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VOL. LVIII. NO. 18,078.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OYE3IBER 1, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ftUSTRIAIIS MAD
I FLEE ITALY
Armies Gut In Two and
Over 50,000 Captured.
SEIZED GUNS EXCEED 300
Enemy Masses, Harassed by
Airmen, Stream in Wild Con
fusion Down Valleys.
225,000 MEN ARE HEMMED IN
Mountain Passes Captured by
Italians and Allies Block
Retreat of Foe.
ROME, Oct. 31. Prisoners taken by
the allied forces in their offensive on
the Piave River now number more
than 50,000, the Italian War Office
announced today. More than 300
guns have been captured. All the
Italian armies now are in action.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. Italian
troops have reached Ponte Delle Albi,
northeast of the city of Belluno, thus
definitely dividing the Austrian ar
mies, said an official wireless message
received here tonight from Home.
Foe in Full Flight.
An earlier dispatch says that the
Austrians have been completely routed
east of the Piave and with great dif
ficulty are sustaining the incessant
pressure of the Italian troops in the
mountain region, on the plain and in
the Alpine foothills of Venetia. Enemy
masses are described as "streaming
in confusion" down the mountain val
leys in attempts to reach passes on
the Tagliamento.
Prisoners, guns, war materials and
storehouses, scarcely touched, fell into
the hands of the Italians. Czecho
slovak troops are operating with the
third Italian army, which is pushing
ahead, overwhelming and capturing
the enemy.
In the Grappa region the Italians
renewed the attack today and captured
the plateau of Asiago, the salient of
Solaro, Mounts Spinoncia and Prassao-
lan, Asolono and Col Caprile and Col
Bonatto.
Success Grows Hourly.
The total number of prisoners cap
tured now exceeds 50,000, and of the
guns captured more than 300 have
been counted.
"The successes of our armies are
becoming more and more stupendous,"
said the dispatch. "The enemy is com
pletely routed east of the Piave and
is with great difficulty sustaining the
incessant pressure of our troops in the
mountain region, in the plain and in
the. Alpine foothills of Venetia. Our
armies are aiming irresistibly toward
the objectives which have been desig
nated.
"The enemy masses are streaming
in confusion down the mountain val
leys in an attempt to reach passes on
the Tagliamento. Prisoners, guns,
war materials and storehouses, scarce
ly touched, fell into our hands.
Enemy Is Overwhelmed.
"The 12th army, after having com
pletely taken possession of the height
of Ceseme, is fighting to conquer the
pass of Quero. The eighth army has
conquered the ridge between the val
ley of Follino and the valley of the
Piave and has occupied the pass of
Serravalle, advancing towards the
plain of Cansignlio, aiming at the
i plain ol .fordenone. 1 he 10th army
.. I...... ; r ai t :
"The third army is pushing ahead
overwhelming and capturing the
enemy, who offers bitter resistance.
Czecho-Slovak troops are participat
ing in the actions.
"In the Grappa region our troops
renewed their attack and this morn
ing succeeded in conquering Col Ca
prile, Col Bonatto, Asolone, Mount
Trassaolan, the salient of Solaro,
Mount Spinoncia and the plateau of
Asiago.
Aviators Do Good Work.
"In spite of bad weather conditions
our aviators succeeded in bringing
down two enemy airplanes and one ob
servation balloon.
"The number of prisoners captured
amounts to over 50,000, and of the
guns captured over 300 were counted."
Fifteen Austrian divisions operating
between the Brenta and the Piave on
le Italian front have Lad their re-
ENTENTE FLEET SOON
TO ENTER BLACK SEA
ARMISTICE WITH TURKEY WILL.
PERMIT PASSAGE.
Attack on" German. Naval Forces
Xear Constantinople Iilkely
to Be Made Soon.
WASHIN'GTOJT, Oct. 31. Announce
ment from London that an armistice
with Turkey which permits passage ol
allied warships through the Dardanelles
already is in operation led naval of
ficers here to believe that an allied
fleet, if it has not already started,
soon will pass through, to the Blaclc
Sea to attack the German naval forces
there.
These forces include ships of the
Russian Black Sea fleet taken over by
the Teutons after" the collapse of the
provisional government In Russia. Of
ficial British reports revealed by Sir
Eric Geddes, first lord of the admiralty.
during his recent visit here, show that
the Germane obtained one super-dread-naught,
several battleships of the pre
dreadnaught type and a score of fast
destroyers.
The German battle cruiser Goeben
also is in the Blaclc Sea. This vessel
was in the Mediterranean when the
war began and escaped to the Bos-
phorus. where it was reported to have
been "sold" to Turkey before that coun
try entered the war.
