press today made a circuit of the entire town and sur rounding fortifications and heard the grim old hero sum up just what had .been done and how the military bal ance sheet stands, after many months' gave the first opportunity to view the extent of the recent destruction land particularly the status of the de j tenses since the French turned the tide I by taking the offensive and recaptur ing the strategic key of Fleury. Vljsor of Attack AVsninif. One of the outstanding impressions from this day's tour was the absolute conviction of those on the ground that the fight for Verdun Is over. But it was equally evident from the strength and activity of the positions the Germans hold that they are still keeping up the fight but with steadily diminishing in tensity. . The German losses in the effort to take Verdun now are known to reach a half million men while the French losses in holding the town are less than half that number. It is the belief that the Germans will gradually let go of Verdun, and before Winter will try to shorten their lines along the whole western front by a steady retrograde movement. Many officers say that Koumania's entry into the war will precipitate the withdraw al and early German collapse. But more conservative authorities feel that Germany will hang on for some time before yielding to entente allied mili tary and economic superiority. Bombardment Still Goes On. General D first led the way to the highest point on the walls encircling Verdun. From this point Verdun looked like the center of a huge saucer, with the town lying very low, while all aVound arose an even circle of crests for mining the outer edge of the saucer. That dangerous proximity the Germans had reached was apparent when some of their positions from which they had been driven were pointed out on the encircling crests looking down on Ver dun itself. An intermittent bombardment is still going on from Fort Tavennes, Sou ville, St. Michel and Belleville, which were barking steadily and giving off cannonade sounded like a distant roar, and each day seems yet further away and less terrible than In the crucial days of the battle. But the shelling goes steadily on and 48,000 shells have fallen inside the lim its of Verdun during the battle. The daily number of these shells was sel dom below 300 and one day 750 were counted. As the party stood there, a French areoplane was attacked by a German gun, shrapnel bursting all around the aeroplane as it turned from the German positions and darted back to French cover. Town Utterly Abandoned. The terrible extent of destruction was pointed out during the course of the tour. The town itself is utterly abandoned, not even soldiers being per mitted in the streets. Such shops and houses as escaped the shells are closed and barricaded. Whole streets are crumbling ruins, with only a jagged wall remaining. The Cathedral has two shell holes in the roof, the main altar is a mass of debris and the side altar is littered with broken carvings, sta tues and fallen chandeliers. The handsome military club has one wing torn off and the whole establish ment is a general wreck. The arch bishop's residence has its famous sculp tured walls peppered with shell holes and the adjoining College of Margue rite has its delicate stone filiger re duced almost to powder. The houses along the Meuse. flanking the princi pal bridge, are literally wrecked. The town hall received 16 shells; one corner of the building is torn off and the clock tower is smashed. The May or's office now is used as an emer gency butcher shop. Fleury Is Mass of Rains. A visit to one of the forts of the Inner fortifications, which is still shell ing the Germans, showed the ground at Fleury at close range. Over the entrance of the fort was a notice to the garrison that the place was to be levelled in extremity and never sur rendered. Fleury, lying to the right, showed not a single house standing, the whole village being levelled in a mass of ruins. This place has changed hands 10 times, and now is in the firm grip of the French, with the Germans driven a half mile back of their former advance. Returning to the citadel. General XV gave a lunch In the subterranean defenses, which extended more than four miles in length. ALLIES WIN IN AFRICA CHIEF TOWN OK GERMAN COLOST SURRENDERS TO BRITISH. Iar-es-Salaam, Important "Seaport on Indian Ocean, Yields After Long Resistance to Foe. IXOTDOX. Sept- 4. It is announced officially that Dar-es-Salaam, the chief town of German Bast Africa, surren dered at 9 o'clock this morning. Dar-es-Salaam is the most Important seaport of German Fast Africa. Be fore the war it was the residence of a Governor and contained a military sta tion. It is on the Indian Ocean about 275 miles below the frontier of British Ka.it Africa. The town evidently fell before the British column which has been push ing down the coast, one of several ex peditionary forces sent out by the British. French. Belgian and Portu guese which are gradually surround ing the remaining German forces. Insane Patient Escapes. SALEM, Or.. Sept. 4. (Special.) Herman Newstrom. employed at the chicken ranch of the State Insane Hos pital, escaped last night. Newstrom was committed from Douglas County three years ago and is not dangerous. He Is thought to be making his way toward Lake Creek, where hi brother Uvea, f X - - - n 1 i - Vi - w -I. 4 I ftUEEV MARIE IX RED CROSS GARB. Queen Marie of Roumania Is one of the prettiest of Europe's