uimiiiwwnumimMuitummuaimnmiinmnmninmnfiiniiffiin FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, i IS THE DATE I Don't miss opening chapter of 1 Belgium's Tragedy. 1 BELGIUM'S STORY TO 1 BE TOLD I Read Hugh Gibson's Great j Serial in The Oregonian. VOL. L.VII. NO. 17,783. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVE31HEK 20, 1917. P1CICE FIVE CENTS. ITALY CHECKS HUNS BY COUNTER THRUST 5 GERMAN U-BOATS DESTROYED IN DAY PBEfIEH'SDEFEflSE!SEZrHTCTnQTUmA. 12000 PRIZE STOCK RED CROSS SENDS YJ.C.A. WAR FUND SUPPLIES TO ITALY DECLARED 1UMPHU - AT PORTLAND SHOW QUOTAS EXCEEDED City $208,000 and State $122,021. BRITISH I RE.MI Kit TELLS C03I 3IOXS OF BIG VICTORY. AMBULANCE SECTION, 2 5 CARS, HEARING IX SAX FRANCISCO. LEAVES PARIS FOR SOUTH. Offensive Assumed on Asiago Plateau. INVADERS ROUTED ON PIAVE Italians Slay 1500, Capture 1500 Who Cross River. BERSAGLIERI SHOW VALOR Austro-German. Forces Unable to Cross nave Latin Airplanes Effectively Bombard Enemy Despite High Wind. ROME, Nov. 19. With undiminished intensity Austro-German forces today attacked In the north between the Piave and Brenta rivers, but their efforts to pierce the Italian lines so far have proved fruitless, reports from Italian headquarters announced. The enemy hurled heavy masses of infantry into the line, but concentrations of Italian artillery and Infantry success fully checked the assaults. The enemy has made no further at tempts to cross the Piave River. Anstrlao. Are Repulsed. Repulse of the Austrians after a portion of their forces had crossed the Piave and their subsequent rout in this sector was announced. In the fiercest and most bloody fighting of the war the Italians killed 1500 of the enemy and captured 1500 more. Hard ly one of those who succeeded in crossing the river escaped. On the front west of the Piave, south of Quero, great numbers of Austro German troops are delivering heavy attacks. Attempts to break the Italian resistance along the Monte Monfenera and Monte Tomba lines have failed. On the Asiago Plateau the Italian forces have assumed the offensive and have occupied advanced elements of trenches. Artillery la Active. The War Office's statement today reads: "Last night there was lively artillery activity between Lake Garda and the Astlco. "On the Asiago Plateau the enemy made violent concentrations of fire on our positions at Monte Tonberecar and Monte Badenecche without following up with an infantry attack. Our par ties In new offensive operations reoccu pied advanced elements of trenches, capturing six officers and 202 men. "South of Quero enemy forces In great number are attacking our Monte Mon fenera and Monte Tomba lines. "On the plains the vigilance of our troops has stopped the enemy from re newing any attack whatsoever to cross the Piave. "Among our troops the following de serve again to be specifically mentioned for valor shown during these last days: Bersaglleri battalions in the Fagare zone and the Granotieri and Catania brigades at the Zenson loop. Airplanes Are Active. "Enemy troops repeatedly were bom barded In the course of the day by our airplanes and In the night. In spite of a strong wind, by our airships at the basin of Primolano. to the northwest of Susegana, and at Tehzedi Llvenza." BERLIN, via London, Nov. 19. Quero and Monte Cornelle. on the Northern Italian front, have been taken by storm and the Italians have been driven from Monte Tomba, the War Office announced today. The announcement follows: rvorineasi or Asiago the enemy repeated his fruitless and costly attacks to gain the lost heights. Between the Brenta and the Piave the last few days have brought the (Teutonic) allies further successes in difficult mountain fighting." Italians Yield Slowly. "In prepared and naturally strong positions the Italians sought to dis pute every foot of ground. They threw freshly brought up forces against our advancing troops, but were not equal to the unconquerable offensive strength of our infantry. Step by step, fighting stubbornly, the enemy yielded- In par ticularly desperate encounters Quero and Monte Cornelle extending to the northwest were taken by storm and the enemy was driven from his strong ly prepared positions on Monte Tomba. The German storming troops and the second Bosnia-Herzegovina infantry regiment especially distinguished them selves in this action. Eleven hundred Italians fell Into our hands." "On the Lower Piave the artillery duel at times Increased to great viol ence." ITALIANS VICTORS OX PIAVE Austrians Suffer Loss of 1500 In Killed and 1500 In Captured. 