The cruiser was badly damaged sev
eral times, but recent reports said it
has been repaired again, taken over by
the Germans and withdrawn to the
Black Sea.
FORESTERS PROMISE FUEL
American Troops in France to Be
Supplied With Wood.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT IN
FRANCE, Monday, October 28. (By the
Associated Press.) American fighting
men at the front are to keep warm this
Winter. The forestry section of the
American expeditionary force has prom
ised to deliver on the road ready to be
hauled to the men at the front before
the first of January 1,100,000 cubic
meters of fuel wood. This is equiva
lent to s. pile of wood a yard wide and
a yard high stretching from Paris to
Berlin.
Thousands of foresters now a-3 busy
in the French forests gathering and
cutting the wood, which comes from
dead wood and refuse in the forest.
The fine trees, of whicU the French
are so proud, are not being cut.
RUSH MUNITIONS, IS PLEA
Major-General Warns Workers Xot
to Slow Up Output.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. An appeal
to munition workers not to slow up in
their work as a result of peace talk
was issued today by Major-General
Williams, chief of ordnance.
"We are still at war," General Will
iams said. "Our boys in France are
depending on us for guns and ammuni
tion. The enemy is talking peace, but
we of the ordnance department have
nothing to do with peace talk. For us
there is no peace; our business, our
awful responsibility, is war.
"If you and others should plan what
you will do when peace comes, no wel
come peace will ever come."
SAMUEL HILL OFF TO JAPAN
Survey of Railroads and Highways
Will Be Made.
SEATTLE, Oct. 31. Samuel Hill.
Seattle, railroad builder "and president
of the Pacific Highway Association,
sailed today to make a survey of Ja
pan's railroad and highway situation.
He left on the Invitation of T. Kaka
hima, chief engineer of the Southern
Manchuria Railway Company.
Several years ago Mr. Hill, at the
request of the Russian government. In
vestigated conditions on the railroad
across Siberia and recommended many
changes which were made.
'GAS MASK" DAY PROPOSED
Aim Is to Speed Up Gathering of
Pits and Shells.
NEW TORE, Oct. 31. The chemical
warfare division of the Army today
sent telegrams to the Governors of all
states requesting that they designate
by proclamation a day to be observed
throughout the states as "gas-mask"
day for the gathering of fruit pits and
nut shells for making charcoal for gas
masks.
It is requested that people be urged
to save shells and pits for that day and
in rural communities to organize nut
gathering expeditions.
RUSS REVOLUTIONIST SHOT
Madame Brcshkovskaya Reported
Executed October 2 7.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 31. According to
a Potrograd telegram, Madame Bresh-
kovskaya. grandmother of the Russian
revolution, was shot on October 27 on
the charge of opposing the Bolshevik
regime.
Special dispatches from London, on
October 16, said that Madame Bresh-
kovskaya was reported to have died in
Russia September 14.
BERLIN-VIENNA LINE CUT
Czecho-Slovaks Sever Railway Com
munications, Paris Hears.
"PARIS, Oct. 31. Communication be
tween A gram and Flume, and Budapest I
and Vienna, has been totally inter
rupted.
The Czecho-Slovaks have cut the I
railroad between Berlin and Vienna I
near Bodenbach and German trains can
go only as far as Schnadau. according I
to a uricu dispatch to. the Journal.
TURKS SURREI
DER
E SIGHED
Dardanelles Passage Open
to Allied Fleets.
FOOTS YIELDED TO ENTENTE
General Townshend Released
by Moslems to Convey
Peace Appeal.
ENVOYS MEET AT MUDROS
Vice-Admiral Calthorp Deals
Direct With the Ottoman
Plenipotentiaries.
LONDON, Oct. 31. An armistice
between the allies and Turkey has
been signed by duly accredited pleni
potentiaries and became effective at
noon today.
The terms of the agreement include
the free passage of the Dardanelles to
the allied fleet, Sir George Cave, the
Home Secretary, announced in the
House of Commons today.
Other terms, it is learned, comprise
the occupation of the forts of the Dar
danelles and Bosphorus necessary to
secure the passage of the allied war
ships through the Bosphorus to the
Black Sea.
Prisoners to Be Released.
Another condition i3 the immediate
repatriation of British war prisoners.
General Townshend, the British com
mander captured at Kut-el-Amara,
was liberated several days ago by the
Turks, the Home Secretary announced.
in order to inform the British Admiral
in command in the Aegean that the
Turkish government asked that nego
tiations be opened immediately for an
armistice.
