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PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, ' SEPTEMBER 9, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
YANKS PIERCE HUN
LINES IN ALSACE
LAD DROWNS IN SURF
AT CANNON BEACH
CANADIANS BRAVE
FIERCE BQGHE FIRE
4 MILITARY POLICE
ARE HURT IN WRECK
SUCCESSFUL RAID FOLLOWS
HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE.
BOAT CARRIED OCT OF EXE
CREEK INTO BREAKERS.-
PRIVATE LAMB'S RIBS BROKEN
PEXETRATIXG LOGS.
BRITISH II BACK
OLD DEFEHSE II
35 KILLED WHEN
TRANSPORT IS HIT
Senator J. H. Lewis Es
capes to Shore.
HUN ARMY NOW 111
CRITICAL POSITION
Area Taken by Germans in
March Mostly Regained.
- ADVANCE 0F2 MILES MADE
Successes of French Troops
Continue Despite Stubborn
Resistance of Enemy,
MORE VILLAGES ARE TAKEN
Haig's Troops Take 19,000
Prisoners During First
Week of September.
LONDON, Sept 8. Advanced Brit
ish troops have entered their old de
fense system on the southern battle
line held prior to the German of
fensive last March, according to the
War Office announcement tonight.
Sharp Fightingt)ccurs.
The British have gained ' ground
along the Vermand-Epehy line. More
than 19,000 prisoners were taken by
the British in France in the first week
of September. The statement says
"On the southern portion of the bat
tle front our troops have now entered
the area of the defense systems con-
etructed by us prior to the German
March offensive. The enemy is offer
ing increased resistance among these
prepared defenses and sharp fighting
has taken place today at a number
of points.
More Ground Is Gained.
"Our advanced troops are proceed
ing forward and have gained ground
in the direction of Vermand, Hesbe
court and Epehy.
"Local hostile attacks were re
pulsed this morning south ot Ploeg-
steert and east of Wulverghem. On
the remainder of the British front
there is nothing of special interest to
report.
"The number of prisoners captured
by the British troops in France dur
ing the first week of September ex
ceeds 19,000."
The British troops advanced today
to a depth of two miles on a 20-mile
front and captured the town of Roisel,
about nine and one-half miles north
west of St. Quentin.
German Advance In AVoevre Region
Is Repulsed ; Captured American .
Frees Himself and Is Saved.
WITH THE AMERICAN AKMY IN
FRANCE. Sept. 7. (9 P. M. By the
Associated Press.) The American
troops in Alsace tocay penetrated
deeply into the German trenches and
inflicted severe ' casualties. The raid
was made after heavy artillery prepa
ration of 20 minutes.
The Germans attempted a raid in
force In the Woevre region, sending
over a contingent of 100 men at Flirey
and Limey, but they were driven off
after one had been killed and several
wounded. "
One American, who had been dragged
off a prisoner, later freed himself from
the enemy and returned to the Ameri
can line. At another point a patrol
had a lively skirmish with the enemy.
VESSEL WAS ON WAY HOME
PARIS, Sept. 8. The advance con
tinues along the entire front in the
direction of Cambrai, St. Quentin, La
Fere, Anizy-Le-Chateau and the Che
min Des Dames.
Huns May Make Stand.
Advices eay xhe French and the
British are meeting with stubborn re
sistance. This is taken as an indica
tion that the enemy intends to make
a stand along this line, which roughly
follows the Hindenburg entrenchments.
General Humbert's army continues
its pressure against Tergnier and La
Fere. The operations toward the en
circlement of St. Gobain forest are
giving the allies a strong position,
"If the enemy loses much more
ground in this region his defense of
the Chemin Des Dames and the pla
teau cf Craonne will fall," says Marcel
Hutin, editor of the Echo De Paris.
Supreme Test Forecast.
General Mangin's army is progress
ing on the Soissons plateau. Military
commentators say if Ludendorff plans
to resist on what remains of the Hind
enburg line it will be a supreme test,
and will mean the enemy's retirement
from the soil of France if he is not
able to retain his grasp.
