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VOL. LVIII. XO. 18,0GS. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IK 10 PARLEY RETREATING TEUTONS TRAPPED IN HOLLAND FIFTEEN- THOUSAND GERMANS CCT OFF, INTERNED. LOOT-LADEM HUNS 25,000,000 BELIEVED TO BE BOND BUYERS STATE LOAN QUOTA OVERSUBSCRIBED CAR LEAPS TRACKS . ON BRIDGE INCLINE TWO PASSENGERS ARE INJCRED LEAVE RUIN BEHIND DEFINITE FIGURES NOT AVAIL ABLE POR SOME TIME. AND AUTO WRECKED. INDUS Hssiy on Latest Reply to Wilson Reported on Way. E E Evacuation ' of Belgium Will Take Months, Is Said to Be One Clause. CHARGES OF CRUELTY DENIED All Submarines Have Been Or dered to Return to Bases, Says Madrid Dispatch. LONDON, Oct 20. According to unofficial reports reaching Amster dam the German reply to President Wilson was delivered to the Swiss Minister in Berlin Saturday evening, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. In the note Germany consents to the evacuation of Belgium, but considers that such a withdrawal will take sev eral months' time. U-Boat Use Defended. Germany protests against the charges of cruelty in the President's note and says sha was forced into sub marine warfare by the allied blockade, The German government, it is added, denies responsibility for the loss of x.omen and children on torpedoed pas senger ships, but to advance peace Germany is prepared provisionally to stop unrestricted submarine warfare. Right to "Meddle" Disputed. Finally, the note disputes the right of foreign powers to meddle with Ger man internal affairs and declares Ger many should enjoy the same right of elf determination as other nations. PARIS, Oct. 20. The German re ply to President Wilson will announce an immediate suspension of submarine warfare and will offer political guar antees, German newspapers say, ac cording to a Genevi. dispatch to Lin formation. The German papers de clare that the new note will abandon the proposal for a mixed commission to discuss conditions of an armistice "which the American and German high commands will arrange on the btttlefield." Break in Negotiations Reported. Berlin financial circles are said to be disturbed over a report that nego tiations have been broken off. LONDON, Oct 20. (11:17 P. M.) Official quarters in London were still without news of the German reply to President Wilson late tonight The view here is that in the event that the reply is unacceptable to the entente powers Austria and Turkey will arrange a joint conference for the purpose of taking independent peace action. WASHINGTON, Oct 20. So many conflicting reports about a German reply to President Wilson have come out of Holland and Switzerland during the ;ast few days that officials here are disposed now to believe nothing on the subject until the text of the note is received. Every version of the probable na ture of the reply under consideration, if not adopted, indicates that the Ger mans -are preparing to come forward with what they, at least will, expect the world to believe is a long step to ward meeting conditions which Presi dent Wilson has said must be met be fore there can be thought of an armis tice or discussion of peace. Attempt at Controversy Feared. Whatever may be the substance of the note, it is believed here its form will be designed to make it difficult for President Wilson to avoid further exchanges. According to one of the reports to--y the Germans will agree to evacu ate Belgium and to abandon provision ally unrestricted submarine warfare, but will dispute the right of foreign powers to meddle with German in ternal affairs. Another 6ays the offer will include immediate suspension of submarine warfare, political guaran tees and an armistice which "the American and German high commands will arrange on the battlefield.' Talk to Be Avoided. A dispatch from Madrid saying the Spanish government had been in- (Concluded on Fag 2, Column 1.) Belgians Moving North From Eecloo Halt Homeward' Movement of Big Hon Contingent. LONDON, Oct. 20. Fifteen thousand retreating- German soldiers have been Interned in Holland after being; cut off by Z -lg-ian troops moving- northward from Eecloo, according- to reports from the rontier reaching Amsterdam and transmitted by the. Exchange Tele graph Company. Belgian soldiers took charge of the Dutch-Belgian border last night and were received enthusiastically by the populace. MUSIC LURES SEALS TO DIE Puget Sound Hunter Makes Novel Use of Phonograph. SEATTLE. Oct. 20. Phonograph music lured scores of destructive hair seals of the lower'Puget Sound to their deaths last Summer, according to Ed Corfee, who spent several months at Useless, Mutiny and Cultus Bays, south of here, killing seals that prey upon salmon. Corfee is a hunter employed by the Washington Fish and Game Commission. A phonograph and a rifle were the principal items in Corfee's outfit. Ac cording to his statement the seals came out of the water to listen to the music Whenever a seal put his head above the surface Corfee's rifle spoke and the seal dropped. Each seal is said to be able to destroy $1000 worth of salm on a year. APPLICATIONS TO BE HERE Commission Seekers Must Not Write or Go to Washington. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash lngton, Oct. 20. Hereafter all residents of Oregon. Washington and Idaho de- sfMng commissions in the quarter master, ordnance, sanitary, engineer, military intelligence, motor transport. construction, aircraft production, aero nautic, chemical warfare or Adjutant General's departments of the military, must make their applications to the Military Training Camps Association in the Corbett building, Portland, the chief of which will make announcement from time to time of the services in which men are needed. , Applications may be filed in advance. In no case, says the announcement made public today, should the applicant come or write to Washington. DANES COVET SCHLESWIG Xote Suggests to Huns That People of Dukedom 'rake Choice. AMSTERDAM. Oct. 20. Denmark. according to news telegrams to the Dutch press, has sent a note to Ger many suggesting that certain terms of the treaties executed between the two countries in . the period from 1860 to 1870 should be carried out. The Vaderland points out that article 5 of the treaty of 1864, which cedes the dukedoms of Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg to Prussia, provided "for a plebiscite in Schleswig to decide whether the inhabitants would prefer allegiance to Germany or to Denmark. This provision, it is declared, never has been carried out. YANK VETERANS TO TEACH Foreign Officers at Training Camps Will Be Sent Home. NEW TORK. Oct. 20. Because many American officers incapacitated for service overseas are available aa in structors at American cantonments, preparations are under way to return to Europe all the French, British, Bel gian and Italian officers now in the United States who have been detailed for this service, according to announce. ment here tonight by members of the British and French missions. Fifty American officers have arrived here within the last two days. HUNS GIVE SHIP TO SPAIN German Consul Hands Over Steam er to Authorities at Bilbao. BILBAO, Spain, Oct. 19. The German Consul here has handed over to the Spanish authorities the German steamer Euriphia. The Spanish colors have I been hoisted on the vessel. The transfer of a German steamer to Spain probably Is in keeping with the recent agreement by which Spain is to get German ships interned in Spain in exchange for Spanish ships sunk by submarines. SPAIN HONORS PRESIDENT Wilson Is Unanimously Proclaimed Citizen of Barcelona. BARCELONA, Oct. 20. (By the Asso ciated Press.) President Wilson was unanimously proclaimed a citizen of Barcelona today. The honor was ac corded in recognition of his "great ef forts made in favor of world Justice." Several other cities in Spain intend similarly to honor him. SEIZED STEAMER IS SUNK Vessel Requisitioned by Spanish Gov ernment Is Torpedoed. MADRID, Oct. 20. The steamer Maria, which had been requisitioned by I the Spanish government, has been tor pedoed by a German submarine, the Epocha says. The steamer was used la I transporting phosphates to Spain. Foe Seems Bound for Own Frontier Defenses: COAST GUNS AT ANTWERP Forty Bridges Thrown Hastily Over Meuse River. RETREAT ROAD PREPARED Enemy Tells Civilians to Remain in Homes When Retirement Begins, and Then Shells Victims. WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. Oct. 20. (By the Associated Press.) Reliable infor mation received from the other side of the line indicates that the German re treat will carry tne enemy back many miles, if not all the way to Germany itself. Many prisoners captured on different parts of the line declare Bel gium and France are in process of evacuation. Guns from the Belgian coast are known to have reached Antwerp, but at the moment it is not certain whether they have gone beyond that city. Air material has been transferred from Ghent to Brussels. Detailed reports are coming In respecting several lines of German defenses, but none of these lines seem to be more than temporary. The principal line is reported to be along the Selxacte-Ghent canal and the Scheldt River. Mease Bridges Built. Forty bridges have been thrown across the Meuse in the neighborhood of Huy, southwest of Liege, and the source from which this information is derived says that these are in prepara tion for the retreat of the Germans behind their own frontier. The country from which the Germans are withdrawing offers striking proof of