VOL.. LVIII. XO. 17,995. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918. TRICE FIVE CENTS. BATTLETAKESTOLL OF U. S: OFFICERS SPEED OF ALLIED FRENCH BAG 360 HEARST ALL RIGHT, HARDEST JOB STILL AHEAD, SAYS KAISER WAR'S decisive" poixt ABOCT REACHED, IS OBSERVATION. RAE TO TELL D DID TO PLANES IN 2 WEEKS ADVANCE SLACKENS OF MEN IN FRANCE COL. SMITH, REGULAR ARMY, FALLS NEAR MISSY-AU-BOIS. AIRMEN DROP 6 00 TOXS OF EX PLOSIVES OX GERMAXS. MAG IN KAISER'S OPINION DEFEAT OB FLIGHT Signs Multiply Germans Will Try to Retreat. FIGHTING FAVORS ALLIES All Ground Taken by Enemy in Attack of July 15 Again in Hands of Allies. OULCHY-LE-CHATEAU FALLS Fere en Tardenois Expected to Be Next Position Hun Will Surrender. PARIS, July 26. (Havas Agency.) The latest news from- the Aisne Marne battlefront is considered by the newspapers to be particularly favor able. Despite stubborn resistance the Ger rnans have been obliged to give up Oulchy-le-Chateau and it is thought that they cannot long hold Fere-en-Tardenois. Signs of Flight Seen. La Liberte says the Germans must be considering a retreat to the banks of the river Vesle, as fires and explo sions are multiplying in the German lines and the Teuton provisions and other stores are in flames. The Ger mans, the newspaper adds, either must retreat or face disaster. Among the prisoners captured in the Aisne-Marne battle was a nephew of Prince von Buelow, the former Ger man imperial chancellor. Young Buelow Amazed.' The officer, who was a battalion commander, was astounded to hear that there was a large American army in France. He said he had been con vinced, as had all Germans, that the American soldiers in France did not exceed 50,000. LONDON, July 26. The Germans today retain virtually nothing of the ground they conquered in their great attack of July 15 along the Marne, says Reuter's .correspondent at French headquarters. Gouraud Expels Enemy. East of Rheims the correspondent adds, General Gouuaud's army by a series of brilliant local operations, has expelled the enemy almost every where from the narrow belt he occu pied in Gouraud's advanced zone. . On all sides of the German salient the allies are reported today to be continuing to make progress, except on the heights behind Soissons. Ger man resistance to the French pres sure has been very determined in this latter sector. The advance- reported elsewhere are for the most part slight. Allies Lose Two l?osts. On the other side of the salient just to the west of Rheims the allies lost the town of Mery and Hill 204 to a German counter attack, but retained Vrigny and greater part of the line thereabouts looking toward Fismes. The allies in this sector hold Mar faux, Bouilly, St. Euphraise and Courton wood. Franco-Americans Advance. Between the Ourcq and Chateau Thierry the Franco-American line now shows an advance beyond the line of a week ago of from six to eight miles. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, July 26.. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The present moment for the Germans is one of the most critical of the war, since the allies possess the initiative and the rapidly increasing American Army enables them to undertake operations which would otherwise be impossible. Hard Fighting Ahead. Xhe fighting will continue to be wry severe, as the ground which the Germans occupy is very suitable for a defensive battle but their resistance is costing them dearly. Their diffi culties are being augmented every day and it is probable that they will be compelled to think hard before start ing any other offensive, even if its ob jective is only to relieve the situation. With the captvre today of the town of Oulchy-le-Chateau the allies are rearing the summit of the plateau overlooking Fere-en-Tardenois. Farther north the capture of Ville montoire was effected after fighting (Continued on Page 3, Column !. Lieutenant-Colonel Elliott, Major McCloud and Several Captains Are Killed In Action. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT. July 24. (By the Associated Press.) Colonel Hamilton Smith, of the United States Army, died on July 22, within a few hours after receiving: a machine gun wound below the heart. Colonel Smith was making: observa tions after a morning attack In antici pation of improving: the American po sitions south of Soissons, near Mlssy-au-Bois. Lieutenant-Colonel Clark Elliott was killed by machine gun fire In the same sector, while inspecting: the American front lines. Major J. M. McCloud was wounded while leading; his men, when the Amer icans crossed the solssons-Arras roaa during: the offensive. He was wound ed in the left arm and in the left side by. machine gun bullets, but after receiving- first aid he continued fighting:. The Major was killed soon afterwards by a high explosive shell. Soon after Major