TITE MORNING OREGOXIAN, BATUEDAT, DECEMBER 0, 1916.
GERMANY DEFENDS
POLICY IfJ BELGIUM
Transfer of Workmen Held So
cial Necessity and Noi
Hardship on People.
LABOR SITUATION WORSE
TTnemploj merit in Industries De
clared Due Largely to British
Kmbargo Idleness Said to
, l", Kesult in Depravity.
BffiftLIN, Dee. 7. via London, Dec. S.
The German government issued a state
ment today in explanation and Justifi
cation of the transfer of Belgian la
borers to Germanr. It says the meas
ure is by no means a hardship for the
laborers, but is a social necessity.
Owing: chiefly to the British embargo
against Belgium's overseas trade,
which before the war employed a large
part of the industrial population, large
numbers of Belgian workers are Idle,
the statement says, and conditions are
growing worse. Many families have
become objects of public charity. This
Ftate of things is not due, as asserted
in Belgium, to German requisitions of
raw material, it is explained, for these
requisitions occurred, as a rule, only
where factories were unable to con
tinue operations.
Large Nnmben Without Work.
Of 1,200.000 employes engaged in
Belgian industries before the war, 505.
000. including 158,000 uromen, are now
wholly without work and 150.000. in
cluding 46,000 women, are partly with
out work, making a total of 655,000
persons dependent on public aid. In
addition to these, there are 293,000
wi- es and 612,000 children of men with
out work, so that 1,560.000 persons, or
one-fifth of the total Belgian popula
tion, require assistance. More than
200,000,000 francs already has been
Fpr-nt. i; euprrting these persons and
20.000.000 francs monthly will be re
quired henceforth.
These masses of idle people, the
Kintement says, are degenerating and
drunkenness and social depravity are
resulting.
Public Works Initiated.
The German Governor-General. Gen
eral Von Bissing. early recognized the
necessity of taking measures to help
the idle to obtain employment. He
caused municipalities to undertake pub
lic works to create employment, where
this was possible without imposing too
irreat financial burdens. Upon the sug
gestion cf Belgians of practical insight,
the Governor-General issued an ordi
nance in August, 1915. against persons
unwilling to work, which was made
more stringent last March. These or
dinances provide for compulsory trans
fer of workmen only when idle per
sons refused to accept work at rea
sonable pay without adequate reasons,
the previsions of international law prr
tecting them against working on war
material being recognized as adequate
ground.
The ordinances were directed chiefly
against organized influences aiming to
prevent laborers from accepting work
voluntarily only because it was offered
by Germans. Nevertheless, tens of
thousands of them voluntarily accepted
work 'n Germany at profitable wages.
Labor Sltuntlon Growa Worse.
The statement goes on to say that
the labor situation In Belgium has
grown worte and that conditions are
now such as to necessitate improve
ment; hence the ordinances must be
enforced more vigorously in order to
relieve the situation. Before compul
sory transport, however, every idle
person is offered the opportunity vol
untarily to accept profitable work on
contract, and compulsion is resorted to
only where the laborer stubbornly re
fuses. Workmen coming "to Germany are
placed on the same footing as Germans
and are earning higher wages than
they ever received In Belgium. Steps
have been taken to send part of their
ea'rnings to their families in Belgium.
The laborers also are permitted to
mn.ke regular visits to their homes,
and families are allowed to accompany
them to Germany if that is desired.
Provision also is made for religious
services in their own language.
Official War Reports.
capture of this force was announced
fn yesterday's supplemental army
headquarter'a report.)
French.
PARIS, Dec. 8. The Germans last
night were driven out of the trenches
which they had captured on the east
ern side of Hill 340 on the Verdun
front, it is announced officially. The
communication follows:
"On the left bank of the River Meuse
we have driven out the. enemy from a
section 'of trenches on the eastern
slopes of Hill 304, which they occupied
on December 6. Everywhere else last
night passed quietly."
British.
LONDON. Dec. 8. The official com
munication from British headquarters,
issued tonight, says:
"During the day the enemy shelled
our front south of the Ancre and in
Gueudecourt and Ransart areas. We
retaliated by bombarding various posi
tions behind the enemy's lines. Our
trench mortars were active southeast
of Armentieres."
Italian.
