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THE MORMXG OREGOJflAN, THURSDAY. SEPTE3IBEB 37. 1917. '
TEUTON HAS PLAN
TO FREE BELGIUM
Asquith Demands Answers to
Plain Questions, Instead
of Pious Platitudes.
PEACE MUST BE ENDURING
Former Premier, Addressing Mass
Meeting at Ieeds, Declares Allies
Are Waging War Not Only for
Peace, but Against War.
LONDON, Sept. 26. Germany has
agreed to evacuate Belgium on certain
conditions. It is declared in a German
official statement, according: to a dis
patch from Berne today, given out by
the Wireless Press.
Germany, it l stipulated, must have
the right to develop her economic in
dustries freely in Belgium, especially
in Antwerp.
The proposal was made in a supple
mentary note to the Vatican, replying
to the peace initiative of Pope Benedict.
Former Premier, H. H. AsQUith. ad
reingr a mass meeting held under the
aurpices of the war committee at Leeds
tonight, reiterated his demand for a
plain and simple answer from Germany
as to her intention toward Belgium and
whether she was willing to restore
Alsace-Lorraine, and declared that a
definite answer to these questions was
worth a column of pious platitudes and
unctuous generalities, such as were
contained in the German reply to the
Pope. He declared thai the allies were
fighting against war and he looked
forward to a world confederation of
peoples based on justice and liberty
and recognizing arbitration as the nat
ural solvent of international disputes.
Definite Answer Needed.
"Is there any reason to think that
Germany has learned the lesson of the
Inevitable consequences of international
spoliation?" asked Mr. Asquith. "Is
there any indication that Germany is
prepared not only to repeat the crime
of '71, but to take any practical steps
which can open the road to a real and
lasting peace? Is Germany ready to re
store what she then took from France?
Is she ready to give Belgium complete
independence, political and economic,
without fetters or reservations, and
with as complete an indemnity as any
merely material compensation can pro
vide for the devastation of her terri
tory, the suffering of her people? A
definite reply to these questions would
be worth a whole column of pious plati
tudes." War Alms Declared.
Alluding to the necessity of destroy
ing Prussian militarism, the former
Premier referred to the American reve
lations of the German machinations in
Bucharest as fresh proof of the bru
tality and callousness with which Ger
many has wared war.
Passing to the subject of war alms,
he declared:
"We are fighting for two aims, one
Immediate, the other ulterior. .The
first is, not the restoration of the
status quo, not a revival of what form
erly was called the balance of power,
but the substitution for the one and
the other of an International system
tinder which .both great and small
states can be assured of a stable foun
dation and independent development."
Coming to the :second aspect of An
enduring peace,, he said:
"We must banish once for all from
our catalogue of maxims the time
worn fallacy that you wish for peace
you must make ready for war.
War Is Waged Against Vs.
"Speaking not as an Utopian or a
dreamy idealist, I assert that we are
waging, not only war ror peace, but
war against war and for the first time
in history we may make an advance
to. the realization of an ideal, to which
creat men of action in rne past, such,
for instance, as Henry fourth of
France, who was no visionary, but a
practical statesman, have been groping
their way.
"l'ou can find no peace worthy of
the name." he continued, "in any ar
rangement imposed by victor or van
quished, which ignores the principles
of right and Sets at defiance the his
toric traditions, aspirations and liber
ties of the peoples affected. Such so
called treaties contain with themselves
their own death warrant and simply
provide fertile breeding ground for
future wars."
BOARD TO RESUME WORK
Possible Sites for Nary-Yard In
South to Be Considered.
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"WASHINGTON. Sept. 26. The board
of naval officers under Rear-Admiral
Helm, charged with recommending lo
cations for additional Navy-yards, soon
will resume its investigation, inter
rupted by the war.
It will visit the South Atlantic and
gulf coasts, a. tour of the Pacific-Coast
having been completed some months
j aro.
R II ETA CHILDE DORR, FAMOUS RESEARCH STUDENT, BACK FROM
, RUSSIA, TO WRITE OF WHAT SHE SAW FOR THE OREGONIAN.
A Professor of Medicine
on Internal Baths
Horace T. Dodge. M. I.. ProfeMor f
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of Nw York, u.9 follows:
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will also give you free on request a most in
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Aik for It today. Adv.
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II T I ETA CHILDE DORR.
Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr is back from Russia after three months' travel
there in constant contact with peop le of all classes. In a series of articles
whose publication is soon to begin in The Oregonian Mrs. Dorr J- going to tell
the readers of this paper what she saw and what she heard. The articles
will contain astonishing facts about the real situation in Russia. They- will
answer questions that every American is asking. What is the real situation
in Russia? Whtt of the immediate future? Will Kerensky survive? These
and many other topics will be covered in the articles. Mrs. Dorr also will
write the truth about the famous Legion of Death, the Russian girls fight
ing regiment, with which she was for a time In Intimate contact. Read
these, articles in The Oregonian.
