2 THE MORNING OKEGONUX. TOUKSDAT, AUGUST S3, 1917. 10 AIR RAIDERS ARE REPELLED AT COAST Eleven Persons Are Killed at Dover, and Three Planes Are Brought Down. NIGHT ATTACK FRUITLESS Germans Mako Two Visits to Eastern Part of . England. Ramsgate Is Bombed From Great Altitude. LO.VDON, Aug-. 22. Ten German air planes approached the English coast in the. County of Kent today, the British "War Office announces. Three of the raiding machines were brought down. Lord French's report shows that bombs were dropped by the raiding atr ehips on Dover, Margate and Ramsgate. There were no casualties at Margate, but at Dover and Ramsgate 11 persons were killed and 13 injured. A hospital and some houses were damaged. The pilot of one of the enemy ma chines brought down was rescued, hav ing been only slightly wounded. An air-raid warning was Issued in London this morning. About an hour later the announcement "all clear" was made, indicating that the raiders bad been driven off. German airships made a raid off the Yorkshire coast last night, it is also announced officially. So far as has been ascertained the damage inflicted was small. The communication issued by Lord French, commander-in-chief of the home forces, says: "Ten enemy airplanes approached over the Kentish coast near Ramsgate about 10:15 A. M. Being met and heavily engaged by machines of the royal flying corps and royal naval air service, and also by gunfire from anti aircraft guns, the raiders were unable to penetrate inland. "A small party traveled west to Mar gate, but then turned homeward. The remainder skirted the coast to the south as far as Dover. The Admiralty has issued the follow ing amplification of Lord French's re port : "Ten enemy airships of the Gotha type were attacked by naval airplanes in the vicinity of Ramsgate between 10 and 11 A. M. today. The enemy ma chines, which were flying at a height between 11.000 and lli.OOO feet, were closely engaged, and in addition to the two mentioned by Lord French, in the earlier communication, another was hot down by the Royal Naval Air Squadron machine close to the coast. The remaining seven Gothas headed seaward, followed by numerous naval aircraft. "The pilot of a Royal Naval Air Squadron airship, which chased the raiders oversea, reports that after fir ing 300 rounds of ammunition into one of the enemy machines both gunners appeared to have been killed." SWISS TO LIMIT BREAD Vsers of Coal Also Are Fut Under . - .Restrictions. BERNE, Switzerland. Aug. 22. The Federal Council yesterday chose Octo ber 1 as the definite date when the bread card system will be introduced in Switzerland. The daily consumption will b limited for the time being to "50 grammes per person, plus . 600 grammes of flour monthly. The council also took measures to reduce the coal consumption, especially through the conservation of electrical energy. Kach canton is ordered to save coal by the early closing of moving picture and public establishments. The sale of warm food is interdicted after 9 P. II. ZABERN INCIDENT WARNS fnn tinned From First Pge.) enter the regiment as probationary en sign. In both cases the young officer Is observed by the officers during a period of probation, and can only be come an officer of that regiment by the consent of the regimental officeis. In other words, each regiment Is like a club, the officers having the right of blackball. This system has virtually confined the professional officers to a class of nobles. It is not at all unusual to find in a regiment officers whose ancestors were officers of the same regiment 200 years of more ago. Reserve Officers of Lot Grade. In addition to these officers who make the army their career a certain number of Germans, after undergoing an enlistment in the army of one year and two periods of training thereafter are made reserve officers. These re serve officers are called to the colors for maneuvers, and, of course, when the whole nation Is arrayed In war. The reserve officers seldom attain a rank higher than that of Captain. They may, however, while exercising civil functions, be promoted, and in this manner the Chancellor, while occupy ing civil positions, haa gradually been promoted to the rank of General, and Von Jagow, during the war, to the rank of Major. As a rule reserve officers are the one-yearers, or "eln Jaehriger," who, because they have attained a certain standard of education, serve only one year with the army instead of two re quired from others. The Bavarian army is in a sense independent of Rrussia, but is modeled on the same system. Officers Are Arrogant. For years officers of the army, both 1n the discharge of. their duties and outside, have behaved in a very arro gant way twaijd the civil population. Time and again while I was in Ger many waiting in line at some ticket office an officer has shoved himself . ahead of all others without even a pro test from those waiting. On one occasion I went to the races in Berlin with my brother-in-law and bought a box. While we were out looking at the horses between the races ft Prussian officer and his wife seated themselves in our box. I called the at tention of