LONDON, Sept. 8. Today's official
communication from Field Marshal
Haig says:
"By nightfall yesterday our troops
had taken Villeveque and St- Emilie
and had gained possession of the
greater part of the Havrincourt wood.
"Local fighting took place yester
day evening and during the night east
of Hermies and in the sector west of
Armentieres, but without material
change in the situation.
French Repulse Attacks.
"West of La Bassee our patrols
have made further progress in the
eLemy's position."
PARIS, Sept. 8. The text of the
French official statement for today
reads:
"North of the Oise the French
troops have captured the village of
iCoaciudsd ea f it 3, Column 2.J
SUGAR TO COST CENT MORE
Advance to Take Place After Pntsent
Stocks Are All Gone.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Consumers
will pay at least 1 cent a pound more
for sugar after the present stocks in
the country are exhausted, under the
new price of cane sugar at the sea
board announced by the sugar equalita
tion board with the approval of Presi
dent Wilson.
The new price is 9 cents f. o. b. sea
board refining points for granulated
less 2 per cent to refiners, compared
with the existing price of 794 cents,
with the same allowance for refiners.
Officials said today the increase to
the consumer should be about 1 cent a
pound.
Four Western Men Victims
Aboard Torpedoed Liner.
SHIP GETS BACK TO PORT
Explosion Fatal to Members ; of
Crew ; Mount Vernon Believed
Not Badly Damaged by
Hun Submarine.
CONGRESSMEN VISIT FRONT
American Mission Gnests of Italian
King at Dinner.
ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS,
Sept. 8. The American mission, com
posed of Congressmen Milton H. Well
ing and James H. Mays, of Utah; James
B. As well, of Louisiana: Alben W. Bark
ley, of Kentucky; Marvin Jones, of
Texas, and Charles H. Randall, of Cali
fornia, visited the front Friday and
was .enthusiastically greeted by the
American troops.
They were received by King Victor
Emmanuel, who entertained them, at
dinner and conversed most cordially
with them.
LANSING'S SISTERS CITED
'Devotion and Generosity" During
Enemy Air Raid Mentioned.
PARIS, Sept. 8. The citation accom
panying the French war cross awarded
to Katharine and Emma Lansing, sisters
of the American Secretary of State, on
August 27. says:
"In the last days of May, during a
critical period, they spontaneously gave
help to a French sanitary formation.
"With the greatest devotion and gen
erosity they also contributed by help
ing to place wounded on stretchers
during a bombardment by enemy airplanes."
DRAFTEE TAKES OWN LIFE
Body of Henry J. Arnhart Found
Suspended From Limb of Tree.
SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 8. The
body of Henry 5. Arnhart. a se
lective draft recruit, who arrived at
Camp Fremont, near here, several days
ago, from his home in Filer. Idaho, was
found today suspended from a rope tied
to the limb of a tree near the camp.
Arnhart, according to companions.
apparently had been depressed for
some time. He was 24 years old.
SITE DISPUTE IS SETTLED
Xcw Location for Oregon City Post'
office Selected.
OREG ONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Sept. 8. (Special.) The con
troversy over a proposed change of site
of the postoffice at Oregon City has
office Department to lease for a period
of 10 years a building owned by M. D.
Latourette on the east side of Main
street, between Fifth and Sixth streets,
been settled by a, decision of the Post-
The rental will be $1800 a year.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Thirty-five
members of the crew of the American
Army Transport Mount Vernon, for
merly the North German Lloyd liner
Kronprinzessin Cecile, were killed by
the explosion of a torpedo which struck
the vessel last Tuesday" when she was
200 miles from the French coast, home
ward bound. The passengers included
Senator Lewis of Illinois, who was
among those safely landed after the
transport returned to a French port
under her own steam.
Vice Admiral Sims reported the tor
pedo struck on the starboard side,
flooding a fire room, but ho did not
state the extent of the damage. Navy
officials assume, since the vessel was
able to reach port under her own
power, she was not badly damaged.