'By the Associated Prm.1 i I ALIA.M HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN IT ALT. Sunday, Nov. 18. The Austrians who forced their way across the Piave River above Jtnson have been thrown into the river, drowned, bayoneted, killed or captured, until now not an enemy remains on the west bank at that most threatened point The fight was one of the most fear- (Concluded on Pass a. Column 3. Lloyd George Declares Submarines "Were Sent to Bottom Saturday. No More Worry Felt. LONDON. Nov. 15. Five German sub marines were destroyed on Saturday, Premier Lloyd George announced today in the House of Commons. The Premier told the house arrange ments had been made to supply infor mation In regard to naval matters to the war council. The Premier said he had no further fear of submarines.. No Information was vouchsafed by the Premier as to the methods em ployed by the British navy to capture the submarines, but that means for curbing the U-boat menace have been made more effective of late Is recorded by the ever-decreasing boat depredations. Last week the Admiralty 11"-" that the submarine losses were the lowest since Germany announced Its campaign of ruthlessness. totaling but one British merchantman above 1600 tons, and five craft below this tonnage. Submarine losses of France and Italy also showed a big decrease over past weeks. BANKER TAKES UP KNITTING Aberdeen Red Cross Enlisting Men to Swell Output. ABERDEEN. Wash., Nov. 19. (Spe cial.) W. J. Patterson, manager of the Hayes & Hayes Bank, Is one of several Aberdeen men who has taken up knit ting as a pastime and he Is now en gaged under the tutelage of Mrs. Pat terson, who is president of the Aber deen chapter of the Red Cross, in mak ing a helmet. The Red Cross here Is making an ef fort to get a number of men Interested in knitting In order that the output of the local chapter may be Increased. Sev eral men's clubs have been formed here to assist the Red Cross in the making of bandages. WRECK NARROWLY MISSED Rope Holding Ship In Place Wlille Engines Are Tested. Cnt . MANITOWOC, Wis., Nov. 19. Federal agents are investigating the attempt to " wreck the steamer War Castle, which is under . construction at the yards of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company. While the ship engines were being tested today someone cut one of the ropta that held the ship to the dock If "the other rope had parted the steam er would have run into the steel Soo line railroad bridge and probably been totally wrecked. While two men are under surveil lance, no arrests have been made. NORTHCLIFFE WILL RETURN Head of British War Mission Much Interested In Aircraft. LONDON, Nov.- 19. The Globe prints an Interview with Lord Northclifte in which he says he will return to the United States as head of the British war mission after the allied confer ences and a trip to the various fronts. If the British government desires, he will devote much of this time to the question of aircraft production in the United States, adding: "My great fear is that the American output will exceed the possibilities of training officers and mechanics. Amer icans are willing to make any type of engine we ask, in addition to their own Liberty engine. BOY'S SKULL FRACTURED Automobile Driven by Boy of 14 Turns Over With Fatal Result. ALBANY, Or., Nov. 19. (Special.) Valentine Caldwell, 14, of Plainview, died in St. Mary's Hospital today as the result of an automobile accident. He was riding with his cousin, Roy Hughes, when the car turned over. His skull was fractured and he did not re gain consciousness. The Hughes boy was only bruised. Valentine was the youngest child of Mrs. II. D. Caldwell. Clarence Cald well, of Fossil, and Mrs. Anna Ummow, of Bend, are a brother and sister. DECLARATION TO BE BRIEF Clemenceau and Associates Are Men of Few Words. PARIS. Nov. 19. Premier Clemen ceau and his associates in the new Cabinet decided today upon the terms of the declaration with which they will go before Parliament tomorrow. It is described aa a simple, straightforward and almost laconlo document of about COO words. The parliamentary correspondents of the newspapers agree that the new ministry will reeeive a vote of confi dence by a very large majority after discussion of the Interpellations. DISCOUNT ADVANCE URGED Reserve Officials Propose Change In Interest of Business. