THE 3IORNING OREGOMAN. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1917.
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GERMAN PLOTS
ORIENT DISCLOSED
Teutons Reported to Be Busy
Stirring Up Dissensions
in China.
MONEY IS USED FREELY
Bandits Employed and Everything
Possible Done to 'Undermine
Influence of Pekin
Government.
PEKIN, Sept. 10. (Correspondence of
the Associated Press.) German plots
to promote internal trouble in China
are being disclosed almost daily, and
the situation is so serious that China
undoubtedly will find it necessary to
intern many Germans and Austrians,
if not all of them, before the end of
the year. The allied Ministers are ex
tremely uneasy over the situation.
China, with its lack of adequate com
munication and great territory, offers
a fine field for German plots. For
many years German agents have carried
on commercial undertakings in Tibet,
Turkestan, Mongolia and other interior
parts of China. Consequently they
speak Chinese fluently and have great
influence with the lower classes.
Money Is Freely Used.
Through the German and Austrian
legations in Pekin these interior agents
have been supplied with money to stir
up dissension. They have aroused the
Mohammedans in Western China by
telling them that this is a religious
war designed to eliminate Turkey and
Mohammedanism. - Similar arguments
have been used among the Mohamme
dans in Southwestern China.
In Mongolia the German and Austrian
agents enlisted many bandits in the
monarchical movement, and have done
everything in their power to under
mine the influence of the Pekin gov
ernment. The work of the agitators
has been more effective in Mongolia
than elsewhere, as they have been able
to harass the trans-Siberian line by en
couraging the Mongolians to move
north into Siberia and Manchuria and
to attack railway towns.
Siberian Railway Threatened.
Russia's military forces are some
what limited now in Eastern Siberia,
and consequently the Trans-Siberian
line is seriously threatened by the Mon
golian uprisings.
German agents also have been' able
to assist many German and Austrian
war prisoners to escape from Siberia
into Mongolia and thence into other
parts of China.
Much of the German propaganda has
been traced directly to the German
banks and prominent German com
mercial men in Pekin and Tien-tsin.
Both the British Charge d' Affaires and
the Russian Minister have named the
leading German intriguers in letters to
the foreign office, and suggested their
internment.
McCrea, Cleveland, O.; vice-president,
Gustav Bischoff, Jr., St. Louis. Mo.;
secretary, George L. McCarthy, New
York; treasurer. Max N. Agger, Cincin
nati. Efforts to locate Lieutenant M. H.
English, missing from his station' at
the Camp Fremont military post since
October 5. are so far unavailing.
Five Mexican bandits swam the Rio
Grande about 4 o'clock yesterday morn
ing and attacked the Mexican village of
Grangeno. six miles southeast of Mis
sion. Tex. Armed citizens replied to
the bandits' rifle fire and the invaders
dlsappeared-
Indianapolis is designated as official
headquarters for the Grand Army of
the Republic in a general order issued
by Orlando A. Somers, of Kokomo, Ind.,
commander-in-chief of the organization.
Among appointments on the staff of
the commander-in-chief announced is
Assistant Adjutant-General C. A. Will
iams, Portland, Or.
The publication known as Bull, of
which Jeremiah A. O'Leary. mentioned
in German official dispatches made
public by recent State Department dis
closures, has been the directing head,
has suspended, its publishers announce.
Wesley M. Owen, aged 48, who was
Associate Judge in the Panama Canal
Zone during the second administration
of President Roosevelt, died at Bloom
ington, 11L. Oct. 16.
The Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, eec
retary of Yale University, declines the
call to become principal of Hampton
Institute, succeeding the late Dr.
Frlssell.
FUGITIVES GOME BACK
GERXAN ALIE.V S WHO FLED FROM
ANGEL ISLAND RETtTRJT.
to
World Briefs for Busy Folk.
National.
NEGOTIATIONS between the War
Trade Board and Hans Sulzer, the
Swiss Minister, have reached the stage
where propositions made by the United
States Government regarding the ques
tion of supplies for Switzerland have
been forwarded by Minister Sulzer to
his government for its consideration.
Harold H. Duke, a fireman aboard a
United States destroyer, has been com
mended by Secretary Daniels for gal
lantry in jumping overboard from his
vessel on the night of September 14
and rescuing a shipmate from drown
ing. A committee representing the Na
tional Garment Retailers' Association
;ind comprising several of New York
City's leading merchants, has been des
ignated to attend a conference in
Washington Thursday for the purpose
of "devising ways and means to insure
a judicious use of cloth in the making
of women s garments.