McCloud died. Lieu tenant James C. Lodar was killed by machine gun fire near, were. McCloud fell. On different days the following Cap tains were killed by machine guns and shells, all of them leading their men when they fell: James A. Edgerton, 'Julius A. Mood, Alfred R. Hamel, James N. C. Richard and James H. Holmes. Lieutenant Lodar, Captain Holmes and Major McCloud were buried at a crossroads in a wheat field, two kilo meters southeast of Missy-au-Bois. Colonel Smith was buried at Orry la Ville, near Luzarches, and the other officers were interred on the spots where they fell. WOMEN TO BREAK STRIKES Fair Toilers Organize to Aid Nation in Xational Crisis. SAN FRANCISCO. July 26. "Women ill take the places of male farm workers who fail to accept the awards of united States mediators In wage controversies," Mrs. Katherine P. Ed son, of the advisory council of the Women's Land Army, declared at a meeting here today of county chair men of the organization. Mrs. Edson asserted that the units sent out by the Women's Land Army would not be used as strikebreakers, demanding the "going wage" every where and the mediators award in dis puted cases. DR. WISE DONS OVERALLS Rabbi of Xew York Synagogue Works in Marine Plant. STAMFORD, Conn.. July 26. Dr. Ste phen Wise, of the synagogue In New York City, is working as a day laborer at a local marine plant. Dr. Wise said tonight that he took up the work be cause he believed it the duty of every man who could not enter military serv ice to contribute directly his labor to essential production for war needs. His 17-year-old son also is working at a plant in a similar capacity. MARTIAL LAW IS ORDERED King Instructed to Give Roumanian Territory Protection. N, July 26. A dispatch, to the Telegraph from Amsterdam, he ' Weser Zeitung of Bremen, learns from Bucharest that the king of Roumania has been ordered to place all Roumanian territory under martial law. In semi-official quarters in Berlin, the dispatch adds, this report has not been contradicted, and it was said nothing could be vouchsafed regarding the significance of the measure. SPRUCE PRICES ADVANCE Lift of $4 on New England Lumber Is Announced. WASHINGTON, July 26. Increases averaging approximately $4 a thousand feet for New England spruce lumber were authorized by the price-fixing committee of the war industries board for the period from July 19 to Novem ber 1. 1918. The prices range from 838 to $60 a thousand feet, according to size, length and finish. 350,000 BIBLES PLACED Gideons Find Hotel Rooms Xeedful of Holy Scriptures. DENVER. July 26. At the National convention of Gideons, the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association, In session here today, it was reported that ince the formation of the National or- gazination 350,000 Bibles have been placed in hotel rooms throughout the United States. I EX-CZARINA WOULD BE NUN Bolshevik! Deny Former Empress" Request to Enter Convent. LONDON. JULY 26. The Exchange Telegraph says Berlin newspapers pub lish a telegram from Moscow saying the former Empress has asked permis sion of the Bolshevik! to enter a con vent inSweden with her daughters. Permission is withheld for the time being. LOI A) Evenlfe says T Action Less Intense but Not Checked. TEUTONS GRADUALLY RETIRE Fighting Now Mainly in Forests Along Marne. HUNDREDS OF DEAD FOUND Streams Reported Thick With Bodies of Germans tie Change Xotcd But Llt- in Salient Soulh of Soissons. (By the Associated Press.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July 26.- The allied offensive has slowed down. but has not been checked. Franco American troops today forced the Ger. mans a bit further north, but the gr-xter part of the fighting is taking place in the big forests north of the Marne and along the western flank .of the salient. The Germans, with artillery and ma chine guns and strong Infantry de tachments, left the northern edges of the Fere, Tournelle and Ris forests and battled cleverly and stubbornly to hold the advancing allies until more progress could be made in the trans portation of their supplies, guns and general stores. But despite the oppo sition some ground was gained. Road lider Terrific Fire. The woods tonight have almost been freed of Germans. The Fere-en-Tardenois road, extending from'the front, already Is under such a fire from the artillery as to make It useless as a supply artery. With a slight push for ward by. the allied troops, Fere-en-Tardenois will become untenable Villempntoire has been restored to the allied line, and from it the allied ar tillery can , easily reach the Germans near Fere-en-Tardenois. The American troops advancing along the Marne have discovered hundreds of dead Germans. The victims fell before the heavy machine gun fire of the Americans during the retreat. In one section the ground was