Rheta Childe Dorr is one of the foremost women writers end economic re
search students in the country. Western born, her home having been at Omaha,
Neb., she invaded the Kast as a young newspaper woman and conquered all
obstacles and took an active interest in sociology and philanthropic work.
She is the daughter of Dr. Edward P. Childe. a physician of C naha.
She studied two years at the University of Nebraska before going to Net fork.
She became editor of the woman's department of the New York i -ning
Post in 1902 and in 19u6 became a staff writer for Hampton's Magati a. In
the years from 1908 to 1911 she "free lanced" in the Kast, while doing ex
tensive social service investigation, contributing interesting articles in be
half of the women's movement to various magazines. She became a member
of the Women's Trade Union League and worked in factories, stores, mills
and shops to get first-hand information for her study of labor problems
and conditions and the needs of women and child workers. Her investiga
tions from the start won wide recognition because of their accuracy and
the sane and reasonable view she espoused, notwithstanding she proclaimed
herself a Socialist. She entered actively into the woman suffrage cam
paigns throughout the country, writing and speaking for several years In
states where the movement was under discussion.
"What Eight Million Women Want" Is the title of one of her first com
plete books. This appeared in 1910. In 1910 her now celebrated inter
pretation of Ellea Key came from the press.
ELL-ASSS
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LIQUID FIRE SEEN
American Soldiers Get "Taste
of War's Worst Horror.
PURPOSE IS TWO-FOLD
Demonstration ly French Designed
to Acquaint New Figliters
AVitli Terror and to TeacI
Means of Defense,
(Bv the Aoc!atrt Ires.
AMERICAN TItAININCJ CAMP IN
FRANCE. ' Sept. 26. The American
troops training in Franca have Just
had their baptism of liquid fire. It
was not exactly a baptism, but near
enough to the rex! thing to be decided
ly Impressive. They watched with elo
quent silence a French demonstration
of what 'is without Question the most
diabolical appearing form of fright
fulness which has grown out of three
years of the world war.
The flame thrower used was com
paratively small, one of the older
models, but the rotating stream of fire
it emitted with great clouds of in
tense black smoke curling hundreds of
feet in the air gave the open-eyed sol
diers a. wholesome idea of what some
pbaNes of modern warfare are like.
The men. when the first shock of
surprise and the terrible weapon had
worn. off. however, began to make
humorous remarks and seemed to en
joy the latter end of the demonstra
tion with that keen sense of American
indifference to danger when it is
known Just what the danger is. Ozie
soldier convulsed the big company by
shouting: "Oh. Bo, Bo. don't I wish I
had been better at Sunday school."
Another renewed the merriment by
exclaiming: "Captain, please tell us
when the next boat leaves for home,"
while a third added: "This sura ain't
no place for a nervous man!"
The . demonstration had a two-fold
purpose first, to ncquaint the men
with the' character of a weapon which
could easily terrorize the uninitiated:
second, to teach the means of defense
and self-protrctlon against even the
most fiendish of German flanimeu
werfers. While the American army will neces
sarily be equipped with modern liquid
fire projectors, both as a defense and
for offense, in order that it may suc
cessfully combat every form of warfare
practiced by the enemy, many of the
officers are inclined to doubt the ef
fectiveness of the weapon In anything
more than a purely local operation,
such as a night raid on enemy dugouts
or a small section of an enemy trench.
The American fire throwers will
likely be entirely of new design, calcu
lated to attract little or no attention to
the man or men carrying the lnstru
: -ent, so that they can approach close
to the enemy works before becoming
shining marks for hidden snipers.
FUEL COST MAY BE CUT
Government Contemplates Action as
In Food Control.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 28. Immediate
measures looking toward a general
reduction in the prices of fuel oil and
gasoline are under contemplaliun by
the Government. It has not been de
cided. It is . understood, whether to
move under cowers contained in the
food control bill or to seek an agree
ment with producers similar to the
steel and copper price agreements.
The Federal Trade Commission has
Just completed and turned over to
President Wilson cost of production
estimates for fuel oil and gasoline.
These estimates are said to show that
it now costs 14 to 20 cents a gallon
to produce gasoline and from 90 cents
to $2 to produce fuel oil. Prices for
both are extremely high.
Under the food bill the Government
is given the same control over fuel as
over foodstuffs.
ROUND-UP OF TEUTONS ON
New York Police Arrest Many Vio
lators of Enemy Allen Laws.
