Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 05, 1917, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text3 THE -MORNING OKEGOXIxVX, 3IOXDAT, NOVEMBER 5, 1917. BIG GUNS THUNDER ALONG AISNE FRONT Germans Pound French Ad vancing on Ailette River and Get Return in Kind. BRITISH 'NIBBLE' STEADILY Trench Raids In Flanders Produc tive and Two Strong Points Are Captured Americans and Ger mans Shell Intermittently. PARIS, Nov. 4. Notable artillery ac tivity la continuing on the Aisne front, north of the Chemin des Dames, where the French are occupying advanced ground along: the Ailette River, the War Office announced today. In the Verdun area the Germans fol lowed up their heavy bombardment with two attacks north of Chaume wood, with both of which the French artillery dealt successfully, causing: the Germans to sustain heavy casualties. A surprise attack in the Damloup region was repulsed, as was a similar German enterprise northwest of Rheims. BERLIN', via London, Nov. 4. Lively artillery fire and reconnoitering clashes along: the Ailette River front in North ern France are reported In today's army headquarters statement in the western war theater. In the Verdun region German defensive fire pre vented a French attack which was preparing- at Chaume wood. In Flanders the Improvement of the German lines at various places, to gether with the repulse of local British attacks, is reported. KING OF ITALY IN PARIS, WITH KING OF MONTENEGRO, ON RETURN FROM THE FRONT. LONDON, Nov. 4. On the Flanders battle front last night small detach ments of British troops captured from the Germans two strong defensive points, east of Broodseinde and south east of Foelcapelle, the War Office says. Irish fusiliers carried out a suc cessful raid southwest of Havrlncourt. Two raids by the Germans on the Arras front near Alonchy le Preux were re pulsed. (By the Associated Press.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Saturday, Nov. 3. Notwith standing1 the rainy weather on Friday night and early Saturday the German batteries again displayed a little more activity than normal on the part of the French line occupied by the American troops. German shells were distrib uted Impartially among the trenches, the American batteries replying in the same fashion. The enemy is using both high ex plosive and shrapnel, sending occa sional reminders of the war toward the American trenches. Reports reaching headquarters, however, are that the bombardment could in no sense be con sidered "lively." merely being a de parture from the normal state of qui etude at night on that particular sec tion. A high officer In the United States Army Saturday afternoon talked with the commanding officer of the first battalions visiting the trenches and obtained statements of their experi ences. It is believed that this infor mation will prove invaluable In the training of new contingents for their turn at the front. REICHSTAG IS CURTAILED GERMAN GOVERNMENT TO CLIP WINGS BEFORE GIVING REFORMS. Lower House to Be Elected on Equal Suffrage to Have No Right to Frame New Appropriations. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 4. The German authorities think it advisable to clip the wings of the Prussian Legislature finally before the power is turned over to an under house elected on equal suf frage. The bill on budget rights, men tioned recently as part of the Prussian reform programme, forbids the lower house to Introduce new appropriations In the budget or Increase the Items as submitted without the permission of the government. The House of Lords is authorized, if the lower House rejects the standing appropriation of the budget, to demand a revote or a discussion in a confer ence committee of both houses. The bill also provides for the con tinuance of the standing appropria tions of the preceding budget, if the estimates are not passed at the opening of the fiscal year. MANY LOST IN NIGHT FIRE 15 to SO Believed Dead in Flames at Paterson, Jf. J. - . .PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 4. Fifteen or 20 raep are believed to have been burned to death in a. fire in the Rescue Mis sion of the Salvation Army at 42 Mill street here early this morning. "Ten, injured byJumplng. were taken to hos pitals. There were 120 men In the building wher the fire started. The fire broke out on the - second floor of the mission, shutting off the escape of the men Bleeping in the dormitories on Oiq third and fourth floors. ' The police recovered one body two hours after the fire started and estimated that from 10 to 20 bodies remained in the ruins. The 10 injured In hospitals Jumped from the two upper floors. The mission building, a four-story brick structure, was destroyed. ARMY SUBSCRIPTIONS BIG United States Soldiers Buy Liberty Bonds Totaling $89,273,650. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 The Amer ican Army has subscribed to 189,273,650 worth of liberty bonds, it was an announced by Colonel H. M. Lord, quar termaster corps, in charge of the Army liberty loan campaign. Leading the 31 National Army can tonments, the men at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, O., subscribed to $2,002,600. Camp Cody, Deming. N. M., led the National Guard camps with $2,300,800. Th total for Camp Kearny, Linda Vista, Cal., was $1,256,550, and for Camp Lewis. American Lake, Wash., $1,-248,600. Escaped German Sailors Caught. NEW HAVEN. Conn., Nov-. 4. Seven German sailors, said to be part of the crews of the Vaterland and other in terned German steamships, and who escaped from New York and Jersey Cltjr piers some time ago, were arrest ed, at North Haven last night. ip I v - , nx ii ii! It - ' IS li 1 (AH 7 - - ' - , .t t s ' r ' V- - , c - " , - SwM'''' V, ' , .. . X , - Jfc illin- inec-rJToor "loo King Victor-Emmanuel, of Italy, who recently visited the French front with President Polncare and reviewed the poilus, stopped in Paris for a few ! oars on his way back to the Italian front. This photo was taken at the iilway station at 11 P. M. and shows the King of Italy, on the right, with his father-in-law, the King of Montenegro, who has been living in France for the past two years. RETREAT REAL ROUT Observer Says Wrong and Wicked to Minimize Disaster. UNITED STATES IS NEEDED Brnnt of Winter Campaign Must Fall Upon Britain Until America Is Ready to Take Heavier Share of Burden. LONDON, Nov. 4. (Special.) J. L. Garvin, writing in the Observer on the situation created by the Italian retreat, says: "The Italian retreat has Increased to the proportions of a disaster, which it would be wrong and wicked to min imize. To do so would only be an in jury to Italy and sleeping potion for the other entente powers. "Relatively to the total forces and resources of our allies, Britain, France and America will have to make up in Venetia for the immense loss of men and material. The Italians, according to the enemy's claims, lost 200,000 men, 1800 guns and huge stores of ammuni tion and other supplies. They may be hard-put to hold their lines on the Tg liamento until sufficient succor can reach them. "From the spectacular point of view. If we may use such a phrase, that Is one of the most exciting Issues in all the records of this incredible war. Meanwhile the brwnt of -the Winter must necessarily fall on this country until the United States henceforth speeding up with more concentrated energy than ever is ready to take on a heavier share of the burden. "All that means a big readjustment of forces, large reconsiderations of pol icy, a wider and more Intense struggle next year, a prolonged war. Russia must be asked again what she can and means to do. Japan ought to be con sulted anew. If she can Send ships into the Mediterranean, she can send men with signal gain to her whole prestige In the world. "Why should not Japan help to fill the gap until the United States is ready? Never yet have the allies used their full means in existence at any given moment. The time to fling all their available reserves into the scale Is now." I. W. W. TRIALS DELAYED Evidence. Being Gathered Against Men Taken' in Chicago Raids. CHICAGO, Nov. 4. Claude R. Porter. United States District Attorney at Des Moines, la., came here yesterday to as sist District Attorney Charles F. Clyne In the prosecution of the I. W. W. members recently indicted by a Fed eral grand jury. He will take the place of Frank C. Dailey. assistant Attorney-General in Indianapolis, who has resigned. District Attorney Clyne estimated It would be 30 days before all the evi dence collected in recent raids can be examined and the trials started. LITTLE ACTION EXPECTED (Continued From First Pace.) called grills, which I visited. I had found that "they were nothing but places arranged for women to sit at tables and solicit men; that they paid $15 a week for a small table, used for meeting men and making arrange ments. What did he say to that? He said., 'Well, I don't think I will close those grills, but I will put policemen in them to sea that nothing illegal goes on.' So they are running. Women Declared Bold "Then, thee is the street-walker sit uation the worst ever. It would be practically impossible for a soldier or any other man, for that matter, to walk the streets in Seattle without be ing approached, especially In the down town districts. It is a shame and dis grace