covered with dead. The Americans buried as many bodies as was possible. It is estimated that 2000 Germans fell there. Streams Thick With Dead. Farmers along the Marne report having seen the bodies of German dead floating down the stream. The mili tary authorities are planning some sys tem by which they can clear the river of bodies. There is little change In the opera tions on the southern arc of the salient soufh of Soissons. To the west, Oul chy-le-Chateau has been taken. Far ther south the Germans have "been driven out of the positions they had (Continued on- Pass 8, Column 2.) I " TV 4?Ay yJE- CA?Q AsSS Q?VCif " V Total of 2 7,6 73 Flights Made for Military Purposes British Aviators Report Success. WASHINGTON. July 26. During the period of the flr.pt two weeks of June, French airmen alone dropped 600 tons of high, explosives on the Germans in the trencn. on rest Diiieis, railway oiauuno and on munition works far back of the fighting lines. A total of 27.673 flights were made for military purposes during that time and more than 2000 com bats occurred In the air. ; In this fighting 199 German planes were destroyed or forced to ' land In French territory and 181 others were damaged and probably destroyed, making a total of 360 enemy machines brought down against a loss of 72 ma chines by the French. Twelve of the French planes brought down were only damaged. LONDON, July 26. British airmen brought down 25 Germans airplanes and forced down six others out of control in air fighting yesterday. Fifteen of the British machines failed to return. This announcement was made in the official communication on aerial opera tions Issued tonight. BERLIN, via London. July 26. The War Office communication issued to day says: "In aerial combats yesterday the enemy lost 68 airplanes and one captive balloon." PARIS, July 28. Second Lieutenant Coeffard, of the French army, has broken all records In aerial fighting, according to the newspapers. He has won 15 aerial victories in 15 days. The French war office communica tlon says: "On the 26th our aviators brought down or forced to land seven enemy machines. Eighteen machines were brought down by British aviators working In conjunction with us. On our part we dropped more than 38 tons of bombs during the day and night on stations, - railway communications. sheds, munitions depots and military parks in the rear of the zone of battle. Fires and explosions were observed." ARMY ETHER DESTROYED Loss of 230,000 Quarter-Pound Cans Caused by Fire. ST. LOUIS. July 26. Two girls and a fireman were Injured and 230,000 quarter - pound cans of ether for the American Army in France were de stroyed when a fire, followed by many explosions, did 3125,000 damage to the Malllnckrodt Chemical Works here this afternoon. The loss was estimated by officers of the company. One 10.000-gallon tank of ether burst with a terrific explosion. After an In vestigation, officers of the company said the fire was caused by a epaik from an electric soldering iron. GORKY APPROACHES END Russian Revolutionist Author Said to Be on Deathbed. STOCKHOLM, July 26. Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist and revo lutionary propagandist. Is dying, says a message from Helslngfors today. NO, WILLIE CROWN PRINCE IS NEVER Everybody Else in U. S. Held All Wrong. RULER'S WORDS DRIP VENOM Wilson, Roosevelt and Schwab v Bitterly Assailed. KING OF ENGLAND LOATHED 'Kick My Cousin's Shins for Me, Davis, ir You Should Sec Him," Parting Request of Em peror to Dentist. BY ARTHUR N. DAVIS. (DentiBt to the Kaiser for 14 Tears.) In the Winter of 1916 we were talk ing of the sentiment In America and the conversation turned to Von Bernstorff. "From all I hear," the Kaiser said, 'BernBtorf f hasn't had a very easy time of it. The American press as a whole has been conspicuously anti-German, although I understand that one of your newspaper publishers has been friendly to us. Mr. Hearst, for Instance, has helped our cause very much In your country. He has been telling the truth about affairs, which is more than most of the other papers have been dolrtg! Only Hearst Held Truthful. Just before the King of Greece abdi cated, the Kaiser referred to the atti tude of the American press again. The way the American newspapers and the press of the allied countries generally are presenting the Grecian situation to the world Is absolutely false and a disgrace!" he declared, bit terly. "They are entirely misrepresent ing the facts. "Mr. Hearst la the only one, as far as I can find, who has revealed the real conditions and told the . truth about them. I wonder what the people have to say now that Mr. Hearst has finally exposed the whole thing!" It was only a short time afterwards that the King abdicated. Election Brings Surprise. When Mr. Wilson was nominated for the Presidency, the