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THE 3IOIH5TXG OREGOXTAX, SATTTRDAT, JAXtJART 20, 1917. POIHGARE " OPPOSES TEMPORARY PEACE French President Comments on Wilson's Note and. Friendship for America. REPARATION IS DEMANDED tivlty. and Field Marshal von Macken sen apparently has been checked' in his advance on the Sereth River. On the western front there have been several small patrol engagements along- the British portion of the line. On the remainder of the front the op posing artillery wings continue to hammer hostile trenches. Near Zborow. In Galicla. an Austro Gerinan raid -was frustrated by the Russians, who drove the Invaders out after they had entered some trenches. An Austrian offensive near Oppachla selli, south of Gorizia. on the Carso, failed under Italian artillery tire, Rome reports. Entente warships continue their search for the German raider In the Atlantic No additional losses due to the raider's activity have been reported. fTatlon Keels That It Is Fighting on Defensive, bat Is Not Will ing to Bo Obliged ; to De fend Itself Perpetually. Three neutral vessels, two Spanish and one Danish, have been sunk, an an nouncement from London says, and ' in addition a Norwegian steamer is be lieved to have gone down. PARIS, Jan. 19. President Poincare has received Edward Marshall, an American newspaper writer, at the Palace of the Elysee, and talked with him In regard to President Wilson's note and the reply of the entente al lies. The crux of the interview ap pears in these words of the President: "We. are condemned to continue the war until we, our gallant allies and ourselves, can obtain the reparation and guarantees rendered Indispensable by the aggressions of which we have been the victims, by the sacrifices to which we have subjected ourselves, and by the losses which we have suf fered." Relations With America Closer. "May I tell America that France is our friend, even though we are not fighting with her?" the American vis itor asked. "The United States of America and France are closely united by Inefface able common recollections, by the same political traditions, by the same at tachment to free institutions." said President Poincare. "This war, which Germany unloosed upon Europe and which France did everything to avoid, could not alter the good relations be tween the United States and France. It has even made them closer and strengthened them. "The United States," M. Poincare continued thoughtfully, "has remained neutral, but the sympathies of indi viduals in every section have mani fested themselves in favor of France and her allies. We have been deeply moved by Innumerable demonstrations of friendship. Belgium Held Symbolical. "The violation of Belgium brings out the symbolical significance of this whole war. Germany was not satisfied with declaring war on us without prov ocatlon; she had willed to butcher us without warning, and. to .attain that end, she trampled under her feet in passing a little, innocent people. This is enough evidence by which to Judge the responsibilities of our enemies; it is enough to define the nature of the struggle in which we are engaged." "Are you willing to, make some com ment with regard to .fresiaent wu eon's note?" the correspondent asked. "Knowing as we do the feelings of America, we have not failed to under stand the thought which inspired the recent initiative of President Wilson,' M. Poincare replied. "We are at once convinced that. In the mind of the 11 lustrous President the suggestion made to the belligerents was in accord with the traditional friendship - between our two nations. But, being conscious that we are fighting for mankind, we find ourselves without the right to lay down our weapons before we can sign a ceace really humane and which would scare the world from the rep tltion of such a terrible catastrophe as this war. Germany Not Ttlpe for Peace. "Unhappily, it is certain that Ger many, who now pretends to consider herself victorious, although she can hardly entertain any doubt as to the end. Is not ripe as yet for such a neces' sary peace. "The answer which the allied na tions collectively have just given to President Wilson is perfectly clear in this respect. For our part, we have nothing to conceal. We were attacked. We are defending ourselves. But we are not willing to be obliged to defend ourselves perpetually against fresh mined to have reparations for tHe past and guarantees for the future. "You feel that the President was Justified in putting to the belligerent powers the questions which he asked?" "It will not be from our side," said President Poincare, "that will come any repulse of the generous Ideas of President Wilson regarding the lnter nntionni h srreemen ts to be concluded as soon as the peace is signed in order to assure respect for the pieages given. Restoration Put First. "On the contrary, we very willingly shall associate ourselves with his noble Intentions. But in order that such un derstandings later may produce their full, beneticent effect, we must begin by restoring the right violated, and by protecting Europe against a peace which would contain the germ of fu tiir outrages." The correspondent asked President Poincare whether France felt the re turn of her lost provinces, Alsace and