VOL. LVIII. NO. 18,07G.
PORTLAND, OREGON, AVEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
YANKS BAIT HUN TRAP
WITH FOOD; 51 TAKEN
ALLIES WARNED TO
MANY LIVES LOST IN
sSberuSsIACE situation in
RIOTING AT BUDAPEST
'SOFT PEACE'
TERMS DRAFTED
BOCIIES LURED FROM TRENCH
MOB ATTACKS MILITARY GUARD
'WORLD REVOLUTION" CRY OF
UEBKXECHT FOLLOWERS.
BY GENEROUS AMERICANS.
AT ARCHDUKE'S CASTLE.
AUSTRIATJS HURLED
BACK FROM. PIAVE
MAIN
ARM ST CE
SHUN
AUSTRIA
COMPLEX
Allies Strike Hard Blow
. Along. Italian Front.
FOE'S RESISTANCE WEAKENS
Italians, Aided by French and
British, Sweep Eastward.
THOUSANDS ARE CAPTURED
Conegllano, Important Railway Cen
ter, Is Taken as Italians Con- -tinne
Victorious Progress.
WITH THE ITALIAN ARMY IX
NORTHERN ITALT. Oct. 19. (By the
Associated Press.) The towns of V
Dobbiadene and Conegliano, on the
eastern side of the Piave River In
Northern Italy, have been taken by
allied troops from the Austro-Hungar
iana.
The capture of Val Dobbiadene Is
considered Important in view of future
operations along the Piave front. A
bridgehead has been firmly established
there. When the 1500 prisoners reached
the river they fought eagerly to secure
places In the barges so as to cross and
eat a full meal. The first French bat
terles hare been taken across the
Piave.
LONDON. Oct. 29. The resistance of
the Austrians against the British In
the Italian theater appears to be weak
ening. according to an official com
munlcation issued tonight. The Brit,
ish Tenth Army continues its advance
east of the Piave River.
The text of the communication follows:
"The advance of our tenth army con
tinues according to plans. The enemy
resistance appears to be weakening
considerably. Early this morning the
enemy was holding the line of the
River Monticano with a number of ma
chine guns. British cavalry and lnfan
try forced a passage of this river north-
cwt of Vaxxola, making prisoners of
several hundred of the enemy. Xhe
rorto Buffole airdrome Is reported to
be in flames.
Eaeaiy Leaves Treaeaem.
"The British raided enemy trenches
opposite Aslago but found them unoc
cupied.
"The Italian forces from the Montello
are making good progress."
ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS.
Oct. 19. (Reuter's.) Conegliano. a
town five miles northeast of the left
bank of the river Piave. has been
captured by the allied forces.
The whole allied line between Coneg
llano, which . Is an important rail
way and road center, and Val Dob
biadende has been advanced.
ROME, Oct. 19. The battle begun on
the Piave River Sunday by Italian and
ailied troops is continuing victoriously,
Ibe War Office announced today.
ItaUaas Storm Heights.
Italian troops stormed the heights of
Val Dobbladende. They also carried
the heights of Oolfosto and entered
usegano. Numerous guns were cap
tured. French Infantry assaulted Mont
rionar and captured it.
Of the prisoners taken yesterday by
the allies, more than 4000 have reached
concentration camps and have been
counted.
The text of the statement reads:
"The battle begun on the Piave Sun
day Is continuing victoriously. In two
nays of glorious fighting on the heights
along the Treviso-Oderxa railway we
and our allies have taken possession of
the left bank of the river. The 12th
army baa taken the heights of Val
Dobbladende.
"French Infantry has taken in as
sault Mont rionar. The plain of Ser
nogll la In our possession. We have
carried the heights of Colfosco and
have entered Susegana. Advance
guards have pushed to the left of the
Monticono.
All PTtaoaera Not Coaatrd.
"Numerous aruLS have been captured.
Four thousand of the prisoners taken
yesterday have reached concentration
places. Others still are on the left
bank of the Piave.
"On the left bank of the Omle River
we have occupied the village of Alano
41 Piave, taking several hundred pris
oners. "Airplanes daringly carried supplies
to our advanced troops on the left bank
of the Piave."
