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' ! !. 1 JL- ' Vl' y- 1?'665- PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1917. T,T CHINESE PRESIDENT ESCAPES CAPTORS Refuge Found in Jap anese Legation. BATTLE STILL IN PROGRESS Assassination of Executive Is Reported in San Francisco. MIKADO TO BE NEUTRAL Toldo Believes Allies Slay nave to Take Protective Measures II Dis orders Arise Loyalty of ' Governors Questioned. TIEN TSKi. July 4.-1.1 Yuan Hunr the Chinese President with twn tendants, escaped from the Palace at ' o ciock last night and sought refuge In the Japanese Legation Thu .Tin. anese, considering the urgency of the case, granted him refuge. No one is aiiowea to interview the President. SAN FRANCISCO. Julv 4 A o.M. gram received here today by the Chinese World, a newspaper, stated mat unconfirmed rumors nerslsrino- in all sections of Pekin were that Presi dent Li Yuan Hung had been assassin ated and that former high officials of the republic had declared allegiance to me monarchy. A battle is In progress today be tween troops of the southern provinces, fighting for the preservation of the re public, and the northern forces of the young Emperor, according to cable ad vices received by the Chinese Nation alist League. The first clash occurred yesterday, the officers of the League announce, who say the source of its in formation Is unquestionable. Republicans Reported Gainings According to the dispatches, the sol diers of President LI in the Chinese capital are steadily gaining ground. TOKIO, July 3. (Delayed.) General , Chang Hsun, says a dispatch from Pekin, asked Baron Hayashi. the Jap anese minister, on June 22. whether Japan would support a. movement for a restoration of tie monarchy in China. ' , Allies May Act Together. Baron Hayashi replied that Japan would adhere to its policy of non-interference. Should the restoration ap pear to succeed, it is believed it may precipitate a decisive struggle between the northern and southern provinces. The opinion has been expressed here that should serious disorders arise, Japan and the allies might be forced to take protective action. 1 AMOY. FU KIEN PROVINCE. China, July 4 Troops of Kwang Tung prov ince are reported to be concentrating on the Fu Kien province border. SHANGHAI. July 4. t is generally be- lleved here that the navy will support the Republicans, while the local mili tary and civil authorities are also pro claiming the republic and opposing the monarchy, but this may be for the pur pose of preserving the peace in Shanghai. Plana Deeply Laid. It Is believed the restoration plans are deeply laid, and that the military governors are really supporting the restoration. Tang Shao Yl, ex-Premier. In a state ment to the Chinese press, said that General Chang Hsun's coup In restoring the monarchy affected the whole world. "I'll leave It to the world," he said, "to decide whether It Is right. The re public never had a chance. Real Re publicans, from the beginning, had been checked by the reactionaries, and now, when the whole world is talking of liberty and liberating itself from autoc racy, China Is reverting to the past. It Is a challenge to new China." Newspapers printed In the vernacular are practically unanimous in denounc ing the restoration of the Manchu dynasy. They predict it will be short lived, saying the whole country will rise against Emperor Hsuan Tung and General Chang Hsun. Mcb Depends on Army. The China Press in a leading article says the question, of the moment is the nmount of military strength which the Kuo Min Pang (Democratic party) Is able to muster. The Shanghai Times thinks an armed conflict between the north and south is imminent and says that the scale of the civil war will de pend largely on the attitude adopted by Vice-President Feng Kwo Chang. The North China Daily News does not believe that Southern China will II f'C.nt th mnnarphv u nil . i i mediate results of the coup d'etate will be to rally all Republicans under one standard. The Standard says the differences between the Navy and the Army around Shanghai vanished on Monday morn ing and that both branches