one of the ushers to this, but the usher said that he did not dare ask a Prussian officer to leave, and It was only after sending for the head usher and showing him my Jockey Club i badge and my pass as Ambassador that I was able to secure possession of my own box. There have been many Instances in Germany where officers, having a slight dispute with civilians, have Instantly cut the civilian down. Instances of this kind and the harsh treatment of the Germans by officers and under offlcers, while serving in the army, un doubtedly created In Germany a spirit of antagonism not only to the army Itself, but to the whole military system of Prussia. Zabern Affair Brings Things to n Bead. Affairs were brought to a head by the so-called Zabern affair. In this af fair the internal antagonism between the civil population and professional soldiers, which had assumed great pro portions in a period of long peace, seemed to reach its climax. Of course, this antagonism had increased with the increase in 1913-14 of the effective strength of the standing army, bring ing a material increase in the numbers of officers and non-commissioned offi cers who represent military profes sionalism. The imperial provinces, or Reichs land, as Alsace and Lorraine are called, had been in a peculiar position within the body politic of Germany since their annexation In 1S70. The Reichsland. as Indicated by Its name, was to be considered as common property of the German empire and was not annexed to any one German state. Its government Is by an Im perial viceroy, with a kind of Cabinet, consisting of one Secretary of State, Civil and Under Secretaries and depart ment heads, assisted by a legislative body of two members, one elected by popular vote and the other consisting of members partly elected by munclpal bodies, universities, churches and so forth, and partly appointed by the Im perial government. The Viceroy and his Cabinet are appointed by the Em peror in his capacity of the sovereign of the Reichsland. Alsace Give a Representation. Until the thirty-first of May, 1917, the Reichsland had no constitution of its own, the form of government being reg ulated by the Reichstag and Federal Council (Bundesrath) in about the same way as the territories of the United States are ruled by Congress and Presi dent. In 1911 Alsace-Lorraine received a constitution which gave them repre sentation in the Federal Council, rep resentation in the Reichstag having al ready been granted as early as 1871. The sympathy of Alsace-Lorraine for France had been increased by the pol icy of several of the German Viceroys, Von Manteuffel, Prince Hohenlohe, Prince Munster and Count Wedel, who had, in their administration, alternat ed severe measures with great lenien cy and had not Improved conditions, so that the population, essentially South German, was undoubtedly irritated by the tone and manner of the North Ger man officials. Great industries had been developed by the imperial government, especially textile and coal mining, and the indus trial population centering in Mulhaus en was hotly and thoroughly eocial democratic. The upper or well-to-do classes were tied to France by family connections and by religion. The bour geois remained mildly anti-German more properly speaking, anil-govern-. ment for similar reasons, and the working men were opposed to the gov ernment on social and economic grounds. The farming population, not troubling much about politics, but being affected by the campaign of the na tionalistic press, were in sympathy with France. So the atmosphere was well prepared for the coming storm. Young; Lieutenant la Insulting. Zabern. or, in French, Saverne, is a little town of between 8000 and 9000 inhabitants beautifully situated at the foot of the Vosges Mountains on the banks of the Rhine-Marne Canal. Its garrison comprised the staff and two battalions infantry regiment No. 91, commanded by Von Reuter, and among its officers was a Lieutenant von Forst ner, a young man duly 20 years old. whose boyish appearance had excited the school children and boys working in nearby iron factories to ridicule him. It became known that this young of ficer, while Instructing his men, had insulted the French flag and had called tne Alsatian recruits "wackes," a nick name meaning "squarehead," and fre quently used by the people of Alsace Lorraine in a jocular way, but hotly resented. by them if used toward them by others. It was further reported that he bad promised his men a reward of 10 marks if one of them, in case of trouble, should briii down & social democrat. Forstner had told his men to beware, and warned them against listening to French foreign agents, whom the Ger mans claimed were inducing French soldiers to desert in order to join the French Legion. It Is probable that Forstner, in talking to his men of the French Foreign Legion, used languag. offensive to French ears. Feople Hear Reports. He admitted that he had used the word "wackes" in defiance of an order of the commanding general, and for this he had been punished with several days" confinement in a military pris on. Lieutenant Forstner, wivo was or dered