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Newspaper Page TextPORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, XOYIfailSEK 24, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUSSIA MAY. TURN ENEMY, U. S. FEARS BOLSIIEVIKI PEACE MOVE RE GARDED APPREHENSIVELY. B0LSHE1I EXPECT COAST NAVY YARDS ' DATDIflTIP XCDlfflD WAR BftEAD TO' BE . DE SAULLES' mav rrniim quipqiI ftllllUIIU I LIIKUII BAKED TO ORDER ITIfl I L-V, Iw" I I Willi J HALT FOR BREATH OFFER 'fv OF BELGIANS TENSE VOL. LVII. NO. 17,787. HUNS AND BRITONS IS KAR DEFENSE OUTLINED Counsel Will Rely on Temporary Insanity. BREMERTON AND MARE ISLAND HOUSEWIVES ASKED TO GIVE OFFERED SHIPPING BOARD. NOTICE OF NEEDS IN TIME. Lull Reported on New Battle Front. ELSEWHERE FIGHT GOES ON Haig's Forces Are Consolidat ing Recent Gains. RAIN HANDICAPS AfRMEN Immense Quantities of Captured War Stores Strewn Over Field. Total of Prisoners Taken Is Xot Yet Fully Enown BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS I" FRANCE, ov. 2 a. (By the Associ ated Press.)-The British renewed their attack on Fontaine and are still hold ins the ground between Cantalng and south of Fontaine. It Is unofficially Vstlmated . that several score ofgani liare been captured. By the Associated Press. BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. Nov. 23. The British and the German forces last night rested on theirarms along most of the new bat tlefront after three days of determined conflict. Hard local fighting- continued at some points, notably in the vicinity of Crevecoeur, Moeuvres and Bourlon wood, but for the most part the British were engaged in consolidating work and the' Germans gave little trouble in the way of counter attacks. It appears that the British early to day drove back the enemy at an eleva tion just 'west of Moeuvres known as Tadpole Copse. This hill dominates a large section of the Canal Du Nord run ning east of Moeuvres and to a large extent the village itself, which still la in German hands. Fontaine Fid lit Bitter. There has been no further change at Fontaine, where the Germans yester day delivered a heavy counter attack and compelled the British to withdraw from the village to a position a little south of It. The fighting at" Fontaine was at close quarters and partlqularly bitter. 'This morning the Germans In the eastern part of Crevecoeur village were maintaining an intense machine gun fire against the British in Its western environs. Rain fell last night and today dense, low hanging clouds were letting down a steady drizzle which made aerial observations very difficult. Notwith standing this handicap both the British and the German airmen were operating at exceedingly low altitudes along the battle line. The enemy's airplanes were especially active in the region of Bourlon wood. Booty. Strews Field. No announcement has been made of the amount of material captured by the British, but great quantities of war stores are strewn over the battle- area and among the booty are numerous guns. " The total of prisoners so far counted still remains somewhere between 8000 and 3000. BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS In France, Nov." 22. (By the Associated Press.) The success of the British arms in the Cambral sector has continued to grow steadily, and Field Marshal Haig's troops, in a little more than two days' fighting, have overrun an area equal in size to that won by the Germans dur ing the first 15 days of their spectacu lar drive on Verdun. The British cavalry, tanks and in fantry today were battling their way forward along a line which at many points west and southwest of Cambrai was less than three miles from that important town. The advance also was spreading northward in the region of Bullecourt, and the salient toward Cambrai was being widened. The total of prisoners captured must approach the 9000 mark. Fierce Hand-to-Hand Fighting; On At last the British and Germans are at grips on comparatively open ground, and some of the fiercest hand-to-hand fighting of the war has been going on The enemy troops w"ere unprepared for the attack, but they have been putting every ounce of their strength into an attempt. to stem the rising tide. Troops have been pulled away from other points and rushed to the Cam brai sector by the desperate Germans and so hard pressed were they for men yiat two companies of cripples and convalescents were recruited hastily at one camp and thrown into the line in the region of Masnieres. Some of these pitiful objects are in