Kaiser was quite positive that he wouldn't be elected. I saw the Kaiser shortly after Mr. Wilson's election. "I am very much surprised at the re sult of your election," he declared. "I didn't think your people would be so foolish as to elect a college professor as President. What does a professor know about international . politics and diplomatic affairs?" When Wilson sent 5000 men to Vera Cruz, the Kaiser felt that he had ex ceeded his rights. "What right has Wilson to mix in the Internal affairs of Mexico?" he asked "Why doesn't he allow them to fight It out among themselves. It is their affair, not his!" Germany had many financial Inter- Concluded on Pace 8, Column 1. "THE GOAT.' It Is to Be Hoped People at Home Are Full of Confidence," Adds General von Hlndcnburg. THE HAGUE, July 26. "The hardest part of the job Is still before us. The nemy knows the war is about to reach the point of decision and is summoning 11 his strength for a final defense and counter-offensive." This was the observation of the Ger man Emperor, recorded by Karl Rosner n the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger. and ap parently made on the eve of General Foch'i offensive. On Che same occasion Field Marshal von Hindenburg gave Rosner the following statement: "It is to be hoped the people at home are full of confidence. But they are not earned In patience. Over-haste is no good. Preparation is half the battle, and he .people must remember we are not working with machines that can be mashed as soon as the job is completed. We are working with the most sacred hlng we possess, namely, the blood and life of the German people. Our last eserves must be strong men who will return irom tne trenches to take ud the peace tasks. We must not be left t the end like smashed machines, but must be strong and unweakened." REPUBLICAN HEAD TO TALK Will H. Hays Slated to Address the -Nebraska State Convention. NEW YORK. July 26. Will H. Hays. chairman of the Republican national committee, announced tonight that he would leave here tomorrow for Lin coln, Neb., where next Tuesday he will address the Republican state conven tion. B0CHE DEATH LIST GROWS German Press Publishes Lists of Of ficers Killed on Front. GENEVA. July 26. The German newspapers have begun to publish long lists of officers killed and the names cover several columns.' Among them Is that of General Un- verssagt, attached to the staff of Gen eral von Boehm, on the Marne. front. SIAM TRAINS AVIATORS More Than 500 Airmen Ready for Service iu France. PARIS. July 26. More than 500 air plane pilots, members of the best fam ilies of Bangkok, have been trained in Siam and now are ready to come- to France to take up active service. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTER DA V 'Maximum temperature. degrees; minimum. 56 degrees. TODAVS Generally cloudy; gentle north. westerly winds. War. French bag 30 enemy airplanes In two weeks. Page 1. British repulsa German attacks. Psge S. Official casualty list. Psge 8. Great battle takea toll of American officers. Page 1. German War Office continues to claim vic tories. Paga 3. Germans face defeat or flight. Page 1. Battle climax may follow apparent lull. Page 4. Germans In salient bombarded by allies from all angles. Page 8. British cruiser Marmora reported sunk by U-boat, rage O. Crown Prince's reserves exhausted. Page 8. Kaiser says the hardest Job la still ahead. Pago 1. Speed of allied advance slackens. Psge 1. Foreign. Kaiser highly approves of Hearst. Pag 1. Czech hatred of Austria voiced in Relcha- rath. Page 2. Russian peasanta rise against Germans. Page 3. Big U. 8. fleet carries food to Swiss. Page 2. Strlkera must return to work or fight, says Premier Lloyd George. Page . Independence of Siberia proclaimed. Page 3. National. President denounces mob spirit and lynch- Ings. Page o. Triumphs in France speed training of U. 8. Army. J'aee 6. Domestic. gsn Francisco fair grounds may become ship yard site. Page a. Western llnlon indicted. Page 15 -William Bayard Hale disclosed as defender of Lusllanla sinking. Psge 15. Twenty-one New York men indicted for theft of Army beer. rB it. Pacific Northwest. Home breweries popular in Spokane. Page 4. Women ministers rejected by synod. Paga 7. Sports. Fast play In Oregon state tournament ex. pe.ced today. Page 1. Secretary Faker glv. s baseball players In draft as until September to find essen tial employment. Pago 14. Three shipbuilders" games to bo played to morrow. Page 14. Fulton and Dempsey meet tonight- Pago 14. Commercial and Marine. Westbound freight rate on oats and corn to be reduced. Pago l. Talk of hot winds sends corn prices up at Chicago. rage in. Stork market opens weak and closes firm rage 10. Loral steel works to fit out Standlfer vea- sels. I-sge Jo. ror'land and Vicinity. Will G. Mac Rao will