The men killed were firemen, engine
men and water tenders. The names of
the Western men include:
F. Hancock, Renton, Wash.
H. C. Plew, Malage, Chelan County,
Wash.
M. Stally, address not in Navy De
partment records.
I. E. Tracy, Canyon City, Oregon.
Senator Lewis was returning home on
the transport after a visit to Great
Britain and France and the Western
front.
BONDS WORTH $800 STOLEN
Thief Passes Up Securities Valued
at $20,000,000.
SPOKANE Wash., Sept. 8. -Liberty
bonds and thrltt stamps totaling $800
n value were stolen from the safe in
the office of Turner Oliver, registrar
of the Federal Land Bank, here early
this morning. They were the property
of employes of the bank and their
friends. Securities valued at $20,000,000
in the vault were not molested.
The thief apparently was interrupted
at his work by the arrival at his office
of G. B. Ryan, a title examiner for the
bank, who met a young mart in the cor
ridor whom he supposed to be a fellow
employe and who greeted him with a
pleasant "good morning." When the
theft was discovered the man bad disappeared.
Harold Gumm, 9, Loses Life and
George Van Waters, 18, .Has
- Narrow Escape From Death.
Harold Gumm. 19, son of Mrs. S. E.
Gumm, 9 East Twenty-eighth street,
was drowned at 2 o'clock Saturday aft
ernoon, and George Van Waters. 18,
son of Rev. and Mrs. George B. Van
Waters, 780 Irving street, had a narrow
escape, when the boat in which they
were rowing" was carried into the
breakers from Elk Creek at Cannon
Beach. When the lads found the boat
beyond their control they deserted the
craft and endeavored to swim ashore.
in which undertaking the Van Waters
boy succeeded. Gumm was handicapped
by a pair of heavy boots, however, and
oould not win his struggle against the
undertow. ' -'
Young Van Waters made two heroic
attempts to save, his companion, and
would have succeeded, according to re
ports, had not an unusually heavy swell
torn them apart just as Gumm was be
ing drawn ashore. He was seixed by
the undertow, wrested from Van Wa
ters' grasp and carried to his death,
while the latter, too exhausted to make
further effort, became a help)ess wit
ness.
The body of Gumm was recovered by
Lloyd Stevens after two hours of
searching, and will be brought to Port
land by young Van Waters, who is ex
pected to arrive this morning.
Phone Wires Repaired
in Bullet Hail.
COLONEL'S LIFE IS "CHARMED"
INDIANS ALL AMERICANIZED
Picturesque Native Passes;
Travel in- Automobiles.
All
YAKIMA. Wash., Sept 8. (Special.)
Indians are no longer a picturesque
feature of the landscape. The North
west native no longer rides a cayuse,
but travels in an automobile, and his
garments are up-to-date store clothes.
The change has been especially no
ticeable in the last week owing to
arrival of numerous bands of Indians
from Oregon and Washington reserva
tions, for hop-picking. A large pro
portion of them have, come by auto
mobile and many of the cars are of
the more expensive makes.
MONSTER PEARS DISPLAYED
Hood River Fruit Generally Runs
to Large Sizes.
HOOD RIVER. Or., Sept. 8. (Spe
cial.) Growers are reporting phenome
nally large Bartlett pears this season.
Several orchardists have brought in
specimens of this variety, usually aver
aging about a quarter of a pound, that
weighed a pound. One or two monsters
have tipped trie scales at 20 ounees.
All varieties of fruit are running to
large sizes this season.
YANKS DEMORALIZE ENEMY
Effect of Doughboys' Presence on
Italian Front Scares Austrians.
, ROME, Sept. 8. Premier Orlando in
receiving Salvatore Acotillo, a New
York State Senator, read a telegram
from Berne, describing the demoraliz
ing effect that the presence of Amer
can troops on the Italian front is hav
ing upon the minds of the Austrians.
Victory Snatched From What
Appeared Certain Defeat.