Sheffield, Alabama, as a site for one
of the nitrate plants for which Con
gress appropriated $20, 000. 000 is an
nounced by the War Department.
The Japanese parliamentary mission
of five delegates from the Japanese
Diet, headed by Dr. T. Masao, is in
Washington today to make a special
study of United States Congress meth
ods and to ascertain the state of pub
lie feeling in America. Another spe
cial mission, representing the imperial
Japanese railways to study American
transportation and industrial condi
tions, will arrive in New York Octo
bcr 21.
Merely Wanted to Say Good-bye
Friends Before Being; Sent
Eastt Teutons Say
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 16. Lone
liness, spiced with a desire for ad
venture to break dull routine, led to
the escape early today of Captain G
Brauch and Engineer Lorenzo Lau from
the detention camp on Angel Island,
where they were confined as alien ene
mies, they announced when they vol-
ntarily returned a few hours after
their disappearance had caused a fran
tic search by Federal, Immigration and
civil authorities.
The two Germans, officers of a seized
erman merchantman, commandeered
lifeboat belonging to a Government
essel, rowed across several -miles of
whitecapped water before dawn, landed
and boarded a ferry and arrived here.
where they enjoyed a three-hour chat
with friends.
Later, while authorities were scour
ing land and sea, they took the captain
of the Angel Island tugboat into their
onfidence, told him who they were
and were immediately escorted back to
camp.
They explained that they merely
wanted to tell friends good-bye before
eing transferred to detention camps
in the East.
Captain Carl Branch Is well known
along the Portland waterfront because
of having been master of the German
bark Dalbek, renamed the Red Jacket
when seized in April byi the United
States Government, and since rechris-
tened the Monongahela.
The Dalbek came here In July, 1914.
and was ordered laid up by her owners
on war being declared. For a time
she was moored above the bridges and
then shifted to Linnton, where she was
seized in April, and Captain Brauch
and officers and men "from other ships,
the Kurt and Arnoldus Vinnen, taken
to Puget Sound. A short ' time later
they were transferred to Angel Island.
Men who knew Captain Brauch here
were not surprised on learning that
he had attempted to escape, as it was
known he chafed because of being de
tained in America during the war, at
least up to the time the United States
joined with the allies.
Domestic
American Meat Packers' Association
closed its annual meeting at Chicago
oy electing officers: President. J. M
FIGHTING FOR HAPPINESS
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that makes life seem one tiresome
duty after another, with no pleasure
in it; when ill health seems to take all
the joy out of life and you worry over
things that are not really worth wor
rying about, then your nervous sys
tem is becoming exhaused and you are
approaching neurasthenia.
Your happiness is. worth fighting for
and red blood is your best ally. It is
a hopeless task to try to restore your
health while your blood is deficient in
quantity or quality.
To build up the blood there is one
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Pink Pills for Pale People. They tone
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rich and red, strengthen the nerves,
increase the appetite, put color in the
cheeks and lips and drive away that
unnatural tired feeling.
The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.
Schenectady, N. Y.. has published t
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contains a chapter on neurasthenia, in
which the symptoms are fully de
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given.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by
your own druggist or will be sent by
mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, 60
cents per box. six boxes for $2.50.
Adv.
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WORK RESUMED IN
OF'
MINES
EXOO
Agreement With United States
on Gold Exports Starts
Operations.
CORN IMPORTS PERMITTED
Allowance Is Million Bushels of
Cereal Monthly, Sale Regulated,
and Xone to Be Sent Out
of Republic.
MEXICO CTTT, Oct. IS. An agree
ment has been reached between Ignacio
Bonillas, Mexican Ambassador at Wash
ington, and the United States Treasury
Department, according to reports here,
by which Mexico will take off the re
strictions on the exports of metals,
which required the reimportation of an
equal amount of gold for all gold bul
lion exported and 25 per cent on all
silver exported.
In return money due on the balance
of trade to Mexico will be paid In gold.
Under the agreement Mexico will re
ceive $8,000,000 gold thig month, $5,
000,000 in November and $2,000,000 each
month thereafter, under a distinct un
derstanding that Mexico must not ship
the gold to other countries.