German brutality and destructiye ness. When they retired from a town the civilians were informed that they need have no fear of remaining there, as the town would not be shelled. On this promise many civilians remained, but the Germans dropped numerous shells into the place and several civilians, among them women, were wounded. This crime has been added to those already chalked up against . the Germans by the British army. Hdu Continue Destruction. Preliminary reconnaissances in. vast stretches of recaptured territory show that in addition to the destruction of military establishments, the Germans before departing demolished every fac tory and all mines. In many houses the Germans placed "booby" traps and infernal machines, which apparently were designed as much for civilians as for soldiers. The British armies have had pre vious experience with such appliances (Concluded on Page 2. Column 3.) I I . -? Ss-s f sKSSsK V r J. fOlA i ii rj - a ' s v y iriEWi m ' trz thj u vJi I i it& v w am. tit i : mm -- t I -s J W Da I I t " ! : ' t Officials Confident Over-Subscrip. tion Bronght About by Big Sums From Financial Interests. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Probably 25,000,000 or more Individuals bought bonds of the fourth liberty loan, un official reports reaching Washington today showed. A large proportion of these filed their subscriptions during the last few days of the campaign, which ended last night- Consequently, It will be a task of many days to count the number of pledges and to compile, reports- from the entire country. Definite figures and the total sub scriptions to the loan were not avail able here tonight. Local and district campaign managers, fatigued with their arduous work, rested today, and will not start until tomorrow to figure up the avalanche of last-minute pur chases. The only official figures in hand were of Friday night, showing about 51.400,000,000 yet to be fab scribed. Despite this total lack of definite information, officials were confident that the $6,000,000,000 popular war credit had been oversubscribed. This belief was based on indications that advance promises of large sums from financial interests In New York and elsewhere would be found to be ful filled when the final count Is made. LINEN IS NEEDED AT ONCE Imperative Call Goes Out for Sheets and Pillowcases for Use Here. One thousand sheets and 1500 pillow cases are needed immediately to supply the emergency .hospital in the Audi torium, according to Mrs. Ferdinand E. Reed, chairman of the Red Cross linen drive, last night. Owing to the number of cases now in the emergency hospital, the supply im mediately available for the hospital has been practically exhausted and a call for additional supplies was issued last night. The sheets and pillow cases should be left today at room 400 Oregonian build ing. ABDICATION ONLY SOLUTION Three Teuton Papers Express View, ,j Says Zurich' Dispatch. 7 "" LONDON, Oct. 20. The abdication of Emperor William and the Crown Prince is the only means of solving the "ter rible, crisis," according to opinions ex pressed by the Munich Post, the Swae- bische Tagwacht and Frankische Mor gen Post, an Exchange Telegraph dis patch from Zurich says. It is added that the more rapidly the abdication is brought about, the better for the country. BIG PLANE EFFICIENT ONE Machine Makes Speed Carrying; 1 Men and 5 Gnns. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 20. A big Handley-Page Army bombing plane on its way frqm New York to Dayton, O., arrived here yesterday. Carrying seven men "and five guns, the machine covered the 86 miles be tween Buffalo and Erie in 46 minutes. SOMETHING TO TAKE NOTICE OF. Oregon Apparently Over Top by $2,500,000. LAST DAY'S RETURNS LARGE Lagging Communities Sweep Ahead in Final Hours. PORTLAND SHOWING GOOD Indications Are That Oregon Me tropolis Has Exceeded Its As signed Amount by 91,500,000. Flattering returns which reached state leaders yesterday sent subscrip tion records of towns and counties of Oregon in the fourth liberty loan soar ing above allotments and brought from Robert E. Smith, state chairman, the assertion that every town and district seems over its goal. The state over subscription promises to be not less than $2,500,000. Half a dosen communities which had caused concern by lagging, skipped past their quotas at high speed in final hours of the drive. Of three counties not officially "over the top" Saturday night, two are now known to have exceeded apportionments by handsome margins. From Baker County alone was confirmation lacking that it had exceeded its quota. State leaders say it has, though they lacked the figures. TJmatllla Goes Over Top. Umatilla County, 1144,000 short of Its quota Saturday, yesterday reported 12,096,650 in