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VOL. LVIII 7 NO. 18,033.
PORTLAND, OREGON,. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
RETREAT Oil WIDE
YANKS.SURROUNDED
BY RUNS, RESCUED
BRITOXS SAVE TJ. S. BOYS, WHO
FIGHT GRIMLY FOR 4 DAYS.
LILLE LOOTED BY
BOCHE III FLIGHT
LAGGARD CITY YET
RETARDING OREGON
ALLIES BEGIN THEIR
MARCH TO BERLIN
RECRUIT, 5 TIMES
FOE FLEES HUH
REJECTED.ATFRONT
191
II
PORTLAND'S DEFICIT TODAY
REDUCED TO $2,487,400.
IS
MOXTAXAX TAKES COOK JOB TO
GKT TO FRANCE.
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La Bassee Canal Region
Abandoned by Huns.
BRITISH IN CLOSE PURSUIT
Field Marshal Haig Reports
Retirement of Foe and
Capture of Prisoners.
CANADIANS PUSH FORWARD
Suburb of Neuville, St. Remy
and. High Ground West of
Ramillies Occupied.
LONDON, Oct. 2. The Germans
ere in retreat over a wide front north
and south of La Bassee Canal, with
the British closely following tuem, ac
cording to Field Marshal Haig's re
port from headquarters tonight.
The Germans have lost further
ground to the British in the outskirts
of Cambrai and northwest of that city,
but northeast of St. Quentin the Brit
ish, under a violent counter attack,
have been forced from the village of
Sequehart.
Strong Attacks Made.
The text of the communication fol
lows: "This morning the enemy attacked
strongly northeast of St. Quentin with
fresh troops from his reserves and
succeeded in pressing back our troops
from the village of Sequehart when
his progress stopped.
"Local fighting has taken place to
day north of Grevecourt (south of
Cambrai) and west of Cambrai, but
without material change in the situa
tion. As a result of their operations
yesterday and last night in the neigh
borhood of Cambrai, Canadian troops
now hold the suburb of Neuville St.
Kemy and the high ground west of
Ramillies.
Withdrawal Is Started. .
"Early this morning the enemy
commenced to withdraw on a wide
front couth and north of La Bassee
Canal. Our troops are following up
the withdrawal closely" and have taken
prisoners."
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Oct. 2. 3:00 P. M. (By j
the Associated Press.) The Austral
ians south of Cambrai, in hard fight
ing, gained considerable ground today,
but more important than the extent
of territory is the fact that they have
taken positions which would have been
of much importance to the Germans
for future operations.
Patrols have penetrated further into
burning Cambrai. Generally speaking,
the battle today has not been progress
ing with the same vigor as recently,
inevitable pauses here and there serv
ing to give the impression of a lack
of speed in the movement.
British Guns Thunder Steadily.
The artillery again has been moved
up all along the line and is hammer
ing away at the Boche rear in a con
tinuous roar.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, Oct. 2. (Reutcr's.) The
long, bitter battle is still raging, but
it has turned so definitely in favor .
the British that it is scarcely even
now premature to hail it as a great
victory.
To the north of the sector where the
chief tactical gain of yesterday T-.-.3
scored (in the region north of St,
Quentin), there was continuous and
desperate fighting. Again and again
the reserves of enemy storming troops
were flung into the counter attack and
the battle swayed with incredible fury.
Amid all this surging, however, our
troops were gradually shouldering for
ward. :
Weather Turns Bright.
This morning the sun was shining
nd everybody, even the tired troops
who went through the heavy gruelling
of yesterday, was cheerful.
The fighting was resumed tWs
morning with the enemy opposition
increasing as reinforcements appeared
in the line.
The improved weather brought out
the British airmen. They came and
went again and again, dropping more
than SO tons of "bomb- upon the spct3
which seemed likely best to repay such
attention.
The whole of the Hindenburg sys
tem below the Bellicourt tunnel is now
(Concluded on Fast 3. Column 1.)
Americans, Far In Advance of Iilne,
Hold On Against Big Odds, and
Foe Fajs Heavy Price.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, Oct. 2. (Reuter's.) The
contingent of Americans who had been
holding out since Sunday In a far ad
vanced position between Cambrai and
St. Quentin against greatly" superior
enemy numbers, have been rescued.
In our attacks around Vendhuile yes
terday we were able to fight through
and relieve this party, numbering some
hundreds, who, having taken up their
position Sunday night, were surrounded
by the Germans early Monday.
Notwithstanding that they were op
posed by such superior numbers and
only possessed the ammunition and
rations which they themselves were
carrying, the Americans made a mag
nificent resistance and the ground was
strewn with German dead.