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. Modifica tion ef discount rates was discussed to day at the Federal Reserve Advisory Commission's quarterly conference with the Federal Reserve Board, Some officials think rates should be raised slightly as a means of prevent ing Inflation and promoting sound business. Critics of War Policy Answered. AS QUITH STARTS BATTLE Welsh Leader's Reply Charac teristic Fighting Speech. PARIS AOTION IS JUSTIFIED Prime Minister Reaffirms Xecd of Unity of Action In Prosecution of War Some Blunders Are Recalled. LONDON, Nov. 19. President Lloyd George defended himself in the House of Commons this morning against the first serious attack his administration has faced, and so far as the Commons is concerned his defense seemed highly successful. The Prime Minister's ad mirers call it a triumph. The attack was focused upon two points the character of the war coun cil which the Premier announced in Paris, and the condemnation of the allies' past strategy which he pro nounced in his Paris speech. Ex-Premier Asqulth was spokes man for the opposition. His speech was not In the tone of an attack, but a sharp criticism of the new plan for allied control of the war and a vindi cation of his own government. It was keyed in a much milder strain than the outburst from the newspapers and sections of the Liberal and Conserv ative parties which greeted the Pre mler on his return home. Reply Fighting Speech. The Welsh leaders' reply was a char acterlstlc fighting speech of the type which has made him famous. There was no thought of retraction for any thing he had said or done, no hint of an apologetic strain which some ex pected for what had been called the Paris indiscretion. There were some pasages which would have made old schol parliamen tarians, steeped in Gladstonian trad! tions of stately courtesy wince, as when he said the attacks made him feel as if he were crossing the Channel in a storm on a small destroyer. But Mr. Lloyd George always brings something of the touch of the stump speaker into the Commons and this gives him a stronger appeal to the greater audience outside. The entire Cabinet sat beside him on the front bench and a packed, silent House of Commoners, Peers and others, fortunate enough to - obtain gallery seats, bent forward for every word. The man whose mantle he had assumed faced him across a space of a few feet with a gilded mace between them. Al though they addressed each other deferentially as "My Honorable Friend sentences passed which to those who know recent history seemed meant to stab. War Conncil Assailed. Mr. Asquith's criticism was based on two grounds, that the new war council (Concluded on Pag 4, Column 3.) SOME THINGS YOU MAY Extreme Precautions Taken by Gov- ' ernmcnt to Guard Against Un toward Circumstances. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19. Extreme precautions have been taken by Gov ernment officials to guard against any possible untoward occurrences at the trial which starts here tomorrow In the United States District Court of 42 persons charged with attempting to fo ment revolution In the United States against British rule In India. The British government has asked that special guards be provided for Hindu witnesses who will testify for the prosecution, in the fear that some attempt might be made on their lives. Ihe identity of witnesses has not been disclosed. Admission to the courtroom will be by card only, and the general public has been excluded. The trial has caused widespread Interest. The list of defendants includes Franz Bopp. for mer German consul-general here; Will lam von Brlncken. his former military aide: Robert Capelle. San Francisco agent for the North , German Lloyd Steamship Company; Leopold Michaels, multi-millionaire and ' part owner at one time of the steamer Maverick, whose erratic voyages are expected to figure in the trial, and other former German officials here and throughout the country. Fifteen Hindus are among the defendants. Fifteen attorneys will appear for the defense, and the prosecution will be conducted by United States District Attorney John W.