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Jf ftwisif jj VOL. LVIII. '0. 18,008. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANS FLEEIIIG II! WILD DISORDER GERMAN EMBASSY TO QUIT MOSCOW "OWING TO CONDITION'S" RE MOVAL IS ANNOUNCED. TANKS AMAZE WITH IMPUDENT DARING HEARST ACCUSED OF SUBMARINE SINKS 9 FISHING BOATS GOVERNMENT BARES hi mm HOW TOTAL 36,000 GREAT SPY SYSTEM Anarchist, I. W. W. and GERMANS DEADLY INCURSIONS MADE INTO ENEMY'S LINES. GERMAN U-BOAT OPERATES OFF NEW ENGLAND COAST. British Pushing On to Upper Somme. Pbkor, Four Hundred Miles Away, Is Proposed Destination of Teu ton Kaiser's Diplomats. CAVALRY CLOSE TO VESl Old Line Held by Germans Be fore Retreat to Hinden burg Line Crossed. ALLIES OCCUPY CHAULNES Cannon, Rifles and Machine Guns Hasten Flight of De moralized Legions. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 11. (By The As sociated Press.) The allied forces continued their victorious advance all along' the line last night and today, pushing in the general direction of the upper reaches of the Somme. They were smashing the stiff re sistance interposed by the rear guards of the retreating Germans, the bulk of whom, according to reports considered reliable, are fleeing in disorder. British Close to Nesle. British cavalry are reported this afternoon operating close to the town of Nesle. (Neslc is six miles south east of Chaulnes). Many hours ago the British, French and American troops had reached, roughly, the old line held by the Ger mans before their retirement to the Hindenburg line. - They have " now pushed beyond in many places. Goyencourt, two miles northwest of Roye, is reported to have fallen to British troops. Other British forces were on the front of Chaulnes-Hatten court and Villers-Les-Roye. The Germans are retiring gradually everywhere in the face of the fire from the British guns, rifles and ma chine gunft. Allies Push On to Bray. The Americans and British north of the Somme had further hard fighting and with fine spirit pushed on toward Bray. They have traversed the north ern spur east of Chipilly, and Etine- hem is as well as in their hands. Gressaire wood had long since been cleared of the enemy, the allied forces passing around the wood, which was reeking with gas from many pockets. Here both the British and Ameri cans were helped on their way by tanks. At one place a tank, contain ing 12 volunteers, rushed a strong enemy position. Scores of Germans were killed and seven officers and 200 men were captured. This permitted the infantry to get onto the line it was holding this morning. The Amer icans in the fighting of the past 24 hours have further casualties, prin cipally caused by machine gun bullets. But their casualties were no more than could be expected among troops constantly delivering attacks against the enemy, who here put up probably the stiffest resistance of any along the line. A considerable number of addi tional prisoners were taken here. Ten divisions of Prince Rupprecht's reserves have been identified in tha fighting. Many Prisoners Disheartened. Large groups of prisoners, hungry, thirsty and grimy and appearing thoroughly disheartened, continue to arrive at the collecting cages. Among the captured were five regimental commanders and ten battalion com manders. Late today strong enemy forces were concentrating east of Proyart and apparently were making prepara tions to oppose a determined resist ance. The German object probably is merely to cover the retreat of the large enemy forces. Enemy Rushing Eastward. Allied airplanes reported that long streams of enemy troops and trans ports were rushing eastward. The enemy bombers also have been busy and repeatedly were chased away by the British pursuit planes to prevent them from dropping bombs to hinder the advance of the troops. The Germans were reported to be retreating eastward past Peronne in the greatest disorder. Many were said to be without arms, apparently having discarded their weapons. COPENHAGEN. Aug. 11. Tha Ger man Embassy at Moscow will remove immediately to Pskov, owing- to condl Hons In Moscow, according to advices from Berlin today. Pskov Is 162 miles southwest of Pe trosrrad and aDDroxlmately 400 miles nearly direct west, of Moscow. Owinr to traffic conditions. It Is stated, the embassy will be compelled to travel by way of Petrograd. Helsing fors, Finland, and thence to Reval on the Esthonian coast and to its destina tion. DOORS IN EUGENE MARKED Mysterious HaDDenlngs In Marsn- field Are Duplicated. EUGENE. Aug-. 