The, official statement Issued at the
War Office Monday night reads:
The battle is In the course of full
development. On the front of the
Twelfth and Eighth armies. In spite
of very lively opposition, we have ex
tended our bridgehead. North of the
Ornio torrent we gained advantages.
"East of Grave dl Papadopolo the
enemy waa attacked with extreme vio
lence by the Fourteenth British Corps
and by the Tenth Italian Corps and
has yielded.
Villages Are Sex FWe.
"Our troops have broken through the
enemy's lines. liberated several vil
lages and entered San Lucia dl Piave
and VaxzolL They are at the gates
of Monticiano. We have captured
prisoners and guns, but the number has
not yet been determined.
"In Albania our troops are closely
Lendwehr Troops Protest Indig
nantly When They Are Detained
as Prisoners by United States.
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
NORTHWEST OF VERDUX. Sunday,
Oct. 27. (By the Associated Press.)
Americans now count among their
prisoners 51 members of the Second
German Landwehr, who are the most
sadly disillusioned men from the Ger
man Emperor's army. The men still
are convinced they were played a
shabby trick in being taken prisoner.
though they are quickly becoming rec
onclled to their lot by generous ra
tions of food and tobacco.
The Germans for several days had
been coming unarmed out of their
trenches, creeping forward to a point
midway between the two lines, where
they had been given bread and tobacco
by the Americans. Their donors, they
told an American Intelligence officer
today, wore crosses on their shoulders.
The other day when they came over
they were told that the next time each
man would receive five sacks of to
bacco Instead of one sack. The oppor
tunity was too good to be lost and, in
stead of groups of three, four and five,
as heretofore, 51 men came in a group
eager for the tobacco and food.
The Germans were hospitably re
ceived at the customary rendezvous,
split into small groups and invited to
come to another spot, where the dis
tribution would take place. That spot
proved ts be the Intelligence office of
the American division, where the
Landwehrs were informed they were
prisoners.
The Germans Indignantly demanded
to be sent back to their lines Imme
diately, together with their rations of
five sacks of tobacco and bread. For
a long time they could not be Induced
to say why they had been badly treated,
but they gradually came to renounce
their demand that they be returned.
especially when they saw the treat
ment accorded them and other prison
ers. The Landwehrs will receive their
extra rations as per promise.
Hard Terms Only Hope of
' Curing Boche Mania.
CAPITULATION IS SOLUTION
General Malleterre Says Foe
Must Realize Defeat.
GUARANTEES TO BE ASKED
French Writer Declares That
Huns Are Not Made to Suffer
They Will Think War Is Won.
if
THREE AVIATORS KILLED
Pennsylvania, Kansas and Califor
nia Boys Meet Unlimely Death.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 29. Cadets
Howard D. Burnett and Powell W. Wil
liams, of Barron Field, were killed to
day when their planes coll.ded in the
air. Williams is from Pippston, Pa.,
and Burnett- from Dodge City, Kan.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Oct. 29. Second
Lieutenant James Klnnear, an Army
aviator, was Instantly killed today
when the plane in which he was flying
fell at Rockwell Field, Now- I:!and.
His home was at Newman, Cal.
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Oct. 29.
Lieutenants Oliver P. Jackson, of Buf
falo, N. Y., and Andrew Sivley, of Ray
mond, Miss., were killed at Selfridge
Field today when their airplane crashed
to earth from a height of 1000 feet
The cause of the accident has not been
determined.
PRISONER REACHES FRANCE
American Flyer on Allied Ground
After Year in Germany.
TOURS, France, Sunday, Oct. 27.
(By the Associated Press.) Lieutenant
George Puryear, the first American
aviator to escape from Germany, ar
rived today at Tours, where he was re
ceived at the aviation headquarters.
Lieutenant Puryear last July brought
down a German plane and, thinking he
was over French territory, followed his
victim to the ground. He was sur
rounded and ordered to surrender and
then discovered he had landed inside
the German lines.
While in Germany, the Lieutenant
was an inmate of several prison camps.