The parity of American gold In Mex
ico, the agreement provides, is to be
maintained.
Mines and melters, which discontin
ued operating 10 days ago, have re
sumed activities 'now that an agree
ment has been reached.
EL, PASO, Tex.; Oct. 16. Mexico will
be permitted to import 1,000.000 bushels
of corn monthly as a result of the
agreement reached over Mexico's metal
embargo, mining companies here were
informed by their Washington repre
sentatives Joday.
The corn may not be . resold at a
profit of more than 5 per cent or
shipped out of Mexico, according to the
information here, and mining com
panies will be allowed to send corn
into Mexico to feed their employes. .
Dagbladet asserts that enrollments of
Swedes are proceeding under a law of
1909.
The Svenska Morgenbladet publishes
a letter from a man in Vaesteras who
declares that his son, who went to
America in 191 to study, received mus
tering order No. 332 and was mustered
in in September under Army No. 6409.
The writer declares further that his
son was exempted from military serv
ice in Sweden because of poor eye
sight. Replying to the note sent by the
Peruvian government announcing the
severance of diplomatic relations Octo
ber 5 between Peru and Germany, the
Chilean Foreign Minister says Peru's
action is -applauded by Chileans; that
his government is gratified by the
course taken by Peru, as it is a further
step toward the unification of the
South American republics.
M. I. Terestcaenko. Minister of For
eign Affairs in Russia, at a meeting
in observance of the 100th anniversary
of the death of Kosciusko, the Polish
patriot, declares it is the conviction
of the entente powers that "any peace
should recognize the Independence of
an indivisible Poland."
This differs from the declaration is
sued by the provisional Russian gov
ernment last March, in which it was
urged that Poland should be given au
tonomy under nominal Russian guid
ance. American Ambassador Francis drew
a parallel between the American and
Russian revolutions, saying that, as
America's problems had been solved
and her Issues settled, eo would Rus
sia's problems be solved by the sober
second thought of Intelligent and pa
triotic citizens.
REAL FLYERS WANTED
AVIATION CORPS OPENS DOORS TO
ADVENTUROUS.
SOLDIERS TO HEAR GLUCK
Y. 31. C. A. Provides for Appearance
of Star at Camp Lewis.
TACOMA. "Wash., Oct. 16. (Special.)
Alma Gluck, grand opera star, will
sing for the 40.000 men of the 91st
National Army Division at Camp Lewis
under the auspices of the camp Y. M.
C. A. on October 31. The concert will
be free, in the open air.
Miss Gluck will sing from a spe
cially constructed stand backed by a
gigantic sounding board. She will sing
such songs as "Carry Me Back to
Old Virginia."
In the event of rain the grand opera
star will sing in the new Y. M. C. A.
auditorium, which will seat 5000 persons.
When the T. M. C. A men at Camp
Lewis learned that Alma Gluck was
to be in Portland they speedily got in
touch with her and she readily prom
ised to sing for the soldier boys.
MANY GIVE SERVICES
S I'M MARY OF RED CROSS SALARIES
SHOWS 73 UNPAID.
Most Officers and Clerks Receive Less
Than 92000$ Number of Paid
Workers Kali Inc.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. A summary
of salaries paid at Red Cross National
headquarters, made public today, shows
hat 73 officers and clerks are giving
their services free and that 486 mem
bers of the staff are paid employes.
Forty-one receive $2000 or more a
year; 39 others receive salaries ranging
upward to $r000, but only three are
paid more than the latter sum and
none exceeds $6000. All others receive
ess than $J000, ranging down to $600
and below.
The announcement says that in the
Summer of 1916, when the Red Cross
was on a peace basis, there were 75
paid officers and employes, of whom
9 received salaries ranging from $2000
to $7500 a year. The number of paid
workers now is being reduced.
LANE COUNTY MAN SUICIDE
Frank Schultz, In 111 Healtli, Sends
Bullet Through Head.
EUGENE, Or., Oct. 16. (Special.)
Frank Schultz, aged tO years, well
known rancher of the fall Creek re
gion, committed suicide today by shoot
ing himself with a rifle. He sat down
in a chair and, pointing the gun at his
head, pulled the trigger.
Schultz had been in ill health for
some time and is survived by his widow
and five sons. He had been a resident
of Lane County for 25 years and owned
the ftfrm where his death occurred.