IjArr&tnA. as well as the restoration of Belgium, essential to the conclusion of a satisfactory peace. "In our reply," said the President, "we also have spoken of the restltu tlon of provinces torn away in the past hv main strength or separates iroin us aealnit the will of their Inhabitants, Note this, that during 44 years France has strangled the pain which her old wounds have caused her. in 1S71 Germany took from he aiho. and Lorraine. against th ii nan imous wish of the inhabitants. Whatever may have been the burning msrret which she felt for this. France never would have been willing to make a war of revenge. "Instead we waited, taking caro to avoid all occasions for conflict. France proved herself patient and resigned, she endured provocations such as that ..f irniilr and many others. "But today, when war has been de oinrcxi unon her without Just motives todav when her blood has been poured out through the fault of others, how onld she fail to claim vindication rn,.r,ri.d unon right and Justice? Pres Ident Wilson and the people of the United States certainly will understand the high moval Import oi tne answer o the allies. An explosion, which the British Min istry of Munitions fears was attended y considerable loss of life and dam age to property, occurred Friday in a munition factory near London. CAPTORS ABE ACCUSED ERHANg SAY THET WERE COM PELLED TO WORK UNDER FIRE. Prisoners Said to Have Been Lodged la Depot Exposed to Artillery "With Heavy Casualties. . BERLIN, Jan. 19. (By wireless to Sayville, N. T.) The Overseas News Agency gave out . the following for publication: The Zeltung am Mittag has pub lished the details of the report of a ergeant-major of prisoners, a corporal f telephone detachment and a gren adier, all of whom declared Germans taken prisoner by the French were co- rced Into doing work directly coll ected with the war. This was done by the direct orders of the chief com mander on the Verdun front, that is. General Nlvelle, in supreme command of the French forces on the west front. The. statements made by these three soldiers, who escaped from the French, follow: 'Without interruption. German prisoners are forced to work in faca of violent artillery fire, and in spite of daily sanguinary losses, to do work on roads and railroads carrying am munition and material, while the French from behind shoot at them if they attempt to escape from the zone of fire. If prisoners are new to the work, the leaders of the detachments receive threats that they will be shot. according to the order of the chief commander of the army. 'Those taken prisoner were lodged near a depot at Bailey-Court, not far from Verdun, where they were exposed to a strong artillery fire. Their losses were 25 men within two months.' " Progress of the War. A RTILLERT bombardments and pa XJL trol engagements appear to be occupying the armies on the entrenched war fronts of Europe. Current official communiaues from the capitals of th warring nations mentioned no hard lighting except on the western end ol the front In Moldavia. Austro-German guns are pounding at Ocna. a railroad town In the Trotu Vallev. according to Petrograd. In th Suchitza Valley, farther southward. Russian attacks. Berlin says, failed with heavy losses. On the eastern end of the front between Fokshani and Galats there has been no important ac- ENTENTE RULE OVER OTHERS CRITICISED German Charges Inconsisten cy in Demand for Segrega tion of Nationalities. IRISH AMONG-MANY CITED Why Not - Ask That Texas Bo Re turned to Mexico? Asks Re viewer of Reply to Peace Note of President Wilson. 000 U-BOATS BUILDING GERMANS BELIEVE SUBMARINES WILL BRING VICTORY. Neutral Writer 1b Cologne Says Berlin Hopes to Gain Place of Dictator of Terms of Peace. LONDON, Jan. 19. The Times prints an article this morning by a neutral the article purporting to be dispatched from Cologne January 12. uncensored. It deals, among other things, with sub marines, and says: 'While it is true that the big sub marines have not been the success ex pected. the feverish building of sub marine parts in various manufactur- ng towns seems to indicate that the government shares the general opinion, which is spreading everywhere in tier. many, that the submarine can snatch victory out of the present abysmal gloom. The correspondent quotes the head of one of the largest manufacturing concerns in Europe who is a strong advocate of peace as saying that the point of view of the German govern ment is that the war is settling down to a starvation match between Ger many and her enemies, and that the submarines may place Germany in position to dictate terms. . "More than lyvo submarines, said this man, "are now in course of con struction; 300 are in use and fewer than 100 have been lost from all causes. Submarine crews are being trained in 12 weeks. Submarines are operating In the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and communication between Holland and England continues only by permission of the German government, which, for its own purposes, allows certain steamers to run." Spring. The case aroused considerable interest at the time because of the amount be bad been able t make away with by Issuing money orders to him self and because of allegations that he had been led ' into wrongdoing