HEAVY WINDD0ES DAMAGE
Rhododendron Summer Resort
Swept by Severe Gale.
ZIGZAG, Or., Oct. 29. (Special.)
The most terrific wind storm that ever
has been known in this part of the
country has swept over the Rhododen
dron Summer resort this week. The
storm lasted fully ten hours.
The few people who have stayed at
their cottages gathered at the hotel for
safety and remained there all night.
Fir trees, some of them four feet in
diameter, were snapped off like Jack
straws and several cottages were dam
aged. Telephone wires generally were
put out of commission. Cottonwood
trees of all aizes were razed.
BT GENERAL P. M. O. MALLETERRE.
Of the French army. (Copyright by th
Press Publishing Company, the New York
worm. Published by arrangement.)
PARIS, Oct. 29. (Special.) One may
discuss the form of President Wilson's
reply to the German Chancellor's peace
proposal, but the basis is very clear; it
is an ultimatum to Germany, and above
Germany to the Emperor.
For myself, speaking also for a num
ber of others who think as I do, the de
mand of the President Is for capitula
tion.
There must be no confusion. We must
make no distinction between an armiB-
tlce and capitulation. We must not
construe an armistice as a necessary
preliminary to peace. The- German
newspapers, which have had their in
structions from the Chancellor and the
high command, already show ambiguity
in the form of conciliatory comment.
The dialogue, they think, is to continue.
This is an error which should be
quickly corrected, especialy if it may
have crept into the opinion of the al
lied peoples. Already accomplices of
Germany in the allied countries, minor
ity Socialists, pacifists consciously and
unconsciously, and irreconcilable ad
versaries of the statesmen who have
been holding the wheel during the
storm, have come forward to help in
the maneuver to save the criminal em
pires.
Firm Attltade Necessary.
There must be no equivocation. It
is necessary to speak firmly and clearly
without delay. Armistice conditions
are to be conditions of capitulation.
There Bhould be no thought of discuss
ing peace conditions until Germany
shall have capitulated; that is to say,
until she shall have disarmed. The
whole question is in disarmament.
President Wilson's reply lends itself ad
mirably to this interpretation, for he
speaks of extraordinary guarantees, ab
solute safeguards and the unlimited
power on which the allies will insist,
so that the return of the Germans to
an offensive need no longer be feared.
Words have their meaning. From a
military point of view disarmament
means that there shall be no longer a
German imperial army capable of again
troubling the order of the European
world. ,
One may consider three steps for the
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Severe Fighting Follows, Soldiers
Using Machine Guns and Bayo
nets Fighting in Progress.
LONDON, Oct. 29. Serious rioting
took place at Budapest on Monday
evening, according to a Budapest dis.
patch to the Vossische Zeitung of Ber
lin, which is quoted in a Copenhagen
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company. Many lives are said to have
been lost.
A deputation was sent by the party
of Count Michael Karolyi to the castle
at Budapest to ask Archduke Josef to
appoint Karolyi Premier, it is said. A
great crowd followed the deputation
and attempted to break through the
military guard. Severe fighting fol
lowed, the soldiers using machine guns
and bayonets. A large number of peo
ple were killed and the fighting was
still in progress when the telegram
was . dispatched at 9 o'clock Monday
evening. The correspondent adds that
the republican movement is growing
and that a general labor revolt may
be expected at any moment.
WOMEN GET WAITERS' JOBS
Big New York Hotels Fill Places of
Strikers.
NEW TOIK, Oct. 29. The Hotel
Astor today began hiring women
waiters, following the strike called
yesterday by male waiters at the Mc-
Alpin, Waldorf-Astoria and Claridge
hotels.
This action was taken, it was said,
partly because It was feared the strike
would spread to the Astor and partly
to prepare for enforcement of the
"work or fight" edict in the case of
waiters.
Hundreds of young women hurried
to the McAlpin, Waldorf-Astoria and
Claridge hotels today to secure the
jobs abandoned yesterday.
Agreement Reached by
Supreme Council.
ARMY CHIEFS TO ACT NEXT
Military and Peace Demands
to Go Together.