Adna Farm Brings $14,000.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Oct. 16. (Spe
cial.) The sale of the Nist farm at
Adna, one of the most highly improved
dairy farms in Lewis County, to C. G.
Melius was announced yesterday by a
local realty firm. The consideration is
understood to have been $14,000. An
other deal announced yesterday was
the sale of the Bungalow Garage in
this city, owned by L. Lamont, to E. E
Miller, who comes here from the East.
What People Are Saying.
Rare Opportunity Offered Young Men
Reasonably Well Qualified
for Service.
SAX FRANCIS CO, Oct. 16. Doors of
the Aviation Corps, the cream of all
services for the . adventurous, were
thrown wide open today to all young
men of reasonable qualifications by
announcements from Major D. C. Em
mons, aeronautical officer for the
Western Department of the Army.
Real flyers are wanted. They are
needed principally as what the Army
calls "'observers." An "observer" gets
plenty of opportunity to observe. He
also learns to pilot the new type aero
plane with its wonderful liberty en
gine, to operate a wireless instrument,
to judge and record topography, to
rain bullets from a machine gun, to
drop bombs where they will do the
most harm and otherwise to partic
ipate in the most thrilling occupation
the world has ever seen.
For this service men of four years'
high school work or its equivalent are
wanted. College men also are sought.
and presidents of colleges in tha Far
West will be invited to nominate can
didates for tile service.
Contrary to somewhat common belief,
the physical requirements are reason
able. Major Emmons said. Good eye
sight and a normal physique fill the
bill. Once past this test, the applicant
will be sent to school at Fort Sill,
Okla.. or South San Antonio, Tex., until
he is qualified for commission, when
he will be made an officer in the signal
officers reserve corps.
Opportunities also are open In this
service for the young men handy
around machinery, who dropped school
somewhat early in the game. The me
chanical knack possessed by many of
these will be given special opportunity
for development in enlisted service
where it la. specially in demand.
Arson Charged In Complaint.
CENTRALIA. Wash..- Oct. . 16. (Spe
cial.) Prosecuting Attorney W. H.
Cameron yesterday filed information in
the Lewis County Superior Court
charging Ross Feizette and James Bax
ter,- Centralians, with second degree
arson. The men were arrested on a
charge of being responsible for the
fire that destroyed the grain warehouse
of Sears Bros. & Roswell, entailing a
less of 15.000.
India Has Record Wheat Crop.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 16. A record
crop of wheat in India was reported
today in a dispatch to the Department
of Agriculture. British India officials
estimate the 1916-17 crop at 379.232,000
bushels. compared with, 323,008,000
bushels the year before,
AMERICA need3 two million miles
of good roads, to bring it to the
maximum of efficiency in this re
spect, and they should be planned and
constructed by the Government as part
of the preparedness plans, says Will
iam F. McCombs. chairman of the New
York good roads committee of the
Southern Commercial Congress, in con
vention at Aew York.
Max Thelen. of California, president
of the National Association of Railway
Commissioners, addressing the meeting
at Washington of delegates of the asso
ciation, who represent 31 states, says
the railroad problem in the United
States has permanently moved beyond
the ownership and operation of the
railroads as disconnected entities by
private companies.
"The issue now and hereafter," he
declared, "is an issue between consoli
dated operation of our railroads in pri
vate ownership and their unified oper
ation directly by the Government
through Government ownership."
The liberty motor and America's new
merchant marine will prove tremendous
factors in crushing German militarism,
says Lord Northcliffe, head of the Brit
ish war mission, at Detroit.
"The liberty motor, if perfected, will
help inconceivably in carrying our
forces beyond the German lines, but
the motor must be perfect.
"No heed should be paid to reports of
weakness or debilitation in Germany,"
says the British publisher. "Those re
ports are manufactured and sent out
from Germany for the deliberate pur
pose of slackening America's efforts.
Foreign newspapers in England were
suppressed the first fortnight of the
war. That is what the United States
should do."
Premier Palnleve communicates to
the Cabinet the result of inquiry into
charges against Louis J. Malvy, former
Minister of the Interior, accused by
Leajj Daudet, editor of L'Action Fran
caise, of having betrayed secrets to
Germany. The Premier says the accusa
tions are unfounded.