11. (Special.) Mys terious marks have been louna on door casings at homes lh all parts or the City of Eugene and so far all efforts to "determine their origin have been futile. The markings have been made with a lead pencil at a uniform heighth of about five and one-half feet from the floor. The mark la in the form of a letter "C. but has variations, such as a cross through the lower part of the latter or a dash under the latter. Sev eral persons in the city reported find ing these marks In different residence sections. Boys delivering newspapers were re quested to watch for the marks on their routes and they report finding them in all parts of the city. No one seems to be able to offer an explana tion of their presence. A similar occur rence has been reported from Marsh- field. Radicals Welded. GERMANS BACK OF BIG FLAN Federal Agents, With Chicago Police Run Plotters Down. LITERATURE IS SEIZED Twelve or More Persons Arrested and Records Are Being Investi gated by Immigration Agents, With Deportation In View. WAN HUNT STILL FUTILE Warden Murphy Returns Empty- Handed From Columbia County. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 11. (Special.) Although certain that Bennett Thomp son, escaped murderer is in coiumDia County in the vicinity of St. Helens, Warden Murphy returned today from that town empty-handed after a-search since Saturday. Deputy Sheriffs A. C. Skinner and R. S. Leabo, of Multnomah County, were with him. The Columbia County Sheriff and members of the State Police are watching the situation closely. Warden Murphy stated. Two people who know Thompson re ported to the warden they had seen him near SL Helens. He was dressed a gray coat and overalls and was wearing a cap, all clothing he had picked up after leaving the prison. While there was no sign of his being armed. Warden Murphy is morally cer tain he has obtained a gun somewhere and is working on that supposition. MALVY GOES INTO EXILE Banished French ex-Statesman presses Hope for Victory. Ex. PARIS, Aug. 11. Louis J. Malvy, ex iled former Minister of the Interior, left Paris last night for Irun, a town in Spain, near the French frontier. Be fore his departure he addressed a let ter to President Deschanel of the Chamber of Deputies protesting against the judgment of the higher court. He obeys the order of banishment. he says, at this grave hour, when the future of the country s at stake, to save the nation from being distracted by an agitation in his behalf. He calls upon all those who are with him in heart to give the best of themselves to the country's defense, for "the vic tory of France must remain first In our thoughts." Concluded on Page 2, Column 6.) BADGES FOR WAR WORKERS Disc-Shaped Insignia to Be "Worn After September 1. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. American war workers after September 1 will wear disc-shaped badges slightly larger than a quarter with a red, white and blue enameled bar attached. The Department of Labor announced today that the design for the war Industries badge had been completed by Jo David son. of New York, and that the first of the medals would be ready for award on time. CANADIANS WILL GO, TOO Four Thousand Men to Be Part of Expedition to Siberia. OTTAWA, Aug. 11. Canada will be represented by a military unit of ap proximately 4000 men in the expedi tionary force which the allied govern ments will send to Siberia. This was announced here tonight by the Dominion government, which prom ised a more detailed statement within a short time. ALLIED CONSULS RELEASED Sweden's Representatives Free Brit ish and French Officials. PARIS, Aug. 11. A dispatch received here from Stockholm says that as a result of the efforts of Sweden's repre sentatives in Moscow, the British and French Consuls who were recently ar rested by order of the Bolshevik!, have been released. CHICAGO. Aug. 11. (Special.) Posi tive evidence that the far-reaching German spy system has gathered to itself anarchist. I. W. W. and other in ternational radical organizations in America and has welded them Into one great anti-war propaganda machine is declared to be in the hands of the Fed eral Government. Disclosures that Federal agents. In conjunction with the Chicago police, have unearthed at least three different angles of anarchistic activity, each ap parently having a close connection with German agents, and believed to be largely financed with German funds, came today with the announcement that the plant of an aranchist newspa per at S18 South Morgan street had been raided and Frank and Nicholas Carnavalis, brothers, of the late Dan Wallace's group of conscientious objec tors, arrested. Much Literature Seised. Detectives who conducted the raid and made the arrests are said to have seized a big supply of literature and important correspondence which sheds