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VOL. LYIII NO. 17.89.1. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, J1AKCII 28, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 8 CAVALRY mjcniinr Line. Firm and Gains at Several Points Hade. EKEMY ATTACKS ARE VAIN Field Marsha! Haig Reports That Teutons Sustain Heavy Casualties. HUNS LOSE THREE TOWNS I.Torlancourt. ChFpilly and Pro yart Are Recaptured and Ancre Line Defended. ' OTTAWA. Marth IT British c alry ks brr in arttoa ami has thieved a brilliant victory, acrordipc la a dispatch from the Renter cor respondeat at British headqaartrrs, received here tonight. The Message aid M details af the actioo had kn yivra. AMSTERDAM. Marth 27. Enor- snarly long aabulsac trains arc passing through Lieie and Nassar, IWtitiaM. on their iy ta Ai la Chap. and other parts of Germany, with wounded, Germans front the French 1 tile front, according to the TrWgraf frontier correspondent. Many of the woandrd hate been detrained at r. sajs the correspondent, who adds that the hospital in Northern France hate not sufficient accommo dations for the treat stream of suf frrer. PARIS. March 27 With frrh troops the Germans today attached the French lines east of Montdidier. and although their lumhi were re puUed several time they sarceeded in making some adtance. according to the War Of fke announcement tonight. .Wound Laizny and Noyon power, ful enemy attacks were broken op. LONDON'. 3Iarch 27. The British front U stamimff firm along the vhote line. which appears to be the strotierst it has occupied tince the battle bee.in. "says Keuter'a corre- ponsfrnt i;h the British headquar ters in France. Krrn at points here the tine U not strong, the correspond ent a.U., it U twins held in very or derly array, alike of men and runs, an. J not. here u showing any si ens of enforced retirement. The enemy, says the correspondent. tucked at various points today but from all reports thc.ie efforts made to progress. r.riti.h airmen report the ho!e of the enemy front areas to be black t tth troop.-. The British forces are no. only of- 1r.e strong resistance to heavy en- I BATTLE GROWS MORE EN". J COtRAGING TO ALLIES. I LONDON". March 27. To- night's news from the battle J front confirms the hopeful im- J pression formed early in the day that the British now appear to e be on a l:ne they are able to I bold firmly, at least on the J Somme and the Ancre river. J Farther south in the Roye- Noyon region the situation is tej well defined, but it is e staled that both the French and I'ri'.Mh are bringing up re J serves there. The correspond- f .ts ato are showing greater confidence that the enemy will be r.elj on this terrain. . The German official corrvmon- k-ation ft tonight was signify ' icantly brief and reserved. It re- I ports the crossing of the Ancre. J but er.iy refer to Tuesday! J events, while the British War Office statement shows that the Germans who had crossed that stream were thrown back today in counter attacks. The news from the Somme front is distinctly encouraging, the British baring recaptured Morlancourt and Chipilly and I advanced to Pro yart. i TEUTON SMASH IN ITALY IMPENDING AISTRIANS CONCENTRATE MEN AND HEAVV ARTILLERY. Psoholnrlc Effort of Big Hlndcnburg Irlte In France Calcnlated to Dishearten Italia Armies. WASHINGTON. March 17. rrepara tlons for a Teutonic offensive on the Italian front continue, the Italian Kin- baser was advised today by cable from Rome. New divisions are arriving dally on this front from the Roumanian front and the Austfians have brousht up nu merous new pieces of heavy artillery. -The situation at the Italian front Is becoming every day mors tense." the diapatrh save. -It appears that the Auetro-tlunearlan forces are counting upon the success of the German drive in Franc to discourse; the Italians be fore attempting a new offensive. "New divisions are daily belnc broucht to the Iultan front from the Roumanian front. Artillery duels sre rowtnc In Intensity all alone; the mountain section of the front In Val Lasarlna. tlludlcarla snd Astlco. The Aueirlsns have numerous new pieces of hesvy artillery. "direst movements of Austro-Hun-gsrtan troops sre reported by Italian aviators In Val Suaana. Kverythlns: points towsrds a new effort on the part of the enemy forces to break through the mountainous son of the Italian front toward the plains." RECALL ELECTION ASKED Klamath Coanty Petitioners Would Oat Judge Marlon Hanks. KLAMATH FA LLP. Or.. March !T. (Special) A petition filed here today and signed by approximately per eons demsnds that a special election to vote on the recall of County Judge Marlon Hanks be ordered within five days unless the Judge reelgns In the meantime. Today's action I a culmination of th feud over the new courthouse. Cnsrgee mad against Judg Hanks are that h proposes to sbandon work on th new building, diverting th sum of f I T9.3 1 collected for construction to th repairing of the old structure: gross neglect In th upkeep of th county highway: manipulation of th county