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VOL. I, VII. NO. 17,782.
PORTV0, OKEGON, 3IOXDAt, NOVE31I5EH 19, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ITALIANS CHECK
EM Oil PIAVE
Furious Battle Rages for
Six Days.
2 GERMAN SHIPS
DAMAGED IN FIGHT
FRAScSBlG NEED
SHIP PROFITEERS
YOUNG AMERICA TO
U. S. CAVALRY ARM
TO BE REFORMED
LOLL IN CIVIL WAR
IS NEWS OF RUSSIA
STOP SPECULATION
CANNON NOT IN
E FINAL DRIVE
BRITISH . PUHSITE ENEMY TO
WITHIX 30 MILES OF LAND.
GOVERNMENT'S EXCESS PROF
KEW DIVISION TO CONSIST OF
17 OR 2 6 REGIMENTS.
ITS TAX ACTS AS BRAKE.
MAK
SUFREME EFFORT IS MADE
Invaders Resisted With Des
perate Tenacity Grenades
Are Used to Meet Rushes.
HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED
One of .Bitterest Struggles of
War Now Going On Italian
Lines Are Still Holding.
(By the Associated Press.)
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTHERN ITALY. November 18.
On the northern line and along the
Piave River above Zenson the fight
ing has assumed extreme severity.
The enemy has thrown fresh divisions
into the battle in a supreme effort to
break through.
.The Italians are resisting with des
perate tenacity, using hand grenades
to meet the infantry rushes following
artillery and machine-gun fire. It is
one of the bitterest struggles of the
war and the losses are heavy.
Foe at Follina Annihilated.
Oft the Piave River the enemy got
across at two points Follina and
Fagare a few miles above Zenson,
but those at Follina were annihilated
by artillery and hand-to-hand fight
ing, while those at Fagare were
driven back to the western bank with
heavy losses and many captured.
The Italian lines are Jbolding in the
main, but the fury of the enemy as
saults renew the gravity of the situa
tion. The Italian navy is doing splendid
service, seconding the army in the
bombardment of enemy positions to
ward the mouth of the Piave River.
Air, Sea and Land Forces Join.
in ear iteveaoii an Italian marine
battalion repulsed on Sunday a rush
made by an Austrian storming party,
and Italian torpedo-boats off Porto di
Cortellozzo drove off an attack of an
Austrian torpedo fleet. ' This latter
action was accompanied by operations
of a fleet of Italian hydroplanes and
seconded by Italian coast batteries.
On the middle Piave River, where
the Austrians succeeded in gaining a
foothold on the west bank near Zerv
son, they are held to the water's edge,
and their only communication with the
east bank is at nieht. when a flat-
boat is dragged from side to side
bringing a small stock of supplies.
Pressure All at One Point. '
Further north, where the front
turns westward from the Piave River
across the Asiago Plateau, General
Ritter von Krobatin, ex-Austrian Min
ister of War, is driving his Austrian
forces, together with one Hungarian
division, in an attack which may be
the turning point of the whole opera
tion. It is here that the Piave front and
the Trentino front meet, and General
von Krobatin is throwing all of his
pressure on this point so as to force a
wedge between the two Italian
armies."
Italians Face Real Peril.
What his success would mean is
fully realizea, for, should this wedge
come through, it would not only sep
arate the two Italian armies, but
would require the consideration of re
treat from the Piave River, as it would
'not be possible to maintain a position
on the Piave with the left flank thus
menaced.
General Armando Djaz; commander-
in-chief of the Italian army, was able
last night to announce the solidity of
both main fronts and to give merited
tribute to his men. The fighting,
while desperate, has not yet developed
the enemy's full power, and it is still
to be shown where he will strike his
greatest blow. But his first shock
has been met and checked and the
Italian arms have gained new luster.
By the Associated Press.
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTHERN ITALY. Nov. 17. The bat
tie of the Piave River, as it will be
known, now has developed to a stage
-where the enemy's first attempts to
make a breachTn the Italian lines have
failed. This defensive result has not
only been accomplished by the Italian
Column 1.)