further light upon the personnel of the men who are guiding the alien enemy propaganda work, and indicates new lines of UaXiSunlfJaatiens. - It was learned that at least a dozen other persons who have been arrested, and whose records are being investi gated by immigration agents, with a view to deportation, are accused of be ing actively engaged in one or more of the German anarchistic propaganda branches, which include: The Anarchist Red CroBS. The Milwaukee Defense League The International Propaganda Group of Anarchists. It was stated that besides the men and women who have been arrested and questioned by the Federal authorities at least 25 other persons in Chicago are now under the close surveillance of Government agents. Quiet Raids Made. In a number of quiet raids that have been engineered by the police and Fed eral officers, great quantities of liter ature all of an anti-war and anarchis tic character have been seized. Cor respondence between various radical German Officers Surprised at Their Meals by Advance of Allied . War Machines. Copyrighted, 1018.. by the Press Publishing Comoanv Th New York Woriaj. fua- lished by Arrangement. LONDON, Aug. 11. (Special.) Beach Thomas, in a dispatch to the Daily Mail describing the allies' attack, says: "Abundant evidence is found at all centers of the amazing impudence and skill of tank crews. One large park of motor lorries coming up with supplies met the advancing tanks. Four mount ed German officers, who could not be lieve their own eyes, rode forward to interrogate these poachers and were shot. The tanks then proceadrd to deal with the transport, which began by up setting itself In a vain effort to wheel and fly.' "In the direction of Perronne, far be yond our advanced posts, the cavalry and tanks captured part of a Red Cross train and burned another train meant for troops. In the same village Fram- vllers they charged down a street, hootlna- through the windows at offi cers sitting down to their meals. "The alarm produced by this dash of tanks was Buch that soldiers and trans ports fled belter skelter back in the di rection of Nestle. 'Miles farther back bridges were seen to be jammed with troops and a state of general confusion such as exerted every energy of their staffs existed." BANDITS KILL 66 ON TRAIN Military Pursue Mexican Outlaw South of Chihuahua. EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 11. Twenty- six passengers and 40 soldiers of the train guard of 60 on a northbound Mexican Central train were killed and 70 soldiers and civilians wounded at Consuelo, Chihuahua, 50 miles eouth of Chihuahua City, Mexico, at 2 P. M-, Saturday, by bandits who were under command of Martin Lopez. The pas sengers left alive and the bodies of the dead were stripped of their clothing and valuables. A military train carrying a strong force of soldiers was rushed to tne scene and pursuit of the bandits begun. AMERICANS DO GOOD WORK Clilcagoans Clear Up Awkward Tri angle for Allied Advance. LONDON, Aug. 11. Reuter's corres pondent at British headquarters de scribed the Anglo-Americans' opera tions that cleared up the awkward Chipilly triangle as a remarkable feat. 'The Americans were chiefly from Chicago," the correspondent says. "They made over 500 prisoners and opened the road to the further advance that as been made." rk r pi.., -r . v . . ... rni r l i wpon is urren out at visits ot coia rasna Nantucket by Naval Scout D I A:J..: Vessel. DdltJU ill AlllUdVll. NANTUCKET. Mass., Aug. 11. Nine fishing schooner were sunk off THREE MEETINGS MSRI flSEIl Gaor6'8 Ban tod y in here tonight reported The scout boat picked up word of the raid from the auxiliary fishing schoon er ieien Murley, which had rescued four survivors and was taking them to port. Georges Banks are 60 miles off this island. One Thousand Officers Included in List. Publisher Said to Have Enter tained Von Bernstorff. Accused Denies Claims of New York Attorney-General and Challenges Official to Produce Facts, Meetings Are Admitted. COSTUME PARTY RECALLED th. TXtl.1?:' fishing schooners off the Massachu setts coast, a German submarine today sank nine vessels of the fleet, the Navy Department announced. The schooners sunk Include the Kate Palm er, Araita May, Reliance, Starbuck and the Progress. The names of the other four ships were not contained in Navy Department dispatches. Four survivors from the crew of the Kate Palmer were picked up by the fishing schooner Helen Murley and have reached port in safety. No in formation had been obtained by the Navy Department tonight as to the fate of the crews of the other schooners. After the crew of the Kate Palmer had been taken aboard the submarine