funds for th benefit of private Inter- .ta and Ignoring a recent petition signed by more than le taxpayers ask ing th completion of th new court house In Hot Fprtngs addition. TEUTONS' LOSSES 400,000 More Than 7 tier man DIllon Are liar led Into Battle. I-ONImN. March From the aver age of casualties In the various Herman units as given by prisoners, says Renter's correspondent st Flrltlsh head quarters In France, on arrives at the conclusion that th i.erman Emperor has lost SS per cent of these men since he gave th signal for th advance. The official Ftritlsh statement of yes terday said II had been established that mor than ? Cierman divisions had been engaged tn th battle. The uual estimate of th present strength of a Herman division la 12.OO0 men. so that a toss of S per rent would mean casualties in excess of 400.000 for th t.erman In less than a week of fight ing. GREEK UPRISING PLANNED King fontanilne Sends Officers to Foment Disturbances. ATHENE. March S. Th purpose of frrmer King Constantln In sending two Creek officers who wer arrested recently, after being landed on th roast by a German submarine, was to lay th foundation for sn uprising against th government, according to depositions mad by th officers and read In the Chamber of Deputies to day by Premier Vrnlirlos. Th officers wer disguised as beg gar when arretted. TRIBAL DRINK STILL LEGAL If fort to Prohibit t'e f Pryole Htnrkcd by Senator Owen. WASHINGTON. March IT. Lglsla tion to prohibit us on Indian reser vatlons of "peyote." said to b a habit' forming Intoxicant and used In tribal ceremonial, was stricken from th In dian appropriation bill today In th Senate without discussion on a polot of order. Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, who had Indian ancestors, was Instrumental In killing th proposed restriction. PRINCE COACHED FOR POST Augal ttllhrlm Relieved Slated for Vlre-Itcgal Joh. IXNlxN. March 17. Emperor Wlll- Um has appointed his fourth son. I'rinre August Wllhelm. prefect at Potsdam to learn civil administration. say an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. It Is believed that Is a preliminary step to th Prince's appointment to a vlr-rgal post In Lithuania or Cour land. .. Romanoff to Be Moved. LONDON. March IT. Th Bolsh. vikl government has decided to transfer Nicholas Romanoff, th former Emperor snd his family, from Tobolsk to the Vrsl region, according to an announce ment In Petrograd newspapers trans mitted in a R.uter dispatch. It was decided to take this action In view of th possibilities of complica tions la th Far East. POLITICS I55UE IS RAISED IN SENATE Partisan Clash Comes With Jones Speech. PRESIDENT DIRECTLY ACCUSED Wilson Using Office to Party, Says Smoot. Aid FACTS KEPT FROM PUBLIC Wa-liioclon Senator's Charges That War News It Ik-lug Doled Out In Sugar-Coated Doses Creates Rumpus. WASHINGTON. March TT. Th big gest partisan breach between Demo crats and Republicans of the Senate sine th war began developed today In a bitter debate which followed a speech by Senator Jones, Republican of Washington, attacking the Shipping Hoard and criticising President Wil son's attitude toward Congress. Senator Williams, of Mississippi. I democrat, accused the Republicans of playing politics In behalf of Represen tative Lenroot. candidate for th Sen ate in WlMnsin. This aroused the Republicans and leaders on both sides of the chamber Joined in the fray. Senator Smott. Republican of Utah, de livering an address he had prepared for tomorrow,, charging the President himself with uaing hi.t hieh office to further partisan ends. flash t let Kaded. Adjournment brought the clash to a close. It may be renewed tomorrow and Is regarded as certain to com mence agsin when consideration of th Overman bill to enlarge the President's powers to reorganise Government de partments Is undertaken. In his speech Senator Jones declared statements of fhairman Hurley, of the Shipping Hoard, were misleading" and that German submarines are sinking ships twlc as fast as they can be built. Patriot! IH.aalty Mia ted At. Senator Jones asserted that if th President and Congress co-operate as they should "a feeling of patriotic unity throughout th country that I fear is now lacking, but which ought to exist, would be created." In directing hi attention to profiteer ing. Senator Jones declared that It was everywhere and th "Nation's need Is Its common prey." The fight for gain Is so fierce that It seems universal." ho continued. "It la confined to no class or condition. Why Is that? It is not because we sre not patriotic "We have not com to realize what we must do to win thla war. The peo ple do not know the real facta. They wltl not cease their race, for gain and profit till they do know the urgent need for self-denial." After Senator Shafroth. of Colorado, Democrat, had deplored what he termed "unfair" criticism of war operations and said all Government of flclals were doing their best. ! Senator w .VIII lams took rin-ltil.'J on f'.ae It. I'ulumn 1.) Progress of the Battle. The