NEW YORK, Sept. i. A round-up
of Germans in New York who have
violated the terms of permits granted
them to enter zones barred to enemy
alien.s or who have gone Into these
districts without permits, was begun
tonie'nt. The arrests were made by po
licemen co-operating with officers of
the Navy. About 100 men were taken
into custody.
The detectives who made the arrests
brought with them satchels, suit cases
and bags of all kinds which, it was in
timated, contained important docu
ments.
One of the men taken into custody
was Heinrlch watterhann, wireless ex-
Pert on the German steamship Fried
rich Eer Groste, on which incendiary
bombs were manufactured to set fire
ships carrying supplies to the entente
allies before the united btates entered
the war.
Groups of aliens also were brought
from nearby cities in New Jersey and
from towns on Long Island.
BERMUDA OFFERS . FOOD
Vast Quantities of Vegetables Avail-
abe if Tonnage la Obtained.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S. Bermuda's
mission to the United Slates conferred
with Government officials here today
In an effort to have this country fur
nish sufficient jjcean tonnage to move
the island's vegetable crop, which has
been found incapable of export be
caune of the shipping shortage.
The mission declared that 300.000
crates of vegetables, 80.000 barrels of
potatoes and 130.000 crates of onions
can be procured for the allied govern
ment's food supply if this country will
temporarily divert sufficient tonnage
into the island trade.
THE BIGGEST CLOTHING
SURPRISE OF YOUR LIFE
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Examine carefully the new
Trench style Belted Suits
and Overcoats offered at
ground-level stores and note
the prices. Then come up
and see ours.
IF WE COULDN'T SURPRISE YOU
.WE WOULDN'T. INVITE YOU
We didn't "foresee"
comingprice increases
or buy our goods "be
fore the war." All gar
ments are new and up-to-the-minute
in style,
material and work
manship. It is low rent, big
buying power and
small profits that
make it possible for
us to duplicate for 15
any Suit or Overcoat
value shown at ground
level for $25.00
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Washington and Sixth
MILL WORK IS SURPRISE
ENGLAND MARVELS AT LUMBER
OUTPUT OF NEW 3IILL.S.
New England Unit Increases Cut From
130O to 10,000 Keet a Day to Sap-
ply Timbers for Allies.
BOSTON, Sept. 26. The efficient
manner in which the 344 men and
equipment of the New England Sawmill
Unit, which went to the British Isles
several months--aso, helped solve the
problems of the allies, was told to
members of the Massachusetts Com
mittee on Public Safety today by
Cioorge S. Lewis, who recently returned
from England, where he superintended
the arrival of the unit.
Uneland welcomed the New England
ers with open arms, said Mr. Lewis, and
later marveled at the 10.000 feet of
lumber turned out by the American
mills, compared with 1500 feet sawed
by old-fashioned Scotch mills in
same period of time.
Minister's request, aroused consider
able interest, coming- close on the dis
closures of how Sweden's Legations in
Argentina and Mexico had been trans
mitting secret communications : for
Germany. . . ...
Philippine Army Men Arrive.
BAN FRANCISO. Sept. 26. Three
newly promoted Generals from the
Philippines arrived here today en route
to Washington to be assigned to new
. the
Americans rian Spanish Hallway,
MADRID, Sept. 25. American engi
neers are studying plans for a proposed
new direct railroad from Madrid to
Purls. The prospective route is direct
from Madrid to the frontier by way . of
Soria, Pamplona and Canfranu.
Fifty Million More Iient to France.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. A further
credit of $40,000,000 was extended to
day by tho Government to France.
This brings the- total advanced the
allies up to t2.4U6.4O0.OO0.
Swedish Minister Visits Wilson.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 26. The Minis
ter from Sweden, W. A. F. Ekangren,
was received today by President Wil
son. The audience, arranged at the
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TyrANY great generals say: "An
' 1VJ army fights on its stomach." Men V
who are fighting the big business
problems of the day will enjoy lunching '
at the Portland. I 1
c& at tlwPo
commands. They are Major-Generals
Charles J. Bailey and Clarence Y.
Townsley and Brigadier-General Ben
jamin A. Poore.
Red Cross Vacancies, Filled.
CH EH ALTS, Wash., Sept. 26. (Spe
cial.) Dr. G. H. Dow was elected vice
president of the Chehalis Red Cross to
succeed Paul Dupertuis, who recently
went to Wyoming. Rev. John L.
Magoon was elected a member of the
board to succeed O. K. Palmer. Miss
Virginia McIIurrin, secretary, will soon
go to Portland. Her successor was not
determined by the board.
Tobacco to France Is Duty Free.
PARIS, Sept. 20. Tobacco sent to
American soldiers henceforth will en
ter France free of duty. Similar ar
rangements have been made as re
gurds British, Belgian, Russian and
Portuguese troops fighting in Kranee.
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