uphold republicanism. LONDON. July 4. A Reuter dispatch from Shanghai today quotes Vice President Feng Kwo Shang as Indig nantly denying the allegation of the Pekin edict that he is a pro-monarchist and as declaring, on the other hand, his intention of taking action at the earliest possible moment against the new Pekin government. Ex-Premier to Lead Forres. - "The military and naval command ers at Shanghai, who are strongly re publican, have been bidden to make Immediate preparation for such ac tion," adds the dispatch. "It Is anticipated that Tuan Chi Jul, the ex-Premier, will lead the repub- . jLCanoiuded on Fas 2, Column 1.1 TELEPHONE GIRLS TO GET MORE PAY HOME COMPANY, SPOKANE, TO GRANT $30,000 INCREASE. Steps to Avert Strike Growing Out of Aberdeen Trouble Are Taken and Rises AV1I1 Be Glren. SPOKANE, Wash., July 4. (Special.) The Home, Telephone Company has granted an Increase In pay to the girl operators, taking effect Monday, C. E. Hickman, district manager, announced today. The Increase ranges from 10 to 30 cents a day for each Individual, amount ing to 30,000. It affects about 400 gins. An unsettled wage scale neerotla.tlan Between the men and company enters into tne matter, according to D. P. Reid, secretary of the Spokane local of Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. me Union Will vote on th atrlka nrnn osition Thursday. In the meantime. Federal mediation is being sought by tne companies to settle the dispute. ABERDEEN. Wash- Julv 4 A tn tative agreement to settle the telephone strike here, and avert a utriltn of i. trlcal workers along the entire Pacific Coast, scheduled to taV iri-t Satur day following a strike vote to be taken tomorrow night, has been reached. It is announced here today, and final ac tion on it will be taken tomorrow morning at a meetinz- of the AhurHo.r, Electrical Workers' Union. The agreement calls for nn In crease of 25 cents a day in the wages or the girl operators in the Aberdeen exchange, but makes no mention of the union issue. MORE MILITIA IN SOUTH Training for Mountain States Men to Be at Palo Alto. SALT LAKE fTTT T7-v A Tl.. W. - Department has decided to send militia troops from Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming to Palo Alto, Cal.. instead of American Lake wh fn. according to information received here lonignt irom Washington. The men will live in tcnt nri ... expected to complete their training In ?u aays. Orders last week directed Katlnn.i Guards of Oregon and Washington to train at Palo Alto. MR. ELKUS REACHES U. S. Ex-Ambassador to Turkey to Be Of ficially Welcomed Today. NEW YORK. July 4. -Abram I. Elkus. ex-United States Ambassador to Turkey, with which this country sev ered diplomatic relations last April, arrived here today. 1-t.r. Elkus was accompanied by his wife, three children and attaches or the Embassy at Constantinople. Mr. Elkus will be officially welcomed home with ceremonies at the City Hall tomorrow. BELGIAN GIRL SHOT AS SPY Brother of Victim Also Executed by Germans. LONDON, July 4. A German court- martial sentenced to death Mile. Grand. prez and her brother, both of Stavelot, Liege Province. Belgium, and caused them to be shot within 24 hours, says an Exchange Telegraph disoatch. from Amsterdam today. The accused were tried at Liege on the charge of espionage. The Droceed- lngs were in camera. FOOD RIOTS ARE SPREADING Troops Used to Quell Disorders in Four German Cities. COPENHAGEN, July 4. A semi-offi cial German statement reachinar hr reports that food riots occurred not ' only in Stettin and Dusseldorf but also 1 n two Silesian cities. Gleiwith and HIndenburg. Troops had been called to restore or der, which was accomplished without actual firing. RESIDENT GOES YACHTING Needed Rest Is Taken on Trip Down Potomac. WASHINGTON. July 4 President Wilson, taking advantage of the dav to get a needed rest, this morning boarded the naval yacht Mayflower for a trip down the Potomac River, pos sibly as far as Chesapeake Bay. He was accompanied by members of his family. BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK Eighteen of Crew Survive Wreck Caused by Mine. LONDON, July 