by a woman resident of the Dry Lake section. WAR IS TERMED "INVASION" Kill In French Chamber Would Fix "German" to Designation. PARIS, Jan. 19. Jules Roche. Re publican Deputy tor Ardeche. intro duced a bill in the Chamber of Depu ties today requiring government offi cials, officers. Judges, newspapers and everyone making any public reference to the war to name it "the German invasion" under penalties provided for those aiding the countries hostile to France. The object of the measure, the Deputy says, is to prevent a false conception historically of the origin of the war. M. Roche and his colleagues support ing the bill point out that history refers to certain previous wars as in vasions by Attila, by the Teutons and by the Cimbrians. BERLIN, Jan. 19. (By wireless to Sayville. N. T.) A member of the Ger man Reichstag, Mathias Erzberger, one of the leaders of the Catholic Centru party, has expressed to the Overseas News Agency his opinion of tho entente allies' reply to President Wilson. Herr Erzberger is quoted as saying: 1 he entente want the reorganization of Europe from top to bottom, and wish to base this reorganization upon cer tain principles which are not always consistent with each other and often even clash among themselves. In the first place, the entente want to base this upon 'respect of nationali ties and of the rights of all small and large nations,' and in the second place the entente desire that the provinces and districts which were formerly taken from tho entente by force or against the will of their inhabitants shall be given back." The entente con tends, at the same time, that she her self ought to be Judge and plalntKf in one and that she herself be established as court and render Judgment. It goes without saying that these strange proceedings are only suggested order to banish the territory of the central powers and replace that of the entente powers. Why should only the central powers 'back out of all the ter ritory which formerly belonged to the entente powers? Why not go one step further .and suggest that the entente nations also ought to follow this prin ciple of historical custom? Entente Possessions Cited. I do not want to speak of the ter ritory which under those conditions France ought perhaps to yield to Eng land on account of former territorial status, but Savoy and at least parts of Malta and Corsica certainly ought to be returned to Italy. France ought to receive part of Canada, and Roumanla ought to have the best territory of all. and Ireland ought to be freed. Perhaps It would be sensible to take one more step Into the future and say tne countries of the entente ought also to respect the historical rights of na tions now neutral and give South Africa to the Teutonic powers and Gibraltar to the Spaniards. By doing so the entente certainly would achieve the glory of disinterested idealism and could sug gest the same course of action to neu trals to whom their note was addressed. Why does the entente not ask that "fexaa be -returned' to Mexico? "The entente even pretends that it always respected small nations, al though Greece almost at the moment the entente note was made public once more issued to the whole world an ap peal for help in her distress caused by the brutallzation of a small neutral sovereign state. Apparently the Eng lish still hope to be able to persuade the world that they are enthusiastic citizens of a free nation and that the Boers by their own free will took ref uge under the Union Jack. Revolutions Are Recalled. "I have been told that England would try to refute this by pointing to the Irish and Boer soldiers In the English army. I do not want to discuss here how far thes"e men acted from free, voluntary decision and ..not in conse quence of economic distress or economic pressure. I want to consider only the plain facts, and everybody knows that during this world's war' there were revolutions In South Africa and Ireland that had to be suppressed with an iron fist. "Only a few days ago the British re leased South African rebels who for almost two years had suffered in Jail. Ireland is ruled by a brutal, military dictation, which in these days Is car ried out even to the extent that its theaters are forbidden to give repre sentations from Irish history. All this apparently is done in order to apply the principle of nationalities in the fashion understood by the entente. "If the entente really wishes to carry out the principles of nationalities I can reply that it would then be necessary to establish Independent negro repub lics In some of the Southern states of the American Union. LEPER BREAKS QUARANTINE Anxious California Mothers Keep Their Children Indoors. VALLEJO. Cal., Jan. 19. Anton Banates, a leper assigned to m Isolated shack near the County Hos pital, was missing today, arid anxious mothers kept their children indoors. No man hunt, officials said, would be organized Just at this moment, .be cause no man could be found who knew exactly what he would do If he encountered the outcast. The police de partment of Vallejo stood firmly on the statement that It had received no official notification he was at large. A scow on which Banates lived lor a while was Durnea i.t his"-. . " left his shack at the county iiospnai lata yesterday. 