meet relatives of Ore gon men In France. Page 1. Loral police alert, saya slacker. Page 11. Rooms needed to house G. A. R. delegates. Page 12. Call for artillery officers will be met by v. of O. training camp. Page IS. Chairman of Public Service Commission challenges Railroad Administration. Page a. Traffic ornciai inn council in confer on transportation proDiem .Monday. Page S. Sale of forget-me-nots succesa throughout elate. Page IS. News of tragic death of Major William R. King reaches Portland. Page 12. One-delivery system proves troublesome problem for local merchants. Page 15, Finding of dynamite cap and fuse may ex plain mill blase. Paga 16. Weather report, data and . jrecasL Tag 1. Relatives and Friends May Question Him. THIRD OREGON BROKEN UP Regiment Is Made Replace ment Organization. RECEPTION TO BE MONDAY Verbal Messages From Soldiers Will Be Delivered and Details of Their Lives and Experi ences Related. WILL C. MAC RAE TO MEET RELATIVES OF OREGON MEN IX FRANCE. Will G. Mac Rae, correspondent of The Oregonian, who has been In Franc, and In constant touch with the Oregon troops for six months. .ill meet relatives and friends of the men Monday at room 809, The Oregonian build ing. Hours for the reception have been set as follows: From 9 A. M. to 12 noon: from 3 to 5:30 P. M. and from 8 to 10:30 P. M. (Take the elevators, to the eighth floor). Mr. Mac Rae hr-s a note book filled with messages from the Oregon soldiers to their friends and relatives In Oregon. He also has hundreds of verbal messages, as his association during the last four months has been largely with the Oregon men. Mr. Mac Rae has already talked - to thousands of relatives In Spo kane and Seattle, and in other cities through which he has passed on Ms way back to Port land. He Is preparing to return to France In a few months and will carry verbal messages back to the "boys." The reception Monday Is open to all who have ties across the Atlantic He has an intimate message for hundreds of anxious mothers and fathers. He also will exhibit the gas masks and other equipment used in the American forces. BT WILL. G. MAC RAE. It is good to be back in Portland. It is better to have been In France, and for the last six months to have been in. if not daily, weekly touch with most of the men of the 162d Infantry, the old Third Oregon of blessed mem ory. It is infinitely better to be back in Portland and to meet relatives and friends of the men over there, as I shall beginning Monday morning, from 9 o'clock until 12. from 2 o'clock until 6 P. M.. and from 8 until 10 P. M. In room 809 on the eighth floor of The Oregonian building. It will be best to meet the anxious parents, sisters and brothers, friends, yes. and last, although not the least, the sweethearts of the Oregon soldiers men from Oregon who right now are busy putting the Hun on the hop. Already I have been besieged by anxious ones. Telephones are beastly things when one is tired as I am. There are mothers in Spokane, which is to be. my future home until I complete my hoped-for arrangements to return to France, and I have been talking to many of them. Just the same, getting back to tiie statement about tele- . phones. I never before reayxed the lan guage of the hello machine was one of the best rest cures ever discovered. Even though dead tired I find the grateful thanks I have received is the best tonic for that tired feeling. Koeue Tklsgs Csnsot Be Written. Fathers and mothers, next of kin, relatives and friends must not expect written messages from their soldiers. I can tell you what our soldier men did the eix months they were In training in France. I can tell what they were doing when I last saw them. In a general way, I can tell what the whole A. E. F. has been doing and how well it Is doing that something. To you mothers and fathers I caa say with all truth that your men are going through the fires of hell. But you may be assured all those that re turn to you will emerge purified and splendidly tempered. They will be clear visioned. clean souled and have the greatest gift God can give. When you mothers and fathers and sweethearts come to the office don't stand on the ceremony of Introducing yourself. Walk right In and ask ques tions the more the better. I may not have everything In the notebook I have with me. If I haven't your address In my book I know something about the person who left home a boy and is now a man. full grown mentally if not physically. There are lots of intimate things to be told that the soldier, be ing. always a good soldier, could not tell you In his letters home. There are many things a soldier may not tell even his relatives: there are many others he will not tell or even admit to himself, because if there Is anything a soldier does not do, that is boast of his (Continued on Psge 4, Column 3.) V