strength -of the great German offensive In France apparently la fast diminishing. On the seventh day of the titanic battle there were strong Indi cations that the enemy was feeling materially the strain he had undergone and that his power had been greatly Impaired through bard usage. While the town of Albert has been captured from th British, and west of the Roye the French have been com pelled to give ground In the face of greatly superior numbers, the British have repulsed heavy attacks both north and south of the Somme, and also driven back across the Ancre River the Germans who forded the stream Wednesday. The fighting still con tinues sanguinary on all these sectors, but everywhere the British and French are holding the enemy. Especially se vere has been the fighting west of Albert, where the Germans, In an en deavor to debouch westward, were re pulsed by Field Marshal Halg'a men with the heaviest casualties. The British gains between the Somme snd Ancre regions are represented by the recapture of the towns of Morlan court and Chipilly. South of the Somme they have advanced to Proyart, which lies to the south of Bray. It Is estimated that In the great attacks delivered In mass formation mor than 400.000 of the nearly a mil lion men the Germans threw into the fray are dead, wounded or in the hands of their foes. About 2i miles represents the great est point of penetration made at any place by the enemy In his, advance, and on the northern and southern ends of the big salient he has left his flanks danserously open to counter attack. ' This counter attack, if successful possibly might result in a retreat greater than the 191 retrograde move ment of the Hlndenburg line and nullify all. the drive has accomplished. It not Improbable that British and French reserves and possibly American troops known to be behind the battle front soon will be thrown against the weak cned enemy. Notwithstanding the strength of the German drive, nowhere has the British or French front, along the latter of which American troops have given a good account of their ability as fight ers, been even dented. Ground has been given. It Is true, but so skillfully and with such precision of movement that from north to south a surveyor scarcely could have worked out a more eVn line. Just who is In command of the Ger man forces seems to be somewhat in doubt. Late dispatches report that Field Marshal von Hindenburg has been at Dvinsk, in the Russian theater. and German war correspondents assert that General von Ludendorff not only planned the offensive, but was on the t round Irst Friday )ter-Hnally to con- o. the attacks. PUPILS STUDYWAR CAUSE Curricula of New York Schools to Counteract "Kultur" Precepts. NEW YORK. March 27. A new study. "What every pupil should know about the war," was tentatively added to the curricula of the public schoola here to day when the Board of Education for mally approved a committee report providing for the preparation of a syllabus outlining the new course for every grade from primary to high school. Determined to stamp out pro-Germanism In the New York schools and to counteract the dissemination of "kultur." the plan as decided upon pro vides that no pupil shall be promoted or graduated unless he shows the re quired proficiency listed for his par ticular grade. THEY ARE CALLING US. COAST YARDS ARE ASSURED BUSINES Contracts for Wooden Ships "Premised. wfsShth brings messag Fleet Co-operation Is Pleased by Spirit of West. ' DEALS -TO BE MADE HER Western Builders Depended On for Both Wood and Steel Construe ". tion Posting $10,000 Wager Makes Impression In East. To shipyards of th Oregon district now actually engaged la construction will be given' more wooden ship con tracts, a " sufficient number to keep them busy for the present year, and probably longer. Contracts will be negotiated here after at the Portland office of th Emergency Fleet Corporation, and after telegraphic approval from Wash ington as to price and time of delivery will be awarded here. The Pacific Coast is depended o for both steel and wood construction by Government officials and the action of the Grant Smith-Porter Ship Com pany in posting a. wager of 10,0H 1 backing construction of Ferris ship as to speed, efficiency and workman ship has set the entire East agog, being particularly pleasing to the Emergency Fleet Corporation as indi eating the spirit of the West. Wentworth Brings Good News. Such is the news brought by Lloy J. Wentworth, district officer of th wooden ship construction department of .the . Emergency Fleet Corporation who arrived home last night after month's absence, the time being spen at Washington and other Eastern cities where shipbuilding is under way." "Oregon Is firmly on the map today in ship construction of both classes, and in that respect the entire Coast is being depended on," said Mr. Went worth. "A change has been made all Pacific Coast districts as to th method of negotiating wooden ship contracts. In the future the district officers will handle them, closing