and I told Gill Just what I'm telling you and he didn't deny it, either. "But, after all, I look for little to be done there, from what I saw and heard. No one is going Into Seattle from the outside and do Gill's job of houseclean ing for him; I'm not and General Greene won't. Seattle will simply have to do It or suffer the consequences and I think that about all Seattle cares for is to do enough to save her commercial face." Relative to HI Gill's denial of a state ment made by Mr. McCourt that His Honor would not again run for the of fice, Mr McCourt said: "Gill told me three times. In the course of our conversation, that he would not run again. But what dif ference does that make? It is not whether he is going to do this or that, but whether he Is going to do hig plain duty and enforce the laws of his city and state. That's the whole point, but. with his usual cunning, he drags in some foreign issue with which to make dust and distract public attention." PRICE LIMIT IS PURPOSE REGULATIONS FOR THE HANDLING OF FOODSTUFFS APPROVED. Excessive Prices Charged by Small Re tailers to Be Eliminated by One of Rales. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 Regulations governing the handling of foodstuffs under the licensing of manufacturers and dealers were approved by President Wilson today and will be put into oper ation by the Food Administrator. The principal objects of the rules, a Food Administration statement today sets forth, are: "To limit the prices charged by every licensee to a reason able amount over expenses and to for bid the acquisition of speculative prof its from a rising market." There are a large number of general rules governing all licensees, together with special regulations for various trades In which there are special condi tions or specific abuses to be over come. - - Elimination of excessive prices charged by small retailers who are not subject to license will be accomplished by a rule forbidding licensees to sell food to any person who charges ex cessive profits. An Important rule provides that no licensee shall import. . manufacture. store, distribute, sell or otherwise handle any food commodities on an un just, exorbitant. unreasonable. dis criminatory or unfair commission, profit or storage charge. MEXICANS ARE EXILED HANDBILLS SCATTERED WHICH READ "DEATH TO CAHUAXZA." Demonstration Against President Re sponsible for Recent Expulsion of Prominent Political Leaders. LAREDO. Tex.. Nov. 4. A disturb ance in Mexico City during which there was a demonstration against President Carranza was responsible for the re cent expulsion of a number of promi nent Mexicans, according to passengers from the capital reaching here yester day. They had reference to the admis sion of 17 political refugees, two of them generals, into the United States, via Laredo, 10 days ago. While President Carranza was listen ing to an opera in the Abreu Theater, the passengers said, clouds of hand bills bearing the pronunclamento of Felix Diaz and the words "Death to Carranza" descended from the galleries. The next morning residents of the capital awoke to find the entire city. Including the walls of the national pal ace, placarded with the same handbills,' those arriving here say. They add that subsequently a number of suspects were rounded up. Some were sent out of the country by way of Vera Cruz. It was said, snd others through Laredo. Hi m jjj ' To tnwre ' tjl iEEplpsSsi trademark, "Hii Muttr'i Voict." l is on all genuin , ll jgt products of th Victor Talking Machino Company. 1; A Riley poem makes a superb sacred number for Alma Gluck ST50S J- , .i O UUhkls The Prayer Perfect Alma Gluck Victrola Red Seal Record 64713. 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Victor Records and Victor Machines are scientifically coordinated and synchronized by our special processes of manufacture, and their us, one with the other, is absolutely essential to a perfect Victor reproduction. N.w Victor Records dsawastrated at all osalsra oa the 1st el each month Tictrola" is the Registered Trade-mark of tbs Victor Talking .Machine Company design. tics; the products of this Compaoj oaU, Warning? Th. um of th. word Victrola upon or in ths promotion or sal of ay eUwf Talking alachias or Fboaograpb products U misleading and illegal. J PRISON CONDITIONS VILE RETURNED CANADIANS DEPICT EVILS IN II IN CAMPS. Red Cross Nurses Knock Water From Hands of Famishing; Prisoners. Popnlace Jeers at Captives. TORONTd, Ont., Nov. 4. Reports of conditions in German prison camps. particularly at Gottingen, Hanover, were made here Saturday by Corporal Alexander Tetman and Allen MacDon ald, Toronto Highlanders, who were