to instruct his squad abjut the regulations in case of trouble with the civilian population, claimed that he had only added to the usual instructions a statement that every true soldier should do his best to suppress any dis turbances, and that he (Forstner) would give a special reward to any of his men who would arrest one of "these damned social democrats." Reports of the acts of Forstner and other officers were rapidly spread among the population. The two news papers of Zabern published articles. The excitement grew and. there were dem onstrations against the officials, and especially Forstner. Finally conditions became so bad that Colone. von Reuter requested the head of the local civil administration. Director Mahler, to re store order, stating that he would take the matter into his own hands if order were not restored. Assemblage Is Dismissed. he director, a native of a small Til lage near Zabern, replied coolly that he saw no necessity for Interfering with, peace-loving and law-abiding peo ple.. A large crowd assembled in front of the barracks on November 29, 1913. Colonel von Reuter ordered Lieutenant Schad, commanding the guard as offi cer of the day, to disperse the crowd. Accordingly Lieutenant Schad called the guard to arms and three times sum moned the-crowd to disperse and go home. The soldiers charged and drove the multitude across the square and into a side street and arrested about 15 per sons. Among them were the president, two judges and the state attorney of the Zabern Supreme Court, who had just come out from the court building and who were caught in the crowd. They were subsequently released. The rest of the persons arrested were kept in the cellar of the barracks over night (Continued Tomorrow.) AMMUNITION FAILS; TANKER CAPTURED American Steamer Surrenders After Firing 180 Rounds . in FourrHour Battle. U-BOAT IS SPEEDY CRAFT Submarine Sunk In Vicinity of Campana Incident May Have . Carried Down Captain ana Five Captive Gunners, AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 22. The Standard Oil tank steamer Campana, whose cantain and five of her Navy gunners were taken prisoners by a Ger man submarine on August 6, surren dered to the U-boat, but only because she hail not another shot to fire. The Campana's ammunition, after firing 180 shots, became exhausted. This was the story told by J. H. Bruce, third mate of the Campana, who. with 40 other members of the Cam pana's crew and eight gunners, arrived today on a French battleship. The battle began at 6 A. M. and was waged for four hours at a range of between 7300 and 7500 yards. Surrender Signal Ignored. After the Campana hoisted the inter national signal of surrender, her last shell gone, the submarine, nevertheless, continued to fire, Bruce said, and all hands took to the boats. The U-boat commander first ap proached the boat commanded by Bruce, which had aboard the Campana's 13 naval gunners, and ordered It along side. He then went to the lifeboat occupied by Captain Albert Oliver, of the Campana, and took him prisoner. Having room enough only for six ad ditional men aboard his craft, the Ger man skipper made only five of the gunners prisoners, Bruce said. The submarine was the U-2. Bruce did not learn the commander's name. The German told him, he said, that he had first fired a torpedo at tne Cam pana, but had missed, the projectile ap parently passing under the steamship. The Campana was sent to the bottom by bombs after her crew had been al lowed to return and get their personal effects. Directions were given to Bruce by the submarine commander how to reach the nearest port. Bruce said he was told by an officer of the war vessel that he had heard a wireless message from another French cruiser saying that it had sunk a German submarine in the vicinity of the place where the Campana had been sunk. Bruce said it was only a matter of conjecture as to whether this was the submarine that attacked his vessel, but, if true, be feared it meant that Captain Oliver and his gunners had perished. "Bluejackets Are Game Lot. "When Captain Oliver and the other prisoners went below on -the subma rine." said Bruce, "they bid us good by and the U-boat captain assured me they would be treated as prisoners of war and landed in a few days at a German base. "The bluejackets with us were a game lot. When the last shell had gone they would have tackled the Ger mans with their revolvers had they been ordered. It would have been a useless . sacrifice of life, as the Ger mans bad us at their mercy. The gunners taken prisoner were: James Ielaney, chief gunner's mate; William Miller, seaman: Fred Jacobs, seaman: Ray Roop. boatswain's mate second-class, and Charles Kline, the gunners mate. fELL-A Absolutely Remove Indigestion. Onepackage proves it 25c at all druggists. TEUTONS AIM, AT RIGA RUSSIANS RETIRE TO MARSHES IS EAR RIVEIl A A. Heavy Artillery Bombardment Is Be- gun in Regjloi. of Dvlnslt, on Uvina River. PET R OG RAD, Aug. 22. The Ger mans have begun . n offensive on the northern part of the Russian line be tweeu the Tirul marshes and the river Aa, the War Office announces. The Russians have