4. An old type of British torpedo-boat destroyer has struck a mine and sunk in the North Sea, It was officially announced this evening. There were 18 survivors from the sunken craft. LIBERIA TO OUST GERMANS Deported Teutons Are to Be Taken to France. LONDON. July 4. Arrangements have been completed to deport all Ger mans from Liberia, it is learned here. They will leave In a few days, with France as their destination. TRI COLOR YIELDS TO STARRY BANNER ' Paris Honors Khaki Clad Troops. AMERICAN FLAG EVERYWHERE President Poincaire Gives Banners to Pershing. WAR TROPHIES-DISPLAYED Ceremonies Take Place Before Tomb of Napoleon, Before Pictures of Heroic French Battles From Time of Charlemagne. PARIS, July 4. All France celebrat ed the Fourth 'of July. Paris turned out a crowd that no American city ever surpassed tor size, enthusiasm and profusion or Stars and S'.rlpes. A battalion of the first American ex peditionary force about to leave for training behind the battlefront had Its first official review In France and was the center of the celebration. United States Flag; la Evidence. Everywhere the American flag was flying from public buildings hotels and residences and from automobiles, cabs and carts. Horses' bridles and the lapels of pedestrians carried them. The crowds began to gather at van tage points. Rue de Varenne was choked long before 8 o'clock this morn ing, when the Republican Guard Band executed a field reveille under General Pershing's windows, and all routes to ward the Invalides were thronged even before Pershing's men turned out. War Trophies Displayed. About the Court of Honor where the Americans were drawn up with a de tachment of French Territorials the buildings overflowed with crowded hu manity to the roofs. All around the khaki-clad men from the United States were trophies and souvenirs of war German cannon, aeroplanes, machine guna and many appliances for burning suffocating gas. Behind them In the chapel separating the Court of Honor from Napoleon's tomb were German battle-flags, trophies of the Marne and Alsace behind Prussian banners of 1870. There in the chapel before the tomb of Napoleon, General Pershing re ceived American flags and banners from the hands of President Polncare. Paintings Recall Heroic History. Almost the entire history of the struggles of the French against the Germans looked down upon the scene with paintings portraying heroic inci dents tti French battles from Charle magne to Napoleon. There was a sharp contrast between the khaki and plain, wide-brimmed hats of Pershing's men and the gay dress of O'Artagnan's (Concluded on Page 4. Column 2.) IT WAS V. " 'f ,,,,,,,,'sssstsssssassssssssssesssssss .. .4 S - HUNDREDS OF TARS GET COMMISSIONS AS MANY MORE ARE TO BECOME WARRANT -OFFICERS. Secretary Daniels Expects Large Percentage of Promotions Will Be Permanent. WASHINGTON, July 4. Designa tion of 496 warrant officers for war commissions In the line and staff of the Navy, was announced tonight by Secretary Daniels, who said he ex pected a large percentage of them to perform their new duties so that their promotion could be made permanent after, the war. This will be the larg est number of men ever commissioned in the -American Navy at one time. Temporary rank as warrant officers will be given to 345 enlisted men Im mediately and others will be so desig nated as the need arises to fill up the places of those receiving commis sions. The Secretary acted under a recent authorization of Congress for expanding the Navy's personnel and for issuing temporary commissions to expire at the end of the war. Under the Secretary's order 95 chief boatswains. 117 chief gunners and 123 chief machinists will become ensigns; 85 chief carpenters will become assist ant naval constructors; 64 chief pay clerks will become assistant paymas ters and 10 chief pharmacists will be come assistant paymasters -and 10 chief pharmacists will become assist ant surgeons. Of the enlisted men designated to become warrant officers. 37 will be boastwains, 93 gunners, 48 machinists . 