captured at St. Julien In April, 1915. They were prisoners in Germany 19 months, but when they became 111 be cause of starvation, they were re turned home through Switzerland. "We were often 'hit, punished and kicked and called 'pigs and swine'," the corporal said. "Now and then we could walk to town if we liked, but they made us walk in the middle of the road for we could not walk on the sidewalk be side the Germans and they Jeered at us and called us vile names. "When you asked a guard for a cup of water a German Red Cross nurse would knock it out of your hand. We had to sleep on the floor of the huts. We had no change of. clothing and when we were wet to the skin we had to keep our clothes on." "The prisoners got no justice and the food was wretched," declared Mac Donald, who was wounded and gased at St. julien, and who was 15 months in Gottingen. "I was on the pick and shovel gang working on the roads. I refused to work once and for nine days was placed in solitary confinement and fed on bread and water." GERMANS BLAMED FOR FIRE Great Quantity of Hay and Grain Is Destroyed. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Nov. 4. In cendiary Germans are blamed by the residents of TaylorsvlUe, Utah, for a fire which destroyed hundreds of tons of hay and 1000 bushels of grain, be Mrs costly biiHdln on the ranch of Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mor mon Church at Taylorsville, at a late hour last night. "Suspicious looking foreigners have been seen in this neighborhood lately," said H. W. Matthews, of Taylorsville. "and I do not doubt In the least that enemies of this Government are trav eling through Utah destroying farms and crops, as they did in Montana and the Dakotas." Joseph V. Smith, as trustee of the Mormon Church, recently subscribed for J250.00O in liberty bonds to be paid for out of the tithing funds of the church. be sent to Europe should Mexico Join the allies." Both of these newspapers are believed to be subsidized by the German agents in Mexico. SAVING SYSTEM IS NEEDED War Finance Conference Hears Dis cussion of Economic Crisis. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4. To win the war, the United States must devise a system of economic, financial and in dustrial strategy that will unite the whole Nation and its energies as a ba sis for the armies in the field, A. C. Miller, of the Federal Reserve Board, said at the war finance conference of the American Academy of Political and Social Science yesterday. "The gross earnings of the American people total J5fT.000.000.000 annually, and under present conditions $14,000, 000,000 or $15,000,000,000 of this is clear profit, which, under an enlightened borrowing system, might be enlisted for the war," he said. HUNS ACTIVE IN MEXICO Propaganda Favoring JfcutraHty Being Circulated. JUAREZ, Mex.. Nov. 4. Propaganda favoring neutrality for Mexico in the European war is being circulated by the Germans in Mexico and Chihuahua City to counteract the efforts of Gen eral Pablo Gonzales and others to have Mexico declare in favor of the entente allies against Germany. Copies of El Democrata. of Mexico, and El Heraldo Del Norte, of Chihuahua City, received here contain long com ments on General Francisco Murguia's recent declarations in favor of strict neutrality and also warnings that "one hundred thousand men would have to PACIFISTS ARE DENOUNCED Colonel Roosevelt Asks Whole hearted Support of Government. BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Nov. 4. De nouncing the American pacifist as the most efficient aily of the German mili tarist. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at a rally In the Interest of Schuyler Merrltt. Republican candidate for Congress from the Fourth District, last night urged whole-hearted sup port of the Government and the neces sity of bending every effort to a- suc cessful prosecution of the war. British Capture 15 Guns. LONDON." Nov. 4. The British army in Palestine captured 15 guns in tho recent attack which resulted In th taking of Beersheba, It was officially; announced today. K Napoleon Could Have Sent a Telegram He might have recalled Grouchy, from his fruitless attacks on the Prussian rear guard and protected his own right flank. But communication was slow and the battle of Waterloo was lost. - ; In times of war, as in times or peace, speed in com munication is an important factor often the deciding factor. Whatever the need or special emergency, The Western Union's fifty thousand employees and one million, five hundred thousand miles of wire are at your disposal at any hour of any day or night. 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