LONDON, Thursday, Oct. 3. Describ
ing the rescue of a contingent of Amer
icans who for two aays, had been cut
rff from their comrades in an ad
vanced position between Cambrai and
St. Quentin, the Mail's correspondent at
British headquarters says It was one of
the most dramatic Incidents of the war.
The Americans rushed forward with
too high courage on Sunday, the corre
spondent writes, and became completely
and very deeply encircled. There they
remained until Tuesday, when a Brit
ish unit forced its way across the canal
and released them.
The American stand and the relief of
the party probably will become inci
dents famous In the annals of the war.
75,000 PAY LAST TRIBUTE
Body of Archbishop Ireland I -a id
Away in St. Paul Cemetery.
ST. PAUI Minn., Oct. 2. State, mu
nicipal, civic and industrial activities
In St. Paul and Minneapolis halted to
day when the body of Archbishop John
Ireland of the Roman Catholic Diocese
of St. Paul was borne. to a grave In
Calvary Cemetery.
The ceremony in the Archdiocese
Cathedral this afternoon and the
funeral procession at noon were con
sidered solemnly Impressive. Nearly
1000 Catholic clergymen participated
in the ceremony.
More than 76,000 persons - escorted
the body to a small green plot in Cal
vary Cemetery.
DIAZ NEARS PRESIDENCY
Panama General Speaks In Inaug
ural Address of Good Relations.
PANAMA, Tuesday, Oct. 1. General
Pedro A. Diaz was inaugurated as sec
ond vice-president today. In his in
augural address he spoke of the
friendly relations existing between
Panama and the United States.
General Diaz formerly was third
vice-president and is a step nearer the
presidency of the little Republic,
which has no navy or army. The
president serves four years and is not
eligible for the next term.
$728,208 THEFT ALLEGED
Bank Cashier and Two Assistants
Arrested at Santa Rosa, Cal.
SANTA ROSA, Cal.. Oct 2. Charged
with embezzling funds of the Santa
Rosa National Bank aggregating $728,-
208, Frank A. Brush, cashier, and Wil
Ham C. Grant and H. K. Loughery. as
sistant cashiers of the bank, were ar
rested here tonight.
James B. Holohan. United States
Marshal, made the arrests on warrants
issued in San Francisco by Thomas E.
Hayden. United States Commissioner.
Brush was released on 825,000 bonds
and Grant and Loughery on 810,000
each.
MAYOR PETITIONS WOMEN
Omaha, Fair Sex Asked to Stay Home
AH Day for Three Long Days.
OMAHA, Oct. 2. Mayor Smith fs
about to find out how much influence
a command of the Mayor has upon the
women of the city.
The Mayor is preparing a proclama
tion, asking all women, except those
working, to stay at home all day Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week, In order that liberty bond can
vassers may find them when they call.
TREVES RAILWAY BOMBED
British
Sprinkle Explosives
Oldest German City.
Xear
LONDON. Oct. 2. The Treves Rail
way was bombed by the British inde
pendent air force Tuesday, according
to an official statement issued tonight.
Treves is In the Rhine province of
Prussia and claims to be the oldest
town in the German empire. The rail
road, passing through Treves. runs
northeastward to Coblenz and Cologne
and southward to Metz and Strassburg.
ARABS TO BE RECOGNIZED
Allied Governments Agree to Take
Formal Action.
LONDON. Oct. 2. The allied govern
ments have decided formally to recog
nize the belligerent status of the Arab
ian forces fighting as auxiliaries with
the allies against the common enemy In
Palestine and Syria.
Evacuation of Big City
Is Hastily Begun.
TOWNSPEOPLE DRIVEN OUT
Booty-Laden Foe Is Forced
Toward German Border.
THOUROUT REPORTED WON
Anglo-Franco-Bclglan, Armies Surge
On In Flanders, Pressing Encir
clement of Boche aud Driving
Relentlessly for Coast.
PARIS, Oct. 2. (Havas.) The Matin
announces that the Germans are evacu
ating Lille and- that the commander
there has requisitioned all means of
transportation, even wheelbarrows and
baskets, to take away the booty. The
newspaper adds that the evacuation
or the townspeople to Belgian towns
near the German border is being pur
Bued hastily.
A dispatch from the Dutch border as
serts that the German Governor-General
in Belgium has given secret In
structions to the Governors of the prov
inces to send hastily all German
archives to Brussels.
Patlemce la Advised,
Allied aviators have flown over Brus
sels dropping thousands of pamphlets
telling the public to have a little more
patience, that their hour of liberation
is near.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMT IN
FRANCE, Oct. 2., 3:30 P. M. (By the
Associated . Press.) The Belgians and
British in tha North have made prog
ress in the direction of Thourout, and
reports have reached headquarters, but
as yet they are unconfirmed, that this
town actually has been reached.