15 carpenters, 99 pay clerks, and 54 pharmacists. VOTE OR CLOTURE' IS EDICT Senator Chamberlain to Try to In duce Food Bill Action Today. WASHINGTON, July 4. Unless an agreement is reached by tomorrow afternoon for taking a final vote on the food control bill. Senator Chamberlain announced today that he would intro duce a motion to put Into effect the new cloture rule. The vote Is being' delayed by the fight on the Gore amendment to place on the President responsibility for d terminlng whether the manufacture of beer and wine should be restricted. BOY BLOWN TO HIS DEATH Child of Ten Years Victim of Bar baric Celebrating. IX)S"AXGKLES. Cal.. July 4. Ramon Castro; 10 years old, died here early today, the first victim of FVnirth f July accidents. Both arms were blown on oy .tne explosion of two sticks of dynamite, set off by early cele brators. The boy. from his home, saw the fuse sputtering and rearherl th. spot as the explosion occurred. inree men are being sought in con nection with the death. Third-Story Fall Probably Fatal. ASTORIA. Or.. Julv i ISii.i Ludwig Sutherland, a timber feller em ployed at the Western either jumped or was thrown from a window in the third story of the Par ker Hotel tonight. His skull was frac tured and his injuries are believed to be fatal. The police believe the man committed suicide, but two companions who were wish him are being held pending an investigation. A FOURTH LONG TO BE REMEMBERED. TEARFUL GOOD-BYE SAID TO "THIRD" Oregon Watches Sons on Last Parade. APPLAUSE FOLLOWS SOLDIERS Few Men in Crowds Show Re spect as Flag Passes. TWO BATTALIONS IN LINE Caralry and Artillery Organizations Vlo With Sailors From Bremer ton for Attention Veter ans Are Admired. Oregon said "good-bye yesterday to the brave warriors of the Third Infan try. Column after column of cheering citizens greeted the boys as they marched, sun-burned and keen-eyed, through the streets yesterday; elderly women literally elbowed each other at the Multnomah Hotel last night to do them honor at a "big feed" and danc ing party. For it was the last public appear ance of the popular "Third" before the boys are sent into more active Bervice. Eyes of Watchers Dimmed. Tears dimmed the eyes of many sturdy men yesterday as they watched the lithesome lads with sprightly step march proudly by. But the boys them selves were earnest and eager to go: happiness was written" In their faces, determination in their eyes. "While the Third Oregon has not yet been ordered to move, it is well -understood that before the Summer Is over they will be sent away. No one knows where. Maybe It will be to one of the Army cantonments now being erected; maybe to the Atlantic Coast. Maybe to. "somewhere in France." When the order comes the Third will quietly entrain and start on the way. The utmost secrecy will attend the movement- The people of Oregon will not learn whither they go until they have safely reached, their destina tion. Nearness of Pkrtlna; Realised. SO ft Was With the full knnwl.-. of these eventualities that the people of Portland, augmented by many thou sans who had come in from Salem, Corvallis, McMinnvllle, Dallas and oth er home stations of the troops, watched yesterday's procession- Portland's narade crowds n - nBv been overlv demonstrative th.w did not let loose with all the fervor that was In them even yesterday. The entire parade route was lined with ad mirintr peoDle vesterdav. nnH th pie offered a continuous run of ap plause as tne warriors marched by, but at no time did the enthusiasm reach (Concluded on Page 6, Column 2.) 135 HURT INSTEAD OF 653 ON FOURTH OXIT SIX DEATHS REPORTED COMPARED WITH 7 IX 1916. Endioott Girl's Death In Fires Set by Crackers Is One of Few in Country. CHICAGO. July 4. (special.) Fourth of July celebrations seem to have taken another long stride toward absolute sanity. Reports of casualties received from all parts of the country up to a late hour tonight are io far below the number received at the same hour last year as to Indicate that Independence uay in 1917 will establish a remarkable record. six deaths have been, reported compared with a total of seven for the first night last year, and while that number may be