Teuton Report Via Amsterdam Is
That English Were Driven Off
Without Inflicting Loss.
LONDON, Nov. 18. German light
cruisers, which fled through Helgo
land Bight yesterday before British
warships of smaller type, were pur
sued to within 30 miles of Helgoland,
where they came under the protec
tion of the German battle fleet and
mine fields, the Admiralty announced
today. .1
One of the German light cruisers was
observed to be in flames and the ma
chinery of another seemed to be
damaged.
One German mine sweeper was sunk.
The Bight light forces returned with
out losses, with but little damage to
the ships and slight casualties among
the personnel.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 18. Strong- Brit
ish naval forces, for the first time
since early in the war, attempted to
break into the German Bight (Helgo
land) on Saturday morning, says a
Berlin dispatch today quoting an of
ficial statement dated Saturday.
The British were located by the Ger
man guard ships on the Horn Reef
Terschelling line (about 60 miles out
from Helgoland Island) and the ad
vance German naval forces, by a speedy
counter thrust, easily repulsed them,
it is declared, without losses on the
German side.
WOMEN INJURED IN CRASH
utomoblle- and Truck Collide Sun
day at Multnomah Falls.
Two women were injured severely at
Multnomah Falls yesterday when a
truck in' which they were riding, driven
by E. J. Vclders, of 5124 Sixty-third
street Southeast, collided with a ma
chine belonging to Horace E. Taylor,
of Dundee.
Mrs. Velders suffered a broken col
lar bone when she jumped as the col
lision seemed Inevitable. Mrs. F. Kres-
ton, 7-030 Fifty-second street Southeast.
her sister-in-law, sustained a broken
limb when she was thrown violently
against the windshield by the Impact.
Mr. Velders is said to haye turned
to the left of the highway to avoid
woman -.ho was in the road taking
photograph. The turn brought him into
contact with the Taylor machine.
BALMY SUNSHINE .ENJOYED
Columbia Highway Is Remindful of
Season at Its Height.
In testimony to yesterday's bright
sunshine and balmy air, the highways
were thronged with automobiles from
mid-morning till evening and the
stream of traffic- along the Columbia
Higjiway was remindful of the season
at its height.
The Jay was variously referred to
as "a peach," as "a humdinger" and as
"the finest sort of Fall weather," while
the more modest and formal designa
tion of "beautiful' was wished on it a
thousand times. There wasn't the
faintest promise of rain.
Triflnv Ravn thu wen 1 h erm n n ir
rair, witn- a rouicKing wina irom the
east.
WAR STAMPS ARE COMING
Plans Making for Sale in At Least
Million Establishments.
WASHINGTON, Nov. IS. Plans for
placing war savings stamps on sale in
at least a million establishments for
the campaign opening December 3 have
been made by Treasury officials and
the war savings committee. Schools
and groceries, cigar stands and other
retail stores will not be requested to
buy the stamps, but may obtain them
on consignment for sale. This is ex
pected to result in participation in the
movement of thousands of small
dealers.
The stamps and certificates will be
distributed through two principal
channels, the postoffice system and the
banks.
FRANCE'S RESOURCES LESS
War's Drain Shown in Drop in Crops
and Livestock.
w ashiingtuiv. rsov. is me ware
dtein on the resources of France is
shown in a list of figures received by
the food administration.
Using the production of 1913 as
basis, the 1917 wheat crop of France
is short 53.3 per cent, or 176,000,000
bushels; the potato crop is short 33.1
per tent, or 165,000,000 bushels; the su
gar Deet crop is snort t7. per cent, or
148.000,000 bushels; the number of cat
tie has declined 16.5 per cent, or 2,435.-
000 head; the number of sheep has de
clined 36.6 per cent, or 5,535,000 head;
the number of hogs has lessened 40.2
per cent, or 2,825,000 bead.
ECUADOR HAS REBELLION
Standard Raised by Fredcrico
triago in Province of Lorios.
In.
GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador, Nov. 18.