-Preston, assisted by Mrs. Annette Adams, Assistant United States District Attorney. The trial Is expected to consume three months, said Attorney Preston tonight. Two months will be devoted to presentation of the prosecution, he satd. SOLDIERS' TAX CONSIDERED Calvin Heillg's Request Xow Before President Wilson. Calvin Hellig received a letter from the White House yesterday that the President has been advised of the tele gram sent by Mr. Hellig November 12, asking that t..e war tax on theater tickets be annulled as far as soldiers and sailors in service are concerned, and that he is considering the matter Secretary Tumulty signed the let ter received here and Mr. Hellig is hopeful that steps will be taken by the Administration that will remove the added tax from tickets to amusements presented by men in active service. A definite reply Is expected soon. BOSTON ADVERTISER SOLD Purchase of Paper by William Ran dolph Hearst Announced. BOSTON. Nov. 19. The s. -e of the Boston Advertiser to William Randolph Hearst was announced today by Charles Sumter Bird, president of the Adver User Newspaper Compariy. The sale does not Include the Boston Evening Record published by the same company. Seattle Has 5 000 Enemy Aliens. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 19. More than 5000 known enemy aliens are in Seattle, this number having registered following the issuance of the first Presidential proclamation defining their status. Immediate steps will be taken to bring them under the Presidential proclamation issued today. OR MAY NOT SEE AT PORTLAND'S GREAT STOCK SHOW. Quantity and Quality Make It Best Ever. CALIFORNIA MARVEL IS WINNER First of Coveted Prizes Goes to University Entry. STUDENT JUDGES AT WORK Tented City of Pens and Stalls at Xorth Portland Shelters Sleek Thoroughbreds and Purebreds From Many States. Never before have visitors at live stock shows cast their eys over classier specimens of animal life than the 2000 head of horses, cattle, sheep and swine disclosed to their gaze yes terday as the Pacific International Livestock Exposition opened its doors. On all sides the exhibits in this, the seventh annual show, were declared the finest ever attracted here. "If Portland does any better than this its show will have to be classed right up with the International of Chi cago. exclaimed an agricultural ad visor from Idaho, as he walked ad miringly about the cattle ring. Many States Represented. The tented city of pens and stalls at the stockyards sheltered sleek thoroughbreds and pure breeds from British Columbia. Montana, Idaho, Cali fornia and Washington, in addition to the toppiest of these from Oregon dale and prairie. To strains of martial music by the band in constant attendance to enter tain the throngs of visitors, action be gan promptly on schedule time in the show' rings. With scarcely an Inter mission, the rings were centers of In terest for stockman, farmer' and more or less uninitiated visitor spectators throughout the day. The contest between student judging teams from the Washington State Col lege, University of Idaho and Oregon Agricultural College was started early. One after another of the swine, horse and cattle groups to be Judged were led before the young Judges. Their work was one of the most interesting of the day's events. Because of the In terminable work connected with com pllation of markings, the result of the contest could not be announced yester day. Youthful Judges Dined. These were the agricultural students who represented the three schools In the competition: University of Idaho, Charles Gray, Alvln S. McCormack. Ambrose Johnson, Browning Warren, Maurice V. Davison Oregon Agricultural College, P. T, Former, J. Gregory Paull, Alfred W, Oliver, O. II. Davidson. R. E. Fenner Washington State College, Joe Davis, H. M. Wivell, Troy Llndley, Glenn J. Guthrie, John Laird. Last night these teams were special guests of the management of the Port Concluded on Pave 14, Column 1.) 