Increased to the record or 1916, it Is the decrease In the num ber ot Injured which stands out as notable. Only 136 persons Injured, with Just a single case in Chicago, was the wonder, ful answer to the campaign of educa tion for a sane Fourth celebration which has been conducted throughout tne country for a number of years. Last year the i:0ured list numbered 653. - Most encouraging are advices from a number of points that during the year ordinances or other regulations against the eale and use of fireworks had been put into effect, with the satisfactory result that no lives were lost and few persons had been hurt. Reports of fatalities came from the fallowing points: Los Angeles. Cal. Ramon Castro. 10 years old, both arms blown off by ex plosion of dynamite. Endicott. Wash. Alvona Schlerman. 3 years old, burned to death when fire crackers set fire to her dress. Detroit. Mich. Dorothy Lewis. I years old, fatally burned by fireworks. Quincy. III. One death due to prema ture explosion of a bomb. SLAYER ABSOLVES POLICE Officers Xot Involved in Murder of Ruth Crngcr, Says Cocchl. BOLOGNA. July 4. Alfredo Cocchl. confessed slayer of Ruth Cruger. the New Tork girl, said he had no secret connection with the New York police and. that they were not at all involved in tne crime. Cocchl's statement came after new Inquiry by the royal prosecutor. ' RUSSIAN STRIKES MINE Torpedo-Boat of Old Type Is Blown Up in Black Sea. PETROGRAD. Julv 4 a Dn..i.. pedo-boat of an old type was blown up vy a. mine in me siacx bea on June 30, according to an official statement made ... ... . INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature. degrees; minimum. ttO degree. TODAY'S Fair. War. Eleven killed In Britain by air raiders. American troops well housed In Parte. tT-boat bombards Axores port. Pag 1. Eighteen thousand captives taken by Rus sians In two days. Page 2. German conservatives join In demand for National capital revives spy scare. Page 10. Foreign. Paris wildly greets Americans on Fourth of Chinese President reported In Japanese National. Women pickets star In comedy riot at White Jiouse. fage - Astoria discovered In attempt to entice ronitna s grain Dusiness away. Page 6. Hundreds ot Navy tars get' commissions. Page 1. Domestic East Bt. Louis has dull Fourth after days v. iivi. nu uiuruora. cage 4. Colonel Roosevelt scores half-hearted loy alty. Pago 4. X. yv. W. miners at Globe will continue strike re-gar-cuess or action By other unions. Gov ernor is Informed. Page 5. Safe and sane Fourth reduces number of accidents. Psge 1. IS ports. Pacific Coast league results: Portland 7-3. " ' " . i- n k rmncuco o-. Ver non 1-4: Los Angeles T-7, Oakland 2-4. Page 16. Bezdek to toanage Plttsburs- Plrt Pago 18. Miss Irene Campbell wins tennis finals at uiiubwo. cage in. Norman Ross breaks 12 world's records for open swimming. Page 16. Pacific Northwest. Telephone girls will get mora pay at Spo- Washington pontofflre employes meet at -enirau&. cage t . All cities of state honor America's Inde- iwuuen unj. cage 11. Mrs. Harry McCain says Rev. C V Wil son's letters urged her to get divorce. Page IS. Oregon Synod and Ministerial Conference to meet at university or Oregon. Page 4. Seattle's dream of non-tlda1. frnhwiu. harbor is at last rsallzed. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Louis Graveure. Belgian; says American musical Ideals wilt soon be asserted. Page 15. Oregon bids tearful farewell to men of Third Oregon. Page 1. Thousands watch military tournament at Multnomah Field. Page 6. Portland concern gets contract for 20 vessels under Government's amended, plans. Page 17. National Educators to be warmly welcomed to Portland. Page 14. Six thousand people pack Auditorium and sing "America" at dedication ceremony. Page 11. 81x thousand Hibernians enjoy picnic. Page 13. Third Oregon dines and dances way to war Page S. Justice McCamant renews his attack on Muiify'i High School History. Page 10. Commander-in-Chief Chisholm has plan to make 250.000 Spanish War Veterans bom guardsmen. Page 15. Portlands first Muelc Festival will be nota ble in history. Page 8. Women and children have narrow escape In auto crash. Page 8. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. I U-BOAT BOMBARDS SEAPORT It! AZORES Girl Killed and Several ' Are Wounded. U. S. STEAMER AIDS DEFENSE German Craft Remains in Vi cinity, However. SHIPPING LOSS REDUCED British Admiralty Highly Elated Over Absence of Teuton Success, as Promised by HIndenburg to Bolster Confidence. PONTA DEL GADA, Azores, July 4. A German submarine bombarded this city at dawn today. A girl was killed and several other persons were in jured. The forts replied to the bom bardment. USBOX, July 4. An American trans port Joined In the firing- at the German submarine which bombarded Ponta Del Gada, the Azores, today, says an offi cial announcement by the Portuguese Minister of Marina. TJ-Boat Still Off Port. The transport, which was discharging- coal, aided the land batteries In forcing the submarine to withdraw out of range. The announcement says the subma rine is still off the port. LONDON, July 4. The weekly ship ping; summary issued today shows that 15 British merchant ships of more than 1600 tons were sunk and five ves sels of less than that tonnage. Eleven fishing vessels also were lost. The summary: Arrivals, Z745; sailings. 2846. British merchant ships sunk by rav or submarine more than 1600 tons, 1 less than 1600 tone. .Ave. ' - - - 1 Attacked Unraccessfulry. British merchant ships unsuccessfully attacked. Including five previously, 16. British fishing vessels sunk, 11. Field Marshal von Ilindenburg's pre diction on his return from Austrian headquarters that Germany's enemies would be forced to make peace in the not too distant future if the Germans held their positions until the submarine had done Its work received a prompt and convincing reply in the weekly fig ures of sinkings of vessels. The totals were the smallest in several weeks. The conclusion has been reached that it is impossible for the submarines to maintain any - average of sinkings which will have an appreciable effect on the overseas communications of the allies. XT-Boats Declared Failure-. Von Bindenburgs boasting pro nouncement was issued with a view to bolstering up German sentiment, in the opinion of the Admiralty. The phrase "if we hold our ground until the submarine war has done its work," has a pleasant sound to the British naval officials, which are now firmly convinced that the submarine war has failed. A staff correspondent of the Associ ated Press was privileged to spend two days last week in observing the anti-U-boat campaign at close quarters at a big naval base on the southeast coast. There was plenty of evidence of the effectiveness of the Admiralty work in nearby waters, as well as of the tre mendous effort being put forth. Part of IT-Boat Hsres to Prow. The navy still maintains secrecy re garding the submarines sunk, but the pursuit has become so lively that a U boat shows its periscope in channel waters only with the greatest risk.' It Is Impossible to keep entirely secret such incidents as that of an oil-driven destroyer which a few days ago swept into port with a part of a rammed submarine hanging triumphantly from her prow. Airplanes and dirigible patrols in the channel are proving highly effective and a U-boat once sighted by a dirigiblo has small chance of getting away. In waters farther afield one of the best evidences of the success of the Atlantic patrol was the safe arrival of the American transports at a French port. WOMEN KILLED; 4 MAY DIE None of Injured In Manistee Acci- dent Are Identified. . MANISTEE, Mich., July 4. Two women were killed and 20, tour of whom may die, Injured, when a trolley car and an excursion train on the Man istee & Northeastern Railroad collided here tonight. The dead and dying have not yet been identified. The trolley car, drawing two steel trailers, was crowded with holiday pleasure seekers. Indemnity Is Demanded. BUENOS AIRES, July 4. The note which the Argentine government has sent to Germany on the sinking of the Argentine vessels Orina and Toro. It is confirmed, demands indemnity, satis faction and assurance that no mora Argentine ve&sels will be attacked.