Frederico Intriago, a member of Presi
dent Placa's Cabinet, has raised the
standard of rebellion in the province of
Lorios.
The rebels Saturday attacked Bab
shoyo, 35 milesl northeast of Guayaquil,
but were repulsed. Fourteen of them
were killed.
Peace Far Away, Says
Medill McCormick.
WAR GLASSED AS STALEMATE
Representative Home From
Europe Urges Speed.
BURDEN NOW ONv AMERICA
Co-ordination of Industries and
Rush Work In1 Munitions Pro
duction Held Xeccssary Be
cause of Russia's Collapse.
CHICAGO, Nov. 18. Russia's collapse
and the , unreadiness of the United
States make hopeless any thoughts of
peace before 1919, in the opinion or
Medill McCormick, Congressman-at-
large of Illinois, who has Just returned
from a visit to most of the important
fronts of the European battle line.
Mr. McCormick said:
"The Germans are not winning the
war.
"Neither are we.
War Norr at Stalemate.
"The war today presents a stalemate
from which we are unable to extricate
ourselves, because of the collapse of
Russia and the unreadiness of the Unit
ed States. There is practically no hope
that Russia can be in any sense useful
during the year 1918. From the most
responsible persons I heard a disheart
ening tale of Russian Inefficiency, cor
ruption, incendiarism and murder.
"Russia is so disordered that she can-
.not make war. Happily, in all prob
ability, neither can she make peace
Germany might propose concessions and
indemnities In the West and to recoup
herself in the East. What would the
European democracies do under these
circumstances? The principal public
men with whom I talked were not all
agreed upon the answer to that ques
tion, -
German Epfrgr d Unity Better.
'"Since the German high command
controls all the central- powers from
the Bosphorus to the Baltic, they act
with greattr energy, unity and skill
than their enemies. Thus they made a
seemingly successful drive into Italy.
The real object of their political foray
into Venitia was partly to make camou
flage on a grand scale to conceal their
steady losses from Verdun to Pas
schendaele and partly to provoke revo
lution in Italy.'
"While I was in the now conquered
Italian territory a little while ago. the
Italian command expected an attack in
the neighborhood of Asiago. The Ital
ians were under-gunned, neither had
they enough ammunition. The margin
of subsistence in the country is so nar
row that it must affect the morale of
the population.
But even so, the Italians would not
have been driven back so far as they
(Concluded on Pajre
Column 2.)
ITS
Shipping Men Who Have Made For-
tunes in Shipping Deals Must,
.Furnish Accounting.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18. Trading
in ships has ceased almost entirely
among San Francisco shipping men.
There is no record of a deal of any
importance since the Federal Shipping
Board's plans became clearly defined.
The excess profit clause of the war
emergency revenue act is said to be
the principal reason for the abatement
of speculation in ships under Govern
ment exemption tennage.
The .United States revenue service is
now calling upon individuals and cor
porations for an accounting of their
oxcess profits for the year 1917, based
upon comparative profits of pre-war
years.
Many, local shipping men who made
fortunes in- a single shipping deal are
now being called upon to tell Collector
of Internal Revenue GuAus S. Wardell
about it and have been instructed to
arrange to give the Government its
share of the profit inflated because of
war conditions. Where there has been
dissolution of firms or corporations
the individuals will be held to an ac
counting with the Government.
Shipping men who paid fancy prices
for bottoms, believing that ocean
freight rates would pay for their ves
sels in one or two voyages, have been
disappointed.
0JIE KILLED IN RUNAWAY
James G. Bryant, of Baker, Jumps
From Buggy.
BAKER, Or., Nov. 18. (Special.)
James G. .Bryant, 34 years old, was
killed instantly today when he jumped
from, a buggy drawn by a runaway
horse. Mr. Bryant was riding with
Luman G. Taylor on his way to the
latter's ranch seven miles northeast of
Baker, and as the two were driving
over the Campbell-street bridge over
Powder "River the horse became fright
ened at an auto that was standing at
the curb.