GERMANY TO YIELD MUCH
London Hears Allies 'Will Insist on
Surrender or Fleet, Including
AH Enemy Submarines.
PRISONER LIST IS HUGE
More Than 18,000 Captured Be
tween October 14 and 2 7.
HAVRE, Oct. 29. In the period be
tween October 14 and 27, the total num
ber of prisoners captured on this front
was 18,293. of whom 331 were officers.
The Belgian army captured 7362 of
these; the Second British army 5354 and
the French army 5577. Between Sep
tember 28 and October 14 12,000 prison
ers were taken. Thus in one month the
total number of prisoners reached more
than 30.000. Material of all kinds was
also captured.
Between October 14 and October 27 a
total of 509 cannon were captured and
17.000 machine guns.
LONDON, Oct. 29. The Versailles
conference, according to the report cur
rent in London this afternoon, has
agreed on the main points of the ar
mistice terms which will now be con
sidered by the military commanders.
The final peace terms, it is said, will
be submitted to Germany simultane
ously with the armistice terms.
As part of the terms of an armistice
the Evening News says it understands
the allied nations will insist on the
surrender of the German fleet, Includ
ing ail the Gernan submarines, and on
the occupation by allied forces of all
the fortified towns on the Rhine.
LONDON, Oct. 29. turkey has inde
pendently presented peace proposals to
the entente nations, according to a re
port from Constantinople forwarded by
the correspondent at Copenhagen of the
Exchange Telegraph Company. The
negotiations are expected to end soon,
it is added.
ATHENS, Oct. 29. (Havas.) Riot
ing has broken out at Constantinople
and Smyrna, according to a dispatch
from the Mitylene Island of Lesbos to
the Patris.
At both cities, the dispatch adds, Ger
mans wen, attacked.
Socialist Speakers Demand Over
throw of Capitalistic Rule and
End of Hohenzollerns.
BT ARNO DOSCH-FLEUROT,
Staff Correspondent of tne New York
World. Copyrighted by the Press Pub
lishing Company, the New York World.
Published by Arrangement.
COPENHAGEN. Oct 29. (Special.)
Demonstrations in the line of the radi
cal doctrine of Dr. Liebknecht, the So
cialist leader, which took place In five
parts of Berlin on Sunday, were frankly
Bolshevik.
The police with carbines prevented
radical speeches outside the halls, but
all the speakers indoors declared boldly
for the establishment of a dictatorship
by the proletaria. Dr. Liebknecht spoke
at all the meetings.
The Vossische Zeitung, reporting the
trend of the meetings, says:
"Liebknecht's speeches were all abso
lutely Bolshevik.
" 'Now the proletariat is conscious of
its power," he said, 'the watchword is
world revolution or world destruction.
The call to the national defense should
be answered by the dictatorship of the
proletariat and by the overthrow of
capitalistic rule, thus establishing a
Socialistic republic. If the Russian
Soviet republic be supported by the Ger
man republic, then all countries will
have to follow and the world dominion
of the proletariat will begin.' "
The report says Dr. Liebknecht fre
quently shouted, "Down with the Ho
henzollerns." but that is getting to be
an old cry in Berlin and hardly causes
comment.
Breaking Up of Empire
Brings Problems.
NEW STATES TO DEAL WITH
Separate Armistice Appeals
From Each Possible.
NOTE FROM VIENNA HERE
Little Difference From Unofficial
Text Noted; Capitulation Seems
. in Sight.
GEN, DEBENEY IS HONORED
Officer Cited for Success In Stopping
Advance of Germans.
PARIS, Oct. 29. General Debeney
has been promoted to grand officer of
the Legion of Honor. General Petain
ransmitted the insignia with full mili
tary honors.
The citation accompanying the pro
motion referred especially to General
Debeney's success in stopping the Ger
mans from reaching Amiens, his cap
ture of Montdidier and the advancing of
is lines to the Somme.
SEA BUREAUS MAY MERGE
Report Says San Francisco, Portland
and Seattle Included.
SAN FRANCCO. Oct. 29. (Special.)
