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THE 3IORXIXG OKEGOXIAN. THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1918.
101 LIVES LOST AS
BRITISH SHIP SINKS
Transport Leasowe Castle
Torpedoed by Enemy Sub
marine in Mediterranean.
THIRTEEN OFFICERS LOST
Commander of Vessel and Two Wire
less Operators Among Those
Who Are Missing and Pre
sumably Drowned.
LONDON, May 29. The transport
ship Leasowe Castle has been sunk
by an enemy submarine, the British
Admiralty announced tonight. One hun
dred and one persons were drowned.
The Leasowe Castle which was of
9737 tons gross, was sunk in the Medi
terranean on May 26. Among thoSe
who lost their lives were 13 military
officers and 79 of other .rank.
The Leasowe Castle was built in 1917
at Birkenhead and was owned by the
Union Castle Mail Steamship Company,
of London. The text of the British
Admiralty statement reads:
"The transport Leasowe Castle was
torpedoed and sunk by an enemy sub
marine May 26 in the Mediterranean.
"Thirteen military officers and 79 of
other rank and of the ship's company,
the captain, two wireless operators and
six of other ratings are missing. It is
presumed all were drowned."
BERNE, May 29. The German sub
marine which sank the steamer Sardl
nero last February has returned to a
German base, and her commander has
been ordered to make a full report of
the occurrence.
Switzerland demands restitution in
kind of the cargo of wheat which went
down with the ship.
The Sardinero was a Spanish steam
er, which was probably chartered by
the Swiss government for the trans
portation of food supplies.
REDUCED FARES GIVEN
McARTHL'R APPEALS TO McADOO
FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
Rate of 1 Cent a Bllle Allowed Between
Camps and Homes for Men When
', Furloughs Are Granted-
WASHINGTON, May 29. (Special.)
Representative McArthur has urged
William G. McAdoo. director-general of
railroads, to grant reduced round-trip
fares for soldiers and sailors at the
various camps and establishments who
may desire to visit their homes while
on furlough. He has taken this action
because his attention has been called
to the fact that Oregon men stationed
at Camp Lewis are required to pay full
fare in going to and from the city of
Portland and other places in Oregon
while on furlough.
Mr. McArthur is of the opinion that
men in uniform should be permitted
to travel at reduced rates, as they are
making great sacrifices at this time
and should not be required to pay full
fare particularly in the far West
where transportation rates are higher
than in the East.
Director-General McAdoo has advised
Mr. McArthur that he has authorized a
passenger rate of 1 cent a mile for all
military and naval men in United
States service. When soldiers or sail
ors use this rate they must show cre
dentials and consent from their com
manders for the trip.
RIVERS MAY MOVE CROPS
Representative Hawley Calls 31c
Adoo's Attention to Oregon Streams.
OREGONIANNEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. May 29. When Representative
Hawleys attention yesterday was
called to the fact that many river
steamers on the Columbia and Wil
lamette are now idle for lack of cargo,
he wrote Railway Director McAdoo,
calling attention to the condition and
suggesting that more freight tributary
to these rivers be routed by water, thus
releasing cars for other service. The
matter was brought up by Captains
Graham and Eioo, whose river craft
are now idle.
Mr. Hawley particularly suggested
that the wheat crops of the Columbia
River Valley be moved to Portland this
year by water instead of by rail.
ENSIGNS COMPLETE COURSE
Certificates Given Class of 450 at
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Naval Academy.
ANNAPOLIS. Md.. May 29. Four
hundred and fifty young ensigns of the
reserve force today Received their cer
tificates' after having completed a
course of 15 weeks of Intensive, train
ing at the Naval Acaaemy.
A riew class of reserve officers con
sisting of 700 members will be formed
here on June 11.
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OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS
American.
WASHINGTON, May 29. Consolida
tion of positions taken yesterday by
the Americans in the Cantigny salient
and the repulse of renewed counter at
tacks is announced in General Persh
ing's evening communique issued to
night by the War Department. It also
tells of repulse last night of three raids
in Lorraine in which several prisoners
were taken and a number of enemy
killed.
The dispatch follows:
"In the Cantigny salient we have
consolidated our positions in spite of
heavy artillery and machine gun fire.
Renewed counter attacks broke down
under our fire.
"In Lorraine we repulsed three
raids during the night, taking several
prisoners, killing a number of the
enemy. There and in the Woevre the
artillery of both sides has been con
tinuously active.
"It is established that on May 27
our aviators shot down two hostile ma
chines instead of one as reported."
"Section B Yesterday morning three
of our planes encountered four hostile
planes flying at 8000 meters in the re
gion of Montsec In the fighting which
ensued. Lieutenant Douglas Campbell
successfully attacked two of the Ger.
man machines. Of these, one lost both
wings and fell. This was referred to
in yesterday's communique. In the
same encounter one of our aviators was
wounded, but succeeded in making a
normal landing within our lines.