428,000 PRISONERS ADDED More Than 500 Guns, 1661 Ma chine Guns Russian Booty in 1916. LONDON. Jan. 19. More than 428,000 officers and men were taken prisoner by the Russians during the last year and 625 guns captured, according to the Russian servtBre organ, as quotea in Central News dispatch from Petrograd today. The Journal closes its review of the "war operations during the year with the following approximate figures of men and booty taken: Officers. 8770: men, 420.000: ?uns, 626; machine guns, 1661; trench mortars and mine throwers, 421. More than 80 per cent of the fore going was yielded by the operations of General Brusslloff. STATUS OF WOMEN ASKED Resolution Before House Would Query President. WASHINGTON. Jan. 19. A resolution requesting President Wilson to inform the House to what extent sex is a lac- tor in selections for appointments, transfers, promotions, demotions and removals In the Government service was introduced today by Represents tive' Keating, of Colorado. He said that the purpose is to seed re "square deal for the women in the Federal service and to demonstrate the truth or falsity of the repeated charge that discrimination is practiced against women in the Federal civil service b cause of their sex.' FERRY HINDERED BY ICE Vancouver Boat Delayed In Channel. by Floes ARMED SHIP IS AT CANAL GOVEILVOH HARDING ASKS RULING IN SUCH CASES. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Jan. 19. (Spe cial.) The Vancouver ferry valiantly tried to run on schedule today, but the heavy ice floes will likely prevent the regular boat from operating tomorrow. On several occasions the ice was so heavy that it took the boat more than an hour to make the usual 10-mlnute trip. and once it drifted far towards the rail road bridge before it could get free from the ice. If the ice is heavier in the morning. as is expected, the boat will undoubt edly tie up. Pedestrians can cross on the nearly completed Interstate Bridge, which was pressed Into servlco the last week of December, when ice prevented the regular boat from running. A fall of snow commenced at &:S0 this' afternoon. Seattle City Lines Lose. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 18. The mu nicipal street railway lines of Seattle were operated during 1916 at a loss of $40,5S3, according to the statement here today of the city's public utilities de partment. Total" operating expenses, including Interest on bonded debt, were $87,042 and operating revenues amount ed to $46,439. Sinking of Submarine Denied. BERLIN. Jan. 19. (By wireless to Sayville. N. Y.I "Advices have been received at Havre from Cadiz that, ac cording to a report made by its com mander, the British torpedo boat de stroyer Dauphin, on January 14. sank the German submarine U-56." says the Overseas News Agency. "This report is untrue." Vessel Is Japanese Merchantman Carry- Ins; Gui for Defensive Pnrpeses and Asks Passage. WASHINGTON. Jan. 19. Application for permission to pass through the Panama Canal by a Japanese merchant ship with guns mounted "for defensive purposes.' as said by her commanding officer, has caused Governor Harding, of the canal, who is now in Washing ton, to ask for a definition of the rule to be followed In such cases. The War Department has referred the matter to the State Department for a decision. The War Department already has held that there is nothing in the Presi dential proclamation issued early In the war. defining the conditions under which warships might use the canal, which would place any limitation on the passage of merchant ships armed for defense. In view of the possibility that the whole subject of the status of armed merchant vessels may be re opened, it was deemed advisable to refer the matter to the State Depart ment. The Japanese government' recently notified the United States of her inten tion to arm merchantmen for defense and asked whether any special regula tions appliedyto such ships. Newspaper Prices Doubled. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 19. Philadel phla newspapers now selling at 1 cent will increase their price to 2 cents, be ginning January. 29. The high cost of news print paper and other . materials entering into the making of a new paper is riven as the cause for the increase CIGARETTE PRICES RISE Two Tobacco Corporations Advances. An- NEW YORK. Jan. 19. Increased prices for cigarettes were announced here today by the United Cigar Stores Company and the Tobacco Products Corporation. Advances by the United, to become effective next Monday, range from 1 to 3 cents a box ot ten cigar ettes. The higher cost of labor, tobacco and wrapping material is given as the reason. The Increases oy me lODacco Products Corporation, effective at once. scale from -5 cents to 1 for each thousand cigarettes. CANADIANS BUYING IN U. S Purchases Are Five Tlmea Those Made in Great Britain. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Canadian Importers are purchasing in the United States five times as much goods as they are taking from the United .Kingdom as shown in statistics made public to day by the Bureau of Foreign and Do mestic Commerce. This country's sales to Canada In the last fiscal year were valued at S3i0, 000.000. against 877.370.000 supplied by the British Isles, and the total imports were Just 8&08.000.000. The United Kingdom continues to be the larges purchaser of Canadian products. NOVELS CAUSE RUNAWAY Boy leaves Home In Search of Ad venture In Outdoors. BEND, Or.. Jan. 19. (Special.) Tom Madoc. 