It is rumored that the sea service
and training bureaus of San Francisco,
Portland and Seattle may be consoli
dated in the near future in order to
promote greater efficiency, according
to officials of the United States
Shipping Board here. ,
No verification could be obtained to
the report, but it is known that some
of the officials of the service in Seattle
and Portland are now visiting San
Francisco, and this makes it appear
that there may be truth in the suggestion.
Friend of Buffalo Bill Passes On.
OMAHA, Oct. 29. Thomas J. Foley,
well-known sportsman and a bosom
companion of "Buffalo Bill" Cody, died
shortly after midnight, lueath was due
to a general breakdown.
O'LEARY PRONOUNCED IL
Prisoner Unable to Leave Hospital
for at Least a Week.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29. Jeremiah
O'Leary. former editor of Bull, whose
trial in' Federal Court on a charge
conspiracy to violate the draft laws
was postponed last week because
his illness, today refused to submit to
examination by two physicians ap
pointed by .the court, the physicians re
ported tonight. The court will decid
tomorrow whether O'Leary, who was
removed from the Tombs to a hospital,
shall be placed on trial again imme
diately.
O'Leary later submitted to examina
tion, wnen his request that his own
physicians be present was granted. Th
examiners reported he would be un
able to leave the hospital for a week,
OBJECTORS MAY GO ABROAD
Military bnirkers iace Service o
Farms In France.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29. In the fu
ture all conscientious objectors will be
sent to France to do necessary agri'
cultural and non-military work, ac
cording to information received here
today by the State Council of Defense
from the War Department.
At present these men are given do
mestic employment in the camps an
elsewhere.. They are allowed no more
than the Army wage, any surplus they
earn going to the Red Cross, the coun
cil announced.
SHE'S OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER.
tCoocludcd to Pace 2, Column L
SWEDES WOULD QUIT ARMY
Citizenship Privileges Renounced
and Consul Appealed To.
ROCKFORD. Ill, Oct. 29. Twenty
Swedes at Camp Grant today renounced
all privileges of American citizenship
and appealed to the Swedish Consul at
Chicago to have them mustered out of I
service.
Fifteen hundred other aliens will be
granted naturalisation rights Saturday.
U-BOATS CONTINUE ACTIVE
Cessation of Attacks on Passenger I
Vessels Reported.
LONDON. Oct. 29. For the time be
ing there has been a cessation of U
boat attacks on passenger steamers.
Andrew Bonar Law announced In the I
House of Commons today. But, he
added, there have been attacks on I
other steamer during the last week. I
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HUNS QUITTING BRUSSELS
Administrative Departments Pack
Up and Start for Germany.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Oct. 29. (By
the Associated Press.) Between Octo
ber 10 and 22 various administrative
departments were packing up and leav
ing Brussels for Germany.
According to prisoners, Brussels is
shortly to be evacuated and a line
established between Antwerp and
Namur.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTE RDAT'S Maximum temperature. 62
degrees; minimum, 53 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; light winds.
War.
General Malleterre warns against "soft
peace. Page 1.
j Austrians hurled back. Page 1.
Americans bag 18 planes In day. Page 2.
French advance and capture 650 Huns.
Page 2.
1 anka bait Boche trap with rood and cap
ture in. rage i.
Foreign.
Main armistice terms agreed on at Versailles
conrerence. t'age l.
I Uneasiness in Berlin follows crown council
meeting. Fage 3.
j Germany to follow Austria's lead. Page 8.
I Budapest rent by riots. Page 1.
! Count Andrassy-asks Secretary Lansing to
plead witn Wilson. age 3.
Bolshevik madness seizes Berlin moba
Page 1.
National.
New Austrian peace problems develop.
Page 1.
Representative McArthur tells voters of Ore
t 1 gon what election of Democrat means.
Reresentative McArthur on way to Ore
gon. Page 10.
Domestic.
Hughes voices opposition to Wilson's ap
peal for votes. . Page 0.
Pacific Northwest.
Old-time Democrat raps Wilson's appeal.
Page 10.
Sports.
Athletes will aid united war drive. Page 7.
O. A. C. to play Camp Lewis Saturday.
Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Boxed apples find firmer markets In East
ern centers. Page 15.