Heavy mud resulting from the recent
rainy weather has somewhat slowed up
the movement, but in spite of the dif
ficulties, the Belgians and British have
pushed their way forward bit by bit.
The taking of Thourout would still
further Increase the menace to Ostend
PARIS. Oct. 2. (neuter's, via Mon
treal.) me allied enveloping move
ment against Turcolng. Roubaix and
Lille In Flanders is becoming accentu
ated, says a semi-official announcement
today.
The French army under General De
goute, now in the vicinity of Roulers,
was sent north from its old position
on the left of General Mangin.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FLANDERS, Oct. 2. (Reuter's.) The
British Second Army, co-operating with
the Belgians in the Flanders campaign,
continued today to press forward. In
the process of encircling Armentieres
it took the hamlet of Le Biset. close to
Armentieres on the north.
The Belgians today continued to
(Concluded on Pas 3. Column 3.)
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Onter-State Couutics Already Nearly
980,000 Over Quoin, but This
Will Not Help Multnomah.
LATEST nGlREt IV FOURTH
LIBERTY LOAN FOR
ORtSCON.
Official quota for all
Oregon :.. .833.708.130
Portland, and outer
. state, reported 31.300,671
Official balance yet to
be raised 2.407.4:9
Analysis of City mm State.
Official quota. Portland
and Multnomah Co 18.323.421
Reported from all
sources 15,836,021
Official balance yet to
be raised 3 2.487,400
Officially reported, outer-state
counties. .. .816,464,650
Official quota, outer
state counties 15.384,709
Oversubscription of out
er state 79,941
BT BEN UR LAMFMAN.
Portland's progress toward liberty
loan attainment greatly resembles that
of a fat old party running a marathon
In mud. With any amount of wheezing
and arm-waving, the laggard city still
retards Oregon from a place well to
the fore in the great American patriotic
free-for-all.
Last and latest returns from Liberty
Temple place the city's deficit this
morning at $2,487,400. with the allotted
quota of 318,323.421 perched at a dis
tance that nobody ventures to estimate.
Oae Determlaatloa Remalaa.
Just one vigorous determination re
mains to overshadow all else that
Portland must, pay as she is asked to.
and pay without assistance from outer
state counties, which have exceeded
their combined quotas.
The balance of the state, with the
exception of three counties. Jackson,
Marion and Umatilla, has more than
raised its share of the quota allotted
to It. showing an oversubscription of
$79,941 on the 315,384.709 quota, accord
Ing to the most recent returns received
by John L. Etherldge, state director of
organization. ,'
Iowa ta Congratulated.
Conceding that Iowa, the state which
Oregon distanced for first place In the
close contest of the third loan, had
beaten Oregon In the fourth drive.
State Manager Robert E. Smith yes
terday sent a message of congratula
tion to the Iowa campaign leaders.
"Sincere thanks for your kind words
of congratulation," ran the reply from
C. H. McNlder, director of tales for
Iowa. "We are deeply appreciative of
the spirit which prompted your wire.
We were expecting you to beat us to it.
We did our best and want to congratu
late you on your wonderful showing,
Best wishes and kindest regards.
Perusing this communication to the
closing word. General Guy W. Talbot,
of the Portland campaign, commented
In a manner strongly reminiscent of
certain statesmen who admit by nega
tion that the situation has them floored.
"I have nothing to say," observed
(Concluded on Page S, Column 1.)
DEAF IN BOTH EARS.
Road Long.but Advance
Speeding Up.
VICTORY PAST DEBATE STAGE
Military Expert Interprets Re
sults of Fighting.
GERMAN LINE DISAPPEARS
Kcccnt Ilrlgian-Britli!i Operations
Declared to Be' Most Interesting
Single Circumstance of
the Great War.
BY FRANK H. SIMONDS.
(Military Export of the New York Tribune.)
(Copyright. IMS. by the New York Tribune.)
NEW YORK. Oct. The march to
Berlin has begun. Cambrai. St. Quentin
and Lille are only the starling places.
but after four years no one can fail to
see that the grand march has started.
If the road Is long, the rate of our
advance Is Increasing. One of the dark
est nights In all human history is com
ing to a close. Victory Is no longer
even a matter of debate: from the
North Sea to the banks of the Moselle
the final advance is going forward.
The advance of the? Belgians and the
Second British Army is the most inter
esting single circumstance in the battle
of France.
Earlier Strategy Recalleel.