ROME, via London. Dec. 8. "On the
Trentino front, where persistent snow
falls are impeding operations, there
were only small patrol encounters."
says today's War Office announcement.
"On the Carso there were intense
artillery duels, notwithstanding the
heavy rain. During the night we re
pulsed an enemy attack north of Bosco
malo Ludilog."
8000 ROUMANIANS
ARE MADE CAPTIVE
German Victory Disproves En
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Germans In Macedonia.
EERLIN. Dec. 8. (By wireless to
Sayville. N. T.) "On the Macedonian
front last night attacks made by
Serbian troops near Trnova in the
Cerna River region were repulsed by
the Germans and Bulgarians," the War
Office announces. "Renewed British at
tacks In the Struma sector also failed."
Progress of the War.
PURSUIT of the retiring Russian and
Roumanian forces in Eastern Wal
lachia by Field Marshal von Mackensen
continues, but how far the Teutonic
advance has progressed is not known.
Seemingly the retiring defenders of
Roumanian soil are offering little re
sistance and are endeavoring to reach
the line of the Buzeu River before the
Austro-Germane can break through the
Moldavian frontier and get in their rear.
or the Bulgarians and Germans can
cross the Danube around Tchernavado
and outflank them. The Germans have
repulsed a Russian attack in the Trotus
Valley and the Russians report the
checking of an offensive movement In
the Oituz Valley. Petrosraa says all
has been calm in Dobrudja and along
the Danube.
In the rounding up of the forces cut
off by their advance on Bucharest the
troops of Von Mackensen have captured
18.000 prisoners and 26 guns. The Rou
manian troops isolated in Western Wal
lachia, numbering 8000, have been
taken, as well as 10,000 of the forces
operating around Predeal and Altchanz
passes.
The Russians have again taken the
initiative In the Carpathians, Petro
grad says, south of Jarovnik. Berlin
says the Russian offensive is a failure
and declares only local attacks have oc
curred in that region. The repulse of
a Russian attack on the Dvina front,
below Riga, also is recorded by Berlin.
Hill 304, in the Verdun region, and
the forests of Apremont have been the
scenes of the only reported activity on
the western front. Paris says the
Germans were ejected from a section of
the trenches on Hill 304, but Berlin as
serts the troops of the Crown Prince
repulsed French attempts to retake the
trenches. The Germans, Paris records,
succeeded in gaining a footing in
French trenches in the forest of Apre
mont, but were later ejected.
Heavy fighting around Struvina, on
the Macedonian front, is recorded by
Paris, which says the Serbians checked
three attacks by German and Bulgar
ian troops. Serbian attacks near
Trnova, west of Monastir, were re
pulsed, Berlin says.
Failure Through Obvious Fault of
Others Could Be Followed by
War With Good Conscience,
Says Socialist Editor.
BERLIN. Dec. 7. (By wireless to
Sayville, N. .T.) The surrender of a
force of 8000 Roumanians is announced
by the War Office in the official state
ment issued tonight.
The Socialist newspaper, Vorwaerts,
n an editorial on the capture of Bu
charest, expresses the view that the
hief significance of the victory lies in
the disproof it furnishes of the entente
assertions that Chancellor von Beth-mann-Hollweg's
expressed willingness
to make peace is dictated by Germany's
weakness. The newspaper argues that
the presentmoment is especially suitt-d
to further efforts for peace, as the Teu-
onic conquests in Roumanla make fur
ther entente talk about Germany s
weakness ridiculous.
Entente VlevTs Ridiculed.
The people were lied to," continues
the article, "when they were told that
Germany was about to break down.
They were lied to when they were tojd
tnat Germany wanted peace in oraer to
escape sure defeat and cheat her ene
mies out of a certain victory.
It asks who can, after Bucharest,
dare interpret German peace spe-iches
as signs of weakness. ice article
concludes:
Never has peace been talked louder
or more passionately in Germany than
during the last few weeks, yet pre
cisely these weeks have matured what
probably Is the most wonderful suc
cess Germany has achieved during Lola
war. Foreign governments lacn the
courage to make peace. The German
government can and must have it. It
muet manifest that courage until the
peoples on the other side sweep away
the governments which can neither win
victories nor conclude peace. .
Further Effort Favored.