Calthrop Signs for Allies.
A reply was sent that if the Turk
ish government sent fully accredited
plenipotentiaries Vice - Admiral Cal
throp, the British commander, was em
powered to inform them of the condi
tions upon which the allies would
agree to stop hostilities an.d could
sign an armistice on these conditions
in their behalf.
The Turkish plenipotentiaries ar
rived at Mudros, island of Lemnos, in
the Aegean Sea, early this week, and
an armistice was signed by Admiral
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ARMISTIG
III' sVjkNSSr&s VSszr sr" J i l :
APPEAL IS ISSUED BY
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
ELECTION OF REPUBLICAN" COX
CRESS URGED.
Campaign. Statement Declares Pro
pie, Not Wilson. Alone, Should
Run United States.
NEW TrORK. Oct. 31. Theodore
Roosevelt and William H. Taft Issued
here today a Joint appeal for election
of a Republican majority in Congress.
The statement was said to be the first
ever composed and signed by two ex
Presidents of the United States. The
statement follows:
. "We approach this subject as Amer
icans and only as Americans. When
this war broke out we would have wel
comed action by the President which
would have eliminated all questions of
party politics. Instead of this, parti
san lines have been strictly drawn from
the first and now the President an
nounces that only Democrats can be
entrusted with future power ar.d only
those Democrats who do his wilL Be
cause of the reflection on other patri
otic Americans, we appeal for fair play.
"The next Congress will serve from
March A, 1919, to March 4, 1921. In
that period, the war must be fought to
unconditional surrender, unless this Is
achieved before.
"The terms of world peace must be
settled.
"The Democratic Administration,
after expending billions of treasure and
exercising more absolute power than
any other Administration in our his
tory, must give an account of its stew
ardship. "The change from war conditions to
peace must be brought about with the
least disturbance and the work of re
construction must be broadly begun.
"A Republican Congress will be much
better qualified than one controlled by
Democrats, to aid the country In adopt
ing the measures needed for these four
great tasks.
"Even as a minority party the Re
publicans made the winning of the war
possible by passing the original draft
bill. Without this we could not have
trained and landcl the 2,000,000 of men
now in France.
"As a minority party, the Republican
forced upon a reluctant President and
Secretary of War after an injurious
delay of four months the amended draft
act, without which we could not put
two more millions at the front next
July. The Speaker, the leader and the
chairman of the military committee of
the Democratic House opposed the
original draft with all the vigor pos
sible. "The new Senate must approve, by
two-thirds vote, the terms of peace.
Those, terms should be settled, not by
one man only. It is one man control
we are fighting In this war to sup
press. The peace treaty must be ap
proved by the great body of the Ameri
can people.
"The President has Indicated a will
ingness to make a peace by negotia
tion. He has not demanded as he might
have done in three lines, that which
the American people demand, an un
conditional surrender. His exchange of
notes with Germany has caused a deep
concern among our people lest he may.
by his parleying with her, concede her
a peace around a council table instead
of a sentence from a court.
"The 14 points which the President
and Germany assume that they have
already agreed upon are so general
and vague that such a peace would be
no treaty at all, but only a protocol
to an Interminable discussion.
"The President Is without final power
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EVENTS FOLLOW SWIFTLY THESE
tans m
IMIDFTBiED
Impressive Revelations In
Hughes' Report.
COLONEL DEEDS ACCUSED
Secrecy Violation Charged and
Recommendation of Court
Martial Is Made.
OTHER OFFICERS INVOLVED
No Actual "Graft" Found, but
Conduct Regarded as
Reprehensible.
"WASHINGTON, Oct. SI. The long
awaited report on. the aircraft investi
gation, conducted during the last five
months by Charles Evans Hughes and
Attorney-General Gregory, was placed
before President Wilson today and
made public
Colonel E. A. Deeds, about whom
raged most of the charges which
brought on the investigation, the re
port recommends, should be brought
before a court-martial for sending con
fidential War Department informa
tion on the aircraft situation to
former business associates in Dayton,
O., and for being sponsor last Friday
for a grossly misleading statement to
the effect that "first American-built
battle planes are today en route to the
front in France."
Three to Be Prosecuted.
Criminal prosecutions of three Army
officers are recommended on the
ground that they transacted business
with corporations in which they were
financially interested.