"Yesterday morning in a sector re
cently taken over by our troops an
American Sergeant encountered a Ger
man patrol of four men who had en
tered one of our trenches during the
night. In fighting which ensued our
Sergeant, although receiving three
wounds, succeeded in driving out the
hostile patrol, which left grenades and
wire cutters behind.
"In Lorraine, on the evening of May
26, a hostile patrol attempted to pene
trate our lines. It was driven off with
loss to the enemy of five killed. Of
these, one was brought into our lines.
One of our men was wounded.
"This morning Lieutenant Rteken
bacher and Lieutenant Campbell at
tacked a group of eix enemy planes and
brought one down out of control."
ciennes Railway station. One of our
machines failed to return.
French.
PARIS, May 29. The War Office to
day issued the following statement:
"Last night the German advance, as
sisted by the arrival of fresh divi
sions, was more powerful, especially
on both wings. In the direction of
Solssons and Rhelms.
"On the left French troops, fighting
every foot of the, way. this afternoon
evacuated Soissons. The battle con
tinues with violence. On the right
Franco-British troops, after an ener
getic defense of the massif of St.
Thierry, withdrew slowly to the
heights to the south and southeast,
where they are holding on between
the Vesle River and the Alsne JanaL
"In the center the fighting is con
tinuing with varying results on the
southern bank of the Vesle, where our
troops are defending the heights with
admirable courage.
"West of Montdidier the Americans
broke up two successive German at
tacks which were directed against
Cantigny.
"Spirited artillery fighting continues
on both banks of the Meuse. The
French fine broke up a number of
German raids in the seetor of Erober
meniL north of Bezonvaux, in the re
gion of Badonvillers and near the
Rhone-Rhine Canal."
does not do this. Mr. Corey states that
a complaint will be filed before the
Interstate Commerce Commission to en
deavor to compel the inauguration of
such rate.
The letter was sent following receipt
of communication from Food Admin
istrator Hoover and Special Counsel
Payne for the railroad administration,
in which the commission was vtrtuallv
told that the matter of establishing
such a rate lies with the commission
Itself.
McAdoo to Meet Commissioners.
SALEM. Or., May 29. (Special.)
The Public Service Commission has
been advised that Director-General
McAdoo will meet the war committee
of the National Association of Railway I greatest service In the prosecution of
and Utility Commissioners on June S
to discuss various phases of railroad
control, particularly as to co-operation
between state commissions and the
Federal administration. It is expected
that at the conference a plan will be
worked out whereby the commissions
the war.
Senator McCumber, of North Dakota,
says that never have there been as
many strikes in the history of our
country as there have been since the
United States entered the war, al
though labor has received hicher
can appertain where they will he of the waes than ever.
German.
British.
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LONDON, May 29. "A hostile raiding
party was driven hack during the night
in the neighborhood of Beaumont
Hamel," says the British official com
munication Issued this evening.
"A local attack made by the enemy
north of Kemmel was completely re
pulsed by the French troops.
"We carried out a successful raid
last night southeast of Arras and cap
tured prisoners and a machine gun.
A raid attempted by the enemy at
Givenchy-La. Bassee, was repulsed. A
hostile attack upon one of our posts
south of the Ypres-Comines Canal also
was repulsed after eharp fighting.
"The hostile artillery has been ac
tive north of Albert in the , neighbor
hood of Ayette, east of Robecq and
northwest of Merville and has shown
somewhat increased activity locally
east of Arras and south of Lens.
British aerial operations are de
scribed in an official communication
issued tonight:
"Our airmen dropped 60 tons or
bombs during the day on hostile bil
lets, dumps and railways behind the
enemy's lines on all parts of the Brit
ish front.
Thirteen German machines were de
stroyed in air fighting, and four oth
ers were brought down out of con
trol. Five of ours are missing.
"Bombing was continued on the night
of Tuesday. Five tons of bombs were
dropped on various targets, including
billets at Armentleres and the Valen-
BERLIX, May 29. The official com
munication from army headquarters
today follows:
"On the battlefronts from the Yser
to Oise increased fighting activity con
tinued. French local attacks south of
Ypres failed.
"West of Montdidier the enemy dur
ing a local advance penetrated into
Cantigny yesterday.
"The armies of Colonel-General Boehra
and General Von Below of the army
of the German crowr. prince, have vic
toriously continued their attack. French
and English reserves rushed up were
defeated.
"The right wing divisions of Gen
eral Larlsch after repelling a French
counter attack captured the Terny-
Sorny ridge and the heights northeast
of Solssons. After hard fighting the
troops of General Wichura also broke
the resistance of the enemy on the
plateau of Conde. Fort Conde was
taken by storm. Vregny and Missy
also were taken on the southern bank
of the Alsne and the Vesle height to
the west of Clry were occupied.
"The .corps of General Von Winkdler,
General Von Conta and General Schme
tow have crossed the Vesle. Bralne
and Flsmes have been captured and
we are standing on the heights due
south of the Vesle. The troops of
General Isle have taken the hills north
west of Prouilly by storm and have
captured Villers Franqueux and Courcy
and now are fighting for the heights
of Thierry.