royal ladies. She was formerly Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg. Now that Roumarla is at war, the Queen will probably take up the duties of a Red Cross nurse. ZEPL OSS ADMITTED Berlin Reports Destruction of Naval Airship in Raid. OTHERS RETURN SAFELY German Statement Tells of Heavy Damage Inflicted In Kngland. Copenhagen Reports Seeing Wrecked Dirigible. BERLIN, via London. Sept. 4. Offi cial announcement was made here to day that a German airship had been brought to earth on the night of Sep tember 2, "as a result of enemy fire." An official statement issued .by the German admiralty today concerning the Zeppelin raid on the southeastern counties of England last night, says: "During the night of September 2. several naval airship detachments bombarded the fortress of London and fortified places of Yarmouth and Har wich, as well as factories and places of strategical importance in the south eastern counties and on the Humber. Everywhere good effects were ob served both on account of violent fires which broke out and explosions. "At the same time, a number of army airships executed an attack on South ern England. LONDON. Sept. 4. Commenting on the German official statement regard ing Saturday night's Zeppelin raid on England, the British press bureau says: "The damage done, that is to say practically nil, is exactly what was reported in the official communique. There were no conflagrations of any importance and no explosions. There, moreover, is the strongest reason to believe that another airship in addi tion to the one destroyed, was very seriously damaged." An Exchange Telegraph Company dispatch from Copenhagen says that fishermen returning to Esberj, Den mark, report that they observed a badly damaged Zeppelin yesterday morning. The crew was throwing articles overboard and the fishermen believe that the Zeppelin fell into the water between Sylt Island and the Schleswig Coast. The dirigible was ac companied by four other Zeppelins, which were traveling eastward. EXECUTION HELD RIGHT FRENCH WOMAN CONDEMNED AS SPY AGAINST OWN LAND. They left Portland Tuesday morning and reached The Dalles Saturday niht. They walked from Hood River to The Dalles in one day when the tempera ture was 104 degrees. The only wild animals they saw on the trip were a porcupine, chipmunk, rabbit and garter snakes. They camped at Multnomah Falls, Cascade Locks, Mitchell Point and near Hood River." On their return trip they stopped at Collins and Stevenson, Wash., and vist ed friends and relatives. While at Stev enson, together with George E. O'Bry on and Waldo States, they climbed to Observation Peak, about 4000 feet high, and camped there overnight. They are now planning another hike for their next vacation. Paris Authorities Declare Case Entirely Unlike That of Edith Cavell, as Felice Pfaat Was Paid Agent. PARIS. Sept. 4. In view of recent German comment on the execution at Marseilles recently of Felice Pfaat. a spy. certain details of the case were made known authoritatively here to day. The statement that the woman was a German was denied and it was said that .the comparison of her case with that of Edith Cavell, the British nurse who was put to death by the Germans at Brussels, was unwarranted. According to this Information Felice Pfaat was a French woman, born at Nancy in 1890. She went to Belgium in 1914 to visit her mother. While there a German official proposed that she gather military information in Paris. They spent three weeks in Paris and then reported the results to Germans, who, she admitted, paid her 5000 francs to undertake another mis sion. Returning to Paris from Lauzanne, Switzerland, in July last year, she was expelled by the prefect of police. She went to Marseilles, where she boarded at a house frequented by army officers. She was caught in the act of spying and admitted that she had been com missioned to gather military informa tion. On July 10 she was -unanimously condemned to death by a court martial. WOMEN HOME FROM HIKE Camp Pitched on Roadside and Peak Ascended by Trampers. Llda M. O'Bryon, Mrs. E. C. Suther land and Mrs. Rodney Berger have returned from , hike to The DflJIeS. MICHIGAN AGGIES DINE Alumni Gather for Picnic at Oaks and Plan for Banquet. The annual picnic of the alumni and former students of the Michigan Agri cultural College, of Lansing. Mich., was held yesterday at the Oaks. Supper was served under cover of the audi torium at 6 o'clock. Plans were laid for the annual ban quet to be held in February, 1917. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bale, Mrs. A. G. Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Scofield, Mrs. John Burpee, of Aber deen, Wash.; Klnton B. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ewarts Weed, Edith Weed, Wilbur Weed. Thurlow Weed. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Thomas, Robert Thomas, Jr., Miss Mary Eastman and Mrs. Fay Eastman. BERLIN ADMITS BIG GAIN FOR RUSSIANS Czar's Troops Take Mount Plunka in Carpathians After Hot Battle. THENIV0KA RIVER CROSSED Teutons Ixise Many Prisoners to Army Which Sweeps Rapidly on to Hungarian Frontier. Turks Snffer Reverse. BERLIN, Sept. 4. (By wireless to Sayville.) After violent fighting, says the Austro-Hungarian statement Issued at Vienna yesterday. Mount Flunks, southwest of Rafailovo, In the Car pathians, was' taken by the Russians. PETROGRAD. via London. Sept. 4. The Russians have broken across the Theniovka River, a western tributary of the Zlota Lipa, and seized a posi tion of the Austro-German troops, the War Office announced today. They took 2721 prisoners and six machine guns. The Russian forces In the Car pathians, the announcement also says, have captured a whole series of moun tain heights and are advancing to the Hungarian frontier. Between Thursday and Saturday the troops of the Russian commander,. Gen eral Brussiloff. captured 885 officers and 19,020 men. In this number were 11 German officers and 1300 German privates. Twelve cannon. 