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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. - ;
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