Mrs. Swinburne Hale (Beatrice
Forbes Robertson), of New York, a lead
er in the suffrage movement in that
state, speaking in behalf of woman
suffrage at St. Louis, says if the world
is to be made safe for democracy
America cannot consistently deny the
ballot to women. Mrs. Hale, reviewnig
the activities of women during the war,
relates how women, by entering indus
trial fields, have released men for the
armies. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, she
says, has secured more men for the
army than any other recruiting individ
ual In the British Lmpire.
Emperor William of Germany sends
this message to General von Beseler,
the Governor-General of Poland:
"I have found it advisable, In agree
ment with my illustrious ally, the Em
peror of Austria-Hungary, and in the
spirit of article I of the decree of
September 12. 1917, to install as mem
bers of the Council of Regency of the
Kingdom of Poland the archbishop of
Warsaw, Alexander von Laeksoki; the
Mayor of Warsaw, Prince Lubomirsky,
and the landed proprietor, Josef Hon-
ostrowski.
David R. Francis, the American Am
bassador, will deliver in person to
Madame Catherine Breshkovskaya. the
"grandmother of the revolution." a tel
egram from President Wilson express
ing the President's confidence in the
intelligence of Russia.
A portion of the Swedish press re
fuses to believe that Swedish subjects
are not being enrolled in the American
Army, despite the American State De
partment's message that the enroll
ment bill had not. passed. The- Svenska
BRYAN URGES ACTION
WAR LONGER QUESTION OF
OPINION, SAYS COLONEL.
Every American's Faramonnt Doty
Now to Stand Behind Presi
dent and Congress.
NEW YORK. Oct. 16. Every Ameri
can's paramount -duty is to stand be
hind the President and Congress and
support "anything and everything our
Government does in this war," William
Jennings Bryan told members of the
New York Advertising Club today. He
said he came from the W est to spend
three days here, speaking for woman
suffrage and at the request of Sec-
retary McAdoo campaigning for the
second liberty loan.
"The furnishing of money," said Mr.
Bryan, "is one of the most important
ways of supporting the Government.
Before we entered the war, it was
matter of opinion and discussion, but it
is no longer a question of opinion. It
is time for action now."
He declared he would make no com
plaint against high taxes, as long as
there are men giving their lives for the
country. "I shall not put the dollar
above the man nor property above
blood," he said.
OREGON STUDENT EDITOR
H. S. Mitchell, of Astoria, Honored
by Washington "Varsity.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Se
attle, Oct. 16. (Special.) H. Sherman
Mitchell, a senior in the department of
journalism, of Astoria. Or., was elected
editor of the University of Washington
Daily, the student paper, for the pres
ent quarter. Mitchell fills the vacancy
resulting from the drafting of Thomas
Dobbs. of Tacoma, editor-elect.
Mitchell is the first Oregon student
to hold the editor's chair in several
years. He is a member of Sigma Delta
Chi, National Journalism fraternity,
and of Alpha Sigma Phi and was grad
uated from Astoria High School in
1914.
LANE COUNTY TAXES FIRST
$2 7 5,000 Dae From O. & C. Rail
road Lands -Will Be Paid.
EUGENE, Or?, Oct. 16. (Special.)
Lane County will be the first county in
the state to receive payment of back
taxes on Oregon & California railroad
grant lands, under act of Congress re
vesting title to these lands in the
United States Government.
Sheriff J. C. Parker tonight received
a telegram from former Governor Os
wald West, acting as a special agent of
the Interior Department, stating that
he would be in Eugene tomorrow, when
he would turn over to Lane County
$275,000, representing back taxes on the
land, 'interest and penalties to June,
1916.
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Instructions by telegraph and mall
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ship of the liberty bond matter, 24
hours a day is not time enough to com
plete his work.
Railroad Pays Injury Claim.
CENTRALIA, Wash.. Oct. 16. (Spe
cial.) A. K. Laramie, of this city, bas
received from the O.-W. R. & N. Com
pany a check for $750. Laramie.7who
was employed as brakeman by the rail
road company, filed suit for 125.000 for
the loss of a leg a year agro in a 'train
accident at Saginaw. The case wai
settled out of court. In addition to th
check Laramie has been offered an
ether position with the company.
COAL ORDERS SUPERVISED
rontinued From Kirst' Page.)
three responses tonight, and indicate
that in Portland, one Southern Oregon
town and La Grande there has been no
increase and in one Instance a decline
of 50 cents a ton on one grade of coal.
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