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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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