pledges, or an oversub scription of $76,000. Clatsop County sent the state over subscription soaring by reporting a to tal of $1,500,000. This gives a clear gain of $360,000 for the state, as its previous subscription was but $14,000 over its goal. Klamath County, officially credited as just having attained the quota of $485,060, telegraphed "now $75,000 over and still coming In." "County is 120 per cent," came the message from'Coos County. This means a boost of $145,000 to the state aggre gate, as Coos was officially recorded as just having made its goal of $725,500. From Hood River came report of an oversubscription of $70,200, though all pledges of the campaign were volun tary. Many other communities put over their quotas through voluntary sub scriptions only. "Spruce Suadron here," states a tele gram from Warrenton, "75 members subscribed an additional $11,500, mak ing their total $18,500." This is another sidelight upon last day achievements, as General Brice P. Disque called upon the many thousand spruce worker of this state for en larged subscriptions. This plea alone may add from $500,000 to $1,000,000 to the state's total. No attempt at compilation of the late (Concluded on Fage 2, Column 2.) I Failure of Emergency Brakes to Work Is Said to Have Been Cause of Accident. Two persons were injured severely and two others shaken badly last night when a Williams-avenue car ran away or. the west approach to the Harriman bridge, left the trajk and crashed into an automobile parked on the northwest corner of Third and Glisan streets. The Injured are: Wesley Hemsworth, ,282 Margin etreet .whose ear was torn off, and who sustained lacerations about the face, head and hands; and J. D. Albright, the conductor, who sustained lacerations about the head, leg and fingers. The motorman and another passenger were thrown down when the car struck the automobile, but escaped serious injuries. The accident is said to have been due to the trolley coming off the wire. The emergency brakes would not 'work, it Is said, and the car ran down the in cline from the bridge at high speed. The automobile was wrecked by the collison, which telescoped the front end of.the streetcar. A driver for the Am bulance Service 'Company, on his way to answer a sick call, witnessed the accident, and took the injured to the Good Samaritan Hospital. Mr. Hemsworth works for the Oregon Auto Dispatch Company. Mr. Albright lives at 675 Junior etreet. There were only two passengers on the car. Another Williams-avenue streetcar jumped the track as it was taking the turn at Killingsworth and Union ave nue and crashed into a telephone pole, injuring Mrs. M. A. Swope, of 1115 Mal- Iory street, and Thomas Bathe, of 579 Saratoga street, passengers. They were bruised and received cuts about the face and hands from broken glass. Other passengers on the car were shak en up. The injured were taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital. It was reported that as the car was making the turn the brakes failed to hold and it left the rails. The front end of the car was smashed in and the varioifs windows broken, but the motorman escaped in jury. CHURCH NOT WORSHIPLESS Prayer Goes Tp Regardless of Tem poral Regulations. VANCOUVER, Waih., Oct 50 (Spe cial.) At II o'clock this morning the big bn of St. Luke's Episcopal Church pealed forth as usual; and Rev. Charles W. Holmes, rector, took his place in his pulpit and conducted services, his con gregation being his wife and daughter and a lone chaplain from Vancouver. Other ministers throughout the city also went to their pulpits and prayed for their members and the Nation in this time of stress. When the order closing the churches went out the ministers met and resolved that each should go to his pulpit Sun days and offer prayer. This they did last Sunday, and yesterday as welL the bell at St. Luke's Church giving the city notice of the hour. PEOPLE MAY WEAR MASKS San Francisco Moves to Prevent Spread of Influenza. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. The peo ple of San Francisco are to be ' re quested to wear gauze masks while at their employment downtown and while on the streets, it was decided late last night after a meeting of, state and local Boards of Health. The meeting was attended by Dr. i Woods Hutchinson, of New York. Missing Boat to Be Sought. MELBOURNE, Australia. Oct. 19. A government training boat has been sent to search for the boat which sailed under command of Captain Chuggs from Maiden Island late in July to se cure assistance for the crews of the Annie Larsen and John Murray, which I were marooned there. The men on Maiden Island have since been- rescued. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62 I TODAY'S Cloudy; probably showers; cooler; ueKrwi minimum. 