The attempt must be made and if it
fails through the obvious fault of oth
ers, then we can go on with a good
conscience until the next time and our
soldiers will resume their march."
LONDON, Dec. 8. An Amsterdam dis
patch to Reuter's quotes the Berlin
Vorwaerts as saying in reference to the
salutes and bell ringings in celebration
of the fall of Bucharest:
Let us hope that all German news
paper writers will not regard them
selves as either gun or bells. Even if
ustified in feeling proud we should
remain moderate. The victory !n Rou
mania is a victory of defense and does
not open the prospect of dividing ths
world among us and our allies. O ir
enemies may suffer still greater de
feats but will remain ctrong and can
still, without appearing ridiculous, say
hat although beaten tney are not con
quered. They recognize defeat lut be-
leve they must be eventually victorious.
For this reason Sturmer was replaced
by Trepoff and Asquith by Lloyd
George. We yet dare to say, and if the
governments dislike to hear it must
shout it in the ears of the nations that
we desire peace.
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GERM AN V AND ATJSTRIA TENDER
THEIR SERVICES.
BERLIN, Dec. 8. (By wireless to
Sayville, N. Y.) Further prog
ress has been made by Field Marshal
von Mackeneen's forces in their pur
suit of the retreating Roumanians, it
Is officially announced tonight. The
statement reads:
"Front of Archduke Joseph After
the failure of the great relieving of
fensive in the Carpathians, the Rus
sians have only undertaken local at
tacks. Yesterday they eeveral times
drove against our lines on the Ludova
and in the Trotus Valley. They were
sanguinarily repulsed.
"Front of Field Marshal von Mack
ensen Our advance against and across
the Buchareet-Ploechti line proceeded
so rapidly that the Roumanians lo
cated in the frontier mountains, in the
Predeal and Altschanz passes had no
chance to retreat in time. On their
retirement they encountered German
ana Austro-Hungarian troops, and, be
ing pressed from the north, a majority
of them already has been made pris
oner. "Between the mountains and the Dan
ube the pursuit is proceeding. The
Ninth Army yesterday took more than
10.000 prisoners.
"On the Alt the Roumanian forces
cut off in Western Roumania met their
unavoidable fate. Colonel von Szive,
with Austro-Hungarian and German
troops under his command, on Decem
ber 6 forced them to eurrender. Ten
battalions, one squadron and six bat
teries, numbering 8000 men, with 26
cannon, laid flown their arms." (The
I that - Y,)
COLUMBIA: P L
A victor, mi
Ventzellat Prisoner In Athena Are
Jeered as They Are Led Tbrongli
Streets Tied In Foam.
LONDON. Dec. 8. A dispatch from
Switzerland, as forwarded from Rome
to the Wireless Press, says Germany
and Austria have offered their serv
ices to Greece Jn opening land com
munications if Greece declares war on
the entente.
A Reuter dispatch from Athens under
date of Monday. December 4. says:
"The Venizelist prisoners today were
transferred from the Parliament House,
where they had been detained, to the
Averoff prison. They were led through
the stadium street tied in fours and
followed by a Jeering crowd."
ATHENS. Dec. 7. via London. Dec. 8.
The blockade of Greece ' begins offi
cially at 8 o'clock tomorrow (Friday)
morning.
The members of the British naval
mission have been ordered to embark
on the Greek Trans-Atlantic liner King
Constantlne.
In response to the demand of the
entente yesterday for an explanation of
the movements of Greek troops, the
government has explained that these
movements have ceased.
PARIS PRESS SATISFIED
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN GOVERN.
MEXT IS APPROVED.
Figaro, However, Obaerves Tnat Oppo-
itftion Increased Greatly Between
Two Secret Chamber Sessions.
PARIS, Dec 8. The vote of confi
dence passed by the Chamber of Depu
ties yesterday is on the "whole well re
ceived by the press, which expresses
the hope that the measures promised in
the resolution may be carried out
speedily and energetically and above all
thoroughly. The Figaro, which repre
sents the temperate opinion and is well
disposed toward the Ministry, says:
"Bound by forced discretion, we can
only remark, that the chamber was In a
state of excitement and that in jpite of
attacks which we can see from certain
public utterances were leveled against
the government, the majority of the
deputies rallied around it and recorded
their confidence in Premier Briand.