The combined strength of both men
upon the reins failed to stop the horse,
and it is believed that Mr. Bryant be
came frightened. Mr. Taylor remained
in the buggy until klie horse became
tired, and was uninjured.
Mr. Bryant came to Baker four years
ago from his home at Wllliamsport,
Tenn., where his prrents reside. He
had been planning a visit home at
Christmas.
AMERICA'S DUTY IS TOLD
'Full Speed Ahead".WXth War, Says
David Starr Jordan.
SEATTLE, Nov. 18. David Starr
Jordan. now chancellor of Lei and
Stanford. Jr.. University and for many
years a leader in the peace movement
in this country, declared in a sermon
delivered at the Boyleston-Avenue Uni
tarian Church here to-day that it was
plainly America's duty to go "full
speed ahead" with the present war pro
gramme. The Kaiser, he stated, had viewed
the rise of internationalism and social
democracy in Germany with alarm,
and, realizing that these movements
were turning his people away from
war, had ordered the crushing of demo
cratic France.
NO EASY JOB TO TAME THAT ANIMAL.
Every Home in Portland
to Hear Message.
MINIMUM. QUOTA IS PASSED
Oregonian Carriers to Captain j
Last Days' Canvass.
$300,000 IS LATEST GOAL
. M. C. A. Drive Will End Tonight
in Grand . Jubilation as Final
Figures Arc Tabulated and
Reported to Public.
"Give and send"'
It's the tocsin the motto, as well of
the dashing recruits who will this
morning hurl themselves into the last
engagement of Portland's T. M. C. A.
war work fund campaign.
"No Man's Land" is to be theirs
must be theirs in a few short hours.
The campaign ends tonight in Portland
as in the Nation.
The recruits who are to carry the con
quest to the remotest corners of the field
are to be 850 eager red-blooded boys and
girls. To them is delegated the task of
carrying the "glve-and-send" message
to every possible home in Portland.
They are to make a house-to-house can
vass under one of the most compre
hensive plans ever tried in the city.
OrfKonlaa Bora to Help.
. The Oregonian circulation force of
223 boys who carry the paper over that
number of routes to every part of Port
land, is in command of the canvass. At
9 o'clock 628 boy and girl volunteers
from high schools of the city, com
manded forth from their schools in
squads of three, will meet the carrier
boy "captain" at the head of his route.
Under the carrier-captain's direction
and with his co-operation, each house
along the 223 routes will be visited, the
occupants being asked to subscribe to
the Y. M. C. A. fund if they have not
already done so.
Each member of the student- solicit
lng squads will wear an official badge
Each will be provided with official
pledge cards and receipt books. Car
bon copies of receipts are made and
there will be an absolute check upon
all cash given the young campaigners.
General Secretary H. W. Stone be
speaks a courteous hearing for the
solicitors, and calls attention to the
fact that practically all of these youths
have already pledged money of their
own in the cause.
All Money for War Fud.
It 1 urged that one feature of the
student crusade be not overlooked.
Every cent pledged through them is to
go direct to the National war work
fund, no part being retained by the
Portland association, the latter even
bearing all expense of the day's drive.
The pledge cards the students will
present have the stipulation just men
tioned printed across their face. All
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Italian Cavalry Demonstrates Value
by Saving Retreating Arniy
on Isonzo River.
WASHINGTON. Nov. IS. (Special.)
The expostulation by the young men
of the Army have had effect, and the
cavalry arm is to be re-established.
The war college is working on a plan
for a new cavalry division, to consist
of either 17 or 26 regiments.
Four-fifths of our cavalry, the best
cavalry in the world, was transformed
into artillery, partly because that arm
was greatly needed at the front and
partly because the advent of trench
warfare seemed to have eliminated the
horse soldiers from the game.
The younger officers took issue with
this position, insisting that trench war
fare was only one phase of that war
that would pass out with the era of
more aggressive action which, tiicy
foresee when the United States forces
on the western front reach sucli pro
portions as to give them a considerable
part in the fighting.