11 years old, has been ralssln from his home here since Wednesday. Late that day he sold a few articles at a second-hand store and purchased a frying pan. and It Is believed that h went out Into the country to try camping out. According to the boy's mother, he has been reading stories of adventure recently and his imagination has bee excited by them. A search is being made In the vicinity of nearby caves. Read The Oregonlan classified ads. Free Lessons In Lamp Shade Making Decorate Your Home at Little Expense Mrs. Wilkinson, in charge of this interesting work, will instruct you free of charge in the making of lamp and candle shades, the only require ment being that you purchase the necessary materials in the store. SLxta Kloer. TT Men A Most Important Sale of Overcoats You can buy one here now. better at less expense than hereto fore, anywhere. For a splendid collection of All Our $20.00 and $22.50 Overcoats Are Offered Today Without Reserve At the One Exceptional Special Price of $15.00 All new Fall and Winter styles are awaiting your selection a style for every taste excellent models made from fine imported and domestic fabrics, many of the coats being showerproof. Right Out of Our Regular Neckwear Stock We have taken some of our richest and choicest $2.00 and $ 1.50 Scarfs That Represent Broken Assortments and Odd Lines - and Marked Them All at the One Clean-Up Sale Price $1.15 Made with large," flowing ends, of handsome rich silks. In new and exclusive patterns ; and every one with .the easy slip band. First Floor, Just Inside W ashington-Slrect Entrance 1 ' - VP Sterlum Picture Frames Warranted not to tarnish. Ball feet, easel backs; exact reproduction of sterling. Limit three frames to cus tomer. 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Solid Gold Lavallieres Regularly $5.C0 Mounted with cut diamonds and with 15 inch gold chain. Very special for "XA. today only iJ?..?T' First Floor. of Today We Offer Our Entire Stock Children's Imported Hats Many Original Paris Models At Four Exceptional Prices Hats to $ 5.50 for $2.00 Hats to $ 9.75 for $3.45 Hats to $15.00 for $4.45 Hats to $20.00 for $6.45 For children from 1 to 6 years. Exquisite models that reflect the most appropriate styles for little children. Fourth Floor. For Today Only We Offer All Children's Coals Selling to $5.00 Sizes 2 to 6 years, .wool, plush or zibeline, full lined... $2.50 Selling to $7.95 Sizes 2 to 6 years, corduroy, zibeline and mix- re tures .vj0.y J Selling to $14.95 Sizes 6 to 14 years. Newest velvet, broadcloth, rr corduroy 5b.UU Fourth Floor. Merchandise cTcl Merit Only i I I I t i $1.19 i i 50c 6 I AUSTRIAN HOT WARNED berlin piusss desocsce5 act of fuen'ch submarines. ' Lokal Ansetzer Says "Crime Against All Laws of Humanity" Should Not Pass Vnnotlc- Is "World. BERLIN. Jan. 19. (By wireless to Sayville. N. Y.) The morninir news papers point out that th reported de struction of the Austrian passenger steamer Zagreb apparently was the work of the French submarine men tioned In the report of the Italian Minister of Marine, which said that on January 14. near the Dalmatian Islands, an Austrian ship had been torpedoed and sunk by a French sub marine attached to Italian sea forces. The Vosstsche Zeitung recalls that the EX-POSTMASTER IS INSANE Federal Embezzlement PrlHoner Is Committed to Salem. BEND, Or.. Jan. 19. (Special.) Charles A. Bengston, formerly post master at Dry Lake. Or., in the home stead section east of Bend, has been found insane and committed to the State Hospital at Salem, according to messages received here. Tniiiton wan Aervlncr sentence In the Federal prison at McNeil's Island j for embezzlement of postal funds at I Dry Lake, having- been committed Iaat Cured Her Son of a Severe Cold "About three years ago my son Lawrence caught a severe cold. "Taking a friend's advice I got a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and by the time he had taken that one bottle of it all symptons of his cold had gone." Mrs. J. T. Dayton, Zanesville, Ohio. Zagreb was torpedoed without warning and that numerous passengers perished. The Lokal Anseijrer aks whether this breach of International law, which It calls a crime against all the laws of humanity, will pass unnoticed In the world, and whether "the defenders of human rights" can consider such a deed allowable only because GermtQi and Austrlans wore the victims. The Zarreb. accordlngr to a Vienna dispatch, under date of January IS. was torpedoed off the Dalmatian coast with the loxs of 26 lives. Tennessee House Extends Suffrage. NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Jan. 19. The House of Representatives today passed the bill allowing women to vote in city and Presidential elections. Read The Oregonlan elasifed ads. Through California Go East Through the Riviera jo( America Tho.Wsry 1 - Ce Take Boat or Rail to San Fran cisco, Then the Santa Fe to ' Denver-Kansas City Chicago It's Also a Quick Way to New Y o Grand Canyon Also on Your Way TT. It. FRAXnsCO (General Agent 1-2 Third street rk 77T grniiTTfs