These officers are: Lieutenant
Colonel J. G. Vincent, former vice
president of the Packard Motor Car
Company, now in charge of the air
plane engineering division of the Air
craft Production Bureau; Lieutenant
Colonel George M. Mixter, a stock
holder in the Curtiss Airplane & Motor
Corporation, production manager of
the Aircraft Bureau, and Second Lieu
tenant Samuel B. Vrooman, Jr., in
spector of propeller lumber and stock
holder in the S. B. Vrooman Company,
of Philadelphia, which sold mahogany
to the Government for airplanes.
Delays and waste of the production
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DAYS.
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4
PEACE WILL NOT HALT
SHIPYARD PROGRAMME
WORK WILIi GO OX, HURLEY
AST SCmVAB DECLARE.
Efficient Builders Are Assured All
the Contracts They Can Han
die for Years.
WASHINGTON. Oct. SI Shipbuilders
In American yards who may fear their
efforts to provide an emergency fleet
are limited by the necessities of war
were assured that there would be
plenty of work for them for years to
come, in statements addressed to them
today by Chairman Hurley of the Ship
ping Board and Director-General
Schwab of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration.
Every efficient yard will continue to
have all the work it can do whether
the war ends soon or not. Mr. Hurley
said, while Mr. Schwab warned ship
workers that If Germany were not sin
cere in her peace overtures it could
want nothing better than a slackening
of efforts by American shipbuilders.
"The present programme calls for
15.000.000 tons of merchant ships." said
Mr. Schwab In his statement. "Today
we have built only about J. 500. 000 tons
and we will not bave completed cur
programme until six times as mu'h
work has been done."
Mr. Hurley pointed out that the end
ing of the war could not bring an end
to the world's need for ships "nor pre
vent us from carrying out our pro
gramme to- a- successful conclusion."
"I can. say with, frankness." said
Mr. Hurley, "that our shipyards will
be kept going to their cupacity and they
must not let up. The Inefficient plants
which have been permitted to operate
because of the war emergency and the
Immediate need of ships will, as a mat
ter of business expediency, drop out
when the emergency is removed. Ef
ficient yards will be encouraged and
supported, because we can depend upon
them to carry out their promises and
produce ships economically. The work
Inefficient yards cannot do will fall
to other plants. We will look to the
West coast to continue the pace It has
maintained and to the yards of the East
and South and in the Great Lakes re
gion to increase their output."
STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO
Divers Investigate Wreck of Sopbla
in Lynn Canal.
VICTORIA. B. C. Oct. SI. Divers
who have investigated the wreck of the
Canadian Pacific Ball way etsainer
Princess Sophia, lying on Vanderbllt
reef, Lynn Canal, reported today that
the vessel had broken In two and the
after portion had slid off into deep
water.
In the grinding action on the rocks
which preceded the steamer's founder
ing In the storm, with her loss of 340
lives, the divers said her whole bot
tom had been torn away. Salvage will
be impossible.
LUDENDORFF BUREAU OUT
Department Created by Quartermaster-General
Suppressed.
AMSTERDAM. Oct. 31. The Cologne
Gazette announces that the political
department of the supreme headquar
ters has suppressed tho department
created by General Ludendorff, former
First Quartermaster-General, for the
purpose of holding the reins In his own
hands.
Flyer Burned to Death.
MIAMI. Fla.. Oct. 31. Wllmer H.
Brlckley. of Philadelphia, a student avi
ator, was burned to death here today
when bis airplane caught fire from a
cause unknown.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The WeUier.
TETKRDAT'S Maximum tfmpfrtur, 58
decrees; minimum, T0 deirMj.
TODAY'S Fair; variable winds.
War.
Austrians flea Tfaly In rout. Pact 1.
Allies sica armistlc with Turkey. Paa X
Americana bomb Hunt, Para C.
Kalaer reported In Copenhagen dlrpatch to
have abdicated. Pax 3.
Allied fleet expected to enter Black Sea
shortly. Fajca 1.
Republics acclaimed Sn. Vienna and Buda
pest. Pa a
War Council convenes at Versalllea. Pace 1.
Pac 1-
Allies start new drive In Belgium. Pace 5.
Caechs
erty.
it Prairue celebrate new-found Mb
Pace
National.
No dancr of halt In shipbuilding. y
Hurley and Schwab. Faa 1.
Wilson's work as peace Intermediary enda
1'aLX. 3.
President's appeal for Ormoc ratio rotes seta
painful Jolt. Pace 10.
Domrtt Ic.
Hughes aircraft report recommends court
martial for Deeds. Pag Ju
Roosevelt and Taft !su Joint appeal for
return of Republican Congress. Pa 1.
German crip on Hawaiian aufar Industry
Itrvkm. Pace 6-
Pport .