76 machine guns and seven bomb mortars also were taken. The Russian victory was won in the neighborhood of -Brzezany, 60 miles southeast of Lemberg. Eighty officers and 2641 men were captured. A gas attack near Baranovichi was repulsed. In the vicinity of Vladimir-Volynskl, in Volhynia, fierce battles are in progress near Sheltuvov and Korytniza. Heavy engagements are also under way along the upper Sereth. The Russian army of the Caucasus has made- further progress, the War Office reports, pushing forward south of the River Elleu. In the region of Ognott 548 Turks were captured. DR. VON TOBEL RESIGNS Corvallls Pastor Accepts Call to In diana Church. CORVALLIS. Or.. Sept. 4. (Special.) In his pulpit Sunday morning. Dr. Von Tobel Informally presented his resignation as pastor of the Presby terian Church of this city. As an nounced last week he has accepted a call to go to Shelbyville, Indiana. Rev. Von Tobel has been here nearly two years. When he came the church had 270 members. It now has 400. Over 200 new members have been taken in the two-year period. At the time Dr. Von Tobel came there was an indebtedness of 716,500 on the church. It is now all paid off. At the beginning of his pastorate, the Corvallis church ranked 13th in mem bership in the state. It now- ranks sixth, taking in more members last year than any other church in Ore gon, except the First Presbyterian Church in Portland. Dr. and Mrs. Von Tobel will not leave for their home till about October 1. The Railroad Commission of California has authorized the sale of the capital toca of the Laton & Western Railroad, a 20 mile line in Fresno County, to the Califor nia, Arizona A Santa F Railway Company for the sum of fcl. OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS French. PARIS, Sept. 4. The French official statment today says: "North of the Somme the enemy attempted no counter attack during the night against the positions captured by us which our troops are organizing actively. Bad weather retarded opera tions. Up to the present 14 guns have been taken from the enemy. The capture of mogje prisoners is reported. "Eait and northwest of Fleury, where we maintained our gains, heavy fight ing with grenades is proceeding, 'ihe total number of unwounded prisoners taken by us in this sector exceeds 400. All fresh attempts by the enemy against our positions in Vaux-Chapitre wood were stopped. Further east an attack in great strength by Germans was caught by our curtain of fire. Tne enemy was obliged to return precipi tately to his trenches, having sustained appreciable losses." British. LONDON, Sept. 4. The British offi cial statement today says: "Fighting between the Somme and the Ancre was severe, the enemy mak ing determined counter attacks by heavy artillery fire. "The British advance almost every where was successful at the outset and most of the enemy's counter attacks, which cost him heavy losses, completely failed to shake the hold of the British troops on the ground won. The British line is the same as reported last night." Roumanian. BUCHAREST, Sept. 4. The official statement today says: "On our northern and northwestern fronts, after somewhat lively fighcing, we occupied the locality of Borszek and the heights west of that town. We cap tured four officers and 150 men and entirely occupied the inhabited region of Sekell (Sz Lelek) in Haromszek. "On the southern front the enemy attacked all along the whole Dobrudja frontier south of Basardjik, but was repulsed. On the remaindc - of the front the fighting continues. "The enemy bombarded Islacz and Kalafat. "Three hostile hydroaeroplanes dropped bombs on Constanza. Several children and civilians were wounded." (The towns of Borszek and Sz Lelek are in the extreme eastern portion of Transylvania. Barsardjik Is a fortified town in the extreme southeastern por tion 6f the Dobrukjan district of Rou mania, 'while Islacz and Kalafat are Roumanian frontier towns on the Dan ube River.) Monday's War Moves KEEPING up their strong offensive against the Germans north and south of the Somme River in France, the Anglo-French forces again have driven their lines forward and cap tured Important German positions. South of the Somme the village of Soyecourt an4fxt the .village of Vermandovillers have been captured, while seemingly more important still, the French have made fresh progress east of the village of Forest, which lies one and one-half miles southeast of the railroad town of Combles a gain which, taken with the capture of Guillemont on Sunday, seemingly out flanks Combles and apparently renders it untenable. More than B000 Germans have been made prisoner north and south of the Somme during the last two days. On the British right wing progress is reported north of Falfemont farm, while a German counter attack north west of Moquet farm was repulsed. In the Verdun sector Paris records a fresh gain near Fleury. Berlin, in admitting the claims of