In the midst of the discussion the
Italian cavalry demonstrated its value
by saving the retreating army on the
feonzo, and that new argument brought
bout the decision to restore the
mounted forces in volume.
STEAMER MARIPOSA ASHORE
Passengers Are Rescued and Landed
Safely at Wrangcll.
SAN FRANCISCO, ITov. 18. The
Maska Steamship Company's steamer
Mariposa, one of the largest and finest
vessels on the Alaska run, was wrecked
on Straits Island. Sumner Sound. South
eastern Alaska, early today, according
to advices received tonight by the
Chamber of Commerce here.
It was said that all of the ship's 265
passengers were landed safely Wran
gell. The pafsengers were taken to Wran
gell by the steamer Curacao and
Ravalli. It was intimated that the
Mariposa would be a total loss. She
was bound from Juneau to Seattle, 'jiv
ing sailed Friday. Her cargo included
1200 tons of ore and a large consign
ment of canned salmon.
NON-SINKABLE SHIPS NEXT
Twenyt of These Boats Will Be Built
in United States.
WASHINGTON, Nov. lV. The Ship
ping Board has approved the btrilding
of 20 . non-sink&ble ships of 4000 . tons
each by the French government in
the United States. By so- doing it has
waived the rule that no foreign con
struction should be permitted at this
time.
The non-sinkable ship, developed by
French experts, is said to have with
stood torpedo attack in a test in which
four shots' were fired into the hull and
the only effect was to destroy the
cargo immediately surrounding the
point of attack.
AMSTERDAM. Nov. 18. The Foreign
Minister announces that the Russian
provisional government has denounced
the commercial treaty of September,
1S46, between Holland and Russia.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, oil
degree.; minimum, 40 decree..
TODAY'S Fair; moderate easterlv winds.
War.
Italians check enemy along Piave River.
Page 1-
Msdill McCormick says France need, can
non more than It does men. Page 1.
British report damage to two Oerman reMela
in Helgoland raid. Page 1.
Lull in civil war ia news of Russia. Page 1.
British occupy Jaffa. Page 2.
Secretary of War Baker hopeful that Austro.
Cerman advance in Italy Is checked.
Page 2.
Foreign.
Genera Murgula Issues proclamation advo
cating Mexico neutrality, rage 2.
National.
United States will restabllsh cavalry arm of
service. Page 1.
Red Cross work outlines by Major Grayson
Murphy. Page o.
Arsenal, emmanders Instructed to maintain
fair wages and reasonable hours. Page o.
Great war publicity movement planned by
President. Page r.
Domestic.
Exceaa profits tax stops ship speculation.
Page 1.
Promotion of 375 Oregon boys is announced.
Page Z.
Half-nude styles to be replaced by modest
gowns. Page 4.
New scrum is foe to pneumonia. Page
Present condition of corn market puzzling
to Chicago dealers. Page 0.
Sports.
Eastern elevens evenly matched. Page 10.
Multnomah Club to be represented at
Olympic Club tournament. Page 10.
Loss of Newman cripples Oregon Aggies.
Page 10.
Well-known boxers visit in Portland. Page 11
Pacific Northwest.
Mrs. C. C. Benedict, of Vancouver, killed
in auto wreck lnWHinois. Page 3.
Pay of Oregon teachers shows" slight advance
over 1016. Page 4.
Portland and Vicinity.
Young America to make final drive for
y. il. C. A. war fund. Page 1.
Union Pacific traffic men here. Page 7.
Needs of Y. M. C. A. told in Portland pul
pits. Page 8.
Entries at Livestock show nearly make
world's record. Page 8.
Man. boy. two girls missing. Page 4.
"Vision and Valor" Dr. Stanfield's topic.
Page 8.
Representative McArthur to leave en route
for Washington today. Page 0.
Effort mad to secure early arrival of Rus
sian party to speak here tomorrow.
Page .
Affiliation of wooden shipbuilders proposed
for good of Industry. Page 11.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11.
Organisation of spruce workers into patrotlo
league proposed. Page 11.