on telegraphic approval from Washing ton. That should expedite matters. As to contracts for other yards than those now actually working, that has not been determined, but probably will be disposed of soon. "The understanding seems to be now that the Emergency Fleet Corporation will decide shortly Just what capacity of the yards now working and those ready will be required. If the new plants yet awaiting contracts are not needed, they will be permitted to go ahead on private contracts, subject to an understanding that their construe tion must not interfere with that of Government vessels as to material. Coaat Builders Make Good. "The progress maie with wooden tonnage In this territory has pleased (Continued on Pane. . Column 4. TEUTONS HOPE TO BOMBARD LONDON HCXS ARE SHOOTIXG TJP PARIS MERELY FOB TRY-OCT. . So Far Performance of Big Gun Has Proved Only Counter-irritant on Parisian Nerves. LONDON", March i7. Lieutenant-Gen eral von Rohne, a Germany authority on ordnance, says In the Vosslsche Zei tung of Berlin that the bombardment of Paris is merely In the nature of trial for guns which are really Intended to bombard London, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. London Is about 125 miles from th nearest point on the front. BERLIN. March 26, yla London. The Germans have not halted their long range bombardment of Paris, according! to an official statement from general headquarters today. The announce merit says: "We continued the bombardment of the fortress of Taris." PARIS, March 27. If the Germans believed that by inaugurating their bombardment of Paris at the momen of their offensive they would bring panic or add to the anxiety of the people, they have ehown themselves poor psychologists once more. Th bombardment has acted rather ae counter-irritant to the nerves of Pari sians, serving to divert attention from the grave events on the front so close to the capital. The caliber of the shells that are be ing fired Into Paris by the German long-range gun is 8.8 Inches, and the length of the shell is 20 Inches, L'Homme Libre, Premier Clemenceau' newspaper, states. The shell wegh 200 pounds and contains less than 2 pounds of explosives. The shell Is provided with a fuse pro tected by a threaded stopper, and has diaphragm inside which divides th shell Into two compartments of unequal size. Two holes in the diaphragm af ford communication between the two pockets. These facts are accepted as an explanation of the two explosion which on occasion have occurred in quick succession and which led to th belief that two guns were firing. RED CROSS WORKERS HELD German-Swedish Mission Characd With Espionage by Slavs. LONDON, March 27. Members of th Germano-Swedish Red Cross commis slon have been arrested at Simbirsk, In the Volga region, charged with espi onage, a Reuter dispatch from Petro grad, filed on Monday, reports. PLAGUE MENACES CHINA Fifteen. Deaths Occur at Nanking, In Province of Riangsu. PEKIN, Thursday; March 21. (By the Associated Press.) Fifteen deaths from the plague have occurred at Nan king, capital of the province of Kiangsu. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The W ?tber. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 54 degrees; minimum, 41 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; gentle southwesterly winds. war. British cavalry wins brilliant victory, rage l. Russians wrest city of Odessa from Ger many after severe battle. Page 1. Ultimate purpose, of Germans' big gun is to bombard .London. Page 1. Teutons massing men and artOIery for ham mer blow against Italy. Page 1. Lloyd George sends urgent appeal to Airier Ira to rush reinforcements to allies In France. Page 4. General Ludendorff praises tenacious aistance of British. Page 2. Losses of British shipping through enemy attacks show increase lor week. Page Germans report alow progress in great bat tle. Page 3. French regard battle situation hopefully. Page 3. Russian bearskin to be Germanns pay in peace settlement, says Gerard. Page G. British appear to have firm grip on Somme and Ancre River line. Page 4. Allied and German patrols discard firearms and fight it out with lists, page 4. Allied army of maneuver expected to strike soon at advancing Germans, page o. Foreign. German masses suffer with cold during long Winter. Page 7. National. Senator Jones precipitates clash in Pen ate by criticising President s war met bods, Page 3. Japan toexchang shipping for American steel. o- " Domentlo. United States to speed up exports of wheat to relieve f rencn soldiers at rront, wnose bread ration has Deen cut. Page 4. Evidence found at New York of Hindu-Ger man poison conspiracy, page 4. United States Steel reports decrease of earnings m 1317. page io. Shipping Board announces 188 vessels launched. Page 3. Sports. Baseball season to open here April 30. Page 20.- One thousand six hundred Seattle fans see Ingle defend title against xsexc. page I'U. Com mere iml and Marine. Potato prices are again tending downward. Page 21. Grain bags may advance when present stocks are disposed or. Page -l. Westgrove hull built and launched In 61 days. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Mayor proposes to establish a municipal jit ney system zor JLinnton. Page 8. i CHy Council revises Jitney ordinance to be submitted to people, page s. - Attempted badger ame disclosed in divorce case. Page V. Efforts to bar photoplay "Birth of Nation" prove fruitless. Page 21. Jurors indulgence In liquor at trial fully explained. Page -2. Coast shipyards assured more contracts for wooden vessels, page J. Reports of Germans gathering to gloat over recent victory being investigated, page J 3. Morris Brothers, bankers, soon- to have new quarters. Page 1-f. Affairs of Almeda Consolidated Mine aired in court. Page 7. William Adams, City Treasurer, to compile statistics of third liberty loan, page 4. Grave problems before lumbermen meeting In Portland, page J. JFeatfier report, daa and forecast. Page 10. ODESSA WRESTED rnnm GERMANS ii Russian Forces Unite to Expel Invaders. NAVY JOINS IN FIERCE BATTLE Army of Korniloff Reported Routed by Bolsheviki. UKRAINE UPRISING LOOMS Rada Contemplates Armed Resist ance to Central Powers Prince Henry of Prussia Has Chilly Reception in Esthoni&v 1DXDOX, March 27. Odessa has been recaptured by the Soviet and Ukrainian troops after a bloody battle in which naval forces took part, according to a Moscow dispatch from ths semi-official Russian news agency. The German War Office on March 13 announced that Odessa had been en tered by German troops. The preliminary peace treaty be tween Roumanla and the central pow ers contained a provision engaging Roumanla to support the transport of troops of the central powers through Moldavia and Bessarabia to Odessa. Route to India at Stake. Semi-official announcement was then made that Germany had obtained a direct route by way of Russia to Persia and Afghanistan. Odessa is the most important seaport of Southern Russia, and the fourth city of Russia In size. Its population is about 450,000. (By the Associated Preas MOSCOW, March 24. Official reports say that Iwkolayev, Kherson and Znamenka, all Southern Ukraine cities, ' have been re-captured from the Aus trians by red guards and armed civil ians. The population of Kherson organized and expelled the invaders. Artillery Fighting- Heavy. A heavy artillery bombardment is reported in connection with the re capture of Nikolayev. The German commander at Kiev re quested the bankers there to float a loan of 10,000,000 rubles. The bank ers declined to do so. German troops are constantly mov ing eastward through Kiev. Bread- . stuffs are being exported from Kiev in large quantities and consequently there is an acute shortage. . Peasants Will Resist. Peasants at Nevel, 54 miles north of Vitebsk, organized to resist the Ger man food requisitions. They are re ported to have killed 80 German sol diers. (By the Associated Press.) MOSCOW, March 23. Press reports say that when the Germans captured Odessa they seized two warships and large supplies of artillery, ammunition and arms. Many Vessels Seised. In the shipyard at Nikolayev, ac cording' to these reports, the Germans took possession of many ships, includ- ng several uncompleted dreadnoughts and submarines, destroyers and two cruisers, together with a large num ber of merchantmen. LOXDON, March 27. The forces of General Korniloff have been surround ed by Bolshevik troops, according to a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd. The Council of Commissioners at Moscow has announced the complete rout of the remnants of the Korniloff . forces, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Moscow. General Korniloff, the former Rus sian commander-in-chief, allied him- ' self with the Don Cossacks against the Bolsheviki and has been operating be tween Moscow and Rostov. Defeat Frequently Reported. Several times he has been reported defeated and near capture, but always managed to elude the government troops. LONDOX, March 27. A serious dis- i pute has arisen between the Ukraine and Germany over Germany's demand ' that she be given 85 per cent of the Ukrainian wheat, according to a tele gram received in Petrograd from Kiev and forwarded by Reuter's Limited. Germany also demanded that she be given a large percentage of other foodstuffs not needed by the popula tion of the Ukraine. Ukrainian Cabinet Splits. The telegram adds that there are dissensions in the Ukrainian Cabinet1, which is divided for and against ths German demands. MOSCOW, Monday. March 25. (By the Associated Press.) The Bolshevik krainian Rada, which fled from Kiev to Kharkov before the Germans, is now at Ekaterinoslav, where it has adopted resolutions refusing to indorse the peace treaty between Germany and the Ukraine unless the central powers ithdraw all troops from the Ukraine. Rada Decides to Resist. The Rada decided to oppose the cen tral powers by means of armed forces, strikes and boycotts. LONDON, March 27. A Reuter dis patch from Petrograd says that the (Continued on Fage . Column l.X rnu