Corn slumps sharply on latest peace develop
ments. Page 15.
Uncertainty regarding Steel dividend ad
versely affects stocks. Page 15.
Wood shipbuilders defend vessels. Page 15.
Portland and Vicinity.
Influenza epidemic still at high crest.
Page 1G.
Oregon Democrats gloat over President's
appeal In their behalf. Page IL
All Oregon resents partizanshlp appeal.
Page 11.
Portland boy gunner on transport Jit. Ver
non bits torpedo at full speed. Page 4.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 12.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 29. In the ab
sence of any official announcement
there was a somewhat widespread im
pression here tonight that Austria's re
newed appeal to President Wilson for
immediate armistice and peace
would be transmitted to the allied gov
ernments, before which Germany's re
quest has been placed.
In some quarters, however, there was
a disposition to accord different treat
ment to the Austrian plea because of
the complex problems arising from the
new conditions that apparently have
developed there since the President re
plied to Austria's original request.
Official Text Delivered.
The official text of the Austrian note
was delivered to Secretary Lansing to
day by the Swedish Minister soon after
the regular Tuesday meeting of the
Cabinet, at which it is understood the
official version as transmitted by the
Associated Press from Basel, Switzer
land, was given consideration.
If any definite conclusion was
reached the fact was not revealed. The
officials said they could not indicate
what disposition would be made of the
note in advance of a i:areful study of
the official version.
The text received at the Swedish le
gation was in French and it has not
yet been translated at the State Department.-
After a preliminary exami
nation it was said there that it did
not differ essentially from the unof
ficial as received from Switzerland. No
indication was given as to when the
translation of the note would be made
public.
New Problems Develop.
Those adhering to the opinion that
different treatment should be accorded
to the Austrian request than was given
the plea of the German government
pointed to cable dispatches today re
porting the establishment of the inde
pendent state of Hungary; of the,
recognition by that state of the Inde
pendence of the Czecho-SIovak and
Jugo-Slav provinces, and also of German-Austria,
as suggesting the intro
duction of complex factors into the
problem of settling with the dual em
pire.
Even if each of the many national
ities that make up that empire becomes
independent before fceace is arranged,
it was said they must bear their in
dividual shares of the responsibility for
the acts committed by the empire.
Logically each might have to sue for a
separate peace.
Course to Be Consistent.
However, it is believed that the
American Government will not be di
verted from the pursuit of its main
object by the consideration of these in
dividual uprisings in Austria-Hungary.
It will probably follow consistently
the course pursued in dealing with
Germany and insist on treating first'
the proposition for an armistice, which
t regards as a purely military ques
tion, leaving to the final peace confer
ence the adjustment of the claims to
independent existence of the various
oppressed nationalities In Austria-Hungary.
'
If that course is followed, then not
only the remnant of the dual empire
over which Emperor Charles still holds
way, but the separatist state of Hun
gary and even Bohemia and the Jugo
slav sections, must accept the terms to
be laid down by the supreme military
council at Versailles.
Much Involved In Accentance.
This,, many observers said, probably
would involve disarmament, demobili
zation, opening of the Austro-Hunga-
rian railways to the entente allies and
guarantees in the shape of occupied
fortresses to Insure the safety of the
entente armies against treacherous at
tacks in the rear if they advance to
strike Germany from the south.
Vienna's plea for an armistice is in
terpreted generally in military circles
here as an offer to capitulate as com
pletely as did Bulgaria.
Military officials, both allied and
American, believe the complete elim
ination of Austro-Hungary as a bel
ligerent would bring the world war
within sight of an end.
Germans Fear Invasion.
While there is doubt that It would
be practical to attack Germany from
the south, the best-informed entente
officers on duty here firmly believe
that Germany would not attempt to
fight on with Austria out of the war.
The greatest fear the Germans have,
they say, is of invasion of German soil,
nd in the end they believe Germany
will capitulate rather than face that
contingency.
Appraising the probable results of
Austrian surrender, officers pointed
out that it would release the Italian
armies for operations elsewhere. Un
less Turkey has also dropped out Of
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