ALBERTA FORCE HITS HARD
Bombing Hun Trenches Reminds
Old Plainsman of Plugging Herd
of Buffalos in Saskatche
wan in the Early Days.
WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES IN
THE FIELD, Sept. 7. Canadian
Press.) A gallant story is told of two
signalers of a Manitoba field battery
which has fought since the battle of
the Ypres salient in 1916, through the
Somme, Vimy Ridge, Lens, Hill 70,
Passchendaele and the recent battles.
They are chums, one coming from Lon
don and the other from Winnipeg.
Just before the opening of an impor
tant operation they discovered the tele
phone was down between the battery
and headquarters. Although the enemy
was "strafing," they went to work to
find and repair the break. This done,
they discovered that other batteries on
the line were cut off, and they pro
ceeded to repair the whole line, just
getting into communication as "zero"
hour struck.
Colonel CoarireoDi One.
The Colonel of a Canadian-Scottish
battalion, when his unit was in an ex
ceedingly tight place last Monday, ow
ing to its flank being in the air for
lack of support, personally rallied it to
the assa.ult, leading his front rank by
a hundred yards in the charge against
the enemy machine gun positions and
thus snatching victory from what
seemed disastrous defeat.
"He bore a charmed life," remarked
one of his staff.
A Northern Alberta battalion, when
the whole left wing was held up by the
strong enemy position in the Jig-saw
wood, stormed the village of Pelves on
the Ecarpe River and thence bombed
its way up a communication trench to
the center of the main enemy trench
line. Dividing here, a company worked
to the left and another to the right,
bombing as they went, until the
trenches were cleared and the machine
position and the "whiz-bang" battery
was taken from the rear.
Plugging Buffalo Recalled.
This exposed the north flank of jig
saw wood and the enemy streamed
back out of it. As they went this
battalion poured in from the trenches
they had occupied a tremendous rifle
fire, augmented by the captured trench
mortars and machine guns.
"It was like plugging into a herd
of buffalo in the days before the rail
hit the north of Saskatchewan." saia
an old plainsman. "The Boche got out
of that wood quick, but mighty few
I got over the ridge."
Accident Occurs on Mountain Road
, While Going to Combat Forest
Fire in Scappoose Hills.
With broken ribs penetrating his
lungs, and with practically no hope
held out for his recovery. Private W. E.
Lamb, 61, a member of the Oregon
Military police, is lying at a farm
house in the mountains six miles north
west of North Plains, as a result of an
automobile accident that happened about
6:30 o'clock Saturday night while a de
tail of police was bei.ig hurried to com
bat a forest fire reported by the Wil
cox Lumber Company to be raging at
the head of Scappoose River.
Three other occupants of the auto
mobile, all members of the Second
Company, Oregon Military Police, were
injured, though not seriously. Private
Frank Motz, ribs were broken; Sergeant
Walter R. Calway and Private J. O.
Gerklng were bruised but no bones
were broken.
Private Lester Duvall, a member of
the First Company, who was driving the
machine, escaped without injury. The
accident occurred on the rough moun
tain road six miles northwest of North
Plains. The steering gear became de-j
fective and the auto was thrown into an
embankment and overturned.
Dr. F. M. Gellert, of Portland, and
Dr. Smith, of sHillsboro, hurried to the I
scene of the accident and found Pri
vate Lamb to be Buffering with internal
injuries that are expected to cause his
death. In case he survives until today
an effort will be made to bring him out
of the mountains on a litter, as physi
cians say he cannot be moved in an
auto, owing to the rough condition of
the roads.
private Lamb was formerly a Cap
tain in the Philippine constabulary. He
served in the Filipino campaign, was
with the Army during the occupation of
Cuba, saw service during the campaign
of the Boxer uprising and was with
General Pershing on the Mexican border.
Entire Allied Smash
Well Unified.
GREAT RETREAT IS POSSIBLE
Anniversary of Marne Battle
Finds French Winning.