1 Trainload of Hospital Needs Already Across Border and 21 Cars Load ed With Food to Start Soon. PARIS. Nov. 19. An ambulance sec tion of 25 cars was started for Italy today by the American Red Cross. One train of 24 cars loaded with hospital supplies and clothing has already crossed the Italian frontier, and a train of 21 cars loaded with food will leave within a few days. Major Grayson H. P. Murphy, the European commissioner for the Red Cross, will remain in Italy until the American Red Cross work there is thoroughly organized. Other Red Cross officials who are already In Italy or on their way there include Ernest P. Bick- nell, director-general of civilian relief of the American organization, who han dled the Red Cross relief work after the Messina earthquake: Carl Taylor aepuiy commissioner or the American Red Cross in Italy, in- charge of the legal advice bureau, and Edward T, Devlne,"of the bureau of refugees. TRAVELS AT FEDERAL COST Austrian Drafted In Honolulu Re jected and Sent Home. TACOMA. Wash.. Nov. 19 (Special.) Adam Kdumes, an Austrian, passed by the exemption board at Honolulu as physically fit. came to Camp Lewis to be rejected by Army physicians. He was registered in Cleveland, O., and was located in Hawaii after he had been called to serve. As Camp Lewis was the nearest National Army can tonment to the island, he came here. The Army examiners turned him down immediately. The military authorities paid him $97.30, the amount of his fare to Cleve land. MORE SHIPS TO BE BUILT Thirty-six Contracts for Steel Ves sels to Be Let Today. WASHINGTON. Nov. 19. Thirty-six additional contracts for the construc tion of steel merchant ships will be let by the Shipping Board tomorrow. This will bring the total number signed to about 550. Wooden ships building num ber more than 450. Tomorrow's contracts will go to Great Lakes construction companies and will call for ships of 35U0 tons dead-weight capacity. The vessels will be built along the lines of the Robert Dollar design. WOULD-BE SLEUTH JOLTED German Anxious to Enter Service Is Arrested. Secret CHICAGO. Nov. 19 John W. Noth's alleged ambitions to be a secret serv ice person, which led to his arrest as a possible German spy Saturday, were rudely Jolted today. Despite his German origin, his let ters signed by a German official or so. Federal agents failed to find any thing menacing in him and merely held him to the grand Jury for failing to register. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 07 atfimi; minimum, a degrees. TODAl'S Kain: gentle southerly winds. War. Italy checks Austro-German invaders by counter thrust. Page 1. Britons make successful night raids on German lines. Page 2. Five German submarines destroyed In day. aays Lloyd George, raga 1. i British Premier's defense of war policy I brilliant triumph. Page 1. . Specter or xamtne frightens Russia and puts stop of revolt. Page 3. United States said by Berlin to have estab lished base on the Azores. Page 1. American describes fighting In l'etrograd streets. Page 3. Foreign. General Maude, British commander in Meso potamia, dead. Page 2. National. President Imposes further restrictions upon enemy aliens. Page 5. Postmaster's decision opens way to flooding of mulls with campaign literature, with out expense. Page 2. Arguments in Yatlroad advance rate case ended. Page 6. Domestic. T. M. C. A. fund of 135,000.000 raised, aays George W. Perkins. Page 4. Chilean heiress on trial for murder of di vorced husband. Page 4. Lassen peak dying as volcano. Page 1. President Gompers receives overwhelming ote of confidence from Federation. Page 7 Portland Marines regret leaving San Diego. Page 0. Sports. Jefferson faces two hard battles this week. I Page 8. Oregon Aggies gloomy over Newman's injury. Page s. Amateurs and professionals may compete In Army, rules A. A. U. board. Page a. Bronson and Trambltaa training with vim and vigor. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. State Treasurer Kay deems It unlikely that ho will run for Governor. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. All American potato markets are tending lower. Page 17. Corn weaker at Chicago with increased sup ply and better quality. Page 17. Sharp advance In stock market In last hour of session. Page 17. Construction of SMOO-ton ship promises to establish speed record. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Sweaters promised for Oregon boys in re sponse to demand. Page 9. Food shortage Imperils allies. Page 9. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. City levy proper to be 9.84 mills. Page S. Dr. Carlo Vl.ettl testifies to Mrs. Paling's sanity. Page IS. Y. M. C. A. war fund quotas for Oregon and Portland exceeded. Page 1. Pacific-International Livestock Exposition opens. Page 1. Kelly Butte to be Isolation camp for women. Page 13. Nick Mandio Kerb, denies he is flshtlns In Austrian army. Page 2. Spruce workers begin to enroll. Page 5. Bupslan Embassy rern-esentaties to speak here today. Page . Exemption Boards get new draft rules. Page 9. Union Pacific traffic officials snd ag.nts in acseion in roniBao. r age !. MONEY CONTINUES TO POUR IN Portland, It Is Expected, Will Give $300,000. NEWSBOYS AID CAMPAIGN Directed by The Oregonian Carriers, Boys Do Good Work In Raisins Fund! Many Cities Report Quotas Are Exceeded. Portland and Oregon have substan tially oversubscribed their quotas -to the T. M. C. A. war fund drive, main taining the high standard set at every previous call for patriotic service in men or dollars. Yesterday marked the triumphant conclusion. Yesterday at noon the big red tri angle cluck at. Sixth and Alder streets whirled past its original quota and rested at $208,000. Some days ago, when it became apparent that the city's generosity was not to be satisfied by the quota, a new Quota, of $300,000 was set. It is predicted that the local drlvo will carry well toward this when the final figures are known. State Gives Generously. As for Oregon, there is nothing but smiling confidence evident in state headquarters circles. A total of $122. 021 was compiled late yesterday. As report after report of oversubscribed quotas come in from the outside dis tricts the grin broadens. Many towns have voluntarily set themselves new quotas and have filled them. Definite figures for the state will not be had for two or three days, as many distant districts must report before the final tally: It is certain, however, in the opinion of state headquarters workers, that Oregon, outside of Portland, will large ly oversubscribe its quota of $100,000. Opinions vary as to how much the sur plus will be, but it is believed that the state will exceed $150,000, if the ratio of yesterday's returns is maintained. Hoy a Help la Drive. Under the captainship of 223 boys of The Oregonlan's circulation force, ap proximately 650 boy and girl volun teers from high schools were the zeal ous and effective force that made the final drive of the campaign among Portland homes. In squads of three the students met their boy "captain." In each Instance an Oregonian carrier, at the head of his route yesterday morn ing and descended upon the residence districts, concluding their campaign . (Concluded on Page 4. Column l. BELGIUM'S AUTHORITATIVE STORY TO START IX THE OREGON I AX NEXT FRIDAY. Up to late Summer in 1911 Hugh Gibson, as secretary of the United States Legation at Brus s e 1 s, Bel- , consid ered that he had a "quiet post." There was work enough to keep a man from growing stale, but also there was time to play. Altogetherhis was rather a prosaic task, or series of tasks. Then, with scarcely a warning, Hugh Glbsoa. Europe's roof fell in. What hap pened in Belgium and to Bel glum and the Belgians thereafter constituted the most tragic chain ern people. In the name of Kul- 4 tur the Kaiser's cohorts began stalking through the land, and wherever they stalked there was J left a train of death and ruin. Hugh Gibson saw and sensed it all and he started a diary. Therein he set down the things that happened from day to day. They were things that would have been unbelievable up to that time, constituting as they did a record of aggression and savagery unparalleled. Mr. Gibson said nothing and made nothing public then con cerning the events that he was recording in his diary! because he was the representative of a neutral government. Now the case Is different. The United States is one of the powers fight ing against German autocracy, and Mr. Gibson is at liberty to tell the authoritative story of Belgium's ruin. He has done this in a book entitled "A Journal From Our Legation in Bel- glum." It is a work of absorbing Interest. It is to be printed se se-in- j rially In The Oregonian begi 1 TT- .1 .- V . . . V. tC a aWw .nil