British hands receiving medical treatment. One pris oner was in the last stages of tubercu losis and had to be isolated to protect others who were in a state of cruel ex haustion and .virtually helpless from their valiant attempts to fight under the lash of their unrelenting officers. Other Wars Recalled. The great battlefield has taken on the aspect of scenes in wars gone-by. It is no longer a conflict of trenches , and shell holes, but of men struggling bitterly with rifles and bayonets over a virgin battleground, while the long neglected cavalry sweeps In pictur esque charges against the enemy posi tions over the wide territory involved. The roads everywhere for two days (Concluded on Page 3, Column 3. J Press ' ' Reports " of " Radical" Pro gram of icnine-Trotsky Regime Alarms Washington Officials. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Officials of thia Government regard the Bolshe Vikl move for an armistice between Russia and her enemies and the open ing of Immediate peace negotiations as an act that would place Russia almost in the list of .unfriendly nations. Press dispatches telling of the peace movement were confirmed by a cable gram from Ambassador Francis re ceived today at the State Department. It said that Leon Trotzky, national commissioner for foreign affairs in the Bolshevik! government, had sent formal notification to diplomats at Petrograd that his government had proposed an armistice with a view to immediate peace negotiations. It was pointed out that should these negotiations be successful, it would be most difficult to deal with Russia as a neutral country in view of the posi tion she has held as an ally of the nations fighting Germany and the marked advantage in the war that such a course might give the latter country. Ambassador Francis has received no instructions to deal with the Bolshe viki government. In reporting to the State Department on the peace move, he made it clear that he had not for mally acknowledged receipt of the Trotzky note. He said head been ad vised that the Soviet Congress had adopted a resolution instructing gen erals at the front to enter into negotia tions at once with the German com manders relatives to a three months' armistice, with instructions to report to the congress. Reports that Russia ws seeking peace created apprehension in official circles and every dispatch from Petro grad was' analyzed with the hope that some promise might be found that Rus sia would continue the fight. Ambas sador Francis' dispatch dated Novem ber 21, apparently dispelled any hope of-a strengthening of Russia's resist ance unless the Bolshevikl government should be quickly overthrown by a counter revolution. FISHERMEN BAG AIRPLANE Hun Flier Falls Into Dutch Nets and Is Captured. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. The de scent of a German aeroplane into the nets in the .midst of a fleet of Dutch fishing- vessels, followed by an explo sion of the engine and the capture of the plane and 'ts two'occupants was re lated here today by H. Dykman, an ar rival from Holland. The officers were rescued and later interned in Holland. Dykman 'said his fare from Holland to England was 80, 10 times the nor mal price. QUARTERS ARE QUESTIONED Doubt Causes Explanation of Slight Changes tn .Design. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. New quar ters in circulation since August have caused such a multitude of queries as i to their genuineness that Director of the Mint Baker today explained that a slight change, in the design had been made to improve the beauty and stack ing qualities? the coins. Draperies of the- Goddess of Liberty on the face of the quarters have been rearranged and the flying eagle on the reverse side has been placed higher on the coin, with three stars beneath. PACIFISTS MEET AT BERNE Attendance- Almost Wholly Repre sents Central Powers. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. The Pacifist Congress is in full swing at Berne, Switzerland, although it had been sup posed here that it would be postponed until the end of December.' Cabled re ports received today from Switzerland state that the attendance at the con gress is made up entirely of representa tives of the central powers and, of Switzerland. Among them are Dr. Dernberg, Erz- berger, Scheidemann, David and Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe, for Germany. DIVERS SINK DUTCH BOATS Three Vessels Reported Destroyed Outside Barred Zone. . LONDON, Nov. 23. In the past few days the Germans have sunk five Dutch fishing boats, three outside the barred zone, according to a special dispatch from Amsterdam. The German destroyer V-69. which shared in the destruction, was dam aged in a fight with British- warships last June, ft was repaired Tmulden, Holland, ard allowed to return to Ger many. - RESERVE SPRUCE NEEDED Timber on Military Reservations at Columbia's Mouth to Be Cut. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Nov. 23. To augment the aero plane spruce supply the Secretary of War has authorized Colonel Disque to cut all suitable spruce trees on Three Tree Point and Cape Disappointment military reservations, near the mouth of the Columbia River. These reservations are under War Department control, and no charge is is to be made for the timber. Separate Peace With Teutons Not Aim. . PLANS ARE REVOLUTIONARY Trotsky Says That All Nations 'Will Accept Slav Armistice. N' ... POOR TO GET ALL LANDS Foreign Minister Declares That IT n- less Germany Accepts Offer of Peace, War Will Be Made of Huns Unrelentingly. AMSTERDAM, Not. 23. According; to advices received here. Geriral von Lu dendorff. First Quartermaster-General of- the German armies, has started for the eastern front la connection with the Russian offer of a imce. He is said to be accompanied by m nnmerons staff. - PETROGRAD. Wednesday, Nov. 21. In connection with the order to General Dukhonin, commander-in-chief of the Russian army to open negotiations for an armistice with the enemy com manders, the Associated Press today interviewed Leon Trotzky, the Bolshe vik! Foreign Minister. Trotzky empha tically' declared that the soldiers and workmen's government was against a separate peace with Germany. He voiced his conviction that Russia's ini tiative in offering peace will be sup ported by the proletariat of all coun tries, allied or belligerent, which will make impossible a continuation of the war even if the governments do not accept the offer. "What are the plans and intentions of your government?" the correspond ent Inquired. Secret Diplomacy Abolished. "The plans and intentions of the gov ernment are outlined in the programme of the Bolshevikl party to which the all-Russian congress of soldiers' and workmen's delegates entrusted the for mation of a soldiers and workmen's government," the Foreign Minister answered: "First, there will be the Immediate publication of all secret treaties and the abolition of secret diplomacy. "Second, an offer of an immediate armistice on all fronts for the co: elusion of a democratic peace. "Third, the transfer of all lands to the peasants. "Fourth, the establishment of state control of Industries through the me dium or organized workmen and em ployes; the nationalization of the most important branches of industry. Soldiers to Have Control. "Fifth, the delivery of all authority to local soldiers' and workmen's depu ties. 'Sixth, the convocation of a. eonstit uent" assembly which will introduce its reforms through the medium of the (Concluded on Page 2. Column 3.) t - THE SIEGE IS ON. ; (if r -fifj- r': . r i i f 111 lT!c-eiA ' ' I ' ' : ' -J I .................. eee.se. as ................................ 4 ""j 105.5v Coast Will Launch First Steel and Wooden Craft to Be Built, for Federal Government. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Nov. 23. The Secretary of the Navy has written the Shipping Board offering to place at its disposal the Bremerton and Mare Island Navy yards for equipping ships that are built for the Board at Pacific Coast yards. The suggestion is-cohveyed that the facilities of the Navy-"ards may be used in installing engines in wooden hulls, a number of contracts having been let on the Pacific Coast for hulls only. As the Government will provide the machinery for these steamers, the Secretary suggests the shipment of en gines to the Navy-yards. to which points the hulls can be towed when completed. Chairman Hurley, with considerable satisfaction, announced today that the first steel ship built for the Shipping Board will be launched tomorrow at the Skinner & Eddy yards at Seattle. Coupled with this came the announce ment that another West Coast concern, the' Grays Harbor shipbuilding yard at Aberdeen, will launch the first wooden ship built for the Board. This launch ing is scheduled to take place before December 15. The Skinner & Eddy ship Is an 8800-ton vessel; the Aberdeen steamer is of 4000 tons. Admiral Bowles, who is about to retire as director of construction, in a speech in Baltimore announced these two