It is interesting both In its present
Importance and the light it casts on
the strategy of exactly four years ago.
Plumer and King Albert are now doing
what French aqd Foch strove to do in
October. 1914. ;
It will be recalled that four year
ago, when von Kluck had made good
his ground at the Aisne and the front
had stablized Itself from the Oise to
the Swiss frontier. Sir. John French
asked and -obtained permission to take
the British army to the north.
The army wsa moved up to a front
from Stomer to Bethune and began a
turning movement around Lille de
signed to drive the Germans out of this
great city.
Klrat Gm Wan Met.
In the course of this operation Sir
Dotiglaa. Halg reached Yprea and there
joined up with Sir Henry Rawllnson's
Seventh Corps. At the close of the
third week of October French attempt
ed to push east of Yprea down the
Menln road and seize the crossing of
the Lys River. While he was en
gaged in. this operation he encoun
tered the first waves of the Germans
coming south from Antwerp, which
had fallen.
Here was the beginning of the first
battle of Ypres. In the next few days
the allied offensive became an almost
despairing offensive. The British ex
peditionary army stood and died hold
ing the road to Calais, while the Bel-
(Concluded on Face 11. Coiumn 1.)
Ernrst Miller Hopes to Prove Such
an Awful Chef They Will
bend Him to Trenches.
CAMP LEWIS. Tacoma. Oct. 2.
Ernest C. Miller, according to officers
the most persistent recruit ever re
ceived In Camp Lewis." Is In France.
according to letters received here to
day. Miller came to Camp Lewis six times
in Montana draft contingents before he
finally wia accepted for service. Five
times he was returned home because of
physical disabilities.
He is an expert rifleman and had re
ceived high scores and many prises in
National competitions. When he ar
rived here the first time medical offi
cers discharged htm because of a gun
shot wound he had suffered.
Miller went home, but came back
here and said Montana State officials
had told his draft board to keep send
ing him until he was accepted in the
Army.
On his sixth trip to camp a medical
officer who knew of Miller's desire did
not turn him ba--:. but Millers' trou
bles were not over. His ur.l; was
ordered away from camp and the Mon
tana man was forced to undergo an
other physical, examination.
The man waa ordered discharged
again but, according to officers here,
he said he could not sign his discharge
papers. He told his commander that If
he could not go as a soldier he would
as a cook, and this he mas permitted
to do.
Officers who remained in camp after
Miller left and who are acquainted
with the case, quote the man as saying
before he left:
"When I get to France they are go
ing to learn I am an awful cook. They'll
have to fire me and then maybe I'll
get Into the trenches. They say it costs
$2000 to kill a German. If the Army
will put me up In some hole near the
German trenches I'll cut down this
average."
These officers, knowing his record.
believe he will. Miller la from Virginia
City, Mont. He is 27 years old.
MAN TAKES TOWN'S QUOTA
South Dakota Farmer of German
Descent Plunges on Loan.
TVAJtHINGTOX. Oct. I. "In a town In
Soujh Dakota," said a telegram from
Minneapolis to the Treasury Depart
ment today, reporting on the progress
of the fourth liberty loan, "a farmer
of German descent called on the local
committee and asked the amount of the
town's allotment.
'When he was advised that it was
112.000. he said:
'I have a boy In France and I Wish
to subscribe my town's entire allot
ment in order to prove to my boy that
am backing him up to the minute."
BULGAR ARMISTICE CHEERS
Americans In France Shout News at
Huns In Oppoins Lines.
AMERICAN HEAPQUARTKRS IN
FRANCE. Oct. 2. (Reuter.) News of
the Bulgarian armistice has been re
ceived with rejoicings by the troops.
who shouted it across to the enemy
lines, where the lines were near enough.
The change In weather to cold and
dry has made the roads again avail
able for traffic The enemy opposition
continues, but there are Indications
that the fighting Is of a covering char
acter and that he contemplates a with
drawal to a more distant line of de
fense.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
T ne Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60
derrees; minimum. 4 derrees.
TODAY'S Unsettled; probably showers;
southerly, winds.
War.
Hum retreat on wide front. Pare I.
Foe retreats In r.helms sec-tor. Fare I.
Yankees purrounded by Huns are rescued.
fare 1.
Berlin admits defeat. Pare 3.
Brltlah capture Damascus. Pare 12.
German rrip on northern France and Bel-
rmm definitely broken, rare B.
Official casualty list. Pare 7.
Yankees capture many cannon. Pare 4.
Military Expert Simonds aays victory of al
lies assured. Pare 1.
Lille's evacuation berun. Par 1.
Toreira. ,
Turkey seeks peace throurh financial chan
nels. Pare 3.