"But we must also note that the
minority increased between the first
and second secret session.. Last June
the opposition to the Cabinet numbered
only 97 voices. Today it numbers 160
The number of discontents or impatients
has doubled.
The government of Indiana has pro
hibited the Importation of sulphur
CHILD TO BE TOPIC TODAY
Civic League to Hear Ir. Slingerland
at Multnomah Luncheon.
Members of the Women's Political
Study Club and various other organiza
tions in the city have been invited by
the Civic League to attend its pro
gramme on "Child Welfare," which will
be held at the luncheon at the. Multno
mah Hotel at noon today.
The programme of local speakers.
which was set aside because of the op
position of the Federation of Women's
Clubs, has given place to a. programme
n which will appear one of the most
prominent child-welfare authorities in
the United States. Dr. W. H. Slinger
land. Bishop W. T. Sumner will be the
other speaker.
LOSS. IN AIR IS HEAVY
Germans Say They Lost 31 Planes,
Foe 71, In Xovemben
BERLIN, Dec. 8. (By wireless to
Sayville, N. Y.) "Although the weather
for the most part was unfavorable for
our aerial forces, great successes were
gained in November also," says an of
ficial statement given out today.
"Our losses were 31 airplanes in the
western, eastern. Roumanian and Balk
an war theaters. Our enemies lost 71
airplanes in aerial fights, 16 snot down
from the ground and seven by In
voluntary landings, eo that the total
enemy, loss was 94 airplanes. Of these,
42 are in our hands and 52 were seen
to fail down behind, the lines."
SUBSTITUTE PLAN SOUGHT
(Continued From First Page.)
and in the meantime labor leaders, em
ployers and the President can be car
rying on their negotiations.
If no substitute plan can be agreed
upon, the Congressional machinery will
be ready for rushing the President's
programme, in whatever form he mav
aesire, to a speedy vote. If it -should
include a compulsory arbitration fea
ture, organized labor is expected to
mane trie light of its life against it.
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WARSHIP AND 730 LOST
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ING FROJI SlFFUEJi.
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ber 24, When She Sailed From
Levant, Believed Sunk.
PARIS. Dec. 8. The battleship Suf
fren, which left port on November 24,
has not been heard from since and the
Minister of Marine considers the vessel
lost with all on board.
The Suffren left port on November
24 for Lorient, a French naval station
in Brittany.
The Suffren displaced 12,750 tons. Her
normal complement was 730 men. She
was 410 feet Ions and 70 feet of beam
and was laid down in 1899. She was
armed with four 12-inch, 10 6.4-inch
and eight 4-inch guns, 22 three-pounders
and four torpedo tubes.
Last year the Suffren took part in
fhn hombardment of the Turkish forts
at the Dardanelles. She entered the
straits to attack Turkish batteries, and
according- to an official Turkish an
nouncement was damaged seriously
and withdrew in flames. She was sent
back to Toulon for repairs.
CREAMERY APPEAL WINS
Hazelwood Manager Held Not Guilty
In Butterfat Test Case.
rari shflliine-fr. noanasrer of the
Hazelwood Creamery, was found not
eulltv of under-readine the Babcock
test for the determination of the per
centage of butterrat In cream, oy cir
cuit Judge Davis yesterday, on his ap
peal from a fine of J75 levied by Dis
trict Judge Dayton.
W. M. Sanders, Jr., of Hermlston, was
the complaining witness. He testified
that, the readings or tne tiazeiwooa
Cnrtmamr ahnw.t f rfl m 1.2 to 3.5 Dfir
cent less butterfat than those of an
other cream company. tie took vne
matter before J. D. Mickle, State Food
and Dairy Commissioner.
Judge Davis held that the variance
was a normal one, and did not hold
that the creamery manager had vio
lated the food laws of the state.
PROTEST NOTE GIVEN OUT
(Continued From First Pas.)
the German government to deport from
Belgium a portion of the civilian pop
ulation for the purpose of forcing them
to labor in' Germany, and is constrained
to protest in a friendly spirit, but most
solemnly, against this action, which is
in contravention of all precedents and
of those humane principles of inter
national practice which long have been
accepted and followed by civilized na
tions in" their treatmept of noncom
batants. "Interview Has Taken Flace.