events and went on to say that the Pacific Coast has far outstripped the AtlantIcCoast in the expedition with which it has so far tackled the ship building programme. With this com pliment, however, he pronounced the wooden ship a failure as a war trans port agency. It was announced that in December three steel ships of 26,400 tons and three wooden ships of 10,500 tons would be launched. Fifteen hundred railroad cars have been requisitioned by the fleet corpora tion for moving fir' ship timbers from the West coast to the Atlantic sea board to supply wooden shipbuilding yards. COMMISSION IN NEW YORK Mayor Mltchel Welcomes Delegation of Japanese Financiers. " X NEW TORK, Nov. C3. The Jranse finance commission, which seeks closer financial relations between the United States and Japan now and after the war, was formally welcomed to New York today by Mayor Mitchel and a committee of prominent bankers. The nine members of the commis sion, headed by Baron Tanetaro Ma gata, a Harvard graduate, will hold a series of conferences here for a month with American financial and industrial leaders. MEDIATION BODY TO VISIT Federal Commission to Conic Portland and Other Points. to SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. The Fed eral mediation commission headed by Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson announced today that it is to visit Portland. Seattle and other points in the north after leaving San Francisco. The date of denarturn h nr. hn set. Socialists Vie in Dem onstrating Loyalty. SCENE IN PARLIAMENT STIRS Great Tribute Paid to King and. Queen.' Both PLEA IS MADE FOR UNITY Cabinet Sends Dcfl to Germany, Then Albert Asks Statesmen if They Are Determined to Main tain Sacred Traditions. BY HUGH GIBSON. Secretary of the American Legation in Brus sels at the outbreak of war. Copyright, Doubleday. Page & Co.. by Otis F. Wood. (Continued.) August 3, 1914. No mail in today. All communications seem to be stopped, for the time being at least. Mobiliza tion here and in France requires all the efforts of all hands, and little work aday things like mail and newspapers go by the board. According to the news which was given me when I got out of bed this morning, the German Minister Jast night presented to the Belgian govern ment an ultimatum demanding the right to send German troops across Bel glum to attack France. He was evi dently returning from this pleasant duty when I saw him'last night, for the ultimatum seems to have been present ed at 7 o'clock. Cabinet Sits All Mgkt. The King presided over a Cabinet council which sat all night; and when the 12 hours given by the ultimatum had expired, at 7 o'clock this morning, a flat refusal was sent to the German legation. Arrangements were got un der way as the council sat to defend the frontiers of the country against aggression. During the night the gar rison left and the Garde Clvique came on duty to police the town.' The InWrtx of callers was greater to day than at any time so far, and we were fairly swamped. Miss Lamer came In and worked like a Trojan, tak ing passport applications and reassur ing the women who wanted to be told that the Germans would not kill them even when they got to Brussels. She Is a godsend to us. Volunteer Workers Aid. Monsieur de Leval, the Belgian law, yer yho for 10 years has been the legal counsellor of the legation, came in and brought some good clerks with him. He also hung up his hat and went to work, making all sorts of calls at the Foreign Office, seeing callers and going about to the different legations. Gran ville Fortesque came in from Ostend. and I should have put him to work but that he had plans of his own and has i decided to blossom forth as a war cor- i ,.,. "8 -front" l tne 1 ront if an is all for getting to any. Just to see what would happen, I Concluded on Vase 8. Column 1.) Loaves Will Be of Corn, Barley, Whole Wheat, Potatoes and Rye. Waste to Be Avoided. Housewives, attention! Mr. Hoover wants, to talk to you through his representative. Acting Food Administrator Newell. By arrangements completed yester day between members of the Master Bakers' Association and Mr. Newell war breads, consisting of corn, barley. whole wheat, rye, potato, etc., are to J be baked to your order for wheatless day and It is necessary for them to have' your co-operation if this innova tion is to be a success and nothing wasted. "We ask the housewives of Portland to order their supply of bread for each Wednesday as early as possible each Monday," said Mr. Newell. "They