GERMANS IN SEMI-ROUT
Call for Just Chastisement of Kaiser
and His People Is Rising in
England as 'Well as in
United States.
ROBBER KILLS HOTEL MAN
T. J. Roberts, Vancouver, B. C, Shot
When House Party Is Held Up.
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VANCOUVER, B. C. Sept. 8. Masked
and dressed in the costume of a movie
desperado, a robber entered a private
home at 1304 Jervis street, where seven
men eitner. were playing cards or
watching the game laet night, and In
the melee which followed his brusque
command to hand over valuables,
Thomas J. Roberts, a pioneer hotel-
man, was shot dead and Harry Eames,
a logger, was wounded seriously.
The desperado, after lining the re
maining players up against the wall
backed out of the house to a waiting
taxi and made his escape. The mur
derer has not yet been apprehended.
NINTH HUN WAR LOAN NEAR
Subscriptions to Be Solicited Sep
tember 2 to October 23.
AMSTERDAM. Sept. 8. The ninth
German war loan will be offered for
subscription from September 23 to Oc
tober 23, according to a dispatch from
Berlla.
The loan will be issued in the form
of 5 per cent bonds and 414 per cent re
deemable treasury bills. Both will be
ssued at 98.
GERMAN WARSHIP IS SUNK
One of Squadron Heels Over and
Goes Down Off Ameland Island.
AMSTERDAM. Sept. 8. One of a
squadron of German warships cruising
off the coast of the Island of Ameland
Friday evening ran on a mine or was
torpedoed, according to reports received
here.
The ship was seen suddenly to heel
over and disappear.
HERE'S WHERE WE HUMP OURSELVES TO FLAG THAT TRAIN.
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BY GENERAL J. G. M. MALLETERRE.
of the French Army.
(Copyright, 1018. by the Press Publishing
Company The New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
PARIS, Sept. 8. (Special.) The
French and allied armies celebrated the
anniversary of the battle of the Marne
in their own way. I believe the first
fortnight in September will be as por
tentous as was the battle fought four
years ago between Paris and Nancy, on
which depended the outcome of the
war.
The victory of the Marne remains the
capital fact of this war, The conflict
has continued with stirring and sur
prising vicissitudes and we've passed
through cruel trials. But France, by
overthrowing the German armies,
which, after one month's operations,
considered themselves definitely vic
torious, saved Europe and the world.
Marne Makes All Possible.
We know the United States didn't ig
nore this. It is because there was the
Marne that the Americans are now by
our side, and they will make the victory
a decisive one.
Indeed, the fact of victory becomes
incontestable. Who would have thought
three months ago. in those trying mo
ments when the Germans following an
-aecident of war were-again on the
Marne, the anniversary of the Marne
they would be in full retreat, that their
retreat would even degenerate into a
semi-rout? The word rout is not an
exaggerated word to use if we judge it
by the number of prisoners and the
quantity of material taken.
Ludendorff Badly Surprised.
If the German rearguards have put
up a stubborn resistance on both banks
of the Oise and between the Aisne
and the Oise in particular, we can but
be surprised, at the way they gave
in before the attacks of the British
armies north of the Somme. Ludendorff
must certainly have ' had a surprise
there which he hasn't yet overcome.
The British armies entered the bat
tle not only with extraordinary vio
lence, rapidly manifesting a big su
periority in the means of action, but
their attacks have succeeded each other
from the south to the north with a
logic and co-ordination which must
have given the German high command
to understand that they were con
ducted by a deliberate will which
henceforth would be obeyed. More
over, the German command must have
felt bitterly humiliated to learn that
John D. Ryan and Surgeon-General ! conslderabl5r weakened b nelr recent
reverses, had on the contrary benefited
- Gorgas Also in France. j by the lessons of war and had re-
I appeared more powerful than ever.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. The War I
Department today announced the ar- f
YANK AIRPLANE ESCAPES
Aviator Eludes 14 Enemy Machines
and Returns in Safety. .