Girls all want to roll bandages for Red
Cross, not make hospital, clothing.
Page 14. ,
A. M. Shannon arrested tor stabbing neign-
bor. Page 14.
Russo-Swedish Fron
tier at Tornea Closed.
PEACE REIGNS AT MOSCOW
Maximalists Insist on Control
of Troops and Arming.
AMERICANS ARE LEAVING
Berlin Reports Compromise Between
Lcninc and Kcrcnsky General
Dukhoniu Stops Troops From
Going to rctrogratl.
LOM)(l., Nov. IJj Reuicr's Tctro-
jc rad correspondent, teleatraphlaiar un
dsy, nayai there. ban been a aplit amoncr
the Maxiniallxta. The Ministers! of the
Interior, Agriculture and Supplies have
refatfrned. A formation of - coalition
Socialist government In camrntial. Sev
eral other commlrmlonersj, any the cor
respondent, support their views.
LONDON, Nov. IS. The Maximalists
commissioners have closed the Russo
Swetlish frontier at Tornea, according
to the retrocrad correspondent of
Reuter's. Limited, who adds that no
one is allowed to pass without rpeciai
authorization from the military revolu
tionary committee. Continuing, the
dispatch says: "Hostilities have ceased
n Moscow. Terms were signed where
by, the so-called white guard sur
renders its arms and the committee on
public safey dissolves.
Arming Workmen Advocated.
"The Maximalists' conditions to con
senting to a composite Socialist gov
ernment Include control of troops In the
Petrograd and Moscow districts and
the systematic arming of workmen
throughout Russia.
"It is reported that troops amount
ing to an army corps, under ordeiof
the army committee, nave reatneu
Lugo, en route to Petrograd, to ' end
civil war and the . dictatorship of the
Maximalists.
Vkralse Independence Declared.
"The Ukraine assembly has declared
the independence of the Ukraine.
"It is stated that the Cossacks sup
porting Premier Kerensky only num
ber 300.
"The American embassy at Petrograd
has requested that a train be provided
to convey 200 members of the American
colony in Petrograd to Harbin.
The Berlin Tageblatt declares that
Premier Kerensky and Nikolai Lenine.
leader of the Bolshevikl revolution in
Petrograd, have-effected a compromise
essentially favorable to Lenine, the Ex
change Telegraph correspondent at
Copenhagen reports.
General Dukhonln In Charsre.
A wireless dispatch from Petrograd
says that General Dukhonln, of the
Kerensky forces, issued the following
under date of November 14:
"In view of my ignorance of the place
of residence of the chief commander
I have entered temporarily into the
post of chief commander I have di
rected the stoppage of the further dis
patch of troops to Petrograd. At pres
ent only transports connected with the
necessary military operations are per
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HIGH tilHSON'S STORY OK
BELGIUM TO APPEAR IX
THE OREGONIAN.
When the German army, in
violation of Germany's , sacred
pledge, invaded Belgium at the
outbreak of the great world war.
Hugh Gibson,
secretary o f
the American
Legation 1 n
Brussels, kept
a diary whe-e-
in he record
ed events from
day to day.
He was in po
sition to see
ever y t h i n g
and did see
every thing,
and as the
Hun talked
fo r w a r d on
his errand of
Hugh Gibson. terror; slay
ing, pillaging and laying waste.
Mr. Gibson put the details of it
all in his diary.
Because he was an official rep
resentative of the United States
Department of State and the
United States was then neutral,
Mr. Gibson revealed no word of
what he saw and recorded. But
now that the United States is
warring with other nations
against German aggression and
autocracy, Mr. Gibson has writ
ten the contents of his diary into
a book, which he calls "A Jour
nal of the American Legation in
Belgium." Before this book is
placed on the market for sale it
is to be published serially in a
few leading newspapers of the
United States. In Portland it
will be published in The Ore
gonian. beginning at an early
date. It will be a tremendous
feature and one of absorbing in
terest. It is heralded as being
"as great a story -s Gerard's."
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