" 'Furthermore, the Government of
the United States is convinced the
effect of this policy, if pursued, will
in all probability be fatal to the Belgian
relief work, so humanely planned and
so successfully carried out, a result
which would.be generally deplored and
which. It is assumed, would seriously
embarrass the German government.'
"The Interview has taken place."
EFFECT OX RELIEF EXPLAINED
Duke of Norfolk Says Germans Have
Violated Understanding.
LONDON. Dec. 8. The Duke of Nor
folk, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the national committee for
relief in Belgium, today, gave the As
sociated Press the following statement
in regard to the effect the deportation
of Belgians will have on the American
relief commission:
"The recent order issued by the mil
itary governor of Brussels throws fur
ther light on the German methods in
Belgium. It requested the delivery
without delay of lists of unemployed
under threats of rigorous measures and
in default of which the German author
ities will themselves select Belgians to
be transported to Germany. The lists
which are demanded are those drawn
up for the relief commission and the
national commission.
"This is directly contrary to the con
ditions laid down by the allies and
accepted by the German authorities at
the outset of the negotiations in re
gard to relief measures. On June 7,
1915, Lord Crewe (Lord President of the
Council), writing to Mr. Page, tire
American Ambassador in London,
stated expressly that if the German
authorities desire to use the machin
ery of the commission and he national
committee for the purpose of coercing
the working population of Belgium to
employ themselves against their own
will and conscience, directly or indi
rectly, in the service of, or for the
benefit of the occupying army, they
must themselves provide for the re
lief of these bodies and all arrange
ments between His Majesty's govern
ment and the commission muet cease.
"The condition was accepted by the
GeBnan Governor of Belgium. who
bound himself in express terms in a
dispatch from Baron von der Lancken.
civil Governor of Brussels, to Minister
Whitloc'k on July 25. 1915. as follows:
That the .Governor-General will not
make use of the national committee to
force the Belgian population to employ
itself in the service of the German army
contrary to the stipulations of The
Hague Convention.'
"That the lists of unemployed now
demanded are those drawn up for pur
poses of relief is admitted by the Ger
mans The Noraaeutsche Allegemeine
Zeitung, on November 19. says that the
Belgian Municipality refused to supply
the Germans with lists of unemployed
in their districts, and which they had
drawn up for the American Relief Com
mission. In consequence, control hail
at first to be extended to the whole
population.
"We also know that Counsellor Eche
vinol, of Brussels, was arrested for re
fusing to give up such a list.
"On their own admission, therefore,
the Germans violate the undertaking
given by the German government in
Belgium when they demand the use of
the machinery of theAmerican Relief
Commission for the purpose of forced
labor and the refusal to give up the
lists drawn up for'this commission is
used to justify the transportation of
others than the unemployed."
Liquor Now Contraband in Arizona.
PHOENIX, Ariz.. Dec. 8. The con
stitut.onal pronibition amendment
adopted at the November election be
came effective tonight with the is
suance by Governor George W. P.
Hunt of a proclamation. Liquor now
in the state, according to the law, be
comes contrsbnnd.
basis of statements that more than
100,000 persons had been deported to
Germany and that the daily rate was
nearly 3000. England later, in an offi
cial statement, threatened the discon
tlnuance of American relief work un
less the deportations ceased.
Information in the hands of the de
partment contains press dispatches and
statements of the Belgian and British
governments showing that whole sec
tions of Belgium have been systemat
ically stripped of workmen.
The note, with the department's
statement making it public, follows:
"On November 29, Mr. Grew, our
charge at Berlin, was directed tp ob
tain an interview with the German
Chancellor and read to him the fol
lowing:
. " 'The Government of the United
States has learned with the greatest
concern and regret of the policy of
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The Spirit of Christmas
THE spirit of Christmas is the spirit of
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Steadily the express has builded its reputation
for both fidelity and dispatch In the handling'
of its business; yet it is in the flood-tide of
Christmas shipments that its service is put to
the greatest test.
It is at this time that Wells Fargo needs most the
co-operation of its patrons in order that it may
handle without delay its millions of Christmas
packages. Therefore we make an 'earnest request
that you ship early this Christmas. To help you do
this we furnish attractive labels requesting the re
cipient of vour packages not to open them until
Christmas day.
Wells Fargo & Co Express
matcnea.