Vancouver and Camp Lewls sign for two
Cam. Paso
Jack Dempsey granted Injunction. Pace 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Flour orders for November export shipment
lefts than last year's. Page 17.
Mont h -end adjustment of trades advances
corn at Chicaso. Pace 17.
Substantial recovery made by stocks la "Wall
street. Pace 17.
Fhlp build fm' wage conference pens tomor
row. Pace 13.
port land and Vicinity.
Sumpter Valley to ct rate Increase. Pace J,
Wilson press fails to cive all facts. Pace 4.
Open cars ordered till Inffluenxa la over.
Psce 1H.
Ore iron mothers stirred by partisanship ap-
pral. l'a- 4.
Pupwr allowances Increased by Hoover.
Pace II.
Chiropodist aue Army officer for ICi.OOO
hart balm. Pace 10.
Tort land urged to gv funds freely.
Paxe 11.
ptahnp WakfflfM, of Birmingham. visits
Portland. Page 1-V
porfisnd voters urged to support bond i&suc-
1'ase 14.
Weather report lore cast asd data, r&fe 17.
FUTURE OF VQRLD
111 CALAIICETODAY
Deliberations of Supreme
War Council Begins,
ALL EYES ON VERSAILLES
Premiers, Army and Navy
Chiefs to Reach Armis
tice, Peace Decisions.
TRIANON IS MEETING PLACE
Historic French Palace Nov
Be Scene of History
Making Sessions.
PARIS, Oct. 31. (By the Associ
ated Press.) With tho. Tormal deliber
ations of the supreme war council
formally begun, the very atmosphere
of Versailles is surcharged with the
importance of pending events.
The representatives of the entente
powers left Versailles after their first
formal meeting today, visibly content
with the results that had been,
achieved. They have not finished their
work, but they have reached a sub
stantial accord.
The presence of numerous uniformed
officials of the allied nations, with
Councillors, Prime Ministers and per
sonages of high estate, lends to the
scene a dignity which reflects the na
ture of the colossal questions to be
decided, directing the destiny of the
new order of world politics.
Vorld Celebrities on Scene.
Automobiles gliJo ovtv tr.c ahVs
and cobblestone stieets of France's
ancient seat of government, bearing
world figures; some carry the highest
army staff in dazzling uniforms; oth
ers bear naval chiefs in their black
uniforms variegatei with gold Etripes
in profusion and patterned according
to their country's orders, while now
and then limousines with distinguished
civilians rush by, claiming the right
of way seemingly because of the high
positions of the occupants in tha
world's affairs.
Historic Quarters Occupied.
Trianon Palace ha3 been isolated.
The deliberations of the Premiers,
Ministers and naval and military
chiefs, will be conducted amidst tha
quiet of a woodland dell, retained in
all its beauty by the French govern
ment since the days of Louis XIV, and
used afterwards by successive sov
ereigns, including Napoleon.
Trianon palace, nestling in clusters
of giant trees, surrounded by a pic
turesque park and resplendent with
flower gardens and serpentine walks,
stands within the very shadow of the
Loui3 XIV palace, in the north winjr
of which, in the "Galerie Des Glaces,"
Wilhelm I, grandfather of the present
German Emperor and then King of
Prussia, was proclaimed first German
Emperor in 1S71.
To make more secure the isolation,
of the palace for the conferences, aU
traffic in its direction has been
stopped. Guards of French soldiers,
British, Americans and Italians stand
on duty at various posts.
When the council meets the guard
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Column 4.)
ORF.fiOlN- KI.ECTIOV KWS.
Unless the lan on assembling
of crowds Is lifted by next Tues
day, election day. Tho Oreponian
will not flash bulletins of tho ro
turns that nlRht. as has been Its
cuHtom. Kor ttie same reason vis
itors will not be admitted that
nieht to Tho Orepontan'a edi
torial rooms. The Oreponian re
grets these restrictions, but they
are unavoidable In tho present
unusual circumstances.
Tho Iacific Telephone & Tele
graph Company has requested tho
public not to telephone for elec
tion news, as tho Influenza epi
demic has cut down Its workinit
force and all available facilities
aro required under present con
ditions for emergency calls.
regards the Home Telephone Com
m-
pany, the situation is different,
because of its automatic service,
and Tho Orenonian will Kive out
election news on tho Home eys
tem.. As tho polls do not close
until S r. M-. It Is unlikely iht
any flRures on the results In
Tortland will bo avallab'e before
:30 o'clock. Return from tho
state at large will not be received
before 11 o'clock.