01 decrees- uumwesLeny wmas. Peace Moves. German reply reported on way seeks to prolong- parley. Page 1. Senators approve President's note to Austria , Page 3. War. . Big German force trapped and interned In Holland. Page 1. Huns leave ruin In wake. Page 1. Huns dread allied lpvaslon. Page 2. American prowess admitted by captured Ger man document, page 2. Foe defense lines of immense strength. Page 4. Official casualty list. Page 5. German retreat in north Is dally growing more difficult. Page 8. Foch drives Huns onward. Page 1. Americans sweep German attackers back. Page 8. I Let cannon talk to Huns on Hun territory. says frencn uenerai. page o. Foreign. Germany stunned by reverses. Page. 3. Paris rejoices over setting free of French cities. Page 8. National. 25,000,000 believed to have bought fourth liberty bonds, page l. Sports. Camp Lewis beats Foundation team, 21 to 0. Page 10. Swimming events for 1919 awarded. Fage 11. Parlfie Northwest. Campaign for Supreme Court In 'Washing ton grows keen, page v. I Warden Murphy gives reason of extra ex penses ol penitentiary, page ix. Portland and Vicinity. I Oregon loan quota far oversubscribed. Page 1. Bond holders urged not to sell. Page 14. Lack f orders may close coast plants. Page 14. Influenza fatal to two more In Portland. Page 14. Car leaps rails on bridge Incline. Page 1 i Weather report, data and forecast. Page 1L Allied Armies Advance Along Broad Front. P TOWNS ARE CAPTURED Anglo-Belgian Forces Extend Gains Rapidly in Region Northeast of Courtrai. FRENCH PROGRESS IS VITAL Important Ground Won East of Vouzieres and Many Big Guns Are Seized. LONDON, Oct. 20. The Belgian advance continues. Cavafry closely following the enemy today captured several machine-gun nests, according to advices received tonight. Further north the Belgi&nB reached the Dutch frontier. To the south they reached a line more than 12 miles east of Bruges, capturing numerous villages. The material abandoned by the enemy is enormous. WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Oct. 20. (By the Associated Press, 5 P. M.) The British army continued its attack today in conjunction with the Bel gians to the north. The combined forces fought their way to the east of Staceghem and reached Vichte, lying" northeast of Courtrai, and are still pushing on rapidly. " '. The Anglo-Belgians are also north east of Deerlyck, .xlpruete and Stratte.' The Third Army had captured by early afternoon nearly a thousand prisoners. Hun Forces Endangered. While the Belgians, French and British were driving the Germans rapidly eastward toward Ghent, which is being approached both from the west and southwest, the British Third Army, attacking at 2 o'clock this morning, smashed its way eastward to the south of Valenciennes. The suc cess of this operation, which this evening seems assured, means the turning of the Valenciennes line and endangers all the German forces northward to Flanders and southward to the Oise Canal, behind which the Germans have begun to retreat from other British forces and the Ameri cans. This thrust will upset the known German plan of trying to hold the' line east of the Scheldt, to which the enemy is retiring hastily from what once was the Lille salient. Ghent's Capture Near. Reports from the front in Flanders ' indicate that Ghent will soon be re covered. Already the allied guns are hammering the Germans on all sides; cyclist and cavalry patrols are sweep ing ahead of the' infantry, drawing closer and closer. The Germans were driven out of the northwest coast in Flanders much sooner than they expected, for cap tured orders showed that they intended to hold the line of Zeebrugge-Bruges-Thielt, but were unable to resist the terrific allied pressure. Thousands of civilians have been liberated by the Belgians and French and masses of booty fell into their hands. Huns Rush Defenses. It is considered quite possible that the Germans will try to make several . successive stands in Belgium, and one line of resistance undoubtedly will comprise. Antwerp, Brussels and Na mur, on which much work is being done. . At the same time it is worth noting that the Germans are laboring frantically in the preparation of a de-, fensive line on their own frontier, especially in the neighborhood of Aix La Chapelle and Liege. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Oct. 20. (Reuter's.) The First and Third British armies this morning joined battle with the Ger mans from northeast of Le Cateau to the Scheldt Canal. The weather was wet and the ground heavy and slip pery, but the attack started most favorably. The capture of Vred and Cattelet is confirmed. Douai Is Set Afire. Fires broke out afresh in Douai yes terday and the enemy has been bomb- (Conciuded on Page 2, Column 4.).