retired two or three versts northward between the marshes and the river. The Germans drove back advanced posts of Russian cavalry to the town of Kemmern, In the direction of Tuk- kum. A heavy artillery bombardment has been begun by the Germans In the re gions of Uvlnsk, on the Dvina River, near the northern end or the front, and of Brody, in Northern Galicia, near the border. BERLIN, Aug. 22. (Britlsu Ad miralty. per Wireless Press.) Activity by Russians and Teutons was revived yesterday on the Baltic and Galician ends of the eastern front, according to an announcement made today, by the German War Department. ' ' On the Roumanian front strong Rou manian forces attacked the Austro- German positions in the regions of Gro- zechtl and Soveja, but, the statement adds, all the assaults were repulsed with heavy losses. PORTLAND LABOR IS LOYAL Leader Hero Says "Workmen Are to Help to Win War. Neither aid nor comfort is given the I. W. W. strikers in Washington or elsewhere by the Central Labor Council of Portland, despite reported action In sympathy 1th the agitators by the Spokane Central Labor Council. Charles P. Howard, president of the Portland labor body, declared yester day that labor here is loyal to the Government and it will do everything possible to help Uncle Sam win the war. In President Howard's opinion, this can best be done by standing by and keeping busy; not by striking and causing disorder and agitation. It is declared by IXr. Howard that the Portland Central Labor Council would not even consider such a resolution as was adopted at Spokane, which was In support of the I. W. W. stand demand ing the release of Imprisoned members of that organization. CALL IS MADE FOR 30 MEN Colonel May Asks Klamath Falls to Help Till Third Oregon. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Aug. 22. (Special.) C. C. Chltwood. of this city today received the following telegram from Colonel John L. May, of the Third Oregon Infantry: Want SO Eood men for Third Oregon In fantry. Have Home physician look them over and. if In his judgment, they are pnysicaiiy lit, will Drlnx them in to uiacKaman. jvii the men tn Klamath Kails and vicinity villi be placed Irt one company, and I -would ap preciate very much having? Klamath County represented in Oregon a miamry regiment. Wire xne wb&t you can oo. So many inquiries have been made by men wishing to enlist in the Third Oregon and wishing to be in a Jvl math company if possible. It is expect ed little difficulty will be experienced in obtaining the desired number. RUSSIAN SITUATION GRIM Official Jfevts Cuuses Concern as to What May Happen. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Official dl patches have been received from Russia within the last 24 hours of such character as to cause soma concern over the situation they picture. They will not be made public, much less be discussed at this time by Amer ican officials, who regard them as in dicating a condition with which the provisional government has to deal. It is known that the dispatches refer to no physical events such as would be suppressed by the censorship at Petrograd, but rather are an estimate of political conditions. The extent of German intrigue in Russia is well known and the subject matter of the dispatches probably is connected with that. QUARREL FATAL TO TWO Wenatchee Farmer Said to Hare Shot and Killed Neighbors. WEXATCHEE, Wash., Aug. 22. J. W. Coon, a "rancher, is said by Sheriff McManus to have shot and killed Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Charlton, neigh bors, with whom he had quarreled over irrigation water rights yesterday morning at his place three miles north of town. Coon immediately afterward called the Sheriff by telephone and said that he was ready to give himself up. He declares that he shot in self-defense. Charlton tiring the first shot. One Out of Three Physically Fit. BEND. Or.. Aug. 22. (Special.) Only one-third of the men appearing for examination for the National Army here today were accepted as physically sound. They are Homer C. Grogan, Karl P. Updike, Edward J. Peterman, Hugh P. Crow, Delmar B. Davis, Shelby L. Allen and Willis II. Nicholson. Plumbing Shop Source of Fire. Complaint 1s made by proprietors of Tanger s Grocery, 675 First street, that newspaper items relating to a fire in that place Tuesday stated the blaze started there. They say the fire started In a plumbing shop next door aud spread to their establishn ent. Loo mis, Wash., Man Wounded. OTTAWA, Aug. 22. The name of W. C. White. - of Loomis, Wash., appears among the wounded in today's casualty list. Wealthy Utah Farmer Slain. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 2 2. THREE DIE ATN0RTH BEND J. E. Xievertv, Mrs. Ii. E. Mllledge and Chinese Girl Succumb. NORTH BEND, Or., Aug. 22. (Spe cial.) Three deaths have occurred here in the last 24 hours. J. E. Leverty, who arrived here recently from Lostlne and was employed in the box factory, died after but three hours' illness. Mrs. L. Ii Milledge, an invalid, also died suddenly. Mrs. Mllledge was formerly a resident of Roseburg. 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