should put In their orders at their usual source of supply. In turn, these will be grouped and sent to the various bakers, who. if the arrangement Is car ried out fully, will know Just about how many loaves of war bread they must bake. It is very Important, that the women who have the ordering of supplies should co-operate closely with the bakers and the food administra tion In this way, for it means a great deal in the conservation ef wheat, and will also be fair to the grocers and bakers." Mr. Newell also announced yesterday that he has the blanks necessary , for the trades ' covered in the President's proclamation of October 8. GENERAL IRONS COMMANDS General Greene Leaves Camp Lewis Temporarily Today. CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 23. (Special.) Brigadier-General I. A. Irons will bi commander at Camp Lewis and will direct its 50.000 men during the temporary absence of Major-Gen- eral H. A. Greene, who will leave to morrow. General Irons Is one of the veterans of the Acmy, having seen service since the early '80s. He commanded the fortifications at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was military 'attache of the Amer ican Embassy at Tokio until again as signed to active duty. He returned to America with the Japanese mission and toured the United States with that body. arriving at Camp Lewis several weeks later than Generals F. S. Foltx and II. D. Styer, fellow brigadier command ers. DELMONICO'S WILL CLOSE Historic New York Restaurant's Rome Sold to Marine Company. NEW TORK. Nov. 23. One of the most historic restaurants In America, old Delmonlco's, in Beaver street, will close tomorrow. The building In which its home was located was sold last September to the American Merchant Marine Company. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 51 -degrees; minimum, 45 degrees. TODAY'S Clotidy and threatening; scntle north to cast winds. War. British renew attack on western battle front. Page 1. Russian army abandons Kast Galicla and aska armistice. Page 2. Bolshevikl leader predicts Russian peace of -. fer will cause all nations to quit war. Page 1. German papers prepare public for loss of Jerusalem. Page 2. General's fia.g flies on first tank Into great fray. Page 3. Heavy and continuous flghttnr. reported on Italian front. Page 4. Foreign. Patriotic fervor of Belgians tense. Page 1. Colonel House confers with French Premier and General Pershing. Page 4. Red Cross relief work under way in Italy. Page -. National. British honors oTfered American officers de clined. Page S. United States fears Bolshevikl may make Russia enemy. Page 1. Coast Navy-yards may equip ships for Ship ping Board. Page 1. President of American Truth Society charged with violating espionabe act. Page &. Domestic. Labor reaffirms opposition to Government by Injunction. Page Hindus tell of anti-British plot In India. Page IS. , Mrs. De Saulles' defense will be temporary Insanity. Page 1. Sports. Franklin defeats Jefferson. 13-0. rage 14. Marines chosen to represent West at Pasa dena Tournament of Rosea. Page 14. Pacific Coast College Conference representa tives to meet December 3. Page 14. Sacramento reluctant In producing cash for Beaver franchise. Page 14. raclfie Northweet. General Greene resents charge he favors Ta coma. In statement on closing of Seattle to soldiers. Page 6. Frank J. Miller will seek re-election. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Withdrawal of tanners from market weak ens hide prices. Page IT. Oats market strong on heavy buying for Government account. Page 19. Rail shares backward and other Issues ad vance In Wall street. Page ltt. Survivors of Mi'iposa wid Spokane lauded. Page 16. Longshoremen of Portland and Columbia Klver districts granted increase in wages. Page la. Portland and Viclnitr. Fire menace at shipyards declared grave. Page 0. Reinstatement of all striking phone operat ors demanded. Page 7. Diversion of freight cars from Central Ore gon meets vigorous protest. Page 11. Parade of pure-bred cattle among features of livestock show. Page 7. Weather, report, data and forecaat. Page 16. Pacific Coast shippers opposed to proposed new freight tariffs. Page 9. War bread will -be baked to order. Page 1. Mrs. Carrie B. Moreland says Mrs. Xarifa - Faling possessed a remarkably clever mind. Pag. 8. Ordinance to Isolate diseased women passes. Page 16. Robert Stanfleld riven many assurances of personal support. Page 4. TECHNICAL, BATTLE FORESEEN Domestic Troubles Sketched by Uterhart. FIRST