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Saturday, Sept. 6. (By the
Associated Press.) An American ob
servation plane taking " photographs
was attacked today by 14 German
planes. Skillful maneuvering brought
the machine safely back into the Amer
ican lines.
The photographic mission was a par
tial success.
SECRETARY BAKER ACROSS
rival in France of Secretary Baker,
accompanied by an official party in
cluding John D. Byan, assistant secre
tary in charge of aircraft, and Major-
General- Gorgas, surgeon-general of
the Army.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 63
degrees; minimum. j7 degrees.
TODAY'S Unsettled; probably sbowers;
gentle westerly winds.
War.
American troops pierce German trenches
in Alsace. Page 1.
British win back old defense system on
southern line. Pago 1.
Thirty-five' killed when returning transport
is torpedoed. Page 1.
Taking of Olovyanna-Pensa railway by
Czecho-SIovaks is vital to cause of allies.
Page 2.
Intrepid signallers repair phone wires In
hall of boche bullets. Page 1.
German army in critical condition. Page 1.
Foreign.
Lieutenant Hitchcock. American aviator.
walks out of Germany at night. Page 2.
National.
New priority list of industries given out.
Page 4.
Sports.
St. Helens beats Foundation in first of
championship series. Page 8. .
World series to real me at Boston today.
Page S.
Waverley and Portland golf teams to play
for (Jlemson trophy. iage 8.
Pacific Northwest.
Hood River folks hear Billy Sunday. Page 4.
Methodist pastors in Columbia River dis
trict placed by bishop. . Page a
v Portland and Vicinity.
Four military police hirrt In auto wreck.
Page 1.
Rer. H. H. Griffls explains "Why We Do
Not Keep the Sabbath." Page 4.
Registration reminders 'numerous in Port
land. Page 5.
"Yellow Demon," famous auto, to make new
liberty loan history. Page 12.
Multnomah Guard Band to give picnic, con
cert and dance at Oaks Tuesday. Page 1.
Limited service men to be Inducted for
clerical service with draft boards. Page 5.
Boy drowns in surf at Cannon Beach.
Page 1.
New sugar ruling given out by Food Admin
istrator Ayer. Page 7.
Weather report, data and forecast. . Tist 5,
Slap Shovc-a Result.
Here are results. Look at the map.
The whole Hindenburg line, which
stretched from the region of Lille to
Soissons heights, through Lens, Queant,
St. Quentin and La Fere, on which Lu
dendorff no doubt hoped to rest and
realign his dislocated divisions, is to
day on the point of cracking.
The Queant hinge at the crossroads
to Doual and Cambrai is now free.
Lons is surrounded and virtually taken.
The Canal du Nord . has been crossed
along its whole course from Barallo to
the- west of Marquioun, to its junction
with the Somme. The English find
themselves in the positions from which
In 1917 they vainly tried to smash the
Hindenburg line. It will be remem
bered that they succeeded in doing so
with their tanks before Cambrai, but,
unfortunately, the attacl: wasn't fol
lowed up completely.
St, Quentin Now Threatened.
That part of the Hindenburg line be
tween Havrincourt wood and St. Quen
tin is threatened with capture from the
north. Debeney's and Humbert's French
armies, pushing forward in the south.
are once again past Ham. Tomorrow
they will once again be before St.
Quentin.
On the other side of the Oise Man
gin's army, nearing the outskirts of
St. Gobain forest, takes the western
portion of Chemin des Dames in the
rear. Owing to this army's advance
the Germans who had loitered on the
Vesle are now retreating ahd recross
ing the Aisne, closely followed by
French and American divisions.
All Logically Connected.
Everything therefore is logically con
nected in this battle, which Marshal
Foch is conducting in the French style.
Today it stretches on a front of 200
miles from Rheims to Ypres. It is car
ried out without truce or respite. That
is what gives it its. new characteristic.
One feels the superior, untiring will
behind it alL
There is every reason to believe
Ludendorff is taking his decimated and
badly shaken divisions to new lines in
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