Oermany lootlnr Russia of sold. Par 2.
Slav statesman killed In political clash
Omsk. Par .
Austria shaken by Bulraria'a collapse.
Par -
National.
Sbipplnr Board enlarrea programme by 454
vessels, rase .
Spanish Influenza spreads among elvlliana
Pat
Allied centralised control plan in operation.
Pare O.
Old world despotism seems yleldlnr to peo
ple. Par s.
Domrstle.
Shoes to b cheaper. Par 12.
Sports.
Up-stat counties rive up pheasants. Par
14.
Kruvoaky shows clsss at Seattle, aays Sol
Levlnson. Pr 14.
Ice hockey assured. Pare 15.
Patfic North sj est.
Montana recruit, rive tlmea rejected, lands
In France. Par 1-
. Commercial and Marine,
Potato markets are sarrinr East and West.
Pare IS.
War slocks weak feature of Wall-street
market. Pare 19.
Corn depressed by bearish crop estimates
and war news. Pare lu.
West Side channel to b dredged for East
tlde till. Pake 19.
PortUad and Vicinity.
Portland, larrard city, still retarding Ore
son. Para 1-
8earrh of trains for bootleg liquor will con
tinue. Pare -O.
S. C. Pier In race for City Commissioner.
Psre a.
-Weather report, data and forecast. Pas IS,
Boche in Flight Along
Aisne Canal Front.
BERTHELOFS KEN 00 FAST
French' Now Hold All of St.
Quentin and Continue Ad
vance Toward East.
GOURAUD'S GAINS STEADY.
Forward Movement in Rheims
Area Puts Germans jr Ex
ceedingly Grave Pocket.
PARIS, Oct. 2. Many towns and
villages were carried today by the
French troops on the various fronts,
according to the War Office announce
ment tonight. Especial progress was
made north of the Vesle.
The statement says:
"The enemy has been ejected from
St, Quentin, which we completely oc
cupy. We hold Faubourg D'Isle.
"In the south we have advanced to
Itancourt and are holding Moy.
"North of the Vesle River we cap
tured Roucy, Guyencourt, Bouffig-
lnereux, lllers-r ranqueux and Cau-
foy and carried our lines to the border
outh of Cormicy and Loivre.
, Gain Made in Champagne.
, "Courcy (north of Rheims) is in our
power.
"In Champagne in the course of the "
afternoon we eased our positions
southwest of Orfeuil and gained a
footing on the heights south of Mont
hois." PARIS, Oct- 27 P. M. (By the
Associated Press.) General Berthe-
lot's army this afternoon reached the
Aisne Canal at several points. The
Germans are retreating all along this
front.
FRENCH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, Oct, 2. (Reuter's.) Tho
whole .of St. Quentin is now in the
hands of the French.
The French continue to advance
eastward. The City Hall of St. Quen
tin appears to be intact, but it is be
lieved to be mined.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Oct, 2. 2 P. M. (By the
Associated Prers.) General Berthe
lot's forces in the course of the night
and this morning completed their con
quests of St, Thierry massif, north
west of Rheims, occupying Poullion
and taking the fort of St, Thierry.
Fort Brimont Threatened.
The French now dominate the plain
to the east and threaten the German
positions all along the Aisne-Marne
Canal from Betheny to the north and
including the fort of Brimont, where
were posted the guns that accom
plished the greater part of the de
struction of Rheims.
The French lines were pushed
slightly northward toward Betheny.
The conquest of the important posi
tions around St, Thierry and the ad
vance of General Gouraud's men in
the region of St, Marie-A-Py, in the
Champagne, increases the gravity of
the situation for the German forces
holding the heights to the east of '
Rheims.
Further slight advances by both
Gouraud and Berthelot in those sec
tions will make of the Rheims salient
another pocket from which the Ger
mans will find an exit v-ith difficulty.
Canal Line Defended.
FighUrg continued during the night
in the suburbs of St. Quentin, The
Germans were trying '.o repair the
breach made there in the Hindenburg
line by organizing a defense of the
Crozat Canal, where they have massed
a great number of machine guns to
prevent the French troops from cross
ing. The Germans are expected to make
a desperate defense in that sector in
order to facilitate their retirement to
a secondary position behind the Hin
denburg line.
In the Champagne the enemy also
is redoubling his effort to hold off
General Gouraud's forces on the line
of Monthers-Orfeuil-Liry. The heights
here are cut by steep cliffs and deep
ravines, and, studded with clumps of
trees and thickets, furnish excellent
positions for defense. These positions
are being fiercely defended, the Ger
mans retiring only step by step and
ICuntludcd on Far 3, Column 5.)