British and French successes in the fighting of Sunday in the Somme re gion, says the battle over the 18-mile front from Beaumont to the Somme was of the greatest ferocity. The Germans held their ground at Thlepval, north of Pozieres and near Ginchy, but Guillemont village and wood were lost, as likewise was Ginchy, but a counter attack of the Germans won back a por tion of the latter town. Again there is heavy fighting on the front in Russia west and southwest of Lutsk and north of Zborow and near Brezesany In Galicia, with the Russians generally the aggressors. Petrograd controverts the assertion of Berlin that the Russians obtained only local suc cesses, near Brezesany by the declara tion that the Russians won a victory over the Teutons here and took 2641 prisoners. In the Carpathian region, according to Petrograd. the Russians have captured an entire series of heights and are advanced to the Hun garian frontier. Along the Transylvanian front the Roumanians continue to press their advantage against the Austro Hungarians. Here they have cap tured additional towns and now are said to be bombarding the town of Hermannstadt, which is second In im portance only to Kronstadt. The Ger man and Bulgarian forces are attack ing along the entire front between Dubudrja and Bulgaria. Near Koemar, Berlin reports, the Roumanians were driven back with the loss of 700 men taken prisoner. In Albania the- Italians east of Avlona have taken the villages of Kutai and Brizar and Monte Gradist, The Germans have surrendered to the British Dar-Es-Salaam, Germany's chief seaport in East Africa. Considerable fighting Is .in progress in the Austro-Italian theater, but with out ar.y important changes in terrain having occurred. Berlin admits the loss of an airship the night of September 2. 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PREMIER HAS FULL POWER Silent Moves Made at Athens to Concentrate Rule and Let One Man Say What Shall Be Na tion's Course In AVar. ATHENS, Sept. 3. via London. Sept. 4. Seizing the opportunity offered by the presence at Piraeus, within gun shot of Athens, of a large fleet of tne entente nations. Premier Zalmis has assumed unobtrusively what amounts virtually to dictatorial powers. All Is now in readiness for the final act to end the neutrality of Greece. While the people of Athens were be ing mildly amused at the spectacle of allied sailors and secret police pur suing German agents about the streets, a profound change in the status of af fairs was executed quietly. Premier Zaimis is now in a position to swing the whole country as he will, unem barrassed by any dissenting popular opinion or hostile Parliamentary con trol. The first step which placed fall power in the hands of the Premier was taken when he forbade public gather ings last Wednesdsay. The arrange ment of Friday whereby the issuance of thu decree dissolving the now ad journed Parliament and calling new elections was postponed indefinitely, disposed effectually of any Parliamen tary interference with the policy of the government. Finally the Premier yes terday requested and received the un qualified support of the leaders of the Venizelos party and of the party op posed to Venizelos. thus giving the present temporary Cabinet a politically representative character and complet ing the necessary preparations which may be decided on by the ministry be hind closed doors. Greece may now find herself at war overnight at the bidding of a single individual, who is neither King Constantino nor former Premier Venizelos. The solution of the political muddle which has kept Greece In a condition of wavering neutrality for two years was effected quietly and the public was not aware of the extent to which the constitution of Greece was virtually set aside or of the manner in which power was concentrated in the hands of the Premier. The formation by M. Zaimis of a new ministry in which all parties will be represented is a ques tion of only a few days. "Meanwhile the allies are rapidly rid ding Athens and Piraeus of Austrian and German agents. LEADERS STATE HOPES JACKSON CLUB MEMBERS EXPRESS ENTHUSIASM. Wilson's Re-election Is Predicted by Speakers Who Tell of Rea sons for Faith. Woodrow Wilson's re-election was predicted by various enthusiastic Dem ocratic authorities before the Jackson Club, a Democratic political organiza tion, at its regular meeting at the Public Library last night. Oglesby Young presided. The principal speaker was Judge Samuel White, Democratic state chair man, who has Just returned from a visit to the East, on which he called on the President. He said that his in formation proved to him conclusively that President Wilson will be returned to the White House with an overwhelm ing plurality. A most significant development of the present campaign, he said, is the declaration of Thomas A. Edison that he will support the President. Many of the clearest thinkers in America, added Judge White, no longer regard party fealty as sufficient cause to sup port a candidate for office, and for that reason the independent voter this year will, support the President, he said. E. J. Stack, secretary of the Central Labor Council and a prominent labor leader, told why he expects to vote for Wilson. He enumerated some of the items of legislation enacted by Con gress at the suggestion of the Presi dent and asserted that every laboring man should support him for re-election. 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