WITNESSES CALLED Defense Attorney Will Try to Prove That Chilean Heiress Suffered From "Ilypothyreosis," Which Produces Mental Infirmity. MINEOLA, N. T.. Nov. 23. "Hypo, thyreosis." which he termed an affec tion of the thyroid gland and which eventually produces a state of mental infirmity, was today given by Her at torneys as the disease from which Mrs. Blanca de Saulles was suffering when she shot her divorced husband. John L. de Saulles, at his Long Island home the night of August 3. This definition of the cause of the defendant's alleged temporary loss of accountability was given by- Henry A. Utterhart in outlining the case he will endeavor toprove In justification of the Chilean heiress on trial here charged with murder. The prosecu tion rested at noon today. Causes contributing to Mrs. de Saulles' Impaired mental condition, Mr. Uterhart said he would show, are to be found in a history of his client's do mestic relations with the former Yale athlete and clubman whom she shot. A fracture of the skull, suffered sev eral years ago, left a bit of bone pres sing upon Mrs. de Saulles' brain and this served to aggravate her alleged mental ailment, he said. "Physiological Chemist" Called. With the announcement Jy the de fense that Dr. Smith Elif Jeliffe. an alienist. would testify In Mrs. De SauWes' behalf, together with Dr. I .outs C Johnson, of Johns Hopkins Univer sity, whome Mr. Uterhart, termed a "physiological chemist," it seemed cer tain that a long battle in which medi cal technicalities will figure will pre cede the-placing of the case in the hands of the Jurors. Mr. Uterhart toow more than an hour to sketch the defendant's early life, her marriage to Do Saulles. their marl tial troubles which ended in her obtain ing a divorce, and her version of what occurred at her former husband's home on the night of the tragedy. The state rested its case with the reading into the record of two letters exchanged by De Saulles and the de fendant, purporting to show that little John L. De Saulles. Jr.. was legally In the custody of his father when' his mother's futile effort to regain posses sion of him led to the shooting of De Saulles. according to her claim. Mother's Visit Questioned. Among those who testified were Mar shall Ward, self-styled Intimate of John L. de Saulles; Caroline de Gener. Do Saulles' sister, and his father. Major Arthur B. de Saulles. all of whom wen at the De Saulles home when the shoot ing took place. Their accounts were contradictory in relation to Mrs. de Saulles' first re marks when she entered the home Just before De Saulles was shot. District Attorney Charles R. Weeks sought to show these remarks indicated she went to the place seeking her former hus band. This, if established, would serve to corroborate the state's claim of de liberate and premeditated murder. The-defense, on the other hand, at-' tempted to prove that Mrs. de Saulles said when she entered the residence: "Where's Jack? I have come to take him home with me." Defendant "Uaasually Calm." Sheriff Phineas Seaman and Con stable Leonard Thome, who arrested the defendant an hour after the shoot ing, both testified that Mrs. de Saulles was very pale when they took her Into custody. Despite the circumstances the young woman was calm "unusu ally calm." the Sheriff said, when she was arrested. On cross-examination Seaman -declared Mrs. de Saulles gave "a peculiar little laugh" every few moments while being taken from the Justice's Court to the ejail. Her actions so alarmed him, he said, that he "sent for a clothes line." -" "Isn't this the goo?" the Sheriff said Mrs. de Saulles asked, as sne entered the Jail. After examining the prisoner next morning. Seaman said, the Jail physi cian. Dr. J. L. Cleghorn. sent him a note saying It would be "unwise" to confine Mrs. de Saulles to a cell be cause of her "extreme nervousness and mental condition." Dead Man's Infidelity Cited. Although it had been stated previous ly that none of the facts brought out during the hearing of Mrs. de Saulles suit for divorce would become publia during the trial, a large part of At torney Uterhart's opening statement concerned De Saulles' alleged infi delity. The attorney then launched' Into a, detailed account of events on the data of the. shooting. He said that early In the morning of August 3 De Saulles; "borrowed" their son in anticipation ot a visit to his home by the boy's grand father.. When the lad was not returned to his mother that night, as promised, (.Concluded on Page o. Column-i t 1