"In spite of ehanging weather our
aerial forces xtre attacking the enemy
with bombs and machine guns, while
aviators have surveyed without inter
ruption our attack and effect of our
artillery fire.
"The number of prisoners has In
creased to 25.000, Including one French
and one English General."
Italian.
ROME, May 29. "At Capo Slle Mon
day night two hostile attacks were
broken up in front of our new posi
tions," eaya the official report from
headquarters today. "In the Preeena
Valley we captured a patrol of IS.
Other prisoners were taken in the Col
Caprllle area.
"Enemy detachments were repulgsd
at Mont Como and Mont Asolone.
THIRTY DIE III BLAST
Thirty Million Roubles' Loss
Results From Explosion.
MUCH MATERIAL BURNED
Bolshevik! Invite Allies to Assist in
Cleansing of Rnssia'9 Eco
nomic Life, but Won't
Re-enter War.
MOSCOW, May !7. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Forty persons were
killed or injured and damage amount
ing to 80,000,000 rubles was done
through an explosion and fire on a
munition train at Kazan etatlon. In
the Volga region, recently.
Seven warehouses and S50 railway
cars, many of them loaded with mer
chandise, were burned.
MOSCOW, Wednesday, May 22. (By
the Associated Press.) Russia is fully
aware of the dangers threatening her
from German imperialism, says the
Bolshevik organ Izvesnia in an article,
in which it asserts that no allied help
is desired of a nature which would
result in Russia's re-entering the
European conflict. It adds, however:
"Let some power honestly help us
combat successfully the threatening
danger. Russia would appreciate In
the highest degree any assistance to
ward the Improvement of transporta
tion and communication facilities and
the cleansing of her economic life.
Practical Help Wanted.
"If the allies really wish, rather
purely strategic reasons, to give her
practical xieip in iter itagic dhukuh,
let them discuss to the exclusion of
every other subject her urgent need of
economic aid."
PEKIN, Friday, May 24. (By the As
sociated Press.) The Chinese Ambas
sador at Tokio has been instructed to
protest to the Japanese government
against the transfer to Japan by Rus
sia of a section of the Chinese Eastern
Railway near the Sungarl River.
An official announcement from Tokio
received in Washington last November
3 said Japan and the Russian govern
ment, then under control of Premier
Kerensky. had agreed to the purchase
by Japan of a section of the Chinese
Eastern Railway between K. wan Cheng
Tse, near Chang Chun, in Manchuria,
and the Sungarl River.
MOSCOW. Friday, May 24. (By the
Associated Press.) The Germans are
laying a railway from the Finnish
frontier to Petchenga Bay, on the
Mourmansk- coast, according to an
Archangel dispatch to the Nasbe Slovo.
STOCKHOLM, May 29. The new Fin
nish Cabinet, formed by ex-Senator
Paaskivi, indicates increased German
influence In the Finnish government,
and has resulted in a further request
by General Mannerheim, commander of
the Finnish troops, demanding that his
resignation be accepted. The General
is opposed to German intervention and
the Germanizatlon of the Finnish
army. '
Swedish Officer Maw Retire.
Colonel Vostesleff. the new War Min-
Is wrrk:"? in c'o-: co-r.pc'.:o"
wlth German headquarters. It is be
lieved that a number of Swedish offl
cers now aervlng in the Finnish army
will follow Mannerheim into rears
ment.
WASHINGTON, May 29. Madame
Maria Botchkarova,- ex-commander of
the Russian regiment of women,
known as the "Battalion o" Death," was
in Washington today.
Woman Seeks Aid.
Madame Botchkarova, who arrived at
a Pacific port two weeks ago, called
during the day on Secretaries Lansing
and Baker. At the State Department
It was said she was seeking aid for
Russia, but officials did not say what
kind of aid. whether military, political
or financial was asked.
SIGNS TO BE DISCUSSED
Council to Consider Xew Regula
tions at Meeting Tuesday.
New regulations for electric signs
hanging over sidewalks In the city will
be considered by the Council at a spe
cial meeting next Tuesday morning.
For several months a committee headed
by Building Inspector Plummer has se
cured data and information concerning
electric signs and has drafted an ordi
nance causing a number of changes
from the rules in the existing ordi
nance. One of the principal changes In the
proposed ordinance will eliminate to
some degree "blanketing" of signs.
Blanketing is a term used when one
sign hides another from view.
The proposed ordinance also changes
the hours of lighting the signs and In
troduces a number of new ideas already
adopted in Eastern cities in connection
with electrical display signs.
NEW RATE IS REQUESTED
O.-W. R. & S. Asked to Absorb
Branch Lino Charges on Apples.
SALEM, Or., May 29. (Special.) The
O.-W. R. & N". is asked in a letter from
Public Service Commissioner Corey to
day to absorb branch line charges on
apples and chrome. In event the road
Special
Notice
In pursuance with our
usual custom our store will
remain closed all day today,
May SO, Memorial Day, in
order that our employes
may participate in honor
ing the gallant sailors and
soldiers who so gloriously
sacrificed their lives.
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