and held prisoner for one hour, they were set adrift in a small boat. (Concluded on Page 4, Column 1.) UMP FROM PLANE DARING Machine Travels 90 Miles an Hour When Parachute Is Released. FORT WORTH, Tex.. Aug. 11. Lieu tenant James H. Dale, of St. Louis, jumped from an airplane traveling 90 miles an hour at an altitude of 3000 feet with a parachute and landed with out injury. NEW YORK, Aug. 11. Merton E. Lewis, State Attorney-General, de clared in a statement tonight that he could show by a series of affidavits that William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper publisher, had received at his home at the same time, on two or more occasions, Boio Pasha, who was recently executed by France for trea son, and Count Von Bernstorff, the for mer German Ambassador. Moreover, Mr. Lewis asserted that he was "prepared to show by many affi davits that Count Von Bernstorff was a frequent visitor at the Hearst home at about the time of Bolo's visit to New York in the Spring of 1916, when Bolo obtained 11,683,000 from Von Bernstorff with which to carry on the same German peace propaganda in France that Hearst was then conduct ing in America." Three Meetings Disclosed. Mr. Lewis declared that it had been shown "by the testimony of Heart's Paris correspondent, Bertelli, given on the trial of Bolo for treason, that. In stead of Hearst meeting Bolo only once, he met him three times." v These meetings, according to Mr. Lewis, occurred . when "Hearst enter talned. Bolo at luncheon; Bolo enter tained Hearst at the Sherry dinner, and Hearst entertained Bolo at a theater party and supper." Included in the statement were cop ies of nine affidavits regarding visits to the Hearst apartment house alleged to have been made by Bernstorff and Bolo. Some or these affidavits were made by chauffeurs, who said they had driven Bernstorff, Bolo, or both, to the Hearst home at 137 Riverside Drive, on one or more occasions while others n eluded those by the doorman, superin tendent and elevator boy at the apart ment house. Count Visits Heant Home. An affidavit by Harry Block, a for mer taxicab driver, now employed at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard, said that "on one and possibly two occasions I re member distinctly driving Count Von Bernstorff to No. 137 Riverside Drive in company with a stranger whose pho- AN ATLANTIC PORT. Aug. 11. The auxiliary fishing schooner Gleaner ar rived late tonight and reported an at tack by a submarine on four other fishing vessels off the southerly edge of George's Banks Saturday afternoon. Captain Edward A. Proctor, of the Gleaner, saw one two-masted schooner disappear, but was unable to say what became of the other three vessels. That same morning he said he heard gunfire, but it was so far away he could see nothing of the vessel doing the firing. NEWSPAPER DEAL IS BARED Negotiations for New York Publica tion Revealed by Accused. NEW YORK, Aug. 11. Oscar B. Col quitt, former Governor of Texas; Dr. Bernard Dernburg, German propagan dist; Bernard H. Rldder, editor of the New York Staats Zitung. and George Sylvester Viereck,- formerly editor of The Fatherland, conferred at one time on the purchase of a New York news paper. This information Deputy State At torney-General Becker announced to night he had obtained from Viereck during his investigation of his Ger man propaganda movement in this country. Mr." Becker said that Viereck told him several papers were considered. Viereck claims he did not know wheth er there was any connection between these conferences and the later pur chase of the New York Evening Mail by Edward A. Rumeley. 500 GUNS FALL TO ALLIES Noyon, Between Montdidier and Soissons, Appears to Be Pivot of Resistance. DESPERATE STAND COMING Bridges Across Somme Be tween Peronne and Ham Bombed and Destroyed. (Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.) LONG-RANGE GUN SILENT Bombardment of Paris Stops With Advance Toward Noyon. ACH! THOSE AMERICANS, THEY SPOIL EVERYTHING! f; JEW tiUlM.l.J-ii.iJ.in . 4 ' PARIS, Aug. 11. The long range cannon with which the Germans have lntermittenly bombarded Paris, has now been eilent for two days. This may be explained by the allied advance toward Noyon and Guiscard, whence the recent firing is said to have been proceeding. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 73 degrees: minimum, 58 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; gentle northwesterly winds. War. Germans fleeing in wild disorder on British front. Page 1. Teutons are unable to stem advance of vlc torious allied armies. Page 4. Defiant stand made by Germans to save all material possible. Page 4. German prisoners taken In big battle now total 38,000, Including . 1000 officers. Pago 1. Official war reports. Page 3. Teutons busy entrenching on Franco-Amer ican front on vesle River. Page 3. Official casualty list. Page 3. Submarine sinks fishing schooners. Page 1. American casualties now total 20,112. Page 3. Tanks amaze with Impudent daring. Page 1. America's power In field recognized by press. Page 2. Marines win fame on battlefield. Page 2. Colossal German plan twice foiled. Page 2. New battle west of Olse described by noted French General. Page 4. Forelg-n. German Embassy to quit Moscow. Page 1. BolsheTlkl regime in Russia is fast going to pieces. Page 8. Bolsherlki In peril, says Lenine. Page 8. National. ' Government bares gigantic German-spy plot In Chicago. Page 1. Domestic. Ship efficiency greatly improved. Page 5. Hearst accused of courting Germans. Page 1. Sports. Standifer wins from Cornfoot, 6 to 0. Page 9. Clark C. Griffith fund to provide athletic equipment for soldiers big success. Page . Portland and Vicinity. Pastors discuss challenge ot Dr. John H. Boyd. Page S. Rev. J. Whltcomb Brougher believes return of Christ will take place soon. Page 5. Brave men sought to man land battleships. rage T. Pro-Hun suspect arrested says he doesn't care who wins war. Page 7. Thousands of Civil War veterans will be In Portland next week. Page 12. Benson Polytechnic School turns out big class for U. S. service. Page 12. Oregon's 1919 apple crop promises to approx imate z.uuu.uuu Dusnels. rage 1J. Four hurt in afternoon fire. Page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Page .4. PARIS, Aug. 11. The number of prisoners taken so far in the allied offensive in Picardy is now estimated at 36,000, including more than 1,000 officers. More than 500 guns have been cap tured, according to the latest advices. The pivot of the German resistance appears to be the town of Noyon, mid way between Montdidier and Sois sons. The enemy is throwing in re serves from this base to prevent the allies from gaining control of the Noyon-Ham road, which is choked with material, guns and troops. Desperate Stand Expected. The Germans are expected to make a desperate stand on the Roye-Noyon line to permit the columns which are retreating in the direction of Nesle and Ham to reach safety. The resistance of the Germans is stiffening against the fourth British army under General Rawlinson. They are reacting violently in the region of Lihons, which changed hands twice during the night but which this morn ing was firmly held by the British. All Bridges Ronvbed. All bridges across the Somme be tween Peronne and Ham, a stretch of about 15 miles, have been destroyed by allied aviators. The Germans have been attempting to construct tem porary bridges. Allied airmen are now systematically bombing these. Among the prisoners taken are generals and colonels and eleven divis ions have been identified. PARIS, Aug. 11. Continued prog ress was made last night by the French on the right flank of the allied front on the entire line between the rivers Avre and Oise, the war office announced today. Big Advance Made By French French troops captured the entire Massif of Boulogne-La Grasse and penetrated to the east of Bus, 6Va miles east of Montdidier. Notwithstanding the resistance of the Germans, the French troops Sun day gained further ground between the Avre and the Oise rivers, taking several villages from the west and south of Roye to the Oise, according to the. official communication issued by the war office tonight. Wooded Area Penetrated. Further south on the line the French have penetrated the wooded area between the rivers Matz and Oise, reaching in this region the en virons of La Berliere and Gury. Moreuil-Lamotte has been captured and the French line has been pushed (Concluded on Page 2, Column 8. THE OREGONIAX FIRST WITH BIG NEWS AGAIN. The Oregonlan was first with Sunday's great news from the seat of war. An extra telling of the capture of Chaulnes. the Im portant key point in the Ger mans' southern line of the Somme battlefront, was on the streets of Portland at 8:45 Sunday morn ing. Thousands of copies were sold immediately and other thou sands of copies were bought eagerly by churchgoers when they appeared on their way to morning worship. The extra gave readers of The Oregonlan an entire page o to-the-minute news telling of the progress of the great allied of fensive, all of which had devel oped since regular morning edi tions had come off the presses. The matchless service of the As sociated Press, always first with momentous news, enabled The Oregonlan, with its supplemental special dispatches, to render this service to its readers. if The ot up- J r